A

ow passago rom 0[[ CWTbT HTPab (Ponguin Books,

1991), Pa| Thapar's oandid insidor aooount o oourt lio
in tho ago o Jawaharlal Nohru and ndira Gandhi may bo
rolovant in today's irrovoront ago whon an outsidor Primo
Ministor is quostioning tho undamontals o ontitlomont.
"t was within ton days o Nohru's doath that ndira
rang Pomosh (Thapar) ono morning, sounding dosporato.
Mohor Chand Khanna, tho thon Housing Ministor, had
apparontly sont his minions to ask hor i thoy oould
romovo tho urnituro and that sho plan to vaoato tho (Toon
Murti) Houso as soon as possiblo. Sho was alarmod.
'What shall do?' sho askod, almost in toars. Ho told hor to
sit tight, tako hor timo, and ho would soo that no ono daro
throw hor out."
"Toon Murti Houso soomod to havo a lio quito
indopondont o tho oooupants. Pumour had it that Shastri's
wio doolinod to uso it as a rosidonoo booauso Nohru's
ghost must haunt tho rambling struoturo sinoo tho ZaXhP
ooromony had not boon porormod and his spirit not boon
roloasod in tho way it should havo boon. No way oould
Shastri bo porsuadod to stop into a doilod spaoo. t was
not a quostion o oontaminating his soul but o putting an
unoortainty ovor his uturo, his politioal uturo."
"Moanwhilo ndira oallod a mooting o a hundrod
oitizons, rom tho big industrialists downwards, to orm tho
Nohru Momorial Trust. Sho oo-optod Pomosh on to tho
panol o original trustoos.Tho Fund was oroatod, Toon
Murti was dodioatod to tho nation and tho 'pooplo o ndia'
and now oxpansion plans woro put into oporation."
What Pa| Thapar, with a oharming moasuro o oignod
innooonoo, dosoribod in hor momoirs was a woll-oxooutod
and ruthloss land-grab oporation. First, ndira Gandhi is
toarully outragod that sho is askod to vaoato a publio
building that sorvod as Nohru's oioial rosidonoo or 17
yoars. Enoouragod by hor oourtiors, sho is dotorminod to
not loso oontrol o a proporty sho now viows as an
inhoritanoo.
Thorooro, ator
sooking sympathy that
naturally oomos to any
amily ator a
boroavomont, hor
supportors whispor that
tho un-roinod Lal Bahadur
Shastri is not it to oooupy
a plaoo that housod tho
groat Nohru. Tho point o
this psyohologioal wararo
is two-old. Shastri must bo
intimidatod into bolioving
that it would bo
saorilogious or him to
movo into Toon Murti. n
tho proooss, thoro is a
distinotion mado botwoon
Toon Murti Houso, tho
Primo Ministor's oioial
rosidonoo, and Toon Murti
Houso, tho rosidonoo o
Nohru. Onoo Shastri is
bulliod into not moving into
Toon Murti, it losos its undoinod status as tho PM's oioial
rosidonoo. t oomos to bo assooiatod sololy with Nohru.
Tho dynasty thon movos ast. t sots up tho mandataory
trust, arm-twists tho industrialists it othorwiso dospisos into
making handsomo oontributions and oroatos tho oonditions
or Toon Murti Houso to booomo a amily shrino. Truo,
ndira didn't got to livo in Toon Murti Houso guoss sho
didn't aotor tho possibility o hor boooming PM in loss than
two yoars but at loast a prinoiplo was ostablishod: tho
dynasty doosn't rolinquish roal ostato that oasily.
A oasual look at tho map would indioato tho oxtont o
land-grab. Toon Murti housos tho Nohru Momorial Musoum
and Library that is nominally undor tho Ministry o Culturo
o tho Govornmont o ndia. t was doomod suioiontly
important or tho Congross disponsation or its tonurod
Dirootor to bo appointod in tho intorrognum botwoon tho
last dato o polling and tho doolaration o rosults in May
2014. Tho Dirootor is no doubt an ominont historian but tho
mannor o his appointmont was distinotly dodgy.
Thon thoro is ndira Gandhi Momorial at tho |unotion o
Sadar|ung Poad and Akbar Poad two Lutyon's
bungalows that also doublod up as tho unoioial
hoadquartors o tho Congross(T) in tho last yoars o tho
Narasimha Pao Govornmont, booro Sonia assumod ohargo
o tho party. Thoro is also tho singlo bungalow oioo o tho
San|ay Gandhi Momorial Trust on Willingdon Crosoont.
Tho Pa|iv Gandhi Foundation is looatod on Paisina
Poad, on promisos that woro initially givon to tho Congross
to uso as its pormanont hoadquartors. Tho Congross
romains oxaotly whoro it was in a spaoious Akbar Poad
bungalow but tho now building has boon transorrod to tho
dynasty's trust. Tho samo ato would havo boallon tho
ndira Gandhi National Contro or tho Arts that had
proposod Sonia Gandhi or a liolong rolo. But with a
ohango o Govornmont, this institution oan porhaps bo
salvagod and mado to play tho rolo it was sot up or.
And this is not to orgot tho oaso o Horald Houso, tho
primo proporty on Bahadurshah Zaar Marg that now
sorvos as a Passport Oioo. Tho irony o tho Govornmont
paying ront to a amily-oontrollod Trust that soourod
Govornmont land at subsidisod rato or tho ostonsiblo
purposo o bringing out a publioation is inosoapablo.
Maybo somoono should do an audit o tho valuo o tho
roal ostato in Dolhi that is undor tho diroot or indiroot
oontrol o tho Gandhi amily. Tho nation, it would soom,
owos this amily ovorything and it has ropaid tho dobt by
ontrusting primo roal ostato to institutions sot up by thom.
And this doos not inoludo tho Govornmont-providod
rosidonoos in Lutyons' Dolhi somo, no doubt, logitimato
to all o Nohru's romaining hoirs.
s it any wondor that A|it Singh, tho son o Charan
Singh, boliovos ho is boing short-ohangod by a
Govornmont that viows Govornmont buildings as a hotol
whoro you ohook in but must also ohook out? Tho Modi
Govornmont is boing pilloriod booauso it doosn't viow tho
stato as privato proporty.
USUALSUSPECTS
SwAFAh 0AS0uFTA
Maybe someone
should do an audit of
the value of the real
estate in Delhi that is
under the direct or
indirect control of the
Gandhi family.... s it
any wonder that Ajit
Singh believes he is
being short-changed
by a Government that
views Government
buildings as a
hotel where you
check in but must
also check out?
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N
otwithstanding their much-
publicised resolve to con-
test the October 15 Maharashtra
Assembly elections as an
alliance, the saffron alliance
partners on Saturday struggled
to arrive at a final seat-sharing
formula after an adamant Shiv
Sena mooted a fresh but some-
what unacceptable seat-sharing
proposal to its ally BJP.
On a day when the
Election Commission set into
motion the Assembly poll
process, the BJP which had
considerable ground in its seat-
sharing negotiations with its
ally on Friday once again
found itself in a delicate situa-
tion after the Shiv Sena sprang
a surprise on it by mooting a
fresh and unpalatable seat-
sharing proposal, a proposal
that would bring down the
seat-share of the BJP from the
119 seats that it had contested
in the 2009 Assembly polls.
Under the new proposal,
the Shiv Sena wants to keep 155
seats out of 288 seats, leaving
126 seats to the BJP and seven
seats to the Raju Shetti-led
Swambimani Paksha. The Sena
proposal carried a rider that the
BJP would give seats to three
other constituents of the
Maha-Yuti RPI(A), the
Mahadeo Jankar-led Rashtriya
Samaj Paksha and Vinayajk
Mete-led Shiv Sangram. Not
unexpectedly, the Senas fresh
proposal did not find takers in
the BJP camp.
Talking to the media after
the BJP core team held discus-
sions with four smaller allies in
the evening, senior party leader
Vinod Tawde said: Through it
is a fresh proposal, the Sena has
offered 126 seats to the BJP,
while keeping 155 seats for
itself and giving the remaining
seven seats to Swabhimani
Paksha. The Sena has asked to
accommodate three other allies
with nine seats from our quota
of 126 seats, which leaves the
BJP with just 117 seats.
Tawde said that BJP State
president Devendra Fadnavis
was planning to hold talks
with Sena president Uddhav
Thackeray on the latters pro-
posal, later in the night.
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Th khhkThkl
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MuMBA/hEw 0ELh
J
ust like the BJP-Shiv Sena
alliance, the Congress-NCP
alliance too continues to hang
i n the bal ance. As the
Congress on Saturday went
ahead with its deliberations on
selection of its candidates for
144 seats the halfway mark
in the Maharashtra Assembly
leaving the remaining 30
constituencies it had fought
last time for a review depend-
ing upon the NCPs stance, the
latter handed out a 24-hour
ultimatum to it to come up
with an improved offer on the
negotiation table for the
October 15 polls.
Senior NCP leader Praful
Patel said that while his partys
demand for 144 out of total 288
seats remained intact, it want-
ed its alliance partner to com-
municate to his party by Sunday
evening its stand on seat shar-
ing and whether it had any
improved offer to make than its
reported 124 seats, which was
not acceptable to his party.
Patel said: We have so far
not received any seat-sharing
proposal from the Congress. As
far as we are concerned, there
is no change in our demand for
144 seats. We would like to ask
the Congress to take the ini-
tiative of finalising the seat-
sharing deal with the NCP in
the next 24 hours.
The proposed meeting
between Congress president
Sonia Gandhi and NCP chief
Sharad Pawar on Saturday did
not materialise as a result of the
continuing deadlock. The duo
had last met on August 6 and
indicated that the alliance
would continue.
In the 2009 polls, the
Congress had contested 170
seats and won 82 seats, while
the NCP had contested 113
seats and bagged 62 seats. The
Congress has reportedly
offered 124 seats to the NCP
this time around but its ally is
showcasing its Lok Sabha per-
formance wherein it bagged
four seats compared to
Congress two to indicate
which way the winds are
blowing and stake claim to an
equal share of seats.
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8kk 8EhFTk Q K0LKATA
T
he City of Joy on Saturday
enacted a spirited replay of
Tehrir Square or Shahbag for
that matter as a 30,000-strong
crowd mostly comprising stu-
dents cutting across party lines
braved torrential rain and
marched several kilomentres to
protest against the brutal mid-
night assault by the police on
agitating students of presti-
gious Jadavpur University.
They shouted slogans
demanding immediate resig-
nations of Vice Chancellor
Abhijit Chakrabarty pri-
mary held responsible for the
police assault on students, who
were protesting against alleged
sexual harassment of a girl
student inside the campus, on
the midnight of September 17.
Many former students and a
good big section of the civil
society joined the march
against what they said to vent
our ire and register our protests
against the complete lawless-
ness and State repression in
Bengal that has been taking
place for the past a few years.
The police, however, played
sensibly this time by not repeat-
ing its feat at the Jadavpur cam-
pus where they had pounced
upon the demonstrating stu-
dents, including women as
Police Commissioner Surajit
Karpurakayastha had definite
reports that outsiders had gath-
ered inside the campus with
deadly arms.
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Fh8lkEh6IE8 Q hEw 0ELh/
MuLTAh (FAKSTAh)
T
he NDA Government on
Saturday came out with a
terse reply to Pakistan Peoples
Party (PPP) leader Bilawal
Bhutto Zardaris assertions of
taking back all of Kashmir
saying that the integrity and
unity of India is non-nego-
tiable. The BJP dubbed his
remarks as immature and
childish while the Congress
said J&K having to do anything
with Pakistan is entirely wrong.
The integrity and unity of
India is non-negotiable. We are
in the process of looking for-
ward, but it doesnt mean our
borders will be changed, the
Ministry of External Affairs
said in a statement. The MEA
also termed the Bhutto scions
comment as far from reality.
I will take back Kashmir, all
of it, and I will not leave behind
a single inch of it because, like
the other provinces, it belongs to
Pakistan, Bilawal, who was
flanked by former prime min-
isters Yousaf Raza Gilani and
Raja Pervaiz Asharaf, said.
Bilawal, 25, was addressing the
party workers in Multan region
in Punjab on Friday.
Sharply reacting to Bilawals
comment, the BJP said Pakistani
leaders are known for making
such provocative statements and
Indias security forces are capa-
ble of protecting its territory and
give a fitting reply to Pakistan,
as it has in the past.
Kashmir is very much a
part of India and will remain
so. Any discussion on it is not
acceptable to us. Kashmir
resides in the hearts of Indians,
said BJP spokesperson
Shahnawaz Hussain.
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k1E8h kMk Q hEw 0ELh
D
espite the fact that there is
no life in the waters of the
Yamuna in Delhi, the State
Government has decided to
encourage fishing in the 22-km
stretch of the river in the
national Capital.
Although the Government
issues fishing licences for a pal-
try fee of C3 for a day, there are
only a few takers for them
to fish in the highly polluted
river. Thats why the
Government is glad that 560
people applied for fish licences
till August in this financial year.
In 2005-06, on an average
1,215 licences were issued on
daily basis. The number came
down to 721 in 2012-13. In
2013-14, only 1,400 fishing
licences were issued.
There is a feeling in the
Government that after the
completion of inceptor sewer,
the waters of the Yamuna has
become cleaner and conducive
to fish breeding.
The Development
Department of the Delhi
Government has decided to
buy fish seed (fertilised fish
eggs) from Bengal as fish
breeding has completely
stopped in the murky waters of
the Yamuna.
The water has become so
turbid that even sunlight can-
not penetrate it. Sunlight is
essential for fish breeding. The
seed cannot survive as there are
no planktons to feed on, said
officials of Development
Department.
The decline in fish breed-
ing can be gauged from the fact
that in 2011-12, the department
had bought 12.97 lakh fish
seeds, but next year it had to
procure 15.25 lakh seeds. In
2013-14, by January, the
department has already bought
18.20 lakh fish seeds.
For C3, apart from a
licence, the department pro-
vides a rod and line for fishing.
Nets are given to farmers.
According to officials, the
annual fee for fishing is C300.
The licence fee for Okhla area
is C20 per day.
Several fishing enthusiasts
continue to flock the banks of
the Yamuna to pursue their
hobby despite the bad condi-
tion of the river. We hope to
encourage more such people,
said a senior Delhi
Government official.
Fishing licences for indi-
viduals of various categories
(annual/daily) are issued to
the fishermen. 1,400 fishing
licences were issued during
the current financial year
(2013-14), he said. The depart-
ment is also looking at revising
the daily licence fee.
The current rate is very
low. There are a number of
people who still like to fish in
the Yamuna. I have asked the
officials to look into this mat-
ter. The licence fee
should at least be C50 per day,
said officials.
As much as 3,000 million
litres of Delhis sewage goes into
the Yamuna through 22 drains.
The 22-km stretch in urban
Delhi is 3 per cent of the rivers
total length, but contributes to
70 per cent of the total pollu-
tion in the whole channel.
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
T
he BJP on Saturday
announced External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swarajs sister
Vandana Sharma as its candi-
date from Safidon in Haryana
as it released the list of names
for the remaining 47 seats for
the Haryana Assembly elections
on October 15. The BJP had on
September 10 announced the
names for 43 seats.
Of the 47 candidates given
the party ticket, eight are
women. The first list had
seven women candidates thus
taking the total tally of the fair
sex to 15.
Besides Sharma, other
women candidates are Latika
Sharma (Kalka), Santoah Sarwan
(Mulana-SC), Rohita Revari
(Panipat city), Santosh Danoda
(Narwana-SC), Swatantra Bala
Choiudhary (Fatehabad), Sunita
Duggal (Ratia-SC), and Seema
Gaibipur (Uklana -SC).
Manish Growar has been
fielded from Rohtak, Tejpal
Tanwar from Sohna, Surendra
Barwala from Jind, Sanjay
Singh from Nuh and Vipul
Goyal from Faridabad. Abhay
Singh, a retired IAS will be con-
testing from Nagal Chaudhry.
The partys Central Election
Committee (CEC) met here
under the chairmanship of BJP
chief Amit Shah and in the
presence of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. The other
members of the CEC, who
attended the meet, include
Union Ministers Rajnath Singh,
Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley,
Ananth Kumar and
Thawarchand Gehlot, and
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who
was recently inducted into the
all-important panel.
Party general secretary JP
Nadda and general secretary
(organisation) Ram Lal, besides
Shahnawaz Hussain and
Haryana State leaders Rambilas
Sharma, Anil Vig and
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The integrity and
unity of ndia is
non-negotiable. We
are in the process
of looking forward,
but it doesn't
mean our borders
will be changed
MEA
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undivided parI oI India. 8ome
parIs are under probIem. 8o
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there are only 560 takers for licences to fish
in the highly polluted
Yamuna till August
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seals oul o 288 seals
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roosal lo ils ally BJF
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Artist Prenita Dutt, will showcase painting
exhibition titled Khalwat, at the AADI art
Gallery from 26-28 September, 2014 from
11:30 am 6:30 pm at 2, Balbir Saxena Marg
Hauz Khas, New Delhi
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S
onam Kapoor is known to have just
too many critics. But as the breezy
motor mouth Dr Mili Chakravarty
in Khoobsurat, she turns in many
converts. Other than her and Pakistans
Fawad Khan as the dishy prince with
awesome intensity, Khoobsurat is a
perfectly Disney film a fairytale love
you fervently wish had been spun
around you.
It has everything you would have
wanted in a sizzling romance good
humour, good chemistry, good humour
and good amount of modernity.
But, to compare Hrishikesh
Mukherjees Khubsoorat with this one in
which director Shashank Ghosh spins a
royal versus commoner tale, would be
incorrect as both make an impact in
varying ways. While Rekha was engaged
in a delectable fight of sare niyam tod do
with an uptight matriarch in Dina
Pathak, here Sonam has not that
daunting a task at hand and is more
about her Viku ke liye gande gande
khayal rather than her clash with his
royal mother played by Ratna Pathak
Shah.
A tough nut to crack as a
physiotherapist who can make Dhoni &
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ove in the times of a culinary
journey of discovery is somewhat
new to Bollywood though Chini
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ts a been-there, done-that story but
stands apart because of the
unabashed way it portrays
unbridled violence again women. Yes,
a melancholic, always in regret Liam
Neeson as private detective on the trail
of unscrupulous and inhuman serial
women killers gives the film weightage
with his controlled acting, but the
unmitigated torture of victims shocks
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ver since The Hunger Games kind
of young adult movies came into
fashion, crazy edge-of-the-seat
challenge bouts have sold like hot
cakes. Though a wee bit different from
this genre, The Maze Runner qualifies
for similarly formatted thrills though it
has been propelled as a science fiction
thriller.
Battling amnesia and being popped
up in the middle of nowhere in a lift
which only goes upward and opens up
to a box, Thomas arrives to a patch of
land encircled by a high walled maze.
And this maze is visited by mechanised
monsters called grievers who look like
botoxed spiders on a mission to kill.
Thomas job is to beat this
unending and mysterious maze and
escape back to civilisation, something
he soon realises is full of
impossibilities, especially with the
others like him not wanting to take any
chances with their lives.
Despite being pegged on very
many confused inroads into this maze,
and with some humans being attacked
by a deadly disease which turns them
into exploding killers, the film fails to
really ingrain the thrills into its
lopsided script. The result is stretched
boredom by the time the film reaches
the second half. May not be the film for
a crowded week.
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Sehwag run to victory despite sore back
and torn muscles, a Punjabi spice girl
who calls her mother by her name, a
todays youngster who spews style, class
and confidence, a girl in unabashedly in
love and a thorough professional when
at work, Sonam is a beauty in
Khoobsurat.
Romantics seldom get their moneys
worth through Bollywood, but this
absolutely breezy story gives you goose
pimples of love all through and will be
remembered as one film which held on
till the last on what many cynics call
second hand emotion.
Fawad as the intense, sparsely
speaking prince exudes royalty and
extends his territory as a brooding man
with a heart of gold. For him, zindagi
gulzaar hai on this side of the border
too. Besides holding his own against the
more central character of Sonam, Fawad
also declares he is here for a long career.
Khoobsurats other high point is kudi
Punjaban Kirron Kher who yet again
gives a new sauce to her shade of
bindaas Punjabiyat. Though, there in a
small role, she captures more
imagination than her role should have
allowed in normal circumstances. She is
the best ever Punjaban we have in
Bollywood for now.
Amir Raza Hussain as the wheel-
chaired king who has to be treated by
Sonam has a role as constricted as the
disability he acquires after losing his son
in a sports car accident. Ratna Pathak
Shah is adequately stiff and oh-so-royal
in her coiffured hair and Oxonian
attitude.
On the whole, Khoobsurat, you can
say, is Bollywoods best cheer for love.
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TELLYTALE
these food genre movies in desiland.
In this one, the sassy and spicy
Parineeti captivates you the same way
as the Lucknawi and Hyderabadi food
seduce you without any hope of saving
calories. Staying in the bylanes of the
old world Charminar area with her
dazzlingly old father played to
perfection by Anupam Kher, Gulroz
aka Parineeti has a hangup for an
American English speaking husband.
All she gets are a string of losers high
on dowry and low on esteem.
Director Habeeb Faizal, who
enjoyed instant stardom through his
high octane drama Ishaqzaade,
impresses in this one too though you
may be constrained to acknowledge
that Parinidhi lends all the tadka to the
proceedings alongside Mughlai chef
Aditya Roy Kapur. The concoction,
both on and off the table, are tasty and
the chemistry of both food and love
aptly matched.
More such movies on the shelf will
help in not just enhancing the
sensibilities of viewers who are starved
of content, but also give the young
generation of director and actors to
have the courage to move away from
tried and tested box office formulae.
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'Won Jhalak
trophy or my wio'
Ashish Sharma, who layed Rudra Frala Ranawal in
Rangrasiya, has won Jhalak 0ikhhla Jaa's Season 7. he
lells SAh0EETA YA0Av lhal i he didn'l have wie and
audience suorl, he would have quil lhe show because o
heallh issues and lhe ressure o erormance
QHow was the experience with
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (JDJ)?
It has been the most memorable
journey so far. Being a non-dancer,
I was sceptical about participating in
a dance reality show. But I went ahead
with it because I felt it would be a
great learning experience. When I
started off, I was labeled the most shy
and reserved person on JDJ. If you
look at my scoreboard, I scored 30
only twice, it was always 27 or 28. I
was consistent and there was a lot of
scope to improve and reinvent myself.
As the show progressed, I became
more confident and comfortable.
QTell us about your choreographer.
Im an actor first and a dancer
later. Shampa Sonthalia made this my
strength. She is a brilliant
choreographer who gave me dance
steps that I could emote and master.
QHow difficult was the final act?
Shampa choreographed a
combination of parkour and hip
hop genre that had some very
difficult steps. She told me that if I
wanted to win this, I needed to be the
best on stage that day and raise the
bar of my performance.
QDuring one dance performance,
you were extremely unwell. How did
you manage?
I was down with viral fever,
suffering from low blood pressure
and severe backpain. I had
decided to quit. But with my
wife Archana Taides and the
audiences support, I managed
to pull myself up and give it my
best. Jhalak is
extremely hectic.
Im fortunate
that my wife
has been there
by my side all
the way. I
won this
for her.
QHas JDJ
c hange d
your life in
any way?
I never
thought I
could do flips,
turns and lifts
in my life. But
now I can say
with confidence
turn on the
music and I can
perform anywhere that is what
Jhalak has taught me. I have become
more disciplined, self-sustained and
a go-getter.
QDid you expect youll lift the
trophy?
I was determined to win from
day one. But then I fell ill and
started thinking about quitting the
show. Thankfully, the self doubts and
the physical strain did not stay long.
QCan you recall an incident where
you missed a step?
Actually, it happened all the
time but we covered it up smartly. I
was taught how to continue with the
flow despite the glitches.
QWhat about the judges?
All three of them are pillars of
JDJ. Karan is very sincere and earnest
with his judgements. He told me that
my intensity is my power and I had
a chance to win. That gave me a
boost. Madhuri is extremely
charming. She used to come to us
during off-shoots and motivate us.
Remo is a man of few words and used
to set new challenges for us. It was
very difficult to impress him as he
knew everyones weak and strong
points and judged accordingly.
QThe most difficult performance.
Yakshagana was the most
difficult of all. You cant mess with
this theatre art form that
combines a unique dance style,
music, costume and make-up
with stage techniques. We
had to be very particular with
the postures and
expressions. I spent
hours trying to get
comfortable wearing
the headgear which
was huge and heavy.
Q A fun dance
performance?
All acts are
my favourite
and I had a lot
of fun doing
them. The
vampire act
was parti-
cularly nice.
My perfor-
mance on
Tadap tapad
ke iss dil... will
always be very
close to my
heart.
A
t a recent sneak peek of the
much anticipated TV show
Everest by filmmaker
Ashutosh Gowariker in Mumbai,
Star Plus officials were at pains to
disclose that this will be the most
expensive show ever on the small
screen. They, however, would not
number the crores spent already
and the budget ahead. But they did
inform the visiting journalists how
this show had taken five years to
conceptualise from doing the
research to auditioning to casting,
to finally begin shooting.
On the face of it, the serial is
about a father-daughter
relationship, the story of 21-year-
old Anjali Singh Rawat and her
father Brigadier Singh who always
wanted a son.
Jis din paida hui, uss din se
leker aaj tak, har pal kaatein ki tarha
chubhta hai mujhe yeh baat ki kyu
beti hi hui, is what he says about
his daughter on the show.
Do mahine pehle mujhe pata
laga ki mere papa, mujhe apni
zindagi ki sabse badi haar samajhte
hain. Isliye mere papa ka sapna
puraa kerne ke liye Mt Everest ko
climb karna maine apna maksad
bana liya. Duniya ke highest peak
pe mujhe apna naam nahin balki
Brigadier Singh ka naam likhna hai,
is the daughters reply.
Making Everest has been an
uphill task. I read many books on
mountaineering. The stigma
attached to the girl child is an
important social subject I will
explore through TV, Gowariker,
writer and producer of the show
says. He has tried to do something
out-of-the-box this time, he adds.
So, shots taken from 12,000 feet
in minus six degree temperature,
the starcast doing its own stunts,
frostbites, cold burns and breathing
problems the challenges were
many.
We wanted to take a fresh face
as the lead protagonist. Gowariker
is a brilliant filmmaker who opened
his style of cinematography on TV.
For this, a lot of research, time,
finding the right talent and money
have gone into the production
which is 90 per cent complete, Star
Plus GM Gaurav Banerjee says.
For Gowariker, the difficulty
was how to bring everything
together and create a synergy in the
narrative. Not just the actors, the
entire crew had to go through
training to shoot at high altitude.
During the casting, our pre-
condition for all actors and crew
was that they would have to be fit
for mountain climbing and work
under harsh weather conditions.
Their weight, agility, fitness and
medical records were checked. We
didnt want any unpleasant
surprises at 12,000 feet, Gowariker
tells you, adding that his show
would have a great blend of drama
and adventure.
Interestingly, Gowariker had
not actively thought about directing
a show on TV.
To make a 25-minute episode,
one has to shoot 14 hours a day.
Films have spoilt me. I felt that I
would not be able to give so much
time. Hence, Gleen Baretto and
Ankush Mohla were roped in as
well. If Everest was a film, it would
have been a 16-hour-long drama,
Gowariker says.
The show, whose date of airing
and time slot is still undecided, is
sure to find a connect with viewers
as it deals with a sensitive issue.
And with the music composition by
AR Rahman, Everest is literally set
to touch new heights.
Rahman, who has worked
previously on TV with Wonder
Balloon on Doordarshan, feels that
nothing could have been better
than making a comeback on the
telly with Gowariker.
When Ashutosh briefed me
about the concept, I was intrigued.
Students from my school KM
Music Conservatory and I have
worked on this project and come up
with orchestral music which we
hope will be appreciated, Rahman
says.
without any plugs.
Women here are being surveyed,
assessed and picked up by two gay
serial killers and thrown out literally in
bits and pieces. The close-up of the
terror that these hapless women go
through runs a chill down your spine
and makes you cringe in horror.
Director Scott Frank has plunged into
unspeakable torture visuals which get
only enhanced, thanks to his cleverly
deliberate props of acoustics and
shrouded processes of killing.
The tone of this crime thriller gets
set with the visuals of a cemetery
caretaker trying to fish out plastic
gunny bags from a lake and, for a split
second, you see a severed head of a
blonde woman in one of the pouches.
Then there are several other scenes
which show how unscrupulous and
inhuman the killers are though it is not
explained why they are doing this.
Amid all this violence, there is
Neeson who reluctantly takes up the
case of a drug dealer whose wife has
been killed, chopped finely, stuffed
into drug pouches and sent off to the
husband in a car dickey. So intent is
the director in making you shudder
that when the husband picks up one
packet, fresh blood of his chopped up
wife oozes out of it! As if thats not
enough, theres a tape which records
every scream and plea of the woman as
she is being cut up.
Neeson, as usual, renders a solid
performance, showing how well he can
manage roles in which a grim and sad
side of his persona manages to tower
over personal crisis and render the
criminals where they belong. The cat
and mouse chase, the old fashioned
tactics of the detective and all the
blood and gore around the proceedings
keeps you on the edge though, by the
end of it all, you wonder if you really
needed to be put through such
relentless atrocities against women.
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A
55-year-old man died
under mysterious circum-
stances in West Delhis Rajouri
Garden area late on Friday
night. Though the police are yet
to register a case in this regard,
the family members have
alleged that he was murdered
by the colleagues he had gone
to meet.
The police were informed
about the death of Surender
Nijhwan by the family mem-
bers after he was declared dead
at a Punjabi Bagh hospital.
Surender, a gold medalist archi-
tect, left his residence in Meera
Bagh around 12.30 pm on
Friday. He told his family mem-
bers that around 4.30 pm he
will be meeting with two
designers Sarvesh and
Sanjay from Greater Noida.
Narrating the sequence of
events, Aditya, son-in-law of
the deceased, said that the
meeting was scheduled to take
place at the Pinch of Spice
restaurant in the evening.
Sanjay and Sarvesh had come
in a Scorpio car along with
their driver Deepak for the
meeting.
I called my father-in-
law till 10.30 pm but no one
answered the phone and my
mother-in-law called me up
and told that he did not
return home till midnight,
said Aditya.
Aditya said that around
12.30 am Deepak answered
the phone and said that
Nijhwan was feeling unwell
and asked them to drop him
home. At around 1.45 am
Deepak and Sarvesh arrived.
My father-in-law had a deep
cut on his forehead, face was
swollen and he had cuts all over
his body.
We rushed him to Punjabi
Bagh hospital where doctors
declared him brought dead.
The doctors also revealed that
he had passed away more than
four hours ago, added Aditya.
When we came out to ask
Sarvesh and Deepak about
the incident both had already
fled the hospital. Our neigh-
bours managed to click the
photograph of the accused
when they came to drop my
father. We informed the
police.
The police raided the res-
idence of the three accused
but they are at large.
The post-mortem will be
conducted on Monday. Inquest
proceedings are underway.
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A
am Aadmi Party (AAP)
leader Alka Lamba has
filed an FIR with against for-
mer AAP MLA Vinod Kumar
Binny and 39 others for spread-
ing rumours on social net-
working site that she is involved
in sex racket.
Binny posted a comment
on his social networking
account that in a police raid on
my house, two girls have been
arrested for sex trade, the AAP
leader said.
Binny, however, refuted
the charges saying someone
created a fake account in his
name to malign him. Two
months back, I reported the
matter to the Pol ice
Commissioner, Crime Branch
and local police. I have noth-
ing to do with the case. I am
being framed, Binny said. He
also said he will hold a Press
conference on Sunday at his
house on the matter. Binny was
expelled in January this year
from the AAP for anti-party
activity.
Lamba, who joined the
AAP in December last year,
said that Binny was trying to
defame her by making false
allegations. Based on her alle-
gations, Cyber Cell has regis-
tered an FIR against Binny
under Section 66A (sending
offensive messages through
communication service) of IT
ACT and Sections 354D
(stalking) and 509 (word, ges-
ture or act intended to insult
the modesty of a woman) of
IPC. In the FIR, 39 other peo-
ple have also been booked for
the same offence.
I will fight for justice till
my last breath. Binny and 37
people, who belong to a par-
ticular party, have been con-
tinuously making derogatory
remarks against me (on social
media), Lamba said. She
lodged a written complaint
against Binny and the others at
Kotla Mubarkpur police sta-
tion. We are investigating the
allegations and will soon inter-
rogate Binny, said a senior
police officer.
Lamba said people who
had used abusive language are
now deleting their comments.
She requested everyone to
cooperate and help her in
catching such people on
Facebook and other sites. She
asked to share such comments
and help other women.
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he Ghaziabad Development
Authority (GDA) on
Saturday organised a workshop
for briefing on the increased
Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and
newly-enforced building bylaws
for small size plots of 112 square
metres and 15 metres height.
Speaking on the occasion,
GDA vice-chairman Santosh
Kumar Yadav said, We are
committed to make the city
beautiful, clean and free from
traffic congestion. So the con-
necting roads, new flyovers,
widening of roads and metro
corridor construction are
underway.
The vice-chairman said,
The new building bylaws have
been drafted with keeping in
mind the interest of all classes of
society. Due to the decreasing
land space for housing in the
national Capital region, the con-
struction has to be vertical.
Hence, under the new building
bylaws, a new floor has been
added on the small plot size of
112 square metres.
Similarly in the case of
parking space, the stilt facility
has been introduced in the new
building bylaws on 112 square
metres plot on which a maxi-
mum 12 residential units would
be permitted provided that plot
should be situated on 9 metres
wide road. With enforcing the
new bylaws, attempts have
been made to provide a clear
demarcation line for small
builders and the big giants. The
single unit development is of
112 meters to 2,000 sq. meter
size. The other segment is of
group housing for medium
size builders on a plot size of
more than 2,000 square metres.
