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arlior this month at a sominar involving ndia-watohors

at homo and abroad, a mombor o tho so-oallod
'stratogio oommunity' linkod to tho provious UPA
Govornmont proorod a ourious insight into tho naturo o
ohango brought about by tho Narondra Modi Govornmont
whioh has |ust oomplotod a month in oioo. Aooording to
tho 'oxport', tho now Govornmont oamo into oioo with a
baggago o idoas that rangod botwoon tho advonturous
and tho outlandish. Howovor, ator assuming oioo and
boing briood by thoso in tho know o things, it had
booomo suitably sooialisod.
Thoro is no nood to mook this soomingly sol-sorving
assossmont. Many o tho idoas a party (and thoso in its
ooosystom) holds in opposition aro a oonsoquonoo o both
bolios and an outsido viow. Tho opaquo oulturo o
govornanoo doos not pormit Opposition partios to bo
awaro o tho totality o inormation that aoilitatos dooision-
making in Govornmont. Consoquontly, many o tho
positions takon in Opposition oton tond to bo moro ull o
oortitudos and loss nuanood than thoso who aro privy to
tho inormation systoms o tho stato. To that oxtont,
modiioation o oarlior hold viows aro not only nooossary
but ovon woloomo. Tho last thing a oountry oan aord is
idoologioal pig-hoadodnoss.
Yot, dospito boing awaro o tho nood or nooossary
shits, must oonoss to boing slightly unoasy with tho
smug assossmont o tho 'oxport': that tho moro things
ohango, tho moro thoy romain tho samo. s tho Modi
Govornmont, its woll-wishors may woll ask, going to bo
anothor variant o tho old Congross systom, alboit with loss
dishonosty and moro dooisivonoss?
t is roassuring that Primo Ministor Modi has addrossod
somo o thoso oonoorns in his oommunioation on tho
oooasion o tho irst month in powor. Yos, ho has admittod,
thoro aro pooplo both within and outsido tho Govornmont,
who aro avorso unsottling tho status quo. But ho is
porsonally oommittod to ohango and will do his bit to
onsuro that its momontum
is not arrostod.
Cynios may woll arguo
that loty pronounoomonts
moan nothing unloss thoy
aro translatod into roality.
At tho samo timo this
oommunioation is
important i only as a
romindor that tho PM has
not orgotton tho largor
politioal mossago o tho
2014 olootion vordiot. Tho
ndian olootorato broko tho
olootoral mould booauso
thoy didn't want oontinuity.
nstoad, thoy wantod Modi
to bogin writing a now
ohaptor o tho ndian
oxporionoo.
Modi has maintainod
that, idoally, ho would havo
likod to havo dovotod tho
irst throo months to
proparing or tho noxt 57
months at tho holm but
that suoh a study broak is
unlikoly. Ho is doad right. Thoso who woro takon by
surpriso at tho olootion rosults havo alroady rooovorod rom
thoir initial shook and aro gotting roady or thoir noxt big
pro|oot: tho doanging o Narondra Modi. This is not
booauso thoso aro ovil pooplo who aro dotorminod to lot
ndia languish at tho bottom o tho intornational pilo. t is
booauso thoro oxists an institutionalisod buroauoratio
inortia that dotors pooplo rom wanting to do things
diorontly.
Prodiotably, tho rosistanoo is groatost in tho pooplo
who aro alroady woll ontronohod in tho systom. rooontly
mot a Soorotary in tho Govornmont o ndia oooupying an
important position and askod him about Modi's plan to
stroamlino and ovon downsizo Ministrios. Ho smilod
bonignly and rotortod that or ovory dopartmont tho PM
imaginos is rodundant, two moro will probably bo sot up,
thanks in no small moasuro to Ministors who aro likoly to bo
moro malloablo to babu prossuro.
Tho top buroauorat wasn't wrong. Thoro aro many
politioians who havo roalisod thoir droam o boooming
Ministors, not booauso thoy havo a burning dosiro to
aohiovo somothing tangiblo, but booauso thoy lovo tho
paraphornalia aooompanying powor. To thom, tho rod
boaoon on tho whito Ambassador oar and tho two pilot
vohiolos (not to montion tho mandatory whito towol on tho
ohair) is a display o politioal olout that in turn loads to ovon
moro olout. Tho BJP may havo loss in thoir ranks o pooplo
who havo suoh an ornamontalist viow o politios most
Congross unotionarios appoar to havo boon born into it
but tho disoaso oxists nonotholoss. And with timo, tho
disoaso kills o ovory iota o dosiro to ushor roorm or
ohango, unloss thoro is an apparont oollatoral bonoit.
Thoso who watohod tho dogonoration o tho BJP in Uttar
Pradosh rom tho hoady Ayodhya movomont o 1990-91 till
tho timo Amit Shah rosouod tho party dramatioally oarlior
this yoar will undorstand what am talking about.
Tho tomptation to bo oo-optod by tho lino o loast
rosistanoo is ovorwholming and oan only bo ought i thoro
is dotormination at tho top. n prinoiplo, parliamontary
domooraoy avours a systom o Cabinot Govornmont.
Howovor, praotioo has domonstratod that Govornmonts aro
most oootivo oithor whon a motivatod Ministor is hoading
a dopartmont or thoro is a loador who is passionatoly
drivon. A oombination o tho two is idoal but until tho timo
tho ontiro politioal proooss ohangos or tho bottor, ndia will
havo to sottlo or top-drivon ohango. Tho olootorato knows
this and it is why it votod or a 'Modi sarkar'.
Modi has until tho Budgot o July 10 to proparo himsol
or a proooss o ohango that tho Finanoo Ministor's spoooh
must signal. t is possiblo that tho proooss o ohango will
involvo high risks and ovon somo toothing troublos. Ho
should livo up to his natural tomporamont and proparo to
aoo thoso orthrightly. Tho oountry is waiting or his load. t
won't wait indoinitoly.
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Those who were
taken by surprise at
the election results
have already
recovered from their
initial shock and are
getting ready for their
next big project: the
defanging of
Narendra Modi. This
is not because these
are evil people who
are determined to let
ndia languish at the
bottom of the
international pile
Modi must aoo risks
to bring in progross
khI kTTk Q hEw 0ELh
D
espite a weak economy, the
Modi Government is keen
on hiking the defence budget
by 15 to 18 per cent, which will
be one of the highest in the last
three decades, with the focus
mainly on sustaining the
momentum of modernisation
of armed forces. Notably, the
hiked budgetary allocation will
exclude inflation.
The UPA had in its first
term i n 2004 hi ked the
defence budget by more than
23 per cent. While it was a
hike of 17 per cent in 2013, the
defence budget during former
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhis
tenure witnessed an increase
in allocations by over 20 per
cent in 1986.
The proposed hike for
fiscal 2014-2015 is significant
as it is being planned despite
the galloping inflation and the
economy not in a good shape.
The UPA-I could go in for a
major jump as the NDA hand-
ed over to it a robust economy.
Subsequent years of the UPA
regime saw defence outlay
coming down to an average 10
to 12 per cent due to resource
crunch, sources said
In fact, the UPA-II dis-
pensation increased the outlay
in the interim defence budget
earlier this year by just 10 per
cent to cater to inflation. The
interim allocation was
C2,24,000 crore with C89,588
crore comprising capital expen-
diture and C1,34,212 crore as
revenue budget. Incidentally,
defence spending has dipped
below two per cent of the GDP
as compared to five per cent
spent by China and Pakistan
respectively.
Paucity of funds has hit
modernisation over the last few
years. The armed forces have
stressed this point in their pre-
sentations to Defence Minister
Arun Jaitley, who is also head-
ing the Finance Ministry. They
apprised the Minister that
besides low capital budget to
buy new weapons, the armed
forces were finding it difficult
to maintain their existing
armoury due to lack of spares.
Moreover, a substantial
part of the capital budget was
consumed for paying com-
mitted liabilities and install-
ments for earlier acquisitions.
And these contractual obliga-
tions will continue for some
more years.
Though the Defence
Ministry pitched for a 25 per
cent hike, it may have to be
content with 15 to 18 per cent
excluding inflation, the sources
said. Terming it as a big leap,
they said the hike will enable
some big deals like medium
multi-role combat aircraft
(MMRCA), six submarines
and infantry assault rifles.
More funds will also speed up
the raising of the Mountain
Strike Corps by the Army to
face any challenge from China.
Lack of funds has stalled
the MMRCA deal worth over
C45,000 crore, long range
artillery guns costing about
C20,000 crore and infantry
rifles worth over C10,000
crore. The contract negotia-
tions with French company
Dassault whose fighter jet
Rafale emerged as the lowest
priced are in the final stages.
Once the deal is inked, the
Government will have to pay
nearly C15,000 crore as the
first installment.
The UPA Government
could not finalise the deal due
to paucity of funds and more
allocations will enable the
Defence Ministry to ink the
contract, sources said.
The UPA Government had
given the nod for the Corps in
July last year.
It will require more than
C80,000 crore to recruit near-
ly 40,000 personnel and to buy
helicopters, howitzers and
other specialised weaponry,
besides creating infrastruc-
ture to fight a war in the
mountains.
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T
ragedy struck the congest-
ed Inderlok area in North
Delhi where a four-storey
building collapsed killing 10
people, including five children,
and leaving two others injured
on Saturday around 8.40am.
The 50-year-old building,
313/4C, caved in like pack of
cards as it foundation was
weakened due to illegal con-
struction on the adjacent plot.
The building was occupied
by 14 people belonging to four
different families who were
residing on different floors.
The menace of illegal con-
struction, negligence on the
part of the civic authorities and
a deep-rooted nexus among
building mafia, police, and
MCD officials was clearly indi-
cated in the reaction of the
North Delhi Municipal
Corporation (NMC) which
spared no time in suspending
the assistant engineer and the
junior engineer of the area
and ordering a probe. Sources
said that the Lieutenant-
Governor is closely monitoring
the situation and is constantly
in touch with senior officials.
North Delhi Mayor
Yogendra Chandolia reached
the spot and assured guilty offi-
cials will be punished.
Two officials have been
suspended. No one will be
spared, he told the media pre-
sent at the site of tragedy.
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Detailed reports on P3
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
I
n the latest irritant, the
Chinese Government has
shown Arunachal Pradesh as
part of its territory in a new map
released recently prompting a
strong reaction from New Delhi,
which said that cartographic
depiction does not change the
reality on the ground and that
the North-Eastern State is an
integral part of India.
Incidental ly, Beijings
move has come at a time
when Vice-President Hamid
Ansari is on a five-day visit to
China on an invitation to
commemorate 60 years of
Panchsheel.
It also comes close on the
heels of reports that Chinese
troops i ntruded i n the
Pangong Lake in Ladakh while
two of its helicopters violated
ai rspace i n Joshi math
(Uttarakhand), cl ose to
Badrinath shrine.
China has always staked
claim to parts of Arunachal
and this new map shows
majority of the State as part of
Southern Tibet.
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Q FAhAJ/BAh0AL0RE
A
day after former Defence
Minister AK Antony
stirred a hornets nest by ques-
tioning Congress secular cre-
dentials, party general secretary
Digvijay Singh on Saturday
created a controversy by claim-
ing that Congress vice-presi-
dent Rahul Gandhi does not
have a temperament to rule.
Singh, in an interview to a
local cable news channel in
Goa said that the Gandhi
scions primary concern was
fighting injustice.
He is by temperament
not a ruling person. He is by
temperament, someone who
wants to fight injustice, Singh
was quoted as saying by
the channel.
But with his comments
creating a stir, Digvijay has-
tened to clarify that all that he
meant was to suggest Rahul
doesnt hanker for power.
On his arrival in Bangalore,
he told the media, I said he is
always fighting against injustice
and therefore he is not for
power. He is aggressive when it
comes to fight for injustice.
That is the difference between
him and us.
Turn to Page 4
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P
ushing party MPs to adopt
themselves to higher-level of
aachaar, vichaar and vyavahaar,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on Saturday asked first-time
BJP parliamentarians to draw a
six-month road map for their
respective constituencies, take
their work as lawmakers seri-
ously, avoid airing differences in
public, use social media exten-
sively and be focused on the
larger task of fulfilling the peo-
ples aspirations.
In a motivational speech to
around 161 members of the
Lok Sabha and 18 of the Rajya
Sabha at Surajkund, Haryana,
Modi said they have a long way
to go as a member of the trea-
sury side and should not get
disillusioned by small issues as
there is no full stop in politics.
His address to the new
MPs was the latest in the series
of Modi-speak. He had earli-
er outlined the dos and donts
to his Council of Ministers,
Union Secretaries, party gen-
eral secretaries and workers
ever since his party won a clear
mandate on May 16 and he
took over the reins of
Government on May 26.
To be an MP is an impor-
tant thing and one must look at
it seriously. Remember, people
are observing your perfor-
mance not only in the House
but even outside. Our transition
from Opposition to Treasury is
not limited to moving a few feet
to the other side. This is a sig-
nificant transition and we must
try to appreciate the meaning of
this, Modi, also a first-time MP,
said at the two-day workshop in
the suburbs of Delhi.
The training and orienta-
tion camp for BJP MPs is being
attended by Union Home
Minister and party president
Rajnath Singh, Urban
Development Minister
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Chennai: Two persons were
killed and over 50 others
feared trapped when an
under-construction 11-
storey building collapsed
near suburban Porur on
Saturday. Rescue efforts
were on by multiple agen-
cies, including National
Disaster Response Force
(NDRF).
Detailed report on P4
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W
ith the scrapping of the
controversial Four-Year
Undergraduate Programme
(FYUP), the fate of over 3,000
Delhi University students, who
had enrolled themselves in
BTech and Bachelors in
Management Studies (BMS)
courses last year, hangs
in balance. As these two new
courses, along with FYUP, did
not get necessary statutory
approvals, uncertainty prevails
over the status of these courses.
Meanwhile, the Delhi
University announced that the
admissions process will com-
mence on July 1 with cut-off
being expected to be out on
Monday night. The second
cut-off list will be released on
July 4.
While BTech was a com-
pletely new course introduced
with FYUP in 2013, BMS was
offered after combining three
existing courses BA
(Honours) in Business
Economics (BBE), Bachelor of
Business Studies (BBS) and
Bachelor of Financial and
Investment Analysis (BFIA).
The University Grants
Commission (UGC) Standing
Committee had recommended
in its first meeting that students
already under the BTech and
BMS programmes must be
given the degree as per what
they were promised.
A member of the UGC
Standing Committee said on the
condition of anonymity, Since
the Ordinances under FYUP is
no longer stay, BTech naturally
will go. However, we have pro-
posed for them (students) to get
the degree as per what the uni-
versity promised them during
admission. The university is
legally bound to do so.
The UGC Standing
Committee is likely to meet on
Monday to deliberate and take
a decision on the matter
regarding the enrolled BTech
and BMS students.
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Related story, complete
admission schedule on P3
Since the
Ordinances under
FYUP is no longer
stay, BTech naturally
will go. However, we
have proposed for
them {students] to
get the degree as
per what the
university promised
them during
admission. The
university is legally
bound to do so
~ MEMBER OF THE
UGC STANDNG
COMMTTEE
COURSE
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ptimus Prime is back but only
as a pale shadow of his former
self, ailing, unable to stand and
disguised as a weatherbeaten truck at a
remote Mexican junkyard, fished out
by a man who lives in a mortgaged
cottage in Texas and calls his barn the
junk innovation centre.
However, the junkyard was a safe
haven from where this prime autobot
had hidden himself for four years as
some unscrupulous elements in the
human world had started hunting
them down for extinction.
As these friendly sentinels are
being systematically chased, trapped
and destroyed by a scientist and his
goons wanting to finish any alien trace
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he way the movie starts absolutely
brilliant. The suspense builds up
good. The manner in which the leads are
introduced refreshingly different. But
the way the story progresses is confusing,
boring and repetitive. Thumbs down to
Mohit Suri for presenting a good story in
such a twisted manner.
But one thing is constant about the
film its indeed a story about villainy at
its best. Nowhere has the director tried to
compromise on that element. Kudos to
him for sticking to his Ravan Raj and
hoping the audience will appreciate his
effort. Its a film that demanded good acting
and his cast does not disappoint.
Sidharth Malhotra as a good-boy-
turned-goon is good in parts. Although
one feels he couldve looked more ominous
when he wants to avenge the death of his
loved one. Riteish Deshmukh is a surprise
package as an out-and-out psychopath and
is quite convincing in his role. Shraddha
Kapoor too has done well as a bubbly do-
gooder. The only problem is with the story
which is very confusing and seems illogical
in every context. Why would a person let
go of his wifes murderer and a serial killer
just because he wants to award him
maximum pain? Queries like this remain
unanswered. Watch this film if you are
bored of the slapstick comedies being
served to you week after week. Its a pretty
good change if youve no problems with
Remo Fernandes playing a ganglord who
mouths abuses in a sing-song voice. No,
seriously. Deebashree Mohanty
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literally nurses him back to life.
Transformers 4 is engaging fare,
more machines than humans, which
could have become absolutely gripping
had it not been so inordinately long (it
is over two hours and 45 minutes
which is like Bollywood length) and
sometimes even repetitive.
The action is well crafted, full of
rollercoaster rides and, all that metal is
prevented from getting you down
completely by weaving in some
moving emotions in the struggling to
survive transformers.
The idea is to sweep you off your
feet and everything is done to achieve
that target. The film, though similar in
content, is quite the force it is meant to
be. Not to be missed.
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hu0h LAuRE, who lays 0r 0regory house in
lhe medical drama house M0, says lhal i he
weren'l an aclor, he would have been a rockslar
QHas the show made you a
better or a worse person?
I hope, Im a better person
(touch wood) because of the
show. I havent been on the
inside of a hospital, on the
other side of things, so dont
know how I will be if I were to
ever be on that side.
QYour father was a doctor.
How much do you take from
your father on the show?
Quite a lot, although he was
nothing like the actual character
of House MD. His practice of
medicine gave me a sort of
respect for it and reverence for
it in some ways for the
scientific, logical, rational and
empirical thought. He was a
very wise man, a very sane man.
He could not be swayed by
sentiment. That makes him
sound harsh, but it was just the
opposite.
QWhat if you werent an actor?
What would you be doing?
I would be a rockstar. But to
be honest, I still feel that Im sort
of looking for a calling. I realise
Ive just reached 50 and the
shadows are lengthening, and its
about time I have actually
worked out a plan. But Ive never
really had one. Maybe its
something to do with not having
trained to do this. Im very aware
of the fact that everyone I work
with have trained and studied to
be where they are today and I
dont have any. Thats probably
always led me to feel more like
an amateur drifter.
QAfter all these years of
playing this character, how
much of Dr House is in you?
None. Its just a character
that I am playing. The
director has given me the
lines and tells me what to
do. I follow the instructions
and the script. In fact,
theres much more of Dr
House in David Shore, the
writer. Shore is much closer to
House, intellectually. Hes a
very self-possessed and
healthy, pragmatic person.
QDr House is self-
destructive. Would you
agree?
Self-destructive is a
very big work to use, it
sounds very grand. He
is a genius and opines
that the people
around him should
also be on the same
wave length as him.
Of course, that cant be possible
there is only one Dr House.
The fact that he is made to do
mundane things like treat
outdoor patients instead of
spending his time with more
serious cases makes him what
you see in the series.
QYou had said you enjoy
watching TV. Do you still get
time to do so?
Usually, I end up watching
Law & Order pretty much any
time. I tend to watch things that
are not in my field. Also Family
Guy is brilliant. It is one of the
greatest things Ive ever seen.
QWhat do you do when not
working?
I play the piano. I ride a
motorcycle and I am in the ring
boxing.
QDo you sometimes get tired
of the character?
I get angry with myself a lot,
yes. But thats always been the
case. I dont blame Dr House for
that. I am not a perfectionist in
that sense, I just have an idea in
my head about how it should be
and if I cant get it, its frustrating.
B
auji... aeeye aeeye... apna ashirwad toh
dete jaiye... said comedienne Rajesh
Kumar as he coaxed Alok Nath to step
up on the stage and deliver a few ashirwads
(read lines). In his usual benevolent manner,
bauji opened his own special box of
sanskaars ditties and blessings.
No, Alok Nath isnt promoting his latest
spoof or film, he isnt even playing the lead
of yet another sanskaari show on the soap
dish. But Bauji is a part of a sitcom! You
heard that right, Alok Nath is very soon
going to grace the small screen as the head
of this funny and mad family on SAB TV.
And its not just him who is at the butt of
this joke. Bauji has the versatile Supriya
Pathak (who plays an obsessed mausi) and
Apara Mehta (who is a saas figure) among
other renowned TV actors.
Sounds different? The concept of
stand-up comedy on TV is pathbreaking
and never tried before. The USP are the sets
that have been divided into four parts on a
single stage like cubical boxes. Though there
will be a live audience, there are no judges.
The show has no vulgar or toilet humour,
its a light hearted entertainment show that
one can watch with everybody, Anooj
Kapoor, senior EVP and business head, SAB
TV says. He tells you that its the presentation
that makes Agal Bagal..., unique.
Each episode will have at least three-four
actors tackling a comic take on the day-to-
day problems that people face. With a live
audience to cheer up the actors, this hatke
comedy promises to tickle the funny bone
like none else. Weve kept things very subtle
and basic and played around with the
character names like Khandavi, Khakara,
Laal, Pillu etc. Every episode will be based
around issues that concern aam aadmi. Its
not going to be a
satire, but a
comic take on
the situation,
Ranjit Thakur,
the producer of
TMABH tells you,
adding that this is
how American
sitcoms are shot.
Stand-up comedy on
TV presented in a
sidcom format has never
been done before in
Hindi GEC space. Like
always we wanted to
start a trend, Thakur
says.
Most of the actors in
this show have already
tried their hands with
comedy and have
carved a niche for themselves in this genre.
Take Supriya Pathak for instance, who
became a household name after Khichdi
serial. The best part of this sitcom is that
it is not loud, its a natural situational comedy
where a simple dialogue delivered with a
straight face will make the viewers laugh. Im
playing mausi who wants to take credit for
everything all the time, Pathak tells you.
While Pathak will ensure that the
loveable mausi appeals to one and all, Rajesh
Kumar as Laal is all set to make some funny
jigs. And it isnt always about the director
giving instructions to the starcast that
makes a comedy show work. According to
Kumar, the persons experience and his
creativity is equally responsible for making
a show a runway success.
Since all the actors in this show are
from the theatre background, we understand
the format and prefer to shoot at one go.
Apart from the director, we also keep a check
on each others part and try to put in extra
effort to make a particular sequence appear
more funny. The comedy here depends on
a situation and its the enactment that will
generate the fun element where every actor
plays the lead role, Kumar says.
While the other actors are busy with
interviews and posing for photo-ops, one
finds Abhishek Awasthi sulking in a corner.
Im happy and nervous at the same time.
Excited to be a part of the show and nervous
because SAB TV is known for its comedy
shows. Will our show also fade away into
oblivion?, Awasthi voices his concern. But
Kumar is confident that the show and the
cast will go on and on. Its a in-house
challenge for us and well do all it takes to
be the numero uno comedy show on SAB
TV itself, a confident Kumar says.
Apara Mehta, one of the lead characters
of Tu Mere... is upset about the sad state
of shows being aired on TV. She tells
you that showmakers lack creativity
and ideas for fresh content. When
any TV show starts, it claims to offer
something different to the viewers,
but eventually it moves away from
the original track. A six-month show
is stretched to two to three years. The
result, the soap fails to hold the
audiences attention.
There is an urgent need to
revamp the TV viewing experience.
Everything has become plastic.
Viewers want content where
they can relate to it. TV has
influencing power and its
our (the actors) moral
responsibility to show
good content,
Mehta says.
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hosl o olher lalenled aclors are all sel lo be your agal bagal wilh lheir lalesl
silcom on SAB Tv. 'l's a comedy lake on issues concerning aam aadmi and lhe
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and memes online declares lhal even lhough lhe joke
is on him, he doesn'l mind il. SAh0EETA YA0Av lells
you why he is lhe world's grealesl bauji
QHow has your popularity as
the sanskaari babuji impacted
your acting career?
I must admit, the moment
I became the butt of all social
networking jokes, my career
took up by leaps and bounds.
Suddenly offers stared pouring
in from all different quarters. It
was almost as if, logo ke liye
mein phir se zinda hogaya.
With SAB TVs TMABH, Ill
get to explore different layers of
comedy. Ive a film under the
Yash Raj banner titled Kill Dill
where I ll be playing a
humourous character.
Dil Phere is a movie with
Karan Kundra. The third film
is titled Aayi Bala Ko Taal Tu
where Ill be playing an
opportunist politician. The
story is on how corruption
has spread its roots in
providing better
bathroom facility in
India.
QWhen did you
realise that you
could attempt a
comedy role?
Its very
strange that I
havent been
offered a comedy
film or serial till so
late in my career. Ive
always been ready to
take it up. But casting
directors werent too
eager. Although
TMABH is my debut
in a comedy TV show,
I feel as if Ive been a part
of comedy shows from
my early days. I used
to do a lot of comic
plays on theatres.
Buniyaad left a lasting image
and until last year, it became
very difficult for me to break
that image of serious and
religious head of the family and
a righteous father.
I left everything in Delhi
and came to Mumbai to pursue
my acting career. I started
earning by doing TV shows,
got fame and money but with
that a lot of expenses also
added up which I wasnt able to
afford. I moved to movies
where I was getting similar
kind of roles which I didnt
want to do and became jobless.
Eventually, I had to accept
whatever came my way.
QWere you upset upon seeing
the memes on you?
We were all condoling
Farooq Sheikhs demise when
someone pulled a prank on the
Internet declaring my death
and what would follow. I was
completely unaware about the
activities online. It was only
when my wife started asking
me strange questions like
whether I slapped someone out
of anger is when I got curious.
I went to my children Junhai
and Shivank and they
showed me the babuji
jokes on Twitter. At that
time, I was quite upset.
But my children said it is
fine and asked me to
take it as a joke.
QHow did you
end up being a
part of the
Kejriwal spoof?
My daughter
wants to be a
director and
works as a comic
sketch artist in All
India Bakchod
who made jokes on
Kejriwal. Her team
thought of a spoof
involving babuji
giving his
ashriwad to
Kejriwal and Junhai was
very upset that I was
being dragged into this
joke. But I wanted to do the
spoof for real. She was
thrilled when I told her that
I was willing to be a part
of the spoof. I became a
rapster in one night!
QHow did you meet the man
behind babuji jokes?
I was at a news channel for
an interview when a man
introduced me to this young lad
who was supposed to be the
brain behind the babuji jokes.
I took out my chappal and
headed towards him. He started
begging for my forgiveness but
he was pleasantly surprised
when I hugged him back. I said
thank you for this fame.
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After making a dhamekedaar entry with Zubeida, Singh has been in the thick of things,
signing up for films like Jail, Tere Bin Laden and Khiladi 786, and having worked on TV
shows like 24 and Sapno Ke Bhanwar Mein. But the learner in him is never satisfied and
pushes him to give his best. Singhs upcoming films have a refreshing storyline and he plays
varied characters. The suave actor chats with SANGEETA YADAV
Q You started off as an actor in
Shyam Benegals Zubeida in 2001 and
then Khiladi 786 happened with
Akshay Kumar. How has the journey
been?
Its been great. I owe my success to
veteran director Shyam Benegal who is
a brilliant tutor. Even now, he has a lot
to share. I am also in awe of Madhur
Bhandarkar who believed in me for
playing such an important role in Jail.
Till now, that has been one of my finest
performances. But it was Khiladi 786s
director Ashish R Mohan and co-actor
Akshay Kumar who helped me carve out
a place for myself in this industry.
QYou are a part of many big banner
films this year. Nervous?
I have an impressive line-up for this
year Abhishek Sharmas Tere Bin
Laden 2, Chandraprakash Dwivedis Zed
Plus and John Abrahams 17 Ko Shadi
Hai. And the roles are very varied. Tere
Bin Laden 2 is a situational comedy, Zed
Plus is a socio-political satire and in 17
Ko Shadi Hai, Im playing a corporate
honcho whose marriage is on the rocks
but by as the film ends, everything
changes.
QHow did you prepare for these
roles?
For TBL 2, we had a workshop
where we tried to get into the old mould
and rejuvenate ourselves with the new
storyline. I like to do my homework
before taking up any project. For Zed
Plus, I went to the CRPF and undertook
NCC training. I met the DIG and IG of
Rajasthan who made me interact with
jawans and taught me about ranks.
QDefine yourself as an actor?
Acting is all about being versatile
and I try to imbibe that. Though its
been over a decade in the industry, I still
consider myself an acting student and
learn from every moment. Its just a
foundation stage for me and Ive to go
a long way.
QHave you learnt that the hard way?
I believe that if success takes time,
dont let failure build bitterness in you.
That will ruin your life and spoil your
relations. I did not let success take over
my learning attitude. I have seen many
people who become egoistic after their
success and make mistakes and I dont
want to be counted as one of them.
QAre you a method actor?
There is only one formula that
drives me be a good human being
and stay cordial, even with people who
dont like you. My aim is to focus on my
job.
I can
never stop
learning
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T
wo women, who were
known to the 50-year-old
cable TV operator Tarun Bajaj,
purportedly killed him. New
Rajinder Nagar-based busi-
nessman was found brutally
murdered at his residence on
Wednesday. The accused had
been visiting his residence for
quite some time. Along with
their two aides, the women
murdered Bajaj for money as
they had learnt he had
deep pockets.
