1. FESTIVALS: Makar Sankranti, the holy day when the Sun enters the sign of Makara or Capricorn, falls normally
on January 14. This most
auspicious festival of the Hindus is celebrated in various parts of the country
in different ways. In Gujarat and Rajasthan,
it is referred Uttararayan while in Northern part of the country it is known as
Sankranti, in Tamil Nadu it is known as Pongal. Apart from Bharat it is also
celebrated in Nepal , Malaysia , Thailand
The birth of Swami Vivekanand on the
Sankranti day is an inspiring indication of the passing of the long night of
self-oblivion and birth of an effulgent era of Hinduism. The festival is also
the last of six festivals celebrated by HSS and RSS at their shakhas. The
closing of the function on this occasion is sweetened by the distribution of
til-gul to the participants.
3. FDI IN RETAIL UNACCEPTABLE- SARSANGHACHALAK: "Our retail sector provides employment
to crores of people and it is not strong enough to even compete with the Bharatiya
corporates like Reliance and Tata. Then, how can we expect it to face the
economic might of multinational retailers like Walmart? Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) in multi brand retail at the cost of our own people cannot be
accepted at all. “ said RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat, addressing a
gathering of professors and lecturers in New
Delhi
In his speech Shri Bhagwat touched many current issues and said the root
cause of majority of the problems in the world today is selfishness and greed
of the man. About the Communal Violence Bill, Shri Bhagwat said Bharat has
provided shelter to all those who were tortured or humiliated in any part of
the world. Answering a query regarding the reconstruction of Sri Ram temple in
Ayodhya, Shri Bhagwat said it would not take more than two years for building
the temple if the land is provided to Hindus now. He said Bharat has to play a
vital role in the global scenario and we should make ourselves ready to bear
this responsibility. Quoting Rabindranath Tagore who described Hindutva as a binding
force, Shri Bhagwat stressed the need to create leaders with high character
like Anna Hazare and Dr Abdul Kalam even up to the village level.
4. RIG VEDA TO PARTICLE PHYSICS by G. S. Mudur:
Physicist Vivek Sharma who was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar , and now leads an international group hunting for
the Higgs boson sees the search as an attempt to seek out answers to questions
posed in the Rig Veda.
Sharma, who went to a Kendriya Vidyalaya
in Pune and pursued master's in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
"It was a shock, it left an
impression in my mind. Thousands of years ago people were contemplating our
origins," said Sharma, a professor at the University of California, San
Diego, and head of a Higgs search team at CERN, the European research
laboratory.
He was still a high school student but
began thinking how modern technology might be used to probe creation. The Higgs
boson, the subatomic particle that Sharma and his colleagues are looking for,
was predicted in the 1960s to explain the origin of mass. A discovery of the
Higgs boson is important for physicists because it is the last missing, or
unseen, piece of a bedrock theory of physics called the Standard Model that
explains all the forces and particles in nature except gravity.
Sharma moved to the US in 1984, treating
higher studies in the US as a route to plunge intoexperimental physics
requiring expensive machines ' particle accelerators ' but spent five years at
CERN in the early 1990s where he discovered two new subatomic particles,
including a cousin of the proton, but five times heavier.
His enthusiasm for experimental physics
emerges in his talks ' whether delivered to fellow-physicists or aspiring
students. It also appears to temper any emotions that might spring each time
particle detectors at CERN spot signals resembling traces of the Higgs boson.
"Experiments will ultimately tell us
what is right and what is wrong," he said. In the coming months, Sharma
and his colleagues will refine their analyses and combine the data from the two
main particle detectors looking for the Higgs boson.
"Our curiosity about our origins
doesn't change anybody's life, but there is a satisfaction from understanding
such things," Sharma said in a telephone interview ahead of the CERN
seminar where scientists presented their latest results from the Higgs search.
"But when we build machines like the
Large Hadron Collider (the particle accelerator at CERN where proton-proton
collisions are used to search for the Higgs boson), it requires us to invent
new technologies that can change people's lives," he said.
The World Wide Web was created at CERN to
help physicists move data around between different computers in a seamless
fashion. "It's a great example of how something that is good for
physicists turned out to be fantastic for the public," Sharma said.
New technologies and ideas that are born
in experimental physics laboratories may have implications in information
technology and medicine. "Our goals are esoteric, but what sometimes comes
out benefits the public," he said.
Sharma, whose routine in recent years has
been eight weeks at CERN and 10 to 15 days with his wife and 7-year-old
daughter in San Diego
His homepage has a link to a talk he once
delivered to prospective students and their parents. "The popular belief
that physicists do not make much money is totally false," the link says.
