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horo aro somo olovor phrasos that stiok in your mind or

otornity. Moro than throo dooados ago, hoard tho Wost
ndian-born British aoadomio Stuart Hall at a mooting in a
dingy, disusod ohuroh in Oxord in an abstruso disoussion
on Marxist politios. Poorring to tho twists and turns o
Comintorn polioy that oontributod to an unonding sorios o
purgos and oxpulsions o thoso who doviatod rom tho
'party lino', Hall mookod tho protonoo that tho doity oallod
tho "Party" was novor wrong: t moroly blundorod rom
"oorrootnoss to oorrootnoss."
As ar as am awaro, my oollogo mato Shashi Tharoor,
ono o tho distinguishod survivors o tho May 16 massaoro
o tho Congross Party, has novor romotoly lirtod with Lot-
wing politios. As suoh, ho may only havo a nodding
aoquaintanoo with tho hoary politioal tradition that maintains
that tho "party" oan novor orr in its politioal |udgomont. Only
lossor mortals lot tho sido down on aooount o thoir various
sins ranging rom rovisionism, individualism, splittism,
advonturism, oapitalist-roadism, oto.
Tharoor, is vory unliko ollow Stophanian Mani Shankar
Aiyar who will romain tho last Communist standing, ovon ator
tho two Communist partios havo optod or voluntary
dissolution. Aiyar may roquont tho ACC hoadquartors at
Akbar Poad rathor than tho grim oioos in AKG Bhavan and
A|oy Bhavan but that is only a mattor o dotail. n roal lio, ho
has moroly roplaood tho portraits o Stalin, Mao and
(hopoully) Kim-l-Sung with that o Nohrus and his hoirs. And
ho has substitutod 'dynasty' or tho 'party'.
A olash botwoon Tharoor and Aiyar is a olassio oxamplo
o politioal 'timo-pass': Soomingly a rolio rom post-olootion
borodom but ultimatoly totally irrolovant. Tharoor has
maintainod that Primo Ministor Narondra Modi has allayod his
worst oars, mado an onoouraging start with his "inolusivo"
approaoh and that tho Congross would bo "ohurlish" to say
othorwiso. Aiyar, whoso olootoral drubbing was ar moro
oonolusivo than Tharoor's viotory by a whiskor, is, quito
prodiotably, unimprossod. Tho man, who announood in an
artiolo ponnod on tho night o May 16 that asoism had
arrivod in Lutyons' Dolhi, boliovos that Tharoor is politioally
wot bohind tho oars and too
improssionablo.
will not go into
intorosting thoorios
oxplaining why Tharoor
wroto and said what ho did
and why Aiyar olt oompollod
to oxpross his
disappointmont that his
"intolligont" oolloaguo in tho
Congross Parliamontary
Party (romombor that Aiyar is
a man nominatod by tho
Prosidont o ndia to tho
Pa|ya Sabha) thought as ho
did. My only suggostion is
that Tharoor should ohooso
a moro widoly-road orum
than tho Huington Post i ho
is anxious to addross ndia
rathor than tho US.
On olosor sorutiny,
howovor, this olash o tho
Stophanians sooms to bo
moro in tho naturo o a
riondly matoh rathor than a disagroomont ovor undamontals.
Lot's irst oxamino tho oontoxt. Tharoor's oxpodiont
ondorsomont o tho now PM oomos at a timo whon, apart rom
tho Congross oandidatos thomsolvos and tho unotionarios o
tho party, no woll-hoolod and woll-oonnootod individual in
Dolhi is willing to admit thoy votod or tho Congross and
rootod or that party till tho atornoon o May 16. Judging by
tho sooial oonvorsation, it would soom that ovory mombor o
tho middlo olass had dooidod that tho uturo o ndia would bo
sao only in tho hands o NaMo. t is a oaturo o ndia that
ovoryono wants to bo soon to havo baokod tho winnor.
Sooond, not or a momont has Tharoor ovor said that his
ontiro roading o ndia's prosont prodioamont and his
undorstanding o tho Gu|arat loador was lawod. Till tho vory
last day o tho oampaign, as boits a spokosporson o tho
Congross, Tharoor had mouthod tho usual platitudos about
inolusivonoss, divisivonoss and o oourso, tho "idoa o ndia".
ntollootual prido provonts him rom admitting that tho
alarmism ovor Modi was oontrivod and didn't rosonato with an
olootorato that wantod ohango and boliovod that tho rooord o
tho Gu|arat Govornmont ovor tho past 12 yoars was inspiring.
At tho samo timo, oommon sonso oouldn't got him to ondorso
Aiyar's orass oommonts about oithor Modi's sol-mado status
or tho bizarro parallols with tho Gormany o 1933.
To osoapo this sol-oroatod labyrinth Tharoor has allon
baok on a olovor dobating toohniquo. Ho has noatly dividod
tho PM into two oompartmonts: Tho bad Modi 1.0 and tho
promising (i not good) Modi 2.0. This olovor-olovor approaoh
is promisod on tho bolio that ho was novor wrong and that,
ator his viotory, Modi has ombraood tho politios o tho
vanquishod and appropriatod this as his own.
Tho main allaoy o this sohizoid Modi thoory is that it is
insuioiontly mindul o tho roalitios o tho so-oallod Modi 1.0.
Thoso who havo obsorvod Modi's rooord as an administrator
will rooogniso that his maniaoal hard work, anatioal attontion
to dotail, his insistonoo on dolivory and aooountability and tho
unotional autonomy to tho buroauoraoy aro all oarry-ovors
rom his Gandhinagar days. Alas, and dospito, throo olootion
dooats in Gu|arat, tho Congross ohoso to soo Modi diorontly
and oast him as an ogro. No wondor this domonology didn't
out ioo with tho votors.
Today, a sootion o tho Congross is humblod by its worst
showing ovor. Thoy aro boginning to ask unoomortablo
quostions to whioh dynasty dio-hards havo no orodiblo
answor. Anothor sootion has allon baok on old oortitudos
and is busy oxamining tho minutiao o Nazi history or unlikoly
parallols. n thoir own ways, Tharoor and Aiyar aro guilty o
intollootual sol-abuso. Both aro trying hard to appoar
orodiblo and oonsistont.
This is a gamo that isn't boing playod by two loquaoious
Congross supportors. Tho past throo wooks havo witnossod
a wholo lot o pooplo, not loast in tho modia, |ournoying rom
"oorrootnoss to oorrootnoss". Tho oommios o yoro oallod it
'dialootios'; tho simplor dosoription is oxpodionoy.
USUALSUSPECTS
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Tharoor has maintained that
Modi has allayed his worst
fears, made an encouraging
start with his "inclusive
approach and that the
Congress would be "churlish
to say otherwise. Aiyar is quite
predictably, unimpressed. The
man, who announced in an
article penned on the night of
May 16 that fascism had
arrived in Lutyens' Delhi,
believes that Tharoor is
politically wet behind the ears
and too impressionable. On
closer scrutiny, however, this
clash seems to be more in
the nature of a friendly match
rather than a disagreement
over fundamentals
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ver since Pakistani Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif s
successful visit to New Delhi,
Intelligence agencies have dis-
covered an increase in radio
traffic between terrorists and
their handlers in Pakistan
Occupied Kashmir (POK)
sectors facing Keran and
Machil in Kupwara.
Alarmingly, the communi-
cations centre on vitiating
the atmosphere in
Jammu & Kashmir by trigger-
ing violence.
Glimpses of it were wit-
nessed on Saturday. Hours
after unidentified militants
snatched three rifles after
shooting a policeman guarding
a central Kashmir shrine, four
policemen and two civilians
were wounded in a separate
attack when militants
opened fire on a police
party in Shopian town of
South Kashmir.
The attack comes even as
security forces are bracing for
massive infiltration bids
from across the Line of
Control (LoC).
The last such incident took
place on May 10 and it is the
lull since then that is a worry-
ing factor for operational com-
manders, who are redrawing
tactics to stop militants from
sneaking into the State,
especially from Kupwara
which is known to be a hotbed
of terrorists.
Moreover, while Laskhar-e-
Tayyeba chief Hafiz Saeeds
visit to some terrorist training
camps in POK facing Poonch
earlier this week is also an indi-
cator of Kashmir bracing for a
hot summer, recovery of
weapons with markings of
Tehreek-e-Taliban Mujahid
(TTM) a terror outfit oper-
ating in different parts of
Pakistan has caused serious
concerns among the security
grid in the State.
The AK rifle was recovered
by security forces at the end of
a fierce gunfight with infiltra-
tors in Poonch sector on May
10. Prem Bhadur Roka Magar,
a soldier of the Gurkha
Regiment had neutralised one
of the infiltrators in a hand-to-
hand combat near Bagial
Dhara along the LoC in
Jammu division.
Since Sharif s visit here on
May 26, the communication
between the terrorists and their
handlers in POK has increased.
The directions are clear, vio-
lence should be stepped up,
sources maintained.
The State has so far
not seen any major terrorist
related incident since the
infiltration bid.
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MuZAFFARhA0AR
E
ven as Uttar Pradesh Police
continues to face heat and
even attacks by irate mobs in
the wake of repeated rapes
and murders in the State, cops
in western UP have found an
innovative way of protecting
themselves, they simply lock
the police station from the
inside at night and open it only
when they need to!
Residents were shocked to
find the gates of Gulaothi
Police Station in Bulandshahr
district locked from the inside
on Friday night and raised a
hue and cr y about it.
The idea was apparently to
keep the public out of the
police station, but an embar-
rassed SSP claimed it was just
a safety measure as the police
station is facing an acute man-
power shortage.
The staff at the police
station had locked the main
entrance to the building since
the police station is short of
staff and only one clerk was on
duty on Friday. He had to look
after the security as well as the
clerical work, so on Friday
night he locked the police sta-
tions main gate from the inside
to ensure the security of the
inmates in the lockup. He,
however, took the decision on
his own without apprising any
senior officer, said
Bulandshahr SSP Umesh
Kumar. He said a departmen-
tal enquiry has been ordered to
fix the responsibility.
Police sources said that a
preliminary investigation into
the incident has revealed that
the clerk took the unusual
decision to lock the police sta-
tion from the inside because
inmates began complaining of
severe heat inside the lockup
after a power outage in the area,
including the police station.
Moved by their plight he
decided to let the inmates out
of the cell and allow them to
roam inside the station build-
ing. However, to ensure that the
inmates did not escape, he
locked the gate from inside,
sources said. They claimed the
power supply was restored only
after 1 am and so it was inhu-
man to keep the inmates inside
the hot, airless cell for long.
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Lucknow: In a major twist in
the Badaun rape and murder
case that is hogging national
headlines, the Uttar Pradesh
Police on Saturday claimed
that the rape of one of the two
girls, who were found hang-
ing from a tree, was not con-
firmed by forensic experts
and that property could be a
motive for the gruesome
crime. Badaun SP Atul
Saxena was also suspended in
this regard. The autopsy
report pointed out that one of
the victims was not raped as
alleged in the report by fam-
ily members, DGP AL
Banerjee said. Revealing the
startling finding after 10 days
of probe, Banerjee also said
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reorl increase in radio
lraic belween
lerrorisls and lheir
handlers in F0K
seclors acing Kuwara
ALARMNG DEVELOPMENTS
The mililanls' communicalions cenlre on vilialing lhe almoshere in
Jammu & Kashmir by lriggering violence
0limses o il were wilnessed on Salurday. hours aler unidenliied mililanls
snalched lhree riles aler shooling a oliceman guarding a cenlral Kashmir
shrine, our olicemen and lwo civilians were wounded in a searale allack
when mililanls oened ire on a olice arly in Shoian lown o Soulh Kashmir
Belween Aril 1G and June 8 more lhan one do/en incidenls o ceaseire
violalions and oiled inillralion bids have been reorled
ndian orces reorled unusual aclivily along lhe LoC in Foonch seclor
Fakislan Army has also aclivaled ils Border Aclion Teams lo carry oul
surrise slrikes on ndian orces
Aler lhe declaralion o Lok Sabha resulls, Fakislan Army has violaled
ceaseire agreemenl wilh ndia on more lhan lhree occasions. An ndian
soldier was killed in lhe Akhnoor seclor on May 21, 2O14
n !P, custooians of law locl tlemselves in, ullic out!
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A
decade after
the practice
of daily briefing
to the Prime
Minister by the
chiefs of Intellige-
nce agencies was
discontinued dur-
ing the UPA-I
and II Govern-
ments, Secretary
of Research and
Analysis Wing
(RAW) has rest-
arted the
morning presen-
tation to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
RAW is the premier
external Intelligence agency
and its chief briefs the PM
for 15 minutes every morn-
ing. RAW Secretary Alok
Joshi has been briefing the
PM daily since June 2.
With Modi giving clear
priority to foreign policy and
fostering better relations with
a host of countries around the
world, the insights and
perspectives on
g e o - s t r a t e g i c
issues by the exter-
nal Intelligence
agency will
further boost the
strategic relations
with Indias
partners, an
official said.
T h e
I i nt e l l i g e n c e
agencies are
focusing even on
issues like growth
in consumption
pattern in the country and
how market access can be
leveraged for boosting part-
nerships with other coun-
tries, the official pointed out.
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MhIT kkhhkI Q JAMMu
A
ll scientific delegations to
foreign countries will now
be led by eminent scientists
and not by Ministers, the
Centre said on Saturday.
The landmark decision to
appoint an eminent scientist as
head of any scientific delega-
tion to international/national
destinations has been taken by
Minister of State for Science
and Technology (Independent
Charge) Jitendra Singh.
Singh, who arrived here
on his maiden visit after
assuming the charge of office,
told BJP workers at party
headquarters, We have decid-
ed that a Minister or a bureau-
crat will not go to any of the
conferences in foreign coun-
tries as head of the delegation.
A scientist will lead the dele-
gation from now on for a
much-logical interaction.
He said if we allow sci-
entists to lead the delegations
they will get more opportu-
nities to interact with scien-
tific fraternity in the country
and abroad. This is actual-
ly going to be useful for the
country. Our Government is
keen on using science as an
instrument for social trans-
formation, he maintained.
Leading from the front,
Singh himself set an example.
I will not be volunteering to
lead a scientific delegation.
That is part of self-disci-
pline, he said, adding only
the scientists with original
presentation will participate
in such conferences. My
appetite for foreign travel is
already over, he added.
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Fh8 QhEw 0ELh
A
fter attacking the UPA
Government for its failure to
control inflation and making it
a key issue of its Lok Sabha elec-
tion campaign, the BJP-led NDA
Government seems to have
made up its mind to take the
issue head on.
The Cabinet Secretary on
Saturday held a meeting of a
Committee of Secretaries (CoS)
to discuss ways of combating
black marketing and hoarding of
food grains as the possibility of
a deficient monsoon looms large
over the nation this year.
According to sources, the
Government is learnt to have
mulled the option of tweaking
the Agricultural Produce
Marketing Committee (APMC)
Act which could help farmers sell
their produce directly to retail-
ers without the commission
agents acting as middlemen.
The presence of middle-
men sends the entire price cycle
of agricultural produce sky-
rocketing which directly results
in fruits, vegetables and food
grain prices going through the
roof by the time they reach the
neighbouring markets.
Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth,
who heads the CoS, met Secret-
aries from Agriculture, Food,
Commerce and Finance Minis-
tries to discuss ways to tackle
inflation. Sources privy to the de-
velopments said apart from the
possibility of changes in APMC
Act, the Government is also like-
ly to issue strict orders against
black marketing and hoarding.
There is a possibility the
Government may increase
Central purchase of food grains
to address the problem of hoard-
ing in case of a poor monsoon
this year, as it would be in a posi-
tion to provide food grains at
normal prices.
The National Pharmaceut-
ical Pricing Authority recently
ordered drug manufacturers to
provide within ten days, details
regarding cost and annual
turnover of 106 drugs. In case
these details are not made avail-
able during the stipulated time
limit, sources said, stern action
would be taken under provisions
of ESMA. This too is being seen
as a move to control prices of
essential drugs in case situation
goes out of hand owing to price
rise. Listing tackling of price rise
as top of its agenda, the BJP in
its manifesto had highlighted
measures like setting up of a
price stabilisation fund, estab-
lishment of special courts to deal
with hoarding and black mar-
keting, unbundling of the Food
Corporation of India and estab-
lishment of national agriculture
market, to combat the problem.
It is feared that the onset of
an El Nino factor can lead to a
deficient monsoon. The Reserve
Bank of India in its second bi-
monthly monetary policy review
for this fiscal had listed some
upside risks to the economy like
a sub-normal or delayed mon-
soon due to El Nino effect.
Latest data showed that con-
sumer price-based inflation had
risen to a three-month high of
8.59 per cent in April largely due
to higher food prices. As per the
data released by the Government
last month, the Wholesale Price
We have decided that a
Minister or a bureaucrat
will not go to any of the
conferences in foreign
nations as head of the
delegation. A scientist will
lead the delegation for a
much-logical interaction
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Now netas won't lead science teams abroad
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Minislries lo discuss ways lo lackle inlalion
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Agricullural Froduce Markeling Commillee Acl which could hel in
armers selling lheir roduce direclly lo relailers wilhoul lhe commission
agenls acling as middlemen
S n acl lhere is a ossibilily o
0overnmenl increasing ils share o
Cenlral urchase o ood grains,
which may hel il in
addressing lhreals o
hoarding, as in case lhere is
a shorlall in rains lhis
year, il would be
in a osilion lo
rovide ood
grains al normal rices
Govt takes first step
to tackle inflation
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Index inflation in the overall
food segment had eased to 8.64
per cent in April, from a high of
9.9 per cent in March.
The overall situation related
to price rise, experts say, is still
not out of the woods as monsoon
is a key factor in containing
prices since majority of agricul-
ture production is dependent on
rain feed system of irrigation.
And if monsoon is deficient,
then the Government will have
a tough job at its hands.
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T
o see Tom Cruise die as Major
William Cage so many times, so
relentlessly and so at-the-drop-
of-a-gun could have become jaded,
not to mention disturbing and
defeatist. But thats not the case in
Edge of Tomorrow. It is quite an edgy,
explosive, dont-you-breathe kind of a
sci-fi thriller that Tom Cruise
anchors.
Which, of course, is expected
from Cruise and his Mission
Impossible kind of projects except for
the fact that here he is fighting aliens
who are rather indulgently called
Mimics, a tag that defies their
deadlier than deadliest image.
But once they hit the screen, there
is no time to look around so pulled
you get into the ET-humanity war in
which Cruise is an media military
officer tricked by the general to go
into combat quite unprepared,
quite raw and not quite soldier-like.
But dying over and over again and
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W
e all know that there are only
two things that one can expect
from a movie with Akki as the
hero either it will be a masala comedy
film like Welcome, Housefull, Heera Pheri
or an out and out action movie like
Rowdy Rathore and the Khiladi series.
Our munda has tried his hand at some
zara hatke films like OMG-Oh My God!
and Special 26, Akshay Kumar as we all
know has not been wrongly nicknamed
Khiladi Kumar.
So, one already knows what his
character in the movie titled Holiday: A
Soldier is Never off Duty will do. Is there
action? Definitely. Are the action
sequences believable? Well, some of
them are, if one had proper training.
And our hero is a soldier in the Indian
Army, in the Defense Intelligence
Agency wing no less. Are there songs?
One cant have a commercial Hindi
movie without a song and dance thrown
in for good measure. Unfortunately,
these are rather badly timed.
In fact, one doesnt need these
breaks that AR Murugadoss insisted on.
In a movie where the hero is chasing a
terrorist out to destroy the entire
nation, the one thing that is not needed
is a song that puts the breaks on a fast
moving car which suddenly finds a
huge speed breaker in front.
And then there is the duration of
the movie itself. What were producer
Vipul Shah and Murugadoss thinking
when they made a movie that is 189
minutes long! Gone are the days when
the longer the movie, the better it was.
Today, it has to be crisp, slick and needs
to move at a fast pace.
Still, Holiday... manages to entertain.
Akshay Kumar carries the entire movie
on his shoulders. He fights, he sings, he
catches the baddies, he acts like a
buffoon in front of his boss, Govinda,
he even endangers the life of his
younger sister for the greater good of
the country he says. While Sumeet
Raghavan, the Mumbai cop watches his
friend (Akshay Kumar) is on mission
save Mumbai, Sonakshi Sinha does
what she does saunters in does a
song and dance and then vanishes.
The movie has rather simplistic
solution on how to counter terrorists
attacks in the country may not sit well
with some, but if you love a masala
movie, go see this one.
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D
irected by India-born Canadian
filmmaker Nisha Pahuja and
presented by Anurag Kashyap,
The World Before Her is a movie that
must be watched by all those whose
ideals are seeped in traditions and
those who want to live in 21st century
modern India. The documentary film,
may on the surface of it, appear to be
about conflict on interests between
what India stood for, its traditions, and
those who think that the country
should move with the rest of the world
in case we want to be on the top. Look
a little deeper, one will find a hidden
message.
Despite, the conflict between the
old and the new, one thing doesnt
change the position of women in our
society. Our daughters can go to a
Hindu camp to learn how to fight the
influence of Islam and Christianity or
enter a Miss India beauty pageant, at
the end of the day, her life is all about
getting married raising children and
looking after the home. The stories
told from these two opposites, that are
a reality in Indian, are poignant,
insightful and makes one sit up and
take notice that the society is in
conflict with itself.
The editing from one ideology to
another has been done brilliantly
bringing out the contrast alive on the
screen. It makes one wonder if we want
to live in a country where young girls
are being trained to become Hindu
terrorists or where the women are just
show pieces. It talks about the
aspirations of the women. That each
knows, from whatever strata of the
society they come from, the system that
they are fighting will eventually shackle
them and that marriage is their duty.
It is this reality that holds ones
attention, that creates the spark that
few docu-films manage to deliver. It is
stark, thought-provoking and makes
one take notice. It examines the
limited choices women have in a male-
dominated society which wants to
embrace modernisation rapidly.
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progressing into battlefield is the
mantra of this thriller which is
expectedly outlandish but not at all
grim with imagination. Cruise and his
antics, including his dalliance with the
lady soldier Rita Vrataski caught in the
same fate of recurring death, give the
movie their groovy moments though
these moments are of the quick-and-
over variety.
Other than that, it is through and
through a computerised wonder in
which the humans have to win a war
against the aliens who are out to take
over London, New York, Paris and
Berlin before marauding the human
race and planet Earth in conquer-all
mode.
Suffice it to say, this mesmerising
soiree with all its speed, its stunning
graphics and its larger than life aliens
justifies the $178 million spent on
production.
Yes, Cruise looks a wee bit old and
jaded but thats fine I guess when his
wry humour and soft romantic lines
continue to be youthful and playful.
For the other times, there are the
Mimics who keep you on the edge of
today and, of course, tomorrow.
A very long Holioay
An insigltful
lool into reality
Kieer Sulherland and Mary
Lynn are back wilh 24: Live
Anolher 0ay. They lalk
aboul lhe challenges aced
& how lhe series has
revolulionarised Tv because
il is one o lhe irsl shows
lo lalk aboul olilical
commenlary around real
evenls
MARY LYNN
QWhy did the show strike such a chord with people?
Its a combination of things that created this magic. The pacing
of it, the plot lines, the plausibility of it and the implausibility where
it reflects whats happening in the world.
QWhy do they love Chloe OBrian so much?
She didnt start out as likeable or as a main player. She was a
computer nerd. And then she ended up with the machine gun,
which was completely unexpected that a character would be in
that position. So from hating her, the audience loves her. They think
she is cool now.
QWhat kind of challenge did you face?
This season of 24: Live Another Day is challenging because in
some ways, the sarcastic Chloe is not really there. Shes starting
to come out again a little bit, but shes so damaged and in a dark
place that theres this heaviness. To bring that out was a challenge.
QHow do you have to prepare for the role?
We are actors and need to mould ourselves in the character
given to us. Sometimes the role is easy other times difficult but
at the end of the day, once the director says action, we act.
QWhy is the show such a hit the world over?
Its about building the American culture and also showing that
there is a dark side to it as well. It was one of the first shows to
have a political commentary about real events that caught the
peoples imagination.
KIEFER SUTHERLAND
QWhat was it like to step into the role again?
I was nervous. There was a sense of accomplishment when
we completed the eight episodes. We felt that they were all
very solid. The way the story has been told here, that is really
appealing. Its a character that changed my life.
QHow has your character, Jack Bauer, changed?
I wanted him to be harder, meaner and darker. At the end
of season eight he was completely estranged with no hope
of reconnecting with his daughter. Hes on the run, hes being
hunted by the Government that he feels hes helped. Theres
huge sense of anger and frustration, self-loathing as well. That
is a lethal mix which he brings to the character.
QHow would you place 24 within the TV revolution seen
lately?
The revolution started much earlier than 24. If one is
talking about drama, it began with Hill Street Blues. Then ER
came. Then came Sopranos, Sex in the City. And then 24 came.
There have been many shows after ours which have brought
in the change. So, one can say, we are somewhere in the
middle.
QWill 24 remain as topical as it once was?
I dont know if its going to be as uniquely or even
freakishly current. Thats not something were really trying
to achieve through the show. But it will be very topical.
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Or are there more? You have seen
Simar the dancer, Simar the hapless
bahu, Simar in maa Kali avatar (when some
villain was about to harm her child) and
only recently Simar the blonde with as fake
an accent as it can get. The only person who
can put her to shame is her on screen sister
Roli who has been a nautanki wali,
business typhoon and sexy seductress all
rolled into one. But alas! the TVR has not
moved an inch from 1.8! The lowest in
Colors by far.
Reactions? Its repulsive and no
longer funny. The moment I saw the
sisters in their blonde avatar, I was like
hain! They are up to some nonsense,
again. Quickly change the channel to
something more sane. I cant understand
if the writers have lost control of the
script, why are they hanging on to the
show and making a fool out of these stars?
Those poor girls can get themselves a
decent script without being laughed at,
Meenakshi Singh, who is glued to her TV
from 7 pm onwards tells you.
And there is no good news coming for
viewers of the show. According to a source,
the serial is all set to take a teeny weeny leap
of two years sans Simar who will suddenly
die. Or wait, she is alive but as a bahu in
some other family. Confused? Keep not-
watching Sasural Simar Ka for some
respite.
Of late viewers have been hunting for
sensible drama at the 7 pm slot. Sadly, their
only other choice is Ek Mutthi Aasman,
featuring auntyji Shilpa Shirodkar, which
also, incidently borders on insanity.
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Rich, drunk on money and power
business tycoon falls for ek jhuggi jhopdi
wali. Actually she is the daughter of his
nanny. But another girl (she is also rich and
spoilt but in a different way) also falls for
this young man. Day of marriage is marred
with umpteen confusions and useless
dragging (seven days to show engagement
and another week plus a maha episode to
show the wedding) and the end result? Man
marries wrong girl because he needs to take
revenge first. The lover can wait till agenda
No 1 is done with.
In the middle, phaas gayee bechari
aunty. She shuttles from one daughter (real)
to another (who she considers as her
daughter) and from one house to another
in search of some answers. Arre, if you find
any, do let the viewers know!
Its not just the 7 pm slot that is full of
bakwas, there are others which are equally
puzzling.
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The heart goes out to people who are
still watching this show which at one time
was the main TVR rider for Colors. Now,
it is more of a filler serial in between two
top shows on the same channel. As if
Iccha and Tapasya and their constant
bickering was not enough to drive their
fans far far away, the makers tried leaps
and bounds to rekindle the Uttaran
magic.
So, the new generation was supposed
to breathe in fresh air to this stagnating
show. But 20 episodes post leap we have
Iccha and Tapasya back in the same frame,
again! An accident, a wheelchair, a evil
vamp, a few marriages could still not turn
things for this show. If you think Uttaran
is the classic case of things gone horribly
wrong for the producers, Sony TVs
flagship Bade Ache Lagte Hain suffered the
same fate.
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With a TVR as plump as the male lead
in the beginning week, Ekta Kapoor
thought she had hit jackpot yet again. After
all she had spent C1 crore just for
promoting this middle age love saga. And
a lot of it was riding on Ram Kapoor and
his plethora of experience. Maybe Ekta was
hoping to recreate Jai Walia in another
platform.
But wasnt that Ram Kapoor some 20kg
slimmer, sharper and responsive, Ektaji? So,
viewers ko no ullu banouying with leaps that
are meaningless, tracks which are self
contradictory and a programming schedule
that is awry. If the romance vanished into
thin air in BALH, suspense got thrown out
of the window in Main Naa Bhoolongi in
a matter of 250 episodes.
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How the producers have taken them
for a ride in the name of suspense and
revenge drama. Now it is at best a
fashionable show with the ladies marching
with designer sarees. According to one of
the actors, they are asked to change their
costumes and jewellery twice for the same
scene. Ouch!
In this heroinepanti, CVs seem to have
lost the very plot. We wonder if Shikha nee
Samaira herself remembers what she is
after? Rewind last weeks episode to know
how the central focus of the show is
wrapped in the womens pallu and doesnt
appear to move an inch.
!ustlin slows on JV
'8rItIsh I0ve Ia4Iaa c0rry'
Madhur Jaery lhrough lhe show Curry halion on TLC
al 8 m lakes one on a curry lrail around Brilain. She
shares her avourile recie and lells ShALh SAKSEhA
lhal simle daal and rice or hulka wilh one or lwo
vegelables is lhe erecl meal or her
QWhat is the show, Curry Nation, all
about?
It is a culinary journey around the Great
Britain; you will get to know about
Britishs love for Indian food. The series
gave me a chance to visit a pub, Curry
Night. It allowed me to see how important
it was for the British to have some
control over the curries they ate by
assigning them clear categories: Very hot,
hot, medium, mild, etc. Going into
Glasgow was fascinating as well. I saw a
curry sauce being poured over chips, a
sauce of Indo-Chinese origin. In Yorkshire
I saw small children cooking and eating
local South Asian food and the foods of
local white population. Little children
were chopping green chillies and enjoying
their spicy spinach with potatoes.
Watching Pakistani children cooking and
enjoying shepherds pie was wonderful.
QWhy has curry become so popular in
the west?
The show gave me a chance to confirm
that British really love Indian food.
There is a historical connection
between Britain and India that goes
back to 1600 AD. Today, it is food
that maintains that connection
even though the Indian food the
British like is not always what
is served in India. The British
have adapted it as per their own
needs.
QSome quick kitchen tips for
homemakers?
Simple, just follow the
recipe and have all
your ingredients
ready before you
start. This makes
things easy.
QCould you share
the recipe of your
favourite dish?
My favourite is Goan
pork vindaloo with
potatoes. Ingredients
(serves 4): 2 teaspoons
mustard seeds, 1
teaspoon cumin seeds, 2
teaspoons coriander
seeds, 3 cloves, 1
medium onion, roughly
chopped, 5 garlic cloves,
chopped, an inch of root
ginger, peeled and
chopped, 2 tablespoons
cider vinegar, 1
teaspoon chil li
powders, 2 teaspoons
paprika, salt, to taste,
half teaspoon turmeric,
half teaspoons freshly
ground black pepper, 560 gm boneless
pork shoulder, cut into an inch chunks,
3 tablespoons olive or sunflower oil, 340
gm waxy red potatoes, peeled and cut the
same size as the pork and half teaspoon
caster sugar.
Put half the mustard seeds and all the
cumin seeds, coriander seeds and cloves
in a clean coffee grinder or spice grinder
and grind it finely. Tip this mixture into
a blender with the onion, garlic, ginger,
vinegar, chilli powder, paprika and 3
tablespoons of water. Blend until smooth.
Rub 1, teaspoons of salt, all the turmeric,
black pepper and 2 tablespoons of the
spice paste all over the pork. Put in a
plastic food bag, seal and marinate in the
refrigerator for at least 30 minutes or
longer if desired.
Pour the oil into a large, heavy-based,
non-stick and set it over a medium-high
heat. Add the remaining mustard seeds.
