IIPM: GLIDIORATORS COLLIDE AT CICERO'S 2012!

IT WAS A FEST TO REMEMBER. ON THE SPRAWLING LAWNS OF THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT (IIPM)'S NEW DELHI CAMPUS, 6,000 VISITORS CONGREGATED FOR CICERO'S CHALLENGE 2012 TO CREATE WHAT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST EAGERLY AWAITED EVENTS FOR THE CAPITAL'S STUDENT COMMUNITY. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS AN EXPLOSION OF COLOUR AND CHARACTER!

Palpable enthusiasm in the air, a whole lot of fun events happening all at the same time, and scores of nattily dressed students happily chattering away – these were just some of the sights that greeted the eyes on entering IIPM's International Campus on May 3. It didn't take long for us to get why so much anticipation and excitement had preceded Cicero's Challenge, a much-awaited fest that the student community looks forward to be a part of. Expectedly, with 6,000 footfalls, of them 2,000 participants, Cicero's Challenge 2012 lived up to its reputation of having something in store for everyone. Students from schools across Delhi were seen participating in competitions ranging from T-shirt and Collage Making to Creative Writing and JAMming, with a zest that was to watch out for.

This event, first conducted in 2006, started as an initiative to provide students a platform to test their debating skills. The fest got its name from Cicero, an ancient Roman philosopher, orator, lawyer and statesman, who is credited with creating the Latin philosophical vocabulary. However, what started as a one-event show has today grown into an elaborate fest with several competitions, ranging from dancing and singing to testing the literary bone.

The Producer of the event, Prof Rajita Chaudhuri, captures the essence when she says, “Cicero's gives students a chance to develop their competitive spirit and put in a good fight, for nothing is more satisfying than emerging victorious against strong competition. But victory is not just winning but also about being able to tell after a fight that 'I gave it all I could. I gave it my best'. That is also the spirit of Cicero's Carnival.”

The theme for the 2012 edition of the festival was 'Get Real', and the contests were planned in a manner to test the students' connect with the real world. The theme worked out to be absolutely relevant, since we live in times where the virtual world is increasingly overtaking the time young people spend in the 'real world'. more Like every year, the 2012 edition also witnessed overwhelming participation, with more 2,000 students taking part in various events.

In appreciation of IIPM's initative to provide a platform to students, Neelanja Banerjee, a teacher with Ryan International School in New Delhi, said, “It is wonderful to see students showcase their talents and overcome their fears, on such a huge platform. Their desire to explore their strengths and do their best is commendable.”

The two-day competition kicked off with its signature event, which saw students debating about 'Technology is a knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it' in the preliminary round. The finals on the second day witnessed 27 participants speaking for and against 'The virtual world is somewhere I can really be me'. Saksham Agarwal of Amity International School, Gurgaon, who bagged the first prize in the debate competition, ironically stood speechless on stage while receiving the cash prize of Rs 1,00,000, a certificate and trophy. Later he said, “I wasn't expecting to do so well, but now that I have, I am very happy with the results. I had heard some-where that winners don't do different things, they do things differently. It was with that on my mind that I gave my speech. My friends are of course waiting for me to throw them a party now!”

Saksham was closely followed by Praney Lekhi of Modern School, Delhi, and Siddhant Law of Don Bosco School Delhi, who stood second. The three students who bagged the third position were Pulkit of Manav Sthali School, and Dewang Mulani and Simran Keshwani of Montfort Senior Secondary School, Delhi. Dewang, who has been visiting Cicero's for two years now, said, “ I am elated. We've all known Cicero's to be the biggest fest of intellect and entertainment. My school has also won in several other events and I'm proud to have contributed by winning a position here. There was tough competition and the topics were great. I'm planning to join IIPM for my MBA as it as a perfect combination of education and fun.”

Prof Arindam Chaudhuri had a tough time choosing the winners. He said, “Every time I judge an event at Cicero's, I discover new schools with drive like Montfort school, for instance. As about the topic, the debate is not whether the virtual world is good or bad, rather whether one can be themselves in the virtual world. I can say I like to be myself in the virtual world, because being real in the virtual world is original.”

Amity International School of Gurgaon and Modern School and Maxfort School from Delhi received a special mention by Prof Arindam Chaudhuri for their excellent diction and for their confidence.

Dancing The Night Away

Besides the debate competition, the other main highlight of the event was the choreography competition, where enchanted audiences sat enthralled. From hip hop to Bollywood moves to salsa and bhangra, there was something for everyone.

Nehha Bhatnagar, an acclaimed Bharatnatyam dancer, who judged the session, said she was thoroughly impressed with the students' efforts. “Their energy is commendable.

These days, even schools and teachers take interest in the students' innate talents,” she observed. While Montfort Senior Secondary School won the first prize, Colonel's Central Academy School, Gurgaon, and Salwan Public School emerged as first and second runners up respectively.

Some Rock For The Soul

Cicero's Challenge 2012 on day one was a jam-packed event, but those present were equally charged up towards the end of the show too. And young rock music enthusiasts ensured that the wait did not go in vain. Students tried their hands at their own compositions, and the response was overwhelming. DAV school from Sheikh Sarai, who were adjudged the second runners-up, gave the audience goosebumps with their performance. The rhythm and harmonies in place, the renditions worked their magic. “We had only four days to get our act in place and this was also our first experience on stage, but we did very well here today,” gushed the lead vocalist of the band, who has also appeared on the 'Chhote Ustaad' reality show on Star Plus. In this contest, Modern School, Barakhamba won the first prize, while Ryan International School were the first runners-up.

Personality Gains

The personality contest at Cicero's Challenge 2012 had three rounds introduction, talent and questionnaire. Students sang, danced and did everything within their means to impress the judges. Swasti Kapur of St Thomas' who bagged the 'Ms Cicero' title said, “It is like a dream come true to have participated on this platform.” Mr Cicero's title was take by Said Kheershed of Maxfort School.

JAMming The Stands

The Just A Minute (JAM) competition came up with unusual and random topics. Sample this: 'Lunch, Crunch & Munch' and 'Bone, Cone & Stone'! But as would be expected from GenNext, the students did not disappoint. Bhavya Batra of Manavsthali School won the first prize. “I am a regular JAMmer; but the atmosphere here at Cicero's this time was something else. I'm feeling on top of the world,” she said on being awarded. St Thomas School, Modern School and Amity International, Gurgaon were the other winners.

Of Colourful Collages and Unusual T-shirts

The 'Get Real' theme was everywhere. At the collage contest, students were seen putting together crayons, sketch pens, water colours, glue, newspaper and magazine cuttings, and even food items like pulses to convey their message! Montfort Senior Secondary School bagged the first prize while Apeejay School, Sheikh Sarai, and Shah International School won the the second and third prize respectively.

Similarly, at the T-shirt Designing Competition, students were seen associating the 'real world' with nature, friends, good health and the 'virtual world' with evil, Facebook and the internet. Delhi Police Public School was declared the winner, followed by Salwan Public School, Gurgaon and Modern School, Barakhamba.

Rowlings Of the Future

Students from 50-odd schools participated in the creative writing competition, on the topic 'The real world is as superficial as the virtual world'. “It was an interesting exercise, and also quite challenging to streamline our thoughts in accordance with the subject,” said Ritika Singh from Salwan Public School, Gurgaon.

