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rom tho anointmont o Narondra Modi in Goa and LK

Advani's Sunsot Boulovard aot in Dolhi to Nitish
Kumar's notioo o soparation and divoroo rom tho NDA, it
has boon a bit too muoh o a rollorooastor rido or tho BJP.
t is |ust as woll that all tho drama has boon paokod into
ono wook o Juno, at loast 6-7 months booro tho olootion
oampaign ormally bogins. Thoro is nothing moro
disastrous or a politioal party than to bo oonrontod with
indigostion in tho midst o an olootion oampaign-as
happonod in 2009 whon Navoon Patnaik partod ways
during tho soat-sharing talks. t is bost to got ovor tho
innor rumblings booro tho bluoprints o tho oampaign
havo boon inalisod.
That Advani and Nitish woro party poopors and
damponod tho post-Goa oolobratory mood in tho BJP
isn't in any doubt. At tho risk o loating a oonspiraoy
thoory, it oan bo said that tho duo was aoting in oonoort.
Tho JD(U) was banking on Advani to koop tho Gu|arat
Chio Ministor ooninod to tho Gir orost; and Advani in
turn was loaning on Nitish and Sushma Swara|'s porsonal
oquations with tho Thaokoray amily to maintain his own
primaoy in tho party. Ator tho BJP torsoly inormod
Advani o tho dioronoo botwoon Formula-1 raoing and a
vintago oar rally, Nitish was lot in doubt Modi had prova-
ilod insido tho party. Ho was roquostod by thoso ho would
loavo orphanod in tho BJP to stiok to his original Dooom-
bor 31 doadlino booauso Advani still oommandod a ma|-
ority in tho BJP Parliamontary Board, but by thon things
had gono too ar or tho JD(U) to apply tho brakos without
oomplotoly losing aoo.
As it is, dospito his
grandstanding and his
ability to rotain oontrol o
tho Stato Govornmont,
Nitish romains in dangor
o boing squoozod
botwoon a ro-invigoratod
Lalu Yadav and a gung-
ho BJP a
prodioamont that oould
ovon oroo him into an
allianoo with tho
Congross in 2014. Sinoo
tho JD(U) doparturo
rom tho NDA was
paokagod as a bout o
'sooularism', Nitish will
havo to domonstrato to
tho oommunity ho is
oourting that ho stands a
bottor ohanoo o slaying
Modi than Lalu Yadav.
That may only bo
possiblo i ho has tho
Congross by his sido.
That Nitish's
imminont doparturo rom tho NDA has lod to somo soul-
soarohing within tho BJP is also undoniablo. At an ovor-
simplistio lovol, tho BJP is witnossing a ourious battlo
botwoon its hoart and its hoad. A sootion o tho woll-
ostablishod loadorship who saw politioal powor in 2014 as
a low hanging ruit ourso Modi or in|ooting now
oomplioations and making tho BJP's task ohallonging.
Tho Advani ob|ootion to tho pro|ootion o Modi was
oontrod on tho bolio that tho shoor woight o anti-
inoumbonoy would dooimato tho Congross and rosult in
tho NDA omorging as tho oloar ront-runnor or powor. n
othor words, noithor tho BJP nor its allios would havo to
do muoh moro than got its oasto sums right and work up
tho orowds with tho samo mossagos about oorruption,
ooonomio mismanagomont and tho logaoy o Atal Bohari
va|payoo. n short, it would bo tho 2009 oampaign again
with, hopoully, a bottor outoomo thanks to tho oxtont o
tho UPA's misgovornanoo.
Tho omorgonoo o Modi and partioularly tho way his
riso has boon intorprotod by a largo sootion o pooplo
havo upsot thoso oaloulations. t is now oloar that a
oonvontional oampaign that, at bost, promisos to
substituto tho stratogio silonoos o tho 80-yoar-old
Manmohan Singh with tho unonding rominisoonoos o tho
85-yoar-old Advani will not yiold optimum rosults. ndood,
anothor insipid NDA oampaign oould ovon rovivo
attraotions or tho Congross' all-too-amiliar stratogy o
sops and handouts.
For tho BJP, tho likoly oxit o tho JD(U) has oloarod tho
dooks or a vory now typo o olootion oampaign. Yos, tho
possiblo absonoo o rogional allios in statos othor than
Pun|ab, Maharashtra and, possibly, tho Tolongana rogion
o Andhra Pradosh and Assam, poso an oxooptional
ohallongo. tho gonoral olootion booomos an aggrogato
o stato olootions, tho BJP is unlikoly to bo in tho drivor's
soat o a now ooalition Govornmont. And tho impossibility
o a BJP-lod Govornmont boing sworn in by Prosidont
Pranab Mukhor|oo in 2014 is what tho pundits and tho
modia will hark on inoossantly. Arithmotioally, thoy will toll
you, a BJP Primo Ministor ator tho gonoral olootion has
boon rulod out by Nitish, Mamata Banor|oo, Navoon
Patnaik and Jagan Mohan Poddy.
Thoy may woll bo right. rooall in 1991, Atal Bohari
va|payoo ruing that tho BJP tally would bo around 50
booauso it had no allianoos. At a National Exooutivo
mooting, Kalyan Singh, tho thon BJP ohio o Uttar Pra-
dosh, indioatod that tho party's popular voto in Uttar Pra-
dosh would, at bost, riso rom nino por oont to 18 por
oont. n tho ovont, tho BJP won 121 soats, inoluding moro
than 50 soats rom Uttar Pradosh. ndood, had it not boon
or Pa|iv Gandhi's assassination a day booro tho sooond
phaso o tho throo-phaso poll, tho BJP tally would
porhaps havo touohod 160 soats.
Tho ndox o Opposition Unity (OU) modol that was
usod to orooast olootions was domolishod in 1991, an
olootion whoro tho Ayodhya issuo dominatod. This was
ontiroly duo to tho aot that tho BJP oampaign was novol:
it was unorthodox, stridont and oontrod on tho oroation o
a now ndia. Novor booro or sinoo has a BJP oampaign
boon so ull o raw onorgy as it was in 1991. Tho issuos o
tho 1991 oampaign havo booomo history.
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USUALSUSPECTS
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While the existing
arithmetic is tilted
against Modi, the
emerging chemistry
of politics favours
an outsider who
encapsulates
this churning
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he Janata Dal (United) will
on Sunday formal ly
announce the end of its 17-
year-old association with the
BJP, an alliance that successfully
marginalised all other political
outfits in Bihar politics ever
since it came to power in the
State in 2005. JD(U) chief
Sharad Yadav is likely to make
this announcement at the all-
important meeting of his party
leaders in Patna on Sunday.
On Saturday, State leaders
of the JD(U) and party MLAs
shared with Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar their
assessment about the electoral
impact of the imminent split.
While a majority of them felt
that JD(U) will be severely hit
due to the breakup, party MP
Shivanand Tiwary jumped the
guns to announce that the split
was a mere formality.
The situation is indeed
very difficult. It is not an easy
situation. Problems are there
inside (the al liance) but
attempts are also being made to
rectify it, said JD(U) chief
Sharad Yadav.
However, having sensed
the mood of Nitish, who is
ready to risk the alliance for the
sake of minority votes, even
Bihar BJP leaders have pre-
pared themselves for the split.
Sources claimed all BJP
Ministers in the Nitish
Government will submit their
resignation to Deputy CM
Sushil Kumar Modi, who
will take a call of future course
of action depending upon
the situation.
Once the formal
announcement about the
break-up is made, State BJP
leaders could even go in for
withdrawing support to the
Nitish Government. "They may
apparently seek dismissal of the
State Government citing its
lack of majority on the floor of
the House," sources said.
Earlier in the day, Kumars
invite to senior BJP Ministers,
including Sushil Modi, was
turned down. What is the
point discussing with him
issues like NDAs PM candidate,
which does not fall in our
jurisdiction? In any case, cen-
tral BJP leaders are speaking to
Nitish and Sharad Yadav on
this, said Road Transport
Minister Nand Kishore Yadav.
Modi and other BJP Ministers
have also stopped using their
official car and other facilities.
State BJP leaders also held a
separate meeting to assess the
situation. Though cautious in
not predicting about the immi-
nent split, Bihar BJP chief
Mangal Pandey accused the
Chief Minister of creating a
crisis-like situation with his quit
NDA threat when his own party
had earlier refused to attach
much importance to Narendra
Modi's anointment as head of
BJP's campaign committee.
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N
early 500 Indians and
Indian companies have
bank accounts in tax havens
like British Virgin, Cayman and
Cook Islands and Singapore.
They are among the 10,000
account holders worldwide
whose comprehensive list was
released by the US-based
International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
on Saturday. Interestingly, the
official residential addresses
of two senior Government offi-
cers also figure in the list.
In the massive worldwide
expos, titled 'Secrecy for Sale',
the ICIJ released the names of
498 Indians and several Indian
companies having bank
accounts in the tax havens.
As per the list, one Ritu
Verma's bank account carries
the address of the official
residence of a senior IAS
officer of the UT cadre in
Delhi. The address is: D-II-225
Vinay Marg, Chanakyapuri in
New Delhi.
Inquiries by The Pioneer
have revealed that the UT cadre
IAS officer held important posts
in the Delhi Government. He
was transferred to Goa
sometime ago, but now he is
back in Delhi and resides at the
same address.
According to ICIJ, Ritu
Verma is a Director of Windsor
Incorporation Inc since August
13, 2007. The company' s
address is shown as: Portcullis
Trust Net Chambers, PO Box
3444, Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands.
The other Government
accommodation figuring in
the list is: 15 E, CPWD
Quarters, Vasant Vihar, New
Delhi. This address is shown as
that of one Sanjay Wali. The
CPWD quarters in Vasant
Vihar are allotted to senior
Government officials.
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T
he Delhi Government has
drawn up a road map to
consolidate rural votes ahead of
the forthcoming Assembly polls
by giving relief to lakhs of peo-
ple living in Lal Dora, unau-
thorised colonies, extended
abadi areas and those allotted
houses under the Prime
Minister's 20 points programme.
The Delhi Cabinet on
Saturday decided to withdraw
Section 81 of the Delhi Land
Reforms Act (DLR), 1954. The
decision will help villagers get
their properties registered and
carry out construction works
after approval of building plans
from authorities. Earlier, under
the DLR Section 81, no agricul-
tural land could be used for con-
struction of houses and other
non-agricultural purposes.
Lal Dora refers to land
which is part of the village
'abadi' (habitation) which is
used for non-agricultural pur-
pose only. Lal Dora was
exempted from the building by-
laws, construction norms and
related regulations under the
Delhi Municipal Act.
According to the Cabinet
decision, provisions of section
81 of the DLR Act 1954 would
not apply to an area which is
urbanised by way of notification
under Delhi Municipal
Corporation Act 1957.
"We won't let rural Delhi
lag behind the urban areas in
development. We will provide
same facilities in these areas that
are available in urban areas. Our
foes say that this decision
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A
n example of representa-
tion to all strata of society
is being set at Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modis
home turf. The Bharatiya
Janata Party Councillors in
Rajkot Municipal Corporation
(RMC) have unanimously
elected Raksha Boliya, wife of
an autorickshaw driver, as the
citys new Mayor. She will take
charge on Monday.
Interestingly, the
Opposition Congress did not
propose any name for the post.
The selection process of the
new Mayor thus became even
easier during the RMC gener-
al board meeting.
For the BJP, Rajkot holds a
special position since the peri-
od of Jansangh. After Delhi
Municipal Corporation,
Jansangh was able to win the
local body election in the biggest
city of Saurashtra region way
back in 1975, said Raju Dhruv,
spokesperson of Rajkot BJP.
The importance of the victory
was such that the entire nation-
al leadership of Jansangh head-
ed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee
descended to Rajkot in the
swearing-in ceremony of
Arvind Maniar as Mayor of
Rajkot. Since BJPs formation in
1980, Rajkot has remained a
BJP bastion as the party lost
only once in the local body
elections when it was out of
power from 2000 to 2005.
Even BJPs newly anointed
chairman of election commit-
tee for the 2014 polls, Narendra
Modi, had preferred to fight his
life's first poll battle from
Rajkot, and won with a thump-
ing majority in the February
2002 Assembly by-election.
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T
he parting of ways being a
certainty, 'Mission JD(U)'
seems to be the new catchword
for non-NDA parties and
groupings right from the
Congress, the CPM and the
Trinamool Congress to the
TDP with uniting the "sec-
ular forces" being the common
underlining pretext.
The Congress on Saturday
signaled its intent of aligning
with the JD(U) by terming it
a "like-minded party which
can be trusted on secular-
ism". "Coming together of
like-minded parties has hap-
pened in the past and can hap-
pen in future also," Congress
spokesperson Bhakta Charan
Das said. However, he denied
that the Congress is holding
informal parleys with JD(U) at
this juncture to invite it to join
the UPA.
The alliances can be
formed before the Lok Sabha
polls and even post-elections,
he added. An alliance with the
JD(U) could prove much ben-
eficial for the Congress in Bihar
where it's in total disarray.
Sharad Pawars NCP went
a step further by openly
inviting the JD(U) to join
the UPA. NCP spokesperson
DP Tripathi said, "We welcome
JD(U) to separate from the BJP
and join secular forces." Asked
if by secular forces he meant
UPA or the proposed 'federal
front' proposed by Trinamool
Congress and BJD, Tripathi
said, "Yes, UPA coalition. We
are part of the UPA. We are
not with any front. We are
with UPA."
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exemplary inclusive story
BJP Councillors
unanimously
elect Raksha
Boliya, wife of an
autorickshaw
driver, as city's
new Mayor
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A
teenaged girl, who was
rescued by police after she
had gone missing since June 10,
allegedly committed suicide at
Vijay Vihar police station on
Saturday evening.
Sultana (16), a resident of
Kishangarh area in Vasant Kunj,
had reportedly run away from
her home on June 10. On
Saturday, she was spotted by a
passerby near Rithala Metro sta-
tion. He took her to the police
station around 2.30pm.
Her parents were informed
and she was asked to sit in the
ladies changing room. But the
girl was later found hanging by
a staff member around 5 pm,
said a police official.
Police suspect that the girl
was being forced by her parents
for marriage.
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New Delhi: Ajay Maken late on Saturday resigned
as Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation, setting the ball rolling for an organisa-
tional rejig in the Congress party and a reshuffle in
the Union Cabinet which is likely to take place next
Tuesday. 49-year-old Maken is expected to be
assigned a position in the AICC, probably as a general secretary.
The possibility of his being appointed as the Delhi Congress chief
is also being speculated.
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he Man of Steel returns with a bang,
literaly. Director Zack Snyder, who
is known for his action movies, has
ensured that this Superman packs not
just plenty of punch but also has a
perfect blend of drama, special effects
and some great acting by Russell Crowe
and Michael Shannon. Though the
movie is all about Superman Snyder
has definitely not faultered in his
choice of who should play the last son
of Krypton one cant ignore General
Zod played by Michael Shannon.
For the Superman fans, the action
could not get any better, the 3D effects
and CGI could not have been any
bigger and the new suit could not have
been more in keeping with changing
times it is darker, scaly and the S
sparkles. Yes, believe it or not under
intense moments the symbol reflects
light.
Those who have been keeping up
with the movie series, starting from the
time when Christopher Reeve played
Superman, they will get to see plenty of
action that unfolds at Krypton as
well. Jor-Els fight with General
Zod, before he is banished
from the planet, the core of
their world exploding
and Kal-Els escape takes up more than
15 minutes of the movie (unlike the
first Superman movie which dedicated
only three minutes).
For all those who love action, MoS
has lots to offer there is at least an
hour of action in the film. But if one is
looking for a storyline, he will be a tad
disappointed it is rather slim. In
fact, it is non-existent. One can say that
Snyder and producer Christopher
Nolan were so caught up in creating
the near perfect CGI in the movie that
any detailing for the rest of the film
have been given a miss like the
chemistry that should be there
between Superman and Lois
Lane. Kevin Costner
and
Laurence Fishburne have been wasted
in the film. Over all, this one makes for
a must watch for its brilliant action and
some superb CGI.
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THEATRE
Mana A cirque spectacle
musical theatre performance at
Kingdom of Dreams, Sector 29,
Gurgaon from May 16 to July 14.
Ticket pricing will be between
C599 to C2,499. The event goes
on all day
EXHIBITION
Aabru - An art exhibition at the
Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra
Bhavan, 35 Ferozeshah Road,
Mandi House , Delhi from
May 22 to 28
LUXURY
Muds of the World in Eros Spa
at Hilton in New Delhi, Noida
and Mayur Vihar upto May 31.
The prices are from C1, 200
plus taxes per person
MOVIE
Watch Sherlock Holmes: Game
of Shadows, an action-mystery
on HBO at 9 pm starring
Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law,
Jared Harris, Noomi Rapace
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same name by Max Brooks. United Nations
employee Gerry Lane traverses the world
in a race against time to stop the zombie
pandemic that is toppling armies and
Governments, and threatening to destroy
humanity itself.
There, he finds patients, who have bite
marks from a human. The biter, patient
sero, is a 12-year-old boy. He is imprisoned
and with numerous wounds, although
there is no blood. The boy had been fishing
with his father in an area called Three
Gorges Reservoir, where something bit
him. Military support is sent, but cant
contain the growing epidemic.
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nkur Arora Murder Case
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needed to be told. And director
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justice to the film that is based
on a true incident that rocked
the Capital in early 2000. It is
painful to watch Tisca Chopra,
single mother (her husband has
deserted them) lose her only
son to a medical negligence in
the hands of a powerful but
arrogant doctor-owner of a
reputed hospital.
Performance wise the film is
spot on with all characters
doing their bit. Tisca is good
as a hapless mother who
wants to fight against the
institution. Arjun Mathur has
delivered a poised
performance and so have all
the others. But AAMC was
touted to be Kay Kays film
all the way. And the actor
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who have known each other for eight years
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link and youre seated in
a palace enjoying the
dance by courtiers. Blink
again and youre in the lap of
luxury being serenaded by
landscapes and snowcapped
mountains. Blink once more
and you are in the midst of a
village set-up making your way
in the market milieu. Welcome
to the small screen where,
thanks to big spending budgets,
producers are no longer
restricted to drab sets which
they use repeatedly. Instead,
lavishness is the buzz word.
Nowadays the viewer is
getting clever. They under-
stand when they see a repeat-
ed set. They need to be wooed
with something else and pro-
ducers are only too happy to
oblige. Its an opportunity for
set designers like myself,
Chokkas Bhaaradwaj aka Dada
who has been in the industry
for more than 15 years, says. He
is the man behind the expan-
sive Devon Ke Dev Mahadev set
in Naigaon part of Mumbai. He
tells you that along with the lav-
ishness in the physical outlook,
sets have been technologically
ramped up as well.
The effect of croma sheets
and VFX technology gives an
awe inspiring viewing experi-
ence, Dada tells you.
Here are a few sets that
have managed to grab eyeballs:
EVh kE EV MkhkEV
(IIIE k)
Where: Ramdev Film City
in Naigaon.
Designer: Chokkas
Bhaaradwaj is the art director
of the set. He has designed pre-
vious seasons of Mahabharat,
Shakuntala, Anamika, Kaisa
Yeh Ishq Hai, Veera and Diya
Aur Baati Hum.
Money spent: Around C
crore.
Time and labour: The par-
ticular mount Kailash set took
two month to make.
TRP: Average TRP is 2.0
from June 3 to June 9, 2013.
Quote unquote: We vis-
ited Lord Shivas temples and
other historical places, read the
puraan and other books for ref-
erence etc. The research work
was then developed into the
backdrop that gave rise to the
actual design, Bhaaradwaj tells
you.
For this set they have
majorly used fiber since its a
light material and can be easi-
ly moved. Dada tells you that
the trees of mount Kailash
have been made from fiber.
We have also used Plaster of
Paris (PoP) for the making of
the palace since it requires a lot
of artists to design and give it
an archaic and creative look,
Dada says.
1hk kk8k (ZEE TV)
Where: ND Studios
Mumbai.
Designer: Nitin Desai.
Money spent: Around C19
crore.
Time and labour: 1,378
people constructed the fort in
three months.
Quote unquote: To give
support to the massive infra-
structure we had to dig 36 feet
underground. Akbars fort was
prepared in 33 years and we
prepared it in just three
months. That was a chal-
lenge,Nitin Desai, production
designer tells you. Desai is a
four time National awards win-
ner and has designed movies
like Devdas, 1942 love story,
Jodha Akbar etc and TV shows
like KBC and many others.
8kVITI (IIIE k)
Where: Sania studios,
Naigaon.
Designer: Chokkas
Bhaaradwaj.
Money spent: C12 crore.
Time and labour:
Rahukaals den was made in
one and a half month by 500
workers.
TRP: Average 1.1 from
June 3, 2013 to June 9, 2013.
Quote unquote: The skull
along with the eagle was a must
have when we were building
Rahukaal's den. We had to
play with only dark colours to
give the den a natural look. In
this we hardly used any croma.
But for Savitris palace and the
Goolikas sets we had to play
with a lot of other lighting,
Dada says.
1hkIkk IkhhIk 1kk
(6I8)
Where: Filmistan Studio,
Goregaon.
Designer: Omung Kumar,
the man behind Kingdom of
Dreams and awards functions
like IIFA, TOIFA etc.
crore.
Time and labour: 25 days
Quote unquote: I have
been designing the set for this
dance reality show for the past
three years but this time we
have tried to do something dif-
ferent. We have used 3D pro-
jection with hi-tech LEDs. The
look is more international. We
have used light wood, acrylic
panels and light changing
panel. The Hawa Mahal is also
very creatively done, Kumar
tells you. He is at present busy
designing the sets for Sanjay
Leela Bhansalis untitled film on
Mary Kom.
Mkhkkhk FkTkF (MF)
(8hY)
Where: Umargaon,
Gujarat.
Designer: Omung Kumar,
crore.
Time taken: One month.
Quote unquote: Ive also
designed Ekta Kapoors
Mahabharat set in
Umargaon. That set is grand
too. For MP, weve designed
three separate sets for the dar-
bar, Maharanis mahal and
Maharajas mahal. Croma back-
drop has been used to depict
fight scenes, Kumar says.
small screen 0S
NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 16, 2013
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T
he underdog of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6,
singer-actor Shaan is going to prove himself
again this week doing a fusion of crimping and
acro for the episode to be aired tonight. The
judges specially Remo DSouza was extremely
impressed that Shaan being a non-dancer
attempted a dance form as tough as crimping
which even dancers avoid doing at a platform
as big as Jhalak as they dont want to take any
risks. Along with these two dance forms Shaan
has become the current favourite of the show.
In todays episode, Shaan painted his body
and face like a lion,
and according to
the brief given
by his choreog-
r a p h e r
Marischa, he
didnt smile at all
throughout the act
and maintained an
angry expression
all the while. He
is generally a
person who
smiles a lot so
it was very
difficult for
him but he
did it effortless-
ly.
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eteran cricketer
and commentator
Kris Srikkanth (53)
was the second con-
testant who has been
eliminated for JDJ sea-
son 6. With a motto to
dance naturally,
Srikkanth made a
foray in the dancing
platform. His first
performance was his
partner Amrita on the
song chammak challo from Ra.One, met with
some critical comments.
Watch out for more on Sunday, at 9pm at
colors.
Jhalak dhamaal
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ctor Ranvir Singh
who was recently
on the sets of JDJ shakes
a leg on Aaa Dekhe Zara
with participant
Sidharth Shukla. Seeing
both of them dance
together Karan Johar
called Shukla the Ranvir
Singh of TV and Ranvir
Singh is the Sidharth
Shukla of films. Shukla
was tagged as one of the
most romantic onscreen TV actor and on his
fans demand, he will be seen in a romantic act
with his choreographer Sonia in todays
episode. Getting a Latin dance form right in
four days is not easy. Ive tried some really
interesting lifts and hope people enjoy this per-
formance and continue to support me, Shukla
says.
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T
he Sub-Divisional
Magistrate (SDM) of
Saraswati Vihar has alleged
gross dereliction of duty on part
of the Station House Officer
(SHO) of Bharat Nagar Police
station in registering a criminal
case and raiding a place in
Rohini to recover a trafficked
girl on jurisdiction grounds.
Two girls were reportedly
trafficked from Jharkhand and
brought to the Capital to work as
domestic helps. Things started
moving only after the Deputy
Commissioner of North-West
district intervened and a raid was
carried out to rescue the girls.
The inaction of the police was
reported despite the fact that
there has been an uproar and
concern over human trafficking.
Two girls started a journey
from Jharkhand and were
coming to Delhi. One of them
was coming to meet her sister.
On the train they met a person
named Kali who told them
that he will take them to their
destination safely.
On reaching Delhi, he
handed over the girls to a
placement agency. They were
forced to work as domestic help
in various parts of the city. One
of the girls, who was working
as a domestic help in Shakti
Nagar Extension, somehow
managed to contact her
parents, who then informed
her sister. The sister filed a
complaint with the NGO which
later approached the SDM.
One of the girls was
rescued from Bharat Nagar
and the placement agency was
traced in Moti Nagar. The
owner of the placement agency
revealed that the other girl is
working in Rohini Sector-7.
The SHO of Bharat Nagar
refused to lend support stating
that the area does not fall in his
jurisdiction. SDM MB Malho-
tra contacted SHO of Rohini,
who then provided force and
the girl was rescued. Both the
girls were rescued on June 13.
Behaviour of Bharat
Nagars SHO was not
appreciated as it came across
that he was working as per his
own whims and fancies.
When he could accompany us
till Moti Nagar, which also
falls outside his jurisdiction
then suddenly why did he
deny accompanying to Rohini.
It was one case that we all
were dealing with. Only after
we wrote to t he seni or
authorities, an FIR was filed
by the Bharat Nagar Police
station. The co-operation was
not up to the mark, said MB
Malhotra.
The SDM has written to
the ACP, asking clarification as
to which FIR is authenticated.
Also, the District Magistrate
has been requested for an
independent enquiry.
8kh1EEV FkI Q 0uR0A0h
A
five-year-old girl, who was
brutally raped on Saturday
afternoon in Gurgaon, is
battling for life at Safdarjung
Hospital in the Capital. The
incident took place around
2.30 pm in Sikandarpur area,
when the girl was lured by an
unidentified middle-aged man
and raped.
However, seeing the
condition of the girl, the police
have not ruled out the
possibility of gang-rape.
According to police, the girl
had gone to a religious
gathering with her 12-year-old
cousin and was allegedly lured
by the accused. He took the girl
to a secluded place on the
pretext of giving her sweets
where he raped her. The
Gurgaon Police registered a
case of rape in DLF Phase-I
Police station and are looking
for the accused.
The girl was traced by
some locals in an unconscious
state. Police were informed
and the girl was taken to a city-
based civil hospital. However,
the victim was referred to
Safdarjung Hospital after her
condition deteriorated.
Police are awaiting reports
to ascertain if it was a case of
gang-rape. According to police,
the accused dumped the girl in
the same area from where she
was picked up. After the girl
went missing, her cousin began
searching for her and informed
her family. Unable to trace her,
they approached the police.
The police initially registered a
missing complaint but, later on
finding the girl, a case of rape
was registered. The preliminary
investigation shows that only
one person was involved in the
crime. But, the involvement of
more than one person cannot
be ruled out, said Maheshwar
Dayal, Joint Commissioner of
Gurgaon Police.
We are interrogating the
local vendors and auto-
rickshaw drivers. We have
recorded statement of the
victim who indicated that the
accused was a middle-aged
man, he added.
T
o keep the zoo inmates
healthy and immune under
extreme weather conditions in
the Capital, the Delhi zoo
authorities serve them with
seasonal fruits, nutritious and
fibre-rich items on a daily
basis. These range from green
fodder, meat, fish, bananas,
watermelons, and pears to
chilled kheer, khichdi and even
mango drinks like Frooti and
Maaza. At present, the zoo is a
home to over 1,500 species of
animals and birds that gobble
up 5,000 kg of different food
items every day.
Daily consumption of
green fodder in the zoo is a
staggering 2,340 kg -- which
includes tree leaves, etc. It is
consumed by most herbivorous
animals, including elephants,
giraffe, rhinoceros,
hippopotamus and buffaloes to
name a few. A major chunk of
silage is guzzled by the
elephants. The zoo has three
elephants, two of which are of
Indian origin and one of
African. Each elephant at the
Delhi zoo consumes nearly
270 kg of food on a daily basis.
Besides green fodder, the
herbivores are also fed with tree
fodder. On an average, they
consume nearly 1,012 kg of tree
fodder in a day. The lunch for
most animals (herbivores),
especially elephants and
rhinoceros, during summer
also comprises of khichdi and
they are fed nearly 27 kgs of it
per day. "We feed the elephants
and rhinocerous with khichdi
as it helps in preventing
intestinal blockage. It is very
essential as intestinal blockage
can have fatal consequences.
The khichdi for the animals is
made from rice, bajra, haldi,
salt and mustard oil. Khichdi
also helps in making the
digestive system healthy," said
Dr N Panneer Sevlam,
Veterinary officer at the Delhi
Zoo.
In addition to these,
animals like giraffe, deer,
rhinoceros, hippopotamus and
buffaloes are also given special
diet food --'Mash' -- which is
blend of wheat bran, Bengal
gram, meat crust, barley crust,
oat crust, nick powder and
common salt. The daily
consumption of Mash at the
zoo is 738 kg. "Mash contains
all essential ingredients. It thus,
proves to be a balanced diet for
the animals," said a zoo official.
The zoo has two giraffes,
six hippopotamus, two
buffaloes and two rhinoceros.
Larger carnivores
including the tiger, white tiger,
leopards and wolf feast
depend on buffalo calf meat.
They jointly consume over 200
kg of meat on a daily basis.
"The carnivores are fed with
meat as it is a source of 'direct
protein' for them. Besides, it
also helps in increasing their
metabolism," said Dr Sevlam.
However, the smaller meat-
eaters, including civet cat and
wolf are given fish, fowls and
rabbits also at times. "For lions
and tigers, there are huge
chunks of meat, but for the
baby carnivores, the meat is
minced and served as Keema,"
he added.
However, during rain the
monkey, deer and chimpanzees
are fed with green bhutta.
Veena Chandra, store in-charge
said, "Proper nutrition is vital
to keep the animals healthy.
The food given to the animals
is always fresh and they are
provided with an organically-
rich diet."
W
hile the carnivores at
the Delhi Zoo are fed
up of the high 'caloric' beef,
the zoo officials also keep
them on fast and liquid diet
once every week. "The
carnivores are made to fast
every Friday. They are only
served glucose and water
throughout the day. We do
this so as to ensure that their
body remains fit and there is
no deposition of excessive fat.
This also ensures that their
digestive system remains
healthy," said Riyaz Khan, the
curator of the Delhi Zoo. The
eggetarians -- including
chimpanzees, monkeys and
lizards to name a few --
consume about 130 boiled
eggs per day.
When the heat is intense,
the zoo authorities also feed
the animals with seasonal
fruits like watermelon, sweet
lime and banana in order to
keep their body temperature
in control. Nearly 150 kg of
fruits is bought to feed these
animals on a daily basis. It is
the bananas which top the list
with over 97 kg being served
to most of the animals, the
likes of which are monkeys
and chimpanzees.
Interestingly, rhinoceros,
hippopotamus and elephants
are also given bananas.
"While we are taking
adequate care of the animals
in this hot and humid
weather, and ensuring that
their external environment
remains cool by providing
them air conditioners, coolers
and now even clay mud
pools. It's equally important
to ensure that the food they
are given during summer
keeps them cool from the
inside as well. For this, not
only do we feed the animals
with seasonal fruits, but
depending from animal to
animal we serve them
different kinds of food.
"For instance, the deer are
given chilled kheer made of
milk and rice and raw aamla.
The chimpanzees are given
chilled Frooti," said Riyaz
khan, the zoo curator. "Frooti
is given to chimpanzees.
Some times we resort to
giving them the drink when
they are to be given medicine,
but in case the animal sees us
lacing the drink they refuse to
have it," said Dr N Panneer
Sevlam, Veterinary officer at
the Delhi Zoo.
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FOOD REGME
uanIiIy
Banana 1.5kg
0nion 1OOgm
Tomalo 1OOgm
Bread 7OOgm
Milk 8OOgm
Folalo 25Ogm
uanIiIy
Cucumber 25Ogm
Egg(raw) one
Sugar 1OOgm
Faaya 25Ogm
Ale 75Ogm
Sweel lime/0range 4OOgm
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Mash 1Okg
Kulli 5kg
Tree Fodder 25kg
Soaked 0ram 1.5 kg
Banana 8.Gkg
0ur 11gm
Crushed Mai/e 1kg
France beans 8kg
0nion 1kg
Tomalo 25Ogm
Ale 1.5gm
Lemon/orange 2kg
Carrol 1kg
sall O.O5O
0il cake O.5OOgm
ELEPHANT
0reen odder 1OO kg
Tree odder 15O kg
0ry odder 15 kg
Moong 1kg
Rice 2kg
wheal 1kg
haldi 1OOgm
Sall 1OOgm
Muslard oil 5OOgm
Banana 8.Gkg
HPPOPOTAMUS
Banana 1.5kg
Mash 2Okg
Kulli 4O kg
Types oI eers Mash kuIIilreen Iodder Tree Iodder kmWIa
hilgai 2kg Gkg 1kg O.O5Ogm
Sambar deer 2kg 7kg 1kg O.O5Ogm
hog 0eer O.5OOgm 2kg O.5OOgm O.O5Ogm
Black Buck O.5OOgm 2kg O.5OOkg O.O5Ogm
Silka 0eer 1kg 8kg O.5OOgm O.O5Ogm
Banlong 7kg 1Okg 8kg O.O5gm
0aur 1Okg 2Okg 2Okg O.O5gm
Barking 0eer O.5OOgm 1kg O.5OOgm O.25Ogm
Solled 0eer 1kg 2kg O.5OOgm O.O5gm
Sanghai 0eer 1kg 4kg O.5OOgm O.O5gm
0oral O.5OOgm 1kg 4kg nil
Chinkara O.5OOgm nil 1kg O.2OOgm
Chow singha O.5OOgm 2kg 2kg O.25Ogm
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T
he Delhi Government has
decided to demand its
equal share in the revenue that
is likely to be generated after
the Western Peripheral
Expressway (WPE) and
Eastern Peripheral Expressway
(EPE), from Haryana and Uttar
Pradesh start functioning.
The Delhi Cabinet on
Saturday approved a proposal
demanding its share in the
revenue on the toll gates on the
expressways. The Delhi
Government is bearing 50 per
cent of the total cost of the pro-
ject. The cost of land acquisi-
tion for the two expressways
was estimated to be at C2,550
crore in 2010 that has now
increased to C2,905.2 crore in
2011. This means the contri-
bution of Delhi has already
increased to C1,452.6 crore in
2011 as against C1,275.34 crore
in 2010. Of these, C653.50
crore has been paid by Delhi
while C799.09 crore is pending.
The Cabinet decided that
any further release of funds
should not be unconditional
and should be capped at some
level. It further decided that
share of the Delhi Government
should be fixed on the basis of
a cut-off date.
The inordinate delay in
execution of the project is also
raising the cost. This is despite
the regular monitoring of the
Supreme Court and the Prime
Ministers Office on a regular
basis. Both the expressways
were approved in 2005. Due to
non-completion of the project
in time, Delhi was unnecessar-
ily burdened with higher land
acquisition costs and the target
to decongest Delhi was not
achieved. The Delhi Govern-
ment has paid its share of 50%.
Therefore, the city should put
a condition on sharing the rev-
enue earned by either Haryana
or UP Government. It should
also claim a share in the toll rev-
enue earned on these express-
ways, the Cabinet note stated.
Having given commit-
ment to the project 10 years
ago, Delhi is bearing the burnt
of continued movement of
transit traffic, its hazards and
resultant pollution as well as
repeated demands of addi-
tional funds for the project.
After 10 years, the WPE is only
68 per cent complete while EPE
is yet to take off, it read.
Notably, the Western half
of this bypass linking Kundli to
Faridabad via NH-10 and NH-
8 was designated as the WPE,
and the Eastern half of this
bypass was designed as EPE.
The construction of twin
expressways totaling 270 km
was initiated as per a
Supreme Court ruling to get
Delhi rid of unwanted traffic.
Five national highways
converging at the Capital carry
traffic which is not destined for
Delhi. But, in the absence of a
bypass, this traffic has to move
through Delhi. The WPE is
135.6 km long and is known as
Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP)
project. This is the part of a
Ring Road around Delhi to
divert nearly two lakh com-
mercial vehicle bypass the
Capital every day. The 135
km-long EPE is a proposed
road which will bypass Delhi
on the eastern side. The project
involves construction of a green
field six lane expressway with
access to control highway con-
necting Faridabad-Noida-
Gaziabad-Sonepat.
D
elhi Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit termed her
Governments decision of lift-
ing restriction on the use of
agricultural land in Lal Dora as
historical and assured all prob-
lems of rural population in the
Capital will be resolved soon.
Announcing the Cabinet
decision at a rally in Talkatora
Stadium on Saturday, Dikshit
said the rural areas of Delhi
would not lag behind the urban
areas in terms of development.
We will provide same facilities
in these areas that are available
in the urban areas. Our foes say
that this decision is taken keep-
ing in mind the upcoming elec-
tions, but if that would have
been so, you wouldnt have
elected us thrice, she said,
while addressing villagers from
across Delhi. She said the deci-
sion on the applicability of
Section 81 of the Land Reforms
Act will benefit lakhs of people
residing in the rural areas.
Speaking on the occasion,
Delhis Urban Development
Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely
said Section 81 has often been
misused. Villagers should be
allowed to build their home on
their land wherever they want.
