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 P.O.BOX 5728 SRT NAGAR, NEW DELHI 110055 (BHARAT); Email: [email protected] No. Sm1521/2072 (For Private Circulation Only) Magh Krishna 8, Vik. Samvat 2072. Yugabda 5117 Tel: 91-11- 23517373; 1 February 2016 1. FESTIVALS: Sant Ravidas Jayanti falls on efforts to revive dialogue with Pakistan, Maghi Poornima falling on February 22 this year. Mukherjee said, “Nations will never agree on Sant Ravidas, a Hindu social reformer, openly everything, but the challenge today is existential. challenged social inequalities and evils like the Terrorists seek to undermine order by rejecting the caste system and untouchability. The pious soul very basis of strategic stability, which are was an ardent devotee of Sri Ram and his recognized borders. If outlaws are able to unravel compositions inspired the Bhakti movement borders, then we are heading towards an age of in North Bharat during the medieval period. Sant chaos.” Ravidas is the founder Guru of the Rai-dasis Sect, He, however, underlined the importance of also known as Ravidasi. Several Hindu sects sustained dialogue in such times. “We on our consider him as Sant and the Sikhs consider him subcontinent have a historic opportunity to as Guru Ravidas Ji. There are 41 verses of Sant become a beacon to the world at a time of great Ravidas in the Holy Guru Granth Sahib. danger. We must attempt to resolve the complex 2. CONTINUE TO COMPLAIN, REBEL, AND edges of our emotional and geo-political DEMAND: RASHTRAPATI: Addressing the inheritance with our neighbours through a nation on the eve of Republic Day, Rashtrapati peaceful dialogue, and invest in mutual prosperity Pranab Mukherjee said: “There will be, amongst by recognizing that human beings are best defined us, occasional doubters and baiters. Let us by a humane spirit, and not their worst instincts. continue to complain, to demand, to rebel. This Our example can be its own message to a world in too is a virtue of democracy. But let us also anxious need of amity.” applaud what our democracy has achieved. With 3. A TEMPLE EXISTED AT THE SITE OF investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, THE BABRI MASJID: DR K K health, education, science and technology, we are MUHAMMED: Twenty four years after the positioning ourselves well for achieving a higher demolition of Babri Masjid, a former archaeologist growth rate which will in the next 10 to 15 years has come out with the allegation that Left help us eliminate poverty.” historians like Irfan Habib and Romila Thapar had “Reverence for the past is one of the essential thwarted an amicable settlement to the Babri ingredients of nationalism. Our finest inheritance, Masjid issue. the institutions of democracy, ensure to all citizens The allegation made by Dr KK Muhammed, justice, equality, and gender and economic equity. former Regional Director (North) of When grim instances of violence hit at these Archaeological Survey of India, in his established values which are at the core of our autobiography titled Njan Enna Bharatiyan (I an nationhood, it is time to take note. We must guard Indian) in Malayalam also claim that remains of a ourselves against the forces of violence, Hindu temple were found during the excavation intolerance and unreason. In a slanted reference to made by a team of archaeologists headed by the spate of terror attacks in the wake of Bharatiya Professor BB Lal, then director general of the

1 Archaeological Survey of India during 1976-77, in the Hindu culture was originally born in the hills which he was also a member. and vales and forests and caves of this land and Besides blaming the Left wing historians for was preserved, protected and nourished by these failing to reach an amicable settlement in the Babri Janjati people inhabiting these difficult areas, the Masjid issue, the book also brings to focus the RSS Sarsanghchalak appealed to the countrymen longstanding rift between historians supporting the to understand their problems and share their woes Marxist view and others opposed to it. “It was they to remain united. "The root of our culture lies in who connived with the extremist Muslim groups valleys, forests and agriculture. Till the time Lord to derail all attempts to find an amicable solution Ram was in the palace at Ayodhya, he did not to the Masjid issue. Some of them even took part have the powers to kill Ravana. Ravana was killed in several government-level meetings and with the powers Ram got by wandering around in supported the Babri Masjid Action Committee,” forests and valleys," Bhagwat said. he said. Muhammed endorses in his book that a Expressing his high regards for the janjati people temple existed at the site of the Babri Masjid Dr Bhagwat said that these people never based on the unearthing of temple pillars during compromised with their independence and never the excavation under Professor Lal in 1978. In the thought of their petty interests. They fought with chapter “Whatever I learned and said are nothing the British to ensure the freedom of our