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An Open Letter for Total Ban on Cow Slaughter in Bharat (INDIA).

To

1. The President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

2. The Prime Minister of India, Parliament House, New Delhi.

3. The Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court, New Delhi.

Vande Gomataram.

Subject:  An appeal to ensure the complete prohibition upon Cow Slaughter abiding by the existing rules and regulation in force in different states in India along with the strict direction of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.

Madam/Sir,

Pakistan plays a double game

G PARTHASARATHY 

Treating Taliban with kid gloves and making a show of hunting them down with the US is counter-productive. Islamabad cannot win this way. 

Lust for oil drives US ambition

Arindam Chaudhury 

Dictators in Arab countries like Libya and Egypt may have deserved to be ousted by their people. But the role of the West in hastening the demise of the regimes in such countries, especially in the case of Libya its ruler, has been prompted by its greed to control natural wealth

Islamists at the helm

Real test for Tunisia begins now 

Ten months after a Tunisian street vendor set himself ablaze to protest against a corrupt Government official, inspiring his countrymen to take to the streets, oust longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and spark anti-Government protests across the Arab world, the North African country proudly and successfully elected itself a Constituent Assembly on Sunday. 

Church bells herald crisis of faith

KANCHAN GUPTA 

The bogus cult of multiculturalism 

Berlin: This past week I have been waking up to grey mornings, the mist-laden air creating a vaporous haze. It’s cold and wet in Berlin, almost melancholic. Mozart’s Adagio or Beethoven’s Sonata would have been apt for such mornings, but all that I get to hear is the peeling of the neighbourhood church bells. If that’s a call to the faithful to fill the pews, it’s a wasted effort.

Bhattarai has his task cut out; India can help

Upendra Nath Sharma 

Dispelling fears generated by his predecessor and party chief Prachanda’s anti-India rhetoric, Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has made it clear that ties with India are his main priority. This is not because he spent more than a decade of his academic life in New Delhi, nor because he met his wife here. It is also not because Bhattarai and several other leaders spent eight years coordinating Nepal’s decade-long Maoist insurgency from hideouts scattered over India. It is because he needs India’s helping hand in handling the vexed issues that have eluded a consensus among the major parties back home. 

COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL

THREAT TO NATIONAL INTEGRATION, SOCIAL HARMONY AND CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERALISM

RAM MADHAV

Ever since the UPA Government came to power in 2004 there started a cacophony about bringing a stricter law to prevent communal violence in the country. In its first term the UPA Government had, as its alliance partners, the Left parties as well as leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan etc. It may be worthwhile to recall that it were these very people who had launched a massive campaign of disinformation about the then existing anti-terrorism law called the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). They finally succeeded in getting the POTA repealed on the specious ground that it was being used to harass innocent Muslims. Any amount of statistical data contrary to their false claims against POTA wouldn't convince them because the main objective behind the campaign against the POTA was to play the same old game of vote-banks. Incidentally after the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York many countries in the world including America have introduced fresh stringent laws against terror while India became the only country to repeal the existing laws thus leaving the security agencies without any instrument to tackle the huge challenge of terror.

It's Peak Time in Jails Again – For VIPs: People See it as Justice, and Rejoice.

TJS George

Public anger against corrupt governance has never been as intense as it is today. However, there is also public jubilation as never before. Political VIPs going to jail is an unprecedented spectacle and it fills citizens with unprecedented joy. This is not sadism. This is recognising the sign that there is hope for our country after all.

Welfare sans infrastructure

Syed Amin JafriSyed Amin Jafri,

Andhra Pradesh was the first state in the country to establish an exclusive minorities welfare department at the Secretariat level in 1993. The new department was created by bifurcating the employment generation and youth services department. AP was again the first state to form commissionerate of minorities welfare in 1996. It was also incidentally the first state to constitute an exclusive legislature committee on welfare of minorities.