As soon as they pop, put in the remaining
spice paste. Stir and fry until the paste is
lightly brown. Put in the pork with
its marinade and stir. Cover and
reduce the heat to medium. Let
the meat cook for about 10
minutes, stirring now and then.
Pour in 750 ml of water and
add the potatoes, half teaspoon
of salt and sugar. Cover, reduce
the heat and cook very gently
until the meat is tender, then
serve.
QThe most startling
discovery in your
journey on the show?
I also came across some
excellent food, cooked
by East African Indian
families who left
India about 100 years
ago and settled in
East Africa until they
were thrown out.
Then, they came to
Britain and
eventually opened
restaurants. There is
also great meat to be
had in some very
traditional Pakistani
restaurants. Some
of the worst were
the pubs who just
loaded their
vindaloos with
chil ly powder
offering intense
heat, a raw chilly
powder taste and
no flavour
whatsoever.
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G
rappling with bitter infight-
ing, Aam Aadmi Party
chief Arvind Kejriwal on
Saturday attempted to reach
out to the dissidents by offering
to restructure the party and
claimed that all the differences
among the leaders have been
resolved. As partys National
Executive met for the second
successive day, Kejriwal put up
a brave front claiming that
things are going smooth and
there will be an organisational
restructuring soon, including
possible expansion of AAPs
Political Affairs Committee
(PAC), the highest making
body. The meeting, attended by
almost all senior AAP leaders,
came in the backdrop of grow-
ing voices of dissent against
Kejriwal, including his style of
functioning by senior party
leader Yogendra Yadav.
Resignations will be dis-
cussed on Sunday. All things
are going smooth and differ-
ences are resolved. We are dis-
cussing organisational struc-
ture. Expansion of PAC could
be possible, Kejriwal said. He
also said that efforts will be
made to bring back Shazia
Ilmi who had quit the party last
month while slamming
Kejriwal. Later in the evening,
key member Prashant Bhushan
too said the AAP will reveal its
roadmap for future on Sunday
as he also voiced confidence of
bringing Shazia back to the
party fold.
The National Executive
meeting, attended by party
leaders from across the coun-
try, has been called to review
AAPs dismal performance in
the Lok Sabha polls and to
chalk out the future course of
action, including preparations
for the next Delhi assembly
polls. Rift in the partys top
leadership emerged after
exchange of letters between
Yadav and Manish Sisodia. A
number of other leaders are
also apparently unhappy over
Kejriwals functioning, which
some of them termed as auto-
cratic. Yog (Yogendra Yadav)
has raised some important
issues. All of us will work on it.
Yog Yadav is a v (very) dear
friend and a v (very) valued
colleague. Had long discussion
with him..., Kejriwal tweeted
earlier in the day. In another
tweet, he said, We will also try
to get Shazia back.
Ilmi and Yadav, known to
be a key strategist, have been
sharply critical of Kejriwal
after the partys LS debacle.
Yadav, who quit from PAC, had
charged the party with falling
prey to personality cult while
Ilmi had alleged that Kejriwal
was surrounded by a coterie
and that the party lacked inter-
nal democracy. Meanwhile,
another National Council
member of AAP and a founder
member, Anil Bhardwaj on
Saturday alleged that there
was no internal democracy
within the party and said all
leaders in the unit were fight-
ing to be a member of the PAC.
The letter, directed to the PAC,
said after the poll debacle, all
senior leaders indulged in
blame game that brought a bad
name to the party. Bhardwaj
also demanded decentralising
the power to other units in the
party other than the PAC.
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A
city court on Saturday
reserved its order on the
sentencing of 17 Uttarakhand
police personnel convicted in the
fake encounter killing of an
MBA graduate with CBI
demanding death for seven of
them. Special CBI Judge JPS
Malik will pronounce the order
on June 9 in the case in which
all the 18 accused policemen
were convicted on Friday in the
July 3, 2009 fake encounter in
which 22-year-old Ranbir
Singh of Ghaziabad was killed
in a jungle near Dehradun.
One of the accused was
allowed to walk free from jail as
he has already served the peri-
od of sentence for a lesser offence
during the pendency of the trial.
During the argument on
quantum of sentence, Senior
Public Prosecutor Brajesh
Kumar Shukla, appearing for
CBI, demanded death sentence
for seven convicted under the
offence of Section 302 (murder)
of IPC saying that the police
personnel behaved in a preda-
tory manner, which falls under
the act of rarest of rare.
They (police) were the pro-
tectors of law but they behaved
in a predatory manner. They
should have given protection to
the victim, but they killed him in
a fake encounter... Pandemon-
ium cant be allowed to be pre-
vailed. In a case where fake enc-
ounter is proved, the situation is
rarest of rare and death penalty
should be awarded, Shukla said.
During the course of argu-
ments on sentencing, the pros-
ecution also requested the court
to impose heavy fine on the con-
victs and compensation should
be given to the victims parents.
Meanwhile, apprehending vio-
lence among 17 Uttarakhand
cops convicted in the case, the
court asked police to provide
high security to them during
transit between jail and court. If
you are apprehending some
untoward incident, then provide
high security by deploying
additional police forces. There is
no need of bringing them here
in handcuffs, Special CBI judge
JPS Malik said.
New Delhi: A special court on
Saturday framed charges
against top Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
(LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal, one
of the masterminds of 26/11
attacks in Mumbai, and others
for allegedly setting up an ille-
gal arms factory, paving the way
for start of trial in the case.
Additional Sessions Judge Daya
Prakash, during the in-camera
proceedings, framed charges
against the accused for
the offences under IPC
and Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act, sources asso-
ciated with the trial said. The
trial will begin on August 4
when the witnesses would be
examined by the court.
After the court framed
the charges, the accused plead-
ed not guilty of the offence and
claimed trial. The police had
earlier filed its chargesheet
against 16 accused, including
alleged IM operative Qateel
Siddiqui who died in Punes
Yerawada Central Jail on June
8, 2012. Staff Reporter
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A
suspect in a theft case allegedly attempted sui-
cide in police lockup at Hazrat Nizamuddin
police station in the Capital on Saturday. He used a
blanket as a noose and hanged himself from the steel
rods of the lockup door. When the policemen saw him
hanging still mindful, they panicked and brought him
down. He was taken to a hospital immediately. He
gained consciousness some time later and was
brought back to the police station.
A senior official, while confirming the incident,
said that Salman was booked in a theft case on
Thursday and kept in police holdup. He tried to
commit suicide in the lockup. As soon as the inci-
dent came to light, senior officials of the district also
reached the police station hurriedly.
A case of attempt to suicide under various Sections
of IPC has been registered against the accused and we
are trying to ascertain the exact reason behind his
extreme step. We have put the accused in lockup again
and slapped fresh charges. He is being questioned, said
a police official. Delhi Police had faced flak earlier
when an accused, Manoj Rana, had committed sui-
cide in the lockup of Bindapur police station.
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A
teenager native of Uttarakhand
has alleged that her brother-in-
law had molested her. She was in
town to attend the birthday party of
her nephew in December last year.
The incident was reported from
Chandni Chowk area. In her com-
plaint, the girl said her sisters hus-
band had also taken a few objec-
tionable photographs when she was
out cold. The complaint was lodged
at Kotwali police station. The victim
told police Shiv Kumar, who married
her elder sister in December 2011,
sent these objectionable pictures to
her elder brother as well.
The accused Shiv Kumar has
been arrested following the complaint
and a manhunt launched for his
brothers Uma Shankar and Ram
Shankar, said a senior police officer.
A party was organised to celebrate
the first birthday of the son of her sis-
ter and the very next day, according
to her complaint, Shiv Kumar offered
her a spiked cold drink. Then Kumar
and his brothers took turns to molest
her. When she woke up, Shiv Kumar
showed her objectionable pictures
threatening to make them public if
she breathed a word to anyone, the
officer added.
In her com-
plaint, police said,
the victim had also
alleged that Shiv
Kumar had threatened to
kill her elder sister and their
son if she dared rat him and his
brothers out.
However, Shiv Kumar still sent the
said pictures to her elder brother who
then asked her about the incident and
decided to intervene by taking her to
Kotwali police station to lodge a for-
mal complaint in the matter.
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f the high temperature and
hot wind made Delhiites
sweat it out on the roads, they
were not spared inside their
homes too. Frequent power
cuts in the city compounded the
troubles of city dwellers on
Saturday who reeled under the
scorching heat with no fans or
air conditioners. The Central
and East Delhi areas faced the
maximum brunt as rest parts of
the city too faced power outages
that varied from 30 minutes to
two hours. This included mid-
night power cuts that added to
the woes of people. Sources said
Delhi has been facing power
shortage to the tune of 1,000
MW after electricity supply
was disrupted by a duststorm
last week. They said it would
require at least a week to restore
the supply completely.
What is more worrisome,
the current peak power demand
in the Capital has been 400
MW lesser that the previous
year. Yet, there have been long
duration of power cuts.
According to Power
Department officials, the max-
imum power demand in 2013
was 5,653 MW while the peak
demand this summer has been
only 5,250 MW that was
recorded on Thursday. On
Saturday, the peak power
demand in the city settled at
5,152 MW. Old Delhi areas like
Turkman Gate, Bara Hindu
Rao, Jama Masjid, Nai Sadak,
Chawri Bazar, Chandni Chowk
and Daryaganj reeled under
power cuts that aggravated
since Friday night. As power
crisis intensified, water supply
too was affected in the city.
Several areas in South,
East and West Delhi, where
power is supplied by discom
BSES, faced power cuts for
nearly two to three hours.
This included midnight power
cuts in several South and West
Delhi areas. The areas that
were affected in South Delhi
included parts of Chittaranjan
Park, Alakananda, Khanpur,
Greater Kailash-I, Nehru
Place, Jangpura Extension,
Nizamuddin, RK Puram,
Munirka, Sarvapriya, Vihar,
Saket and parts of Vasant
Kunj. Some of these areas
faced power cuts for more
than two hours on Friday late
night. The worst-hit areas
included Greater Kailash,
Chittaranjan Park and the
commercial hub at Nehru
Place where power supply was
affected during working hours.
In Trans-Yamuna areas,
Mayur Vihar-I, Mayur Vihar-
II, Preet Vihar, Laxmi Nagar,
Nirman Vihar and other areas
too faced power cuts. Power
supply has become so erratic
in the city. There is no prior
information on impending
outages and even repeated
phone calls to the control
room helpline go unattended,
said Ritu Singh, a resident of
Mayur Vihar-II.
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elhiites may continue to
reel under ext reme
weather for couple of days as
the IMD has forecast similar
condit i ons t i l l Tuesday.
Weathermen have predicted
the temperature will keep
hovering around 45C. There
will be one degree dip on
Wednesday onwards and the
day may witness cloudy
weather. Meanwhile, there
was no respite from heat on
Saturday in the national
Capital as maximum tem-
perature of the city recorded
44.9C. The maximum tem-
perature was five notches
above normal and slightly
below from Fridays 45C.
The minimum temperature
breached the 30C mark as it
settled at 30.8C, three points
above normal.
Palam too recorded a 33-
year high temperature with
t he mercur y sett l i ng at
47. 0C. The Pal am
Observatory registered a
scorching 47.0C, 0.2C lower
than Fridays temperature.
The hottest was not just for
this season but also in the last
33 years. Before this, the day
temperature (at Palam) was
recorded at 47.4C in 1981
here, said a Met official. The
maximum temperature at
Aaya Nagar in South-East
Delhi was recorded at 46.5C
while it was 46C in the ridge
areas. Hot and dry winds
and the blazing sun ensured
that Delhiites have to sweat it
out if they dared to step out.
City dwellers faced heat
on Saturday also as temper-
ature was almost 45C, 0.1C
lower to Fridays temperature
which was highest in five
years. People scorched under
an intense heat wave with the
mercury expected to go up
further on Saturday. Sunday
could be hotter again as max-
imum temperature may touch
45C while the minimum is
expected to remain around
32C.
On Monday and Tuesday,
the maximum will be around
46C and 45C whereas the
minimum will settle at 31C,
said a Met official adding that
Wednesday onwards the
temperature will be 44C and
below. On Wednesday and
Thursday, the maximum tem-
perature is expected to be
44C and 43C respectively.
Humidity levels were
recorded between 51 per cent
and 21 per cent during the
day. There seems to be no
respite for Delhiites from the
scorching heat in the next
coupl e of days as t he
weatherman has predicted
that the day temperature may
continue to hover around
45C and the minimum
around 30C till June 10.
Weathermen have forecast a
mainly clear sky on Sunday
with maximum temperature
expected to remain around
45C while the minimum is
expected to be around
30C.
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owerless over power cuts,
NCR faces the heat of
outages. As a massive dust-
storm hit the Capital and
NCR last week, authorities are
yet to restore power
supply in Noida
region. Industries,
commercial insti-
tutions, schools,
colleges, govern-
ment offices and
residents of multi-
storey buildings are
totally dependent
on diesel-run
power backup as
transmission system of the
region has completely col-
lapsed. The residents are not
only shelling out money to
meet their electricity demand
but are finding it difficult to
live with sound and air
pol lution caused by
generators. Students are also
facing problems to cope with
their studies due to erratic
supply of electricity.
Excessive use of gensets
has resulted in massive noise
and air pollution across the
region. Generator sets have
been posing a health hazard.
Low-height chimneys of these
machines emit toxic fumes
causing air pollution, those
without proper acoustic enclo-
sures result in noise pollution.
As temperature is rising these
days, it requires adequate
power to every household.
Since Power Department has
failed to supply adequate
power, generators are the only
source of power backup these
days, Said NP Singh, presi-
dent, Federation of Noida
Residents Welfare Association
(FoNRWA).
R e s i d e n t s
claim that uses of
di esel -powered
backup systems are
burning holes in
pockets as diesel
prices are increas-
ing gradually.
Highrise apart-
ments are paying
between C20 and
C30 for every unit
of power consumed from back-
up systems. Per unit price for
power backup has registered
manifold increase in previous
years. Last year it was C15 per
unit only. Power demand of
markets, complexes, malls and
institution are met by genera-
tors as eight to 12 hours of out-
ages are being witnessed in
parts of the city, said Manoj
Kumar, president of Gulmohar
Market in Sector 15.
The NCR region of Uttar
Pradesh is in the vise grip
of massi ve power cuts
si nce rai nstorm has
crippled power transmis-
sion. Although authorities
claim otherwise, a majority
of the areas are still groping
for answers in the dark.
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oarding a train at Hazrat
Nizamuddin Railway
Station from Sarai Kale Khan is
a nightmare for rail passengers.
The entire stretch connecting
Ring Road to the station build-
ing point remains congested
round-the-clock. The situation
aggravates during the morning
and evening rush hours when
a number of long destination
trains depart from the station.
The congestion is mainly
due to haphazard parked vehi-
cles, particularly the autorick-
shaws and taxis due to parking
space crunch. Encroachment
by the vendors adds to the
woes of passengers who often
end up missing trains. There
is no space for parking, so peo-
ple park their cars on the
road, which leads to traffic
snarls, said Manoj, a local
shopkeeper. Passengers also
complain of poor traffic man-
agement and absence of Traffic
Police at the approaching road,
which leads to further chaos.
Hazrat Nizamuddin
Railway Station is one of the
five main railway stations in
the national Capital which
records a daily footfall of more
than 3 lakh passengers. The
entry from the ISBT side caters
to more than 50 per cent of the
passengers coming to the sta-
tion. The station has another
entry/exit from Jangpura.
These autorickshaw drivers
park their TSRs on the road and
block the entire road leaving no
way for other vehicles, said
Ashwini, a visitor to the railway
station. Wrongly parked autos
choke the entry/exit point, mak-
ing it difficult for passengers to
reach the station. The encroach-
ment and an improper entry and
exit plan make the situation
worse. Commuters rued that the
situation worsens during the
night and early morning hours
when there is no presence of
Traffic Police.
We have written to the
higher authorities that we
should develop the rear entry
just as the Ajmeri side of New
Delhi station has been devel-
oped. Theres a blueprint to have
a skywalk connecting ISBT
with the station that will take off
a lot of problems, said an offi-
cial at the Hazrat Nizamuddin
Railway Station.
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NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2014
New Delhi: Thieves struck at
the residence of an IPS offi-
cial who is posted as Deputy
Director in the Intelligence
Bureau (IB) and decamped
with cash and jewellery worth
around C35 lakh, police said.
The incident took place on
Wednesday in New Delhi dis-
tricts Tughlak Road area.
Family of Rajesh Subarno,
an IPS officer of West Bengal
cadre had gone to meet him
in Imphal, Manipur where he
is currently posted when the
incident took place. The
theft came to light when
their neighbours found the
lock of the main door of
t he house broken and
informed police. SR
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60-year-old woman died
on Saturday when she
tried to intervene during a
brawl between her relatives
and her husband in North
Delhis Civil Lines.
The deceased has been
identified as Yashoda, a resi-
dent of Chandrawal where she
lived with her husband and 34-
year-old son Gopal. The inci-
dent took place on Thursday
when the victims husband
Narayan Dass returned home
allegedly in an inebriated con-
dition and abused his nephews
Ishwar, Manoj and Veeru.
The trio took offence of
what Dass said and an argu-
ment ensued between them.
When Yashoda and Gopal tried
to intervene, she was allegedly
pushed by her nephews fol-
lowing which she fell down and
lost consciousness, said a
police official. Gopal made a
call to the police control room
and Yashoda was rushed to
Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital but
was declared brought dead.
A case under Section 304
(culpabl e homi ci de not
amounting to murder) of the
Indian Penal Code has been
filed with Civil Lines police
station but no arrests have
been made so far. No arrest
has been made so far as no
external injury marks were
established in the initial
post-mortem. We are waiting
for the post-mortem report for
further action in the case, the
official said.
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n a major breakthrough in
probe into the Patna serial
blast case, the National
Investigation Agency (NIA)
on Saturday recovered as many
as six time bombs and 18
explosive filled pipes from
near Sithio village on the out-
skirts of Ranchi.
The bombs and the pipes
buried about a feet deep in the
soil were found near a farm on
the entrance of Sithio on
Saturday afternoon. The pipes
were actually elbows used to
connect two water pipes to
make them a gradient of 90
degrees and the timer bombs
were sealed and wrapped in
thick poly-bags.
A team of the NIA had
come to Ranchi on Friday
evening with two arrested IM
operatives Haider and Mujibu-
llah and was staying at Hatia
Guest House of the State
Government.
According to sources, the
NIA sleuths interrogated the
two arrested IM members and
got a tip off from them.
The team then moved to
Sithio village, infamous for being
a hideout of IMs sleeper cell in
Ranchi. The team then zeroed in
on two persons of the village
Iftikhar Alam and Maulana
Taufiq, who gave a tip-off about
the bombs near the village.
The agency sleuths imme-
diately reached the spot and
with the help of local police
they dug out the cache of
explosives. The timer bombs
were said to be of the same
nature and intensity that were
used in the Patna serial blast
during PM Narendra Modis
rally last year.
Sources added that the
elbows filled with explosives
were also very powerful as
they can cause devastating
effect if added in a series and
exploded.
The NIA team with the
help of local police also con-
ducted raids in Hindpiri and
Karbala Chowk areas. Sources
said that the team seized a bag
from terror suspect Numans
sisters residence but the NIA
officials refused to divulge any
details about it.
While raids continued at the
time of filing of this report, State
police officials remained tight-
lipped about the incident. State
police spokesperson and IG
Anurag Gupta said that he had
the information of six bombs
recovery but he could not give
the exact number of bombs.
Six suspected Indian
Mujahideen members have
been arrested from Jharkhand
till date in the Patna serial blasts
case. Seven people were killed
and several others were injured
in the basts that took place at
Gandhi Maidan and Railway
Station of Patna last year.
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n one of the biggest re-shuf-
fle in the state administra-
tion, the state Government
transferred 66 IAS and 42 IPS
officers on Saturday.
VN Garg will be the new
Agriculture Production
Commissioner and would also
look after charge of Principal
Secretary (Forest and
Environment), Rahul Prasad
Bhatnagar will join as PS
(Finance), Deepak Trivedi as
PS, (sugar industries and cane
development and excise), BM
Meena as PS (Food and Civil
Supplies), Archana Agarwal as
PS (general administration),
Ajay Chaujan as Commissioner
(Food and Civil Supplies),
Manish Trigathia as Vice-
Chairman of Agra
Development Authority,
Pankaj Kumar as DM, Agra,
Abhishek Prakash as DM
Aligarh, Sanjay Kumar as DM,
Bareilly, Saumya Agarwal as
DM, Unnao, Sunil Kumar
Srivastava as DM, Maharajganj,
Muthukumarswamy as DM,
Balia, Neelam Ahelawat as
DM, Chitrakoot, Satyendra
Kumar Singh as DM,
Chandauli, Yogeshwar Ram
Mishra as DM, Barabanki, Ajay
Kumar Upadhya as DM,
Gonda, Nikhil Chandra Shukla
as DM, Shrawasti, Vishal
Chauhan as Secretary (Home)
and B Chandrakala as DM of
Mathura.
Bhavnath will take charge
as DM, Hamirpur, Shameem
Ahmed Khan as DM
Bharaich, Rakesh Kumar as
DM, Fatehpur, Harendraveer
Singh as DM, Banda, Sharad
Kumar Singh as DM, Deoria,
Narendra Singh Patel as DM,
Mau, Om Prakash as DM,
Lalitpur, Lal Bihari as DM,
Jhansi, Mala Srivastava as
DM, Auraiya, Masoom Ali
Sar war as DM Kanpur
(Dehat), JP Trivedi as DM,
Kasnganj, Ved Prakash as
DM, Amroha, Yogesh Kumar
Shukl a as DM, Hardoi ,
Mahendra Kumar as DM,
Rae Bareli, Jai Prakash Singh
as DM Sitapur, Pankaj Yadav
as DM, Meerut, Anand
Kumar Si ngh as
Commissioner-cum-MD of
Pradesh Cooperative Milk
Federation, Manoj Kumar
Si ngh as PS, Secondar y
Education, Dr Surya Pratap
Si ngh as PS, Rural
Engi neeri ng and Mi nor
Irrigation, Sanjeev Saran as PS
Infrastruture and Industrial
Devel opment, Kumar
Kamlesh as Commissioner,
Lucknow, Rajan Shukla as PS
Coordination department,
Amrit Abhijhat as Secretary
Tourism and Cultural Affairs,
Bhunesh Kumar as Secretary
Sports and Youth Welfare,
Rakesh Kumar Si ngh as
Additional Commissioner of
Food and Civil Supplies, Anil
Raj Kumar as Additional
Commissioner, MGNREGA,
Prabhat Mittal will be the
Secret ar y of IT and
Electronics, Vidya Sagar
Prasad as Special Secretary of
Sanskrit Department and
Raghvendra Vikram Singh
will be Special Secretary, Food
and Drug Authority.
heW eIhi: Two young girls, who
hailed rom Jharkhand were
allegedly raed by unidenliied
ersons in horlhEasl 0elhi's
Bhajanura area, olice said on
Salurday. Their erelralor irsl
won lheir conidence on lhe
relexl o gelling lheir railway
lickels conirmed and lhen gave
lhem sedalivelaced drinks, raed
lhem and dumed lhem in
unconscious slale searalely al
isolaled laces Bhajanura area.
The viclims had done gradualion
in Theology rom 0urgaon and
had come lo lhe nalional Cailal
on June 2 lo gel some documenls
rom lheir inslilulion lo aly or
a job. Aler collecling lheir
documenls, lhey were suosed
relurn lo Jharkhand on June 5.
They reached Anand vihar railway
slalion bul lheir lickels were nol
conirmed. "here lhe mel a
erson who oered lo gel lheir
relurn lrain lickels conirmed. he
look lhem lo old 0elhi railway
slalion. he gave lhem a drink
laced wilh sedalives lhal made
lhem unconscious," said a olice
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he Union Minister of State
for Information and
Broadcasting Prakash
Javadekar filed his nomination
papers for the Rajya Sabha
election on Saturday. He sub-
mitted the nominations to
returning officer Bhagwandas
Israni, who is also Principal
Secretary of the Madhya
Pradesh Vidhan Sabha.
Javadekar reached the
Assembly premises at around
11.50 am, after visiting the
State BJP headquarters. He
was accompanied by his wife
Prachee Javadekar,
Union Minister and Madhya
Pradesh BJP presi dent
Narendra Singh Tomar, and
other senior BJP leaders.
Javadekar filed two sets of
papers before the Returning
Officer. Madhya Pradesh
Cabinet Ministers Narottam
Mishra and Gaurishankar
Sejwar were among those who
proposed for the Minister.
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BJP leader was allegedly
shot by unidentified bike-
borne assailants in Dadri area on
Saturday night. According to the
police, the deceased was identi-
fied as Vijay Pandit who is hus-
band of Geeta Pandit, chairman,
Nagar Palika Parishad (Dadri).
He was walking near his house
when two assailants on motor-
bike came near him and opened
fire. He was taken to Yashoda
hospital in Ghaziabad where he
was declared dead. Furious over
shootout, Pandits supporters
set several cars on fire on
National Highway 91 causing
heavy traffic jam.
Police claimed, on Saturday
Pandit was in the vicinity of his
residence when assailants
opened fire on him. They fled
the spot after firing on him.
Pandit was rushed to Yashoda
hospital where he died during
the treatment. He got bullets in
his head, shoulder and chest. His
family members claimed that he
was getting continuous threat
but police took no action.
Furious over his killing, his
supporters set several cars on fire
at NH 91 which connects
Bulanshahr with Ghaziabad.
Many vehicles were also van-
dalised by them.
From Page 1
Daily briefings for the PM
from chiefs of Defence and
economic Intelligence agencies
are also being planned in
future, sources said. They said
a dedicated economic
Intelligence agency for the
Indian mission abroad could
be mooted with a view to pro-
vide comprehensive insights on
secure investments by Indian
companies in foreign destina-
tions. Former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singhs foreign
policy priorities were limited to
US and a few other major
countries like Japan.
However, even the part-
nership with the US witnessed
a downslide recently due to a
number of reasons, including
unforthcoming cooperation
on access to 2008 Mumbai ter-
ror accused David Coleman
Headley and the spat over the
humiliating search and arrest
of Indian diplomat Devyani
Khobragade. This apart, a
dwindling economy due to
policy paralysis and uncer-
tain taxation regime further
put off a number of
Governments, including the
US.
The US had not cooperat-
ed on Headley in the desired
manner despite India provid-
ing American agencies unhin-
dered access to question the
lone terrorist arrested in the
2008 Mumbai terror attacks,
Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, who
was subsequently hanged after
due process of law. The UPA
Government had allowed
access to American agencies
CIA and FBI despite objections
by the RAW and Intelligence
Bureau, a pointer to the gaps
in appreciation of vital inputs
from specialised agencies.
Former National Security
Advisor MK Narayanan (Jan
2005-Jan 2010) and his suc-
cessor Shivshankar Menon
(Feb 2010-May 2014) exer-
cised considerable clout over
the foreign policy establish-
ment and took presentations
from RAW and later had
briefed the PM, sources said.
Having earned a decisive
mandate in the just-concluded
parliamentary polls, Modi was
flooded with calls from heads
of various foreign
Governments, many of whom
invited the PM to visit their
respective countries.
Days after assuming
charge as PM, Modi has a busy
foreign travel schedule ahead
as he is slated to visit Bhutan,
his first stop abroad, Japan,
Brazil, the US and China. Date
for Modis visit to China is like-
ly to be discussed during
Chinese foreign ministers visit
here on Sunday. Modi had
also invited SAARC leaders for
his swearing in as PM last
month, in a clear indication of
high foreign policy priority for
the immediate neighbourhood.
Irom Fage 1
The decision is aimed al molivaling
members o lhe scienliic com
munily lo come orward and break
lhe convenlion where only Minislers
and senior bureaucrals were
nominaled as heads o lhe science
delegalions lo oreign localions.
0iving a irslhand accounl o his
recenl exerience in oice, Singh
said "There were lwo conerences
laking lace one al Sanliago and
lhe olher in Boslon. l was lold lo
me lhal a Minisler will lead lhe
delegalion. Bul lold lhem lhal we
will selecl lhose scienlisls who will
have original resenlalion (lo lead
lhe delegalion)." "0n July 25, a
delegalion will go lo (an inlerna
lional science conerence) under
eminenl scienlisl 0r Raghavan (as
head o lhe delegalion)," he added.
From Page 1
However, since all the
known ingress routes are now
open after remaining blocked
during winter due to snow, the
security forces have stepped up
aggressive patrolling in specified
sectors.
Army chief General Bikram
Singh, who met Home Minister
Rajnath Singh on Friday in
New Delhi, briefed him about
this scenario and the measures
taken to prevent increase in lev-
els of violence which have seen
a downward trend in the last
three to four years in the State.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Defence Minister
Arun Jaitley will also be given a
presentation by the Army in this
regard sometime next week in
the War Room in New Delhi.
Modi was supposed to be briefed
on the situation in Jammu and
Kashmir, North-East and oper-
ational preparedness to meet any
challenge from Pakistan and
China on June 3 but it was post-
poned due to Rural
Development Minister
Gopinath Mundes death.
Between April 16 and June
3, 2014, more than one dozen
incidents of ceasefire violations
and foiled infiltration bids were
reported along the LoC in
Rajouri and Poonch districts.
The presence of Border Action
Teams (BAT) of the Pakistan
Army was also noticed at dif-
ferent intervals along the LoC.
Few incidents of foiled infiltra-
tion bids were reported along the
International Border as well in
Jammu region. .
Incidentally, 267 infiltra-
tion bids were reported last
year in which 38 militants were
killed on the LoC as compared
to 32 attempts till April this year
in which three militants were
neutralized.
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lhal lhey were ascerlaining
whelher allegalions made againsl
lhe accused in lhe FR were lrue.
"0 lhe lwo viclims, one was lhe
lone child o her arenls. her
alher is one o lhree brolhers wilh
limiled resources and i she was
nol alive, il could beneil olhers. l
could be one o lhe molives. am
nol saying lhal lhis is lhe molive,"
he said. Reerring lo recovery o
our beer bollles and lwo glasses
rom lhe scene, he said, "l may be
lhal lhe crime is o any olher lye.
Those, who are being lalked aboul,
may nol be involved. They mighl
be released, bul il deends on lhe
invesligalions. we don'l lhink lhal
one o lhe viclims was raed."
Banerjee's asserlions came even
as lhe underallack Slale
governmenl susended Badaun SF
Alul Saxena, decided lo lake aclion
againsl lhe lhen 0islricl magislrale
Chandra Frakash and underlook a
massive reshule involving GG AS
and 42 FS oicers. LR Kumar, SF
(law and order) 00F headquarlers,
has been osled as new SF o
Badaun dislricl. while admilling
lhal bolh lhe 0M and SSF o
Badaun had shown lelhargic
aroach in handling lhe incidenl
and lhal lhe lwo would ace
dearlmenlal robe, Banerjee,
however, mainlained lhal lhe
Secial nvesligalion Team consli
luled in lhe case was also looking
inlo lhe involvemenl o amily
members o lhe viclim. "we are
moniloring lhe movemenl o
amily members on lhe aleul day.
Besides, we are also using lhe
eleclronic surveillance lechnology
lo conirm lhe exacl localion o
amily members as well as lhe
viclims lo creale a sequence o
evenls," he said adding all lhe
arresled ive accused and susecls
would be subjecled lo olygrahy
and narco analysis lesls.
For his arl, Chie Secrelary Alok
Ranjan, loo said lhal several acls
have emerged in lhe incidenl and
il would have been beller i lhe
adminislralion had acled
romlly.
Irom Fage 1
nlereslingly, lhe ower dearlmenl
oicials conlradicled lhe olice
lheory saying lhe ower suly
was reslored beore midnighl.
