Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Sena can put up Afzal Khan poster only AT Kalyan chowk- Hindustan Times




























    • The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed the Kalyan unit of Shiv Sena to display posters depicting Chhatrapati Shivaji killing Moghal attacker Afzal Khan during Shivjayanti celebrations on Wednesday.

      The order has, however, come with a rider — the party can display the poster only at Rambaug Chowk in Kalyan.

    • The Sena unit had cited the completion of 350 years of the historical incident as a reason behind seeking permission for displaying the poster. The DCP had declined permission apprehending communal tension.

      Vijay Salvi, the Kalyan unit chief of Shiv Sena, had challenged the DCP’s order before the HC saying it violated their fundamental right to freedom of expression.


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steps to second partition: creating another muslim league gurad ??

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    • अल्पसंख्यक युवकों को सिपाही भर्ती के लिए होने वाली लिखित व शारीरिक परीक्षा के लिए सरकार दो महीने की विशेष कोचिंग पूरी तरह से मुफ्त उपलब्ध करायेगी। पटना सहित नौ जिलों में चलने वाली इस कोचिंग के माध्यम से 1800 युवकों को सिपाही भर्ती परीक्षा के लिए तैयार किया जायेगा। सरकार इस योजना पर 1.26 करोड़ रुपये खर्च करेगी। अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण विभाग ने इस कोचिंग के लिए मौलाना मजहरुल हक अरबी-फारसी विश्वविद्यालय को नोडल एजेंसी बनाया है। अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण मंत्री शाहिद अली खान ने शनिवार को एक संवाददाता सम्मेलन में इस आशय की जानकारी दी।

      श्री खान ने बताया कि पूरे देश में बिहार पहला राज्य है जहां अल्पसंख्यक युवकों को पुलिस में भर्ती कराने के उद्देश्य से इस तरह की कोचिंग की सुविधा सरकार द्वारा उपलब्ध करायी जा रही है। अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण मंत्री ने बताया कि इस कोचिंग के तहत एक छात्र पर सरकार सात हजार रुपये खर्च करेगी।
    • पटना।

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Shadow Warrior: M F Hussain's Paintings


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visfot.com । विस्फोट.कॉम - फिरंगी राजा, चार्ली विला और भारतीय नौकरशाही

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    • मसूरी की प्रसिद्ध लालबहादुर शास्त्री अकादमी देश के नौकरशाहों को तैयार करती है. यह अकादमी जिस चार्ली विला होटल में संचालित होती है उसका इतिहास जानना हर भारतीय नागरिक के लिए जरूरी है. यह चार्ली विला होटल उस विलसन के बेटे ने बनवाया था जिसने समूचे उत्तराखण्ड को जीभरक लूटा. बाप के लूट की अकूत संपत्ति से ही बेटे ने चार्ली विला होटल बनाया जो आधी सदी बंद रहने के बाद आखिरकार स्वतंत्र भारत के नौकरशाहों का ट्रेनिंग सेन्टर बन गया.

      भारतीय नौकरशाही शायद उस विल्सन को नहीं जानती जिसके पैसे से बने होटल में वह तैयार होकर बाहर निकलती है. लेकिन आप इस इतिहास को जानेंगे तो पायेंगे कि भारतीय नौकरशाह वही कर रहे हैं जो विलसन ने किया था. उसी फिरंगी राजा की कहानी-


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VivekaJyoti: Islam came to India with barbaric invaders, who hated Hindus, slaughtered hundreds of millions of them & destroyed every thing that Hindus loved.

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    • by Chand K Sharma
    • As there was no patronage to the Brahmans and learned, they gave up their traditional occupation of learning and preaching. Being driven to poverty, they relied on charity from Hindu society, or meager earnings by conducting rituals for their Hindu clients. As a result rituals dominated substance, became cumbersome, and unbearably expensive.

