As a person attains youth there grows a strong desire in
him to become self-reliant. He wants to stand on his own feet and be the master
of his life. Until some decades back this desire was largely a male phenomenon.
But over the years young girls too have been exhibiting this urge more and more
strongly, sometimes even more than the boys. Practically every college going
girl today wants to be self-reliant financially. She wants to be a "Women
of substance" and cut out an independent identity of her own. The concept
of 'working women ' is a common currency now.
But this ambition
to become self-reliant is not easy to fulfill. Government sector jobs are
continually shrinking while the number of educated youth has phenomenally
increased. this growth in their population is matched by their growing ambition
for better employment, better pay and perks and better life styles.
It is true that
private that private sector employment opportunities have tremendously
increased. But their demand is more or less confined to select fields,
especially information technology and management. Liberal arts, social sciences
and even basic sciences have few takers. Besides, even in the private sector,
there are many kinds of contractual limitations; and the work pressures are
increasing to unreasonable limits. To add to the woes, government is also
slowly tightening its grip over even the private enterprise. this, not exactly
for ensuring better work conditions for the employee, but for caste
reservations and other such political mileage. The situation is that ability
and merit cannot necessarily guarantee employment.
As for going in
for self-enterprise this requires capital which is not available to the larger
majority. Government and bank loans are of course there but the rosy picture
painted in media announcements as well as print advertisements and hoardings
fall far short of percolating to the branch level.
Then, one finds the usual procedural bottlenecks and discouraging
conditions and limitations. Some do get these loans without much trouble but a
large number are forced to waste their time in frustrating runs from table to
table, form this office to that office trying to meet the myriad conditions
that are raised from time to time. Ansh sahni of Employment Research program
says that the data gathered from the field and their evaluation show the
gravity of the situation. But all said done, the old dictum "Where there
is a way" still holds good. The young students - boys and girls - of Dev
Sandkrit Vishwa Vidyalaya have vindicated this truth and molded it in tune with
the changing times. The subtle guidance of Yugrishi Gurudev has ever been their
beacon.
Early research in neural chemistry had found the
presence of some hormones which are secreted by the endocrine gland and which
make temporary or permanent effects on specific organs or physicochemical
functions of the body. Advanced results have found newer secrets in terms of
the association of these hormones with the nature and inherent character of
humans. In view of their tremendous effects on regulating the physical, mental
and emotional states of a person, the hormone-secreting glands appear like the
'fingers' of a hidden juggler who makes the humans dance like puppets under the
control of the hormonal 'threads'.
The internal hormonal and other neuro-chemical
secreting system - the endocrine system - has long been a challenging puzzle
for the anatomists and physiologists. Whatever hypotheses and inferences are
drawn in one point of time, they are often required to be modified or changed
after some time because of the newer or contradictory observations. The secrets
of this system seem to be hidden behind such a curtain which gets more
entangled into a mesh of unknown facets whenever opened up a bit.
As early as during the times of Luis XV in France,
an anatomist named Dr. Thuffe had conjectured the presence of a somewhat supernormal
(in terms of physical existence) system in the body which secrets special
juices and chemicals that can significantly alter the functions of different
components of the body. An Italian Anatomist, Dr. Eustachi had reported a
well-structured hypothesis on hormonal glands in the upper poles of the kidney
as early as 1563. Later on, some researchers of the Vodak Institute of Science
had thrown light on the adrenal glands. Around 1850, Dr Karl Inge of Britain
and Dr. Yeri of Paris had given experimental evidences to illustrate the
remarkable effects of some hormonal secretions inside the body on the
physiological and biochemical functions. Research in the fields of hormones/neurochemicals
geared up gradually in the later years.
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