Vol. LXIII, No. 1, New Delhi, July 10, 2011

Expose Can UPA tackle black money? Generating black money: A Congress pastime By Naresh Minocha “THE first requirement for tackling the problem of black income generation is clean administration at least at the level of political authority and top civil servants.” more > Land as the source of all prime scandals Posco, Kandla Port Trust vie with each other on scam list By Aditya Pradhan IF this government has a record of a weekly scam breaking out in the news media, this week’s financial scandal takes the cake. more > In Focus Congress conspiracy to implicate Narendra Modi in Gujarat riots By GVL Narasimha Rao THERE is a sinister plan hatched by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to implicate Shri Narendra Modi in a web of legal cases relating to 2002 communal violence and some alleged encounter cases. more > Editorial The 100 per cent farce and admission scramble Going by the reports of scramble for admissions into colleges, India appears ill prepared for meeting the demands of the burgeoning youth population and the rising literacy rates. more > SPECIAL REPORTS Corrupt UPA’s brazen loot Fuelling aam aadmi’s misery By Ravi THE United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s egregious decision to raise the prices of diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and kerosene—and the subsequent imploring to states to bring down duties—reminds me of a couplet by Mirza Ghalib: more > Special Focus Congress ‘mishandled’ Lokpal issue: Dr Joshi Government and corporates minting profit from energy price hike FOC “THE UPA government has mishandled the Lokpal issue. This is a very immature government. I pity them,” said the senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi while recently talking to mediapersons in New Delhi . more > SPECIAL REPORT God’s own land in the grip of Bacchus Alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse in Kerala: Problem, process and redemption By Dr Babu Suseelan FOR hundreds of years, we have known that Kerala, the land’s end of India which has produced the greatest philosopher ever known Sankaracharya made sense as a great state. more > News Round-up Protest in Bengaluru Bajrang Dal, ABVP demand ban on KFD - By VSK, Karnataka Sangh Shiksha Varga of Delhi concludes RSS is being targeted as it is a hurdle in the way of the forces trying to weaken Bharat—Dinesh Chandra - IVSK Eye care camp by RSS Sewa Vibhag - By Rajesh Padmar in Bengaluru National Council meeting of Grahak Panchayat in Jaipur - FOC Bharat Vikas Parishad honours meritorious students - FOC Hindu Shakti Sangam at Hubli in January 2012 - VSK, Bengaluru Declining investor confidence leads to fall in FII, FDI inflow WITH policy-making in dire straits, economic reforms on the back burner, and political uncertainty growing, foreign investors are showing signs of unease with India. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) withdrew $497 million this calendar year till June 22. more > The cruel Land War Follow Japan in Land Acquisition By Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala THE land acquisition policy announced by Chief Minister Mayawati is grossly inadequate. Land to be acquired has been placed in three categories. In the first category are government infrastructure works such as canals and roads. Land acquisition for these projects will continue as previously. more > Assam Newsletter Assam: When a routine street demonstration turns violent By Nava Thakuria IT was another black day for Guwahatians who witnessed street violence killing three people and damaging huge public and private properties. more > Ailing Air India faces another strike The Air India employees threat another strike By Pushpanjali DESPITE of the promises made by the chairman and the managing director of the National Air Carrier of India, Air India, Shri Arvind Jadav, in a letter showing his regrets for not being able to release the salary statement by June 8, assuring the employees that the salary would be paid in a short while, 44,000 employees have not yet received their salary for the month of May. more > Shankardev Shishu Vidya Niketans outshine From Jyoti Lal Chowdhury in Silchar THE results of the last HSLC examinations have brought the Shankardev Shishu Vidya Niketans also known as Saraswati Vidya Niketans into limelight for brilliant performance of their students, debunking the myth that high profile English medium institutions’ products alone can achieve the feat. more > The decline of secularism as communalism By Rajan Khanna IT is high time that people of this country should demand the exact definition of the words ‘communal and secular’ from those who have become habitual of obsessively using the said terms to further their political agendas; more > In resplendent return Jayalalithaa takes up sweeping reforms Governance Revisits Tamil Nadu By Adhitya Srinivasan IT has been little over a month since J Jayalalithaa has taken over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Most people would argue that one month is too short a period to pass a judgement on the quality of governance. more > Furious Baba hits back at UPA, demands his conversation with Sibal be made public To start nationwide Gram Swavlamban awareness drive from August 4. To develop 640 model villages and to expose the corrupt UPA regime By Pramod Kumar "MY fight against black money and corruption will continue till my last breathe. There is no question of bowing down before the bhrashtachari (corrupt) and atyachari (cruel) government. more >

