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rimo Ministor Narondra Modi's dooision to spond a

working Diwali with soldiors in Siaohon and with a
sootion o tho lood-aootod oitizons o Srinagar has,
prodiotably, drawn both praiso and dorision. Thoso
inolinod to ondorso a proaotivo Primo Ministor havo
viowod tho visit as ovidonoo o his tiroloss dodioation
whilo his oritios havo dismissod it as a publioity stunt
aimod at kooping him in tho nows. This is a dobato that is
unlikoly to bo oonolusivo sinoo tho aultlinos aro
intonsoly politioal.
Yot, rogardloss o how tho visit is porooivod, it is a
oommontary on tho ohurlishnoss o somo Kashmiri
politioians that a visit o any Primo Ministor is viowod as an
aront to God knows what. Thoso days, in hindsight, Atal
Bihari va|payoo is viowod as tho "good" Primo Ministor, a
man who roso abovo all sootarian oonsidorations. Yot, it is
usoul to rooall that whon va|payoo visitod Srinagar and
dolivorod his amous X]bP]XhPc spoooh, tho soparatists had
also oallod a QP]SW |ust as thoy did to oommomorato
Modi's visit last Thursday.
Maybo tho soparatists havo thoir oommitmont to
paymastors aoross tho bordor and havo to show thoir
disploasuro. But that oan't oxplain Chio Ministor Omar
Abdullah's rostinoss and tho astonishing dooision o tho
Stato Congross to boyoott Modi. Tho loods that
dovastatod largo parts o tho Kashmir valloy and rosultod
in hugo monotary lossos to tho pooplo o Srinagar havo,
quito rightly, boon troatod as a national oalamity and tho
initial sanotion o C570 ororo or rooonstruotion and C175
ororo or tho robuilding and upgradation o hospitals was a
rolootion o that. Protonding wo-don't-nood-your-monoy
and at tho samo timo insisting that muoh moro monoy
must bo orthooming is oussod politios and loavos a bittor
tasto in tho rost o tho oountry.
guoss all Chio Ministors aro inolinod to mako
oxaggoratod domands on tho national oxohoquor and tho
National Conoronoo inoumbont is no oxooption. Howovor,
it is intorosting that nono o tho valloy politioians took oaro
to hood tho Primo
Ministor's suggostion that
tho dovastation should bo
soon as an opportunity.
Modi wasn't mouthing
homilios. Ho spooiioally
roorrod to tho
transormation o Kutoh in
tho atormath o tho
Popublio Day oarthquako
o 2001. Tho mannor in
whioh dovastation spurrod
a bout o onorgotio
rooonstruotion in, say,
Bhu| should havo
appoalod to any
politioians' sonso o
ohallongo. Unortunatoly, it
may bo somo timo booro
this opportunity is
graspod by thoso who sot
tho torms o politioal
disoourso in tho Kashmir
valloy. For tho momont,
Chio Ministor Abdullah
sooms moro intont on
onsuring that tho
Assombly olootions duo in
Dooombor aro postponod till a timo whon tho pooplo aro a
littlo moro orgiving o tho Stato Govornmont's shoddy
rooord during tho loods.
Howovor, it is not moroly tho amiliar blamo-tho-Contro
attitudo that was rosponsiblo or tho politioal posturing.
Muoh moro signiioant is tho aot that tho noithor tho
politioal olass nor tho oommontariat has oottonod on to tho
signiioant shits in ndian odoralism in tho past ivo
months. Tho Modi Govornmont's polioy o ompoworing tho
Statos oould woll ohango tho way ndia's ooonomio
dovolopmont proooods in tho ooming yoars.
First, thoro was tho abolition o tho Planning
Commission. What this moant in praotioo is that tho Contro
has signiioantly rolaxod its right to diotato tho arohitooturo
o dovolopmont in tho Statos. With moro powor likoly to bo
vostod in tho Finanoo Commission, whioh ollows a non-
disorotionary prinoiplo o apportioning isoal rosouroos,
thoro will bo loss politios govorning Contro-Stato rolations.
Tho ono-sizo-its-all approaoh avourod by tho orstwhilo
UPA Govornmont has boon dilutod to onablo Statos to
pursuo thoir own prioritios. This implios that whilo Statos
suoh as Gu|arat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
will attompt to aooolorato thoir rospootivo GDP growths, a
Stato suoh as Wost Bongal will pursuo tho path o Gross
National Happinoss and tho ooonomy bo damnod.
Sooondly, a aoot o tho now ooal polioy that was
announood by tho Contro that osoapod both attontion and
oommont suggosts tho now oourso o odoralism. t was
announood that tho ontiro proooods o tho now auotions o
ooal blooks would aooruo to tho Statos whoro tho minos
aro looatod. Poad with tho oarlior announoomont o tho
inoroaso in tho royalty paymonts to tho Statos or minoral
oxtraotion, it suggosts that tho proooods o tho oommodity
boom will aooruo to tho looalitios. Tho olaim that oastorn
ndia, or oxamplo, was boing systomatioally pauporisod
by Dolhi-sponsorod drain o woalth may ond up having
owor and owor takors in tho days to oomo.
What tho Modi Govornmont has ombarkod upon is a
polioy that puts tho onus on dovoloping a oompotitivo
odgo on tho Statos. Tho Contro oan moroly bo a aoilitator
and oroato tho onvironmont or ontropronourship to
lourish. n tho past, Gu|arat was among tho ow Statos
that took ull advantago o tho dismantling o tho
lioonoo-pormit-quota ra|. Tho othors woro loss
ontorprising. Now ho has ohoson to ompowor thom
inanoially to mako a loap orward.
Tho politioians o Jammu & Kashmir, having booomo
usod to ovor-subsidios, appoar to bo slow in grasping tho
now roalitios. Madhya Pradosh and Pa|asthan, or
oxamplo, havo rospondod onorgotioally and
may roap quiok dividonds. Tho rulos govorning politios
and govornanoo aro ast ohanging and hopoully
or tho bottor.
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t is a commentary on
the churlishness of
some Kashmiri
politicians that a visit of
any Prime Minister is
viewed as an affront to
God knows what.
Maybe the separatists
have their commitment
to paymasters across
the border and have to
show their displeasure.
But that can't explain
Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah's frostiness
and the astonishing
decision of the State
Congress to boycott
Narendra Modi
FIhEE hEW8 8EVI6E Q
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T
he Defence Acquisition
Council (DAC), the
highest decision making body
in the Defence Ministry to
clear procurement proposals,
on Saturday approved projects
worth over C80,000 crore. The
biggest programme costing
about C50, 000 crore is
the construction of six
conventional submarines pow-
ered by diesel in India under
the Make in India policy.
The other contracts to get
the nod include purchase of
Israeli-made anti-tank guided
missiles (ATGM), 12 Dornier
aircraft for the Navy and
armoured personnel carriers
(BMP) for the Army.
Since the Narendra Modi
Government assumed office in
May, the DAC in its three meet-
ings has, so far, cleared projects
worth over C1 lakh crore with
focus on indigenous production
in collaboration with foreign
vendors to boost the Indian
Defence industry. The two
earlier meetings held in July and
August cleared projects worth
over C56,000 crore.
In the latest round of DAC
deliberations chaired by Defence
Minister Arun Jaitley on
Saturday, other projects to get
the go-ahead included procure-
ment of rolling stock and radio
relay containers for the Army
besides two submersible vessels
for the Navy to carry out special
operations by its elite Marine
Commandos (MARCOS).
Addressing the apex body,
Jaitley said, National security is
of paramount importance for
the Government. All hurdles
and bottlenecks in procurement
process should be addressed
expeditiously so that pace of
acquisition is not stymied.
Carrying on with its Make
in India policy, the DAC
scrapped the earlier proposal of
buying two submarines from a
foreign manufacturer and
building the other four in
Indian shipyards. Incidentally,
the global tenders or request for
proposal (RFP) for these sub-
marines are yet to be issued
though the Government had
given the nod in 2007.
The DAC formed a sub-
committee to study all the
seven shipyards, including five
Government and two private
ones, for building six sub-
marines in the country. The
empowered panel will inspect
the capability of these yards and
following its recommendations,
the Government will issue a
tender to the suitable yard,
Defence officials said here after
the DAC meeting.
The seven shipyards
include five Public Sector
Undertakings (PSUs), includ-
ing Mazagon Docks Limited,
Goa Shipyard, Garden Reach
Shipbuilders and Engineers
(GRSE), Cochin Shipyard and
Hindustan Shipyard. Pipavav
and Larsen & Toubro are the
two private players.
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Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
N
otwithstanding the Omar
Abdullah Governments
reservations, the Election
Commission on Saturday
announced a five-phase
poll for Jammu & Kashmir,
besides Jharkhand beginning
November 25 till December 20.
The election results will be
declared on December 23.
Barring the ruling National
Conference, which had cited
the recent floods and ongoing
relief work to press for a defer-
ment of the polls, all other par-
ties in J&K had favoured the
elections before the expiry of
the term of the 87-member
Assembly on January 19.
With the announcement of
elections, the Model Code
of Conduct comes into
effect immediately.
Polling will take place on
November 25, December 2, 9,
14 and 20 in both States,
Chief Election Commissioner
VS Sampath said at a media
briefing here.
After scoring impressive
victories in Haryana and
Maharashtra, the BJP is expect-
ing to carry on its fine run in
both J&K and Jharkhand. It has
set an ambitious Mission 44
target for J&K and Mission 55
in Jharkhand.
Expecting a strong backlash
against the Omar Government
for its tardy flood relief work,
the BJP is hoping to register an
impressive performance in the
State where the odds are tilted
heavily against the erstwhile
allies NC and Congress, which
were blacked out in the recent
Parliamentary polls. The BJP
had won 3 of the 6 Lok Sabha
seats. The BJP currently has 10
MLAs in the J&K Assembly
while the NC has 29, Congress
17 and the PDP 19 legislators.
The party feels the Modi
wave coupled with factors like
the NC-Congress split and
above all, the resentment against
the Omar dispensation will
work in its favour. If garnering
the majority mark is a big ask,
the BJP is expecting to register
a sizeable increase in its numbers
compared to its present strength
and become a key player in the
States politics. The Prime
Ministers stay in Kashmir
during Diwali and announce-
ment of flood relief package has
given a push to BJPs poll
ambitions in the State.
In Jharkhand, the BJP is
going for the kill with the aim
of forming the Government on
its own by taking on the
combined might of the JMM-
Cong-RJD-JD(U).
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A
fter Fridays raining of bombs at
Parui, bullets flew thick and fast
at Bhangore as intra-Trinamool
Congress clashes broke out on
Saturday at this politically volatile
South 24 Parganas village on the
southern outskirts of Kolkata ruled by
party strongman Arabul Islam. Two
persons were killed, many injured and
several houses were torched.
The Bhangore clashes broke out
over the control of a local panchay-
at, party sources claimed even as State
Minister Partho Chatterjee said, Any
violence or groupism will not be tol-
erated and things would be taken care
of after an inquiry is done into this.
The burst of violence at Bhangore
occurred within 24 hours of a large
contingent of police force being
attacked with bombs and brickbats
leaving four men in khaki grievous-
ly injured at Parui in Birbhum dis-
trict where hundreds of crude bombs
were subsequently seized by the
police. At least, a dozen shots were
fired and uncounted number of
bombs hurled in one hour, locals said
adding Arabuls men and those
belonging to another district party
leader Kaisar clashed over the con-
trol of a gram panchayat. In the skir-
mish Rameshwar Mandal, an alleged
Kaisar loyalist, died on the spot while
his house and shops were torched.
Bapan Mandal, a teenage sup-
porter of Arabul, was gunned down
in retaliation by Kaisars men almost
soon after. Bullets were fired indis-
criminately and people ran for cover
even as goons with open guns and
naked swords paraded the village
roads while the police contingent
stood helpless for want of orders
from above, eyewitnesses said.
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I
t was a whiff of a fresh Modi air lit-
erally flowing freely across 9
Ashoka Road with the Prime Minister
using the Diwali Milan occasion to
break barriers of his high office to reach
out to the nearly 400 journalists, shak-
ing hands, chatting up and smiling for
selfies for which there was a mad
scramble among the media fra-
ternity. A smiling and relaxed
Modi, with Haryana and
Maharashtra electoral
Diwali gifts under his belt,
recognised some old faces,
opened up with the new
entrants and visibly
enjoyed the schoolkid
enthusiasm of scribes for
half-an-hour as he suddenly
dropped all formalities to be with
them sans his heavy security cordon.
The Diwali Milan was organised by
the BJP media cell at the bungalow adja-
cent to its headquarters, 11 Ashoka
Road, where the huge contingent of
print and electronic media journalists,
particularly those on the BJP beat, got
an opportunity to have the first official
informal interaction with Narendra
Modi after his assuming the prime min-
istership on May 26, this year.
The scenes at the venue were not
without an ironic twist, reminiscent of
a racy Bollywood plot, with the
protagonist revealing his struggling
past to the audience after reaching the
apogee of success in his tumultuous
career. The Prime Minister had worked
in a humble way as a BJP worker in
the same ground where he was
being felicitated by his party
and greeted by the media.
Modi, who used to
stay at the party head-
quarters as a party office
bearer before becoming
CM of Gujarat, said in a
brief address laced with
humour: I used to arrange
chairs here waiting for you.
Those were different days when
we used to interact freely. I had a beau-
tiful relationship with you and it helped
me in Gujarat. Kuch varsh pehle mera
aapse gehra naata rehta tha main
kursiyan lagata tha woh din bhi kuch
aur thay, khulke baatein karte thay, he
said in an apparent nostalgic peek in his
past ties with the scribes.
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New Delhi: The Election
Commission on Saturday
announced bypolls to three
Assembly constituencies in
Delhi, which fell vacant after
BJP MLAs were elected to the
Lok Sabha in the recently-held
general elections. Scheduled
for November 25, the bypolls
in the Capital may not have
much political ramification
in terms of Government
formation, but it would be a
litmus test for gauging the
mood of Delhiites with fresh
elections on the cards.
The Chief Election
Commissioner VS Sampath
said bypolls to Krishna Nagar,
Mehrauli and Tughlaqabad
Assembly seats will be held on
November 25 along with the
first phase of assembly elections
in Jammu & Kashmir and
Jharkhand. The three seats of
the 70-member Delhi Assembly
fell vacant in May after sitting
BJP legislators Dr Harsh
Vardhan, Parvesh Sahib Singh
Verma and Ramesh Bidhuri
were elected to the Lok Sabha.
The three major parties of
the city welcomed the
announcement although initi-
ating fresh war of words against
each other. Delhi BJP president
Satish Upadhyay said, The
announcement of byelections
to the Assembly seats has
proved that both the BJP
Government at the Centre and
the party are ready to go to the
people at an appropriate time.
The results of the byelections
will decide which party is
more popular in Delhi.
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photographer by surprise
when the latter came close to
him to take his photograph
when the PM was wading
through rows of scribes. Modi
was then seen saying some-
thing to the photographer fol-
lowing which he handed over
his camera to the PM. Modi
happily clicked the photogra-
pher, who plans to mount it.
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'cebreaker' Modi melts media chill
2 killed in TMC intra-party clash
Locals said the killings
took place right in front
of a band of policemen
who "simply looked the
other way", apparently
apprehensive because
both sides belonged to
the ruling TMC
f garnering the
majority mark is a big
ask, the BJP is
expecting to register
a sizeable increase
in its numbers
compared to its
present strength and
become a key player
in J&K's politics
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ambitious
'Mission 44'
target for J&K
and 'Mission 55'
in Jharkhand
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armed orces, clears rojecls
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submarines wilhin lhe counlry
under lhe 'Make in ndia' olicy
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assumed oice in May
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guided missile (AT0M)
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cleared
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ill it make money? Yes, big
time! Does it make sense? No,
none at all. But then, when the
kumba of Farah Khan-Gauri Khan-
Shah Rukh Khan and the like get
together, they make sure they have all
the fun on the sets. Some of it spills out
into the screen too, often cocking a
snook at what people call meaningful
cinema, or for that matter, even cinema.
In between all this fun and frolic,
they also make a movie. The result? A
Happy New Year in Happy Diwali time.
Which means, a lot of nonsense, a lot of
naach gana, a lot of SRK and a lot of
nostalgic self-indulgence.
So you have a big heist in operation
but behind the green room of a world
dance competition; a burst of in-your-
face colours alongside in-your-face
dialogues; expected SRKisms like
lampooned dialogues from Main Hoon
Na, Mohabbatein other famous Khan
movies like Devdas, and as always,
DDLJ. The intent? To have fun and
make fun of any and everything that
has made the now ageing Khan Indias
darling.
Unlike all previous Farah movies
like Om Shanti Omand Main Hoon Na,
there is no attempt in this one to have a
well-fleshed out story though a revenge
angle is lightly woven into the three
hour riot. There is hardly any romance
and thats a tad odd when Shah Rukh is
in the centre of things. Yes, he has
become old and haggard and also
unkempt for some reason (please shave
SRK!), but to have Deepika on the
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screen and yet not have a Chemistry
class going does not make sense. Instead,
Farah overtly worships the highly
botoxed abs of SRK which make him
look like a robot with the wrong jab.
Sonu Sood too bares it all. He may be
hard of hearing but is OTT with his
body basics.
Boman Irani as an eligible Parsi
bachelor bumbling through his
community bylanes makes as much
sense as any Honey Irani yelling her
skull off as his mother. You can say the
same for Abhishek Bachchan who is a
new addition to this bandwagon but
does well in a dual role.
Deepika Padukone is madam
Eastman colours and seems to not mind
being the lone bimbette in the film not
doing much among the bunch of
upstarts. Despite her big watery eyes and
sexy figure, she stunningly fails to attract
SRK in any which way which Farah
needs to explain.
Oh, and I almost forgot! Theres
Jackie Shroff too in a blink and go I-am-
bad, I-am-bad mode. He, too, is not here
to make you cringe with villainy but to
have fun. So he makes little impact on
the film. Also, dont forget these are
Indiawalleh and all set to do their own
jugaad to get what they want this
time it is attention they seek so Bharat
too is on a flip side roller coaster.
So, you can say safely, Happy New
Year is one big party the kumba is having
with paid tickets for unsuspecting
visitors like you and me. They are not
bothered if we are getting our moneys
worth. They are! And, thats the
bottomline here. The public, of course,
will be in paisa phenk mode for this no-
we-will-not-allow-any-method-in-this-
madness film.
Already, it claims to have collected
C44.97 crore on the opening day!
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acing extreme conditions,
conquering their fear and pushing
themselves to almost break point, the
dance ke heroes of Dare2Dance have
proved that when it comes to
dancing, nothing is impossible. Be it
the never-seen before dancing
underwater, on the rappelling wall,
on platform hung 500 feet above the
ground or with fire, all the top five
contestants Kunwar Amar, Prince,
Sanam Johar, Emilie Camilion and
Mayuri have done it all with elan.
Its curtains for the show today
and the contestants along with
Akshay Kumar will set the stage on
fire with dangerous action-packed
performances. Like the opening act,
where Akshay Kumar made his
daredevilry entry on a hoverboard,
rumour has it that the Khiladi Kumar
is planning to make a dhamakedaar
entry as well.
Interestingly, while the launch
week of Dare2Dance pushed Life OK
channel to the No 2 spot with the
show rating at 4.5, it couldnt manage
to hold the audiences attention for
long and the ratings dipped to 2.9
even though the contestants opine
that the show had all the makings for
a hit reality show. They also tell you
that nobody could have done justice
to the show as a mentor other than
Akshay Kumar.
Akshay Kumar is the best
mentor and friend. I have never seen
another host and mentor who is
concerned about everyones
performance. The fact that he boosts
our morale to get the best out of us
is the best thing that can happen to
any performer. A person like him
who doesnt smoke or drink and is a
fitness freak is an ideal for all the
youngsters, 22-year-old Sanam Johar,
who was the contestant of Dance
India Dance3 and skipper for DID Lil
Masters 3, says.
Out of the top five contestants,
Johar feels that French dancer Emilie
Camilion, is the toughest contender
as she is a gymnastics as well. Emilie
is made for this show. She has a lot
of strength and flexibility. She is like
a soldier of Dare2Dance who can do
anything. During her performance,
everybody would watch her jaw-
dropping performance. We all knew
how difficult and dangerous her
acts were, but she made it look so
easy. It was amazing to watch her
perform, Johar tells you adding that
he wants to make a name for himself
in Bollywood.
Whereas Emilie feels that Sanam
is a complete dancer and adds a
personal touch to create his own style.
Sanam is the toughest competitor.
He is a complete dancer with very
good quality movement and
interpretation of any dance style.
Having said that, Im confident that
I can beat him in the finals. To mix
acrobatics and dance can be a wow
factor and this combined with my
ability to have a fusion of French and
Indian style will give me an edge over
the others, Emilie, who has worked
as a body double for Katrina Kaif in
Dhoom 3, tells you.
The winner will walk away with
C25 lakh, a CBR 250R Honda Dream
bike, to work with Life OK on a
project for one year and a new Tata
Zest car. Talking about the finale,
Johar tells you that there will be three
rounds where the contestants will be
asked to dance on an ice floor. One
of the rounds will be of dance relay
where each contestant will be given
18 minutes to dance back to back.
Then the eliminations will take place.
The final round will be a dance face-
off where the top three contestants
will compete for the trophy.
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QAA BAAIL MUJHE MAAR AWARD:
Neha Marda who plays Urmi in Doli
Armaanon Ki.
If anyone on TV gives meaning to
kulhadi par pair its our roti dhoti Urmi bahu.
Its been 250 episodes already but none that
passes without Urmi crying or feeling be-
littled. So much so that Internet forum
members started calling her the great wail
of Urmi! What gets our goat is that each time
her tyrant husband dear or pati parmeshwar
vents his frustration on Urmi, she pledges
to give it back and never return... but lo and
behold, a couple of minutes later she is there
falling at his feet begging for forgiveness.
Why? Because she dared to say that she will
say something to him!
Last we heard, Urmi bahu was on a road
trip as Samrat was trying mean tricks to get
her back as a maid to his khandaan.
Award meter: In absolute protest she
does not get any number.
QMYTHOLOGY KA TO BAND BAJA
DIYA AWARD: Ekta Kapoor and her team
for her wild natakiya rupantars in Jodha
Akbar
This one takes the cake for fooling the
audience in the name of historical romance.
There is not one but so many glitches in the
serial. One wonders if the creatives
themselves know their history.
Sample this: On one special occasion,
Jodha begum decides to make navratan
korma for her jallad husband Akbar! All
good. Only problem is that the navratan
korma was made and christened even
before the navratnas are introduced in
Akbars court. Ektaji, are you trying to tell
us that Akbar named the nine jems as
Navratnas after his begum fed him the
korma? Silly we! For us, it was the other way
round.
Award meter: 11/10. Let Balaji figure
this Maths ka natakiya rupantar.
QHAI-DARD AWARD FOR PAINFUL
PROLONGATION: Simars (Deepika
Samson) saural for having faced every
tribulation there is in this world (including
a ghost, mind you) and yet going on and on
and on.
It seems like you have grown up
watching Simar and her problems galore?
You probably suffer from too much of this
Simar-Roli phobia! If you have pledged to
watch the end of this show; then God be with
you because we have just heard from the
producers Theres lot more of ups and
downs in Simars life. Really? I mean, are they
trying to reach Simar to the high
heavens? How much more up
will they take her?
Award meter: Infinity.
QBIG BANG-BANG THEORY
ON TV: Manish desperate Paul and
Karan Johar for their double
meaning dialogues on Jhalak
Dikhhla Jaa.
If there was ever a show that
would put you to shame, it was Jhalak
Dikhhla Jaa season 7. At one point it
seemed like Paul and Johar were
having a little bit of dostana at the
expense of the viewers and getting paid
for it too!
KJo, a sincere advise for you is please
keep your gender confusion to yourself
warna audience ko Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (up
there in the brain)!
Award meter: sex/10
QBABAJI KA THULLU AWARD: From the
makers of Bade Achhe Lagte Hain and
Rangrasiya to their committed viewers.
These serials came, saw huge TRPs and
conquered many hearts before they were
pulled off air in a big haste. In some cases
the lead protagonists were only told a day
before the shooting was wrapped up.
We were told that because the producers
got into a scuffle and would not see eye-to-
eye with each other was the reason
Rangrasiya was taken off air. The leads found
their calling in dance reality shows which
served them the trophy on a platter.
Viewers ka kya? Well, babaji ka thullu.
Award meter: Missing in action.
QADULT-RATED: To all soap that
showcased things on prime time.
If suhaag raat sequences were shown for
10 minutes, there was wife beating and brutal
rape scenes that made it to the TV
bandwagon and that too on prime time.
No, we are not talking about the crime
shows here. All this and more was
revealed in our saas-bahu shows
nonetheless!
A little birdie tells us that soon
there will be reel time kissing on
TV. We can only hope that it looks
more aesthetic than it sounds.
Award meter: A-plus out of
10.
QSUPER POWER AWARD:
Goes to Sooraj Thapar who played
the egoist business tycoon Suresh
Modi in Ek Nayee Pehchaan.
Not everyday does a man get
to have an affair with a famous
actresses of the yore but Thapar
was two-time lucky. Imagine
being married to both Poonam
Dhillon and Padmini Kolhapuri
in one janam.
That Thapar managed to
hold on to his pehchaan post the
show is praise worthy.
Award meter: 2/10
QEKKIS TOPON KI SALAMI
AWARD: To the audience
who still watch Balika Vadhu
and Yeh Rishta... Seriously.
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QHow was your experience portraying
such an intense character in Everest?
Playing Anjali Singh Rawat has been
a life-changing experience for me. Not
just because Everest marks my acting
debut but working with director
Ashutosh Gowariker and the entire team
who are the masters in their field, is a
great learning experience. Through the
series, I have climbed mountains that I
may have ever attempted to do so
otherwise. Anjali has changed me and
made me more confident and stronger
both mentally and physically. I never
knew I couldve done something like this.
Through this show, I have pushed myself
to an extent I never knew I was capable
of.
QWhat was most difficult thing to do
climbing the mountains in
Uttarkashi, shooting in harsh weather
conditions or doing action scenes?
The most challenging was shooting
in harsh weather conditions. It used to
snow heavily one minute and then, the
very next minute there would be bright
sunshine. As for dong action sequences,
I was given proper training. Also being
away from my family made me homesick.
I had never been away from them for so
long; I could not even call them due to
network problem. I was completely cut
off and that would make me feel
depressed at times. But whenever I
managed to call them, they would
encourage me and have been supportive
all through.
QWhat is your Everest in life?
My biggest Everest now is to get
accepted and liked by the audience. I just
believe in working hard and hope that the
rest will follow.
QHow similar is your reel life character
to your real life?
Like Anjali, Im the girl-next-door.
But I couldnt relate to was the fact that
how Anjalis father dislikes her and
wished that he didnt have a girl child.
QYour experience with working with
Ashutosh Gowariker.
From giving auditions to getting
selected to a year-long training in
mountain climbing, doing action to
acting, everything is very new to me. To
get the pulse of the character, Ashutosh
sir helped me a lot. He is an extra-
ordinary person. A perfect team player
with leadership qualities. He is also very
dedicated to his work. He knows his job
and how to get it done the way he wants
it.
QDo you think Anjali, as a character,
has the power to bring a change in the
people?
Anjali will definitely break the
stereotype image of parents not wanting
a girl. She is an aspiring character. Its such
an irony that in the 21st century, even
educated people differentiate and treat a
girl in a different way than a boy. The
notion of ladkiya yeh nahi kar payegi has
to be break. Also, women need to
understand that mountaineering as a
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hree Assembly constituen-
cies in the national Capital
which fell vacant after their
MLAs resigned following their
victories in the recently-held
Lok Sabha elections will go
to polls again on November 25.
While announcing the bypolls
for Del hi, the Election
Commission also stated that in
case the Delhi Assembly is
dissolved after the Supreme
Courts verdict, the bypolls
shall be withdrawn. However,
the results of the three seats
Krishna Nagar, Tughlaqabad
and Mehrauli will be out by
December 23.
Chief Election
Commissioner VS Sampath
said the Model Code of
Conduct has come into force in
the Capital with immediate
effect as bypolls to the three
Assembly seats will be held on
November 25, along with the
first phase of Assembly elec-
tions in Jammu & Kashmir and
Jharkhand. The three seats of
the 70-member Delhi
Assembly fell vacant in May
after sitting BJP legislators
Harsh Vardhan, Pravesh Verma
and Ramesh Bidhuri were
elected to the Lok Sabha.
For Delhi, we have come
at the end of the road. We were
awaiting developments in the
Supreme Court. Now is the
time (for bypolls in Delhi), said
Sampath. November 28 is the
deadline for the poll body to
hold bypolls in Delhi after the
seats fell vacant.
Election Commissioner HS
Brahma later told the reporters
that in case the SC or the Delhi
Lieutenant Governor decides to
dissolve the Delhi Assembly,
the EC notification regarding
the bypolls would be with-
drawn. The notification for
the bypolls will be issued on
October 28, kick-starting the
process of filing nominations.
The last date to register nom-
inations is November 5, while
the scrutiny will take place on
November 7. The last date of
withdrawing names from the
electoral battle has been fixed
for November 10.
While polling will take
place on November 25, count-
ing will be conducted on
December 23, along with those
for Jammu & Kashmir and
Jharkhand. The poll process in
Delhi has to be completed by
December 29.
The Delhi Assembly elec-
tion results threw up a hung
Assembly as both the major
parties, the BJP with its 32-seat
haul and the AAP with its 28
seats fell short of the majority
figure of 35 seats. Presidents
Rule was imposed in Delhi on
February 17 after the AAP
Government quit office on
February 14.
Meanwhile, a statement
from the Election Commission
later said the electoral rolls of
the three Assembly con-
stituencies have been revised
with reference to January 1,
2014 as the qualifying date and
have been finally published on
January 31, 2014 in the
National Capital Territory of
Delhi (NCR).
The Commission also
added that the Electoral Photo
Identify Card will be the main
document of identification of
a voter. However, to ensure that
no voter is deprived of his/her
franchise, if his/her name fig-
ures in the electoral rolls, sep-
arate instructions will be issued
to allow additional documents
for identification of voter at the
time of bypolls.
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hile maintaining that his
party is all set to fight
byelections in the national
Capital, Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) convener Arvind
Kejriwal alleged that the BJP
was running away from elec-
tions as its own survey sug-
gests that the AAP would have
full majority in Delhi. Besides,
the former Chief Minister
would also lodge a complaint
with the Election Commission
against the BJP on Monday.
The BJP is running away
from the elections in Delhi. The
AAP is fully ready for the
byelections, said Kejriwal in a
tweet on Saturday. Further,
accusing BJP of trying to get
voters list fudged in Delhi,
Kejriwal also said it would
lodge a complaint with the
Election Commission.
He alleged that BJP has
promised C1,500 for one fake
vote and C200 to get any vote
for AAP deleted. A top BJP
leader has directed all Delhi
BJP MLAs to get at least 5,000
fake votes made in each con-
stituency and get AAP votes
deleted. Bribe rate is C1,500 for
new fake vote, C200 to get any
vote deleted. This information
was given by someone who did
this job for BJP last week. We
are meeting EC officials at 11
pm on Monday and making a
formal complaint, Kejriwal
said on Twitter.