country but historical truth”, Muhammad says that he got a and culture. They are the real heroes who chance to be part of an excavation team led by Lal protected out culture, he said. in 1978. He was a student at the School of Mahamandaleshwar Swami Vishveshwaranand Archaeology in New Delhi at that time. Maharaj in his address said that our tradition is “We found not one but 14 pillars of a temple at the very rich and it is our duty to preserve it for the Babri Masjid site. All these pillars had domes posterity. He appealed to the Central Government carved on them. The domes resembled those found to take steps to ensure safety of janjati people in in temples belonging to 11th and 12th century. In view of the shrinking of forest cover and fall in the temple architecture domes are one of the nine forest products. symbols of prosperity. It was quite evident that the 5. BHAIYYAJI JOSHI AT SAMAJIK Masjid was erected on the debris of a temple. SADBHAV MEET IN GUJARAT: Addressing, 4. JANJATI PEOPLE ARE TRUE CARRIERS Samajik Sadbhav Meet in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on OF OUR CULTURE: BHAGWAT: The Janjati January 18, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) people, who dwell in the hills and vales, forests Sarkaryavah Bhaiyyaji Joshi asked to give and caves, are the real carriers of our rich culture. emphasis on duty rather than rights. He said that They are the true protectors of our heritage and Hindu samaj has never been destructive. There are traditions, said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh similarities among the countrymen from Kashmir (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohanrao Bhagwat. to Kanyakumari and Rajasthan to Manipur such as The Sarsanghchalak was addressing a mammoth the names of Hindu people, dialects, religious Satpuda Hindu Convention in Nandurbar on books, goddesses and gods, pilgrim places, January 15. Mahamandaleshwar inspiring legends – they are all not caste based. Vishveshwaranand Maharaj from Haridwar, We believe that there’s God in every living thing. Devgiri Prant Sanghchalak Gangadhar Pawar, The other challenge before the society is social Guardian Minister Girish Mahajan, MP Dr Hina justice. Third major challenge is to safeguard the Gavit and MLA Dr Vijaykumar Gavit were values in our life, and we have family system for prominently present on the occasion. Stating that that. We believe that first Guru is mother. Dharma 2 means fulfilling our responsibilities. Dharma It was reminiscent of the ceremony at Wagah doesn’t mean puja paath. The society is facing where thousands of people on Bharatiya and issues such as violence, corruption etc, and to Pakistani sides throng each day for a glimpse that shield the society against this, social change is goes into their photo albums. only way. If values of dharma, culture and life fail BSF Tripura frontier organized the event along to survive in Bharat, then they will not survive in with its counterpart Border Guards of Bangladesh world. Hindu society will need to rise above (BGB). The proceedings kicked off with the narrow thinking and need to become strong. It will ceremonial flag hoisting by both countries in the need to remove differences, and then only morning, followed by the commanders of both Gauravshali Hindu society and Vishwa Kalyan sides delivering speeches exuding warmth and will be possible. spirit of friendship. 6. BAND OF BROTHERS: FOREIGNERS 8. VIGILANT SWAYAMSEVAK FOILS TROOP IN: Apart from the French troops that CRITICAL INCIDENT IN LUDHIANA: participated in the parade, the foreign military Alertness of a Swayamsevak in Ludhiana on presence from friendly countries was the highest January 18 averted a potentially critical incident. this Republic Day. Senior military personnel from The incident took place at 6.15 am at Kidwai African nations were also invited to this year's Nagar Park Sangh Shakha of Ludhiana. The parade. atmosphere in the Park was normal as any other For the first time, soldiers from the Bharatiya day. When 38-year-old Naresh Chauhan, a shoe Army marched on Rajpath along with members of maker, came for the daily Janakpuri Shakha in the the Armee de Terre (Land Army) and a band from park; he had little inkling of what was awaiting the French Air Force Orchestra, who were given him. As Naresh reached the main gate of the park the coveted position after the parade commander. accompanied by his nephew he noticed a person The band has a legacy of marching with Napoleon standing in the dark near the gate and another Bonaparte. The French soldiers, led by Lieutenant sitting on a bike. Curiously, he enquired as to why Colonel Paul Bury, marched in their typical style he was standing at the gate. The youth replied that with open palms and short steps carrying their he was waiting for somebody. “So why wait in the famous FAMAS rifles. The contingent was dark, come inside and wait there”, Naresh told him preceded by 48 musicians playing pipes and drums not before he sensed something was amiss. led by Major Jean-Claude Leberruyer. The 