We have decided that Lal Dora
will be extended to all 360 vil-
lages. We will give three-month
time to RWAs or Gram Sabhas
to identify the extended popu-
lation of the villages and apply
accordingly, Lovely said.
He said that anybody, who
wants to build a house in rural
area now, can approach the
concerned municipal corpora-
tions as the civic agencies have
the authority to clear it.
The Chief Minister has
also issued an order to the
Revenue Department to with-
draw all pending cases under
Section 81 in various courts,
the Minister said.
W
ith the mercury persis-
tently remaining below
the 40-degree mark and cool
breeze blowing throughout the
day, Delhiites enjoyed a pleas-
ant weekend.
Saturday witnessed light
showers across the Capital.
Spells of rain/thunderstorm
are also expected on Sunday.
According to the Met offi-
cials, the maximum temperature
on Sunday is likely to remain at
33 degrees Celsius.
On Sunday, the sky will be
cloudy. Rain or thundershowers
will be witnessed in some areas.
The maximum and minimum
temperature will be 33 degrees
Celsius and 23 degrees Celsius
respectively, said a senior offi-
cial of the Indian Metrological
Department.
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A
suspected auto thief died
in a city hospital after he
was detained and tortured in
Kavi Nagar police station.
Identified as Mohammad
Shakeel, a resident of Dasna
town, the victim reportedly
died around 1 am on Saturday.
There were visible telltale
marks all over his body. This
is the second custody death
reported in Ghaziabad in
recent times. The last custody
death had taken place in
Indirapuram Police station
when an accused of a double-
murder case was kept in illegal
detention and beaten badly.
Inspector GN Yadav, the
Station Officer (SO) and his
subordinate were suspended
and a case of murder was reg-
istered against them.
In this case too, a criminal
case of illegal detention and
murder has been registered
against eight police personnel
and all the accused have been
suspended.
It has been revealed that
the staff of Kavi Nagar Police
station reportedly brought
Shakeel for questioning as he
was said to have been involved
in several cases of auto thefts.
According to police, he was
picked up from his residence
after he confessed his role in
the crime, the police decided
to take him to Ferozabad, to
recover those vehicles that he
had sold to certain receivers.
As the police vehicle reached
Lal Kuan about five km from
the police station he com-
plained of pain in the chest and
stomach and started vomiting.
He was taken to l ocal
Sarvodaya Hospital from
where he was referred to Guru
Tegh Bahadur (GTB) Hospital
in Delhi. Shakeel succumbed
to his injuries on his way to the
GTB Hospital where he was
declared brought dead.
The police informed his
father around 3 am on
Saturday about Shakeel's death.
Khaleel who alleged the
SO of Kavi Nagar Police sta-
tion, Sudhir Tyagi and seven
other police personnel had
barged into his house on
Thursday night and had
forcibly taken Shakeel with
them.
He was kept in illegal
detention for two days and was
subjected to inhuman torture.
The police had reportedly
taken his mobile phone and Rs
61,000 from Shakeel's posses-
sion on Thursday.
In his complaint to the
police, Khaleel stated that
Sudhir Tyagi tresspassed his
house, illegally detained his
son, tortured him and robbed
him of Rs, 61, 000. "On his
complaint, we have registered
a criminal case under Sections
302, 147, 148, 342 and 406 of
the IPC against eight police
personnel including the station
officer Sub Inspector Sudhir
Tyagi, Mangal Tyagi,
Bhupender, Hom Singh,
Jitender, Raj Kumar Tyagi,
Irfan, all posted in Kavi Nagar
Police station, " said SSP
Ghaziabad Nitin Tiwari.
All the accused police per-
sonnel have been suspended
and a departmental inquiry has
been ordered by SP Rural
Jagdish Sharma. "In addition to
this, a magisterial inquiry has
been ordered by the District
Magistrate, SVS Ranga Rao,"
added the SSP.
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F
ifteen days after a 75 paise
per litre increase in petrol
prices was effected, oil mar-
keting companies (OMCs) on
Saturday hiked the price by a
steep C2 a litre, owing to the
recent weak rally of the rupee
against the dollar.
The hike, which is effective
from Saturday night, is exclud-
ing local sales tax or VAT and
actual increase for consumers
will be higher. Petrol price in
Delhi will now stand at C66.39
from the earlier C63.99 a litre.
However, unlike last time,
there will be no change in price
of diesel, a statement by Indian
Oil Corporation (IOC) said.
Since last price change, the
slide in rupee (against the dol-
lar) has continued and the
dollar-rupee exchange rates
have deteriorated from C55.32
to C57.08 per dollar, said IOC.
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T
he scandal involving con
woman Saritha S Nair,
arrested on June 3 for large-
scale money-swindling in the
name of a solar power firm,
and the office of Kerala Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy got
murkier on Saturday with her
former husbands disclosure
on her links with top Congress
leaders and that the Chief
Minister himself had inter-
vened to save their marriage.
Sarithas ex-husband Biju
Radhakrishnan, first accused
(now absconding) in the case in
which she was arrested as sec-
ond accused, told the media on
Saturday that KB Ganesh
Kumar, who resigned recently as
Chandys Forest Minister recent-
ly under ungracious circum-
stances, had unholy relationship
with her and this had led to the
break-up of their marriage.
The scandal has already
taken a heavy toll on the image
of Chandy and his two-year-old
Government with the
Opposition LDF preparing to
launch a ferocious campaign
demanding his resignation.
Chandy was the other day
forced to remove two members
of his personal staff over the
suspicious telephone conver-
sations between them and
Saritha Nair.
Saritha and her ex-hus-
band Biju, who were running
a company specialising in
installation of solar power
plants and wind farms, had
cheated several people in
Kerala by collecting crores of
rupees promising to install
solar power systems and offer-
ing franchisees of their firm.
Saritha is said to have been
using her alleged links with the
CMs office and other politi-
cians for this.
According to Biju, Ganesh
(then Forest Minister) and
Saritha had spent a night
together in a hotel at
Coimbatore. Keralas
Government Chief Whip PC
George, also known as
Chandys personal trouble-
shooter, had the other day said
that Saritha was one of the 23
women with whom Ganesh
Kumar had been keeping
unholy relationships.
Biju said that he had met the
Chief Minister in Kochi request-
ing to intervene to help him save
the marriage and that it was
Congress MP MI Shanavas who
had helped him meet the CM.
Chandy promised me all the
help, he said.
But the very next day
Saritha asked me about my
meeting with the Chief
Minister and I was then sure
that whatever I had told him
had been conveyed to her.
(Union Minister) KC
Venugopal also asked her about
the role of Ganesh Kumar. I
dont blame the CM but his
office people were doing things
by-passing him, he said.
However, Ganesh Kumar
denied the charge, saying he
was ready to end his political
life if it was proved. His father
R Balakrishna Pillai, the only
former minister in Kerala to
be punished for corruption,
alleged that the charge was
part of a conspiracy and that
it was intended at maligning
Ganesh, who could possibly
be re-i nducted i nto t he
Chandy Cabinet.
Trying to explain his links
with Saritha, Venugopal said,
She had met me twice or
three times requesting me to
inaugurate some solar power
project of theirs. There had
been no other conversation.
Shanavas said he only tried to
help an ordinary man, who
came to him through one of his
aides, Hakkim.
Biju said that their com-
pany got into trouble after
their marriage broke. Just as
Bijus revelations came, the
Kerala Police, already probing
the cheating cases involving
Saritha and him and her
alleged links with the CMs
office, constituted a special
team of six Deputy
Superintendents of Police,
headed by an Additional DGP.
Ganesh, lone MLA of
Congresss minor ally in the
ruling UDF, Kerala Congress
(B), had resigned as Forest
minister on April 2 following
a complaint of domestic vio-
lence lodged by his now-
estranged wi fe Yami ni
Thankachi. Chandy had tried
to save their marriage by
t al ki ng to bot h Ganesh
and Thankachi.
The biggest problem for
Chandy, leading the A group
of Keralas Congress, is that his
party or any leader is not
coming forward to support
him in the moment of crisis.
State Congress president
Ramesh Chennithala, head of
the partys I group, has not yet
been ready even to comment
on the controversy.
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hEw 0ELh
U
nion Minister for Urban
Housing and Poverty
Alleviation Ajay Maken on
Saturday resigned from the
Cabinet. He has offered to
work for the Congress party
organisation. The resignation
has come just before the
Cabinet and organisational
reshuffle likely next week.
The decision is significant
in view of Assembly polls in
Delhi in November this year
and Lok Sabha elections in
2014. By offering to work for the
organisation, Maken has given
the indication that he wants to
be included in Congress vice-
president Rahul Gandhis young
team which will lead the party
in the elections.
The New Delhi MP is like-
ly to be given greater respon-
sibility in Delhi either as DPCC
president or AICC general sec-
retary, party sources said.
Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit, who has been in
power for past 15 years and
DPCC president JP Agarwal
are at loggerheads. Rahul, who
had recently held a meeting
with Delhi Congress leaders
had asked party leaders to
work unitedly to bring the
Congress back to power for
the fourth time.
The organisational and
Cabinet reshuffles both are
expected early next week and
there are reports that some
ot her Mi ni sters are
also likely to be drafted for the
party work.
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh is expected
to fill the vacancies created by
resignation of PK Bansal and
Ashwani Kumar.and five DMK
Ministers during the reshuffle
which will the last for the
UPA-II Government. Ministers
holding two portfolios could be
divested of one. Health
Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad,
who is also the general secre-
tary of Tamil Nadu and Andhra
Pradesh, could be divested of
the responsibilities of the states.
Some other leaders may also
see change in their departments
and portfolios.
kh8hEE WkhI Q Bu00AM
T
he entire Government
machinery remained on
tenterhooks in Kashmir on
Saturday as Congress vice-
president Rahul Gandhi
arrived here to launch the
State-wide Umeed (hope) pro-
gramme for poverty alleviation
and womens empowerment
in strife-torn Jammu and
Kashmir. The ambitious C755
crore programme funded by
the Central Rural
Development Ministry aims at
creating 90 thousand self-help
groups over a period of five
years engaging 90 lakh women.
Gandhi launched the pro-
gramme at a highly-fortified sta-
dium in central district Budgam
after his scheduled visit to
earthquake-hit Bhaderwah dis-
trict was cancelled due to
inclement weather.
He stressed for self-confi-
dence and cited it as effective
remedy for eradication of
poverty. He asked the women
to partake in developmental
for the holistic development of
the society. The faster growth
and eradication of poverty in
the States like Kerala, Andhra
Pradesh and Maharashtra is
because of the empowerment
of women and their active
participation in development
programmes, Gandhi said.
Speaking on the occasion,
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
said that two dangerous trends
female foeticide and drug
abuse were dangerous social
diseases plaguing Jammu and
Kashmir. If these diseases are
not restricted well in time, the
future of the State would be
endangered, he said.
Later speaking to the
reporters, Gandhi tactfully par-
ried questions on the func-
tioning of coalition in Jammu
and Kashmir and the emerging
political scenario at the nation-
al level following differences
between the BJP and JD(U).
When asked whether the UPA
would invite Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar to join
its fold, he said that it was the
prerogative of the UPA leaders
to decide on the issue.
He refrained from com-
menting on pre-poll alliance
with the ruling National
Conference in J&K but appre-
ciated the wonderful work
done by the coalition
Government during the past five
years. He evaded reply to the
prospect of revocation of Armed
Forces Special Powers Act
(AFSPA) was select parts of
J&K saying it was an issue
between the Prime Minister
and the Chief Minister. It is a
discussion between the Chief
Minister and the Prime Minister.
It is not appropriate for me to
make a statement, Gandhi said.
But he said the ruling UPA
was successful in creating a cor-
dial atmosphere in the valley. He
claimed that the UPA-1 and 2
have brought discernible change
at the ground level in J&K.
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T
he BJP on Saturday
appealed to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to apoliti-
cally and objectively deal with
the spat between the
Intelligence Bureau and the
CBI over the Ishrat Jahan
encounter case. The Opposition
parties also cautioned the
Government against the misuse
of these two agencies for the
sake of political interests.
Jahan, an alleged LeT oper-
ative, was killed in an
encounter in 2004. The cops
involved in the encounter are
said to have acted on the basis
of an intelligence input from IB.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala
Sitharaman said there are reports
of a trust deficit between IB
and the CBI on the Ishrat case.
This issue has now reached the
doorstep of the Prime Minister.
We ask him to look at the issue
apolitically and objectively so
that IB and CBI work in nation-
al interest rather than for polit-
ical mileage, Sitharaman said.
The main Opposition also
alleged that the Information and
Broadcasting Ministry appeared
to be engaged in controlling and
censoring the press on the
Ishrat Jahan case. Sitharaman
said some reports relating to the
encounter were put on the web-
site of leading magazines but
these were removed from the
site within no time.
Is the Information and
Broadcasting Ministry involved
in this in someway? Are the
media organisations being sup-
pressed by the Ministry?
If the IB, CBI and now the
media are being controlled,
then we wonder if we are get-
ting back to the Emergency
days, Sitharaman said.
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Ishrat case
From Pago 1
Today's ndia has ohangod ar
moro than its politios. Thoro is raw
onorgy o a youthul population
dosporato or sol-improvomont and,
by implioation, national rosurgonoo;
and thoro is raw angor that
poriodioally maniosts itsol in
spontanoous oxplosions against
oorruption and rapo. To this oan bo
addod tho sooial ohurning oroatod
by upwards sooial mobility,
urbanisation and rogional prido.
And, inally, thoro is waning aith in
tho ability o tho oxisting politioal
olass to ooot moaningul ohango.
n a nutsholl, whilo tho oxisting
arithmotio is tiltod against Modi, tho
omorging ohomistry o politios
avours an outsidor who
onoapsulatos this ohurning. t is
Modi's ability, as oampaign ohio, to
harnoss thoso onorgios and sooial
tronds that will dotormino whothor
tho onthusiasm witnossod in Goa is
translatod into parliamontary soats.
Thoro is no hal-way houso lot or
tho BJP. To win it will havo to roinvont
its approaoh to politios. Fortunatoly
or it, tho shoor dotormination o its
supportors to broak tho mould
ovorridos tho innato oonsorvatism o
its loadorship. n tho past wook, hard
dooisions woro orood on tho party.
Now it will havo to tako thom
voluntarily and with imagination.
From Page 1
46-year-old Boliyas hus-
band Raghu is an autorickshaw
driver and an active member of
the BJP for over the past two
decades. Raksha, mother of
two, is also active in the party
for a decade.
In the last RMC election, the
party had offered ticket to
Raghu, but he refused the offer
that made way for Rakshas can-
didature. The revised term for
the Rajkot Mayor is two and half
years and the post is reserved for
the woman candidate.
The new post given to my
wife will not make much dif-
ference in my life. I am satisfied
with whatever I earn through
driving autorickshaw. Even if
Raksha travels by a car with a
beacon light, I would like to
continue with my profession,
said the proud husband.
From Page 1
With West Bengal Chief
Minister and Trinamool
Congress chief Mamata
Banerjee having taken the lead
to work towards forging a fed-
eral front by talking to her
Bihar and Odisha counterparts,
the Left parties too have sud-
denly become active to attempt
reviving the Third Front.
A day after CPM leader
Sitaram Yechury held a one-
to-one meeting with JD (U)
chief Sharad Yadav, party gen-
eral secretary Prakash Karat
and TDP chief Chandrababu
Naidu spoke to Yadav to dis-
cuss the emerging political
situation. But both the parties
refrained from divulging the
details of deliberations.
On Friday, CPI veteran AB
Bardhan and SP chief had also
held discussions in this regard.
The Left parties as well as the
TDP & the SP have been align-
ing on the Third Front issue.
From Page 1
The JD(U) is parading four Independent
MLAs in a bid to show its strength before the
people, he added. It is beyond comprehension;
what type of alliance is this. Denied permission
by the Bihar Government to hold the function
of its national president Rajnath Singh at Miller
School ground in Patna, the State BJP also
finalised an alternative venue at Sanjay Gandhi
Stadium here for the June 23 programme.
The BJP elicited support from the RSS,
which hit out at the JD(U) for arm-twisting its
ally on the issue of the PM candidate. In its lat-
est issue, RSS mouthpiece Organiser said, arm-
twisting of the BJP by the JD(U) on Modis ele-
vation is not good for the country and empha-
sised on the need for the NDA to remain unit-
ed in order to oust the Congress-led UPA. The
BJP so far has only declared Modi as chairman
of a forum and surely not a Prime Ministerial
candidate. In this situation, the arm-twisting by
the JD(U) is not good for the country, the edi-
torial of the RSS weekly said.
The break-up will deal a deadly blow to the
expansion plans of the NDA, which will be left
with just three allies Shiv Sena, Shiromani
Akali Dal and Haryana Janhit Congress.
The NDA break-up certainly brings cheers
on the faces of the Congress and the likes of Lalu
Prasad who feared washout in the next elec-
tion if NDA had remained united.
From Page 1
is taken keeping in mind the
upcoming elections, but if that would
have been so, you wouldnt have elect-
ed us thrice, said Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit, while announcing the Cabinet
decision at a rally in Talkatora stadium.
The Cabinet note stated that the
main focus of enforcement of the
DLR Act provisions would be to pre-
vent any new unauthorised coloni-
sation of agriculture land. The
Cabinet has also announced regu-
larisation of extended abadi areas of
Lal Dora to 360 more villages.
Urban Development Minister
Arvinder Singh Lovely said the DLR
Section 81 has often been misused.
Villagers should be allowed to build
their home on their land wherever they
want. We have decided that Lal Dora
will be extended to all 360 villages. We
will give three months time to RWAs or
Gram Sabhas to identify the extended
population of the village and apply
accordingly, said Lovely.
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Capital's agri lands...
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1&k 0a teaterh00ks as
8ah0I Ia0aches 0mee4!
Irom Fage 1
According lo CJ's exose,
Sanjay wali is a 0ireclor o Cresl
Slralegies Limiled since
Selember G, 2OOG. This comany
is regislered in 0ubai and has
accounls in lax havens. A majorily
o lhe 4O8 ndian addresses are
rom 0elhi, Mumbai, Chennai,
Kolkala, hyderabad, Baroda,
Ahmedabad and Bangalore. All lhe
osh colonies in lhese melros
igure in lhe lisl. Addresses rom
0elhi's osh areas include 0realer
Kailash and 0ol Links Road.
Besides, Chennai's Fycrols
0arden Road and Race Course
Road also igure in lhe lisl o bank
accounl holders in lax havens.
Several ndian lrader and lheir
amily members' names and lheir
associalions wilh lrusls and
comanies are menlioned in lhe
lenglhy lisl roduced by CJ on
lheir websile. Feole rom areas
like Raiur, Bellary, Kurukshelra,
Khammam, Ludhiana, Ajmer,
Bhoal, Mu/aarur, Bariada
(0disha), Kochi and Fondicherry
also igure in lhe lisl. "The CJ
ublishes loday a dalabase lhal,
or lhe irsl lime in hislory, will
hel begin lo slri away lhis
secrecy across 1O oshore
jurisdiclions. The 0shore Leaks
0alabase allows users lo search
lhrough more lhan 1,OO,OOO secrel
comanies, lrusls and unds
crealed in oshore locales such as
lhe Brilish virgin slands, Cayman
slands, Cook slands and
Singaore. The 0shore Leaks
web a, develoed by La hacin
newsaer in Cosla Rica or CJ,
dislays grahic visualisalions o
oshore enlilies and lhe nelworks
around lhem, including, when
ossible, lhe comany's lrue
owners," CJ, in lhe inlroduclion
o lheir exose, said.
"when Bernard Mado buill
his $G5 billion house o cards;
when ood dislribulors assed o
horsemeal as bee lasagna in
Euroe; and when Ale, 0oogle
and olher American comanies sel
u slruclures lo channel lheir
roils lhrough reland - lhey all
used lax havens. "They boughl
secrecy, minimal or /ero laxes and
legal insulalion, lhe dislinclive
roducls lhal lax havens markel
and lhal allow comanies lo
oerale in a iscal and regulalory
vacuum. using lhe oshore
economy is akin lo acquiring your
own island where lhe rules lhal
mosl cili/ens ollow don'l aly,"
said CJ in lhe orward nole lo
lheir biggesl exose, jusliying lhe
ublicalion o bank accounls in lax
havens across lhe world. The
Journalisls' organisalion romises
more release o bank accounls in
lhe coming days.
498 Ia4Iaas...
hkYkh kVE Q AhME0ABA0
W
ater Resource Minister in
the Narendra Modi
Cabinet Babu Bokhiria and
former Congress MP Bharat
Odedara have been convicted
in Rs 54-crore illegal lime-
stones mining case and sen-
tenced to three-
year imprison-
ment on Saturday.
Porbander Chief Judicial
Magistrate CV Pandya also sen-
tenced two others Bhima
Odedara, who is already behind
the bars for a murder case and
his son Laxman Odedara, who
is chairman of Porbander mar-
keting yard in the same case.
MLA from Porbander con-
stituency Bokhiria and others
got conditional bail for seven
days to file an appeal. The
Minister told that he would
challenge the lower court order.
Though he is waiting for party
order to take decision on
whether to resign or not.
In the last Assembly election,
Bokhiria defeated Gujarat State
Congress president Arjun
Modhvadia with huge margin.
He also holds
other impor-
tant portfolios
like agriculture, animal hus-
bandry and cow protection since
December 25, 2012.
Manager of Saurashtra
Chemical Company, Umesh
Bhavsar had registered a com-
plaint on October 5, 2006 against
the Minister and other accused
alleging that they had indulged
in illegal mining on the land that
belongs to the company, which
is part of the Nirma Group.
8year jail or 0ujaral
Minisler, exCong MF
IllF6l MI8I86
Th khhkThk Q MuMBA
A
fter a cosmetic reshuffle of
party Ministers in the
Maharashtra Cabinet earlier
this week, the ruling NCP on
Saturday appointed a dropped
Minister Bhaskar Jadhav, as the
State party president, while it
anointed senior Legislator
Jitendra Awhad as the State
partys working president.
An announcement about
the appointment of Jadhav and
Awhad as partys State unit
president and working presi-
dent respectively was made at
a party meeting here, held in
the presence of the NCP chief.
Though the appointment of
Jadhav as the NCPs new State
chief came as a surprise, the
development will in no way
help the Sharad Pawar-led party
to improve its much-eroded
image ahead of Lok Sabha and
Assembly polls in the State.
For, it was the same Jadhav
whom the NCP chief had pub-
licly reprimanded a few months
ago for hosting a lavish wed-
ding for his son and daughter
in Chiplun when the state was
facing its worst drought.
So lavish were the arrange-
ments that Jadhav had made for
the wedding and receptions for
his son Sameer and daughter
Kanchan in Chiplun in Ratnagiri
on February 13 that a pandal
spread over five lakh sq feet had
been erected, while 22 make-
shift helipads had specially been
constructed to ferry guests.
Meanwhile, the appoint-
ment of Jitendra Awhad, a close
Pawar aide, as the working pres-
ident of the State NCP, is being
seen as an effort by the leader-
ship to infuse young blood into
the party apparatus.
NCP aoints oroeo
Minister as Mala clief
I, Bidya Chandra
Chaudhary S/o Late Sh.
Ambika Pd. Choudhary R/o
K-79, Sector-11, Noida have
changed my name to Vidya
Chand Choudhary for all
purposes.
PD(5402)A
CHANGE OF NAME
PUBLIC NOTICE
Be it known to general public at
large that my client Shri Alok
Saini S/o Shri Ved Prakash
Saini, resident of 810, Neelgiri
Apar tments, Kaushambi ,
Ghaziabad-201010 (U.P.) has
severed his relationships what-
soever with his father Shri V.P.
Saini, mother Mrs. Uma Saini
and brother Shri Anurag Saini,
permanently with immediate
effect from today. That Anurag
Saini has been impersonating
my client before various Banks
and other Authorities and has
been taking undue advantage of
my client's identity documents
which have been stolen by
Anurag Saini from my client and,
therefore, anybody dealing with
Shri Anurag Saini shall do so at
his/her own risk and responsi-
bility and my client above
named, shall in no manner, be
responsible for any transactions
undertaken by Shri Anurag
Saini, Shri V.P. Saini, and Mrs.
Uma Saini.
Sd/-
(HARSHVARDHAN JHA)
Advocate
nation 07
Th khhkThk Q MuMBA
F
acing the threat of a drift-
ing oil tanker running
aground off the Mumbai coast
in the coming days, the
Directorate General of
Shipping (DGS) has deployed
an Emergency Towing Vessel
(ETV) as a precautionary mea-
sure and asked various mar-
itime agencies to activate their
contingency plans to protect
the coastline from any envi-
ronmental hazard.
The drifting vessel, MT
Pratibha Tapi, is one of the
two oil tankers anchored off the
Mumbai coast for the past
two months.
Confirming the develop-
ment, the DGS said in a state-
ment here on Saturday evening
that MT Pratibha Tapi was
dragging anchor at very slow
rate, while the second
anchored vessel MT Pratibha
Indrayani is maintaining its
position. The DGS has, how-
ever, not specified the exact
location of the two ships vis-a-
vis the Mumbai coastline.
Being aware of severity of
monsoon in Indian waters, the
Directorate has been closely
monitoring the condition of
these two ships in order to pro-
tect the interest of all concerned,
the DGS statement said.
According to the DGS, the
two ships are having on board
fuel oil of about 200 tonnes
each, as reported by the owner.
The DGS anxiety should be
seen in the light of an unpleas-
ant experience it had in the form
of a major oil spillage witnessed
from a grounded merchant ves-
sel MSC Chitra after its collision
with another merchant vessel
MV Khalijia-3, off the Mumbai
coast nearly 3 years ago and
another motor vessel MV Pavit
running aground off the Juhu-
Versova beach in north-west
Mumbai, in August 2011.
As a contingency mea-
sure, the DGS has instructed
the State-owned Shipping
Corporation of India (SCI) to
deploy an ETV off the Mumbai
coast, with adequate salvage
equipments and expert man-
power onboard to protect the
coast line from any possible
environmental hazard.
The two ships, as per the
report of their owners, have
been under court arrest in the
Bombay High Court for the
settlement of maritime claims.
Acting on the intelligence
information about the drift of
MT Pratibha Tapi, the DGS has
requested various agencies like
Indian Coast Guard, Indian
Navy, Maritime Board, Shipping
Corporation of India and the
State Government to activate
their relevant contingency plans
and prepare themselves, to tack-
le any possible mishap as per the
prescribed protocol.
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
T
he CBI has begun yet anoth-
er probe against controver-
sial AgustaWestland for alleged
corruption in the supply of light
utility helicopters to the Army.
The agency is already prob-
ing corruption charges against
the UK-based firm for alleged-
ly paying bribes to Indian offi-
cials to swing the deal in its
favour for supply of VVIP
choppers to the air force.
CBI has registered a
Preliminary Enquiry following
a request from the Defence
Ministry. A Brigadier-level offi-
cer is alleged to have promised
help to AgustaWestland to
swing the deal for supply
of 197-helicopters to the
Army. The official allegedly
demanded five million dol-
lars from AgustaWestland
for the favours.
The sources said
Italian investigators,
who are probing allegations
against AgustaWestland and its
parent Italian firm Finmeccanica
in that country, have found
some documents which show
that the Indian Army officer had
allegedly demanded the bribe
from the firm.
The information was pro-
vided to the Defence Ministry by
the Italian investigators which
forwarded it to CBI to look into
the matter. Finding prima-facie
material to start investigations,
the agency has registered a PE
and is likely to call the officer in
question for examination.
Through the PE, the
agency wants to ascertain the
nature of the crime and if suf-
ficient evidence of corruption
emerges from the enquiry, it
will register a regular case.
The Army had planned to
purchase 197-light utility heli-
copters to strengthen its
Cheetah fleet but the deal has
been hanging fire after the alle-
gations of corruption surfaced.
AgustaWestland was also
embroiled in the bribery scandal
involving ex-Indian Air Force
chief SP Tyagi and his cousins.
Tyagi, AgustaWestland
and its parent company
Finmeccanica are among
the 13 accused in the CBI case
relating to the alleged payment
of C362 crore bribe to swing
the deal for procurement of 12
helicopter in favour of the
Anglo-Italian company.
kMk 6hEIIkFFkh Q
ChEhhA
T
he June 27 Rajya Sabha
election for six seats from
Tamil Nadu took an interesting
turn on Saturday with MK
Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK
chief M Karunanidhi by his
third wife Rajathi Ammal, fil-
ing nomination as the party
candidate. With Kanimozhi
entering the fray, there are six
contestants from Tamil Nadu.
The CPI, which is holding
its State committee meeting late
Saturday, is likely to announce
the name of D Raja as their
candidate. The DMDK, the
main Opposition party is meet-
ing on Sunday to decide the
course of action.
The suspense over the out-
come of the Rajya Sabha elec-
tion grew manifold by Saturday
evening. Karunanidhi would
not have allowed Kanimozhi to
file her nomination
on Saturday unless
he is sure of her
victory. This shows
that the DMK chief
has an ace up his
sleeve which he will
play by the last date
for withdrawing
the nomination. In
all likelihood, we
may see the CPI
candidate with-
drawing his nomination to
facilitate Kanimozhis victory,
a veteran commentator who
knows Karunanidhi for the
last four decades told The
Pioneer. He also made it clear
that Vijayakanth would not
field a DMDK nominee as he
has no numbers.
As reported by The Pioneer
earlier, the Rajya Sabha election
from Tamil Nadu could be a
prelude to the electoral alliance
being planned by the DMK
chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha
elections. If the CPI candidate
withdraws in favour of
Kanimozhi, it is an indication
that the CPI has been assured
of an additional Lok Sabha seat
by Karunanidhi. That could be
the reason why the CPI central
leadership is insisting that Raja
would be its nominee much to
the chagrin of the State lead-
ership. Pandian, the State sec-
retary would not be a party for
such an arrangement, said the
commentator.
If the DMDK does not
nominate a candidate, the
nominees polling 30 votes each
will get elected. The DMK has
only 23 members in the Tamil
Nadu House. In the eventual-
ity of the number of contestants
going up to seven, each candi-
date requires 30 votes for a
smooth sailing in the election.
The DMK has been assured of
the five votes of the Congress.
The AIADMK with 151
members can ensure the elec-
tion of four of its members with-
out any hassle. But the party has
fielded five candidates for the
election. The seven member
DMDK block which has revolt-
ed against party chief
Vijayakanth will vote for the
AIADMK nominees. In normal
course, each of the winning can-
didate requires to poll 34 votes.
The AIADMK block has
mobilised 162 votes inclusive of
those from the DMDK, AIFB,
PT and MMK. The party will be
left with 26 votes after electing
its four sure candidates. If the
party could bring in another
four votes from the DMDK and
the Left with 18 members cast
their votes, Jayalalithaa can
sweep the five seats.
Now that Kanimozhi has
filed her nomination, it is going
to be a tough game for D Raja,
the most likely candidate of the
CPI. Everything depends on the
move of the DMDK which is yet
to decide its course of action.
Meanwhile, the DMK made
a last ditch attempt to seek the
favour of the DMDK by deput-
ing party spokesman TKS
Elangovan to meet Sudheesh, the
brother-in-law of Vijayakanth,
the party chief. Party leaders said
Elangovan called on Sudheesh to
express condolences over the
passing away of the latters moth-
er-in-law. But it is obvious that
the meeting was to seek the
cooperation of the DMDK to get
Kanimozhi re-elected as the
Rajya Sabha member. For
Karunanidhi, it has become a
matter of prestige to ensure the
victory of his favourite daughter
in this election.
The Congress support for
the DMK became clear on
Friday with Union Minister
Jayanthi Natarajans visit to
Karunanidhis residence on
Friday. Though the Minister
told reporters that her visit was
to wish Karunanidhi a happy
birthday (the DMK chief cele-
brated his 90th birthday on
June 3), the visit was ostensibly
to offer the Congress support
to Kanimozhi.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
J Jayalalithaa on Saturday said
the cooperation between the
DMK and the Congress
exposed the double-standards
and hypocrisy of Karunanidhi
towards the causes of the Sri
Lankan Tamils. Karunanidhi
quit the UPA last March claim-
ing that the Congress was soft
towards the Sri lankan
Governments pogrom of
Lankan Tamils. But he has
been maintaining silence over
the Union Governments deci-
sion to impart training to Sri
Lankan military officials in
Indias defence establishments,
said Jayalalithaa.
The DMDK, led by
Vijayakanth, is meeting on
Sunday. Party chief whip
Chandrakumar on Saturday
reportedly bought a set of
nomination papers for the elec-
tion from the State Secretariat.
But that is being seen as a ploy
to keep the media guessing.
The numbers in the Tamil
Nadu Assembly and the move
of Jayalalithaa to nominate five
candidates has taken June 27
election from Tamil Nadu to a
nail biting finish.
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W
omen in cinema will be
the focus of the three-day
Ladakh International Film
Festival (LIFF) to be held in
Leh from July 5. It will celebrate
fair sex through some of the
finest women-oriented films
made in India.
Eminent film actor/director
Aparna Sen is heading the jury
of the LIFF 2013 where a panel
discussion will be held on por-
trayal of women in cinema as
well as role played by fair sex in
film industry as directors/actors
and the road ahead for them.
Also to highlight the 37 million
missing women of India, a sig-
nature campaign will be
launched soon after under
which people will take pledge to
respect and protect women and
prevent atrocities against them.
The festival, which has
green carpet instead of tradi-
tional red carpet to highlight
the importance of ecology in
the Himalayan region, would
premiere Teri Mc Luhans bril-
liant documentary Frontier
Gandhi on the freedom fight-
er, nationalist and peace advo-
cate Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.
As many as 700 entries
from 130 countries were
received for the festival of
which 120 best films from 15
countries have been selected for
showcasing, Melwyn
Chirayath, Founder and
Festival Director LIFF said.
The festival, the idea for
which originated after the dev-
astating cloudburst in the region
to showcase the survival spirit
of people, will have a Ladakhi
section aimed to promote local
cinema. It will include Tsering
Motup Chopsas feature film
Lzadol (broken piece of moon)
with its central theme of
womens strength, patience and
wit against the evils of the day.
In addition, five short films
from Ladakh will also be pre-
miered this year.
The festival, which will be
inaugurated by Jammu &
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar
Abdul l ah and have
Information and Broadcasting
Minister Manish Tewari as
chief guest, would have a ret-
rospective on Gulzaar curated
by Vishal Bharadwaj. Also
there would be a special chil-
dren section curated by Amole
Gupte courtesy Children Film
Society of India which will
feature six childrens films.
The festival will not only
encourage tourism as last year
1.6 lakh people attended it, but
also encourage the film making
in Ladakh, he said.
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P
etroleum Minister M
Veerappa Moily on
Saturday denied, he had said
that he faced a threat person-
ally from oil import lobbies.
I did not say that. My
statement has been confused by
media, he told reporters on the
margins of a function in
Bangalore here.
Speaking in Kannada,
Moily said what he had stated
was there was fear or anxiety
over undertaking large-scale oil
exploration as there was
obstruction to it.
He said that India was
spending between C7 lakh crore
to C8 lakh crore annually to
import oil and if this continues,
economy would be severely hit.
On Friday, Moily had told
reporters in New Delhi that
every Minister who is occu-
pying this (petroleum) position
is threatened. There is bureau-
cratic delay and obstruction and
also other lobbies that dont
want us to stop imports.
CHENNAI: DMK Rajya Sabha
member Kanimozhis assets
have registered over three-fold
increase in the last six years to
C26.67 crore from C8.56 crore.
Kanimozhi, daughter of
DMK supremo M
Karunanidhi in her affidavit,
filed along with her nomi-
nation for the Rajya Sabha
seat on Saturday, has
decl ared t hat she owns
movable and immovables
worth C26.67 crore. Her total
decl ared assets i ncl ude
C16.67 crore moveable prop-
erties and C10 crore worth
immovable property. PTI
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T
he battered rupee, which
slipped towards the 59-
mark, sank to an all-time low
against the dollar this week.
While the policymakers pressed
the alarm bell and attempted to
play down the weakness simul-
taneously, the greenback con-
tinued to grow strong in the
emerging markets. The finance
ministry officials are parroting
the same lines that gold imports
are likely to taper off and cur-
rent account deficit is set to
decrease, but the experts are
genuinely worried that local
currency is crossing into terri-
tories where it is undervalued.
Analysts are a worried lot
as a weak currency might fur-
ther dent India s trade deficit.
A weak rupee will weigh on the
import bill increasing the trade
deficit. The currencys depreci-
ation will also add to the cur-
rent account deficit _ a two per
cent fall in real effective
exchange rate (REER) will add
to the fiscal deficit by making
oil imports costlier.
Another concern about
the tailspin of rupee is it will
aggravate inflation because it
offsets the benefits of lower
commodity prices. In the
case of products such as fuel,
a falling rupee is straightaway
translated into an increase in
the retail prices. In case of
other products, the depreci-
ating currency will increase
the price of imported raw
materials. That impact on
consumer prices will be seen
when the companies pass on
the costs. A ten per cent
depreciation in the currency
could cause a 1-2 per cent
increase in inflation, experts
add.
A falling rupee, point out
experts, is like a chain reac-
tion where one step auto-
matically leads to the second
reaction. Therefore, if infla-
tion comes under pressure,
rate cuts will be delayed
because as the RBI men-
tioned in its annual monetary
policy on May 3, 2013, there
was little space for further
easing.
Foreign capital inflows
are also at risk when the
local currency weakens. Stock
markets analysts say that
already, portfolio flows into
both debt and equity have
been gradually decreasing,
with investors concerned that
t he l ocal currency may
depreciate further. The for-
eign institutional investors
(FIIs) are not finding India to
be a very attractive market
now.
