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Mumbai to begin a career in playback singing in
Bollywood. Playback singing was an outright
unfamiliar medium for him but he continued to
try his luck. Over the years, although he sang songs which
were massive hits Kajra Re, Nagada Nagada to name a
few his face continued to evade public attention. Until the
year 2007 came and his song Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein from
Naqaab elevated him to fame and glory. He soon became a
rage within the industry and was sought after by the finest of
the contemporary composers. And then there was no looking back. He churned out one superhit song after the other.
Some of them include Jashn-e-Bahaara (Jodhaa Akbar),
Guzarish (Ghajini), Kun Faya Kun (Rockstar), Ishaqzaade
and Daawat-e-Ishq title tracks, and many more.
He judged Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs 2011 and
hosts a television show titled Music Room where he
speaks of hitherto unheard facts about a song or a musician and celebrates the unsung technicians who helped
popularise a song. It is surprising that a singer of his calibre and experience has whatsoever managed to evade
overexposure. He is humble, intelligent and sure of what
he is doing. In a conversation, Javed Ali reminisces about
his journey to stardom.
For someone who has been professionally singing in
the Hindi film industry for around 14 years, you have
maintained a very low profile.
I am a calm person by nature. I dont get excited much and
prefer to maintain a low profile, so it has been deliberate on
my part. I dont have a PR team but had a manager earlier
though she no longer looks after my work. I prefer to stay
the way I am. This has never landed me in any problem.
Things have worked well for me and I am working with talented, big names, so I have not felt the need to change
myself. Dusron ko kuch dikhaane ke liye khud ko badloge toh
aap bahut atpate lagoge (If you change yourself to please
others, you will end up looking like an oddball).
What is your earliest memory?
I am from New Delhi and went to Ramjas School 4 in
Paharganj. I was born in a musical ambience. My father,
Ustad Hamid Hussain, was an artiste who exposed me to a
gamut of musical sensibilities. He was the first of my many
gurus, who also included Ustad Ghulam Ali from Pakistan.
I was trained in classical music. My earliest memory would
be when daddy would wake me up early in the morning for
riyaz. I would practise much early, even before going to
school every day. At times, I would also be disappointed
and angry that I wouldnt be able to play cricket, like other
kids my age, and cricket being a sport I still immensely
love. I would sometimes grumpily continue practice.
Having said that, music also came first in the family. My
father ensured that I familiarised myself with all nuances of
music and learn them well. The habit of learning, to keenly
observe is one of the many crucial things I learned as a
child. Till date, I listen and observe the contemporary
singers, learn from what they do, contemplate what I can
do to be better, and so on.
Besides film, you are also busy with shows, concerts
all across the country and even the world. So when
you perform for various regions and cultures, do you
also configure your playlist in accordance with the
region you are singing in?
At times, depending on the occasion, I change the list of
songs but 95 per cent of the times, I sing my own songs.
People who come to listen to me are aware of my body of
work. They hum with me and request even for my lesserknown songs, and that overwhelms me. For instance, sometimes they request me to sing Kaise Kahe Alvida from Yeh
Saali Zindagi and that pleasantly surprises me because it
wasnt an elaborately promoted song. To maintain versatility, I divide my shows into three primary segments sufi,
romantic and lastly peppy songs, a segment where I occasionally remix other singers songs as well. That way, I
ensure that I put forward a whole package to the audiences.
I recently sang on the ghats of Ganga and saw the audience
sing before I could start. That was stunning.
Listeners today are smart and sensible. They can differentiate the good from the bad. People sit in tranquility in
my first segment; they sit and listen to the Sufi music.
When I do the second segment, they begin to dance. So you
see they know when and how to react and to what.
Inshallah, it hasnt happened that they have not
responded well to my performances. So I have not had to
consciously reconfigure songs as per a geographical loca-

tion. I recently did a Sufi concert in Chennai and got a

zabardast response. I also performed at a private Diwali
celebration at Mukesh Ambanis house and the guests
suggested that I sing in my original style. Bahut
khushi mili thi woh sunke (I was immensely happy to
hear that). I received a standing ovation for the
same. I have not created the romantic-cum-Sufi
image that I have. It just happened.

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music? Any particular form that you have
specifically trained in?
I have learned light classical. Not that I am
well trained in khayal and similar forms,
kudrat ki taraf se mere gale ke andar woh jo
murkiyaan (a tonal embellishment where a
note is derived from both high and low
ends) hoti hain, gamak (notes in faster
speed along with a smooth flow from
one note to other) hoti hain, us ke
wajah se mujhe bahot zyada koshish
nahi karni padi achcha gaane mein
(By Gods grace, I naturally adapted
to the technical renderings).
Whatever talent I possessed, I only
polished it. For instance, a song like
Arziyan (Delhi 6) is not a song
which causes inconvenience for
me and I hold a strong grasp
over songs like that, but it doesnt mean that I cannot sing slow
songs either. I am, however, a
little inclined towards classical. I listen to Western
music as well and keenly
follow the works of
Whitney Houston and
Mariah Carey.
How familiar were you
with playback singing?
I have grown up singing
but I never imagined I
would be a playback
singer. It was an absolutely
alien culture for me. In fact,
I had never sung a film song as
a child! Children my age would sing songs of Mohd Rafi,
Kishore Kumar but I never did. I mostly sang ghazals. And
along with my father, I would also sing kirtan and private
compositions. My father would teach me new compositions
and I would perform them in front of people. I never had any
film connection, not even distantly. I was still a teenager
when I came to Mumbai. It was, in fact, for some purpose
other than music. I happened to meet Kalyanji bhai (of
Kalyanji-Anandji duo) in Delhi earlier. He had appreciated
my singing. He also encouraged me to shift to Mumbai for
career prospects. Until then, I had never thought that I would
leave Delhi. My father too encouraged me to do so. For a
while, I would frequently shuttle between Delhi and Mumbai
trying to make a career in the Hindi film industry.
Once my voice changed, my perspective changed as well.
I realised that every singer should be versatile besides cultivating an individual style. If said style turns dated, they can
then experiment with other forms as well. So I contemplated
playback singing with renewed seriousness since I saw it as a
medium where one can sing in any form. There are all kinds
of songs that the same singer could sing. People thought I
couldnt try it all. I took some training on the overall culture
of playback singing, spent time with Kalyanji bhai where I
got training. I also dubbed for songs, which further helped
me familiarise myself with the medium.
Was there a cultural shock while moving from
Hindustani classical music to Bollywood?
No, there was none. Any person coming from any corner
of the country to Mumbai will be exposed to tremendous experiences. People start from a scratch here.
One could be talented in, say, Delhi. In Mumbai, ones
talent gets polished. Its practical and where ones
knowledge is tested more applicably. A person may
be a power-packed performer on stage, but the
same person may fail to record as per expectations
in a studio while recording a tune. So you need to
be open to ideas and mature accordingly.

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on your lips, you set foot in
Vrindavan. Braj Bhoomi may
well be Lord Krishnas territory but Vrindavan is strictly his
beloveds realm. You cant enter the hallowed grounds without Radha Ranis
permission, it is said. Which necessitates
her name to be your first greeting and the
essence of all the memories you make during your stay here. Because with every
wall, every door, home, shop, colony,
enterprise bearing Radhe Radhe, she
happens to become the single-most overwhelming identification of the town. She
is also the magic keyword for seekers here.
The devout seek her to find the ultimate.
For she, they believe, is the melody that
flows through the Blue Gods other love,
the flute. What could be better than being
in Vrindavan on Radhashtami, the birth
anniversary of Radha. Since the day also
coincides with Swami Haridas Sangeet
Samaroh, it automatically throws itself up
as an opportunity to explore the musical
side of town.
Now having never been to the town
before, I have always imagined Vrindavan
as a lush forest on the banks of the
Yamuna where Lord Krishna and his rustic friends had a good time. You can then
understand my shock when I left the
Delhi-Agra Expressway to ramble into
what appeared like a rapidly urbanising
expanse colourful hoardings stood in

the middle of green fields announcing

upcoming colonies with pious names like
Brajbhoomi Enclave, Radheshyam
Apartments, Haripriya Vihar. Its proximity and connectivity to Delhi and towns
such as Agra has turned Vrindavan into
a real estate hotspot, reducing the green
cover to a few small pockets. But that
hardly seems to bother anyone here.
People come to Vrindavan looking for
Krishna and Radha and accept them
whole-heartedly in every form they feel
the couple exists here in new and old
temples, in overflowing drains, on river
banks, amid stray bovines on crowded
roads, on realty hoardings, even in fancy
shopping arcades and restaurants. You can
credit a lot of this to the Blue God himself, whose presence in the Hindu mythology is such a departure from convention
that the ordinariness of his life not just
makes him very relatable but also lends
an easy adaptability to his sacred space,
allowing Vrindavan to become a kitschy
mish mash of the urbane and the rustic,
the spiritual and the material.
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The first signs of it are evident in the local
trains running between Delhi and
Mathura out of which flow loud strains of
bhajans to some superbly rhythmic dholak, jhanjh and manjeera. Regular passengers put their two hours of commute to
good use like this. And its quite an expe-

rience to hear these rail minstrels if youre

driving on the road parallel to the slowmoving train. But then music has always
been a way of life in Vrindavan. If 5,000
years ago it was Krishnas melodic flute
that kept everyone from his wandering
cattle to the gopis rapt in attention, centuries later, it was the mystique of Swami
Haridas classical notes that compelled the
deity to make a reappearance here as
Banke Bihari. Melody, here, is seen as a
means to achieve Bhakti Yog or complete
devotion. And in this bustling town, you
witness it in ways like you can never imagine it anywhere else.
Step out any time of the day and youre
likely to come across groups of people
matching their vocal chords to devotional melodies with orchestral interludes of
the manjeera or some such other instrument while on the go. Parikrama is a
Vrindavan tradition in which a spiritual
walk is undertaken by devotees around the
town, feeling the Braj raj (soil) under their
feet and meditating. While many do this
in solitude, for groups the meditation is
all music and rhythmic dancing in trance.
There is no fixed start or finish to the
parikrama but one is expected to end it
where they start from. The tradition may
have its roots in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,
who discovered the legends of this land
in 1515, wandering its dusty bylanes
singing and dancing. The essence of
Vrindavan is said to have been lost till

then. In Nandgaon and Barsana the villages of Krishna and Radha traced by the
Bengali mystic Raas Lila (in which
episodes from Krishna and Radhas love
story are played out musically) is a living
tradition rather than a stage performance. Around Radhashtami, the entire
community gets together to be a part of
Raas episodes like Daan Lila and Maan
Lila the traditional face-offs between
the two villages at Sankari Khor. A smaller form of this was played out at the Sri
Radha Vallabh temple where devotees
sprayed scented, coloured water on each
other during their friendly clash and then
climaxed the celebration with some
superb raag seva or worship through classical music. Raag seva, that entails elaborate singing of the extremely tough
Dhrupad, is part of the daily routine at
some temples in Vrindavan, including the
Radha Raman temple. The tradition is
said to have been started by Swami
Haridas, a mystic and classical musician,
who set up what came to be known as the
Haridasi school of mysticism that combined classical music with Bhakti Yog, one
devoted to Radha. Swamiji was the
teacher of Mian Tansen and Baiju Bawra,
two of the greatest classical singers India
has had and is credited with a huge body
of Dhrupad compositions. Emperor
Akbar, it is said, came to Vrindavan all the
way from Delhi just to hear Swamiji sing
after the latter turned down his invitation.

Today, when Dhrupad is almost a dying

art, it is these temples that are keeping it
alive in the right spirit.
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Vibrant marketplaces around temples
often lead you to groups of two or three
men or women whose sincere chants of
Hare Rama Hare Krishna to dhak, iktara
and manjeera blend in well with the noise
around them. Samaj gaayan or congregational singing is how ordinary folks go
about their spiritual pursuits. At the
ISKCON temple, though, this takes a rapturous form several times a day when
hundreds congregate and launch into
breathless chanting orchestrated to loud
mridangam beats, manjeeras and jhanjh.
On Radhashtami, the mood was
jovial. So devotees jumped about and
danced in euphoric trance in the courtyard decorated with colourful buntings
and flowers, even as many sat just taking
in the spiritually charged atmosphere.
Founded in 1966 by Swami Prabhupad,
ISKCON is the outfit that has made
Krishna cool internationally. Though its
dhoti-clad, choti and tilak-sporting foreign
seekers of spiritual bliss have a presence
the world over, in a small town like
Vrindavan youre astounded by their
sheer numbers. You cant cross a street
without spotting at least two Indianised
foreigners with some signage of Krishna
consciousness with them.

But I had to leave these spiritual

grounds for some classical stuff in the
evening when the Swami Haridas Sangeet
Samaroh opened with a kathak performance
set to the Mukti Mantra, Om Namo
Bhagwate Vasudevay, asking for complete
surrender to Krishna. Bangalore-based
Nirupama and Rajendra and their troupe
devoted their entire repertoire to KrishnaRadha and their love exploits. While their
performance was a tad modernised with
colourful costumes, digitised orchestra to
suit cosmopolitan viewers, Pandit Arjun
Mishras troupe from Lucknow seemed rooted to the classical style. Ustad Wasifuddin
Dagar paid a rich Dhrupad tribute to Swami
Haridas, as did Shubhendu and Saskia-de
Haas through their jugalbandi on the sitar
and the cello. Ghazal maestros Ustad
Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain brought
the festival to a well-deserved finale with
some amazing bhajan compositions.
In its 152nd year now, the music festival is organised by the Goswamis, descendants of Swami Haridas and has seen stalwarts like Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pt Jasraj,
Ustad Bismillah Khan, Pt Hariprasad
Chaurasia and Pt Ravi Shankar on its platform, solely for the high quality of its listeners. Artistes still attest to its devotional element. To now witness such a revered event
amid loud speakers, fog machines and dancing lights is a bit disconcerting. You can only
pray the organisers wake up before it loses
its spiritual focus completely.

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ave you ever had disagreements with music composers?
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I sincerely believe that music
composers are the creators of
songs, we singers dont argue with
them. In fact, we are required to
agree with the tune. Ninety per
cent of the times we sing as we are
instructed to. Sometimes, there is
a healthy atmosphere where one
can give ones personal opinions.
If a composer is friendly and
accepting then I appreciate it
since it guarantees my comfort
level. Else, I stop arguing, sing the
song and move ahead.
In which songs have you inserted elements on your own?
There have been a few occasions.
For instance, the first line of my
song Tu Hi Haqeeqat from the
film Tum Mile was slightly different when originally composed.
When I sang the line, after discussing with Pritam, I ended it in
a different way (which is how it
was finally released), which producer Mukesh Bhatt liked and
suggested we keep it that way.
Have you ever been disappointed
with the overall outcome after
singing a song?
I would not take names but
much before I attained recognition in the industry, I had sung
for an album. When I saw the
song on screen finally, I was
tremendously disheartened by its
poor quality. The picturisation,
the lip sync, expressions of the
actor were all out of sync. That
was a major letdown.

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industrys handling of music?
I am in favour of finalising the
script and accordingly composing
music. I think that is the correct
procedure. As a singer, I am open
to all kinds of songs, from ghazals
to cabaret numbers. I take my
music religiously and I will sing
all songs.
You have sung in multiple Indian
languages. When you dont speak
a particular language but are
required to sing in it, what are
your concerns as a singer?
I always ask for the situation of the
song. The composition says it all;
composition usi tarah ki hogi jis
tarah ke words honge (composition
would be reflected by the lyrics). It
reveals everything and a voice
from within directs me as to what
my personal approach should be. I
focus on the songs sentiments.
The sadness in tune or pathos in
the melodies help me. Sometimes
the music director also specifies
where I am required to sound
emotional or mischievous.
At the beginning of your career,
you had sung for Shankar
Ehsaan Loy in some films,
including in Bunty aur Babli,
where you sang the hit song

Kajra Re. But after attaining

fame and more so in the recent
years, we have not seen you collaborate with them. Is there a
reason behind that?
Its a question I think they can
answer best. I have sung with
them years ago and have not done
so in any of my recent popular
tracks. I wonder why.
You have sung for Pritam and
AR Rehman in many films.
Given that they are very different
personalities, what are your
memories with them?
Pritam asks me to sing songs
which have a sufi flavour or the
high scale songs. He also makes
me sing romantic numbers.
Theres a particular range of
expectations while singing for
him. For instance, in the song Aa
Jao Meri Tamanna from Ajab
Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, I used
falsetto for the first time in a song.
I get tremendous responses for
that song even today when I sing
it in colleges. AR Rehman on the
other hand is willing to change his
requirements in accordance with
the comfort levels of the singer.
What I admire about him is that
woh gaane ko singer ke comfort ke
hisaab se dhaal dete hain.
Would you like to share a memorable experience while singing?
There are many but I remember
this one time after I had finished
recording the title track of
Ishaqzaade. Its composer Amit
Trivedi listened to it and hugged
me and said, Bachche ki jaan loge

kya? I was elated to hear that. He

is another composer who gives his
singers a lot of room to explore.
Whom do you consider an
underrated music composer in
the film industry?
Shantanu Moitra and Ismail
Darbar. Dono rooh se compose
karte hai (both create songs from
the soul). I would not be the competent authority to comment on or
evaluate their technicalities, but I
have worked with them a little and
firmly believe that they are powerhouses of talent. Recently, I recorded a few songs for Ismail Darbar
and am hoping that when those
songs come out, they are loved.
Which music technique do you
think film songs should use more?
I think everything has been
exploited enough already. Now it
depends on how you bring in new
sounds. One should not sound
redundant and same as all. I try to
sound different in my songs. For
example, in Tum Tak in
Raanjhanaa, I have sung in head
voice, in a sharp voice. But in the
title song for Daawat-e-Ishq, I
used loud voice. People found it
different and difficult but I
enjoyed that.
What do you like to do in your
spare time besides singing?
I like travelling to new places and
am always eager to explore. I like
spending time at home with my
wife and two daughters, aged
seven and five.

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to dismantle the very system that he once

worked within?
I think the boldest move to tackle corruption was
made in 1991. Till then we had what was called
the license-permit raj. There were all sorts of
controls in every sector of the economy. These
controls were in the hands of politicians and
bureaucrats. And wherever there were
Government controls, there was scope for corruption. As the finance minister, my father dismantled the license-permit raj and did away
with most of these controls.

uthor Daman Singh, in her latest

book, Strictly Personal, etches the biographical details of her parents, and
describes how they lived as a family.
In a conversation, she speaks about
paying the tribute.
Please tell us a little about yourself.
I have been writing ever since I can remember.
As a student I would write long letters and
short stories. For about 20 years, I worked in
the field of rural development. In those days I
wrote a large number of articles, papers and
reports. At some point I decided to switch
careers and became a writer. Strictly Personal is
my fourth book.
Please take us through your journey while writing the book. What were the challenges?
Strictly Personal is the story of my parents. It
starts in the 1930s and ends in the year 2004. The
book is based on conversations with my mother
and father. These were not the kind of conversations that I normally had with them. We had to
go far back in time, to events they had experienced, places they had been to, people they had
known. None of this was easy. It was even more
difficult to talk about how their opinions and
beliefs had formed, and how they changed over
the years. So it was a very intensive process that
took place over a period of about three years.
While I was writing the book, I had to constantly juggle between being a writer and a
daughter. I wanted to write about my parents as
real people, with strengths as well as weaknesses. I
didnt want to gloss over uncomfortable or painful
moments in their lives. Such things are difficult
for a daughter to write about. I had to make a
huge effort to find the right balance. To a large
extent, I think I succeeded. It is certainly an affectionate account, but it is an honest one as well.

When you mention your mother in the book, it

is largely on a familial or sentimental turf,
whereas Dr Singh has been described more in
the political domain. Do the personal and the
political also overlap between them at times?
My mothers world is woven around family,
friends and acquaintances. Each person is special
to her in some way or another whether it is
her sister, her classmate, her doctor or the sabziwalla. And she sees everything from the personal
angle, the human angle. This is what I have tried
to put across in the book.
On the other hand, my fathers world revolves
around his work. This is how he has always been
as a professor, as a civil servant and as a politician. He has always kept a strict line between
work and home. He doesnt discuss work at
home. And he doesnt let his family interfere in
his work.
What are your fond memories of Dr Singh
essentially as a father?
I remember summer nights when we all slept
outside on charpais. And wintry Sunday afternoons, when we munched on moolis or gannas
that grew in our garden. My father liked to drive,

Does your mother still cultivate a sincere fondness towards music?