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I
n a bid to streamline the func-
tioning of Delhi Government
and make it more people-
friendly, Chief Secretary DM
Spolia has directed all the
Principal Secretaries, secre-
taries and Head of Departments
(HoDs) to be present in their
offices to redress public griev-
ances. This was in reference to
the advice given by Lieutenant-
Governor Najeeb Jung, to meet
public regularly, during his
meeting with the HoDs on
February 18. It is noted that
HoDs of various departments
are not taking daily public
meetings seriously.
He also referred to the ear-
lier orders issued by his office
in this regard advising the
HoDs to make themselves avail-
able in their offices from 11 am
to 1 pm on every working day
(except Wednesday which
would be a No visitor Day) and
to interact with the public and
solve their problems.
They have been also asked
to not to scheduled any meeting
from 11 am to 1 pm. In case of
unavoidable circumstances, the
second in command should be
available for public interaction.
Further, expressing concern over
the poor response of inspection
reports from the officers for the
week ending August 18, 2014, in
which reports from only nine
departments were received,
Spolia stressed that all the senior
officers should visit and inspect
the field offices.
Spolia also reiterated the
importance of ensuring effective
field inspections and of cutting
edge offices and meetings with
citizens visiting offices, giving
proper hearing and taking nec-
essary steps for redressal of
their grievances. He directed all
of them to supervise working
and initiate improvement mea-
sures, as required. HoDs were
also directed to share the
information pertaining to the
important issues and work done
by their departments for dis-
semination to general public
through Directorate of
Information & Publicity.
The Departments of Home,
Finance, Vigilance, Social
Welfare, Women and Child
Development, Language and
Elections will submit their
reports on Monday, depart-
ments of Higher Education,
Training and Technical
Education, Irrigation and Flood
Control, Urban Development
and Local Bodies on Tuesday
and departments like Land &
Building, Revenue, PWD and
Delhi Legislative Assembly will
submit the report on
Wednesday. Further, depart-
ments of Employment, Labour,
Development Department and
SC/ST Welfare and departments
of Environment, GAD, Planning,
Administrative Reforms, Law
Justice and Legislative Affairs,
Tourism and Art & Culture,
Health and Family Welfare,
Industry, Gurudwara Elections,
Delhi Skill Mission and Mission
Convergence will submit their
reports on Friday.
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A
city court has framed
charges against former Delhi
Chief Minister and AAP con-
venor Arvind Kejriwal, noted
lawyer Prashant Bhushan and
two others on Saturday in con-
nection with a defamation filed
by former Telecom Minister
Kapil Sibals son Amit Sibal.
Metropolitan Magistrate
Sunil Kumar Sharma framed
charges against Kejriwal,
Bhushan, Aam Aadmi Party
leader Manish Sisodia and
Shazia Ilmi under Section 500
(defamation) of the IPC. The
four accused were put on trial by
the court after they did not plead
guilty to the offence and claimed
trial. The court has now fixed the
matter for January 17, 2015 for
recording of evidence.
The court had on July 24 last
year summoned them in the
criminal defamation case filed by
Amit Sibal.
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A
person died and another
was injured after they were
trapped inside a heap of mud
while carrying out a digging
work for cables in South-East
Delhis Jamia Nagar area on
Saturday afternoon.
Metro authorities claimed
that the labourers had entered
the dug up metro site without
any permission and started
their work.
Durgesh and Ravindra,
who were digging a pit for lay-
ing down the cables for a
telecommunication company,
entered a 12-feet deep dug up
metro site. The fire department
received a call and rescue oper-
ation began around 2 pm.
The labourers came to
repair a broken cable. The two
were rescued and rushed to
Holy Family Hospital where
Durgesh was declared brought
dead while Ravindra is under-
going treatment.
Two Tata Indicom work-
ers had entered our metro
construction site despite
repeated warnings from the
guards present there but they
did not listen to any warn-
i ngs, sai d a DMRC
spokesperson.
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A
class eleventh student
studying at a Government
school in Central Delhi was
allegedly sodomised by his
schoolteacher on Friday. The
parents of the victim informed
the Kamla Market police sta-
tion, following which a case
was registered and the accused
has been arrested.
The incident took place on
Friday afternoon around 12:30
pm when the accused, identi-
fied as Bilal Ahmed, called the
victim to an empty classroom
on some pretext and assault-
ed him. The victim reached
home and narrated the inci-
dent to his parents.
Following this, the par-
ents informed the police. A
medical examination of the
victim was conducted. In his
statement to the police, the
victim alleged that the teacher
assaul ted hi m and t hen
threatened to fail him in
exams if he disclosed the
incident to anyone.
Bilal had on earlier occa-
sions also tried to assault the
victim but the victim had
always managed to escape.
Bilal Ahmed is a resident of
Baghpat district in Uttar
Pradesh and was a Hindi
teacher at the school. He
resided with his family in
Delhi-6 area.
A case under Section of
Unnatural Sex and Protection
of Children from Sexual
Offences (POCSO) was regis-
tered at Kamla Market police
station. The accused was arrest-
ed and sent to judicial custody.
Police officials are now inves-
tigating to find out wether
other students of the school
were assaulted by him.
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1. 1 Kalka Sml. Lalika Sharma
2. 5 Ambala Cily Shri Aseem 0oyal
8. G Mulana (SC) Sml. Sanlosh Sarwan
4. O Yamunanagar Shri 0hanshyam 0as Arora
5. 18 Thanesar Shri Subhash Sudha
G. 14 Fehowa Shri Jai Bhagwan Sharma (00)
7. 1G Kalayal Shri 0haramal Sharma
8. 17 Kailhal Shri Rao Surendra Singh
O. 18 Fundri Shri Randhir 0olan
1O. 1O hilokheri (SC) Shri Bhagwan 0as Kabiranlhi
11. 2O ndri Shri Karandev Kamboj
12. 22 0haraunda Shri harvindar Kalyan
18. 25 Fanial Cily Sml. Rohila Revari
14. 27 Samalkha Shri Shashikanl Kaushik
15. 28 0anaur Shri Jilendra Malik
1G. 82 0ohana Shri Jai Singh Thekedar
17. 88 Baroda Shri Baljeel Singh Malik (0ada)
18. 84 Julana Shri Sanjeev Chairman
1O. 85 Saidon Sml. vandana Sharma
2O. 8G Jind Shri Surendra Barwala
21. 88 harwana (SC) Sml. Sanlosh 0anoda
22. 4O Falehabad Sml. Swalanlra Baala Choudhary
28. 41 Ralia (SC) Sml. Sunila 0uggal
24. 42 Kalawali (SC) Shri Rajendra 0eshujoda
25. 48 0abwali Shri 0ev Kumar Sharma
2G. 4G Ellenabad Shri Fawan Beniwal
27. 47 Adamur Shri Karan Singh Ranauliya
28. 48 uklana (SC) Sml. Seema 0aibiur
2O. 54 Loharu Shri J.F. 0alal
8O. 55 Badhra Shri Sukhvinder Shyoran
81. 58 Tosham Shri 0unal Singh Chairman
82. 5O Bawani Khera (SC) Shri vishambhar Balmiki
88. G2 Rohlak Shri Manish 0rowar
84. G8 Kalanaur (SC) Shri Ramavlar Balmiki
85. GG Jhajjar (SC) Shri 0ariyav Singh Rajoura
8G. G7 Beri Shri vikram Kadiyan
87. 71 hangal Chaudhry Shri Abhay Singh
Yadav (Reld. AS)
88. 78 Kosli Shri vikram Thekedar
8O. 74 Rewari Shri Randheer Karivas
4O. 78 Sohna Shri Tejal Tanwar
41. 7O huh Shri Sanjay Singh
42. 8O Fero/eur Jhirka Choudhary Alam Mundal
48. 81 Funahana Shri Ekbal Jaildar
44. 88 hodal (SC) Shri Ram Ralan
45. 8G Faridabad hil Shri Yashvir 0agar
4G. 8O Faridabad Shri viul 0oyal
47. OO Tigaon Shri Rajesh hagar
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F
our projects of New Delhi
Municipal Council
(NDMC) have been conferred
the Skoch Award for Excellence
2014. The projects include
24x7 call centre, city Wi-fi and
Urja NDMC Women Uday.
These along with three other
projects including nomadic haat,
open gym and beautification of
Shankar Market have been
selected by the jury and award-
ed the Skoch Order-of-merit
during the 37th Skoch Summit
on Minimum Government,
Maximum governance.
To redress complaints of
people of the area, a 24x7 call
centre-cum-control room has
been opened at NDMC Palika
Kendra. NDMC launched city
wi-fi facility in Khan Market
and Connaught place in a bid
to start free wireless internet
service in its most upscale and
expensive zone.
In a step towards women
empowerment, NDMC has
decided to establish a special
unit, Urja, for unemployed
women as a part of which they
will be given skill training after
which they will be employed in
a factory setup for production
of eatables and other goods of
daily use. Nomadic Haat is
aimed at empowering and
engaging the tribal and
nomadic communities of
Banjaras, Kalbeliyas, Bayariya,
Gadiya Lohars, Jogis and
Raibari by providing them with
alternative livelihood.
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A
n journalist of a TV news
channel was assaulted in
Goa by a cruise boat owner
while he was filming footage
for a news story.
Anil Laad, the editor of a
local cable news channel, has in
his complaint said he reached
the spot in response to a tip-off
that a minor passenger accident
had taken place while alighting
the ship. There he was con-
fronted by the owner.
He asked me to get off the
jetty, claiming entry was
restricted in the area. He then
grabbed my camera, flung it
aside and tried to assault me,
Laad has said in his complaint
naming one Aakash
Madgavkar, who runs a cruise
boat operation.
Anand Madgavkar, the
father of the accused who is
also involved in the cruise boat
business did not deny the inci-
dent, but said that the journal-
ist was interfering during a
safety drill.
Aakash could not be con-
tacted, even as his father
offered no comment on the
camera-grabbing nor the
attempted assault.
The Goa Union of
Journalists, a local body of
media representatives has con-
demned the assault.
The Goa Union of
Journalists unequivocally con-
demns the assault on fellow
journalist Anil Laad, while he
was performing his duty,
Union President Kishore Naik
Gaonkar said demanding that
the police initiate prompt
action against the culprit.
When contacted Panaji
police said that they were still
examining the complaint.
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nder Border Area
D e v e l o p m e n t
Programme (BADP), the
Central Government has
approved C15 crore for bor-
dering Kutch district to gen-
erate employment for local
population in tourism sector.
Sources in the State admin-
istration said that various short
term vocational courses have
been chosen to empower local
people to become self employed.
An amount of C60 lakh
has been allocated for training
of Tourist Guide and hotel
management. C35 lakh for
courses related to basic com-
puter and communication skills
as well as English speaking
training. Sizable funds have
also been allocated of some
other courses including car-
pentry, wireman, four wheeler
driving, and security personnel
recruitment etc, said an offi-
cial, requesting anonymity.
Besides, to improve infra-
structure in the border areas, C3
crore have been allocated for
approach roads in potential
tourist places like Darbargadh
and erect traditional Kutchi
homes Bhunga on exotic
locations like ancient civilisa-
tion site Dholavira. At couple of
locations, Bhunga Resorts have
been planned in public private
partnership (PPP) model.
Other infrastructure including
Solar lights and Solar water
heaters are to be installed in vil-
lages like Lodrani,
Munchhivandh, Karni,
Gadhda, Dungrani, and solar
water heater at Lodrani and
Bela villages to promote
rural and agriculture tourism
activities.
There are pl ans for
improve facilities at Dholavira
Fossil Park. Considering
extreme climate conditions,
shades at various places at
Dholavira Fossil Park have
been planned coupled with
Cement & Concrete roads
approaching towards the
Fossil Park, Forest huts (Van
Kutir), Watchtower, foddr plot
and Tingribet.
From Page 1
While party vice-president
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi felt Pakistani
politicians have always tried to make
Kashmir a parachute of their politics,
another BJP leader, Subramanian
Swamy said Bilawal was a very inex-
perienced politician and his com-
ments were very immature.
It is an immature statement. He
is totally inexperienced in politics
and because of his family he has been
made the Patron-in-Chief of PPP. He
should learn lessons, he said.
The statement made by Bilawal
Bhutto is very immature and childish.
Kashmir is an integral part of India and
will remain so. Any attempt to eye
Kashmir will be dealt with sternly as
India is capable of protecting its terri-
tory, BJP national secretary Shrikant
Sharma said.
Sharma added that Pakistani
politicians often raise the Kashmir
issue to save their own identity in
Pakistan. The neighbouring country
also uses the Kashmir issue to divert
the attention of its public from its inter-
nal problems.
Congress spokesperson Sandeep
Dikshit said: Jammu & Kashmir is
unbreakable and undivided part of
India. Some parts are under problem.
So saying that Kashmir has anything
to do with Pakistan is entirely wrong.
Bilawals father Asif Ali Zardari was
Pakistan president from 2008 to 2013.
His mother, the slain former premier
Benazir Bhutto, was twice elected as the
Prime Minister while his maternal
grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who
founded PPP in 1967, also served as the
Prime Minister in the 1970s.
Bilawal, who has announced plans
to contest next general elections in
2018, heads the secular Pakistan
Peoples Party (PPP) which officially
wants good ties with India.
From Page 1
Anil Jain, partys Haryana affairs in-charge
Jagdish Mukhi and election in-charge in the State
Kailash Vijayvargiya were also present. The
meeting started at 3 pm and continued for about
five hours.
In the first list, the party had granted party
tickets to the wife of veteran Congress leader
Birender Singh, who recently quit the Congress
and joined the BJP.
Earlier, prominent among the candidates
announced are state BJP chief Rambilas Sharma
from Mahendergarh, senior leader Anil Vij from
Ambala Cant, former Congress leader and Rajya
Sabha member Birender Singhs wife Prem Lata
Singh from Uchhana Kalan, BJPs Kisan Morcha
chief OP Dhankar from Baadli, and former
Chandigarh Mayor Gian Chand Gupta from
Panchkula.
Former Haryana Ministers Jagdish Nehra in
Rania, Krishna Gehlawat in Rai and Chattarpal
Singh in Hansi were also named in the first list
of candidates.
BJPs youth leader from Rohtak Capt
Abhimanyu will contest from Narnaund and sit-
ting MLA from Sonepat Kavita Jain has been
renominated from the segment while senior BJP
leader Santosh Yadav will fight from Ateli.
From Page 1
The Vice Chancellor is known for his
proximity to Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee.
The police on Saturday raised three
barricades and stopped the marching stu-
dents on Mayo Road barely a km from
the Raj Bhavan even as Governor Kesri
Nath Tripathi expressed his desire to
meet a delegation of the protesting stu-
dents in order resolve the issue.
The eight-member delegation that
met the Governor for about one and a
half hour subsequently quoted him as
assuring the students of a proper inves-
tigation into the matter.
We have handed over to the
Honourable Governor all the relevant
CDs and he has assured us that he will
personally look into the matter,
Soukarna Maji, a member of the students
delegation said, adding they were lift-
ing the demonstration only upon an
assurance of proper action given by the
Governor. The movement for the
removal of the VC would continue, the
students said.
Earlier a visibly displeased Governor
reacted to posers from journalists say-
ing you know the incident better than
me as to who is responsible and who is
not responsible for the incident.
Meanwhile in a related development
the Jadavpur University website was
allegedly hacked from unknown
sources and a message quoting the Vice
Chancellor as saying I am sorry was
posted on his behalf.
I have spoken to the VC. This mes-
sage is not from our side. Perhaps it was
hacked from some unknown sources.
Our technical team has been asked to
look into it and intimate the police if
need be, Registrar Pradip Ghosh said.
From Page 1
The Congress cannot say
that it is offering us more
number of seats, because we
had 124 seats in our quota in
the 2004 polls, he told medi-
apersons.
In 2004 polls, we had
offered the Chief Ministers
post to the Congress despite
our winning 72 seats, two seats
more than the number of seats
bagged by our ally. In the 2009
polls, we - in the overall inter-
est of continuing the alliance -
had agreed to accept lesser of
number of seats
Dwelling upon the need for
a quick response from the
Congress, Patel said: The
polling process has already
started. We would like to
finalise our candidates in the
next two days. Even after final-
ising the seat-sharing deal with
the Congress, we would be
swapping a few seats with our
ally. That would need some
time.
Patel said that he would be
talking to the Congress central
leaders to expedite the finali-
sation of seat-sharing process.
Maharashtra Congress
chief Manikrao Thakre said
that it was for the high com-
mand to decide on the issue of
seat sharing with the NCP. If
the NCP remains adamant on
its demand for more seats,
then we will have to go it alone,
Thakre said.
For its part, the CEC held
deliberations on the selection of
candidates for the 144 plus
probable 30 seats in
Maharashtra which the party
had contested in the last
Assembly polls.
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In the 2009 Assembly
polls, the Sena had contested
169 seats, while the BJP had
fielded candidates in the
remaining 119 constituencies
in the State.
On Friday night, the
strained relations between
the saffron alliance partners
had thawed after Senas youth
wi ng presi dent Adit ya
Thackeray, accompanied by
senior party leaders Subhash
Desai and Anil Desai, delib-
erated with BJPs election-in
charge for Maharashtra Om
Prakash Mathur and State
BJP presi dent Devendra
Fadnavis in the evening on
the latters revived 78 seats
redistribution proposal
mooted by the latter.
Uddhav was scheduled to
meet Mathur and Fadnavis
later on Friday night for final-
ising the seat-sharing deal
between the two parties.
However, the meeting did
not materialise.
Given the positive mes-
sage that Aditya and other
Sena leaders had carried with
them after their Fridays meet-
ing with Mathur, one had
expected that the saffron
alliance leaders would ink
the seat-sharing pact on
Saturday.
Informed saffron alliance
sources had said that the Sena
and the BJP would re-dis-
tribute the 78 seats between
them in a near equal manner.
The seat-sharing formula that
would emerge between the
Sena and the BJP would be
something like of the order of
150:138. From the respective
quota of seats allotted to them
under the deal, the Sena and
the BJP would give eight or
nine seats (a total of 16 or 18
seats) to the four other con-
stituents in the Maha-Yuti.
We had expected that we
would be through with the
seat-sharing deal today. But
the Sena proposal has sur-
prised us. We will have to
have a couple more rounds of
talks before we could bring
the Sena around to a mutual-
ly acceptable seat-sharing
arrangement, a senior state
BJP leader said.
On hi s part, Sena
spokesperson Sanjay Raut
said that his party president
Uddhav Thackeray would
spell out the partys stand in
the matter at the state execu-
tive meeting to be held at
Rangsharada Auditorium at
Bandra on Sunday.
On the other side, the
BJPs central election com-
mission will also meet tomor-
row in Delhi to decide candi-
dates for Maharashtra.
Earlier in the day, the BJPs
poll in-charge for Maharashtra
Om Prakash Mathur, who
deliberated on the partys list of
candidates with the partys
state core committee at leader
of opposition Eknath Khadses
official residence, said: We
will submit list of our candi-
dates at the BJP parliamentary
board meeting in Delhi tomor-
row, Mathur said.
We discussed our seats.
We are discussing on seats
wherever discussions are
needed, Mathur said.
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C
hief Ministers political
aide, a known figure in the
party, had relation with several
chit fund operators, said some
whistleblowers who shared
confidential information with
the CBI on Saturday.
The whistleblowers said
the aide was talking over
phone with heads of different
chit fund companies on spe-
cial occasions. Though the
motto of the telephonic dis-
cussion was yet to be investi-
gated, the matter would sure-
ly come under the CBI scruti-
ny, they said.
Reliable sources said the
CBI has more information
than the data supplied by the
whistleblowers.
The CBI is preparing for
a big hunt to nab the real cul-
prits including politicians
involved in the chit fund
scam, added the sources.
Meanwhile, the Special
CBI Court here on Saturday
rejected bail pleas of chit fund
scam accused Odia daily
newspaper The Suryaprava
owner Bikash Swain and Artha
Tatwa (AT) Group co-founder
Ranjan Dash and sent them to
judicial custody.
On Friday, the court had
reserved the verdict after
hearing arguments of both the
sides on bail petitions filed by
Swain and Dashs lawyer
Sitanshu Mohan Dwivedy.
The CBI counsel Kalicharan
Mishra had opposed the
bail plea and requested the
court to send the duo to judi-
cial custody.
Notably, both were arrest-
ed by the central investigating
agency on September 5 after
two days of intensive interro-
gation at the CBI office.
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T
he CBI on Saturday
i nterrogated noted
stock broker Deepak
Parekh here for his alleged
link with chit fund compa-
ny Art ha Tatwa (AT)
Group, sources said.
Notably, Parekh has
allegedly obtained licence
from SEBI and MCX for the
AT Group. Earlier on August
16, the CBI had conducted
searches at the residence of
Parekh in Mumbai.
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s expected, Chhattisgarhs
ruling BJP on Saturday
retained Antagarh Scheduled
Tribe reserved seat but None of
the Above (NOTA) got record
voting in the Leftist insur-
gency-hit Assembly seat. The
BJP candidate Bhojraj Nag
won the seat by about 51,000
votes. Nag polled overall 63,616
votes and NOTA option fin-
ished second with 13,506 votes.
There were only two can-
didates in the fray, Nag and
Rupdhar Pudo of the
Ambedkarite Party of India.
Pudo failed to put any chal-
lenge to the BJP candidate and
he received just 12,086 votes.
The election for Antagarh
was necessitated as BJP legis-
lator Vikram Usendi quit the
seat after he was elected to the
Lok Sabha from Kanker. The
Antagarh bypoll in Kanker
district which is part of vio-
lence-hit Bastar region, creat-
ed a massive controversy in
political circle as for the first
time any election was held in
the State without presence of
the Congress nominee.
Congress had fielded a
local heavyweight Mantulal
Pawar but he stunned the party
as he pulled out from contest in
the final hour on the last date
of the withdrawal of nomina-
tion papers. Though, Congress
had blamed BJP for its party
candidates shocker and
accused it of using `money and
muscle power to pressurise
Pawar to pull out from contest.
Political analysts described
`Pawar episode the outcome of
a widening rift between State
Congress president Bhupesh
Baghel and Ajit Jogi.
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he Jharkhand Mukti
Morcha (JMM) on Saturday
taunted the Jharkhand Vikas
Morcha (JVM) for failure to
keep its house united and
remaining a mute spectator as
party MLAs jumped on to the
BJP bandwagon. At a party
function, Chief Minister
Hemant Soren openly mocked
the JVM and attacked its chief
Babulal Marandi blaming him
for most of the problems being
faced by Jharkhand.
The Chief Minister was
speaking at an induction pro-
gramme organised at
Morhabadi at which several
JVM workers joined the JMM.
Sometimes people talk of
JVMs merger with the BJP,
sometimes with the Congress.
If there is so much smoke
then there must a fire some-
where. I fully believe with full
confidence that the JVM is a B-
team of the BJP, said Soren.
Recently, four JVM MLAs
had deserted the party and
joined the saffron brigade at
Delhi. The MLAs included
Bokaro MLA Samresh Singh,
Giridih MLA Nirbhay
Shahabadi, Simariya MLA Jai
Prakash Bhokta and Jamua
MLA Chandrika Mahta.
The JVM hit back at the
JMM with a similar jibe remind-
ing the party about its ties with
the BJP and ascension of the
father (Shibu Soren) and son
(Hemant) to the post of CM in
the coalition Government with
the saffron party. In the back-
drop of JMMs coalition with the
BJP the JVM termed Shibu
Soren-led party opportunist and
bereft of reasons to explain
their liking for the largest party
in Jharkhand Assembly.
They (JMM) should tell
how many times they sat in the
lap of the BJP. Hemants father
was CM when they had formed
Government in coalition with
the BJP, maintained JVM
leader, Pradeep Yadav.
The occasion also pre-
sented an opportunity for the
CM to claim achievements
while putting the blame on
others for failures.
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P
resident Xi Jinpings assur-
ance notwithstanding,
China has not only refused to
retreat from Indian territory in
Chumar, Ladakh, but on
Saturday its troops even dared
India by deploying over 50 of its
personnel in a new area there
in a bid to intrude. However,
the Indian troops foiled the
fresh incursion and positioned
additional personnel to tackle
the new development.
Adopting a cautious
approach to the continuing
stand-off which entered the
tenth day on Saturday and no
solution in sight despite PM
Narendra Modi raising the
Chumar incident with Jinping on
Thursday here, the External
Affairs Ministry said, diplo-
macy is not instant coffee and
India is awaiting an outcome.
Meanwhile, the latest
incursion bid by Chinese when
they came in nine vehicles has
led to escalation in tension on
the Line of Actual Control
(LAC) and the two Armies are
in an eyeball to eyeball position
in an arc of nearly three km in
Tibley sector of Chumar. The
stand-off till two days back was
confined to nearly one km
and the Indian Army and Indo-
Tibetan Border Police(ITBP)
are under orders to stay put till
the Chinese troops withdraw
completely from that region.
Giving the latest update on
the stand-off, officials said here
they did not hope that the issue
will be resolved soon and there-
fore the Indian troops will also
sit there till the Chinese go
back to their original locations
across the LAC.
More than 1,000 Chinese
troops are now engaged in a
face-off stretched over a three
km arc with 1,500 Indian Army
and ITBP personnel. The
Chinese pitch tents at night for
food and rest and the Indians
also do the same, sources said.
Moreover, the Chinese are air-
dropping food packets and
other essential items to its
troops deployed as they do not
have good road network there.
On the other hand, India
has all weather roads right up
to the LAC in Chumar sector
and vehicles are ferrying food
for them at the stand-off point
at Tibley, called 30R in Army
parlance, they said.
With focus shifting to diplo-
macy to break the log-jam after
two flag meetings earlier this
week between local comman-
ders could not resolve the issue,
external affairs ministry said
India was carefully following the
process initiated by Modi and
an outcome was awaited.
This reaction by External
Affairs Ministry Spokesperson
Syed Akabaruddin came in
response to a question that
despite being raised with
China, the situation in Chumar
and Demchok region, where
civilians of two sides are in a
face-off situation, was the same.
Diplomacy is not an
instant coffee. It works in ways
that it is difficult for the peo-
ple who are not engaged with
it to perceive and understand
what is happening. You are
aware that India at the highest
level has taken it up and also
what our public statements
are...Therefore,..Allow this
process to function.
I assure you that the
process that was initiated by the
Prime Minister is being care-
fully followed and (we are)
awaiting an outcome, the
spokesperson said.
The face-off between civil-
ians of two sides is also on for
the 12th day in Demchok,
Ladakh. Scores of Chinese
shepherds have pitched tents
at a grazing ground there in
the Indian territory to protest
against construction of a
canal. Indian shepherds are
confronting them and have
also erected tents. This pas-
ture is used by Chinese and
Indians for grazing their sheep
and the Chinese return to
their side once grass starts
withering by September end.
However, this time round they
are refusing to go back and
have also shown banners as a
mark of protest.
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September summit
between Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan
President Mahinda Rajapaksa
is on the anvil. According to
BJP general secretary
Muralidhar Rao and Vijay Jolly
(Global Convener, BJP
Overseas Affairs), who met
President Rajapaksa for 45
minutes at the latters Colombo
residence on Saturday, the
President would extend a belat-
ed happy birthday greetings to
Prime Minister Modi at the
United Nations.
President Rajapaksa told
Rao and Jolly that he deliber-
ately did not greet Prime
Minister Modi on September
17, the latters birthday. It is
because I did not want to dis-
turb him during the same time
visit of the President of China
to Gujarat. But Ill wish a belat-
ed happy birthday to the Indian
Prime Minister at the United
Nations soon, President
Rajapaksa told the BJP leaders.
Both Prime Minister Modi
and President Rajapaksa are
scheduled to address the
United Nations General
Assembly in New York in the
last week of this month.
Even as MDMK leader
Vaiko, the firebrand proponent
of a separate Tamil Eelam in Sri
Lanka is shouting from
rooftops in Tamil Nadu that
BJP leaders Muralidhar Rao
and Vijay Jolly have commit-
ted an unpardonable act by
accepting the invitation of the
island nation and visiting the
country, the saffron party lead-
ers pleaded with the President
to release the fishing trawlers
seized by the Sri Lankan Navy.
There are 73 trawlers under the
custody of Sri Lankan
Government which were seized
for trespassing into the island
nation' s territory of the
International Maritime
Boundary Line for poaching.
Though all the arrested
fishermen have been released
following a special order by the
President, the trawlers contin-
ue to be in the custody of the
Sri Lankan Government. In an
interview to an Indian jour-
nalist earlier this month ,
President Rajapaksa had said
that 'fishermen from Indian
side have been destroying the
environment using massive
bottom trawlers which are
depleting all the resources of
fish and we cannot tolerate
that'. He also said that he was
not considering the plea to
release the boats "at the
moment". "If I allow the boats
to be released, again they will
return and do the same thing,"
the President had said.
But Rao, who is also the
party in charge of Tamil Nadu,
requested President Rajapaksa
that the issue related to the fish-
ermen should be seen as an
issue of livelihood and the Sri
Lankan Government while
dealing with the problem
should show more flexibility.
Rao and Jolly, requested
the President to evolve a new
maritime Indo-Lankan policy to
sole the recurring problem of the
arrest on fishermen from Tamil
Nadu by the Sri Lankan Navy.
New Delhi: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will hold bilat-
eral talks with Bangladesh
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
on September 27 in New York
on the sidelines of the UN
General Assembly.
Announcing that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will
meet Hasina on the margins of
the UNGA
which will be
their first bilat-
eral meeting,
External Affairs
M i n i s t r y
Spokesperson
Syed Akbaruddin, however, did
not give the date for the inter-
action between the two leaders.
Sources, however, said the
two leaders will meet on
September 27 after addressing
the General Assembly.
The Prime Minister had
invited Hasina for his swearing-
in ceremony May 26 but the
Bangladeshi leader was travel-
ling that time and could not
attend the event.
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he Centre will provide funds for
restoration of
damaged highways in
the North-East which
gave way to the flash
floods, which hit the
region earlier this year.
National Highway
52 (A) connecting
Itanagar and
Banderdewa was particularly damaged
during the recent flash floods which hit
Arunachal Pradesh.
The State Government petitioned to
the Centre on Friday to restore roads in
the State. Arunachal PWD Minister
Gojen Gadi met Union Minister for
State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju, who
is also in-charge of North Eastern
region, on Friday.
Pointing out the trail of devastation
and damages caused by the flood to var-
ious important roads, particularly
Itanagar-Banderdewa, Mahadevpur-
Boding-Jairampur, Longding-Tisa-
Khonsa, Khonsa-Changlang, Pasighat-
Pangin, Pasighat-Mariyang-Yingkiong,
Gadi had informed Rijiju that the
Detailed Project Reports (DPRs)
amounting to C28.81 crore were already
submitted to the Ministry.
The Union Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways (MoRTH)
Nitin Gadkari assured an early release
of fund for the highway.
He said that the Ministry
would oversee restoration
work itself to ensure there
are no delays.
The State
Government has been
asked to submit estimate
under Special Repair head
to restore traffic on the road on urgent
basis, said an official.
The Minister also assured an accel-
erated pace of development under
Special Accelerated Road Development
Programme (SARDP-NE). He said
eight separate packages under SARDP-
NE would be awarded at the earliest.
The Ministry will also take up the
matter of transfer of projects Khonsa-
Hukanjuri road, Pasighat-Bomjir road and
Akajan-Likhabali-Bame road by the
Border Roads Organisation to State
PWD. The Minister has been very upset
with the BRO about the poor pace of
work. Several incomplete road works in
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand were
transferred earlier this year. By this year
end, works in NE should also be handed
over to State PWDs to ensure speedier
development, said the official.
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F
ormer Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh,
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and vice-president
Rahul Gandhi will be among
the 40 star campaigners of the
Congress who will try to woo
the voters for the 90-member
Haryana Assembly elections.
Himachal Pradesh Chief
Minister Virbhadra Singh and
his Uttarakhand counterpart
Harish Rawat, Lok Sabha MP
from Punjab Amarinder Singh
and Haryana Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda will also
canvass during the electioneer-
ing, a party spokesman said
here on Saturday. The Congress
is yet to announce its candidates
and election manifesto.
Meanwhile, AICC general
secretary Shakeel Ahmed, who
is also in-charge of political
affairs of party in Haryana, held
a meeting of campaign com-
mittee of the party following
which the list of 40 star cam-
paigners was approved by the
Congress president.
The list also includes the
names of Leader of Opposition
in Rajya Sabha, Gulam Nabi
Azad, former Union Ministers
Salman Khurshid, Anand
Sharma, Jyotiraditya Scinidia,
Jitender Singh, Sachin Pilot and
former Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit. Haryana goes to
polls on October 15 along with
Maharashtra.
The last day for nomination
is September 27, scrutiny will
take place the next day and with-
drawals would end on October
1. The counting of votes will take
place on October 19.
In the last Assembly polls,
Congress had won 40 seats,
INLD 31, BJP 4, HJC-BL 6,
SAD and BSP one each and
seven seats had gone to
Independents. Though Hooda
had failed to lead the Congress
to a majority in 2009, the
Congress formed the govern-
ment for the second time with
the support of five of the six
HJC-BL members and seven
Independents.
New Delhi: India on Saturday
offered Bangladesh expertise in
civil nuclear sector and outer
space during a meeting
between their Foreign
Ministers but the meet could
not make any major headway
on emotive issues of Land
Boundary Agreement, Teesta
water sharing and extradition
of ULFA leader Anup Chetia.
