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After Nirmala pulls
up DM over PM’s
photo, TRS counters
with price-rise jibe
SREENIVAS JANYALA
HYDERABAD, SEPTEMBER 3
UNION FINANCE Minister
NirmalaSitharaman’spublicup-
braiding of a District Collector
during her visit to Telangana led
to the ruling Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) hitting back at the
BJP on rising prices.
On Saturday, a day after
Sitharaman pulled up the
Kamareddy District Collector
over photographs of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi not be-
ing displayed at PDS shops, TRS
supporters at several places put
up photographs of the PM on
LPG cylinders, prominently dis-
playingthe costatRs 1,105.Party
supporters also took to social
media to post images of the PM
while pointing to the prices of
essential commodities.
On Friday, while inspecting
ration shops at Birkur village in
Zaheerabad parliamentary con-
stituency as part of the BJP’s Lok
SabhaPravasYojana,Sitharaman
asked the beneficiaries, “How
muchdoyoupayforakiloof rice
that costs Rs 35 in the market?”
When some of them replied “Re
1”, she turned to Collector Jitesh
VPatilandaskedhimhowmuch
of the remaining Rs 34 was
borne by the state.
As the Collector begins to re-
spond, Sitharaman said,
“Collector, you give the answer
withclarity.Youaretheofficerof
the Indian Administrative
Service belonging to the
Chinese loan apps
probe: ED raids
Paytm, Razorpay,
Cashfree premises
ED seizes Rs 17 cr, payment gateways
say they are cooperating with probe
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate
(ED) on Saturday conducted
raidsatninepremisesassociated
with online payment gateways
Paytm,RazorpayandCashfreein
Bengaluru in connection with a
moneylaunderingcase—partof
an ongoing probe against some
unauthorised loan apps al-
legedly run by companies
owned by Chinese nationals.
Someof thesecompaniesare
alsoallegedtobeinvolvedinille-
gal betting. Transactions on
these apps were allegedly facili-
tatedthroughthethreepayment
gateways.
The ED said it had seized Rs
17 crore kept in “merchant IDs
and bank accounts of these
Chinese persons-controlled en-
tities” during the raids.
In a statement, a Razorpay
spokesperson said: “Some of our
merchants were being investi-
gated by law enforcement about
a year-and-a-half back. As part of
theongoinginvestigation,theau-
thorities requested additional in-
formationtohelpwiththeinves-
‘(At 9 yrs old) I could see the burning desire, a rage in fact; this was different’
With Serena Williams playing her likely last singles match,
her childhood coach on her journey from Compton to the top
Rick Macci
SPECIAL TO THE
EXPRESS
Finance
Minister
Nirmala
Sitharaman
A video shared on Twitter by
a TRS leader showing photos
of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on LPG cylinders
Telangana cadre... Would you
want to think about your an-
swer? You think about it within
half-an-hour before my address
to the media. I can tell them that
even if the Collector could not
answer immediately, he strug-
gled and got the information.”
She then goes on to tell him
that the PDS rice costs Rs 35 per
kg,outof whichtheCentrebears
the subsidy cost of Rs 29, the
state Rs 5 and the people Re 1.
“From March-April 2020, the
Centre has not even been taking
theRe1fromthepeopleortheRs
3 or 4 from the Centre,” she says,
adding: “The Union government
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tigation.Wehavefullycooperated
andsharedKYCandotherdetails.
The authorities were satisfied by
our due diligence process”.
A Paytm spokesperson said
the company “promptly re-
sponded” to information sought
by the authorities. “We are sup-
porting law enforcement agen-
cies, who are investigating a spe-
cific set of merchants. The
authoritiesreachedouttouswith
directions to provide certain in-
formationaboutthesemerchants
under scrutiny, to which we
promptly responded. We con-
tinue to cooperate with the au-
thorities and remain fully com-
pliant,” said the spokesperson.
Cashfree said its processes
adhere to PMLA directions. “We
extended our diligent coopera-
tion to the ED operations, pro-
viding them the required and
necessary information on the
same day of enquiry. Our opera-
tionsandon-boardingprocesses
adhere to the PMLA and KYC di-
rections,and we willcontinue to
do so in the time to follow,” said
a company spokesperson.
The ED is probing a case of
non-bankingfinancialcompanies
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
ITWAS1991,whenIgotacallfrom
Richard Williams. “I have two
daughterswhoplaytennis,Venus
and Serena, and I would like you
to take a look at them,” he said.
“Could you come to Compton?”
Venus was 10, Serena was 9.
All I had heard about Compton
wasriots,andRichardgoes,“Hey
Rick, I promise you, you won’t
get shot.”
ThedayafterIland,at7inthe
morning,abusarrives.Igetinthe
PMGKAY EXTENSION BEYOND SEPTEMBER
Politicsovereconomics:Infreebie
row,callonfreefoodgrainawaited
In May, Dept of Expenditure advised against extension;
revenue on direct and indirect taxes is now a cushion
AANCHAL MAGAZINE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
A DECISION to extend the Prime
Minister Garib Kalyan Anna
Yojana(PMGKAY) — the govern-
ment’s free foodgrain scheme to
alleviateCoviddistress—islikely
to be a “political call” with the
sixth phase of the scheme com-
ing to an end this month and the
merits of yet another extension
being actively discussed at the
highest level, a top official has
told The Indian Express.
DAY AFTER SC ORDER , TEESTA OUT
Activist Teesta Setalvad leaves Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Held for ‘fabricating
evidence’ in connection with the 2002 riots, she got interim bail Friday from SC. Reuters PAGE8
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A UNITED OPP CAN
DRIVE BJP OUT OF
POWER: NITISH
GOA EATERY CASE:
CONG LEADERS SAY
IRANI MISLED COURT
PAGES 6, 7
Days before serial killings, accused left home:
‘He wanted to live where movies are made’
IRAM SIDDIQUE
SAGAR, SEPTEMBER 3
AFORTNIGHTbeforeShivprasad
Gond was arrested, allegedly for
killing four security guards in
their sleep, the 19-year-old had
walked out of hishomein Kekra,
a village in Madhya Pradesh's
Sagar district, after a heated ar-
gument with his parents.
Worried about the wayward
ways of his younger son,
NanheveerGond,asmallfarmer,
says he had prodded Shivprasad
passenger side, there is a spring
stickingoutandIgetahardpoke.
Theseatbeltdoesn’twork.Ilook
in the back and there is VW and
Meek. I don’t call her Serena,
Meek is from her middle name,
Jameeka.Beyondthem,thereare
dirty clothes, McDonalds wrap-
pers, ball hoppers, racquets,
mess… It was crazy.
We pull up at a public park.
There were people smoking,
drinking, and passed out on the
In terms of fiscal math, the
constraints are on the table: an
extraoutflowof aroundRs2lakh
crore for the estimated food, fer-
tilizer and cooking gas subsidies
that have shot up in the after-
math of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Even as revenue collections
on both the direct and indirect
tax front have picked up, offer-
ingawelcomebufferof sorts,the
Finance Ministry has explicitly
laid out its concerns.
“Therearestillthingstocome.
There has been extra outflow,
about Rs 1 lakh crore in fertiliz-
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NDTV’s single-largest FPI shareholder
is fund dominated by Adani stocks
SANDEEP SINGH
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 3
WITH THE Adani Group set to
launch its open offer for NDTV
Ltd on October 17, its bid to ac-
quire26percentmoreinthetel-
evisioncompanywilldependon
existing investors tendering
theirsharesatRs294apiece.The
stock closed at Rs 515.1 on the
Bombay Stock Exchange Friday.
tosettledowninthevillage,tend
tothefieldsandgetmarried.This
was the second time they had
brought up the issue, and
Shivprasadhadflownintoarage.
“He asked me for money... I
gave him the Rs 2,000 that I had.
He left on his bicycle, taking his
laptopalong. It wasthefirsttime
he left home without touching
my feet,” recalls Sita Rani Gond.
That was the last she saw of
her son or heard from him until,
onSeptember 1,a fortnightlater,
police personnel came knocking
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Williams after losing to Ajla Tomljanovic in the US Open Friday; and (right) Rick Macci, the
childhood coach of Serena and Venus Williams, along with father Richard Williams.
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
ers,Rs80,000croreinalreadyde-
cided foodgrain (subsidy until
September). There will be some
outflow on the petroleum side
also, prices have gone up and
spending has gone up for cook-
ing gas through subsidies, it will
be significant,” the official said.
“If the free foodgrain scheme
getsextended,thecostforthesec-
ond half would be little less than
Rs85,000crore.Closeto that,but
a bit lower," the official added.
In May, the Department of
Expenditure under the Ministry
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The single-largest share-
holderof NDTV,besidespromot-
ersPrannoyRoyandRadhikaRoy
(32.26%) and the Adani Group
(29.18%), is Mauritius-registered
foreignportfolioinvestor(FPI)LTS
InvestmentFundLtdwitha9.75%
stake. It bought this stake in the
quarter ending September 2016.
Ananalysisof LTSInvestment
Fund Ltd’s portfolio reveals that
of the Rs 20,710.2 crore value of
its shareholding as on June-end
Shivprasad after being produced in court Friday. IramSiddique
AP
Fiscal
burden
THE CALL on extending
the foodgrain subsidy
comes when the issue of
freebies has touched off a
heated political debate
between states and the
Centre. Given that it was
linked to Covid, now that
the active case count is
below 60,000 and vacci-
nations have crossed 200
crore, some experts are
arguing for a phaseout
given the fiscal burden.
ECONOMY
INDIA OVERTAKES UK,
NOW FIFTH-LARGEST
ECONOMY PAGE 11
SUNDAY
STORY
PAGE 9
Mutt, muscle
and money
The Lingayat mutt in
Karnataka whose head
is at centre of sexual
assault row
2022 — the most recent quarter
for which data is available —
97.78percentcomesfromAdani
Group companies.
The break-up of LTS portfo-
lio, as of Saturday:
■ Adani Power Ltd:
Rs 1,692.3 crore
■ Adani Enterprises Ltd:
Rs 6,475.1 crore
■ Adani Transmission Ltd:
Rs 7,010.7 crore
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Rick Macci
New Delhi
After BJP MP booked
in airport row, Delhi
cops name Deoghar
DC in sedition case
ABHISHEK ANGAD, ARNAV
CHANDRASEKHAR &
PRANAV MUKUL
RANCHI, NEW DELHI,
SEPTEMBER 3
A DAY after Jharkhand Police
lodged an FIR against BJP MPs
Nishikant Dubey and Manoj
Tiwari, Dubey’s two sons and
others, saying they “forcefully”
took flight clearance on August
31 from the Air Traffic Control at
Deogharairport,whichisnotyet
ready for night operations, Delhi
Police filed an FIR Saturday on
Dubey’s complaint. It invoked
the sedition charge against the
Deoghar Deputy Commissioner
and Jharkhand police officers for
“playing with national security”
by entering a “restricted” area of
Deoghar airport.
The ‘zero FIR’, which Delhi
Police sent to the Kunda police
station in Deoghar for investiga-
tion, stated: “MP Nishikant
Dubey, Chairman, Deoghar
AirportAdvisoryCommitteehas
lodged a complaint at P.S. North
Avenue (11.34 am September
3)… Prima facie offences under
Criticising PM today is
risky, says Srikrishna;
minister Rijiju hits back
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
UNDERLINING THAT “in a
democracy, the right to criticise
the government is a fundamen-
tal right and nobody can muzzle
that,” Justice B N Srikrishna, for-
merjudgeof theSupremeCourt,
has expressed concern on the
current situation, saying “today,
things are very bad” and “I must
confess, if I were to stand in a
public square and say I don’t like
the face of the Prime Minister,
somebody might raid me, arrest
me,throwmeinjailwithoutgiv-
ing me any reason”.
His remarks, made in an in-
terview to The Hindu newspaper,
drew a sharp response from
Union Minister for Law and
Justice Kiren Rijiju.
“Those people who speak all
thetimewithoutanyrestrictions
to abuse the popularly elected
grass.Whenwewalkin,theguys
say, “Hey King Richard!” And I
am thinking this is crazy stuff.
They go, “hey VW, hey Meek”.
We walk across the basket-
ballcourtanditpartsliketheRed
Sea. We go to the court. I had a
box of brand new Wilson balls
shipped there. “We don’t use
new balls. I have old balls, dirty
balls,” says Richard. The cart of
ballsischainedtothenets.“Ihave
to secure it, else it won’t be here
in the morning,” says Richard.
We start hitting. I see the
young Venus and Serena -- all
legs, arms, hair, feet, pieces fly-
Hope, Light and
a Legacy of Joy
Ahead of Teachers’ Day,
writers, naturalists,
politicians and actors tell us
about their favourite teachers
PAGES 13, 14, 15
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey;
DC Manjunath Bhajantri
IPC section 124A (sedition), 353
(assault or criminal force to de-
terpublicservantfromdischarge
of duty), 448 (house trespass),
201 (causing disappearance of
evidence), 506 (criminal intimi-
dation),120B (criminal conspir-
acy) and Officials Secrets Act.”
Reached for comment,
Deoghar Deputy Commissioner
Manjunath Bhajantri told The
Indian Express: “It (FIR) is an ab-
surd and 100 per cent concocted
story…anafterthought…(after)
gettingcaught violatingsecurity
protocol.Duringinvestigationby
the competent authorities,
everything will be uncovered,
black and white.”
In Deoghar, the FIR against
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Somebody
might raid
me… throw
me in jail:
Justice
Srikrishna
Prime Minister are crying about
freedom of expression! They
will never talk about Emergency
imposed by Congress party and
never dare to criticise some
Regional Party CMs,” Rijiju said
in a Twitter post.
“I don’t know if a former
judge of the Supreme Court has
actually said this. If it’s true then
the statement itself is demean-
ing the institution he has
served,” he said.
Reached for comment,
Justice Srikrishna, who headed
an expert committee to study
and identify key data protection
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
ing off their beaded heads. And I
am going, what the hell am I do-
ing in Compton? It was a train
wreck. I didn’t see anything spe-
cial in them, apart from athletics
— they could run.
Then I say, “let's play some
competitivepoints”.That’swhen
the whole landscape changed. I
and Serena played Venus, and
they started popping the pop-
corn with extra butter. The feet
were amazing, the preparation
was a lot better, and I could see
the burning desire, a rage in fact.
Itwas brutal. Ihave seen Jennifer
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
 2 THE SECOND PAGE
Free foodgrain
ofFinancehad,inaninternalnote,
advised against the extension of
the PMGKAY scheme both on
“grounds of food security and on
fiscal grounds” arguing that it’s
“far beyond the need at a non-
pandemic time”.
Hugeincreaseinfertilisersub-
sidy burden (both urea & non-
urea), re-introduction of subsidy
on cooking gas, reduction of ex-
cise duty on petrol, diesel and
Customs duty on various prod-
ucts have created a serious fiscal
situation, the note had said.
The government is also star-
ing at a surge in its fertilizer sub-
sidy bill, which is expected to be
between Rs 2.15-2.5 lakh crore,
depending on volume of utilisa-
tion. In May, Finance Minister
NirmalaSitharamanhadsaidthat
inadditiontothefertilisersubsidy
ofRs1.05lakhcroreinthebudget,
an additional amount of Rs 1.10
lakh crore is being provided. The
fertiliser subsidy bill was esti-
matedatRs1.05lakhcrore in the
2022-23 Budget. It stood at Rs
1,62,132 crore in 2021-22.
Though government officials
havepointedoutthatthereisun-
likelytobeanyadjustmenttothe
borrowing figure for the second
half of the fiscal, a close eye is be-
ing kept on the surging subsidy
billevenastaxrevenuegrowthis
providing a cushion.
In its note in May, the
Expenditure Department had
said that the budgeted fiscal
deficit at 6.40% of GDP was itself
"extremely high by historical
standards, and deterioration
thereinposesariskof seriousad-
verse consequences".
"It is vital that major subsidy
increases/tax reductions are not
done.Inparticular,itisnotadvis-
abletocontinuethePMGKAYbe-
yond its present extension, both
on grounds of food security and
on fiscal grounds. As it is, each
family is getting 50 kg of grains,
25kgatanominalpriceofRs2/Rs
3,and25kgfree.Thisisfarbeyond
the need at a non-pandemic
time,” it said.
InMarch,thegovernmentex-
tended the PMGKAY scheme for
another six months until
September 2022. The govern-
menthasspentapproximatelyRs
2.60 lakh crore until March and
another Rs 80,000 crore will be
spent in the six months to
September 2022, taking the total
expenditure for PMGKAY to
nearly Rs 3.40 lakh crore.
The scheme covers nearly 80
crorebeneficiariesproviding5kg
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of foodgrain per month for free.
Theadditionalfreegrainsareover
andabovethenormalquotapro-
vided under the NFSA at a sub-
sidised rate of Rs 2-3 per kg.
On the positive side, healthy
revenue trends so far have led to
expectations of tax collections
crossing budgetary targets this
year.
Directtaxcollectionsstoodat
Rs 4.8 lakh crore at the end of
August, having achieved one-
third of the Budget target for the
financial year 2022-23.
GrossGoodsandServicesTax
(GST) collections rose to Rs
1,43,612croreforAugust(forsales
in July), sequentially lower than
the figure in the previous month
but28.2percenthigheryear-on-
year, with overall GST collections
having risen 33.5 per cent year-
on-yearasagainsttheBudgetpro-
jection of 11.2 per cent growth in
CGST collections.
Nirmala
isbearingthecost…Modisarkar...
Despitegivingeverythingforfree,
despite not charging for trans-
portation or storage, despite giv-
ing it free during the pandemic,
when asked to put a flex of the
pradhani(PM)...notjusthere,but
inallofTelangana,theyarenotlet-
ting it happen. They created
drama, tore the flex... This is the
workthe PMisdoingforhispeo-
ple."
The minister then asks the
Collector to ensure that the PM’s
photo is displayed prominently
on ration shops in the district.
“Our people will come here and
installtheflex.You,asthedistrict
administrator, will ensure that it
shallnotberemoved,thatitshall
not be torn,” she said.
Speaking to The Indian
Express,CollectorPatilsaidhedid
notfeelintimidatedorthreatened
bySitharaman."Shesoughtsome
data on PDS, which I didn't have
atthattime.Shesaidshewillwait
forhalfanhourformetoproduce
the data, but she moved on,’’ he
said.
Reacting to the incident, IT
Minister K T Rama Rao tweeted
onFriday,sayinghewasappalled
by Sitharaman's "unruly con-
duct",andthat"politicalhistrion-
icsonthestreetwoulddemoralise
hardworkingIASofficers".Healso
complimented the District
Collector on his "dignified con-
duct".
On Saturday, Sitharaman vis-
ited other areas of the Lok Sabha
constituencyandinteractedwith
people.
Intheevening,she,alongwith
other BJP leaders, addressed a
press conference, where, when
asked about the incident, she re-
portedly said, "I am not here to
judge the conduct of any collec-
tor. My language to the collector
was not objectionable or unpar-
liamentary.Anyonewhothinksit
was not right or if my language
wasobjectionable.Itistheiropin-
ion."
However,aheadoftheconfer-
ence, local BJP leaders allegedly
asked representatives of
Telangana Today, Namaste
Telangana, and T News to leave
the venue.
ED raids
(NBFCs) allegedly indulging in
predatory lending practices in
violation of RBI guidelines.
According to the agency, after
it began its probe, many of
these companies shut shop
and diverted funds through
fintech companies to buy
crypto assets which were then
laundered abroad. In this
connection, the ED had
searched premises associated
with crypto exchange WazirX
and frozen Rs 64 crore in its
accounts.
The ED has alleged that the
NBFCs misused personal data
and resorted to high-handed
methods to extort high interest
rates from those who took
loans.
In August 2020, the agency
froze about Rs 47 crore
belonging to a Chinese
company running illegal
betting and loan apps in India.
It had also conducted searches
at 15 premises associated with
the company, its directors and
chartered accountants across
Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and
Pune.
The agency had then held
these online payment
gateways accountable for “lax
due diligence” and “non-
reporting of suspicious
transactions”. It had even
alleged that the “lax” scrutiny
could have enabled hawala
transactions.
According to ED, some
Chinese nationals floated
multiple companies in India
with the help of Indian
chartered accountants, using
Indian directors to incorporate
them. These Chinese nationals
then later travelled to India and
took over the directorship, ED
has claimed.
“Some locals were hired
and used to open bank
accounts with HSBC Bank and
open trade accounts with
online wallets namely Paytm,
Cashfree, Razorpay etc. These
online wallets had lax due
diligence mechanisms and
their non-reporting of
suspicious transactions to the
regulatory authorities helped
the accused companies to
launch pan-India operations,”
ED had said in a statement.
According to ED, after the
bank accounts were opened,
the internet access credentials
were couriered by the Indian
employees to China, and
payment instructions came
from the owners there. The
accused companies floated a
number of similar looking
websites which were hosted
through Cloudfare, the ED has
claimed.
These websites got people
to become members and
place bets on various online
apps. A network of agents was
built to get new customers via
closed Telegram and
WhatsApp groups, the ED has
claimed. Referral codes were
used to invite new members;
this also earned commission
for the sponsoring member.
“Paytm and Cashfree were
used to collect money and pay
commission to all these agent
members. Hundreds of
websites were created to
promote online betting under
the garb of e-commerce. All
websites were not activated
daily. Some were activated for
placing bets and the
information on daily active
websites was shared with
members using Telegram
groups,” ED had said.
According to the ED, it had
identified multiple bank
accounts, mostly held with
HSBC Bank. It had claimed
that two bank accounts of M/s
Dokypay Technology Private
Limited revealed that in the
last one year, the account had
seen collection of Rs 1,268
crore, of which Rs 300 crore
came via Paytm, and around
Rs 600 crore was transferred
out via Paytm. Another
account, of M/s Linkyun
Technolgy, revealed a similar
pattern, ED had said.
“It is also revealed that
there were outward foreign
remittances for payments to
the extent of Rs 120 crore
from these accounts. Large
unexplained financial
transactions are also seen
with other Indian companies
who are running online
Chinese dating apps for Indian
customers. There is a suspicion
that, apart from indulging in
banned activities like online
betting, this network of
companies, with their reliance
on online wallets and their lax
regulatory systems, could have
been used for hawala
transactions as well. ED is in
the process of obtaining
information from online wallet
companies, HSBC Bank, ROC
etc,” the agency had said.
The ED has said that its
money laundering case is
based on at least 18 FIRs filed
by the Bengaluru Police cyber
crime station against
“numerous entities/ persons in
connection with their
involvement in extortion and
harassment of the public who
had availed small amount of
loans through the mobile apps
being run by those
entities/persons.”
Paytm, which
considerable investments from
Chinese company Alibaba,
has
debuted on the Indian stock
exchanges last year and at the
time of publishing had a
market cap of Rs 47.2 trillion
crore.
Razorpay was last valued at
$7.5 billion in December 2021
and had said it has amassed
over 8 million businesses
including Facebook, Swiggy,
Cred, National Pension System
and Indian Oil among its
customers.
In June 2021, Cashfree had
raised more than $35 million
from a clutch of investors
including the State Bank of
India and had a valuation of
$200 million.
BillDesk, which was
acquired by PayU, the Indian
unit of Dutch company Prosus
for $4.7 billion, is currently the
biggest payment gateway in
the country in terms of total
transactions, followed by
Razorpay and Paytm. Cashfree
is relatively small. Other
players in the market include
Infibeam, CCAvenues,
CitrusPay and InstaMojo.
Criticising PM
issuesandrecommendmethods
to address them, told The Indian
Express: “I was talking about civil
servants exercising their funda-
mental right to freedom of
speech. As long as the criticism is
civil and made in a decent man-
ner,itshouldnotcomeintheway
oftheirservicerules.Butmycon-
cern is also about the rule of law
and how the government re-
sponds to critics.”
InTheHinduinterview,hewas
askedifaTelanganaIASofficerwas
wrong in tweeting from her per-
sonal account in support of
GujaratriotgangrapevictimBilkis
Bano. Justice Srikrishna replied
thatwhenoneentersgovernment
service, certain disciplinary rules
reply. He referred to two High
Courtrulingsandsaid“Ithinkthe
trendisthatjudgesaretakingthe
view that IAS officers have a right
to express themselves in a legiti-
mateanddecentmanner”.
Justice Srikrishna retired as a
judge of the Supreme Court in
2006.Sincehisretirement,hehas
headedseveralcommitteesboth
fortheCongress-ledUPAgovern-
ment and the BJP government.
‘Burning desire’
Capriati,MariaSharapova,butthis
was different. They ran so hard
that they almost fell down, their
noses touching the court.
I go to Richard and I say (this
wasaboutVenusasshewasmore
mature),“HeyRichard,letmetell
you something. You got the next
female Michael Jordan on your
hand!” And he puts his hand
around me and says, “No... I got
the next two.”
ThenVenussays,“Daddy,can
Igotothebathroom?”Shewalks
out of the gate, doing backward
cartwheels for five feet, and I am
thinking...notonlycanthesetwo
girlsbetheNo.1intheworld,but
theycantranscendsport.Because,
in the '90s, if you were big and
strong, you weren’t nimble... I go
fromnotonlycoaching(thegirls)
but funding the entire project.
“We were brainwashed into
becoming No.1,” Serena and
Venus told me recently. When
they were young, Richard and I
would not talk about other kids.
We were comparing them to
Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf,
the greats.
Memoriesspringup.Thefirst
timeSerenaplayedthegame'tag',
she tagged the person with a
closed fist. She was punching. I
said, “Meek, you need to open
your hands, not fist them”. That
was the Compton street-fighting
spirit in her.
There was another hilarious
incident. It was mid-July, 95 de-
grees, she had already played for
hoursandshewasn’tmoving.She
was 11. “Serena, you got to move
your feet,” I tell her.
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“Why?” she says.
“YousayyouwanttobeNo.1,
right?” I say.
“I will be No.1,” she retorts.
And she gives me that Serena
look, which everyone knows by
now.
“WhathaveIgottogivetoyou
to move,” I tell her.
“Rick, I am really hungry. Can
you get me some curly fries,
Snickers bars, Pepsi? And, on our
way here, we drove by a stand
where they were selling Green
Day(rockgroup)T-shirts.Getme
the shirt,” she says.
“Will you move your feet
then,” I ask.
She points to the other court
and says, “You see the tall skinny
girl out there?” It was Venus. “I
will make her look slower than
molasses.”
So, we get the goodies, and I
tell her that a Green Day T-shirt
willbegiventhenextdayatprac-
tice. Serena has her snacks. And
shegoesbackonthe court;sheis
hittingcrosscourtdowntheline.
Her hitting partner was like
400 in the world, played Davis
Cup for Congo, never missed a
ball. Serena fired terrific ground-
strokes,onehourstraight.Itgotto
about 3:15, I am on the other
court, and she yells, “Hey coach,
it’s 3:15, I am done, you better
havetheGreenDayT-shirttomor-
row morning”.
Richard is an unbelievable
dad,Oraceneisagreatmom,and
how well they raised them.
Serena talks about black being
beautiful,andsheknowsitinher
bones.It’snotasloganforthesis-
ters.Also,youthinkofallthejeal-
ousy that could have blown up,
but these two are special. You
can’t make this up. Unbelievable
love for each other.
When the movie (King
Richard) about them came out, I
visited Richard at his home with
my daughter. He wasn’t in the
best of health. The first thing he
told me that day was, “Rick,
thanks for getting our family out
of the ghetto.”
(Rick Macci coached Serena
and Venus Williams and funded
their coaching in their develop-
mental years. He is a seven-time
USPTA national coach of the year.
He spoke to Sriram Veera).
Serial killer
ontheirdoorstoinformthefam-
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Pointingtothesacksof grains
stackedintheirtwo-roomhouse,
Nanheveer says, “Why did he do
this? Why did he have to leave
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home? It is not that I could not
have provided for him. We could
haveeasilymanagedtwomealsa
day. I just wanted him to settle
down.”
But Sita Rani knew it was not
what her son wanted. “He
wanted to live in a place where
moviesaremade.Hewouldoften
say that he would fly there in an
aeroplane.Hewouldkeepwatch-
ingsomethingonhislaptop,”she
says.
After his arrest, Shivprasad is
said to have told police that the
killingswereborneoutofanurge
to become a “famous and rich
gangster”.Policesaidhewasmo-
tivated by violent social media
videos.
As a child, though Shivprasad
was enrolled in the government
primaryschoolinKekraandlater,
in a bigger school a kilometre
away, he rarely attended school.
Even on days that turned up, he
remained aloof, "hardly partici-
pating in the class", said his pri-
mary school teacher Sanjay Jain.
At age 13, Shivprasad, like
manyotheryoungstersinthevil-
lage,lefthomeinsearchofjobsin
neighbouringstates.Overthelast
five years, he worked in hotels in
Kerala,WestBengal,Maharashtra
and Goa.
But as the lockdown hit the
country,Shivprasadissaidtohave
cycled all the way home from
Goa, taking lifts from truck driv-
ers when possible.
Rajesh Mehra, deputy
sarpanch of Kekra, says
Shivprasad, who spoke "fluent
English"afterhisreturnfromGoa,
wouldtalktothemabouthistime
there, how "people were willing
to pay over Rs 2,000 for a bowl of
soup".
Sita Rani says Shivprasad
wouldoftenurgehisfathertosell
off his farm land and give him
money to set up a shop. "This of-
tenledtofightsinthehouse,”she
says.
Shivprasad'schildhoodfriend
Mukesh says Shivprasad mostly
kept to himself and would often
be spotted sitting alone, his bicy-
cle parked nearby, busy peering
into his cellphone.
In the end, it was a cellphone
trailthatledpolicetoShivprasad.
OnAugust27,asecurityguard
identified as Kalyan Lodhi was
found dead, his head smashed in
whilehewasasleep,outsideafac-
tory in Sagar’s Bhainsa locality.
Policefoundthattheguard'scell-
phone had gone missing.
The second murder was
recorded on August 28, when
New Delhi
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Shambhuram Dubey was found
dead in the college canteen of
Government College of Arts and
CommerceinSagar,hisskullham-
mered with a stone. Lodhi’s cell
phonewasfoundnearDubey,but
nowDubey’sphonewasmissing.
As police began investigating
thetwocases,athirdincidentwas
reported on Tuesday, August 30.
A guard, Mangal Ahirwar, was
killedintheMotiNagarareaofthe
town, his head smashed in with
the handle of a sickle.
According to police, with
Sagar district on alert following
the three back-to-back murders,
ShivprasadtookatraintoBhopal.
After his arrest, Shivprasad is
saidtohavetoldpolicethatheleft
the cellphone of Lodhi — his first
victim — beside the body of his
second victim, Dubey, because it
wasn't a smart phone. But
Dubey’s was a smart phone and
hekeptit,withitsSIMcardintact
thatenabledhimtowatchvideos.
It was the location of Dubey’s
cellphone that led police to
Shivprasadwhentheytracedhim
toKoh-e-FizalocalityofBhopalin
the early hours of September 2.
Police say he confessed to the
murder of Sonu Verma, 23, a se-
curityguardoutsideamarblefac-
tory in Bhopal’s Khajuriya area.
Neha Gurjar, Town Inspector
of the Civil Lines police station in
Sagar, told The Indian Express,
“We found that Shivprasad was
greatly inspired by Ujjain-based
gangster, Durlab Kashyap, and
hadbeenwatchinghisvideos.He
also told us he liked gangster
movies and named KGF, Pushpa
and Hackers as some of those he
had watched. He said his friends
toldhimthatkillingpeoplewould
make him a big gangster and
would earn him lots of money."
Meanwhile, unsure of what
fateawaitedtheir19-year-old,Sita
Rani holds back her tears to say,
“Jab bachche maa-baap ki baat
nahi maante hai tab bura hi hota
hai.Parbetatohbetahotahainaa
(When children don't listen to
their parents, they come to no
good, but he is our son after all).”
Airport row
Dubeyandotherswasregistered
at Kunda police station on
September1onthecomplaintof
securityin-chargeSumanAnand
whosaidtheyhadviolated“safety
standards” by entering the ATC
room and had pressured officials
togranttake-offclearancethough
therewas“nofacilityofnighttake
off/landing”.
According to the FIR, on
August31,thelocalsunsettiming
was1803hoursand“airservices”
were“tobeconductedupto1730
hours”.
DC Bhajantri, in a letter to the
Principal Secretary, Cabinet-
Coordination (Civil Aviation),
Jharkhand,said:“Dubeyandoth-
ers came inside the ATC room…
thesecurityin-chargesaidthatthe
pilot and the passengers were
pressuringforclearancetotakeoff,
which was given.” The letter had
the complaint of the security in-
charge,laterconvertedintoanFIR.
Dubey’scomplaint,whichtoo
wasconvertedintoanFIRinDelhi,
said he was supposed to travel to
DelhionAugust31andaftersecu-
ritycheck,heboardedachartered
flightat5.25pmonAugust31.
Since a case is pending in
Jharkhand High Court regarding
lackofnightlandingfacilitiesand
he did not have enough time,
Dubeysaidhewalkedbarefootto
theairportdirector'sofficetodis-
“While I was going, the
Jharkhand Police and employees
(ofthestategovernment)stopped
meandabusedmytwosons,who
were coming towards me carry-
ing my slippers, and threatened
to kill me. They obstructed my
work at the instance of Deoghar
DC, which I came to know the
next day as he (DC) had entered
the Deoghar airport’s secured
DRDO-restrictedareawhereone
goes only after PMO’s permis-
sion,” the Delhi Police FIR stated,
quoting Dubey.
Asmattersescalated,aTwitter
wareruptedbetweenDubeyand
Bhajantri. The MP asked the DC:
“...Howdidyougetinsidetheair-
port and under what authority?
Who gave you the permission to
see CCTV footage? You are frus-
trated, be the Chief Minister’s
sycophant and be cool.”
To this, Bhajantri replied that
he had the authority and took a
“gatepass”forentry.Dubeysaid:
“Whogaveyouthepermissionto
entertheApron?ATCTower?You
breached all norms. Pathetic.”
Bhajantri rejected the charge.
Dubey said the officer had
breachednationalsecurity.When
Bhajantri askedwhogaveDubey
and his children the permission
to enter the ATC, the MP said he
had taken permission.
To enter the ATC premises, a
person requires an Aerodrome
Entry Permit (AEP) that is issued
bytheairportoperatorinconcur-
rencewiththesecurityagencyin
charge of the airport.
While at bigger airports, the
CISFundertakessecurityrespon-
sibilities, at a smaller airport like
Deoghar,itisthe state policethat
managessecurityroles.Thesecu-
rity in-charge of Deoghar airport
is DSP Suman Anand.
Even for the AEP, a person
needs prior approval to enter the
ATC building. In the AEP applica-
tion form that is issued by the
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
(BCAS), there are 13 zones that a
personcanenter.Theseincludear-
rivalhall,departurehall,terminal
building,securityholdarea,apron
area,ATCbuilding,ATCtowerand
cargoterminalbuilding.
However, access authorisa-
tionsaregrantedonaneedbasis.
For example, airline ground staff,
who may have authorisation to
enter the arrival hall, departure
hall, terminal building and secu-
rity hold area, may not have au-
thorisation to enter ATC tower or
the ATC building.
AccordingtoanOctober2007
order by the Ministry of Civil
Aviationonthesubject“Courtesy
towards Members of Parliament
at Airports”, a “Member of
Parliament may be allowed free
access in the Terminal building
and Visitors’ Gallery on the basis
of MPs Identity Card”, but it does
not state whether MPs are al-
lowedtoenterATCpremises.The
order was circulated by the
Ministry again in January 2020.
Deoghar airport, which was
inauguratedinJulythisyear,lacks
thefacilitiestoconductnightop-
erations. In reply to a question in
Rajya Sabha on July 25, the gov-
ernmentsaidthereare25airports
inthecountry,includingDeoghar,
without night-landing facilities.

