: P.O.BOX 5728 SRT NAGAR, NEW DELHI 110055 (BHARAT); Email : [email protected] No. Sm1310/2070 (For Private Circulation Only) Bhadra Krishna 11 Vik Samvat 2070. Yugabda 5115 Tel: 91-11- 23684445; Fax: 91-11-23517722 1 September 2013. 1. FESTIVALS: is predominantly 3. SAVE HINDUS AND SIKHS IN celebrated by people from Keral. Onam day is PAKISTAN: US HINDU GROUPS PROTEST: decided based on Solar Calendar. Onam is A powerful protest demonstration was celebrated in Chingam month on Malayalam Solar successfully organized on 14 August by Indian Calendar. The day when Nakshatra Thiruvonam American Intellectuals Forum (IAIF) in prevails in month of Chingam is considered for cooperation with Vishwa Hindu Parishad of Onam celebrations. Onam falls on September 16 America, Hindu Human Rights Watch, Justice for this year. The festival commemorates the Hindus, Heritage Foundation, Lansing, appearance of Vamana avatar of Vishnu and the Michigan; Human Rights Coalition against subsequent home coming of the legendary Radical Islam, Probasi of Brooklyn and Hindu Emperor Mahabali. Onam celebrates the Asura Mahasabha of America (HMSA) in support of the King Mahabali's annual visit from Patala (the victims of religious bigotry, hate, intolerance and underworld). On Thiruvonam day, Asura King savagery, near Pakistan Consulate in New York. Mahabali is believed to visit every Malayali home The Memorandum expressing outrage, shock and and meet his people. The celebrations of Onam indignation at the horrific treatment meted out to start on Atham day (the day when Atham Hindus, Sikhs and Christians was submitted to the Nakshatra prevails) and continue for 10 days till Consul General of Pakistan. Addressing the Thiruvonam day. Atham Nakshatra is known as audience, Narain Kataria, organizer of the protest Hasta Nakshatra in other Hindu Calendars. said that Hindus have been terrorized in Pakistan 2. BALAGOKULAM CELEBRATES to such an extent that in April-May this year, JANMASHTAMI IN : Balagokulam, about 500 Hindus who crossed into Bharat under an organisation of children, celebrated Sree the pretense of visiting a religious festival, refused Krishna Jayanti/ Gokulashtami all across Kerala to go back to Pakistan and begged government of with all its charm and devotion on August 28. Bharat to give them political asylum. Thousands of children, dressed up as Sree A similar demonstration was held outside the Krishna, Gopika and other similar characters from Pakistan High Commission in London on Aug 17 Krishna's life, were seen on the streets of each and by Alliance of Pakistani and British Hindus. The every village and towns. Huge processions of protesters, carrying placards reading "No More children, their parents and other devotees Forced Conversions", also handed over a petition accompanied by beautiful tableaus and to the High Commission asking the Pakistani ‘Chendamelam’ (a typical Kerala style drum set) government to take immediate steps to ensure the were taken out in many places. Dr. Debashish well being and safety of Hindus in the country. Chattterjee (Director, IIM-kozhikkode) 4. BHARAT'S FIRST MILITARY inaugurated the celebrations in Kozhikkode. Dr. SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED: G. Madhavan Nair (Former chairman, ISRO and Bharat's first military satellite GSAT-7 or Secretory Department of Space) and Dr M. C. "Rukmini", which will boost the Navy's blue- Dileep Kumar (Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankara water combat capabilities with a 2,000-nautical Sanskrit University) inaugurated the celebrations mile footprint over the crucial Indian Ocean in and Kochi respectively. Region (IOR), was successfully launched from

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Kourou Island in French Guiana by European Brahma, Wisnu and Siwa — in their villages. space consortium Arianespace's launch rocket in Together with family, they also visited their the early hours on August 30. ancestral temples. The naval communication and surveillance For Buleleng natives, the celebration always ends satellite when placed in the geostationary orbit, it with a prayer performed in cemeteries to pay will become "a potent force-multiplier", homage to deceased relatives who have not yet networking all Bharatiya warships, submarines been cremated. The living present an offering of and aircraft with operational centres ashore rice, cakes and fruit to the deceased and at the