All the four accused per-
sons identified as Sooraj, alias
Sahil (24), Mohit Sharma, alias
Sunny (19), Pooja (26) and
Munni, alias Moni (19) have
been arrested. Sooraj and Pooja
are a married couple with a six-
month-old son. Sooraj is
Pooj as second husband.
Moni, who works in a beau-
ty salon, was the first to be
arrested from her home in
Sultanpuri. Her interrogation
led to the arrest of the other
accused who had fled to
Dehradun in Uttarakhand.
These arrests were made on
Saturday morning, said Joint
Commissioner of Police
(Central) Sandeep Goel.
Duri ng i nvesti gati on,
police examined footage of
CCTV cameras installed in the
area and found two men on a
motorcycle who had reached
the spot wearing shirts but
were seen leaving the place in
T-shirts. From the phone
records of Bajaj, police zeroed
in on one Pinky, another
alleged call girl, who had been
in constant touch with Bajaj on
her mobile phone. Pinky
denied her role in the crime
but sounded out the cops on
the accused wanting her to be
a partner-in-crime. But, she
had a change of heart. Or
maybe she got cold feet.
Interrogation of the accused
revealed that Pooja and Moni
used to visit Bajajs home for the
past year-and-a-half. Since the
two women were aware of
Bajajs sound financial health
and that he kept his cash at
home, they hatched a plan with
Poojas husband Sahil to rob
Bajaj; Sunny too was roped in.
Police sources also reveal Tarun
Bajaj was stabbed during
sexual intercourse.
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fter fortifying its
connectivity, Ghaziabad
Development Authority (GDA)
now wants to turn the city into
a nature haven. Concretisation
concerns have forced the
authority to sit up and take
notice. The heavy influx of
migrants is choking the city.
Though solutions were
identified long ago, lack of
vision and adequate funds are
pushing the city to the brink.
This puts enormous strain on
the already fragile
infrastructure in Ghaziabad.
In an effort to counter
rampant concretisation, GDA
is working on a proposal to cre-
ate a 100-acre city jungle as
well as a city lake of the same
size within the district. GDA
officials said the venture aims
to improve the ecological
health of the city and to make
the venues exciting
adventure spots.
Officials said the city
jungle will have a heavy tree
cover as well as walking paths
and benches. The 100-acre city
lake will also be cultivated as a
travel destination.
Ghaziabads infrastruc-
ture is already creaking under
the sheer numbers of migrants
given how this city is connect-
ed to three national highways.
The Hindon riverbed will
hence, be developed into a
100-acre forest with over
50,000 trees some with
medicinal value planted over
5-acre at a cost of C15 crore
and will serve as the lungs of
the city already gasping for air,
said Santosh Yadav, vice-
chairman, GDA, adding,
Composted cow manure will
be used and will add generous
amounts of organic matter to
the soil. Murram (red sand)
roads would be built. A
deer park too will be created
for children.
A memorandum of under-
standing (MoU) has already
been inked with Delhi Metro
Rail Corporation (DMRC).
Earlier GDA had developed
Kanha Upvan, cattle ground of
the city municipal corporation.
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deep-rooted nexus
between the municipal
corporations in Delhi and
local police is primarily to be
blamed for rampant illegal
constructions even as the
tedious process to get the
building plans sanctioned
compels one to opt for illegal
means. All measures of the
municipal corporations to
curb illegal construction have
failed to bear fruit in the last
one decade. The monitoring
committee formed by the erst-
while MCD, the panel of struc-
tural safety engineers and even
the recent orders of the
Lieutenant Governor Najeeb
Jung to remove illegal con-
structions have failed to curb
the menace even as one after
another collapses have claimed
dozens of lives.
The situation is too grave
in the Old Delhi, which is
densely populated with nar-
row bylanes and bustling with
a host of commercial activi-
ties. The recent incident of
building collapse in Bara
Hindu Rao, Sadar Bazar and
the latest in Inderlok on
Saturday is a testimony to this.
Taking a strong view of the
same, Lieutenant Governor
Najeeb Jung had directed the
North Del hi Muni cipal
Corporation (NMC) to act
against illegal construction
and restore the heritage of the
Walled City. Officials said the
civic body has found rampant
unauthorised constructions
in areas like Kucha Ghasi
Ram, Kucha Mir Ashique,
Kaudia Pul and Kinari Bazar
of the Walled City.
However, sources in the
NDMC said the illegal con-
structions are rampant essen-
tially because of the hassles
involved in getting the build-
ing plans sanctioned. Because
of the unnecessary delays by
the local body in sanctioning
of building plans, people tend
to raise illegal constructions.
The structural safety aspect is
often compromises in the
process leading to mishaps,
said a source.
It is pertinent to mention
that three persons were killed
and 12 others injured when a
three-storey under-construc-
tion building collapsed in
Sadar Bazar area recently. In
its pre-monsoon survey for
the first four months of the
year, the NMC had found 140
buildings in North Delhi as
dangerous. A total of 144
buildings were identified as
dangerous for the period,
with Sadar Paharganj zone
alone accounting for 137 such
structures, according to the
survey report recently
released by the NDMC. While
one building in Karol Bagh
Zone and four in the City
Zone were identified as dan-
gerous, two structures were
flagged in Rohini Zone where
partial demolition has taken
place, officials said.
Cailal's building
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t was a black Saturday for
two daily-wagers Mohd
Rashid (31) and Mohd Naeem
(38), occupants of the ill-fated
four-storey building, which
caved in on Saturday morning
in Inderlok. Both Rashid and
Naeem lost their wives and
children in the tragedy.
At t he t i me of t he
incident, Rashid and Naeem
were asl eep. They were
safely extricated from the
debris by locals. The duo
sustained grievous injuries
and recuperating at Bara
Hindu Rao Hospital.
Now they have to start
their life from scratch. It will
be really tough for them to pull
it off as they have lost their
family members and are
homeless now, said
Mohammad Atiq, a relative
of Rashids.
Mohammad Sultan, a res-
ident of the area, said, We are
in a state of shock and
feeling utterly helpless.
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A slee tlat was nigltmare
1une 1, Z014: Three eole were
killed and 12 olhers, including
lhree women, injured when
a lhreesloreyed under
conslruclion building collased in
lhe congesled Sadar Ba/ar area
o 0ld 0elhi. The main reason or
lhe collase was lhe use o oor
conslruclion malerial.
Ieb 17, Z014: Two women died
and lwo olhers were injured
when lhe lo lwo loors o a
lhreesloreyed building, owned
by lhe inlaws o crickeler
virender Sehwag, collased in
lhe Sadar Ba/ar area o
Cenlral 0elhi due lo ils
dilaidaled condilion.
rI 16, Z013: A woman and her
lwoyearold daughler died while
lhe olher amily members were
injured when lhe singlesloreyed
house in which lhey lived
collased in 0elhi's Kashmere
0ale area as lhe building was in a
delorable slale.
rI 9, Z013: Two eole were
killed and one erson was hurl
when a 5Oyearold lhree
sloreyed building collased in lhe
Sadar Ba/ar area. The building
was in a dilaidaled condilion. An
MC0 oicial had asked lhe owner
lo evacuale lhe residenls and
renovale lhe house.
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New Delhi: Following the Saturday morning building collapse incident, the North Delhi Municipal
Corporation (NMC) suspended the assistant engineer and junior engineer of the area and ordered
an inquiry into the building collapse. The Commissioner has ordered an inquiry into the
incident under Additional Commissioner (Engineering) of the corporation and errant civic
officials in this connection will not be spared, if found guilty of any irregularity, NMC
spokesperson Yogendra Singh Mann said. An NMC team is working at the spot to remove the
debris. Mann sought to rule out presumption that it was an illegal construction saying the
structure was not raised but only the foundation digging in the neighbouring plot was going
on. A notice was also sent to the neighbouring plot to stop construction earlier, but by
continuing to dig, they have violated the order and hence due action will be taken against that
party, if found guilty post the municipal inquiry, he said. Staff Reporter
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T
hough University of Delhi
is working out to devise a
formula to migrate students
studying under the scrapped
four-year undergraduate
programme (FYUP) to the
three-year course, students
studying BTech under it are full
of anxiety of what the future of
their career may be with
this revocation.
While recommendations
to allow the current batch to
pursue this degree have been
placed, no final decision has
been taken yet.
A recommendation was
put in unanimity that the
BTech students should be
allowed to get their degree as
it is not the students fault.
The UGC has also given an
assurance to students that a
decision in the best of their
interests will be taken, said
Nandita Narain, president
Delhi University Teachers
Association (DUTA) and
member of the Standing
Committee of UGC.
However, students who
enrol led in the BTech
programmes last year have
submitted several memoranda
to the Ministry of
Human Resource Development
(MHRD), University Grants
Commission (UGC) and DU
seeking an assurance that their
interests will be kept in mind.
They also demanding that
they should be awarded a
BTech degree not BSc as it
was being touted.
We have submitted a
memorandum to the joint
secretary MHRD RP Sisodia,
but no one is ready to give us
a written assurance. This is a
pressing time for us, said
Akshay Kachroo f rom
Maharaja Agrasen College
who had taken admission to
this programme last year.
Prashita Jaishwal from
Indraprastha College for
Women added, No one wants
to say anything about what will
happen to us. We joined Delhi
University because we wanted
a BTech degree and not a
BSc degree.
Students are mai nl y
worried about the validity of
the course. Ansh Goyal, a
student protesti ng at
North Campus said, We left
a lot of other courses and
came to DU to do BTech. We
are now feeling like it was
t he bi ggest mi st ake of
our lives. I hope we get a
valid degree.
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Admission & Faymenl o Fees Tuesday 8 July lo Thursday 1O July u lo 1 FM`
Fourlh Lisl by Colleges (i any) Friday 11 July
Admission & Faymenl o Fees Friday 11 July lo Salurday 12 July u lo 1 m`
Filh Lisl by Colleges (i any) Monday 14 July
Admission & Faymenl o Fees Monday 14 July lo Tuesday15 July u lo 1 m`
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T
wo men were arrested by
the South Delhi police for
allegedly raping two women
from Africa at a flat in Sarojini
Nagar on Friday afternoon.
The victims are from Tanzania
in East Africa, police said.
The arrested accused have
been identified as Satish Singh,
27, a resident of RK Puram and
Kunal, 26, who lives in North
Delhi's Shastri Nagar with his
family. One of them is a disco
jockey while the other accused
works as a manger with an
event management company.
A senior police officer said
the crime came to their notice
at around 4.30 pm on Friday
when they received a call at the
police control room regarding
a quarrel between two parties
in Sarojini Nagar.
"A police team reached
the place from where the call
was made. Two Tanzanian
women who were present there
that they were raped by two
men at their friend's flat. The
women were brought to the
Sarojini Nagar police station
and their complaint was regis-
tered. Accordingly, a case was
registered and the two accused
were arrested," said a police
officer.
The women, the officer
said, met the accused through
a common friend. On Friday
afternoon, the accused lured
them to their friend's flat in
Sarojini Nagar on some pretext
and raped them.
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R
amzan, the holy month of
fasting for Muslims, will
begin on Monday as the new
moon could not be sighted any-
where in the country on
Saturday. Maulana Mufti
Mukarram Ahmed, president
of Fatehpuri Royat Hilal
Committee and Shahi Imam of
Fatehpuri Mosque, announced
that since the new moon was not
sighted on Saturday, the month
of Ramzan will start from
Monday.
If the new moon would
have been sighted on Saturday,
Ramzan would have started
tomorrow. But as that did not
happen, tomorrow (Saturday)
will be the last day of Shaban
month eighth month of the
Isl amic cal endar and
Monday, June 30 will be the
first day of Ramzan. Ramzan,
the ninth month of the Islamic
lunar calendar, is observed as
a fasting period by Muslims,
who abstain from food and
water from sunrise to sunset.
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O
ne person was killed and
around 50 others feared
trapped when an under con-
struction 11-storeyed building
collapsed near suburban Porur
on Saturday and rescue efforts
were on by multiple agencies,
including National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF).
City Police Commissioner
S George, who visited the spot,
said a man was killed in the col-
lapse at Moulivakkam in the
western suburb, about 20 km
from here, as rains lashed the
area and several other parts of
the city on Saturday evening.
Rescue officials at the spot
said that five persons had been
rescued with injuries and they
have been referred to a nearby
private hospital.
Fire and Rescue Services
Joint Director S Vijayasekar
earlier said according to eye-
witnesses there were about 50
construction workers at the site
at the time of the collapse.
Expressing grief over the
incident, Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa said that on her
directives, NDRF teams had
rushed from neighbouring
Arakkonam even as multi-
agency relief operations involv-
ing were on in full swing.
In a statement here, she said
she ordered officials to initiate
legal proceedings against those
responsible for the incident.
Jayalalithaa said she had
ordered best medical treatment
to the injured and deputed
Minister for Animal Husbandry
TKM Chinnaiah to the spot
besides directing senior officials
to take stock of the situation.
She said special lighting
arrangements had been made
to ensure unhindered rescue
operations through the night.
"I have ordered police offi-
cials to take legal action against
those responsible for the inci-
dent," she said.
Besides, she has also
ordered for supply of rescue
equipment from Chennai
Metro Rail Limited, City
Corporation and High ways
departments.
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n a major achievement by the
Latehar Police on Friday
evening as many as eight mem-
bers of Jharkhand Jan Mukti
Parishad (JJMP) were nabbed
from Nevari village under
Latehar police station area. A
huge cache of arms and ammu-
nitions were also recovered in
the raid conducted by the police.
Based on intelligence input
Latehar police formed small
teams to ambush the members
of the outfit from Nevari vil-
lage. The operation started on
Friday afternoon and lasted for
few hours leading to the arrest
of eight extremists of the
group. The arrested extremists
are- Mohan Parhiya, Guddu
Yadav, Babulal Yadav, Amit
Oraon, Alok Tirkey, Ranjeet
Kherwar, Rajesh Chero and
Shivraj Singh. The JJMP is said
to be involved mostly in extor-
tion activities.
"They had no plans of sab-
otage. They collect levies and
were targeting developmental
activities," said Latehar SP
Michael Raj S.
Significantly, police recov-
ered one INSAS rifle and 124
live cartridges, two 303 police
rifle and 158 live cartridges,
two 315 regular rifle and 15 live
cartridges, one 303 country
made rifle, one country made
hand grenade, 14 magazines,
chargers, belt, dresses and
sharp weapons.
According to police, mem-
bers of the group had opened
fire on a passenger vehicle on
Thursday night mistaking it to
be police's vehicle. The incident
had left four villagers injured.
The group rarely targets police,
pointed out the SP.
"They have never targeted
police personnel," maintained
the Latehar SP.
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F
ive persons were killed on
Saturday and seven others
injured when a blast triggered
by a suspected gas leak took
place in a ship being disman-
tled at the Alang ship-breaking
yard in Bhavnagar district of
Gujarat.
"Five persons were killed
while seven others sustained
injuries after a fire broke out
following a blast in the ship
which was being dismantled in
plot number 140 at the yard,"
Police sub inspector (PSI) K J
Rathod of Marine Police
Station, Alang said. Prima facie,
the blast occurred due to sud-
den gas leakage when ship-
breaking activity was in
progress, the officer said.
The intensity of the blast
claimed five lives on the spot
while the injured were rushed
to the nearest hospitals for
treatment, he said.
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hreakIa yar4 From Page 1
Besides Arunachal, China
has al so shown Sout h
China Sea as its own in the
new map.
The cartographic depic-
tions do not change the real-
ity on the ground. The fact
that Arunachal Pradesh is
integral and inalienable part
of India has been conveyed to
Chinese authority at several
occasions, including at the
very highest l evel, said
External Affairs Ministry
spokesperson Syed
Akbaruddin on Saturday.
The Ansari-led delega-
tion will take up this matter
when they sit for bilateral
talks with China.
It is our normal practice
to raise all issues of bilateral
concerns, Akbaruddin said.
But Chi nese Forei gn
Ministry spokeswoman Hua
Chunying said that not much
should be read into the new
map.
The goal is to serve the
Chi nese publ i c. As for
the intentions, I think there is
no need to make too much of
any association here, she
said.
In Beijing, Ansari called
for India and China to narrow
down differences and build
on convergences by exploiting
the potential of Panchsheel,
the five principles of peaceful
coexistence.
He called for revitalising
friendly relations and to pro-
mote cooperation as the only
way forward towards the real-
isation of common goals of
progress and prosperity for
people.
The Indian delegation
plans to take up all perenni-
al issues including that of
l and boundar y di spute
between India and China dur-
ing the talks. India and China
have a 3,448 km long Line of
Actual Control (LAC), which
remains disputed.
Akbaruddin said that
New Delhi was confident that
the soldiers on the borders are
capable of handling any situ-
ation there.
From Page 1
Former Del hi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal and
Aam Aadmi Party leaders,
including Ashutosh al so
reached the spot.
The four-storey building
built on a plinth area of 25
square yards was 50-year old.
The horrendous collapse was
triggered by the construction
activity in the adjacent plot. It
appears that the soil lost its grip
after digging began in the
adjacent plot.
The four-storey building
had an empty 20 square yards
plot which was lying vacant.
Around two months back, the
digging on the plot began and
continued despite repeated
request by residents to stop it.
The work was being car-
ried out in such a hurry that
the contractor had construct-
ed a pillar and a wall in no
time.
Eyewitnesses claimed that
initially they thought that a few
bricks are falling down but in
split seconds it came down as
pack of cards. A PCR call was
received at the Inderlok Check
post around 8.56 am and the
police soon rushed to the spot.
The administration got into the
act and teams from disaster
management, civil defence, fire
brigade and CATS ambulances
joined the rescue operation.
Four fire tenders along
with the heavy duty machines
and excavators reached the
spot to remove the debris and
rescue the trapped persons.
The rescue operations contin-
ued till the afternoon and
three bodies were recovered in
the final stages of the rescue
operations.
The rescued persons were
rushed to Acharya Bhikshu
and Bara Hindu Rao hospitals
where 10 were decl ared
brought dead while two others
are undergoing treatment. The
deceased have been identified
as Asif (10), Adiba (14), Rehan
(7), Mohammad Izaz (24),
Mohammad Uzal e (22),
Imtiyaz (24), Rubina (30),
Sahana (28), Sabba (5) and
Abdul Aadib (7). The injured
who are under treatment at
Bara Hindu Rao hospital are
Abdul Rashid (38) and
Mohammad Naeem (39). Two
persons Pappu and Tanveer
who resided in the same build-
ing were not present in the
building when the tragedy
struck and are thus safe.
Mohammad Izaz was an MBA
student from Darbhanga in
Bihar.
Based on the statement of
Abdul Rashid, who owns the
building and is also one of the
injured, a case under section
304A was registered at the
Sarai Rohilla police station
against the adjacent building
owner. The owner and the
contractor of the adjacent
building identified as Javed is
currently absconding, said
Deputy Commissioner of
pol i ce (North) Madhur
Verma.
From Page 1
As per the original transcript
released by the channel, Digvijay
was quoted as saying, By tem-
perament, woh sattadhaari vyak-
ti nahin hain. By temperament,
woh aisa vyakti hai jo anyay ke
khilaph ladna chaahta hai (He is
not a ruler by temperament. By
temperament he is a person, who
wants to fight injustice).
Responding to a query about
his statement being perceived as
raising question on Rahuls lead-
ership quality, he said, No no.
It is that every one doesnt han-
ker after power. Even Sonia
Gandhi, she never took the
prime ministership, that is the
difference between the family
and others. He (Rahul) is lead-
ing the party. Singh, who is the
AICC General Secretary in-
charge of Goa, was camping in
the State to interact with local
leaders. He also suggested that
Rahul should have taken over the
reins as the Opposition leader in
the Lok Sabha after the partys
huge loss in the recent Lok
Sabha elections.
In a democracy, the
Opposition space is necessary.
Since, the Congress is largest
Opposition group, our Congress
vice-president Rahul Gandhi
should have taken up the respon-
sibility, he said. What seemed to
have triggered talk of dissent over
Digvijays statement was Fridays
development when Antony
admitted that a large number of
people in Kerala were not pre-
pared to trust the secularism
advocated by his party. The sit-
uation is so bad that a problem
of credibility arises at the very
mention of the word secularism,
he said. Speaking at a function
organised at Indira Bhavan, the
headquarters of Keralas Congress
unit in Thiruvananthapuram,
Antony, who had the other day
admitted that the party was in the
middle of a deep crisis, said that
there was a general complaint
among many people that the
Congress had been showing spe-
cial consideration for certain
castes and communities.
From Page 1
M Venkai ah Nai du,
Finance and Defence Minister
Arun Jaitley and External
Affairs Minister Sushma
Swaraj. Party patriarch LK
Advani would deliver the con-
cluding address to the debu-
tant MPs on Sunday.
The BJP is the only party
which has organised such a
training camp for its MPs. The
first one was also held in
Haryana during the NDA rule
with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as
Prime Minister.
Modi was particular in
asking the newly-elected party
MPs to focus on their conduct
both in Parliament and in
public as people were observ-
ing them. He directed them to
nurture their constituencies
and spread the message of
good governance.
Apparently the LTC scam
involving MPs in mind, the
MPs were asked not to engage
in undesirable practices,
which might be furnishing
fake bills or allowing unau-
thorised train travel in their
names or influencing transfers
or postings by peddling their
inf luence as legislators,
according to sources. They
were also directed to not to
rush to media and rather
mind their original task as
MPs. He stressed the impor-
tance of brevity and focus in
Parliamentary speeches with
issues being given importance
rather than the individual
personalities. MPs were asked
to take guidance of senior
leaders to raise substantial
issues in Parliament.
He suggested that party
MPs set an example of good
behaviour by respecting ruling
from the Chair. The month-
long Parliament (Budget) ses-
sion is to commence from July
7 which may test the work-
shop orientation of the new
MPs of the ruling party.
On the first-day of the
workshop, use of social media
was stressed to communicate
and receive the feedback from
people. They were directed to
constantly endeavour to con-
nect with the poor masses
who have given them a
chance to serve the mother-
land.
While asking the MPs to
study parliamentary rules or
their subjects in depth, Modi
seemed to have instantly con-
nected with the rookie law-
makers when he hastened to
add that he was also learn-
ing as a first-time MP.
Taking a dig at those ridi-
culing such training camps for
MPs, Modi said, Lack of
training in political establish-
ment is a serious lacunae.
But unfortunately, many out-
side politics take efforts for
human resource development
very lightly and sometimes
even try to ridicule such
efforts.
Urging MPs to eschew all
kinds of negativism, Modi
said that their approach to the
party has to be that of mutu-
ality and fellow-feeling. We
are a family and all are work-
ing for a common goal. Try to
make new friends, learn from
each other and develop a new
collectivism, he said.
Attacking the Congress,
the Prime Minister asked the
party MPs to highlight the fact
that the policies nurtured by the
Congress in the last few decades
have not been able to mitigate
the suffering of the people and
solve their problems.
In hi s presi denti al
remarks, Rajnath Singh said
by our efforts the largest
democracy in our country
will be the finest democracy in
the world.
Delivering his introduc-
tory remarks, Naidu appealed
party MPs to understand the
contemporary political cli-
mate and appreciate the huge
burden of peoples expecta-
tions. He asked them to
ensure proper coordination
with the party.
Naidu later told reporters
that the workshop for the
first time MPs of the party was
organised to train them in
Parliamentary procedures and
make them aware of the BJP
ideology.
Earl i er, when Modi
reached Surajkund in a heli-
copter, Har yana Chi ef
Minister Bhupinder Singh
Hooda received him at the
helipad next to the venue.
From Page 1
These deliberations will
however carry on for the next
week. Admission will take
place nonetheless with a total
of eight cut-off lists being
released. Admissions will
close on July 22.
EC member Abha Dev
Habib further elaborated,
Suggestions have been given
to the Standing Committee of
UGC for DC-I and BMS stu-
dents that papers should be
redi stri buted, Appl i ed
Courses and Foundation
Courses be removed and con-
centration be put on DC-I
and DC-II courses so that
they finish 18 papers of DC-
I and 6 papers of DC-II by the
end of third year and leave
with Honours degree. For
BTech, it has been suggested
that papers be rearranged so
that students who wish to save
their one year can leave with
Honours in Applied Courses
in three years after complet-
ing 18 papers in DC-I and
those who want BTech may
continue for fourth year. The
University on priority basis
should rework the course
content as much as possible to
make them meaningful BTech
degrees. This is necessary as
the course neither follows
UGC guidelines nor has
AICTE approval.
The new admissions will
dissect these courses back to
what they were. Instead of
BTech Psychological Science,
t here wi l l be Appl i ed
Psychology and instead of
BMS, there will be three
courses BBE, BBS and BFIA.
Thus, students who have
already appeared for the BMS
entrance examinations will
not suffer and be admitted to
any of these three courses.
Earlier in the morning,
hundreds of students of Delhi
University staged a protest
outside the HRD Ministry
and submitted a representa-
tion demanding that the six
BTech courses introduced in
the last academic session
should not be scrapped.
The Ministry has assured
that students interest will be
kept in mind and University
Grants Commission would
be coming out with a state-
ment on this issue. BTech stu-
dents also staged a protest in
North Campus of DU and
took a rally from the VCs res-
idence to his office.
Some students tried to
enter the VCs office, but
were stopped from doing so
by Delhi Police and Rapid
Action Force (RAF) person-
nel. The agitating students
demanded t hat t hei r
course should not be con-
verted to B Sc.
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more lhan 2,OOO longrange
arlillery guns as il has nol
rocured a new gun or lhe lasl 25
years since lhe Boors conlroversy
in 1O8G. These guns will hel lhe
Army lo overcome "oeralional
hollowness" and equi lhe China
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S
tepping up its contingency
plans to evacuate Indians
from Iraq, India has diverted its
Navy ships towards the Persian
Gulf. The Indian Navy has
deployed its warship INS
Mysore in the Persian Gulf and
is on a standby by the
Government. Two more ships
have been asked to be in readi-
ness. Sources told The Pioneer
that INS Tarkash, which is
patrolling in the Gulf of Eden
as part of anti-piracy opera-
tions, has been diverted
towards the Iraqi coast while
INS Mumbai too is on way to
Iraq. The Indian Air Force has
put its heavy lift transport air-
crafts C-17 and IL-76 on stand-
by and can be pressed for
evacuation operations.
Spokesperson for Ministry
of External Affairs (MEA) Syed
Akbaruddin said all national
assets will be in readiness to
assist Indians and a contin-
gency plan is being worked out
to meet any situation. We are
only repositioning our assets as
the Indian Navy's also has the
mandate for human assistance
and disaster relief, said an
official from Indian Navy.
Sources said that this has
been done to evacuate more than
15,000 Indians living in Iraq in
case a situation arises. However,
since majority all of them are in
safe zone as of now but India
does not want to take a chance
if an emergency situation arises
for mass evacuation. The meet-
ing to send the Navy ships was
taken during a meeting of the
National Crisis Management
Committee (NCMC), headed by
Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth on
Friday. The meeting also dis-
cussed reluctance of the Iraq-
based Indians to return despite
advisories. The main concern of
Indians is securing livelihood for
those who leave. External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj has call
a meeting of Indian ambas-
sadors in the Gulf countries for
consultation. India has set up
three camp offices to facilitate
departure of Indians from non-
conflict zones. Besides, provid-
ing travel documents, these
offices will also help sort out any
labour or employer related issues.
MEA said the 39 kid-
napped Indian remained in
captivity but unharmed. The
spokesperson said the govern-
ment is working on some leads
available about them. The
Indian mission was also in
touch with 46 nurses in Tikrit
and denied reports that there
was any explosion in the hos-
pital compound they were in.
As many as 17 Indians were
recently evacuated through a
chopper from Samara.
Meanwhile, Kerala Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy on
Saturday asked the Centre to
expedite the process of evacu-
ation of Indians stranded in
conflict-hit Iraq.
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attled by the stinging crit-
icism by senior Congress
leader AK Antony, who doubt-
ed the partys secular creden-
tials owing to a heavy appease-
ment towards certain minori-
ty communities, the party put
a brave face on Saturday as it
hinted that the issue raised by
Antony will be deliberated
within the party's top ranks.
He (Antony) is one of the
senior most leaders. What he
has said and observed will cer-
tainly be discussed and debat-
ed, Congress general secretary
Shakeel Ahmed told reporters
on Saturday. With comments by
another Congress senior leader
Digvijaya Singh also raising
doubts on the party's future
leadership, there is much more
introspection the Congress will
be forced to do in the coming
days following its shocking rout
in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
Former Congres MP Rashid
Alvi said, I have not gone
through the statement given by
Antonyji but the Congress is
committed to minorities. I
would like to go through the
statement to see what kind of
statement was given by Antonyji.
But it is our commitment to look
after the interests of minorities
in the country.
Manish Tewari, another
spokesperson of the party too
was cautious as he said that
without talking to Antony, it
will be inappropriate to give
any comment.
While the party officially
refrained from either endorsing
or criticising Antony's remarks,
sources said a party general sec-
retary had more than six
months back communicated in
writing to Antony on this issue.
The said communication
He expressed apprehension that
BJP will seek to paint Congress
as a pro-Muslim party and try
to derive political mileage by
deepening such an impression.
The Congress leader's argu-
ment was that since Hindus are
divided in castes and they look
at themselves more as a minor-
ity being in a particular caste and
Muslims as a monolithic minor-
ity, it helps BJP's propaganda.
