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Now Dolhi, January 6, 2013
I
was escorted into Dohas pride the
Aspire Zone by a refreshingly young
girl all the way from my hometown in
India, Nellore. If that was not a surprise in
itself, the sprawling media centre was
being attended to by a French girl who said she
was from Lyon. The chief delegates, meanwhile,
were being cordoned off from the media and
others by a stunning White girl. Are you from
Russia? I asked tentatively. No, I am from
Latin America, from Honduras to be exact, she
said with a beaming smile.
My surprise was all too evident. So you
must be working for the Richard Attias Group
and are here for the Doha Goals Summit, I
presumed. No, this is my home, I live and work
here, she said. All the way from Honduras to
Qatar, isnt it a strange journey? I persisted.
Ive been here for six years now. The work and
salaries are unheard of in the outside world. The
living standards are high. The peace is uncanny
and the safety of women no issue at all. So when
I got this offer, I jumped at it, especially when I
came to know one doesnt even have to pay any
kind of tax, she said, explaining how Doha has
more foreigners than locals and how the work
force comes from all corners of the world, with
Indians having a lions share of 20 per cent.
I also met a big number of British
nationals, Americans and even some Chinese
and Indonesian people, settled here for work.
Headquarters to the legendary Al Jazeera
media conglomerate and the world number
three in gas reserves, Qatar is now coming up
as the most exciting, detailed, well-equipped
sporting destination on globe, a journey many
view with awe and bewilderment. After all,
which developing nation focuses its progress
chart on propelling sport? Qatar does, and it is
unique in this mission.
Consider this: A desert nation eons away
from snow, is host to the ice hockey world league
competition with state-of-the-art ice rinks in the
heart of Doha. It does not play field hockey much
either but boasts of over 30 clubs; cricket is alien
to it and yet there is a stunning cricketing
stadium which awaits a grand inaugural with a
world class tournament to be held here in 2014.
Also consider this: Qatar, a desert emirate
with not more than 1.7 million residents, does
not levy any kind of income tax on its subjects.
Water and electricity are in abundance and come
free to every home, office or corporate enterprise.
Public education is free too. The country itself
has scripted an unbelievable rags-to-riches story
in the last two centuries to come up as the worlds
richest nation with the highest per capita income
of $88,222 a year, according to an IMF estimate.
The nations sovereign wealth fund, the
Qatar Investment Authority, had a recorded
asset overflow of $60 billion in 2010 itself. And
its stated strategy is to minimise the nations
dependence on energy prices. With that in
mind, it has invested in solid assets, buying
well-known properties and enterprises all
across the world, besides owning stakes in
global financial institutions, universities and
multinational companies, not to mention, its
most audacious but winning bid to date
hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup amid the
surprise and criticism of the Western world
wary of not just an Arab environ not suited for
a sport like football but also of the heat and
dust it will get enveloped it.
But Qatar is not bothered. It has the
wherewithal to blow away every bit of doubt
with a development programme which promises
to make the world gape. Here is what the sports-
enthusiastic Emir of Qatar has planned for 2022:
To beat the heat of expected 50 degrees Celsius
his desert nation reaches normally in the month
of June-July when the World Cup is to be held, it
plans to condition the air in 100 per cent of the
areas where the tournament will be played out.
Doting on its now legendary natural gas
and liquid petroleum reserves of approximately
896 trillion cubic feet (second only Russia and
Iran), it plans to use jet propellers, usually
meant for rockets, to cool down the tempera-
tures by more than 20 degrees in an open air
stadium where the finale will be held. The
hotel-to-stadium-to-hotel tunnels will be many
and all air-conditioned. Other stadia will be
closed and temperature controlled, and even
the open fan zones will be under cover of
massive air-conditioners.
The World Cup will be staged in 12
future-inspired venues, such as the dhow-
shaped Al-Shamal, just 30 minutes from
Bahrain by water taxi, and the futuristic Al-
Wakrah Sports Complex. And once the grand
show gets over, some of these stadia will be
folded up and sent to Third World nations to
boost their sporting infrastructure and hone
their gaming acumen so that competition at
world events like the Olympics get an
increased podium presence of smaller nations.
Please note, for these two beautiful stadia, a
whole new city has been made up on reclaimed
land Lusail. This is Qatars under-construction
coast pearl located 15 km north of Doha, on
over 35 km replete with marinas, residential
areas, island resorts, commercial districts,
luxury shopping and leisure facilities, including
two golf courses and an entertainment
entertainment district. The Lusail Iconic
Stadium, with a capacity of 86,250, will host
the opening and final matches of FIFA World
Cup. The stadium takes its inspiration from the
sail of a traditional dhow boat and is
surrounded by water.
But, this wow element is far away into the
future. For now, Qatar has emerged as the
sports capital of the world, an effort that seems
strange for an Arab nation to employ in its bid
become a world power. Though many would
disdainfully dismiss the possibility of a
sporting showcase being taken seriously at
world forums, fact is that the Emir and his
vision have brought in a round of applause to
his emirate from myriad powers of the world.
The recent Doha Summit Goals, a conclave
of thinkers which debated the propulsion of
sports as a tool to bringing equality, economic
well-being and peace to nations of the world,
was not just a million-dollar obsession of the
royal family, but a ploy to get Qatar to be
noticed worldwide.
Preceded by the World Climate Talks just a
few days before, the Doha Goals Summit
brought to Qatars debating table greats from all
walks of sporting life. From two Heads of States
from Africa, to former French President
Nicholas Sarkozy, to top former athletes like
Carl Lewis, Ian Thorpe and Mark Spitz to name
a few, top sport physicians and WADA science
director, to NGOs and institutions propelling
sports in their respective countries, to the world
media anyone and everyone who should have
been there was flown in to talk about the next
big step to be taken to make sports a subject of
serious political discourse worldwide.
The summit, slated to return next year to
Doha, also sketched a roadmap to implement
the 300 bold initiatives thrown up by 3,000
delegates to make sport a tool of social change
and economic development worldwide.
Even if one were to speculate over the
viability of such a summit in real terms, Qatar
has already made its presence felt with a
whopping 320 days of national and
international sporting events happening in one
calendar year of 365 days.
Seeing the opulence around its stunning
sporting infrastructure, the Aspire Zone
spread in a few kilometre circular area in the
heart of the capital city one would wonder
whats with this sporting obsession of an
average Qatari. After all, it has only three
bronze medals as its best tally ever in the
Olympics, it is not too high on the footballing
global network and its athletes are nowhere
near the finish line in big world events.
Still, it is bewildering how Qatar has the
most moneyed sporting leagues on the globe,
that too in games which the nation is not too
familiar with. No less than 30 clubs compete at
its annual hockey tournament and the Qatar
club stood second in the just-concluded world
hockey league, behind Azerbaijan. The same
goes for its cricket league and that despite the
fact that cricket is for Qataris what it is for the
Chinese or, for that matter, the Americans.
A clutch of former Team India players plays
for these local hockey clubs which are also
dotted by Pakistanis, Malaysians and Qataris.
The earnings are not mean at all in both sports
which are, by the way, alien to Qatar whose
DNA is more into football than any other game.
Talking of which, Sport is in our DNA,
says a lifesize poster at the chic Aspire Zone, a
circle of intense activity which has come to
signify a nations unique effort to edify all
kinds of sport some known and many
unknown to this desert country.
As you walk around this zone where you see
localites playing, walking and jogging in the
evenings you know that the implementation of
its Emirs big dream of instilling physical activity
as a way of life in his population is alive and
kicking. The Aspire Zone, with its signature
Torch building rising up from the sands of time,
is Dohas most happening sporting mile with
facilities like the state-of-the-art WADA anti-
doping lab rubbing shoulders with a sports
medicine academy, a sporting institution to
garner young guns into top achievers in sports,
not to mention a clutch of indoor stadiums in
most sports, used to capacity during the 2006
Asian Games held here.
Pointing out how when people speak about
Qatar, they often focus on its considerable
natural resources, Sarkozy drew attention
towards how Qatar is in the midst of
addressing one of the trickiest questions of the
21st century: Reconciling national identity
with modernity. In sport, as envisaged and
promoted by Qatar, one sees how we can
accept the complementarities, the dovetailing
of identity and modernity, he said while
addressing the Doha Goals Summit.
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Some of the buyouts
by Oatar include the
Harrods store and
related assets in
London at a cost of
S2.S billion, stakes in
Miramax and the
buying of the Paris
Saint-Germain
Football Club for S1S1
million with plans to
pump in SS41 million
for its upkeep and
performance
enhancement
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Now Dolhi, January 6, 2013
I
n the mid-19th century, the highest
mountain peak in the world was
named after the legendary surveyor,
Sir George Everest, who completed
a large section of his Great
Trigonometric Survey of India and the
median arc living in a secluded estate on
the mountains of Mussoorie. In a unique
coincidence, almost a century later, one
of the first Indians to have successfully
climbed the formidable mountain was
the then 26-year-old Major HPS
Ahluwalia, who not only grew up in
Mussoorie, but also professed to have got
his fixation for climbing the Everest from
these very picturesque foothills.
On May 29, 1965, Ahluwalia scaled
the highest mountain peak in the world
after a perilous journey of four arduous
months. History had been created, and
life was a heady concoction of euphoria,
fame and more challenges to win. The
biggest of them struck only three
months later in a way most unimagin-
able. India was engaged in a war with
Pakistan. With a thousand dreams and
the blood of a young warrior, Maj
Ahluwalia was on ground zero, fearless
and lethal. It was mayhem, deafening
noise of violent offensives and counter-
attacks. A situation where all that mat-
tered was national honour, and all that
stood between life and death was a tiny
bullet. It was in this charged scenario
that from somewhere, as if out of
nowhere, an enemy bullet hit Ahluwalia
in the neck. What followed was a blur,
excruciating pain, blood, ambulance and
unconsciousness. The first clarity that
then appeared was one that would have
devastated even the strongest: He would
never be able to stand up again. The
gunshot had caused a severe spinal
injury that left Ahluwalia paralysed
below his waist for the rest of his life.
From that shattering event to now,
almost 50 years have gone by. And in
these intervening decades, albeit con-
fined to a wheelchair, Ahluwalia has
risen to an unyielding figure of strength,
much like the unshakeable peaks he had
climbed. Having been honoured with
the Padma Bhushan, he is the founder of
the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in New
Delhi, of which he has also been the
chairman since 1995. Besides being the
author of over 15 popular books, he is
former chairman of the Rehabilitation
Council of India and of the Indian
Mountaineering Foundation.
Of the lot, Ahluwalia cherishes his
Everest exploits the most, giving an
account of the time when all seemed lost
in the gallant ascent that eventually set up
a world record by putting nine climbers
on the summit, catapulting India to
become the fourth nation to have its flag
flying on the top of the Everest. The big
unit of 17 mountaineers, 60 sherpa
guides and as many as 800 porters began
the expedition from Jayanagar in Nepal,
traversing a strenuous path for almost a
month before reaching the next camp.
While the entire climb was a gruelling
experience, it was the last one week when
the going got so tough that they almost
thought of giving up.
It was on the bone-chilling morning
of May 25 that Dorji, who served us our
morning tea, exclaimed, Sahibji, there
has been a big avalanche over Camp III.
Disregarding the tea, Mohan and I dart-
ed outside and what we witnessed was
scary. The camp, with its colourful tents
had been completely wiped out and all
that was visible was a huge stretch of
white. Luckily, the camp had been unoc-
cupied and no life was lost. But our oxy-
gen cylinders were gone, buried under
the deep avalanche. And with them, our
hopes of making it to the peak lay buried
too. The leader, Capt MS Kohli, had no
option but to call off the final ascent.
Could we search for the cylinders? we
asked. The idea of digging out the cylin-
ders from unknown locations under the
huge mass of snow seemed foolishly
brave. But given our conviction and des-
peration, he agreed. Accompanied by
four sherpas and our Nepalese Liaison
Officer Rana, we reached the site after a
two-hour trek. All we saw was barren-
ness, recalls Ahluwalia.
Without wasting any time, they
started digging up the snow in the
hope of that finding oxygen cylinders.
By afternoon, they had already dug up
for six hours. Indescribably exhausted
and downcast, we were at our nerves
end. The minutes hung heavy like years
and we realised that we could not sus-
tain much longer. And it was at this
critical juncture that I happened to
look at the sherpas. They were praying
and I began to pray too. After a few
hits, my axe struck an oxygen cylinder,
says Ahluwalia.
Suddenly, the fatigue vanished and
they began to dig enthusiastically. One
by one they dug up all the oxygen cylin-
ders. Four days later, the final climb
began. Recalls Ahluwalia, On every
climb, we have these thoughts if we shall
be able to make it or not; on the Everest,
these bouts of doubt were much
stronger. Every footstep needed a whole
lot of energy and from behind those
oxygen masks, we didnt even have the
energy to scrape back the snow and see
how much time had passed. But we kept
going on, one step at a time.
The trail was quite risky. But were
they fearful? With the tone of a soldier,
he replies, Oh, we were not worried
about death then; it was a mission that
we were determined to pursue at any
cost. As long as we can walk, we shall go
up. And when the moment of triumph
arrived, we were possessed by a mam-
moth force of energy.
The temperature was minus 30
degree Celsius, but suddenly the wind
stopped which, Ahluwalia believes, was a
gift from God. Being passionate about
photography, the first thing he did atop
the Everest was to capture the spellbind-
ing beauty of the vast nothingness with
his prized camera. While descending,
there was the happiness of a job well
done but also a tinge of sadness that hav-
ing conquered the highest, there would
be no greater heights to scale, he says
with a philosophical undertone.
Looking at the lofty mountains,
Ahluwalia goes back in time to his grow-
ing up years in Mussoorie, reflecting how
the hills have formed him. My father got
posted to Dehradun in 1947 during
Partition. I studied at St Georges College,
nestled in the mesmerising mist of the
mountains. Hills often have an alluring
charm among children and I got fascinat-
ed by the Himalayas. As years passed by,
these mountains instilled in me a sense of
steadfastness; to hold ground no matter
what. Ever since, mountains have made
me seek the strength within myself and
the confidence that I can conquer any
fear, surmount any challenge, says he.
On how the Everest happened, he
says, It was my dream to summit the
Everest. While during Indias first expe-
dition in 1960 I was under-aged, in 1962
I was undergoing a course that I couldnt
leave in between. Incidentally, both these
expeditions failed. In 1965 another expe-
dition was organised, the last one before
Mount Everest closed for mountaineers
for five years. Jawaharlal Nehru was
keen to see the Indian tricolour hoisted
on the peak. A list of mountaineers was
drawn up that fortunately included some
youngster like me.
Mountaineering has changed dra-
matically over the years. Ahluwalia
agrees. Now, climbing has become very
commercial, taking sponsored merchan-
dise to the summit as a publicity stunt.
Then there are these travel agents at
Everest base camp who have fixed ropes
right up to the summit to hold with one
hand and go up. This is not true moun-
taineering. Third, most climbers dont
even walk that much. There is a flight
from Kathmandu to Lokhla and it is
only as far ahead as this that the activity
begins. Then, in one season there may
be 15 expeditions or more, so there is a
whole line of climbers and this again in
my opinion is not real climbing.
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he summit, produced and directed
by the Richard Attias Group on a
$5 million budget, is only one
pointer to how this Arab nation has
made sports its raison detre. Pointing out
how sporting initiatives overcome
borders and contribute to building
societies, His Highness Sheikh Hamad
bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar
recalled it was his familys dream since
1979 to make Qatar a world destination
for sporting activities. Youth are our
wealth and together we can build a better
future. The Arab region is about to
change profoundly, and the Arab Spring
has proved our youth have dreams and
ambitions too, he stressed.
The Emir said Qatar had made
huge investment in sports facilities
based on the conviction that sport had
the ability to promote development in
the country and the fact that the
hosting of international events not only
provided entertainment but also played
a role in providing jobs, both locally
and internationally.
He also stressed that the decision by
FIFA to award Qatar the 2022 Football
World Cup championship was in part
determined by a joint commitment to
boost stability and development in the
whole Middle East region.
Thanks to these efforts, infrastructure
developments at home and sporting
investments overseas have fired the
imagination, including the purchase of
the leading French football club Paris
Saint-Germain and a UAE-Qatar joint
partnership working on the worlds first-
ever extreme sports park.
The results of a $2.8 billion
infrastructure investment include the
Qatar MotoGP track; the five-floor ultra-
modern Hamad Aquatic Centre and the
iconic Aspire Dome, from which the
Emir launched the Aspire Academys
Football Dreams Project.
For the past seven years, the project
has been scouting more than two
million youth footballers from across the
globe one of the many factors that
helped secure Qatars bid to host the
2022 World Cup.
The QOC is responsible for the
administrative and technical
supervision over Qatars sports
federations and sports establishments
numbering 24 federations and sporting
establishments, 10 premier league clubs
and six second league clubs, for which
the Committee has provided all human
and material support in order to further
their ability to carry out their missions.
It also supervises the all-girls sports
committee and has even made a bid for
the Olympics after getting the 2022
FIFA Cup in the bag.
The only glitch of this sport and gas
El Dorado? It has the dubious distinction
of being the worlds highest carbon
emission rate in the world. Considering,
however, that it can cool temperatures
with rocket propellers, it can freeze ice in
the middle of a desert and it can bring
world class players to populate their
country, is proof enough that somewhere
down the line they will also plug its
environment lacuna. Till then...
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Now Dolhi, January 6, 2013
O
ur friends met our announcement, that we were going
on a cruise, with smiles laced with a touch of envy and
incredulity. Remarks like: You guys are really lucky,
flew around fast and furious. Yes, cruising is one of lifes
greatest treats and as we boarded the Costa Fascinosa, the
largest and newest Italian-flagged cruise ship afloat, it was
like stepping aboard a lavish stage, set for fun and games. We
were just actors playing our roles, escapists in search of a
temporary utopia aboard the 1,14,500 gross town-ship. Our
playground with its out-of-cellophane good looks had 17
decks of which 10 were passenger decks.
We set sail on our mini preview cruise from the pic-
turesque town of Trieste and took in the charming towns of
Dubrovnik and Split in Croatia. The cobalt-blue ocean
embraced us like a welcoming lover even as we dove into a
heady round of fun on the ship. After a mandatory emer-
gency drill, we explored our floating resort whose cutting-
edge design gave it the appearance of an other-worldly
Xanadu. The wood-panelled Amarcord Atrium soared to a
skylight which poured the beneficent rays of the
Mediterranean sun downwards even as bubble lifts flitted up
and down like fireflies. The lounge bar fitted with premium
wood panels, sculptures and sparkling lights, including dia-
mond-shaped chandeliers, was one of the many charmed
spaces where cruisers relaxed after a day of sightseeing; or
spent mellow evenings post gourmet dinners and nights of
frenzied partying at the Babylon Discotheque.
Fascinosas 13 bars always resonated with foot-tapping
live music as an array of talented bands and singers had
guests dancing into the wee hours.
From time to time we would retreat to our cosy cabin kit-
ted out in shades of coppery-gold and purple with a balcony
that commanded dramatic views of the ocean and of spectac-
ular sunsets and sunrises. On the top deck, we would loll in
the open-air jacuzzis and watch the grand sweep of the
ocean, its pitch and roll and the tonal shifts on the water
which would turn crimson, russet and purple, flaring and
dimming as the sun took a bow.
On the pool deck (the Costa Fascinosa has four swim-
ming pools), instructors would conduct yoga, stretches, mus-
cle wake-up and other classes while at the Samsara Spa, semi-
nars on maintaining a glowing skin, lustrous hair, pearly
white teeth and a body beautiful kept fitness buffs occupied.
For those who liked to swirl, sniff and sip wines, the
Fascinosa carried those selected by AIS, the Italian
Sommelier Association, which could be paired with the
gourmet offerings at any of the five restaurants. The opulent
Il Gattopardo Restaurant, where we dined on several nights,
resonated with the rich tenor of old Italian songs when wait-
staff danced and sang with guests. The evening would be
topped off at the sparkling purple and silver Bel Ami Theatre,
adorned with antique mirrors, where slick musicals, singers,
dancers and even ventriloquists would entertain guests, ever
hungry for more amusement. Our mini cruise also show-
cased the Great Outdoors, the ineffably romantic canal city of
Venice, historic Trieste, the sun-and-sea splashed medieval
city of Dubrovnik on Croatias Dalmatian coast, hugged by its
perfectly preserved walls. Tourists sat in yawning plazas sip-
ping coffee or beer at sidewalk cafes or flitted around like
bubbles in a fish tank gazing at the grandeur of a city that
was once almost as rich as Venice in its heyday.
We saw everything as if in a dream. Split, another port of
call, and the second largest city in Croatia, was where the
Roman Emperor Diocletian frolicked. Here we caressed the
ancient stone of an Egyptian sphinx, a Roman temple,
Byzantine lions and Romanesque arches... In Diocletians vast
palace, more a walled town than mere palace, cafes, restau-
rants, hotels and local homes, with the days wash hanging
from the windows, have sprung up. Perhaps it was here that
petitioners used to cringe before their large-than-life emperor
who, for all his benevolence, was violently anti-Christian.
As we stood in one such space, our gaze drawn upwards
by a large aperture in the roof, our Costa guide sprang a sur-
prise. A group of local Klapa singers gathered and started to
sing, their voices sliding softly and then soaring up the thick,
sturdy walls like unfettered birds in flight. A rich earthy com-
bination of tenors, baritone and bass voices, Klapa is in the
tradition of early Christian church music but today the
themes comprise songs of love and longing. As the last
strains wafted softly on the scented evening air, we strolled
back to our ship via a market where pretty local lasses
hawked colourful souvenirs. Balmy breeze cooled our brows,
for the sun had been high and strong earlier, and the air
seemed laden with the fragrance of this medieval town.
Crisped by the sun, we stepped into our tender boat which
ferried us to our floating luxury hotel on the high seas. We
clambered into the belly of our whale and felt humbled by
the breadth and sweep of the ocean around us.
After a rambunctious night of dancing and music, we
slept like babies and woke up with the sun. The rosy dawn
had delicately brushed the city of Venice with a pinkish
blush. The Adriatic Sea glittered an unearthly silvery-blue
as though a box of blue paint and silver spangles had been
emptied into it by a divine hand. The graceful white ship on
the blue band of water beckoned us but we had to turn away
from its invitation and plunged headlong into the arms of
another bewitching seductress Venice, the city of canals.
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here are advantages of getting
lost. Well, the optimist in me
has that figured out, given the
times my wanderings have
earned me a new experience.
But then there are times when you hope
against hope that a certain obstinate deci-
sion of yours does not quite land you in
trouble. In the heart of Assam, we are rac-
ing against time to reach Nimati Ghat.
Braving a flat tyre (with no spare at hand)
in the middle of nowhere, a new driver
behind the wheel and a well-meaning but
a thoroughly confused navigator, I keep
my fingers crossed that we are able to
catch the last ferry to Majuli from the
ghat. The sun sets early in this part of the
country something like close to 4.30
pm. Its 3.30 already. On my way, I can see
people preparing to go back home. And
then we lose our way again...
Somewhere along the way, the driver
seems to have taken a really thin, rugged
dusty trail, running next to the ghat. The
actual ferry point is more than 10 km away
and there is no way the driver can turn
back. Cursing under his breath, perhaps at
himself, the driver raises the volume of the
car stereo. Strains of a famous Assamese
song by Bhupen Hazarika Bistirna
parore akhankhya janore fill the air. Its
powerful lyrics arrest my attention as I
hear him deplore Brahmaputra for flowing
calmly, turning a blind eye to the suffer-
ings of humanity. By that means, we are no
sufferers, but time travellers impatient to
get to our destination.
I sink back in the seat to enjoy the
view, doing my best not to pay attention to
the road ahead. The wetlands next to the
track appear to change character with each
passing kilometre now green, now
swampy and now clear. Brahmaputra is a
vast river and this wetland, spread over 20
sq km, is home to many species of rare
migratory birds like Pelicans and other
exotic Indian species.
My fellow traveller, Pranjit Tamuli,
shares with me the mystery of suicidal
birds. I have heard the story before
somewhere else. Far away in the northern
hills... But it has my attention. At a dis-
tance, I can see clusters of birds make for-
mations on their way back home. Is it real-
ly a good time to visit Majuli? I dismiss the
nagging thought.
At the ghat, we find that we are late.
The last public ferry has just departed. But
we have the option of a private ferry. These
ferries are huge motorised boats that can
carry a minimum of two to three vehicles
apart from, say, 50-60 people. Being the last
ones to board, there are about seven of us
on the ferry, apart from two vehicles an
SUV and a small car and their drivers.
Its 4.30 pm and the suns coming down.
Soon, my ears are getting used to the drone
of the motor and as we surge ahead in the
vast expanse that Brahmaputra is, I feast
my eyes on the changing colours of the sky.
The feeling is overwhelming setting sun
at the horizon and water all around. Is it a
river? Is it an ocean? I almost choke with
the intensity of feeling that swamps me.
Only a few get lucky enough to cross
Brahmaputra, whispers another co-pas-
senger, clearly awed by the natures specta-
cle. I am reminded of a friends words
whod said almost prophetically: They say
if you cross Brahmaputra once, you have
to cross it seven more times.
Does that include air travel as well? I
had laughed at that point.
At a distance, I can see Majuli, worlds
biggest river island, formed by river
Brahmaputra in the south and the Kherkutia
Xuti joined by the river Subansiri in the
north. Spread over an area of around 875 sq
km, it was once shortlisted for the UNESCO
World Heritage status tag. But that was in
1991 when it had an area of 1,250 sq km.
Continuous soil erosion has reduced the
island to its present size. The authorities
woke up too late, laments another passen-
ger on board, adding, Even now, after
acknowledging how damaging the loss has
been, little is being done to preserve what
we have. I can feel the anguish of a native
crying for his homeland to be saved.
Since the 16th century, Majuli has
been the cultural capital of Assamese civil-
isation. The island was under the rule of
the British until India gained
Independence in 1947. At the heart of the
island is the namghar, where villagers
gather for all important events, prayers
and festivals. It is also home to the famed
Mishing or Mising tribe, who immigrated
here from Arunachal Pradesh some cen-
turies back. Deori and Sonowal Kachari
tribes form the other inhabitants. People
are largely friendly, though there are
undercurrents of the insurgency a
topic that a wise traveller is not supposed
to discuss with strangers.
We head straight for Dakhinpath Satra,
the second largest Vaishnavite monastery
on the island. Satras are a unique feature of
Vaishnavism in Assam and were founded
by Srimanta Sankardeva, the great saint
and socio-cultural reformer of Assam.
Since the 15th century, these have been the
centres for education and dissemination of
the art of harmonious living. As of now
there are 22 satras in Majuli.
At the satra, we meet the satradhikari.
I walk past an ornate gateway engraved
with religious motifs. Similar sculptures
and paintings with divine overtones adorn
the walls of the namghar. The satra inhabi-
tants are preparing for the raasleela. Its a
tradition exclusive to the Dakhinpath
Satra, which is known as a treasure house
or advanced centre for the performing arts
like Borgeet (a collection of lyrical songs
composed by Sankardeva and
Madhavdeva), and dance forms such as
Matiakhara, Jumora, Chali, Noyua, Nande
Vringee, Sutradhar, Ozapali, Apsara, Satria
Krishna and Dasavater, among others. It
showcases a vibrant feature of traditional
Assamese culture and society.
The satra inhabitants are preparing for
a prayer. A small group of performers
begins with stuti to Ganesh, Durga and
Krishna. The mood is warming up. Younger
members of the satra join in. What follows
is a beautiful journey of bhakti, only to
break for a short while when prasad of tea
and gulab jamun is distributed.
I look up to see my guide signal its
time to leave. We are already late at 6.30
pm and by local standards, it is dangerous
to cross the river at this hour. Reluctantly, I
pull myself out of the mood. Island excur-
sion would have to happen another day.
The music is still ringing in my ears as I sit
quietly in the ferry. There are only four
passengers on board. The Brahmaputra is
uncannily calm, the hum of motor being
the only sound to break the mood. I look
at the sky above. A strange cloud forma-
tion catches my attention. It looks like a
wolf. The very next moment, the cloud
covers the moon and I can see the eyes
glint. I am reminded of a scene from a par-
ticular series in The Twilight Zone. As if on
cue, the wolf moves quickly and away as
if spitting out the moon. I almost freak
out. Thankfully, all is well on ground
below, or should I say the river? The ferry
man is looking for land to anchor. We have
reached Nimati Ghat. Our cab driver is
impatiently waiting for us to return. Its
time to get back to Kaziranga, our
stopover for the night. As for the river and
the prophecy, I still have six
more times to do...
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of tle
Song
river islano
of tle
Majuli, lhe world's largesl river island, is home lo bolh rich cullure and dying lribes.
hAvhEET MEh0RATTA crosses lhe Brahmaulra lo unravel lhe magic o myslicism
Song
Spread over
an area of
around 875 sq
km, it was once
shortlisted for the
UNESCO World
Heritage status
tag. But that was
in the year 1991
when it had an
area of 1,250 sq
km. Continuous
soil erosion has
reduced the
island to its
present size
N
ews has just come in that all
the men, excluding the
juvenile, accused of brutal-
ly raping a 23-year-old woman
who later died of grievous injuries,
have been summoned to appear
before a fast-track court on Janu-
ary 7. The juvenile, who it is
believed was the most brutal of the
six men he raped the woman
twice, the second time after she
became unconscious, and shoved
an iron rod into her, tearing apart
her intestines and irreparably
damaging her vital organs has
not been summoned because he
claims to be seventeen-and-a-half
years old. Since he claims to be six
months short of 18, he hopes to be
disqualified from criminal trial on
grounds of being a balak. Delhi
Police has already filed a 1,000-
page-long charge-sheet which was
scrutinised by the Delhi High
Court. Thats less than a month
after the hideous crime was com-
mitted in south Delhi and an oth-
erwise callous Union Home Min-
istry, which is responsible for
maintaining law and order in the
national capital, can claim that it
has moved fast. Indeed, it has. But
thats cold comfort.
On Friday night the male
friend of the victim of that crime
who was with her on that terrible
night and is the sole witness now
gave an interview to Zee News. He
did not disclose his identity nor
did he mention the womans name.
There was nothing theatrical
about the manner in which he
recounted the horror. He spoke
without breaking down or betray-
ing the emotional turmoil through
which he is passing. He simply
stated the facts, as he recalled
them, without taking recourse to
adverbs and adjectives. Even a
hardened cynic like me who has
seen death and devastation more
than once was moved to tears I
wouldnt want to live through a
similar nightmare. Much of what
he had to say is largely known.
Nonetheless two points merit reit-
eration and comment.
Before the woman and her
friend were thrown out of the bus,
they were stripped and disrobed of
all clothing. Apparently, the rapists
were clever enough to know that
the clothes of their victims could
carry evidence of their crime; they
also took away their mobile
phones. But thats a matter of
detail and speculation and need
not distract us at this stage. What
is important to note is that for 25
minutes after the woman and her
friend were dumped on one of the
busiest roads of south Delhi,
nobody stopped to help them. The
woman lay bleeding; the man kept
on pleading for help with those
who passed by. Some people
stopped, gawked and moved on.
Others didnt even bother to do
that. Had it not been for a person
who finally took mercy and dialled
100, probably they would have
died on the road.
What does this tell us of our-
selves? Writing in these columns
last Sunday I had urged readers to
ask themselves a question we often
skirt: Isnt society to blame too for
this horrific crime, and similar
crimes, committed with impunity
by people amidst us? For nearly
half-an-hour a woman and a man
in distress pitifully cried for help
and everybody turned a deaf ear.
Yet, as the protests over the follow-
ing days showed, we all pretended
to be outraged, we feigned anger
and we lit candles. Demanding jus-
tice is fine, as are candlelight vigils.
But helping fellow citizens in dis-
tress is infinitely better. The
anonymous Good Samaritan did
not think about the consequences
of his action, nor was he mindful
of whether it would fetch him five
minutes of fame. But history
remembers him. A corner of the
desert between Jerusalem and Jeri-
cho now carries his name, if only
as the Good Samaritan. Parables
have long gone out of fashion
along with morals and ethics,
washed away by the tide of Left-
liberalism that has midwifed the
birth of an I-me-and-myself soci-
ety comprising individuals who
believe compassion is for losers;
winners think of only themselves.
The second point that stood
out in the victims friends state-
ment is the attitude of the police.
According to him, the first PCR
vehicle arrived 45 minutes after
the SOS call to 100. Subsequently
two more vehicles arrived. Over
the next half-an-hour the police-
men argued among themselves as
to which police station had juris-
diction over the crime spot. A
weighty question, indeed. After
all, the bus in which the woman
was gang-raped kept on moving,
possibly traversing from one
police stations jurisdiction to
another. That issue, of course, had
to be settled before taking the pro-
fusely bleeding and severely bru-
talised woman to the nearest hos-
pital. Her friend requested the
policemen for something to cover
her body. At first the policemen
ignored him, then one of them
gave a tattered sheet. It wouldnt,
of course, have been right for any
one of them to take off his jacket
or shirt and cover the naked
woman. Pristine khaki would have
been profaned. Hence they made
the victims friend carry her; they
wanted to keep their lilly-white
hands clean.
If what we have been told is
true, and there is no reason to dis-
believe the victims friend because
nothing he said during the inter-
view sounded even remotely exag-
gerated he was calm and com-
posed, and he spoke with
admirable dignity considering the
circumstances then the police
squandered more than an hour in
responding to the crisis. Those 75
minutes may have pushed the vic-
tim over the cliff from the juris-
diction of life to that of death.
Yet, Union Home Secretary RK
Singh was fulsome in his praise for
Delhi Police during the famous
Press conference he held along
with Police Commissioner Neeraj
Kumar some days after the ghastly
crime. A beaming Home Secretary
kept on patting a smirking Police
Commissioner on the back while
handing out clean chits to the lat-
ters boys for a job magnificently
done. Journalists at the Press con-
ference kept on asking tough ques-
tions; the Home Secretary kept on
insisting the police couldnt be
blamed; the Police Commissioner
kept on smirking and smiling. We
were told how the police respond-
ed within minutes, five to 10 min-
utes at best. We were told how
hard the police had worked to
crack the case. We were told the
police deserved to be hailed not
criticised. And what do you know?
The police took 45 minutes to
reach the spot and another 30
minutes to decide what to do. We
now know that the police were col-
lecting hafta from the owner of
this bus to gloss over repeated vio-
lations of the law and it is the
diary in which bribes are recorded
that helped trace the vehicle and
the rapists, not back-breaking
investigations. We also know that
those guilty of such dereliction of
duty will never be punished. They
will stay on in their taxpayer-fund-
ed jobs, as will the Home Secretary
and the Police Commissioner. Its
an exclusive mutual admiration
club whose membership comes
with extraordinary privileges.
Theres a post-script to this
story: A high-powered commit-
tee has been set up to review the
functioning of Delhi Police. The
committee is headed by the Home
Secretary and among its high-
powered members is the Police
Commissioner. And theres more.
Delhi Police has filed a case
against Zee News for broadcasting
the interview with the gang-rape
victims friend.
(The writer is a senior journal-
ist based in Delhi)
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Reader response to Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on December 30:
More pompous and rude: I read your articles
every Sunday but have never commented on
them as I generally agree with what you write.
But this piece on Arnab Goswami compels me
to comment. The gentleman is pompous, opin-
ionated and to my mind not very clever. He is
rude and obnoxious with the people who come
on his show, Times Now. If you invite guests to
your show, at least let them make their point
without interruption. Often, you would have
noticed that when someone expresses an opin-
ion different from that of Goswami, he passes
the baton to someone else.
The nation wants to know I guess
seems a bit too much to stomach coming from
the gentleman. But then he comes from the sta-
bles of Bennett Coleman & Co. I think it was
Dilip Padgaonkar, the executive managing edi-
tor of The Times of India, who stated many years
ago that as the editor of the newspaper, he was
the second most important man in India.
I wonder where Arnab Goswami places
himself on the ladder.
Siddharth Sapru
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Reader response to Kanchan Guptas column,
Coffee Break, published on December 30:
Onus lies on We, the people: The author has
rightly observed that we, the people are
responsible for all the ills of gender injustice,
brutality, corruption, judicial ineptitude, politi-
cal connivance and criminality. All the anger
that was on display on the streets following the
gang rape of a 23-year old girl will peter out
after some time and the people will forget about
the terrible incident as we seem to have done in
several such cases in the past Priyadarshini
Mattoo and Jessica Lal being some of them.
Aversion to the birth of baby girls resulting
in foeticide, dowry-deaths and persecution of
brides with the connivance of female family
members, are a common practice in this coun-
try. Hence, the crucial need for the change of
mindsets, even of women, is most important. In
the final analysis, all of us are to blame for the
unjust, insensitive state of our society. We, the
voters, elect inept legislators with criminal
records and incompetence. Therefore, reforms
must begin from homes and schools and extend
to political and religious institutions.
M Ratan
SMOKERS'CORNER
hA0EEM F FARAChA
COFFEEBREAK
KAhChAh 0uFTA
Cos tool more tlan an
lour to lel rae victim
K
arachi is one o lhe largesl cilies in lhe world. l was once called
lhe 'cily o lighls', due lo ils buslling and lively nighllie driven by
nighlclubs, cinemas, bars, ealing laces and olher recrealional
oullels unlil many o lhese were closed down in 1O77.
heverlheless, Karachi slill remains lo be a noclurnal abode. Many
o ils amous symbols o nighllie may have been orced lo close down
8O years ago, lhe leasures lhal lhey once oered are slill very much
available underlhelable and largely loleraled.
Karachi is also lhe mosl diverse cily in lhe counlry. ls large ou
lalion is dolled by a number o dierenl elhnicilies, religions, Muslim
secls and subsecls.
The largesl elhnic grou here is made u o urduseakers
(Mohajirs), who conslilule aboul 48 er cenl o lhe cily's oulalion.
The Mohajirs also include 0ujaraliseakers (Memons).
The second largesl elhnic grou in Karachi is made u o lhe
Fashluns (now 18 lo 2O er cenl). The Funjabi and Siraiki seakers
logelher conslilule aboul 1O er cenl o lhe cily's oulalion, ollowed
by lhe Baloch and Sindhis.
More lhan OO er cenl o Karachiiles are Muslim. Mosl o lhem
belong lo lhe Barelvi Sunni Muslim subsecl bul lhere is now also a
signiicanl number (esecially among lhe Fashlun) who idenliy wilh
lhe conservalive 0eobandi Sunni Muslim subsecl.
Karachi also has a large Shia Muslim oulalion. Then lhere is a
concenlralion o bolh Calholic and Froleslanl Chrislians; Bohri and
Agha Khani Muslim secls, some hindus as well as an inluenlial con
cenlralion o Zoroaslrians.
Karachi also hosls lhe largesl number o immigranl oulalion in
Fakislan. These include Bengalis, Burmese, Aghans and a srinkling
o Fhiliinos, Sri Lankans and ranians.
The elecloral consliluency which besl relecls lhis slunning elhnic,
Muslim and religious diversily in Karachi is hA25O. l is nol only lhe
largesl in Karachi, bul one o lhe largesl in Sindh as well.
l is due lo lhis reason lhal lhis consliluency has been lhrowing
u some o lhe mosl inleresling resulls. 0 course, il was nol always
so massive, bul lhe diverse makeu o ils voling oulalion has
remained more or less lhe same.
hA25O conslilules lhe cily's leading osh localilies, as well as
some lhickly oulaled middle and workingclass areas. All o lhese
localilies are dolled by hely ockels o Mohajir, Fashlun, Baloch,
Funjabi and Sindhi oulalions.
Ever since 1O88, Karachi's
volers have overwhelmingly voled
or 'secular' arlies, mainly lhe
M0M, ollowed by lhe FFF and
(aler lhe 2OO8 eleclion), lhe AhF.
hA25O however, has remained lo
be lhe lrickiesl and mosl uncer
lain elecloral balllegrounds or
lhe comeling arlies.
0uring lhe 1O7O eleclion
many o lhe areas lhal are now
wilhin hA25O came under hw
184 (Karachi v). As lhe majorily
o volers in lhe ormer wesl
Fakislan voled or Lelleaning
arlies such as lhe FFF and lhe
halional Awami Farly, volers in
lhe Karachi7 consliluency
relurned Shah hoorani, chie o
lhe Barelvi slamic arly, lhe JuF
lo lhe halional Assembly.
hoorani garnered 28,8O4 voles
ollowed by lhe FFF's hoorul
Arin who bagged 22,GOO voles.
n lhe 1O77 eleclion, lhe
consliluency was urlher exand
ed and became hA1O1. l was
won by Munawar hassan o
Jamalislami who gol 78,OO7
voles bealing lhe FFF's
Jamiluddin Aali who managed
88,O8G voles.
Karachi's demograhy and
consequenlly ils olilics began lo
change raidly during lhe Ziaul
haq diclalorshi belween 1O77
and 1O88.
wilh lhe arrival o a large
number o Aghans rom lhe war
lorn Aghanislan lhe number o
Fashluns in Karachi grew.
The rising oulalion o lhe cily lriggered elhnic and seclarian len
sions and lhis resulled in lhe rise o lhe Mohajircenlric M0M as a
owerul secularelhnic olilical orce.
n lhe 1O88 eleclion, hA1O1 was won by M0M's Tariq Mehmood
who received 8G,74G voles. he had lo ighl hard againsl Sarwar
Malik who was reresenling lhe consliluency's Funjabi and Fashlun
oulalions under lhe Funjabi Fashlun llihad umbrella. he received
28,145 voles.
The hA eleclions in 1OO8 were boycolled by lhe M0M. n lhese
eleclions, hA1O1 wenl lo lhe nonreligious conservalive FMLh's Abu
Bakar who received 27,845 voles ollowed by lhe slamic J's Munawar
hassan who could only garner 8,55O voles.
n lhe 1OO7 eleclion, whereas mosl o lhe hA seals in Karachi
were being won by lhe M0M, hA1O1 however roduced an usel win
or FMLh's Calain haleem who won lhe seal wilh 81,414 voles. his
closesl rival was M0M's Abdul Jalil who received 25,OO8 voles.
0uring lhe 2OO2 eleclion, wilh lhe increase in lhe number o seals
in lhe halional Assembly, hA1O1 became hA25O. 0nce again lhis
consliluency voled againsl lhe lide by relurning veleran J member,
Sallar Aghani, lo lhe hA wilh 21,4G2 voles. his closesl rival was
M0M's hasreen Jalil who received 1O,414 voles.
The consliluency wilnessed erhas ils loughesl elecloral ballle
during lhe 2OO8 eleclion.
M0M's Khushbakhl Shujaal deealed FFF's khliar Baig in a close
and lense ighl. Shujaal received 52,O45 voles and Baig slood second
wilh 44,412 voles.
hA25O remains lo be a wideoen and uncerlain consliluency.
Recenlly Karachi's largesl arly lhe M0M has been canvassing aggres
sively here, selling u various camaigns and oices.
Bul lhis lime ils main ballle here is nol execled lo come rom a
FFF candidale. Because lhe olher arly lhal is seen lrying lo make use
o lhis consliluency's eccenlric elecloral nalure is mran Khan's FT. l
underslands lhal hA25O is lhe only consliluency in Karachi lhal can
roduce a winner nol associaled wilh eilher lhe M0M or lhe FFF.
There is every likelihood lhal lhe main conlesl in hA25O in lhe
2O18 eleclion will belween lhe M0M and FT. Bul FMLh also has a
volebank here and mighl soil FT's ambilions. My rediclion is lhal
M0M, wilh lhe hel o voles rom disillusioned FFF volers in lhe
consliluency's welllodo and middleclass areas is oised lo relain
lhis seal.
