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WEATHER
Gujarat to go to polls in No corrupt person should get
political-social support: Modi
two phases on 1 & 5 Dec
Partly cloudy sky. Temperature likely to be in
the range of 31-22 degrees Celsius.
A
13:55 hrs 00:37 hrs
Full moon on 08 November
ssembly elections in The CEC said as many as said institutions acting
Gujarat will be held 3,24,422 people would be against the menace need
in two phases on 1 first-time voters in the Gujarat not be defensive and
December and 5 Assembly polls. must ensure that no cor- Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the program-
December and the result will “For a better voting expe- rupt person, howsoever me marking Vigilance Awareness Week of Central
be declared on 8 December rience, 1,274 polling stations powerful he might be, was Vigilance Commission, in New Delhi on Thursday.� ANI
along with the outcome of the will be managed entirely by allowed to go scot-free.
Himachal Pradesh Assembly women and security staff. The “No corrupt person rupt.”“This situation is not the ramparts of Red Fort
polls, the Election Commis- Public Works Department should get political-social good for Indian society. for a decisive battle against
sion of India (ECI) announced will welcome voters at 182 support, every corrupt Even today, some people corruption, Mr Modi
today. polling stations. For the first person should be put in give arguments in favour pointed out two key rea-
The Assembly polls in time, 33 polling stations will the dock by society. It is of the corrupt who have sons for corruption that
Prime Minister Narendra be set up and managed by the necessary to create such been found guilty.” hindered people’s
Modi's home state of Gujarat youngest polling staff,” the an environment,” he said The PM declared that progress i.e. lack of ameni-
are expected to witness a CEC said. addressing a programme for a developed India, ties and unnecessary
triangular contest among “The date of counting for markingVigilance Aware- trust and credibility were pressure from the gov-
the ruling BJP, Congress and Gujarat Assembly polls will ness Week of the Central critical and claimed that ernment.
THUMBNAILS the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). coincide with Himachal Vigilance Commission previous governments “For a very long time,
Announcing the election dates, the CEC said.He said EVMs.”He said: “The first Pradesh on 8 December. The (CVC). not only lost people’s this absence of ameni-
schedule for Gujarat at a the poll panel has announced phase of Assembly polls in entire process of Assembly The PM emphasised confidence but also failed ties and opportunity was
press conference here, Chief the poll dates 110 days ahead Gujarat will be held on 1 elections is to be completed that there was no require- to trust people. The lega- deliberately kept alive
Election Commissioner (CEC) of the expiry of the Gujarat December and second phase on the 10 December,” he ment for institutions act- cy from the long period and a gap was allowed to
Rajiv Kumar said the term of assembly. “There will be a 72 on 5 December and count- said. On allegations of delay- ing against the corrupt of slavery of corruption, widen leading to an
the 182-member Gujarat days gap between the count- ing of votes will be held on 8 ing polling dates due to the and corruption like the exploitation, and con- unhealthy competition
Assembly ends on 18 February ing of the result and the December.” PM's visit to Gujarat, the CVC to work on any polit- trol over resources, unfor- of a zero-sum race. This
next year. expiry of the Assembly in In the first phase, polling CEC said, “Recently a very ical agenda but to work tunately, received more race fed the ecosystem
On allegations of delay in the state,” the CEC said. will be held for 89 seats while tragic incident occurred there towards making the lives strength after the inde- of corruption.
announcing the polling dates On charges of EVM tam- the second phase will be ( Morbi bridge collapse)- of ordinary citizens sim- pendence. This severely “Corruption created
for Gujarat, the CEC said pering, he said: “Actions and held for 93 seats.The CEC said one of the reasons why we pler.Touching upon what harmed at least four gen- by this scarcity affects the
there is no delay in the outcomes speak louder than notification for the first phase delayed. Also, there was state he called a worrying erations of this country, poor and middle class-
announcement as there are words. At times, parties crit- of polls will be issued on 5 mourning in the state yes- trend, Mr Modi said: “We he said. es the most. If the poor
still 110 days left for the term ical of the poll panel have got November while notifica- terday; so multiple factors.” have seen that many “We have to change and middle class spend
Actor Rajnikanth greets Bengal governor La
of the state assembly. Mul- surprise results in polls. Some tion for the second phase will After the announcement times the corrupt people this decades-long way their energy arranging for
Ganesan's elder brother on his 80th birthday
function in presence of chief minister Mamata
tiple factors, including weath- have questioned EVMs, but be issued on 10 November. of the poll dates, the Model are glorified in spite of fully in the Azadi ka Amrit the basic amenities, how
Banerjee, in Chennai.� ANI er, were taken into account they are silent when they According to the latest elec- Code of Conduct has come being jailed even after Kaal,” he added.Recall- will the country
before finalising the poll win polls through the same toral rolls, Gujarat has a total into effect in Gujarat. being proven to be cor- ing his clarion call from progress?” he asked.
CMYK
CMYK
02
After people have voted us to power, we will go to every
remote place to know of people's problems
ANIT THAPA, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, GORKHALAND TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATION
KOLKATA, FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2022 ON HIS VISIT TO THE HIGHEST POINT IN BENGAL AND A TOURIST SPOT, SANDAKPHU
CMYK
CMYK
03
Modi (PM Narendra Modi) has no power to take
away your citizenship. We all are citizens of India.
STATE CONGRESS PRESIDENT ADHIR CHOWDHURY,
ADDRESSING A RALLY
KOLKATA, FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2022
THUMBNAILS
Mamata, Stalin at Protests outside Khadya Bhavan
for food sub inspector jobs
Bengal guv's event
Apart from Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, megastar Rajinikanth was also present
were supposed to be recruit-
ed but only 100 got recruit-
ed, according to a protestor
at the spot.
“There are about 857 can-
STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE parties to sign a memorandum didates who are now await-
BJYM members protest
against high dengue
WEST BENGAL, 3 NOVEMBER to be submitted to the Pres- ing recruitment. We are
cases on Thursday. � ident Droupadi Murmu for protesting peacefully but will
W
BISWAJIT GHOSHAL est Bengal chief recalling the present governor. not withdraw the protest till
minister Mama- Political analyst Bhaskar our recruitment begins. We
ta Banerjee, Tamil Sinha Roy sees this visit as a have been waiting for a long
Grievance camp at Metro Nadu chief min- personal one. “She has per- time,” said one of the pro-
Rail Bhavan: A grievance ister MK Stalin and megastar sonal rapport with Mr Stalin testors.
camp was organized at Rajinikanth were among the and his family. She accepted An official in the food and
Metro Rail Bhavan today celebrities who attended the the invite of the new gover- supplies department, request-
by the city Metro railway birthday celebrations of the nor on a personal note and STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE outside Khadya Bhavan, today, ing anonymity, said that the
authorities to create elder brother of West Bengal extended the courtesy. There KOLKATA, 3 NOVEMBER at Mirza Ghalib Street, where department does not make any
awareness amongst Governor L Ganeshan. is no political motive behind the protestors alleged that direct recruitment. All recruit-
commuters as well as The birthday function was this. Unlike the previous gov- Parallel to the protests by about 857 candidates await ment is done through the
staff against corrupt held at Ram Theater audito- ernor, L Ganeshan has not tried School Service Commission recruitment in the position of state Public Service Com-
practices. The initiative rium near Kodambakkam. to do anything which is extra- (SSC) and Teacher Eligibility food SI in the food and sup- mission (PSC).
comes as a part of the BJP former national secre- constitutional. The relation Test ( TET ) candidates plies department of the state The state administrative tri-
Vigilance Awareness tary and senior leader from between the chief minister and demanding jobs in teaching government. bunal had asked the PSC to
Week being observed by Tamil Nadu, H Raja also par- ta Banerjee, which was noted been bogged down by cor- governor is ‘normal’,” said positions, a new bout of On enquiring, it was learnt start recruitment by form-
Kolkata Metro Railway ticipated in the function. with interest by the social ruption cases and continuous Sinha Roy. protests today broke out in from the protestors that the ing a revised panel but that
from 31 October to 6 After the West Bengal gov- and political circles of West raids by the Enforcement Analyst Udayan Ban- Kolkata, outside Khadya Bha- food and supplies depart- decision was challenged in
November. SNS ernor, Jagdip Dhankar became Bengal. It may be recalled Directorate and the CBI. dopadhyay, who has been van, where candidates ment had issued a notifica- court by the PSC.
the Vice-President of the coun- that Mamata and Jagdip However on Wednesday, following the developments, demanded recruitment in tion in 2017 regarding the Till the time the commis-
try, the incumbent Manipur Dhankhar were fighting with immediately after arriving in said, “This is what is needed the position of food sub- examination for recruitment sion sends the names for
governor, L Ganeshan was each other most of the time. Chennai, Mamata Banerjee for the smooth functioning of inspectors (SI) in the state food in the position of food SI. recruitment, the hands of the
NRC is BJPs given additional charge of The BJP, which got a drub- called on the chief minister of the democratic practices. The and supplies department. The written examination took department are tied, the offi-
election weapon: West Bengal. bing in the 2021 Assembly elec- Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin. The new governor has started on Kolkata, of late, has become place in 2018. The merit list cial said.
Ever since Ganeshan tions in Bengal, is at logger- Tamil Nadu government is a cordial note and the CM has the centre stage of protests was published in 2020, Decem- It may be recalled that the
Congs Adhir assumed office, there has heads with the Mamata Baner- fighting a battle with gover- also reciprocated. The earli- against the state government ber. The recruitment, although, Calcutta High Court, in August
been a marked bonhomie jee government. Mamata nor RN Ravi, and the DMK has er bitterness was also because over several issues, mainly con- was supposed to begin in this year, had pulled up the
BERHAMPORE, 3 NOVEMBER with the chief minister Mama- Banerjee-led government has written to all the opposition of the previous governor.” cerning the education sector February 2021, it got delayed West Bengal government over
where rampant corruption due to some candidates, who what it called a “lackadaisi-
The BJP (Bharatiya Janata has doomed the future of did not clear the examination, cal” approach in a case relat-
Party) uses NRC (nation-
al register of citizens) as a Cops stage arrest to rob Wonder if masterminds will several candidates who are sit-
ting on the roads, awaiting
moving the court. Legal dis-
putes delayed the recruit-
ed to irregularities in the
recruitment of food inspec-
political tool to win elec-
tions, alleged the state
Congress president, Adhir man in Ekbalpore ever be nabbed: High Court recruitment. Adding to this,
a fresh bout of protests broke
ment but it however soon
began. About 957 candidates
tors in the food and supplies
department.
CMYK
04 KOLKATA, FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2022
People have started raising doubts over the Congress high
command amid the tussle between Gehlot and Pilot.