The debate has come at a
time when the party has begun
its exercise to find answers to its
worst-ever poll debacle which
has seen Congress numbers
plummetting to just 44 seats in
the 543-member Lok Sabha.
The informal group, head-
ed by A K Antony, has already
met the party leadership of a
number of states and is set to
submit its report to Congress
President Sonia Gandhi any
day after July 6. It has also come
at a time when a Chintan
Shivir is on the cards to work
out the future strategy to revive
the organization.
Sources said the commu-
nication by the general secre-
tary to Antony was in response
to a letter to all party general
secretaries in which they were
asked to share the advantages
and disadvantages of Congress
in the recently-concluded polls.
The party functionary felt
an impression was created that
Congress was indulging in
appeasement of minorities,
which helped BJP polarize the
votes on communal lines.
Another party functionary,
however, said Antony's remarks
should be seen in the limited
context of Kerala where
Congress' alliance with Indian
Union of Muslim League
accentuated such a perception.
Addressing a meeting held
at the KPCC headquarters in
Thiruvananthapuram in hon-
our of late Congress stalwart C
K Govindan Nair on Friday,
Antony had said some sections
of society have an impression
that the party is inclined to cer-
tain communities or organisa-
tions. Congress' policy is equal
justice to everyone. But people
have doubt whether that policy
is being implemented or not.
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ne of the common things
school classrooms all over
the world, from Japan to Alaska
or Greenland to Madagascar,
have is the blackboard. But in
Kerala, blackboards in class-
rooms of Government schools
are turning into green, the flag
colour of the Muslim League,
thanks to a programme con-
ceived by legislators of that
party to which the Education
Minister belongs.
Like in the issues concern-
ing a circular asking woman
teachers to wear green-colour
blouses for a function and the
recent act of transferring a
Dalit school principal in
Thiruvananthapuram for not
being properly respectful to
Education Minister PK
Abdurabb, the colour change of
class room boards has already
triggered a controversy.
Blackboards in classrooms
of certain schools in the
Assembly constituencies of
Thirurangadi, represented by
Abdurabb, and Tirur in
Muslim-majority Malappuram
district have reportedly been
blanketed in dark green colour
though the Education
Department has not issued
any order in this regard. An
official said the department had
no plan to issue any such order.
However, the Muslim
League has already come up
with justification for the colour
change of classroom boards. C
Mammutty, Muslim League
MLA from Tirur, said the board
colour was being changed from
black to green as part of
upgrading Government schools
to international standards.
That is one thing. Also,
green is a vision-friendly colour,
isn't it? Mammutty asked,
adding that many modern edu-
cational institutions were having
boards in green colour instead
of black. The colour of class-
room boards is being changed as
part of the development works
carried out at schools using the
local area development fund of
the legislators.
One of the schools where
this green upgrading has been
carried out is the GM UP
School at Kakkad in Abdurabb's
constituency. Principals of sev-
eral schools said that they had
not got any information regard-
ing such a change from anyone.
The guardian of a student of the
school at Kakkad said the PTA
had not discussed any plan for
the colour change.
Former State Education
minister and CPI(M) Politburo
member MA Baby said, Only
reasonable and scientific
changes could be brought in
the education sector. Such steps
should be adopted only on the
basis of a democratic process.
In the present case, no such
basic norms had been adhered
to, he said.
Opposition leader VS
Achuthanandan said that such
an order would be issued only
by people without any intelli-
gence if at all such an order had
been issued. No such order
has come into my notice. Even
if such an order is passed, it
cannot be implemented in the
context of widespread opposi-
tion, Achuthanandan said.
The green affinity seen in
the State's public education
sector after Abdurabb took
over as Education Minister has
landed the Muslim League in
serious troubles several times.
An official circular, directing
woman teachers to wear green-
colour blouses for a particular
function, had stirred a hornets'
nest in the State in July, 2012.
A Muslim management
school in Areacode,
Malappuram had faced trouble
after a woman teacher from the
Muslim community was sus-
pended from service in March,
2013 allegedly for refusing to
obey an order to wear green
coat over the saree while attend-
ing school. The teacher had to
approach the High Court to get
herself reinstated in service.
Minister Abdurabb is
presently in the middle of a
controversy over the penaliza-
tion of a woman school prin-
cipal, a Dalit, allegedly for
showing disrespect to him
when he had reached her
school to inaugurate a pro-
gramme. However, the issue is
likely to be settled in the com-
ing days as the Government has
assured to look into an appeal
she has submitted to the Chief
Minister.
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New Del hi: A General
Manager at BSNLs Karnal unit
was arrested by CBI for
allegedly demanding and
accepting a bribe of C2 lakhs
for favouring an employee in
departmental inquiry.
A case was registered under
section 7 of Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988 against
the General Manager (Telecom),
Karnal on the allegations of
demanding bribe of C3 lakhs
from the complainant, CBI
spokesperson said.
The official said the bribe
was meant for favouring the
complainant, who was serving
as a Junior Telecom Officer at
BSNL Karnal, in a departmen-
tal enquiry against him.
CBI laid a trap and the
accused was caught demanding
and accepting bribe of C2 lakhs
from the complainant, he said.
Searches were carried out at the
official residence of the accused,
a 1981 batch officer of Indian
Telecom Services, at Karnal and
at his house in New Delhi. PTI
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n the wake of Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh's statement suggesting the end of the road
for dialogue with the Maoists, the Communist
Party of India (CPI) on Saturday urged the Left-
wing extremists to give up violence and join the
democratic process.
In a statement, the Central
Secretariat of CPI also expressed
disappointment over Home
Minister Rajnath Singh's remarks
that there would be no talks with
the Left-wing extremists. The
CPI is disappointed with the
directive of the Union Home
Minister that there will not be any
discussions with Naxalite groups
and they will be dealt with more stern action,
the statement by the party said.
Observing that left extremism should be
dealt with a socio-economic perspective which
needs a political solution, it said earlier
attempts to deal it only as a law and order issue
had 'failed miserably'. Noting that it was gov-
ernment's responsibility to save lives and prop-
erties, the CPI said so long as poverty, indis-
criminate exploitation of tribals, loot of min-
ing wealth continued and the policy of land
denial to tiller existed, this issue will contin-
ue to crop up again and again.
The root causes should be properly iden-
tified and all attempts to solve the problem,
including dialogue with Naxals to bring them
to the mainstream, should be tried, it said.
The CPI asked Maoists and other armed
extremists groups to come out
of the concept of individual
annihilation and violence and
participate in democratic strug-
gles in the country.
On the GAIL pipeline explo-
sion in Andhra Pradesh, the
party demanded a thorough
enquiry, saying the accident
occurreddue to the criminal neg-
ligence of GAIL authorities.
Maintaining that local villagers had been report-
ing about frequent gas leakages in the recent past,
it said while repairs were carried out only two days
before the accident and were not proper, it should
also be probed as to why the pipelines are not
underground and (installed) through the village
homesteads instead of taking them from outside.
Observing that this was not the first such acci-
dent that has occurred there, the CPI said it is
shameful that attempts are being made to attribute
the accident to the carelessness of villagers.
New Delhi: The Ministry of
Tourism has l aunched a
mobile application to enable
its users to independently
travel and experience 16 cities
in the country.
The self-guided tour appli-
cation Incredible India Walking
Tours was launched by the
Ministry in collaboration with
Genesys International
Corporation and will cover 16
Indian cities including Agra,
Amritsar, Ahmedabad,
Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh,
Chennai, Delhi, Coastal Goa,
Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata,
Mumbai, Patna, Pune and Surat.
The facility will be extend-
ed to 36 cities by December,
2015. The app enables users to
sightsee free of cost at their own
pace and convenience, with the
help of walking tours curated by
travel experts.
The application, however,
is only available on Blackberry
mobile handsets. It runs on all
BlackBerry 10 handsets includ-
ing the Z3, Z10, Z30, Q5 and
Q10 phones. PTI
New Delhi: The suited and
booted officials of the Ministry
of External Affairs had a dif-
ferent job at hand on Saturday
weeding out old files and
papers and removing unusable
and obsolete furniture.
Officials offered Shramdh-
an to make their office clean and
tidy to meet the expectations of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth had
recently written to secretaries of
Central Government depart-
ments pressing the need for
clean working spaces.
Seth had written to all sec-
retaries following a directive
from the Prime Minister, an
official said. All official papers
that had outlived their utility
and are not needed for future
reference were weeded out,
shredded, rolled up in plastic
bags and sent for destruction.
Special teams and trucks
were organised for collection
and removal of the items in the
South Block, Jawaharlal Nehru
Bhawan, Patiala House and
Shastri Bhawan housing dif-
ferent divisions of the MEA,
sources said.
The effort was spearhead-
ed by a young foreign service
Officer Shambhu Kumaran,
Joint Secretary (Establishment)
who had worked out a sched-
ule well in advance and coor-
dinated with all the senior offi-
cials to ensure their personal
attention and involvement.
The aim is to improve work-
ing spaces and the work envi-
ronment, a source said. PTI
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Hyderabad: Long ignored by the
Congress leadership, late Prime
Minister PV Narasimha Rao
has now found recognition with
the ruling dispensation in the
newly-created State of Telangana,
a region from which he hailed.
Rich tributes were paid to
PV, as he was well known, on
his 93rd birth anniversary on
Saturday and Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao has taken
the lead in honouring the mem-
ory of a leader, hailed as the
architect of economic reforms
launched in the nineties.
Besides Chandrashekar Rao,
Governor ESL Narasimhan, a
host of Ministers, MPs, MLAs
and leaders of various parties
offered floral tributes to the son
of the soil at PV Gnana Bhoomi
at a State function organised for
the first time.
The Chief Minister, who
had his origins in the Congress
during the days of late Indira
Gandhi and had joined TDP
later, said his Cabinet would
soon pass a resolution request-
ing the Centre to confer Bharat
Ratna on the late politician,
considered the architect of the
wide-ranging economic
reforms launched in 1991.
But having spearheaded
the creation of Telangana state,
KCR, as he is popularly known,
is said to be looking for sym-
bols for the new state and res-
urrecting the memory ofPV,
the only Telugu prime minis-
ter of India, suits his plans.
After PV's term in office as
Prime Minister, the Congress
party came into the hands of
Sonia Gandhi and since then
PV was sidelined in its affairs.
In his death, he was denied the
honour of being cremated in
Delhi nor is there any memo-
rial for him in the capital.
Narasimha Rao was also
incidentally the first Chief
Minister of unified Andhra
Pradesh in the early 70s from the
Telangana region having hailed
from Karimnagar in the region.
Chandrashekar Rao,
announced on the occasion that
a memorial building, that would
house the memorabilia of the
late PM, would be constructed
in Hyderabad. PTI
KCR seeks Bharal
Ralna or harasimha
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rban Development and
Housing Minister
Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday
paid rich tributes to former
Prime Minister late PV
Narasimha Rao on the occasion
of his 93rd birth anniversary.
Pamulaparthi Venkata
Narasimha Rao was a distin-
guished legend in the public life
of our county for several
decades. One of the most
notable of his contributions
being the economic reforms
(he introduced) in early 1990s
as the Prime Minister, Naidu
said as he recalled the life and
contributions of the late leader.
He (Rao) was the first
Congress Prime Minister of the
country from outside Nehru
family to have completed five
years in office, a statement
quoted Naidu as saying.
Describing the former
Prime Minister as an erudite
scholar and embodiment of
vision, Naidu further said he
had made path-breaking con-
tributions as Minister and
Chief Minister of the erstwhile
Andhra Pradesh (and also) as
Union Minister and Prime
Minister during his long stint
in public life.
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democratic process
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ujarat Chief Minister
Anandiben Patel will
become first woman to perform
Pahind Vidhi in the 137 years
history of Jagannath Rath Yatra
in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
Pahind Vidhi is the religious
ritual to kick-start Rath Yatra.
Traditionally, Chief
Minister of Gujarat performs
Pahind Vidhi, a ritual witness
by hundreds of thousand peo-
ple live on television as well as
at the venue. In the ritual, the
Chief Minister cleans the Lord
Jagannaths Chariot path with
a golden broom.
On Sunday, Anandiben
will create history to become
first woman to perform Pahind
Vidhi. Since last 136 years no
female had this honour to per-
form Pahind Vidhi, said a
Jagannath temple priest.
Besides Patel, another
woman Union Minister for
Human Resource
Development Smriti Irani will
also remain present as the
chief guest. Confirming the
development Mahendra Jha,
trustee of Jagannath Temple
said that this is first time that
a chief guest, that too a lady has
been invited.
Narendra Modi had per-
formed the Pahind Vidhi for
12 years in row when he was
the Chief Minister of the State
before he took over as the
countrys Prime Minister last
month, Jha said adding that
Modis association with the
temple has been longest in the
history of Rath Yatra.
We have sent him an
invite to attend the Rath Yatra
this time. Obviously he could-
nt attend this time as its just
over a month he took the
charge as the Prime Minister of
country, he added.
The Rath Yatra will start
from the 400-year-old
Jagannath Temple in Jamalpur
area at around 7 am and pass
through about 18-km-long
route before returning late in the
night to the same venue.
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he annual Shri Amarnath
pilgrimage began in Kashmir
Valley on Saturday with first
batch of yatris departing from
shorter but treacherous Baltal
route chanting religious hymns.
The pilgrims were flagged
off by Deputy Commissioner
Ganderbal Sarmad Hafeez at
Baltal Base Camp after the crack
of dawn to proceed towards the
Holy Cave situated at an altitude
of 3,888 meters and 141 km
south from here deep in the
Himalayan mountains. An ice
stalagmite formed naturally and
believed to be the representation
of Lord Shiva.
Sources said that five thou-
sand pilgrims had darshan of
the ice lingam by 5 oclock in
the evening.
Jammu & Kashmir
Governor NN Vohra who is the
ex-officio Chairman of Shri
Amarnath Shrine Board that
manages and regulates the
annual yatra was among the
first to visit the cave and attend
special prayers (pratham pujan)
inside the cave where a full-size
lingam has formed.
Around 7,000 pilgrims left
the Base Camp at 5 am includ-
ing 200 women and dozens of
children and sadhus.
The pilgrims chanting
Bam Bam Bhole slogans wore
headgears inscribed with reli-
gious messages and carried
saffron flags and sticks (lathis).
Adequate security and
other logistics arrangements
have been put in place by the
district administration in col-
laboration with SASB and other
allied agencies to ensure
smooth conduct of yatra.
Governor also inaugurated
the helicopter service for the pil-
grims. The trekking takes seven
hours for the pilgrims to reach
the holy cave while sorties take
ten minutes from Baltal.
Everyday 6,000 pilgrims
would reach the cave by foot
and 1,500 by availing chopper
service. In view of closure of
Pahalgam-Sheshnag route due
to considerable snow accumu-
lation in the entire area of the
Sheshnag Yatra Camp, the yatra
through the traditional route
has been deferred till June 30.
This years yatra has been
scheduled for 45 days.
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ssam Chief Minister Tarun
Gogoi on Saturday
slammed the BJP-led NDA
Government at the Centre for
allowing multiple visa entry
into India for the Bangladeshi
nationals and said that the
Congress is opposed to this.
We have opposed to the
idea of giving multiple visa entry
to Bangladeshi nationals. I am
still opposing this. However, the
NDA Government had not
taken our consent over the mat-
ter, Gogoi said on Saturday.
Union Minister for External
Affairs Sushma Swaraj during
her recent visit to Bangladesh
agreed to the ease tourist visa
norms for Bangladeshi nation-
als under the age of 13 and
above 65 years by allowing
multiple entry visa for five years
instead of one year.
Gogoi also took a dig at the
NDA Government for not tak-
ing up the issue of infiltration
from Bangladesh into Assam
and North-East during the
Union Ministers visit. The
Bangladesh Government said
that the Indian Government
had not taken up the issue of
infiltration, he said.
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ndeterred by her disastrous
performance in the recent
Lok Sabha polls, Bollywoods
item girl Rakhi Sawant on
Saturday sought to try her luck
once again in politics, by join-
ing the Ramadas Athavale-led
Republican Party of India (RPI-
A) in the run-up to the
Maharashtra Assembly polls.
A week after she met
Athavale and expressed her
desire to enter his party and
work for the issues relating to
Dalit, Rakhi formally joined the
RPI (A) at a function held at
Bandras MIG Club in north-
west Mumbai in the afternoon.
After welcoming her into
his party, RPI (A) president
Athavale appointed her as
the partys national women
wing chief.
Rakhi, it may be recalled,
had April this year founded a
political outfit, Rashtriya Aam
Party and contested the Lok
Sabha polls from Mumbai
north-west constituency
against sitting Congress MP
Gurudas Kamat, Shiv Sena's
Gajanan Kiritikar and actor-
filmmaker Mahesh Manrekar
of the MNS.
Rakhi not only lost her
deposit but also polled a mere
2,006 votes in the polls, in
which Senas Kititikar trounced
Kamat of the Congress by a
margin of 1,83,028 votes.
Prior to her setting up
Rashtriya Aam Party, Rakhi had
tried to join the BJP. On a time
when retired Gen VK Singh
joined the BJP, Sawant had
made presence felt at the party
headquarters in New Delhi.
I am a daughter of the BJP
and it is like my home. I want
people to support Modi, and I
am sure he is going to be the
next PM, Rakhi had said,
while talking to mediapersons
in the national capital.
After she announced her
decision to contest the Lok
Sabha polls on Rashtriya Aam
Party ticket, the actress had
claimed that the BJP had
offered her a ticket from
Sriramapur in West Bengal.
But I did not accept it as I am
a Mumbaikar and can speak
Marathi and Hindi. I do not
know local language of that
area so why should I contest
from there? she had asked.
It remains to be seen if the
RPI (A), which is a constituent
of the BJP-led Maha-Yuti
(Opposition grand alliance),
will put up Rakhi as its candi-
date in the forthcoming State
Assembly polls.
Hyderabad: The death toll in
the GAIL pipeline fire tragedy
in East Godavari district of
Andhra Pradesh rose to 16 with
an injured succumbing on
Saturday, while six people were
battling for life with severe
burns, police said.
At least 15 people were
killed and nearly two dozen oth-
ers injured when a leaking gas
pipeline of GAIL caught fire and
triggered a blast in Nagaram vil-
lage in the coastal district, about
560 km from Hyderabad.
A baby girl, who was
undergoing treatment for
severe burns, died today
(Saturday) at a private hospital
in Kakinada. With this the toll
in the incident rose to 16, East
Godavari district superinten-
dent of police G Vijay Kumar
told PTI over phone.
The SP said that 20 others
who suffered burn injuries
were undergoing treatment at
different hospitals. The condi-
tion of at least six of them
remains critical as they have
suffered around 80% burns.
The leaping flames from
the pipeline passing through
the village in Mamidikuduru
mandal quickly swept through
nearby houses and coconut
plantations, leaving behind a
trail of destruction.
Leaking gas had enveloped
some areas of the village and
the tragedy occurred when a
tea shop vendor lit up a stove,
setting off a blast, police had
earlier said. PTI
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A
fter five years of controver-
sial stint as Governor of
Karnataka, HR Bhardwaj retired
on Saturday. Bhardwaj a former
Union Law Minister was always
loyal to Congress and Gandhis.
He was very vocal in accepting
that he was a loyal soldier of
Gandhi family.
Throughout his five years in
office he governed the State as
a politician courting contro-
versies day in and out. Bhardwaj,
a darling of the media, was most
politically active Governor the
State has ever seen.
After Modi swept into
power, it was anticipated he
would quit but Bhardwaj who
gave a clean chit to late Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi in
famous Bofors case refused to
quit and said he would com-
plete his term as he was hold-
ing a Constitutional post.
During his tenure,
Bhardwaj was a nightmare to
the first BJP Government in
South led by BS Yeddyurappa.
He had running feud with the
ruling BJP and always ahead in
deliberating advices through
media. During BJPs five-year
rule Bhardwaj played his cards
in perfect tune with the UPA
Government to find fault to
punish them. The three BJP
Chief Ministers, Yeddyurappa,
DV Sadananda Gowda and
Jagadish Shettar always feared
this man who has given his nod
to prosecute BS Yeddyurappa
in 2011 on corruption charges.
He had recommended
implementation of Presidents
Rule twice in Karnataka during
the BJP rule. He was political-
ly active and known for giving
sermons at interval to the
media. Appointments of Vice
Chancellors during his term
were very controversial and
were criticised by many and
especially he had a verbal duel
with Jnanpeetha awardee and
well-known writer UR
Ananthmurthy.
He courted a serious con-
troversy during his first year in
office by refusing to give his nod
to confer Honorary doctorate by
Bangalore university to well
known historian and critique in
Kannada Dr Chidananda
Murthy citing latters alleged
endorsement of attacks on
places of worships. Later it
became an issue across the
State and had to give his nod.
Even though Bhardwajs
equation with the current
Congress Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah was good, the for-
mer is learnt to have expressed
his disapproval over the func-
tioning of some of the senior
Ministers. Recently despite pres-
sure from the BJP to reject the
list of five names finalised by
Siddaramaiah for the Legislative
Council under the nomina-
tions category on the ground
that they all happen to be active
politicians, the Governor final-
ly gave the nod to the list.
Bhardwajs stint will be
remembered for his strained
relations with the previous BJP
Governments in the State.
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Gujarat, there have been not
a single incident of communal
unrest during Jagannath Rath
Yatra in Ahmedabad. Apart
from extra precautions taken
by the police, the people from
both the communities have
come forward to maintain
communal harmony during
the festivities.
For last few years, peace
has been maintained during
Rath Yatra. The procession is
greeted by Muslim communi-
ty leaders. This time too we will
welcome Rath Yatra whole-
heartedly. In fact, we have been
part of this celebration, said
Yaqub Malek, member of
Shahpur Shanti Samiti. Many
from minority dominated areas
also expressed keenness to join
Rath Yatra, informed a source
in Ahmedabad police.
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NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2014
kIF QBA0h0A0
T
he United States confirmed
on Saturday it was flying
armed drones over Baghdad to
defend Americans, as Iraqi forces
fought for a strategic university
and launched air strikes in mil-
itant-held Tikrit.
Iraqs top Shia cleric mean-
while urged the countrys lead-
ers to unite, after Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki conceded polit-
ical measures are needed to
defeat the jihadist-led offensive
that has killed more than 1,000
people and overrun major parts
of five provinces.
In further fallout from the
crisis, the president of Iraqs
autonomous Kurdish region
declared there was no going back
on Kurdish self-rule in disputed
territory, including ethnically
divided northern oil city Kirkuk,
now defended against the mili-
tants by Kurdish fighters.
International agencies also
raised alarm bells over the
humanitarian consequences of
the fighting, with up to 10,000
people having fled a northern
Christian town in recent days
and 1.2 million displaced by
unrest in Iraq this year.
A senior American official
said that the US military was fly-
ing a few armed drones over
Baghdad to defend American
troops and diplomats in the city
if necessary.
But officials said the drones
would not be used for offensive
strikes against the Sunni Arab
militant offensive, led by jihadists
from the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) but involving
other groups as well.
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Lahore: A newly-wed couple
has been brutally killed in full
public view by the family
members of the girl for mar-
rying a man of her choice in
Pakistans Punjab province.
According to an FIR,
Muafia Bibi (23) of Satrah vil-
lage of Daska tehsil, some
100km from Lahore, married
Sajjad Ahmed (27) of nearby
village Hasanabad on June 18.
Muafia eloped with Sajjad
on June 18 and they married in
the court after her parents
refused the marriage proposal
of Sajjad, it said.
On Sunday, the family of
the girl came to know that the
couple had returned to
Hasanabad. Seven members
of Muafias family, including her
father Dilshad, attacked Sajjads
house and overpowered the
couple and took them to the
main chowk of their village.
The FIR further says: The
suspects first subjected the
couple to severe torture and
then tied up the legs and arms
of Sajjad and Muafia. They cut
off their heads with choppers
in full public view and shout-
ed that they had taught the les-
son to the couple for disgrac-
ing them. None from the peo-
ple gathered there dared to
stop the killers. PTI
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moneywise 08
NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2014
FTI QMuMBA
T
he countrys two biggest
State-run lenders on
Saturday pitched for treating a
portion of their gold deposits as
part of the mandatory cash
reserve ratio (CRR) or statuto-
ry liquidity ratio (SLR), both of
which banks consider as non-
productive.
"Is it possible that the regu-
lator can treat a little bit of our
gold deposits as CRR or SLR?
After all, gold is also a store of
value," State Bank of India
Chairperson Arundhati
Bhattacharya said at a Gem &
Jewellery Export Promotion
Council banking summit.
With gold imports having
pressurised the current account
gap in the recent past, there is a
greater need to make use of gold
available in the country and
make it more liquid, she stressed.
She claimed that SBI is the
largest player in the gold deposit
scheme segment and is strug-
gling to deploy the entire
deposits in productive assets.
"We also find that we are not
able to deploy the entire gold
that we get. There is really no
incentive for us to go ahead and
get more of these deposits now
so as to make gold more liquid,"
she said, reiterating her demand.
CRR, at 4 per cent now, is
the portion of deposits parked
by banks with the Reserve Bank
of India that earns no interest,
while SLR, at 22.5 per cent, is the
amount of deposits to be
mandatorily invested in recog-
nised securities such as govern-
ment bonds and other liquid
assets.
However, the average SLR
holding in the system is 27 per
cent as banks make treasury play
a source of boosting bottom lines
when there is poor growth in
advances or bad loans rise.
Concurring with
Bhattacharya, Bank of Baroda
Chairman and Managing
Director S S Mundra said it
"makes sense" to treat a part of
banks gold deposits as CRR
and SLR.
"When banks are holding
gold, it is of value. I think it
makes sense to bring under
CRR/SLR. It also fits the larger
pattern that ultimately we are
talking about unearthing the
gold and bringing it to produc-
tive sectors in the economy as
a whole. The gold that is read-
ily available can be brought
under recognition," Mundra
told reporters. Data on the gold
deposits held by the two banks
was notimmediately available.
Successive chiefs of SBI, the
countrys largest lender, have
been targeting the zero-interest
yielding CRR component.
Bhattacharyas predecessor
Pratip Chaudhuri had waged a
spirited public fight to abolish
CRR.
Speaking at the event,
Financial Services Secretary GS
Sandhu acknowledged that the
ministry has received several
representations on ways to bet-
ter utilise gold deposits and it is
actively looking into the matter.
He stressed the need to
monetise gold held by the pub-
lic to help reduce imports of the
yellow metal, which can be a
drain on the nations foreign-
exchange resources and lead to
a wider current account deficit
(CAD).
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s it possible that
the regulator can
treat a little bit of
our gold deposits
as CRR or SLR?
After all, gold is
also a store of
value
SB Chairperson
Arundhati
Bhattacharya
FTI Q B0ST0h
T
op executives of American
pharma companies favour
"dialogue" with India and "not
confrontation" to address their
concerns on key issues like the
protection of intellectual prop-
erty (IP) and clinical trials.
Arguing that global phar-
ma companies share the same
goal of "patient first" with that
of the Government of India,
corporate executives attending
the day-long "US-India
BioPharma and Healthcare
Summit" organised by the USA-
India Chamber of Commerce
said they should not be con-
sidered as adversaries by New
Delhi.
While asserting there can
be no compromise on IP pro-
tection issues, executives from
top US pharma companies said
that they are willing to work
with India like tier pricing
to come out with a solution,
which is acceptable to the both
the parties.
"We can sit around a table
and have a dialogue. We need
to move from seeing the indus-
try as adversary to work togeth-
er to help patients.The only
way we can do it is by having
collaboration and actually a
dialogue," Bahija Jallal, execu-
tive Vice President of
MedImmune, a prominent bio-
tech company, told the news
agency.
"We want to work togeth-
er with the Indian Government.
But we cant right now, go
(to India) in a meaningful way
if there is no IP protection," she
Jallal adding that New Delhis
compulsory licensing policies
would force pharma companies
to go to some other countries.
"The Government has to
understand, the first thing that
we care about is the patient. We
can have a dialogue.
Every country that we go
to, we understand the different
layers that exists economically,"
she said.
Dr Robert Langer, David J
Koch Institute Professor at the
prestigious Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT),
argued that not protecting
intellectual property would
destroy innovation in the long
term.
Patents system, he said, is
very important for encouraging
many aspects of innovation.
"Having investment capital,
having laws that encourages
investment into innovation is
important," Langer said. Price
control discourages innova-
tion in pharmaceuticalsector,
he argued, adding that India
needs to address concerns of
the global pharma companies
with regard to protection of
intellectual properties.
Outstanding universities, a
strong and enforceable patent
regime and an entrepreneurial
environment is key to creating
an innovation eco system in
any country, Langer said.
Observing that American
pharma companies want to be
active in India to provide inno-
vative medicines to the citizens
of the country and fully under-
stands the issues of access
including the issue of cost and
value; William Chin, executive
Vice President of PhRMA, a
top trade group representing
the pharmaceutical research
and biopharmaceutical com-
panies in the US said they also
understand that India must
balance citizen patients and
other needs with resources.
"But our companies,
because we focus on develop-
ing innovative therapeutics,
really patients may not be able
to obtain such medicines,
because companies are not
able to do clinical.
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A
n Indian-origin portfolio
manager, convicted for
his role as the "central figure"
in one of the most lucrative
insider trading schemes in
US history, should be sen-
tenced to more than eight
years in prison, Manhattans
top federal prosecutor Preet
Bharara has said.
