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Unique Identification Number(UIN) to counter corruption

India today is rattled with the deeds of corruption and malfunctioning of the system. The history of corruption dates back from ages before. Various factors determine the intensity and the need to go corrupt. Greed being the most important factor. A human nature is to be restless and be never satisfied. The thirst to own wealth and strive to achieve more makes every human compete with his fellow mate. Factors like reputation and power thus associated with wealth gets added to the list. India today is in no position to preach people the ways to train the human mind to restrain from the greed. The only way to counter this is to monitor and create a transparent system that would bring the deeds of every person to the visibility of the system. The system could be made efficient by giving it the tools to prevention of corruption. One such tool could be the method of assigning an Unique Identification Number to every citizen. Which is already in place. The ways in which it can be used a

Why Atheism?

The world today is a plain composition of blind traditions and beliefs. None of which serves to be more than just a blindfolded path, that one is walking on. Seems like the world has stopped thinking. The logical conclusions and pragmatic approach to life seems mere thoughts. Well, the above lines may just seem to be the perfect start to the question arisen in the title. The pessimist inside may iterate the words above but the better optimist knows the world will change. Firstly, what is Atheism?  In the "Atheism" page of wikipedia the definition goes somewhat this way: "Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities." Mine is different though:      Atheism is a state where a person believes in himself more than anything or anyone. It is the state where a person thinks and broadens his mind to the facts of the scientific researches.