During the third
Consultative Commission
(JCC) meeting, jointly chaired
by External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj and her
Bangladeshi counterpart Abul
Hassan Mahmood Ali, the two
sides also agreed on various
proposals to increase and
enhance connectivity between
the two countries including a
trial run of Dhaka-Shillong
Bus Service by 2014. PTI
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n a fresh offensive to blunt the charges leveled
against him, the CBI Director filed a fresh
application in Supreme Court demanding per-
jury proceedings against advocate Prashant
Bhushan and his NGO Centre for Public
Interest Litigation (CPIL) for deliberate false
charges made with regard to the 2G case.
The application will be listed on Monday
when the bench headed by Justice HL Dattu will
take up an affidavit filed by Bhushan's NGO
refusing to reveal the name of the whistleblow-
er who provided documents to expose CBI chief
Ranjit Sinha's attempt to favour certain accused
in the 2G and coal scam.
Launching a fresh assault on the NGO CPIL
and Bhushan in particular, Sinha revealed in
open, even to some of the accused in the case,
the differences that emanat-
ed between each member in
the decision-making process
in CBI with regard to charge-
sheeting former Telecom
Minister Dayanidhi Maran in
the Aircel-Maxis case. This
despite the fact that the CBI
counsel on the earlier date
had requested Sinha not to let
out these facts in open as it
could jeopardize the ongoing
trial. The file containing these notes was
deposited in Court by the CBI Director on the
previous date of hearing.
Sinha denied the charge that he prepared a
note saying "no case made out" against Maran
and said that DIG Santosh Rastogi was not the
lead investigator in the 2G case. The fact
alleged by petitioner that Rastogi was removed
for exposing the hand of the Director behind
closing the case against Reliance was also
denied as the Director said that the officer in
question was only a supervisory officer who was
only transferred from ACB Branch to Special
Crime - II branch in CBI on July 16, 2014. Even
this was not permitted as apex court had by an
order insulated the 2G team probing the case
against any transfer or deputation.
On the case against Maran, CBI Director said
that Rastogi as the Head of ACB Branch had rec-
ommended to charge-sheet all the 10 accused
although Head of Zone, CBI pointed out need of
further investigation on two aspects. The Director
of Prosecution favoured Rastogi's views to the lim-
ited extent of charge sheeting only nine accused
but held that against Maran case was not sus-
tainable for want of documentary evidence.
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Minister Sushma Sawaraj is
scheduled to meet nearly 100
Foreign Ministers during her
10-day visit to the US from
September 24 and will join the
delegation of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, who will reach
New York on September 26.
Swaraj, who will attend a
series of plurilaterals including
meetings of foreign ministers of
G-4, SAARC, IBSA (India-
Brazil-South Africa), G-77,
BRICS countries, will also hold
bilateral meetings with her
counterparts with whom she
has not met before like UK for-
eign minister Philip Hammond,
MEA Spokesperson Syed
Akbaruddin said.
Asked if Swaraj would be
accompanying Modi when he
goes to the US, the
Spokesperson said she will pre-
cede the Prime Minister and
will stay back to attend a UN
event to mark Mahatma
Gandhis birth anniversary as
Day of Non-violence on
October 2.
The External Affairs
Minister will join the Prime
Ministers official delegation
and will accompany him for
rest of his engagements includ-
ing in Washington when Modi
will be meeting US President
Barack Obama on September
30, he replied further. PTI
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B
ahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
supremo Mayawati criti-
cised Prime Minister Narendra
Modi for his recent statement
on the Muslims of the country
and claimed that the leader had
not spoken the truth.
On one hand when almost
all the saffron parties including
the BJP, RSS and other outfits
are trying all their best to cor-
ner the Muslims, the PMs
words appreciating the com-
munity have no such meaning,
she said, while terming the
statement to be politically
motivated. In an official com-
muniqu released by the BSP
here on Saturday, Mayawati
said, how could the PM ignore
the anti-muslim tirade
unleashed by different saffron
organisation and falsely charge
them with Love Jehad like
conspiracy. She said that it is
the duty of the PM to speak the
truth and implement the
promises he make. It is the
duty of the PM to protect
every citizen of the country and
there should be no diiference
between his action and state-
ment, she asserted.
Mayawati alleged BJP and
RSS have always been accused
of spreading communalism
besides narrow nationalism
and their morale has been very
high ever since BJP came to
power at the centre. She
charged those occupying the
highest offices, instead of dis-
charging their constitutional
obligations, have given a free
hand to fanatical Hindutva
forces. Mayawati said that on
one hand Modi issues statment
on the patriotism of Muslims
and on the other the students
wing of his party and others
indulge in acts which create
hatred in society.
State Minister for stamps
and registration, Ambika
Chaudhary while welcoming
Modis remark said that before
issuing the statement he ought
to have won over the confidence
of Muslims for his party so that
they would take them serious-
ly. Modi need to ensure that
BJP leaders behaviour reflect his
views on the subject, she added.
The Prime Minister said in
a television interview that
Indian Muslims will live and
die for India and that they will
not dance to the tunes of ter-
ror outfit Al Qaeda. My
understanding is that they are
doing injustice towards the
Muslims of our country. If
anyone thinks Indian Muslims
will dance to their tune, they
are delusional.Indian Muslims
will live for India, they will die
for Indiathey will not want
anything bad for India, he told
in a rare media interview.
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K
eralas Congress party and
the UDF Government it
leads are worried that the tax
boycott agitation planned by
the CPI(M), modeled seem-
ingly on the tariff boycott stir
held by AAP under Arvind
Kej riwal i n Del hi , may
become a powerful move-
ment as clear signs of people's
resentment towards t he
recently declared steep hike in
taxes are already visible.
The CPI(M) announced
the agitation after the State
Cabinet last Wednesday decid-
ed to hike taxes and tariff in
several sectors including land
and drinking water with the
goal of mobilising C2,049 crore
to overcome the severe finan-
cial crisis but without taking
the Assembly's consent. The
CPI(M)-led Opposition LDF
will meet on Sunday to discuss
the details of the stir.
Even Leftist leaders are a
bit shy about talking of the tax-
boycott agitation in the context
of the criticism that the com-
munists with a tradition of
intense struggles spanning over
several decades are depending
on an agitation idea resurrect-
ed by the Aam Aadmi Party,
whose relevance as a political
party has come under doubt in
the past few months.
However, the Congress and
the Government are worried
that the planned agitation may
win massive support because
signs of people's resentment
over the huge hike in taxes and
tariff are already obvious and
even top leaders of several of
the UDF constituents, includ-
ing the Congress, have object-
ed to the Government decision.
Faced with one of the
gravest financial crises Kerala
was facing since the State for-
mation 58 years ago, the UDF
Cabinet last Wednesday
announced steep hikes taxes
and tariff in several sectors. As
per this, land tax would go up
by almost 100 per cent and
water would be costlier by 50
per cent to 60 per cent.
"That many of our party
leaders and the Government
went into the overdrive while
criticizing the Marxist plan for
the tax boycott agitation proves
that they are in panic," said a top
Congress leader who is critical
of the tax hike. "That panic can
be seen in Finance Minister KM
Mani's description of the agita-
tion as anti-national," he said.
But CPI(M) leaders
claimed that Mani's reference
to how the nation's great lead-
ers were cautious while declar-
ing the tax boycott stirs during
the Independence struggle was
an open admission that the
UDF Government itself was
following the colonial style of
ruling by imposing tax burden
on the people unilaterally and
without seeking the consent of
the Legislative.
On Saturday, former min-
ister R Balakrishna Pillai,
chairman of UDF ally Kerala
Congress (B) and one of the
founders of the front, embar-
rassed the Government and
the coalition by saying that the
Left's tax boycott plan was not
unlawful. "It is a method of agi-
tation even leaders like Gandhiji
had adopted. Moreover, the
tax hike was not discussed
even in the UDF," he said.
Meanwhile, the allegedly
arrogant justification Cultural
Affairs Minister KC Joseph, a
staunch loyalist of Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy,
offered to the tax hike on
Saturday triggered a contro-
versy. "If we have declared
additional taxes, we know how
to collect it. CPI(M) threats do
not scare us," he said, giving
fresh fuel for the Marxists to
attack the Congress.
"They may be planning to
collect taxes forcibly using the
police," retorted EP Jayarajan,
central committee member of
the CPI(M). "Ministers are
supposed to speak with matu-
rity. Joseph should not think he
can get away with his arro-
gance. If they are going to use
police force to collect tax, the
people will deal with it," he said.
State Congress leader VM
Sudheeran described the
CPI(M)'s planned anti-tax agi-
tation as a strategy to divert
public attention from the bru-
tal murder of RSS leader Manoj
of Kathiroor in Kannur on
September 1. "If they are going
ahead like this, the fate they are
going to face in Kerala will be
similar to the one they faced in
West Bengal," he said.
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M
aharashtra Assembly elec-
tions this time will see a
new player which can upset the
calculations of some of the exist-
ing parties. Hyderabad-based
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
(MIM) in a determined bid to
expand its circle of influence in
to the neighbouring State is
planning to field more than a
dozen candidates specially in
Hyderabad-Marhatwada region
and Mumbai region.
The party, which has
emerged as a key political force
in Telangana and has been
wining Hyderabad Lok Sabha
seat for the last 30 years had put
up a credible performance in
the recently held civic elections
in Maharashtra and won a size-
able seat in places like Nanded.
After party president
Asaduddin Owaisi's frequent
visits to Aurangabad and sur-
rounding areas, his younger
brother and MIM floor leader
in State Assembly Akbaruddin
Owaisi recently visited places
like Parbhani, Mumbra and
Mumabi. He addressed public
meeting in Nagpada junction
of the city and also in Bhiwandi
which have sizeable Muslim
population.
Both the brothers, who have
strengthened their image of
aggressive champions of minori-
ties cause, received encouraging
response from the masses in all
the places they visited.
Disappointed with the exist-
ing Muslim political leadership
of Maharashtra, including those
in the main stream parties like
Congress and Samajwadi Party,
an increasing number of Muslim
youth were now looking towards
the MIM. Darussalam, the party
headquarter in Hyderabad
receiving delegations from many
places in Marahatwada and
Mumbai region and ticket seek-
ers have also made a beeline.
Apart from the
Marahatwada districts which
were part of erstwhile
Hyderabad state, MIM was also
looking at other areas which has
a significant Muslim pockets.
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S
even people were killed and
12 injured in an explosion in
a cracker factory in
Mohanlalganj area on Saturday
morning. As many as 13 other
people were seriously injured in
the incident.
The deceased were identi-
fied as Mobin Bano (40),
Mohammad Shafeeq (36),
Zahira (70), Nagma Bano (13),
Rakesha (25), Nankai (28),
Shahajahan (14). The people
who were seriously injured in
the explosion include Dileep
Gupta, Zaheer, Chedilal,
Shafeeq, Khaleel, Abdul Haq,
Yasmeen, Guddu, Laxmi, Anil,
Jaleel, Arman and Nazneen etc.
The injured were admitted
to various hospitals including
Trauma Centre, Civil Hospital
and Balrampur Hospital.
Senior administrative officials
along with the politicians have
visited the place.
The impact of the explo-
sion was so catastrophic that
the flesh of the bodies was scat-
tered all over the surrounding
area and was also hanging on
the tree branches. The entire
building caught fire after explo-
sion and property worth lakhs
of rupees was gutted in the inci-
dent. After getting the infor-
mation police team and fire
brigade reached the village to
control the situation. The vil-
lagers extended help ferrying
the injured people to hospital
and in dousing the fire.
According to reports
Shameem used to run a crack-
er factory Rihayashi Pataka
Factory at Sisendi in
Mohanlalganj. The license was
on his name which had been
expired on March 10, 2014. The
crackers were made in the fac-
tory on a large scale as the work
was being performed in two
shifts morning and evening at
the factory. Shameems family
members also used to work at
the factory along with the
labourers.
Li ke any ot her day
Shameems family members
were sleeping on the roof top
of the building while the
workers were making crackers
in the factory on Saturday
morning. At around 7.45 am
somehow few crackers came
in contact with the fire and
soon the entire place was con-
verted in a Furness. Due to
fire the series of the explosions
started. Explosion after explo-
sion was taking place and it
was so disastrous that the
entire roof of the building was
blown away. People who were
sleeping on the roof top had
died and the flesh of their
bodies was scattered al l
around the places.
MhIT kkhhkI Q JAMMu
I
n the aftermath of devastated
floods in Jammu & Kashmir, the
worst fears of the Indian Army are
coming true. On Saturday, four
infiltrators were killed by the alert
troops along the Line of Control in
Tangdhar sector of North
Kashmirs Kupwara district.
In the last 10 days, this was the
third major infiltration bid attempt-
ed by the heavily armed militants
to sneak inside the Indian territo-
ry ahead of winter months.
Four AK 47 rifles, assorted
ammunition and warlike stores
were recovered from the scene of
the gunbattle, Defence spokesman
Col SD Goswami said adding the
identity and group affiliation of the
militants were being ascertained.
Meanwhile, speaking to
reporters on the sidelines of a func-
tion Lt-Gen Subrata Saha, GOC of
Srinagar based 15 corps claimed
around 200 armed militants were
waiting across the Line of Control to
sneak inside the Indian territory.
The Army officer claimed
despite Indian Armys engagement
with rescue and relief operations in
J&K, the counter-infiltration grid
remain intact to thwart the nefar-
ious designs of the infiltrators.
Lt Gen Saha said that in the
past ten days, several-cross border
infiltration attempts were made,
but the Army foiled them in which
five infiltrators were gunned down.
Three infiltrators were killed
in the Keran Sector and two were
killed in the Machil sector in the
last ten days, Lt Gen Saha said.
Commenting the damages suf-
fered by the Army units during the
floods Lt Gen Saha said, that the
ammunition depots were not
affected by the recent floods, but
some relocation had to be made.
Some of our units suffered
some damage in the floods, but the
arms and ammunitions are safe, he
added.
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A
ssam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
on Saturday said that the Islamist
terror group like Al Qaeda has estab-
lished a link with the anti-talk fac-
tions of the militant outfits in Assam
and that they are now trying to
expand their base to Assam.
We have got some intelligence to
this effect so far but we are yet to get
concrete evidence. But I think the glob-
al terror agency had already established
links with the anti-talk factions of the
United Liberation Front of Asom
(Ulfa) and the National Democratic
Front of Bodoland (NDFB) here,
Gogoi told the media on Saturday.
The admission by the Chief
Minister assumes significance in
view of the fact that the Centre had
recently sounded a country-wide
alert earlier this month after an al-
Qaeda video threatened to carry out
subversive activities across India.
We have already sounded an
alert here and put the security forces
on alert immediately, said the Chief
Minister while also appealing to the
people of the state to cooperate with
the security agencies if anyone has
any information about these outfits.
Gogoi further said that the mil-
itants might try to carry out subver-
sive activities across the state in the
run up to the Durga puja.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister on
Saturday slammed Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for not giving much
importance to North East particularly
during the recent visit of Chinese
President Xi Jinping to India.
Gogoi said that the Prime
Minister should have given
importance to the North East and
the people of the north-eastern
States, as particularly Assam has
cultural relation with China.
Ahom king Siu-Ka-Pha
came to Assam from South
China. This proves the historical
links between Assam and China.
However, I have not seen the
Prime Minister giving much
importance to the region and its
people during the Chinese
Presidents visit to the country,
Gogoi said.
Gogoi also condemned the
Gujarat police for keeping the north-
eastern staffs of the Hyatt hotel and
AlphaOne Mall at Ahmedabad away
from the venue to prevent any anti-
China protest during the Chinese
President's stay and said that this is
an insult to the people of the region.
The Prime Minister and the BJP
led Gujarat Government should have
understood the cultural relation
between China and northeastern
states of India, he said while also tak-
ing up the issue of Union Minister of
State for Home, Kiren Rijiju, who had
also been tactfully kept away from the
Chinese Presidents visit.
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A
Birbhum Sessions Court on Saturday con-
demned 13 accused of the Labhpur gangrape case
to 20 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine which
would go to the victims family.
The Saturdays judgment came a day after the Barasat
Sessions Court sentenced five accused in the infamous
Madhyamgram gangrape case to 20-years rigorous
imprisonment. S Roychowdhury, the Additional Sessions
Judge, also ordered the district administration to take
care of the families of the accused in their absence.
A 20-year-old tribal woman was gang-raped by
the 13 accused following orders of a kangaroo which
found her guilty of marrying outside her communi-
ty. She was asked to pay fine for her misdeed and
when she failed to do so she was gang-raped upon
the orders of the village elders including a panchay-
at member of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
The Birbhum case had drawn suo motu cog-
nizance from the Supreme Court which had then
ordered an inquiry to be held by the District Judge.
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E
ven though the State
Government is struggling to
reach out to the flood-affected
people and restoring normal life in
Srinagar, a small beginning was
made on Saturday by resuming Haj
flights allowing stranded pilgrims
to embark on the holy journey.
Haj flights from Srinagar to
Saudi Arabia have been resumed
and two flights took off from the
Srinagar International Airport,
each carrying 275 pilgrims, Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah said.
Wishing successful Hajj to the
pilgrims, he said flood and torren-
tial rains affected the normal flight
schedule, but it is heartening that
the process has been resumed.
The Chief Minister hoped that
all the remaining pilgrims would
perform the holy journey from
Srinagar smoothly. Haj and Auqaf
Minister Peerzada Mohammad
Sayeed saw off the pilgrims at the
Srinagar Airport and wished them
successful journey and good health.
Haj flights from Srinagar were sus-
pended on September five following
floods in many areas of the State.
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Fh8 Q LuCKh0w
I
n a sensational broad day-
light shootout which rocked
Mainpuri, four people were
sprayed with bullets in con-
nection with an old political
rivalry on Saturday. Senior
officers who rushed to spot had
a tough time controlling the
anger of the villagers who
staged a strong protest against
the killing and demanded
arrest of the accused.
After four hours of protest,
the cops somehow cooled
down the anger and managed
to shift the bodies for post-
mortem examination. Heavy
police force has been deployed
in the area to avert any further
clash. Later the police claimed
that station in-charge of Karhal
police station Balbir Singh has
been suspended in the matter.
Reports said that over half
a dozen armed miscreants
intercepted four villagers, iden-
tified as Neeraj Yadav (25),
Sonu (23), Akhilesh (28) and
Nati (27), all hailing from
Karhal area of Mainpuri. Before
the villagers could do any-
thing, the miscreants opened
indiscriminate fire killing all
the four on the spot.
Later, they opened over a
dozen fire in air and safely
managed to escape. Soon after
the miscreants fled, the vil-
lagers gathered and passed on
the information to senior offi-
cers who rushed to the spot
and faced tough time to han-
dle the situation.
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0IItIcaIIy m0tIvate4: Maya
'FM's slalemenl lo
lease uS & shed
communal image'
Ballia (UP): State Minister for
Primary Education, Ramg-
ovind Chaudhary also alleged
Modis statement was made
to please United States and
shed his communal image.
He urged the PM to ask
RSS, VHP, Hindu Jagran
Manch and other Hindutva
organisations to adopt his
views. Samajwadi Party pres-
ident has often said that BJP
needs to change its mindset
on Muslims. It seems that
Modi has taken it seriously
and only repeated Mulayam
Singh Yadavs opinion that
Muslims are patriots, he told
reporters while talking to
them in Balia on Saturday.
The Prime Ministers
statement was made out of
compulsion to please the US
and to shed his communal
image, he alleged adding
that despite everything, Modi
cannot wash off the blot on
his image. PNS
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NEW DELH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
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wilnesses said on Salurday.
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kIF Q KABuL
T
he result of Afghanistans disputed election
will be declared on Sunday, officials said ,
as last-minute talks between the two rival can-
didates continued on a proposed power-shar-
ing deal.
The stalemate between Ashraf Ghani and
Abdullah Abdullah since the June 14 vote has
plunged Afghanistan into a political crisis as US-
led NATO troops end their 13-year war against
the Taliban.
Both men claim to have won the fraud-taint-
ed election, and the United Nations and the
United States have pushed hard for a national
unity Government to try to avoid a return to
the ethnic divisions of the 1990s civil war.
The IEC will officially announce the final
result of the presidential election tomorrow,
Independent Election Commission spokesman
Noor Mohammad Noor told AFP.
Mujib Rahman Rahimi, a spokesman for
Abdullah, said the two candidates were prepar-
ing to sign a deal.
FTI Q L0h00h
S
enior Muslim clerics in
Britain have made a direct
video appeal to the Islamic
State terror group to free a
British hostage under their
captivity.
In a YouTube vi deo,
Shakeel Begg and Haitham al-
Haddad said there was no jus-
tification for holding 47-year-
ol d Al an Henni ng, who
was captured i n Syri a,
captive.
Henning, a taxi driver from
Salford in northern England,
was delivering aid when he was
seized last December.
Holding him captive is
totally haram (forbidden)
under Islamic law, the clerics
say in the message to IS mili-
tants in Iraq and Syria and its
supporters in the UK.
The video does not men-
tion photojournalist John
Cantlie, a second British man
being detained by IS whose
video also emerged online this
week.
Begg, the imam at
Lewisham Islamic Centre in
south London, says in the
video that he had campaigned
for the release of Muslims from
Belmarsh and Guantanamo
Bay prisons.
For the same reasons
today I stand with Alan
Henning. I urge you to under-
stand the nature of this pris-
oner you are holding - a man
of peace, he says.
FTI Q wAShh0T0h
A
s he continues to galvanise
the world for a broad coali-
tion against the Islamic State,
US President Barack Obama on
Saturday said the internation-
al community is united in its
fight against the dreaded terror
group, which has gained con-
trol over large parts of Syria
and Iraq.
This is not Americas fight
alone. I wont commit our
troops to fighting another
ground war in Iraq, or in Syria.
Its more effective to use our
capabilities to help partners on
the ground secure their own
countrys futures, Obama said
in his weekly address to the
nation.
He said, We will use our
air power. We will train and
equip our partners. We will
advise and we will assist.
Over 40 countries have
offered to help the broad cam-
paign against the Islamic State,
or ISIL, so far from training
and equipment, to humanitar-
ian relief, to flying combat
missions.
We will lead a broad coali-
tion of nations who have a
stake in this fight. This isnt
America vs ISIL. This is the
people of that region vs ISIL.
Its the world vs ISIL, he said,
using the Arabic acronym for
the group.
This week, at the United
Nations, Ill continue to rally
the world against this threat,
he added. Obama is scheduled
to address the annual session of
the UN General Assembly in
New York next week.
Over the past week, the US
has continued to lead its friends
and allies in the strategy to
degrade and ultimately destroy
the terrorist group known as
ISIL, he said.
As Ive said before, our
intelligence community has
not yet detected specific plots
from these terrorists against
America. But its leaders have
threatened America and our
allies. And if left unchecked,
they could pose a growing
threat to the United States,
Obama said.
So, last month, I gave the
order for our military to begin
taking targeted action against
ISIL. Since then, American
pilots have flown more than
170 airstrikes against these ter-
rorists in Iraq. France has now
joined us in these airstrikes, he
said.
Obama said the US will not
hesitate to take action against
these terrorists in Iraq or in
Syria.
In his address, Obama also
thanked the Congress for
approving his request to train
and arm Syrian rebels.
A majority of Democrats
and a majority of Republicans
in both the House and the
Senate have now approved a
first, key part of our strategy by
wide margins. Theyve given
our troops the authority they
need to train Syrian opposition
fighters so that they can fight
ISIL in Syria, he said.
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wAShh0T0h
T
he US Congress will be in
recess when Prime Minister
Narendra Modi arrives in
Washington this month-end,
but the Senate has unanimously
passed a resolution, designat-
ing September 30 as US-India
Partnership Day.
Its the day when Modi will
be holding his formal one-on-
one meeting with President
Barack Obama at the White
House. The extended recess in
the run-up to the Congressional
elections in early November
had stymied an enthusiastic
plan of lawmakers of both par-
ties to invite Modi to address a
joint session of Congress.
The Senate resolution,
moved by Senators Mark
Warner and John Cornyn, the
Democratic and Republican
co-chairs respectively of the
Senate India Caucus, makes the
case for expanding and deep-
ening US-India partnership,
noting the relationship between
the two countries is a special
and permanent bond and one
that will continue to help
define the 21st century.
The Senate action high-
lights the bilateral commit-
ment to furthering the US-
India relationship, the two
Senators said, noting the reso-
lution emphasises the mutual
benefits of a thriving US-India
partnership, stressing the
importance of increasing col-
laboration in order to pro-
mote stability, democracy, and
economic prosperity in the
21st century.
Senator Warner, who is up
for re-election from Virginia,
said the relationship has
already seen progress in the
first 100 days of the Modi
Government. Seven of the 12
recommendations that he him-
self had proposed under an
action plan have been adopted
by both Governments,
Warner said.
From energy, to defence,
to counterterrorism, to trade,
the United States and India
have many overlapping nation-
al interests. As our trade rela-
tionship continues to grow,
increasing export opportunities
to India will create more jobs
for Americans back here at
home, he said.
Senator Cornyn, who has
remained the Republican co-
chair of the Senate India
Caucus ever since it was
formed in 2004, said: As the
co-founder and co-chair of the
Senate India Caucus, I look for-
ward to continuing to help the
US-India partnership reach its
full potential.
As the worlds two largest
democracies, the US-India rela-
tionship remains one of the
most important partnerships in
the world. We warmly wel-
come Prime Minister Modi to
the United States and are hope-
ful we can work together to
grow our relationship and iden-
tify areas we can strengthen in
the years to come, said Cornyn,
the senior Senator from Texas.
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S
ome 45,000 Syrian Kurds
fleeing advancing Islamic
State jehadis have poured
across the border into Turkey
since Ankara opened up its
southern frontier Friday, the
countrys Deputy Prime
Minister said.
As of now, 45,000 Syrian
Kurds have have crossed the
border and entered the Turkish
soil from eight entrance points,
Numan Kurtulmus told
reporters on Saturday.
No country in the world
can take in 45,000 refugees in
one night, bring them here
unharmed and find them a
shelter without a problem.
This proves how powerful
Turkey is, he said.
Syrian Kurds have been
massing since Thursday on
the other side of the border as
the IS extremists seized dozens
of villages in a lightning offen-
sive as they close in on the
strategic Syrian town of Ain al-
Arab, known to the Kurds as
Kobane.
Turkey opened its border
on Friday after new fighting
near Kobane prompted a mass
exodus of residents.
Ankara, which has given
shelter to some 1.5 million
refugees from the Syrian con-
flict, has been refusing to accept
any more for fear of being over-
whelmed.
Earlier Saturday, Ankara
announced that 49 of its
nationals that the IS extremists
had seized from its consulate in
Mosul in June had been
released and were back in
Turkey.
Some 4,000 Syrian Kurds
mostly women, children
and elderly people crossed
to the southern Turkish town
of Dikmetas on Friday.
kEF Q wELLh0T0h
N
ew Zealands conservative Prime
Minister John Key swept to a
historic election victory on Saturday,
securing a third term as voters
ignored campaign allegations of
dirty tricks and mass spying.
The resounding win makes Key
the first New Zealand leader able to
govern in his own right since pro-
portional voting was introduced in
1996 and means his centre-right
National Party has increased its vote
in all three elections he has contested.
Im ecstatic, its a great night,
the 53-year-old former currency
trader said after a result that con-
founded opinion poll predictions of
a tight race. It was a tough campaign
but I think that people could see the
country was on the right direction
and they rewarded us. Im just very
grateful, he added.
National won 61 of 121 parlia-
mentary seats, up from 59 at the last
election in 2011, while the main
opposition Labour Party managed
only 32, down two, after its worst
performance since the 1920s.
Labour leader David Cunliffe,
facing questions over his future,
said it was time to rebuild the cen-
tre-left party, not lay blame.
FTI Q wAShh0T0h
I
n a rare occurrence, the
White House was partially
evacuated after a man climbed
over its fence and sprinted
through the lawn and the front
door, minutes after President
Barack Obama had left the
high- security compound with
his family.
The man, who was not
armed, was apprehended just
inside the front doors, secret
service spokesman said, though
accepting that the point of
arrest was unacceptable and
would be reviewed by the secu-
rity agencies.
The man climbed over
the White House fence last
night and sprinted across the
lawn, reaching as far as the
front doors, before he was
apprehended by t he
security officials, who had
seen him jumping across the
fence.
The incident happened
soon after Obama, and the First
Lady left the White House on
chopper for Camp David,
where they would spend their
weekend.
The incident, prompted a
rare partial evacuation of the
White House. Reporters and
official staff were asked to
vacate the premises and the
building was locked down for
some time.
The man, identified as
Omar J Gonzalez (42), was
arrested and later taken to
hospital for a medical exami-
nation. It was not clear why he
had tried to intrude into the
White House.
Although, its not uncom-
mon for people to hop the
White House fence, seldom are
they able to make it to the
front door.
Only last week, on the
anniversary of the September
11 attacks, a man had jumped
the fence but was soon appre-
hended by t he Secret
Service officials and taken
into custody.
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krainian forces and pro-
Russian militias were due
on Saturday to pull back their
troops from a demilitarised
zone created under a new
peace pl an agreed i n
marathon overnight talks.
A nine-point agreement
thrashed out in the early
hours of Saturday in the
Belarussian capital Minsk also
requires the withdrawal of all
mercenari es f rom t he
conf l i ct zone and an
i mmedi ate end to
hostilities.
But Russia appeared ready
to keep up the pressure on its
westward-leaning neighbour
by sending in a new 30-truck
convoy it said was carrying
aid for the rebel-held city of
Donetsk, but that Ukraine
never approved.
Former Ukrainian presi-
dent Leonid Kuchma who
is representing Kiev in the
stuttering efforts to resolve
the five-month conflict
said the agreement rested on
the creation of a 30-kilometre
(19-mile) buffer zone.
Forces from both sides are
required to retreat 15 kilo-
metres from current front-
lines within 24 hours of the
signing of the accord and
allow monitors from the
OSCE pan-European
security organisation into the
area to make sure the truce
holds.
The areas under rebel
control would be left open to
their administration under a
temporary self-rule plan
adopted by lawmakers in Kiev
on Tuesday.
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F
inance chiefs from G20
nations held talks on
Saturday, confident they can
"change the destiny of the glob-
al economy" despite rising world
political tensions and mounting
fears of financial instability.
The meeting in Cairns aims
to thrash out a set of policies to
achieve the ambitious goal of
raising the total GDP of the 20
major world economies by 2 per
cent over the next five years, a
target they set in Sydney in
February.
Finance ministers and cen-
tral bank governors, including
US Federal Reserve chairwoman
Janet Yellen, want to be able to
take their plan to the G20 lead-
ers' summit in Brisbane in
November.
A high-level G20 source
said of today's discussions:
"There was no longer talk about
growth versus austerity. Now it
is all about how we can grow our
economies.
"What we found is that
extremely good progress has
been made towards the two per-
cent objective," he added.
"Everyone supports that agenda."
The source acknowledged
that the "global picture" of eco-
nomic growth was "very
uneven", but added that all
members of the Group of 20
"will continue to sustain their
efforts" to reach the target.
Australian Treasurer Joe
Hockey, who is chairing the
meeting, said as he opened the
summit that he was buoyed by
the more than 900 submissions
that had been made by partici-
pating countries to meet the
goal.
These involve reforms to
accelerate infrastructure invest-
ment, steps to strengthen finan-
cial reform and the opening of
economies to free trade.
"We are determined to
make the world a better place -
- to grow the global economy, to
create more and better paying
jobs, to build the infrastructure
to ensure children get better
quality water, education and
healthcare," he said.
"I have no doubt that as a
result of the deliberations of this
meeting this weekend, followed
by the leaders' summit in
Brisbane in November, that we
have the opportunity to change
the destiny of the global econ-
omy."
Despite the upbeat com-
ments, with the OECD down-
grading its world growth fore-
casts this week amid a stalling
eurozone recovery and weak-
ening emerging economies, the
task has become more compli-
cated.
There is also mounting
concern about the impact on
emerging economies of the US
Federal Reserve's shift towards
tightening its monetary policy
next year, while political ten-
sions in Ukraine and the Middle
East have spooked some
investors.
Hockey added that there is
a consensus that Russia should
attend the leaders' summit in
November, despite alarm over
Moscow's actions in Ukraine.
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T
elecom and broadcast regu-
lator TRAI chairman Rahul
Khullar on Saturday said that
Government should make it
clear in a national media policy
that politicians and
Governments and their organs
should not be in the business of
broadcast.
"Politicians...Government,
state government, their organs
have absolutely no business
whatsoever being in broadcast-
ing and platform space. It is my
view that government needs to
announce this as integral part in
national media policy," he said
while speaking at CII Big Picture
Summit.
Khullar cited points from
recommendation of Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India on
media ownership and said that
governments, politicians and
their related bodies should not
be in business of broadcast plat-
form space.
TRAI had earlier given rec-
ommendation on barring entry
of certain parties and entities in
November 2008 but govern-
ment did not implement it.
"Let me tell you what I think
should be component of
National Media Policy. First,
there must be a clear articulation
that we want a free media --
unhampered and unrestricted by
the government in any way
whatsoever," Khullar said.The
regulator again issued recom-
mendation on media ownership
last month that suggested restric-
tion on political bodies and cor-
porates entering the television
and newspaper business.
!ecioe on meoia freeoom in
National Meoia Policy : JRA Clairman
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
A
s negotiations with states
on GST enter a critical
stage, the Centre is looking
forward to implementation of
the new indirect tax regime
from April 1, 2016.
"The deadline for actual
implementation of GST from
April 1, 2016, would be feasi-
ble. It all depend on how
quickly we are able to reach
consensus on critical issues,"
Revenue Secretary Shakti
Kanta Das said at an event
here.