(0curtcsy. Lawn)
For nearly half-
an-hour a woman
and a man in
distress pitifully
cried for help and
everybody turned
a deaf ear. Yet,
as the protests
over the
following days
showed, we all
pretended to be
outraged, we
feigned anger
and we lit
candles
sunday
magazino
jitit
Now Dolhi, January 6, 2013
F E E D B A C K F R A M E U P
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lhe ulure when olice are callously indierenl
One of the most
diverse cities of
Pakistan, Karachi
is home to people
from a number of
ethnicities,
religions, Muslim
sects and sub-
sects. t is due to
this reason that it
has been
throwing up some
of the most
interesting
electoral results
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uman mind is like a search
engine. Even tantra does not
reckon it as a computer but a
search engine. Once we use it
with full awareness of its func-
tioning and capability, then it becomes our
best friend. Nature has given us the best assis-
tant it could in the form of subconscious
mind. The yoga masters knew how to use it.
Not only is the mind beautiful, it is also a won-
derful tool, far better than any computer in the
world. To start with, mind is a tool; in tantra,
it has been referred to as the Brahmastra
(infallible weapon of Lord Brahma). It is a seat
of perception, where information from all the
senses is gathered, after which it processes the
information. It does not search for anything on
its own; people often misunderstand when
they say that my mind says this. The mind
only reflects what we say and think. It never
searches for anything that we do not want.
The phenomenon of the mind exists at
three levels: The first level is the individual
mind; the second is the space where a person
lives; and, the third is the universal mind.
Universal space represents universal mind.
Whenever a space is segregated from the uni-
versal space (that is, when a building is creat-
ed), the space mind is created. The person liv-
ing in this space also possesses a mind an
individual mind. This individual mind oper-
ates at four levels: Beta (conscious state of
mind), Alpha (subconscious state of mind),
Theta (intuitive state of mind) and
Delta(super-conscious state of mind).
Right now you may be reading this article
and receiving all the information through
open eyes. This is the phenomenon of the con-
scious mind. The conscious mind is always in
action. The action of the conscious state of
mind is based on ego and intellect.
To understand how the mind functions in
the conscious state, let us assume that this
mind is like an iron piece which gets attracted
to a magnet. The magnet itself is perfectly
aligned particles of iron. The mind creates
a field, like the magnetic field. So, whenever
the conscious mind gets aligned, like in the
temples (or vastu perfect homes), it becomes
a strong magnet and attracts everything
it requires.
When our consciousness moves to deeper
domains of the mind, then even this con-
scious state (the Beta state) becomes an aware
state of mind and yields the best results.
Whenever the mind is aligned on lower
brainwave frequencies, it starts getting energy
or power from the deeper side of mind
(known as the inner mind or subconscious
mind). In technical terms, the inner mind can
be defined as the Alpha brainwave state.
In the Alpha state, the mind works as a
creator; this is the state which is connected
with vigyanmaya kosha (intuition body); the
inner mind is completely connected to the
conscious mind, intuitive mind and also with
the super-conscious mind or universal mind.
The inner mind is the real connector.
The inner mind by itself cannot create
miracles. Miracles are only created at the
level of the ananda and vigyanmaya koshas.
In the field of alchemy, mind is believed to
have originated from space; space inside a
building is considered to be the one which
governs the inner mind. So, miracles can be
created only in the perfect space which facili-
tates the connectivity of individual mind
with universal mind.
For thousands of years, yogis successfully
researched on how to tune the space inside a
building at the frequency where whatever is
gained in the inner space (in the inner mind)
by sadhana also manifests in the outer space
(through the building). Whoever entered that
space (inside a building), his or her inner
mind gets synchronised with the (building)
space, thereby making it possible to alter
(improve) the condition of his life.
If we see the archaeological documents, it
seems that people had the techniques to cre-
ate such a perfect space thousands of years
ago. Different spaces were designed to achieve
their desired objectives. The same principles
and methods have been applied to palaces
and sadhana sthals. Temples constructed by
Hindu kings were built on these principles.
The truth is that the buildings we inhabit
completely shape our inner mind. The inner
mind controls our conscious mind and, there-
fore, ultimately all our actions are governed
by the space wherein we live and work.
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arents want their children to
be successful, but not many
realise the importance of
the strong value system in educa-
tion. We leave the responsibility
of imparting education to our
children on schools and teachers.
There is no doubt that the
schools will teach them a special
way of living which parents
themselves cannot. But this is not
enough. Let us look at children
who attain high marks in schools.
After 12 years of education, are
they really equipped with the
skills needed to have a good life?
Not really. This is because school
education doesnt provide chil-
dren with the tools to live their
day-to-day lives.
As soon as a child is born,
parents start planning to send
him/her to best schools. In that
rush, they sometimes dont allow
their children to showcase their
interests and abilities. Thus, chil-
dren grow being driven down a
single road called the mechani-
cal studying process. Today the
most common policy, at school
and at home, is to strive for acad-
emic excellence, and thus chil-
dren are pushed to do well in all
subjects, rather than concentrate
on what they do well or enjoy.
Thus, they lose the opportunity
to develop their unique skills.
Every human being wants to
be useful, acknowledged, appre-
ciated and even respected.
However, our educational climate
does not live up to our basic
human needs. Here the role of
parents assumes great signifi-
cance. Parents need is to recog-
nise their childrens hidden tal-
ents and thus make them realise
that they are important to them.
In order to do this, parents must
accept their children the way
they are and let them be them-
selves. When children are
acknowledged and accepted
by their parents, they will gain
the confidence to pursue and
develop their latent abilities.
Then they can experience new
thoughts, feelings and even ideas.
Their desire for learning will
also grow stronger.
To love and be loved is a basic
human desire. Unfortunately,
most schools are incapable of
teaching the right interpersonal
relations in which people help
and love one another. So, it is the
task of parents to educate their
children at home, telling them
about the importance of ethics
and values. Lets love them
unconditionally and provide
them with the opportunity to see
and learn from the loving, more
elevated behaviour of their par-
ents, thereby helping them to love
people. This is the wisdom of life
which our children need to learn
from us. School education cannot
give this, only parents can.
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oga has eight steps, of which
meditation is the seventh. This
step leads to the final goal of
divine experience or uplifting the
spirit. Apart from the spiritual
aspects of meditation, there are
umpteen number of physical benefits
of it: Lowered blood pressure, boost-
ed immunity, improved respiration,
natural restoration of homeostasis
(the balancing mechanism of the
body), the reversal from a driven
(sympathetic nervous system associ-
ated with stress) to a calmer
parasympathetic nervous system
mode where the body is in the
repairing mode. It also constantly
reverts major glands to a state of bal-
ance, since meditation gives the sig-
nal of all-is-well within the body.
Listed here are a few poses in
which you may meditate. Ideally,
these poses must be held for as long
as is comfortable initially. Then the
time must be slowly increased to
improve their benefits on the mind
and body. Some poses may be held
longer, as the vajrasana and apan-
asana. Other poses depend on flexi-
bility and physical ability, and may be
learnt in a phased manner, over sev-
eral weeks. These poses are effective
as direct meditative poses or comple-
ment the key postures by working on
the uro-genital system which is asso-
ciated with uplifting the mood.
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Lie on back, with knees bent, feet
flat, close to hips. One hand on
stomach, other alongside body. Shut
eyes. Focus on the breathing and the
rise and fall of the stomach as you
inhale and exhale. Count the breath-
ing, with one inhalation and exhala-
tion as one, and moving up to 50 or
so. This may even take ten minutes
or more if your breathing is slow and
steady. Release the pose by moving
body gently, opening the eyes.
Done in the morning and
evening, it can have a near-miracu-
lous effect on the body and mind.
Benefits: Boosts breathing. It calms
the master glands and has miracu-
lous impact on health. It is therapeu-
tic in several ailments. It can be used
as a meditative pose and may be held
for as long as is possible.
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It may be done seated on the ground
or on a chair. If on the floor, sit
cross-legged. Place hands gently on
knees (hands may also be twined
lightly behind, at the hips). Inhale.
While exhaling, lean forward to
place forehead to the ground. Hold
the pose for as long as possible, con-
tinuing normal breathing. Inhale and
raise your head.
Benefits: Calms you down immedi-
ately. The pressure at the abdomen
deepens the breathing, plus improves
the digestion. It is a cure-all pose in
several ailments. It gives a great trac-
tion to the spine.
Note: If having lower back problem,
do not do the bend fully. Place fore-
head on a high bolster or stool.
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Sit up straight with your back erect
and shoulders relaxed. Spread your
legs as wide as you can comfortably.
Adjust your back; it should not be
slumped. Place your hands on your
thighs, palms facing up. Shut your
eyes. Stay in this pose for a few sec-
onds initially. Keep increasing time
in the pose as your comfort level
increases, up to a minute or so.
Tips for beginners: Those with
breathing problems may feel slightly
breathless in this pose. Sit on a firm
cushion to take the pressure off your
respiratory system. Bending your
legs lightly at the knees may also
reduce the pressure of the pose.
Though looks simple, it becomes dif-
ficult to hold for too long, so lean
against a wall initially.
Benefits: The pose tones the pelvic
region, powering the muscles. The
blood flow to the area is enhanced,
aiding repair. It is said to boost mood
due to the normal flow of the sexual
hormones. Legs become shapely.
Boosts respiration, affecting the
mind positively. Also calms and de-
stresses. It may be used as a pose in
which to meditate.
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Sit on your knees in a squatting posi-
tion. Shut eyes and stay in it as long
as you like.
Benefits: It is a cure-all pose, used
in various ailments. Also used for
creating health, strength and focus
in the body and mind. It is one of
the most powerful meditative
poses. It may also be used to do
pranayam practices.
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A
Florida family told police
they returned from
vacation to find a bur-
glar had eaten their
food and slept in a guest
bed before fleeing with
their belongings.
Police said the Sanford
family returned recently
from a Christmas trip to
discover a burglar had
cooked and eaten food
from their freezer, drank
some of their liquor and
slept in a guest room
before leaving with
about $500 worth of
gold jewellery and a
bottle of Jack Daniels.
Investigators said
the thief also took a key
to the familys 2007
Cadillac, but left the vehi-
cle in the driveway.
Fingerprints were col-
lected from the scene to
help police attempt to
identify a suspect. (UPI)
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F
amed physicist Stephen
Hawking appears on a
commercial for a British web-
site, conjuring a black hole
to swallow the websites
intentionally annoying
mascot. Hawking, 70,
said he is a fan of insur-
ance website Go Com-
pares humorous adver-
tisements and was glad
to be able to film a com-
mercial where he conjures a black
hole to swallow fictitious opera
singer Gio Compario, The
Guardian reported.
I confess I am a fan of
the Go Compare adverts,
Hawking said. I am also an
opera fan so I was delighted
to be given the opportunity to
help save the nation and
silence Gio.
Kevin Hughes, marketing
officer for Go Compare, said he
was happy to have Hawking
appear in the companys
commercial.
We were thrilled to
hear (Hawking) was a fan
of the ads and believe his
appearance will really
take viewers by surprise,
he said. (UPI)
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fficials at a German
zoo said a gorilla that initially had
difficulty adjusting to his new home is
rope dancing for the zoos 75th
anniversary jubilee.
A spokeswoman for the zoo in
Krefeld said Kidogo was homesick when
he came to the facility from Denmark in
April, but he is now back to performing
his signature rope dance and is showing
off his trick for the zoos anniversary.
The 12-year-old silverback gorilla
lives with a pair of females, Muna and
Oya, in the zoos Gorilla Garden. (UPI)
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Kansas man who donated sperm to a
lesbian couple so they could have a
child said that he is shocked the state is
now trying to make him pay child sup-
port. William Marotta, 46,
donated sperm to Jennifer
Schreiner and Angela
Bauer under a written
agreement that he would
not be considered the
father of the child nor
liable for child support. A
daughter, now 3, was
born to Schreiner.
But in October, the state of Kansas
filed a petition seeking to have Marotta
declared the father of the child and finan-
cially responsible for her after the couple
encountered money difficulties.
Marotta will ask the court in a hearing
January 8 to dismiss the claim, which cen-
tres on a state law that the sperm must be
donated through a licensed physician in
order for the father to be free of any later
financial obligations. Marotta gave a con-
tainer of semen to the couple, who found
him on Craigslist, instead of donating
through a doctor or clinic.
The case is seen as having repercus-
sions for other sperm donors. Sperm
banks routinely provide sperm to people
who want to conceive a child on the
understanding that the donors are not
responsible for the children.
Kansas is seeking child support
from Marotta, including about
$6,000 in medical expenses
related to the childs birth,
according to its petition.
The case has attracted
national attention. Shannon
Minter, legal director for the
National Centre for Lesbian
Rights, said, it is unfortunate
and unfair that Kansas is seek-
ing money from a sperm
donor. (Reuters)
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n official in a British
county has criticised
teachers at a high school for
creating a YouTube parody
of South Korean pop star
Psys Gangnam Style video.
Peter Britcliffe, a local
Conservative district and
county councilor in Lan-
cashire, England, said he
feared the video created by
teachers and staff members at
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic
High School in Accrington
would cause students to lose
respect for their instructors.
The video depicts the
teachers performing the
dance moves from the video
and recreating scenes,
including one of men in a
sauna clad only in towels.
I am not a killjoy but I
have looked at the piece,
which is being discussed all
over Accrington. It is the
talk of the towns
young people,
Britcliffe said.
Having viewed
it myself, while
most of it is just
good fun, there are
parts of it certainly
that might not
improve the respect
there should be between
teachers and pupils.
Headmaster Xavier
Bowers rejected the criti-
cism. This kind of thing strengthens the
relationship between teachers, pupils and
parents who have given us an overwhelm-
ingly good response, he said. (UPI)
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A
US drone strike in northwest
Pakistan killed a top Taliban
commander responsible for engi-
neering attacks on US and NATO
forces in Afghanistan.
The death of Pakistani Tal-
iban commander Maulvi Nazir
deals a significant blow to insur-
gent ranks that use Pakistans
rugged tribal regions along the
Afghan border as sanctuary from
which to launch assaults on West-
ern troops battling Afghan Tal-
iban fighters. Though Nazir was
affiliated with the Pakistani Tal-
iban, he had long maintained a
peace pact with the Pakistani mil-
itary and had instead focussed his
efforts on US-led forces in
Afghanistan. Nazir was one of
two Taliban commanders in the
Waziristan tribal regions to issue
decrees against polio vaccination
efforts in their areas.
While Islamabad vehemently
opposes Americas drone pro-
gram and regards it as a blatant
encroachment on Pakistans sov-
ereignty, Washington still views
the tactic as an effective tool
against Al Qaeda and Taliban
militants hiding in the countrys
tribal belt. Last year, drone
strikes killed Al Qaedas second-
in-command at the time, Abu
Yahya al-Libi, and Badruddin
Haqqani, a top commander for
the Haqqani network, a wing of
the Afghan Taliban.
A
US drone strike in South
Waziristan tribal region of
Pakistan killed at least six people
including the important Taliban
commander Maulvi Nazir Wazir,
who was also known as Mullah
Nazir. Mullah Nazir was killed
along with another important
commander of his group, Rapa
Khan, and four other militants in
the missile strike near Wana, the
headquarters of South Waziristan.
Mullah Nazir opposed
attacks on Pakistan army troops,
but he always supported attacks
on US and other Western troops
in neighbouring Afghanistan, a
stance that resulted in serious
differences with some other Tal-
iban commanders, who believe
that Pakistan is the close ally of
the United States and hence must
also be targeted.
Nazir was accused of sending
his fellow fighters on a regular
basis to Afghanistan to fight
alongside the Afghan Taliban
against the US-led NATO forces.
Nazir was wounded in a sui-
cide bombing in November last
year that was believed to have
been carried out by his rival mili-
tant commanders. After the
attack, he ordered the Mehsud
tribe related to the chief of
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),
Hakimullah Mehsud, to leave
Wana and other nearby regions
that were under his control.
R
ebel forces halted their
advance on Bangui, the capi-
tal of the Central African Repub-
lic, on Wednesday and said they
were prepared to enter into peace
talks with the Government.
The announcement heralded
the possibility of a peaceful reso-
lution to a conflict that has driven
thousands of civilians from their
homes and into the dense Central
African forest. The rebels were
refusing peace talks just a few
days ago. Their decision to
change course may be linked to
the arrival in the Central African
Republic of additional troops
from a coalition of neighbouring
countries, sent as reinforcements
for Central African Government
forces... The rebels of the Seleka
Coalition, an alliance of several
factions mostly from the coun-
trys north, have overrun and
occupied several northern cities
in a drive toward Bangui, in the
south, that gathered speed last
month, seeking to depose Presi-
dent Franois Boziz. A military
officer who seized power in 2003,
Boziz has since been elected
President twice; the rebels say he
has not given the north a voice in
Government and has failed to live
up to the terms of peace agree-
ments signed with rebels begin-
ning in 2007.
R
ebels who have captured large
parts of the Central African
Republic have halted their
advance and agreed to take part
in talks, leading to fresh hopes of
a peace agreement.
The Seleka coalition of rebel
fighters, which began seizing
regional capitals and mining areas
in the diamond-rich country last
month, said it will not attack capi-
tal city Bangui and is expected to
begin negotiations with the Gov-
ernment in Libreville, the capital
of nearby Gabon in the next few
days. But the fate of President
Franois Boziz continues to
hang in the balance as the rebels
who accuse Boziz of failing to
honour the terms of an earlier
peace deal say they might
insist on his removal.
Boziz has pledged not to run
for a third term in presidential
elections scheduled for 2016. But
there are signs that rebel demands
for him to step down could scup-
per negotiations. Boziz who
used military force to seize power
in 2003 but has since won two
elections has said that he will
form a Government of national
unity... Instability is nothing new
in the Central African Republic.
The country has faced political
unrest since independence from
France in 1960.
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T
wo Booker Prize-winning novels
regularly described as
unfilmable Yann Martels
Life of Pi, and Salman Rushdies
Midnights Children have
been adopted to the screen. One is a
slightly surprising triumph, the other a
cloth-eared disaster. Between them, they
illustrate the uncertainty of transition from
literary sources to the cinema namely,
that plenty of books feel unfilmable, until
someone decides to have a stab, and theres
no cast-iron rule for the best way to do it.
As these two examples do prove,
vaunted fidelity to ones chosen text is
neither a guarantee of quality nor an auto-
matic obstacle to producing stand-alone
art. Both films could be called faithful,
albeit condensed treatments of these huge-
ly popular books, but where Ang Lees Life
of Pi finds an alluring and imaginative cin-
ematic language in 3D for relating
the wondrous adventures Pi tells,
Midnights Children is stuck being a book-
ish adaptation of a book by its own author,
and an arduously long one, which Rushdie
was misguidedly invited to narrate. After
two hours of switched babies and their
chiastic fortunes, his fruity insistence that
certain ironies must not pass unnoticed
only reinforces the feeling that Deepa
Mehtas film has hoisted a kind of autho-
rised Cliff s Notes treatment up on screen.
There are as many other proven
approaches to making good films from
good books, or even good films from bad
ones, as there are examples of either. It is
often said that genuine pinnacles of novel-
istic art Anna Karenina, say may be
harder to lift off the page than the average
airport read, but that hasnt stopped direc-
tors from trying. Joe Wrights recent
attempt at that very whopper used the
money-saving gimmick of staging it all as
a proscenium-arch live performance, but it
was a conception that impressed more for
its chutzpah than its actual purchase on
the books themes, and theres almost no
conceivable interpretation of Tolstoy that
could wholly succeed with a Vronsky as
miscast as Aaron Taylor-Johnson was.
Its not surprising that directors,
including Ang Lee himself with Brokeback
Mountain, have often turned to shorter
literary forms, which can be chewed
whole rather than split up into chunks.
Just as often, theyve chosen to use books
as a mere springboard for their own pre-
ferred vision. A classic instance of doing
both at once is Francis Coppolas
Apocalypse Now (1979), a loose but defin-
itive adaptation of Joseph Conrads Heart
of Darkness, which comes closer to nail-
ing the essence of the book than almost
any of the attempts to do Conrad on film
authentically and in period. We could
make an honourable exception for Alfred
Hitchcocks excellent Sabotage (1936),
based on The Secret Agent, but not for
The Secret Agent (1996).
Similarly, Henry Jamess novella The
Turn of the Screw has proved hugely
adaptable into all kinds of media
Brittens opera and Jack Claytons unfor-
gettable 1961 film The Innocents top the
pack where most of its authors major
works, with their dense prose and knitting
of multiple motives, have not. Jane
Campions gorgeous The Portrait of a Lady
(1996), which starts halfway through the
novel, is a neglected gem, but barely any-
one saw it, and Iain Softleys tersely mov-
ing The Wings of the Dove (1997) is very
often terrific, but you have to go back to
William Wylers Washington Square-
derived The Heiress (1949) to find another
one that works at all.
The king of adapting the unfilmable
is David Cronenberg, whose versions of
William Burroughss Naked Lunch (1991)
and JG Ballards Crash (1996) succeed by
Cronenbergising both texts: Their ideas
mutate with his aesthetic, like Jeff
Goldblum and that fly.
This years Cosmopolis was unmistak-
ably Cronenbergy in its style choices, but
Don DeLillos source novel is a more dubi-
ous candidate for fruitful synergy, and in
lifting huge chunks of its dialogue from
the page, Cronenberg perpetrates one of
his most verbose and unsatisfying pic-
tures. Contrast Spider (2002), a rare
instance of a novelist (Patrick McGrath)
succeeding with his own script, if only
because Cronenberg insisted that the
entire voiceover be stripped off, leaving
the slippery inner life of Ralph Fienness
disturbed main character to be explored
wholly by the camera.
Ive heard the case made that Amy
Heckerlings Clueless (1995), which bor-
rows its plot from Emma, is a better
Austen adaptation than any of the films
named after her books. Again, die-hard
Ang Lee fans may beg to differ his 1995
Sense and Sensibility is glorious. For tone, I
might prefer the BBCs Persuasion, direct-
ed by Roger Michell, which in Amanda
Root and Ciarn Hinds was graced with
casting Austen herself might have liked. As
for the casting of Clueless Alicia
Silverstone? No ones idea of Emma, but
the ideal Cher her characters name
in a sly contemporary spin.
How did they ever make a movie of
Lolita? asked publicity posters before the
release of Stanley Kubricks 1962 attempt,
which did so by toning down the inten-
tional sleaze of Nabokovs creation. The
countryside around St Albans is a sanitised
stand-in for the neon contours and motels
of roadside America, and lead actress Sue
Lyon was 16 when it premiered, not 12.
Given that Adrian Lynes equally con-
troversial 1997 adaptation might be con-
sidered his single best movie, Lolita is an
interesting case of an unfilmable book
thats actually been filmed twice, and well.
What either director might have done
with Nabokovs Pale Fire, written in the
form of a book-length commentary by a
crazy person on a 999-line poem, is hard-
er to guess. Still, as smartphones, multi-
media installations, and live digital broad-
casting in cinemas make anything
thinkable, How did they ever make a
movie of Pale Fire? is a poser that
may just begin to tantalise us.
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T
he story of Velupillai
Prabhakarans rise from
the backwoods of Jaffna
to build the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE), one of the most dreaded
terrorist organisations, and his fall
in the battlefield can be told in
many ways. Sri Lanka historian KM
de Silva in his latest book looks at
the rise and fall of the LTTE in the
larger context of South Asia and the
India-Sri Lanka relationship.
The book is a sequel to his
earlier work, Reaping the
Whirlwind: Ethnic Politics, Ethnic
Conflict in Sri Lanka. It is made
up of four monographs dealing
with different aspects of the com-
mon theme of ethnic conflict.
Although the lengthy introduction
has tried to link up the four
monographs, some issues are fea-
tured in more than one narrative.
For instance, reference to Indias
assertive intervention, which pre-
vented Gen Cyril Ranatunges rout
of the LTTE in 1987 in Jaffna, fig-
ures in three different parts of the
book. (Would the rout of LTTE
have eliminated the ethnic conflict
is a moot question?) Deft editing
to provide linkups could have
improved the reading of the book.
The first narrative the tra-
vails of Sri Lanka as a south Asian
democracy provides insights
on the failure of political negotia-
tions in the island nation. An
interesting case study comparing
the conflicts in Jammu &
Kashmir and Sri Lanka brings out
the role of external powers in
influencing internal situations.
The authors point on the failure
of Jaffna Tamils to forge a pan-
Tamil political front with
Plantation Tamils due to caste and
class differences is a valid one. In
fact, Jaffna Tamils superiority
mindset was reflected within the
LTTE leadership as well. This led
to Batticaloa LTTE leader
Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan
alias Karuna Amman to break
away from Prabhakaran with
detrimental effect on LTTEs per-
formance in the Eelam War.
This part also analyses the fail-
ure of the Tamil United Liberation
Front (TULF) leadership to under-
stand the true nature of LTTE and
Prabhakarans ambition to be the
sole leader of Tamils. In fact, when
I broached the subject with the late
TULF leader Amirthalingam, he
rued the day he helped
Prabhakaran in the early days.
Later the TULF leader paid the
price for his grievous error when
LTTE cadre who ostensibly came
to meet him gunned him down.
The second narrative,
analysing the militarisation of
Sri Lanka, provides insights on
political changes that impacted
security services during Sirimavo
Bandaranayaks regime. According
to the author, this affected the
national character of the security
forces making it a largely Sinhala
Buddhist force. Security forces
became a victim of political med-
dling for a long time; this affected
their operations against the LTTE
in the later years.
In examining the seeds of sep-
aratism in this part, Prof de Silva
builds a well-argued case against
Tamils three basic grievances
university admissions policy,
language policy and state sector
employment to conclude they
are based on false premises. But
the analysis of false premises
misses the historys glaring foot-
note the kernel of truth in the
Tamil argument that enabled
Tamil insurgency to hold out
against Sri Lankas might for over
25 years. The growth of LTTE was
the logical consequence of Sinhala
politys failure to convince the
Tamils of the rationale of its
actions. Though his analysis is
from a Sinhala rather than Sri
Lankan perspective, it gives the
majority Sinhalas reasoning that
influenced the countrys political
responses to the ethnic question.
The demoralising defeats of
the Sri Lankan Army and the rise
of the LTTE between 1990 and
2000 are dealt with in the third
part. This was a period of political
drift with the United National
Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka
Freedom Party (SLFP) rivalry
neutralising each others efforts to
achieve ethnic reconciliation. The
failure of the draft constitution
painstakingly formulated in 2000
is a case in point. In this period
LTTE had also hobbled the Tamil
polity from undertaking creative
initiatives. The failure of the peace
process in 2002 was a conse-
quence of the disastrous UNP-
SLFP cohabitation and
Prabhakarans faith in the power
of the gun than in peace talks.
Prabhakaran failed to recognise a
powerful President in Mahinda
Rajapaksa and a skilful army com-
mander in Gen Sarath Fonseka,
determined to wipe out LTTE.
One cannot but agree with the
authors comment on the dubious
way in which President Rajapaksa
deprived Gen Fonseka of the cred-
it for the victory against the LTTE.
The most valuable chapter in
this part is the one dealing with
the challenges of militarisation
from 1986 to 2011. The author
emphasises the need to recruit
Tamils and other minorities in
armed forces as part of the nation-
al integration process. His concern
on retaining the oversized army
even after the war and sidelining
of Parliament in national security
affairs reflects the mood of civil
society. In tandem with the control
of the armed forces in the hands of
the President and his brother and
Defence Secretary Gotabaya
Rajapaksa, militarisation appears
to have come to stay.
The last part on reconstruc-
tion and rehabilitation in war-torn
north is rather sketchy, probably
because it is a developing story. It
has been written with a lot of
sympathy for the people of the
war-torn region. His stress on the
need to return the land occupied
by security forces to the rightful
owners reflects this concern.
Overall, this is a well-
researched and thought-provoking
book, though chronology of events
and topics moving forward and
backward does not make for easy
reading. The maps are useful to
understand the military operations.
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limeless lhemes o love and
dealh, loss and relurn, and
lhe validily o ailh. l seaks o a house
lhal a young man buill in Bombay in lhe
1O2Os lo accommodale his amily and
relalives, lhe years lhal saw ils rooms ill
u, lhe looming lhreal o lheir emlying,
and evenlual deliverance rom lhal lhreal.
Lyrical, allusive and insired, marrying
mylh and mallers o acl, Tcwcr ally deals
wilh lie, dealh and whal lies beyond.
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lime and money in honing
negolialion and
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wilh diicull eole and silualions and
beller areciale lhe cullure and
colleagues lhey work wilh. The aulhor
believes lhal lhese skills musl, wilhoul
delay, orm arl o academic curriculum
or lhe young ndian execulive.
LET'S TALK
Mukta Mahajani
Jaico, C295
Laila is on lhe enlerlainmenl
beal a world ull o vain
heroines, egoislic suerslars, siriled
ilem girls, rissy slars... To lo il all, lie
in lhe newsroom is a series o deadline
driven blooers. Adding lo lhe mayhem is
a sexy Bollywood journolurnedilem girl
Lalika; Chiki, lhe reorler who is
obsessed wilh a suerslar; award
winning suer hack ndumali; and lheir
ra/orshar and hardlolease edilor
Bunny. Caughl belween her ambilion lo
excel, a livein boyriend who eels
ignored, and a alher who is ashamed o
his daughler's career choice.
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A
large number of books have been
written on Partition. Most of
these are the works of Muslim
scholars, particularly those living in
Pakistan. Though India was divided,
very few Hindus have ventured to
unravel the intricacies of Partition. The
notable exceptions are: Thoughts on
Pakistan by BR Ambedkar, The Stern
Reckoning by Justice GD Khosla and
The Transfer of Power by VP Menon.
These three authors were too indepen-
dent to come under the influence of
Jawaharlal Nehru. The suppression of
this landmark event in the history of
India is due to the fact that Nehru
along with Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi was against the opening up
of any debate on the subject.
The present volume, Jinnah Vs
Gandhi, by Roderick Matthews is wel-
come, though one may not agree with
all that he has written. Matthews states
at the beginning of the book that the
extended confrontation between
Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Gandhi
was one of the great dramas of the 20th
century. For nearly three decades, these
two remarkable men were locked in a
series of political battles that involved
opposing views of individuals, commu-
nities, states and nations. How then
can we build an understanding of
them, asks the author?
Of the two, Gandhi was always keen
to explain himself and his collected
works run into 92 printed volumes,
whereas Jinnah neither wrote an autobi-
ography nor any political testament. His
thoughts have to be understood from
about 600 volumes of the Muslim
League documentation. In the words of
the author: The key to the Mahatmas
political outlook lies in understanding
that he was not concerned with states
and nations so much as in the moral
reform of individuals. This sets his
political aims well apart from those of
Jinnah, who habitually thought in terms
of constitutions and states... Liberation
is what Gandhi preached, liberation
from the British, but also the release of
individuals from their lower nature. The
political objective was Swaraj, self-rule
with the associated and deeper meaning
of personal self-control... Jinnah was
committed to ends without great regard
to means. His end was the protection of
the Muslims community but his chosen
means changed as British India was dis-
mantled... His direct personal experi-
ence had convinced him that Congress
nationalism was not broad enough but
it was Hindu. Gandhi was concerned
with the injustice of all men to all oth-
ers, whereas Jinnah was concerned with
the injustices of a particular majority to
a particular minority. Gandhis methods
meant that his style of liberation
dharmaraj could be found anywhere.
Jinnah politically focused on the
achievement of Pakistan.
Given their different sets of
philosophies, only a dreamer would
expect that there could be any meeting
ground between Jinnah and Gandhi. If
one were to pinpoint the centre-piece
of their confrontation over a period of
three decades, it was Partition vs
United India. Eventually, Jinnah won a
separate homeland for Muslims.
Dealing with this primary issue,
Matthews identifies the roots of
Partition not in religion and culture of
Muslims but in a variety of factors. In
his words, It is common place to latch
on to one particular event in the run-
up to Partition and declare that such a
moment was the point of no return.
The author recounts, for example,
the disagreement on the inclusion of the
Muslim Leagues members in the
Government formation in the United
Provinces in 1937; the opportunity
missed while rejecting the Cabinet
Missions proposals made in 1946; and,
there was no consensus in the running
of the Interim Government. This is an
understandable temptation and all his-
torians yield to it to some extent. But
the uncomfortable truth about Partition
is that the main parties the Congress
and the Muslim League were never
close to an agreement. Their fundamen-
tal differences such as Partition vs
United India could not be reconciled.
As for the reasons for Partition,
noted Muslim scholars like Aziz
Ahmad, IH Qureshi, Sir Aga Khan and
M Mujeeb have a different point of
view. Separatism, for them, has been an
integral part of Islamic theology. The
emergence of Pakistan, a separate
homeland for Indian Muslims, is a testi-
mony to this fundamental premise.
Ambedkar in his book, Thoughts on
Pakistan, which came out shortly after
the Pakistan Resolution of 1940,
summed up well when he said that
Islam was a close corporation and the
distinction it made between Muslims
and Non-Muslims was a very real one.
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your language! They ollow
your lead, resecl your
sace and inelune
lhemselves or delivering
resulls. You ill in large
shoes lel behind by a
menlor and or lhe momenl
il's all quiel on lhe work
ronl. A neighbour uniles
wilh you briely lo solve a
roblem. Communily aairs,
social dos, hilanlhroy and
charilable evenls have you
keenly involved. Travel has
you reare weeks in
advance. The home is losy
lurvy wilh siblings al
loggerheads, craving larger
roles or cornering lhe assels
unairly. Some relurn lo lheir
homelown lo ulill wishes o
a arenl or comlele a vow.
herve ains are racking;
kee lhe body sule and
slressree.
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solulion in a amily eud
Tip oI Ihe Week A small acl
o sacriice will go a long
way in silencing your crilics
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8esI day Monday
Iurky gem Fearls
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jewellery
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MediIaIion aid Teachings o
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8IF8
March 21-April 20
Twisls and lurns in lhe lol
give you barely enough lime
lo gel acclimalised lo
changes. You are execled
lo live wilh a ew alleralions
al work, ower sharing or
rivals who show lhey aren'l
going anywhere in a hurry.
Forlunalely, you don'l have
lo comromise or kowlow lo
lhem. l's unexecled eole
who come lo your rescue or
bail you oul and you make
abulous new riends. You
give wings lo a lalenl dream
lhal uls you back on lhe
ma. Travel brings you
closer lo a mission being
accomlished. Those
seeking job changes or
housing ind lhe wail
conlinues bul a new olion
emerges. visilors rom
overseas gladden lhe week.
hormonal ailmenls are back
in ull orce when you lay
lruanl wilh medicalion.
8urprise oI Ihe Week A
romance sees all your
anlasies come lrue
Tip oI Ihe Week hone your
inluilion and sychic abililies
and your decisions will be
sol on
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8esI day Thursday
Iurky gem Yellow sahire
IdeaI Iood Fakcras
iII Io give Faer roducls
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MediIaIion aid Las|avataar
o Lord vishnu
Comany lays a key role in
all lhal is righl and wrong.
wilhoul shiling blame and
inding scaegoals you
discover riendshis o need
and exediency weigh you
dee in lrouble. Feole are
maniulaling you and you do
very lillle aarl rom lhe odd
murmur o rolesl. Bosses
or heads o amily lake
decisions on your behal
assuming your unqueslioned
obedience. 0ld avours work
as lras or shackles even
lhough you wanl lo secrelly
cul all lies. Luckily, you are
more raclical nol lo ollow
exlremes o eilher crealing
new enemies or drinking
hemlock lo rove your oinl.
Laws o ownershi aren'l
resecled by a new arrival lo
lhe leam or household. Joinl
ains, carlilage and bone
densily ealure in heallh
concerns even in lhe young.
8urprise oI Ihe Week A
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becomes a lurncoal
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8esI day Thursday
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simly bring more grace,
sohislicalion and cullure lo
lhe world around. A week
where you hold your own,
erorm diicull lasks, gel a
rojecl underway or simly
rove a oinl. rrevocable
dierences are dissolved as
eole agree lo a new oinl
o view. A shrill voice is
rendered dumbslruck as you
gel arovals, loyally,
clearances and relurns or
hard work. hire and ire orm
arl o a new venlure and
your oice or home are
revolving doors or new
aces and recruils. Money is
source o argumenls
midweek in lhe household. A
youngsler's enchanl or
exlravagance needs sleering.
Foslure correclion, anemia,
calcium deiciencies and
denlal ailmenls are
addressed lhis week.
8urprise oI Ihe Week
Someone allemls lo dig or
unleasanl acls bul winds
u gelling nolhing
Tip oI Ihe Week Kee your
comosure
Iurky number 22
Iurky roIour honey brown
8esI day Monday
Iurky gem hessonile
IdeaI Iood Caramelised
olaloes
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MediIaIion aid Book o
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Togelher lo lhe inish line,
you can join hands wilh your
riends, menlors, well
wishers, and desliny
accomlish all your desires.
Blessings arrive in lhe orm
o limely and lhoughlul
assislance. Al work, heling
hands ush mallers, avours
are relurned, inluenlial
eole swing inlo aclion and
move mounlains. Thal you
are on lhe same age wilh a
lol o eole hels asllrack
all mallers. The week allows
some unwinding beore a
inal challenge, grueling lesl
or exam lhal roves your
colours. Sluggish venlures
are lurned around and
hoeless ones swilly
abandoned. Froessionals
recalibrale lheir lieslyle and
goals. Some exlricale
lhemselves oul o an one
sided or nasly relalionshi
and abusive marriage.
Muscle ulls, srains are
likely; revenl overuse and
disuse o lhe body.
8urprise oI Ihe Week You
adal very quickly lo a new
silualion
Tip oI Ihe Week 0o wilh lhe
low o lie
Iurky number G
Iurky roIour 0usly rose
8esI day Friday
Iurky gem Rose quarl/
IdeaI Iood 0arrct |a|wa
iII Io give Shawls
8esI Iime G lo midnighl
MediIaIion aid Teachings o
lhe greal leacher Lao Tse
A sense o sharing and
healing lils lhe burdens rom
longsuering relalionshis.
An arid landscae al work is
relenished by new
resonsibililies, resecl and
heighlened crealivily. You
junk a ixed sel o ideas or
hearsay aboul eole inding
ground realilies lo be ar
dierenl. values maller lo
you more lhan malerial
lraings and you ind
yoursel bowing oul o
silualions lhal you believe
have oullived lheir urose.
Flianl souses have
nowhere lo hide as lrulhs are
unmasked. Those in ublic
lie could be embarrassed by
greed or selish moves o a
male. A cycle o change is
inadverlenlly aclivaled or
lhose in ublic lie wilh lhe
maligning o characler or
larnishing o image. wins
may come laler bul exiles
arrive irsl. Children are
rone lo ineclions rom els
and insecl biles.
8urprise oI Ihe Week A
chasm lhal hil relalionshis
is mended
Tip oI Ihe Week Ta inlo
your inner slrenglh
Iurky number 4
Iurky roIour Mahogany
brown
8esI day Monday
Iurky gem FuJraks|a
IdeaI Iood 0rilled vegelables
iII Io give home aliances
8esI Iime 4 lo 8 m
MediIaIion aid 5|iva Furana
Rules no longer gel in lhe
way. Be il your abilily lo
errel solulions oul o dead
end silualions or any olher
maller, you aren'l hoslage lo
lhe asl anymore. hew
relalionshis, new income,
osilive beginnings, and
closure lo a vexing roblem
all arrive lhis week. You look
over your shoulder lo avoid
any enlramenl, gossi or
malice and manage lo sleer
lhe course lo saely. Jealous
layers allernale belween
surly and silenl behaviour
and a coolo eriod works
besl. You give loving
relalionshis lexible
resonses, a greal deal more
lislening and a quick
resonse. You bear sudden
exenses wilh ease. A
revam o securily, recovery
o valuables or documenls
add relie lo lhe week. Chills
and colds bolher some.
8urprise oI Ihe Week A
riend erverls a message
and igniles a conlagralion
Tip oI Ihe Week Be cryslal
clear in seech and don'l
delegale imorlanl lasks lo
olhers, do lhem yoursel
Iurky number 15
Iurky roIour Lavender
8esI day Friday
Iurky gem 0iamond
IdeaI Iood Slrawberries,
lum cake
iII Io give Ferume
8esI Iime 8 lo G m
MediIaIion aid The Buddhisl
Lctus 5utra
You counl your blessing and
your riends as you sel lo
iguralively ass lhrough lhe
eye o a needle and enler lhe
Fromised Land al work.
Challenges arrive in lhe orm
o heclic nelworking and
slringulling and il's all lhe
good o lhe asl lhal comes
lo rescue you. A close
conlesl belween you and
someone younger can denl
your conidence bolh
roessionally and as a rival
in love. A longslanding eud
comes oul in lhe oen and
you change sides and go
back lo eole who maller.
Fosilive inlervenlion uls an
end lo an imasse, a labour
or induslrial disule. unaid
bills or credil card dues give
you lroubles. A lri lowards
wesl malerialises almosl
overnighl. Slomach ailmenls
and skin disorders are
inlerconnecled; eal sensibly.
8urprise oI Ihe Week Feole
are easily rovoked and lhen
backlrack lo undermine your
credibilily
Tip oI Ihe Week wear down
blocks wilh kindness and
comassion
Iurky number 1
Iurky roIour Sunsel gold
8esI day Sunday
Iurky gem Ruby
IdeaI Iood Ale slrudel wilh
whied cream
iII Io give Fainlings and arl
8esI Iime 1O am lo 1 m
MediIaIion aid 6ayatri
Mantra
The hew Year has you
reslive as you ace slruggles,
silualions in black or while,
deadends or a slalemale
lhal reuses lo budge. Fed u
o lies, you wanl lhe lrulh
slried o relensions. n
lhal you are ready lo accel,
ollow, change, surrender or
acquiesce lo anylhing i il
leads lo lhe way orward. A
shil in lhinking has you
move away rom
condemning olhers as you
gel busy cleaning u your
own house. Children rebel in
lhe ace o slricl injunclions.
Loved ones are yel lo ass
lhe lilmus lesl o wanling
you and nol lhe lraings o
weallh or ame. Flans or
larger, exensive urchases
are deerred or shelved.
Sasmodic ain, crams,
inlammalions or gum
ailmenls bolher.
8urprise oI Ihe Week
Someone close acl
insensilive and selish
Tip oI Ihe Week Find your
own way wilh conidence
lhrough lhe woods; you
don'l need lo ollow in
anyone's oolrinls
Iurky number 14
Iurky roIour Foresl green
8esI day wednesday
Iurky gem Malachile
IdeaI Iood Sinach quiche
iII Io give Comulers
8esI Iime 2 lo 5 m
MediIaIion aid Foelry o
Jalal aldin Rumi o lhe Sui
Mawlawiyya order
You discover you idenlily
and exaclly where you sland.
Limilalions are drawn in lhe
amily as eole are
uncomorlable wilh a new
asserlion or sense o sel
worlh. Lack o rinciles by
a layer sels a nasly
recedenl lhis week lhal you
reuse lo ollow. Farenls
have a heavy resonsibilily lo
lead by aclion. Coules al
war ind children laking
unusually malure slances
and reusing lo be drawn
inlo conlicl. 0ivisions o
roerly are accomlished
by sleallh. Kids hold lhe key
lo a loving and eaceul
home; disrulions in lheir
lieslyle or habils are
invesligaled. A holiday brings
lhe besl o lhe world lus
exosure lo a higher or
lolier alh. Sluggish
melabolism, liver ailmenls or
lymhalic ailmenls ind relie.