My mother has always been interested in music.
She studied light classical music when she was in
college in Patiala. In those days, she would perform on stage at inter-college events in different
cities. Once or twice she even performed on All
India Radio. After marriage, she continued to
learn music for several years. These days she
prefers to sing bhajans and gurbani. She has a
huge music collection of ghazals, thumri,
dadra, as well as bhajans and gurbani.

though my mother always complained that he

drove too fast. He would take us to bookshops
and let us buy whatever we liked. We went to
restaurants quite often South Indian, Mughlai
and Chinese, in turn. In those days he was very
fond of a drink called Rim Zim, that all of us
found ghastly. Being diabetic, he was on a pretty
strict diet. But when my mother was not around,
he often sneaked into the kitchen and hunted for
mithai. My sisters and I invariably caught him in
the act of consuming a large piece of barfi, but he
managed to convince us to keep this a secret.
What are your memories of living in Parkway
Village in the late 1960s? You mention the difficult times during the Civil Rights Movement,
the assassinations of Martin Luther King and
Senator Kennedy, the Vietnam War and so on.
When my father joined UNCTAD in 1965, we
moved to New York. I was only two years old. So
my memories of Parkway Village are rather
blurred kindergarten, birthday parties and visits to the zoo. We were there for four years. My
mother liked living in America, but my father
never really felt at home. He was keen to get back
to India. If he had stayed on another year, he
would have got a very generous UN pension. But
he got a job offer from the Delhi School of
Economics, and he decided to take it at once.

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detail. How much of an academic is he today?
My father was an outstanding student. He taught
in Punjab University and the Delhi School of
Economics. In 1971, he left academics and joined
the Government. In some ways, he remained an
academic at heart. For instance, he believed in
using knowledge, analysis and reason to find
solutions to poverty, disease and hunger. At the
same time, he tried to find solutions that were
practical and actually worked in the real world.

heir political careers ran contemporaneously and on occasions

seemed to converge. Yet for one
reason or the other, that didnt happen,
and the two went their separate ways
but with a common goal: The freedom
of India from British rule. Both etched
their names in history, but one went on
to become independent Indias first
Prime Minister and the other ended up
as a sort of well-meaning renegade. It is
for contemporary academics to judge
whether the descriptions that the generations since then were (and are) fed
about the two giants of the freedom
movement were appropriate or were
they laced with deliberate or intended
biases. That exercise has made a small
but significant beginning with
Rudrangshu Mukherjee book, Nehru &
Bose: Parallel Lives, as indeed, the two
men in discussion are Jawaharlal Nehru
and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Mukherjee takes a refreshingly different line from the historians whose
works have seeped into our mindsets
since school days, when history books
spilled over with the exploits of the great
Nehru while Netaji Bose was condescendingly referred ton in passages
when it became impossible to ignore
him. There was never any scope of
doubt about the authors preference. In
the process, some would argue that
Nehru became the hero and Netaji Bose
the anti-hero the angry young man
much before the advent of Amitabh
Bachchan in the Indian consciousness.
Mukherjee seeks to place Netaji Bose on
a high pedestal without denying Nehru
the position he deserves. This in itself is
revolutionary, and would be seen as sacrilegious in the eyes of Nehru-bhakts.
But one supposes it is not possible to
forever shut the doors on reality.
It is tantalising to wonder if Nehru
and Netaji Bose would have been more
comrades-in-arm (both had Leftist orientations of some sort) had not
Mahatma Gandhis influence been so
pervasive. As the author points out on
more than one occasion through the
book, Nehru deferred to the Mahatmas
wishes even when he did not agree with
them. On those occasions, he found
support from Netaji Bose. Yet, Nehru
could not go through with his dissent

Which accomplishments of your father, both as

an academic and an economic policy maker, do
you cherish the most?
I have tried to capture those moments in my
fathers career that help explain his vision, his
ideas, his character. Frankly, his professional
accomplishments were simply too many and too
complex for me to write about in detail. I think
he has always been driven by the desire to serve
his country. He has always put the country first.
And he has always worked with complete sincerity and dedication. These are the accomplishments that I most admire.
You also quote him saying, The political system needs money. This money cannot be raised
in a legal manner. How do you look at his
attempt to control corruption as you also mention fourteen years later, he would attempt

How do you react to the criticism directed

towards Dr Singh when Rajiv Gandhi criticised the Planning Commission, when Rahul
Gandhi criticised the Ordinance, or the books
written by Sanjaya Baru and Natwar Singh?
My father is a public figure, and people have a
right to criticise his work. Although I may not
like such criticism, I have learnt to deal with
them. But I cant bear personal attacks on my
father. Since I cannot stop them, I do my best to
ignore them. If I come across an article or book
that is nasty, I dont read it. If there is a nasty programme on TV, I change the channel.
Do you intend to write a sequel to Strictly
Personal about his years as the Prime Minister?
He was the Prime Minister for 10 years, which is a
really long time. There are a number of political,
economic and social issues relating to this period
that need to be analysed in an objective manner.
Honestly, Im not the best person to do this.
How does Dr Singh look at the Congress performance himself? You have said in the past that he
faced resistance from within the party too.
The economic reforms of 1991 have an important
place in Strictly Personal. Before 1991, there were
many attempts to improve the economic system.
But the reforms of 1991 were not meant to
improve the system, they were meant to replace
it. They questioned everything that had been
taken for granted for 40 years. Obviously, these
were radical questions, difficult questions. And
many people were not prepared to face them.
There were skeptics in various political parties,
including the Congress. It was mostly up to the
then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and my
father to convince them to support the reforms.
How did your parents respond to the book?
I gave them the first copy of the book. I think
they were very, very pleased.

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own course. Nehru not just respected
Mahatma Gandhi but also considered
him a father figure, Bapu. On the contrary, as Mukherjee points out, while
Netaji had profound respect for
Mahatmaji, he did not, unlike Nehru,
surrender himself to the Father of the
Nation. Inevitably, therefore, the two
charismatic leaders of the freedom
movement, ended up on opposite sides
of the political development, both within the Congress and in the country. The
idea remained the same; the ideology
differed. The Mahatmas preference for
Nehru and his reservations about Netaji
sealed whatever little chance there was
of Nehru and Netaji working together.
The author identifies key events
which led to the rift. When Mahatma
Gandhi did not take kindly to Netajis

Congress candidature in 1939 and suggested that the existing Congress

Working Committee be dissolved, Netaji
was left with no choice but to step down
from a well-deserved victory. He was
becoming the president without having
a team to work with. Thanks to the
Mahatmas intervention, few Congress
leaders of any importance were willing
to be part of his team. Nehru did not
come to his rescue and, as always,
bowed to the Mahatmas wishes. The
democrat in Nehru did not assert itself
after all, Netaji Bose had won the
support of an overwhelming majority of
the party units. The fiery Bengal leader
wrote to Nehru on the matter: I find
that for some time past you have developed tremendous dislike for me. I say
this because I find that you take up
enthusiastically every possible point

against me; what could be said in my

favour you ignore. Even assuming that
this was the rant of a disillusioned
leader, it indicates how much the relationship had deteriorated.
It is possible that Nehru was
uncomfortable with the extremist ideological positions that Netaji had begun
to display. He wrote to Netaji, The
association of vague Leftist slogans with
no clear Left ideology or principles has
in recent years been much in evidence
in Europe. It has led to a Fascist development The possibility of such a
thing happening in India possessed my
mind and disturbed me I did not at
all fancy the direction in which you
apparently wanted us to go. It is, thus,
clear as daylight that Nehru and Netaji
Bose had decided to part ways as their
fundamental outlooks were a mismatch.

When Netaji finally split and established the Forward Bloc, Nehru had by
then become irrevocably and openly
aligned himself to the opposite end.
According to the author, On the formation of the Forward Bloc, he (Nehru) said
he did not approve of it and did not
attach much importance to it. In an article to the National Herald, Nehru
expounded that the Bloc was nothing
more than a negative grouping, an antibloc, whose sole binding cement is dislike
of, or opposition to, the individuals or
groups that control the Congress today.
It was inevitable that relations
between the two greats would plummet
after this verbal onslaught, and it did. A
furious Netaji hit back, I would ask
Panditji in the first place wherein he
finds opportunism or fascism in the programme of the Forward Bloc I should
rather label as opportunists those who
would run with the hare and hunt with
the hound those who pose as leftists
and act as rightists those who talk in
one way when are inside a room and in
quite a different way when are outside
It is amazing that Netaji Bose,
whom Rabindranath Tagore admired so
much and even called Deshnayak
(leader of the nation), eventually came
to be seen by many Congressmen as
something of an anomaly within the
party, and a has-been after he quit. But
then history is what historians choose to
tell us. Rudrangshu Mukherjee has wisely refrained from becoming both woolly-eyed narrator and partisan interpreter. He puts the facts as recorded in
historical accounts, both by the principal
characters and academics, and then
weaves an analysis that seeks to do justice to the two men of character and
resolve. As for a judgement, let the readers decide.

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as opposed to governed
India for more than six decades has
made us, the citizens of this caricature of a republic, cynics who
instinctively doubt the best of
intentions of those who would like
to put us back on the path that we
were meant to tread but were misled from by self-seeking, selfaggrandising politicians. It is, therefore, not surprising that a month
after Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launched his ambitious
Swachch Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean
India Mission, there are many who
continue to scoff at the initiative.
The scepticism may not be
entirely misplaced. When a senior
member of Modis party is found
sweeping the pavement outside
India Islamic Centre in Delhi
where garbage had been dumped
by municipality employees to create the perfect mess for him to
clean up in front of television
crews, applause is the last thing
that comes to mind. Nor does the
lethargic non-response of municipalities where the BJP is in power
despite the Prime Ministers clarion call inspire either enthusiasm
or confidence.
The best example to underscore
this point is the very visible absence
of municipal corporation Councillors and officials in Delhi. If large
parts of the countrys capital city,
on which limitless resources are
squandered every year, can appear
like a sprawling garbage dump,
then the urban squalor elsewhere
does not beggar the imagination. It

gets bleaker and more grim as we

descend the ladder marking the
hierarchies of cities; those at the
bottom rung are no more than
glorified slums.
Yet, it would be self-defeating
to allow ourselves to be distracted
by politicians and their flatterers
trying to make political capital out
of what was intended to be, and
remains, a noble initiative. The
Prime Minister was not looking at
photo ops on the birth anniversary
of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
when, broom in hand, he set out to
inaugurate the Swachch Bharat
Abhiyan. He would have been photographed garlanding Gandhis statue at Parliament House or attending the prayer service at Rajghat or
performing any of the rituals that
politicians perform on Gandhi
Jayanti. The coverage would have
been no different.
He chose to do something different. He put into deed words that
we have often heard, words that
had begun to sound like the rest of
the clichs that constitute political
and public discourse in this country. That initiative of his has had an
electrifying impact at two levels.
First, cleanliness and hygiene,
both linked to swachchata, are
being discussed with the seriousness they deserve and have been
elevated to the editorial and opeditorial pages of newspapers. Television channels, of course, continue
to expend their energy and
resources on frivolities and trivia.
We need not bother about them.
Till now, swachchata was treated as
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in mainstream public and
media discourse.
Second, Young India, the generation that aspires for a better life
and refuses to remain prisoner to
the status quoism of the Ancien
Rgime, has taken the Prime Ministers initiative as a personal call to
arms. Inspired young men and
women, not all of them adults,
many in their early teens, are now
volunteering time to clean the
immediate premises of their homes
or gated housing colonies. True, it
remains to be seen how long the
enthusiasm lasts, but if there is sufficient encouragement then it is
unlikely to flag. That encouragement has to come from role models
(writers, teachers, actors, musicians,
sportspersons), family elders and
community leaders.
The Prime Minister has been
inviting well-known personalities to
join the mission as brand ambassadors and lead from the front. By
itself this is not sufficient. We need
religious leaders, social activists and
family elders to step forward and
contribute their mite. In a deeply
religious country like ours, the role
of religious leaders in making
Swachch Bharat Abhiyan a success
cannot be overstated. The secular
state, or what remains of it after
being mercilessly mauled by the
Congress all these decades, must
not be seen to be reaching out to
them. They should come forward
on their own; if they don't, communities must poke them into action.
All this and more does not, in
any manner, diminish the primary

task of our municipal corporations, municipalities and panchayats. They have to cease to be jobgenerators and dens of corruption
and vice. For this, twin action is
called for. Existing laws have to be
redrafted holding elected members
and officials responsible for failures and accountable to taxpayers.
Incentives do not work in India;
disincentives do.
If jobs are put on the line for
allowing filth and garbage to accumulate, there will be an amazing
turnabout in attitudes. Second, we
have to inculcate a different set of
values in our children - school
curriculum must incorporate the
need to keep public spaces clean
and force those whose job it is to
maintain cleanliness to fulfil their
responsibility. Shrugging our
shoulders and looking away cannot
be the solution.
The possibilities are enormous
as is the potential for success.
Swachch Bharat Abhiyan is more
than ambitious as Government initiatives go: It is an audacious mission. But then, Modi is not known
to settle for less than what is audacious. He has done this often in
the past and demonstrated that
that which is seemingly audacious
is also doable. Swachch Bharat may
appear a pipe dream today. But it
can be a reality if not tomorrow,
then the day after. A clean, healthy
India may not be achieved in our
lifetime. But it can be achieved in
the lifetime of our children. That is
good enough.
(The writer is a current affairs
analyst based in NCR)

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Reader response to
Swapan Dasguptas column,
Usual Suspects, published on
November 2:
Bad idea: The Imam of Jama
Masjid is viewed by a large
section of Muslims as a land
grabber. His writ does not
run beyond the Red Fort. His
affront to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is rooted in
his links with the Congress.
But, as a political creature,
the Imam should have
known better than to snub
Modi, as it has only strengthened the latters position
among the Muslims.
Jitendra
Shahi who? Shahi patronage
for the Jama Masjid ended
with the Mughals in 1857.
For Syed Ahmed Bukhari to
still call himself the Shahi

Imam is, therefore, pompous.

Address him just as the
Imam of Jama Masjid and
the rest will fall in place.
Krishan
Need progressive leaders:
Indian Muslims need progressive leaders. Neither Syed
Ahmed Bukhari nor
Narendra Modi serves their
purpose. Neither man is
modern or liberal.
Sayan Sen
Communal agenda: Quite a
few Muslims vote for the BJP
and support the Prime
Minister But some politicians
are reluctant to give up their
communal agenda despite
their electoral defeats.
Premolal
Fake leader: I disagree with
the writer that the Imam of
Jama Masjid was well within
his rights to invite the

Pakistani Prime Minister to

his party. The Imam is a fake
leader of the Muslims and
his actions have exposed him
as an anti-national.
Bodan

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Reader response to
Kanchan Guptas column,
Coffee Break, published on
November 2:

Withdraw invitation: Many

Muslim leaders include fundamentalists like All India
Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Muslimeen chief Asaduddin
Owaisi opined that the Imam
of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed
Bukhari should withdraw his
invitation to the Pakistani
Prime Minister. That in itself
speaks volume.
Ramanathan Subramanian

Stench of death: Reading

this article, one could smell
the stench of dead bodies on
the roads of Delhi in 1984. It
reminds us of the Leon Uriss
novels, especially Mila 18, in
which he describes how the
stench of dead bodies travelled across the countryside
after the Nazis killed Jews in
the gas chambers.
Venkataraman Jagadesan

Not bothered about

Bukhari: The subject of this
article is uninteresting. Who
cares about the Imam of
Jama Masjid? Maybe this is
why the author had to bring
in the Congress angle.
B Roy

History ignored: It is said

that if reality is ignored, it
bounces back with greater
force and relevance. Does the
fact that not a single
Congress leader or activist
has been convicted for the
cold-blooded butchery of

over 3,000 Sikhs, pique no

conscience? That the
Government did not to
promptly call in the Army to
speaks volumes.
In West Bengal, then
Chief Minister Jyoti Basu
called the Army immediately
after the first case of arson
was reported in Kolkatas
Karnani Estate Mansions.
Ashish Rai
Carnage by Congress: I witnessed the violence in West
Delhi. We did try to save a
few Sikh families. It was a
carnage unleashed by
blood-thirsty mobs of the
Congress. Till this day, I still
hate the Congress in all its
politics avatars.
Harry Haran
Hindus were victims too:
The anti-Sikh pogrom was
the consequence of manipulative politics and skulldug-

gery within the Congress.

One hopes that the guilty
will be brought to justice.
Also, dont forget the thousands of Hindu victims in
this sad dark saga, murdered
by Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwales goons.
S Kumar
Manipulative politics: As a
Sikh, I agree this was the
consequence of manipulative
politics and the Congress
party is still in denial about
it. Every guilty person must
be held to account.
inderjitsahota
Other stories: Readers
derive no benefit from repetition of well-known events.
Instead, write about how
Punjabi Hindus fell victim to
blood-thirsty Khalistanis,
and the Nehruvian establishment turned a blind eye.
M Patel

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any key appointments in

the Central Government
have been stuck for
months, but the process is
expected to start very
soon. Many appointments had been
deferred because the selection panel to
finalise these was not complete. There is
a provision to include the Leader of
Opposition in most of the panels but this
time there is no LoP.
Now, the Government has devised a
way to tackle this technical problem it
is including Mallikarjun Kharge, the
leader of the largest party in Lok Sabha,
the Congress in the panel for the
appointment of Chief Information
Commissioner (CIC). Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, who heads the panel, has
included Kharge along with Arun Jaitely.
First of all, the CIC will be appointed
as this post has been vacant since
August, and more than 9,000 applications for information are pending. Even
the post of the Central Vigilance
Commissioner (CVC) has been lying
vacant since October. The post of chairman of NCERT is also vacant since
October. No appointment has been made
due to the clause of LoP. Next month,
CBI director Ranjit Sinha will also retire,
and the process to find his successor has
not started yet.

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join the BJP-led Government any
possible. Talks between both parties are still going on. Meanwhile, leaders of Shiv Sena and Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena (MNS) are also having
talks. MNS chief Raj Thackeray has
come out of the shell. He had become
almost inactive after facing the worst
defeat in Assembly Elections. He met
new CM Devendra Fadnavis and kept
his demands before him. It is being said
he even spoke to his cousin Uddhav on
the future politics.
Recently, Rajs daughter had met with
a minor accident and Uddhav had gone
to see her, leaving all his work. It must be
noted that when Uddhav had undergone
a heart surgery some time ago, Raj had
gone to meet him several times and this
was when the ice started breaking
between them. Though sources say Raj
and Uddhav are not able to come together due to female members of the family,
senior members of Shiv Sena and MNS
are trying to bring the parties together.
Many spiritual leaders, Bollywood stars
and industrialists are also busy in this
mission. Speculations are that if Shiv
Sena joins the Government, the MNS
will also get something, and then the BJP,
Shiv Sena and MNS will together play
politics in Maharashtra.