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
DELHI POLICE EOW ISSUES SUMMONS
Nora Fatehi questioned for 7 hours in
extortion case against conman Sukesh
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
ACTOR NORA Fatehi was ques-
tionedbytheEconomicOffences
Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police
Fridayforaroundsevenhours,in
connectionwiththeRs200crore
extortion case filed against con-
man Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
Sukesh had allegedly ex-
torted the sum from the wife of
former Fortis Healthcare pro-
moter Shivinder Singh.
Sources said Fatehi, who was
summoned last week, came
with her advocate to the EOW’s
office at Mandir Marg and met
the investigation officer. “She
was questioned in a conference
room, where, apart from the IO,
senior officials including JCP
(EOW) Chhaya Sharma were
BRIEFLY
L-GSaxena
inaugurates
newfacility
atRohiniFSL
New Delhi: L-G VK Saxena
inaugurated a DNA exami-
nationfacilityforsexualas-
sault and POCSO cases
at the Forensic Science
Laboratory in Rohini
Saturday. The facility can
ensure samples are
processed faster, providing
analysisreportsin24hours
as opposed to the 72 hours
ittookearlier.Itcanprocess
24samplessimultaneously.
Policeissue
LOCagainst
BobbyKataria
New Delhi: Police have is-
sued a lookout circular
against social media influ-
encer and bodybuilder
Bobby alias Balwant
Katariaaftertheyfoundhe
was absconding and not
joiningtheinvestigationin
connection with the FIR
lodged against him for
“lighting a cigarette inside
a SpiceJetaircraft”. A video
of thesamehadgoneviral.
“LOC has been issued
against Bobby Kataria and
further investigation is
on,” DCP (Airport) Tanu
Sharma said.
1killedin
wallcollapse
New Delhi: A man was
killedandtwowereinjured
when a wall collapsed
Saturday evening at a con-
struction site in Northeast
Delhi.Policesaidthevictim
was identified as Manoj
Kumar (25). Police said the
incident took place in
Mustafabad’sDblock. ENS
IVF centre under scanner for woman’s
death, owner degree ran from busy mall
ARNAV CHANDRASEKHAR
NOIDA, SEPTEMBER 3
DAYS AFTER the owner of
Creation World IVF centre in
Greater Noida was arrested in
thewakeof apatient’sdeathand
after his alleged fake MBBS de-
gree came to light, it wore a de-
serted look on Saturday save for
billing staff and a couple who
wanted a refund.
Police had arrested the
owner, Priya Ranjan Thakur, on
August 28 after the patient
slipped into a coma at the centre
onAugust19anddiedatanother
hospitalonAugust26.Duringin-
vestigation, police found thathis
MBBS degree was allegedly
forged.
The centre itself is part of the
Supertech Martshopping centre
at Eco-Village 2, surrounded by
high-riseapartments,malls,and
large-scale construction proj-
ects. The mart has many other
shops, eateries, clinics, and of-
present. They gave her a ques-
tionnaire with around 65 ques-
tions and she replied to almost
55,” police sources said.
Special CP (Crime and EOW)
Ravindra Singh Yadav told The
Indian Express that they have
summoned four-five people, in-
cluding Fatehi and actor
Jacqueline Fernandez.
“Nora Fatehi was called yes-
terday in connection with a case
involving Sukesh; she was ques-
tioned for around 7 hours... she
hascooperated,buttherearestill
a few unanswered questions.
She told police she was not
aware that the event she was in-
vited to in Chennai had links to
this crime syndicate... But every-
thing will have to be seen, how
the car and gifts that she had re-
ceived were used. We will reach
a conclusion only after a proper
Mughal rule to British Raj — the many
lives of Zakir Husain Delhi College
SUKRITA BARUAH
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
IN ITS history spanning more
than 300 years, Zakir Husain
Delhi College has lived many
lives, each woven tight into the
many chapters of the city’s own
tumultuous history – Mughal
rule, Company Raj, the Revolt of
1857, British Empire, the
Partition and Independence.
Its lives have included a
Mughal-era madrasa which fell
into disrepair; the famous Delhi
College which was plundered
during the Revolt of 1857 and
shut down; the 20th Century
Anglo-Arabic Intermediate
College which was set on fire
during the Partition, revived in
1948, named after Dr Zakir
Husain in 1975 and named Zakir
Husain Delhi College in 2010.
Through these phases, Dr
Aslam Parvaiz, former principal
of the college underlines, ran a
common thread of “composite
culture” and “a spirit of plural-
ity”.
The original madrasa at the
root of it had been started near
Ajmeri Gate in the early 18th
Century by Ghaziuddin Khan,
oneof Aurangzeb’sDeccancom-
manders and father of who
wouldbecomethefirstNizamof
Hyderabad. In his will,
Ghaziuddin Khan had estab-
lished a waqf for its support but
the income declined over the
course of the century and it fell
into disrepair.
Its second life began after the
1813 charter of the British East
India company, which allotted
one lakh rupees annually for the
support of education. The
madrasa caught the attention of
the Delhi Committee of Public
Instruction — which included
both British officials and local
elites — and it obtained a grant
from the fund to support orien-
tal learning there. In 1827, an ad-
ditional amount was sanctioned
The IVF centre in Greater
Noida
fices, with the IVF centre located
at the back of the building.
Vishal, who works at the
billing counter, said, “Only the
billing staff and security are
here... the doctors are not here
and have not come for a few
days. We are here to process re-
funds.”
The couple were there to re-
quest a refund for treatment till
Nora Fatehi. PTI
probe,” Yadav said.
“Investigation is on to ascer-
tain all the links, if people in-
volved in the main conspiracy
and people who accepted gifts
were aware about his (Sukesh’s)
background or not,” he added.
An officer said: “She came
around 11 am and left around 6
pm. She recorded her statement
According to historian Gail Minault, the institute had “an
oriental section where Arabic and Persian grammar were
taught, and an Anglo-vernacular section where western
subjects were taught”. Dr Aslam Parvaiz
by the govern-
ment to intro-
duce English
classes,andas-
tronomy and
mathematics
on “European
principles”,
leading to an interesting co-ex-
istenceinthespacewhichbegan
to be known as Delhi College.
According to historian Gail
Minault, the institute had “an
oriental section where Arabic
and Persian Grammar were
taught,andanAnglo-vernacular
section where western subjects
were taught”. Interestingly, in
both sections, the medium of in-
struction was the vernacular
Urdu.
In her article, ‘Delhi College
and Urdu’, Minault states that
one of the college’s significant
roles was in translating text-
books into the vernacular Urdu,
which aided the dissemination
of knowledge. In early 1840, the
college’s principal Felix Boutros
started the Vernacular
Translation Society whose di-
verse publications included
date. Requesting anonymity,
they said, “We had been coming
here for treatment for the past
six months. We have not faced
any issues here, and we did not
face any issues with treatment.
But then we heard on the news
that the owner had been ar-
rested and that a woman had
died. After this, we don’t want to
continue the treatment. So, we
are getting a refund.”
According to Saad Miyan
Khan, Additional Deputy
Commissioner of Police, Central
Noida, police will take action if
any new facts come to light in
the case. “As of now, a second
FIR under IPC sections 420, 467,
468 and 471 has been registered
against the accused for holding
a fake MBBS degree and investi-
gation with respect to it is un-
derway. If, during the course of
investigation, any other addi-
tional facts pertaining to the
case come to light, appropriate
action will be taken.”
The Noida Chief Medical
CORONAVIRUS
IN THE CAPITAL
and police asked her about the
gifts given to her by Sukesh.”
Last year, police had filed a
chargesheet against Sukesh, his
wifeLeenaMariaPauland12oth-
ers, alleging that while he was
lodged at Rohini jail as an under-
trial,heallegedlyextortedRs200
crorefromShivinderSingh’swife
over a period of one year. Police
hadalsoinvokedtheMaharashtra
Control of Organised Crime Act
(MCOCA)againsthim.“Theinves-
tigationofficerhasstartedprepar-
ingasupplementarychargesheet
and recording statements of all
persons involved with Sukesh,” a
senior police officer said.
Fatehi’s legal team has said
that she received a car which
was not part of proceeds of
crime. She was called for ques-
tioning yesterday and is coop-
erating with the investigation,
Euclid’sgeom-
etry; histories
of England,
Greece and
Rome; the ge-
ography of
India; science
texts which
included both “natural philoso-
phy and unani tibb from Arabic;
and Oriental classics such as se-
lections from The Thousand and
One Nights, Laila and Majnun
and the Dharmashastras.
Minault says that study of west-
ern sciences such as astronomy
and calculus were popular
amongstudents,includingthose
in the oriental section.
The composite culture al-
luded to by Dr Parvaiz was re-
flected in the students’ body as
well. The college website states
that of the 460 students in the
college in 1845, 299 were
Hindus, 146 were Muslims and
15 were Christians.
This vibrant stage came to a
violent end after the 1857 upris-
ing in which those killed by in-
surrectionists number multiple
teachersof thecollege,including
Officer’s office has submitted a
report in the case to police, it is
learnt. When contacted, the
CMO’s office said they don’t
want to comment on the matter
as it is confidential.
According to police, the
woman, a Ghaziabad resident
who worked at an MNC, had
beenvisitingthecentrefortreat-
ment for the past two months
and her last visit was on August
19. Police said on that day, she
slipped into a coma, allegedly
due to negligence and lack of
emergency services at the cen-
tre. She was then shifted by her
family to another hospital.
Based on a complaint by her
husband, a case was registered
at Bisrakh police station under
IPCsection338(grievoushurtby
actendangeringlife).Shediedon
August 26. Following this, sec-
tion 304 (culpable homicide not
amounting to murder) was
added. Police said that during
the probe, they found Thakur al-
legedly had a fake degree.
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they said.
Fatehi was earlier sum-
moned by the Enforcement
Directorate (ED) and they
recorded her statement under
provisions of the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act (PMLA)
in connection with the multi-
crore extortion case.
On August 17, the ED filed a
supplementarychargesheetand
claimed that Fernandez had re-
ceived gifts worth Rs 5.71 crore
fromSukesh,butis“tryingtojus-
tify herself that she was in fact
the victim of manipulative ac-
tionsbySukeshagainsther”.The
supplementary chargesheet,
filed at Patiala House Court, has
Fernandez as an accused. The
court took cognizance of the
chargesheet and issued sum-
mons to her to appear before it
on September 26.
principal J D Taylor. Suspecting
the loyalties of teachers and stu-
dentsattheendof theRevolt,the
Britishshuttheinstitutiondown,
and its staff and library were
transferred to Lahore.
Half a century later, the prin-
cipal of the historic Anglo-
Arabic school got permission to
open an intermediate college
which would address the loss of
Delhi College. This Anglo-Arabic
Intermediate College was affil-
iated to Delhi University in 1925
and became a degree college in
1929. This phase too ended vi-
olently when it was attacked
and set on fire during the
Partition.
In 1948, its revival began yet
again into a very different chap-
ter in a city changed by the
Partition.
“The college’s revival was be-
ing steered with Mirza
Mehmood Beg as the principal.
After the migrations of the
Partition, many displaced Sindhi
families approached him saying
that their daughters needed ed-
ucation. And so, it had happened
that when the college re-
opened in 1948, 80% of the stu-
dent body was Sindhi girls. In
this, Beg was opposed by the
larger community in Old Delhi,
the Partition was still fresh in
their minds, but this move was
with the same note of pluralism
that has been there historically,”
said Dr Parvaiz.
He said that another feature
of the college’s history has been
proof of some religious institu-
tions favouring modern institu-
tions even in the early 20th
Century.
“If you go to the old campus,
outside the old college hall,
there is a marble tablet from the
1930s saying that this wing was
constructed to accommodate
expansion of students and
mentions the donors, and
among them prominently are
the Jama Masjid and the
Fatehpuri Masjid,” he said.
DELHI TOTAL
CASES
20,00,423
49
Sept 2
Sept 3
7 Cases
Total
*Total active cases in Delhi
In visit to MCD schools, AAP
MLAs livestream ‘poor state’
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
IN A bid to corner the BJP, which
hasbeentargetingtheDelhigov-
ernment over alleged irregulari-
ties in classroom construction,
three AAP MLAs — Saurabh
Bharadwaj from Greater Kailash,
Durgesh Pathak from Rajinder
Nagar and Dilip Pandey from
Timarpur — visited an MCD
school each on Saturday and
highlightedthe“poorcondition”.
ThemovealsocomesafterBJP
spokespersonGauravBhatiaand
Bharadwaj got into an argument
outside a Delhi government
schoolWednesdayonthecondi-
tionofgovernmentschoolsinthe
city.Bhatiahadsaidthatclaimsof
AAP improving schools and
opening new ones were false.
At 10 am, Bharadwaj live
streamed his visit to Krishi Vihar
schoolonsocialmedia,highlight-
ing the “state” of its building,
classroom and toilets, and
slammedtheBJPforraisingques-
tions against the Delhi govern-
ment’sexpenditureonconstruc-
tion of its schools.
He also claimed a teacher at
theschoolwasteachingstudents
of two different classes in one
classroom. “MCD schools are so
understaffed that one teacher is
being forced to teach 2-3 classes
simultaneously inside one class-
room. Only two teachers and
principal were present in the
MCD school to teach 7 classes...
Thisisnotjustafailureof theBJP-
ruled MCD’s education system
At IIT-D’s Diamond Jubilee event,
President hails its Covid response
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
SPEAKING AT the closing cere-
mony of IIT-Delhi’s Diamond
Jubilee Celebrations Saturday,
President DroupadiMurmu said
the institute’s research and de-
velopment projects in the early
stages of the pandemic is “a
model of how engineering and
technology institutions can play
a role in a public health crisis”.
“Such institutions often run
therisk of existing in isolation,as
ivory towers. That is why it is all
the more heartening to note that
IIT-Delhihasalwaysseenitself as
partofthelargercommunityand
it has been extra sensitive to its
responsibility towards society...
Risingtothechallengeofcontain-
ing the virus, the institute initi-
ated important research and de-
velopment projects... rapid
antigentestkits,PPEs,antimicro-
bial fabrics, high-efficiency face
masks and low-cost ventilators,
among other things. IIT-Delhi’s
contribution to India’s fight
against Covid has been a model
of howengineeringandtechnol-
ogyinstitutionstoocanplayarole
in a public health crisis. The glo-
riouspastofthisinstitutegivesus
an assurance that it will play a
crucial role in the future as India
enters the Amrit Kaal,” she said.
She also encouraged stu-
dentsandresearcherstolookfor
solutionstoenvironmentalchal-
New Delhi
Total Vacant
HOSPITAL BEDS 9,405 9,204
ICU BEDS 2,145 2,073
Cases Recoveries Deaths
299
236
461
398
2
3
1,292* 19,72,654 26,477
Timarpur MLA Dilip Pandey outside an MCD school in
Mukherjee Nagar, Saturday. Praveen Khanna
but an attack on the future of
thesechildren;parentsaretaking
theirchildrenoutofMCDschools
and putting them into private
ones. Last time, a BJP spokesper-
sonranawayfromourDelhigov-
ernment school. Today, I chal-
lenge BJP leaders to accompany
us to MCD schools and see their
disastrous state,” he said.
Bharadwaj then showed the
ceiling of a classroom to the me-
dia and said facilities were sub-
par. “These children also deserve
what the children of Delhi gov-
ernmentschoolsaregetting.Iap-
peal to the Delhi government to
do something for them if the
MCD cannot,” he said.
At 11 am, Pathak visited an
MCD-run school in his con-
stituency’s Inderpuri area and
said he was not allowed to enter.
“Icametovisitthisschool,butthe
main gate is locked. I was told I
don’t have permission... Parents
arrivedaswell,buttheywerealso
denied access,” he claimed.
President Droupadi
Murmu. PTI
lenges. “Looking towards 2047,
climate change poses a serious
challenge. As a developing coun-
try with a high population base,
our energy requirement for eco-
nomicgrowthisveryhigh.Hence,
we need to shift from fossil fuels
torenewableenergy.India,asyou
areaware,hastakenapraisewor-
thyleadintheinternationalstage
to promote solar energy. In the
years to come, as the world anx-
iously looks for technological so-
lutions to environmental chal-
lenges, I trust India’s young
engineersandscientistswillhelp
humankind achieve a break-
through,” she said.
The President inaugurated
the institute’s Research and
Innovation Park, the stated aim
of which is to facilitate interac-
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Sept 2 Sept 3
Cases 53 N/A
Tests Deaths 0 N/A
13,772
14,023
GURGAON
119 92
3,99,88,266
Deaths 0 1
Pandey visited an MCD-run
school in Mukherjee Nagar at 3
pm, which was shut. He claimed
MCDshuttheschoolonpurpose.
Education minister Manish
Sisodia also tweeted that the BJP
shouldapologiseforplayingwith
the future of Delhi and the coun-
try: “BJP has given such schools
and education systems to poor
children while being in power at
the MCD for 17 years...,” he said.
The MCD hit back, stating:
“MCD denies such claims...
Intrusion by a group of 30-40
people in schools was uncalled
forandlittlechildrenhadtosuffer
a rude break in the harmonious
rhythmof theirlearningprocess.
Arecklesscompetitiontoparade
videoclipsofMCDclassroomson
Twitter and other social media
platforms began... It is hoped
NCPCR, DCW, DCPCR, etc take
note of such breach and call for
appropriate action against tres-
passersinschoolswhoputsafety
and security of children at bay.”
tions between the institute, en-
trepreneurs and government
agencies “to accelerate research
translation, provide avenues for
the institute’s students and fac-
ultytointeractmorecloselywith
industry and bring to market
technological breakthroughs”.
Tracing the growth of the in-
stitute over 60 years, Director
RanganBanerjeenotedthatithas
grown from an average of 400
graduatesperyearto2,500grad-
uates in recent years, that it has
transitioned to a predominantly
postgraduate institute, and that
itsgenderdiversityhasimproved
with 29% women students now.
Banerjeequotedtheexample
of 2016 graduate Anu Meena as
an example of the institute’s
“transformational educational
experience”. “... she came from a
smallvillage,ManoliinRajasthan,
studied in her village school in
Hindi till the 8th class — she suc-
ceeded in qualifying the JEE in
2011 and joined the Integrated
B.TechandM.Techprogrammein
Biotechnology and Biochemical
Engineering.Shewasafirst-gen-
eration graduate and flourished
at IIT-Delhi. In 2014, she was the
sportswoman of the year and
graduated in 2016. In 2018, she
was recognised as a ‘Forbes 30
under 30 Asia’ for her startup.
Today her company, Agrowave,
touches farmers’ lives,” he said.
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MODI TO INAUGURATE STRETCH ON SEPTEMBER 8
Food zones to walkways: Many new
features dot revamped Central Vista
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
DEDICATED SPACES for sellers
of ice creams and other food
items; six new parking lots for
visitors; over 400 benches; am-
phitheatres for public perform-
ances; 64 toilets for women, 32
for men and 10 for the differ-
ently abled; underpasses for
barrier-free crossing; 16 perma-
nent walkway bridges, and 16.5-
km pedestrian walkways —
these are some of the new fea-
tures that visitors to the India
Gate and Rajpath lawns will ex-
perience as the refurbished
Central Vista is set to open on
September 8, around 20
months after it was closed for
the redevelopment project.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will inaugurate the
stretch, and over the next few
days cultural programmes will
greet visitors to what has al-
ways been Delhi’s favourite
open-air hang-out zone. As re-
ported earlier in The Indian
Express, a statue of Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose will also
be unveiled on that day.
With layers of top-quality
grass now adorning the greens,
activities like picnics on the
Underpass, flyover to solve traffic issues in Northeast Delhi
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
INAbidtoresolvetrafficissuesin
NortheastDelhi,anewunderpass
at Loni Chowk and a new flyover
between Nand Nagri and Gagan
Cinema are set to come up.
At a recent meeting of the
ExpenditureFinanceCommittee,
With layers of top-quality grass now adorning the greens, activities like picnics on the grass
immediately adjacent to India Gate will not be allowed. Government of India
grass immediately adjacent to
India Gate will not be allowed.
An official of the Ministry of
Housing and Urban Affairs said
there would be heavy deploy-
ment of police personnel and
security guards to ensure there
is no theft and damage to the
new facilities — around 80 se-
curity guards will keep an eye
on the stretch.
An official said maintaining
cleanliness will be a challenge
as people in large numbers will
throng Rajpath: “We appeal to
people to maintain cleanliness.
Large teams of sanitation work-
Deputy Chief Minister Manish
Sisodia, who also holds the PWD
portfolio, approved the two proj-
ects worth Rs 341.2 crore.
Thefour-laneLoniChowkun-
derpassislikelytobearound500
metres long. The flyover from
Nand Nagri to the Gagan Cinema
junction is likely to be around 1.3
km long and will have six lanes.
Theconstructionoftheunder-
ers will be deployed.”
What’s new
■ Eight organised vending
plazasspreadacrossCentralVista
will have various kinds of ven-
dors, especially for that typical
Delhi experience of ice-cream at
India Gate. Giving a brief
overview of the amenities
Saturday,officialssaideachplaza
can hold 40 such vendors.
■ Each of the eight “amenity
blocks”hasshopstobemanaged
byDelhiTourism.Cookingatsite
isnotallowed,butofficialsexpect
food representing various re-
pass and flyover will make a 10-
km stretch signal free, and will
help in decongesting Mangal
Pandey Marg, according to
Sisodia.“Withtheconstructionof
anunderpassatLoniChowkanda
flyover between Nand Nagri and
Gagan Cinema junction, the en-
tire 10-km road stretch between
Signature Bridge and Bhopura
Chowk will become signal free.
gions and flavours to be present.
■ Around 1,000-plus white
and red sandstone bollards give
theredevelopedspaceitshistor-
ical look and feel.
■ 300 CCTV cameras have
been installed in the entire area.
■ Boating will be allowed, as
before, in two canals — one near
Krishi Bhawan and another one
around Vanijya Bhawan.
■Along the Rajpath, the area
spreading 3.90 lakh square me-
tres has been developed with
greenery all around.
■New red granite walkways
over 15.5 km have been created,
Those traveling to Bhopura via
SignatureBridgewillhavesignal-
freeroadtocommute.Atpresent,
vehicles take 25 to 30 minutes to
coverthisroute,butafterthecom-
pletionoftheseprojects,thistime
will be reduced to half.”
The underpass also means
that vehicles traveling between
Loni border and Durgapuri will
not have to stop at Loni Chowk,
The
project
The revamp is part of the
overall Rs 13,450-crore
Central Vista Project, in-
cludinganewParliament
building, new residence
and office for the Vice-
President and the Prime
Minister, new ministry
buildings,andtheconver-
sion of North and South
Blocks into museums.
There is a race against
time to get the new par-
liamentbuildingreadyby
November this year. “It’s
complexwork.Itisagreat
achievementtocomplete
this in less than two
years,” an official said.
replacingbajrisandthatlinedthe
ground earlier.
■ Parking space for 1,125 ve-
hicleshasbeencreatedintheen-
tire stretch. A parking space for
35 buses has been created near
India Gate.
■ 74 historic light poles and
allchainlinkshavebeenrestored
and over 900 new light poles in-
stalled.
decongesting the junction, ac-
cordingtoacommunicationfrom
the Delhi government.
Anotherprojectthatiscoming
up with the aim of reducing traf-
ficjamsinNortheastDelhiisa1.4-
km-longdouble-deckerstructure,
comprising a flyover and a metro
viaduct,betweenBhajanpuraand
YamunaVihar.TheMetrolinewill
bepartof DelhiMetro’sPhase-IV.
MBA student dead
in BMW crash on
on Yamuna e-way
The vehicle in which they were travelling. Gajendra Yadav
MALAVIKAPRASAD
NOIDA, SEPTEMBER 3
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was killed
when the BMW car he was trav-
ellinginmetwithanaccidenton
the Yamuna Expressway near
Dankaur police station in the
early hours of Saturday, police
said,addingthatanotherpassen-
ger was injured and is undergo-
ingtreatmentataDelhihospital.
The deceased has been iden-
tified as Bharat Yadav, a resident
of Bahadurgarh, who had been
studying MBA at the NorthCap
University in Gurgaon.
“We received the informa-
tion around 8.30 am. We saw
thatthecarhadgonebeyondthe
railing and fallen below the ex-
pressway. Both occupants of the
car were sent to Kailash hospital
atSector-127,whereoneof them
was declared dead on arrival,"
said Radha Raman Singh, SHO
Dankaur police station. The ac-
cident occurred on the Noida-
Agra route, he added.
The investigating officer said
thatitwastooearlytodetermine
the cause of the accident. "There
were skid marks on the road
which occur while applying
brakes. The railing on the side of
the road was dented. As of now,
we cannot ascertain how the ac-
cident took place. An FIR has not
been registered yet as no evi-
dence of foul play or involve-
New Delhi
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ment of another person was
found.”
Bharat's uncle Rajeev Yadav
remembers him as a jovial and
fun-loving person. "He was re-
spectful towards his elders. He
lost his father a month ago. His
mother wasn't feeling well and
left for Bahadurgarh." The fam-
ilywasinformedinthemorning,
after which they rushed to
Kailash hospital. They were
waiting to receive the body to
take it back to Bahadurgarh for
cremation.
The injured, Gaurav Dalal,
wasadmittedtoKailashHospital
andwaslaterreferredforfurther
treatment to a hospital in Delhi,
medical staff at Kailash Hospital
said.
Arelativeof Bharat'ssaidthat
Gauravandhewerefriendsfrom
Bahadurgarh.
"By God's grace, the other
boy is fine. It has been such a dif-
ficult time for us; we rushed as
soon as wefound out," they said.
Bharathadvariousinjuries—
his upper limb on the right side
had been crushed; there was an
open injury beneath the stom-
ach on the right side; a nasal
bleed as well as multiple abra-
sions on his face, medical staff
said. According to the staff,
Gaurav suffered a cervical frac-
ture due to the accident and was
referred to Indian Spinal Injuries
CentreVasantKunj,Delhiforfur-
ther treatment.
Man arrested
after his dog bit
10-year-old in
Noida colony
MALAVIKA PRASAD
NOIDA, SEPTEMBER 3
AFTER A 10-year-boy was al-
legedlybitten byhisneighbour’s
dog in a posh residential colony
inNoida’sSector56,theanimal’s
owner was arrested Saturday.
Police said a complaint was
filed by the boy’s mother. Vivek
Trivedi, SHO of Sector 58 police
station, said an FIR was filed
against the accused under IPC
sections 289 (negligent conduct
with respect to animal), 324
(voluntarilycausinghurtbydan-
gerous weapons or means) and
506 (punishment for criminal
intimidation).“Theincidenttook
place on the evening of August
31 around 7 pm, wherein the
complainant’s child, who was in
the vicinity, was attacked by the
accused’s pet dog – a Labrador –
which was outside without a
leash. The complainant alleged
that when she took up the mat-
ter with the owner, he tried to
threaten her as well,” Trivedi
said.
The boy’s family moved to
the colony in March. He told The
Indian Express, “I was on my way
to the market and was passing
by their (dog owner’s) home
around 7 pm, when their dog…
suddenlyattackedme.Hebitme
on my left hand and then his
nails grazed my left shoulder.”
According to the mother, it
was a passerby who helped her
son and contacted her. “We took
him to a private clinic nearby,
where he was treated. I went to
the owner’s home and found
that he was missing… He later
showed up… and started argu-
ing with me… He treated the
whole thing as if it was a really
small issue…,” she alleged.
“… My son has been on an-
tibiotics for the past two days
and has not been to school,” she
added. The boy said he was ex-
periencing some pain in his fin-
gers and his shoulder.
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6 GOVT & POLITICS
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
30TH SOUTHERN ZONAL COUNCIL MEET
Solve water-sharing
disputes amicably:
Shah to south states
SHAJU PHILIP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
SEPTEMBER 3
UNION HOME Minister Amit
Shah on Saturday exhorted
southern states to find amicable
solutions to end all outstanding
issues, especially those related
to river water sharing.
In his address at the 30th
Southern Zonal Council meet in
Thiruvananthapuram
Saturday, Shah said that the ob-
on
jective of the meeting was to
promote regional cooperation
among states on issues of com-
mon national importance.
The meeting was attended
by the Chief Ministers of Kerala,
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu; the
Lieutenant Governors of
Puducherry, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands; and the
Administrator of Lakshadweep.
During the meeting, 26 issues
were discussed, nine were re-
solved, 17 were reserved for fur-
ther consideration, of which
ninewererelatedtothereorgan-
isation of Andhra Pradesh.
Shah urged Andhra Pradesh
andTelanganatosettletheirpend-
ingissues,whichwillnotonlyben-
efit people of their states but also
lead to all-round development of
theentiresouthernregion.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Karnataka CM Basavaraj
Bommai, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and Tamil Nadu CM
M K Stalin in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. ANI
Cong, Communists
did nothing for Dalits:
Union Home Minister
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
SEPTEMBER 3
UNIONHOMEMinisterAmitShah
on Saturday said only the BJP has
prospects in Kerala as Congress is
disappearing from the country
andcommunismfromtheworld.
AddressingaDalitconvention
here, Shah said BJP workers in
Kerala were ready to sacrifice
their life for the party. “In other
parts of India, BJP workers just
need nationalism to serve the
party and the country, but to
work in Kerala our workers need
nationalism, will to sacrifice
themselves and courage. I thank
themfortheirdedicationtowards
the party. The Congress is losing
its relevance and is becoming re-
dundant, while the Left ideology
isalsolosingitsacceptanceacross
the globe. It is only the Bharatiya
JanataPartywhichhasapolitical
future in Kerala.” he said.
Shah alleged that the
Congress had done nothing for
thewelfareof Dalitsandthemar-
ginalised. “In the past 8 years,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
has empowered and improved
the living standard of over 69
crore poor, Dalits, Adivasis and
New appointee Sunil Bansal sets goals for Bengal BJP
at training camp, to focus on Trinamool ‘corruption’
SANTANU CHOWDHURY
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 3
THE BJP is set to mount pressure
on the Trinamool Congress over
corruption charges following a
three-day training camp held by
the newly appointed party co-
observer for West Bengal, gen-
eral secretary Sunil Bansal.
Party leaders said the mes-
sage at the camp was to hit the
roads,highlightingespeciallythe
caseof arrestedseniorTMClead-
ers Partha Chatterjee and
Anubrata Mondal.
Bansal, who is credited with
having played an important role
The Home Minister said
since 2015, Rs 4,206 crores have
beensanctionedfortheFisheries
Infrastructure Development
FundschemeinAndhraPradesh,
Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry,
Tamil Nadu and Telangana. He
said QR-enabled PVC Aadhaar
cards have been provided to
more than 12-lakh fishermen.
In his address, Kerala Chief
MinisterPinarayiVijayanstressed
on cooperative federalism.
“Fruitful discussions are needed
ontheproposedlegislationbased
on the entries in the Concurrent
List of Seventh Schedule of our
Constitution before they are en-
actedbyParliament.Therecanbe
contestations, but through dis-
cussions and debates, consensus
canemerge...thisistheessenceof
a healthy federal democracy,’’ he
said. Vijayan said fiscal empow-
erment of the Union and the
states are of equal importanceto
make for the impact of the pan-
demic on the economy.
Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin
urged the Centre to create a high-
speed rail corridor, connecting
specific locations within Tamil
Nadu and neighbouring states.
Suchamovewouldbemuchmore
economical,moreenergyefficient
andlesspollutingthanaeroplanes
andautomobiles,hecontended.
—WITHPTIINPUTS
Shah arrives in
Mumbai today
on 2-day visit
Mumbai: The Maharashtra
unitoftheBJPisgearingupfor
Union Home Minister Amit
Shah’s two-day visit to
Mumbai beginning Sunday,
mostlytoholdpoliticalmeet-
ingsandalsotogoforGanesh
darshanatLalbaugchaRajain
Parel.“Shahwillbeinthecity
on a two-day visit. A visit to
Fadnavis’s residence at Sagar
inMalabarHillshasbeencon-
firmed,” said a party leader.
Shahisalsolikelytocallupon
CM Eknath Shinde. ENS
backward communities. Did the
Congresspartyappoint12union
ministers belonging to the SC
community when it was in
power?... Left parties were part-
nersinUPAgovernmentbutthey
did nothing for the upliftment
and empowerment of the poor.
These parties just grabbed their
votes,’’ said Shah.
Shah said Dalit communities
madestridesundertheModigov-
ernment in the past eight years.
in the BJP's overwhelming dom-
inance in Uttar Pradesh since
2014, is believed to have been
brought to Bengal to spur the
stateunitbackintofightingmode.
Since it failed to put up the
promisedchallengetotheTMCin
the2020Assemblyelections,the
BJPhasbeenlosinggroundinthe
state, with several top leaders
leaving and grass-root workers
complainingofbeingabandoned
as they face TMC wrath.
At the training camp held at a
resort in North 24 Parganas dis-
trict,fromAugust29to31,Bansal
metstateBJPleaders,partydistrict
presidentsandmorchaheads,and
toldthemtonotbehesitantingo-
A united Opp can drive BJP out
of power: Nitish at JDU meet
SANTOSH SINGH
PATNA, SEPTEMBER 3
BIHAR CHIEF Minister Nitish
Kumar said on Saturday that if
Opposition unites, the BJP “can
be driven out of power” in the
2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Addressing the JD(U) national
executive meeting on Saturday,
Nitish said he will visit Delhi in
the near future to start his bit to
bring together parties opposed
to the politics and policies of
the BJP.
He also took strong excep-
tion to the Friday development
when five of the six JD(U) leg-
islators in Manipur switched to
the BJP, saying “this reflected
how BJP had been trying to de-
molish other parties”.
The JD(U) is holding two-
day meet (Saturday-Sunday) of
its national executive and na-
tional council — the first big
party event since it walked out
of the BJP-led NDA last month
to join the Mahagathbandhan.
The agenda of the two-day
meet is 'Opposition unity'. The
national executive on Saturday
passed three resolutions, in-
cluding one on “Nitish devot-
ing his full time for the
Opposition unity”.
JDU national spokesperson
KC Tyagi told The Indian
Express: “Nitish elaborated
how the BJP had been trying to
implement its communal
agenda. Nitish said he will work
STATE TO OBSERVE OCCASION AS TELANGANA NATIONAL UNITY DAY
Centre to mark Sept 17 as Hyderabad Liberation Day
DIVYA A &
SREENIVAS JANYALA
NEW DELHI, HYDERABAD,
SEPTEMBER 3
THECENTREhasdecidedtomark
Hyderabad State Liberation Day
onSeptember17inabigwaythis
year. In fact, the 75th anniversary
of the event — that took place in
1948 — will be marked as a year-
long event during which various
events will be held across the
country till September 17, 2023.
Theinauguralevent,beingorgan-
ised by the Union Ministry of
Culture,willbeheldinHyderabad
and will be presided over by
UnionHomeMinisterAmitShah.
Meanwhile, the Telangana
Government on Saturday de-
cidedtoobserveSeptember17as
VIDEO OF INTERACTION GOES VIRAL
Karnataka BJP MLA snaps at
woman, threatens her with jail
She had approached legislator for help with property issue
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 3
A VIDEO showing Karnataka BJP
MLA Arvind Limbavali losing his
cool with a woman who ap-
proached him regarding a prop-
ertyissue,andthreateningtosend
hertojail,wentviralonSaturday.
The incident took place in
Limbavali's Mahadevapura con-
stituency on Friday when local
activist Ruth Sagar Mary ap-
proached the former minister
with a letter requesting his help
regardingattemptsbycivicagen-
cies to demolish a property of
hers that was built in 1971.
Bansaltold
leaders notto
hesitatein
goingafter
theTMCgovt
ing after the TMC government as
wellastoreachouttopeopleand
strengthen the organisation.
The impact appears to have
been immediate, with the BJP
lining up a series of padyatras
and public meetings in the run-
up to its 'March to Nabanna' on
September 13, to target the
state government over corrup-
tion charges.
Bihar CMNitishKumar,JD(U)nationalpresidentLalanSingh
andtheparty’sparliamentaryboardchairmanUpendra
Kushwaha,amongothers,atthemeetinginPatna,Saturday. PTI
for uniting the Opposition and
visit Delhi soon.” Tyagi said JDU
national council, the highest
decision-making body of the
party, will endorse national ex-
ecutive’s all three resolutions
on Sunday and “authorise
Nitish to devote full time for
Opposition unity”.
As supporters raised “Desh
ka PM kaisa ho, Nitish Kumar
jaisa ho” slogans near the meet-
ing venue, JDU national presi-
dent Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias
Lalan Singh clarified it thrice
that “Nitish was not the PM
candidate [in 2024]”.
Telangana National Unity Day.
TheCabinet,whichmetintheaf-
ternoon, resolved to observe
Telangana National Unity
DiamondJubileeFestivalforthree
days starting September 16.
Grandceremonieswouldbeheld
inall33districts.Sourcessaidthe
stategovernmentdecidedtocel-
ebratetheevolutionofTelangana
society from a monarchy system
to the democratic system, and
will observe National Unity
Festival for one year.
On September 17, CM K
ChandrasekharRaowillhoistthe
national flag at the Public
Gardens in Hyderabad. On the
sameday,ministersin all district
centres, officials in all govern-
ment offices and public repre-
sentatives will organise national
flag unveiling programmes. The
MLA Arvind
Limbavali
Authoritieshavebegunaninitia-
tive to remove encroachments
ondrainagesystemsandlakesaf-
ter these have been blamed for
recentincidentsof waterlogging
in the Mahadevapura region,
whichhousesBengaluru'sITcor-
ridor.Whileexplainingtheprob-
lem to Limbavali, Mary alleged
thatauthoritieswereclearingen-
croachmentsonaselectivebasis.
The MLA then lost his cool
On Friday, Leader of
Opposition in the Assembly
Suvendu Adhikari and other
party leaders started the 'Chor
Dharo,JailBharo(Putthethieves
behind bars)' campaign from
Birbhum district.
Party leaders said the mes-
sage is to not let the pressure
ease till next year's panchayat
polls,andsubsequentlythe2024
Lok Sabha elections.
SeniorBJPleaderRahulSinha
told The Indian Express that
Bansal spoke about a range of is-
sues. “First, we have to
strengthen the organisation to
the booth level. Second, we have
to expose the TMC and its cor-
Earlier in the day, Nitish told
reporters that if Opposition
parties unite, there can be “very
good results” in the 2024 elec-
tions. “Just see what is happen-
ing. Our six Manipur MLAs
were supposed to attend the
this meeting, but BJP took them
away,” he said.
Nitish is likely to meet
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi
and Rahul Gandhi, Sitaram
Yechuri of the CPI(M), Former
Maharashtra CM Uddhav
Thackeray and NCP chief
Sharad Pawar in the near
future.
CM will also inaugurate Banjara
Bhavan and Adivasi Bhavan.
Union Tourism and Culture
Minister G Kishan Reddy, also a
Lok Sabha MP from
Secunderabad, has written to
Telangana Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhar Rao, asking him
to be a guest of honour at the
event. While Maharashtra and
Karnataka already commemo-
rate this day as Marathwada
Liberation Day and Hyderabad-
KarnatakaLiberationDay,respec-
tively, the Centre aims to cele-
brate the day across the three
statesandalsotakeitdirectlyun-
der its wing. Similar letters have
also been sent to Maharashtra
ChiefMinisterEknathShindeand
Karnataka Chief Minister
Basavaraj Bommai.
The letter also mentions the
and attempted to grab the peti-
tion that Mary was holding. He
also instructed the police per-
sonnel present at the spot to ar-
rest her and send her to prison.
“He told me, ‘do you have any
respect? You encroached on the
land and have now come in front
of the MLA.’ He repeatedly in-
structed the police to take me to
thepolicestation,andtheydidso.
They detained me for several
hours,”MarysaidonSaturday.She
had, in 2008, worked for
Limbavali’sfirstelectioncampaign.
“Why are you questioning
me? Have I raped her?” was his
reactionwhenajournalistasked
about the incident.
ruption. At the same time, we
have to highlight the achieve-
ments of the Central govern-
ment... The party has been ener-
gised by the arrival of Bansalji.
This has to be replicated by the
rank and file."
Bansal has taken over the
party co-observer charge for
BengalfromKailashVijayvargiya.
BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya is
the other observer for Bengal.
Sources said the other mes-
sage Bansal had from the central
leadershipwastoendtheinfight-
ing in the state unit, which has
beengrowingsinceBalurghatMP
Sukanta Majumdar was made
the state president last year.
E
E X P L A I NE D
Playing
● the pivot
NITISHKUMARisnowsetto
workfulltimeforOpposition
unity,thoughhehadfailedin
asimilarattemptin2013af-
terpartingwayswiththe
NDAthen.Makingitclear
thathehasnonationalambi-
tionotherthanbringingthe
Oppositiontogether,this
time,helooksveryclear
abouthisrole.Thepicture
willbeclearinthecoming
dayswhenhestartshisDelhi
tourtomeettheleadersof
thenon-NDAparties.
intent behind the large-scale cel-
ebrations this year. As part of
AzadikaAmritMahotsav,thegov-
ernmentisidentifyingeventsand
individuals that have not been
given the attention that they de-
servedovertheyears,itsays.Inthe
letter,Reddysays:“OnSeptember
17,1948,morethanoneyearafter
India gotIndependence, the erst-
while state of Hyderabad, com-
prising the entire state of
Telangana and some districts in
Maharashtra and Karnataka, got
liberated from the Nizam rule.
Thiswaspossibleduetotheswift
and timely action of Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel under
Operation Polo.”
Sources say the move is also
aimed at highlighting the
Bhairanapally massacre of
August 27, 1948.
NATIONAL HERALD
BJP targets Cong
citing late ex-UP
CM’s biography
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday
launched a fresh attack on the
CongressovertheNationalHerald
issue, citing the biography of its
lateleaderChandraBhanuGupta.
BJP spokesperson Sambit
Patra said in New Delhi that the
late Congress leader had raised
questions on the funding of the
National Herald newspaper.
“Chandra Bhanu Gupta of
Congress... raised many ques-
tions regarding the funding of
the newspaper.... He stated that
glorifying Indira Gandhi and
(Jawaharlal) Nehru was its main
purpose,” Patra said.
Patra alleged Congress pres-
ident Sonia Gandhi and former
presidentRahul Gandhi have in-
herited corruption. PTI
Sougata warns Opp: Do not make
‘unacceptable’ remarks on Mamata
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 3
TRINAMOOL CONGRESS (TMC)
MP Sougata Roy on Saturday
asked opposition leaders to stay
away from using what he called
“unacceptablelanguage”against
his party supremo and West
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee, saying their party
workers may react in anger.
Addressing a meeting at
Dumdum in north Kolkata, Roy
said that he will not object if the
opposition parties — BJP,
Congress and CPI(M) — target
arrested former minister
New Delhi
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind
Kejriwal campaigns in Rajkot on Saturday. Express
Will give ‘freebies’,
BJP can do whatever
it wants: Kejriwal
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, RAJKOT,
SEPTEMBER 3
TAKING A dig at BJP on the revdi
debate, Delhi Chief Minister and
Aam Aadmi Party national con-
venor Arvind Kejriwal Saturday
said that the party will continue
togive freebiestothepublic,and
“BJP can do whatever it wants to
do about it” even as he an-
nounced a Rs 10,000 monthly
salary for sarpanches at the
townhall in Surendranagar.
Kejriwal, who was on a two-
day visit to Gujarat which is
scheduled to go to polls in
December this year, visited
Rajkot and Surendranagar.
At the Surendranagar Town
Hall address to sarpanches and
village computer entrepreneurs
(VCEs), Kejriwal said, “They (BJP)
talkaboutfreebiesandrevdi.They
have imposed such high taxes on
everything.TheyhaveputGSTon
cereals, milk, buttermilk, curd,
honey, only air remains. In some
daystheywillputGSTonair also.
And they’re not using these taxes
to make schools or hospitals or
roads or water or electricity... It’s
going towards buying MLAs, to
topple government.”
“They came to Delhi also. To
buy 40 MLAs they got Rs 800
crore... They went to Manish
Sisodia. They couldn’t buy even
BJYM national president Tejasvi Surya at a roadshow in
Rajkot on Saturday. PTI
Gujarat youth won’t give
an inch of space to ‘revdi
and bevdi’ politics: Surya
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
RAJKOT, SEPTEMBER 3
YOUTHOFGujaratwillnotgivean
inchofspaceto“revdipoliticsand
bevdipolitics”oftheAAPandwill
remain committed to the devel-
opmentmarchledbytheBJP,said
BJPMPandBharatiyaJanataYuva
MorchanationalpresidentTejasvi
Surya on Saturday.
“It is certain that youth have
resolved this time around to
speedupthedevelopmentmarch
of Gujarat which began around
30 years ago. It is also quite cer-
tain that youth will not give an
inch of Gujarat’s pious land to
revdi politics and bevdi politics,”
TMC MP
Sougata
Roy
Partha Chatterjee but they
should not commit the blunder
of branding each and every
TMC leader as a thief.
“If you (opposition) call
Mamata Banerjee the queen of
thieves, be ready for a hard blow
on your back. If you call her the
queen of corruption, you never
know how our party workers
will react in anger. People react
in an unpredictable manner if
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
one MLA. Why? Because we are
honest people. They talk about
revdi yet their ministers get free
electricity worth 4,000 units... All
theseministers’kidsstudyabroad.
If I make good government
schoolsforourpublicandprovide
free education, they say Kejriwal
is distributing revdi. This is injus-
tice. So we will give freebies, do
what you want to do. You give
your ministers freebies, we will
givethepublicfreebies,”headded.
PromisingRs10lakhfundsto
every panchayat which will
comedirectlyfromthestategov-
ernment’s coffers along with
promising fixed monthly salary
of Rs 10,000 for sarpanchs and
Rs 20,000 for VCEs, Kejriwal
added that these promises will
befulfilledbyFebruary28,if AAP
forms the government in the
state by December 15.
Kejriwalfurtherpromisedthat
eachpanchayatwillhaveschools
and mohalla clinics. “Sarpanch
doesn’thavefundsandwhenyou
ask for funds from MLA, district
authorities,theyaskforacommis-
sion. We will end this practice.
Each sarpanch will get Rs 10,000
per month... They should have
funds to execute small works so
every panchayat will receive di-
rect transfer from the state gov-
ernmentfundsworthRs10lakh...
VCEshavetorelyoncommissions.
They’ll be given a monthly fixed
salary of Rs 20,000.”
Surya said while addressing a
press conference in Rajkot.
The BJP leader, who is also an
MPfromBengaluruSouth,wasin
Rajkottoaddresstheexecutiveof
BJP Yuva Morcha unit of Gujarat,
ahead of the Assembly polls
scheduled for December.
Surya also alleged AAP na-
tional convenor and Delhi Chief
MinisterKejriwalhasnocredibil-
ity. “Arvind Kejriwal’s politics is
politics without credibility and
politics without integrity... His
politics runs like the odd-even
(formula for vehicles to ply on
Delhi roads to control pollution).
So,youthofGujaratandthecoun-
try don’t take Arvind Kejriwal’s
statementsseriously,”Suryasaid.
they become furious,” he said.
Earlier also, Sougata had
threatened the opposition over
corruption allegations against
his party. He had said that if the
oppositionpartiescalledallTMC
leaders thieves, footwear will be
made from their skin.
BJP national vice-president
Dilip Ghosh said his (Sougata's)
party workers did not become
angry when he was seen taking
bribe.
CPI(M)'s Sujan Chakraborty
said, “TMC leaders are thieves
who looted money from every-
where. More Sougata says this,
the mess of his party will
spread even furter."