Struggling with the scarci-
ty of coal, power firms are
dependent on imports of the
fuel to keep their plants run-
ning. A depreciating rupee is set
to eat into the margins by rais-
ing fuel costs or by making the
economics of running the plant
on imported coal a loss-making
venture. In this period before
elections, not all power pro-
ducers may be able to pass on
this increased cost to con-
sumers.
So, can somebody please
tell us where we are heading?
Not just the currency but the
nation as a whole.
Iconomy in a
fix as ruee slis
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M
ahindra & Mahindra
(M&M) on Saturday
announced a multi-structured
deal under which it will pick up
13.5 per cent stake in Spain's
auto component maker CIE
Automotive for 96.24 million
euros (nearly C740 crore).
In turn, M&M will sell
stakes in its three group firms
for C673. 68 crore to
Participaciones Internacionales
Autometal Dos, SL, CIE
Automotive SA and Autometal,
SA.
In a filing to the BSE,
M&M said a Committee of
Directors of the Company at a
meeting held approved enter-
ing into of a share purchase
agreement with Participaciones
Internacionales Autometal
Dos, SL, CIE Automotive SA
and Autometal, SA.
Under the agreement,
M&M said it will invest 96.24
million euros (nearly C740
crore) through its subsidiaries
for a stake of 13.5 per cent in
CIE Automotive SA at a price
of euro 6 per share.
On the other hand, 4.8
crore equity shares of C 10 each
aggregating 52.65 per cent of
equity share capital of
Mahindra Forgings Ltd, a list-
ed subsidiary of M&M, will be
sold for an aggregate consid-
eration of C393.08 crore, at a
rate of C81 per share.
Further, 3.03 crore equity
shares of C10 each aggregating
64. 96 per cent stake in
Mahindra Hinoday Industries
Ltd, is also being offloaded for
C268.96 crore at a rate of C88.90
apiece.
Likewise, under the agree-
ment, 13.41 lakh equity shares
of Rs 10 each aggregating 30.38
per cent stake in Mahindra
Composites Ltd will be sold for
a consideration C10.01 crore at
a rate of C74.70 apiece.
Besides, the Board of
Directors of Mahindra
Holdings Ltd, a wholly-owned
subsidiary M&M has also
approved entering into of a
share purchase deal with
Participaciones Internacionales
Autometal Dos, SL, CIE
Automotive SA and Autometal,
SA for sale of 2.2 lakh equity
shares of C10 each aggregating
to 4.98 per cent stake in
Mahindra Composites Ltd for
an aggregate consideration of
C1.64 crore at a rate of C74.70
apiece.
M&M to luy 13.5/ in Sain`s
CI Automotive for 96.24mn euros
FTI Q BAh0AL0RE
R
ecalled to ride out the bad times for Infosys,
its Chairman N R Narayana Murthy on
Saturday said the task of rebuilding a "desir-
able" Infosys would take at least 36 months and
there would be some tough decisions result-
ing in "pain."
"The challenge is daunting and the task is
tough," said Murthy in a candid address to
shareholders at the 32nd Annual General
Meeting here, two weeks after he was recalled
and made Executive Chairman of Infosys
which has reported poor earnings disap-
pointing investors.
He said "the task of rebuilding a desirable
Infosys will take at least 36 months, even with
a high quality team and full dedication of every
Infoscion. In the process, there will be some
tough decisions resulting in pain as we move
forward."
Murthy sought the shareholders "under-
standing, support and encouragement in this
exciting and rewarding journey of the next
three years."
Murthy, who had shed executive role
seven years ago and retired as head of Infosys
in August 2011, was made Executive Chairman
on June 1, replacing K V Kamath during whose
tenure the company shares slumped 15 per
cent.
In a move that surprised many, Murthy
had also brought in his son Rohan Murty as
his executive assistant.
Murthy said since the company's focus on
the third revenue stream was blurred in the last
two years, it has to refocus on winning large
revenue-yielding outsourcing projects in the
short-term.
The company should also ensure that it
accelerates its progress in the first two streams
in the medium to long term.
The first two revenue streams talks about
focus on opportunities from consulting-led,
end-to-end solutions leveraging technology for
higher margins and developing intellectual
property-based solutions to delink revenues
from effort, he said.
Murthy said in the next three to five years,
the company was committed to refocusing on
the third stream to enhance its win ratio in
large outsourcing deals.
Reluiloing a 'oesiralle` nfosys
will tale 36 montls: Murtly
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M
aruti Suzuki India on
Saturday launched CNG
variant of its multi- purpose van
'Ertiga' priced up to C 7.30 lakh
(ex-showroom Delhi).
Christened as 'Ertiga Green',
it will be available in two variants
with the base version available at
C 6.52 lakh, while the top-end
version is tagged at C7.30 lakh
(ex-showroom Delhi), the com-
pany said in a statement.
"We continuously work to
offer products that are high on
fuel efficiency and low on over-
all cost of ownership. Ertiga
Green, with a factory fitted
CNG system, is another step of
Maruti Suzuki to meet today's
need of our customers," com-
pany' s Vice President
(Marketing) Manohar Bhat said.
The Ertiga has been a suc-
cess with over 87,000 units sold
since its launch in April, 2012,
although its sales have tapered
off in the recent months in a
sluggish market.
'Ertiga Green' is the sixth
vehicle from MSI (Maruti
Suzuki India) with factory fitted
CNG kits. Alto, Wagon R, Eeco,
SX4 and Estilo are already
offered with factory fitted CNG
option.
The new vehicle will be
available in states with CNG
infrastructure, including Delhi
NCR, Gujarat, Mumbai, Pune,
and parts of Andhra Pradesh,
Uttar Pradesh and Madhya
Pradesh, the company said.
With this, Ertiga will now be
available in all three fuel variants:
CNG, petrol and diesel.
The launch of the CNG
Ertiga is yet another step by the
company to drive up its sales. In
May MSI's total sales dropped by
14.4 per cent at 84,677 units. Its
domestic sales also slipped by
13 per cent at 77,821 units
form the same month last
year.
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MuMBA: SB and Reliance nduslries, lwo o lhe highesl lax ayers in lhe inancial cailal,on Salurday
showed increase in lhe irsl quarler advance lax oulgoes.Slale Bank o ndia said il aid C1,2O2 crore in
advance lax or lhe irsl quarler as againsl C1,178 crore in lhe same eriod year ago.ncome lax sources lold
lhe news agency lhal Mukesh Ambaniled Reliance nduslries' oulgo has increased lo C 77O crore as againsl
lhe C7G8 crore in lhe same eriod year ago. FTI
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M
ilitants on Saturday
attacked a historic 121-
year-old building in Pakistans
southwestern Balochistan
province that was used
by the countrys
founder Muhammad
Ali Jinnah, killing a
policeman and caus-
ing extensive damage to
the structure.
They targeted the
Quaid-e-Azam residency in
Ziarat, a holiday resort located
about 120 km from the provin-
cial capital of Quetta, at 1.15 am.
They planted and set off
four bombs and then opened
fire. The explosions and gun-
fire triggered a blaze that was
extinguished after four hours.
A policeman was killed in
the shooting, police officials
said. The wooden parts of the
building, furniture and mem-
orabilia associated with Jinnah
were destroyed by the fire.
Footage on television
showed that the roof of the
building had collapsed and
only its structure made of
bricks was left intact.
District police chief Asghar
Ali said a bomb dis-
posal squad had found
and defused six more
bombs.
He said it took
longer for the fire to be
controlled as there are
no fire tenders in Ziarat.
A fire tender sent from Quetta
was used to put out the blaze.
Security forces cordoned off the
area and launched a search oper-
ation though they were unable to
trace the attackers.
The residency, built in 1892,
was originally used as the sum-
mer residence of the agent of the
British Governor General.
Jinnah spent the last days of
his life in the building while suf-
fering from tuberculosis and the
structure was later declared a
national monument.
Islamabad:A powerful blast
ripped through a bus of a
women's university in the
southwestern Pakistani city of
Quetta on Saturday, killing 11
students and injuring 22 others.
The incident occurred
within the campus of Sardar
Bahadur Khan Women' s
University at Brewery Road.
Students and faculty mem-
bers were in the stationary bus
when a bomb planted inside
went off. They were waiting to
go home after the end of class-
es. Police officials said 11 girls,
all students of the university,
were killed.
Twenty-two injured peo-
ple, most of them students,
were taken to a nearby hospi-
tal. Doctors described the con-
dition of three of them as seri-
ous. Doctors described the
condition of three of them as
serious. Several girls sustained
severe burn injuries as the
explosion triggered a fire in the
bus. PTI
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A
s US Secretary of State
John Kerry prepares to
visit New Delhi for the annu-
al US-Indi a St rategi c
Dialogue, leaders of the
Senate Finance Committee
have demanded that he press
New Delhi to reverse some
recent Government actions
which, they assert, threaten
US jobs in the pharmaceuti-
cal and IT sectors.
We have serious concerns
about policies adopted by the
Government of India that shut
out US-made innovative prod-
ucts and transfer US intellec-
tual property to its domestic
industry. These policies are
directly harming US business-
es and threaten the millions of
US jobs supported by trade in
innovative products, Senators
Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch
said in a strongly-worded let-
ter to Kerry.
Democrat Baucus, who
heads the committee, and
Republican Hatch, who is its
Ranking Member, specifical-
ly identified serious prob-
lems with Indias treatment
and enforcement of
intellectual property rights, as
well as policies that effective-
ly block US-made informa-
tion and communications
technology.
Accusing India of lapsing
once again into protection-
ism, they put it to Secretary
Kerry: We cannot afford to sit
back and watch as India adopts
policies that adversely impact
US innovative and creative
industries, and threaten the
greater stability of the interna-
tional trading system.
Corporate America has
been flexing its muscle lately
with 16 top business groups
dashing off a letter to President
Barack Obama earlier this
month, bitterly complaining
about Indias discriminatory
policies that were reportedly
hurting US exports and jeop-
ardizing American jobs.
And now two of the top
American corporate bodies
US Chamber of Commerce
and National Association of
Manuf acturers have
announced plans to launch
next week a new coalition,
called Alliance for Fair Trade
with India, with the aim of
seeki ng a l evel -pl ayi ng
f i el d for US busi nesses
operating in India.
In their unusually well-
publicised offensive, the indus-
try bodies have taken the stand
that unless the Government of
India makes a course-correc-
tion, its discriminatory poli-
cies will put at risk the grow-
ing US-India trade relationship
worth more than $60 billion as
of last year.
In their letter, Baucus and
Hatch alleged that India was
resorting to compulsory
licences and other actions to
al l ow its domesti c drug
manuf acturers to make
generic versions of patented
US drugs.
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A
n amendment adopted by
the US House of
Representatives subjects dis-
bursement of military aid to
Pakistan to the countrys record
on human rights, particularly
those relating to religious and
ethnic minorities.
Under the amendment to
the National Defence
Authorisation Act of 2014,
moved by Republican law-
maker Dana Rohrabacher with
Democrat Brad Shermans co-
sponsorship, the US Defence
Secretary is required to certify
that Pakistan is not using its
military to persecute religious
minority groups such as
Hindus, Christians and
Ahmadiya Muslims, besides
the ethnic groups of Balochis,
Sindhis and Hazaras.
Rohrabacher, who has
been crossing swords with
Pakistan on several issues
including support for the inde-
pendence of Balochistan,
termed the amendment a giant
step forward for those victims
of oppression in Pakistan.
The lawmaker from
California asserted that the
amendment would ensure that
Pakistan would not use its mil-
itary or any funds or equipment
provided by the United States
to persecute the minority
groups identified by him for
their legitimate and nonviolent
political and religious beliefs.
For the first time their
plight is being recognised and a
policy is being established of not
giving the Pakistani Government
the weapons to carry on their
repression. This is the first time
the plight of the Balochi and the
Sindhi have been underscored in
legislation that links support for
Pakistans military to how they
treat those minority groups,
Rohrabacher said.
The US has spent roughly
$25 billion dollars on aid to
Pakistan since 2001 and this
years National Defence
Authorisation Act authorises
another $1.5 billion for Pakistan,
said Rohrabacher, who heads
the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Europe,
Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.
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IsIamabad: n a move wilh signiicanl ramiicalions, lhe lrial o
seven Fakislanis, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,
charged wilh involvemenl in lhe Mumbai allacks was shiled rom a
courl in Rawalindi lo a new anlilerrorism courl on Salurday. Judge
Chaudhry habiburRehman o lhe Rawalindibased anlilerrorism
courl acceled an alicalion rom lhe roseculion lo move lhe case
lo lhe anlilerrorism courl o Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi in
slamabad.
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h: The uniled halions 0eneral Assembly elecled by acclamalion
Ambassador John w Ashe o Anligua and Barbuda as Fresidenl o ils
ucoming G8lh session. Taking lhe loor immedialely aler his eleclion,
Ashe, who is Anligua and Barbuda's Fermanenl Reresenlalive lo lhe
uniled halions in hew York, said lhal in 18 monlhs, lhe world body
would launch an agenda or suslainable develomenl or all, which
'may very well be lhe boldesl and mosl ambilious rojecl lhal lhe
uniled halions has ever had lo accomlish.'
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knkara: Folice iring waler cannons and lear gas have
disersed roleslers who erecled slreel barricades near Turkey's
arliamenl overnighl. l was lhe lalesl aceo belween aulhorilies and
demonslralors over lhe governmenl's resonse lo a rolesl silin lhal
began more lhan lwo weeks ago al a coveled slanbul ark. The re
dawn melee loday in Ankara on a slreel also close lo lhe uS Embassy
came hours aler Frime Minisler Rece Tayyi Erdogan's 0overnmenl
asked a small delegalion o roleslers lo ersuade lhe hundreds o
olhers occuying 0e/i Fark lo leave.
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VaIiran 6iIy: Foe Francis urged French members o Farliamenl lo
shun "ashions" in legislalion, a day aler lhe onli soke oul againsl
gay marriage. "Your role... Consisls in roosing laws, amending lhem
or even reealing lhem," lhe onli lold a delegalion o MFs rom
France, adding lhal il is "necessary... To injecl lhem wilh somelhing
more, a siril, a soul which does nol jusl relecl ashions and ideas o
lhe lime." The laws should 'rovide lhe indisensable qualily which
raises and ennobles lhe human erson," lhe 7Gyearold said.
Yeslerday, Francis raised lhe head o lhe Anglican Church, Juslin
welby, or his slance againsl gay marriage.
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ils surroundings loday wilh air raids and arlillery ire, lhe Syrian
0bservalory or human Righls said. "Air raids largeled arls o Juba," a
neighbourhood on lhe easlern oulskirls o lhe Syrian cailal where rebel
ighlers and regime lroos have ballled or monlhs. Fighling was also
reorled around dawn on lhe oulskirls o lhe Faleslinian Yarmuk cam in
soulhern 0amascus, which also came under regime ire. 05?
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oderate cleric Hassan
Rowhani was declared
Iran' s new President on
Saturday, the Interior Minister
said, in an outright election
victory that ends eight years
of conservative grip on the
top office.
Rowhani, 64, a former top
nuclear negotiator who has
championed more constructive
engagement with world
powers, won outright with 18.6
million votes, or 50.68 per
cent of those cast.
Announcing Rowhani's
win, Interior Minister
Mohammad Mostafa Najjar
said 36.7 million people, or 72.7
per cent of the electorate, had
voted on Friday.
More than 50.5 million
Iranians had been eligible to
vote for a successor to Mahmud
Ahmadinejad, who was con-
stitutionally barred from stand-
ing again after serving two con-
secutive terms.
Rowhani's tally was enough
to ensure there would be no
run-off against the runner-up,
Tehran Mayor Mohammad
Baqer Qalibaf, who was in
distant second place with 6.07
million votes. Current nuclear
negotiator, Saeed Jalili, was
third with 3.17 million votes.
Congrats to SA, but well done West
ndies for the fight. We did our best.
We need to give credit to my team as
well. They batted well in chase. Both
teams deserve a pat on the shoulder
Dwayne Bravo, W skipper
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New Delhi: Fromising young graler Mangal
Kadyan claimed ndia's irsl gold medal in lhe Asian
Junior wreslling Chamionshi in Fhukel, Thailand
here on Salurday. ndia also won lwo silver and a
bron/e loday in olher weighl calegories. Mangal
lhrashed Moslaa Yaghoubi/eleli o ran 8O in lhe
inal o lhe 5Okg reeslyle calegory, while in lhe 12Okg
reeslyle, Surjeel won bron/e by looring China's
Xinmen 0u 1O2 al lhe Sahan hin ndoor Sorls
Comlex. Mamla Rani (48kg) and Manisha Mahadev
0ivekar (72kg) had lo sellle or silver each aler losing
in lhe inals o lheir reseclive weighl calegories o
lhe emale division.
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Moscow: world chamion viswanalhan Anand
oened his accounl wilh a draw againsl loweslranked
0milry Andreikin o Russia in lhe second round o Tal
Memorial Chess lournamenl here. Aler suering a
shock deeal al lhe hands o lalian Fabiano Caruana,
Anand was back as a erecl deender againsl
Andreikin who recenlly won lhe Russian
chamionshi. world number one Magnus Carlsen o
horway surged ahead in one o lhe slrongesl
lournamenl ever aler signing eace wilh Sergey
Karjanik o Russia along wilh Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
o A/erbaijan and Boris 0eland o srael.
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Cardiff: England have ound lhemselves al lhe cenlre
o a lamering row aler ormer calain Bob willis
accused lhem o scralching lhe ball. The alleged
incidenl look lace during England's sevenwickel
Chamions Trohy deeal by Sri Lanka al The 0val
when Fakislani umire Aleem 0ar and his hew
Zealand onield colleague Billy Bowdenordered one o
lhe balls in use lo be changed while lhe Lankans were
balling. "Lel's nol beal aboul lhe bush - Aleem 0ar is
on England's case," willis lold 5un ta||ciJ. "he knows
lhal one individual is scralching lhe ball or England -
who am nol going lo name - and lhal's why lhe ball
was changed," insisled willis. "have you ever heard
aboul lhe balling side or lhe umire comlaining
aboul lhe shae o lhe ball?" added willis.
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New Delhi: ndia inished sevenlh in lhe Men's world
Team Squash Chamionshi aler osling a 2O win
over Malaysia in lhe 7lh8lh osilion malch in
Mulhouse, France. Mahesh Mangaonkar blanked
Muhd Asyra A/an 8O while Saurav 0hosal oughl
back aler being lwo sels down lo gel lhe beller o
0ng Beng hee 82. Mangaonkar won his malch
14/12, 11/4, 11/7 while 0hosal revailed over his
oonenl 82 (G11, 7/11, 12/1O, 11/7, 11/O. Earlier,
ndia losl lo 0ermany in lhe 5lh8lh lace layo
wilh 0hosal and harinder Fal Sandhu ulling u a
decenl ighl in malches lhal wenl lhe ull dislance.
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Kolkata: Rajal Chouhan and Manjudha Soy losl oul
by one oinl in lhe comound mixed leam inal lo
earn ndia a solilary silver medal in lhe Archery world
Cu Slage al Anlalya, Turkey on Salurday.
According lo inormalion received here, lhe
unheralded ndian duo had a slender 112111 lead
againsl lhe lalian world chamions Sergio Fagni and
Marcella Toniolli al lhe end o lhird sel. Bul lhe
inexerienced ndians allered by a coule o
millimelres in lhe inal arrow lo go down 14O15O in a
lhrilling conlesl.
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London: ndian air o Mahesh Bhualhi and Rohan
Boanna made lhe semiinals o lhe men's doubles in
Aegon Chamionshis aler osling a hardoughl
viclory over Brilish combo o Colin Fleming and
Jonalhan Marray here. The lhird seeded ndian duo
look an hour and 82 minules lo edge oul lheir ilh
seeded oonenls 7G (75), 4G, 1O4.
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Samui (Thailand): Anirban Lahiri gave himsel a
chance lo bag his irsl Asian Tour oulside ndia wilh an
eleclric inish lhal saw him card lhree birdies in lhe
lasl our holes on lhe lhird day o lhe uS0 812,OOO
0ueen's Cu here on Salurday. Lahiri carded a second
slraighl ourunder G7 lo move lo eighlunder 2O5 and
in ourlh lace. Lahiri is lhree shols behind lhe leader,
Bangladesh's Siddikur (G7), who was al 11under.
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Coimbatore: Jeevan hedunche/hiyan won lhe men's
singles lille in lhe lhird and inal leg o LMwTF
Fulure lournamenl aler vijayanl Malik relired hurl
here on Salurday. Jeevan had won lhe irsl sel G2
and was leading 51 in lhe second when vijayanl
srained his ankle and relired rom lhe malch. Jeevan
was declared lhe winner. Fh8lkgenries
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fter a fantastic effort from
the bowlers enabled India
to skittle out arch-rivals
Pakistan for a modest 165
(Duckworth Lewis score of 167),
the Men in Blue won the incon-
sequential group league match of
the ICC Champions Trophy here
on Saturday by eight wickets.
The match saw a number of
interruptions due to rain and as
a result India were required to
make 102 in 22 overs.
With the help of 48 runs off
41 balls from Shikhar Dhawan,
India reached 102/2 in 19.1 overs.
Rohit Sharma was the first one to
lose his wicket, to Saeed Ajmal,
after making just 18 from 32 balls.
Virat Kohli and Dinesh
Karthik saw the side through with
a contribution of 22 and 11
respectively. With this win India
made it 3-0 in group stage.
Earlier, spin twins Ravindra
Jadeja (2/30 in 8 overs)and
Ravichandran Ashwin (2/35 in 8
overs) kept the Pakistan batsmen
on a leash during middle overs
after brilliant opening spell by
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/19 in 8
overs), who again produced the
goods upfront.
The match which was then
reduced to 40-overs-a-side due to
frequent rain interruptions saw
Men In Blue control proceedings
right from the beginning as they
bundled out their opponents in
only 39.4 overs.
While Asad Shafiq (41) was
the top-scorer for Pakistan, a lot
of their batsmen got starts but
were unable to convert into sub-
stantial score due to some impres-
sive bowling by the quartet of
Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar
and Ishant Sharma (2/40). The
bowlers produced wickets at reg-
ular intervals as Pakistans woe-
ful show with the bat continued.
The top-order again saw a
familiar collapse. Nasir Jamshed,
who has scored all his three ODI
centuries against India, failed to
reproduce his magic this time.
The left-handed opener was
circumspect and enjoyed a life
when on 1. Ruled out leg before
by umpire Richard
Kettleborough, the batsman was
saved by the DRS but his innings
was cut short by a beauty from
Bhuvneshwar.
Bhuvneshwar got the ball to
swing both ways and found the
edge of Jamsheds tentative prod
which saw Suresh Raina complete
an easy catch at second slip.
Jamshed scored just 2 runs off
nine balls.
Kamran Akmal and
Mohammed Hafeez consolidated
the innings but a steady down-
pour send the players back in the
pavilion.
The 46-run second wicket
stand was over immediately after
resumption. Hafeez offered a
loose stroke to an innocuous
Kumar delivery to edge to a div-
ing Dhoni. Hafeez was out for a
31-ball 27 that was laced with five
fours, two of them off successive
Umesh Yadav deliveries.
Spin was introduced in the
14th over through Ravichandran
Ashwin. With rain threat loom-
ing large, Dhoni wanted to com-
plete the overs quickly.
After looking good for his 21
that contained couple of well-
timed boundaries, Akmal, pro-
moted to open the innings in
place of an out-of-form Imran
Farhat, lost his cool and threw his
wicket away. Akmal went for a big
drive against the turn and the
inside edge flew to Virat Kohli at
leg slips off Dhonis pads.
Brief scores
Pakistan: 165 in 39.4 overs (D/L
score 167) (A Shafiq 41, Umar
Amin no 27; B Kumar 2/19, R
Jadeja 2/30, R Ashwin 2/35, I
Sharma 2/40) lost to India (tar-
get 102 in 22 overs via D/L) 102/2
in 19.1 overs (Shikhar Dhawan
48, Virat Kohli 22 no) by 8 wkts.
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FTI Q CAR0FF
S
tunned by an inspired Sri
Lanka in their last game,
hosts England find themselves
in a spot of bother when they
take on New Zealand in a
must-win Group A match of
the ICC Champions Trophy
here on Sunday.
England, one of the strong
contenders for the trophy, had
themselves to blame as their
strong bowling attack failed to
defend an imposing 293.
The English bowling attack,
termed as second best in the
competition after Pakistan, came
a cropper against Sri Lanka the
other day as Kumar Sangakkara
hit an unbeaten century to
ensure an emphatic seven wick-
et win for the island nation with
17 balls to spare.
The loss against Sri Lanka
had put the hosts in a dicey sit-
uation after the game between
Australia and New Zealand was
washed out on Wednesday.
The Group A is still wide
open as all the four teams
New Zealand (3 points),
England (2), Sri Lanka (2) and
Australia (1) are in the reckon-
ing for the two semifinal spots
from the group. England will
consider the game as a virtual
quarterfinal as only a win will
guarantee their place in the
knockout stage irrespective of
the result of
the remain-
ing group
matches.
But the
hosts will be
under more pressure than New
Zealand as even if the Kiwis lose,
they still have an outside chance
of entering the semifinals pro-
vided Australia
beat Sri Lanka in
their final
encounter.
Eng l a nds
top-order com-
prising captain Alastair Cook,
Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, young
Joe Root and Ravi Bopara all
are among runs and it wont be
surprise to see the hosts piling
up yet another big score in
conditions which are familiar
to them.
England would also be
eying revenge against the Kiwis
who defeated them 2-1 at their
home soil in the bilateral ODI
series just ahead of the
Champions Trophy.
But England has to deal
with an injury concern as
Jonathan Trott is uncertain to
play against New Zealand.Trott
was off the field for much of Sri
Lankas innings because of a tight
right quad.
Besides Trott, England
could also be without seamer
and hard-hitting lower-order
batsman Tim Bresnan, whose
wife is due to give birth to the
couples first child anytime.
If Bresnan does not play, it
would open up a place in the
attack for either fast bowler
Steven Finn or off-spinner James
Tredwell.
New Zealand, on the other
hand, are placed much better as
despite a loss on Sunday, they
still can progress to the semifi-
nals provided results of the last
Group A match between
Australia and Sri Lanka go in
their favour.
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outh Africa skipper AB de Villiers
was a relieved man after his side
secured a semifinal berth in the
Champions Trophy as this time the
Proteas managed to read correctly the
Duckworth/Lewis sheet.
We have been on the losing side
of things like this. Luckily the par
score was on the scoreboard all the
time. It was in the back of our mind
and we were aware of the equation,
said de Villiers at the post-match pre-
sentation ceremony.
South Africa barely managed to
secure a semifinal berth despite their
Group B match against the West
Indies ending in a tie under the D/L
method here last night.
Interestingly, during the 1999
World Cup tie against Australia, the
South Africans had failed to read cor-
rectly the Duckworth/Lewis method
when they had the match all but won
at Edgbaston.
De Villiers said his side played
well against the West Indies but fick-
le weather made it difficult for his
bowlers to adjust to the conditions.
The ball was getting wet. It was
tough on our bowlers. We needed to
be calm and we were. We played real-
ly good cricket most of the time.
We batted well but we were
aware West Indies have strong batting.
Dale Steyn looked really good, bowl-
ing with a lot of heat. And just glad
he held on to that catch in the end,
said the captain.
Meanwhile, the West Indian skip-
per Dwayne Bravo looked visibly
disappointed with the result but said
he had no control over the rain.
Obviously disappointed. Its dif-
ficult to judge when rain will come.
When we thought rain would come,
we stepped it up. We played hard
today. The way we played we deserved
to finish with a better result but it is
out of our control. We cant control
nature. We were aware of the weath-
er. We were hoping we could get back
to the field, he said.
Bravo said both teams deserved a
pat on the back for playing to the best
of their abilities. Congrats to SA, but
well done West Indies for the fight. We
did our best. We need to give credit
to my team as well. They batted well
in chase. Both teams deserve a pat on
the shoulder, he said.
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West Indies had salt rubbed into
the wound of their exit from the ICC
Champions Trophy when they were
fined for maintaining a slow over-rate
during the match.
Match referee Andy Pycroft
imposed the fines after West Indies
were ruled to be one over short of its
target at the end of the 31-over
match, after time allowances were
taken into consideration.
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ndia showed urgency but it was
too little, too late as they suffered
a 0-2 defeat at the hands of the
Netherlands in their FIH World
League Round 3 match here on
Saturday.
Billy Baker and Jeroen
Hertzberger scored for the
Netherlands in the second and 17th
minute respectively as India failed
to post a win for the second time
in a row. India were held to a draw
by lower-ranked Ireland in their
tournament opener
The Indians have had a couple
of clear chances towards the end
but lacked finishing abilities, which
gave Netherlands their first win of
the tournament.
Ranked third in the world, the
current Olympic silver-medallists
joined New Zealand at the top of
Pool B. Three minutes before the
final hooter, India wasted a sitter as
Nitin Kumar, positioned in front of
goal, failed to connect. A minute
later, Kothajit Singhs good cross
from the left flank went abegging
as not a single Indian player was to
be seen inside the D.
With a deficit of two goals
against a team like the Netherlands,
India ought to have produced a
much better performance to make
a match of it.
Meanwhile, seven minutes into
the second half, the Netherlands
came close to adding a third one to
their tally, but the attempt off a
penalty corner missed the target by
whisker.
Following the close shave, India
won a couple of penalty corners,
but the lack of finishing ability
again let them down. Despite con-
ceding two early goals, India grew
in confidence as the first half pro-
gressed, but the Dutch did not let
the visitors breach their citadel.
Indias quest continued in the
second half with
the visitors earn-
ing a few penalty
corners, but they
just could not find the goal, which
was well guarded by Netherlands
goalkeeper Jaap Stockmann.
Earlier, the hosts started the
match on a brisk note scoring as
early as the second minute, thanks
to a brilliant work by Baker who
whacked the ball through the out-
stretched legs of Indian goalie P R
Sreejesh. However, India had no
answer to Hertzbergers shot in the
17th minute.
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o one could catch Phil
Mickelson or Billy Horschel as
the second round wrapped up early
Saturday at the U.S. Open, where
sunny skies helped dry muddy
Merion Golf Club.
Ian Poulter tried to join them but
had a bad lie in a bunker at No. 16
and his approach rolled off the back
edge of the green at the 18th. The
two bogeys sank him from even par
to 2 over after his round of 71.
Once everyone finished,
Mickelson and Horschel remained
the only players under par, at 1-
under 139 at the halfway point of the
championship.
Im three off the lead in the U.S.
Open, Poulter said. And thats the
difference of one hole. You can
make birdie and someone can make
double. Im right in position and
right there where I want to be. Its
going to be a fun weekend.
The cut line was 8 over, saving
both defending champion Webb
Simpson (5 over) and Masters cham-
pion Adam Scott (7 over). Third-
round play was scheduled to start at
12:15 p.m. local time, with three-
somes teeing off at Nos. 1 and 11 in
a tournament that fell behind sched-
ule when storms moved through the
Philadelphia area on Thursday.
Tiger Woods was tied for 13th at
3 over, still in the hunt as long as he
can deal with the pain from a trou-
blesome left elbow - as well as
Merions wicked rough and flum-
moxing greens that more than com-
pensate for shorter-than-usual
yardage for a U.S. Open.
Its hard with the wind and the
pin locations, Woods said after his
second-round 70. Theyre really
tough. ... We didnt think they were
going to be as severe as they are.
The top of the leaderboard was
a study in contrast. Mickelson has
won four majors. Horschel has won
once on the PGA Tour, and that was
less than two months ago. Mickelson
displayed his usual take-a-chance
flair Friday.
His round of 72 was the full
package of par saves and makeable
birdie putts that all went awry
until he finally sank one from 20 feet
at the 18th to tie him with Horschel.
Mickelson, horschel lead aler Rd 2
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riginated in India, initiated in
England and now being ruled
by China nearly sums ups the
story of badminton. However, there
are some moments, though few and
far between, which seem to signal a
slight change in the tale India earn-
ing a chance to have a say.
After the likes of Prakash Padukone
and Pullela Gopichand won the All
England Badminton Championships in
1980 and 2001 respectively, it took the
country 13 years to see another male
shuttler lift a trophy in foreign land. All
of 20 years, Kidambi Srikanth stunned
the top seed Boonsak Ponsana in front
of his home crowd to lift Thailand
Open to join the elite list last Sunday.
Though P Kashyap had won an inter-
national tournament, the Syed Modi
International India Grand Prix Gold last
year, but the triumph came in front of
a favourable crowd, in Lucknow, to keep
him off the list.
It was very tough, Srikanth
says of the seemingly huge task of
beating the home favourite and top
seed to make history. But I just did-
nt want to take that kind of pressure.
I just played my natural game and
didnt think too much about his
seeding and support.
His mental attitude, which has been
drawing praise from national coach
Pullela Gopichand for some time now,
indeed kept him calm and in control.
That attitude comes to me naturally.
I dont like taking any kind of pressure,
says Srikanth, who took all of 33 min-
utes to pack off then world No 7 and
much experienced at 31 years of age,
Ponsana, to win the final in Bangkok
21-16, 21-12. The win saw him jump
up from 61 in the world rankings to 44.
I am basically an attacking play-
er. I started off with my kind of game.
That had been helping me throughout
the tournament and I didnt want to
change it, Srikanth admits when asked
whether he had gone with a set strat-
egy to overpower the Thai opponent.
From the start I had a lead of 2-
3 points in the first game. So I never
thought the match was away from me.
Then I got a huge lead in the second
game and that helped me, adds the
boy from Guntur.
Also, this was my first year in
international circuit. So no one knows
my game that well, how would I play
my strokes and my style. That is some-
thing that has been helping me.
That was something that worked in
favour of HS Prannoy too when he
stunned Taufik Hidayat at Indian Open
Super Series in the Capital this April.
But Srikanth is well aware of the fact
that the advantage would not help the
young, unknown bunch for long. After
having spent 2-3 years in the circuit, you
meet a guy at least 4-5 times and you
know his game. You cant change much
about your game so all you need then
is to be more consistent and keep work-
ing hard, he says, agreeing to the fact
that though the Indians have been
springing up a few surprises off and on,
but have not won enough titles.
That is the thing. You just have
to be consistent throughout the tour-
nament. Winning one match alone
doesnt mean anything, adds
Srikanth, whose consistent display in
Thailand saw him not dropping
even a single game.
But what added more to his joy was
his brother Nandagopals victory in
Maldives. The elder Kidambi paired up
with Kiran Maneesha to beat Korean
combine of Kim Dae Sung and Oh Bo
Kyung 21-16, 23-21 to win the mixed
double title at Maldives International.
I won in the morning, around
12o clock. He won at 7 in the evening.
It was really nice. We both won the
same day and that too an international
tournament each. Not everyone gets
that chance, says Srikanth, who owes
his life as a shuttler to his two years
elder brother, an enthusiastic father
and an ever-supportive family, which
never had any problem with the boys
finding a career in sports rather than
joining their father in agriculture.
My father likes badminton. I
would go with my brother to the sta-
dium and see him play. And after 5-
6 months even I started playing. I
would just play for fun after school,
Srikanth says of the beginning of his
journey on badminton courts.
I was nine-and-half or 10 when
I started playing but was not really
that much into badminton, the
sleepy-voiced boy admits quite
frankly. It was only in 2009, I was 17
then, when I shifted to the academy
(Gopichands academy in Hyderabad)
that I actually decided to take up bad-
minton for good.
You can survive in sub-junior,
junior levels being in a place like
Guntur, with very less facilities. But
when you graduate to higher level,
you need to be at a place that has
good facilities.
And, the shift to Hyderabad has
indeed proved fruitful. From giving the
then world No 1 Lin Dan of China a
fight in the 2012 Thailand Open first
round before going down 11-21, 13-21,
taking matches off some high-seeded
players to becoming only the third male
shuttler to win abroad, Srikanth has
come a long way in very short span.
For last one year, it has been very
good (the journey), nothing to com-
plain about, he says.
He, however, is thankfully far from
being content. I am in 40s in the rank-
ings and I want to be right there in top
20. I want to win more tournaments to
achieve that, says Srikanth, who would
be in action in Singapore this week and
is eager to do well there too.
Equally eager would be many
enthusiasts back home to get similarly
inspiring news from his side of the court.
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When would you be back in
the ring?
I will be back when I feel
mentally and physically fit. It
takes a lot of effort for a boxer
to come back to shape after
pregnancy (shes just had a third
baby) but I will try to make the
recovery fast. I am looking at a
date sometime post January
2014 for comeback. There are a
few championships lined up.
Hopefully I will be able to prove
my mettle once again.
You have recently had a
baby. How hectic is it to bal-
ance family and work?
I couldnt have been happi-
er. My family completes me.
When I am at work, I dont think
about taking care of my family.
My husband and other family
members have always helped me
to concentrate on my game
rather than thinking
about the kids and
family. But when I
am at home, I always
give 200% time to my
kids, husband and
other family mem-
bers. I always enjoy
my best time with
them. I try to involve
myself in every
small-small daily
work. I make food,
do cleaning, dusting
and also gardening.
Your thoughts on the film
being made on your life story?
Did you have any reserva-
tions?
It was a different experience
when I heard that Mr. Bhansali
(film-maker Sanjay Leela
Bhansali) wants to make a movie
on my life. Lets see aap logo
ko ye movie pasand aa jaye..Its
an honour for a sports person
that a biopic is being made on
his or her life. I am glad that Mr
Bhansali chose me as a subject.
I hope my story acts as inspira-
tion to the youth.
Do you have a cameo in it?
If not, would you have been
interested to act?
No, I dont have any cameo
in it and I dont want to act as I
am very bad actorha ha ha. To
be honest no one has even
offered me a role. I am a dedi-
cated boxer and I would love to
remain one.
What do you have to say
about Priyanka Chopra who is
going to play you in the movie?