UNION MINISTER GAJENDRA SINGH SHEKHAWAT
SLAMMING RAJASTHAN CM FOR LOSING FOCUS ON THE GOVERNANCE OF THE STATE
TENDER
Munugode: High turnout
in high-stakes battle
Though polling ended at 6 pm, there were long queues before polling stations
ANINDITA CHOWDHURY TRS is hoping that Congress will
HYDERABAD, 3 NOVEMBER hold on to its vote bank or it
will fall in its kitty instead of that
M
unugode in Nal- of BJP.The Left parties who have
gonda district of a sizeable presence in
Telangana saw a Munugode have declared their
high percentage support for the TRS.
of polling despite the high But tension ran high in
drama, accusations and counter Munugode since last night as
accusations by the three key BJP candidate K Rajagopal
political parties and scuffles Reddy also staged a sit in
between the cadres of BJP and demonstration at the office of
TRS that constituency wit- the returning officer alleging
nessed on polling day. How- the presence of outsiders in the
ever, the day ended with BJP Assembly constituency, a
blaming the election com- charge denied by the TRS.
mission for failing to rein in the got over BJP state president BJP and TRS party cadres near Telangana BJP president Bandi
ruling TRS who they alleged blamed the chief electoral offi- Sarampet polling station in Mar- Sanjay Kumar then tried to
lured voters with money and cer, the police officials alleg- riguda mandal in Munugode reach Munugode, leaving party
liquor, the same allegation ing they were under control of and later at Chandur but police head quarters at midnight
that TRS echoed but at BJP. chief minister K Chandrasekhar swiftly dispersed the workers. along with supporters. He was
Till 5pm Munugode record- Rao and turned a blind eye There was a controversy after detained by police at the out-
ed 77.55 per cent polling as par- when the party submitted evi- BJP candidate posted a pho- skirts of Hyderabad while he
ticularly as women voters dence of TRS distributing tograph of him casting vote on was on his way to Munugode
voted with visible enthusi- money, gold and liquor to lure Twitter but soon TRS social Assembly constituency before
asm. Though polling ended at voters. However, he claimed the media convenors pointed out polling began while alleging that
6 pm but there were reports of BJP would win Munugode. that he was enrolled at Nakrekal TRS leaders who were non
long queues in front of polling TRS leaders submitted a com- Assembly constituency and locals had stayed back in the
stations and those who were plaint to chief electoral officer enquired if he indulged in constituency. Initially, the
handed tokens would be Vikas Raj during the day alleg- bogus voting. The BJP candi- attempts by police officials to
allowed to exercise their fran- ing that BJP was illegally dis- date then deleted his post. stop him at Malakpet and
chise. tributing hundreds of crores Congress candidate Sravanthi Vanasthalipuram were not
According to CEO Vikas of liquor and money to voters Palvai complained to CEO fruitful before the convoy was
Raj around 42 non voters were violating the election code of that a morphed video of her stopped at Abdullapurmet on
identified and were sent out and conduct and sought his inter- meeting Telangana chief min- Hyderabad-Vijayawada. But the
even on poll day Rs2.99 lakh vention. ister K Chandrasekhar Rao BJP leader and his supporters
of cash was seized. After polling A scuffle broke out between was doing the rounds. The sat on the road, resisting arrest.
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ndari of the think-tank Gateway House in a recent in the classroom does the teaching-learning process become live e had constitutions since
essay for the Indian Council on Global Relations writ- 1931 when Sri Lanka (then
es: “Given Russia’s critical global role as a supplier of Ceylon) was a colony of the
key commodities and military hardware, India shoul- British. What we have to
see now is whether the constitutions
d pursue long term solutions to continue this trade.”
enacted thereafter have been benefi-
The sanctions regime in place against Russia to punish cial to the country and its people or
it for its invasion of Ukraine prohibits a wide range of were they enacted to enhance the
transactions, from the sale of technology and equip- powers of the leaders. The British Gov-
ment to provision of financial services to the targeted ernment established the Donough-
entities which are usually individuals and companies more Constitution in 1931, giving us
linked to the Russian government. Indeed, many of adult franchise without gender bias,
Russia’s defence manufacturers have been under US the first country to win this in Asia. The
sanctions since 2014. While India does not recognise British gave us this constitution on
unilateral sanctions, those imposed without the imp- behalf of the country and its people.
This was indeed a significant mile-
rimatur of the United Nations, what makes Washing- stone in our history of governance.
ton-led sanctions on Russia effective is the central With the establishment of the State
role played by the US dollar in international finance. Council, and all ethnic communities
“Commercial enterprises violating these sanctions getting together as a nation, the lead-
lose access to the US financial system, finishing them ers were able to work together for the
off as viable businesses. Unilateral sanctions imposed development of the country for the
by the USA work,” asserts Bhandari. It is an accepted benefit of the people.
fact of international relations that sanctions once im- The second constitution came in
posed tend to stay for a long time ~ Iran has been un- 1947 was the Soulbury Constitution
der some form of sanctions since its 1979 Islamic rev- drafted by Sir Ivor Jennings, who later
became the first Vice-Chancellor of the
olution, while socialist Venezuela has faced US puni- University of Ceylon. This constitution
tive measures including sanctions for the past 20 ye- gave us the Houses of Parliament ~ the
ars. What that tells us is once Washington identifies a House of Representatives and the Sen-
strategic adversary, by definition a long-term threat ate which was the upper House. In the
to core American interests, it starts putting in place House of Representatives there were
mechanisms that will incrementally help it achieve positions to which unelected persons
I
its objectives. A “profoundly dangerous” Moscow is, by n view of the UGC Chair- acting with teachers and other classroom lecture ~ the discus- It may be important to
this yardstick, as confirmed in the recently released US man’s latest announcement students through teleconfer- sion method that has been at the recognise that some subjects
National Security Strategy document, the primary tar- of a digital university to be ences. Digital classroom environ- heart of the teaching-learning ex- may not be taught online in a
set up in the coming acade- ments will be accessible to any perience. No instructional tech- digital university because the of eminence could be nominated.
get of an American squeeze which is just about begin- mic session, it is time to mention student provided he or she has nology has been developed to electronic medium does not per- These positions as well as the majority
ning. There is a school of thought which believes that that the spectre of Coronavirus access to a computer or internet replace cooperative learning that mit the best method of instruc- of places in the Senate were given to
Russia, however, is no pushover ~ it is, experts say, haunted the policy makers of connection. This may allow a dy- takes place in group projects, tion. supporters of the ruling parties so that
much larger than either Iran or Venezuela, is less like- education for more than two namic interaction with teachers field studies, recitals, and presen- Examples are hands-on sub- the original intentions the those who
ly to suffer the intended economic collapse sanctions years and it is, undoubtedly, edu- and among the students them- tations. It is generally agreed that jects, such as public speaking, drafted the constitution were violated
are structured to engineer and remains a major player cation technology that came to selves. The synergy that may exist students do not learn merely surgery, dental hygiene and spor- as is usual in Sri Lanka.
in the global economy. The Indian dilemma is that their rescue. Microsoft Teams, in student-centred digital class- from the textbooks; if so, teachers ts where physical movements The next constitution was in 1972,
any attempt to reduce Russia’s role in commodity ma- Zoom, Skype, Google Hangout es is one of the most vital traits would not be required. Only contribute to the achievement of replacing the Dominion status of Sri
and other apps helped all to co- of the digital learning format. when textbooks and supplemen- the learning objectives. Hybrid Lanka and establishing a Socialist De-
rkets (oil and gas, food, fertilisers, and minerals) will
mmunicate and exchange knowl- Virtual Global University in tary study materials are brought courses may represent a solution, mocratic Republic with a ceremonial
impact its current and future requirements adversely. edge with each other. The univer- thus making that area of the
Germany offers a graduate pro- to bear upon a topic to be discus- President replacing the Governor-Gen-
A twin solution is suggested by Bhandari to counter sities also embraced these solu- gramme in informa- sed in the class- course more accessible to a eral. The name of the country was also
this from coming to pass. In the short term, India sho- tions, but the time has come to tion and manage- room does the greater number of people who changed from Ceylon to Sri Lanka. But
uld develop an expertise on sanctions ~ how they ask if India can come up with the ment where stud- teaching-learning would otherwise have difficulty it was during this time that a worst
work and finding workarounds. Because not every en- concept of a digital university, as ents can have access process become getting to the campus. change was brought in ~ that of replac-
tity operating out of Russia has been sanctioned, a lot visualised by the National Policy to a wide network of live. This is further An online curriculum should ing the members of the then very com-
of trade is still possible. Additionally, he recommends of Education (NEP 2000), thereby people and interac- accentuated thro- reflect the use of dialogue among petent Ceylon Civil Service (CCS) with
New Delhi moves immediately to create its own finan- providing learners a new experi- tions. They are able ugh projects and students and group discussions. outsiders as Secretaries of Ministries.
cial architecture distinct from the SWIFT network ence of learning? to work at their own assignments fol- Quality education may be pro- The government also replaced the
It sounds exhilarating to pace. Hence, the im- lowed by term-end vided in a digital university only if CCS with the Sri Lanka Administrative
used for international payments. In the long run, India
think of attending a class when- portance of the de- examinations. the curriculum is developed or Service (SLAS). This change helped the
needs to create its own benchmarks and commodity ever one wants to because of pre- velopment of such Lack of access, converted to meet the needs of government to bring in persons from
exchanges for petroleum and other commodities to recorded sessions, asking the tea- skills including cre- whether it be for the online medium. outside to positions of Ministry Secre-
enable resource trading on an Indian exchange, in AK
cher questions and receiving ans- ativity, communica- GHOSH economic or logis- The task of access both to taries, with persons such as Prof. HA
Indian currency, using Indian financial architecture. wers instantly as the teacher is tion, and knowledge tic reasons, may the curriculum products and cur- de S Gunasekera and Doric de Souza
These are eminently sensible recommendations to logged on at the same time. Also, application. The writer, a former
Associate Professor, exclude otherwise riculum experts is an important being brought in because of their
insulate the country from coercive tactics such as it could be a moment of enjoying However, the Department of English,
Gurudas College, Kolkata, is
eligible students issue for the success of a digital political alignments.
sanctions on Russia that are against India’s interests. financial relief because one does fact remains that a presently with from the digital university. As the students can- The significant aspect as far as
not have to travel or stay at some digital university RabIndra Bharati University courses. This is an not have access to the entire cur- these constitutions were concerned,
Midterm poll hostel.
The plan to set up digital
cannot provide face important issue in
to face interactions. So, the stu- rural and lower socio-economic
riculum products, it is likely that
scientific visualisation is used as
was that they did not affect the peo-
ple adversely.
