Vol. LX, No. 19, New Delhi, NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Obama makes a welcome history By OP Gupta IFS (Retd) ON November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama, 47, breaking the age-old racial barriers, became the first Afro-American to be elected to the office of the President of the USA by winning majority both in the electoral college [349 electoral votes out of 538] and in popular votes [52 per cent of votes cast] defeating his main Republican rival Senator John Sidley McCain.    more > Gandhiji was opposed to religious conversions By Girish Chandra Mishra THE great hue and cry is being raised these days both by the Cental Government and psuedo-secularist over the so-called atrocities perpetrated by the said Hindus?fundamentalists, particularly Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists against Christians. The alligators?. are finely playing the role of ?Lady Macbeth.?    more > A Matter Of Economics Obama Unsettles Capitalism Consensus By R. Balashankar BARACK Obama?s spectacular victory in the US Presidential election is largely attributed to the economic mess created by the Republican George W Bush. Obama promised to mainstream economics from Wall Street. He understood that economics has wider connotation than corporate. Indian politicians have widely welcomed Obama?s ascent.    more > Editorial A New History of America THE real America has spoken, said Obama. Barack Hussein Obama has made history. Whatever he does in office in the next four years, his place in history is assured. He is the first non-White President of the US. His victory is being compared as ground breaking as that of John F Kennady and Abraham Lincoln. The big demographic transition in the US in recent decades and the economic crisis afflicting the poor helped this win.    more > Rajasthan poll scene BJP gears up for a second term BJP in Rajasthan is leaving no stone unturned to re-capture power in coming assembly polls. One set of its leaders is busy in telling the electorates of the achievements of the government, whereas the other set is engaged in gearing up the party organisation and the election machinery.    more > Vijay Sankalp Mahakumbh in Jaipur Vasundhara?s governance mantra: A recipe for victory From Deepak Kumar Rath in Jaipur THE Rajasthan Chief Minister, Smt Vasundhara Raje, sounded triumphant as she listed the achievements of her government during an election rally of booth-level workers in Jaipur on November 6.    more > Bookmark Book Reviews By Vaidehi Nathan Politics of reservation, violating the Constitution - Reserved!: How Parliament Debated Reservations 1995-2207, Rajeev Dhavan, Rupa &Co., pp. 319, Rs. 395.00 The threat of global warming - Global Warming: There is Still Time to Act, Alok Bhattacharya, Rupa & Co., pp 150, Rs. 395.00 (HB) Guru Dutt: The light went out, the glow remained - By Amba Charan Vashishth Ten Years with GURU DUTT ? Abrar Alvi?s Journey, Sathya Saran, Penguin Books, pp 203, Rs. 499.00 A textbook on electioneering - By MV Kamath The Miracle of Democracy: India?s Amazing Journey, TS Krishnamurthy, Harper Collins, pp 243, Rs 395.00 The reason why Marx failed - By Ratnadeep Banerji Reassessment of Marxism (Revised), Dr MG Bokare, Dr M.G. Bokare Memorial Foundation, pp 283, Rs 170.00 CPM study class for cops SC IN or out of power, the CPM has a stranglehold on every sphere of human activity in Kerala. From art, culture, literature, environment to education, goons, criminals and musclemen, the commies have the broad spectrum! With all these in their kitty, can the police be far behind?    more > CPM torpedoing terror probe By S. Chandrasekhar THE police investigations into the death of four Keralite jehadis in encounter with security forces in Kashmir and the reports that 300 jehadis from Kerala are in the ranks of Lashkar and Hizbul, are bringing out frightful realities of the well-entrenched jehadi network in Kerala, especially in Kannur, Malappuram and Kochi districts.    more > 12th International Book Festival, Kochi to begin on December 5 FOC THE International Book Festival, Kochi, (IBFK) is celebrating its 12th year of service for the book lovers. Beginning in the year 1997 the IBFK has evolved into the largest and finest book festival in the southern part of India.    more > Bring a Bill in Parliament to accord constitutional validity to Ganga as National River?Ashok Singhal VHP president Shri Ashok Singhal has urged the Central Government to bring a Bill in the Parliament to accord constitutional validity to the Ganga as National River.    more > Perfidy of Kashmiriyat & Article 370 By Ram Gopal IT is correct that Article 370 confers certain special rights and exemptions to J&K, but all of it was intended to be a temporary phase. This is very clear from the placement of Article 370 in Part XXI of the Constitution, ?Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions?.    more > Assam erupts in protest By Nava Thakurai NORTH-EAST India is not strange to conflicts. Rather this part of the country has witnessed numerous incidents of violence since long back. Killing and explosions almost became the order of the day for 50 million people of the region.    more > Spread of jehadi network From Jyoti Lal Chowdhury in Silchar THAT Assam would face a situation where jehadis would strike with merciless vengeance in close coordination with illegal migrants from Bangladesh in future was forewarned by the former Governor of Assam Lt. Gen (Retd.) SK Sinha in his report of November 8, 1998.    more > Memorandum to Rashtrapati Muslims demand separate Planning Commission FOC A delegation of Muslim ulemas met the President Smt. Pratibha Patil in Lucknow on September 23 and submitted a memorandum demanding her to constitute a separate Planning Commission for Muslims under the present Planning Commission of India for their uplift.    more > Special Report With Congress benevolence, terror spreads deep in Assam By Nava Thakuria THE October 30 synchronized terrorist attacks in Assam left more than 50 dead and authorities wondering if the culprits were the state?s armed separatist movement or Islamic terrorists who infiltrated in from neighboring Bangladesh.    more >