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
BRIEFLY
JAMMU & KASHMIR
Pakistanispy
arrestedin
Kishtwar: police
Jammu: The Jammu and
KashmirPoliceonSaturday
claimed to have arrested a
“Pakistan’s Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) agent” in
Kishtwar. Identified as
AbdulWahid,hisarrestfol-
lowed joint input by
Kishtwar Police, 11 RR and
MilitaryIntelligence,police
said. Wahid, a local Gujjar
of Chergi Dool, had been
providing “secret informa-
tionofvariouspoliceestab-
lishments and security
forces to Pakistan-based
handlerthroughsocialme-
dia”, it added. Pointing out
that Wahid has confessed
to his involvement, police
said some more arrests
were expected in near fu-
ture following his detailed
questioning. ENS
KERALA
Youthhacks
leopardtodeath
in‘self-defence’
Thiruvananthapuram: A
leopard was hacked to
deathinKerala’sIdukkidis-
trict on Saturday by a tribal
youth, allegedly in self-de-
fence. The incident was re-
ported at Mankulam vil-
lage,whichhasforesttracts
asitsboundaries.According
to forest officials, the youth
named Gopalan, who lives
at a tribal settlement at
Mankulam, hacked the
leopard with a machete-
like weapon when the ani-
mal pounced on him. The
youth, who sustained in-
juries, was admitted to a
hospital.MankulamDFOG
Jayachandran said, “Prima
facie,theincidentlookslike
theyouthkilledtheleopard
in self-defence. So, we are
notplanningtoregisterany
case. However, a detailed
probe would be held. The
leopard is about 20-year-
old,’’ he said. ENS
KARNATAKA
HCordersKEA
toreviewCET
rankings2022
Bengaluru: In what comes
as a huge relief for
Karnataka Common
Entrance Test repeaters of
2022, the High Court on
Saturday directed the
Karnataka Examination
Authority (KEA) to con-
sider 50% of qualifying
exam or the PUC scores for
evaluating their CET rank-
ings. The HC has also di-
rected the KEA to redo the
CET rankings for admis-
sion to undergraduate
coursesinEngineeringand
Technology for 2022-23 in
accordance with Rules 3
and 4 of the Karnataka
Selectionof Candidates for
Admission to government
seats in professional edu-
cational institutions. ENS
TRIPURA
ULFAtraining:
NIAsearches16
placesinAssam
Agartala: In a major crack-
down against the United
Liberation Front of Asom
(ULFA), the National
Investigation Agency (NIA)
conducted multiple
searches at 16 locations in
Assam over ULFA recruit-
ment case and militant
training in Myanmar. In a
press statement issued on
Friday, NIA said the agency
conducted searches at six-
teen locations in seven dis-
tricts of Assam including
Kamrup,Nalbari,Dibrugarh,
Tinsukia, Sadiya, Charaideo
and Sibasagar pertaining to
theactivitiesofULFA,apro-
scribed terrorist organisa-
tion.Thecasepertainstore-
cruitmentofyouthinULFA,
extortion of money for
strengthening ULFA and
radicalization of youth for
unlawfulactivitiesandtheir
training at camps based
across the Indo-Myanmar
border in Myanmar, the
statementsaid. ENS
SILLY SOULS CAFE
Congleaders: Iranimisledcourt,
familycontrolsfirmthatrunsit
SOFIAHSAN
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER3
ACCUSINGUNIONministerSmriti
Irani of misleading the court and
concealing material documents
from it, Congress leaders Jairam
Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Netta
D’Souza have told Delhi High
CourtthatSillySoulsCaféandBar
in Goa's Assagao is operated by
Eightall Food and and Beverages
LLP,whichis“controlledby”Irani's
familymembersthroughcompa-
nies in which they have 100-per
cent shareholding.
TheCongressleaderstoldthe
courtthatIrani’sfamilymembers
— her husband, her son, her
daughter and her step-daughter
— are shareholders in two com-
panies:UgrayaMercantilePvtLtd
and Ugraya Agro Farms Pvt Ltd.
Thesefirmshave“collectivepaid-
up75%ofthecapitalforaLimited
Liability Partnership named and
styled as ‘Eightall Food and
BeverageLLP’,”theysaidinawrit-
tenstatementsubmittedincourt.
The place of business of
Woman pushed off
train for resisting
molestation bid, dies
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 3
A 32-YEAR-OLD woman was
killed late on Friday night after a
manmisbehavedwithher,before
pushing her off a moving train in
Fatehabad district's Tohana.
Theman,laterinaattemptto
escape, jumped out of the same
moving train and sustained
grievousinjuries.Hewasnabbed
by personnel of the railway po-
lice and admitted to Agroha
Medical College for treatment.
Sandeep has been booked on
charges of outraging the mod-
esty of a woman as well as
murder.
According to the police, the
incidenttookplacelateonFriday
night onboard the Delhi-Jakhal
passengertrain.“Thewomanisa
resident of Tohana in Fatehabad.
She had gone with her son (who
is nine-years-old) to her mater-
nal village in Rohtak to meet her
ailingmother.Shewasreturning
home with her son last night
when the incident took place.
Her husband was waiting for
them at Tohana railway station,"
said Naresh Kumar, in-charge,
GRP police station, Hisar.
The passenger train was on
itswayfromDelhitoTohanaand
the woman and her son had
boarded it from Lakhan Majra.
Kumaridentifiedthesuspect
as one Sandeep, 27, who he said
was apparently drunk at the
time of incident. He further said
Sandeep first allegedly misbe-
haved with the woman in front
of her 9-yer-old son, who had in
response slapped him thereby
enraging him.
The suspect then, in a fit of
rage, pushed the woman out of
the moving train, as a result of
whichshedied.Thewoman'sin-
ISRO shows new
tech that can be
used for Mars,
Venus missions
Bengaluru: ISRO on Saturday
successfully demonstrated a
new technology with Inflatable
Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD)
that it said is a game-changer
with multiple applications for
future missions, including to
Mars and Venus.
An IAD, designed and devel-
oped by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai
SpaceCentre,wassuccessfullytest
flownina'Rohini'soundingrocket
from Thumba Equatorial Rocket
Launching Station. The IAD was
initiallyfoldedandkeptinsidethe
payloadbayoftherocket,accord-
ing to the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO).
Ataround84kmaltitude,the
IADwasinflatedanditdescended
through atmosphere with the
payload part of sounding rocket.
"This is the first time that an IAD
is designed specifically for spent
stage recovery...,” ISRO said. PTI
Smriti Irani
EightallFoodisthesameasthead-
dress where the restaurant was
beingoperated,theCongresslead-
ersstated.Thismakesit“amplyev-
ident” that the restaurant is oper-
atedbythecompanycontrolledby
Irani’sfamily,theysubmitted.
“The Answering Defendants
verily believe that as in any
democracy, the role of the prin-
cipal opposition party is to raise
issueswhichaffectthepublic,es-
pecially if the issue relates to
statutorylicencesbeingrenewed
inthenameof adeceasedperson
byarestaurantwhichhasadirect
connectionwithaMinisterinthe
Union Cabinet,” the Congress
leaders argued.
In July, the Congress ghad ac-
cusedIrani’sdaughterof running
the restaurant “illegally”, with
consolable son narrated the in-
cident to her father once the
train reached Tohana railway
station. About a kilometer away
from the station, Sandeep too
had jumped out of the train in a
bid to escape," Kumar said.
Investigators so far have
foundthatSandeep,aresidentof
Kalawan village, had boarded
the train in an inebriated condi-
tion from Dhamtan Sahib sta-
tion. Police also found that
Sandeep is married but his wife
does not stay with him.
“The train usually has just a
handful of passengers when it
reachesJakhalstation.Thebogey
in which this incident took place
had just three passengers —
Sandeep, the woman and her
son. Sandeep took advantage of
the fact that the train compart-
ment was deserted and started
misbehaving with the woman.
When she resisted, he pushed
her out of the train. Her son got
scared and ran away from the
spot and went to the next bogey.
“The child has told us that his
mother was pushed out of the
train by the suspect when she
had gone to the compartment
door to check how far the next
stationwas.Later,hetoojumped
out of the trainandsustained in-
juries. Some passersby later
spotted him in an injured condi-
tion and called an ambulance, in
which he was taken to a nearby
hospital from where he was re-
ferred to Agroha Medical
College. A case has been regis-
tered and Sandeep has been ar-
rested,” the investigating police
official added.
The police launched a search
operation to trace the woman
around 11 pm on Friday and re-
covered the body around 4 am
on the railway tracks some dis-
tance away from Tohana.
Mamata tries to temper ‘appeasement’ image with RSS ‘praise’
ATRI MITRA
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 3
THE ROW kicked up by West
Bengal Chief Minister and
Trinamool Congress (TMC)
supremo Mamata Banerjee’s
“praise” for the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has
continued to rage in political cir-
cles, with the Opposition parties
aswellassectionswithintheTMC
attributing Banerjee’s perceived
bid to warm up to the RSS, the
BJP’sideologicalfountainhead,to
various factors.
TheOpposition,includingthe
Left parties, the Congress and the
Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM,
have hit out at Banerjee, calling
her move “politically expedient
and opportunistic”.
Addressingapressconference
atNabanna,thestategovernment
secretariat, earlier this week, CM
Banerjeesaid,“RSSisnotthatbad.
I don’t believe it is so bad. Even
the bar licence procured “fraud-
ulently” in the name of a de-
ceased person.
In a defamation suit, Irani
movedcourtandsoughtdamages
of morethanRs2crorefortheal-
leged defamation and posting of
false allegations. In the suit filed,
she also sought a mandatory and
permanentinjunctionagainstthe
Congress leaders and a direction
fortakingdowntheposts.OnJuly
29, the HC directed the Congress
leaderstofileawrittenstatement
to the complaint within 30 days.
The court also directed them
to delete and remove their social
mediapostsagainstIraniandher
daughterinconnectionwithSilly
Souls Café and Bar. The court ob-
servedthatneithertherestaurant
nor the land on which it exists is
ownedbyIraniandherdaughter.
Defending their accusations,
the Congress leaders have in-
formed the court that their state-
mentsarewithintheambitof“fair
comment”, as they were made in
public interest and in relation to a
publicissue—inthepresentcase,
“a restaurant being operated on a
FLOOD FURY
People cross the swollen Ganga as dark monsoon clouds fill the sky, in Patna, Saturday. PTI
Cong’s Warring,
Khaira booked
for ‘forgery’
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
MOHALI, SEPTEMBER 3
THE PUNJAB Police Saturday
booked state Congress chief
AmrinderSinghRajaWarringand
party MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira
were booked for allegedly shar-
ingalistofappointmentsofchair-
persons of different boards and
corporations on a fabricated let-
terheadoftherulingAAPthatalso
bore a forged signature of Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The Congress leaders termed
the FIR ludicrous and said they
shared the list that was picked
fromanAAPvolunteer'sFacebook
page. The FIR has been registered
atMohali'sPhase-1PoliceStation
onthecomplaintofAAP'sMohali
district president Prabhjot Kaur.
nowtherearegoodpeopleinRSS,
who don’t support BJP. One day
they will break their silence.”
Her critics promptly pointed
out that it was not the first time
that Banerjee has “praised” the
RSS, saying that she had done so
at a rally of the TMC Chhatra
Parishad, the party’s students’
wing, in 2018 too. It was also said
that when she had been part of
the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA
government at the Centre, she
usedtobeclosetotopBJPleaders
VajpayeeandLKAdvaniaswellas
a section of the RSS leadership.
Following the resurgence of
the BJP in Bengal as the principal
Opposition party with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and
Union Home Minister Amit Shah
focussingontheparty’sexpansion
in the state, Banerjee has been
grappling with the saffron chal-
lenge, emerging as a staunch op-
ponent of the BJP and PM Modi.
She faced a fierce challenge from
theBJPinthe2019LokSabhaelec-
licence renewed in the name of a
deceased person and being ob-
tainedthroughfraudulentmeans”.
“With all the above-men-
tioned evidence connecting the
Plaintiff[Irani]withtheRestaurant
being available in public domain,
it was in public interest to make
fair comments and question the
Plaintiff on her linkage with the
Restaurant,”readsthestatement.
Theleaderstoldthecourtthat
Irani and her family have come
inthelineof questioningalsodue
to the fact that she and her
daughter have “publicly en-
dorsed” their association and
ownership in the restaurant.
Theircommentsarebasedonthe
“admission and public acknowl-
edgment” regarding ownership
of therestaurantbyIraniandher
family members, they stated.
“The plaintiff and her family
have made repeated assertions
of ownership of the Restaurant,
which received the show-cause
notice.Thesewereunilateraland
unprovoked claims put forth by
the Plaintiff’s family and en-
dorsed by her,” they replied.
DEVAS-ANTRIX DEAL
Tell process to declare Devas CEO
fugitive economic offender, ED told
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 3
A SPECIAL court in Bengaluru
hearingamoneylaunderingcase
against the Devas Multimedia
founderhasaskedtheEDtopro-
vide details of the government
prescribedauthoritywhocanis-
sue a notice under the Fugitive
Economic Offenders Act, 2018.
The ED moved the court in
June to declare Ramachandran
Viswanathan, the founder-CEO
of the liquidated satellite com-
municationsstart-upfirmDevas
Multimedia Pvt Ltd, a “fugitive
economic offender” in connec-
tion with a failed 2005 satellite
deal with ISRO's Antrix Corp.
Thecourthasalsosoughtde-
Mamata
Banerjee
tionsinthestate,eventhoughshe
trounced the saffron party com-
prehensively in the 2021
Assemblypolls,takingoverasthe
CMforthethirdconsecutiveterm.
TheMuslimvoteplayedakey
role in the TMC’s election tri-
umphs, with the minority com-
munity,whichaccountsfornearly
30 per cent of Bengal ’s popula-
tion, having strongly rallied be-
hindBanerjeesincethe2011state
polls.Thishasalsoresultedinpo-
larisationusedbytheBJPformak-
inginroadsacrossthestate,espe-
cially in rural belts where the RSS
has a significant presence.
Shootout on MDU
Rohtak campus
leaves four injured
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 3
FOUR PEOPLE, including a stu-
dent of Maharshi Dayanand
University (MDU), Rohtak, were
shot at on the campus late on
Saturday.Theincidenttookplace
barely 90 minutes after Haryana
GovernorBandaruDattatreyaleft
the campus after inaugurating a
faculty development centre.
According to preliminary in-
formation,theinjuredincludeone
studentof MDU,whilethreeoth-
ers were his friends. The injured
wereadmittedtoaprivatehospi-
tal and the preliminary cause of
theshootoutappearstobeamon-
etary dispute, police said.
The injured have been identi-
fied as Kuldeep (a resident of
Asan), Sushi (a resident of Dev
colony), Vidyut (a resident of
Dubaldhan), and Harish (a resi-
dentof KheriAasra).Kuldeepsuf-
fered a bullet injury near his
mouthandhis condition is stated
tobecritical.Thethreeotherswere
injuredinthehandsandstomach.
MDU's security guard Balraj
tails of the official email id of the
accused to whom the notice of
the initiation of the move must
be communicated.
The court has given the ED a
week's time for “compliance”
withprovisionsof Sections10(4)
and (6) of the Fugitive Economic
Offenders Act.
The declaration of an individ-
ual as a fugitive economic of-
fender will allow the ED to seek
confiscationofpropertiesbelong-
ingtotheaccusedpersoninIndia
and abroad, which are identified
asproceedsofaneconomiccrime.
ThespecialcourtinApril2022
ordered the splitting up of the
chargesheet in a money launder-
ingcasefiledagainstViswanathan
andnineothersonaccountof the
US-based Viswanathan not re-
ThestateBJPcampclaimsthat
Banerjee was forced to praise the
RSS for fear of losing her support
base among the Hindu commu-
nity due to her “pro-Muslim ap-
peasementpolitics”. AseniorBJP
leadersaid,"MamataBanerjeehas
realisedthatforherappeasement
politics, her Hindu vote bank is
eroding.So,tobalancethat,sheis
nowpraisingtheRSS.Earlieralso,
as part of this balancing act, she
visitedmandirsandstartedrecit-
ing Hindu mantras at her rallies.
But, everybody has now under-
stood her politics that will not
work any further."
A TMC section is however
waryoftheimpactof anyerosion
inBanerjee’s“secularcredentials”
on Muslim voters. A party leader
said,“Inrecentpast,Bogtuikillings
and Anis Khan murder case
dented Mamata Banerjee’s pop-
ularityamongtheminorities.She
recently met Subramanian
Swamy, considered close to RSS,
at Nabanna. And now she has
New Delhi
akaBallutoldpolicethatheover-
heard two groups of youngsters
arguing over some monetary
dispute outside the library.
Hetoldpolicethatallfourwere
standing near their car parked at
gate no. 2. All of a sudden, four
unidentifiedpersonsapproached
theminScorpioandenteredintoa
confrontationwithKuldeep.
An officer said it seems that
Kuldeep had an old financial dis-
putewiththesepeopleandwhen
he refused to pay them back, one
person from the other group
aimedapistolatKuldeepandfired
a shot. “Kuldeep and his friends
triedtoescapebuttheothergroup
followedthem.Oneaccusedthen
got out of the car and opened in-
discriminatefiringatKuldeepand
his friends. The accused then fled
and passersby informed the po-
lice, following which the injured
were rushed to the hospital,” the
police officer said.
Meanwhile, police said pre-
liminaryproberevealedthatone
Vijay, who runs a coaching insti-
tute in Rohtak, had opened fire.
“We are looking for more clues,”
police said.
sponding to summons issued by
the court in the ED case.
Viswanathan is a satellite
communications entrepreneur
in the US and is the president of
Omnispace LLC, a satellite com-
munications start-up in the US,
which is putting together a con-
stellation of satellites to power
5G from space – especially to
provide connectivity to remote
areas where the terrestrial mo-
bile network does not work.
Devas Multimedia and its in-
vestors — including the German
telecom major Deutsche
Telekom — are involved in a pro-
tracted legal battle across the
world over the decision of the
Government of India in 2011 to
annul a 2005 satellite deal be-
tween Devas and ISRO's Antrix.
praised RSS. We don’t know how
we would fix this damage.”
AnotherTMCleaderhowever
said,“Mamataisasharppolitician.
She knows what is happening in
the Opposition camp. She knows
that because of the entry of lead-
erslikeSuvenduAdhikariintothe
BJP a section of RSS leader is not
happy.BypraisingtheRSS,shehas
thus sought to fuel the intra-saf-
fron camp fights.”
Defending Banerjee, senior
TMC leader and MP Saugata Roy
said, “Mamata Banerjee has just
tried to say that every organisa-
tionhasgoodandbadpeople.We
don't need to prove our secular
credentialstoanyoneafterwede-
feated the BJP-RSS juggernaut in
the last Assembly polls.”
TheCPI(M)howeverlaunched
a scathing attack on Banerjee,
with the party mouthpiece
“Ganashakti”,inaneditorialpage
article,allegingthat“thereisalink
between TMC’s corruption and
Mamata’s praise for Sangh
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Jharkhand
tribal girl raped,
‘hanged’ from
tree; man held
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
DUMKA (JHARKHAND), SEPT 3
A 14-YEAR-OLD tribal girl, who
was allegedly sexually exploited
by a man on the pretext of mar-
riage, was found hanging from a
tree in Jharkhand's Dumka dis-
trict, police said on Saturday.
The minor's mother alleged
that her daughter was raped,
killed and hanged from the tree
in an area under Mufassil police
station on Friday.
“The accused, identified as
ArmanAnsari,hasbeenarrested.
He works as a construction
worker,” Superintendent of
Police Ambar Lakra told PTI.
He was charged under IPC
sections 376 (rape), 302 (mur-
der) and provisions of the SC/ST
Act and POCSO Act, Lakra said.
Jharkhand Chief Minister
HemantSoren expressed hisan-
guish over the incident.
"Iamdeeplysaddenedbythe
incident in Dumka. The accused
has been arrested. I have di-
rected the Dumka Police to take
strictlegalstepstoensurejustice
(to the victim's family). May God
give peace to the departed soul
and strength to the bereaved
family to bear this critical time,"
Soren tweeted.
Senior BJP leader Babulal
Marandi in a Twitter post
claimedthatthegirlwashanged
afterbeingrapedbytheaccused.
The former CM tweeted:
“Who are you saving? Have
shame! Whatever you and your
police hide, we will get her jus-
tice.” Attacking Soren, BJP na-
tionalvicepresidentandanother
former CM Raghubar Das in a
Twitter post said, “Pay attention
in Jharkhand when you get time
from resort politics.” Amid con-
fusion over continuation of
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren as
an MLA, 32 MLAs of the ruling
UPA coalition were onAugust30
taken to a resort in Raipur.
Historic day for
India: PM on
INS Vikrant
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
PRIME MINISTER Narendra
Modi on Saturday said the com-
missioning of indigenously built
aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was a
historic day for the country and
words will not be able to de-
scribe the feeling of pride when
he was on board the vessel.
Indialauncheditsmaidenin-
digenously designed and built
aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on
Friday,withPrimeMinisterModi
commissioningthewarshipthat
put India into a select league of
countrieswithdomesticcapabil-
ity to develop such large vessels.
Sharing glimpses from the
ceremony on Twitter, Modi said
on Saturday, "A historic day for
India! Words will not be able to
describe the feeling of pride
when IwasonboardINSVikrant
yesterday." "Today, India has
joined those countries in the
world, which manufacture such
a huge aircraft carrier with in-
digenous technology. Today INS
Vikrant has filled the country
with a new confidence," Modi
had said on Friday.
Parivar”whilereferringtotheheat
central agencies have turned up
onTMCleadershipinconnection
with probe in cases like school
jobs scams.
Slamming Banerjee, CPM
leaderSujanChakrabartyalleged:
“She is a product of the RSS in
Bengal, which is now being con-
firmed. She cannot be trusted in
the fight against communal
forces.” Another senior CPM
leader,MdSalim,recalledhow“a
senior RSS leader had once seen
in her a best friend.”
Seeking to downplay
Banerjee’sremarks,RSSstategen-
eral secretary Jishnu Basu said,
"Shehassaidtherearesomegood
people in RSS. We would like to
tell her that there can be political
differences, but does that mean
(political activists should be)
killingopponents?”Basucharged
that about 60 people had been
killedacrossBengalfollowingthe
politicalviolencethateruptedaf-
ter the 2021 state polls.
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Amid political crisis, Jharkhand CM ‘WORLD NOTED INDIA’S STANCE’

