What is media and who owns media in Bhaarat - By Niranjan Shah

I have come across some interesting information about the ownership of media in Bhaarat. What is media? Media is plural of medium. Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). The word media was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks and of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. This includes messages that are distributed through the technologies, principally text in books, study guides and computer networks; sound in audio-tapes and broadcast: pictures in video-tapes and broadcast; text, sound and/or pictures in a teleconference. The means by which information is distributed such as print, broadcast, CD-ROM, World Wide Web, and so forth is also Media.

Mass media in Bhaarat is that part of the Indian media which aims to reach a wide audience. Besides the news media, which includes print, radio and television, the Internet is playing an

increasing role, along with the growth of the Indian blogging community. Compared with many other developing countries, the Indian press is relatively unfettered, except for obstacles in the way of setting up media companies which were part of the pre-1990 license Raj.

In 2001, India had 45,974 newspapers, including 5,364 daily newspapers published in over 100 languages. The largest number of newspapers were published in Hindi (20,589), followed by English (7,596), Marathi (2,943), Urdu (2,906), Bengali (2,741), Gujarati (2,215), Tamil (2,119), Kannada (1,816), Malayalam (1,505) and Telugu (1,289). The Hindi daily press has a circulation of over 23 million copies, followed by English with over 8 million copies.

There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.

India has more than 40 domestic news agencies. The Express News Service, the Press Trust of India , and the United News of India are among the major news agencies. Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.

NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan . Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of Communist party of India .

India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

Times group list:

Times Of India , Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijaya Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more. Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. “World Christian Council” does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.

Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne .

Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collobration with Times Group.

The Hindu:

English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland . Indian Express: Divided into two groups.

The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition). Acts Ministries has major stake in the Indian Express and later is still with the Indian counterpart.

Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telgu daily very recently.

The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India . Kairal TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)

Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.

The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners. The result is obvious. — Grandpa’s blessings

http://www.indiatribune.com/popuparticle.aspx?Article_ID=68268/23/2007 11:53:59 AM

Poor Hindus

Devendra Singh <devendra60@hotmail.com>

Once Robert Clive was asked as to how he conquered India with the help of some dozen Britishers. He said

Hindus could be bought with money and Muslims with women. He said "I did both". And British ruled India

for 300 years. When West Bengal was reeling under famine and 3 million people lost their lives, the

British exported rice from India . Anything more is required to show the cowardice of Hindus?"

Hindus continue to be slave of multi-national companies that bait them with seemingly good money and 'loyal' Hindus continue to lick their boots with passion. They have no time for their family and none for contributing something positive to their culture. They are making their careers but unmaking their children. Why we always want to be led by foreigners is a question every Hindu should ponder.

Devendra

Pro-Hindu Journalists

Pro – Hindu people talk about learning media skills or least sending their own children to learn journalistic skills Before having Hindu media, Hindus people must first need to learn to acquire the skills by doing courses and other ways of learning media and presentation techniques.

Getting the skills is the least of the problems. There are many Hindu journalists in India . And even if you have to train them, that too is pretty easy to do. Journalists can be trained on-the-job.

To get skilled personnel is the least of the problems. The biggest problem is getting the right media house.

Hindus have plenty of money and if they want they can buy a media house but even then they need creative skills to sell pro - Hindu news because you can't or shouldn't expect loyalty out of Hindus just to sustain a Hindu media house juts for the sake of it being Hindu. Quality and creativity sells which should be the weapon to the beat all other media houses.

Francois Gautier has started a Journalism School in India with the help of??? to train pro-Hindu Journalists… at Bangalore .

We all know this. Question is, why can't there be a media at par with IBN/NDTV / STAR / Indian express etc, which is controlled by Hindus? Why can't Pioneer, Organiser, Panchajanya become worldwide? There is anti Hindu media in Bhaarat, that does not mean that they cannot give the news about military along with Bollywood news.

In one of his interview Kalam has said that in our desi journals and media people still not represent a country of a billion people.

The Indian media has no ethics & has been anti Hindu for a long time especially NDTV. It is sad that we as Hindus cannot/ do not have our own TV Channel to correct the aberrations & project patriotism / Nationalism along with our ancient culture.

Journalism course can be same as it is in US or other Israel , etc.

When a person is pro-Vedic by nature and outlook, then he/she will look at the events in the Vedic light, and provide news and commentary to serve Vedic dharma and Rashtra interests.

Money generated from donations could be used for scholarship for journalism degrees.

Are some people saying that no university in Bharat offers a course in journalism?

If so, then we have to begin it somewhere.

We also need Vedic media of all kinds.

Many Vedic leaders with different abilities need to unite to make things happen.

