Vol. LXI, No. 29, New Delhi, January 24, 2010

Political, corporate crimes thrive under UPA By Naresh Minocha EXPORT-import frauds and corporate crimes are thriving due to UPA’s over-indulgence in trade liberalisations and its reluctance to come down heavy on political and corporate criminals. “The scenario in economic crime has undergone a sea change” following economic liberalisation since early 1990s and due to other policy changes, according to an official document.    more > Racial attacks on Indians in Australia a matter of serious concern Govt. should take immediate steps to stop them —Mohan Bhagwat VSK, Lucknow "THERE are attacks on Indians from all quarters— be these attacks in Australia or the terrorist attacks sponsored by neighbouring countries. Our government has failed to take up these issues at the international level forcefully because we have a weak government,” said RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat.    more > In Focus Congress’s hobnobbing with Left makes Mamata wary By Asim Kumar Mitra THE West Bengal politics has entered a crucial rather a complicated phase. The volte face of Trinamool Congress MP Mr. Kabir Suman, the failure of the central government in tackling both Maoist activities in Lalgarh area and the escalation of price rise and latest political game initiated by Mamata Banerjee, have all contributed to make the political situation in West Bengal confusing.    more > Editorial We are too sweet to our tormentors! Food price is no issue. What if sugar is sold at Rs 50? WHO made our sugar bitter? And our food dearer? Manmohan Singh? Sharad Pawar? Mayawati? Or all the Chief Ministers collectively conspiring to give the UPA a bad name and a free run for hoarders, black marketeers and petty traders to make astronomical profit at the cost of the common man?    more > Shivnath Rai Bajaj presented Bharatvanshi Gaurav Samman SHRI Subhash Bajaj, eldest son of Shri Shivnath Rai Bajaj of Thailand, received the fifth Bharatvanshi Gaurav Samman- 2008 in New Delhi on January 10. The Samman was presented by Smt Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, at a colourful function organised by Antar-Rashtriya Sahayog Nyas at Malviya Bhavan.    more > Food prices are high because of neglect of farm sector THE new president of the Bharatiya Janata party, Shri Nitin Gadkari, has taken several innovative measures aimed at revitalising the Party. Being a man of the masses one suggests he pays very special attention to agriculture which is actually in a dire strait in the country today in spite of claims of launching of a second Green Revolution.    more > Sangh Samachar Shalaka Pariksha by Samskrit Bharati in Ahmedabad Reviving Indian traditional method of examination - FOC Sanskar Bharati distributes sweaters - By Ravindra Saini Seminar by Swadeshi Jagaran Manch National Executive Meeting of Grahak Panchayat in Bhopal from January 24 - FOC Bajrang Dal warns against serving beef during Commonwealth Games - FOC Sewa shivir by VHP for Ganga Sagar pilgrims - Basudeb Pal Manmohan Roy passes away - Basudeb Pal BOOKMARK A book with vicious agenda, bogus scholarship By Manju Gupta Post-Hindu India: A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution, Kancha Ilaiah, Sage Publications, Pp 303, Rs 295.00 (PB) A fantastic novel, unputdownable mystery By Jayant Patel The Complaints: Who Decides Right from Wrong? Ian Rankin, Hachette, Pp 383, Rs 595.00 (PB) An excellent insight into terror mindset By Lokesh Kumar My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, Sadanand Dhume, Tranquebar Press, Pp 274, Rs 395.00 (HB) A pursuit to modernise police force By MV Kamath Police Reforms in India: A Sisyphean Saga, JY Umranikar, IPS, Ameya Prakashan, Pp 442, Rs 555.00 (HB) A great work on temple art By Dr Vaidehi Nathan Archeology and Text: The Temple in South Asia, edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, Oxford University Press, Pp 313, Rs 795.00 (HB) The secret of success in project management By Manju Gupta Managing Agile Projects: The Project Management Essentials Library, Kevin Aguanno, Macmillan Publications India Ltd, Pp 417, Rs 340.00 (PB) 60.00 (PB) Second national convention of Rashtriya Kavi Sangam FOC THE second national convention of Rashtriya Kavi Sangam was organised in New Delhi from January 2 to 3. More than 400 poets from 20 states of the country participated in the convention. The Kavi Sangam was formed in 2007 on Valmiki Jayanti day with the inspiration of senior Sangh Pracharak Shri Indresh Kumar.    more > Mahendra Chaudhary, the former PM of Fiji extends assistance to HJS SUVA (Fiji): Shri Manohar Raut of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) recently called on Shri Mahendra Chaudhary, the former Prime Minister of Fiji. Shri Raut explained to Shri Chaudhary about various activities undertaken by HJS.    more > Hindus urge Massachusetts schools for choice in studying of religious texts FOC HINDUS have urged Massachusetts (USA) schools to either allow students the flexibility to choose the religious text to study in the class instead of just mandating one religious text on the entire class or teach the texts of all major world religions.    more > The Partition and other divisive issues FOC THIS book by Makkhan Lal, NS Rajaram, HS Sreenath sheds new light on the following topics: Indology and the White Man’s Burden, The Rocky Road to Partition, Revisiting the Partition and Secularism and Casteism. Divergent    more > Ramakrishna devotees have a religious Kalpataru celebration By Ranjit Roy IT was afternoon of January 1, 1886 when Shri Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansadev had blessed his disciples with divination saying, Tomader Chaitanya Hoke (you all be blessed with holy enlightenment) at Kashipur Garden House in North Kolkata.    more > A cultural Taliban in secular India —VS I proudly assert my inalienable, indivisible, immutable, and inexorable constitutional right to be a practicing Hindu. Yet, seeing the conduct of E Ahmed, Union Minister of State for Railways, at a recent public function organised by the Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Chennai, I am constrained to raise these questions.    more > The economics of protecting the cow By Prof GS Narayana Murty THE cow, we know is meek and feeds 20,000 people in its life time just consuming grass. It is considered to be holy by all the ancient civilizations including that of India.    more >