She is the most beautiful
actress I have ever met. I have
full confidence in her, she will do
justice with the role, to showcase
my journey.
If not a boxer, what would
you have been?
Singer. I am told
I have a wonderful
voice. I like hum-
ming Kishore
Kumars songs. I also
like pop singers.
Other sporting
interests apart from
boxing?
Football. I have
played gali football
with friends in the
street and I am quite
a good striker. I am an out and
out Diego Maradona fan. I love
his style and his presence on the
field. He is a fighter.
What kind of support have
you received from your hus-
band and in-laws?
My husband and in-laws
have always motivated me dur-
ing my bad days. Theyve given
me strength and freedom to con-
centrate on boxing. When I go
out for competition or for a
camp, my family takes care of
everything.
'will be back wilh a
bang when eel ready'
Mary Kom is in her happy space at the moment. Being
a mother is a huge responsibility and a tough job for a
sportsperson, she feels but Mary Kom knows she will
never give up on a challenge. The ace boxer is going to
be back in action only after January 2014, she tells
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A
n erratic Saina Nehwal
failed to defend her title at
the Indonesian Super Series
Premier after suffering a three-
game defeat to Germanys
Juliane Schenk in the semifinals
of the womens singles compe-
tition here on Saturday.
World number two Saina,
who won the title three times
in 2009, 2010 and 2012 lost
21-12, 13-21, 14-21 to Schenk,
ranked fourth, in a contest that
lasted for 52 minutes at the Istora
Gelora Bung Karno stadium.
It was not Sainas day as
the Indian, who holds a 8-3
record against the German,
was too erroneous in the exe-
cution of her strokes, which
helped her opponent to seal a
place in the final.
In the first game, Juliane
took a 12-10 lead after a fierce
battle early on, but Saina wrest-
ed back the advantage by involv-
ing the German in long rallies
and catching up her at the net.
Juliane failed to gauge
Sainas strokes and faltered
with her execution as she kept
hitting long and found the net
too often to allow the Indian to
race away with the first game
with straight 11 points. Saina
sealed the game with an over-
head half smash.
After changing sides, Juliane
moved to a 4-0 lead in a flash as
nothing went Sainas way. The
Indian tried to engage Juliane in
rallies and kept pushing the
shuttle back and froth but
Juliane was up to the task as she
moved to 6-0 with Saina hitting
wide. Saina gathered four points
but Juliane had her nose ahead
at 11-4 during the interval.
Juliane kept the shuttle flat
during serve, retrieved every-
thing and smashed hard to
move to 14-6. A couple of
missed strokes at the net gave
Saina two points but the Indian
committed too many unforced
errors to allow Juliane gain nine
game points at 20-11.
Saina saved two game
points but Juliane soon roared
back into the contest with an
elegant cross-court flick at the
nets which caught the Indian
napping at the forecourt.
In the decider, Saina looked
to play more rallies but Juliane
matched the Indian and waited
for her to commit mistakes.
Saina once again started hitting
long and wide to allow Juliane
to get hold of the lead at 6-4.
Juliane looked at ease and
her smashes and aggressive net
play left Saina looking for
answers as the German went
into the breather at 11-5.
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We loved her as Ishans mother in Taare Zameen Par and recently
as a helpless mother of Ankur Arora in Ankur Arora Murder
Case. She tells MANJARI SINGH that now she is tired of all the
rona dhona on screen and craves to explore new avenues
QHow did Ankur Arora Murder Case (AAMC) happen?
When Vikram Bhatt met me with the script, I was not con-
vinced. AAMC is a very unusual film, something that has never
been made before. I didnt want to take any risk but then direc-
tor Suhail Tatari convinced me to give this film a chance. Today,
I am glad that I went ahead with this film. Nanditas role is very
special.
QYou cried after you watched the film
Thats not right. In fact, I laughed after I watched the film. I
was very happy with the way the film looked. There were moments
while shooting when I cried simply because AAMC is an emo-
tional film. There were also a few scary moments when I thought
I would not be able to do justice to the role.
QHow was this role different from the one you played in Taare
Zameen Par?
The two characters are entirely different. I dont understand
why a comparison should be made between the two. But I think
people will like me better as Ankurs mother because I have more
of a role here.
QIn one of your interviews you said you dont want to do seri-
ous roles. Why?
Yes. I am tired of playing serious roles. I have done enough
of emotional scenes but now I want to do more of drama and
comic roles. I want to do something that I have not done before.
QAny particular role that you would want to enact?
I would love to play the role of a tough cop or a bindaas char-
acter who doesnt mind using foul language. People say I am very
good at playing serious roles but then I might be good at play-
ing other roles also. Its time to explore.
QWhich director you would like to work with?
I would like to work with a director who has a good script
and a prominent role for me.
QWould you talk about your future projects?
I am playing Anil Kapoors wife in 24 and then there is a movie
with Irrfan Khan called Kissa. There is one more movie with Kay
Kay Menon as well.
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f a quintessential maa has ruled
Bollywood for over 100 years,
there is a maibaap off screen who
ensures all is hale and hearty with his
children. Says who? Say filmi chil-
dren who have been rescued out of
deep muck thanks to a father figure.
So, while yesteryear actor Aditya
Pancholi is having sleepless nights
trying to find ways to rescue his only
son, there are other fathers trying to
provide a befitting launch pad for
their childrens debut.
In 2001, when Fardeen Khan was
caught with the possession of
cocaine, he was accused of violating
Section 27 of NDPS Act and was
arrested. His father Feroz Khan
bailed him out. Khan had made a
statement at that time saying that
Fardeen was framed for buying drugs
and wrongly accused. He also got his
lawyer, Ayaz Khan to handle this
case. Although, Feroze Khan died in
2006, the case finally resolved in
March last year when Fardeen was
acquitted.
My dads words of wisdom
changed me as a man and I owe
everything to him. He was, is and
will always be my hero, Fardeen
Khan says from Mumbai. He adds
that it was his father who coaxed
him to take up a rehabilitation pro-
gramme to give up drugs.
It is not just the betas who have
been in a soup and needed fatherly
guidance. Even girls have been
caught in a situation. It took a Rishi
Kapoor and Anil Kapoor to sort out
matters that went out of control
owing to a discussion on Koffee
With Karan where Ranbir Kapoor
was made the butt of some obscene
jokes. Papa Kapoor immediately
retaliated accusing Deepika
Padukone and Sonam Kapoor of
having no class.
Thats what irked our Mr India
who stood tall to defend his darling
daughter, Sonam. Rishi lashed out at
the girls for being immature but
where was his maturity while derid-
ing the two girls of his daughters
age? All that is in the past. Now,
things are fine. Ranbir-Deepika have
done a film
together and
Rishi will be
playing
Sonams on-
screen father
in an upcom-
ing untitled
film, Anil
Kapoor tells you.
Even Pankaj
Kapoor believes that bygones
should be treated as bygones.
During the early days of
Shahid Kapoors career,
there were several critics
who accused Shahid of
being another Shah Rukh
Khan copycat but Pankaj
came out all guns blazing
that his son has already proved
his mettle. I dont think he has to
justify himself any further, Pankaj
Kapoor says.
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his intimate scenes in
Yeh Saali Zindagi and Jism 2
with Aditi Rao Hydari and
Sunny Leone respectively
but Arunoday Singh doesnt
like to be stereotyped. He is
all set to break his image
with his upcoming movie Ek
Bura Aadmi, directed by
Ishraq Shah. In the film
Singh plays the role of a
politician, Munna
Siddiqui.
This is my first
film as a solo lead. I
am excited about
playing a politician.
Doing a political
thriller is a different
ball game all together as
its all about blood, gore
and murder mys-
tery but no romance. The
movie brings out serious
issues on the working of the
modern Indian society and
the prevailing political cul-
ture, Singh tells you. The
film also boasts of some sea-
soned actors namely Riya
Sen, Kitu Gidwani, Yashpal
Sharma and Raghuveer
Yadav.
Son of a politician, Singh
has no intentions to follow
his fathers footstep.
Politics is not my
cup of tea. I have
got many offers
from Tollywood
but I dont want to
try many things
at a time. If I get
a good offer, Ill
do a TV show as
well. But my priority
will always be
Bollywood,
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says.
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A
mid the din of
death, one non-
descript village in
Kushinagar district in
eastern Uttar Pradesh
stands tall in showing the world
how to fight encephalitis. The
success story etched out in
Holiya has made scientists and
doctors look towards this small
village where the death rate has
gone down suddenly because
the villagers use water that has
been disinfected through sun
rays.
The mantra of the village is
simple. Drinking water is taken
from a 100-metre deep tubewell
and further purified by expos-
ing it to sunlight.
The Acquired Encephalitis
Syndrome spreads through
contaminated water. People in
villages defecate in the open.
The faeces and urine seeps into
the ground and contaminates
the water source. The crisis
deepens during monsoon. So,
we ensured that people use
water which is properly disin-
fected through UV rays and it
has done wonders, Dr RN
Singh, convener, Encephalitis
Eradication Movement, says.
The principle is simple.
The entro-virus present in
water is killed by the suns UV
rays. We are lucky to be living
in a country that is showered
with sunlight. We use the sun
to our benefit, Dr Singh tells
you.
It was three years back
when Singh adopted Holiya.
Villagers were asked to store
drinking water in pet bottles
and keep it under tin shade
painted in black for 6-8 hours.
This water is pure and safe. In
2010, 13 people died of
encephalitis in Holiya, but the
figure fell to just two in 2011
and 2012 and not a single case
reported till now in 2013.
This ingenious method
finds approval from other doc-
tors too. The Holiya experi-
ment is a success. Disinfecting
water through sun rays is scien-
tifically proven and it is even
approved by WHO, Dr KP
Kushwaha, principal, BRD
Medical College, says.
Even Health Minister
Gulam Nabi Azad was
impressed by the Holiya model
and promised it to implement it
at the village-level. If it is done,
it will be a great success, Singh
says.
T
hirtynine-year-old Vidya walks
into the out-door patient
department of BRD Medical
College in Gorakhpur with her
three-year-old son Deepak in
her lap. Eight months back, Deepak had
suffered an encephalitis attack but sur-
vived. The attack damaged his brain and
reduced this lively boy into a listless body.
Deepak has lost his senses. He can
neither walk nor speak or respond. I cant
see his miseries anymore. I will ask the
doctor today whether he will survive,
Vidya says in an anxious voice, glancing
nervously at the jampacked encephalitis
ward.
The air inside reeks of a mix of ether
and phenyl. Oblivious to the nauseating
smell, the patients are swarming this
ward.
Men and women, some in dirty
clothes, wait for the doctors. Almost all of
them are poor people who have sold off
their land, animal stock, jewellery and
taken loans from private money lenders
for the treatment of their children, most
of them mentally and physically disabled
due to the dreaded disease.
Seven-year-old Amit jostles with his
mother. What he says is not clear to her or
others. He grimaces at his mother Kunti
as she tries to pull him closer to her. The
boy tries to break free from her grip but
falls flat on the floor. She immediately
picks him up and plants a kiss on his dry
and dirty cheek.
He cant stand on his own any more.
He cant speak, cant convey what he wants
food or water. He has no control over
his urine too, Kunti tells you with tears
welling up in her anxious eyes.
Just a few months back, Deepak was a
normal child running around in his vil-
lage and playing with boys of his age. The
encephalitis attack ended all that. Now,
he is totally dependent on me for every-
thing, Kunti says.
Kunti is here with her husband Birza
Majhi, a labourer at a construction site in
Siwan, Bihar. He earns C180 a day and
tells you that he has had to take a loan of
C50,000 from a private money lender to
tend to his sons medical needs. Last week,
he says, he had sold his cow for C16,000 to
generate extra funds.
People back home are advising us to
abandon our son at a railway station or
somewhere else. They say, he has no
future, he is a bojh (burden). How can we
do this? He is our son. Jab tak saans hai,
aas hai (Hope sustains life). I will try to
bear the cost of his treatment till I am
alive. Uske aage bhagwan jaane, he says,
looking forlornly at his son who has, by
then, started nibbling at a biscuit.
Not that the situation is any less mov-
ing for other parents who are here with
children afflicted by encephalitis. All from
poor backgrounds, they face an acute
financial crisis and struggle to fight the
mental and physical stress of the prospect
of bringing up a disabled child.
Take Sangita. Her four-year-old son
Anup Kumar has been in hospital for four
months. We have mortgaged our house
for C60,000 for our sons treatment. But
there is no improvement in his condition.
He cannot even stand now, she tells you.
A ward boy, meanwhile, throws a cur-
sory look at the parents struggling with
their children and says: It would have
been mukti (salvation) for these poor chil-
dren had they died of encephalitis.
Surviving means they will live in a pitiable
condition all their life. No one can explain
the agony that parents are going through.
They sell their dreams to ensure good
health for their specially-abled children
something they are not likely to ever get,
he says.
Almost all the villages near
Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Pardauna and
Deoria have such stories to tell about their
children who survived encephalitis but are
now mentally and physically challenged.
Lying almost motionless on a charpoy,
one of them looks longingly at children
who are playing in the distance. Before
this deadly disease struck him, he used to
be with them.
It is a curse that has befallen on us,
Kamla Rani, a resident of Sukhrauli vil-
lage in Kushinagar district, says. Her
neighbours nine-year-old daughter lost
her speech after an encephalitis attack last
year. She used to talk a lot. We used to
ask her to keep shut. Now, God has taken
away her speech, she tells you.
Encephalitis is endemic to eastern
Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar. Earlier,
it was Japanese encephalitis that had cre-
ated havoc in this region. This disease was
passed into human beings from pigs
through mosquitoes. Blinding headaches,
seizures, nausea and high fever precede
death in this strain.
The second trait is AES accute
encephalitis syndrome which is entro-
viral and passes into human beings
through contaminated water and bad
hygiene. It is known to have over 100
traits, including those of JE. Children up
to the age group of 15 years are suscepti-
ble to this deadly disease.
Earlier, encephalitis was considered to
be a rural disease because of the area of
its spread. It was believed that unhygienic
conditions in villages usually led to chil-
dren being prone to this disease.
However, this myth no longer holds
true.
Shamim, 5, belongs to Gorakhpur and
is in the ICU of the BRD College for 33
days now. One night, he had convulsions.
We rushed him to BRD Hospital where
doctors identified it as an encephalitis
attack. He went into coma and has since
been in ICU, his businessman father Md
Irshad tells you.
Dr Bharat, Senior Resident in the
encephalitis
ward, says the
exodus of rural
people to cities has
given encephalitis an
urban touch. Sanitary
condition in cities is bad.
The drains are clogged
with sewage water. In cities,
too, people go for defecation
in the fields which results in
contamination of water source,
which results in spread of AES,
Dr Bharat points out.
According to experts, 30 per
cent of encephalitis patients die
and almost 50 per cent surviving
children turn disabled. They suffer
hearing, eyesight and mental disor-
ders. As per the BRD Medical College
records, in Gorakhpur alone, over
31,000 encephalitis patients have been
treated since 1978. Of this, over 10,000
are now disabled.
The NGOs working in this sector
have a different story to tell. Chief
Campaigner, Encephalitis Eradication
Movement (EEM), RN Singh puts the fig-
ure at over 50,000 deaths and over 16,000
disabilities. The Government figure is
based on BRD, Medical College. This fig-
ure is just the tip of the iceberg as the
Government has no accounts about the
deaths of children in private nursing
homes or about the children who died
before they were given medical help, Dr
Singh says in a letter to vice-chairman
National Disaster Management Authority,
demanding that JE and other forms of
encephalitis, including the entero-viral
strain, should be declared as National
Health Emergency.
His plea got judicial support in 2006
with the Allahabad High Court in 2006
asking the State and Central Governments
to declare encephalitis as a National
Health Emergency. In its order of
November 9, 2006 the court ordered: By
any standard, this is an issue of national
importance which must be considered a
health emergency by both Central and
State Governments. A concrete action
plan must be drawn.
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that order but neither the Centre nor the
State Governments have moved an inch to
curb the epidemic. The BRD, Medical
College is the only address for parents in
eastern UP, Bihar and Nepal whose chil-
dren are inflicted with encephalitis. This
is simply because the district hospitals,
Community Health Centres (CHCs) and
Primary Health Centres (PHCs) do not
have the facility to combat this disease.
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fter being in virtual
hibernation for nearly
four months since she
stepped out of the political
limelight by demitting the
office of Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton made a
momentous decision this
week. No, she has not quite
announced her plans to take
another shot at the nations
highest office in 2016. She
has just made a belated, gin-
gerly entry into
Twitterscape. Is the social
media debut geared to
another bid for the White
House?
Media outlets anyway
were abuzz with pundits
quick to read the tea leaves.
On her Twitter page,
Clinton introduced herself
as wife, mom, lawyer,
women & kids advocate,
FLOAR (First Lady of
Arkansas), FLOTUS (First
Lady of the United States),
US Senator, SecState
(Secretary of State), author,
dog owner, hair icon,
pantsuit aficionado, glass
ceiling cracker, and signed
off with TBD (To be
determined). That, to be
sure, proved to be further
grist to the media mill.
But Clintons fans are
lapping it all up. Reports
said they were all signing up
at the rate of almost 1,000 a
minute. Within a couple of
days, she had 450,000-odd
Twitter followers and still
counting. Perhaps the first
person to welcome her
entry was President Barack
Obama, a social media freak
of sorts with well over 32
million Twitter followers.
With over 9,250 tweets to
his credit, Obama himself
follows over 660,000 on this
microblogging site. Happy
to welcome @HillaryClinton
on Twitter. Stay tuned for
the real
#TweetsFromHillary,
Obama tweeted.
By all accounts, no
other individuals entry into
Twitterscape would have
been accompanied by so
much of fanfare, anticipa-
tion and scrutiny for hidden
meaning. But for starters,
Clinton had only a couple of
mundane tweets for the
week.
Wrote New York Times
columnist Maureen Dowd:
Now Hillarys looking cool
on Twitter, in her shades,
with her first tweet heard
round the world garnering
3,66,000 followers in 24
hours, a faster start than her
husband and Pope Francis.
As she put it, even conserv-
ative blogger Eric Erickson
was so disarmed by the
candidate-in-waitings
debut that he tweeted: I
have to commend
@HillaryClinton for her
very awesome Twitter bio.
Welcome to Twitter.
Writing in The
Washington Post, Philip
Rucker noted: Perhaps no
figure in American political
life has surfaced on Twitter
quite the way Clinton did...
Everything the former
Secretary of State does now
is met with anticipation and
parsed for clues that might
answer the question: Will
she or wont she run? This
seems to be how the next
year or so will go for Hillary
shes known worldwide as
just Hillary as she carves
out a new public role and
begins to contemplate cam-
paigning for President in
2016.
Clinton herself has been
busy with other pursuits.
She is writing a book on her
four years as Americas top
diplomat, and she has been
delivering closed-door
speeches business groups
for a handsome fee. And
this week, she has followed
up her Twitter debut with
taking the centrestage at a
major Chicago event under
the auspices of her hus-
bands Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI).
After visiting 112
nations, for four years
Im still jetlagged, she
remarked, even as members
of the audience looked for
hints about a 2016 run,
despite her own assertion
that it was her first CGI
speech as a private citizen.
Instead, what they heard
was that she would from
now on be assuming a key
role in the activities of her
husbands foundation
which, one was told, has
now been renamed Bill,
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, reflecting the
whole familys involvement
with the causes the organi-
sation spearheads.
With womens empow-
erment being one of CGIs
key pursuits, Hillary
Clintons committed push
on this score should stand
her in good stead for anoth-
er White House run in the
hope of smashing the ulti-
mate glass ceiling to become
the countrys first-ever
female president. Women
are the worlds most under-
used resource, she said in
tailor-made remarks, not-
ing:
When women partici-
pate in the economy, every-
one benefits. This should be
a no-brainer. When women
participate in peacemaking
and peacekeeping, we are all
safer and all secure. And,
when women participate in
politics, the effects ripple
out across society.
Some media reports
clearly believed that Clinton
was out to reclaim the
political stage she left more
than four years ago to
become the nations top
diplomat.
Her latest moves come
at a time when her favoura-
bility rating has, according
to a Gallup poll, dipped to
58 per cent from 64 per cent
in April.
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Former CIA staffer
Edward Snowdens explosive
leaks on the US
Governments surveillance
programmes have sparked a
great deal of criticism
against President Obama
and some jokes at his
expense.
Late night comedian Jay
Leno, taking a dig at the
sweep of telephone calls
running into millions,
remarked: We wanted a
President that listens to all
Americans now we have
one. Yeah. And Conan
OBrien had this to say:
Due to the Government
spy scandal, sales of the
classic George Orwell book
1984 have skyrocketed. So
the fallout is worse than we
thought. Its making
Americans read.
A morphed image of
Obama in the mould of his
predecessor, George W
Bush, and titled George W
Obama, went viral on the
Internet. It began on the
front page of the Huffington
Post, the online journal that
is otherwise well-disposed
to Obama, and then trav-
elled far and wide. The mes-
sage of the illustration was
unmistakable: The policies
of Obama are no different
from some of the reviled
Bush policies impinging on
civil liberties.
Writing in the
Philadelphia Magazine,
columnist Joel Mathis com-
mented: President Obama
owes George W Bush an
apology... We know now
that President Obama
reserves the right to assassi-
nate enemy Americans
abroad. And as weve seen
the last week, massive sur-
veillance still exists.
This is not what civil
libertarians expected. Its
not what anybody, either
the Presidents friends or
foes, expected.
The White House clear-
ly was not amused by the
comparison. Spokesman Jay
Carney was quick to insist
that President Obama has
lived up to his promises to
change the way the United
States conducts the war on
terror, asserting: In every
case, this Presidents policy
has been different.
A
German bank clerks nap near-
ly landed his firm with a multi-
million euro error after he fell
asleep on his computer keyboard
while transferring money.
The snoozing clerk was hold-
ing down the 2 key and turned a
62.40 euro transfer from a pension-
ers account into a 222,222,222.22
euro (189 million) transaction.
The case emerged at an
employment tribunal case brought
by a bank supervisor who was
fired for failing to spot the mistake
by the clerk against her former
employer.
The supervisor, a 48-year-old
woman, said that on the day last
April, when the mistake took place,
she had examined over 800 docu-
ments. Most of them were checked
in less than two seconds. The error
made by the clerk who was asleep
on the job was spotted by another
colleague during an internal sys-
tems check and corrected.
In a ruling published online
yesterday, the regional labour court
in Hessen, western Germany, said
that the supervisor should have
received a warning rather than dis-
missal. Although it was a terrible
mistake there was no evidence she
had sought to cause deliberate
harm to her employer, and she
should be reinstated, the ruling
said.
The bank, which has not been
named, had accused the supervisor
of deliberately deceiving her supe-
riors by failing to check transfer
documents and simply waving
them through. It was not clear
whether the clerk had lost their job
as a result of the error.
The use of computers for finan-
cial transactions has brought with
it a new problem: Fat finger error
a costly mistake caused by hit-
ting the wrong key. One of the
most notable examples of this was
in Japan in 2005, when a broker
placed a sell order for 600,000
shares in a company that had only
issued 14,000.
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A German man committed to a
high-security psychiatric hospital
after being accused of fabricating
claims of money-laundering at a
major bank which were subse-
quently proven true told investi-
gators: I wouldnt wish this on my
worst enemy. Gustl Mollath has
been held against his will in a
secure unit since March 2006, after
he voiced suspicions that employ-
ees of Hypo Vereinsbank includ-
ing his ex-wife had been smug-
gling money to Switzerland.
He was tried on charges of
assaulting his wife and detained in
a psychiatric hospital in Bavaria.
But last year a German newspaper
uncovered an internal audit report
carried out by the bank that
showed his claims were valid.
Mollath, 56, told a committee
of the Bavarian Parliament, which
is reviewing his case, that his rela-
tionship with his wife deteriorated
as financial wrongdoing at the
bank grew. He said that the illegal
transactions kept growing bigger
and bolder. He told the committee:
Eventually I thought to myself, it
cant be long now before the prose-
cutors are on the doorstep.
Instead, he was charged with
assault.
Describing his trial in 2006,
Mollath told the commission that
he had been given no opportunity
to speak to his defence lawyer
before the start of proceedings,
while the judge did not allow him
to give evidence. In short, it was
hell, he said. He pleaded with the
committee of MPs to be released
from the psychiatric institution.
If I should be held prisoner
until the end of my life then I ask
that it should be in preventive cus-
tody in prison. But not in this insti-
tution. I wouldnt wish this situa-
tion on my worst enemy. In an
interview with a regional newspa-
per, published last week, Mollaths
ex-wife said he had only raised the
money-laundering claims after he
had left her. She said that repeated
outbreaks of violence were the rea-
son for the couples separation.
Mollath denies assaulting his
ex-wife. A documentary aired on
the main German broadcaster
ARD earlier this month claimed
that judgment in the criminal case
against him contained glaring
errors.
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When he returned to the stage,
the Polish virtuoso Krystian
Zimerman revealed that he had lost
recording contracts because record
labels told him: Sorry, thats
already on YouTube.
Mr Zimerman, who was per-
forming at the Ruhr Piano Festival
in Essen, western Germany, spotted
an audience member filming him
from a balcony and broke off the
concert to ask him to desist. The
pianist then stopped playing and
left the stage.
When Mr Zimerman returned
a few minutes later, he told audi-
ence members that he had lost
work through films posted on
YouTube.
He said: The destruction of
music through YouTube is enor-
mous.
A spokeswoman for the piano
festival said it had not been possi-
ble to identify the audience mem-
ber concerned. She told the Daily
Telegraph: He was filming, I
believe on an iPhone, and was in
the middle of a block of seats so it
was not possible to remove him
during the performance.
Its not possible to search our
audience members for recording
equipment, as if we were an air-
port. Its not possible and not a nice
thing to do.
The pianist played to the end of
the concert after the interruption,
the spokeswoman said. Despite
being cheered loudly by the audi-
ence, he declined to perform an
encore.
Franz Ohnesorg, the festivals
director, told The Daily
Telegraph he sympathized
with the pianist: For any sen-
sitive musician it is a distur-
bance to be filmed without
permission. The people who
have paid for entry deserve to
hear the concert undisturbed
too.
Mr Zimerman drew
attention to a serious problem
- that these pieces are avail-
able, and free of charge [on
the internet] is an act of theft.
We do make it clear that tak-
ing photos, filming or record-
ing sound is forbidden.
Mr Zimerman was per-
forming works by Debussy,
Brahms and 20th century
Polish composer Karol
Szymanowski at the festival,
which is one of the highlights of
the classical music calendar. He
was playing Szymanowski's
Variations in B minor on a Polish
Theme when he broke off.
He is not the first performer to
have been distressed by filming. In
April, the actor James McAvoy
halted a performance of Macbeth
at a London theatre, asking an
audience member stop filming
him. The play went on as planned
after the recording stopped.
Zimerman, 56, is regarded as
one of the greatest living pianists,
and has performed with renowned
orchestras including the Berlin
Philharmonic.
Aged 19, he won first prize in
the 1975 International Chopin
Competition in Warsaw.
In 2009, he announced that he
would no longer perform in the
US in protest at plans to install a
missile defence shield in Poland.
He told an audience in Los
Angeles: Get your hands off my
country.
His anger at the US may, in
part, have had personal reasons.
Shortly after 9/11 his Steinway
grand piano was confiscated and
destroyed by US Customs officials
in New York, who thought the glue
smelled suspicious.
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breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tug-
boat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was
going to die. Then a torch light pierced the darkness.
Ships cook Okene, 29, was on board the Jascon-4
tugboat when it capsized on May 26 due to heavy
Atlantic ocean swells around 30 km (20 miles) off the
coast of Nigeria, while stabilising an oil tanker filling
up at a Chevron platform.
Of the 12 people on board, divers recovered 10
dead bodies while a remaining crew member has not
been found.
Somehow Okene survived, breathing inside a four
foot high bubble of air as it shrunk in the waters slowly
rising from the ceiling of the tiny toilet and adjoining
bedroom where he sought refuge, until two South
African divers eventually rescued him.
I was there in the water in total darkness just
thinking it's the end. I kept thinking the water was
going to fill up the room but it did not, Okene said,
parts of his skin peeling away after days soaking in the
salt water. Seawater got into his mouth but he had
nothing to eat or drink throughout his ordeal.
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are those who need to procure blood on a regular basis to
meet pressing medical demands of their bodies, the lack
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Therefore, there is need to create awareness about donat-
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The requirement of blood is so imperative in certain
diseases like thalassemia, hemophilia, in medical proce-
dures like heart surgery, organ transplantation, cancer or
trauma that patients need blood immediately. However,
despite increasing education and exposure to information
available regarding blood donation, there are still many
myths surrounding it, which are all unjustifiable notions
that needs to be cleared to ensure maximum blood dona-
tions.
Myth: Donating blood will make me weak and
unhealthy
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fering from any disease then there is no reason why one
could not donate blood. Anyone from the age group of 18
to 65 years and having a minimum body weight of 50 kgs
and 12.5 gm of hemoglo-
bin can donate blood.
Myth: People with
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diabetes or hypertension
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Fact: There are certain
infections like HIV and
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qualify one from donating
blood. Even if one has
problems like high choles-
terol, diabetes or hyperten-
sion one can donate blood
as long as one meet the
biochemical parameters
are within normal limits.
However, diabetic people
on insulin may not qualify
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Myth: One needs to
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work after donating blood.
However, there are few
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water within 24 hours following blood donation, avoiding
sun exposure, driving for the next 3-4 hours, smoking for
next four hours and alcohol for next 24 hours.
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attention is not paid on hygiene and safety in the hospitals
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that donor does not get any infection and the blood
he/she is donating is cleared for donation. The entire
process of drawing blood is done with all sterile precau-
tions
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steroids, hormones, anticoagulants, can disqualify one
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food. Don't forget food. You can go a
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B
eing health conscious has
become a norm. People not
only want food and beverage that
tastes good but also boast of high
nutritive value. That explains why
aerated drinks and other bever-
ages are being replaced with ener-
gy drinks and flavoured water.
The latest entrant is vitamin-based
water. It not only has many vita-
mins and minerals, it is tasty too.
While Indian water packaging
and manufacturing companies are
yet to embrace this new product,
foreign brands are already here.
Beltek Canadian Water Limited
has recently launched a water,
which the company claims is
enriched with vitamins. It contains
natural flavours and colours with
no preservatives, is low on sugar
and focuses on both regular and
calorie-conscious consumers.
People want more than just
plain water these days. Consumers
are shifting from carbonated
drinks and packaged juices to a
healthier option, with less calories
and more natural alternatives. Our
products, is not only tasty, it is
enriched with vitamin A, B and C
along with necessary electrolytes,
guarana extracts and zinc. There
are flavours like tropical citrus
fruits like lemons and
oranges, Mohit Verma,
director, Beltek
Canadian Water
Limited says. The New
York-based brand
Glaceau has also
launched a series of
flavoured vitamin water
in the country which is
available in most high-
end departmental stores
in metros.
While manufactur-
ers are promoting vita-
min-water as a healthy
drink, doctors and
nutritionists have a dif-
ferent take on this new product in
the market. These vitamin drinks
may appear to be good, but there
are certain aspects that need to be
kept in mind. Most Indians take
enough vitamins in their meal. As
a result, they consume more than
the Recommended Dietary
Allowance of vitamins daily like
B12, B6, riboflavin, niacin, vita-
min C, vitamin A,
thiamin and vitamin
A which includes
carotenes. In fact, vit-
amin E is the only
nutrient that Indians
usually fall short of,
however, only one-
third of it is found in
these vitamin-water,
Shubi Husain, Indian
Diets Consultant and
Nutritionist says.
If you want to
drink additional vita-
min E, there are
chances the body will
not absorb it.
Vitamins are divided into two
groups: Water soluble and fat solu-
ble. Vitamin C and the B complex
group are water-soluble and can
easily enter the bloodstream with
water. Vitamins A, D, E and K are
fat-soluble. That means they can
only enter the bloodstream to
carry out their functions if they
are dissolved in dietary fats found
in high calorie foods. However,
when taken on an empty stomach,
vitamin E harms the body, Shikha
Sharma, a Delhi-based nutritionist
says.
Even if one were to absorb all
the vitamins, vitamin-water might
have trouble living up to its image
as a salubrious alternative to sug-
ary soft drinks. Each bottle of vit-
amin-water contains 32.5 gm or
two heaped tablespoons of crys-
talline fructose, Annapurna
Agrawal, nutritionist at Snap
Fitness India tells you.
Fructose is found in fruits,
although the crystalline fructose
in vitamin-water is produced from
cornstarch, not fruit, nobody
needs these extra sugars. The
sweetness of sugary drinks may be
addictive. The way that vitamin-
water is marketed its made to look
healthy than other beverages, but
its not. Its just another soft drink.
Adding vitamins and minerals to
junk food doesnt make it healthy,
Agrawal says.
H
ave you ever thought why in spite of
having a healthy meal, you are not at
your healthiest best? It might be
because you are eating everything right but
combining them wrongly. As per naturopaths
and Ayurveda doctors, the body can handle,
secrete and digest one food at a time smooth-
ly. It has no provision to digest different food
groups at one particular time. Consequently,
the best food can give you trouble without
proper combination. For example, protein
requires an absolute acid environment in the
stomach for its digestion. Starchy foods
require alkaline environment. That is the rea-
son why Ayurveda doctors say that rice and
curd should be avoided.
The rice-curd combination in the intesti-
nal imbalances the system until it is passed
out. Undigested food is the perfect breeding
ground for bacterial worms and parasites.
Fermentation, putrefaction and decomposi-
tion leads to poisoning and many other dis-
eases, Dr NK Sharma naturopath and
founder of Reiki Healing Foundation, New
Delhi says.
And then there are certain foods that are
meant to be consumed alone. Milk is one of
them. Milk does not digest in stomach but in
the section of the small intestine. If one
drinks it with other foods it will continue to
remain in the stomach. This prevents the
digestion of other foods as well, Dr Sharma
tells you adding that due to its fat and protein
content, when it enters the stomach, milk
coagulates and forms curd. This curd tends to
stick together with other foods in the stomach
insulating them against the gastric juices, pre-
venting digestion.
People have coffee or tea with milk after
their meal. It is essential to allow the meal to
get digested first before taking any beverage.
If one drinks these immediately after the
mean, it causes gas formation in stomach
which creates problems in digestion, Dr
Sharma tells you. However, Delhi-based dieti-
cian Dr Shalini Singhal states a different rea-
son to avoid beverages immediately after
meal. Ninety per cent of beverages are water-
based. When one drinks water immediately
after a meal, the enzymes get washed away,
Dr Singhal explains.
Therefore, liquids must be taken prior to
a meal, not immediately after or along with
meal but should be taken one hour after a
meal. All toxic beverages like tea, coffee, alco-
hol, soft drinks are a hin-
drance to normal digestion.
Gastric secretions are severely
restricted if one drinks water.
Fats also suppress the action
of the gastric glands and
inhibits the production of
proper gastric juices for
any food that is eaten
with it. It lowers the
entire digestive process
by more than 50 per
cent. Fats that are eaten
remain in the digestive
tract for a long time
demanding over activity.
This puts a lot of strain on
the stomach which eventually leads to the
breakdown of digestive mechanism in the
long run. Fried fats are the most dangerous.
Eat natural fats combined proteins and foods
like nuts, seeds and avocados.
Daal-chawal might be a popular combi-
nation but Dr Sharma doesnt completely
approve of it. Eating protein and starch in
the same meal is not good. Having daal-chaw-
al is still alright but one should avoid rajma-
chawal. Though it is a very popular food
combination, it is a strick no-no. This is
because it causes gas. People tend to ignore it
but its not good for health, Dr Sharma says.
But according to nutritionist Neelanjana
Singh, Heinz Nutri Life Clinic daal-chawal is
a very good combination. Since both lack in
some form of amino acid, daal-chawal com-
plement each other, making it a complete
meal, Singh says.
But naturopaths stick to their version. If
at all, circum-
stances force one
to eat protein and
starches together, never
mix them together. Eat the
protein first. Wait for around half-
an hour and then eat starch. This way
both the protein and starch will get time to
get digested properly. However, since protein
and starch is not an ideal combination, it does
not ensure perfect and complete digestion.
The body must be given an opportunity to
digest and take care of a single concentrated
food, Dr Sharma opines.
He is also quick to point out that legume's
and beans contain 25 per cent protein and
approximately 50 per cent carbohydrate or
starch compared to 10 to 12 per cent protein
of cereals. This means that it is difficult to
digest leading to their fermentation. Since
each of the two constituents require entirely
different processes for digestion, the starch of
the bean lies in the stomach while its pro-
tein is being digested. This produces gas
and toxins in the body.
Even potatoes, though being
predominantly starch foods, cant
be combined with predomi-
nantly proteinous legume's.
Potatoes (extreme starch) fer-
ments fast when eaten with
legume's. Alu vada or alu
bonda combined with chana
daal therefore, is not a good
combination. Perhaps the
most common objection made
to this rule is that Nature has produced
protein-starch combinations. Indeed, it is
often asserted that almost all natural foods
are starch-protein combinations, Dr Sharma
says.
If wheat is eaten alone (a monotrophic
meal), it will secrete a juice poor in
hydrochloric acid but rich in pepsin. This
juice will be produced in the stomach for a
long time. Thus, starch digestion and protein
digestion go concurrently. If meat and bread
is eaten together, lot of hydrochloric acid is
poured out, so that starch digestion is sus-
pended. We must therefore eat one food
group at a meal. This way that group will
get digested properly. But if we eat several
food groups at one time, digestion is diffi-
cult unless the food is properly combined.
Therefore, for proper digestion and
for vitamins and minerals to be absorbed
by the body, it is important that one knows
the correct food combinations, Dr Sharma
says.
