INDIA RAMPS UP SECURITY FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY

TERROR ALERT PROMPTS ALL-ROUND
SECURITY FOR I-DAY CELEBRATIONS IN INDIA
New Delhi (AFP) - India's prime minister says his government will take the strictest possible action against wrongdoers in a series of corruption scandals facing his government.  Manmohan Singh made the comments Monday from the ramparts of a 17th century fort during a speech marking the 64th anniversary of India's independence from British rule.  Police and soldiers were out in force across India on Monday as security was ramped up for Independence Day celebrations held in the shadow of blasts last month in Mumbai which killed 26 people.  A senior home ministry official said security measures were being increased in New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, as well as Mumbai, where police are probing the July 13 bombs.  The three coordinated explosions killed 26 and injured 130, but no group claimed responsibility and detectives have struggled to unearth who was behind the attack.  Indian President Pratibha Patil in her customary address on the eve of Independence Day called for heightened vigilance against militant attacks. 

“The attack in Mumbai last month is yet another grim reminder of the destruction that can be caused by terrorism,” she said in a nationwide broadcast on Sunday evening.  “We need to be ever-vigilant, to fight this menace which is a global phenomenon,” the president added.  The Press Trust of India (PTI) said thousands of police personnel were deployed in the national capital ahead of the celebrations, which mark India’s independence from British rule on August 15, 1947.  Heavily-armed commandos backed by snipers and rapid-action squads will guard the 16th-century Red Fort in the crowded centre of Delhi where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make his annual speech.  PTI reported “an impregnable ground-to-air security apparatus” was in place around the event.  Security was also raised in insurgency-hit Kashmir and India’s seven restive northeastern states including Manipur, where several separatist groups have asked people to boycott Monday’s celebrations.



Police have made elaborate security arrangements for the Independence Day celebrations today in India, with around 80,000 cops and over 20 companies of paramilitary forces being deployed in the capital.  Officials said they were keeping an eye on the markets as terrorist groups like the Indian Mujahideen had targeted these areas in the past.  After 64 years of independence, due to the prevalence of materialistic way of thinking which exists in most of the countries, Indian society are facing dominance of the western culture.  Day by day the influence of foreign culture is increasing in India.  


WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

In the long and difficult struggle to gain independence for India, Mahatma Gandhi encountered many set-backs. ... Gandhi had always said that real independence for India was not just to become free from British rule. It was also to become free of British culture and industrial way of life and to re-establish the traditional Indian village-based culture which he had always struggled for. He saw India’s destiny as different from that of the West:  “I feel that India’s mission is different from that of others. India is fitted for religious supremacy of the world. There is no parallel in the world for the process of purification that this country has voluntarily undergone. India is the land of duty, not the land of enjoyment.”  Consequently he foresaw disaster if India were to try in her new-found independence to imitate or compete with the West.  “European civilization is no doubt suited for the Europeans but it will mean ruin for India, if we endeavour to copy it.”




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“Hinduism & Ecology” Chapter Eight: “Village Economics”
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ELEPHANT GORES MAN TO DEATH IN INDIA

WILD ELEPHANTS KILL MAN  
INJURED OTHER PEOPLE IN INDIA
http://www.nydailynews.com - A man dies and several others injured as two wild elephants go on five-hour rampage through Mysore in southern India.  On of them gored a man to death after farmers chased it from a field outside the city.  Residents scattered as the young male charged through the city streets attacking vehicles on Wednesday.  The elephant later charged towards people who took cover on top of a staircase, and lunged at a car on a main street.  It turned on the victim in a doorway in an alleyway and gored him as residents looked on.  New Delhi Television news channel aired footage Wednesday showing the body of a man at the feet of one of the animals in the city of Mysore in Karnataka state.   Separate video footage also showed the animals roaming a local women’s college, chasing a bus, crushing parked motorcycles and attacking a cow.

The elephant was one of four that had earlier entered fields on the outskirts of Mysore after becoming separated from their herd, Press Trust of India news agency reported. Farmers chased the animals, sending two of them back into nearby forests. One pachyderm was later trapped at a farm, while the remaining elephant entered the city and was tranquillised.  Several people were injured during the five hours it took to tranquilise the animal, officials said.  Hundreds of people die in India annually when wild animals wander into cities as their habitats shrink and they have to range farther for food.  India’s parks face massive encroachment from people who live and forage in the forests or graze cattle there.



Two hulking elephants rampaged through a southern India city Wednesday, killing at least one man and causing widespread panic.  Video footage showed one of the elephants repeatedly goring and kicking a man’s lifeless body during a gruesome attack in a narrow alley, as horrified residents looked on.  After three hours, forest rangers from the Mysore zoo managed to capture both beasts using tranquilizer guns.  One official blamed the rampage on the push of human settlements into forested areas where elephants live.  Destroy the natural habitat brings unwanted reactions which could have been avoided. 


WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?   
Banwari explains how originally the land is covered with trees, but as the human population increases trees are cleared to make way for cultivation.  However, Vedic culture required that another kind of forest be established in its place. To remove the forest was simply not acceptable. It was the source of natural wealth such as fodder, timber, roots and herbs. Moreover the trees guaranteed the fertility of the soil and purified the air and water. Therefore the villages would each preserve sections of forest for their own specific needs. These forests were different from the Mahavana, the wild forest or jungle, because they were open for exploitation and harvesting according to strictly ecological practices. This kind of forest was called Shrivan, which literally means forest of wealth - they were the basis of the community’s prosperity.


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“Hinduism & Ecology” Chapter Two: “The World Forest”
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