124 Naresh Chauhan grew suspicious of their presence French troops had been practicing for the parade and was staring at them. At the same time he tried for more than a week after the completion of the to identify the registration number of the bike, military exercise "Shakti 2016" with the Bharatiya which was missing. The youth asked for his Army. identity. Naresh told them that he was an RSS 7. BEATING RETREAT CEREMONY AT activist and had come there to conduct the daily INDO-BANGLADESH BORDER: The morning Shakha. As the youth heard these words ceremonial retreat of the national flag on the 67th one of them took out the revolver and fired at Republic Day assumed new significance on Naresh. However, the alert RSS activist whisked January 26 as for the first time, Bangladesh joined his hand and ducked to save himself. The Bharat in celebrating the occasion on its territory. assailants fired another bullet which also missed The entire stretch of Akhaura on both sides of the the target before fleeing the scene on their border was decorated with colourful flags and speeding bike. After getting the news Vibhag festoons by the border guards of the two countries. Pracharak Shri Sumit and some other 3 swayamsevaks rushed to the spot and informed the School at Mumbai. Senior RSS functionary police about the whole incident. Indresh Kumar hoisted National Flag in a old At around 10.30 am, when Prant Pracharak Shri Madrasa at Raipur Rani in Panchkula of Haryana. Kishrekant reached the spot about 125 Nearly 300 Muslim leaders participated in the swayamsevaks gathered there. He called upon ceremony organised by Muslim Rashtriya Manch. them to be vigilant, not to pay attention to any 11. YUVATI SAMAVESH BY SEVIKA rumour. After his brief message all the SAMITI: Rashtra Sevika Samiti Pramukh swayamsevaks performed Sangh Prarthana. Sanchalika V Shanthakumari addressed Yuvati 9. PADMA AWARDS INCLUDE RELIGIOUS Samavesh at Mysuru and Bengaluru which are LEADERS: Padma Awards - one of the highest being held all over Bharat. At Mysuru, Dr civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in Sarvamangala Shankar, Vice-Chancellor of State three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Musical and Performing Arts University, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. Rashtrapatiji has inaugurated the event. Samskrit Scholar Dr approved conferment of Padma Awards to 112 Jayashree and other prominent functionaries were persons: 10 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan present. and 83 Padma Shri Awardees. This year's winners Nearly 800 young women were present at for spirituality included Padma Vibhushan for Shri Bengaluru where “Yuvati Samavesh -2016”, was Shri Ravi Shankar, Padma Bhushan for Swami held at NMKRV College Auditorium, Jayanagar, Tejomayananda and Swami Dayananda Saraswati Bengaluru. Sevika Samiti’s Bengaluru Mahanagar (posthumous). Smt. Hui Lan Zhang of China and Karyavahika Udaya Bhat was present on the dais. Predrag K. Nikic of the Yoga Federation of Serbia A special lecture on ‘Tejomaya Bharat’ was given won Padma Shri for their contribution to Yoga. by Rekha Ramachandran to the youth gathered. Hinduism 12. TEJAS TAKES PART IN Today took note of the Padma Shri award to INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW: Bharat's Sudhakar Olwe for Social Work in Maharashtra. indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas on He served as photographer for our Amarnath Cave January 23 for the first time participated in an feature story, working steadily to produce international air show, an event witnessed by outstanding photos through the arduous trek on External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the horseback over several days. Bahraini capital. Ms Swaraj, who was in Manama 10. RSS CELEBRATES 67TH REPUBLIC on a two-day visit to attend the first ministerial DAY: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) meeting of the Bharat-Arab League Cooperation swayamsevaks celebrated 67th Republic Day Forum, went for the air show immediately after across the nation on 26th January saluting the landing at the Bahrain International Airport. On national flag at the ceremonies held at various the sidelines of the Bahrain International Air show places across Bharat. at Sakhir Airbase, Ms Swaraj also called on RSS Sarasanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat hoisted Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. She, the national flag at RSS Headquarters Dr along with the king, also watched the Sarang Hedgewar Bhavan at Mahal in Nagpur, RSS helicopter team of the Indian Air Force in action. Sarakaryavah Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi hoisted After the indigenously-developed Sarang National Flag at MIT Medical College premises at demonstrated its capabilities in the skies with four Lathur, Maharashtra. helicopters mesmerizing the huge crowd gathered RSS Sah-sarakaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale at the event, Tejas took flight for the first time at hoisted