"Physics majors make more money than chemistry or bio majors."
(www.telegraphindia.com – Wed, Dec 14, 2011)
5.
SSV-2011 OF HSS MAURITIUS : Hindu
Swyamsevak Sangh Mauritius
The shareerik was daily three and half hours different physical training
which included dand, niyuddha, yogasana, padavinyaas, Various Shakha Khel, Yogachap,
Samata, Achaar Paddati and Vyayamyog.
Apart from daily charcha & Baudhik
Sessions there were special sessions for Management Skill Games, Business Skill
Games, Quiz Competition on Ramayana, Traditional Ramayana chanting programme,
Treasure Hunt etc.
A sanchalan was held with Ghosh for all
Shiksharthis in nearby town “Triolet”. Samarop Programme was held on Sat. 3 Dec
2011 and around 200 parents were present from the beginning.
6.
SIXTH ALL BHARAT KHELKOOD COMPETITION COMMENCES IN PUNE: Sixth Khel
Kood competition organised by All Bharat Vanavasi Kalyan Aashram was inaugreted
by Rashtiya SwayamSevek Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr. Mohan Bhagavat on Dec 29
in Pune Maharashtra. Talking about need to incorporate Vanvasis in main stream
society Dr. Bhagwat said, “Vanvasi people are not lacking in their capability
but they should be recognised in society. It is important.”
2000 players from 32 states of the country
and Nepal
All Bharat level sports event,"Akhil
Bhartiya Khelkhud spardha" is organised every 4 years. The main aim of
Khelkhud competition is to give sports exposure to all vanvasi youth.
Sports Authority of India is in close
contact with these competitions and supports the best talents for excellent
performance. Bharat’s long distance runner Kavita Raut and archer Limba Ram are
the few names who got in national and international sports through Khelkhud
competition.
7.
ROLL BACK COMMUNAL ORDER, DEBAR CONGRESS(INC), SAYS VHP: A High level
delegation of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
comprising the Int'l Vice President shri Om Prakash Singhal, the newly
elected international Secretary General
Champat Rai met the chief Election Commissioner of Bharat ia on Dec 29 demanding
withdrawal of order issued by the under secretary to the Govt. of Bharat
regarding sub-quota for minority communities just before the date of
declaration of election in the five prominent states of the country. VHP also
demanded a ban on fighting election by the Indian National Congress (INC) in
the polls to come.
In its memorandum VHP said that the
religion-based reservation is not only prohibited by Articles 15(1) and 16(2)
of the constitution and violative of articles 15(4) and 16(4) of the same too
but also divide the country.
8. HSS NEW YORK SAKHI SAMELAN: HSS, Shivaji
shakha, Westchester NY
9.
HUM HINDUSTANI-KASHMIR HINDUSTAN KA: “Scrap
Article 370, ensure employment to Kashmiri youth, retrieve areas forcefully
occupied by Pakistan and China in Kashmir ”.
These are not the demands voiced by some hardcore Hindu organization or
leaders. They were raised publically by the Muslims of Bharat including J&
K on December 18, 2011 at Jantar-Mantar in New Delhi
The occasion was culmination of “Hum
Hindustani-Kashmir Hindustan Ka”, a unique campaign launched some three months
ago by Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organization of nationalist Muslims of
India. During the 3 - month campaign the MRM activists conducted prayers in
mosques, convened seminars and meetings all over the country. It concluded on
Dec 18 when nearly 10,000 Muslims from 23 states and 175 districts of Bharat participated
braving the chilling cold and dense fog to raise these demands.
They came from all directions carrying the
national tricolors and placards displaying their demands to scrap Article 370,
take back the areas of PoK and CoK and ensure peace and progress of the people
of Jammu and Kashmir
10. THIS SMALL FARMER HAS OVER 350
VARIETIES OF PADDY - Kestur Vasuki: SR Srinivasamurthy, a 38-year-old farmer of Siddanahundi near
southern city of Mysore
This farmer who has collected more than
350 varieties of paddy from across the country has been part of a mission to
provide desi varieties to the farmers at affordable rate. Srinivasamurthy is a
small farmer and has been traveling, learning and collecting desi varieties of
paddy from many States of Bharat. He has been inspired by the fact that the Puri Jagannath
Temple
Talking to The Pioneer, this dynamic young
farmer believes that protecting desi seeds would promote sustainable
agriculture in all odds. He said, “I have been practicing natural farming and
organic farming. We have to protect our own desi varieties of seeds. Many have
vanished because of the onslaught of the sustainable campaign by the vested
interests in promoting their product. I have been collecting and growing desi
seeds promoting our own varieties across the country.”