The Goods and Services
Tax (GST) regime aims at
subsuming most of the indi-
rect taxes at the central as well
as state level. The UPA gov-
ernment in 2011 introduced a
Constitution Amendment Bill
in the Lok Sabha to pave the
way for introduction of GST.
The GST which has been
pending since 2006, is stuck at
a crucial stage where states
have proposed to keep prod-
ucts such as petroleum, tobac-
co and alcohol out of GST
ambit and had demanded the
exemption list be included in
the Constituti onal
Amendment Bill.
As regards the compensa-
tion structure, the states have
sought a five year compensa-
tion mechanism from the
Centre and demanded the
same be included in the
Constitutional Amendment
Bill.
The discussions are at a
very critical stage and we
hope to make very good
progress. We are quite opti-
mistic we will be able to reach
convergence in the coming
weeks or months," Das added.
He said there are 4-5
issues with the states that are
outstanding and on each there
have been discussions in
recent weeks.
Earlier this week, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi held
a meeting to take stock of the
proposed new indirect tax
regime and decided to soon
clear the pending CST com-
pensation for revenue loss
incurred by states.
"We hope and we are quite
optimistic that we will be able
to resolve (it) in the coming
months, which will enable the
government to introduce the
constitutional amendments in
Parliament," Das said. The
GST rollout has missed sever-
al deadlines because oflack of
consensus among states over
certain crucial issues on the
new tax regime.
Das said the Centre has
given an alternative formula-
tion to the states against their
demand for keeping certain
products out of GST.
"States want they (petrole-
um and petroleum products)
should be constitutionally kept
out. We are in discussion with
the states, we have given an
alternative formulation.
Discussions are at very critical
stage. But we are quite hopeful
we will reach a convergence,"
he said.
Clearance of CST com-
pensation arrears has been a
bone of contention between
Centre and states, as the states
still wait for Rs 13,000 crore
arrears pending till 2010.
"The key necessity behind
having GST is having a trust
between Centre and states...
During the course of current
year the government is making
efforts to find the resources to
compensate the states for part
of the CST loss," Das said.
CST, a tax imposed on the
inter-state movement of goods,
was reduced from 4 per cent to
3 per cent in 2007-08 and fur-
ther to 2 per cent in 2008-09
after the introduction of Value-
Added Tax (VAT). The centre
had then promised the states
that it would bear losses due to
reduction of CST.
As part of the roll out of
GST, the CST is being phased
out and has been reduced to
two per cent from the earlier
four per cent. The Centre
collects CST and distributes it
among states.
GSJ imlementation from Aril
2016, feasille, says Revenue Secy
6kIh8: The Finance Ministers of the G20 nations on Saturday
resolved to tackle Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) to
make sure companies pay their fair share of tax.
"We have also agreed to increase transparency and crack
down on tax evasion," said an official statement after the first
day of the ministerial meeting of the G20, which among oth-
ers is being attended by India's Minister of state for Finance
Nirmala Sitharaman.
India has been at the forefront in raising the issues con-
cerning tax avoidance and automatic exchange of information
with a view to curbing tax evasion.
The G20 in 2013 had unanimously agreed to a 15 point
action plan to check BEPS.
"This will help secure our revenue bases by limiting the
opportunities for double non-taxation and ensuring a global-
ly coordinated approach to international tax challenges," the
statement said.
It further added that the G20, a grouping a developed and
developing nations, is half way through an ambitious two year
work program to update international tax rules for the 21st cen-
tury.
The initiative would ensure that tax is paid where profits
are made although it has become increasingly difficult to check
the menace in view of digitalisation of economy.
...resolves to clecl rofit
slifting for fair tax realisation
FTI Q K0LKATA
S
tating that there is a need for
a comprehensive policy for
developing and clearing the
hurdles for the growth of the
MSME sector, Union Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises
Minister Kalraj Mishra on
Saturday said the government
would be able to come out with
it in 3-4 months.
The MSME sector was of
immense importance as it con-
tributed eight per cent to the
country's GDP and 45 per cent
of nation's exports, Mishra
said at a MCCI seminar here.
"Till now, several policies
have been undertaken to tack-
le the problems on credit avail-
ability, incidences of default
and other related obstacles,
still a number of problems
exist," he said, adding, those
formulated in other countries
would also be looked into.
Mishra said, "a compre-
hensive policy needs to be for-
mulated which will take care of
the existing problems in an in
depth manner."
Earlier at an ICC event, the
Union MSME Minister said in
the maiden budget of the new
government, it had been
announced to allocate a fund of
Rs 10,000 crore for facilitation
of MSME industries.
He said the government
has started taking suitable ini-
tiatives to promote the Indian
MSME sector like other Asian
countries, including China and
Japan, and also realised the
importance of foreign invest-
ment for promotion of MSME
activities of India.
New MSMI olicy in
3-4 montls: Kalraj Mislra
special 09 NEW DELH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
N
eeta Singh is not the kind of
woman you would attach to
the new fangled ailment called
online addiction. She is a
housewife, all of 51 and full of
traditional notions of responsibilities
towards her husband, in-laws and children.
So when her husband revealed that Neeta
was to be kept off smartphones and laptop,
you wondered why. It came as a shock that
this weaning off had been ordered by a sur-
geon and Neeta had developed a tennis
elbow due to long hours of playing the
social networking game Candy Crush.
As she awaits surgery and is fighting
withdrawal symptoms due to the phone
and computer being taken away from her,
one is told that India has nearly 74 million
Internet users, a 31 per cent increase over
March 2012.
A report by the global digital mea-
surement and analytics firm comScore says
that men under 35 and women between 35
and 44 are the heaviest users. The con-
centration of online dominance has moved
steadily towards Asia, which now accounts
for 41 per cent of all Internet users. From
having 66 per cent of all users in 1996, the
US now accounts for just 13 per cent.
An IAMAI & IMRB International
report of January 2014 says, the number of
users accessing the web on their mobile
handsets in India has touched 185 million.
With so many people with Internet ser-
vices on their handhelds, it is not surpris-
ing that a large percentage in the age-group
of 18 to 25 is online 24x7. Quite alarmingly,
by 2016, the country will be having 350 mil-
lion Internet users and about 75 per cent
of them will go online through mobiles. No
wonder, experts have already started speak-
ing about a digital epidemic.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old Pune
student attacked his mother with a kitchen
knife when she tried to turn off his com-
puter and take away his smartphone.
When his 47-year-old teacher-mother
tried to reduce his access to the Internet,
he went hysterical and tried to stab her but
was stopped by his 50-year-old father, a
municipal employee, who rushed to the
room after hearing his wifes screams.
The next day, the parents drove their
son down to Mumbai and got him admit-
ted to Bycullas Masina Hospital for treat-
ment. But the boy, who did not resist,
caused a commotion by stripping nude at
the hospital in protest against his parents
decision to get him de-addicted.
Though there is no comprehensive
study on the extent of the problem, experts
say that more and more parents are seek-
ing out shrinks to get their teenage children
off the digital addiction problem.
Negative emotions like sadness, mean-
inglessness, emptiness and loneliness take
many to the social media which offers a lot
of narcissistic gratification and faceless
acceptability, Dr Pulkit Sharma, consultant
clinical psychologist & psychoanalytical
therapist with Imago-Centre for Self,
explains. He adds that there is need to
recognise online addiction as a disorder
because it destroys a persons life.
Acknowledging it formally will create more
awareness of its negative effects and help
us manage it better, Sharma insists.
Take the case of a 16-year-old Class XI
drop out. Her parents became worried
when they saw that their daughter was
spending six to seven hours on the Internet.
If she was asked to stop, she would throw
a tantrum. The worried parents took her
to a pyschologist. The shrink found that her
Internet usage had started to increase when
she turned 12. Personal history revealed
normal developmental milestones. Though
she was never a brilliant student, her grades
were never so bad that it would worry the
parents. But slowly, she started neglecting
academic work so much that she left school.
When her parents complained, she start-
ed going to cyber cafs. Stealing and lying
became a habit.
Chatting with friends on social net-
working sites and sharing photographs with
the intention of meeting a boy through chat
was common. When her family finally
dragged her to a doctor, she had 350 online
friends. With timely intervention focussing
on lifestyle changes, at 16 she has now man-
aged to curb her addiction. Today, she is
giving her Class XII exam through open
school and has limited her interaction on
social networking sites to an hour a day.
Such cases are a dime a dozen. With
smartphones deluging the market, Internet
usage has seen a steady rise. People can now
play games, surf sites, update status mes-
sages, post videos and pictures, share
tweets and comment on them from any-
where. One doesnt need to get to a com-
puter or a laptop to be online. It can be done
on the move in a bus, in an autorick-
shaw or even while waiting at a bus stop,
Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma, associate pro-
fessor, department of clinical psychology
with NIMHANS in Bangalore, says.
Peer pressure is one of the biggest rea-
son behind teenagers spending hours on
the Internet and becoming addicted to it
that a friend has more online friends or
more likes to a comment ensures that
they are constantly monitoring what their
friends are doing.
Digital detox clinic Service for Healthy
Use of Technology (SHUT), Bangalore, that
started four months back has already
treated 22 teens for digital addiction.
Another 10 have been treated for psycho-
logical problems like stress and depression.
This addiction stems from three rea-
sons accessibility, control and excite-
ment. It has been seen that chatting,
updating status message, playing video
games and winning gives teens a high that
is very different from the high that one
would get from taking drugs and drinking.
In fact, drugs have been replaced by social
networking sites. It has been found that
these sites help youngsters cope with
behavioural problems like distress and
depression, Dr Manoj says.
A study conducted in Bangalore in
2010 found that around 24 per cent of the
5,000 respondents were using the Internet
excessively. A similar community survey
done from door-to-door in 2011 revealed
an increase of five per cent. A 2013 survey
threw up the online shopping addiction.
India is definitely seeing an increase
in Internet usage. But to put a figure to the
addiction is difficult. A lot more studies
have to be done. Digital addiction is very
new to India. Hence, there is a lack of
awareness about it. Those who may know
something about it dont know where to go
for treatment, Dr Sandeep Grover, assis-
tant professor with the department of psy-
chiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education & Research, Chandigarh, says.
He is quick to point out that one gets
to see more teens than adults because of the
shame that adults associate with an addic-
tion. The problem gets complicated because
digital addiction is usually not seen in iso-
lation. There are other problems associat-
ed with it. Going to a mental health pro-
fessional is perceived as embarrassing.
Some of the common problems asso-
ciated technology addiction are stiffness in
muscles and joints, carpal tunnel syndrome,
sleep disturbances, headache, backache, dry
eyes, obesity and low metabolic syndrome.
Common psychological problems include-
anxiety, irritability, lack of drive, fatigue,
relationship problems, aggression and
neglect of studies.
For Sheetal Vij (name changed), her
five-year marriage turned into a nightmare
since the day she realised her husband,
Samrat (name changed) was suffering
from online addiction. At first, I took it
casually. I thought it was a phase and
Samrat would get out of this Internet fas-
cination. When he didnt, he started hav-
ing bitter quarrels about this over usage of
the phone and tablet but nothing affected
him. My problem is that Samrat isnt addict-
ed to any social networking site. He is stuck
to Google. He carries his phone to the bath-
room to read up. Initially, I would throw
a tantrum. Now, I am reconciling to the fact
that Google is his only wife, Vij says. Out
of 24 hours a day, the couple converse for
hardly 10 minutes, and that too with the
husband constantly peering into his tablet
and surfing the Net in the middle of a con-
versation.
Thirtytwo-year-old Mansi Gujral
(name changed) has a similar story. Her
husband Rahul has no time to have a meal
with her without one eye on his mobile see-
ing updates on Twitter. Needless to say, it
is a huge turn off.
Rahul has a very hectic work sched-
ule, so we get only weekends to ourselves.
But even during that time, if I want to eat
together, he sits on the table but his eyes
are constantly on his mobile. I generally get
disgusted with this attidude and have my
meal in utter silence, Gujral says. Even a
holiday is no longer a welcome thought
because even then her husband is contin-
uously online. It is better to be home rather
than go out with a man who is always with
his technology. Even in an expensive suite
we are doing things separately, a dejected
Gujral says.
Psychiatrists say, the reason why adults
dont admit to this being a problem
because they dont think of it as an addic-
tion. As for teenagers, living in the virtu-
al world is the easiest way to making or
breaking relationships. This is because
there is very little emotional connect in the
Internet world. Breaking a relationship in
a chat room is not only easy but also clean
and without baggage which one carries in
a face-to-face break-up, Grover explains.
F
or any individual, selrealisalion lhal
he is becoming addicled lo gadgels
and lhere is an increase in online and
oline usage is lhe irsl sle lo
assessmenl.
"To say lhal a erson is on lhe mobile
all lhe lime may nol necessarily mean lhal
he is addicled. whal has lo be seen is
whelher lhe usage is or roessional or
nonroessional use. one sees lhal an
adull is sending more and more lime on
lhe mobile, suring lhe nlernel, laying
video games, shoing online, wanling lo
check and udale Facebook slalus every
ew minules, means he is addicled. l is
lhe our 'Cs: Craving (desire lo engage in
lhese behaviours), conlrol (exeriencing
inabilily lo conlrol lhese behaviours),
comulsion (engagemenl in behavior
desile no need) and consequences
(exerienced eecls due lo engagemenl in
lhese behaviours) lhal delermine lhe
seriousness o lhe silualion," 0r Sandee
0rover, assislanl roessor wilh lhe
dearlmenl o sychialry, Foslgraduale
nslilule o Medical Educalion & Research,
Chandigarh, says.
The olher oinls lo look oul or
addiclion in an adull are: lhe individual
is neglecling olhers around him, leading
lo roblem in relalionshis; always
lhinking and needing lo check lhe mobile
or a call or an SMS; and, i lhe adull is
unable lo slee and shows symloms o
deression.
Sending signiicanl sums o money
or online services, comuler ugrades or
gaming syslems is anolher oinler. As is,
lhinking obsessively aboul being on lhe
comuler or laying video games even
when doing olher lhings.
while lhe symloms o digilal
addiclion in leens may be similar lo lhe
ones seen in an adull, il is lhe manner in
which lhey maniesl is where lhe
dierence lies. lhe arenls see lheir
ward's grade di or eel lhal lhe child is
neglecling his sludies al lhe cosl o being
on lhe nlernel or lhe mobile hone all lhe
lime, i lhe child gels irrilaled or angry i
his nlernel aclivilies are inlerruled, i lhe
child sends less and less lime wilh lhe
amily and riends and reers lo be on lhe
mobile or comuler and i lhe child
doesn'l wanl lo lell lhe arenls how much
he is sending on lhe nlernel, lhen he or
she is addicled. "n any case, one musl
seek hel rom roessionals who are
qualiied lo nol only see lhe roblem bul
also lreal il," 0r 0rover lells you.
I 0 0 8 F F 0 F l F I F . . .
How serious is your
digital addiction?
Psychologists tell
SHALN SAKSENA
that there are four Cs
you the extent of the
addiction
Some lake lheir hones wilh lhem lo lhe balhroom and send many hours googling lheir avourile loics; olhers suer rom
lennis elbow owing lo lheir addiclion lo Candy Crush. Marriages are breaking because lhe man is loo much inlo his gadgels and
sludenls are droing oul o school because lhey can'l gel o social nelworking siles. ndia is in lhe lhroes o a suring eidemic
wilh as many as 75 er cenl addicled lo lhe hel. ShALh SAKSEhA seaks wilh digilal delox exerls who say lhis mania
modern ndia's aslesl growing scourge
IF I8FIMF8I
Q The irsl sle or a sychologisl is lo
evaluale lhe roblem in delail and
work oul a cuslomised lrealmenl or
lhe individual. n each case, lhe
aroach has lo be dierenl since no
lwo individuals are lhe same, nor is
lheir level o lechnology addiclion.
Q 0nce lhal is done, an assessmenl is
made and on lhe basis o lhal, lhe
qualiicalion o usage is gauged.
Q Then comes sychoeducaling lhe
user - lelling him whal his excessive
deendency on lhe nlernel is doing
lo him and how il is aecling his
lieslyle. however, lhe inal decision is
lel lo lhe user. Forcing lhe user lo go
or counselling will nol have imacl
as selrealisalion is crucial.
Q The individual is lhen asked lo limil
his usage. usually, doclors don'l rec
ommend comlele absenleeism.
Q n case lhe addiclion is in a leenager,
arenls are made aware o lhe acl lhal
il is nol ossible lo kee lhe child away
rom lechnology. however, whal lhey
need lo ensure is some degree o con
lrol over usage.
Q A session on removing lhe negalivi
ly is underlaken nexl. To leach lhe
eole involved on how lo inleracl
normally wilhoul ighling is an imor
lanl arl o counselling.
Q Keeing labs on an addicled user once
lhe counselling is over is also advised.
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sport 10 NEW DELH SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
A
fter winning the first gold
of the 17th Asian Games
for India, Jitu Rai abrupt-
ly excused himself from
the media. It wasnt an
arrogant act of a star athlete (or play-
er) but a reaction of a tired mind.
Jitu has been continuously play-
ing since March this year and was
dead tired when he landed in
Incheon for the Asian Games. He was
one of the favourites having won five
medals, including a Commonwealth
Games gold in Glasgow, in a row. But
these back-to-back events exhausted
him. His mind was refusing to con-
centrate.
These being his first Asian
Games, he couldnt have just pulled
himself back. He knew that the last
step is usually the toughest one. And
those who can overcome all the
pains and summon all the energy that
is left in the tired body to take that
last step are the true champions.
Jitu just did that on Saturday to
become only the second Indian pis-
tol shooter to win a gold medal
at the Asian Games.
The first was leg-
endary Jaspal Rana,
who won a gold in
1994 Hi roshi ma
Games and three
gol ds i n 2006
Doha Games.
It (score)
went down a bit in the middle but I
told myself that this is my first
Asian Games, you have to win here,
Jitu said after beating a tough field
that included South Koreas Jong-oh
Jin, worlds best shooter in 50m pis-
tol and 10m air pistol with three
Olympic gold medals. In the recent
World Championships in Grenada,
Spain, it was Jin who took the gold
medal from Jitu.
Probably the home pressure was
way too much for Jin as he was elim-
inated early in the race. The buckling
down of Jin also shows the pressure
level during the finals of such a big
event.
In fact, Jitu was also a bit off-
colour. There were only four 10 or
10-plus shots in 20 rounds of shoot-
ings. He was on the verge of elimi-
nation early on in the final round
when he hit a bad 7.7. Another bad
shot and he would have been out. But
his next shot of 9.8 saved him.
I never found it as difficult in
the finals as it was here. I was under
severe pressure. I didnt even feel this
much pressure at the Worl d
Championships, Jitu said.
Going into the final round, he
was trailing by .7 points. But his
Vietnamese opponent cracked under
pressure and shot 8.7 and 5.8 against
Jitus 9.6 and 8.4 to settle the issue in
Indians favour.
IT'8 FhY8I6kI
Indias mental conditioning
coach Vaibhav Agashe credited Jitus
incredible run of six medals in a year
to his physical fitness. There were a
few surprised looks when Agashe
said that. Shooting is after all a sta-
tic game players dont move
much. He explained: Large part of
mental strength comes from your
physical fitness. People think that
shooting is not a physical sport but
Jitus continued success has proved
that physical fitness plays an impor-
tant role.
It (pistol shooting) requires a
very fine motor control which is like
very fine movement. And if that
movement is not fine, it becomes very
difficult to control it. His physical con-
ditioning is what made him better than
others. If you are not fit, your muscles
start reacting under pressure. They are
no longer under your control.
Agashe said that Jitu is one of the
fittest athletes amongst the Indian
shooters and the regular physical con-
ditioning has transformed his body
into a machine that is better equipped
to take load for a longer period.
He takes physical conditioning
much more seriously. Everyone does
physical conditioning but he is more
serious about it. I mean he is not car-
rying any injuries; physically he is in
peak shape, the mental conditioning
coach said.
It (this medal) is tribute to his
physical conditioning. If you want to
perform consistently at the highest
level, physical conditioning is very
important. His background is very
important, he is from the Army. He
is one of the fittest athlete in the
shooting team thats why he is doing
so well this year, Agashe added.
IT'8 IhIk V8 IhIk, WIhhE WIII WIh MEkI
ndia is assured o ils irsl ever women's singles medal in lhe Asian
0ames aler lo layers ipika FaIIikaI (lel) and 1oshana 6hinappa
won lheir reseclive oeners and sel u an exciling conlesl in lhe
quarlerinals. world ho.21 Chinaa blanked 188rd ranked Soulh Korea
Song Sunmi 11O,117, 117 al lhe Yeorumul Squash Courls. Soon aler,
world ho.12 Fallikal sleed on lhe courl againsl 15Olh ranked Jinyue
0u o China. The higheslranked ndian slied a bil beore revailing 11
G 1O12 11G 114. The leammales now ace each olher in lhe
quarlerinals on Sunday, less lhan lwo monlhs aler winning ndia's irsl
ever squash medal al lhe 0lasgow Commonweallh 0ames, where lhey
won lhe women's doubles gold. whoever wins lhe malch will be assured
o a medal as lhe losing semiinalisls gel a bron/e each in lhe
quadrennial evenl. Bolh Fallikal and Chinaa have
called lhe draw "unorlunale" and lhe ormer had even
considered a ulloul claiming "maniulalion". The
aceo will be ulsaling nonelheless. Bolh layers
know each olher's game very well and lhe dierence
in lheir rankings is going lo counl lillle.
8EIhhIh I Eh I 16Y hT?
Eyes irmly sel on lhe gold medal, which has eluded
lhem or lhe asl 1G years, lhe ndian men's hockey
leam would look lo oen ils Asian 0ames camaign
wilh a big win againsl minnows Sri Lanka in a Fool B
malch al lhe Seonhak hockey Sladium, here on
Sunday. Aler lhe islanders, lhe Sardar Singhled side
will ace 0man on Selember 28 beore more lough
encounlers againsl archrival Fakislan (Selember
25) and China (Selember 27). Twolime gold medal
lisl ndia, who slood lo o lhe odium in 1OGG and
1OO8, would deinilely be looking or lhuming wins
over Sri Lanka and 0man lo boosl lheir conidence
beore lhey lake on lhe big guns. ndia are lhe sec
ondbesl among Asian leams in world rankings al
no.O behind ourlime winners and lournamenl hosls
Soulh Korea. Bul going by lhe amounl o inlernalional
exosure Terry walsh's boys had in lhe lasl one year,
which includes lhe world Cu and 0lasgow
Commonweallh 0ames, ndia are deinilely loul
ed as one o lhe lille avouriles in lhe 17lh edi
lion o lhe Asiad.
For ndia, lhe added incenlive lo win lhe gold here is a
direcl berlh lo Rio 0lymics as lhe winners o lhe
Asian 0ames will earn a direcl enlry inlo lhe 2O1G
megaevenl. having ailed lo ulilise lhe oorlunily
in lhe lasl edilion aler losing lo Malaysia in lhe
semiinals o lhe 2O1O 0uang/hou 0ames, lhe
ndians would be deserale lo avoid a reeal lhis lime
around. unlike olher arlicialing nalions, lhe ndians
would aroach lhe Asian 0ames high on conidence aler
having bagged lhe silver in lhe 0lasgow Commonweallh
0ames earlier lhis year. ndia have ielded lhe same bunch o
layers lhal reresenled lhe counlry in lhe 0lasgow 0ames
and lhe lus oinl or chie coach Terry walsh is lhal lhe
grou looked sellled. There would be lenly o hunger in
lhe belly o lhe ndian layers as lhe counlry lasl won gold
in lhe Asian 0ames in lhe 1OO8 edilion in Bangkok and
Sardar and his leammales would be eager lo break
lhe 1Gyearold jinx here. ndia's irsl lwo malches
againsl minnows Sri Lanka and 0man are
execled lo be goal rouls bul lhe enc will also
give walsh a air bil o idea aboul how his
wards have adaled and made use o lhe
new rules. ndia's chie coach walsh has
been ubeal aboul his ward's chances in
lhe Asian 0ames bul warned his wards
againsl comlacency.
FTI
WE8 hkVE k kY
ndian rowers roduced a credilable erormance on lhe oening day
o comelilions al lhe Asian 0ames wilh lwo leams making il lo lhe
inals here on Salurday. The women's air leam o Sanjukla 0ung
0ung qualiied or lhe inal desile inishing sixlh in lhe heal number
one by clocking 8:24.48 lo cover a dislance o 2OOOm al Chungju
Tangeum Lake Rowing Cenler here. The inal will be held on
Selember 24. n lighlweighl men's double sculls evenl, Rooendra
Singh and Manjeel Singh inished second in heal number one wilh a
liming o G:44.51 over lhe 2OOOm dislance lo qualiy or lhe inal
which will also be held on Selember 24. n lighlweighl women's
quadrule sculls, lhe quarlel o 0illymol vargheese, Khumanlhem
Monalisha Chanu, Thangjam Chaoba 0evi and Manjula Xess inished
ourlh in heal number one and lhey will have lo comele in lhe
reechage round.
MIXE 8TkT I IhIk Ih W8h
ndia began lheir camaign in wushu comelilion on a mixed nole wilh
lwo layers making il lo lhe quarlerinals while our o lhem making an
early rom lhe Asian 0ames on Salurday. harender 0rewal beal Mangal
Frasad Tharu o heal in 'win by round' verdicl in his round o 1G
Sanda GOkg conlesl. The ndian won 2O. 0rewal lake on Abdullah o
Fakislan in lhe quarlerinals on Monday. Yumnam Sanalhoi 0evi also
made il lo lhe quarlerinal round in women's Sanda 52kg evenl aler
deealing Kamalova Mubarak o u/bekislan. The ndian won her round
o 1G conlesl in a 'win by round' verdicl as she also won 2O. Sanalhoi
now aces Amgalanjargal Sangidorj o Mongolia in lhe quarlerinals on
Monday. n men's Sanda G5kg evenl, M Bimoljil Singh losl his round
o 1G malch againsl Salaheddin Bayramov o Turkmenislan in a knock
oul verdicl. The ndian won lhe irsl round o lhe conlesl bul had lo
ace a knock oul blow in lhe second lo make an exil rom lhe
comelilion. n men's Sanda 5Gkg, Kumar Sanlosh losl his round o 1G
conlesl againsl Railin Ri/aidin o Ka/akhslan. The ndian won lhe irsl
round bul losl lhe nexl lwo lo concede lhe conlesl. wangkhem
Sandhyarani 0evi also losl lamely her Sanda GOkg round o 1G conlesl
againsl Thi Ly Tan o vielnam in a 'win by round' verdicl. n men's
Changquan inal, Anjul hamdeo inished ninlh wilh a score o O.O8.
WEIhTIIITE8 I8kFFIhT
ndia slarled lheir weighlliling camaign on a dismal nole as all lhree
o lhem who look lhe ield on Salurday inished in lhe bollom hal o
lhe lable in lheir reseclive weighl calegories in bolh men's and
women's divisions al lhe Asian 0ames here. n women's 48kg
calegory, Khumukcham Sanjila Chanu and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu -
lhe gold and silver medallisl o lhe 0lasgow Commonweallh 0ames -
came a croer by inishing lenlh and ninlh reseclively in a ield o 18
weighllilers. Anolher Commonweallh gold medallisl Sukhen 0ey,
meanwhile, inished a lowly 12lh in men's 5Gkg calegory oul o 14
lilers. Flaced in 0rou B o men's 5Gkg, where six lilers comeled,
Sukhen ended al ilh lace wilh a lolal o 242kg (1OG+18G). Mirabai
liled a lolal o 75kg in snalch, and OGkg in clean and jerk or an overall
eorl o 171kg. Sanjila could lil only a lolal o 1GGkg (78+O8).
Ka/akhslan's Margarila Yelisseyeva ran away wilh lhe gold in women's
48kg calegory wilh an eorl 1O4kg (88+1OG), while Sri wahyuni
Agusliani o ndonesia sellled or a silver wilh a lil o 187kg
(8O+1O7) and Togoeva Mahliyo o u/bekislan bagged a bron/e
wilh a lolal o 187 (81+1OG). n men's 5Gkg, horlh Korea's
0m Yun Chol won lhe gold wilh a lolal o 2O8kg, which is
now lhe new Asian 0ames record. he liled 128kg in snalch
beore a world record 17Okg eorl in clean and jerk. Thach Kim
Tua o vielnam (lolal o 2O4kg) ockeled a silver and China's wu
Jingbiao (288kg) inished wilh a bron/e.
WMEh'8 TEhhI8 TEkM 8EkT8 Mkh
The ndian women's lennis leam was o lo a winning slarl in lhe 17lh
Asian 0ames as il blanked 0man 8O in lhe irsl round. Frarlhana
0ulabrao Thombare and Ankila Raina nolched u conlrasling singles
viclories beore lhe airing o halasha Marie Anne Falha and Rishika
Sunkara was handed a walkover in lhe doubles malch. Thombare
slarled lhe lie or ndia and droed jusl one game lo beal Sarah
Abdulmajeed Rasheed Balushi GO G1 in a malch which lasled 52
minules. however, Ankila had lo work hard or her win over Falma
Talib Sulaiman Al habhani. She squandered lhe oening sel win beore
gelling her acl logelher lo clinch lhe malch G4 2G G8 in nearly lwo
hours. wilh an unassailable lead in hand, lhe doubles rubber was nol
much o consequence or lhe ndians, who were saved o lhe loil
courlesy lhe walkover.
Th kY T I 6Y6IE8
ndian men's and women's lrack cyclisls inished disaoinling
idenlical sevenlh in lheir reseclive leam srinl evenls on lhe oening
day o comelilions. The lrio o Amril Singh, Alan Baby and Amarjil
Singh hagi clocked an average seed o 55.G8Okm er hour in lhe
lhree la qualiying heal lhree lo inish overall sevenlh. Korean leam
(average seed GO.88O km/hr) won lhe gold, while China (average
seed GO.O48 km/hr) and Jaan (average seed 5O.8O4 km/hr) bagged
lhe silver and bron/e, reseclively. n lhe women's leam srinl evenl
also, lhe ndian duo o 0eborah and Ke/ia vargheese clocked an
average seed o 4O.O22km er hour in lhe qualiying heal lhree lo
inish overall sevenlh. Chinese leam (average seed 54.772 km/hr)
ockeled lhe gold, Korea (average seed 58.427 km/hr) inished wilh a
silver and Chinese Taiei (average seed 52.828 km/hr) sellled or a
bron/e.
36 MEM8E kThIETI68 TEkM IEkVE8
New Delhi: A 85member lrack and ield leam will be leaving or lhe
ncheon Asian 0ames in wee hours on Sunday, hoing lo beller lheir
erormance o lhe lasl edilion wilh Sorls Minisler Sarbananda
Sonowal giving an oicial sendo and wishing lhem luck. 21 women
and 14 men alhleles, nine coaches, one manager in addilion lo our
suorl sla, lwo each or men and women comelilors will head lo
ncheon . n lhe lasl edilion in China, ndian lrack and ield alhleles had
won 12 medals, including ive gold, and oicials said lhis lime lhe
counlry is execled lo more or less mainlain lhe number o medals in
lhis blueriband disciline bul may relurn wilh a reduced number o
yellow melals. FTI
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ndia vs Soulh Korea:
women's leam semiinals
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ndia vs Saudi Arabia: Men's
0ualiying Round
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women's Keirin Firsl Round
heals: 0eborah and Mohan
Mahilha
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0ressage ndividual
nlermediale : Rajendra
Shubhsri, vanila
Malholra, Shruli vora, hadia
haridass
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ndia vs Thailand: women's
Firsl Round
8hTIh:
ndia vs Soulh Korea: Men's
Freliminary Round
ndia vs Thailand: women's
Freliminary Round
h6kEY:
ndia vs Sri Lanka: Men's
Fool B Malch
WIh
Men's Single Sculls heal 1:
Sawarn Singh
Lighlweighl Men's
0uadrule Sculls heal 1:
Rakesh Raliya, vikram
Singh, Laxmi harain Sonu,
Shokendar Tomar
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1Om Air Fislol Men's
0ualiicalion: Jilu Rai,
Samresh Jung, Frakash
hanjaa
1Om Air Fislol Men's Team
Finals: Jilu Rai, Samresh
Jung, Frakash hanjaa
Tra Men's 0ualiicalion 0ay
2: Mansher Singh, 0arius
Kynan Chenai, Manavjil
Singh Sandhu
Tra Men's Team Finals:
Mansher Singh, 0arius
Kynan Chenai, Manavjil
Singh Sandhu
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Men's Singles 0uarlerinal:
Saurav 0hosal vs qbal hasir
(Fakislan)
women's Singles
0uarlerinal: Joshana
Chinaa vs 0iika Fallikal
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Men's 2OOm Freeslyle heals:
Saurabh Sangvekar
Men's 1OOm Backslroke
heals: Fralhaan hair
Men's 2OOm Bullerly heals:
Aaron 0'Sou/a
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Men's Team Second Round:
ndia vs heal
IhIk Ih k6TIh TkY
Jilu Rai slrikes gold in 5Om islol evenl on oening day lo gel lhings going or ndian conlingenl
ThE FIhEE
at Incheon
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kMIT 6hkhkY Q hChE0h
I
t was an auspicious Asian Games
beginning for the Indian contin-
gent as Shewta Chaudhary opened
the countrys account with a bronze
medal in the 10m air pistol event at
the Ongnyeon Internati onal
Shooting Range here on Saturday.
It was a miraculous victory for
Shweta, who was a part of the sil-
ver medal winning team in 2006
Doha Asian Games, as she was
shooting with a spare pistol.
Her main pistol got stuck at the
Incheon airport two days back.
After running from pillar to post,
she got her pistol back on Saturday
morning but it was too late.