Delhi has been under
Presidents Rule since Kejriwal
resigned as Chief Minister on
February 14. In the Assembly
elections held last year, the BJP
had won 31 seats in the 70-
member House while the AAP
emerged victorious in 28 seats.
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T
he Election Commissions
announcement of bypoll
schedule in the Capital may not
have much political ramification
in terms of Government for-
mation, but it would certainly be
a litmus test to gauge the mood
of Delhiites with high possibil-
ity of fresh elections. As the
Delhi electoral office indicated
on withdrawal of the bypolls if
the Supreme Court or the
Lieutenant Governor dissolve
the Assembly it is clear that
the Capital is set to remain
under suspended animation till
February next year when its
one-year term ends.
Scheduled for November
25, the bypolls will hardly be an
answer to the longstanding
uncertainty about Government
formation and re-elections for
Delhi, BJP leaders opine.
The bypolls will be no
answer to balance political equa-
tions in Delhi. At present, the
number of seats required to
form a Government is 36 which
the BJP will not be able to
achieve even after winning all the
three seats as it has 29 (includ-
ing one from its SAD ally)
MLAs. Even if we assume that
we win all the three seats in the
bypolls, we would be back to
square one. Then also we would
require six MLAs to prove a
majority of 36, explained a
senior BJP leader, saying that
fresh poll is the only alternative.
Besides, the bypolls would
be a warm-up session leading
to an imminent fresh election
in the Capital. While the
morale of BJP workers is high
after winning Maharashtra and
Haryana Assembly polls, the
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on
the other hand, is confident
and expecting a good show in
the bypolls while Congress
leaders are on the back foot
expecting nothing short of a
miracle in the polls.
All the three major parties
of the city welcomed the
announcement.
Delhi BJP chief Satish
Upadhyay said, The announ-
cement of byelections has
proved that both the BJP Gover-
nment at Centre and the party
are ready to go to the people at
appropriate time. The results of
byelections will decide which
party is more popular in Delhi.
BJP leader and former
Finance Minister Jagdish
Mukhi said that the party is
ready for the elections here.
However, partys central lead-
ership will take a final call on
it, he added.
Meanwhile, Delhi Congress
spokesperson Mukesh Sharma
said that the party is ready for
the polls. The AAP too wel-
comed the move. The three
Assembly seats, which fell
vacant after the Lok Sabha elec-
tions, are Krishna Nagar in
East Delhi, Tuglakabad and
Mehrauli in South Delhi.
There are indications that
the BJP may field its party pres-
ident Satish Upadhyay from
Mehrauli. A source said that
South Delhi MP Ramesh
Bidhuri had been lobbying to
get the Tuglakabad seat ticket
for his nephew Vivek.
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ast Delhis Trilokpuri area
continued to smoulder as
incidents of stone pelting and
violence were reported on
Saturday. The violence had
erupted on Friday night after a
group of people belonging to
minority community forcibly
disrupted a religious gathering.
Following the violence, the
Rapid Action Force (RAF) car-
ried out a flag march and comb-
ing operations in some blocks on
Saturday and rounded miscre-
ants involved in stone pelting.
More than 14 people, including
13 police personnel, have sus-
tained injuries and over 60 mis-
creants have been apprehended
for rioting and arson while 10
have been arrested. According to
the police, five people have
been injured in the firing.
Fearing backlash, several
families have locked their hous-
es and fled. Heavy police
deployment has been made to
secure the area and raids are
being conducted to arrest the
trouble-mongers.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police (DCP) East district Ajay
Kumar said that restriction
under Section 144 of the CrPC
has been imposed in the entire
Trilokpuri area to restore nor-
malcy. People have been advised
to refrain from visiting the
areas, he added.
Meanwhile, rowdy ele-
ments started hurling acid bot-
tles and bulbs on the security
personnel. Later, the RAF
recovered several bottles.
Blocks 15, 32, 27, and 15-23
stretch were worst-hit with
broken bricks and stones
strewn on the roads. Police had
to use force to bring the situa-
tion to normalcy. Those arrest-
ed have been booked on the
charges of rioting.
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riminal negligence on part
of the doctors of a city
Government hospital cost a
man his life. The shocking
incident took place in the
Combined Hospital. Gopal
Singh (60) who was admit-
ted to the emergency ward of
the hospital remained unat-
tended for a week or so.
He was allegedly left to
fend for himself and eventual-
ly succumbed to his ailments.
Gopals body was found lying
on the hospital premises. Even
more perplexing fact is that
despite being ignored by the
hospital authorities, he appears
as absconding in the
hospital records.
Taking conginsance of the
incident, the District Magistrate
has now asked the City
Magistrate to conduct an
enquiry and submit the report.
He remained unattended
for eight days in the hospital.
He was brought by one Piyush
Sharma to the hospital. After
completing admission formal-
ities he was referred to the
physician in the hospital ward
by the emergency medical offi-
cer Dr Himanshu. But his
admission was not found on
any register inside the ward
while a pharmacist claimed
that she sent the pateint to the
ward. However, the ward in-
charge contradicted pharma-
cists claim and said she never
received a patient inside the
ward, informed the City
Magistrate Kapil Singh han-
dling the on the spot enquiry.
The two persons the
pharmacist and the ward in-
charge are responsible for
the lapse. He would recom-
mend a departmental action
to the district magistrate on
the basis of the enquiry report
being conducted by the City
Magi strate, sai d Chi ef
Medi cal Of f i cer (CMO)
Dr Ajay Agrawal.
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n Sunday, Manohar Lal
Khattar would become the
first BJP Chief Minister of
Haryana when he takes oath of
office and secrecy.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and senior BJP leaders
will attend the oath-taking cer-
emony of Khattar at Panchkula
on Sunday.
Prime Minister, BJP chief
Amit Shah, some Union
Cabinet Ministers, CMs of the
BJP ruled states and senior
leaders among others would
attend the function tomor-
row, Haryana BJP spokesman
Vir Kumar Yadav said on
Saturday.
Among other leaders, out-
going Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda had
also been invited.
The venue of the oath-tak-
ing ceremony, which was ear-
lier Tau Devi Lal stadium, has
been shifted to Panchkulas
HUDA ground in Sector 5.
Elaborate arrangements
have been made for Sundays
function, which in addition to
the presence of top dignitaries
is going to see huge rush of the
BJP workers.
Haryana Chief Secretary
Shakuntala Jakhu and Director
General of Police S N Vashisht,
Panchkulas Deputy
Commissioner S S Phulia held
a meeting to review the
arrangements for the function.
Senior Haryana BJP lead-
ers also remained huddled in a
meeting today to ensure that
the event passes off smoothly.
Tight security measures
are being put in place, with over
3,000 cops being deployed.
Haryana BJP leaders claim that
nearly one lakh people are
expected to attend the function.
Roads leading to the
HUDA ground were being
given a facelift.
The Prime Minister will
land at the Chandigarh Airport
from where he will drive down
to the venue, officials said.
In a departure from the
past, the venue for the oath-
taking function has been kept
at Panchkula, which earlier
used to be at Raj Bhawan in
Chandigarh, the common cap-
ital of both Haryana and
Punjab.
BJP has created history by
coming to power on its own for
the first time in Haryana, since
its inception in 1966.
In the 90 member Haryana
assembly, BJP bagged 47 seats,
INLD 19 and its ally SAD 1,
Congress 15, Haryana Janhit
Congress (HJC BL) 2, BSP 1
and five independents romped
home victorious.
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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief
Minister Parkash Singh Badal is
expected to attend the swearing-
in ceremony of Manohar Lal
Khattar. However, there is bit-
terness in the BJP as Shiromani
Akali Dal campaigned and
fought against its Punjab ally in
the Haryana Assembly polls.
In alliance with the Indian
National Lok Dal (INLD), the
Akali Dal contested two seats in
the Assembly polls and won one.
During campaigning against
the BJP, the presence of Badal in
the function is considered to be
a political anti-climax.
The Punjab Chief Minister
has been invited for the swear-
ing-in ceremony of new
Haryana Chief Minister, sched-
uled to be held on October 26,
said an official spokesman. The
invitation was received by the
Punjabs Resident Commiss-
ioner. The spokesman said
Badal would also receive Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at
Chandigarh airport, who too is
going to attend the function.
Badal, who is patron of
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD),
had campaigned in Haryana
for his party and Indian
National Lok Dal (INLD) can-
didates, much to the dismay of
BJP leaders in Haryana.
The SAD and the BJP have
alliance in Punjab, but the the
Akalis backed INLD in
Haryana citing family ties
between Badals and
Om Parkash Chautala. PNS
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T
he row between Telangana
and Andhra Pradesh over
the sharing of river Krishna
waters and power has escalat-
ed with the Telangana Chief
Minister declaring that he will
drag his Andhra Pradesh coun-
terpart to Supreme Court.
After a detailed discussion
on the issue in State Cabinet,
Telangana Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao launched a
blistering attack on N
Chandrababu Naidu holding
him squarely responsible for the
acute power crisis in his State.
Using sobriquets like
cheat and shaitan (evil) for
Naidu, KCR said that the
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
was enemy of Telangana farm-
ers and he was trying to destroy
them to project the Telangana
Government as a failure.
The two States are locked in
a fierce political duel over the
issue of power generation in the
left bank canal power house of
Srisailam project. While
Andhra Pradesh Government
was demanding to stop the
generation of 750 MW of power
from this plant and also stop-
ping the release of water from
Srisailam project, KCR has
rejected it outright. There is no
question of stopping power
generation as Telangana has a
right to utilise the water of
Srisailam till the level in the
reservoir comes down to 834
feet from the present 857 feet.
Challenging Naidu for a
public debate either in
Hyderabad or in Vijayawada on
Srisailam waters issue, KCR
said, He is responsible for cre-
ating a power crisis in the
State by violating the direction
of Central Electricity Authority
and AP State Electricity
Regulatory on power sharing.
He said that under the AP
State Reorganisation Act,
Telanganas share in electricity
was fixed at 53.89 per cent but
the Andhra Pradesh Govern-
ment was depriving it of its due
share. He also alleged that
Naidu was pressurising the
Union Minister for Water
Resources Uma Bharati to force
Krishna Water Management
Board to stop power generation.
KCR appealed to Prime
Minister Narendar Modi to
discharge his duty of protect-
ing the legitimate rights of
Telangana. He alleged that the
Union Government had
become silent spectator of the
injustice to Telangana ever
since its formation.
The AP Chief Minister is
flouting the Act and as the
Prime Minister you have to
come to the rescue of
Telangana, he said.
KCR said that the State
Government was talking to
the best lawyers in the country
to challenge two previous GOs
Number 69 and 107 on main-
taining water level of Srisailam
and Nagarjunasgar projects.
We will move our petition
before Supreme Court on
Monday or Tuesday, he said.
Warning Naidu not to play
with fire, KCR recalled that it
was the Naidu Government,
which had fixed the level of
835 feet up to which water can
be drawn form Srisailam.
When the YSR Government
tried to increase it Naidu and
his Telugu Desam Party had
agitated against it.
Giving an example of how
Telangana was being deprived
of its rightful share in electric-
ity generated in both the States,
he said Krishnapatnam
Thermal Power Project was
deliberately shut down to cre-
ate a crisis in Telangana.
Naidu is treating this pro-
ject as his Jagir, he said point-
ing out that Telangana had
invested C1,050 crore in this
project and it should get 54%
power from this plant.
Situation has turned explo-
sive because power crisis in
Telangana had worsened to
the level that crops were getting
destroyed. Farmers were on
war path and an estimated 250
crisis ridden farmers have com-
mitted in the State over the last
four months.
Telugu Desam has also
launched an agitation in
Telangana demanding sufficient
power supply to the farmers.
While KCR thundered that
Naidu was playing a dirty polit-
ical game on the issue, many
TDP leaders on Saturday coun-
tered his allegations. It is KCR
who is playing politics. He was
blaming Naidu for the failure of
his Government, said TDP
floor leader in Telangana
assembly E Dayakar Rao.
Apart from the TDP the
state BJP state leader G Kishan
Reddy has also demanded an
all party meeting on the issue
of power crisis.
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From Page 1
Locals said the killings took place right
in front of a band of policemen who sim-
ply looked the other way, apparently
apprehensive because both sides belonged
to the ruling Trinamool Congress.
The incident led the lone BJP MLA
Samik Bhattacharya to comment: With
the Trinamool having muscled its way into
the Opposition bases clashes are now
breaking out among themselves for con-
trolling the booty.
This situation will only worsen in the
coming days as with the ouster of the
Opposition from most areas, the
Trinamool has only one goal that is loot-
ing the State. They have no other thing on
their agenda.
We have received complaints and
looking into all angles, SP Praveen
Tripathy said, adding the police were not
sure how the illegal arms found their way
into the village. One person has been
detained for questioning. Locals said
they saw at least 50 people from both sides
wielding guns.
The clashes took place as Arabul, a for-
mer MLA allegedly revered throughout
the district more for his notoriety than his
ideological values, tried to depose the sit-
ting Panchayat Pradhan insiders said.
When Panchu Mandal, the Pradhan,
brought stay orders from the court
Arabuls men allegedly played the decider
on the street leading to the two deaths.
Curiously, hours after the incident,
Arabul was seen driving to the police sta-
tion in his beacon fitted SUV and dri-
ving back.
Reacting to the incident, former
CPI(M) MP Sujan Chakrabarty said,
The clashes are fallout of the Trinamools
attempt to unleash one-party control in the
State. Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury
said, Mamata Banerjee has created a band
of Frankensteins monsters that are now
beyond the control of the party leadership.
Meanwhile, in a bizarre development
the same police force - apparently under
political pressure - that were on Friday
attacked by the Trinamool men at
Birbhum on Saturday refused to take the
14 accused into their custody for further
interrogation.
When asked, the SP said the accused
had already given the names of 36 more
people involved in the crime making it
pointless to take them into police custody.
From Page 1
It had swept the Lok Sabha
elections bagging 12 of the 14
seats. In the 81-member
Jharkhand Assembly, the BJP
has 17 seats, the JMM 15, the
Congress 12 with JVM and
AJSU having 6 seats each.
The JMM is trying to pitch
itself as the spearhead of the
four-party coalition even as
the Congress is in two minds
though it is presently part of
the Government headed by
Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
The term of the Jharkhand
Assembly ends on January 3.
Under its Mission 55, the
BJP aim to win at least 55 seats
in the Jharkhand Assembly
election to establish a stable
Government in the mineral-
rich State, which has faced
political uncertainty ever since
its creation in 2000 due to frac-
tured mandates leading to
coalition Governments.
The EC will employ paper
trail system in three Assembly
constituencies of J&K and
seven Assembly constituencies
in Jharkhand. The paper trail
or voter-verified paper audit
trail (VVPAT) is intended as
an independent verification
system for voting machines
designed to allow voters to
verify that their vote was cast
correctly and rule out election
fraud or malfunction of elec-
troni c voti ng machi nes
(EVMs).
Asked whether it was the
right decision to hold polls
now in J&K, Sampath said the
calamity will have no special
impact on polls. The ECs
mandate is to hold elections on
time, he said, adding, The
Commission made two-stage
verification before announcing
the poll schedule. All politi-
cal parties (except Omar
Abdullahs party) had said
there is no reason or justifica-
ti on to del ay pol l s, the
Commi ssi on tol d
mediapersons.
As the winter chill sets in,
first in the upper reaches of the
States and gradually to the
Valley, the Commission has
spread out the polling into five
phases, depending on the cli-
mate and geographic location
of Assembly segments. The
first phase on November 25
will cover 15 Assembly seats.
These i nclude three i n
Baramulla, two in Srinagar,
four in Ladakh and six in
Udhampur. The five-phase
polling in Jharkhand is in
view of making security
arrangements in view of the
Naxal menace. Similarly, ter-
rorism in the Valley has been
taken into account for spread-
ing out the poll process.
As many as 10,015 polling
booths will be set up for facil-
itating 77.25 lakh voters to
exercise their franchise. In
the last Assembly elections
held in 2008, it was a seven-
phase polling that witnessed a
good voter turnout of 61
per cent.
From Page 1
At present, India has 15
submarines, including one
nuclear powered platform
Chakra, and desperately needs
more submarines to maintain
operational preparedness. Six
Scorpene submarines are under
construction at Mazagon
Docks and the first vessel is
expected to go for trials the end
of next year.
The submarine project
cleared on Saturday will have
advanced stealth features
besides air independent
propulsion and land attack
missile launching capability,
officials said. Procurement of
two submersible vessels for
special commando operations
was also given the go-ahead
and its total cost will be about
`2,000 crore, they said.
In an effort to enhance
maritime surveillance, a project
to manufacture 12 more
Dornier aircraft also got the
approval of the DAC. The
Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited (HAL) will build these
planes at a total cost of `1,850
crore. The Navy at present has
more than 45 Dorniers.
As regards, the Army, the
long pending procurement of
anti-tank guided missiles got
through with the DAC approv-
ing Israeli-made Spike after
extensive trials by the user. The
contract is worth over `3,200
crore for 8,000 missiles and 300
launchers and they will be
bought off the shelf. The sub-
sequent lot of missiles will be
manufactured in India under
the transfer of technology pact,
sources said.
The Government also
approved production of 363
armoured personnel carriers
(BMP-II) at a cost of `1,800
crore. Ordnance Factory in
Medak will manufacture these
vehicles. Similarly, the army
was allowed to buy 1,761 radio
relay containers carrying elec-
tronic warfare system mount-
ed on vehicles and it will cost
`662 crore.
Another crucial project
to repl ace rolling stock,
including special rail wagons
which are more than 40 years
old for transporting tanks
and heavy weaponry, was also
cleared. This contract to pro-
cure 1,768 wagons is pegged
at `740 crore.
From Page 1
Bridging the seeming gap inad-
vertently crept between him and the
media since he took charge of the
country, the Prime Minister said he
was looking for ways to expand his
relationship with it. Some way will
be found. It is important to interact
with media directly rather than
reportage and articles. By interacting
directly, one gets to know things
which mediapersons cannot report.
Not only does one get information
but also vision, which is very valu-
able, he said.
Modi, a big proponent of the
social media, has been tweeting fre-
quently to communicate his views
and ideas and taking feedback before
and after becoming the Prime
Minister.
While Modi waded through the
crowd of scribes, many clicked one
or two quick selfies of themselves
with the Prime Minister. All this
while, the Prime Minister patiently
offered his autographs to more of his
die-hard fans.
He took the opportunity to take
media along on his drive on the
Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan appreci-
ating its role in highlighting the
Governments cleanliness drive.
Aapne kalam ko jhadu mein convert
kar diya hai, PM ke jhadu haath mein
lene se kaam nahin chalega... aap
roshni phailaiye, he said.
Modi said media is inspiring cit-
izens to work and take initiative.
More than healthcare, preventive care
was more important, he said, and
cleanliness drive was a national duty
with no one untouchable in this
movement. He said the mindset that
all work should be done by the
Government was changing with the
theme that the people together with
the Government would accomplish
all the tasks.
All the top-rung Ministers of the
Modi Cabinet and BJP, including
party president Amit Shah, senior
Ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley,
Sushma Swaraj, Dharmendra
Pradhan and Prakash Javadekar,
were in attendance.
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I
n a significant development,
five Maoists, including four
women, surrendered before
Additional SP, Bonai, RB
Panigrahi, at the K Bolanga
police station in Sundargarh
district on Friday.
Panigrahi said the Red
rebels who gave up arms are
Sukramani Tarkat alias Sunita
of Tirliposhi, Mamata Bodra
and Chaitu Tarkata of Nauagao,
Jareikela, and Merry Munda
and Gouri Naik of Kiriburu.
Sukramani was a cadre
Maoist carrying an award of Rs
one lakh on her head.
These Maoists had been
supplied with 303 rifles. Being
frustrated and tortured in
Maoist camp, they left the
camp, they said.
Sukramani had joined the
Maoist camp in 2009 and left it
in 2013. Mamata, who was
engaged in entertainment activ-
ities in Maoist camp, had joined
it in 2006 and left in 2010.
Chaitu, who had joined the
camp in 2005 and had been
involved in various heinous
crimes in the Odisha-Jharkhand
border, left the camp in 2006.
Merry had joined the Maoists in
2009 and left it in 2012.
Gouri, who was discharging
the work of a cook, had joined
the camp in 2010, left it 2012
after the Thalokobad firing.
After leaving the Maoist
camp, they all had been lead-
ing hide and sick life. Being
attracted by the move of police
under Rourkela SP A Singh,
they decided to come to the
social mainstream and sur-
rendered, said Panigrahi.
On the basis of the infor-
mation provided by these for-
mer Maoists, the police can go
ahead with its mission to curb
the Maoist activities in the
area, said a confident Panigrahi.
It may be noted that a cou-
ple of weeks ago, four Maoists
had surrendered before the
Rourkela SP.
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he portals of the Himalayan
shrine of Kedarnath, the
11th Jyotirling of Lord Shiva,
were closed on Saturday for the
winter months amidst rituals
and Vedic chants and also light
snow.
Meanwhile, the temple of
river Goddess Yamuna at
Yamunotri shrine in Uttarkashi
district was also closed for the
winter on Saturday morning.
The Bhog Murti of Yamuna
was taken in a palanquin to her
maternal abode in Kharsali
by her brother Shani Devta
on the auspicious occasion of
Bhaiyya Dooj on Saturday.
The main doors of the
Kedarnath temple were bolted
around 8 am after elaborate
closure rituals in accordance
with the Vedic strictures were
performed under the supervi-
sion of the chief priest
Gangadhar Lingam.
The rituals began around 3
am and devotees offered jal-
abhishek to the Lord at the
Garbh Griha or the sanctum
sanctorum for about an hour.
The chief priest declared that
the Lord Kedar had taken
samadhi and closed the door
of Garbh Griha at 6 am.
After this, the bhog idol of
Lord Kedarnath was moved to
the outer chamber and later it
was carried out of the temple
at 8 am amid loud cheers of
har har mahadev and Jai
Kedar Baba by the devotees.
Braving the chilly winds
and light snowfall, the closure
ceremony was attended by
around 100 persons, mostly
locals. One foreign tourist was
also there. This aside, a battery
of priests and officials from the
temple committee and admin-
istrative officials were present.
The Bhog idol would halt
at Rampur on Saturday. It
would reach Guptkashi on
Sunday and arrive at Ukhimath
on October 27, where it would
reside at Omkareshwar temple
for the next six months.
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Indian Navy from the Eastern
Naval Command, who had
raised allegations of financial
irregularities against his senior
officers, on Saturday alleged
that her husband was being ille-
gally kept in a hospital in
Kochi and efforts were being
made to establish that he was
suffering from mental illness.
Sunil Kumar Sahu, ship-
wright artificer at INS
Kattabomman, Vijayanar-
ayanam, in Tirunelveli, which
comes under the Eastern Naval
command, had allegedly raised
allegations of corruption
against his commanding offi-
cers. Sahus wife Aarti said he
was locked up in a cell follow-
ing this and brought to Kochi
on October 23 and admitted at
the INS Sanjivini in Kochi for
treatment. Agencies
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F
or 40 years, a Haryana-
based private education
trust that failed to construct a
school on a land allotted to it
by the State Government came
up with a clever idea in the
Supreme Court for the sake of
reclaiming the prime land. It
offered to build a school for 500
poor, underprivileged children
at the same plot spread over 76
acre undertaking to bear the
education fees of all students
for all times to come. Not
impressed, the court rejected
the offer realising that the pro-
posal was only to camouflage
the real purpose that of
retaining the land.
Raunaq Education
Foundation had obtained land
from the Haryana Government
in January 1974 to build a
school for residents in the
State. Though the land was for-
est land, the Government
acquired it for the public cause
and handed over possession to
the society in the hope of see-
ing a school. Years passed and
more than a decade later when
the gram panchayat sought
back the land, the State
Government scrapped its own
decision to allot the land in
September 1988. This led to
severe heartburn for the private
society which took its fight to
the Punjab and Haryana High
Court but to no avail. The High
Court directed the land to go
back to the gram panchayat
being of the view that the soci-
ety held on to public land as
private property losing sight of
the purpose to build the school
within a specified time-frame.
As a final attempt to salvage
the prime plot situated at Bari
in Sonepat district, the society
through senior advocate Kapil
Sibal came up with a fresh offer
in the Supreme Court. It offered
to use the land exclusively to
build a school for 500 poor,
underprivileged children. It
decided to bear all cost towards
their education including fees.
Coming as it did from a
defaulter society which failed to
make any construction on the
land for the past 40 years, the
Supreme Court became suspi-
cious. It said, Though any pro-
posal for advancement of poor
and underprivileged children is
welcome but the background of
the matter noticed above shows
the track record of the peti-
tioner which renders the pro-
posal suspect.
The Bench of Justices V
Gopala Gowda and Adarsh
Goel upheld the States decision
of September 18, 1988 to retain
the said land measuring 76 acre
and 5 karnals and vest it back
with the gram panchayat. It
read through the game of the
society whose purpose was to
maintain hold on the land sit-
uated at a prime location.
Even as per the HC order,
the society could keep seven
acres of land from its original
allotment. The court reasoned
that if the petitioner was so
concerned about catering to
education of poor and needy, it
could as well be done on this
stretch of land.
The Bench said, The track
record of the petitioner is to take
private benefit from land of the
village taken over by the State at
petitioners instance to advance
education a public cause.
Deprecating such conduct on
part of the educational trust, the
Bench added that granting any
individual or private benefit at
the cost of public will be con-
trary to constitutional values to
be followed by the State.
Laying down the principle
for all such future cases, the
Bench held, Once it is found
that beneficiary of (an) allot-
ment has abused its position to
its advantage and to the disad-
vantage of the public, this court
cannot interfere with the fair
order passed by a competent
authority resuming the land.
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he NIA has filed a preliminary chargesheet
in a Chennai court in a case of attempts by
a Sri Lankan national to spy for Pakistans
Intelligence agency, ISI, and carry out subver-
sive activities in South India, including attacks
on American and Israeli consulates.
The NIA has chargesheeted Sri Lankan cit-
izen Muhammad Sakir Hussein, Siva Balan and
Mohammed Saleem before a designated NIA
court. They have also been charged for offences
relating to circulation of fake currency.
The trio has been charged for offences
under the stringent Unlawful Activities
Prevention Act (UAPA) and for offences
under the IPC. While the three persons have
been charged, further probe against six other
accused, including arrested accused Rafiq, is
continuing.
In the chargesheet, the agency has claimed
to have established evidence against accused
persons for criminal conspiracy to target
American consulate in South India and also cir-
culating fake Indian currency notes.
Hussein, a Sri Lankan national allegedly
conspired with Amir Subair Siddique, work-
ing in Pakistan High Commission at Colombo
and his higher officer who is referred to the FIR
as Boss alias Shah, to cause explosions at the
office of US Consulates in Chennai and Israel
Embassy at Bengaluru for their alleged anti-
Muslim stance. In order to carry out their plan,
the ISI officials sent FICN amounting to Rs 5
lakh through some persons to Tamil Nadu.
The agency has cited 40 witnesses in the
chargesheet out of which the identities of 20
have not been disclosed.
On April 29, Hussein was arrested by the
Tamil Nadu police from Chennai. Documents
including maps of Chennai city, photos of vital
installations, and counterfeit currency to the
tune of Rs 5 lakh were allegedly seized from
him. The case was taken up later by the NIA
in June this year.
Subsequently, a Sri Lankan national Siva
Balan, Mohammed Saleem and Rafiq were
arrested. Last month, with the arrest of Arun
Selvarajan, another suspected ISI operative here,
the probe into the Pakistan- sponsored espi-
onage ring came a full circle, the agency said.
After his arrest, NIA said it was probing
Selvarajan as part of the Thameem Ansari case.
Ansari, another suspected ISI spy module, was
arrested in September 2012.
A request to extradite another accused
Mohammed Hossaini, a Sri Lankan, is pend-
ing with Malaysian authorities.
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ven as the private Indian devel-
opers continue to be wary of
putting money into road building
because of past losses due to a host
of issues, including mandatory clear-
ances, foreign investors are beginning
to show interest in road development.
After Japan offered to help con-
struct roads in the North-East,
Malaysia has also come forward to
fund road building projects in
Rajasthan.
Soon after the new Government
took charge this May, Minister for
Road Transport and Highways Nitin
Gadkari initiated the setting up of a
corporation to generate funds for
road building projects in the coun-
try as the road sector was in a finan-
cial mess.
Since the private investors,
namely the Indian banks and other
financial institutions were not com-
ing forward to fund projects, the
Government had set up an inde-
pendent financial corporation to
find investors both in the domestic
as well as international markets, said
an official in the Ministry of Roads.
Government allowed foreign
investors to buy stake in a
Corporation formed by the Road
Ministry. After holding several
rounds of talks, the Government also
offered 26 per cent stake in the
Corporation in lieu of funds to the
tune of C1 lakh crore. Now we are
beginning to see some interest from
foreign nations, Gadkari had said.
In the last week of September,
Japan had offered help to India in
building road infrastructure in strate-
gically important North-East.
Japanese Minister for Land,
Infrastructure and Tourism Akihiro
Ohta during his meeting with Road
Transport and Highways Minister
Nitin Gadkari in the National capi-
tal extended his support.
Ohta had said that Japan could
actively contribute in building such
infrastructure in the North-East
States as they have expertise in build-
ing roads in mountainous terrains.
He had said that Japan had the
technology for tunnel building, rein-
forcement and the required skill and
know-how of making roads in very
narrow spaces. Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) is already
carrying out a study in the North-East
to study the topography and climat-
ic requirements.
Japan has promised 3.5 trillion
Yen ($ 35 billion or C2,10,000 crore)
to India through public and private
funding over five years for various
works, including building of infra-
structure.
Earlier this week, the Malaysian
Government offered to make an
investment of C10,000 crore in
Rajasthans road sector specially con-
struction of highways on PPP model.
Even as the final decision is
pending with Rajasthan Chief
Minister Vasundhara Raje, an MoU
between Rajasthan and Malaysia is
scheduled for October 27.
The Rajasthan Government has
taken up a massive project to build
about 20,000 km roads on highways
and up to villages on PPP model with
an investment plan of C50,000 crore.
New Delhi: The Congress on
Saturday slammed RSS and
BJP for their alleged distaste-
ful, malicious distortion of
history and demanded a state-
ment from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi over an article
in an RSS mouthpiece which
suggests that Nathuram Godse
should have targeted
Jawaharlal Nehru instead of
Mahatma Gandhi.
Terming the article, which
has appeared in the Malayalam
edition of RSS mouthpiece
Kesari, barbaric and illegal,
Congress general secretary
Ajay Maken asked Modi and
BJP to immediately make their
stand clear in this regard.
Silence on their part would
only point towards their com-
plicity. The argument by the
BJP leader that Godse should
have killed Nehru instead of
Mahatma Gandhi reaffirms
that the basic tenets of their ide-
ology are hatred and violence.
