India needs change

We are a team of high school students who wish to make a difference in our country :)  Team Members: We have currently 11 members in our group: Naveena, Vidya, Benita, Rachel, Janani, Priyadarshini, Anandavalli, Priya, Karthiga, Nivedhitha and Meenakshi. We are surely open for more! :) It all started when we, the students of the last bench were trying to kill the boredom which was almost killing us. One bored friend said suddenly "JNMA", and I, trying to create a distraction with that, asked "What's JNMA? Jeevana's Naughty Members Association?" Okay, that wasn't really a joke, but I meant it to be that way. What my friend really meant was that the first letters of our names were J, N, M and A. And from that time onwards, we became the JNMA and true to our name, did all we can to...

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India economy

India is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world. A new spirit of economic freedom is now stirring in the country, bringing sweeping changes in its wake. A series of ambitious economic reforms aimed at deregulating the country and stimulating foreign investment has moved India firmly into the front ranks of the rapidly growing Asia Pacific region and unleashed the latent strengths of a complex and rapidly changing nation. India's democracy is a known and stable factor, which has taken deep roots over nearly half a century. Importantly, India has no fundamental conflict between its political and economic systems. Its political institutions have fostered an open society with strong collective and individual rights and an environment supportive of free economic enterprise. India's...

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Relegions of India

India known as the land of spirituality and philosophy, was the birthplace of some religions, which even exist today in the world.  Around 500 BC two other religions developed in India, namely, Buddhism and Jainism. Today only about 0.5% of Indians are Jains and about 0.7% are Buddhist. In ancient times Jainism and specially Buddhism were very popular in India. Indians who accepted Buddhist philosophy spread it not only within the Indian sub-continent but also to kingdoms east and south of India.  These three ancient religions, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, are seen as the molders of the India philosophy. In 'modern' period new religions were also established in India. One comparatively new religion in India is Sikhism and it was established in the 15th century. About 2% of Indians...

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Culture of India

India is invincibly rich in art and culture. In fact the theme of Indianness is its unique heritage of art and culture that is peerless. The numerous customs and the traditions pertaining to those customs and its branches have formed a diversified but identical forms of heritage in India. This very fact has prompted Mark Twain to describe this country as the land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants, and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million Gods. The complexity and variety is the hallmark of India, which attracts many visitors. This country is replete...

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Climate of India

India has tropical weather. One cannot speak of the climate of India, or else one must speak of several different India's. The subcontinent has eight climatic zones all of which only have the monsoon rains in common. But even the monsoon comes to different parts of the country at different times. And you can fly in the space of a couple of hours through a range of weather from the cold crisp air of the mountains to the burning dry heat of the Rajasthan Desert where summer temperature regularly reach 45°C and beyond. It is beautiful to see the sand dunes shift and move to the will of the winds, but not at all pleasant to be caught in a sand strom coming off the Thar. In winter Rajasthan is dry and cold and the skies a translucent blue. There is little rain and the monsoon winds often pass...

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