    • The Muslim Sultans and nobility had their lustful eyes on handsome Hindu boys and girls, who were enslaved and forced to embrace Islam. The Hindu ladies also picked the Islamic custom of Purdah (veil), to preserve their honor.

      Eventually, unlike in South India , the northerners gave up marriages to be held during daytime. Hindu marriages started taking place at night. The groom would go to the bride's place at late evening, get married before the fire and return with the bride, also at night.

      Muslims did not defecate in the jungle, as Hindus did. That was considered a Kafir practice. Due to defecation in private by Muslims, the carrying of the night soil on their head was forced upon Hindu prisoners. This disgraceful practice ushered unsociable amongst Hindus for hygienic reasons. Later this aspect was further overplayed and continues to be so, to engineer conversions.

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मकबूल फिदा हुसैन के समर्थन में आई रुदालियां अब कहां हैं? | भारतीय नागरिक - Indian Citizen

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    • "तस्लीमा का कहना है सोमवार को कर्नाटक में जो हुआ उससे मैं सदमे में हूं। मुझे पता चला है कि कर्नाटक के एक अखबार में मेरे नाम से छपे एक लेख के बाद ये बवाल हुआ है। लेकिन मैं कहना चाहती हूं कि जिंदगी में मैंने कभी किसी कन्नड़ अखबार के लिए लेख नहीं लिखा। ये लेख निंदनीय है। मैंने कभी नहीं लिखा कि पैगंबर मोहम्मद साहब बुर्के के खिलाफ थे। इसलिए ये एक फर्जी कहानी है जिसके जरिए लोग समाज में दुश्मनी फैलाने में जुटे हुए हैं।इस लेख के छपने के बाद राज्य में दंगे भड़के जिसमें दो लोगों की मौत हो गई जबकि 8 लोग बुरी तरह जख्मी हो गए। होली के दिन प्रदर्शनकारियों ने तस्लीमा के विरोध में जुलूस निकालते हुए दुकानों को आग लगाई। सार्वजनिक संपत्तियों को निशाना बनाते हुए बसों और ऑटो पर भी पत्थर फेंके। जिसके बाद पुलिस को फायरिंग करनी पड़ी। इसमें एक प्रदर्शनकारी की मौत हो गई और दूसरा घायल हो गया जिसने बाद में अस्पताल में दम तोड़ दिया।

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Cartoon, Hindi Cartoon, Indian Cartoon, Cartoon on Indian Politcs: BAMULAHIJA: कार्टून्स : कुछ नॅशनल मजाक ..कुछ इंटरनॅशनल मजाक !!


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'Scared Pak Hindus fleeing to India' - Jaipur - City - The Times of India

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    • Vimal Bhatia, TNN
    • Hindus in Pakistan are scared after the recent atrocities against minorities perpetrated by religious fanatics. Many are now making a beeline for the Indian High Commission for visas to flee the disturbed Islamic state. However, most have to return disappointed as the Indian mission in Islamabad is very strict in issuing visas as relations between the two countries are now at nadir.
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    • Bhavru Ram Bheel, a resident of Pakistan's Rahmiyar Khan area, who came to India by Thar Express on February 20, said about 10 families (50 to 60 members) had permanently left Pakistan by train never to be return to that country and many more are in the queue. He said, Taliban has unleashed a reign of terror among the Hindus by kidnapping the young women of Hindus. He said, "They tried to kidnap my daughters three four times. However we managed to save our honour. We have left behind everything and came to India."

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Sene man held for links with underworld don

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    • Bangalore:
    • A senior functionary of the right wing Hindu group, the Sri Rama Sene, has been arrested by the Mangalore police for connections to the underworld, once again highlighting the criminal base of the outfit and possibly throwing new light on several recent crimes in Mangalore, including the pub attack last January.

       

      On Monday, the Mangalore police arrested Prasad Attavar, the Mangalore district convener of the Sene, for being a financial conduit and operations man for the underworld operative and extortionist Ravi Poojary.