Dramatics on Display

The skit competition of Cicero's Challenge 2012 was one of its most awaited events. On the front lawns of IIPM, young actors from various schools brought some vivid concepts and characters to life. From female foeticide and rape to the right to education, students had a lot of social issues on their minds. “Our team was thrilled to be a part of the carnival. We practiced for four continuous days to come up with the final act,” says Prerit Daga of Vidya Bharti School, Rohini. Students of Ryan International, Vasant Kunj, who bagged the first position for their skit, spoke of evils such as corruption, smoking, deforestation and domestic violence. “We did not have much time to prepare. While we were earlier thinking of focusing on any on social issue, then later decided to take up several. Our experience at the fest was amazing. We got to interact with a lot of people, and also learnt a lot in the process,” said the winners. They were followed by St. Columbus and D.P.S (R.K Puram).

Ad-ding It Up

The ad competition was another platform for students to showcase their creative zing. The competition saw participation from more than 50 schools and over 250 students. The participants had to clear three rounds, wherein the first two rounds required students to identify brand names and their taglines. In the last round of the competition, the teams had to present an advertisement for a product. Olay, Bajaj scooter, Airtel and Bisleri were some of the products presented by the students. D.P.S R.K Puram, St. Columbus and Delhi Police Public School Were the winners.

THORNS TO COMPETITION: A book that presents a set of competition-beating strategies to sell a product

Arindam and Rajita Chaudhuri’s latest book ‘Thorns to competition’

THORNS TO COMPETITION is a book that presents a set of competition-beating strategies to sell a product. It showcases the selling mantra of the 21st century through the acronym T-H-O-R-N-S.

TARGET IT RIGHT | HIT WHERE IT HURTS | OBSESS WITH IT| REINVENT IT | NAIL IT | SELL IT

Contents:
1. THORNS TO COMPETITION
2. TARGET IT RIGHT
3. HIT WHERE IT HURTS
4. OBSESS ABOUT THEM
5. REINVENT IT
6. NAIL IT
7. SELL IT
8. STATUTORY WARNING

Product Details:
Paperback: 324 Pages, Language: English
ISBN-10: 81-259-5194-6
ISBN-13: 978-81-259-5194-0
Price: Rs.395.00
Published by: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.

Appreciation
“I have always been a big believer of advertising and marketing as it is the final frontier between making a great product and creating a stickiness with the consumer. It’s about information and informing. Arindam and Rajita Chaudhuri’s book actually spells it out in the clearest, yet tongue-in-cheek manner that is possible. It takes a complex aspect of business and makes it extremely simple. This itself is perhaps the best advertising peg for the book. As always, a very enlightening, lucid and well-informed read. Don’t give it a miss, and all the best to Arindam and Rajita.”

Shahrukh Khan

“Two thumbs up for this lovely piece of work by Arindam and Rajita Chaudhuri. They are two excellent marketing brains. Their magazine 4Ps Business & Marketing is my favourite marketing magazine; their books – Power Brands and Star Brands – are two of my favourite brand books ever. And now this gem of a book will show business and marketers a whole new way of looking at marketing – the Thorns To Competition way. The best part of the book is, while it talks of aggression, it continuously reminds us of the ethical requisites of marketing, advertising and selling!”

Alyque Padamsee

Authors

Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri is a Management Thought Leader & Teacher, Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Author, Economist and three times National Awardwinning Film-Maker.

He is the Honorary Director of the IIPM Think Tank at IIPM, ranked as one of India’s topmost B-Schools (No.1 in Intellectual Impact, No.1 in Global Exposure and No.5 in Placements as well as Overall, amongst all B-Schools in India).

He is the author of Planning India, as well as the best-sellers Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch, The Great Indian Dream (co-authored with Dr. Malay Chaudhuri) and Discover The Diamond In You. His public seminars on Leadership are a rage, with thousand attending them. He teaches Leadership & National Economic Planning at IIPM.

Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri

Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri is the Dean – Center for Enterprise Management at The Indian Institute of Planning and Management, New Delhi. Prof. Chaudhuri is also a regular and well-acclaimed columnist of 4Ps Business and Marketing magazine.

She also heads Planman Marcom – an integrated communications, advertising and promotions company. Prof. Chaudhuri has trained over ten thousand senior executives and professionals through her workshops and has helped organisations create efficiencies in enhancing proficiency in their businesses. She has also written a book on advertising titled ‘Orangutan as your Brand Ambassador’.

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Now, IIM aspirants don't have to wait to get a bachelor's degree before taking the entrance test; at least a few can hope to step into India's top management school right after school.

The Indian Institute of Management-Indore has launched a five-year integrated post-graduate programme in management — a three-year degree programme followed by masters. The first batch scheduled this year will have 120 students.

The five-year residential programme allows students to drop out after the degree course, designed to be a mix of essential skill subjects — maths and statistics, history, literature and political science, biological sciences, languages, finance and accounting, economics and information technology. Apart from classroom lectures, IIM-I has a component on international exposure and an internship at a social organization.

The minimum eligibility is 60% in Class XII, and final selection will be based on an aptitude test and interview. The details will be revealed in a few days. The tuition fee for the first three years will be Rs. 3 lakh per annum; for next two years, it will be Rs 5 lakh a year. "IIM Indore wants to have a dominating presence, both in terms of size and impact, in all segments of management education, including under-graduate programmes," said IIM-Indore director N Ravichandran. "We identified four streams — top-end research programmes, executive education programme, the flagship post-graduate programme and an integrated PGP where we'll have the time and opportunity to shape young minds towards management education."

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End of Osama bin Laden, trouble for Pakistan

Islamabad will have to stand up to tough questions from Washington: what was Osama bin Laden doing in high security garrisoned Abbottabad? Shahid Husain reports from Karachi

There is jubilation in the air in the US as well as other western countries over the killing of Osama bin Laden. In all likelihood President Barack Obama will win the elections in the next term despite the worst recession the US is facing for the last several years.

But in Pakistan, enlightened and progressive forces, despite heaving a sigh of relief over his death, now apprehend the worst type of backlash once NATO forces in Afghanistan start leaving – and like the Afghan War which ended in the humiliation and ouster of the Soviet Union – Pakistan and Afghanistan in particular will bear the brunt of suicide bombing, a fresh injection of the arms and drugs culture and enhanced terrorism. Needless to say, narco-money will also play a more dominant role.

Osama Bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces which intruded into Pakistan territory, without taking the Pakistani government into confidence, indicating its mistrust of the Gilani-Zardari duo.

The mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces.

The distrust is also understandable because since long, remnants of military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have been playing a double game.

The influence of fundamentalist forces in the ISI can be gauged from the fact that apparently they are not even willing to listen to the Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and ISI chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. Both, according to wellknown south Asian security specialist Stephen Cohen, are secular, professional and the best generals in the Pakistan army.

Unlike the meek and thoroughly corrupt civilian governments, they are also tough negotiators and have the gall to terminate the supply lines of NATO forces from time to time. This does not mean taking sides with the army vis-à-vis the fragile civilian government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. On the contrary, what is needed in Pakistan is a third option led by enlightened and progressive forces.

According to a story published in the prestigious The Guardian newspaper on Tuesday, “The Obama administration is demanding an explanation from Pakistan on how Osama bin Laden was able to hide in the country for so long before he was killed by US Special Forces.”

Hasan Askari-Rizvi, Pakistan’s top defence analyst, agrees that the Pakistan government will have to face tough questions. “The current strain and distrust that marks the relationship between Pakistan and the US will continue to persist and Washington may ask Islamabad to become vigilant for searching other senior al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders,” he told TSI.

Members of Jamaat-ud-Dawa at a prayer meeting in Lahore to mourn the death of Osama.

Laden was hiding in a luxurious mansion in the vicinity of the Military Academy in Abbottabad, some 30 miles from capital Islamabad. John Brennan, a counter-terrorism adviser to the US President, told journalists at the White House: “People have been referring to this as hiding in plain sight. We are looking at how he was able to hide out there for so long.”