Meanwhile, in anolher incidenl
some uF olicemen were allacked
and senior dislricl oicials roughed
u in Mu/aarnagar dislricl lale on
Friday nighl or reusing lo lodge a
comlainl aboul lhe rae o a
menlally challenged woman. The
silualion was broughl under
conlrol only on Salurday, an oicial
said. The viclim was raed on
Tuesday near lhe Basi village
graveyard, bul her amily learnl
aboul il only on Friday. The viclim's
brolher wenl lo lodge a comlainl
wilh lhe olice bul lhe Slalion
house 0icer (Sh0) o 0ulhera
allegedly reused lo do so.
ncensed al lhe Sh0's reusal lo
lodge a comlainl hundreds o
villagers rolesled al lhe Shahur
Folice Slalion. They also
manhandled lhe Sh0 who was
chased and bealen u. when lhe
news reached lhe dislricl
adminislralion, lo oicials,
including 0islricl Magislrale
Kaushalraj Sharma and Senior
Suerinlendenl o Folice hh Singh,
rushed lo lhe sol. The SSF was
also nol sared by lhe mob and his
uniorm was lorn. The crowd was
angry lhal lhe olice nol only
reused lo regisler a case, bul also
reused lo send lhe viclim or a
medical examinalion. Sensing lhal
lhe silualion mighl gel oul o
conlrol, lhe 0M ordered a medical
examinalion o lhe woman. The
Slale 0overnmenl also inlervened
al midnighl and susended six
olicemen, including lhe Circle
0icer o Shahur.
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ld rivalry between Punjab
and Haryana is back.
Slamming Haryana Chief
Minister Bhupinder Singh
Hooda for announcing to con-
stitute separate Gurdwara
Parbhandhak Committee in
the State, Punjab Chief
Minister Parkash Singh Badal
on Saturday said that
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)
would oppose any such move.
Talking to reporters during
the Sangat Darshan programme
of Talwandi Sabo Assembly
segment, the Chief Minister
said that the Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbhandhak
Committee (SGPC) had came
into existence after enormous
sacrifices made by the Sikhs
during the British Raj. He said,
Congress has always adopted an
anti-Sikh stance and the fresh
move of the Congress
Government in Haryana had
proved that a leopard cannot
change its spots.
Badal said that Congress
has always unnecessarily inter-
fered in the religious affairs of
the Sikhs, adding that Haryana
Chief Ministers announce-
ment was politically motivated
as he was trying to take mileage
out of it in the coming State
Assembly polls.
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Haryana`s
move of new
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n a major success for police
force in the insurgency-hit
Kondagoan district, eight
hardcore Naxals surrendered
before district Collector and
Superintendent of Police here
on Saturday.
Growing pressure of secu-
rity forces in the Bastar region
and discrimination among
Naxal cardres convinced them
to give up their arms, a senior
police officer said.
According to police, the
surrendered Naxals were
involved in several serious
criminal offences like bomb
blasts, damaging school and
ashram buildings, blazing vehi-
cles deployed in construction
of roads and similar others.
One of the ultra who has
decided to withdraw from
Naxal activities was a com-
mander of Maoist LGS (Local
Guerrilla Squad) group.
Additional Superintendent
of Police (Naxal Operation)
Surjit Atri informed that
Naxals who was identified as
Manku alias Chhattis (36),
resident of Rajbeda village
under Bayanar police station
was the former commander of
LGS.
Likewise, Bajjuram Salam
alias Miri (35), resident of
Pardipara Madanar, Raju
Netam alias Nagesh (21)
Pardipara Madanar, Sobha
Salam (28) hailing from
Rajbeda, Aytu Sori (27) of
Kejung, Shankar Salam (25) of
Mandir Para Rajbeda, Ghassi
Salam (35) of Badepara
Madanar and Santosh alias
Mehattar (28) of Rengagondi
Schoolpara have also laid down
their arms. They all are resi-
dents of Bayanar police station.
ASP further informed that
surrender red rebels told police
that Naxals leaders often visit-
ed Bayanar area and under
their influence all eight of
them decided to join Naxal
movement.
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he Government of
Jharkhand, which spends
crores of rupees every year on
VVIP choppers and char-
tered planes, perhaps cares
less about children of the
State as it has to depend on
aids and charity for perform-
ing its benevolent duty to
protect and bring rescued
trafficking victims back home.
After a day-long toil on
Saturday, the officials of the
State Government, including
those in the rescue mission in
Kerala, are now almost sure
that they would be able to
bring back the 120 kids
allegedly trafficked from
Jharkhand to some orphan-
ages in Kerala by Wednesday.
Ironically enough, the 12-
member rescue team, includ-
ing officials of the State
Government and NGOs, had
to arrange funds from NGOs
and seek financial help from
Government of Kerala to make
payments for booking of two
railway bogies that would carry
the 120 kids back to Jharkhand.
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Mumbai: Maintaining that
maritime security was
Governments top priority,
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley
on Saturday stressed the need
for hastening delivery of ships
to step up surveillance and
secure the vast coastline.
I am aware of the chal-
lenges faced by the ship build-
ing industry in India. The
achievement of quality stan-
dards despite ongoing mod-
ernisation programme of the
(Cochin) shipyard is indeed
commendable. I expect more
focus on shortening the deliv-
ery period by the shipyards in
future, he said after commis-
sioning two indigenously-built
fast-patrol vessels ICGS
Achook and ICGS Agrim of the
Indian Coast Guard.
Jaitley said security appara-
tus along the coastline is being
further strengthened by the
Indian Navy and Coast Guard.
The establishment of the
coastal surveillance network is
in the final stages of imple-
mentation and would soon
ensure effective protection of
our vast shoreline, he said.
Jaitley said coastal securi-
ty topped the priority of the
Government and induction of
new vessels will help the Coast
Guard officials to effectively
secure the coastline.
As always, coastal securi-
ty remains one of our prime
concerns and induction of
new assets will definitely bol-
ster the Indian Coast Guards
efforts to provide a safe coastal
line, he said.
Jaitley said protection of
territorial waters ensures a
nations prosperity in which
Coast Guard has an important
role to play.
Policing and protecting
the maritime commons against
the wide spectrum of threats is
a high priority for all nations as
it offers economic prosperity
and security that comes from
a safe and free maritime
domain. Towards this, the
Indian Coastguard has a very
important role to play, he said.
Jaitley said the building of
patrol vessels in India was a
matter of pride and delight.
It is a matter of delight
because not only are they (patrol
vessels) a very valuable addition
to the Indian Coastguard, but
that they have been indigenous-
ly made, particularly in a coun-
try where traditionally we felt
that our ship building industry
still needs a lot more specialisa-
tion and growth, Jaitley said.
The economic constraints
witnessed during the last two
decades have reinforced the
importance of the maritime
trade and commerce. The
resultant growth in maritime
traffic thus calls for an efficient
framework of maritime safety,
maritime security, maritime
environment protection and
disaster management and law
enforcement at sea, he said.
Jaitley, accompanied by
Navy chi ef Admi ral RK
Dhowan, visited aircraft car-
rier INS Viraat and reviewed
the operational preparedness
of the Western Naval
Command, which witnessed
two major submarine mishaps
in the last one year.
He also had a look at the ill-
fated Russian-made Kilo-class
submarine Sindhurakshak,
which had sunk following mul-
tiple explosions on August 14
last year, killing 18 Navy per-
sonnel, from a distance.
The salvors have lifted ves-
sel from the sea bed and is now
resting on a pontoon at the
naval dockyard.
Replying to a query on the
recent mishaps denting the
image of the Navy, Jaitley said,
We are trying to find the
causes that led to the recent
incidents to improve the situ-
ation. Procurement process
has to be fastened. Wherever
there are concerns, Navy will
address them.
Indian Coast Guard ships
Achook and Agrim are the
fifth and sixth in the series of
20 Fast Patrol vessels (FPVs),
desi gned and bui lt by
Cochin shipyard.
The 50-metre indigenous
FPVs displace 270 tonnes and
can achieve a maximum speed
of 33 knots with an endurance
of 1500 nautical miles at eco-
nomical speed of 13 knots, and
are equipped with state-of-
the-art weaponry and
advanced communication and
navigation equipment. PTI
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A
day after Karbi militants
killed a senior police offi-
cial and his personal security
officer (PSO) in Assams Karbi
Anglong district, the Centre
has decided to send five units
of the CRPFs elite CoBRA
force to launch counter insur-
gency operations in Assam.
The Centre has also decid-
ed to continue the existing
deployment of additional forces
in Assam for another three
months time following a request
from the State Government in
this regard. Although there were
58 companies of the Central
Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in
Assam at present, 36 companies
are due withdrawal on June 11.
The decisions were taken
after Union Minister of State for
Home Kiren Rijiju reviewed
the law and order situation of the
State on Saturday following the
brutal killing of Superintendent
of Police of the Hamren district,
Nityananda Goswami and his
PSO Ratul Nunisa by suspected
Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers
(KPLT) and United Peoples
Liberation Army (UPLA) mili-
tants under Hamren subdivision
in Karbi Anglong district.
Rijiju, accompanied by Joint
Secretary, MHA (in charge of
North East), Shambhu Singh,
rushed to the State on Saturday
and reviewed the law and order
situation with Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi and senior police
officials. The Minister also paid
floral tribute to both the brave
policemen, who had laid down
their lives on the lines of duty.
The Centre has taken the
matter seriously and it is a mat-
ter of concern. We thought that
the situation in Assam has
improved but this incident has
forced us to rethink. The Centre
will provide all possible help to
the State Government in tackling
the law and order situation.
However, the State forces should
not lack commitment, he said.
The Union Minister also
appealed to all the militant out-
fits to come to the mainstream
and sit for talks. Please do not
kill your own countrymen as
this is not going to solve any
problem, he added.
Assam Chief Secretary
Jitesh Khosla raised the issues
of poor police infrastructure
and poor mobile connectivity
in districts like Karbi Anglong
and Dima Hasao and said that
these hampers operations
against extremists in inacces-
sible and difficult terrains.
Joint Secretary, MHA (in
charge of North-East), Shambhu
Singh, however, assured that the
MHA would take up the matter
with the Department of
Telecommunications for early
installation of mobile towers in
far flung places like Karbi
Anglong. DoT is planning to
install 7,000 mobile towers in the
N-E region alone, mostly along
the borders. We will soon take up
the matter with DoT to strength-
en the mobile network services
in Karbi Anglong as well as Dima
Hasao districts, he added.
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W
ith justice still remaining
elusive in the infamous
Kamduni rape-and-murder
case the people of the said vil-
lage in the northern fringes of
Kolkata have decided to
approach Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for relief.
A team of the villagers
have even met Bengal BJP
president Rahul Sinha to help
them in their efforts to meet
the Prime Minister.
This Government has not
only failed to provide us justice
but also it is trying to delay it as
some vested interests are
involved in the case, Moushumi
Koyal an activist in the village
who met Sinha said alleging
how the police and the prose-
cution were delaying the case.
The case has now been
transferred from fast track
court to a normal criminal
court and the case is getting
delayed said Bharati Mutsuddi
an activist who met the vil-
lagers along with State BJP
leader Samik Bhattacharya on
Friday. Exactly a year ago a col-
lege goer was brutally raped and
murdered by six people. The
news hit the national headlines
for its sheer brutality. The feroc-
ity of the crime was such that
the alleged rapists at Kamduni
had torn apart her legs from two
sides after committing the
crime. This in apparent bid to
show their anger at her resis-
tance. The incident had taken
place barely a few months after
the dreaded Nirbhaya case that
shook the country.
Till the dreaded crime took
place here Kamduni was pop-
ular for a different reason as
Amitabh Bachchan starer
Saudagar and many other
Bengali films were shot at this
village full of natural water
bodies through out the
1970s and thereafter.
The incident generated
such heat and dust that the
locals even entered into heated
arguments with Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee when she
reached the place ten days after
the crime was committed. The
locals now allege that the reason
behind the delaying of the case
is the proximity of some of the
perpetrators of the crime to the
ruling TMC.
The police and the prose-
cution are intentionally delaying
the case so that the evidences can
be tampered with in the mean
time, said Moushumi Koyal, the
face of the agitation adding, we
hope the Prime Minister will
come to our help. She said,
Modi will definitely come to
our help as he is a man of
integrity. We want him to put
pressure on the State
Government to give us justice.
The perpetrators of the offence
must get exemplary punish-
ment or else others will be
encouraged to commit such
crimes with strong backing
from the people in power.
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W
ith its Central Medical
Services Society (CMSS)
likely to kickstart soon, the
Union Health Ministry is hop-
ing to streamline procure-
ment and proper distribution
of quality medicines, vaccines,
contraceptives and medical
equipments to the States and
in the process also eliminate
corruption, shortages
and wastages.
Sources in the
Ministry said that the
CMSS will be able to
begin the process of
drug procurement in
next two to three
months as all the nec-
essary infrastructure
such as human resources and
warehouses for establishing the
organisation is in a final stages.
Set up in March 2012 to
streamline the drug procure-
ment and distribution system of
the department of Health and
Family Welfare, the Society
will function as an independent,
professional and autonomous
agency for purchasing all med-
icines, vaccines, contraceptives
and medical equipments for all
the Governments flagship
health programmes.
The CMSS will be respon-
sible for procuring medicines
and other medical products for
the health sector in the country
in a transparent and cost-effec-
tive manner and distributing
them to the State/UT Govern-
ments by setting up IT enabled
supply chain infrastructure
including State warehouses in 50
locations in country for nation-
al-level programmes, said the
official.
Once this body
start operating, the
Department of Family
Welfare will seize to
procure the drugs as
has been doing till now.
At present, the
Health Ministry is pur-
chasing drugs, vac-
cines, contraceptives and med-
ical equipments departmen-
tally and through procurement
agents for its various disease
control programmes.
However, certain deficien-
cies, such as inadequate profes-
sional procurement expertise,
absence of supply chain
management system, manual
collection of data and absence of
any credible Management
Information System have been
adversely affecting the procure-
ment system, said sources.
Vijayawada: Union Urban
Development Minister M
Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said
the NDA is committed to reviv-
ing all the development projects,
which were left unfinished by the
previous UPA Government.
The Government will
revive all the development pro-
jects to the tune of C5 lakh crore
which were left incomplete by
the UPA Government. In addi-
tion, the Government has also to
revise the
Nat i ona l
Highways
expansion
( proj ect )
and the
P r i m e
Ministers
Grameen
Sadak Yojana, he said address-
ing BJP workers here.
Our primary objective is
to fulfil the ambitions and
aspirations of the people who
gave us full majority, he said.
Naidu, who is on his maid-
en visit to the city after taking
over as the Union Minister said,
NDA is committed to bring
back the black money stashed
in foreign banks. PTI
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nformation & Broadcasting
Minister Prakash Javadekar on
Saturday said he is philosphi-
cally and ideologically in favour
of doing away with the Ministry
as part of Prime Minister
Narendra Modis mantra of less
Government, more governance.
Javadekar was responding
to a question during a television
news channel programme if
India needed such a Ministry
when many major democracies
do not have such a Ministry.
I think you are giving a
good line for us. But ultimate-
ly, when our PM Modi says that
more governance and less
Government, so you are actu-
ally contributing to the idea of
less Government and more
governance. Thats our focus,
but to achieve that end you
have to follow a process,
Javadekar replied.
He was speaking to Karan
Thapar for Headlines Todays
programme Nothing But The
Truth. Thapar asked Javadekar
if he meant that three or four
years down the line, he would
like to ensure that this (I&B)
Ministry ceases to exist.
Philosphically or ideologi-
cally, Ill be willing to do that, he
said and added that in the com-
ing years words like
Government-run, Government-
controlled or Government inter-
vention will be heard less.
Thapar replied in the affir-
mative when asked whether
Modi was also philosophically
and ideologically in agreement
with his line of thinking.
Javadekar also suggested
he was open to appointment of
professional editors for public
broadcasters Doordarshan and
AIR. The Minister said that as
far as the public broadcaster is
concerned, there are various
models like the BBCand others
available which would be stud-
ied. Javadekar said he was not
in favour of a model where the
public broadcaster is account-
able to the Minister only.
Today, it is like this that as
if it is a Government fiefdom.
I dont want to make this as a
Government fiefdom but real-
ly a competitive market chan-
nel, he said.
On a question on FDI in
media, Javadekar said he was
open to discussion with stake-
holders. He, however, added he
shared the view that the news
media is sensitive and allowing
more FDI should be thought
about very carefully.
Javadekar said he felt that
private radio channels could be
allowed news broadcasts
though they could be asked to
use AIR bulletins or news pro-
vided by credible news agencies.
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NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2014
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party
(TDP) president N
Chandrababu Naidu will be
sworn in as the first Chief
Minister of new Andhra Pradesh
at a grand function on Sunday.
Governor ESL Narasimhan
will administer the oath of
office and secrecy to Naidu at
a public function at Nagarjuna
Nagar between Vijayawada and
Guntur at 7.27 pm.
Some Cabinet Ministers
will also be sworn-in, but their
exact number is not known yet.
A host of dignitaries,
including 15 Union Ministers,
six Chief Ministers of various
States, film stars and veteran BJP
leaders like LK Advani and
Murali Manohar Joshi, besides
Chief Ministers of Gujarat,
Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan,
Odisha, Punjab and Goa are
expected to attend, sources said.
Madhya Pradesh Chief
Ministers attendance is not
confirmed yet, according to
Chief Secretary IYR Krishna
Rao and Director General of
Police JV Ramudu.
Telangana Chief Minister
K Chandrasekhar Rao and
YSR Congress president YS
Jaganmohan Reddy will not be
attending the swearing-in
though Naidu has extended
personal invitations to them.
Soon after taking oath,
Naidu will sign a file relating
to waiver of crop loans to
farmers and also loans to
women self-help groups.
Modalities for the waiver
will, however, be worked out
subsequently.
Naidu had been talking
about waiving off the crop
loans in the campaigning.
He may also sign a second
file ordering closure of all belt
shops (unauthorised liquor
vends in villages) across the
State, TDP sources said.
The NTR Sujala, the
scheme for supply of safe
drinking water to rural habita-
tions, is also likely to be cleared
on the occasion.
It is also expected that Naidu
may also announce the location
of the capital for the new State,
though Hyderabad will be the
common capital for Telangana
and AP for 10 years. PTI
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Rajahmundry: Flaying the
pomp and show associated
with the coronation of N
Chandrababu Naidu, YSRC chief
Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday
said he does not want to be part
of the extravagant swearing-in
ceremony when Andhra Pradesh
is in deep crisis.
On one hand Naidu has
been seeking donations from the
people to build the capital city
and on the
other an esti-
mated C30
crore is being
lavishly spent
on the swear-
ing-in cere-
mony which
at this point of time is not wise
and I leave it to their wisdom but
I personally will not ratify such
a wasteful expenditure, he told
reporters here.
A section of media, Reddy
alleged, has been trying to pro-
ject that Naidu has limited
resources and empty coffers
suggesting that loan waiver may
be difficult but people have
given YSRCP mandate to ques-
tion TDP governance and the
steps being taken to fulfil waiv-
er of agriculture loans. PTI
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R
eviving its opposition to the
Jaitapur Nuclear Power
Project (JNPP), the Shiv Sena on
Saturday urged the BJP-led NDA
government at the Centre to
scrap the 9,900 MW JNPP, keep-
ing in view the sentiments of
local people against the project.
A Shiv Sena delegation, led
by partys MP from Sindhudurg-
Ratnagiri constituency and its
senior Subhash Desai, met
Union Minister for Environment
and Forests Prakash Javadekar at
the State-run Sahyadri guest
house and submitted a memo-
randum, seeking the Centre to
scrap the project.
In its memorandum, the
Shiv Sena stated: The local
people have been opposing
the JNPP right from the begin-
ning. Keeping in view of the
sentiments of the local people,
we would like the Centre to
scrap this destructive project.
The Shiv Sena told the
Minister that though the
Kasturirangan Committee on
Western Ghats visited Jaitapur,
it refrained from interacting
with the local people oppos-
ing the JNPP.
The Kasturiurangan com-
mittee has, in its report, only
dwelt with some technical issues
based on speculation.
Environmental expert Madhav
Gadgil had recommended that
the ecological report of the
Western Ghats Ecology Expert
Panel (WGEEP) be placed before
the village grampanchyat so that
it can be implemented with the
active participation of the vil-
lagers concernedWe are
opposed to any such project
that is detrimental to the envi-
ronmental and tourism interests
of coastal kokan region, the Sena
stated in its memorandum.
The State-run Nuclear
Power Corporation of India Ltd
(NPCIL) is setting up 6 nuclear
power units of 1,650 MW capac-
ity each in Madban village of
Rajapur tehsil in Ratnagiri dis-
trict of coastal Konkan region in
collaboration with the French
nuclear power giant AREVA.
The Shiv Sena has for the last
three years been backing the agi-
tation undertaken against by
Konkan Vinashkari Prakalpavir-
odhi Samiti, which is spear-
heading the agitation against the
power project.
In other environmental
issues taken up with the min-
ister, the Sena delegation urged
Ministry of Environment and
Forests (MoEF) to give envi-
ronmental clearance for the
coastal road project for
Mumbai and to relax CRZ
norms to facilitate slum reha-
bilitation in Mumbai.
Leader of the Opposition
in the Maharashtra Legislative
Council Vinod Tawde of the
BJP was also present when the
Sena delegation met Javadekar.
Javadekar assured the Sena
delegates that he would discuss
the concerns expressed by them
as also the local people about the
JNPP in detail with Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and a
decision on the review of the pro-
ject would be taken subsequently.
Th khhkThk Q MuMBA
A
day ahead of the com-
mencement of the services
on the phase-I stretch of the
Mumbai Metro Railway,
Maharashtra Chief Minister
Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday
joined issue with Mumbai
Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL)
over the proposed hike in fare
structure and threatened to
boycott the inaugural function
if the latter chose to increase the
fares than what had been one
quoted originally in the tender.
Hours after the MMOPL
announced its plans to start
commercial operations of the
Mumbai metro from Sunday, the
chief minister accused the
Opposition BJP of trying to
facilitate Anil Ambanis Reliance
Infrastructure, which holds 69
per cent equity in the joint ven-
ture MMOPL (in which the
state-run MMRDA and Veolia
Transport are partners too),
increase the metro fares three
to four times than what had
been quoted originally by the pri-
vate company in its tender.
I have been asked to inau-
gurate the Mumbai metro at
9.30 am on Sunday. The state
government has decided not to
hike the fares. My charge is that
political pressure is being used
to help Reliance company
increase the fares by three to
four times. I would like the BJP
to come clean on what role it
is playing in Reliance Infra hik-
ing fares, the chief minister
said, as he threatened to stay
from the metro inaugural func-
tion if the MMOPL chose to go
ahead with the increased fares.
Talking to media persons
here, Chavan said: I have
agreed to inaugurate the
metro service on the condi-
tion that the company sticks
to the tariff mentioned in the
tender. If it wants to go for a
hike, it should approach the
tariff fixation committee jus-
tifying the reasons".
The chief minister said
that the state-run MMRDA
had already moved the Bombay
High Court against the fare
hike proposed by the MMOPL
and the matter would come up
for hearing on Monday.
V 1kYkk1 Q K0Ch
W
ith just five days remain-
ing for the kickoff of the
32-day 2014 FIFA World Cup
event in Brazil, entire Kerala has
turned into a celebration ground.
Soccer fever is at unprecedent-
ed levels over this World Cup
edition primarily because the
tournament is being held in
Brazil which Malayalees consider
as the Mecca of football.
Huge boards featuring larg-
er-than-life pictures of soccer
stars and members of World
Cup teams have already lined up
in almost all towns and villages
in the State. Most major teams
participating in the event have
fan followings in the State but
the colours seen prominently
throughout Kerala this time
are Brazil's green and yellow.
Brazil' s soccer genius
Neymar and Argentine scoring
machine Messi are the most fea-
tured stars in the boards put up
by football clubs and fans' groups
at all available spaces in village
squares and town junctions.
Despite doubts over his appear-
ance in this World Cup, larger-
than-life cutouts of Portuguese
great Christiano Ronaldo also
are seen in great numbers.
Soccer fever had reached
its zenith even before the start
of the tournament in the towns
and villages of northern Kerala,
especially Malappuram and
Kozhikode districts where foot-
ball is the second religion of
almost all the people. The sub-
ject of discussion at reading
rooms, evening get-togethers
and even marriage parties is
football - and Brazil, of course.
Here is a glimpse of how
important the FIFA World Cup
is to the people of Mambad -
known as the Mecca of football
in Kerala - in Malappuram dis-
trict: Fifty-year-old Nooruddin
Mohammad, a school teacher,
has already applied for one
month's leave, despite the fact
that it is the school-reopening
season, to celebrate the world's
biggest soccer event.
"I am not alone in doing
this. Many of my friends will be
on leave for the entire month. It
is not a big thing to sacrifice your
one month's leave for soccer.
After all, it happens only once in
four years," says Nooruddin,
who would have been in Brazil
by now to "experience the World
Cup by body and soul" had it not
been for the bad health of his 74-
year-old mother.
Sports goods centres where
jerseys of football teams are
being sold and television show-
rooms which have announced
special World Cup offers are
reporting big leaps in sales in the
past two weeks.
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D
ousing the Cauvery fire
Union Chemicals and fer-
tilizers minister HN Ananth
Kumar said there was no such
proposal to set up Cauvery
Management Board by the
Centre. Ananth Kumar told
reporters in Bangalore on
Saturday that he ascertained
from Water Resources Minister
and there was no such propos-
al in front of the centre.
He said, Today morning I
have spoken to Union Water
Resource Minister Uma Bharti,
there is no such proposal in the
Water Resource Department.
In fact Karnataka Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah had
strongly opposed the Centres
move to constitute a Cauvery
Management Board to please
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa. The Chief Minister
has sought an appointment
with the Prime Minister on
June 10 to take an all party del-
egation to appeal to him of the
situation and to oppose any
such move by the Centre.
Fh8 Q LuCKh0w
H
ome Minister Rajnath Singh
said that the Government
would soon come up with a blue-
print unfolding a comprehensive
integrated action plan to tackle
problems like Naxalism, sepa-
ratism and terrorism.
On his first visit to Lucknow
after being sworn-in as Union
Home Minister here on Saturday,
Singh said: The Centre is sin-
cere towards the internal secu-
rity of the country and the
MHA has started work on a
comprehensive plan. Efforts will
be made to take balanced action.
Earlier, Singh was given a
rousing welcome at the
Choudhary Charan Singh air-
port as party workers gathered
in huge numbers to receive
their newly-elected MP and
Union Home Minister. A num-
ber of felicitation functions
dotted the city as party work-
ers jostled with one another to
catch the eye of Singh.
kh8hEE WkhI Q SRhA0AR
H
ours after unidentified mil-
itants snatched three rifles
after shooting a policeman
guarding a central Kashmir
shrine, four policemen and two
civilians were wounded in a sep-
arate attack when militants
opened fire on a police party in
Shopian town of south Kashmir.
Police said that late on
Friday evening, unidentified
militants attacked a police
picket at Pakherpora in cen-
tral Kashmirs Budgam dis-
trict. They shot at a police-
man Shabir Ahmad and fled
away after snatching three
service rifles. The authorities
have ordered a probe into the
attack and suspended four
cops who had l eft their
weapons unattended. They
were not spotted on duty
when the attack occurred.
The wounded policeman
is battling for his life in a pre-
mier hospital here.
Hours after the
Pakherpora attack, militants
opened indiscriminate fire in
Shopian town on Saturday
afternoon when a police party
was patrolling in the Bonagam
quarter of the volatile town.
Sources said that militants
opened fire from three spots.
Four policemen and two civil-
ians were wounded in the
attack, one of them critically.
The police and security
forces cordoned off the area
after the attack and launched
a search operation to track
down the attackers.
Meanwhile, a mysterious
blast occurred in a passenger
vehicle in south Kashmir's
Anantnag town. Two police-
men including a junior officer
and five civilians were wound-
ed in the blast that ripped off
the front portion of the vehicle.
The security arrangements
have been tightened in entire
south Kashmir after the vio-
lent incidents.
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T
he first unit of the
Kudankulam Nuclear Power
Plant at Kudankulam, 600 km
south of Chennai became fully
operational by achieving its
power level of 1,000 MW on
Saturday. The reactor which
has been in the making since 31
March 2002, started generating
1,000 MW power at 1.20 pm on
Saturday, according to RS
Sundar, Project Director, KNPP.
The reactor which was built in
collaboration with Russian
Federation (formerly Union of
Soviet Socialist Republic) is the
first Pressurised Light water
Reactor in the country.
The commercial produc-
tion of power from the KNPP
would take another two months,
according to Sundar. We start-
ed generating 1,000 MW power
continuously and that is the
greatest news. This is a reply to
those who criticised the Nuclear
Power Corporation Ltd
(NPCIL) terming the reactor as
junk and scrap. Now it is for the
Atomic Energy Regulatory
Board (AERB) to decide when
to start producing commercial
power and yield the same to the
national grid, Sundar told The
Pioneer over telephone from the
master control room of the
reactor at Kudankulam.
The agreement for the 1,000
MW reactor was signed on 20
November 1988 by then Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the
then President of the Soviet
Union Mikhail Gorbachev.
Following the disintegration of
the Soviet Union, the project was
in limbo for some time. The con-
struction works began on 31
March 2002. Though the reactor
was to be readied by December
2007, it got delayed by seven
years due to various reasons. One
of the reasons given by the
NPCIL and the Atomic Energy
Commission, the apex body
controlling the nuclear power
establishments in the country,
was that since this was the
biggest ever reactor to be built in
the history of Indias nuclear
energy programme, scientists
and engineers were cautious
about the safety of the reactor.
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N
arendra Modi, who was
unwelcome here only a
few years ago, is now a fashion
icon to the American media.
After his stunning electoral
triumph, three major US pub-
lications - Time, New York
Times and the Washington Post
have lauded the new Indian
Prime Ministers dressing style
from his trademark Modi
Kurta to his tunic.
The New York Times in an
article titled A Leader Who Is
What He Wears says that
even by the standards of a
world that has seen blogs
devoted to Michelle Obamas
dress sense, the pre-election
makeovers of Francois
Hollande and Dilma Rousseff,
and the canonisation of Nelson
Mandelas shirts, the image-
craft of Indias new Prime
Minister, Narendra Modi -
and its fashion fallout has been
something of a case study.
Its says that even by Indias
standards where leaders have
perhaps understood the use of
clothing as a communication
device better and longer than
any of their international
peers. . Modi stands out.
Literally and strategically.
The Washington Post also
lauds Modis dressing style,
saying, Move aside, Michelle
Obama. The world has a new
fashion icon. And no, its not
Vladimir Putin, despite his fit-
ness regimen - its Indias new
Prime Minister, Narendra
Modi.
Narendra Modi is appar-
ently the next big thing in
Indian fashion, the Time mag-
azine said in an article yester-
day. With his shortened tunic,
or Modi Kurta, Narendra
Modi is becoming as celebrat-
ed for his style sense, it says.
kIF Q KEv
P
etro Poroshenko was sworn
in as Ukraines fifth post-
Soviet President on Saturday,
vowing to maintain the unity of
his country amid a continuing
crisis with Russia.
Poroshenko, a 48-year-old
bil lionaire who won the
Presidential election on May 25
with 54.7 per cent of the vote,
took the oath in the Ukrainian
Parliament in Kiev.
I am assuming the
Presidency in order to preserve
and strengthen Ukraines unity,
Poroshenko said in an address
that alternated between
Ukrainian and Russian.
Speaking to an audience
t hat i ncluded US Vi ce
President Joseph Biden, he
promised the residents of the
Donbass region, which is
largely in rebel hands, that he
would decentralise power and
guarantee the free use of the
Russian language.
But he also said that there
would be no compromise with
Russia on his pro-European
stance and the status of the
Crimean peninsula. Crimea
has been and will remain
Ukrainian, he said.
I put that clearly to the
Russian leader in Normandy,
he added, referring to his meet-
ing with President Vladimir
Putin at D-Day commemora-
tions on Friday.