It is difficult to find this
kind of perverse discourse any-
where except the darkest cor-
ner of a bankrupt mind that the
RSS and BJP thrive upon, said
Maken.
The writer of the piece, B
Gopalakrishnan, who was a
BJP candidate in the recent Lok
Sabha elections in Kerala, has
also claimed in it that Nehru
never had any genuine attach-
ment with Mahatma Gandhi.
But even as RSS dissociated
itself from the article saying it
does not endorse the views
expressed by the author,
Congress spokesperson Anand
Sharma said that Modi, BJP chief
Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan
Bhagwat should come out with
a statement to clarify their stand
on it or expel its author and
sack the editor of the journal.
Further, Congress general
secretary Digvijay Singh said in
a tweet, Is it the beginning of
rewriting Indian History?
BJP/RSS and Modi must come
out with a categorical Statement
on this. I know they wont.
Singh said that the article
reflects the hardcore RSS ide-
ology and that he strongly
condemns it.
The editor of the weekly
has stood by the article but
stoutly refuted the Congresss
allegations.
Reacting sharply, Sharma
charged, This article is not
only a distasteful, malicious
distortion of history but also
confirms a sick mindset. This
warrants serious note as it
reaffirms that RSS has a phi-
losophy of violence and
endorsing assassinations.
Charging that the BJP has
been for some time trying to
usurp the two Congress lead-
ers, Gandhi and Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel, Sharma said
Let this not be forgotten that
RSS men were in the zone of
suspicion in the assassination
of the Father of the Nation,
which led to the decision by
then Home Minister Patel to
ban the RSS.
The letter by Patel to (RSS
chief MS) Golwalkar is a histor-
ical indictment of the organisa-
tion and its workers celebrating
the dastardly act by Godse.
Maken, in a statement,
said what is worrying is that
such horrifying and illicit
views of a member of the rul-
ing party are shamelessly car-
ried in the RSS mouthpiece.
Meanwhile, in another
tweet, Singh took potshots at
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
over reports that the BJP leader
had violated traffic rules by rid-
ing a scooter without wearing
a helmet.
Gadkari violates the Law
which he should be enforcing by
riding a scooter without Helmet.
Is this the example he and the
NDA Govt wants to set?
Would Police
Commissioner Nagpur register
a case against him or wait for
a PIL to be filed against
Gadkari? he said.
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n a major breakthrough, the Bangalore Police on
Saturday arrested one person in connection with
the alleged rape of a three-year-old in an upmar-
ket school on Tuesday last. The police arrested
45-year-old office assistant M Gundappa.
According to Bangalore Police Commissioner
MN Reddi, the child identified the bad uncle
who hurt her and he was arrested.
We had registered a case under Sec 376
IPC (relating to rape) and Sections 4 and 6
of POCSO Act. The investigation is on. Today
we have made an arrest in this case,
Bangalore Police Commissioner MN Reddi
told reporters in Bangalore.
Police had registered a criminal case invok-
ing POSCO (Protection of Children from Sexual
Offences Act 2012 )and IPC on a complaint from the
childs father.
The arrest came even as the school authorities met
anguished parents and assured them of safety of their chil-
dren as their classes resume on Monday. The school was
shut after the alleged rape of the three-year-old.
The school dean has maintained that there were no
outsiders in the institution on the day of the heinous
crime took place. According to him there were seven male
workers on duty on that day. He also maintained that
there were no outsiders in the premises.
As the outrage against rape of a three year old
in an up market school at the outskirts of
Bangalore continued, Karnataka Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah had assured that the government
will take stern action against the school and
also criminals will be booked.
A three-year-old LKG student of a pri-
vate school in Bangalore was allegedly
raped by a staff member . The girl was sub-
jected to medical tests on Tuesday before
being admitted to a private hospital.
Bangalore witnessed a major protest when
a six year old girl was raped On July 3 by two
gym instructors inside the premises of anoth-
er private school in Bangalore. These inci-
dents have raised many questions about private schools
and the safety of children. The case led to large street
protests in the IT city by parents and activists and
inspired a series of safety measures in schools includ-
ing installation of CCTV cameras.
Nearly 200 schools in Bangalore were booked for not
having safety measures in place and were ordered to make
massive changes for the protection of students. A fresh wave
of anger swept Bangalore this week after an incident of
alleged rape of a three-year-old in an up market school.
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Mumbai: As back channel
talks continued between Shiv
Sena and BJP to explore the
possibility of a coalition
Government in Maharashtra,
there were strong indications
on Saturday that the latter may
form a Government on its
own with the NCPs outside
support in keeping with the
sentiment in the party.
It (a coalition Government)
seems unlikely. The sentiment in
the BJP is that they want to go
alone, a top party leader said.
All MLAs and grassroots
workers are strictly against
forming an alliance with the
Shiv Sena. There are high
chances that the BJP will form
the Governmet without Shiv
Sena, a senior State party
leader said.
Many in the party, he said,
were still peeved over personal
attacks on Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and party pres-
ident Amit Shah by Sena lead-
ers, including its chief Uddhav
Thackeray. A section of BJP
leaders, including State party
chief Devendra Fadnavis and
Leader of Opposition in the
Legislative Council Vinod
Tawde met Prime Minister
Narendra Modi at the airport to
discuss Government formation.
What transpired in the
meeting with Modi, who was
here for inauguration of a ren-
ovated private hospital and
research centre, was not
known, but the leaders were
learnt to have conveyed to the
Prime Minister the negative
sentiment in the party over
reviving its alliance with Sena.
A senior central BJP leader,
however, said the final call
regarding renewing the alliance
will be taken by the top lead-
ership.
A State BJP leader said the
party was not prepared to
accept any pre-condition from
Sena before the two parties
reunite to form Government.
The party is not in favour
of accepting any pre-condition
from Shiv Sena for forming the
Government, he said, appar-
ently hinting at haggling by the
former ally over ministerial
berths and portfolios.
There were reports that
the Shiv Sena wanted the two
parties to follow the 1995 for-
mula under which the then
junior partner BJP had got
deputy chief ministership, but
Sena leaders have denied mak-
ing any such demands.
Despite Modi being in
town, there was no meeting
between him and Sena chief
Uddhav Thackeray.
The Prime Minister came
to Mumbai only to inaugurate
a hospital. At a time when the
PM has come for a social
cause, there will be no political
talks. Talks will start only from
Monday, Shiv Sena
MP from Ratnagiri-
Sindhudurg Vinayak Raut told
reporters after meeting
Thackeray at his residence.
Asked if any meeting
between the two leaders was
scheduled next week, he replied
in the negative. Raut reaf-
firmed that all Sena MPs will
attend the hightea in Delhi
being hosted by the Prime
Minister on Sunday for the
NDA MPs.
On speculation that efforts
to form a coalition
Government may not fructify,
he said, If BJP wants to form
a Government without our
support, it will be BJP leaders
call. Uddhavji is keenly observ-
ing every development and
will take a decision that will be
good for Senas future.
Meanwhile, BJP sources
said the new Government was
likely to be sworn in on
October 29 or 30.
Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh, BJPs central
observer for election of the
Legislature Party leader, is
expected to arrive here on
Monday and election is likely to
take place the next day, a top BJP
leader said here in an informal
intreaction with journalists.
The BJP, which has
emerged as the single largest
party in the 288-member
Assembly with 122 seats, has
already been offered uncondi-
tional outside support by the
41-member NCP.
With its 63 MLAs, Shiv
Sena is the second largest party
in the House.
Though the majority sen-
timent in the BJP was for the
party forming Government on
its own, Rashtriya Samaj
Paksha leader Mahadev Jankar,
a pre-poll ally of the BJP, said
his party is not in favour of any
tie-up with the NCP.
We want the new
Government to come to power
without the backing of the
NCP or the Congress against
whom the BJP fought the poll
and highlighted their corrup-
tion, Jankar, whose party has
one MLA, said after meeting
State BJP chief Devendra
Fadnavis, a frontrunner for
chief ministership. PTI
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NEW DELH SUNDAY OCTOBER 26, 2014
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C
ongress MP and former
Union Minister Shashi
Tharoor, who had invited the
wrath of his party by accepting
Prime Minister Narendra
Modis invitation to join his
Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan, on
Saturday formal joined the
mission by inaugurating and
leading a waste-removal ini-
tiative at Vizhinjam village in
his Thiruvananthapuram con-
stituency.
Though he claimed that
the drive he inaugurated was
not part of the Swachchh
Bharat Abhiyan and that clean-
ing the country was not the
patented responsibility of any
particular individual or group,
Tharoor made it amply clear
that he was indeed responding
to Modis call by saying that
politics need not come in the
way of making the country
clean.
There is no need of any
controversy, Tharoor said
while talking to newsmen
after inaugurating the drive.
Social reformer Narayana
Guru had said that man
should be good irrespective of
what religion he belonged to.
Similarly, I am saying that we
should work for the better-
ment of the country irrespec-
tive of our politics, he added.
Stating that the former
Vajpayee government, UPA
regime and the current NDA
Government had given differ-
ent names to their respective
cleanliness missions, Tharoor
said names were unimportant
but what was important was
the cleanliness of the nation.
Gandhis message was that
democracy could attain per-
fection only through cleanli-
ness, he said.
The Congress MP had
come fully prepared for the
cleanliness drive at Vizhinjam
of which he himself was the
organizer. As the programme
had been planned much in
advance, many of his loyalists
from the Congress party had
accompanied him.
Tharoor's act on Saturday
was indicative of his determi-
nation to take up the Clean
India challenge the Prime
Minister had thrown at him
despite the disciplinary action
the national congress leader-
ship had taken against him by
removing him as party
spokesman for tweeting,
"Honoured to accept the invi-
tation of PM@narendramodi to
join Clean India campaign."
The Congress high com-
mand had taken action against
Tharoor following pressures
from the Kerala PCC. Several
Congress leaders in Kerala had
gone even to the extent of ask-
ing Tharoor to decide whether
to continue in the party even.
Observers now say that
Tharoor, through his Saturday
act, was perhaps telling the
Kerala leaders that he would
not bow to their pressure.
A senior journalist from a
pro-Congress newspaper said
Tharoor was perhaps trying to
force the PCC leadership to ask
for more stringent action
against him. I think he has
already come to a decision. It
should be noted that he has not
so far expressed any regret
over the things which had led
to his removal as party
spokesman, he pointed out.
Tharoor had the other day
made it clear that he did not
care for politics in matters of
development.
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aintaining that preventive
healthcare and proper
lifestyle would come in handy
in keeping all illnesses at bay,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
said here on Saturday that his
Government laid stress on pro-
viding clean drinking water to
people across the country so as
bring about vast improvement
in the health sector.
In his address after inau-
gurating the Sir HN Reliance
Foundation Hospital &
Research Centre here, Modi
said: In the field of health, pre-
ventive care plays a crucial role.
After one gets ill it is expensive
to cure the illness that he or she
suffers from. Thats why pre-
vention is economical.
Unfortunately there is not
much of consciousness among
the people about the preventive
care and life styles.
Underscoring the need for
making available clean drink-
ing water to people, the Prime
Minister said: If we make
available clean potable water to
people, then we can bring
about improvement in the
health sector. Clean drinking
water for all would be the
biggest source of preventive
healthcare.
Dwelling upon the hygiene,
the Prime Minister said that
inculcating habits in children
like washing hands properly
before eating had become
extremely important and
appreciated a mass drive
undertaken by the Madhya
Pradesh government for
spreading the importance of
washing hands before eating,
an initiative that has found a
place of Guinness Book of
World records.
Expressing concern over
India's health indicators such as
infant mortality and maternal
mortality rates, the Prime
Minister said: Whenever a
child falls into a borewell, tele-
vision channels telecast the
event across the country very
minutely till such time that the
child is removed from the
borewell or dies inside it. Every
family across the country is
glued to television sets for
hours on end. The families are
concerned about the welfare of
the child inside the well. But,
unfortunately we do not realise
that in our neighbourhoods,
hundreds of children die even
before they are born. So do the
pregnant mothers.
Modi said that both the
government and the society
should work hand in hand to
ensure basic health facilities to
poor and neddy people across
the country. "I am not the one
to say that the earlier govern-
ments have not done anything
in the field of heath sector.
Every government has done
something good in its respec-
tive tenure. We are also com-
mitted to doing our best.
People should also support
our initiatives, he said.
He said even if one child
fell in a borewell, the entire
country was worried, but we
need to generate more aware-
ness about the hundreds of
children who are unable to sur-
vive due to lack of primary
healthcare facilities. He said
society and government should
together give priority to the
poorest of poor and make
whatever efforts we can to
provide affordable health ser-
vices. He said the Reliance
Foundation Hospital was a
step in that direction.
Alluding to his recent
speech in the United States,
Modi said that in his address,
he had mooted an International
yoga day. I am pushing for cel-
ebration of an international
yoga day. I am optimistic that
the UN will accept my accept
my suggestion... Holistic care
has become a major attraction
in the world... Even good doc-
tors are turning to homeopa-
thy... So much so that holistic
health has become flavour of
the season. People are looking
for ways to make their lives
stress-free than being stresful
as is case now.
The Prime Minister said
that medical equipment was
gaining increasing importance
in the field of healthcare The
need of the hour is for India to
manufacture such equipment,
as part of the 'Make in India'
programme, so that it becomes
available to the poorest of peo-
ple even in remote corners of
India, he said.
Referring to the Digital
India programme of the
Centre, Modi said one of the
primary aims of the pro-
gramme is to ensure advanced
healthcare in remote areas
through telemedicine, and
best education for poor.
Heaping praise on the qual-
ity of doctors and scientists
produced by India, Modi said:
Our doctors have an excellent
reputation all over the world...
Patients look forward to getting
operated by Indian surgeons...
We are a country of 12 crore
people what we can not do.. .
When I talk of Mars, what
comes to my mind is that you
spend as much as C10 to 12 per
km to travel by an autorickshaw,
where as our scientists managed
to send a spaceship to Mars at a
cost of just C7 per km, We will
reap the benefits of money spent
in the coming years.
Kokilaben Ambani pre-
sented a memento to the Prime
Minister, on the occasion.
Chairperson of Reliance
Foundation Nita Ambani in
her welcome address, spoke
about the facilities available in
the hospital. She said, the hos-
pital has drawn up an ambi-
tious outreach programme
benefitting over 3 lakh people.
She said that 50 doctors of
Indian origin from USA, UK,
Australia and other developed
countries have returned to
India to serve the nation.
Mukesh Ambani deliv-
ered a vote of thanks. The
Governor of Maharashtra C
Vi dyasagar Rao, Uni on
Minister Nitin Gadkari, State
BJP presi dent Devendra
Fadnavis, senior leader Vinod
Tawde, Raj ya Sabha MP
Parimal Nathwani, a host of
Bollywood celebrities includ-
ing Amitabh Bachchan, Shah
Rukh Khan, Amir Khan,
Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya
Rai, Asha Bhosle, cricketer
and Bharat Ratna awardee
Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra
Si ngh Dhoni and Suni l
Gavaskar were among those
present. Paresh Rawal, MP
was the Master of Ceremony.
Located in south Mumbai,
the Sir HN Reliance Foundation
Hospital & Research Centre in
its 90th year, has been com-
pletely rebuilt by Reliance
Foundation into a most-modern
19-storey tower and two heritage
wings. The foundation is head-
ed by Nita Ambani.
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move is reportedly afoot in
Keralas Congress-led UDF
Government to effectively defeat
the spirit of its own total liquor-
ban in ten years plan by divest-
ing local self-Government insti-
tutions of their authority to
decide whether bars should be
permitted or not in their juris-
dictions. The move is intended
at simplifying procedures for
allotting bar licences to five-star
hotels.
As per the present system,
no-objection certificates issued
by the concerned local self-gov-
ernment institutions are
mandatory for operating bars
anywhere in Kerala. This sys-
tem was introduced in the
State strictly in 2012 with the
intention of checking the
mushrooming of bars in the
context of increasing liquor
consumption.
The State Excise
Department is said to have ini-
tiated the move to get the
Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and
Kerala Municipalities Act
amended for taking away the
local institutions' authority to
issue NOCs. The plan is to
bring in these amendments in
the next session of the
Assembly if the High Court set-
tles the case regarding closure
of all other bars in the State
before that.
The Excise Department
feels that the local self-govern-
ment institutions are likely to
misuse their authority to issue
NOCs to bars out of various
considerations. It is said that
there have been several
instances of panchayat and
municipal councils taking arbi-
trary decisions on applications
for NOCs for bars.
As per the liquor policy
announced by the Government
in August, all bars in the State,
except those at five-star hotels,
had to be closed down imme-
diately and ten percent of the
existing retail liquor outlets
were to closed down every year
leading to total liquor ban
within a period of ten years.
There are 20 bars operating in
five-star hotels in the State.
While exempting the bars at
five-star hotels from the
purview of the new liquor pol-
icy, the State Government had
said that it was a matter to be
decided by the Centre though it
had long back removed the
clause that bars were mandato-
ry for five-star classification. The
Government also argued that
five-star bars were given exemp-
tion considering the demands of
the tourism industry.
The licences of 418 of the
total 730 bars were closed
down on March 31 last. The
remaining 292 bars (20 were in
the five-star sector) were to be
closed down by September 12
as per a Government order but
the bar owners earned per-
mission from the Supreme
Court to run their establish-
ments till the High Court set-
tled the case regarding the clo-
sure order.
The Excise Department is
now accused of trying to
exploit the loophole in the
liquor policy that it does not
prevent issuance of licences to
new bars at five-star hotels. The
Government is also not against
issuance of licence to five-star
bars, say sources. Several hotels
have complained that local
self-government institutions
are refusing to issue NOCs for
bars to them.
Observers say that the
Government move has a dou-
ble-drawback. On the one
hand, it is against the spirit of
the liquor policy the
Government itself is projecting
as one of its greatest achieve-
ments. On the other hand, it
would amount to reserving
enjoyment of booze for the
rich, they say.
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E
ven as Hyderabad police
continued to maintain that
the two Muslim youths from
Maharashtra, who were nabbed
for their alleged plans to travel
to Afghanistan for armed train-
ing, had links with a Hyderabad-
based youth Motasim Billah, the
latter has come out with a cate-
gorical denial.
Motasim Billah, son of a
cleric Abdul Aleem Islahi, has
been declared by the city police
as absconding. But Billah
addressed a media conference at
home to deny the police state-
ments. I have invited you to
show that I am very much at my
home leading a normal life and
attending college, he said. I am
also regularly appearing before
the courts in the cases slapped
on me by the police as part of
their continuing harassment.
Motasim said that the
police had fabricated the story
of his links with Maharashtra
youth with an ulterior motive.
By framing another case
against me they are trying to
influence the judgment of
another case which is due
shortly, he said.
Motasim and his family, a
resident of a lower middle
class area of old city, had hit the
headlines about ten years ago
when his elder brother
Mujahed was shot dead by
Gujrat police in Hyderabad
city. The incident had occurred
when Gujrat team came to
arrest another cleric Moulana
Naseeruddin and his support-
ers had staged a protest.
Mujahed was shot dead near
the state DGP office in
Hyderabad.
Though a murder case was
booked against Gujrat police
official Narhari Ameen, the
case did not make much
progress. At the same time
police also booked an attempt
to murder case against
Motasim and many others.
kh8hEE WkhI Q SRhA0AR
T
he ruling National
Conference has regretted
announcement of poll schedule
in Jammu & Kashmir in the
backdrop of flood situation but
has decided to plunge in the
polls for the sake of democracy.
The party High
Command feels that though
the time is not appropriate for
the elections to be held in the
State in view of the sufferings
of the people, but since the
party has always been a votary
of strengthening democracy
and democratic values in the
State, it will participate in the
polls, NC general secretary Ali
Muhammad Sagar said after
discussing the announcement
of elections with working pres-
ident and Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah.
We opposed the elections
at this point of time because we
felt that this is not the oppor-
tune time as the people are bat-
tling the aftermath of the flood
tragedy. This was the time to
focus on relief and rehabilita-
tion rather than going for
polls, Sagar said.
He blamed the Opposition
Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) for preferring polls due
to their craving for power.
Another senior NC leader
Dr Mustafa Kamal said that the
announcement of poll schedule
has put question mark on the
credibility of the ECI in Jammu
& Kashmir.
It is proven now that the
ECI has a different yardstick in
J&K. It (ECI) listens to the
opposition and not to the rul-
ing party. This is saddening,
kamal said.
The PDP chief spokesman
and legislator Naeem Akhtar
said that people in valley would
vote in huge numbers to vote
out the present Government.
He said that the NC was not
demanding postponement of
elections for rehabilitation of
flood victims but it wanted to
prolong the time to enjoy lux-
uries of power.
Congress leader Ghulam
Nabi Monga said that his party
was ready to face people in the
upcoming elections.
Meanwhile, separatists
have renewed their call for
poll boycott after the election
schedule was announced.
Hardline separatist leader Syed
Ali Geelani has already
announced to launch a poll-
boycott campaign.
Moderate Hurriyat leader
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also
upped ante against election
process, urging people to stay
away from the futile exercise.
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ammu & Kashmir Chief
Electoral Officer Umang
Narula said that the elections
would be held in free and fair
manner and adequate deploy-
ment of security forces, Election
Observers and other related
things have been put in place.
Speaking at a Press con-
ference Narula said the notifi-
cations for the first phase
would be issued on October 28,
for second phase on November
07, for third phase November
14, fourth phase November 19,
and for fifth phase November
26, 2014. Similarly, the last date
for filing nominations to these
phases is November 05,
November 14,November 21,
November 26 and December
03, 2014 respectively.
In the first phase polls
would be held in the 15
Assembly constituencies of
Gurez, Bandipora, Sonawari,
Kangan, Ganderbal, Nobra,
Leh, Kargil, Zanskar, Kishtwar,
Inderwal, Doda, Bhaderwah,
Ramban (SC) and Banihal.
In the second phase 18
Assembly constituencies of
Gulabgarh, Reasi, Gool Arnas,
Udhampur, Chenani (SC),
Ramnagar, Surankote,
Mendhar, Poonch Haveli,
Karnah, Kupwara, Lolab,
Handwara, Langate, Noorabad,
Kulgam, Home-Shalibugh and
Devsar would go to polls.
He said in the third phase
elections would be held in 16
Assembly constituencies of Uri,
Rafiabad, Sopore, Sangrama,
Baramulla, Gulmarg, Pattan,
Chadoora, Badgam, Beerwah,
Khansahib, Chrar-I-Sharief, Tral,
Pampore, Pulwama and Rajpora.
In the fourth phase, Narulla
said, 18 Assembly constituencies
of Hazratbal, Zadibal, Idgah,
Khanyar, Habbakadal,
Amirakadal, Sonawar,
Batamaloo, Anantnag, Doru,
Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehara,
Pahalgam, Wachi, Shopian,
Samba (SC) and Vijaypur would
go to polls.
The CEO said 20
Assembly constituencies of
Bani, Basohli, Kathua, Billawar,
Hiranagar (SC), Nagrota,
Gandhinagar, Jammu East,
Jammu West, Bishnah, RS Pura
(SC), Suehetgarh, Marh,
Raipur Domana (SC),
Akhnoor, Chhamb (SC),
Nowshara, Darhal, Rajouri and
Kalakote would go to polls in
the fifth phase.
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New Delhi: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Saturday
appreciated Congress MP
Shashi Tharoor for actively
participating in Swachchh
Bharat campaign, saying his
effort is very encouraging.
A great effort by
@ShashiTharoor! His active
participation in Swachchh
Bharat Mission is very encour-
aging, Modi tweeted.
He also re-tweeted the
photographs showing Tharoor
leading a group of people in
clearing garbage at one place in
Vizhinjam in Kerala.
Tharoor, who was
removed from the post of
spokesman by his party for
praising Modi, defended his
active participation in the
cleanliness drive, saying this is
not the prerogative of any
political party and the message
of keeping ones surroundings
clean was first given by
Mahatma Gandhi. PTI
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kuaIa Iumpur: The organisers o
'dog alling' camaign in
Malaysia lhal lriggered oulrage in
lhe Muslimmajorily counlry,
have aologised aler receiving
dealh lhreals and lorrenls o
online abuse or organising
lhe evenl.
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MosroW: Russia has nol agreed
lo lrain lroos in raq as
roosed by uniled Slales
Secrelary o Slale John Kerry,
Russian Foreign Minisler Sergei
Lavrov said in a lelevised
inlerview on Sunday. "There was
no agreemenl lhal we will send
our inslruclors lo lrain lhe army
in raq," Lavrov lold A^bbXhP
lelevision.
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haka: Thwarling a ossible
lerrorisl allack on lhe cailal,
Bangladesh olice have arresled
our susecled oeralives o
oullawed huJ mililanl oulil and
busled lwo laboralories used or
making bombs.
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WashingIon: uS Secrelary o
Slale John Kerry has urged
Moscow lo ully imlemenl lasl
monlh's ceaseire agreemenl on
ukraine, lhe Slale 0earlmenl
said in a slalemenl on
Salurday.
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IsIamabad: Fakislan has decided
lo inlroduce biomelric machines
al airorls lo check lhe use o
ake assorls, weeks aler 1O
Aghans were caughl lravelling
on ake Fakislani assorls al a
London airorl.
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Faju (8ouIh korea): Tensions
lared on Sunday as Soulh
Korean aclivisls allemling lo
launch roaganda lealels inlo
lhe horlh were lhwarled by egg
lhrowing residenls o a border
lown, ollowing lhreals o
relalialion rom Fyongyang.
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J
ust over a year ago, Afshin
Kobani was a teacher. Now,
the Kurdish Syrian woman has
traded the classroom for the
front lines in the battle for
Kobane, a town besieged by
fighters from the Islamic State
extremist group.
The 28-year-old Kurdish
fighter, who uses a nom de
guerre, said she decided to join
the fight in her hometown when
she saw ISIS advances in Syria.
I lost many friends to
this, and I decided there was a
need to join up, said Kobani,
who declined to reveal her
birth name. This is our land
our own and if we dont do it,
who else will?
Perched on the other side
of the Turkish border, the
Syrian town of Kobani has
been under an intense assault
by ISIS for more than a month.
The town surrounded on the
east, south and west by ISIS is
being defended by Kurdish
forces in Syria.
Among those fighters are
thousands of women, an unusu-
al phenomenon in the Muslim
world in which warfare is often
associated with manhood.
In April, Kurdish fighters
created all-female combat units
that have grown to include
more than 10,000 women.
These female fighters have
played a major role in battles
against ISIS, said Nasser Haj
Mansour, a defense official in
Syrias Kurdish region.
The Kurdish women now
find themselves battling mili-
tants preaching an extreme
form of Islam dictating that
women only leave the house if
absolutely necessary. Earlier
this month the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights,
which monitors events in Syria,
reported ISIS militants behead-
ed nine Kurdish fighters, includ-
ing three women, captured in
clashes near Turkish border.
After more than a year of
fighting, Kobani has risen
through the ranks to become a
commander of a mixed-gender
unit. We are just the same as
men; theres no difference, she
said. We can do any type of job,
including armed mobilisation.
There is nothing new about
Kurdish women fighters. They
have fought alongside men for
years in a guerrilla war against
Turkey, seeking an independent
Kurdistan which would
encompass parts of Turkey,
Syria, Iraq and Iran.
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I
n a public demonstration
intended to calm the Ebola
fear gripping Americans,
President Barack Obama on
Friday gave a bear hug to a
Texas nurse who has just got rid
of the deadly virus that she con-
tracted while attending to a
Liberian victim.
Obama, who has been try-
ing to convince a jittery public
that it is not easy to catch the
Ebola virus except through
bodily fluids of a victim, invit-
ed Nina Pham to the White
House soon after she was cured
of Ebola at the National
Institutes of Health in suburban
Washington.
The White House prompt-
ly released photographs of
Obama hugging the nurse as
part of the presidents confi-
dence-building exercise that
came just a day after New York
City was on Ebola alert with a
doctor testing positive. The
afflicted doctor, put in isolation
in a city hospital, was reported
to be in stable condition.
Heres the bottom line.
Patients can beat this disease.
And we can beat this disease.
But we have to stay vigilant,
Obama said in his weekly radio
and Internet address on
Saturday.
Tehran: Iran executed on
Saturday a 26-year-old woman
who had spent five years on
death row for the murder of a
former intelligence official, defy-
ing international pressure
to spare her life.
Reyhaneh Jabbari
was hanged at dawn, the
official IRNA news
agency quoted the Tehran
prosecutors office as say-
ing. A message posted on the
homepage of a Facebook cam-
paign that was set up to try to
save her, but which now states
Rest in Peace, confirmed the
report.
Amnesty International said
in a statement issued late Friday
that Jabbari, an interior design-
er, was due to be executed for
the 2007 stabbing of Morteza
Abdolali Sarbandi.
A UN human rights mon-
itor had said the killing of
Sarbandi was an act of self-
defence after he tried to sexu-
ally assault Jabbari, and that her
trial in 2009 had been
deeply flawed. Iranian
actors and other promi-
nent figures had
appealed for a stay of
execution, echoing sim-
ilar calls in the West.
Efforts for clemency had
intensified in recent weeks.
Jabbaris mother was allowed to
visit her for one hour on Friday,
Amnesty said, a custom that
tends to precede executions in
Iran. The United States con-
demned the hanging of a Iranian
woman convicted of murdering
a former Intelligence officer she
claimed had tried to sexually
assault her. AFP
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WashingIon: The uSled mililary coalilion ounded lhe slamic Slale
grou Salurday and Friday, wilh 22 air slrikes in raq and one in Syria,
lhe Fenlagon said. Eleven o lhe bombings in lhe heavy barrage
largeled SS unils, buildings, osilions and vehicles near lhe slralegic
Mosul 0am, uS Cenlral Command, which is overseeing lhe air war
againsl lhe jehadis, said in a slalemenl.
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MursiIpinar (Turkey): slamic Slale grou ighlers made a new bid lo
cul o lhe Syrian border lown o Kobane rom neighbouring Turkey on
Salurday as rearalions galhered ace lo deloy raqi Kurdish
reinorcemenls. The Kurdish regional 0overnmenl in norlhern raq
unveiled lans on Friday or u lo 2OO welllrained eshmerga lo join
Syrian Kurdish orces deending Kobane in lhe coming week.
Kurdish news agency Rudaw said lhe irsl conlingenl could head lo
Kobane as early as Sunday bul lhere was no immediale conirmalion
o lhal limelable.
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8erIin: The head o 0ermany's domeslic inlelligence agency says lhe
number o slamic exlremisls in lhe counlry is growing raidly. hans
0eorg Maassen says his agency eslimales lhal some G,8OO eole in
0ermany are adherenls o a undamenlalisl slrain o slam known as
Salaism. Maassen lold rbbnoradio in an inlerview broadcasl on
Salurday lhal lhe number o Salais could rise lo 7,OOO by lhe end o
lhe year, comared lo aboul 8,8OO lhree years ago.
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I
n yet another shooting ram-
page in an American school,
a ninth-grade boy opened fire
in the cafeteria of his school on
Friday, killing a female class-
mate and injuring four other
students before turning the
gun on himself. Three of the
injured, struck in the head, were
said to be in critical condition.
