Rights and Duties of a Citizen

Points: The realty between the citizen and the society — The duties of the State and the duties of the citizen — Rights and duties go together.

             Rights go with duties. We owe as much to the society as the society owes to us. The government of the country should ensure the safety and security of all citizens. Every citizen also should uphold the peace and stability of the State. The citizens should be duly protected against thieves, robbers and blackmailers. These lawless elements of society should be strongly put down so that Life may be safe for everybody.
             What does the citizen owe to the government in return? Besides the police, he himself should be a champion of law and order. His morale should be high. If his neighbor’s house is on fire, he should be the first man to ring for the fire-brigade. He should do his part in keeping the streets and parks of his locality clean.
             It is the duty of every citizen to love his or her country. A person who is not proud of his country is a bad citizen, it is our duty to see that public property is not stolen, the buses and trains are not damaged, the road rules are followed and the law is not taken by anybody into his own hands. Individual freedom is a precious thing. It is our duty not to encroach upon others freedom.

Seasons in India

Points: The six seasons — Brief descriptions of the seasons — Seasonal festivals and functions.

             India is a big country and her seasons are nowhere the same. Still the cycle of Indian seasons follows a certain broad pattern. It has six well-marked divisions: summer, rains, early autumn (called Sarat), late autumn (called Hemanta), winter and spring.
             Summer is the most uncomfortable of seasons, when people gasp and faint in the heat. They sigh with relief when the monsoon clouds gather in the sky and the rains come. It there is too much rain, there are chances of floods. Floods will mean untold sufferings to the poor people. But if there is cool little rain, there will be failure of crops and great scarcity of food. It is, therefore, a critical season. Autumn, both early and late, is a very fine season. In Sarat, the sky becomes blue. The fields look gay and bright with gold-green crops. The greatest festival of the Hindus— Durgotsav— falls in Autumn. People celebrate it with feast, fun and cultural functions. The season is neither hot nor cold and the sky is blue but not wholly free from clouds. Hemanta is practically a continuation of Autumn. Hemanta is also the harvesting season. Winter is rather hard on the poor. But food-stuffs become cheaper and the market is full of cabbages, peas, tomatoes etc. Then comes the spring which is the loveliest of seasons.
             Our festivals are bound up with the seasons, like Durga Puja or Dussera or Ramjan in Autumn, Holi in Spring. Rathajatra in the rains, and so on. It is good to welcome each season with a festival.