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immediately after or
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beverages like
tea, coffee,
alcohol, soft
drinks are a
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hydrochloric acid in lhe slomach which aid wilh
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slomach roblems. They also hel ighl baclerial
growlh in lhe inleslines. n addilion, green
eercorns are high in iron, vilamin K, and anli
oxidanls. The skin o lhe eercorn is helul in
breaking down al cells, so ealing green
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WONDERFOOD
A
propos Agents of change by Deebashree
Mohanty and Amit Chaudhury in Foray
dated June 9, 2013. The article has added
a new dimension to the already ugly scenario in
IPL which is plaguing the gentlemans game. It is
sad that it is now taking into its fold good
players like MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar.
There is urgent need to take corrective steps in a
game that is the countrys passion. But then
agents have always been the ones who dictate
what their clients should do or not do. They step
in to to tide over any remark that may be
misconstrued. They are the ones who decide
which ad to do and how to keep the client on
the right side of the media. This of course,
makes them rather powerful. And we know that
absolute power corrupts absolutely.
RL Pathak
A
propos Agents of change by Deebashree
Mohanty and Amit Chaudhury in Foray
dated June 9, 2013. There is nothing wrong in
having a agent to take care of your endorsement
as it is a full-time job needs complete
dedication. We all know that a player has a very
short career span so it makes sense for them to
earn as much money as possible.
But what should be taken care is that
there is no conflict of interest which
unnecessary leads to confusion and
suspicion. Fairness in the game is least
which we expect from our players and
captains.
Bal Govind
T
his refers to Sex maniac of Budgam
by Khursheed Wani in Foray dated
June 9, 2013. This is not the first time
that a godman has been arrested for
sexually assaulting young girls. What is
shocking is that the incident has taken
place in the Valley, the State where till a
decade back terrorism ruled. What is
sadder still is that the person involved is a
sufi saint. The substance of sufism rests on
truth and the meaning is the selfless
experiencing and actualisation of the truth.
But what Reshi has done to these young
girls is definitely not actualisation of divine
ethics. One wonders where is the
enlightenment of the inner being? The
symbolic expressions that are an integral part
of sufi spirituality has been put to shame by the
deeds of one man who was only interested in
fulfilling his baser desires.
D Singh
T
his refers to Chant for all-out assault on
Maoists rises by Hari Shankar Vyas in Foray
dated Jun 9, 2013. If any new political front
succeeds to make inroads into Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumars Mahadalit and
Backward votebank, the JD(U) will have no
option but to keep it partnership with the BJP in
place. Shocking defeat of its candidate with a
huge margin in Maharajganj by-poll has already
worried the JD(U) leadership. The result has
made one thing very clear that upper caste
voters are not ready to support the JD(U). Given
these political developments, the party may find
it difficult to save itself in Bihar. If Nitish
chooses to go for an alliance with the Congress
in future, it will be a suicidal move because the
Congress has no support base in the State. The
JD(U) also may have to pay the cost of anti-
incumbency factor against the Congress-led
UPA-II Government at the Centre. In such a
scenario, strengthening its relations with the
BJP without having any prejudice towards
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is the
best bet for Nitish.
Manoj Parashar
T
his refers to Mulayam Singh acts as Third
man by Tavishi Srivastava in Foray dated
June 9, 2013. The formation of the Third Front
has been in the air since the change of guard in
Uttar Pradesh. On the face of it, this Third
option, a brainchild of the Samajwadi Party
chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, has been
necessitated by the public disillusionment with
both the UPA-II and the NDA. As a leader of
great political acumen Mulayam has on his
mind set Third Front with himself at the helm of
affairs and has therefore, been giving efficacious
advice to his son and UP Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav to pull up the socks in terms of
the good governance in the State. As regards the
replacement of candidates for the Lok Sabha
polls, it is a part of the political strategy
involving the winnability of the party candidates
in the ensuing 2014 parliamentary election and
Anuradha Chowdhry is no exception.
Rukhsana Khan
T
he Congress leaders are
happy with the infighting
in the BJP. They feel that in
the Assembly elections
pending in States like Delhi,
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
and Chhattisgarh, the party
will benefit from the BJPs
internal strife. In fact, the
Congress is of the view that
there wont be any effect on
the end result. This is
because the BJP will now be
divided into two factions and
the Congress will be at an
advantage.
The BJP leaders, it
appears, are divided between
Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi and senior
party leader LK Advani in
the four States where
Assembly elections are
scheduled this year. The
greatest danger is speculated
in Madhya Pradesh. Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan is said to be Advani
supporter. His biggest
challenge will be to prove his
loyalty towards the party and
Sangh. If it doesnt happen
then he may face Sangh
workers and Modi
supporters wrath.
Meanwhile the Congress
will try to take advantage of
BJPs internal discord in
Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and
Delhi as well. If Assembly
elections took place in
Jharkhand as well, a good
fight will seen there also.
Former Chief Minister of
Jharkhand Arjun Munda
openly supports Modi but
the other stalwart leaders like
Yashwant Sinha are in
Advanis camp. It appears
that the BJP might have a
tough battle ahead in
Jharkhand also.
IkIh I FkThE8
The Congress is all set to
make pre-poll alliance just
before the 2014 Lok Sabha
elections. The president
Sonia Gandhi has formed a
committee under the
chairmanship of Defence
Minister AK Antony to look
into the possibilities of pre-
poll alliances. Though, this
committee has held only one
official meeting till date,
unofficially a lot of work has
been done in this direction.
Sources say that the party
is in talks with Odisha Jana
Morcha (OJM) chief
Pyarimohan Mohapatra who
has parted ways from Biju
Janata Dal BJD in Odisha.
There are chances that the
Congress will form an
alliance with Pyarimohan.
However, the BJP is also in
talks with Pyarimohan.
Meanwhile the Congress
has identified the States for
pre-poll alliance. After
winning the Maharajganj
Lok Sabha by-polls Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu
Prasad Yadav has given an
indication that he may form
an alliance with the
Congress.
The Congress is also
looking for an alliance with
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in
Bihar. In West Bengal, the
party is in talks with Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee.
There is talk with the DMK
in Tamil Nadu. The Congress
is also looking for alliance
partner in Andhra Pradesh
and in J&K the party leaders
are in talks with Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
WIh hITI8h
In Bihar, from the
alliance point of view, the
Congress is at an advantage.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish
Kumars defeat in the by-
polls has caught him on the
backfoot. An alliance
between the BJP and the
JD(U) is on the verge of a
break.
Since Nitish is most
likely to oppose Modis name
as Prime Ministerial
candidate, it will be to
Congress benefit if it forms a
partnership with Nitish. The
Congress leaders opine that
Nitish had given 15 seats to
the BJP but if he is ready to
give even 10 seats to the
Congress, an alliance can be
made. But the Congress
doesnt want to shut doors on
Lalu Prasad also. After the
Maharajganj by-polls, he is
ready to make a few
compromises. The Congress
hopes that he will be willing
to give the party eight to ten
seats.
But the problem is that
he has to give eight to ten
seats to Ram Vilas Paswans
Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) as
well. Lalu is also in talks with
Minister of State for
Agriculture and Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP) leader
Tariq Anwar and former
State Agriculture Minister
Nagmani, who had resigned
because JD(U) had denied
him a ticket to contest Lok
Sabha polls in Bihar. If they
agree to side with Lalu, two
seats will have to be given to
them as well. But for the
Congress, whatever may be
the situation, it will gain
either way.
8Ih kVkhI
It appears that there are
many supporters of Advani
in the Congress. Many party
leaders have said that
Advanis resignation has
proved that the BJP is
working against the nations
interest. Congress leaders
have also said that Modis
elevation to the chief of
election campaigning
committee by the BJP is anti-
national and Advanis
resignation is an example of
patriotism.
This, of course, has made
Advani supporters very
happy. But sources say that
these statements are being
made to create more rift in
the BJP. A Congress leader
said that he has always
appreciated the BJP leader
who is less extremist.
The Congress has always
been soft towards senior BJP
leader and former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee. In fact, the
Congress used Vajpayees
name to beat Modi.
Whenever the party had
wanted to criticise Modi, it
said that during Gujarat riots
Vajpayee had advised Modi
to follow raj dharm.
This, of course, didnt
mean that the Congress liked
Vajpayee, the party just used
his name against Modi and
Advani. But now, Advani
represents a moderate image
and the Congress is once
again using the same formula
using Advanis name to
defeat Modi.
MI WkVE?
The question that most
BJP leaders in Goa wanted to
avoid was: Has Modi won the
first round? He has been
made the chief of election
campaign committee like
Congress vice-president
Rahul Gandhi. Rahul is not
Congress Prime Ministerial
candidate but he is incharge
of the partys campaign work.
That is why there are
rumblings in the BJP to
declare Modis name as
Prime Ministerial candidate.
Party insiders say that his
name will be declared as its
Prime Minister candidate in
December and not before.
By then results of four
Assembly elections will be
out. The BJP has fought the
last five elections only after
declaring the name of its
Prime Ministerial candidate
and things will not be
different this time either. If
the BJPs performance in
these four States improves
with Modi at the helm, his
position will automatically be
elevated. In that case, the BJP
will not care much for Nitish
because by then Modi wave
will have gripped the whole
country.
6hkIIEhE8 khEk
There are many
challenges before Modi.
Apart from keeping Gujarat
on the same development
path, he has to improve BJPs
political standing in every
State and look for alliance
partners. He has to bring
smaller political parties to
NDAs fold. He has to
strengthen the party in States
where the BJP has a solid
base. He also has to ensure
that the BJP makes its
presence left in southern and
North-eastern States. The
question is whether Modi
can meet all these
challenges?
The Congress opines that
politics at the national level is
a different game altogether
and in most cases it proves to
be difficult for leaders who
are from the State. They say
that many leaders who have
managed to do wonders in
their State have failed at the
Centre. Therefore, many BJP
leaders wanted the partys
command be given to a
leader who has an idea of
how things work at the
national level.
To begin with, Modis
biggest challenge is Uttar
Pradesh. Whenever BJP has
played a role at the national
level, the State has played a
huge role. In 1996, 1998 and
1999, the BJP had won
around 50 seats in UP.
In southern States BJP
may have had a grip but
recently it has had to face
defeat. In North-eastern
States the party had no vote
base. To bring the BJP to the
fore in these States will be a
Herculean task.
kVkhTkE 81F?
Who will benefit the
most if the BJP fights the
2014 Lok Sabha election
under Modis leadership?
While, the BJP is of the view
that they will have an upper
hand, the Congress leaders
opine it will benefit them.
This is because many votes
will get polarised in its
favour all the Muslim vote
will go to the Congress
The regional satraps are
of the view that the
possibility of the Third Front
will increase and the
minority votes will be
polarised in their favour in
those States where the
Congress doesnt have a
stronghold. The leaders who
have been propelling the idea
of the Third Front feel that in
the Modi versus Congress
game, the satraps will
strengthen in States like
Bihar and UP.
The Congress is
nowwhere in Bihar. Recently,
in Maharajganj by-polls the
Congress put in a lot of effort
but still faced defeat. In such
a scenario the only way to
stop Modi will be if minority
votes go to RJD and LJP. In
UP, the Congress had got
only 28 seats in last Assembly
elections. That is the reason
why Samajwadi Party chief
Mulayam Singh Yadav
expects the minority votes to
get polarised in his favour.
The BJD in Odisha and the
Left Front in West Bengal
have a similar viewpoint.
In all this, the BJP is
happy. After all, it has got all
the attention at least for now.
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T
he previous week, this column celebrated life in the
quiet corner of a Kumaon village. A life steeped in
community and the lilting notes of birdsong. There is a
harsh note amidst this idyll ie, sarkar. Here the State is
absent in a conspicuous way! Unlike, say, the hinterland,
where sarkari dictat is ubiquitous, here it remains tucked
away in tiny sheds, collecting salaries, fetching petty bribes,
and just about doing nothing.
There is much however that the State ought to do. To
understand its desired role, it is important to understand
the life cycle of the people of this village, which by the way,
is called Kafli, located four kilometres off the highway con-
necting Mukteshwar and Bhowali via Ramgarh. Kafli spans
two facing hills with a little river dancing down the valley
in between. The hills are ideally served by soil and weather
to produce an immense variety of fruit, and some vegeta-
bles. Among fruit, the most prominent are peaches (not
nectarine, but a more compact and aromatic variety), apri-
cot, plum and apples. Besides the famous Halwani potato,
which is currently being harvested, there is the
cabbage/cauliflower crop which follows the potato crop.
The hill on which I am resident has a motorable (barely
though) road. That road terminates at the stream down in
the valley. The other side of the valley is served by no more
than a mule track. That track goes all the way to
Padampuri, just 6 km away. Along the regular road the dis-
tance to Padampuri is about 35 km. Padampuri is a little
place on route to Haldwani, the wholesale market for all
that is produced in Kafli.
All this information might appear rather tedious,
except for the following facts. There is an unfair advantage
within the community when it comes to their produce.
Whereas our side of the village saves on transport by hav-
ing access to a motorable road, people on the other side
pay mules @ C60 per load to get their produce to the road,
from where the villages two Tata 407s do roaring business
in season. The State could widen the mule track to a regu-
lar road, a proposal to do which has been collecting dust
since ages. Alternatively, the Government could construct a
few motorised (or even non-motorised) pulleys to help
people get their fruit on to the existing road. Just the other
day I stood amazed as a single soul carted 14 sacks of pota-
to from the hill across (first down to the valley, then up
again) from morning to dusk. Each of these sacks weighs
40 kilos. Thats 700 kilos of dead weight.
The BJP MLA from the area is popular, mixes with the
people, attends weddings, and does his bit. It is not there-
fore a case of political neglect. The problem is that sarkari
thinking lacks the imagination to address the core problem
that plagues the people of Kafli. The present season is
fecund. Soon the rains will keep most people indoors. After
that winter will set in, and not a leaf will grow in these hills.
Unfortunately, the village people have little surplus, despite
the bounty of nature. Exorbitant transport costs and zero
marketing support by the state render them dependant on
the middle men (about a thousand strong) at the Halwani
mandi. These seths know almost everything about these vil-
lagers (how much land they own, what is their average
yield, and so on). These middlemen finance Kaflis farmers
through the winter. The seeds they buy, besides all the tack-
le necessary for their farming needs (like pipes to channel
scarce water), not to mention the food in their belly, comes
from loans taken from these middlemen.
Result: Kaflis bounteous produce, which fetches a
kings ranson in the big cities, earns little for the village
folk. Why? Because they can trade only with their bene-
factors in Haldwani. Notionally, these farmers are free to
sell their produce anywhere. In truth, their labour is con-
scripted by the middlemen at prices set by the latter. I am
amazed by the complicated arguments made against organ-
ised retail (in defense of the trader). What I see before my
eyes clearly tells me that the state can dramatically alter the
fortune of Kafli through infrastructural and meaningful
marketing support, and smart policies (like setting up links
between big retail and these farmers).
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or failure in the mind of another
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adicalism, of all variants, in Uttar
Pradesh is born with adversaries. Be it
an individual, or a community, there has
to be a strong enemy to fight. Stronger the
adversary, the more radical an individual
or the community will become. The mis-
sion of radicals is to destroy or capture the
enemy. Self-destruction is permitted in
radicalism. It is also a valid weapon in
achieving the larger goal.
For radicalism to sustain and even
expand, hatred against the adversary is
very important. Radicalism thus will not
permit a radical to accept the adversary.
Becoming part of the adversary is
unthinkable. Let us take this argument
and apply it to the tribals who are being
radicalised in several pockets.
The radicalised tribal has to first and
foremost hate the adversary. They have to
be a part of the process in dismantling the
adversary. Who is the adversary of the
tribals that are radicalised? Well, it is none
other than the Centre and State
Government. The Governments are not
abstract objects. The State represents
everything from Parliament to judiciary
to executive to the Army, the police, the
bureaucracy, schools and colleges.
Good radical tribal parents will there-
fore, will have children but will not send
them to schools. The newborn has to grow
to be a fighter. The child has to grow with
guns and not with pen and pencil.
The radicalised tribals will have to cre-
ate a system that is parallel to the State. A
tribal man therefore, joining the police
force is ruled out. The radicalised tribal
will not join politics to become an MP or
an MLA. They are also not supposed to
become collectors, judges or even profes-
sors. Even working as a clerk is ruled out.
The radicalised tribal is also brought
up with the idea that he has to oppose the
mainstream society. Migrating to cities is a
no-no. So what is that these people are left
with?
He is left with forests, wild animals,
grains he grows and wild fruits that he has
been gathering for generations. That apart,
he has to arrange food and shelter for the
leaders who have come to his village from
other States. To the radicalised tribals,
decisions taken by their leader are final. It
is God Himself has spoken.
But what happens if the movement
started by these leaders fails as it did in
Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Andhra
Pradesh?
Even though the revolutions fails, at
least two generations continue living the
ideals that radicalism had injecting into
their minds. Since the Centre and the State
is anti-tribal, the new generation doesnt
try to apply for Government jobs. Since
they were told that the mainstream society
is anti-tribal, the new generation develops
disrespect for them.
The result?
For at least two generations, tribals
will not even attempt to move as one with
the system. The suspicion against the
mainstream society will keep the tribals
stick to their ageold traditions. There will
be a number of high caste intellectuals
who will be romanticising the tribal way
of living, their food and their culture.
After a great loss and ruination the tribal
people will realise that all people all over
the world have progressed while they have
been left behind.
Meanwhile, the State, to bring the trib-
als at par with the mainstream society,
should change the Forest Laws that the
British authorities had mindlessly envi-
sioned and implemented. If the British
Rule did one thing wrong in India, it was
the Forest Laws that left the tribals at the
mercy of the forest officials.
The way Naxalites are wrong in their
premise that power comes from the gun,
the State is also wrong in its belief that
police and the paramilitary forces are the
answer to tackling the Naxal problem in
the country. De-radicalising the tribals is
the only long-term solution to the prob-
lem. De-radicalising of the tribals is not
only good for the tribals, it is good for the
State as well.
To that end, the State should realise
that the forests, forest produce, mines and
minerals and wild life belongs to the trib-
als. The State therefore must make tribals
stakeholder in all the forest wealth.
The factors that will unleash the de-
radicalisation process among tribals are:
Q24x27 hours electricity supply
QEach tribal home with LPG connection
QEach home with a TV and DTH
QCompulsory education in English medi-
um schools
QGood roads in tribal region
Unless the State and society come up
with other miracle solutions, radicalisation
of the tribals will continue. And this will
hurt and harm them the most. If the inter-
est of the tribals are harmed, the interest
of the nation will also suffer.
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S
hock horror! Hold the front page. It turns out the Internet is a
gigantic snooperama, a sinister Governmental periscope inside
your most personal electronic possession by which they can keep a
watch on you. Even now there are men in dark glasses in Langley,
Virginia, whose task is to track the websites you visit, chortling with
incredulous laughter. Out in Beijing, there are special agents building
your psychological profile from the stuff you like to buy from Ocado.
Its a global conspiracy to invade your privacy, my friends.
It seems that the big US Internet companies have been helping the
American security services with a Big Brother-type probe called
Prism; and the suggestion now is that UK spooks may somehow have
been using the results. Everyone is getting understandably worked up.
The champions of liberty are in full cry, and in principle I am with
them all the way. An Englishmans laptop is his castle, and all that kind
of thing.
My only question is: What on earth did you expect? I have never
trusted the security of the Internet, or emails, or indeed texts
because it was obvious from the very dawn of what was once called
the information superhighway that any data you sent to some server
or database or gizmo could no longer be in any sense private. It was
no longer shared between you and one recipient. It was stored in the
memory of some vast global intermediary. It was out there, in the
ether, just waiting to be hacked or lost or stolen or accidentally blurted
to your enemies. That is why I have always rather assumed that any
email I send should be drafted as if for public consumption, and that
all kinds of people could be reading it should they wish so to fritter
their lives as soon as I pressed send.
One night, a few years ago, I was working very late in China, when
a hilarious warning sign came up on my screen informing me I
have forgotten the exact words that other users were on my
machine. I felt very proud. Someone thought I was worth hacking! I
am afraid I just forged on with whatever I was doing, and it may be
that the moles are still there in the innards of my laptop, secretly relay-
ing useless information to their masters. Maybe the only way to get rid
of them is to take out the hard drive and melt it down, rather as Arnie
kills the Terminator. But then I will need a new machine, and that, too,
will be immediately vulnerable to infestation.
The whole point about the internet is that everything is, as they
say, everywhere; and that makes it hard for anything to be properly
private. I see that Larry Page, the CEO of Google, claims it is com-
pletely false to say that his company gives away information about
your internet activity. Pull the other one, Larry. If that is the case, how
come all users of your Gmail email accounts get those advertisements
pinged at them ads triggered by words in the very Content of the
emails themselves? I dont give a monkeys whether it is a machine or a
person: someone out there is monitoring my thoughts, as reflected in
my emails, and that someone is trying to sell me stuff on the basis of
what they have gleaned from my private blooming conversations!
I think if I were Shami Chakrabarti, or my old chum David Davis,
I might get thoroughly aerated at this point; and I have some sympa-
thy with their general position. But then I am afraid I also have sym-
pathy with our security services, and their very powerful need to use
the internet to catch the bad guys the terrorists, the jihadis, the
child porn creeps. There is a trade-off between freedom and security,
as Barack Obama rightly says; between the citizens right to total inter-
net privacy, and the duty of the state to protect us all from harm.
The question is where you draw the line, and how you enforce it;
and in the meantime, I have two suggestions for those libertarians
who have been scandalised by the revelations from America. The first
is to look at the bestseller lists, and the amazing success of a sweet lit-
tle book called Letters to Lupin the gin-sodden epistles of Home
Counties racing buff Roger Mortimer to his wayward son.
People adore this book because it evokes those men who fought in
the war Dear Bill characters whose conversation involved dirty
jokes, the state of the lawn, the soundness of horses, what the dog had
done on the carpet and the general insanity of their wives and other
female relatives. They remind us of a generation now fading, capable
of stiff upper lip but also of expressing great love and devotion; and
they remind us of how that love was expressed. The letter was an event
in itself. It wasnt just a piece of information pinged into your inbox. It
was a lovely hodge-podge of gossip and news and jokes, an art-form
that needs to be revived, and so all those who want to beat the internet
snoops just get out the old Basildon Bond, suck the end of your
biro, assemble your thoughts carefully and do as our grandparents did.
Failing that, there is clearly a massive business opportunity for a
British tech company. Look at all these US tech giants: I dont need to
name them you know who I mean. They dont pay their fair share
of tax; they collaborate with US snoopers; they are altogether too big
and powerful. They have had a lot of paint chipped off them lately. We
in Britain have produced all sorts of technological breakthroughs
indeed, Tim Berners-Lee actually came up with the World Wide Web.
But we have not yet produced a giant on the American scale and
now the gap yawns for a British internet provider that somehow roots
out the terrorists and the child molesters, and yet allows the blameless
punter to send an email in complete security. We want a British
Google that cracks the freedom vs security conundrum. Come on, you
Tech City brainboxes, it cant be that hard!
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DALTDARY
ChAh0RABhAh FRASA0
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ujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modis elevation to
chief of the BJPs election cam-
paign committee created an
upheaval not only in the saffron
camp but also in other political
parties in Uttar Pradesh.
Apparently, the ruling
Samajwadi Party and
Bahujan Samaj Party
were jittery as the BJP
stalwarts put their heads
together ahead of the
2014 Lok Sabha elec-
tions.
Now, all along,
both the SP as well as
the BSP are trying their
best to find ways and
means to lure the
Brahmin votes
to their respec-
tive parties.
While the BSP
had in its earlier
tenure also changed
its strategy of being a
Dalit-based party to
roping in the upper
castes also and hence its
slogan promising welfare
of sarva samaj instead of
just bahujan samaj. The
party formed Brahmin
bhaichara committees and pro-
jected Satish Chandra Mishra as
its Brahmin face. Once again
the BSP has activated its
Brahmin committees to
lure them in its fold.
Surprisingly the SP which
had always exhibited a soft cor-
ner for the minorities wasted no
time in following the footsteps of
its bete noire and also held a
number of Brahmin meets to
neutralise the efforts of its politi-
cal opponent, the BSP, in their
attempts of winning over the
Brahmins to
their side.
Till now
the veri-
table tug-
of-war
was
mainly
between
the SP
and the
BSP as
both the
parties
swore of
being a bigger
saviour of the
Brahmins than
the other. In
fact, the BSP
has also dis-
tributed tick-
ets to the
coming Lok
Sabha polls to a
number of
Brahmins in its
bid to please the upper
castes as also to prove
that it was not only
taking up the
cause of the
Dalits but also of
the upper castes.
Modis elevation may or may
not have created a divide within
the BJP ranks, but the SP and
BSP are nervous by this move.
Both the parties, which were till
now fighting over the Brahmin
votes, now feel that they will have
to either change their strategies
or step up their efforts to catch
the upper caste votes. Reason
being that the saffron camp has
always been the traditional home
and as such the natural choice of
the upper castes and Brahmins.
The Brahmin votes had in the
last few years strayed away from
the BJP as a result of the partys
weak position as also its inability
to put up a brave fight against its
foes. Obviously the BSP, the SP
and even the Congress had
stepped up its efforts to wean
away the upper caste votes from
the saffron camp.
Modis storming to the cen-
trestage has therefore upset the
applecart of the SP and the BSP
which had been in the past tak-
ing advantage of the fact that the
BJP in UP had sunk to an all
time low and had been getting a
beating at the hustings during
the past several years.
Modi fervour has provided
the much needed elixir the BJP
as the leaders, who had been
demoralised are of the view that
all is not yet lost for them and
they are once more enthusiastic
of rooting out their opponents,
the UPA-II at the Centre in the
2014 Lok Sabha polls. The com-
ing of Modi has definitely heated
up the poll scenario.
1IhXE F8T
It appears
that the
Allahabad
Commissoners
chair is jinxed.
At least this is
what the senior
bureaucrats opine.
In the past all the
senior officers who
had been
appointed to
the coveted
post have
either had a very
short tenure and
were transferred to
another place even before
they could settle down in
their new job.
But this time the post-
ing of the Allahabad
Commissioner virtually
set a record. The
officer posted was
shifted within 24 hours
of his appointment. The
grapevine was abuzz that the
officer concerned had, immedi-
ately taking over, wanted a probe
into the rampant nexus of the
mining mafia. As a result the
officers now are extra cautious if
they happen to take up the post.
At least they will certainly think
twice in case if they are ordering
a probe against the mining mafia,
which is reportedly controlled by
a person who is close to the pow-
ers that are in the
Samajwadi Party.
Of course, the
official spokesman
had quite a differ-
ent explanation
saying that trans-
fers and postings of
the officers were
purely an attempt to
tone up the admin-
istration.
Wh I8 ThE hEk?
Guess who is the Uttar
Pradesh Congress
Committee (UPCC)
chief? Surely it is none
other than Nirmal
Khattri. Only recently
when the Congress, after
a long time, decided to
take to the streets in
protest against the
Akhilesh Yadav
Governments decision of
a hike in the power
tariff everyone though
the State-wide protest
would obviously be led by the
PCC chief.
The partymen were taken by
surprise when the party head was
not in town. In fact, the entire
programme was headed by the
former PCC chief and present
party MLA Rita Bahuguna Joshi.
It was found that Khattri was in
New Delhi on the day of the pro-
gramme.
One hopes that the senior
party leaders are taking note.
P
rime Minister Dr
Manmohan Singh has
been elected as the Member
of Parliament of Rajya Sabha
for the fifth time. He is from
Punjab but decided to go all
the way to Assam to be
elected. He did try to win
from the Lok Sabha but was
unsuccessfully. Obviously
the public today, is far more
intelligent.
Destiny, they say, is what
got him to the top job in the
country. It is amazing how
his image, who changed the
financial structure of the
country as Finance Minister,
today has become part of
several controversies. The
common man is confused
how the Government works
today. They wonder if what
senior Congress leader
Digvijay Singh said that
there are two power centres
is true. The aam janta wants
to know the connect
between the Prime Ministers
Office (PMO) and the scams
that keep surfacing from
time to time. After all the
orders are given from the
High Command to be put
into action by the PMO. Is
this what leads to confusion?
One feels that there is no
governance, no rules or reg-
ulations to follow.
Everything appears to be
going wrong from policies
to sports federations to polit-
ical partnerships. With the
Delhi Assembly elections
round the corner, Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit is
going to save the Congress if
she returns as the Chief
Minister once again. The
question is whether the pub-
lic will vote for Dikshit when
the Congress has been
caught on the backfoot due
to various scams.
There are a few things
that people need to know.
Delhi Police does not come
under Sheila Dikshit
Government, it comes under
the Union Ministry for
Home Affairs. So, she cant
be blamed for the failure in
the law and order situation
in the Capital. Will the
Opposition take advantage
of the ignorance of the pub-
lic and confuse them? This
goes true for various scams
and corruption charges that
the UPA-II is facing. Delhi
State has nothing to do with.
Its the Centre. The Anna
Hazares are no match for
her. They have lost their
credibility in the eyes of the
public. Yet, it will be a
Herculean task for Dikshit to
educate the voters about var-
ious developmental projects
undertaken by her
Government.
Meanwhile, Manmohan
Singh needs to be congratu-
lated on his fifth term. He is
definitely a contender for
Prime Ministership in UPA-
III. One only has one expec-
tation from him that
explain the various scams
that have unfolded during
his regime. The public cant
forget that UPA-II has been
tagged the most corrupt
Government in the history
of Independent India.
The Congress president
and the vice-president are
trying their level best to put
their house in order before
the 2014 Lok Sabha elec-
tions. A reshuffle in the All
India Congress Committee is
long overdue. Those guilty of
non-governance corruption
should be punished. Such is
the state of corruption in our
country and the most loved
game has also not been
spared spot fixing and
matching fixing has left
the fans cheated.
Despite all the problems
in the Congress, the party
needs to win in Delhi to
make an impact in the
General Elections.
The Assembly elections
in Delhi is very important
for Dikshit. To win, her
achievements need to be
highlighted and not damp-
ened with petty internal pol-
itics. Only she can save the
Congress a fact that she
has proved time and again.
Raoicalism will lurt tle trilals most
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0elhi Assembly eleclions are round lhe corner. and lhe Congress is bogged down wilh
scams and corrulion charges. A win in lhe Slale resls wilh ils Chie Minisler
DLLBLL
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NaMo googly for
Mulayam & Mayawati
tIe pIoneer
A genuine leader is not a searcher
for consensus but a molder of
consensus
~ Martin Luther King, Jr
sunday
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l
For radicalism to
sustain and expand,
hatred against the
adversary is important.
Radicalism will not
permit a radical to
accept the foe. Let us
take this argument and
apply it to the tribals.
The radicalised tribal
has to first hate the
adversary. They have to
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the adversary of the
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had one controller to switch
on/off the light in your room, to
control the TV set, to operate the
shower with hot or cold water? That
would be cool, wouldnt it? No, this
isnt the remote from Adam Sandlers
movie Click nor is it a product
from Steven Spielberg next Sci-fi
film, rather, this gadget is for real and
is already in use at various prominent
hotels across the globe.
DigiValet is an iPad based one
stop solution for hotels which allows
guests to control all in-room facilities
with the ease of a touch screen. With
just one touch of a screen, guests can
control room lights, adjust air condi-
tioning temperature, open and close
multi layered drapes, operate the
television and easily browse multiple
channels, order food from room ser-
vice, access movies and music on
demand from current and classic
hits, Rahul Salgia, creator and devel-
oper of DigiValet says.
There are several other
facilities also available that
can be accessed on the tab
international radio stations,
one can surf YouTube and
stream the videos onto the TV
screen, access a host of interna-
tional newspapers from over 90
countries, communicate with
hotel services such as housekeep-
ing, Surf the internet on TV and
many more things.
It is already quite popular
among our in-hotel guests who use
the DigiValet to check who is at the
door on the device and unlock the
door via the electronic devise
itself.They feel safe and secure that
way. Guests can also check the billing
status at any point of time, check out
from the hotel and pay the bill, set
up a wake-up call, browse the spa
menu and book treatments etc,
Salgia tells you proudly.
How it works is simple. There is
an intelligent or smart box set up in
the room which is synced to com-
mand boxes in every department of
the hotel. There are different soft-
wares which again are synced to the
intelligent box which communicates
with the box and receives the com-
mands sent from the different boxes
of different rooms.
The iPad is always talking to
this smart box through an invisible
encrypted wi-fi technology which
processes com-
mands. While the software processes
the commands given from the
iPad to different departments
in the hotel, there hardware
commands, like switching on
the lights or working the TV
set are carried through cables.
Hence there are different
encrypted proto-
cols which the
box operates
either through
software or
through engi-
neered cables,
Chandan Roy,
head of
engineer-
ing and IT
solutions,
ITC
Maurya
tells you.
The
technology
also simplifies a
lot of confusion
that is otherwise created. For
instance, a hotel like ITC Maurya
which has about 400 rooms and usu-
ally on high occupancy, manually
placing, lets say a breakfast order can
be a time consuming and complex
activity.
Previously, if a customer orders
for a continental breakfast, it would
ideally take him 15-20 minutes to
place the order. From choosing the
kind of flakes: wheat, corn or puffs,
to the options in milk: skimmed or
full cream, to the juices and to the
side orders.
Moreover, a customer also gets
confused with so many different
options and takes time to decide.
However, with this new gadget, cus-
tomers can easily look at the pictures
and options and decide as per his
convenience. Once the order is
placed, the kitchen gets a command
note following which the customer
gets his breakfast within the next 30
minutes, without any complexities or
confusion, Roy adds.
This technology not only elevates
guest experience, but also includes a
host of invaluable benefits for hote-
liers such as, saving energy on un-
rented rooms, analysing TV channel
viewership to tailor a better channel
mix and auto report equipment fail-
ures.
Well, if DigiValet seems like a
revolutionising product, the compa-
ny is also coming up with a similar
product for household solutions later
this year. Well be coming out with
another product which will be target-
ed for the residential market. Itll
have a larger automation system.
However, itll be a lot more complex
to set it up, because, the hardware, be
it the tube light or the fan, have to be
products from high-end companies
which will be technology enabled
and are capable to being synced with
an intelligent box, Salgia concludes.
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level devices and top-end
performance devices. Each
of these phones is designed
to cater to a specific target
consumer. The A390 is
designed for young cus-
tomers and first time users.
The handheld is user-friend-
ly with 4GB storage space
and 512MB of RAM. Priced
at C8,689, the phone consists
of a 5-megapixel camera,
480x800 resolution with a 4-
inch display. A higher model
in the A series is the A706,
with a 4.5-inch IPS display
and 1GB of RAM.
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for entertainment lovers who
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el camera is equipped with
the Sony Exmor BSI sensor
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thinnest phone in its class.
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main thrust is on gestures as a means of navigation. It
takes time to get used to, and once you get used to it,
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realising how much work BB has done to get this bit
right.
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quirks. For instance, a phone left in the pocket will ran-
domly dial people from the recent callers list (couldnt
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contacts from the dialpad, but need to go to the con-
tacts page, type name, select number and then it dials.
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deliver a smooth and trouble free experience.
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ummertime is often accompanied with
holidays which means time to relax and
rejuvenate. What better way to do that
apart from heading to the nearest spa resort?
Delhites swear by weekend destinations which
offers them a break, takes them closer to
nature and also pampers their senses all in
one package! In a recent survey done by a
travellogue, more than 65 per cent of holiday-
ers prefer to go for these short visits to a spa
resort to beat the simmering heat. The moun-
tains are given a pass as most of the travellers
dont want to take the strenuous journey.
The nearest hill station to Delhi is about
8 to 10 hour journey. By the time one reaches
his resort, he is already exhausted and doesnt
feel like indulging in any activity. If you have
children who have a tendency to get mountain
sick then God help you. For me, the effort is
just too much, Raghav Mandawa, an IT pro-
fessional residing in south Delhi says. Only
recently the Mandawas had spent a weekend
at a spa resort in the Jaipur highway. The
experience they say, was quite out of the
world.
It was an expensive few days stay but the
spa was seriously rejuvenating. At the end of
the trip, I felt very relaxed and brimming with
positive energy. You cannot ask for anything
more from a holiday, Mandawa tells you.
There are many like the Mandawas who
head to these highway resorts for a few days
just to get their energy back. For bachelors,
backpacking on the mountains is fun, but for
families it gets a lot more complex. Hence, we
preferred a resort that offers many activities.
These facilities are widely spread across
thousands of acres of land. So, despite the
temperature soaring at 40 degrees plus,
we did not mind that at all because of
the time spent in the resort itself,
Rupal Shah a travel enthusiast tells
you. Shah says he has visited
almost 35 spa resorts but he finds
the ones near Delhi the most
enjoyable.
As per travel experts, there
has been a 15 to 25 per cent rise in
resort visitors during summers in
the last couple of years, especially
during weekends. The number of
people choosing to visit resorts dur-
ing the months of May, June and July
has spiralled. In 2011, approximately 400
people booked resorts through us, whereas
the number of bookings in 2012 was 500 and
the number has risen to 560 already this year
and it is still the first week of June. The desti-
nations are mostly Manesar, Neemrana, Jaipur,
Agra and Sohna, Asim Bhowmick, owner of
Travel Centre, a travel agency in south Delhi
tells you.
He says the trend has increased due to
easy online booking procedures and attractive
packages on offer. Their proximity to Delhi is
also a factor. Short breaks allow impulsive
travel and that has started appealing to Indian
travelers more than ever. Hectic work and
busy schedules give people little window for
well planned vacations and that has prompted
people to embrace weekend getaways. Add a
spa to it and the holiday becomes near perfect.
Short holidays have also become get-together
occasions for friends, Bhowmick adds.
