Vol. LXII, No. 32, New Delhi, FEBRUARY 13, 2011

India has to defang separatists the way Sri Lanka crushed LTTE Sonia’s increasing bonhomie with shady NGOs endangering national security Will India get its “Putin moment”? By M D Nalapat FOR the first time in three decades, there is free movement of vehicles and people across the whole of Sri Lanka, a country whose geographic position makes it key in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).    more > Brute Kashmiri policemen misbehaved with brave BJP workers in Srinagar Removed turban, dragged by hair, given urine bottle in place of drinking water By Pramod Kumar T HE J&K Government led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah adopted all unfair and inhuman means to crush the moral of BJP workers in the Valley.    more > Thinking Aloud When push comes to shove Congress leaders will have no place to hide By Dr Jay Dubashi CHICKENS are at last coming home to roost and will soon chase Congressmen who have been looting the country since independence.    more > Editorial The intellectual terrorists are the dubious fifth estate of Indian democracy. They come in varied hues – social activists, ‘noted’ historians, journalists, advocates, litterateurs and of course prominent citizens.    more > Turmoil in the Arab World Which side will the camel choose to sit? By Priyadarshi Dutta THE Pyramids of Giza are sinking into the desert. There’s spate in the Nile, out of season.    more > Special Report Burney apologises for his vicious canard against RSS Will Digvijay follow suit or face trial? By Pramod Kumar EDITOR of Urdu daily Rojnama Rashtriya Sahara, Aziz Burney, who hit the national headlines when he got Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh to throw his weight behind his provocatively titled book, RSS ka Shadyantra, 26/11 (RSS conspiracy, 26/11), has now tendered unconditional apology.    more > News Analysis Why is Manmohan Singh hiding under technicalities? Own up and make CVC resign By Shyam Khosla LEADER of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj has thoroughly exposed UPA Government’s lies and half-truths in defending its untenable decision to appoint a charge-sheeted IAS officer P J Thomas as Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC).    more > Sangh Samachar Karyakari Mandal meeting of Kalyan Ashram Kalyan Ashram supports amendment in Mines and Minerals (D&R) Act - FOC America is treating Indian students like slaves—Dr Pravin Togadia - FOC Shri KS Sudarshan visits Andamans - By Basudeb Pal VHP stall at Kolkata International Book Fair - VSK, Kolkata Remembering the late K Bhaskar Rao - By Satish Talappilli Home coming in Odisha and Uttar Pradesh - With inputs from Loknath in Varanas Tiranga—A National Pride By Bhupender Yadav “THE National Flag indisputably stand for the whole nation, its ideals, aspirations, its hopes and achievements.    more > A pseudo-secular canard gone wrong By Adhitya Srinivasan THE Justice Somashekar Commission, set up to inquire into the sequence of events and circumstances leading to the attack on places of worship in Karnataka in 2008, exonerated the BJP State Government in Karnataka in its final report which was submitted and made public last week.    more > Garo-Rabha clash: A pre-planned conspiracy Displaced from homeland Centre indifferent to their plight By Jagdamba Mall GARO–Rabha clash started from January 1, this year in the Garo Hills District of Meghalaya and ...    more > Madurai Meenakshi Amman Unique tradition of divine birthday festivities By V Shanmuganathan THE Hindu Temple Protection Committee celebrated the birthday of goddess Meenakshi in Madurai.    more > People’s perpetual protest Congress Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Nasty Intrigues Agency (NIA) By Dr Jitendra Kumar Sharma THOMAS Jefferson, founding father and the third President of the USA wanted to banish banking , judiciary and bureaucracy from the Republic.    more > Narmada Kumbh Preparations on at Mandla From Virag Pachpore in Mandla and Jabalpur PREPARATIONS for Narmada Samajik Kumbh (Social Congregation) are going on war footing at Mandla in Madhya Pradesh.    more > Words are like mantra. Use them with caution By MV Kolhatkar THE king got worried. So he made an announcement throughout his kingdom over the drumbeat and offered a prize of 300 golden coins to whosoever would correctly interpret the dream.    more > A Hindu renaissance in North-east region By Jagdamba Mall THE northeast Bharat has been encoiled by the nexus of church, Christian terrorists, Muslims and Muslim terrorist organisations, China and China-sponsored naxalites/Maoists Human Rightists, ....    more >

Cover Page The Moving Finger Writes Collapse of values in India By MV Kamath In recent times, the Indian media has had a good time criticising Pakistan and the recent killing of Punjab’s Governor, Salman Taseer by his own bodyguard. It has given our media a fresh impetus to damn jihadi and fundamentalist elements in our neighbour country.    more > Economy Watch RBI must not bail out Manmohan Singh By Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala Price rise hurts. It should be managed, however, in a way that does not throttle economic growth. The bright student gets tired of studying long hours. Parents do not ask him to reduce the studies.    more > Opinion UPA afraid of disclosing the money launderers names By Rajan Khanna WHAT is holding the Indian government back from disclosing the names of the people who have stashed away money in the German banks, illegally, and more so when even the highest court of the land is insisting on the names to be made public.    more > Bookmark A rich, varied collection of essays on India By Tej N Dhar Indian Essentials, Penguin Books, Pp 519 (PB), Rs 450.000 The price of honesty By Jayant Patel The Honest Always Stand Alone, CG Somiah, Niyogi Books, Pp 274, Rs 395.00 Managing by persuasion By Manju Gupta The Persuasive Manager: Communication Strategies for 21st Century Managers, Make a positive impact Managers Who Make a Difference: Sharpening Your Management Skills, TV Rao, Random House India, Pp 304, Rs 299.00 A glimpse of Mughal history By Tej N Dhar Shadow Princess, Indu Sunderesan, HarperCollins, Pp 370 (PB), Rs 399.00 The craft of an highly acclaimed film maker By Manju Gupta Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema, Gautaman Bhaskaran, Penguin/Viking, Pp 218, Rs 399 Brief Book Reviews by Dr Vaidehi Nathan Ghosts of the past Maria’s room, Shreekumar Varma, HarperCollins, Pp 324 (PB), Rs 299.00 Super power sci-fi Turbulence, Samit Basu, Hachette India, Pp 357 (PB), Rs 250 Shoe man returns Dead Like You, Peter James, Pan Macmillan, Pp 643 (PB), Rs 299.00 Lessons from recession for globalization —MG Gobalisation and Development in the Mekong Economies, Suiwah Leung, Ben Bingham, Matt Davies, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Pp 211

Media Watch Media makes a mincemeat of the PM POOR Dr Manmohan Singh. No Prime Minister in the past has received such a damning dubbing as he did over the cabinet reshuffle issue. The fact that he continues to function shows how immune he is – or his boss, Sonia Gandhi is – to criticism.    more >

TogadiaSpeak Endorsed Hypocrisy By Dr Pravin Togadia ON and off we all notice some advertisements of a few products and brands where a celebrity is seen endorsing that product or brand. Mostly, the celebrity is either from the popular fields like sports, movies or if the product is more clinical type then some person is shown sporting the doctor’s gown showing shining teeth or clean floor.    more >

Readers’ Forum Keep the honour of the national flag (Organsier, 6-2-11); —MAYA MISHRA, C-403, Anand Lok Society, Mayur Vihar-110 091 The claim that the law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir would have got disturbed if the BJP had hoisted the National Tricolor in Srinagar holds no water.    more >

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