the national flag at KGT International an international air show. 4 13. SKILLING ME SOFTLY: To walk the talk and early college in India, made their on Make in India and Start Up India, change must breakthroughs in the United States and not in their begin in schools country of origin? The short answer is that they A few days from now Rakesh Jain, an Indian- have all migrated to the US. But why aren’t their American chemical engineer who is considered the contemporaries and peers in India or China doyen of tumour biology at Harvard Medical making similar breakthroughs? School, will step up to the podium at the White What path breaking technologies or universally House to receive the National Medal for Science acclaimed products have China and India from President Barack Obama. Among Jain’s produced in recent decades? How does the US scroll of breakthrough technologies, laid out in remain the birthplace of Apple, Google, Tesla and hundreds of papers and thousands of citations, are other cutting edge companies, while China and his developing the delivery of molecular and nano- India only provide the grunt work and back offices medicine to solid tumors in ways that have for America to rake in the lolly? fundamentally changed the thinking of scientists To understand this, let’s rewind to socialist India and clinicians about drug release. of the 1960s and 1970s. Remember the big Jain is among nearly a dozen high minded transistor radio that was the centrepiece of the brainiacs from India, now settled in America, who living room, whose knobs father would not even have been recognized by successive White House allow you to touch, forget about letting you open administrations over the past decade for the back and dismantle the whole contraption? revolutionary scientific and technical advances. Remember the fountain pen that you were not Among previous National Medal winners of allowed to use, let alone taking it apart? Or the Indian-origin are Rangaswamy Srinivasan, whose few other “don’t-touch-it” devices that were work in ablative photodecomposition led to the wheeled out only for special occasions? development of Lasik eye surgery; Praveen Indigent, insular and insecure, we lived in an Chaudhari, whose work in materials science experimentally arid India, bereft of the spirit of resulted in developing the optical disk industry; academic adventure. and B Jayant Baliga, whose invention of the Compounding this fear of exploration caused by insulated gate bipolar transistor forms the basis of our penurious existence was the stigma of failure, the smart energy grid. painfully brought home even now by the epidemic The work of each of them has resulted in of student suicides under academic pressure – 30 development of industries worth billions and even last year alone in the coaching crucible of Kota, trillions of dollars across the world, starting in the Rajasthan, but thousands across the country year United States. It has kept the US well ahead in the after year. All this was underscored by a system technology sweepstakes, where occasionally there that prized mental calisthenics over physical are pretender countries purportedly snapping at labour or manual skills which, by Brahminical American heels. In this season of automotive injunctions, were better left to “lesser people or agony one recalls that the late Haren Gandhi of lower castes”. High-minded Indians didn’t get Ford, the first Indian-American to win the their hands dirty. National Medal in 2003, was recognised for his The result is an annual assembly line of academic work in automotive catalysts and emissions automatons, particularly in engineering. control – long before it became such a hot button According to a recent report, 80% of India’s issue. Why is it that these scientists and engineering graduates are “unemployable”. Yet technologists, all of whom finished their schooling when the same Indians come to the US and go 5 through the American ecosystem, it is as if they anniversary celebration. The highlight was marked have been let loose in a vast amusement park of with Lord Murugan adorned in gold-plated discovery and exploration. Freed from the rigours armour. of rote learning that constitute the rite of passage During the prayers, 1,008 pots were filled with in India, they produce a staggering output of holy water and herbs, and passed via a human inventions and innovations. chain into the temple. Inside the temple, the water Consider this: In the list of some 200 Fellows for was poured over Lord Murugan before it was 2015 named by the US National Academy of poured in little bottles or plastic bags to be Inventors there are at least 20 of Indian origin, a distributed to the devotees to drink. Memorabilia strike rate of 10% for an ethnic group which gold coins were made to mark the occasion. The constitutes less than 1% of the national population. temple is the oldest Hindu place of worship in Last week, 13 of the 40 finalists at the Intel Selangor. Science Talent were Indian-American kids. 15. INDRESHJI URGES MUSLIMS TO How to fire