COVER PAGE Thinkpad NDA?s greatest contribution to India Kisan Credit Card Scheme for Indian Farmers By Ram Chandra WHEN we assess the contributions of NDA government under Atal Behari Vajpayee?s leadership, often we are led to rank its Super Highway Projects or its aggressive Nuclear Policy or the Kargil War victory or its Foreign Policy initiatives as the foremost.    more > Media Watch Selective suppression of news WHY is it that our newspaper editors don?t want to ferret out the truth about any event of importance in the country? And why is it that even our television channels back out when some embarrassing facts are involved?    more > Perspective The lemming complex in Indian polity By Dr Gautam Sen THE collapse of the USSR should have constituted a grim warning to Indians. It happened with stunning rapidity and the results were profound. Russia lost much of its territory and was reduced to the status of a medium-rank power in less than four years.    more > The Moving Finger Writes Stop this linguistic chauvinism By M.V. Kamath PERHAPS the British were clever; or, may be, they were wise; or just indifferent, but when they set up demarcating the land they had conquered, they did so in a composite way. The presidencies that they carved out were multi-lingual.    more > Think It Over The idealism of Tagore The idealism of Tagore RABINDRANATH Tagore was an internationalist. But his roots were firmly in India?in the East. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, in contrast, was a ?Westerniser?.    more > Indepth Orissa under Attack?I What happened in Kandhamal? By Balbir K. Punj THE hapless tribals of Kandhamal are under seize. Relentless propraganda by the church and `secularists? has sullied the fair name of Orissa.    more > Kids? Org Honesty pays By Manju Gupta WHEN Daityaraj Bali?s army of asuras and daityas was defeated by the gods in battle, he went to Sage Shukracharya to seek a way for recovering his lost power and kingdom.    more > Play & Learn Noisy Helicopter -MG Opinion When will the Christians accept the reality? By MG Vaidya OUR Christian brethren are unhappy. This is but natural considering their houses have been brunt down. Their places of worship have been desecrated.    more > Sangh Samachar No person passionate about the culture of this country can be a terrorist?Mohan Bhagwat Sri Lankan government invites GKPP to train poojaris FOC Missionaries defaming Orissa: Sevika Samiti FOC Sarsanghachalak Shri KS Sudarshanji in Nanded FOC New website of RSS FOC Mohan Bhagwat in UK VHP demands President?s Rule in Assam FOC

Opinion Why there are no communal riots in Pakistan and Bangladesh? By Dr TH Chowdary PRECEDING the Partition of India on August 14, 1947 and the creation of Islamic state of Pakistan (and Bangladesh out of it in 1971), India had been witnessing Moslem-Hindu riots for nearly a half century.    more >

Feedback Regionalism?Where will it lead? By Arun Sathe THE issue raised by leader of Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena (MNS), Raj Thackeray, deserves to be considered in a different perspective. Whatever Raj Thackeray is saying is absolutely immature and without understanding the ground realities and national politics.    more >

Readers? Forum Questions to whitewash terrorists (Organiser, 19-10-2008); ?DAVID RAJU, 3-2-420/A, Bhagawanthapur, Hyderabad A few students of Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi were involved in the bomb blasts in Delhi. On September 19, 2008, the most highly-decorated police officer Mohan Chand Sharma sacrificed his life while fighting gun battle with the terrorists in Jamia Nagar.    more >

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