COVER PAGE Thinking Aloud The de-Indianised New India By Dr Jay Dubashi I spent some time recently with a bunch of young boys and girls - not really boys and girls but young men and women - at a wedding ceremony.    more > Special Report Unprecedented, high food prices expose the UPA mess By Arabinda Ghose NOT a great film buff, but this reporter recalls having seen Satyajit Ray’s “Ashani Sanket” (The distant thunder) and Mrinal Sen’s “Akaler Sandhaney” (In search of famine) quite a few years ago. In the second film Smita Patil and Babita from Bangladesh, had made the famine situation most lively by their roles.    more > Reports Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Sewa Pratisthan Social service for us is a sacred vow—Nityanand Swami By Ravindra Saini TODAY, when everyone is running after name and fame and materialistic things and has no time to think for humanity, it is essential to be reminded of Pt Deendayalji’s thinking towards society in order to create a better India.    more > WEST BENGAL NEWSLETTER New generation Bengali is more religious By Asim Kumar Mitra BELIEVE it or not but the fact remains that now-a-days more and more Bengali youths are getting attracted towards religion.    more > The Moving Finger Writes China: Friend or enemy By MV Kamath WHEN will India ever learn that China is one country that has a clear political aim in view and is not deterred from following it out of emotional considerations?    more > Think It Over Words or Swords? The choice before us By MSN Menon IF the sword is not to be arbiter in the affairs of men, then word alone can take the place of the sword. Sword is the symbol of the barbarian, word is the symbol of the civilised.    more > Special Focus Assessing a Marxian legacy Jyoti Basu: The rise and fall of WB By Kanchan Gupta HAD it been Jyoti Banerjee lying unattended in a filthy general ward of SSKM Hospital in Kolkata and not Jyoti Basu in the state-of-the-art ICCU of AMRI Hospital, among the swankiest and most expensive super-speciality healthcare facilities in West Bengal, ...    more > A Feature Coconut ban in Meenakshi Temple Yet another DMK assault on Hindu faith By BR Haran THE Tamil Nadu government is contemplating a ban on coconuts inside the world famous Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple. Police attribute ‘security reasons’ for this decision; they claim the temple has always been on the terror radar and that central intelligence agencies have frequently received threats of a jihadi attack.    more > Economy Watch Time to end the stimulus package By Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala OUR economic growth rate had declined from 9 per cent of previous years to a low of 6 per cent in 2008 in the aftermath of the global economic crisis. The government implemented an Economic Stimulus Package to put the economy back on the high growth path.    more > Media Watch Public morality and private ethics FOLLOWING ND Tiwari’s exist as Governor of Andhra Pradesh on moral (immoral?) grounds, the public seems determined to act as moral police, no doubt with the best of intentions, but with questionable authority.    more > TogadiaSpeak Victims of a Sadistic System By Dr Pravin Togadia RECENTLY there was a spate of suicides by youngsters. Children in 7th, 8th and 9th standards, and teenagers in 12th standard and youth in professional courses like medical and engineering committed suicides. The entire nation was shocked and saddened by the very fact that those who are supposed to cheerfully see great dreams and work with enthusiasm to fulfil those dreams chose to die like this!    more >

Insight Judicial imposition of Muslim Law on a Hindu girl By V Sundaram, IAS (Retd) WHEN two or three years ago, the Supreme Court of India passed what I considered to be a patently illegal and unconstitutional order in a specific case, I wrote an article in these columns under the title: ‘The darkest day in India’s Legal History’.    more >

Kids’ Org The precious Parijata Tree By Manju Gupta WHEN the great deluge occurred, everything was swept under the swirling waters. Even the most precious and irreplaceable things were washed away or got submerged deep in the ocean bed. The gods decided to retrieve whatever they could by churning the ocean. It was during the churning process that the Parijata tree emerged to the surface.    more >

Readers’ Forum Congress robs all Hindus 15 per cent of jobs (Organiser, 3-1-2010); —CHAND K SHARMA by e-mail The Congress, which is the mother of all the political evils existing in India, is again showing its true colors. Under the garb of ‘secularism’ it is just another version of Muslim League, wedded to placating Muslims and Christians.    more >

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