end through high-speed encrypted data-links. This is of the ritual they feast on the offering. the first time a high-power UHF (ultra high- 7. SEWA INTERNATIONAL GETS frequency) transponder forms part of an Bharatiya JEFFERSON AWARDS FOR PUBLIC communication satellite like INSAT or GSAT. SERVICE: Sewa International Houston was From the individual "I see, I kill" operation, the conferred with the prestigious 2013 Youth Service entire Navy will now be "seamlessly" networked Challenge Medallion for outstanding community to get "a composite, clear picture of all the actors" service by Jefferson Awards in a ceremony held at in the IOR. It will transform from "a platform- City Hall in Houston on August 13. Presented by centric" Navy to "a network-enabled" force. Shorn Houston Mayor Annise Parker, this award of military lingo, this means the ability to detect recognizes Sewa’s monthly community service and share emerging maritime threats "in real-time" activities known as Sewa Local Events. From July so that a counter to "neutralise" them can be 2012 Sewa International, Houston has been swiftly launched, said sources. offering its volunteers a chance to impact in their 5. NAPERVILLE-AURORA SHAKHA OF community and bring forth positive change. THE CHICAGO VIBHAG CELEBRATED Through Sewa Local Events, over 120 volunteers RAKSHABANDHAN UTSAV: A team of have committed their time serving various local volunteers from Naperville-Aurora shakha of the organizations including the Houston Food Bank, HSS Chicago vibhag celebrated Rakshabandhan Texas Children’s Hospital, Star of Hope Mission, utsav with Congressman Bill Foster who is a Habitat for Humanity, and the Huston Zoo. Sewa scientist and businessman representing the 11th also operates additional full-fledged programs Congressional District of Illinois. including Refugee Empowerment, Family The meeting lasted for close to 55 mins. This was Services, and their internship opportunities. the 3rd year of celebrating Rakshabandhan utsav 8. EMPOWERING MARGINALISED WITH with congressman/woman. QUALITY LEARNING: With the objective to Pragya Maheshwari and Shreeraj Garkhedkar provide quality education to meritorious students explained the Rakshabandhan utsav and tied Rakhi coming from over 15 lakh tribal families of the to Congressman and his staff. State, the Gujarat Government has established 80 6. BALINESE HINDUS CELEBRATE world-class educational institutions for PAGERWESI: Balinese Hindu devotees meritorious tribal students throughout the tribal celebrated Pagerwesi on August 14 by performing areas of the State. prayers in temples throughout the island. In some These special schools are residential in nature. parts of the island, Pagerwesi is a minor religious Considerable investment is made on educational holiday, not on par with Galungan and Kuningan, facilities, teachers, students’ nutritional needs, during which the Balinese Hindus celebrate the teaching aids, and co-curricular activities. The victory of virtues over vices. students are provided education in the English From early morning, people flocked to Kahyangan medium in many of these schools in order to Tiga temples — the three temples dedicated to enable them to compete with the non-tribal 2 population, a senior officer from Gujarat State Institutes from Bharat, Canada, Japan, China, and Government said. the universities in the USA signed the master Giving an example of Vejalpur village of partnership agreement on July 25 to build and Panchmahal district, a senior officer from Gujarat operate the world’s largest optical and infrared State Government apprised that an English telescope. medium school was established in the village in 11. 25 YEARS IN MAKING, 2007-2008, which now imparts high standard ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HINDUISM education. The school is from class six to 12. The UNVEILED IN US: "It is a deep honor to be school places a great deal of emphasis on participating in the American release of the pedagogy and the teachers meet fortnightly to Encyclopedia of Hinduism. This is a remarkable prepare their teaching plans. In addition to work of scholarship and research. I hope that classroom teaching, the teachers spend extra time many in academia and in everyday life will turn to on students to enhance the latter’s knowledge it as a resource to better understand the characters, repository. The teachers at Vejalpur continue to the tenets, and the