Meanwhile, Russian
President Vladimir Putin
ordered the border service to
reinforce the State border
with Ukraine, the Kremlin
press service told Russian
news agencies.
US Secretary of State John
Kerry voiced hope that there
would be a breakthrough on
ending the Ukraine crisis,
enabling Washington to avoid
imposing new sanctions against
Russia.
MosroW: Russian Fresidenl
vladimir Fulin said on Salurday
an immediale ceaseire in
easlern ukraine is necessary lo
creale condilions or lalks.
Seaking lo reorlers in
hormandy in remarks lelevised
live on AdbbXP] CT[TeXbX^],
Fulin said he execls ukrainian
Fresidenlelecl Felro
Foroshenko lo show "good will"
and "slale wisdom."
Fulin said lhal Moscow is ready
or conslruclive discussion wilh
ukraine on sellling ils gas debl
lo Russia. 0?
kIF Q RAMA0
J
ehadis took staff and students
hostage on Saturday at a
University campus in the Iraqi
city of Ramadi, where securi-
ty forces have battled anti-
Government fighters for
months, police said.
The attack is the third
major operation by militants in
three days, following heavy
fighting and suicide bomb-
ings in northern Iraq on Friday
and a major assault on the city
of Samarra on Thursday.
The militants from the
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant group infiltrated the
university from the nearby Al-
Tasha area, killed its guards,
and blew up the bridge leading
to its main gate, police said.
A journalist said that secu-
rity forces have cordoned off
the campus. The attack came a
day after violence, including
heavy fighting between mili-
tants and security forces and
twin suicide bombings target-
ing a minority group, killed at
least 36 people in the northern
province of Nineveh.
And on Friday, militants
seized multiple areas of Samarra
in a major assault that was only
repelled after house-to-house
fighting and helicopter strikes.
Violence is running at its
highest levels since 2006-2007,
when tens of thousands were
killed in sectarian conflict
between Iraqs Shiite majority
and Sunni Arab minority.
Officials blame external
factors for the rise in blood-
shed, particularly the civil war
in neighbouring Syria. But
analysts say wide spread Sunni
Arab anger with the Shiite-led
Government has also been a
major factor.
FTI Q L0h00h
P
akistans powerful MQM
chief Altaf Hussain was
released on bail on Saturday,
four days after he was arrested
here by the British police on
charges of money laundering.
The 60-year-old exiled
leader of the Muttahida Qaumi
Movement (MQM) was
arrested on June 3 from his
north London home and taken
to a central London police
station for questioning.
The 60-year-old man
arrested on Tuesday, June 3 on
suspicion of money launder-
ing has been released on
police bail to a date in July
pending further enquiries, a
police statement said without
naming Hussain.
Hussain was questioned
for seven hours last evening,
BBC reported.
He was transferred to a
hospital for check-ups after
being arrested on Tuesday. He
returned to Scotland Yard cus-
tody on Friday after spending
three days in the hospital.
The police said Hussains
move back from hospital to
detention was agreed after con-
sultation with the Wellington
Hospital, where he had been
receiving treatment.
Investigations are contin-
uing into the case and Hussain
is due to report to police again
in July. Thousands of his sup-
porters have been staging a
protest rally in Karachi -
Pakistans biggest city and the
MQMs power base.
The news of Hussains
release prompted wild cele-
brations in the city, media
reports said.
FTI Q BEJh0
C
hina is planning to expand
its installation at a disput-
ed island in the South China
Sea to establish an artificial
island with an airstrip and sea
port, rejecting the jurisdic-
tion of the international court
over the festering dispute in
the region.
The proposal to build an
artificial island there had been
submitted to the Chinese gov-
ernment, said Jin Canrong, a
professor of international rela-
tions at Renmin University.
The artificial island would
have an airstrip and sea port and
be at least double the size of the
US military base of Diego Garcia,
a remote coral atoll occupying an
area of 44 square kilometres in
the middle of the Indian Ocean,
Jin said.
We had the ability to build
artificial islands years ago, but
we had refrained because we
didnt want to cause too much
controversy, said Zhang Jie, an
expert on regional security
with the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences.
However, this year was seen
as a turning point in which
Beijing appeared to be making
more offensive moves in the
area, said Jie, citing the recent
deployment of an oil rig to dis-
puted waters near Vietnam.
Building an artificial island
can no doubt provide supplies
to ships and oil rigs nearby, but
this would also cause very
severe negative impacts in the
region, she said.
China has rejected the juris-
diction of the Permanent Court
of Arbitration at The Hague this
week which asked China to
submit evidence on its territo-
rial claims in South China Sea
(SCS) within six months for a
procedural review of the suit
filed by the Philippines.
The tribunal, set up under
UN Convention on the Law of
the Sea (UNCLOS), has no
jurisdiction over the territori-
al and maritime disputes in the
region, Chinas state-run
Xinhua news agency.
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1ohannesburg: Soulh Arica's
Fresidenl Jacob Zuma was on
Salurday admilled lo hosilal or
lesls ollowing a boul o
exhauslion, his oice said.
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F 8IE8Tk khhIVE8kY
heW York: Marking lhe 8Olh
anniversary o '0eralion Blueslar',
Sikh men, women and children
held a demonslralion oulside lhe
uniled halions on Salurday and
announced lhe holding o a
reerendum among lhe Sikh
diasora in 2O2O on lhe righl lo
seldelerminalion.
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Ih6ITIh VIIEh6E h hI
6airo: An Egylian courl on
Salurday osloned lo July 5, lhe
verdicl in lhe lrial o Muslim
Brolherhood leader Mohamed
Badie and 87 olhers or inciling
violence lhal killed lwo eole lasl
summer.
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WMkh 8ThE T EkTh
Iahore: A Fakislani anlilerrorism
courl on Salurday jailed lhe alher
o a young regnanl woman who
was sloned lo dealh or marrying a
man o her choice.
6hIhE8E IEIh MIhI8TE
T VI8IT IhIk TkY
8eijing: Chinese Foreign Minisler
wang Yi will be visiling hew 0elhi
on Sunday as a secial envoy o
Fresidenl Xi Jining lo eslablish
olilical conlacls wilh lhe new
ndian 0overnmenl amid hoes
here o an uswing in bilaleral lies
due lo FM harendra Modi's
amiliarily wilh China.
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kinshasa:Armed men bursl inlo a
church in easlern 0emocralic
Reublic o Congo overnighl,
killing more lhan 8O eole
including women and children.
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8MMIT Ih kkThMkh
kaIhmandu: heal has decided lo
shil lhe venue o lhe 18lh
SAARC summil in hovember
rom ils amous lourisl
deslinalion o Fokhara lo
Kalhmandu due lo lack o
inraslruclure.
hairobi: Eleven sailors moslly
rom Asia held hoslage or almosl
our years by Somali irales have
been reed and are sae on lheir
way lo Kenya, medialors who
heled secure lheir release said on
Salurday.
The sailors, who had been held in
dire condilions and suered
bealings and lorlure, included
seven men rom Bangladesh, one
ndian, one ranian, and lwo rom
Sri Lanka. John Sleed, a ormer
Brilish army colonel who heled
negoliale lheir release, conirmed
lhey had been reed.
"Currenlly airborne wilh
hoslages," Sleed lold 05? by lexl
message.
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conlainer shi Mv Albedo was
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New York: More than 200
Nigerian schoolgirls who
remain captives of Boko
Haram militants definitely
face the danger of being
raped, the UN special repre-
sentative on sexual violence in
conflict has said.
My worry is those girls
dont come back half of them
pregnant, said Zainab Hawa
Bangura told a luncheon at
the British Residence in New
York.
She was meeting with
editors, Tina Brown and the
British ambassador to the
US in preparation for an
unprecedented global sum-
mit next week in London on
sexual violence in conflict.
Angelina Jolie and British
Foreign Secretary William
Hague will co-chair. AP
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lashes between Iraqi secu-
rity forces and militants
killed 59 people in Mosul on
Saturday, as heavy fighting in
the northern city entered its
second day, officials said.
The dead comprised 21
police and 38 militants, a police
lieutenant colonel and a mor-
tuary employee said.
Fighting broke out in
Mosul on Friday morning
and continued into the night,
while twin suicide bombings
targeted a minority group
east of the city and soldiers
shot dead suicide bombers to
its south.
At least 36 people were
killed in the violence in Mosul
on Friday and elsewhere in
Nineveh province.
The deadly fighting on
Saturday came as jihadists took
students and staff hostage at
Anbar University in Ramadi,
west of Baghdad, prompting an
assault by security forces to try
to free them.
Militants have stepped up
their attacks in recent days. On
Thursday, militants seized sev-
eral parts of the city of Samarra,
north of the capital, in a major
assault that was only repelled
after house-to-house fighting
and helicopter strikes that left
dozens dead.
Violence is running at its
highest levels since 2006-
2007, when tens of thousands
were killed in a sectarian
conflict between Iraqs Shiite
majority and Sunni Arab
minority.
More than 900 people were
killed last month, according to
figures separately compiled by
the United Nations and the
Government. So far this year,
more than 4,400 people have
been killed, according to AFP
figures.
Officials blame external
factors for the rise in blood-
shed, particularly the civil war
in neighbouring Syria.
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Washington: The US has
said that no dates have been
f inal ised yet for Prime
Minister Narendra Modis
Washington visit.
On Prime Minister Modis
possible travel to the United
States - nothing to announce on
dates, State Department
Deputy Spokesperson Marie
Harf told reporters.
As US President Barack
Obama and Secretary of
State, John Kerry have both
said, we look forward to
wel comi ng t he Pri me
Minister to Washington, just
dont have any dates yet. I
know there are a lot of
reports out there about
dates, but we dont have
dates yet, Harf said in
response to a question.
Prime Minister Modi
has accepted Obamas invi-
tation for a meeting in late
September and the dates are
being finalised, official
sources in New Delhi had
said earlier this week.
The invitation for the
meeting came during the
congratulatory call to Modi
by Obama after the Lok
Sabha election results were
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ISLAMABAD: An 18-year-
old Pakistani woman mirac-
ulously survived after being
shot and thrown into a canal
by her father for marrying
against the familys wishes,
police said on Saturday,
describing the latest in a
series of such attacks on
women in the Muslim-
majority country.
The assault on
Wednesday came days after
a 25-year-old woman was
beaten and stoned to death
by her family for marrying a
man they did not approve of,
one of hundreds of so-called
honor killings carried out
every year in Pakistan
against women accused of
bringing shame to their con-
servative families through
sexual transgressions.
Police officer Ali Akbar
said the teenagers father,
with help from some of his
close relatives, attacked her
in Hafizabad. AP
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F
lash floods have killed more
than 70 people in northern
Afghanistan, washing away
hundreds of homes and forcing
thousands to flee, officials on
Saturday said warning that the
death toll was expected to rise.
The floods in a remote
mountainous district of
Baghlan province come a
month after a landslide trig-
gered by heavy rains buried a
village and killed 300 people in
a nearby region.
The twin disasters high-
light the challenges facing
Afghanistans next leader as the
country heads into the second
round of the Presidential elec-
tion on June 14.
People have lost every-
thing they had - houses, prop-
erty, villages, agricultural fields,
cattle, Baghlan police
spokesman Jawed Basharat said
about the floods. Theres noth-
ing left for them to survive.
People dont even having drink-
ing water, he added. They
urgently need water, food
items, blankets and tents.
Afghan disaster manage-
ment officials said they were
scrambling to get food and med-
ical aid to the area after torren-
tial rains unleashed the floods,
which forced thousands of peo-
ple to flee their houses.
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moneywise 08 NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2014
FTI Q MuMBA
T
o revive the investment
cycle and boost growth,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
on Saturday underlined the
need to reduce the cost of
doing business and improve
the country's business climate.
Jaitley, in a wide-ranging
interaction with financial sec-
tor regulators, including RBI
governor Raghuram Rajan and
Sebi chief U K Sinha, took
stock of the prevailing eco-
nomic condition.
"There is the need to
improve business climate and
reduce the cost of doing busi-
ness as important means for
revival of the investment
cycle," Jaitley told reporters
after the 11th meeting of the
Fi nanci al Stabi l ity and
Devel opment Counci l
(FSDC).
"There were general dis-
cussions on the current finan-
cial and economic indicators,
and also on any suggestions
any regulator has with regard
to the forthcoming policies of
the government," he added.
The interaction was part of
an exercise undertaken by the
minister to consult various
sectoral regulators ahead of the
Budget presentation next
month.
India's economic growth
stayed below 5 per cent for
the second year in a row at
4.7 per cent in 2013-14,
mainly due to a decline in
manufacturing and mining
output. Growth remained
subdued at 4.6 per cent in the
fourth quarter of last year.
"There are high political
expectations from the new
government and the oppor-
tunity (is) now available for
resolving long-pending prob-
lems facing the economy.
There is a need for coordi-
nated approach by all the
regulators to achieve financial
stability," Jaitley said.
Irda Chai rman TS
Vijayan, Forward Markets
Commission Head Ramesh
Abhishek and PFRDA's
Officiating Chairman R V
Verma, besides senior finance
ministry officials including
finance secretary Arvind
Mayaram, secretary depart-
ment of financial services G
S Sandu, among others were
also present.
Reaffirming the govern-
ment's commitment to keep
finances in check, the Finance
Minister said he is against
"slackening the vigil in the
area of fiscal consolidation".
Asked about the govern-
ment's view on the recently
released report on governance
of banks by P J Nayak com-
mittee, Jaitley said, "You will
have to wait for our applica-
tion of mind on these sub-
jects."
The Nayak committee has
recommended, among other
things, bringing down gov-
ernment's holding in public
sector banks below 51 per
cent.
During the meeting all
financial regulators present-
ed their suggestions regarding
the forthcoming Budget and
their views on the next gen-
eration financial reforms.
The FSDC also noted the
recent improvement in vital
macroeconomic parameters
such as narrowing of fiscal
deficit, reduction in the cur-
rent account deficit and
increase in forex reserves.
However, there is a long
way to go in terms of reviv-
ing economic growth, con-
trolling inflation, keeping
deficit under control and
addressing infrastructure bot-
tlenecks, it felt.
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llahabad based, Tulsiani Group is all set to expand its busi-
ness to Meerut with the launch of its first real estate project
in the city. The company is going to invest almost Rs 700 crore
in its projects.
The project, Silver Lune Urbe is going to be officially launched
on Monday. While talking to The Pioneer in an exclusive inter-
view, Anil Kumar Tulsiani, Chairman and Managing Director of
the company said, "Our project in Meerut would require an invest-
ment of around Rs 700 crore out of which almost Rs 100 crores
is the land cost. We have already acquired the land and will be
investing the remaining Rs 600 crore in the next three to five years
for the construction purposes."
Out of the 110 acres of land, Silver Lune Urbe would be con-
structed in 56 acres while the remaining would be utilised later.
The Silver Lune Urbe project entails development of residential
flats and villas, apart from commercial space. "The first of the
Meerut project spanning 56 acres is expected to be completed in
three years," Tulsiani added.When asked what plans the group
has for the remaining parcel of land, Tulsiani informed, "We are
waiting for the approvals which are likely to come by October
this year.
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eeks after India's oldest
car maker Hindustan
Motors (HM) suspended oper-
ations at its Uttarpara plant in
West Bengal, signalling the end
of the road for the iconic
Ambassador car, the company
has now terminated the services
of around 240 of its manageri-
al staff.
The company, however,
retained some staff in disciplines
such as finance and HR, accord-
ing to agency reports.
Quoting company sources,
agencies said that the termina-
tion notices to the staff were
served on Friday (June 6).
The company employs
around 2,300 workers and it had
suspended operations at its
Uttarpara plant on May 24.
When contacted a compa-
ny spokesperson said, "man-
agerial restructuring has been
an on-going process over the last
2-3 years and continues in an
effort to optimise work flow
whilst retaining staff that
remains critical to the continu-
ity of operations."
The Uttarpara plant manu-
factured the Ambassador cars -
the symbol of India's official-
dom - whose demand in the
market over the years dwindled
owing to the onset of stiff com-
petition from Japanese and
Korean players.
Commenting on the ter-
mination of the managerial
staff, HR professionals were of
the opinion that this action on
the part of the existing top man-
agement would create a psy-
chological impact in the minds
of the workers.
"The workers will now have
a feeling that since the man-
agerial staff were retrenched, so
there are little hopes of reopen-
ing," a senior HR professional
said.
He further said that "as the
workers were not getting their
wages, so it will now be easier
on the part of the management
to come up with a separation
scheme, and in all probability,
workers will be mentally
induced to accept that."
In that case, the liability of
the company would get reduced
to a large extent with no
decrease in assets. "It will prob-
ably be in a better situation to
rope in a new investor for
revival of the plant," he added.
Meanwhile, the West
Bengal labour department has
called a tripartite meeting on
June 12.
Hinoustan Motors
terminates 240
managerial staff
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G
eneral Motors has
announced four more vehi-
cle recalls, totalling about 106,000
in North America, including
one to fix an air-bag system like-
ly tied to one crash involving an
injury.
GM, which faces tough
scrutiny from US regulators and
lawmakers amid an ignition-
recall scandal it links to 13
deaths, said the majority of the
cars affected -- 89,126 -- were in
the United States.The largest
US automaker is recalling 31,520
model year 2012 Buick Verano
and Chevrolet Camaro, Cruze
and Sonic compact cars to
address a faulty connection with-
in the air-bag system that can
cause the bag not to deploy in a
crash.GM said it was aware of
one crash with an injury which
appeared linked to the problem.
It said it knew of other crashes
where air bags did not deploy,
but that it did not know if they
were related to that problem.
GM is also recalling 57,512
model year 2014 Chevrolet
Silverado LD, 2014 GMC Sierra
LD and other vehicles in which
the base radio may not work,
preventing audible warnings if
the key is in the ignition when
the driver's door is opened.GM
said it did not know of any crash-
es or injuries linked to the prob-
lem, or to the problems involv-
ing the other two recalls, each of
which involved fewer than 100
vehicles.GM has recalled mil-
lions of cars since February after
the largest US automaker
ignored a deadly ignition-switch
problem for more than a decade.
On Thursday, GM chief execu-
tive Mary Barra said the com-
pany had fired 15 employees over
the ignition debacle.
GM recalls 106,000 more
velicles in Nortl America
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T
he Department of Telecom
is likely to seek tentative
shareholding pattern from
Sistema Shyam Teleservices
along with approximate
amount that it plans to bring in
after raising FDI limit in the
company as there are "some
discrepancies".
SSTL, which operates
under MTS brand, has sought
approval of the Foreign
Investment Promotion Board
(FIPB) to raise FDI limit in the
firm from 73.95 at present.
"There are some discrepancies
in the FIPB application and it
is proposed that we may
seek...Tentative shareholding
of SSTL post conversion of
redeemable preference shares
in to equity shares and approx-
imate amount of FDI inflow
during the proposed transac-
tions," an official source said.
Russian conglomerate
Sistema JSFC holds 56.68 per
cent in SSTL, Russian govern-
ment 17.14 per cent and 0.13
per cent other foreign entities.
DoT sources said that SSTL has
not provided the board reso-
lution for raising FDI limit
which may be required.
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Q RTI activist Rajhans Bansals
report says that more than 50
abortions are performed in Delhis
Government hospitals daily.
Around 88,188 abortions were
performed in Government hos-
pitals over the last four years. As
many as 40,238 foetuses were
aborted in Delhis hospitals from
2008 to 2009, but that number
dropped drastically the following
year to 13,850. By 2011-2012, it
rose to 19,000. Nationally, India
has been reporting over six lakh
abortions every year for the past
12 years.
Q In Mumbai, a shocking report by
the Bombay Municipal
Corporation revealed that out of
30,000 women who underwent
abortions in 2013-14, more than
100 were younger than 15 years.
Another 900 women were in the
16 to 19 age-group. From 2012-
13, 4,167 abortions happened
before 12 weeks and 237 after 12
weeks in Government hospitals
whereas 20,970 abortions hap-
pened in private clinics.
Q A study reviewing the demo-
graphic profile and assessing the
concurrent contraceptive accep-
tance in women seeking medical
termination of pregnancy, pub-
lished in the Indian Journal of
Public Health in 2009, revealed
that 15,726 women came for
induced abortion between1995
and 2007 at AIIMS alone out of
which 63 per cent were between
25-29 years, 99.1 per cent were
married and 72 per cent were
with three or more living children.
Q A majority of married (92.5 per
cent) and 12 per cent unmarried
women reported in the first
trimester of pregnancy. Nearly 40
per cent were not using any con-
traception at the time of con-
ception and only 4.2 per cent
used oral pills or intrauterine
contraceptive devices. The main
reasons for seeking abortion
were, enough children (56 per
cent), unplanned pregnancy (14
per cent), contraceptive failure
(10 per cent), previous child
very young (7.5 per cent) and
others (12.5 per cent).
F
ifty legal abortions daily in Delhis
Government hospitals might sound
like an alarmingly high figure. But
for Dr Jaydeep Tank, programme
director and board member of
ProFert IVF Fertility Clinic, this rise in abor-
tion rates is not surprising as it was legalised
way back in 1971 and took an amendment
in 2002.
What, he feels, is really surprising and
also alarming is the fact that one of the
biggest reasons for abortions in our country
is failure of contraceptives and their unmet
need in rural India.
In metros, where men and women are
educated, safeguarding against various sex-
ual related diseases, not wanting a baby yet
(in case the couple is married) and being sex-
ually active means that use of pills and con-
doms is pretty common. But these are not
foolproof. Cases of being knocked up
because the condom burst or the pill didnt
work are a dime a dozen. In such a situation,
abortion becomes the recourse.
Contraceptives pills and condoms have
high risk of failure. There are many woman
who have contraceptive pills and feel tension
free about not getting pregnant. But at
times, it fails and turns into a nightmare.
Defective condoms also lead to unwanted
pregnancies. In such cases, women have no
option but to opt for a medical termination
of pregnancy within the 20 weeks of con-
ceiving. No contraceptive guarantees preg-
nancy prevention and you cant completely
rely on them. They are the main culprits trig-
gering unwanted pregnancies and rising abor-
tion rates, Vinoj Manning, country head,
Ipas, tells you.
As per statistics, as many as three mil-
lion contraceptive users worldwide expe-
rience accidental pregnancy annually due
to a failed device, says World Health
Organisations Safe Abortion Report of
2012. The global data collected by WHO in
2007 says that out of 37,806 women who
opt for the periodic abstinence birth con-
trol method which is avoiding sexual inter-
course from days 10 to 17 of the menstru-
al cycle (the most fertile phase), around
9,452 had accidental pregnancy. This
method records a 25 per cent failure rate
whereas barrier method of birth control is
the second most failed method recording
a 20 per cent failure chance. Out of the 2,291
users of this method, 458 ended up with
accidental pregnancy that year.
In India, the more modern birth control
measures like copper-T Intra Uterine Devices
(IUD) technology find few takers. According
to the recent Mumbais Family Welfare
Bureau report, even though the IUD proce-
dures have jumped by 12.29 per cent and
reached an all-time high of 4.1 lakh cases this
year, a large number of population still opts
for pills and condoms which dont come with
100 per cent guarantee.
Though the awareness about the use of
contraceptives among the urban population
and its availability in cities is well organised,
in rural areas, the situation is quite the oppo-
site. Its the lack of awareness about contra-
ceptives and their unmet needs in the region
which is giving rise to unplanned pregnan-
cy and hence abortions. Around 30 per cent
of the women have no access to contracep-
tives, to avoid unwanted pregnancy.
Apart from the contraceptive failure
and its unmet need in the rural areas, there
are other reason that contributes to the ris-
ing number of abortions in India. I have
seen cases where the couple coming from
a financially low background is not ready
to have another child. Some give the rea-
son that they already have too many chil-
dren or want a gap in the between the two
child. A woman experiencing health prob-
lems during pregnancy; old age pregnan-
cy, extra marital conception or rape preg-
nancies are all conditions leading to
unwanted pregnancies, Dr Tank says.
A common reason for abortions in
rural India is under-age marriage and early
pregnancy. Under-age marriage and early
pregnancy are very prevalent in rural India.
The girls have no option but to conceive
which not only adds to the rising population
but also contributes to several abortions.
Moreover, women are not aware about con-
traceptives, Dr Suneeta Mittal, director and
HOD of obstetrics and gynaecology at the
Fortis Memorial Research Institute in New
Delhi, tells you. She adds that in such a sit-
uation, unsafe abortions cant be ruled out.
The abortion mortality rate is high.
Before the MTP Act of 1971 came in, a lot
of dangerous tools were used by doctors in
abortions procedures sticks, harmful
chemicals etc. In 2002, out of the total mor-
tality rate only 12 per cent mortality hap-
pened due to abortions through surgeries.
With the 2002 amendment in the MTP Act,
the medical abortion (termination of preg-
nancy through pills) and other advanced
techniques were introduced for the first
time in India which reduced complications
and brought in a fall in the mortality rate.
In 2008, the abortion mortality rate came
down to 8 per cent. But we still need more
legal hospitals in rural areas to keep a check
on illegal sex selection abortions and
ensure safe abortions, Dr Mittal says.
While under-age marriages are a major
contributor to abortions in rural India, it
is teenage pregnancies that are stalking cities
and adding to the rising number of abor-
tions. Pregnancy due to sexual violence is
another big reason for termination of
unwanted pregnancy.
In rape cases, if the girl gets pregnant
and if she is a minor, she has to seek per-
mission from court for an abortion as it
becomes a legal case. First, she has to face
the trauma of being raped and then the test
which is been done by doctors. Moreover,
if no immediate preventive medication for
abortion is given, then the risk becomes
higher. Its extremely important that girls
who want to terminate pregnancy seek it as
soon as possible. The more they delay, the
higher the risk and complications would be,
Mittal says.
When it comes to teenage pregnancies,
sex education plays an important role but
in India, many parents and teachers is still
hesitant to hold talk session on this topic
with the child. Lack of proper guidance and
poor sex education is another reason for rise
in abortion rates in India among teenagers.
Though sex education has become manda-
tory in all Government, public and private
schools, it has not been well taught to the
children. The teenage pregnancy rate have
come down from last year but still its
extremely important to teach children at an
early age, before they suffer for the lifetime.
We want TV talk shows and Government
awareness programmes through the news-
papers and advertisements to tackle this
problem. Also State Government should
keep a check on illegal abortions happen-
ing in clinics, Chetan Kothari, a Mumbai-
based RTI activist says.
But then, a major issue with teenage abor-
tions is the conflict of MTP Act with the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
Act (POCSO) Act. If a teenage girl gets preg-
nant due to consensual sex with her boyfriend
or because she has been raped, the MTP Act
has a special provision to allow the abortion
but only in the presence of her guardian, not
necessarily her parents. The MTP Act also
assures confidentiality to the patient. But here,
the MTP Act contradicts with the POCSO
Act which says that if a girl below the age of
18 gets pregnant, it will be considered rape
and if she comes to a doctor for abortion, he
must inform the police. In such cases, it
becomes very difficult for her to get an abor-
tion. She is left with no option but to go for
an abortion illegally and by paying a lot of
money. The POCSO Act needs additional
provisions on consensual sex and child
abuse, Manning says.
The MTP Act says that the abortion has
to be done within 12 weeks to 20 weeks of
the pregnancy, and by a registered medical
practitioner. If the doctor finds a risk to the
mother because of pregnancy, an abortion
is allowed within a 20-week stipulation. The
conflict arises when the complications to the
mother or the foetus surface after 20
weeks. In such a case, even if the pre-con-
ception and pre-natal diagnostic test shows
abnormality, the law doesnt allow abortion
post the 20th week.
Take the case of Niketa Mehta. In the
24th week of her pregnancy, it was found that
her foetus had a congenital heart block and
would be born with handicaps. She moved
the court seeking permission to abort. On
August 4, 2013, the Bombay High Court
turned down the couples plea as law disal-
lows abortion of a foetus which is over 20
weeks old. In her 27th week, she had a mis-
carriage due to trauma lasting several weeks.
After Mehtas case, a change is being
sought by many doctors. MTP experts are
seeking a raise in the abortion time limit
to beyond 20 weeks. If the doctors detect
some health complications to the foetus or
a disability and mental complications, they
should be allowed to abort. Otherwise, it
becomes very traumatic for the mother and
the child as it happened in the case of
Irelands Savita Halappanavar. The Irish
Government refused to grant her permis-
sion to abort (abortion is illegal in Ireland)
after the foetus was diagnosed with defor-
mities. It put both the mother and the child
at risk they both died, Manning says.
In any case, doctors tell you that an abor-
tion, for any reason, is dangerous and there-
fore, its very important for the woman to be
aware about its complications and take a call
without any pressure.
Abortion is dangerous because it can
affect the health of the woman and can lead
to infertility. Sometimes, the infection can
spread to the stomach and the uterus gets
ruptured. Patients are not aware about these
fallouts. So even though abortion may be the
only solution in many cases, it is a decision
that needs to be taken with utmost care, Dr
Shobha Gupta, gynaecologist and Infertility
Specialist from Mothers Lap IVF Centre, says.
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Colombo: ndian shulllers Anand Fawar and F C
Thulasi made il lo lhe men"s and women"s singles
inals o lhe Sri Lanka 0en nlernalional Badminlon
Challenge here on Salurday. Second seed Fawar
beal 1Glh seed local challenger 0inuka Karunaralna
2112 1521 2111 in a 5Ominule men"s singles
semiinal conlesl. Bul lo seed Frannoy losl lo
unseeded hyun l Lee o Korea 1O21 211G 1821 in
anolher semiinal conlesl lo dash lhe hoes o an
allndian inal conlesl on Sunday. Earlier in lhe day,
Fawar lhrashed 0enmark"s Chrislian Lind Thomsen
2114 2118 in a quarlerinal malch lhal lasled 8G
minules. Frannoy had revailed over comalriol
Anu Sridhar, seeded 18lh, wilh lhe laller reliring
midway in lhe second game when he was lrailing
1821 418 in anolher quarlerinals malch.
Meanwhile, sixlh seeded Thulasi reached lhe inal in
women"s seclion aler bealing Thailand"s Suanida
Kalelhong 2118 218. Thulashi will lake on ourlh
seed Jiayuan Chen o Singaore in lhe inal. Second
seeded ndian air o Manu Allri and Sumeelh
Reddy B deealed Chinese Taiei"s hsuan wen
Chang and Shang Kai Lin 2112 1821 2118 in a
55minule clash lo sel u a summil clash wilh
Singaore"s 0anny Bawa Chrisnanla and Chayul
Triyacharl. n lhe mixed doubles comelilion, ourlh
seeded air o Akshay 0ewalkar and Fradnya 0adre
will meel ndoMalaysian combo o Frajakla Sawanl
and vounlus ndra Mawan.
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Hyderabad: The ndian 0lymic Associalion (0A)
Fresidenl h Ramachandran calegorically denied
claims o Secrelary 0eneral Rajeev Mehla lhal ndia
would be bidding or lhe 2O1O Asian 0ames
ollowing lhe wilhdrawal o original hosls vielnam
slaling lhal maller was nol discussed al all. "The
0A has nol discussed il al all, so il would nol be air
or me lo discuss lhis," 0A chie h Ramachandran
said on 0ay 4 o lhe SJF"s 87lh nalional convenlion
here lasl evening. A monlh ago Mehla had said in
case ndia hosled lhe 2O1O Asiad, lhe 0A will nol
exercise inancial owers and will only organise lhe
mullisorling evenl, a remark which aeared lo
slem rom lhe exerience o 2O1O Commonweallh
0ames corrulion scandal. "we wanl lo hosl 2O1O
Asian 0ames aler vielnam"s wilhdrawal. we will
lake a inal decision in 0A 0eneral Body Meeling
which will be held mosl likely nexl monlh (June). we
are wailing or lhe new 0overnmenl lo be ormed
and hoing lo gel ils aroval," Mehla said in an
inlerview lasl monlh.