U
S President Joe Biden’s popularity ratings are universities is premised on the dents would be deprived of op- neighbourhoods. Internet access an educational tool. Curriculum The Government that came into
National Education Policy’s ob- portunities for better communi- may pose a significant cost to the may not be easily updated nor power in 1970 (with the world’s first
hovering at 41 per cent in the latest nationwide jective of enhancing the gross en- cation and deeper understand- users in a digital university. Both very interactive. Use of email woman Prime Minister), which enact-
tracker poll, which is not good news for the rolment rate in higher education ing. Their computer literacy may students and facilitators must be may be effective for exchange of ed the 1972 constitution did away with
incumbent and the Democratic Party he leads given in the country from the current also deter them from adoption of able to use a variety of search en- information. Video conferencing the Senate which really helped the
there are just about five days left to go for mid-term el- 26 per cent to 50 per cent by new technology that may lead to gines and be comfortable navi- over the internet may not be a country to save a fair amount of other-
ections in America. But it is not unexpected news. A 2035. However, on the basis of incomplete learning and low per- gating on the web, as well as be practical substitute. wise unnecessary expenditure. That
historical analysis of midterm polls over the past four global experience, it is feared that formance. familiar with newsgroups, FTP From the administrative government brought in people from
decades by William A. Galston, Senior Fellow of Gover- the quality of education delivered The performance of many procedures and e-mail. Even the point of view, the question of outside to positions in the Administra-
nance Studies at the US-based Brookings Institute, by such universities may have to students at DeVry University in most sophisticated technology is accreditation becomes pertinent. tive Service. Some were very compe-
suggests the results of the forthcoming elections are be compromised. the US was examined some time not hundred per cent reliable. Where would the credits go? How tent persons, sometimes more com-
The concept of digital uni- ago. The university offers online At the same time, to success- can Intellectual Property Rights petent than many of the officers from
shaping up to be in line with the outcome of most
versities has been developed for and contact versions of all its fully participate in an online pro- be maintained? How will the the SLAS!
midterms held within two years after an incumbent students to obtain almost imme- courses, using the same text- gramme of a digital university, issue of faculty control over con- With a change of government in
President’s first victory. Over this period, there have diate feedback from teachers books, assessments, assign- students must be well-organised, tent and curriculum be preser- 1977 which brought in the UNP with a
been four midterms conducted under what Galston through emails or online discus- ments, and lecture materials for self-motivated and possess a ved? These questions must be ad- large majority, its leader JR Jayewar-
terms “normal circumstances” and two in contexts sions. When the term came into each format. high degree of time management dressed initially. dene, decided to introduce a constitu-
shaped by “extraordinary but transitory factors”. In existence it applied to things that Even though the courses are skills. An online teacher must The students may not be tion similar to those of France and the
the normal midterms, all four US Presidents had expe- were simulated by the computer, seemingly identical, the students compensate for lack of physical able to reach dramatic moments United States.
rienced significant declines in their job approval to like virtual memory. Now this who enrolled online performed presence by creating a support- that occasionally result in witti- But unlike in those countries, his
the low-to-mid 40s. Their parties saw their share of came to be applied to things that worse. As a result, the online stu- ive environment in a digital class- cism, humour and other such constitution of 1978 was drafted to
the Congressional vote decline to around 45 per cent physically exist and are created dents would be more likely to room where all students feel elements that help to enhance enable him to retain absolute power
by means of computers. drop out. The hardest hit would comfortable participating. the joy of the teaching-learning as the Executive President. He made
and all endured significant seat losses. The two unusu- In fact, the concept of digital be the unwilling few and those Computer-related frustra- process. If a colourful presenta- use of the provisions of the constitu-
al midterms during the past four decades were both universities first came with the who enter the virtual classes with tion and the fear to face new thi- tion using PowerPoint fails to tion to hold a referendum to get the
conducted in the shadow of war ~ the 1990 Gulf War idea for a wireless university at low grades in their previous exa- ngs on the part of teachers may lead to a lively classroom discus- term of Parliament extended.
gave George H W Bush a huge but fleeting boost in the BBC. In the tele-university minations. make them unacceptable to stu- sion, it will be of no use. But the The next President did not abuse
his job approval while the 9/11 terrorist attacks did concept, courses were taught on The weaker students would dents. Digital class environment teacher on the dais in front of the power vested in the position except
the same for his son President George W Bush. In both the radio and television in the be the worst sufferers. An over- means transfer of traditional pe- many students can do wonders. to antagonize many persons including
cases, their popularity helped them avoid the losses name of “university on air” which whelming advantage to student dagogy towards an electronic It is always challenging for the some of his cabinet colleagues.
US Presidents usually experience during their first came to take the shape of an learning by thrusting information pedagogy in which the teacher teacher in traditional mode to get At the presidential elections that
midterm poll. With President Biden’s approval ratings open university. technology has not been per- becomes a facilitator of the learn- his point across without facial followed, the candidates promised
Online courses mean that ceived as yet, when simple chalk- ing process. This new pedagogy gestures and vocal cues. He can to abolish the Executive Presidency,
in the low 40s and the Democrats’ share of the popular students will learn in their own and-talk methods could have presupposes that the teacher create classroom animation ~ the but when elected they did not keep to
vote, according to the most recent polling figures, at time by reading course materials, done equally well. should be qualified in new tech- thrill of being with the students ~ their promise perhaps out of greed to
around 45 per cent, psephologists project a loss of 40 working on course activities, We have not thought of an niques. For many, it may be a which is absent online. enjoy the powers and privileges of the
House seats (plus-minus 10) for the ruling party. But writing assignments, and inter- equally good alternative to the threatening experience. (To Be Concluded) presidency.
that would still be within the benchmark established
over the past 40 years. An emphatic electoral defeat for
the Biden Administration certainly seems to be on the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR editor@thestatesman.com
cards bar a last-minute miracle, but it is unlikely to
his attempt to a hold brief started her ‘agitation’. Was it
Political game
lead to any cataclysmic change in the American polit-
ical scenario or in US foreign policy. What it does indi- for Mamata Banerjee, it is illogical for Ratan Tata to CAB WOES
now amply clear that the demand land of his choice
cate, however, is that an aging Mr Biden will have his Singur agitation was politi- when hundreds of crores SIR, Passengers arriving at Howrah station in the
task cut out in securing renomination as his party’s SIR, The letter of Arun ber 2) made interesting cal rather than for the wel- were being invested? evening are facing a lot of difficulties boarding both
candidate for the next presidential election. This ex- Gupta (‘Stubborn’, Novem- reading. Notwithstanding fare of farmers. The hapless farmers yellow as well as app-based cabs.
plains his laser focus over the past few days of cam- At that point of time, were the sole losers. Not The traditional yellow taxis come in a trickle to pre-
paigning on the “threat to democracy” posed by for- the Nano factory was des- only their sons lost the op- paid counters making passengers queue for more than
mer president Donald Trump-backed Republican can- perately needed for Bengal portunity to become skilled an order.
didates in the midterms who, Mr Biden said, still re- which remained devoid of workers of Tata but they lost Consequently, most of the passengers, who are
fuse to accept that he won the 2020 presidential elec- any industry worth its name their land under heavy con- exhausted after their rail journey, leave the counters in
tion fair and square. Political commentators are pret- for long. crete too. disgust to look for an app-based taxi. But online cabs
A factory under the Tata 997 acres of land was have gone the yellow taxi way.
ty much unanimous in saying Mr Biden is calculating banner could have opened indeed the crux of the mat- The fare of Rs 200-230 in the morning surges to
that the Democrats, riven as they are between the the floodgates for ancillary ter. This tiny amount of land Rs 350-380 in the late evening. Drivers cancel the book-
moderate and radical wings of the party, will once as well as other big indus- paved the way for the rise of ing once they find the route distant or unprofitable. Both
again unite behind him as a leader acceptable to both tries to make forays in Ben- a political party and scuttled police and transport officials need to look into the mat-
factions as they did in the run-up to 2020 if the spectre gal. In order to fulfill her the industrial development ter to address the travellers’ travails.
of a Trump return is given a fillip by the midterm political goals Mamata Ban- of our state. Yours, etc., Naushad Shahid,
results. Especially, if “election denier” Republican erjee placed the gun on a Yours, etc., Ajoy Maitra, Kolkata, 2 November.
candidates win big. handful of farmers and Kolkata, 2 November.
CMYK
A
t our last meeting, a pleasantly sion. The best of his long-form and Epstein in England from India during accustomed to indefinite prophecies of
rambling conversation at a less ephemeral writing is to be found the Beatles’ Rishikesh sojourn with future development in air navigation that
café on Highbury Corner, Ian in three collections of essays, Before Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I asked to see such forecasts hardly have a thrill left in
Jack and I had started talking the Oil Ran Out (1987), The Country the postcard – and it wasn’t a picture them. The only promising scheme at pre-
about family histories and of writing Formerly Known as Great Britain of Mussolini, it was of Subhas Chandra sent before the public which might enable
about them. This week I was supposed (2009), and Mofussil Junction (2013). Bose, in a uniform he had plagiarised Calcutta to fulfil its role as a main station
to meet him in London. I was on my It was part of his remit, and of his from Mussolini. on the air route from England to Australia
way to London when I received a short personality, to take writing very seri- If you travelled with Ian, or is Commander Burney's project, the
text message from him: plans had ously and to treat writers as slightly recounted to him a railway journey, prospects of which do not appear yet to
changed, and he wouldn’t be able to ridiculous. After his twelve years at there was a good chance that he be definitely determined and which in any
meet me, he had collapsed on the Granta, he gave himself the well- would tell you the histories of specific case could not come to maturity for sever-
island of Bute and had had to be air- earned luxury of being a columnist for bridges in the industrial landscape al years. Meantime why should Calcutta
lifted to Paisley, where he was now in the Guardian with slightly more time that you had passed on the way. In depend on London schemes? A recently
hospital. Would I also tell my aunt? I for his own interests. One of the prod- 1985, Ian bought us all tickets from the published report showed that civil avia-
did; two days later she texted me back: ucts of those interests was to have small town of Starnberg to the smaller tion in India is not so unprogressive as
‘Ian died’. been a history book, on shipbuilding town at the end of the line, Tutzing, might have been imagined, and amongst
It is widely known that you only on the Clyde; it is still unfinished. His just for the joy of travelling on a Bavar- other points to which the Air Board has
really get to write about someone you sense of historical detail dated back to ian local train. The tickets, in those given attention is the old idea of an air ser-
know well after he’s dead. You can then an age before historical writing had days, were cardboard rectangles with vice between Calcutta and Rangoon. From
write down all the things you wouldn’t become more formulaic than the lurid printed station names, and had to be Mr. Villiers' lecture it appears that such a
have told him, because they were too detective fiction of the 1950s. If there physically clipped; the journey was the scheme, which would reduce to a matter
sentimental, too intense, or too per- were signs that history as a discipline point, der Weg ist das Ziel. of hours a journey of two or three days by
sonal even to tell someone you were was losing its way then, it was those For a few years, our communica- sea, affords a good example of the direc-
close to; then you will delete them outside the profession who were often tion and meetings were very sporadic. tions in which civil aviation should be spe-
from your piece, and write a com- the first to notice. Those were the years he was raising a cially useful. There is no immediate
monplace article instead, telling of As lightly as he held on to nostal- Standing high up over the London Among Ian’s self-assigned tasks family, and I was starting an academic prospect, however of getting even this
their achievements and positive char- gia, Ian keenly felt the romance of the docklands in the post-Thatcher real- was to take his educational duties as career that I found increasingly sti- local service.
