Vol. LX, No. 32, New Delhi, February 15, 2009

Virat Sant Sammelan in Mumbai Religious leaders exhort society to fight terror unitedly Saints to take up national awareness campaign FOC TO counter increasing terrorism and terror activities in the country the seers have decided to organise public meetings across the country between February 20 and March 20. Decision to this effect was taken by saints at a Sant Sammelan organised in Mumbai on January 30. The saints will conduct an awareness drive.    more > Mahatma Gandhi would have resorted to satyagraha against pubs By Justice (Retd) Dr M Rama Jois THE recent physical and spoken assault on women going to pubs in Mangalore by those calling themselves Sri Ram Sainiks has been highly unjust and indecent and has very rightly come in for severe condemnations far and wide in the country. This is the evidence of sanctity attached to womanhood and the highest esteem in which the women are held in Bharatiya culture.    more > Expose Navin Chawla's Trust In Congress Favours By Lokpal Sethi in Jaipur CONTROVERSIAL Election Commissioner, Navin Chalwa, blatantly misused his official position and his proximity to Congress leaders, to grab a huge chunk of land at a throw away price in the name of two trusts, named after his father ...    more > Editorial Chawla is a blot on EC Let him resign on his own ASPIRING to be a great democracy is one thing. Being one is quite different. The ongoing controversy in the Election Commission has yet again proved how pathetically inadequate our politicians are when it comes to setting high ideals before the nation.    more > Subverting Constitution to save a loyalist By Shyam Khosla LAW Minister H R Bhardwaj?s assertion that it is the Union Government?s authority and not that of the Chief Election Commissioner to remove Election Commissioners is a blatant attempt to make the Election Commission subservient to the Government.    more > CPM civil war on Kerala streets CM on his way out from CPI-M? From Arun Lakshman in Tiruvananthapuram THE Kerala Chief Minister and politburo member of the CPI-M VS Achuthanandan is almost on his way out from the CPI-M if the indications from him and his bitter rival and the party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan are to be observed closely.    more > Book Mark Book Reviews by Ratandeep Banerji Literature without boundaries - Crossing Over, Partition Literature from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Frank Stewart, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Editors, GBD Books, pp 254, Price not mentioned A history of Portuguese adventures in India - Portuguese Presence in India during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Edited by Yogesh Sharma & Jose Leal Ferreira, Viva Books, pp 176, Rs. 895 Ideas for imagining a better India - By M.V. Kamath Imagining India; Ideas for the New Century; Nandan Nilekani; Penguin; Pp 531, Rs 699.00 Afghanistan under Taliban - By Manju Gupta Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan, Antonio Giustozzi, Foundation Books, Pp 259, Rs 595.00 Myanmar Mission of the Council of Nagaland Baptist Churches Missionaries set Hindu temple on fire SILCHAR: Christian missionaries preach many things and quote the Bible in particular to say, ?We do not hurt other denominations.?    more > Dr Joshi launches his interactive tool Website and blog to reflect youth aspirations FOC FORMER BJP president and former Union HRD Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi unveiled his website and blog for what he called a tool to engage in serious and meaningful discourse with masses on January 31 in New Delhi.    more > Exclusive Interview with Dr Raman Singh ?Ensuring food security of the poor is our top priority??Dr Raman Singh In his first interview to Organiser after registering a glorious victory in Chhattisgarh for the second time, Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh assures to fulfill all the promises he had made to the people of the State during the elections. Excerpts.    more > Mullahs protest Azamgarh terror arrests, courtesy UPA By Anand Mishra ?Abhay? ON January 29, people were rather curious to see a railway train being pulled by a ?Green Engine?, compartments packed with skull capped youngmen lead by bearded mullahs.    more > Propitious model of growth without greed By Narayan Parmar "ONLY India can guide the world towards the safe path to save it from the destructive crisis.    more > Swami Laxmanananda's murder Maoists split on communal lines By Debasis Tripathy in Bhubaneswar THE Orissa Crime Branch charge sheet against seven Kandhamal-based Christians in the killing of revered Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati and four others including a woman sannyasin, has vidicated the Bajrang Dal stand that the murder was the handiwork of local Church zealots.    more > Historic BJP rally in Sundergarh A pledge to win maximum Lok Sabha seats in Orissa By Deepak Kumar Rath in Sundergarh THE BJP, as part of its election strategy, is organising booth-level conferences in different states.    more >