Therefore, like minded people need to meet, discuss, figure solutions, decide actions, and do what they can. This is all with the attitude of - karma Nye vaa dhikaaraste, maa phaleshhu kadaachana.

For Stopping Conversion

The only solution, and probably the cheapest and fastest is to create our own Hindu media which will take the so called secular media head on. All these issues of forced conversions, Setu Samudram are NOT highlighted by the existing media. The anti Hindu media led by Christian fanatics are having a free run.
It is absolutely amazing that a giant organisation like RSS has got only two weekly news papers, ORGANISER & PANCHAJANYA which has got a circulation of few thousands.
Why can't we have media of the size and power of IBN, STAR, Indian Express etc? We are all intelligent people. If VHP can collect 2000 crores to build the ram temple, why can't they collect money to start some daily papers from the major cities of Bhaarat and a 24 hour news channel in Bhaarat? Every single news channel is busy spreading lies about Hindus. CNN/IBN & STAR, NDTV are the worst.
The frustration which we are venting out in this forum is fine but we need a BIG voice. Time is fast running out for Hindus.
There are news papers like PIONEER which are on our side. If they are funded properly they can take on the anti Hindu media.
John Kenneth Galbraith had called India a functioning anarchy.

During his term as the USA ambassador to India , or just after it, the late John Kenneth Galbraith had called India a functioning anarchy. Here is what exactly he meant by this term.

There are some things you say to attract attention. I wanted to emphasise the point, which would be widely accepted, that the success of India did not depend on the government. It depended on the energy, ingenuity and other qualifications of the Indian people. And the Indian quality to put ideas into practice. I was urging an obvious point that the progress of India did not depend on the government, as important as that might be, but was enormously dependent on the initiative, individual and group - of the Indian people. I feel the same way now (as I did some forty years ago) but I would even emphasise it more. We've seen many years of Indian progress, and that is attributable to the energy and genius of the Indian people and the Indian culture.
Galbraith, John Kenneth, in an interview in Outlook, August 20, 2001, on his comment that India is a functioning anarchy.

Pro- Hindu – minded people should put their ingenuity for promoting Hindu causes by starting pro-Hindu media and educational institutions along with earning money

Why the Ram Setu must not be destroyed? - Tarun Vijay

Sethusamudram, a project to create alternative shorter route for ships to cross the Gulf of Mannar, is a wonderful idea -- one which is more than 150 years old. The channel, originally an idea of a British commander named A D Taylor was put forth in 1860. In 1955, the Government of India set up the Sethusamudram project committee to look into the feasibility of the project and five routes were discussed till 2001 but nothing happened. The National Democratic Alliance government sanctioned a few crore rupees to study the project but before a final decision on the route could be taken, the government lost power.

The official web site of the project says, 'Ships originating from the west of India and destined for Chennai, Ennore, Vishakapatnam, Paradeep, Haldia and Kolkata have to travel around the Sri Lankan coast resulting in increase of travel distance and time. Apart from this ships belonging to Indian Navy and Coast Guard need also to traverse around Sri Lanka. In order to reduce the steaming distances between the east and west coast of India and to improve the navigation within territorial waters of India, a navigation channel connecting the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay through Adam's Bridge has been envisaged so that the ships moving between the east and west coasts of India need not go around Sri Lanka.' The total cost of the project is Rs 2,427 crores (Rs 24.27 billion).

But due to political expediency and a pathetic problem of a 'secular amnesia' about heritage matters, it has got a controversial hue, which could have been avoided if some transparency was maintained and points of collective sensitivities and faith were not ignored. The project is fine, but the present route is not, as it involves destruction of a bridge believed to have been built by Lord Rama and Muslims and Christians believe it to be Adam's creation.

Foreigners and Indians alike have described it as Rama's bridge since ancient times in their maps and travelogues. The first time someone called it Adam's Bridge was in 1804 by James Rennell, the first surveyor general of the East India Company. Even if the Government of India prefers to use the name Adam's Bridge, it simply proves that not only Hindus but Muslims and Christians too have a reverence for the bridge it is going to destroy.

Now when the media and political leaders are busy with the Uttar Pradesh election and exit polls, the Sethusamudram dredgers are busy destroying a great world heritage site India has.

The Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge connects India's Rameshwaram to Sri Lanka's Talaimannar. A movement has begun to safeguard it at the shores of Rameshwaram on April 18. Two former judges of the Supreme Court, Justice K T Thomas and Justice V R Krishna Iyer, none of them close to the saffron side, have warned the government against destroying the Ram Setu.

It is ironical that a government which changes the metro rail route to protect the Qutub Minar, built with the material of destroyed temples, stops a corridor to protect the Taj Mahal's surroundings and spends crores of rupees to showcase ancient potteries and jewellery in heavily guarded museums, is destroying a unique symbol of national identity and an icon well preserved in our minds since ages. Even a child knows that a bridge was built by the friends of Lord Rama using floating stones and Rama's army marched over it to Lanka to rescue Sita and destroy the evil regime of Ravana.