impact that Hinduism has had, work out strategies so that children take off on a and is having in the world," said Dr Harris learning adventure every day. Pastides, President of University of South Carolina 9. CHANDRAYAAN HELPS NASA DETECT on launching the comprehensive 11 volume WATER ON MOON: Using data collected by encyclopedia of Hinduism. The encyclopedia Bharat’s Chandrayaan mission, NASA has covers Hindu spiritual beliefs, practices and detected magmatic water locked under the surface philosophy, and is the culmination of a 25-year of the Moon. NASA said scientists using data academic effort. from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) The work deals with Bharatiya history, languages, instrument aboard the Indian Space Research art, music, dance, architecture, medicine, and Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, women's issues. It contains more than 1,000 remotely detected magmatic water, or water that illustrations and photographs. originates from deep within the Moon’s interior, 12. ‘REFORMS IN EDUCATION SYSTEM on the lunar surface. M3 imaged the lunar impact IS NEED OF THE HOUR’: PARIKKAR: crater Bullialdus, which lies near the lunar “Schooling system makes kids literate but not equator. really educated. Today we get literate people but “Now that we have detected water that is likely not educated people. Unless we make people from the interior of the Moon, we can start to understand issues and go into depth of issues, compare this water with other characteristics of education is useless”, said Goa Chief Minister the lunar surface,” said Ms.Rachel Klima, a Manohar Parikkar addressing an Intellectual meet planetary geologist at the Johns Hopkins for vision and thought leaders at CMR Institute of University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Technology, Bangalore, organised by ‘Swami Laurel. The study was published in the journal Vivekananda 150 Birth Anniversary Celebration Nature Geoscience. Committee, Karnataka’ 10. BHARAT TO PLAY KEY ROLE IN Noted Writer Madhu Kishwar, Social Activist and BUILDING WORLD’S LARGEST founder of SVYM – Swami Vivekananda Youth TELESCOPE: Bharat will play a key role in Movement Dr Balasubramaniam also addressed building the world’s largest optical and infrared the meet. The talk was followed by a interactive Q telescope — the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), & A session. A total of 506 select intellectuals which is expected to be completed by 2022 at from various professions participated in the Mauna Kea in Hawai. This island in the US is seminar. An inspirational solo song was sung among the best astronomical sites in the world. before the speeches. 3

13: MRM ADDS NEW DIMENSION TO 15. FROM A HUT IN NASIK VILLAGE, 15- ‘RAKSHABANDHAN’: Addressing a massive YR-OLD GIRL RUNS TO GOLD IN CHINA: congregation of over 2500 Muslim and Hindu Anjana Dhavalu Thamake won gold for Bharat by women gathered on the occasion at a specially winning the girl's 800m race in the second Asian erected shamiyana in the premises of Khandelwal Youth Games held at Nanjing, China. Thamake College in Shastrinagar, Delhi, Indresh Kumar, a clocked a personal best of two minutes 11.47 senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seconds to bag the gold ahead of Savinder Kaur of Executive Committee member and Patron of Malaysia and Sri Lanka's K Dilhani Fernando. 15- MRM, said that this program was historical in the year old Anjana Thamake led the eight-athlete sense that never in the history of Bharat such a field all through and won the race comfortably. grand program was held. Anjana belongs to a small village, Ganeshgaon, in Senior BJP leader, former Union Minister Dr Nasik district of Maharashtra. Murli Manohar Joshi, Swami Yatindranath of 16. PARAMESWARANJI'S APPEAL: To Haridwar, Maulana Jafrul Hasan ‘Ayodhyavasi’, commemorate 150 th birth anniversary of Swami MRM National convener Mohd Afzal, Co- Vivekanandaand and his Chicago speech 120 Conveners Shahjad Ali, Abu Bakr Naqvi, Reshma years ago, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has Hussain, senior RSS activist Ramprasad and agreed to the appeal of Vivekananda Kendra, others were present. Kanyakumari and Sri Ramakrishna Mutt, Muslim women tied Rakhis to Hindu brothers Thiruvananthapuram to install a life-size bronze while their Hindu counterparts tied Rakhis to statue of Swamiji at Palace Park. Muslim brothers in the