Mathew Martoma, 39, was
convicted in February of one
count of conspiracy to commit
securities fraud and two
counts of securities fraud.
A former portfolio man-
ager of CR Intrinsic Investors,
a division of hedge fund giant
SAC Capital, Martoma will be
sentenced on July 28 and and
faces a maximum of 20 years
in prison.
Ahead of the sentencing,
India-born Bharara asked the
federal court here to sentence
Martoma to more than eight
years in prison for collecting
confidential information about
a high-profile drug trial and
making profits and avoiding
losses of $ 275 million for SAC
Capital.
Martoma, a father of three,
even earned a $9.3 million
bonus for himself due to his
various trades for SAC.
"Martoma was the central
figure in the most lucrative
insider trading scheme ever
charged. Over a period of
approximately 18 months, the
defendant cultivated and cor-
rupted two doctors legally
bound to guard confidential
information concerning a
high-profile drug trial, ulti-
mately obtaining an advance
preview of the highly antici-
pated public announcement of
the results," Bharara said in the
governments sentenci ng
memorandum submitted in
court.
Bharara al l eged that
Martomas entire success in his
four years at SAC Capital was
based on illegal insider trad-
ing.
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A
cting swiftly in the aftermath
of the GAIL pipeline fire
incident in Andhra Pradesh
which killed 15 persons, the
Government has expedited the
process of setting up the long
pending safety regulator having
legal powers for the oil and gas
sector. Sources privy to the
development confirmed that the
proposal will be sent for Cabinet
clearance soon.
At the same time the high-
level enquiry committee set up
by the Petroleum Ministry to
probe the mishap, is to give its
report within two weeks time.
Sources familiar with the
developments, confirmed to The
Pioneer that at present a proposal
for setting up a safety regulator
for the oil and gas sector having
regulatory powers is under the
consideration of the Committee
of Secretaries (CoS). However
owing to the urgency of the sit-
uation in the light of the fire inci-
dent, the Ministry of Petroleum
and Natural Gas (MoPNG) is
keen to expedite the process of
setting up the regulator and
sources said that efforts are on to
seek early Cabinet approval for
it.
Petroleum Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan had on
Friday (the day of the incident),
expressed shock at the fact that
there was no statutory body for
formulating safety measures for
the oil and gas industry, and
sources pointed out that his
assurance regarding strength-
ening OISD, has pushed the
MoPNG into fast tracking the
process. There is a likelihood that
the Government may try and
push for Cabinets nod in the
coming few days.
In 2012, the then Petroleum
Minister S Jaipal Reddy had
suggested giving statutory pow-
ers to the Oil Industry Safety
Directorate (OISD), a MoPNG
body, which carries out safety
audits of oil and gas installations,
besides formulating and stan-
dardising procedures and guide-
lines for design, operation and
maintenance.
As OISD does not have any
regulatory powers, Reddy had
suggested giving it statutory
muscles, and during the tenure
of the UPA Government itself, a
proposal for setting up an oil and
gas sector safety board - a
stronger version of OISD having
legal powers, was under the
CoS consideration. The UPA
Government though did not
push it aggressively enough.
In such a scenario, the trag-
ic GAIL pipeline fire incident has
ironically made the newly
formed NDA Government sit up
and take notice of the safety
aspects of the oil and gas indus-
try and this may now push it
towards expediting the process
of establishing a safety regulator.
Meanwhile it has been learnt
that the high-level inquiry com-
mittee formed by the MoPNG to
probe the fire incident, has been
asked to give its report within
two weeks starting from June 27
(the date of the mishap).
Sources said that consider-
ing the fact the inquiry will
involve various technical aspects
like laboratory tests of evidence
gathered from the sight, the
Government has mandated two
weeks for the probe panel to
complete its investigations.
The inquiry committee is
headed by a Joint Secretary in the
MoPNG and consists of officials
from the Oil Industry Safety
Directorate, National Disaster
Management Authority and
Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd
(HPCL), as members.
GAIL and ONGC have been
kept out of the inquiry commit-
tee. The incident occurred few
hundred meters from ONGCs
Tatipaka Refinery at Nagaram
village in Amalapuram Mandal
of Andhra Pradesh.
The incident was reported in
the wee hours of June 27, which
occurred owing to an explosion
in a pipeline owned by GAIL.
Govt to exeoite Calinet noo for oil & gas safety regulator
Panol probing GAL pipolino iro inoidont to givo roport in 2 wooks
T
he non-descript Katra Saadatgunj village in Badaun
is one of the back-of-the beyond villages in central
Uttar Pradesh untouched by modernity. The kuchcha
road is dotted with mud huts and thatched roofs.
This village would probably have never made a name
for itself had it not been for the bodies of two cousins which
were found hanging from a mango tree on May 27, 2014. The
incident not only brought village into limelight, but also brought
to fore the plight of women in Uttar Pradesh.
They were not only cousins, but good friends who used
to go everywhere together. On the fateful evening, too, they
had gone to the toilet in the nearby fields, a routine for our
womenfolk. When they got late we did not realise something
might have gone wrong. The next day morning, we saw their
bodies hanging from the tree, Jeeval Lal, father of one of the
girls, said.
Its a month from the incident and the Central Bureau of
Investigation has taken charge of the investigation but wails
can still be heard from the ramshackle mud house. The women
in our family cant stop crying. The way our daughters were
hung from the tree will haunt us forever. On top of that, the
local police are siding with the rapists. Hence, the CBI probe.
How can we have faith in the police which is trying to pro-
tect the killers. We have got threats from influential villagers.
We have been told that once the media and cops go, we too
will be killed. We cant stay in this village any more. Today, due
to Government apathy, we have to per force move to from the
house that belonged to our forefathers, Lal says.
The family also questions DGP AL Banerjee who claimed
that girls were not raped and that the murders could be part
of honour killing. If the head of police says that family mem-
bers have killed the girls and the post-mortem examination
has not confirmed rape, everyone knows what the thanedaar
will say and do. The earlier post-mortem report had confirmed
rape. The DGPs statement is part of a big cover up to save the
killers who belong to Yadav community, Lal says.
The killings have exposed the caste faultlines in this region
where Yadavs dominate the political spectrum. The village is
part of Badaun district, a high profile constituency represented
by Mulayam Singh Yadavs nephew Dharmendra Yadav. It is
one of the four constituencies in Uttar Pradesh won by the
Yadav family in the Lok Sabha elections held in April-May this
year. The girls hailed from the Shakya community, the most
backward caste, members of which work as labourers in the
fields of Yadavs and Thakurs of the region.
The caste equation, coupled with the cold-blooded mur-
ders, has become a recipe for political parties to dish out sops
for publicity. Leaders of all political hues have visited the fam-
ily offering monetary help. BSP chief Mayawati gave a cheque
of C5 lakh and former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh of the same
amount but the family has refused any kind of financial assis-
tance, saying they want justice not money from Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Hamari chidiya ud gayee use maar daalaa wails Ram
Kali, the girls grandmother. Vimla, the victims aunt,
tries to console old woman but tears dont stop. She cries all
the time. She has passport size pictures of the two girls and
shows them to everyone who comes here. Even though the pic-
ture has faded, it is my mothers most precious thing now,
Vimla says. The photograph was taken last year when the fam-
ily had applied for BPL card. This is the only picture of the
two girls together that we have, she tells you.
Meanwhile, the Badaun rape case has led to a spurt in
reportage of sexual assaults all across the State. In the last three
weeks, over 100 rape and murder cases have been reported.
The body of a 15-year-old girl was found hanging from Dadu
village in Aligarh, the body of another girl was found in Rae
Bareli while, in Sultanpura, a mentally challenged girl was gan-
graped. Sexual assaults have also been reported from Mainpuri,
Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Rampur.
Post-Badaun, the new trend is to not just rape but mur-
der the victims too and then hang them from trees. It is as if
these criminals are mocking the law. Since all this happens at
night, police action happens only in the morning. This reflects
the state of law and order in Uttar Pradesh. The criminals are
not afraid of the police because the ruling party is giving them
a patronage, BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak says.
The figures confirm this suggestion. Last year, 23,569 inci-
dents of crime against women took place. The State
Government records say that 10 rapes are committed every day
in UP. This does not account for unreported incidents which,
if taken in consideration, will substantially jack up the figure.
Other crimes include 7,910 kidnapping and abductions, 8,440
complaints and cases against cops, 6,202 incidents of crime
against SCs and 5,676 riot incidents.
Just two-and-a-half-years back, people voted the Samajwadi
Party to power with the hope that a young foreign-educated
Akhilesh Yadav would turn the tide in Uttar Pradesh. The party
got a thumping majority. It won 224 seats in a 403-member
Vidhan Sabha in 2012. Akhilesh pledged to make Uttar Pradesh
a crime-free State (Uttam Pradesh).
Instead, the first year of his rule witnessed 23 communal
riots and the second year was rocked by the Muzaffarnagar riot
which killed 69 people and rendered over 50,000 homeless. The
Governments apathy came to light when children were dying
of cold in the make-shift tarpuline tents in Shamli where the
temperature plummeted to minus 4 Celsius and the Ministers
were enjoying a dance programme of Bollywood stars. A group
of Ministers, led by Mohammad Azam Khan, in-charge of
Muzaffarnagar, also went for a five-nation foreign tour.
The recent incidents have exposed Yadavs administrative
non-capability. In political circles, it is believed that the young
CM lacks the political wisdom needed to rule a State like Uttar
Pradesh. He appears to be a disinterested politician more suit-
ed for a 10 am to 5 pm job. He is pushed and cajoled by his
father Mulayam Singh Yadav to perform. In one of the Press
conferences, Mulayam even said that had he been Chief
Minister he would have improved law and order within 15 days.
In another public admonition of his son,
Mulayam said: Mukhya mantri suniyee meri baat.
Logon se miliye. Chaar (logon) se milte hai aur kuch maalum
nahi kya ho raha hai. (Chief Minister listen to me. Start meet-
ing people. You have a small coterie who dont know what is
happening around).
People close to Akhilesh say that the Chief Minister is not
given a free hand to run the State. His Council of Ministers
are people whom he used to call chacha. Some senior
Ministers dont give respect due to a Chief Minister, in this case
Akhilesh. In such a scenario, he cant delegate work and there-
fore, the work suffers.
Look at Akhileshs predicament. He does not have secre-
taries of his choice. His secretaries report to Mulayam direct-
ly. Senior ministers like Azam Khan, Ambika Chaudhary and
Ahmad Hasan prefer to take directions from Mulayam. Many
a times, Akhilesh has asked Shivpal Singh Yadav to improve
the state of roads and his chacha has ignored him because he
is doesnt want to take directives from him, a senior leader
explains.
So, while the State machinery looks the other way, the lower
castes in the State continue to face the brunt of what some term
as caste culture turning into rape culture. According to the lat-
est National Human Rights Commission Report on Prevention
of Atrocities against Scheduled Castes, every 18 minutes, a
crime is committed against a Dalit. Every day, three Dalit
women are raped, two are murdered and two Dalit houses burnt
down, and 11 Dalits beaten black and blue. Every week, 13
Dalits are murdered, five home or possessions burnt and six
kidnapped. This rate doubles when it comes to Dalit women.
Hence, it is not surprising that in a State like UP, where Yadavs
and Thakurs rule, the plight of the lower castes is only get-
ting worse.
The Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its
Causes And Consequences by Rashida Manjoo says that vio-
lence against women in India is systematic. It is underpinned
by the persistence of patriarchal social norms and inter and
intra-gender hierarchies. Women are discriminated against and
subordinated not only on the basis of sex, but on other grounds,
such as caste, class, ability, sexual orientation, tradition and
other realities. That exposes many to a continuum of violence
throughout the life cycle, commonly referred to as existing
from the womb to the tomb. The manifestation of violence
against women is a reflection of the structural and institutional
inequality that is a reality for most women in India.
The report also says that Dalit and Adivasi women and
women from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other
Backward Classes are frequent victims of multiple and inter-
secting discrimination, as well as violence.
Caste-based discrimination, which also includes intra-caste
hierarchies, continues to be pervasive and widespread. The
intergenerational nature of caste-based discrimination con-
demns women to a life of exclusion, marginalisation and dis-
advantage in every sphere of life.
T
he lwo cousins who were gangraed and
killed while lhey had gone oul in lhe ields
lo relieve lhemselves, highlighls how
vulnerable women in lhe counlry are lo sexual
abuse because lhey do nol have loilels in lhe
securily o lheir homes.
"There is a link belween rae and nol
having loilels al home. 0ver GO er cenl o lhe
raes in ullar Fradesh occur when lhe viclims
are oul in lhe ields because lhey do nol have
indoor loilels," 0F Ashish 0ula says.
"Raes are nol new in uF as every day 1O
are reorled as er lhe halional Crime Record
Bureau slalislics. l is diicull lo give
roleclion lo every woman who goes oul lo
relieve hersel," 0ula lells you.
The Badaun case in nol new. Such
incidenls are reorled rom olher arls o lhe
counlry as well. n Aril lhis year, our women,
lwo in lheir leens, were raed in haryana.
They were 0alils and lhe culrils were Jals.
These women, loo, had gone lo lhe ield lo
relieve lhemselves when lhey were allacked
and raed.
Around 48 er cenl o ndia's oulalion
doesn'l have access lo sanilalion and G5 er
cenl villagers deecale in lhe oen, a wh0
reorl says.
Sulabh nlernalional, an h00 lhal has
conslrucled cosleeclive loilel syslems in
slums and dense urban localilies, claims lhal
o lhe over 24 crore houses in lhe rural bell,
only 11 crore have loilels. And, o 7,O85 cilies,
only 1GO have sewage lrealmenl lanls. n
ullar Fradesh, 77 er cenl villagers deecale in
oen.
Sulabh nlernalional ounder Bindeshwar
Falhak lells you lhal any woman deecaling
in lhe oen is vulnerable. "The 0overnmenl
musl acknowledge lhe issue. Resources will
only our in lhen," Falhak who has
exressed his desire lo work wilh lhe Modi
0overnmenl lo ensure loilels in all homes,
says. " am going lo wrile lo lhe Frime
Minisler soon," he adds.
Aler lhe rae incidenl, Sulabh has laken
u lhe inilialive lo conslrucl loilels in 1O8
houses in Kalra village o Badaun dislricl.
The debale on lhe link belween loilel and
rae was inilialed earlier by ormer union
Rural 0evelomenl Minisler Jai Ram
Ramesh. n 2O12, he had queslioned lhe
develomenl riorilies o uF when lhe 2O11
census revealed lhal ndia had more mobile
hones lhan loilels.
Lasl year, Frime Minisler harendra Modi
had advocaled home loilels when his remark
"loilel irsl, lemle laler" sarked o a
debale.
n uF, lhe Tolal Sanilalion Camaign
(TSC) was launched in collaboralion wilh lhe
Cenlre in 2OO2. The enlire rojecl now slinks
as much as lhe ield loilels. TSC was lold
lhal 82.5 er cenl households have loilels
bul lhe dala collecled in lhe 2O11 census
shows lhal jusl 22 er cenl households have
washrooms.
"This dala clearly roves lhal ublic
money has been lushed away in lhe name o
loilels. nilial reorls suggesl lhal 42,18G
loilels were conslrucled only on aers,"
Alok Ranjan, a senior Slale level oicer, says.
NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2014
According lo ndia's
halional Crime
Records Bureau, our
0alil women are
raed, lwo murdered
and lwo 0alil homes
lorched on an
average every day. All
or uer casle lo
rove lheir
dominance. The
recenl surl in raes
in ullar Fradesh
reilerales how
vulnerable women,
esecially 0alils, are.
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village in Badaun lo
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T
he law and order silualion in ullar Fradesh has
been worsening since lhe Samajwadi Farly look
charge a lillle over lwo years back. wilh lhe recenl
surl o raes in lhe Slale, lhe ercelion has
slrenglhened lhal lhe 0overnmenl is a ailure when il
comes lo rolecling lhe lives and dignily o women
because lhe olilical leadershi does nol have lhe
will lo do so.
The whimsical slalemenls by senior Samajwadi
Farly leaders have exosed lhe arly. while lhe
counlry is slill reeling under lhe shock o lhe lwin
gangrae o lhe Badaun cousins and lheir
subsequenl murder (lhe oslmorlem examinalion
has suggesled lhal girls were alive when lhey were
hung rom a mango lree), lhe arly's nalional general
secrelary Fro Ram 0oal Yadav, Mulayam's cousin,
blamed lhe increase in crime againsl women lo
"vulgarily, obscenily and violence shown on
lelevision channels."
when SF chie Mulayam Singh Yadav was asked
aboul lhe increase in violence againsl women, he
said: "You do your work and lel us do our work." The
slalemenls came on a day when uniled halions
Secrelary 0eneral Ban KiMoon had said lhal he was
aalled by lhe Badaun incidenl and urged all lo say
no lo lhe dismissive and deslruclive allilude o
deending culrils by saying lhal "boys will be boys".
when Chie Minisler Akhilesh Yadav was asked
aboul his reaclion o Badaun case, he queslioned a
woman reorler: "Are you nol sae in ullar
Fradesh?"
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women in almosl all lhe villages in lhe counlry go
and relieve lhemselves in lhe ields. They move in
grous lo avoid harassmenl and lewd remarks by
lhe men olk. The recenl rae and killing o lwo girls
in uF, where 77% villagers deecale in lhe oen, has
broughl lo lighl lhal due lo lack o loilels, women
become easy largels or such crime.
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NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2014

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T
he difference between Brazil
and Chile was to be decided by
penalties after a 1-1 stalemate
after 120 minutes of the first
quarter-final went into extra-
time and yet no goals were scored.
In the end, hosts Brazil won the rub-
ber 3-2 in the penalties with some great
saves by goalkeeper Julio Cesar. as vid Luiz
scored for the World Cup hosts in the 18th
minute after Thiago Silva deflected
Neymar's corner kick toward the far
post. Luiz was given the goal but Chile
defender Gonzalo Jara may have touched
the ball before it went in.
Chile equalized in the 32nd after
Eduardo Vargas intercepted Hulk's pass
and found Alexis Sanchez, who scored
from the right side of the penalty area with
a shot toward the far post.
Hulk thought he put Brazil ahead 10
minutes into the second half but referee
Howard Webb disallowed the goal, ruling
Hulk took down a long pass with his arm.
Earlier, in the Brazil broke out in the
121st minute Chile cleared a corner
which was one final twist as Ramirez shot
wide. While in the 120th minute Pinilla
hit the bar! What drama it was as Brazil
so close to the exit door.
Before that, Hulk blasted over and he
was ngry. You wouldn't like him when he
is angry.
This tis the commentary for the
match. 117 mins Willian has a free-kick.
It's a good 'un, swinging in, but it is
cleared. Penalties loom. Chile not unhap-
py about that, it seems.
115 mins Willian looking lively.
Crosses. Headed away. Brazil still patient.
Brazil still building. I admire them - even
though a stat suggests their passing accu-
racy is their lowest in a World Cup match
since 1966. Neymar has faded, though,
and they are ever so reliant on him.
113 mins Pinilla tries another ludi-
crous long-range shot that hits a defend-
er. Then Diaz take another of his daft
blasts.
111 mins Brazil's fans stirring their
side for one final push, a nine-minute
surge. Alves thwacks it over from range.
Team-mates annoyed.
110 mins Pinilla takes the ball, turns
well, and shoots, errr - well, poorly.
Over.
108 mins Gary Medel is taken off on
a stretcher. Thigh so heavily strapped it's
a wonder there was any blood flowing
through it. Jose Rojas on. Captain of
Universidad de Chile. Goes out on the left.
106 mins Neymar run and cross. Jo
slips again - change of boots, son? As Chile
block for a corner. Neymar corner, Jo gets
a good touch but heads it over.
105 mins We are away. Chelsea's
Oscar going off, Chelsea's Willian com-
ing on for his ninth cap - all as sub. He
has scored twice for Brazil, against
Hondura and Panama. Can he be a
national hero here?
That was the end of the second half
of the brilliant game.
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Rio de Janeiro: Luis Suare/ lold FFA's discilinary anel
lhal he did nol deliberalely bile laly deender 0iorgio
Chiellini al lhe world Cu. The uruguay slriker's deense
lhal he losl balance and ell on his oonenl will now be
resenled lo FFA's aeal anel, aler his nalional
ederalion noliied FFA lale Friday il would challenge lhe
ninemalch, ourmonlh ban. "n no way il haened how
you have described, as a bile or inlenl lo bile," Suare/
wrole in Sanish in a leller daled June 25. The layer's
deense is in aragrah G o FFA's discilinary commillee
ruling, which has been seen by The Associaled Fress.
"Aler lhe imacl ... losl my balance, making my body
unslable and alling on lo o my oonenl," Suare/ wrole
in his submission lo lhe anel which mel wednesday. "Al
lhal momenl hil my ace againsl lhe layer leaving a
small bruise on my cheek and a slrong ain in my leelh,"
Suare/ said. however, lhe sevenman anel which mel on
wednesday evening dismissed lhe argumenl. The bile was
"deliberale, inlenlional and wilhoul rovocalion," lhe ruling
slaled in aragrah ho. 2G o lhe anel's conclusions.
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Brasilia: "Firsl comes 0od, lhen amily and lhen
heymar," says Rayellen Andrade, 17, wearing lhe yellow
Bra/il leam jersey wilh her idol's name across lhe back.
She's among lhe lens o lhousands o grouies known as
"heymar/eles," who worshi lhe Bra/il and Barcelona or
ward on bolh sides o lhe Allanlic as i he were a Juslin
Bieber in oolball cleals. "heymarmania" is sweeing
across Bra/il ahead o lhe leam's world Cu lasl1G clash
wilh Chile on Salurday. The ace o heymar, who changed
hairculs and hair colour during lhe lournamenl beore
sorling a blond lo, is everywhere: wilh long reddish hair
and nails ainled in green, Andrade comes rom a middle
class amily living in Brasilia. She has covered her bed
room wilh oslers o lhe slriker. She collecls olders illed
wilh newsaer arlicles aboul him. unable lo score lickels
or Bra/ilCameroon in Brasilia lhis week, she wenl lo lhe
regame raclice hoing lo gel his allenlion. "he knows
exisl. My biggesl dream is lo kiss him and lell him love
him, lhal i he has a roblem will always be by his side,"
she says. walching lhe game al home, she welled u aler
heymar, lhe world Cu's joinl lo scorer, nelled in lhe 41
viclory. her assion or heymar began ive years ago aler
an eilelic crisis. " wasn'l inleresled in any arlicular
layer bul when lurned 12, became very sick," she
says.
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Rio de Janeiro: 0ermany's Mesul 0/il will nol observe
Ramadan when il slarls on Salurday bul many world Cu
layers who do ollow lhe Muslim asling monlh will be
under slricl medical surveillance. while slamic ran and
Bosnia, which has a si/eable Muslim oulalion, have
droed oul o lhe lournamenl, Algeria has qualiied or
lhe lasl 1G or lhe irsl lime and lhey will ace a quick
Ramadan lesl on Monday againsl 0/il's 0ermany.
Religious aulhorilies in several counlries lake a ragmalic
allilude lo oolball and Ramadan when ealing is nol
allowed during lhe daylighl hours. n 2OO8, lhe 0ar alla,
Egyl's main slamic body, allowed roessional oolballers
lo eal during Ramadan i lhey were bound by conlracls lo
lay during lhe holy monlh and lhey ell lhal asling will
imacl lheir erormance. 0lher workers involved in "hard
labour" are also given a disensalion. 0/il said he alls inlo
lhis calegory. " can'l lake arl," said Arsenal's allacking
midielder who added lhal lhe world Cu is "working". "l
will be imossible or me lo lake arl lhis year."
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Ribeirao Preto: Midielder Yohan Cabaye relurns lo lhe
France lineu wilh a slrong message or his leammales:
don'l be overconidenl. Cabaye will ace higeria in
Monday's Round o 1G game. Cabaye was susended or
wednesday's OO draw wilh Ecuador, and his cris assing
was sorely missed. Since lhal game, deender Bacary
Sagna and midielder Morgan Schneiderlin - Cabaye's
relacemenl againsl Ecuador - conidenlly romoled
France's chances, wilh Sagna saying on Friday il would be
"a ailure" nol lo win lhe lournamenl. "l's greal lo be
ambilious and lhal's why we're here. Bul lo say we're
going lo win lhe world Cu is a lol," Cabaye said.
"Conidence shouldn'l become arrogance because lhal's
when you have big roblems."
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hey lock lo games wilh aces ainled and draed in
lags. They hold u signs and wear unny hals. They
chanl and sing unlil lhey're hoarse. They're lhe
lraveling ans, and lhey're heling give lhe world Cu
lhe eel o Carnival. For many o lhe 1G leams lel in
soccer's biggesl exlravagan/a, lhe dedicaled lraveling
ans oer lhe kind o boosl lhal makes lhem eel like
lhey've gol an exlra layer. Colombia coach Jose
Fekerman credils lhe lens o lhousands o suorlers
who lurned lhe sladium al Belo hori/onle inlo a sea o
yellow or his leam's irsl malch, againsl 0reece, or
heling lhe leam win ils irsl world Cu game in 1G
years. " was very louched by whal saw in lhe
slands," he says, adding lhal lhe overwhelming suorl
lurned lhe sladium inlo a orlress or Colombia.
The Colombians carried lhal conidence lhrough lhe
resl o lhe grou slage, winning all lhree games and
advancing inlo lhe second round.
hundreds o lhousands o ans rom all over lhe
Americas have looded inlo Bra/il or lhe lournamenl,
where leams rom lhe region accounl or hal o lhe
remaining comelilors. Bul lhe 0ulch in lheir orange
and lhe Swiss in lheir red are slill wildly waving lhe
lags or Euroe.
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T
he World Cups high-
est-scoring team is
about to meet
arguably the tourna-
ments best goalkeep-
er. If t he f ree-scori ng
Netherlands wants to progress to
the quarterfinals in Brazil, it will
have to do what only one man
has done so far beat
Guillermo Ochoa.
The Mexico keeper has con-
ceded just one goal, a late conso-
lation strike by Croatias Ivan
Perisic in Mexicos 3-1 win.
The 28-year-old Ochoa kept
out Samuel Etoo as Mexico beat
Cameroon 1-0 and then had one
of the performances of the tour-
nament the last time he appeared
in Fortaleza, denying Neymar
twice with spectacular saves and
Thiago Silva late in the 0-0 draw
with Brazil.
When the Brazil match ended,
Mexicos players lined up to hug
their man-of-the-match keeper.
We respect (The
Netherlands) as we do with all of
the other teams, but we know that
they are among the favorites to win
the Cup and that does not scare us,
it motivates us, Ochoa said. If we
can beat them we will go very far.
Striker-turned-defender Dirk
Kuyt is confident the Dutch, who
have scored 10 times in three
group matches including hammer-
ing in a stunning five against
defending champion Spain, can
find a way past Ochoa, too, on
Sunday in Fortalezas Arena
Castelao. We know our strengths
in the team, said Kuyt. He men-
tioned speedy winger Arjen
Robben, but also weve got Robin
van Persie. In my opinion, Wesley
Sneijder is one of the best players
in the world. So we want to use
those strengths.
Mexico is in the round of 16
for the sixth straight time only
Brazil and Germany have a longer
streak of progressing from the
group stage but the teams
tournament has ended at the
round of 16 each time.
The current Mexico team
wants to go not just one better,
but all the way. We talk about not
only beating Holland, we aspire
to beat every great team and play
not just a fifth match, we want to
win it all, said defender, Miguel
Layun. They are a great team
that played for the title four years
ago, and are candidates here, but
if we win this one, our confidence
will go through the roof.
The winner Sunday goes on
to play either Costa Rica or
Greece in the quarterfinals in
Salvador.
Kuyt said that a measure of
Mexicos quality at the World Cup
is the fact that Manchester United
striker Javier Hernandez isnt even
starting, having been relegated to
a substitutes role after a year-long
international goal drought that he
finally broke against Croatia.
The Netherlands has its own
super sub in the form of Memphis
Depay, who has scored two goals
in Brazil in just over an hour of
play. Another scoring substitute,
Leroy Fer, is out with a strained
hamstring and it is not yet clear
if defender Bruno Martins Indi
has recovered enough from a
concussion he sustained against
Australia in the Netherlands
second group victory, over
Australia.
Mexico Midfielder Jose
Juan Vazquez is suspended
and will likely be replaced by
Carlos Salcido, a former PSV
Einhoven player. We have
players on the bench who can
break open and decide a match,
said Depay.
Holland will be complicat-
ed, no one said that its going
to be easy, said defender
Hector Moreno. We are
working very hard to achieve
something that everybody thinks
is impossible.
NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2014
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herrera jusl can'l kee his joy bollled u, and his
enlhusiasm has made him one o lhe mosl enlerlaining
and oular igures o lhe world Cu and an nlernel
sensalion worldwide.
Memes o herrera lood lhe web, like one lhal shows
his hair calching on ire carloonslyle. n one iclure, he
layully slicks oul his longue while he holobombs lhree
members o his leam on lhe ilch. n a video, he dances
haily lo Sanish ska music.