8urprise oI Ihe Week You
are drawn inlo an inherilance
ballle as someone whillles
down your shares slyly
Tip oI Ihe Week 0ive roer
allenlion lo ressing mallers,
ailh in eole is nol enough
Iurky number 5
Iurky roIour Ale green
8esI day wednesday
Iurky gem Emerald
IdeaI Iood Thai green curry
iII Io give Cameras, hones
8esI Iime 5 lo O m
MediIaIion aid Flora, lhe
0oddess o bounly, erlilily
and lenly
A clamouring world ails lo
unclure your inner eace.
Folarised equalions al home
over crossing invisible lines,
ego, secular or indeendenl
slances have you side wilh
lhe youlhul rogressive
voices. 0esile comulsions
al work, you hold your own
keeing lhe wheels moving
in rojecls, overriding lhe
odd cynic or bully. You rove
your worlh in a ballle o
nerves. Fersonal mallers
ironically don'l race ahead as
loved ones shule lheir eel
over commilmenl and
marriage. Fersonal
inlervenlion and moniloring
revenls an unjusl decision.
Job swilches bring ordinary
work and exlraordinary hye;
you rue illlhoughl career
moves. njury due lo slis
and alls is likely, arlicularly
on wel loors.
8urprise oI Ihe Week
Someone enlers your close
environ lo lay games o
divide and rule
Tip oI Ihe Week Be less
imalienl regardless o whal
you do and wilh whom you
inleracl
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Iurky roIour vy green
8esI day Monday
Iurky gem Jade
IdeaI Iood Cucumber
sandwiches
iII Io give 0elalo
8esI Iime 2 lo 7 m
MediIaIion aid hymns o
Charles wesley
You have a lead and a way
oul o a slicky silualion. You
learn lo assuage your ears
and slay ocussed on lhe
larger iclure. haysayers lry
and derail your lans, usel
a very good slralegy by
lelling you lhal you could
lose. holhing could be
urlher rom lhe lrulh! Travel
involves shiling gears,
changing cilies, relocalion or
lemorary holing u in an
uncomorlable lace lill you
accomlish a goal. Children
da//le wilh lheir
erormance and abilily lo
gel in and oul o slicky
silualions. Your ears don'l
come lrue in a maller o
inquesl, inquiry or lawsuil.
Miracles make lheir
aearance in your lie in
ways no one ully
underslands. Comelilion
brings oul lhe besl in you
and all your loved ones.
0uard againsl chills, arlhrilic
condilions and goul.
8urprise oI Ihe Week
Argumenls are lras meanl
lo derail your lans
Tip oI Ihe Week Sidesle
allemls lo draw you inlo
rovocalive silualions
Iurky number 1O
Iurky roIour Red and while
8esI day Sunday
Iurky gem Clear quarl/
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iII Io give Collon aarel
8esI Iime 7 lo 11 am
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T
he year 2013 has dawned
upon us. And as usual, we
wish fresh opportunities to
unfold in the emerging times. But
remember, in this disparate
world, we shall have to be pre-
pared to contend with challenges
as well. Attending all these, how
smartly or otherwise we navigate
through the run of the year will
define the quality of our life. And
that will depend upon how our
minds are inherently made out,
which varies from person to per-
son. For, that accounts for all our
habits, attitudes, desire trends and
thereby how we conduct in life.
That will define the quality of life
we become due for.
Invariably we are all born
imperfect with our minds condi-
tioned to look at things within
the limits of ones self-defined dos
and donts. Our scope of vision
thus narrowed down, quite often
we fail to look at things in the
right perspective. That calls for
expanding our vision so as to deal
with the issues we face. We are
very much empowered for that
on the strength of our power of
freewill, which is duly aided by
the faculty of discriminate intelli-
gence. Applying this prerogative,
we could guide our actions by
choice and discrimination and
turn life into a beautiful experi-
ence through conscious efforts.
Ostensibly, if we navigate life
intelligently, we shall be in better
control of tomorrow.
The irony, however, is that we
seldom care to employ the power
of freewill in freeing ourselves
from of the limitations of mind.
We rather use this prerogative
passionately pursuing our whims
and fancies. In normal times, life
can still continue moving without
much inconvenience. However,
once confronted with unforeseen
problems, ones inherent frailties
raise their hood, bite badly and
throw us off balance.
A case in point is that of a
middle level employee of a com-
pany engaged just in managing
logistics of the seniors and bene-
factors of the company. In normal
times, he presents himself as a
confident person and boldly
come out with his views on prac-
tically everything, as if he knows
everything. But he was taken off-
guard, when suddenly he was
called for giving evidence by an
investigative agency in a case in
which neither he nor the compa-
ny he was working with was
responsible. He had to just share
with what he knew about the
matter. But he got so unnerved at
the very call that his thought
process became incoherent and
began faltering. He wilted under
the pressure of his self-assumed
fears and his hidden weak charac-
ter came out in open. Initially
during the investigation, his
unintelligent response had literal-
ly made him a suspect as if he
was purposely hiding something.
In fact, it was his wife who proved
much stronger. She rather sal-
vaged the situation by making
him understand that since he was
just supposed to cooperate with
the investigation by coming out
with the truth, he need not fear.
See how astrological pointers
reveal his innate nature. The Sun,
the star lord of the lagna sub-lord
Moon, is debilitated; the two also
placed adverse to each other. The
implication is that though he may
be good at public relations, his
confidence will sink low when
under pressure. Combust Venus
points to being emotionally
volatile that makes him too much
sensitive and touchy. Intelligence-
signifying Mercury eclipsed
between headless Ketu and
unpredictable Neptune puts a
question mark on his intelligence.
I wish that we take a pledge
in the New Year to exploit our
empowerment tool and get over
all inherent infirmities. We shall
then be well geared up fully
utilise the opportunities coming
our way and take on the chal-
lenges ahead in all strength.
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Will I be able to successfully complete
my MBA?
Tanmay
You seem to be due for it; don't cultivate
unnecessary doubts in mind.
When do I get married?
Sandeep Bhatia
Your marriage clock has already begun
ticking. Work towards your marriage and
it should happen now.
Will I get a higher post in Government?
Shiv Priya
Have patience, it should happen.
Should I switch over to independent
business or do I have some future in my
present job?
Savaraanraju
You need to get over your deep-seated
sense of negativity and escapism without
which you may not be at your best either
in your present job or any business initia-
tive you take up in future.
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H
is name is not Khan, neither did he have any
lineage with the legendary Kapoor or
Chopra dynasties. As a matter of fact, he
didnt even have a godfather in the industry
when he stepped in. Yet, Anil Kapoor has
been among the top actors in the country for the last
three-and-a-half decades. Be it Munna of Tezaab and Mr
India of the 80s, or Prem Kumar of Slumdog Millionaire
in 2006, the continuity of this jhakaas superstardom has
only become bigger and better.
Born to film producer Surinder and his wife Suchitra
Kapoor, Anil Kapoor spent most of his childhood living
in a chawl in Tilak Nagar, Chembur, along with his elder
brothers Boney and Sanjay. At an early age of six, he
decided he would be an actor. At that time, his father was
the secretary of the legendary Bollywood actor Shammi
Kapoor. Taking note of his sons dream and enthusiasm,
his father introduced him to Shammi Kapoors wife Geeta
Bali.
I was seven when I met Geeta aunty. She was so
impressed after meeting me that she organised an audi-
tion and I landed up playing the child role of Shashi
Kapoor in Tu Payal Main Geet, Kapoor tells you all
these decades later. But, the film got canned and a
young Anils dreams shelved.
While studying in Our Lady of Perpetual
Succour High School in Chembur, Kapoor was
popular among friends because he used to imi-
tate showman Raj Kapoor rather well. I feel
nostalgic when I think of those days. I was
quite a hit back then. In fact, I used to also
enact Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. They are
iconic actors everyone, including me, want to
be like. It was not that I was making a
mockery of their dialogue delivery styles. I
genuinely wanted to be like them and feel
like them. These actors were my inspira-
tion. Dilip saheb for his intensity and act-
ing, Dev Anandji for his larger than life
romantic image and Raj Kapoor, well,
for just who he was, possibly the great-
est actor ever, Kapoor says.
In the mid 1970s, Kapoor got an
admission to St Xaviers College,
Mumbai. However, things didnt
work out for him as he was too
focussed on acting. He was so
busy doing theatre, helping his
father with work and supporting
the family that he got expelled
from the college due to slim
attendance. Meanwhile, he also
tried to get into the Film and
Television Institute of India in
Pune but failed to crack the writ-
ten exam. Back then, Girish
Karnad was the director of the
institute. I asked him what an
actor had to do with clearing a
written exam? It is all about performing in
front of the camera. The idea of an aptitude test
didnt make sense to me. But he told me these were
the rules of the institute which couldnt be altered,
Kapoor recalls, expressing his angst. But he didnt
give up. Mr Taneja, a teacher at the institute, had just
retired and was moving back to Mumbai. I, along with
some other aspiring actors, went to him for private class-
es at his house, Kapoor says.
The actor finally got his break and made a proper
Bollywood debut with Umesh Mehras Hamare Tumhare
(1979) in a supporting role. He got a couple of more sup-
porting roles in his fathers production house, one
of which was Hum Paanch in 1980. He also played
Amitabh Bachchans son and Dilip Kumars grand-
son in Ramesh Sippys Shakti in 1983.
His first break as a lead actor came as Prem
Pratap Singh in his fathers production Woh Saat
Din, opposite Padmini Kolhapure and
Naseeruddin Shah. The film went on to become a
box office hit and Kapoor became a familiar face.
However, it was still early days in his career and
like most Indian actors Kapoor, too, tried his
hands at southern films.
He starred in Bapus Telugu film Vamsa
Vrukshamand Mani Ratnams Kannada debut film
Pallavi Anu Pallavi in 1983. I enjoyed doing those
films. It still overwhelms me that I was a part of
Mani Rantams first film. One can say I launched
him. And fortunately, the film did quite well down
south, Kapoor reveals. Success and popularity had
only begun when he bagged the role with one of
Indias greatest filmmakers, the late Yash Chopra,
in the 1984 blockbuster Mashaal.
His life was never the same again. With hits
after hits like Karma, Jaanbaaz, Insaaf Ki Awaaz,
Raam Lakhan, Eeshwar, Parinda, Mr India and
Tezaab, he became the hero of the decade. His
popularity grew even among his critics who now
claim that the 1980s was all about Anil Kapoor. I
consider myself very lucky to have received so
much love, affection and appreciation of both crit-
ics and fans. In our field that is quite a rare combi-
nation. I feel, it will be unfair to say that the 80s
belonged to one actor. There were several in that
era who did magnificent work. But it is Gods grace
that I stood out among the best of the best,
Kapoor, now 56, says.
His success and glory continued in the 90s
with blockbusters like Kishen Kanhaiya, Beta,
Ladla, 1942: A Love Story, Judaai, Deewana
Mastana and Roop Ki Raani Choron Ka Raja. This
was also the time when he did most of his films
with his sister-in-law and Boney Kapoors wife
Sridevi, and Bollywoods diva Madhuri Dixit. Sri
is a very calm and reserved lady. Our interactions
were very limited and mostly confined to work,
despite her being a part of the family. On the other
hand, I was very friendly with Madhuri. She and I
had a blast during shoots. We used to chat, crack
jokes and have loads of fun. As a matter of fact, I
worked with Juhi too in quite a few films, Kapoor
tells you.
Bollywood heroes may have transited to west-
ern contemporary dancing, bulging biceps with a
completely shaved and shirtless upper body but
Kapoor still has a Pathani moustache, a fit body
with lots of body hair working for him since the
80s. It doesnt end there, while his juniors like Shah
Rukh Khan and Salman Khan have started looking
haggard opposite young actresses like Katrina Kaif,
Anushka Sharma and Ayesha Takia, Kapoor has
managed to look just fine in his recent ventures
with heroines much younger to him.
I have no secret to looking young. I think I
look my age. People have that opinion about me is
simply because I never get stressed or hyper-venti-
late. I enjoy working and that reflects on my face
and, hence, the conclusion of my eternal youth. As
far as bulging biceps are concerned, I do work out,
From a chawl in Mumbai lo being lhe loasl o bigbanner hollywood roduclions, our very own Mr ndia has quile a
ragsloriches slory lo lell. Since his debul in lhe 1O7O, Anil Kaoor has been among lhe loraled aclors or over
lhree decades. ShBAJ R0YCh0u0huRY lakes a syruy ride wilh lhis blockbusler hero lhrough his long and
evenlul journey slarling o as a Raj Kaoor imilalor in school, lo gelling chased in a burqa in Chandini Chowk, lo
delivering a seech in lhe uS or Slumdog Millionaire, lo singing lhe lille lrack o Chameli Ki Shaadi
Anil Kapoor is
also a
classically
trained singer.
He was
trained under
Chhote qbal,
who has also
trained people
like Nitin
Mukhesh and
Laxmikant
Pyarelal's
daughter
Rajeshwari.
He recorded a
few ghazals
and nazms but
his claim to
fame remains
the title track
of Chameli Ki
Shaadi, which
the actor sung
himself
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He made his debut in
Bollywood while he was still in
school. The yesteryear actress
Geeta Bali arranged for him to
play the child role of Shashi
Kapoor in Tu Payal Main Geet.
Unfortunately the film got canned.
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He was very excited to be there
and couldnt control his emotions.
His knee was shivering as he
walked up on stage. Kapoors wife
kept SMSing him: Try to control
yourself! It was a grand moment
for the seasoned actor.
M8Tk6hE
Anil Kapoor has managed to
preserve his 80s look successfully
over the years. According to him,
its a traditional thing which has a
Pathani lineage. He tried the non-
moustache look in Lamhe, it didnt
work for him.
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Anil Kapoor fondest memory in
Bollywood is when his idol Raj
Kapoor offered him a film. The
film got stashed but Kapoor is
happy to have had the honour of
acting for RK Films which was a
big banner back then.
F A C T F L E
E
ver since the 9/11 terror-
ist attacks in 2001, there
have been a number of cases
across America in which
hapless Sikhs have been bru-
tally targeted in the mistaken
belief that they are Muslims.
Scores of innocent Sikhs
have been killed or maimed
by their attackers. But then,
there have been some cases
where Hindus have also been
mistaken to be Muslims and
attacked viciously as was
the case this past week at a
New York subway station
when a woman pushed a
Hindu man to death in front
of an oncoming train.
I just pushed him
because he was a Muslim,
the woman who has since
been arrested and charged
with committing a second-
degree hate-crime murder,
said. She may have mistaken
the victim, Kolkata-born
Sunando Sen, to be a
Muslim, but then told the
police how she hated both
Hindus and Muslims ever
since 2001 when they put
down the twin towers.
She apparently did not
know or care to find out that
not a single Hindu had any-
thing to do with the attacks
carried out by Osama bin
Ladens trusted lieutenants
and that, if anything, several
Indians were among those
who perished at that site on
that fateful day.
The shocking attack on
Sen has unnerved the US-
based Hindus, who are urg-
ing the Department of
Justice and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to
separately track crimes
against the Hindus instead of
losing focus by lumping
together such attacks on var-
ious religious communities.
Such a violent and hate-
ful attack on any individual,
especially because of reli-
gious hatred is completely
unconscionable in any soci-
ety, says Suhag Shukla,
executive director and legal
counsel for the Washington-
based Hindu American
Foundation (HAF). Similar
demands have been raised by
the New Jersey-based Hindu
American Seva
Communities. While con-
ceding that there is a high
level of acceptance of the
Hindu community in
America, the Hindu bodies
are exercised over sporadic
acts of intolerance and vio-
lence at members of the
community, reflecting xeno-
phobia directed at Hindus as
well as Muslims and Sikhs.
They are concerned that
heinous acts are under-
reported and, where report-
ed, they are not being dealt
with as hate crimes.
A fortnight before the
horrific tragedy inflicted
upon Sen in New York, both
the Hindu bodies had made
submissions to the
Department of Justice on
expansion of the anti-reli-
gious bias motivation cate-
gories while dealing with
hate crimes. Joining a coali-
tion of civil rights and faith-
based advocacy groups, HAF
has sought the institution of
separate categories like anti-
Hindu, anti-Sikh and anti-
Arab while pursuing hate
crime incidents. Although
Hindu Americans constitute
an increasingly visible piece
of Americas religious mosa-
ic, it asserts that Hindus
have been subjected to ver-
bal abuse, slurs and physical
attacks on an individual
level, while Hindu places of
worship have been targeted
for acts of vandalism, arson
and graffiti. The HAF says
that the public sphere is
replete with hate speech and
disparaging language deni-
grating Hinduism, but the
Hindu Americans lag far
behind other faith commu-
nities in addressing such
obstacles.
Although the volume
and severity of the hate
crime attacks on Hindus pale
in comparison to the suffer-
ings of the Sikhs, the HAF
memorandum lists a number
of cases where Hindus have
been targeted in the mistak-
en belief that they are
Muslim or Arab. It points to
the attack of an Indian man
in New York last April with
the two attackers using an
anti-Arab slur against the
victim. The HAF says
harassment of Hindus in
parts of America have gone
on long before 9/11. In the
fall of 1987, a street gang in
Jersey City, New Jersey call-
ing itself the Dotbusters
assaulted a number of
Indians, including Navroze
Mody who was beaten into a
coma with bricks while the
gang chanted, Hindu,
Hindu The gang also com-
mitted acts of vandalism and
harassed Hindu and Indian
men and women, says the
HAF memorandum, point-
ing out that Dotbusters
clearly referred to the bindi
worn by Hindu women and
tilak by Hindu men.
The Hindu body has
sought to highlight the point
that the Federal Bureau of
Investigations categorisation
of religious bias has broadly
focused on Jews, Catholics,
Protestants, Muslims, and
Atheists/Agnostics, failing to
address Americas growing
religious diversity. A number
of religious groups, like
Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists,
Jains, Zoroastrians,
Mormons, and Orthodox
Christians are collectively
subsumed under the broad
Anti-Other Religion catego-
ry. The HAF argues that
lumping together so many
religions disregards the
unique challenges and types
of hate crimes each of these
respective faith traditions
face.
The mass shooting
tragedy at the Wisconsin
Guradwara last August
prompted a Senate panel to
urge the FBI to separately
track hate crimes against
Sikhs. A senior official of the
Department of Justice has
since indicated that the
departments Civil Rights
Division has recommended
that crimes against Sikhs and
Hindus be added to the reli-
gion-based hate crimes
tracked by the FBI to facili-
tate better enforcement.
Can't doal with Europo? Loavo it
I
n opposition, David Cameron
tried to stop his party gnawing at
the European question. Instead of
talking about the things that most
people care about, we talked about
what we cared about, he told his
first Conservative conference as
leader in 2006. While parents were
worried about getting the kids to
school, we were banging on about
Europe.
In the next couple of weeks, the
Prime Minister plans to bang on
about Europe in an unashamedly
radical way. He wants a different
settlement with the European
Union and, if reports are to be
believed, he will put that settlement
to a referendum, offering us a
choice between staying in on his
new terms or leaving.
What has changed? Why,
having meticulously avoided the
subject, is Cameron now proposing
the most substantial change in our
European policy in 40 years of
membership? One reason is that
government has opened many
ministers eyes to the extent of
Brussels jurisdiction. The example
that Cameron gave in that 2006
speech parents worried about
getting their kids to school is
instructive. I remember the time
well. My elder daughter had just
started at school, and what was
exercising parents at our school
gates was the law that required us
to ferry our kids around in car
seats until they reached the age of
12 a law that turned out to have
come from Brussels.
Whether or not booster seats
are desirable, it is hard to see why
they need to be decreed at a
continental level. Its the same story
with bin collections, home
information packs, driving tests,
vitamin supplements and hundreds
of other essentially domestic issues
which are now decided by Brussels.
In opposition, one Tory
moderniser told me that the
European Union was an optical
issue. His support for it, he frankly
admitted, owed less to any cost-
benefit analysis than to a sense that
Euroscepticism made the party
look out-of-touch and dyspeptic.
Now that he is in government,
dealing with EU directives, he has
changed his tune.
It came as quite a shock to
Downing Street, for example, when
the plan to pay for various Big
Society schemes with money lying
unclaimed in bank accounts was
challenged by the European
Commission.
Just as ministers become
frustrated with the European
Union in what Nick Clegg, with
his addiction to clich, calls a
perfect storm the EU itself is
more or less forcing the United
Kingdom to reconsider its
membership terms.
Monetary union is impelling its
participants toward fiscal
integration, debt pooling, a
common finance ministry and
thus, by implication, political
federation.
The European Community of
which we have been members for
four decades is, in practical if not
legal terms, ceasing to exist. Since
almost no one argues that we
should join the single currency, the
question arises: what relationship
should we have with the new entity
that is taking shape?
Commentators talk loosely
about being in a single market but
not in a political union. The
Norwegian and Swiss options are
plumped and prodded. Jacques
Delors has spoken of offering
Britain a privileged partnership.
The Union of European Federalists
prefer the term associate
membership. But we need to be
specific about what a free-trade-
plus relationship would look like.
Lets start with the easy bits.
Britain has already announced its
intention to opt out of common
policies in the field of justice and
home affairs. It is almost as
straightforward to pull out of joint
defence and foreign policy
structures.
Leaving the Common Fisheries
Policy (CFP), and asserting our
jurisdiction out to 200 miles or the
median line, is tougher, but not
unprecedented: Until a decade ago,
the CFP didnt apply to the
Mediterranean. As for the
Common Agricultural Policy, the
shift from guaranteed prices to
direct support makes repatriation
increasingly feasible.
External commerce is more
complicated. Norway and
Switzerland, to their immense
advantage, are able to sign free
trade deals with non-EU states.
They are not constrained, as we
are, by Euro-protectionism.
Switzerland, for example, is
negotiating a free trade agreement
with China, which Britain, bound
by the Common External Tariff,
cannot do. We would want, ideally,
to have a similar deal to the Swiss,
namely access to the EU market
but also the ability to trade
bilaterally elsewhere.
Hardest of all is the issue of the
single market. Almost everyone
agrees that Britain should remain
part of a European free trade area.
The trouble is that Brussels defines
unrelated matters as single market
issues, because doing so makes
them subject to majority voting.
The 48-hour week is considered a
single market, not an employment,
measure; the emissions trading
scheme is labelled single market,
not environment. Since the Prime
Minister has explicitly called for
the repatriation of social and
employment policy, and since the
other members wont want to give
Britain a competitive advantage,
this is where the hardest pounding
will be.
Still, it is possible to envisage a
solution, whereby the euro
countries form a federal union,
while Britain, the Efta States and
possibly some other existing
European Union members form a
broader free trade nexus around it.
Is such a deal on offer? Plenty
of commentators respond to that
question with Olympian authority,
but no one really knows. I have
spent the better part of 14 years in
Brussels trying to learn the answer,
and have concluded that well only
find out when the moment comes.
We can be certain of one thing,
though: there is absolutely no
chance of getting an acceptable
deal unless it is clearly understood
by all sides that the alternative is
withdrawal.
Ive noticed that even
supporters of European Union
membership are no longer as
frightened of that prospect as they
used to be. The reason is simple:
the EUs share of our trade is falling
by the minute. British exports to
the European Union fell by 7.3 per
cent in the past three months for
which we have data, while exports
to the rest of the world rose by 13.2
per cent.
The European Union remains
an important market, but it is
increasingly just one market,
alongside Asean, Nafta, Mercosur
and the rest and no one argues
that we need to join them in order
to trade with them. All of which
gives us a credible bottom line. We
are in surplus with the rest of the
world, but in deficit with the
European Union. Or, to flip it
around, the European Union is in
surplus with us, selling more to
Britain than to the US and Japan
combined. Customers generally
have the upper hand in their talks
with salesmen.
I hope Cameron strikes a deal
with the European Union which
leaves all sides happier: everyone
should want good relations with
our neighbours. But, if such a deal
is not available, leaving should hold
no terrors. We are the seventh
largest economy on Earth, the
fourth military power, a member of
the G8 and one of five permanent
seat-holders on the UN Security
Council. We are connected by law
and language, habit and sentiment,
to every continent. In the words of
Tennyson: Though we are not
now that strength which, in old
days, moved Earth and Heaven,
that which we are we are.
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B
ig Bang Theory physicist Sheldon Cooper has a buzzy
new claim to fame. The geeky TV character, who
counts Britains Stephen Hawking among his online
friends, has had a species of bee named after his favorite
catch phrase Bazinga!
Brazilian biologist Andre Nemesio said he named a
species of Brazilian orchid bee Euglossa bazinga in
honor of the clever, funny, nerd character Sheldon
Cooper because the bee had tricked scientists for some
time with its similarity to other species.
Nemesio published his paper last month in Zootaxa,
a journal for worldwide zoological taxonomists. Steven
Molaro, one of the executive producers of The Big Bang
Theory said that the CBS comedy was always extremely
flattered when the science community embraces our
show.
Sheldon would be honored to know that Euglossa
bazinga was inspired by him. In fact, after Mothra and
griffins, bees are his third-favorite flying creatures,
Molaro said. The Big Bang Theory a comedy about a
group of brilliant but socially awkward scientists - is one
of the most popular comedies on US television, attracting
about 18 million viewers an episode.
Actor Jim Parsons has won two Emmys for his lead
performance as Cooper.
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tIe pIoneer Most of the energy of political work
is devoted to correcting the effects
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D
id you know vastu faults can
create emotional instabili-
ty which, in turn, leads to
misunderstanding and break-ups?
For instance wrong placement of a
mirror could lead to unnecessary
fights while faulty positioning of a
Radha-Krishna painting can attract
extra martial affairs.
Each and every room in your
home has a separate impact on your
mood. A fact that most people are
oblivious to because you are so com-
fortable in your surroundings. But
ignoring these minute things on a
daily basis could result in hampering
your relationships permanently.
From the colour on your walls and
curtains to the type of painting you
must hang in your bedroom, vastu
has a fixed place for everything.
Irrespective of the social and eco-
nomic success one may have
achieved in life, a fulfilling healthy
relationship is the key to eternal hap-
piness. True and trustworthy relations
keep our spirits soaring and give us a
positive outlook towards all our endeav-
ours.
Every relationship has a definite role
to play in our life. Each augments a cer-
tain aspect of our personality and helps
us come closer to our dreams. Every
relationship also has a unique set of
desires, expectations and emotions
involved.
So, in the year 2013, how do you
plan to effectively manage all the rela-
tionships that matter to you? How do
you ensure that each one of them is in a
healthy state? Which is the one critical
factor that ensures presence of the very
emotion required to maintain a relation-
ship?
The common thread running along
all of these aspects is your home
which shapes your conscious-
ness and living. Your own
home is responsible for the
generation of different emo-
tions. And these emotions gov-
ern different aspects of your
relationships.
Sixteen vastu zones in your
home dramatically control and
influence your relationships.
For example, the south-west
zone controls relationships
between husband-wife and
parent-children. Similarly, the
north governs relationship
with business clients. North-
west governs relationships
with relatives who stand in
your support.
As per Mahavastu, each
emotion is a cumulative
effect of four major aspects
in your home:
QDirection of entrance
QDirection of rooms
QBalance of five elements (water, air,
fire, earth and space)
QEffects of interior objects and appli-
ances
One can learn this four-step vastu
method to analyse the good and bad
effects of your relationships and life in
general. Simple maha vastu solutions
like using paintings and changing
colours are now available with various
experts.
You can consult a vastu guru to cre-
ate a strong bonding, improve relation-
ships, save your marriage and maintain
family harmony.
In the year 2013, there are a few dos
and donts to follow for a healthy start to
your relationship
QIf the main entrance to your home is
located in the south-west direction (S8),
make it a point to place a yellow door-
mat there. That will strengthen your
connectivity with the family and
impart financial stability.
QTo control aggressive behaviour,
paint your walls in the south-east zone
in yellow.
QTo avoid frequent arguments with
your wife, shift the bedroom from
east-south-east to the south direction.
Also place a pair of love birds in the
south-west zone.
QPlace a family photograph in the
south-west which is the vastu zone of
love and bonding. This will ensure a
strong family harmony.
QIf you feel irritated and tend to lose
temper the moment you enter your
home, check if your kitchen (fire) is
located in the zone of mind, that is the
north-east direction. If that is the case,
best would be to shift it to the oppo-
site direction.
QNever light a red bulb in your puja
room located in north-east direction.
This will be the harbinger of bad news
to your family.
QMake sure to place a green plant in
the north direction and your locker in
the west to augment your material
gains and wealth.
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ur nose is central to the way we form relationships and a
good sense of smell is vital for a long-term commitment,
according to new research on sensory systems.
The simple answer to the question of whether any relation-
ship is the one seems to be that your ideal man or woman gets
up your nose, scientists say. In a new study, reported in the
journal Biological Psychology, researchers looked for the first
time at the effect of being born without a sense on smell on
men and womens relationships, The Independent reported.
The results showed that men and women who were unable
to smell had higher levels of social insecurity. In men, but not in
women, it led to fewer relationships.
The men with a faulty sense of smell averaged two partners
compared with 10 for healthy men. One theory is that the lack
of a sense of smell may make men less adventurous. They may
have more problems assessing and communicating with other
people.
The two groups of women had the same average number of
sexual partners four. But the women who couldnt smell well
lacked confidence in their partners: they were around 20 per
cent less secure in their relationship.
Lacking a sense of smell had no impact on their relation-
ships with close friends, suggesting that smell plays a role for
women specifically when it comes to their partners.
According to one study, women are more concerned about
the smell than about the look of a potential mate, while men are
the opposite. Another study found that 13 per cent of men and
52 per cent of women have slept dressed in the clothing of
another person, usually their partner, because of the smell.
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itika Anand is a troubled mother of six-
year-old son Vivaan. She feels Vivaan is
unnecessarily stubborn and acts like a
bully most times pushing and shoving comes
naturally to him. Nowadays, he has even started
abusing. Being the only child, Vivaan has always
been pampered silly. Now that Vivaans become
a problem child, his mother is seeking answers
to tricky questions: Is it good to be aggressive
with the child? Should she spend more time
with him to make him understand what is good
or bad, or should she just ignore him (he will
come around on his own)?
Ever since the 16/12 Delhi gangrape inci-
dent, I have realised even more that upbringing
plays an important role in shaping a childs
future. I am worried that not disciplining
Vivaan at the right age could lead him astray. He
may just feel he will get away with anything, as
he has till now. But where do I start and what is
the right way? I am aware that aggressive disci-
plining could impact the child wrongly, but
there has to be a way, Nikita says. She has met
many therapists and here is what they all have to
say:
It is right that a childs growing up years
tune his behaviour for later. It is crucial that par-
ents discipline their child at the right age. There
is no fixed age for a child to understand why he
is being reprimanded. Parents, somehow know
when its time. The child gives you early signs of
understanding and parents should capitalise on
that. Start with saying a simple no. Then go on
to a stern warning. Every time, remember to
explain why it is not proper for him/her to do
what he/she wants to do. Once your child starts
understanding where to draw the line, treat him
like an individual. Talk to him about what is
wrong and why it is so. If he repeats the mistake,
punishment is mandatory, Dr Ashok Dhar,
Chennai-based child behaviour specialist, tells
you. Dhar is part of the team employed to talk
to the juvenile arrested in the Delhi gangrape
case.
Dhar tells you how important it is to disci-
pline your child from the beginning. The fear
of punishment whenever the child is doing
something wrong is crucial. He should know his
actions will be noticed and he will be punished
if he continues to do something he is not sup-
posed to. However, the opposite should be
practised too. The child needs to be lauded if
he has done something good. Only then will
the difference be clear in his mind, Dhar says,
adding that both parents need to follow this
very strictly.
It doesnt help if one parent is strict and
the other indulgent. This good-cop-bad-cop
routine doesnt work at all. Instead, the child
gets the wrong signal and starts ignoring the
parent who is disciplining him. Nothing can
be worse than this, he says.
But how much reprimanding is good?
More than the punishment bit, parents should
know that the child watches them keenly. He
does what he sees. It is, therefore, essential to set
a good example. If you are shouting and hurling
abuses, he will pick that up. The way you treat
each other and others around you is mostly fol-
lowed by the child. Someone who has been
brought up in an environment where respect
comes naturally will automatically be respect-
ful, Veena Kapoor, a Delhi-based child thera-
pist, says.
She adds that most times, bad societal
behaviour, especially against women, is because
the child was exposed to ill-treatment of women
in his home in his growing years.
But, could breaking down of families be one
of the reasons children have become wayward?
Broken families are the main culprits. A 2012
survey came up with findings which suggest that
more than 50 per cent children, especially teens,
show odd behaviour most were rebels who
indulged in criminal activities. Family values
play an essential part in grooming a child and
the sooner the parents realise the importance of
this, the better it will be for their children. We
also need a proper system in place where when
the parents decide to separate the childs mental
health is judged and his emotional wants pro-
tected, Dr Shalini Duggal from VIMHANS
says.
Next up is education that also plays a piv-
otal role in shaping an individual. Basic edu-
cation moral and otherwise is a must if
you want a problem-free society. It is essential
that a mother is educated. She should be aware
of her rights. If she is subservient to ill-treat-
ment, her son will behave the same way with
his wife and with the society at large. This is a
major problem in India our women still
havent found their voice against atrocities.
Sometimes, this kind of behaviour is tol-
erated by educated wives who choose to ignore
the problems rather than sorting them out.
That is the wrong way to deal with things. If
you want your child (son or daughter) to be
self confident yet not display rogue behaviour
then you should put a stop to small things that
happen within the four walls of your home,
Dr Aroona Broota, clinical psychologist, tells
you. She adds that many parents visit her seek-
ing her advise on what would be the right
behaviour.
tIe pIoneer Every couple has ups & downs,
every couple argues & that's the
thing ~ you're a couple and couples
can't function without trust
~ Nicholas Sparks
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dierence belween a good and bad lhing. he ersisls
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child at the right age. There is no fixed
age for a child to understand why he is
being reprimanded. Parents, somehow
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simple 'no'. Then go on to a stern warning
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propos Our lost world by Meenakshi Rao
in Foray (yearend special) dated
December 30, 2012. The heinous gang-
rape of the 23-year-old in the Capital was not an
isolated incident. Such crimes against women
are on the rise in all parts of the country. There
was no abatement of rape incidents despite the
fact that Delhi gangrape has making headlines
across the nation. As the writer has correctly
mentioned, weak and slow-paced criminal
justice system in the country is the reason
behind this ascending crime graph. Large-scale
protests by the people following the gangrape
and lynching of a local goonda by women in
Nagpur must work as an eye-opener for the
Government the patience of the people is
running thin. Apart from instilling professional
attitude in the police and setting up separate fast
track courts is the only solution to deal with
crimes again women.
Manoj Parashar
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propos Subsidy conundrum by MR
Venkatesh in Foray (yearend special) dated
December 30, 2012. Finance Minister P
Chidambaram has become a true politician. He
is no longer the tough Finance
Minister. For him survival of the
Congress, namely serving the
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is
more important than any economic
reform. He may present a Budget in
favour of middle class this time round.
But only because 2014 Lok Sabha
elections are round the corner and the
the party needs to woo the people and
increase its votebank. There is no doubt
that the Congress is hiding its failures of
rising prices, increase in crime and
corruption at all levels is hitting the poor
and middle classes. By taking bold
economic decisions like Foreign Direct
Investment in retail, increase in prices of
diesel and petrol and removing the
subsidy from LPG after six cylinders has
hit the common man. It appears that the
Congress fears that it would lose and hence
is using reforms to better its chances. It is
true that subsidies must be done away with
but for the weaker sections of the society
some financial aid must be in place. This is
because the high inflation is eating into the
savings of even the middle class. One can only
imagine the state of the lower middle class. The
Government must continue to give subsidies till
the lower middle class and middle class is able
to reach a stage where it can bear the cost of the
rising prices.
Mahesh Kapasi
T
his refers to In politics to cleanse politics by
Arvind Kejriwal in Foray (yearend special)
dated December 30, 2012. What Kejriwal has
said does makes sense. It is said that to fight
dirt one needs to get into it. The same holds
true in politics. The people need to be educated
and shown the true faces of the leaders who
have been voted to power. The aam aadmi
must be told that it is important to vote for
the right person rather than vote for a person
just because he belongs to a particular caste.
By exposing the scams that our present
Ministers are involved in is a step towards
the cleansing. But one hopes that Kejriwal
doesnt just restrict himself to exposing the
scams. He needs, through his AAP, educate
the people on the kind of leaders one
should vote for. D Singh
T
his refers to The catalyst by Amjad Abdul
Karim Randhawa in Foray (yearend special)
dated December 30, 2012. Muslim countries are
known for crime against women. And, when it
comes to them wanting the exert their rights,
then what happened to Malala Yousufzai (she
was shot at point-blank range in the head and
shoulder) is commonplace. Her crime she
wanted to study. And it is not just in Pakistan
where young girls are prevented from studying.
There was many girls in India who are forced to
leave school because parents prefer if the son
studies and the money went in his education. I
know of a family where the daughter despite
being a brilliant student had to leave school so
that the money that went into her education
could be given to the brother who was away in a
boarding school. The plight of women continues
to be the same world over. It is time that the
society changed its mindset. Men need to realise
that women are human being as well. That
women are not pieces of furniture that can be
put in one corner and forgotten. Women too
need to voice their opinion and fight against the
atrocities.
Ritu Sharma
F
or months now, the talk
in the Congress camp has
centred around the proposed
organisational changes. This
column has discussed at
length when the changes will
happen. So, it doesnt come
as a surprise that there are
rumours of yet another delay
in making changes in the
party and in appointing State
party presidents.
Sources once again put
the proposed changes to take
place after the Chintan
Shivir to be held at Jaipur.
The State presidents will also
be appointed after that.
Appointments that were
urgent have already been
made, like that of a new
president of the Mahila
Congres in West Bengal.
Senior Congress leaders
feel that there is no need to
hurry and that the changes
should be necessarily
announced between January
14 (Makar Sankranti) and
January 18 the date set for
the Chintan Shivir It is said
that party will take policy
decisions on the basis of the
agenda set at Samwad
Baithak in Delhi and to
implement those decisions,
the party would need a new
team. However, a blueprint
of the proposed changes is
ready.
Meanwhile, around 300
people have been invited for
the Chintan Shivir. Congress
leaders say that all present
office-bearers and those who
would be given new respon-
sibilities will be present. In
other words, the new
appointments will be made
from among the invitees.
Only one or two may be
exceptions to the rule.
Around half-a-dozen
leaders who have left their
ministerial posts have been
waiting for their roles to be
announced in party organi-
sation. It is also true that the
party is being looked after by
the executive president in
almost half-a-dozen States.
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The NCP president
Sharad Pawar has warned
that he would withdraw sup-
port to the UPA. The ques-
tion being raised is on the
seriousness of the statement.
It appears that the Congress
is taking the announcement
rather casually. A senior
Congress leader said that
Pawars intention needs to be
questioned. In fact, the party
feels that right from Gujarat
Assembly elections, held in
December 2012, Pawar and
his close associate Praful
Patel have been acting like a
B-team of the BJP.
The leaders also opine
that though the announce-
ment to withdraw support
was made at the time of
Gujarat Assembly elections.
the reason for the threat is
because Pawar wants to
become the next Prime
Minister
The Congress-NCP
alliance was not very effec-
tive in the Gujarat elections.
The Congress initially gave
nine seat to the NCP. Later,
the party filled five seats
with its candidates and on
the other four Congress
rebels were fighting.
Congress leaders feel that the
controversy started from the
Akota seat from where
Modis close aide Saurabh
Patel was fighting. This seat
was in NCP quota. The
Congress alleged that the
NCP candidate deliberately
filed wrong nomination
papers so that Patel could
win easily.
But, Pawars warning is
not related to this episode.
This is not the first time
when the Congress and the
NCP have been involved in
such a controversy.
But, this time round,
Pawar is said to be in contact
with some satraps in the
UPA Government. Apart
from this, a new relationship
is being worked on with
Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi through
Praful Patel. Pawar himself is
in contact with Uddhav
Thackeray.
Congress leaders are
clearly seeing a new political
equation.
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Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister Jayalalithaa, it
appears, will be fighting the
2014 Lok Sabha election on
her own. This is because she
has made no announcement
that she is open to an
alliance with any party.
The BJP is not surprised
with his move. The party has
always known that
Jayalalithaa will not go for
pre-poll alliance with anyone
in the State. But this move
will prove to be problematic
for the DMK, the CPI and
the CPM.
In fact, soon after the
Assembly elections,
Jayalalithaa had decided that
she would fight the 2014 Lok
Sabha elections alone and
would try to win maximum
seats in Tamil Nadu and
Pondicherry.
Recently, her AIADMK
organised a conference
under the Finance Minister
and former Chief Minister O
Paneer Selvam. Selvam
pledged to win all the 40
seats. Meanwhile,
Jayalalithaa had already
chalked out a strategy. She
was just waiting for the right
time to make an announce-
ment.
Now, she has made her
agenda clear. She has criti-
cised the Congress and the
BJP on the Cauvery issue.
By working on the agen-
da to fight alone, she has
sidelined DMK leader Capt
Vijayakanth soon after win-
ning the Assembly elections.
She also managed to keep
the Left parties away.
Now, her strategy is to
win maximum seats in the
2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Her party is looking for-
ward to her playing a big
role at the Centre. She and
her arch rival Karunanidhi
appear to be getting along
fine for now. When the
Congress and the DMK
leaders had recently said that
a leader wearing a dhoti can
become the Prime Minister
(referring to Finance
Minister P Chidambaram),
Karunanidhi had retorted
that a Tamil leader in a saree
can also be in the race.
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Two Chief Ministers in
Congress-headed States gave
two huge advertisements in
Delhi newspapers. Haryana
Chief Minister Bhupinder
Singh Hoodas ad was all
about New Year greetings.
While Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister Kiran Kumar
Reddys advertisement
was about a scheme
that has been
started under
former Prime
Minister the
late Indira
Gandhi.
But what
is the reason
for these huge
ads in the
newspapers?
Congress sources
in say that the
Chief Ministership
of Hooda and
Reddy is under
threat.
After the
Congress victory in
Uttrakhand and
Himachal Pradesh the
stature of AICC party-
in-charge, for both
the States, Birender
Singh has increased.
It is said that he and his
supporters have been trying
to persuade the Congress
High Command that the
party is unlikely to win in
Haryana under the leader-
ship of Hooda.
Likewise, keeping the
YSR Congress and Telangana
factor in mind in Andhra
Pradesh, the Congress is
planning to hand over the
State to a satrap leader.
Reddys chair can be saved
only under one condition. If
an alliance with Jagan
Mohan is finalised.
Under this scenario,
Jagan will be the contender
for Chief Ministers post.
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It appears that one may
get to see many changes in
Delhi after the gangrape of
the 23-year-old. One change
that is visible is in the UPA
Governments way of think-
ing. The Prime Ministers
Office (PMO) has directed
the Ministry of Human
Resource Development
(HRD) to make moral edu-
cation a must in schools.
It has taken the
Government eight years to
awaken and take a step in
this direction. During the
NDA regime the then HRD
Minister Murli Manohar
Joshi had made suggestions
to schools to impart moral
education, yoga, Vedic Math
and astrology. But the
Congress had been opposed
to this idea at that time.
When the Congress
came to power Arjun
Singh became HRD
Minister and
spent five
years of his
tenure to
push for
Joshis agen-
da. The
reason that
the
Congress
gave for
opposing
the move
was that it
would only
promote com-
munal
agenda.
But
finally, the
PMO has
woken from
its slumber
and given
instructions
to promote
morality in schools.
Definitely, a right move.