Hence during Dussehra every year and in dance dramas depicting Rama's life enacted across the globe, specially in East Asia, they never ever fail to mention the Setu Bandhan or the construction of Rama's bridge. Apart from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata also refers to the continued protection of Nala Setu following Sri Rama's command. Kalidasa's Raghuvamsham also refers to the Setu. So does the Skanda Purana (III 1.2.1-114), the Vishnu Purana (IV 4.40-49), the Agni Purana (V-XI), the Brahma Purana (138.1-40).

That is the memory so beautifully adopted by the Geological Survey of India in its logo, which describes India in this line etched at the bottom of its insignia -- Aasetu Himachal, meaning India is spread between the Bridge and the Himalayas. That is the Ram Setu Bridge on the southern tip of our motherland, an identity of the nation, under destruction now.

The credit of digging up material regarding the Ram Setu and providing impeccable factual content goes to Kalyan Raman, a former senior executive of the Asian Development Bank. He astounded even the government with his material on the entire project. His findings have stirred up protests from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. Ashok Singhal of the VHP is spearheading a movement to protect the Ram Setu. He addressed a big public meeting in Rameshwaram with religious heads and Dr Subramanian Swamy. BJP leader and former Union human resources development minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has written to the prime minister, urging him to stop the destruction of the great heritage site.

The government, very 'secular and fair' indeed, tries not to remember or give any credence to what Hindus, Muslims and Christians believe, But this is what NASA says about the bridge, 'Exploring space with a camera by NASA's [193] Gemini XI, this photograph from an altitude of 410 miles encompasses all of India, an area of 1,250 000 square miles,' George M Low, then the deputy director, Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA, notes. 'Bombay is on the west coast, directly left of the spacecraft's can-shaped antenna, New Delhi is just below the horizon near the upper left. Adam's Bridge between India and Ceylon, at the right, is clearly visible...' We can see the picture dramatically resembles the description given in Kalidasa's Raghuvamsham. Kalidasa wrote, (sarga 13): 'Rama, while returning from Sri Lanka in Pushpaka Vimaana told Sita: "Behold, Sita, My Setu of mountains dividing this frothy ocean is like the milky way dividing the sky into two parts".'

The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the bridge thus, 'Adam's Bridge also called Rama's Bridge, chain of shoals, between the islands of Mannar, near northwestern Sri Lanka, and Rameswaram, off the southeastern coast of India.'

Apart from such issues of heritage and belief, there are genuine concerns regarding security and the tsunamis' impact increasing in case the Ram Setu is destroyed. If the new channel is created through the present Rama's bridge, international ships would pass through it making a de facto international boundary between India and Sri Lanka, facilitating an increased alien presence, burdening our navy to a great extent.

So far the sea between India and Sri Lanka has been recognised as historic waters, though the United States has been pressurising to have it declared as international waters and said in a naval notification in 2005 that it does not accept the sea between India and Sri Lanka as 'historic'. The US declaration and the role of the Tuticorin Port Trust, the nodal agency to implement the Sethu Samudram Canal Project coupled with the haste with which the project was inaugurated, has given rise to many unanswered questions.

The US Navy operational directive refusing to accept the sea between India and Sri Lanka as 'historic' was made on June 23, 2005. The Prime Minister's Office sent some queries in March 2005 to N K Raghupathy, chief of the Tuticorin Port Trust. He sent answers to the PMO's queries on June 30, 2005 and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the project on July 2, 2005. Why were the queries sent to the TPT and not to an agency which had scientific authority to look into the geological and maritime aspects of the project? Why did the prime minister and the UPA chairperson rush to inaugurate the project without, prima facie, having the time to look into the answers given by the TPT chief? Why was the present route okayed which essentially requires the destruction of the Ram Setu, while other options, closer to Dhanushkodi, which did not touch the Ram Setu were ignored?

Local fishermen, Hindus, Muslims and Christians alike oppose the present route and are demanding alternative channels, which are available. They say the present channel would destroy marine life and corals. This will kill the trade in shankas (shells) that has a turnover in excess of Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) per annum. Invaluable thorium deposits would be affected, which are too important for our nuclear fuel requirements.