acter traits. And if, as in this case, the Indian Railways. He once wrote a estate speculative landscape around avuncular figure by marriage serious- fling. When we reconnected properly
person was also something of a public poem based on an Indian Railways the Canary Wharf building that ly; and this role he performed in a in the early 2000s, I told him that aca-
figure, you will take your place along- timetable involving the 41 Up and 59 housed the iOS, he looked out of one pretty ruthless fashion. Aged ten, I demic writing was a dead end: few NEWS ITEMS
side the obituary-writers who will tell Down trains (and he probably knew window, towards the East India Com- received from him Raymond Briggs’ people read it, academics wrote badly,
of similar things. exactly why they were so named). He pany’s docks. ‘This’, he said, ‘is the Cold War comic-book album (there and the whole venture of academics
Left to myself, though, this is how
I would start my story: When newspa-
could lyrically describe the waiting
rooms in small railway stations across
avenue of the rise of capitalism’. And,
looking out in the opposite direction:
was no such thing then as a ‘graphic
novel’), When the Wind Blows, which
had been fatally compromised in a
number of ways. He looked at me LORD INCHCAPE IN
pers were still an important part of the
intellectual landscape of all literate
India, and speak with genuine affec-
tion about Barkakhana Junction,
‘this is the avenue of the decline of
capitalism’. As a long-term follower of
narrates the slow and inevitable
deaths of an elderly couple, who had
rather as one looks at a backward child
who has just stumbled upon the self-
INDIA
people, there was a Scotsman who where you would change to a third- and writer on the life and work of survived the Second World War, to evident, and promised to read my first BOMBAY, NOV 3
used to write about India and Britain. class train with wooden slats for George Orwell (we discussed, a few post-nuclear attack radiation. I also novel when it was written (it still isn’t). Lord Inchcape, Chairman of the Indian
He was a journalist with an historian’s benches and sit next to a man and his years later, the circumstances that had remember an impromptu quiz on One of the privileges given to me Retrenchment Committee, accompanied
temperament, but fortunately he’d goat for the last leg of the journey to turned Orwell into an informer for Beatles lyrics, after an idle remark on as ex-nephew and fellow-writer in by Lady Inchcape and the Hon. Elsie
never been to university, and he dis- McKluskieganj. It was in keeping with British intelligence, betraying his com- my part that recent years was the occasional gate- Mackay, arrived in Bombay this morning
trusted academic writing. He man- his spirit of respect for the industrial rades and betraying a slight tendency I remembered all their lyrics: he crashing of the regular meetings in in the mail steamer Morea. Sir Arthur
aged, when he was still a foreign corre- age that he taught me what a Meccano to anti-Semitism that most of his fans finally caught me out on ‘Her name London of the two Ians, my father and Froom and other P. and O. officials met his
spondent, to get expelled from India set was. have chosen to overlook), Ian used the was McGill, she called herself Lil, but Ian Jack, ex-husbands of the two lordship on board. Soon after landing,
during the Emergency. He used to be That, I think, would be a more term ‘capitalism’ as mild criticism. But everyone knew her as Nancy’. He once Bagchi sisters, who would talk of Lord Inchcape left for Delhi in a special
married to my aunt, which complicat- personal way of framing his life and he also counted the Indian capitalist wrote about me that I knew the works newspapers, people they had known train from the mole station. Lord Inchcape
ed the family’s stories because her sis- career. Ian Jack was born to Scottish G.D. Birla as a close-enough personal of P.G. Wodehouse and the English together, and the changes that the was very busy throughout the hour and
ter was also married to an Ian who parents in Lancashire in 1945; his par- acquaintance to have visited his house geographies they contained far better world had been through. Our conver- thirty minutes that elapsed between the
wrote for newspapers. He was fasci- ents moved back to Scotland when he on several occasions. than I ought to have without having sations in post-pandemic times were arrival of the Morea and the departure of
nated by the age of steam; his was about the age I was when I met Then, from 1995 until 2007, Ian been to England; and I cannot recall punctuated by a sense of wonder that his train, bidding good-bye to fellow pas-
metaphors were built of steamships him, and he served his apprenticeship edited the literary magazine Granta. whether this was in part due to one of the primary job of any writer now was, sengers and discussing things with the P.
and railway journeys. When my sister as a journalist in Scotland, working for That a journalist by training should his presents to me, N.T.P. Murphy’s In allegedly, to offend no one, even those and O. officials. I managed, however, to
and I were still very young, he’d make the Glasgow Herald before moving to have spent so large a proportion of his Search of Blandings, about Wodehou- who had been waiting to be offended secure an interview with his lordship
up stories for us, or little rhyming London in 1970 to the Sunday Times, career (a word he would have used sian geography, or whether that book without offering the writer the cour- before he left to undertake his task of
poems, populated by personifications for whom he went to India as a for- with irony) editing a literary journal was his present to me to supplement tesy of reading their work. On the 31st putting India's finances in order. When
of Bengali sweets (the adventures of eign correspondent in 1976. He helped was not contradictory at all for a man the knowledge he thought I had of October, my father’s birthday, we pressed he declined altogether to discuss
Satyajit Rabri, the travels of Laxmi Lad- set up, and he edited, the Independent of his abilities. Ian Jack was more of already acquired. On my first trip to raised a toast (Scotch, of course) to Ian the subject.
doo), illustrated in pen and ink; or he on Sunday, from 1992 to 1995; when I an essayist than a journalist, though England in 1989, he took me to meet Jack, and to the lives he had lived.
would do a quick pen-and-ink sketch
of a steamship of the Cunard line on
arrived in England in the autumn of
1994, I stopped in London, and Ian
he began to write at the tail end of an
era when the two genres were closer to
Hunter Davies, the official biographer
of the Beatles; we discussed Davies’ (The writer is a historian, currently studying
the politics of the uses of history.)
MR. COTTON
an Atlantic crossing to New York. gave me a short tour of its premises. one another, and a felicity with lan- remark in the book about John
ENTERTAINED AT
BOMBAY
When benefactors become villains BOMBAY, NOV 3
At a reception accorded by the Western
India National Liberal Association at the
RAFIA ZAKARIA reflects not an actual decrease in the these Pakistanis are choosing to send Taj Mahal Hotel this evening to Mr. H.E.A.
amounts but rather a turn towards the money that they earn back home Cotton, president of the Bengal Legisla-
I
n recent years, as Pakistan has unofficial means of transmitting to pay for school fees, necessary med- tive Council, Sir Dinshaw Wacha, the pres-
hurtled from one catastrophe to money such as hawala and hundi sys- ical procedures, the upkeep of parents ident of the Association, referred to Mr.
another, remittances sent by Pak- tems. The current political turmoil in and siblings, investment in property Cotton's father, the late Sir Henry Cotton,
istani workers living abroad have the country has created serious or in a business, etc. They too have the who was held in high esteem by the peo-
been a source of some small amount doubts about the legitimacy and relia- option to put away money in ‘foreign’ ple of India. It was a curious coincidence,
of stability. When foreign investments bility of procedures, whether it is legal bank accounts but they put their faith observed Sir Dinshaw, that the son of so
have seemed scant and aid packages or financial institutions. in Pakistan. popular a father was going to be the presi-
have dried up, workers sending money Undoubtedly, some migrant Despite this, they are often por- dent of the Bengal Legislature and he felt it
back to families, investing in and pur- workers may be reconsidering trayed as traitors simply because they a peculiar pleasure to welcome Mr. Cot-
chasing assets in their home country whether they should send money have taken jobs abroad. ton. Mr. Cotton said that, having been
has served as a reliable source of for- home via official financial channels Such is the trickery of the very associated with India for a long time, he
eign exchange. susceptible to government policies rich in Pakistan that they manage to had learnt to look upon India in the same
Now this once reliable source of changing without notice. Anything at turn the poor against the people who way as he did upon his own country.
money entering the country also all can happen in Pakistan and that have just a little bit more. In this way,
appears to be threatened by both
global and domestic conditions.
uncertainty can direct many people to
use unofficial means.
Pakistan’s very wealthy continue to
insulate themselves from economic DEATH OF
According to the Economic Outlook
Report issued by the Ministry of
It is beyond ironic, of course, that
the feudals, industrialists and politi-
shocks: whichever government is in
power makes sure to provide the par- CALCUTTA
Finance, the first 10 months of 2022
have seen foreign remittances drop by
math means that much of the influx
of cash seen in recent months will
even more uncertainty than before.
Remittances received from migrant
cians that ply power in Pakistan
(between runaway trips to Dubai and
ticular people (all too often perceived
to be thieves) it has assembled in its
BARRISTER
3.6 per cent to $7.7 billion. have to be utilised to stabilise the agri- workers living abroad make up almost London) have invested much of their cabinet with a cut that can be safely The death occurred early yesterday morn-
Some analysts forecast that Pak- cultural sector. 8.5 per cent of Pakistan’s GDP. Unlike money outside the country. Knowing stowed abroad. ing in the Presidency General Hospital, of
istan’s removal from the Financial Second, while removal from the money from the World Bank, Asian that their fortunes cannot be seized by Remittances are wanted in Pak- Mr. Reginald Praunfield, a well-known
Action Task Force ‘grey list’ will lead to list means that Pakistan can issue Development Bank and foreign govern- the country affords this class of people istan but the workers who produce the member of the Calcutta Bar. Mr. Braun-
better numbers in the remainder of bonds, the otherwise underwhelming ments, remittances do not add to debt endless solace. mare treated with ignominy and disre- field was admitted to the hospital at 2 P.M.
the year as foreign investment sees an performance of the majority of sectors and do not need to be paid back. They may not be dual nationals spect and labelled traitors for having the previous day in an unconscious con-
uptick. This prediction, however, does in the country, along with the contin- For this reason, the comparison but they know they can buy foreign left the country. In the meantime, the dition, and died fifteen hours later from
not seem to account for the current uing threat of political instability, of remittance amounts to these other citizenship with their money. This real traitors who are fixtures regard- cerebral haemorrhage. Mr. Braunfield was
political upheaval in the country fol- means that Pakistan will not be able forms of capital inflow is inaccurate. loophole allows them to present less of whichever political party is in born in India in 1842. He took his M.A.
lowing the murder of journalist Arshad to capitalise on these developments in While the money coming in from themselves as true patriots of the Pak- power, fill their coffers with money degree in England and was called to the
Sharif in Kenya and the initiation of the manner that would have been these other sources may prevent initial istani people who have chosen to stay borrowed in the name of the country. Bar in April, 1869, at Lincoln's Inn. A few
the latest long march and sit-in led by possible even a few weeks ago. shocks from the reduced remittances, in the country as opposed to all the Pakistan has many tragedies playing years later he returned to India and was
PTI chief Imran Khan. With few assurances about who it is unlikely to do so in the long term. middle classes who have left. out these days; the inability to distin- admitted to the Calcutta High Court in
The removal of Pakistan from the will retain power in Islamabad and If anything, it will draw even more The truth is far from this. Middle- guish between the real thieves and the February, 1877. At the time of his death he
grey list may not deliver the country what they will do, one cannot fault for- attention to whether Pakistan is going class Pakistanis who have had to leave real benefactors is just another one of was the senior member of the Calcutta
from its deep economic woes. For eign investors for being wary about to be able to service its existing debts. the country and go elsewhere for jobs them. High Court Bar. The late Mr. Braunfield
starters, the continuing catastrophe putting their money in a country that It is possible that a reduction in are hardly traitors. Proof of this lies in was for thirty years a commissioner of the
created by the floods and their after- seems to be jumping headlong into the official numbers for remittances the fact of the remittances themselves: Dawn/ANN. Calcutta Corporation. He was also Presi-
dent of the Indian Seamen's Union.
