Vol. LVII, No. 31, New Delhi, February 12, 2006

Saffron in South Grand BJP-JD(S) ascent in Karnataka By Sunita Govind ?After January 14, the Uttarayan has begun and the sun has started moving north and the BJP?s sun has risen in the south?, was how the BJP President, Rajnath Singh beautifully explained the formation of the first government south of the Vindhyas in which the party is a key alliance partner. more > Left on back foot Fraud electoral rolls; can Red rig to power again? By Udayan Namboodiri Election fever of a hitherto unknown variety is now sweeping West Bengal. Travelling in the state last week, one detected palpable tension over the preparations of the Assembly polls, which are due in the state in May. more > ?I am strong?! - Weak PM's weak defence By Geeta Kaha to bahut, par kaha kya? (he said a lot but what did he say?) was the question on the mind of all those who watched the live press conference of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on February 1, 2006. To be fair to him, the Prime Minister did count the achievements of his government in management of the economy. more > Support & stifle: Red air protest By Sunita Govind In a process riddled with controversy, the Rs 5,400-crore Delhi and Mumbai airport modernisation project was awarded to GMR-Fraport and the GVK-South African Airport Consortia respectively. more > Organiser impact Government to rollback hike in medical charges; AIIMS looking for an alibi By Deepak Kumar Rath While filing this story we were informed by a reader that the AIIMS authorities were busy in removing about 50 odd wall posters, made of full-size xerox copies of the Organiser expose in our issue dated January 22, 2006 pasted all over the Institute by the protesting doctors as well as the patients. more > Editorial UPA: End this farce The fall of the Congress government in Karnataka has once again exposed the limits of secular adhesive as a substitute for political ideology. The same is coming to starker focus in the ongoing Left barrage against the UPA on airport privatisation and India?s stand at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran. more > Focus on villages, RSS chief tells planners By Sanjaya Jena RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri K.S. Sudarshan has urged planners to focus on the villages for a strong and vibrant Bharat. He was addressing the annual function of Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS) in Bhubaneswar. Shri Sudarshan was on a four-day tour to Orissa recently. more > Role of ideology in polity Distinguish between self-good and national-good By Joginder Singh Except for the left parties and some other parties like the BJP, the political parties remain family-held corporations. A political party is an organisation that seeks to attain political power in democracies, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. All political parties have an ideology, or some ideas or policies, with which they try to convince the electorate that they are best suited to serve them through their rule. more > Sangh Samachar Hindutva is an attempt to reveal the truth?K.S. Sudarshan   - FOC Massive literacy drive by Sewa Bharati in Delhi Grand opening of Sanskar Bharati?s Silver Jubilee year - FOC Sarsanghachalak lauds Vajpayeeji?s contribution - FOC VHP demands separate body for management of religious places - By Debasis Tripathy Self-reform is the real education - D.T. Effect of Hindu ambience Rambhau Mahlgi Prabodhini gets special consultative status of UN FOC The United Nations Economic and Social Council has granted special consultative status to Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (RMP), a reputed NGO registered in Mumbai. The Committee of Non Governmental Organisations of UN had earlier recommended the name of the RMP for this special status. more > Add Vanvasi history in textbooks?Kalyan Ashram FOC Orissa unit of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKA) has urged both the Centre and state governments to include great Vanvasi personalities in the textbooks. more > Shabri Kumbh from February 11 Dangs ready to welcome seven lakh Vanvasis By Kailash Sharma Preparations for the much-awaited Shabri Kumbh in Dangs district of Gujarat are in full swing under the directions of noted saint Shri Morari Bapu. more > Rang de Basanti gives youth the wrong ideas From Anil Nair in Mumbai When Qayamat se Qayamat Tak was released a couple of decades ago, which launched Aamir Khan in Hindi cinema, the film ran packed houses for weeks and it not only grossed an unprecedented sum at the box office, it also made Aamir Khan into a household name. more > Agarwal Packers & Movers awarded FOC ?Shifting does not necessarily mean living in claustrophobic environs for several days, with literally unclean, and wrinkled outfits to wear, when you move ?A? class with Agarwal Packers & Movers (APM). more > Grand finale to Rashtra Raksha Sanchalan Live and die for the nation ?Mohan Bhagwat From S. Chandrasekhar in Thiruvananthapuram THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Among the countless who fought against the aliens, two names in Kerala stand out as towering symbols of patriotism and bravery. more >