Gunshots rang out at the
Marysville-Pilchuck High
School, about 50 km north of
Seattle, prompting students in
the crowded cafeteria to run
for cover.
Students identified the
shooter as Jaylen Fryberg, who
was recently named the schools
homecoming prince. One of his
friends described the boy as an
outgoing person that everyone
in the school loved. Belonging
to a prominent Tulalip tribal
family, he was regarded by
some as a future leader.
Fryberg and a girl, whose
name was not released imme-
diately, were confirmed dead.
Two other girls and two boys
were injured. Both the injured
boys are reported to be the
shooters cousins Andrew
Fr yberg, 15, and Nate
Hatch, 14.
While there was no imme-
diate word from the police on
what triggered the shooting
episode, the shooter was
reportedly angry about a girl,
according to the Seattle Times.
Another student was quot-
ed by the Associated Press as
saying that the shooter had
recently fought with another
boy over a girl and was very
upset about that.
akar: More lhan 1O,OOO eole
have been inecled wilh Ebola,
according lo igures released
loday by lhe world heallh
0rganisalion, as lhe oulbreak
conlinues lo sread.
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A
n Indian woman portfo-
lio manager, who had
pleaded guilty to insider trad-
ing and cooperated with the
US Government in its crack-
down on securities fraud
cases, avoided jail term and
has been sentenced to two
years' probat i on and a
$500,000 fine.
Reema Shah, 42, had
pleaded guilty in 2012 to
securities fraud in connection
wit h an i nsi der tradi ng
scheme in which an executive
with internet company Yahoo
provided to her material, non-
public information about the
company's quarterly earnings
and potential business trans-
actions.
Shah was at the time a
portfolio manager at an asset
management firm that man-
aged billions of dollars in
mutual funds and a hedge
fund.
Shah had faced a maxi-
mum of 25 years in prison
and over $5 million in fine
but US District Judge John
Koeltl imposed a sentence of
two years probation and a
$500,000 fine on her during a
hearing on Friday.
Manhattan's top federal
prosecutor Preet Bharara had
submitted in court that Shah
"provided extensive substan-
ti al assi st ance to t he
Government in the investi-
gation and prosecution of
other persons who committed
federal offenses."
Taki ng i nto account
Shah's cooperation, Koeltl
said she provided "prompt,
substantial and truthful" evi-
dence to government investi-
gators.
In addition to the fine,
Shah has been ordered to
forfeit $11,750 to prosecutors
- equal to the profits prose-
cutors say she personally
made as a result of her crim-
inal conduct - and approxi-
mately $ 377,000 to the US
Securities and Exchange
Commission to resolve par-
allel civil charges.
According to court docu-
ments, from at least January
2008 through July 2009,
Yahoo executive Robert Kwok
provided confidential infor-
mation concerning Yahoos
quarterly earnings and poten-
tial business transactions with
other companies to Shah who
then executed trades based on
the inside information.
Shah however began
cooperating with investigators
af ter federal agents
approached her in 2009.
Assistant US Attorney
Benjamin Naftalis said Shah
provided "important and use-
ful" information about "crim-
inal activities" at hedge fund
giant SAC Capital that
helped the government pros-
ecute the Steven Cohen-led
company.
SAC has pleaded guilty to
securities fraud and agreed to
pay $ 1.8 billion in penalties.
The compnay has si nce
changed its name to Point72
Asset Management.
Shah's recordings of her
proactive assistance was
"l engt hy, extensi ve and
remarkabl e successf ul , "
Naftalis said.
In court papers, the gov-
ernment said that Shah decid-
ed to "cooperate promptly"
and assisted "proactively" in
the covert investigation into
insider trading from 2009 to
2010.
At the direction of the
FBI, Shah secretly recorded
"more than 700" telephone
calls and meetings with other
investment professional s
whom the government sus-
pected as being involved in
illegal insider-trading activi-
ties.
She also identified about
two dozen investment man-
agers, research analysts and
consul t ants whom she
believed had engaged in
insider trading.
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lush with a reported $ 5.5
million in fresh funding,
upstart social network Ello
today legally changed its cor-
porate standing to back a
promise to remain ad-free.
Ello converted to a pub-
lic benefit corporation, which
it described as "a new kind of
for-profit company in the
USA that exists to produce a
benefit for society as a whole
- not just to make money for
its investors."
The announcement post-
ed at Ello's website came as
word spread that venture cap-
italists pumped $ 5.5 million
into the company in a fresh
funding round.
That money will be used
in part to beef up capacity so
the social network can be
opened to more users.
Ello, described as the
"anti-Facebook" for its stand
on privacy and advertising,
has become a hot ticket on the
Internet.
Created last year as a "pri-
vate" social network, Ello
recently opened its doors on
an invitation-only basis.
El l o appears to have
caught on with its simple mes-
sage which seems to take aim
at frustrations of Facebook
users.
Facebook has been criti-
cised by some users over its
privacy policies and ads that
use personal information.
"Ello doesn't sell ads. Nor
do we sell data about you to
third parties," the company
says.
Its "manifesto" states: "We
believe a social network can
be a tool for empowerment.
Not a tool to deceive, coerce,
and manipulate -- but a place
to connect, create, and cele-
brate life. You are not a prod-
uct."
Ello's policy states that the
practice of collecting and sell-
ing personal data and mapping
your social connections for
profit "is both creepy and
unethical."
"Under the guise of offer-
ing a 'free' service, users pay a
high price in intrusive adver-
tising and lack of privacy."
Based in Vermont, Ello
was launched by a group of
artists and programmers led by
Paul Budnitz, whose previous
experience includes designing
bicycles and toys.
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A
mid sharp decline in
turnover of the com-
modity exchanges, regulator
FMC has come out with a
revised policy to allow traders
to take higher position in
commodities traded on the
exchanges in order to improve
depth and liquidity in the
market.
To promote transparency
and prevent price manipula-
ti on i n t he market, t he
For ward Markets
Commission (FMC) has also
directed bourses to disclose
open position limits of top 10
trading clients including
hedgers on their website.
The revised norms put
out on October 20 have come
into effect immediately. 'Open
position limit' refers to high-
est number of futures contract
that an investor is allowed to
hold on one underlying com-
modity.
According to the latest
circular, FMC has come out
with a new formula, based on
which the gross position limit
in agricultural commodities
are capped for all exchanges at
50 per cent of the estimated
production and imports.
For brokers, the position
limit has been doubled and
will be 10 times of the client's
level position limit or 20 per
cent of the market wide open
interest, whichever is higher.
For clients, the position
limit will be based on the
numerical position limits as
decided from time to time or
five per cent of the market wide
open interest, whichever is
higher. For the present, the
numerical position limits as
existing shall be continued,
FMC said.
For considering position
limit, an client's position will be
taken in net (of the total) and
that of a broker in gross.
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To promote
transparency
and prevent
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the market, the
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Commission
{FMC] has also
directed
bourses to
disclose open
position limits of
top 10 trading
clients including
hedgers on their
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I
ndian and Chinese technology entrepreneurs were leading the
top 10 Asian tech billionaire list with $136 billion net assets,
according to an industry source and recent market data.
India was represented by three entrepreneurs with combined
net worth of $ 40.65 billion while China led with five business-
men with assets worth $ 67.1 billion.
The eight tech magnates from India and China have replaced
Japanese and Koreans in the usually bullish stock list, the source
said.
Indian representation in the list is expected to grow in value
following the recent joining of businessman Niraj Goel's
Singapore Innovation League which is investing into technolo-
gy start-ups, said the source.
Singapore-based Non-Indian Resident Goel has assets
worth$12.95 billion from various businesses and has excelled by
developing and using artificial intelligence in the technology sec-
tor, the source said.
Goel, who has been working in Singapore since 2000, is the
youngest tech billionaire at 45 and ranked sixth on the list.
Wipro's Azim Premji with net worth of $ 16 billion is third
on the list and HCL's Nadar Shiv with $ 11.7 billion at seventh.
Topping the list is Jack Ma of Alibaba, an e-commerce com-
pany in China, with a net worth of$20.8 billion.
Japan is represented by Masayoshi Son with net worth of $
16.8 billion from various tech-listed companies and South Korea
Samsung's Lee Kun Hee with $ 11.4 billion. Son is rated second
in the list and Lee eighth
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N
issan is recalling 9,000 units
of its compact car Micra
and mid-sized sedan Sunny in
India to replace defective airbags
as part of a global recall.
The recall will cover cars
manufactured between 2008 to
2012 that use safety airbags
made by its supplier Takata.
"Nissan plans to begin noti-
fying customers soon. Nissan
dealers will replace the driver
airbag inflator with a correctly
manufactured part at no cost to
the customers for parts or
labour," a Nissan India
spokesperson said.
The global recall of 2,60,000
units by the Japanese auto major
affects models, including Note,
M a r c h / M i c r a ,
Sunny/Almera/Versa, Patrol and
Cube.
These are affected by a dri-
ver airbag concern that Takata
reported to Nissan, the compa-
ny said.
Ever since auto industry
body SIAM started voluntary
vehicle recall for safety related
issues in India in July 2012, over
seven lakh vehicles have been
recalled by various manufac-
turers including Maruti Suzuki,
Mahindra & Mahindra, Toyota,
Ford, Honda and General
Motors.Last month Maruti
Suzuki India announced recall
of 69,555 units of Dzire, Swift
and Ritz models manufactured
between March 2010 and
August 2013 to repair wiring
harness fitment.In April this
year, in one of the biggest vehi-
cle recalls in India, Maruti
Suzuki recalled 1,03,311 units
Ertiga, Swift and DZire -- man-
ufactured between November
12, 2013 and February 4, 2014
to replace faulty fuel filler neck.
Nissan to recall 9,000 units of
Micra, Sunny mooels in noia
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U
S sof t ware gi ant
Microsoft has said it will
now start sel l ing Lumia
smartphones as 'Microsoft
Lumia' device instead of call-
ing them Nokia Lumia.
"Our global and local
websites are going through a
transition as we speak and in
the coming days our social
channels will get a new name
too they will be called
Mi crosof t Lumi a, "
Mi crosof t ' s Seni or Vi ce
President of Marketing for
Phones Tuula Rytila said on
a blog.
"We have now started the
transition from Nokia Lumia
to Microsoft Lumia," the
company said.
The move comes within 6
month of Microsoft acquiring
Finnish telecom company
Nokia's mobile device busi-
ness for about $ 7.5 billion.
The deal was completed on
April 25, 2014.
Rytila did not share time-
line for launching Lumia
device without Nokia brand
name but said "we are look-
ing forward to unveiling a
Microsoft Lumia device soon.
This is of course a natural
progression as all devices
that once came from Nokia
now come from Microsoft."
Microsoft, however, will
retain Nokia brand name for
entry level phones.
"Microsoft will continue
to sell Nokia-branded, entry-
level category of phones, such
as the Nokia 130. We have
licensed the Nokia brand for
such devices," Rytila said.
Microsoft has a 10-year
license to use the Nokia
brand on current and subse-
quently developed mobile
phones from the date it
acquired Finnish mobile
devices company.
Microsoft oros Nolia name
from Lumia smartlones
Microsoft will continue to sell
Nokia-branded, entry-level category
of phones, such as the Nokia 1S0.
We have licenced the Nokia brand
for such devices
FTI Q SLAMABA0
P
akistan on Saturday said
that it will continue to trade
with India despite tensions
along the border casting a
shadow on bilateral economic
ties as no country can improve
its relations without going into
business.
"The vision of our
Government is that we must
trade with our neighbours,
including India, despite border
tensions," Commerce Minister
Khurram Dastagir said,
addressing a consultative trade
meeting on Friday.
"The Governmentis com-
mitted to increase regional
trade as part of promoting
peace without compromising
on national sovereignty," The
Dawn quoted the commerce
minister as saying.
will conlinue lo lrade
wilh ndia desile
border lensions: Fak
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Al GO, KALASh SATYARTh looks as exuberanl as lhe youngguynexldoor. The secrel or lhis, he lells you, lies in doing
good work or lhe sociely and gelling acknowledged. Allhough lhe hobel Feace Fri/e comes as a surrise lo him, Salyarlhi
says nolhing much has changed aler lhal. ' will conlinue lo be a ain or lhe lraicking maia as will kee exosing lhem
and heling children oul o lhal hell,' lhe hobel Laureale lells 0EEBAShREE M0hAhTY rom his ashram in viral hagar
I
t was 3 pm when I received a call
from a journalist friend in India. He
was very excited and hardly able to
speak. Kailashji, Nobel Peace Prize...
is all he said. I was caught unawares.
I thought he had called to ask about my
reaction on whoever had won the Nobel
Peace Prize. Sorry, I have no idea who has
won it. You tell me? I asked. Taken aback,
he said, But, you have. I was speechless,
Kailash Satyarthi recalls that sunny after-
noon of October 2014 when the news of
his having won the most coveted Prize for
Peace reached him.
He was woken up from his afternoon
nap at his home in Aravali Apartments,
Kalkaji, but Satyarthi was as surprised at
the announcement as were people around
him. I thought it was a mistake, the mod-
est 60-year-old activist who founded
Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980, tells
you. He immediately switched on the news
channels to get a confirmation.
Congratulatory messages have been
flowing in ever since but Satyarthi and his
family are yet to come to terms with this
latest achievement. As is customary, he and
his wife are calling in the celebrations with
hundreds of rehabilitated children in their
Bal Ashram near Virat Nagar, Jaipur.
That is my peace abode. I find happiness
in the smiles of children whom we have
rescued from suffering. It also reminds me
that the work is only half done. My fam-
ily celebrates all occasions with these chil-
dren at the ashram, he says, as he sits down
for a glass of water.
This is his fifth interview this morn-
ing but Satyarthi does not show any signs
of fatigue. I start my day early so that gives
me a lot of time to think and plan my activ-
ities. That is the secret of my organised life,
he says, laughingly.
He has only just wrapped up a lengthy
interview for a daily from Brazil and there
are other media contingents from other
parts of the world waiting for his time and
attention. This, he tells you, is the only dif-
ference in his routine post the Nobel Peace
Prize. Bas media ka dhyan mere taraf ho
gaya hai. Kabhi kabhi manage karna
mushkil hota hai par duniyawalon ko
batana to hai ki mein kya kaam karta hoon.
(Media attention has shifted towards me.
At times, it becomes difficult to manage
but I want the world to know about the
work I do for deprived children), he says.
Satyarthi, meanwhile, has a PR company
that arranges all his meetings and media
interactions. He has also learnt some tricks
of the trade. I have learnt to keep my
answers short and crisp. Because if I have
to give 10 interviews in a day, I may get
breathless, he tells you.
In every way he is an unlikely Nobel
laureate. He has a gmail address but he
rarely has the time to answer his mail. He
freely gives out his mobile number and
answers each and every call whenever he
has a little window. And he has maintained
the same office for years, in a dusty, paved
street in Kalkaji, in south Delhi.
He may have freed over 80,000 chil-
dren from the clutches of slavery till date
but for Satyarthi the work is only half done.
It all started way back in the 1960s when
the seeds of rebellion against child labour
were planted in him. Satyarthi (original-
ly Kailash Sharma) who was a student at
the Government Boys Higher Secondary
School in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, was
on his way to his classroom when he spot-
ted a boy polishing the shoes of his class-
mates. That tugged at my heart. I start-
ed questioning this disparity. Why do some
people have the resources to go to school
while others have to be slaves. His only
fault was that he was born to a poor fam-
ily? My parents took my questions very
seriously and encouraged me to do some-
thing about it. I decided I wanted to do
something to ensure that everyone in the
society is given equal rights and opportu-
nities, he tells you.
An intelligent student with a special
liking towards Physics and Mathematics,
Satyarthi passed his 12th standard in fly-
ing colours and got admission in the
Samrat Ashoka Technological Institute in
Vidisha. He got a degree in electrical engi-
neering and a post graduate degree in high
voltage engineering. Everyone in his fam-
ily had assumed that Satyarthi would con-
tinue on this path and look for a high-pay-
ing career with an MNC. But he had dif-
ferent plans.
I never forgot about that boy. I want-
ed to do something to help such people out
but had no idea how to go about it. I used
to be very vocal about this concern and
used to participate in every seminar to
speak against this practise. I joined a col-
lege in Bhopal and started teaching but
after a couple of years I got a call from the
Bonded Labour Liberation Front and I
immediately joined them as Secretary
General. There has been no looking back,
he recalls. That very year in July, Satyarthi
founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan
which has fought child labour by creating
domestic and international consumer
resistance to products made by bonded
children, as well as with direct legal and
advocacy work.
Building on his initial activism,
Satyarthi organised the Global March
Against Child Labour in the 1990s ded-
icated to freeing the millions of children
abused worldwide in a form of modern
slavery. The activist is also founder of
RugMark, a widely known international
scheme that tags all carpets made in fac-
tories that are child-labour free.
He has seen the bitter and ugly side of
society but that has not led him astray from
his campaigns. I have seen how children
suffer. If they cry for their parents they are
beaten up mercilessly till they collapse in
pain. They are sodomised and raped.
Theres no respite for them. To deal with
all this and fight the child trafficking mafia
was disturbing but I was prepared for any-
thing and everything. My wife was initial-
ly very hassled about death threats and
beatings that I had to go through. But she
reconciled, realising that to bring about a
change, one has to weather the storm.
Today, she is my biggest strength, Satyarthi
says.
His two colleagues were killed while
dealing with dangerous and biggest child
trafficking mafia in India. Satyarthi him-
self sustained injuries and stab wounds but
never once thought of withdrawing.
He tells you about some of the inter-
ventions that had gone terribly wrong. Like
the time a group of men from the Great
Roman Circus who were employing
trafficked teenagers from Nepal as danc-
ing girls attacked him with iron rods
and cricket bats.
Oh these incidents have become
very common. There was a time when I
would come home all bloody. When my
daughter was very small, we got a call from
a goon saying that he would teach me and
my family a lesson we will never forget. He
had researched about our schedules and
knew who went out and at what time. That
day, we became even more determined to
root out the evils in society, he tells you,
adding that agar kadam badhaya hi hai
then why not complete the walk?
For a spiritual man like him, life and
death has no meaning. Satyarthi says he
has always been driven by spiritual values
that go beyond all religions. He believes
that while the body perishes, the soul lives
forever. I am not a religious fanatic but I
believe in the soul theory. That helps me
brace death without fear, he states.
Satyarthis journey with BBA has been
the foundation of his ceaseless good work.
The Bachpan Bachao Andolan was initi-
ated as a grassroots level and direct-action-
oriented peoples movement in 1980 to
eliminate exploitation of children, especial-
ly child labour and child trafficking.
The campaign, today, has over 80,000
individuals and 750 organisations as
members who advocate and act for child
rights protection. I am no longer associ-
ated with this organisation but the lead-
ership committee has been good enough
to consider me as the mentor and founder
of this initiative. I will do everything in my
capacity to help BBA in its modest effort
to provide a better livelihood to children,
he says.
A brilliant cook and an understand-
ing husband, Satyarthi is also quite the
humourous sorts. He is always smiling and
cracking jokes to lighten the mood at his
ashram. When those children laugh out
aloud with him, he is the happiest.
Everyone can do his or her bit to ensure
that a child gets a decent living. Start with
making a child at the street smile. Then go
about in your society trying to spread
cheer. If everyone does it together, there
will be lots of happiness around, he says.
Apart from this smile factor, Satyarthi
uses an array of techniques, including lob-
bying with politicians and knocking on the
doors of the Supreme Court, National
Human Rights Commission and other
judicial institutions, for enforcement of
child rights laws.
He says that although the laws are in
place in India, awareness is still not up to
the mark. And it is not knowledge alone
that will make this world a better place to
live in. According to him, there is an urgent
need for socialisation of morality and com-
passion. Inter-state trafficking is increas-
ing rapidly not just in India but also in
South-Asian countries and something
needs to be done fast to curb this social
atrocity. One person cannot do it. It has
to be the effort of the entire society, he
states.
One of Satyarthis big achievements is
the promotion of a consumer awareness
campaign in Europe and the US aimed at
dissuading consumers from buying carpets
made by child labourers and simultaneous-
ly endorsing goods produced without
exploiting children.
This, Satyarthi says was imbibed in
him by his daughter, who is currently pur-
suing her MBA from an institute in
Hyderabad.
My daughter has always inspired me
to give my 100 per cent. There have been
times when I feel lost in a cause but she
shows me the way. She was 10 when she
started an agitation against child labour at
the Shiv Kasi crackers factory. I have learnt
from her and she continues to teach me
newer ways to get my point across, he says.
His son is an established lawyer who takes
up child trafficking cases. The BBA and
my son have been responsible for making
the CRPA (Child Rights Protection Act)
a reality. He is working with the
Government to make more laws on child
rights, he says.
As for Malala Yousafzai, co-recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize this year, Satyarthi
feels she will be the ambassador of peace
of the next generation.
There is a lot of contrast between the
two one is a young girl, the other is a
senior citizen, one is a Muslim while the
other a Hindu; while Malala is world
renowned, Satyarthi is barely-known but
in reality they are both struggling for the
same thing.
I have spent a lot of time with Malala
and her family in The Netherlands. They
are very down-to-earth people willing to
sacrifice everything. Malalas courage
should be applauded. I plan to work with
her in the future, Satyarthi tells you from
the ashram.
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Ranchi: Aler molorsorls and oolball, ndian
crickel leam calain Mahendra Singh 0honi has
now lenl his suorl lo ndian hockey by becoming
lhe owner o lhe Ranchi ranchise o lhe hero
hockey ndia League (hhL). 0honi boughl lhe
leam along wilh Sahara ndia Fariwar, who already
is lhe owner o lhe ullar Fradesh wi/ards side in
lhe hhL. The new Ranchi ranchise will be known
as 'Ranchi Rays' rom lhird edilion o hhL lo be
held in JanuaryFebruary nexl year. As arl o lhe
arrangemenl, 0honi is lhe rincial owner o lhe
new Ranchi ranchise and Sahara are execled lo
rovide logislical suorl lo lhe leam.
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Margao: h 0 0era scored lwice in lhe second
hal lo hel Tu Laxmi Frasad osl a lhuming
4O win over Army 0reen in 0rou A reliminary
qualiying round malch and enler lhe semiinals
o lhe 127lh 0urand Cu. 0esile Army 0reen's
early dominalion, Tu Laxmi Frasad scored lhe
olhers lhrough Serilon Fernandes and Mackroy
Fiexolo. Tu Laxmi Frasad will now lake on lhe
winner o lhe Fool C malch belween Sesa
Academy and Army Red.
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Dubai: Fakislan look a huge sle lowards
viclory in lhe irsl Tesl by laking our key
Auslralian wickels aler hundreds rom Younis
Khan and Ahmed Sheh/ad ul lhem in lhe
driving seal in 0ubai on Saluday. Aler selling an
imosing 488run largel, Fakislan rallled lhe
Auslralians lhrough a brace o wickels aiece
rom sinners Zuliqar Babar and Yasir Shah lo
leave Auslralia lollering on 5O4 al slums on
lhe ourlh day. Auslralia need anolher 87O or an
unlikely win.
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Paris: Ace ndia shulller Saina hehwal crashed
oul o lhe French 0en Suer Series aler going
down lo world ho. 2 Shixian wang o China in
a hardoughl women's singles quarlerinal
conlesl here. Seeded ilh, Saina osed a quile
a challenge lo her Chinese rival bul in lhe end il
was a case o so close, yel so ar or lhe ndian
who losl 1O21, 211O, 1521. The ballle lasled
an hour and 1O minules. hehwal had losl lo
wang in revious week's 0enmark 0en as
well. wilh hehwal's deeal, ndia's
reresenlalion in Faris ended aler Farualli
Kashya had losl earlier in lhe day.
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New Delhi: Frovisionally susended L Sarila
0evi has nol given u hoes o arlicialing in
nexl monlh's world Chamionshis, saying lhal
she has wrillen lo lhe nlernalional Boxing
Associalion (ABA) resenling her case. Sarila,
who was susended or reusing lo accel her
Asian 0ames bron/e medal aler a conlroversial
semiinal loss, said she is disaoinled wilh lhe
lurn o evenls since lhen. ' am disaoinled
wilh how lhings have gone bul have wrillen lo
Boxing ndia, which will orward lhe conlenls lo
ABA. cannol reveal lhe conlenls o lhe leller
bul am hoeul lhal lhings will be sorled,'
Sarila said. The inlernalional body had exlicilly
slaled lhal lhe ormer world and Asian chamion
will nol be allowed lo arliciale in lhe world
Chamionshis, rom hovember 1O in Jeju
slands, Korea.
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Basel: Raael hadal will have seasonending
aendicilis surgery nexl monlh, ruling him oul
o lhe ucoming Faris Maslers and lhe ATF
inals in London. hadal announced lhe decision
Friday aler losing 2G, G7 (4) lo 17yearold
Borna Coric in a subar erormance in lhe
quarlerinals o lhe Swiss ndoors in Basel. he
said he made lhe decision lasl week lo undergo
surgery on hovember 8, and lhal his 2O14
season is over. "l's lhe day lo say goodbye lo
lhe season," hadal said. "l's been a very hard
year or me, menlally and hysically. 'm nol
going lo lay Faris and London, 'm nol
comelilive enough or lhal. need lo do lhe
surgery or my aendix and need lo work on
my back."
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Mohali: Mahesh Rawal scored a cenlury and
combined well wilh lowerorder balsmen lo ile
on lhe misery o lhe horlh Zone bowlers as
Cenlral Zone's 0ulee Trohy semiinal ended in
a draw here on Salurday. Coming inlo lhe inal
day o lhe malch, Cenlral Zone had lheir lace in
lhe summil clash assured on lhe back o lheir
irsl innings lead and lheir balsmen gol some
good raclice under lheir bell ahead o lhe inal.
Their second innings could nol slarl yeslerday
aler horlh were bundled oul or 457. Rawal
scored 11G o 1G1 balls lo kee horlh al bay.
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second on lhe 0rder o Meril.
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London: A riend o Faul 0ascoigne says lhe
lroubled ormer England midielder has been
unwell in recenl weeks and is seeking hel. 0ary
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reorled lhal 0ascoigne was undergoing urlher
lrealmenl or alcohol addiclion. 0nce one o
England's mosl lalenled and resecled layers,
lhe 47yearold 0ascoigne has aced alcohol and
menlal heallh roblems in recenl years. Mabbull
says "Faul hasn'l been well or lhe asl coule
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FTI Q Kh0ST0h
W
est Indies captain Dwayne Bravo
has hit back at Marlon Samuels
for claiming that he was not part
of the ODI teams plan to abandon the trou-
bled tour of India, saying that his team-mate
was an interested party and spoke "vig-
orously" during the meetings he attended.
Samuels had said that since he was not
accredited with the West Indies Players
Association, he wanted to focus on finish-
ing the India tour before raising any
objections concerning the contract and
memorandum of understanding signed
between the WIPA and the WICB.
Bravo said he was shocked at the
claims made by Samuels. He said Samuels
contributed vigorously to the discussions
held and indicated clearly at that time that
he would stand with any decision taken by
the team. I note the comments attributed
to Marlon Samuels from media reports and
wish to state that Samuels was invited to
and did attend the majority of meetings
with the players on tour, Bravo said in a
media statement.
We extended invitation to Samuels
with full knowledge that he is not a mem-
ber of WIPA but was an interested party.
Samuels contributed vigorously to the
discussions held and indicated clearly, at
that time, that he would stand with any
decision taken by the team. I am therefore
shocked to see the statements, if true, that
have been attributed to Samuels.
West Indies players abandoned their
tour after playing the fourth ODI because
of a pay dispute with their Board. They were
to play another ODI, one T20 match and
three Tests. Samuels was the only bright
spot for the West Indies on the tour, smash-
ing two superb centuries to finish the ODI
series with 254 runs from three innings.
According to Bravo, the decision to quit
the tour was taken in concert with all
members of the squad and not solely by
him. I wish to state for the record that all
correspondence sent and decisions taken
were with the full agreement and consent
of the players on tour including the current
Test captain Denesh Ramdin and the T20
captain Darren Sammy said Bravo.
It was agreed that someone needed to
correspond with WIPA after we were pre-
sented with the match/tour contract in
India when it became evident that the terms
and conditions were very different from
what we were accustomed to and expect-
ed. The team members met and I, as cap-
tain, was nominated and accepted the
responsibility to correspond on behalf of
the players on tour and I will continue to
do so as designated, he said.
Bravo said that the players, barring
Samuels, have decided to pursue the issue
through legal help. We do not wish to
make any further statements on this mat-
ter since the players on tour with some
additional players who did not tour India
have appointed counsel to represent them
in this matter, he said.
We look forward to a speedy resolu-
tion and that our concerns, are addressed
in a satisfactory and timely manner.
FTI Q LEE0S
I
ndias numero uno all-rounder
of cue sports Pankaj Advani is
on seventh heaven after adding
yet another world title to his kitty
following his World Billiards
Championship triumph in the
150-up points format.
Im on seventh heaven! I
returned to India to focus on
this very event and it has paid
off. Gilchrist was the most
dangerous competitor in the
tournament and in a dream
final I am happy with the way
I performed, said an elated
Advani after clinching his
record 11th world title.
As a gift to the nation on
Diwali, Advani conquered
Singapores Peter Gilchrist 6-2 in
the finals of the shorter format
of billiards on Friday, the 150-up
billiards championship.
While Advani had lost to
Gilchrist in the league stage 2-
3, the Indian seemed deter-
mined to reverse the outcome
in the most crucial match of
the tournament.
In 2014, Advani has won
three different world titles the
IBSF World 6-Red Snooker,
World Team Billiards and World
Billiards Championship (point
format) an unprecedented
record in itself.
With little time to celebrate
as the time format starts today,
Advani is keeping his emotions
in check to concentrate on the
task at hand. The job is only
half done. I have to now focus
on the longer format and try for
a double. I have a match at noon
tomorrow, so celebrations will
have to wait. But no complaints,
said the 29-year-old cueist from
Bangalore.
Opting out of the profes-
sional snooker circuit in the UK,
Advani chose to return to India
to focus on billiards along with
snooker (as opposed to only
snooker) and represent India in
all the majors, a decision that
proved right yet again.
Normally people spe-
cialise in one sport and here I
am trying to juggle with two. I
can definitely tell you that its
not as simple as it looks. The
technique is totally different
when you are playing billiards
and then you suddenly switch
to snooker. And then the for-
mat change is also not easy to
handle, Advani had said before
the tournament.
Of course winning is very,
very important. Initially winning
is all you want, because you want
to prove yourself. But over a
period of time I realised that its
about the best you can possibly
be. But now its not all about
numbers and its about evolving.
I am looking at improving with
every game and every tourna-
ment I play, he said.
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S
erena Williams will get a chance to
avenge a humiliating loss against
Simona Halep after they both advanced
to the championship match of the sea-
son-ending WTA Finals with victories
in contrasting style on Saturday.
Williams beat Caroline Wozniacki
in a thrilling contest 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6)
to remain on course for a third-
straight title, while Halep swept aside
Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-2 to put
herself in a position for the biggest title
of her career.