COVER PAGE Think Pad Gandhiji and Dr Ambedkar A perspective of their visions on social equality By Dr Vijaya Rajiva MAHATMA Gandhi has had detractors from day one of his public life, both in India and abroad. He was used to it and often welcomed criticism. Today, of course, he is the most revered figure throughout the world and with just cause. However, the latest criticism, coming from certain quarters must be heeded because it seems to be politically motivated.    more > Moving Finger Writes By aiding Pak, US is aiding terror By M.V. Kamath NEWLY elected US President Barack Obama has now done better than British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. The latter equates Pakistan-sponsored terrorism with what he believes ?solving the Kashmir problem?. There is no ?Kashmir problem?.    more > Think it Over By MSN Menon By MSN Menon ANY attempt at representation of God is as futile as efforts to picture an electron. The electron is inconceivable. So is God. People of the Semitic faiths says that man was made in the image of God. The Hindus believe in a God without form and with form. Both Saguna (with form) and Nirguna (without form) are, however, equal in the eyes of the Hindus. To those who says that God cannot have a form, Vivekananda has a question: who is it that has taken all the forms that exist?   more > Kids? Org Surya's Scorching Heat By Manju Gupta ARUNA, the goddess of dawn, was fast asleep when she was suddenly jolted out of her slumber by a voice telling her, ?Take care and keep a watch on the movements of your son, Surya, (the Sun God) or else he will leave you and go elsewhere in space.?    more > Sangh Samachar National Executive Committee meeting of BMS Bailout package should be for labour sector, not for erring capitalists  FOC Eighteen lakh Suryanamaskar in one day by Kreeda Bharati RAJASTHAN unit of Kreeda Bharati organised mass Suryanamaskar functions at 415 places of the state on February 2. A total of 3,55,000 people including students of various schools performed 18 lakh Suryanamaskars only in one day. VSK, Jaipur RSS Pratinidhi Sabha to meet in Nagpur from March 20 THE annual meeting of Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will be organised in Nagpur. The meeting will begin at 8.45 am on from March 20 and will conclude at 6.00 pm on March 22. Apart from all senior Sangh Pracharaks and workers, delegates from across the country would participate in the meeting.   FOC Pathsanchalan on Foundation Day of BHU RSS Swayamsevaks took out a pathsanchalan in Benaras on foundation day of Benaras Hindu University (BHU) on January 31.

Pravasi Bharatiya Chicago recognition to Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh FOC Naperville shakha of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) in Chicago received SNY 2009 proclamation on January 31 at the hands of Mayor of the City George Pradel at city hall. The Mayor handed over a beautifully ?rosewood framed? proclamation. The Mayor agreed to do a proclamation and a big event during Diwali this year.    more >

Media Watch Hilarious pub-editorials and pop culture THIS journalist who has been around in the media world for some sixty-five years must confess that he has read nothing more hilarious than some of the editorials in the English language press over the pub incident in Mangalore. It merely shows how ignorant the media is about the traumatic changes that have been taking place in Indian society in just about the last one decade and how people are striving to come to terms with them.    more >

Readers? Forum Falsifying history for political gain (Organiser, 18-1-2009); ?SUDARSHAN KUMAR KAPUR, Gurgaon, Haryana ?Politics is a dirty game?, so is often said, but politicising history is far more dangerous and ominous for the nation. I would like to share my experiences with the readers in this context through this letter. In 1976, during the days of Emergency, I was directed by the Haryana government to go through the NCERT textbooks on History meant for classes VI to VIII, ...    more >

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