Forgel Coach herrera's success in lurning around lhe
lroubled Mexican leam, which aces o Sunday againsl
lhe helherlands aler becoming one o lhe inlernalional
soccer lournamenl's biggesl surrises. Soccer ans
around lhe global have allen in love wilh herrera's
colorul anlics, which are olen as absorbing as lhe goal
relays. "he is so aulhenlic, so exressive and so
genuine," said Enrique Krau/e, a Mexican hislorian and
world Cu commenlalor. "he's becoming lhe
reresenlalion o lhe Mexicans' abilily lo celebrale and
arly. Thal is very seduclive."
Allhough he wears a suil and a lie, herrera rumbles
u and down lhe sidelines like a classic Mexican wresller.
when his layers score, he shakes his arms in lhe air and
seemingly goes inlo a slale o euhoria, lhrowing his
shorl, sloul body u and down lhe sidelines.
he jums alo one layer like a riendly uy,
carries anolher leam member in his arms like a roud
alher or simly kneels down on lhe sideline, ace u, eyes
closed, ecslalic.
0uring lhe world Cu, sorlscaslers have
aeclionalely comared herrera lo a carloon monsler -
Tweely Bird's version o Mr. hyde, rom an animaled shorl
by warner Bros. There is unqueslionably a humorous
resemblance, righl down lo lhe shock o sandy hair.
herrera's lhealrical geslures are nol new lo Mexican
ans who ollowed him lhrough his lwo years as a coach
or Mexico Cily's America soccer club. Bul his
erormances on lhe ilch during lhe world Cu have
won new admirers or lhe man known as "Fiojo," or
louse, since he layed or Mexico's roessional Allanle
soccer leam. "Fiojo is lhe way he is and lhere's no way he
is going lo change. am hay lhey are lalking a lol aboul
him," said Mexico's calain Raael Marque/.
herrera has more ollowers on Twiller lhan olher
coaches - 785,OOO - and olen osls selies lo his
oicial accounl, hll://lwiller.com/Miguelherrera0T . A
avorile is a June 15 sna wilh a legion o Mexico ans in
lhe background. "You generally don'l hear a lol aboul lhe
coaches," said Jesus Berumen, 5O, a Mexican an in Los
Angeles. "he sreads hainess. he's so nalural in lhe
way he does lhings."
herrera's overly enlhusiaslic side hasn'l always
gollen him osilive allenlion.
As a layer, he was on lhe bubble lo make lhe
Mexican leam or lhe 1OO4 world Cu, bul was scralched
aler he wildly lackled a honduras layer during a
qualiying malch. he slill insisls he doesn'l know why he
didn'l make lhe leam.
his coaching career began in 2OO2, bul il wasn'l unlil
nine years laler lhal he became well known as lhe
manager or lhe America leam. he led lhe
undererorming club lo lhe Mexican league
chamionshi lasl year, and earned a reulalion or
lurning leams around. kF
ITkIEZk: Arjen Robben jusl seems
lo gel quicker and quicker. The 8Oyear
old Bayern Munich winger has oul
srinled every deender he has aced al
lhe world Cu so ar and is scoring
goals, loo.
l is a ar cry rom lhe inal our
years ago, when he couldn'l ind lhe nel
and ossibly win lhe lournamenl or The
helherlands.
Robben seemed doomed lo be
remembered al world Cus or lhe
s e c o n d h a l
chance he
s q u a n d e r e d
againsl Sain in
lhe inal in
Johannesburg,
when ker Casillas sluck oul a bool and
delecled his shol away rom goal wilh
lhe score slill OO.
The Bayern Munich orward slill
gels asked aboul lhal miss, bul he has
silenced crilics al lhis world Cu wilh
lhree goals in as many malches and a
erecl assisl lo sel u lhe leam's second
goal againsl Chile as lhe 0ulch loed
0rou B wilh lhree slraighl wins, scoring
1O goals in lhe rocess.
" wouldn'l change him wilh any
olher layer in lhe lournamenl," said
0irk Kuyl.
Robben is one o lhe old guard in
lhe 0ulch leam - along wilh slrike
arlner Robin van Fersie, he's scored al
lhree successive world Cus - and he
has earned lhe resecl o lhe youngslers
snaing al his heels lo gel inlo lhe
slarling lineu. "Robben is anlaslic,"
said Memhis 0eay. "l's anlaslic lo
lrain wilh him every day. can'l believe
my eyes whal he can do wilh lhe ball. l's
unbelievable how asl he is wilh lhe ball.
he's a greal layer."
0eay should know. n lhe
helherlands' inal grou malch againsl
Chile, he had lo srinl loward goal as
Robben sel o on a lighlningasl
counlerallack down lhe lel wing. The
2Oyearold FSv Eindhoven slriker
managed lo calch
u wilh him - jusl
- and was on
hand al lhe ar osl
lo la in an inch
erecl cross.
Robben had been on lhe ilch more
lhan OO minules al lhe lime o his dash,
0eay was a secondhal subslilule. "
lhink Robben is one o lhe aslesl layers
in lhe world wilh lhe ball and wilhoul,"
0eay said.
0eay said he wasn'l sure who
would win a race belween lhe lwo 0ulch
orwards. " don'l know who's aslesl.
lhink maybe he is," he conceded.
Robben aears lo be beneiling in
Bra/il rom his seniorily. Belween
malches, he somelimes works oul only
lighlly, aarenlly resling u or lhe
sureme eorl he uls in during games.
his coach, Louis van 0aal, knows
Robben rom lheir lime logelher al
Bayern Munich and allows lhe slar a lillle
leeway while he ushes mosl o his olher
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his World Cup just got a whole lot eas-
ier for Costa Rica. According to the
rankings, anyway.
Having left former champions Uruguay,
Italy and England behind to sensationally
win their group one of the toughest at the
World Cup the Costa Ricans line up
against their lowest-ranked opposition so far
in Greece in the second round on Sunday.
It surprisingly has Costa Rica finding
itself the favorite for a place in the quarter-
finals. Thats certainly a new situation for
the small Central American country which
arrived hoping to avoid finishing last in a
group of supposed powerhouses and now
has a chance to be in the last eight of the
whole tournament. We were the Cinderella
and now we are favourites. Thats respect
and we earned it,Costa Rica defender
Michael Umana said.
Costa Rica came through with a suc-
cession of shocks, beating 2010 semifinal-
ist Uruguay 3-1, stunning 2006 winner Italy
1-0 and then not having to stretch itself in
a 0-0 draw with England. No one can
accuse the team of having it easy and yet
its unbeaten and hasnt conceded a goal at
the World Cup since the 24th
minute of its opening game.
Because of that, Greece, a for-
mer European champion,
appears happy to accept the
underdog role for the last 16
game at Recifes Arena
Pernambuco.
At this stage,
everyone is consid-
ered an oppo-
nent who is better than us, Greece midfield-
er Lazaros Christodoulopoulos said.
Costa Ricas expectations have sky-rock-
eted, not just because of the results but the
way they earned them. It progressed from
the group stage for the second time and first
since 1990, doing it with panache and attack-
ing verve and with forwards Joel Campbell
and Bryan Ruiz leading from the front.
What we have accomplished is now
part of history but there are still some chap-
ters left and we want a happy ending, Costa
Rica director of national teams Adrian
Gutierrez said. We know that this team has
a ceiling but we still havent seen it.
Campbell, especially, has been a reve-
lation helped, maybe, by his loan to Greek
club Olympiakos from Englands Arsenal.
The striker, who turned 22 on Thursday,
could play against up to four of his Athens
club teammates this weekend.
I dont think Ill be giving him a call,
Greece midfielder Andreas Samaris said of
contacting his club mate before the game.
But if I did, Id wish him the best of luck
and then tell him his team is going to lose.
If Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto is
honest, Greece is probably the team he
would have chosen to play out of the other
15 in the knockouts. In fact, both teams
could argue theyve had a lucky draw. Sure,
I would choose Costa Rica over some other
teams, Christodoulopoulos said, but what
Costa Rica has done is a miracle.
While Costa Rica has been flying high
from the start, Greece has taken a little time
to get going. The Greeks scored their first
goals of the World Cup in last group game
and secured qualification at the very end via
a hotly-disputed injury-time penalty from
Georgios Samaras against Ivory Coast.
Neither country has ever gone to the
World Cup quarterfinals. One of them
will now.
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Leicester: ndia bowlers slruggled lo conlain
England balsmen even under avourable
condilions as lhe hosls reached a solid 24O
or one al lea, riding on cenluries rom Angus
Robson and 0reg Smilh on lhe lhird and inal
day o lhe warmu malch here on Salurday.
The visilors lried all lheir ronlline bowlers
wilh lhe excelion o R Ashwin, and nearly all
o lhem were laken or easy runs by lhe
balsmen. 0ener Robson (12G) and number
lhree balsman Smilh (1O1) ul on an
unbealen 221run arlnershi or lhe second
wickel, heaing a lol o misery on lhe ndian
bowlers who were slruggling lo ind lheir
belongings in lhe alien English condilions. n
lhe shorl relunch session, ndia had
managed lo send down 18 overs during
which lhe hosls scored 71 or one.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (O4G) oened lhe
bowling or ndia and slruggled lo hil a good
lenglh.
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New Delhi: 0elhi is sel lo hosl ils own
Foolball leagueOO Bids Cororale Foolball
League. The cailal will wilness lhe irsl o ils
kind ower acked game o oolball which
will be layed in 0elhi by execulives o
cororale corridors. Slyled as irsl Cororale
Foolball League, CFL 2O14 is being organi/ed
rom 2Olh June lo 18 July 2O14 al Thyagraj
Sorls Comlex Lodhi Road hew 0elhi under
lood lighls. 0ver 25 leams have regislered lo
be a arl o lhis 15 days long oolball league.
Among lhe arlicialing leams are
OOBids.com, halures's Essence, 0odrej
roerlies, h0FC , Club 0ne Air, 0rion
hyundai, 0clane, ZS Associales, Fanasonic
and Slandard Charlered ecl. The oening
ceremony on Salurday marked lag hosling,
inlroduclion o calains o lhe leams,
unveiling o lrohies.
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Assen: Miguel 0liveira rode anlaslically rom
ar o lhe grid lo deliver Team Mahendra's irsl
odium o lhe season as he inished lhird al
lhe 0ulch 0F in lhe Molo8 class o lhe Molo
0F, on Salurday. Slarling as back as 18 on
lhe grid, lhe Forluguese leenager icked his
way lhrough a big grou rivals and look
conlrol on lhe sixlh o 22 las o lhe 4.54km
classic Assen circuil, nicknamed 'lhe
Calhedral o Racing'. n an exciling race, he
was behind secondlaced Alex Rins (honda),
and lhe ga was 2.5 seconds and closed in
sleadily on his Sanish rival.
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Koln (Germany): 0aganjeel Bhullar was lhe
lone ndian lo make lhe cul rom among lhe
our in ray, carding a lwounder 7O in lhe
second round o lhe BMw nlernalional 0en
.Bhullar, who had a suerb G7 on irsl day,
has a lwoday lolal o sevenunder and was
lied or 2Olh aler 8G holes. Meanwhile, Jeev
Milkha Singh (717O) and Anirban Lahiri (G8
78) missed lhe cul by a shol wilh a lolal o
lhreeunder 141. Also missing lhe cul was
Shiv Kaur (78GO). Four layers share lhe
halway lead heading inlo lhe weekend. Raa
CaberaBello and Fablo Larra/abal, lying lhe
Sanish lag on lhe day lhe movie "Seve" hil
lhe big screens, were joined on 12 under ar
by 2O12 BMw nlernalional 0en Chamion
0anny willell and Argenlina's Emiliano 0rillo.
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Washington: ndian goler Arjun Alwal,
laying his irsl F0A Tour evenl lhis season,
carded a lwoover 78 in each o his irsl lwo
rounds and missed lhe cul by one shol al lhe
0uicken Loans halional. Alwal gol a sol inlo
lhe evenl courlesy his close riend Tiger
woods, who hosls lhe lournamenl each year.
The lournamenl is an invilalional evenl wilh a
ri/e urse o uS0 G.5 million and has a ield
o 12O layers.
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Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt): Ace ndian
cueisl Fankaj Advani showed his mellle as
he beal Alex Borg o Malla 4O lo enler lhe
quarlerinals o lhe world GRed Snooker
Chamionshi on Salurday. Kamal Chawla,
lhe only olher ndian in lhe ray in lhe men's
singles evenl, however, losl his lasl1G
encounler lo Mohsen Bukshaisha o 0alar
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ame start, same finish, for Rafael
Nadal on a rainy Saturday at
Wimbledon.
Nadal once again lost the first set of a
match here this year but came back to win
the next three, beating Mikhail Kukushkin
of Kazakhstan 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 to reach
the fourth round.
Under the closed roof on Centre
Court, while play everywhere else was sus-
pended due to the inclement weather,
Nadal turned the match around by win-
ning eight consecutive games and 14 of 15.
When the match ended, Nadal threw
his wristbands to the crowd, giving one of
them to a group of vocal supporters
dressed in yellow and sporting Spanish
flags.
He then looked up to the Royal Box
and gave a thumbs-up to David Beckham,
who was standing and applauding.
It marks the first time Nadal is into the
second week at the All England Club since
he was the runner-up in 2011. He lost in
the first round last year and the second
round in 2012.
In his first-round match this year,
Nadal lost the opening set to Martin Klizan
of Slovakia. In the second round he did the
same to Lukas Rosol, the Czech player who
beat him in five sets here in 2012.
But he has rallied to win all three
matches despite the early setback.
I finished all the matches playing bet-
ter than (how) I started, and thats always
very positive, Nadal said.
At the beginning he was playing real-
ly long, no mistakes, very aggressive,
Nadal added. And I had a few mistakes
... I made a few unforced errors with that
second serve. In the tiebreak, I didnt serve
my best.
Once play began, including top-seed-
ed Serena Williams against Alize Cornet
of France on Court 1, there was only about
15 minutes of action before rain began
falling again and the tarps were pulled over
the grass.
Williams and Cornet are 1-1, 40-40 in
their match.
Organizers postponed more than 30
doubles and junior matches, but said there
was a chance the weather would improve
later in the day.
Those already postponed included
doubles matches involving top-seeded
Bob and Mike Bryan and Serena and
Venus Williams.
Sunday is a scheduled off-day at
Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam tourna-
ment that takes a break midway through.
Maria Sharapova, the 2004 champion,
played Alison Riske of the United States
on the next match on Centre Court, and
seven-time champion Roger Federer was
scheduled to play later against Santiago
Giraldo of Colombia.
Kukushkin, who lost in the first round
in both his previous appearances at
Wimbledon, started his match
against two-time champion
Nadal by belting the ball all
around the court, and had 17
winners in the first set to Nadals
11.
With Kukushkin holding three
set points at 6-3 in the tiebreaker, Nadal
got one back with his second ace of the
tiebreaker. But Kukushkin took the first set
when Nadals backhand floated long.
Nadal won more total points in the
first set, 43-41, but still
found himself down early in
the match.
He is feeling confident
going into the fourth round.
I am very happy to be in
the second week again, he said.
Playing well, good speed, good tac-
tics on court every day. Fighting for every
ball and trying to find the right solutions
during the game.
Defending champion Andy Murray
posted another straight-set victory to
reach the fourth round at Wimbledon on
Friday, beating Roberto Bautista Agut 6-
2, 6-3, 6-2.
Murray, who advanced to the fourth
round at Wimbledon for the eighth time
in nine years, served 11 aces and hit 44
winners.
Last year, Murray became the first
British man to win the title since Fred
Perry in 1936, one year after winning the
gold medal at the London Olympics on
Centre Court. He now has a 16-match win-
ning streak at the All England Club.
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Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday took
some time off to enjoy an afternoon at the
Wimbledon watching Rafael Nadal in
action.
Tendulkar was seated in the Royal Box
of the Centre Court where he watched the
match between Rafael Nadal and Mikhail
Kukushkin.
Looking dapper in an ink blue suit
with sky blue tie, Tendulkar sat alongside
former England cricket captain Andrew
Strauss while former football captain
David Beckham sat just a row in-front.
Tendulkar was seen engaged in con-
versation between the points with Strauss
as Beckham was sitting with another
England soccer legend Sir Bobby Charlton.
At this time of the month every year,
Tendulkar normally spends some time in
London. He always makes it a point to
drop in at the SW19 to watch the likes of
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal live in
action. PTI
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ce Indian shuttler Saina
Nehwal stands just a win
away from clinching her sec-
ond title of the year after she
stunned world number two
and top seed Chinese Shixian
Wang in a gruelling three-
game semifinal contest of the
USD 750,000 Star Australian
Super Series here on Saturday.
Sixth-seeded Saina pre-
vailed 21-19, 16-21, 21-15 in
a marathon match, which last-
ed an hour and 16 minutes.
Beat world number 2
wang shixian in a tough 3
game match. Through to the
final of the Australian Open
super series! tweeted the
Indian after recording her
fifth overall win against the
Chinese nemesis, which took
their head-to-head record to
5-3.
Sai na wi l l now pl ay
Spanish youngster Carolina
Marin, who shuttled past
Japans Yui Hashimoto 21-17,
21-16 in the other semi-final,
in the title clash on Sunday.
Saina had lost to Yui 1-2 in
the India Open final last year
in New Delhi.
Meanhwhi l e the
Hyderabad-born Saina, who
had ended up on the losing
side against her semi-final
oppoenent Wang in their pre-
vious two encounters the
most recent being the All
Engl and Championships,
showed tremendous grit to
outsmart the top-seed.
As expected, it was even-
ly-contested battle between
the two players, who are pret-
ty familiar with each others
tactics.
In the opening game, it
went neck and neck till 19-19
before Saina broke away to seal
the issue in her favour.
Not the one to give up eas-
ily, Wang roared back in the
second game. The two players
were even till the 16th point
but Wang broke off from that
point to draw level with Saina.
However, Saina proved in
the final battle of attrition
and won the deciding third
game rather comprehensively
to enter the final.
Saina had earlier this year
won the India Open Grand
Prix Gold in Delhi.
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play Spanish
youngster
Carolina Marin,
who shuttled
past Japan's Yui
Hashimoto 21-17,
21-16 in the
other semi-final,
in the title clash
on Sunday
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n National Highway 28 out of Lucknow
towards Guwahati, as you drive on the
most incongruously smooth stretch of
concrete in the erstwhile state of Awadh,
hoardings of Narendra Modi stare down at
you every few kilometres. Flyovers lift you
over town after town and a mass of unpainted
bare-brick buildings marks the town of
Faizabad on the outskirts of which we decide
to stop to grab a bite.
If the highway is incongruous with the
notion that most non-arterial Indian highways
are potholed disaster zones, the Uttar Pradesh
Tourism restaurant is even more so. Individual
gazebos provide shelter to every table and sur-
prisingly good mutton comes from the kitchen,
but the beautifully manicured lawns and flower
garden provide a sense of westernised order, far
from the chaos of central Uttar Pradesh.
Soon after leaving Faizabad, the signboards
point out that we are fast approaching the town
of Ayodhya. The previous day, we had been
forced to skip travelling to Amethi due to the
abysmal quality of roads.
Ayodhya had always fascinated me; I was
barely a teenager when the Babri Masjid was
torn down by an army of Hindu kar sevaks. For
those of us born between 1975 and 1980,
December 6, 1992, was one of two defining
moments in our lives. The other, of course, was
the implementation of the Mandal Committee
report a few years earlier two events that
were to change the Indian polity forever.
The town also had a personal interest for
me. My father had (according to him) quite by
accident covered the town in 1985 when the
Rajiv Gandhi Government ordered that the
locks on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid
be broken and had observed how in the few
years after that this town became the centre-
piece of a new Hindu revivalist movement.
My father was in Ayodhya on December 6,
1992, standing on the podium with a few other
journalists. Whether he reveled or not at a
historical wrong being corrected, I do not
know. What I do know is that India changed
that day. Many people on the left of the politi-
cal spectrum claim it changed for the worse
which is a matter of conjecture but
change it did.
I did not climb the flyover that would
have lifted us over the turn-off for Ayodhya.
We were getting late for a scheduled appoint-
ment at Gorakhpur, still a quarter of a state
away. But it did not take much persuasion to
take that left turn following several buses full
of Gujarati and Bengali pilgrims.
Ayodhya surprises you by turning out to
be much smaller than you expect. It was the
historical capital of the greatest Hindu king
who ever ruled, but it certainly did not look
like it. While tens of temple spires rose from
the ground, they just about stood apart from
the several mobile phone towers. This is a
religious centre, but so many towns like this
dot India.
Driving into the town in a relatively new
Skoda Octavia, we attracted the attention of
hundreds of youths. As we drove down the
narrow streets of the town, many bike-borne
youths pleaded with us to hire them for just
pachaas rupiye. The initial consensus in the
car was to just see the site of the 1992 vio-
lence and beat a hasty retreat. With the
youths pleading for the job, it made sense to
take one on.
While I do not consider myself a particu-
larly religious Hindu, I have always been a
temple tourist. To miss a darshan of Ram
Lalla would have been stupid from a personal
point of view, let alone from that of faith.
Before we entered the controversial tem-
ple/mosque complex in this unabashedly
Hindu town, we were asked to visit another
temple outside. Some of the original bricks
brought for 1992 with Ram engraved on
them lay in a corner of this temple.
Pictures of Vishwa Hindu Parishad lumi-
naries Ashok Singhal and Pravin Togadia
lined the walls along with devotee memor-
ial marble slabs. In addition to the mass of
slabs in Devanagari, there were also ones
in Gujarati.
The most peculiar thing about
Ayodhya and walking to the site was not
the shops selling December 6 memorabilia,
but the term for the events of the fateful
day blast a euphemism that makes it
sound like an accident. What happened
was that thousands of Hindu kar sevaks
had demolished the Babri Masjid with any-
thing they could find, righting what they
felt was a massive historical wrong com-
mitted by the first Mughal emperor Babur,
who had constructed the mosque at the site
of Rams birth. Ironically, at every shop,
along with the standard offerings of flow-
ers and small sugar balls, DVDs of the
events of that day were being sold.
What a great day it was. We chased
all the Muslims away, a shopkeeper told
me. And then he uttered something that
had been left unsaid for the past one
hour: The temple will be built this time
because the BJP has come to power. But
like the stories of 1992 I have heard from
my father and his contemporaries, there
has been a clear reassertion of the Hindu
identity in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 73
out of 80 seats in the Lok Sabha Elections
would not have been won by the BJP if
there wasnt.
The temple/mosque complex had a
level of security that is unmatched in India.
Not even at Kashi Vishwanath in Benaras is
there so much security. There are three
security checks; proper thorough checks. A
deeply buried two rupee coin in my jeans
pocket was poked out at the second securi-
ty point. Every single policeman and police-
woman was a Hindu, and many were armed to
the teeth. This level of security was deeply
unnerving even to someone from Delhi. That
said, almost everyone was happy to talk politics
and as in the case of pilgrims, there was only
one man on their mind Modi. The police
personnel, who were mainly local Yadavs,
echoed one sentiment: Enough is enough, the
temple must be built.
It is not too difficult to realise why a temple
should be built on the site. Not to correct a his-
torical wrong, but purely from a logistical and
safety point of view. The site is a labyrinth of a
caged path, less than two feet wide and seven
feet high at best, ostensibly to protect devotees
and pilgrims from thousands of monkeys. The
monkeys still manage to attack pilgrims
through gaps; a Gujarati woman had her finger
bitten by one, yet continued singing Sita Ram,
Sita Ram.
Many Indian temples and holy sites belie
their importance by being extremely difficult
and dangerous to access. This was no different,
yet the levels of devotion were astounding. To
risk life and limb to barely catch a glimpse of a
small marble idol and walk in a cage that
resembled one in abattoirs left me constantly
fearing a stampede.
Yet, every single day, thousands of pil-
grims come to Ayodhya, which is a small
speck on the map of central Uttar Pradesh,
and get subjected to what one would normal-
ly classify as torture. They had come to a site
where Indias Hindus had, according to them,
reclaimed their religion and country. And lest
we forget, where were the pilgrims on-board
that ill-fated train in Godhra returning from
and why were they attacked? All to see some-
thing that does not exist. To see a sight that
will remain indelibly etched on Indias psyche.
Another temple might need to be built at
Ayodhya sooner rather than later.
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R
ahul Verghese is a veteran of 46 full
marathons and ultras across six
continents. He is also the founder
and CEO of a Delhi-based company
named Running And Living
Infotainment that handles every aspect of
running from training and nutrition to
organising running groups for marathons
across the country.
Verghese left his corporate career at the
age of 40 to pursue his passion for running.
Today, he has run 49 marathons in different
terrains across six continents. His 50th run,
which was completed exactly a month ago,
was what is called the most adventurous trail
run in the world.
For the iconic Tenzing Hillary Everest
Marathon this year, to celebrate his dream
run, leading sports brand Puma collaborated
with Verghese as its newest running ambas-
sador. The brand sponsored his 50th
marathon run as well. Verghese shares his
experiences and further aspirations.
QWhat is your earliest memory?
I was born in Delhi and then we moved to
Mumbai for a few years. I have fond memo-
ries from my childhood. When I was a child,
my brother put me in a cupboard and said we
were going to Mars, and we sat there for some
time. He told me that everything on Mars was
just like it is on earth and he used my dads
belt on the clothes hanger to make a racket.
When my parents came home, I was shouting
from inside the cupboard: Lets go back to
earth! I was around four years old then.
I was in Sunshine play school at the base
of Malabar Hill in Mumbai before we moved
back to Delhi when I was five. I went on to
study in Modern School, graduated from St
Stephens College and later from IIM
Ahmedabad.
My first job was with Hindustan Lever
where I worked for five and a half years. It
was full of great learning, fun and making
some new friends for life as I cut my teeth in
the professional world. Post one-and-a-half
years of management training, my first post-
ing was in Pune; I was heading an animal
feeds business, which was one of the most
interesting assignments I took up.
QYou say that running happened to you by
accident
While I was working with Motorola, I was
posted to Chicago from Singapore to manage
global market research. I was staying in a
suburb for the first time in my life. In win-
ters, it would be dark by 5 pm and bitterly
cold, so we would not see a single human
being on the streets for six months. Thats
when I bought a treadmill to kill some time,
and also learnt how to ski.
I would spend around 30 minutes in the
evenings on the treadmill, running and walk-
ing, and at the end of the winter, I found that
I could run for 30 minutes without stopping
and covered 3.5 miles. It was then that I
decided to run outdoors once the snow had
melted and over time I got even more hooked
onto running, and finally decided to run
the Chicago Marathon that year. Thats how
it all started.
QHow do you prepare for marathons?
What is your most essential running gear?
Having now run 50 marathons, my prepara-
tion is focused around re-building stamina,
trimming down on weight, eating sensibly,
and seeing how I can simulate the race
location conditions the best. And then it
is all about discipline and focus to make
the time for training. My most essential
running gear is my shoes and socks,
T-shirts and inner wear.
QWhat has been your most overwhelming
experience?
The Everest Marathon has been the most phe-
nomenal running experience I have partici-
pated in. It combines many marathons in one
getting to the base camp in one piece and
fit is an ordeal in itself as we battled stomach
flu, the cold, altitude, coughs and colds,
headaches and more; and then had to con-
stantly juggle with weight to carry versus stuff
to send back as we kept going higher and
to more remote locations. And then trekking
through three days of snow of three feet or
more in parts and camping at Everest Base
Camp, then doing the run of a lifetime,
trekking back for two days, having an adven-
turous plane ride from the Lukla airport in
Nepal one of the most dangerous in the
world, and ending with a rocking party back
at Kathmandu and leaving Kathmandu having
found 50+ soul mates. Those are among some
of the memories I will treasure forever.
QYou have recently completed your 50th
marathon. How did you prepare for it and
how has that experience been?
May 29 marked my 50th marathon run from
the Everest base camp to Namche Bazaar,
which is at a height of 3,446 metres. The
Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon 2014 is
very significant and is often considered to be
the most adventurous trail run in the world.
In my preparation, Puma has been most
supportive both with a range of running and
hiking gear, which was needed for the Everest
Marathon since it had highly varied condi-
tions from snow to rain to rocky trail. Puma
also offered financial support for enabling my
participation. I was most impressed with their
involvement in getting me my final pair of
shoes in the last week from Germany. Those
shoes are the most comfortable ones that I
have ever used on a trail run and I was a bit
worried since I was running in them before
breaking them in for 100-200 km. But the
socks and shoe combination worked like a
dream over the deep snow at the beginning
and the slushy snow and water halfway
through and finally the rainy circumstances in
the latter part of the marathon.
I also found the windcheater great
lightweight, effective both against the wind
and the rain, and the running backpack was
snug and comfortable for me to carry my
munchies, water, energy drink, torch and
other essentials during the marathon. The
ACTV compression legwear was also useful
both as a warm lining along the route, and as
one ended just at nightfall when it was getting
cold again at Namche Bazar.
QTell us about Running and Living.
Running And Living is a market-
ing organisation with a passion
for running. We have built 30
running properties across 11
States in the country for brands
to engage with their early
adopter target audience in a
relevant and fun way and
leverage. Our goal is to get to
doing 500 runs a year. We
have so far done over 175
runs across the country
from the Himalaya to the
Formula One track at the
Buddh Circuit. From the
beaches of Kihim to the jun-
gles at Corbett. From the cold
winter in Panchkula to the heat
of the Delhi summer in the
Aravali, and more. We have 75 running
groups, which we plan to take to 1,000 and get
200 million people running.
QWhich places in India are apt to organise
marathons?
Any place in the country can host a run or
even a marathon. But our focus is around big
corporate spots like Mumbai and Delhi, and
then places worthy of travel and a vacation for
runners to come to and experience different
conditions and challenges, and see the country
and experience the great outdoors.