Also dont forget the lucrative packages
that such resorts offer. Discounts, freebies and
free spa is thrown into a deal to lure cus-
tomers. A trick that has worked wonders. A
reputed travel magazine reported that from
2011-2013, spa resorts have mushroomed in
and around the Metros. While the ones in
Bengaluru are in the high price range, there
are a couple in the outskirts of Mumbai and
some that have recently started operation in
Delhi. Spa destinations are trending among
all age categories and gender being no bar. We
have a lot of male customers who want to
unwind with a simple head spa (which they
take every day of their stay) and wont mind
spending a bomb just to relax. They are happy,
we are happy. It is a win-win situation for
restaurateurs and a good business opportuni-
ty, Ram Dayal Sethi who owns a spa resort on
the way to Bhimtal says.
Sethi has priced his property in an afford-
able range of C15,000-C20,000 for a 2N3D
package for a couple. There are many other
such resorts that fall under this price category
but each one has something different to offer.
The spas also vary. While the feet reflexology
treatment is one of the most sought after spa
treatments, the aroma massage on a hot
waterbed is a hit with senior citizens. So is the
Thai and Balinese spa. There is a spa for
every mood and for every sense. Most of our
visitors want the Balinese spa because that is
most refreshing. The feet massages are also
quite a hit among holidayers. Couple spas are
another feature of the resorts. Many people
indulge in such massages. Here they get pam-
pered while spending time with their loved
ones away from the usual grind, Jyoti
Krishna, manager of Spavalley resort near
Manesar tells you. Spavalley is one of the more
popular resorts in this category and has won
many laurels.
Dr K P Kushwaha, tells you that
children face problems because of lack
of doctors and rehabilitation facilities.
The impact of JE has gone down fol-
lowing a vaccination programme in
16 districts of east UP but still, 20 per
cent of the affected children are so
weak that they cannot walk, write or
hold a glass in their hand, he says.
The Central Government was
supposed to start many rehabilitation
centres in endemic districts but the
process is yet to start though an
announcement was made way back in
2006, Dr Kushwaha admits.
Anita Tripathi, in-charge of the
rehabilitation centre for JE-handi-
capped children at the BRD Medical
College, admits that the hospital has
limited options to treat patients,
which also includes physio-therapy.
As most children hail from
underprivileged backgrounds, they
cannot come here for physiotherapy
daily. A proposal is pending with the
State Government to start a scheme
by which experts could go to the
doorstep of patients, she says.
In the past five years, the Centre
has counselled 7,580 children but half
of them have dropped out after two to
six months of treatment.
We have no means to know the
progress of these poor children, she
says, looking at the ceiling of the
dilapidated building.
Still looking upwards she adds
that the rehabilitation centre has been
reduced to disability certificates distri-
bution centre. This certificate helps
parents a C1 lakh compensation from
the Government.
The Uttar Pradesh Government
has announced a compensation of
C50,000 for the families of those
whose child dies of encephalitis and a
sum of C1 lakh for the disabled chil-
dren.
Parents, however, are not interest-
ed in compensation. I dont want the
money. What will I do with it? I want
my son back. Accepting money means
accepting that there is no hope for my
son. The Government should ensure
proper treatment, not money, Vidya
says, looking at her son who lies
unconscious in her lap.
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Rajaslhali Resorls & Sa in Jaiur. Serene environs,
aulhenlic Rajaslhani k|ana, royal sa lrealmenls in lhe la
o luxury, one can go on and on. Bul whal lakes lhe cake al lhis
resorl is lheir wanl lo be as close lo lradilion as ossible. 0uesls
are laken back in lime as lhey are made lo mounl a camel which
will lake lhem lo lheir reseclive rooms/collages. Fruil inusions
are served in exquisile silverware as soon as one makes his/her
way inlo lhe recelion area. This exerience o a majeslic
welcome makes sure your holiday has slarled on lhe righl nole.
There is grandness wril all over lhis resorl - lhe rooms are
all well aoinled wilh lalesl lechnology and lhe services are
raiseworlhy. hol every resorl gives you ermission lo lake a di
in lheir indoor swimming ool al any given lime bul lhe
managemenl al Rajaslhali Resorls and Sa have no roblems in
lending lo insomniac guesls who visil lhe ool al odd hours al
nighl.
Mosl o lhe visilors al lhis oulenl resorl come lo unwind al
lhe Favilra Sa, one o lhe major allraclions o lhe resorl. The
sa which sreads over 25OO sq eel and overlooks lhe
surrounding Aravallis is heaven on earlh. Silualed in lhe backlawn
o lhe resorl, Favilra Sa looks inviling rom lhe oulside bul
during eak summer alernoons even lhe lhree layered insulalion
doesn'l hel lhe heal waves rom enlering lhe high acilily lenls.
There are aboul 24 lrained women and men masseuse who have
lhe know hows o a sa lrealmenl. They work shils o six al one
lime. These lrained eole romise you over an hour o comorl
righl in lhe middle o greenery and lranquilily.
0nce al Favilra Sa, guesls should lry lhe eel relexology,
lhe oil head massage and lhe uber relaxing holbed back rubs. The
horweigian ainrelie lrealmenl and lhe Swedish body massage
are by ar lhe besl lrealmenls al lhe resorl. For lhe Ayurvedic
massages, lhough one needs lo go comlelely releaxed wilh no
lime bounds. There is no oinl rushing a masseuse so il is
advisable lhal you give lhis sa a ski i you are in a mad rush.
Anolher highlighl o lhis sa is lhe acl lhal a guesl can ol or
lwo dierenl sa lrealmenls rolled inlo one session. Masseuse
lell you lhal lhe Swedish wilh Ayurveda is a greal combinalion or
eole over 4O years o age. For lhe younger lol, lhere is always
lhe aroma oil backrubs.
Friced belween C1,5OO2,5OO, lhese sa lrealmenls ensure
lhal you are lransormed inlo a virlual realm in a maller o
minules. whal makes lhe massage a comlele rejuvenaling
exerience is lhe aroma oils lhal lhe masseuse use while lending
lo lhe guesl. Moslly mogra wilh a hinl o jasmine oil, Favilra Sa
is value or money.
while lhe rooms are big and wide, cenlrally aircondilioned
wilh a 82inch LE0 Tv, a kingsi/ed bed and a coule o viclorian
chairs, however, lhe only drawback is lhal lhere is no jacu//i in
lhe deluxe rooms, jusl simle showers. The remiere alace
rooms loo merely have a balh lub alongside a shower. Yel, lhe
carved walnul anels on lhe ceilings, sraeli marbled loors,
lradilionally embroidered bed covers and lhe classic Rajaslhani
woven silk curlains, all come logelher lo make a rooms lhal's
luxurious and cosy al lhe same lime.
Friced belween C8,2OO O,OOO er nighl, lhe resorl is quile a
good olion i you are considering a weekend gelaway combined
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T
he decisive moment in Sanju
Viswanath Samsons career came
this April 29, when his team
Rajasthan Royals was chasing a target of
172, set by Royal Challengers Bangalore
at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in
Jaipur. It was indeed a tough target in a
T20 match especially when one considers
the kind of attack Challengers put up
against Royals batsmen. Royals skipper
Rahul Dravid had already decided to
send in the Kerala teenager, aged just 18
years and 169 days that day, to bat at No
3. In the distant coastal village of
Vizhinjam, Thiruvananthapuram, his
family, relatives, friends and well-wishers
spent anxious moments in prayers.
TC Mathew, secretary, Kerala Cricket
Association, would later say that there
was no reason to be anxious, at least for
him, as he knew the boy could do it and
would do it. His body language proved
that Sanju, who began playing cricket
when he was just four years old on a
Delhi by-lane along with his brother Saly,
was not at all tense. He just went in and
batted, a performance which forced
Kerala coach P Ranganathan to compare
him with none less than MS Dhoni.
Sanju scored 63 runs off just 41 balls and
built a partnership of 68 runs from 46
balls with Shane Watson, writing a new
IPL record by becoming the youngest
player to score an IPL half-century and
becoming the Man of the Match. That
performance was enough to ensure the
Royals victory.
While watching Sanju play, you
would never say he is a youngster. It is
such class, mature cricket he is playing.
He is cool on the crease, composed and
confident. Id compare him to Dhoni
and I am sure one day he would justify
my impertinence in making this compar-
ison, says Ranganathan. I compare him
to Dhoni also because of his position as a
keeper-batsman. He is one of the safest
keepers in present-day India, he adds.
His performance as Royals keeper at the
IPL match against Kings XI Punjab in
which he debuted stands testimony to
this. Sanju was called in to guard the
wickets as regular keeper Dishant Yagnik
was forced to take a day off because of an
injury. He proved his mettle as keeper by
impressing all with a great catch that
removed Rajagopal Sathish off the ball of
James Faulkner.
Then you saw the other side of the
boy when he was called in to bat at the
middle by joining Ajinkya Rahane just
when the Royals were struggling at 79 for
four after 12 overs and five balls. That
was the first time I saw how cool and
composed Sanju could be in moments of
tension, just like Dhoni would act in
such situations. He just went through it,
like an ice-cold professional,
Ranganathan recalls. Sanju made 27 runs
off 23 balls and made an unbroken
47run partnership with Rahane. Royals
won the match in 19.4 overs.
Were you tense, nervous? I ask
Sanju. Not at all. I was very confident,
he tells me over the phone from
Bangalore, where he is preparing to get
into the under-19 Indian team for
Australia trip. Ranganathan says Sanju
deserves to be the captain of that team.
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In Kerala, a state where parents nor-
mally want their children to be doctors,
engineers or IT professionals, where par-
ents do not like to see their sons and
daughters wasting time on sporting
tracks and fields taking time off their
academic textbooks, Samson Viswanath,
father of Sanju, is different. I was always
there for them. Sanju and Saly (18
months elder to the Royals star) had
showed clear signs of their will to excel
in cricket when they were little kids. I
was then a footballer working with the
Delhi Police in the Capital. I bought bats
and pads and tennis balls for them,
encouraged them to play cricket, and
even spent money to send them to a
good academy, says Sanjus father, now
settled with the family in Vizhinjam.
We returned to Kerala five years
back but I ensured that the boys contin-
ued to pursue cricket, he says and then
adds with a tinge of pride, Oh, yes, Saly
is a very good cricketer, an excellent all-
rounder. Saly, for his part, is the proud
brother of a great cricketer, Sanju, when
he says, He is mature enough to under-
stand his responsibilities. He can play at
any number and he can play all versions
of cricket, not just the quick T20s. The
maturity of which Saly, who plays for the
under-25 Kerala team, speaks of gets
reflected in Sanjus own words: There are
no short-cuts in life and career. It is hard
work and confidence that matter. Games
wont take you anywhere. Mature words
indeed from a cricketer who has led him-
self to responsibility at the age of 18.
It is not just on the crease and behind
the wickets Sanju has been showing his
maturity and responsibility. His academic
record is a fitting answer to the doubts of
normal Kerala parents who feel that play-
ing could affect studies. When the plus
two exam results were published last
month, Sanju had passed it decently,
scoring an A+ in Hindi, A in English and
good grades in his Commerce group
mains. Mother Liji was relieved. Our son
was not getting enough time for studying.
He could rarely attend the classes. We
used to take printouts and photocopies of
the notes from his classmates. He would
study them during his rest periods and
cricket journeys, says Liji.
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The matches against Royal
Challengers and Kings XI were not the
only memorable matches as far as Sanjus
IPL performance is concerned. He won
the Young Player of the Season Award
for IPL 2013. He had won the Naya Soch
award in his fourth IPL match for Royals
against the Pune Warriors. His 47 runs
off 33 balls leading to a 76-run partner-
ship with Rahane was praised much by
the analysts. However, there were certain
lows for him in IPL this year as we saw it
in the match against Chennai Super
Kings in Jaipur on May 12 when he
could not even open the account after
going in at No 4. Against Mumbai
Indians on May 15, he could score only
four runs while his contribution to the
Royals kitty against Sunrisers on May 17
was just five runs. But you dont judge a
batsmans mettle by such occasional lows.
He is powerful and confident and full of
determination as we have seen already.
Even Gawaskar and Tendulkar have had
their lows, says Venkiteswaran of a
cricket club in Kochi, already a fan of
Sanju.
Indeed, it was the IPL which gave
Sanju the kind of exposure he deserved
and catapulted him to instant fame but
that was not the only arena where he has
proved his prowess. Immediately after
the Samsons settled in
Thiruvananthapuram, Sanju became a
member of the Kerala under-13 cricket
team, captaining it and starting his class
cricket career by scoring a brilliant cen-
tury in the debut match itself in the
South Zone tournament. In five matches,
he hit four centuries! That performance
and the unrelenting hard practice
brought him captaincy of the under-16
and under-19 State cricket teams. He
scored a 200-not-out off 138 balls against
Goa in a South Zone match as a member
of the Kerala under-16 team. Sanju, who
made his debut in Kerala Ranji Trophy
team in November, 2011, became the
youngest man to represent the State in
first class cricket. His bat produced 722
runs, including two centuries, from 10
innings in the 2012-2013 domestic sea-
son!
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But the cementing of my trust in
him as a cricketer happened with this
years Ranji when he scored a brilliant
century against Himachal Pradesh,
enabling us to draw the match with
them, which was a rare achievement.
Though I was certain even earlier that
Sanju was world class cricket material,
it was at that moment, I began to trust
my trust, says KCA secretary Mathew.
And then there was this match in
South Africa. It was there where Sanju
had actually graduated into world class
cricket. He put up a great show against
their provincial side in which even their
national players were included,
Mathew recalls.
Sanju was a member of the Kolkata
Knight Riders players pool in 2012 when
a Malayalam newspaper published an
eight-column flier story on him on the
sports page with headline: Here comes
Knight Rider Sanju Samson. He
reached the dugout but did not get the
chance to play. But that was when the
eyes of the IPL auctioneers really fell on
him. That was good for him, said a for-
mer official of KCA.
Mathew, never known as a great
admirer of S Sreesanth, however, gives
part of the credit to him for Sanjus entry
into the Rajasthan Royals team. But
KCA had played a very big role in his
advent to fame and world class perfor-
mance. We had recently come to a deci-
sion much to the dislike of the tradi-
tionalists in cricket to promote young-
sters to national cricket with pro-
grammes that helped them to graduate
in the game. You cannot get great results
from a man after he plays for 12-15 years
continuously. The judgement can happen
in just four-five years. That is what hap-
pened in Sanjus case, claims Mathew.
Cricket officials in Kerala say that
Sanju had ended a long drought felt in
the State for batsmen of national stan-
dards. We have had several class bowlers
some of whom even made into the
Indian team and had performed well,
like Sreesanth and Tinu Yohannan. But
we were lacking in batsmen of that stan-
dard. We have got one now, said a KCA
official who did not want his name to
appear in print. Sanju has become an
inspiration and role model for several
boys in our rolls and are playing promis-
ing cricket. This did not happen just like
that. It happened also because of our
hard work and well-planned graduation
schemes, he added. Sanju agrees with
that claim.
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There could be official claims,
media evaluations, etc but what matters
when you walk up that small patch in the
middle of the grass, you are a lone sol-
dier whose life depends on determina-
tion, confidence, training and prayers.
You dont see the fanfare, you dont hear
the cheers. It is you, and your companion
standing on the other side, surrounded
by the enemy army with the bowler
advancing on to you to attack. Sanju has
proved he is a great soldier if cricket is a
war. But he has several more wars ahead
to win, says Babu P, a retired club crick-
eter from Thrissur who used to play in
the same positions as Sanjus.
Sanju, working hard for inclusion in
the under-19 Indian team for Australia
tour this season, is fully aware of this. It
is hard work that matters most and not
gimmicks, he tells you. There are many
international cricketers whom he sees as
role models but most prominent among
them is his RR skipper Rahul Dravid.
Not even in the wildest of my dreams
had I ever hoped to meet Dravid Sir. I
just could not believe that I was playing
with him, under him and taking instruc-
tions and advices from him directly. That
was such a magical experience, Sanju
says in an emotion-choked voice.
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What if the King of Clay
had been attracted to football
rather than tennis? A not
impossible scenario since the
beautiful game is the most pop-
ular sport in Spain.
The 27-year-old from
Mallorca does have some
impressive football pedigree in
his family. His Miguel Angel
Nadal was a defender with
European giants Barcelona and
under the legendary Johan
Cruyff, won five Spanish
leagues, two Copa Del Rey titles
and the European Cup in 1992.
Rafael has the potential to
follow in his uncles footsteps.
He certainly does not lack the
physical attributes to become a
top footballer.
With a height of 61 and a
bodyweight of 85 kilos most
of it pure muscle that, teamed
up with his impressive physical
power (he has the heaviest fore-
hand in contemporary tennis)
Nadal would have proved a
handful for most opponents on
the football ground in a one on
one situation.
Given his phenomenal fit-
ness and seemingly endless sta-
mina, he would have made an
extremely fine footballer indeed.
for a man who can grind
through five grueling hours of
high quality tennis, ninety min-
utes of running up and down a
football pitch could seem like
childs play.
If he had indeed decided to
play football, he could have
made a really fine winger or full
back, given the fact that players
in these positions need to have
lighting pace along with an end-
less reservoir of stamina.
Even as a central defender,
he could have done well. With
his height and power, he could
have been difficult to beat in the
air. However, his suspect left
knee, which has needed rehabil-
itation several times in the past,
would have proved to be his
Achilles heel in that depart-
ment.
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Rugby is another game that
requires explosive sprinting
power, loads of stamina and the
ability to take some hard knocks
and keep going.
However, as a rugby player,
Nadal would have to add some
more bulk to his muscles as
most players of similar height
have bodyweights of 100 kilos
or more. At his current body-
weight, Nadal would be at a dis-
tinct disadvantage during the
tackles.
But with his speed and sta-
mina, he has the potential to be
a useful player on the wings.
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Hockey is another game
which is perfect for Nadal. The
Spaniard, who reportedly has
the most powerful forehand in
the world, could have also been
an effective penalty corner spe-
cialist.
The forehand smash
requires strong forearms, pow-
erful shoulders and perfect
placement and all these qualities
are essential for a successful
penalty corner specialist as well.
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Nadals blend of raw physi-
cal power, endurance and height
is a perfect recipe for a success-
ful 400m runner. While it is dif-
ficult to say whether he would
have been a match for the ath-
letes from Jamaica, being a top
performer in the European cir-
cuit perhaps could have been an
achievable target.
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With 11 Grand Slam
titles to his name, a record
eight of them at the French
Open, Rafael Nadal is one of
the greatest ever players on a
clay court. There is absolutely no
doubt that the Spaniard has left a
huge impact on the game. But what if
he had not become a tennis player and
had decided to play some other game?
Just suppose, for the heck
of it, that the Spaniard
had been enamored by
sports other than tennis.
While most of his
rivals, including a cer-
tain Roger Federer
would be more than
happy with such a sce-
nario, how would have
Nadal fared in other
sports? Would he be
as successful?
AJEYO BASU
tries to find out...
f Naoal were to lay,
Sanju's academic
record is a fitting
answer to the doubts
of parents who feel
that playing could
affect studies. When
the Plus Two exam
results were declared
last month, Sanju had
passed it decently,
scoring an A+ in
Hindi, A in English
and good grades in
his Commerce group
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T
he Kapoor family is in many ways a
Bollywood parallel to the Nehru fam-
ily at the national level. It occupies
the place of Bollywoods first family
and it was with Raj Kapoor and RK
Films that it came into prominence, although it
entered cinema with Prithviraj Kapoor. Raj
Kapoor was also the closest that India had to an
ideological hero in the Nehru era. The current
scion of the family
Ranbir Kapoor is gain-
ing in importance as a
star but his place cannot
be understood indepen-
dently. Just as Rahul
Gandhi cannot be under-
stood without reference
to the Nehru family,
Ranbir Kapoor owes too
much to his khandaan.
Although Raj
Kapoors films were
critical of society and the
establishment, he had a privileged position in
the film industry by the early 1960s because of
his closeness to power. There were other
filmmakers in the same period like Bimal
Roy and Ritwik Ghatak who had exhibited
similar concern but were not favoured. Raj
Kapoors political importance owed as much to
his cultivated persona as to his directorial
importance when the nation was being
constructed in the 1950s. Apart from the social
criticism they engage in, his two most important
films of the 1940s and 1950s Barsaat (1949)
and Awaara (1951) are allegories about
political reconciliations within the nation: The
ethnic minorities with the modern nation in
Barsaat, state authority with the nations
dispossessed children in Awaara. Shree 420 can
be interpreted as a diatribe against the wealthy
and decadent opponents of Nehruvian
modernity. Raj Kapoor was perhaps also being
constructive while the other filmmakers were
merely critical. He personified the exemplary
citizen who aligned himself with state action in
an actual political conflict. That Raj Kapoor
understood the ideological preoccupations of
the state better than any other filmmaker is also
underscored by Bobby (1973) which is about the
dignity of the small businessman (Premnath)
when confronted by a big industrialist (as played
by Pran). Mrs Indira Gandhi was then moving
against the monopoly houses and wooing small
enterprise as part of her populist strategies.
Prithviraj Kapoors descendants perhaps
represent the most well-connected family in
Bollywood and Raj Kapoors two brothers both
succeeded in different ways in the film industry.
His sons all got timely breaks, though only Rishi
Kapoor was able to build on it. Although Raj
Kapoor cast Rishi Kapoor as the hero of Bobby,
Rishi Kapoor did not become an ideological
hero in his fathers mould and largely played the
romantic hero, but ideological rhetoric was on
its way out of Hindi cinema after Mrs Gandhis
first period in office. The point being made here
is that if Bollywood has been a fiercely
competitive milieu, Prithviraj Kapoors
descendants on the male line have had a distinct
advantage. The purpose of this preamble is to
suggest the push that Ranbir Kapoor may have
received as a star, which is necessary to
acknowledge before we evaluate his successes.
Ranbir Kapoors first film to attract
attention was apparently Ayan Mukerjis low-
budget Wake Up Sid (2009), but his features
were already well-known when he appeared in
it. A film stars trajectory is not dependent
only on cinema today and many stars
especially those from film-land families are
known through the ads they appear
in and the brands they endorse. One
is not certain of the financial terms
involved but there appears to be a
symbiotic relationship here because
while the stars sell the brands, their
association with the products they sell
promotes them equally. This is not only true
of film stars but of all celebrities including
those in cricket, who remain in the public eye
with the help of advertisements.
Wake Up Sid was declared a hit but it is a
singularly dull film about a spoiled young man
from an affluent family who learns to shoulder
his responsibilities. Ranbir Kapoor plays
Siddharth Mehra (or Sid) and one cannot
imagine that the film would have been of
interest if an unknown newcomer had played
the role. What is Sid to us that we should care
about his life and his education, is the first
thought that came into ones head because the
heroine (Konkona Sen Sharma) is not
glamorous and the film does not even have
romance to enliven it. The only explanation for
the films success is that the public came for
Ranbir Kapoor, who was already a celebrity
before he became a film star, and their
expectations had been aroused. It is a strange
aspect of celebrity culture that we are brought so
close to people unknown until yesterday even
close enough to begin caring about them.
Ranbir Kapoors next big success
Barfi! (2012) was Indias official entry
for the Oscars. Barfi! belongs to the
kind of cinema which pleads for the
inclusion of the disadvantaged within
mainstream society. It does this by
dealing with the unfulfilled mutual
love of a deaf-mute boy and a
normal girl and the boys dealings
with an autistic girl, whom he
eventually marries. The film is about
an exuberant young man,
disadvantaged physically but with
irresistible charm. In order to portray
him, the film plagiarises freely from silent
cinema, Charlie Chaplin and Mr Bean. It is
not necessary to go into the details but the most
obvious bit is from Chaplins City Lights (1931).
While plagiarising so extensively from well-
known films is not acceptable practice, it is not
this aspect as much another one which should
leave people hostile and this has to do with the
way Barfi is portrayed. In the first place, while
Barfi is supposed to be a disadvantaged boy
from the poorer classes, he is impeccably attired
in designer clothes. He is always fresh, neatly
shaved or with a fashionable amount of stubble.
The film also takes pains to associate him
minimally with his working class father
perhaps because a celebrity must be careful
about the company he keeps. The argument
here is that when a big actor plays a role of this
sort, he should at least submit to it out of
humility towards those he is representing.
When Ranbir Kapoor impersonates the poor
deaf-mute Barfi, the emotion he arouses in us is
the one awakened when we learn that the kin of
a powerful person has usurped a resource
meant for the genuinely disadvantaged.
Sympathy is perhaps a similarly precious
resource and should be extended only to those
who deserve it and not to impersonators. Barfi!
is intended as a middle film but one needs to
compare it with a portrayal from genuine
middle cinema Sadhu Meher in Shyam
Benegals Ankur (1974) to understand how
spurious Barfi! and its protagonist are.
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Chalin and Mr
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aeared lo be oor, he gave
a convincing erormance as
deamule Bari.
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had several laws.
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one o lhe inesl ilms o his
career so ar, Ranbir layed
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salesman. The
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versalilily wilh his boynexl
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chemislry he shared wilh
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againsl veleran aclors like
Ajay 0evgn,
Manoj Bajyee
and hana
Falekar,
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Samar Frala.
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ut more importantly from the
viewpoint of this article, Ranbir
Kapoor tries to mimic Raj
Kapoors lovable antics and there is a
deliberate effort to make the deaf-mute
Barfi appear more charming than he is
by having his companions adulate
him. Raj Kapoors heroes are perhaps
the only ones in Hindi cinema who are
loved more than they love. Since Raj
Kapoor was producer-director, the
women in his films are required to find
him irresistible, and this kind of
fascination is also directed towards
Ranbir Kapoor as Barfi.
Ranbir Kapoors latest hit Yeh
Jawaani Hai Deewani, also directed by
Ayan Mukerji, is expected to be one of
the top Hindi grossers of all time, but it
goes about promoting its star in the
same dubious way. The film has roughly
the same formula as Aditya Chopras
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995).
The film begins with preparations for a
wedding and a flashback taking us back
seven years. A group of boisterous
students are going off on a trek in
Himachal Pradesh and their studious
classmate Naina (Deepika Padukone)
joins them. The star of the group is
Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor) who is adored
by everyone. Naina is initially alarmed
by Bunnys ways but she begins to fall in
love although he remains playfully
indifferent. The friends part company at
the end of the trip with Bunny
intending to fulfill his dreams by
becoming a journalist and travelling
around the world but they all meet
again in 2012 at the wedding. Bunny
and Naina now declare their love for
each other although there is a brief
inter-personal crisis involving their
other friends. The dilemma now is
whether Bunny can give up his dreams
and settle down with Naina and this is
what he eventually chooses to do.
There is not much to be said about
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani except that it
exhibits the usual ostentation that
Bollywood has become known for and
everyone outspends everyone else.
Especially tasteless and irksome in their
lavishness are the wedding preparations
at a luxury hotel in Udaipur. Also
showcased are the tourist hotspots of
Europe, the excuse being Buntys
dreams. Bunny wants to be a traveller
and an international journalist but his
dreams revolve around the hotspots
selected by Thomas Cook or SOTC
like the Eiffel Tower in Paris, New York
and Broadway. He is not where the
action is (like Syria or Sudan) but only
where the tourists are.
The film is a casting coup of sorts
because Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika
Padukone ended their former
relationship acrimoniously, with
Deepika going on television to talk
about him. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is
designed as an onscreen reconciliation
between estranged celebrities and the
highpoint of the film is some ardent
kissing between the two. More
pertinent, however, is the strategy to
make Bunny the star through the
fiction in the film. In Dilwale Dulhania
Le Jayenge, Shah Rukh Khan comes
across brilliantly because he has natural
charisma and not because the fiction in
the film turns him into a star but
Shah Rukh is also self-made. In Yeh
Jawaani Hai Deewani, every character
in the film behaves as though Bunny is
a natural superstar. It is as if the film is
providing Bunny with adoration in the
story because Ranbir Kapoor may not
find it in the theatres. As an instance,
although only a guest he appears at the
Udaipur wedding as if he were its life
and soul a spectacular entrance
complete with cheering audiences
and admiring friends.
This is not to suggest that Ranbir
Kapoor does not have a genuine
following because Yeh Jawaani Hai
Deewani is a huge hit, but we cannot be
certain what role the factor of birth
plays in a film stars appeal. Still, we live
in a milieu in which the accident of
birth amplifies hugely the qualities
ascribed to the individual while it takes
a long time for the qualities of the self-
made person to be acknowledged.
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grew up under the shade of majestic and
gigantic chinar trees. I faced my first cricket
ball in front of its stump. Learnt my first les-
son under its cool breeze and understood my
villages unity in diversity under its canopy.
Eighteen chinars, witness to every movement in
my small beloved village of Deever, Tral, in south
Kashmir, stand tall at every significant place. A
Hindu temple, two mosque-shrine-enclaves, two
gurdwaras and two schools all spread their collec-
tive wisdom through their branches. I still miss the
luxury of swinging on ropes tied to strong chinar
branches on Baisakhi, marking the advent of the
breezy and green spring.
Boune, as Kashmiris call this exotic tree, is the
hallmark of Paradise on Earth. It is intrinsic to the
landscape of the region. There is hardly any village
that lacks this royal possession, symbolising
Kashmirs pride and grandeur and exhibiting its
dominant culture. Artists draw traces of chinar, its
branches and palmate leaves on papier mache cas-
kets while seamstresses replicate them on shawls
and clothes with their magical needles and crafty
hands. It has been the pillar of history, the muse of
the poet, the haven of the divine. The fan leaves,
which change their colour with the seasons from
green in spring to yellow through summer and
crimson in autumn have to be seen to be believed.
The fall of leaves spreads a golden carpet around
the chinar. This crisp carpet cushions the most stri-
dent footfall and takes one to a walk in the clouds.
Boune-Platanus Orientalis, Linn, its rather long
biological name, gives weight to botanists theory
that it originated in Greece. King Asoka is believed
to have imported and implanted it in Kashmir.
According to legend, the boune has earned its
name from the Hindu goddess Bhawani. Some say
that during the Buddhist period, it was called
Budhi which was later corrupted to boune. The
present popular Persian name, chinar, owes its ori-
gin to Mughal emperor Jahangir. Story goes that
on an autumn day, Jahangir set foot in Kashmir.
From a distance, he saw a grove loaded with crim-
son eaves. In sheer ecstasy, he shouted, Chi naar!
(What a blaze!), and his pliant courtiers picked up
the expression to rechristen the grove.
Mughals patronised the chinar tree in
Kashmir and spread it in every nook and cranny.
Hundreds of trees were planted in the famous
Mughal gardens, along the well-known roads and
in the premises of grand mosques and shrines.
When Akbar took over the reins of Kashmir in
1586, he ordered the planting of 750 chinar
saplings on the shores of Dal Lake near Hazratbal.
Naseem Bagh (garden of cool breeze) came up,
and still exists with hundreds of colossal trees. It
now houses a part of Kashmir University campus.
The emperor was so concerned about the gar-
den flourishing with chinars that he ordered the
saplings be watered with milk. Poet of the east,
Allama lqbal, travelled to Kashmir and wrote some
of his best couplets under the shade of Naseem
Bagh chinars. During emperor Aurangzebs reign,
a blaze engulfed the Grand Mosque of Srinagar
and razed it to cinders. Aurangzeb wrote to his
governor on the tragedy and inquired about the
fate of chinar trees grown in the lawns of the
mosque. On knowing that the chinars were safe,
he remarked, The mosque can be rebuilt in a year
or two, but it would have taken a long time to
beautify it with chinars.
The patronage of chinar trees continued dur-
ing the Dogra rule (1886- 1947). The kings plant-
ed hundreds of them in Srinagar and the country-
side. All structures reminiscent of Dogra rule
palaces, gardens, colleges and hospitals are sur-
rounded by chinar trees. Today, you can see the
best pruned variety in the lawns of
InterContinental, The Grand Palace, a heritage
hotel thats keeping the Dogra legacy alive.
The past is rooted to the tree, the trunk of an
ageing chinar hollows out and legend goes that
ghosts find shelter in them. Often mortals too
have sought refuge as is borne out by Akbarnama
and Tuzk-e-Jahangiri. When Akbar travelled to
Kashmir, he was caught up in sudden rain, He,
along with his 34 guards, took shelter in the large,
hollow trunk of a chinar. Jahangir and his seven
courtiers on horseback entered another chinar
trunk to avoid thunder showers.
Sages meditated inside them and at many
places, idols of Lord Shiva are placed in the epi-
cormic branches grown around the trunk of chi-
nars by Kashmiri Pandits. They adorn the chinars
with flowers and smear vermillion on the bark as a
mark of respect. At one place in Ganderbal, paying
obeisance to a grand chinar is a must for the
groom and bride before they formally enter into
wedlock. In Anantnag, a unique chinar has shot
up with two major branches. One branch has ever-
green leaves while the other follows the seasonal
colour scheme. Locals believe the saints had
touched the evergreen branch and it wont wither.
Ever. A visitor will hardly find a chinar without
character. Each tree is named by association with
an object. So theres the Bregih boune (chinar of
cranes because they provide shelter to hundreds of
birds), Naid boune (a cluster where barbers set up
shop), Maharaz boune (the bridegrooms grove),
Poshe boune (the guardian of the saffron fields),
Astan boune (the grace of the shrine) and the
Mandar boune (temple canopy).
It is one nature symbol that has lent itself to
every conceivable imagination and interpretation.
The 14th century mystic, Lal Ded, has in her
wakhs (verses), likened a faithful wife to Shihij
boune (a cool Chinar). When a young and strong
person dies, people describe the loss as akin to the
fall of a tree. And should you accomplish an
impossible feat, people celebrate by forcing a log
through the trunk of a chinar (boneh mohul
tarun). Kashmiris wear their pride, choosing to
name their cherished projects after the grand tree.
Schools teach a Chinar series of books, the
Hindustan Machine Tools watchmaking factory is
called Chinar Watches Limited. And when the late
Shaikh Abdullah, the tallest Kashmiri leader of
recent times, chose to write his autobiography, he
named it Aaatish-e-Chinar (fire of Chinar).
Muhammad Sultan Wadoo, an environmen-
talist, discovered the sub-continents biggest and
oldest chinar at Chattergam in central Kashmir,
14.7 m high. But he is not ecstatic about his find,
worried as he is about the rapidly depleting virgin
wealth. In 1970, the Valley boasted 42,000 trees
but now their number has dwindled to a mere
20,000. On its part, the Government has set up a
Chinar Development Authority to make good the
loss. Chinar remains deeply etched in Kashmiri
culture. Allama lqbal once predicted that
Kashmirs soil containing the fire of chinar would
never be subjugated nor suppressed. Jis khak ke
zameer mein ho aatish-e-chinar, mumkin nahin ki
sard ho woh khak-e-arjumand (The land that has
in its conscience the spark of chinars will never die
down, this celestial land). Or as the poet lqbal said,
the warmth of the Kashmiri soil can be attributed
to the blaze of chinars it nurses in its bosom.
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acation is meant to recharge your
energies, rewind and refocus so
that you are refreshed to return
to routine and cope with work pres-
sures. However, how you treat yourself
on your vacation determines whether
this becomes a reality. More often than
not, I find people over-indulging in
food and drinks, and veer off from exer-
cise schedules on the pretext of being on
a holiday. This makes people gain
weight, feel sluggish and tired.
According to studies, most people
gain approximately one to two kg every
holiday season. Research shows that
extra weight often gained during the hol-
idays tends to build up over the years,
contributing to long-term obesity.
Be active: If you exercise regularly, dont
stop continue to exercise over the hol-
idays. If a holiday party includes dancing,
join in! Check if the hotel you book has a
gym, or else go for walks, run, swim, play
sports or cycle outdoors.
Choose one favourite meal for the
day and plan other meals accordingly.
The other meals could be light
around salads, vegetables and soups.
Breakfast buffets can throw you off,
so plan to eat appropriately.
If you are very keen on desserts, then
either try a bite or if you want a full
portion, just take a very light meal.
Schedule feasting times: If possible,
schedule holiday dinners at normal meal
times. Having meals outside of normal
meal times contributes to overeating.
Carry appropriate snack food to
munch like seeds, roasted nuts or
whole grains so you are not forced to
buy unhealthy stuff off the shelf.
Watch your drinks: Avoid sweetened
beverages, fruit juices, mocktails and
cocktails. It is best to drink water when-
ever possible. Diet beverages made with
artificial sweeteners can help control
calories at celebrations, although drink-
ing them on a regular basis may not help
with long-term weight control.
Count your alcohol: Alcohol can be a
major source of hidden calories as well. I
know several patients who say they can
manage their food on a holiday but not
alcohol and some also manage to finish a
bottle of wine in one evening. So you
need to be cautious in this regard.
Food choices: Choose foods that are
lower in energy density, meaning they
have fewer calories for their size. Youll
feel fuller sooner and take in fewer calo-
ries. For example, start out your meal
with a salad or soup. Skip the second
helpings of oily gravies, fried food and
breads. Ask for vegetables instead of
potatoes or fries. Having a fibre supple-
ment pre-meal is useful to cut back on
richer food later.
Eat healthy snacks before a special din-
ner: Eating a snack like fruit/nuts/milk/
yogurt helps avoid overeating at a big
holiday dinner. Also, use smaller plates
when theyre available; bigger plates
encourage taking larger food portions
and eating larger quantities.
Some checks and balances while you
enjoy yourself are all that are needed to
avoid gaining those extra kilos and mak-
ing the most of your vacation.
Stay well hydrated during summers:
Beverages are essential to stay hydrated
in the summer heat. Whether they are
part of a meal or in between, a refreshing
drink can help you rejuvenate just when
you begin to wilt with soaring tempera-
tures. Just like choosing your food, the
choice of your drinks can make the dif-
ference between how you feel and how it
affects your bodys water balance.
The ideal drink is either pure drink-
ing water or those that provide health
benefits and replace minerals and elec-
trolytes with few calories from sugar and
no preservatives or chemicals.