Ukraine conflict a concern

Soren to seek trust vote tomorrow
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
RANCHI, SEPTEMBER 3
AMID SUSPENSE over continua-
tion of the Jharkhand Chief
MinisterasanMLA,HemantSoren
willseekavoteof trustduringthe
specialsessionoftheAssemblyon
Monday,anofficialsaid.
As per a letter sent to the
MLAs by the Assembly secre-
tariat, the Chief Minister has ex-
pressed his willingness to move
a motion of confidence to prove
his majority.
Opposition BJP has also con-
vened its legislature party's
meeting on Sunday to chalk out
its strategy in the House, party
sources said.
Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Alamgir Alam said, “A
stateof confusionisprevailingin
Jharkhand. Our delegation met
the Governor (on Thursday) and
he assured us to clear the air in a
dayortwo.Butnothinghashap-
penedtillnow.Therefore,wewill
raise our points in the Assembly
and prove our majority.”
Following a petition by the
BJP seeking Soren's disqualifica-
tion from the Assembly in an of-
fice of profit case, the Election
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren being offered sweets after the Old Pension Scheme
was restored, in Ranchi on Saturday. PTI
Commission (EC) sent its deci-
siontoGovernorRameshBaison
August 25, sparking a political
crisis in the state.
Though the EC's decision has
not yet been made official, there
is a buzz that the poll panel has
recommended the chief minis-
ter's disqualification as an MLA.
The ruling UPA has asserted
thatdisqualificationof the CMas
anMLAwillnotaffectthegovern-
ment, as the JMM-Congress-RJD
coalition enjoys an absolute ma-
jority in the 81-member House.
After a meeting with the UPA
MLAsonSeptember1ontheissue,
the Governor went to Delhi on
Friday,triggeringfurtherspecula-
tion.RajBhavansources,however,
said it was a ‘personal visit' for a
medical check-up and he is likely
toreturntoJharkhandonSunday.
InajointstatementonAugust
28,UPAconstituentshadaccused
Bais of encouraging political
horse-tradingby“deliberatelyde-
laying”announcingthedecision.
Soren's party Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha (JMM) believes
that the BJP may make a serious
attempt to poach MLAs from the
party and also from the ally
Congress in a bid to topple the
governmentin a manner similar
to Maharashtra.
To ring-fence the legislators
in a safe haven, as many as 32
MLAs of the ruling coalition
were on August 30 taken to a re-
sort in Raipur, the capital of
Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh.
Four of them, however, re-
turned to take part in a cabinet
meeting held on Thursday, in
which it was decided that a spe-
cial session of the Jharkhand
Assembly will be convened on
September 5. The JMM, the
largest party, has 30 MLAs, the
Congress 18 legislators, and the
RJD one. The main opposition
BJP has 26 MLAs in the House.
for G20, says Jaishankar
SOHINI GHOSH
AHMEDABAD, SEPTEMBER 3
WITH INDIA scheduled to take
up the G20 Presidency in
December 2022 until
November2023, Union Minister
of External Affairs S Jaishankar
onSaturday saidheis“cautious”
about G20 especially in light of
the “polarisation” owing to the
repercussions of the Ukraine
conflict. He also said the world
has noted India’s “independent
stance” in the Ukraine conflict.
Jaishankar was speaking at
Indian Institute of Management
in Ahmedabad on the evolution
of “Brand India” in terms of
Indian foreign policy over the
last decade.
“There are genuine challenges
right now given the polarization.
And I think in particular, how the
repercussions of the Ukraine con-
flict are playing out in different fo-
rums. This has become a very big
concern…ButifIweretodoalittle
bit of forecasting, there's no doubt
today,energysecurityisahugecon-
cern for people or when the price
ofoilhaseffectivelydouble,”hesaid.
Jaishankar added that the
anxiety of the developing coun-
tries is stronger as they do not
have the resources to deal with
Union Minister of External
Affairs S Jaishankar
this challenge.
“The G 20 is a very heavily
economic platform. It’s an eco-
nomic developmental platform,
which then gets into politics
from time to time…These con-
cerns about the stresses (with)
three years of Covid, and then
the Ukraine issue, and then in
manycasesclimatechangecom-
ing on top of it. These concerns
will be foremost in the minds of
people,” elaborated Jaishankar.
Additionally, Jaishankar
pointed out that India’s “inde-
pendent stance” on the Ukraine
conflicthasresultedin“brandim-
provement” owing to the
“strongerconfidenceandmorein-
dependent voice with which we
have spoken out on global issues
and made our decisions on that.”
“Theworldisgoingthrougha
very complicated conflict in
Ukraine and the world is very
polarized as a consequence.
Now, in a very polarized world,
obviously,allcountriescomeun-
der pressure from this side or
that side. The fact that we have
taken an independent stance,
the fact that we have made de-
cisions which we believe are the
right decisions, from the per-
spective of the welfare of our
people, that is something, the
worldhas noted...We are also ar-
ticulating the sentiments and
thefeelingsof alotof othercoun-
tries who may not be that confi-
dent today in expressing the
same,” he added.
Addressing India’s position
with regard to China advancing
along Indian borders, Jaishankar
said, “Everybody wants to get
along with the countries, espe-
cially if they happen to be neigh-
bors. It's sensible. But you want
to get alongon reasonableterms
on terms of mutual respect and
interest. So, the issue is not
whether we should have good
relations or not.We want good
relations,butgoodrelationscan-
not be at the cost of our national
interest. It cannot be at the cost
of disturbed boundaries.”
FULLREPORTON
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High Court quashes UP orders Court admits

notifying 17 OBC sub-castes as SC
ASAD REHMAN
LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 3
THE ALLAHABAD High Court has
quashed two Uttar Pradesh gov-
ernmentordersthroughwhich17
sub-castes from Other Backward
Classes (OBC) were notified as
Scheduled Castes (SC). The court
said only the Parliament had the
power to add to the SC list.
“Inthisviewofthematter,the
orders dated 22.12.2016 and
24.06.2019 are hereby quashed,”
said an order passed on
Wednesday by a Bench of Chief
Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice J
J Munir.
TheHighCourtsaidthatprovi-
sions of Article 341 of the
Constitution “do not leave any
scope for including any Caste or
Group to the list of Scheduled
Caste in a State provided by the
Constitution (Scheduled Castes)
Order, 1950, except by law made
by Parliament”.
While the state had a
Samajwadi Party government
when the first notification was
passedin2016,itwastheBJPgov-
ernment which issued the 2019
notification.
The sub-castes which the SP
The Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High
Court said only the
Parliament had the
power to add to the
Schedule Caste list
andBJPgovernmentsintendedto
include in the SC category were
Kahar, Kashyap, Kevat, Mallah,
Nishad, Kumhar, Prajapati,
Dheevar, Bind, Bhar, Rajbhar,
Dhimar, Batham, Turha, Godia,
Manjhi and Machhua. The court
washearingaPILfiledbytheDrB
R Ambedkar Granthalaya Evam
Jan Kalyan, Gorakhpur, challeng-
ingtwogovernmentordersdated
December 21, 2016 and
December 22, 2016. A separate
writ petition filed in 2019 had
challenged a government order
dated June 24, 2019 on the same
grounds.
The High Court found the
December 21, 2016 order legal,
saying that it only says members
of the Majhwar caste, whose
Entry Number is 53 in the
ScheduledCastesOrder,shouldbe
issued the necessary certificates
after verification of their status
and that members of this caste
shouldnotbeconfusedwithOBCs
such as Godia, Mallah and so on.
AbouttheDecember22,2016
order, the Bench said “it clearly
recognises or acknowledges 17
Other Backward Classes as
Scheduled Castes in the name of
clarification”.
“In whatever manner said, 17
Castes that are otherwise in the
categoryofOBC,havebeenrecog-
nised by the order dated 22nd
December, 2016 as Scheduled
Castes in the State of Uttar
Pradesh. This cannot be done in
view of the provisions of Article
341 of the Constitution,” said the
court.
Article 341 says that any
change to the list of Scheduled
CastesspecifiedinthePresident’s
order can only be made by
Parliament by law.
plea claiming
Badaun mosque
built on temple,
issues notices
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 3
ADMITTING A petition claiming
that the existing Jama Masjid in
Badaun was built after demolish-
ing a temple of Lord Neelkanth
Mahadev,alocalcourtonSaturday
issuednoticestothemosqueman-
agement committee, Uttar
Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board, state
governmentandtheCentre.
ThecourtfixedSeptember15
as the next date of hearing.
The plea in the matter was
filed by five petitioners, includ-
ing the Akhil Bharat Hindu
Mahasabha and some local res-
idents, last month.
“In our petition, we stated
that the Jama Masjid was built
after razing the Lord Neelkant
temple.Ourclaimisbasedonev-
idence of an earlier existence of
the temple at the place. We have
also sought permission to hold
prayers inside the building and
appointment of a commission
for survey of the site,” said Akhil
Bharat Hindu Mahasabha’s
lawyer Ved Prakash Sahu.
“OnFriday,CivilJudge(Senior
Division)VijayKumarGuptatook
upthematter.Thecourtdirected
to issue the notices and asking
themtofileareplybySeptember
15,” he added. Mosque manage-
ment committee's lawyer Asrar
AhmedSiddiquesaidtheywould
fileareplyonthematterbecause
false claims were being made by
the petitioners.
Day after SC granted bail, Teesta
walks out of Ahmedabad jail
SocialactivistTeestaSetalvadbeingescortedtoasessionscourt,inAhmedabad, Saturday.TheSC
grantedinterimbailtoSetalvad ina caserelatedto2002Gujaratriots,onFriday. Nirmal Harindran
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, SEPTEMBER 3
ACTIVIST TEESTA Setalvad was
releasedfrom SabarmatiCentral
Jail in Ahmedabad around 8 pm
on Saturday, a day after the
Supreme Court granted her in-
terim bail.
The apex court's order had
directed that Setalvad be pro-
duced before the appropriate
Ahmedabadcourtfortherelease
order by 3 pm on September 3;
she was produced around 5 pm,
alawyerassociatedwiththecase
said. Her release on interim bail
comes just over two months af-
ter her arrest.
Setalvad was arrested by
Gujarat Police on June 25 on the
basis of an FIR filed by the
Ahmedabad Detection of Crime
Branch(DCB)allegedlyoncharges
of conspiring to falsely implicate
innocent persons in connection
with the 2002 Gujarat riots.
She was kept in police re-
mand for seven days and was
sent to judicial custody on July 2.
Setalvad's arrest, along with
that of co-accused in the case,
formerIPSofficerRBSreekumar,
had come a day after the
Supreme Court on June 24 dis-
missed a plea by Zakia Jafri, wife
of slain Congress MP Ahsan Jafri,
against the Special Investigation
Team's clean chit to then chief
minister Narendra Modi and
others over allegations of con-
spiracy in the 2002 riots.
In its verdict, the apex court
had observed that proceedings
were pursued to “keep the pot
boiling,obviously,forulteriorde-
sign”. It said that “all those in-
volved in such abuse of process,
need to be in the dock and pro-
ceed in accordance with law.”
Arrested Pak
militant dies
of cardiac
arrest in J&K
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 3
A PAKISTANI militant who re-
ceived bullet injuries and was
caught near the Line of Control
(LoC) in border Rajouri district
last month, died on Saturday at
an Army hospital in Jammu and
Kashmir.
Soldiers had donated blood
to save the militant, identified as
Tabarak Hussain, 32, a resident
of Sabzkote village in Kotli dis-
trict of Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK).
Hussain died of a cardiac ar-
rest on Saturday evening,
Defence PRO Lt Colonel
Devender Anand said.
He was among three mili-
tantswhowerespottedbyArmy
personnel on the Indian side of
the LoC on August 21 — chal-
lenged by the sentries, he tried
tofleeandwasshotat.Whilethe
injured Hussain was caught, the
other two fled back to the PoK,
sources said.
Hussain received two bullet
wounds—onhisthighandshoul-
der — and was critical. Soldiers
donatedthreebottlesof blood,as
doctors operated on him.
According to the Army
sources, Hussain and his brother
Haroon Ali,then15,werecaught
during an infiltration bid in the
same sector in April 2016, but
were repatriated on humanitar-
ian grounds in November 2017.
Hussain had reportedly told
interrogatorsthathewassentby
a Pakistani Intelligence officer,

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Will do everything to the best of
my ability, says CJI in Nagpur
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NAGPUR, SEPTEMBER 3
CHIEF JUSTICE of India U U Lalit on Saturday
got teary-eyed while reminiscing about the
time he spent in Nagpur at the beginning of
his career as a lawyer. Speaking at a felicita-
tion function organised for him by the High
Court Bar Association, he promised to do
everything to the best of his knowledge and
ability during his tenure as CJI.
Statingthathewasfeelingnostalgicwhile
speaking in Nagpur, where he started his
journey with law, the CJI referred to a poem
by Rudyard Kipling and said, “Life is a jour-
ney you undertake and it makes one emo-
tionalthatitisnotwhatyouhavecoveredbut
it is how you cover that.”
“I have just one promise to make...I will
do everything to the best of my knowledge
and ability," he said. The CJI also thanked his
identified as Col Yunus
Chaudhry, who paid him
Pakistani Rs 30,000 to attack an
Indian post.He, along withother
militants, had carried out recces
of Indian forward posts, and
Chaudhry gave them the go-
ahead to attack on August 21,
sources said.
Hussain had reportedlybeen
working for the Pakistani
Intelligence for about two years.
He underwent six weeks' train-
ing at a Lashkar-e-Toiba training
CJI Uday Umesh Lalit at a felicitation camp across the LoC, it is learnt.
programme in Nagpur, Saturday. PTI On April 25, 2016, Hussain
and his brother Haroon Ali were
sent with three terrorists from
wife for standing by him like a “Rock of Sabzkot, said the Army.
Gibraltar”andsaidtheysharedauniquebond Thethreeterroristswerecar-
where she would understand him even be- rying “war-like stores” and had
fore he said anything. planned to plant an IED near
SC judge Justice Bhushan Gavai, who too Indian forward posts, it said. On
practised in Nagpur, also spoke on the occa- December 16, 2019, Hussain’s
sion. Innovative and out-of-the-box thinking other brother, Mohammad
is the hallmark of Lalit’s career, Justice Gavai Sayeed, was apprehended by
said,addingthatLalitalwaysconsultshiscol- soldiers in the same area, the
leagues and "he is a truly democratic leader." Army had said.
POCSO case against mutt
chief: notices to complainants
Bengaluru: A POCSO court issued notices Saturday to two
girls who have alleged sexual assault by influential
Lingayat mutt pontiff Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru of
the Jagadguru Murugharajendra Vidyapeetha in
Chitradurga in Karnataka.
The notices were issued when the court took up the
anticipatory bail pleas of two of three people booked on
the charge of abetment. It fixed September 7 as the next
date of hearing. The pontiff and a hostel warden have al-
ready been arrested. Shivamurthy was sent to three-day
police custody on Friday. The two girls were produced in
the court on September 1. ENS

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9 SUNDAY STORY
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
A Mutt, muscle
ROUND 7.30 pm on
September1,ahushsettleson
the room on the first floor of
the Sri Jagadguru
Murugharajendra Mutt as
“swamiji” Shivamurthy Sharanaru, in his
flowing saffron robes and turban, walks in,
accompanied by his personal staff and a se-
lect group of people. As he takes his seat, the
fewdevoteesintheroomtaketurnstofallat
his feet and seek his blessings. On regular
days, say officials at the mutt, this room
would have been throbbing with people
from across Karnataka with whom
Shivamurthy would have interacted for an
hour. But today, he barely spends 20 min-
utes before leaving for his private room on
the same floor.
Hours later, he is arrested.
Theseareunusualtimesforthemuttand
itspontiff,ShivamurthySharanaru,whohas
beenaccused of sexuallyassaulting twomi-
nor girls. His arrest on September 1 came a
week after he was booked under POCSO
charges and a day before a local court was
scheduled to hear his anticipatory bail plea.
Spread across 82 acres, the
Murugharajendra Mutt is located on the
suburbs of Chitradurga, a central Karnataka
district that is the site of a 15th-century fort
builtbylocalkingMadakariNayakathatstill
reverberates with the legend of Obavva, the
wifeof aguardatthefort,whoissaidtohave
fought off Hyder Ali in the 1700s.
The mutt, set up in the 17th century,
preaches the ideology of Basavanna, a 12-
century social reformer who critiqued or-
thodox Brahmanical practices. The mutt is
known to have taken several progressive
measures, with many of its activities cen-
tred around fighting social inequality and
untouchability.
“People from all castes, creeds and reli-
gionsarewelcomehere.Previously,women
andgirlswerenotallowedinsidethetemple
on the mutt premises, but it was swamiji
(Shivamurthy) who took a call to allow that.
Even Muslims are allowed to enter the tem-
ple,” says Jayanna, a follower of the mutt.
The mutt is one of the richest Lingayat
mutts in the state and often called the ‘Nava
Koti Narayana mutt’ for the wealth it has ac-
cumulated over the years through dona-
tions and land transactions. The kitchen in
the complex churns out mounds of food for
devotees who come here — about 1,500
people visit the mutt on weekdays and
about 5,000 on weekends. However, after
thecasebrokeout,themutthasbeenlargely
deserted, with staff, police personnel and
media personnel milling around
With Lingayats being the most domi-
nant community in the state, the mutt car-
ries significant political heft. Even the elec-
tion of the Chitradurga MLA comes with a
nod from the mutt head. Shivamurthy also
holds the reputation of being a ‘walking
court’, resolving social disputes and those
pertaining to land.
Politicians are known to visit the mutt
for photo-ops, especially during elections.
Recently, senior Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi had come to the mutt and taken
‘Linga Deeksha’ from Shivamurthy.
Shivamurthy has also been a prominent
advocate of OBC reservation for Lingayats
and was among those who sought separate
religion status for the community.
The power of the mutt is evident in
how political leaders have either rallied
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AcrosstwolanesinJammu’sposhSidhraareaplayedoutasagaof murdersandsuicidesenactedoveraweek,andoriginating25yrsago.Policeuntangletheweb
ARUN SHARMA
TAWI Vihar in Jammu city’s Sidhra area is a
quiet, posh neighbourhood, home to several
high-ranking officials. For the past fortnight
though, the colony has been in the news for
two neighbouring lanes, No. 32 and 33,
whereabizarresagaof suicidesandmurders
is believed to have been enacted over the
course of a week.
It was on August 16 evening that six bod-
ies were discovered from two homes in the
lanes.Sincethen,cluesregardinghowthesix
died and the web connecting them — bring-
ing together depression, loneliness, medical
issues and court cases — have made it one of
the most complex crimes handled by the
Jammu Police.
Onepersonhasbeenarrested,aplumber,
for helping keep the deaths a secret. Police
saythedrugsusedincludedvariousSchedule
H medicines (sold only on prescription).
Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu,
ChandanKohlisaidtheyrecoveredfour bod-
ies from one house in Lane No. 32 and two
from the other lane, following a call from
Srinagar by a worried relative of one of the
deceased.
Whentheywenttocheck,theyfoundthe
bodies of Sakina Begum, 72, her daughters
Naseema Bano, 45, and Rubeena Bano, 36,
sonJaferSaleem,23,andgrandson SajjadAli,
17, at the house in Lane No. 33; and that of a
and money
On Thursday, the pontiff of one of the most powerful Lingayat institutions
was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting two minor girls.
KIRAN PARASHAR visits the mutt in Chitradurga, a town in central
Karnataka that’s now in the grip of swirling rumours and studied silences
The mutt, which usually sees about 5,000 devotees on weekends, is largely deserted these days. Kiran Parashar
around Shivamurthy or chosen to skirt the
issue. While BJP leader B S Yedyiurappa,
who is known to have shared good rela-
tions with the mutt, called the sexual
abuse case a “conspiracy” against the pon-
tiff, Home Minister Araga Jnanendra too
supported the mutt. Chief Minister
Basavaraj Bommai, also a Lingayat, dis-
tanced himself from the row, stating the
law will take its own course. The
Congress’s state unit chief, D K
Shivakumar, too hasn’t commented so far.
Party leader and former CM Siddaramaiah
finally broke his silence with a tweet that
said “let the law take its own course”.
Madhu Kumar J S, an RTI activist in
Six deaths most foul
neighbour,Noor-ul-Habib,52,inLaneNo.32.
Of them, Naseema and Saleem, differ-
ently abled, are believed to have been mur-
dered, as their mental and physical condi-
tion meant they could not have given their
consent for the suspected suicide pact.
As per thefindings of an SIT headed by SP
(Rural) Sanjay Sharma, which pored over
CCTV footage, call recordings and bank ac-
count details, Naseema and Saleem died of
a drug overdose on August 12. Sakina died
on August 14, and the rest on August 15.
Police believe the planning by the fami-
lies to endtheir livesbegan onAugust 4. That
day Noor appeared in court in connection
with a charge against him of abducting
Sajjad. He took along Sakina and Sajjad to
show that the complaint was false, but the
matter got adjourned.
Officerssaythatbehindthecase,andhow
two families planned this saga together, lies
a tale that goes back more than 25 years.
That was when Sakina, originally from
Doda, moved into a rented accommodation
in Sidhra along with her husband and four
children. Around the same time, in 1995,
Noor’s father Habibullah Bhat moved to
Sidhra, in the newly developed Tawi Vihar
residential colony. In 1997, Sakina started
working as a domestic help at Bhat’s house
and came to know Noor.
Thetiesbetweenthefamilieschangedaf-
ter Noor reportedly got involved with
Sakina’s divorced daughter Zareefa around
KARNATAKA
PRADESH
ANDHRA
ARABIAN SEA
CHITRADURGA
Shivamogga
Bengaluru
Chitradurga, says, “Despite a case regis-
tered against him, police did not arrest the
pontiff for six days. That shows his power.
It was not that he was absconding. He was
192 lakh
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riseto1,174lakhin2025-26
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2017. An IT consultant, he had lost his job at
a Gurgaon firm and moved back to Sidhra.
Sakina also built a house in Sidhra in the
course of time, on land that her second
daughter Naseema got from her estranged
husband. Noor apparently wanted to wed
Zareefa, with Sakina’s support, but Zareefa
got married to a policeman, Abdul Rehman.
The story took another twist when
Zareefa’s son Sajjad, then around 13, left
home to come stay with Sakina. Zareefa ob-
jected to this, and the two sides started fil-
ing police complaints against each other.
In 2019, came the first complaint, with
there inside the mutt under police protec-
tion, addressing his followers. Political
leaders like Yedyiurappa supported him
openly, giving him clean chit. Police even-
tually arrested him as they were being cor-
nered legally.”
Born into a poor family of farmers in
Godabanahal village near Chitradurga,
Shivamurthy, like other children his age
fromeconomicallybackwardfamiliesinthe
area and beyond, was soon sent to the mutt,
where he spent his childhood studying in
the mutt school and staying in its hostel. In
1991, Shivamurthy, then 33 and a graduate
from the University of Mysore, was chosen
as the 20th pontiff of the mutt by his pred-
54 lakh,projectedtogoupto560lakh
in2025-26
31 lakh
Number of students enrolled in
secondary classes in India in 1950-51,
Noor’s house (left) and Sakina’s, where
the six bodies were found. Arun Sharma
Zareefa accusing Noor and Sakina of kidnap-
ping Sajjad. They filed a counter-complaint
accusing Sakina’s second husband Rehman
of ill-treating Sajjad. In 2020, Zareefa filed a
complaint against Noor of molestation.
Earlier this year, Sakina, Noor and Sajjad to-
gether lodged a complaint against Sakina’s
husband, saying he was a threat to them.
Officers said Noor’s family members ob-
jected to his involvement with Sakina, and
he had cut off all ties with them.
On August 4, while appearing in the ab-
duction case filed by Zareefa, Noor and
Sakina seem to have decided that they had
ecessor Mallikarjuna Murugharajendra
Swami.
According to officials, when
Shivamurthy took charge, the mutt was
mired in several land-related litigation,
which he successfully managed to win.
Under him, the mutt began to wield signif-
icant financial and political clout. The mutt
now runs 150 institutions across the coun-
try, including 80 educational institutions,
of which around 15 are in Chitradurga
town — among them, a medical college and
hospital, a dental college, engineering,
pharmacy, law and nursing colleges, be-
sides several schools and polytechnic in-
stitutes. The mutt schools are also spread
across Bengaluru, Davangere, Haveri and
Athani in the state.
While the mutt grew rapidly under
Shivamurthy,darksecretshavebeensimmer-
ing under the surface, including of factions
fightingforcontrolof themutt,landdisputes
and now, the sexual allegations.
Days before the sexual assault case was
filed against Shivamurthy, mutt administra-
tor S K Basavarajan was sacked from his post.
Later, a case of kidnapping the minors who
accused the pontiff was registered against
Basavarajan.WhileBasavarajandeniedtheal-
legations, he refused to speak any further on
the matter.
“Bestfriends”whiletheywerefellowstu-
dentsatthemutt,Basavarajanwasappointed
administratorwhenShivamurthybecamethe
pontiff.Later,afterapublicfallout,Basavarajan
wassacked,onlytobereappointedtothepost
15 years later, in March this year.
Besides this long-standing tension be-
tweenBasavarajanandShivamurthy,several
casesoflandlitigationfiledbyandagainstthe
mutt are pending before courts.
On Friday, a non-bailable warrant was
issued against the pontiff for allegedly sell-
inglandworth Rs 7 crorefor49 lakh toapri-
vate person without informing the mutt’s
committee.
Amidst the legal battles and the swirling
rumours,outsidethemuttisasteelysilence,
with no questions entertained about the
mutt and its pontiff.
Rudresh,ateasellerinChitradurgatown,
says, “We do not know anything about the
case. We do not want to speak about it.”
Until Friday, a few Dalit organisations
had been carrying out protests in
Chitradurga town, seeking the mutt chief’s
arrest. After the arrest, the Dalit organisa-
tions cleared out and mutt supporters hit
the street in support of Shivamurthy.
A former follower of the mutt, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “We
knew something was not right about the
mutt for about three to four months. Even
whentheissuecameout,wedidnotbelieve
theallegations.ButthenSwamijisaidhewas
ready for both — compromise or a fight.
Then questions began to be asked: what is
there to compromise? Our trust in him
snapped somewhat then.”
Jithendra N Hullikunte, a follower of the
mutt,is,however,convincedthat"itisnoth-
ing but a conspiracy” against the mutt and
the pontiff.
“If therewasanissue,thegirlscouldhave
informedthe governingcouncilof the mutt,
which has seers from other mutts as well. If
they had found swamiji guilty, they could
haveaskedhimtostepdown.Butapproach-
ingcourtwasaconspiracytomaligntheim-
age of the mutt,” he says.
projected to rise to 612 lakh in 2025
15 lakh
Total enrollment in secondary classes
in 1950-51. By 2025-26, there are likely
to be 408 lakh students
had enough.
The next day, they started working on
theirplan,stockingcannulas,dripsandmed-
icines from chemist shops and deactivating
the CCTV cameras installed at both houses.
Police have determined that on August 8,
Noor rang up a pharmaceutical firm in
Gujarat saying the condition of some of his
familymemberswas notwell, sending them
videosof bedriddenNasreenandSaleem.He
allegedly sent over Rs 2 lakh for medicines.
A senior officer said a large number of
tablets have been found, without wrappers
or bills, and their suspicion is that Noor
crushed together a mix of them for use.
A health worker, known to Noor, was
thenapproachedbyhimtofixcannulasonall
of them, on the excuse that they had fever
and were not well.
A cocktail of medicines was first admin-
istered to Saleem and Naseema; police be-
lievethiswasdonetodeterminethequantity
needed to ensure death.
On August 7, Noor called a plumber, Vijay
Kumar, and allegedly paid him Rs 2.5 lakh to
dig a pit near Sakina’s house for burial of the
bodies of Saleem and Naseema, saying that
their condition was critical, police said.
Kumar has reportedly confessed that
Noor later told him about their entire plan,
to end their lives. Kumar has been arrested
on the charge of not alerting police.
To ensure that the deaths would not be
noticed too soon, fragrance dispensers were
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WEIGHT OF SCHOOL BAGS
DEEPAK KESARKAR
EDUCATION MINISTER,
MAHARASHTRA
‘Willinculcatehabitof taking
downnotes’
‘There will be
blank pages after
each chapter.
Students won’t
need notebooks’
As part of a plan to reduce
the weight of schoolbags,
Maharashtra’s new
Education Minister,
Deepak Kesarkar (pic), has
proposed dividing
textbooks into three parts
and attaching blank pages,
where students can take
down notes
PALLAVI SMART
1 What is the idea involved in
the initiative?
The idea is to divide textbooks
into three parts, a system where
there will be a new textbook per
semester.Foreachpartof thetext-
book, there can be blank pages af-
ter each lesson,which can beused
as a notebook. Students will not
have to carry separate notebooks.
2 Will the blank pages be
enough for writing notes?
We want to give students the
space to take notes after the les-
son.Thiswillinculcatethehabitof
noting things down and increase
efficiency. Sincethe notes are next
to the lesson, they become ready
references when a student is
preparing for that topic.
3 Will additional pages
mean increased costs?
No. And if there is extra cost of
even Rs 70 to 80 crore, the govern-
ment will bear it. I have the Chief
Minister’s approval for funds.
4 When will the plan be
implemented?
It should be ready by the time
the new set of textbooks go for
printing before the next academic
year.
5 Is this going to be enough
to ensure lighter bags?
Even as other items in a school
bag continue, this initiative will
have reduced a significant chunk
of the load. After its implementa-
tion,wemaynotrequireanyother
initiative for this purpose.
set up in both the houses, room tempera-
tures loweredtotheminimum withair-con-
ditioners, and diapers worn to check the foul
smell of secretion from bodies.
On August14morning,Sakinadied.Later
in the afternoon, Noor, Rubeena and Sajjad
ordered food from Jammu’s famous sweets
shop Pahalwan through Zomato, and by
August 15 morning, they too were dead.
A senior police officer told The Sunday
Express they had found a note apparently
written by Sakina saying her movable and
immovable property should be donated to
an organisation that looks after specially
abled children and specifying that nothing
should go to Zareefa and her husband.
Rehman, who lives with Zareefa close by,
said they had no idea about what Sakina and
Noor were up to as they were not on talking
terms. He added that despite this, he had
arranged for the bodies of Sakina and others
to be sent to their native town for burial.
As for the nature of the relationship be-
tween Sakina and Noor, police doubt the
originaltheorythatSakinadependedonhim
for help with money. Sources said the probe
has shown that Sakina had sold some ances-
tral land for Rs 25-35 lakh and Noor was us-
ing that money. Police have reportedly also
found that Noor did not have any money in
his bank accounts.
Rehman says he is not surprised, calling
Noor “very shrewd”. “He had been fooling
Sakina and other family members for years.”
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Across Fifth

What 13.5% reveals and hides

THEAISLE COLUMN
TAVLEENSINGH
Twitter@tavleen_singh

THE NSO’S estimates of GDP for the first concerned. For example, ‘Agriculture,
Gross Value Addition in Q1 (April-June) at constant prices (Rs crore)

A padyatra
quarter (April-June) 2022-23 were re- Forestry&Fishing’affectsthelivesofama-
leased last Wednesday. The number that jorityof familiesinthecountry.‘Mining& Agriculture Mining& Construction Trade,Hotels, Financial,
isprominentisthegrowthrateof13.5per Quarrying’ and ‘Construction’ are impor- Forestry& Quarrying Transport& RealEstate&
Fishing Communication Professional

PCHIDAMBARAM
Website:pchidambaram.in
Twitter @Pchidambaram_IN
The crucial question is what
are the implications for the
future, especially for
employment. The status of
farmers and farm labour will
remain the same and there
will be little movement to
non-farm jobs
cent. In terms of Gross Value Addition
(GVA), the number is 12.7 per cent. Given
that the estimates of rating agencies,
banksandtheRBIrangedfrom13percent
to 16.2 per cent (RBI), any number falling
within that range would, I suppose, be
enough to gloat!
However,thereisalargeworldbeyond
statistics.ThisessayisaboutwhattheNSO
numbersmeantomillionsofpeoplewho
live in the real world and who will be
happy and who will be unhappy.
NUMBERS THAT
MATTER
I have constructed a Table (see box)
containing the corresponding figures for
2019-20 and 2021-22 and added the
numbers for the first quarter of 2022-23.
Since2020-21wasthepandemic-hityear
that witnessed prolonged lockdowns, I
have not included that year’s numbers in
the Table. I may point out that 2019-20
was a normal year. 2021-22 was the year
touted as the recovery-year. 2022-23 is
theyearinwhichonehopedtherewillbe
a full-fledged recovery. So, the focus
should be on the numbers for 2019-20,
2021-22 and 2022-23.
Further,thenumbersmustbeviewed
from the point of the people who will be
affectedbytheperformanceof thesector
tant because the two sectors employ the
largestnumberof workerswhohavelow
skills and little school education.
‘Financial, Real Estate & Professional
Services’isimportantbecauseitemploys
theeducatedandskilledwhite-collarem-
ployees.
The bench mark year is 2019-20. A
country that is growing must grow at a
brisk rate over and above the previous
year and the bench mark year.
It is evident from the GVA figures that
while the economy did recover in 2021-
22 over the abysmal performance in the
pandemicyear(2020-21),sectoralgrowth
didnotreachthelevelofoutputinthenor-
malyear,2019-20—exceptinagriculture.
Therein lies a poignant lesson: pan-
demicornopandemic,farmersandfarm
labour have no choice but to toil in their
fieldstoearnfortheirsurvival.Theydonot
have the luxury of Work-From-Home!
(The marginal increase in ‘Financial etc.’
was statistically insignificant.)
NOT OUT OF WOODS
Therefore, the growth that we must
lookforin2022-23isnotthegrowthover
2021-22, but the growth over 2019-20.
The last two rows of the Table highlight
the difference. While the growth in Q1 of
2022-23isimpressivewhencomparedto
Q1ofthepreviousyear(2021-22),itiswor-
2019-20 448,703 82,696 259,728
2021-22 472,258 80,243 225,166
2022-23 493,325 85,423 262,918
2022-23over(inpercent)
2019-20 9.9 3.3 1.2
2021-22 4.5 6.5 16.8
rying when compared to Q1 of the bench
mark year (2019-20). ‘Agriculture etc.’
seemstohaveretaineditsspirit.Thepick-
upin‘Financial,RealEstateetc.’isencour-
aging. But the other three sectors in the
Table tell the story of an economy that is
not yet out of the woods.
I had not put ‘Manufacturing’ in the
Table because I did not want those num-
berslostinaforestof numbers.Thevalue
addition in ‘Manufacturing’ in Q1 of the
three relevant years were: Rs 565,526,
577,249 and 605,104 crore. In terms of
growth,Q1of2022-23recordedagrowth
of7percentover2019-20and4.8percent
over2021-22.Myconclusionisthatman-
ufacturinggrowthisstillsluggishbecause
of inadequatenewinvestmentorlowde-
mand or both. Intuitively, I conclude that
the MSME sector is still in the doldrums.
SLOW START
The crucial question is what are the
implications for the future, especially for
662,305 796,851
445,454 805,847
559,723 880,313
-15.5 10.5
25.7 9.2
employment. The status of farmers and
farm labour will remain the same and
there will be little movement to non-
farm jobs. Since ‘Mining etc.’ and
‘Construction’ are only slightly better
than in 2019-20, unless there is a strong
revival,unemploymentamongunskilled
andlow-skilledworkerswillbehigh.The
steps taken by the government to boost
manufacturing are apparently insuffi-
cient and have failed to revive the MSME
sector. The opportunities for skilled,
white collar workers are growing but a
major part of the Services sector (‘Trade,
Hotels etc.’) is yet to revive, thereby
dampeningjobopportunities.(Note:the
unemploymentrateinAugustroseto8.3
per cent.)
The RBI had estimated the quarter-
wise growth in 2022-23 as 16.2, 6.2, 4.1
and4.0percent.Notethatitisadeclining
graph. We have started the first quarter
with 13.5 per cent — lower than RBI’s es-
timate. What does this slow start foretell
about the remaining three quarters?
to nowhere
NEXTWEEKwillbegintheCongressParty’s
long walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
Veteranleadersofouroldestpoliticalparty
have already taken to advertising this ex-
ercise on Twitter with the hashtag:
#BharatJodoYatra.Withtheenthusiasmof
schoolboys, elderly politicians who have
never contested Lok Sabha elections post
little speeches that tell us (surprise, sur-
prise) that what unites India is our diver-
sity. Other tweets reveal that ‘our leader
@Rahul Gandhi (is) to sleep in a Container
Cabin During #BharatJodoYatra’ without
noticingthatthismakestheirleadersound
likeanentitledprinceforwhomsleepingin
a container is real hardship. Will his lesser
fellow travellers also have containers, or
willtheybereallyroughingitoutbysleep-
ing in the open?
If you have read this column more
than once, you must know that I am no
fanof theDynastybuttotellyouthetruth,
these tweets and this ‘yatra’ have made
me almost feel sorry for Sonia and family.
It is hard to believe that with so many vet-
eran political leadersavailableas advisors
plus Rahul Gandhi’s ‘coterie’ of newbie
politicians, something as outdated as a
‘padyatra’ was all that they could conjure
up as an idea to help the Congress Party
regain relevance. It is odd that they do not
realise that in the five or six months that
it will take for this journey to be com-
pleted, the Lok Sabha election will begin

Why Marathas need quota: history 30 years later, curtains

to loom ominously close.
Insteadofwastingtimewalkingaround

HEADLINE India,itwouldbewiserforseniorCongress

A historical perspective leaders to stay in Delhi and concentrate

APURVAVISHWANATH
sults. The reasons are mainly political and
apurva.vishwanath@expressindia.com on a Babri contempt case theirenergiesoncomingupwithrealideas
on how they can battle Narendra Modi’s
electoral juggernaut next time around. If I
notsocialorlegal.Itisthemisfortuneof the amshowingunusualconcernaboutthere-