Path to politics

ARATI R JERATH, TNN

The year was 1952 and independent India's first general elections were in full swing. Only one person dared to challenge the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in the latter's family bastion of Phulpur in UP's Allahabad district. His name was Swami Prabhudutt Brahmachari. He contested as an independent supported by ultra conservative Hindu groups like Swami Karpatri's Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad and the All India Hindu Mahasabha. They had joined hands on one common platform: all were virulently opposed to Nehru's Hindu Code Bill which sought to make sweeping reforms in inheritance, property and marriage laws for Hindus.

Press Meet of Jana Jagarana of Matha Himsa Bill - Press Coverage

Andhra Prabha (A Telugu Daily)

Gorakhpur Baithaks - Media Coverage

Andhra Jyothy (A Telugu Daily)

RSS to campaign against ‘Communal Violence Bill'

Staff Reporter

To launch ‘Jan Jagaran Abhiyan' from Nov. 5 to 15

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will take up an awareness campaign, ‘Jan Jagaran Abhiyan', against the proposed Communal Violence Bill from November 5 to 15. 

Door-to-door campaign 

Media and issues of responsibility

Markandey Katju

Indian newspapers are on display for sale. No doubt there are defects not only in the media but in other institutions also, for example, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and so on.

The Indian media display certain defects. These should ideally be addressed and corrected in a democratic manner. But if the media prove incorrigible, harsh measures may be called for.

The time has come when some introspection by the Indian media is required. Many people, not only those in authority but even ordinary people, have started saying that the media have become irresponsible and wayward, and need to be reined in.

Need for Comprehensive Strategic Initiative for National Security

Sri Manmohan Vaidya AB Prachara Pramukh (Right) is releasing
the Resolution to to Media

RSS Resolution of ABKM Baithaks Gorakpur-2011 

The Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal is gravely concerned about the indifferent attitude of the Government towards growing tensions along the borders; rising incidents of encouragement to separatism and terrorism from across the borders; emerging challenges across aerial and oceanic borders; and increasing threats in the international seas and outer space. The ABKM wishes to highlight the following challenges in this context.

The ugly economics of the hafta

ALL-ROUND DISORDER: How can higher ups discipline constables when a cut of the 'income' they generate reaches the top? Delhi police recruits on parade in this file photo. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar 

Arun Kumar

The decline in policing standards in India is linked to the growing size of the black economy, which spawns corruption and results in systematic violation of laws.

Restoring trust in J&K

Radhavinod Raju

The Kashmir issue has an internal and an external dimension. Sheikh Abdullah’s movement against the Maharaja to get justice for the people of Kashmir in the early 1930s gave rise to the internal dimension. In 1947 when Sheikh took over as the Prime Minister of J&K (as the chief minister of J&K was called in those days) this was addressed and the external dimension with Pakistan started. 

Man in the mirror

Shiv Visvanathan 

When a week is a long time in poli-tics, a decade is a miracle of survival. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi celebrates his 10th year of rule this month. How does one look at a regime like Modi’s? How does one evaluate a man who has become both a mnemonic of despair and a Rorschach of desire and development? It is difficult to be simplistic on Modi because Modi himself has moved from the simple pracharak that he was in the years after the Emergency to a man who is seen to be a national alternative to the Congress. Critics can be accused of Modi envy. This article is an attempt at assessment.

Slippery road ahead

Dilip Hiro

At first sight it seems a straight diplomatic triangulation between Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. But a closer look reveals five major players at work: Afghanis-tan ruled by President Hamid Karzai, Pakistan, the US, India, and the Taliban led by Mullah Muhammad Omar. A major move by any one of them impacts all others. The signing of the strategic partnership agreement by Afghanistan and India last week was one such.

From Tirupati to Pashupati?

Debris of Sashastra Seema Bal vehicle on National Highway 16 after a powerful landmine triggered by Maoist rebels exploded near Dantewada on October 7, 2011. File photo

Jairam Ramesh

Some reflections on the Maoist issue. We are facing not just a destructive ideology but also the wages of our own insensitivity and neglect.