QWhat would be your advice to runners?
Most importantly, enjoy your runs. Dont do
too much too soon and keep yourself injury
free. There is always another run, but there is
just one body. So listen to your body and nip
any issue in the bud.
QWhat is your most fulfilling achievement?
My most fulfilling achievement I would say
was my first marathon, which was in Chicago,
which gave me a renewed self-belief beyond
anything I had experienced earlier.
QWhat is your daily schedule like? What
diet and regime do you follow?
I try and run 30-40 km per week with a
five-day running week. Sometimes our own
events take a toll on my running, but I carry
my running shoes wherever I travel.
QAre you aiming at any particular feat?
The next step is working on getting to run
the Antarctic Ice Marathon, which would
make it the seventh continent I would have
run marathons in. That is an extremely
challenging marathon.
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nce upon a time, Chelsea Clinton
was a little girl from Arkansas. And
deep down, she still is. Despite her
White House-Stanford-Oxford-
Columbia-McKinsey-hedge-fund groom-
ing, shes still got a thing for poultry.
Fried chicken is my husbands favourite
food, she divulges in her office at the
Clinton Foundation in Manhattan, where
she lives in a $10 million apartment.
She says, I was a vegetarian for 10
years, a pescatarian for eight. Then I woke
up one day when I was 29 and craved for
red meat, says Chelsea, now 34, who
recently announced she is expecting her
first child. Im a big believer in listening
to my bodys cravings.
One of my earliest childhood mem-
ories is being three years old and on the
campaign trail with my dad, says Chelsea,
who was born when her father was the
Governor of Arkansas. That day, a woman
approached her and asked, Do you
want to grow up and be a Governor one
day too? And I looked at her and said,
No, Im three. Im just waving the flag.
That is my job right now. Flag-waving
extraordinaire.
For a decade after graduating from
Stanford in 2001, Chelsea experimented
with the world beyond the Clinton
machine. In peripatetic bursts, she tried
out international relations, then manage-
ment consulting, then Wall Street, then
a PhD. She even signed on as an NBC
News special correspondent. She ratio-
nalises this career promiscuity as a hall-
mark of being just another Millennial,
experimenting until she figures out her
professional purpose.
And now, finally, she has decided to
join the Clinton family business. As
vice-chair of the recently rebranded Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,
she is helping one of the worlds most
notable philanthropies grow up. Shes
been there three years and has a solid
record.
It is frustrating because who wants
to grow up and follow their parents?
admits Chelsea. Ive tried really hard to
care about things that were very differ-
ent from my parents. Money wasnt the
metric of success I wanted in my life.
Enrolling in Stanford University in
1997 was Chelseas first attempt to cut the
umbilical cord. Far from Washington, she
found herself surrounded by people who
used technology rather than politics to
solve problems. It was the height of the
first tech boom, and friends were drop-
ping out to launch or join startups
(including Mezvinsky, who was also at
Stanford, also the child of politicians and
then just a good friend; he now runs his
own hedge fund). Chelsea wasnt drawn
to the entrepreneurial life, but she did dis-
cover that she was a person who want-
ed to fix, improve, expand things.
After graduating in 2001, she had no
clear plan for how she could apply that
incl ination. She attended Oxford
University, where she took a Masters in
international relations. She spent three
years at the management-consulting firm
McKinsey, working in its public health
practice before becoming a manager in its
financial services and technology practice.
Then the doubts encroached again. Was
I going to continue to work 100 hours a
week and invest time and energy there?
she says. Or was I going to go do some-
thing else?
Something else was working as an
industry analyst at a hedge fund. As with
every new job during these years, Chelsea
had to make people forget her heritage.
I will just always work harder (than any-
body else) and hopefully perform better.
And hopefully, over time, I pre-empt and
erase whatever expectations people have
of me not having a good work ethic, or
not being smart, or not being motivated.
She took a leave of absence to work
on Hillarys 2008 presidential campaign.
After returning to Wall Street, she decid-
ed to take a Masters in public health at
Columbia and took a job at NYU.
Her wedding in 2010 put an end to
the meandering. According to Bari Lurie,
her chief of staff, the previously private
Chelsea was caught off guard by the atten-
tion paid to the event. When she cam-
paigned for her mother in 2008 400
events in 40 States she first experienced
the impact her voice could have. She
quickly realised, There is nothing Im
doing now thats satiating this interest,
says Lurie. This doing-nothing thing Ive
tried it, and it didnt work.
The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation focuses philanthropy on a
range of causes, including global warm-
ing, food and healthcare for poverty-
stricken Africans, sustainable small busi-
nesses and infant and toddler health. The
glue holding this together is Bill, who cre-
ated the charity in 1997 and presides over
the annual gathering of the Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI).
When Chelsea arrived in 2011 she
knew her primary role was to apply the
data-driven skills she had developed in
her other jobs. The foundation had more
than 2,000 employees in 36 countries, but
there was little collaboration between ini-
tiatives. Furthermore, according to The
New York Times, there was internal strife.
When I ask Chelsea the state of the foun-
dation when she arrived, she fails to men-
tion these problems, and doesnt bring up
the audit she and her father commis-
sioned until I ask. She is her parents
daughter, after all her crystal-clear
thinking is accompanied by stonewalling.
But of the three Clintons, she is the
most hands-on. Bill spends much of his
time travelling, collecting cheques from
speeches. Hillary, who has used it as a
refuge since her resignation as Secretary
of State, will presumably be on the road
again, working to get into the White
House. So the onus is on Chelsea.
In 2011, Chelsea pushed the Clinton
Health Access Initiative, which had his-
torically focused on driving down the
prices of HIV and AIDS drugs, to do the
same for Zinc/ORS, the leading treatment
for diarrhoea, which is the second-lead-
ing killer of children under five in the
developing world.
One of the first countries it targeted
was Nigeria, but negotiating with the
Government, NGOs, public sector organ-
isations and pharma companies threat-
ened to delay the effort endlessly. After
a couple of weeks of intense preparation,
says her colleague Julie Guariglia, Chelsea
travelled to Nigeria and went to every
partner, knew exactly what we needed
from them, pledged her support and
belief in this programme, and got them
to commit. Without her, it would have
taken months. Prices of Zinc/ORS have
been cut by 40 to 60 per cent in Kenya,
Nigeria and Uganda.
Melinda Gates and Hillary Clinton
along with Chelsea are there to
announce No Ceilings, a collaboration
between the Clinton Foundation and the
Gates Foundation that will analyse the
progress of women and girls globally.
Chelsea is as forward-thinking and
open-minded as any Silicon Valley entre-
preneur, but surrounded by the suffocat-
ing retinue that envelopes her public life.
One of her handlers urges Chelsea not to
change her facial expression during the
shoot for this interview; another sits in
on our interview, whisks her away when
shes in the middle of answering a ques-
tion and scolds me. Its an odd, occasion-
ally funny blend of control and confusion.
The press release on Chelseas impact
at the foundation obfuscates her true
accomplishments by mentioning such
ephemera as visiting Myanmar, where
she delivered the six-billionth litre of clean
water to a family.
Chelsea will surely be called on in
2016, assuming Hillary again runs for
presidency. In the 2008 campaign,
Chelseas smart and engaged appearances
helped younger voters feel connected to
her then 60-year-old mother. The
Burberry CEO Christopher Bailey, a
close friend of Chelseas, says, Im sure the
foundation will always be part of her life,
but I dont know if it will be the only part
of her life. I certainly do not think shes
come to the conclusion that this is it.
Later this year, she will become a
mother. It was at a No Ceilings event in
April where she announced her pregnan-
cy. And where it all might lead after 2016
is already a matter of much anticipation.
Shes now willing to leave the door
open a crack. I live in a city and a coun-
try where I support my elected represen-
tatives. If at some point that werent the
case, maybe Id have to ask and answer the
question for myself, and come to a dif-
ferent answer.
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new branch of medical
commerce called palm
surgery is being propagat-
ed in some advanced countries
for improving and changing ones
fate simply by altering palm lines
through laser devices. It is being
publicised as a sure shot way to
change peoples lives and future
by manipulating existing lines on
palms.
Can it be possible? Are we
not in the making of a fatalist
mankind? By manipulating lines,
are we not creating lazybones,
who instead of working for the
pursuance of their dreams would
sit idle and do nothing, waiting
for the desired to happen because
they have altered their fate lines?
The network of lines on the
palm is formed when a child is in
the womb of the mother. These
lines will change throughout a
mans life. Usually, the palm line
has a formation period and alters
up to 16 years of age from the
birth of a child. The chief lines
like the life and fortune lines
stop changing at the age of 16
years, but the other lines keep
changing throughout life accord-
ing to a persons karma.
In our scriptures, the theory
of karma is long established and
now being accepted in the world
of wisdom. If we pursue wrong,
we shall never get good in return.
If we pursue right, we will be
entitled to receiving good in
return. So how can a hardened
psychopath criminal become a
saint by simply altering the for-
tune line on his palm?
Science is based on experi-
mentation. Palmistry stands on
the belief that a human palm line
reflects his karma and experi-
ences in life. The other things
that are taken into consideration
are the shape of palm and
whether the palm is soft or hard.
Palmistry is a science for believ-
ers and also has a scientific rele-
vance. But it is also true that for-
tune favours those who work
hard for it, desire it and pursue it
with all concentration and ener-
gies. It is known to all that
Valmiki was a cruel bandit who
went on to become a sage. So, we
can shape our life according to
our choice and dreams if we pur-
sue with diligence.
Moreover, the lines of our
palm change periodically as per
our karma and we can also
change our lines through karma.
However, ultimately the rule of
nature prevails.
Can we change our genetic
configuration by altering the
lines on the palm? Can we
change our karma? It is not only
hypothetical but utterly absurd.
In all likelihood, and indications
are, that this surgical gimmickry
may reach India soon. Indians
are already well-known fatalists;
will it not increase our inbound
dependence on fate?
Karma is eternal; it is an
energy that no time can change
and a strength that will stay with
you even in your next life. Try to
be happy from within. Learn the
joy of giving and to be happy
with things that money is unable
to buy. These small things, if fol-
lowed, can help you have a better
karmic life.
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F
irst, this story of two philosophers discussing mind
and matter. One philosopher asked the other,
What is mind? The other retorted, No matter.
As a sequel he asks again, What is matter? Never
mind, is the impromptu reply.
The humour in this exchange notwithstanding,
the mind-matter dichotomy is much deliberated in
philosophy. However, the critical issue in all those dis-
cussions that seldom gets resolved is the fact that the
mind is the matter. Yes, mind matters. It is the mind
that guides us to the pursuit of matter. Matter matters
because of the mind.
Buddha had said that we are the result of our
thought. What we think, we become. Quoting from the
Dhammapada: All that we are is the result of what we
think. All that we are is founded on our thoughts and
formed of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an
evil thought, pain pursues him as the wheel of the wagon
follows the ox that draws it. If a man speaks or acts with
a pure thought, happiness pursues him like his own
shadow and never leaves him.
Thus, it is the mind that must be controlled. All our
problems are result of cognitive appraisal, our percep-
tion, our world view. This is what is called maya in
Shankaras philosophy, which is the result of ignorance
or avidya. And as we cling to the products of maya, we
get entrapped with the predicament of being like a fly
caught in a cobweb. The more it tries to come out, the
more it gets entangled.
If the mind can be controlled, our wisdom gets
awakened and we achieve the mental state of the wise
one who has been called Sthita Pragyan by Lord
Krishna in Bhagwad Gita. A mind thus controlled
does not cling to anything and is there free from any
feeling of gain or loss. As Buddha had said, we only
lose what we cling on to. Mind is our guide, mind is
our motivation.
If the mind is kept under control, all our woes will
disappear. This is the reason why the Indian philosophi-
cal thoughts give so much importance to the mind. It is
now also realised by the modern medical sciences that
sound mental health is a necessary condition for sound
physical health. Recent advances in emerging sciences
like psycho-neuroimmunology suggest that our resis-
tance towards diseases is related to our stress level,
which is a result of the absence of mental peace. The
power of mind has been recognised by eminent authori-
ties of medical sciences. In his famous book, Quantum
Healing, noted spiritualist and medical doctor Deepak
Chopra has quoted many instances of the power of mind
in recovery of patients.
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mind? The way out is to find time for solitude and qui-
etude. While solitude is to find a quiet place for sitting
peacefully, quietude is achieving tranquility in thought.
But for many this seems impossible. And rightly so.
Khalil Gibran said that solitude is the ally of sorrow as
well as companion of spiritual exaltation.
It is you who has to choose. Thus, the frame of mind
is the critical factor.
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nce you become a parent,
everything in your life
revolves around your
child. The major chunk of
your investments, your
daily routine, eating habits and most
importantly, the place you live in, all
have to correspond well with your
childs life. You make sure that the
childs room is adequately equipped
and leave no stone unturned in doing
up its interiors, beginning from the
right paint and design, to the right
furniture and upholstery.
Nowadays, all hypermarkets are
full of stuff that is specifically
customised for childrens rooms. From
colourful bunk beds and study desks to
curtains and wallpapers to trendy
floorings almost everything that is
required in the room is made as per the
childs taste.
However, not all parents know a
scientific fact that all the colours and
patterns in the childs room should be
as per the direction in which the room
is located. The vibrations emanated by
everything in the room directly
influence the mind and the body of the
child who uses that room.
Mahavastu, the worlds largest ever
written text on vastu shastra, based on
thousands of case studies, has found a
few favourable directions for setting up
the childs room as well as identified
right colours and shapes to be kept in
mind while doing up the interiors. You
must always check if the room is in
right vastu zone. And then check
mahavastu guidelines for the suitable
colours and patterns as well as
recommended directions for the
placement of furniture.
Documented research in vastu
shastra suggests the most favourable
vastu zones for the childs room; these
include west-southwest, southwest,
north, north-northeast, east-northeast,
east-southeast, south-southeast, and
south. If the childs room is not in one
of these vastu zones, you may have to
rearrange the setting of the house and
shift the room to one of these zones.
Else, you may apply simple mahavastu
remedies that include mere changing of
wall colours and curtains, rearranging
furniture or adding a few objects in the
room. This, however, has to be done
only under an experts guidance or by
you only after learning the
fundamentals of vastu.
If the room is in the right vastu
zone, to find synchronising colours and
patterns. Some of the favourable
colours as per the zone of the childs
room are as follows:
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If the childs room is in west-southwest,
use shades of light blue, grey or white
on the walls, curtains and other
upholstery.
You can use circular designs for the
wallpapers. Interestingly, a wallpaper
which has pictures of space and
celestial bodies acts as an amplifier of
creative vibes in the childs room. West-
southwest is also helpful for students.
Try moving the study desk in this zone.
Place the desk in a way that she faces
west while studying.
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Here, use hues of light yellow, off-white
and golden. Red and green in this zone
are strictly prohibited for being
opposing shades for this zone and can
emanate negative vibrations. The room
in this zone can also have a study table
as this zone too can make children
interested in books.
Most of you could be tempted to
put childrens photographs in the their
rooms, but be careful as it is
recommended only for the wall on the
western side. The photo in this
direction can help children in
enhancing their skills and mastering
their interests.
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Shades of blue, green and off-white are
the best colours here. Green colour can
be enhanced by keeping artificial green
plants too. This zone is also
recommended for keeping a study
table.
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Like in the north, shades of blue, green
and off-white are good for this
direction.
Mahavastu research has found that
if the childs study table or even books
are placed in this zone, her interest in
studies will wither away. Otherwise, the
direction remains fine for the childs
overall health and peace of mind if
interiors are done in recommended
colours.
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East-southeast is better known as the
vastu zone of churning and analysis.
The room in this zone can help in
making a child not only inquisitive, but
also help increase his or her analytical
as well as argumentative skills. To
enhance the positivity of this zone, light
pink, off-white, yellow and green are
recommended for walls as well as
curtains and other prominent elements.
However, the photos of the child are
not allowed for the room in this
direction.
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Shades of red, pink, maroon, orange,
golden and yellow work for this zone.
To enhance positive vibrations,
interiors should have elements in
triangular and square shapes. These
elements will help in making children
more confident and gain popularity
among their friends. Another enhancer
of positive vibrations in this zone can
be the rosewood bed. The zone is also
good for placement of their photos.
However, the use of wavy shapes, blue
and black colour as well as metal bed is
not recommended for this zone.
Mahavastu has also identified that
for interiors of childrens room, light
pastel shades act as universal colours
regardless of any direction. However, a
thorough analysis of the vibrations
around not just the room but the entire
house has to be done before application
of these universal colours. For such
analysis and evaluation, a simple four-
step method has been devised by
mahavastu and can either be learnt
practically within four days or you may
ask a professional to apply the same.
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Mind is
maller
The mindmaller dicholomy is
cenluries old. Mind mallers, and
maller mallers due lo lhe mind
0nce you become a arenl, everylhing in your lie revolves around your child.
vASTuShASTR KhuSh0EEF BAhSAL advises on melhods o selling u lhe
inleriors o lhe child's room and recommends vaslu lo enhance ils osilivily
T
heres a north-south divide in
Kolkata that runs deep beneath
any apparent bonhomie
between residents of Jorasanko and
Jadavpur. The Bengalis of north
Kolkata see themselves as culturally
superior to those who live in the
southern quarters of the city who, in
turn, disdainfully scoff: Culture?
Hah! There used to be a popular per-
ception south of Ballygunge, not
entirely ungrounded in facts which
now belong to the realm of history,
that the north was all about dissolute
baboos and their lonely bibis, sort of a
real life version of Bimal Mitras
Saheb Bibi Golam. Oraa paayra
oraai, baaiji naachaye went a line
in a popular Bengali film song, lurid-
ly suggesting that the baboos spent
their days racing pigeons and their
nights frolicking with nautch girls.
The north was where the zamin-
dars set up home, absentee landlords
who became Bengals compradour
bourgeoisie and acquired enormous
wealth between mid-19th and early-
20th centuries. Ships laden with salt
would reach Kolkata where they
would be handled by Bengal Dock-
ing Co, the salt would be traded by
Bengal Salt Co, and a share of the
profits would go to Carr Tagore &
Co which promoted and managed
various joint stock companies. There
were hints of scandals involving
illicit trade in opium; many of the
baboos were cheated out of their
home and hearth by their conniving
British business partners. Amitav
Ghosh documents the tragic story of
one such zamindar, Raja Neel Rattan
Halder, in Sea of Poppies, the first
volume of his trilogy on the opium
trade. Others made a pile of money
and built gorgeous neo-Victorian
houses; their sons squandered their
inherited wealth on, as the clich
goes, wine, women and music.
Rabindranath Tagore was a
rare exception.
Actually there was not much of
south Kolkata till partition happened
in 1947 and Hindu refugees from
East Bengal, which became East Pak-
istan and is now Bangladesh, trooped
into Job Charnocks city, looking for
shelter. They set up home (tiled roofs,
marsh reed mats held up by bamboos
serving as walls, earthen floors a
far cry from the splendid buildings of
the north) in Dhakuria, Jadavpur,
Bagha Jatin and other such mosqui-
to-infested colonies. They spoke in
East Bengals dialect, had a fetish for
eelish (Hilsa) which they cooked in a
mustard sauce and rooted for East
Bengal Club during football season.
Their struggle for survival in the
absence of any Government support
and amid the gathering gloom of
Kolkatas economic decline became
the leitmotif of a city in ferment dur-
ing the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.
Jana Aranya, written by Mani
Shankar Mukherjee, better known by
his pen name Shankar, which was
later rendered into an eponymous
film by Satyajit Ray, provides an
accurate picture of those troubled
times when hunger, rage and frustra-
tion coalesced to turn vast stretches
of south Kolkata into a seething bat-
tlefield where the far Left fought it
out with the Left.
The Ghotis of north Kolkata
were disdainful of the Bangals of
south Kolkata whom they considered
as no better than uncouth peasants
and country bumpkins. They spoke
in Bangla, as opposed to Bangal,
insisted nothing could be tastier than
chingri (prawns) cooked in a sweetish
curry, and went into mourning every
time Mohun Bagan Sporting was
routed by East Bengal Club, which
would be quite often. Enraged by the
supercilious attitude of the Ghotis,
the Bangals would take vicarious
pleasure in pointing out that luchi
(puri) was pronounced as nuchi and
lebu (lime) as nebu in the fashionable
houses north of Chowringhee, which
is pronounced as Chowrangi. There
were other crudities in the Bangla
spoken in north Kolkata which
Bangals in south Kolkata described as
chhoto loker bhaasha (language of
the lower classes). Nirad C Chaud-
huri would often offer delightful
though risqu examples.
The Bangals were dirt poor but
valued education; unlike the conser-
vatives in north Kolkata, they were
liberal in their social practices and
radical in their political views.
During the troubled decades they
emerged as the urban backbone of
the Left movement. While Calcutta
University suffered precipitous
decline in academic standards,
Jadavpur University became the hub
of exciting studies (it was the first in
India to set up a department of com-
parative literature; its engineering
and science graduates are still a
prized catch for Western universi-
ties). When Nakshalbari happened,
north Kolkata became the battle-
ground between Congress hoodlums
and Charu Mazumdars guerrillas. In
south Kolkata, it was Left versus Left,
a fight for domination between Marx
and Mao. The disinheritance of West
Bengal, first by Jawaharlal Nehru and
then by Indira Gandhi who, between
them, ruined the States industrial
economy through hare-brained
schemes like the freight equalisation
policy, hit the working class of south
Kolkata the most.
All this, of course, now belongs to
the past. Over the years there has
been migration from the north to the
south with families running out of
living space. The houses with tiled
roofs and marsh reed walls first gave
way to pucca dwellings; these have
now made way for high-rise build-
ings. In the early-1980s, Jadavpur was
dark and dingy, its narrow roads
clogged with traffic and its gutters
overflowing with sewage. Over the
past two decades or so, it has had an
image makeover and is almost
unrecognisable now. There are glitter-
ing retail showrooms, malls, gyms
and restaurants that list continental
fare on their menu cards. Fervour for
Marx has been replaced by fervour
for Mamata. Ten years ago we had
gone for dinner to a friends house at
Kalibari Lane near 8B bus stand in
Jadavpore. They had served a delight-
fully mean tel koi and similar fabulous
dishes that Bangals alone can cook.
On a recent visit I had dinner with
them. There was chicken roast (no,
not tandoori chicken), grilled ribs and
sauteed vegetables on the table.
A strange patois, which Bengalis
insist is Hindi but sounds nothing
like Hindi, has replaced both Ghoti
and Bangal dialects. Aabaar dekha
hobey (We will meet again, the stan-
dard parting line) is rarely heard.
Instead, Bengalis now say, Pheer
milengey, gratuitously adding,
Theek hai. Children speak in
Cartoon Network English with their
parents, and theres a strange, inex-
plicable collective rejection of Bangla
culture and identity. There is no
more any north or south, its a new
Kolkata which has said goodbye to
the city which you either loved or
loathed, but could not be indifferent
to. Theres a lot of money going
around and a dissolute lifestyle is no
longer the preserve of north Kolkata.
But memories remain. And the
smallest Ghoti slight can leave
Bangals incandescent with rage.
These Ghotis will never change, my
Bangal friend said, while helping
himself to another portion of chicken
roast and reaching out for the jar of
Colmans mustard (no, not the one
that is packaged in India). Had I not
been a Bangal, I would have retorted,
What you mean is that these Gauls
will never change!
(The writer is a Delhi-based
senior journalist)
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on
June 22:
Strong PM: We have lost all
sense of purpose as we were
ruled by people who played to
the gallery every time they felt
threatened. At last we have a
Prime Minister who is willing
to call a spade a spade and set
things right at the cost of his
popularity. To create infra-
structure in a country like
India, where people have been
made to think that entitle-
ments are their birthright,
somebody has to stand up to
change the status quo. We
have been fooled for too long.
Vikram
Bitter pill has to be applied:
Short-term benefits are not
good for the country. The
UPA had left the country
bankrupt and, unless bitter
medicine is given to the econ-
omy, the situation will not
improve. The rail fare hike is
one in that line. Too much of
money is wasted on subsidies,
and that should also be
brought down in stages.
The Government needs
money to construct massive
storage places for keeping the
foodgrains safe, otherwise they
rot during the rainy season
and become unfit for human
consumption. Perishable items
have to be stored in cold stor-
age, for which large amounts
of money are required. All
these were neglected earlier.
So, now the priority should be
given if the Government wants
to control the price.
Similarly, for various
development activities money
is required, and the Modi
Government has to take neces-
sary steps to mop up the
resources. The bitter pill has to
be taken for long-term gains.
Let us not carp.
V Jagadesan
Pro-poor reforms needed:
The steep rise in the rail fares
is reflective of the mindset of
the BJP. The rise should have
been staggered with upgra-
dation of passenger ameni-
ties in between. India cant
be equated with Argentina of
the pre-Kirchner period.
Reforms should be humane
and for the poor and the
needy sections of society.
Raveendranath MN
Fare hike is a must for qual-
ity service: The people will
not mind the increase in rail
and freight fares provided it
ensures good service and a
corruption-free and scam
free administration. The
impact should be felt.
Sukesh
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Reader response to
Kanchan Guptas column,
Coffee Break, published on
June 22:
Address the real problem:
The article reflects how the
Prime Minister harps on
Hindi, an oft-repeated slogan
for the Hindutva brigade.
The author is quite right to
tell Narendra Modi to aban-
don such misplaced notions
of language chauvinism. The
Prime Minister must address
the real problems facing the
country and not walk the
beaten track lest he lose pub-
lic sympathy. He must know
gimmicks wont work.
RL Pathak
No substitute for Hindi: No
language in India can replace
Hindi. Besides being the
national language, it is the
language which is spoken by
the majority of Indians and
helps in connecting India.
Though we Indians are
highly affected and
impressed by foreigners and
many feel modern by speak-
ing English, the truth is that
it is a small percentage of
Indians that actually speaks
and understands English well
although it is said that
Indians speaks the language
better than the English do.
But is it a fact?
The use of Hindi must
ensure that masses under-
stand it easily. Therefore, dif-
ficult words of Hindi must
be avoided. The promotion
of pure but simple Hindi is a
must, as a section of Indians
still does not understand it.
Hindi has no substitute in
India. But yes, I agree that no
language should not be
forced on any individual.
M Kumar
No more the old stunts:
Hindi cannot be the national
language of the country. India
is a land of diverse and multi-
cultural people, just like
Europe is. English is the lan-
guage of people who have
thoughts and ideas to state
and sell for the common good
of the people.
Why disturb a sleeping
tiger? Hindi chauvinism has
already been defeated in the
past, so why try again? One
cannot expect a different
result when the same old
technique is repeated.
The focus of the Modi
Government should be on
development, removal of red
tape, to provide incentives to
attract the best and the
brightest people in the coun-
try, and do away with reser-
vations, which only promotes
inefficiency and brain-drain
in our country.
San
PLANTALK
RAJESh Sh0h
Baloos, lilis ano tle
Bangals of Kollata
M
r 0oal Subramanium had lhe olion lo graceully accel lhe
decision o lhe 0overnmenl nol lo clear his name lo lhe judge
shi o lhe Sureme Courl. nslead, lhe eminenl lawyer and or
mer Solicilor 0eneral o ndia decided lo make a ublic seclacle o lhe
issue. he accused lhe union 0overnmenl, beraled lhe judiciary and
queslioned lhe media. he charged lhe 0overnmenl o direcling lhe
Cenlral Bureau o nvesligalion lo "dig dirl" on him and docloring a
reorl o lhe nlelligence Bureau which made negalive remarks on him
- bolh o which evenlually loredoed his elevalion as a judge. he
blamed lhe media or sreading malicious and inaccurale inormalion
aboul his role in lhe 20 scam and on being menlioned in lhe hiira
Radia laes. he blamed lhe Sureme Courl or nol deending him
beore lhe 0overnmenl "when all sorls o allegalions and dialribe were
lhrown al me".
As an aecled arly, Mr Subramanium has lhe righl lo deend him
sel, bul il would have been underslandable i lhe deence had been limil
ed lo lhe issues lhal lhe nlelligence Bureau and lhe CB have raised. Yel,
Mr Subramanium has laken a blalanlly olilical osilion on lhe denial o
judgeshi, and lhis raises queslions on his imarlialily. he has hinled lhal
his role as lhe P\XRdb RdaXPT in lhe Sohrabuddin encounler case in
which senior BJF leader Amil Shah's name igures, could have been lhe
rimary reason why lhe 0overnmenl wilhheld ils consenl lo his name
orwarded lo il by lhe collegium lo selecl Sureme Courl judges. This is
slriclly Mr Subramanium's conlenlion - a ercelion which, nalurally,
rivals o lhe Bharaliya Janala Farly have lalched on lo wilh glee.
The ormer Solicilor 0eneral wanls us lo believe lhal his inlerrela
lion is indisulable, whereas lhe adverse observalions o lhe
nlelligence Bureau and lhe CB are nol. As a ormer law oicer and
noled lawyer, Mr Subramanium should nol casl asersions on lhe
mechanism lhal has been ollowed or years in velling candidales lo
senior osilions in lhe judiciary - and indeed lo all high osilions in
lhe 0overnmenl. he believes lhal lhe B reorl againsl him had been
doclored al lhe incumbenl 0overnmenl's behesl, a counlerargumenl
can be orwarded lhal lhe suosed clean chil lhal he had been given
in lhe lasl days o lhe revious 0overnmenl - a clean chil which, he
claims, none less lhan lhe Chie Juslice o ndia conveyed lo him aboul
- loo had been doclored. There can be no end lo such accusalions.