Barack Obama said: “The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden.” The world might have become “safer” for US citizens, but not for the billions residing in other parts of the world because under one pretext or the other, consecutive US governments along with their allies have been attacking sovereign countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Interestingly, their stated aim may be to democratise these countries, but the real purpose seems focused at their energy resources. The Guardian noted that “Although Obama, Hilary Clinton, the secretary of state, and Brennan expressed the importance of Pakistan in helping to fight al-Qaeda, the presence of Bin Laden so close to the capital and just streets away from the principal training ground for the country’s officer corps threatened to create a fresh rift in US-Pakistan relations.

According to it, “Members of Congress threatened to withhold economic aid to Pakistan over the affair,” The Guardian newspaper said.

Hasan Askari-Rizvi agrees. “The US will use economic assistance for building pressure on Pakistan by delaying assistance, raising the issues of accountability and how the funds are being used,” he states. “Carl Levin, a Democrat who heads the powerful Senate armed forces committee, reflected the scepticism in the US about Bin Laden’s ability to remain hidden in Pakistan,” said the Guardian story.

“I think the Pakistan Army and intelligence have a lot of questions to answer, given the location, the length of time and the apparent fact that this facility was actually built for Bin Laden and its closeness to the central location of the Pakistan Army,” he told a press conference, the Guardian newspaper said. “The US will step up pressure on Pakistan to hand over Taliban leader, Mullah Omar and Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, if they are in Pakistan. The death of Bin Laden could also lead to a rethink of the scale of the US involvement in Afghanistan,” the newspaper further said.

However, despite threatening postures, the US leadership is eager to further use Pakistan with sops and doles, never mind if they never brought solace to 180 million people of this impoverished country and only served the interests of civil and military bureaucracy, landed aristocracy and elitist politicians.

“Clinton, anxious not to alienate a partner that may yet be needed for actions against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, emphasised America’s “close cooperation” with Pakistan. In fact, co-operation with Pakistan helped lead us to Bin Laden and the compound in which he lived,” the Guardian newspaper cited her as saying.

Which leads to a key question: If co-operation with Pakistan helped the US locate the compound in which Laden was hiding since long, then what is the justification of a threatening posture and a demand from Pakistan to explain as to how Laden was able to hide in the country for so long before he was killed by the US Special Forces? The demand is self-explanatory. Is it because the US knew where Laden was hiding and killed him as a ploy to ensure that President Obama wins a second term?

Says Imiaz Ali, senior journalist at The News, “It is not necessary that in the death of Osama, Obama will win the election. Bush Senior, despite winning the Gulf War, lost the elections in second term.”

The government of President Hamid Karzai, whose jurisdiction is limited to Kabul, is equally worried because once the US-led coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan, it will not be able to resist the onslaught of the Taliban.

An Afghan government official has been cited to have said that he feared the death of Laden would give “justification for US’ premature disengagement from the region.” How long does the Afghan government want to rule on the crutches of the world’s sole superpower?

In fact, according to all indications, the US is eager to pull out from Afghanistan but wants an honourable exit and is already negotiating with “moderate” Taliban groups.

Despite spending billions of dollars in Afghanistan, the Americans have not been able to break the resistance of the Afghans. It brings back memories of the ill-planned Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan that relied on bad intelligence. The US had then quickly sided with the resistance forces and created monsters in Afghanistan.

These monsters are now threatening the very social fabric of Pakistani society in the form of suicide bombing, bomb blasts, sectarian strife and a plethora of other problems in a country where people are tolerant, peaceful and have respect for each other’s rituals.

Mutahir Ahmed, professor of International Relations at the University of Karachi and an expert on Afghanistan, is of the view that the military establishment in Pakistan will now have to face a tough time. “So far the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) has not issued any statement. Since Musharraf ’s time, Pakistan has been in a state of denial and has claimed varyingly that either Osama is dead or he is not in Pakistan, but all high value al-Qaeda operatives were being apprehended from urban areas of Pakistan,” he said.

Adds Ahmed, “One wonders if the nuclear installations in Pakistan are any safer. Kahuta is not far from Abbottabad. If the Americans can intrude in Abbottabad violating Pakistan’s air space, why can’t they go further. India will also insist with greater vigour that Pakistan was involved in the Mumbai carnage.”

Moreover, the US seems to have ignored the interests of regional powers. Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Central Asian Republics, Kuwait. etc, have vital interests in the region and nobody knows who is behind the suicide bombings and acts of terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan since these are sort of proxy wars.

Even in Karachi, the financial capital of Pakistan, target killings and suicide bombing have assumed routine proportions and every political party vehemently denies that it has anything to do with these incidents.

Apparently, sectarian outfits, funded by Middle Eastern countries, carry on such exercises and have been so conditioned since Zia’s era that they don’t even know that they are being used.

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Obama’s war on Libya sans US Congress' approval is opening new doors of controversies

It's raining trouble for Obama and his administration. This time the reason being Barack Obama declaring Libya a no-fly-zone and allowing military intervention to free the country from the 'dictatorship' of Muammar Gaddafi.

And here is the twist: All these have been done without the approval of the US Congress which has consequently invited immense discontentment and dissatisfaction from Republicans as well as Democrats.

Apparently, any action taken by the American President, which might have a nationwide implication, cannot be taken without the knowledge of the US Congress. According to the US Constitution, the President is required to seek approval from the Congress before waging war against any foreign regime. Ron Paul, a Republican Congressman, sharply criticised Obama’s act, commenting that “the no-fly-zone over Libya is an act of war, and it needs approval from Congress.” Even Democrat Congressmen like Dennis Kucinich called Obama's move “impeachable.” So much so that a group of Liberal Democrats – Donna Edwards from Maryland, Jerrold Nadler from New York, Barbara Lee from California among others – have questioned “the Constitutionality of President’s actions.” The discontentment is rising with every additional American troop or fighter aircraft being sent to the Libyan mission.

Republican Senator Richard Lugar has raised high doubts on “US interests being served by Barack Obama’s actions.” From the economical point of view, this act on Libya would only cost the US further, which already suffers an extremely high fiscal deficit. The Iraq and Afghanistan costs are also far from over. This would also strengthen anti-American sentiment and protests on the Arab streets. With NATO announcing that the tentative duration of the no-fly-zone could be three months, further possibilities of civilian deaths and demolition of existing infrastructure loom large, which would cost the world massively again after the operation is over.

A recent CNN public poll revealed that seven out of ten Americans have supported US military action on Libya. But it is also true that three American cities have already gone to streets to protest... and there are predictions that more will soon follow. Strangely, Obama's recent acts do not differentiate him much from former American President George Bush – except that Bush was cunning enough to justify his actions more eloquently. Also, Bush had garnered criticism for much of his action post the Iraq 'victory', while Barack Obama is facing flak here and now. With latest news trickling in that Gadaffi might after all retain power, even the brownie points Obama wanted to gain from US citizens seem to be flittering away...

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The Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar, an initiative by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), honours those intrepid and inspirational souls who set examples by being the change they wanted to see. Dr. Malay Chaudhuri, founder director of IIPM and chairman,IIPM awards committee, shares the vision behind this mission of invoking in each Indian the wisdom and will to touch lives, and make the nation proud.

(1.) What is the vision behind the awards?

In the very first prospectus of IIPM, way back in 1974, we wrote that the aim of the institute is to develop a three dimensional personality. We shall not only make experts in the field of management, but also help students cultivate the taste for literature, arts and inculcate within them a commitment to society. The moment we found the opportunity, we took the initiative to award those from the field of literature – and thus started the Surama Chowdhury Memorial International Prize in Literature (in 2008).