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will witness a disaster. In Andhra
Pradesh, the Congress has been pushed
on the margins. In the last Assembly
Elections, it got two jolts. First Jagan
Reddy parted ways and then Kiran
Reddy formed a separate party.
Now the Congress is facing crisis in
Tamil Nadu also. Former minister GK
Vasan has announced his own party.
Vasans father, late GK Moopanar, had
fought after forming an alliance with the
DMK and won. So, the biggest jolt for
the Congress will be if Vasan went with
the DMK, which is the Congress probable alliance partner.
The Congress is in power in two
States of South India Kerala and
Karnataka. But in both States, the partys
situation is not good. In Kerala, the
Congress is entangled in controversies
with its alliance partners. Not only this,
finance minister of Kerala is facing allegations of taking bribe of C1 crore.
Siddaramaiahs position is relatively
strong after the win in byelections, but
he is on the target of opponents. On the
other hand, the BJP has started preparations for elections.

ars bearing the logos of Islamic

State (Isil) drive around the streets.
Within sight of the city centre lies
the only official overseas mission of the
Taliban. Jihadis sowing instability in perhaps 15 countries, from Algeria to
Pakistan, direct their operations from
pleasant villas in the suburbs or, in the
case of the terror group Hamas, from
suites in the best hotels, where they can
sometimes be seen relaxing by the pool.
The mosques host some of the
worlds most influential extremist ideologues, their words pinged round the
globe via their personal television channels. Hundreds of millions of pounds
flow to organisations defined by Britain
as terrorist, much of it from the
Government itself.
An official of that Government,
Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari,
channelled many such dollars to alQaeda while working for the interior
ministry, according to the US Treasury
department. The foreign ministers
cousin was detained in Lebanon, also for
financing al-Qaeda; he was then convicted in his absence, after his Government
reportedly applied intense pressure on
Lebanon to free him before trial.
This is Qatar, the country with
which David Cameron has just signed a
defence and security agreement. Did the
deal, perhaps, include a promise by the
Qataris to stop this sort of behaviour?
Did it commit Qatar to end its support
for the Islamist militias who have helped
reduce Libya to anarchy, or to kick out
the leadership of the Muslim
Brotherhood? It did not.
In fact, it was Britain that made the
concessions, committing to share its classified intelligence and expertise with the
Qatari state, and agreeing to work more
closely with its security forces. We were
told that Cameron would talk tough at
his meeting with the Emir of Qatar.
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his time asking for money.
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its fellow Gulf Co-operation Council

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tions to this, but this is a verified fact. In

UP, the party slipped to the third position and is still struggling to recover. Its
the same situation in Bihar and Tamil
Nadu. In Jharkhand, it is on number 3,
and there is no improvement. That is the
reason Congress leaders are apprehensive
about the results in many States. They
think the party may face deep crisis in
Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and
Andhra Pradesh.
In Haryana too, the Congress has
been pushed to the third position. This is
the first time when the Congress has
gone to number 3 position in
Maharashtra. Its status is almost equal to
the regional party, NCP. In Andhra also,
it is on number 3. There is a scenario of
TDP vs YSR in Andhra. Of course, in
Telangana, the Congress is at number 2
and leaders expect the party to make a
comeback because it had played an
important role in creating the State. In
Delhi, this is the first time when the
Congress is at number 3. All surveys
show that in the coming elections, lead
of AAP will be maintained. It means the
fight will be between the BJP and AAP.

when Modi was declared the PM candidate and had started a fierce campaign.
Sources in RSS say that from January to
September, almost 4,000 new branches of
RSS have been started in different parts
of the country. From 2012 to 2014, the
number of new branches was on an average 2,000 per year, and even the number
of people going there was very less. Most
of the people going to these branches
were in the old age group and there were
few youths. But now the situation has
changed. Supposedly, in the next five
years, the RSS will reach those areas
where its effect has been almost zero.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said
that RSS shakhas produce PMs. After this
statement it is expected that the drive of
RSS will gain momentum. After Atal
Bihari Vajpayee, Modi is the second PM
from RSS shakha. Another fact being
promoted is that RSS has produced two
CMs. In Haryana, a full-time RSS
pracharak Manohar Lal Khattar has been
made CM. Even Devendra Fadnavis has
been associated with the RSS. So, people
with political ambitions are showing
interest in RSS now.

Congress. Though Congress leaders are

saying that he is a common citizen and
are trying to detach him from the party,
his recent outburst against a mediaperson has become a matter of concern for
his wife Priyanka Gandhi and the
Congress party.
On the other hand, double-edged
attacks have started on Vadra. He is on
the target of the BJP and leaders who
want to see Rahul as the party president. There are many leaders who are
fed up of the bring Priyanka, save
Congress campaign. They are now
apparently busy planting news against
Vadra.
When Vadra misbehaved with a
journalist and landed up in controversy,
it was Sandeep Dikshit who reacted
first, saying one must behave properly
with journalists. It means he put Vadra
in the dock. It is said that leaders who
support Rahul are spreading the message that if Priyanka becomes active in
the party, the BJP will get a chance to
attack her and the party will face more
trouble. On this basis, the path of
Priyanka is being blocked.

ing. The party has given ticket to only

one IAS officer, JB Tubid but there are
some political reasons behind it. He has
a clean image and is known to be an
upright officer. His father was a
Congress MLA from Chaibasa. Three
days ago, he applied for VRS and when
it was granted, he joined the BJP. Apart
from him, almost half a dozen officers
were trying for BJP tickets. The party
has inducted all of them but has not
given them tickets.
Three former IAS officers were
hopeful of a ticket. Laxman Prasad
Singh was trying for Dhanbad and
Sheeta Oraon was claiming the
Lohardaga seat. Manoj Mishra, who had
retired just before them, had already
joined the BJP but didnt get a ticket.
Bimal Kirti Singh, an IAS officer, also
took VRS just before Lok Sabha
Elections and was a contender from
Bokaro seat, but didnt get ticket.
Chief Secretary of Jharkhand,
Mukhtar Singh, was also a contender of
a BJP ticket but was disappointed. Many
PCS officers were also lobbying for the
ticket but the party didnt oblige.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is Tbureaucrats who were gearing up to
showing interest in RSS since January
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(GCC) members Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates,
Oman and Kuwait promising noninterference in the internal affairs of any
of the GCC countries, directly or indirectly and to not support activities that
threaten the security and stability of the
GCC countries, either from organisations or individuals. This March, Saudi
Arabia, the Emirates and Bahrain pulled
their ambassadors out of Qatar, claiming
it had failed to keep its word. In an angry
joint statement, they said that more
than three months after the signing of
the agreement, no necessary actions have
been taken by the State of Qatar to put it
into effect.
Despite big attempts to persuade
the State of Qatar of the importance of
taking the necessary measures, they said,
all (our) efforts have, with great regret,
not resulted in the consent of the State of
Qatar to adhere to these procedures, so
the three countries have to start taking
whatever (steps) they deem appropriate
to protect their security and stability.
Some change does appear to be happening as a result of pressure, almost
entirely from the US. Several Muslim
Brotherhood figures have been asked to
leave, and a few of the most poisonous
Qatari-based preachers have gone quiet.
That shows the value of applying pressure. Perhaps Britain should try it.
Qatari officials will tell you that they
recently passed a law creating an agency
which is empowered to regulate any charities in the kingdom that are engaged in
politics, send money overseas or receive
foreign contributions. They have the law;
but they have yet to use it. And as with
the GCC agreement they signed last year,

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Qatar passed a law criminalising terrorfinancing, established a Financial
Intelligence Unit, and founded the Qatari
Authority for Charitable Activities.
Further powers were taken in 2006. Alas,
in 2008 an IMF team discovered that
their enforcement was limited, with
parts neither implemented nor effective.
Not a single confiscation of funds had
been made, because not a single moneylaundering charge had been brought

before the courts.

In 2010, a National Anti-Terrorism
Committee was empowered to designate terrorists independently, but no designations had been made by 2013 and
none appears to have been made since.
Part of the problem is that Qatars
definition of terrorism is narrower than
most other peoples. The Emirs protestation, in September, that we dont fund
extremists, is preposterous, given the
tens of millions of pounds that the Qatari

Government has paid directly to Hamas.

Hamas has, of course, killed hundreds of civilians in suicide bombings
and missile strikes; it seeks the destruction of Israel; it is banned as a terrorist
organisation in every democracy on
earth. But Hamas, by Qatari standards, is
not an extremist or terrorist group.
It is not just Qatar that is failing to
learn the right lessons: we are, too.
Britain is a great, wealthy country. It
doesnt need to bend the knee to pocket
dictatorships with suitcase-sized bank
balances. But in so many ways the UK
has sold its soul (and a lot of its soil) to
dubious foreign money.
The Serious Fraud Office will soon
decide whether to prosecute the former
management of Barclays for allegedly
paying hundreds of millions in bribes to
Qatar the price, it is claimed, of raising
6 billion of Qatari money to prop up the
bank during the 2008 financial crisis.
The Qataris have been shopping for
icons of London. They already own
Harrods, the Shard, and large parts of the
Olympic Village and yesterday launched
a takeover bid for Canary Wharf. Even if
Britain wanted to increase its distance
from Qatari cash, it may soon no longer
be possible.
I recently met a senior person in
another household-name London business who told me he believed its foreign
owners were using it as a money-laundering operation. They can be pretty
confident of getting away with it. UK
authorities explicitly market Britain overseas as a place where the rules are more
lax and more lightly enforced than, say,
in America.
You might call it riyalpolitik, a prag-

matic recognition of money and power.

But in practice, Britain appears to be the
loser. Rich foreigners living here benefit
from the UKs stable Government, police
and courts without paying a penny
towards them in taxes. Its never been
clear what benefits the British gain from
the arrangement, other than for top-end
estate agents and basement-cinema construction firms, and its increasingly clear
that our tolerance of states in league with
our enemies carries grave risk.
In 2001, I attended an event at the
Royal United Services Institute in
Whitehall, where I saw several very serious people from the British Armed
Forces literally fawning, in the hope of
defence contracts, on some princeling
from Saudi Arabia (who held an equivalent position in his countrys military,
despite weighing about 18 stone and
never having done any kind of soldiering
in his life).
I remember thinking that we were
crawling to a regime which represented
absolutely everything Britain was meant
to be against. Could any arms deal really
be worth that? The individual we were
pandering to had doubtless played a role
in the rise of Osama bin Laden, and was
part of the Saudi Governments efforts to
fund and facilitate al-Qaeda.
Then, a few months later, came 9/11,
a catastrophe caused in part by our
indulgence of such countries. It changed
our view of Saudi Arabia, and our new
hard approach brought real changes in
Saudi policy, too. I wonder if some future
calamity will bring about the same
shocked realisation of how badly we are
getting it wrong on Qatar.

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as Michael Corleone in seminal gangster epic The
Godfather, and considered director
Francis Ford Coppola a bit mad for
insisting he take the role. Film historians have long documented the fact
that the unknown Pacino beat
famous rivals including Jack
Nicholson, Robert Redford and
Warren Beatty, as well as a then little-known Robert De Niro, for the
role which made him famous. But
Pacino told Loaded magazine he was
roundly in agreement with the executives at studio Warner Brothers
who wanted an established star for
the 1972 movie.
I didnt want to do The
Godfather. I didnt know what was
going on, said the Oscar-winner. I
thought, How am I going to play
this part? He added: No one wanted me. Except for Coppola who was,
I thought, a bit mad. He just wanted
me. Even I said, What are you doing
Francis? They dont want me. Of
course Warner Brothers said, Who
is this kid?! Why do you like this
kid? What do you see?

The veteran actor, 74, revealed

Coppola cast him after watching him
as a teenage drug addict on stage in a
play called Does a Tiger Wear a
Necktie? and said Marlon Brando
was also not the studios first choice
to play the Godfather himself, Don
Vito Corleone.

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when her life started to change.
It was 1937 and she was living
in Warsaw with her parents.
Posner was Jewish, but went to
a Catholic school. At home, her family
spoke Polish. She identified herself first
and foremost as a Pole. But my identity
was shaken. Because all of a sudden I
couldnt understand why my Polish
Catholic friends were saying, you killed
Christ. And Im thinking, no, Im quite
innocent. It was an incredible shock.
That was just the beginning. By the
time she was just 12, and the Second
World War was underway, Ruth had lost
both her parents and her world as she
knew it. She was in the middle of the
Holocaust.
Now, 72 years later, Ruth is re-enacting her story in a play. She is taking part
in a production called Who Do We Think
We Are?, which sees 10 older actors share
their personal memories and covers the
last 100 years of human history. Ruth, 84,
is acting out the story of how she escaped
from the Warsaw ghetto.
She lived there with her parents, and
tells me: The unfortunate story is that
my father wanted to save me. Her father
helped Ruth and her aunt whose two
children had already been killed by the
Nazis get a job working at a leather
factor outside the ghetto. He also managed to acquire false passports for the
women, giving them Catholic names and
identities. The plan was for the pair to
escape during one of their regular trips to
the bathhouse, where workers were taken
weekly.
We were marched with guards on
each side and marched back again,
explains Ruth. On one of those events
my aunt had the false passports. She
explained to me, this is my chance. The
two of them managed to run out of the
bathhouse and on to the Aryan side of
the road. It was sheer luck. It was always,
you might be lucky and you might not be.
But it was worth taking that chance. Like
a cat, I have many lives, I think.

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For the next year or so, Ruth and her aunt

pretended to be Catholic. It wasnt as
challenging as it might have been for others. Ruth did not look Jewish and her

not particularly religious family had

already assimilated to Polish life. Ruths
parents were tragically taken to Treblinka,
the concentration camp, where they died.
She believes that they always had plans to
follow her, but were deported before they
had a chance to put them into action. The
rest of her story is not told in the play.
When she was 13, Warsaw was evacuated and Ruth was moved to Germany.
We were taken as prisoners of war to
Germany, but not as Jews. As Christians,
she tells me. It was very very cold in the
winter and we had to clean the snow
away from a railway track. This was kind
of my school. It wasnt as bad as being in
a concentration camp like Auschwitz or
Treblinka, where my parents died. But
you know, it wasnt a piece of cake. We
werent tortured, we were not beaten. But
the circumstances were not easy.
When the war ended, she went to
England and has lived here ever since.
Her aunt eventually returned to Poland
but Ruth decided not to follow. My life
in Poland was finished, she says. There
was no one left for me.
I was asked what I wanted and I said
that I wanted to be schooled. My schooling had been totally disrupted. Of course
I didnt speak a word of English. But I
was still young so I learnt quite quickly.
That was also when Ruth started to
deal with everything that she had gone
through. When I came to this country at
the tender age of 16, one goes through
different emotions. Theres a bit of, I survived and I feel a bit guilty because everyone is gone. But at that age you actually
want to put the past away from you and
move forward. I didnt want to be a victim and I didnt want to be different from
anyone else.

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learn the language as fast as I could and
be a teenager like everyone else. The only
thing that distinguished me from others
was that I was a bit more serious. I wasnt looking for boys and flirtations, but I
made up for it later in life.
Ruth went on to become one of the
first members of the London
Contemporary Dance Company, where
she worked for 17 years. She met her husband Mike at a tea dance there and went

on to have a son, who sadly died at the

age of 37. Then, during her forties, she
made the switch from dance to drama.
She told her aunt about this decision.
her reaction? I thought you already did
your most wonderful performance, youll
never match that. Ruth laughs: She
referred to the fact that I had to keep
changing my character [during the war],
and that was my best performance, my
best acting, for which I should have got
an Oscar. She went on to have a successful acting career, but this is the first time
that Ruth is acting out her own story on
stage. She has played Holocaust survivors
before, but never herself. So how does it
feel to relive those memories in such a
public way?

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ever sure I wanted to do it, she says.
Initially I just thought Im not really
interesting enough. Give me a character I
can hide inside of its much more comfortable than revealing my own experiences. But actually its proving to be
incredibly satisfying. Its kind of getting
rid of the onion skin and getting to the
core of something.
I didnt want it to be a public confession and make people feel sorry for me
because I was the victim of the Second
World War. I didnt want that. You cant
recollect all the memories and indulge in
them. It has become something that is
your text and youre dealing with it now
as an actor. You know what youre revealing but you sort of have to distance yourself from it, or it will be confessional selfindulgence.
This refusal to be the victim seems to
sum up much of Ruths survival instinct.
She refuses to do so in her art, she hated
doing it as a teenager coming to London,
and she clearly differentiates between
being a victim of a personal tragedy, and
one of history. I often think about this. I
was not a victim of personal family problem. Im a product of the tragedy of history I think its much more difficult
when youre the victim of a personal
tragedy. I was part of six million others. It
wasnt happening only to me. The basis of
my life that I remember was a happy
childhood. Thats why Im not bananas.

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big screen continues with the
news that Hollywood is set to adapt a
series of books which pitch a skewed
take on One Direction star Harry
Styles as an irresistibly cruel lover.
Written by 25-year-old Texan Anna
Todd, who began exploring the
world of fan fiction after finding herself with time on her hands thanks to
her husbands regular deployments to
Iraq. After was initially released
chapter by chapter via the online
Wattpad community. The ebook features a version of Styles known as
Hardin Scott, who is a student
rather than famed member of one of
the worlds best known boy bands.
Described as rude to the point
of cruelty the character appears to
have been inspired by kinky businessman Christian Grey in EL
James Fifty Shades of Grey. His
lover Tessa is compelled to dig
deeper and find the real Hardin
beneath all his lies according to the
blurb despite the reckless way he
treats her. James appears unlikely

to sue for copyright, given the

authors incredibly successful series
of erotic novels began life as
Twilight fan fiction.
I loved 50 Shades and reading it
sort of changed my adult reading life
and definitely influenced After,
admitted Todd, whose first ebook has
picked up more than a billion hits.

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hristian Bale has caused concern amongst some Christian

writers with his remarks about
Moses, the Biblical figure he plays in
Ridley Scotts forthcoming Exodus: Of
Gods and Kings. I think the man was
likely schizophrenic and was one of
the most barbaric individuals that I
ever read about in my life, Bale said.
The actor said he wasnt knowledgeable about the Bible before taking on the role, but had undertaken
significant research, including also
reading the Torah, the Koran and
Jonathan Kirschs Life of Moses. Bale
said he was surprised by the complexity of the figure and his creator.
He was a very troubled, tumultuous
man and mercurial. But the biggest
surprise was the nature of God. He
was equally very mercurial.
Bales comments have been
received with scepticism by an online
Christian community which had
expressed the hope that Scotts spectacular would be closer to the text
than Darren Aronofskys Noah,
released earlier this year.
Christianity Today appeared to

resign itself to a secular treatment,

reporting that when asked about
parallels between Exodus and the
recent rise of political tension in the
Middle East, Ridley Scott told
reporters, People can do that if they
want to be really negative or just sit
down and enjoy the f***ing movie.
Its a movie!

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Missouri radio tower
south of St Louis went awry
when his parachute got stuck
on a supporting wire, leaving
him suspended 155 feet
above the ground, a fire official said. The parachutist,
Timothy Church, 27, and
Brandon Travis, 26, were
arrested for trespassing on
private property, St Louis
County Police spokesman
Brian Schellman said. Travis
helped Church gain access
to the tower, he said.
Church was rescued by
a firefighter trained in highsuspension rescues who
climbed the tower and got a
rope and pulley to the man. He
was then secured and lowered to
the ground, said Brian Hendricks,
chief of the Mehlville Fire Protection
District.
It appears he climbed the
tower, jumped, deployed his para-

chute and as he was coming to the

ground he became entangled in the guy
wire, Hendricks said. Church was stuck
on the wire about 20 feet from the tower
for two hours, he added.
He was in a significant amount of
stress due to suspension trauma,
hanging in the harness for that long.
But when we got him on the ground,
he was able to walk, Hendricks
said, adding that Church was
taken to a hospital for treatment
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species of fanged deer that

been seen in 66
Ahasnt
years was recently spotted by

scientists in northeastern
Afghanistan, according to a
Wildlife Conservation news
release.
The Kashmir musk deer,
which is one of seven similar
species found throughout Asia, is
endangered due to habitat loss
and also because of poachers

hunting the animal

for its prized scent
glands. No members of the species
had been seen in Afghanistan by scientists since 1948.
Only the male musk deer have
fangs, which they use during breeding
season to battle for mates, according to
the Washington Post. The stocky deer
stand at about 2 feet tall, according to
Discovery. The WCS survey team noted
that the deer were discrete and difficult to spot, and they were unable to
get them on camera.
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creatures may have entered the 5th
District Courthouse in Washington
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building.
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the facility but are mainly congregated
inside vents, where they can be heard
scratching inside the ceiling in some
areas, a court employee said.
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that the bats numbered in the thousands, but Rick Davis, trial court executive for the 5th District Court, said that
the number of bats and how long it
will take to remove the animals is
unknown.
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is assisting in removing the bats from
the 91,734 square-foot building, while
legal proceedings in the courtrooms
have gone forward with little interruption save a few cases that were moved to
different rooms.
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cause the bats to exit the building, Utah
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point, they will be able to
catch them.
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endorse the belief that a person
should strive for the wholesome development of all the
three aspects of their personality physical, mental and spiritual. We
have indeed progressed immensely in
the physical and mental arenas, but on
the flip side, we have entirely neglected
the spiritual facet of our life.
In ancient cultures, the inculcation
of ethical virtues served as an integral
part of the education process. The
physical, mental and spiritual growth of
students was encouraged through myriad means, which included ethical
instruction. The last century saw an
unfortunate decline in the teaching of
ethics in educational institutions all
over the world, as only physical and
material advancement was deemed
necessary and was consequently
emphasised upon. The regrettable
result is that we are now faced with a
generation utterly devoid of ethical
virtues. Crimes in the streets, children
exhibiting violent behaviour, use of
alcohol and intoxicating drugs in a
misguided attempt to experience happiness, and unreasonable aggression
these are all glaring results of the failure
to inculcate ethical virtues in the
younger generations.
In order to attain personal and
world peace, it is imperative that we
provide the right kind of education to
our children right from the start. If we
can successfully teach them to distinguish between right and wrong, they
will certainly grow up to be virtuous
human beings, better able to make
righteous decisions for their own selves
as well as for society at large.
To attain this end, we have to provide a balanced education to children.
Educational systems all over the world
concentrate only on promoting the
physical and mental aspects of the students. Schools offer classes concerning
various health, safety and nutrition
issues. Students are provided instruction on diverse subjects such as the
sciences, mathematics, social studies,
languages and literature. They also
have a choice to learn about different
kinds of art and music. But most
schools fail to provide any kind of
moral or spiritual education to their