CROSSWORD NO-292242
IS ENVER PASHA
ACROSS centre of Beirut (5) refusal to drink coffee 14 Damaged condition of
REALLY DEAD?
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 21 Mums three sons from the south (6) patients before and The vexed question of Enver Pasha's death
9 Old skeptic is one of six (7)
touring public school (9) 3 Clear out, getting rid after a doctor has cannot yet be regarded as conclusively set-
25 Leader of council of small stuff (4) seen them?
10 A new note delivered
ushered back outside 4 Surrounded by a fog (3-7) tled. There is a growing volume of opinion
`for receiver (7)
with plan to make a enveloping first bit of 16 Its naive to refrigerate on the frontier which discredits the whole
11 Im beginning to
enjoy getting dressed
passionate speech (7) descent (6) unfinished food (8) story of Enver's death and looks forward
outside, its alleged (7)
26 Examination of tart, 5 Imagine old man 17 Spy enigmatic clue? to his reappearance in the near future. The
turned over and stealing unknown Just a bit (8)
12 Transfer around one
covered in honey (7) quantity of paper 18 Bug in the house its fact that those who support this theory are
thousand, counted in tens (7)
28 Having enough money (8) muted, curiously (4,4) at a loss to explain his disappearance since
13 Old toilet-trained
literary parvenu (9)
for alcohol? (7) 6 Put aside large 22 Reveal sources of new July last from the central Asian area does
15 Markss partner
29 Quite a few leavers on building designed material in University not appear to shake their confidence,
a spree (7) primarily to support Challenge (6)
uncovered small change (5)
farm animals (10) 23 Regularly re-enact our declares the Pioneer. But the fact remains
16 Start to consider
7 Piece of music in rep performance again (6) that this belief prevails and, in view of its
problem about losing DOWN Omen maybe brought 24 Its shrewd to stifle a persistence, it cannot be lightly rejected
1,000 alpaca? (7)
19 In the past, resented
1 Presided over police up as a reminder (8) triumphant cry on on the principle of the wish being father
department thats 8 Part of house finally ones own (6)
lunatic eating insects (7)
rotten (6) being fit on 27 Winger went to ground to the thought. In this connection it is
20 Layabout led astray in
2 Native Americans completion (5,3) easily in the US (4) interesting to note that recent reports indi-
cate a recrudescence of rebel activity
NOTE: Figures in parentheses denote the number of letters in the words required. (By arrangement with The Independent, London)
against the Bolsheviks in trans-Caspia.
CMYK
08
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CRISTIANO AMON
KOLKATA, FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2022 PRESIDENT AND CEO OF CHIP-MAKER QUALCOMM
FM launches biggest-ever
THUMBNAILS
`crosses 83 against dollar
after US Fed rate hike
UCO Bank announces finan-
U
2022 stood at Rs. 1189.78 nion Finance Min- pertaining to eleven states
crore as against Rs. 1334.15 ister Nirmala have been auctioned.
cr for the quarter ended Sitharaman today Joshi said that previously
September 2021. SNS launched the auctioned mines have start-
biggest-ever coal mine auc- ed production and hoped
tion of 141 mines, saying a fast- that 10 to 15 million tonnes
ITC strengthens 360-degree growing economy like India of coal would be produced
water stewardship inter- needed greater investment from new mines by next year.
ventions: ITC Limited, one in coal production and gasi- As per the review done the AGENCIES saying by reports that the
of Indias leading multi-busi- fication projects. other day, the Ministry of NEW DELHI, 3 NOVEMBER bank is firmly committed to
ness conglomerates, has Launching the 6th round Coal was anticipating 900 lowering inflation.
forged as many as 50 Pub- of coal mine auction of the million tonne coal production The rupee on Thursday crossed The aggressive rate hike
lic-Private Partnerships Ministry of Coal, she observed this year, he added. the 83-mark against the US dol- by the Federal Reserve will put
(PPPs) with the govern- that India was at present the Altogether, 133 coal mines lar, hours after the US Fed hiked further pressure on the stock
ment and other institutions best investment destination were put up for auction in the interest rates for the fourth time markets globally, especially
as part of its integrated in the world. 6th round of commercial auc- this year. It touched 83.08 on rising economies like India.
and holistic initiatives to The minister claimed that tions, out of which 71 are before ending the day at 83.02. The already weakened
achieve water security and due to policy consistency and new coal mines and 62 coal The rupee had earlier rupee too is likely to be impact-
rural empowerment across the transparent process of PHOTO SUBRATA DUTTA mines are rolling over from ear- opened at 83 against the dol- ed. While the rupee has crossed
India. ITC's 360-degree the present government, coal lier tranches of commercial lar. the 83 mark against the US dol-
water stewardship pro- imports for the power sector Ministry for the recent ini- be extending all help for coal said the Coal Ministry was auctions. Additionally, eight The US Federal Reserve lar on quite a few occasions
gramme is in alignment have come down by 41 per tiatives to unlock the coal gasification and incentives exploring alternative method- coal mines under the sec- on Wednesday raised key rates this week in anticipation of the
with the government's key cent. The finance minister sector, Sitharaman said that in commercial mining, she fur- ologies for enhanced use of ond attempt of the fifth round by 75 basis points, the fourth US Fed announcing a rate
water initiatives including said that twelve states were to mining sector reforms were ther added. coal. He said the Finance Min- of commercial auctions were such hike by it this year, to cur- hike, now that it has actually
'Jal Shakti Abhiiyan'. 'Atal benefit directly from today’s providing the right fillip to Addressing the function istry has extended Rs. 6000 included for which single tail rising inflation. happened, the domestic cur-
Bhujal Yojana' and 'More auction. India's fast-growing economy. Coal, Mines & Parliamentary crore incentive for coal gasi- bids were received in the first The chairman of US Fed, rency may weaken further, as
Crop Per Drop'. IANS Complementing the Coal The Finance Ministry would Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi fication and Rs. 250 crores for attempt. Jerome Powell, was quoted as was visible on Thursday.
We must become a Asia stocks fall after Fed says India aims to convert energy
quality-conscious nation more US rate hikes likely challenges into opportunities
''Until India becomes a
leader in quality, it
will not be able to
become a developed
economy,'' he said
addressing the inau-
gural session of the
Bureau of Indian Stan-
dards seminar on
AGENCIES have a ways to go.” He said it
emerging global
trends in laboratories BEIJING, 03 NOVEMBER would be “very premature” to
of Atmanirbhar consider pausing.
Bharat. Asian stock markets tumbled “Recession risks are rising,
Thursday after the Federal but that is the price the Fed is
lauded BIS for playing a cat- Reserve added to recession prepared to pay to get infla-
alytic role in the success of the fears by saying it wasn’t fin- tion under control,” said James
Make in India programme. ished raising U.S. interest Knightley, Padhraic Garvey
Emphasising the need for rates to cool inflation. and Chris Turner of ING in a
BIS to reassess its own process- Hong Kong’s benchmark report. The Hang Seng in Hong
es and reorient itself to be in lost 3.1%. Shanghai, Seoul Kong shed 488 points to AGENCIES Puri while speaking on the the natural sunlight."
STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE the inaugural session of the sync with modern require- and Sydney also followed Wall 15,338.85 and Sydney’s S&P- NEW DELHI, 3 NOVEMBER high global energy prices, He highlighted that Indi-
NEW DELHI, 3 NOVEMBER Bureau of Indian Standards ments, Goyal said all three pil- Street lower after the Fed on ASX 200 fell 1.9% to 6,855.40. stated that "we have been an economy is growing at a
seminar on emerging global lars of BIS --standards creation, Wednesday raised its key rate The Shanghai Composite Index Petroleum Minister Hardeep able to navigate global prices. rate of 7 per cent, and ener-
Union Minister for Commerce trends in laboratories of ensuring adequate lab testing to the highest level in 15 years. slipped 0.2% to 2,997.46. Japan- Puri on Thursday said that as Clearly when prices are high, gy is a critical driver of growth.
and Industry Piyush Goyal Atmanirbhar Bharat. facilities across the country, Oil prices declined while the ese markets were closed for a India is facing certain chal- the situation will be infla- "Our refining capacity,
today said India needed to To become a global man- and certification of products euro stayed below 99 cents. holiday. The Kospi in Seoul lenges, the Central govern- tionary". which currently stands at
become a quality-conscious ufacturing power, Goyal said, and processes -- have to Wall Street’s benchmark declined 0.6% to 2,322.11. ment's attempt is to convert The minister further stat- about 252 million metric per
nation and adopt quality as an India would have to expand become much more con- S&P 500 index plunged 2.5% New Zealand and Southeast these challenges into oppor- ed: "We are taking corrective annum and is likely to go up
integral part of the process of its manufacturing ecosystem temporary and technology- after the Fed raised its short- Asian markets also fell. tunities. measures including the new to about 400 million metric
laying the foundation of and also implement high- driven. term lending rate by 0.75 per- The Fed and central banks "India today is clearly an pipeline and other innovative tonnes per annum in the
becoming a developed nation quality standards for the goods He said that a mapping of centage points, three times its in Europe and Asia have raised India in transition," he said steps like introduction of coming years. We are also
by 2047. and services that it offered. India’s laboratory infrastruc- usual margin, for a fourth rates aggressively this year to while addressing the India solar cooker, which in the transiting from the fossil fuel
''Until India becomes a He said the Bureau of Indi- ture has been done. This would time this year. stop inflation that is running Chem 2022, organised by coming months will make a based energy to a greener
leader in quality, it will not be an Standards (BIS) was a very help in assessing the critical Fed Chair Jerome Powell at multi-decade highs. Investors industry body FICCI and Min- major impact in lowering the energy including solar, wind
able to become a developed important element in this gaps in testing infrastructure reinforced expectations of worry that might tip the glob- istry of Chemicals and Fer- demand for domestic kitchen and compressed biogas," he
economy,'' he said addressing entire ecosystem. He also across the country. more rate hikes, saying “we al economy into recession. tilisers. energy because it will feed on added.