COVER PAGE The Moving Finger Writes Article Title Comes Lokpal Bill: Uncertainty prevailshere By MV Kamath THERE are some systems that cannot be challenged. One is the constitutional position about the supremacy of Parliament. It is the Parliament composed of representatives of the people which has the last word. more > Media Watch Crime reporting is serious business, dangerous too Narad WHEN I was the editor of an evening paper in Mumbai way back in the early fifties, I had a crime reporter who was extraordinarily good. His expertise was impressive. more > Thinking Aloud True democracy is where all criminals are treated equally By Dr Jay Dubashi REPORTERS covering the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington and elsewhere, used to dealing with such serious issues as inflation, exchange rates and bail outs have been taken aback at the sudden turn of events. more > Campus Scene Cut-offs soaring high in Delhi By Pushpanjali WITH competitions increasing every passing year, students are used to cut-offs soaring high in Delhi University. But this time the cut-offs were unbelievable. more > Bookmark Italian convents (16, 17 century): Asylums for girls too poor to be married off By Dr R Balashankar Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art & Arson in the Convents of Italy, Craig A Monson, The University of Chicago Press, Pp 241(HB), $29.75 A well written novel set in British India By Tej N Dhar The Collector’s Daughter, S K Das, Rupa & Co, Pp 290 (PB), Rs 295.00 Dark magic set in US East Coast By Manju Gupta Sweep, Cate Tiernan, Speak/Penguin Group, Pp 202 (PB) Handle emotions positively By Tej N Dhar Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way, Gary Chapman, Jaico, Pp 213 (PB), Rs 250.00 Three titles on nature’s inimitable art By Dr Vaidehi Nathan Big topics, treated comprehensively —VN Books Received Agenda The way to save Hindu civilization By JG Arora THOUGH as per Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975), the British historian of civilisations, “Civilisations die from suicide, not murder”, a unilateral war is being waged by anti-Hindu forces to wipe out Hindu civilisation the way other native cultures and civilisations have been destroyed in the world. more > Kids’ Org Rituparna and Sudeva By KK Shanmukhan Nala and Damayanti for students, KK Shanmukhan, Kurukshethra Prakasan, Kaloor Towers, Kochi: 682 017, Rs 30.00 SUDEVA reached Ayodhya. King Rituparna greeted him with warmth and friendship. Sudeva addressed him: “Oh, great King, conqueror of enemies, be victorious. Please listen to me. more >

TogadiaSpeak State of Inertia By Dr Pravin Togadia WHEN you see sparkling malls around you in your city/town and even in the village, you feel nice – Wow! Development! Same expression pops up when you see wide roads, 4 or 8 track highways, shining floored large airports (with that slippery flooring, invariably someone slips in a hurry or more >

In Focus At Liberty Fighting subversion with hands tied By Ravi THE fact that the government has plans to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Maoist-infested areas for gathering intelligence and assisting the security forces demonstrates there are people in the highest echelons who recognise the gravity of the threat posed by Leftwing extremists. more >

Readers’ Forum Government is playing with the lives of brilliant students: —MAHESH CHANDRA SHARMA, E-198, Panki, Kanpur The 100 per cent cut-off for students to get admission in Delhi University’s Sri Ram College of Commerce has unnerved students and parents. With such rise in cut-offs, even a topper with more than 95 per cent marks will not get into SRCC, leading to demoralising the students. more >

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