students. It then becomes absolutely

essential for the bright future of our
children that we incorporate the
teaching of ethical and spiritual values
in our educational system.
Moral or spiritual development
implies that we grow into human beings
that are full of love, compassion, truthfulness and humility. We should lead an
exemplary life full of these noble virtues
before the children, so that they can
learn from us and are encouraged to
adopt the same in their lives too. There
should be a daily period allocated for
moral and spiritual education. The students must be taught about people of
other countries and cultures, as well
comparative study of different religions
and their tenets. They are thus instructed in the adage of unity in diversity.
Moreover, the students should be
encouraged to sit in silence and focus
their attention within, so that they can
experience inner peace.
Meditation is not religion-specific.
Students can learn how they can all sit
together and meditate irrespective of
the nation or religion they belong to. In
this peaceful meditation period, the
students are only concerned with finding the spiritual wealth inside them,
and with becoming fully conscious of
their body and mind. Meditation helps
the students get acquainted with their
true spiritual self. Moreover, they get a
chance to learn about the virtues of
non-violence, truthfulness, purity,
humility, love and compassion, and
selfless service, and are encouraged to
inculcate these in their lives.
Learning about their real spiritual
self automatically paves the way for the
higher understanding that the same
light and love of God is enlivening all
other beings too. This experience
teaches the children to be loving and
kind to all. Then the realisation sets in
that in spite of varying skin colours and
outer appearances, we are actually constituted of the same light of God. This
realisation helps them love one and all.
Once we learn to love and respect others, we instinctively become peaceful
and non-violent. When we would start
considering everybody as member of
one big family of God, then we would
naturally feel compassionate toward all,
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Thus students with sound ethical foundation would never find reason to
cause harm to any member of their
large human-family.
Apart from experiencing our true
spiritual self and connecting with the
God-power within, the benefits of
meditating on the inner light and
sound of God are manifold for all, and
can be enjoyed by students and teachers and everyone else alike. During
meditation when we close our eyes and
gaze within, we are required to concentrate fully. Once we become proficient
in this technique of focussing our
attention completely, we can successfully employ it to our other daily chores
too. This results in our understanding
and learning faster anything we study,
as well as in concluding all our tasks in
a timely and competent manner. Along
with enhancing our mental capabilities,
meditation also helps in promoting our
health as we start leading a stress-free
life. We cease raging irrationally, and
are better able to face all the challenges
and tensions that life throws our way.
It then logically follows that if students are taught the useful skill of meditation and concentration since childhood, they will be better enhanced and
equipped physically, mentally and spiritually. They will witness the light of
God inherent in every human being
and living creature. Their hearts will be
brimming with love and empathy for
the entire human-folk. If all the teaching establishments of the world integrate meditation and spiritual education into their curriculum, then 15, 20,
or 25 years later, we will certainly yield
human beings awash with love and
compassion.
This will herald the commencement of an era where people will not
hoard for themselves but would be
willing to share their riches with the
less fortunate ones. It will be a golden
age in which we will innately care
about our neighbours, our society,
and all the living beings in the creation. If children are imparted moral
and spiritual education along with
physical and mental instructions, then
this world will undoubtedly become a
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the Gen Next takes charge, one issue and a vital
one crops up. In rush to digitise and outpace
the 21st century, are we not selectively forgetting the
wonder that India was? The treasure trove, the repository of spiritual and cultural richness that was a source
of global attraction in the ancient times. We proudly
proclaim of the demographic dividend, which the
overwhelmingly large population of 35 something,
seems to provide. We quote the contributions of the
software industry that drives our services sector and
boosts our GDP. We boast of our satellites that have
given us reasons to stare in the eyes of the developed
world without batting an eyelid. But we seem to forget
our ancient status as a world guru that was largely due
to insightful knowledge acquired by the sages and
seers of the yore through their tapa that gave them an
observational power that could compare with the most
modern research-based findings.
In this knowledge-driven era, we need to realise
the importance of that tacit knowledge that was the
source of our competitive advantage in the ancient
times and if retrieved and packaged properly can give
us the same advantage today. The sacred India, the
hidden India and the spiritual India that was aweinspiring. That India which has been mentioned by
scholars far and wide. That was a time when knowledge was our strength. As we struggle to find our universities in the top 100 or 200 rankings of the world,
our centres of higher learning need to seriously search
for that tacit knowledge that may be gathering dust in
some dingy archives and being gradually eaten away
by the paper-happy termites.
In his foreword to a 1934 book A Search in Secret
India by Dr Paul Brunton, Sir Francis Younghusband,
the then British political minister to the state of
Kashmir and President of the Royal Geographic
Society of England, had written: The most scared part
of India is the most secret. Now secret things require
much searching for; but those who seek will find.
Indian universities need to take up this job of researching India, that India which has been hidden
from the prying eyes of all those who claim to have
discovered India, the secret India. The land of Raman
Maharishi, the land of Nizamuddin Aulia, the land of
Kabir. The land to which bestselling international
author Robin Sharma sends his protagonist monk in
search of peace. Maybe we need to develop advanced
centre of research to gaze in the past and dig the
grandeur of the ancient land that is becoming alien
country to its own countrymen who have been mischievously fed with the spurious information that it is
only the West that is knowledgeable.
Ironically, the same West has taken our past seriously, developing centres of research that tell us about
our own heritage while we are too busy with our technical education to provide subsidised manpower to the
Western world. Our neglect of our rich heritage may
impoverish us permanently. But there is a need to
tread cautiously. Finding real spiritual treasure
involves serious scholarly efforts. More so in our country where spurious spirituality does brisk business.

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it. The first reason is the free
will of souls. We, souls, being
parts of God, have free will as our
intrinsic right, which God never
withdraws. One may question this
statement because God is all-powerful; he can do anything if he wishes.
How can we even imagine that God
can be limited? The answer is:
because God chooses to limit himself in this regard.
This fact can be understood this
way. What would God want from
us, his parts? That we should all be
perfect as any father would wish his
children to be. And God, being allpowerful, can ensure that. What
would the world look like then?
Everyone, without exception will be
perfect, controlled by God. There
will be no individuality and there
will be no variety. Would we want
to live in such a world, totally controlled by God, ie be like robots, not

human beings having no choice to

live our own lives? We certainty will
not. As parts of God, we must have
the freedom to desire what we want,
what to think, and take our decisions. Now can we agree that God
never withdraws our free will; God
limits himself.
The second reason is also very
valid. And that is: God has formulated certain rules and guidelines
for this material world, ie for its
functioning. What will be the
meaning of these rules and guidelines if God himself violates them or
does not honour them? What kind
of example will he be setting for
others? Therefore, God limits himself in this regard also.
Not only God does that, he sets
examples in his incarnations by following these rules and guidelines.
Let us take Lord Krishna incarnation. He allowed his parents to suffer long period of captivity. He even

allowed his six elder brothers to be

killed mercilessly by Kansa. He
himself was whisked away to safety
by his father Vasudeva. He allowed
his nephew to be mercilessly killed
by Kauravas. He did not bring back
to life the five sons of Draupadi.
The Lord at one time left the battlefield, for which reason He was
named ranchhod, ie who abandons
a battlefield. Lord Krishna even
allowed the Yadava clan to selfdestruct. The Lord accepted death
through a hunter.
Let us take Lord Rama incarnation. He allowed his father to die in
very sorry circumstances, being separated from the Lord. He allowed
his wife to be abducted by Ravana,
which caused enormous suffering to
her. The Lord himself suffered a lot
during this period. He allowed his
pregnant wife to be sent to a forest
because of adverse public opinion.
Let us, therefore, accept that

God limits himself. How does this

fact affect us? That we should not
raise unreasonable demands on
God and when he does not fulfill
them, we should not lose faith. We
know from our scriptures like the
Bhagavad Gita that God does help
his devotees, but within limitations
placed upon God by he himself. Is
God doing his best not good
enough for us if we are his devotees? Rather good devotees of God
dont even like to bother God with
their petty problems. They know
that God is watching over them and
will intervene, as necessary. He will
do so without breaking any rules or
guidelines, being all-knowing; God
will find a way out for his sincere
devotes. What is the conclusion?
Become good devotees of God and
enjoy a life of peace and bliss. I welcome your comments.

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from your body, leaving it dead. In fact,
you leave behind everything all your
belongings, for which, you must have
desired, schemed, and tirelessly worked
to earn them, during your live existence. Even your physical body does
not go with you. What life-forces carry
along is the record of all your good and
bad doings, the experiences had, and
learning.
What, however, persists in peoples
memory even after you lose your live
existence with a particular body-frame
and name, is the imprint of how you
would have engaged yourself with the
world. Should you be credited with
serving the society well in whatever
ways, you remain alive in peoples
memory forever, as it happens with legends. The ordinary mortals just fade
away from the memory of their near
and dear ones over a period of time.
People feel relieved when bad names
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them from their memory.
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this scheme of things, for whatever

good or bad you do in one life, accordingly, you are to reap the consequences
there of in your next life that comes in
succession. But much before that, even
in the present life, you have to bear
with the consequences of how you
engage yourself with the world around.
This is how the law of Karma runs,
and which define the course of life,
both in micro and macro terms.
There may not exist, any direct evidence in physical domain in support of
Ancient Indian Philosophys above perception. Empirical evidences, however,
very clearly establish its worthiness.
Towards the last quarter of the 20th
century, Dr Bryan Weiss, a scientifically
trained psychiatrist, using hypnotherapy technique, developed the process of
Past Life Regression, applying which,
he has been able to establish a definite
connect between past life memories
and the behavioural pattern during the
ongoing life.
Backed by established data, Dr
Brian, though born as a Christian, had
to acknowledge the relevance of the
theory of reincarnation, in contrast to
his earlier belief. Even organised case
study of those who are able to recall
past birth memories, connect has been

established. In the above backdrop,

from a commoners point of view, a
counter question throws further light
on the question: How is it that twins
enjoying same parentage and having
undergone similar grooming, behave
differently? Evidently, there has to be
some invisible factor playing its part.
Where does this come from? Does it
happen by accident? Empirically, it
again points to past birth connect.
Here in India, a good number of
people are academically aware of this
truth of life. And yet, most of us seldom
care to engage with the world righteously and judiciously. We rather prefer
to go by our egotistical perception,
which, in the first place, narrows down
our vision.
As a consequence, we lose track of
the truths underlying seeming realities.
Second, being caught up in the binds of
tempting influences of the seeming
world, we try to play all tricks in our
hand to reach out our fancied objective
ends. And we do not care for others
concerns and sensibilities, and with
obvious consequences, individually and
collectively.
A case in point is that of a very
intelligent lady but a scheming type,
high on ego, and stuck to her self-delusions. She spotted a highly placed

young man, trapped him in her fold in

a schematic manner, and forced him
into marriage. Having settled into marriage, she unsuccessfully tried to distance her spouse from all his near and
dear ones so as to exercise full control
over his riches. His partner was not
prepared to dance to her tunes. When
her game plan failed, she thrust a case
of dowry harassment on him seeking
fat alimony. But somehow her evil
deeds got exposed, and the lady is in
serious trouble now.
Look at her astrological pointers.
Mischievous Neptune well ordained to
mind-indicator Moon, but placed
adverse to Karmic Saturn pointed to
she being self-centric schemer stuck her
self-delusions.
Fiery Mars placed adverse to the
Sun and Jupiter pointed to her inflated
ego, impulsive, argumentative and
quarrelsome nature. Venus placed
adverse to Uranus and Neptune pointed
to her evil design for acquiring quick
riches, as well as her low morality. And
the result is there to see.

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blast case as it arrested mastermind Sajid, alias Sheikh

Rahmatullah, a Bangladeshi
national who carried a reward
of C10 lakh on his head. He is
also the chief of the Burdwan
module of Bangladesh-based
banned terror group Jamaat-ulMujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Sajid is said to be the chief
commander of JMB and the
mastermind of the outfits operations in Burdwan and
Murshidabad. His arrest was
facilitated by the Intelligence
Bureau (IB), sources said. On
Friday, the IB had also helped
the NIA in arresting the key
motivator and trainer of
Burdwan module Zia-ulHaque, who has reportedly
confessed that he used to
recruit and train jehadis in
madrasas on weekends. Sajid
was arrested by West Bengal
Police a couple of days back,
official sources said today but
refused to immediately divulge
the exact location and circumstances leading to his arrest.
Sajid is alleged to have
paid C8.75 lakh to another
absconding accused Kausar, a
Bangladeshi national, for purchase of land for constructing
a madrasa at Simulia in
Burdwan.
The West Bengal Police
later handed over the alleged
conspirator to NIA for further
probe. His interrogation by IB
and NIA is expected to give
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the plans of JMB in India as

well as in Bangladesh besides
the location of nearly 40
Improvised Explosive Devices
that were shipped ahead of the
October 2 blast. During interrogation he has admitted that
he is a resident of Narayangunj
district in Bangladesh.
The accused will also be
subjected to sustained interrogation to unravel the entire
modus operandi, funding
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has been spreading jehadi

ideology, particularly among
the Muslim women in Assam,
police said on Saturday.
The Assam Police produced Sujina Begum in the
court of the Chief Judicial
Magistrate (CJM) on Saturday.
The court remanded her in 14
days police custody.
She had taken the basic
training on jehad from some
madrassas in West Bengal. She
is a key operative of the jehadi outfit here and was assigned
to give motivational training
on jehad to Muslim women in
Assam, said Apurba Jiban
Baruah, spokesman of the
Assam Police.
She is expected to cooperate with the police and we
hope that she will not only
give some vital information
about her fugitive husband
but also about the organisa-

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tional bases of jehadi forces in

Assam, he added.
She had been hiding with
her son in a house in Guwahati
after decamping from their
house in Barpeta. She was trying to escape from Guwahati
when we nabbed her, Baruah
said. While a team of the
Assam Police and the CRPF
had arrested Sujina and her
minor son from the Inter State
Bus Terminus (ISBT) on
Thursday night, her husband
Shahnur is absconding.
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he strength of Prime
Minister Narendra Modis
Council of Ministers could well
cross the 60-figure mark with
over 15 new inductions likely
on Sunday in the first expansion
since the BJP-led NDA stormed
into power in May. A big chunk
of the portfolios will go to the
BJP, which is keeping the
regional and caste representations in mind. Ally TDP is to
get an additional berth.
However late on Saturday,
the Shiv Sena played hardball
with the BJP on the deal it gets
in Maharashtra amid reports
emerging from its camp that
it was even contemplating
boycotting the swearing-in
ceremony at the Centre.
Having initially recommended its Rajya Sabha member Anil Desais name for a
Ministerial berth at the Centre,
the party changed tack later in
the day and kept the decision
on hold. This, after its lone
Minister in the Modi Cabinet,
Anant Geete failed to meet the
Prime Minister. Sources
said he was subsequently called
back to Mumbai.
If some of the Ministers of
State may get elevated to Cabinet
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have their portfolios changed,

based on the Prime Ministers
evaluation of their performance
in the Government so far.
Heavyweights with the burden of
additional charge of big
Ministries will also see some load
off their shoulders. More than six
Ministers are currently holding
more than one portfolio.
The current strength of the
Council of Ministers is 45 23
of Cabinet rank, including the
Prime Minister, and 22 Ministers
of State. Of the 22 MoS, 10 hold
Independent Charge.
The swearing-in of the
new Ministers will take place at
the Rashtrapati Bhavan on
Sunday 1.30 pm.
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ifty-eight-year-old Laxmikant Parsekar was

on Saturday sworn in as the 11th Chief
Minister of Goa.
Ending days of speculation and lobbying
among three contenders for the CMs chair,
Parsekar was elected leader of the BJP Legislature
Party unanimously.
Former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar
proposed the name of Parsekar and it was seconded by Deputy Chief Minister Francis
DSouza, who was also a contender for the post.
Parsekar is a legislator from the coastal constituency of Mandrem.
Parsekar, along with Manohar Parrikar,
Speaker Rajendra Arlekar and Union Minister
for Tourism and Culture Shripad Naik, took the
party from scratch, when the BJP won just two
seats in the Goa Assembly in the 1996, to an
absolute majority it commands today.
Parsekar, who has done his Masters in
Science and B.Ed has been the State president
of the party for two terms and was first elected
as MLA from Mandrem in June 2002. He also
runs a school in his hometown.
In March 2012, he won the constituency for
the third consecutive term beating his nearest
rival by 3,435 votes.
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shocking incident of child
abuse in the national Capital, a
seven-year-old girl was allegedly molested at her school by a
lab assistant in Outer Delhis
Rohini area on Saturday.
The accused, identified as
Harender (40), has been arrested. A case of molestation and
various sections of Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences
(POCSO) Act have been
slapped on him. The accused
has also been suspended by the
school authorities.
A senior police official said
that the incident came to light
on Wednesday morning when
the victim, a Class III student,
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State organising secretary Satish Dhond and was

also close to Parrikar, is known to be a Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh pointsman in Goa.

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Nitish Kumar is working on
a two-pronged strategy to deal
with the saffron surge across the
nation. The man who walked
out of the NDA over projections of Narendra Modi as the
BJPs PM candidate is determined to stop the Modi juggernaut in Bihar in the next year
Assembly polls and shape up a
major Opposition at the national level to take on the BJP.
In an exclusive interview to
The Pioneer, Nitish outlines
his vision for the political challenge ahead, talks about the
need for a united fight against
the BJP, and hints that he will
flag BJPs flip-flop on black
money as a major poll plank.
For the first time since the

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Nitish also admits that the disconnect between his governance and party workers led to
the debacle.
Every election is important, but few as significant as the
next year Bihar Assembly polls.