The prize money ($100,000) was almost double the amount awarded for Magsaysay Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Asia) instituted by Philippines. In 2010, we instituted the Rabindranath Tagore Memorial International Prize, the total award money for which (1.1 million euros) slightly exceeded the one for the Nobel Prize for Literature (1 million euros). Thereby, we emphasised our right to go beyond Western values while deciding what good literature is. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama who in reality did not take any peace initiatives. It was expected of him to take some peace initiative in Afghanistan. We now know that he initiated bombings in Afghanistan and even parts of Pakistan by sending drones.

Instead, people like Dr Binayak Sen and Irom Sharmila should have been considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. We may soon initiate the founding of the Tagore Memorial International Peace Award, with a minimum award purse of 1.1 million euros. Thereby, we shall challenge the right of the West to decide what may be considered as a ‘peace initiative’. Our prizes indicate the intellectual shift from the West to the East.

How soon do we see the Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar going international?

We shall do that soon. We want to see recipients of these awards from various other nations.

(2.) Do you think the government has gone wrong with the whole Binayak Sen episode?

Our government is known more for corruption and wrongdoings. It is the characteristic of the government that those who fight for the poor are victimised and sent to jail. Therefore, let me not comment on what the government should do or not do. We want and demand that they, at least, release people like Dr Binayak Sen from jail so that such individuals can carry on with their peaceful activities, namely, helping the poorest of the poor in the field of health and nutrition.

In fact, not only Dr Binayak Sen, but all our awardees have done excellent work in their chosen fields. They deserve to be icons for our youth. We are very careful in choosing our awardees. They are not necessarily people who are well known. For example, Ms Prakash Kaur was someone we read about in The Sunday Indian. After reading the story, we thought that this lady has not been recognised and she is engaged in one of the most inspiring activities. Such are the people we want everyone to know about and take inspiration from.

(3.) What is your message to today’s youth?

The system is not democratic since it is not based on equity and peace. It is easy to manipulate illiterate masses to create vote banks and win elections. No political party thinks of the poor.

Children should be taught from childhood onwards that they should not be a prey of greed; that they should share with the poor who are also entitled to a life of dignity.
If India’s upper middle class and rich sections stay away from obscene, vulgar, conspicuous consumption, the poor could be provided with adequate food, education, health and social security, and thus they may escape suffering from malnutrition. 17% of our population, namely, every sixth Indian dies before he/she is forty. The youth of India must change all this. They must.

In pictures:

(1.) Dr Malay Chaudhuri lighting the inaugural lamp to the Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar evebt; in the background is Swami Shantatmananda Maharaj of Ramakrishna Mission.
(2.) Dr. Kiran Bedi, one of the recipients of the Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar.
(3.) Dr. Malay Chaudhuri

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IIPM celebrates selfless service

After Irom Sharmila last year, Anna Hazare wins IIPM's 2011 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize of Rs. 1cr. To be handed over on 9th May

In a highly intellectual event, the Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskars are awarded by IIPM to six transformational leaders committed to positive social change and equality.

1. It is worth walking the extra mile if at the end of it you know you have brought about a meaningful and positive change. In the same spirit, The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) honoured six individuals from different walks of life with the prestigious Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar for treading that extra mile. This award is given for the commitment to bring about a positive change in the society and for championing the cause of equality, social justice and human welfare. The award ceremony, organised in New Delhi on March 28, 2011, was presided over by Swami Shantatmananda Maharaj of the Delhi branch of Ramakrishna Mission.

The distinguished award, which additionally has a prize money of five lakh rupees, a gold medal and a citation, was conferred upon Dr Kiran Bedi, Prof. Ilina Sen, Dr Binayak Sen, Prakash Kaur, Justice (retd) V R Krishna Iyer and former Chief Election Commissioner of India, T. N. Seshan. It is one of the various awards that IIPM has instituted to celebrate the spirit of sacrifice and selfless giving.

2. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Malay Chaudhuri, founder Director, IIPM, and Chairman, IIPM Awards Committee, while commending the awardees for their commitment towards their respective causes, said, “In the absence of economic planning in India, social welfare and poverty alleviation programmes are never successful. This leads to criminalisation of the society and the exploitation of the poor at the hands of the rich and the corrupt.” The ultimate cause of uprooting poverty and injustice from the country is very close to the heart of Dr. Malay Chaudhuri.

Thanking IIPM for the award, the most respected social activist and former IPS officer, Dr Kiran Bedi said, “It gives me immense pleasure as this award will go a long way in contributing towards my cause.” She urged the IIPM students and civil society to join hands against corruption and exhorted them to work for the welfare of the poor at the grassroots level. Dr Kiran Bedi runs the NGOs Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation; and supports various social causes like prison reform, child welfare and prevention of drug abuse.

3. Prakash Kaur received the award for her unrelenting mission of rescuing unwanted and unclaimed newborn girls and giving them a secure home and future. “I feel grateful for this award,” said Kaur, overwhelmed with emotion, “It gives me immense satisfaction to be among the people who support humanitarian causes and are ready to help all those in need. I am an insignificant person and yet the IIPM awards committee selected me for this prestigious award.”

Prof. Ilina Sen and Dr Binayak Sen were individually awarded for their dedicated efforts in restoring sustained focus on human rights in Chhattisgarh and for ensuring social justice for the tribals. In the absence of Dr Binayak Sen, his wife Prof Ilina Sen received her husband's award too. Dr Ilina Sen, who has embraced a life full of difficulties, said, “I thank IIPM for the awards. The Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar has boosted my morale. It feels as if I am not alone in the ordeal through which my family is passing. This award has made me forget my pain for some time and I strongly hope that our struggle for social justice in Chhattisgarh and other parts of the country would produce the desired results.”

Retired Justice V R Krishna Iyer, who is over 96 years of age, could not make it to the awards function. Consequently, the award was received on his behalf by Dr Vinod Sethi, Secretary General of Capital Foundation Society, and a very close associate of Justice Iyer for several years. The iconic former election commissioner, T N Seshan, who was awarded for his commitment in bringing about electoral reforms and reinstating the confidence of the electorate in the democratic process, also could not turn up at the awards function because of ill health. He, however, conveyed his acceptance in a mail: “I consider this as the recognition of the vital role of democracy in the country... Thank you for selecting me. I accept the award with humility.”

4. Congratulating all the recipients of the award, Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri, Honorary Director, IIPM Think Tank, said, “Our focus should not be the survival of the fittest... It should be the survival of the weakest. Unfortunately, in our society, the exploitation of the weak by the powerful and the corrupt further pushes the weaker sections to the margins. With a non-functional judicial system and an equally inefficient policing system, the real criminals are always outside the prisons while those who cannot manage the money required for their bail are left to languish inside.”

In a message sent to IIPM, Justice Iyer echoed the sentiments of Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri. “Money rules and today no one seems to be above the power of wealth. Our elections are victimised by money power. It is unfortunate. Swaraj gained after a do-or-die struggle has become a casualty after Independence.”

IIPM over the years has instituted various awards in social development, literature, culture, peace and in other specific areas to recognize people who have contributed extensively in their respective fields. In August 2008, IIPM instituted the Surama Chowdhury Memorial International Prize in Literature to acknowledge the contribution of individuals in the field of literature. In April 2010, IIPM instituted the Manavata Vikas Award, which was conferred upon academicians like Dr Ashok Sanjay Guha and Prof Sunanda Sanyal, popular economists like Gurcharan Das and Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, and social thinkers like Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya, Medha Patkar and Mahasweta Devi.

