Vol. LIX, No. 24; New Delhi, December 23, 2007

L.K. Advani is the Leader By R. Balashankar IT is natural that L.K. Advani is the prime ministerial candidate of BJP. The party has done a sensible thing by unanimously announcing it and the leader?s wide acceptability was in display when all the constituents of the NDA endorsed it instantaneously. Advani is lucky for BJP. The party has won many electoral battles under him. The failure of the UPA to settle its contradictions and leadership predilections make the timing excellent.    more > ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Modi?s development plank a big hit in Gujarat poll By Deepak Kumar Rath in Ahmedabad THERE is hardly any place in Gujarat where development in the last five years of Narendra Modi?s regime is not palpable. Such is the magic wand of Shri Modi that Gujarat has turned into a vibrant state excelling every passing day the past development story of some other states.    more > HP Assembly poll The BJP has an edge From Ajai Srivastava in Shimla SNOWFALL and severe cold wave could not cool down the anti-establishment wave running in Himachal Pradesh. The heat generated through aggressive poll campaign by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has virtually thrown the ruling Congress on the receiving end.    more > Think it Over Islam and the diabolic slave trade By M.S.N. Menon ?If all crimes committed from creation down to the present day were added together, they would not exceed, I am sure, the guilt of the diabolic slave trade.??Lord Palmerston (1844)    more > Editorial Ram Sethu and Ramjanmabhoomi A study in obfuscation THE so-called expert panel set up by DMK leader T.R. Balu?s Ministry of Shipping has accomplished a command performance, if newspaper reports are to be believed.    more > UPA silence on plight of Malaysian Indians Will Malaysia become a Jihadistan? By M.D. Nalapat LOOK around you, at the seat behind you on the Delhi-Hyderabad flight or the Kolkatta-Patna train. They are there with grim expressions, determined to avoid the pollution of physical or even verbal contact with those who are clearly not Wahabbi.    more > Conservative Estimates UPA ignores Malaysia?s ethnic Indians By Ravi Shanker Kapoor THE thundering silence of the Government of India over the issue of mistreatment of ethnic Indians in Malaysia is reprehensible and appalling but not surprising. You could not have expected any better from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) dispensation which routinely dumps morality, fairness, and propriety to win Muslim votes.    more > CPM atrocities in Kerala Communists are violators of human rights: Rajnath Singh ?D.K.R. THE communist ideology is based on violent reactions and its basic element is intolerance. They don?t believe in giving space to other ideologies. The recent violence in Nandigram by the CPI(M) goons and the continuous murders and attacks on the civilians who oppose the communist ideology in Kerala,    more > Prantiya Baithak in Kasargod CPM works against national interest ?K.S. Sudarshan ?By S. Chandrasekhar ADDRESSING the Prantiya Baithak of Karnataka Sangh adhikaris in Kasargod, Kerala, RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri K.S. Sudarsan said that the communists are always against Bharatiya samskars and nationalism.    more > Bharateeya Vichara Kendram's 25 eventful years -S.C THE Bharateeya Vichara Kendram (BVK), inaugurated by the late Dattopant Thengadi in 1982, has completed 25 fruitful years under the able and dynamic leadership of its founder director Padmasri P. Parameswaran.    more > Colombo University honours Dr Nishank By Ravindra Saini DR Ramesh Pokhariyal ?Nishank?, Health Minister of Uttarakhand and a noted Hindi poet and writer, has been honoured with honourary Doctorate of Science at a function held at Bhandarnaike International Conference Hall in Colombo recently.    more > Multi-media presentation of Dashavatar SWAR Rang, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, organised a cultural programme at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi for the help of kidney patients.    more > BMS rally in Delhi for interim relief FOC MORE than 5,000, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) workers representing railways, defence, postal, central secretariat, armed forces headquarters, IMD, audit and accounts, currency and coins, etc., under the banner of Government Employees National Federation (GENC) staged massive protest at the Parliament Street in New Delhi on December 11.    more > Enforce corporate responsibility By Sandhya Jain THE grisly nature of the accident that claimed four lives in the Hyundai factory in Chennai makes it imperative that the UPA government steps in to ensure corporate responsibility of foreign multinationals and their Indian subsidiaries, and not allow the tragedy be buried merely on account of the hasty announcement of compensation by the guilty firms.    more > Merchants of falsehood and hatred By Shyam Khosla UNFAMILIAR with dignified political debate and used to hurling abuses at her political rivals, Sonia Gandhi has done it again. She has reduced the current debate over law and order situation in the poll-bound Gujarat into a street brawl.    more > Distribution of 1250 artificial limbs to physically challenged persons Bharat Vikas Parishad is rendering great services to the society ?Meira Kumar, FOC ?BHARAT Vikas Parishad has truly been rendering great services for the uplift of the society. The artificial limbs distributed by the Parishad today are not only very useful but also good in quality.    more > Obituary Editor of Jagruti Weekly Shri Vadlamudi Rama Mohana Rao passes away ?T.V. Deshmukh ELDER Pracharak and editor of Jagruti Weekly paper Shri Vadlamudi Rama Mohana Rao passed away on December 4, 2007 at 11.50 hrs i.e., Bahula Ekadasi day of Kartikam month in Wodland Hospital, Barkatpura, Hyderabad.    more >