The outcome will have serious impact on the national

politics and future of India as
secular nation which respects
its plurality, said Kumar.
In this context, he justifies his decision to join hands
with RJD chief Lalu Prasad
with whom he parted ways
two decades ago and since

then have been

his bitter political
foe. We fought
against Lalu
Prasad and the
RJD on the
issues of governance and
politics.
L a l u
Prasad is
now out
of power,
and politically he is on the
same side of the
divide, so there
is a need for reconciliation to
take on the common enemy, said
Kumar, adding,
here we are
not fighting

against governance or politics,

but those who impose serious
threat to the secular fabric of
the nation and threaten to
widen the gulf between the rich
and the poor.
On the growing concerns
in the media and certain quarters that the return of the RJD
in any power sharing agreement in Bihar could be seen as
the return of Jungle Raj II,
Nitish said, Let me make one
thing clear. We will not compromise on law and order situation in the State, whoever
may be our partner in the
Government.
At the same time, Nitish
pointed out that people evolve
in politics and even Lalu Prasad
has changed much from the
day he ruled Bihar.
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conscience, a professional without
scruples, a crazy success crawler, a
blackmailer and a killer. Somewhere in
between, he is also a footage provider
mostly outsourced for bloody wire that
a sagging news television channel could
use for jolting its breakfast viewers into
upping its TRPs.
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Rang Rasiya are bold and
beautiful. Based on the life and
art of maverick painter of the 19th
century, Raja Ravi Verma, this biopic
comes with all the nuggets of
emotionality, period drama and
history fitting into each other as a
Lego puzzle is meant to.
To start with, the very idea of
making a film on this controversial
painter is eclectic. Then to give it bold
sexual overtones is audacious but well
slotted. The world, till now, has bought
Raja Ravi Vermas paintings for several
crores of rupees but is still in the womb
of religious limitations, something that
Mehta shows brilliantly by juxtaposing
an art auction against mob fury.
The painters family is up in arms
one hears, but once you sit down to
view this film, you are swept away by
the doctrines of life through which this
eccentric painter lived and painted. He
was a hero much ahead of his times,
the first painter ever in India to think
of prints, en masse art and mixing
business with artistry.
He was also a man much beyond
bigotry and social demarcations. He
worshiped the human form as
passionately as he worshiped his lines
and colours on the canvas. He brought
deities out of temples and sold them to
common man for a few pennies. He

created a furore but he also created

undying, ageless, immortal art down the
line.
Mehtas film captures all this
futurism, drama and turbulence
beautifully through Randeep Hooda
who almost merges into the life and
times of Ravi Verma. The art director
and costume designers of this visual
treatise need an award for having
captured the minutest detail of that
bygone period with such finesse.
Nandana Sen as Sugandha, Ravi Vermas
muse, overpowers you with her sublime
beauty which was must for figuring her
as a Goddess sometimes and an Urvashi
at other times on Ravi Vermas canvas.
Their relationship has been handled
with amazing balance of emotion and
practicality climaxing in the killing
dialogue in which she is told by her
painter that she does not exist for him
outside of his artistic imagination.
The undying note of this biopic is a
high with everything be it the politics
or religion or social milieu of that time
being on an exaggerated note. That
exaggeration, however, fits into the high
pitched existence of the master painter
as finely as it blends in the strands of
loyalty that he begets from his servant
and brother, not to mention Dada Saheb
Phalke, his first student of art.
Rang Rasiya is much more than a
biopic. It is an engaging slice of history
brilliantly portrayed by Mehtas keen
sense of cinematic art and historical
drama. A must savour film that is
differently abled, much like its central
character.

ystery thrillers unfolding in

another galaxy are somewhat
hard to stitch together.
Interstellar, however, has both its
physics and chemistry right as it hires a
single dad to navigate the light years in
search of a planet that could house the
dying humanity of famine and
pollution-hit Earth.
The credit goes to director
Christopher Nolan that for the most
part of its elongated existence on
screen, Interstellar keeps you engaged
and on the edge of your seat.
That the story is way out of
imagination and the situational
sequences hang tenuously between two
far removed solar systems, gives wings
to Nolans blockbuster ambitions. But
for the last 15 minutes or so of this epic
three-hour science fiction, the going is
both spatially and emotionally exciting.
Down the line, it also emerges as a
visual treat, be it the killer duststorms
arising in the horizon or the tsunami
waves that threaten to engulf their
spaceship on an alien planet deluged
with water.
The dizzying balance that Nolan
successfully maintains between human
agony and spatial impossibilities
both won over in the end is
something that gives this play-to-thegallery film an appealing veneer. It also
gives it the required depth.
Relationships between Nature and
man and man and daughter carry as
much gumption as the emptiness and
isolation of being when these characters
navigate the light years and get sucked
into the black hole of loneliness all in
search of an alternative planet of life
which apparently lies somewhere
beyond Saturn and accessible through a
tricky wormhole.
All the space jargon, put together
fictionally by a qualified quantum
physicist hired by Nolan, sits lightly on
your shoulders as the film spends
considerable time on Earth before
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minutes in space translating into 23
years on Earth!
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between father McConaughey in space
and his daughter Chastain on Earth,
compels you to feel with a gravity that
is often missing in space. To have used
flashback flashes through narrating
oldies to unfold the entire interstellar
event to viewers turns out to be a
masterstroke of genius on Nolans part.
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engaging, compelling, endearing and
thrilling. Thats rare in spatial mounts
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TV journalist and his exploitations may
make for exciting night entries.
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way cut-throat TV journalism is
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directed by Basu Chatterjee. So while the
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time in the 1982 movie, it was not so inyour-face with sexual innuendos.
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wrong buttons be the characters, the
attempt to make one laugh at dialogues
that make you squirm and the situations
that go from bad to worse. But the lowest
of all lows is that fact that actors like
Anupam Kher agreed to be part of such
a nonsensical film. It would have been
better if director Abhishek Sharma had
gone all-out and made a sex comedy out
of this. At least then, one could have
laughed. To see 60-year-old men run after
a 20 something just to see her in a twopiece bikini and discuss what colour she
should wear is nowhere near funny. It is
being desperately desperate.
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didnt have to do a movie that had
nothing to offer but crassness. Mr Kapoor
after doing a movie like Vicky Donor you
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me. She is the girl-next-door who
has her feet planted firmly on the
ground and a family person. At the
same time, she has a modern
outlook about what life in general
should be like. Her dream is to be a
fashion designer and to fulfill it she
travels from Lucknow to Mumbai
to make a name for herself. Arzoo
is someone everybody can
relate to. She faces each
problem head on and
that makes her
character truly
inspiring.
Q How much can you
relate yourself to
Arzoo?
Like Arzoo, I too
come from a small
town (from Shimla)
to Mumbai to
become an actor
and realise my
dream. In that
sense, I can relate
to the character. I
was pursuing
engineering in
Shimla when I
realised that I
wanted to act.
I was lucky
that I got
selected in the
audition for this
show. It has given
me the
opportunity to
work with senior
actors who are
very supportive.
Q How is the
industry treating
you?
Initially, I
found it difficult
to understand the
nuances and
adjust to the
working system.
From memorising
dialogues, to
learning the
technicalities of how

a serial is made to standing on the

mark and facing the right camera,
was all very new to me. But I took
workshops and that helped me a
lot. To begin with, I used to give
many retakes. Even now, I
sometimes feel that I can give a
better shot even if the director has
okayed the scene. This is because I
love what I am doing and am
always charged up and dont get
stressed.
Q Your experience on the set.
Its a lot of fun. Women
dominate men on the sets of
Humsafars and all of us have a
great time while shooting and
during breaks. There is a rule on
the sets that if someones phone
rings, that person has to give
C750 as fine. At the end of
the shoot, ice cream is
bought for everyone from
that money. So plenty of
entertainment all the
time.
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difficult?
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scene where I had to
fall backwards into a
swimming pool. I
had to give five
retakes as we had to
shoot the scene from
different angles.
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since I didnt
know where I was
going or how deep
the pool was.
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second take, it became
easy.
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Bollywood?
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viewing. Call it the influence of
English GECs or the need of the
hour to bring a change in the usual
serials on small screen, production
houses are coming up with out-ofthe-box storylines.
English tele-series like House of
Cards, The Big Bang Theory, The
Blacklist and Breaking Bad have
followed the tried and tested
formula of not dragging a show for
more than 13 weeks and making a
comeback with a fresh storyline or
finite shows. Something that
viewers who tune into Zindagi are
familiar with.
Tele-series are a positive trend.
Instead of having a show with 500plus episodes that goes off air
because of low TRPs, its better to
come up with limited episodes
which the audience loves. Having
infinite episodes means that the
soap suffers in terms of creative
quotient. But today, the audience
has a plethora of options; they can
tune in to another show. Recently,

more shows have gone off air

because of low TRPs, Gajra
Kottary, scriptwriter of shows like
Astitva and Balika Vadhu tells you.
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risk and experimentation is what
todays showmakers are willing to
take to bring the best that they have
to offers to the viewers at home.
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tele-series like Anil Kapoors 24,
filmmaker Vipul Amrutlal Shah is
all set to come up with an actionpacked thriller Pukaar - Call for the
Hero, journey of Major Rajveer
Shergill played by Rannvijay Singh.
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terms of format. Its a show about
relationships and how to deal with
them; something that the male
viewers will identify with. Having
Shah on board, who made one of
the longest running TV show Ek
Mahal Ho Sapno Ka in 1999 that
stretched to 1,000 episodes, there
is bound to be high expectation,
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is the smart yet difficult move. The
trend of seasons which started
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example. The show has already
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an on-going daily soap is
challenging. The story has to
survive through 28-episodes and
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kept in mind. Action-thriller shows
like Maharakshak Aryan are made
keeping in mind the younger and
male audience. To keep a show only
for the weekend slot means that one
can keep the audiences attention
even on holidays.The good part is
that the viewers are liking this new
format, Namit Sharma, Zee TVs
programming head, says.
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for 18 to 35-year-old women.
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content and make shows for those
who dont want to watch the usual
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scope to explore various genres and
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campaign across the city focusing on the voters of the minority community. They want to
ensure that the minority votes are
not divided in different camps.
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meet at Patel Nagar
communal flare-up which
office, it was decided that
all those in charge of the needed concerted efforts by the
Assembly seats will now meet the Delhi Police to control the situheads of all the minorities, ation. Although AAP was quick
including Sikh, Jain, Christian to accuse the former BJP MLA
and Muslims, to address their Sunil Vaidya for fomenting trouproblems. Wary of BJPs political ble, the Delhi Police reports are

the Congress, the Muslims would

strengthen the BJP, states AAP
campaign pamphlets, published
in Urdu and Hindi.
Our only goal through this
is that the environment
of communalism should
not reach Delhi, said Shakeel
Malik, AAP minority wing vicepresident. Muslims were unable
to get a clear image of the party
and they voted for the Congress,
he added. The party, however, is
emboldened now as all seven
Muslim-dominated constituencies of Delhi did not support the
Congress but voted for AAP in
the Lok Sabha polls, despite
Imam Ahmed Bukhari of Jama
Masjid openly appealing them to
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confirmed their participation on
the campaigns Facebook page.
The movement began when
activists from all over Kerala

warm response to the event in

Kochi, Kolkata, Hyderabad and
Mumbai. Nearly 300-400
students hugged and kissed
each other publicly as a brazen
act of defiance.
According to the movements Facebook page, the event
outside the office of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in
Jhandewalan was to display
embraces, holds and kisses.
Pankhuri Zazie Zaheer and
two Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) students
Sumitran Basu and Pratik
organised the Delhi chapter of
the event. Students from DU
and Jamia Millia Islamia too
joined the drive and locked lips.
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selected the venue near the
RSS office as the Sangh Parivar
had been denying them public
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murdered his 23-year-old
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neighbour in cold blood for K campaign, was held in the
objecting to his slicing leaves national Capital after a lukeoff a banana plant in their
neighbourhood, was arrested
on Saturday.
The victim, Govind Mahto,
was having a puja at home and
needed plantain leaves for the
ceremony. His mother asked
him to get a few from their
neighbours plant. While
Govind was hacking the plant,
Surjit Kumar confronted him.
He accused Govind of stealing
the leaves and the two got into
a fight. Surjit then snatched the
kitchen knife from Govind
and slit his throat.
Locals from a nearby JJ
colony found Govind in a pool
of blood and informed his
parents who rushed him to
Max Hospital in Patparganj
where he succumbed to
his injuries, said Deputy
Commissioner of Police (East)
Ajay Kumar.

at variance with the party.

The AAP workers also
embarked on a door-to-door
campaign, appealing the minorities to vote for the AAP party
while other political parties,
including the Congress, appear to
be rather marginalised.
During its campaign, the
AAP pamphlets caution the
minorities of a brewing
conspiracy to divide the Muslim
votes. Reminding them of the
steps taken by the 49-day AAP
Government, the party claims
that none of the Governments
have acted for their welfare
except them.
Attacking the Congress for
its failed secularism, the AAP
has appealed that by voting for

decided to protest against alleged

moral policing by Right wing
groups by organising a mass
snog fest on November 2.
The campaign was
launched on social media after
a coffee shop in north Keralas
Kozhikode city was vandalised
by a group of people who
criticised the public display of
affection by some couples
there. Delhi was the fourth
city where the Kiss Of Love
protests was organised after the
original event called by
free thinkers at Marine Drive
in Kochi on November 2 was
foiled by activists of various
fundamentalist outfits.

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wing parties, the Kiss Of
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Love campaign on Saturday
outside the RSS office turned
into a scuffle with a few students
getting injured. According to
RSS and their student wing
ABVP officials, the campaign
was diluting the culture of India
and was downright obscene.
The protest started with sloganeering but soon there was a
scuffle between the Kiss Of Love

protesters and the Right wing

supporters. The Right wing
groups condemned the act and
called the protesters and organisers perverts. Saket Bahuguna,
State Secretary of ABVP, said,
Communist organisations have
no concern for the welfare of students, society and the country.
All their ideas, views, criticism
end with carnal pleasures,
adding, Today sexually frustrated Communists are walking
the streets of Delhi to smooch.
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and individuals that regard
themselves as the barometer of
a nations conscience.

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blow to AAP, two of its former MLAs have expressed
unwillingness to contest forthcoming Delhi Assembly elections, alleging lack of internal
democracy in the party.
However, AAP maintained that
a final decision on whether the
two would again contest or not
hasnt been taken as yet. Harish
Khanna, former MLA of
Timarpur, and another AAP
MLA Rajesh Garg from Rohini
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interested in fighting the polls.
I have taken this decision due to
lack of internal democracy.
Khanna also alleged that the
party takes decisions without
any open discussions. Whenever party called a meeting to
discuss any issue, they didnt listen to the elected members. I

have had issues with some

members regarding how the
party works. I also informed
Kejriwal on July 6 about
my stand which I simply
implemented on November 6.
Another AAP MLA,
Rajesh Garg from Rohini, has
also indicated that he would
not contest forthcoming elections. Garg has communicated
to the party about his unwillingness to contest the elections.
When contacted, Garg refused
to comment on the matter.
However, in the past he had
expressed unhappiness about
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a woman were killed on
Saturday in firing by Pakistani
troops who violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control
(LoC) in Uri sector of Kashmir.
There was a ceasefire
violation around 17.15 hours
leading to the death of a soldier and a woman, an Army
officer said.
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place in Kamalkot area of the
Uri sector along the LOC, Col
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Information Warfare wing of
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Thane: Tension prevailed in
few localities in Thane, nearly 35 km away from Mumbai,
after Republican Party of India
(RPI) activists took to streets
over an allegedly defamatory
post on Facebook of Dalit
icon Babasaheb Ambedkar
on Saturday, police said.
RPI workers, led by local
leaders staged a road roko at
Cadbury Junction and also
blocked Eastern Express
Highway, which connects the
city with Mumbai, for over two
hours, inconveniencing hundreds of commuters.
Nearly six buses of Thane
Municipal Transport (TMT),
apart from some private vehicles, were damaged after agitators pelted them with stones in
the afternoon, Thane police
department said in a release.
The protests were intense
in localities like Vartak Nagar,
Shastri Nagar and Cadbury
Junction.
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and establishments in Vartak
Nagar downed their shutters
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the reports that many CCTV
cameras were not functioning
during Prime Minister
Narendra Modis visit to
Varanasi, the Union Home
Ministry has ordered a probe
into the alleged security lapse.
Intelligence Bureau (IB)
has been asked to conduct the
probe and find out whether the
reports of CCTV cameras not
functioning were true or not, a
Home Ministry official said.
The Ministry will also seek
a report from the Uttar Pradesh
Government on how the

CCTV cameras installed at

Assi Ghat were not tested
ahead of Modis visit.
If the surveillance cameras
were not working, it is a serious
issue as the security of none other
than that of the Prime Minister
was involved, the official said.
Media reports suggested
several security cameras at the
venue and even some monitors
in the control room were not
functioning while Modi was at
Assi Ghat cleaning the silt
along the Ganga banks as part
of the Swachchh Bharat campaign drive.
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Nearly 50 RPI activists,

including local leaders, were
taken into custody by police
after scores of workers
marched on Vartak Nagar
and Wagle Estate police stations and squatted there for
over three hours demanding
action against culprits behind
the post.
Police later released them.
Other areas in the city
remained peaceful though
vehicular traffic remained
affected as TMT buses were not
plying in Vartak Nagar and
Wagle Estate areas following
the agitation, the release said.
Police on Saturday said
they registered an offence
against unknown persons last
night under Section 295(a)
(deliberate and malicious acts,
intended to outrage religious
feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious
beliefs) of the IPC and under
section 66 of IT Act in connection with the Facebook post
and its circulation on popular
messenger service, WhatsApp
on the complaint of one
Aniruddha Apte.
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From Page 1
But before that Modi will
host a breakfast for the newcomers in his Government
where he is expected to brief
them on regimes immediate
priorities to fulfil poll promises
and the need to break new
grounds in running their
Ministries.
The high-energy performance required to implement
big-ticket reforms, which may
be unrolled in Budget 2015,
could also be stressed by the
Prime Minister in his Sunday
meeting, sources said.
Manohar Parrikar, 59, who
resigned as Goa Chief Minister
during the day, is certain to be
given the Defence Ministry,
relieving Arun Jaitley, who will
retain his Finance portfolio. An
IIT-M alumnus and the first
Cabinet Minister from Goa,
Parrikar shares a good rapport
with Modi. He will file nomination for the Rajya Sabha from
UP with polls scheduled for
November 20. The BJP
Parliamentary Board met on

Saturday and discussed the issue.

From the BJP camp, the
names doing the rounds for
Ministerial berths include vicepresident Mukhtar Abbas
Naqvi,57, the minority face of
the party; 44-year-old playback
singer Babul Supriyo, who won
the Lok Sabha seat from
Asansol, (to represent Bengal)
and 68-year-old Bandaru
Dattatreya (to represent
Telangana). Besides, Giriraj
Singh, Ram Kripal Yadav and
Rajiv Pratap Tudy (Bihar);
Vijay Sampla (a Dalit and to
represent Punjab); Moman
Bhai Kundria (Gujarat); former
Finance Minister Yashwant
Sinhas son Jayant Sinha
(Jharkhand, which is going to
polls this month); Col Sonaram
Chaudhary and Gajendra
Singh Shekhawat (both from
Rajasthan); Hansraj Ahir (from
Maharashtra who exposed
Coal scam); Ramesh Bais
(Chhattisgarh); Birender Singh
(Jat leader from Haryana) and
Ajay Tamta (Uttarakhand).
Though BJP general sec-

retary JP Naddas hands are full

with party responsibilities as
election-in-charge of J&K and
member Parliamentary Board,
his induction into the Government is not being ruled out.
The TDP has named its
millionaire Rajya Sabha member YS Chowdhary, while the
Shiv Sena has recommended its
Upper House MP Anil Desai
but whether it will ultimately
give him the go-ahead depends
on its talks with the BJP over
power sharing in Maharashtra.
In a brief interaction with
the media outside his residence at Bandra north-central
Mumbai, Sena president
Uddhav Thackeray: The picture will become clear at the
party legislators meeting to be
held tomorrow.
The Sena has convened its
legislature party meeting at 4
pm on Sunday to formalise its
stand on whether or not join
the BJP-led Government in
the State. The meeting will be
held either at the Sena Bhavan
or Matoshri.