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      Initially, the pub attack too was believed to be a part of the Bannanje Raja-Ravi Poojary turf war, into which the pub owners had been dragged. Attavar is allegedly the man who alerted local media of a planned attack.


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Padma's Krishna - Om Sweet Om

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    • Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy was anything but conventional. She posed nude for Page 6 Magazine. She still refuses to disclose the identity of the baby's father. But when it came to naming the baby (a little girl born on February 20), Padma chose a name that is simply divine. Literally.

      US Magazine reports that Padma -- best known as Top Chef star and model (not to mention author Salman Rushdie's ex-wife) -- named her daughter Krishna Thea.

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RSS chief’s views blot on society: SGPC member

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    • Mohali:
    • Condemning the views expressed by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Bhopal recently, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) member Hardeep Singh has termed Bhagwat’s statement as a “blot on the multi-cultural Indian society”.

       

      The RSS chief had reportedly said those who were Indians were Hindus and if one was not a Hindu he could not be an Indian. “The RSS always works on the agenda of converting India into a Hindu nation by assimilating the multi-religious fabric of democratic and secular India,” Singh said in a statement issued here today.


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Say sorry and come back home, Shiv Sena tells Husain - dnaindia.com

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    • Kiran Tare / DNA
    • In line with the RSS, the Shiv Sena has said that MF Husain, who is all set to adopt Qatar’s nationality, can return to India, provided he seeks an apology from the Hindus.
    • However, Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS), which was apparently behind Husain’s decision to leave India in 2006, has demanded that he should be arrested and brought back to appear before the court in the cases filed against him.
    • HJS spokesperson Ramesh Shinde said they will not accept any apology from Husain. “Apology will not serve any purpose. He has committed a crime and he has to be punished. The government should arrest him and bring him back to complete the court cases pending against him,” he said.

      The Samiti launched a campaign against Husain since 1996, when his paintings of nude deities created a controversy.


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Old caves of Mumbai to get a new look - dnaindia.com

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    • The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has finally taken the responsibility of restoring two of the well-known caves in Mumbai — the Mandapeshwar and Mahakali caves dating back to the 7th Century AD and 5th Century AD, respectively. Both the caves have severely deteriorated after years of neglect.
    • The rock-cut cave is believed to have a huge sculpture of Natraja (though it’s not a confirmed identity because the structure has been damaged beyond recognition) and other sculptures of Ganesha and other Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Above this cave was a Portugese monastery built in the 17th century, which has also been badly damaged.
    • The Mandapeshwar caves in Borivli
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      It’s a similar story with the Mahakali caves in Andheri. This group of 15 caves, recognised as Buddhist caves, has a finely carved sculpture of Buddha on a lotus and a stupa among other structures.


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Think of this as Husain's IPO: Rediff.com Business

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    • Emotional chicanery or fiscal prudence? Whatever it turns out to be - artist M F Husain's [ Images ] decision to accept Qatari citizenship will result in the hardening of his prices, writes Kishore Singh.
    • India's best-known artist has been out of the news for a while and for Husain there's nothing he enjoys more than media attention. In Dubai [ Images ] and London [ Images ], where he has chosen to live in self-exile, he gets a lot of Western press, but is unhappy with its patronising platitudes: They have only just discovered him, but he has been at the centre of the (creative) universe for as long as he can recall.
    • Maybe Husain is right in fearing for his life - he, after all, is the one who has been threatened - but we must not forget that it is possible he is playing to the galleries. And at the bottom of that might be something Husain is very smart about: fiscal prudence.

      In the decades that Husain was the uncrowned king among Indian artists, someone pointed out that Husain sa'ab liked surrounding himself with wealthy patrons, and got a kick out of being the most expensively priced artist in the country.

