Survival

Do we remember the clarion call of Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri “jai jawan jai kissan” where he reached out and recognised the importance of both the soldier and the farmer equally in India’s survival story back then? In less than half a century we have suffered a permanent memory dystopia as both these cogs have…

The globalization has converted the world into a small global village in which there is an ever high stream of contentions and competitions between organizations and survival for the fittest. In this scenario the most effective and beneficial maneuver for any organization is to create innovative ways in conducting business calls for leadership, an important…

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations. Charles Darwin popularised the term “natural selection”, contrasting it with artificial selection, which is intentional, whereas natural selection is not. Variation…

Mary Rowlandson describes in detail the tragic events she had to face after being taken captive by the Wampanoag’s in 1676. She is certain that the only reason she has been taken captive is because god is punishing her for her wrong doings. Like Mary Rowlandson Col. John Smith also was taken captive against his…

Which is better – to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? The constant struggle for survival of the young boys in the novel, ‘Lord of the Flies’ ultimately results in innocence transforming into savagery. There is an ongoing battle between good vs evil which has always been the focus of William Golding….

In his article “The Survival Lottery,” Harris suggests a situation where a possible course of action would be to kill a healthy person and use his organs for transplantation, thereby saving several lives at the cost of one. However the argument Harris presents, which he claims to be rational, does intuitively raise a certain moral…