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Colombo: England will lay seven 00s in Sri
Lanka during a lour scheduled belween hovember
21 and 0ecember 1G. The irsl 00, a daynighl
encounler, will be slaged here al lhe Fremadasa
Sladium while lhe lhird and ilh malch will be
layed in hambanlola in lhe soulh and Fallekele in
lhe cenlral hills. The second and ourlh 00s, bolh
day games, will be layed al lhe Fremadasa while
lhe sixlh game will be layed al Fallekele. England
will also lay lwo warm u one day games in
Colombo on hovember 21.
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Hyderabad: horlh Zone clinched lhe All ndia J K
Bose crickel lournamenl or sorls journalisls when
lhey deealed Soulh Zone by 4G runs in lheir lhird
and inal round robin malch al lhe Rajiv 0andhi
nlernalional sladium here on Salurday. horlh hil u
a challenging 17O or 2 on lhe back o The Fioneer"s
Amil Chaudhary"s unbealen O1 and Sidharlh
Sharma"s 51 and lhen reslricled Soulh lo 188 or O
lo win lhe lille on beller nel run rale aler horlh,
Soulh and wesl inished wilh lwo wins aiece in lhe
ourleem lournamenl which was arl o lhe 87lh
halional Convenlion o lhe Sorls Journalisls
Federalion o ndia which concluded on Salurday. n
lable lennis held or lhe A C Bali Trohy Sorls, lhe
Journalisls Associalion o Mumbai made a clean
swee o all lhree lilles by riding on lhe skills o lheir
lo layer Amol Karhadkar. SJAM won lhe men"s
singles, doubles and leam chamionshis. Crickel
Board"s secrelary Sanjay Falel and chess
grandmasler C. harikrishna gave away lhe ri/es.
1EEV, B|u||AR |A|E Cul l| AuSlRlA
Aztenbrugg (Austria): Jeev Milkha Singh and
0aganjeel Bhullar made lhe cul narrowly, while SSF
Chowrasia bogeyed lwo o his lasl lhree holes lo
miss lhe cul al lhe Lyoness 0en owered by
0reeninily on Friday. Jeev was lied G2nd and Bhullar
GGlh reseclively. 0n a course, which has nol been
easy, Jeev double bogeyed lhe ninlh and lhen had
our bogeys belween 1Olh and 14lh, bul a birdie on
18lh ensured he was in by lwo shols. Bhullar loo
slruggled aler a 7O in irsl round. he had jusl lwo
birdies againsl six bogeys and a double bogey bul
slill gol inside on lhe line. Chowrasia seemed on
course lo make lhe cul aler being oneunder
lhrough 1O holes. Bul bogeys on second, lhird,
sevenlh and ninlh ended his hoes.
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Melbourne: Former Auslralia calain Ricky
Fonling, who relired in 2O12, has said he delayed
his inlernalional reliremenl by lwo years in his bid lo
hel lhe leam deal wilh a generalional shil. "
robably layed lwo years longer lhan should have
done," he lold BZh B_^acb. " lhink knew in mysel
lhal couldn"l gel beller. ell lhal i anylhing,
could mainlain a cerlain level. lhink rom 12O, 18O
Tesls knew could nol gel any beller," lhe balling
legend said candidly. Fh8lkgenries
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A
kashdeep Singh scored two
goals in the space of three
minutes to set up Indias 3-2 vic-
tory over Malaysia in the mens
hockey World Cup here on
Saturday.
Jasjit Singh Khullar opened
the scoring for India in the 13th
minute and Malaysia equalised
in the 45th with a penalty cor-
ner conversion by Mohammad
Razie before Akashdeep got into
the goal-scoring act, which
helped his team post its first win
of the tournament.
Akashdeep first applied the
finishing touch to Rupinder Pal
Singh fine run on a counter-attack
by deflecting in a diagonal cross
into the boards in the 49th
minute. Two minutes later, he
picked up a pass from captain
Sardar Singh inside the circle
and slammed the ball past the des-
perate goalkeeper.
Malaysia reduced the lead in
the 61st minute when Marhan Jalil
fired in on a rebound from Indian
goalkeeper P R Sreejesh on a
breakaway move.
India wasted several scoring
opportunities, but also
had to depend on their
defenders to keep out
the dangerous Malaysian
raids in the closing stages.
The victory gives
India four points from as
many matches in Group
A, and ensures that it
would not face the
ignominy of being the
bottom-placed team in
the pool. Irrespective of
the result of Indias last
group match against defending
World champions Australia
they will finish either in the
fourth or fifth spot.
A combination of results in
the last league outings for India,
Spain and Malaysia would have
bearing on the final group stand-
ings. Spain will play
Malaysia in their last
league outing.
Malaysia have lost
all four matches,
while Spain have two
draws from four
games. A victory for
Malaysia could pave
the way for India to
finish fourth in the
group and play the
playoff for the seventh
and eighth spots.
Spain were on Saturday
handed down a 5-2 drubbing by
Belgium, who are back in con-
tention for a semifinal place,
along with Australia and England.
India first got into the
Malaysian circle in the eighth
minute when Rupinder moved up
and sent the ball from top of the
circle toward Mandeep Singh,
but a defender had no difficulty
in clearing it.
Speaking on the win, Indias
Head Coach, Terry Walsh said,
the team showcased an out-
standing game today. I am happy
with the result. The team is ecsta-
tic to have bagged the win. They
are now looking at talking on
Australia in the last match of the
Pool stage.
Captain Sardar Singh said,
we are happy with the win. This
will motivate us to better our per-
formance in further matches.
While we know Australia is a very
strong team but we will aim to win
and go up the points table
AP QPl|E|uRSl (|Rl| CAR|l|A)
E
ven in the best of times, Phil Mickelson
has ample reason to expect the worst at
the U.S. Open.
More than two decades of play in the
major known as the toughest test in golf has
produced everything from agony to aggra-
vation, mostly torment, never triumph. And
all Mickelson has to show from the U.S.
Open are silver medals a record six of
them - for finishing second.
"He could have won six, and he hasn't
won one," Ernie Els said. "I believe he's going
to win one. He's still young enough. His
game is still good enough."
The U.S. Open took on even greater
importance to the 43-year-old Mickelson last
summer when he won the British Open at
Muirfield, leaving him one major away - the
U.S. Open, of course from joining five
other greats who have the career Grand Slam.
For all his heartache in golf 's toughest
test, his optimism hasn't wavered.
Never mind that he has been linked to
an insider trading investigation involving
activist investor Carl Icahn and Las Vegas
gambler Billy Walters, in which FBI agents
paid him a visit after his first round at the
Memorial. Or that Mickelson hasn't won this
year, his worst start to a season since 2003.
Mickelson not only believes he's going
to win the U.S. Open, he thinks he's going
to win more than one.
"Some people view it as though, 'He's
come close and he's never done it.' I see it
as though I've finished second six times in
this event," Mickelson said. "I played
some of my best golf in this event, and I
should have an opportunity and more
than one opportunity to close one out
here in the future."
The U.S. Open returning to Pinehurst
No. 2 only adds to the intrigue. That's where
Mickelson picked up his first silver medal
in 1999. He had a one-shot lead with three
holes to play and had a 6-foot par putt on
the 16th hole, while Payne Stewart was 25
feet away from par. Stewart made his putt,
Mickelson missed and they were tied.
Stewart took the lead with a short birdie on
the 17th, then famously won the U.S. Open
with a 15-foot par putt on the final hole.
No worries. Mickelson surely would get
another chance, and he did.
He just doesn't have the trophy.
Five years later, he was tied for the lead
on the 17th hole at Shinnecock Hills when
he hit into a bunker, blasted out to 5 feet
and three-putted for double bogey. "It was
like being in a morgue walking up the
18th," said Fred Funk, who was paired with
him that day.
The most crushing blow was at Winged
Foot in 2006. Mickelson had a one-shot lead
on the 18th hole. His tee shot clanged off a
corporate tent. The bigger mistake was going
for the green with a 3-iron and hitting a tree.
His third shot plugged in the bunker. His
fourth shot raced across the green. He made
double bogey and lost my one.
There was Mickelson, crouched on the
green, hands cupped over his head. "I am
such an idiot," he said.
"Phil handled the whole thing like a true
gentleman," said Kenneth Ferrie, who
played with him in the final pairing. "He had
nice words to say to me coming off 18 and
was amazingly courteous and polite to the
volunteers and officials considering what
had just happened."
And yet he keeps coming back for more.
Sam Snead, who holds the PGA Tour
record with 82 career wins, never won a U.S.
Open. Lee Trevino never won the Masters.
Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson never won
the PGA Championship. Even so, none of
those greats ever had as many chances to win
the missing major as Mickelson.
Hunter Mahan paid him the ultimate
respect at Bethpage Black in 2009. Mickelson
was tied for the lead with four holes to play
until missing short par putts on the 15th and
17th holes. Another U.S. Open bid over,
Mickelson was walking up to the 18th green
when Mahan - who had just as good of a
chance to win that day - began applauding,
and thousands joined him.
Mahan has played with Mickelson
twice on Sunday when Lefty was the run-
ner-up. The other occasion was last year at
Merion. Mickelson twice made bogey with
a wedge in his hand on the back nine. His
last hope was to chip in from 40 yards to
force a playoff with Justin Rose. He missed.
"I looked at him and said, 'Good try,
Phil.' You can only do what you can do,"
Mahan said. "At some point, you've got to
get a bounce or two and make a putt. I think
he wants to win that tournament more than
anything."
The thought of Mickelson at Pinehurst
stirs emotions. Stewart died in a freak plane
crash four months after he won that U.S.
Open. Mickelson carried a pager in his golf
bag that week and pledged to withdraw if
his wife went into labor. His first child,
Amanda, was born the next day.
Fifteen years later, the pressure is only
greater.
AP QPARlS
E
ven though her serve failed
her repeatedly, Maria
Sharapova is a French Open
champion once again.
Sharapova won her second
title at Roland Garros in the last
three years, overcoming 12 double-
faults Saturday to beat fourth-seed-
ed Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4
in the final.
This is the toughest Grand
Slam final Ive ever played,
Sharapova said on court. Really,
this tournament means so much to
me. Its a tournament, when I was
young and growing up, I wanted to
win.
To think that Ive won it two
times is, I dont know. So emotion-
al right now, I cant even talk.
Sharapova has struggled with
her serve this week and was broken
seven times in the final on Court
Philippe Chatrier. But she was able
to hold off Halep, and hold her
serve in the final game, with steady
groundstrokes that kept the
Romanian on the run.
After Sharapovas final forehand
forced an error from Haleps back-
hand, the Russian dropped to her
knees and buried her face in her
hands. She then looked to her team
in the stands before shaking hands
with Halep at the net.
Once the formalities were done,
she climbed into the stands for
some hugs and kisses.
Sharapova also won the title at
Roland Garros in 2012, completing
a career Grand Slam. She lost in last
years final to Serena Williams.
Halep, who was ranked only
57th heading into last years French
Open, was playing in her first
major final.
The mens final is on Sunday.
Rafael Nadal will go for his ninth
French Open title against Novak
Djokovic.
Neither Sharapova nor Halep
was able to hold serve consistent-
ly, with 16 combined breaks of serve
in the match.
In the 10 games of the final set,
there were five breaks. And at one
point, the pair went on a run of six
straight breaks of serve, starting
with the final four games of the sec-
ond set and ending after the first
two of the third.
Sharapova often looked to be
in control, even in the tiebreaker.
She led 5-3, two points from victo-
ry, but then lost the next four points
to even the score at one set apiece.
The match lasted 3 hours, 2
minutes, the longest French Open
womens final since 1996 when Steffi
Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez 10-8 in
the third. It was also the first
womens final in Paris to go three
sets since Jennifer Capriati beat Kim
Clijsters 12-10 in the third in 2001.
Sharapovas game on clay has
improved immensely over recent
seasons, but her serve is still giving
her problems.
She lost the first set in each of
three previous matches at Roland
Garros, with nine double-faults in
the semifinal win over Eugenie
Bouchard. She had eight doubles in
the quarterfinals.
Part of the reason for her
inconsistency comes from having
surgery on her right shoulder in
2008. Before that, the 27-year-old
Russian had won Wimbledon in
2004, the U.S. Open in 2006 and the
Australian Open in 2008. Since
then, she has won the French
Open twice.
But while Sharapova has been
a star on the tour for a decade now,
the 22-year-old Halephas only
recently risen up the rankings and
will move to No. 3 on Monday.
And she had an excellent run
at Roland Garros.
Playing in the main draw at the
clay-court major for only the fifth
time, the 2008 French Open girls
champion reached the final with-
out dropping a set.
Until she faced Sharapova.
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Australia became the first
team to ensure passage into the
semifinals of the hockey World
Cup with a 5-0 hammering of
England here on Saturday, giving
them a maximum 12 points
from four matches in Group A.
England, with seven points
from four outings, are still in con-
tention for the semifinals, but
must win their last league fixture
against Belgium, who are on
nine points after a 5-2 victory
over Spain.
India are in the fourth posi-
tion with four points, followed by
Spain on two and Malaysia on
zero.
Australia had five different
players scoring a goal each against
England.
Making entries on the score-
sheet were Matt Ghodes, who
opened the account in the first
minute, Liam de Young, Jamie
Dwyer, Kieran Govers and Aran
Zalewski.
Belgium raced to a five-goal
lead against Spain with goals
being scored by Tanguy Cosyns
(two), Alexandre de Saedeleer,
Emmanuel Stockbroekx and
John-John Dohmen.
As the Belgians relaxed a bit,
Spain managed to salvage some
pride through two late goals
from Eduard Tubau and captain
Santi Frexia.
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Earlier on late Friday, hosts
The Netherlands beat Germany
by a solitary goal to complicate
the Olympic champions chances
of making it to the last four.
Dutch st ri ker Jeroen
Hertzberger capitalized on a
pass from Billy Bakker in the
23rd minute to score the all-
i mport ant goal as The
Netherlands avenged their loss
in the 2012 Olympic final to
take the top spot in Group B,
on Fri day eveni ng.
Netherlands have maximum
nine points from three succes-
sive wins, while Germany have
just three points.
Auslralia lhrough,
0ermany all behind
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C O R N E R
8e0s ha4 aeWs f0r 6ermaay
Berlin: 0ermany allacking midielder Marro eus was
ruled oul o lhe world Cu on Salurday wilh an ankle
injury suslained in a G1 riendly win over Armenia. The
0erman Foolball Federalion said lhal Reus suered a
arlial ligamenl lear in his lel ankle in lhe malch on
Friday and will miss six lo seven weeks beore he can
resume lraining again. "For him and or us lhis is
exlremely regrellable," 0ermany coach Joachim Loew
said. "Marco was in excellenl orm; he made an
oulslanding imression in lhe lraining cam and in bolh
(riendly) malches againsl Cameroon and Armenia. he
exuded enlhusiasm or lhe game. he layed a cenlral
role in our lanning or Bra/il." Samdoria deender
Shkodran Muslai was called u as a lale relacemenl.
The 25yearold Reus was one o lhe ew 0erman
layers lo have imressed consislenlly coming inlo lhe
world Cu. "A dream is ended rom one second lo lhe
olher. Bul have lo look orward now, aroach my
recovery roessionally, because have lo kee going.
'll come back even slronger lhan beore," Reus was
quoled as saying on lhe websile o his club, Borussia
0orlmund. " send my besl wishes lo lhe leam (and
hoe) lhal lhey can also achieve our aim wilhoul me."
80aaI40 res0mes traIaIa
Paris: Crisliano Ronaldo resumed lraining wilh lhe
Forlugal squad on Salurday aler recovering rom leg
injuries lhal lhrealened lo sideline him rom lheir world
Cu oener againsl 0ermany. The Forluguese Foolball
Federalion said in a slalemenl on ils websile lhal lhe
orward was joined by cenlral midielder Raul Meireles,
who had also recovered rom injury. Ronaldo has been
suering rom lendinilis and a muscle injury, bolh in his
lel leg. Forlugal lays 0ermany in nine days, bul will
also lay reland in a riendly on Tuesday al hew
Jersey's MelLie Sladium beore dearling or Bra/il. Al
lhe world Cu, Forlugal also lays lhe uniled Slales
and 0hana in 0rou 0. The ederalion also said
goalkeeer Belo was receiving lrealmenl or an
unseciied roblem.
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Rio de Janeiro: Al Bra/ilian club Flamengo on
Salurday, orange was lhe new red and black. The
helherlands held ils irsl world Cu lraining session
oen lo ans and lhe sland lurned - rediclably - lhe
nalional color: orange. There was a srinkling o red and
black loo, lhe colors o Bra/ilian club Flamengo, whose
lraining comlex Louis van 0aal's leam is using. The
0ulch don'l lay lheir irsl game unlil June 18 - a
reeal o lhe 2O1O world Cu inal againsl Sain - and
il's in Salvador, hundreds o kilomelers (miles) away so
lhe sland overlooking lhe ilch and Rio's iconic slalue
o Chrisl lhe Redeemer was nol a lolal orange crush.
nslead il was a mixlure o exals and Bra/ilian ans.
w0 h0a0s sarks r0W
Madrid: Lawmakers reacled wilh anger Salurday over
lhe 72O,OOOeuro ($O8O,OOO) bonus each Sain layer
will gel i lhe nalional leam wins lhe world Cu in Bra/il.
Calain ker Casillas and vicecalain Xavi hernande/
signed lhe deal wilh Sain's oolball ederalion June 8
on behal o lhe 28 layers. l was an increase rom lhe
GOO,OOO euros each layer received when Sain won lhe
2O1O lournamenl. Lawmakers Fablo Marlin Fere and
Susana Ros o lhe oosilion Socialisl arly crilici/ed
lhe remium as "disroorlionale" and "an insull lo cili
/ens" given lhe recenl economic crisis. Lawmaker Jose
Anloni 0uran i Lleida lweeled lhal Sain would ay
"more lhan lwice" lhe bonus 0ermany would i il wins
lhe lournamenl. "Are we lwice as rich as 0ermany?" his
lweel said. 0ermany's leam will receive 8OO,OOO euros i
lhey win, having kel lhe same agreemenl lhey slruck
when lhey arlicialed in Euro 2O12. Sain's economy
began lo crumble in 2OO8 wilh lhe collase o ils bloal
ed realeslale seclor, and unemloymenl soared lo 2G.1
ercenl al lhe close o 2O18. " Each member will receive
a aymenl o 8GO,OOO euros i lhe squad reaches lhe
inal, and 18O,OOO euros i il makes lhe semiinals.
60ess Wh0's arrIve4
Sao Paolo: Bra/ilian oicials have aulhori/ed lhe use o lemorary
slands al lhe sladium hosling lhe world Cu oener in Sao Faulo nexl
week. Aulhorilies insecled lhe laquerao sladium on Friday and said il
will be sae lo use lhe slands during lhe highroile oening malch
belween Bra/il and Croalia on Thursday. The slands behind one o lhe
goals were nol aroved or lhe inal lesl evenl al lhe sladium lasl week
because o saely concerns. The inslallalion o lhe lemorary seals was
delayed moslly because o an accidenl earlier lhis year. The irsl lime lhe
laquerao will have a caacily crowd will be in Thursday's oener. FFA
inilially said lhe sladium would hold G8,OOO nexl week, bul il only ul
aboul G1,OOO lickels on sale or lhe malch because many laces will be
used by journalisls and lo accommodale cameras needed lo broadcasl
lhe malch. Foolball's governing body denied lhal lhe decrease in caacily
was caused by delays in sladium conslruclion. l said in a slalemenl lhal
il had lo make adjuslmenls lo lhe number o lickels sold or lhe malch
because more lhan 1,5OO journalisls will be resenl. "The si/e o lhe
Arena de Sao Faulo was nol reduced, as many eole are reorling," FFA
said. "As in any oeralion or lhe world Cu, lhe sladium's lolal caacily
is adjusled according lo lhe needs o lhe media and lhe lelevision
broadcasl."
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Buenos Aires: n
Argenlina, even
dogs gel sna//y or
world Cu
Buenos Aires - n
some cullures,
dressing a dog in
lhe Argenline leam
jersey wilh lhe
number 1O on ils
back could be seen
as an insull lo Lionel
Messi. Bul in Buenos
Aires, lhe "Amores
Ferros" doggy boulique is celebraling lhe Argenline slar by oulilling els in
oicial blue and while, jusl in lime or lhe world Cu. Slore owner Karen
Reicharl says lhey slarled lhis our years ago, bul il's really laking o now in
soccermad Argenlina. The boulique oers shirls, bandanas, hals, skirls, loys
and even wool scarves in leam colors, riced rom aboul $7 lo $8O. 0wners o
loy oodles seem lo reer jerseys carrying Messi's ho. 1O.
8aatty reatIae 40s & 80.10
I
n Maslows hierarchy of needs, as one
moves higher up in life the motivation level
also goes up. While all teams at the 2014
World Cup are fighting each other, world
champions Spain will be fighting themselves.
Being on top is run-of-the-mill for them, finding
that reason that can spur them to the podium once
again is the necessity.
And, they have reason to be in this position.
They are the defending champions, after winning
the tournament in South Africa in 2010. They are
the best side in the world as they are ranked No.1
in the FIFA rankings going into the World Cup.
They have been on the top of that list for over two
years straight now. In fact, they have dominated
that rank since 2008 and in between Brazil and The
Netherlands have been number one for brief peri-
ods. As a result, they were voted as the Team of
the Year six times in a row -from 2008 to 2013.
They are the only team in history to defend the
UEFA Euro championships in 2012 after win-
ning the trophy in 2008. And, also the only ones
to win the WC after winning the EURO Cup.
But then, if they have dominated, there
are many more milestones for the Spanish
armada to conquer. For starters, they
have a chance to become the first team in
52 years to defend a WC title - only two
teams have done that in history of WC,
Italy in 1934 and 1938 and Brazil in
1958 and 1962. Then, they can
become the only side to retain both
WC and EURO titles. They can also
beat a negative trend - the fact that
none of the winners in the last three
WCs before 2010 have fared well
in the following tournament -
France and Italy did not go past
the league stage in 2002 and
2010 while Brazil were elimi-
nated in the quarter-final in
2006. Another added motivation
would be that this time they can try and win all
their matches - in 2010 they had a surprise 0-1
defeat in their first match against Switzerland. And,
finally, last year in what was a pre-cursor to Brazil
2014, Spain had lost to Brazil 3-0 in the final of
the Confederations Cup held in Brazil. At that time,
there was talk of a de-motivated and ageing side.
La Roja can put all those questions to rest once and
for all if they are on the podium come July14th.
So, the Vicente Del Bosque coached side have
so much to look forward to.
And they can achieve everything they want
because what they have is almost a dream team.
There are the wonder men Xavi Hernandez and
Andres Iniesta. Though the 34-year-old Xavi is
not in the best of form but has been the archi-
tect for many a Spain wins and how and
when is he used during the quadrennial
event would interest one and all. Add Sergio
Busquets and Xabi Alonso because of
their experience to the two of them and
there still is a variety of options from Cesc
Fabregas, David Silva, Santi Cazorla, Juan
Mata and Koke to choose from in case Spain
play five mid-fielders both attacking and
defending ones.
And, numerous defenders is also their
forte with Sergio Ramos, Gerard Pique and
Jordi Alba forming the core but Carles
Puyol, who has retired, would be missed in
the centre.
Captain Iker Casillas has not been the
automatic choice as goalkeeper for his club
Real Madrid this year, though he played in
the Champions League final, which the team
won. So, is it now a case of him being a
regular for the big matches or under Del
Bosque, things will be different?
A little hitch could be the fact
that striker Diego Costa has a lin-
gering leg injury while others
Pedro Rodrigues,
Fernando Torres and
David Villa look very
strong on paper, are not
in excellent form.
Spain start their
World Cup defense in
a re-match of 2010
final against The
Netherlands in
Group B, and
though they may not
go hard in their opener, there may be indi-
cations of the mental state of this great team
of the modern era. Chile and Australia games
are to follow they would hope that the first
one isnt a dampener for the world champi-
ons.
SOUAD
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas, Pepe Reina,
David de Gea
Defenders: Cesar Azpilicueta, Sergio Ramos,
Gerard Pique, Javi Martinez, Raul Albiol,
Jordi Alba, Juanfran Torres
Midfielders: Xavi Hernandez, Sergio
Busquets, Xabi Alonso, Santi
Cazorla, Cesc Fabregas, David Silva,
Andres Iniesta, Koke , Juan Mata
Forwards: Pedro Rodriguez,
Fernando Torres, David Villa, Diego
Costa
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0i ego Cosla
bri ngs a new
dynamic lo lhe
world chamions,
i lhe All eli co
Madrid slriker is il
enough lo be
included in coach
vi cenle del
Bosque's squad. The Bra/ilianborn
Cosla has chosen lo lay or his adol
ed homeland o Sain, which has nol
ossessed a layer wilh his qualilies
since il began ils lrohywinning
ways al lhe 2OO8 Euroean
Chamionshi. however, Cosla limed
o in lhe Chamions League inal
againsl Real Madrid in Lisbon and doc
lors lrealing him say he has a muscle
lear in his righl leg lhal is going lo need
15 days o convalescence beore lhe
injury can be reevalualed. 0el Bosque
has said he will wail unlil lhe lasl os
sible minule lo see i Cosla is il lo join
his squad, and lhe layer said he was
eeling "beller" when visiling Sain's
lraining ground Thursday.
IkE 6k8IIIk8
ker Casillas has been relegaled lo
backu goalkeeer al Real Madrid in
lhe league, bul lhe Sain calain was
slellar in leading his club lo lhe Coa
del Rey and Chamions League
lilles. ho layer
has made as
many aear
ances or
Sai n as
C a s i l l a s ,
who will be al
hi s ei ghlh
major chami
onshi, including
our world Cus.
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Al 84, lhis could surely be Xavi
hernande/'s lasl world Cu.
Sain's key midield navigalor
has soken aboul his desire lo
lead lhe leam in Soulh
America, and il is hard lo imag
ine Xavi ailing lo be one o lhe
dierencemakers in lhe lourna
menl, esecially when molivaled.
Much o Sain's lay is direcled o
his bool, and much o
Sain's success over
lhe asl six years can
be allribuled lo his
abilily lo sel lhe lemo o a malch.
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0nly 27, Sergio Ramos has already
made 115 aearances or lhe nalion
al leam. And wilh Carles Fuyol gone,
lhe Real Madrid cenler back is lhe nal
ural successor lo lead lhe leam rom
lhe back.
while leam
male 0erard
Fique may
be more
alluned lo a
"sweeer"
role o car
rying lhe ball orward, Ramos has
been slellar in lhe cenlreo deense
where his seed, si/e and abilily lo
read lhe game means he rarely gels
beal. while much o lhe lalk o Sain's
success surrounds lhe midield, lhe
deense has nol conceded a goal in lhe
knockoul slages o lhe asl lwo
Euroean Chamionshis and lhe
world Cu - a san o 1O games.
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Sain's weallh o midield lalenl is a
key dierencemaker or lhe world
chamions, and Andres niesla is a key
cog in lhal engine. niesla, who
scored in lhe 11Glh minule
lo give Sain ils irsl world
Cu lille our years ago,
has had a subdued sea
son al Barcelona wilh
occasional lashes o bril
liance. Bul he seems lo
lurn il on or Sain,
when he normally
roves lo be a key
layer in unlock
ing deenses lhal
lend lo slack lhe
area and slay
behind lhe ball.
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TEAM: SPAN
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Paris: Argenline inlernalional
and Barca slar IioneI Messi has
joined a global camaign,
dubbed (#TurnBackCrime),
launched by lhe nlerol lo raise
awareness aboul lhe dangers o
crime. The 2Gyearold
Argenline layer joins aclion slar
Jackie Chan, who was
announced as lhe camaign's
irsl ambassador, in raising
eole's awareness, reorls EFE.
"Messi is known lhe world over
as one o lhe grealesl layers o
all lime and his suorls or lhe hTERF0L Turn Back Crime camaign shows
his commilmenl lo air lay bolh on and o lhe ilch," said hTERF0L
secrelary general Ronald hoble, according lo lhe organisalion's oicial
websile. "we hoe lhal his suorl or lhe camaign will encourage more
eole around lhe world lo join us and say, logelher we can lurn back crime,"
hoble added.
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They are lhe world chamions and wilh il avouriles lo win lhe world
Cu. lhey lay lo lheir olenlial, a lilledeense isn'l very ar.
KRShhARAJ Sh0h JASAhA lells you aboul a henomenon lhis
summer known as Sain
Claudio Marohisio
Plays or taly
he likes lo conuse oonenls wilh his double oolwork
which is walchworlhy. Bul whal is also worlh a STZW^
is his holo shools or sorls maga/ines. The slylish
deender admils he adores lhe camera.
kor Casillas
Plays or Spain
As hol a goalie can gel lhis wC 2O14,
Casillas is anolher celebrily who is
smillen wilh his new born boy. "l's lhe
mosl moving momenl o my lie. he is
lhe mosl desired lhing," he lweeled.
Olivior Giroud
Plays or Franoo
The dashing slriker is known or his moves on lhe
ield and o il as well. Allhough he kees gelling
clicked by models in his rivale lime, 0iroud insisls
he is a one lady's man!
David Luiz
Plays or Brazil
They say his hair gives him an edge over his com
elilors bul Lui/ believes il only us his oomh ac
lor. The ocused Lui/ also wenl or a lhorough leelh
checku beore lhe big lournamenl.
You shoul oul loud when lhe oolball lands al lheir eel, squeal when an oonenl ouls on lhem,
go cra/y when lhey slrike a goal and brealhe heavy when lhey eel dejecled. Such is lhe aura lhal
lhese men/boys carry when lhey sle inlo lhe ield. Suh0AY F0hEER icks oul a ew men who
u lhe anle everylime lhey make a move
NEW DELH SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2014
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Plays or Nothorlands
The Calain o lhe leam, Fersie has a
lhing or colours and slyle. According
lo reorls, he doesn'l like lo be casual
aboul his dressing sense. Fersie is also
inlo malching accessories.
Juan Mata
Plays or Spain
when he allacks, Mala sels your ulse
racing. Bul lhe humble 2Gyearold
unmarried oolballer conessed lhal lhe
ride lo Manchesler was very emolional
as he was lraveling wilh his arenls.
Yoann Gourou
Plays or Franoo
There is no sloing lhis allacking mid
ielder whose anlics have been com
ared lo Zidane. Bul 0ourcu is nol lel
ling anylhing ruin his wC momenl. '
am here lo enjoy,' he lweeled.
Gerard Pique
Plays or Spain
ashing renIerbark and 8arreIona's
sIar, Fique goI inIo every gossip
mag aIIer he married 37yearoId
8hakira. 8uI mommy IeIIs you Ihe
guy is a handson daddy. "he
rhanges diapers; enjoys baIhing
him. ThaI's a reaI heIp Ior me,
8hakira IoId abouI Fique rerenIIy.
6ooI daddy meanWhiIe is Iooking Ior
a speriaI signage Io dediraIe a goaI
Io his baby!
Ikh8 hEw 0ELh
F
ootball fanatic John Abraham is ready and steady to
make the country live the magic of the 2014 FIFA
World Cup. The actor-producer, who is doing a film
based on the sport and has even invested in a football fran-
chise, believes the fever for the game will scale new heights
once Indian football finds its hero.
One sporting hero can totally change the fabric of a
sport in a country. For example, in tennis,
it was Sania Mirza, or for badminton, a
Saina Nehwal and much before her,
Prakash Padukone...look at what Tiger
Woods did to golf in the world. I think
Indian football requires that one
hero, John says. Bhaichung
Bhutia nearly made it there, but
we need one hero. The minute
we get that hero, watch foot-
ball change in this country.
It will take time, but it will
change, the multi-faceted
talent says who has
been roped in by
sports and enter-
tainment channel Sony
SIX as the 2014 FIFA World Cup
brand ambassador in India.