program presenting a novel The total outlay for the Statue and the over- concept of Hindu-Muslim unity and harmony. arching structure with proper landscaping is 14. PRESTIGIOUS JANMASHTAMI estimated to be about One Crore Rs. Honorable PURASKARAM CONFERRED ON GURU Vice-President of Bharat M. Hameed Ansari has CHEMANCHERI KUNJIRAMAN NAIR: The agreed to unveil the statue on 11th September prestigious Janmashtami Puraskaram instituted by 2013, day of Swamiji’s speech at Chickago. Balasamskarakendram has been bestowed upon Kindly contribute generously for the venture. renowned Kathakali maestro, the reverential Guru Your contributions can be sent in favour of Chemancheri Kunjiraman Nair. Chemancheri ‘Vivekananda Kendra’ or can be directly remitted Kunhiraman Nair began his Kathakali voyage at to the A/c No- 822201002059, IFSC – CNRB the age of 15, which still continues relentlessly. 0000822, Canara Bank, Puthenchantha Branch Age has never been a restraining barrier for this Thiruvananthapuram.Kerala. great maestro. The award was presented at a 17. MAHARASHTRA SIGNS ANTI function inaugurated by head seer of SUPERSTITION ORDINANCE: Maharashtra Advaithashramam Kolathur, Swami Chidananda Governor K. Sankaranarayanan signed an puri and presided over by Dr. KP Prabhakaran Ordinance on August 24 which will curb practices Nair. like black magic, witchcraft and award stringent The Balagokulam the most famous Children’s punishment, up to seven 7 years in jail, for the organisation of South Asia gave away the practioners of such superstitions. Maharashtra is Janmashtami Award to the veteran Guru of the first state in the country to enact such a law. Kathakali Art form of Kerala, for his lifelong The move comes five days after the killing of achievement and dedication on Art and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, the founder-head preservation of the culture.The key address was of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan delivered by KC Kannan, Sahasarkaryavah of Samiti (MANS) which fought against these Rashtreeya Swayamsevak Sangh. practices. 4

18. SEMINAR ON ‘DREAMS OF BHARAT- researchers here and professors and assistant ROLE OF MEDIA’: Samachar Bharati professors. You also have a lot of doctors because conducted a seminar on “Swamiji‘s Dreams of of the medical facilities, and a lot of people Bharat-Role of Media “on 24th Aug 2013 at working for technology companies.” Hyderabad on the eve of the 150th Birth 21. NATION-WIDE PROTEST BY VHP anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. AGAINST BANNING AYODHYA This seminar was inagurated by Justice PARIKRAMA YATRA: After a nation-wide L.Narsimha Reddy of the AP High court, called protest, which also reverberated in the Parliament, for a closer reading of Swami Vivekananda’s VHP Veteran Ashok Singhal, Dr Togadia were message and it’s appropriateness for our current released from Police arrest on August 26. times. However UP Govt did not lift the ban on Ayodhya Mr Chandan Mitra, Editor Daily Pioneer New Parikrama Yatra of VHP. Vishwa Hindu Parishad Delhi and Member of Parliament (Rajya & Bajrang Dal workers protested across the nation Sabha)who was guest speaker on this occasion at places like Deharadoon, Kasargod – Keral, stressed the continuing relevance of Swami Bangalore, Hyderabad and Jantar Mantar in New Vivekananda and said his ideas were far ahead of Delhi against the ban imposed by UP government their times. on 84 kosi parikrama which started on August 25 Mr MVR.Shastry Editor, Andhra Bhoomi , Smt and arrest of Hindu Saints & VHP activists in and Nivedita Bhide Vice-President of Vivekanada around Ayodhya. Rock Memorial Kanya Kumari and Justice Sri 22. HINDU'S OF SINDH, PAKISTAN Ramlu of the AP High Court (Retd) also spoke at CELEBRATE JANAMASHTMI : Despite the occasion. threats from Talibans, fundamentalists and 19. TRIBUTES TO DILIP SINGH JUDEO, persecution and migration to Bharat from THE PIONEER OF GHAR WAPASI Pakistan, the Hindu's of Sindh celebrated MOVEMENT: Dilip Singh Judeo, BJP leader and Janamashtmi festival with religious fervor. MP from Bilaspur parliamentary constituency in President of Pakistan Hinduh Seva Welfare Trust, died on August 14at Medanta Sanjesh Dhanja informed that trust in Hospital Gurgaon. He was known for his daring collaboration with Shri Naval Ekta Committee personality in Chhattisgarh politics and ‘the Ghar celebrated the event of Sri Krishna Janamashtmi at Vapsi