      The last decade changed that. International markets opened up, auction houses started dedicating sales to works from India or South Asia, and suddenly other artists were not just competing for Husain's crown, they were also surpassing his prices. Everyone from fellow Progressives F N Souza, S H Raza and Tyeb Mehta to newbie contemporaries like Subodh Gupta were selling at prices that made company turnovers look weak. Was Husain losing his monopoly at the top of the art indices?

      He arranged private sales of works and leaked news of them to the press, besting his colleagues' canvases with triptychs. He created a stir with a manipulated Rs 100-crore (Rs 1 billion) offer for a body of works via an unknown collector (who, alas, knew nothing about Husain, leave alone art). But, at best, all this was a losing battle.

      Now view his acceptance of a Qatari citizenship against this background and see how it begins to make sense in terms of financial invincibility. We are aware of the offers made to him to paint the Arab civilisation (money no bar) as well as setting up a museum of Husain's works somewhere in West Asia (Doha?). Yet it is the impact on the prices of his works that is important.

      For now, there might be a certain amount of panic in the market as collectors jostle to buy Husain's works because any new paintings he is creating are no longer finding their way to India, but also because there is the legitimate fear that he will probably shift his unsold artworks from India to Qatar.

      This will lead to a scarcity - real or imagined - that in turn will drive the prices up. Therefore, expect Husain's paintings to sell for much more than was anticipated at the spring auctions in India and internationally.

    • Photograph: Mayur Bhatt/ Saab Press

      Kishore Singh
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Terror suspect who posed as a greengrocer arrested | Mail Online

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    Terror suspect Tiger Hanif was arrested after posing as greengrocer in Britain for 17 years
    • A terror suspect who posed as a greengrocer for 17 years was unmasked yesterday.

      Tiger Hanif, 49, had been using the name Mohammed Patel after a double bombing in India in 1993 where an eight-year-old girl was killed and 38 were injured.

      He fled to Britain where despite initially being refused asylum he was later given a British passport and made a new life at family grocers Barkat Enterprises in Bolton.

    • Terror suspect Tiger Hanif was arrested after posing as greengrocer in Britain for 17 years
    • Police believed the bombing in the Surat region of India was to avenge the destruction of an ancient mosque, Babri Masjid, by Hindu zealots and subsequent riots.

      One bomb exploded near a school at Varachha in which the girl was killed, and a grenade was lobbed at a train leaving 38 injured.

      A former state minister, Mohammad Surti, was found guilty of the bombings and jailed for 20 years.

      Hanif was arrested at his home last month. He was remanded in custody to face a hearing that could see him sent back to India to face justice.

    Hanif ran this greengrocers in Bolton before he was tracked down by police
    • Hanif ran this greengrocers in Bolton before he was tracked down by police

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I love India, but she doesnt need me: MF Husain

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    • Bharatiya Vichara Kendra director P. Parameswaran has criticised painter M.F. Hussain for consistently denigrating Indian culture.

       

       In a press release issued on Sunday in the background of the news that Hussain had accepted Qatar nationality, Parameswaran said that in the name of artistic freedom Hussain had painted Hindu gods and goddesses and even Bharat Matha in a manner, which deeply hurt the sentiments and sensibilities of patriotic Indians.

       

       That M.F. Hussain has accepted Qatar nationality is good news, good for him and good for India. He got what he desired and lost what he hardly deserved, the statement said.

       

       He had to leave India because of the intense anger of his misusing artistic freedom. Now, he is free to utilise his newly-won nationality to make full commercial benefit of his negative artistic talents while staying abroad, the statement said.
    •  The “righteous indignation!’’ of the human rights activists in the case of Hussain is to be seen in comparison to to their silent acquiescence of the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama half-a- century-old exile in India. Hussain had to leave India for denigrating Indian culture, whereas Dalai Lama was forced to leave Tibet in order to protect and practise the millennium-old tradition and culture of Tibet.