John grew up watching
Argentine footballer Diego
Maradonas skilful play thanks to his
father, who woke him up early
morning to catch up on football
matches. He started playing himself,
so much so that he now says: I would
have played for India, but I had to make
a choice between football and MBA.
But here, at 41, he is living his child-
hood passion via different ways. Apart
from widely promoting the World Cup
here, he has bought the Guwahati fran-
chise of the Indian Super League.
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aee4s a her0'
elf
An
selfie
called
S
o, even Artificial Intelligence
(AI) has developed an emotional
quotient or at least a degree of
self-awareness about its power.
This is not a script for Hollywoods
next sci-fi film, but the Mars
Rovers pictures of itself which NASA is
circulating widely.
Elephants, too, have become self-con-
scious. Last week, naturalists went gaga over a
calf who miraculously snapped itself by press-
ing the button of a camera phone that had
mistakenly fallen into its enclosure in the UK
after a tourist lost balance. Even if accidental,
the worlds first elfie has now gone viral.
And soaring high in the spirit of The
Fountainhead, humans are measuring their
conquest physical, metaphorical and spir-
itual by taking selfies atop our earthly
and man-made heights. Photographer Lee
Thompson, who is documenting the
progress of the FIFA world cup at Rio,
decided to have his moment of spiritual
ascension by getting up, close and personal
with the Christ the Redeemer statue. What
we got was an amazing worldview, of look-
ing at creation down below sitting on the
shoulders of Christ himself. The question is
who indeed needs redemption after such a
vainglorious moment? One who has got rid
of even vestigial humility.
Are we so enchanted by our own reflec-
tion than reality itself that we are ushering in
our own catastrophe? Or is this self-preaching
a way to rebuild identities in a world of ano-
dyne flatness? It is easy to dismiss the selfie
phenomenon as a frill and a fad, a trivial pur-
suit, one which has supplanted fashion itself
as the new style statement. But can one dis-
count its scope in our lives, society, economy
and polity? According to a latest survey, the
frequency of the use of the word selfie has
increased by 17,000 per cent over the past
year. Surely this is not just self-obsession
pushed to ridiculous extremes; it clearly has
emerged as the most potent force of self-
expression and a wider social acceptance by
virtue of its shareability.
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For centuries, the human being has been con-
trolling the way he wants to project himself to
the world. Selfies are just an egotistical extreme
of this basic tendency. At its best, it is about
overt self-confidence; at its worst it is about hid-
ing low self-esteem.
Psychologist Nikhil Raheja explains how
the selfie is astride the cusp of vanity and per-
sonality. People keep changing their DPs (dis-
play pictures) on Facebook and WhatsApp, sort
of reinventing their boring lives and expecting
people to appreciate them. They desperately
seek the approval of others, which tends to
affect their psychological health, he says.
The desperation with which the selfie-taker
seeks the approval of other people on a social
networking site, in the form of likes and com-
ments, is an outrageous indicator of the prevail-
ing low self-esteem in a society that is being
increasingly plateaued out by homogeneity. The
obsession with the self is gradually turning into
an epidemic, likely to head towards a culmina-
tion akin to that of Narcissus.
Self-regard and self-esteem have gone for a
toss. The response received on selfies now has
the power to determine whether you will have a
good or bad day, never mind your other
achievements. For instance, if you see 100 likes
on your picture, you are likely to begin your
day on a happy note. But only 20 likes might
be a spoiler. People are ready to throw away a
particular outfit or never repeat a hairdo if
they do not receive enough appreciation, says
Dr Raheja, who has been analysing behavioural
patterns of practitioners.
A behemoth acknowledgment certainly
raises self-esteem but one must not forget the
disastrous repercussions a lukewarm response
might have. A positive response to a selfie
might satiate the urge of being accepted to a
certain extent, but it can never boost self-con-
fidence. The social platforms where individu-
als seek acceptance make for a pseudo make-
believe world where they only receive instant
gratification from the people they remotely
know. Failing to receive a satisfactory
response on a selfie, however, might result in
shattered self-esteem and even lead to depres-
sion, explains Dr Raheja.
Selfies are not bad. All of us, at some point
or the other, have taken pictures of ourselves
and circulated them among our close friends,
sharing experiences and emotions. But they
should not become a parameter for human
existence, he adds.
Historically, self-portraits have been the
personal markers of those having arrived in
society, truthful enough to hide the blemishes.
The royalty graduated from paintings to pho-
tography, wearing their finest and looking their
best, hoping to get an edge over others by being
the odd one out. Explaining contemporary
echoes, Dr Raheja says, Considering that we
live in a dynamic world, people continue to be
obsessed but they want to do it in a slightly dif-
ferent way. An aberration always attracts more
attention than routine, and selfies began as an
aberration. Then it turned into a tool of self-
appraisal and finally became self-consuming.
Selfies, therefore, have become our individ-
ual way of story-telling in a glut of globalised
emotions. Sometimes they are raw and bold, like
the intense privacy series on beds, bathrooms,
warts and moles; sometimes abstract, like a
series on hands and feet as an impersonal exten-
sion of our personal self, some extravagant, like
positioning ourself against backdrops of what
defines ultra living, cars, travels, fashion and
restaurants, and some humorous ones like the
fish-pout and the by now ubiquitous duck-face.
But the overstatement of ideas has led to a bee-
hive mimicry that has all but reduced the very
purpose of the selfie, to stand out among every-
body, not become every man. The crazier you
become, the next person you want to beat
becomes the craziest. Society, according to
noted sociologist, Dr TK Oommen, is, therefore,
feeding off a phenomenon that constantly
reminds you what you do not have. A selfie is
an indication of the craving for recognition,
born out of the sense of deprivation. We feel val-
ued when we put ourselves out there and some-
body responds. So, a selfie is a power tool in our
incomplete lives, giving us unrestrained freedom
to do what we want.
The selfie is a subtext of the democratic
grammar of social media. As Dr Oommen says,
traditional media has always been the hallmark
of recognition. For you to become a newsmak-
er, you need to get into some place of recogni-
tion. To walk into some place of recognition,
you need to be invited. And to be invited, you
need to be a person of substance. You cannot
participate unless somebody else is willing or
wanting you in. But when it comes to the social
media, which encapsulates the selfie, one does-
nt have to depend on anybody for an entry.
This non-dependency on societal qualifications
and easy ability to attract eyeballs, being liked
and commented upon is encouraging many to
come out fearlessly.
In that sense, selfies have empowered sub-
cultures and the marginalised, helping them
overcome their inhibitions and communicate
their point of view. Pictures, they say, tell a
thousand words and the selfie, therefore, is the
new free speech. Be it activism (a selfie series of
breast cancer survivors recently initiated a huge
fund-raising drive), celebrity management (self-
ies document our idols better than paparazzi
and encourage them to announce their inner
truth at times) or politicians (from US
President Barack Obama to our own Prime
Minister Narendra Modi), selfies have helped
them stay connected and make a potent state-
ment at the very microbial level.
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The cultural impact of the selfie is now being
felt in the traditional arts as well. Alpesh Dave is
a modest artist based in Ahmedabad. He doesnt
speak much of English, leave aside its morphed
faddisms, but has been quick to catch societys
sudden obsession with the self . He spends up
to eight hours a day making self-portraits, using
a needle and thread on canvas. He has recently
delivered 10 self-portraits to buyers in Delhi
through an eminent art gallery. Be it mixed
media, watercolours or oil, the demand for self-
portraits once a preserve of the most privi-
leged is going up exponentially.
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mosl convenienl, il is lhe
mirror selie
Telfie
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lhal is a rage eole can'l seem
lo be recovering rom
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who've been endowed wilh
bolloms lo die or
Lelfie
These are
or lhe
longlegged
Helfie
The hair selie gives you
amle oorlunily lo lay
around wilh your mane
Felfie
The amily selie is a boon in
lhese busy limes when a amily
gellogelher is an occasion in ilsel
Gelfie
The gym selie
or ilness
enlhusiasls
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Now Dolhi, Juno 8, 2014
T
o call me an Archie comics
fan would be an under-
statement. Recently while
moving home, I discovered that
I had over a hundred Digest and
Double Digest comics, far more
than I thought I owned. In addi-
tion, I have spent thousands of
rupees buying digital versions of
the comics on the iTunes store.
There is something about these
comics that I have enjoyed since
I was a teenager; easy reading I
guess.
And this fascination with
Archie comics from a young age
helped me move to darker, grit-
tier graphic novels, such as those
by Alan Moore. However, noth-
ing could have prepared me for
the dive into darkness that Archie
comics took. Genuinely, I was not
prepared for Afterlife with
Archie; I had heard and read that
this delve into zombie fiction was
a tour de force, but somehow,
after seeing what Hollywood
movie studios had done to so
many of my childhood movie
icons, I did not initially download
the application.
Without giving too much
away, the plot is fairly simple. A
car driven by Riverdales resident
douche Reggie Mantle runs over
and kills Hot Dog, Jughead Jones
beloved pooch. Sabrina, not quite
the teenage witch of the TV
series (she is going to have a dark-
er resurrection soon), helps rean-
imate Hot Dog, but he is now a
zombie.
He bites Jughead, who also
becomes a zombie and spreads
the contagion through the town.
Our red-haired hero is the one
who brings together the sur-
vivors at Lodge Manor.
The story, written by
Nicaraguan-American writer
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa who
weirdly enough is a writer on the
bubbly American TV series Glee
is told from various perspec-
tives. It explores dark issues that
would not have seemed out of
place in an Alan Moore or even
a Mark Millar graphic novel, but
reconciling it in your head with
the goofy, clumsy characters of
Archie comics? Not an easy task.
Not only do you confront
death head on (well, this is a
zombie series, so there is a lot of
death), you also confront lesbian-
ism, infidelity and incest (not
where you would expect). Yes,
Archie did introduce Kevin
Keller, a gay character some
years ago, but that still fit into the
happy world of Archie. That
said, the artwork by Italian artist
Francesco Francavilla is stun-
ning. While bending the rules of
the Archie pantheon a bit, he
manages to make the characters
identifiable. Yet, with his use of
muted colours and the creation
of characters, this is possibly the
best written and drawn comic of
the recent past.
The first story arc of the
series Escape from Riverdale
recently finished and I am look-
ing forward to see what happens
in the second arc. Later this year,
the second re-imagination in
this continuity will take place
with Chilling Adventures of
Sabrina. The Afterlife series drops
a hint of this, but do not expect
Hilda and Zelda to look the way
they did.
The Afterlife with Archie
series is a far bigger deal than
Archie Andrews dying in Life
with Archie #36. The series
not easily available in India, but
found on the Archie Comics app
(iOS, Android) or online had
begun to meander, like any long
comic book series.
Afterlife with Archie is dark;
it is not meant for kids, is rated
teens plus and is not marketed
to pre-teens at all. So much so
that it requires a separate appli-
cation download if you read it on
your phone or tablet.
As far as a standalone comic
series goes, Afterlife with Archie
is brilliant. As an old Archie fan,
it stunned me at first but won me
over. It is not without reason that
Aguirre-Sacasa is now the Chief
Creative Officer of Archie
Comics. There are, however, a few
problems, not least of which is
trying to find it in India, a coun-
try without proper comic book
stores. It is available online and on
the application and costs C300 a
month for unlimited access on
multiple devices.
A
s a child, it moved His Holiness the
12th Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritu-
al head of the 800-year-old Drukpa (or
Dragon) order, to see the pitiful condi-
tion in which nuns lived in various nun-
neries across India and Tibet. Due to
unspoken gender classification and patri-
archal traditions, nuns were confined to
doing only household chores at the
monasteries and their voice was rarely
heard. So he decided to change it all.
On a quiet mountain top, that is
Amitabha Mountain, in accordance with
the dreams of his late guru, he set up a
nunnery where Buddhist nuns would get
trained on par with the men. Thus came
into being the Druk Gawa Khilwa (DGK)
Nunnery near the Nepalese capital of
Kathmandu.
A steep drive takes you atop this
retreat where nuns are self-sufficient.
They manage their lives with the same
ease with which they meditate and pray.
Interestingly, the idea to introduce
Kung Fu came after His Holiness visit-
ed Vietnam and saw female martial art
practitioners pulling a neat punch. He
even roped in a woman instructor to
make sure there was no gender stereo-
typing as the nuns set out on the path of
self-reliance. There has been no looking
back since.
They are my most powerful ambas-
sadors, he laughed while talking to us at
the DGK nunnery a day before his birth-
day on March 11, 2014 (as per the lunar
calendar). The celebrations were preced-
ed by a six-day retreat and followed by
a three-day eye camp.
Typically, the area surrounding the
Druk Amitabha nunnery wakes up to the
clear sounds of over 250 nuns practising
Kung Fu, interspersed by the instructions
handed out by their teacher. Their day
starts at 3 am and after meditation and
other prayer rituals, they swap their
maroon robes for a smart maroon Kung
fu dress with a yellow belt before lining
up in neat rows at the open compound
overlooking the Kathmandu valley.
The calm on the face is soon replaced
with an intense look that reflects great
concentration as they strive to strike the
perfect pose and pack a neat punch at the
imaginary opponent.
Concentration is a key ingredient in
meditation. Kung Fu not only makes
them physically tough but mentally
strong as well, the Drukpa shared.
The youngest nun at the monastery
is about nine years old and the oldest,
about 60. As per the rules, it is manda-
tory for all nuns to learn Kung Fu unless
they are medically unfit, unwell or very
old. Most nuns in this nunnery come
from remote places in Tibet, Ladakh,
Lahaul, Bhutan and Sikkim. They repeat
the lessons in the evening as well.
The DGK Nunnery is a great exam-
ple of gender equality that is actively pro-
moted by the Gyalwang Drukpa. From
driving down to the city centre for gro-
ceries, to running a coffee shop, a sou-
venir shop and even a guesthouse, the
entire establishment is being run inde-
pendently by the resident nuns.
Several study medicine among other
subjects and put their skills to use for the
greater good. They also run a health clin-
ic, which is open to the locals from sur-
rounding villages and where they treat
the patients using Western medicine as
also by Tibetan and homeopathic meth-
ods. There is an eye clinic too. Given that
those living in the higher reaches are
most affected by blinding sun, cataract
treatment is the most sought after here.
Physical well-being is as important
for the nuns as their spiritual well-being.
I always wanted to see the nuns enjoy the
same freedom as the monks that they
were as self-sufficient and financially
independent. I am happy to see them
happy, His Holiness told a private audi-
ence. Outside, the nuns play perfect hosts
to innumerable guests who have come
from all over the world to greet their spir-
itual leader. This is one cheerful event and
on several occasions giggles light up their
beautiful faces. Happiness is the key to
peaceful existence. Its a powerful mes-
sage we carry back home.
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ave adds, The contemporary man
believes in thorough exploration.
Many get inspired by my work and
then want their self-portraits made in a
similar technique. These portraits are often
used as expensive gift items or decoration
pieces in drawing rooms. I make portraits
using a persons close-up shots as refer-
ences. My work involves different intrica-
cies like choosing the exact coloured
thread, precise needle movement and an
eye for catching the character of a person.
With changing mindsets, on-demand por-
traits are the new norm.
Every John Doe can now commission
an artist of their choice and get their
expression of self-love. During the
Renaissance in Europe, commissioning
was the exclusive preserve of the kings
and nobility, the portrait equivalent to a
royal seal, a marker exemplifying their
rule and assisting in diplomacy. With
growing accessibility to willing artists,
anyone with decent money and a lot of
self-obsession can become the new age
patron. Some people are crazy about see-
ing themselves painted. There is too
much of self-love that goes into coming
up with such a demand in the first place.
Moreover, self-portraits help an artist sus-
tain himself as it is a complete commer-
cial segment in fine arts, says Snehashish
Maity, a Kolkata-based portrait painter.
Earlier, portraits had a prime inten-
tion of capturing an image of a person in
deficient technology. Today, technology
can pan you to the gills. That explains the
reflux of art as an instrument of mys-
tique. Expressing concern over elements
of self-indulgence and vanity in self-por-
traits, Maity says, Thirty to forty years
ago, we had joint families. People had a
deep sense of togetherness. Before anyone
did something for themselves, enough
was thought about the other. Today, peo-
ple have grown self-centric and the sense
of individualism is only increasing. The
sensibilities in which self-portraits of our
age will be made will automatically reflect
the current times. Apart from commis-
sioned portraits, my other artworks very
evidently reflect this new progression in
society.
Psychologist Rippan Sippy attributes
the renewed interest in photography to
this changed mindset. Today, a photo is
more about showing off and influencing
others than seeking remembrance. Rather
than obsession, I would describe the selfie
revolution as more of social intimidation
and high self-branding. People can take a
snap without seeking help from others
whenever they feel the moment is oppor-
tune and they are looking good. The plea-
sure of your inner self is more important
than locating yourself in the context of a
social occasion. This is because social
approval of selfies ultimately leads to
inner pleasure.
The artistry has quite literally extend-
ed to the human body itself becoming a
canvas of art. According to the annual
survey conducted by the American
Academy of Facial Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), one
in three facial plastic surgeons surveyed
saw a rise in procedures due to the inse-
curity associated with displaying their
looks on social media.
This Dorian Gray-like obsession to
remain ethereal and timeless in a picture
frame has but led to the extreme hideous-
ness of tampering with nature. Since self-
ies are usually shot from close proximity,
they can reveal flaws more easily. Besides,
they define a process of self-documenta-
tion, one that captures the transforming
moments, days and years. So, it is but nat-
ural that the selfie is an extension of lega-
cy-seeking, one that would show up as
good-looking, age-defying and vibrant.
The appearance-conscious society has
pushed body sculpting to ridiculous
extremities, like the human Barbie doll,
whose selfies have not only gone viral but
show the extent to which man is ready to
play God and rewrite creation itself.
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The selfie has now emerged as a soft-
push marketing tool. The Oscar selfie by
Ellen De Generes or the Kolkata Knight
Riders victorious faces werent really off
the cuff but a clever way to push manu-
facturers new smartphone launches. The
Oscar moment came ahead of the launch
of Samsungs new model to break into the
Apple-saturated market of the US, while
the KKRs spontaneous moments were
subsidiary endorsement of Nokias latest
Lumia series, which has also been a spon-
sor of IPL. Most marketers are now lever-
aging selfies taken by celebrities during a
highly popular event to subtly establish
their value as a must-have product. They
are building a wishlist of sorts, albeit
imperceptibly.
While it remains to be seen if this can
have a lasting impact on a brands overall
selling strategy and consumer perception,
selfies can force-feed any product in a
short span of time. One of the reasons
you find dolled up selfies of Sonam
Kapoor or Deepika Padukone is because
they embody the tacit endorsement of the
brands that go into their cosmetic appeal.
Sonams LOreal look in selfies has
spawned a YouTube beauty tutorial by the
brand, while her designer dresses have
created a buzz among fashionistas caught
in couture clichs.
Jumping on the bandwagon, groom-
ing brand Philips recently teamed up with
MTV for its selfie contest called the
StyleTurf. Couples were required to style
themselves, click a selfie and post it on
social networking websites. The winning
couple was featured on MTV. Similarly,
VIP Skybags launched a quirky campaign
on social media called Back is the new
front to promote its backpack collection.
This led to a reverse selfie contest. Young
people turned their backs to the camera,
using either a mirror or a photographer.
In another instance, eBay India ran a self-
ie contest on Instagram to celebrate nine
years of its existence. The e-commerce
brand managed to create a virtual birth-
day bash for its community and grab eye-
balls of potential online buyers. MTS
3GPlus networks latest commercial
shows a new-born taking a selfie and
posting it on Instagram.
The market uses the mood of the
moment to ride on. The selfie is naturally
a tool of extending a brand among cus-
tomers. The methodology is easy since it
involves ordinary individuals and no big
star or budgets. At the same time, the
smart use of technology convinces con-
sumers that you are the with it brand,
says marketing guru Dilip Cherian.
Brands cashing in on selfies have had
varying degrees of success. Samsung drew
criticism that it squeezed its way into the
most shared tweet of all time, claiming
Ellen De Generes organically incorpo-
rated the brand into her Oscar selfie.
Nonetheless, marketers pegged the selfies
outreach value between $800 million and
$1 billion. Camera brand GoPro used an
image of a fan on the summit of Mount
Everest, which was again cited as an
example of a brand hijacking the trend.
But the risks are low since selfies are
short-lived. The capital is minimum since
you are maneuvering around social net-
working websites, which is all about a day
of retweeting and hits, says adman
Prahlad Kakkar, who believes that only
relevant brands fit into this genre of mar-
keting. Like UCB, which is all about
people and colours. So it has set up shop
where people dress up and then post pic-
tures on their Facebook page. They make
it interactive too. Anybody can access the
models in those pictures. So, that way it
opens up an exclusive market for ordi-
nary people, he says.
Theres more to love and admire
when it comes to selfies by Bollywood
actors. They are enjoying the attention as
well as minting money. Smartphones, a
tool for selfies, are endorsed by the likes
of Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone.
Star selfies are a new calling card since
most actors are selling cellphones and are
brand ambassadors of telecom giants.
The more popular their selfies get, the
more commercials they are going to get.
Its a pure money gamble beyond good-
looking pictures, says image analyst Simi
Chandoke.
The beauty industry has capitalised
on makeup-free selfies to develop a
more inclusive appeal. Cosmetic majors
like Dove are selling products that help
you glow with your inner beauty by
tom-tomming the no-makeup look in
their selfie campaign involving regular
women. This started in the West with
an online campaign and eventually
became a sensation here. Now, there are
colourless mascara, moisturiser tints
and nude lip glosses to wear for make-
up-free pictures. So, the brand has been
able to extend its portfolio by virtue of
its tested and true selfies, says
Chandoke.
In the end, a self-image is crafted and
much deliberated upon even if it may
appear supercilious. It is about desirabili-
ty and winnability. It is about creating an
impact. So selfie, the phenomenon, may
look like a needless imposition on our
overburdened sensorium, but one that
will last till we find the next big tool to
stand apart and be counted.
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his universe of ours, the universe of
the senses, the rational, the intellectu-
al, is bounded on both sides by the
illimitable, the unknowable, and the ever
unknown. Herein is the search, here are the
facts; from this comes the light which is
known to the world as religion. Essentially,
however, religion belongs to the super sen-
suous and not to the sense plane. It is
beyond all reasoning and is not on the plane
of intellect. It is a vision, an inspiration, a
plunge into the unknown and unknowable,
making the unknowable more than known
for it can never be known.
This search has been in the human
mind from the very beginning of humanity.
There cannot have been human reasoning
and intellect in any period of the world's his-
tory without this struggle. In our little uni-
verse, this human mind, we see a thought
arise. Whence it arises we do not know; and
when it disappears, where it goes, we know
not either. The macrocosm and the micro-
cosm are, as it were, in the same groove,
passing through the same stages.
I shall try to bring before you the
Hindu theory that religions do not come
from without, but from within. It is my
belief that religious thought is in mans very
constitution, so much so that it is impossi-
ble for him to give up religion until he
can give up his mind and body. As long
as a man thinks, this struggle must go on,
and so long man must have some form
of religion. Thus, we see various forms of
religion in the world. It is a bewildering
study, but it is not, as many of us think, a
vain speculation.
Taking for granted that the known and
knowable are bounded on both sides by the
unknowable and the infinitely unknown,
why struggle for infinite unknown? We are
told that to do good to the world is all of
religion, and that it is useless to trouble our-
selves about questions of the beyond. But we
must inquire into the beyond. This present
is only one part of that unexpressed. The
sense universe is, as it were, one bit of that
infinite spiritual universe projected into the
plane of sense consciousness.
One day while lecturing at Athens,
Socrates met a Brahmin who had travelled
to Greece. Socrates told him that the greatest
study for mankind is man. The Brahmin
retorted: How can you know man until you
know Gods. This God is the raison dtre of
that which is known and knowable.
Thus man finds himself driven to a
study of the beyond. It is very well to say:
Be contented with the present. But if man
rests content with the present and gives up
search into the beyond, mankind will
have to go back to the animal plane. It is
religion, the inquiry into the beyond that
makes the difference between man
and animal. Man is the only animal
that naturally looks upwards; every
other animal naturally looks down.
That looking upward and seeking
perfection is salvation.
Again and again you hear this
objection: What good can religion
do? Can it take away poverty?
Supposing it cannot, would that prove
the untruth of religion?
Can religion really accomplish any-
thing? It can; it brings to man eternal life.
It has made man what he is and will make
of this human animal a god. Sense-happi-
ness is not the goal of humanity. Wisdom
(Jnna) is the goal of all life. The highest
wisdom must be spiritual knowledge,
with this will come bliss. Are we to dis-
cover new truths of religion as we go on?
We cannot know anything more of reli-
gion, it has all been known. In all reli-
gions of the world you will find it claimed
that there is a unity within us. Being one
with divinity, there cannot be any further
progress in that sense. Knowledge means
finding this unity.
So, can such a unity be found? In India,
the attempt has been made from the earliest
times to reach a science of religion and phi-
losophy, for the Hindus do not separate
these as is customary in Western countries.
We regard religion and philosophy as but
two aspects of one thing which must equally
be grounded in reason and scientific truth.
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T
he people have given their verdict. As the old
proverb goes vox populi is vox dei the voice of
people is the voice of God. The populace is rightly
referred to as Janta Janardan. In democracies, people are
the supreme power. Well, this God has delivered. The
leader now has to. There is a need to remain connected
to the people. This often proves difficult as a leader once
chosen is bound by a system that allows limited degrees
of freedom and distances him from the very people who
chose him. This happens because once chosen, a leader
reaches the summit from where reality appears different.
What has to be done? An old Chinese tale para-
phrased below may help.
In ancient China, on top of Mount Ping stood a
temple where the great master Hwan lived. One of his
disciples was Lao-li. For over 20 years, he studied and
meditated under Hwan. Although Lao-li was one of the
brightest, he could not attain the enlightenment he was
seeking. One morning, seeing a falling cherry, Lao-li
introspected: I can no longer fight my destiny. Like the
cherry I must gracefully resign to my lot. From that
moment Lao-Li wanted to retreat down the mountain,
giving up hope of enlightenment.
He went to inform Hwan about his decision. The
master was deep in meditation. With great reverence,
Lao-li tried to tell his wish. Enlightened one, he said.
But before he could continue, Hwan spoke, Tomorrow,
I will join you on your journey down the mountain.
The great master knew what Lao-li wanted to say.
The next morning, before starting Hwan looked
out into the vastness surrounding the mountain peak
and asked, Lao-li, what do you see? Master, I see the
sun beginning to wake just below the horizon, mean-
dering hills and mountains that go on for miles, and
couched in the valley below, a lake and an old town.
The master smiled and then they took the first steps of
their long descent.
Hours on end, as the sun crossed the sky, they pur-
sued their journey, stopping only once as they
approached the foot of the mountain. Again Hwan asked
Lao-li to tell him what he saw. Great wise one, in the dis-
tance I see roosters as they run around barns, cows asleep
in sprouting meadows, old ones basking in the late after-
noon sun, and children romping by a brook. The master,
remaining silent, continued to walk until they reached
the gate to the town. There the master gestured to Lao-li
to sit under an old tree. What did you learn today?
asked the master. Silence was Lao-lis response.
After a long silence, the master continued. The road
to enlightenment is like the journey down the mountain.
One must realise that what is seen from the top is not
what one sees at the bottom. Without this wisdom we
negate all that we cannot view from our position and
limit our capacity to grow and improve. This wisdom
brings the awakening that what one sees alone is only
partial. This wisdom opens our minds to improvement,
knocks prejudices and broadens horizons. Remember,
what you cannot see can be seen from a different part of
the mountain. The lesson had awakened Lao-li the
view from the ground cannot be undermined.
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have no idea how to solve global
crisis, so its better to talk on a
practical level. Today, in addition
to natural disasters, there are
various man-made problems. In
daily news reports and on TV, we can
see how much innocent people suffer.
There is a great deal of killing, murder,
even cases of children killing children.
Sometimes people ask me, What is
your advice or suggestion? I usually
tell them I have no idea. These
problems, I believe, are the result of
long-standing negligence. These events
did not come about suddenly. They
have their causes and conditions. One
cause and condition creates another
cause, another condition and so on
until things finally get out of hand.
Most of these events are a result of
human emotions going out of control.
When such calamities take place, it is
very difficult to deal with them.
Human emotion has to be combined
with proper intelligence, which means
intelligence with human affection. One
cant be sure whether mere intelligence
is destructive, or positive and
constructive. Intelligence with
affection, on the other hand, can
produce marvellous results. Intelligence
usually ceases to work when emotions
are out of control. Nowadays many
situations have reached that stage. If we
ask certain individuals, even leaders,
What is your purpose in killing one
another?, they may not have a clear
answer. By killing, they simply let out
their negative and blind emotions,
inflicting heavy suffering on other
people. So what is it that we learn from
these events?
In the future, if we want a happier
humanity, a happy world, we must
tackle the root of the problem. Of
course the economy and political
power are also causes. But the ultimate
cause lies within the human mind.
Every human action verbal or
physical, even minor actions, have
some motivation. Ultimately
everything depends upon our
motivation. Proper motivation or
proper development of motivation is an
important factor.
Thus, if intelligence is accompanied
with human affection and compassion
what I call human feeling then it
is very useful. The modern educational
system pays too much attention to
knowledge and the brain, and does not
give enough attention to spiritual
development. People leave it to religious
organisations and others to take care of
it. I dont think thats sufficient.
Although all world religions have the
potential to make a tremendous
contribution to the development of a
good heart, even thats not sufficient.
Moreover, many people feel that
religion is something that is old-
fashioned or out of date and religious
people themselves are also at times a
little too orthodox. They remain a little
isolated from the real world and daily
problems. Sometimes, many religious
traditions, including the Tibetan
tradition, place too much emphasis on
ritual or ceremony without having a
proper understanding of its meaning.
Therefore, the religious contribution
and influence is also limited. It is not
enough to just let religious communities
handle moral issues. The problems are
usually too big, and the group of people
who are to handle the problems, too
small or too weak.
Take the case of the US or some
other countries. We can see clearly that
they are facing some kind of moral
crisis. They are either increasing their
police force or seeking some other
technical solution to their problems.
Unless some positive developmental
change occurs in each individuals
heart, or unless there is some
transformation there, its very difficult
to control external forces. Therefore,
each of us, as a part of the human
community, has the responsibility to do
something for humanity because if the
future of humanity is good, bright and
peaceful, we will all receive the benefit.
If humanity degenerates morally,
corruption, exploitation, bullying and
cheating will take place, as a result of
which society will suffer. Although
there are laws and regulations in each
country, mischievous people always
find ways around them. If societys
moral values and standards of
behaviour become negative, each of us
will suffer. Therefore, the intentions of
an individual are very much related to
the interests of society. There is a
definite correlation.
We should not think that the
problem is huge and the individual is
too small. My efforts will never have an
effect on that immense problem, is not
the right way to think. The problem
may be big, but if every individual takes
the initiative, there is a real chance. If
each individual remains isolated, neutral
and indifferent, and expects dramatic
change from others or from the sky or
from meditation, thats ridiculous. Of
course prayer has its blessing and a
limited effect. But the main effort must
come from ourselves. Buddha and God
have certainly had some kind of
influence, but basically each individual
has to make an effort with complete
confidence. Whether we achieve
satisfactory results or not, it is logical
and worthwhile to make an attempt.
In spite of your constant effort, if
you dont achieve the desired result, is
doesnt matter. At least you will not
have regrets. When unfortunate events
occur due to our negligence, it is far
worse and regrettable. Therefore, each
of us must realise our potential and
make the effort. I have spent most of
my life outside my own country as a
refugee. Many Tibetans trust me, they
have great expectations and my task or
responsibility is great. There have been
a lot of diffIculties. Throughout this
period, in spite of the many difficulties
and problems, it seems to me that
when I compare my experiences with
those of other people, I am quite a
happy person.
