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 BIOLOGY :MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS Mechanism of normal personality Each human behaves differently ,has a unique personality. However it is wrong to consider animals as without unique behaviour. This is so because though animals lack speech and abstract thinking ,behaviour is determined in the brain by very ancient neural networks present in all higher animals.    The Amygdala is an ancient network present in all mammals. It along with a few other centres in striatum determine all emotion and motivation behaviour.Emotions consist of detection neurons which detect contexts and associate them with favourable or unfavourable actions which are programmed.. Thus fear producing contexts need to be conditioned to painfull stimuli and must be aligned with withdrawal action. This conditioning circuit exists in amygdala at birth but the contexts are gradually built up by perception action cycles. Apart from fear animals have emotions of rage/ anger,frustration,exploration wher...
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 MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL FINANCE PART 2 The best investment on earth is earth-Louis Gluckman,real estate investor Introduction:Purchasing a house  Purchasing a house is probably the largest investment in lifetime for a middle class family. It is seen that middle class families invest 80% of their lifetime wealth in buying property. In contrast the lower income groups cannot do so and keep their wealth in bank accounts. Again the rich keep 80% of their savings in stocks and bonds. Purchase versus renting   The first decision before purchasing is whether to stay in a rented house or shift to a home after purchasing it.There are advantages in staying in a rented house. These include living in a neighbourhood near the office ,which frequently is a business district. Purchasing a house in the locality may be too expensive. However renting may be affordable  and allow easy commutation to the office which will be nearby. For example suppose a person stays near his office in ...
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 MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL FINANCE: PART 1 Retirement is finally the time to do what you have always wanted to do Pension plans: Introduction Our working life generally ends at 60years. Thereafter our salary stops coming every month and we have to make arrangements for money by saving it during our working life ,generally 25 years to 60year period.     Till late 1980s there was a pension given to retirees every month. This the government arranged through taxation or private firms  from their profits. However especially in developed countries the population is age ing rapidly as a result of which the increasingly smaller working age group population have to be taxed heavily to provide pension for the aged.To obviate this in many developed nations the age of retirement is being raised so that pension provision by employer can be delayed.    As a result there is a shift to employee contributory pension where the employee saves a portion of his salary during ...
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POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT: INDIAN DEEP STATE PART 3 I am a nationalist. I am a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I am a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong.So you can say I am a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong in it- Narendra modi Liberalisation ,globalization,privatization By the year 1990 the Indian economy was in a bad shape. There was massive macroeconomic instability and inflation. The partial liberalisation by Rajiv Gandhi had led to massive foreign loans and a balance of payment crisis. In the meantime the soviet model had collapsed and global capital was entering everywhere backed by American dollarisation. The congress government of Narasimha Rao took the crisis as an opportunity and abolished the entire license permit raj,reduced customs duty,abolished reservation in small scale labour intensive manufacturing. These had an immediate effect on private industry and investment and economy started growing by 7%.   However the rapid expansion of labour ...
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 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT: INDIAN DEEP STATE PART 2 Pakistan instrument of surrender in Bangladesh war(Above photo) If India pokes its nose in Pakistan US will not keep its trap shut. India will be taught a lesson-Richard Nixon India regards US as a friend ,not a boss. We know and are aware how to deal with each other according to circumstances- Indira Gandhi Food crisis and green revolution By 1960 it was apparent that planned economy was not leading to economic growth. After death of Jawaharlal Nehru the powerful syndicate comprising of a few congress leaders decided to nominate Lal Bahadur Shashtri as PM.Shastri reduced the role of planning commision and created a separate PMO to convey his decisions. Shashtri however immediately faced a war of aggression from Pakistan. He inherited an agricultural sector low in investment and absent land reforms. There was a drought and famine. India had to beg to US for food grains. Shastri initiated a technology mediated gr...
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POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT : INDIAN DEEP STATE PART 1 Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech during independance day(Above photo) At the stroke of midnight hour on August 15 ,1947 the word slept while India awoke to life and freedom- Jawaharlal Nehru India: The civilisational state According to Samuel Huntington there exists a number of civilizational states in the world . These have district culture and philosophy  since the beginning of human history . The future of world politics will be determined by how well the civilizational entities interact with each other. Western civilization is characterised by individual liberty,rule of law,Christianity,Chinese civilization by the Middle Kingdom and Confucius philosophy,Islamic civilization by universal equality and brotherhood, Indian civilization by tolerance of all faiths and philosophy of Dharma and so on.   However these different culures have imbibed certain undesirable features over a period of time which will likely lead to conf...