Dalitality Marathas that none of their strong leaders

PURUSHOTTAM
KHEDEKAR
AGAINSTTHEbackdropoftheworstkindof
social discrimination in the Hindu society,
Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur
made legally constitutional provisions for
reservationinthestateandprivatesectorin
July1902.Thiswasprobablythefirsttimea
state ruler actively made social justice poli-
cies for his subjects. The base for this reser-
vationwasduetotheprevalenceofthecaste
systemanditsdiscriminatorystructuresup-
portedbyreligioustexts.
ChhatrapatiShahuMaharajrejectedthis
brutality premised on exploiting the poor.
Tocreateandstrengthensocialfraternityab-
sent in Hindu society, he made laws that
brought equality by giving reservations to
the downtrodden. While doing so, he ex-
cludedthosecastesandclasseswhohaden-
joyed privileges and progressed based on
thecastesystem.ThusBrahmins,Kayasthas,
Shenvis and Parsis were excluded from the
benefitsof reservation.
The rest of the castes or classes from all
the religions were included in the reserva-
tionlist.ThisincludedtheMarathacaste.This
was the first reservation offered to the
Marathas as a backward caste. It means
Marathas and the rest of the non-Brahmin
castesweretreatedbackwards.
TheBritishstartedcollectingcensusesin
1871 and recorded Kunbi as a caste preva-
lent in Maharashtra. Later, the British gov-
ernment divided Indian society into three
mainclasses--ScheduledCastes,Scheduled
Tribes,andtherestasintermediateclasses.
On April 5, 1942, the Government of
Bombay prepared a list of the reservation
that recorded Maratha and Kunbi castes in
theintermediateclasseslist.Thislistalsoin-
cludedMali,Teli,Lohar,Vanjari,Shimpi,and
Dhangar, among a host of 228 castes
presently included in Maharashtra State
Other Backward Classes list. However, only
Marathas were excluded from the list in
1950withoutprovidinganysubstantialrea-
son.Sincethen,manyMarathaorganisations
have demanded reservations. In 1991, the
MarathaSevaSanghdemandedanOBCsta-
tusfortheMarathas.Fromtimetotime,dif-
ferentcommissionswerealsoappointedto
study the issue without any conclusive re-
isinfavouroftheMarathaOBCreservation.
I don't blame any OBC leader for this.
Marathashavebeensequesteredapartfrom
OBC, which is unconstitutional. Presently,
theissueof Marathareservationispending
intheSupremeCourt.
Who is a Maratha? Anthropologically,
there is no singularity in Maratha as an iso-
lated caste. Maratha is a confederation of
severalMarathi-speakingcastes.Inaddition
to the language, those people who lived in
MaharashtraweredefinedasMarathas.The
society was primarily agrarian. Thus, the
oneswhoengagedinagriculturecametobe
known as Kunbis, Maratha Mali, Maratha
Teli,MarathaMahar,MarathaKumbhar,etc.
Around the 16th century, Chhatrapati
ShivajiMaharajestablishedSwarajya,which
came to be known as Maratheshahi — the
rule of the Marathas. This event led to the
separation of Marathas as a ruling and so-
cially and economically developed caste.
However, the British government did not
recognisethem.TheycalledthemKunbitill
about1920.Theirstatusaspeasantcultiva-
tors, landowners, and soldiers made a dif-
ferencebetweenaMarathaandKunbi,while
their ancestry was the same. The Mandal
CommissionkeptMarathasawayandrecog-
nisedKunbisasseparate,preferringetymol-
ogyasanidentifierinsteadof socialhistory.
The Indian Constitution has recom-
mended reservations for SC, ST and OBC.
Socialandeducationalbackwardnessisthe
base for OBC reservation. Marathas are
treatedassociallyforward.However,nospe-
cial drive was undertaken to upgrade
Marathas while doing so. Unfortunately,
duringthe1960s,afewMarathaleadersand
organisations wrongly opposed the overall
reservation system. This was purposely
widelyspreadbytheOpposition,leadingto
inculcating the anti-Maratha sentiment in
the minds of intellectuals and the judicial
lobby,whichstillworks.
Thedivisionofagriculturallandoversev-
eral generations, increase in family mem-
bers,reductionsinlandholdings,lowprices
of agricultural commodities and increased
expenses have led to the worst social, eco-
nomical, and educational status among
Marathasandotheragrariancommunities.
Thewriteristhefounderandpresident
ofMarathaSevaSangh
SurajYengde,authorofCasteMatters,
curatesthefortnightly‘Dalitality’column
LAST WEEK, the Supreme Court drew the
curtains on nearly three-decade old con-
temptproceedingsarisingoutof the1992
demolition of the Babri Masjid against of-
ficialsof theUttarPradeshadministration
and some Sangh Parivar leaders, saying
nothing survives in the matter. With the
petitioner Aslam Bhure and several re-
spondents,includingformerUPchief min-
ister Kalyan Singh, dead, the three-judge
bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan
Kaul asked itself why “flog a dead horse”.
In the same breath, the court admitted its
own failure and said it was “unfortunate”
that the case was not taken up earlier. The
acknowledgementisareminderof theju-
diciary’s role in the Babri demolition.
ThecontemptpetitionsagainstKalyan
Singh and several others were filed in
April 1992, monthsbefore the demolition
took place. Aslam Bhure, the petitioner,
had been flagging snowballing activity on
the disputed site. Lawyers who appeared
in the case, including M M Kashyap,
Bhure’s advocate, recall that the case was
heardonadailybasisbetweenSeptember
and November 1992. Many of those hear-
ings incidentally happened in the same
Court number 3 where the case was fi-
nally disposed of last week.
On November 28, 1992, in
a judgment passed on a
Saturday,thebenchof Justices
With the
M N Venkatachaliah and G N petitioner and
Ray allowed what the Uttar several
Pradeshgovernmentcalledin
sworn affidavits as a “sym- respondents
bolic kar-sewa” from 6-12 dead, the
December that year. Letters Supreme Court
from BJP MPs Swami
ChinmayanandandVijayaraje bench asked
Scindia, along with an affi- itself, why “flog a
davit from UP’s Home
Secretary, were submitted to
dead horse”
the court, allaying fears of any
constructionactivity.AttorneyGeneralfor
India K K Venugopal, who was then the
senior advocate representing the UP gov-
ernment, told the court of the “markedly
reassuring and eminently appropriate
progress in the mood of the situation”. It
had also relied on reports of its own ob-
serverwhohad faxedareporttothe court
that there was no construction material
on the site.
Despite the assurances, when the
domes of the Babri Masjid started falling
under the watch of the state government
The contempt case for demolition was not listed once between 1994 and 2000. File
on December 6, lawyers and journalists
rushed to inform Justice Venkatachaliah.
At 5 pm that day, an urgent sitting of the
Supreme Court was held at the residence
of Justice Venkatachaliah that went on till
9 pm. The allegations made by the peti-
tioners were not disputed by the state
governments lawyers Venugopal and
Adarsh Goel (later Supreme Court judge
and now Chairperson of the
National Green Tribunal).
Venugopal then withdrew
himself from the case. But
with then Attorney General
Milon Banerjee informing the
judges that President’s rule
wasimposedinUttarPradesh,
the court concluded the order
with a line that “no further or- once in 2000 but were adjourned. When
ders are required”.
On December 18, the SC
suo motu issued contempt
notices and was in a hurry to
hear the case. It took three
months for Kalyan Singh and six other re-
spondents to file their replies. But after
that, the contempt petitions were not
takenupbythecourt.Withthecasebeing
initiated by the court itself, copies of the casesforlisting. Thirtyyearslater,thecase
affidavits remained with the court alone.
Meanwhile, Justice Venkatachaliah took
over asthe CJI andon his lastworking day,
onOctober24,1994,deliveredajudgment
holding Kalyan Singh guilty of “flagrant
breach”of hisundertakingtotheSupreme
Courtandsentencedhimtoaone-dayim-
prisonment. This was for allowing a plat-
form to be constructed despite the status
quo order in July 1992. The same day, the
SC, in a 3:2 verdict, upheld the constitu-
tionalvalidityof TheAcquisitionof Certain
Areas of Ayodhya Act, 1993, under which
the 67.703 acres of land adjoining Babri
Masjid was acquired. Justice J S Verma
wrote the majority opinion which in-
cluded CJI Venkatachaliah and Justice G N
Ray. The two minority judges — Justices
Sam Piroj Bharucha and AM Ahmedi —
had struck down the validity of the land
acquisition.
The contempt case for the Babri dem-
olition was to be “taken up later” but was
not listed even once between 1994 and
2000. Case records show that the con-
tempt petitions did come up for hearing
Bhure died in 2010, his lawyers had no in-
structions to even seek a date from the
court. By then, the title dispute of the dis-
puted land reached the Supreme Court
and the hearings took a new direction.
When asked why the contempt for
Babri demolition was never taken up for
hearing, Venkatachaialah had cited prob-
lems of the office of the CJI in prioritising
saw its day in court as CJI UU Lalit made a
bid to solve the listing issue.
The case is a sobering reminder that
the Supreme Court has not stayed away
from the tugs and pulls of the political re-
alities of the day. In closing the case with-
out a hearing at all, the SC left many ques-
tions unanswered.
vivalof theCongressParty,itisbecausewe
badly need an opposition party that offers
India a real choice between pluralism and
secularism and the religiosity and angry
nationalism that the BJP offers.
The ‘padyatra’ is an exercise in futility.
I say this from the experience of having
walked some distance with
Chandrashekharonhis‘padyatra’in1983.
By the end of the day the leader was
nearly always too tired to meet local peo-
ple or try and understand their problems.
This is bound to happen this time as well
and at a time when the Congress Party is
atitslowestpoint.Notforwantof walking
long distances but for want of real intro-
spection. Only from introspection can
come new ideas.
InthepasteightyearsthattheCongress
Partyhassatinoppositionanddespitehav-
ing lost two general elections, there have
been no more than cosmetic attempts to
understandwhatledtothesemassiveelec-
toraldefeats.Eightyearsshouldhavebeen
a long enough time for the party’s senior
leaders to honestly examine the reasons
why the people of India no longer show
enoughinterestintheirideasortheirlead-
ers to give them their votes.
Here is a short list of reasons why. The
Dynasty’s ‘charisma’ is not strong enough
to lure voters because Indian voters no
longervotejustbecausetheylikesomepo-
litical leader’s face. They vote for leaders
theyhopewillbeabletofulfiltheiraspira-
tions. It is not for nothing that Modi’s elec-
tion speeches are filled with the numbers
of people who have been given toilets, gas
connections, drinking water, bank ac-
counts,freeinsurance,andhomes.Therea-
son why he won a second term was be-
cause voters were convinced that he had
delivered on most of these fronts.
Congress leaders grumble that all he
has done is run more efficiently welfare
programmes that were devised by the
party’smatriarch.Thisistruebuthavethe
party’sveteranssatdownevertoworkout
whythepartycouldnotdeliveronitsown
programmes?If welfarismandaggressive
nationalism are Modi’s trump cards, then
the Congress Party must relearn efficient
welfarism and reclaim nationalism.
As the party that used nationalism to
win India freedom, it is bizarre that it is
the BJP that is now seen as the embodi-
ment of Indian nationalism. It is not just
newpoliticalideasthattheCongressParty
needs but new economic ideas as well.
RahulGandhi’seconomicideasareasout-
dated as the ‘padyatra’. He sounds like an
old-fashioned Marxist when he abuses
‘Modi’s rich friends.’ Indian businessmen

The happy family. But who’s family?

are not criminals but creators of wealth
On the and jobs.

LOOSE The Congress Party has one card with

LEHERKALA
leherkala@gmail.com
IN A verdict that held that a working
woman cannot be denied her statutory
right to maternity leave for her biological
child just because she availed of it for her
stepchildearlier,theSupremeCourtmade
significant observations about changing
familydynamicsinIndia.TheSCacknowl-
edged that “atypical” families — single
parents, unmarried partnerships and
queer relationships — are deserving of
protection under the law, and of benefits
available under social welfare regulation.
In a bench presided over by Justices D Y
Chandrachud and A S Bopanna, the order
noted, “The black letter of the law must
not be relied upon to disadvantage fami-
lies which are different from traditional
ones. The same undoubtedly holds true
for women who take on the role of moth-
erhood in ways that may not find a place
in popular imagination,” said Justice
Chandrachud.
The stereotypical idea of a ‘complete’
family in India has always been a mother,
a father and two children (ideally, a girl
and a boy). Needless to say, this en-
trenchedbelief excludesawholelotof cit-
izens: singles, people with disabilities, di-
vorceesandtheentireLGBTQcommunity,
who have simply accepted that it’s their
lotinlifetobetreatedlikefreaks.Growing
up in the 90s, I’ve lost count of the num-
ber of people who would baulk in amaze-
ment when I’d tell them I don’t have sib-
lings, so one can only imagine what
somebody actually leading an alternative
lifestyle is up against.
Perhaps, the enduring image of ‘fam-
ily’ etched in our collective memories
comesfromtheHumDoHamareDopop-
ulationcontrolcampaign,plasteredonthe
sides of buses and hoardings, all the way
back when Mrs Gandhi was prime min-
ister. Or, the fact that the joint family sys-
tem (three generations living together) is
still thriving. However, in our heads, it’s
about time the definition of family was
broadened to reflect modern realities, es-
pecially since legislation supports it: the
apex court decriminalised homosexual-
ity in 2018 and live-in couples in some
states have legal rights.
What is family? Is it the cousins you
grew up playing with at grandparents’
homes but now see once in five years be-
cause life gets in the way? Or is it the
neighbour you bonded with over two
yearsof Covid,whocamethroughatater-
rible moment when no one else could? Is
it the colleagues you meet daily, or the
buddies you make while you train to-
gether for marathons? For people who
have moved cities for work, friends fillthe
space once occupied by siblings and may
be just as important. As one gets older, a
shared ancestry means nothing if that’s
all there is in common.
A younger generation has made the
startling discovery that the label of ‘fam-
ily’needn’tnecessarilybelimitedtobonds
of blood and sacrament (which in India,
inanycase,arecontaminatedbyexhaust-
ing power differentials within the clan).
It’s no surprise that young adults prefer
the company of their contemporaries
whowieldnoauthorityoverthem,whom
they can meet as equals. That the
Supreme Court recognises that deep con-
nections can come after early missteps is
important, even for those smugly en-
sconced in socially sanctioned relation-
ships;becausedeathanddivorcecanhap-
pen to anyone.
Postmodern sociologists have a more
realisticapproachtorelationshipsandex-
tend the concept of family to include any-
one an individual feels close to, including
pets. Let’s face it, the term ‘familial obliga-
tions’ came along because it’s question-
able how much value long-lost relatives
add to our lives. Besides, why should the
peoplewegravitatetowardsnaturallyfig-
ure on a lesser plane? It’s interesting to
note, two of the most memorable movies
out of Bollywood, 3 Idiots and Zindagi Na
MilegiDobaraareaboutbestfriendscom-
ing of age, with complicated parental re-
lationshipsgoingoninthebackground.It’s
a universal theme, rather fantasy, if only
our family understood us like our friends.
The writer is director, Hutkay Films
whichModicannevercompeteandthisis
the card of pluralism and real secularism.
ThisisthegiantchinkintheBJP’s electoral
juggernaut and while other ‘secular’ par-
ties have made attempts to take advan-
tage of it, the Congress Party’s attempts
havebeenpatheticallyfeeble.Thishasen-
abled Modi to change the subject and use
the chink in the Congress Party’s armour
to his advantage by banging on about
‘parivarvaad’. When the scions of the
Dynasty are seen on this ‘padyatra’, the
BJP will most certainly make more noise
abouthereditarydemocracythaneverbe-
fore, and it is more than likely that the
man sleeping in that container will be
seen as an entitled prince instead of a
modern politician.
So, what really will be achieved by
sending Congress leaders, old and young,
on a long walk for the next five months?
Theanswerisnothingthatwillbringitany
closer to vanquishing the BJP juggernaut.

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Aug: Exports AT$854.7BNINMARQTR,ASPERBLOOMBERG
nearly flat at
$33 bn, trade
deficit widens
BVR SUBRAHMANYAM
Commerce Secretary File
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
MERCHANDISE EXPORTS
dropped marginally in August
from a year before, but trade
deficit still eased a tad from its
July peak, as imports rose at a
slower pace.
Nevertheless,at$28.7billion,
trade deficit was the second-
highestonrecordandclosetothe
monthly peak of $30 billion in
July. This will continue to pres-
sure the current account deficit
(CAD), which is likely to have hit
anine-yearhighintheJunequar-
ter amid capital outflows.
As per preliminary data re-
leased Saturday by the
Commerce Ministry, exports hit
$33 billion in August, down 1.1
percentfromayearbefore,asre-
cession in key western markets
hurt order flows. Imports
jumped 36.8 per cent in August
to $61.7 billion, against 43.6 per
cent in the previous month.
Briefingreporters,Commerce
Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam
exuded confidence that exports
would pick up going ahead. The
optimism stems from the fact
that India’s recent trade deals
with the UAE and Australia will
start bearing fruit soon, and that
there could be a partial diversifi-
cation of western orders away
from Covid-hit China. FE
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in first five months of FY23.
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Hyderabad: Hoping for a
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in this financial year, Union
Finance Minister Nirmala
SitharamanonSaturdaysaid
the nation is on a strong
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said on Saturday. REUTERS
What alternate payment options
on Google mean for app makers
SOUMYARENDRA BARIK
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
INAsignificantmove,Googlewill
allowdevelopersof non-gaming
Androidappsfromseveralcoun-
tries, including India, to offer
third-partypaymentoptionsun-
der a pilot project.
On these alternate payment
systems,developerswillseetheir
service fee of 15-30 per cent re-
duced by 4 per cent. However,
even now, developers will have
to support Google’s inbuilt sys-
tem in their apps. The develop-
ment follows increased global
regulatory scrutiny on Google,
and Apple over the companies
mandating their own in-app
billing systems and charging
commissiononeachtransaction.
In March, Google parent
Alphabet had started the pilot
project to allow developers to
havealternatepaymentmethods
and had first rolled it out on
Spotify,adeveloperthathasbeen
particularlyvocalagainstGoogle
andApple’shandlingof payment
methods on in-app purchases.
With the latest move, the pi-
lot has now been extended to
India pips UK to be
5th largest economy:
The broader picture
UDITMISRA
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER3
INDIA HAS become the world’s
fifth-largesteconomyafteritover-
tookthe United Kingdominend-
March,2022,accordingtothelat-
est calculations by Bloomberg.
While this was anticipated for a
while, Bloomberg reached this
conclusionbyusingtheIMFdata-
base and historic exchange rates.
“On an adjusted basis and us-
ingthedollarexchangerateonthe
lastdayoftherelevantquarter,the
size of the Indian economy in
‘nominal’ cash terms in the quar-
terthroughMarchwas$854.7bil-
lion. On the same basis, UK was
$816 billion,” read the Bloomberg
report. According to its forecast,
thanks to India’s fast-growing
economy, there is likely to be a
huge gap between India and the
UK within the next few years.
Populationsize
This is one of the most funda-
mental differences between the
two countries. As of 2022, India
has a population of 1.41 billion
while the UK’s population is 68.5
million. In other words, India’s
population is 20 times that of the
UK’s.Andthisgapisunlikelytobe
bridged in a hurry.
GDPpercapita
Since there is such a stark dif-
ference between the population
ofthetwocountries,grossdomes-
tic product (GDP) per capita pro-
videsamorerealisticcomparison
ofincomelevelsbecauseitdivides
acountry’sGDPbythepopulation
of that country. As the graph
ECB dilemma:
to hike big or
really big
A large interest rate hike
could be in store from the
European Central Bank
(ECB) to combat inflation,
with all eyes on the latest
OPEC+ meet and UK’s
Prime Ministerial election
FRONT-LOADING
Withrecord-highdouble-digit
inflationinsight,itistobeseenif
theECBonThursdaywillgofora
50-basis-point(bp)hikeora
75-bpsmove
CRUDEOUTCOMES
Volatileoilmarketscouldsee
anothershake-upatmeetingof
theOrganizationofthe
PetroleumExportingCountries
andalliesincludingRussia,a
groupknownasOPEC+
Services strength: Investors gauging the US Fed’s interest rate path
ahead get more data Tuesday, with the monthly services sector survey
non-gaming app developers in
India and four other markets —
Australia, Indonesia, Japan and
the European Economic Area.
Why is this significant?
In2021,SouthKoreapasseda
lawwhichmandatedGoogleand
Apple to open their app stores to
alternative payment systems.
Indian developers have also met
with the government to explore
the scope of a similar legislation
in the country.
On Google’s Play
Store as well as on
Apple’s App Store,
developers, for the
most part, have not
so far been allowed
to introduce their
ownpaymentmeth-
ods as the two companies have
forced them to use their propri-
etary billing system for in-app
purchases. That allows Google
and Apple to keep a cut of the
transactions as commission
which,insomecases,couldgoas
high as 30 per cent, something
thatdevelopershaveopenlycrit-
icised. However, it is worth not-
ingthatGooglerecentlylowered
itsPlayStorefeesforallsubscrip-
GDP PER CAPITA
Measured in constant international -$
$ 40,000
$ 30,000
$ 20,000
$ 10,000
$0
1990 1995 2000
Source: Data compiled from multiple sources by World Bank
aboveshows,theincomeofanav-
erage Indian is far lower.
Povertylevels
Low per capita incomes often
pointtohighlevelsofpoverty.Itis
noteworthythatatthestartofthe
19thcentury,theUK’sshareinex-
treme poverty was considerably
higher than India’s. However, as
thingsstandtoday,therelativepo-
sitionshavereversedeventhough
India has made giant strides in
curbing poverty.
HumanDevelopmentIndex
Arguably, the end goal of
higher GDP and faster economic
growth is to have better human
development parameters. The
HumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)
is a composite of health, educa-
tionandstandardoflivingparam-
eters.Despiteitssecularimprove-
ment,Indiamaystilltakeadecade
TO-DOFORNEWUK PM
SeveralchallengesawaitBritain’s
newprimeminister,whoissetto
beannouncedMonday:theBankof
Englandishikinginterestratesto
tameinflation,risingenergybills,
andthepoundata2-1/2yearlow
RAMPINGUPRATES
TheReserveBankofAustraliais
settodeliveranother50-bprate
hikeTuesday,whileCanada’s
centralbankisexpectedtodeliver
anotherbigratehikeWednesday
tion-basedservicesto15percent
from 30 per cent, effective
January 1, 2022.
The penalty to violate this
rule is typically suspension from
both app stores, which Epic
Games faced in 2020 after it in-
troduced its own in-app pay-
ment method in its popular
game Fortnite.
Have Indian app developers
raised concerns?
In 2020, Google
hadsaiditwoulden-
force its in-app pay-
ment method in
India by September
2021, which led to a
significant backlash
from the industry
which said Google
was abusing its dominance.
Prominent Indian internet
entrepreneurs, including the
likes of Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar
SharmaandBharatMatrimony’s
Murugavel Janakiraman, raised
concernsaboutthissystemwith
the IT Ministry. As a result of the
pressure, Google said it would
defertheenforcementof itsrules
in India until March 2022, later
extending it to October 2022.
United
Kingdom
2005 2010 2015
OurWorldInData.org/economic-growth
to be where the UK was in 1980.
UniversalHealthCoverage
A crucial element of
becoming richer as a nation is
the quality of life available to
citizens. The Universal Health
Coverage (UHC) Index is
measured on a scale from 0
(worst) to 100 (best) based on
the average coverage of
essential services including
reproductive, maternal,
newborn and child health,
infectious diseases, non-
communicable diseases and
service capacity and access.
While faster economic growth
and the government’s policy
focus on healthcare schemes
since 2005 have made a
distinct improvement for India,
there is still a long way to go.
Full report on
www.indianexpress.com
‘Amazon’s
iRobot Corp
buy: US FTC
starts review’
Bengaluru: The US Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) has begun a
reviewof Amazon.com’s$1.7bil-
lion takeover of robot vacuum
maker iRobot Corp to decide if
the deal violates antitrust law,
Politico reported on Friday, cit-
ing people familiar with the
matter.
The US anti-trust body’s
iRobot review is wide-ranging
and would include both head-
to-head competition and
whether the deal would illegally
boost Amazon’s market share in
both the connected device mar-
ket and the retail market in gen-
eral, the report added.
Amazon declined to com-
ment, while iRobot and the FTC
did not immediately respond to
a request by Reuters seeking
comment. REUTERS
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OIL BENCHMARKS SEE WEEKLY DROP
New York: Oil benchmarks posted losses for the week, with Brent
seeing a drop of 7.9% to $93.02 a barrel and US WTI of 6.7% to
$86.87, as concern over China’s COVID-19 curbs and weakness in
the global economy loomed over the market. REUTERS
14 mn in informal music industry, but
paid below unskilled workers: Icrier
SOUMYARENDRABARIK
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
The Indian music scene
As per the Icrier report, the informal
THE ‘INFORMAL music industry’
—whichincludespeoplelikeDJs,
music industry in India employs more
brassbands,independentartists, people than the telecom sector does
soundengineers,andsmall-scale
MEDIAN SALARIES
manufacturers, among others —
isatleast74timesbiggerthanthe Averagemonthlymediansalaryof peoplein File
‘formal’ music industry, which informalmusicindustry(muchlower,compared
MARKET SIZES
comprises recording studiosand
digital streaming, a new report
tothatof unskilledworkersat`29,000)
Sound
`1-5 TRILLION
has estimated. Yet, the average engineer `28,000 Informal music industry
salariesofthosewhoformthein- Disk ■ Includes DJs, brass bands,
formal music industry is lower Jockey
`27,000 independent artists, sound engineers,
than the typical average salary of small-scale instrument makers etc
Brass
an unskilled worker. bands `19,000
According to a report by the `18.7 BILLION
Instrument Formal music industry
Indian Council for Research on
manufacturers `12,500
InternationalEconomicRelations ■ Includes recording studios (music
(Icrier)titled‘TheUntoldPotential Source: Icrier labels), live music, digital streaming
China of India’s Informal Music
World Industry’, the market size of the
informal music industry in the MinimumWageAct,1948,there- its cultural reflection and an op- suggested that while both insti-
India country is between Rs 1 trillion port has found. portunity for growth, “in India, tutions have matured and
and Rs 5 trillion. In comparison, Icrier said that while the me- music has seen commercial suc- strengthened over time, in com-
2020 the formal part of the industry is diansalaryofanunskilledworker cess primarily in the shadows of parisontoseveralothercountries,
worthRs18.7billion,orRs0.0187 is around Rs 29,000, that of a thefilmindustry”,Icriersaidinits thememberassociationandrev-
trillion. “The popularly available sound engineer is Rs 28,000, for report. It cited the example of enue generated by these institu-
estimates for themusicindustry, a DJ Rs 27,000, for brass bands Rs South Korea, where the govern- tions remain relatively low,” the
primarily focused on the formal 19,000 and for instrument man- ment has managed to create soft reportsaid.Forexample,in2021,
sector, are miniscule in compari- ufacturers Rs 12,500. power through music. At the the Society of Authors,
son and reflect just the tip of the “The estimates for the infor- same time, Icrier said organisa- Composers, and Publishers of
industry iceberg,” it said. mal music industry indicate a tions representing music artists Music (SACEM) in France col-
Thereportestimatedthatthe needforpolicyinterventionwith in the country make far less rev- lectedroyaltiescloseto$1billion.
informalmusicindustryemploys respect to improving livelihood enue compared to their global Incomparison,theIPRScollected
almost 14 million people, which, opportunities for the sector, pro- counterparts. lessthan$200millioninroyalties
it said, is more than those em- viding social security to vulnera- TheIndianPerformingRights the same year, it estimated.
ployed by the Indian Railways or blegroupsandnurturingitsover- Society (IPRS) and the According to Icrier, “poor en-
even the Indian government. all growth perspective,” said the Phonographic Performance forcement” of intellectual prop-
Sectorally,eventhoughthein- report,whichwascommissioned Limited (PPL) are the leading or- erty rights laws is “perhaps the
dustry employs more people by the Indian Music Industry ganisationsthatgovernthecom- sorest point for the industry”.
thanthetelecomsectordoes,the (IMI) — an industry body which mercialuseofmusicinIndia.“Our Full report on
reportsaidthatgovernmentpoli- represents the interests of the stakeholder interactions have www.indianexpress.com
cies focus on the telecom sector recorded music industry in
for their growth dividends, but India.Itsestimatesarebasedon
“the music industry has re- thetriangulationof data from a OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER PWD,
mained on the periphery in the multi-city field survey of 1,574 DIVISION BHILWARA
overall economic agenda for the individuals,includingmembers No.-3112 Date:-30.08.2022
NIB CODE : PWD2223A1785
country”. of 255brassbands,207DJs,201 Notice Inviting Bid 14/2022-23
Despite its large size, the esti- sound engineers, 234 inde- Bids for Building works are invited form interested bidders upto 6.00 PM Dated
mated average monthly income pendent music teachers, and 19.09.2022 (Monday). Other particulars of the bid may be visited on the procurment por-
tal (http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in., http://sppp.raj.nic.in) of the state. The approximate
ofdifferentsub-groupswithinthe 677 independent artists. values of the procument is Rs. 216.68 Lacs, (Total of One Bid)
informal music industry is lower While globally, some gov- UBN Code:- PWD2223WSOB06642
Sd/-
than the median salary of an un- ernments have approached (Narendra Choudhary)
skilled worker under the music as an industry central to Executive Engineer
PWD Division Bhilwara
DIPR/C/11385/2022 Mob. No. 99835-29510
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Bids for Renewal work on Various roads under RIDF-28 of 2022-23, Construction
of Missing link & Renewal of nonpatchable various roads under Budget
Annoucement 2022-23. Construction of various roads in Nagarpalika Deshnoke
for year 2022-23 and Supply of Core Cutter S.R. Programme mtc works are
invited from interested bidders upto 06.09.2022 [09:30 AM] to 21.09.2022 [06:00
PM], other particulars of the bid may be visited on the procurement portal
http://www.pwd.rajasthan.gov.in & eproc.rajasthan.gov.in & http://sppp.
rajasthan.gov.in of the state and departmental website. The approximate value
of the procurement is Rs. 1347.46 Lakh.
UBN No.
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TOPOFTHE
WORLD
F-5 fighter during a
military drill at
Zhi-Hang Air Base
USA
$1bnarmssaleto
Taiwancleared
amidtension
Washington: The Biden
administration on Friday
announced a over $1 bil-
lionarmssaletoTaiwanas
US-China tensions esca-
late over the status of the
island. The $1.09 billion
sale includes $355 million
for Harpoon air-to-sea
missiles and $85 million
for Sidewinder air-to-air
missiles, the State
Department said. The
largest portion of the sale,
however, is a $655 million
logistics support package
for Taiwan’s surveillance
radar programme, which
provides air defence
warnings. The State
Department said the
equipment is necessary
for Taiwan to “maintain a
sufficient self-defence ca-
pability.” AP
SOUTH AFRICA
Hugemuralof
Gandhi,Mandela,
Tutuunveiled
Johannesburg:Ahugewall
mural of images of
Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson
Mandela, Desmond Tutu,
Ahmed Kathrada and a
hostofotherSouthAfrican
leaders has been unveiled
at the Aryan Benevolent
Home in Chatsworth.
Celebrated Indian-origin
artist Nanda Soobben
spent more than a month
painting the mural.“The
aim of the painting (un-
veiledonFriday)istobring
about peace and a non-
racialsocietyfollowingthe
unrest,” Soobben said.PTI
SOMALIA
Al-Shabab
extremistskill
20travellers
Mogadishu: Somali state
media and residents say
the extremist group al-
Shabab killed at least 20
people and burned seven
vehiclestransportingfood
in Hiran region Saturday.
“The victims were drivers
andpassengerstransport-
ing food supplies from
Beletweyne to Mahas and
seventruckscarryingfood
and vehicles used by the
passengers were set
ablaze,” resident Hassan
Abdulle said. AP
USA
Mississippipilot
tofacecriminal
chargesforthreat
Jackson: Authorities say a
manwhostoleaplaneand
flew it over Mississippi af-
ter threatening to crash it
into a Walmart store faces
charges of grand larceny
and terroristic threats.
Tupelo Police Chief John
Quaka said that Cory
Wayne Patterson didn’t
have a pilot’s licence but
hadsomeflightinstruction
and was an employee of
Tupelo Aviation. AP
POLAND
Indianman
raciallyabused
London: An Indian man
has been racially abused
in Poland, allegedly by an
American, who called
him a “parasite”, “an in-
vader”andtoldhimto"go
back to your country”. It
is unclear in which city
the video was shot but
Twitter users have been
tagging Warsaw Police in
comments. PTI
A memorial service for Mikhail Gorbachev at the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow on Saturday. Reuters
SOME OTHER FUNERALS OF PREVIOUS SOVIET AND RUSSIAN LEADERS IN THE PAST 100 YEARS
VLADIMIR LENIN
The leader of the 1917 Bolshevik
Revolution died on Jan. 21, 1924 at 53.
The body was placed on public display
and can still be seen in Red Square
YURI ANDROPOV
Andropov died in 1984 aged 69. He received a state funeral on
Red Square after four days of mourning, with leaders, including
George HW Bush and Margaret Thatcher present at the event
Thousands gather to pay respects
to Gorbachev, Putin stays away
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 3
THOUSANDS OF Russians from
across the country were in cen-
tral Moscow on Saturday to pay
their final respects to Mikhail S
Gorbachev,thelastSovietleader.
Inside the grand hall of
Moscow’s famed House of the
Unions — with its windows
draped in black and its chande-
liers dimmed as solemn classi-
Russia, West step up
energy war as UN
experts inspect N-site
REUTERS & AP
KYIV, SEPTEMBER 3
STEPPING UP an energy war be-
tween Russia and the West,
Moscow has announced it will
keep its main gas pipeline to
Germany shut and G7 countries
said they planned a price cap on
Russian oil exports.
Already struggling to tame
soaringgasprices,Europeangov-
ernmentshadexpectedtheNord
Stream 1 pipeline to resume
flows after a short maintenance
this week but Russia abruptly
cancelledtherestart,citinganoil
leak in a turbine. Gas shortages
also prompted Sweden on
Saturdaytounveilafinancialsup-
port package for energy firms.
Russia’s defence ministry,
meanwhile, accused Ukrainian
forces on Saturday of mounting
a failed attempt to capture the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power
plant that has been a centre of
international concern in recent
weeks The ministry said a
Ukrainian naval force of more
than 250 troops attempted to
land on the coast of a lake near
TECHNOLOGY ENABLING TRANSMISSION OF FAKE LOCATIONS COULD HAVE PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS
High seas deception: How shady ships use GPS to evade global law
ANATOLY KURMANAEV
SEPTEMBER 3
THESCRAPPYoiltankerwaitedto
loadfuelatadilapidatedjettypro-
jecting from a giant Venezuelan
refineryonaDecembermorning.
Astringofabandonedshipslisted
in the surrounding turquoise
Caribbean waters, a testament to
the country’s decay after years of
hardships and US sanctions.
Yet,oncomputerscreens,the
ship — called Reliable — ap-
pearednearly300nauticalmiles
away, drifting innocuously off
the coast of St Lucia in the
Caribbean. According to
Reliable’ssatellitelocationtrans-
JOSEF STALIN
Stalin died on March 5, 1953, aged 74. His
body lay in state in the Hall of Columns
in central Moscow and was then placed
alongside Lenin’s in the mausoleum
cal music played — people
walked by Gorbachev’s coffin
placedbeneathaRussianflagin-
stead of the Soviet red banner.
Gorbachev, whose family
members sat beside the coffin,
died on Tuesday at age 91.
Itwasclearsoonafterhisdeath
thattheKremlinwouldnotaccord
Gorbachev the pomp of a grand
stateceremonythatcharacterised
funeralsofhisSovietpredecessors.
It was not broadcast live by state
television,andtherewerenolines
Ukrainian State Emergency
Service works after a rocket
attack in Kramatorsk,
eastern Ukraine. AP
the plant, which is Europe's
largest nuclear energy station.
The head of the UN nuclear
watchdog said Saturday that the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was
disconnected to its last external
powerlinebutwasstillabletorun
electricity through a reserve line
amidsustainedshellinginthearea.
TurkeyofferedonSaturdayto
facilitate the Zaporizhzhia situa-
tion.Elsewhereonthefrontlines,
Ukraine started an offensive this
week to recapture territory in
southernUkraine,mainlyfurther
down the Dnipro in neighbour-
ing Kherson province.
missions, the ship had not been
to Venezuela in at least a decade.
Shipping data researchers
haveidentifiedhundredsofcases
like Reliable, where a ship has
transmitted fake location coordi-
natestocarryoutmurkyandeven
illegalbusinessoperationsandcir-
cumvent international laws and
sanctions.Thedigitalmiragecould
transform how goods are moved
around the world, with profound
implications for the enforcement
of international law, organised
crimeandglobaltrade.
Tampering this way with
satellitelocationtrackerscarried
by large ships is illegal under in-
ternational law, and until re-
cently,mostfleetsarebelievedto
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
Khrushchev died on September 11,
1971, aged 77, and was given a
private burial in Novodevichy
cemetery
BORIS YELTSIN
Yeltsin,whoforcedGorbachevtostepdownin1991,diedin 2007.
Putindeclaredanationalday of mourningforthefuneral.Yeltsin’s
bodylayinMoscow’s gold-domed Christ the Saviour cathedral
of sobbing people in gray coats,
carryingredcarnations.
Andonepersonwasconspicu-
ously absent on Saturday:
PresidentVladimirVPutin.Citing
a busy schedule, Putin did not at-
tend the memorial. Putin’s ab-
sencesentaclearmessage:While
the Kremlin wanted to avoid any
direct condemnation of a person
who was once at its helm, it also
wantedtodistanceitself fromthe
symbol of an era whose legacy
Putinisnowlargelytryingtoundo.
The Artemis I rocket on the launchpad early Saturday, its second launch attempt. Reuters
Fuel leak ruins NASA’s second
shot at launching moon rocket
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAPE CANAVERAL,
SEPTEMBER 3
NASA’SNEWmoonrocketsprang
another dangerous fuel leak
Saturday, forcing launch con-
trollers to call off their second at-
tempttosendacrewcapsuleinto
lunar orbit with test dummies.
The first attempt earlier in
the week was also marred by es-
capinghydrogen,butthoseleaks
were elsewhere on the 322-foot
(98-meter) rocket, the most
Reliable, a ship registered in Cyprus, taking on oil at a
refinery in Venezuela. NYT
have largely followed the rules.
But over the past year,
Windward, a large maritime data
company that provides research
totheUN,hasuncoveredover500
Also noticeably absent from
the funeral were foreign digni-
taries — except for PM Viktor
OrbanofHungary—highlighting
Russia’s isolation from the West
amid its continuing war in
Ukraine. Many high-profile pub-
lic Russian figures did attend the
ceremony, though, including
Dmitri A Medvedev, a former
president;SergeiStepashin,afor-
mer PM; and some popular cul-
ture figures, including Alla
Pugacheva, a pop superstar.
powerful ever built by NASA.
There was no immediate
word on when NASA might try
again.AfterTuesday,atwo-week
launch blackout period kicks in.
Extensive fuel leak repairs could
requirethattherocketbehauled
off the pad and back into its
hangar, possibly pushing the
flight into October.
Launch director Charlie
Blackwell-Thompson and her
team tried to plug Saturday’s leak
the way they did the last time:
stoppingandrestartingtheflowof
super-cold liquid hydrogen in
cases of ships manipulating their
satellitenavigationsystemstohide
their locations. The vessels carry
out the deception by adopting a
technologythatuntilrecentlywas
USA
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE DESTROYS HOMES
A wind-whipped fire that erupted near a defunct lumber mill in Northern California
exploded on Friday into a fast-moving inferno, burning homes and prompting the
evacuation of thousands of people in rural Siskiyou County, fire authorities said.
Gotabaya gets special
security & bungalow
on return to Colombo
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
COLOMBO, SEPTEMBER 3
SRI LANKA’S former President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been
given special securityand a state
bungalow for accommodation
on his return from Thailand
where he fled amid months-
long mass protests over the
country’s worst economic crisis,
officials said on Saturday.
Rajapaksa,73,wasaccordeda
warmwelcomeashereturnedto
Colombo amid tight security on
lateFriday.Hewasfestoonedwith
flowers by a welcoming party of
ministersandpoliticiansashedis-
embarked at Bandaranaike
International Airport from
Bangkok via Singapore.
Rajapaksa wanted to move
into his private residence at
Mirihana in Colombo’s eastern
suburb of Nugegoda. However,
security considerations pre-
ventedhimfromgoingtohispri-
vate residence, officials said.
After being welcomed by
lawmakers of the ruling Sri
Lanka Podujana Peramuna
(SLPP) party, Rajapaksa left the
airport in a motorcade heavily
guarded by armed soldiers and
was driven to the posh Colombo
residential area of Cinnamon
Gardens where a state-main-
tained bungalow was provided
to him, they said.
Formerpresidentsareconsti-
tutionally guaranteed a house,
personal security and staff after
they leave office. “He will not be
involvedinpoliticsdespitemany
of the party members expecting
him to start politics again,” a
source from the ruling SLPP told
EconomyNext website .
hopesofremovingthegaparound
asealinthesupplyline.Theytried
thattwice,infact,andalsoflushed
helium through the line. But the
leakpersisted.
Blackwell-Thompson fi-
nally halted the countdown af-
ter three to four hours of futile
effort. “We have a scrub for the
day,” announced NASA’s
launch commentator, Derrol
Nail. NASA wants to send the
crew capsule atop the rocket
around the moon, pushing it to
the limit before astronauts get
on the next flight.
confined to the world’s most ad-
vanced navies. The technology, in
essence, replicates the effect of a
VPNcellphoneapp,makingaship
appear to be in one place, while
physicallybeingelsewhere.
Its use has included Chinese
fishing fleets hiding operations
in protected waters off South
America, tankers concealing
stops in Iranian oil ports, and
container ships obfuscating
journeysintheMiddleEast.AUS
intelligence official, who dis-
cussedconfidential government
assessments said the deception
tactic had already been used for
weapons and drug smuggling.
After originally discovering
thedeceptionnearcountriesun-
New Delhi
Gotabaya Rajapaksa with his wife Ioma Rajapaksa at the
Bandaranaike International Airport. Reuters
With no immunity, former
leader faces legal troubles
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLOMBO, SEPTEMBER 3
SRI LANKA’S ousted President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who re-
turnedhomeaftersevenweeksin
exile following protests over eco-
nomichardships,couldfacelegal
actionoverforceddisappearances
of activists now that he has been
stripped of constitutional immu-
nity, a lawyer said Saturday.
Rajapaksa has no pending
court cases because he was pro-
tectedbyconstitutionalimmunity
as president. A graft case against
him during his time as a top de-
fenceofficialwaswithdrawnsoon
after he was elected in 2019.
However, Rajapaksa will be
served a summons next week to
appear at the Supreme Court,
where his immunity from testi-
Netflix’s ‘ultimate
conman’ arrested in
Belgium while on run
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 3
A BRITISH con artist who is the
subjectof aNetflixdocumentary
has been arrested in Belgium af-
ter fleeing from neighbouring
France,wherehehadinjuredtwo
police officers, authorities said
Robert Hendy-Freegard, 51,
was expected to appear before a
Belgian judge on Saturday, a day
after he was arrested on a high-
way in Groot-Bijgaarden, east of
Brussels, Belgian federal police
said.Hehadbeenontherunsince
last week, when he hit two offi-
cerswithhiscarashewasfleeing
apoliceraidathishomeinthevil-
lage of Vidaillat in central France.
GillesBlondeau,spokesperson
for the Public Prosecutor’s Office
oftheHalle-Vilvordedisctrict,said
Saturday that “about a week ago,
the person in question was sup-
posed to undergo a checkup by
the police and he fled. He also hit
twopolicemen,oneofwhomwas
very seriously injured.”
FrancehadissuedaEuropean
arrest warrant. The country’s
prosecutors have open an inves-
tigation for “attempted murder”
der sanction, Windward has
since seen it spread as far as
Australia and Antarctica.
“It’s a new way for ships to
transmit a completely different
identity,” said Matan Peled, a
founder of Windward. “Things
have unfolded at just an amaz-
ing and frightening speed.”
Under a UN maritime resolu-
tionsignedbynearly200nations
in2015,alllargeshipsmustcarry
and operate satellite transpon-
ders,knownasautomaticidenti-
fication systems, or AIS, which
transmit a ship’s identification
and navigational positional data.
The spread of AIS manipula-
tion shows how easy it has be-
come to subvert its underlying
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
fying on the forced disappear-
ance of two young political ac-
tivists is challenged, said lawyer
Nuwan Bopage, who represents
the victims’ families. He said
Rajapaksafledthecountrywhen
hewasabouttobeservedasum-
monsinJuly.Thedisappearances
took place 12 years ago soon af-
ter the end of the country’s long
civil war when Rajapaksa was a
powerfulofficial underthe pres-
idency of his older brother.
Meanwhile, some protesters
said they were not opposed to
his return as long as he faces jus-
tice. “Whether he is president or
not, he is a citizen of Sri Lanka
andhehasthe rightto live in this
country,” said Wijaya Nanda
Chandradeva, a retired govern-
mentemployee.“Irejecthimbe-
cause we elected him and he
provedhimself tobeunsuitable.”
E
E X P L A I NE D
TheNetflix
● constory
NETFLIX STREAMING
service released a docu-
mentary this year called
“The Puppet Master:
Hunting the Ultimate
Conman” about the life of
Hendy-Freegard. He
spent 10 years emotion-
ally manipulating his vic-
tims into giving him their
money, their trust and
eventually their freedom
by running away with
him, as per the series.
on police officers. “The East
Flandersroadpolicewereableto
intercept the man in Groot-
Bijgaarden,anditturnedoutthat
itwasindeedthispersonandthe
wanted vehicle,” he said.
AccordingtotheNetflixdocu-
mentary, The Puppet Master:
HuntingtheUltimateConman”,he
waslivinginrecentyearsinFrance,
wherehewasbreedingdogs.
technology — the Global
Positioning System, or GPS —
whichisusedineverythingfrom
cellphones to power grids, said
DanaGoward,aformerseniorUS
CoastGuardofficialandthepres-
ident of Resilient Navigation and
Timing Foundation, a Virginia-
based GPS policy group.
“Thisshowsjusthowvulner-
able the system is,” he said.
Goward said until now, all major
global economy players had a
stakein upholding anorder built
on satellite navigation systems.
But rising tensions between the
West, Russia and China could be
changing that. “We could be
moving toward a point of inflec-
tion,” Goward said. NYT
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Why I Became a Teacher Life Lessons
Artists Rekha Rodwittiya, Kanchan and
Shivendra Singh Baghel, Abraar Ahmed and
Vasudevan Akkitham interview their mentors
others on what made them choose the profession
Jyoti Bhatt, Anupam Sud and
and why they feel teachers can be changemakers
Gulammohammed Sheikh