Halep beat Williams 6-0, 6-2 in the
group stage, inflicting the Americans
heaviest loss in 16 years.
Wozniacki served for the match at
5-4 in the third set, but Williams broke
back and prevailed in the tiebreaker
after trailing 4-1.
Williams now boasts a 10-1 career
record against Wozniacki.
Williams made a slow start, taking
only three points off Wozniackis serve
in the opening set and the frustration
overwhelmed the American. After
the seventh game, she repeatedly
smashed her racket into the court,
bringing a warning from the chair
umpire. Wozniacki, who had a perfect
3-0 record in the group stage, took the
opening set in 26 minutes.
Then the momentum shifted and
Williams took a grip on the second set,
which ended on Wozniackis double
fault. In the third set Wozniacki got the
first break in the ninth game. She
served for the match, but was broken.
Wozniacki started the tiebreaker con-
fidently, but Williams wore her down
with powerful serves and ground-
strokes to win the match.
Halep won five straight games in
the first set to quickly assume a grip on
the match that she never relinquished.
The irony of the final is that
Williams only qualified for the semi-
finals because Halep dropped a set in
her group match against Ana Ivanovic.
Had Halep won that match in straight
sets, Ivanovic would have made the
semifinals at Williams expense.
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Sania and Cara Black showed
strong nerves as they saved three
match points against Kveta Peschke
and Katarina Srebotnik to cruise into
the final. The pair trailed 6-9 but
showed amazing resilience to reel off
five straight points in a tense situation
to clinch the issue 4-6, 7-5, 11-9.
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W
est Ham United main-
tained its strong form
and stunned Manchester
City with a 2-1 victory at
Upton Park on Saturday,
inflicting a second loss in
the champions Premier
League title defense.
Morgan Amalfitano
opened the scoring for West
Ham with a 22nd minute
tap-in following a low pass
into the box from Enner
Valencia. Diafra Sakho
scored his seventh goal in
seven games to double West
Hams lead in the 75th, after
connecting with a cross
from Aaron Cresswell.
David Silva magnifi-
cently halved West Ham's
lead two minutes later, dart-
ing past four tackles and
slotting expertly past
Adrian. After the goal, a late
surge from City wasnt
enough and Upton Park
erupted into jubilation at the
final whistle.
This is a famous victo-
ry for us and one that we
will treasure for a long, long
time, West Ham manager
Sam Allardyce said.
West Hams midfield
took a hold of the game
early on. Man of the match
Alex Song, on a season-long
loan from Barcelona, dictat-
ed the pace in the center of
midfield, overshadowing
Yaya Toure and Manchester
Citys other stars.
West Ham at times
rode their luck in the sec-
ond half with Manchester
Citys i n-form stri ker
Sergio Aguero looking
especially dangerous.
Of course were disap-
pointed with the result,
Manchester City manager
Manuel Pellegrini said. But
it didnt surprise me because
they are playing very well.
The Hammers are now
just a point behind City. I
am so pleased by the
amount of chances we cre-
ated today...but we have to
keep our feet on the ground
and not get too carried
away with this result,
Allardyce said.
The result means
Manchester City loses the
opportunity to gain ground
on Premier League leader
Chelsea, which plays against
Manchester United on
Sunday at Old Trafford.
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Arsenal won its first
Premier League match in
over a month on Saturday,
beating Sunderland 2-0 with
a brace from Alexis Sanchez
after a pair of defensive
errors from Sunderland.
Sanchez scored in the
30th minute after a mistake
from Wes Brown, who
scuffed a back pass to
Sunderland goalkeeper Vito
Mannone. Sanchez raced
past Brown and collected
the ball to go one-on-one
with Mannone, lobbing it
over the advancing keeper
into the back of the net.
Sanchez scored again
in second-half injury time
after another poor back
pass. This time, the ball
reached Mannone, who
couldnt control it, and
Sanchez pounced to tap in.
It was Arsenals first
league victory since
September 20, when the
Gunners beat Aston Villa 3-
0 at Villa Park.
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Mario Balotelli misfired
in front of goal again as
Liverpool was held to a 0-0
draw by Hull in the Premier
League at Anfield.
But it wasnt only
Balotelli who couldnt find
a way through Hull.
Raheem Sterling and
Philippe Coutinho also went
close to scoring in stoppage
time after Liverpool domi-
nated the second half.
Balotelli, who forced
goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic
to save early on, and Sterling
both had penalty appeals
turned down. Liverpool,
last seasons runner-up,
dropped to sixth place, eight
points behind league lead-
ers Chelsea.
Other results: Southampton
1-0 Stoke City; West
Bromwich Albion 2-2
Crystal Palace
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Wost Ham stun City
All correspondence sent and decisions taken
were with the full agreement and consent of
the players on tour including the current Test
captain Denesh Ramdin and the T20 captain
Darren Sammy
DWAYNE BRAVO
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D
elhi Dynamos fired three
stunning goals and
scored another one from the
penalty spot to outplay
Chennaiyin FC 4-1 to record
their first win in the Hero
Indian Super League (ISL)
here on Saturday.
Wim Raymaekers and
Mads Junker scored in the
second and 21st minutes
before Bruno Arias and
Gustavo dos Santos found
the net in the 79th and 90th
minutes for the Dynamos.
Brazilian World Cupper
Elano Blumer pulled one back
for Chennaiyin in the 69th
minute with another brilliant
goal through a free-kick.
With the win, Dymanos
are now fourth with five
points while Chennaiyin
remain on third in the table
with six points.
Even as the crowd was yet
to settle down, central defend-
er Raymaekers scored a stun-
ning goal in the second
minute to give the home side
an early lead.
Malsawmtulanga passed the
ball to Raymaekers whose
booming shot from the top of
the box landed in the top right
corner of the Chennaiyin net.
Junker was then on hand
with the second brilliant strike
of the night. Dias inch-perfect
floater was met by a diving
Junkers head and custodian
Gennaro Bracigliano dived to
his left in vain.
Elano scored in the 69th
minute for his third goal of the
tournament with a fine curl-
ing effort that beat the
Dynamos goalkeeper to
silence a more than 15,000
strong home crowd.
Arias took the match out
of Chennaiyins reach as he
stepped up to score from the
spot in the 79th minute after
Shouvik Ghosh was brought
down in the box.
The match ended with
another brilliant goal with
Dos Santos scoring just before
final whistle with a solo effort
a minute after coming on. The
Brazilian beat a host of
defenders before sending it
past a hapless Channaiyin
goal-keeper.
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AIFF on Saturday sus-
pended head coach of Atletico
de Kolkata Antonio Lopez
Habas for four matches while
two players Robert Pires (FC
Goa) and Fikru Lemessa
(ATK) have been banned for
two matches for breaching
disciplinary code during the
ongoing ISL.
Habas and Pires were
reportedly involved in an
altercation in the tunnel when
the two teams left for the half-
time break during the game
on October 23. Apart from
the suspensions, all three have
been fined C5 lakh.
Predipkumar Bhaktawer,
goalkeeper coach of ATK,
has been suspended for one
match and fined C30,000.
Appeal can be made within
four days.
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sport 10
NEW DELH SUNDAY OCTOBER 26, 2014
sport 11 NEW DELH SUNDAY OCTOBER 26, 2014
Q Why did you feel the need of the
Champions Tennis League (CTL)?
Unlike other sports, ours is not a sea-
sonal sport; from January to November, its
pretty much full year. So, that being the
case you cant get a tournament. You can
apply but you wont get it till somebody
pulls out or somebody goes bankrupt or
you buy a tournament from someone and
things like that. So, we havent been able
to have a tournament in any other part of
the country. There is a large fan base in
India. So, how are we going to have a fam-
ily see events live. Today of course TV is
big and people can watch everything on
television. But if the person is playing in
London or Singapore, how does it affect
him. He is not there.
So that being the case, this league for-
mat gives six cities a chance to watch world
class players, thats number one. Number
two, its both men and women. Number
three, it has Indian participation in every
team. And number four, most important-
ly, it has two juniors one boy and one
girl on the team. Though the juniors are
not competing, they will be there to gain
experience, to practice with these guys and
to travel with these guys. They will never
have that opportunity. And it should
inspire them. Thats the goal.
So it ticks all the boxes for me.
Eventually I would like to have eight teams,
may be in the third year we might be able
to get two more teams on board one in
the north and one in the south. But we
have to walk before we can run. So, lets
try to accomplish this in proper manner.
Q So, your basic aim is to give India a
tournament where people can watch big
players play live?
The ATP or WTA tournaments are
hard to get. We dont know when it will hap-
pen. More important thing is to make sure
that we are be able to see these players live
here. However we do it. If we can have them
play here in a competitive format like the
league, both men and women, then it gives
our boys and girls a chance to see them live.
So a family can go to see it. The children
can be inspired by watching players like
Venus Williams and David Ferrer.
QYou think your reputation as a former
player, administrator, commentator and
TV host played a role in getting togeth-
er this tournament and convincing such
big players to come to India?
I hope so. People know that Ive been
in this for more than 40 years; first as a
player, then as a former player, adminis-
trator and as a commentator now. Ive cov-
ered all the Grand Slams, people have seen
me everywhere. So, theres a degree of cred-
ibility as well that helps in attracting play-
ers to come. All of those things are very
positive. Still, at the end of the day, they
must want to come, the economics has to
be right, it must fit into their calendar and
all those things. Ive also asked them to
come with their spouses or a friend or any-
one they want.
Q How would it help Indian tennis?
The first thing is that there has to be
some Indian interest in the team and in
CTL that comes in the form of a Davis Cup
player. Each team has an Indian Davis Cup
player on it. I am looking forward to the
mens doubles because one Indian is going
to play with one international, which has
never happened before. Another important
thing is that each team has two juniors in
it. So, one boy and one girl the AITA
is giving us the names get to travel with
the players. It gives them a chance to know
how do they train, what their thought
process is like and they will be listening to
them. I know it helped me when I was a
junior. So this is a huge bonus for them to
be able to do that. It should inspire them.
If it doesnt inspire them, they shouldnt be
in tennis.
Q Despite your tremendous success as a
player and tennis being such a rewarding
sport, it couldnt flourish in India as much
as it should have. What was the reason?
When I used to play, the commitment
to the sport was overwhelming. I started
because of the health problems (breathing
problem) but thereafter I got to be the num-
ber one in India, number one in Asia and
then I wanted to explore the international
arena to do the best I could do. Eventually
I made the worlds top-10 and so on. It start-
ed to generate some level of interest among
Indians who constantly used to ask me yes,
you play tennis but what do you do for a
living? Tennis or any other sport was never
a profession. I was the first ever profession-
al athlete in this country in any sport,
including cricket. My cricketer friends like
Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Gundappa
Viswanath, they all had jobs with banks and
government departments but I didnt. My
career was my sport. It has taken 35 years
to get to this point where today families
think that may be the child has this
dream, we can fuel the dream and may be,
weve another (Sachin) Tendulkar,
(Abhinav) Bindra or Saina Nehwal. But it
never happened during my time.
QYou mean to say Indians look for secu-
rity before everything else and that has
hampered their success at the ultra-com-
petitive international arena?
Absolutely. Its a normal thought process
in India. You have to go to school, you have
to go to college, you have to get a job, you
have to get married, you have to have chil-
dren and so on so forth. Thats the cycle. But
today there is a huge change.
Q But today weve all the facilities and,
as you said, people have started consid-
ering sport as a profession. So, why arent
we breaking into top-100 or 50?
I dont know about the girls who all are
playing. I follow boys a little bit more because
of Davis Cup and so on. Boys are in fact
working hard and they are improving but
not at the rate of the westerners. At the end
of the day, it comes down to commitment
and hard work. There is no getting away
from it. People dont realize what kind of
commitment this is. It is of immeasurable
proportions. This is not the kind of work
where you go to office at 9o clock and come
back at 5o clock in the evening. Granted
thats a tough day at work. Whatever the per-
son is doing, its a tough job and people are
working hard to make a living. But, at least
when you do that you get your wage. Here
you may work hard for eight hours and still
lose the match. You dont get anything for
losing it. So the problem with our sport is
that there are no contracts. Its only winning
and losing. If you lose, you dont get any
money. Only if you win, you make money.
Thats your profession. So how do you take
that risk? How can Indian parents let their
child take that risk? Its difficult.
Q Who among the current lot has it in
him to make it big?
I think Yuki should be doing a lot more
than what he is doing. He is a good player;
junior world number one. What happened
after that? The other point is that weve to
realise that Indians mature physically later
and mentally sooner than the westerners.
The westerners mature physically early and
mentally late. Thats my thinking.
We have to allow these kinds of little
nuances of cultural differences, heritage,
DNA and so on. So, what the westerner does
at 18, we should be doing that at 25. Dont
say to the child that oh, he is 18 or 19 and
he is done. I dont think we should put that
kind of pressure on them. Our careers are
little bit later from 25 to 33. Im talking
about only singles. Whereas they, the
Beckers and all of them, are 17 and 18 years
old and they are outstanding. We have to
address it because it cant be a coincidence
all the time. In tennis, I have noticed it for
the last 30 years. We should play to that.
QMany of the juniors tend to go for the
doubles more. Why?
Doubles is a safety net to be able to
make a living. People dont go out and play
tennis as a youngster to play good doubles.
When you start playing tennis, you want
to be tennis player. You are not going there
to become a good doubles player. What
happens is that at an early stage, you feel
that you are not going to do well enough
in singles and its better to play at that safe-
ty net. Top guys are not going to play dou-
bles, so I have more chance of winning in
doubles and make a living out of it. And
you can prolong your career as well. So you
start playing more doubles and steadily
climb the ranking ladder but keep losing
on the single rankings and after sometime
you dont even qualify for the big tourna-
ments. Its quite a common scenario
around the world.
Q Recently there was a controversy after
some of the players pulled out of the Asian
Games squad to be able to play in the pro-
fessional tournaments. Your view on the
country vs professional career debate?
Here is the challenge with individual
sport. In individual sports, every individ-
ual is his own boss. Unlike other sports,
nobody controls him or her. In other
sports, there is a selection committee. Here
its based on merit. There is a ranking sys-
tem that comes out every Monday and
thats the yardstick. Whether it is Davis
Cup, Fed Cup, Asian Games, Olympics or
any other, you get picked on the basis of
your ranking. It is the be all and end all
of our sport. However you look at it.
I dont think any of the girls or boys
who missed the Asian Games had any lack
of commitment towards India. I think all
of them have proved beyond any doubt
that they are committed to their country.
But there is always going to come that
choice when you are in between. If you are
in the top-10, it doesnt matter if you skip
a tournament. If your 700, then also it
doesnt matter. In between, when you are
trying to bridge that little gap to make it
to a tournament, thats when it matters.
QYou think the criticism was unjustified?
Absolutely. For me, the players are the
be all and end all of the sport in our coun-
try. Everyone else is immaterial.
Q You have beaten so many great play-
ers, including Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe
and Jimmy Connors. Do you ever think
about those days? And how do you feel?
Oh, just wonderful. People also ask me,
hey, you are not playing these days? There
is so much money in the game. And I
always feel that I played at the right time.
The 70s and 80s were the golden time in
tennis and I am blessed to have played dur-
ing that time. I was very fortunate that I
played Davis Cup for 20 years for India
which is a very special privilege. Wherever
I played in the world, the anthem was
played and the flag was unfurled. Those
are all blessings and dreams that a very few
people have been accorded. For me, I feel
very privileged to have that.
Q Since your times, tennis has changed
a lot. How do you see the change?
It (tennis) has gotten away from us. We
didnt mean it to go that way. We didnt see
the racquets getting ahead of us. Thats what
happened first. The heads got bigger, got
more aerodynamic, they started putting dif-
ferent materials in the racquets which we
never did before, fiber glass, metal etc. And
before you knew it, it had gotten away from
us. At the same, the average height of the
players started increasing dramatically.
When I was playing, the average height was
58. Today, the average height is 64. So you
take a guy as tall as Ivo Karlovic (68) and
put this aerodynamic weapon in his hand
its like a rocket launcher. All of a sudden,
the skill ends up going out of the game and
all these guys who just happened to be tall
with aerodynamic racquets started hitting
ace after ace. Then people got smart and
slowed down the courts and made the balls
heavier (now its approximately six times
heavier than the time when Amritraj
played the game). All these various elements
were made to compensate for the racquets
and the height of the players. The grass at
Wimbledon isnt even close to what it was
when I used to play. So everybody is play-
ing from the back of the court now. Its not
much different from the French Open.
Q You have also done a couple of chat
shows. How did they come about?
First was the international one and then
a domestic one. I recently finished shoot-
ing the domestic one which features 10
Indians with two actors, two bankers, two
athletes; different people in different walks
of life. Naserrudin Shah, Amitabh
Bachchan, AR Rahman, Kiran Mazumdar-
Shaw, Deepak Parekh, KV Kamath, Prakash
Padukone, Jeev Milkha Singh are all on it.
Q How do you manage so many things?
I always feel that greatest education
that I ever received in my life was being
on the tennis tour. It taught me to truly ask
more of myself than just one thing. For me
everything is a learning experience and I
always challenge myself to learn more of
everything. So Ive been blessed with such
options. When TV was offered to me, I had
no experience of it and now Ive been on
it for 23 years.
QWhich side is difficult being a host-
ing or a guest?
Hosting is much more difficult! There
needs to be a train of thought, there needs
to be research done on the back of your
head so youre not constantly looking at a
piece of paper. What you really want to do
is listen to the guests and your thoughts
should formulate based on what the other
person is saying. The viewer should think
it is a real conversation rather than asking
multiple questions. To me, thats very
important and I listen very carefully to
what the question has to say.
QDo you think that your upbringing and
the tough period that you went through
as a child made you mentally stronger?
I think considering what everyone said
to my mom that this guy is a zero and he
wont be able to do anything, she took it
upon herself and then my coach (Mr
Ramarao) who had diabetes said he was
going to make me national champion and
everybody laughed at them because I was
constantly sick. And I ended up winning the
national championships and three months
later he died. For me, watching my mom
and where I came from, there was no ques-
tion of impossible. When you play a
match and youre in incredible amount of
pressure, and you have 20,000 people
watching and more on TV, we always felt
that pressure was a privilege not many
get to experience it. At that point in time,
can you reach within yourself for greatness
and for me it always meant going back to
when I was growing up. If you can over-
come those kind of issues, its great. Even
now my mother and I talk about it and
laugh that you couldnt pass an exam but
youre speaking at Wharton and Columbia!
Thats the funniest part.
Q Had IPTL not been happening at
around the same time, could you have
brought in bigger names?
Our immediate mandate was to leave
out the too four guys Federer, Nadal,
Djokovic, Murray were out for me anyway.
And amongst the women, Serena Williams,
Maria Sharapova, Li Na and Ana Ivanovic
were out. We were going to choose from the
rest who was available and who was in
the top 25. IPTL is using the biggest names
that they could find. I dont know the full
details but there is no way that the econom-
ics can work, the numbers are just astronom-
ical! Plus, the same team doesnt play
everywhere. The Delhi team isnt the same
team that plays in Singapore. How do you
decide whos on which team. In CTL, weve
four people whore playing all the matches.
QThe grand slams are so popular, do you
think leagues can make an impact?
No. The only way a league can work
is by helping the local players and local ten-
nis. It needs to have a local impact other-
wise people will just watch on TV, whats
the big deal. Youve got to leave the four
grand slams aside. My point is how do you
go over and above that and encourage the
local countrys development. Either you
have tremendous academies and bring in
international coaches on a regular basis but
at the same time if you can bring in great
quality players to inspire the youngsters
then thats terrific. Its not meant for them
to learn but to be inspired.
QRecently some big guns brought on leg-
endary players as coaches. Does it help?
The great thing about using players of
that calibre is that theyre not exactly
coaches. Whether its Goran Ivanesevic,
Stefan Edberg or Michael Chang theyre
not there to change your style or work on
your backhand or forehand. There are two
things that they are most capable of
doing. For example, lets say youre having
a tough time where you reach the semis
but cant go beyond. The first thing that
this guy does is inspire you. Its more like
speech therapy. He makes you think more
of yourself. The second thing is technical-
ly playing a big point based on the play-
ers strengths. On how to prepare for big
points because at the top, its not easy
matches, theyre all very tight. Those are
the two major issues in a champion
coach. Theyre more of a guide.
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Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai, Hitler Didi and Badalte
Rishton Ki Dastaan, Abhinav Shukla is all set for his Bollywood
debut in Roar. He talks to SANGEETA YADAV about the film
which deals with the sensitive issue of human fragmentation in tiger
habitat and his experience shooting in the Sunderbans
QHow was your experience playing a commando in Roar?
Working in an action thriller shot extensively in the
Sunderbans was a huge challenge. I had to look stressed and
unhappy as I was on a mission to claim my brothers body from
the jungle. He had been mauled by a tiger. I had to undergo a
one month workshop under shifu master Kanishka Sharma. We
learnt hand signals as it was a silent mission. There was no room
for error in this film. Being my debut film, I had to stand out
among other actors. It was a challenging project but I think I
have managed well.
QWhy is the movie not shot in India?
Getting permission in India to shoot inside reserve forest area
is next to impossible. The procedure is very complicated. Even
if, we would have got the permission from the Government, the
human rights activists would have been up in arms against the
film.
QHow was it working with Kamal Sadanah?
He has a very Western way of direction. He
makes sure that everything has been penned
down in a flow chart format. Right from tak-
ing permission from the Bangladesh tourism
to UNESCO, everything was done much in
advance.
QWhat about shooting with the tigers?
We shot with a few tigers in Los
Angeles after getting certificated
from the American Welfare Board.
A lot of VFX effects have been
used in the film to make it look
larger-than-life.
QHow was the team like?
The crew was very coopera-
tive. There was no vanity van or
washroom but everyone stayed
on board with this project.
QWhat is the morale of the
story?
Tigers are misunderstood and
there is a main reason for their
extinction fragmentation of their
habitat which has pushed them to
the outskirts of the forest. Only 3,
700 tigers are left in the world, its
high time that we understand and
respect their space. Not many film-
makers in India are keen to make
a film on such a serious topic like
tiger extinction and the life of
poachers.
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QFrom the Fast and Furious, to
The Hobbit and now starring as
the lead in the re-launching of
Dracula has it been a whirlwind
for you?
Its been the fastest six years of
my life. I sometimes stop not
very often but sometimes stop
and take stock of what Ive actually
achieved and Im very proud of it.
This moment in my career feels like
the icing on the cake to this point,
to be helming my own film and to
be playing the title role of a very
famous character.
QThis is your first lead role. Do
you see it as a challenge?
Its a role. You have to give
everything to every job you do. You
have a responsibility to do the best
job you can, and make sure you
honour the script and the writers
and the directors ideas. Ive been
playing with this script for about 8
to 9 months which is quite a long
time. Even though Ive been doing
other projects and finishing The
Hobbit, I was still setting pieces of
the jigsaw puzzle in my head, so
that when I arrived here, it wasnt
too daunting.
Ive been acting since I was 20,
so its not like I just jumped into
playing a lead role. But it is a lot of
responsibility!
QTell us more about the physical
preparation that goes into a role
like this?
You know, muscles dont stay
big. They tend to shrink, which is
really annoying. My trainer is with
me all day. We train before I come
to work, and then I just keep train-
ing all day.
QTell us something about your
character 'Vlad the Impaler'?
You meet Vlad at the beginning
of the film and hes in a good place.
Hes had ten years of peace. Hes in a
loving relationship with his beautiful
wife. And then the threat comes of the
invasion of the Ottoman Empire and
Mehmed, he realises that he doesnt
have security. He becomes vulnerable.
As the plot goes on and his journey
progresses, he becomes aware that he
can do certain things, and certain
things happen to him.
QYour personal style statement
A guys biggest faux pas is trying
to look too cool. As long as youve got
a good pair of jeans, a good pair of
boots and a few good shirts, youre
fine. If youve got a good piece of cloth-
ing or a good accessory, itll work with
everything.
'Playing !racula was lot of resonsilility`
F
ilmmaker Ketan Mehta
better known for his work
in Mangal Pandey and Maya
Memsaab, has his hands full at
the moment. The director-
turned-producer is excited
about the release of Kisna on
Discovery Kids and also about
his next film to hit the theatres
in November. Rang Rasiya has
been shrouded in mystery ever
since the movie went on the
floor. Its about the life and times
of a popular painter, Raja Ravi
Verma. The painter had a very
intriguing and colourful life that
Ive tried to bring alive in Rang
Rasiya. Both Randeep Hooda
and Nandana Sen have done
exceptionally well, Mehta, who
was in the Capital to announce
the launch of Kisna, says.
For him, a lot still has to be
done to make our film industry
stand out among the others. I
dont think we are anywhere
close to our Western counter-
parts. Take the animation indus-
try for example. Weve all the
equipment and the people but
we still dont produce enough
animation content for our
younger generation. Weve a rich
history replete with children sto-
ries but we havent been able to
bring them to the fore. Thats
unfortunate, Mehta tells you,
adding that through Kisna, they
are trying to fill in the void.
Kisna is about an adventur-
ous and amusing young boy
from Anandnagri and his adver-
sary the wicked Raja Durjan of
Andhernagri. During the series,
he will use his super powers to
clash with Raja Durjan and each
time squash his evil plans of
spreading fear in in the home-
town. Kisna is a problem solver
that every child (and some
adults) will relate to. There is
action and wit which makes this
show different from its counter-
parts. Its a proud feeling to be
associated with this channel
which churns out programmes
for children, he says.
There is a dire need for chil-
dren content on the big screen as
well. I dont remember which
was the last pure childrens movie
that was produced in India. This
is a huge segment and a very
good one to explore, Mehta who
will be promoting Rang Rasiya in
a big way, says.
He tells you that what is
lacking in the Indian film circuit
are original scriptwriters who
can churn out interesting stories.
Once weve a good story in the
kitty, there is enough scope for
the director to make it into a
good film. But if the storyline is
weak, what can a filmmaker
do?, he queries. As a producer,
Mehta says his role has become
immense. He tells you that it has
become difficult to find a script
that one would like to believe in.
But he will continue to be associ-
ated with refreshing cinema.
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QIt has been 125 years to this
great performance. How has the
journey been?
The success and the longevity
of the Moulin Rouge is to have been
capable to adapt its shows through-
out different eras. To give to peo-
ple what they expected at different
times. The Moulin Rouge had a lot
of success all through its 125 years,
thanks to the performers who
knew how to put on a nice show for
the public.
QTell us more about the selection
of your performers. Where are
they from?
Our dancers come from 14
different nationalities (Australia,
the UK and some from France).
They are all professional dancers
with a ballet training background.
Miss Janet (the ballet mistress)
holds auditions in Paris and in the
world (Australia, UK, Canada,
Scandinavia among others) to
select them. They need to be very
good dancers and have a nice fig-
ure. The personality is also very
important. They need to have a
lot of energy as the dancers will
be performing 12 shows a week.
QHow do you train your perform-
ers? Do they have to maintain a
strict dance routine?
When they get a contract for
the Moulin Rouge, they have a one
month rehearsal, 6 days a week to
learn all the choreography of the
show. Then, when they are per-
forming, they have between 1 and
2 rehearsals per month.
They are required to do a lot of
gyming as well to keep fit. But per-
forming 2 shows a day (about 1h
45 minutes duration) helps them to
stay in a good shape anyways.
QWhy do you think the Moulin
Rouge is so popular?
Because of its longevity, histo-
ry and the quality of the show. It is
also a very French show in the tra-
dition of the French music-hall.
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QFor how long have you been associated
with the troupe?
I arrived to join the cast in April 2002
and have been dancing with the troupe ever
since.
QTell us more about yourself.
I was born and raised in a small coun-
try town in Victoria, Australia. I started
dancing at a young age then decided to fol-
low my passion and study dance and per-
forming arts full time at The Dance Factory
in Melbourne. After completing my stud-
ies on a scholarship, I worked profession-
ally in the entertainment business. From
musical theatre to cabaret and teaching, I
enjoyed all different facets of dance and
modelling before arriving at the Moulin
Rouge in 2002. Today, I am lucky enough
to be one of the principal dancers. Its such
an honour to lead the cast and to be involved
in such an amazing cabaret show.
QHow did Moulin Rouge happen to you.
I auditioned in Sydney Australia in
2001. It was an audition that lasted all day
and at the end I was chosen to stay. Three
months after the audition I received a call
from Paris offering me a place in the cast.
Unfortunately, I had other commitments at
the time and couldnt accept the contract.
Fortunately, six months later I received
another call to see if I was available and
interested and this time I accepted the con-
tract.
QWhy did you want to take it up?
First, the Moulin Rouge is the most
famous cabaret music hall you can ever get
the opportunity to dance with. Its also sit-
uated in the most beautiful city in the world.
Also to dance the famous French cancan on
the same stage where it originated is an
opportunity you just cant give up.
QHow has your experience been?
I have had a lot of highs and lows
throughout my twelve years here. The lows
are definitely being so far away from home
and missing special family moments. The
highs have been learning another language
and discovering a new culture. Wandering
the Parisian streets and getting lost in this
magical city. Traveling throughout Europe
and most of all having the chance to dance
on one of the most famous mystical stages
in the world. Not too many people get to
dress up in million dollar costumes, live day
to day their childhood dreams and call it
their job. What more could a girl ask for!
QWhat has changed over the years?
Today is a lot different from when I
started back in 2002. Being able to speak the
language really helps you integrate and com-
municate with the French people. At work,
I have definitely evolved as a dancer.
QYour best and most memorable perfor-
mance was....
One of the best performances was when
Beyonc watched the show. Being a huge
fan, I was so excited to be performing in
front of her. I got to meet her after the show
backstage and she was truly one of the most
elegant, classy down-to-earth celebrities I
have ever met.
QIs there a worst performance that you
can recall?
Not really. Doing the same show six
days a week two shows a night is very
demanding though.
QWhat according to you is the USP of this
show?
The French cancan is the unique sell-
ing point. People recognise the French can-
can music straight away and identify it with
the Moulin Rouge. I would also have to say
the history of the Moulin Rouge is very
unique. Being situated in Montmartre
where so many iconic artist immortalised
the Moulin Rouge and certain performers.
QHow do you keep yourself fit to be a per-
former?
Doing the two shows is already a lot but
besides that I like to do Pilates and from time
to time a dance class. I love doing ballroom
classes too.
QHow strenuous is it?
Its very demanding physically as well
as mentally. Twelve show a week is strenu-
ous on the body, so you need to eat well, get
enough sleep and try to avoid injuries. Also
try to be stress free at all times.
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QWhy Moulin Rouge?
It is such a world renowned and prestigious com-
pany. With beautiful sets, costumes and of course the
dancers themselves. It is a spectacle that every dancer
dreams to be apart of.
QHave you been a dancer since childhood?
I began commercial dancing at the age of four at my
local studio. It was here that my teachers recognised my
talent and encouraged me to audition for a full time pro-
fessional progamme. Throughout my studies I have
trained at some of Australias top institutions including
the Australian ballet school and The West Australian
academy of Performing Arts.
QTell us more about yourself. What do you do?