5. In May 2010, once again, IIPM instituted the Rabindra Smriti Puraskar in Kolkata and honoured some of the greatest individuals who have contributed in spreading Tagore’s consciousness through their works among the general mass – actor Soumitra Chatterjee, singer Suchitra Mitra, social visionary Dr Tushar Kanjilal and novelist Selina Hossain of Bangladesh. Once again, in August 2010, IIPM felicitated Irom Sharmila Chanu, the Iron Lady of Manipur with the Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize for her determined decade long struggle to revoke the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

In the same year, IIPM had also declared the Rabindranath Tagore Memorial International Prize, with an award money of around Euro 1.15 million (or Rs. 7 crore), a purse that is greater than that of the Nobel Prize. The first such award would be given away in May 2011 on the completion of the 150th birth anniversary of India’s first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.


In pictures: (1) (L to R) Prof. Ilina Sen receiving Dr. Binayak Sen’s award from Swami Shantatmananda Maharaj, Mrs Chaudhuri & Dr. Malay Chaudhuri (2) Dr. Kiran Bedi being awarded by Swami Shantatmananda Maharaj and Dr. Malay Chaudhuri (3) Prakash Kaur receiving her award (4) Prof. Ilina Sen accepts her individual award (5) Dr Vinod Sethi (centre) receiving the award on behalf of Justice V R Krishna Iyer

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BARRACK OBAMA THE NEW GEORGE BUSH By IIPM Prof ARINDAM CHAUDHURI

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Few issue back, I myself wrote an edit on how the revolution was happening in Egypt and how the civilisation was changing elsewhere in the Arab world... So when a few days later we got this article - from my icon Fidel Castro - it was a tough decision to run it instantly. We feared people would think it’s the opposite of what I wrote. We didn't discard it but thought we would carry it in the next issue with a note... And then the Japanese disaster took place and this went on the back burner. I would have wanted this to be the cover story this issue but for the fact that Dr Binayak Sen’s Supreme Court hearing is coming close and, after all, we are more committed to India than to any other part of the world. However, whats happening in Libya makes my blood boil. Col Muammar Gaddafi is that man who, 40 years back, made the OPEC and in one go made the western world pay the right price for oil and made Arab nations rich. He is that way an icon by himself for the developing world. That one stroke which hit the West so hard is something they haven’t been able to digest yet. And therefore, the moment they got a chance, they have started bombing Libya and, for a change, India has rightly shown true courage in strongly condemning the attack. Sarkozy, on the other hand, has totally lost it at home and found this a lovely way to divert attention and act smart. But the most disgusting part is the final revelation that Obama, the ludicrous Nobel Peace Prize winner, is no different from Bush. Shame on what the greedy West is doing. The real rogue nations like Pakistan and conspiring nation like Saudi Arabia remain friends of the West while they ruthlessly bomb the oilproducing nations for their personal benefit. The saddest part, however, is that oil was USD 40 a barrel before the Iraq war and following the war, it touched the hundred plus mark. Now with the pounding of Libya, it will end up touching a hundred and fifty plus. And the West seems to not have learnt its lessons from Afghanistan. You can't win a war in such lands through air strikes... And in Libya again they will lose it. I will only end by saying that it’s time for a grand alliance of India, China and Russia to neutralise these imperialistic forces from creating more destruction in this world for greed. I hope the article of Fidel Castro, the greatest living revolutionary, throws more light on this matter.

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Playing with God in God's own country

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Unless the political and security establishment come down on religious fundamentalists with an iron hand, Kerala could well become another Kashmir

It was a sleepy Sunday morning in Muvattupuzha municipality, bordering Kottayam, and Professor T. J. Joseph was coming out of a church with his 80-year-old mother and his sister. A gang of hoodlums surrounded him in broad daylight and chopped off his right hand with an axe. The gang was implementing a Taliban-model court verdict. His fault? He had prepared a question paper which allegedly hurt Muslim sentiments. Joseph's predicament brings to light the dark side of a supposedly civilised society.

Following the incident, around 15 Popular Front of India (PFI) activists were arrested. Several Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) leaders, including its state secretary Asharaf Moulavi, were questioned in connection with the assault.

Kerala, renowned for the peaceful coexistence of the cross and the crescent, the temple and the synagogue, has of late seen the rise of the fundamentalist elements. There were days when Hindu kings built churches and mosques, provided shelter to missionaries and gave them a free hand to propagate their religion. All paths lead to God and there was no scope for enmity. Resultantly, minority communities like Muslims and Christians today make up more than 40 per cent of the state's population.

But now, many well wishers of the state feel that Kerala is sitting on a powder keg of communal tension and fundamentalism. There are specific and visible signs of an impending danger to the secular fabric of the state.

William Shakespeare famously wrote, 'Mischief thou art afoot, take thou course, thou wilt.' While this may not come true right away, lack of will and lack of a containment plan on behalf of the political high-ups are certainly driving the situation to that point.

Jnanpith Award winner and noted litterateur M.T. Vasudevan Nair says, 'Those who act on religious frenzy and to protect religion are creating deep fissures within the society. Human actions won't affect God who created the universe. Protection should be given to humanism. That's worshipping real God.'

But it seems that many quotation groups (professional killers) have taken contracts to protect gods and kill people in the name of gods. The elements of love, affection, protection, security and consolation religion used to give have taken a back seat. The act of defending one's religion often ruins an individual, the very religion it seeks to defend, the society and the nation as a whole. A handful of people inflame communal hatred, opportunistic politicians lend their tacit support and misguided foot soldiers impose draconian decrees on people.

Not that Kerala has never witnessed communal conflicts in the past. The major conflict between Muslims and Hindus occurred during the Mopla riots or Malabar riots which took place in 1921. Though some historians and communist leaders like the late EMS Namboodiripad termed it as an agrarian revolution, there were many instances of communal carnage. Erection of a cross at Nilakkal near the Sabarimala shrine saw massive protests and Christians had to backtrack in 1984. And the most recent communal incident took place in 2003 at Marad beach in Kozhikode district where eight Hindu fishermen were killed by armed Muslim extremists. Districts like Pathanamthitta where the Pentecost mission is active saw conflicts when Hindu groups allegedly tried to stop the missionaries from 'converting' people. A foreign missionary was attacked at Olavanna in Kozhikode district by RSS-VHP activists. All Political parties, barring Saffron groups, condemned it. Even Christian groups opposing the Pentecost faction staged protests. Clashes between Christians and Muslims occurred in various places in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts.

The RSS and other Sangh Parivar outfits have strong presence in Kerala but BJP is yet to take advantage of it. For the Communists too, most of their followers and cadres still follow their respective religions. Hence any religious or communal undertone is also bound to affect their political future.

What complicates the matter in Kerala is its history of political killings. From the beginning of the 1980s, Thalaserry has witnessed a series of savage incidents in which between CPI(M) and RSS activists have killed as many as 250 people in 30 years.

Whether it is the Left Democratic Front (LDF) or the United Democratic Front (UDF) which comes to power, Christian and Muslim minority political groups have always been deciding factors. Consequently, they exert considerable political influence in any dispensation that comes to power. Thus, from building educational institutions and hospitals for the poor and the downtrodden, the attention today is firmly fixed on increasing political clout. Formation of the Kerala Congress, its splits and the recent attempts at re-unification are seen by experts as political interventions by the Church.

The CPI(M) organised a statewide strike when former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein was hanged. It does not spare any chance of bashing the US or to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. The Congress and the CPI(M) have held meetings and protests in connection with the Gujarat riots and Kandhamal incidents. The aim always has been to attract Muslim and Christian votes. None have ever criticised Osama Bin Laden or any terrorist outfit.

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) still holds major sway over the Muslim community in the state. It is a moderate body and hardliners have floated new organisations like People's Democratic Party (PDP), National Development Front (NDF), Solidarity and the Sunni Tiger Force.