HOPE, LIGHT AND A LEGACY OF JOY

They taught us kindness and perseverance, the virtues of hard work, curiosity and the ability to look beyond textbooks. Ahead of September 5,
in this Teachers’ Day special, writers, naturalists, politicians and actors tell us about their favourite teachers; educators speak on what
motivated them to enter this profession and artists interview pedagogues who opened up a whole new world for them

WHY I CHOSE TO BE
A TEACHER
‘I just started
‘I WANT EVERY CHILD learning about
TO BE CONFIDENT’ nature hands-on’
Herpetologist and conservationist
— Manu Gulati, 39
English teacher; Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya No. 2, Punjabi
Romulus Whitaker on learning from
Bagh, New Delhi; Mentor teacher, Directorate of Education,
Delhi government
his mother and the great outdoors

COURTESY:LONEFOXDANCING:ANAUTOBIOGRAPHY/SPEAKINGTIGER

‘He spent his life trying to put

some sense in our heads’ MYMOTHERwasasingleparent.Shehaddivorcedmyfather
MDSILMI

Author Ruskin Bond on Mr ‘Taffy’ Jones who introduced him to andraisedmeandmyoldersisterinnorthernNewYorkstate,

out in the country. We lived in what could be called a man-
Dickens and taught him how to stay afloat sion, because my mother’s eldest sister was a rather success-

I
ful commercial artist in New York City, and she bought this
WENT to a boarding school up in the cause I used to read a lot of Woodhouse and piece of 40 acres of land with a house built in 1813.
hills — Bishop Cotton in Shimla. Most he would say that Wodehouse only wrote For me, as a six-year-old, it was paradise because I didn’t
COURTESY:MANUGULATI
of the teachers there were men, there about aristocrats, earls and lords. So, we had have to go to school. The place was surrounded by woods,
For how long have you been teaching? were very few lady teachers in those lots of discussions, which was a good thing streamsandplentyof snakes,novenomousones,mymother
I have been teaching since 2004, so it has been 18 years days,exceptinthejuniorschool,since because most of the teachers were not inter- quicklyestablishedthat.Iguessthat’swhyshewassopromo-
now. Initially, I taught at a private school. I joined Delhi gov- the bigger boys were sometimes difficult to ested in books or literature; they just kept to tionalaboutwhatIwasdoing—catchingsnakesandbringing
ernment schools later as a primary teacher, but now I teach handle. The teacher that I really liked and their subjects. themhome.Shegotanoldaquarium,abrokenone,landscaped
secondary students. I joined my current school in 2011. who influenced me was called Mr Jones. He He was from an Army family and had itwithrocks,mossandgrassandwewouldkeepgartersnakes
was a Welshman and so he was called ‘Taffy’ been to the army school in Sanawar. In fact, andotherlocalsnakesIcaughtinitforafewdaysandthenre-
What drew you to the profession? Jones — I don’t know why Welshmen are he had been there at the same time my fa- leasethem.ItwasjustnaturalthatIstartedlearningaboutna-
Myparentswerebothgovernment-schoolteachers.Since called Taffy. He was a little eccentric because therhadstudiedthere.Hewasoneof theold- turehands-on.Iwastooyoungtobeabletoreadthen,butlater,
my childhood, I have lived and cherished many experiences he had a pet pigeon and wherever he went, school and disciplined teachers. He taught my mother got me one of those children’s books with nice il-
throughthem.Theyhavebeenmysourceof inspiration.They the pigeon went with him, even to the class- me to swim too, I should mention that. I was lustrations called Boy’s Book of Snakes. I learned as much as I
used to narrate stories during dinner and I used to like hear- room. The pigeon would perch either on his afraid of water as a small boy and he got me couldfromthatandIwouldaskadultswhytheyhatedsnakes
ing about all the small things they wanted to do. I used to see shoulderoronhisbaldhead.Whilehetaught over that fear by giving me a rubber buoy to —mostwerenon-venomousandbeautiful.Lookingback,Ire-
my parents prepare small teaching aids, I used to see them us Shakespeare or whatever it was on our hang on to while I floated around in the pool. ally must have been obnoxious because I was just vehement
study. That’s how we were raised. When I shifted from a pri- English course, the pigeon would sit on the WhenI leftschool in 1950, Mr Jones, who about how wonderful they were.
vate school to a government one, it was a sea change in cir- window ledge and behave itself quite well was quite elderly, was forced to retire. But he My formal education was sketchy — I barely finished high
cumstances.ButPapamotivatedmeandtoldmethat allchil- and even take an interest in the proceedings. didn’t retire. He left our school and taught in school. When we moved to India, I studied at what is now
dren deserve good teachers. Mr Jones was not very well qualified; he small,privateschools indifferentpartsof the KodaikanalInternationalSchool.
was just a trained teacher. He didn’t have country because he couldn’t give up teach- Ithinktheygraduatedmetojust
What has been your best degrees, with the result that he never got a ing. After I left school, my mother shipped get rid of me. I then got into the
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moment as a teacher? promotion or became a housemaster or had meoff toEnglandbutIcamebackafterabout UniversityofWyomingbecause
Some time ago, a student any ambitions to be a headmaster. But he SPARE THE ROD, SAVE THE CHILD four years when I got my first book accepted. it had a course in wildlife man-
from my first batch in 2011 got was, in those days, what you called, a de- Ruskin Bond; (top) a file photo of the writer And who did I find in Dehradun but Mr agement,which,attheageof16,
married. He invited me to his voted teacher. It is something that is, maybe, with his house mates and teachers at Bishop Jones! He was working in a small school is what I thought I would do for
sagan ceremony and when I ar- rare now, someone who really gives up his there and I went over to see him and we had the rest of my life. The state also
Cotton School in Shimla
rived, he introduced me to his life trying to put some sense in the heads long chats and I took him out for a beer — ac- advertisedthatithadmoredeer
would-be-wife, saying, “This is of schoolboys. tually, he didn’t drink the beer, he drank cof- than people and I said, ‘Wow,
the ma’am because of whom I Mr Jones was popular with the boys be- thatIwasinterestedinbooksandthatIwrote fee and I drank the beer. He was pleased I’d that’s the state for me.’ I’m kind
got a job. It was because she cause he had a rule — he would never cane quite well, he would discuss books with me gotpublished,although,hethoughtthebook DORISNORDEN of reluctant to say it now, but I
constantly spoke to us in them. In those days, corporal punishment and even lend me books from his own per- could have been much better. GREAT SNAKES! lovedhuntingthosedays.Ihave
English in the class and encour- was common — if you got into trouble, you sonal library. He was a great fan of Charles Later, he was put in charge of a home for Whitaker, 70 years apart, changed quite a bit.
aged us that I was confident in IN SYNC got flogged. But Taffy Jones refused to cane Dickens, with the result that I almost read old people in Calcutta. He was older than Ionlydidoneyearof college,
with a Sumatran spitting
spokenEnglish. That’swhyIgot A video of Gulati dancing or flog a boy, which was one of the reasons the complete works of Dickens in the couple someof theinmatesbutherantheplacevery but the teaching experience in
cobra (top); a milk snake
my job.” It gave me goose- with her students to the why he didn’t get any promotions and so he of years that he was there. He was a bit of a well.So,hewasdoingsomethingortheother my life was joining something
bumps and brought tears to my stayed a junior master right through. socialist so he loved Dickens but hated PJ right till the end. called the Miami Serpentarium
Bollywood song Kajra
eyes. Here was a child who was He taught us English and when he saw Wodehouse. We had many arguments be- AS TOLD TO DEVYANI ONIAL in 1963. I did various jobs for a couple of years before landing
telling me 10 years later that he mohabbat wala (Kismat, up at the Miami Serpentarium. There was a guy there by the
knew how to face an interview 1968) on the last day of a name of William Haast, a quiet man, who became my guru. I
and get employed with my summer camp in a got to work for him for two years before I got drafted into the
help.Thatwasamoment when government school USArmy.Duringthatperiod,Igainedgreatknowledgeinkeep-
I felt that being a teacher is
worth it.
recently went viral
‘Later, I felt that is how a teacher should be’ ing snakes, extracting venom and understanding different
species.Billhadsnakesfromallovertheworld,fromAustralia,
India and Africa — black mambas, Australian tiger snakes and
And your worst moment? others.Itwasamagicalexperience.Iwasalsospendingalotof
There have been highs and lows but there has never been
aworstmoment.Therewillalwaysbechallengesandinthose
K K Shailaja, former thepracticeinprimaryschools,butmorethan
that, she was motherly and affectionate.
time out in the Everglades (national park), with other young
guys obsessed with snakes like me. They weren’t much older
challenges, there have been many failures. When you enter Kerala health minister, on At the time, my parents were very con- thanme,buttheyhadlivedtheirwholelivesinFlorida,sothey
a classroom, you might think that you’ll do something great cerned about my health. Our school had up- knew a lot and taught me a lot.
that day but your methodology might not work sometimes. her primary school pumavu as a noon meal. I liked it very much, In India, there are very few outdoor activities for children
But I have been so blessed that the people I have met in my but my parents did not allow me to have it. in schools. We have been trying very hard and have injected
work — my heads of schools, department officials, peers — teacher, who was both They wanted me to take lunch from home, some of our stuff into the curriculum. They have lifted chap-
have been very motivating. Also, children never disappoint.
If you feel low, they themselves will come and ask, ‘Ma’am, mother and educator which was quite close by. But realising my
likenessforupma,Janakiteacherkeptasmall
tersfromacoupleof mybooksandputthemin,oddlyenough
for English and not natural history! I get a lot of correspon-
aapka mood kharaab hai kya?’ boxof itfor meeveryday. Sheusedtocall me dence from children saying, ‘Now what can I do? I am so in-
FOR SOMEONE who taught students for 23 to the staffroom and give it to me. If my hair terestedinsnakes.’Luckily,nowtherearemanyinstitutesand
What are your future goals? years before taking voluntary retirement to was messy,shewouldcombit. Atschool, she organisations that they can join. The average parent in India
I’m currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia join full-time politics in 2004, CPI(M) central had been like a mother. Later, I felt that that would want their child to become engineers or doctors. But
and my research is on enhancing English-speaking skills of committeememberandformerKeralahealth is how a teacher should be, like a mother,’’ children who would much rather go out in the wild and do
government-school children. My goal is to foster confidence minister KK Shailaja is well aware of what it says Shailaja, who had remained in touch somethingexciting,Iamfullysympathetictothem.Beingamid
and speaking ability amongstudents from marginalisedsec- takes to teach young impressionable minds. with her favourite teacher till she passed naturehasbeenmybestlearningexperience.AsIspeak,I’msit-
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tions of society. Most importantly, I want to ensure the hap- Shewasherselfmentoredbyonesuchteacher, away a decade ago. “Even after I entered pol- tingontheedgeof alake,afishingrodinhandandwaitingfor
piness of children. I want every child to be confident and re- Janaki, who had shaped her early years at the IN HER FOOTSTEPS itics, I always found time to spend with her,” a large catfish to bite. I am watching dragonflies, and a king-
silient — these are two words I use all the time. primaryschoolinMadathilvillageinKannur. KK Shailaja she says. fisher just came and got a fish.
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WHY I CHOSE TO BE
A TEACHER
‘I want to change
the perception of teachers
in government schools’
— Shivendra Singh Baghel, 30
All subjects for primary classes; assistant teacher at Basic
Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) office in Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh
COURTESYSHIVENDRASINGHBAGHEL
BUILDING BRIDGES
Baghel was in the news a few months ago when during his
farewell from a school in Chandauli district, students were seen
sobbing and hugging him as he left the school for the last time
For how long have you been teaching?
Istartedteachingin2018afterIwasselectedtobecomean
assistant teacher in the Basic Education Department of UP.
What drew you to the profession?
I was a reporter for several years with different news or-
ganisationsbeforeIbecameateacher.Duringmytimeasare-
porter, Isaw that therewas a huge gap between teachersand
students. I felt if I become a teacher, I could help bridge this
gap, and make government schools fun for students.
What has been your best moment as a teacher?
My best teaching moment was when I organised a baal
mela (fair) in the school in Chandauli on March 31 this year. I
met with a lot of resistance from other teachers who said it
could not be done. I was nervous the evening before, but the
students were very excited and I didn’t want to disappoint
them. But then, on the day of the fair, the whole village gath-
ered and the students sold all the items they had put up in
stalls.Theparentsgatheredandthankedme.Theyrequested
me that I should be present on March 31 every year at the
school to host the fair, and I told them I would. It was my
favourite moment because the students were very happy.
And your worst moment?
I feel bad every time fellow teachers tell me not to invest
so much energy in teaching. They say that it is because I am
young and that it will fade away with time. That has got to be
my least favourite moment in my teaching career.
What are your future goals?
I want to change the perception of teachers in govern-
ment schools. I have attended several training programmes
for teaching, but they don’t teach us how to better connect
with students and bridge the gap between teachers and stu-
dents. The image of the teacher as this fear-inducing person
must go, and I hope to bring about some change in this.
AS TOLD TO ASAD REHMAN
‘While teaching, a
miracle happens every
now and then’
— Abraar Ahmed, 41
Head of Department, Mathematics, Shiv Nadar School, Noida
For how long have you been teaching?
Ihavebeenteachingforthelast14years;Istartedin2008.
What drew you to the profession?
Pursuing teaching was not a sudden decision. I am the
eldest in my family and I started out by teaching my younger
siblings and cousins. I was fascinated that an idea in your
brain, within 15 minutes (of teaching), can travel to some-
one else’s brain. That is a miracle which I experienced when
I was probably in Class VII. In college, my seniors suggested
I go into the field of education. I told them that I would pre-
fer teaching college students than those in schools. They ad-
vised that I should not look down upon the profession and
that I could devise ways to teach school students. I earned
the moniker of ‘teacher’ among
my friends. These were flashes
of inspiration that gave me a
purpose in life.
What has been your best
moment as a teacher?
There’s not a specific mo-
ment but ‘the best moment’
happenseveryotherday.Forin-
stance, when I am teaching a
COURTESYABRAARAHMED
difficult concept like calculus,
LOUD AND CLEAR as they start to understand,
Ahmed always knew he their faces just light up. It’s so
charming. That is something
wanted to teach
only a teacher can experience
— the powerful feeling of a
child’s potential. There are days when you utterly fail or the
children are not in the mood. But something beautiful hap-
pens every once in a while.
And your worst moment?
Again, not a specific moment but a multitude of experi-
ences. Every few months, you have to meet parents at the
parent-teachermeeting.Andthenyougetaparentwhodoes-
n’tlikethewaytheirchildtalkedtothemorwasn’tabletoan-
swer their question. They doubt the child and the teacher.
These meetings can be a mini hell.
What are your future goals?
Teaching is a high-energy profession where you have to
be constantly talking. However, slowly I would like to detach
myself from this profession and sit down quietly at a table to
be able to write a book.
AS TOLD TO ADITYA VADDEPALLI
EYE, THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE
TEACHERS’ DAY SPECIAL
‘He guided me without ever
telling me — just by his actions’
Adil Hussain on the greatest de-conditioning by his mentor Khalid Tyabji
I
HAVE BEEN one of the luckiest per-
sonsintheworldtohavehadteachers
who educated me diligently and
wholeheartedlyatvariousstages.Iam
deeply indebted to at least three of
them — two of whom want to be anony-
mous.ButIcannameKhalidTyabji,whocur-
rently lives in Poland.
May 15, 1990, was my first day at the
National School of Drama (NSD) and Khalid
wastotakeourfirstsessionat8am.Ourclass-
roomwasastudiowithoutfurnituresincewe
worked on the floor, moving and doing ac-
tion-orientedwork.IwentinandsawKhalid
walking like a monkey between the ceiling
and a net that he had made with thick ropes.
Khalid taught us for the whole semester
of sixmontheverymorningand,sometimes,
hewouldcomeintheevenings,from6pmto
10 pm. I had no clue what I was doing. I just
followed him. He would start moving and
we would copy him. Slowly, Khalid helped
us improvise and express, without saying
morethanoneof twosentencesashedidnot
speak much.
Immediately after NSD, I got the Charles
Wallace Scholarship to study at the Drama
Studio London but, after coming back from
the UK, I felt I was still not enough of an ac-
tor to perform in front of an audience. That’s
when I received an invitation to watch a per-
formance of Khalid, called A Fool’s Song
(1993). He was wearing nothing except his
underwear and a fool’s cap. The play was a
fool’s perspective of the different characters
who made up the landscape of India — from
the corporate CEO to a tribal man to a reli-
gious character — and Khalid depicted them
without saying a word. As hewas transition-
ing from one character to the other, I was
blown, that was the kind of artistry I wanted
to have.
I told Khalid I wished to train with him.
He asked, “How much money do you have?’
I had Rs 100. He said, “I am giving you one
year to earn Rs 1 lakh, and you must have a
motorbikeandthat,too,anEnfield”.Iwentto
Assam and joineda commercial touring the-
atre, known as mobile theatres, earned that
money and came back with an Enfield. He
‘Whatever history he taught, it was the
big picture he highlighted’
Nayanjot Lahiri on her mentor, friend, colleague Basudev Chatterji
I FIRST met Basudev (lovingly called Robi)
Chatterji in 1978 when I was an undergrad-
uatestudentandhe,alecturer,atStStephen’s
College, Delhi. Over the years, he appeared
in various avatars in my life — as a mentor, a
friendand, later, a colleague. Apart from uni-
versity corridors, I met him in DTC buses
where he shared Bengali recipes including
how the peels of potatoes were cooked. My
first visit to India International Centre (IIC)
was because of him. He came home many
times when we lived in South Extension,
where he always described what he drank
as my guru dakshina to him.
But it is Robi Chatterji as a teacher that I
most wanttoremember —especiallysince it
was becauseof himthat Idecidedtobecome
a teacher and researcher myself. He had just
returned from Cambridge (UK) and we were
the first batch of undergraduates that he
taught afterbecoming“Dr”Chatterji.Hewas
a brilliant, if occasionally distracted teacher.
He made his students feel that learning for
the sake of learning was the most exciting
and meaningful thing that they could do. He
was the first true intellectual that I encoun-
tered, and whatever history he taught, it was
the big picture that he highlighted. At a time
when no one talked of connected histories,
his expositions of modern India were as
muchaboutIndiaastheywereaboutEurope.
That is usually done today but was then un-
usual and uncommon.
Thankstohisshepherding,Ireadallkinds
EXPRESSARCHIVE
THINKING ON YOUR FEET
(Top) Khalid Tyabji in costume;
Adil Hussain
took me on a tour. We worked together for
the next two to three years in different parts
of the country, travelling on our motorbikes.
OurfirststopwasavillagecalledKurupar
in southern Madhya Pradesh, now in
Chhattisgarh. We had to walk some 50 km
fromJagdalpurtownandthenclimbforone-
and-a-half daystocometothevillagewhere,
in 1995, people hadn’t seen cars, buses,
money or matchboxes. We were dressed the
waytheywere— in loincloth.Khalid merged
into their society, wrestling with the young-
sters, running around and becoming a part
of thefun,rituals andtheirwayof livingwith
the ecosystem. He did not tell me what to do
andthiswasanissuewithmebecauseIgrew
up being instructed by my teachers all the
time.WhenIrealisedKhalidwasnevergoing
to tellmewhattodo, Ijust didwhatIwanted
— and that’s what he wanted me to do.
That was the greatest de-conditioning
thathappenedwhilewewere in Kuruparfor
COURTESYNAYANJOTLAHIRI
AN OPEN BOOK
Basudev Chatterji
of books which had nothing to do with the
antiqueworldthatIresearchedin—fromDA
Low (Congress and the Raj), and Ravinder
Kumar (Essays on Gandhian Politics), to
Fernand Braudel (The Mediterranean and the
Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II)
and Marc Bloch (The Historian’s Craft).
Whenever I use these texts for my own
teaching, I always recall that it was Robi who
first spoke with such passion about them.
According to his friend and editor, Rukun
COURTESYKHALIDTYABJI
a month. What did I want to do? What do I
really, really feel like? People who are in the
field of art must undergo de-conditioning —
from the actions that we think we ought to
do, to finding out what we really feel like do-
ing. It is a huge transformation and Khalid’s
greatest gift to me as a teacher.
He also insisted that I call him by his
name. If I said Sir, he would ignore me. I had
already found out that Khalid’s father,
Badruddin Tyabji, was one of the first am-
bassadorsof IndiainJawaharlalNehru’stime
and his mother, Surayya Tyabji, was among
those responsible for designing the Indian
flag. He imparted human values to me, apart
from being a fantastic acting teacher, who
trained each and every part of my muscle in
order for it to receive impulses from my in-
nermost core and translate these to recog-
nisable physical language.
Throughout our motorcycle journey,
Khalid introduced me to the many people,
faces, colours, rituals, customs, food, clothing
and behaviours of India. We were just travel-
lingandspendingoneortwoweeksinplaces
weliked.Irealisethat,attheendof thosetwo
years, I was made to become so flexible from
withinastobeabletoseetheworldfrommul-
tipleperspectives.Today,whenweencounter
anevent,wegenerallyseeoneperspectiveand
not the other. George Bush had said, ‘You are
eitherwithus,oragainstus’.Thisbinaryof ei-
ther we are right or the other person is right
has had disastrous consequences in society.
Actors and artists cannot have this attitude.
They must be looking at the truth from bil-
lionsofperspectives.Thatishowonebecomes
flexible and can respect and empathise with
different people. I have utmost gratitude and
debt towards Khalid who rebirthed me.
I kept learning from his life and actions. I
was fortunate that I met him in my early life,
because he influenced my life, personality,
worldview and ideas of acting, theatre and
life. He guided me without ever telling me —
just by his actions.
AdilHussainisaneminentperformeronstage
andscreen
(AS TOLD TO DIPANITA NATH)
Advani,whilecursingcurrentpoliticiansloot-
ingthecountrydry,Robiusedtosay,“Dosend
a telegram to the East India Company saying
‘Dear EIC, All Forgiven, Please Come Back.’”
The other gem is from Ramachandra
Guha about a lunch conversation with Robi
in 2011, when he was the Indian Council for
Historical Research (ICHR) chairman and
usedtovisitBengaluru.ThisishowGuhade-
scribed it: “Robi is a thoroughly good egg in
theWodehousiansense.Hebeganwithsome
sensible remarks on how history should be
studied and taught, then veered off into
(AlfredNorth)Whitehead,(Baruch)Spinoza,
(Ludwig) Wittgenstein and (Ramachandra)
RamuGandhi.Somewherehementionedthe
word ‘music’, which I seized on, bringing in
the names of Ali Akbar Khan (the musician
he venerates most of all) and Debashish
Chakravarty (Rukun’s Lucknow friend who
helped me with my musical education). For
thenexthalf hourhetoldwonderfulstoriesof
Ali Akbar, Ravi Shankar, Allauddin Khan,
Nikhil Banerjee, et al. all new to me (and
hencequitethrilling)...Inaboutanhour-and-
a-half, I got in nine words.”
I am sure that wherever Basudev
Chatterji is, he would be telling his friends
thatdeathforhimdidnotarrivetooearlybe-
causehewasalreadyimmortalfor manylike
mehere.Deathcanneithergivenortakethat.
NayanjotLahiriisprofessorofHistory,
AshokaUniversity
New Delhi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
‘Were you playing
to the gallery or
were you in
the moment?’
How Keval Arora taught Zeeshan
Ayyub that his truth is bigger than
the audience response
VIDYADASARORA
WAITING IN THE WINGS
Ayyub with teacher-mentor Arora
IT WAS in 2000 that I took admission in Kirori Mal College
(KMC) and encountered The Players, the dramatics society
shepherded by Professor Keval Arora, completely by coinci-
dence. I was a science student, an engineering aspirant. I had
no interest in acting. I just saw a pamphlet for the workshop
andthought,I’llhavesometimetoattend.Andonthesecond-
lastdayof thesessions,hevisitedusforthefirsttime.Bythen,
people had started responding to my performances, so I
was happy.
We started this exercise where we had to blindfold our-
selves and explore our space, and if we ran into someone, we
had to recognise who it was. When my turn came, I walked
around and reached Keval, touching his face. When people
started laughing, I pretended not to know who he was, feel-
ing his beard and glasses, and well, the little hair on his head.
“You didn't recognise me?” he asked me later.
“I was playing for the gallery,” I said.
“Were you playing for the gallery,” he probed, “or were
you in the moment?”
That triggered something in me. He helped me realise
that your truth is more important than how the audience is
responding. Are you doing it deliberately or are you lying to
yourself? That’s how I joined The Players.
Meeting Keval was a life-changing experience. Spending
time with him meant you were always learning something
in a completely democratic space, free of hierarchies. He was
always there as I got my breaks, critically analysing my per-
formances.Evennow,whenIlookbackatRaanjhanaa(2013),
which in Bollywood vocabulary was my big break, I remem-
ber asking Keval what he thought of my work in it, and he
said, “It’s good, but it’s not new. I’ve seen it before.”
And I thought, chalo, there’s still work to be done.
MohammedZeeshanAyyubisaMumbai-basedactor
AS TOLD TO UDBHAV SETH
‘I was enchanted by
his simplicity and his
ability to connect
with people’
— Prof M Jagadesh Kumar, 61
Chairperson, University Grants Commission
EXPRESSARCHIVE
Who is a teacher for you?
Forme,ateacherisaguru;amentorwhohasdeepknowl-
edge of a discipline, who can mould the values of the stu-
dents and can make them good learners.
Who are the teachers who deeply influenced you
as a student?
I have only two gurus – one is my mother. Since child-
hood, I learnt a lot from her, about how to face challenges in
life and how to overcome them. She never went to a school
and could hardly write or read Telugu. But she remained my
guru and philosopher until her death in 2016. The other per-
son who influenced me was my Ph.D. supervisor at IIT
Madras — Professor KN Bhat.
What drew you towards him?
FromBhat,Ilearnthowbeingfocussedandworkinghard
can lead you to achieve something significant in life. I came
from a village and he made me very comfortable by speak-
ingaboutit,sharinghisownlifestory.Sincehealsocamefrom
a rural background, I could easily connect with him. I had
joinedIITMadrasformyMaster’sdegreebutIalsogotadmis-
sion into Indian Institute of Science (IISC) for electrical engi-
neering.ButwhenImetBhat,Iwasenchantedbyhissimplic-
ity and his ability to connect with people. I decided to do my
research and Ph.D. only at IIT Madras under his guidance. I
am still in touch with him.
What makes a good teacher stand out?
I believe connection with students is very important. As
a teacher, I have always tried to practise some of the lessons
Ipickedfromown teachers.Forinstance, Iinvitemystudents
to my house at the end of every semester, spend time with
them, have food with them.
AS TOLD TO SOURAV ROY BARMAN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Three artists interview their teachers and look back at the time they spent
Jyoti Bhatt, 89
Interviewed by Rekha Rodwittiya, his
student at Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja
Sayajirao University, Baroda (1976-1982,
BA Painting)
TREASUREDMEMORY: Iremembervividly
how after a gruelling submission session in
my first-year specialisation (the third year of
myfive-yearBApaintingcourse),whenIwas
readytocallitquitsandleavethecollege,Jyoti
bhai merely said to me, “It’s always those
whom you believe to be good that you will
drive the hardest, so it’s up to you to see criti-
cismasacomplimentratherthansomething
to be defeated by.” To this day, l carry this ad-
viceasamantratocontinuouslypushthepa-
rameters of learning in my life.
IN CONVERSATION WITH BHATT
Has looking through the lens of a camera
opened up your perception differently?
‘Lookingthroughthelens’isthecommon
expression used. However, it is the square or
rectangularframeoftheviewfinderwherewe
place our eye to select what we see, and this
does influence one’s vision and perception.
Habituatedtoseeingthroughthis‘frame’,you,
perhaps,sometimesbegintoignorewhatlies
outsideofthisfocusedarea—instinctivelycre-
atinga‘frameofmind’insomecircumstances,
and,atothertimes,perhaps,a‘frameofhabit’!
However, what is interesting is that the cam-
eraalsoobligesyoutostartnoticingsmallde-
tails, that you may otherwise have missed,
that have the ability to tell a larger story.
How does the altering of history that we
encounter today affect your personal
memories of Indian history?
One of the songs I learnt in school in
BhavnagarwasTeeskotisheeshpranametane,
Bharat ni ho dharma dhwaja (Thirty crores
heads pay obeisance to the Indian flag). I had
neverthoughtwewouldhaveapopulationof
135 crore in such a short span of time. At the
time of Independence, we had a lot of hope
forwhatfreeIndiacouldbecome,butmostof
what we thought were essential have disap-
peared. For instance, I know people who
fought for India’s freedom and never applied
for“freedomfighter’spension”,butnowpeo-
ple enter politics merely to avail a lifetime’s
pension.Ihavelostallinterestandhopefrom
politicsandpoliticiansandbecomeapolitical.
You have been a teacher to so many of us.
Gulammohammed
Sheikh, 85
Interviewed by Vasudevan Akkitham, his
student at Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja
Sayajirao University, Baroda (1979 to 1983,
Diploma in Painting)
TREASURED MEMORY: When I joined the
department,Sheikhsirusedtobeateacherin
the art history department. He would take
classesinEnglishfordegreestudents,Hindifor
diplomastudentsand,attimes,inGujaratifor
thelocalstudents.Hewasalwayswillingtogo
beyond rigid rules if he felt that someone de-
servedbetterconsideration.Comingfromthe
south,mybatchmateBVSureshandIwerenot
too familiar with Hindi. When we requested
Sheikhsirtoallowustoattendclasseswiththe
degree students, he not only did so, but also
treatedusasoneofthem.Wedidassignments
andappearedfortestswiththem.Hemovedto
thepaintingdepartmentasitsheadafterafew
years.ItisratheramusingthatbothSureshand
I eventually became teachers in that very de-
partment and even taught under him.
IN CONVERSATION WITH SHEIKH
If I say that teaching came naturally to
you and that it fed into your own artistic
evolution, what would be your response?
I do not know how it came to me but I en-
joyed it thoroughly from the very outset. An
innatedesiretosharethedelightof lookingat
acompellingworkofartmadetheactofcom-
municating with students a matter of joy.
Teachinghistoriesof EasternandWesternart
revealedmultiplemodesof art-making.Itled
me to understand diverse forms of creativity,
which eventually fed into my own practice. I
prepared before a lecture but chose to speak
extempore to improvise and test my percep-
tions with students. Similarly, the challenges
in reaching out to diverse groups prompted
me to adopt a multilingual approach.
What would you consider the most
important contribution by the Baroda
faculty in Indian art after Independence?
Beingthefirstinstitutioninthecountryto
offeruniversitydegreesinfineartsatparwith
humanities and sciences, the art education in
Barodaemphasisedtheideaof acitizenartist,
articulateandawareof thehistoryof pastand
presentpracticesofart.So,thestudyofworld-
arthistory,aestheticsandlanguagesalongside
studiopracticewasformalisedintocourses.It
encouragedstudentstoinculcateaninquiring
mind and critical attitude and expanded the
scopeofthemes.Thisresultedintheinclusion
ofsocio-politicalissues.Emphasisingfreedom
ofexpressionasanintrinsicneedandtheem-
braceof ideasascentraltocreativepursuits,it
saw art as an ongoing process. In a sense, the
Barodaexperimentchangedtheprevailingno-
tion of art as a secretive profession and the
artist as a recluse or a vagabond.
TEACHERS’ DAY SPECIAL
Lessons for Life
under their tutelage
PHOTOS:REKHARODWITTIYA
Was it a challenge to engage with
generational shifts through the years
when communicating with young
impressionable minds?
It was never a challenge because most of
my students were very friendly. Technically,
theyweremystudentsandIwastheirteacher,
butIalwaysvieweditasarelationshipof mu-
tual give and take. I, perhaps, learned more
from them than they did from me. When my
students came to me with a new problem, I
had to learn, in order to give them the right
answers.Istillremember,oncewhilelooking
at my work, a young artist remarked that it
was postmodern. At the time, I did not know
COURTESY:DEPARTMENTOFPAINTING,FACULTYOFFINEARTS,MSU
Gulammohammed
Akkitham (sitting in
Sayajirao University
VADEHRAARTGALLERY
AKKITHAM’S FAVOURITE WORK
OF SHEIKH
ABOUT WAITING AND
WANDERING, 1981,
OIL ON CANVAS
I saw it in Sheikh sir’s university
quarters just before its completion.
I consider it to be one of his most
important works, multi-layered
and autobiographical. Not only
was it a major departure from his
earlier works in terms of language,
but in it, he also seemed to have
found a voice for himself to express
his interest in literature, narration
and the miniature traditions
Do you think within today’s art education
there is a need to focus on the interactive
aspects of various forms?
Absolutely. Not only between different
modesoffine-artspracticesbutalsobetween
otherartsandsocialandphysicalsciences.The
interaction should also flow into society, so
that art is not viewed as a domain of experts
alone but as a social need for people from all
walksoflife.Everybodyshouldpractisesome
form of art — drawing, singing, dancing or
writing — to find creativity within. This may
make us somewhat better human beings.
EYE, THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE
RODWITTIYA’S FAVOURITE WORK OF BHATT
FOR YOU ONLY, 1968, LITHOGRAPH ON PAPER
This beautiful lithograph of a simple bouquet of flowers is one of my favourite
works of him. For me, this visual is like a playful letter of love — for all to give and
receive — that sparks the imagination with the expectancy of joy. It is a timeless
work that speaks to all genders and all ages, across all cultural spaces
TO SIR WITH whatitmeantsolaterIaskedastudenttoex-
LOVE plain the meaning in the context of my work.
Ididnotplantobecomeateacher.Iwaslucky
Rekha Rodwittiya
there was an opening and I got the job — Log
with Jyoti Bhatt saath aate gaye aur karwaan banta gaya.
I know that everyday of your life has been
engaged with some factor of art — either
through teaching, writing or your own
studio practice. What is the reason you
hold such conviction for art in your life?
As a school student, I was deeply influ-
enced by artists like Ravishankar Raval and
Jagubhai Shah who introduced me to publi-
cations on art, to the images of Ajanta and
Anupam Sud, 78
Interviewed by Kanchan, her student while
pursuing BFA (Painting and Printmaking) at
College of Art, Delhi, from 1976 to 1981
TREASURED MEMORY: I was in Sud’s first
batch of printmaking students. I fondly recall
how she would simultaneously teach and
work on her zinc plates. We’d often visit her
studiointhecollege,wheresherespondedto
ourqueriesasweobservedherwork.Sheen-
couraged each of us to experiment. I still re-
member when she got a collagraph plate to
the class. I did not enjoy the medium, so I
walkedoutanddidnotattendherclassforal-
mostaweek,thinkingI’dreturnwhenanother
subject was introduced. But then, she found
SEPIA TONES me in the canteen eating bread pakoras, and
A photograph handed an etching plate, telling me I should
of artist attend classes. She loved me and I loved her. I
owe my interest in the medium to her.
Sheikh (with a IN CONVERSATION WITH SUD
beard, to the right)
and his student You are one of the finest printmakers of
Vasudevan India and you are equally technically
sound in painting. How do you transition
front of him) along between the two?
An artist remains an artist. There is a con-
with others during stantdesiretocreateandmycapacitytodraw
their time wasstrong—drawingisrequiredforpainting,
at Maharaja printmaking, sculpture and all forms of art. I
didmydiplomainpaintingbutsinceIwasen-
ticed by black and white, there was a gradual
shift from painting to printmaking.
Printmakingislikequicksand,yougetsucked
into it. I survived for some time but due to
health issues printmaking became challeng-
ing.SoIwentbacktocolourandstartedpaint-
ingagain.Asanartist,youyearntocreateand
painting was easier. Now, I pursue both.
Howdoyoumanagetopulloutprintsat
thisagewithouthelp?Itissolaborious!
Also,anyadviceyouwouldliketo giveto
youngprintmakers?
Printmaking requires a huge setup and
KANCHAN’S FAVOURITE
WORK OF SUD
DIALOGUE SERIES,
1992, ETCHING
ON PAPER
Anupam Sud was always very sensitive to issues around her and this work has two women in
conversation, pouring their hearts out. I think I saw her work on it while I was her student. A rather
sensuous etching, what makes it exemplary is how she has used the contrast between dark and light,
the subtle background, perfection of the figures, their posture and the moment captured
to the murals of Nandalal Bose, which led
me to my own initial engagement with art.
Coming to study art in Baroda under the
tutelage of stalwarts like Shanko Chaudhury,
KG Subramanyan and NS Bendre further
opened up my world to new ideas and, more
importantly, to a better understanding of
myself. I think my curiosities have always
led me to formulate my articulation as an
artist. I’ve never been able to sit idle, so I
work! I am 89, and I still cannot sit idle. I have
to do something, and art is what I find easi-
est to do. Today, I am unable to see much but
I still work on my paintings with the help of
my ex-students and young artists.
PHOTOS:KANCHAN
GOING THE DISTANCE
Sud and Kanchan
it’saverytediousmedium.Itdoesbreakyour
bones at times! For any artist, discipline is
the foremost, reverence is second. Once you
start bringing commerce into it, you bring in
corruption. Evaluate your work with quality
rather than what is selling. It is tough to sur-
vive but if one makes a compromise one
never reaches anywhere.
Do you miss your students?
At times I have been challenged by my
students and I have been loved by them, too.
On other occasions, my students have
feared me as I was slightly strict — I strongly
believe in discipline. In music, there is riyaz
and so it is in art, as well. One has to wor-
ship their profession and I always convey
this to my students. My studio was like a
temple where my students would come to
worship the medium.
New Delhi
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DOWN IN
JUNGLELAND
RanjitLal
Ranjit Lal is an author,
environmentalist and
bird watcher
Nature Study
In the biggest and best classrooms
of all, you only need to pay heed
S
HE HAS the best and biggest campus that we
know of, and nearly 8 billion pupils. Her subjects
are totally mind-boggling: some can only be stud-
ied under a microscope, others are truly gargan-
tuan and can only be stared at in awe. Many are beautiful
beyond words, others bizarre. Most have exceptional tal-
ents. Every “classroom” of hers, be they deserts, moun-
tains, oceans, islands, woodlands, rainforests, parks, gar-
dens and even “wastelands”, is crammed with subjects
bewildering in their variety and zany in their lifestyles.
From us, her students she demands only one thing: to be
the most inquisitive nosy parkers imaginable and to never
stop asking questions. And yes, the earlier our education
starts, the better — after all, toddlers like stuffing slugs and
snails into their mouths and will happily make friends
with large, hairy spiders and lizards, if their moms and
minders are not around to have hysterics!
Over the eons she’s had a galaxy of star pupils — like
the rows of 100 per-centers you see lined up in coaching-
class ads. Brilliant students such as Charles Darwin, Alfred
Russell Wallace, James Watson, Francis Clark, Friedrich
Miescher (who you probably haven’t heard of; I hadn’t till
just now!) Alexander Von Humboldt, and, more recently,
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas, our very own
Dr Salim Ali and, of course, the evergreen Sir Richard
Attenborough, among a myriad others.
They’ll all probably tell you one thing about what led
to their passion: curiosity. Something in the “classroom"
caught their attention and imagination and with it came
the lifelong quest to find out more. This often meant
spending decades in itchy, prickly, wet, cold, or searingly
hot, dry and uncomfortable classrooms, studying subjects
that were extraordinarily shy or out to kill, and that cer-
tainly did not want to reveal their secrets to every idiot
with a pair of binoculars, or worse, a bisecting kit.
Unlike our educational syllabi which stuff you into a
prescribed straitjacket, you are able to choose whatever
subject in whichever classroom that catches your fancy
and as many as you like, if you can manage it. There’s
nothing to stop you from studying, say, cockroaches as
well as birds of paradise and tornadoes at the same time
— if you are able to. What usually happens, of course, is
that you get stuck on one subject and with your nose to
the ground, like any good bloodhound, follow its trail and
RANJITLAL
SCHOOL OF OPEN LEARNING
Mother Nature’s classroom
life for most of the rest of yours (Some of the gossip they
can generate is truly mind-boggling. Honestly, there are
things out there who are both girls and boys at the same
time and so have twice the fun; snails for example!).
Maybe, just maybe, you will be rewarded if you are per-
sistent enough, with some revelation that you will have
stumbled upon (like Jane Goodall discovering tool-use
among chimpanzees) — and Mother Nature ma’am will
put a little golden star against your work that will shine
forever (Until, of course, some smart aleck turns up, some
time in the future, and says, “Sorry, you were so
wrong!Here’s what was really going on.”). Of course, you
have to get your work and great discovery “peer re-
viewed” and peers, by definition, are, usually a bunch of
pudding-faced spoilsports — rather like book reviewers.
Ah, yes, I do review books on nature, too, and boy, are
there a load of doomsday prophets out there, writing
about Armageddon and spoiling your day!
As in any class anywhere, there will always be the
majority of pupils who are just bored — or, worse,
delinquents, whose specialty is vandalism. These last
will go about spilling crude oil into the oceans, hacking
down rainforests, shooting down the last cheetah, foul-
ing river waters with noxious chemicals, and puffing
huge clouds of hot, toxic gases into the air and covering
everything with plastic. Mother Nature ma’am has, so
far, taken a lot of nonsense from these kinds without
much demur, but is now beginning to get a bit shirty.
She’s already rapped our knuckles with unprecedented
heat-waves, blazing forest infernos, floods, drought and
tantrum tornadoes. If we continue to misbehave, the
consequences may be worse.
The bored sort just go on with their lives showing no
interest in anything if it’s not on a screen or smart-phone
and doesn’t mention the word “dollar” And then, there
are those, who believe that Mother Nature ma’am has al-
ways harboured the most evil intentions towards us.
These good souls, alas, are getting a huge amount of time
on prime-time television like certain extremist schools of
thought, which is not encouraging at all. Mother Nature
ma’am does not want to annihilate us all — why should
she have set up this bewilderingly wonderful, working
campus otherwise?
Which, is why you must right now swoop down on
your children, hustle them outdoors, unleash them and
say, “Ma’am says go run around, climb trees, get bitten
by ants, watch a butterfly hatch, check out that hawk, go
figure — shoo!”
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GUJARAT URJA VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED

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TENDER NOTICE
GUVNL, a Govt. of Gujarat Undertaking hereby invites e-tender for
purchase of 500 MW RTC power for the period from 19.09.2022 to
21.10.2022 at GETCO Periphery (interconnection point of Gujarat STU
with CTU) as per Ministry of Power (MoP), Govt. of India Guidelines
dated 30.03.2016 read with amendment to the guideline notified on
21.02.2022. RFP is available at www.mstcecommerce.com from
03.09.2022. Bid has to be submitted online through DEEP Portal of
MoP. All terms and conditions shall be as per RFP.
Date: 4th September, 2022 General Manager (Commerce)

PUNJAB STATE GRAINS PROCUREMENT

CORPORATION (PUNGRAIN)
Anaaj Bhawan, Sector-39C, Chandigarh
NOTICE FOR PRE-BID MEET
In furtherance to NIT dated 21.08.2022, regarding E-Tender for
purchase of LDPE Black Polythene Tarpaulins for KMS 2022-23,
it is hereby informed that a pre-bid meeting to address the
queries, if any, of the interested bidders, has been scheduled on
05.09.2022 at 12.30 P.M. in Committee Room, 1st Floor, Anaaj
Bhawan, Sector-39C, Chandigarh. Interested bidders can partic-
ipate in person or join through Zoom link as follows:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81226853719?pwd=
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Meeting ID: 812 2685 3719
Passcode: 321052
The time and date for submission of bids against e-tender has
been extended till 03.30 P.M. on 09.09.2022 and the technical
bids will now be opened on 09.09.2022 at 4.00 P.M. For further
details, visit https://eproc.punjab.gov.in for tender ID:
2022_FCSCA_88917_1.
03.09.2022 Managing Director PUNGRAIN
Korba District Urban Public Service Society, KORBA
OFFICE OF THE KORBA DISTRICT URBAN
PUBLIC SERVICE SOCIETY, KORBA
e-Procurement Tender Notice PRESS NOTICE INVITING REQUEST
Main Portal: http://eproc.cgstate.gov.in
SYSTEM TENDER NO NIT NO 79 /KDUPSS / 2022 Dated 02.09 2022 ( 1st Call)
FOR PROPOSAL
Online bids are invited for the following works of Items up to 23.09.2022 at Request For Proposal(RFP) is invited from
17:30 hours.
Name of Work/Description of Item: Supply of Horne Compost kit for the competent agencies/ firms capable of
Korba District, Urban Local Department.
Probable Amount of Contract: Rs. 295.35 Lacs
studying feasibility for Establishment of Centre
The details can be viewed and downloaded online directly from the Government of Excellence, Flower ( lndo-Dutch Project)
of Chhattisgarh e-Procurement Portal of Municipal Corporation through Urban
Administration and development Department. http://eproc.cgstate.gov.in from under Mission for Integrated Development of
02.09.2022 at 10.30 Hours. (1ST) on wards.
For more details on the tender and bidding process you may please visit the
Horticulture(MIDH), a Central Sector Scheme
above-mentioned portal. with an estimated fund involvement of Rs.10
NOTE:
1. All eligible/interested contractors are mandated to get enrolled on , e- crores.
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2. Contractors can contact Help Desk for any clarification of their doubts
The competent agencies/firms capable of
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Anjali Tower Lalbag, Telebandha, Raipur or through Toll Free No.
18002582502 sd/- average turnover of Rs. 200.00 lakhs per year,
Nodal Officer
Korba District Urban Public Service Society, at least for a period of last three consecutive
1842 Korba (C.G.) years, only would be eligible for participating in
this process.
For detail please check https://tripuratenders.gov.in
Sd/-
(Dr. P.B. JAMATIA)
Director Horticulture & Soil Conservation,
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Classifieds
PERSONAL
I,DEEPANSHI,D/o SH.SURESH
KUMAR R/o.H.No.212,RPS-
COLONY, KHANPUR,
DR.AMBEDKAR NAGAR,SOUTH-
DELHI, DELHI-110062.,have
changed my name to
DEEPANSHI RAJPUT,for all,future
Purposes. 0040630450-11
I,Bhuwan Rathor S/o Sandeep
Rathor,R/O-340,Near-Hari
Singh,Gurudwara,Ram-Nagar,
Krishna Nagar,Delhi-110051,
inform that my name(Bhuvan
Rathor)spelling is Wrong in my
Passport-bearing No.
T6043455,the correct-spelling
of my name is Bhuwan Rathor.
0040630337-1
I,Bhawna Sharma W/o Manish
Ballabh R/o-B-151, Sector-19,
Noida, Gautam Buddha
Nagar,U.P.-201301,have
changed my name to Bhawna
Ballabh. 0040630483-2
I,Ayush Goel S/O.Joginder
Kumar Goyal R/O.110,
Paschim-Enclave,Peeragarhi,
Sunder Vihar,New Delhi-
110087,have changed my
name to Ayush Goyal for all
purposes. 0040630462-8
I,AMIT KUMAR GUPTA R/o-
AM.1007 AMRAPALI-VILLAGE
NYAY.KHAND.2 INDIRAPURAM
GHAZIABAD,UP-201014
,CHANGED MY-MINOR
DAUGHTER NAME ARANYA
GUPTA TO. ISHANI GUPTA,FOR
ALL PURPOSE. 0040630462-2
I,AISHA BEGUM W/O.NAZAR
AHMED R/O.V-15 DDA-FLATS
TURKMAN-GATE ASAF ALI-
ROAD,DELHI-6,HAVE CHANGED
MY NAME AS AAYSHA
SULTANA,FOR ALL PURPOSES.
0040630462-5
I Ashita Sharma D/o Late Sh.
Suresh Kumar Arora W/o Sh.
Sunil Sharma R/o H.No.79,
Guru Angad Nagar Extension,
Laxmi Nagar, Delhi-110092
have changed my name to
Ashita Arora for all purposes.
0040630318-4
I Jagjit Singh Chawla S/o Amar
jeet Singh R/O House No 58
Block-B Sector 92, Noida -
201304, Uttar Pradesh.Have
Changed my name To Jagjit
Singh Chawla for all Future
purposes. 0040630368-1
I Kanta Gandhi D/o Late Sh.
Chaman Lal Arora W/o Sh.
Mohan Gandhi R/o 202, C-3
Block, Janakpuri, Delhi-110058
have changed my name to
Sangeeta Gandhi for all
purposes. 0040630318-5
I Priyanka W/o Mr. Deepak
Kumar Yadav D/o Mr. Ved Raj
Yadav R/o 4/55, Roop Nagar,
Malkaganj, Delhi-110007 have
changed my name to Priyanka
Yadav for all purposes.
0040630318-3
I, Ankit Sangal S/o Alokk Kumar
Sangal R/o.D-169/57, Sector-
50, Noida, Gautam Buddha
Nagar, UP- 201301, have
changed my name to ANKKIT
KUMAR SANGAL for all future
purposes. 0070802375-1
I, Bhim Sain S/o Ganpat R/o
H.No-32/17/2/5, Gali. No-12,
Safiabad road, Gautam
Colony, Narela, Delhi declare
that in my daughter’s (Disha)
school record my name is
wrongly written as Bhim Sain
instead of correct name
Bheem Sen. 0070802374-1
I, MOHAMMAD BABAR KHAN,
S/O ZAMEER UR REHMAN
KHAN, R/O MOHALLA
SHAHZAD GAN P.O
SHAHJAHANPUR MEERUT, UP-
250104 IN MY-10TH
MARKSHEET-MY FATHER’S-
NAME IS WRONGLY-MENTION
ZAMIR UR REHAM KHAN BUT
MY-FATHER’S CORRECT-NAME
IS ZAMEER UR REHMAN
KHAN,IN HIS ALL-DOCUMENTS.
0040630450-9
I, MOHAMMAD MASSLULLAH,
S/O MOHAMMAD JALALUDDIN,
R/O F 42.A ABUL-FAZL-
ENCLAVE. PART-1 JAMIA
NAGAR N DELHI-110025,HAVE
CHANGE MY NAME MOHD
MASHIULLAH PERMANENTLY.
0040630450-10
I, RAJKUMAR S/o MOTI LAL R/o
C-515 DAYA NAND GALI,
NANAK CHAND BASTI, KOTLA
MUBARAKPUR, NEW DELHI-
110003 have changed my name
to RAJKUMAR VERMA
0070802376-1
I, SAHIB GUPTA, S/O AMRIT PAL
GUPTA,R/O D-2/76, JEEWAN
PARK,UTTAM NAGAR,DELHI-
110059.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO SAHIB. 0040630450-6
I, Sunita Rani W/O Surinder
Sachdeva R/O H.N. 931, Sec
15A, Faridabad 121007 have
changed my name to Sunita
Sachdeva on account of
marriage. 0040630318-1
I,Anil Tanwar s/o Krishan
Kumar Tanwar r/o WZ-40,
Naraina Village, Delhi-110028
have changed my name to Anil
Kumar Tanwar. 0040630444-1
I, SAKSHAM, S/o Vikas
Manchanda, R/o 25/5A,
Double-Story, Ashok-Nagar,
Tilak-Nagar,Delhi-110018,have
changed my name to
SAKSHAM MANCHANDA.
0040630450-5
I,Golda Komalan Satheedas,
M/o Dakshayani Chothi, R/o 4,
Flatlet-2, IUAC Housing
Complex, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,
Delhi-110067, have changed
my minor daughter’s name
Dakshayani Chothi to
Dakshayani Swathi Thirunal.
0040630365-1
It is for general-information
that I Sarabjeet Singh,S/o-
Labh Singh residing-H.No.191,
Pocket-G-30, Sector-3,Rohini,
Delhi-85,declare that name of
mine has-been wrongly-
written Sarabjit Singh in my
Northern Railway PPO-
20160302021417.The actual
name of mine is Sarabjeet
Singh,respectively which may
be amended accordingly.
0040630393-1
I,Tajammul Husain Zaidi S/o
Yamin R/o-250, First-Floor,
Main-Road, Zakir Nagar, New
Delhi-110025, have changed
my name to Tajammul Husain.
0040630483-1
I,Surinder S/o Narender kumar
R/o-1840 HBC sector-15,
Sonipat have changed my
name to Surinder dua, for all
purposes. 0040630462-10
I,Shubham Kumar,S/o Sh.Ram
Kumar R/o.B-5, Behind
Karkardooma-Court,East
Arjun Nagar, Shahdara,S.O.
East-Delhi, Delhi-110032,have
changed my name to
Shubham Kumar Arora,for all
purposes. 0040630450-7
I,Shivam Kumar,S/o Sh.Ram
Kumar,R/o B-5,Behind
Karkardooma Court,East Arjun
Nagar,Shahdara,S.0.East
Delhi, Delhi-110032,have
changed my name to Shivam
Kumar Arora,for all purposes.
0040630450-8
I,SONU ALAM,S/o Late.MOHD
HUSSAIN R/o.H.No.-
718,Gali.No-7,Old
Mustafabad,North East,Delhi-
110094,have changed my
name,from SONU ALAM to
JANE ALAM,for all,future
purposes. 0040630462-7
I,SATWIK SRIVASTAVA,R/o-3224
ATS-ADVANTAGE AHINSA-
KHAND, INDIRAPURAM,
GHAZIABAD,201014, UTTAR-
PRADESH,CHANGED MY NAME
SATWIK SRIVASTAVA TO.
SAATWIIK SRIVASTAVA,FOR
ALL PURPOSE. 0040630483-11
I,Reenu Goel W/o-Sushil Goel,
R/o.H-1, Shivaji-Park, Punjabi-
Bagh,West,New Delhi-110026,
also known as Reenu Gupta &
Rinu Gupta.All are same
person. 0040630462-3
I,Rachel W/o Kunnil Varghese
Chacko R/o.Flat.No.11B,
Shivaji-Enclave Rajouri
Garden,New Delhi,have
changed my name to
Rachelamma. 0040630462-6
I,ROOMA PERVEEN,W/O
SHAHZAD ALAM,R/O.H.NO.
314,STREET-GARHAIYA,
BAZAR-MATIA MAHAL,JAMA
MASJID,DELHI-110006,have
changed my name to RUMA
SHAHZAD. 0040630450-2
I,RAHUL JAIN,R/o-MENKA-1,
FLAT.NO-502,AMRAPALI-
ROYAL APARTMENT 2B
VAIBHAV KHAND INDIRAPURAM
GHAZIABAD,UP-201014,
CHANGED MY MINOR-
DAUGHTER NAME,MICKY JAIN
TO VANISHA JAIN,FOR ALL
PURPOSE. 0040630462-1
I,Pradip Kumar,S/o Sh.Onkar
Singh,R/o RZF-210,Raj Nagar-
II,Palam-colony,New Delhi-
110077,inform that name of
mine has been wrongly-
written as Pradeep Kumar &
Pardip Kumar in my-minor
daughter’s Sonam(DOB-
30/01/2007) Educational-
Documents.The actual-name
of mine is Pradip Kumar.
0040630462-11
I,Poonam Devi,W/o Paramjit,
R/o House. No.57/17, Arya
Nagar,Jhajjar Haryana-124103,
have changed the name of my-
minor son Hardik aged-17-
years and he shall hereafter
be known as Hardik Ahlawat.
0040630483-9
I,Phulla Devi,Mother of,
8037071W,Rank TS Nk(GD)
Name-Jitendra Yadav,resident
of Vill-Takengarha,Post-
Amuwari Narayanpur,Teh-
Sagdi, Distt-Ajamgarh,Uttar
Pradesh,PIN-276138,have
changed my name,from Phulla
Devi,to Fula Devi vide-affidavit
dated-31.08.2022,before Uttar
Pradesh,Azamgarh
0040630462-9
I,MANSI MALHOTRA,W/O
HIMANSHU CHADHA,R/O.J-
41,SECOND-FLOOR,RESERVE
BANK ENCLAVE,PASCHIM
VIHAR,DELHI-110063.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO MANSI
CHADHA. 0040630450-3
I,IkhLash Qureshi,S/o Noor
Mohammad R/o.BE-
999,Badkhal-Extension Lakh
Near-Jamia Modal-School,NIT-
Faridabad (Haryana),have
changed my name to IkhLas
Qureshi. 0040630462-4
I,Bharat Bhushan S/o Shri.Amir
Chand,Add:-S/F,FLAT.NO-
661,PKT-A,PH-II,SEC-
17,DWARKA,New Delhi-
110078,have changed my
name to Bharat Chand,for all
future Purposes. 0040630450-4
I,JESMIN KAUR LAMBHA alias
JASMINE LAMBA D/o Charanjit
Singh Lamba R/o A-24, Naraina
Vihar, Delhi-110028 have
changed my name to JASMINE
LAMBA for all purposes.
0040629935-3
LOST & FOUND
I, Gurpreet Singh,Power of
Attorney holder of the
property,have lost the original-
Conveyance Deed,Allotment
Letter,5th &Final Demand
Letter,Possession
Letter,Possession Slip &NOC of
Electricity &Water,of Flat
No.16G,Ground Floor,SFS,
Sector-7,Jasola Vihar,New
Delhi,issued by DDA,in favour-
of Harbhajan Singh,s/o-Bhag
Singh.Finder may Contact-me
at-153,Model Town
Extension,Dugri
Road,Ludhiana. Mb:9814030940
0040629832-1
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MATRIMONIAL PUBLIC NOTICE
General public is hereby informed that my
THE H.P. STATE COOPERATIVE WOOL PROCUREMENT
cleints Sh. Jagdish Chander Nagi and his wife
Mrs. Sangeeta Nagi R/o 77, Janak Park, Hari AND MARKETING FEDERATION LTD.
Nagar, Nagar, New Delhi-110064 have broke
their all social and family relations with their BLOCK NO. 23, S.D.A. COMPLEX, KASUMPTI, SHIMLA-171009.
younger son Sh. Chandan Mohan Nagi and
his wife Mrs. Kanchan Nagi and also debarred
and disowned them from all moveable and
Phone No.0177-2622837, Fax: 0177-2620981
immovable properties and assets due to their
bad habits and disobedience. Anybody who
Email: gmwoolfed-hp@nic.in / Website:
deal with Sh. Chandan Moahan Nagi and Mrs. https://himachal.nic.in/woolfed
Kanchan Nagi will do so at his own risk,
conveniences and responsibilities. My above
named clients will not be held responsible or E-TENDER NOTICE
liable in any manner for any acts, deeds,
agreements, deals done with them in past, [TENDER No. HPWF/35/VM/SML/2022]
present or future.
Sd/- SUPPLY OF 5400 QTLS. (APPROXIMATELY) GOAT FEED (PELLET)
ANURAG KALRA (Advocate)
Office: Ch. No. 525A, Ist & 2nd Floor, E-tenders under two bid system are invited for the SUPPLY
Western Wing, Tis Hazari Court,
OF 5400 QTLS. (APPROXIMATELY) GOAT FEED (PELLET) on
Delhi-110054
F.O.R. basis anywhere in H.P. including Tribal areas and against
rate contract to be kept valid for one year from the date of con-
tract. The interested parties may download the Tender Document
PUBLIC NOTICE
containing the Technical Specifications, Terms and Conditions,
GENERAL My clients Shri Chandra Bhan and his wife
Smt. Chandrawati both R/o H.No. 111-K-9, Timelines, Application Form and other details etc. from the offi-
Vasant Kunj, Kishangarh S.O. South West cial portal https://hptenders.gov.inw.e.f 05.09.2022 (effective
Wanted beautiful match doing Delhi Delhi-110070 have disowned/
residency /fellowship in USA for a debarred our son namely Sh. Amit Kumar 3.00 P.M.) to 27.09.2022 (up till 5.00 P.M). The cost of the tender
and his wife Smt. Monika Kumari from all document is ` 5900/- including GST.
boy 1991 born, 5’ 10 ” doing his movable and immovable properties and
Cardiology fellowship, family of also severed all relations with them All the future notifications/ corrigendum/s, memorandum/s etc.
because they are not in control of my clients
in connection with this tender, if any, will be published only on the
doctors Watsapp: 9464023437; and also disobedience and in case they
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of leasehold rights and legal possession
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Ground Floor), Sardar Bazar, Delhi Cantt.
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Delhi Cantonment Board for recording his
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of property bearing no. 1/204(Lower
Ground Floor), Sadar Bazar, Delhi Cantt.
110010 being the owner of the leasehold
rights in the said property. The said
property is in his exclusive possession if
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property. He/She/They may file
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Chief Executive Officer of Delhi
Cantonment Board, failing which the
matter of recording of the name in the
house tax register qua the said property
shall be considered by the Competent
Authority in accordance with law.
For an on behalf of Sh. Amit Goel S/o Sh.
Ram Niwas Goel R/o property bearing
No. C-9/53, Rohini, Sector-8, Delhi.
Saurabh munjal(Adv)
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Tis Hazari Courts(New Delhi-110054)
New Delhi
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GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA
REGIONAL OFFICE PATNA: OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CONSTRUCTION
Nasheman Bhavan, 1st Floor, Mazharool Haque Path, Frazer Road, Patna ENGINEER, CENTRAL (R&B) CIRCLE,
BHUBANESWAR
(Contact: 9199949186, 7349052850, 8299440896, 9102404205) B-536
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E-Auction Sale Notice for Sale of Immovable Assets under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement E-procurement Tender Call Notice No.05 of 2022-23
of Security Interest Act, 2002 read with proviso to Rule 8 (6) and Rule 9 of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rule, 2002
No. 2380 (Estg.) Bhubaneswar the 29th August- 2022
Notice is hereby given to the public in general and in particular to the Borrower(s) and Guarantor(s) that the below described immovable property
mortgaged/ charged to the Secured Creditor, the symbolic possession of which has been taken by the Authorized Officer of Union Bank of India The Chief Construction Engineer, Central (R&B) Circle Bhubaneswar on
(secured creditor), will be sold on “As is where is”, “As is what is” and “Whatever there is” basis on the date mentioned below, for recovery of behalf of the Governor of Odisha invites percentage rate bids for Five
dues as mentioned hereunder to Union Bank of India from the below mentioned Borrower(s) & Guarantor(s). The Reserve Price and the Earnest number of road works and one number Building (Civil & EI) works to be
Money Deposit are also mentioned hereunder: received in online bidding, double cover system for construction work as
detailed in: https://tendersorissa.gov.in. The details of bid documents
S.N. NAME AND NAME & ADDRESS OF RESERVE PRICE/
will be available in the above website from 5.00 PM of 13.09.2022 to
ADDRESS OF BORROWER/MORTGAGOR/ AMOUNT DUE PROPERTY DETAILS EMD/
5:00 PM of 27.09.2022. The bidders must possess compatible Digital
BRANCH GUARANTOR BID MULTIPLIER Signature Certificate of Class II or III. Bids received online shall be
1. Asset Recovery 1. M/s Manoj Kumar Rice `3,48,81,026/- as Property 1: Land admeasuring 8 Katha (25 `1,73,60,000.00 opened at 11:00 AM of 28.09.2022 in the Office of the Chief
Branch 1st Mills Pvt Ltd (Borrower) on 30.04.2021 decimil) with construction situated at Mauza- `17,36,000.00 Construction Engineer, Central (R&B) Circle Bhubaneswar.
Floor, Steel Khushihalchak Sampatchak Jujharpur, Mahal: Shivchak, Survey Thana- `10,000.00 Further details can be seen from the e-procurement portal
House, Near S Patna-800001 Phulwarisharif, P.S- Gaurichak, Thana No:128, www.tendersorissa.gov.in.
K Puri Police 2. Shri. Munna Kumar (Managing Touzi No: 6398, Khata No: 364, Khesra Survey Addendum/Corrigendum, if required, will be available only in the
Check Post, Director), M/s Manoj Kumar Plot No: 50, Patna in the name of M/s Manoj Website.
Boring Road, Rice Mills Pvt Ltd, S/o: Shri. Kumar Rice Mills. [Boundaries: North: 12’ wide Sd/-
Patna-800001 Sita Ram Tiwary, Flat No: 4C, rasta; South: Vacant Land; East: Niz; West:Niz] Er.T.K. Panda
Chandraphool Apartment, Lane Chief Construction Engineer
Property 2: Land admeasuring 2 Katha (6.25 `37,50,000.00
No:1, SalimpurAhra, Pirmuhani, Central (R&B) Circle Bhubaneswar
decimil) situated at Mouza: Jujharpur, Mahal: `3,75,000.00
Patna-800001 OIPR-34156/11/0006/2223
Shivchak, Survey Thana: Phulwarisharif, P.S: `10,000.00
3. Ms Priya Devi (Director- M/s Gaurichak, Thana No:128, Touzi No:6398, Khata
Manoj Kumar Rice Mills Pvt Ltd), No: 364, Khesra Survey Plot No: 50 (P), Patna
W/o Mr. Munna Kumar, Flat No: in the name of M/s Manoj Kumar Rice Mills Pvt
4C, Chandraphool Apartment, Ltd. [Boundaries: North: 12’ wide rasta; South:
Lane No:1, Salimpur Ahra, Vacant Land; East: Niz; West: Vacant Land]
Pirmuhani, Patna-800001 Property 3: Land admeasuring 12 katha `3,48,90,300.00/
4. Shri. Manoj Kumar (Director- (37.50 decimil) with Super Structure situated `34,89,030.00/
M/s Manoj Kumar Rice Mills at Dist: Patna, Mauza: Jhujharpur, Mahal: `10,000.00
Pvt Ltd), S/o: Shri. Arjun Shivchak, Survey Thana: Phulwarisharif, P.S :
Singh, Village: Kushhalchak, Gaurichak, Khata No:364, Survey Plot No: 50
PO: Chipura Khurd, Chipura, (P), P.S: Gaurichak, Thana No:128, Khesra
Patna-804453 No:50,Touzi:6398, Khata: 364, Khesra Survey
5. Ms. Lata Devi (Director- M/s Plot No 50 in the name of M/s Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar Rice Mills Pvt Rice Mills Pvt Ltd. [Boundaries: North 12’ wide
Ltd), W/o: Shri. Manoj Kumar, rasta; South: Vacant Land; East: Vacant Land;
PO: Chipura Khurd, Chipura, West: Niz Office Area]
Patna-804453.
2. Asset Recovery 1. M/s Prem Pratap Ray, Prop: `1,38,34,983.00 Property 1: Commercial Land and Building (in `44,00,000.00/
Branch 1st Prem Pratap Ray Ground Floor, as on 02.02.2019 area admeasuring 12.40 decimal) belonging `4,40,000.00/
Floor, Steel Ray Bhawan, Jay Mahavir to Shri. Ram Pratap Ray situated at Thana `10,000.00
House, Near S Colony, Sandalpur, Patna-800016 No: 31, Khata No: 283 (N), Khesra No: 1823
K Puri Police 2. Shri. Prem Pratap Ray, S/o: under Mauza: Ismailpur, Near Harauli Bodhi Mai
Check Post, Shri. Ram Pratap Ray, Ray Mandir, PS: Hajipur Sadar, Vaishali-844101;
Boring Road, Bhawan, Jai Mahavir Colony, Bounded by: North: Punam Devi & Mahesh
Patna-800001 Sandalpur, Patna, Sampatchak, Thakur; South: Natho Singh; East: PWD Road;
Patna-800006, 3. Shri. Ram West: Jai Narain Thakur &Others;
Pratap Ray, S/o: Shri. Ram Property 2: Commercial Land and Building (in `64,00,000.00/
Narayan Ray, Ray Bhawan,Jai area admeasuring 15.33 decimal) belonging `6,40,000.00/
Mahavir Colony, Sandalpur, to Shri. Prem Pratap Ray situated at Thana 10,000.00
Sampatchak, Mahendru No:27, Khata No: 161, Khesra No:26 under
Patna-800006 Mauza: Sahjadpur Jitwar, Near Harauli Boddhi
Mai Mandir, PS: Hajipur Sadar, Vaishali,
Bihar-844101; Bounded by: North: Lakshman
Rai & Others; South: Umakant Pandey, Sonu
Pandey; East: Sambhu Chowdhary and Others;
West: PWD Road;
3. Asset Recovery M/s Pratibha Printers and `1,40,05,767.98 Building in the name of Mrs. Pratibha Prasad w/o `2,67,96,375.00/
Branch 1st Stationers, (Through its Prop: as on 30.06.2019 Mr. Uma Kant Prasad admeasuring about 21.50 `26,79,638.00/
Floor, Steel Mrs. Pratibha Prasad) Hajipur decimal, being situated at Hajipur Industrial `10,000.00
House, Near S Industrial Area Near Sudha Dairy Area, Near Sudha Dairy, Hajipur-844101, dist:
K Puri Police Hajipur-844101 2. Mrs. Pratibha Vaishali at bearing Thana No:115, Khata no:
Check Post, Prasad Prop: M/s Pratibha 175, Khesra No: 4573 under Mauza-Dighikala
Boring Road, Printers and Stationers, Jagtarni PS: Hajipur, BiharBounded by: North: Property
Patna-800001 Kunj Brahma Asthan Sheikhpura, of Mr. Saryug Singh and Others; South: Property
Near B.V. College Patna-800014 of Mr. Kailash Rai and Others; East: Hal Diger;
3. Mr. Uma Kant Prasad Jagtarni West: Plot No:4576
Kunj Brahma Asthan Sheikhpura,
Near B.V. College Patna-800014.
DATE OF E-AUCTION – 21.09.2022 AT 11.00 AM TO 02.30 PM (with 10 min unlimited auto extensions)
For detailed terms and condition of the sale, please refer to the link provided in https://www.unionbankofindia.co.in/english/TendelViewAllAuction.aspx
For Registration and Login and Bidding Rules visit https://www.mstcecommerce.com/auctionhome/ibapi/index.jsp
(Sd/-)
Place: Patna Authorised Officer