Mr Subramanium erhas realised lhal he would nol have made
lhe desired media imacl i he were lo merely reule oinl by oinl lhe
issues lhal wenl againsl him. Thereore, he has soughl lo colour lhe
conronlalion inlo one belween lhe righl and lhe wrong, belween an
indeendenlminded individual
(which he claims he is) who
ighls or lhe lrulh and a
0overnmenl which seeks lo slile
oinion and wanls lo aoinl li
anl judges in lhe higher judiciary
(0oes lhal mean lhe names lhe
0overnmenl has cleared or
judgeshi are lianl individu
als?), and even belween one
who believes in secularism and
lhe olher which does nol! he
goes a sle urlher by converling
lhe racas inlo a selback or lhe
courls, when he says, "l's a sad
day or lhe judiciary. The judicia
ry has been comromised". he
is usel lhal lhe Chie Juslice o
ndia did nol romole his case
wilh lhe 0overnmenl.
This is as omous as one
can gel. Mr Subramanium
believes lhal jusl because he losl
oul on his aoinlmenl lo lhe
aex courl, lhe indeendence o
lhe judiciary has come under a
cloud. when he had lo quil as
Solicilor 0eneral aarenlly
because he was disgusled by lhe
manner in which lhe Congress
led uFA 0overnmenl had been
handling lhe 20 issue and lhe
ressures being broughl uon
him, he had nol gone lo lown
wilh his ruslralion. he had lhen
nol seen lhe 'comromises' being
made in lhe delivery o juslice.
n any case, lhe judiciary's
indeendence is nol so ragile as
lo be rallled by lhe denial o judge
shi lo an individual. As lhe
rocess sland, lhe collegium sub
mils names o roseclive candi
dales (including rom lhe Bar,
lhough lhis is rare) lo lhe
0overnmenl or elevalion as a
judge o lhe Sureme Courl, and il
is or lhe 0overnmenl lo accel lhose names or send lhem back or recon
sideralion (which eeclively means lhe 0overnmenl does nol arove o
lhem). This may nol be lhe erecl syslem, which is why lhe demand lo
have a judicial aoinlmenls commission or selecling judges has been
gaining round; lhe commission could be a realily soon. Bul Mr
Subramanium is nol so much on lhe syslem o aoinling judges. nslead,
he sees ersonal vendella by lhe incumbenl regime - an allegalion lhal is
bolh serious and irresonsible in lhe absence o credible evidence.
Aler having managed lo creale a drama oul o roorlion lo lhe issue
al hand, Mr Subramanium wilhdrew his candidalure lo "uhold my sel
resecl and dignily". The cause o selresecl and dignily would have been
beller served i he had nol washed dirly linen in ublic. he said lhal he did
nol wanl lo begin his new innings "wilh a lrusl deicil" wilh lhe
0overnmenl, esecially when he could end u as lhe Chie Juslice o ndia.
l's nol a queslion o 'lrusl'; no 0overnmenl in lhe resenl scheme o
lhings can and should believe lhal Sureme Courl judges should be 'lrusl
ed' lo do ils bidding or be avourably inclined lo il. Trusl has gol lo do wilh
a lrack record o imarlialily, and il is imarlialily which had come lo be
queslioned in Mr Subramanium's case. n wildly claiming lhal lhe
0overnmenl wilhheld his aoinlmenl due lo lhe Sohrabuddin issue, il is
Mr Subramanium who has demonslraled a lack o lrusl in lhe 0overnmenl.
The noled lawyer's suorlers believe lhal an eminenl legal mind has
been denied whal he righlly deserved. Furely on meril o roessional abili
ly, erhas he deserved lo be a judge o lhe Sureme Courl, and even lhe
Chie Juslice o ndia. Bul many merilorious careers have been cul shorl as
a resull o indiscreel conducl o an individual or because lhe candidale did
nol gel lhe green signal by lhe laiddown rocess o aoinlmenl.
The dislasleul eisode has lessons which lawmakers musl learn.
Firsl, il is lime or lhem lo oen u lo grealer ublic scruliny lhe aoinl
menls lo higher judiciary. The almosl cloakand dagger aroach nol jusl
resulls in lhe lourishing o consiracies bul also leads lo hearlburns.
Second, adverse remarks made by inlelligence agencies againsl candi
dales lo high osilions, esecially in lhe judiciary, should be made avail
able lo lhe candidale in queslion or his resonse. lhe 0overnmenl is
salisied wilh lhe answer, il should go ahead wilh lhe aoinlmenl; i nol,
lhe maller should resl lhere, and lhe candidale concerned musl desisl
rom ublicly launling his marlyrlike image. Meanwhile, lhe 0overnmenl
has wisely rerained rom indulging in a slanging malch wilh Mr
Subramanium. were il lo enler inlo a ublic sal, il may have lo bring
oul rom hiding whal is being lermed as 'highly incriminaling' malerial
againsl lhe ormer Solicilor 0eneral.
Others made a
pile of money
and built
gorgeous
neo-Victorian
houses; their
sons
squandered
their inherited
wealth on, as
the clich goes,
wine, women
and music.
Rabindranath
Tagore was a
rare exception
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F E E D B A C K
The Emire's Second Cily was never a homogeneous sociely. The norlh was home lo lhe 0holis; lhe soulh had
ils Bangal residenls; and somewhere belween lhe lwo exisled a cosmoolilan, Englishseaking Calculla
As an affected
party, Gopal
Subramanium has
the right to defend
himself, but it
would have been
understandable if
the defence had
been limited to the
issues that the B
and the CB have
raised. Yet, the
former Solicitor
General has taken
a blatantly political
position on the
denial of judgeship
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he caliphate an Islamic state with a single politi-
cal and religious leader, ruled by a would-be succes-
sor to Mohammed seems to be back in fashion.
The institution is a millennium old, though the last
caliphate was abolished in 1924, when the secular repub-
lic of Turkey snuffed out the final vestiges of the Ottoman
Empire.
A century on, the Iraqi jihadist group ISIS wants to
resurrect the caliphate across the Fertile Crescent, that
beautiful but war-studded arc of land stretching from the
Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. Medieval aims through mod-
ern means. Can they do it?
Their ambitions cant be dismissed out of hand.
Jihadist proto-states come and go (think of Algeria in the
1990s), but ISIS is different. It holds territory around
twice the size of Israel, spanning two countries. It is now
probably the wealthiest jihadist group in history, holding
up to $1 billion. And like the international brigades of the
Spanish civil war, it draws recruits from all over the
world.
But the question is whether it has staying power.
There are good reasons to think that ISIS caliphate could
run out of steam long before it matches the great Islamic
empires of history.
ISIS has hostile forces in every direction. It will face
resistance from anti-ISIS Syrian rebels in the west, the
hostility of Kurds in the north, and, eventually, a counter-
offensive from Government forces to the south. Even if
the Government collapses and we are a long way from
that Iraqs Shia majority will not accept a permanent
jihadist state on their northern flank, let alone allow ISIS
to stroll into Baghdad. Saddam slaughtered Shias in 1991,
and ISIS has been slaughtering Shias for over a decade.
The Shias have had quite enough.
Iraqs neighbours will also fight back. Ankara does not
look kindly at the fact that ISIS has kidnapped Turkish
diplomats in Mosul. Iran is not just aghast at the rise of a
radical Sunni force on its western border, but concerned
about losing an ally in Baghdad that it views as more
important than even Assad. Tehran is reportedly airlifting
over a hundred tonnes of supplies to Baghdad daily, and
deployed its special forces there weeks ago.
If ISIS attempts to conduct attacks against Western
countries, it will face the near certainty of air strikes. It
can hunker down safely in urban areas like Mosul, but
large stretches of its territory are completely devoid of
cover. It will suffer grievous losses.
But ISIS biggest challenge is closer to home. It
depends on a coalition of other Sunni militants and local
Sunni tribes. Without such allies, it could not possibly
have walked over Iraqi security forces so easily. But coali-
tions like this can fall apart. Remember that ISIS was
defeated once before, in its previous incarnation as Al
Qaida in Iraq. Their campaign of terror was quelled by
2008, thanks to a surge of US troops and the so-called
awakening of local Sunni tribes who grew tired of the
groups brutality.
True, ISIS is stronger now than it was then. The civil
war in Syria has buoyed the group, swelling its ranks and
hardening its fighters in combat. Those US troops are
long gone, and wont be returning. And the Sunnis who
once turned on ISIS are now so embittered by the heavy-
handed sectarianism of the Shia-dominated Government
in Baghdad that many have thrown their lot back in with
the jihadists.
The key is whether ISIS can keep local Sunnis on side
or at least on the fence. Currently, ISIS have learnt from
their past mistakes. They seem to be governing newly
occupied cities with a lighter touch, focusing on delivery
of public services rather than just beheadings. They have
even promised to hand over the captured Baiji oil refinery
to local tribes.
But ISIS leaders are ultimately power-hungry ideo-
logues. I am sceptical that they can keep up this charade.
Sooner or later, they will move towards draconian Sharia
law, prompting the sort of backlash they faced last year in
Syria. This is already apparent in Falluajh.
Or they will clash with their allies. We have already
seen hints of this in Kirkuk, where ISIS came to blows
with JRTN, a group led by Saddams former deputy, over
control of fuel tankers. Moreover, where will the money
come from? Iraqs north and west depend on subsidies
from the capital. ISIS is rich, but it cant run its own state
in perpetuity.
Reports of the Middle Easts death have been greatly
exaggerated. ISIS is laying the foundations for a caliphate,
and it may remain entrenched in Iraq and Syria for years,
but its grandiose, imperial vision is a pipe dream.
Jihadists are utopians and nihilists. Thats not a particu-
larly durable combination.
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T
he problems of the Congress are
increasing before the Assembly
Elections, which are scheduled for the
end of this year. It seems that in the three
States where the party is in power, its alliances
may dismantle before the polls. The parties
which are running the Government along with
the Congress are planning to go alone in the
elections.
In Maharashtra, NCP leaders have similar
plans. It is said that the party is looking for an
exit route to leave the Congress. That is the
reason why NCP chief Sharad Pawar is
demanding that the Chief Minister of the State
be changed. It is being said that whether or not
the Congress sacks Prithviraj Chavan, the NCP
will leave the alliance.
Likewise, in Jammu & Kashmir, the alliance
between the Congress and National Conference
is on the verge of breaking up. Recently, Ghulam
Nabi Azad met PDP leader Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed. Probably, the Congress is seeing a
chance of alliance with the PDP. In Jharkhand,
the JMM is running the Government with the
help of the Congress. However, after the Lok
Sabha Elections, all is not well between the two
parties. It seems they will part ways before the
Assembly Elections. Both parties will fight
separately or form new alliances.
CONGS PROBABLE NEW ALLIES
The old partners of the Congress are in a hurry
to break away from the alliance. Its relationship
with the NCP in Maharashtra, with the NC in
Jammu & Kashmir, and with the JMM in
Jharkhand is on shaky grounds. Congress leaders
are trying hard to persuade Sharad Pawar, and
BK Hariprasad has recently praised the
Jharkhand Government. Seemingly, the Congress
is trying to keep the alliance alive at any cost. It is
okay if the alliance with the JMM continues
otherwise the party can again talk with Babulal
Marandis JVM for alliance.
Apart from these three States, the Congress is
looking for new alliance partners elsewhere too.
In Bihar, it is trying to go with the JDU. Though
the Congress doesnt have much strength in
Bihar, leaders of the JDU and the RJD think they
can benefit from the Congress name.
In Tamil Nadu, Congress leaders are
exploring the option to go with M Karunanidhi
again. There is no possibility of an alliance with
any big party in Uttar Pradesh, but the alliance
will continue with Ajit Singhs RLD. The
Congress may go with Jaganmohan Reddys party
YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh, and
Chandrasekhar Raos party TRS in Telangana.
OLD BAGGAGE FOR NEW GOVERNMENT
It seems that Narendra Modi-led NDA
Government is stuck in the ins and outs of the
last Government. When the BJP was in
Opposition, it held the UPA Government
responsible for the problems faced by the
country, and now it is targeting the previous
Government for all its decisions. The ministers
are giving out statements that put the old
Government in the dock. For example, MOS in
PMO Jitendra Singh went on to say that the
failed monsoon is the gift of the previous
Government. It means the old Government is
being held responsible for the expected draught.
When the rail fare was hiked, the previous
Government was questioned. Senior ministers
said the decision had been taken by the previous
Government and they had only implemented it.
That is why the question is being asked whether
the BJP was supporting the decisions taken by
Manmohan Singh Government. And if it was,
there is no point in finding faults with the
previous Government. On the other hand, if the
BJP was not supporting those decisions and
implementing them out of compulsion, it only
shows the weaknesses of the Government.
The same thing happened on the issue of use
of Hindi. The MHA issued a circular, but the
MOS Home said it had been issued in March.
Later, it was disclosed that the NDA Government
has issued a new circular on June 10. The
Government must honour its commitment,
whether it is matter of rail fare hike or to
promote Hindi. Otherwise, it is futile to put the
onus on others.
ANTONY COMMITTEE OR MISTRY?
The Congress general secretary is said to be
confused these days. He is not able to understand
what should be done with responsibilities given
to him by Rahul Gandhi after the Lok Sabha
results because AK Antony committee is taking
care of the same. Rahul had asked him to seek
reports from candidates who lost the election.
Though it is true that Madhusudan Mistry had
also lost and many people are angry with him.
There is no dearth of people who held him
responsible for the partys debacle in UP. So, the
question arose as to why any candidate would
submit his report to Mistry. But since it was
Rahuls order, party leaders would have
submitted the report to him.
Meanwhile, party president Sonia Gandhi has
constituted a committee comprising Antony and
Ahmed Patel. These leaders are considering the
change of leadership in States and taking stock of
the causes of defeat. It is said that these leaders
will meet the leaders of States and submit a
report to Sonia.
The Antony committee has met leaders of
Delhi to ascertain the cause of defeat. Now the
question is whether both the committee and
Mistry would seek reports from candidates or
will the panel prepare State-wise reports and
Mistry would prepare separate reports for each
candidate. It is also being said that the Antony
committee will submit its report to Sonia, while
Mistry will submit a report to Rahul.
NDA GOVERNMENT STARTS ROLLBACKS
The NDA Government has arrived and with it
comes the process to take and roll back decisions.
The Rail Ministry has taken a decision of much
deliberation. It was argued that the Railway
board had made recommendations, which were
granted by the previous Government, and the
Modi Government was compelled to implement
the decisions as they were mentioned in the last
Budget. But see the irony on one hand, the
Government has implemented the decision of the
previous Government out of compulsion and on
the other hand it reduced the price of monthly
season ticket (MST) keeping in view the
upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. This
is the first rollback of the NDA Government.
Atal Bihari Vajpayees NDA Government
had become famous for such rollbacks. In 1999,
when the Vajpayee Government came to power
for the second time, the then Finance Minister
Yashwant Sinha had made so many rollbacks
that people started calling him rollback Sinha.
Many decisions like increase in price of cereals
under PDS and subsidy on fertiliser, diesel and
kerosene were rolled back under the pressure of
allies. Though there is no pressure of allies on
the present Government, the process of
rollback has started.
CHALLENGES BEFORE MODI GOVT
The Modi Government has completed one
month in office, but has seen trying times on
almost all fronts. Ministers and managers of the
Government didnt have an idea that they would
face ordeals so soon. When controversy crept in
between the Delhi University and UGC, Ministry
of HRD didnt know what to do. The Ministry
was indifferent and said both organisations are
autonomous and should sort out the problems
mutually. Due to this approach, around 2.75 lakh
students have been left in the lurch. Not only
this, well-wishers of the Government say that DU
Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh was compelled to
resign by HRD Minister Smriti Irani.
As soon as the new Government came to
power, the Iraq crisis began and its effects are
being seen on the Ministries of Foreign Affairs
and Finance here. Attempts to get Indians out of
Iraq have not been successful till date. The oil
crisis is deepening day by day and as a result
inflation would go up and value of rupee would
go down. Meanwhile, MHA and MEA are said to
be at loggerheads on the issue of easing visa rules
for Bangladeshis.
During the past one month, there was news
of rise in inflation due to increase in price of
seasonal vegetables. The Government is in the
dock due to rise in the prices of seasonal
vegetables and sugar. Also, the Government and
the Supreme Court collegium are in a tug of war
of sorts. The collegium had recommended Gopal
Subramaniums name for the post of Judge, but
the Government has not accepted it.
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Ahead o lhe Assembly
Eleclions in Maharashlra,
lhe hCF is said lo be
looking or an exil roule
lo break ils alliance wilh
lhe Congress. Thal is
why hCF chie Sharad
Fawar is demanding
lhal lhe Chie Minisler o
lhe Slale be changed.
l is being said lhal
whelher or nol lhe
Congress sacks Frilhviraj
Chavan, lhe hCF will
leave lhe alliance
T
he bottled water business is
worth C1,000 crore annually
and is growing at a rapid rate
of over 40 per cent. In hotels, restau-
rants and conferences, people prefer
drinking bottled water. Bottled water
is sold on roadside shops in the
countryside. In weddings, too, the
grooms side has started demanding
bottled water for the marriage party.
In middle class localities, one
can find delivery boys making
rounds with 20-litre jars on their
bikes and bicycles. Some have even
started using TATAs mini truck Ace,
also called Chhota Hathi, for door-
to-door delivery. Soon, such bottled
water vendors might match in num-
bers milk men who provide door-
to-door delivery.
Despite the fact that most mid-
dle class homes have set up ROs in
their kitchens, they are now looking
for bottled water. I am no expert on
water or drinking water technology,
yet, as an observer, I see the great
drinking water divide across sec-
tions of society.
RO or Reverse Osmosis is a
process related to chemistry and is
too complicated to deal with in this
column. Dalit Indian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry
(DICCI) Delhi chapter head
NK Chandan has some
idea about the RO
technology. He
explains how the
technology works.
Over a decade ago,
he was in Bangalore
to repair a photo-
copy machine that
his company had
sold to a business-
man, who had
imported an RO
machine and would
display its magical
results in neigh-
bourhoods to pro-
mote his business.
The demonstra-
tion would be magi-
cal indeed. The busi-
nessman in question would give
money to members of the audience
to buy bottles of Coca Cola, Pepsi or
Thumbs Up. The bottle would be
emptied in the machine and the liq-
uid that would fall into the jar
would look like pure water. The
businessman would then repeat
the demonstration with dirty
water. He would tell his audience
about water-borne diseases. He
did a brisk business; he
still does.
As Chandan tells
me, pre-RO filtration
system eliminated dirt
and bacteria of all
kinds. The RO sys-
tem preserves some
of the bacteria that
are good for human
health. Please check
with experts before
buying this argument.
Post-1990 wealth
explosion and health
consciousness that
followed, thanks to
the information tech-
nology revolution, peo-
ple have been alarmed by
the kind of water they drink. People
are now well-informed about water
borne diseases.
I came to Delhi in 1980 for my
higher education. I studied in JNU,
considered an elite institution in
India. From the university V-C to
professors to students to employees,
all drank the same piped water that
the Delhi Jal Board supplied. On
the same JNU campus today,
depending upon income and con-
sciousness, people drink different
kinds of water. Most teachers and
employees have ROs.
There are ROs that are priced at
C54,000 in Delhi. A decent RO can
cost C10,000. The company keeps
sending service engineers who
change parts to ensure good quality
water. At times the replacement can
cost over C1,000. How are people liv-
ing in slums and underclass localities
going to afford ROs? Some with
money may not be able to install
ROs because there isnt sufficient
place in the house they live in.
I have been to Europe and North
America and stayed with families
there. I never saw any kitchen with
ROs. I was with a North American
university for a semester. No one in
the apartment I lived in had an RO.
A friend has just returned from
Japan and says none of the families
he knows have an RO. The piped
water that the citizens get is as good
as the bottled water, if not better.
The question is why should dif-
ferent social classes drink different
kinds of water? Why should tribals
drink water that is different from one
consumed by non-tribals? Why
should a majority of Dalits drink
water that is different from that con-
sumed by non-Dalits? Why should
villagers drink water that is different
from the water urbanites drink? Why
citizens in small towns drink water
that is different from the water citi-
zens in cosmopolitan cities drink?
Within big cities, why should
slumdwellers drink water that is dif-
ferent from the water people drink in
organised housing societies. Why
isnt the water an officer drinks avail-
able to his driver?
Amongst a host of inequalities
that India is home to, drinking water
inequality is the gravest. Why cant
India also produce the kind of piped
water that Europe, North America or
Japan produce for their citizens?
If India has the technology to
undertake Mission Mars, why cant
we have technology to produce
world-class drinking water for all its
citizens? It is about time that India
pursued a goal of water equality.
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he suspension
of captain
Robin van
Persie from
World Cups
Group B decider against
Chile led the Netherlands
to play an international
without a player whose sur-
name began with Van for
the first time in almost two
decades.
The last time it hap-
pened was in 1996 in a
friendly against China.
Van Persie was suspended
after being booked in the
opening two wins over
Spain and Australia.
The last time the
Netherlands played in the
World Cup finals without a
Van they lost a group match
in 1994 in Orlando to neighbors
Belgium, for whom Franky van
der Elst lined up on the other side.
Injury before the tournament in
Brazil kept Rafael van der Vaart
out of the Dutch squad as well.
Dutch football is littered with vener-
able footballing Vans Marco
van Basten, Edwin van der
Sar, Giovanni van and
Bronckhorst in recent
times and the likes of
Willem van Hanegem and the Van
der Kerkhof brothers, who played in
past World Cups.
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A
Golden Retriever that got separat-
ed from its owners during a
camping trip in Californias Tahoe
National Forest was reunited with its
family and doing well after apparently
surviving on its own for nearly two years
in the wilderness, the family said.
Erin and Nathan Braun were on a
camping trip in October 2012 when the
dog, Murphy, went missing. Twenty
months later, a camper at the French
Meadows Reservoir, not more than
five miles from where the Brauns lost
Murphy, spotted the pet and alert-
ed the family.
After several unsuccessful days of try-
ing the Brauns
decided to leave her
bed and several items of
their own clothing with
the camper, hoping
Murphy would pick up
their scent and return to the area.
It worked, and a week later the Brauns
were notified that the camper had coaxed
Murphy onto a leash after finding her
sleeping on the clothing left for her.
Murphy is on the road to recovery,
thin and frail but happy to be home.
(Reuters)
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hree teenagers in Seattle, Washington
attempted to steal a car in broad day-
light on Sunday afternoon, but they were
stymied by something they didnt antici-
pate: A manual transmission.
As reported, Nancy Fredrickson was
pulling garage sale items she just bought
out of her trunk, when three teenage boys
approached her. The 70-year-old woman
told KOMO 4 News, He goes, I want your
keys and I thought it was a joke!
Fredrickson quickly realised that it was
serious when she saw a gun pointed at her
face. She dropped her keys on the
ground when one of the young
men repeated himself. Nancy is a mar-
tial arts black belt and studied the disci-
pline for 25 years. She stood frozen. You
learn that if someone is trying, the best
thing you can do is to be still, she told
KOMO. And its not easy for me to be still
at times, but in that situation yes.
(Yahoo News)
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A
n official in eastern China has been
sacked after a picture of him being
given a piggyback across a flooded path
during a search for missing children
went viral online, sparking outrage.
He was caught on camera on Saturday
during a search for three children who had
fallen into a swollen river, Xinhua added.
Wang, vice director of a government
office, was about to cross a flooded path
when Ding, a low level clerk, offered him
the ride. The inappropriate act had a neg-
ative social impact and tarnished the
image of party officials, the report said.
Last year, an official in neighboring
province was fired after pictures of him
being carried across flood waters by a vil-
lager went online.
Chinas ruling Communist
Party has been engaged in a
sweeping crackdown on official
corruption, excess and abuse of
power. Greater access to the
Internet has given Chinese
people a forum to publicise
such cases.
(Reuters)
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A
little thing like a
flooded
creek was not
enough to keep
an Alaska restau-
rant owner from
delivering Thai
ribs and fried rice
to stranded cus-
tomers over the week-
end.
Anuson Knott
Poolsawat, owner of
Knotts Take Out
in North Pole,
forded the swollen
waters of Clear
Creek to reach two
customers stuck
along the
Richardson
Highway.
The cus-
tomers were com-
pleting a multi-day
drive Saturday night
up the Alaska Highway
when they called in their
order to the restaurant.
As they approached,
they learned a sinkhole
had developed from
heavy rain near the
creek. The state
Department of
Transportation closed the
bridge.
Poolsawat hiked up his
shorts and waded through the
creek and delivered their
order.
Poolsawat had already
done them a favour by stay-
ing open late, Laiti said.
The delivery was beyond
expectations.
(AP)
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former holder of the Q title,
John Cleese, has been com-
pl ai ni ng t hat he was
dropped from the 007 films
because they decided the
tone they needed was of the Bourne
action movies, which are very gritty and
humourless. The audiences in Asia are
not going for the subtle British humour
or the class jokes.
Cleese does have a point. Asian audi-
ences, in particular, have grown substan-
tially; hence much of the recent Bond
epic Skyfall was set in Shanghai. And
perhaps because of the computer-game
expectations of action-loving Asian
(and American) teenagers, something in
007s screen DNA has changed.
The fights are extended and jaw-
breakingly realistic; the chases and
action sequences disorientatingly edit-
ed and noisy. Its a cynical, straight-faced
new world that Bond now inhabits. The
villains, the glamorous women and
even the locations have a certain down-
beat realism to them. Daniel Craigs raw
007, from Casino Royale to the recent
Skyfall, has certainly brought a vulner-
able angle to the venerable character
but you dont see people grinning when
leaving the cinema. Is this really the best
way for 007 to win over new generations?
Ian Flemings original novels in the
Fifties might have intended to be straight
thrillers, but in fact they were dazzling-
ly baroque. The villains had an uncan-
ny, sinister fairy-tale quality: Le Chiffre
with his blank doll-like eyes or Hugo
Drax, who physically resembles a Black
Forest ogre. Fleming was always keen to
steer away from the Cold War; he
believed it wouldnt last. And the Bond
films of the Sixties and Seventies cap-
tured that outlandish spirit.
In 1964, during production of
Goldfinger, nervous US money men
wanted Pussy Galore renamed Kitty to
spare delicate sensibilities, but were hap-
pily countermanded. Then there was the
central proposition of those films: that
a maniac with a monorail threatening
the entire world could be stopped only
by a martini-glugging middle-aged
British spy.
There is something else under all
that nonsense that the current films are
missing. I still feel unconditional affec-
tion for the Roger Moore incarnation; his
eyebrows on constant full alert, every
entendre rut hl essl y doubl ed.
Somethings come up, he tells a blonde
lady in a ski chalet as they lie on a fur
rug. He means orders from M. Nobody
does it better, crooned Carly Simon in
the opening titles of The Spy Who
Loved Me. She was singing about Roger
Moore.
But Moore and Sean Connery knew
and we knew too that it was a huge
post-colonial tease, a wink to worldwide
audiences about ideas of British superi-
ority. Moore, especially, understood
that there was a responsibility towards
the children watching. But his Bond was
there to make flip quips. Recently, how-
ever, the violence levels such as the
gruelling naked torture sequence in
Casino Royale, or Javier Bardems villain
Silva revealing the deforming after-
effects of cyanide poisoning would
make any parent accompanying a child
deeply uncomfortable.
Cleese isnt quite right. The new
films still make a fetish of Britishness
(Skyfall is awash with the Union flag).
What they lack is that essential British
quality of cheerful escapist nonsense. No
longer will we see Bond escaping from
a pool of ravenous alligators by using a
row of them as scaly stepping stones (the
biggest laugh in Live and Let Die).
Its telling that the most memorable
recent 007 exploit did not feature in one
of his films. Instead, the audaciously
amusing image of Bond and the Queen
jumping out of a helicopter was part of
Danny Boyles Olympic opening cer-
emony. Surely that proves that every-
one around the world can still
respond to 007s traditional British
blend of high adventure and self-dep-
recating absurdity.
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H
ollywood should get over
Mel Gibsons antisemitic
comments of 2006 because
everyone has said similar things in
their private moments, Gary
Oldman has told Playboy magazine.
In a wide-ranging interview,
the Oscar-nominated star of Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy cited political
correctness when asked to com-
ment on Gibsons predicament, and
said people should take a joke.
After defending Alec Baldwin
for calling someone an F-A-G in
the street while hes pissed off com-
ing out of his building because they
wont leave him alone, Oldman
continued to lament Gibsons
predicament.
Mel Gibson is in a town thats
run by Jews and he said the wrong
thing because hes actually bitten
the hand that, I guess, has fed him
and doesnt need to feed him
anymore because he has got
enough dough, said the British
actor. Gibsons rant came after he
was arrested for suspected drink-
driving in Malibu eight years
ago. According to a police report,
the actor asked the officer if he
was Jewish and said: The Jews
are responsible for all the wars in
the world.
S
tar Wars creator George Lucas
has selected Chicago to build
his museum of art and movie
memorabilia. Bill McCaffrey, a
spokesman for Chicago mayor
Rahm Emanuel, confirmed the deci-
sion. McCaffrey did not have imme-
diate details about the much-antici-
pated decision by the filmmaker.