up this spirit of innovation and MAKE MADARSA STUDENTS PATRIOTIC: invention in India, beyond invoking dubious Indresh Kumar, a senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak ancient glories? Three things are central to Sangh pracharak on January 17 urged religious American dominance in this sphere: an ecosystem leaders from the Muslim community to expose that encourages risk-taking, a market that provides their children studying in madarsa to stories of capital and funding, and a social ethos that does patriotic Muslim personalities to make them love not stigmatise failure. the country . Recent initiatives promise to address the first two, He appealed to the Maulanas, Imams and Maulvis but the third is a societal slur that no government to come forward and expose the life stories of can fix. America is a country of second chances, people like Bahadur Shah Zafar to madarsa even third and fourth chances. India: no chance. students. He further told that children of Muslim The repair work then has to begin in the schools. communities should be given proper training so Mere slogans or late-stage government that they love the country after passing out the intervention will not result in Make in India and Madarsa. Start Up India. Despite knowing where the 16. GOVT LOOKS AT ROMA PEOPLE TO problem lies through many reports and EXPAND DIASPORA FOOTPRINT: The recommendations, India is yet to free itself from Centre is reviving a somewhat tenuous romance the stranglehold of textbook mastery, in an with the Roma people as the forgotten children of education system that remains depressingly this country. In February, the ICCR in moribund. collaboration with an NGO, Indian Council for The day you visit a school and find children International Cooperation, will organize the fourth hunched over devices and contraptions, equipment Roma conference in Delhi to encourage academic and appliances, rather than just textbooks and research into the origins of this largely European notebooks, is the day Make in India would have nomadic community who, many historians started up.—by Chidanand Rajghatta in believe, are originally Bharatiyas. Ruminations, Times of India, January 27, 2016. The Roma are largely described in pejorative 14. TEMPLE TURNS 100 IN STYLE: Old is terms in the countries they live in — gypsies, indeed gold and that proverb rings true of the Sri "gitanos" (Spain), "tsiganes" (France) — and have Subramaniya Swami Temple in Kajang as more battled discrimination for centuries. From 1976, than a thousand devotees celebrated its 100th Bharat has occasionally brought Roma scholars 6 and performers over from several countries (1983, 18. HINDU GOD STATUE'S HEAD 2001 and 2008) to discuss their problems and RETURNS TO CAMBODIA: A French museum attempt to establish cross-cultural links. has returned the head of a 7th Century Hindu In the present government, the head of ICCR, statue to Cambodia 130 years after it was taken. Lokesh Chandra is known as a scholar of the The statue, a representation of the Hindu gods Roma civilizations, and is taking a personal Vishnu and Shiva, had its head taken in French interest in the conference. colonial times. It was returned by the Guimet Prof Shashi Bala, the academic coordinator of the Museum in Paris at Cambodia's request and conference told TOI the objective of the reattached to the body on January 21. A conference is to study the political, social and Cambodian culture ministry spokesman said economic challenges faced by the Roma joining the head to the statue felt "like we are community in different countries. The aim is to reconnecting the soul of our national heritage". encourage more research about the community; The complete statue had stood in the Phnom Da revive Roma folklore and re-establish cultural temple in southern Takeo province before its head links. was shipped to France in 1886. 17. A MASS WEDDING OF DIFFERENT 19. SEVEN ANCIENT BUDDHIST CAVES KIND: The Janmashtami Park in Punjabi Bagh, DISCOVERED IN MUMBAI NATIONAL west Delhi witnessed a unique affair on 31st PARK: Seven Buddhist caves have been January - marriage of 101 couples of which nearly discovered in the north fringes of Mumbai, at 60 were specially-abled. Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivli in January The matchmaking and mass marriage ceremony 2016. The caves are assumed to be at least 2,000- was conducted by Narayan Seva Sansthan, an years old structures. All the caves signify strong NGO that runs one of the largest charitable evidences of being viharas or monk residences. hospitals in the country for polio-afflicted patients. One of them has shown the remains of harmika, "We register eligible bachelors and spinsters with which refers to the top railing of a stupa. These are any sort of disability for marriage and provide excavated from the natural rocks. The absence of them a platform to meet at the hospital. If the water indicates that the monks lived there during couple likes each other they marry," said Prashant monsoon. Aggarwal, who heads the NGO. 20. 