Minority communities around the world tend to panic when they feel their interests are questioned. The Kerala Catholic Bishops Council's call for producing more children, which goes against the country's birth control principles, should be seen in this light. Late Bishop Acharuparambil's call to Christians to send their children to Christian educational institutions also follows in this tradition. Nearly all Christian groups joined hands against the arrest of and the narco-analysis test conducted on a priest and a nun accused in the infamous murder of Sr. Abhaya, a student at a convent. Christian schools were closed against a textbook the LDF government introduced this academic year, accusing that a lesson named 'Life without religion' hurt their sentiments.

But in all these cases, better counsel prevailed due to the key role played by liberals of the respective communities. But of late, sane voices are being snuffed out by fundamentalists. Fanaticism is slowly prevailing over fair counsel.

Like in the rest of the country and the world, publications and websites have been at the vanguard of fundamentalist propaganda in Kerala, be it Hindu, Muslim or Christian. The evidences which various investigating agencies like Military Intelligence, IB, NIA are digging out underlines that Kerala could be on its way of becoming another Kashmir. Four terrorists killed in Kupwara in October, 2008, were Keralites. There is a Kerala connection to the bangalore bomb blasts too. Banned SIMI activists conducted training camps at Vagamon, Panayikkulam and the Green Valley in which notorious elements from all over India, including Kashmir, reportedly participated.

There was a discussion in the Kerala Assembly on July 13, 2010, during an adjournment motion on terrorist and communal activities. The Taliban courts and its existence in the state, various terror activities in the state like the Kozhikode bus stand twin bomb blasts, the Ernakulam Collectorate blast, recovery of huge catches of arms and ammunition and train sabotage activities at Nilambur were discussed there.

The Central agencies are monitoring the flow of funds from foreign countries through the global money transfer system, meant for anti-national activities.

A large cache of explosives and weapons were seized from the premises of a mosque at Manappuram near Edakkad in Kannur district in July, 2010, police spotted 300 detonators and explosives in a private bus in Edakkad. Weapons were also seized from many RSS activists. Such cases are reported with alarming regularity in the media. While replying to the adjournment motion in the Assembly, state home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said, 'It has come to the notice of the government that functionaries of the banned SIMI are working under the banner of NDF, Popular Front and the SDPI. There are reports of Taliban courts functioning in the state.'

In the Assembly, both fronts traded charges accusing each other of promoting communal forces in the state. But experts seem to agree that the demolition of the Babri Mosque at Ayodhya, consolidation of Islamist forces worldwide, 9/11 and the rise of global Muslim fundamentalism has had an impact on a section of the Muslims in the state.

There were allegations of luring of Hindu girls in love traps and later converting them into Islam. The term Love Jihad gained credibility once Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan and home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan repeated the same quoting Intelligence agencies.

Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief and former DGP Hormis Tharakan mentioned that many Kerala youths were trained in Pakistan in terror activists. Pak-sponsored ISI forces have contacts in the state, Union minister of state for home Mullappalli Ramachandran also admitted.

There are reports of container loads of counterfeit currency notes flowing to the state. This is in addition to the hawala money transactions. More than Rs 50,000 crore of hawala money is pumped into the state, said the state home minister in the Assembly.

Many workers of the banned SIMI have infiltrated into other Muslim front organisations and so-called human rights movements. There are reports that they are working as human rights activists in bodies like National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation (NCHRO). Whenever action is taken against them, these human rights bodies take up their cause.

Documents and charts unearthed by police during a raid recently on the Popular Front of India (PFI) reveal that PFI planned to set up `jihad' modules in the state for carrying out social, economic and political missions. The documents seized also reveal that the 'Freedom Parade' of August 15, now banned, was just a strategy to frighten people. Many of the PFI activists are former SIMI activists. Formed in 1993, the outfit has grown to a level so as to confront the CPI(M) in its bastion of Kannur. It has penetrated the IUML, INL and PDP, according to police sources. More than 1500 organisations in the state are receiving foreign funds, according to the state home minister. Reports have appeared that high-level police officials have apprised the government of the PDF raising 'highly organised cadres' which could be used as a 'fifth column'.

Chief minister V.S.Achuthanandan, said in a press conference at Delhi that the Popular Front was planning to make Kerala a Muslim majority state in 20 years. He alleged Muslim youths were trapping girls of other religions and converting them to Islam.

What Achuthanandan said in Delhi, he repeated in the Assembly. He read a portion from a leaflet of the Popular Front that 'No force can stop the establishment of Islamic rule in India'. In the Assembly, he said, 'I said this based on the reports of classes and propaganda by the subversive organisations known as NDF, Popular Front and SDPI. They are not the spokesmen of the Muslim community. They are whipping passions using religion.' Popular Front leader Nazaruddin Elamaram reacted to this by saying that the 'chief minister speaks in RSS language'.

The state home minister has also backed his chief minister. He said, 'Earlier, the Centre had banned SIMI. It has to be investigated whether the same SIMI is the Popular Front. Chopping of the hand of the professor was engineered to intensify communal tension. It was an experiment to test whether by acting as hardliners, Muslim believers can be attracted into the fold. The state has no power to inspect and plug the flow of foreign money and to monitor its usage. We will ask the Centre to provide the state with that power,' he said.

'The police and Intelligence agencies are keeping tabs on certain organisations that are working in the guise of human rights organisations. They are sourcing funds from political parties and religious organisations as also from abroad,' the home minister said in the Assembly. 'The state government will not allow any force to turn religious places into armouries,' he added.

Four Malayali youths were killed in an encounter with the security forces on the boarders with Pakistan. That exposed Kerala's link to terror groups, especially the Lashkar'e-Taiba. In a case of recruiting youths for terror training in Kashmir, 18 people were arrested in Kerala.

NIA said in court that the arrested terror accused Thadiyantavida Nazeer has a key role in imparting terror training in Kashmir. He is involved in the Kashmir recruitment case, Bangalore blast case, Kozhikode double explosions case and Kalamassery bus burning case, NIA told the court.

People's Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Abdul Naser Madani was arrested recently by the Karnataka police. A contingent of cops from Karnataka and Kerala took him into custody when he was coming out of his residence to surrender before a court. Ironically, the CPI(M) has had no qualms about sharing dais with him at Ponnani during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Fanatics and extremist forces were always there in Hindu, Christian and Muslim religions. But their striking power was negligible. The Gulf boom helped the Muslims of Kerala to establish direct contact with the world Muslim fraternity. Lucrative business ventures and holding of prime land in the heart of almost every city, coupled with political clout, elevated Muslims to higher social plane. Most Muslims do not want a communal flareup. Not without reason, the Indian Union Muslim League organised a meeting of different Muslim religious organisations at Malappuram to flay the hardliners and plan a campaign against terror groups. They want to distance themselves from hardliners like PDF, Jamaat-e-Islami and PDP.

IUML state president Panakkad Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal said, 'IUML has never compromised on the issue of opposing terrorism. We do not support those who act against the interests of the country and democracy.' Mosques are like open books and 'there is no need to store weapons in mosque,' he added.

Kerala's religious harmony is paving way to religious bigotry, rigidity and violence. It is interesting to note how extremist elements take revenge on liberal and progressive Muslims. It is now 17 years since Quran Sunnath Society leader Chekannur Moulavi was murdered by Islamic fundamentalists. On 1993, July 29 night, he was taken out from his house and since then no one has seen him. Local police and Crime Branch probed and the case reached nowhere. In 1996, the case was handed over to CBI. CBI found clinching evidences but the probe was scuttled by vested interests. Chembirikka-Mangalapuram Khasi, an Islamic scholar, and Samastha Kerala Jam-Iyyathul Ulema vice-president C.M. Abdulla Moulavi were found dead amid mysterious circumstances.