Professor Tad Murthy, the world renowned tsunami expert, who advised the Government of India on the tsunami warning system and edited the Tsunami Journal for over 20 years, has also warned that the present Setu Samudram route may result in tsunami waves hitting Kerala more fiercely. In a reply to a query regarding the Sethusanmudram's impact, he wrote, 'During the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, the southern part of Kerala was generally spared from a major tsunami, mainly because the tsunami waves from Sumatra region travelling south of the Sri Lankan island, partially diffracted northward and affected the central part of the Kerala coast. Since the tsunami is a long gravity wave (similar to tides and storm surges) during the diffraction process, the rather wide turn it has to take spared the south Kerala coast. On the other hand, deepening the Sethu Canal might provide a more direct route for the tsunami and this could impact south Kerala.'

The issue concerns us all, and should be taken up as Indians, without getting entangled in party lines and political games. The Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge belongs to all humanity, being an important heritage site; hence the government should not allow it to become another issue affecting Hindu sensitivities. Nobody is opposing the Sethu Samudram Project, only a realignment of the route is being asked, as the present one destroys the Ram Setu.

For mentally slave people there is debate about putting English and Urdu words in Hindi

All the Hindi media people use lots of English and Urdu words in Hindi. No body is certain how it started. In 1946 it was Times of India , when it brought out its Hindi edition of its paper it was named as Nav Bharat Times. When English word Times was used in Hindi for the first time, then people did not protest against the use of word Times in Hindi. There has never been any debate about the use of English and Urdu words in Hindi. It was just the writers, correspondents, journalists; editors who did not have good knowledge of Hindi started using English and Urdu words in Hindi. Many different kinds of Hindi media intentionally started using Urdu and English words in Hindi so that muslims who have got elementary knowledge of Hindi language would also understand printed and spoken Hindi. Many media people thought if lots of Urdu and English words are used in Hindi then the sale of their publications would increase.

There was never any debate about using of Urdu and Hindi words. Hindi has so many words that if you combine English and Urdu dictionaries, even then Hindi has got more Hindi words than the combined dictionaries of English and Urdu words. Then what is the necessity or sense in using Urdu and English words in Hindi?

People who use English and Urdu words in Hindi are either ignorant about the vastness of Hindi words or they have slave mentality. Such people come with one or the other reason for the use of English and Urdu words in Hindi. For them it has become fashion to use English and Urdu words in Hindi. One editor of a famous Hindi magazines said that while ladies talk amongst themselves use English words in conversation. To maintain the same pattern we use English words in Hindi so that they would feel comfortable. Such editors do not realize that with their Hindi media it is their duty to spread pure Hindi. If media would keep using Urdu and English words all the time in Hindi then the public would learn English and Urdu words rather than Hindi.

How the complaint is handled by about use of English and Urdu words in Hindi by the Hindi media people.

From: Nirendra Nagar
To: madhusudan.anand@timesgroup.com
Cc: hemant.agrawal@timesgroup.com ; Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: Mail from a reader
Anandji,
This is a mail we received from one of our readers.
Nirendra Nagar, Sr Editor, NBT online, 9811706360, Extn 2261
Why you call your paper Hindi paper as there more non-Hindi words in it always. On the name of Hindi you are spreading more Urdu and English words. There are so many Urdu and English words that it seems there is more danger to Hindi from your so called Hindi paper. You and your so called Hindi paper is destroying Hindi. Papers like yours and you people will definitely destroy Hindi one day. There is not enough space otherwise i would have shown your face for destroying Hindi by quoting all the non-Hindi words in your this article.
Mohan Lal Gupta
See the reason forwarded for use of Urdu and English words in Hindi from the Times group:

Madhusudan Anand Resident Editor, Navbharat Times, India writes

madhusudan anand <madhusudan.anand@timesgroup.com>

Dear Mr. Gupta,
There has been a great debate since independence about the rationale of using the English and Urdu words. However we believe there is nothing wrong in using English or Urdu words.
(Such people have no sense of purity in food or thought, or Vatavaran (atmosphere). If such people do not mind impurity in language, then if impure food is served to such people, definitely they would not mind it as there is noting wrong with impurity. If such people see noting wrong about impurity of language then how they can see impurity of food)

From: Brahma Sharma <brahma141@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2007 1:51 PM
Subject: Debate since independence about the rational of using the English and Urdu words in your Hindi paper "Nav Bharat Times"
To: madhusudan anand <madhusudan.anand@timesgroup.com>

Dear Madhusudan ji,
Jai Sri Krishan.
I would like to know, "When you joined this times group?"
I came in contact with Late Bhai Akshay Kumar Jain (Chief Editor of "Navbharat Times) in 1956 till 1965 when I went Kabul . At that time he used to encourage the students of schools of Darya Ganj to use pure Hindi words in their daily life, as he was living in Darya Ganj at that time.
Bhai Akshay ji never told me about the great debate since independence about using English and Urdu words in his Newspaper "Navbharat Times."
According to my knowledge he never used English or Urdu words in his editorial of his paper i.e. 'Navbharat Times.'
Brahma Sharma