Coming from Australia, I indulge in a lot of outdoor
activities. In my spare time, I hit the beaches to do yoga.
Paris has some really beautiful parks where I now spend
a lot of my spare time, reading books and drinking cof-
fee and of course I love to shop considering I now live
in the fashion capital of the world.
QWhat attracted you towards Moulin Rouge?
Apart from moving to one of the most beautiful cities
in the world? As a student I had seen and heard so much
about the Moulin Rouge. I saw numerous videos and
pictures of the beautiful dancers and knew that one day
that was where I aspired to be. There are dancers in the
company that I remember watching and whom I idolised.
It is such a wonderful feeling and a honour to be able
to dance beside them on the stage.
QHow do you handle the pressure of performance?
For me, performing is an absolute passion. As a
young girl at the ballet school, I was constantly told stop
performing and concentrate on your technique, so its
hard to say that performing makes me feel pressured as
such. There are certain things in the industry, howev-
er, that creates pressure. Things like a body image or look-
ing glamourous at all times of the day. Of course, I can
get nervous, but once I take to the stage, I let myself loose
and completely forget where I am.
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paying dividends.
At the 2014 Incheon Asian
Games, India got 11 gold, 10
silver and 36 bronze medals
for an overall tally of 57
medals. Thirty-two years ago,
India with 57 medals from
18 different sports at the Delhi Asian Games finished
fifth in the medals tally. In 2014, India also bagged 57
medals, from 14 sports disciplines, but finished eighth.
This shows that the level of competition has increased
drastically in the Asian Games.
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The five Central Asian Republics Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan
admitted to the Olympic Council of Asia in the early
1990s, first participated in the 1994 Hiroshima Asian
Games. Their entry had an immediate impact on Indias
fortunes at these continental games. For years, India
had dominated the heavyweight boxing category with
Hawa Singh winning gold medals in 1966 and 1970, and
Kaur Singh in 1982. With the participation of the five
Central Asian Republics, the level of competition has
increased a lot in sports like weightlifting, boxing, ath-
letics and wrestling. So, Indias genetic advantage of
having taller and stronger men and dominating the
heavier weight categories and in the throws in athletics
gradually disappeared.
This was evident in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games
also. In the super-heavyweight, plus 121 kg category of
boxing, Satish Kumar of the 11 Kumaon Regiment got
outclassed by the 6ft 9ins tall Ivan Dychko of Kazakhstan,
who is the reigning world champion. Kazakhstan a domi-
nant force in amateur boxing; it won six gold medals in
mens boxing in the recent 17th Asian Games. Similarly, in
wrestling, Indian grapplers in the heavier weight cate-
gories, Satyavart Kadian (97 kg) and Krishna Kumar (120
kg) in freestyle, and Hardeep Singh (98 kg) and
Dharmendra Dalal (130 kg) in Greco-Roman got eclipsed
by swifter and heavier opponents from the Central Asian
Republics. Prior to the 1994 Asian Games, the grapplers
and boxers in the heavier weight categories invariably
returned with some medals as competition was less
intense.
Again in athletics, India now faces a much tougher
challenge than they did two decades ago. It is not just the
presence of the Central Asian Republics which makes the
difference, but also the new trend of poaching athletes
from African nations. Oil-rich countries like Bahrain,
Qatar and UAE are using their wealth to get Africa-born
athletes to represent their adopted countries. Bahrain won
nine gold medals in athletics in Incheon 2014 mainly due
to their imported athletes. This is of course a new trend in
world athletics with many European countries also doing
the same. But the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has
hazy guidelines about time constraints for switching
nationalities and competing in the Asian Games.
For instance, Oluwakemi Mujidat Adekoya of Nigeria
won the womens 400 metres gold medal just 18 days after
she became eligible to run for Bahrain. She applied for the
citizenship of Bahrain in 2013 and in less than a year
became eligible to run for her adopted country.
Indias Rajiv Arokia a bronze medalist in the mens
400 metres could have bagged a gold medal if there had
been no imported runners from other countries. Saudi
Arabias Yousef Ahmed Masrahi and Bahrains Abbas
Abubaker, who clinched the gold and silver medals
respectively in this race, were both African imports.
Despite these difficulties, athletics provided India with the
maximum number of medals, 13 in all, at the recent Asian
Games the maximum in any sport. This tally is one
more than the 12 medals won by athletes in Guangzhou
2010. However, four years ago, India had bagged five gold
medals in athletics compared to two now.
Creditably, India retained their domination of
womens 4x400 metres womens relay. Also, 12 years after
Neelam Jaswant Singhs gold medal in the womens discus
throw in the 2002 Busan Asian Games, Seema Punia won
a gold medal in the same event. Seemas grit and consis-
tency is laudable. She missed the last two Asian Games
and this was her last chance for a medal. On a wet and
slippery surface, she got her gold with a heave of 61.03
metres. Besides this gold medal, Seema has won three
medals in the Commonwealth Games (2006, 2010 and
2014) and has become Indias most consistent athlete.
In the new millennium, India has now won four suc-
cessive gold medals in the womens 4x400 metres, thereby
proving the depth of talent that exists in the country. No
other Asian country, since Busan 2002, has produced a
quartet of women quarter miles that are consistently good.
After the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, six of our
top 400 metres runners were suspended for two years
due to doping offences. It seemed the relay team was in
shambles. But the girls showed great fortitude in their
comeback and stormed to victory with a Games record
timing of 3:28.68. The quartet of Priyanka Panwar,
Tintu Luka (an 800 metres runner introduced to this
event in the 2013 Asian Grand Prix), Mandeep Kaur
and MR Poovamma beat their closest rivals Japan by
over five metres.
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Indias biggest success stories at the 2014 Incheon Asian
Games are the numerous medals won by lesser known
athletes. Promising 21-year-old Khushbir Kaur of
Khalsa College, Amritsar, became the first Indian
woman to win a silver medal in the 20-km walk. She
developed her stamina by walking from her village to
her college daily. The stipend provided by ONGC has
helped her career. Her father Balkar Singh died when
she was just seven years old.
Other unknown success stories were in events in
which India has never done well. Anu Rani, a 22-year-old
from a village near Meerut, got a bronze medal in the
javelin throw; Manju Bala won a silver medal in hammer
throw; and Naveen Kumar got a bronze in the mens 3,000
metres steeplechase.
Anu Ranis success story is more by accident than design.
She was watching a cricket match with family members in her
village Bahadurpur, a few kilometres from Meerut. The ball
crossed the boundary and came towards her. With a crisp
throw she flung the ball back to the wicket. Her brother
Upendra, a sports enthusiast, suddenly got a brain wave. He
felt his sister could become an athlete. He coaxed her into try-
ing out javelin throw. She started her career by hurling sugar-
cane stalks in empty fields.
She started liking this sport as it enabled her to wear a
track suit. Anu Rani started practising javelin throw seriously
in school. Her school in Dabathwa was two kilometres away
and Anu Rani would walk up and down twice a day. Due to
her muscular arms and athletic body, she took to javelin throw
like a duck to water and emerged as a precocious talent.
She needed a coach to finetune her technique. Fortunately
for her at a state meet, Kashinath Naik, a bronze medalist in
javelin throw in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games spot-
ted her talent. He persuaded her father Amar Pal Singh, the
patriarch of a conservative family, to let her train under him
and stay away from the family. At last, her father relented and
the rest is history. She achieved her personal best of 59.53
metres to win a bronze medal in Incheon and she now trains at
the National Institute of Sports, Patiala.
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T
here is something very cheerful
about the colour yellow. Mustard
fields, sunflowers, brilliant sun-
shine and gold the very
thought evokes a riot of imagery
about the colour. So imagine a yellow tin
roof building amidst a thick lush of green
that surrounds a pine and oak forest against
a clear backdrop of the Himalayan ranges.
Its pure soul bliss. And especially to a city
dweller like me who is constantly on a look-
out for a reason to escape the concrete grey
that is forever threatening to consume
humankind, jostling to find some space.
Then, in a lot many ways, Te Aroha
stays true to its moniker. Derived from the
Maori word that christens it the mountain
of love, you cannot help but admire the
labour that has been put in to make it what
it is today an aesthetically done up small
boutique property with 10 rooms in
Dhanachuli near Mukteshwar in
Uttaranchal. The mountain also happens
to be the one where Lord Shiva chose to
grant mukti and holds great reverence to
seekers of spirituality.
Mine was no pilgrims progress. I was
here to be a part of an artists retreat the
owner of the property (a lawyer and a col-
lector himself), Sumant Batra, had organ-
ised as part of his endeavour to make the
place more than just a holiday destination.
The retreat comprised a group of about six
artists, Shridhar Iyer, Niladri Paul, Ritu
Kamath, Anil Nakhasi, Ninjeet Taneja and
Ambali Dutta, and bunch of people from
other creative fields of communication.
Spread over five days, the retreat provided
one enough time to soak in the place and
spend time with oneself.
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Its a treasure trove for any Hindi film
industry and art lover a storehouse of
rare prints, posters, labels and calendar
art dating back to the 30s. A larger than
life poster from the Hindi blockbuster,
Trishul, welcomes you as you walk into
the main space of the little museum that
promises to grow with time.
For someone who was born in the 70s
India, larger than life hand painted movie
posters hold great nostalgic value. The
drama, the colour and the mood it is all
so surreal and beautiful. All that seems to
be missing here is the stale smell of popcorn
and perhaps cigarettes that seemed to
linger in the cinema halls of the 70s and 80s
and even earlier.
Sumant played my guide on this art
walk. He took me through the self curat-
ed wall spaces dotted with calendar/
graphic art covering the images of gods
and goddesses, film posters and even the
label art atop the match boxes, cracker
boxes coming out of Sivakasi or even the
oil tins or kanastars as we called them in
those days.
This is all from the 1940 to 1970, he
said pointing to the calendar art on the
walls. This is the time when the technol-
ogy of screen printing had started com-
ing to India and there were about only 12
artists who specialised in graphic art.
They used to paint for the calendar art
Mukesh, Anil Sharma, Anil Maheshwari,
KC Sivam. I also have original artworks
of many of these artists, he shared. He
also showed me some prints that are auc-
tionable. Sumant has spread the original
over four locations as they are quite
expensive and make for a risky proposi-
tion to store at one place, he says.
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We walked down the graphic art gallery
and into the old world movie posters
and a smile of recognition lit up my face.
During that same period, Bollywood
poster art grew into a parallel graphic
art industry. Film industry used graph-
ic arts for lobby cards, movie posters and
banners. Artists specialising in poster-
making were hired, and work pro-
gressed only after detailed briefing ses-
sions, he shared.
Each artist had his own unique style
for detailing a graphic. It is interesting to
see the difference in the styles of artists
from up north and south. The characters
painted by the north Indian artists were
slimmer than the south Indian counter-
parts, who preferred curves, he said.
Similar differences could also be found in
the colour palette, he added.
The collection in Chitrashala is not
only limited to calender art and poster col-
lections. It spreads over to Hindi fiction-
book cover graphic, outdoor publicity
graphics, textbook illustrations, old news-
paper and magazine advertisements, and
vintage postcard graphics.
Whats interesting to see is that the
space and collection is consistently grow-
ing with additions happening with new
acquisitions and gradual expansion. We
dont have many private museums in the
country and there are very few public
museums as well. Thankfully, the creed
of private collectors willing to share their
collections is growing. And I am only try-
ing to contribute to that, he shared. It
would only be unfair to restrict the col-
lection to myself when I can share the joy.
I am happy to open it for research, edu-
cation or visual delight, he added.
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reditably, she has sparked off a
minor athletics revolution in her
village Bahadurpur. Inspired by
her achievements, many girls and boys
have started participating in athletic
events in the remote school in
Dabathwa. A rare coincidence led to the
burly 25-year-old Manju Bala taking an
interest in javelin throw. She was keen
on sports and at school in her native vil-
lage in Chandgothi, Churu district of
Rajasthan, she played volleyball. As a
Class X student, she went for a school
excursion to Jai Singh Sar village near
Bikaner. She saw an athlete hurling a
metal ball with a chain attached to it.
She became fascinated by this event and
the rotations involved before hurling the
hammer.
A regular volleyball player, Manju
had developed powerful arms and
genetically had a good physique. At
home, she drew a circle near her house
and practised by throwing a hammer or
any other heavy equipment as far as she
could. News spread about her infatua-
tion for the hammer throw. A coach
Rajesh Poonia spotted her talent and
made her practise for long hours to
ensure that she combined technique
with her raw power. For Manju Bala it
was a labour of love.
Fortunately for her, she got full fam-
ily encouragement. Her father Vijay
Singh runs a tiny tea stall on the Rajgarh
Pilani road, but his family is fond of ath-
letics. He took loans from fellow vil-
lagers to help his children pursue their
sports careers. Her younger sister
Munish is a budding boxer, and deaf and
dumb brother Sandeep Kumar Swami is
a gold medalist in javelin throw at the
national championships for physically
challenged athletes. Vijay Singh worked
extra hours at his tea stall so that he
could buy Manju a hammer worth C800.
Manjus husband Ramesh Mann,
who is in the Indian Army, is also a
sports enthusiast and helped in her
training. Her mother-in-law accompa-
nied her to empty fields in her village
Ladhundha in Jhunjhunu district,
Rajasthan, and helped her in throwing
the metal ball.
PT Ushas protg, 25-year-old Tintu
Luka, won a gold medal in the womens
4x400metres relay and a silver medal in
the 800 metres. She also comes from
humble origins. Her father is a mason
who moved to Saudi Arabia after strug-
gling to support his wife and three
daughters. As a child, she walked long
distances through the hills to reach
school.
Indian athletics has established itself
at the Asian level. It is now imperative
that the Athletics Federation of India
(AFI) identifies the talent that can be
groomed for the sterner tests in the
Olympics and world championships.
Tintu Luka, Vikas Gowda, Seema Punia,
Khushbir Kaur and the womens 4x400
metres relay squad comes to mind.
Another brilliant performance was
the gold medal in the team event of the
compound archery event. Indias exuber-
ant trio of Abhishek Verma, Rajat
Chauhan and Sanjeev Kumar beat hosts
and fancied South Korea 227-224 in the
final. Sadly, compound archery is not an
Olympic sport. The Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) should lobby hard to
get this sport included in the Olympics
as India stands more chance of winning
a medal in compound archery than
recurve archery.
Even the Indian women did well in
compound archery. Trisha Deb got a
bronze medal in the individual event and
the trio of Purvasha Shende, Jyothi
Vennam and Trisha got another bronze
medal in the womens compound team
event. Trishas double bronze medal and
her career in archery is also a remarkable
story, which highlights Indias unity in
diversity. The talented archers family
could not afford her expenses. So she
shifted to Punjab University, Chandigarh,
for graduation as they gave her a scholar-
ship and paid for her equipment. Her
coach Jiwanjot Singh realised that
because of her short stature, she was not
suitable for the recurve archery event. So
he persuaded her to shift to compound
archery. Trisha agreed and has now
become one of Asias leading archers.
In wrestling, Bajrang emerged as a
new star when he bagged the silver
medal in the 61 kg mens freestyle event.
He comes from a humble background
and resides at a village near Rohtak.
Wrestling is an opportunity for upward
social mobility. A product of the
Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak,
and Satpals Akhara in Delhi, it was dou-
ble joy for Bajrang at the Incheon Asian
Games. He not only got a silver medal
but got the news that he had been
recruited by Northern Railways as a
ticket collector, so job security was also
obtained.
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Burly shot putter Inderjeet Singh, who is
a strapping 6ft 5ins tall and weighs 150
kg, bagged a bronze medal in Incheon
but is still incensed that he does not get
enough financial support. The 26-year-
old from Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar
district in Punjab went from pillar to
post to realise his dreams. He left Punjab
and moved to Madhya Pradesh and then
to Haryana to fulfil his dreams. When
his father died, his mother and brother
Jaswinder sold their property, shops and
took loans. Inderjeet is angry that no
major public or private sector company
has come forward to sponsor him or
give him a job. Expenses for his diet and
training are massive. The only support
he gets is C15,000 per month from
Anglian Medal Hunt Company and
some more from well-wishers. Unlike
wrestling or even boxing, there is no
prize money in shot put.
He got the medal due to sheer per-
sistence. It also brings to the forefront
another major concern that success in
international sports demands a lot of
money and exposure, which becomes
difficult for a developing country like
ours. But at least Inderjeet should be
provided with proper training facilities.
He trains at Bhiwani, which does not
have a proper gymnasium. As the shot
put event in Incheon was held at night,
to simulate night-like conditions, he
would park his car and focus its beam
on the circle and throwing area which
lay ahead. For sheer ingenuity and per-
sistence, Inderjeet deserves greater
recognition and financial support to
help him prepare well for the 2016 Rio
de Janeiro Olympics.
The 22-year-old Narender Grewal
from the village Satrod Khas, near
Hissar, Haryana, won a rare bronze
medal in Wushu in the 60 kg Sando cat-
egory. He epitomises courage and brav-
ery as he fought despite nursing an
injury in his left foot. As a youngster, he
was always getting into fights. To chan-
nelise his energies, he joined an akhara
to learn wrestling, then moved to kick
boxing in Delhi and finally opted for
Wushu. He even took part in the Raj
Kundras Super Fight League to earn
some money (C6 lakh for seven bouts).
At the Nationals earlier this year, he won
a quarter final bout with a hairline frac-
ture on his right limb. This courageous
young man, who is now the hero of his
village, has continued fighting despite
numerous injuries. He has taken risks to
win medals but is angry at the lack of
financial support and does not know
how much longer he can continue.
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Other remarkable gold medals were won
by Yogeshwar Dutt in the mens 65 kg
freestyle wrestling, Mary Kom in the
womens 51 kg boxing, the mens squash
trio in the team event and the mens
hockey team winning after 16 years.
Sania Mirzas tryst with glory in mixed
doubles continued. In the 2006 Doha
Asian Games, she won the mixed dou-
bles gold medal with experienced
Leander Paes. Four years later at
Guangzhou, she bagged a silver medal in
the same event with relatively unknown
Vishnu Vardhan. At Incheon 2014, she
won the gold medal again with newcom-
er Saketh Myneni. Whilst several Indian
tennis stars like Somdev Dev Varman,
Rohan Bopanna and Paes missed the
2014 Asian Games due to their
Association of Tennis Professionals
(ATP) tour commitments, Sania
returned during the second week of the
Asian Games and besides the mixed
doubles gold medal also bagged a
bronze medal in womens doubles with
new partner Prarthana Thambare.
The womens hockey team got a
creditable bronze medal. Coached by
Neil Hawgood, most of the girls from
Haryana, the tribal belt of Odisha,
Jharkhand and Manipur come from
humble origins. This is best exemplified
by skipper Rani Ramphal from Shahbad,
a nursery for womens hockey players in
Haryana. The Indian skippers father is a
cart puller and her brothers are carpen-
ters, who work part time. Her ambition
is to build a house for her parents who
sacrificed so much to help her attain
glory.
Indian shooters won nine medals,
but only got a solitary gold of the 44
gold medals at stake. They could have
done much better but for the goof-up by
IOA officials of their accreditation.
Consequently, the shooters who were
participating in the World
Championships in Spain had to make an
arduous five-day journey to Incheon, so
they were not fresh before the competi-
tion started.
Indians won medals in 13 of the 26
sports they participated in at the 2014
Incheon Asian Games. Some of the
teams did not win medals but per-
formed well. The mens volleyball squad,
which came fifth, the basketball team,
some gymnasts and the equestrian
squad all performed better than expecta-
tions. In weightlifting and table tennis,
Asian standards are world class so no
medals were expected, but some of our
lifters performed below par. The mens
and womens football team also gave
mediocre displays and were knocked out
in the first round. For the first time in
the history of the Asian Games, India
failed to score a goal in the mens foot-
ball competition losing 0-5 to UAE and
0-2 to Jordan.
India did not reach the projected
range (by Sports Authority of India) of
70-75 medals but their tally of 57 medals
is the second highest ever. The maxi-
mum haul of medals by India in an
Asian Games is 65 in Guangzhou 2010.
It must also be remembered that the
IOA was banned for over a year, which
led to limited international exposure in
many sports, such as boxing, wrestling
and weightlifting. Otherwise Indias
overall performance could have been
marginally better.
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T
he death of one of Indias
leading nationalist leader
Subhas Chandra Bose
remains shrouded in mystery.
A view that has gained credi-
bility is that Bose did not die in
the air crash at Taihoku in
Formosa (Taiwan ) as has been
maintained in official records
and also popularly held view
among people. The book The
Search for Netaji : New Findings
is the result of painstaking and
sustained research by the
author Professor Purabi Roy.
She has delved into numerous
documents, statements and
reports maintained in the
Russian British and Indian
archives. Being highly profi-
cient in Russian, she spent con-
siderable time examining and
studying the material.
The book is an attempt to
unravel the mystery surround-
ing the death of Bose and she
has questioned some of the
existing perceptions on this
issue. While trying to dispel
some of the cobwebs on the
issue, she has gathered some
revealing documents that
throw light not only on the
politics of the formative years
of Indian independence, but
also on the issue relating to
Boses death. The most striking
feature of the book is that it is a
rare collection of authentic
material arranged chronologi-
cally. Apart from a brief intro-
duction to each chapter, she
has allowed the documents to
speak for themselves, and for
the readers to arrive at their
own point of view. After an
examination of conflicting
reports about Boses death on
August 18, 1945, the thrust of
Professor Roys arguments is
that Bose was seen alive in
Moscow, after the date of his
supposed death.
Since there is no definitive
evidence of the air crash at
Taihoku and consequently of
Netajis death, all the indica-
tions now point to a Russian
role behind his disappearance.
Half a century has elapsed
since then, but the closure to
the mystery eludes us.
Another interesting obser-
vation is that unlike in the past,
the official stance maintained
by the Soviet Government that
Bose died in the air crash, some
Russian scholars have urged a
re-examination of the existing
stance. To cite an example: in
1989, T F Devyatkina an
expert on India in her article
Social and Political Views of
SC Bose wrote: There is rea-
son to doubt the theory that he
died in 1945.
Further confirmation of
Bose being alive is also found
in Major Toyes confidential
comments on the Death of
Bose dated January 15, 1946.
He stated, There is, however, a
secret report which says that
Jawaharlal Nehru received a
letter from Bose saying he was
in Russia and that he wanted to
escape to India. The informa-
tion alleges that Gandhi and
Sarat Bose are among those
who are aware of this.
In fact, Bose had been
closely following international
developments and in his
assessment after the defeat of
Germany and Japan , the
Anglo-American and Soviet
cooperation would fall apart
proved correct, and the Cold
War was initiated in 1945. In
the changing matrix of interna-
tional relations, Bose was keen
to elicit the support of the
Soviet Union in furtherance of
his cause for Indian indepen-
dence. On the other hand, the
British authorities were con-
cerned that Boses appeal with-
in the country was widespread,
despite his overtures to foreign
powers. The authorities were
aware that from the beginning
Boses standpoint was very
clear he was ever ready to
accept any assistance from any
nation, if only it desires India
to be independent.
The Indian National Army
(INA) was also considered an
independent force. Even lead-
ers of the national movement
did not doubt Boses patrio-
tism. Gandhiji said: I admire
his courage and patriotism, but
I do not believe the method he
was applying. People of India
will not get freedom with the
help of a sword. However,
the British concern was for
the legacy of patriotism of
Bose that inspired the youth
and could arouse their patriotic
feelings.
A revealing dimension that
Prof Roy has brought to light is
the curious role of the
Congress leaders towards Bose.
Probably the new Indian lead-
ership apprehended difficulties
in view of Boses popularity.
According to documentary evi-
dence: By the end of August
1946 when Sayadiyants, a
Soviet agent living in Bombay
and selling Soviet periodicals
and literature and records, was
leaving for Moscow, Nehru
came to Bombay to meet him
and gave him a letter for Stalin
and requested him to deliver
this letter personally to Stalin.
Prof Roy has rightly pointed
out that, One feels curious to
know about the message which
Nehru had conveyed through
his secret letter delivered to
Stalin by Sayadiyants.
After the break-up of the
Soviet Union in 1993, the
Russian journal Asia and
Africa Today of the Institute of
Oriental Studies, Moscow
announced its plans to publish
a series of articles on Bose
based on primary source mate-
rial unraveled from various
Russian archives. The then
Indian Government headed by
P V Narasimha Rao was highly
apprehensive about this
announcement. It is believed to
have instructed its ambassador
in Moscow, Ronen Sen, to look
into the matter by using all
diplomatic power. Sen tried to
prevent the institute from com-
ing out with those article.
Though the alleged Indian
diplomatics move to suppress
the publication did not yield
results, the articles did give sig-
nificant leads to the belief that
the KGB archives may yet have
the truth within.
An equally revealing mes-
sage was given by the Russian
news paper Moskovskie Novostii
when the Justice M K
Mukherjee Commission of
Inquiry was in Moscow to
investigate Boses death. The
newspaper noted With what
message the Commission will
return Was he a victim of
catastrophe or NKVD?
As the title aptly mentions,
the book is not only a mine of
rare documents, but impor-
tantly a mine of new findings.
As mentioned earlier, the high
point of the book is that each
document speaks for itself.
Prof Roy is of the view that
many aspects and issues need
further investigation and a
thorough research in the inter-
est of a national perspective.
Her question at this juncture is
that the puzzling question
remains.
What is the reason and
what are the compulsions
behind the lack of concern
and apathy on the part of the
Governments as well as politi-
cal leaders of erstwhile Soviet
Union, Russia and India?
Scholars, journalists and
diplomats will find that the
book makes for a fascinating
reading.
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he Partition of India in
1947 was one of the
darkest human
tragedies. The narratives
of lived reality in the
form of a massive trauma and the
experienced loss of a homeland
have not remained hidden in
Indian history. Speaking of the
northwestern part of the subconti-
nent, Partition led to identity crisis
and communal violence on both
sides of the border. Yet, the dread-
ful massacre that deluged both
halves of the Punjab was absent in
Sindh. As a result, the Punjabi
experience of Partition has pre-
dominantly influenced the domain
of Partition studies in India and
the Sindhi Hindu experience has
either been minimised or ignored.
Countering this tradition is
Nandita Bhavnanis The Making of
Exile: Sindhi Hindus and the
Partition of India, which reverses
the said exercise of minimising a
community to a group of silent,
ignored, and insignificant beings.
Interspersed with a variety of nar-
ratives extracts from interviews,
selections from memoirs, poetry,
biographies, and autobiographies
Bhavnanis book charts the cul-
tural landscape of the Sindhi
Hindus as a community not from
the perspective of a historian, but
as an anthropologist who voices
the memories, fears, dilemmas,
hopes and confidence of all those
who confronted the collapse of
their home in pre-Partition Sindh.
In the introduction, Bhavnani
claims that she has attempted to
recreate the Sindhi experience of
Partition wherein packing a small
bag and leaving your country
overnight, your home and home-
land, assets and property, friends,
memories and a way of life, not
knowing what lies at the end of the
journey... and not knowing how or
where to start a new life suddenly
became an inevitable part of the
communitys (non)existence. She
embarks on understanding Edward
Saids definition of exile. In the
Reflections on Exile and Other
Essays, Said defines exile as the
unhealable rift forced between a
human being and a native place,
between the self and its true home:
[whose] essential sadness can
never be surmounted.
What separates The Making of
Exile from other books is its way of
understanding and handling this rift
proficiently such that it neither sup-
presses nor shrinks away from tak-
ing a significant step towards a com-
munitys self-reflection. Essentially
speaking, the raison detre of this
book is to give space to a communi-
ty that was rendered homeless
overnight and, while engaged in
doing so, also become a crucial part
of its continuing self-exploration.
The stark division of the book
into three segments namely Sindh,
India and Pakistan traces the tra-
jectory of the Sindhi Hindu com-
munity under severe social and
political forces. Starting from the
description of the emergence of a
sudden downward movement in
the Sindhi Hindu and Sindhi
Muslim relationship on the eve of
Partition, The Making of Exile
firmly lays bare the ordeals of a
community which was greatly anx-
ious about what the future held in
store for them. Bhavnani writes,
For them, 15 August spelt not
freedom, but fear. The second
chapter is aptly titled A
Bloodstained Freedom, which
delineates this fear and raw horror
encountered by the Sindhi Hindus
who went from being a powerful
minority to becoming the focal
point of communal discrimination
and antipathy.
It was not until the Karachi
Pogrom of January 6, 1948, that
the Sindhi Hindus were compelled
by muhajirs to migrate to India at
an erratic pace. With this,
Bhavnani establishes herself as a
voracious anthropologist with her
comprehensive and thorough
analysis of human misery.
The second segment of the
book provides important insights
into the trauma that awaited the
Sindhi Hindus on their arrival in
India. At the end of the previous
segment, Bhavnani highlights a
misconception which encapsulated
the majority of the Hindus of
Sindh while on their way to cross-
ing the border. She writes, The
majority of Sindhi Hindus felt they
were fleeing Muslim persecution,
on the basis of their religious iden-
tity, to take refuge in a Hindu
haven. Ironically, most of them had
no idea that their trauma would
worsen after they arrived in India.
It is here in the second seg-
ment that a displaced minoritys
earliest struggle with refugee
camps and the discomfort of com-
ing to terms with the identity of a
refugee are explored. The process
of resettlement has not been an
easy one. The chapter titled
Picking Up the Pieces foregrounds
the desire of this uprooted com-
munity to transplant from Sindh
to India everything they can
including, but not limited to, lan-
guage, education, religion, liveli-
hoods, and even food. In her book,
The Burden of Refuge, Rita Kothari
affirms that the discrimination
meted out to the meat-eating
Sindhis by the Hindus of Gujarat
and Rajasthan made them feel like
untouchables. Clearly, Bhavnani
relives the trauma caused by the
uncertainty of their destination in
order to redefine their spirit of
determination and hard work
while in exile.
Bhavnani does not forget to
underline the plight of all those
who chose to stay in Sindh. The
final segment surfaces a different
set of difficulties and challenges
faced by both the Sindhi Muslims
and Hindus in Pakistan. The vio-
lent dialogue remained open
between the two religious commu-
nities, but wealth, influence, and
class bonding saved several
Hindu lives. Bhavnani further
adds, Those Sindhi Hindus who
were not wealthy and influential,
and did not have the protection of
class, were considerably more vul-
nerable; the threats and intimida-
tion they were sometimes subject-
ed to were more naked and menac-
ing. By weaving in the trauma
faced by the Sindhi Hindus on the
other side of the border, Bhavnani
attempts to define their communi-
ty which, in Ashis Nandys words,
set[s] limits on their relationship
with the Muslim Sindhis while, at
the same time, remain[s] incom-
plete without the crucial presence
in their mental landscape of their
alter-egos or anti-selves in the
form of the Sindhi Muslims.
The Making of Exile is
Bhavnanis attempt at chronicling
social and psychological conse-
quences encountered by a commu-
nity in an unending exile. Through
her adept handling of traumatic
history, Bhavnani draws the read-
ers into a states demographic tran-
sitions and alterations as well.