Cover Page Agenda War on Jehad cannot be won unless we face demographic threats By R.K. Ohri, IPS (Retd.) Hold your breath, the biggest quantum jump in Muslim population (in terms of percentage) in the coming decades will take place in Haryana where the ration of Muslim cohorts is almost 60 per cent higher than that of the Hindu cohorts! Next in descending order will be Assam, West Bengal, Uttaranchal, Delhi, Nagaland, Bihar and so on. more > London Post Hindu temple coming up in Middlesbrough By Prasun Sonwalkar In the latest example of exquisitely carved Hindu temples in Britain, a team of four marble masons from India has arrived to build a temple in Middlesbrough in north England. There are several Hindu temples in towns across Britain?many of them featuring idols and stonework brought from India or executed here by experts brought in from India. more > Realpolitik An expose and a cover-up By Balbir K. Punj Two recent events occurring in places as far spaced out as Beirut (Lebanon) and Behrampore (West Bengal) provide us with glimpse into veiled paradoxes. Both pertain to Islam?s medieval mistreatment of woman in contemporary times, but that is not really what should astonish us the most. The astonishing part is really to learn who is exposing it and who is trying to cover it up. more > The Moving Finger Writes Baluchistan, Pakistan and India By M.V. Kamath Baluchistan is again in the news, but for wrong reasons. Truth to tell, it has not been as much in the news as it should have been. And it is somewhat intriguing that a civil war now being fought in Pakistan?s largest and most alienated province is not being covered fully, whether by the western news agencies or by the media, both in Pakistan and especially in India. more > Media Watch Ramdev, Brinda and the media Narad Fancy all the fuss being made about animal parts being used in Ayurvedic medicines! Apparently this is quite legal and has been a long-standing practice. At least that is what The Times of India (January 6) says and it backs its report with a quote from a Delhi-based Ayurvedic pandit, L.K. Tripathi. more > News Analysis Inner-contradictions in Kerala Left come to the fore CPM march : A damp squib By S. Chandrasekhar The Kerala march undertaken by CPM State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan from January 1 to January 25, aimed at catapulting him to the Chief Minister?s throne in the May 2006 assembly polls, has misfired into a wasted exercise as it brought forth the inner-contradictions of the CPM and the open warfare between the Pinarayi and Atchudanandan groups. more > Kids' Org Snake and the frog By Manju Gupta In a pond lived a number of frogs that were friendly with one and all in the forest. As they had no enemies, they jumped and frolicked in the pond the whole day. Even the King Frog and Queen Frog had a whale of a time, doing nothing but playing and prancing about. more >

Think it Over Buddhists must re-discover their vocation By M.S.N. Menon Service to mankind?this was the great mission of Buddhism. ?He who would wait on me, let him wait on the sick,? exhorts the Buddha. Alas, the Buddhists have forgotten their mission! Today, they ?wait? on the Buddha, and not on the sick and suffering. There is nothing to distinguish them from others. But the process can be reversed. ?Our highest duty, as human beings,? says Dalai Lama, ?is to search out the means whereby we may be freed from all kinds of sufferings.? more >

Controversy Indian identity in American schools By C. Alex Alexander Although I have been in the US since 1962, I seem to have remained unaware of how American schools are imprinting concepts of Indian identity and Hinduism on the minds of American youth including children born to Indian parents. It was probably because I never had children of my own. My recent inquiries of Indian parents about this issue revealed that not many Indian parents are fully cognizant of the extent of misinformation that is being parlayed to young Americans, not just about India but about most non-European civilizations. more >

Readers? Forum Combat conversion menace: Dr Subramanian Swamy has very lucidly and in clear terms warned the Hindu society of the danger looming over its head from, inter alia, religious conversions in his two-part article (Organiser, 8 & 15-1-2006). He has suggested two solutions to fight the menace. I am sorry I have a bit of divergent views on the first solution. Though since time immemorial, our saints and great men have preached against the evil of untouchability,it was after the Meenakshipuram mass conversions that the Hindu society in general and Sangh Parivar in particular woke up to pay serious attention to the problem. more >

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