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When in politics words like killing and burning are used,when
politicians say such words, their followers get licence
PAKISTAN DEFENCE MINISTER KHAWAJA ASIF
AFTER THE ATTACK ON FORMER PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN KOLKATA, FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2022
A
larms blared from cell- whether the launch was suc- initially feared North Korea led government is hosting an field who are expected to
phones, radios and cessful. fired a missile over its north- interfaith conference on East- walking through the aisle. attend the conference, which
public loudspeakers Japan’s military announced ern territory but later adjust- West coexistence even as it Francis has long touted is similar to one hosted last
and fishermen hurried similar flight details. It also said ed its assessment. Japanese stands accused of discrimi- dialogue as an instrument of month by Kazakhstan that
back to shore in northern it lost track of one of the Chief Cabinet Secretary nating against the country’s peace and believes a show of Francis and el-Tayeb also
Japan on Thursday after North North Korean weapons, appar- Hirokazu Matsuno said the Shiite majority. interfaith harmony is need- attended. Members of the
Korea fired an interconti- ently the ICBM, after it “dis- alerts were based on a tra- Human rights groups and ed, especially now given Rus- regional Muslim Council of
nental ballistic missile above appeared” in skies above jectory analysis that indicat- relatives of Shiite activists on sia’s war in Ukraine and region- Elders, the spiritual leader of
its eastern waters, adding to waters between the Korean ed a flyover. death row have urged Fran- al conflicts, such as in Yemen. the world’s Orthodox Chris-
a recent barrage of provoca- Peninsula and Japan. South The office of Japanese cis to use his visit, which On the eve of the trip, Fran- tians, Patriarch Bartholomew,
tive weapons demonstrations Korea said the short-range Prime Minister Fumio Kishi- begins Thursday, to call for an cis asked for prayers so that a representative from the
that officials say may culmi- missiles traveled about 330 da broadcast the “J-Alert” end to the death penalty and the trip will promote “the Russian Orthodox Church
nate with a nuclear test in com- kilometers (91 miles), falling warnings through television, political repression in Bahrain. cause of brotherhood and of and rabbis from the United
ing weeks. quences” if North Korea goes North Korea fired an ICBM closer to North Korea’s east- radio, mobile phones and But it’s not clear if Francis will peace, of which our times States are all expected, accord-
The ICBM test, which was on to detonate a nuclear test from an area near its capital, ern coast. public loudspeakers to resi- publicly embarrass his hosts are in extreme and urgent ing to the Bahrain program.
followed by two short-range device for the first time since Pyongyang, at about 7:40 a.m. Choi Yong Soo, a South dents of the northern pre- during his four-day visit, the need.” The visit is Francis’ sec- The trip will also allow
ballistic launches into the September 2017. and then two short-range Korean navy captain who fectures of Miyagi, Yamagata first of any pontiff to the ond to a Gulf Arab country, fol- Francis to minister to Bahrain’s
sea, was swiftly condemned The launches are the lat- missiles an hour later from the handles public affairs for and Niigata, instructing them island nation in the Persian lowing his 2019 landmark Catholic community, which
by North Korea’s neighbors and est in a series of North Kore- nearby city of Kaechon that Seoul’s Defense Ministry, did- to go inside strong buildings Gulf. trip to Abu Dhabi, where he numbers around 80,000 in a
the United States, which said an weapons tests in recent flew toward its eastern waters. n’t answer directly when asked or underground. The 85-year-old pope, who signed a document promot- country of around 1.5 million.
it is willing to take “all neces- months that have raised ten- The longer-range missile about the possibility of the There have been no reports has been using a wheelchair ing Catholic-Muslim fraternity Most are workers hailing from
sary measures” to ensure the sions in the region. They came appeared to be fired at a high ICBM launch being a failure, of damage or injuries in the for several months because of with a leading Sunni cleric, the Philippines and India,
safety of the American home- a day after the North fired more angle, possibly to avoid enter- saying that it is still being regions where the alerts were strained knee ligaments, said Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb. Al- though trip organizers expect
land and allies South Korea and than 20 missiles, the most it ing the territory of neighbors, analyzed. issued. Bullet train services in Thursday he was in “a lot of Tayeb is the grand imam of Al- pilgrims from Saudi Arabia and
Japan. has launched in a single day reaching a maximum alti- Citing anonymous mili- some areas were temporari- pain” as he headed to Bahrain, Azhar, the seat of Sunni learn- other neighboring countries
The Biden administration ever. tude of 1,920 kilometers (1,193 tary sources, South Korea’sYon- ly suspended following the mis- and for the first time greeted ing in Cairo. Francis followed will attend Francis’ big Mass
also warned of unspecified South Korea’s Joint Chiefs miles) and traveling around hap news agency reported sile alert before resuming journalists travelling with that with a 2021 visit to Iraq, at the national stadium on Sat-
“additional costs and conse- of Staff said it detected that 760 kilometers (472 miles), that the missile possibly failed shortly. him while seated rather than where he was received by urday.
Germany’s Olaf Scholz makes South Koreans ashamed over safety failures in Halloween tragedy
difficult visit to assertive China about everything, but we don’t
do so, and I think that’s the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nam, 60, who runs a jewelry Suk Yeol acknowledged that
shop in Seoul. “I feel really sorry South Korea lacks studies on
SEOUL, 3 NOVEMBER
biggest problem.” and guilty for those young vic- crowd management and
ASSOCIATED PRESS terminal. The leader of Europe’s humanity.” When Kim Kap Soo watched The crowd crush Satur- tims because we all failed to ordered officials to formu-
BERLIN, 3 NOVEMBER biggest economy will meet A senior German official, live broadcasts of the har- day in Itaewon, a popular protect them.” late effective crowd control
President Xi Jinping and Pre- who briefed reporters on con- rowing Halloween party crush nightlife district, has caused From K-pop superstars methods based on high-tech
Chancellor Olaf Scholz is mier Li Keqiang during Friday’s dition of anonymity in line with that killed more than 150 an outpouring of public sym- BTS and Netflix’s megahit resources such as drones.
making his first visit to China one-day visit. With China still department rules, charac- people in Seoul last weekend, pathy toward the dead, most- drama “Squid Game” to Sam- Police also said they don’t
as German leader this week, imposing tough COVID-19 terized the visit as “an there was shock and sadness ly in their 20s and 30s, and sung-made smartphones and have guidelines to deal with
a diplomatically delicate trip restrictions, his delegation exploratory trip” to find out — but also the embarrassed demands for accountability for Hyundai cars, South Korea’s crowd surges at events that
while Germany and the Euro- won’t stay in Beijing overnight. “where China stands, where realization that this wasn’t the tragedy. There are growing ques- recent cultural and econom- have no official organizers, like
pean Union work on their Scholz’s visit, the first China is going and what forms the first time he’d seen South But many also share a tions here about why South ic achievements have been the Halloween festivities in Itae-
strategy toward an increasingly recently by a major EU leader, of cooperation are possible Korea suffer a devastating strong feeling of embarrass- Korea hasn’t learned its lessons remarkable. won.
assertive and authoritarian Bei- comes just after Xi was named with this specific China in the disaster as a result of official ment and anger that their since the 2014 sinking of the But there’s a dark side to its Park Sangin, a professor at
jing. to a third term as head of the current global situation.” incompetence and safety fail- country, a cultural and eco- ferry Sewol, which killed 304 breakneck rise from the Seoul National University,
Scholz’s messages will face ruling Communist Party and The official pointed to ures. nomic powerhouse that has people — mostly teenagers on extreme poverty of the 1950 said the Itaewon crush showed
close scrutiny. While his near- promoted allies who support China’s “particular respon- “My heart is aching very risen from war, poverty and a school trip. That disaster also and 60s: Critics say basic safe- that South Koreans haven’t
ly year-old government has sig- his vision of tighter control over sibility” as an ally of Russia to much. We are among the dictatorships, still ignores prompted national soul- ty practices, social safety nets done much to improve systems
naled a departure from pre- society and the economy. It help end the war in Ukraine world’s 10 largest economies, safety and regulatory issues. searching on the country’s and minority voices have and policies to prevent sim-
decessor Angela Merkel’s firm- is also accompanied by rising and press Moscow to tone and I totally don’t understand Similar crowd crushes have failure to enforce safety and been largely overlooked. ilar man-made disasters like
ly trade-first approach, he is tensions over Taiwan and fol- down its nuclear rhetoric; to how this can happen in our happened in other developed regulatory rules. Not much has changed the ferry sinking.
taking a business delegation lows a U.N. report that said concerns over tensions in nation,” said Kim, 73, a retired countries in recent years, but “When it comes to public since the ferry sinking, these He said South Koreans
and his trip follows domes- Chinese human rights viola- Taiwan and the broader region; environmental engineering the death counts there were safety, I think we aren’t an critics say, citing a series of have focused instead on find-
tic discord over a Chinese tions against Uyghurs and to Germany’s desire for a researcher. “Our public insen- much smaller than in Itaewon, advanced nation at all, though smaller deadly incidents such ing, criticizing and punishing
shipping company’s invest- other ethnic groups may “level playing field” in eco- sitivity to safety is too severe. where 156 people died and 187 we might have grown eco- as fires and boat accidents. anyone responsible each time
ment in a German container amount to “crimes against nomic relations. We should always be careful were injured. nomically,” said Park You On Tuesday, President Yoon an incident occurs.
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Biden implores voters to save Russians try to subdue Ukrainian
towns by seizing mayors
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arning that Biden was straddling two tacular incidents. ern city for hours, threaten- This year, as Russian forces
THUMBNAILS democracy itself is roles, speaking as both a pres- Election workers nation- ing to kill him. sought to tighten their hold
in peril, President ident defending the pillars wide have questioned whether Fedorov, 34, is one of over on Melitopol, hundreds of res-
Joe Biden called on of democracy and a Democ- to go back to work following 50 local leaders who have idents took to the streets to
Americans Wednesday night rat trying to boost his party’s increased intimidation and been held in Russian captiv- demand Fedorov’s release.
to use their ballots in next prospects against Republi- harassment ahead of Election ity since the war began on Feb. After six days in detention and
week’s midterm elections to cans. Day. At least five people have 24 in an attempt to subdue an intervention from Presi-
stand up against lies, vio- He called out the hun- been charged with federal cities and towns coming dent Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he
lence and dangerous “ultra dreds of candidates who have crimes for harassing workers under Moscow’s control. Like was exchanged for nine Russ-
MAGA” election disruptors denied the 2020 election result as early voting has gotten many others, he said he was ian prisoners of war and
who are trying to “succeed and now refuse to commit to underway. pressured to collaborate with expelled from the occupied
where they failed” in sub- accepting the results of the Reports of people watch- the invaders. city. A pro-Kremlin figure
verting the 2020 elections. upcoming midterms. ing ballot boxes in Arizona, “The bullying and threats was installed.
This is no time to stand “This driving force is try- sometimes armed or wearing did not stop for a minute. They “The Russians cannot gov-
aside, he declared. “Silence is ing to succeed where they ballistic vests, have raised tried to force me to contin- ern the captured cities. They
complicity.” After weeks of failed in 2020 to suppress the serious concerns about voter ue leading the city under the have neither the personnel nor
reassuring talk about Amer- America Great Again” slogan in the number of people in this rights of voters and subvert the intimidation. Election offi- Russian flag, but I refused,” the experience,” Fedorov said.
ica’s economy and inflation, — calling them a minority but country condoning political electoral system itself,” Biden cials nationwide are bracing Fedorov told The Associated They want to force public
Biden turned to a darker, “driving force” of the Repub- violence or simply remaining said. “That is the path to for confrontations at polling Press by phone last month in officials to work for them
more urgent message, declar- lican Party. silent,” Biden added. “In our chaos in America. It’s unprece- sites. A flood of conspiracy the- Kyiv. because they realize that
ing in the final days of midterm Pointing in particular to last bones we know democracy is dented. It’s unlawful. And it orists have signed up to work “They didn’t beat me, but someone has to “clean the
election voting that the nation’s Friday’s attack on House at risk, but we also know this: is un-American.” as partisan poll watchers. day and night, wild screams streets and fix up the destroyed
system of governance is under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hus- It’s in our power to preserve The speech came days Biden also aimed to get ahead from the next cell would tell houses.”
threat from former President band, Biden said that Trump’s our democracy.” after a man seeking to kidnap of conspiracy theories about me what was waiting for me.” The Association of Ukrain-
A boat transports fish to Donald Trump’s election- false claims about a stolen elec- The president’s speech — House Speaker Pelosi severe- the ongoing vote, saying Amer- As Russians seized parts of ian Cities (AUC), a group of
a processing ship, in San denying lies and the violence tion have “fueled the dan- focused squarely on the rite ly injured her husband, Paul icans were voting early, by mail eastern and southern Ukraine, local leaders from across
Raimundo settlement Biden said they inspire. gerous rise of political violence of voting and the counting of Pelosi, in their San Francisco and by absentee ballot and it civilian administrators and Ukraine, said that of the more
lake, Carauari, Brazil, on
The president singled out and voter intimidation over that vote — amounted to a plea home in the worst recent would take time to tally them others, including nuclear than 50 abducted officials,
Thursday. Pirarucu fish-
ing is done once a
“ultra MAGA” Republicans — the past two years.” for Americans to step back example of the political vio- “in a legal and orderly man- power plant workers, say they including 34 mayors, at least
year. � AP a reference to Trump’s “Make “There’s an alarming rise from the inflamed rhetoric that lence that burst forth with the ner.” have been abducted, threat- 10 remain captive.