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T
he horrific rape of a 23-year-old woman and her subse-
quent passing a fortnight later has overwhelmed the
sentiments of many in this nation. An attempt to write,
therefore, about the incident and its aftermath seems
superfluous. The outpouring of intense and spontaneous
feelings across the country and among different segments
of the people is compelling in its impact. To attempt to the-
orise any of this appears lame, at least to this columnist.
Nevertheless, there are a few issues that need to be placed
on record and debated upon. Ironically, this is possibly the
best time to find a receptive readership for such ideas.
The first thing I believe we must note is this rape is
not about obtaining sexual satisfaction by force. The
moment we buy the masculine lust theory, we naturally
seek to normalise the act of rape by blaming westernisa-
tion, pornography, fracture of core Indian values, men-
are-like-this-only and so on. Incidents of rape stem from a
mindset that considers women objects and playthings for
men; sexual assault is an extreme form of domination and
subjugation. Indias braveheart was a tough one. She resist-
ed, she hit out, and she bit her assaulters. The fact that she
resisted and attempted to defend her friend (a man) must
have been the real trigger for the heinous physical assault
that accompanied the sexual violence she was subjected to.
Men have difficulty dealing with assertive women. Some
employ snide comments and insidious strategies to put
women down, other resort to the instrument of rape. The
basic mindset, I am sorry to state, is not very different. The
benefit of somewhat better socialisation helps to ensure that
not all misogynists become rapists when the opportunity
arises. We may worship Ma Durga (Beauvoir once
remarked that we respect women only as Goddesses,
priestesses and prophetesses) for what she did up there, but
down here, our culture treats women as conveniences at
home, sexual objects in public, a liability in the family, and
superfluous in the larger strategies of self and society.
We have filled forms all our lives. Have you ever asked
why ones identity is confirmed by having to inevitably name
ones father/husband? When my father-in-law recently had a
cataract surgery, my wife deftly scratched out father/hus-
band, and instead wrote the patients wifes name. She is his
life partner, married more than 30 years. The stakes were the
highest for her. And for a 69-year-old man to have to cite his
father as confirmatory of his identity is almost bemusing.
What about his life partner? Can a woman not be the source
of identity for a man? When a Hindi movie hero bemoans
the fact that in this life he cant possess the damsel of his
dreams, but in the next life he will, we laud his fine senti-
ments. Do we question the fact that the very idea of possess-
ing her turns her into an agency-less commodity, as in Kal
Ho Na Ho? When at weddings the clear division lines
between ladki and ladkawallahs become the determinant for
every custom and practice, do we question how patently
unfair the arrangement is? I believe I am only scratching the
superficial and more visible face of the problem.
Unfortunately, the debates on the gang rape have cen-
tred less on gender justice and womens freedom and more
on values (especially Indian) and what womanhood entails.
Even our rape laws are defined in a manner that privileges
the male. Rape occurs, according to law, only in the case of
penal-vaginal intercourse. Therefore, a person who may
use an iron rod to rape another cant be prosecuted for
rape/sexual assault.
Our politicians and our people talk of stricter punish-
ment for rapists. It is as if by putting to death or chemi-
cally castrating our rapists we will expiate our collective
guilt for giving women such a bad deal in Indian society.
The time has come for us to look within and not outside
for answers. The rapists in the present case exist in the
dehumanised fringes of society. People better off than they
display worse sensibilities towards women (dented/paint-
ed, par kati, nachne gane wali, and so on). I am glad the
State is strong and will in all probability, ensure justice. I
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Now Dolhi, January 6, 2013

W
e may not have been a witness to how
horse-drawn ploughs were replaced
by tractors in Europe and America. We may
not have seen how machines were used to
harvest crops instead of humans in the US
and in Europe.
But in India we were a witness to how
instead of bulls (bail) being used to plough
the fields, it is tractors now. We have also
seen how farm machinery is slowly replac-
ing humans. How does this change happen?
Most often, things dont end abruptly. They
end because they have been replaced. In my
own lifetime so many things have changed
and disappeared. But they have disappeared
because they were replaced. Bullock carts,
for instance, are no longer used by bride-
grooms to reach the wedding venue. The
carts have been replaced by vehicles.
Wooden footwear disappeared because a
replacement came into being rubber
chappals and or even leather footwear.
Caste system has existed in our country
for centuries. It hasnt disappeared. Is it
because there was no replacement for it?
Well, the truth is that the caste system is
slowly but steadily loosens its grip in urban
and industrial towns. In many villages in
Tamil Nadu till a few years back, roadside
tea shops would keep three sets of tea cups
one for the non-Dalits, one for Dalits
and one for those whose caste they shop
owner found difficult to spot. But Chennai
is liberal. This is because metros around the
world give freedom to citizens. Material
gain takes precedence over everything else.
People dont care much for the social fabric
if it means more money. The very opposite
happens in villages.
Cities gave rise to slums. The world
over, slums are hell holes. Life span can be
shorter in these places. But there is a silver
lining. Slums are relatively caste free. It is
another matter that most of the slum
dwellers belong to lower caste, Dalits and
people from the Minority community. But
not all are from lower caste. There are peo-
ple from the upper caste living in slums.
Not that is matters, since even in villages
there are not many people who belong to
the upper caste.
As I see it, from my frequent trips to
slums, a Brahmin is a Brahmin, a Thakur a
Thakur, Yadav a Yadav, a Dalit a Dalit. And
this is where the class distinction ends. The
Brahmin living in the slum has no authority
over the other people who belong to the
lower caste or are Dalits.
Slum dwellers are united on one front
they all belong to the economic weaker sec-
tion of the society that is why they live in
slums. There are millions of Dalits who live
in cities and towns. They are businessmen,
professionals, white collar workers in
Government and private sector and of
course, officers working for the
Government. It goes without saying that
none live in slums.
In Delhi, there have been three group
housing schemes where only Dalit officers
can come together and build apartments.
All three schemes are showings signs of fail-
ure. The Dalits want to live in houses/apart-
ments that have no social markers. If there
are any social markers they should be high-
er in social terms.
In the summer of 2012, I found some-
thing interesting. Non-Dalit families living
in slums didnt have wedding invitation
cards printed in English. Dalit slum dwellers
too didnt have invitation cards written in
English. Dalit or no Dalit, no middle class
family would like to invite a guest who lives
in slums or in housing colonies meant for a
certain community. They would also be
rarely seen participating in a wedding tak-
ing place in a slum.
However, I have seen many non-Dalit
guests in Dalit weddings and vice versa.
This of course, doesnt mean that the caste
order has disappeared. But the step in the
right direction has been taken.
In 1971, 82.43 per cent Indians made a
living from agriculture. Today, a mere 52
per cent Indians livelihood depends on agri-
culture. India is thus transforming from
being an agriculture-based economy to
non-agriculture. India is also transforming
from being a rural to urban society.
In the US, a mere 18 per cent people
live in the countryside and less than a per
cent of the population makes a living from
farming. What will happen if 52 per cent
turned urban and a mere 10 per cent
Indians lived on agriculture? A different
class society will come into existence. Like
all things that have disappeared, caste too
will disappear. It may not disappear the way
we would have liked but it will loose its
importance. Hence, the talk of India as a
caste-neutral society.
For the first time, in the countrys histo-
ry the class is turning into a force. A
Brahmin should stop cursing a fellow
Brahmin who lives in an apartment and
didnt open his door for him because he
lives in a slum. Likewise, a Dalit slum
dweller should not expect a fellow Dalit
who lives in an apartment to attend a wed-
ding in the slum. With industrialisation and
urbanisation, India will have a society that
will come into being with only one condi-
tion destroy caste society. The scrooge
for centuries will have to go.
Lets start preparing for tackling class-
based problems.
Not so oasy or
tho Consorvativos
T
he new year is always a season of predictions. Its a neat way of
wrapping up the events of the past and looking forward to the
year ahead. Its tempting to use these moments to make forecasts, but
as any weatherman will tell you, predicting the medium-term future
can be a mugs game.
Think back on the events of 2012. A year ago, you would have
struggled to predict 185 Team GB Olympic medals, a man skydiving
from space, a royal baby and a billion YouTube views for a South
Korean pop star. Now consider making a prediction for the 2015
general election. Its easy to see the limitations here. Over Christmas,
Ive read forecasts from commentators on every side. Ive heard argu-
ments and predictions. But I treat them all with a pinch of salt, and
those that make firm predictions with a bucket of the stuff. Were still
two and a half years from an election, and theres much more to
come.
As Conservative Party chairman, its my job to win a
Conservative majority at the next election. But that wont be
achieved through fearing the ghosts of the political Right, or obsess-
ing over the fortunes of others. We cant be cowed by the criticisms
of those whod have us give up at this stage.
Instead, what will matter come 2015 will be our record on solid
issues such as welfare, jobs and education. In these areas like
many others were already offering real substance in Government.
We offer a controlled immigration policy thats seen a quarter
drop in net immigration, job creation thats seen employment levels
at an all-time high, and deficit reduction thats seen a quarter slashed
from the deficit. These are solid, hard-won achievements that we
should be proud of, and that we must do more to promote.
Were also making the case for a strong Britain in the global race.
Things are changing fast in Europe and beyond. We live in a fast-
paced, globalised society today. But that doesnt mean we should roll
over and let any outside power decide whats best for our country.
The Prime Ministers use of the European veto demonstrates what it
means to put Britain first. Today, Conservatives are protecting our
national interest, just as our predecessors have done for centuries
before us.
Still, our nation is changing. Its humbling for Conservatives that,
even though our core values are shared by many ethnic minority vot-
ers, too few of them felt able to vote with us at the last general elec-
tion. We are reaching out to these communities like never before. Of
course, theres more work to do in the years ahead, but were in line
with these voters, not at odds with them. We share their values on
family, education and financial responsibility.
Contrast that with the empty rhetoric of the Labour Party. A
chaotic policy review still leaves them with no policies or substance
to speak of deflecting a proper assessment of their prospects thus
far.
And opposition is no excuse just think back to the Labour
oppositions of the past. By this point in his opposition, Tony Blair
had a wide raft of policy proposals at hand, right down to minibus
safety procedures. So are there any shorter-term predictions I am
prepared to make now for 2013? There are a few things I can say
with certainty.
First, I can predict that well soon have candidates in the 40 seats
that we must win to provide this country with a Conservative major-
ity at the next election. I know this because weve already started to
select them. The first are in place, and Ill be visiting each candidate
to launch their campaign.
Second, I can confirm that as a party well be focusing our efforts
on the entire nation. Were targeting seats in all parts of the country;
we are not just bolstering support in our heartlands though they
will be supported but reaching out to new supporters in areas
where we traditionally havent done as well, both in terms of location
and demographic.
And third, I can confidently say that 2013 will be no mere stag-
ing post in political history. This will be the year that Iain Duncan
Smiths universal credit will start to take effect. It will be a truly his-
toric moment, when we ensure that in this country work always
pays. Our determined deficit reduction programme will continue.
And well make further progress with our school reforms, putting
rigour and standards back at the heart of education.
There are some lessons to learn from the past. Mid-term
Governments often find the going tough. Ministers in the Thatcher
administrations would have gladly exchanged our eight-point poll
deficit for their far larger double-digit shortfalls yet they still went
on to return large working majorities at the following general elec-
tions. But I apply no more weight to these historical comparisons
than to the claims of those who say we cannot win next time. We are
operating in the present.
And in that present, there is a long and difficult road ahead. On
the way to 2015, our fate will be as much determined by the journey
as it is by the destination. There are challenges to come, but our
objective is clear. For any commentator to claim that we wont win
the next election, or indeed for me to say that we will, is entirely pre-
sumptuous. In the end you, as a voter, and millions of others across
this country, will determine who governs this nation.
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he entire country is united in
agitating for justice in the
horrific Delhi gangrape case. So,
former Chief Minister and BSP
chief Mayawati took the lead in
demanding that at least all politi-
cal parties in Uttar Pradesh
should take steps to ensure that
parties dont give tickets to
persons with a criminal
background especially
those accused of rape.
Perhaps Behenji for-
got that just before elec-
tions all the parties
make tall promises.
However, it goes with-
out saying that these
political promises are
made only to be bro-
ken. No wonder we find
that post-poll nearly all
the parties turn their
backs to all the vows
made. As a result, we
find that the number of
persons against whom
several criminal charges
including rape are
pending win with no
opposition. In fact, it
has been found that on
many occasions some even go
on to becoming Cabinet
Ministers of a ruling party.
Investigations have
revealed that at least four MLAs
including a Minister are allegedly
accused of rape charges.
However, since the cases are
pending in a court of law the
MLAs, many of whom belong to
the ruling party, are roaming
scot-free. The argument given by
politicians is that charges against
the MLAs is generally the doing
of their opponents in an effort to
malign them and their respective
parties.
Most tell you that the cases
against them are dis-
missed after a span
of time. Despite
the fact that the
rate of convic-
tion is very low,
in some cases,
the politicians
are found to be
guilty even if it is
after a prolonged
period of time.
It is sur-
prising that
when it
comes to
admitting
tainted
leaders
in
their
respec-
tive parties,
the leaders
often argue that
these people have
mended their ways
when they joined their party. But
as long as they are in the
Opposition they continue to be
tainted. In fact, a senior leader
had stated that even those
accused of criminal charges
should be given an opportunity
to improve their conduct.
Considering that Uttar
Pradesh is second to none as far
as crime against women is con-
cerned, the statement doesnt
come as a surprise. Of course, it
is quite a different matter that the
recent rarest of rare Delhi gan-
grape has compelled all sections
of society to mend their ways.
What remains to be seen is
whether or not such instances are
eye-openers and bring about the
much needed change in our
political system or at least make
an effort to screen the tainted
leaders so that they do not reach
the State Legislature.
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Recently, Mayawati had rea-
son enough to chuckle. At her
luncheon Press meet Behenji had
time to have a chit chat with the
mediapersons. I am sure the
move may come as a surprise to
all since she remained elusive as
long as she was at the helm of
affairs in the State.
In fact, even journalists were
kept at bay. The only time when
they did get an opportunity to
interact with the former Chief
Minister was whenever she invit-
ed them for a Press conference
and even then she was known to
leave once she had had her say.
So, it was rather surprising
when at the meet, Mayawati per-
sonally met all those who were
present. Obviously, the BSP chief
was all ears when the topic came
to discussing Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadavs style of func-
tioning. After attacking the SP
Government for its failure in
maintaining law and
order, she criticised
Akhilesh in tackling
the problems of the
State.
However,
Behenji had a
hearty laugh
and chuckled
when the jour-
nalists told her
that many
senior bureaucrats
and even media-
person who
had gone to
wish the
Chief
Minister
Akhilesh Yadav
happy New Year
at his Kalidas
Marg residence
had to return disap-
pointed since they
were made to wait
endlessly.
Quite another
matter that Behenji
had earlier said
that those who had voted enthu-
siastically for the SP would soon
regret their decision.
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Party leaders are known for
their off-their-cuff remarks,
which leave their parties red
faced. The senior leaders are left
to defend the slip of tongue.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay
Singh and senior Minister
Beni Prasad Verma are
known for their loose
remarks which embar-
rasses their party
leadership.
Just the other
day, political cir-
cles were sur-
prised at the state-
ment by senior
Samajwadi Party
Minister who did not
hesitate in promising
jobs to party workers.
His statement sparked
a debate that if all
the ruling parties
offer jobs to their par-
tymen what about those
actually eligible for such
jobs? In fact, the debate was
on why party members are
not keen to get jobs through
the regular channel?
In the past, a senior SP
Minister had made several
comments in which he acciden-
tally defended bribes. Later on
the matter was clarified but only
after the Ministers statement
had created ripples in the politi-
cal circles.
An observer rightly com-
mented: Senior political leaders
should measure their words
which reflect their partys princi-
ples.
I
felt proud to be born in
India. The land is known
for women Goddesses like
Durga, Lakshmi and
Saraswati. This is a country
where we worship small girls,
during navratras. We have
immense faith in our
Goddesses and believe that a
woman is the face of
Goddess Durga.
We have had leaders like
late former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi. We have
women like Congress presi-
dent Sonia Gandhi, former
President Pratibha Patil, Lok
Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar,
and numerous NGOs and
Government bodies that are
headed by women who look
after the welfare and rehabili-
tation of women. But has this
made any difference to the
way women are treated in
India? Or are these just sym-
bolic posting. Ive the utmost
respect for the women who
reach the top through deter-
mination, grit and hard
work.
Weve got Chief
Ministers like Sheila Dikshit,
Jayalalithaa and Mamata
Banerjee. Is this not women
empowerment? But I wonder
what empowerment means
to them. It is sad that none of
these women have come for-
ward and spoken against the
men involved in the gan-
grape of the 23-year-old.
These powerful women
could have joined hands, for-
gotten their political differ-
ences and talked of real
empowerment of the women.
For centuries, women have
been fighting for their rights
and raising their voice
against the injustices meted
out to them to no avail.
People are talking about
fast track courts to deal with
cases of rapes and stricter
and harsher punishment for
perpetrators. There is talk of
making changes in the law.
Why is it that these changes
are not being made. It is not
as if a policy change over this
issue is likely to eat into a
partys votebank.
It took the Congress
president five days to come
out and talk to the protesters.
It took the Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Home
Minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde more time to address
the nation. What was proba-
bly added salt to the wounds
was the fact that both the
Prime Minister and the
Home Minister have three
daughters each. But these
daughters are surrounded by
security and probably they
have never travelled in a
public transport. Did any of
these women meet any rape
victim? Did any of these
daughters come out in the
public and speak against the
callous and careless manner
in which rape cases are treat-
ed? Did any one of them ever
plead for quick decisions in
such cases? Not one a single
woman leader has come out
and spoken against this
heinous act of crime. Some
of these women are in-charge
of running a State, they are
all savvy when it comes to
dealing with the media and
how to woo the voters, but
this is obviously a no com-
ment area!
Its shameful that all
these women really do not
understand the ground reali-
ty. They dont know the day-
today harassment that
women face in the country.
How they struggle to keep
their dignity intact. The only
reason why most dont speak
out is because they are
women and they cant raise
their voice against any injus-
tice done to them.
Its impossible to even
think of justice in a society
that is male dominated. The
Government, it appears, is
not bothered with what hap-
pens to the women in the
country. I sometimes feel
that we should have dictator-
ship in India. We need a per-
son at the helm who can
crack the whip. One cant
have the Commissioner of
Police smiling on TV. Did he
not know that this time it
was not a photo opportunity?
Everything that one sees
today has become so fake.
Promises appears to be
empty and the public feels
helpless. I wonder if the
Government would have
been just as apathetic had it
been a daughter of one of the
politicians? Unfortunately,
the victim was only a aam
aadmi and hence the system
is not too concerned. The
Government does what it
does best destroy the aam
aadmis hopes and dreams.
In the present scenario, it
has become very difficult for
us to place our trust in the
women leaders. One sees
them talking in front of the
camera for the news chan-
nels. But none have the
courage to join the agitation.
The politicians had better
beware.
Women empowerment
in India is just limited to
conversation within our
drawing rooms, it will never
happen. Women reservation,
laws for women are all very
good topics to discuss but
that is where it all ends.
Nobody wants to see women
have real power. But the
Government needs to wake
up from its slumber and act.
Today, I feel ashamed to
be an Indian. I feel sad that I
was born a women in this
country. My heart goes out to
girls who are not safe even in
theirs homes. We need a
Government which takes
steps to curb acts of violence
against women immediately.
But for now, it appears to
be a distant dream.
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Caste order can't be
replaced in ndia but it
is slowly loosening its
grip. The centuries old
system is bound to end
though not the way
some of us may want it
to be eradicated. The
fact that steps towards
caste neutral society
have been sowed
means we are on the
right track
I
n times of ever evolving technolo-
gy, Light-Emitting Diode (LED)
screens, that was the display ele-
ment for TVs, phones, monitors and
other electronic items have been
superseded by a new technology
called Organic Light-Emitting Diode
(OLED).
While, the rest of the electronic
items are already accustomed to this
technology, its latest venture in tele-
vision screens has got viewers baffled
around the world. OLED TV is a
step closer to flawless image viewing.
It is made from organic (carbon-
based) materials that emit light when
electricity is applied. It does not
require a backlight and filters (unlike
LCD displays), it is more efficient,
simpler to make, and much thinner.
It has great picture quality, brilliant
colours, fast response rate and a
wider viewing angle, Mahesh
Krishnan, VP (consumer electron-
ics), Samsung India says.
OLED is built with a cathode
(which injects electrons), an emissive
layer and an anode (which removes
electrons). These devices use many
more layers in order to make the
working of the product more effi-
cient, however the basic functionality
is still the same.
It involves several steps: taking a
substrate, cleaning it, making the
backplane (the switching and driving
circuitry), depositing and patterning
the organic layers and finally encap-
sulation the whole thing to prevent
dust, oxygen and moisture damage.
There are several ways to
deposit and pattern the organic lay-
ers. Currently all such displays are
made using vacuum evaporation,
using a shadow mask (better known
as Fine Metal Mask) to pattern. This
is a relatively simple method but it is
inefficient and very difficult to scale
up to large substrates. There are sev-
eral alternatives for next-gen deposi-
tion techniques, including laser
annealing and inkjet printing. These
methods are scaled more efficiently
than vacuum deposition, Rohit
Pandit, business head-home enter-
tainment at LG Electronics India tells
you.
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There are several types of OLED
materials. The most basic division is
between small-molecule OLEDs and
large molecule ones (called polymer
OLEDs, or P-OLEDs). Almost all
OLEDs made today are SM-OLED
based. These materials are evap-
orable and far more advanced than
P-OLEDs. Also commonly used in
OLEDs include organometallic
chelates fluorescent and phosphores-
cent dyes and conjugated den-
drimers. Fluorescent dyes can be
chosen to obtain light emission at
different wavelengths, and com-
pounds such as perylene, rubrene
and quinacridone derivatives are
often used.
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The OLED utilises cells which
respond ultra quickly to light, and
measures signal response time in
microseconds which is lower than
the millisecond response rate in
LCDs. What this essentially means is
that blacks on an OLED screen
should look as dark as your worst
nightmare, which means the picture
will look ultra bright and dynamic.
Plasma TVs work by using an array
of ionised gas cells which activate to
produce colour. Tests have shown
that plasma sets tend to produce sig-
nificantly better images than LCD
when viewed on 50+ inch sets as well
as having a great range of picture
contrast and greyscale options.
However they wont give you the
same depth of colour as a plasma or
an OLED screen, Pandit tells you.
OLED longevity tends to be the
shortest out of the three platforms as
the power that the cells consume
lasts approximately 30,000 hours.
LCD displays come in at around
60,000 hours with a plasma of the
same size coming in at a lower rate.
Though one may be quoted a higher
lifespan by the manufacturer, it all
depends on the maintainence of the
TV set, and making sure its pro-
grammed to work at its optimum
level. All three sets will wear with
time, and this doesnt mean they will
fail completely, but picture quality
will lower as some as pixels get burnt
out.
While LG and Samsung have
both started mass production in
55inch to 80inch TV sets, it is only a
matter of time before consumers in
India are able to own the latest
gizmo for their entertainment.
The 55-inch EM9600 is LGs
answer to the OLED display technol-
ogy in TVs. The picture quality is
not affected by viewing angle or
ambient brightness. Contrast and
colour deterioration are non-exis-
tent due to the RGBW display that
LG uses. The problem of motion jud-
der is addressed as well. The TV has
a 120Hz refresh rate that does a great
job of smoothing out any fast
motion, Pandit concludes.
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F
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technological marvel by
the US Department of
Defence to make two com-
puters talk, the Internet has
travelled a long journey,
making the world a village
in the process. But while the
West has milked the Net to
its optimum, India hasnt
really caught up.
Going by what the
experts say, the next 30 years
of the Internet are set to
belong to India. A study by
industry body Assocham
and Internet analytics firm
ComScore says India is the
fastest growing among the
BRIC nations, adding over
18 million users annually at
a rate of 41 per cent.
In 2007, China had a
subscriber base of 100 mil-
lion. Today, it is 550 million.
India currently has a sub-
scriber base of 125 million
and is in the phase of growth
like that of China. However,
there are issues like power
failures and poor infrastruc-
ture, said Milan Sheth, part-
ner and technology industry
leader, advisory services,
Ernst & Young.
Many say if not for
Indias crippling telecom
infrastructure, the Internet
growth in the country would
have been much higher,
given the demand from rural
population. But Sheth feels
with more people having
mobile phones, this scenario
will now change.
T Srinivasan, MD, India
and Saarc, VMWare, a cloud
computing firm, said: As
devices such as mobiles,
PCs, laptops become more
and more affordable, the
penetration of the internet
have also grown substantial-
ly, not only in urban cities,
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rough and tumble bounty hunter who tracks down
outlaws for moolah. Using a special weapons system
that gives a whole new meaning to live ammo, play-
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along the way.
The game combines first and third-person game-
play with familiar Oddworld elements and an all-new
engine to deliver a unique gameplay experience.
Originally released in 2005, Strangers Wrath has been
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improved character models as well as new detail-
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shadowing,) re-mastered dialogue and additional
bonus material.
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bow but gives you a variety
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other small forest creatures.
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up when you let it sit for a second or two. The normal
shot is essentially worthless, but when its charged up,
you can use it to power bridges and other things in the
environment. While youll have a variety of ways to
take out the opposition, the important thing is what
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pages of a book. Nothing is as
thrilling or self satisfying as los-
ing yourself in someone elses
story, open in your hands. On a
day when the rain is pounding on
the outside world havent we all
immersed ourselves in a book, a
steaming cup of coffee or a glass
of Glenlivet at our side. Groucho
Marx was right when he said:
Outside of a dog, a book is a
mans best friend. However, just
like our personal tastes, fashion
movements in the world and the
economies of countries fluctuate
year to year, literary trends also
change.
According to USA Today's
list for the year 2009, the fiction
best seller chart was dominated
by Stephanie Meyers vampire
romance the Twilight series. In
the year 2010, Steig Larsons
crime and thriller series, The Girl
With The Dragon Tattoo took the
global literary markets by storm
and ended up number one on the
best seller list. In 2011 there was
not one series that dominated the
best seller charts but a mesh of
few books. On top of the chart
that year was Kathryn Stocketts
The Help, a story set in 1960s of
African American maids working
in a white conservative American
household. Second on the list was
Suzanne Collins first young-adult
book, Hunger Games set in a post
apocalyptic time.
The year 2012 saw some new
genres making to the world wide
best seller list. The most surpris-
ing was the one that has already
sold over 20 millions copies in
the US and over 12 million
copies in the UK. It is none other
than the erotica series Fifty
Shades of Grey by the UK-based
author EL James. It is the story of
love that blossoms between the
virgin college graduate Anastasia
Steele and the young business
tycoon Christian Grey whose
sexual preferences include
bondage, discipline, sadism and
masochism. The writing may not
have wowed the critics, yet the
books sales numbers tell a com-
pletely different story.
Paranormal and fantasy in
young adult genre continued to
rake good numbers but vampires
seem to be loosing their fan fol-
lowing. Chick lit and the
romance genre too continued to
do what it does best provide the
much needed comfort to those
looking for interesting read that
would elicit laughs and leave
them warm in the right places.
One franchise which deserves
a special mention in this article
studying literary trends is the The
Diary of Wimpy Kid series by Jeff
Kinney. The franchise now stands
at $500 million value inclusive of
the books and movies.
Globally, in the past decade
the genre which has evolved at a
very fast pace and developed a
fanatical following is the young-
adult genre. Young readers have
gone way past the traditional,
perfectly put together investigat-
ing teenage characters. The
Nancy Drew, The Famous Five
and The Hardy Boys stand now
replaced with magical and flawed
characters like Harry Potter, Bella
Swan, Edward Cullen and Katniss
Everdeen.
Post the world literary trends,
lets take a quick snapshot of the
latest Indian trends. For the year
2012 the top fiction spot was
occupied by the Secrets of Nagas,
a mythology tale stirred with fan-
tasy, by Amish Tripathi. It is see-
ing similar success like its prede-
cessor, The Immortals of Melhua.
Chetan Bhagats Two States: A
Story Of My Marriage too figured
as one of the top seller of the
year. In non-fiction category
Steve Jobs biography by Walter
Isaacson dominated the charts.
In the past few years several
new Indian authors wrote their
debut books and enjoyed the
pleasure of seeing their fruits of
love and labour become best sell-
ers. Leading the list is Aravind
Adigas The White Tiger which
was a recipient of the coveted
Booker Prize. Ravinder Singhs I
too had a love story, Advaita
Kalas Almost Single, Ravi
Subramanians If God Was A
Banker and my own Right Fit
Wrong Shoe received a lot of
appreciation from the readers.
These names are just a tip of the
ice berg.
One thing to take from this
article is that these global or
national literary trends don't pre-
dict which book or which genre
is going to be the next big thing
in the publishing industry.
However it tells us that a well
developed plot, strong characters
and a fascinating thought will
always attract and enthrall read-
ers enough to create new records.
but my metabolism is
such that I dont gain
weight as much as these
young actors do. But then
again, if you see the kind of
characters I have played in
recent years, I never had
the need to flaunt biceps or
my bare torso, the 56-year-
old tells you. The mous-
tache is because of my
Pathani lineage. I did try
chopping it off in couple of
films like Lamhe and
Salaam-e-Ishq, but my fam-
ily criticised me and
laughed at me, Kapoor
reveals.
With over a 100 films to
his name now, the actor has
not only given back-to-back
blockbusters for over three
decades but has also man-
aged to chart a path
towards Hollywood in his
already illustrious career.
His presence in foreign pro-
jects has earned him the
nickname Mr
International.
Little do people know
that his entry into
Hollywood was instrument-
ed by his son Harshvardhan
Kapoor who insisted he
should be a part of Slumdog
Millionaire. As a matter of
fact, Kapoor hadnt even
heard of Danny Boyle
before. Getting into
Hollywood wasnt a con-
scious effort. I had received
a call from Danny Boyles
office and was offered the
part of Prem Kumar. At that
time, I was busy with other
projects but my son keen
and he read the script. He
was so impressed by it that
he forced me to get in touch
with Danny and take up
this role. I told Danny when
I met him how my son had
persuaded me, he says.
Talking about the dif-
ference in the work styles of
Hollywood and Bollywood,
Kapoor explains that the
basics remain the same
though there are differences
at other levels. People
there are more committed
and focused towards minor
detailing. One has to realise
that unlike us, they cater to
a global audience while the
Bollywood global audience
is limited to NRIs living
abroad. Moreover, the
money invested in one
Hollywood project is a hun-
dred times more than ours.
Even an average budget
film there has a budget in
thousands of crores. Also,
in-terms of technology, they
are far ahead of us, he
explains.
Anil Kapoors
Hollywood endeavours have
not only won him accolades
but also made him one of
the few to represent India at
the global platform. My
travels and projects have
given me a lot of exposure
in terms of meeting great
personalities, working with
greater filmmakers and
understanding the scope of
cinema at the global level.
There are quite some mem-
ories from these ventures.
Working with Tom Cruise
in Mission Impossible,
exchanging culture and val-
ues with him and playing
President Omar Hassan in
the original version of 24
are some of my most beau-
tiful memories. I have also
made lots of friends world-
wide in the process, he
says.
Being a seasoned actor,
Kapoor has worked with
every major and minor pro-
duction house in
Bollywood. While he has
fond memories of working
with all, he feels special
about working with Yash
Chopra and Subhash Ghai,
with whom he was closest
to in the industry.
These filmmakers are
geniuses. I am quite fortu-
nate to have worked with
them. Films like Chameli Ki
Shaadi, Who Saat Din, Mr
India, 1942: A Love Story
and Lamhe are cult classics.
The scripts of these films
were unique and meaning-
ful. They catered to both
the masses and the classes.
Despite being commercial
films, they attracted those
who thrive on parallel cine-
ma, he tells you.
Although, the actor is
considered a commercial
superstar with minimal
dabbling in parallel cinema,
feels he has done enough. I
have done quite a few art
films like My Wifes Murder,
Black and White, 1942: A
Love Story and so on. I
dont do films on the basis
of what audience it caters to
but the characters that
excite me. Another thing
with me is that I have to
feel it to play a character,
he asserts. Feel it or not,
most of his roles have had a
memorable impact. The
actor became a producer
dabbing with parallel cine-
ma, his first production was
the critically acclaimed
Gandhi My Father, starring
Akshaye Khanna in the lead
role.
Kapoor, not particularly
known for his research
work for a character was a
different man when it came
to his film Black and White.
To prepare for this intense
character, he decided to
recee the location thats sit-
uated opposite the Red Fort
in Delhi all by himself, just
to get the feel of the
bustling neighbourhood
and its people. To avoid get-
ting mobbed, he resorted to
a time-tested formula often
used by Bollywood actress-
es to move in public
wearing a burqa.
Disguised in a burqa, I
hit the narrow gullies of the
buzzing Chandni Chowk. I
kept walking the streets,
observing people till I came
across a resident who found
something suspicious about
this lady in black and
raised an alarm. I gathered
pace to keep the people off
his trail, but couldnt shake
them off in the over-crowd-
ed bylane. Soon, policemen
came to the spot. But before
things could get unsavoury,
I raised the veil and
revealed my identity to
locals who were baffled to
see a Bollywood star amidst
them, he recalls.
Not many people know
that Kapoor is also a classi-
cally trained singer. He was
trained under Chhote Iqbal,
who has also trained people
like Nitin Mukhesh and
Laxmikant Pyarelals daugh-
ter Rajeshwari. He recorded
a few ghazals and nazms
back then. But his claim to
fame remains the title track
of Chameli Ki Shaadi,
which the actor sung him-
self.
After doing genres like
action, comedy, family-
drama, suspense, negative
roles, Hollywood, becoming
a producer and now dab-
bling with the telly with his
Indian adaptation of the
famous American TV series
24, Kapoor is not done as
yet. I want to meet more
personalities. Learning
never stops in terms of
films and life. I have had
the privilege to meet great
individuals like the Dalai
Lama, former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh,
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and many more and
learnt so much from them.
I want to do more work as
that is what keeps me
young and going. I also
want to ensure that my
family and my childrens
future is secured, he tells
you.
While on his family,
Kapoor recalls how he met
his wife Sunita back in his
school days. We fell in love
then and there. I wouldnt
exactly say love at first sight
but definitely third or
fourth. We dated through-
out High School and then
in college, after which we
got married. We have three
children Sonam, Rhea
and Harshvardhan. I am a
relieved that both my
daughters have carved a
career for themselves. I am
now eager to see my son
settle down, the father in
the actor says.
Indeed, it has been
quite a journey for this
ever-young star. There are
a few moments that have
stayed with me. My fondest
moment is when my idol
Raj Kapoor offered me a
film. The film may have got
stashed but the feeling was
out of this world. The other
memorable moment was
when, I, being the senior
most actor in the film
Slumdog Millionaire, was
asked to deliver a speech at
a summit in the US. I was
also overwhelmed when I
won the National Award for
Pukar and when I went to
the Oscars for Slumdog
Millionaire. I remember, I
couldnt control my emo-
tions there. My wife kept
SMSing me, Try to control
yourself! It was such a
grand moment. As far as
friends are concerned, I am
friendly with most of my
contemporaries, seniors,
juniors and am friends with
some of my daughters co-
actors and friends too.
Jackie Shroff, Salman Khan
and Subhash Ghai are some
of the people I am closest
too. The problem that we
all face is that we are always
so busy with work that we
barely catch up with each
other but if anyone of us is
in need, we are always just a
phone call away, Kapoor
concludes.
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ll is clearly not well
with Indian tennis. If
the year 2012 saw the
face-off between
Leander Paes and
Mahesh Bhupathi over their doubles
partners for the London Olympics
grabbing the headlines, 2013 has
started on an equally somber note
thanks to an all out revolt by the
entire Davis Cup squad.
The Davis Cup tie with South
Korea, which is scheduled to be held
from February 1-3 in the capital, is
in danger of being cancelled with
the entire Indian squad of eight
players led by Somdev Devvarman,
threatening to boycott the tie.
The players, Somdev
Devvarman, Mahesh Bhupathi,
Rohan Bopanna, Yuki Bhambri,
Vishnu Vardhan, Sanam Singh,
Divij Sharan and Saketh Myneni -
- who form the core of the countrys
Davis Cup team, have joined hands
and sought more transparency from
AITA in matters related to the
functioning of Indias Davis Cup
team.
They are demanding some
changes in the way Davis Cup ties
are organised in India. A more ratio-
nal distribution of prize money,
change in support staff, smoother
travel arrangements and more
involvement of players in team
decisions are also included in the list
of demands which the players have
placed before the All India Tennis
Association (AITA).
The players also want the 70-
year-old non-playing captain S P
Mishra and coach Nandal Bal to be
replaced with immediate effect.
The players have also demanded
that their share in the revenue
earned through Davis Cup ties be
increased. The AITA and the play-
ers currently divide the prize money
from the Davis Cup equally.
The demands are not totally
unjustified, since adding a physio-
therapist to the national squad and
more money for the players will
serve to improve the level of per-
formance.
In fact, an efficient squad of
support staff is an essential part of
modern sport and it is surprising
that the AITA has never thought
about including a physiotherapist in
the squad.
But the AITAs initial reaction to
the whole issue was not a promis-
ing one. AITA Secretary General
Bharat Oza strongly criticized the
players for their action and dis-
missed the demand of replacing
Misra and Bal. Look, we have
experts to decide on these matters.
People like Misra are so experi-
enced. Earlier, we used to get sug-
gestions from star players such as
Leander (Paes) on surface prefer-
ences. But if players say that take this
tie to Tripura or some other city,
change the coach and captain, it
cant be done. We can consider their
suggestions for surface but not the
city. The respective state Association
also has be to ready to host a tie,
Oza said.
If they say change the coach or
captain, this is not done. There are
certain number of people, who
decide on this. Its (situation) like a
class room, where students com-
plain against their teachers. We have
a committee to decide on these seri-
ous matters, he added. We are
already discussing this matter but
the final decision will be commu-
nicated on January 11 when we have
the selection committee meeting for
the next Davis Cup tie.
Talking about the players
demand for an increased share in
revenue, Oza said the AITA lacks
sufficient funds to agree to such a
demand. We are not reserve bank.
Its difficult to raise money. Sponsors
do not come easily. We do not earn
much out of these these ties. Its
through personal contacts in PSUs
and with the MPs that we raise
money, he said. We have to beg for
money and they (players) want
money through Dadagiri (bully-
ing). As far as prize money break-
up is concerned, the federation
cannot be giving away all the money
won to players. If thats the case, the
players will have to bear their own
expenses and not expect anything
from AITA. Its unwelcome for
players to turn administrators. We
have to work within our own
domain and not encroach upon the
other, he added.
Oza said the AITA will intro-
duce a disciplinary code for players
before the February tie against
South Korea and only those who
sign the code, will be able to repre-
sent the country. We are coming up
with a disciplinary code. Whoever
wants to play, will have to sign that
code. The maximum, if these play-
ers do not turn up, is that well lose.
So be it, Oza said.
AITA CEO Hironmoy
Chatterjee, who is talking to the
players on behalf of the tennis
body, also expressed similar views.
According to him, some of the con-
cerns were reasonable but not the
demand to change support staff. He
also asserted that the AITA will not
tolerate the open indiscipline of the
players. There are a few good sug-
gestions. They want a change in
their support staff like the addition
of a full-time physio, which is not
wrong, Chatterjee added. We will
give them everything they need to
perform better. But if they are
adamant, we have to walk a differ-
ent path.
Chatterjee said that the players
are paid according to an agreement
and if they want to change it, they
will look into it. There is a pattern
that we follow. Lets see what can be
done. We have a nine-member
committee and we will discuss it, he
said. They ask if we have some say,
I said Yes you have. They have con-
cerns and its not a big issue. Theres
nothing wrong in it. They have
voiced it collectively and we will take
a collective decision and commu-
nicate it to them. They have some
concerns but the final decision will
be ours, he said. They have put for-
ward some views and not all of them
are pointless. Some of their
demands are acceptable but we
have told them that ultimately the
call will be ours.
I have spoken to them and
have heard their views. I will speak
to the committee members and
decide on the future course of
action, he added. They have been
told you can suggest but as play-
ers, they are supposed to play. They
cant be players, administrators and
selectors at the same time.
Chatterjee said the AITA would
not bow to player power, adding it
would also set a bad precedent for
other sports in the country. We
cannot force anyone to play. If one
doesnt want to play, he doesnt play,
he said.
There are other players avail-
able. There is no question of bow-
ing down. We will accept few
requests but not all. It will be
wrong to tolerate this indiscipline,
it will give a wrong signal to other
sporting factions. We have to be
very firm.
But with the players sticking to
their guns, the AITA made a com-
plete u-turn by Friday evening and
agreed to accept at least some of the
demands.
Terming the list of demands as
progressive, the national body
agreed to increase the share of prize
money for the players. While the
players will have to make do with a
50-50 ratio for Group II ties the
AITA decided to increase their
share for Group I and World Group
ties. SP Mishra also resigned from
his post as captain on the same day
The players suggestions are
progressive. If they want a change
in the (prize sharing) agreement
after 18 years, it is rightly so,
AITA President Anil Khanna said
on Friday.
While the issue brings out the
sorry state of affairs in tennis
administration and the rift between
the AITA and the players, the fact
that the entire Davis Cup squad
stood together in a bid to improve
the situation is worthy of applause.
It has forced the AITA officials
to improve the lot of the players and
is also an indication that if the fed-
eration continues to neglect the
development of the game in the
future, the players have the will to
take matters into their own hands.
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n tho lato-1980s, and or a timo botwoon 1987 and 1991,

Dovi Lal booamo a prominont playor on tho national
soono. Dooply rootod in tho politios and rural othos o
Haryana, ho was known or his oarthy wisdom and disdain
or all things that didn't it into his 'kisan' oxporionoo. A
partioular targot o his dorision was that sootion o tho
oountry that has oomo to bo known as 'ndia'-as opposod
to 'Bharat'. Tho truo roprosontativo o this land, Dovi Lal
usod to say, woro thoso whoso addrossos would bo
proixod with tho namo o tho vPO-villago Post Oioo.
t was an intorosting ormulation and porhaps
somothing that ovon Mahatma Gandhi with his utopian
notions o sol-suioiont villago oommunitios would havo
taoitly approvod. Tho problom was that it lot a lot o pooplo
(inoluding mysol) with a ooling o boing sooond-olass
oitizons. Urban ndia may woll bo tho Dovil's workshop but it
happons to bo tho only plaoo many ndians oan oall homo.
Nor is it aoourato to rogard rural ndia as tho natural
opioontro o virtuo and holinoss. n his liotimo, Babasahob
Ambodkar was oolipsod by tho largor-than-lio inluonoo o
tho Mahatma and tho Congross. But it is worth
romomboring that tho Dalit ioon always rogardod villago
ndia as tho oitadol o pro|udioo and opprossion against all
thoso who woro damnod or boing 'untouohablo' by birth.
Tho sol-govorning qualitios o tho looal panohayat
didn't inspiro Ambodkar. To him and to many who woro
oonoornod with oasto-basod opprossion, rural hiorarohios
didn't havo spaoo or thoso who woro oondomnod to livo
apart. Tho storootypo o happy ZXbP]bharvosting grain,
lankod by womon in oolourul olothos, didn't always
inoorporato tho brutal undorbolly o an ooonomio ordor
whoro somo oommunitios woro rogardod as sub-humans,
and thoir womon troatod as oommoditios.
Papo, tho PSS ohio assortod in Silohar last Friday, is
ossontially an 'ndian' phonomonon. Ho is only partially
right. Tho brutalisation o womon is moro widosproad in
tho ooosystoms o Bharat-and has boon so or oonturios.