Srinivasamurthy’s small farm today is a
bio diversity hotspot where one can see more than two hundred varieties of
paddy seeds meeting growing demand by the farmers from Karnataka and other
States. This farmer who has been collecting paddy varieties since 2007 has got
native seeds developed in his one-and-a-half acre farm and has answers to all
queries by the farming sector. He has varieties which could withstand severe
summer to heavy rains, has all answers which would surely bring smiles on the
farmers’ face.
His journey of exploration to find paddy
varieties across the country began in 2007 as he believes that protecting desi
varieties would help bring cheers in Indian agriculture. He has travelled to
Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra ,
Kerala, Karnataka and many other States which has helped him collect more than
300 local varieties of paddy to augment his mission to grow more without
bothering about fertilisers or pesticides. On his exploratory journey this
farmer, a graduate in Arts, learnt different agricultural techniques to
overcome drought and severe natural vagaries.
“I heard that our country had more than 2
lakh desi paddy verities which have vanished from the agriculture scene giving
way to new and very few varieties which are controlled by a few. I learnt in Puri Lord Jagannatha Temple
He has many varieties of paddy which are
unique to many States. His technique for many desi varieties is helping farmers
across the country to protect and promote desi varieties which cherishes his
mission. He has also been guided by an NGO Sahaja Samruddi to promote natural
farming.
Srinivasamurthy strongly believes in
de-control of seeds from multinational companies and proves a point in Bharatiya
agriculture which is predominantly guided by industrial policy. Today he has
many rare varieties such as, Sastikasali, believed to be a cure for
infertility, Bolga, Madras Sanna, Doddigya, Bheema Saale, Solari, Ratna Chudi,
Aanekombina Battha, Atikarya and other varieties to promote desi dynamics in
natural farming.: Pioneer, December 26,
2011.
11. GURUJI’S THOUGHTS WILL BRING HARMONY
IN INDIA: S GURUMURTHY: “If we understand Hindutva as described by
Guruji Golwalkar and practice it the way he explained, we can bring real
harmony between communities”, told Eminent Economist and thinker S Gurumurthy.
He was talking in a lecture organised by Mythic Society in Bangalore India India
12. DEVELOP DEFENCE INFRA-STRUCTURE IN
BORDER STATES: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhuvan Chandra
Khanduri has cautioned the Centre against the tardy development of defence
infrastructure in States bordering China border States China Delhi
Shri Khanduri also emphasised on
constituting a centralised branch of intelligence agencies which is specialised
in collecting vital information regarding infiltration, fake currency,
explosives and drugs along the borders.
13. BHARAT-BORN NOBEL LAUREATE VENKY GETS KNIGHTHOOD: Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan, Bharat-born US citizen whose pioneering work in
molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel
Prize in chemistry, has been honoured
with a knighthood by the royal establishment, UK in a rare recognition
of achievements by foreigners based in Britain. Ramakrishnan, known to most as
Venky, is based at the MRC Laboratory
of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He
has been conferred knighthood "for services to molecular biology" in
the New Year Honours List 2012.
14. TRIBAL YOUTH WIN INTERNATIONAL MARATHON : Running barefooted, an 8 membered team of
tribal youth of Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram recently
won Runner-Up award in reputed Bangalore International Midnight Marathon. In an
event where nearly 8500 athletes participated, this VKA team stood against all
odds and won this prestigious Marathon . Midnight
International Marathon, first of its kind in the world, was organised on
December 10th by Rotary Bangalore’s I.T. Corridor unit, with a motto of ‘Run
for a Child’, to create awareness about Child healthcare, nutrition and Child
education. With just a delay of 90 seconds, team secured second place in the
Men’s 35km section of Marathon relay.
This was the maiden Marathon
race for these youth hailing from the dense forest area of Titimati of Virajpet
Taluk in Kodagu district, Karnataka. Of this 8 membered team, Maada, a student
of class 12 is a known sprinter. Others, Vishwanath, Harish, Papu, Raju PN,
Suresh, Timmayya, and Venkatesh are coolie workers having high athletic skills.
15. BHARAT, THE LARGEST MILK PRODUCING
NATION: Bharat continues to be the largest milk producing nation in
the world with close to 17% of global production with 121m toones in 2010-11,
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) said in Ahmedabad on December 20. NDDB
Chairman Amrita Patel said higher GDP growth, increased incomes in rural areas
through schemes like MGNREGA and a growing population are contributing to a
rapidly growing demand for milk.