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oughandika Haranam by the describes Hanumana’s yearning for the flower made her safety measures applicable there. He writers are so Piyal Bhattacharya and his disci-
playwright Kavivara Absolute Oneness with the plead with Bhima to bring it for offers his knowledge to make Bhima many that more ple Sayak Mitra need to be con-
Viswanathan was recently Universal Creator, her. Viswanathan has intensi- realize the importance of intellect than a per- gratulated for embarking on a
staged at Chidakash Kalalaya attained by intense fied this section of the play along with brute force, which Bhima is sona is work such as Soungandhika
Art Space Spanda in Boral as Bharat- control of his mind. with Srngara Rasa to abundantly endowed with. needed Haranam.
barsha abounds in ancient Indian A Preksanaka and establish the union of Hanumana’s knowledge and wis- to Sankar Baidya, Rudra Prasad
tales and legends. Sayak Mitra dug a Vyayoga in dramatic Rasa (ascension of sen- dom connects him to the Absolute Roy, Subhendu Ghosh, Avik Roy and
deep to find one among them and category ending within timents) and Bala Reality or the Universal Creator. His Biplab Mishra were the nats or male
worked committedly to present a one- one Act; the playwright (physical force or ener- guidance helped Bhima break dancers. The female dancers or natis
act play on it. has artfully manifested gy). through the shackles of his limited- were Pinki Mondal, Shreetama
The physical world and its five the elemental nature Bhima’s lack of ness of physical strength and emo- Chowdhury, Sarmishtha Sengupta
elements or the Panca Bhuta, as we all of this Vayu by mak- sound judgement is tions to achieve transcendence. and Supriya Baidya.
know, are Akasa (Space), Vayu (Air), ing it the chief gov- depicted through his Hanumana helped Bhima reach Sayak Mitra was the Director and
Agni (Fire), Apa (Water) and Ksiti erning factor in the rash decision of going his Universal Self through the Scenographer. He was also the
(Earth). It is an established fact that development of to Gandhamadan Par- darsan of Viswarupa. This designer.
without Vayu, movement or activity is spectacle in the vat to get the desired helped him realize his true self Lights were designed by
not possible. So it is a component that play. Vayu car- flower for Draupadi’s and gain wisdom to overcome Soumen Chakravarty. Sudipta Gupta
aids Universal Creation. Similarly, in ries the sake, without even con- the overpowering presence of used her creativity in designing the
the physical plane of this Earth, Vayu intoxicat- sulting his elders. To pro- emotions and physical force. puppets who were characters in
is the driving factor of motion and ing smell vide advice to Bhima, An ancient play presented the play - a rather unique
activity. Ayurveda says that in the of the Hanumana uses in this fashion to a modern audience device. The props were
physical structure of the human plane the guise of an was exotic. It was interesting simply designed by Pinki Mon-
there are five types of Vayu, which are elderly wise because now-a-days people know dal and Subhendu
Prana, Apana, Vyana, Udana and guide. He so little of ancient knowledge. Ghosh, while Sayak
Samana, regulated by the practice of knew that Built on a simple idea of Mitra himself
Yoga. Hanumana, a mythical charac- Bhima was equipping oneself with was the Cos-
ter, had mastered through intense approach- proper knowledge tume
Yoga and meditation the art of ing Amara- before embarking on designer.
acquiring control over all the five vati, a par- a mission just
physical Vayus. That is the adise for depending on The writer
absolute truth or the physical might is a senior
dance crit-
Suddha nymphs is a folly. It is ic.
Satwa, and celes- an important les-
tial beings son to be learnt.
of Gand-
harva,
Kinnari,
Raksak
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popular performing art forms he scary clown has become a
and drew audiences in droves to horror staple. Featuring Art the
Rangmahal and Star Theatre in North Clown as the main villain,
Kolkata’s College Street, which provid- Damien Leone’s new film “Terri-
ed the desired ambience for staged fier 2” is so gruesome that there are
performances. Such popular plays as reports of viewers vomiting and passing
Setu, Ek peyala Coffee, Utpal Dutt’s out in the theatre. And every Halloween,
Tin Poishar Pala, Tiner Talwar, Bimal you’ll see vicious clowns stalking haunt-
Kar’s Kori Diyeh Kinlam, Sab Thik Hai ed house attractions or trick-or-treaters
et al were presented at these theatres. dressed as Pennywise, the evil clown
A theatre festival, which was once a from Stephen King’s “It.”
crowd puller, is something quite It can be hard to imagine a time
unheard of these days, what with high when clowns were regularly invited to
tech calling the shots. Such a festival children’s birthday parties and hospital
calls for a celebration. wards – not to terrorize, but to delight
Chetana, the acclaimed theatre and entertain. For much of the 20th cen-
group, will complete 50 years on 22 tury, this was the standard role of the
November. Chetana started its jour- clown. attempting to ride one of the show’s Circus historian Janet Davis notes
ney with the legendary production, However, clowns have always had a horses before dramatically revealing that some of these performances
'Mareech Sangbad', written and dark side. Before the 20th century, clowns himself to be part of the show. Famous included clowns in drag “playing gen-
directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay. The in American circuses were largely con- 19th-century clown Dan Rice was der-bending pranks on dumbfounded
play will also complete its 50th year. sidered a form of adult entertainment. known for including local gossip and men who expected to see nude
'Mareech Sangbad' is considered to In my own research on the history political commentary in his perfor- women.” In a shocking revelation, Davis
be one of the major plays written in of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot mances and impersonating prominent also notes that at some cooch show per-
contemporary India. hyay, Supriyo Dutt and Biplab Ban- Mukhopadhyay's dazzling staging. of time in archives where I regularly figures in each town he visited. formances, gay clowns had sexual
"Class and class struggle as devel- dopadhyay will be part of this distin- Don: Taake Bhalo Laage is an adapta- come across vintage photos of clowns. The jokes they told were often encounters with male audience mem-
oping forms of social relations and guished cast. tion of the musical, The Man of La Now, I don’t consider myself afraid misogynistic and full of sexual double- bers “during and after anonymously
consciousness, which are embodied Jagannath, another landmark Mancha, based on Don Quixote by of clowns. In fact, I always try to remind entendres, which wasn’t a problem crowded scenes.”
and carried out by actual agents in production first staged in 1977, will Cervantes, and is the testimony of a folks that today’s clowns are serious because circus audiences at this time These clowns, suffice it to say,
society, are dramatized at their best also be remounted on this occasion. victimized artist against the intoler- artists with an enormous amount of were mostly adult and male. Back then, weren’t for kids.
by the narrative multi-dimensionality "The play ( Jagannath) provides a ant state power. Rani Creusa, a play training in their craft. But even I have to circuses were a stigmatized form of It wasn’t really until the 1880s and
of Mareech Sangbad", writes Himani depth and concreteness to one’s by Bratya Basu, and directed by Sujan admit that the clowns I come across entertainment in the U.S., considered 1890s, when entertainment impresarios
Banerjee in her introduction to the understanding of class and class poli- Mukhopadhyay, is a study of the from old circuses give me the heebie- disreputable for their association with like Barnum made efforts to “clean up”
English translation of the play. tics away from economic reduction- dichotomies of social and political jeebies. gambling, grift, scantily clad female per- the circus to draw in a larger audience,
Mareech Sangbad has been trans- ism and orthodox communist dogma- relations in the backdrop of ancient For most of the 19th century, cir- formers, profanity and alcohol. Church that clowns truly became associated
lated into many languages and per- tism." After a long sabbatical, produc- Greek mythology. cuses were relatively small, one-ring leaders regularly warned their congre- with children.
formed nationally and international- tions of Mephisto, Ghasiram Kotwal, The Bikram Dasgupta Founda- events where audiences could hear per- gations not to attend the circus. Some After circuses started traveling by
ly. Including remarkable plays like and Don: Taake Bhalo Laage, directed tion has extended its generous sup- formers speak. states even had laws banning circuses railroad, they could carry more equip-
Jagannath, Teesta Paarer Brittanto, by Suman Mukhopadhyay and Sujan port for the festival. The festival will These shows were rowdy affairs in altogether. ment, allowing them to expand from
Mephisto, Ghasiram Kotwal, and Don: Mukhopadhyay will also be show- be inaugurated by eminent and which audiences felt free to yell, boo Clowns played a part in the circus’ one ring to three. Audiences could no
Taake Bhalo Laage, Chetana has pro- cased at this festival. revered theatre veterans Rudraprasad and hiss at performers. Typically, clowns seedy reputation. longer hear performers, so the clown
duced 40 full-length plays and 12 short Mephisto, first staged in 2002, Sengupta, Bibhas Chakraborty, Manoj would engage in banter with the stoic Showman P.T. Barnum noted that became a pantomime comedian, elimi-
plays in its 50 illustrious years. To com- and directed by Suman Mukhopad- Mitra, Ashok Mukhopadhyay, and of ringmaster, who was often the target for part of the appeal of the circuses “con- nating any potentially vulgar or sugges-
memorate this historical moment, hyay, was a united response of the course, the man who gave birth to the the clowns’ pranks. Borrowing comedic sisted of the clown’s vulgar jests, empha- tive language. Circus owners, aiming to
Chetana has organized a theatre festi- theatre fraternity against the Gujarat institution named Chetana, Arun traditions from the blackface minstrel sized with still moren vulgar and sug- make as much money as possible, tried
val from 18 to 23 November. riots. The latest staging of the play in Mukhopadhyay. The theatre festival show, circus clowns used puns, non gestive gestures.” Clowns also subverted to court a broader audience, including
The festival will feature the 2019 was done with an ensemble of revival, marking 50 years of Chetana’s sequiturs and exaggerated burlesque gender norms, with many appearing in women and children. That necessitated
restaging of Mareech Sangbad with an contemporary stage actors. The play completion in the sphere of stage humour. drag, often exaggerating the female fig- the removal of any scandalous acts and
ensemble of eminent thespians of the is a rereading of Klaus Mann's Ger- histrionics, hopes to bring back audi- One very popular clown act, which ure with cartoonishly big fake breasts. strict monitoring of their employees’
Bengali stage. Debshankar Haldar, man novel written in the context of ences to be entertained by this spe- Mark Twain depicted in “The Adven- In the early 19th century, some cir- behaviour.
