Month-long State-level campaign of publishing house ‘Shanthi Prakashana’ with the name ‘Literature for Peace’ culminated on 1 December. Addressing the concluding programme of the campaign, Mohammed Kunhi, manager Shanthi Prakashana, said: “Islam was a secretive, unfamiliar and puzzling religion for Karnataka; there were no media that could take Islam’s message to the people. Shanthi Prakashana is playing the role of a medium that can take the message of Islam to Kannadigas.”
N S Shivarudra, Swami of the Belimatha Mahasamsthana, also echoed this view, and said there was no point in blaming others for the problems in the world. “Let us purify our own thoughts and actions,” he added. Former Union Minister and Congress leader, C.M. Ibrahim, said, “In fact, Islam says: give a little of what God has given to you to them.” Chairman of the Kannada Development Authority, Mukhyamantri Chandru, praised the efforts of Shanthi Prakashana for publishing books in Kannada for 25 years.