Thirst may not be a reliable indica-
tor of your fluid needs. Inadequate fluid
intake could lead to dehydration. Some
of its early signs are poor concentra-
tion, lethargy, fatigue and dry mouth.
Chronic fluid insufficiency can lead to
hyperfilteration in the kidneys leading
to renal diseases or stones. Severe dehy-
dration can be dangerous with serious
health consequences like nausea, vomit-
ing, loss of consciousness and can even
be fatal. Sportsmen or those exposed to
high temperatures and children easily
are prone to dehydration. They must
ensure adequate fluid intake before and
during exposure. Women following
weight loss diets may need extra serv-
ings of low calorie fluids. However,
those suffering from renal diseases or
heart failure must strictly regulate their
fluid intake and thereby their bever-
ages. Summer beverages may be a good
way to meet your extra needs.
Vegetable and fruit juices like litchi,
watermelon, mango, traditional sattoos,
chaachch, coconut or lime water and
herbal teas are loaded with electrolytes,
minerals and antioxidants which help
fight diseases. They have healing and
restorative properties and make simple
natural ways to enhance health and vital-
ity. Bael and rose sherbet, lemonade,
mint-ade, aam panna, barley or chana
sattoo, zeera-hing lassi, smoothies, cocum
water, thandai, litchi juice, jamun juice,
cucumber and mint soup and cam-
momile tea are great summer coolers.
When calorie counting, go sugar-free
and use alternative sweeteners which
taste just as good! Green tea and zeera
dhania paani are specially useful in
weight loss. Boost your immunity with
the green power in cabbage, spinach,
lemon, coriander, lauki and garlic cock-
tail. These go well beyond hydration to
boost immunity, along with detoxifica-
tion and cleansing. Create your own
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2 cup boiled noodles (100
gm uncooked)
1 cups cabbage, shredded
1 cup carrots, julienned
1 cup French beans, sliced
diagonally
4 spring onion bulbs, sliced
cup moong sprouts or
cup uncooked green moong
(soak for 6-8 hours, drain
and keep covered for anoth-
er 12 hours)
150 gm silken tofu, cut into
thin long strips
4 green chillies, chopped
finely
4 garlic cloves, chopped
finely
4 tsp vinegar
1 tsp soy sauce
3 tbsp readymade hot and
sweet sauce
2 tbsp oil
Salt as per taste
Pre-preparation time:
About 18-20 hours
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
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Boil water in a pan and add
the moong sprouts, carrots
and French beans. Cook for
8 mins. Drain and and set
aside.
Heat the oil in a pan; saut
garlic and green chillies for
a minute.
Add the spring onions and
cabbage with tsp salt;
saut for 2-3 mins.
Mix in the boiled carrots,
French beans, sprouts and
noodles. Add vinegar, soy
sauce, and hot and sweet
sauce.
Add silken tofu and salt as
per taste; mix well. Serve
hot.
Complete your plate with a
bowl of soup.
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boost with your choice of
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cup uncooked rice
150 gm tofu or 6 eggs
1 onion, chopped finely
cup carrots, julienned
cup French beans, juli-
enned
cup cabbage, julienned
cup fresh corn (from
cob) or sweet corn kernels
4 garlic cloves, chopped
finely
1 tbsp readymade red
chilli sauce
1 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp vinegar
1 tbsp oil
Salt as per taste
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
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water. Drain and cool.
If using eggs, hard-boil
them, remove the shells,
slice each into half, and
scoop out and discard the
yolk. Chop the egg whites
into tiny cubes.
If using tofu, cut into tiny
cubes. Pressure-cook the
corn for 5-6 whistles.
Drain and set aside.
Heat oil and saut garlic.
Add onions; saut for a
minute. Add French beans
and salt; saut for 2 mins.
Add carrots; saut for
another 2 mins. Add cab-
bage; saut for 2 mins.
Add corn and tofu/eggs.
Stir in the cooked rice, soya
sauce, vinegar, red chilli
sauce and salt. Cook for
another 2 mins. Serve hot.
Complete your plate with a
glass of spicy buttermilk.
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ne of the simplest yet
most overlooked prac-
tices for expanding
our nutritional intake,
promoting internal
balance and protecting ourselves
against disease is the use of every-
day herbs and spices. While we in
the West are only just starting to
uncover some of the outstanding
medicinal properties of common
herbs and spices, ancient records of
their profound healing properties
date back well over 5,000 years.
Natural health sciences with com-
prehensive herbal medicine sys-
tems, such as Ayurvedic medicine,
Tibetan medicine, traditional
Chinese medicine and Arabic med-
icine, have for many centuries had
texts detailing the most compre-
hensive herbal pharmacopeias.
Herbs and spices come from
plants. Herbs come from the leaves
of plants without woody stems.
Spices generally come from the
roots, bark, seeds, flowers or fruits.
As per the traditional understand-
ing, herbs and spices were literally
seen as concentrated packets of
intelligence and life-force. For this
reason they were considered
manna from heaven and the pow-
erhouses of natures medicine cabi-
net. The reason we need only small
quantities of herbs and spices in
comparison to fruits and vegetables
is that they are so concentrated.
They are literally jam-packed with
natures healing intelligence.
Although many of us today
consider herbs and spices merely in
the light of adding certain flavours,
aromas or aesthetics to food,
indigenous cultures have believed
that they can help prevent disease,
medicinally heal and optimise
mental and physical functioning. A
recent supplement of The Medical
Journal of Australia has begun
reporting some of these effects.
Even in these early stages of mod-
ern sciences research into their
effects, we know they can mitigate
or fight certain types of cancer cells,
neutralise free radical damage,
reduce blood sugar, break down fat
cells, stimulate memory, enliven
brain function, and strengthen
heart, liver and kidneys. When
most of us think of the best sources
of antioxidants, coloured fruits and
supplements containing vitamin C,
vitamin E or beta carotene general-
ly come to mind. However,
oregano, cloves, cinnamon, thyme,
rosemary and mint have been
shown to be more concentrated
sources of antioxidants than most
fruits and vegetables, and the free-
radical scavenging effects of every-
day turmeric is many times more
powerful than vitamin A, C or E.
Given below are the six com-
mon herbs and spices that smarten
up your diet:
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Turmeric is that funny little orangy
powder that has been sitting
untouched in most peoples spice
rack since the end of World War I.
However, there is a good reason
Indians have been putting it in
their curries for thousands of years.
Turmeric is a natural antihista-
mine, antibiotic, anti-inflammato-
ry, anti-ulcerative and antiseptic. It
is renowned for purifying the
blood and liver, helping the body
to process and neutralise toxins
and impurities such as fatty food,
cigarette smoke and alcohol.
As well as being an antioxidant
powerhouse, turmeric has been
shown to be a powerful anti-cancer
spice and to decrease cardiovascu-
lar risk. Curcumin, one of the many
active constituents in turmeric, has
even been shown to reduce the
most common expression of the
genetic defect thought to be
responsible for cystic fibrosis.
For thousands of years,
Ayurveda and other ancient med-
ical systems have prescribed
turmeric in such conditions, as
well as for liver damage, skin con-
ditions and diabetes.
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Ginger is often called vishwabhesaj,
meaning the universal medicine. It
can be fresh, like the punnets of
ginger you might see in the fruit
and vegetable store, or dried, as you
would buy in a spice bag or bottle.
Fresh ginger is great for stimulating
appetite. It has anti-platelet proper-
ties (reduces blood clotting) and
powerful anti-inflammatory effects.
It can work brilliantly in reducing
things like nausea, morning sick-
ness, bronchitis and asthma, and is
helpful for circulation, protecting
against colds, coughs and respirato-
ry conditions. It can also be excel-
lent for reducing gas and bloating
and for settling indigestion.
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Cinnamon is a seemingly innocu-
ous herb. However, like turmeric, it
is a highly potent antioxidant. It is
warming and sweet by nature and is
good for digestion, kidneys, blood
flow and general strength. Arguably
its most important use in todays
world of skyrocketing diabetes
relates to its effects on blood sugars.
Recent research has demonstrated
that intakes of as little as 1 gm of
cinnamon per day can reduce blood
sugars by around 20 per cent, and
lower LDL cholesterol (often called
bad cholesterol) and total choles-
terol in people with type 2 diabetes.
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Fresh basil is considered one of the
most sacred plants on earth. Easily
available at any grocery shop, basil
is great for the nervous, digestive
and respiratory systems. It is also
prized for enlivening the mind and
aiding memory. It is antibacterial
and antiseptic and useful for respi-
ratory or nasal congestion-type
problems, including colds and flu.
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Coriander (fresh) is another simple
yet powerful health-promoting herb
readily available at any grocer. It is
good for the digestive, respiratory
and urinary systems.
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Cardamom is a sweet, warming
herb that is good for stomach and
lungs as well as settling the mind.
While modern science is now
showing the benefits of individual
herbs and spices, what ancient cul-
tures also knew was that they are
even more powerful when com-
bined. Using natures principle of
synergies, when we combine dif-
ferent herbs and spices, the healing
benefits can be magnified many
times. The active constituents of
turmeric can work wonders within
the cells and tissues for breaking
down excess fats. However, if it is
not well absorbed or is blocked
from getting to where it needs to,
its effect is compromised. When
combined with a little black pep-
per, which is known to stimulate
metabolism and help open up the
subtle channels of the body, the
effects of turmeric can be magni-
fied many times. Similar benefits
work for many other herb and
spice combinations.
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spices can
mitigate or fight
certain types
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reduce blood
sugar levels,
break down fat
cells, stimulate
memory, enliven
brain function,
and strengthen
heart, liver and
kidneys
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week has spilled the data-collection
secrets of Americas most secretive
intelligence arm, the National Secu-
rity Agency, contends that his con-
duct is fundamentally different from
that of the men behind WikiLeaks or
the more random and destructive
hacking of the group Anonymous.
Snowden is not an internet anar-
chist, or a mindless mischief-maker
or a hater of America; he is not
doing it for money on the con-
trary, he has given up his girlfriend,
his family and a $2,00,000-a-year job
in Hawaii but says he is motivated
by the belief that the US is sleep-
walking towards what he calls
turnkey tyranny.
To prove his point, Snowden has
shone a public light on two things
that were actually already widely
known, if not by the public, then by
Congressional oversight committees
and anyone who had followed close-
ly the debates over the Patriot Act,
the sweeping Bush-era legislation
that was introduced after the
September 11 attacks.
The first leak showed that the
NSA routinely goes data-mining
through the records of billions of
phone calls made in the US every
day not listening in to the calls,
but sifting them for suspicious clus-
ters, say to Yemen or Waziristan,
that might merit further investiga-
tion, which in turn would require a
warrant. The second suggestion is
that the NSA and other agencies
have some arrangement with the
big internet companies
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook,
Google, Yahoo, among others by
which they can look at the internet
activities of foreigners suspected of
being a threat to national security.
The companies vehemently deny
the existence of a permanently
open back door to their servers,
but it is still not clear how the
access works and given that this
is all top secret it may never be.
In any event, in the course of his
work for the CIA and NSA, Snow-
den had become convinced that the
US Government is building an appa-
ratus that tramples on constitutional-
ly guaranteed freedoms and which
in the wrong hands would be
open to terrible abuse. A new leader
will be elected, he posits to The
Guardian, theyll find the switch,
say that Because of the crisis,
because of the dangers we face in the
world, some new and unpredicted
threat, we need more authority, we
need more power. And there will be
nothing the people can do at that
point to oppose it. And it will be
turnkey tyranny.
Snowden refers to the future, but
when he talks about over-reacting to
some new and unpredicted threat
he is actually referring to the signing
of the 2001 Patriot Act that autho-
rised both a massive expansion of
surveillance and a relaxation of the
rules governing its use, which caused
outcry among Libertarians and Lib-
erals alike. By 2005 that had mor-
phed into the controversy of war-
rantless wire-tapping by the Bush
Administration, which was eventual-
ly forced to give up the programme
and submit it to the oversight of the
top-secret court set up under the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
So Snowdens leaks dont so much
spark a new debate as reopen an old
one in which to this point at least
the American public has passed a
verdict. It is too soon to poll the reac-
tion to these leaks, but in 2011 a Pew
Research survey showed that only 34
per cent of Americans opposed the
Patriot Act. Even at the height of con-
troversy over warrantless wire-tap-
ping between 2006 and 2009, public
support for that programme never
dropped below 48 per cent.
Snowden anticipates the fact that
mainstream public opinion may not
support him. The greatest fear that I
have regarding the outcome for
America of these disclosures is that
nothing will change, he says. People
will see in the media all of these dis-
closures But they wont be willing
to take the risks necessary to stand
up and fight to change things to
force their representatives to actually
take a stand in their interests.
Those fears perhaps explain
Barack Obamas almost cocksure
response to this episode, echoed by
William Hague in the Commons.
Both appear sanguine not about the
leaks themselves, but as to what
they reveal. Its important to recog-
nise that you cant have 100 per
cent security and also then have
100 per cent privacy and zero
inconvenience, the US President
said, enumerating the layers of
oversight and legal supervision
required before anyones phone gets
tapped or Facebook page snooped
on. I think, on balance, we have
established a process and a proce-
dure that the American people
should feel comfortable about.
The heads of the Senate and
House intelligence committees
one chaired by a Democrat and the
other by a Republican agree with
Obama that the programmes are
acceptable in scope and adequately
monitored: Its called protecting
America, was how Dianne Feinstein,
the Democrat Chairman of the Sen-
ate committee, bluntly put it.
This is what Snowden finds
himself up against a confident
President who says he is only doing
a scrubbed version of what
George W Bush did, and an appar-
ently compliant public who, for
now, dont appear to want to man
the barricades. This is why, for all
the huffing and puffing on the
Right, this is not an existential scan-
dal for Obama. Indeed, it might well
serve to deepen the splits in the
Republican Party between Libertari-
ans and traditional GOP voters who
have always put national security
over privacy considerations: Some
75 per cent of Republicans backed
Bushs far more draconian warrant-
less wire taps in a 2008 poll.
But for both Liberals on the Left
and Libertarians on the Right and
it appears Snowden was a campaign
contributor to the Libertarian presi-
dential candidate Ron Paul the
people are asleep and they need to be
woken up. They are being hood-
winked into allowing the creation,
unopposed, of what Daniel Ellsberg,
the man who leaked the Pentagon
Papers in 1971, calls the United Stasi
of America. To Ellsberg and others
like him, the oversight that Obama
trumpets as being so powerful is
nothing more than a rubber-stamp
sham. Congressional committees
often dont understand what they are
being told and the FISA court is, Ells-
berg contends, almost totally defer-
ential to executive requests.
Again, the fears raised by Ells-
berg and by politicians such as Rand
Paul the son of Ron Paul and very
likely a Republican presidential con-
tender in 2016 are largely directed
at some as yet unknown event in the
future, which will be the trigger for
this vast apparatus to be turned
against the American people, not
used for their defence. Obviously,
the United States is not now a police
state, concedes Ellsberg, whose own
leaks exposed the lies and half-truths
told by administrations from Tru-
man to Johnson over the Vietnam
War. But given the extent of this
invasion of peoples privacy, we do
have the full electronic and legisla-
tive infrastructure of such a state.
But therein, for many Ameri-
cans, might lie an important distinc-
tion. Ellsbergs leaks revealed actual
lies about past events, while Snow-
den appears to have blown the whis-
tle on something that hasnt actually
happened. That explains the reaction
of commentators such as David
Simon, the journalist and creator of
The Wire television series, which
wrestled with the legality of police
surveillance, who wondered what all
the fuss was about. In a piece attack-
ing journalists ignorance about how
law enforcement agencies use elec-
tronic intercepts, he dismisses The
Guardian and The Washington Post
as wailing jeremiads whose pre-
tend discovery has done nothing
except show a system that was work-
ing a legal court order created as a
result of legislation that was drafted
and passed in full view by the United
States Congress. We dont know of
any actual abuse, he wrote. No
known illegal wiretaps, no indica-
tions of FISA-court approved inter-
cepts of innocent Americans that
occurred because weak probable
cause was acceptable.
Viewed this way, the American
public does not need waking up to
the impending nightmare of the sur-
veillance state. Its faith in the
Government is far from blind, but its
trust in America its courts, its
Constitution, its deeply embedded
culture of freedom of speech and
media is well-founded. With these
leaks, Snowden asks Americans to
reconsider their verdict on the post-
September 11 world. At this point
the jury remains out, considering the
merits of a re-trial but on past
performance Snowden should pre-
pare for an answer he already half-
anticipates, but will not like.
(Courtesy: The Daily Telegraph)
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on
June 9:
Not all is wrong in Jaffna: It
is heartening to note that
Colombos minority Tamil
community controls 70 per
cent of the trade in the Sri
Lankan capital city. This suc-
cess of Sri Lankan Tamils
must make us ponder
whether this prosperity of
the minority community is
possible without their enjoy-
ing various kinds of freedom.
Of course, this does not
change the fact that Sri
Lankan Tamils suffered
much during the LTTE era,
and sections of the minority
population still remain mar-
ginalised. But as the condi-
tion of Tamils outside Jaffna
proves, it is not necessarily a
black-and-white situation on
the ground. However, the
whole truth is rarely present-
ed before the international
community and the West.
That the Sri Lankan
Government is also allowing
elections to the provincial
council in Northern Province
is also proof that it is serious
about integrating the Tamil
community into the national
mainstream.
Manoj Parashar
Biased against Colombo:
Given the churlish manner
in which the West responded
to Colombos defeat of the
LTTE, it is not at all surpris-
ing that the progress made in
Jaffna, under the leadership
of Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa, has
been ignored by the human
rights industry and under-
reported in the global media.
Achin
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Reader response to
Kanchan Guptas column,
Coffee Break, published on
June 9:
Advani is also to blame: The
authors strong indictment of
the Indian mainstream
media, particularly television,
for manufacturing falsehood
on the BJP National Executive
meeting in Goa, on the
Narendra Modi versus LK
Advani controversy, and pro-
jecting it as breaking news, is
quite valid. All sorts of sensa-
tional speculations, quoting
BJP sources, seemed
designed to depict a picture
of depressing disarray in the
main Opposition party, in the
context of the next
general election.
However, while putting the
media in the dock for its
unprofessional excess in cov-
ering a major political event,
the writer is clearly amiss in
overlooking the BJPs tallest
leader LK Advanis own role
in triggering the sad specta-
cle of his unmistakable
opposition to Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modis
rise. If he was genuinely
unwell, why did he not send
a letter to the party presi-
dent, assuring him that he
would go along with the
national executives decision
on Modi?
M Ratan
Anything but news: Our
news channels are more like
entertainment channels. They
run 24 hours, repeating the
same news just to fill the time
slots. Consequently, they often
resort to sensationalism and
and even present unimportant
news as breaking news. There
is no respite from it.
Mahesh Kapasi
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Reader response to
Rajesh Singhs column,
Plain Talk, published on
June 9:
Loss-loss situation: Bihar
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
is not just harming himself.
He is also giving the
Congress, which had been
uprooted from his State,
space to return to power.
And this he is doing while
not being able to dent
Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modis chances of
becoming Prime Minister.
Rahul Sinha
JD(U) needs BJP: The
Maharajganj by-election in
Bihar, where the Janata Dal
(United) candidate lost by a
huge margin, is proof of the
fact that Bihar Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar must end his
unnecessary hostility towards
his counterpart in Gujarat,
Narendra Modi.
Nitish Kumar should
acknowledge that his party
needs the BJP to rule Bihar.
The BJP, on the other hand,
will probably be able to con-
tinue with or without the
JD(U) by its side. But the
same cannot be said in the
case of Nitish Kumars party.
Bal Govind
Bad for Bihar: State Chief
Minister Nitish Kumars petty
politicking in recent times has
not just been disappointing
but worrying too. He seems
insistent on hammering him-
self into electoral irrelevance
and bringing back on the
stage his rival Lalu Prasad.
This will be terrible for Bihar,
which suffered decades of
misrule under the RJD chief
and his wife Rabri Devi.
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we all le tlis scareo?
l is amusing lo see how Congress leaders are digging inlo ndian

mylhology and inding analogies lo ainl harendra Modi in lhe mosl
lerrible lighl. This has coincided wilh lhe arrival o lhe 0ujaral Chie
Minisler on lhe nalional slage and in direcl conronlalion wilh lhe
Congressled uFA regime al lhe Cenlre. n lheir eagerness lo demean
him, lhey have nol only oversleed lhe boundaries o decency in ub
lic ullerances bul have also gol lhe comarisons wrong.
Mosl recenlly, union Minisler or Rural 0evelomenl Jairam
Ramesh likened Modi lo Bhasmasur and added lhal like lhe mylhologi
cal characler, Modi loo had devoured his menlor LK Advani. n lhe irsl
lace, Bhasmasur did nol claim his menlor bul himsel. he was a devo
lee o Lord Shiva and had secured a boon rom lhe laller aler greal
enance. And lhe boon was lhal any erson whose head he louched
wilh his hands would lurn inlo ashes. Bul Bhasmasur lried lo use il
againsl lhe god himsel, and was laler lricked inlo ulling his hands
over his own head by Lord vishnu who aeared beore lhe wayward
devolee as an enchanling damsel. Bhasmasur lurned inlo ashes and
lhe eisode came lo an end. Much as Jairam Ramesh may wanl lo
believe olherwise, Advani is no Shiva; nor is Modi lhe demonic igure
lhal Bhasmasur was. And, bolh Advani and Modi are key layers o lhe
same arly which is readying lo ousl lhe Congress rom ower. The
union Minisler should also know lhal Lord Shiva and Bhasmasur were
nol on lhe same side, ever. lhere are dierences belween lhe lwo lall
leaders o lhe BJF - and il would be oolish lo deny lhal lhere aren'l
- lhey mosl cerlainly don'l lend lhemselves lo lhe lale o Bhasmasur.
Bul an even more oulrageous comarison had come weeks beore
Ramesh discovered a Bhasmasur in Modi. Then Congress sokeser
son Rashid Alvi delved inlo his dislorled and shallow knowledge o
ndian mylhology (and yes, il's hindu mylhology loo) lo liken lhe
0ujaral Chie Minisler and now lhe BJF's Eleclion Camaign
Commillee chairman lo Yamraj, lhe Lord o hell (or |arak) and 0ealh,
who rides a bull (bualo). l never occurred lo Alvi lhal he was in some
ways aying lribule lo Modi. Yama is a highly resecled deily lo whom
lhe Fi VcJa has devoled several hymns. Allhough he is lhe Lord o
0ealh, he also has lhe ower lo direcl a soul lo heaven or a relurn lo
Earlh. More imorlanlly, Yama is considered lhe 0od o Juslice who
gives away award and unishmenl according lo an individual's conducl
during his or her lielime. The mylhological igure whose imagery Alvi
used so insullingly has olen been reerred lo in ancienl lexls as
0harma - and lhe hero o
Ma|a||arat, Yudhishlir, lhe
0harmaulra. uninlenlionally,
lhereore, Alvi has acknowledged
lhal Modi has lhe wisdom lo sil
lhe righl rom lhe wrong, and lo
do juslice lo lhe eole o ndia.
lhe Congress is so delermined
lo see a dealhlike Yama in Modi,
il is robably because lhe
0ujaral Chie Minisler heralds
lhe demise o lhe uFA regime.
l aears lhal nol only have
lhe Congress leaders gone over
board bul lhal lhey have also nol
learnl any lesson rom lhe asl.
Barely six years ago, lheir
Sureme Leader, Sonia 0andhi,
had called Modi "maut kc
sauJaar". The arly conlinues
lo ay lhe rice or lhal inlem
erale remark. l has been
soundly lhrashed in every elec
lion in 0ujaral lherealer, lhe lal
esl being lhe washoul in lhe by
eleclion lo six consliluencies.
The acl is lhal lhe maut ka
sauJaar' has since grown inlo
a 'sapnc ka sauJaar' - a ed
dler o dreams. he reresenls
lhe dreams o millions o eole
who see in him a irm and deci
sive leader lhal can give lhe
nalion a new direclion. he also
reresenls lhe dreams and asi
ralions o lhe vasl majorily o lhe
BJF cadre which believes lhal he
can lead lhe arly lo viclory over
lhe inel Congressled uFA.
0oes lhe Congress really
believe lhal il can denl Modi's
oularily by calling him names
and consigning him among whal
il believes are lhe mosl horren
dous villains in ndian mylhology? 0r would lhe arly nol be beller o
by counlering him on acl and ercelion? By going aler lhe
Bhasmasurs and lhe Yamas, Congress leaders are lilerally clinging lo
mylhs and denying acls. They have no counler lo lhe acl lhal lhe
0ujaral model o develomenl has allracled raise rom across lhe
counlry and oulside; lhal Modi is a ar more oular leader lhan lheir
hero, Rahul 0andhi; lhal Frime Minisler Manmohan Singh, desile
having every oorlunily in nine years lo do good, has lurned gover
nance inlo a sham, while in lhe same eriod Modi has laken his Slale
rom slrenglh lo slrenglh. Finally, lhe Congress cannol deny lhal Frime
Minisler Manmohan Singh is lhe crealion o lhe Firsl Family whereas
Chie Minisler harendra Modi is lhe crealion o lhe eole who have
voled him and his regime lo ower on lhree successive occasions.
The Congress is obsessed wilh Modi lhe erson as much as il is
wilh Modi lhe olilician. had lhal nol been lhe case, lhe arly would
nol have lunged lo lhe abysmal level o ersonal allacks lhal il has
launched on lhe 0ujaral Chie Minisler. True lo lheir lradilion o double
seak, Congress leaders have been on lhe one hand claiming lhal lhey
do nol give much 'signiicance' lo Modi, and on lhe olher lhey have
been going around heaing scorn on him. They musl admil lhal lhe
0ujaral Chie Minisler oses a real challenge lo lhem - lhe irsl such
one in lhe nine years since lhey have been in ower. n all lhese years,
while lhe BJF conlinued lo win in many Slales largely due lo lhe
slrong leadershi which exisls in lhose Slales, somehow ils cenlral
leadershi was seen lo have laken a sabbalical rom being lhe aggres
sive ace il was known or. True, il made lhe righl noises over lhe many
scams which have lainled lhe uFA lo irrelrievable exlenls, bul lhe i//
had evaoraled. Modi has broughl lhal i// back, and lhal is whal has
rallled lhe Congress - nol lo seak o a seclion o lhe BJF's senior
leadershi which slands exosed or having ailed lo rovide direclion
and an asserlive sense o urose in lhe nine years lhal il has guided
lhe arly as an 0osilion.
hobody is suggesling lhal Modi is a sureshol winner and lhal lhe
BJF will mosl cerlainly come lo ower wilh a lhuming win. l may or
il may nol. Slill, il's nol air lo wrileo a leader jusl because you do
nol like his ace. nslead o assing snide remarks againsl Modi and
giving loosmarlbyhal byles lo lelevision channels, lhe Congress
musl ace him in lhe elecloral ballleield. There, and nol in lhe realm o
ndian mylhology, will lhe conlesl lake lace.
When Daniel
Ellsberg leaked
the Pentagon
Papers in 1971,
he revealed
actual lies about
past events. But
Edward Snowden
has blown the
whistle on an
unknown event in
the future, which
may trigger this
vast surveillance
apparatus to be
turned against
the American
people
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aboul lhe lhreal o 0overnmenl snooing. Bul whal is new?
Does the Congress
really believe that
it can dent Modi's
popularity by
calling him names
and consigning
him among what it
believes are the
most horrendous
villains in ndian
mythology? Or
would the party
not be better off
by countering him
on fact and
perception? Myths
don't work
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eople who are capable of see-
ing only the gross external
aspect of things can perceive in
the Indian nation only a conquered
and suffering people, a race of
dreamers and philosophers. They
seem to be incapable of perceiving
that in the spiritual realm India con-
quers the world. No doubt it is true
that just as the too active Western
mind would profit by an admixture
of Eastern introspection and the
meditative habit, so the Eastern
would benefit by a somewhat greater
activity and energy. Still we must
ask: What may be that force which
causes this afflicted and suffering
people, the Hindu, and the Jewish
too (the two races from which have
originated all the great religions of
the world) to survive, when other
nations perish? The cause can only
be their spiritual force. The Hindus
are still living though silent, the Jews
are more numerous today than
when they lived in Palestine. The
philosophy of India percolates
throughout the whole civilised
world, modifying and permeating as
it goes. So also in ancient times, her
trade reached the shores of Africa
before Europe was known, and
opened communication with the
rest of the world, thus disproving the
belief that Indians never went out-
side of their own country.
It is remarkable also that the
possession of India by a foreign
power has always been a turning
point in the history of that power,
bringing to it wealth, prosperity,
dominion, and spiritual ideas. While
the Western man tries to measure
how much it is possible for him to
possess and to enjoy, the Eastern
seems to take the opposite course,
and to measure how little of material
possessions he can do with. In the
Vedas we trace the endeavour of that
ancient people to find God. In their
search for Him they came upon dif-
ferent strata; beginning with ancestor
worship, they passed on to the wor-
ship of Agni, the fire-God, of Indra,
the God of thunder, and of Varuna,
the God of gods. We find the growth
of this idea of God, from many gods
to one God, in all religions; its real
meaning is that He is the chief of the
tribal gods, who creates the world,
rules it, and sees into every heart.
The stages of growth lead up from a
multiplicity of gods to monotheism.
This anthropomorphic concep-
tion, however, did not satisfy the
Hindus; it was too human for them
who were seeking the divine.
Therefore they finally gave up
searching for God in the outer world
of sense and matter, and turned their
attention to the inner world. Is there
an inner world? And what is it? It is
atman. It is the self, it is the only
thing an individual can be sure of. If
he knows himself, he can know the
universe, and not otherwise. The
same question was asked in the
beginning of time, even in the Rig
Veda, in another form: Who or
what existed from the beginning?
That question was gradually solved
by the Vedanta philosophy. The
atman existed. That is to say, what
we call the absolute, the universal
soul, the self, is the force by which
from the beginning all things have
been and are and will be manifested.
While the Vedanta philosophers
solved that question, they at the
same time discovered the basis of
ethics. Though all religions have
taught ethical precepts, such as, Do
not kill, do not injure, love your
neighbour as yourself, etc, yet none
of these has given the reason. Why
should I not injure my neighbour?
To this question there was no satis-
factory or conclusive answer forth-
coming, until it was evolved by the
metaphysical speculations of the
Hindus who could not rest satisfied
with mere dogmas. So the Hindus
say that this atman is absolute and
all-pervading, therefore infinite.
There cannot be two infinites, for
they would limit each other and
would become finite. Also each
individual soul is a part and parcel
of that universal soul, which is infi-
nite. Therefore in injuring his
neighbour, the individual actually
injures himself. This is the basic
metaphysical truth underlying all
ethical codes. It is too often believed
that a person in his progress
towards perfection passes from
error to truth; that when he passes
on from one thought to another, he
must necessarily reject the first. But
no error can lead to truth. The soul
passing through its different stages
goes from truth to truth, and each
stage is true; it goes from lower
truth to higher truth.
Veoanta as a factor in civilisation
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hat is wrong with the country we live in?
This, perhaps, is the million-dollar question
that needs to be answered. As if the political,
bureaucratic and business classes were not enough,
the people at the helm of affairs in sport bodies too
had skeletons in their cupboards. Has the very char-
acter of the nation rotten as a whole? Difficult to say,
but the stench in the state of affairs in the present
times reminds of the old adage When wealth is
lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is
lost; but when character is lost, everything is lost. In
the wake of the Indian Premier League spot-fixing
scandal, the credibility of cricket and cricketers has
taken a severe beating. The BCCI, arguably the rich-
est cricket association in the world, has certainly not
covered itself with glory by the way it handled or
mishandled the entire episode.
The brazen move to bring in Jagmohan Dalmiya
as a stopgap arrangement after N Srinivasan stepped
aside does not make much sense. Further, the debate
that ensued has brought to the fore some self-styled
apologists of the scandalous conduct of some func-
tionaries, their henchmen and, of course, blue-eyed
protgs. The arguments they have been putting for-
ward is rather a shameless retort. A common refrain
was that the game wont be affected and people would
still rush to the next IPL. Well, that has to be seen.
But even if that happens, the game will never be the
same again. It will become like the WWF matches.
What is being missed is the point that cricket was
elevated to the level of religion in the subcontinent
and cricketers were held in awe, reserved only for
gods. What about that? What about the trust of peo-
ple, their belief in their heroes? It is not a simple mat-
ter of betting that many intellectuals are likening it to.
It is not betting on a horse. It is not a horse race
where people bet on expected winner. It is a game in
which cricket fans identify themselves with their
heroes. Hasnt their faith been shattered now? How is
legalising betting in cricket going to sort this out?
The rot cannot be stemmed by such quick-fix
solutions. Those who are advocating this must
empathise with the millions of cricket fans who will
now doubt every time their idol is run out or caught
in the slips. They will have doubts every time their
idol oversteps on the popping crease, or delivers a no
ball. Even the genuine lapses will appear to be moti-
vated and stage-managed. That is the kind of damage
that has been inflicted to the game. Not only the
credibility of the game has suffered the blow, the
credibility of cricketers too has sunk to lowly levels. If
we want to save everything from being lost, the task is
cut out: Cricketers must prove themselves. The get-
rich-quick disease is the root cause of all problems.
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odays Fathers Day, and this is the best
time for us to give special honour and
gratitude to our fathers. It should
include fathers, grandfathers and great-
grandfathers. On this day we should
also remember the one who created us all God.
In this connection, there is a wonderful story
about a king who had no child. He was worried
about his successor. The king, therefore, made an
announcement that he was looking for an orphan
to adopt as his own child.
The ministers asked him, Are you going to
have any criteria for selecting a child? The king
thought for a while and said, Yes, we need to
follow a few guidelines. The ministers made their
own suggestions, saying, The person should be
handsome. The one selected should come from a
rich family. He should belong to a noble family.
The king considered them all and being a wise
and spiritual man said, The only requirement from
my side is that the person has love for God and love
for ones neighbour. After much debate among the
ministers who feared that such a person might be of
a lowly, poor family, the king had his way.
The ministers commanded that all those who
wished to apply to become the kings adopted
child should come to the palace on a particular
day. One orphaned peasant boy read the notice
and wanted to apply. He, however, knew he would
never be selected because he was so poor. Then,
the boy had an idea: He decided to work overtime
so that he might make enough money to buy a set
of clothes that would make him look more
presentable to the king.
The boy worked hard day after day, late into
the night, until he had enough money to buy a
new outfit. Feeling a bit more confident, he
decided to go to the palace and hoped that the
king would select him.
He set out on the journey. Along the way, the
boy met a poor beggar on the side of the road. It
was a cold day, and the peasant could see the
beggar shivering with cold. He felt sorry for the
beggar and without even thinking about himself,
he exchanged his clothes with the beggar so that
he could remain warm. He totally forgot about the
hard work he had gone through to buy the new
outfit and, being a caring person, immediately
jumped in to help the beggar.
As the peasant boy set out on his journey to
the palace again, he suddenly realised that he had
given away the outfit that would make him
presentable to the king. He knew he could not be
accepted wearing the beggars garments. The boy
decided that there was no point in continuing
further to the palace, since he would never be
accepted in his rags. He was about to turn back
when he said to himself, Well, you have come
this far to the palace. You may as well keep going
and try out anyway. The worst that will happen is
that you do not get chosen. He, thus, decided to
go to the kings palace anyway.
When he reached the palace, the ministers,
courtiers, and guards looked at him. They asked,
What are you doing here? On hearing the
answer, the ministers and courtiers began making
fun of him. You have some nerve thinking the
king will choose you as his son. Look at your
clothes. You are not even fit to clean the kings
chambers in those torn rags. The peasant was
about to turn back when another minister came
out and saw what was going on. The minister said,
The king did not restrict us from letting anyone
in. No matter what he looks like, the king has
ordered that we let all the applicants in to see
him. The boy was admitted through the gates and
taken to the kings chamber.
When the chamber doors opened, the boy was
in for a surprise: He found that the person sitting
on the throne was no other than the beggar he
had met on the roadside and was still wearing the
clothes he had given him. The peasant stood
dumbfounded to see that the beggar was actually
the king. The king got down from his throne,
came up to the boy, embraced him, and said,
Welcome, my son!
This is a wonderful illustration of what every
father wishes for his son, and what God, the
universal father, wishes for each of us. Every
parent is looking for his or her child to have
certain qualities. Every father wants his son or
daughter to grow up to be a good person. God is
no different. When God created the soul, the hope
was that each one would be in the image of God
and He wanted each person to live up to that noble
image. It is when a soul inhabits the human form
that the mind makes it go astray from the original
intent of God to stay true to the noble virtues.
In this story, the king specified that the
criterion for selection of a child was someone who
loved God and loved his neighbour. That aspect
meant more to the king than wealth, power,
prestige, or outer beauty. Similarly, God wants the
same for each of us. He wants each soul to have
love for God and fellow creations. It was with this
intention that human beings were created. God
wants us to love everyone. Those who do are truly
sons and daughters of God.
As we think about honouring our father on
this day, we should also think about honouring our
universal father God. The best way to do that is to
remember and be thankful for the gifts we have
received. The second way is to live up to the noble
purpose for which we have been created. Today, let us
reflect on the gifts we have received from God.
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our father, we
should also think
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God. The best way
to do that is to
remember the
gifts we have
received. The
second way is to
live up to the
noble purpose for
which we have
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f all the super-heroes, it seems
most fitting that Superman should
have revealed himself in a dream,
zooming through his creators head in a
single night of frantic inspiration. I am
lying in bed when suddenly it hits me,
wrote his creator Jerry Siegel years later,
dramatising the oft-told story in the
breathless style of a comics caption. I
conceive a character like Samson, Hercules
and all the strong men I ever heard tell of
rolled into one. Only more so.