"I felt very bad when they
refused to release my pistol. At
that moment I decided that
whatever happens, I would
not give up so easily. After
competing for so many
years, I have got used to
such distraction and have
learnt how to deal with it,"
Shweta said.
She shot a total of
176.4 in the final to
clinch the bronze
medal while the
silver went to
South Korean
Jung Jeehae
(201.3) and
C h i n a ' s
Z h a n g
Mengyuan
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won t he
gold.
Shweta,
who is cur-
rently World
No. 46, sur-
p r i s e d
everyone by finishing fourth in the
qualifying round with a score of
383.
Among other Indians, former
World No. 1 Heena Sidhu and
Commonwealth Games silver
medallist Malaika Goel disap-
pointed and failed to qualify for the
final round.
Heena, World No. 4, shot a
series of 94, 97, 92, 95, that includ-
ed 12x, to finish 13th with a score
of 378 in the qualifying round
while 16-year-old Malaika, World
No. 20, was 24th with a score of 373.
Malaika had a series of 91, 96, 91,
95 and had 8x.
The Indian team comprising
Shweta, Heena and Malaika fin-
ished fifth with a score of 1134 in
the team event.
It was Shweta's first indi-
vidual medal at the Asian
Games and she termed it her
"biggest win" so far. It came
as a relief for Shweta after
struggling with a shoulder
injury for the last one-and-a-
half year.
"This medal is a
boost for the next
year' s Worl d
Championships
where I want
to secure a
qualification
for the 2016
O l y m p i c
Games," she
said.
inrheon: ndian women's badminlon
leam rode on Saina hehwal and Fv
Sindhu's slrong shoulders lo enler lhe
semiinals o lhe leam evenl while men's
leam losl in lhe irsl round al lhe 0yeyang
0ymnasium here on Salurday.
The women's leam lhrashed Macau
China 8O in lhe round o 1G and lhen
edged oul Thailand 82 in a neckandneck
quarlerinal round lo sel u a semiinal
clash wilh lhe hosls Soulh Korea on
Sunday.
ndia lolally dominaled lhe irsl
round lie againsl Macau as il gol over
wilhin one and a hal hour. The senior
mosl member o lhe leam Saina oened
lhe roceedings and hardly broke a
sweal as she lhrashed Kil eng wong 21
G, 214 in jusl 21 minules.
Sindhu, who won a
bron/e medal in lhe
0lasgow Cw0 carried on
rom where her senior
leammale had lel in lhe
revious round. She was
equally dominaling in
lhe 218, 21O bealing
o Teng ok u and gave
ndia a commanding
lead in lhe lie.
n lhe doubles malch,
Macau's air o Zhibo
Zhang and Rong wang
showed some ighling
againsl ndia's Sikki
Reddy helakurlhi and
Fradnya 0adre bul
ullimalely losl lhe
lie 1G21, 1721
and lhe malch O8.
n lhe quarlerinals
also, Saina and Sindhu
showed lheir class and led
lhe way by ulling ndia in lhe lead. Firsl
Saina sel lhe lone or her leam by deeal
ing ormer world Chamion Ralchanok
nlanon 2115, 1721, 2118 in one hour
and seven minules o grueling duel. Then
Sindhu ollowed il u wilh a more con
vincing 2115, 2118 viclory over Fornli
Buranaraserlsuk lo ul ndia in a com
orlable 2O lead. however, lhe Thai girls
made a good came back lo level lhe con
lesl al 2all. Firsl, FC Thulasi wenl down
lo Busanan 0ngbamrunghan 1221, 14
21 and lhen 0adrehelakurlhi losl lo lhe
air o Fornli and Kunchala
voravichilchaikul 1721, 2118, 1G21.
however, doubles secialisl Ashwini
Fonnaa, in arlnershi wilh Sindhu,
clinched lhe allimorlanl ilh and inal lie
211G, 2117 againsl Thai doubles air o
Sasiree Taerallanachai and Saralee
Thounglhongkam lo roel ndia inlo lhe
lasl our.
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uoyed by a spectacular win
over Chennai Super Kings
in the inaugural match, Kolkata
Knight Riders will takes on
spirited qualifiers Lahore Lions
in their second game of CLT20
on Sunday.
KKR, this years IPL cham-
pions, scored a remarkable vic-
tory over Chennai thanks to a
scintillating knock of 58 runs by
Andre Russell and Ryan ten
Doeschates unbeaten 51.
Russell, who is in brilliant
form following a successful
stint in the Carribean Premier
League, and ten Doeschate
came good when the top order
comprising Captain Gautam
Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan
Manvinder Bisla and Manish
Pandey fumbled.
Kolkatas top batsmen can
be match-winners individual-
ly and their combined might
can make things really difficult
for the rivals. Besides a strong
batting line-up, the Kolkata
side boasts of a competitive
bowling department that
includes the deadly Sunil
Narine, Pat Cummins, Umesh
Yadav, Piyush Chawla and
Yusuf Pathan.
Lahore Lions entered the
main draw of the tournament
following two wins in three
matches they played in the
Qualifying Group. The Lions
thrashed Mumbai Indians by
six wickets with eight balls
remaining in the match on
September 13.
The Lahore side won by a
comprehensive 55 runs against
Southern Express on
September 16, though the team
lost to Northern Districts team
on September 14.
Lahores Saad Nasim,
Captain Mohammed Hafeez,
Ahmed Shezad and Umar
Akmal have been impressive
with the bat. Hafeez struck a
superb 67-run knock in the
match against Southern
Express, while Umar Akmal
also impressed in their maiden
match against Mumbai Indians.
Lahore bowlers Aizaz
Cheema, Wahab Riaz and
Imran Ali have been successful
in the qualifying matches. But
the team will need to put up a
very strong all-round perfor-
mance to make it difficult for
the seasoned Kolkata Knight
Riders.
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After losing their star all-
rounder Jean-Paul Duminy, an
injury-hit Cape Cobras take on
Hobart Hurricanes in the first
game of Sunday the Rajiv
Gandhi International stadium.
Cobras were dealt a severe
blow on Friday after Duminy
was ruled out of the tourna-
ment due to an injury, which
gives an advantage to their
opponents from New Zealand.
The Hurricanes boast of a
decent line-up comprising the
likes of Ben Dunk, Aiden
Blizzard and seasoned Shoaib
Malik of Pakistan in the batting
department and bowlers like
Doug Bollinger and Ben
Hilfenhaus.
Knight Riders
look to tame Lions
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Mumbai: Sanish slar and member o lhe 2O1O
world Cu winning squad Joan Cadevila eels
lhal a chance lo lay or lhe horlhEasl uniled in
lhe ucoming cashrich ndian Suer League
(SL) slarling nexl monlh will enable lo guide lhe
young ndian layers wilh his oodles o
exerience. " have layed in lo oolball leagues
across lhe world like Sanish and Forluguese,
lhe main reason is lo join a new challenge lhal is
growing u and wanl lo hel lhis growlh. wilh
my exerience, wanl lo hel lhe budding lalenl
o ndia lo grow, by leaching lhem and guiding
lhem," Cadevila lold reorlers here. " am really
graleul lo horlhEasl uniled lo give me lhis
oorlunily lo join lhis new challenge or lhe
whole counlry. hoe lo bring my exerience
here lo hel horlhEasl lo grow and SL lo grow
as well. am in lhe lasl leg o my career and
wanled lo come and enjoy mysel," said
Cadevila, who has senl his besl years al La
Liga clubs like villarreal, 0eorlivo La Coruna and
Esanyol aarl rom lurning u or Alhlelico
Madrid on 81 occasions. Cadevila is lhe lasl
erson lo arrive or lhe 0uwahali ranchise and
lhe SL club's coowner John Abraham said lhe
leam would lay lhree riendly malches in 0oa
beore relurning lo 0uwahali or lraining. "we are
already lraining. Cadevila leaves day aler
lomorrow or 0oa. we have gol lhree riendly
malches in 0oa and we are going lo be lhere or
eighl days. 0n lhe 2nd, we go back lo 0uwahali
and we slarl lraining lhere. So we are very
exciled," Abraham said.
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London: Relecling on his inamous allercalion
wilh ndia allrounder Ravindra Jadeja, England
ace searhead James Anderson said lhe maller
lhal broughl a greal deal o slress lo him "wenl
loo ar" and could have been deall wilh on lhe
day o lhe incidenl ilsel. " ell il wenl loo ar
lhe whole rocess was loo much," Anderson was
quoled as saying by BZh B_^acb. "l could have
been deall wilh on lhe day, il could have been
deall wilh aler lhe game bul unorlunalely il
lurned inlo a long, drawn oul rocess bul
lhankully common sense revailed in lhe end,"
he said. ndia had claimed lhal Anderson shoved
Jadeja wilhoul rovocalion inside lhe avillion
during lhe irsl Tesl al Trenl Bridge in July.
however on Augusl 1, bolh Anderson and Jadeja
were nol ound guilly o breaching lhe CC code
o conducl and cleared or lhe ourlh Tesl. "l was
robably one o lhe mosl slressul eriods lhal
've been lhrough whilsl 've been in lhe England
leam. l was conslanlly lhere - whelher il was
lalking lo solicilors, whelher il was 'we've gol
meelings here', whalever il was, il was a conslanl
lhing.
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Jammu: Legendary crickeler Sachin Tendulkar on
Salurday came in suorl o eole aecled by
lhe devaslaling lood in Jammu and Kashmir by
donaling lruckloads o relie which consisls o
ive lons o ealables and 1OOO blankels aarl
rom olher imorlanl slu, inormed Jammu and
Kashmir CA oicial Ranjeel Kalra.
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T
he margin was closer than ever, and
their rivals a tougher challenge, yet
the outcome was the same as usual
Saturday as Mercedes locked out the
front row for the Singapore Grand Prix,
with Lewis Hamilton edging Nico
Rosberg by a mere seven thousandths of
a second.
Hamilton claimed his sixth pole of
the season with a time of 1 minute,
45.681 seconds in the qualifying session,
and those few yards of advantage
between first and second on the grid
could prove crucial in Sundays night
race on a tight and twisty Marina Bay cir-
cuit with few passing opportunities.
Rosberg leads Hamilton by 22 points
in the overall title race 238 vs 216.
Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo,
who is the only genuine threat to the
Mercedes pair for the Formula One
championship, qualified third - less
than two tenths of a second off Hamilton.
Ricciardo was ahead of his teammate and
three-time defending Singapore cham-
pion Sebastian Vettel.
Ferraris Fernando Alonso will start
from fifth on the grid, and later tweet-
ed that he was very, very happy while
Williams driver Felipe Massa will start
from sixth.
Kimi Raikkonens Ferrari had engine
trouble on the final flying lap and he had
to park the car out on the circuit, but still
qualified seventh, ahead of Valtteri
Bottas of Williams.
The top eight cars were separated by
just half a second - a remarkably small
margin on what is one of the longest laps
on the F1 calendar.
Its the most incredible feeling on
the last lap, with all the pressure, when
the smallest mistake could lose you a lot,
Hamilton said. After the first sequence
of corners, I was already two tenths
down, but I said to myself Lets keep
going and see what happens.
That was one of the most exciting
qualifying sessions I have had for a long
time, where there are a lot of people in
the mix and you have to be spot on.
When told over his radio that he had
lost out to Hamilton by just seven thou-
sandths, Rosberg
shouted in frustra-
tion at missing
pol e in
Singapore by
less than a
tenth of a sec-
ond for the
second year
running. But
he had a smile
on his face later
when lamenting the
small margin.
If I think back over the lap, seven
thousandths is nothing, Rosberg said. A
little bit here or there and I could have
done it.
The Mercedes team calculated after
the session that seven thousandths was
equivalent to 33.5 centimeters - rough-
ly one foot - at the end of the lap had they
started side by side.
Ricciardo was enthused by how lit-
tle separated him from the Mercedes
cars, which have shared 12 of the 13 pre-
vious poles between them this season,
usually by much more comfortable
margins.
Its definitely encouraging,
Ricciardo said. We ended up a lot clos-
er than we thought we would. There are
a lot of cars within half a second or a sec-
ond, so it will be a fun race.
McLarens Kevin Magnussen quali-
fied ninth and Toro Rossos Daniil Kvyat
rounded out the top 10.
Hamilton boats Posborg or Singaporo polo
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C
ristiano Ronaldo scored a hat
trick, Gareth Bale and Javier
Hernandez added braces and Real
Madrid rolled to an 8-2 rout at
Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday
to emphatically end its two-game
losing skid in the Spanish league.
Ronaldo scored his first two
goals on either side of James
Rodriguezs superb long strike to
decide the match at Riazor Stadium
before halftime.
Rodriguez then helped the
Ballon dOr holder score his eighth
goal in as many matches across all
competitions this season in the sec-
ond half as Deportivo completely
crumbled.
After back-to-back losses to
Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid,
Madrid rebounded by routing
Basel 5-1 in the Champions League
on Tuesday.
This lopsided victory will go a
long way to satisfying its fans who
had turned on the team recently
and directed jeers at team captain
and goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
After two losses we have
scored 13 goals in two games, thats
a sign we have responded well,
said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Madrids second win in four
rounds of league play pulled it one
point from Atletico Madrid before
the defending champion hosts
Celta Vigo later. League leader
Barcelona is three points ahead of
Madrid before it visits Levante on
Sunday. Ronaldo showed his spe-
cial combination of physical
prowess and fine scoring touch to
take Madrids opening goal in the
22nd minute. The Portugal for-
ward jumped and hung in the air
before gently heading Alvaro
Arbeloas cross over goalkeeper
German Lux.
Four minutes later Lux could
only watch again as Rodriguez
curled an exquisite left-foot shot
from outside the area over his head
and just inside the corner of the
goal.
Helpless to stop Madrids first
two goals, Lux was largely to
blame for the third. The goalkeeper
rashly rushed out of his area when
Karim Benzema ran onto Marcelos
long pass even though two defend-
ers were in place to dispute the ball.
His mistake left Ronaldo alone to
get his second in the 41st. We have
shown the talent we have in attack,
said Ancelotti. We have a phe-
nomenal player and others with a
lot of talent. They looked for one
another and thats what stood
out.
Deportivos Haris Medunjanin
pulled one back from the penalty
spot after Sergio Ramos used his
hand to block Isaac Cuencas head-
er in the 51st. But Marcelo spotted
Bales run across the box and the
Welshman used one touch to turn
the ball beyond Lux, who grazed
it but not enough to stop it from
going in off the post in the 66th.
Bales second goal was similar,
except this time it was substitute
Francisco Isco Alarcon who
slipped the ball through for Bale to
lift over Lux in the 74th.
Ronaldo fired in his third in
the 78th after Rodriguez had
stolen the ball and set him up. Jose
Toche Verdu scored a header for
the hosts 10 minutes later.
Hernandez went on for Bale in
the 75th and the Mexico striker
scored in the 88th with a long strike
for his first goal since arriving this
offseason from Manchester United.
He then added another goal in
stoppage time against Deportivos
ravaged defense.
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London: Mesut Ozil answered his
critics and lifted Arsenal out of its
slump. Arsenals record $70-million
signing ended an eight-match
scoring drought stretching back
into last season, and also set up
Danny Welbecks first goal for the
club in a 3-0 victory over Aston
Villa.
The playmakers influential
performance came after manager
Arsene Wenger said he should not
be a scapegoat for a trio of
domestic draws and Champions
League loss.
The emphatic win ended Villas
unbeaten start to the season.
There were late goals in three
of Saturdays games.Under-pres-
sure Newcastle manager Alan
Pardew saw his side stage a late
comeback to draw 2-2 with Hull.
Queens Park Rangers twice came
from behind to also draw 2-2 with
Stoke, and Victor Wanyamas 80th-
minute goal gave Southampton a
1-0 win at Swansea.
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Ronaldo showed his
special combination
of physical prowess
and fine scoring
touch to take
Madrid's opening
goal in the 22nd
minute. The Portugal
forward jumped and
hung in the air
before gently
heading Alvaro
Arbeloa's cross over
goalkeeper German
Lux
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Daniel
Ricciardo
was enthused by
how little separated
him from the
Mercedes cars, which
have shared 12 of the
1S previous poles
between them
this season
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D
avid Miller smashed a
34-ball 46 under pres-
sure and Parvinder
Awana scalped three wickets as
Kings XI Punjab notched up a
four-wicket victory over
Barbados Trident in the Oppo
Champions League twenty20
here on Saturday.
Put into bat, Barbados post-
ed a challenging 174 for six, rid-
ing on twin half-centuries by
Dilshan Munaweera (50) and
Raymon Reifer (60) in their
stipulated 20 overs. Punjab
then managed to held on to
their nerves despite losing wick-
ets to eventually earn a hard-
fought victory, their second
win in as many matches in the
tournament.
Needing 25 off the last two
overs with four wickets in hand,
Miller and No. 8 Akshar Patel
(23) scored 47 runs off 19 balls
to take their team home.
Chasing 175 to win, Punjab
were off to a good start with
openers Virender Sehwag (31)
and Manan Vohra (27) sharing
41 runs in 22 balls but the lat-
ter was dismissed by Ravi
Rampaul in the fourth over.
Sehwag and newman
Wriddhiman Saha then added
another 35 runs before the
wicket-keeper batsman was
sent back into the pavillion by
James Franklin in the eight over.
Glenn Maxwell (16) then
joined Sehwag and the
Australian soon started his
innings with a boundary.
However his stay was short lived
as after hitting three fours in
eight balls he was caught by
Ashley Nurse off Rampaul in
the 10th over.
In the 12th over, Sehwag
too was back into the pavillion
after he was trapped in front of
wicket by Sri Lankas Jeevan
Mendis as Punjab slumped to
103 for four. A lot was expect-
ed from skipper George Bailey
but the Australian could not
stay longer as he gave an easy
catch to Franklin off a Mendis
delivery. Three balls later, Nurse
got rid of Perera for a first-ball
duck as Punjab were reduced
to 131 for six in 16.3
overs.
Stranded on the
other side, David
Miller then blasted a six
and a four spread over
two overs but Punjab still
needed 25 off the last two
overs. Patel, who had just come
into the crease, then turned out
to be an unlikely hero as he
blasted three fours and a six in
the 19th over as Punjab
amassed 20 runs.
Miller then put the icing
on the cake with a six over
wide long off as Punjab reg-
istered their second win in
two matches.
For Barbados, Mendis and
Rampaul took two wickets
each, while Franklin and
Nurse scalped one each.
Earlier, opener Munaweera
blasted five boundaries
and three sixes in his
26-ball stay, while
Reifer cracked three
fours and four hits sixes
in his unbeaten 42-ball
innings after Kings XI Punjab
skipper George Bailey won the
toss and asked Barbados to
take first strike.
For Punjab, Parvinder
Awana was the pick of the
bowler as he scalped three
wickets, while Thisara Perera
(2/15) and Anureet Singh
(1/32) were also among wick-
ets at the Punjab Cricket
Association Stadium here.
Brief Scores
Kings XI Punjab: 178 for 6
(Miller 46 not out) beat
Barbados Tridents: 174 for 6
(Reifer 60*, Munaweera 50,
Awana 3-46) by four wickets.
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The immensely talented
Mitchell Marsh hit successive
sixes off the last two deliveries
as Perth Scorchers from
Australia beat South Africas
Dolphins by six wickets in the
first match of the day.
Needing 12 off the last two
deliveries, Marsh dispatched
seamer Robbie Frylinck over
deep mid-wicket and long-on
to successfully chase down a
target of 165 set up by the
Dolphins. Ther final six
sparked off wild celebrations as
it turned out to be a disap-
pointing end for the unfancied
Dolphins, who were favourites
till final two deliveries of the
match.
It was ironical that Frylinck,
who himself while batting hit
two sixes off Yasir Arafat dur-
ing the last over of the Dolphins
innings, couldnt defend those
two big hits, when he came on
to bowl the final over in the
Scorchers innings.
Brief scores
Dolphins: 164 for seven in 20
overs (Khaya Zondo not out
63, Kesav Maharaj 29; Jason
Behrendorff 3/46, Joel Paris
2/21) lost to Perth Scorchers:
165 for four in 20 overs
(Craig Simmons 48, Sam
Whiteman 45, Mitchel l
Marsh not out 40; Kyle
Abbott 1/25) by six wickets.
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just stuck with Sharma. The 31-year-old may have done only three
films in the industry but he doesnt want to repeat the genres.
DEEBASHREE MOHANTY speaks with the dynamic actor about
his upcoming Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami and a few others
QPyaar Ka Punchnama, Chashme Baddoor and now Ekkees
Topon Ki Salaami. Was it a conscious decision to do three
different type of roles very early on in your career?
I have had to struggle before finally finding my feet in this
industry. I didnt want to give it away by repeating a tried and
tested formula. Once a role has been done with, I dont see any
point in repeating it again and again. No actor should want to
be branded as one or another character. The trick is to make
your audience guess. I am blessed that everything is going as
per plan. The first two releases were soft comedies while Ekkees
Toppon... is a heavy drama and Zalim Dilli is a completely dif-
ferent set-up.
QTell us more about this film...
The film revolves around the love-hate relationship
between a father and a son. A retired BMC employee, the father
is always busy doing good for the society while ignoring his only
beta. Be it festivals or important school meetings, the father is
never there. One fine day, they have an argument and the father
says he only expects his son to show him some respect. He says
he wants his son to give him the highest honour in this coun-
try the 21 gun salute! Papaji dies there and then and son is
hell bent in fulfilling the last wish.
QSounds like a emotional roller coaster. How was your chem-
istry with Anupam Kher?
This is my second film with him, the first being the breezy
Chashme Baddoor. That was a different ball game. It was a fun
film so everything was very informal in the sets but in Ekkees
Topon Ki... I had to be a mean boy and exchange hurtful words
with my Mr Kher. With someone like him standing in front of
me, that was a huge challenge. But we spent a lot of time in the
sets together. That helped me a lot in carrying out the scenes
without having too many hiccups.
QWhat is it that you enjoy doing comedy or emotional
drama?
Given a choice, I would love to be a superhero some day.
I grew up on a lot of detective novels, so I wish to be a part of
such scripts. Between comedy and drama, I think I enjoy a bit
of both. And I dont want to overdo anything.
QYour real life inspiration?
Ironically it will be my dad. My parents who stood by me
through thick and thin, especially during my struggle days in
Bollywood. They never thought I would make it this far. But
now they are proud of the work I am doing.
QIs there a particular banner or director that you are yearn-
ing to work with?
It is too early to have demands in the industry. I am happy
with what is coming my way. The story has to be interesting
and the character should be a strong one for me to give my nod.
Having said that, I have a list of favourite directors such as Ram
Gopal Varma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Vikram Bhatt and many
others.
QWhat are the kind of movies that you enjoy watching?
It depends on my mood. If Im in a cheerful mood, I would
watch a comedy or a romantic drama. If I am pensive then I
like to watch a horror or a suspense thriller. That helps me to
divert attention from more serious issues at hand.
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Antwerp in Belgium will be
commemorating the Great
War in a unique style. Something
that is sure to lure tourists and his-
torians to this city that still has an
old world charm.
The Vredescentrum of the City
and Province of Antwerp is collab-
orating with more than 50 partners,
Belgian and foreign to launch a fas-
cinating cultural programme com-
memorating the First World War in
the city. And we are expecting a lot
of footfall from all over to witness
the magnus opus the recon-
struction of a temporary footbridge
across the River Scheldt, from Steen
Castle to the Left bank
(Linkeroever), by the Belgian and
Dutch Engineer Corps, Lotte
Dodion, the project manager of this
construction replies to our email
queries.
She tells you that at that very
location 100 years ago, at the out-
break of the First World War, the
Belgian army built a pontoon bridge
across the Scheldt. By using this
bridge, the fortified city of Antwerp
could be adequately supplied and
also quickly evacuated.
The construction of a modern
Peace Bridge is a technical tour-de-
force as well as a powerful example
of Belgian-Dutch military cooper-
ation. This reconstruction of a pon-
toon bridge is a contemporary rep-
resentation of a significant histori-
cal moment in the citys history,
Dodion said.
What is the historical, social and
cultural relevance of building this
bridge as part of the centenary cel-
ebrations of the WWI? Instead of
dwelling on the military events the
commemoration chooses to empha-
sise the dark side of war and the need
for peace. The historical account of
our project is based on facts. But we
aim to appeal to the widest audience
possible and therefore include per-
sonal stories, testimonials and ref-
erences to everyday life too. Antwerp
also chooses to reflect on the fact
that hundred years ago refugees
moved in the opposite direction and
fled the city. The programme focus-
es on the interaction between the
past and the present, Dodion
asserts.
For those looking for historical
pleasure, Antwerp beholds.
QHave you noticed any change in crime against
women in the last decade?
There is too much violence against women and
girls. Its a global pandemic. It is in India, to me,
the number one national emergency, a far greater
threat to national unity than any terrorist or other
external threat. Look at our rates of rape, female
foeticide, dowry deaths, honour killings and
other heinous crimes against women. While we
parade under a veneer of woman equality, the truth
is that attitudes towards women remain as dark and
Neanderthal as ever.
QWhat is the secret behind the success of the play
Vagina Monologues in India?
In India, because so many women suffer under
self-imposed or outwardly imposed silence, when
they see their stories being given voice, they realise
they arent alone and that it is imperative to start
reclaiming ones voice, ones story. In a country
where sex education is all but dead, The Vagina
Monologues is probably the only way one can get
any sex education in India.
QDo you think more such avenues should be
explored in the Indian art scene?
Absolutely. But first of all, arts is so poorly treat-
ed in India, both by the Government and the pub-
lic. The Government only knows what it wants to
censor, not what it is to create. And the public either
wants art for free or is ready to pay to watch 10
anorexic models in bizarre outfits waddling down
a ramp. Our population is numb to meaningful
entertainment. It largely prefers mediocre potty
humour encrusted in bling to intelligent, forward
thinking work.
QDo you think mindsets need to change?
Does the Earth need water? Of
course, the mindset has to change.
But I fear we may be too late in
some ways. So much damage
has been done to women
in certain communi-
ties that bring-
ing them back to good health is a long haul. Several
generations of female foetuses being aborted in
northern India has led to a huge discrepancy in
the male-female ratio. To fix that, women from the
south are being bought, sold, abducted, trafficked
and abused to go to the north and be forcibly mar-
ried to men and sometimes having to have sex with
multiple brothers. In a few years, south India will
have an imbalance in the male-female ratio and
then what? How long can we continue to just see
women as a commodity? And these dimwit
notions of elected representatives that chop-
suey, pizza and short skirts trigger rape val-
idates the fact that our education system is
in crisis.
QDo you think the leadership summit is
a step in the right direction?
Such summits are essential. There is a
vacuum in India with no intelligent and tan-
gible talk on how we can make this country
better for women and by extension for
men too. The summit is also vital because
it is a platform where there is open, hon-
est, blunt and frank discourse on
bringing about positive change.
QIs there a reason why film
directors shy away from
social topics?
Directors dont
shy away, funding
persons do.
Much of
Bollywoods success is built on violence and
destruction of women both on screen and behind
the scenes. In the recent case of an actress being
arrested for prostitution, the rich and influential
male client list was kept secret. In the same way,
Bollywood doesnt have the ability to look clear-
ly at the issue of violence against women in cine-
ma because it is so ongoing in the industry. But
there is a strain of filmmakers working outside the
mainstream, to create great, meaningful works
about women. Take Qissa and Kshay as
examples of that.
QWhat is keeping you busy these
days?
In Khoobsurat I play Sonam
Kapoors father. I just wrapped up
an independent film on the Indian
education mess directed by Anant
Mahdevan. I am busy directing a
play which runs at a school in
Mumbai. We are expanding the work
on The Vagina Monologues. Finally,
I have scripts for two feature films
and am looking for a producer
but finding the right one
will be the clincher.
QWhat role can art play
in educating women
about their rights?
Art can play a very
important and life-
changing role. Currently
in Mumbai we have
received small grants to
partner with SNEHA, an
anti-violence NGO working
in the bastis of Mumbai. We
are doing a series of 11 perfor-
mances of The Vagina Monologues
in Hindi for women from these
bastis followed by educational and
informational sessions.
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ill and Melinda Gates have travelled
those galiyanin UP about which you
may not have the slightest idea. In this
journey, they have witnessed the ugliest face
of poverty and diseases prevalent in parts
of the country but the couple is determined
to bring about a change.
Its like we are obsessed about it.
Whatever project Bill picks up, be it soft-
ware or philanthropy, there is a certain
amount of craziness to it. Now his core
attention is on coming up with a plan to
eradicate diarrhoeal diseases from India,
Melinda Gates, who recently turned 50, said
at an event held in the Capital recently.
This is not this high profile couples first
visit to India and certainly not the last. In
fact, Melinda has been to more villages in
Uttar Pradesh than any Indian would have
had. Its scary to see people live in such
abject conditions. On one of my usual
rounds to a slum, a woman called out to
me and wanted me to adopt two of her
children. Her husband was fighting an ail-
ment and was out of work for months and
she had to feed five hungry mouths. That
gave me sleepless nights, she recalled,
adding that this and many more such inci-
dents have led her to channel a lot of
resources for the uplift of the poor.
There is no vested interest here, clar-
ified Microsoft founder Bill Gates. We feel
passionately about this cause and, therefore,
dedicate a lot of our time, energy and
resources towards it. Its my love for peo-
ple that is driving me towards this and
nothing else. Much like those days when
I was in love with software, Microsoft came
as a result of that love. It was not vice versa,
he replied to a query by author Chetan
Bhagat who was moderating the discussion.
Known to be a hard task master, Gates
told a rapt audience that he can never stop
thinking about things around him and that
is the reason why he is seldom bored. I
dont see them as achievements. They are
milestones that have been achieved and it
is time to move on to other things. The way
I am going, I may well invent a few things
in future, the charismatic leader said about
his hugely popular company Microsoft Inc.
Next up on his agenda is a pleasurable
condom which would be so thin that the
user would not realise he has it on.
Family planning is a huge issue in Asia and
that has to be addressed properly. Sex edu-
cation is must, so is availability of better
technology and products that aid in plan-
ning. The thin condoms could be a bless-
ing, he said.
Melinda, however, was on a different
path. Why cant we introduce similar
products that can be used by women? That
would give her a lot of freedom, she point-
ed out.
While the Indian chapter of the Gates
Foundation has been involved in a lot of
philanthropic activities, the couples latest
aim is to help the Government in measures
that could lead to eradicating malaria in
India. After polio, malaria should be the
next target. The Indian Government has
been very proactive and introduced many
steps for the safety of newborns and
women in labour. We would love to work
in tandem with them to remove nagging
diseases from this country, Melinda said
about her plan for the subcontinent.
The couples elder daughter Jennifer has
just been enrolled into college and they said
that that safety of women is a problem
that exists globally in some form or the
other. The manifestations vary. So,
the solutions have to be different,
she pointed out.
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he is spunky, street smart and a
tomboy who will give you a run
for your money. Meet Anindita
Nayar who made her Bollywood
debut in Amit Sahni Ki List (ASKL).
The actress who played a timid role
in ASKLis gung-ho about her next
release which is a love-meets-
paranormal tale of sorts.
I play Sarah who is an ambi-
tious journalist and Sunnys
(Rannvijay Singh) fianc in 3 AM.
They both are in a beautiful phase
of life but one day everything just
finishes. It isnt a horror but a para-
normal thriller, she says.
Although movies like The
Conjuring, Ring and Gothika
scared the day lights off her, Nayar
tells you that she has witnessed
strange happenings during a trip
to Goa two years go. We checked
in into a boutique hotel in Goa and
were about to go to bed when my
friend raised an alarm. She thought
the room was possessed and want-
ed us to swap rooms. Since it was
already quite late, we decided
against it. In the middle of the
night, I woke up with a start. It felt
as if something climbed over me
and walked towards the wash-
room. It was a persian cat. But
when we searched for it,
there was nothing there.
It was spooky, she
recalls.
Director Vishal
Mahadkar has intro-
duced the concept of
musical paranormal
thriller to add to the fear fac-
tor. In 3AM, the visuals have
been done by the same studio
that did VFX for Transformers,
and Sincity2. Vishal has used a first
person camera perspective, so
that the audience remains involved
throughout. The music blends
into the film beautifully, she tells
you. Apart from fighting the para-
normal, Nayar had the added ten-
sion of enacting an intense love
making scene in 3AM.
The first take was weird. But
as the camera rolled, I got used to
it. I realised that the shoot was
done very technically with only a
limited crew on the set and a
choreographer who was giving
step-by-step directions. Vishal had
told me that it would be aesthet-
ic, showcasing love and not lust
and I trusted him on that, Nayar
says.
Though ASKLwas a stepping
a stone, Nayar feels she still has a
long way to go. Bollywood seems
to be warming up to me. I believe
3AM will establish me as a com-
mercial heroine as well, the diva
who has also bagged another film
titled Hasmukh Pigal Gaya which
stares Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya
Balan and Sanjay Dutt, tells you.
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s a fighter who came to Jhanvis
(Sriti Jha) rescue in Dil Se Di Dua
Saubhagyavati Bhava, a modern
day foreign returned in Dharampatni,
a doting son and ideal lover in Tere
Liye and Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil,
chocolate boy Harshad Chopra has
proved his mettle by giving some clap-
worthy performances on the small
screen.
The actor is all set to break his
good boy image with his upcoming
showHumsafars where he is playing
a grey character. I play Sahir
Chaudhary, who owns a fashion
house. A tragic incident turned his life
upside down and made him a stub-
born, strongheaded and money-
minded person. Then comes a girl in
his life called Arzoo who is
nothing like him and always
contradicts his beliefs and
ideas. How they end up
spending the rest of their lives
with each other is the crux of
the show, Chopra says, adding
that though he has done all
genres of roles but Sahir comes
to him as most sought-after.