'I will oppose Popular Front, PDP, SIMI till my death. I don't want their votes,' Congress leader Aryadan Muhammed told the Assembly. Someone from the ruling LDF asked him whether he did not want League votes too. Aryadan retorted, 'If we leave League out, you will welcome them with open hands.' That speaks volumes of the politics of wooing communal groups.

Darul Khada is the religious court of the NDF. Ruling of Darul Khada court has led to 25 murders, according to CPI(M) leader P. Jayarajan.

Hatred is the new mantra. When fundamentalists propagate hatred, even their own community members are not safe. Unless strong steps and action are taken, the terror factory, still in relative infancy, will grow into a mass-production industry. The onus is on the political and security establishment to stop Kerala from turning into another Kashmir. K.M. Sharief

General secretary, Popular Front of India

Religion is not the culprit. Some people exploit religion for political interests. Mainstream parties are birds of the same feather. The Congress and the CPI(M) are the B and C teams of BJP. Only difference is that BJP has got their open agenda. But the others pretend to do something and execute something else. At the end of the day they are not in Muslim interest. IUML's base is shrinking because they don't address the core Muslim issues. PDP is not a grassroot organisation. They do not address the core issues either.

E. Abu Baker
National president, Social Democratic Party Of India

The crux of the problem is the Islamophobia raised by US and Israel. Its dimension is large in Kerala. Because, Christians are more attached to Western world. The banned book titled Chinvad Palam is an example. The chopping of the college teacher's hand is not justifiable. But, it is a fact that he committed blasphemy. 'Love Jihad' is another example. Even though the controversy was kicked off by the RSS, it was hijacked by the Church. Even though others keep on hurting Muslim religious sentiments, Muslims do not do it in return. While upper class Hindus and Christians rule the roost in the job market, it creates unrest in the minds of the members of other societies. Muslims have to fight social imbalance and achieve further progress.

Kummanam Rajasekharan
General secretary, Hindu Aikyavedi, Kerala

The philosophies which spread intolerance in the name of religion got acceptance in several parts of the world. This led to tension and enmity among organised religions. The paramount goal of religions to attain spiritual progress through individual progress has been given up. Some semitic religions promote intolerance and try to increase the prominence and influence of their own religions. But the great sages of India always upheld the stand of sarva dharma samabhava based on sanathana values. Therefore, they are dead against religious disharmony, intolerance and extremism.

Joseph Pulikkunnel
Director, Indian Institute of Christian Studies

It is true that religions are becoming more and more commercial and sale of spirituality has become common to all religions. But, the real spirituality of humaneness is getting lost in the process of commercial expansion. Prophet Mohammed declared in the first ayath that Allah is merciful and a sea of love but unfortunately many Muslim leaders have forgotten the words of the Quran. In the name of religion, religious people are being led to commit unmerciful acts. Real religion should go back to the source books, that is the Quran, the Bible and the Puranas so that they may know how God revealed himself in the history to the real faithful.

Fr Paul Thelakat
Spokesman, Syro Malabar Church

We live in a globalised world where identities are often threatened. Then there comes an easy way of finding identity in what my be called Hegelian tribalism. After all Hegel's politics was tribal politics of the Prussian State. His politics was one of war coming from dialectics. He wrote: 'With out its monarch ... the people are just formless multitude'.This takes a form of religiosity based on blood and soil and not on reason and equality. Democracy is a socio-political way of life based on moral reason and parliamentary debate.

M.K. Muneer
Leader, Indian Union Muslim League

It is not the spread of worship that builds up communalism. But it is the result of religion-based radical fundamentalism. They create disharmony. 'Mine is the best religion' is their policy. Now the situation has assumed such a dimension that even street goons claim religious leadership. When the chopping off of the teacher's hand took place, most Muslims denounced it. In Kerala, Sangh Parivar is not at all powerful to upset the secular equation, thanks to the strong stand of the mainstream parties like the Congress, the CPI(M) and IUML. BJP has not been able to open its account in the state Assembly. Hindus in Kerala are secular. Jamaat-e-Islami spearheads religious polarisation. This is a camouflage for grabbing power. But, the League stands for a secular society.

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Best Colleges - BBA
Over the last decade, with an influx of multinational companies redefining the job scene in India, the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) has not only emerged as a reliable alternative to the conventional B.Com, but as a course that can lay the foundation of a successful, lucrative career. Here is a list of some of the institutes that can help you shape up your dream.

1. Institute of Management Study (I.M.S.), Noida, U.P.
2. Chandigarh Business School, Landran, Punjab
3. Times Business School, New Delhi
4. Aurora's Business School, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
5. Shiva Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, U.P.
6. St. Mary's College of Engineering & Technology, hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
7. Jagan Institute of Management Studies, New Delhi
8. Christ University Institute of Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
9. P.E.S.I.M - P.E.S. Institute of Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
10. N.I. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies & Research, Thane, Maharashtra
11. Sharda University, School of Business Studies, Greater Noida, U.P.
12. Indraprastha University School of Management, New Delhi
13. Alliance School of Management, Bangalore, karnataka
14. Lovely Institute of Management, Phagwara, Punjab
15. Jagannath Institute of Management Science, New Delhi
16. I.I.M.T., Gurgaon, Haryana
17. Rai Business School, Faridabad, Haryana
18. Prestige Institute of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
19. Sherwood Education Group, Lucknow, U.P.
20. S.I.E.S. College of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

Best Colleges - BCA
BCA (Bachelor in Computer Application) is yet another new age course that has gained much currency amongst the youth. As Indians realised at the turn of the century that the future of the world was going to be defined by a 'click' and not a 'thud', they lost no time in gaining the know how of the wonder called computer. The pursuit is still on and the colleges listed here are only making it easier, if you are interested, that is.

1. Bankatlal Badruka College for Information Technology (B.B.C.I.T.), Hydrabad, Andhra Pradesh
2. College of Business Studies (C.B.S.) Delhi University, New Delhi
3. Guru Gobind Singh IP University, New Delhi
4. Institute of Management Study (I.M.S.), Kolkata, West Bengal
5. Institute of Technology and Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, U.P.
6. International School of Business & Research (I.S.B.R.), Chennai, Tamil Nadu
7. Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab
8. Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, New Delhi
9. National Institute of Management Studies (N.I.M.S.), Bangalore, Karnataka
10. Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab
11. Rajasthan Institute of Technology and Engineering Science, Kota, Rajasthan
12. Usha Martin Academy (UMA), Kolkata, West Bengal
13. Vellore Institute of Technology (V.I.T.), Vellore, Tamil Nadu
14. Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali, RAjasthan
15. Apeejay Institute of Management and Information Technology, New Delhi
16. Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana
17. Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
18. B.I.S. Institute of Management, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
19. C.M.S. College of Science and Commerce, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
20. College of Advanced Technology Studies (C.A.T.S.), Bangaore, Karnataka

Best Colleges - MEDICAL

This is a list of 30 of India's finest medical colleges. They deserve to be talked about and patronised much more than they generally are, especially in comparison with the top-ranking institutions that offer courses in medicine and its allied fields. Many of these colleges are located in tier-two cities of the country and enjoy a strong local presence. But they also attract students from elsewhere.

1. B.J. Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra
2. Medical College. B.V.U., Pune, Maharashtra
3. Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, Maharashtra
4. Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
5. K.J. Somaiya Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
6. Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
7. M.G.M. Medical College, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
8. Gajaraja Medical College, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
9. Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
10. R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
11. S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan
12. Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
13. A.C.S. Medical College & Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
14. Saveetha Medical College & hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
15. Vinayaka Mission's Kirupananda Variyar Medical College, Salem, Tamil Nadu
16. Rajah Muthiah Medical College, Annarnalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu
17. Meenakshi Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
18. Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu
19. Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur, Orissa
20. Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
21. Institute of Medical Science & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
22. V.S.S. Medical College, Sambalpur, Orissa
23. S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack, Orissa
24. Dr Abhin Chandra Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
25. Neelachal Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
26. Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
27. Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
28. Osmania Medical college, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
29. M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka
30. Government Medical College, Chandigarh

Best Colleges - LAW
With the addition of new subjects such as Cyber Law and Environmental Law, the field promises to grow more lucrative. No longer the compulsion to wear a black, heavy gown in Indian summers to make some money. Law graduates can now rake the moolah from the backroom too. Following is a list of colleges where you can get a good education in law, even if you don't make it to the top.