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R
ecently, while sorting some
old papers in my study, I
came across a clipping from
The Statesman dating back to
1989. It was a report I had filed
from Punjab while touring the
State on assignment. The fraying
piece of newsprint went into the
wastepaper bin, but it brought
back a rush of memories of a par-
ticularly dark period in our recent
history. India, more so Punjab, had
to pay a terrible price on account
of the Khalistani separatist move-
ment during the 1980s and 1990s;
countless human lives were lost,
innumerable families were devas-
tated and young minds were
scarred forever.
The genesis of those years of
blood-letting was the cynical ploy of
the Congress to promote a preacher
of hate, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale,
as a countervailing force to the
Akali Dal. Rajiv Gandhi, as a callow
politician being groomed for the
big job by Indira Gandhi, much
like his son, Rahul, is being
groomed today by Sonia Gandhi,
had famously described
Bhindranwale, responsible for the
slaughter of innocent men, women
and children, many of them Sikhs,
as a man of religion.
We know the tragic conse-
quences of that initial blunder by
the Congress Operation Blue Star
was Indira Gandhis desperate
attempt to put an end to a strategy
that had gone horribly wrong; it
didnt quite serve that purpose. In
the end, this Frankensteins monster,
as in the story, devoured its creator,
triggering the horrendous pogrom
that saw Congress lynch mobs mas-
sacring 4,733 Sikhs, most of them in
the streets of Delhi.
But the blood-soaked Khalistan
story did not end in 1984. Next year,
Emperor Kanishka, Air Indias
Flight 181/182 from Toronto to
Mumbai via Montreal, London and
Delhi, was blown up off the Irish
coast, killing all 329 people on
board. Peace continued to elude
Punjab where casualties had ceased
to matter. Pakistans terror-sponsor-
ing agency, ISI, by then in command
of the Khalistanis, kept the fire of
separatism alive, fuelling it with
money, Kalashnikovs and explosives.
It took the combined efforts of a
determined Chief Minister, Beant
Singh, and a tough police chief, KPS
Gill, to douse the blaze.
Beant Singhs assassination was
perhaps the last act of terrorism
before the guns began to fall silent.
With the Khalistanis routed, there
was jubilation in Punjab and
across India. I recall spending a
week travelling across Punjab,
marvelling at the peace that had
descended on the troubled land.
Accompanied by my wife and my
elder daughter, who was then a
child, we travelled at night on
roads that till a few months ago
were known as death zones.
Gurdwaras that had been taken
over by extremists now wore a fes-
tive look. Our most moving
encounter was with a young granthi
who had deserted the Army after
Operation Blue Star to join Babbar
Khalsa, but later repented his deci-
sion and surrendered to the police.
Dedicating his life to the Panth was
his way of seeking forgiveness; it
was his act of repentance. But many
others like him were not so lucky
they either fell to police bullets or
just disappeared, leaving behind
families burdened with memories.
Strangely, those who played Dr
Faust to Pakistans ISI and instigated
young men to pick up AK-47s have
never been brought to justice. They
continue to be ensconced in their
plush homes in the US, Canada and
Britain, and still dream of Khalistan.
Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of
the Council of Khalistan with
offices in Washington, DC, has
access to huge private funds and
continues to lobby with American
politicians to press his case, though
without any success.
Among those who once actively
backed Aulakh were Edolphus
Towns, then member of the House
of Representatives from New York
who wanted the US to declare India
a terrorist state, former Senator
Jesse Helms and, across the Atlantic,
Lord Avebury in Britain. Aulakhs
website was indicative of his faith in
terrorism, yet the US Administra-
tion chose not to touch him. When
I met him in Washington in the fall
of 1990, Aulakh spent more than an
hour lecturing me about the atroci-
ties being committed by India
against Sikhs in the occupied
nation of Khalistan. After listening
to his jaundiced version of events, I
retorted that he was talking gibber-
ish. The Indian American who had
set up the meeting was horrified by
my feisty response; Aulakh looked
at me witheringly; and the tea never
came. Twenty-two years later, he is
older but not wiser. Or else he
would not still dream of Khalistan.
Jagjit Singh Chauhan, who
described himself as the President
of Khalistan, was more welcoming
when we met in London at a com-
mon friends house in Islington.
Having served as Finance Minister
and Deputy Speaker of the Punjab
Assembly, Chauhan continued to
maintain a vast network of contacts
in the State even after moving to
Britain in 1971. There was no
dearth of funds and he even had
Republic of Khalistan passports,
currency and postage stamps print-
ed that he would provide in
exchange of British pounds and
American and Canadian dollars. If I
remember correctly, one Khalistani
dollar was valued at one American
dollar. I was tempted to purchase a
Khalistani passport as a keepsake,
but better sense prevailed.
By 2001, Chauhan was a
decrepit man, resigned to the fact
that he would not live to see Khalis-
tan. He struck a deal with the Gov-
ernment of India and returned to
his hometown, Tanda, in
Hoshiarpur district. His Khalsa Raj
Party remained a letterhead organi-
sation and the man who had once
hoisted the Flag of Khalistan at
Anandpur Sahib died a broken
man. But there are many wealthy
Sikhs in Britain who continue to
subscribe to Chauhans separatist
ideology and ardently believe that
Amritsar shall be the capital of
Khalistan. Funds continue to be col-
lected; it is anybodys guess as to
how the money is spent.
If we were to look for the real
instigators trying to rekindle the
flames of Khalistani terror, we
would find them in Canada, more
specifically in British Columbia. To
a certain extent, American and
European authorities have realised
the folly of not cracking down on
Khalistanis during the 1980s and
1990s. But in Canada, the
Government continues to remain as
indulgent as it was in 1985 when
Emperor Kanishka was bombed
over the Atlantic.
Just how indulgent the
Canadian Government is can be
gauged from the fact that neither
Ripudaman Singh Malik nor Ajaib
Singh Bagri, who plotted the bomb-
ing of Emperor Kanishka, has had
to pay for his sins. They were
declared not guilty by a judge who
refused to accept overwhelming evi-
dence against them as being conclu-
sive enough to convict them. Both
went on to claim damages running
into millions of dollars. They were
never shamed or shunned.
(The writer is a Delhi-based
senior journalist)
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on
June 1:
Just churning isnt enough:
Even if Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has shaken
babudom in his first few
weeks in office, what remains
to be seen is what comes out
of this churning. For exam-
ple, clearing of files is impor-
tant, but good guidelines are
also necessary.
RL Pathak
PMmeans business: Prime
Minister Narendra Modis
austere lifestyle at 7 Race
Course Road should alert
our inert bureaucracy that
the new leader means busi-
ness. He can also be expected
to have a zero-tolerance poli-
cy towards sycophancy.
Modis 100-day agenda
for all Ministers is a
reminder to both wings of
the Government political
and bureaucracy that the
Prime Minister will be a hard
taskmaster. Both wings
should be accountable to the
public as well to bring about
positive change.
Prime Minister Modi has
the numbers to get any legis-
lation passed. It is for babu-
dom to implement the poli-
cies honestly and efficiently,
without arrogance and red
tape, so as to bring about
perceptible change in the
first 100 days of governance.
PN Saxena
Get to work: Hats off to the
author for the succinct analy-
sis. What India needs is dedi-
cated and efficient bureau-
crats, not just paper pushers
who believe in protecting the
status quo. If the bureaucrats
do not come up to the
required standards, they
should be shown the door.
This will ensure that they fall
in line.
Yes, in the process, the
bureaucrats will now lose
their golf sessions and miss
the gala times they had at the
Civil Clubs drinking whiskey
and playing a game of Bridge
in the evening. They have
enjoyed enough. Now, its
time to get to work.
jagadesanv
Stop Government interfer-
ence: Freeing bureaucrats
from the clutches of politi-
cians is easy. Freeing people
from the clutches of the
Government will, however,
be more difficult.
Maybe Prime Minister
Narendra Modi can attempt
this after having fulfilled his
plans for the first 100 days.
Jitendra
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Reader response to
Rajesh Singhs column,
Plain Talk, published on
June 1:
Whitewashing leaders:
Sheikh Abdullahs infamous
comment, Be one of us, or
flee or be decimated is
seldom quoted.
On the flip side, Hindu
phobia has seemingly
become the essence of secu-
lar practice. And the country
is already paying a heavy
price for this.
s kurup
Split into three: Its time to
divide the State of Jammu &
Kashmir into three parts.
Ladakh should become a
Union Territory while
Jammu and Kashmir should
be separated into two differ-
ent States, much like
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh
were carved out of Bihar and
Madhya Pradesh respectively.
Form a Constituent
Assembly and make amend-
ments to take away separate
laws, flag and Constitution.
Also, when elections are held
in the new States, New Delhi
must seal the border and
ensure that anti-India ele-
ments do no mischief.
Rangaesh Gadasalli
Uncomfortable questions:
Some articles are appearing
in a section of the jaundiced
media that Syama Prasad
Mookerjee was in favour of
Article 370. However, no
questions are being asked as
to why Mookerjee was incar-
cerated in Kashmir, allegedly
at the behest of Jawaharlal
Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah.
Also, nobody seems to be
bothered about how unsafe
Kashmir valley has been for
Hindus since 1947. These are
inconvenient and embarrass-
ing issues, no doubt.
But, perhaps, it is time
we put them before the
Congress as well as the array
of communists and pseudo-
secularists who regularly
pontificate on such matters.
In fact, they should be
asked these questions with
the unsparing arrogance that
some our leading television
anchors demonstrate on vari-
ous other issues. The apolo-
gists will then soon have to
run for cover.
Anil
Action warranted: Given the
senseless statements made by
Omar Abdullah, it is high
time that Prime Minister
Narendra Modi acts against
the Chief Minister of Jammu
& Kashmir. Omar is not fit to
be in responsible politics.
San
PLANTALK
RAJESh Sh0h
Jlree oecaoes after tle
Klalistani insurgency
T
he Taj Mahal is nol lhe only wonder in ullar Fradesh. The ruling
Yadav clan o lhe Slale is anolher. lhe irsl lakes your brealh
away by ils sheer beauly and by being a monumenl o love, lhe
second reulses you by ils insensilivily lowards women. The bad news
is lhal lhe Slale's Firsl Family will conlinue lo hold on lo ower or
some lime; lhe good news is lhal lhe arly il leads will mosl cerlainly
be ousled as soon as lhe Assembly eleclion is held. The second good
news is lhal while lhe Taj Mahal and lhe shining ideals il reresenls
will conlinue lo lure eole, lhe discrediled Yadav clan will be orgollen
as an unorlunale oolnole in lhe ages o hislory.
magine, Mulayam Singh Yadav, who leads lhe ruling brigade as
lhe arly suremo and in oering lhe mosl oulrageous remarks,
dreaml (and slill dreams) o becoming lhe counlry's Frime Minisler.
magine also lhal he becomes Frime Minisler by some unorlunale
quirk o olilical lay in lhe near ulure. we shall lhen have lhe honour
o having a head o 0overnmenl who believes lhal rae is a mere "mis
lake" commilled by lhe young, because "boys will be boys". And, we
shall soak in lhe dignily o having a Frime Minisler who holds lhal lhe
amendmenls lo lhe anlirae laws done in recenl monlhs lo slrenglhen
lhe rovisions were lhe handiwork o demenled minds.
The wonderul lhing aboul lhe wonder lhal is lhe Yadav clan is lhal
wonders don'l cease wilh one member. Mulayam Singh Yadav's brolh
er and arliamenlarian, Ram 0oal Yadav, inorms us lhal lhe beaslly
sirils o man are aroused by lhe media, ilms and lelevision. And once
lhal haens, whal can a oor 0overnmenl do bul wail or lhe
inevilable lo occur and lherealer lake "slricl" aclion?
Chie Minisler Akhilesh Yadav may be lhe youngesl o lhe
MulayamRam0oalAkhilesh lrio, bul he is no less o a wonder. 0
course lhe horrible Badaun incidenl haened where lwo minor
cousins were irsl raed and lhen hanged lo dealh, he agrees. l's also
lrue lhal lhere has been a sale o rae and moleslalion incidenls in
lhe Slale in lhe lasl orlnighl. Bul il's lhe "RWPP[d" eole who are
overlaying il. he lhen delivers lhe wisdom: he asks eslering journal
isls lo do a "0oogle search" which will reveal lhal raes are haening
all over lhe counlry and lhe world. whal's lhe big deal?
l's no big deal or lhe ruling Yadavs and lheir arly. The lwo inno
cenl girls, barely 15 years o age, came rom lhe backward Maurya
Shakya communily. unlike lhe Yadavs, lhis backward class is nol a lra
dilional voler o lhe Samajwadi Farly. 0n lhe olher hand, lhe accused
belong lo lhe Yadav communily.
Everybody underslands lhe casle
game in ullar Fradesh, and
nobody underslands il beller
lhan lhe Slale's olice acked
wilh symalhisers o lhe ruling
casle or lhose belonging lo il.
Thus, when lhe viclims' amily
members aroached lhe olice,
lhe olice assured lhem lhal lhe
girls would "relurn" in a coule
o hours. when lhe members
wenl lo lhe olice again aler lhe
deadline assed, lhey were lold
lo visil lhe sile where evenlually
lhe girls were ound hanging
rom lhe branches o a lree. l's
almosl as i lhe local olice knew
all along where lhe girls were,
who had abducled lhem, whal
had been lhe molive behind lhe
abduclion, and whal would ha
en lo lhe viclims lherealer.
how, visualise a silualion
where lhe viclims had been rom
lhe Yadav communily and lhe
accused belonged lo eilher lhe
uer casles (who have lurned
away rom lhe Samajwadi Farly)
or lhe Scheduled Casles (lhal
have lradilionally backed lhe
Bahujan Samaj Farly, lhough in
lhis Lok Sabha eleclion, lhere
aears lo have been a shil
elsewhere). The olice would
have ul ils besl ool orward -
showing lhe same alacrily as il
had when a senior Samajwadi
Farly Minisler inlervened lo gel a
bunch o accused released in
conneclion wilh lhe
Mu/aarnagar incidenl - and
regislered an FR even beore lhe
viclims' amily had comleled
relaling lheir woes. The olice would have also rescued lhe viclims.
Folice ersonnel o ullar Fradesh are nol incomelenl; remember how
lhey had succeeded in localing lhe missing bualoes o a Minisler
(incidenlally, il's lhe same Minisler who is said lo have inlerered in lhe
Mu/aarnagar issue).
The olice did whal il lhoughl was lhe 'sae' lhing. l behaved in a
manner lhal, il believed rom exerience, would kee ils olilical boss
es salisied. viclims o rae can be hanged lo dealh, bul lhe erelra
lors o rae should nol (reer lo Mulayam Singh Yadav). Bul or a med
dlesome media, lhe Badaun incidenl (and lhe many olhers) would have
been quielly brushed under lhe carel. The Yadav clan musl be eeling
enormously relieved lhal lhe viclims were nol 0alils, else lhe
0overnmenl would have been comelled lo aly lhe slringenl rovi
sions o lhe Scheduled Casles and Scheduled Tribes (Frevenlion o
Alrocilies) Acl againsl lhe accused.
The Slale 0overnmenl has launched largescale lransers and sus
ensions o bureaucrals and olice oicials in lhe wake o lhe rising
incidenls o sexual crimes againsl women. The idea is lo shake u lhe
adminislralion rom lelhargy. Bul none o lhis is going lo work unless
lhe mindsel o lhe rulers changes. words soken, like arrows shol
rom a quiver, cannol be laken back. The leasl lhal lhe Yadav members
o lhe ruling amily can now do is lo aologise or lheir insensilive
slalemenls. Bul lhe likelihood o il haening is as brighl as lhal o
ndia winning lhe world Cu Foolball in lhe nexl decade.
Thereore, whal we have been seeing over lhe asl ew days is a
urlher hardening o lhose silly remarks. women leaders o lhe
Samajwadi Farly have been deending lhe Yadavblunders on lelevi
sion sludios and, believe il or nol, claiming lhal Mulayam Singh
Yadav & 0rou is aculely sensilive lo women's issues. They sound so
alhelic, esecially given lhal lhey cannol even lake reuge by saying
lhe leaders had been 'misquoled' or lhal lheir remarks had been
'laken oul o conlexl'.
The acl is lhal lhe Akhilesh Yadav regime has broughl casle (and lo an
exlenl, religious ailialion) lo lhe core o lhe law and order issue in lhe
Slale. Mayawali loo had done somelhing similar during her rein in lhe
name o emowering lhe 0alils, bul she was clever enough lo mainlain a
gri (al leasl relalive lo lhis regime) on lhe law and order silualion. 0ne rea
son or lhis was lhal Mayawali owed her osilion also lo lhe uer casles
who had lied u wilh lhe 0alils (social engineering) lo bring her viclory.
Those who
played Dr Faust
to the S and
instigated young
men to pick up
AK-47s have
never been
brought to
justice. They are
ensconced in
their plush
homes in the US,
Canada and
Britain, and still
dream of
Khalistan
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magazino
jitit
Now Dolhi, Juno 8, 2014
F E E D B A C K
Funjab has come a long way rom lhose dark days and darker nighls. however, sinisler
orces abroad are yel lo accel deeal. ndia cannol aord lo be comlacenl
The Akhilesh Yadav
regime has brought
caste {and to an
extent, religious
affiliation] to the
core of the law and
order issue in the
State. Mayawati too
had done
something similar
during her rein in
the name of
empowering the
Dalits, but she was
clever enough to
maintain a grip on
law and order
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W
hen US Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was released by the
Taliban on May 31, 2014, concerns were subsequent-
ly raised about his priorities whether he actually
despised his own motherland as reported or he was indeed a
homecoming victor. That right there is one of the classic exam-
ples of military identity crises. The debate between the person-
al and the political, the confrontation of varying subjectivities,
the idea of the self changing in a war, the battle between the
right and wrong and the most fundamental question of all
who decides? The warped psychology operating in the
Bergdahl case isnt nascent; its deep rooted in military history
and is universal. In fact similar conundrum concerning a sol-
diers (and the likes) misplaced sense of identity is, on its own,
a political sub-culture and needs to be located in its own con-
text. In India, a policeman may not be different in attitude
from a common citizen but once he dons his uniform, he
becomes an element of a dehumanised force. The Indian
Police Service (IPS) did not exist before Independence. There
was only the Imperial Police (IP). The colonial Government
did not deem the imperial police a service, probably in an
attempt to avoid a relationship between the police and the
community. The force never had a human face and was always
associated with the uniform. Worse, they were authorised to
employ third degree, torture on suspects to elicit information.
In situations like these, how does one distinguish between the
authority of uniform and the human being wearing it? This
raises the essentially post-structuralist question: Is certainty
possible in identity and belief?
Post-colonial histories of recent times project resistance
less with reference to the events in history and more in a subal-
ternist approach where the rebel, or the person, is emphasised
(as seen in the works of James C Scott or Ranajit Guha). In
particular, the colonial archives focus upon the figure of a rural
Indian. Be it a nationalist or a Marxist method of chronicling,
peasant-rebels would be the metaphor that rehabilitates the
notion of ideal rebellion. Gajendra Singhs latest book The
Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars:
Between self and sepoy (published by Bloomsbury) chronicles
the Indian sipahi (soldier) and Indian military history with an
orientation towards both time (with reference to the event)
and space (with reference to the approach) in history. In the
World Wars, thousands of Indian sepoys were recruited to
fight for the British Crown. Singhs documentation seeks to
explore how those sepoys under-
stand and explain their own war
experiences, and in the process,
positions the colonialist vision
through the corpus of Indian
military law and testimonies.
Divided into six chapters, it cov-
ers a range of topics such as the
martial race theories, censorship
in the Army, the letters of the
sipahis, court testimonies, and so
on. Meticulously arranged, the
first chapter for instance, details
what attributes of which commu-
nities have led to the formation of
several military race theories:
The Sikh Jat was broadly under-
stood to have a soldierly bearing
but distinctions were made between Sikh cultivators from the
Manjha (Amritsar, Lahore, and Sialkot etc) and Malwa areas of
Punjab. The Manjha is brighter and quicker, the Malwai is as
conscientious but less cheerful. The Sindhu Jats were the finest
specimens of the human racetheir martial spirit and dogged
courage exhibit themselves in crimes of violence. The Pathans
of Hindu Kush were naturally given to martial endeavour
because they hailed from the frontier. They were first recruited
after the annexation of Punjab and a distinct image emerged
following the creation of the NWFP. Because of the equation
made between tribalness and martial bearing, different types
of Pathans were seen as more tribal and thereby more mar-
tialThe caste exclusiveness and intricate purification cere-
monies performed by Brahmins were seen to be inimical to
military efficiency. Brahmin sub-castes recruited in the army
such as the Kanoujiya Brahmins of UP or the Punjabi Dogras
were shorn off their Brahminness by all military handbooks.
World War I recorded a high incidence of war trauma
among British soldiers and colonial troops. The Indian Army
Act was amended in 1923 to make allowances for the Indian
sipahis. By World War II, they had over a thousand beds in
psychiatric wards reserved for victims of war neuroses.
Beyond the psychology, Singhs book also explores a chain
letter and the consequence it had upon Muslim troops of the
Indian Army during the World War I. The letter was read,
rewritten and passed on as soldiers to purify their own
bodies and oppose interracial sexual relationships and
formed the basis of the Ahmadiyya Movement. It was a care-
ful critique of the British approach towards the Ottoman
empire: The snowball letter emerged as part of the conversa-
tion that Muslim sipahis were engaged in about their reli-
gionit reflected and furthered the ability of the Muslim
sipahis to act as religious conduits and catalysts. The most
interesting chapter in the book is, as the title itself suggests,
Mutiny, Fabricating Court Testimony and Hiding in the
Latrine and it also happened to entail plenty of testimonies
by the soldiers themselves.
The book covers myriad schools of thoughts oriental-
ism, historicism, post-colonialism, modernism, and even racial
essentialisations. It underlines the colonialist visions of the sol-
dier and how loyalty, discipline were internalised aspects of
military life which could be provoked by invoking izzat, dhar-
ma and shahadat; as part of a duty to ones sex, kin, religion, or
to traditions and martyrdom. It brings to the fore the colonial
ideologies as pronounced by European powers, akin to the
works of Homi Bhaba, Aijaz Ahmed, and the likes.
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N
arendra Modi has discussed strategies
with the general secretaries of his party
to ensure victory in the Assembly
Elections. It is a strong message
indicating that the history of the Atal
Bihari Vajpayee-Government will not be repeated
and the organisation will not weaken.
This year, Assembly Elections are scheduled in
five States and either the Congress or its allied
partners are ruling in four, and Delhi is under
Presidents rule. The BJP is expecting that it will
win in all these States. The BJP leaders think that
the party will get enough seats in the Jammu region
to ensure that the Government cannot be formed in
the State without their help.
Next year, there will be elections in Bihar and
the BJP is hopeful of winning again. In 2016,
Assembly Elections are scheduled in States like
West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam where
the BJP doesnt have a strong base. However, if the
party wins in the elections scheduled for this year, it
will be ruling in 10 States. The strategy of the BJP is
to form the Government in at least half of the States
in the next five years.
CONGRESS CMs IN TROUBLE
I
n four Congress-ruled States, party leaders are
publicly demanding that the Chief Ministers
(CMs) be changed. The former CM of
Maharashtra, Narayan Rane, has written a letter to
Sonia Gandhi stating that Prithviraj Chavan needs
to be replaced.
Likewise, Haryanas leader and former central
Minister Kumari Shailja has said that if BS Hooda is
not removed, the Congress will face an ugly defeat
again. Next on target is Assams CM Tarun Gogoi;
40 MLAs camped in Delhi against him for several
days. Mizoram CM Lal Thanhawla has landed
himself in a problem too. In Jharkhand, former
Central Minister Rameshwar Oraon has targetted
several leaders of the State, especially PCC
president Sukhdeo Bhagat and has held the
leadership of the State responsible for his defeat
from Lohardaga. In Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh
and State president Pratap Singh Bajwa have
opened a front against each other. There is great
discontent against leaders in Gujarat, Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and Kerala as well.
CONFLICT IN RAJYA SABHA
T
he first test of the Central Government would
be to pass the Ordinance by virtue of which
Nripendra Mishra was appointed the Principal
Secretary of PM. Reportedly, the Congress will not
create any hurdle on the issue because the party
feels that appointing the Principal Secretary is the
prerogative of the Prime Minister. So, there wont
be any problem in passing the Bill in Rajya Sabha,
which changes the rules of TRAI.
There are almost half a dozen Bills pending
related to education. When Kapil Sibal was the
HRD Minister, he tried to persuade the BJP to pass
the Bills related to education but the BJP had not
lent a hand. Likewise, there were Bills related to
family welfare and finance, which P Chidambaram
tried to get passed but the Left and the BJP had not
helped again. If the present Government tries to get
all these Bills passed, the present Opposition
likewise will not lend support.
DIGVIJAYASINGH CHANGING COLOURS?
D
igvijaya Singh has repeated what he had said
in 2012. He attacked the Shahi Imam of
Jama Masjid of Delhi by calling him
communal yet again. Back then, the Shahi
Imam had appealed to vote for the Samajwadi
Party. At that time Singh was in-charge of the
Uttar Pradesh Congress and had roped in Rahul
Gandhi for the elections. To polarise Muslim
voters, Singh had also raised the issue of the
Batla House encounter, calling it fake.
However, after his formula flopped, he retried it
in the Lok Sabha elections attempting to malign
Modis image by levelling allegations against him
and that failed too. But it seems that his view is
changing now. It must be kept in mind that Singh
has been soft on Hindutva within the party circle.
He had suggested that a policy of soft Hindutva
should be adopted to counter Modi. Now, he thinks
that fierce politics of Muslim polarisation may
harm the Congress.
LAWYER MINISTERS RETURN TO WORK
A
bout the functioning of the Congress-led UPA
Government, it was always said that the party
was in problem due to its Ministers who were
lawyers by profession. Questions were raised
against lawyers who had been included in the joint
committee to prepare the Lokpal Bill with Anna
Hazare. Most of them were lawyers and they raised
some complicated points and the experiments
failed. Now all of them have returned to work. Of
them, Ashwini Kumar and Mani Shankar Aiyar are
in the Rajya Sabha and Veerappa Moily is in the
Lok Sabha. Sibal and Khurshid lost the elections,
while Chidambaram and Manish Tewari had not
fought. Sibal and Khursid have also got their Bar
license renewed and started practice.
AKHILESH AND HIS NEW VISION FOR UP
I
n Uttar Pradesh, after a terrible defeated,
Akhilesh Yadav has taken various steps. He has
ousted those who have got the status of State
Ministers. He has taken back the red beacons of
around three dozen people and has also dissolved
the organisation in the State, though he is
continuing as the State party president. Probably he
has talked to Mulayam Singh Yadav and sought full
liberty for making changes in the Government and
organisation. Though at the same time, there are
apprehensions that he would be able to do all these
as per his wishes.
Reportedly, he wants to ensure changes
according to his wishes. Leaders close to him say
that change is feasible only when he gets full liberty.
But this would not be possible till he does not get
freedom from leaders like Mulayam, his brothers
Shivpal and Ramgopal, Azam Khan, Ambika
Chaudhary and Rajendra Chaudhary.
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azira is a port city
near Surat, Gujarat.
Located 84 km on
the east of Lucknow on the
Lucknow-Varanasi road,
Jagdishpur is home to units
of Bharat Electrical Limited
(BHEL), Steel Authority
of India and Indo Gulf
Fertilisers Limited
Company. Due to the
efforts of Rahul Gandhi,
Jagdishpur is developing
into an industrial town. The
town falls in the Amethi
constituency.
It has an LPG bottling
plant, which receives gas
from Hazira through pipes.
The LPG travels a distance of
1,750 km from Hazira to
Jagdishpur.
Around 80 km east of
Patna is a tiny industrial
town called Barauni. The
town has a huge Indian Oil
Corporation (IOC) petrole-
um refinery. The refinery
processes crude oil and pro-
duces everything that comes
from crude oil LPG,
naphtha, petrol, Aviation
Turbine Fuel (ATF),
kerosene, diesel, light diesel
oil (used mainly by farmers,
tractors, ships), farnese oil
(industrial oil used in boil-
ers, ships), bitumen, et al.
The IOC refinery in
Barauni gets crude oil from
Haldia, that is about 50 km
from Kolkata. Haldia is at
the mouth of multiple rivers
and lacks depth. Large ships
cant reach there and land at
Paradip instead because it
has enough depth. About
400 km from Haldia, Paradip
falls in Orissa. From vessels,
crude oil is offloaded and
transported to Haldia
through pipes.
From there, the same
crude oil is transported by
pipes to Barauni, 624 km
away. After the crude oil is
refined, products such as
petrol, diesel and kerosene
are transported to Kanpur,
700 km away, by pipes.
The IOCs Loni-based
LPG bottling plant gets gas
through pipes from
Jamnagar. Located at the
border of Delhi, that falls in
UPs Ghaziabad, Loni is
1,269 km from Jamnagar.
Since pipelines are the
cheapest form of transporta-
tion, oil and gas companies
such as IOC, ONGC, BPL,
HPCL and GAIL have built a
large network all over India.
Crude oil is virtually mud
and has a tendency to stick
on the pipes inner walls. To
deal with that kind of prob-
lem, companies set up boost-
er pump stations so that
crude oil keeps moving.
If oil and gas which
are highly inflammable
can be made available acci-
dent-free via a network of
pipelines all over India, why
cant the Government of
India create a network of
pipelines that can transport
water from surplus regions
to the deficient ones?
Indian diplomats, schol-
ars and students abroad face
embarrassing moments pri-
marily on two grounds
Indias discriminatory caste
order and record on malnu-
trition. Reports keep appear-
ing in foreign media that 42
per cent Indian children
aged up to five are chronical-
ly malnourished.
India gives food aid to
many African countries. No
country has as many anti-
malnutrition programmes
running together as India.
But the problem persists as
malnutrition doesnt decline.
According to the WHO,
Clinically, malnutrition is
characterised by inadequate
or excess intake of protein,
energy, and micronutrients.
It further says,
Nutritional status is com-
promised where people are
exposed to high levels of
infection due to unsafe and
insufficient water supply and
inadequate sanitation.
Going by the WHOs
definition of what causes
malnutrition, Indian can
never resolve this problem
unless its citizens get enough
and good quality water.
In north India in sum-
mers, rivers flow through the
terai region or India border-
ing Nepal. You will find that
the water is cold if not
chilled at places. The entire
water body finally gets wast-
ed in the Bay of Bengal.
Why cant this surplus
water be tamed and diverted
through a chain of pipelines
to water-deficient regions of
Bundelkhand, Rajasthan,
parts of Gujarat,
Maharashtra and Karnataka?
After all, the poor are hit the
hardest. Dalits and tribals
form a bulk of the poor. It is
time India adopted the new
slogan of Water Prosperity.
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olice have released a recording of a
woman who dialled 999 to request
help in a row over the number of
sprinklers on an ice cream. The
caller, who was not named
by West Midlands Police,
contacted emergency
operators while arguing
with the owner of an
ice cream van.
During a
minute-long call,
the indignant
woman told the
operator: It
doesnt seem like
much of an emer-
gency but it is a little bit
because Ive ordered an ice
cream and hes put bits on
one side and none of the
other. He is refusing to give
my money back and saying
that Ive got to take it like that.
Police forces often shame
callers who clog up the
emergency number with
ridiculous calls.
Urging the public not to misuse the
999 system, Chief Superintendent Jim
Andronov said: If someone is trying to
get through to report a genuine life or
death emergency, then a minute is a
very long time to wait. I cannot
stress enough that the 999
number is for emergencies
only.
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woman opened the
door to her back yard
in coastal Mississippi to
find that a 5-foot alligator
had taken up residence in her
pool. Pam Jones opened her
back door to let out her dog when
she spotted the alligator in the pool.
The animal was swimming around,
then climbed out to sun itself. Jones
got the dog inside, shut the door and
called the Department of Wildlife,
Fisheries and Parks.