Mohan Bhagwat is also ontiroly right whon ho
maintainod that tho rospoot or womon is idoalisod in
ndian oulturo. But ho would bo tho irst to admit that
traditional sooioty was loss than wolooming and appliod
vory dioront standards to thoso groups it rogardod as
boing outsido its sooial orbit-an attitudo that has boon
transmittod into tho widosproad disrospoot or whito,
womon tourists. Tho doop rovoronoo or 'stroo shakti' in
Bongal, or instanoo, didn't provont tho oruol oustom o
sati and tho sooial dogradation and soxual oxploitation o
widows by 'rospootablo' sootions o sooioty. t also didn't
provont oollootivo sanotion or tho soxual oxploitation o
womon rom tho 'lowor ordors'.
A oaturo o tho vibrant sooial roorm movomonts that
aroso in tho 19th and oarly-20th oonturios was thoir
willingnoss to irst admit tho shortoomings o Hindu sooioty
and thon addross tho quostion o possiblo romodios.
Somo o tho roormors-notably Pa|a Pam Mohan Poy and
Swami vivokananda-woro modornists and had imbibod
tho intollootual ourronts o tho Wost. But othors suoh as
Pandit shwar Chandra vidyasagar woro stoopod in
tradition and approaohod tho quostion o roorm rom a
humanist porspootivo. Tho point to noto is that or tho
Hindu stalwarts o tho past two oonturios, thoro was a oloar
undorstanding that tho Hindu, both as an individual and
as a oollootivo, wasn't tho opitomo o porootion.
n today's oontoxt, going by tho admission that
oosmopolitanism has distortod tho minds o 'ndia' and
onoouragod unwholosomo attitudos towards womon, tho
issuo to bo addrossod is: what oan bo dono to ohango
sooioty? Ator all, thoro must bo glaring imporootions in
tho modorn Hindu that aoilitatos tho roady aoooptanoo
o misogyny-tho uttoranoos o tho Congross MP rom
Jangipur and a sonior BJP ministor o Madhya Pradosh
boing two rooont oxamplos. ( am oonining my romarks
to Hindu sooioty booauso it sots tho tono or ndia.)
Moro to tho point, tho hoads o oultural organisations
suoh as tho PSS must bogin to ask why thoir unooasing
aotivism ovor moro than oight dooados hasn't altorod
things. Why havo tho bP\bZPaPbthoy havo sought to
inouloato in thoir ollowors not had a widor ooot on sooioty?
Maybo tho ault doosn't lio in tho bP\bZPaPb-although
a littlo loss patronising attitudo towards womon would holp
groatly-but in tho prioritios o groups that havo sought to
oroato a moral loadorship or ndia. thoro was groator
omphasis on rogonorating tho institutions o what goos by
tho namo Hinduism rathor than on oxoroising oontrol ovor
a politioal party, tho nation would havo boon bottor sorvod.
Thoro is littlo point oolobrating tho 150th birth
annivorsary o Swami vivokananda in stylo unloss tho
grand spooohos aro oomplomontod by sorious attompts
to oloanso tho tomplos o vonality, oastoism and ovon tho
oxploitation o womon dovotoos by porvortod priosts.
vivokananda spoko and wroto at longth o tho
Brahmanioal roligion's oruol indioronoo to tho plight o tho
Sudra and tho Chandal. Was ho oxonorating Bharat and
indioting ndia? Was ho oroating also binarios?
Any rapo, whothor it happons in Dolhi or rural Madhya
Pradosh, is a oollootivo blot on both ndia and Bharat.
Thoro is littlo point in saying that ono is pristino puro and
tho othor oontaminatod booauso it is |ust not truo. Wo aro
tho ohildron o tho samo oountry and togothor wo must
hang our hoads in shamo.
Papo is rapo, in
ndia as in Bharat
USUALSUSPECTS
SwAFAh 0AS0uFTA
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
H
igh drama took place at
former Army Chief
General VK Singhs residence
in New Delhi on Saturday
when a serving major
was detained by his family
for allegedly planting a
bug to intercept Gen Singhs
conversations.
This happened days after
the Government stripped Gen
Singh of his Z plus security.
The Major remained tight-
lipped before the media while
the Army took hours to claim
that he went there to remove
the telephone exchange.
However, the Major carried
no papers to show that he was
authorised to do so and the
Army had also not informed
Gen VK Singh or his family
about such a development.
What was more surprising
was that when he was detained
at the Mandir Marg residence
of Gen Singh, the Major
remained evasive and silent.
According to Gen Singhs
counsel Vishwajeet Singh,
Major R Vikram was not
stopped by the staff on duty as
he was in uniform but they
later apprehended and ques-
tioned him after his moves
were found to be suspicious.
The Generals family and
staff claimed that the officer
came without any notice or
prior permission and alleged
that he might have tried to bug
the exchange.
Major R Vikram of 1
Signals unit, who was in uni-
form, illegally entered the res-
idence of Gen Singh and
removed some cards from the
telephone exchange from the
room, which is also used for
security monitoring of the
house. The Major and his
team could not give any rea-
sonable logic for being here.
They had no valid documents.
They may have come to bug
the phone. We detained and
apprehended Major Vikram.
It is a case of criminal tres-
pass...we will take recourse to
all legal options available,
Vishwajeet Singh said.
Claiming that the Major
and his team had some
metal cards with them,
Vishwajeet Singh pointed out
that recently Gen Singhs
security had been withdrawn.
There could be something
big, he said.
The Major was allowed to
leave the bungalow in the can-
tonment area after General
Officer Commanding (GOC),
Delhi Area, Lieutenant-General
Subroto Mitra intervened and
spoke to the former chief s wife.
Turn to Page 6
Mkh1kI 8Ihh Q hEw 0ELh
A
middle-class woman, living
with her small-time actor
husband in a rented accom-
modation in Andheri East, has
won the ultimate prize money
on Kaun Banega Crorepati. 37-
year-old Sunmeet Kaur
Sawhney, a mother of two
teenaged girls, who takes pri-
vate tuitions to supplement her
husbands earnings, is the lucky
winner of C5 crore, the second
contestant to hit the jackpot
after Sushil Kumar from Bihar
did so in the 2011 season.
Sunmeet teaches children
in a Mumbai gurdwara. The
episode, shot on December
23, 2012 will be on air on
January 11, 2013. The jackpot
question was: Name the lady
who climbed the second high-
est mountain K2 in India. She
knew the answer right away.
Wanda Rutkeicz, she said
promptly and the money was
hers. She will finally get to take
away C3.5 crore after taxes.
It took a long time to sink
in. Mr Amitabh Bachchan had
to come and hug me for me to
believe that I had won C5
crore. My husband also had to
come and tell me the same and
only then did it sink in, she
said amid a gaggle of interviews
she was busy giving the whole
of Saturday.
Turn to Page 6
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
T
he disclosure of police inac-
tion by the friend of the
December 16 gang-rape victim
has triggered a major row with
the Delhi Police denying the
boys allegation, Union Home
Minister Sushilkumar Shinde
refusing to comment on the
revelations and the Opposition
BJP condemning the Delhi
Police action against Zee News
which aired the interview of the
late para-medics friend, saying
it is an attempt to muzzle the
voice of the people and an
attack on freedom of the Press.
The 28-year-old male
friend of the gang-raped victim
told Zee News on Friday that
police delayed taking his griev-
ously injured friend to hospi-
tal on that fateful night while
they argued over jurisdiction-
al area, losing precious time in
rushing her to hospital that
might have proven crucial in
saving her.
Union Home
Minister Sushilkumar
Shinde refused to get
into the controversy
over the claims of the
gang-rape victims
friend, saying he
would comment only
after knowing the
facts. I would not like
to comment on the issue. I will
comment only after I get a detail
report on it, he told reporters.
After the sensational inter-
view of the victims friend, Delhi
Police slapped a case against Zee
TV under Section 228 (A) of the
IPC. It pertains to the disclosure
of the identity of a victim of cer-
tain offences, including rape.
Turn to Page 6
Related reports on P5, 7
Fh8 Q ChEhhA
T
he mystery surrounding
the seizure of massive
investment documents from a
Tirupur trader has deepened
with the sleuths of the I-T
Department, who questioned
TM Ramalingam, disclosing
what they seized were Bills of
Exchange and not US
Treasury Bonds as they had
claimed earlier.
However, the question
remains how come the US
Federal Treasury owes a small
time agriculture trader $5billion.
The I-T Department has so
far remained tightlipped about
the genuineness of the these
investment papers even as
Ramalingams lawyer told
The Pioneer that his client can
explain the source of the money.
This could be the tip of an
iceberg. The I-T Department
should clarify what they seized
during the December 31 raids.
I am sure that the countrys
Income Tax officials are intel-
ligent enough to understand the
difference between Treasury
Bonds and Bills of Exchange,
said MR Venkitesh, chartered
accountant and author of the
acclaimed book Sense, Sensex
and sentiments Failure of
Indias Financial Sentinels.
Turn to Page 6
0eIhI aarae r0W:
00s 4eay IaactI0a
Semi-nuoe
looy of raeo
girl founo on
Noioa street
C|u|p+|i J|+| u| ||u |u|
|u||+i |uuWi| u| |BC
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
A
22-year-old woman was
raped and murdered in
Noida on Friday night. The half-
naked body of the woman was
found in Sector 63 of Noida on
Saturday morning. The girl
was missing since Friday night
as she did not return home from
her workplace.
The girl who was an
employee of a garment export
company in Noida had left for
her office around 8.30
amonFridaybut didnot
return home. Later her
body was found lying on
the street in Noida.
The womans moth-
er alleged that her
daughter hadbeenraped
and that the rapists had
killed her to destroy evi-
dence. A post-mortem
report also confirmed rape.
A case was registered
under Sections 302, 376 and
201 of IPC that deal with mur-
der, rape and destruction of
evidence. The police have pre-
served the viscera for further
examination. Police have
detained two persons, includ-
ing one of her male friends,
for interrogation.
Turn to Page 6
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trader's wealth deepens
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OF EXCHANGE,
NOT US TREASURY
BONDS SEZED
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n tho lato-1980s, and or a timo botwoon 1987 and 1991,

Dovi Lal booamo a prominont playor on tho national
soono. Dooply rootod in tho politios and rural othos o
Haryana, ho was known or his oarthy wisdom and disdain
or all things that didn't it into his 'kisan' oxporionoo. A
partioular targot o his dorision was that sootion o tho
oountry that has oomo to bo known as 'ndia'-as opposod
to 'Bharat'. Tho truo roprosontativo o this land, Dovi Lal
usod to say, woro thoso whoso addrossos would bo
proixod with tho namo o tho vPO-villago Post Oioo.
t was an intorosting ormulation and porhaps
somothing that ovon Mahatma Gandhi with his utopian
notions o sol-suioiont villago oommunitios would havo
taoitly approvod. Tho problom was that it lot a lot o pooplo
(inoluding mysol) with a ooling o boing sooond-olass
oitizons. Urban ndia may woll bo tho Dovil's workshop but it
happons to bo tho only plaoo many ndians oan oall homo.
Nor is it aoourato to rogard rural ndia as tho natural
opioontro o virtuo and holinoss. n his liotimo, Babasahob
Ambodkar was oolipsod by tho largor-than-lio inluonoo o
tho Mahatma and tho Congross. But it is worth
romomboring that tho Dalit ioon always rogardod villago
ndia as tho oitadol o pro|udioo and opprossion against all
thoso who woro damnod or boing 'untouohablo' by birth.
Tho sol-govorning qualitios o tho looal panohayat
didn't inspiro Ambodkar. To him and to many who woro
oonoornod with oasto-basod opprossion, rural hiorarohios
didn't havo spaoo or thoso who woro oondomnod to livo
apart. Tho storootypo o happy ZXbP]bharvosting grain,
lankod by womon in oolourul olothos, didn't always
inoorporato tho brutal undorbolly o an ooonomio ordor
whoro somo oommunitios woro rogardod as sub-humans,
and thoir womon troatod as oommoditios.
Papo, tho PSS ohio assortod in Silohar last Friday, is
ossontially an 'ndian' phonomonon. Ho is only partially
right. Tho brutalisation o womon is moro widosproad in
tho ooosystoms o Bharat-and has boon so or oonturios.
Mohan Bhagwat is also ontiroly right whon ho
maintainod that tho rospoot or womon is idoalisod in
ndian oulturo. But ho would bo tho irst to admit that
traditional sooioty was loss than wolooming and appliod
vory dioront standards to thoso groups it rogardod as
boing outsido its sooial orbit-an attitudo that has boon
transmittod into tho widosproad disrospoot or whito,
womon tourists. Tho doop rovoronoo or 'stroo shakti' in
Bongal, or instanoo, didn't provont tho oruol oustom o
sati and tho sooial dogradation and soxual oxploitation o
widows by 'rospootablo' sootions o sooioty. t also didn't
provont oollootivo sanotion or tho soxual oxploitation o
womon rom tho 'lowor ordors'.
A oaturo o tho vibrant sooial roorm movomonts that
aroso in tho 19th and oarly-20th oonturios was thoir
willingnoss to irst admit tho shortoomings o Hindu sooioty
and thon addross tho quostion o possiblo romodios.
Somo o tho roormors-notably Pa|a Pam Mohan Poy and
Swami vivokananda-woro modornists and had imbibod
tho intollootual ourronts o tho Wost. But othors suoh as
Pandit shwar Chandra vidyasagar woro stoopod in
tradition and approaohod tho quostion o roorm rom a
humanist porspootivo. Tho point to noto is that or tho
Hindu stalwarts o tho past two oonturios, thoro was a oloar
undorstanding that tho Hindu, both as an individual and
as a oollootivo, wasn't tho opitomo o porootion.
n today's oontoxt, going by tho admission that
oosmopolitanism has distortod tho minds o 'ndia' and
onoouragod unwholosomo attitudos towards womon, tho
issuo to bo addrossod is: what oan bo dono to ohango
sooioty? Ator all, thoro must bo glaring imporootions in
tho modorn Hindu that aoilitatos tho roady aoooptanoo
o misogyny-tho uttoranoos o tho Congross MP rom
Jangipur and a sonior BJP ministor o Madhya Pradosh
boing two rooont oxamplos. ( am oonining my romarks
to Hindu sooioty booauso it sots tho tono or ndia.)
Moro to tho point, tho hoads o oultural organisations
suoh as tho PSS must bogin to ask why thoir unooasing
aotivism ovor moro than oight dooados hasn't altorod
things. Why havo tho bP\bZPaPbthoy havo sought to
inouloato in thoir ollowors not had a widor ooot on sooioty?
Maybo tho ault doosn't lio in tho bP\bZPaPb-although
a littlo loss patronising attitudo towards womon would holp
groatly-but in tho prioritios o groups that havo sought to
oroato a moral loadorship or ndia. thoro was groator
omphasis on rogonorating tho institutions o what goos by
tho namo Hinduism rathor than on oxoroising oontrol ovor
a politioal party, tho nation would havo boon bottor sorvod.
Thoro is littlo point oolobrating tho 150th birth
annivorsary o Swami vivokananda in stylo unloss tho
grand spooohos aro oomplomontod by sorious attompts
to oloanso tho tomplos o vonality, oastoism and ovon tho
oxploitation o womon dovotoos by porvortod priosts.
vivokananda spoko and wroto at longth o tho
Brahmanioal roligion's oruol indioronoo to tho plight o tho
Sudra and tho Chandal. Was ho oxonorating Bharat and
indioting ndia? Was ho oroating also binarios?
Any rapo, whothor it happons in Dolhi or rural Madhya
Pradosh, is a oollootivo blot on both ndia and Bharat.
Thoro is littlo point in saying that ono is pristino puro and
tho othor oontaminatod booauso it is |ust not truo. Wo aro
tho ohildron o tho samo oountry and togothor wo must
hang our hoads in shamo.
Papo is rapo, in
ndia as in Bharat
USUALSUSPECTS
SwAFAh 0AS0uFTA
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
H
igh drama took place at
former Army Chief
General VK Singhs residence
in New Delhi on Saturday
when a serving major
was detained by his family
for allegedly planting a
bug to intercept Gen Singhs
conversations.
This happened days after
the Government stripped Gen
Singh of his Z plus security.
The Major remained tight-
lipped before the media while
the Army took hours to claim
that he went there to remove
the telephone exchange.
However, the Major carried
no papers to show that he was
authorised to do so and the
Army had also not informed
Gen VK Singh or his family
about such a development.
What was more surprising
was that when he was detained
at the Mandir Marg residence
of Gen Singh, the Major
remained evasive and silent.
According to Gen Singhs
counsel Vishwajeet Singh,
Major R Vikram was not
stopped by the staff on duty as
he was in uniform but they
later apprehended and ques-
tioned him after his moves
were found to be suspicious.
The Generals family and
staff claimed that the officer
came without any notice or
prior permission and alleged
that he might have tried to bug
the exchange.
Major R Vikram of 1
Signals unit, who was in uni-
form, illegally entered the res-
idence of Gen Singh and
removed some cards from the
telephone exchange from the
room, which is also used for
security monitoring of the
house. The Major and his
team could not give any rea-
sonable logic for being here.
They had no valid documents.
They may have come to bug
the phone. We detained and
apprehended Major Vikram.
It is a case of criminal tres-
pass...we will take recourse to
all legal options available,
Vishwajeet Singh said.
Claiming that the Major
and his team had some
metal cards with them,
Vishwajeet Singh pointed out
that recently Gen Singhs
security had been withdrawn.
There could be something
big, he said.
The Major was allowed to
leave the bungalow in the can-
tonment area after General
Officer Commanding (GOC),
Delhi Area, Lieutenant-General
Subroto Mitra intervened and
spoke to the former chief s wife.
Turn to Page 6
Mkh1kI 8Ihh Q hEw 0ELh
A
middle-class woman, living
with her small-time actor
husband in a rented accom-
modation in Andheri East, has
won the ultimate prize money
on Kaun Banega Crorepati. 37-
year-old Sunmeet Kaur
Sawhney, a mother of two
teenaged girls, who takes pri-
vate tuitions to supplement her
husbands earnings, is the lucky
winner of C5 crore, the second
contestant to hit the jackpot
after Sushil Kumar from Bihar
did so in the 2011 season.
Sunmeet teaches children
in a Mumbai gurdwara. The
episode, shot on December
23, 2012 will be on air on
January 11, 2013. The jackpot
question was: Name the lady
who climbed the second high-
est mountain K2 in India. She
knew the answer right away.
Wanda Rutkeicz, she said
promptly and the money was
hers. She will finally get to take
away C3.5 crore after taxes.
It took a long time to sink
in. Mr Amitabh Bachchan had
to come and hug me for me to
believe that I had won C5
crore. My husband also had to
come and tell me the same and
only then did it sink in, she
said amid a gaggle of interviews
she was busy giving the whole
of Saturday.
Turn to Page 6
Fh8 Q hEw 0ELh
T
he disclosure of police inac-
tion by the friend of the
December 16 gang-rape victim
has triggered a major row with
the Delhi Police denying the
boys allegation, Union Home
Minister Sushilkumar Shinde
refusing to comment on the
revelations and the Opposition
BJP condemning the Delhi
Police action against Zee News
which aired the interview of the
late para-medics friend, saying
it is an attempt to muzzle the
voice of the people and an
attack on freedom of the Press.
The 28-year-old male
friend of the gang-raped victim
told Zee News on Friday that
police delayed taking his griev-
ously injured friend to hospi-
tal on that fateful night while
they argued over jurisdiction-
al area, losing precious time in
rushing her to hospital that
might have proven crucial in
saving her.
Union Home
Minister Sushilkumar
Shinde refused to get
into the controversy
over the claims of the
gang-rape victims
friend, saying he
would comment only
after knowing the
facts. I would not like
to comment on the issue. I will
comment only after I get a detail
report on it, he told reporters.
After the sensational inter-
view of the victims friend, Delhi
Police slapped a case against Zee
TV under Section 228 (A) of the
IPC. It pertains to the disclosure
of the identity of a victim of cer-
tain offences, including rape.
Turn to Page 6
Related reports on P5, 7
Fh8 Q ChEhhA
T
he mystery surrounding
the seizure of massive
investment documents from a
Tirupur trader has deepened
with the sleuths of the I-T
Department, who questioned
TM Ramalingam, disclosing
what they seized were Bills of
Exchange and not US
Treasury Bonds as they had
claimed earlier.
However, the question
remains how come the US
Federal Treasury owes a small
time agriculture trader $5billion.
The I-T Department has so
far remained tightlipped about
the genuineness of the these
investment papers even as
Ramalingams lawyer told
The Pioneer that his client can
explain the source of the money.
This could be the tip of an
iceberg. The I-T Department
should clarify what they seized
during the December 31 raids.
I am sure that the countrys
Income Tax officials are intel-
ligent enough to understand the
difference between Treasury
Bonds and Bills of Exchange,
said MR Venkitesh, chartered
accountant and author of the
acclaimed book Sense, Sensex
and sentiments Failure of
Indias Financial Sentinels.
Turn to Page 6
0eIhI aarae r0W:
00s 4eay IaactI0a
Semi-nuoe
looy of raeo
girl founo on
Noioa street
C|u|p+|i J|+| u| ||u |u|
|u||+i |uuWi| u| |BC
8TkII EFTE Q hEw 0ELh
A
22-year-old woman was
raped and murdered in
Noida on Friday night. The half-
naked body of the woman was
found in Sector 63 of Noida on
Saturday morning. The girl
was missing since Friday night
as she did not return home from
her workplace.
The girl who was an
employee of a garment export
company in Noida had left for
her office around 8.30
amonFridaybut didnot
return home. Later her
body was found lying on
the street in Noida.
The womans moth-
er alleged that her
daughter hadbeenraped
and that the rapists had
killed her to destroy evi-
dence. A post-mortem
report also confirmed rape.
A case was registered
under Sections 302, 376 and
201 of IPC that deal with mur-
der, rape and destruction of
evidence. The police have pre-
served the viscera for further
examination. Police have
detained two persons, includ-
ing one of her male friends,
for interrogation.
Turn to Page 6
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Press freeoom
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trader's wealth deepens
-T DEPT SAYS BLLS
OF EXCHANGE,
NOT US TREASURY
BONDS SEZED
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N
eedless violence has never
been my cup of tea but this
one from the Soldier stable is
just unrelenting. For a man
coming out of coma and having
flashes of how his wife and
daughter were done to death,
looks just too stone-faced to be
dealing with the trauma of a
half-known story.
Yes, it is for the first time in
this franchise that Jean-Claude
Van Damme turns into a villain,
that too a mean lean bald one.
But he is doing in a flashy
veneer and all that needless 3D
effect is something only he can
answer. Also, the story goes
nowhere and the main
protagonist keeps hurtling from
one violent and unlit alleyway
to another with not much
progress being made in his
probe into how he lost his
family.
In between are unexplained
bouts of extreme violence by
hulky men who have nothing
better to do than have sex and
pull the trigger on anything that
moves around them. Best
avoided for obvious reasons.
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R|vo||, Pr|]a, Sa|el, C|l] wa||, hara|ra, V||aspur|, Prasarl V|ar,
E0V, Vaagur, 0pu|erl, V2K Ro|r|, P|lar Pura}, 0T Sa|el,
Sa||rar, Vasarl Kurj}, Vov|e T|re Rajagarder, P|larPura}, 03S
Ro|r|}, Sp|ce ho|da}, Fur Vol| hagar, P|larPura, Lajpal hagar,
Kar|ardoora}, C|rerax, Sal]ar Pale| hagar, Jara| Pur|, heru
P|ace}, 8|g 0deor, Va|sa||, Kausaro|}, wave Rajagarder, ho|da,
Kausaro|}, SRS C|reras, Jars|pra, VVX, 0a|ax|e, Slarx
Va|sa||}, Vov|e Pa|ace, V4u, SVwor|d, Caudar] 0.8ad}, Vov|e
wor|d & S||ver C|l] 0.8ad}, lrox & 0 C|reras Far|daoad}.
0-Z 12 [Janbaz Kh||ad|) [h|nd|) [NeW Pe|ease): Aroa, 0e||le
0|arord.
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Kh|LA|-78: V||ar, Suprere
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P|aza, Sa|el, C|l] wa||, hara|ra, V||aspur|, Prasarl V|ar, E0V
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Vov|e T|re Rajagarder, P|larPura}, Sal]arPale| hagar, Jara|
Pur|, heru P|ace}, 8|g 0deor, ho|da, 0realer ho|da, P|larpura},
wave Rajagarder, ho|da, Kausaro|}, SRS C|reras, Sp|ce
ho|da} Slarx Va|sa||}, 0a|ax|e, V4u, SVwor|d, Jars|pra, Vov|e
Pa|ace, Vov|e Vag|c, Vov|e wor|d & S||ver C|l] 0.8ad}, lrox &
0 C|rerax Far|daoad}.
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P|larPura}, Ao|se| C|rep|ex, PVR Vaagur, 03S Ro|r|}, SRS
Ad|l]a, Ja|pur|a}, Slarx Va|sa||}, SV wor|d, Jars|pra, Sp|ce
ho|da}, 0a|ax|e, wave ho|da}, PVR V0F 0urgaor}, 0T Vasarl
Kurj}.
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Sal]ar Pale| hagar, Jara| Pur|, heru P|ace}, Lo|es, 0agar.
A8AN00-2: 0o|ca, V|sa|, PVR P|aza, R|vo||, Sa|el, C|l] wa||,
hara|ra, V||aspur|, Prasarl V|ar, E0V, 03S Ro|r|}, Fur Vol|
hagar, P|larPura, Lajpal hagar, Kar|ardoora}, V2K Ro|r|, P|lar
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P|lar Pura}, Sal]ar Pale| hagar, Jara| Pur|, heru P|ace}, 8|g
0deor, ho|da, Va|sa||, Kausaro|}, SRS C|reras, V4u, SV
wor|d, 0a|ax|e, Slarx Va|sa||}, Vov|e Pa|ace, Vov|e Vag|c, Vov|e
wor|d 0.8ad}, S||ver C|l] 0.8ad}, lrox & 0C|reras Far|daoad}.
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THEATRE
Watch Khusar Phusar a Hindi
adaptation of Neil Simons
Rumours at India Habitat Centre,
Lodhi Road, Delhi from 7:30
onwards. Tickets at C300, C200
andC100available at programme
desk
EXHIBITION
Glass exhibition by Vijay
Kowshik at Hungarian
Information And Cultural
Centre 1-A Janpath, near
Claridges Hotel, Delhi from 1
am onwards
FOOD
Enjoy Sunday winter brunch @
S 18, Radisson Blu MBD, Noida
for C2,100 + taxes from 12 pm
till 4 pm
MOVIE
Watch Sooryavansham, a
family drama on Max at 9 pm
starring Amitabh Bachchan,
Anupam Kher, Soundarya
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atru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola is a
romantic comedy produced by
Vishal Bharadwaj along with Fox Star
Studios. Besides co-producing, Bharadwaj
has also directed, co-scripted and scored
the music for the film.
The movie is about Matru (Imran
Khan) who lands in a village called
Mandola in search of his love Bijli
(Anushka Sharma). Matru studies LLB in
Delhi University but does not get a job
upon graduation and returns to his village
to take up his family profession of serving
the Mandola family.
The movie is set in the rustic
surroundings of a village in Haryana, The
movie is a comedy-drama about Harry
Mandola (Pankaj Kapoor), a wealthy
industrialist who loves his drink, his
daughter Bijlee and the unusual bond they
both share with Harrys man Friday,
Matru. Bijlee goes to Oxford University to
study and falls in love with Baadal (Arya
Babbar), the son of a powerful politician,
Chaudhari Devi (Shabana Azmi) and
much to her fathers delight, Bijlee is all set
to marry Baadal. This alliance which is far
from being a simple union of two young
people. It sows the seed for a story that
brings twists and turns in the lives of
Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
The music of the film is high on
energy with fun numbers. The acoustic
guitar in combination with the electric
guitar and hand drums creates a musical
riot. Gulzar has penned earthy lyrics like
Aate ki roti, mitti ka chulha that are in
sync with the film. Sukhwinder Singh is in
great form after a long time. Chor police is
a 58-second long song snippet sung by
Pankaj Kapur that talks about scams and
corruption.
Y
ou lie and you die is the basic
premise of a game that has eight
questions, eight answers and eight
tasks. At the end of it all, one walks
away with C21 crore. Of course,
there has to be a catch to this but
our lead pair throws caution to the
wind and agrees to play with a lot of
bravado. The fact that the game is
fraught with treachery, involves
goons who draw blood 500 ml of
it and the game master plays
mind-games, adds to the thrill.
What makes Table No 21 a taut
thriller is the last 15 minutes of the
climax. The fact that director Aditya
Datt has managed to keep the
suspense till the very end and yet
manages to hold the viewers
interest for a major part of the film
with Rajeev Khandelwal and Tena
Desae in the lead says a lot about
the directorial skills of Datt.
The strength of the movie lies
in the strong storyline and the way
Datt has enhanced the suspense
quotient. He has done a good job of
entertaining and dishing out some
hard-hitting reality bytes. In that
sense Table No 21 is a well-meaning
film with a social message.
The fact that the film is shot in
Fiji, one gets to see some superb
shots of the vast greens, speedboat
rides and even a ride in the seaplane
with some great champagne. The
downer comes from the
performance of the lead pair. The
saving grace as far as acting is
concerned is Paresh Rawals brilliant
performance as the game master
Mr Khan. This table may have
served the psychological drama
rather well, but it fails to deliver on
the performance.
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W
hat made tennis ace
Leander Paes make a
foray into Bollywood with
Rajdhani Express is intriguing.
Though the tennis player said
he liked the script, the fact
remains that Paes would
probably have done better if he
had chosen to play cricket
instead. At least, Team India
would have had a better
chance against Pakistan!
But coming come to the
movie. First, there are too
many characters. But then one
supposes one needed them
since it is a train and Indian
Railways carries lakhs of
people everyday. Second, the
acting is poor and direction is
even worse. As for Paes debut,
it falls flat. The viewer is
unable to find any connect
with him or his character. The
only silver lining to him is that
he doesnt have much to say
except laugh in a comic-
maniacal way in the second
half of the movie!
If Paes really had to
venture into Bollywood, he
should have chosen a better
film. One can give this one a
miss without second thoughts.
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T
rue stories have an
appeal all their own,
and if they are in any
way connected to survival
against all odds and a family
reunion on the shoulder of a
devastating disaster, there is
nothing that can stop it from
becoming a film for
accolades.
The Impossible, based on
a true story of a Japan-based
American family of husband,
wife and their three young
boys who went holidaying to
a Thai resort and were hit by
the tsunami, is quite an
emotional thriller, an edge of
the seat experience. What
happens to them scares you,
their fight to survive inspires
you to not ever give up and
their commitment to each
other and that includes the
three boys all under 14, is an
ode to strong family ties in a
world where everything is
breaking down.
It is due to
the emotional depth of the
storyline that despite the
tsunami and its potential to
get swept away by a visual
treat, the film anchors around
only the main characters and
their travails once they see
that menacing dark
monstrous wave coming
towards their
resort while
they are in
the
swimming
pool. Naomi Watts, as the
mother who gets the worst hit
and gets to see her eldest sons
commitment to her, makes
quite an appearance in this
one.
The director does well to
keep his emotions in check
while dealing with a disaster
that was so hugely crippling
for humanity. The 2004
tsunami took away lakhs of
lives, flattened many a nation
and instilled a never-before
fear in beach holidaymakers
and families who live near the
sea. Under the circumstances,
for the film to stick to just one
story wouldve been quite an
effort. The others, around this
family, were also badly hit,
some having lost it all. But
they were only used to
enhance this particular
survival story with all its
twists and turns. A very
moving film not to be
missed.
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This Sunday, Crime Petrol
brings you the much in the
headlines Delhi gangrape of
the 23-year-old girl who
breathed her last in a
Singapore hospital last week.
Anup Soni, the shows host,
said: We want citizens of
India to get aware about the
rape and molestation cases
which take place daily. There
are two things on which peo-
ple should think through
this episode. First, the
Government should make
strict laws for criminals so
that before committing such
heinous crimes, there is fear
in his mind. Second, the
change has to come from individuals also. Everyone should learn
to respect women of their own house.
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The Amazing Race
is back on AXN
with its all new
Season No 21. The
adrenaline kicking
series features 11
teams of two, each
with a pre-existing
relationship, in a
race around the
world. The series
goes on air on
January 7, 2013 at 8
pm. The season
spanned a little
over 40,000 kilo-
metres of travel to
three continents
and nine countries
which included
China, Indonesia,
B a n g l a d e s h ,
Turkey and The
Netherlands. This
new season come
with an interesting twist with a 'Double Your Money' prize for
the team with comes first in the first leg, making them eligible
to win a total of $2 million dollars is they also won the season.
0a0ht 0a camera
Chitangada Singh gets
candid on UTV Stars
Live My Life! She con-
fesses on the show
that she is a huge fan
of Amitabh Bachchan
and pleaded the pro-
duction team to let
her live his life for an
entire day, on the
show. The 20-year-
old Sumit, a diehard
fan of Chitrangada
(in the picture with
her), was offered the
opportunity to live her life for an entire day. The meeting with
Sudhir was eventful. Tune in to this episode on January 6, 2013,
at 7 pm.
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Starting from January 7, 2013 Animal Planet will bring a visu-
al treat on variety of animals through its new series Animal
Planet A-Z every night at 10 pm. Announcing the launch of
the series, Rahul Johri, senior vice-president and GM, South
Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said: The series
Animal Planet A-Z brings a comprehensive hour of ulti-
mate wildlife programming which will appeal to the viewers
with its exciting content. With viewers getting multiple choic-
es of entertainment, the best quality programming will get the
biggest traction from them. The channel will dedicate one
week to each animal. For example: A for anaconda, B for bears,
C for crocodiles, D for dog, E for elephants and many more.
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TELLYTALE
T
he year 2012 was quite
eventful for Indian televi-
sion, be it in the fiction genre
or reality shows. The makers
made sure that the viewers got
their daily dose of entertain-
ment to the fullest.
The year 2013 will be no
different. While in 2012, we saw
Amir Khan making his debut
with his show Satyamev Jayate,
this year it will be Anil Kapoor
debuting on the small screen
with his crime show 24 which
is the Indian version of
American thriller. The show
will be directed by Abhinay Deo
who won Filmfare Award for
Best Debut Director for Delhi
Belly.
Anil Kapoor is not the only
one from Bollywood who is all
set for his small screen stint.
Filmmaker Sanjay Leela
Bhansali is ready with his first
ever TV show Sher Dil Shergil
to be aired on Star Plus in
February. The show, a fiction, is
set in Punjab. It will have a mix
of action, thrill and romance.
Ram Kapoor who hogged
the limelight last year, with his
show Bade Acche Lagte Hai will
be seen hosting a cookery show
Welcome-Bazi Mehman Nawazi
Ki on Life Okay. The show will
not only judge the culinary
skills of celeb participants but
also their presentation skill.
The task of that member is not
just to cook a complete three-
course meal but also keep the
guests entertained and engaged.
The guests will judge that par-
ticular celeb on not only food
but also on the entertainment
value and hosting skills.
Also, Masterchef India will
be back with its third season on
Star Plus in February. The
judges for this season are Chef
Vikas Khanna, Sanjeev Kapoor
and Kunal Kapoor.
Stand-up comedy shows
are essential part of TV. No
wonder then that every chan-
nel has a few shows to air. Apart
from regular ones like Comedy
Central and Laughter Challenge,
we saw a show Wah Wah Kya
Baat Hai which was different
from the regulars. This year
Colors will bring a comedy
show Nautanki The Comedy
Theatre which will be a con-
fluence of theatre, film and tele-
vision that combines elements
of comedy and drama, high-
lighting amusing issues that
the common man faces in his
everyday life. Tusshar Kapoor,
who had earlier judged TV
show Comedy Circus Ka Jadoo
will be seen as the judge for the
comic series.
Every episode will see peo-
ple like Ghuggi, the funny
paape from Jalandhar, the very
versatile Rashmi Desai, the
vamp turned comedian Kamya
Panjabi and Nikhil
Ratnaparkhi.
The backbone of TV
family drama will have its
presence felt. Colors will be
launching two new shows Na
Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha
2 and Sanskar-Darohar Apno Ki
on January 14. Season 2 of Na
Bole... will take Mohan and
Meghas story forward with a
twist. Viewers will get to see the
old characters building rela-
tionships with new characters
while keeping the essence of the
show. After playing a loving hus-
band and ideal son in Sasural
Genda Phool, Jay Soni will be
seen playing the similar role in
Sanskar... a family drama around
a boy who lives in the US.
Yet another show to go on
air on Janaury 14 is Amita Ka
Amit, the story of a young girl
who dreams of perfect life part-
ner. But then, theres a rider that
goes with it: Vaivahic
Chetavni!
2O18 is here and
so are lhe new
shows on Tv.
From crime lo
amily drama lo
comedy lo realily
shows, viewers
will gel a resh
lake in all genres.
while Anil
Kaoor's 24 is lhe
mosl anlicialed,
Sanjay Leela
Bhansali's maiden
show aears lo
be equally
romising.
MAhJAR Sh0h
brings you a lisl o
lhe new shows
lhal romise lo
kee lhe viewers
enlerlained lhe
year round
OTHEPS ON THE SMALL SCPEEN
QTcta WcJs Maina has |IF
aclress Kavila Kaushik in lhe
lead role o Maina. 0aurav
0era, who had layed handu in
Jassi Jaissi Kci |a|in will lay
Tola
Q|um Aapkc |ain In-Laws is
lhe slory o a coule layed by
Karan 0rover and Fooja Fihal
who are caughl in a lwisl wilh
lheir inlaws
QYoulhcenlric realily shows
FcaJics, mcticna| Atyac|aar
and 5i 5witc| will relurn wilh
new seasons. The shows
romise a lol o sice and
reshness
QT|crc's mcrc Ma|a||arat
roduced by Siddharlh Kumar
Tewary is all sel lo showcase
anolher version o lhe eic
mylhology Ma|a||arat on lhe
lelly. l is rumoured lhal
Shaheer Shaikh and 0eblina
Challerjee will lay Arjun and
0rauadi reseclively. Though
lhe dale o lhe launch is yel lo
be announced, lhe show is lo
be aired on Slar Flus
Qhumbers (Seasons 1 lo G) is
all sel lo be aired on Slar world
rom January 15. An FB agenl
recruils his malhemalical
genius brolher lo hel lhe
bureau solve a wide range o
challenging crimes in Los
Angeles
QThe voice (Season 4), a
singing comelilion will make a
comeback wilh yel anolher
season. Bul lhis lime wilhoul
Chrislina Aguilera and CeeLo
0reen. They will be relaced by
lwo oular singing sensalions
- usher and Shakira. The
show will go on air on AXh in
March
QYel anolher show on Lie 0k
lo be launched in 5avitri
slarring Riddhi 0ogra, Yash
Fandil and Angad hasija.
Froduced by Shabbir Ahluwalia
il is lhe slory o a wie
searching or her husband wilh
lhe hel o a co
QAnd lhen lhere is lhe
adalalion o 5cauty anJ t|c
5cast by Sumeel and Shashi
Millal. Tilled 5aajan, lhe beasl
will be in all robabilily layed
by Soumya Selh. The show, a
love lriangle, will be aired on
Sony
QFrom January 1O, on Slar
world will see yel anolher new
serial - Fca| |cuscwivcs cf
|cw Jcrscy (Season 8). The
American realily show ollows
lhe lives o ive women in and
around several uscale
communilies in norlhern hew
Jersey
'Can le lrainwasleo to commit crime`
QTell us about the brainwashed
episode of Discoverys Curiosity
series?
The series talks about the science
behind brainwashing people and
making it possible for them to do
things that they would normally not
do. Our only aim is to take mentally
healthy, law-abiding citizens and pro-
gramme them to shoot and kill com-
plete strangers using brainwashing.
QWhat kind of research went into
the making of this show?
We started with 187 subjects. The
certified hypnotherapist Tom Silver
who has treated thousands of patients
in more than 20 countries and was
also recruited by the Taiwanese Secret
Service to help uncover an interna-
tional arms trading scandal, con-
ducted the hypnosis interrogations in
order to tests who would be more sus-
ceptible to hypnosis. We finally got 14
candidates who would be more
appropriate to go through the series
of experiments. Our ultimate task was
to get the subject shoot a person and
also save the actors who were the tar-
get for the assassination.
QTell us about the experiments?
It used to take not more than five
minutes for the participants to enter
a hypnotic trance. In one episode we
ask the hypnotised person to go to a
restaurant and remove their clothing
down to the under garment. In
another experiment we told the par-
ticipants that the bathtub had warm
water, but actually the bathtub was
filled with ice water. The experiment
team attached monitors to each per-
son to measure heart rate, etc. An
EMT was also on hand to ensure the
participants safety.
QWho were the other experts on the
panel?
Besides me, the panel included Dr
Cynthia Meyersburg, who has con-
ducted multiple studies on false
memory implantation at Harvard
University and Dr Mark Stokes who
studies the neuro-pathways of the
decision making processes at Oxford
University in England.
QAre there any famous claims of
brainwashing?
In 1972, kidnapped heiress Patty
Hearst claimed at her trial that she
was brainwashed into committing
crimes with her abductors. And in
1968 Bobby Kennedy was assassinat-
ed by Sirhan Sirhan, who claimed that
he was brainwashed to kill Kennedy.
QHow does the mind work when it
comes to committing a crime?
There is no one answer to it. It
depends on the persons motivation to
committing crime, or some people get
into such circumstances where they
dont know how to get out of. For oth-
ers criminal activities are normal as
they have been exposed to violence
and commit crime.
QWho was the final Curiosity brain-
washing test subject to be hypno-
tised into being an assassin?
A man named Ivan, a 36-year-old
corrections officer, was the last sub-
ject to have been brainwashed into
carrying out a simulated murder.
QHow did the team go about stag-
ing this assassination attempt?
Outside the hotel, the team drew
a velvet line at a service entrance.
Paparazzi were made to stand along
the velvet line, waiting for a foreign
dignitary to emerge from the
entrance. Large SUVs awaited the dig-
nitary.
QWhat kind of weapon Ivan used?
The team used an airsoft prop gun
that fires no bullets but has the blast
and recoil action of a real firearm.
Everything about it would suggest to
Ivan that it was a real, deadly weapon.
QHow was Ivan programmed for the
killing without him knowing what
was about to happen?
Ivan was told that he had not been
selected to continue in the pro-
gramme. But the producers wanted to
see him for an exit interview. When
he showed up for the interview, it gave
Tom his chance.
QHow did Toms hypnotising of
Ivan proceed?
Tom induced a trance in Ivan and
then gave him his instructions to assas-
sinate the foreign dignitary as he is
leaving the hotel. Tom also left Ivan
with a key piece of information: A trig-
ger signal that would cause Ivan to act
out his commands at a later time.
QDid Ivan carry out his task?
Yes. The experiment was a success
and Ivan carried out all the instruc-
tions: Removing the gun from a red
backpack, waiting near the velvet rope
line and assassinating his target.
Licenced sychologisl 0r Je Kielis/ewski lalks lo SAh0EETA YA0Av aboul lhe arl o
brainwashing eole and answers queslions on how lhe criminal mind works
t doesn't take
more than five
minutes for most
people to be
hynotised. n one
episode we asked
the hypnotised
person to go to a
restaurant and
strip to his
underwear. He did
exactly that
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New Year, new shows
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halional Book Trusl in associalion wilh lhe ndia nlernalional Cenler
is organising a seminar on Reading and Library Cullure: The Role o
h00s on January O5 al C 0 0eshmukh Memorial Audilorium al ndia
nlernalional Cenlre. Soli J Sorabjee, Fresidenl o C and Chairman,
Library Commillee will Chair lhe seminar. A book exhibilion by hBT
will also be organised al lhe venue.