Kolkata: Singer-turned-BJP
MP Babul Supriyo is likely to
be inducted in the Union
Council of Ministers on
Sunday, party leaders said.
Supriyo, who pulled off a
big surprise win in the May Lok
Sabha poll from Asansol seat in
West Bengal, would become
the sole representative in
Narendra Modis ministry from
the State once he takes oath
around 1 pm Sunday when the
reshuffle is scheduled.
He will be the third BJP
Minister from the Eastern State
after Tapan Sikdar and
Satyabrata Mukherjee.
State BJP president Rahul
Sinha said Modi had himself
called up Supriyo and informed
him of the decision to make
him a minister.
It can safely be assumed
that Babul Supriyo will be a
Minister at the Centre. He will
meet the prime minister tomorrow and his portfolio would be
announced then. Yesterday
(Friday) I was informed about
the development by the party
leadership. The prime minister
had also called Babul Supriyo,

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Supriyo was unavailable
for comment, but a close aide
said he would be travelling to
Delhi for the swearing in.
I hope so, the aide replied,
when asked if Supriyo would be
made a central minister.
The youthful Bollywood
singer, who has given hits like
Pari Hai Ek Pari..., Chanda
Chamke... and Dil Ne Dil Ko
Pukara..., was picked up by the
party to contest from Asansol
in the Lok Sabha election.
The articulate Supriyos
toughness, hard work and deter-

mination had then pleased the

party leadership, as he remained
unfazed despite being heckled by
the ruling Trinamool Congress
during the campaigning. The
administration had even made
the 43-year-old an accused under
the Arms Act besides slapping a
case for allegedly entering a temple in a drunken state.
While canvassing for
Supriyo ahead of the parliamentar y poll, Modi had
promised to make him a hero
of the country.
I want Babul in
Parliament. I have come to seek
from you the son of Asansol. I
am giving you my word, that I
will make this youth a hero of
the country, Modi had said.
Overriding the vicious
campaign against him, Supriyo
became the first BJP MP from
the seat, defeating his nearest
Trinamol rival Dola Sen a
trade union leader by over
70,000 votes. The BJP had won
two seats from the State in the
April-May polls. SS Ahluwalia
won from Darjeeling, but with
the backing of the Gorkha
Janmukti Morcha.
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Barasat (West Bengal): Former
Trinamool Congress leader
Asif Khan, who was arrested
for his alleged involvement in
a cheating case, was remanded
to five-day police custody by a
local court.
The court of Chief Judicial
Magistrate, Barasat, in The
North 24-Parganas district sent
Khan to five-day police
remand. The police had sought
10 days custody of Khan.
The arrested was produced
in the court on Saturday following his discharge from a
hospital where he was admitted on Thursday evening on a
complaint of illness.
The police had arrested
Khan from his residence at
Tiljala in Kolkata on Thursday
evening and froze his bank
account having a C3.14 crore
balance on Friday.
He was arrested after a UP
businessman and a city-based
firm complained that he had
duped them of crores of rupees
in a land deal in the Rajarhat-

New Town area in the North

24-Parganas district.
Khan was a member of the
TMC till last month, but quit
the party accusing a section of
party leadership of been
involved in the Saradha chit
fund scam.
The CBI had also grilled
Khan, who was the editor of a
Bengali daily Aajker Kalom, in
connection with the scam.
PTI

New Delhi: A total of 21

juveniles were rescued from
nine separate factories being
run on the outskirts of the
Capital where they were working as labourers, police said
Saturday.
Of the rescued juveniles,
20 were male and one was
female,
said
Deputy
Commissioner of Police
Ranvir Singh.
The juveniles were rescued Friday from nine shoe
and slipper factories being run
in Madipur and Nangloi villages in West Delhi.
They were rescued in a
joint raid conducted by the
Delhi Police and an NGO in
the presence of a Labour
Ministry official and District
Magistrate.
As per the direction of the
Child Welfare Committee
(CWC), all the male children
were sent to Mukti Ashram in
Keshav Nagar while the girl
was sent to Nirmal Chhaya in
West Delhis Hari Nagar.
IANS

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From Page 1
Laluji got much kudos for his
work as Railway Minister. Now he
too understands the positive side
of the politics of development.
Those who are trying to raise the
fear of JD(U)-RJD alliance in the
minds of the people have no
qualms in joining hands with
criminal and communal elements,
said Kumar.
Nitish is hopeful that the
Bihar experiment by which a
united Opposition stopped the
march of the BJP in the recent
bypolls for 10 seats could be
repeated at the national level.
At a time when polls are

being fought on slogans and emotive polarisation, we either stoop

down to that level, or rise to take
on the challenge together with
other like-minded parties. The BJP
has let loose its fringe outfits
which pose serious threats to anyone who disagrees with their definition of India and Indianans.
They are a pan-India force, and
thats why we have to raise a
national platform to oppose them,
said Kumar.
Nitish hinted that in the
weeks to come, there would be
significant development in bringing together anti-BJP forces at one
platform. All I can say that we are

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From Page 1
networks of the outfit in West
Bengal, Assam and other States besides
its linkages with terror group al-Qaeda
and banned Students Islamic Movement
of India (SIMI).
NIA Director General Sharad Kumar
confirmed his arrest by West Bengal
Police to The Pioneer. Today we arrested Sheikh Rahmatullah. He is a
Bangaldeshi. After interrogation, it was
revealed that he is Sajid who is involved
in the Burdwan blast case and is the chief
of Burdwan module, Bidhannagar Police
Commissioner Rajeev Kumar told
reporters in Kolkata.
Sajid, alias Sheikh Rahmatullah, is
a member of Jamat-ul-Mujahadeen
Bangladesh and is a member of Majlise-Sura which is the central committee of
Jamat, Kumar said.
Deputy Commissioner (Detective
Department) of the Bidhannagar police
Kankar Prasad Bouri said Sajid is the
mastermind of Burdwan blast case and
he had spent a few years in a jail in
Bangladesh.
The Detective Department laid a trap
with the courier boy who was carrying
money for Sajid and the police nabbed
him soon after he came to receive the
money. The police recovered about Rs 1
lakh from Sajids possession. Several fake
identity documents, including driving
licence, PAN card and voter ID among
others, were recovered from him.
The arrest of the 40-year-old mastermind, who stayed near Lalgola
Madrasa at Mukimnagar in Murshidabad
district, is expected to help the NIA and
other Central security agencies in gath-

moving in the right direction. It

will be premature to get into
details, he said.
Admitting that the disconnect
between the Government and the
party led to the debacle in the Lok
Sabha polls, Nitish said, As Chief
Minister, I remained preoccupied
with bringing the State back on the
path of development and restoring the rule of law. In the process,
I could not pay that much attention to party and our workers. I
realise now that the workers were
not motivated to take our
Governments achievements to
the people. Thats why we lost the
polls, he said.

Now that he does not occupy

the hot seat of the Chief Minister
and prepares for the next years
Assembly polls, Nitish is determined to address this issue and
bring the Government and the
party on the same page.
Im starting a State-wide tour
from November 12 during which
I will hold meetings with districts
and grassroots-level workers to get
necessary feedback and convey to
them the need to propagate the
achievements of our Government.
This would be an ongoing exercise, he said.
On October 27, Nitish held a
similar exertive with all his MLAs

ering crucial leads in nabbing the other

absconding terror masterminds.
On October 2, the blast in a house at
Khagragarh in Burdwan town had
occurred in which one Shakil Ahmed
died on the spot and another operative
Sovan Mandal died in a hospital. Both
were suspected to have links with JMB.
Another suspect Hasan Saheb was injured
in the blast and told the investigators
about the modules networks leading to
the arrest of six persons in Assam. The
two arrested women, including the wife
of one of the deceased suspect, provided inputs on the blast conspiracy.
The arrested accused have identified
Sajid and his wife Fatima as lead trainers at Simulia Madrasa where gullible
Muslim youth, including young girls,
were being indoctrinated for jehad and
trained in conducting terrorist acts.
The arrest of Sajid comes days after
the National Security Adviser Ajit Doval
along with IB and NIA chiefs met West
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
in Kolkata and made her understand that
the Burdwan blast was a result of larger
terror conspiracy and the State administration should render all possible assistance to the Central agencies in the ongoing probe into the incident.
The Intelligence agencies have also
been seeking assistance from National
Security Intelligence of Bangladesh and
India will furnish a report to the
Government of that country after all the
information related to the outfits conspiracy is collated by various agencies
probing the conspiracy. The Bangladesh
Government has sought a report on the
activities of JMB as the outfit planned to
attack the Awami League Government
there and create an Islamic state in some
districts of West Bengal and parts of that
country through armed struggle.

and MLCs in Patna and discussed

the need to get out of the mood of
despondency and look towards a
better future for the party.
With the BJP determined to
teach a lesson to Nitish for insulting Modi by cancelling a lunch for
NaMo in 2010, Nitish foresees
politics playing out in its most
perverse way in Bihar in the
coming months. I dont rule out
attempt to destabilise our
Government or create fissure in
the party. There are forces that will
go to any extent to capture Bihar,
because they fear that the State
will give birth to a new political
movement, he said.

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From Page 1
Both the couple who were in the wanted list of National
Investigating Agency (NIA), probing the Burdwan blast
had left their home in Barpeta after Eid last month and
remained missing since then.
Shahnur is one of the 12 accused of the Burdwan module. NIA had announced a bounty of Rs 5 lakh on him. An
NIA team has already raided his house.
The spread of jehadi network to Assam came to light only
after the Burdwan blast. A woman, who was arrested by the
police after the Burdwan blast, had named a few people from
Assam for their involvement in the network and following this
seven people were nabbed from Barpeta district last month.
Simultaneously, the name of Shahnur Alom cropped up
and the police intensified operations in Assam against him and
his wife Sujina Begum. Police also claimed that they have enough
evidences to prove the couples links with the Jamaat-ul
Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an Islamic terror network based
in Bangladesh and which was behind the blast in Burdwan.

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revealed her ordeal to her
parents who then decided to
approach police. The girl
was not going to school for
the past few weeks making
one excuse or the other.
When she again refused to go
to school on Wednesday
morning, her parents took
her into confidence and
asked her to reveal what was
wrong. She finally broke
down and revealed that the
lab technician had molested
her at least three-four times
in the recent past, said a
senior police official.

The girls parents then

took her to Rohini (South)
police station and reported
the incident to the police. The
victim was given counselling
by an NGO in the presence of
her mother. Police then registered a complaint on the
basis of the victims statement
and took her to the school
where she identified
Harended. He was then
arrested and produced before
a local court which sent it to
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Minister Narendra Modi in
Varanasi. On Saturday, as he
launched the Swachchh Bharat
campaign in his Lok Sabha constituency, the PM led from the
front by removing silt deposited at the Assi Ghat on the banks
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India Mission on October 2 in
New Delhi, I had nominated
nine persons. In Kashi I am
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from UP so that the campaign
can be carried forward, PM
said. He adding that the social
organisations associated with
the work of cleaning ghats in
Varanasi too have promised
that Assi Ghat would be made
clean within a month.
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ghats in seven-kilometre long
semi-circled city, Assi Ghat is
spacious where huge mud gets
accumulated during the rainy
season. For more than a week,
hectic efforts have been made
by an educational group,
Sunbeam, which has adopted
the Assi Ghat for cleanliness. In
fact, various banks and NGOs
too have adopted different ghats
in Varanasi for cleaning up.
It is learnt that during discussions with citys intelligentsia over dinner on Friday
night, PM assured that the
city will be given a facelift while
keeping its sanctity and tradition intact.

Kashi would be transformed into a modern city while

retaining its traditional flavour,
as the world has seen in London
and something we had attempted with success in quake-hit
Bhuj when I was the Chief
Minister of Gujarat, PM said.
He suggested a number of
plans for the citys modernisation which included having
battery-operated vehicles to
reduce pollution and congestion, door-to-door garbage collection and a Palace on Wheels
train between Delhi to Varanasi
via Ayodhya and Prayag
(Allahabad). Besides, he wanted the Banaras Hindu
University campus will be
developed into a Wi-Fi zone
and every school of Varanasi
will have separate toilets for
boys and girls along with clean
drinking water.
This was Modis first visit to
Varanasi after taking over as PM
in May. Before winding up his
two-day visit during which he
adopted Jayapur village to be
developed as a model village

under Sansad Adarsh Gram

Yojna, PM did not forget to
thank and motivate the BJP
cadre in getting him a majority
for a stable Government. Modi
hoped that the party would
perform well, just like it did in
Haryana and Maharashtra, in
upcoming Assembly elections in
Jharkhand and Jammu &
Kashmir.
Things like lowering of
diesel and petrol prices and
Government officials reporting
for duty on time could have
happened earlier. But it took a
strong Government to make
these things a reality, Modi
said while adding coalition
politics due to fractured verdicts had lowered the image of
country and that India has
now started getting its due on
the international stage ever
since the BJP had come to
power with a complete majority. Interestingly, while addressing party workers PM appealed
them to carry back water bottles, waste papers etc along with
them before leaving the place.

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culture will be Prime
Minister Narendra Modis primary focus during the ASEAN
and East Asia Summits in
Myanmar next week. It is
expected that an agreement for
Imphal-Mandeley Bus Service
will be signed during the PMs
visit, while increasing air and
maritime connectivity will be
discussed at length.
The PM is expected to
pitch for improving connectivity in the region to give a
boost to trade and people-topeople contact at the Summit
next week. The cross-border
Imphal-Mandalay (Myanmar)
bus service, which aims at
improving the bilateral relation
between Myanmar and India,
has been pending for long.
Officials in Ministr y of
External Affairs expressed that

efforts have been on to create

the infrastructure in Manipur
and other North-Eastern States
in an attempt to generate economic activities.
Already an ambitious project
is underway to develop a 3,200km trilateral highway linking
India, Myanmar and Thailand.
India has so far built 160 km and
has committed to make 71
bridges, and 120 connecting
roads to the highway. Originally
planned to be completed around
2017 the project is running
much behind schedule. In fact,
Myanmar had sought realignment of the highway due to
unstable security situation in the
earlier planned route. The alternative alignment along with the
new route will be developed by
Myanmar. According to Anil
Wadhwa, Secretary (East) in the
External Affairs Ministry, India
and the 10-nation ASEAN bloc
hope to dovetail the connectiv-

ity plans with this highway.

India is keen that the next
ASEAN-India five-year Plan of
Action starting 2016 should lay
emphasis on enhancing peopleto-people contacts, boosting
trade and reinforcing the strategic, political relationship and
security architecture in the
region. Studies on languages, culture and tradition, dress and
crafts are some of the areas
ASEAN countries are looking at.
Wadhwa said the grouping
of 10 southeast nations hopes to
make ASEAN Economic
Community (AEC) a reality by
the end of 2015. The free trade
agreement in services and investment between India and the
ASEAN is expected to help the
bilateral trade touch $100 billion
by 2015. The bilateral trade
grew 4.6 per cent from $68.4 billion in 2011 to $71.6 billion in
2012. ASEANs exports were
valued at $43.84 billion and

imports from India amounted to

$27.72 billion in 2012.
Our ties with South East
Asia are deep rooted.
Strengthening relations with
ASEAN nations is an important
part of our Act East policy.
ASEAN is central to our dream
of an Asian century, where India
will play a crucial role. I am sure
the meetings there would be
fruitful. I will have bilateral
meetings with leaders of Myanmar. Having stronger relations
with Myanmar is a priority area
for us, PM said in a statement.
Modi will leave for Myanmar on Tuesday to attend the
12th ASEAN-India summit and
the 9th East Asian summit on
November 12 and 13 respectively
on the first leg of his three-nation
10-day foreign tour that will also
take him to Australia and Fiji.
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meet Nobel Laureate Aung San
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good health.
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since Friday, drove down to Advanis residence on
Prithviraj Road to personally wish the former deputy
Prime Minister.
Modi was received by Advani at his residence
where Rajnath Singh and other senior BJP leaders
were also present.
Wishing Advaniji a very happy birthday. May
he be blessed with long life & good health, Modi
tweeted earlier.
His unparalleled intellect & insight make
Advaniji one of the tallest personalities in public life.
All of us have learnt a lot from him, the Prime
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Besides, 12 freedom fighters
who fought against the Army of
the Nawab of Junagadh will also
be felicitated.
India got the freedom on
August 15, 1947, but people of
erstwhile Junagadh State got
independence almost three
months later on November 9,
1947. Last Nawab of Junagadh,
Muhammad Mahabat Khanji
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Junagadh with Pakistan against
the wish of people. As a result,
the people of Junagadh created an Army Arzy Hukumat
inspired by the Iron Man of
India, Sardar Patel. As Nawabs
Army couldnt stand against the
freedom fighters, Mahabat
Khan fled to Pakistan.
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Municipal Corporation (JMC)
has planned a day-long celebration to commemorate the
historical day and pay tribute
to Sardar Patel. The day will
begin with a rally and launching of public oriented projects
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giving fitting tribute to Sardar
Patel, who was instrumental in
unification of the nation.
He said that a poojan ceremony will also be conducted at
historical Bahauddin College
campus in the mountain town,
where Patel addressed first public meeting after the Nawab fled
to Pakistan and people of
Junagadh breathed in free India.
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ute will be paid to another son

of the soil, the great poet
Narsinh Mehta. A C7 crore
development project will be
launched at Mehtas memorial
Narsinh Mehta No Choro.
Another development project
worth C4 crore will be launched
at Damodar Kund, situated at
the foothill of Gujarats tallest
mountain Girnar.
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mal-nutrition and women

empowerment will be spread
through the rally.
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who fought against the Army
of the Nawab will be felicitated. Entire town will illuminate
with colorful lighting in the
evening. A musical night has
also been planned for the residents of Junagadh.

New Delhi: Even after 42 hours

have past, the four Indian Navy
personnel, including an officer,
are still missing after a Torpedo
Recovery Vessel (TRV) sank off
the coast of Visakhapatnam,
killing at least one person.
A full-scale Search and
Rescue (SAR) operation is
underway by Indian Navy to
trace the four personnel who
were reported missing following a mishap that occurred at
about 8 pm on November 6.
The TRV sunk while on a
routine mission to recover
dummy torpedoes fired by the
fleets ships during a routine
exercise, the Navy had said.
At the time of the incident,
there were 29 personnel on
board the vessel. One sailor,
James Jacob, died in the accident

and four personnel (one officer

and three sailors) are still reported missing. The remaining 24
personnel were rescued.
As per the latest inputs, the
search is going on in an area 80
nautical miles South South-West
off Visakhapatnam after taking
into account the prevailing currents. A Board of meeting, headed by a Captain, is in progress to
enquire into the circumstances
leading to the mishap.
Nine ships of the Eastern
Fleet and a few aircraft, including Boeing P8I, Dorniers, Sea
King 42C and Chetak helicopters, have been deployed to
search for the missing personnel. One Handycam and two
life jackets (belonging to the
crew of the TRV) were recovered on Friday.
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In a brief interaction with
the media outside his residence at Bandra north-central
Mumbai, Sena president
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picture will become clear at the
party legislators meeting to be
held tomorrow.
The Sena has convened its
legislature party meeting at 4 pm
on Sunday to formalise its stand
on whether or not join the BJPled Government in the State.
The meeting will be held either
at the Sena Bhavan or Matoshri.
Ahead of Geetes proposed
meeting with the Prime
Minister, the Shiv Sena had
conveyed to the BJPs Central
leadership in no uncertain
terms that Desai would not take
oath of office in Sundays ceremony, if its erstwhile saffron ally
did not either settle the Senas
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difficult to reconcile with the situation, especially after Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
categorically stated on
Wednesday that he had no plans
to induct any Sena Minister into
his Cabinet till he proves his
majority on the floor of the
Assembly on November 12.

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demanded that it be given 10
Ministriesincluding at least
four ranked ones and deputy
Chief Ministers post in lieu of
its support to the BJP-led
Government in the State,
reviewed its position on
Saturday and conveyed to the
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and one extra Ministry.
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Ministers of State in the new
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was in no to entertain the Sena.
The Sena, which had earlier set November 8 as deadline for
the BJP to decide on its various
demands, did not receive any formal word from the BJP all
through Saturday. However, with
an objective to keep its channels
open for power-sharing negotiations with the BJPs Central
leadership, the Sena responded
to the PMs reported request for
naming two of its members for
inclusion in the Union Cabinet

ahead of Sundays expansion

and nominated Anil Desai.
However, the Sena made it
clear to the PMO that Senas
Suresh Prabhu, whom the
Prime Minister is keen to
induct into his Cabinet, could
not be counted as a member
from the Sena quota, since he
is joining the Union Cabinet at
the personal behest of Modi.
Though it wanted to nominate one more member for
inclusion in the Union Cabinet,
the Sena had not nominated
anyone other than Desai for
induction in the Modi Cabinet.
With no word from the
BJP, the Sena linked its formula for sharing power with the
BJP in Maharashtra with the
Union Cabinet expansion and
said that Desai would not join
the Union Cabinet if the saffron
ally did not agree to give a fair
deal to it vis-a-vis sharing of
ministerial berths in the State.
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which appeared to be end of its
tether, was not totally averse to
sitting in the Opposition instead
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policing, seems to be going
viral in Kerala with at least
three events taking place within a week, shocking traditionalists who think that unbridled
public display of gestures of
male-female friendship indicates a tendency towards cultural anarchy and may cause
serious social disturbances.
The Kiss of Love protest
against moral policing was first
staged in Kochi on November 2
amidst a law and order mess in
which the police were forced to
use lathis when kissers and traditionalists came close to an
encounter in the middle of a sea
of onlookers who had reached
there out of mere curiosity or, as
some people allege, some
voyeuristic tendency.
Before a week was out, a
similar programme was staged
in one of the most reputed
senior colleges in Kerala leading
to the suspension of ten students

both boys and girls who

participated in it and triggering
public debates over the appropriateness of students transforming campuses into nests of
love and signs of cultural fascism
entering academic institutions.
Fridays public hugging
among friends was held at the
famous Maharajas College in
Kochi, hardly two kilometres
away from the Marine Drive
grounds where the Kiss of
Love protest was staged on
November 2. The suspended
students are now planning to
sue college principal TV
Francis for penalising them
allegedly without holding even
a preliminary enquiry.
Solidarity to Kiss of Love was
expressed by enthusiasts in
Thrissur city even before the
mega-event was held at Kochi. A
group of young men and women
walked through the famous
Thekkinkadu Maidan on
November 1, hugging each other
and those they met on their way.
The programme was over before
traditionalists and the police
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warned
the
Government about the
increasing threat of the dreaded Islamic State militant
group, a media report said on
Saturday.
A classified report by the
provincial Government of
Balochistan conveyed to the
federal Government and law
enforcement agencies warning of increased footprints of
the Middle Eastern terrorist
group, also known by its Arabic
acronym of Daish.
The Dawn reported on its
website that the secret information report dated October
31 states that ISIS has claimed
to have recruited a massive
10,000 to 12,000 followers from
the Hangu district of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa and Kurram
tribal district.
It has been reliably learnt
that Daish has offered some
elements of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal

Jamat (ASWJ) to join hands in

Pakistan. Daish has also
formed a 10-member Strategic
Planning Wing, the report
from the Home and Tribal
Affairs Department of
Balochistan says.
LeJ and ASWJ are anti-Shia
groups of Sunni Muslims.
The report states that the
ISIS plans to attack military
installations and Government
buildings
in
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa in retaliation to
the Army-led Operation Zarbi-Azb in North Waziristan and
also plans to target members of
the minority Shia community.
The
Balochistan
Government called for heightened vigilance and security
measures in the province as
well as the northwestern
province
of
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa to prevent and
preempt such attacks.
It has moreover called for
sensitising law enforcement
agencies on the issue and an
increased monitoring of
LeJ members.