1. New Law College, B.V.U., Pune, Maharashtra
2. University of Pune, Department of Law, Pune, Maharashtra
3. D.Y. Patil college of Law, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
4. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Bachelor of aw, New Delhi
5. Jamia Millia Islamia, Faculty of Law, New Delhi
6. The Central Law College, Salem, Tamil Nadu
7. The Indian Law institute, New Delhi
8. M.S, Ramaiah Law College, Bangalore, Karnataka
9. B.M.S. College of Law, Bangalore, Karnataka
10. Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh

Best College - Science
Science is, for obvious reasons, among the more popular streams for students seeking a secure future. and these are some of the colleges that rank high in the public consciousness as far as their science faculties are concerned. Rajabazar Science College, Kolkata, for instance, offers high-quality post-graduate courses but is just as well-known for its B Tech programmes.

1. D. Y. Patil college of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra
2. Mahatma Phule College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Pune, Maharashtra
3. Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune, Maharashtra
4. Bethune College, Kolkata, West Bengal
5. Rizvi College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
6. Wilson College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
7. Ramjas College, New Delhi
8. Rajabazar Science College, Kolkata, West Bengal
9. Scottish Church College, Kolkata, West Bengal
10. Kirori Mal College, New Delhi
11. K J Somaiya College of Science & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
12. SGTB Khalsa College, New Delhi
13. Zakir Husain College, New Delhi
14. St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
15. SRM College of Arts & Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
16. Jupiter +2 Science College, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
17. Gargi College, New Delhi
18. Maitreyi College, New Delhi
19. Bhavan's Vivekananda College of Science, Humanity & Commerce, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
20. Chaitanya Degree College, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh

Best Colleges: Economics

These colleges located across the country may not rank alongside the Delhi School of Economics in terms of what they offer by way of instant snob value, but are good enough to equip students with a solid degree in their chosen field. The Economics faculty in Pune's S.P. College or New Delhi's I.P. College, just to name two, have an old and proud tradition.

1. S.P. College, Pune, Maharashtra
2. Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra
3. Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai, Maharashtra
4. I.P. College, New Delhi
5. Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, New Delhi
6. St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
7. Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, West Bengal
8. Maulana Azad College, Kolkata, West Bengal
9. Scottish Church College, Kolkata, West Bengal
10. BJB Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
11. R.D. Women's College, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
12. Rajdhani College, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
13. Ravenshaw University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
14. D.A.V. College, Koraput, Orissa
15. SCS Autonomous College, Puri, Orissa
16. Maitreyi College, New Delhi
17. R.A Podar College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai, Maharashtra
18. Wilson College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
19. Kamla Nehru College, New Delhi
20. Holy Cross College, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu

Best Colleges - ENGINEERING

If you haven't made it to one of the IITs or any of the top regional engineering colleges, it certainly isn't the end of the road for you? The 30 engineering colleges listed alongside are a great alternative. Strewn across the country, these colleges cater to wide cross-section of the population and not just to students from the metropolitan areas, which are well served anyways by a string of top institutions imparting education in the field of technology.

1. Vellore Institute of Technology (V.I.T.), Vellore, Tamil Nadu
2. B.V.U. College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra
3. Galgotia's College of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida, U.P.
4. G.L. Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management, Greater Noida, U.p.
5. Vels Univeristy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
6. St. Mary's College of Engineering & Technology, hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
7. Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran, Punjab
8. Dr D.Y. Patil College of Engineering and Technology, Pune Maharashtra
9. Stani Memorial College of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
10. J.J. College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
11. Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12. Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
13. N.I.T.T.E. Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
14. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
15. Rajdhani College of Engineering and Management, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
16. Haldia Institute of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal
17. The College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra
18. Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, New Delhi
19. Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
20. K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra
21. R.M.K. Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
22. Jaya College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
23. Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra
24. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka
25. P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
26. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
27. S.R.M. University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
28. N.I.T., Raipur, Chattisgarh
29. Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Kochi, Kerala
30. I.T.M. University, Gurgaon, Haryana

Best Colleges - ARTS
Methodology
Indian Council for Market Research (ICMR) conducted a perception survey to list colleges under different under-graduate streams such as Arts, Science, Commerce, Medical, Engineering and others. The survey was conducted in the metros (and educational hubs such as Bhubaneswar, Pune etc) amongst students, parents and faculty members to list colleges they would apply or had applied if they scored less than 90 per cent in their senior secondary exams. The students in their respective states have named colleges and hence a list of colleges was generated. However, since students are familiar with only colleges in their respective cities their regional bias is inevitable. Finally, a structured, open-ended questionnaire was circulated amongst a sample size of 1500 respondents. To support the survey we have also presented a short list of various new age courses. Here, it is important to note that the list is primarily based on responses and it is not comprehensive and may be used only for reference. The names of colleges in the list are placed randomly. Students/parents referring to the list are requested to check the colleges before applying.

This is a suggested list of the best colleges around India that offer courses in the Arts stream across various subjects. Although it is numerically dominated by colleges from four metropolitan cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai - the educational hub of Pune in Maharashtra (two colleges) and Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu (one college) are also represented.

1. Appasaheb Jedhe Arts, Commerce & Science College, Pune, Maharashtra
2. Camp Education Society's Arts, Commerce & Science College, Pune, Maharashtra
3. D.G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
4. Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, New Delhi
5. K.J. Somaiya College of arts & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
6. Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, New Delhi
7. Asutosh College, Kolkata, West Bengal
8. Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune, Maharashtra
9. SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
10. Symboisis society' College of Arts & Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra
11. Kamala Nehru College, New Delhi
12. Maitreyi College, New Delhi
13. Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
14. Anna Adarsh College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
15. St. Xaviers College, Tirumelveli, Tamil Nadu
16. D.G. Vaishnav College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
17. Dinabandhu Andrews College, Kolkata, West Bengal
18. Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata, West Bengal
19. Gargi College, New Delhi
20. Villa Marie College for Women, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Best Colleges - COMMERCE (B.Com)
These colleges might not have the profile of the Commerce faculty of Kolkata's St Xavier's College or New Delhi's famed Shri Ram College of Commerce, but they do run courses that are of the highest order, no matter how you look at it. As a case in point, students who get into Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai, can be sure of the best in the domain.

1. Mahatma Phule College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Pune, Maharashtra
2. D.G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
3. K.J. Somaiya College of arts & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra
4. Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai, Maharashtra
5. Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, New Delhi
6. Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, New Delhi
7. Janki Devi Memorial College, New Delhi
8. Mata Sundary College of Women, New Delhi
9. SRM University, School of Commerce & Economics, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
10. Asutosh College, Kolkata, West Bengal
11. Goenka College of Commerce & Business Administration, Kolkata, West Bengal
12. Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata, West Bengal
13. City College of Commerce & Business Administration, Kolkata, West Bengal
14. MES Degree College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Bangalore, Karnataka
15. R.D Women's College, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
16. NIIS Junior College & +2 Science and Commerce, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
17. Gargi College, New Delhi
18. R.A. Podar College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai, Maharashtra
19. Avanthi Degree College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
20. Badruka College of Commerce, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

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