But the choice is a major victory
for Emanuel and the city, which was
competing with San Francisco for
the museum. San Francisco had
made a hearty push for the museum.
Mayor Ed Lee had banners reading
George Lucas, please build your
museum in San Francisco for the
world to enjoy hung at both city
hall and the waterfront parcel
known as Seawall Lot 330 that the
city hopes will be the future home of
the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum,
the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Lee and a gaggle of former may-
ors, that included Willie Brown and
Dianne Feinstein, also sent Lucas a
letter last week assuring him of their
support. Art Agnos, another former
mayor who was a vocal opponent of
an earlier proposal for a hotel and
condominiums on the Seawall Lot
330 site, was among the signers.
Earlier this year, the Presidio
Trust rejected Lucas proposal to
open the museum on park land at
the base of San Franciscos Golden
Gate bridge, but offered him a dif-
ferent location near the home of
Lucasfilms special-effects, game unit
and corporate offices.
A
draft of one of the most popu-
lar songs of all time, Bob
Dylans Like a Rolling Stone,
sold for $2 million, which the auc-
tion house called a world record for a
popular music manuscript.
A working draft of the finished
song in Dylans handwriting went to
an unidentified bidder at Sothebys.
The selling price, $2.045 million,
included a buyers premium.
The manuscript is the only
known surviving draft of the final
lyrics for this transformative rock
anthem, Sothebys said. The draft is
written in pencil on four sheets of
hotel letterhead stationery with revi-
sions, additions, notes and doodles
a hat, a bird, an animal with
antlers. The stationery comes from
the Roger Smith Hotel in
Washington DC. The name Al
Capone is scrawled in the margin,
with a line leading to the lyrics like
a complete unknown.
Sothebys described the seller as a
longtime fan from California who
met his hero in a non-rock context
and bought directly from Dylan. He
was not identified. The manuscript
was offered as part of Sothebys rock
and pop music sale. In 2010, John
Lennons handwritten lyrics for A
Day in the Life, the final track on
the Beatles classic 1967 album Sgt
Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band,
sold for $1.2 million the record
for such a sale.
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Because o lhe comulergame execlalions o aclionloving Asian and American
leenagers, somelhing in OO7's screen 0hA has changed, says ShCLAR MCKAY
Q0aniel Craig may be lhe sixlh aclor lo
lay Bond, bul CA agenl Felix Leiler, who
aears in nine Bond movies, is layed by
eighl aclors: Jack Lord in 6^[SUX]VTa, Rik
van huller in CWd]STaQP[[, horman Burlon
in 3XP\^]Sb PaT 5^aTeTa, 0avid hedison in
;XeT P]S ;Tc 3XT and ;XRT]bT c^ :X[[,
Bernie Casey in =TeTa BPh =TeTa 0VPX],
John Terry in CWT ;XeX]V 3Ph[XVWcb and
Jerey wrighl in 2PbX]^ A^hP[T
QBond is a smoker, bul he quils in lhe
8Os ilms. however, in lhe irsl Roger
Moore movies Bond smoked cigars
Qn lhe 21 oicial Bond movies, lhe
aclress laying lhe Bond girl has only been
older lhan lhe aclor laying Bond lwice,
and lhey have bolh slarred in lhe BBC
series CWT 0eT]VTab. honor Blackman
was 87 lo Connery's 84 al lhe lime o
6^[SUX]VTa and 0iana Rigg was 81 lo
0eorge La/enby's 8O al lhe lime o
>] 7Ta <PYTbchb BTRaTc BTaeXRT
QThe lalesl Bond ilm 2PbX]^ A^hP[T is
based on an Flemming's irsl Bond novel,
bul il has been ilmed lwice beore. n
1O54, lhere was a Tv version o 2PbX]^
A^hP[T wilh American Barry helson
laying Jimmy Bond, and in 1OG7,
woody Allen made 2PbX]^ A^hP[T -
a sendu slarring 0avid hiven
QAllhough lhe irsl American Bond girl,
Jill Sl John, didn'l come along unlil 1O71,
lhere have now been more Americanborn
aclresses casl in lhe arl lhan aclresses
rom any olher counlry. There have been
seven American Bond 0irls, our English,
lhree French and lwo Swedish. There
has only ever been one Bond girl rom
Swil/erland, laly, Jaan, Foland and
Malaysia
QBond doesn'l always drive an Aslon
Marlin. he drives a Russian lank in
6^[ST]4hT, a doubledecker bus in
;XeT P]S ;Tc 3XT and an oil lanker
in ;XRT]bT c^ :X[[
QBond was born in 0ermany, he was
raised in Scolland and England, and
considers himsel lo be Scollish. his
sun sign is Scorio
QBond's alher was Scollish and his
molher was French Swiss. 0riginally,
an Fleming chose lhe name James Bond
because il sounded like a good
AngloSaxon name
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2O Bond ilms is $8,818,OOO,OOO
The fights are
extended and
jaw-breakingly
realistic; the
chases and
action sequences
disorientatingly
edited and noisy.
t's a cynical,
straight-faced
new world
that Bond now
inhabits. But you
don't see people
grinning when
leaving the
cinema
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0ne o lhe counlry's besl
loved oels and lyricisls,
0ul/ar is renowned or his
inimilable way o seeing lhings, his willy
exressions, his quirky lurns o hrase.
All lhese crealive lalenls come inlo lay
in delighlul, unexecled ways in his new
bilingual colleclion 6aTT] ?^T\b, which
celebrales his innale conneclion wilh
nalure. 0ul/ar wriles aboul rivers,
oresls, mounlains, snow, rain, clouds,
lhe sky, lhe earlh and sace, Chamba
and Thimu.
GREEN POEMS
Gulzar
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NEW
ARRVALS
Born lo silenlly warring
arenls, Amar hamsa
grows u in a crumbling
house called lhe Bungalow, anlicialing
lragedies and ignominies. True lo his dark
remonilions, bad luck soon slarls
cascading inlo his lie. Al 2G, he decides
lo narrale his slory lo an imaginary
audience and skelelons lumble oul o
every cuboard in lhe Bungalow. This
is a sweeing amily saga lhal lraces
lhe daily slruggles, arehensions and
asiralions o an ndian Muslim amily
and ils lolal decadence.
THE BLND LADY'S
DESCENDANTS
Anees Salim
Westland, C599
The book is aboul ndian
lelevision commercial
roduclion. l ocuses on how key
roduclion decisions shae a Tv
commercial's visual language. The larger
goal o lhe book is lo delineale lhe link
belween lhis visual language and ndia's
sociocullural idenlily. The book is lhe
oulcome o an elhnograhic sludy lhal
allemled lo calure lhe nuances o lhe
cinemalic or visual asecl o markeling
communicalions slralegy.l is, lhus,
silualed al lhe inlerseclion o inleresls in
markeling and visual cullure. n lhis book,
many o lhe commercials discussed have
an embedded vision o ndia.
UNDERSTANDNG
NDA
Rohitashya
Chattopadhyay
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M
ost authors write because they are in
love with words. They can conjure
fanciful imagery through breathtak-
ing use of phrases and delectable
structuring of sentences. They can
transport readers to a new world that looks either
enticing or gloomy and by doing so these
authors can even change moods and mindsets.
Nayantara Sahgal does not care to do that, at least
not consciously. Her writings are what one can call
statements. Like a fashion statement, which speaks
less of the dress and more about the person, Sahgals
writings reflect her strongly-held views and her per-
sona more than the literary nuances that many
readers would expect of a writer.
There are many facets to Sahgal the writer and,
therefore, Sahgal the person. But one that stands out
and remains constant throughout her writings, seen
through the prism of her experiences, is her unques-
tioned commitment to freedom of thought. As The
Political Imagination which she calls a personal
response to life, literature and politics reflects,
she has seen many challenges to that freedom and
spoken out on them, even if it meant burning
bridges with family and friends. As a member of the
Nehru-Gandhi family (she is the daughter of Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit), she picked up cudgels against the
Emergency, (the Emergency itself played havoc
with my life, cutting me off from earning a living.),
and lashed out at what she called the rise of a mili-
tant Hinduism that believes in a Hindu nationhood.
The book is a mix of her writings and speeches
and mushy compliments that writers and others
have paid her over the years. Together, they reflect
her fiercely independent spirit, which could not be
bottled despite the greatest pressures. Talking of the
state of writing during the Emergency days, she
laments, I looked around at the debris of the vig-
orous, independent penmanship of which India
had been justly proud. Respected editors and jour-
nalists were out of jobs, or making do with what
they could find. Sycophancy had grown to fantastic
proportions. She then goes on to relate what had
become a 24x7 fear among Indians then: Meeting
friends was something of a relief, but even a social
gathering was distressing when walls had ears and
conversation had to be guarded.
Sahgal has an interesting narration of that peri-
od when she met Subramanian Swamy, and it
deserves to be fully reproduced. She talks of a
meeting with friends and like-minded people in
New Delhi, in which she had invited Swamy. This
is how she speaks of that moment: After some-
what conventional talk providing the background
and meaning of the emergency by Rajni Kothari,
Ved Mehta and myself, Swamys down-to-earth
remarks, crisply delivered with no ifs, buts or frills,
had a tonic effect on the audience The last things
(sic) that many present expected of a Jan Sang (sic)
leader was that he would be a modern, articulate,
Harvard-educated economist, with a practical
knowledge of the Indian countryside and a lively
sense of humour. Of course, Sahgal gives away the
fixed template that Left-leaning and even Centrist
intellectuals have of Right-thinking leaders and
activists and make strenuous efforts to promote the
fallacy. Impressed, she told Swamy that people
need to know that the Jan Sang (sic) does not have
three horns and a tail. It never had those imple-
ments and never has in its new form as the BJP, yet
certain people cling on to the contrary view.
The authors concern for meaningful writing
does not end with the challenges writers faced dur-
ing the Emergency; she is as forceful about the
commercialisation that has set into writing which,
she believes, is not always a good thing. In a speech
at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2008, which
forms part of the book, Sahgal said, Im probably
more aware of the commercialism of our current
book climate because it is so different from when I
started writing. My first novel was published in
1958. No one then judged a manuscript by how
many copies it would sell. Her publisher told her
that his publishing house chose fiction for its
timeless quality. Those were different times; today
even fiction has to be not just political but also
contemporary to merit a publishers attention.
Sahgal spoke of the image many had of the Jan
Sangh, an image which, at least for that moment,
Swami shattered for her. There is another anecdote
which serves to break yet another impression: That
people have held of the Russian (or the Soviet
then) leaders being cold and even ruthless, and
certainly devoid of humour. This again needs to be
reproduced in detail to derive full delight. In 1995,
the author, while giving a keynote address in
Colombo for Commonwealth Literature and
Language Studies, spoke of Soviet leader Nikita
Khruschevs self-joke. Khruschev once came across
a ragged peasant. He thumped him on the back
and asked him how the Great October Revolution
had treated him. The peasant said earlier he had
two coats to wear, now he has only one. The Soviet
leader consoled by pointing out that there were
many unfortunate people who did not have even
one coat. The peasant gave a gloomy nod and
said, In that case comrade, they must have had
their Great October Revolution long before ours.
Guffaws are in order here. But Sahgal, ever the
perceptive political observer, comments: I have
wondered why on earth Khruschev didnt come to
the adult conclusion that it was time to compro-
mise and the Great October Revolution a hefty
dose of rugged individualism. He might have his
country from collapse, as America would have
saved itself decades of paranoia if it had admitted
there was another view of world affairs besides its
own. In a few compelling words, the author has
said what scholars have been doing through the
consumption of reams of paper and hundreds of
hours of talk-time on television.
Finally, for secular Hindus who have made it a
fashion to pan Hinduism or turn away and either
embrace a new faith or become atheists or agnos-
tics, Sahgal offers wisdom: If I change my name to
Henrietta von Blinkenstaff, whom am I trying to
fool? Can I quick-change my bones, my myths or
my grandparents? Can I forget that my great-grand-
mother became a sati? Believe it, you are a Hindu.
While this is her prescription for a writer, it works
well for the rest too. And the theory will work for
writers and citizens of other faiths or no faith too.
B
ob Swarup a London-based expert on
financial markets and investments, educated
at Cambridge and Imperial College has writ-
ten a fascinating book on money management
with a broad and flamboyant sweep. It blends
hard-nosed financial investment theory, some
lateral commentary from experience, the quot-
ing of economists and financial history from the
glorious reign of the Roman Caesars, that of
ancient Greece, the more recent boom and bust
cycles in Japan, Europe in the World War years
and the psychology of people in relationship to
money the world over.
Swarup has left out the latest 2007 onwards
global bust, except in passing, as much has
already been written about it. But he seems to
imply the historical markers, the essential
thinking that fuels a boom and sows the seeds
of the eventual bust, are no different in this
sub-prime crisis either.
The title of this book and Swarups central
thesis suggests a somewhat manic, irrational
approach to the pursuit of riches with dollops of
exuberant money-lending, while most sober
analyses and business/financial investment
models are cautious and cleave to the majority
view. The author explains that most of us fear
social exclusion and find it very difficult to
divorce emotion from principles and actions.
And the way we view financial opportunities
are through the very same emotional prisms of
wanting to belong to the circle of winners.
Human psychology lends itself naturally to
boom and bust, says Swarup. The first-ever
documented sovereign default was in the fourth
century BC in ancient Greece, which was an
aggregate of city states at the time when 10
Greek states defaulted on their debt to the tem-
ple of Apollo at Delos. Even back then, the idea
was to leverage growth through debt and the
over-optimism involved led to the default.
Swarup cites economist Hyman Minsky
who saw fragility and financial instability as
intrinsic to any economy that contained banks
and debt. Minskys protg Charles
Kindleberger wrote in 1978 what Swarup calls
the definitive book on manias and panics. He
quotes Kindleberger: Speculation for capital
gains leads away from normal, rational behav-
iour to what has been described as a mania or
a bubble. The word mania emphasises irra-
tionality
Indeed, even a genius, the renowned physi-
cist Sir Isaac Newton, lost 20,000 pounds ster-
ling the equivalent of $5 million today by
speculating in the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
Some booms and busts had a lot to do with
the waxing and waning of political power. The
16th century was defined, says Swarup, by the
rise of Protestantism and the increasingly vio-
lent confrontations between the Protestant
north and Catholic south of Europe. These
skirmishes, competitions and wars were funded
with borrowed money from bankers to the
kings, such as the German family, with the
interesting name of Fugger. But even royalty
was far from immune to the boom and bust
cycle. Catholic Spain, one of the wealthiest,
managed to default seven times over the course
of the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Swarup writes of entrepreneurs and specula-
tors who make large sums of money as being
among the first to a new party in reference to
the early-bird phenomenon. And he cites cas-
cading dynamics at the other end of the cycle
when a bust takes place. This is due to some-
thing that mimics a law of physics. It is the long
history of endlessly repeated cycles optimism,
arrogance, greed, fear and capitulation.
Speculation, writes Swarup, needs money
and conquers sense. Ego denies the hand of
luck and instead thanks skill, knowledge, and
prescience. Where there is insufficient money,
people find ways of creating more the histo-
ry of finance is replete with innovations such
as bills of exchange, bonds, paper money, and
derivatives.
If economics was largely population-driven
in the ancient and old world, post 1700, the
Industrial Revolution unleashed a surge in pro-
ductivity thanks to technological
innovationthereafter, economic growth
appeared to decouple from population growth,
he writes.
The world became increasingly more com-
plex. Long term-planning and management was
given short shrift. Most Governments and those
who ran them tended to have a short-term out-
look. As a consequence, there were problems
that were routinely swept under the carpet.
Swarup calls it a disequilibrium beneath the
surface that has no choice but to erupt from
time to time.
But, writes Swarup significantly, given the
financial multiples involved money did not
birth credit and was not the natural evolution of
bartering but rather the convenient medium of
borrowing, lending and taxing. For example, the
actual base amount of money in a system may
be very smallthe United States had a mone-
tary base of about $3 trillion in 2012, meaning
of course just the physical notes and coins, but
if we add in all the credit that is out thereit
exceeds $51 trillion and that is without count-
ing the derivatives.
The book blends hardnosed inancial inveslmenl lheory, quoles o economisls, and inancial hislory
rom lhe Roman era wilh sychology o eole in relalionshi lo money, says 0AuTAM MuKhERJEE
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hehru0andhi amily, is commilled
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junk ood. Avoid anger and aggression. Focus on
resl and relaxalion. Try lo bring moderale
changes in sedenlary lie slyle which is lhe rool
cause or slress. You are acing number o
challenges righl now. Argumenls and unsellled
working environmenls may usel you. Your
delerminalion and ocus will rove lo be helul
lo overcome lhem. 0el lo all lhe lillle work lhal
may have iled u. Facing an inlerview or
aearing or comelilive examinalion could be
successul. Execl some secrel hel rom
unknown eole lhis week. You are likely lo meel
a slranger and will be and comassionale
lowards her/him.
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Iurky roIour Cyan
Iurky day wednesday
8IF8 March 21-April 20
You are casual in lerms o your heallh bul
conlrolling slress is imorlanl or good heallh.
Tackle roblems lhal come u hysically. Be sure
you gel enough resl. Ask or healing on bolh lhe
lileral and lhe sirilual lanes i required. you
are single, seek oul being louched hysically like
massage, and hugs rom dear ones. Avoid
lemlalions or any kind o addiclion. Avoid
worklace gossis. Reslruclure your lie
according lo moral rinciles. You can ursue
higher sludies even i you are working. Find oul
aboul educalional oorlunilies and oslsludies
work olions. Selmolives may bring slress in
your arlnershi business. Slay ocused in
work/sludies and lry lo inish mosl ending lasks.
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Iurky roIour violel
Iurky day Friday
I0808 April 21-May 21
This is a good week lo enjoy oulings. You will
exerience seedy recovery. Change is inevilable
in your heallh. Fulilling commilmenls lo a cerlain
goal may seem diicull. Be reared or a
surrise. Execl someone new and exciling lo
make a move. Everylhing is under conlrol. Energy
and sel conidence are al an all lime high. This is
an excellenl lime lo look or work. You may
achieve lhe righl osilion, al jusl lhe righl ay
along wilh ower and aulhorily. A resligious
rojecl brings oul your crealivily. Kee u your
enlhusiasm as money making rojecls may be
allached bul lhal will be sorled oul and should
nol slow you down. Things are on lhe uswing,
even i you see no concrele sign o il yel.
Iurky number 1, 5
Iurky roIour 0rey
Iurky day Salurday
6FMI8I May 22-June 21
Selconidence is high and has a magnelic eecl
on eole. heallh asecls are nol as bad or you
as you ear. An underlying, sirilual slrenglh will
suslain your heallh and o olhers who maller lo
you. Share lhe joy inside you. 0orlunilies rom
overseas arise and romole your ideas. l's a
good week lo highlighl rojecls you have been
working on. 0orlunilies may come your way,
seek inlelligenl advice beore acceling an
invilalion. Allending a meeling or lravel will
inlroduce you lo someone who could hel in your
ulure. Those in exorl and imorl business will
do well. Some good news aboul a consignmenl is
on lhe card. 0oubls may disaear. This eriod
is good or new relalionshis.
Iurky number 2, O
Iurky roIour Red
Iurky day Friday
080F8 June 22-July 22
use naluroalhy/ homeoalhy remedies in order
lo heal yoursel. l is imorlanl lo lislen lo your
body and achieve balance in your lie. Caler lo
heallh relaled challenges. Balance is your
objeclive. Moderalion in lie is imorlanl. Fay
allenlion lo a roer diel, work ouls, resl, and
slee or a heallhy lie. You have lhe chance lo
shine lhis week. Frojecl yoursel wilh selresecl
and modesly. use your ower and leadershi lo
beneil olhers. You should also be in a osilion lo
lell eole al work where lo gel o as and when
required. You succeed in your resenl rojecls. A
woman holding a owerul designalion may hel
lhose looking or a job. Relalionshis will be illed
wilh osilive vibes.
Iurky number 1, 8
Iurky roIour Blue
Iurky day Salurday
I860 Aug 24-Sept 23
Some conusion may delay your lrealmenl. Seek
good oinion beore laking inal decisions. heallh
changes are likely lo lake lace slowly which
seems besl al lhe momenl. Take lhings one day
al a lime and nole small changes. You may have
lo become accounlable or your deeds. Should
you have acled in an unair maller, il may come
back lo haunl you. Legal issues mighl develo.
Froceed wilh airness and inlegrily. The oulcome
should be osilive. A lhird arly can li lhe legal
maller in your avor. Rely on your inluilion
esecially when dealing wilh slrangers. l could
kee you oul rom diicull silualion. Those in
loving relalionshi may have lo conclude lheir
relalionshi.
Iurky number 8, 5
Iurky roIour Fink
Iurky day Monday
lI88 Sept 24-Oct 23
Lead a discilined and conlrolled lieslyle, you can'l
aord lo crave or sweel and ried ood. Your
heallh mighl undergo comlele lransormalion.
Those who are suering rom serious ailmenls will
wilness ama/ing imrovemenls. Those lrying lo
reduce weighl can achieve lheir goal by slicking lo
a slricl regimen in exercise and diel. You may ace
bigger lensions in your roessions. Your resenl
and immediale ulure will be a resull o your asl
aclivilies. A woman may lay a signiicanl role in
your working lie bul she is nol an ally. You mighl
gel shorllisled in inlerviews bul you are likely lo
miss lhe inal boal. l's nol lhe righl lime or
swilching your job. Some o you may all viclim lo
jealousy and rivalry lhis week.
Iurky number 1, G
Iurky roIour Ale green
Iurky day Sunday
8008FI0 Oct 24-Nov 22
You may be chained lo your asl or an old ailmenl
could recur gelling you all lhe more worried. You
have lo conronl your dark side. Exlore your
ears, limilalions, and unheallhy allachmenls.
Avoid addiclions, lemlalions and indulging in
malerial leasures. Financial beneils are likely.
you have alied or loans/inslallmenls or
inveslmenl urose, lhings are in your avour.
This eriod is good or inlerviews and wriling
comelilive exams. Your wriling and
communicalion skills give you an exlra edge.
udale yoursel, redesign your resume, and gel
ready or a new and rewarding hase in your lie.
Enjoy romance and robusl social lie lhis week.
you're single, lhis is a greal lime lo meel eole.
Iurky number 5, O
Iurky roIour Furle
Iurky day Thursday
008I08 Jan 21-Feb 19
Your cheerul slale o mind is relecled in your
ersonalily. A gel logelher or ausicious
ceremony mighl lake lace. Sending lime wilh
old riends brings back hay memories. heallh
doesn'l seem like a roblem. A osilive
environmenl al your worklace will increase your
roduclivily. You may begin a rojecl in which a
greal deal o loving and crealive energy are
invesled. Reaching oul or lhis oorlunily will
deend on your resenl emolional and sirilual
ulillmenl. You mighl need emolional suorl lo
go orward in lie. Acling malurely will roil your
work lie. Your generosily will hel you overcome
roblems in relalions. You are rich by hearl and
mind as well.
Iurky number 4, 8
Iurky roIour Maroon
Iurky day Monday
FI80F8 Feb 20-March 20
You shine wilh lhe lighl o sirilualism and ind
answers in rayers, medilalion and religion.
Lislen lo your soul. You remain hysically and
menlally sound, oised and conidenl. Seek
advice rom your guru i you ind some queslions
are unanswered. You may be hyeraclive and
wanl quick success. Bouls o anxiely and jillery
nerves rule your ealhers. Avoid silly quarrels al
work. These are some delails which you should
be aware o or a beller career and a smoolh
running business. 0on'l share your work lan
wilh anyone; negalive orces are acling againsl
you. Your dualily may ruslrale your arlner. Kee
calm esecially wilh lhe eole who maller lo
you. Emolions lake a back seal now.
Iurky number 2, 8
Iurky roIour Crimson
Iurky day Monday
0F8I0088 Dec 24-Jan 20
Consider adding some sorl o naluroalhic or
homeoalhic aroach lo your heallh regime.
Celebralions al home are likely. you're lrying lo
gel regnanl, lhis is an excellenl lime. you're
nol ready lo be a arenl bul regnancy is slill a
ossibilily, be lrile careul. Celebrale your
success lhis week. Monelary decisions and
issues may cause slress. Ful an end lo
indecisiveness. Finance is your main worry. Loan
rom bank or credil money is on lhe card. You
may slarl new rojecls or imorlanl business
arlnershis or make some signiicanl urchases.
For singles, a new and osilive romance may be
on lhe hori/on. You mighl meel your love al your
worklace. You gel carried away by love.
Iurky number 1, 4
Iurky roIour Yellow
Iurky day Thursday
lF0 July 23-August 23
Your heallh looks good, bul be careul while
exercising. you're in lhe rocess o healing rom
an injury, don'l overdo il. Slow and sleady wins
lhe race. Make resolulions lo slay il and heallhy
and ollow lhem religiously. Seasonal ailmenls
may allack you. Take all necessary recaulions lo
beal lhe heal, reerably cilrus ood. This is nol a
good week lo look or work. Things are aboul lo
gel a lol busier and ruslraling in your oice. The
salary ackage oered lo you is nol u lo your
execlalion. You have lo make olher adjuslmenls
like leaving behind your amily and moving lo a
remole lace. You eel romanlic and joyul. An
innocenl silualion wilh a riend could make a
loved one jealous.
Iurky number 8, 7
Iurky roIour Beige
Iurky day Tuesday
86III8I08 Nov 23-Dec 23
YOURE339AHEAD
MA0hu K0TYA
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'M A TYFCAL CAFRC0Rh.
'M hAR0w0RKh0, L0YAL,
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- J0hAh FERETT
Now Dolhi, Juno 29, 2014
A
ll about life, be it our physical or
mental functionalities, are noth-
ing but reflection of interplay of
nature driven shakti-variants. The
word shakti used in Indian philosophic
terms is different from what modern
science calls energy, in the sense that
the former could spontaneously go
about by its predefined functions,
where as the latter would work the way
it is driven. In fact, going by Vedic per-
ception, the shakti-streams excited by
the primordial-source, following the
Pranava event is what set into motion
the very chain of creation. Naturally, all
the diverse dynamic players came into
being in the course of the progressive
evolution that followed. It is simply a
manifestation of nature driven shakti-
variants. Even the Big-Bang theory, to
which modern science subscribes, runs
almost on similar lines as far as the
energy concept of creation is con-
cerned.
In natures scheme of things, even
human beings with their solid-looking
gross bodies remain at its core level, a
web of vibrating shakti-patterns, all
sourced to nature, and weaved into a
unified dynamic mechanism. And
since the shaktis driving a being, are all
sourced to nature, any variation in
natures shakti-flux or energy-flux, as
one would phrase it, as is marked with
varying planetary alignments, could
point to our varying life-trends. For, in
the first place, the planetary bodies
marked as energy providers, as well as
the live beings, are all sourced to a
common ground, the very same pri-
mordial-source. Second, the planetary
bodies are co-runners with live beings
in the unitary organism that the uni-
verse is. Evidently, a continuum, and
therefore, correspondence between the
ever moving planetary bodies and the
live-beings is implied. Based on this
premise, the mapping of planetary
bodies at the time of ones birth reflects
upon the basic fabric of a being with all
the inherent mind-trends. This serves
as a referral chart based on which
probable turn of events in ones life
could be inferred upon through pro-
gressive movement of the planets, and
with a fair amount of precision.
So, seemingly, we are moulded into
individual-specific pre-programmed
life-trends. For, each one of us is born
unique. Yet, we are not fully bound by
them. For, we also enjoy the power of
freewill, which is duly aided by the fac-
ulty of discriminate intelligence.
Applying this prerogative, one could
discover the basic fabric of ones mak-
ing, and accordingly, make necessary
amends through conscious efforts, and
improve upon ones performing-self. So
is needed by a girl in question, who is
worried about not been able to crack
the qualifying examinations she has
attempted so far despite putting in her
best.
A look at her chart would reveal
that the vitals within her are enough to
make her ambition come true. The
markers in this respect are: the two
luminaries, the sun and moon
favourably aligned to mercury, inci-
dentally the lagna lord identified with
basic fabric of ones making, as well as
uranus; mercury well disposed to Mars
and Venus; and Saturn favourably
placed to Mars. The implication, in the
first place, is that she seems to have a
fertile mind having inventive and inno-
vative abilities, vision, foresight, imagi-
nation, and with good common sense
and memory. Second, she has the
capacity to delve into a subject and
come out with its finer nuances in clear
terms. Third, she enjoys good commu-
nicative skill. Fourth, she is studious,
and has a well-coordinated analytical
mind duly supported by strong vitality.
Finally comes her superb leadership
ability.
The irony, however, is that a few
negatives in her, as would be there with
any ordinary mortal, often play spoil
her performing self. The first astrologi-
cal pointer to make note of are the two
luminaries being shadowed by their
planet of limitation saturn, the fiery
mars, emotion-signifying venus, and
mischievous neptune. This in the first
place points to a negative orientation of
mind that tells upon her self-confi-
dence and makes her self-doubt her
own abilities. Second, she would be an
escapist, who, instead of checking and
working upon her own shortcomings
for any failing, would prefer habitually
shifting the blame on external factors.
Second, she is temperamental, moody,
and a restive character. Third, she
would be too sensitive, whereby she
gets over exercised on even trivial
issues and stretch them beyond their
due. In the process she often loses her
focus and naturally to her detriment.
Should she address her above infir-
mities, I am sure, very soon she will be
flying in all colours.
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