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Kurdish forces.
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effected in the coming months
will roughly double the
American troops in Iraq and
train nine Iraqi army brigades
and three brigades of Kurdish
Peshmerga fighters.
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Presidents policy that US forces
will not be engaged in combat
in Iraq. So even as these forces
are able to deploy to different
parts of the country to provide
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OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT

46 BN, CRPF. MAYUR VIHAR PHASE-III
NEW DELHI
L.VII-1/2013-14-Q-46
TENDER NOTICE
We are interested in the purchase of following items as per appendix A for General repairing and maintenance (ARMO) of Adm Block
building.
01 General repairing and 01. Raw material for General
maintenance (ARMO)
repairing and maintenance
of Adm Block building
(ARMO) of Adm Block building
at 46 BN CRPF
with painting and drainage of
Gehrauli
bath room and rain water pipe
line at 46 BN CRPF Gehrauli.
at 46 BN, HQr Gehrauli, New Delhi. If you are in a position to supply the same, please forward your sealed Tender/Quotations to the
undersigned on or before the date fixed below by speed post/registered post/courier :02. The price quoted should be on firm basis and including all delivery charges. The price should be quoted in Rupees & Paise,
Metric weight.
The following information should be specifically given:
i. Place of delivery i.e,. F.O.R place of dispatch.
ii. Period of delivery on placing of firms supply order.
iii. Quality / Make of the articles quoted should be specified.
iv. Samples should be submitted along with the
Tender/Quotations.
v. No Quotations will be entertained without samples.
vi. Sales Tax, if any, leviable should be distinctly shown along
with price quoted.
vii. The Rate will remain open till SIX MONTHS.
Viii The Tender/Quotations will be received up to 1130 Hrs on
02/12/2014
ix Tender/Quotations will be opened at 1530 Hrs on
02/12/2014
x Envelope containing the Tender/Quotations should clearl
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be marked in Red Ink.
Xi Tender/Quotations received after the expiry of the
specified date as mentioned against serial No (Viii) above
will be not be considered.
03. Earnest money should be deposited to the amount of All
Amount 10% in the form of National savings certificates! Prize
bonds/Bank drafts or any other Government Securities pledged
to the Commandant, 46 Bn CRPF, New Delhi.
04. Cash security deposits will not be accepted. The security will
be returned subject to supplies being made in full within the
stipulated period of delivery and the stores being in conformity with approved samples kept in the custody of this office. The
decision of the Commandant, 46 Bn CRPF, New Delhi shall
be final and binding in all matters pertaining to refund the security money.
05. In view of above request publish the same through CRPF web
sites www.crpf.nic.in
davp 19111/11/0228/1415
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old prices jumped by

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national capital today on
emergence of buying by jewellers and retailers amidst a
rebound in global markets.
Silver also recorded a significant recovery of C650 to C
35,550 per kg on increased
offtake by industrial units.
Bullion traders attributed

the strong recovery in prices

of precious metals to revival
of buying at prevailing lower
levels by jewellers and retailers amidst a rebound in global markets.
Globally, gold in New
York, which normally sets
price trend on the domestic
front, rose 2.4 per cent to
$1,169.80 an ounce, the
biggest gain since June 19,
after US employers added
fewer jobs than forecast,
reviving demand for a safehaven.
Silver also rose two per
cent to $15.71 an ounce.
In Delhi, gold of 99.9 and
99.5 per cent purity zoomed
by C650 each to C26,450 and
C 26,250 per 10 grams, respectively.
Sovereign also gained Rs
100 at Rs 23,700 per piece of
eight gram.
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weekly-based delivery by C
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unit, but now says that it will have cut a total of 4,000 jobs in the
unit by the end of 2014.JPMorgan will also eliminate more jobs
in its mortgage unit, reducing up to 7,000 positions in that part
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instance than now when
India had rising stock markets, falling oil prices and a
stable, majority government
all at the same time.
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again lay the foundation for
the much-aspired 10% GDP
growth for India," he said
while speaking at the ISB
Capital Markets Conclave
here.
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candid views on issues related to Indian economy and
markets, said it is "suffice to
say that a 10 per cent GDP
growth will not happen
without extensive judicial,
electoral, police, labour and
land reforms, along with
financial sector reforms."
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needs to be done to even
attain a 6.5-7 per cent GDP
growth rate.
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changed dramatically for
India," he said, while listing
out three fundamental
changes including improved
confidence with the government being perceived as
being able to deliver on
growth and what is driving
the present euphoria.
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changes, he said: "India has a
Prime Minister who leads
from the front and key macro
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gayee, Umeeda Eharwar (48) asked the
landlady where she used to send her
daughter Saveeta for tuitions. But the
woman told her that Saveeta did not come
at all that day. Umeeda then rushed to her
one-room rented accommodation in Indra
Colony, plot 80, Gurgaon, only to find that
Saveeta had been missing since 8 am. She
had gone out with her neighbour Aunty
Devyanti and never returned.

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nahin aayegi (Everybody tells me that my
daughter will never come back to me). Sab
kehte hain ki woh bhaag gayee aur
Haridwar mein masti kar rahi hogi (everyone says she has run away with someone
and is having a good time in Haridwar).
But I am convinced that my daughter has
been abducted and sold into the flesh
trade. She must be forced to serving her
clients every night and I cannot do anything to help her out. She must be going
through hell, a distraught Umeeda, who
has been running from pillar to post to
trace her missing daughter for two months,
says.

he has not had a proper meal since

Saveeta went missing on
September 16 and her health is
failing her but the mother has
taken it upon herself to find her
teenaged daughter and bring her back
home. She is willing to go to topmost
authorities and beg them for their involvement in this case.
How can I relax when I know that my
daughter was snatched away from me and
pushed into a murky trade and the culprits
are roaming scotfree. They are enjoying life
after selling off my daughter to someone.
No one is doing enough to search for my
poor girl. And, they say she is a characterless girl who ran away with someone
an angry Umeeda says. What makes her
condition more pitiable is that people
blame her for her daughters disappearance.
Neighbours say I used to beat her up
and did not give her enough to eat. My
husband passed away due to a serious ailment six years ago. Since then, I have been

taking care of my daughters and am doing

my best to give them a decent living, she
says, breaking down often.
She lists logical reasons why her dubious neighbour Devyanti and her husband
would be involved in the kidnapping of her
daughter. She suspects there are more
spokes in the flesh trade cartel living in the
locality and they have a dealer as well.
Devyanti first refused to acknowledge that she was with Saveeta the day
she went missing. When we cornered her
at the Sushant Lok Police station, she confessed to having taken my daughter for
a short walk to dispose of garbage.
Later, she said she had taken her in an
auto to Sadar Bazaar and then dropped
Saveeta off at Wazirabad. For what?
Devyanti did not even know my family
well. Why was she indulging in my
daughter, Umeeda asks.
Her second argument is that some
other women from the area had informed
the mother that they had seen Saveeta
wearing a different set of clothes when she
was spotted with Devyanti in the auto rickshaw. So, why did Saveeta change before
going out with Devyanti? By now, Umeeda
had already searched for her daughter in
the streets of Wazirabad and Sadar Bazaar
but all in vain.
On September 17, the police set
Devyanti free for lack of evidence. In the
evening, we tried to convince Devyanti to
tell us about my daughters whereabouts.
The only thing she said was that she had
taken Saveeta to Mahipalpur to stay at relatives (sister-in-law) place for the night.
Why? Its still a mystery with Devyanti
refusing to talk to any of us, the desperate mother tells you.
By the time they reached Mahipalpur,
Saveeta was gone, probably shipped to
another city or port. Devyantis relative told
Umeeda that Saveeta had come there that
night with Devyanti but she refused to let
them stay. She had no clue where they went
thereafter.
Umeeda has, meanwhile, not let up on
her frantic search in the Wazirabad-Sadar
Bazaar-Mahipalpur stretch but her daughter is nowhere to be found. Is it too late?
Is she gone for good, she asks in heartbreaking helplessness. She is sure Devyanti
is behind her daughters disappearance but
is unable to pin her down due to police
inaction.

According to NCRB, 38,172 crimes

have been committed against children
nationwide in 2012. Out of these, Haryana
accounts for 2.66%. Further, data indicates
that 535 kidnappings in Haryana alone. No
one really knows where these children have
gone. It is a cause of deep concern. The
Arupa Mission Research Foundation
(AMRF), a registered NGO, is following
up on Saveetas case. Joining the AMRF in
their efforts are the residents of Blossoms
2, Sector 51, Gurgaon, where Saveetas
mother works as a domestic help. The case
is now with the Crime Branch, Sonali
Patnaik, director of AMRF, says.
Patnaik has kept the case somewhat
alive through hectic social media campaigns and word of mouth and hopes
Saveeta is found before it is too late.
Crime Branch sub-inspector Jasram
says the police is doing everything it can
to get information about the missing girl.
We are following up on many leads and
also have been questioning neighbours
about Devyanti and her husband, he adds.
Trafficking and kidnapping are the
top crimes against children as per a SEVA
survey. A CRY study also says that, on an
average, 18 children go missing in the
Capital daily and no one has any trace of
them. Is this becoming a serious issue?
And what is the way to curb such
heinous crimes?
Nowadays, it is becoming a bigger
problem because there are helpers and
key players living among others in posh
societies. They dont come across as suppliers and it is very difficult to charge them
without proof. To confuse the police, these
suppliers take a long and winding route.
In Saveetas case, for instance, the mother spent two days searching for her daughter in Sadar, Wazirabad and Mahipalpur.
This much time was enough to send the
girl anywhere, Ganesh Upadhyay, who has
since retired from Crime Branch, says. He
adds that identification of suppliers takes
the maximum time and a thorough trail
search makes it worse.
Time is a crucial factor here. If the
suppliers and dealers are scared that the
police are on the right track, they try to kill
the victim because the victim may lead the
cops to their hideouts. Very seldom have
we seen girls returning safely. The only way
they return is when they get rescued in a
police raid, Upadhyay reveals.

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her search and hope. She cooks for all her
daughters, including Saveeta, and waits
for her to return every night. A property dealer had barged into my house the
other day and he threatened me with dire
consequences if I troubled Devyanti
and her husband anymore. He said I will
never get my daughter back. I think he
is a dealer of girls but who will listen to
me?, Umeeda asks.
While she waits for her daughter to
return for dinner, another mother has been
spending her nights at the ISBT bus station hoping that her 14-year-old daughter Rinki will come back to her from where
she got kidnapped on September 29,
2014. Ratna Baijal, a construction worker in Delhi, was bringing her daughter back
from her grandparents house in Gurupara,
western UP, when the incident happened.
No sooner did the bus reach the destination that some co-travellers started misbehaving with her.
It was 11:30 pm when we arrived at
the bus station. Some passengers who were
heavily drunk started misbehaving with
me. My attention got diverted for a while.
When I looked back, my daughter was
gone, Baijal recalls.
The bus driver told me that he had
spotted Rinki with two burly looking men
and they had boarded the bus to Model
Town 2. He also said that Rinki was barely able to walk and gave me the bus number. I went to the nearby police station and
lodged a missing girl FIR. I gave them the
bus number and pleaded with them to
search for her, she says.
After a couple of hours, the sub
inspector informed her that the bus had
been traced and the men tracked down to
Nithari village in Noida. The Police had
questioned those men about my daughter.
They said that Rinki was inquiring about
the bus to Model Town II and they had
helped her board it. She got down one stop
before Gujrawala town, Baijal, who then
went looking for her daughter at Gujrawala
town in North Delhi, tells you.
My daughter was staying with her
grandparents in UP because I couldnt
afford her schooling here. That was her
first trip to Delhi. Why would she even
know Model Town let alone board a bus
going there? She doesnt know anyone in
this city forget Gujrawala, the 42-year-old

mother says, breaking down.

The search at Gujrawala was unfruitful and Baijal returned to those men for
more information. She asked around in
Nithari and was told by a guard that on
September 30 at 8 am he had seen Rinki
being escorted out of the building by two
men. They sat in an Indigo car with a
licence numberplate of Rajasthan and
drove away. The CCTV footage from a
nearby petrol pump shows pictures of my
daughter with three men. She was lying in
the backseat. The car belonged to somebody called Thakur in Ajmer. That afternoon, the police sent a team to Ajmer but
it was too late. By then, Rinki had gone and
those men couldnt be traced either. The
search team got back Rinkis clothes from
a bungalow. I have no idea where my
daughter has been sent to or even if she is
alive. I wish I had never got her to this city,
Baijal states.
According to Nobel Laureate Kailash
Satyarthi, the problem of missing children
is a huge one, largely ignored and the metros are most vulnerable. We have the
laws in place against perpetrators of such
crime. What is needed is prompt action
by the police in registering an FIR and
sending search teams. It is heartening to
see that common people are also doing
their best to help locate these missing children. If we become more alert and compassionate, such incidences will lessen. A
child who has gone missing can belong
to any strata of society but finding
her/him and restoring him to the family
is everybodys business. I am glad to see
the social media playing a healthy role in
identifying and locating missing children.
Satyarthi says.
The AMRF is addressing a lot of issues
in its fight against crimes involving children. There are a lot of related problems
absence of data on crime against children, lack of reporting by parents, limited trust in the police, limited follow-up
action, lack of awareness on measures for
child protection, skewed sex ratio
(Haryana- 879 female for each 1000 male,
which is below national average of 940,
Census 2011) and many other factors
which need careful deliberation. There is
a dire need for police-citizen (especially the
poor) trust building platform where a lot
of issues can be discussed and awareness
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weeks away, the Indian media is
still singing paeans to Indias
victory in the Asian Games. There is the
customary nostalgia for Indias past
hockey prowess, and wishful thinking
about a surge forward. But there is
something amiss in this narrative. The
real world of hockey is more complex and
demanding.
The Asian Games is today devalued
not only because there are many new
tournaments, but more importantly,
because Asian teams are no longer in the
top rungs of world hockey. Consider
some statistics to put the argument in
perspective. At Incheon, India, the
worlds 9th ranked team, beat 8th ranked
Korea and 11th ranked Pakistan.
From an organisational perspective
it is also worth bearing in mind that with
the performance levels of Pakistan and
Korea dropping in recent years Indias
victory in the Asian Games had been a
realistic possibility. Pakistans debilitating management problems had further
boosted Indias chances.
Indias victory in the Asian Games
was not convincing. With its improving
play India should have closed the finals
against Pakistan in regulation time. But
it took a penalty shootout for India to
win. India struggled against Pakistan in
both the pool game and the finals, missing chances that better teams would have
put away. If anything, this was far from
a convincing victory. Given these circumstances the talk of return of the golden
days of Indian hockey following Incheon
is premature.
The Champions Trophy is in a different league altogether. It is a clash of titans
a contest between the worlds 8 best
teams. The Champions Trophy is one of
the worlds three major hockey tournaments, after the Olympics and the World
Cup. With ranking points on offer, it is
a tournament of immeasurable value. A
quick look at the past performance tells
us that India has won only one bronze
medal in a total 13 Champions Trophy
appearances. This was in 1982. India
stood fourth in 1983, 1996, 2002, 2003,
2004 and 2012. This is the kind of history India will confront while competing
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Is Indian hockey of today any different from this mid-level performance of
the past 30 years? High Performance
Director Roelant Oltmans and Coach
Terry Walsh always speak of process, not
results. But is anyone listening?
According to Walsh India is not yet competitive against the top teams, and has a
long way to go to beat them consistently. He does not think about the immediate impact, or even of the 2016 Rio
Olympics, but of 2020, 2024 and 2028.
Captain Sardar Singh has reflected soberly upon the Asian Games victory, talking only about the improving defensive
structure. These are wise words by the
coach and the captain.
Is India ready for the challenges
ahead? With victory in the Asian Games
India is the first to qualify for the 2016
Rio Olympics. It has 22 months to prepare, and can bask in a settled feeling.
It can concentrate on development
rather than survival, and avoid the distraction of Olympics qualification. We
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Delhi in February, 2012, the team was
emotionally drained. Qualifying for the
Olympics was likened to winning a
major trophy, and mentally the team
seemed to have peaked too early. The
results at London were instructive.
There is another windfall from winning the Asian Games gold, greater discussion about Indias game. This is a good
advertisement for the Champions Trophy.
Less than a year ago, despite hosting the
worlds best players, the World League
finals in Delhi in 2014 and the Junior
World Cup 2013 had failed to draw the
spectators. Sadly, the emotions of Indian
fans are too closely tied to their home
team, at the cost of good hockey. Indias
fortunes have been at a low ebb for so
long that the crowds cannot appreciate
even the best in the business, unless India
is playing.
Those who have watched Indias
games since the 2012 Olympics qualifying tournament, as I have done, will
notice the improvement in trapping and
defending. In the World Cup India got
better with each game. In the later part

of the tournament it avoided the errors

that have turned so many past games
upside down. Goalkeeper Sreejesh
improved with specialized goalkeeper
coaching, and made a strong impact at
the Commonwealth Games and the
Asian Games. India got its third gold
medal in the Asian Games after 16
years, whereas it had won its second gold
medal in 1998 after 32 years. India has
back to back victories against Korea in
the World Cup and the Asian Games.
During the Junior Mens World Cup
in Delhi in December, 2013 Stephan
Veen, the great Dutch hockey player, had
told me that Holland had done very well
between 1996 and 2000 because of a tight
defensive structure. Defence is a key part
of the modern game. But Indian hockey
is still out to dazzle than win, which
coach Terry Walsh calls masala play.
India needs to sustain a high level of play
over the full game, and make it more
effective than just pleasing to the eye. Its
defence, weak for so long, needs to
improve. Most of the games India lost in
the last few years can be attributed to a
feathery defence.
In a World Cup year the top hockeyplaying countries historically field developmental sides at the Champions Trophy,
as preparation for the next Olympics
cycle. This year the Champions Trophy
will be a period of transition for the
teams. The Indian team has a settled look,
with the benefit of tough match play, in
the World League finals, the World Cup,
the Commonwealth Games and the
Asian Games, at least two of which were
world- class tournaments. India had a
good run between 1998 and 2000. Could
the same happen now?
The Champions Trophy has been
played every year since 1978, except in
1979. The Indians will play the tournament with the advantage of innocence,
with little to lose because success has
been so rare. Yet Indian hockey has
always been an emotional affair. It is still
conscious of a golden era. With this twin
inheritance India could dig deep into its
resolve to succeed. Good luck India!
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match in the third quarter as India stun
SAustralia
1-0 in the third hockey test to
take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series,
here on Saturday.
Rupinder Pal Singh, who played his
100th international match on Saturday, led
the Indian side in the absence of regular
skipper Sardar Singh.
The Indian boys kept troubling the
Aussie defenders but were unable to net
the goal in the first quarter. The second
quarter was also barren.
Coming into the third quarter, it was
India who broke the shackles and scored
the opening goal which left the
Kookaburras stunned. In the 34th minute
SV Sunil netted the ball from a beautiful
pass from Akashdeep Singh.
The Indian played more aggressive
after that. They not only ensured good
possession but even kept the pressure on
the opponents defense.
The Australians found it extremely
difficult to penetrate into Indian defense.
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Saturday achieved a memorable milestone
in his hockey career by appearing in his
100th international match while leading
the Indian team against Australia in the
third test here on Saturday.
Playing as a fullback, Rupinder is considered one of the best drag flickers in the
world. Hailing from Tamil Nadu and
making the international debut in May
2010, Rupinder currently has 37 international goals to his credit.
Rupinder scored his first international hat-trick against Great Britain in the
2011 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and later
went on to win the top-scorer award in
the tournament. The 23-year old defender has also represented India in the 2014
Mens Hockey World Cup as the Vice
Captain of the team.
Congratulating Rupinder on his
achievement, Hockey India Secretary
General Md. Mushtaque Ahmad said, I
am extremely delighted at the way this
young man has been playing all this while
and the manner in which he has been progressing consistently. Hockey India takes
utmost pride in congratulating Rupinder
on his accomplishment of 100
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history books by becoming the youngest ever
player to make the halfway cut at the 2010 Asian
Tour International in Bangkok. JAZZ
JANEWATTANANOND turned professional at
15 but three years of grind hasnt affected his childlike free spirit. He laughs at the most stupidest of
things that he sees around. His mother travels with
him wherever he goes. His judge father wants him
to pursue law but all he wants to do is play golf.
The 18-year-old Thai golfer, tipped to be the next
big thing of Asian golf, or may be world, talks to
AMIT CHAUDHARY on the sidelines of the
Panasonic Open. Excerpts
Q Who or what inspired you to take up golf at
such an early age?
Probably my dad. I kind of liked golf and used to
tell him that I want to play in this tournament
to know at what level I was 14. So,
I made the cut. I was happy and
very proud of myself.
Q Had anything changed in
your life after that?
Not much. You make cut at the age of 14, you put
your name in the record book and thats all.
Q Why do you like about golf?
Golf is everything. You have to be good at every
aspect of the game. You have to prepare, you have
to be strong, you have to be mentally fit. Golf is
like life. You do something and then face the consequences. Its really a tough game. I chose golf
because I have talent and I can make money out
of it and I am happy to do it. Its not like a job. Its
more like travelling and play.
Q You are one of the youngest players on the
circuit. How do senior players treat you?
The seniors treat me well. They try to teach me
how to travel around, how to play golf better, give
me tips etc. I got some short game tips from David
Lipsky (American golfer). He is one of the best
short game player on Asian Tour. He is No. 1 on
Asian Tour right now. Whenever we both are in
the same tournament, we practice together. He is
like a big brother to me.
Q Soon you are going to complete three years