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The hCC Reublic 0ay (R0) Cam 2O18 began al lhe hCC Cam,
0arrison Farade 0round al 0elhi Canll on Tuesday. Ll 0en FS Bhalla,
AvSM, 0ireclor 0eneral halional Cadel Cors delivered lhe oening
address lo all Cadel on O1 Jan 2O18. The cam will culminale wilh
lhe Frime Minsler's Rally on 28 Jan 2O18. 2OO4 Cadels, bolh boys
and girls, drawn rom 17 hCC 0ireclorales, covering all lhe Slales
and union Terrilories o lhe Counlry are arlicialing in lhis Cam.
This also includes O1 cadels rom J&K and 111 cadels rom horlh
Easlern Region (hER). The cadels are selecled lhrough lough
seleclion rocess and Creme de la creme' o lhe hCC. The cadels
allending lhe cam will ollow an inlense schedule over lhe monlh.
They will arliciale in a number o aclivilies like Cullural and halional
nlegralion Awareness Frogramme and nslilulional Training
Comelilions.
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n a rare surgery conducled al lhe BLK hosilal, doclors oeraled a
18O kg man who aced brealhing diicully due lo massive obesily.
According lo doclors, lhe alienl Munish Chadha was suering
rom obslrucled slee anoea which is a lie lhrealening roblem. n
lhis condilion erson has loud snoring and has sells o anoea
lhal is sloage o brealhing or a ew momenls when in dee
slee. "The day he reorled lo our 0F0, he was lelhargic and kel
alling aslee in lhe chair in lhe wailing area. Aarenlly he would
snore loudly and suddenly slo brealhing many limes during lhe
nighl. he required emergency admission and minules aler
admission he crashed and had acule resiralory ailure due lo
rolonged slee anoeic sell. he was immedialely ul on a
venlilalor lo suorl his resiralion", said 0r 0ee 0oel, 0ireclor,
0earlmenl o Barialric Surgery, BLK hosilal.
townhall 04
NEW DELH SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 2013
NBREF
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C
hief Minister Sheila Dikshit on
Saturday assured the people of
Delhi living in unauthorsied colonies
that the Government would soon reg-
ularise remaining colonies in the
Capital. Indicating that there will not
be further demolition in unautho-
rised colonies, the Chief Minister
further said hard earned money of
common man, which they had
invested to build houses for them,
would be protected.
The Government would also
consider regularising remaining
colonies as the term unauthorised
would become a thing of the past.
Delhi would delete the term unau-
thorised from its dictionary. The days
of bulldozers are over. The people
invested their hard earned income to
construct small dwelling units in
unauthorised colonies. Further, they
were forced to put up in colonies
without civic amenities, Dikshit
said. She was addressing unautho-
rised colonies residents sammelan at
Talkatora stadium.
Earlier in the morning, provid-
ing a relief to lakhs of residents of
colonies situated on either forest or
ASI land, the Delhi Cabinet on
Saturday gave an in principle
approval for regularisation and
development works on par with
other unauthorised colonies in 205
unauthorised colonies. The Cabinet
while giving a green signal directed
the Urban Development Department
to come out with a detailed list of
such colonies along with total num-
ber of colonies being regularised and
their localities at the earliest say cou-
ple of weeks.
The unauthorised colonies res-
idents sammelan was organised by
former MP Sajjan Kumar. On the
occasion, along with Cabinet col-
leagues of Chief Minister, east Delhi
MP Sandeep Dikshit, South Delhi
Ramesh Kumar and several other
Delhi congress leaders including
Jag Pravesh Kumar was also pre-
sent. Thousands of people from
unauthorised colonies attended the
sammelan.
The regularisation of colonies
will prove to be a big relief to around
15 lakh people.
Speaking on the occasion, East
Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit expressed
surprise that the authorities did not
care while construction took place in
unauthorised colonies and sudden-
ly they appear in such colonies to
demol i sh the dwel l i ng units.
Addressing the gathering, Jag Pravesh
Kumar said that colonies like Sangam
Vihar came up on forest land have
been facing water shortage for long.
Private mafia is operating in the
localities to extract money from the
poor residents, said adding that
sale or purchase in recently autho-
rised colonies should be allowed.
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he Delhi Government on
Saturday warned firm
action against private hospitals
which fail to comply with a court
directive of providing free treat-
ment to poor patients. Health
Minister AK Walia also
announced that the city
Government will soonlaunchan
SMS service which will enable
people to know the availability of
free beds in each of the 43 iden-
tified private hospitals.
These private hospitals have
to reserve 25 per cent of their
out-patient department capaci-
tyand10per cent of beds for free
treatment of the poor as per the
court directive. He warned that
if these hospitals are found want-
ing in implementing the legal
provisions with regard to free
treatment to poor patients, the
Delhi Government will step up
harsh and firm action against the
defaulter hospitals.
Walia was delivering key
note address at the workshop
organized by the Delhi Gover-
nment at Delhi Secretariatto
strengthen free medical care to
EWS in private hospitals. The
workshop was aimed at sensi-
tizing stake-holders for realizing
health care entitlements of EWS
in 43 identified hospitals.
Expressing firm commit-
ment to ensure 100 percent
implementation of the Court
directions enabling poor patients
to get medical facilities in some
of the leading hospitals, Walia
informed that recently 10 iden-
tified private hospitals, namely,
Dharamshila, Escorts, Max
Saket, Fortis Vasant Kunj,
Primus, Rockland, VIMHANS,
Bensups, GM Modi and Jessa
Ram Hospitals, have been issued
notices to explain why proceed-
ings of contempt of court should
not be initiated against them.
He asked other hospitals to
take cue from hospitals like
Ganga Ram Hospital and Sri
Balaji Action Medical Institute
whose efforts regarding free
treatment is commendable.
The Health Minister dis-
closed that the Delhi
Government is soon starting an
SMS service by which the gen-
eral public can easily know the
availability of free beds in each
of the identified private hospitals
along with the available special-
ties there. He informed that
apart from the EWS patients
who are residents of Delhi, the
facility of free treatment has been
extended to EWS patients resid-
ing anywhere in the country.
The minister further
informed that the network of
ambulance services of Delhi
Government will be soon linked
up with transportation services
to the patients being admitted or
need to be admitted in private
hospitals.
Speaking on the occasion
Secretary (Health) SCL Das,
highlighted that the sanctioned
strength of beds for EWS cate-
gory patients in private hospitals
still remains under-utilized. In
2012, against the eligible bed
strength of 654 beds only 300
beds on an average were utilized.
Similarly, against the legal
requirement of 2.5 lakh OPD
patients, only 1 lakh patients
drew benefits from OPD.
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eeta Arora alias Sonu
Punjaban, an alleged
pimp, has been granted bail
by a city court. Additional
Sessi ons Judge Gul shan
Kumar has granted her inter-
im bail for a month consid-
ering her mothers deterio-
rating health. Geeta Arora
has been behind bars since
April 2011.
The court allowed her
the interim bail plea observ-
ing that the mother of the
applicant is old and is suffer-
ing from high blood sugar,
kidney ailments and cardio
complications. The appli-
cant is granted interim bail for
one month from the date of
release and after expiry of
interim bail the applicant has
to furnish personal bond and
surety bond in the sum of
Rs35,000 with two sureties,
the court said, directing her to
surrender her passport and
not to leave country without
prior permission.
Geeta Arora in her bail
plea said that her mother is
suffering from various kinds
of ailments and there is no
one in the family except her
eight-year-old son to look
after her. She also told court
that her husband has already
expired.
However, prosecution has
opposed her bail plea saying
that accused is involved in
number of cases. On previ-
ous occasions also she had
managed to come out on
bail, the prosecution said.
Geeta Arora has been charged
under MCOCA Act.
She was also granted reg-
ular bail from other two
courts, where she is facing
charges under Immoral
Traffic Prevention Acts. The
infamous mastermind of an
inter-State prostitution rack-
et, who used to supply call
girls at farmhouses and five-
star hotels Geeta Arora has
been cooling her heels in
Tihar jail after she was arrest-
ed by the Delhi Police in
April 2011.
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umbers of rape cases
pending in various courts
have increased considerably in
three months. In addition to
this, total 605 rape cases were
registered last year. As per the
latest date released recently, a
total of 963 cases are pending
in various city courts till
October 2012. However, till
July 2012, the number of pend-
ing cases was 889, which clear-
ly indicates slow pace of trial of
rape cases in the Capital.
The figure of pending rape
cases in three months unex-
pectedly rose to 963 cases as city
has registered a total of 605 rape
cases till earlier of December,
which is highest in the last six
year. While expressing her con-
cern over the issue, senior advo-
cate Rekha Aggarwal said that
rise of rape cases has increased
due to dilly-dally investigation of
police. She added that prosecu-
tion did not investigate in the
case properly and filed the
chargesheet that contains various
loop holes. Later police tried to
hide their loopholes and sought
adjournment of the cases that
lead to delay of trial of the
cases, Aggarwal said. Criminal
advocate K K Manan said that
police aimless probinginthe case
is the major cause of delay as in
most of the cases they failed to
file chargesheet within the stip-
ulated period of investigation.
The long legal proceedings of the
cases create mental agony on the
victims andtheir familymember.
Aggarwal elaborating rise of
rape cases inthe citysaidthe data
indicates that criminal virtually
have no fear of law and police
while committing crime. Most
of the criminals go scot free due
to failure in probing the case ag-
ainst them or the witnesses and
victim of the case turned hostile
during the trial on several occas-
sions. The criminals after being
acquitted later committ another
offence, which is one of the caus-
es of crime rise in the city, Agg-
arwal said. Criminal Advocate
KK Manan said the punishment
like death penalty in the rarest of
rare case would amounts fear on
law violator and it will helpful in
putting check on the rising of
crime. Manan said that exclusive
courts should be set up for the
trial of such cases that will help
to early disposal of cases.
Senior advocate Mukul
Rohatgi recommended Fast
Tracks court will help in early
disposal of the cases. He said that
such cases if tried in fast track
courts then the cases will be dis-
posed within two to six months.
The police must conduct the
investigation propery and filed a
tight chargesheet within short
period so that trial of the cases
would not hold for a longer peri-
od, said Rohatgi. Not only were
the rape cases but there also
slight rise of pending cases of
other heinous criminal offence.
Pending murder cases has rised
from3213to3283inthe last four
month while there was no
change inthe figure of CBI pend-
ing cases as there is special cou-
rts to deal cases realted to it.
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A
36-year-old man, who is the last of the five main accused in
the Defence Colony heist of C5.5 crore last October, was
arrested after being on the run for three months in different
avatars. Yogesh, who had been travelling from one place to anoth-
er since the incident on September 28 in South Delhi and has
13 cases including charges of murder against him, was arrested
from INA Market. Police said with this arrest, all the people
involved in the heist have been apprehended. They also said C12
lakh in cash and a .32 bore pistol with ammunition used in crime
have been recovered.
Vijay Nahar Singh, Yogesh, Hari Kishan, Deepak and Ranjit
Rumal are the main accused in the case, they said. Except Yogesh,
all others were arrested in separate occasions. Yogesh had been
involved in 13 cases including murder, robbery, dacoity, NDPS
Act, snatching etc. He was convicted in three cases of robberies
and drugs, and spent around eight years in jail. He also took
supari in one case to eliminate one person over a land dispute,
a senior police official said.
Yogesh was good at changing his appearances. He had stayed
in temple, mosques and gurdwaras during the past three months.
With this, police have arrested 16 people and recovered around
Rs 4.25 crore. The gang had waylaid a cash van on September
28, pinned down a security guard and shot him after he tried to
snatch their weapons. They fled the spot in the cash van leav-
ing behind the car in which they were following the vehicle. The
guard later succumbed to his injuries. It was a raid at the main
accused Hari Kishans house in Khirki that helped police in its
trail. The key of the looted cash van was recovered in his house.
Hari Kishan and his wife Rashmi were apprehended from Banda
in UP on October three. The first to be arrested was Deepak
Sharma, brother of Hari Kishan, on September 29, a day after
the heist.
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he Delhi Cabinet, while giving a green signal, directed
the Urban Development Department to come out with
a detailed list of such colonies along with total number of
colonies being regularised and their localities at the earli-
est as possible. Since the finalisation of the list involve due
care and matching the records, it will
take sometime.
The Cabinet decision was necessary
to start development in these colonies.
The Cabinet has also rectified its earli-
er decision dated December 10, regard-
ing development in 895 unauthorised
colonies. The development works in 895
unauthorisedcolonies have beendelayed
due to certain errors in the Cabinet
meeting minutes.
After the Cabinet meeting on Satu-
rday morning, Urban Development
Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said the
Cabinet has given in principle approval
for regulation of development works in
205 unauthorised colonies. Out of the 205 colonies, offi-
cials said 157 colonies came up partly on forest land while
48 settlements have encroached land belonging to the
Government decided to start development works. Out of
the 157 colonies on forest land, 92 are partially covered while
the rest of fully covered. Forty-eight colonies built on ASI
protected land will see development work that falls beyond
300 metres of the protected land.
The Government in September had regularised 895
colonies which are home to around 35 lakh people. The
Cabinet has alsodecidedtoimmediatelystart developmental
works in all the colonies, which have been regularised. We
will come out with the list of the 205 colonies, which have
been given approval for regularisation by the Cabinet, with-
in 15 days, said Lovely. The Government was finding it dif-
ficult to initiate development works due to stricter guide-
lines regarding forest and ASI land. The move will help the
Congress Government in the coming Assembly polls this
year. Lovely further announced that Lal Dora would be
extended in the villages and villages would become free from
the fear of notice u/s 81 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act.
The Government has already asked all the three munic-
ipal corporations to take the help of professional architects
in making the layout plans for the colonies which were
already regularised. It would be pertinent to mention that
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has earlier written Union
Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath seeking his inter-
vention in relaxing guidelines for unauthorised colonies
falling on forest and ASI land.
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NEW DELH SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 2013
8TkII EFTE QhEw 0ELh
A
city court on Saturday took
cognisance of the charge-
sheet andissuedproductionwar-
rant for January 7 against all the
five accused allegedly involved in
gang-rapeandmurder caseof the
23-year-oldparamedical student.
MetropolitanMagistrateNamrita
Aggarwal taking cognisance of
thecharge-sheet saidacaseof var-
ious offences, including those of
murder and gang-rape, are made
out against theaccusedandasked
the police to produce all the five
accused Ram Singh, Mukesh,
Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma
and Akshay Thakur on January
7. The Delhi Police on January 3
had filed a charge-sheet in the
case under several sections of
Indian Penal Code for various
offences, including that of mur-
der, whichprescribes deathpenal-
ty as the maximum punishment.
Police also filed e-challan of
the chargesheet saying that the
statement of the complainant
(paramedics male friend) and
the deceased victim revealed
commissionof offences under all
the sections mentioned in the
charge-sheet and the victims
statement can be considered as
dying declaration in the case. He
also submitted that the state-
ments of the victims clearly sp-
ell out the commission of all
offences. Regarding offences of
murder and murder during da-
coity, the prosecutor said the vic-
tims death summary, received
from Mount Elizabeth Hospital
inSingapore, revealedsepticemia
and multiple organ failure as
causes of death.
The death summary of the
Singapore hospital is corrobo-
rated with the report of the
Safdarjung Hospital where the
victim was admitted for 11 days.
The report also talks of multiple
organ failure due to multiple
organ injuries, he said. The
prosecutionalsosaidthe accused
were more than five in number
and the articles they robbed
from the victim have also been
recovered from them which suf-
ficiently constitute offence under
Sections 396 (murder during
dacoity) and 302 (murder).
Referring to the DNA
report, annexed with the charge-
sheet, the prosecutor said the
blood of the victim tallied with
the blood stains on clothes of all
the accusedandCentral Forensic
Science Laboratory (CFSL) has
also confirmed the same. On
prosecutions plea that the doc-
uments containingthe name and
identity of the victim be kept in
sealed cover to protect her iden-
tity, the magistrate directed that
the complete case file compris-
ing the charge-sheet, e-challan
and FIR be kept under the
courts seal.
On aspects of booking the
accused for the offences of
dacoity, committing murder and
causing hurt during dacoity, and
attempt to murder, the prosecu-
tor said on the basis of the state-
ments of both the victim and
those of connecting witnesses,
the DNA report and the death
summary from the Singapore
hospital and Safdarjung Hospital
here, these offences are made out.
Regarding Section 412 (dishon-
estly receiving stolen property)
of the IPC, he said the police has
also recovered articles robbed
from the victims.
He said they have also
booked the accused for destroy-
ing the evidence as they have
also received the burnt clothes
of the male friend and the
deceased at the instance of
accused and the blood stains on
those burnt pieces of clothes
have tallied with the blood
samples of the victims.
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Saturday admitted in a city court that it had missed out on men-
tioning the most serious charge of murder in the charge-sheet against the accused in the gangrape-
cum-murder case and played down the mistake claiming it was a typo error. Police told Metropolitan
Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal that it has somehow missed out on mentioning Section 302 IPC in
the cover of the charge-sheet.
The typographical error was pointed out a few minutes after the court had taken cognisance of
the charge-sheet and noted that a prima facie offence under Sections, 302 (murder), 307 (attempt
to murder), 376 (2)(g) (gangrape), 377 (unnatural offences), 395 (dacoity), 396 (murder in dacoity),
394(hurting in dacoity), 201 (destruction of evidence), 120B (conspiracy), 34 (common intention)
and 412 (dishonestly receiving stolen property) of the IPC are made out against all the accused.
We have mentioned Section 302 IPC in the charge-sheet and also in the concluding portion
where we seek their trial for the offences of murder and under other sections. We want to move an
application to correct the mistake. It was a typographical error, said Mohan. The judge, however,
said there was no need for any such application as the charge-sheet will be read as a whole. Why
do you want to move an application for this? You have written Section 302 IPC in the charge-sheet.
It will be read as a whole. No need to change the cover, the judge said. SR
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am Singh, the gang-leader of
the six who raped the 23-
year-old paramedical student
girl, has given a chilling account
of the brutality which was com-
mitted by him along with his
associates. In his statement
before the police, Ram Singh
said that he along with his
accomplices first raped the vic-
tim and then inserted a spanner
inside her private parts only to
teach her a lesson as they were
enraged after the victim along
with her friend slapped him.
They also stripped the victims
friends clothes only to humili-
ate him.
It has been disclosed in the
charge-sheet by the accused
Ram Singh that after picking the
girl and her friend from
Munrika bus stand, the juvenile
accused took Rs 20 for the
tickets. They were sitting on the
first seat behind the driver.
After a few minutes Ram Singh
passed some lewd comment on
them and said that asking him
what he was doing with a girl so
late at night and who is the girl.
This led to a heated argument
and the victims friend alleged-
ly slapped him following which
the other accused Akshay along
with the juvenile pounced on
him and they started beating
him, Ram Singh told the police.
Accused Ram Singh told
the investigators that he also
took out an iron rod which was
kept in the cabin and hit his
head. They were beating the vic-
tims friend, when suddenly the
victim intervened and she
slapped some of them.
Following which they were
enraged and he along with the
juvenile accused dragged the
victim to the last seat of the bus
and three of them hold the vic-
tims friend. They first hit the
victims friend with an iron rod
and he was brought into sub-
mission. Then, they stripped his
pant and blazer only to humil-
iate him. Later he fell uncon-
scious near the cabin, he told
the police.
In his statement before the
police, Ram Singh said that he
along with the juvenile accused
inserted a spanner in the private
parts of the victim and
wrenched it several times. We
took out her intestine as we
wanted to remove all traces of
semen. We robbed their cell
phones and wallets as we
thought that after dumping
them, they should not approach
the police, a senior police offi-
cer said quoting the discloser
made by the accused Ram
Singh.
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T
he bone-numbing cold in
Delhi has started to take its
toll on two men who have been
fasting at Jantar Mantar
demanding death sentence for
culprits in the South Delhi
gang-rape case.
The determi ned duo
vowed to continue their agi-
tation till their last breath.
Rajesh Gangwar and Babu
Singh have been on hunger
strike near the historic Jantar
Mantar observatory in the
heart of the Capital. While
Gangwars fast entered the
13th day Saturday, Singh is on
the eighth day of his fast.
Both men continue to
brave the Delhi winter as the
citys minimum temperature
breaks all previous records.
The makeshift tent with thin
cloth walls where they doze off
at night and the layers of blan-
kets are of little help.
I have terrible cold and
my throat hurts, murmured a
frail Gangwar as he took a sip
of warm water while one of his
helpers rubbed cold balm on
his nose and neck.
Similar is the case with
Singh, who said that he felt
very weak and the cold
made him feel feverish. I
cant take any medicines on
empty stomach even balms are
of no use in this weather, he
sai d. They accused t he
Government of being apa-
thetic and said that doctors
from the Ram Manohar Lohia
hospital came to examine
them i niti al l y but have
stopped visiting them now.
They are just not bothered
anymore, Gangwar said.
However, Gangwars
younger brother Rakesh who is
with him said that they had got
both men checked by a doctor
and their vital parameters
were fine.
The determined men too
said that nothing could damp-
en their spirit. If my death
shakes the system and gets
them (accused in the gang-rape
case) hanged, I am ready to
die, Gangwar said. Gangwar,
reached Delhi on December 24,
Babu Singh from Farrukhabad,
also in Uttar Pradesh, joined
him in the fast December 29.
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A
23-year-old Jamia Millia
University student has reg-
istered a complaint against
unknown persons for circulating
her picture on the social net-
working website tagging her as
Delhi gang-rape victim. A case
under Section 66-A (sending
offensive or false messages) of the
IT was registered at Jamia Nagar
police station in South
East Delhi.
Police said that
the complainant is a
student who had
completed her studies
from Amity
University and is cur-
rently a student at
Jamia Milia Islamia.
On December 31, she
approached the Jamia Nagar
police station alleging that some-
one downloaded her picture
from her Facebook account and
is circulating it as the gang-rape
victims picture. Her real picture
is positioned alongside that of a
girl lying battered in hospital, a
senior police officer said.
Police sources said that few
days back, the victim came to
know about this matter after her
college friend received anony-
mous message in his phone
handset through WhatsApp
Messenger application. Following
this, he immediately informed
the victim who in turn
approached the local police.
After registering the case,
police started their investigation
andlocal police have approached
the sleuths of cyber cell of
Economic Offences Wing
(EOW). We have directed
Facebook officials to delete the
photograph and help us to track
the culprits. We are now prob-
ing the matter and trying to
ascertain the IP address of vic-
tim and addresses of the various
webpages where the photograph
is being circulated,
the officer added.
However, even
after registeringthe
case, the picture of
the complainant is
still circulating in
the social net-
working sites and
all the users are
sharing the same
picture. On Friday evening, the
girl called the investigating offi-
cer and informed that her pho-
tograph is still on the webpage
and has not yet been removed,
an official said.
In a similar case in Kerala,
Kerala Police have received a
complaint from the father of a
student, whose photo was cir-
culated on Facebook as that of
the Delhi gang-rape victim. A
man from Kuwait approached
the police stating that the pho-
tograph uploaded on Facebook
as the Delhi rape victim picture
was fake. The picture used was
his daughters uploaded with
her Facebook profile.
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T
wo women died while one
injured on Saturday after
terrace of a three-storey build-
ing collapsed in Kanhai Village
near Sector-44 in Gurgaon.
The incident occurred around
4 pm when the deceased, iden-
tified as Neelam (30) and
Urmila (35), were sitting on
the terrace. Another woman,
identified as Pooja, was also
injured in the incident.
Accordi ng to pol i ce
sources, the terrace suddenly
collapsed and all the three fell
down on the ground. Neelam
and Urmila died on the spot
while Pooja received injuries
in her leg and head. Some
passersby informed the police
and admitted Pooja to near-
by Paras hospital.
The building was con-
structed five years ago and
preliminary investigation
suggests that materials used
for construction were not of
good quality. All the victims
were living as tenants since
some months said a senior
police official.
We have registered a case
against the owner of the
building in Sushant Lok
Police Station and are inves-
tigating the matter. The bod-
ies have been sent for post-
mortem and will be handed
over to their families later,
added the official.
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espite from the bitter cold
is still a few days away. A
good sunshine gave the city a
miss for the fifth consecutive
day. Both maximum and min-
imum temperature remained
several degrees below normal
at 12.6 and 2.9 degree Celsius.
Absence of strong surface
winds has resulted in the fog
hovering over the city for more
than one week. The weather-
man says that the easterly
winds will start blowing from
Monday evening bringing
some respite from fog.
Presently the surface winds are
absent. As a result the fog con-
tinues to remain suspended
and blocks the sunlight from
reaching the surface of the
earth, said Bikram Singh,
director forecast, India
Meteorological Department. It
is only after the winds will blow
close to the earth surface that
the fog will dispel making way
for sunlight and leading to a
rise in temperature.
Meanwhile, both maxi-
mum and minimum tempera-
ture remained eight degrees
and four degrees below nor-
mal. While the sky got partly
clear during the afternoon,
the mist took over the city
again in the evening.
The weatherman predicted
that the overall weather con-
dition is to remain the same on
Sunday. The maximum and
minimum temperature will
remain around 13 and three
degree Celsius. A marginal
rise in temperature is expected
on Monday. The maximum
temperature on Monday is
likely to touch the 18 degrees
and minimum around seven
degrees Celsius.
A dense layer of fog will
continue to envelope the Delhi
Airport during the late night
and early morning hours. The
visibility at the Delhi Airport
Runway will drop down to less
than 200 meters from the mid-
night to the wee hours of
Sunday morning, said the
Airport Met official. CAT III
operations are expected to get
operational at the Delhi Airport
Runway during these hours.
The air and rail opera-
tions remained affected yet
again on Saturday. One flight
was cancelled and five got
delayed because of fog at the
Delhi Airport. Several north
and east bound trains were
affected because of thick layer
of fog. Sixteen trains were
cancelled, 17 were resched-
uled and 42 trains are running
late from the various railway
stations of Delhi. The trains
that are running late are as
late as 38 hours.
NewDelhi: Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit brushed aside discoms
claim that Delhi was facing
power shortage. She has asked
the discoms topull uptheir socks
and ensure round-the-clock
power supply to the city. She
called the power cut unjustified
when the peak power demand is
as moderate at 3,500 MW. Delhi
for the past few days has been
witnessing power cuts for hours.
When the power sector in
Delhi is not facing any power
shortage, then why is this
power cut, she said. Dikshit
said that the city Government
will not allow the discoms to
leave the consumers in the
lurch by effecting power cuts in
extreme winter.
This is causing inconve-
nience to consumers, said the
Chief Minister. Dikshit has also
instructed the power depart-
ment to closely monitor the sit-
uation and bring it to the notice
of her in case power cuts con-
tinue in the city.
Discoms had earlier said
that the load shedding was not
because of any fault at their end.
They had said that they had to
resort to intermittent load-
shedding as a number of gen-
erating stations have reduced
power supply due to shortage of
coal resulting from cancellation
and rescheduling of goods
trains carrying the fuel. The dis-
coms pointed out that because
of the fog, the trains carrying
coal are being delayed resulting
shortage of coal at the thermal
power plants. SR
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A
day after the gang-rape
victims friend appeared on
Zee News making allegation
against police, the Delhi Police
on Saturday refuted the charges
denying that there was an
argument over jurisdiction
among policemen. The victims
28-year-old engineer friend
had on Friday alleged that
precious time was lost due to
argument over jurisdiction
that might have proven crucial
in saving her. However, the
police claimed that PCR vans
reached the spot within no
time after receiving the call.
Joint Commissioner of
Police (South-West) Vivek
Gogia dismissed allegations
that police response was tardy
and the PCR vans wasted time
in taking them to a hospital by
arguing over jurisdiction of the
case. The victims were taken
to the hospital in PCR van Z-
54 in 16-minutes. PCR vans
reached the spot and person-
nel organised a bedsheet for
them from a nearby hotel, he
said adding there was no bick-
ering over jurisdiction among
PCR vans.
He said PCR vans were
directly under the control
room and not under any police
station. The PCR system is
directly connected to a cen-
tralised system connected with
GPS (Global Positioning
System), Gogia added. The
victims friend was taken to an
appropriate accommodation
following his discharge from
hospital and the expenses were
borne by police, he said.
Breaking his silence for the
first time since the brutal
December 16 gang-rape, the
victims friend on Friday said
he wished he could have saved
the 23-year-ol d woman.
He also blamed police for
delay in taking them to hospi-
tal for over two hours and said
three PCR vans fought
over jurisdiction.
Asked whether the male
friend was kept at the police
station for four days and not
given treatment, Gogia said
He was kept at a private
accommodat i on at t he
polices expense. He was dis-
charged from Safdarjung
Hospital after first aid and
treatment within a few hours
of being brought to the hos-
pital. Then, he was brought to
the police station where
he recorded his statement
and a case was registered.
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who had unsuccessfully con-
tested the 2008 Assembly elec-
tions, was arrested for alleged-
ly raping a 28-year-old woman
in Vijay Vihar area of Outer
Delhi, police said on Saturday.
The accused was produced in
court and sent to two days
police custody.
Police said that the accused
Yogesh Attray, who lost the elec-
tions to Delhi Minister Raj
Kumar Chauhan, was arrested
on Friday from Rohini area
after a woman filed a complaint
a day before. He has contested
the election on BJP ticket.
On Thursday, the victim
approached the police and
informed that on the pretext of
marriage, he was allegedly rap-
ing her for the last five years, a
senior police officer said.
The complainant, who lives
in Vijay Vihar, told the police
that Attrey had sexual relations
since 2007 and threatened her
with dire consequences if she
disclosed their relationship.
Based on the victims alle-
gation, the case was registered at
Vijay Vihar Police Station in
Outer Delhi and Attray was
booked under sections 376
(rape), 506 (criminal intimida-
tion), 509 (intending to insult
the modesty of any woman) and
313 (causing miscarriage with-
out womans consent) of the
Indian Penal Code.
They also said a statement
of the victim has been record-
ed. Attray lost the 2008 elec-
tions to Chauhan by a margin
of 30,000 votes. SR
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U
ttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadavs
impending January 12 visit
has fuelled speculation of a
third front emerging in the
State ahead of the Assembly
elections that are to be held in
November this year.
It is being said that he is
coming here on the invitation
of general-category State
Government employees who
want to accord him a reception
for the bold decision of his
Government to not give reser-
vation in promotions to SC/ST
employees. But political circles
are abuzz with rumours that he
would probe the possibilities of
forging a third front with small-
er parties in Rajasthan.
Kirori Lal Meena, former
BJPleader andnowindependent
Lok Sabha member, on Saturday
claimed that third front in the
State would come into being by
the end of the month.
Talking to The Pioneer,
Meena claimed that other than
smaller parties, including SP
and Left parties, many senior
leaders of the Congress and BJP
have also shown interest in
joining the third front.
Sources said initially Meena
was trying to rope in the BSP, but
leaders of this party in the State
had not shown much interest as
Mayawati had told them that
party would field candidates for
all the 200 seats in the State, as
it didit inthe last Assemblypolls.
As there is a sizeable popu-
lation of Yadavs in Alwar,
Bharatpur and adjoining areas,
leaders of the SP in the State are
sure the party would be able to
win some seats from these areas.
In the last Assembly elections, it
hadwonone seat inthe State and
that too from Alwar district. But
its lone MLA sided with the
Congress, which was short of a
majoritybyfour MLAs for form-
ing the Government.
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D
ays after an unproductive
encounter with Prime
Minister Manomhan Singh at
the Indian National Science
Congress in Kolkata, Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee again let out a loud
roar against a step-motherly
Centre this time threatening to
carry her movement to Delhi
should her requests for a loan
moratorium go unheeded.
Addressing a mammoth
crowd at West Midnapore, the
Chief Minister on Saturday
said enough was enough
"Bengal cannot be allowed to
go unheeded for eternity. We
shall wait for some more time
and if the Centre fails to listen
to our demands of a three-year
moratorium or restructures
our debt plan then we will carry
our struggle to Delhi."
The Chief Minister had
been asking for a three-year
moratorium on payment of
interests on the State's accu-
mulated loan of more than Rs
2 lakh crore.
Alleging bias on the part
of the Congress-led UPA
towards the previous Left-
rulers of Bengal Banerjee said,
"These people were in power
when t he Lef t Front
Government was ruining
Bengal by taking loans. They
allowed them to take loans for
which we have to pay the
interests and now we are
barred from taking loans."
The Chief Minister who
had earlier claimed that she
had delivered on 90 per cent
of her pre-poll promises said
most of our development
works have stopped for want
of money.
Banerjee who went on
with her announcement spree
once again promised a dozen
of projects including schools,
colleges, grants for local clubs,
upgradation of hospitals and
asserted the people of Bengal
will not tolerate more neglect
from the Centre. We will wait
for some more time and if the
Centre fails to deliver then we
will take our movement to
Delhi.
Meanwhile, former Chief
Mi ni ster Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee on Sunday
landed up at the borders of
Nandigram considered as his
political Waterloo after a long
gap of more than five years.
Interestingly, the vicinity
that had cast him away for
with contempt in the wake of
March 2007 police firing that
claimed 14 lives on Sunday
turned out in overwhelming
numbers even as the septua-
genarian leader conceded his
Government had erred in
sending police to Nandigram.
Over whel med by the
turnout that nearly blockad-
ed his convoy Bhattacharjee
tended to play the Mamata
Banerjee of yesteryear even as
he rode the pillion of a motor-
bike to reach the venue at
Chandipur 15 km of f
Nandigram.
He att acked t he
Trinamool Government for
giving a corrupt regime that
is preoccupied more in elim-
inating the political rivals
and in infighting than ensur-
ing development work before
concedi ng t hough hi s
Government had plans to
industrialise Nandigram we
had erred in sending police
force here.
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ix weeks after Ajmal Kasab
was hanged to death in
Punes Yerwada jail, the Centre
on Saturday announced the
waiver of the bill for C21 crore
raised by the Indo-Tibetan
Border Police (ITBP) for
guarding the 26/11 attack con-
vict in Mumbais Arthur Road
prison, where he had been
lodged for most part of his
incarceration.
Announcing the waiver of
the Kasab security bill, Union
Home Minister Sushilkumar
Shinde said: In view of a
request made by the
Maharashtra, we have decided
to waive a bill for C21 crore
raised by our para-military
unit ITBP for providing secu-
rity to Kasab when he was at
the Arthur Road jail.
Talking to reporters after
inspecting the facilities at the
high-security Arthur Road
prison, Shinde said, We
would like the Maharashtra
Government to utilise the
waived bill money for jail
reforms. We want the State
Government to use a part of
the money for starting a jail
personnel training institute in
Punes Yerwada prison and
rest for the construction of
residential quarters for the jail
personnel.
Shinde, who was accom-
panied by State Home Minister
RR Patil and Union Home
Ministry officials, said that in
addition to the waived ITBP
bill money, the Centre would
release another C8 crore a
sum that had been sanctioned
earlier under non-plan expen-
diture but remained unutilised
by the State Government for
improving the facilities at the
Arthur Road jail.
The State Government
returned the unutilised C8
crore to the Centre. But, I am
asking my Ministry to release
the sum back so that it can
use for improving facilities at
the Arthur Road prison,
Shinde said.
Upon his arrest on the
night of November 26, 2008,
the lone surviving 26/11 ter-
rorist had initially been lodged
at Mumbai Police Crime
Branchs lockup at Crawford
Market in south Mumbai.
He was later in the last
week of March, 2009 shift-
ed to a specially-created bullet
resistant and bomb-proof cell
at the Arthur Road prison,
where he was lodged all
through the 26/11 trial and
long after that. The cell has
been specially designed to pro-
tect Kasab from a bomb attack
or any possible acts of sabotage.
Apart from the round-
the-clock vigil maintained by
the Mumbai police officials
inside the barrack, 300-strong
ITBP commandos, armed
with automatic weapons, had
been guarding the place from
the outside.
The State Public Works
Department (PWD) had
spent a whopping C5.24 crore
to construct the high-securi-
ty cell.
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Though the channel has, for now, put
her in a strict cordon, not allowing her to
give away too many answers on the details
of her 13-question win, she did slip in
hastily that I want to sponsor some ritu-
als of our Punjabi tradition, so a part of the
amount will go there. We will also buy a
house and use the rest of the money to edu-
cate our daughters.
As she navigated through a host of
interviews, her husband Manmeet Singh
Sawhney said he got the best surprise of his
life when his wife told him that she was one
of the finalists at KBCand was only fastest-
finger-first away from the Hot Seat.
She didnt want to tell me and planned
to surprise me with the prize money but it
was mandatory to bring a companion to the
show and thats how I came to know,
Sawhney said on phone from Mumbai.
Manmeet has done many comic roles
in Bollywood and has appeared in com-
mercials. He was notably seen in Anushka-
Ranveer starrer Band Baja Baraat.
Talking about Sunmeet who is a
housewife and had been doing odd-jobs
like running a small catering business from
home, he said, She had been trying her
luck with KBC for eight years and finally
got through this time in her very first call.
The best part is that I didnt know anything
about this till she got through.
Manmeet married Sunmeet in 1993.
Sometime ago, Sunmeet had an accident
which kept her bed-ridden for a long time.
Then she switched to taking tuitions at
home which she had been doing for the
last four years, he said.
Both Sunmeet and Manmeet never
expected that she would win C5 crore.
I told her I would be happy even if she
reached C25 lakh but then she had worked
very hard and was very confident. I was
deprived of my laptop for 25 days. She
would stare at the screen day and night. I
thought she was working on her students
projects. Little did I know that there was
a surprise waiting for me, he added.
Manmeet refused to share information
about the usage of lifelines during the show
asserting that I am not allowed to. But we
would donate 10 per cent to charity for
sure, he concluded.
From Page 1
Refuting the allegations of snooping, Army
officials, however, admitted that the signals team
had gone to Singhs residence to dismantle the tele-
phone exchange after his Z plus security cover was
removed more than a fortnight ago. It also apol-
ogised for the incident. The exercise entailed with-
drawing two Army telephone exchange operators
posted there besides pruning other such resources.
Trying to clear the air, officials said the con-
fusion took place due to some miscommuni-
cation somewhere. A Signals Regiment party
went to remove the Army exchange and lines
at the Mandir Marg house of Gen Singh. Wife
of Gen Singh objected to the removal of the
exchange without prior notice. In deference to
her objection, the team returned without
removing the exchange, Army officials said.
Officials also said The lack of advance
information caused slight resentment. The
matter was amicably resolved by intervention of
GOC Delhi Area. The Army respects all its
retired chiefs and senior officers and will con-
tinue to do so.
Incidentally, Gen Singh was mired in con-
troversy last year when he was accused of
allegedly deploying air interceptors to tap the
telephones of senior political leaders and
Defence Ministry officials while he battled with
the Government regarding the date of birth issue.
The Army, however, had then categorical-
ly denied such reports. Gen Singh had recent-
ly participated in several peoples movements
and has joined hands with Anna Hazare.
The former Army Chief also participated in
a protest by farmers in front of Parliament House
during the Winter Session besides marking his
presence alongside the protesters at India Gate last
month who were showing their anger against the
brutal gang-rape of a para-medic in the Capital.
The Delhi Police had registered a case
against him for inciting the protesters.
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hree staffers of a subur-
ban bar were found mur-
dered on Saturday on its
premises at Tilak Nagar here,
with police suspecting per-
sonal rivalry to be the cause
behind the brutal killings.
The deceased identified
as Basant Madoria (30), Raja
Dakolia (33) and Bhaskar
Dalvi (54) were stabbed
around 10-15 times and their
bodies were found lying in a
pool of blood by a sweeper at
around 8 AM, police said.
While Madoria and
Dakolia were working as
waiters at Natraj Bar, Dalvi as
the watchman, police said.
"The sweeper found the
gate (of the bar) half open and
found Dalvi's body lying there,
after which he informed the
owner of the bar Shaildndra
Singh", said a police source.
Singh and the sweeper later
found the bodies of two other
victims Madoria and Dakolia
in the garage situated on the
premises of the bar.
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The police action against
the channel led to furor.
Delhi Police cannot muz-
zle the voice of citizens by lodg-
ing a case against the channel.
People have a right to know the
truth, Leader of Opposition in
Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj post-
ed on micro-blogging site
Twitter on Saturday.
BJP general secretary Ravi
Shankar Prasad said, Such
behaviour from the police is
unacceptable. This is an attack
on the freedom of the Press.
While Prasad criticised the
Delhi Police for the undue
delay in taking the victim and
her friend to the hospital on
that night, BJP Mahila Morcha
chief Smriti Irani demanded
that the Delhi Police
Commissioner be removed.
Social activists also
slammed the police for alleged-
ly bickering over jurisdiction
when the 23-year-old gang
rape victim and her male friend
were fighting for their lives as
they lay injured, naked and
shivering on the roads of Delhi.
They sought strict action
and FIR against the policemen
who were on duty on
December 16, saying it has
exposed the practices of the
Delhi Police which have been
unnoticed for long.
Former IPS officer and
activist Kiran Bedi said, That
is why people have lost faith in
the police. This practice has
been there for long and now
they have been caught.
National Commission for
Women chairperson Mamata
Sharma sought strict action
against the policemen and
demanded that an FIR be
lodged against the personnel on
duty for the act.
However, the Police dis-
missed the charges and said
PCR vans took the girl and her
male friend to hospital within
34 minutes of receiving the call.
Addressing a Press confer-
ence, Joint Commissioner of
Police (South-West) Vivek
Gogia dismissed allegations
that police response was tardy
and the PCR vans had wasted
time in taking them to a hos-
pital by arguing over jurisdic-
tion of the case .
There was no issue over
jurisdiction of the case as PCR
vans do not operate under
police stations and their oper-
ation is regulated by control
room at police headquarters,
he said.
Gogia said the control
room received a call about the
incident at 10:21 pm on
December 16 and a PCR van Z-
54 was assigned the call at 10:24
pm. But another PCR E-74 van
reached the spot first on its own
at 10:27 pm while the Z-54
reached there at 10:29 pm.
He said the police person-
nel on Z-54 van left the spot
with the victims at 10:39 pm
after arranging a bedsheet from
a nearby hotel to cover both the
victims, he said.
On the victims friend alle-
gation that they could have
been taken to a nearby hospi-
tal, instead of Safdarjung
Hospital, Gogia said the police
always take the injured in such
cases to a designated
Government hospital for
medico-legal examination.
The victims were trans-
ferred to Safdarjung Hospital at
10.55 pm. These details have
been ascertained from the logs
generated by the Global
Positioning System, he said.
However, the brother of the
dead woman also said that his
sister would have probably
lived if proper medical care was
given to her on time.
She lost too much blood
lying on the roadside. If she had
got good medical care on time
she would have perhaps been
with us today, her brother
said over phone from Ballia in
Uttar Pradesh.
There was a gap of near-
ly two hours from the time my
sister was thrown on the road-
side till she received medical
aid at Safdarjung Hospital, he
added.
Meanwhile, Zee News
Editor Sudhir Chaudhary, fac-
ing notice from Delhi Police to
join the probe after the chan-
nel aired the interview of the
December 16 gang-rape vic-
tims male friend, moved a city
court on Saturday pleading
that his statement to the police
be video recorded.
Metropolitan Magistrate
Namrita Aggarwal asked the
Delhi Police to proceed in
accordance with the law.