COVER PAGE A Report Golden jubilee of Hindusthan Samachar Promote creative, purposeful media ?Mohan Bhagwat By Pramod Kumar HINDUSTHAN Samachar, a multilingual news agency, has turned 50. Though it was founded in 1948 by Dada Saheb Apte, it was registered as a cooperative body in 1957. Revived in 2003, it has today become a leading news agency supplying news in nine Indian languages?Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Asamia, Oriya, Kannada, Bangla, Sindhi and Nepali, and soon it is going to provide news in Sanskrit too.    more > The Moving Finger Writes The UPA: A government without vision By M.V. Kamath HINDUS, by definition, are secular. From times immemorial, they have accepted people of other faith and treated them with respect. Ask Jews. Ask Parsis. Hindus did not interfere with their rites and rituals. Hindus helped Parsis to build their Fire Temples and the Jews their synagogues.    more > Economy Watch UPA subsidising US war on Iraq, styming India?s growth story Author Name Comes here This is an open letter written by Shri Namit Verma to the AICC president Sonia Gandhi on the financial crisis confronting the country. Dear Congress president, As the United States grapples with recession, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress began taking stock of the Bush administration?s policy decisions, including the Iraq occupation and expenditures and growth-sapping hidden costs thereof    more > SPECIAL ON 150 YEARS OF 1857 Did Moscow play fraud on Marx??XXVIII The textual examination of the NYDT articles By Devendra Swarup THE Institute of Marxism-Leninism (IML), Moscow has attributed the authorship of 31 unsigned articles on the 1857 Indian Revolt published in the NYDT between July 15, 1857 and October 1, 1858 to Marx and Engels. The process of attribution started in 1953 almost a century after their publication.    more > Bookmark Market has its victims By M.V. Kamath Joseph Stiglitz: Globalization and its discontents; Penguin Books, pp 282,Rs 395 A teenager?s tale By Manju Gupta Randa Abdel-Fattah: Does My Head Look Big In This?, Scholastic, pp. 351, Rs 295.00 A teamwork guide for the youth Mohinder Pal Singh: You Can?t Punch With A Thumb, Wisdom Tree, pp. 121, Rs 145.00 India?s Glorious Scientific Tradition-XXXVI The process for the Metamorphosis of Mercury By Suresh Soni This book is available with Ocean Books (P) Ltd. 4/19 Asaf Ali Road, new Delhi-110 002. Kids? Org The power of devotion By Manju Gupta KING Ambrish kept a fast for three days, meditating on Lord Vishnu. On completion of the period of fast, he invited priests and gifted them alms and all kinds of gifts. Rishi Durvasa happened to be passing by and he stopped to see why so many priests were gathered at one spot. King Ambrish saw the sage and came forward to invite him to partake in the feast and bless them all.    more > Play & Learn Sharp shooter ?M.G.

Agenda Ten terrible conspiracies against Bharat and Hindus By Anand Shankar Pandya THE very first imperative for the security of any nation is the security and strength of that nation?s majority community. In the case of Bharat that means the Hindus. The business acumen and scientific talent of the Hindu society have so stunned the word that forces are now at work to halt this country?s march to the pinnacle of progress.    more >

Insight DMK thrives on discrimination By B.R. Haran TWO significant issues were reported in the first week of October in the print media of Tamil Nadu. One was that, the Dalits have not been allowed entry into the temples in a few villages and the other one was that, some tea shops were following the two-tumbler system to discriminate against the Dalits.    more >

Readers? Forum Anti-Hinduism crusade: ?DAVID RAJU, 3-2-420/A, Bhagawanthapur, Hyderabad The utter dishonesty, ignoble partisanship and unabashed anti-Hinduism are easily evident in the actions of professional activists like Teesta Seetalvad, Harsh Mandar and Javed Anand, who are incessantly talking of the ?genocide? of Muslims in Gujarat in the aftermath of the burning of Hindu pilgrims in rail bogies in Godhra.    more >

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