Abhiyan’ (reconversion of tribals) on the Hyderabad, Pakistan. "It is amazing and indicates front of social work. He was 64 and is survived by that how much Hindu's are aware of their religious his wife and two sons. rights" he said. Stating that it was the unity among 20. MADISON HINDU COMMUNITY the community that they were able to celebrate the BEGINS BIG EXPANSION: Ground breaking event in such a big way, advocate Ramesh Kumar ceremony of a “Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of the trust said," Hindu's realize their strength and of Wisconsin” was permormed on a seven acre site despite all odds they are united to celebrate their 2138 S Fish Hatchery Road in Madison religious festivals" Wisconsin. A cultural center and temple building In a similar incident, Hindus and Sikhs from the to cost between $350,000 and $400,000 will be restive northwest gathered at three temples in built at the site. Peshawar to celebrate Raksha Bandhan. For a Midwestern city, Madison has a relatively Arrangements were made at the historic Kali Bari high concentration of Hindus, with most of them and two other temples in Lower Courts and Gor natives of Bharat, “UW-Madison is a big factor,” Ghatri for the celebration where Hindus and Sikhs said Sharma, 57, a native of New Delhi, Bharat, from cities like Kohat, Bannu and Dera Ismail moved to Madison in 1992. “There are a lot of Khan travelled to Peshawar. 5

23. HINDUS LAUD OREGON PUBLIC 2006 and 2007 respectively — are granted for five HIGH SCHOOL FOR OFFERING YOGA: years and come with a monthly salary of Rs. Hindus have applauded Crescent Valley High 75,000 in addition to handsome research grants. A School (CVHS) in Corvallis (Oregon, USA) for large number of their fellows are absorbed in the offering yoga, and have urged all schools in institutes where they do their research. The Oregon to do the same for their pupils.According government is now trying to increase both the to reports, a week-long yoga summer camp is emoluments and research grants under the currently being held in the school and a yoga class fellowship so it becomes more attractive, says will be offered after the school opens on department of science and technology secretary Dr September 4. T Ramasami. 24. BHARATIYA PROFESSOR REPORTS 26. SHRI VISHWA NIKETAN: Pravas: FIRST HUMAN-TO-HUMAN BRAIN Dr.Ram Vaidya, sahsamyojak Vishwa Vibhag is INTERFACE: A Bharatiya Rajesh PN Rao, touring Guyana and Suriname. Visitors: Ujjwal Associate Professor of Computer and Science Bharadwaj – UK, Rajesh - Singapore Engineering, at University of Washington in FOOD FOR THOUGHT: I am sure, if our Seattle and his American research colleague have mothers make a resolve to uplift the society, then successfully performed the first non-invasive there is no power, either in this world or the other, human-to-human brain interface over the Internet. which can defeat them. The ideal of Savitri, before Using electrical brain recordings and a form of whom even the Lord of Death accepted defeat, is magnetic stimulation, sent a brain signal to before them. May they all invoke within researcher Andrea Stocco on the other side of the themselves such single-minded devotion to the UW campus, causing Stocco’s finger to move on a ideal, such purity of character and such peerless keyboard. heroism! Once we do this, I am sure, the long Rao has been working on brain-computer night will pass and a new dawn will spread its interfacing for more than 10 years. He has just golden hue over the horizon of not only Bharat but published a textbook on the subject. For the over the entire world with the renewed effulgence demonstration, the team had a Skype connection of our Dharma. – Sri Guruji M S Golwalkar. set up so the two labs could coordinate, though JAI SHREE RAM neither Rao nor Stocco could see the screens. On his home page on the university website, Rao 50 YEARS OF HINDU EMPOWERMENT says the primary goal of his research is “to discover the computational principles underlying Dr Pravin Togadia the brain’s remarkable ability to learn, process and Recently while traveling a young suited booted store information, and to apply this knowledge to professional approached me and said, ‘Jai the task of building adaptive robotic systems and Shreeram’. I pleasantly looked up and he brain-human interfaces”. continued, “I studied in VHP run High School, did 25. BHARAT LURES BACK 500 NRI well in the board exam and with