16. COURT ASKS WEBSITES TO REMOVE OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT BY FEB 6: Setting a deadline for 22 social networking sites
including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to remove all
"anti-religious" or "anti-social" content, a Delhi
17. VAJPAYEE TURNS 88: Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee completed 87 on December 25. A
host of senior leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, greeted him on
the occasion. BJP observed Vajpayee's birthday as good governance day. "Greetings
and well wishes are coming from all over the country for Atalji. He is the
tallest leader of the BJP and is our source of inspiration. Though he is not
able to work actively, his presence is still a source of inspiration for all
party workers," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
18. GURU PUJA UTSAV was conducted at Bloomington Springfield , IL
19. RASHTRAPATI NOD TO MP COW SLAUGHTER BILL: Rashtrapati
Pratibha Patil has given her assent to
the Madhya Pradesh Prohibition of Cow Slaughter (amendment) Bill 2010 meant to
raise the quantum of punishment for offenders and shift the burden to prove
innocence to accused. Under the amended Bill, the punishment for cow slaughter
will be at least a year and maximum seven years along with fine of Rs 5,000.
Earlier, the punishment for such an offence was three years of imprisonment or
fine of Rs 10,000 or both. The amended legislation has also made the provision
of punishment for offences like storing or transporting beef with a minimum
term of six months, which can be extended up to three years.
20. SURYA KUMBHA IN SURINAM : Desi
Botras, the President of the South American country Surinam
21.
POSTAL STAMP BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT HONOURING MUTHU JI: Bharadwaj, a youth from Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu
went to Japan
A Japanese delegate Shri Shuzo Matsunoga
participated in the Fifth World Tamil Conference held at Thanjavur in 1981 (30
years ago). He presented a paper on ‘Thirukural & Thiruvalluvar in the eyes
of Japan Salem
The Government of Japan has included this
Thirukural as a lesson in the text book at college level. To cap it all, when
the Japanese Government proposed to release a postal stamp to honour Shuzo
Matsunoga for his works, he humbly refused and said, “To translate this tamil
literature into Japanese language, Muthu from Salem Salem
Shri Ravikumar of Vishwa Vibhag during his
recent tour of Tamilnadu, met Muthu Ji. Muthu ji lauded RSS for its social
service and patriotic fervor.
22. 555 ODISSI DANCERS PERFORM TOGETHER: Odissi dancers from across the globe
presented a spectacular show together in the biggest ever assembly at the
opening of International Odissi Festival in Bhuvaneswar on December 23. Creating
history of sorts, the colourful mega dance show by 555 performers together on a
single platform heralded the eight-day event aimed at finding a place in the
Guinness World Record. The dancers from Bharat and abroad in traditional
colourful Odissi attire performed during the grand festival organised by
Odisha's Tourism and Culture department in association with Odissi Research
Centre (ORC) and US-based Indian performing Arts Promotion (IPAP).
23.
BHU TO HAVE CENTRE FOR MALAVIYA STUDIES: Prime
Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh announced on Dec 27 that a centre for Malaviya
studies will be set up at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Addressing a
function in New Delhi
24.
VHP ANNOUNCES NEW TEAM: Vishwa Hindu Parishad has announced on Dec
18 a new team of office bearers at VHP international meet at Kochi- Kerala.
G.Raghava Reddy-new VHP International President, Dr Pravin Togadia -International Working President, Ashok Chowgule - Working President VHP External, Chmapat Rai,
Delhi; International, General secretary. Man Ashok Singhal and S Vedantumji will Giude VHP as Advisor.
25.
SHRI VISHWA NIKETAN: Pravas:
Dr.Sadanand Sapre, sah samyojak Vishwa Vibhag will return Bharat completing
his tour to Malaysia , Singapore and Myanmar
THOUGHT
OF THE DAY: The end is the beginning of all things,
suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and
pleasure. – J. Krishnamurti.
JAI SHRIRAM
AT THE RAINBOW'S END
When
the Lok Sabha passed the Bill, I was delighted; in fact, elated for three
reasons: first, a national surge, an upsurge of sentiment against the
abominable phenomenon of corruption had at last reached the law-making body of
the country and crystallised into a legislative text, howsoever imperfect. Here
was a people's movement coalescing with the Constitution's rubric to rid India
Second,
Team Anna's campaign had put the institution of Parliament to the test. It had
placed the onus for change onto the shoulders of elected MPs. Parliament was
now passing that test, and passing it most creditably. Here was the highest
edifice of our democracy, the repository of a whole people's political trust,
doing itself and the nation proud.