on the professional circuit. How has been you

experience?
Its cool. You get to see a lot of stuff, get to travel
a lot, get new experiences every week, learn new
language, taste new kind of food.
Q After three years of turning professional,
where do you see your game now?
I have improved a lot. I keep my card pretty easily every year and better
ranking everytime. So, I
am happy with my game.
Q Did you get time to go
out and see anything in
India?
This weekend I dont have
time but I really
want to
see Taj
Mahal.
Q Any favourite destination?
I dont have any favourites
because I love travelling. I love
every place I go to.
Q Why did you change your name?
I changed my name two years back
because it was very difficult to pronounce for my friends and even my last
name is so long.
Q Your mother travels with you everywhere?
Yes, she travels with me every week. She has
been a huge support. I need her to go
around for shopping (laughs). She has
raised me and this is the time to show my
love to her. If she is happy, then I am
happy.
Q What do you like about India?
Indian food is very spicy and I dont eat
spicy food. But I like antique stuff
which they have. My parents respect
Buddhism religion and Buddhism was
born here. Im Christian but I do
Buddhism meditation.
Q How does meditation help?
I used to get mad pretty quickly. But

since I started meditating, I am very calm. I make

mistake, I say no problem. Its just a part of life.
It calms me down. I also have a yoga teacher who
is an Indian but he was born in Thailand. I call
him Tom.
Q You have had several good results over the last
two years. How far do you think you are from
your first title?
I dont think Im that far away from my first title.
Im constantly knocking on the door, Im hoping
itll come soon. If it has to come then it will come.
Q Your father seems to have a big influence on
your life.
He is a very smart guy. He is very
committed to whatever he does. I
want to be like him. He never supported my golf. He wanted me to
become a Judge too. If it was upto him,
I would be sitting in school right now.
I took law because of my father.
Q Do you like any other sport
apart from golf?
I like tennis sport and soccer is
very big in Thailand but I am not
good at it. I tried swimming as well
and competed in the local tournaments. I was dropped from the
team and then I quit swimming
because I am too short.
Q Who is your favourite
sportsperson?
My favourite player is
David Beckham. I follow
Beckham because he
knows how to make his
brand popular. He has
created his own brand
and he can sell also. He
is one of a kind. I love
watching football but I
dont support any particular club. My dad is a
Manchester United fan
(grins). All men like
Manchester
United
(laughs).

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For the last two days, he led the
modest field at the Panasonic Open
comfortably. He hardly missed the
fairways, putting was almost perfect,
birdies were frequent and stayed
ahead of the pack.
On Saturday, things changed.
The ball seemed to be refusing to follow Gangjees command as it constantly wavered either to unwanted
territories or past the hole. Nothing
was happening for me, he said.
But Gangjee is a fighter.
Having been on the circuit 14 years
now, he knows the importance of
being patient. He understands
that all days arent same. Up and
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ruin probably his best chance of ending a 10-year title drought on the
Asian Tour further, he accepted the
bad results and kept trying to get the
best out of the next shot.
I wasnt tensed because thats
what most people are thinking. I didnt hit the shots and thats what I didnt like about the entire day, the 36year-old Kolkatan said.
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managed to hold a slender one-shot
lead, thanks to a birdie putt on the
last hole as he finished one-underpar 71. His three-day total of 11under-par 205 gave him a slim
advantage over title holder Wade
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second place with popular
Bangladeshi Siddikur Rahman (69),

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(68) and Mithun Perera (69) of Sri
Lanka. Overall, I hang in there today
so tomorrow will be a lot better,
Gangjee said.
The 18-year-old Shubhankar
followed up his tournament best of
seven-under 65 on Friday with a
four-under 68 with three birdies in
the last six holes to move into tied
second, just one shot behind
Gangjee. Ill treat the final round like
just another round at a tournament
and not get overawed by the situation, Shubhankar said.
The last rush to the glory is going
to be pretty tough for everyone in the
contention. It will be about holding
my nerves on the last 18 holes,
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Virat Kohli and company have not
made the fans feel the absence of regular
skipper MS Dhoni, who was rested for the
first three ODIs, as the Men in Blue have
outplayed the Islanders in the first two
matches with clinical performances.
If openers Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar
Dhawan made the Sri Lankan bowlers look
ordinary in Cuttack then the Indian batting line-up, led by Ambati Rayudu, once
again showed their might at Motera.
India posted a mammoth 363 to win
the opening game by a 169-run margin
and then achieved their 275-run target
with more than five overs to spare in the
next match.
All the three centurions Rahane,
Dhawan and Rayudu, have literally toyed
with the Lankan bowling, who are struggling on batting friendly pitches.
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International Stadium in Uppal also looks
no different and a score of 300 plus is once
again in the offing, with the stadium having a history of big run chases.
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against an experienced Sri Lankan batting
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out in the third game itself.
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counter-attack from a dangerous Lankan Hyderabad in IPL.
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outfit, which has the knack of surprising
batsmen after the team's abject surrender
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Djokovic's drive and motivation. The topB
ranked Serb won his 20th Masters title in Paris
last week in his first tournament since the birth
of his baby boy, Stefan. Childcare duties have not
lessened his desire to finish the year as the world's
top-ranked player for the third time.
Djokovic is also trying to become the first
player to win three straight ATP Finals since Ivan
Lendl in 1985-87 when the action starts on
Sunday in London.
Of course certain things change, psychologically, but when you are playing for someone,
someone who is your son, of course it's an extra
motivation, Djokovic said.
My wife and I had the blessing of becoming parents recently and this is the most beautiful thing you can experience. The first tournament after that happened was in Paris, and I
won without dropping a set. We should be making more kids I guess.
Unbeaten in 27 matches on indoor courts,
Djokovic took a big step toward finishing the year
at the top by extending his lead over Roger Federer
to 1,310 points in Paris.
A potential 1,500 points are on offer in
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still has an outside chance of pipping the Serb.
But Djokovic has been playing superbly break after Paris.
Having been hampered by back problems that
recently and has every reason to believe he will
ruined his 2013 season, he rediscovered his form
withstand Federer's late charge.
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played better this year, the Wimbledon champi- and claiming five titles.
I work hard to get as fit as possible, said the
on said. But now I'm in a good position fighting for No. 1. I won this tournament two years 33-year-old Swiss when asked about his longevity. And then, understanding the
in a row, I believe I can do well again
this year.
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and Nishikori.
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while staying competitive.
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I'm still far from him, he has four kids, and coming out in favor of Scottish independence,
it's pretty amazing to still play at such a high Andy Murray is hoping he won't get rejected by
level, Djokovic said.
fans. The Scot, who qualified for the ATP Finals
Without his family in the British capital, the following a late run of form, made his position
27-year-old Djokovic will have his mind totally clear on the eve of September's referendum.
on tennis. He has been placed in Group A at the
The 2013 Wimbledon champion said the
eight-man tournament with Stan Wawrinka, crowd has always given me very good support
Marin Cilic and Tomas Berdych.
when I've played here and when I've played at
While Djokovic has a combined career Wimbledon and Queen's throughout my
record of 41-5 against his group, Federer is in whole career.
Group B along with Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori
I hope this week that's the same but, if not,
and Milos Raonic who ended the Swiss play- I'll do my job, I'll give my best effort regardless
er's run in the quarterfinals at the Paris Masters. and hopefully I win back some fans this week."
Federer, who is hoping to clinch the year-end
Murray only sealed his place at the seasontop spot for a record-equaling sixth time, took a ending tournament last week.

both the spinners conceded too many

runs to be effective.

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Aiming to seal the series, Indian

skipper Virat Kohli Saturday said the
team is preparing to be ruthless ahead
of the 2015 World Cup. We treat every
game like a knockout game, so I am not
thinking about 2-0. We are making plans
for every game and trying to execute those
plans. That's the kind of mindset we want
to build going into a tournament like the
World Cup, where, come the knockout
stage, you play one knockout game and
you're out, said Kohli on the eve of the
third one-dayer.
The Men in Blue have literally outplayed the Lankans in every department
so far, but Kohli is focused at looking
within rather than rejoicing in the
opposition's failure.

It doesn't really matter what the

other team is feeling like, what their
strengths and weaknesses are, as long as we
are focused on what we want to do. If we
improve our areas of concern, oppositions
should not matter, and that's the kind of culture and belief we are trying to build into
this team now, said the top-order batsman.
A confident-looking India are looking to seal the series at Uppal itself and
Kohli said the mission has begun for the
World Cup. It's about being ruthless for
us, and winning every game. That's the
kind of passion all these guys have, it's a
matter of bringing it out. We have to keep
the team closest to the combination we
want to take into the World Cup, and let
those guys play their roles better instead
of trying to experiment too much at this
point of time. It's about finding the perfect combination that we feel 100 per cent
sure of going into the World Cup.
That these are the 11 players who are
going to do the job for us. But that will be
considered and we will have discussions on
that. But what I personally feel is that our
focus right now is to get that perfect combination of 11 players right, he said.
India have witnessed three centuries
from Rahane, Dhawan and Rayudu but
Kohli believes in ironing out the flaws even
after the resounding wins.
"It's more important when you're winning, to underline the things that you can
improve on, and the things that didn't go
right in that particular game. What we are
trying to achieve is being ruthless, rather
than letting situations be.
If you want to be ruthless and you
want to have big wins, it's very important
to address what happened in a convincing
win so you can increase the margin of victory the next time around and improve
those small areas as well. That's the kind
of hunger and vision that we are trying to
bring into the team now going into the
World Cup. We want to be ruthless, we
want to win by big margins; not let any situation sort of pass by and not be casual in
any situation, said the Delhi star.
Kohli lavished praise on Rayudu for his
unbeaten 121. He was quite brilliant in the
No. 3 slot. It's about recognising the batsmen who can bat through and Rayudu is
one of those players, who has a different set
of skills to bat the full 50 overs and take the
team through. I think it was a great show
of temperament, character and class that he
possesses, Kohli opined.

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played out a fighting draw with
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champion Magnus
Carlsen of Norway in the first game
of the World Chess championship,
here on Saturday.
Having drawn the white pieces in
the drawing of lots, Anand went for
the blood on expected lines but
Carlsen, after some initial problems
in the Grunfeld defense came out
with flying colours and gave the Tiger
of Madras a tough time.
With one of the preparations
backfiring against an agile Magnus,
it will be up to team Anand to look
for remedial measures especially
with white pieces as even though the
Indian went up by almost 30 minutes
on the clock in the opening phase.
The advantage was gradually
neutralised by Carlsen. Anand was,
in fact, having less time than
Carlsen when the game reached the
first time control.
It was a good opening for Anand
as white in the topical exchange variation. The five times world champion apparently took a cue few from a
couple of recent games played by
Ragger Markus and Alexander
Moiseenko and even though their
final result were uninspiring, the
position did offer the kind of volatility Anand was hoping to get.
Carlsen, to his credit, was in his
elements and showed no fatigue
whatsoever when he was posed with
a difficult positon to solve. While
things seem to be favouring Anand
thanks to his speed in executing his
moves till move 13, the next one from
Carlsen apparently took the Indian
by a huge surprise as he spent no less
than 23 minutes on it.

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in its relentless challenge for the
Premier League title.
Dropped by Spain on Friday to
allow him to recover from a string of
nagging injuries, Costa started at
Anfield and drove home his 10th
league goal of the season in the 67th
minute after Cesar Azpilicueta's cross
was parried out.
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to secure a ninth victory in 11 games
after German midfielder Emre Can
scored for Liverpool from a deflected
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which is to be 1-1 at Anfield and not
accept the result as a good result and
play to win, Chelsea manager Jose
Mourinho said. I think we were very
impressive. We want to play. We want
to win. We want the ball. The personality of the team is amazing.
Asked if his team could go through
the season unbeaten, Mourinho said
it would be the impossible job.
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sparked by Steven Gerrard's slip for
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league title last season, and the two
clubs' paths have gone in opposite ways
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this season, especially having played
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Liverpool, Everton and the two
Manchester clubs away.
Liverpool, meanwhile, is now 15
points adrift of Chelsea and has only
won four of 11 matches this campaign.
Rodgers was under pressure to get
a result and not just because of his
team's huge deficit to Chelsea. He had
also prioritized this game by fielding
what many perceived as a weakened
team against Real Madrid in the
Champions League in midweek, a decision that was widely criticized.
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Raheem Sterling and Mario Balotelli,
returned in a lineup showing seven
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of the best minds in the country. We have hosted sessions
with over 250 authors, writers
and thought leaders.
Q Why did you think of this
festival?
Overall, non-fiction content represents the many different needs of the people in
our country. We found that
such a platform was missing
and hence this festival came
into being.
Q How big is the non-fiction
literary space in todays scenario?
India is an emerging
economy and there is a lot that
we need to learn, unlearn
and re-learn. This requires
tremendous amount of questioning and debate around the
different facets of our economy, society, business etc. Nonfiction authors are driving
the qualitative content and
discourse around these subjects. There is also a new set
of consumers who want to
read about food, health, fitness
and travel.
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far?
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good. It will take time to
grow as our sessions can be
focused on fairly serious topics and most dont offer the
kind of masala entertain-

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been served.
Q What are some of the challenges/problems that non-fiction authors face?
Authors usually have to
undertake a lot of research
and/or write from deep experience on the subject matter.
This takes a fair amount of time
and cost as well.
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space evolved in recent years?
We find a greater number
of authors who have full time
careers or vocations and are
coming into trade publishing.
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great content be it books or
blogs across all categories
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mediums? How?
Across genres, these books
give key insights into the topic
at hand. From chronicling the
past, defining the various issues
at hand, or even prescribe
solutions and forward looking
scenarios they can play an
important role altering the
thinking or at least have the
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who has churned out hits
like Hum Tum and Fanaa as
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of things just for the heck of it.
He would rather concentrate on
one thing at a time.
I am not a factory, you see.
I am a passionate filmmaker who
does a film only when he believes
in it. When Phir Se was being
conceptualised, I thought it was
a brilliant idea to showcase different relationships in the society
through an odd couple. It has an
interesting plot and is a very fastpaced film. I had never planned
to be an actor. But this story was
such that I couldnt resist the
idea, a jovial Kohli says about his
acting debut.
The first shoot and warm-up
scenes for Phir Se have already
been wrapped up in Delhi and
other parts of India but Kohli
awaits his turn in London. We
have done some shooting with
Jennifer Winget and other key
characters in the movie. My role
is based out of India, so my turn
is yet to come. At the moment, I
am busy rehearsing and fine
tuning some parts of the script,
a versatile Kohli tells you.
But why Phir Se? For one, I
get to play my age and that is a
huge bonus. The male protagonist in this film is a 41-year-old
divorced man and the story is
about what happens when he
meets a divorced woman. There
are a lot of ups and downs that
the couple face, he says not willing to reveal the most exciting
part of the film. Its too early
yaar, he shrugs off.
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form. I have been fortunate to work with
stars like Kajol, Rani,
Priyanka Chopra, Saif
Ali Khan and so many
more, but I think
Jennifer is right up
there. She is no less
than these superstars.
This girl has all it takes
to be a top actor, he
tells you in between
sipping his morning
cup of coffee.
The filmmaker is
no hurry to get into
other acting projects.
Its too early to say
whether I would act in other films as
well. It all depends whether the janata will like me in this avatar or not. If
they do, then maybe I will consider if
something sensible and my-types come
knocking on the door. If they dont like
me, well, I will be very upset, he says laughingly. Kohli insists that being a master
director doesnt give him an edge over other
actors. It doesnt put him in the backfoot
either. In this industry, no one has any edge
over the other. Every day is a new day and
a fresh chapter. I have faced the camera a
couple of times and those have been
decent outings. So, I guess I will manage,
a modest Kohli states.
Farah Khan started this trend when in
Shirin Farhad Ki To Nikal Padi and now
Kohli will be donning his acting shoes in
Phir Se, scheduled for a 2015 release.
Are they setting a trend of sorts?
The motive is never to be a trend setter. I love to experiment and I am fortunate that the opportunities are
coming my way. Bas, I dont want anything else, he says. Hum aur tum cant wait
for this Phir Se, can we?

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ver thought cutting that flab

was as easy as grooving to
foot-tapping music? Now, shedding those extra kilos without
having to deal with boring exercises, has become a trend.
Dance-based fitness routines
like zumba have become a fad
with the young and old these
days. The zumba, for example makes you lose maximum calories but also
teaches you various dance
forms like hip-hop, soca,
samba, salsa, merengue and
mambo.
Burning the calories
should be a fun thing to do
and people should enjoy
doing it instead of forcing
themselves. There is no age
to keep oneself hale and
hearty. Be it a child, youngsters, professionals or parents
anyone can do this, Sucheta
Pal, Indias only Master
Trainer and Zumba Education
Specialist (ZES) tells you.
Pal says there are different
zumba activities for different agegroups. The zumba gold, for
instance, is a specialised fitness
activity only for the elders
whereas zumba kids for
children and aqua zumba
for underwater tonning.
Those who want to
workout with
light weight,
they can go
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When we started out not
everyone knew about this form of
exercising. People used to gym
and participate in regular workout sessions to remain fit. Dance
was only for those who wanted to
perfect that skill. But when we
told people that they could dance
their way to fitness, there was a
huge crowd outside the studio,
Pal, who has been teaching this
form of fitness exercise for the
past four years tells you.
An hour of zumba would
help you lose 500 to 800 calories
without much ado. This drives
in a lot of people, the instructor
who was in the Capital recently to
represent zumba at FICCIs India
Sports Expo 2014, states.
After leaving the corporate
world, Pal went to US to follow
her passion to be a zumba master. She is now the only master
trainer who is authorised to
certify the instructors. Ive
given licence to around 1,500
instructors. There are other
things planned for
India like Piloxing,
Insanity Workout
and Pound Drumming
Workout, the 33-year-old says
adding, that she has trained
Bollywood actors like Neha
Dhupia, Pallavi Sharda,
Chitrangadha Singh, Bipasha
Basu and Ashmit Patel.
Pals next destination is Japan
where shell be conducting zumba
sessions with a hint of
Bollywood. Is there any challenge that she faced? People
pronounce it wrongly. They
call it the jumba routine. I
am tired of correcting
that. Its zu for zumba,
you see, Pal says.