VHP support I SCIENTISTS: Over the last seven years, went on to be an MBA and now I am holding a initiatives such as the Ramanujan and good post in an FMCG.” The passenger sitting Ramalingaswamy fellowships and the £160- next to us exclaimed, “Oh! VHP is in education million India Alliance between the UK’s too? I thought that you guys did only agitations.” Wellcome Trust and Bharat’s department of Before I give him the details of our service work biotechnology have prompted over 500 scientists in education, health, vocational training, the same doing research overseas to shift to their homeland. smart youth rattled the details of VHP’s total The first two‘re-entry’ fellowships — started in educational projects 50628, 1257 schools, 608 6 health projects including hospitals, mobile social evil. Through the consistent efforts at dispensaries and health care centres; girls hostels eradication of social evils like untouchability, 32, boys hostels 108, orphanages 45, Self-Help VHP is absolving the Hindu society and Groups for women 633, vocational skills for youth rejuvenating it to express its inherent Hindu Unity centres 257 and other social help projects such as and Dignity. Respected Shankaracharyas and legal aid, old age homes, etc are 1205.” And then Sadhu-Saints in VHP conclave have passed a he added, “This large-scale social service by VHP resolution to eradicate untouchability. As a part of is important and equally important are the it Pujya Shankara-charyaji went to Kashi’s Domb agitations that are done to defend Hindus and King’s home and ate with him. Today, VHP has a Hindu Dharma. I am proud to be associated with special social equality project named ‘Samarasta’ VHP.” in which VHP workers make people from other This is not the one off incident. Over 50,000 castes ‘Hindu Mitra (Friends)’ who are invited for students who have studied in VHP High Schools, all religious functions and treated like close family are now placed at various respectful places in members. Globally, with VHP’s efforts, Hindu various fields like science, technology, corporates, Dharma is taught as a part of school syllabus in health etc. When they came to our schools, they Australia and UK with Government sanction there. were either from very poor families or from This helps others to know facts about Hindu Vanvasi areas. Now various high schools have Dharma and also helps Hindus settled there for over 6000 students. When nobody dared to enter generations to get their children know of their Nagaland, VHP opened hostel in Halflong area of glorious Hindu traditions. VHP runs interactive Nagaland 40 years back and now 10,000 Nagas summer camps in many countries including the proudly call themselves Naga Hindus. This has USA for the children and youth to tell them about prevented massive conversion in the area. The Bharat’s glorious culture and Hindu Dharma. same is for Odisha to Chhattisgarh and Tripura to Cow protection is an important part of VHP Maharashtra. activity. Bajrang Dal workers are always ahead in When Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) begun on Gou Raksha. Many states now have law Janmashtami on August 29, 1964 in Mumbai in a prohibiting cow butchering. VHP has worked simple Sandipani Ashram, Hindu well-being, tirelessly to get them pass this law. A lot needs to restoring dignity for Hindu Dharma, protection of be done to get other states and Centre even pass Hindus, spreading Hindu Dharma glory nationally the law now. To save non-milking cows which are and internationally etc were part of the goals. The unaffordable for poor farmers, VHP runs over 515 objective of the VHP was to organise – Goshalas all over Bharat. The late Moropant consolidate the Hindu society and to serve – Pingleji had a great vision of making consumer protect the Hindu Dharma. A strong, effective, products made from gomutra (cow yrine), gomay enduring and an ever increasing presence of VHP (cow dung) and also from cow ghee, curd and is now seen in lakhs of villages and towns in milk. These panchgavya products are now made Bharat as well as globally. by many Goshalas. Products like soaps, shampoos, Today when VHP will be completing 50 years medicines etc at par with any MNC are now being coming year, VHP is present in all 450 used by millions of Hindus. Moropantji always (Government) districts in Bharat and also in 5868 felt that as many consumer products from Prakhands (Taluk, etc) working through its 51,374 panchgavya are used as many liters of gomutra committees. VHP has activities of similar types in and as many kilos of gomay would be used, over 100 countries. This is not mere data; people farmers can earn from them and cows would be work here day and night for Hindu well-being. saved. VHP Gouseva Gou Raksha also holds VHP has always treated untouchability as a big interesting exams for school kids on Gou Mata! 7