I have heard the counsel
for the accused. SHO PS Vasant
Vihar is directed to proceed as
per law, she said.
The application moved on
behalf of Zee News Editor said
he has been asked to join the
probe and a case has already
been slapped against him.
The applicant has received
notice for attending investigation
at Vasant Vihar police station. He
prays that his statement made
under Section 161 (3) CrPC be
recorded by audio video elec-
tronic means, Chaudharys
counsel Vijay Aggarwal sub-
mitted before the court.
He said the interview of
the male friend had highlight-
ed the irresponsible attitude of
the police towards the victims,
so how can the same police reg-
ister the case again the channel
and also investigate it.
It cannot be a fair inves-
tigation, he alleged. The police
have registered a case against
Zee News for revealing the
identity of the gang-rape victim
by carrying an interview of her
male friend who was the lone
witness in the case.
Meanwhile, Metropolitan
Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal
issued a production warrant
against the five accused for Jan
7. They have been charged
with murder, gang-rape, abduc-
tion among other offences of
the Indian Penal Code. The
case against the sixth accused,
said to be a minor, would be
heard by the Juvenile Justice
Board.
Delhi gang-rape row:
Cops deny inaction
From Page 1
He said the even if the doc-
uments seized were Bills of
Exchange, many questions
remained unanswered.
The Bill of Exchange
begins with the words `I Owe
You, He pointed out and added,
How come the US Federal
Treasury owed a small time
agriculture trader $5 billion?.
Ramalingam told The
Pioneer on Saturday that he was
questioned for more than ten
hours onFriday. I haveanswered
all their questions, he said.
Referring to media reports
about his relations with certain
politicians, Ramalingam said
he did not know any politicians
or their relations. He reiterat-
ed that all his savings were legal
and transparent.
I have been asked to be
present in front of the Income
Tax officials next Friday. I do
not have anything to hide I have
submitted all the documents
they have asked for, he said.
Krishna Elango, lawyer of
Ramalingam told this corre-
spondent that his client had
answered all questions put to
him by the interrogators. About
Ramalingam not filing Income
Tax returns for the last four
years, Elango said there was
nothing wrong in it.
We have filed an appeal in
front of the Income Tax offi-
cials explaining the reasons
behind non-filing of the tax
returns, he said.
According to Elango,
Ramalingam has friends spread
across the globe and there was
nothing strange in him making
investments in Treasury Bonds
and International Bills of
Exchange. Anyone can do the
same, he said. When asked
how a small-time agriculture
commodity trader could amass
wealth of this magnitude,
Elango said anyone could make
such investements.
Ramalingams friends
helped him a lot, he said.
Regarding his clients deci-
sion to set up a petroleum
refinery in Ramanathapuram
district, he said the proposal
was with the Ministry of
Petroleum and Chemicals and
there was no illegality in it.
The Union and State
Governments have declared lot
of incentives to set up industri-
al units in backward districts like
Ramanathapuram. We are
workingonthe feasibilityreport,
he said. Both Ramalingam and
Elango sounded confident when
asked about the legality of the
business deals.
Please wait till the com-
pletion of the probe by the
Income Tax Department. You
will understand that all the
dealings are legal and fair,
said Ramalingam.
Elano said Ramalingam
has followed meticulously the
rules and laws dealing with for-
eign exchange regulations and
management.
The raid is a fallout of an
anonymous letter sent by
someone, he said.
Murali Mohan, Additional
Director-General, Income Tax,
said the department was in the
process of examining the
authenticity of the Bills and it
would take at least a week for
confirming their genuineness.
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The victim was a resident
of Chotpur Colony in Noida.
The family alleged that
initially the police tried to
hush up the matter saying the
girl might have eloped with a
boyfriend and refused to take
the matter seriously. They
alleged that the girl could have
been saved had the police
reacted on time. However, a
case was registered later when
the body was found.
The family also alleged that
some unknown persons had
misbehaved with the girl earli-
er but the police did not take the
matter seriously. After the fam-
ily learnt about the girls death,
they protested at the police sta-
tion against police inaction.
The police officials said the
girl usually carried her mobile
phone with her but on the fate-
ful day she had left her phone at
home as its battery was dead.
My daughter had left
home at 8.30 am on Friday for
office. She was on 12-hour
shift from 9 am to 9 pm. After
completing her shift, she left
from office around 9 pm with
a female colleagues but never
reached home, said the moth-
er of the girl.
The office of the girl was
located barely two kilometers
from her house. Records at the
garment company show the girl
checked out at 8.55 pm on
Friday. The womans mother
was toldbyher daughters fellow-
workers that she had left office
premises at 9 pm Friday. When
her daughter did not return till
10 pm, a search was conducted,
police said. The family got to
know about her death around
8.30 am on Saturday morning
through a phone call that the girl
was lying dead on the roadside
in Sector 63.
The family informed the
police and the body was
recovered. The body was
stripped of clothing. Bruise
marks on her body suggested
that she was raped before being
killed. She was murdered in
order to destroy evidence. An
autopsy was conducted by a
panel of three doctors that
confirmed rape. A hunt is on to
nab the culprits, said SSP
Noida, Praveen Kumar.
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E
ven as heat was increasing
on Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Muslimeen leader Akbaruddin
Owaisi over his hate speech,
sources close to him have said
that the legislator was in no
mood to give in to any pressure
and was getting ready to fight
it out legally.
Akbaruddin Owaisi, who
was in London for the last 10
days, was preparing to return
to Hyderabad in next few
days and was mentally ready
to be arrested in host of cases
booked against him, sources
close to him said.
He is not at all worried
about the large number of
cases booked against him in
different police stations and
was ready for any eventuality
including arrest on his return,
the source said.
However, there was no
confirmation from his family
or the party about his return on
January 8 as was reported in a
section of the media.
The sources said that MIM
leadership was readying its
strategy to not only defend
Akbaruddin legally but also
politically. Akbaruddin is con-
vinced that the entire plot to
frame him in this case was
hatched by Chief Minister N
Kiran Kumar Reddy as he was
unhappy with Akbar and other
Majlis leaders for linking him
with the Sangh Parivar, a senior
party leader told The Pioneer.
From the way Akbar and
MIM are being targeted from
the Left, Right and Centre, it
is clear that all the anti-MIM
forces have ganged up, he
said. They point out that not
only the leaders of the BJP and
the RSS, but even the other
political opponents had also
joined hands.
What Akbaruddin said in
his speeches was nothing new.
He has been saying the same
thing for many years. The rea-
son it has been made such a big
issue was that the Chief
Minister was out to take
revenge on the MIM for its
campaign on the issue of
Charminar temple, another
MIM leader said.
Denying that Akbaruddin
had tried to foment communal
hatred and religious disharmo-
ny, the sources close to him said,
His remarks are being taken out
of context to create the contro-
versy. No where in his speech he
praised Kasab but the BJP lead-
ers are carrying out campaign to
this effect. In fact, he welcomed
the hanging of Kasab for killing
200 people. At the same time he
was also asking that while killer
of 200 people was hanged, killer
of 2,000 people was in power,
the sources said.
Source felt that Akbars
tone and tenor on some issues
could be objectionable but he
had a point when he charged
the police and the State
Government on the issue of
discrimination on religious
grounds and their dubious role
on the Charminar temple.
MIM leaders were also
ridiculing the statement of
State police chief V Dinesh
Reddy that if need be he will
take the help of Interpol for the
arrest of Akbaruddin Owaisi.
Meanwhile, the State
Director General of Police V
Dinesh Reddy said that if the
MIM legislator does not come
for questioning by the police,
police will take action. We will
wait for couple of days.
Onthe other hand, State BJP
leaders were continuing their
campaign demanding arrest of
Owaisi. Party workers led by
former Union Minister Bandaru
Dattatreya held a protest
demonstration in Hyderabad
on Saturday. They also burnt his
effigy. Akbaruddin has spoken
worst than Taliban. He should
be given life sentence,
Dattatreya said.
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F
ormer Lok Sabha Speaker
PA Sangma, who broke
away with the NCP last year to
contest the Presidential elec-
tions, launched National
Peoples Party (NPP) on
Saturday and joined hands
with the BJP-led NDA.
Launching the NPP at the
national level, Sangma said it
has been active for long as a
recognised party from Manipur.
Sangma, who is the president of
the party, said his daughter
Agatha, MP from Tura,
Meghalaya, will be in the NCP
for the time being on technical
grounds but sounded confident
that she will fight next elections
as an NPP candidate.
Agatha had to resign as
Union Minister on her party
NCPs directions after she cam-
paigned for her father PA
Sangma in the July Presidential
elections in defiance of the
party. Book will be the nation-
al symbol of the party because
we believe that only literacy
and education can empower
the weaker sections, said
Sangma. He said that the party
would contest the Meghalaya
Assembly elections due soon
and is ready with the names of
33 candidates.
Sangma who unsuccess-
fully contested the Presidential
elections last year as a candi-
date of the Tribal Forum of
India said that his party will
give due importance to tribal
and women issues. Though
the party is meant for all and
its membership is open for
everyone, it is going to be trib-
al centric, said Sangma.
He announced that former
Union Minister Arvind Netam
will be the Working President of
the party. Sangma said the party
will focus at the beginning in
tribal areas of several states
including Andhra Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat,
Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, North
Bengal and the North-East.
On the issue of womens
safety, the NPP said it favours
death penalty or life imprison-
ment with chemical castration
for rapists and demanded that
such cases be tried in fast track
courts. On the corruption issue,
NPP supported a strong Lokpal
Bill and total independence of
CBI and CVC.
BJP hailed Sangmas deci-
sion to make his newly-
formed party a part of the
NDA alliance. Sangma had
met NDA Worki ng
Chairperson LK Advani and
expressed his desire to join the
alliance. Today his party took
this decision and conveyed the
formal decision to join the
NDA, BJP chief spokesperson
Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Sangma called Advani on the
phone to inform him about
the NPPs decision.
NPP becoming a part of
the NDA will strengthen the
coalition, particularly in the
North-East. The BJP hails this
decision. On behalf of my
party, I wholeheartedly wel-
come his decision, Prasad said.
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W
ith a number of lan-
guages across the length
and breadth of the country
becoming extinct, the Centre
has started taking steps to
preserve the endangered lan-
guages especially from tribal
areas of the country.
The HRD Ministry has
tasked the Mysore-based
Central Institute of Indian
Languages to work extensive-
ly towards protection and
preservation of languages
which are at risk of being for-
gotten as either its speakers die
or shift to other languages.
The work undertaken by
the Ministry includes gram-
matical analysis, pictorial
glossary, dictionary compila-
tion, folklore chronicling,
socio-cultural study, phonol-
ogy, primers, web materials
script etc. According to an
HRD official, when there are
no native speakers of a par-
ticular language then it falls in
the category of dead lan-
guage and efforts are made to
revive them.
Presently endangered lan-
guages listed are mainly from
the North-Eastern regions,
tribal areas of Odisha,
Chhattisgarh, Lakshadweep
and Andaman Islands. Some of
them are Adi, Ao, Aka-Aka,
Chin, Deori, Gal o, Idu,
Khampti, Kharam, Khowa,
Koireng, Methei, Milang,
Miri/Mishing, Miji, Monpa,
Motuo Menba, Nocte, Nyishi,
Padam, Sherdukpen, Tangsa,
Tani, Tedium, Thadou, Tutso,
Vaiphei, Wancho.
While there are 22 sched-
ul ed l anguages in the
Constitution of India, spoken
language presently is between
400-425 whereas equal number
of area specific dialects and the
estimated figure of endan-
gered language could be
somewhere between 100-150
and work to track and trace
more is underway.
If in the long run there
are no speakers of a particu-
lar language at all, it becomes
an extinct language. While
languages have always gone
extinct throughout human
history, they are currently
disappearing at an accelerat-
ed rate due to domination of
urban and other languages. It
is general tendency that more
commonly spoken language
dominates the less spoken
languages and thus the less
commonly spoken languages
gradually is out of fashion,
explained.
The CIIL is a subordinate
office of the MHRD and is
mandated as the apex body to
help in evolving and imple-
menting the language policy of
the Government of India. It has
also to further assist and advise
the State Governments on mat-
ters of language and also to
implement projects/schemes
for the promotion of Indian
languages including the endan-
gered languages.
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W
omens organisations on
Friday demanded that
Justice Verma Committee
should recommend that inves-
tigation and judgment in all
rape cases be delivered within
three months by fast track
courts mandatorily. They also
opposed death penalty for rape
convicts. They suggested that
in aggravated cases, life impris-
onment should be extended till
the time convict was alive.
In the suggestions sub-
mitted to the three-member
panel constituted to look into
laws concerning women, All
India Democratic Womens
Association, All India Womens
Conference, Centre for
Womens Devel opment
Studies, Joint Women' s
Programme, Guild of Service,
All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar
Manch, National Federation of
Indian Women, Young
Women' s Christian
Association of India and
Muslim Women' s Forum
demanded that the definition
of rape should be widened to
include all forms of unnatural
assault along with quicker trial
and time bound investigations
of such crime
Strongly opposing the
Government move to make
rape gender neutral by intro-
ducing the the Criminal Law
Amendment Bill in the Lok
Sabha, they said that it would
allow men to misuse the pro-
vision and file false cases of
sexual assault against women.
Pointing out that there is no
empirical evidence of women
sexual assaulting men, they
demanded that the rape be
made be gender specific so
that accused can only be men
and women complainant.
They also suggested that mar-
ital rape should also be recog-
nised as a crime.
Women Organisations
suggested that crimes like
stalking and stripping be
recognised as serious crime
with punishment of upto five
years. Though stalking inci-
dents have increased, the per-
petrators get away as at present
it is not recognised as crime
which emboldens them result-
ing in more serious crimes,
AIDWA General Secretary
Sudha Sundararaman said.
Medical examination of
sexual assault victims should
be carried out in an efficient
and scientific manner to
avoid further trauma. The
two finger test which has
been found to be not only
unscientific and unnecessary
but also subjects the com-
plainant to further trauma
and humiliation should be
immediately stopped.
In case of sexual assault
and violent crimes against
women including acid attack,
prior sanction of Government
to arrest an Armed Forces
personnel or prosecute a
Government servant should
not be necessary, women
organisations said. The police
should strictly follow Standard
Operating Procedures in rape
cases and ensure the victim is
not harassed during cross
examination and questioning
should be done by women.
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T
aking a strong exception to
the various recruitment
irregularities in the National
Highways Authority of India
(NHAI) during the last few
years, the Central Vigilance
Commission (CVC) has
advised initiation of penalty
proceedings against the erring
officials including two top-
level officers of the rank of
Members, NHAI.
The CVCs advice of an
exemplary action was accept-
ed by Minister of Road
Transport and Highways
(MoRTH) CP Joshi. The NHAI
and Ministry have now gotten
down to focussing on improv-
ing on their present pace of
building roads at less than 11
km per day to improve it to at
least 16 km per day by the end
of the financial year.
The Pioneer has already
carried several of the recruit-
ment irregularities including
this against which the CVC has
taken a note of. The incumbent
NHAI chairman, RP Singh,
too has reviewed intake of
over 100 personnel recruited
during the last couple of years.
Well-placed sources said
that the Joint Secretary and
Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO)
in the Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways
(MoRTH) Aklesh Sharma, on
recommendations of CVC, has
advised initiation of minor
penalty proceedings against
Rajiv Yadav, NHAI Member
(Administration), SI Patel, for-
mer Member (Project) NHAI
and MPS Rana (General
Manager) NHAI, all Selection
Committee members. The
matter of irregularities partic-
ularly in this recruitment was
first reported by The Pioneer in
May 2010.
Accordingly, the NHAI
issued warnings to these offi-
cers to be careful in such mat-
ters (recruitments) in future.
Patel, who was repatriated to
his parent cadre in another case
of corruption charges and is
under investigation by CBI, is
a Gujarat State Government
officer and Brijeshwar Singh,
the then NHAI chairman
responsible as head of the
organisation, has since retired
from service on superannua-
tion in December 2010.
The Investigation Report
forwarded by NHAI on
December 16, 2010, had held
the entire Selection
Committee responsible for
the acts of commission and
omissions in the matter.
At the backgrounder,
through a Confidential letter
dated December 23, 2010 to
Mrutunjay Sarangi, Additional
Secretary in the Cabinet
Secretariat, Additional
Secretary Alok Bhatnagar in
CVC held, (copy of which is
available with The Pioneer): It
is apparent that selections and
also the process of selections
itself had suffered serious infir-
mities, for which the chairman,
NHAI will have to take respon-
sibility and he cannot absolve
himself by indicating as if he
had abdicated. The entire
Selection Committee including
the Chairman is held respon-
sible for the acts of commission
and omissions in the matter.
Then NHAI chairman
Brijeshwar Singh, in his reply
duringthe investigation, hadsaid
that, the overall tabulation was
done by Member
(Administration) who is pri-
marily responsible for smooth
conduct of recruitment. The
Selection Committee comprised
of Singh, Yadav, Patel, Rana, from
NHAI and KC Verkeychen,
Chief Engineer in MoRTH.
In this matter, Selection
Committee members tried to
blame the Screening Committee
and pass the blame on junior
officers in the administration for
selection or wrong selection
which was primarily their man-
dated duty. A top Ministry offi-
cial insisting anonymity said,
"the Selection Committee
awarded marks, admittedly tab-
ulated list, signed minutes with
the result, how can they abdicate
their responsibility and pass
the onus to junior officers who
are even not members of selec-
tion committee."
It might be noted that due
to severe manpower crunch, to
implement the mandated pro-
jects of 20 km per day, NHAI
had advertised recruitment to
87 posts of Deputy General
Manager (DGM) in Technical
cadre in January 2010 and had
interviewed 147 short-listed
candidates for the post in three
days in March 2010, as per
`urgent' direction of then Road
Transport Minister Kamal
Nath. Though the selection
was held suffering from infir-
mity by CVC, NHAI retained
all the recruited DGMs with
approval of MoRTH.
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T
he ruling BJP on Saturday
at the meet to take stock of
Yeddyurappas threat to desta-
bilise its regime, has decided to
go into election mode, ruling
out a drastic measure like dis-
solving the House before time
to force elections.
Officially briefing the
media after separate meetings
of the Core Committee and
State office-bearers as part of its
Chintan Baithak, partys State
general secretary Prahlad Joshi,
an MP, declared that the elec-
tions would not be advanced
and held only after April 15.
To take strategically on
the Lingayat community
strongman, who has now
floated the Karnataka Janata
Party, the BJP has projected
Chi ef Mi ni ster Jagadi sh
Shettar, himself a Lingayat
leader, to lead the party in the
elections. The party hopes the
move will be able to counter
Yeddyurappas i nf l uence
amongst t he
dominant com-
munity which
has always had
a crucial role in
Ka r n a t a k a s
politics.
Joshi, how-
ever, said that the
party was not perturbed by the
deadlines held out by the KJP of
Yeddyurappa, who, the BJP
said, was in the habit of post-
poning such deadlines. Such
deadline would culminate with
the elections, he added.
The BJP Chintan Baithak
also decided to take action
against Yeddyurappa support-
ers in its folds. Joshi said that
the party would firmly act
against the former CMs loyal-
ists and this had been amply
demonstrated by sacking
Cooperation Minister BJ
Puttaswamy and also heads of
Boards and Corporations who
were supporting the former
Chief Minister.
Meanwhile, a mere 13 out
of 32 Ministers
attended the
meetings held in
a resort on the
outskirts of the
the State capital
here. But Joshi
clarified that it
was due to a
communication gap that some
of the Ministers could not
turn up. He also said
Yeddyurappa loyalists were
not invited to these meetings.
According to a source in
the BJP, the Chintan Baithak
discussed the threat posed by
Yeddyurappa and, as advised
by the RSS, a move to dissolve
the House. The source con-
firmed that pitching Shettar as
the CM-candidate was part of
the strategy to split the
Lingayat communitys alle-
giance. He also said the party
had decided to give tickets to
all sitting MLAs to prevent
them going with Yeddyurappa.
Meanwhile, taking the
political battle to a new pitch in
the State, the Opposition JD(S)
said it was ready to support a
Congress no-confidence
motion against the Jagadish
Shettar Ministry. JD(S) supre-
mo HD Deve Gowda said,
The JD(S) is ready to support
a no-confidence motion if the
Congress moves it against the
BJP Government in the State.
He said the JD(S) had
made its stand on the issue
clear from day one when dif-
ferences cropped up between
the KJP, floated by
Yeddyurappa, and the BJP. The
party, however, would not join
hands with BJP and form a
Government if Shettar lost
majority in the Assembly,
Gowda said.
Yeddyurappa, who has
the support of around 15 BJP
MLAs, has said a decision on
bringing down the first-ever
BJP Government in the south
would be taken on January 15
and vowed not to allow
Shettar to present the Budget
next month.
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supporters in
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I
n a fifth causality in the
ongoing man-animal con-
flict in Vidarbha region in
three weeks, a 19-year-old girl
was mauled to death by a tiger
outside the Navegaon National
park in Gondia district of east-
ern Maharashtra.
The victim, Bhagyashree
Neware, was returning from her
farm along with her mother and
two others, when the big cat
attacked her. After mauling her,
the man-eater dragged the girls
body for some distance, even as
her mother and others watched
helplessly. It took several hours
before the State forest officials
whom the local people had
alerted about the incident
could retrieve the body of
Bhagyashree from the clutch-
es of the tiger that sat next to
the body for quite a while.
The incident took place
near Bhivkhidki village, locat-
ed in the vicinity of Navegaon
National Park in Gondia dis-
trict at around 2 pm on Friday.
Bhagyashree is the fifth
person to have been mauled to
death by a big cat. Earlier on
Wednesday, a woman was killed
by a tiger presumably the
same tiger 15 km away from
the spot where the latest inci-
dent took place. Earlier since
December 15, three women
were killed in such attacks.
The forest officials suspect
that the first three women might
have been mauled to death by
a leopard. However, the per-
ception that is gaining ground
in the area is that it is the same
tiger which killed
Bhagyashree that has been
behind all the five fatal attack on
women since December 15.
Meanwhile, Chief Wildlife
Warden SWH Naqvi has
ordered the elimination of the
killer tiger. Naqvi has issued
shoot-at-site orders to eliminate
the big cat, Nagpur-based
Satpuda Foundation president
and National Board of Wildlife
member Kishor Rithe said.
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I
nt ernet turned 30 on
January 1, this year but as
the economy gets flooded
with online businesses, data
safety of the users and con-
sumers remains a perpetual
concern. While cyber shop-
pers hunt for the best bargain
online, no heed is paid to the
retailers information tech-
nology(IT) infrastructure
which can lead to possible
data breaches without even
the customers knowledge.
Accordi ng t o onl i ne
security experts, e-commerce
companies in India should be
mandated to be fully pay-
ment card industry-data
security standard (PCI-DSS)
compliant. While financial
transactions are done in a
secure manner, no attention
is paid to data storage, which
can become soft target for
hacking.
Experts say that every
time a card is swiped or
details entered on a site, the
information has to be stored
in some database. While
fund transactions online are
routed through safe third
parties like banks, nobody
bothers to find out where the
customer data is stored.
Foreign companies strictly
follow the PCI norms, but
Indian companies do not
give much weightage to this.
According to a joint sur-
vey conducted by Edelman
and the Ponemon Institute,
most companies lack trans-
parency in what they do with
empl oyee and customer
information. Most Indian
organisations do not consid-
er protection of personal
information as a priority,
mi suse of whi ch coul d
mal i gn t hei r reput at i on
severely.
In fact, online companies
interacting with consumers
through the internet are in
greater danger compared to
their offline counterparts.
According to a study, three
quarter of consumers would
stop using an online shop if
information was accessed
without permission.
Meanwhile, enterprises
must also pay attention to
prioritizing data storage in
such a way that the most crit-
ical data are stored in the
most secure places. And if
certain information is not so
critical, perhaps a virtual
solution is the best idea.
Sound judgements need to be
made, however, because a
mistake in these practices
could lead to catastrophic
consequences.
Cyber experts say that
taking stock of vulnerabilities
and putting some simple
practices in place will help
retailers protect their cus-
tomers and assets. First of all,
PCI compliance needs a daily
log review, weekly file-integri-
ty monitoring, quarterly vul-
nerability scanning and annu-
al penet rat i on test i ng.
Employees must be educated
so that they recognise security
threats and breaches.
Pol i cymakers shoul d
consider that the amount of
digital information increas-
es tenfold every five years,
this is why the primary hope
for securely storing critical
i nformati on shoul d and
must lie with technologies
that increase capacity and
access times without requir-
ing that the data leave the
enterprise.
!ata storage ano security
remain a eretual concern
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R
evenue Department has
sent a reminder notice to
British tel ecom major
Vodafone to pay taxes, esti-
mated at around C11,200 crore,
for its acquisition of
Hutchisons stake in 2007. The
reminder relates to capital
gains tax arising from the sale
of telecom business by Hong
Kong-based Hutchison
Whampoa that involved
Indian assets to Vodafone in
2007.
In a statement the compa-
ny said, Vodafone confirms
that it has received a reminder
from the Indian tax authorities
that the original tax demand
remains due from the
HutchisonWhampoa/Vodafon
e transaction in 2007.
The company in its reply
to the Revenue Department
has said that no tax is payable.
Vodafone has replied to this
reminder, stating that it con-
tinues to believe that no tax is
payable on the above transac-
tion, the company further
stated.
The Income Tax
Department on October 22,
2010 passed an order deter-
mining a tax liability (includ-
ing interest) of C11,218 crore on
Vodafone for the deal which
took place in Cayman Islands
in 2007. The Supreme Court,
however, quashed the order in
January 2012.
After the apex courts rul-
ing, the Income Tax Act was
amended with retrospective
effect to bring into the tax net
such overseas merger and
acquisition deals that involve
Indian assets. Section 119 of the
Finance Act, 2012, seeks to val-
idate the October 2010 order of
the Income Tax Department.
The Department had also
passed an order imposing a
penalty of C7,900 crore on
Vodafone in April, 2011.
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P
rime Ministers economic
advisor C Rangarajan on
Saturday said that the forth-
coming Budget could look at
imposing surcharge on income
above a threshold.
... One need not disturb
the structure of income tax
system as it is now. But add a
surcharge for income above
particular level. I believe as we
go along, we need to raise
more revenues and the people
with larger incomes must be
willing to contribute more, he
told reporters on the sidelines
of Financial Inclusion Day
seminar.
His suggestion comes
ahead of the Budget for 2013-
14 for which Finance Minister
P Chidambaram has started
consultations with different
interest groups.
India taxes income at three
rates - 10 per cent, 20 per cent
and 30 per cent. These rates
were fixed in 1997 by then
Fi nance Minister P
Chidambaram.
Interestingly, recently at a
l ecture to honour Raj a
Chelliah, Chidambaram had
called for a debate on the
need of inheritance tax in
India, wondering if the coun-
try had paid enough attention
to accumulation of wealth in
the hands of a few.
Earlier this week, the US
Congress voted for raising
taxes on rich Americans, as
part of resolutions of crisis
over the so-called fiscal cliff.
The US legislation raises taxes
on individual earning more
than $400,000 per year, and on
couple earning more than
$450,000. The veteran econo-
mist, a former RBI Governor,
also stressed on fiscal disci-
pline to promote growth.
We need to bring down
the fiscal deficit over next few
years. For this purpose, we
need to act on expenditure
side and as well as revenue
side. On the expenditure side,
we must focus on how to
prune the subsidies and reduce
them as a proportion of GDP,
Rangarajan said. Rangarajan
said, We also need to focus on
the revenue side and the tax-
GDP rati o for central
Government as it is still
nowhere near what it was in
2007-08.
On inflation Rangarajan
expressed hope that WPI will
come down to 7 per cent by
March this year.
Inflation had declined
marginally to 7.24 per cent in
November last year from 9.46
per cent in same month of pre-
vious year.
Asked if the RBI would cut
interest rate in its upcoming
review of the monetary poli-
cy, he said, it would depend on
the inflation number for
December which is expected
to be released later this month.
Last month, the RBI left
key policy rates unchanged in
its monetary policy review on
concerns of inflation.
The central bank left the
short-term lending (repo)
rate and the Cash Reserve
Ratio (CRR) unchanged at 8
per cent and 4.25 per cent,
respectively.
Rangarajan for ligler
taxes for suer ricl
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MM8kI: Domestic auto-maker
Mahindra has forayed into the
motorcycle segment with two
110 cc models. Mahindra Two
wheelers Ltd, the two wheeler
arm of Mahindra group, pre-
viewed two new motorcycles -
- Centuro and Pantero -- at a
function last evening here.
Pantero should be out in
the next couple of weeks and
Centuro a few weeks there-
after, said Anoop Mathur,
president, two wheeler sector
and member of the group
executive board, Mahindra &
Mahindra Ltd.
Mathur, however, did not
disclose the prices. Designed
completely in-house at the
Mahindra R&D Centre in
Pune and powered by the MCi-
5 engine manufactured at the
companys Pithampur facility
in Madhya Pradesh, the motor-
cycle models possess intelligent
and class-defining features tar-
geted at distinct consumer seg-
ments, the company said.
The company has invested
C100 crore in the research and
development of the products
but it is difficult to give total
investment in product devel-
opment as there is a lot of com-
mon platform sharing, Mathur
said. FTI
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hEW EIhI: Budget carrier
SpiceJet will connect Mysore and
PondicherrywithDelhi, Mumbai
and Bengaluru from mid of this
month. SpiceJet will also connect
MysoretoChennai viaBengaluru
and Pondicherry to Bengaluru
with direct flights, the airline said
in a statement.
The airline is also connect-
ing Mysore with Mumbai and
Delhi while Pondicherry will be
connected to Mumbai, Delhi,
HyderabadandKolkata.Booking
of tickets for these destinations
are open now and commercial
flights will commence from
January 14, and January 17, to
Mysore and Pondicherry respec-
tively, it said. Fh8
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I
n a major mishap, one of the
oil storage tanks at Indian
Oi l Corporati ons (IOC)
Hazira terminal in Gujarat
caught fire on Saturday after-
noon.
Accordi ng to IOC
sources, the fire broke out at
1 pm and by late evening, the
state-owned firm claimed that
to a large extent the situation
had been brought under con-
trol and fire had been isolat-
ed and no casualties have
been reported. The reason
for the fire is yet to be ascer-
tained, they said.
IOC has initiated an inter-
nal inquiry into the mishap
even as its fire fighting squads
f rom Ahmedabad and
Mumbai were rushed to the
spot as soon as the fire began,
to help the local authorities.
Hazira is a major terminal
of IOC and dealers ferry oil
from its various tanks. The
tank which caught fire had
almost 5,000 kilolitre of
petrol, which is half of its
capacity.
This is the second major
fire at IOC storage depots
since 2009. On October 29,
2009, a fire broke out at its
Jaipur terminal which was
blamed on non-observance
of normal safety procedures.
The Jaipur depot fire raged for
11 days, killed 11 people and
resulted in losses worth C280
crore.
IOC officials, however,
informed The Pioneer that
the fire is not as big as the
Jaipur one and the situation
would be brought under con-
trol fully hopefully by mid-
night.
In the meantime several
senior IOC officials have
already reached Hazira to
supervise operations.
Hazira is a so-cal l ed
white-oil terminal, housing a
tank farm to store petrol and
diesel. It has five petrol storage
tanks and four diesel tanks.
While local administra-
tion rushed fire brigade per-
sonnel from Surat and nearby
cities, IOC has sent fire tenders
from its Koyali refinery to
douse the fire.
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tanl at OC`s Hazira
terminal, no casualties so far
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B
arack Obama was today
officially declared winner of
November US presidential elec-
tions as votes of the electoral col-
lege were tallied and certified by
a joint session of the Congress.
Now, Washington is getting
ready for President Barack
Obamas second inauguration
that promises to be another
grand affair, albeit not as big as
the record-setting 1.8 million
visitors who descended on the
US Capital from across America
for the first one in 2009.
As the constitutionally-
mandated inauguration date of
January 20 falls on a Sunday this
time, there will be two swearing-
in ceremonies. The official
swearing-in will take place in
the White House on that day,
followed by the ceremonial
swearing-in on the steps of the
Capitol on January 21.
Coincidentally, the public
swearing-in will coincide with
the Martin Luther King Day,
which is a big draw in
Washington in its own right.
A grand presidential parade
and a series of inaugural balls
will, as usual, herald the event,
but what is unusual is that for
the first time, members of the
Indian Diaspora will host their
own exclusive ball. The
Indiaspora Ball is said to
highlight the communitys
strong emergence in various
walks of American life in recent
years.
Four years ago, the city
authorities were at their wits
end on how to accommodate
and regulate the record num-
ber of people who flocked to
Washington. The situation was
mitigated with homeowners
in Washington and its suburbs
in Virginia and Maryland leas-
ing portions of their premises
for the period. Reports quoting
officials say that the city author-
ities this time expect roughly
half that number of visitors.
While Chief Justice John
Roberts will administer the oathof
office to President Obama, Vice
PresidentJoeBidenwillbeswornin
byAssociateJusticeSoniaSotomayor,
anObamaappointeewhoalsohap-
pens to be the first Hispanic judge
toserveontheUSSupremeCourt.
Just ahead of the inaugu-
ration, a joint session of the US
Congress has officially declared
Obama the winner of the
November presidential elec-
tions. The final tally shows that
President Obama and Vice
President Biden received 332
electoral college votes as against
206 received by Republican
challenger Mitt Romney and
his running mate Paul Ryan.
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C
hina is experiencing unusu-
al chills this winter with its
national average temperature
hitting the lowest in 28 years,
and snow and ice have closed
highways, canceled flights,
stranded tourists and knocked
out power in several provinces.
China Meteorological
Administration on Friday said
the national average was -3.8
degrees Celsius (25 degrees
Fahrenheit) since late
November, the coldest in near-
ly three decades.
The average temperature in
northeast China dipped to -
15.3 degrees C (4.5 degrees F),
the coldest in 43 years, and
dropped to a 42-year low of -
7.4 degrees C (18.7 degrees F)
in northern China.
In some areas - north-
eastern China, eastern Inner
Mongolia, and north part of
far-western Xinjiang province
- the low has hit -40 degrees
C (-40 degrees F), the admin-
istration said. The state-run,
English-language China Daily
reported Friday that about
1,000 ships were stuck in ice
in Laizhou Bay in eastern
Chinas Bohai Sea.
The meteorological admin-
istration said Saturday that ice
had covered 27,000 square
meters (10,500 square miles) of
the sea surface by Thursday, the
most expansive since 2008
when authorities began to col-
lect such data. The adminis-
tration expects the ice to con-
tinue to grow.
In southwest Chinas
Sichuan province, more than
1,000 tourists were stranded
Wednesday in a scenic moun-
tainous area because of icy
road, the state-run Beijing
News reported.
In southern China, snow-
storms from Thursday night
have disrupted air and road
traffic. In eastern Chinas
Zhejiang province, at least
eight flights were canceled at
an airport in Hangzhou city
on Thursday, and authorities
told state media the airport
might be closed if the snow
shoul d conti nue. Uti l ity
workers also rushed to restore
power i n part s of t he
province, according to state
media.
Several highways, includ-
ing some sections of the
Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao
Expressway in central Chinas
Hunan province, were closed
Friday because of icy condition,
state media reported.
An airport was temporar-
ily shut down in Nanchang city
in Jiangxi province, as workers
were trying to clear ice and
snow from its runway, state
media said.
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A
mi Bera, the lone Indian-
American lawmaker in
the US Congress, has been
nominated to the prestigious
House Committee on Foreign
Affairs and another commit-
tee dealing with science, space
and technology.
One thing I hope to do
through my new role is to work
with my colleagues from both
parties and the local business
community to strengthen our
trade relationships with fast-
growing countries in Asia that
would be natural, growing
markets for our products. That
would help create jobs here at
home, said Bera, the physi-
cian-turned-politician from
Sacramento, California.
Referring to his Indian ori-
gin, Bera said: My parents
emigrated here from India
(Gujarat) in the 1950s with very
little but the dream of a better
life. I grew up believing
America was a land of oppor-
tunity, where if you worked
hard and played by the rules,
you could reach your full
potential. Thursday, my father
was among those watching as
I was sworn in to the US
House of Representatives.
As Bera put it, his familys
story isnt unique. Its the story
of the American Dream. I will
work every day to ensure that
we continue to invest in the
next generation and keep the
American Dream alive. I am
incredibly honoured humbled
that the people of Sacramento
County have placed their trust
in me to represent them in the
US House of Representatives.
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T
he Taliban on Saturday
warned of a prolonged war
in Afghanistan if any foreign
troops stay after the end of
2014, as Kabul and Washington
prepare to discuss the resid-
ual US security presence.
President Barack Obama
and President Hamid Karzai
will hold talks in the US next
week on a long-term security
pact between the two coun-
tries, with US troops remain-
ing in Afghanistan at the top of
the agenda.
If America wants to leave
a small or large number of its
troops for whatever length of
time then it means war and
destruction will continue in the
region for that same length, the
Taliban said in a statement.
If Karzai and the Kabul
regime agree with the presence
of even a single American sol-
dier then, just as presently,
they shall also be responsible
for all future hostilities, casu-
alties and destruction.
The latest media reports
suggest the US Department of
Defense has prepared plans
that leave either 3,000, 6,000 or
9,000 troops in the country,
focused on striking at Al-
Qaeda militants.
US Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta has said the slimmed-
down force would focus on
preventing Al-Qaeda, which
was sheltered by the 1996-
2001 Taliban government, from
regaining a foothold in the war-
shattered nation.
Troops would also contin-
ue training the Afghan army
and police, who will be respon-
sible for national security more
than a decade after a US-led
alliance ousted the Taliban
regime. General John Allen,
commander of US and NATO
forces, had earlier suggested
leaving up to 15,000 troops, and
the new forecasts would mean
scrapping a plan for diplomat-
ic posts across Afghanistan, the
Wall Street Journal said.
Fewer soldiers would also
heighten US reliance on drones
to monitor and target militants
after most manned aircraft
and their pilots pull out, the
paper added.
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FTI Q SLAMABA0
B
ahawal Khan, the new chief
of a Taliban faction in
Pakistans South Waziristan
region after the killing of Mullah
Nazir in a US drone strike, is a
militant who fought Indian
troops in Jammu and Kashmir.
Khan was named the head
of the faction shortly after
Nazir and 12 other militants
were killed in the drone strike
in Angoor Adda area on
Thursday.
He fought as a militant in
Jammu and Kashmir, sources
were quoted as saying in
Pakistani media reports.
A member of the Kakakhel
sub-tribe of the Ahmedzai
Wazirs, Khan is an illiterate for-
mer bus driver.
The 34-year-old father of
two also ran a hotel. He fought
alongside the Afghan Taliban
before the 9/11 terror attacks.
Khan, who is also known
as Salahuddin Ayubi, was
chosen by the Shura (coun-
cil) of the Mullah Nazir group
and elders of the Ahmedzai
Wazir tribe.
A report in The News
described Khan as tough and
inflexible while the BBC
reported that he is seen as hot-
tempered, unlike his predeces-
sor.
The Mullah Nazir group is
one of the three Taliban fac-
tions based in the tribal belt
that preferred attacking US
and allied forces in Afghanistan
instead of Pakistani troops.
Nazir had finalised a peace
deal with Pakistani security
forces in 2007 and was con-
sidered to be among good
Taliban.
Khan is a long-time asso-
ciate of Nazir and is expected
to continue his predecessors
policy of maintaining peace in
South Waziristan while
focussing on attacks on foreign
forces in Afghanistan.
US intelligence officials
told The Long War Journal, a
website that closely tracks
the war on terror, that Khan
is closely allied with Al
Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban
and a plethora of terrorist
groups in the area.
Little will change with
Khans appointment to lead
Nazirs faction of the Taliban,
one unnamed US official said.
It will be business as usual,
and well continue to have to
take shots at Al Qaeda leaders
and others in the Wazir areas
of South Waziristan, the official
said.
The US intelligence offi-
cials denied reports that the
Pakistani military and govern-
ment aided in the drone strike
against Nazir.
They said the Pakistanis
were upset over the killing.
These reports (that
Pakistan aided in Nazirs death)
are preposterous, said one
official involved in targeting Al
Qaeda and other terrorist lead-
ers in Pakistan.
Nazir was an asset to
and a tool of the Pakistani
state, the official said. If the
Pakistanis wanted to remove
Nazir from the playing field,
they could have easily done
so, another intelligence offi-
cial said.
FTI Q SLAMABA0
W
arning that forces of
doom and gloom are
bent on derailing the system,
Prime Minister Raja Pervez
Ashraf has said that Pakistan
will have to redefine its military
doctrine to comprehensively
tackle terrorism.
We need to work on a strat-
egy which can comprehensive-
ly tackle (terrorism). We have to
redesign and redefine our mil-
itary doctrine to achieve this
objective, Ashraf said.
The forces of doom and
gloom thrive in an environ-
ment of chaos, uncertainty and
instability. We need to guard
against all such forces, who are
out to derail the system so
assiduously put in place after a
protracted struggle, the pre-
mier said while addressing a
gathering at the National
Defence University yesterday.
Ashraf s comments came
in the wake of a recent spike in
attacks by the Taliban and
reports that the Pakistan Army
had made a paradigm shift in
its new doctrine by describing
homegrown militant groups
and internal dangers as the
biggest threat to security.
The premier said threats to
Pakistans national security
stem from mainly non-state
actors who are targeting states
symbols and institutions in a
bid to impose their agenda.
This was an enemy which is
nameless and faceless, he said.
While highlighting the sac-
rifices of the security forces, law
enforcement agencies and citi-
zens in the war against terror-
ism, Ashraf stressed the need to
redefine the military doctrine.
Our national security insti-
tutions must improve intelli-
gence gathering and establish
effective coordination among
civil and military institutions to
attain optimum results, he said.
The government will pro-
vide all possible support and
resources for such efforts, he
added. At the same time,
Ashraf pointed out that polit-
ical will and peoples support
are critical for the success of
any military action.
The parliament is the
mother of all institutions, a
repository of peoples aspira-
tions and the custodian of
national interests, he said.
The country and parlia-
ment are standing behind the
armed forces in their struggle to
secure the future of our children,
he said. In this regard, he men-
tionedthat the militaryoperation
against the Taliban in the Swat
Valley in 2009 had succeeded
because the government had
given political ownership to
the war against terrorism.
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W
ikipedia, one of the
worlds biggest websites,
is losing many of its English-
language editors, crippling its
ability to keep pace with its
mission as a source of knowl-
edge online, a study says.
The study led by Aaron
Halfaker of the University of
Minnesota found that the
number of collaborators or
volunteer editors has been on
the decline from around 56,000
in 2007 to some 35,000 at the
end of 2012.
The researchers said there
are a number of reasons, includ-
ing the rise of automated pro-
grams or bots, but also noted
that some potential contributors
are being discouraged by
Wikipedias structure.
Several changes the
Wikipedia community made to
manage quality and consisten-
cy in the face of a massive
growth in participation have
ironically crippled the very
growth they were designed to
manage, the researchers wrote
in last weeks American
Behavioral Scientist.
Specifically, the restrictive-
ness of the encyclopedias pri-
mary quality control mechanism
and the algorithmic tools used
to reject contributions are impli-
cated as key causes of decreased
newcomer retention.
They said that while
Wikipedia has sought to root
out less competent editors, its
rules have also discouraged
desirable newcomers who
get discouraged when their
contributions get deleted.
Wikipedia has editions in
285 languages. Its founder
Jimmy Wales has cited the
need to make Wikipedia more
open to newcomers, to keep up
with the vast amount of infor-
mation it is trying to process.