Complete with the foreword by
Ashis Nandy, a political psycholo-
gist and social theorist, Bhavnanis
book is rife with the history of an
unforgettable human tragedy. As a
writer, Bhavnani is preoccupied
not with relocating the lost home-
land, but with the sense of a com-
munitys self-exploration, self-
reflection, and self-construction.
Needless to say, in the long run, the
future generations of Sindhis and
students of Partition studies will be
thankful to Bhavnani for protect-
ing Sindhiness by delving deeply
into cultural, literary, and historical
consciousness of the community.
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he debate raging over the
sentencing of Oscar Pisto-
rius recently has been fierce.
Despite Pistorius admitting he
fired the four shots that killed
Reeva Steenkamp, he is expected
to serve only 10 months in jail. To
some people that represents an
outrage. To others a surprising-
ly large number of others jus-
tice has been served.
Few doubted that the rule of
law had been upheld and justice
done, wrote The Telegraphs Mary
Riddell, while The Independents
Tom Peck said: Those who see
Reeva Steenkamps death as a fem-
inist call to arms are wrong. Peck,
who sat through the trial, added,
However appalling Pistoriuss
actions, it should be recognised
that he killed his girlfriend in a
wild, reckless and obscenely
macho attempt to protect her.
Perhaps. But let me pose a
question that may shed some light
on why the death of Reeva
Steenkamp has indeed become a
feminist call to arms. Imagine for
a moment that Oscar Pistorius had
not shot Reeva Steenkamp. But,
instead, that Reeva Steenkamp had
shot Oscar Pistorius.
Lets invert the facts and
more important the gender of
the case. Lets go back to that Pre-
toria courtroom and, under the
steely gaze of Judge Masipa, prose-
cute The People versus Reeva
Steenkamp.
Steenkamp, we learn, is a
woman who loves guns. She is
described as a crack shot whose
mantra is always know your tar-
get. She owns six guns, including
a pump-action shotgun, a semi-
automatic rifle and a .38 revolver.
She is fond of using bullets she
calls zombie stoppers.
That may seem strange to you
and me. But, as her defence points
out, this is South Africa, a society
cursed by crime. A country where
5,00,000 rapes are committed
every year.
As the trial goes on, we learn
more about Reeva Steenkamp. She
not only loves her guns, but has a
tendency to be reckless with them.
Shes in the habit of blasting off a
few rounds through the sun-roof
of her car, for fun. She horses
around with them. Once, she acci-
dentally caused one of her guns to
discharge in a restaurant, narrowly
missing one of her friends.
A new picture of the former
television presenter and model
begins to emerge. Steenkamp is a
jealous woman. We discover she
would fly into a rage merely at the
sight of other women speaking to
her partner. We learn Pistorius
became so concerned about her
behaviour that he had sent her
texts expressing his worry that her
jealousy and bullying were going
to destroy their relationship. And
we learn that only a week before
she shot her boyfriend dead,
Steenkamp had become enraged
by him speaking to another
woman at a party.
But this is not out of keeping
with Steenkamps character. The
court hears how she is an unstable
woman. She feels the pressure:
Pressures of fame; of a life of con-
stant media scrutiny; of being one
half of one of the most celebrated
couples in South Africa.
As we watch the case unfold,
we see that instability. As she
begins to give her evidence, we see
it all too graphically: she weeps;
she cries out; she breaks down; she
vomits in the courtroom.
But we see something else. We
see that her evidence is contradic-
tory, evasive and self-serving. A
poor witness, as the judge later
describes her.
And then we hear her defence.
An incredible defence.
She wakes up in the bed she
has shared with Pistorius countless
times before. She hears a noise
coming from the bathroom. For
some reason, her immediate
thought is that it might be not her
partner, but an intruder. She
claims she turns to him, and tells
him to wake up, even though he is
not actually there. Then she rises,
picks up one of those guns she
loves so much, and makes her way
tentatively to the toilet.
She doesnt intend to kill, she
claims. Just to protect herself and
the man she loves. But then, from
the toilet, comes a sound.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. She
fires four shots. And behind the
door, Oscar Pistorius, national
international sporting icon,
lays dead.
Justice, we are told, is blind.
But in this case, does anyone hon-
estly believe that? Does anyone
seriously think that if a woman
rather than a man had acted
the way Pistorius acted that night,
the verdicts would have been
the same?
A jealous woman. An unstable
woman. A weeping woman. A
screaming woman. A vomiting
woman. An evasive woman. A
contradictory woman. A bullying
woman. A gun-toting woman. A
woman who pumped four zombie
stoppers into the body of a
defenceless South African folk-
hero. She would have been acquit-
ted of murder? And in 10 months,
would she have been released?
Of course, in reality, Reeva
Steenkamp was none of those
things. Its Oscar Pistorius who is
the gun-lover. Steenkamp knew
how to fire a gun, but she didnt
worship them. Its Pistorius who
was shown in court to be the eva-
sive, jealous bully. Steenkamp,
according to friends, was, beauti-
ful, intelligent and warm-hearted.
Its Pistorius who confessed to
struggling with the demands and
pressures of his fame. Reeva
Steenkamp, the law graduate, was
comfortable with the celebrity she
had acquired even before she
started dating him.
But she was a woman. And he
is a man. So she is dead. And this
time next year, Oscar Pistorius
will be free.
Courtesy: The Daily Telegraph
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on
October 19:
Good days ahead: The BJPs
victories in Maharashtra and
Haryana augur well for the
nation. Opposition from the
Congress and its supporters
in media will also diminish.
BJP president Amit
Shahs reputation as a power-
ful electoral organiser has
been established. He will
have a free hand to rejuve-
nate the BJP across India.
Jitendra
Victory march: With wins in
Haryana and Maharashtra,
the victory march of the BJP
and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has moved
to the next level.
Amarendra Derhgawen
Move to the BJP: There are
some noble and knowledge-
able persons in the Congress
who are not corrupt or foul-
mouthed like their party col-
leagues. Why they are still
with the party, which is a
polarising force in the coun-
try, is a mystery.
After 12 years of BJP rule
in Gujarat, many Congress
politicians have joined the
BJP and have accepted sec-
ond tier membership. They
say that they want to
contribute to the partys
progressive agenda.
So long as the BJP
remains corruption-free and
works efficiently, as it is
doing in some States now,
chances are high that young
Congressmen will soon leave
their party and move to the
saffron outfit. This is precise-
ly what has happened in
Gujarat already.
Premolal
Regionalism over national-
ism: Regional concerns take
precedence over national
interest issues, especially in
Assembly elections. This is
why during State poll cam-
paigns, we sometimes hear
absurd, anti-national speeches
by netas which are unconsti-
tutional and detrimental to
Indias interests. Such politi-
cians must learn to rise above
vote-bank politics. They have
to think of the nation before
State interests.
Regionalism also hinders
national economic growth.
For example, in Maharashtra,
regional parties have effec-
tively destroyed the States
long-term development
prospects by playing to
populists sentiments.
Such politicians, who
indulge in cheap gimmicks
for votes, must be debarred
from politics and convicted.
M Kumar
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Reader response to
Kanchan Guptas column,
Coffee Break, published on
October 19:
Have they really faded? The
best thing that could happen
to India is certainly the fad-
ing away of Congress presi-
dent Sonia Gandhi and vice
president Rahul Gandhi. But
the question here is: Have
they really faded away?
Also, there are a number
of undesirable elements, the
so-called secular parties, who
have no compunction in
dividing the country on caste
and communal lines. Such
parties want the Nehru-
Gandhis to return to power so
as to better serve their own
interests. God should help the
truly patriotic Indians and
guard India from the dynasts.
S Raguraman
Too early to write off the
Congress: Social conserva-
tives, reactionaries and fas-
cists had penned similar
obituaries to the secular
forces after 1977, 1989, 1998
and 1999 elections. Still, we
all know what happened dur-
ing the elections in 1980,
1991 and 2004.
Vested interests and pen-
pushers for communalism
can daydream about a secu-
lar-mukt Bharat, but that
wont change the reality on
the ground.
Also, lets not forget that
the BJPs many youth leaders
like Anurag Thakur,
Dushyant Singh, Poonam
Mahajan, Pritam Munde and
Varun Gandhi are also
dynasts. Hence, the BJP and
its supporters have no right
to criticise any political fami-
ly, that too one which has a
long history of sacrifice.
Sayan Sen
Degenerated dynasty: Over
more than a century of its
existence, the Congress has
degenerated into a parochial
dynasty. Growing from the
strength of association with
rational colonial masters,
early Congress leaders rev-
elled in their own glory.
They believed they were
invincible and cocooned
themselves away from the
masses they were supposed
to lead.
Today, when a leader from
the grassroots has risen to
become the Prime Minister on
demonstrated qualities of
leadership, tenacity, merit and
sagacity, the Congress dynasts
have lost their past glory. The
Nehru-Gandhis should work
in ignominy for the next 5
years to keep their dignity
intact, and step aside for the
Modi Government to make
India a better place.
Ashish Rai
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lars and lanels conlrolling your desliny, colours and auras
deining your ersonalily, reachers, riesls, and clerics con
necling you wilh lhe 0ivine, gurus and yogis giving you eace
o mind.
Yes, all lhis can be yours... bul only i: You have money lo
lhrow; a mind lo wasle; an inlellecl lhal is la/y; emolions lhal need a
crulch; and a lie aching rom yuie boredom.
So, gel your al wallels oul, suckers, and lel's groove on lhal
hew Age Sirilualily bash! Yea, baby.
whal haens lo a generalion o young olk broughl u on
mylhical lales o swords and horses and simullaneously on lhose
socalled 'building selesleem'/selimrovemenl cororale semi
nars lhal are in essence lhe yuie absorlion o lhe lale 'hew Age'
nonsense aboul ersonal aura, osilive vibes, elc? well, lhe resull in
lhis conlexl, are blobs o walking lalking conlradiclions.
whal's even worse, many o lhese blobs have absolulely no clue
lhal lhey are a negalion o whal lhey reach. And yes, we have, in
our midsl, whal is erhas lhe mosl reachy generalion ever.
They will reach 'osilive lhinking' lo lhe cynics, calmly ignor
ing lhe acl lhal cynics mighl jusl be scelics (whal mosl ralional
human beings usually are. And should be).
Ah, bul lhal would mean reressing one's emolions, no? A very
unheallhy lhing lo do, lell you.
l can make a erson, nol only a cynic, bul, horror o horrors, a
nonalriol, which, in our case, can lhen lead him lo becoming
lhings lhal are even worse.
Like, say, a wil or a sneaky salirisl.
n such a case, 'osilive lhinking' musl diclale airmalive
aclion: Ban lhe bugger!
0 course, you musl undersland lhal such (osilive) logic is
usually enlirely based on delusional and/or aranoid assumlions.
Fosilive lhinking demands il and your heallhy and sirilual disosi
lion commands il.
0lherwise inding and invesligaling lhe acls behind assum
lions can be a limewasling exercise lhal makes Jack or Junaid or
whosoever a very dull, inlroverled boy on his way lo becoming a
cynic, and lhus a osilive case or exislenlialisl excommunicalion.
Bul don'l desair. The manonhorsebackwilhswordsmeel
lelsbe osilivelalala generalion will shower you wilh greal admi
ralion i you (albeil unlhinkingly) and animaledly nod lo whalever
osilivism is lrending on Twiller or Facebook.
ho, lhis does nol make you behave like a shee bul. okay, yes,
il does bul . like, so whal, no? Shee have eelings loo, y'know
(excel on Bakra Eid).
The said generalion will shower you wilh love i you agree wilh lheir
'osilivism.' Esecially i lhe osilivism is aboul being osilive in ones
condemnalion o whal is nol osilive. Such as a dislay o individualism.
You are 'aid' (by 'negalive orces') i you disagree wilh lhe os
ilivisls. Bul, o course, you suddenly become osilively alriolic i
you agree. Bul, really, lhis manonhorsebackwilhswordmeellels
be osilivelalala generalion lhal learogs rom Bin 0asim lo
0eeak Chora lo mran Khan lo lhe 'be osilive' cororale guru o
lhe monlh in a maller o a single rhelorical senlence, can be quile a
riol, really - in an enlerlaining sorl o a way.
Take or inslance how in 2O1O many o lhem resonded lo lhe
uK courl's verdicl on lhe lhree Fakislani solixing crickelers.
Lasl year, when lhe solixing scandal broke, osilive lhinking
diclaled lhal lhe crickelers musl be suorled because bolh lhe
inlernalional and local negalive orces lhal are always relenllessly
consiring lo larnish lhe counlry's name were mosl robably behind
lhis eisode. And lhanks lo many o our osilive media ersonnel il
seemed lhal or a while, Salman Bull, Muhammad Amir and
Muhammad Asi, were aboul lo become lhe male equivalenls o
Aaia Siddiqui (remember her o lhe 8 bW^c cWT bWTaXUU ame?).
Bul, alas, a lillle more lhan a year laler when lhe lhree were
roven guilly in courl and senl lo rison, all hell broke loose. ho,
lhere were no rallies againsl lhe ruling or any condemnalion.
nslead, eole began burning lhe eigies o lhe lhree crickeling
idiols, cursing lhem or larnishing lhe counlry's name. 0uh?
So, negalive old me decided lo lweel a queslion:
how come lhere are slones and curses or a solixer bul ral
lies and rose elals or a convicled elon or, worse, or a deluded
gunslinging selaoinled deender o lhe ailh? Yes, him.
As lhe osilives came rushing in (on Twiller) lo condemn my
negalive queslion, kel wondering.
wondering how come so many Fakislanis and lhe media are
ready lo assionalely demand lhal cerlain corrul crickelers or olili
cians be lynched, bul lhen lhe same eole shower raises on sel
aoinled messiahs who commil acls o selish, deluded brulalily?
0r when lhey look lhe olher way when some olher sel
aoinlees in lhis resecl go aboul lheir business o blowing u
eole and an assorlmenl o lhings?
0oes lhis mean hyocrisy is a osilive allribule lhal is good or
mind, body, ailh and lhe slale?
Bul, lhen, inally underslood. why dislurb one's heallhy osi
live aura and vibe wilh awkward queslions, no?
why comlicale lhings? mean, all lhis mighl lead lo negalive
lhinking lhus cynicism lhus unalriolic lhoughls and lhus erhas
even some admiralion or shameless agenls like Malala, no?
0ne should be osilive, you see. Esecially aboul lhe acl lhal
we are ready lo eal grass or our recious, osilive, alriolic
VWPXaPc. 0r ralher, lhe oor are ready lo eal grass or il, while we
brealhe in resh air doing some yoga.
So, il is our duly lo symalhise wilh lhe oor grass ealers and
hang a ew olilicians, eliminale a ew crickelers and make eace
wilh exlremisls lo, al leasl kee lhe rice o grass aordable or lhe
masses who, 0od willing, will vole in hoards or Mr Fosilive ar
excellence (yes, him) in lhe nexl eleclions, even lhough osilive
lhinking diclales democracy is a sham and only a modernday lech
nocralic calihale is lhe answer lo all our roblems.
Ah. Thal ell good. Yea, man, check oul my osilive vibes now.
Like, groovy, in a Bin0asimdrivingaFerrarionlheroadso0ubai
kind o a way.
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Pistorius who is
the gun-lover.
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how to fire a gun,
but she didn't
worship them. t's
Pistorius who was
shown in court to
be the evasive,
jealous bully.
Steenkamp,
according to
friends, was,
"beautiful,
intelligent and
warm-hearted"
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he million dollar question
now is how Rahul Gandhi
will move forward. Will he
take full command of the
party or maintain status quo?
His first eight years of active politics
were quite good, but since 2012 all is
not well. Politics of the Congress has
gone off track. Since 2012, Rahul has
come before the media at least four
times to accept his defeat. In 2012, he
had taken responsibility for the defeat in
Uttar Pradesh. In 2013, he took respon-
sibility for the rout in Assembly
Elections. In 2014, the Congress lost
Lok Sabha Elections, and now in
Maharashtra and Haryana too. That is
why Congress members are asking
whether Rahul will take responsibility
for the defeat or will he do something to
ensure victory in the future.
Congress leaders demanded to bring
in Priyanka Gandhi, but that request has
been rejected. So, they want Rahul to
take control of the party. But Rahul
doesnt want any parallel power in his
command. It means he wants that all old
veterans must sit at home.
It is said that he is not happy with
the present working style of the
Congress. Sources say Rahul has not
played any role in the changes in the
organisation. Apparently, Rahul wants
clarity on this topic before the Congress
conclave, which is scheduled next year.
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Praful Patel and Ajit Pawar may give clari-
fications but it is true that both are facing
such grave problems that they are com-
pelled to have sympathy towards Narendra
Modi Government at the Centre and the
new Government in Maharashtra. Both
are facing corruption charges and might
land in a soup. That is why they have
announced their support to the BJP with-
out any precondition. Now, they are saying
that their support has nothing to do with
the corruption charges.
During the last days in office, former
CM of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan,
had sought investigation against Ajit
Pawar and Sunil Tatkare. The file is lying
with the Cabinet Secretary. To proceed
further, he needs the approval of the
new Government. If the new
Government gives a go-ahead, Pawar
and Tatkare will face major problems
and the irrigation scam will haunt them.
Likewise, Patel is facing allegations
of irregularity in the heavy purchase of
planes for Air India. Former CAG Vinod
Rai had submitted an extensive report
on this and investigation is underway.
Patel has even acknowledged his mis-
take. But he might be in a fix if the CBI
investigates.
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar is not leaving
any chance to malign his old alliance
partner, the Congress. Congress leaders
are amazed with his allegations. Sharad
Pawar, Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel have
said that the Congress had given a pro-
posal to form the Government in
Maharashtra with the help of three par-
ties. NCP leaders are saying that
Congress leaders wanted to give outside
support if the Shiv Sena and NCP would
form the Government. Though even the
three parties were not able to touch the
magical figure of 145.
However, the Congress is saying that
Pawars allegation is baseless and he is
acting at the behest of the BJP to malign
the secular image of the party. The
sources in Congress say they have never
given any such proposal. But of course
there was a line of thought in the party
that the Shiv Sena and NCP could have
formed the Government. To stop the BJP,
the Congress wanted the same but never
wanted to be a part of the Government.
One of the senior leaders of the
Congress says Pawar was in touch with
the BJP as well as Shiv Sena. His first
choice was Sena and he could have gone
with it in the name of development of
Maharashtra. But when the Shiv Senas
tally stopped at 63, he was compelled to
support the BJP. To justify this step, he is
involving the Congress in this.
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Congress general secretary Digvijaya
Singh plays a different type of politics.
Before the Lok Sabha Elections, he was
fiercely attacking Modi, but has now gone
soft on him. Probably he wants to play a
different game. He is returning to the
politics of soft Hinduism, which he had
advocated a decade ago. That is why he
advised the Congress that it must con-
demn radical elements of other religions
too. Now, he has gone one step forward.
He is the only leader in the Congress
who has admitted to the Modi wave in
Maharashtra and Haryana. He said that
the BJP won in these States due to the
Modi wave. Interestingly, the Shiv Sena
once an alliance partner of the BJP
is saying that the Modi wave was stopped
before it reached the boundary.
Other Congress leaders like
Prithviraj Chavan, BS Hooda, Tarun
Gogoi and Abhishek Singhvi have reject-
ed the so-called wave. But Digvijaya has
given an altogether different statement.
Before this, he had extended support to
Shashi Tharoor when he had praised
Modi. In fact, he is trying to change the
anti-Hindu image of the Congress and
thinks it will be possible only when there
is less criticism of Modi.
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Danger bells are ringing for the BSP. In
the Delhi Assembly Elections, the party
got a big jolt and then another shock after
the Lok Sabha polls. There is no indica-
tion of improving the partys condition.
In Maharashtra and Haryana, BSPs per-
formance was worse. In Haryana, BSP the
party is facing the same situation as in
Delhi. BSP leaders are taking it as a real
challenge. They feel that their Dalit vote
base is shrinking and moving towards the
BJP. If the situation persists, the party will
be out of fight.
In Haryana, the BSP had taken a big
step. It had fought elections after declar-
ing that former MP Arvind Sharma
would be the CM of Haryana. But
Sharma could not win from both seats.
The BSP has got only one seat. Tek
Chand Sharma managed to win by 1,100
votes. In Haryana, the BSP has got only 4
per cent votes. Its national status is in
danger. It hasnt got even a single seat in
Maharashtra. That is why the party lead-
ers are thinking of any alliance. In
Haryana, it could have gone with Bishnoi
and Vinod Sharma, and in Maharashtra,
the party could have fought after forging
an alliance with the NCP, but it didnt
take any decision in time.
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After the results of Maharashtra and
Haryana elections, regional parties of
Bihar and Jharkhand are worried. They
know that now these two States are on
Amit Shahs radar. In the near future,
Assembly Elections are scheduled in
these States.
In Jharkhand, elections can be held
next month, and in Bihar, elections
would be held by the end of next month.
The BJP leaders have kept a special eye
on Bihar and have started preparations.
In both States, small parties are
assessing their alternatives. In Jharkhand,
Sudesh Mahtos party AJSU is trying to
go into an alliance with the BJP. Mahto is
trying to connect with the BJP with the
help of leaders of the State. Babulal
Marandi also has a proposal to merge his
party with the BJP. Although he is not
ready, if the BJP agrees for an alliance, he
will be happier. Likewise, in Bihar, LJP
and Lok Samta Party are not able to fath-
om whether the BJP will continue the
alliance or fight alone. So, they are mak-
ing their own plans.
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demanded lo bring in
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lhal requesl has been
rejecled. So, lhey wanl
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lhe arly. Bul Rahul
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ix years after Barack Obama helped
Democrats to a slew of surprising
electoral victories in Republican
states, pollsters and pundits alike agree
that the once-charismatic US President
has become an electoral liability in
Novembers mid-term elections. It has
been a stunning reversal of fortunes for
Obama, whose celebrity status helped
get Democrats elected in several
Republican States in 2008 States
which the party is now desperately
struggling to defend.
Republicans need to take back six
Democrat Senate seats in order to
regain control of the 100-member upper
chamber, a result that would give them
control of both houses of Congress and
leave Obama, who is already verging on
lame duck status, even further isolated.
With almost a week to go until the
November 4 polling day, we track the
travails of the man who once walked on
political water. Obama belatedly hit the
campaign trail last week, but the depths
of his unpopularity soon became clear
as supporters walked out early in one
rally in the State of Maryland.
As Obama urged a mostly African-
American audience to get out and vote,
the Reuters news agency reported that
a steady stream of people walked out of
the auditorium as the President was
speaking. He was then heckled over the
lack of progress on immigration reform.
Youve got to vote, Obama repeat-
edly beseeched the crowd at the rally
outside Washington, There are no
excuses. The future is up to us.
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Out in middle America, where wages
are still flat and Obama is accused of
failing to deliver as much hope and
change as he famously promised,
Democrat candidates have been actively
disassociating themselves from their
partys leader. Im not Barack Obama,
said Alison Lundergan Grimes, the
Democrat candidate in Kentucky in a
recent television advert which went on
to spell out her disagreements with
Obama on guns, coal and environmen-
tal regulations.
Indeed, so toxic has Obamas name
apparently become that when Grimes
was asked if she had ever actually voted
for Obama, the 35-year-old lawyer
declined to answer.
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Even if Obama was riding high in the
polls, this would be a tough year for
Democrats, according to Larry J Sabato,
director of the University of Virginia
Center for Politics. Only one-third of
the Senates 100 members are up for
election this year, and the key races just
happen to fall in States like Alaska,
Kentucky, North Carolina and
Louisiana that tend to favour
Republicans.
Its both the map and the math
of the Presidents low approval that is
hurting Democrats, says Prof Sabato,
before adding that an in-form Obama
could still have made the difference.
Republicans are winning at the
moment, but if Obamas numbers were
sky-high which they are not
then I think Democrats would hold
the Senate.
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If its not one thing, then its the other.
Not so long ago, the pundits predicted
that the backlash from Obamas health-
care reforms would be enough to sink
Democrats in November, but then the
embattled Obamacare websites finally
ran smoothly and the threat started to
recede. But just as things were looking
up, along came the Islamic State mili-
tants to throw Obamas foreign policy
into reverse-gear, dragging a President
who had prided himself on disengaging
from Middle Eastern wars back into war
in the Middle East.
Obama took serious incoming fire
for those wobbly days with no strate-
gy, but then looked to have fought off
that criticism by pulling together an
international coalition and ordering
some decisive-looking air-strikes on
Syria
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Its not Obamas fault necessarily, but the
bungled handling of the Ebola crisis by
the US Government agency, the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC), has been
the last straw. How did two US nurses
get Ebola after all the reassurances that
the disease properly handled was-
nt that contagious? And how were
infected nurses and hospital technicians
allowed to board flights and take holi-
day cruises? Obama was forced to can-
cel a campaign trip to New Jersey to
summon an emergency Cabinet meet-
ing, but the damage was already done,
and the Obama administrations unfor-
tunate reputation for administrative
incompetence was further assured.
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Democrats may run a mile from Obama
in the heartlands, but on the liberal
coasts his residual celebrity still brings
in the fundraising dollars.
By one estimate, the President has
conducted 45 fundraisers this year
thats about one a week visiting
hotels, country clubs and the mansions
of celebrities and the super-rich to
relieve them of their cash.
The Presidents sheen may have
faded for the ordinary Joe, but in
Hollywood he still sets some hearts a-
fluttering. Youre so handsome that I
cant speak properly, gushed Gwyneth
Paltrow as she introduced Obama to
guests at her home in Los Angeles.
Cue sounds of retching on the
Conservative right.
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Pollsters have noted that Obamas pop-
ularity has declined even with those
key demographics like women and
minorities that twice propelled him to
the White House. A poll last month
found that women now disapprove of
the president by a 50pc to 44pc mar-
gin, a near reversal of Obamas 55-44pc
advantage among women in the 2012
race, according to the Washington
Post/ABC News survey.
Having ducked the chance to push
immigration reform, the same poll
found his support among Hispanics had
fallen nearly 20 points since the sum-
mer of 2013.
The African-American electorate is
more dependable 87pc still approve
of the President but the difficulty is
motivating black voters to turn out in a
non-presidential election year.
A recently leaked memo by a for-
mer Obama pollster predicted crushing
losses if Democrats failed to mobilise
the black vote but also found that
half of black Americans did not even
know when elections were taking place.
A situation not helped by the fact that
the man with unrivalled power to turn
out the black vote has been all but invis-
ible out on the campaign trail.
Democrats now face a situation that
would have seemed unthinkable in
2008: the man who once walked on
political water could now be responsible
for sinking them in the 2014 midterms.
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s Halloween approaches, some
costume companies are hoping
to scare up sales based on current
events. BrandsOnSale.com is find-
ing a way to sell last years
Breaking Bad costumes by
marketing them as Ebola con-
tainment suits. The $79.99
costume comes with a face
shield, breathing mask, safe-
ty goggles and blue latex
gloves, but boots are not
included. The costumes
web page calls the Ebola
outfit the most viral cos-
tume of the year and says the
wearer is sure to be prepared
if any outbreak happens.
BrandsOnSale CEO
Johnathon Weeks insists the
costume is in the true spirit of
the holiday. You can go on any
website for a zombie mask for an
eight-year-old with cuts and
scars all over their face, he
told the Atlantic. Its
Halloween, its one day, if peo-
ple are that serious about it, they dont
know what Halloween is about.
But some like Philadelphia
physicians assistant Maria McKenna
think the Ebola costume is sick
and not in a good way
since two fellow medical
practitioners tested positive
for the disease.
New York Post colum-
nist Kyle Smith is suggest-
ing people not be so dead-
ly serious about the Ebola
costumes. Since every-
body dies, when we make
fun of Ebola were just
mocking our own fears of
death, he said.
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A
judge in Tennessee gave a
woman a reduced six-hour
jail sentence because she failed to
keep her lawn mowed according to
standards set forth by city ordi-
nance. Karen Holloway first
received a citation from Lenoir
City over the sum-
mer, indicating that
her lawn wasnt maintained
properly. At a hearing last week,
Judge Terry Vann sentenced her
to five days in a local jail for the
offense. Its not right, Holloway told
WLTV. Why would you put me in jail
with child molesters, and people whove
done real crimes, because I havent
maintained my yard?
Holloway appealed after claiming
that she had been bullied, was not
read her rights and was never told she
could have a lawyer present. Vann
reduced the sentence to six hours, and
Holloway turned herself in to be
processed into the jail.
A mother with a full-time job, one
vehicle and two children living at home,
Holloway admitted that she had let the
yard go, but that it was certainly not a
criminal offense. She said that she had
received similar citations in the past
when her husband was deployed with
the military overseas.
Vann said at the appeal that
Holloway was not a criminal, but insist-
ed on the six-hour sentence even after
Holloway requested
community service.
Vann said Holloway
could face more jail time if
progress on the lawn was not satisfacto-
ry by November, when the next hearing
was scheduled. This opens a floodgate
to everybody in Lenoir City being put
in jail for silly things, Holloway said.
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ogurt became New Yorks official
state snack recently, joining the likes
of popcorn and salty boiled peanuts
among popular foods honored by US
states. New York has become the
nations top yogurt producer amid the
booming popularity of strained Greek-
style yogurt, the office of Governor
Andrew Cuomo said. Cuomo signed a
Bill making it the official state snack.
Designating yogurt as the official
state snack will continue to raise public
awareness of the economic and health
benefits of yogurt and the dairy indus-
try, the governors office said.
Only a handful of states have official
snacks. South Carolina has
boiled peanuts, Texas has
tortilla chips and salsa,
Illinois has popcorn
and Utah has Jell-O.
New York pro-
duced 336 million kg
yogurt last year, account-
ing for 16 per cent of
total US production,
the statement said.
Two leading
brands of the
thick Greek-
style yogurt,
Ciobani and
Fage, have
large produc-
tion plants in New York.
Dairy manufactur-
ers in New York
employed about 9,500
people with total
wages of $513 million
in 2013, up from
about 8,000 jobs
and $401 million in
wages in 2010.
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ts not the kind of close encounter
many people discuss, but one New
Jersey-based artist says he feels better
when he paints his sexual experi-
ences with aliens. I lost my virgini-
ty to an extraterrestrial woman, David
Huggins says in the trailer for a forth-
coming documentary about his life
and work, Love and Saucers. It was
just a relief to get the images on
canvas, the 70-year-old says.
Huggins, who lives in
Hoboken, says the abductions
began when he was eight years
old and have continued
throughout his life. When he
was 17, he says he began having
sexual encounters with a female alien
named Crescent.
Culture blog ANIMAL describes
Huggins first encounter with Crescent:
She appeared human, except for her
large, black eyes, a pale, pointy face
and the wig... They consummated
the start of their long-time and very
long-distance romance.
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uite 201 at Casa Santa Marta is
only a shuttle bus ride from the
Vaticans Synod Hall, but it seems
a world away. And in the spartan
suite of rooms which he calls
home, Pope Francis must be feeling espe-
cially cut off from the 252 leading
Catholics who took part in his recent
Extraordinary Synod.
Under the umbrella theme of The
Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the
Context of Evangelisation, the Pope, his
bishops and a few selected laypeople have
spent a fortnight discussing some of the
thorniest topics in Catholic doctrine
divorce, gay sex, and birth control.