The result, first seen 75 years ago this
month brandishing a car above his head on
the cover of Action Comics #1, was differ-
ent only in degree from the bodystockinged
blue streak who shortly returns to our
screens in Zack Snyders film Man of Steel.
Siegel and Shusters Superman was a com-
paratively earthbound creature whose pow-
ers extended to leaping 600 feet, running
faster than a streamline train and deflect-
ing damage from anything smaller than a
bursting shell all attributes that speak
volumes about the time and the conditions
in which he was born.
Borrowing liberally from the pulp
heroes Doc Savage, John Carter and the
genetically-engineered strongman Hugo
Danner, the first Man of Steel was a wish-
fulfilment dream of human power in an age
of overwhelming machinery and arma-
ment. Time would transform him into the
beneficent alien demigod familiar to mod-
ern audiences, but by then the concept of
Superman was already hovering, impreg-
nable, in the Platonic realm of ideas.
Siegel and Shusters early comics cast
Superman as a defender of the little guy,
pitting him against hoodlums, crooked lob-
byists, profiteering industrialists and other
enemies of the American working class. But
the approach of war offered wider horizons
for his talents. By D-Day, his name adorned
vehicles across the Allied war effort, while
actors playing the character could be heard
on US radio soliciting for blood drives and
war bonds. Soldiers read Superman comics
at the Normandy landings, as their hero
gamely battled Japanazis and Japoteurs
in four-colour adventures of his own.
Militant America took him to its heart
as the square-jawed symbol of its growing
role as world policeman, but the character
soon soared above questions of national
identity. In vain did the psychiatrist Fredric
Wertham protest, in the mid-1950s, that
Superman comics gave children fantasies of
sadistic joy in seeing other people punished
over and over again while you yourself
remain immune. That familiar blue streak
bird? plane? had split the skies of pop-
ular culture, and across the world a gap had
been filled that no one knew existed.
In 75 years, Supermans appeal has
remained broadly constant despite the
changing fortunes of the media that carry
him. Comics fall from favour, TV series
and embarrassing films come and go, but
Superman T-shirts still sell. Unlike the
generations of superheroes spawned by
his example, the Man of Steel never loses
what the comics writer Grant Morrison
has called that essential, unshakeable
quality of Superman-ness the character
possesses in every incarnation, which is
divinity by any other name.
Batman, a hero whose psychic roots lie
deep in bereavement and psychosis, can be
turned at a writers whim from camp self-
parody to delusional obsessive or hard-
boiled vigilante. But Superman is always
Superman, wise, benevolent and unswerv-
ingly assured of the moral high ground.
Some of this has to do with careful
image management from his owners at DC
Comics, but not all. Even elaborate reinven-
tions such as Mark Millars Red Son, which
imagines the young Kryptonian landing in
the USSR and growing up a Soviet hero,
bump up against the gleaming decency of
the character. If he were other than he is, he
would not be Superman.
This combination of goodness and
power can leave writers struggling to create
dramatic tension. Siegel and Shuster laid
the groundwork by devising Clark Kent,
the bumbling schlemiel who put a human
face on the invulnerable alien. Subsequent
caretakers invented the material Kryptonite
to bring their hero to his knees.
By the 1980s, writer after writer had
evolved Supermans powers to the extent
that there was literally nothing he couldnt
do planet-juggling? time-travel? no
problem and the characters whole histo-
ry had to be rewritten so that his adven-
tures could continue.
Supermans myth has also proved
uniquely open to interpretation and appro-
priation, so over the years the character has
been claimed as a symbol of Jewish identity,
Christian solidarity, Buddhist incarnation
and (at the David Icke messageboards, with
particular reference to the symbolic ser-
pent-like S) the all-conquering reptile con-
spiracy to rule the world. Some of these
suggestions have more merit than others.
One long-running, semi-serious theory
claims Superman is Jewish, not just because
of his Jewish creators and his Kryptonian
name (Kal-El, reminiscent of the Hebrew
for voice and God) but because his origin
myth echoes that of Moses, with the baby
found in a crashed rocket rather than a reed
basket. The writer Larry Tye, meanwhile,
author of a diverting Superman biography,
observes drily that having -man at the
end of your name usually makes you either
Jewish, or a superhero, or both.
Some Christians think they have an
equally strong claim. Richard Donners
1978 film made high-camp drama of the
parallels with the Christian Incarnation, as
Marlon Brando minced about in white as
Superman pre, promising to send Earth
his only son. Writers such as Stephen
Skelton went further, unearthing the
words Lucifer in Lex Luthor and cleric in
Clark. And bringing up the rear was Alvin
Schwartz, a former writer for the
Superman comics, who published a book,
The Unlikely Prophet, detailing his own
encounter with the character in the form
of a tulpa, or Buddhist spirit avatar. The
idea of Superman, Schwartz contended,
had become strong enough to give the
character concrete form. He had bumped
into it in the back of a taxi.
But one of the most attractive theories
about Supermans lasting appeal comes
from the Scottish comics creator Grant
Morrison. In his book Supergods,
Morrison proposed that the current mass-
media frenzy for superheroes addresses a
deep and specific cultural need. As tech-
nological progress and medical science
rush forward, he suggested, we look to
superhero myths for guidance in
approaching our own enhanced scope and
reach in everything from biomedical
enhancements to flying robot armies.
The heroes offer, he concluded, a
bright flickering sign of our need to move
on, to imagine the better, more just and
more proactive people we can be. And
why not? If Superman first took form as a
comforting fable of human physicality in a
machine age, could his latest incarnation
guide us as we ascend to the next plateau
of our own evolution? It is, at least, a
heartening frame of mind in which to
approach the summer blockbusters.
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t started with brides in Serbia,
running their frilly gowns
off in order to win their
dream wedding. Then we
read about bride napping
in Romania, where future
wives are stolen by
friends and the groom
is forced to pay a ran-
som in order to win
her back, just in time
for some altar action.
After that, we moved
onto the annual
North American
wife-carrying
competition,
which attracts par-
ticipants from all over
the world (last years
winners were Finnish).
And now weve moved on
to bride racing.
After all, its literally just another
reason to don your gown and prove
to the world that wedding dresses
are basically the funniest outfit to
do anything in. (Huffington Post)
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audi billionaire Prince Alwaleed
bin Talal has sued Forbes magazine
for libel in a British court, alleging
its valuation of his wealth at $20
billion was short of
the mark by $9.6
billion, Britains
Guardian newspa-
per reported. The prince, a
grandson of Saudi Arabias
founder and nephew of King
Abdullah, had attacked the
US magazines ranking of
world billionaires as flawed
and biased against West
Asian businesses after he
was ranked number 26 in
this years list.
An official at the High
Court in London confirmed
that Prince Alwaleed had filed
a defamation suit against Forbes,
its editor Randall Lane, and two of its
journalists on April 30. Details of the
claim were not immediately available.
Through his Kingdom Holding
Company, Prince Alwaleed owns
large stakes in Citigroup, News Corp
and Apple Inc, among other
companies. He is also owner
or part-owner of luxury
hotels including the
Plaza in New York, the
Savoy in London and
the George V in
Paris. (Reuters)
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divorced Minnesota woman discov-
ered that the man shed been com-
municating with online for roughly a
year was actually her ex-husband, the St
Paul Pioneer Press reports. The woman
has since filed stalking charges.
Brian Matthew Cornelius, 36,
allegedly created an elaborate online
persona before communicating with
his ex-wife. During the course of their
online courtship, his ex-wife revealed
many intimate details of her life, includ-
ing her thoughts and feelings about her
ex-husband, according to the Pioneer
Press article.
The paper reports that prosecutors
claim Cornelius observed his ex-wifes
home through a webcam. He also con-
vinced her to skip a court appearance in
which she
was seeking an
order for protec-
tion against him. The
charge against her ex-husband was
then dropped, the Pioneer Press report-
ed. Eventually the woman was able to
figure out that Aaron Carpenter was
actually Brian Cornelius. Cornelius
showed up at places where the woman
had told Carpenter she would be. The
man known as Carpenter also said
things to the woman that only her ex-
husband could possibly know, according
to the paper. Confronted by his ex-wife,
Cornelius allegedly admitted to using
images he found online to fill out his
alter-egos profile, according to the com-
plaint cited in the Pioneer Press piece.
The two were married for 11 years and
have two children. (Yahoo News)
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n aspiring half-marathon runner in
Minnesota attributed her unbear-
able back pain to a two-hour training
session. A day later, she was cradling a
newborn. Trish Staine, 33, says she had
no idea she was pregnant before the sur-
prise birth. The Duluth mother of three
said she hadnt gained any weight or
felt fetal movement in the months
before. And besides, her husband had
a vasectomy. I said no, no, thats
impossible, Staine said from her
Duluth hospital room.
I definitely thought I was
done having kids, she joked.
Staine and her husband, John,
have a daughter, 7, and a son,
11. Shes also stepmother to
Johns three boys, ages 17, 19
and 20. Staine said she ran
for about two hours one
recent Sunday in preparation
for the Garry Bjorklund half-
marathon on June 22. (AP)
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R
epresentatives at the United
Nations may think twice about
crossing Ban Ki-moon in future
after the Secretary-General was
awarded an honorary 10th degree
black belt in the Korean martial art
of taekwondo.
While it is unclear whether the
68-year-old Ban can break bricks
with his bare hands, World
Taekwondo Federation presi-
dent Choue Chung-won said
the awarding of the black belt
reflected the common goals and
values shared by the UN and
federation.
South Korean
Ban, who succeed-
ed Kofi Annan in
the UNs top job in
2007 and will serve
through his second
term until the end of
2016, praised the
efforts of the federa-
tion, founded in 1973,
to achieve peace
through sport.
While ninth degree
is technically the high-
est level attainable
through the ranking
system, some honorary
10th degree black belts
have been awarded to
individuals for their
contributions to taek-
wondo and society in
general. (Reuters)
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series and
embarrassing
films come and
go, but Superman
T-shirts still sell
O D D L Y E N O U G H
I
ts hard to doubt Edward Snow-
dens sincerity. The 29-year-old
government contractor said that
he was the one who leaked docu-
ments to The Post and The
Guardian detailing US intelli-
gence-gathering techniques. In
interviews, Snowden has spoken
passionately about what he sees as
an invasive Government data-col-
lection apparatus. Though he fled
to Hong Kong, he asserted that he
could have tried to defect to a
hostile Government with a list of
every National Security Agency
(NSA) officer in the world if he
meant to harm the United States
or merely wanted to sell out.
Instead, he appears determined to
prompt a discussion about the
privacy US citizens are sacrificing
in the name of security.
On the last score, he has cer-
tainly succeeded. Not since 2008
has the country devoted so much
attention to the laws and proce-
dures that govern electronic intel-
ligence collection. Its a worthy
debate to have. And one of Snow-
dens documents has revealed a
massive programme apparently
aimed at collecting metadata,
though not the contents, of every
phone call placed or received in
the United States. The other pro-
gramme Snowden exposed, called
PRISM, concerned the collection
of Internet data from firms such
as Google and Facebook.
E
dward Snowden is a very
modern spy neither gun-
blazingly dashing nor cat-
strokingly sinister. He is young,
tech-savvy, quietly articulate
and intensely interested in
human rights. His work did not
involve high-speed car chases or
elaborate gadgets just a desk
and a computer. Using these
simple tools he could spy on
anyone, anywhere.
And now Edward Snowden
has gone and blown it open
literally. He has stepped out of
the shadows and revealed him-
self to be the source of The
Guardians string of recent dis-
closures of what the National
Security Agency has been up to
in recent years some of it
ostensibly legal. He is only too
aware that he has himself broken
the law by going public with his
concerns and that the conse-
quences could well be personally
extremely uncomfortable.
It is doubtless futile to suggest
that the US Government holds
off from its pursuit of Snowden.
The legal and diplomatic machin-
ery is probably unstoppable.
But it is not, we hope,
ridiculous to suggest that both
White House and Congress
(and Governments abroad,
including in Westminster) take
an intense interest in what
Snowden has to say.
W
hatever points, if any, the
protests in Turkey share
with the Arab Spring, there is one
that cannot now be contested:
The intemperate response of a
political leader who has found his
power unexpectedly called into
question. It is understandable that
the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, saw the continued occu-
pation of Istanbuls Gezi Park and
the citys transport hub, Taksim
Square, as an infuriating and very
visible challenge to his authority.
Understandable, too, that he
might see the disruption as dis-
couraging investors and a poten-
tial threat to the countrys econo-
my. But to try to end the protests
in so high-handed a way was as
unwise as it was reprehensible.
Erdogans decision, as he put
it, to play rough may bring him a
boost among his supporters, but
it can only be short-lived. Nor is
his talk of an environmental
protest movement hijacked by
Turkeys enemies at all helpful.
Playing rough and casting oppo-
nents as enemies of the people
are standard defence mecha-
nisms of beleaguered leaders.
Shored up by a loyal political
base, Erdogan has been reluctant
to take seriously the protests that
began in Istanbul. This is a mis-
take he may come to rue.
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aksim Square was engulfed in
chaos as riot police using tear
gas and water cannons forced
thousands of protesters from the
square, and Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey strug-
gled to contain a political crisis
that has threatened the nations
economy and paralysed the Gov-
ernment. For nearly two weeks,
the Prime Minister has remained
largely defiant, demanding that
protesters leave the square, plac-
ing armed police officers on
standby to sweep the area and
insisting that the demonstrations
were nothing like the Arab Spring
protests that ousted entrenched
leaders. But as homemade fire-
bombs and tear gas wafted in the
city centre it seemed that Erdo-
gan and his supporters had mis-
calculated the oppositions tenaci-
ty and conviction.
For Erdogan, the smoldering
violence represents his worst
political crisis since coming to
power a decade ago. It also high-
lights the kind of class politics
that have divided society, with
his conservative religious follow-
ers strongly supporting his posi-
tion. But his political base a
majority has not protected
the economy, which is suffering
as the currency loses value and
the cost of borrowing rises.
A
runi Kashyap may be young, but
he is not new to good writing and
writers. In an interview with
KAUSHIK DEKA, he talks about his
new novel, what made him suppress his
anger while writing it, and how he learnt
so much from Indira Goswami, Amitav
Ghosh and Arundhati Roy. Excerpts:
TWhat made you write this novel?
The memories of my parents generation
are divided by the year 1979: The year
ULFA was formed, the year Assam agi-
tation started. For them, life is divided
into before 1979 and after 1979. Before
1979 was good, after 1979 was messed
up; but they still have before 79 to cher-
ish, be nostalgic about. But young peo-
ple of my age dont have that album of
wonderful memories. We grew up
accepting violence as the norm. I wanted
to write a story that my contemporaries
in Assam would identify with. But I also
wrote this novel because I wanted to cel-
ebrate the perennial resistance of the
common Assamese people who have
lived under state-oppression and insur-
gency for more than 30 years now.
TTell us briefly about your novel.
It is the story of a young boy, Pablo, who
has grown up in Guwahati. Most of the
drama unfolds in his ancestral village,
where he goes to attend a wedding in
2002 about six months after a new
Government has been elected by the peo-
ple of Assam. The state is emerging from
a series of extra-judicial killings that imp-
act the lives of the people in the novel.
TWas it difficult for you to write a his-
torical novel?
The House with a Thousand Stories is
not a historical novel. Yes, a lot of
things that happen to the people in the
story, is because of the secret killings of
Assam. These killings were a series of
extra-judicial killings allegedly con-
ducted by the Government roughly
between 1998 and 2001 to crush mili-
tancy in Assam. During this period,
masked gunmen would kill the moth-
ers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends
and extended relatives of underground
insurgents so that they would leave
arms. It is sad that few in India know
about these human rights violations,
which is one of the darkest chapters of
Indian democracy.
But my novel is about how political
terror impacts the lives of common peo-
ple, not a retelling of Assams history. The
book is rather an exploration of fear,
about what it means to live under state-
terrorism and violence of armed rebel-
lion, about the far-reaching consequences
of living under the duress of terror.
TDo you think your novel would
change the way we have come to think
of contemporary writing coming out of
Assam, as writing born of violence?
I dont know how it would change writ-
ing from Assam, because it is for readers
to decide but I hope it will begin a con-
versation about this dark chapter of
Indian democracy. When I read about
the widespread human rights violations,
I was so angry. But I didnt want to write
an angry book. I was worried my rage
would consume the book itself. An angry
book meant speaking to power and ren-
dering it a central presence. I had to turn
that presence of the oppressive Indian
state irrelevant and marginal to display
the resilient life of the common people
on the proscenium. I felt it was the best
literary resistance my fiction could offer
instead of angry rants because there is
more meaning and depth to life in
Assam than just the violence perpetrated
by the state or insurgents.
THow long have you been writing? We
hear that your parents are writers as
well. Did that have an impact?
I think I have been writing from the age
of eight or nine. My father would wake
up at four in the morning and write
everyday, all through the year. I grew up
seeing my mother write her debut novel
in the early 1990s, sitting up till late
night. I would like to believe that that
had an impact.
TPlease tell us a little about your
writing routine. What are you work-
ing on at the moment?
I always have a long project such as a
novel that keeps me going and I write
something everyday: a poem, tweak
an old story, a few pages of a novel,
etc. I am working on another novel
now, which is taking forever to finish.
TIts a very interesting title. How
did that come to you?
I got it from a poem I wrote during
my undergraduate years The
House With a Thousand Novels.
TTell us something about your liter-
ary ancestors.
Toni Morrison taught me how to
blend politics and aesthetics. Indira
Goswami gave me the metaphors and
taught me the importance of endings
in fiction. Wiliam Faulkner helped me
with perspectives and gave me the
permission to write unapologetically
about Teteliguri or Mayong. Amitav
Ghosh gave me the confidence to
write Assamese novels in English.
Arundhati Roy taught me that Great
Stories have no Secrets. Nadine
Gordimer demonstrated how to take
social responsibility.
T
here is something about
Romila Thapar, one of the
eminent historians in the
country, which provokes
this reviewer to read her
work. Maybe it has something to do
with habit and old habits die hard.
As a student of history, I would reach
out for her books. But the more I
read, the more questions would come
up than answers. And a pattern
would emerge: She, for instance,
would begin by saying that since
there was no Harappan seal with a
horse mark on it, this animal in all
likelihood didnt exist in the subcon-
tinent. But thereafter in the book, this
assumption would become the proof
of its absence in India which, for her,
made it so easy for the invading
Aryans to overpower the already dis-
integrating Harappans and push the
Dravidians down south. Its another
matter that now Harappan horse
seals have been discovered at numer-
ous sites. Scientific investigations
have shown that both the Harappans
and the Aryans belonged to the same
racial groups. That Harappa wasnt
such a localised civilisation, as it was
earlier made out to be. That the
Aryan-Dravidian divide wasnt at all
real, so the very idea of distinguish-
ing a fair Aryan and a dark Dravidian
falls flat. In the wake of all this,
Thapar did something remarkable:
She changed the term Aryan invasion
into Aryan migration and kept the
rest of the theory intact!
So, when she writes the book,
Exotic Aliens: The Lion and the
Cheetah in India, along with her
nephew Valmik Thapar and Yusuf
Ansari, the obvious question comes
up: What would the historian do in
a book dealing with lions? The
answer is there within the first few
pages of the book: Lions would do
what horses failed to deliver in
making the Aryans look aliens to
the Indian landscape! The crux of
the argument is that lions, along
with cheetahs like the much
despised Aryans were in all prob-
ability not the original inhabitants
of the subcontinent and were
imported from outside.
In Exotic Aliens, the historian
doesnt miss any opportunity to
bolster her theory with the help of
the panthera leo (earlier it was
horse!), as she says that the iconic
meaning of the lion had clearly not
been appropriated by the
Harappans. She then goes on to
add that many centuries later the
Rig Veda, the first of the Vedic
texts, records the reverse condition.
It refers to the thunderous roar of
the lion, simha, which lives in the
hills and is a beast that kills, but the
Rig Veda doesnt know the tiger,
vyaghra. A possible explanation
could be that the geographical con-
text of the earliest hymns of the Rig
Veda was beyond the far northeast
of India and impinges on northeast-
ern Iran and the Oxus valley,
writes Thapar.
The linking of the lion with the
Aryan invasion/migration theory
does a great harm to this otherwise
well-researched book. Because if
the Aryans and Harappans were of
the same racial stock, and if there
never was an invasion/migration,
then lions too couldnt be termed
aliens. The entire theory, thus, is
put on its head. Divyabhanusinh
Chavda, an authority on Asiatic
lions and best known for his book
The Story of Asias Lions, claims that
at one point in history lions roamed
the Asian continent from Palestine
to Palamau in Bihar. Over the cen-
turies, these animals were wiped
out, and they are now confined to a
small population in Gujarats Gir
forest. This decimation wasnt too
surprising given the fact that lion
killing in this country was not long
ago regarded as an ultimate act of
valour, particularly among the royal
classes, which even Valmik Thapar
mentions in this book.
There are interesting stories
in this book about how Muslim
rulers in India from Balban
and Firoze Shah Tughlaq to Akbar
and Jahangir were obsessed with
wild animals. So we are told about
Qutb-ud-din Mubarak, the third
Khilji monarch (1316-20), possess-
ing two to three thousand deer-
hunting panthers, which would
make Akbars claim of 1,000 pan-
thers look like an amateur collec-
tion! We are told that in Akbars
reign (1556-1605) the cheetah
assumed a position at the Mughal
court which even noblemen would
have envied. We are told that the
Maharaja of Rewah supposedly
killed no less than 483 tigers just
before and after Independence! We
are informed about a rare book,
published in 1920 by Madhav Rao
Scindia, the then Maharaja of
Gwalior, called A Guide to Tiger
Shooting, in which every detail of
the state management of a tiger
hunt is not just stated but illustrat-
ed to ensure that the big cat has no
chance whatsoever to escape.
Then, there was one Colonel A
Smith who had claimed to have
shot 50-300 lions around Delhi
and Haryana during the turbulent
period before and after the 1857
uprising and this is where not
one lion was found in 1931 by
one Major Brown, who himself
conceded: The lion was once
very numerous in Haryana but
not one (is) to be found.
No doubt, the book is a source
of great information on wildlife, par-
ticularly the lion and the cheetah. It
also tells us about the obsession of
the rajas and nawabs for them and
how their fortunes fluctuated with
every new ruler. Alas, the book had
not involved itself with the Aryan
affair! The issue gets knottier when,
in the garb of the lion, theres an
attempt to dilute the past to influ-
ence the present, to create rift
among people on the basis of race,
colour and geography. Of all species,
lions dont need this. They are just
about surviving in Gir. Efforts
should be made to make them flour-
ish, rather than get perished in an
ensuing ideological battle.
T
he book, Global Times and Federal Concerns: Insights
from Indian and American Case, written by Amna
Mirza, tries to study the idea of federalism in the
United States and India. The authors understanding of feder-
alism is drawn from various theorists, which can be largely
understood as a method of dividing powers between the
Union and State governments. The American and Indian
models enshrine a different scheme of constitutional gover-
nance. Since the two models are not quite similar, Mirza
opines that there can be established generalisations.
We cannot separate a system from its external environ-
ment. This places the
onus on identifying the
context of study within
which the systems inter-
act; the book tries to
place the idea of federal-
ism as a process in the
era of globalisation. Rise
in flow of goods, ser-
vices, and movement of
ideas, information,
images and people have
led to globalisation.
This, in turn, has led to
major reconfiguration of
geography with space-
time compression, dilut-
ing the distinction
between domestic-inter-
national borders. The
book attempts to under-
stand how globalisation has produced new strains as far as
the federal division of power is concerned.
Further in terms of contextual reality, the United States
being a developed nation globalises more than it is glob-
alised, whereas India being a developing nation is a recipient
of globalisation. The traditional conception of the nation-
state is being challenged by supranational governance. The
book underlines that this becomes peculiar in federal states
with constitutionally-defined scheme of power. There is need
for new ways of configuration, thus calling for a more
dynamic understanding of domestic reality.
The book shows how globalisation has affected the
power and ability of the national government to act and con-
trol. Federalism and multilateral governance have important
linkages. The has led to changes in a federal model in terms
of moving away from single actor in decision-making along-
with balancing unity and diversity.
The policy prescription of the book revolves around the
idea that in order to deepen the base of democracy and glob-
alisation, federal actors have to work out a mechanism to
enhance the ways and means of state participation, consulta-
tion and negotiations even in foreign affairs, particularly
when the decision has a bearing upon them.
The lion, wilh lhis book, has become a lool in lhe hands o
an eminenl hislorian lo rejuvenale lhe now discrediled Aryan
invasion/migralion lheory. The loser, in lhe rocess, is nol jusl
lhe lion bul lhe very idea o hislory, wriles uTFAL KuMAR
Federalism in
globalised world
The book deals wilh ederal aclors
and lheir challenges in lhe era o
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Muhammad hadi
Ruswa's novel Lmrac
Jaan AJa crealed a
sensalion when il came
oul. Considered by many
lo be lhe irsl urdu novel, il remains oular
loday. 0esile lhis, ew know lhal a monlh
aler he wrole Lmrac Jaan AJa, he enned
a sly novella enlilled Junun-c-Intczar. while
Lmrac Jaan AJa is slill celebraled, Junun-
c-Intczar has been orgollen - unlil now.
The MaJncss cf Waitin redresses lhis
imbalance, ealuring bolh lhe urdu original
and a suerb English lranslalion.
THE MADNESS
OF WATNG
Muhammad Ruswa
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NEW
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you earn - whal
mallers is how much you can save and
invesl wisely. The secrel lo inancial
reedom is learning lhe basic concels o
lanning well and adoling lhe righl
allilude. wrillen by a common man or lhe
common man, lhis book will hel you lead
a inancially indeendenl. Everyone around
us is lraed in a mindless ral race.
you've resolved lo lake conlrol o your
inances and conslrucl a ersonal inance
lan, lhis book is a good slarling oinl.
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There are no regrels, no
misgivings, no emly voids,
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ending as lhings run lheir
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and move ahead. A niggling
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address riendshis lhal
have been overshadowed by
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exeriences. You decide lo
searale lhe lwo as you
raclise orgiveness. hay
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lhrough realisalion o
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wilh several new olions.
Roads you've never lravelled
suddenly oen u and you
are oised lo bid goodbye lo
old ways o living and
embrace lhe new, unknown
and exciling. Securily as you
knew il is aboul lo change as
you exerimenl wilh work,
income and inveslmenls. A
small amily crisis is deused
by limely aclion bul gives a
sign o lhe rocky road ahead
lo a ermanenl solulion even
as inlaws or a souse
deends queslionable
slances. A sirilual
conneclion is severed wilh a
menlor, leacher or guru bul
you ind one iece o
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leadershi demand you
make some sacriices lo
grab a lum assignmenl.
Someone's commilmenl
does nol survive or long
and aecls your suly o
income. You rely on old
riends and a boundless
suly o hoe. The coers
are illed quickly as you
launch a new service or
roducl or rival a lo layer.
Youngslers win accolades in
sorls and lalenl hunls. A
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as you comlele a dream
home or renovalion rojecl.
Temlalion arrives in lhe
orm o lemesluous love
bul dee resonsibililies
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over rivolily. Surgeries and
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Your gril and delerminalion
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lhe ace o challenges. You
ace a ew unchanging laws
in relalionshis. Bias crees
inlo loving relalionshis.
From loss o inleresl lo
sublle wilhdrawals and
ressures, you surmounl all
by going il alone. Cliques are
a realily al lhe worklace and
neilher revoll nor
sycohancy gels you oinls;
you eilher il in or don'l. hew
breaks arrive lhrough older
comanies or longslanding
layers, and oer a change
o residence and lranser.
0lder layers rely on
unlruslworlhy layers or
advice and amily lies are
brislly due lo lhis.
Youngslers are enlhusiaslic
aboul a new career, sorl or
slinl overseas. 0ehydralion
and chronic aligue
syndrome bolher some.
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evenls, serendiily and
bi/arre occurrences.
Memories are rereshed wilh
lhe arrival o longlosl
riends; oorlunilies lhal
you lhoughl over come
around or a second lime;
even mislaced valuables
show u. Evenls give you
insighls and increase your
awareness as you make
solid and reliable conlacls.
Eslrangemenls are a lhing o
lhe asl as lies o all kinds
are reaired. You bid adieu
lo esky neighbours,
lyrannical bosses or
oressive eole. Love is
reslored belween riends and
amily; an absenl love
sends coious amounls o
lime lhinking o you.
Children gel a career or
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resonses by olhers.
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divided over duly and
individual concerns and
eslrangemenl wilh olhers is
likely over whal are
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ears and insecurilies are
addressed even as you
widen your ambil o work,
lrusl and relalionshis. You
boldly go where no one has
gone beore and your
choices are ecleclic in career,
riendshis, inveslmenls or
joyous sending. You
conquer lhe aches and ains
o lhe body wilh sleely
delerminalion and daunl
olhers wilh your energy and
accomlishmenls.
Arecialion arrives or
qualily work, orging
solulions, heling eole and
craling wins. You la
addilional sources o income.
A longoverdue inherilance
or windall inally arrives.
ormer enemy allemls
reconcilialion
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lhal lheir momenl inally
arrives - in lhe orm o
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slalus. The week is lricky or
lhose acing inquesls, on a
lricky ooling wilh aulhorilies
or who are dealing wilh
lough adversaries.
Behavioural lases or
irresonsible remarks are
mel wilh slern resislance lill
you are orced lo relracl.
Medical emergencies or
someone in lhe amily arise.
A child makes excuses or
ailure and loses an
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sorls. A visil lo a ilgrim
sol lurns inlo an unleasanl
exerience. Farcels or lellers
are losl in lransil.
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irsl ush you inlo making
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lel you drown in conlroversy
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6ayatri Mantra
hew develomenls ush
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mode whelher you are ready
or nol. A comorl /one is
over and a eriod o hard
work awails. Commilled lo
lhe new, you ind yoursel
graling wilh old rojecls,
ending dreams and
obligalions lhal won'l be
ignored any longer. Al work
looms an unholy war
launched by adversaries who
hil hard and don'l mind
unair means. A monooly
ends as eole make inroads
inlo your lur. Reconcilialion
rocesses are aecled by
someone's mischiemaking
and unreliabilily. Singles
could ind lhemselves
lraed in a slicky silualion
or in lhe comany o
dubious eole. Travel
overseas is ull o hiccus
and mixus. A hasly
decision causes anxiely. A
youngsler deies your
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MediIaIion aid Vis|nu
5a|astranaam
You slrive lo bring in
harmony, eace and
normalcy lo lies. A week o
high lension where every
error is magniied, every lie
sun around and geslures
misunderslood. You lace a
greal deal o imorlance on
del handling o silualions
bul resecl eole and lheir
views. 0ialogue, conluence
grous, inlerailh meelings,
hR inleraclivily all oen
channels o give and lake.
Your oinions are soughl on
a ublic orum loo. A low
roile hase ends bringing
some lo lheir shining career
momenl, enjoying sollighl
or simly greal comany.
Social soirees, educalional
lris, and crosscullural
lravel lake you all over lhe
world. The head and ace
are vulnerable lo injury.
8urprise oI Ihe Week
Cororale or ersonal
esionage ensures nolhing is
rivale and conidenlial
anymore
Tip oI Ihe Week Relace
brash slances wilh
lhoughlulness
Iurky number G
Iurky roIour 0while and
shell ink
8esI day Friday
Iurky gem 0iamond and
ink cryslals
IdeaI Iood Fine nuls
iII Io give Eyewear
8esI Iime G lo 7 m
MediIaIion aid
Ma|aparini||ana 5utta
You are reslless lill you've
sellled an imorlanl maller
under your charge. wading
lhrough loxic wars o lur,
slanging malches, ower
slruggles, land disules,
labour unresl and a mineield
o uninished business, you
move sleadily orward. A
breaklhrough arrives lhis
week as you aller your
aroach and remain
sleadasl and nonviolenl.
Comromises lhal aren'l
shabby, eace rocesses,
oulocourl selllemenls and
lhe end o olice or olher
cases all mark lhe end o a
bad hase. A breach wilh a
brolher or sisler is healed.
Some are able lo correcl
some elly dishonesly al
work wilhoul crealing
enmily. You give money lo
eole esecially lhe oor,
and some give lime lo
charily or hilanlhroic work.
leadershi role is handed lo
you on a laller
Tip oI Ihe Week A
humanilarian aroach
wins hearls and career
lrohies alike
Iurky number 5
Iurky roIour 0ark green
8esI day wednesday
Iurky gem Emerald
IdeaI Iood Salads wilh
chickeas and baby sinach
iII Io give Shoes
8esI Iime 5 lo O m
MediIaIion aid The oems
o Sui myslic Alhallaj
Finally lhe lasl barrier is
down and you see lhe inish
line. All your rojecls,
asiralions and dream
venlures are back in lhe
reckoning. You are on lhe
brink o lrue inancial
indeendence as you
reare lo say goodbye lo
your woes and liabililies. A
aying assignmenl alls inlo
your la. Family shows
disaroval in love; a male
grows lesly or whimsical
and singles ind
commilmenl
clauslrohobic. 0rudges
give way lo beller
underslanding; your worsl
ears don'l come lrue. 0ld
oes, comelilors and even
asl emloyers exlend a
laurel branch and ask you lo
join in a new camaign. A
new osilion brings resecl.
Your new obsession is
culinary. Children ick u
seasonal bugs.
legal win comes aler a
rolracled slruggle
Tip oI Ihe Week use a gil,
lair or lalenl lo hel
yoursel make money
Iurky number 22
Iurky roIour Toee beige
8esI day Monday
Iurky gem Carnelian
IdeaI Iood Coee au lail
iII Io give Tea and coee
hamers
8esI Iime 4 lo 1O m
MediIaIion aid 5atuk
5|airav mantra
lF0
July 23-August 23
I0808
April 21-May 21
6FMI8I
May 22-June 21
080F8
June 22-July 22
8008FI0
Oct 24-Nov 22
FI80F8
Feb 20-March 20
lI88
Sept 24-Oct 23
008I08
Jan 21-Feb 19
I860
Aug 24-Sept 23
0F8I0088
Dec 24-Jan 20
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YOURWEEKAHEAD
MEEhAKSh RAh
H
aving a taste of the thin
dividing line distinguish-
ing the law of destiny and
that of karma, it is time now to
test the ground further in
applied terms. Those bound by
destiny, as we are aware, would
believe that the future course of
events in their lives are all preor-
dained with virtually no scope
for any modification through
conscious intervention. On the
contrary, those overtaken by
their power of freewill often
ignore the callings of destiny and
try to live in the present.
To find an answer to the
above dilemma, one needs to
revisit the question afresh.
Remember, the calling of destiny
is nothing but a fallout of ones
own karma in the past. And all
karmas leave residual traces of
their doing with potential to
influence the future. For, in the
cause-effect chain, to which we
are all embedded, every effect
turns out to be a cause for the
future. That brings us to an
important question: Would it not
mean that we are all stuck to the
labyrinth of our own making?
A look into the finer nuances
of the chemistry of life can offer
the right lead. Going by the pro-
visions of Indian philosophy, life
runs in succession. One departs
from this world to reincarnate
with fresh body carrying impres-
sions of the previous lifes experi-
ences and unfulfilled desires.
And that defines our destiny. But
how does this reflect in applied
terms. The memory implants we
carry set the trends of our habits,
attitudes and desire trends that
condition our thought process
one way or the other. So, invari-
ably, we begin life with inherent
tendencies, and left to them, one
would conduct within that frame.
In this sense, our past keeps
chasing us. Is there a way out?
Here comes into play the
power of freewill, duly aided by
the faculty of discriminate intel-
ligence. Applying this preroga-
tive, one could self-reflect to
discover the self and ones
inherent tendencies.
Accordingly, one could make
necessary amends and set the
premise right for future. But
danger here is that this preroga-
tive too comes with a choice.
First, one could use the power
of dispassion inherent with the
faculty of discriminate intelli-
gence to figure out the most
appropriate lead and mindfully
walk towards a better tomorrow.
Or alternately, one could remain
stuck to ones ego, mistakenly
identify the power of freewill to
ones whims and fancies and
mindlessly walk into the future.
Here is a case in point sug-
gesting that power of freewill has
the prerogative to take the final
call and it carries the potential to
interfere with the course of des-
tiny. Going by astrological dic-
tums, the man in question seems
to be promised of marriage of his
choice. For, Mars, the seventh
lord identified with marriage, is
firmly placed in the seventh itself.
The seventh sub-lord Saturn,
conjunct Ketu, the fifth sub-lord
identified with love, both occupy
the nakshatra owned by Mars.
That further ratifies the promise
of marriage, and that too of
choice because of close connec-
tion of fifth and seventh. But,
even at the fag end of 40s, he is
still unmarried. For, in his egotis-
tical hang, he had taken a pledge
not to marry, if he fails to accom-
plish a task undertaken. Mars
placed adverse to Jupiter speaks
of his high ego that gets him
stuck to his self-defined dos and
donts. So, the mans power of
freewill played the devil with his
marital promise.
To sum up, destiny is anyway
limiting, but even power of
freewill comes under limitation if
it ignores the necessity to use the
faculty of discriminate intelli-
gence well in time.
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BhARAT BhuShAh FA0MA0E0
What is my best career option?
Shantanu Chandra Jada
After completing your BTech, better opt
for management.
Will I be able to make it to Germany for
higher education on a scholarship?
Priyam
Going to Germany seems probable but
getting a scholarship is doubtful.
With a five-minute of error in the time
of birth, what would be the difference in
terms of astrological indications?
Niharika
The earth moves at a great speed and
consequent upon that the energy flux
excited by nature every moment would
vary widely. So, a five-minute of error can
make big change in terms of implications.
When do I get married?
Akansha
The marriage clock has already begun
ticking strongly.
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