See the kind of Hindi language used in Hindi articles in navBharat Times

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1. There is no danger to Hindi language

2. ArticleID : http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2144376.cms

"Why you call your paper Hindi paper as there more non-Hindi words in it always. On the name of Hindi you are spreading more Urdu and English words by your various Hindi publications. In the article हिंदी को किसी से कोई खतरा नहीं, there are so many Urdu and English words that it seems there is more danger to Hindi from your so called Hindi papers and magazines. You and your so called Hindi papers and magazines are destroying Hindi. Papers like yours and you people will definitely destroy Hindi one day.
There is not enough space otherwise I would have shown your face for destroying Hindi by quoting all the non-Hindi words in your this article. "

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From: Mohan Gupta
To: Kate Riley, kate.riley@bbc.co.uk,
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:07 PM
Subject: Thanks for forwarding mail
Mr. kate Riley,
Thanks very much for forwarding the mail to right department.
BBC Hindi service is one of the worst services for using Urdu and English words in Hindi while proper Hindi words are available.
Its head is Ms. Achla Sharma. She is Hindu but she is married to a Muslim and still maintaining her Hindu name after marrying to a Muslim.
Urdu is a language of Muslims. I do not know if Achla Sharma plays some part for the use of so many Urdu words in Hindi. On Hindi service many Times Muslims and Pakistani Journalists come on the air who cannot speak even single sentence in Hindi.
I think the present staff of Hindi service is most unworthy people. Either these do not know Hindi or for some unknown reasons do not want to use Hindi. Even the journalists and correspondents who provide news are also worst people for speaking impure Hindi.

I want that most of the present Hindi staff of BBC Hindi service be fired or at least all the Hindi staff members be given warning for using pure Hindi.
If BBC Hindi management cannot find persons who cannot speak pure Hindi then Hindi service must be closed down.
Hindi service is listened by many million people.
On the name of Hindi, BBC Hindi service is spreading Urdu in the world.
I do not know the right person to whom I can take my concerns about the quality of Hindi.
Would you please give me address and Telephone number of the department and person to whose notice I may bring what is served in BBC Hindi service and what is the quality of Hindi in BBC Hindi programs.

Thanks very much for giving me an opportunity for expressing my views about BBC Hindi service.
Yours sincerely,
Mohan Gupta
Kate Riley
Assistant Editor, Radio News Management
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On 7/21/07, Mohan Gupta <mgupta@rogers.com> wrote:

Today disposed Iftikhar Chowdry judge was reinstated in Pakistan . All the media were broadcasting the news and comments from Pakistani journalists. No Pakistani journalist can speak Hindi. All Pakistani Journalists were speaking pure Urdu.

That pure Urdu was broadcast in the so called Hindi services as Pakistani journalists were on the air of Hindi services.

How many Hindi speaking people understood what was said in Hindi services by Pakistani journalists.

By shouting Hindi, Hindi all the time you people earn money, but do not provide Hindi in your so called Hindi services.

On the name of Hindi most of the time Urdu and English is served.

If Hindi, Hindi is shouted all the time , then why non-Hindi words are not converted into pure Hindi in the Hindi services?

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Sh. Ram yadavji,

Head of Hindi of Radio German) Ram.yadav@dw-world.de;

I wonder why you people call your service Hindi service. Lately it has become purely Urdu service, with hardly any Hindi word in your so called Hindi service.

What is the point in Hindi service if you all people are to speak Urdu words all the time.

Looking at the quality of Hindi and the quality of service the time of Urdu service be doubled and Hindi service be abolished from Germany . First Sanskrit service was abolished, now it is the time for abolishing Hindi service from Radio Germany .

None of you speak Hindi at all.

Lately some such persons have come in Hindi service who speak almost 100 % Urdu. if some other person spoke a few Hindi words before, now they have also started to speak pure Urdu on the name of Hindi.

Please do consider if any one of you is worthy of the job in Hindi department.

You people should start calling your service as Urdu service.

I am not very expert in computer, otherwise your so called Hindi service would have been closed by now.

Please do justification to job and Hindi. At present the only hindi in your so called in your service is the words Yeh Radio Deutsche Welle ki hindi service Hain. In rest of the program there is no Hindi words.