Sahir brings a drastic
change in my look and Ive
never done this type of char-
acter till date. Like my previous
roles, I did manage to strike a
chord with Sahir in real life.
Somewhere in the story, youll
get to see the connect in terms
of thinking, emotions and reac-
tion, Chopra says. Ask him who is
his true humsafar in this life and pat
comes his reply My shadow
and nothing else, he tells you.
After Qubool Hai (Zee TV),
Humsafars (Sony) is the second
show on telly which will have an
out-and-out Muslim set-up.
The soap also stars a new
comer Shivya Pathania as the
lead opposite Chopra and
will go on air from
September 22, Monday to
Thursday at 10:30pm on
Sony Entertainment TV.
Chopras claim to
fame till date has been his
journey with Balaji
Productions. Those were
the best few years of my
life. But I wanted to test
myself in other roles and
I am happy to see it work-
ing. Reality shows are not
my cup of tea. I believe in
doing one thing at a time
and giving my best, no
matter how small the role
is. I have a very focused
approach when it comes
to my work,
Chopra tells you.
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he US is the next foreign policy stop
of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The annual September visit of an
Indian Prime Minister to the US to
attend the United Nations General
Assembly has always been news. Generally, the
subject of meeting the Pakistani leadership on
the sidelines has aroused curiosity and sus-
pense. A possible meeting with the Pakistani
Prime Minister is on the cards this year as well.
However, more significant is Modis planned
meeting with US President Barack Obama.
After his UN address and the grand reception
to be given by the Indian
community at Madison
Square Garden, the Modi
will have bilateral meeting
with the US Government on
September 29 and 30.
A release of the White
House states: The two
leaders will discuss a range
of issues of mutual interest
in order to expand and
deepen the US-India strate-
gic partnership. They will discuss ways to
accelerate economic growth, bolster security
cooperation, and collaborate in activities that
bring long-term benefits to both countries and
the world. They will also focus on regional
issues, including current developments in
Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, where India and
the United States can work together with part-
ners towards a positive outcome.
The Obama-Modi summit appears com-
prehensive and ambitious, and both leaders are
expected to take the India-US strategic rela-
tionship to a new height.
Commentators and analysts have begun to
set the agenda or provide details of the broad
areas delineated in the White House press
statement. The objectives seem to be varied.
Some are enthusiastic about the visit and
strongly believe that the two natural allies will
find their natural course and take the relation-
ship upwards. A great deal of writings are con-
cerned about the downslide of the relationship
after a promising beginning in the 21st centu-
ry, starting with the removal of sanctions
imposed in the wake of 1998 India nuclear
tests and culminating in the rather famous
Indian-US civil nuclear energy initiative. The
greatest fear seems to be that the Cold War
estranged allies should not remain estranged
forever. Some cautious and realist agenda set-
ting from the Indian side is of course visible.
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A section of the Indian strategic community,
possibly a section of the official establishment,
initially did not appear enthusiastic about the
idea of Modi going to the US. That the Prime
Minister is now going may have grimaced
many. The reason is well known. Modi, the
democratically elected leader of an Indian
state, was denied entry into the US on the
basis of a petition signed by a small band of
US activists. It was felt that the Prime Minister
should have waited for at least a year for his
visit, and meanwhile strongly back the India-
US strategic dialogue and send the Minister of
External Affairs as his replacement to the UN
and India-US bilateral dialogue.
However, Modi took a bold decision to
visit the US to attend the UN meeting and
later for the bilateral talks with Obama. The
puzzle may continue: Has he undertaken the
visit to demonstrate his statesmanship by
brushing aside his personal insult for the sake
of greater strategic vision? Clearly business
runs in Modis blood. History remembers a
person as a statesman who pursues business as
national interest without caring for personal
hurt. In that sense, Modi is truly a statesman,
or at least, in the making. History treats a per-
son with disdain who sacrifices national inter-
ests for personal glory.
Now, it is the task of the different agenda
setters, especially in the US, to waive restrictions
imposed under the International Freedom of
Religion Act on Modi. By doing so, the US will
demonstrate its commitment to democracy and
show great respect to citizens of the worlds
largest and populous democracy which elected
Modi by a thumping majority. The acts of the
Bilderberg Group and the neo-Hashshashins or
any such anti-democracy conspiracy must be
negated. In fact, both the countries need to
guard against such enemies of the open soci-
eties. This will actually help in smoothening the
framework of the relationship.
In the last decade, both the countries have
tried to put democracy as the centerpiece in
defining their relationship and even con-
tributed to the creation of the UN democracy
fund. Till May 2014, India was the second
largest donor. The fund gave money to more
than 500 projects in more than 110 countries
in a number of areas to promote genuine
democracy. Ironically, the US has continued to
give preference to non-democratic or dubious
democratic countries such as China and
Pakistan in its Asia policy. Worse, the US
Government and its National Security Advisor
authorised spying of Indian offices, embassies
and even political parties. During the visit,
President Obama needs to assure his Indian
friends that the democratic behaviour of the
US towards India will guide the relationship
and spying will stop.
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For several years, India and the US have been
facing the same form of terrorism, and time
and again have vowed to fight it out and, in
fact, put formal mechanisms for doing so.
International terrorism in the form of the new
Islamic State is once again challenging the
entire civilised world. Qaedat al-Jihad in the
Indian subcontinent is fast spreading its tenta-
cles. Definitely, the Indian Government will
have to be vigilant, notwithstanding the flow of
concerned and soothing words from friends.
India will expect that the US should not repeat
the dismal cooperation like in the David
Headley case.
Similarly, the US will have to understand
that the fight against terrorism cannot take
place when it turns a blind eye to Pakistan and
allows it to outmanoeuvre the forces fighting
against international terrorism. After the 9/11
attack, the US and its allies made a grave mis-
take by trusting Pakistan. True, India also
made an error of judgement in inviting the
Pakistani premier for the swearing-in ceremo-
ny of the Modi Government without
Islamabad making any sincere move to dis-
mantle the terror infrastructure affecting
India. Fortunately, the NDA Government
made a course correction. The US and its allies
do not seem to have a proper policy yet. The
drone attacks have not deterred the real perpe-
trators sitting in the Pakistani establishment.
Soon, the US and its allies will be nearly
absent from the region after their withdrawal
from Afghanistan. The new terror plots of the
Al Qaeda must alert the two countries to
cooperate and refine their counter-terrorism
tools. Intelligence exchanges need to be real
time and fool proof. The US will have to take a
tough stand on Pakistan. Some of its officials
have already done so, but some appear to be
shielding Pakistan by showing sympathy and
aid. Terror attacks in Pakistan have deep and
intimate relationship with the Pakistani army.
Instead of sympathy, a clear message should go
to Pakistan.
The latest resurgence of nuclear South Asia
is promoted by the anti-India, pro-Pakistan
non-proliferation community as also by the US
lab officials and analysts richly funded by the
US Government. True, it has some local Indian
beneficiaries who promote the South Asia
nuclear problem. These beneficiaries may be
dealt with separately in India. As the very idea
of funding these local beneficiaries is to influ-
ence the Indian nuclear policy, it is the duty of
the Modi Government to monitor such ele-
ments, isolate them and ensure that the securi-
ty decision-making is completely insulated
from such elements.
South Asia is an inappropriate security
category for India and more so vis--vis
nuclear weapons. The US Government needs
to be reminded of this in no uncertain terms.
Though the American pivot to Asia poli-
cy is still shapeless and without any solid
content, India has begun to realise the poten-
tial of Asia-Pacific. Modi visited Japan and
then received the Australian Prime Minister.
This was followed by the Chinese Presidents
visit. In the future, India and the US need to
work more closely for Asian security archi-
tecture. There is little merit in calling off the
India-Japan-US trilateral or the India-Japan-
Australia-US quadrilateral initiative in the
future. Both countries can include or engage
more countries. Already both are engaging
China in multiple ways. A partnership
between the US, China and India on the
environment would be a breakthrough. It can
be done without compromising on growth.
The US and Asian countries may inspire the
whole world to join in creating a fund for
promoting environmental technologies and a
transition of global industry to environment-
friendly standards.
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Needless to say that the potential for eco-
nomic cooperation has made possible the
current stage of the relationship, which to a
large degree was stagnating in recent years.
The economic forces have given the traction
and shown the path for the two countries to
overcome even the most difficult periods in
their relationship.
The US has to realise that the Indian eco-
nomic strength will equally provide strength
to it in the future. Unfortunately, the agenda
setting in Washington in the run up to
Modis visit has carried some suggestions
which may weaken the Indian economic
strength. These suggestions have come from
some highly responsible sections of the US
policy-making community.
Forcing India to change its rules and reg-
ulations is not a good idea. It has already
brought out reforms where it has found nec-
essary and is not hesitant to bring further
changes wherever required. However, any
economic reforms should be informed and
beneficial and not put a large section of soci-
ety at a disadvantage. The pressure to change
the Nuclear Liability Act or give unreason-
able concessions in the form of some insur-
ance guarantee to suppliers may not be good
for the nuclear energy in the long run.
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n September 22, 1994, a sitting
comedy about six oddballs
was aired for the first time. The
makers had presumed that it
will run for a few episodes,
another season being a distant dream. It last-
ed a decade, and by then, the world had
changed. Created by Marta Kauffman,
David Crane, and Kevin S Bright, television
series Friends turned into a cult and it would
not be exaggeration to call it a ground-
breaking cultural shift.
It propelled the caf culture into the
youths consciousness, it celebrated the
blue-collar class, it glorified the mundane,
and above all, it turned self-deprecation into
a humorous mantra for a healthy life. In fact,
modern American television could be
divided into the pre-Friends and post-
Friends eras; most of the popular sitcoms
in American television from their con-
temporary That 70s Show to the later ones
like How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half
Men, New Girl, 30 Rock, or even Modern
Family and The Office seem to respect-
fully imitate the legacy of Friends. And
almost all of them invest the most in the
camaraderie among the characters and their
personal ability to laugh at themselves.
Not only that, their choice of character-
writing seems to be inspired as well.
Typically, every sitcom has a Monica Geller
(a mature, reasoned character), a Joey
Tribbiani (a commitment-phobic woman-
iser), a Ross Geller (a nerd who is reduced
to a state of perpetual mockery by his best
friends), a Chandler Bing (the intelligent but
irretrievably sarcastic one), a Phoebe Buffay
(the awkward weirdo who is beyond com-
prehension), and a Rachel Greene (the beau-
tiful, materialistic, and desirable young
woman). If Rachel worked as a waitress to
make two ends meet and dated the highly
qualified intellectual Dr Ross Geller, wait-
ress Penny dates Dr Hofstadter in The Big
Bang Theory. If best-friends-cum-hus-
band-and-wife Monica and Chandler even-
tually chose to move out of the house (which
was the backdrop of the series) in its final
episode to raise their babies, so did the other
best-friends-cum-husband-and-wife duo
Marshal and Lily in the final episode of How
I Met Your Mother (HIMYM). If Joey had
the hardworking, sensible roommate
Chandler, Charlie had Alan in Two and a
Half Men as well. And despite his consis-
tent flings with innumerable women in the
course of 10 years, Joey ended up alone
just like Barney in HIMYM. And almost
every sitcom revolving around a group of
friends has its own haunt: a caf, a bar, a
house, the works. This is only the periph-
ery of how much American sitcoms have
borrowed from Friends, the specifics would
be astounding.
Friends had an old world charm, after
all, it started in the last century and ended
in the 21st. In retrospect, when Ross
hyperventilates at the slightest beep of his
pager, which he assumes is a sign of his preg-
nant (ex) wifes call for help, it creates a sense
of nostalgia. For the longest time, the char-
acters do not have access to laptops, cell-
phones, DSLRs, and similar fads. It belongs
to a strangely idyllic world where careers
meant being a waitress, a cook or an actor.
It celebrated imperfections and reassured
that human flaws are inescapable. Gradually,
Rachel goes on to be an important part of
the fashion industry, Ross joins the enlight-
ening academia, Monica becomes the head
chef of an upmarket elite restaurant, and so
on. Laptops and mobile phones come to the
fore, and a series that started with making
fun of taboos like homosexuality (in the first
episode, it was revealed that Rosss wife is
a lesbian) or the perpetual mockery of
Chandlers sub-conscious feminism or even
his gay father, later begins to celebrate
taboos like pregnancies outside marriage
(Ross-Rachel), infertility and impotency
(Monica-Chandler), and surrogacy
(Phoebe). Eventually, it was aired in vari-
ous other countries and television networks
as well. In fact, in the 15th episode of the
eighth season, in the booming age of satel-
lite television, it is declared at the beginning:
Friends on global. Interestingly, the series
never dwelled upon the pre-9/11 and post-
9/11 America, but then maybe that is
because American mainstream TV and
films have both avoided flirting with the
theme. Although, its ratings did increase by
17 per cent after the 9/11 attacks (probably
because it tied the American working class
by the same string and it was a time when
a sense of American nationalism was gal-
vanised?).
The genuine friendship of the actors off-
screen too led the series to be such a mas-
sive phenomenon on screen. They became
overnight megastars and signed contracts
allotting them $1m dollar per episode. They
even discussed pay-cuts together to accom-
modate the budget of the show, and Jennifer
Aniston is of course the godmother of
Courteney Coxs daughter.
Filming for the series was done at the
Warner Bros Studios in California. The
series finale (May 6, 2004) was watched by
around 52.5 million American viewers; the
series in its time was nominated for 62
Primetime Emmy Awards, and was repeat-
edly ranked as one of the greatest television
shows all all time.
The cultural impact of the series was
immense, so much so that psychologists
began to mention it in case studies. Rachels
famous hairstyle is till date known as the
Rachel. Their caf house, the Central Perk,
is the theme for infinite eateries globally. In
fact, last Wednesday, a Central Perk pop-
up cafe house was opened for fans at lower
Manhattans SoHo district to commemorate
the 20th anniversary. Besides, Joeys catch-
phrase for women, How you doing? is still
a popular pick-up line for young boys. And
merchandise like Central Perk T-shirts and
coffee mugs are still some of the finest birth-
day gifts for friends. Online pages dedicat-
ed to Friends are still as active as a bee, even
after a decade since its completion. It taught
viewers that you dont always get what you
want, and that is cool too.
The creative impulse in the show was
the sharpest. Each character was multiple
poles apart from the other, which is what
helped the cast to get along, because their
respective characters had their own unique-
ness and idiosyncrasies and hence any sense
of competition and insecurity was beyond
any possibility. In fact, together they had
woven the colourful world of peculiarities
which even at the moment is widely dis-
cussed among friends and online forums:
Phoebe Buffays classic and irreparably bad
song Smelly Cat, the mute and largely invis-
ible but recurring character of the ugly
naked guy, Chandlers ex-girlfriend Janices
trademark statement, Oh. My. God, Joeys
rule Joey does not share food, Rosss Hey!
We were on a break! and Unagi, and the
list is endless!
The guest appearances on the show were
as mesmerising George Clooney, Bruce
Willis, Reese Witherspoon, Robin Williams,
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Julia Roberts, Gary
Oldman, and the likes they all saw, came,
and conquered. The strength of the series
was its ability to laugh at its own plights. Take
the simple case of Phoebe. Thats a charac-
ter who is abandoned by her birth mother,
ends up with her foster mother who com-
mits suicide when Phoebe is 13, her stepfa-
ther goes to prison, her twin is incommu-
nicado and a pornstar, and she gives birth
to her half-brothers triplets. While all this
would be devastating in real life, their man-
ifestations in Phoebes actions only elicit
laughter. No wonder Phoebe is one of the
most loved characters of all time. Or to quote
Rachel, I really thought I just hit rock bot-
tom. But today, its like theres rock bottom,
then 50 feet of crap, then me, a statement
which is instantly followed by the laughter
track in the background. The series had its
moments too. When Rachel skips her flight
in the end, when Monica goes down on her
knees to propose to Chandler, when Ross-
Rachels daughter Emma is born, Phoebes
marriage etc, fans emotions surged up and
left effective emotional impressions.
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not get many positive reviews. They were
met with a lot of cynicism and unpredictabil-
ity. But then, like The Rembrandts say in their
theme song, Ill be there for you. And
indeed, even after two decades, Friends
(through its constant reruns) does not
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imilarly, making it a condi-
tion that India will have to
change its recent stand on the
World Trade Organization or
genetically modified organisms
policy may backfire. Both coun-
tries should develop mutually
advantageous paradigm like work-
ing for an export-oriented rather
than investment-oriented eco-
nomic model.
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The US Secretary of Defence
Chuck Hagel, during his August
2014 visit to India, made some
significant statements. The idea of
US-India Defense Trade and
Technology Initiative (DTTI) has
been largely welcomed by the
strategic communities of India
and the US. Full technology part-
nership has a real future. Indian
companies may take full advan-
tage of the transfer of technology.
In the past, the US and Indian
organisations have conducted
joint studies and found that with a
little help from outside and some
internal policy changes, the Indian
educational institutions can
become world class. Both coun-
tries may still study each others
innovation systems. The need is to
properly integrate Indian research
and development laboratories,
Indian defence establishment,
education system and industry to
the American counterparts.
Federally Funded Research
and Development Centers
(FFRDCs) and institutes such as
the Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory and the Los Alamos
may have constructive collabora-
tions with the Indian scientific
institutions. Currently, these
organisations are unnecessarily
engaged in fixing fictional South
Asia nuclear framework.
Besides, the US institutions may
have to generate the confidence
so that any covert practice does
not take place.
Both countries need to ham-
mer out a proper MoU so that the
DTTI does not face any glitch in
the future. The legal and proce-
dural details need to be carefully
worked out, even if it takes time.
Already the two countries have
had the experience in realising the
full potential of the DTTI.
A critical question many may
ask is whether India should stop
buying arms from now on? India
may purchase arms where its secu-
rity requirements demand.
However, the US will have to
respect the Indian procurement
process. Admittedly, the Indian
procurement process needs fur-
ther refinement, and the American
Research Development and
Acquisitions system encompassing
the entire chain from initial con-
ception to R&D, to testing, to pro-
duction to acquisition and deploy-
ment could be a relevant case
study for India to further evolve its
acquisition policy. In fact, the edu-
cational/research institutions of
India and the US can have some
workshops on this issue.
For any massive defence pur-
chase, India should insist on 100
per cent offsets, or as high as pos-
sible, not the measly 30 per cent,
which is the current policy.
Interestingly, Rafale agreed to 100
per cent offsets with Canada, so
why not with India which is buy-
ing so many aircraft. India should
not agree to more than 49 per
cent FDI except where high-end
technology is transferred and
there is an exit clause so that the
company reverts to majority
Indian ownership. Turkey and
many other countries have this.
However, the most important
matter is the system of commer-
cialising technology. The US is a
science state in which early dis-
coveries can be transmitted
because of the flexible system and
policies for start-ups. India will
also have to make advanced tech-
nology or science dual-use to cut
down its burden and mobilise
resources for future innovations.
The business instinct of Modi
should guide him during the
negotiations with the US. As the
Prime Minister and a political
leader, Modi has to set the tone.
The diplomats will set the style
and draft the appropriate lan-
guage. Modi should not be under
unnecessary pressure to make the
summit a success. The Indian
leadership, especially its diploma-
cy, should shed the tendency to
give extra concessions to make the
trip successful.
Modi should not take deci-
sions on the basis of media hype.
If he gets a good payoff, only
then he should go ahead. Even if
he comes back empty-handed,
he will still be a statesman and a
nationalist for not sacrificing
national interests for personal
glory. One hopes that given the
new strategic environment,
India, the US and other Asian
powers together will shape the
new world order.
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he night is over but the
nightmare continues for
Manmohan Singh. For all
that he did and did not do,
as the Prime Minister of
India. He is being bled almost on a
daily basis, with one incision after
another. The list of attackers also
continues to grow, beginning with his
former media advisor Sanjaya Baru.
It now includes former Union Coal
Secretary PC Parakh and former
Union Minister K Natwar Singh. The
latest addition is former Comptroller
and Auditor General of India, Vinod
Rai. The power of the word has been
acknowledged for long, but never
before had it been used to name and
shame a Prime Minister of the coun-
try with such devastating effect. The
ever-silent Manmohan Singh has
been rendered even more speechless,
as if bludgeoned by the weight of the
books unleashed on the reading and
the chattering population. Its a case
of too many formidable formers
against one weak former.
Should Manmohan Singh not
respond? Can the genteel book writ-
ten on him by his doting daughter
Daman Singh heal the multiple scars
which he has acquired? Sadly for
him, once a fairly accomplished
bureaucrat and a celebrated Finance
Minister before fate dealt him (and
the nation) a nasty blow and he
became the Prime Minister, the time
to heal is gone.
The wounds are deep and septic.
He will have to live with them and
consider them as obnoxious legacy to
be left behind. As a desperate mea-
sure, he can try applying an emollient
by writing his own book to get back
at his critics. But how can he do that
without dragging in the Nehru-
Gandhi family as the principal villain
for his misery? Anything short of that
and his account will be dismissed
with the contempt that his recent
excuses have. He did not have the
spine as the Prime Minister to chal-
lenge the family; out of power, can he
summon the courage? At least now, at
least now?
Meanwhile, we have Vinod Rais
just-released tell-all book, Not Just an
Accountant. There is enough verbal
violence in it for a film that gets hon-
estly based on it to attract an adult
certificate. Not the cuss word type, of
course, but the sharp words of criti-
cism that the former Comptroller and
Auditor General has for Manmohan
Singh. Rai does his best, though, at
times to cushion the knocks, perhaps
out of consideration for one who was
once a Prime Minister, and maybe out
of concern for the debilitating impact
on Singhs personal and professional
reputation. Rai is a gentleman, but
even gentlemen can be devastating,
especially when they are driven by a
desire to set the record straight and
avenge the humiliation they endured
as honest Government servants.
Of course, Rai sees it differently.
His book, he claims, is to project the
integrity of the institution of the
Comptroller and Auditor General,
and put on record the murky deals
which it highlighted as an indepen-
dent audit institution. This task has
been achieved. But given that he has
been largely unsparing in exposing
the then Prime Minister and a bunch
of UPA ministers, there is no shame
for him to admit that he has done
yeomen service to the nation by hit-
ting back hard at the former rulers.
Rai has plunged the knife deep
and twisted it as well. Call it agenda-
driven, prejudiced interpretation or a
call of conscience to do right Rai
has finally got it off his chest. One
thing that cannot be credibly disput-
ed is that he has fact on his side. Fact
is the key ingredient to the explosive
he has so lovingly assembled in what
goes by the innocuous name of Not
Just an Accountant.
By now, thanks in no small mea-
sure to round-the clock television
chewing and regurgitating on the
news like a healthy bovine, a good
part of the book and Rais opinions
are public knowledge on issues
ranging from the 2G Spectrum to
the coal block allocation to the
Commonwealth Games to the Air
India scams. What the author drives
home repeatedly, and vehemently, in
dealing with these matters is that the
Prime Minister of that day could
have prevented the rackets from tak-
ing place but did not. He does not
extend the books mandate to dwell
on why Singh failed to do so. Others
such as Baru and Natwar Singh, and
to an extent Parakh, have addressed
the issue, providing a political expla-
nation for the former Prime
Ministers inaction. But Rai does refer
to such inaction on many occasions.
He offers an interesting perspec-
tive on the arbitrary allocation of
coal blocks to private parties. While
the Manmohan Singh regime made a
great deal of noise about the need to
amend the Mines and Minerals
(Development and Regulation) Act of
1957, as a pre-requisite to switching
over to the competitive bidding mode
to allot coal blocks from the then
existing system of a screening com-
mittee doing the task, there was actu-
ally no need to amend the law. The
process of allotting blocks by the
screening panel had come about
through an executive order; the deci-
sion to scrap it and adopt open bid-
ding could also have been done
through a fresh executive order. Yet,
the then Prime Minister allowed his
Coal Ministers, Shibu Soren and
Dasari Narayan Rao, to dictate terms
and sabotage the move.
In fact, these two had the temeri-
ty (why wouldnt they, given that
Manmohan Singh had rendered him-
self entirely useless?) to set aside
their Prime Ministers decision to
introduce the auction method. The
net result is that the blocks continued
to be dished out as personal property
right up to 2009. Singh was left to
lament in loneliness that he had
always favoured the open auction
process. Of course he had, just as he
had favoured auction of the 2G
Spectrum a proposal which anoth-
er of his minister, A Raja, proceeded
to dismiss as contemptuously as
those associated with the Coal
Ministry did. A lot has already been
said and written about this scam
which originated, as did the coal
racket, in the first tenure of the UPA,
and blew in its face during the sec-
ond term. The title of the chapter in
Rais book, First come (not) first
served, says it all. Not only did the
Telecommunication Ministry headed
by Raja proceed with the dated first
come first served dictum for appli-
cants of 2G Spectrum licence, but it
also mischievously tweaked the pro-
cedure to apparently benefit a select
few. Manmohan Singh remained a
silent spectator.
The former Prime Minister does
speak at times, though he ends up
with a performance that makes one
believe he was better off being quiet.
For instance, he found voice in the
wake of Rais book to say that he had
done his duty and that he need not
respond to what anyone says. The
former Prime Minister has a strange
understanding of duty. Yet, he found
nothing out of the line of duty when
his Minister for Civil Aviation Praful
Patel virtually arm-twisted the Air
India board in mid-2004 to purchase
68 aircraft as against the 28 that the
board had decided upon. In doing so,
the minister did not care to consider
the precarious financial health of the
airline, nor did he bother to know
how Air India would service and
repay the loan it would have to take
for the acquisition.
Additionally, neither the airline
nor Patel had any idea how the addi-
tional purchases would leverage Air
Indias functioning in the global mar-
ket. But Patel proposed, an
Empowered Group of Ministers
headed by P Chidambaram approved,
and then Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh as always, willing to over-
look wrongdoing and almost eager to
endorse it gave his nod.
But then, it is all Rais fault, isnt
it? If his office had not red-flagged
the scams, if he had been satisfied
with merely adding up numbers liked
a good accountant, the cat would
have remained in the bag, albeit
mewing aloud. And Manmohan
Singh, like the unexposed villain,
would have been a hero.
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wilh global asiralions. This book
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slory o 0elhibased Arjun
Singh. As a leenager, he made un o
romanlic movies and love songs. Even
when he gol married, he only gradually
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malure and ure and had none o lhe
madness lhal love slories are made o.
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a arly, he meels Tamanna, who looks
brealhlaking beside her overweighl and
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Arjun's lie around.
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our critics are asking
what your motive to
have come out with this
book now is . How do
you answer such queries?
Actually after retirement, I
thought of letting this thing be a
closed chapter. Whatever CAG
can say, we had put it in our
reports. But still some people
were making allegations against
me and the institution. My col-
leagues also suggested that I
should put all these things in a
book, which can be understand-
able to the common man.
Our CAG reports are not
widely circulated and are techni-
cal in nature. I thought we should
educate and alert the younger
generation. These details will give
them a perspective of our system
and would lead to a demand for
transparency in the future. As
alleged by some people, I am not
trying to attack anyone, neither
do I have any motive.
In this book, you have devoted
an entire chapter on the CBIs
dirty tricks against you after
the 2G scam came to light. Were
you hurt by the UPA
Governments dubious move to
turn the CBI on you?
I am not hurt. I was extremely
surprised when I got an e-mail
from a journalist, Dheeraj Tiwari,
of The Economic Times on
November 30, 2011, asking me for
response on the CBI move to
launch a preliminary enquiry
(PE) against me.
I straight away called CBI
Director Amar Pratap Singh. He
said no such thing was proposed
against me, but a probe had been
launched against my former col-
league Atul Rai. He sent an officer
providing the details of the case.
The information report pro-
vided by the CBI officer showed
that a PE was registered against
Rai, CEO and MD of IFCI, and
unknown officials of the Ministry
of Finance. The allegations related
to some investment decisions of
IFCI. Rai worked with me in the
Finance Ministry before he took
command of IFCI. According to
the PE, in February 2007, I appar-
ently helped Rai to be expedi-
tiously relieved from the ministry
to become the CEO and MD of
IFCI. In many places in the CBI
report, my name was mentioned
in a bid to put pressure on me
and create innuendos. CBIs PE
gives an impression that Rai and I
are close relatives. Let me state
that I dont even have a distant
relation with him.
I decided to take on the CBI
Director and told him that I will
go to the media if the agency
dared to do such nasty things. I
asked him, How can you do such
things against a constitutional
authority. If I am challenged, I will
go to the media and expose it all.
You must be aware of the
persons behind this dubious
move, but havent mentioned
them in your book.
They decided to hit me personal-
ly after the 2G scam blew out. It
was to injure my credibility and
break me, to make me weak. I
dont want to name or identify
the person or persons behind this
move. Obviously, they were
showing their vendetta for the
CAG report on 2G. It must be a
person powerful enough to influ-
ence the CBI Director.
Anyway, now your enemies are
no more in power and you dont
have to worry about the CBI case.
The CBI has not yet closed this
case. Why is it not closing this
PE? It is simmering somewhere.
Can you treat officials like this? I
am a constitutional authority. Can
the CBI do such things? Are they
empowered to put my name in
their information reports?
In your book, there is no men-
tion about the role of your for-
mer boss and then Finance
Minister P Chidambaram in the
2G scam. After the CAG report,
his role came out and even
courts have said that he and A
Raja decided the price and
approved the sale of shares to
foreign companies jointly. How
did your audit miss this angle?
We have audited the documents
from the DoT. We also checked the
documents from Finance Ministry.
We have found objection of
Finance Ministry officials. Those
days, we did not come across these
documents. These things had not
been brought to our notice.
Later, it was proved that
Chidambaram always insisted
on illegal non-paper method for
communicating with Raja.
No comments. Those days these
things were not available to us.
CAG officials are facing tough
resistance from Mukesh
Ambanis Reliance in KG Basin
audit. What is your advice to the
Government in this regard?
They are not co-operating.
Documents are not shared with
us. The Government has to take a
call. Actually, the Government
invited us to conduct an audit on
KG Basin. Hence my suggestion is
that in an original contract, there
should be a clause providing lib-
erty to the Government to
appoint a Government auditor as
and when it wishes.
Now you are facing legal actions
for your revelations. Sanjay
Nirupam sent you a notice.
What is your strategy?
If they want to pursue the case, I
am ready. I have said only the
truth. They have abused me,
called me names in the PAC
meeting; there are minutes of the
meeting. I will request the
Speaker for the proceedings of the
PAC. I must tell you that some
good samaritan MPs had already
given me all details which will
prove what Nirupam and Sandeep
Dikshit did to me in the meeting.
Moreover, there is a letter
written by PAC Chairman Murli
Manohar Joshi to all MPs con-
demning certain MPs behaviour
towards me. This letter details
how these MPs behaved with me
in the PAC meeting. In that letter
dated November 18, 2011, Joshi
cites a Speakers ruling which
made then Defence Minister VK
Krishna Menon apologise to the
CAG. These things are enough for
me to prove my points in the
court. I am ready to face any-
thing, if they want to proceed.
But your book is silent on the
JPC proceedings. We have heard
there are certain Congress MPs
like Manish Tewari who did the
same to you.
No, it was different. Manish was
aggressive in questioning. In
PAC, Nirupam and Sandeep were
calling me all sorts of names.
They used the words fraud,
politically motivated etc. In pub-
lic, politicians and ministers
called me rogue, r-virus,
Bhoomihar from Ghazipur etc. I
have explained all these things
with fitting rebuttals in my book.
Certain media organisations
were also after you.
Generally, media always support-
ed CAG and widely published our
findings. Of course, some were
against us; very few have vested
interests. But most of the people
in media always supported us.
What are your future plans?
Entering politics or writing
more books?
As far as politics is concerned, I
can say no, never. I am not fit for
politics. More books? Well, if I am
pushed, I would think of one
more book. I have not yet taken
any decision on future plans; may
be I will in a months time. I am
not saying no to more books.
So you have more arsenal in
storeif you are pushed?
I said if I am pushed, I will write
one more.
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T
he idea of paradise is no longer
imaginable or, rather, it is over-
imagined, which amounts to
the same thing and has, therefore,
become familiar, commercialised,
even trivial. Historically, the images
of paradise in poetry and prose were
intended to be grand but accessible,
beyond the routine but imaginatively
graspable, seductive as though
remembered. Milton speaks of
goodliest trees, loaden with fairest
fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of
golden hue with gay enamelled
colours mixed; of Native per-
fumes. Of that sapphire fount the
crisped brooks, Rolling on orient
pearl and sands of gold, of nectar
visiting each plant, and fed flowers
worthy of Paradise Groves whose
rich trees wept odorous gums and
balm; Others whose fruit, burnished
with golden rind, Hung amiable of
delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns,
or level downs, and flocks Grazing
the tender herb. Flowers of all hue
and without thorn the rose. Caves
of cool recess, oer which the
mantling vine Lays forth her purple
grape and gently creeps Luxuriant
That beatific, luxurious expanse
we recognise in the 21st century as
bounded real estate owned by the
wealthy and envied by the have-nots,
or as gorgeous parks visited by
tourists. Miltons Paradise is quite
available these days, if not in fact
then certainly as ordinary, unexcep-
tionable desire. Modern paradise has
four of Miltons characteristics: beau-
ty, plenty, rest and exclusivity. Eterni-
ty seems to be forsworn.
Beauty is benevolent, controllable
nature combined with precious
metal, mansions, finery and jewellery.
Plenty in a world of excess and
attending greed, which tilts resources
to the rich and forces others to envy,
is an almost obscene feature of a con-
temporary paradise. In this world of
outrageous, shameless wealth squat-
ting, hulking, preening before the
dispossessed, the very idea of plenty
as Utopian ought to make us tremble.