Even in a Church characterised by its
supporters as proudly unchanging, these
are divisive issues. And when the new
Pope last year took the unexpected step of
sending out a survey to all Catholic parish-
es, asking the faithful for their views on
birth control, abortion and divorce, the
findings made uncomfortable reading: the
Church was split between traditionalists
and modernisers. This conveys the rift that
polarises the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics.
The universal Church embraces the
Ugandan homophobe and the Manhattan
gay rights campaigner; the mother of six
who practises the rhythm method and the
feminist divorcee on the Pill.
Pope Francis has long regarded these
controversies as distractions that keep his
followers from their true mission: helping
the poor, comforting the miserable, wag-
ing war on greed and consumerism. He
has as little time for them as he does for
the liturgical and theological quirks that
were so prominent in the papacy of his
predecessor, Benedict XVI.
For Francis, sexual mores are not at
the heart of the Gospel, and they should
not be at the heart of his Churchs ministry.
The time had come, he believed, to lower
the temperature around these issues. If he
could persuade the Church to adopt an
attitude of compassion towards divorcees,
gays and members of other irregular
unions, he could shift its focus to what
really mattered. Alas, the Pope chose the
wrong vehicle to effect his changes. The
Extraordinary Synod not only torpedoed
his hopes for a more inclusive Church, it
may have derailed his entire mission.
From the moment he swapped the
regal apartments to which he was entitled
for the no-frills hostel of Santa Marta,
Francis sparked speculation about his
reforming tendencies. There was talk of a
phone call to a woman who, though mar-
ried to a divorced man, wanted to take
Communion. I dont see why you should
be banned from the Sacrament, the Pope
allegedly told her. He also made headlines
when asked about the Churchs attitude to
homosexuality: Who am I to judge?
His attitude struck many as refreshing.
Others, though, found it confusing. In the
19th century, Britains Cardinal Newman
wrote that theology evolves, but doctrine
does not. The Magisterium, or the
Churchs teachings, cannot change,
because known truth cannot be changed.
Pope Francis did not seek to change the
Magisterium, but he did want to change
the Church. He said as much in a homily,
referring to the errors made by Jewish
teachers in the time of Christ. Why were
these Doctors of the Law unable to under-
stand the signs of the times? Because they
were closed. They were closed within their
system, they had perfectly systemised the
law and they were safe there.
Francis was inviting the bishops to
step out of their comfort zone and ask
themselves not, what is the rule, but what
is the spirit of the rule? And he must have
felt confident that they, too, wanted a
change of direction. Why else would he
have called for a rare gathering, in the
form of an Extraordinary Synod?
Certainly, the mood music from the
Vatican, drip-fed in regular briefings to
the media throughout the fortnight, sug-
gested that truly extraordinary changes
lay afoot. First, it seemed that a review of
the Churchs rulings on divorce was
under way: Cardinal Walter Kasper
opened the Synod by arguing that
Catholics in second marriages should be
allowed to receive Communion, albeit
only if their first marriages met certain
criteria of invalidity.
Then, even more spectacularly, talk
of the gifts and values of homosexuals
surfaced, and with it a challenge to the
Church to build on the positive aspects
of irregular relationships. No wonder
commentators spoke of an earthquake
shaking the Vatican. The world awaited
the startling conclusions that Francis and
his Synod were sure to draw.
But when it finally came, the Synods
final document hardly registered a tremor
on the Richter scale. Instead of a recogni-
tion of values found in gay love, the Synod
report countered that gay people were to
be shown respect and sensitivity. The
report did not use the Churchs usual,
offensive phrase in reference to homosex-
uality intrinsically disordered but
otherwise it offered nothing new.
Such was the disappointment among
the gay community that Cardinal Vincent
Nichols, who heads the Catholic Church
in England and Wales, has felt compelled
to insist that the setback was not an end
and that he is hopeful that a synod next
year will reinstate a more welcoming tone
towards the marginalised.
The cardinal went on to say that Pope
Francis had already torn up the rule
book as part of a process of dialogue
and discernment for the future of the
Church. But divorcees, too, found the
rules still applied: they remained banned
from Communion once they remarried.
The report also said nothing of a change
in the annulment process the slow,
bureaucratic and sometimes questionable
procedure that permits the persistent and
well-connected to escape the theological
stigma of divorce, but not the rest.
The Synod will not only have disap-
pointed Francis, but may have discredited
him in the eyes of liberals and conserva-
tives alike, weakening his leadership at a
crucial time for the Church. The confu-
sion over his true intentions and factional
allegiance has only intensified: the briefin-
gs spoke of a liberal reformer of whom the
final report bore no trace. That is because
his churchmens noisy tug of war left no
room for Franciss more nuanced position.
Will he now seek a new way to deliv-
er his message of the Church as a benevo-
lent institution, intent on channelling
sympathy rather than casting stones?
Certainly, the Pope is capable of far
greater eloquence than the participants of
the Extraordinary Synod have shown. But
it is found in deeds not words: kissing a
disfigured man, embracing immigrants
on Lampedusa, keeping his humble
rooms at Casa Santa Marta, his tendency
for off-the-cuff self-deprecation. Such
behaviour has inspired millions, both
Catholic and not, in a way that even the
Synod debacle cannot taint.
Perhaps the Pope should stop worry-
ing about extracting from the next
Synods participants, or the college of
Cardinals, or the Vatican civil service, a
document that conveys his vision. He
should focus on doing what he has done
best: living out that compassionate vision
with every breath he takes. He may,
indeed, have no other option. God is the
God of surprises, the Pope said in his
homily at Santa Marta last week. For his
cautious subordinates to sign up to their
leaders doctrinal agenda
now would not be a sur-
prise, but a miracle.
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B
enedict Cumberbatch has said
he would fight religious
extremists to the death in
defence of the right to express ones
sexuality. Cumberbatch, who stars in
The Imitation Game as Alan Turing,
the brilliant second world war code-
breaker who was persecuted by the
British authorities for being gay,
lamented the horrors faced by gay
people in many countries and fierce-
ly declared his determination to
stand with them in an interview with
Out magazine.
People are being beheaded in
countries right now because of their
beliefs or sexual orientations, he
said. Its terrifying. Its medieval a
beheading! Id take up arms against
someone who was telling me I had to
believe in what they believed or they
would kill me. I would fight them. I
would fight them to the death. And,
I believe, the older you get, you have
to have an idea of whats right or
wrong. You cant have unilateral tol-
erance. You have to have a point
where you go, Well, religious funda-
mentalism is wrong.
The actor also said during the
interview that homosexuality
remained a huge obstacle in
Hollywood for those hoping to carve
out careers as leading men. We all
know actors who are [gay] who dont
want to talk about it or bring it up,
or who deny it, he said. I dont real-
ly know what they do to deal with it.
J
udi Dench has revealed a pho-
bia of groups of schoolchildren,
which made shooting her
Oscar-nominated role in 2006
drama Notes on a Scandal a chal-
lenging experience.
Speaking to an audience at the
Cheltenham literature festival,
Dench said she had a wonderful
time shooting the adaptation of
Zoe Hellers novel about a sec-
ondary school teacher (Cate
Blanchett) who embarks on an
affair with a student. But she
admitted the role forced her to
confront one of her greatest hor-
rors.
I have always had a terrible
fear of a lot of schoolchildren
together, said the actor, 79. I
dont know why but I just have.
Dench, who portrayed devious
teacher Barbara in the film, a char-
acter she described as a complete
monster, added: On my very first
day playing this rather difficult
part, I was confronted by a whole
school of children. I was absolutely
petrified.
We used several of them in
the film. They all turned out to be
absolutely wonderful completely
committed and enthusiastic and
interesting to talk to and interested
in what we were doing. To some
extent I got over my fear.
Denchs comments were first
reported in the Radio Times.
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yan Gosling, Jared Leto and
Keanu Reeves are among the A-
list Hollywood stars in the
frame to play mystical Marvel super-
hero Dr Strange, according to the
Hollywood Reporter. The Disney-
owned studio has been seeking a
replacement for Joaquin Phoenix after
talks with the Oscar-nominated star
of Gladiator, Walk the Line and The
Master broke down at an advanced
stage earlier this month. Gosling has
reportedly met with producers and
appears to be one of the frontrunners
to take on what would be his first
potential blockbuster franchise.
However, the Drive actor also
has his eye on a pair of similarly
high-profile alternate projects. He
has been offered the chance to play
Harry Houdini in an adventure
movie that will reimagine the
famous magician as an investigator
of the occult, and is also being
courted to star in Warner Bros
recently greenlit big-screen take on
the DC Comics series Suicide Squad,
about a team of supervillains who
undertake risky black ops missions
for the US Government in exchange
for commuted sentences.
Johnny Depp had previously
been attached to The Houdini film,
currently titled The Secret Life of
Houdini: The Making of Americas
First Superhero, based on a book by
William Kalush and Larry Sloman.
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ing his retired life with his
family. His son and grand-
children lived with him. The old
man could not ask for any more. He
had two grandchildren, who were
very well-behaved. He used to
spend a lot of time with them; he
even took the responsibility of get-
ting their homework done. This
gave a lot of relief to his daughter-
in-law, who could pursue her career.
Everything was going well till
the old man noticed a tumour
under his ear. At first, he did not
grasp the significance of it, but once
it grew larger, he was alarmed. He
showed the tumour to his son, who
immediately sought medical advice.
The doctor advised biopsy, which
was done. The report confirmed
their worst fears: the tumour was
malignant. This meant that the old
man had to go through a painful
operation, in which he was to lose a
part of his ear. The operation was
done and they all hoped that the
malignancy was contained and
would not cause further trouble. He
was advised regular check-ups.
What went through his mind in
this period? He first went through
absolute terror, but he soon realised
that this was only adding to his mis-
ery. Therefore, he decided to do
something about it, and believe it or
not, he achieved serenity over a few
months. How did he achieve this
miraculous transformation?
He shifted his focus from his
body to God; he wanted to know
why such a misfortune has befallen
him, him being a good man. He
began to read scriptures and hear
spiritual discourses. These activities
inspired him to meditate about God,
ie what God is like, why does he not
reveal himself, how can we please
him, what benefit will there be in
doing so, why is there so much mis-
ery in the world when God is all-
powerful, why does God allow it?
Many questions arose in his mind.
Why do good people suffer? Why
do bad people thrive? Why does
death strike even children, who are
innocent? Why did God permit
such a deadly disease to strike him,
who was a God-fearing man? What
is the way out? Will it be non-stop
misery till death? Will he be able to
ever laugh or enjoy life again?
Soon he began to get answers
that he was an indestructible soul,
not this material body; the body is
bound to die, whether by cancer or
due to some other cause, and no
one can escape death. He realised
that misery is of two kinds, physical
and mental. We have only partial
control over the physical part; we
can try to live as healthily as possi-
ble but he had no control over the
cancer which appeared in his body.
As regards the mental part, yes, we
have some control over how we
react to any situation. He began to
think that he could still be healthy
mentally, and for enjoyment, mental
health is most important. He had
seen people, who came to the hospi-
tal he was being treated in, smiling.
In other fields also, attitude is
most important. If one is physically
challenged, one can go on with life;
life is much more than a perfect
body. Our attitude decides whether
we will be happy or not. What will be
the quality of our lives, only we can
decide. I welcome your comments.
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f you recall the episode from
Ramayana, you will find that
Ravana appeared to invincible
despite repeated attacks by
Rama and was killed only when
Rama pierced his navel with an arrow.
The navel corresponds to the seat of
power in the body, the manipoorak
chakra that makes up for any weak-
ness and directly controls the diges-
tive system in the body.
Ayurveda maintains that death
begins in the colon and modern sci-
ence agrees with this fact. Hence, in
order to ensure a long and healthy
life, it is of utmost importance to keep
the colon healthy. Realising this, today
the market is flooded with various
techniques and equipment to ensure
the same. One of these is the hydro-
colon therapy. The therapy with the
aid of certain instruments washes the
intestines with saline water to flush
the toxins out of the system.
However, being a synthetic
process, it entails certain side effects
such as dehydration, electrolyte imbal-
ance, discomfort, cramps and infec-
tion. During the hydrocolon therapy,
there exists a risk of toxicity and aller-
gy in the event of absorption of sub-
stances from the wall of colon. The US
Food and Drug Administration does
not recommend colonic irrigation
machines for routine use.
I get many cases of people who
have fallen prey to the hazards of this
modern innovation. Like the gift of
modern-day yog gurus is knee and
spine problems for those who take to
their self-styled practices, hycolon
therapy comes with a high risk of
infection and allergy. Both of these
are wrong practice of yoga and
ancient sciences which instead of
helping the body, age it due to their
hyperactive and unnatural nature.
You will be surprised to know that
the technique of using saline water for
cleansing finds a mention in the vedic
sutras. Vedic masters prescribed the
Laghu Shankh Prakshalan Kriya for
cleansing the colon. For this, take
eight glasses of lukewarm water and
add two teaspoons of rock salt. Drink
two glasses of water in a gulp. Now do
the following set of asanas, repeating
each seven times dynamically.
TAADASANA: Standing straight,
inhale and stretch your arms above
the head while lifting the heels off the
floor. Exhaling, return.
TEERYAK TAADASANA: Stand
straight with arms stretched above the
head. Inhaling, bend from the waist
sideways, first right then left.
Exhaling, return.
KATI CHAKRASANA: Standing
straight, place right hand on the left
shoulder and left hand at the back.
Inhaling, twist your waist to the left
and then to the right while simultane-
ously changing hands. Exhaling, return.
TEERYAK BHUJANG ASANA: Lie
flat on the stomach. Inhaling, raise
the upper torso with palms on the
floor. Twist from waist first right and
then left. Exhaling, return.
UDARAKARSHAN ASANA: Sit on
your haunches. Inhaling push the
right knee onto the floor, close to
the left toe, while twist the body to
your left. In the same breath turn to
the other side switching knees.
Exhaling, return.
Drinking two glasses of prepared
water each time, repeat the entire set
two more times. Finally have the last
two glasses of water, relax for half an
hour in shavasana. Wait for the call of
nature and relieve yourself in the toi-
let. Do the kriya in the morning and
keep your stomach light through the
day. Do these asanas only under the
strict supervision of an expert.
CAUTION: It is of utmost impor-
tance not to force the bowel move-
ment. Keep lying in shavasana (cover-
ing your body with a sheet) for 45
minutes and only get up to answer the
call of nature. Some people who are
highly constipated, may have some
difficulty in passing stool. But gener-
ally the technique allows a person to
clear the bowels a couple of times.
Laghu shankh prakshalan can be safely
performed two to three times in a
week, but the practise should be slow-
ly tapered as the system starts to get
accustomed to natural bowel move-
ment after thorough cleansing. It
should not be practiced by pregnant
women, heart patients, people with
high or low blood pressure, back
problems, anaemics and weak people.
It is not to be performed immediately
after eating. A gap of at least three
hours is recommended.
The stomach, as per the vedic
sources, is the organ responsible for
deriving prana from the food and in
this sense, the vedic masters identified
three stomachs of a human being
mouth, actual stomach and intestines.
The three stomachs are controlled and
governed by the manipoorak chakra in
the pranic body of a person.
Maximum imbalances in the body
start with congestion in the stomach
and a faulty elimination of waste from
the body, which ultimately manifests
into disease. When you eat, two things
can happen that may lead to disease in
future. First is the failure of absorption
of nutrients from the intestines due to
the development of a chemical coating
on the walls due to eating food laced
with chemicals and spices. Second, the
slow/negligible movement of the
ingested food in the digestive tract due
to lack of pranic energy in the
manipoorak, once again resulting from
ingestion of chemicals and dangerous
spices. This leads to collection of tox-
ins (ama) and absorption of these tox-
ins into the blood stream, which fur-
ther destabilise the endocrine system,
giving rise to serious diseases, mostly
auto-immune disorders like thyroid
and asthma. So the vedic saying that
death begins in the colon is not with-
out logical backing. The manipoorak
chakra and hence the stomach, can be
kept in an optimal condition through
certain yogic kriyas and mantras
detailed in the book Sanatan Kriya:
The Ageless Dimension.
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n common parlance, Diwali is considered to be the
festival of lights, sweets and crackers. But that is just
kidstuff meant for popular consumption. Diwali is
essentially about worshipping Laxmi, the goddess of
wealth. Wealth that is matter. Wealth that matters. So it
is a matter of wealth. It is ironical though that this god-
dess of wealth prefers to ride an owl, the bird tradition-
ally thought to be inauspicious having only night vision
and signifying an idiot in the popular Hindi lingo.
We have celebrated Diwali just a couple of days
ago and it is only appropriate that we talk about
wealth. Not just how to get it, but also how to retain it,
utilise it and understand it. For most, wealth is all
about money, and propitiating of the goddess is done
with much fanfare only to please her and get wealth in
return. A few get it, too, although most lose it in the
long run. But is wealth only about money? Perhaps
not, and naturally, gambling cannot be the only way to
gain wealth. The question then is what is wealth? Well,
defining it is beyond the purview of economics and
commerce. In economics, money means the means of
exchange, and for commerce, it is the exchange that
means money.
The fact, however, is that both these views are par-
tial if not wholly out of place. Why money is consid-
ered wealth is because people think it gives happiness
or may lead to happiness. So, money also remains a
means. But does this not mean that it is happiness and
not money that is to be pursued. Probably yes. Though
there are some who are in pursuit of money for its
own sake. And ultimately repent.
The story of Midas, the legendary king of Phrygia,
is a case in point. His greed made him seek a boon
from a Greek god that whatever he touched should
turn into gold. His belief that wealth is the best thing
that a man can have made him seek this boon. When
Midas found that it was actually happening, he became
so ecstatic that he wanted everything to turn into
gold. But as he ordered a splendid banquet to celebrate
his unqualified success, things started going wrong. He
grasped a piece of bread and it turned into gold. He
took wine to drink but as it touched his lips it turned
into molten gold. The story goes that he kissed his
daughter and she also turned into gold. Then he could
realise his mistake. He begged to the God to forgive
him and take back the boon, which actually turned out
to be a curse. The story gives us a very important les-
son that wealth is neither a means to everything nor
can be everything. Post Diwali, the lesson needs to be
learnt. The pleasure, the happiness, the peace of mind
are real wealth and certainly more valuable than the
wealth as we understand in the present lexicon.
The Diwali that we celebrated should remind us of
this basic truth. We need to worship the goddess to
seek her boon for the real wealth. To bring a smile on
somebodys lips, to relieve somebodys pain, to wipe
somebodys tears that gives real happiness. And it is
this happiness that is the real wealth. Those who crave
only for material wealth spend their life searching for
an ever elusive satisfaction.
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iwali, the festival of light,
would be over by the time this
piece appears. Moon would
have got into waxing mode, progres-
sively becoming brighter and brighter
every successive day, symbolically
pointing to emergence of promising
days ahead, full of hopes and aspira-
tions. And preparations would be on
for the ensuing Chatth festival (cele-
brated in Bihar and adjoining areas)
when the devout will offer their
prayers to the Sun, the prime source
of life and light first to the setting
Sun and then rising Sun the following
morning.
Look at the timing of this annual
festivity. It is celebrated when the
wheel of time strikes the darkest day
of the year. For, the Sun the prime
source of light reaches the farthest
end from this part of the globe at this
hour, as it reaches the extreme end of
western horizon through its southerly
course.
And we are located towards the
eastern horizon in the northern hemi-
sphere. Naturally, the solar intensity
available here reaches its bottommost
low. Evidently then, it turns out to be
the darkest night when the Sun elopes
the Moon, which is otherwise sup-
posed to enlighten the night sky.
Instead of fearing the eerie dark-
ness of the night, the whole of India
responds positively and turns it into a
happy occasion. It is in this spirit that
people illuminate the environment
with dancing flames of earthen lamps
or candles, all beautifully laid down in
an orderly fashion.
For, ancient Indias learned mas-
ters had realised quite early that life
forces vital to our dynamic existence
remain veiled in the confines of dark-
ness. And that the life forces need to
be regurgitated at regular periodic
interval for nature to maintain its pro-
ductive potential. It is in this spirit
that even the Sun and Moon join
hands.
So, what apparently looks like the
Moon coming under limitation is
actually purported to recharge natures
energy orchestra afresh through the
union of the two luminaries.
Remember, the essence of even a
huge tree remains veiled in its seed.
The seeds again need to be charged
afresh by life forces veiled in the blind-
ing darkness underneath the earth
mass, for it to first sprout and then
progressively turn into a fully grown
fruit-bearing tree. This way, from the
seed to tree and back, the cycle of life
keeps incessantly going on in succes-
sion. Even in our day-to-day life, we
need to relax and invoke the
indwelling spirit every night to
recharge our bodys vitals, so as to take
on the callings of following day in all
strength and vigour. So runs natures
design in macro and micro terms.
Our ancient elders were also aware
that life moves in correspondence
with the natures cycle. Accordingly, as
would nature recharge its energy
orchestra around Diwali, so do we
need to gather up all our strengths,
and raise our work spirit so that we
are able to prove true to the callings of
the emerging time. And all the more
because the overall environmental
energy level and thereby on individual
scale level remains relatively low at
this hour. Otherwise, we will be left
behind in the run of time.
This exercise becomes all the more
necessary because hereafter the Sun
would be progressively marching
towards its zenith, the eastern hori-
zon, exciting a new productivity cycle.
With the raised energy level in the
process, it becomes possible to with-
stand the implication of weather tran-
sition happening at this hour as well.
It is in this spirit that we clear off
all the muck gathered at our homes
and work place during the preceding
year, and give the place a facelift to
create a good ambience. In the same
spirit, we also need to clear off the
mental baggage of the past to create
fresh mind space, draw lessons out of
experiences had, so as to come out
with our intelligent best.
Further to rekindle our faith,
majority of the Hindus pay their obei-
sance to Goddess Laxmi perceived
as the custodian of productivity and
thereby wealth and prosperity seek-
ing thy boon. For, the focus remains
on productive aspirations.
Towards the eastern end of the
country, however, the occasion is
marked with worship of Goddess
Kaali, identified with immanent con-
sciousness instead. And so, she is
believed to hold the key to all aspects
of the manifest dynamic world cre-
ation, sustenance, and recycling. This
force, when withdrawn, there would be
no life, and therefore, she is said to be
the beholder of kaal (time) as well.
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!ollow nature`s cycle
heallh may give you some challenges lhis week.
You need lo kee a lab on your ealing habils.
wrong inlake can lead lo lrouble. eeling
uncomorlable, do nol delay gelling medical
advice. wilh a lillle eorl you will see big
lransormalion in your heallh. You may eel all
your eorls in work are going in vain. 0iving u
is nol lhe solulion. Ful all your energy in making
lhings beller or one lasl lime and you will see lhe
magic. you are looking or a job, you may gel a
good oorlunily lhis week. Long awailed
rojecls will come your way. Your arlner gives
you all lhe hainess and you eel conlenled in
your love lie. 0inner and sending qualily lime
wilh your arlner and amily is on lhe cards.
Iurky number 8, 17
Iurky roIour Black
Iurky day Salurday
8IF8 March 21-April 20
You will enjoy high energy lhis week. you have
been acing some heallh issues, you may gel a
ermanenl solulion. This is lhe aroriale lime
lo choose a new heallh rogramme and make
your dreams lrue. Avoid overealing. There can be
a selback in your career lhis week. You may gel
lo know aboul a orced change o job. A rojecl
you have been working hard on may nol give lhe
desired resulls and bring lols o unhainess.
You need lo remain calm, lhis is jusl a hase and
will be over soon. You will gel lo send a lol o
lime wilh your riends. Lalenighl oulings and
dinners will be lined u. 0o lake oul lime or your
arlner loo so lhal your relalionshi doesn'l gel
aecled due lo your un oulings.
Iurky number 8, 12
Iurky roIour Yellow
Iurky day wednesday
I0808 April 21-May 21
heallh o an elder one will be o concern or you.
Take a second oinion; you may need lo change
lhe medicines or beller resulls. Your work will
bring some good news or you. A longawailed
rojecl will come smoolhly lo you. Eorls already
ul in are going lo give you besl resulls in lerms
o arecialion and inancial gains. you are in
business and lhinking o branching oul, lhis is lhe
righl lime lo lake lhe sle ahead. you have
looking orward lo job oorlunilies, you will be
gelling an oer leller soon. Your arlner is nol
hay wilh you as you aren'l sending qualily
lime logelher. Take a shorl break and lake your
arlner lo a holiday. Change o almoshere will be
helul in imroving your relalionshi.
Iurky number 7
Iurky roIour 0reen
Iurky day Friday
6FMI8I May 22-June 21
This week is nol very good in lerms o heallh. You
may gel ruslraled by searching or olions or
imrovemenl in your heallh. Somelimes energies
are blocked and ushing orward loo hard doesn'l
work. You need lo remain calm lill lhis slagnalion
is over. You are logically very slrong and a good
lanner. Your crilical reasoning will hel you in
laking diicull decisions o your career lhis week.
Feole around you may gel jealous o your
success as you will louch new heighls in work.
unexecled inancial gains are on lhe cards. You
may have slressul momenls in your relalionshi
beore. Communicaling is lhe besl way lo imrove
lhe silualion. You may lake a slrong decision o
slaying in or walking oul o your relalionshi.
Iurky number 5, 14
Iurky roIour Brown
Iurky day Salurday
080F8 June 22-July 22
You have been looking or a good heallh
rogramme or long. This is lhe righl lime lo
ind il and slarl working lowards il. You will
eel ull o energy. 0oing oul on a vacalion can
hel imrove your heallh. wilh your logical
lhoughl rocess, you only go ahead wilh work
when you are 1OO er cenl sure. Choose your
leam wisely. Feole may be lalking ill behind
your back; you need lo rove yoursel besl by
lhe resulls. You need lo exress your arlner
how you eel beore your arlner gels lired o
wailing. you are already in a relalionshi,
silualion will imrove belween you lwo. Take
some lime oul and send qualily lime wilh
your arlner lhis week
Iurky number 4, 18
Iurky roIour Blue
Iurky day Thursday
I860 Aug 24-Sept 23
You need lo creale balance belween your
heallh and work. Take oul lime or yoursel and
send il wilh nalure. You are eeling slagnaled;
you need lo ind oul lhe reasons or slagnalion
and ul all energies lo creale a movemenl.
0iving u cannol be a solulion, so work hard.
The resulls may gel delayed bul will surely
come in your avour. You are keeing so busy
wilh your work lhal laking oul lime or your
arlner and amily has become very diicull.
This is lhe lime lo imrove, else silualion may
gel worse. You need lo lalk lo your arlner
oenly and exlain lhe diicull silualion ralher
lhan keeing quiel and execling your arlner
lo undersland.
Iurky number O, 27
Iurky roIour Red
Iurky day Sunday
lI88 Sept 24-Oct 23
You are on lhe righl lrack o heallh. you have
been suering wilh some illness, you will see
imrovemenl. You need lo have osilive
lhoughls lo remain heallhy and hay. There
can be some unexecled exenses coming your
way lhis week. Send careully and kee a
walch on your income. You will kee busy in
your new rojecl and send less lime on
yoursel. you are looking or a new job, you
may gel il lhis week. you are single, lhis is
nol lhe righl lime lo ind a arlner; you may end
u wilh lhe wrong one. 0on'l gel inlo any
serious commilmenl in relalionshi lhis week.
you are in a lroublesome relalionshi, lhis is
lhe lime lo lake lhe inal decision.
Iurky number 2, 11
Iurky roIour All aslel colours
Iurky day Monday
8008FI0 Oct 24-Nov 22
You need lo ul genuine eorls or imroving
your heallh. You are laking your heallh loo
lighlly. Slarl laking care beore il is lale. You
may require exerl guidance or a new heallh
rogramme lo make your energy level beller.
You are a riendly erson and behave in a sol
manner wilh your leam members. l is lime lo
acl slrongly as you will see your coworkers nol
lislening lo you and laking advanlage o your
nalure. You need lo give resulls soon. you are
single, you may meel your soulmale lhis week.
Kee yoursel oen lo receiving love energy.
You may gel inlo a lielong commilmenl. you
are already in a relalionshi, you will be
sending more lime wilh your arlner.
Iurky number 88
Iurky roIour violel
Iurky day Salurday
008I08 Jan 21-Feb 19
Those having series heallh issues will ind a
way lowards beller lrealmenl. Take suggeslion
o your medical advisor and ollow as guided.
There can be slagnancy in your heallh and
you may eel lired aler ulling so many
eorls wilh no resulls. This week, new
rojecls will come your way and will kee you
busy. This heclic schedule will kee you more
in oice lhen resling al home. This may creale
unhainess in your amily. Try lo lake oul
lime or your amily on lhe weekend. you
are single, lhis is nol lhe righl lime lo ind a
arlner or gelling inlo a relalionshi. walch
your words, il is lime or you lo lislen more
and seak less.
Iurky number 25, 84
Iurky roIour Silver
Iurky day Monday
FI80F8 Feb 20-March 20
You are ulling all your osilive energies inlo
wrong eole which is crealing heallh issues.
Minimise meelings and send lime wilh
yoursel. Yoga and medilalion can hel. you
are eeling unwell, seek medical advice, and
walch your lhoughl rocess. You will gel
recognilion in lerms o your work. There can be
a salary hike coming or new job oorlunilies
on your way. A welllanned move will lake you
lowards new heighls. A new relalionshi is on
lhe cards or you. 0oing oul and meeling new
eole in social galherings is whal you will be
doing lhis week. you are already in a
relalionshi, you will see imrovemenl in your
arlner's behaviour lowards you.
Iurky number 28, 1O
Iurky roIour Fink
Iurky day Friday
0F8I0088 Dec 24-Jan 20
You may eel low in energy; imrovemenl will
come as lhe days ass. you are in lhe amily
way, you should lake exlra care o your heallh.
Following a roer schedule o workouls and
ood is required. You have been working very
hard; you need lo lake roer resl or
rejuvenalion and eeling heallhier. unexecled
inancial gains are on lhe cards. You may meel
your exboss or an old riend who will oer
you a very good job. Lislen lo your mind and
use your crealivily lo gel besl resulls. you
are single, il is your lime lo mingle. You may
be allracled lowards someone younger. you
are already in a relalionshi and unhay, lhis
is lhe righl lime lo walk oul.
Iurky number G, 24
Iurky roIour while
Iurky day Sunday
lF0 July 23-August 23
You will ind a huge imrovemenl in heallh.
You will have high energy level and eel like
exercising more. 0o nol exerl loo much, il may
creale issues in your heallh. Make sure you are
medilaling. work will be good lhis week. You
will gel resulls wilh minimum eorls. You may
gel arecialion rom your organisalion. There
can be inancial gains, which will bring slabilily
in your lie. You are nol ulling enough lime lo
imrove your relalionshi; il can become a
roblem in lhe long run, so lel your arlner
exress lo you whal is going on in lheir mind.
you are single, you may meel someone
inleresling lhis week. 0on'l rush inlo
commilmenls, go slow.
Iurky number 28, 82
Iurky roIour 0range
Iurky day Tuesday
86III8I08 Nov 23-Dec 23
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