Vol. LXII, No. 52, New Delhi, July 03, 2011

Overwhelming majority of Indians rate Congress corrupt But its appeasement policies endear it to minority voters By GVL Narasimha Rao A recent nationwide survey by the news website LensOnNews.com has shown that the Congress Party is seen to be corrupt by an overwhelming majority of men-women, youth and elderly, people belonging to all occupations, educational backgrounds and urban-rural citizens etc. Shockingly, there is only one exception to this nationwide adverse perception of the Congress Party; the Muslim community which is defying the nationwide trend and is failing to see the stark reality of a corruption ridden Congress Party.    more > Civil Society – anathema or reality Common man has no relief in UPA Lokpal By Shivaji Sarkar IS there nothing like a civil society in a democracy? Is it an obstacle to parliamentary functioning? Does it impinge on supremacy of Parliament? Or these are hypothetical questions or mere figment of imagination of some Congressmen, who have risen to power without connect with the people?    more > Opinion Supreme Court and High Court judges under the Lokpal The statute will stand in the way By Justice Dr M Rama Jois IN connection with the drafting of the Jana Lokpal Bill, opinion appears to be divided on the question whether Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts should also be brought within the jurisdiction of Lokpal?    more > Editorial Congress busy killing the India story THE flight of capital from India is now official. The latest Reserve Bank of India report says that the outward flow of FDI in May 2011 was up 59 per cent at $3.7 billion. Outward flow in May 2010 was less than half of this at $1.39 billion.    more > Sonia compromising Indian security Congress capitulating before foreign powers By Dr Gautam Sen INDIA’s ruling order has effectively capitulated to foreign forces, with the prevailing Sonia Gandhi UPA dispensation colluding actively to accelerate India’s conquest. India’s mortal and most urgent danger is Christianity and the international political forces that have long utilised it as their ideology of conquest.    more > News Round-up National convention of Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh Teachers have a duty to inculcate national pride—Archana Chitnis - FOC Rashtra Sevika Samiti training camp in Delhi - (By Kavita Vishnoi Three-day camp of Swadeshi Jagran Manch in Ujjain - FOC Pathsanchalan in Delhi - IVSK Sewa Bharati dedicates more houses to flood victims. This time in Guledagudda district - VSK Karnataka Social harmony walk by His Holiness Pejawar seer Shri Vishveshwara Teerth - VSK, Karnataka Tribute to Param Pujaneeya Dr Hedgewar on 71st death anniversary - FOC Why is government muted on OIC calling Kashmir ‘occupied territory’ By Aditya Pradhan THE latest twist in the Kashmir story which has been helped by Pakistan, the seditious groups in Kashmir and a section of interlocutors in India is the letter from the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to chairman of ‘moderate’ faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The reaction of the Indian government is almost muted as if the occurrence was just routine and insignificant.    more > VOX Populi Too many cases pending against Digvijay Singh IN 2001, during an income tax raid on a liqour manufacturer in Bhopal, income tax authorities seized a diary maintained by the distillery's owners.    more > Rahul Gandhi is an Italian citizen, disqualified for PM or MP—Dr Subramanian Swamy (http:/bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2011/06/rahul-gandhi-is-italian-citizen.html IT is now clear that the corrupt cotarie that operates out of 10, Janpath, New Delhi has lost all hope on Dr Manmohan Singh performing for them in the coming months as the 2G Spectrum Scam unravels and the list of accused lengthens with additions from the Congress Party.    more > Haj House and Amarnath House By Dr TH Chowdary IT appears that the Government of Andhra Pradesh has decided to fund the construction of a second Haj House this time near the International Airport in Shamshabad in addition to the one which is already there in the heart of the city.    more > Why government crackdown on Baba Ramdev? By Vikas Kumar AS the brute force deployed to crush the protestors at Ramlila Maidan wasn’t enough, the unremitting abuse and threatening language by Congress leaders was adding insult to injury.    more > CIC: Give Sonia foreign trip info. http://www.indianexpress.com THE Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the government to disclose details about foreign visits undertaken by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and costs incurred during these trips, besides the purpose of these visits.    more > PC’s election crime and corrupt practice By Subramanian Swamy I fully support and endorse the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms Jayalalithaa’s statement on June 14, 2011 that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s election victory was a fraud on the electorate.    more > Choitro and Charak puja The Bengali spring festival By Bishway Chamak Goswami, Silchar THE last month of Bengali year is Choitro. It is the usual spring time in Indian periodic context. The festivity breathes high as Nature dresses out in cheerful greeneries all around. The season brings cuckoos’ ecstatic songs about the bounties and opulances of Nature.    more > Terrorists force minor girl to wear suicide vest By Anita Joshua IN a first case of its kind, an eight-year-old girl was reportedly forced by terrorists to wear a suicide vest for blowing herself up at a check-post in the Lower Dir area of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa - formerly North West Frontier Province.    more > Assam is the most dangerous place for journalists By Nava Thakuria INDIA remains a dangerous country for working journalists, but Assam can claim to be more unsafe for the media fraternity. The country with over a billion population records the killing of 27 journalists in last 20 years.    more > A campaign to save Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple FOC BJP MP Shri Tarun Vijay recently visited Cambodia’s Preah Vihear Temple, which is now under threat and is to be destroyed under heavy shelling by Thai army. He worshipped at this ancient Shiva temple, which is said to be built between 9th and 12th century.    more >