Plenty should not be understood as a
paradise only state but as normal,
everyday, humane life.
Exclusivity, however, is still an
attractive, even compelling feature of
paradise because so many people
the unworthy are not there.
Boundaries are secure, watchdogs,
security systems, and gates are there
to verify the legitimacy of the inhabi-
tants. Such enclaves separate from
crowded urban areas proliferate.
Thus it does not seem possible or
desirable for a city to be envisioned,
let alone built, in which poor people
can be accommodated. Exclusivity is
not just a realised dream for the
wealthy, it is a popular yearning of
the middle class. Streets are under-
stood to be populated by the unwor-
thy, the dangerous. Young people
strolling are understood to be prowl-
ing the streets and up to no good.
Public space is fought over as if it
were private. Who gets to enjoy a
park, a beach, a street corner? The
term public is a site of contention.
Eternity, which avoids the pain
of dying again, is rendered null by
secular, scientific arguments; yet it
has nevertheless the greatest appeal.
Medical and scientific resources are
directed toward more life and fitter
life, and remind us that the desire is
for earthbound eternity, rather than
eternal afterlife. The implication
being that this is all there is. Thus,
paradise, as an earthly project as
opposed to a heavenly one has seri-
ous intellectual and visual limita-
tions. Aside from Only me or us
forever, heavenly paradise hardly
bears mention.
But that might be unfair. It is
hard not to notice how much more
attention is given to hell rather than
heaven. Dantes Inferno beats out Par-
adiso every time. Miltons brilliantly
rendered pre-paradise world, known
as Chaos, is far more fully realised
than his Paradise. The visionary lan-
guage of the doomed reaches heights
of linguistic ardour with which lan-
guage of the blessed and saved can-
not compete.
There were reasons for the
images of the horrors of hell to be
virulently repulsive in the 15th and
16th centuries. The argument for
avoiding hell needed to be visceral,
needed to reveal how much worse
such an eternity was than the hell of
everyday life. That was when par-
adise was simply the absence of evil
an edgeless, already recognisable
landscape: great trees for shade and
fruit, lawns, palaces, precious metals,
animal husbandry, and jewellery.
Other than outwitting evil and wag-
ing war against the unworthy, there
seems to be nothing for the inhabi-
tants of paradise to do. An open, bor-
derless, come-one-come-all paradise,
without dread, minus a nemesis is no
paradise at all.
Since the paradise the black
newspapers envisioned not so subtly
encouraged light-skinned appli-
cants, a major excitement for me in
writing Paradise was an effort to
disrupt the assumptions of racial
discourse. I was eager to manipu-
late, mutate and control imagistic,
metaphoric language in order to
produce something that could be
called race-specific/race-free prose,
language that deactivated the power
of racially inflected strategies -
transform them from the straitjack-
et a race-conscious society can, and
frequently does, buckle us into a
refusal to know characters or peo-
ple by the colour of their skin. One
of the most malevolent characteris-
tics of racist thought is that it never
produces new knowledge. It seems
able to merely reformulate and
refigure itself in multiple but static
assertions. It has no referent in the
material world; like the concept of
black blood or white blood or blue
blood, it is designed to construct
artificial borders and maintain them
against all reason and all evidence
to the contrary.
Material relating to the black
towns founded by African Ameri-
cans in the 19th century provided a
rich field for an exploration of race-
specific/race-free language. I am
aware of how whiteness matures
and ascends the throne of univer-
salism by maintaining its powers to
describe and enforce its descrip-
tions. To challenge that view of uni-
versalism, to exorcise, alter, and de-
fang the white/black confrontation
and concentrate on the residue of
that hostility seemed to me a
daunting project and an artistically.
The black town of Ruby is all
about its own race preserving it,
developing myths of origin, and
maintaining its purity. In the Con-
vent, race is indeterminate all
racial codes are eliminated, deliber-
ately withheld. For some readers this
was disturbing and some admitted to
being preoccupied with finding out
which character was the white girl;
others wondered initially and then
abandoned the question; some
ignored the confusion by reading
them all as black.
The perceptive ones read them
as fully realised individuals what-
ever their race. Unconstrained by
the weary and wearying vocabulary
of racial domination, the narrative
seeks to unencumber itself from the
limit that racial language imposes
on the imagination. The conflicts
are gender-related and generational.
They are struggles over history
who will tell and thereby control the
story of the past? Who will shape
the future? There are conflicts of
value, of ethics. Of personal identity.
What is manhood? Womanhood?
And, finally, what is personhood?
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on
September 14:
Unfair to blame State
regime: The Army has been
doing its best to rescue flood
victims and provide them
with some relief. But to say
that the civil administration
was either caught napping or
just doing nothing is, per-
haps, not entirely correct.
The Army has had one
job to accomplish while the
civil administration has to
look after day-to-day gover-
nance as well. Just because it
hasnt been at the forefront of
relief efforts, does not mean
that the State Government
has failed to react to the mis-
eries and misfortunes of the
flood victims.
RL Pathak
Lessons from Kutch, for
Kashmir : In 2001, there was
an earthquake in Kutch that
devastated large parts of
Gujarat. People believed that
Kutch was finished.
Narendra Modi had only just
taken charge of the State
Government at that time.
Funds collected from
abroad never reached to the
State. Even money donated
to the Prime Ministers relief
fund was allegedly diverted
to Congress-ruled State,
despite repeated requests by
the State Government for
financial aid.
That is when Modi
vowed to make Kutch into a
thriving business district. He
delivered. Today, Kutch is
not only a hub of commer-
cial activity but also of agri-
cultural activity. No wonder
the BJP has won the last four
elections in Gujarat.
Premolal
Make no excuses: It is an
appropriate and compelling
parallel that the author has
drawn between disaster man-
agement during the British
raj and now. The difference
is the clear-cut definition of
the administrative frame-
work today within which
individual interests and incli-
nations have no value.
Also, in this age, technol-
ogy allows for the dovetailing
of efforts and resources from
the Centre with those of the
States. However, in the case
of Jammu & Kashmir floods,
the laxity and irresponsibility
of the State Government is
hard to ignore.
When there was a similar
flood in Odisha last October,
a big disaster was averted as
the Government put out
timely warnings and
responded effectively to the
crisis. Jammu & Kashmir
Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah can find excuses
for the collapse of his admin-
istration, but, ideally, he
should draw inspiration from
the Government of Naveen
Patnaik which handled the
flood situation well.
Ashish Rai
Separatists are exposed: I
agree with the author. Lakhs
of people have been saved by
the Indian Army in Jammu
& Kashmir whereas the State
machinery has been almost
invisible in the time of crisis.
Every day, hundreds of
people are being treated by
doctors, nurses and para-
medics of the Army. These
efforts have brought goodwill
to the Indian Army.
India and Indias
resources alone can help
restore normalcy in Jammu
& Kashmir. In the meantime,
separatists are being exposed
for their anti-national, anti-
people activity. The people of
Kashmir will deal with them
in an appropriate manner
when the time comes.
It is unlikely that either
Omar Abdullah or the
Hurriyat will get the peoples
support after their failures.
There is also a possibility
of epidemics in Jammu &
Kashmir, and only the Indian
Army is in a position to pre-
vent the calamity. Also, we
need the Army to ensure that
our borders remain protected
and that neither Pakistan nor
China can take advantage of
the situation.
Rangaesh Gadasalli
Friends in the media: One
wonders on whose side our
secular media is. It has often
given publicity to terrorists
and sympathised with sepa-
ratists. With friends like
these, who needs enemies!
S Kumar
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Reader response to
Kanchan Guptas column,
Coffee Break, published on
September 14:
Jewish and Hindu historical
traditions ignored: Much
like the story of Jerusalem
shows how Jewish history
has been ignored, Indias
Hindu past is also been sys-
tematically erased. This is
very unfortunate.
For a thousand years,
Indias Hindu heritage was
physically destroyed.
Temples were ransacked and
and Hindu kingdoms repeat-
edly attacked. Now, Hindu
memories and stories are
being poisoned in the name
of political correctness and
so-called inclusiveness.
Ironically, the latter often
leads to rejection.
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hA0EEM F FARAChA
Jle new Paraoise on
eartl is a sao entity
F
roleslers burning lhe American lag is one o lhe mosl ubiquilous
sighls around lhe world. A lol o American lags go u in lames in
Fakislan as well.
have direclly exerienced lhis henomenon on al leasl lhree occa
sions. The inleresling lhing is lhe exeriences have been more aboul glar
ing ironies lhan anylhing revolulionary as such.
My irsl exerience in lhis resecl arrived in 1O8G. was an inlermedi
ale sludenl al a slaleowned college in Karachi where was also a member
o a rogressive sludenl organisalion and a requenl arlicianl al many
anliZiaul haq rallies.
0uring one such rally held againsl lhe suorl lhe Zia diclalorshi
was gelling rom lhe uS or ils anliSoviel manoeuvres in Aghanislan, lhe
sludenl organisalion decided lo burn an American lag.
we were weary aboul lhe cos who had slarled lo galher oulside lhe
college gales, and execled lhe usual barrage o leargas. Bul jusl as a
grou o radicals rom lhe organisalion lorched lhe American lag, inslead
o lhe cos, we were conronled by members o lhe sludenl wing o a well
known olilicoreligious arly.
They said lhal lhey would nol allow lhe burning o lhe American lag
because lhe uS was a riendly counlry lhal was aiding a YXWPS againsl lhe
alheislic Soviels.
won'l go inlo lhe delails o lhe jawbreaking and headbashing clash
lhal ollowed, bul loday whenever see lelevised iclures showing mem
bers o lhe same olilicoreligious sludenl arly lorching American lags,
am lallened by lhe irony o il all.
Such is lhe ower o lhe American 0ollar. when il is lowing your
way, lhe giver is given lhe slalus o a glorious arlner lo be raised and
hailed, and lhose oosing il are lo be denounced as 'anlislam' and
anliFakislan.
Bul when lhe low is diverled or sloed, lhe same glorious arlner
lhen becomes lhe olilical manieslalion o Salan, 'murdering innocenl
Muslims everywhere.' Then eole like me, rom being 'K0B agenls'
become 'uS agenls.'
Today, mosl anliAmerican unlers and roleslers have become unin
lenlional selarodies. They are convenienlly incaable o grasing lhe
irony (i nol lhe downrighl hyocrisy) o lheir aclions, esecially when il
comes lo burning lhe American lag.
They have become so inlelleclually and olilically bankrul lhal lo ill
lhe gaing exislenlialisl holes in lheir whole lhinking, lhey have crealed lhe
uS as a bogey lo beal lheir bony chesls aboul and obsessively blame.
They have given lhe concel o midlie crises an ideological lwisl.
Albeil, nol a very convincing one.
My second exerience in lhis resecl came a year laler (1O87) al lhe
same college. A grou o Sindhi and Baloch nalionalisl sludenls wilhin lhe
rogressive sludenls' alliance was arl o wanled lo lorch a Fakislani lag
during a demonslralion.
Some o us lhoughl lhal il was nol such a good idea because lhe Zia
regime would lhen gel a bigger excuse lo crackdown on lhe organisalion
wilh even more brule a orce.
remember one Baloch sludenl (who laler wenl on lo join a Baloch
nalionalisl arly), reacled by calling us hyocriles: "So, being a Marxisl
means one can only burn an American lag?" he asked. "whal's so nol
imerialislic and oressive aboul lhe Fakislani eslablishmenl?"
n a meeling al lhe college canleen, we reached a consensus lhal lwo
lags would be burned ('lo slrike a balance'): The Fakislani and lhe
American lags.
Bul some members (including mysel) disagreed. we suggesled lhal
inslead o lags we should lorch iclures o Ziaul haq and lhe American
Fresidenl Ronald Reagan along wilh lhose o some Aghan mililanls, such
as 0ulbaddin hikmalyar (who was close lo our olilicoreligious oo
nenls al lhe college).
0ur suggeslion was veloed unlil a ourlh olion was ul orward:
why nol lorch American, Fakislani and ndian lags!
have no memory lel o exaclly who raised lhis olion and why, bul
do remember we inally oured oul o lhe canleen and moved lowards lhe
college's commonroom oulside which lhe rally was lo be held.
Yes, iclures o Zia and Reagan were lorched, slogans raised and lhe
cos slalioned oulside lhe college launled. Bul, alas, oul came a Fakislani
lag. lhoughl lhal was il.
Bul lhe eisly Baloch inslead o lorching il rolled il u and announced
lhal he now had a snake in his hand lhal would dance. he suddenly ran
lowards lhe cos, screeched and broke inlo lhis ama/ing Balochi boogie!
l was awesome.
heverlheless, some sludenls o lhe oosing arly comlained lo lhe
college adminislralion lhal we had insulled lhe Fakislani lag.
Bul, lo and behold! As lhe adminislralion was ga/ing ils colleclive
navel lrying lo delermine whal lo do wilh 'lrailors' like us, an incidenl look
lace al lhe college.
Some girl sludenls were rudely leased by a grou o idiols. The girls'
arenls arrived and asked lhe adminislralion lo lake aclion againsl lhe
leasers. An inquiry was launched and our sludenls were ound lo be lhe
culrils. 0uess who lhey were?
They were lhe same alriolic and 0odearing lol who had denounced
us as being lrailors or 'desecraling lhe Fakislani lag.'
The lhird exerience occurred some years ago in Karachi.
Coming oul rom lhe Karachi Fress Club aler having lunch wilh a
riend, we saw a number o young men belonging lo lhe Shia secl burning
lhe American lag.
They were rolesling againsl a bomb allack on lheir communily in
Khyber Fakhlunkhwa by lhe TehreekeTaliban Fakislan.
My riend (who also belonged lo lhe Shia secl) managed lo gel hold
o one o lhe roleslers. "You are rolesling againsl lhe Taliban suicide
allack, righl?" my riend asked.
"Yes," lhe rolesler answered.
"Then why is lhal man burning an American lag?" he inquired.
"Because America is againsl Muslims!" The rolesler roudly said
" see", said my riend, chuckling. "Bul il was lhe Taliban who
allacked your eole, and Taliban are Muslims, no?"
"ho, lhey are lerrorisls! They are nol Muslims!" The rolesler charged.
"Bul lhey are nol American eilher, are lhey?" my riend smilingly
mocked. "Shouldn'l you be lorching somelhing belonging lo lhe
Taliban inslead?"
The rolesler answered by shouling oul lhe name o ran's revolulion
ary leader, mam Khomeini: "mam Khomeini was anliAmerica!"
"Fine," my riend relied. "Bul America did nol bomb lhe eole you
are rolesling or!"
"Taliban did!" said lhe rolesler.
"Yes, know, bul why are you guys burning lhe American lag lhen?"
my riend asked.
"Because we are ollowers o Khomeini!" The rolesler reileraled, lhis
lime looking a lad ruslraled.
"0 course. very good. well done," my riend chuckled again, exas
eraled. Then condescendingly alling lhe rolesler on lhe back, we
relurned lo lhe Fress Club or anolher round o chicken bWPbW[XZ and
resh lime.
"The nexl bunch o Shias lhal will be slaughlered by seclarian organi
salions or lhe Taliban," lhe riend exlained, "lhese ools will again come
oul and lhis lime burn lhe sraeli lag!"
laughed, bul my riend, shaking his head, did nol say a word
aboul lhe incidenl during our (second) lunch. Sarcasm had given way
lo disgusl.
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Exclusivity is,
however, still an
attractive, even
compelling feature
of paradise
because so many
people ~ the
unworthy ~ are
not there.
Boundaries are
secure, and
watchdogs,
security systems,
and gates are
there to verify the
legitimacy of the
inhabitants
sunday
magazino
jitit
Now Dolhi, Soptombor 21, 2014
F E E D B A C K
n a world o oulrageous weallh, lenly has become obscene and resile has dwindled inlo idleness. So where
does lhal leave aradise? The aradise o lhe less bul lhe enormously conlenled, neverlheless, or inslance?
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T
he State of Jammu & Kashmir has the distinction of
being the habitat to varied species of birds besides
being rich in vegetation and climatic conditions that
makes it the desired destination of these myriad species. It
is natures blessing that besides being the favoured destina-
tion among tourists all over the world, the birds of various
hues flock this State too. Like humans, birds are also sensi-
tive to the environment around them and require the har-
mony of nature for breeding and other activities. But over
the years, not only the humans in the Valley, but the pres-
ence of these birds (both indigenous and migratory) are
witnessing a decline in terms of population, visitation and
breeding due to the human inflicted challenges and the
insensitivity of one and all.
At such a crucial juncture when biodiversity is being dis-
mantled in the State, the book titled Threatened Birds of
Jammu & Kashmir, written by Dr Asad R Rahmani and his
professional team that includes Intesar Suhail, Pankaj
Chandan, Khursheed Ahmed and Ashfaq Ahmed Zarri, is a
timely move. The book is a rich reservoir of data, contempo-
rary research, field work and analysis regarding the habitats
of the species of the birds in the State and delves at length
suggesting the ways and means to conserve bird species.
The book has been divided into five sections: Critically
Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened,
and Marginal. These sections cater to the threats and dan-
gers to various species at various levels and discuss them in
detail. In the section Critically Endangered, the authors
discusses the white baked or white rumped vulture. This
species is found in Jammu. The authors have analysed
dwindling of this species in a scientific manner.
Discussing the impact of their decline on the ecology,
they write: It affects open countryside, avoiding thick
forests and wooded hilly areas. Feeding as it does on large
carcasses; it locates them visually, by soaring regularly on
thermals, covering vast areas of hundreds of square kilo-
metres a day. It also locates food by following other
descending vultures and scavengers.
Other species that have been discussed in this section
include the slender-billed vulture. The book provides rec-
ommendations for the conservation of these species. The
threat to these species has increased over the years due to
the extraction of diclofenac from these species for medici-
nal use. The next section Endangered is dedicated to the
issue of Egyptian vultures. It was also recorded on three
different visits to the Surinsar
Mansar Wildlife Sanctuary in the
winter of 2009, 2010 and 2011. The
species can be easily seen along the
River Tawi and the outskirts of
Jammu city. The third section,
Vulnerable, is quite large as it
includes various species that include
western tragopan, cheer pheasant,
lesser white-fronted goose, marbled
duck, pallass fish-eagle, greater spot-
ted eagle, eastern imperial eagle,
sarus crane, black-necked crane, pale
-backed or yellow-eyed pigeon, and
Kashmir flycatcher. While analysing these species in
terms of threats to their existence, the authors have
divided their study and research into the following heads:
Field characters
Ecology
Threats
Conservation measures underway
The fourth section, Near Threatened, is another
longer section that deals with important species of birds
that frequent J&K, making the avifauna and biodiversity
of the State rich. But conservation and survival threats
cause serious concerns among ornithologists and people
concerned with ecological balance. Various species of
birds included in this section and discussed in detail
include ferruginous duck, black-necked stork, black-
headed ibis, black-tailed godwit, Eurasian curlew, cinere-
ous vulture, European roller, long-billed bush-warbler,
and tytlers leaf-warbler.
The last section titled Marginal includes the following
species that have been studies as per the standardised for-
mat adopted in every section: red-headed King vulture,
painted stork, oriental darter, red kite, pallid harrier, little
bustard. References have been included at the end of the
book besides the index of the common names. The book
has been published by Bombay Natural History Society
(BNHS) and printed by Oxford University Press.
Authors have dedicated this book based on field stud-
ies to Dato Loke Wan Tho, who was a reputed business-
man and ornithologist and keen bird-watcher. The con-
cluding paragraph of the introduction to the book sums up
well the objective and broader framework of the work. It
reads, Overall, the key threats to birds and other biodiver-
sity of the State are habitat encroachment, overgrazing by
live stock, tourism, firewood collection, and forest fires. As
is the case across the world and in India, loss of wetlands
owing to human interference is continuing and has resulted
in degradation of large numbers of wetlands in the State.
This book reminds keen observers of the States biodi-
versity of the foremost bird-watcher and ornithologist,
Late Pt Samsar Chand Kaul of Rainawari, Srinagar, who
set the benchmark in this field without any patronage,
trained his students in the subject and taught them to
internalise the sense of living in harmony with nature.
Although the print quality and presentation of the book
are good, it would have benefitted the scholars and keen
readers if the book had been divided into chapters and a
comprehensive index was added at the end. Hope the
authors and publisher will work upon it in the next edition.
It will lead to the value edition of this important book.
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I
n the by-elections, which were held in three
phases, voters of North India have given a
special message to the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP). The party has got a jolt in by-
elections held in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and
Uttarakhand. Despite a massive victory in the
Lok Sabha Elections, the BJP has not fared well
in the by-elections for Assembly seats. Leaders of
the three States think the people are not happy as
they have been ignored and have thus sent a
message to the party.
In Uttarakhand, all five Lok Sabha seats were
won by the BJP. Three of these seats were won by
former CMs, but none is a minister in the
Narendra Modi Government. Likewise, in Bihar,
BJPs most vocal and prominent supporting
castes Brahmins and Bhumihars were
ignored. Even in the name of Rajputs representa-
tive, Radha Mohan Singh was made minister in
place of Rajiv Pratap Rudy. The issue of UPs vet-
eran leader Rajnath Singh was publicised and
that made an impact on the elections.
Even in the party organisation, veteran lead-
ers in the three States were ignored. Bihars CP
Thakur and Rameshwar Chaurasia didnt find a
place in the organisation; Vinay Katiyar and
Varun Gandhi were moved out too. Bihars
Rajnish Kumar and Anil Baluni from
Uttarakhand have been accommodated in the
organisation, but very few people know them.
The party ignored mass leaders and equation of
socio-caste factor. It preferred the known faces,
thus had to bear the brunt.
NEW FACES OF CONG SPOKESPERSONS
The Congress has changed its list of spokesper-
sons has it been done under a specific strate-
gy or it is the result of ongoing infighting in the
party? In fact, this has happened due to both
these reasons. On one hand, the party wanted to
remove those faces from TV that were estab-
lished as anti-Hindu faces, and on the other
hand, a group close to Rahul Gandhi wanted to
get rid of rivals. Faces of Manish Tewari and
Rashid Alvi had been established as anti-Hindu
and anti-BJP, whereas the Congress is gearing
up to tread on soft Hinduism to regain lost
ground. That is why it was decided to sideline
both leaders. Due to this reason, Digvijaya
Singh has not got a place in the list of five
senior spokespersons and 13 general spokesper-
sons. Statements against Anna Hazare and in
support of the appointment of Sadhashivam
affected Tewaris prospects, whereas attack on
Modi didnt pan out well for Alvi.
UP BJP LEADERS HINDUTVA TUNE
In UP, leaders of the BJP are vociferously singing
the tune of Hindutva. They had become active to
secure their place much before the Assembly
Elections. One of the leaders of BJP says the lead-
ers of the State, who were faces of Hindutva dur-
ing Ram temple movement, have either retired or
have been marginalised. Kalyan Singh has
become Governor and Vinay Katiyar has not
found any place either in the Government or the
party. So, there is competition to emerge as a
fierce face of Hindutva.
Due to this competition, MP of Gorakhpur
Yogi Adityanath has come to limelight after rais-
ing the issue of Love Jihad. During by-elections,
he had appealed to people to back him so he can
stop Love Jihad. Soon, an MP of Unnao, Sakshi
Maharaj, targeted madrasas, mosques and the
Muslim community.
YOUTH LEADERS STEP FORWARD
The BJP is making some organisational
changes. The Congress had started the process
much earlier, though it has been stuck in the
transition phase for years. But almost all
regional parties are following the path of these
two parties and pushing new leadership ahead.
In the Shiv Sena, second-generation leaders
automatically came forward after the death of
Bal Thackeray; Uddhav took over the command
of the party and the leaders accepted him.
Among regional parties, Samajwadi Party
was way ahead. Mulayam Singh Yadav handed
over the baton to his son Akhilesh. In Bihar, Lalu
Prasads next generation will soon take over the
command of the party. Lalu recently underwent
heart surgery in Mumbai and will not play a very
active role in the day-to-day affairs of the party.
His daughter Misa and son Tejaswi will hold the
command of the party.
The BSP has also tried to give way to the new
generation of leaders. Party chief Mayawati has
removed all district coordinators of UP. After
that, the State has been divided into nine zones
and in-charges have been appointed there. Young
leaders have been preferred for the posts.
The transition phase of the Akali Dal and
DMK was too long; now it is being said that
Stalin and Sukhbir Badal are going to take over
command of their parties. In TRS, most of the
work is being looked after by Chandra Sekhar
Raos son and daughter. Mamata Banerjee is also
pushing for her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
GOVT IMPLEMENTING UPA DECISIONS
It seems that the Modi Government will imple-
ment all the decisions taken by the previous UPA
Government. The Government is trying to com-
plete all works which were left midway by its pre-
decessor. Increasing the rail fare was the first
step. Then, the Modi Government had argued
that it was only implementing the decision taken
by the UPA Government. After that the process
has been continuing. The Government increased
the limit of FDI in insurance sector from 26 to 49
per cent, and interestingly this was also UPAs
decision. The other major decisions also had
been started during the UPA tenure.
Now, the Modi Government has decided
to disinvest its share in Navratna companies.
The UPA Government was not able to achieve
the target of disinvestment, but the NDA
Government has achieved its target in one go.
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T
he roller-coaster ride to keep
Scotland in the United
Kingdom, that finally ended
on Friday, began two and three
quarter years ago on a bleak
January morning when most Scots
were still shrugging off their
Hogmanay hangovers.
Thats when David Cameron
went on to the Andrew Marr
Sunday morning TV programme to
announce that he was fed up wait-
ing for Alex Salmond to make up
his mind about a referendum on
breaking up Britain and decided to
make it up for him.
He declared that it was time for
the Scottish First Minister to get a
move on and announce a timetable
for the decision that he and his
Coalition Government hoped would
settle the independence issues once
and for all. And to ensure that
Salmond got a move on, Cameron
was prepared to make any number
of concessions to the separatist
leader. In the ensuing weeks and
months, Cameron, with Chancellor
George Osborne chairing a Cabinet
sub-committee on the Scottish
question and Danny Alexander, the
Treasury Chief Secretary, helping to
decide the strategy, they agreed to
allow Salmond to:
Set the date for the referendum;
set the question for the ballot paper
and change the franchise to allow
16 and 17 year olds their first ever
chance to vote.
However, he made one iron-
hard stipulation he would not
yield on the demand from the SNP
and their supporters that there
should be another question on the
ballot paper, giving voters the
chance to opt for what Cameron
believed would provide a consola-
tion prize for the Nats, namely the
option of so-called Devo Max.
This would have given the
Scottish Parliament a host of extra
powers, especially on taxation, but
Cameron feared that this would
prove so attractive as a half way
house for the voters that it would
allow the nationalists to return to the
question again and again in what has
been called a neverendum.
However, to be sure that he
could win the vote, there had to be
a campaign team capable of fight-
ing what was bound to be a well-
oiled and well-funded SNP
machine. And, given the Tories
lack of support in Scotland and the
Liberal Democrats having been
hammered in the Holyrood elec-
tions as punishment for going into
a Westminster coalition with the
Tories, the effort to stave off inde-
pendence had to be run by a
Labour politician.
I am pretty sure that Cameron
always wanted Alistair Darling to
do the job; after all he was one of
the few ministers to emerge from
the wreckage of the last Labour
Government with any credit.
However, Darling was at first
reluctant to take on the job. John
Reids name was mentioned but
because Cameron needed to enlist
the support of Ed Miliband and
because Reid and Miliband were not
great fans of each other, the Prime
Minister did not press his request to
get Reid to lead the team.
And eventually Darling agreed
to take over, leading a joint com-
mittee of Labour, Lib Dem and
Tory politicians and officials.
It was a mammoth task, given
that the politicians he enlisted were
more used to fighting each other
than fighting together. And they
were almost immediately assailed
by critics as being too lack-lustre
and too lacking in passion to take
on the slick Salmond operation.
This criticism intensified when
Osborne, in agreement with
Alexander and with Ed Balls the
Shadow Chancellor declared that
none of Britains main parties would
ever share the pound with an inde-
pendent Scotland. This move was
denounced as scaremongering but
in spite of all the criticism, Darling
stuck to his guns throughout the
ensuing campaign, stating that if
Scotland didnt have a currency it
could not have a viable economy.
However, the big lead in the
opinion polls that the Better
Together campaign started out with
was gradually eroded by their oppo-
nents in the Yes team and it wasnt
until the first of the leaders debates
on STV that Darling, with a pas-
sionate performance, outshone a
hesitant Salmond and re-established
the Better Together lead.
It didnt last long and there
then developed the most difficult
time of all for the No campaign.
Darling was hammered in the sec-
ond debate and the stuffing was
knocked out of his team. The Yes
side upped their efforts so well and
efficiently, especially in Labours
traditional heartlands that they
caught up in the opinion polls.
Then two weeks ago, the worst
of all happened. A You Gov poll for
the Sunday Times showed them in
the lead and all hell appeared to
break loose. The value of the
pound nose-dived, billions were
wiped off the value of major British
firms and Osborne announced that
a timetable for extra Holyrood
powers would be announced
immediately. This, plus the emer-
gency drafting in or more likely
he drafted himself in of Gordon
Brown more than did the trick. In a
series of barnstorming speeches,
filled with Old Time Religion from
the former prime minister, now
fully rehabilitated with the man
who threw him out of Downing
Street, appeared to work especially
in the Labour heartlands.
The No side took the lead in
the polls again, albeit a narrow one,
and as Referendum Day
approached there was everything to
play for. As it turned out the combi-
nation of Browns reassurance to the
army of traditional Labour voters,
the solemn promise of the leaders
of the three main political parties to
grant new powers to Holyrood
even if they still havent agreed
amongst themselves plus the
determination of Tory voters to
make their votes count in defence
of the Union won the day.
A huge turnout across the
entire country saw Scotland retain
its place as part of the UK.
However, the victory was not as
large as it could have been and
there will be many today saying
that it was nowhere as good as it
should have been. The questions
will begin now what went wrong
in the Unionist camp and how can
Scotland recover from this bruising
contest? The fight to prevent the
break-up of Britain has been won.
Or is it only the end of Round One?
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Maria walsh, a 27yearold rom Counly Mayo, was recenlly crowned reland's Rose
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CULTURE LANE
D
ame Judi Dench has said she
receives countless begging let-
ters from aspiring young
actors asking her to help fund their
training.
The Oscar-winning actress said:
Anyone whos in the theatre gets
letters countless times a week asking
for help to get through drama school.
You can do so much, but you cant
do an endless thing. It is very
expensive.
Dench, considered one of the
greatest thespians of her generation,
added that since the demise of reper-
tory theatre where you went to
learn and make your mistakes and
watch people who knew how to do it
financial barriers to training have
made the profession more elitist.
The actress, who won an
Academy award for her performance
as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love,
believes it is vital for young actors to
watch professionals on stage. I
always say to young students, Go
and see as much as you possibly can,
which is what we used to do. But
then we paid a pittance for sitting in
the gods, she said.
Ideally, she said, she would rein-
state reps all over the country, but
knows this is impractical, though she
does not believe that Government
has to choose between hospitals and
theatre: In a civilised country, theres
money for both.
She accepts that talented aspiring
actors can make it without going to
drama school. But its a hard and
rocky road, she added.
W
eve had a hippo named after
Mick Jagger, a spider named
after Angelina Jolie, and a
lemur named after John Cleese. And
the trend for scientists drawing on
pop culture to name newly discovered
species continues, with an ancient fly-
ing dinosaur named after James
Camerons space opera Avatar.
The team at the Chinese Academy
of Sciences in Beijing named the new
variant of the pterosaur ikrandraco
avatar, thanks to its resemblance to
the dinosaur-like creatures in the
movie. The naming came after fossil
were discovered of the creature in
Chinas Liaoning province, which
showed it had a crest on its lower jaw
just like Avatars winged reptiles.
The news was announced in a
flurry of paleontology jokes: Of
course, nobody and nothing can ride
this pterosaur, said the institutes
Xiaolin Wang, while fellow scientist
Alexander Kellner confirmed there
were no blue hominids during the
Cretaceous.
Cameron is currently preparing
sequels to Avatar, which is the high-
est-grossing film of all time. Three
more installments are to come
between 2016 and 2018, with
Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington
and Zoe Saldana all returning.
The director is in seclusion writ-
ing the movies according to visual
effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull,
who has developed a 4K 3D projec-
tion system that could potentially be
used to shoot and display the sequels.
O
rlando Bloom has held talks
with Hollywood producers over
a return to the Pirates of the
Caribbean series, the British actor has
revealed. Speaking at Oz Comic-Con
in Brisbane, Bloom said he was con-
sidering a return in forthcoming fifth
installment Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Men Tell No Tales. The actor
appeared as blacksmith-turned-pirate
Will Turner in the first three films in
the series, but sat out 2011s On
Stranger Tides.
Bloom said: There have certainly
been some discussions about it and
Im open to it. That whole experience
working with Johnny and (director)
Gore (Verbinski) was really amazing
for me. One of the reasons I jumped at
the opportunity was because Johnny
was involved. I was such a massive fan
of Johnny Depp growing up, so to get
up close and personal to him and see
how he worked as an actor was just a
massive gift.
Dead Men Tell No Tales is due to
shoot in Queensland after the
Australian Government agreed to
hand tax incentives worth $20.2m to
studio Disney earlier this month. The
sequel will reportedly be filmed at
Village Roadshow Studios on the
Gold Coast.
The Pirates of the Caribbean series
has so far taken $3.7bn at the global
box office. Depp will return in the lead
role of Captain Jack Sparrow in Dead
Men Tell No Tales, with the film due to
hit cinemas in summer 2017. Joachim
Rnning and Espen Sandberg, the
Norwegian directors of the 2012
drama Kon-Tiki, are set to direct.