But the authors of the study
said Wikipedia is being crimped
by its rules trying to improve
quality. Wikipedia has changed
from the encyclopedia that any-
one can edit to the encyclope-
dia that anyone who under-
stands the norms, socializes him
or herself, dodges the impersonal
wall of semi-automated rejection
andstill wants tovoluntarilycon-
tribute his or her time and ener-
gy can edit, they wrote.
1akarIa: Five susecled lerrorisls
were killed in raids on mililanl
cams in easlern ndonesia in lhe
lalesl in a series o anlilerror
oeralions, olice said on
Salurday. halional olice
sokesman said lhe raids look
lace lale on Friday and Salurday
morning on lwo searale mililanl
lraining cams in wesl husa
Tenggara rovince. "Folice were
orced lo oen ire as lhey (lhe
mililanls) have exlosive malerial.
They used lhe localions lo
assemble bombs," lhe sokesman
said, adding lhal ive iebombs
and malerials lo make exlosive
devices were recovered. 05?
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V
enezuelan President Hugo
Chavez can take the oath
of office for his next term
before the Supreme Court at a
later date if the ailing leader
isnt fit to be sworn in next
week, his Vice President said.
Vice President Nicolas
Maduro sent the strongest sig-
nal yet that the government
may seek to postpone Chavezs
inauguration as the 58-year-old
president fights a severe respi-
ratory infection more than
three weeks after undergoing
cancer surgery in Cuba.
Maduros position in a tele-
vised interview on Friday night
generated new friction between
the government and opposition
over the swearing-in, which the
constitution says should occur
next Thursday before the
National Assembly. Some
opposition leaders have argued
that ifChavez doesnt make it
back to Caracas by that date,
the president of the National
Assembly should take over as
interim president.
Such brewing disagree-
ments are likely to be aired on
Saturday when the congress,
which is controlled by a pro-
Chavez majority, convenes to
choose its president and other
legislative leaders. Whoever is
elected National Assembly
president could potentially end
up being the countrys interim
president if Chavezs illness
forces him from office.
Speaking on television,
Maduro held up a small blue
copy of the constitution and
read aloud passages as he argued
that opponents were using erro-
neous interpretations to try to
driveChavez from power.
They should respect our
constitution, the vice president
said. The formality of his
swearing-in can be resolved
before the Supreme Court of
Justice, at the time (the court)
deems in coordination with the
head of state, Commander
Hugo Chavez.
Maduro echoed other
Chavez allies in suggesting the
inauguration date is not a firm
deadline, and that the president
should be given more time to
recover from his cancer surgery
if needed.
Ailing Chave/
can be sworn
in by lo courl:
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F
loods that ravaged China
last year killed 673 people,
whi l e anot her 159 were
reported missing, as waters
inundated 184 cities and
affected the lives of 120 mil-
lion people, a top official said
Saturday.
Zhang Zhitong, head of the
State Flood Control and
Drought Relief Headquarters,
however said the toll was about
half the average seen in previ-
ous years, Xinhua reported.
Massive floods in the
Yangtze river, Yellow river
and Haihe river last year
pushed up water levels in
more than 420 smaller rivers,
he said.
Floods inundated 184
cities and affected 120 million
people, which was about 10
percent less than the average
in previous years.
Last year, floods and
droughts cost China around
320 billion yuan (51.49 billion
U.S. dollars) in direct eco-
nomic losses last year, he
added.
The official said droughts
were also less serious last
year, impacting around nine
million hectares of land, about
60 percent l ess t han
the average.
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T
he US city of Aurora, that
was the scene of a movie the-
atre massacre last year, was shak-
en again by a hostage crisis that
ended with the death of four
people, including the gunman.
A gunman, who was holed
up in a house with several
hostages, kept the police at bay
for several hours, but the stand-
off ended with the killing of
three hostages and the gunman.
Local media reports said
that police broke into the house
after hours of failed negotia-
tions gunned down the culprit.
Three victims were dis-
covered dead inside the home,
Denver News reported.
Neighbours who heard
gunshots from the house called
the police at around 3 am
(local time Saturday), following
which police surrounded the
house and evacuated the area.
According to a report in
the local KUSA news, one per-
son inside the home was able
to escape the hostage situation
and alert authorities.
The identities of the vic-
tims and the gunman were not
released immediately.
Last year in July, the
Colorado city of Aurora wit-
nessed a macabre shooting
incident at a movie theater
screening The Dark Knight
Rises, in which 12 people were
killed and 58 were injured.
US hostago situation onds in
bloodlotting; our killod
Ami Bera on ley
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on foreign affairs
sport 10 NEW DELH SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 2013
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A
s per the normal practice, Delhi
doesnt host matches during this
month of the year due to extreme-
ly low temperatures. But may be there were
some political compulsions, that always
surround India-Pakistan clashes, which
forced the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) to schedule the third and
final ODI here at the Ferozeshah Kotla
ground on Sunday.
However, political equations aside,
India have probably found a perfect match
in the weather, for their performance has
been as cold as the chilly winds that are
blowing across Delhi these days. Their
future looks as foggy as the skyline. And
they are as desperate for a win as Delhiites
are for that little sunny spell.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh also
admitted that it is the coldest weather that
he had ever played in India. There have
been a few instances. In 2007 we played in
Ireland, I am not sure about the tempera-
ture but it was very windy and probably
thats why we felt cold. After that it was dur-
ing IPL in South Africa. Bloemfontein was
one venue which was very cold and it was
close to zero degrees, he said.
After that I think this is the coldest.
The players need to adapt quickly. The dif-
ference in temperature is huge as compared
to Kolkata and Chennai. So lets hope for
the best. Hopefully nobody gets ill because
today was our first proper exposure. It
looks good as of now but it will be tough,
he added.
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True, its going to be really tough.
India and Pakistan have never blanked
each other in an ODI series where three or
more matches have been played. But com-
ing to Delhi, Pakistan have that one shot
at going into the history books. And con-
sidering Indias dismal performance in the
recent matches, the possibility of a white-
wash cant be overruled.
And the fact that India have never suf-
fered a whitewash in the 50-over format,
its going to add to the pressure that the
Men in Blue have already been reeling
under for some months now. On top of that
Indias most in-form batsman, Dhoni, at the
moment is doubtful for this face-saving
contest. The Indian skipper is down with
sore back and Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper
Dinesh Karthik has already been called up
as a back-up. However, the final call will
be taken before the match on Sunday.
It was Dhoni himself who broke the
news about his back problem when he was
asked about the reason for Yuvraj Singhs
absence from the practice, which sparked
the speculations about left-handers fitness.
It was an optional practice session
thats why Yuvi didnt turn up, Dhoni said
to put all the speculations to rest.
If we talk about fitness, I am the per-
son who is doubtful as of now and for back
up we have called Dinesh (Karthik). I have
got a sore back but apart from that there
are no fitness issues, he added.
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Not fitness but form is definitely a
worry for India. Neither the batsmen nor
the bowlers have done anything of signif-
icance in the two matches. And with new
rules, it seems Dhonis bits-and-pieces strat-
egy is also not working.
With only four fielders outside the cir-
cle during the non-powerplay overs, it is
those 10 overs which Dhoni used to divide
so cleverly between Yuvraj and co, costing
the team dearly. For instance, in the first ODI
at Chennai, Yuvraj, Suresh Raina and Virat
Kohli spent 77 runs in their 10 overs.
While defending a modest total of 227,
one cant afford to leak so many runs.
Probably, it is time for Dhoni to rethink his
strategy.
Australia smell victory
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S
ri Lanka face a struggle to
avoid a series whitewash
against Australia after finishing
day three of the third and final
Test on 225-7 in their second
innings, just 87 runs ahead.
Wicketkeeper Matthew
Wades unbeaten 102 before
lunch helped Australia to a
first-innings 432-9 declared at
the Sydney Cricket Ground. Sri
Lanka started their second
innings strongly, but the loss of
five wickets for 46 runs after tea
turned the match firmly back
toward the home side.
Sri Lanka still had hope of a
first ever Test win in Australia
while Dimuth Karunaratne and
Mahele Jayawardene were at the
crease but Karunaratne edged
Jackson Bird to Wade for 85 to
start the slump. The dismissal of
Jayawardene for 60 made it 178-
6 and exposed the inexperienced
Sri Lanka tail. Six wickets in the
final session and a likely quick
mopping-up of the tail on
Sunday should allow Australia to
push for a 3-0 series victory.
However the SCG is notorious-
ly difficult for sides batting last.
The highest fourth-innings win-
ning total at the ground is 288.
Australia resumed the day
on 342-6 in response to Sri
Lankas first innings of 294, and
Wade and Peter Siddle added
another 42 runs together to
take their seventh-wicket stand
to 77. Siddle raced from his
overnight 16 to 30 at the rate of
a run a ball and made his high-
est score of the summer (38)
before he was deceived by a
bouncing delivery from Nuwan
Pradeep and was caught behind
by Dinesh Chandimal.
Rangana Herath trapped
Mitchell Starc (2) leg before
wicket and bowled Nathan Lyon
for 4, finishing with 4-95, but
Wade kept throwing his bat at
anything hittable to keep the
scoreboard rolling.
Wade reached his century
with his ninth four and ran
halfway to the boundary in cel-
ebration, leaping and swinging
his bat in the air. Bird had to
run after him to congratulate
his teammate. It was Wades first
century since his 106 against the
West Indies in Dominica in
April last year and his first in
Australia.
Wade and Bird (6 not out)
put on 39 from 31 balls in an
unbroken last-wicket partner-
ship before Australia declared.
Karunaratne and
Jayawardene guided Sri Lanka to
130-1 at tea for only the loss of
Tillakaratne Dilshan; the open-
er edging Mitchell Johnson to
Phil Hughes in the slips for just
5. Sri Lanka needed a big con-
tribution from captain
Jayawardene, who was averaging
just 33.06 over the past two years
against a career average 49.62.
Mindful of his teams
predicament, Jayawardene
played conservatively but
Karunaratne, in only his fourth
Test, reached his second inter-
national half century with a huge
six to long on from Lyon, reach-
ing the mark off 71 balls.
The promising platform
they had built started to disin-
tegrate when Bird got the ball to
swing away from Karunaratne
and the left-handed opener
touched the faintest of edges to
wicketkeeper Wade, precipitat-
ing a succession of wickets.
Lahiru Thirimanne suc-
cessfully challenged an lbw ver-
dict but went soon after for just
seven, caught by Bird off the
bowling of Johnson.
Jayawardene was left with his
hands on his hips in frustration
as 155-3 became 158-4 when
Thilan Samaraweera (0) reck-
lessly heaved a Lyon delivery to
Mike Hussey, leaving him with
a tour average of 13.16 and giv-
ing the home crowd another
chance to celebrate Hussey in
his final Test.
Brief Scores
SL: 294 & 225/7 (Karunaratne
85, Jayawardene 60; Johnson
2/19) lead Aus: 432/9d (M
Wade 102 no; Herath 4/95) by
87 runs at stumps on Day 3.
Tipsarovio survivos Bodono soaro
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S
econd seed Janko Tipsarevic of
Serbia lived dangerously before
prevailing over Slovakias Aljaz Bedene
4-6 6-2 6-2 to enter the final of the
Aircel ATP Chennai Open Tennis
Tournament here on Saturday.
In the match that lasted 125 min-
utes, the 23-year-old Bedene kept up
the momentum of his Fridays upset
win over fourth seed Stanislas
Wawrinka. He rattled Tipsarevic
with excellent court coverage and
made some unbelievable returns.
However, Bedene failed to convert his
efforts into success when it came to
breaking games.
In the ninth game, Bedene
enjoyed success as he resorted to play-
ing long rallies. Not tuned to the sit-
uation, Tipsarevic was broken, and
Bedene held his own for the set.
In the second, the plan to move up
front paid off for Tipsarevic as Bedene
failed to cross the net with a forehand
from the edge of the right line of the
court. Making full use of the unforced
errors committed by Bedene,
Tiperservic led all the way to win the
second set 6-4.
In the decider, Bedene was
stretched and nothing was going in his
favour. He often, though, came up with
emphatic winners, particularly withhis
forehand. Tiperservic soon rose to a
3-0 lead as Bedene wilted under pres-
sure. However, Bedene, who managed
to reduce the margin to 2-4, almost
broke Tiperservic in the seventh
game. In the eighth, Bedene yielded
two match points to Tiperservic, and
then made an ordinary return to con-
cede the match.
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Lesser known Spaniard Roberto
Bautista Agut, scored the biggest
upset of the tournament when he oust-
ed World Number six and top seed-
ed Thomas Berdych (Czech) 7-5, 6-2,
6-3 in 139 minutes to make the semi
final on Friday night.
Amongst the four top 20 play-
ers, who played their respective
rivals for the first time on the ATP
tour, only second seeded Janko
Tipservic progressed to the semi
finals, while third seed Marin Cilic
(Croatia) and Stanislas Wawrinka
(Sui-ranked 17) besides Berdych
were eliminated. In a match that wit-
nessed equal share of the points won
or lost, Agut, ranked 80, was able to
beat Berdych sheerly on his consis-
tence while Berdych made lot of
unforced errors, importantly on
crucial points.
With the rivals holding on to their
service games 5-5, Agut made it 6-5
and then readied himself to find
ways to break Berdych in the 12th
game. Here Berdych could save just
two set points.
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heW eIhi: Amid seculalions lhal virender Sehwag mighl be axed
or lhe ucoming ndiaEngland 00 series owing lo lhe slum in his
orm, nalional seleclors vikram Ralhore and Saba Karim were seen
having long discussions wilh lhe underire oener ahead o lhe lhird
and inal 00 againsl Fakislan here on Sunday.
Ralhore and Karim, in lurns, held discussions wilh Sehwag or
more lhan 2O minules each during lhe ndian leam's lraining session
al lhe Fero/eshah Kolla grounds here on Salurday.
n belween lwo balling slinls al lhe nels, Sehwag was seen in a
oneloone conversalion wilh each o lhe lwo seleclors.
Ralhore irsl soke or more lhan 2O minules aler Sehwag had
his irsl hil. Aler lhal Karim was seen having an animaled chal wilh
lhe beleaguered 0elhi oener. The lwo seleclors, aler some lime,
also had a discussion wilh ndian calain Mahendra Singh 0honi,
which lasled or around 15 minules.
There has been inlense seculalion lhal one among Sehwag and
0aulam 0ambhir would be gelling lhe bool when lhe seleclion
commillee meel here on Sunday lo choose lhe leam or lhe ive
malch home 00 series, slarling in Rajkol on January 11.
0ambhir, lhough, mighl escae lhe axe on lhe back o hilling lwo
cenluries and lwo hal cenluries or 888 runs al an average o 88.8O
in his lasl 1O malches. Sehwag, on lhe olher hand, has managed jusl
one ily in his lasl 1O 00 innings or a lolal o 288 runs al a dismal
average o 28.8O. Fh8
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Brisbane: Sania Mirza and her part-
ner Bethanie Mattek-Sands had a
superb start to the season as they lift-
ed the WTA Brisbane International
trophy with a come-from-behind win
against Kveta Peschke and Anna-
Lena Groenefeld here on Saturday.
The second seeded Indo-
American pair erased the first set
deficit to down the fourth seeded rivals
4-6 6-4 10-7 in the summit showdown
of the $1,000,000 event. It was Sanias
first doubles title of the season while
15th of her career. Sania and Mattek
earned 470 ranking points each and
shared USD 51,022 as prize money.
An excited Sania said that this win
would be a morale booster for the
Australian Open starting later this
month. Its a great start to the year and
really exciting to beat some of the
worlds best doubles teams, she said.
heW eIhi: ndia have already
losl lhe series bul Mahendra
Singh 0honi eels lhal lhe leam
needs lo lreal Sunday's malch
as an oorlunily lo reare or
lhe ucoming series. Excerls:
Q n Ihe pressure aIIer Iosing
bark Io bark series
well, i had laken all lhis
ressure on mysel would have
broken down by now because
you know lhal i you lhink loo
much aboul lhese lhings lhen il
is very diicull lo concenlrale in
lhe ground. Everyone has his
own oinion and everyone
lhinks dierenlly, we resecl
lhal bul or us il is imorlanl lo
win lhis malch. we go by lhe
crilicism and media reaclion
lhen we will robably need 8O
4O leams because every lime we
lose we will need a new leam or
lhe nexl malch. l is imorlanl
lo back lhe layers. Everyone
knows we are going lhrough a
lough eriod bul al lhe end o
lhe day i you see, lhe 151G
layers who are laying, lhey
are lhe besl. And i lhe besl 11
o lhose 1G layers are nol
erorming lhen you have
roblems lo deal wilh. By
conslanlly changing layers you
won'l gel lhe solulion.
Q n unran IIeIrher
l's lime lhal layers lake
lhe resonsibilily. Coaches are
lhere lo guide us. lhe layer
has roblem in lechnique, coach
can suggesl. Coach cannol go
lo ground. l will be wrong lo
blame lhe coach. The ulmosl
resonsibilily lies wilh lhe
layers al lhe end o lhe day.
Q n Ihe eIIerI oI bark Io bark
Iosses on pIayers
0bviously, when you lose il
eels bad bul we know lhal we
aren'l balling well and when we
bal well, our bowling ail us.
lhink as a leam we have lo do
well in all dearlmenls. we have
seen lhal we are balling well in
some malches so lhal means
we have lhe lalenl lo score runs.
l is jusl lhal we all have lo
erorm logelher.
Q n 8unday's maIrh
Firsl o all, we have losl lhe
series bul il is imorlanl lhal we
reare or lhe ucoming series.
we haven'l balled well in lhe
series so we would lry lo score
as many runs as we can and
deend lhe lolal i we are balling
irsl. And i we are balling
second we will lry lo reslricl
lhem lo a low lolal and lhen
chase il. So we will ealure lhe
besl eleven.
Q n Indian Ieam's sIraIegy Ior
Ihe maIrh
Slralegy remains lhe same.
l doesn'l maller which game
we are laying, whal number
game is il o lhe series even i
lhe series is decided because
you lay according lo your
slrenglh. So we will back our
slrenglh. l is jusl lhal we
haven'l scored enough runs in
lhis series so we need lo lake
lhe resonsibilily and ul runs
on lhe board. Fh8
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New Delhi: Tenman 0h0C look lheir unbealen
slreak under coach Sanlosh Kashya lo lhree as
lhey blanked Failan Arrows 8O in a 14lh round
League malch al lhe Ambedkar Sladium here on
Salurday. An own goal rom Arrows deender
Frilam Kolal ollowing a corner kick in lhe ilh
minule sel lhe lone or 0h0C as lhey wenl on lo
increase lheir lead lhrough Eric Brown and F
Lalmuanuia in lhe 8Olh and G7lh minules
reseclively.
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Gangtok: A lasl gas injurylime goal by James
Moga heled Fune FC beal uniled Sikkim FC 21 in
a Round 14 League malch al lhe Faljor Sladium
here on Salurday. The malch was heading or a
draw wilh Arala /umi's goal in lhe 28rd minule or
Fune FC cancelled oul by hima Tamang in lhe G8rd
minule. Moga, who was kel quiel lhroughoul lhe
malch by uniled Sikkim deence, ran asl his
marker lo glance an inswinging ree kick rom
calain 0ouhou Fierre inlo lhe oonenl's nel in
lhe second minule o lhe added lime. Fune FC lhus
avenged lheir 22 resull in lhe irslleg home game.
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New Delhi: umires Adrian holdslock rom Soulh
Arica and Rob Bailey rom England will oiciale in
lhe Ranji Trohy knockoul malches, under lhe
umires Exchange Frogrammes lhal lhe BCC has
signed wilh Crickel Soulh Arica and lhe England
and wales Crickel Board reseclively. holdslock
will be one o lhe umires in lhe Ranji Trohy
quarlerinal belween Mumbai and Baroda, lo be
layed al Mumbai, rom January G1O while Bailey
will oiciale in lhe quarlerinal belween uF and
Services, lo be layed al ndore on lhe same dales.
Bolh umires will subsequenlly oiciale in lhe
Ranji semiinals. Fh8lkgenries
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PANJ TPOPHY QFs
Jharkhand v Funjab al Jamshedur
Mumbai v Baroda al Mumbai
Saurashlra v Karnalaka al Rajkol
Services v u Fradesh al ndore
Ator sorios loss, Dhoni-lod sido look to avoid whitowash
'Everyone has oinion bul
or us winning is imorlanl'
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l was nol jusl lhe combined eorl

o bowlers bul also lhe rearalory
lraining cam under ormer skier
n/amamulhaq back home which
heled Fakislan lo lame lhe ndians
on lheir own backyard, skier
Misbahulhaq said on Salurday.
"Fasl and sin bowling is key lo
our success. 0ur acers erormed
really well and exloiled lhe
condilions while our sinners have
always won us lhe game. l's a
combined eorl," Misbah lold
reorlers al lhe remalch ress
conerence.
"we reared well or lhe series
under our balling consullanl
n/amamulhaq. The lraining cam
back home really heled lhe leam lo
erorm well," Misbah added.
while Fakislan's ace duo o
Mohammad ran and Junaid Khan
lroubled ndia's loorder balsmen
wilh lheir swing and seam
movemenl, lhe sin combinalion o
Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad haee/
and Shoaib Malik bowled well in
landem lo creale roblems or lhe
middleorder. lhe irsl 00 in
Chennai saw ndian balling lineu
slaring down lhe barrel al 2O or ive
beore 0honi came lo lhe rescue
wilh a deianl unbealen 118, lhe
slory largely remained lhe same in
Kolkala loo where lhe ndian leam
olded or 1G5 in 48lh over chasing
25O.
The 88yearold skier said
lhey will sellle or nolhing less lhan
a win in Sunday's inal onedayer.
Reminded lhal he could
become lhe irsl Fakislani skier lo
inlicl a series whilewash on ndia in
lheir own backyard, Misbah said:
"Every malch is imorlanl or us
and we always lake lhe ield lo win
malches. The aroach will remain
lhe same lomorrow and we will look
lo win lhe malch."
Fakislan has laken an
unassailable 2O lead in lhe series
ollowing lheir 85run win over ndia
in lhe second onedayer in Kolkala
on Thursday.
Misbah said lhe 0elhi chill will
nol have a bearing on lhe oulcome
o lhe malch.
"l's cold oul here bul Lahore
has been lhe same or quile some
lime where our layers racliced or
lhe series. lhink whal we have
exerienced loday will largely
remain lhe same lomorrow," he
said.
The Fakislani skier said lhe
Kolla ilch looks more balling
riendly.
"0verall, lhe ilch is looking
good. whal have seen loday, il's
will assisl lhe balsmen. The loss
won'l be much o a signiicance. n
lhe irsl game, lhe loss layed a
crucial role. n lhe second, il wasn'l
lhal imorlanl aclor. So, am nol
lhinking on lhal line," he said.
Asked whal's lhe reason behind
ndia's currenl lighl and lhe sles
needed lo be laken, Misbah said,
"hard work is lhe only way lo come
oul o lhe bad hase. There is no
olher way according lo me."
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back home helped us: Misbah
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W
orld Cup 2015 is just over
two years away and it
would be Down Under
this time. No team winning the
World Cup in the sub-continent,
Australia in 1987 and Sri Lanka in
1996, has gone on to defend the
crown. India will try that next.
Today, even the most optimistic of
Indians wouldnt put their money on
the Men in Blue because of the recent
slump, the latest casualty a series loss
to Pakistan at home. Even a series
zero, across all formats, in the
England tour last year was followed
by an English whitewash when they
toured India. Things perhaps have
never been as bad for Indian crick-
et. But do we have a solution? Can
our present stars last the period of
close to two years and peak at that
time or do we need youngsters who
can come in and be bred irrespective
of the initial results so that the future
could become somewhat certain?
These points might have come
to the mind of Sachin Tendulkar
when he decided to retire from One
Day International cricket. I have
decided to retire from the One-Day
format of the game. I feel blessed to
have fulfilled the dream of being part
of a World Cup wining Indian team.
The preparatory process to defend
the World Cup in 2015 should begin
early and in right earnest, he had
said while taking the ultimate deci-
sion.
But he was Sachin, he peaked
again while touching 37, 200 not out
against South Africa in 2010 remi-
niscent of that. For others, it might
not be so and if India keep losing,
there could be a backlash.
Therefore the question, what
could a future team India look like?
Starting from the two senior-
most players, in terms of age,
Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan,
lets try to find out.
Sehwag has always been like the
mutual fund warning that we see on
our television screens and weve
read the offer document carefully.
Known as a double-edged sword
since he gained prominence in world
cricket, Sehwags negative edge is
what is making the wrong news these
days. Since his world record of 219
against West Indies in2011, the Delhi
Dasher has played in 11 ODIs and
scored 248 runs at an average of just
over 22. Numbers are telling but the
fact that he cannot change his style
of play or perhaps cannot also come
down the order makes his position
as an opener under intense scrutiny,
especially when the talented Ajinkya
Rahane is waiting in the wings. Time,
is it?
Khan might not be a part of the
team at present but his experience
andthe fact that he has beenthe cere-
bral acting bowling captain for some
time now makes his coming back to
the team inevitable as the others look
vulnerable. The question here is do
we let the young bowlers learn even
if they err?
Virus Delhi teammate Gautam
Gambhirs batting code has beenbro-
ken with bowlers around the world
peppering him with short-pitched
stuff and keeping that off-stump line.
What was his strike rotating shot, dab
to the third-man, has been resulting
in him walking back to the pavilion
these days. A lot of batsmen, like
Sehwag, have come out as better
players after having been dropped.
A limited lay-off period if the just-
recent slump more to do with pre-
sent bad form from Test-match
taken brought into ODIs than any-
thing else as he averages just over 40
in ODIs in 2012 - might see the
return of that Gambhir who was
Indias second-highest scorer in the
2011 WC including that 98 in the
final.
Another senior pro Yuvraj Singh
has playedonly twomatches since his
Man of the Series winning World
Cup due to his illness and team India
needs him more than ever as hes a
big-match player, 2011 WC quar-
terfinal against Australia, and can
hold that middle-order because his-
tory has it that whichever team has
won at big stage, middle-order expe-
rienced batsman have made it pos-
sible.
After Sehwag if someones place
is in jeopardy is Rohit Sharma and
he may have to make yet another
comeback after the selectors sit,
after the Delhi ODI against Pakistan
on Sunday, to decide the team for
five-match ODI series against
England. There were reports that
Cheteshwar Pujara might come infor
him. Batting has questions while
bowling seems to be one where, per-
haps, it doesnt matter whos in and
whos not. What could be salvaging
is that they are all young apart from
Zaheer and Harbhajan Singh, who
does not look to be a part of the team
in future as of now. Captain MS
Dhoni has been vocal of wanting
Umesh Yadav back in the team post
his injury.
Apart from them, India can
tick mark against any of the boxes
from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashok
Dinda, Parwinder Awana, Ishant
Sharma, the injured Varun Aaron,
the returning Santhakumaran
Sreesanth, injured Praveen Kumar, R
Vinay Kumar and Shami Ahmad.
Weve seen pacers come and go
before and will continue to see it.
Present selectors have a job on
their hands and in the coming days
and it will be interesting to see
whether they go for stop-gap or
futuristic.
O
ne amiong the bunch
of talented youngsters
to have grabbed the
limelight after the disastrous
campaign at the London
Olympics, Amit Rohidas is on
cloud nine these days.
The 19-year-old defender
staked a storng claim for a per-
manent spot in the senior
Indian team with a string of
good performances at the
prestigious Champions Trophy
in Melbourne where the team
took a creditable fourth place
finish and the Asian
Champions Trophy in Doha,
Qatar, where they were run-
ners-up to arch-rivals
Pakistan.
His form has not gone un-
noticed and Rohidas evoked
more than a passing interest
during the Hockey India
League (HIL) auction.
It is a dream come true for
Amit Rohidas who fetched a
princely amount of Rs.16 lakh
in the recently-conducted auc-
tion and will now rub shoul-
ders with leading internation-
al players within the next ten
days.
Amit Rohidas, who has
already made his mark at the
junior international level and
is now dribbling his way into
the senior internationals, is
very happy to be a part of the
inaugural edition of the HIL
and his team Ranchi Rhinos.
The teenaged defender
from Sundargarh district of
Odisha is elated by the huge
interest he had evoked among
the franchises during the HIL
auction and asserted that being
a part of the HIL is the best
thing to have happened to him
so far.
Its the best thing that has
happened in my life till now.
Seeing some interest (of fran-
chisees) in me during the
Players Auction and getting a
huge opportunity to play with
top international players are
really very special to me, he
said.
Rohidas was bought by
Ranchi Rhinos at price of
$29,000, five times more than
his Base Price of $5,600 at the
HIL Players Auction. He will
be playing with legendary
players such as Moritz Fuertse
(Germany), Ashley Jackson
(England), Austin Smith
(South Africa), Floris Evers
(The Netherlands) and
Francisco Cortes (Spain).
Other Indian stars such as
Manpreet Singh, Birendra
Lakra and K Kothajit Singh
will be accompanying this
defender in the upcoming
HIL, which will start from 14
January. Playing with these
top players will surely improve
my game and technique. Hero
Hockey India League is the
best thing happened with
Indian hockey and players. It
is a huge opportunity for us,
Amit said.
Rohidas is also very
encouraged due the presence
of South African coach Gregg
Clarke in the team and said: I
will learn some new skills
from Clarke sir and am very
hopeful that my game will
improve under him.
Amit Rohidas started
playing hockey in his native
village of Saunamura with the
local boys. Hockey is very
popular in this village and the
nearby areas as famous inter-
national player Dilip Tirkey
hails from this village. In 2004,
he joined Panposh Sports
Hostel in Rourkela where he
transformed from a boy to a
hockey player. He represented
the Hostel in many district and
state-level tournaments, and
still plays for the Hostel.
He joined the junior
national team in 2009 and rep-
resented India in the Under-18
Junior Asia Cup Hockey, held
in Myanmar. Rohidas was part
of the team, which finished in
third position in the 2012
Under-21 Junior Asia Cup
Hockey in Malaysia. He also
played in the 2011 Sultan of
Johor Cup and in 2012, his
team finished runners-up.
Rohidas also played in
two Hockey India Senior
Mens National Championship
in 2011 Bhopal and 2012
Bangalore.
Rohidas favourite player is
Dilip Tirkey and believes he
plays like him.
I play at the same posi-
tion and tackle like him. Like
other boys in my village, I
idolise him and I want to
become a masterful player
like Dilip Tirkey, he stated.
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Men dont know
where to stop
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He is known for making off-beat movies but, this time, Mishra has
picked up a topic that is way too common. Office politics has been in
news since Corporate happened. But Inkaar is different and
refreshing, Mishra tells MANJARI SINGH in a chat
QHow did Inkaar happen?
In a relationship, most of the time its men who
think they have the controlling power. They believe
they can take it forward and they alone can end it at
any point of time. In office, too, the scene is no dif-
ferent when a woman struggles her way to the top,
men believe she has reached that level through other
means. That she did not deserve the position where she
has landed. What is even more disgusting is the fact
that her other women col l eagues j oin the bad
mouthing. My film is about the role power plays in
moulding urban relationships. The word inkaar, or say-
ing no, is the bottomline of in a corporate set-up, so
thats why the title.
QIs it possible to define the thin line between harass-
ment and flirting in an office set-up?
Some men are not taught where to draw the line.
They just dont know where to stop. For instance, if they
are sending lewd messages, they would go on and on
and they think its their right to do so. The dirty jokes
keep coming and men fail to get the signal that their
women colleagues are not liking it. When a man does
it once and stops when he doesnt get a positive reply,
that is flirting. But when he gets persistent, it becomes
harassment.
QWhy choose an advertising industry to show this
kind of an office issue?
There is this notion that people have about ad agen-
cies being a haven for office relationships. That is
because men and women work in a closed environment
and keep late hours. I wanted to explore the work cul-
ture in this industry and this is what I have tried to
do through Inkaar. Having said that, I do believe that
office politics can happen anywhere and in any indus-
try.
QHow did you narrow down on the star cast?
Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh were the two
names that popped up while I was finalising the script.
Arjun is best suited to play a pompous CEO who also
takes care of the financial deals. Chitrangada, on the
other hand, was our choice to play the leading lady
because she has the potential to kick ass. She is a very
brave and brilliant actor. When I say brave, I am not
talking about her curves which she carries well but she
has the brains which is apparent on her face.
QTheres also a tie-up with a condom company for
a special sexual harassment survey
That is only a marketing strategy, I cant talk about
that at this moment. Urban people are open about their
sex life and dont mind sharing their horrifying expe-
riences.
QDo you think the society is softer towards women
when it comes to sexual harassment?
I agree that most of the time it is the men who
wrong women but sometimes the opposite is also true.
We need a transparent law to ensure that no innocent
person is punished.
QDo you have a message that you want to convey?
As I said, the film is set in an urban background
and I am hoping that office-going youngsters will come
in droves to watch my film. It is an honest effort. I am
not looking at breaking some or the other record at the
box office. I have made a good movie and its up to the
audiences to derive the message from Inkaar.
'Would lovo to play villain'
QTell us about your role in the
Broken City...
In the movie, Im the NYC
Mayor Nicholas Hostetler, an
admired public figure who
recruits Taggart (Mark
Wahlberg) to quietly investigate
his wife (Zeta-Jones) andfindout
who shes having an affair with.
Another interesting part is that
I keep Taggart from spilling the
beans about my illicit activities,
by donning a fake-tan and a con-
vincing accent.
QWhat made you accept the
role of Nicholas Hostetler?
This role Allen offered me is
very challenging and different
from the ones I have done. It was
something I couldnt refuse.
QAs an actor, what is more
important for you the script
or the director?
For me, what matters is the
script because every actor wants
to do something different from
what he did in his last project. A
script that brings challenge and
versatility is the one for me.
QYou always wanted to be an
actor but started your career as
a musician. How did that hap-
pen?
At age 16, I was recast as
Russ Le Roc and released a cou-
ple of novelty singles, one hav-
ing the similarly prophetic title
I Want To Be Like Marlon
Brando. I released anoth-
er single in 1983 called
Never Let Ya Slide. When
this burst of fame died out,
I took up odd jobs to pay
my way. I was the enter-
tainment manager of a resort
island near Auckland. I have
also worked as a waiter, a bar-
tender, a fruit picker, a DJ,
a horse wrangler, an insur-
ance salesman and a bingo-
number caller.
QThe al Qaeda had threat-
ened to kidnap you. Why?
It was the first time in my life
that Id ever heard about an
organisation called the al-Qaeda.
I heard about the kidnapping
threat when a recording was
picked up by a French police-
woman in Libya or Algiers. The
reason why they may have
planned the whole thing was to
take American celebrities out of
the picture as a sort of cultural-
destabilisation agenda. Never
fully understood the episode.
QAllen Hughes is known to
often direct violent movies.
How was the experience of
working with him?
The Broken City is Allen
Hughes solo directorial debut.
Earlier, Hughes twins Allen and
Albert had directed numerous
films, including Menace II
Society, Dead Presidents and
Book of Eli. Allen has directed
this movie all alone (one-man
army) and was quite comfortable
with the movie-making process.
He has portrayed all the charac-
ters very well.
QOver the years you have done
many movies and have been
nominated several times over.
But youwonyour lone Oscar in
2000 for Gladiator. As an actor,
how important is an award?
The important thing to me
is that Im not driven by peoples
praise and havent slowed down
by criticism. Im just trying to
work at the highest level I can.
QTell us about your time with
Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind
and Proof of Life?
I dont do a movie unless my
body responds to it. Ive to get
excited, Ive got to get goose-
bumps to say yes. When I heard
the scripts of these movies I was
very moved and just had to take
them up.
QHow was it to work with
Mark Wahlberg and Catherine
Zeta Jones?
Great. I like to work with
Mark a lot. Hes comfortable with
the job and the idea of playing
different characters. Catherine is
magnificent. I think, her power
of acting has grown ten-fold
from what it was earlier. She is
fun to work with.
QOne role you would love to
play?
I like villains because theres
something so attractive about
committed negative persons
they have a plan, an ideology, no
matter how twisted. Theyre
motivated. Given an opportuni-
ty, I would like to act in a nega-
tive character in future.
QAny future projects?
Right now, we are filming
Winters tale and finishing the
post production work on Noah
and Man of Steel.
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After spend-
ing 37 years as a
p r o f e s s i o n a l
wrestler, Dara
Singh made his
acting debut in
1952 with Sangdil.
His strapping
physique made
him a natural choice for many roles in
B-town. As Hanuman in Ramayan,
Dara Singh stole the show and people
started worshiping him as the lord
himself.
kYkhkh 8hETTY
A shotput and discus thrower,
Shetty was the champion of the sport
and won many
accolades at
the State level
before an acci-
dent left him
with a leg
injury that
could not be
sorted. He was
forced to retire
as a sports-
man. But I am
happy with the way my life has shaped
up after that incident. CID has given
me a new lease of life and I shall always
remain grateful to the producers of the
show, Shetty says. With good roles in
Johnny Gaddaar (2007) and Runway
(2009), Shetty could well have
announced his arrival in Bollywood as
well.
VIhkY kI
A member
of popular
Rugby Club in
B a n g a l o r e ,
Vinay had
played the sport
actively for over
six years. Life
took a turn
when Jeeva
spotted the act-
ing talent in him and urged him to play
the lead role in Unnale Unnale (2007).
After that he made an appearance in
a dozen southern films like Vaana,
Jayamkondaan, Modhi Vilayadu
(2009), Udhay Vasudev (2009),
Mirattal (2012) and an English film
titled Dam 999 (2012). Rai got a lot of
critical acclaim for his role in the film
VIh kkM8II
V i n o d
Kambli, who
made his cricket-
ing debut with
maestro Sachin
Tendulkar, made
his presence felt
in Bollywood
with Anarth
(2002). Since
then, Kambli has
been trying his best to get his foothold
in cinema world without much luck.
Although he did manage to create
quite a stir through Bigg Boss Season
3 (2009), but he did not last long
enough in the show to create a hype.
He has many projects lined up for this
year including some commentating
projects in sports channels.
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Bose was a member of the
Indian rugby team for 11 years,
playing 17 internationals from
1998 to 2008. He played on the
right wing, occasionally filling in
as scrum-half. But today, Bose
wants to concentrate on
his film career. I got
selected for the
Bombay Gymkhana
Club when I
was 17.
Although, I
hardly get
time out
from my
hectic act-
ing sched-
ule, I make it
a point to play a game
every weekend, Bose tells
you. Ask him what he
prefers, movies or sports
and pat comes the reply
a little bit of everything.
Next up is Vishwaroopan.
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State-level cricketer Angad
Bedi, son of former ace
spinner Bishan Singh
Bedi, opted for act-
ing as career at
the cost of his
cricketing
dr e am.
H e
ma de
h i s
debut
as the
host of
a TV
s h o w
E m o t i o n a l
Atyachaar way back in
2009. Bedi also forayed into the
cinema scene with Vashu
Bhagnanis F.A.L.T.U. But his
claim to fame lies in the dare
devil stunts that he did dur-
ing Khatron Ke Khiladi
Season 3. At present, Bedi
might have signed up
for a few TV soaps
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A legend
of the sport,
Gavaskar
also tried
to charm
his audi-
e n c e
t hrough
smart roles on
TV and a few special
appearances. He acted
in a Marathi film
Premachi Saavli and
much later made a
guest appearance
in Maalamaal
(1988). But soon
he realised that the
cricket field and the
silver screen is a
different ball game
altogether.
kkFII EV
Indias first world
cup winning captain,
all rounder Kapil
Dev also tried to
woo us through
cameos on the silver
screen. He
appeared in several films as a
guest actor, but never in
a lead role. His list of
films include, Stumped,
Iqbal and Chain Kulii
Ki Main Kulii. It is
rumoured that Dev will
feature in a reality show
in 2013.
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Cricketer Ajay
Jadeja made his acting
debut with Khel (2003).
The movie bombed but
Jadeja did not give up. As a par-
ticipant in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (2006),
he showed promise
but was eliminated
just when things
were heating up. At
present, Jadeja is
pursuing few crick-
et shows on sports
channels.
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Having made
his international
cricket debut with
Sachin Tendulkar,
Ankola realised
early on that his
calling was not in
the sport. He made
up his mind to act.
With shows like Chahat Aur Nafrat,
Kora Kagaz and Karam Apna Apna,
Ankola had high hopes on this second
career option he even tried his hand
in Bigg Boss season 1 (2006) to get the
desired boost but nothing happened.
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l|me, l w||| |||e
lo sla|l a|||v|ug
ou l|me. l |uow
lhal |s a we||d
|eso|ul|ou lo
ma|e aud |eep
bul l am he||beul
aboul sl|c||ug lo
lh|s oue. l hope
eve|youe |ea|us lo be
ou l|me.
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ol mauy peop|e
|uow lhal l p|aul
a |ol ol l|ees.
howeve|, lh|s yea|,
l'|| l|y lo |uc|ease
lhe uumbe| ol
l|ees l p|aul |u a
yea|. l have a
sma|| ga|deu al
my p|ace as
we||.
Th|s |s a
sma|| |u|l|al|ve
l|om my eud lo
|eep lhe
e uv | | oume ul
c|eau.
l am a|so
go|ug lo jo|u mauy
g|eeu hC0s aud
acl|ve|y pa|l|c|pale |u
lhe|| spec|a| acl|v|l|es.
Thal |s |l lo| me lh|s
yea|.
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e|soua||y, l
dou'l waul lo
chauge auylh|ug
aboul myse|l.
P|oless|oua||y, my
locus w||| be ou
e/paus|ou w|lh
||ghl couleul. The
co||abo|al|ous ol
c|eal|ve m|uds w|||
be ol pa|amouul
|mpo|lauce lo me.
l have beeu l|y|ug
lo do lhal lo|
somel|me uow, bul
co-p| oducl | ous
aud pa|lue|sh|ps
a|e lhe besl way
lo| lhe eul||e
|udusl|y lo go
lo|wa|d. Thal's
how l p|au lo move
ahead. l waul lhe
|udusl|y lo go bac| lo lhe wo|||ug sly|e aud
l|ale|u|lyhood (s|c) lhey sha|ed |u lhe 194Os aud 195Os
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hollywood's 0ladialor 88EII 6WE is back in The Broken Cily aler lhe mega success o Les Miserables
released lasl year. The scril needs lo be challenging and dierenl or him lo sign on lhe dolled line, Crowe
lells 8hkIIhI 8kk8Ehk. Excerls o lhe email inlerview
Wlat a sort!
wilh lennis ace Leander Faes making his debul wilh Rajdhani Exress, sorlsersons in ndia
are hoing lo make hay while lhe sun shines on lhe big screen. There are a hosl o olher
sorls celebs who have lried lheir hands al acling. 8khEETk YkkV gives you lhe lisl
The
important
thing to me is that
'm not driven by
people's praise and 'm
not slowed down by
people's criticism either.
'm just trying to work
at the highest level
that can
Promises
to keep
There are resolulions and lhen
lhere are resolulions. 2O18 has
many celebs wanling lo do lhings
dierenlly and in a more organised
manner. 8hkY FIhEE brings
you some such hew Year
romises
IEkhE FkE8
My grandfather Michael
Madhusudhan was a well-known
Bengali rebel poet and I probably got
my creative genes from him. For
Rajdhani Express I took acting lessons
from Anupam Khers Actor Prepares
institute in Mumbai. Both acting and
sports requires a lot of determination
and discipline. I have been playing
tennis from past 22 years and I have
just started my acting career. Be it
stars venturing into the Indian
Premier League or sportsmen mak-
ing their acting debut, the two most
entertaining fields compliments each
other very well, Paes tells you.
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