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Jayesh Patel <dumlers@yahoo.co.uk>

To: Mohan Gupta

Jayesh Patel

We can't help the ignorance of the editor, they do not know in the West unless English is used or French then you are denied all sorts of access to jobs etc, France is a good example of how to overcome the tide of English, these people don't know nobody speaks English in Japan, Russia, or France yet these countries are world leaders in many fields. Airbus the plane maker uses French in all its production lines. The editor is the result of 150years of British destruction of Indian languages plus the slave mentality showing through. They may not realize that English is such a weak language and is only propped up by the wall of money these countries have stolen over the centuries from India and other places.
Jayesh A patel

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But, the real issue is that Urdu is tried to be tied up with Muslim politics and that's where Gandhi Ji was wrong.
Devendra

http://www.samachar.com/showurl.php?rurl=http://www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID=5d092d18-1075-48fc-9aad-19bb724eb9e2&news=Gandhi%20praised%20Urdu%20in%20his%20last%20letter&pubDate=Fri+Jun+29+20%3A11%3A01+IST+2007&keyword=ht_home

In a letter written 19 days before his death, Mahatma Gandhi had admonished those who were opposing Urdu, asking them not to copy "the bad manners of Pakistan with a vengeance" while advocating that it should be jointly recognised with Devanagari as national scripts.
In the letter, a rare manuscript that will go under hammer at Christie's in London on July 3, Gandhi said opposing Urdu will "put a wanton affront" on the Muslims, who "in the eyes of Hindus have become aliens in their own land".
Writing in his journal 'Harijan' on January 11, 1948, Gandhi, who appeared disturbed with the dwindling circulation of its Urdu edition, said in the letter that it is likely to be stopped.
Praising Urdu, which he said "is set free from bondage of orthodoxy", he asserted that those who learn it will "lose nothing but gain". At the same time he urged Muslims to learn Devanagari to "enrich their intellectual" capital and subscribe to his journal.
Indian government has stepped up efforts to acquire the letter which is likely to be sold for 9,000 to 12,000 pounds.
Following is the transcript of the Gandhi manuscript, including the majority of the cancelled passages. Text between brackets has been crossed out in the original:
"(I have at) Two weeks ago I (referred to this) hinted in the Gujarati columns that Harijan printed in the Urdu script was likely to be stopped as its sale was steadily dwindling. Apart even from financial considerations, I saw no meaning in publishing it, if there was no demand for it."

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1. FESTIVALS: The message of Raksha Bandhan is a unique one and can reach out to the people across the globe being a cultural one. Some of the HSS shakhas are reaching out to people from different faiths and traditions for tying the 'thread of brotherhood' � the Raksha. There are some experiments all over that need our attention. In Mumbai, a special program called "Universal Brotherhood Day" is being organized annually. Invitees include Diplomats from various foreign Consulates in Mumbai, foreign students studying in the city, foreign nationals working in Mumbai, and some selected Industrialists and Businessmen.

Among Hindus, Swayamsevaks take this opportunity to reach out to the un-reached people, especially the underdeveloped sections of the society in Bharat, trying to instill confidence among them and impress them that they are as much part of the Hindu society and that the Hindus society cares for them. This year the Raksha Bandhan or the Shravan Pornima would be celebrated on 28 th August.

2. AMARNATH ON DESPITE MELTING SHIVA LINGA: While Shivalingam melts, faith doesn't- In an apparent attempt to avoid a controversy over man-made lingam that had created a storm across the country last year, authorities said on 1 July that the ice Shivalingam at the holy cave shrine of Amarnath melted completely due to rise in temperature.

"The Shivalingam has completely melted. It was too warm in the shrine vicinity,'' said Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) CEO Arun Kumar. He, however, said premature melting due to rise in temperatures was unusual.

After achieving a height of 12 feet in early June, the lingam had shrunk to eight feet a week ago. "The Shivalingam was 12 feet in height and thin when the governor visited the cave on June 9. When I visited on June 25, it had been reduced to eight feet. But on 1 July it was completely melted,'' Kumar said. Global warming is one of the major factors for early melting of the lingam, he added.

Meanwhile the board, which had postponed the Amarnath pilgrimage scheduled to begin on Saturday because of bad weather along the route to the holy cave, declared it open on 1 July. J&K governor S K Sinha, who is also ex-officio chairman of the board, visited the cave in the morning. The board said though steps were taken to preserve the ice lingam, its hands were tied because of a Jammu and Kashmir High Court order restraining it from doing anything that constituted tampering of the lingam.

Temple authorities, however, said the disappearance of the lingam would not dampen the spirit of the pilgrims. Thousands of devotees traversed the rugged terrain from Baltal and Chandanwari to reach the temple on Sunday. Hundreds more stood in the queue early morning adjacent to the sanctum sanctorum to join the governor in the 'pratham pooja', board spokesman Madan Mantoo said. Every year, millions of pilgrims trek a treacherous mountain track to the Amarnath shrine, located 12,700 feet above sea level.

3. CHRISTIANS IN NORTH EAST MAY LOSE MINORITY STATUS: The very concept of minority status may soon change diametrically with the proposed 103rd amendment to the Constitution making minorities like Christians lose their exclusive status in states of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland where they are numerically in majority.