Our pool motor went out and weve
been waiting for the new one to
come in, Jones said. The pool is
green because of the motor being
out. But it did get
all of the frogs liv-
ing in there.
Wildlife officials
told Jones that alligators frequently
show up in neighborhoods
after heavy rain.
Master Sgt Barry Delcambre tried
to prod the alligator, which retreated to
the bottom of the pool. After five hours,
they got it.
Im just glad its gone, Jones said as
she looked at the alligator resting in the
back of the wildlife officials truck. Hes
kind of cute though, isnt he?
Authorities said the alligator will be
moved to an undisclosed location.
(AP)
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Montana mom of eight has motivat-
ed millions of people to join her on
a quest for a flatter tummy. Robyn
Mendenhall Gardner posted a 30-Day
Ab Challenge on Facebook hoping to
coax a few other people to join in. The
likes started pouring in right away.
Within a week, nearly one million peo-
ple were on board with the programme.
Now the likes are
up to 2.6 million and
still climbing.
I cant come to
everyones home or place of work and
make them do these, so we all are going
to have to work together to try and
complete this entire challenge, Gardner
writes on her Facebook page.
The challenge, which started on
June 1 and runs through the end of the
month, consists of a series of sit-ups,
crunches, leg raises and planks, all
designed to strengthen the core muscles
of the abs, waist and lower back. It
sticks to a three-day-on, one-day-off
cycle and gets progressively more chal-
lenging with each workout.
(Yahoo News)
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around some Santa Fe, New Mexico
neighborhoods and shoot at random
cars with BB guns. It would appear that
they wound up shooting the wrong per-
sons car, though. A victim decided to
chase the teens, scaring them so much
that they called 911 for help. Police
came right away and arrested the
teens. The Santa Fe Police
Department
had been
receiving com-
plaints about van-
dals shooting at cars, so
when they heard from the
teenagers, they were already
aware of the crimes they had
committed. One of the teens, in the
911 call, told a dispatcher, Every
time we speed up, that car speeds
up and tries to keep up with us.
When the police arrived, the teens
admitted to what they had done
and were subsequently arrested.
(Yahoo News)
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A
Detroit-area man kept driving on a
road trip from Arizona to Michigan
even after he discovered that his front-
seat passenger was dead, media reports
said. The 62-year-old man told the
police he touched the sleeping 31-year-
old woman, whom he described as a
friend, as he was driving
through
Oklahoma
or Texas
and found
her cold, the
Detroit Free
Press reported,
quoting the
police.
The man told the
police he kept driving
because based on the
Internet research he did
on his phone, he
thought he had 48
hours before he needed
to take the woman to a
morgue, according
to the Free Press.
Police said he
should have imme-
diately called for help.
Also travelling in the mans 2004
Ford Econoline van was his 92-year-old
mother, the Free Press said.
(Reuters)
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he failure to find
wreckage from the
missing Malaysia
Airlines plane and the
slow release of official
information has left the troubled
hunt mired in uncertainty and
continues to spawn a growing
range of sightings and conspira-
cy theories. Almost three
months since the Boeing 777
and its 239 passengers went
missing, the search has found no
debris and criminal investigators
have found no evidence of ter-
rorism or a motivation behind
the apparently deliberate sabo-
tage of the plane.
The search has focused for
months on a stretch of the
Indian Ocean off the coast of
Australia, but the entire opera-
tion is relying on satellite data
that was never intended to chart
the course of the plane.
Meanwhile, distraught families
across the world hold hope that
their loved ones may have sur-
vived and have led a push for the
release of all information about
the flight.
Authorities in Australia con-
tinue to believe the plane is
somewhere in the south Indian
Ocean and have pledged to press
ahead with the underwater oper-
ation, releasing a tender calling
for companies to conduct the
search.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the
lack of firm evidence of the
planes final resting point and the
failure to find debris has led to a
growing number of conspiracy
theories and possible sightings.
In recent days, a British
woman claimed to have seen the
plane while on a sailing voyage
from India to Thailand.
This followed various other
sightings shortly after the plane
disappeared, including claims
the plane flew low over houses
in the Maldives or near an oil rig
off the coast of Vietnam.
Others have speculated that
military authorities must have
access to radar data which has
not been disclosed; indeed, there
has been surprisingly little data
made available despite the plane
disappearing in a part of Asia
that has become increasingly
tense in recent years.
Others have gone further,
claiming the plane may have
landed on an airfield in troubled
or overlooked parts of the world,
from Afghanistan to the
Andaman Islands.
Meanwhile, information
continues to trickle out.
In the past two weeks,
authorities in Malaysia released
the cargo manifest and the satel-
lite data used to plot the apparent
course of the plane after it made
its unexplained turn south.
A scientist in Australia is
investigating a noise detected by
underwater equipment which has
been traced back to a location
somewhere off the tip of India.
Authorities leading the
search in Australia have been
forced to make the embarrassing
admission that they searched the
wrong area for months and that
there was no debris in a zone in
which apparent black box pings
were heard. But they continue to
insist that the satellite data is an
accurate guide to the planes
whereabouts. The next phase, to
begin in August, will cover more
than 23,000 square miles.
It is due to take 12 months
leaving plenty of time for
further claims, theories and
official data.
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hailands military rulers have
warned they will arrest large
groups of protesters who are using a
three-fingered sign borrowed from
the Hunger Games movies. The sym-
bol has become a popular form of
protest following the juntas seizure
of power on May 22.
A military spokesman told the
Associated Press that its use was
being monitored and would lead to
intervention by the authorities in
certain circumstances. We know it
comes from the movie, and lets say
it represents resistance against the
authorities, Colonel Weerachon
Sukhondhapatipak said.
If a single individual raises three
fingers in the air, we are not going to
arrest him or her. But if it is a politi-
cal gathering of five people or more,
we will have to take action.
If it persists, we will have to
make an arrest. At this point, we are
monitoring the movement. If it is an
obvious form of resistance, we will
have to control it so it doesnt cause
any disorder in the country, he said.
In the Hunger Games films and
source novels by author Suzanne
Collins, the three-fingered sign is
used by citizens of fictional Panem
to silently protest against their
authoritarian overlords.
J
urassic World, the Jurassic Park
sequel, will be filmed in a theme
park abandoned after being dam-
aged by Hurricane Katrina. Six Flags
in New Orleans, which has also been
a filming destination for the likes of
Killer Joe and Dawn of the Planet of
the Apes, was closed shortly before
the hurricane hit and has been in a
state of disrepair since.
Its the second confirmed loca-
tion following initial photography in
Hawaii, from which Entertainment
Weekly posted a handful of photos.
Director Colin Trevorrow has also
been occasionally posting teaser
shots from the set on Twitter, but
was recently forced to address major
plot leaks (spoilers ahead).
He said the leaks were real
story elements that the film-makers
were hoping to introduce to the
audience in a darkened movie the-
ater... I hope whoever leaked it is
actively trying to undermine what
were doing. Because if theyre trying
to help, theyre doing it wrong.
Jurassic World takes place in a fully
functional park on Isla Nublar. It
sees more than 20,000 visitors every
day. You arrive by ferry from Costa
Rica. It has elements of a biological
preserve, a safari, a zoo and a theme
park. There is a luxury resort with
hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a
golf course. And there are dinosaurs;
real ones. You can get closer to them
than you ever imagined possible. Its
the realisation of John Hammonds
dream, and I think youll want to go
there, he said.
B
rad Pitt has labelled the Ukrainian
prankster, who attacked him on
the red carpet in Los Angeles last
month, a nutter who tried to bury
his face in the actors crotch.
Vitalii Sediuk, a TV personality,
made headlines a week ago after
assaulting Pitt at the Hollywood world
premiere of Maleficent, starring
Angelina Jolie, Pitts partner. Sediuk
was arrested and charged with battery,
assault, unlawful activity and interfer-
ence at a theatrical event, according to
Reuters. He pleaded no contest to bat-
tery and unlawful activity; the other
charges were dismissed as part of a
plea deal.
Pitt told People magazine that he
had been at the El Capitan cinema in
Hollywood with his partner and five
of their children when the prankster
managed to jump the barrier.
I was at the end of the line sign-
ing autographs when out the corner of
my eye I saw someone stage-diving
over the barrier at me, he said in a
statement.
I took a step back; this guy had
latched on to my lapels. I looked down
and the nutter was trying to bury his
face in my crotch, so I cracked him
twice in the back of the head not
too hard but enough to get his
attention, because he did let go. I think
he was then just grabbing for a hand
hold because the guys were on him,
and he reached up and caught my
glasses. he added.
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has claimed she may have seen lhe
missing Malaysia Airlines lane on
ire. Kalherine Tee, 41, was on nighl
walch on March 78 bul said she
did nol reorl lhe sighling unlil
Sunday because she was having
marilal roblems and lhoughl she
was losing her mind.
She said recenl media reorls
aboul lhe ailing search or Mh87O
romled her "lo ile a reorl wilh
lhe ull lrack dala or our voyage lo
lhe relevanl aulhorilies".
" looked back lhrough our
0FS logs and lo and behold, whal
we saw was consislenl wilh lhe
conirmed conlacl which lhe
aulhorilies had rom Mh87O," she
lold Thailand's ?WdZTc 6PiTccT.
She said, "Since lhal's nol
somelhing you see every day,
queslioned my mind. was looking
al whal aeared lo be an
elongaled lane glowing brighl
orange, wilh a lrail o black smoke
behind il. l did occur lo me lhal il
mighl be a meleorile. Bul lhoughl
il was more likely lhal was going
insane."
"There were lwo olher lanes
well above il - moving lhe olher
way - al lhe lime. They had
normal navigalion lighls.
remember lhinking lhal i il was a
lane on ire lhal was seeing, lhe
olher aircral would reorl il."
"will lhis hel lhe aulhorilies
o lhe amilies gel closure? have
no idea," Tee said. "All can
conirm is lhal have since learnl
lhal we were in lhe righl lace al
lhe righl lime, so il seems ossible,
bul chose lo swee il under lhe
carel and now eel really bad."
Scienlisls are invesligaling a
myslerious lowrequency
underwaler noise delecled o lhe
soulhern li o ndia al aboul lhe
lime lhe missing Malaysia Airlines
lane had ils lasl salellile
lransmission and disaeared.
The noise, oulside lhe range o
human hearing, reorledly lravelled
across lhe ndian 0cean and was
icked u by receivers o lhe wesl
coasl o Auslralia. Bul ils original
localion - aboul 8,OOO miles
norlhwesl o Auslralia - would
nol be consislenl wilh lhe currenl
search area o lhe Auslralian coasl,
which is based on analysis o
salellile dala by Brilish irm
nmarsal.
Alec 0uncan, a marine scienlisl
al Curlin universily near Ferlh, said
he believed lhe chances o lhe
sound being rom lhe missing
Boeing 777 were aboul "25 lo 8O
er cenl".
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M370 0a fIre'
Authorities
leading the
search in
Australia have
been forced
to make the
embarrassing
admission that
they searched
the wrong area
for months.
There was no
debris in a
zone in which
apparent
black box
pings were
heard
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day, according lo lheir ersonal wishes. A
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haen al Kalalsumuri, lhe magic reslauranl
whose delicale ood can heal hearlache.
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during rush hour, buddies Shri, Shanks, and
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T
o those who believe that this
book is primarily about
China, it is a reminder that
Shishir Gupta has attempted
no such thing. His book is
about the Indian response to the various
activities that Beijing has indulged in
since 1962, which have had a bearing on
New Delhi, and how that response has
shaped bilateral relations between the
two countries over the decades. These
have been in the domain of both diplo-
macy and military.
Such narrative for most part, bar-
ring rare exceptions, has ended up with
India seemingly the loser. This could be
an issue of perception, but an element of
reality cannot be ruled out in the fact
that New Delhis counter-actions in the
wake of not just military incursions by
the Chinese into Indian territory, but
also the various infrastructure projects
in the formers region that are said to
adversely impact India, and Beijings
verbal sabre-rattling off and on, have all
not been as adequately dealt with by
New Delhi as one would have desired.
Post-May 16, the book does sound
politically dated, since the author has
discussed at length the Congress-led
UPA Governments strategy (or the lack
of it) in tackling the challenges it faced
in dealing with China or its occasional
standing up to Beijings bullying. That
chapter has ended, and we now have a
new Government headed by a Prime
Minister who is both open to a new and
happy beginning with China and clear
on the limits that Beijing can touch in its
aggression. For Narendra Modi, China
will present almost as many challenges
as Pakistan as he works to craft a new
synergy between India and its neigh-
bours. Whatever the hurdles, it is clear
that there will be a break from the past.
It is here that Guptas book acquires
added importance: It serves as a useful
and informative guide, without having
wanted to, for the new powers-that-are.
Expectedly, he begins with the
shocking intrusion of Chinese troops at
Daulat Beg Oldi on April 15, 2013,
which lasted close to three weeks. Even
by Beijings standards, this was the most
brazen attempt by it to lay claim on what
clearly has been Indian territory. It
angered experts and laymen alike in the
country. The author writes that the high-
profile China Study Group vehemently
suggested that India should call off the
Indian Army delegation-level talks with
Chinas PLA in protest. But the then
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
vetoed the move on the ground that the
Chinese aggression was a localised
problem. The word was picked up by
some of his Ministers who went to town
with it. Then External Affairs Minister
Salman Khurshid embellished the cause
by calling it acne on the face. It was, in
reality, a slap on Indias face that the
Chinese had rendered.
Gupta provides details of the negoti-
ations that began to resolve the crisis.
But the important take-away from the
episode is what the author observes:
These signs are ominous for the future
as India will have to be even vigilant to
the Chinese threats across the LAC,
with the PLA determined to dominate
the LAC. Beijing had all but been
allowed by India to do so for decades.
Will this change?
The lack of a firm response by the
then Government of India could have
been one reason for the subsequent acts
of belligerence by the neighbour. The
author points to an incident in Novem-
ber 2007 when the Chinese forces
destroyed three Indian Army bunkers in
Doka La on the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet
junction. He writes, The way the PLA
was allowed to demolish the bunkers
without the matter being taken up at the
highest levels did not go down well with
the Eastern Army Command as they felt
China should have raised objections
when the bunkers were being construct-
ed. Local Army commanders were also
unhappy at their own bosses who chose
not to make a stand and gave into the
Chinese without any fuss.
Gupta gives a riveting insight into
how the UPA regime allowed petty poli-
tics and babudom to override national
security on at least one instance. As
Army chief, General VK Singh along
with his officers developed a new plan
to ensure that China did not have the
upper hand in sectors along the border
where the Indian Army traditionally
had a weak presence. Gen Singh pre-
sented the plan to the then Minister for
Defence AK Antony, who directed the
plan to be converted into a note for the
consideration of the Cabinet Committee
on Security. This was in 2011.
According to the author, With India
aspiring to be on the global high-table,
Manmohan Singh and his team knew
that the country could ill-afford another
setback or humiliation of the PLA occu-
pying its territory. The clear message was
that India would build its capacities with-
out instigating the Chinese or launching
any military adventure on the LAC.
These included military and otherwise.
Then the plan ran into hurdles. The
first was that the Union Government did
not oblige the Army with the finances
needed for the force accretion plan,
although Gen Singh met the then Union
Minister for Finance on three occasions
before the formers retirement. The sec-
ond obstacle came in the form of adverse
expert opinions which laid down that
there was no need to invest so much in
an Army-centric plan since the Air Force
and Navy would make the real difference
in a future conflict with the Chinese. The
third, and perhaps the biggest, setback to
the Armys plan came in the wake of the
conflict between Gen Singh and the
Government over the formers age.
Gupta observes, When General
Singh moved the Supreme Court over the
age controversy, the UPA-II government
began viewing him with a degree of sus-
picion and decided to hold back the
strike corps proposal, with the Finance
Ministry marking the plan back to the
Defence Ministry for further consulta-
tions. It was only after Gen Singh demit-
ted office that the proposal was revived
and pushed ahead.
The author has towards the end done
a quick survey of the capabilities of the
Indian Navy and Air Force to meet
potential Chinese challenges and con-
cludes that they are far from being opti-
mally equipped for the purpose. In the
chapter that has been appropriately titled,
An Uncertain Future, Gupta has reposed
great expectations on the Border Defence
Cooperation Agreement, but we will have
to wait and see. Meanwhile, we must take
pride in the statement of a senior Indian
official, who is unidentified in the book,
that it takes more than four tents and a
dog to rattle India.
F
or any book lover, the set-
ting of a bookshop is a
delightful and irresistible
lure. The Collected Works of AJ
Fikry thrives on the same. Its
eccentric title and offbeat plot
are enticing enough for a read-
er to pick up the book.
Documenting the story of AJ
Fikry, (as author Gabrielle
Levin says, Hes a little bit
Silas Marner, a pinch of Mr
Darcy, and dare I admit
this? a dash of myself, too)
a sore, disgruntled but highly
successful owner of a (fiction-
al) bookshop, Island Books, at
Alice in Staten Island, the
novella underlines the influ-
ence literature can have on a
persona. Ones choice of books
can shape the vision for the
better or worse.
Island Books has a slogan:
No man is an island, every
book is a world. It is symbolic
of Fikrys growth from being a
peeved loner to an active par-
ticipant in the community. As
in Levins words, Theres a
danger in reading or in any
intellectual pursuit for it to
become too solitary and
myopic, but I believe a true
intellectual has a desire to
share, to teach.
Fikry has recently lost his
wife in a car crash. Things
change for the worse when one
night, Fikry loses a rare copy
of Edgar Allen Poes
Tamerlane, and yet another
night finds a toddler aban-
doned in his bookshop. The
mother of the 25-month-old
girl has left a note attached to
her Elmo doll which, among
other things, says: I want her
to grow up to be a reader. I
want her to grow up in a place
with books and among people
who care about those kinds of
things.
Maya both the extension
of Fikry as well as a foil character
does grow up to be a reader
and thinking individual who can
argue with reasoned defences. In
the company of books, the novel-
la undertakes an overwhelming
journey of the characters under-
standing each other, transform-
ing one anothers lives and build-
ing a new notion of everyday life.
There are abundant references to
rich and contemporary literature
as well as rebuttals of literary
pursuits.
The other primary charac-
ters in the book Amelia, a
book representative and eventu-
ally Fikrys wife; Ismay, his sis-
ter-in-law; Lambiase, the good
natured cop; Leon Friedman
and so on leave a mark on
Fikrys life, helping him grow
and evolve. At the start of each
chapter, Fikry pens a brief
overview of a book he has read.
This narrative method fore-
grounds the essence of reading
and literature that the novella
endorses in general.
The fictitious novel The
Late Bloomer also plays a key
role in the narrative from
being a book of no consequence
to the real late bloomer Fikry to
being an integral part of his life.
It is about an old couple who
get married towards the
evening of their lives, but soon
death does them apart. Fikry, at
first, is strongly critical of the
book but later it becomes inte-
gral to the narrative and
demonstrates the internal meta-
morphosis the stone-hearted
Fikry undergoes. Within this
realm, the novel underlines the
significance of books and book-
shops at a time when e-books,
self-publishing are rampant and
popular fads.
What, however, holds the
book back is its slightly slow
pace, particularly in the first
part, though the plot thickens
subsequently. No matter how
much Fikry disapproves of it,
his saga is indeed a sentimental
one; it celebrates mundane life
and people and how each can
leave a long-lasting impact on
the other. Overall, The
Collected Works of AJ Fikry cel-
ebrates the present, the ordi-
nary and the idea of compan-
ionship, be it among humans
or in the infinitely enlightening
company of books.
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You may be looking or a solulion or a recurring
roblem. This is lhe besl lime lo research and
ind solulions relaled lo your diel and lieslyle.
Flan a workoul wilh your riends and you will see
wonders haening. This week can give you a
good slarl or weighl loss rogrammes. You are a
quick learner and may gel some eole lo be
lrained lhrough you al work lace. You need lo be
alienl wilh slow learners; don'l execl lhem lo
be learning al your ace. 0oing slow and sleady
in lraining is your key lo success. n your
ersonal lie, you will ind some good changes
and lhings will imrove. You are a romanlic
erson bul lhis lime you need lo lake a logical
decision, so lhink wilh your mind.
Iurky number 1, 1O, 1O
Iurky roIour All shades o red
Iurky day wednesday
8IF8 March 21-April 20
You will send more lime healing your inner sel
wilh medilalion and yoga. You are a slrong
erson wilh a slrong aura. You can lan going oul
wilh riends and arly lhis week. A shorl weekend
holiday can reresh your mind and body.
Sending lime near nalure will hel you creale
more osilive energies. You are ambilious bul
ind yoursel in a slressul silualion as your leam
members may nol live u lo your execlalions.
having lea wilh lhem will be beller lhan having an
oicial meeling. Your work will gel arecialion
by all means. Travel relaled lo work is on lhe
cards lhis week. This lour will bring success.
Your nervousness in a relalionshi is nol heling
your arlner; you need lo be more exressive.
Iurky number 7, 1G, 24
Iurky roIour 0rey, black
Iurky day Tuesday
I0808 April 21-May 21
You may see all your roblems vanish because o
your osilive allilude. The 0ivine is heling you
creale your own manieslalions o good mind,
body and soul. You may ind yoursel al lhe
crossroads in your career, where you have lo
choose one way. Considering a change in job will
beneil you lo lhe core. You have a slrong abilily
lo counsel eole, you will ind lhis a lus oinl al
your worklace. Sludying and learning new lhings
have been arl o your ersonalily. You may ick
u some new course lo enhance your lechnical
skills. Be wary o narrowminded eole in your
riends circle; lhey may lake your exressions
negalively. Beware o whom you are lalking lo and
whal aboul.
Iurky number 8, 44
Iurky roIour Brown
Iurky day Salurday
6FMI8I May 22-June 21
Your heallh may become a riorily lo you as some
issue is going lo recur. You may require research
and gelling more oinions lhan ollowing only one
secialisl. All roblems come rom lhe mind, so
kee a lrack o your lhoughls or a comlele cure
and healing. You have been honesl and direcl
aboul your work and lhis is going lo ay o
osilively lhis week. Some new rojecls are on
lheir way which will add lo ressure. This week is
also good or inveslmenl, esecially in roerly.
You may lan a luxurious dale wilh your arlner
somewhere in lhe middle o lhe week. This lime,
lry nol lo be exlravaganl as your arlner is
aclually looking or qualily lime wilh you where
luxury does nol maller.
Iurky number G, 88
Iurky roIour Yellow, golden
Iurky day Thursday
080F8 June 22-July 22
l is advisable nol lo lake any discomorl lighlly
and seek medical advice i required. Making a
roer schedule o your ood inlake and
ollowing il slriclly will bear good resulls. This
is a comelilive lime or you al work. You're a
avourile al your worklace as you are lhe only
one lo have an ear lo lhe roblems o your
colleagues. You may gel a resligious rojecl
lo work on or your dream job may call you.
You will eel on lo o lhe world wilh lhe
oorlunilies on your way lhis week. You have
been very slraighl orward when il comes lo
your relalionshis; lry lo be more exressive
aboul your eelings lo resolve any issues you
may have wilh your arlner.
Iurky number 2, 11
Iurky roIour All aslel colours
Iurky day Friday
I860 Aug 24-Sept 23
You have been careless aboul your heallh. This
is lhe lime lo correcl il. 0o alone lo some lace
nearer lo nalure and waler bodies. You will see
lhings will all righl in lace. You have been
reacling very asl lhese days; lry lo work on il
as your lemeramenl may be ruining all lhe
arecialion coming your way. Your colleagues
like you more lhan you know, il's jusl lhal you
have lo give lhem a chance lo exress
lhemselves. You may eel ressure rom your
amily side or marriage commilmenl. Even i
you are nol in a relalionshi, you may meel
someone lhis week or a marriage rosecl and
you may end u deciding uon your lie arlner.
Iurky number 8, 12
Iurky roIour 0range
Iurky day Sunday
lI88 Sept 24-Oct 23
You may change lhe way o mainlaining your
heallh by oling medilalion over hysical
exercising. Avoid acked ood and ol or home
cooked ood; lhis will lransorm your vibralions
lowards osilivily. You need lo concenlrale on
one lhing al a lime. Friorilising your goals will
give beller resulls. Try sharing your work wilh
olher leam members. 0o review your work
careully beore submilling il lo higher
aulhorilies; minule errors may resull in
disaslers. Avoid any silualion which may anger
you. walking away rom a relalionshi may be a
hard decision bul in lhe long run you will ind il
beneicial. wail or lhe righl lime and lhe righl
arlner.
Iurky number 5, 28
Iurky roIour Blue, indigo
Iurky day Tuesday
8008FI0 Oct 24-Nov 22
You are in lhe besl o heallh and arlying oul
should nol be a issue or you. You need lo acl
dilomalically as owerul orces are around
you and may creale diicullies on your alh
ahead. The energies o eole are nol very
suorlive lhis lime, so be aware and caulious
on every sle o yours. Al lhe end success will
louch your eel bul lhis lime lhe alh lowards
success is going lo be diicull or you. Changes
are nol avourable or you lhis week. Try lo slick
where you are or some more lime, lhings will
imrove soon or you. Comromising is lhe key
or you in your relalionshi, rigidily will bring
more roblems. Be lexible and slay haier
wilh your arlner.
Iurky number 7, 25
Iurky roIour 0reen
Iurky day wednesday
008I08 Jan 21-Feb 19
This is lhe lime lo delox your body o dusl,
chemicals and emolional hurls. Take a day o,
make a lisl o lhings bolhering you and lel go
o lhem one by one. You may be overloaded
wilh work. ho maniulalions will be helul
here; lry comleling your lasks on your own.
0elaying and holding any decision will delay
imorlanl ulure rojecls. Make a good
slralegy and work hard on il. You may eel
your leam members are nol giving lhe
execled resulls on lime bul reacling righl
now may nol be avourable or you. You may
like lo send lime wilh yoursel ralher lhan
going oul on a dale; lry lo exress lhal lo
your arlner.
Iurky number 1O, 1O
Iurky roIour Silver
Iurky day Salurday
FI80F8 Feb 20-March 20
You may eel low in energy and like lo slow down
lhis week. ncrease waler and mineral inlake.
Excessive workoul should be avoided.
Frogression is on ils way as ar your career is
concerned. you are oul o job or work, lhis is a
very good lime or gelling a new oorlunily and
sellling down wilh new work. Your success may
become lhe reason o jealousy or your
colleagues. Be aware o such eole and sle
ahead careully. Your imaginalion has been
crealive and you are using il in your work. This is
lhe lime lo creale a blend o your imaginalion
wilh raclicalily and rove yoursel lo be lhe
besl. You will enjoy a harmonious relalionshi
wilh your arlner, riends and amily.
Iurky number 4, 22
Iurky roIour Fink
Iurky day Friday
0F8I0088 Dec 24-Jan 20
Your heallh will deend on your ood. Try
ealing only organic ood wilhoul any chemicals
or reservalives.Buying new exercise
equimenl can be on your lisl lhis week. Try
relacing juices and lemon waler wilh your lea
and coee inlake. This will hel you regain
your slrenglh during long working hours. You
have been a avourile o lhe managemenl and
lhis may make you overly busy. Your leam
subordinales may gel slressed due lo lhe work
ressure loo. Be sol wilh lhem; your rigidily
may make lhem lose inleresl in lheir work.
Your work will leave lesser lime lo send wilh
your amily and arlner; slill il will be good lo
lan a dinner oul wilh lhem.
Iurky number O, 8G, 18
Iurky roIour while
Iurky day Monday
lF0 July 23-August 23
Being aware aboul whal you eal will hel you
choose lhe righl ood or you. you eel de
molivaled, il will be good lo hire an inslruclor
or lrainer lo hel you. You have been working
hard in your work lace bul lhis is lhe lime lo
solve lhe dierence o oinion you have wilh
your work arlner or leam member. This is a
lime or you lo gel good resulls or your hard
eorls. There can be celebralion o success al
work which will also bring awards or
arecialion or you. You have been
dominaling your arlner; lhis is lhe lime you
need lo become a lillle lexible and slarl
lislening and discussing wilh your arlner
beore you lake a decision.
Iurky number G, 42
Iurky roIour violel
Iurky day Sunday
86III8I08 Nov 23-Dec 23
YOURWEEKAHEAD
MA0hu K0TYA
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- SM0h BAKER
Now Dolhi, Juno 8, 2014
A
young lad who has just joined
his cousins business as an
intern came asking about his
future business prospects. He also
sought directions about how to make
the most out of his life. Normally, peo-
ple come for guidance only after land-
ing into problem and finding it diffi-
cult to regain their lost ground.
Astrology does provide leads to such
people.
Astrology, however, could play a
much better role if its assistance is
sought at the start. For, the mind then
is not yet messed up and is ready to
take off with a clean slate. And pas-
sionate about making it to their dream
destination, they are keen to shape
themselves and so could be moulded
easily.
It is pertinent to note here that
mind drives a being. And the way ones
mind is inherently constituted defines
ones functional self. How ones mind
would be inherently programmed
could be very well figured out by
watching ones mind-trends. That may
provide a lead as to what corrective ini-
tiatives are required in terms of ones
mindset to come out with ones best.
The guiding principle in this respect is
summed up in the following saying:
Watch your thoughts, they become
words; watch your words, they become
actions; watch your actions, they
become habits; watch your habits, they
become your character; watch your
character, as that defines your destiny.
The next question that comes up:
What after all drives ones thought
process? A look into the chemistry of
the mind would reveal that our
thoughts are a reflection of the memo-
ry imprints carried over from the past,
coming as they may, with our learning,
unlearning and experiences. And that
varies from person to person, which
defines the uniqueness of a being.
These memory imprints involuntarily
build an individual-specific belief sys-
tem, which accounts for our inherent
desire-trends, and which in turn,
excite corresponding thoughts.
Naturally, our memory imprints carry
a mixed bag of our inlaid potentials as
well as infirmities. The potentials,
obviously, need to be identified,
honed, and contemporised for them to
translate into desired fruits. But even
before that it is desirable to identify
and address ones infirmities. For, they
carry the potential to marginalise the
potential side. It is here that astrology
can serve as a very effective diagnostic
tool. Even more so, because our pre-
conditioned minds, invariably do not
allow us to dispassionately analyse
ones own basic fabric of making, and
the least of all acknowledge them in
the right spirit.
Let us now look at the astrological
pointers in the young mans chart that
present a picture of his mind-trends.
With all Kendra houses occupied by 8
major planets and Venus in the 9th
house, it appears to be a potential
chart. But it cannot offer desired
results unless his inherent infirmities
are addressed within time. The first to
make note of in this respect is the
Karmakarak Saturn extending its
malefic influence over mind-signifier
Moon occupying a dual sign. This for-
mation points to the mans negative,
vacillating, doubtful, and an indecisive
mindset.
Naturally, if the very desire and
thought that translates into action
begins on a weak premise, the fruits
there of cannot be on expected lines.
Saturn further locking horns with its
dire enemy, the fiery Mars, makes him
impatient, rebellious, and revengeful.
This, when read together with Moon
locked in adverse formation to Uranus
accounts for his mercurial tempera-
ment, whereby he may get provoked
on slightest pretext. Even more so
because of his volatile emotionality, as
would Venus placed adverse to the Sun
imply. As a consequence, he becomes
vulnerable to misdirect his fire-power
attending to so many trivial issues that
his priority preferences may get often
compromised.
The intelligence-signifier Mercury
is placed adverse to Moon, Neptune,
Saturn and Uranus. This, in the first
place, points to a worrisome person
with a fragile mind who would be
flirting with varied thoughts at one go.
Second, he would be unconventional,
eccentric, and opinionated. Also, it
makes him susceptible to impaired
reasoning and judgment.
And if all that would not be
enough, his inflated ego restrict him to
his self-assumed peculiar beliefs, as
would Jupiter placed adverse to Mars,
Sun, and Neptune imply. Unless he
works upon his infirmities and rise
above them without further loss of
time, it will not be possible for him to
present his best.
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