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However, there are still further longer. There’s no problem, for
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BRIEFLY
Verstappentakes
poleatDutchGP
Amsterdam: Max Verstappen pro-
duced a brilliant final lap to take pole
position for Sunday's Dutch Grand
Prix just ahead of Charles Leclerc. The
Red Bull driver edged Leclerc's Ferrari
by just .021 seconds on Saturday to
huge roars from Verstappen's Orange
Army of fans. But the session was in-
terrupted earlier when a flare was
thrown onto the track. Governing
bodyFIAsaidtheculpritwasremoved
from the stands by security. “It's just
very silly to do. I mean, to hold flares
it's nice but there's a limit to how
much. But to throw it on the track is
just stupid," Verstappen said. "Just
don't do that, it's no good for anyone.
You get thrown out so you can't see
the race and for us the session is
stopped because it's dangerous when
there's stuff on the track.” The wide-
spreaduseof flaresfromVerstappen's
fanshasbeenaconcernatsomeraces,
particularly at the Red Bull Ring in
Austria in July and at last weekend's
Belgian GP — both packed with
Verstappen supporters. AP
Easwaran,Patidar
scorestons
Bengaluru: Opener Abhimanyu
Easwaran served a timely reminder
to the national selectors with a fine
hundred but in-form Rajat Patidar's
blazing 170 not out stole the show as
India A reached 492 for four against
New Zealand A on the third day of the
first unofficial Test. India A led by 92
runs in the first innings with a day's
play left. Easwaran, whose attacking
batting on second evening set the
tone,laidtheplatformwithachiselled
132 off 194 balls before Patidar took
it upon himself to punish the New
Zealand attack. Young N T Tilak
Varma, who had impressed one and
allinT20sforMumbaiIndians,looked
equally adept while playing the tradi-
tional format as he smashed his way
to an unbeaten 82 during an unbro-
ken stand of 167 for the fifth wicket
with Patidar. PTI
BRIEF SCORES: New Zealand A 400
versus India A 1st Innings 492/4
(RajatPatidar170batting,Abhimanyu
Easwaran132, NTTilak Varma82bat-
ting, Rachin Ravindra 2/96).
Laranamed
Sunriserscoach
NewDelhi:BrianLarahasreplacedfor-
mer Australian cricketer Tom Moody
as Sunrisers Hyderabad's head coach
for the 2023 IPL season, the team an-
nounced.Thiswillbethe53-year-old's
maidenassignmentasaheadcoachof
a T20 team. The former West Indies
skipper had joined SRH as the strate-
gic advisor and batting coach last
December. "The cricketing legend
Brian Lara will be our head coach for
the upcoming #IPL seasons," the IPL
teampostedonitsofficialTwitterhan-
dle. According to a ESPNCricinfo re-
port,MoodyandSRHpartedwaysam-
icably. The Australian departs after
completing two stints with the side.
MoodyhadasuccessfulstintwithSRH
between 2013 and 2019 when the
team reached the playoffs five times
and emerged champions in 2016. The
56-year-old was replaced by fellow
AustralianTrevorBaylissasheadcoach
in 2020 and Moody returned to SRH
as director of cricket last year.
However, with the team finishing last
with just three wins, Moody was ele-
vated to the coach's position. PTI
Jadeja could miss World Cup; spotlight on Axar
SHAMIK CHAKRABARTY
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 4
RAVINDRA JADEJA is all but out of the T20
World Cup, starting next month in Australia,
after sustaining a knee injury which might
require surgery to cure. Axar Patel is Jadeja’s
replacement at the ongoing Asia Cup and
could well be on board the flight to Australia
in October. “We are taking a second opinion.
It’s (Jadeja’s injury) not looking good at the
moment and there are chances of him miss-
ing the T20 World Cup,” a top BCCI official
told The Sunday Express on Saturday.
Jadeja played the first two matches at the
Asia Cup, against Pakistan and Hong Kong.
He apparently sustained the injury during
the Hong Kong game, although the BCCI
press release didn’t specifically mention it. It
just said: “Ravindra Jadeja has sustained a
right knee injury and is ruled out of the tour-
nament. He is currently under the supervi-
sionof theBCCImedicalteam.”Incaseof sur-
gery, Jadeja could be out of the Indian team
for an indefinite period.
Axar was one of the stand-bys, who has
been drafted in as a replacement.
Meanwhile, Jadeja would check in at the
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Farewell,
queen
Serena’s legacy should not be defined by
her achievements on court, but by the
impact she had on those that came after her
Serena Williams finishes with 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
NAMIT KUMAR
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3
23GRANDSlamsinglestitles.16GrandSlam
doubles titles. 4 Olympic gold medals. 319
weeks at World No.1. But to define Serena
Williams’ legacy by her achievements on
court would be the gravest mistake anyone
could make. To miss the symbolism, of a
young black woman from Compton,
California entering a sport in which she met
none of the traditional norms, only to trans-
form and redefine it, would be to miss the
point.
On Friday, as Serena went down 5-7, 7-6,
1-6 to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic at the US
Open, in the last singles match of her career,
she provided yet another reminder of that
enduring legacy.The most appropriate word
to define Serena Williams, and all that she
achieved, would be fierce.
She is fiercely competitive, so much so
A top BCCI official said there is a
possibility of Jadeja missing the T20
World Cup.
National Cricket Academy, where the med-
ical team would assess him before deciding
the future course of action. Jadeja’s absence
could be a big blow to India’s chances at the
World Cup, for he is a genuine spin-bowling
all-rounder who provides the required bal-
ance to the side.
As is his wont, Rahul Dravid, though re-
mained non-committal about the left-arm
spinner’s availability at the World Cup. “I
don’t want to rule Jadeja out of the World
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that even in the final match of her career, she
refused to bow down. After three hard-
fought sets, Serena was down 1-5 as
Tomljanovic served for the match, and there
was a long way back. But true to form, the
American would go on to save four match
points in trying to salvage it, in one of the
greatest single games ever played on the
Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Across her career, as hard as it may have
seemed, Serena could be beaten on talent.
She could be beaten on greater serve speeds,
oroncleanerball-striking.Butneveronfight.
Never on trying, or competing.
She is fiercely defiant. In the way of gen-
dered and racist stereotypes. In the way of
the racially loaded manner in which her ap-
pearance was discussed – on the back pages
of newspapersandinlivingroomsacrossthe
world. In the way of the criticism she re-
ceived for being too aggressive on court, too
assertive of her dominance, too expressive
in her disappointment; all while her male
Cupyet.Let’sseehowhegoesinthesix-eight
weeks goingintotheT20WorldCup.It’spart
of every sportsperson's life,”theIndianteam
head coach said at the pre-match press con-
ference today. India would face Pakistan in a
Super Four fixture on Sunday.
On the face of it, Axar carries a similar
profile to Jadeja. In terms of ability and ex-
perience,however,thelatterisirreplaceable.
Axar is a pretty decent left-arm spinner and
a useful batsman lower down the order, but
Jadeja is a world-class operator who even on
a bad day with the bat and ball, will save 15
runs in the field. The 33-year-old is actually
one of the undroppables in the team and
without him, the team management will
have to make do.
India’s Asia Cup opener against Pakistan
was a case in point as to how Jadeja had al-
lowed the side to be flexible. India had left
out Rishabh Pant and chose Dinesh Karthik.
To balance out an overdose of right-handers
in the top order, Jadeja was sent in at No. 4,
with India under pressure at 50/2 after eight
overs. It soon became 53/3 and then 89/4,
when Suryakumar Yadav departed. Jadeja
had to take the game deep, which he did,
along with Hardik Pandya, scoring 35 off 29
balls and putting on 52 runs for the fifth
counterparts got away with a lot worse.
In the way of the limitations of her phys-
icality, winning the Australian Open in 2017
while 9 weeks pregnant and later returning
on tour to reach three Grand Slam finals de-
spite a complication in her pregnancy caus-
ing a pulmonary embolism – the second she
had suffered in eight years.
She is fiercely original. In her on and off-
court choices. Despite the stereotypes
around her appearance, Serena embraced it
and promoted young black girls across the
world to do so too. Her fashion choices and
tennisoutfitsalwaysraisedeyebrowsamong
conservativesandtraditionalists,butinfight-
ing for women to be able to wear what they
want on court, Serena shed light on a hugely
significant issue.
In 2018, Williams’ choice to play in a cat-
suit after blood clots during her pregnancy
continued to affect her, was banned and
looked down upon by authorities. America’s
Madison Brengle told Eurosport that choice
saved her career. “She changed the rules for
us, allowing us to play in pants. I had
Melanoma and I wouldn’t be able to play
anymore if I couldn’t wear pants.”
While most
athletesandtennis
players will go out
by sounding out
the drum roll and
I wouldn't be initiating a big
Serena if there farewell – there’s
wasn't Venus, so one coming soon
thank you Venus. from a certain
Swiss – but Serena
SERENA WILLIAMS claimedshewillbe
ON HER OLDER “evolving from
SISTER VENUS, tennis” in a Vogue
A SEVEN-TIME GRAND article she wrote
SLAM CHAMPION announcing her
retirement. Rather
than going into
longessaysof grat-
itude, she shed
light on how she is
Clearly I'm still being made to
capable. But it choose between
takes a lot more having a family
andcontinuingher
than that. I'm tennis career.
ready to be a Perhapsfittingthat
mom, explore a it came in Vogue
different version rather than a
of Serena.” sports publication
or in an interview
with a favourable
journalist, or an
even drabber carefully-worded social media
update.
She is fiercely loyal. To her family whom
she credits for much of her success. To her
daughter whom she said is a big reason why
she made the decision to hang up her rac-
quet. To her sister under whose shadow she
arrivedontour – Venus dominated thepair’s
early rivalry, she came on tour first, jumped
uptherankingsfirst,andwasregardedasthe
more talented player – but whom Serena
never stopped admiring. To her culture,
which she promoted in her on-court outfits,
in music videos, and on runways of fashion
shows. To her causes, for which she earlier
advocated,andlatersupported.Today,80%of
the business that her venture capital firm in-
vests in are black-owned or owned by
women.
In fighting the battles she fought, in fac-
ing the criticism she faced, in representing
her culture, gender, and race, in introducing
anewbrandof tennisalongsideVenus–with
powerful serves and baseline aggression –
that became the norm on the women’s tour,
Serena redefined what it meant to be a great
athlete. Her legacy will never come down to
how many titles she won, but in the path she
forged for those that came up with and after
her. Ask Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, Sloane
Stephens, or Maria Sharapova. Or Lewis
Hamilton, Tiger Woods, or Allyson Felix.
In a now infamous interview from 1992,
Serena was asked whom she would want to
emulate if she became a tennis player. “I
would want other people to be like me,” she
replied, with a huge smile on her face. She
was11 yearsold at the time. In the aftermath
of whatwasthefinalsinglesmatchof herca-
reer, 30 years later, it is fair to say she suc-
ceeded.
wicket.Whenhegotoutinthefinalover,vic-
tory was in sight.
His batting performance came on the
heels of his 0/11 in two overs. Against Hong
Kong,hereturnedwith1/15fromfouroversin
India’s40-runwin.Statssay,in64T20Issofar,
Jadejahasscored457runsandtaken51wick-
ets.Stats,though,donotcapturehisimprove-
ment as a cricketer over the last two-three
years. He can get into the Test side solely as a
batsman, such is his improvement. A superb
104 against England at Edgbaston in July, in
testing conditions and under huge pressure,
was his latest offering in the longer format.
Axar has always been Jadeja’s back-up,
but the 28-year-old has lived up to the chal-
lenge whenever he was called into action.
The four home-Test series against England
in 2021 was Axar’s crowning glory. With
Jadeja out injured, he turned up to claim 27
scalps in three Tests. More recently, in the
ODI series in the West Indies, his 64 not out
off 35 balls in the second game at Port of
Spainsaw Indiasnatch victory from the jaws
of defeat, chasing 311.
Axar is a limited-overs thoroughbred,
with25T20Isunderhisbeltsofar.TheWorld
Cup, though, is a different ball game, where
India would covet Jadeja’s class.
Playing today
ASIA CUP
India versus Pakistan, 7:30 pm onwards;
Star Sports network
Iconic service toss:
‘Poetry in motion,
knife through butter’
It helped that Serena Williams had a natural throwing action.
SRIRAM VEERA
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 3
A FEW months back Venus Williams urged
the world to press the bell button and sub-
scribetoherYouTubechannel.It'swhereshe
gives tennis lessons. One day, she dealt with
the 'How to serve?' question.
Little nuances about where the feet
should point, how to use the Eastern Grip on
the racquet, how the index finger should
slide out ahead from the rest, how and when
to lock your right elbow, when to snap the
wrists but the most important element was
how to toss that ball for the serve.
It’s an art, of course, and as evidenced in
even top-level players, it doesn’t come easy.
Venus intimately knows the person who has
it hard wired in her, and who has the best
toss in tennis: her sister Serena Williams.
Rick Macci, the childhood coach of the
sisters, had noticed it when Serena was just
9. “She had a natural throwing action. Much
better than Venus, who had to work on it.
Serena’s toss … she keeps her left arm up
there like poetry in motion, like a knife
through butter."
It certainly is. A statue outside US Open
flushing meadows can be sculpted: the ball
rolling off the tips of her finger, her eyes on
the orb, the fingers twirled out like a flower
blooming, with the hint of the chill-rising
threat coming from behind - the racket
threatening an imminent strike.
But that’s yet to come, and much of our
focus, and opponent’s, is on the fastest serve
in women’s tennis, but rewind a couple of
seconds to appreciate what allows that
threat to be unleashed.
The ball sits on the middle of the fingers
as she lifts her left arm up straight. “Watch.
That left arm doesn’t bend. Easy, fluid,
straight,”saysthe coach. At one point,it’s the
shoulder that does the lifting to the height of
the eyes, not the arms. “Unnatural move-
ment,butthathelpstheballtobealmoststill,
gentle.” The ball gently starts to glide from
middle to the tips. A slow-motion roll, a
“Her incredible career made its
mark on tennis history. And yet her
greatest contributions may be yet
to come. Thank you.”
BILLIE JEAN KING
Burl picks up five wickets
as Zimbabwe beat Australia
REUTERS
TOWNSVILLE, SEPTEMBER 3
LEG-SPINNER Ryan Burl picked up 5-10 in
just three overs on Saturday as Zimbabwe
stunned Australia in the third one-day inter-
nationalinTownsville,registeringanexciting
three-wicket victory and denyingthe hostsa
series clean-sweep.
Sent in to bat, to the crowd's short-lived
delight, Australia slumped to 141 all out in
31 overs with a counter-attacking 94 from
96ballsbyDavidWarnertheonlymajorcon-
tribution.Australia'sbowlerstriedadmirably
to defend the low total, but visiting captain
Regis Chakabva (37 off 72 balls) ensured his
side secured an unlikely upset, only their
third ODI win against the home side, reach-
ing 142-7 in 39 overs. "Regis did exactly the
right thing, he played some beautiful shots
today but at the same time he steered the
ship and got the guys over the line,"
Zimbabwe coach Dave Houghton said.
In tricky morning conditions, Aaron
Finch'swretchedrunof formshowednosign
of abating.Headdedfivebeforebeingcaught
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cradling of an egg.
“I would tell her to pretend you have an
egg in your hand, and you are laying the egg
on a shell and you don’t want to break it. You
want to toss it like that,” Macci, the coach. A
soft cradle.
The ball floats up after rolling to the fin-
gertips fluidly - - like a dew drop falling off a
leaf. “She had all the time in the world. She
never seemed rushed.”
Thereisagasp-worthystillnessastheball
rolls up from the fingertips. If the ball is held
at fingertips from the start, and pushed up,
they reckon it could impart too much spin
that might not be conducive if you desire a
flat fast serve.
Various graphic stats from over the years
haveshownhowSerena’stossgetstheballto
be bunched up together almost at the same
spot in the air - just a mere inch or two the
difference through a game. Also, the toss is
identical for flat serve, kick serve, slice.
Withafewothers,withthekickserve,we
can see the arch back more pronounced or
the toss-ball more towards the left but not
as much with Serena. The racket hits the ball
at different points - 7 0’ clock for the kick, 3 o’
clock for the slice.
“No bending, no bowing, no need to be
too humble here, we got to be confident,
strong,chestup,”Venushasamike-dropmo-
ment in her tutorial about the need to keep
theshoulderup.Serenacomesclosesttothat
Venus ideal.
Then, the hip swivel gets her back almost
facing the opponent before she whirs into a
frenetic blur to smash the ball.
“Biomechanically, youhave togetthe kinetic
energy flowing from the ground up,” says
Rick Macci.
Of the umpteen YouTube videos of her
serve, the one against Aymui Morita in the
2013 Australian Open is worth savouring for
her reaction post serve. The display screen
on court captures the violence after the po-
etictossmotion-207kmph.Serena’slipscurl
into the most beautiful smirk, worth thou-
sands Gifs; the smile of a champion who
knows she is a champion.
You're literally the greatest on and
off the court. Thank you for
inspiring all of us to pursue our
dreams. I love you little sis!!!!!!"
TIGER WOODS
at second slip off the bowling of seamer
Richard Ngarava, who accounted for the
Australia skipper in all three matches.
Wickets tumbled on the two-paced sur-
face and Australia slid to 72-5 when left-arm
spinner Sean Williams had Cameron Green
caught for three. Warner remained positive
as wickets fell around him, including two in
Burl's first over when the all-rounder
claimed Glenn Maxwell (19) and then
Ashton Agar for a duck. But the aggressive
opener fell just shy of three figures, slog-
sweeping Burl into the hands of Brad Evans.
Burlclean-bowledMitchellStarcmidway
through the 30th over, and only had to wait
three more balls to record his first interna-
tional five-wicket haul when Josh
Hazlewood was caught-behind.
Openers Takudzwanashe Kaitano (19)
and Tadiwanashe Marumani (35) absorbed
early pressure during the reply, but consec-
utive wickets by Hazlewood pegged
Zimbabwe back.
BRIEF SCORES: Australia 141 (David Warner
94; Ryan Burl 5/10) lost to Zimbabwe 142/7
(RehisChakabva37,Tadiwanashe Marumani
35; Josh Hazlewood 3/30)
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Nawaz’s rising stock Kohli would be keen for

big performances: Dravid
Left-arm spinner, who has taken three wickets in each of the two games, trying to make a name for himself SANDIP G
SEPTEMBER 3

RAHUL DRAVID WAS bemused rather than

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SANDIP G
SHARJAH, SEPTEMBER 3
BESIDETHEthinfencethatcutsoff thegallery
from the ground at the Sharjah Cricket
Stadium, a group of fans are fervidly shouting
thenameofMohammadNawaz,whoisbeing
interviewed. Nawaz gestures to them to re-
maincalmandhewouldtalktothemafterthe
interview is over. Nawaz kept his word, met
the fans, thanked them with folded arms and
wavedawarmgoodbye.Oneof thefanshada
request:“Nawazbhai,aglimatchmeinbhiVirat
aurRohitkawicketlenahain.(Inthenextgame
youmustdismissViratandRohit)”Nawazjust
turned back and nodded his head with a gra-
cious smile.
After three wickets in both games, and
showing the courage in the last over against
India,Nawaz'sfanfarehasswelled. “Usmehim-
mat hain,” is a common refrain, with “Woh
Pathan hain, usme dum hain,” references too.
It’sthesortofglint-eyeadmirationthefansbe-
stowontheirfastbowlers,thesultansofswing
and merchants of raw pace, or leg-break wiz-
ardsorthatoff-breakvirtuoso,SaqlainMushtaq,
or the batsmen of gliding feet and whirling
wrists.Thefinestof Pakistancricketersconvey
in viewers a conviction that they are unreal
artistes from an unreal world. A left-arm spin-
nerismorethesaltoftheearth,humdrum,hu-
maneven.Theydon’tstayinthemindorinthe
Pakistanteamforlong.InTests,onlyIqbalQasim
hasplayed50games(andsnared171wickets).
In ODIs, no Pakistani left-arm spinner has
pickedup100wickets,part-timerAamirSohail
helmsthelistwitheightyfivesticks.
The currency of left-arm spin is not much
incirculationinthecountry.Mostof themare
converts—theleftieswhodreamttobethenext
WasimAkram,hamperedbyinjuriesorlackof
talentortheirdestiniestwistedbychanceen-
counters or events. As it was to Nawaz. A boy
from Rawalpindi, his childhood imagination
wasfiredbytheexploitsoflocalheroesShoaib
Akhtar,whomadehisdebutforPakistanwhen
Nawazwasthree.“Hamarebachpanmeinwoh
hi tha hero, aur bachpan sein mujhe cricketer
banena ki shauk tha,” he tells the Youtube
AboyfromRawalpindi,Mohammad Nawaz’schildhoodimaginationwasfired bytheexploits of localheroes Shoaib Akhtar,. AP
channel CricinMood.
Butheprogressedinthetrailofanotherlu-
minouscricketerfromRawalpindi,all-rounder
AzharMahmood.“Bigshotscametomenatu-
rally but I always thought of myself as a fast
bowler,”hesays.Hewasnotexpressquick,but
medium pace. But one day during an U-14
game, his club’s usual spinner got injured and
FGBoysSchoolcoachAmeerAkbaraskedhim
to bowl a couple of overs of spin on a deterio-
ratingsurface.Muchtothecoach’ssurprise,he
not only purchased turn and bagged wickets,
but also possessed a naturally-fluent action.
Butthecoachcouldn’tforcehimtoswitch,be-
cause he was determined to be a fast bowler.
Soheusedatrick.“Imadehimbatmoreinthe
nets,andwhenhegottiredIwouldaskhimto
bowl spin. After sometime, he quit medium
pace and spent more time on spin bowling,”
Ameer told Opoyi Sports.
You could comprehend what the school
coach saw in him. Nawaz did not have the in-
domitable frame to an outright quick. But he
hadanaturalleft-armspinner’saction,unclut-
tered and rhythmic, with a smooth transition
from the load-up to the release.
Primarily,hehastwochief variations—the
away-spinnerthatishisstockballandthearm-
ball, both released without altering his action
or release points. He floats the orthodox ball,
usuallyfromwideof thecrease,toexaggerate
thedrift.Thearm-ballisflatterandquicker,but
oftendeliveredfromwideofthecreaseaswell.
Hehasfewothervariations—andinplain-sight,
he is no magician or mystery-peddler. In his
own description, “a simple bowler.” “ I work
with my basics,” he once said in a PCB video.
HisspellsagainstIndiawereinstructive.In
his first over, he pursued a flatter trajectory,
knowing well that Rohit Sharma and Virat
Kohliwereplottingtotargethimafterthepace
barrage-inducedchoke.ThenRohitslog-swept
himforasix.Butratherthanlookingtobowlall
the more flatter to cramp him for room, he
tossed up the last ball, almost inviting him to
haveanothercrack.Rohitwaslulledintoafolly,
as he looked to smear him over long-off. But
thisballwasslower,andturnedafractionmore
than Rohit had gauged.
Alittlelater,Kohlicommittedthesameer-
ror of judgement. The floated ball outside the
off-stumpdolliedlikeafreebie,butthesudden
dipresultedinKohlinotfullytothepitchofthe
ball and miscuing the shot to long-off. A flat
and quick one, much like the brand Ravindra
Jadeja trades in this format, accounted for
Jadeja in the first ball of the last over. The over
ended heartbreakingly for him when Hardik
Pandya hammered him for a six to wrap up a
thrillingchase.ButNawazremainedunshaken.
He has famously defended six runs for
QuettaGladiatorsagainstPeshawarZalmiina
playoff game in the 2017 PSL game. Five runs
were taken off his first three balls, before he
dismissed Chris Jordan and nailed inch-per-
fect yorkers with a wet-ball for two dot balls
thatresultedinrunouts.Setbacksarenothing
new for him. In 2017, Nawaz was suspended
fortwomonthsafteradmittingtothechargeof
failingtoreportasuspectapproachbyabook-
maker in Pakistan Super League.
He was devastated, but he marriedadiag-
nosticradiographerIzdihaarwholivesinSouth
AfricaofSaudiArabiadescentnextyear.Slowly,
hiscricketinglifereturnedtotrackashemade
his way to the Pakistan team in 2019.
Three years later, he is living up to the per-
forming-in-big-games reputation.
irritated when a journalist asked him
whether he felt that Pakistan fast bowlers
bowled better—to quote the exact words,
“zyada mazboot tha”—than their Indian
counterparts in their first encounter. “ I re-
specttheirbowlersandunderstandthatthey
bowled really well, but our bowlers also
bowled well in restricting them to 147.
Whether you bowl at 147 or 145, 135 or 125,
whether you had seamed or swung the ball,
in the end, it’s about whose analysis is bet-
ter, what difference they made in the end.
And I see that India has won the match,” he
says.Theplatitudinal build-uphadturnedto
sarcasm by then.
Hewasjustgettingintothemood,repelled
the early bouncers and wrong ones and now
lookingtoexpand,nowlookingtowhipsome
fun.Swivellingbackonhischair,burstinginto
peelsoflaughter,hesays:“Ourbowlingattack
might not be… I wanted to use a word that is
coming out of my mind, but can’t use that
word.” He has the floor in splits, as only he
could when the mood seizes him. He is
probed. “Is that exuberant?” “No, no it’s not”.
He can’t resist laughing. “Like I told you I can’t
tell you that. It’s a four-letter word that starts
withs.”Theflooragainrollsinlaughter.Here-
sumes:“Anyway,thepointIamtryingtomake
is that we might not look glamorous, but in
termsofproductivity,weareproducingthere-
sults. And that’s all that matters.”
Move on, the question after. “What have
the talks between you and Virat Kohli been
like?” He rocks back on his chair, as he once
used to rock back to defend a fiendish
bouncer. But this time, he goes for a full-
blooded pull.
“Do you think that I would be telling the
media about the conversations we had been
having in private?” He pauses and resumes:
“We had a lot of private conversations. Yeh
bhi baat karte hein ki Dubai mein khaane-
waane cheez kidar ache milte hain, ache
restaurants kidhar hain yahan. Uske paas
bahut advice hain, woh advice kar rahe hain
idhar jao udhar jao!” (We talk about where
to eat in Dubai, he has lots of advice, do this,
go there!)
Thus, he utterly defused a query with
deeper undertones after Kohli had confessed
about the mental demons that had afflicted
him. Clearing his throat, he produced a more
serious explanation on Kohli’s form and
staunchly defended him.
“I know for those outside, it is about his
numbers, runs and stats. But for us it is about
thecontributionshecanmakeindifferentsit-
India coach Rahul Dravid. Sportzpics/BCCI
Our bowling attack might not be...
I wanted to use a word that is
coming out of my mind, but can’t
use that word.”
-RAHUL DRAVID
uations,whatroleheisrequiredtoplayforthe
team. It does not have to always be a 50 or a
100,orabigstatistic.Evensmallcontributions
mean a lot for us. That said, he is a big player
andwouldbekeenonputtinginsomebigper-
formances.”
Putting on a more sombre face, he de-
bunked popular perceptions about the fear-
less philosophy of cricket he demands from
the players in the shortest format and
whether the top three are buying it.
“Everyone is bought into it. We have talked
about playing positive cricket but it is about
being smart as well as being positive, about
getting par plus scores, depending on what
par is on that particular wicket and those
conditions.”
Hepointsoutthattheparcanchange,de-
pending on the nature of the surface, or the
dimensionsof theground.“Onawicketwith
short boundaries and flat wicket, 200 might
be par. “On some other wickets, it could be
150. In these kinds of tournaments and con-
ditions, 200 runs are difficult to get. But hon-
estly the guys are bought into it (fearless
cricket) and looking to play the kind of
cricket that T20 cricket demands today.” He
thenlooksathiswatchandsays,“bahuttime
ho gaya idhar,” (spent too much time here)
and then hurriedly picks his bag and rushes
tothenets,leavingtheaudienceasmuchen-
lightenedasentertained,likeaheydayRahul
Dravid knock.

SL hunt down Liverpool left frustrated

Afghanistan with
all-round effort
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
SEPTEMBER 4
SRI LANKAN batters showed enormous tac-
tical acumen in yet another tricky run-chase
astheydefeatedAfghanistanbyfourwickets
in the opening Super 4 game of the Asia Cup
here on Saturday.
Itwasfantasticbowlingeffortatthedeath
thatsawSriLankarestricttheAfghansto175
for6withonly37runscominginthelastfive
overs despite a brilliant 84 off 45 balls by
Rahamanullah Gurbaz.
Inreply,SriLankachaseddownthetarget
in19.1overswithseveralsmallbutimpactful
contributions that sealed the issue for them.
This was the highest run-chase in a T20I at
Sharjah.
Just like great bowing at the death, the
overs between 15-18 yielded 51 runs for the
Lankans and that proved to be a game-
changer.
KusalMendis(36off19balls)startedfrom
where he had left against Bangladesh the
other day as he launched into opposition's
best bowler Rashid Khan, depositing him for
two successive sixes as 17 runs came in that
over inside the Powerplay.
Andbeforethat,Mendishadamaximum
of Mujeeb ur Rahaman.
All three sixes were in the arc between
deep mid-wicket and deep square leg.
HisopeningpartnerPathumNissanka(35
off28balls)alsogavesolidsupportas62were
added for the opening stand.
However,itwasDanuskaGunathilaka(33
off20balls)andBhanukaRajapaksa(31off14
balls), whose 32 runs stand of just 2.3 overs
changed the complexion of the game.
Their daredevilry had enormous impact
in the final outcome of the game as they hit
sixes and found the gaps with ease. In the 34
ballsthattheyplayed,thereweresixfoursand
three sixes.
The Afghan bowlers, who are not always
used to handling pressure situations, did fal-
ter in the end and Rashid's poor day (1/39 in
4 overs) at the office did have its effect.
Put into bat young opener Rahmanullah
Gurbazgaveabrilliantexhibitionofhisdash-
ing strokeplay as his innings was the corner-
stoneofAfghanistan'scompetitivetotalof175
for 6.
However, Afghanistan will be a bit disap-
pointed as the last five overs yielded only 37
runs and lost five wickets in a jiffy with
GUrbaz's dismissal putting some sort of a
brake on the run flow.
BRIEF SCORES: Afghanistan 175/6 in 20
overs (Rahmanullah Gurbaz 84, Ibrahim
Zadran 40; Dilshan Madushanka 2/37) lost
to Sri Lanka 179/6 in 19.1 overs (Kusal
Mendis 36, Pathum Nissanka 35, Danushka
Gunathilaka 33; Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2/30,
Naveen-ul-Haq 2/40)
in Merseyside derby
REUTERS
SEPTEMBER 4
LIVERPOOLDROPPEDmorepointsasafeisty
Merseyside derby ended 0-0 at winless
EvertononSaturdaybutTottenhamHotspur
maintained their fast start to the Premier
League season with Harry Kane sealing a 2-
1 victory over Fulham.
Liverpool had23goalattemptsbutcould
findnowaythroughatGoodisonParkwhere
both sides hit the woodwork and Everton
were denied a winner by a VAR decision.
Juergen Klopp's side have nine points
from a possible 18 and with champions
Manchester City in action later on Saturday
against Aston villa they are alarmingly off
the pace.
Leaders Arsenal, who have a maximum
15 points from five games, are at resurgent
Manchester United on Sunday.
"Rule number one: if you cannot win the
derby, don't lose it. We could have won it to-
day but we could have lost it in a few mo-
ments as well," Klopp said.
Chelsea hit back to beat West Ham
United 2-1 at Stamford Bridge with goals
from substitutes Ben Chilwell and Kai
Havertz cancelling out Michail Antonio's
opener.
But West Ham were left seething when
an equaliser by Maxwel Cornet in the dying
moments was ruled out after a VAR check
ruled that Jarrod Bowen had fouled Chelsea
keeper Edouard Mendy.
Newcastle United also felt aggrieved as
they had a goal chalked off following a VAR
decision in a 0-0 home stalemate with
Crystal Palace, their fourth draw in six
Brentford's Ivan Toney scores his third goal on Saturday. Reuters
games.
Ivan Toney scored a stunning hat-trick
for Brentford in a 5-2 mauling of Leeds
United.
Wolverhampton Wanderers claimed
their first win of the season as they beat
Southampton 1-0 with Daniel Podence on
target just before halftime.
Nottingham Forest, who signed 21 new
players in the transfer window for a com-
bined 145 million pounds ($167 million), in-
cludingseveralondeadlineday,squandered
a2-0leadathometoBournemouthtoeven-
tually lose3-2 and fall intothebottom three.
Cracking derby
After back-to-back home wins,
Liverpool's season appeared to be back on
track and they welcomed back new signing
Darwin Nunez on Saturday after his three-
game ban.
Nunez was denied by the woodwork in
the second half as was Luiz Diaz although
Everton's Tom Davies also struck an upright
in the opening half of a derby that somehow
remained goalless.
Everton keeper Jordan Pickford made
several fine saves to frustrate Liverpool but
the hosts thoughtthey hadgrabbed the lead
when Conor Coady tapped in at the far post.
With pandemonium ensuing at
Goodison, the goal was ruled out for offside
after a long VAR review. A cracking derby
then ended with Mohamed Salah firing
against the post in stoppage time.
Everton's 12-year wait for a win over
Liverpool at Goodison goes on but manager
FrankLampardtookplentyof positivesfrom
the draw. "I thought we were brilliant. It's
one of the best 0-0s you're likely to see," said
the former England midfielder.

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