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M
aria Walsh is sitting in a
Dublin hotel after a long
day of interviews with the
Irish press. The night
before, she appeared as a
guest on Irelands Late Late Show, the
countrys longest-running chat pro-
gramme. But you would be forgiven for
admitting youd never heard of Walsh;
just a few weeks ago she was an ordinary
27-year-old from County Mayo.
Then, at the end of last month,
everything changed. Walsh won one of
Irelands oldest and most popular festi-
vals: the Rose of Tralee a competition
to find the ultimate Irish woman, judged
on beauty and talent. And there was
more. Just days after she was crowned,
Walsh revealed to a newspaper that she
was a lesbian. In doing so, she became
the first gay Rose in the festivals 55-year
history. Predictably, the revelation caused
shock waves across Ireland.
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Dreamt up by a group of men in a pub in
1957, the Rose of Tralee started life as a
revival of the Carnival Queen a cun-
ning plan to attract tourists to the town
of Tralee, in County Kerry. Little could
they have known that in 2014, the festi-
val would claim 50 per cent of the Irish
television audience, draw in 200,000 visi-
tors and attract international attention.
The criteria for winning the festival
is, astonishingly, still based on the lyrics
of a romantic ballad, The Rose of
Tralee, written by a wealthy 19th centu-
ry merchant who was in love with a
lovely and fair maid. Although Walsh,
with her Natalie Portman-esque good
looks is undeniably beautiful, she prob-
ably wasnt quite what he had in mind,
as she herself admits.
Its caused a bit of a scandal, she
tells me, with a slightly tired smile. Its
all still very much a whirlwind.
To its critics, the Rose of Tralee is
nothing more than a show of pretty,
giddy girls in dresses, sashes and strings
of pearls, memorably parodied in Father
Ted as the Lovely Girls competition.
While the festival also judges entrants
on their personality and skills, critics
say it promotes archaic ideas of debu-
tante-like womanhood: entrants must
be unmarried (although the competi-
tion only opened its doors to unmarried
mothers in 2008).
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But Walsh disagrees. Its not just about
pretty dresses, she says forcefully. It was
at the forefront of Irish culture and cele-
brating women even before its time.
Over a million people watched it this
year, so its almost comical when people
say its irrelevant or not celebrating
women in the right way.
Yet, just days before the festival
began, Ireland attracted international
indignation when a woman who had
been raped was forced to give birth
against her will. As one Irish commenta-
tor put it, womanhood in Ireland
remains a strictly policed construct.
Many would argue that the Rose of
Tralee only reinforces this view.
But Walsh believes that attitudes to
the festivals women are progressing; the
overwhelmingly positive, although com-
pletely frenzied, response to her sexuality
is proof. Yet people in Tralee say there
are many who privately think she should
not have won. And while Walsh is full of
praise for the festival organisers, who
barely raised an eyebrow when they
found out she was gay, there have been
comments in the press hinting that she
wouldnt have won the title had they
known beforehand.
Despite this, Walsh claims her sexu-
ality was never a secret she simply
wasnt asked about it.
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Walsh is relentlessly upbeat about the
attention she has received since. Im
sure theres some negative critique out
there, she says. But critique is not bad,
it just makes you a better person. This is
how much of a boring story it is, she
says laughingly recounting the moment
she knew she was gay. I met someone
on a random Friday night, as millions of
people do, and instantly connected with
her. And I thought to myself, Im going
to be with her.
Walshs family supported her deci-
sion, although there were questions
about what it would mean for her per-
sonal life and career (she has a journal-
ism degree and now works for clothing
brand Anthropologie). The Late Late
Shows presenter, Ryan Tubridy, riled
some viewers by asking Walshs father in
the audience what his concerns were.
But for Walsh there was no inner
struggle, or conflict with her Catholic
faith. My friends think when I hit 50 Ill
have a nervous breakdown because I
never had to worry about my inner
demons. I am who I am and Im
extremely proud of who I am.
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Yet although Walsh may have won the
Rose, the country that crowned her
would still deny her the right to marry
another woman; same-sex marriage
remains illegal in Ireland. Despite this,
some hope that Walshs win could
influence the outcome of the referen-
dum on same-sex marriage to be held
next spring.
Walsh refuses to comment on the
referendum as the festivals ambas-
sador she must remain apolitical. But
theres certainly a determination to use
her newfound fame in a positive way.
Its fantastic if I can educate people
who dont understand what gay is like,
or if I can be an example to anyone vot-
ing. Anyone can be gay, she goes on,
meaningfully. Even the Rose of Tralee.
Its a hugely powerful message to send
to Middle Ireland and the voters who
will need to be convinced next spring.
To think theres nothing more to
this newly crowned Rose than blinding
smiles, pretty frocks and saccharine
ideals, would be to underestimate her.
With brains, wit and polite charm,
Walsh may just be the person who
springs to mind when the Irish cast
their vote in favour of marriage equality
next year.
From a festival steeped in tradition
and stuffed with sentimentality, there
has emerged a powerful, influential
new role model.
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A
couple have named their newborn
son Messi after Argentinas soc-
cer captain, having been granted
permission to circumvent a 45-
year-old law banning the use
of last names as first names.
Barcelona striker Lionel
Messi may be one of the
highest-profile figures in
Argentina but due to a 1969
statute in the South
American country, proud
father Daniel Varela had to
petition city authorities to
be granted an exception to
the law.
We told the authorities
that he was our child and
that we would name him as
we pleased. A civil register
official said it wasnt their
problem and that I had
to write a letter saying
why I wanted to give
him that name and
pay for a stamp,
Varela said.
We did that
and finally (permission) arrived, he
added while the family showed off the
boys birth certificate with his full
name, Messi Daniel Varela.
The newborn has an older
sister who would also have been
called Messi had she been born a
boy. At last, thanks to God,
Messi arrived 15 days ago,
said Varela, who lives with
his family in General Roca
in the Patagonian province
of Rio Negro.
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W
hile most dogs are content to
cover, at most, a couple thou-
sand feet on a walk, Riley the
dachshund is gaining interna-
tional fame for traversing 13,000
vertically. Rileys owner,
Nathan Batiste, is a photograph-
er from San Francisco,
California, who has
some experience with
skydiving. He has more
than 400 jumps under
his belt, but he had
always wanted to bring
the dachshund he and his
girlfriend adopted in 2009
along for one of them. The
two frequently brought Riley to
the drop zone for walks, and
he became fast friends with
many of the frequent skydivers.
Recently, Nathan made Rileys first
jump a reality. He had a friend craft a
special harness and doggles for the
four-year-old dachshund, and all that
was left was to take to the sky.
For those who might be concerned
about whether falling out of the sky is
the best activity for a dog, the dive
went off without a hitch, and Nathan
says that Riley had a blast.
He told the Daily Mail, Riley is
very calm and very trusting when hes
with me, and everybody got a kick out
of it, adding, It really was great fun,
and the footage of Riley looking
around once Id opened the chute is
awesome. Its been one of the best
decisions of my life to get involved in
skydiving, and Im looking forward to
more jumps with Riley. Riley really is
whats up, dog.
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aking a cue from
an American TV
programme, the Chinese
city of Chongqing has
created a smartphone sidewalk lane,
offering a path for those too engrossed
in messaging and tweeting to watch
where theyre going. But the property
manager says its intended to be ironic
to remind people that its danger-
ous to tweet while walking the street.
There are lots of elderly people
and children in our street, and
walking with your cellphone may
cause unnecessary collisions here,
said Nong Cheng, the marketing
official with Meixin Group, which
manages the area in the citys
entertainment zone.
Meixin has marked a 50-metre
stretch of pavement with two lanes:
one that prohibits cellphone use next
to one that allows pedestrians to use
them at their own risk.
Nong said the idea came from a
similar stretch of pavement in
Washington DC created by National
Geographic Television in July as part
of a behaviour experiment.
She said that pedestrians
were not taking the new lanes
seriously, but that many were
snapping pictures of the signs and
sidewalk. Those using their cell-
phones of course have not
heeded the markings on the
pavement, she said. They
dont notice them.
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woman has married a life-size
cardboard cut-out of the
actor Robert Pattinson, pictured
portraying Twilight vampire
Edward Cullen.
Lauren Adkins, 25, of Las
Vegas, spoke to the Daily Mirror
about her big day. People might
think Im crazy but my flat-pack
R-Patz is the closest Ill get to the
real thing and hes the one for me,
she said.
A friend who thought I was
going mad said one night: If you
love him so much, why dont you marry
him? Her words rang in my ears.
She was right. Why didnt I?
She was obsessed with the
character of Edward Cullen in the
Twilight novels, calling him quiet
and mysterious, yet superhuman
and invincible. And so sexy.
Like so many other young
women, many of whom never-
theless went on to form non-
Robert Pattinson based rela-
tionships, she then became infat-
uated with the actor after seeing
him portray Cullen. When
Robert Pattinson appeared on
screen at midnight, he was per-
fect. I knew that very minute I
wanted to marry him.
Perhaps used to ill-advised
nuptials, the Viva Las Vegas
Wedding Chapel agreed to host the
marriage. Adkins wore a white wed-
ding dress and spent 2000 on the
ceremony, before heading off on
honeymoon with Pattinson to Los
Angeles. I wanted us to climb up
to the Hollywood sign together,
she said. I had to carry him, but
everyone makes sacrifices for the
man they love, right?
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F
irst of all, we dont have that
much capacity. And we are
prone to finding faults in
everyone we know without
exception; we do so helplessly
and that prevents us from loving
anyone fully. Our hearts are not
big enough to ignore faults in
others, whereas Gods heart is too
big for us to comprehend.
Let me tell you from my per-
sonal experiences how big Gods
heart is: how he has loved me,
though I dont deserve even a
small part of it. I only get in
touch with God or serve him in
three ways. I regularly chant
Gods names, but mostly with an
absent mind. I have been doing
so for over 25 years. I remember
him whenever I am in trouble.
And, yes, I do some service to
him like writing spiritual articles
for publication in newspapers
and spiritual books which are
sold through book fairs. Neither
do I own a shop nor is there a
distribution network. Still, we do
very well. However, it is God only
who makes it possible for me to
write and to be able to convey his
messages to others.
In return, what does God do
for me? He regularly performs
miracles for me and I treat them
as my good luck, ie I must have
done something wonderful to
deserve them or they are mere
coincidences. But that has never
stopped God from continuing to
perform miracles for me. God
empowers me to do things I can
never imagine begin capable of
doing. One shining example is the
number of books which are avail-
able on our stalls in book fairs.
God never spoils me; he makes
me sweat it out, thus improving
me. In short, he ensures that I
become deserving of what all he
grants me. God knows my weak-
nesses the areas or emotions
where I will make a complete fool
of myself. God does not allow
such situations to develop where I
will fall down.
God has never abandoned
one, even though sometimes I
dont bother about him, especially
in good times. God has never
failed me, even though I have
failed to follow his instructions
fully as given in bona fide scrip-
tures like the Bhagavad Gita.
One time, I wished to have
darshan of God, but soon realised
that I did not deserve that privi-
lege by a long shot. Therefore, I
requested God to give me dar-
shan in my dream. The next
morning, I vividly remembered
doing a tour of a large South
Indian temple in all its glory.
I desire many things like all
of us do and I dont get them, as
is common experience. But what
I get is always far superior to
what I had desired. God always
knows what is good for me. I
keep receiving his mercy but
invariably do not thank him
enough or show my gratitude
properly. But due to his infinite
merciful nature, he forgives me.
Sometimes, I feel that God is
heartless when I get miseries, but
very soon I realise that his heart
is as big as the unlimited sky.
God is very easy to please, other-
wise how else I would have man-
aged to catch his attention.
I have just one regret in life and
that is: I am unable to reciprocate
Gods love, though I try. Still, he
loves me so much. Thank you, God!
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Now Dolhi, Soptombor 21, 2014
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ealising the importance of dharma does not
come to most people as they fail to understand
that this world is homocentric, that is, it is for
the benefit of human beings. This world view is a
falsehood that has been perpetrated by the Western
attitude that God has given complete dominion to
man over this natural world and is not concerned with
how we treat this. Nothing can be further from truth.
This world is a part of the larger natural order
where certain rules of living are to be observed if we
want to ensure sustainability and peace. Perhaps, the
idea of Noahs Arc would give us some clues as to the
Gods design of this universe. In management theory
also, there is the notion of the systems approach that
talks about a holistic world view, the underlying
premise being harmonious coexistence of various
parts and subparts of the larger supra system of which
this world is an independent yet connected unit.
The idea of how to live in this world can be
understood by the analogy of the traffic rules that
have been conceptualised for orderly flow of traffic on
roads and safety of the travelers. Even as the
Government is thinking of ensuring further order on
the roads by laying down certain new laws and regula-
tions, there is a need to compare traffic movement on
roads with social order. Driving at early hours on the
roads of Delhi, anybody would realise this if he or she
has thoughtfully tread with his eyes and ears open. In
the morning hours, when there is no policing and the
traffic rules are not enforceable, just see how the vehi-
cles ply. Different kinds of vehicles like scooters, rick-
shaws, motorcycles, cars, buses and trucks, all plying
at their own speed on their own tracks. Now the point
to be thought is that these vehicles follow a simple
self-ordained rule, not to run over, crush or crash. As
long as this is practiced, the journey is safe for all.
Now, if they dont follow this simple principle of safe
and orderly driving, taking care of the interests of oth-
ers, accidents will take place. Dharma is also like this.
It provides rules for living harmoniously in society.
If those rules are not followed, accidents take
place; peace and harmony is disrupted and the equi-
librium is disturbed that ultimately affects the whole
system. Dharma regulates the conduct of different ele-
ments of society. The lack of regard for a general and
commanding idea like dharma is one of the weakness-
es of the modern society, which has lead to such a
chaotic situation. The values crisis, that is being wit-
nessed in society, will have to be seen in this light.
Dharma is the means through which the values crisis
of this modern society has to be resolved.
We have mistakenly tried to see dharma as a reli-
gion. This is the problem. Dharma is not a religion,
rather it is the religion which is to establish harmo-
nious coexistence in society. Like the traffic rules,
which need to be followed for disciplined driving on
the roads. And adhering to tenets of dharma will
make society orderly and peaceful, just as the traffic
rules make roads safe and peaceful if followed reli-
giously. Dharma provides the rules for living.
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marriage, says a sludy,
lhe more conlenl lhe wie is
wilh lhe longlerm union,
lhe haier lhe husband is
wilh his lie, no maller how
he eels aboul lheir nulials.
"l comes down lo lhe acl
lhal when a wie is salisied
wilh lhe marriage, she lends
lo do a lol more or her
husband, which has a osi
live eecl on his lie,"
exlained 0eborah Carr, a
roessor al lhe school o
arls and science, Rulgers
universily. "Men lend lo be
less vocal aboul lheir rela
lionshis and lheir level o
marilal unhainess mighl
nol be lranslaled lo lheir
wives," Carr added. She
examined lhe ersonal eel
ings o bolh souses lo
delermine how lhese marilal
araisals inluence lheir
sychological wellbeing.
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ixleen years aler scien
lisls ound lhe genes
lhal conlrol lhe circadian
clock in all cells, uS
researchers have discov
ered how genes kee lhe
circadian clocks in human
cells in lime and in roer
rhylhm wilhin lhe 24hour
eriod. A circadian rhylhm
is any biological rocess
lhal dislays an oscillalion
o 24 hours. They ound
lhal genes Feriod and
Crylochrome have com
lemenlary roles. The ind
ing has imlicalions or lhe
develomenl o drugs or
diseases such as cancer
and diabeles, as well as
condilions such as mela
bolic syndrome, insomnia,
and even jel lag. "we knew
lhal our roleins were
involved in generaling daily
rhylhmicily, bul didn'l
know exaclly whal lhey
did. how we know how lhe
clock is resel in all cells,"
said A/i/ Sancar, a roes
sor al lhe universily o
horlh Carolina.

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ccording to Vastu Shastra,
the foundation of a build-
ing lies on the land on
which the building was
developed. So, it is basi-
cally the plot that determines the pos-
itivity or the intensity of positivity in
the building constructed on the plot.
It is a tested and proven fact that
Vastu Shastra, or the ancient Indian
science of space and better living,
helps you take the right decisions
regarding the selection of a space,
where you can fulfil your dreams or
desires and achieve your targets, justi-
fying the purpose of buying it.
Many times, we hear people say-
ing that their lives changed completely
in a better way after they shifted to
their new house, or sometimes we
hear people saying that their health
was hampered, business suffered etc
after shifting into the new house.
Actually, all these stories are true and
practically experienced by many.
Each space, whether it is a plot or
a building, has a purpose, and the
purpose of Vastu Shastra is to achieve
that purpose. Anybody keen to buy a
plot or a new house or flat or an
apartment seeks Vastu advice to
ensure that the purpose of his/her
building is met with.
While going in to buy a Vastu
perfect plot, you must keep in mind
its purpose. For example, you intend
to buy the plot for constructing your
dream home or workplace. Whatever
the purpose be, the strength of the 16
Vastu zones and the balance of the
five basic elements of nature
(Panchtattva) water, air, fire, earth,
and space should support it.
For instance, if the plot is meant
for making a house, you must ensure
that you get a good layout planning
for constructing a house which will
attract money, growth, health, secu-
rity, love and happiness in your life.
If it is meant for making a sales
office, it must attract more sales,
money, customers and growth. If it is
meant to build a hospital, the pur-
chased plot should be able to heal
millions, and thus fulfil the purpose
for which it has been bought.
Documented research in Vastu
Shastra has come up with a scientific
four-step Vastu application method
with which you can easily decide
which plot or property to invest in. It
majorly takes into account the effects
of entrance, locations of rooms,
strength of the 16 Vastu zones and the
balance of Panchtattva.
According to MahaVastu, there
are 32 possible locations of entrance
or access in a plot. Each of them has
its own good or bad effects, like abun-
dance of money, high productivity,
debts, delay in payment recovery, and
accidents. Hence, you should always
look for a plot on which you can get
the main entrance in a good location.
However, if there is no scope of hav-
ing a good entrance location, you
should not avoid buying the plot.
There are easy-to-apply logical and
scientific Vastu remedies/solutions in
MahaVastu, like colour and metal
strips, which can effectively remove
the negative effects of having the
entrance in the wrong direction.
The second check point is
whether you can get Vastu-compliant
planning for rooms or not. It is very
important as location of rooms in dif-
ferent directions decides the outcome
of your efforts. For instance, a bed-
room located in east-southeast, Vastu
zone of anxiety, creates frequent dis-
agreements with spouse. When made
in south-southwest zone, it will lead
to total wastage of money, efforts and
health. Similarly, a toilet made in the
north will block your business, career
and income.
The third check point is availabil-
ity of good strength of Vastu zones,
which are related with the purpose of
the building. If the plot is meant to
make a house for a politician, the
zonal strength of the east direction
must be very good, because east is the
Vastu zone of social associations,
which is the key ingredient for a suc-
cessful political career. A plot located
on the east-west axis will be good for
him. Similarly, a person involved in
the business of real estate must avoid
buying a plot which has weak strength
south-west or if this zone is cut in that
plot because it will directly affect his
business. Practically, he should avoid
buying a plot located on northwest-
southeast axis.
Another salient point to be
checked while selecting a plot is to
analyse the balance of Panchtattva.
Each of the 16 Vastu zones in a space
is dominated by one of these five ele-
ments. You have to see if all of these
elements are finely balanced in their
respective zones. Practically, you
have to check if you are getting per-
missible directions for water tanks,
garden, kitchen, open area, slopes,
pits, rainwater drainage, sewer, ser-
vice lane, adjoining property, water
boring of neighbours, high low land-
scape, setbacks, building height,
shafts, and balconies.
While selecting a plot, a house or a
building, you must also take care of any
road hit along with above factors. You
can buy a plot which is hit by a road
from the north to east directions. With
rising scarcity of land, finding a plot
with the ideal situation, as required by
you is a remote possibility. However,
now you need not worry as you can
buy the plot and set the balance with
the help of scientific MahaVastu reme-
dies or solutions like usage of metal
strips, colours, shapes, lights and plants.
You can learn to use them or seek an
experts advice.
In the absence of right guidance
and knowledge, people opt out of a
good property and make wrong
choices. Vastu Shastra not only pro-
vides guidelines for better living, but
also gives easy alternatives as reme-
dies to correct the imbalances in your
plot or land. This helps you live with
more happiness, love and prosperity,
which are the key ingredients of a
successful and blissful life.
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Adhering lo lenels o dharma will
make sociely orderly and eaceul
vaslu Shaslra hels you lake lhe righl decisions regarding lhe seleclion o a sace,
where you can ulil your dreams, says vASTuShASTR KhuSh0EEF BAhSAL
plot
perfect
heallh relaled news should be good. You will
have al leasl a shorl eriod o lime when you eel
excelionally ubeal aboul your ulure. 0ive
lhoughl lo how you may suorl and conlinue
lhis good heallh. This will be a lime o eace, joy,
and roserily or you. Share lhem in whalever
way you can. Those who have recovered rom
serious ailmenl musl consider lhe ollowlhrough,
however. There is a wake u call or you Aries!
you are involved in any sorl o comelilion, lhis
week you are advised lo kee a close eye oul or
any chealing. This can range rom anylhing rom
someone chealing al a icku oker game lo
someone lrying lo rame you al work or
somelhing serious.
Iurky number 7, O
Iurky roIour Yellow
Iurky day Sunday
8IF8 March 21-April 20
You enjoy hainess, good heallh and worldly
leasures. You lend lo be enlhusiaslic and will
careully weigh and consider whal olhers ask you
now. You musl be insired by everylhing around
you. You mighl ind yoursel lhinking aboul a long
holiday. Travel abroad or jusl remain al home lo
have a break in order lo rejuvenale yoursel. Yoga,
medilalion, cosmic healing and learning new
inleresls are on lhe cards. Talk lo eole whose
exeriences and belies are dierenl lhan your
own. Move oul o your comorl /one. You'll be all
lhe richer or il. Things are robably going very
well or you workwise. Slill, whalever you do,
don'l lake lhis inilial success or granled and eel
like il will all be smoolh sailing rom here on oul.
Iurky number 4,7
Iurky roIour 0ark ink
Iurky day Friday
I0808 April 21-May 21
you are lhinking on lhe lines o sel
imrovemenl, lhis is lhe besl lime lo do so. Flan
some crealive work; gel yoursel busy lo avoid
slress. Take roer slee, adequale resl and good
diel. A lol o lension you have been exeriencing
should ease o. 0on'l hesilale lo share your
eelings wilh riends or ask hel rom lhem. you
lislen lo lhe voice o your body and work
accordingly, you can come over hal o lhe
roblems. Sirilual journey roves healing lhis
week. This is a very good lime lo slarl lanning
long lerm even i you're very young. Flan lo work
melhodically. You are likely lo gel an inlriguing
business oorlunily lhis week. 0el career
counselling; ocus on your skills and olenlials.
Iurky number 8, 8
Iurky roIour Blue
Iurky day Thursday
6FMI8I May 22-June 21
You have owerul slrenglh and il is advised lo
become aware o il. This is a good week, and you
enjoy al all levels. You may be lucky enough lo be
embarking on an overseas lri, or are working,
sludying, living overseas or an exlended eriod o
lime. wherever you will go, you will encounler
new exeriences and welcoming hosls who will
embrace you and invile you inlo lheir own world.
Everylhing is slarling lo all in lace and you can
be one wilh lhe silualion. You will gel success in
ulling your besl ool orward. An enhanced
slalus, romolion or designalion is on lhe card.
You can lake imorlanl decisions relaled lo career
as you are very sound and grounded. You are
hard working and much ocused.
Iurky number 2, G
Iurky roIour 0range
Iurky day Monday
080F8 June 22-July 22
This is a greal lime lo consider whal you are
doing and erhas should be doing lo increase
your vilalily. Flan your regimen, lhink il
lhrough; you may need more exercise and resl.
You can do beller, i even only slighlly lhan
whal you are doing righl now. l may be
imorlanl now, arlicularly i you usually allend
lo your sirilual side in solilude, lo reach oul lo
olhers. Some good news is on lhe cards. You
will gel lhe beneils rom lhe choices lhal you
make. An oul o lhe blue oorlunily al work
may surrise you. Your comany mighl send
you lo olher counlry lo look aler an imorlanl
rojecl lhere. Those in exorl and imorl
business could be beneiled.
Iurky number 2, 7
Iurky roIour Furle
Iurky day Sunday
I860 Aug 24-Sept 23
Fu//y lhinking leaves many olions oen and
decisiveness become diicull. Be seleclive in all
you do. You are eeling reslricled. heallh issues
seem lo be oul o conlrol. There could be
mullile roblems lhere. You need lo gel in
louch wilh why you are eeling lhis way, and
work lo release yoursel rom lhese reslriclions.
You need an emolional release rom whalever il
is lhal is leaving you eeling sluck. Focus on
your ideas and lans. You will be eeling more
hoeul aboul lhe ulure, and more conidenl
lhal your needs will be mel. You may ind
yoursel eeling al one wilh all o crealion. You
are robably inclined lowards lhinking
osilively; lhis is a lime lo do so seciically.
Iurky number 2, O
Iurky roIour 0olden
Iurky days Salurday
lI88 Sept 24-Oct 23
You can solve many heallh roblems wilh your
wisdom. wilh your exerience and malurily you
could be able lo lake hold o your lie. nslead
o being innovalive, you will need lo adal lo
lhe exisling sel o belies and syslems. Any new
commilmenl, lheory and ashionable lrends
don'l suil you lhis week. You have lo ollow due
rocess and slay wilhin lhe convenlional
bounds o whal is lyically an orlhodox
aroach. A oreign assignmenl is on lhe cards.
There's a good chance lhal you are working loo
hard or recognilion and money. l's imorlanl i
lhis is lhe case lo blow your own horn a lillle,
lo make sure lhal lhe aulhorilies don'l
accidenlally overlook your accomlishmenls.
Iurky number 1, 7
Iurky roIour Red
Iurky day Tuesday
8008FI0 Oct 24-Nov 22
Running away rom lhe realily does nol suil
your ersonalily. you're dealing wilh a heallh
roblem, your usual heallh care raclilioner
may nol be lhe besl hel. you can, look or
clinics and lrealmenls oulside your localily.
Barring a serious heallh concern, whal you lruly
need is a change o lace. Flan a vacalion lo
nalural surroundings and rejuvenale yoursel.
Leave lhe slress behind. Share your
resonsibililies as you may eel slressed. Share
your lhoughls wilh riends. Looking al lhe asl
will hel you sel lhe slage or lhe nexl hase.
You have reviewed your asl exeriences and
have learned rom lhem. All lhe ieces o lhe
u//le o your lie are inally coming logelher.
Iurky number G, 8
Iurky roIour Silver
Iurky day Friday
008I08 Jan 21-Feb 19
You need lo bring some osilive changes in
your lieslyle. You also need more exercise
under an exerl or nulrilional educalion lo
make sure lhal you're ealing beller. holhing
will change by wishing lhings were dierenl.
This can be a crealive lime or you, and a
good lime lo aclually become childlike, dream,
lay, be invenlive. This will deeen and enrich
your lie. 0uldoor games, swimming, gym will
draw your allenlion. You will receive
admiralion rom seniors, sueriors and
colleagues. Environmenl al work will be
riendly, cohesive and lhal would increase
your eiciency. You will enjoy in working in
grou and come oul wilh roduclive resulls.
Iurky number 2, 5
Iurky roIour Brown
Iurky day Thursday
FI80F8 Feb 20-March 20
You are a quiel and keen observer lhis week.
Seeing lhings in a osilive way will change your
ercelion aboul lie. You eel heallhier lhan ever.
Sirilualily and lhings will move well, and you'll
eel hoeul aboul lhe ulure. You may have lo
decide whelher lo ul your energy inlo lhings,
eole, and silualions you already are involved
wilh, or whelher lo send your energy lrying lo
bring more inlo your lie. Avoid
obsession/assion lhis week. You wanl your
sace and send lime in isolalion or a while.
You eel exhausled, now is lhe lime lo resl rom
some diicull limes. Ferhas lhe lrauma o
losing your job, inancial and heallh worries, and
conlicl wilh colleagues are overowering you.
Iurky number 5, 7
Iurky roIour Black
Iurky day Salurday
0F8I0088 Dec 24-Jan 20
You need lime and quielness, lo really gel in
louch wilh your soul and lhe universal
energies around. you make il a riorily, you
can ind a minule or lwo o solilude. Find il
and lake il. This is lhe lime when you eel al
your besl, hysically, menlally and emolionally.
heallh, vilalily and inner vibrancy ill you wilh
ongoing energy and insiralion. Some crealive
ideas will occuy your mind and shine you
brighl. Leo ladies who are in lhe amily way,
would eel heallhier and nourished. There
could be a hase in your lie which begs you
lo bring some desirable changes in your
career. You mighl nol be salisied wilh your
currenl job, swilching lo a new job is likely.
Iurky number 1, 5
Iurky roIour while
Iurky day wednesday
lF0 July 23-August 23
This is an imorlanl lime lo lel go o lhe asl
and any wrongs lhal you erceive were done
lo you, arlicularly i you are dealing wilh
chronic medical issues. Lelling go o your
need lo be righl will go a long way loward
heling you eel beller. You may ind yoursel
exloring ideas and sirilual direclions lhal
you never lhoughl would aeal lo you.
Furlhermore, you may ind more lrulh and
wisdom lhere lhan you ever dreamed. You may
be insired lo slarl a new crealive rojecl, lake
u an arl class, or even in dance. You are al
lhal oinl in your lie where you eel
comorlable wilh who you are and and are nol
araid lo exress yoursel lo olhers.
Iurky number 8, G
Iurky roIour Bleach
Iurky day Monday
86III8I08 Nov 23-Dec 23
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T0 BE F0uh0 h ThE STARS. EvEh ThE
SMALLEST Thh0S ARE wRTTEh ThERE.
F Y0u hA0 BuT SKLL T0 REA0
- BEhJAMh FRAhKLh
Now Dolhi, Soptombor 21, 2014
S
ix years back, a young man in his
late 30s came seeking guidance in
a state of desperation. Till the
other day, he was doing fairly well as
the Project Head of a leading compa-
ny. However, when he left the job for
his own entrepreneurial venture, he
was not able to find any lead despite
the best of his efforts.
Having consumed a considerable
sum out of his savings over a period of
time, and yet not able to make any
headway, he did not know how to go
about it. Having lost all hope, he came
asking: How is it that when I was
working for others, I could earn sub-
stantial profit for them, but when it
came to my own venture, I have
proved a failure so far?
Before I take up your question,
first, be assured that this dismal phase
of yours will pass. When darkness sets
in with the fall of night, it is dispelled
by the morning sunlight that follows.
To find answer to your question, you
better look within yourself, I respond-
ed. I did not get you sir, the young
man reacted. To make things clear,
please share with me the circum-
stances in which you left the job, and
how you got interested in taking up
your own venture, I asked.
One day I was roughed up for a
few lapses. That hurt me badly. I felt
that for all the good work done for the
company, I am never complimented.
But for few silly lapses, I am being
taken to task. I felt that if I could earn
profit for others through my hard
work and leadership skills, why not get
into a business venture myself and be
my own master. And I quit, the young
man responded.
So, caught up in your emotional
hang, impulsively you gave up the job
without applying proper forethought,
and here you are. You failed to realise
that it was not just your individual
effort that made the projects you head-
ed a success. You forgot that but for a
thorough pre-check, detailed planning,
resource mobilisation, and infrastruc-
ture backup, the project would not
have moved at all. Ignoring these
ground realities, your ego made you
jump into action on your instinctive
presuppositions, and with obvious
consequences, I explained.
The question now is: what made
the man conduct mindlessly? For, oth-
ers put to similar situation may not
behave in a similar fashion. To get an
answer, a look into the inner realms of
mind becomes imperative. For, it is
here that memory imprints carried
over from the past are laid down, and
which hold the key to ones inherent
outward conduct. What apparently
seems to provoke a being is just a trig-
ger that sets into motion what lies in
the seed-form within ones mind.
Astrology can serve as a very effective
diagnostic tool to figure out what actu-
ally drives ones mind from within. Let
us now look at the astrological point-
ers of the man in question.
The sun locked in adverse forma-
tion to mars as well as uranus, makes
him temperamental, impulsive, self-
willed, argumentative, tactless and at
times even irrational. Moon in aries
makes him rash, brash, impulsive,
aggressive. Also, he would wish to be
always in the lead and not keen to play
second fiddle to any.
Such characters usually jump into
action without applying proper fore-
thought. It is only when they land into
problem that perforce they have to do
damage control. Moon conjunct sat-
urn, and also placed adverse to restive
rahu, makes him vulnerable to get into
a self-pitying mode if ever put to a sit-
uation not befitting his expectations.
Unnecessary brooding and contempla-
tion that follows unsettles his emo-
tional-frame, and which in turn would
cloud his sense of reasons. All these,
when read together with virgo lagna,
brings in a sense of I am the only
right person syndrome, which makes
him underrate all others, even his
seniors. Venus locked in adverse for-
mation to mischievous neptune
makes him susceptible to incur
losses on account of his own ill-
conceived impulsive decisions.
And the result is there to see.
The positives in him too were
immense, potent enough to take him
to great heights. But all that got cloud-
ed when in his emotional surcharge,
the negatives overtook his minds
drive. That made it incumbent upon
him to address his flip side, for
his potential side to play from the
front. The man took the advice in
all seriousness and religiously followed
the process suggested. And today,
to his merriment, he is able to intelli-
gently steer through his moves with
ease and comfort.
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