Interestingly, Hindus in these states would be treated as minority and enjoy the status, the proposed amendment that is bound to create a storm said. The amendment approved in the Union Cabinet recently is likely to be brought in the coming monsoon session of the Parliament next month, as per the report of the National Commission for Minority Education.

The 103rd Constitutional Amendment seeks to have state-wise minority status rather than national status, as is the norm now. Minorities in states will be decided through a presidential notification in consultation with the state government.

Incidentally, the National Commission for Minority Education says the amendment will make Christian students from Meghalaya , Mizoram, Nagaland ineligible for admission in Christian colleges like St Stephens, as they will not have domicile minority status.

Likewise, Sikhs from Punjab and Muslims from J&K will not have minority status. Christian-run institutions in Kerala and other states may also lose their minority tag. Commission Chairperson, MMA Siddique has written to HRD Minister Arjun Singh and Minority Affairs Minister A R Antulay saying the constitutional amendment that the Cabinet approved in May first week is against the spirit of Article 30 of the Constitution. Articles 25 to 30 guarantee protection of religious, cultural and educational rights to both majority and minority communities.

Meanwhile, the All India Catholic Union, the All India Christian Council and the United Christian Action have reacted strongly to the decision of the Center and decided to go ahead with a national consultation on the issue in collaboration with major organizations of other religious minorities.

In search of attaining Swaraj - Prem Sabhlok

After 60 years of independence have we achieved Swaraj (self-rule)? The Bhagavad-Gita tells us in Chapter 3 that "He who shirks righteous action never attains freedom." Have we been guilty of shirking our responsibilities even inadvertently during the last six decades in an Independent Bhaarat to achieve our goal of Swaraj (self-rule) akin to perfect democratic freedom?
Before 1947 our leaders particularly Gandhi ji, Subhash Chander Bose, Pt Nehru and others said:
1. Sawarj is my birth right
2. That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. The disciplined people of Bhaarat would govern themselves to ensure withering away of the state.
3. Give me blood, I'll give you Freedom,
4. The legacy of India is that 400 millions will govern themselves.

A. Point to consider
After 60 years of our Independence have we achieved Swaraj, Freedom, and the authority to govern ourselves?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was an independent country but negligible freedom to its citizens. Finally it broke down to a number of independent states. Thus it proves that Independence and Freedom are two vastly different concepts.
B. Point to consider
What has made us to believe for six decades that socialism, democracy, independence and freedom, Swaraj mean the same? In the Constitution of India "We the People" of Bhaarat are sovereign. Amendments 73 and 74 allow us democracy at grass root level.
C. Point to consider
In what way democracy has reached at the grass root level when the government nominees continue to control / guide the local urban / rural governments?
Article 51-A refers to Fundamental Duties of the citizens. According to Art 51-A (h and j) citizen's duty is to develop scientific outlook and spirit of Inquiry and Reform.
D. Point to consider
What kind of reforms in administration, systems and procedures we have jointly succeeded during the last six decades. Most of our Associations, Organisations, and Departments are still governed with pre 1947 rules and even 1860, 1861 and 1864 Acts.
Many intellectuals perceive our Constitution is excellent in its democratic contents but has been ruined in its implementation by political leaders, bureaucrats and insensitive citizens. The Constitution is now perceived as Grammar of Democratic Anarchy.

D. In Swatantra Bharat ex-colonial languages English and Urdu have become dominant languages in every field of Bhaarat rather than Sanskrit, Hindi and other Bhaaratiya languages.

E. Point to consider
Where we have gone wrong in the implementation of the constitution?
After 60 years of our Independence now corruption is parading up and down in the corridors of government, markets, Social organization like Non Government Organisations, religious places etc. Cities after cities are becoming urban nightmares with no choice for the residents to go where? In the entire world, Bhaarat has got the most centralized Administration / Government but not capable of delivering goods. Govts / Bureaucrats take more interest in land /property deals, petty civic amenities contracts etc but little interest in Defence, Law and Order, Security, External Affairs, Public Finance etc. Articles after articles are appearing in newspapers about fratricide in Army etc but no solution is insight.
How should we proceed forward in the 61st year of our Independence ? Kindly feel free to actively participate in this open debate to find some workable solution.
It is high time we give serious thoughts on these and many other matters and find early solution before it becomes too late and unsocial elements take full control of Central / State Governments through their fixed vote banks, supplemented by purchased and manipulated vote banks. How long we shall continue to blame governments, political parties and bureaucracy? Perhaps blame lies in our insensitivity and feeling of gross helplessness.
If people in USA, Europe, and Australia etc can govern themselves for their civic, social and community welfare functions through their non partisan City Councils / Village Shire Councils without any government nominee, why in Bhaarat we can not do so? Luckily for us guidelines, benchmarks and self governing systems and procedures are readily available in the world, we have to simply apply and implement.
When we shall get ready? Choice is to have continuous drawing room /coffee house chatter or come in the field to make Bhaarat the best place to live in.
Conversion of Hindus in independent Bhaartiya