       

       It will indeed be interesting to watch if Hussain utilises his freedom as a Qatar national to produce paintings of Islamic symbols in the manner in which he has been painting Hindu icons and symbols. That would also show how genuine is his secularism and the independence of his vociferous supporters in India, he said.

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'हिंदुओं पर लिखी पुस्तक को वापस ले पेंग्विन' - India Abroad News - Videsh - LiveHindustan.com

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    • अमेरिका में रह रहे हिंदू समुदाय के लोगों ने प्रख्यात लेखक वेंडी डोनिंगर पेंग की हिंदुओं पर लिखी पुस्तक में ऐतिहासिक तथ्यों और संस्कृत अनुवाद में भारी गड़बड़ियां होने का आरोप लगाते हुए पेंग्विन प्रकाशन समूह से इसे तुरंत वापस लेने का अनुरोध किया है।

      अमेरिका में एक ऑनलाइन याचिका में आरोप लगाया गया है कि पेंग की पुस्तक 'द हिंदूज-एन अल्टरनेटिव हिस्ट्री' में कई ऐसी गड़बड़ियां और तथ्यों की गलत व्याख्या है, जिसका उद्देश्य भारतीय और हिंदू इतिहास के बारे में छात्रों को गुमराह करना है।


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अयोध्या मुद्दा फिर चली रणनीति! :: सहारा समय

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    • (Ramesh Chandra)
    • अयोध्या।
    • क्या अयोध्या मुद्दा फिर से गरमाने की कोशिश की जा रही है। अगर विश्व हिंदू परिषद ने राम मंदिर निर्माण के लिये तराशे गये पत्थरों को विवादित धर्मस्थल तक ले जाने की कोशिश की तो ऐसा हो सकता है।
      श्रीराम जन्मभूमि न्यास की देखरेख में विश्व हिन्दू परिषद ने अयोध्या में ही पत्थरों को तराशने वाली वर्कशॉप सितम्बर 1990 में स्थापित की थी। लगभग 65 प्रतिशत पत्थर तराशे जा चुके हैं। विहिप के मॉडल के अनुसार मंदिर दो तल का होगा जिसमें 212 खंभे, नृत्य मंडप, रंग मंडप, गर्भगृह और प्लिंथ के पत्थर तराशे जा चुके हैं। गुंबद के साथ ही कुछ अन्य पत्थर तराशे जाने बाकी है। मार्च 2007 में पत्थर तराशने का काम रोक दिया गया। अब इन पत्थरों को विहिप विवादित धर्मस्थल के पास ले जाने की जुगत में है। इसके लिये अयोध्या का माहौल एक बार फिर 1992 की तरह बनाने की तैयारी की जा रही है। विहिप मार्गदर्शक मंडल और श्रीराम जन्म भूमि न्यास मंच के सदस्य डा. राम विलास दास वेदान्ती ने कहा कि हरिद्वार में चल रहे कुंभ में आगामी चार अप्रैल से होने वाली तीन दिवसीय बैठक में महत्वपूर्ण रणनीतिक निर्णय लिये जायेंगे।
    • श्री वेदान्ती ने कहा कि आने वाले दो वर्ष अयोध्या मुद्दे के लिये काफी महत्वपूर्ण होंगे क्योंकि संतों ने मंदिर निर्माण के लिये निर्णायक लड़ाई लड़ने की ठान ली है। उन्होंने कहा कि संत सम्मेलनों में मंदिर निर्माण तो मूल विषय होगा ही इसके साथ अल्पसंख्यकों की तुष्टिकरण के लिये मची होड़ को भी सार्वजनिक किया जायेगा।
    • डा. वेदान्ती ने कहा कि केन्द्र सरकार पाकिस्तान के कब्जे वाले कश्मीर के लोगों को जम्मू कश्मीर में बसाने की साजिश कर रही है, जबकि कश्मीरी पंडित अपने ही देश में दर-दर भटकने को मजबूर हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि ये सभी मामले संत सम्मेलनों में उठेंगे जिसका जवाब केन्द्र सरकार को देना ही होगा।

