சத்தியமார்க்கம்.காம்

It should be no surprise that in India, the cow and politics go hand in hand.

The Sangh Parivar's first move to mobilise the 'masses' came through the anti-cow slaughter movement of 1966.

CSM Nagar/UP : Justifying the Congress-led UPA government's proposed move of providing a sub-quota for minorities, a Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal today said that condition of poor Muslims and Buddhists in the county was “worse” than Dalits.

“The condition of poor Muslims and Buddhists in the country was worse than Dalits, therefore 4.5 per cent quota within quota was necessary,” Jaiswal today said.

Gulberg Society, Ahmedabad

February 28, 2012 |  2 p.m. onwards

How do we commemorate such a cataclysmic series of violences, lives torn asunder, narratives of depth and despair, callousness and courage, struggle and hope?

Together we hope. As we near the Ten year mark of the genocidal carnage in Gujarat we appeal and call to all of you to join us on February 28, 2012 in the Live Memorial at Gulberg Society, Ahmedabad, physically or through countrywide protests and memorials all over India. From 2 p.m. onwards that day we shall be observing the Memorial. Through Reminiscences and recordings, Panels and Exhibits, Music and Words, Acknowledgements and Tears.

With the Haj Committee insisting on holding valid international passport before applying for Haj pilgrimage this year, the regional passport office (RPO), Chennai, has facilitated Haj aspirants by allowing them to walk in at any of the passport seva kendras (PSKs).

First the government allowed the Swarnavalli Maha Samsthanam Sonda of North Canara district to give discourses on Bhagvad Gita in schools to “enlighten” students. When faced with violent protests by student organisations in Kolar, Haveri and other places, it quickly assured them that attending the discourses was optional. But it has now gone a step further and wants to make the Gita a part of the state syllabus. Accusations that the ruling BJP was trying to saffronise state education while ignoring many of the real problems besetting it have been flying thick and fast since Chief Minister D.V.Sadananda Gowda announced on Sunday that the government was ready to make Gita a part of the syllabus.

The following scene took place on an American Airlines flight between Chicago and Toronto recently.

A white woman, about 52 years old, was seated next to a black man. Obviously disturbed by this, she called the air hostess.

“Madam, what is the matter?” the hostess asked.

The ENMAC MQ3500 mobile handset offers a complete Holy Qur’an recitation in voice of five famous Quari along with 29 language translation including Urdu, English, Bengali, Malayalam and Tamil.

The Hindu, November 11, 2011

Editorial

A milestone verdict

In a historic first, a special court in Gujarat has convicted and awarded life sentences to as many as 31 mostly high caste, landed Patels for burning alive 33 Muslims — the majority of them women and children — of Sardarpura village in Mehsana district. The village was among numerous Muslim habitations targeted across the State by irate Hindu mobs as part of a pogrom ruthlessly executed in the aftermath of the February 27, 2002 Godhra train carnage. The rioters locked the victims in a cramped room and set it on fire, suggesting that they wanted a repeat of the Godhra horror. In handing out exemplary punishment to the murderers, the court has sent out a strong message that perpetrators of communal violence cannot get away lightly and, indeed, that the judgment is a critical step in the reversal of the pattern of administrative and judicial inaction seen in such cases so far. Sardarpura is a legal trendsetter in many ways. It is the first of nine post-Godhra riots cases prosecuted by a Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court, which in another remarkable initiative aimed at securing justice for the pogrom victims, also supervised the setting up of a string of fast-track trial courts.