COVER PAGE News in Focus Congress trapped in its own web over the death of Swami Nigmananda From Ravindra Saini in Dehradun A day after Uttarakhand Government ordered CB-CID inquiry into the death of Swami Nigmanand, who was on fast unto death since February 19 protesting against illegal quarrying and mining in the Ganga and shifting of stone crushers from the Kumbha area, the state government, on June 15, ordered a CBI inquiry into this case.    more > The Moving Finger Writes Manmohan brings shame to the image of India By MV Kamath SO it is all over; Baba Ramdev has given up his fast; but the name-calling and finger-pointing continues. The world over, the UPA government has only brought shame to the clean image of India.    more > Media Watch Clown Digvijay’s disservice to Congress THERE are still some, sickeningly, who insist that a yoga teacher has no business to fight corruption or to render social service. There are a few more again, who think that they are damning Baba Ramdev by calling him an RSS stooge. The RSS, in their way of thinking, is a fascist organisation.    more > Thinking Aloud Two men: Their friends ditched them in their hour of trial By Dr Jay Dubashi THERE is a certain similarity between the lives of two people who were in the news recently – for wrong reasons, namely, Maqbool Fida Husain, a painter, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, until recently boss of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), now under house arrest in New York.    more > A Report Marxist murder politics Huge cache of arms recovered from Bengal Marxists By Krishanu Mitra THE connivance of the erstwhile CPM government of West Bengal with criminals and mercenaries stands exposed with the recovery of huge cache of arms and ammunitions in different parts of the state.    more > Bookmark Book Reviews by MV Kamath The good times white men had in India Sahibs’ India: Vignettes from the Raj, Pran Nevile, Penguin Books, Pp 234 (PB), Rs 299.00 The joy of reading about Krishna Krishna: A Joyous Celebration of the Divine, Chandrika, Vakil, Feffer & Simons Mumbai, Pp 370 (PB), Rs 1500.00 If dollar falls will it take the world down? By Dr R Balashankar Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press, Pp 215 (HB), £14.99. Joy of losing a job By Manju Gupta I Lost My Job and I Liked It, Lilou Mace, Macmillan Publishing India Ltd, Pp 221(PB), Rs 295.00 A survey of post -liberalisation India By Manju Gupta Progressive Fiscal Policy in India, Praveen Jha (ed.), Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, Pp 461 (HB),Rs 895.00 Agenda Analysing Kerala’s recent election Battle for the soul of Kerala By Dr Babu Suseelan THE Kerala election is over. The UDF (the Congress Party, Muslim League, Kerala Christian Congress alliance) won the election with a thin majority. The UDF margin over the LDF is only of four seats... The election set a new spending record.    more > News Analysis UPA’s one scam a day syndrome By Amba Charan Vashishth BJP National President Shri Nitin Gadkari seems to have hit the Congress where it hurts the most. In Kolkata the other day he said “Sonia Gandhi says she will fight corruption. I say it is like Pakistan saying we will fight terrorism.”    more >

Kids’ Org Nala in exile By KK Shanmukhan Nala and Damayanti for students, KK Shanmukhan, Kurukshethra Prakasan, Kaloor Towers, Kochi: 682 017, Rs 30.00 NALA, bereft of his own intelligence, was wandering in the forest. Sometimes the memories of Damayanti would emerge to haunt him.    more >

At Liberty IN FOCUS Civil society and its enemies By Ravi I am the State—this famous quote is (probably wrongly) attributed to French King Louis XIV (1638–1715). There is a section of self-proclaimed redeemers of mankind that, taking a cue from the apocryphal saying, thunders, ‘We are civil society.’    more >

Readers’ Forum Husain and the assault against Hindu India(Organiser, 26.6.2011); —MAHESH CHANDRA SHARMA, E-198, Panki, Kanpur MF Husain was undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary artists. But the stature didn’t give him the license to paint controversial images of Hindu deities that hurt the sentiments of billions of Hindus.    more >

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