Anirban Bhattacharya, Anirban the rise of the Nazi regime. cial event. tures of Huckleberry Finn,” involved a cuses also featured a separate tent that
Chakraborty, Meghnad Bhattacharya, Ghasiram Kotwal, the contempo- performer disguised as a drunken cir- contained a “cooch show.” Male patrons (The writer is Postdoctoral Fellow of History,
Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Shubhasis rary classic by Vijay Tendulkar, is a (The writer is a freelance contributor.) cus patron who shocked the audience were invited, for a fee, to watch women University of SouthCarolina. This article was pub-
lished on www.theconversation.com)
Mukhopadhyay, Shantilal Mukhopad- runaway success with Sujan by entering the ring and clumsily dance and strip.
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VIRAT KOHLI'S T20 WORLD CUP STA-
TISTICS ARE SUPER FREAKISH
India's star batter Virat Kohli's majestic form has left everyone in awe,
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former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has called the "Chasemaster's"
statistics in the T20 World Cup "super freakish". Virat has scored 220 runs
in the tournament in four innings at an average of 220.00. Three fifties
have come out of his bat, including a top-class 82* against Pakistan. He
is the leading run-scorer in the tournament so far. "He is a freak and
those statistics are super freakish. It's incredible that you can bat in
such a high-risk format and score consistently. It's ridiculous," said Shane
Watson.
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Satwik-Chirag sail into pre-quarters, Saina
Nehwal crashes out in Hylo Open: Indian men's
badminton duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and
Constant fielding practice did the trick, says Rahul
Chirag Shetty continued their winning S S RAMASWAMY was all a result of constant field- feeling confident and you know power play was done.We all knew
juggernaut at the Hylo Open, defeating Chinese MELBOURNE, 3 NOVEMBER ing practise that the Indian that good innings will come that. We were confident about
Taipei's Yang Lee and Chen Lu in Saarbrucken, team does during training. and it's around the corner,” that,” he noted.
Germany on Wednesday. The Satwik-Chirag Two close matches, both against “If you come to the ground, said Rahul. Incidentally when rain inter-
team, which last week won the French Open, South Asian rivals, and India kept you'll obviously see that we all “And I knew in my heart that rupted with Bangladesh on 66
overcame a deficit in the first set to defeat the their nerves intact to close out train very hard on our fielding. I was seeing the ball well. What- for no loss after seven overs chas-
Chinese Taipei team 19-21, 21-19, and 21-16 in both in the ICC men’s T20 World We work on our throwing. We ever I need to do, my process- ing India’s challenging total of
61 minutes. Yang Lee, who won the gold medal Cup in progress now in Australia. work on moving quickly. We work es were right. So I knew the 184 for six, India were behind
in men's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics Rohit Sharma and his men on running faster.. And I think good knock or good contribu- their rivals on the DLS count.
in Tokyo, was paired with Chen Lu rather than in blue needed to up their ante when you keep working hard, tion for the team is coming,” he Luckily for India play could
his customary partner Chi-Lin Wang. ANI when they took on Pakistan at it sometimes comes off. And added. commence after a 45-minute
the Melbourne Cricket Ground today was one such time where About the way India got back delay and India bowled pur-
in their campaign opener here the ball came to me, I threw the into the game after Bangladesh posefully and fielded brilliant-
India to play Myanmar, Kyrgyz Republic in AFC U- on October 23. ball and hit the stump,” said had set off at break neck speed ly to turn things around against
17 Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers: India have been They did that admirably and Rahul. thanks to Das who was run out Bangladesh who panicked and
drawn in Group F of the AFC U-17 Women's the team carved out a nerve- He was clearly under pres- for 60 in 27 balls, Rahul said that lost a clutch of wickets soon after
Asian Cup Qualifiers Round 1, where they were wracking last-ball victory, bounc- sure to rediscover his batting the team always knew they the rain break.
clubbed alongside Myanmar and host Kyrgyz ing back from a difficult 31 for touch although as the team’s vice- could bounce back after the The victory has put India well
Republic after the draw was held on Thursday in 4 to chase down Pakistan’s 159 captain he had some extra cush- power play overs. on course for a berth in the semi-
Kuala Lumpur. The Road to Indonesia 2024 for 8 after surviving anxious ion. The team backed him fully, “Obviously the first six overs finals from Group 2.
campaign starts with 29 teams competing in moments, Virat Kohli playing a Oval last night that while India ran in from the deep and hit the as indicated by head coach didn't go according to our plan. With Pakistan’s victory over
eight groups in Round 1, with the top team fantastic knock of 82 not out. had come to win the World Cup stumps at the non-striker’s end Rahul Dravid on the eve of the I think Litton really played an South Africa at the SCG in a rain-
from each group advancing to the Round 2 They won quite comfort- his team had not, adding if with a direct hit even as Das was match. exceptional knock. And who interrupted game tonight, Rohit
Qualifiers. "Round 2 will have two groups with ably against the Netherlands in Bangladesh win it will be a huge struggling to make his ground “Today was an opportunity knows, innings like those real- and his men are comfortably
the top two teams from each group joining the Sydney, a game they were expect- upset. Bangladesh very nearly on a call for a second run from for me to stand up and do well. ly put pressure on the fielding perched on top of the group table
three highest-seeded sides from the AFC U-16 ed to cruise through, but then did that after starting off in fellow-opener Najmal Hossain I got a good start. So I contin- and the bowling team because with 6 points from three victo-
Women's Championship Thailand 2019 - tasted their first defeat against blistering style with Litton Das Shanto. ued. I think every innings is he played proper cricket shots. ries. They conclude their league
defending champions Japan, DPR Korea and South Africa on the bouncy blasting all the bowlers to notch Das’s dismissal triggered a col- important especially in a big tour- And he hit our bowlers off their engagements with a match
China PR - and Indonesia in the Finals," All India and chilly conditions in Perth up his fifth in just 21 balls. It need- lapse from which Bangladesh nament like this. So that is the good length and off their best against Zimbabwe at the MCG
Football Federation (AIFF) said. Thailand will host on October 30. ed a special fielding effort from did not recover and then a fine only doubt that is in your mind. ball. So that kind of innings here on November 6. It is the last
Group A with Malaysia, Northern Mariana Islands India’s previous record against the team’s vice captain K L last over from Arshdeep Singh But at least I don't get frustrat- really puts you under pressure. group 2 game. South Africa, who
and Indonesia as their challengers while Group B Bangladesh, 10-1 in their favour, Rahul to bring India back into stopped them short of the ed or I didn't feel like my form But we all knew that once the are in second place with five
will see Australia, Chinese Taipei, Mongolia and and their overall superior strength the game after a rain interrup- revised target of 151 by five or my confidence was low. I just power play is over we can pull points, play against Nether-
Bhutan vying for the top spot. Group C has put them as favourites against tion. runs. sked in the post-game didn't get the runs. And it hap- things back,” he said. lands on the same day in Ade-
Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Palestine and Bahrain with Shakib Al Hasan and his men. Rahul, who re-found his media conference about his pens in the game. You're not “Even without the rain, I laide in the first match while Pak-
Bangladesh, hosts Singapore, United Arab Shakib had told the media a day touch with the bat and made 50 game-changing direct hit at always going to keep scoring think we could have put pres- istan take on Bangladesh in the
Emirates and Turkmenistan in Group D. ANI before the game at the Adelaide in 32 balls when India batted first, the stumps, Rahul said that it runs. It's what you feel if you're sure on the opposition once the second match there.
One lakh children to be trained in football, as Fan will now be PKL 9: Win over Randhirs Bengaluru Bulls will give
remembered
Kerala gears up to welcome FIFA World Cup STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE us lot of confidence, says Steelers coach Manpreet
KOLKATA, 3 NOVEMBER
AGENCIES
East Bengal, going up against BENGALURU, 3 NOVEMBER
Chennayin FC in the Indi-
an Super League at Salt Lake The Haryana Steelers head
stadium tomorrow, will coach Manpreet Singh termed
respectfully remember Jay his team's thrilling 29-27 vic-
Saha, the fan fan who died tory over Bengaluru Bulls in
of a heart-attack during the the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL)
previous week's lost derby, Season 9 as a result of work-
it was said today. ing on their mistakes and
Players' shirts will have expected it to be a confi-
his name stitched across dence-builder for his team.
the chest, black armbands Speaking about their vic-
will indicate the team's grief tory on Tuesday, Manpreet
and the giant screen will be Singh said, "A team will always
used to convey their con- go through ups and downs in
AGENCIES mented by the State Direc- ing camps will continue to get dolences. a league. We have lost a lot of
TPURAM, 3 NOVEMBER torate of Sports and Youth professional training. For East Bengal, talking close games in this competi-
Affairs and Sports Council The campaign will be assist- about that was a break today tion, but we worked on our mis-
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup with help from educational ed by former footballers from from having to explain, day takes and now we are on the
to be held in Qatar from institutions and local self gov- the state who have been in and day out, why they were right side of the result and the
November 20 to December 18, ernments."Students aged selected as 'One Million Goal' doing so badly in the tour- win has come against a good well. So, for us to win against pose a strong challenge for the Deshwal.
the Kerala government has between 10 and 12 years will ambassadors in each of the nament. Not that Chen- team in the tournament." Randhir Singh's team will give Patna side. The Puneri Paltan will be
announced a basic football be given football training as part 14 districts to lead the train- nayin FC are an upper-storey The head coach also heaped us a lot of confidence." The Dabang Delhi K.C. hoping to continue their form
training progamme for one of the 'One Million Goal' pro- ing programme. team. praise on Bengaluru Bulls' The match between Patna and Jaipur Pink Panthers will after registering a victory
lakh school students across the gramme which will run from The minister also pointed Placed seventh current- head coach Randhir Singh, "I Pirates and U Mumba will be be desperate to end their los- against Delhi in their last
state. November 11 to 20. A total of out that a special scheme ly, just two notches above East have a lot of respect for Rand- a cracker of a contest as both ing streaks when they face off game. However, the Pune side
State Sports Minister V. 100 children each will be trained called 'Goal' will be launched Bengal, Chennayin FC worry hir Singh. He is a really good sides are in stupendous form. against each other. Naveen will face stiff competition
Abdurahman announced the in 1,000 centres for 10 days," later wherein similar training their rivals as they have person and a good coach. He While raider Sachin will lead Kumar will be the key player from U.P. Yoddhas' raiders
scheme named 'One million said Abdurahman. He added will be provided to five lakh quite a few Kolkata players helps people a lot. He has pro- the charge for the Pirates, U for Delhi, while Jaipur will Pardeep Narwal and Suren-
goals' which is being imple- that those who excel in the train- children. in their ranks. duced a lot of good players as Mumba's defender Rinku will bank on their star raider Arjun der Gill.
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