Vol. LIX, No. 30, New Delhi, February 03, 2008

CMS Media Lab Review of TV News Channels in 2007 Trivia eclipses politics in TV news By Prabhakar THE news channels have undergone a radical transformation, whereby the news has not only changed in its definition and content, but also in the manner in which it is presented.    more > CPM non-governance cripples the state Alliance partners openly attack CPM By S. Chandrasekhar AS if domestic Islamic jehadis like Abdul Nasser Madhani, NDF, SIMI, SIO, Kantha-puram Musaliar?s Sunni faction and Mujahid?s are not enough, terror groups like Laskar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen have found safe houses and green pastures in Kerala, thanks to pro-jehadi CPM regime and the Muslim dominated pockets spread over the state.    more > Think it over America, the great anarch By M.S.N. Menon This was the prophetic portrait of America painted by an anonymous American poet of the 19th century. No words were more aptly said of America?s destiny.    more > Editorial Campaign on faith The US presidential candidates swear by identity politics. WHAT for the US presidential candidates have to swear by their Christian antecedents?    more > Buta Singh has a point on religious reservation By Sandhya Jain IN an era of craven hankering after communal and caste vote banks, Mr. Buta Singh, chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), has sounded a note of common sense by asking state governments not to use the word ?dalit? in official documents as it is ?unconstitutional?.    more > Koirala and Bangaldesh Mukti Bahini Arms purchased from hijack money were sent to East Pakistan By Arabinda Ghose PRIME Minister of Nepal, Girija Prasad Koirala, was involved in printing fake Indian currency to finance the armed struggle against the royal government of Nepal.    more > A third af(front) from CPM By Shyam Khosla THE CPM, that has taken other leftist parties for a ride leading to heart burning in its smaller partners, is now propagating the idea of a non-BJP, non-Congress, Third Front. As a communist outfit, it has no use for political morality.    more > Hindu-Buddhist dialogue in Louisville A Hindu-Buddhist dialogue was organised at Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Louisville, KY on January 5 as part of the cultural exchange programme.    more > Bhagwad Gita learning competition in east Andhra FOC BHARAT Sanskrit Parishad, a unit of Vishwa Hindu Parishad East Andhra Pradesh, has been organising Bhagwad Gita learning competition since 13 years.    more > A charge-sheet against Sheila government FOC THE BJP All India vice-president Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and former Union Minister and BJP All India secretary Shri Vijay Goel has released a report on failures of Smt. Sheila Dikshit?s nine years rule.    more > Himachal Assembly Elections BJP vote share increased By Amba Charan Vashishth THE recent assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh have created history in more than one way. The facts that emerge are interesting and enlightening.    more > National convention of Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad Literature for future of India TWELFTH national convention of Akhil Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad concluded in Delhi on December 30. A total of 256 delegates from 19 states participated in the convention.    more > The truth of Pachmarhi By Sangeet Verma NARMADA has for long been the lifeline of Central India. The holy river has inspired poets, sages, writers and revolutionaries alike. Its motherly presence has been the key to survival of both life and culture here.    more > Deshbhakti Sandesh Yatra by ABVP AKHIL Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) organised a Deshbhakti Sandesh Yatra in Karnataka to celebrate the 150th anniversary of 1857 war of Independence.    more > USA or Russia: Strategic partner in Civilisation-II Religio-ethnic dimensions of national interest By Dr Kunal Ghosh NO matter what the western political leaders profess in public, they practice something close to what is described in Huntington?s afore-mentioned book.    more > Sanskar Bharati pays tribute to 1857 martyrs FOC SANSKAR Bharati in association with Zee TV organised a function in Mumbai on January 5 to pay tribute to the martyrs of 1857 war of Independence.    more >

Cover Page The Moving Finger Writes Centre must take action against CPM By M.V. Kamath HERE?S a question to Sonia Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh and Shivraj Patil: What on earth is happening in West Bengal? Is the government there not responsible to the Centre? Can the CPM-led Leftist government allow an independent?and armed?party cadre to enforce its aims on the people? Is that legal?    more > Opinion CPM finally surrenders to capitalism By D.G. Bokare IT is not unexpected to understand Shri Jyoti Basu?s frustration with Marx?s failed scientific socialism at the closing years of his life. However, I appreciate his courage for accepting his own ?mistake? during his lifetime.    more > Counter Point Conversions? Not with foreign funds, Please! By B.R. Haran THE arrival of East India Company and the subsequent British regime have been the launch pad for foreign Christian missionaries to land in India and establish themselves. They penetrated in to the far and wide of the country in the guise of focusing on ?Education & Health Care? sectors to help the poor and downtrodden of the country.    more > Bookmark The middle class syndrome By M.V. Kamath The Great Indian Middle Class, Pavan K. Varma, Penguin Books India, pp 232, Rs 295.00 Happy bondages Book Reviews by Manju Gupta Joy of Relationships, Neale Donald Walsch, Jaico Publishing House, pp 90, Rs 150.00 Story of a maths prodigy Gifted, Nikita Lalwani, Penguin Books India, pp 275, Rs 395.00 India?s Glorious Scientific Tradition-XLI Ancient Indian Agriculture By Suresh Soni This book is available with Ocean Books (P) Ltd., 4/19 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002 Cinema with Gulzar Saibal Chatterjee: Echoes & Eloquences: The Life and Cinema of Gulzar, Rupa & Co., 266 pp, Rs 795

Media Watch A tradition succumbs to market forces THE Hindu is (or was) a conservative paper and, in a way, so are its readers, conservative. It must be the only paper in India which has a Reader?s Editor, a kind of ombudsman, to receive complaints and attend to them. Recently, a full page of the paper was given over to an advertisement. This, of course, is standard practice and many newspapers indulge in this to add revenues to their pockets. The reader may feel insulted, but the proprietors seldom care.    more >

Insight Scrap Macaulay Penal Code-II Alien Penal Code encourages gender crime By Himanshu Shekhar Jha MACAULAY had once said ?Our principle is simply this?Uniformity where you can have it?Diversity where you must have it?but in all cases certainty?. Despite his tall claim of uniformity, diversity and certainty, the Indian Penal Code is deficient in all the three attributes of law. If anything is certain about the Macaulayan Penal Code, it is this that it lacks certainty to a marked degree.    more >

Readers? Forum West Bengal reels under the heels of marauding CPM goons (Organiser, 9-12-2007); ?AMIT KUMAR MUKHERJEE, 85/D Kankulia Road, Kolkata I have appreciated the comparison by author Shri Ashoke Dasgupta between Suhrawardy, the infamous Prime Minister of Bengal, the perpetrator of ?Great Calcutta killing? of 1946, with Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, CM, West Bengal, 2007, the architect of mass killing and physical repression on women at Singur and Nandigram. more >

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