Third,
we could now look forward to a brand new institution ranking high, with
Parliament and the judiciary, comprising some nine individuals of credit
selected by a panel of the elected and the 'selected' dignitaries, who would
put corruption among public servants on notice. Here was a new vision, a new
energy, being gifted by the departing year to the new one just dawning.
These
were notable achievements; in fact, they were huge fulfilments. Although
compromised by disappointment over the defeat of the proposal for a
constitutional amendment that would have put the lokpal beyond any facile
tinkering, they were something of which one could say 'Nothing less is deserved
by the people of India; and nothing else can be expected by representatives of
the world's largest democracy'.
But
the spectacle of the Bill collapsing in the Rajya Sabha under the weight of
polemics and worse, is a huge disappointment; in fact, it is a disillusionment.
Here
was a golden opportunity for Parliament to rise to the occasion, to equal the
people's expectations of it - squandered.
There
was a great deal of posturing in the House on Thursday. There was a great deal
of offending and defending. The past was raked up, intentions were questioned,
old wounds opened, new ones inflicted.
But
the whole thing - the debating of the Bill's clauses, the disputing of its
motives, the rubbishing of the Anna Hazare campaign, the valourising of
Parliament's legislative supremacy, all of that seemed to flux into a common
crucible - an acknowledgment of the need for a lokpal. No one, except Ram Vilas
Paswan asked, in all honesty, if we really need a lokpal. Barring that, the
need for a lokpal was as much of 'a given' as the need for checking corruption.
So,
what happened?
There
will never be a satisfactory or convincing answer to that question.
The
puzzlement and utter dejection writ on the earnest face of its chairman, and
our Vice-President, the good and high- minded Hamid Ansari, was, at that
moment, the face of India
What
is important now and vital, in fact, as much to the future of parliamentary
credibility as to that of civil society-powered popular campaigns is that:
-
The Rajya Sabha's failure to pass the Bill be taken as a reverse, but not an
irreversible defeat.
-
The momentum for giving the nation a lokpal not be allowed to slow down.
-
The campaign be given, by the campaign leaders, not 'more of the same', but a
gear-shift into a fresh powering that takes the campaign into (a) a heightened
awareness generation and (b) negotiation with MPs from all parties, without
mixing up its high-minded objective with electoral misadventures. Trying to
telescope the lokpal campaign with UP's electoral fortunes will be like forcing
a rainbow into a dust-storm.
-
The campaign be taken by the ruling political combination into a working
session with other parliamentary parties in a manner that ensures its passage
in the next session of Parliament.
No
one has doubted or disputed Parliament's prerogative to legislate
transformationally. No one should have to doubt its desire to do so with
sincerity. No one has doubted or disputed Team Anna's prerogative to campaign
inspirationally.
No
one should have to doubt its wisdom to do so with patience.
(Gopalkrishna
Gandhi is a former administrator, diplomat and governor.) --Hindustan
Times, December 31, 2011.
PERSECUTED
HINDUS
Bharat must shelter those
who seek asylum
The recent case of a group of Pakistani Hindus
who entered the country on month-long pilgrimage visas but have since then
sought political asylum citing religious persecution back home has brought India India has been home to entire communities of
refugees — from citizens of erstwhile East Pakistan
who feared that they would be butchered by the Pakistani Army to Afghan
nationals who wished to escape their war-ravaged country to Tibetan exiles. Yet
it has been only in the recent past that the Government has signed a handful of
bilateral agreements that provide a legal framework for the problem. However,
most of them have been ineffective, as the Sirimavo-Shastri pact that was
signed between the Governments of India and Sri Lanka in 1964 to help that
country’s embattled Tamil community has shown.More recently, the Government has
introduced laws that allow special benefits regarding travel and work within
the country to those who are officially recognised as ‘Persons of Indian
Origin’, and has offered the title of ‘Overseas Citizen of India’ to some
non-resident Indians. However, neither of these measures has satisfied the
aspirations of the vast Indian Diaspora that wishes to maintain ties with its
homeland, nor have they benefitted the large number of Hindus who have
periodically sought refuge in this country. The Ministry of Overseas Indian
Affairs must take the lead in formulating a policy to find a desirable way out.
The Ministry is in the best position to do because it interacts directly and
regularly with overseas Indians and understands their issues better. No doubt,
the Government has to tread carefully keeping in mind the various legal tangles
as much as the underlying emotions. But these complications have to be resolved
some day. – Editorial, The Pioneer,
December 23, 2011.
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