Defending Hindus and Hindu rights have been helped them settle and now taking up the issue of VHP’s one of the objectives. Ayodhya’s Ram their safety and status. ‘Hindu Ahead’ project has Temple, Kashmir’s Amarnath, South Bharat’s excellent youth participation with the appeal of Rameshwaram Ram Sethu and stopping ‘Aware Hindu and Active Hindu’. reservations to Muslims in jobs / education, / loans Before VHP was established in 1964, Hindus did are the larger agitations VHP did and have been give fight on their own globally and in Bharat. following up. Amarnath pilgrimage now gets over Now nationally and globally VHP has become a 10 lakh people annually where no Hindu was safe rallying point for Hindus for protection, prosperity earlier. Rameshwaram Ram Sethu has been and dignity as a Hindu. Many other Hindu protected with VHP’s continued legal and social organisations followed VHP footsteps and are now fight. Hon. has discarded active to help Hindus. VHP works with many of all proposals and committee reports on Muslim them when it comes to Hindu issues. Reservations terming them ‘unconstitutional’ due With 43000 primary schools in Vanvasi areas, to VHP’s constant socio-legal fight. VHP has achieved what many governments could Apart from these national agitations, VHP also not. Preventing mass conversions and not letting takes up local issues of Hindus from all states. separatist movements in are the big successes of Recently when a Scheduled Caste minor girl was this. Over 5 lakh Hindus did voluntary Home gang raped and killed by Muslims in Pratapgarh Coming (paravartan) from forced Muslim and district of UP, VHP dared the Uttar Pradesh Christian practice. government and got the police file an FIR and It is said that life begins at 50. VHP has come arrest the culprits. They did it after 15,000 Hindus leaps and bounds ahead to spread and protect of all castes from surrounding villages did Hindu Dharma. An apolitical socio-religious democratic peaceful march to the police station. movement has become a support hand for Hindus, There are umpteen such examples like Kokrajhar which now has strength to express in one voice the Assam where Bangladeshi infiltrators attacked issues of Hindus and influence the polity so that local original Vanvasis and burnt their houses. Hindu rights are protected. We all have many VHP not only opened the relief camps but also many miles to go. Vicious efforts to malign the pushed the polity to agree that 1951 would be image and work of VHP will continue by the so- Citizen Registry cut off and not 1971 as the called anti-Hindu and pseudo secular forces. infiltrators came in then. When North East Indians VHP will move ahead for Hindus all the tie were being chased away from all parts of Bharat irrespective of individuals as we believe that after Kokrajhar incidents, VHP, RSS together ideology is prime. To multiply VHP’s efforts in all stood with them, protected them and those who the fields of socio-legal, socio-religious and socio- still wished to be at their homes in NE, helped economic aspects for Hindus, VHP is gearing up them with special trains, protection and food with the ‘VHP Vision’ which was announced in supplies on way. From Marad, Kasargoud at Kerala meeting in 2011 when a young team had Kerala to recent Kishtwar incident in Jammu & been announced (The detailed VHP Vision Kashmir all states, VHP has been holding Hindu document is available on www.vhp.org Or one hands many ways. can simply give search on Google: VHP Vision – To help Hindus in routine emergencies like Kerala). Past 2 years much has been charted out medical, travel, legal etc Hindu Help Line runs a and achieved. Much more is to be done. Let us 24X7 call cantre through which Hindus get together make a difference! (Contact: emergency help all over Bharat. We wish to [email protected], extend it to globally now. Recently when Hindus www.facebook.com/HinduNewsNetwork ) from Pakistan fled and came in Bharat, VHP (Published in Organiser 1 September 2013 ) 8