Post-2G, courts increasingly hanging up on bail pleas

J. Venkatesan

Public opinion and media glare blocking the normal course of the law, say experts.

When Union Law Minister Salman Khursheed expressed concern over businessmen being kept behind bars and said this might affect investment, he might not have bargained for the Supreme Court's reaction that his “comments are disturbing.”

'Gandhiji was not informed about partition'

Vishnu Prasad

KOZHIKODE: Gandhiji came to know about  Congress and Muslim League leaders signing an agreement to divide India through the radio, said Narayan Desai, the disciple of the Father of the Nation and his companion during the later part of his life.

J&K panel report for more autonomy

Ritu Sharma 

NEW DELHI: The much-awaited report of the Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors, prepared over 12 months and submitted on Wednesday to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, has given a slew of suggestions, including ‘autonomy’ and ‘gradual withdrawal of security forces from the Valley’, as the way forward towards peace. The report, however, did not comment on the contentious issue of ‘azadi’. 

The dragon has landed

Seema SirohiSeema Sirohi

 

Washington: Projecting an image, like power, can be tricky for a country because you should neither hype nor hide the real picture for maximum impact. The image can be designed to help achieve larger political and strategic goals. China has achieved a near-perfect balance where its aura-building bolsters its diplomatic agenda in the US and elsewhere. Americans feel a combination of fear, awe and reverence when they deal with the Middle Kingdom.

Anna Hazare’s unfinished agenda

By Shashank Mani

How will history judge Anna Hazare? As a person who started the process of bringing down corruption?

Or as a leader who breathed new hope and fire into rebuilding India? By backing his demands a month ago with the ultimate pledge, his life, Mr Hazare moved the nation.

US Churches Struggling with Membership

USA, October 3, 2011 (Religion News Service): Attendance in American churches has dropped in the last decade and their membership has aged, despite an increase in minority congregations, according to a new Hartford Seminary study covering thousands of Christian, Jewish and Muslim congregations in 2000 and again in 2010.

Vijayadashami Speech of P.P.Sarsanghachalak Sri Mohanji Bhagavat

Addressing Pujaniya Sarsanghchalak Mohanji Bhagavat

Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh

Vijayadashami Mahotsav Yugabda 5113

(Thursday 6th Oct. 2011) Nagpur

Abstract of the proposed speech of

P.P.Sarsanghchalak Shri Mohanji Bhagwat

(Translated from the original in Hindi)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh came into existence on this auspicious occasion 86 years ago. The founder of the RSS Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar was a born patriot. He had been an active and committed worker associated with every struggle, movement and campaign aimed at awakening and enlightening the people for the independence of the country and betterment of social life.

30 hours Hunger Strike by BKS

A 30 hours Hunger strike was held on 3^rd October 2011, at Indira Park, Hyderabad, in Andhra Pradesh, organized by Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) on “Crop Holiday Issue”.  In this hunger strike 50 members was participated.  

Muthoot apologises and withdraws Talibanic cIrcular

Thiruvananthapuram: As Hindu organisations stepped up the protest against the Talibanic circular targeting Hindu employees, Muthoot Fin Corporation withdrawn the original circular and reissued the same regarding their dresscode omitting the controversial portions.

Terrorism Expedite Guru’s hanging

The civil society is closer to separatists, spreading canards against nationalist forces

RAKESH SINHA (BJP IDEOLOGUE) | Issue Dated: October 2, 2011, New Delhi  

Afzal Guru, prime accused in the conspiracy to attack the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001, has been awarded sentenced to death. The trial court, high court and the Supreme Court were all unanimous that the incident fell within the ambit of the rarest of rare cases, deserving the death sentence. The incident was not merely a case of terror but part of a larger conspiracy. Had the terrorists not been thwarted in their mission by the brave security personnel, the physical casualties and political consequences would have been beyond imagination.