In Independent Bhaarat followers of Semitic religions are converting Hindus without any prohibitions due to anti Hindu and secular governments and Bhaartiyas laws made by anti Hindu government:

Receipt of Foreign Contributions 2005-06 Home Ministry Report

Downloaded this report from the Home Ministry site. During this year Rs 7877 crs was received by way of foreign donations. Tamil Nadu (Rs 1,610 crs) was the highest recipient followed by Delhi (Rs 1,556 crs) and Andhra Pradesh Rs 1,011 crs. Largest donor countries were U.S.A. Rs 2,426 crs, UK Rs 1,180 crs and Germany Rs 1,062 crs. The list of foreign donors is topped by Gospel Fellowship Trust USA , India Rs 229 crs, Gospel for Asia Rs 137 crs and Plan International Rs 111 crs. Largest recipient were World Vision Tamil Nadu Rs 256 crs, Caritas India Rs 193 crs, Rural Development Trust Andhra Pradesh Rs 127 crs. Please note:

a... India 's population is 80% Hindu, barely 3% is Christian yet the largest donors are Christian countries.
B... As a state Tamil Nadu received largest donations. Is it not ironical that the state has reported an increase in conversions to Christianity, is a missionary target.
C... Andhra Pradesh has a Protestant Chief Minister. The name YSR Reddy will not fool anyone.
D... Why are the U.S.A, Germany and U.K. so concerned about the poor in India ? Am sure there are lakhs of poor people in their country too. Do these Christian organization donors donate such large amounts to Muslim countries like Pakistan , Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well is a moot point.
E... These numbers do not give money received by Muslim organizations from Saudia Arabia etc. It is believed that some of this money comes through the 'hawala' route.
To read the Report (in PDF format) click here http://www.esamskriti.com/html/essay_index.asp?cat=926&subcat=925&cname=fcra_report

It is important that resident Indians donate large sums of money to sincere Hindu organizations who work in the fields of education and health. One meal in an upper class restaurant costs app Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per head in Mumbai. Suppose if we, the followers of Dharma, were to cut down on conspicuous consumption and donate the amounts to institutions like the Ramakrishna Mission we would be contributing to society in a positive and lasting way.
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European countries spend money for conversion of Hindus in Bhaarat

Be aware of this organisations.

The India Committee of The Netherlands (ICN) is an independent non-governmental organization, based on solidarity with deprived groups in Indian society

http://www.indianet.nl/english.html

This is a Dutch Christian organisation is getting very year least more than 700.000 thousand Euros. These organisations are always anti Hindu and try to work in favour of Pakistan and the Muslims.

This is one of the small Christian NGO's that crate conflict between religious groups in Asia . The real Non Government Organisations that behind all this organisations is ICCO Also funded by the Dutch government get very four year more than 160.000000 Euro for humanitarian work and be sure for Christian conversion of Hindus

Other Christian NGO's
Cordiad 120.00000 Euro

Hivos 90.000000 Euro
IKV 36.000000 Euro
PAX: 45.000000 Euro.

All organisations working for only Christians organisations in India , Bangladesh , Nepal , they don't dare to enter Pakistan .
Please tell us how we can fight this huge anti Hindu organisations funded by government in the West. -------------

Vending Dharmik information - traitor or stupidity

Spanning a long long period - perhaps the single largest collection of Sanskrit literature has been available from India . During the period of foreign rule - these have been taken away from the country - now the largest collections are no longer in India but overseas.

Veda and shastra enshrine profound thought processes. These are taken in for "scientific discovery" by scientists overseas.

Vimana shastra, atomic particle physics interactions, cosmology and a number of other technologies are making their way slowly into "modern scientific" thought.

It is a great pity that our scholars are vending away this information - totally unaware of the "abhyudaya" content that they have for our country. Is this being "traitor" or "plain" stupidity and selfish unthinking gratification?

For example one of the largest collections of electronically encoded Sanskrit texts available one time at http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gret_csx.htm#PM0197A is off the net.

Some people in the past five to six years been collecting literature off the net - and have a huge collection spanning almost the entire spectrum of Sanskrit literature in e-format - and are giving them away free to anybody that asks in Bhaarat.

Swantra Bharat must try to get back all its ancient Sanskrit literature which ex-colonial masters have taken away by fraud, by borrowing or buying cheap such books. These books have treasure for new inventions.