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धर्मांतरण के आरोप में ६ गिरफ्तार धर्मांतरण के आरोप में ६ गिरफ्तार

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    • पंडरिया (कवर्धा)
    • रविवार को हाली किंग्डम स्कूल में धर्मांतरण कराए जाने को लेकर अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद के सदस्यों ने जम कर हंगामा किया। परिषद के सदस्यों का कहना था कि करीब ३५ आदिवासियों को स्कूल में लाकर धर्म परिवर्तन कराया जा रहा था। स्कूल में ग्राम नेऊर, कुकदूर सहित आसपास कई ग्रामों से आदिवासी पहुंचे हुए थे। घटना की सूचना मिलते ही जिला व पुलिस प्रशासन के अधिकारियों ने मामले को शंात कराया। अधिकारियों ने धर्मांतरण के लिए आए आदिवासियों से पूछताछ कर उनके गृहग्राम के लिए रवाना किए। इस कार्य में संलग्न ६ आरोपियों के विरूद्ध अपराध पंजीबद्ध कर गिरफ्तार किया गया। गिरफ्तार किए गए लोगों में हॉली किंग्डम के प्राचार्य जोसेफ थामस पिता पाल थामस, अलेकजेन्डर कुकीलन मेनन पिता सैमुअल मेनन जो केरल के रहने वाले है। इसी प्रकार मोजेस विजय प्रसाद पिता शिवनारायण प्रसाद, हल्कु पिता महासिंह धुर्वे, पंचू पिता महासिंह धुर्वे एवं सियाराम पिता पे्रेमसिंह यादव का नाम शामिल हंै।

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Jagran - Yahoo! India - आस्था पर चोट

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    • असल में, जो भाग्यवादी हैं उनकी यही सोच है कि किसी संत-महात्मा की शरण में जाने से उनका लोक-परलोक सुधर जाएगा और शायद उनका भाग्योदय हो जाए। जबकि शास्त्रों में स्पष्ट उल्लेख है कि अंत:करण की शुद्धि से ही आत्म कल्याण संभव है। दुर्योग से देश में हजारों ऐसे संत-महात्मा हैं, जो धन कमाने के लिए धर्म के नाम पर तरह-तरह के प्रपंच और पाखंड रचते हैं और अनपढ़ ही नहीं, सबसे ज्यादा शिक्षित ही इनके सांझे में फंसते हैं।
    • आश्चर्य की बात है कि साधु-संत हिंदू संस्कृति और धर्म की रक्षा के लिए न जाने कितने प्रवचन करते हैं, लेकिन क्या आज तक कोई संत समाज ऐसे ढोंगी महात्माओं-संतों के विरोध में खड़ा हुआ है, जो सीधे-सीधे धर्म को हानि पहुंचाने का कार्य कर रहे हैं? क्या उनका यह उनका धर्म और दायित्व नहीं है कि लोगों की आस्थाओं और धर्म से घिनौना खिलवाड़ करने वाले ऐसे शैतान और पाखंडी संतों के जालों को छिन्न-भिन्न किया जाए। आखिर कब तक धर्म पर यह चोट सहते रहेंगे?

      [स्थानीय संपादकीय: दिल्ली]


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Ire, indifference after closure of ‘objectionable exhibition’

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    • Anger and indifference are the two main reactions expressed here Friday following Thursday’s closure of an “objectionable exhibition” organised by French journalist and political commentator Francois Gautier at the Lalit Kala Akademi (LKA). The exhibition claimed to “expose the misdeeds against Hinduism during the Mughal period”.

      Following Muslim protests, the exhibition of paintings and reproductions of Arabic and Persian documents alluding to destruction of Hindu shrines at the LKA here since Monday was closed down to “prevent a law and order situation”.

    • Chennai

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