'BHARAT BEST POSITIONED TO Uttarakhand resident Kavita Bisht and Mangu Puri WEATHER GLOBAL TURMOIL': Arvind from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh were one such Subramanian, the chief economic adviser to the couple who tied the knot on Sunday. "We met in government of Bharat, the author of two books the hospital. I was undergoing vocational training straddled between the worlds of fiction and while Kavita was recovering post-surgery. We economics, when prodded for his assessment of liked each other and decided to get married," Puri, the current turmoil in global markets emanating who has weakness of the lower limb due to polio, out of economic worries in China, said volatility said. His partner, too, suffers from paralysis of has become a new normal. "It's something that all lower limb. countries have to get used to. In Bharat, we have Their marriage was held in a traditional manner to do whatever is in our best interest. There are lot and the couple performed all rituals, including of things we need to do domestically and the moving around a consecrated fire seven times with government is committed to do that. That's the the help of crutches, with blaring music being best way of protecting ourselves against all these played in the background. volatility and turbulence," said Subramanian on 7 the sidelines of a session on "Fiction and 23. 2 'SMALL' BHARATIYA UNIVERSITIES Economics." He said when things are bad MAKE IT BIG ON INTERNATIONAL externally, it affects all countries. "Bharat will also STAGE: The Indian Institute of Technology, be impacted. But, we are one the most stable Guwahati, created history by being featured in the countries in the world and our growth rate is top 20 small universities in the world. IIT-G has probably the highest in the world. Bharat is better been ranked number 14 in the in Times Higher positioned to weather the current turmoil," he Education's World's Best Small Universities added. Ranking 2016. There are two universities in top 21. BHARAT PLACES FIFTH NAVIGATION 20 from Bharat with Savitribai Phule Pune SATELLITE IN ORBIT: Indian Space Research University from Maharashtra in 18th place. Organisation (ISRO) on January 20 successfully Giving the credit to the students and faculty, IIT-G placed in orbit IRNSS-1E, the fifth of the seven director Gautam Biswas said the ranking is a satellites that will form a navigation satellite major boost to the region and will motivate school network. Around 20 minutes after lifting off from students and other institutions towards science Sriharikota, PSLV-C31 placed IRNSS-1E in an education. "This is definitely a credit to the inclined geosynchronous orbit. The satellite also students, faculty and staff. The dedication of the has a highly accurate rubidium atomic clock and a IIT-G community made it possible. Now we have corner cube retro reflectors for laser ranging. the responsibility to do better and that is possible The first four satellites in the series are functioning only with cutting edge publication and research, from their designated orbits. IRNSS is an which is the new paradigm" he said. indigenously developed Navigation Satellite 24. 1,03,617 TOURISTS IN BHARAT ON E- System that is used to provide accurate real-time VISA IN DEC: A total of 1,03,617 tourists positioning and timing services over Bharat and arrived in Bharat on e-Tourist Visa in December, the surrounding region extending to 1500 2015 as compared to 14,063 during the kilometres away from Bharat. corresponding period in 2014, registering a growth 22. ITBP'S 1ST 500-STRONG FEMALE of 635.8 percent. UK continues to occupy top slot SQUAD WILL KEEP AN EYE ON BHARAT- followed by USA and Russia amongst the CHINA BORDER: The Indo-Tibet Border Police countries availing e-tourist visa facility. (ITBP) is ready with its first female squad of 500 25. SHRI VISHWA NIKETAN: Pravas: Shri freshly trained personnel to be posted on the Saumitra Gokhale, Vishwa Vibhag samyojak will Bharat-China border. The women, in the rank of tour Malaysia and Singapore. Shri Shyam constable, were inducted in the border-guarding Parande, Secretary Sewa International will return force after 44-weeks of training in battle craft and from a 2-day tour to UK for a conference on mountain survival and will now be sent to frontier SriLanka. areas for final acclimatization before being FOOD FOR THOUGHT: When the mind attains deployed at ITBP posts along the 3,488-km Sino- the power to empty itself of all ports of thoughts Bharat Line of Actual Control (LAC). and emotions the heart becomes infused with These 'mahila' contingents are expected to be everlasting energy and strength and can posted by March this year at about 20 forward accomplish tremendous work without exhaustion locations of the ITBP situated at heights of or debility. Human life then reaches the state of between 8,000-14,000 feet, including at the 'Mana boundless bliss, which infact is its divine pass' border post, the last village on the Bharatiya consummation.--Shri Guruji. side in Uttarakhand. JAI SHREE RAM 8