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a war for America because
of his religious beliefs but
would seldom lose a battle in
the ring. He punched, he pummeled and he berated his
opponents with the ferocity of
a soldier and with an audacity that few could withstand in
White America of the 60s.
But none could ever fault
this boxing genius, not when at
22 he won his first heavyweight
title, or when he refused to be
conscripted into the US Army
and was stripped of his title, or
when he converted to Islam to
give up his “slave name” or,
least of all when he put down
giants in the ring with pre-conceived statements of victory. “I
am greatest”, he roared and
none was able to ever refute
that.
Cassius Clay, a la
Muhammad Ali, is no more.
At 74, he breathed his last in a
Phoenix hospital after a 32year-long
fight
with
Parkinson’s disease which was
fallout of repeated blows on his
head during his boxing days
and resultant respiratory issues.
Besides winning 56 of the
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nfazed by terror attacks on
its missions, India will
continue to extend cooperation
in war-torn Afghanistan, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
asserted on Saturday after dedicating a C1,700 crore dam in
strategically vital Herat
province. Modi said other
countries may have a “sunset
clause” but India’s ties with
Afghanistan remain “timeless”.
“Our resources may be
modest, but our will is boundless. For others, their commitments may have a sunset
clause, but our relationship is
timeless. We face barriers of
geography and politics, but we
define our path from the clar-
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Herat: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, on a brief
visit to Afghanistan, was on
Friday conferred with Amir
Amanullah Khan Award, the
country’s highest civilian
honour.
He was bestowed the honour by Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani after the inauguration of the landmark
Afghan-India Friendship Dam.
“A true brotherhood is
honoured. PM is awarded the
Amir Amanullah Khan
Award, Afghanistan’s highest
civilian honour,” External
Affairs Ministry spokesperson
Vikas Swarup tweeted along
with a photo.
During his 25 minutelong speech after inaugurating
the dam, Modi also invoked
Chisht-born Sufi saint Khwaja
Moinuddin Chishti who settled down in Ajmer and is
venerated by thousands of
people visiting his shrine.
“Khwaja Moiunuddin
Chishti, the first of the Chishti
saints in India, said that
human beings must have the
affection of the sun, the generosity of the river and the
hospitality of the earth.
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ity of our purpose,” he said in
an address after inaugurating
the Afghan- India Friendship
Dam along with President
Ashraf Ghani.
Modi hailed the people of
Afghanistan for denouncing
terrorism and said division
among them will only help
those seeking to “dominate” the
nation from outside.
“It was a war not of Afghan
making, but it was one that
stole the future of an entire generation of Afghans,” the Prime
Minister said, adding that the
brave Afghan people are today
sending a message that the
forces of “destruction and
death, denial and domination”
shall not prevail. When
Afghanistan succeeds in defeating terrorism, the world will be
“safer and more beautiful”,
he said.
The dam, earlier known as
Salma Dam, has been built by
India at a cost of C1,700 crore
on river Harirud in Chist-eSharif in western Herat neighbouring Iran. It will irrigate
75,000 hectares of land and
generate 42 MW of power.
“This dam has not been
built by bricks and mortar, but
by the faith of our friendship
and the valour of Afghans and
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teenager accused in the
Mercedes hit-and-run case,
who had turned 18 four days
after the accident which
claimed life of a 33-year-old
marketing executive in April
this year, will be tried as an
adult.
The Presiding Officer of
the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB)
on Saturday passed an order on
the application of the Delhi
Police seeking to try the
accused as an adult, as the
offence came under the definition of heinous crime.
The police had told the JJB
that the teenager was a repeat
offender and that he had a history of traffic violations which
included over-speeding and he
was booked for it on June 17,
2015.
He was also booked for driving in violation of traffic regulations on February 25, 2014
and for not wearing a seat belt
on September 19, 2014.
The Juvenile Justice (Care
and Protection of Children)
Amendment Act 2015 allows
for juveniles 16 years or older
to be tried as adults for heinous
offences like rape and murder.
The Act was amended following public outrage after one of
the offenders in the December
16, 2012 gangrape case escaped
being tried in the court as he
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of pride, we also stand in grief
and gratitude for lives sacrificed
so that Afghan people will
have a future they so richly
deserve and so deeply desire,”
Modi said.
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Mathura: Ram Vriksh Yadav,
the chief of the violent
encroachers in Jawahar Bagh,
is among those killed in the
clashes, police said on Saturday
as the toll mounted to 27 with
three more persons succumbing to injuries. IG (Law and
Order) HR Sharma said Yadav
was among the 11 who were
charred to death in the fire that
was caused by gas cylinder
explosions set off by the
encroachers.
Uttar Pradesh DGP Javed
Ahmed tweeted that the body
of Yadav and some others have
been identified by his associates
and his family has been intimated for confirmation.
60-year-old Yadav was the
leader of Azad Bharat Vidhik
Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, an
outfit claiming to owe allegiance
to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Yadav and his supporters had
encroached on Jawahar Bagh
area for two years and clashed
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topper Saurabh Shrestha
and third topper Rahul Kumar,
both students of Vishnu Rai
College in Vaishali district, have
failed the retest, following which
the Bihar School Examination
Board (BSEB) on Saturday cancelled their initial results. This
is the first time in the history of
BSEB that the merit list has been
changed and results of two toppers cancelled.
Another student of the
same college, Ruby Rai, the
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In its order, the JJ Board
said that accused had the ability to understand the consequences of the offence while
committing the crime. The
minor accused was in no man-
Mostly seen as a synonym
for unbridled power, it was sad
to see this 6-foot-3-inch fighter of the ring, tremble, shake
and lose his speech to the
debilitating disease and yet
when he lit the Olympic flame
for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics,
hands shaking uncontrollably,
the
standing
ovation
was unusually long and
unprecedented. Same at the
London Olympics in 2012
when he needed much more
assistance to do the same and
was wheeled away without
speaking a word.
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topper of Arts stream, who
failed to turn up for the retest on
Friday, was given another
chance to appear for her reexam on June 11.
In another major decision,
the BSEB derecognised the
Vishnu Rai College with immediate effect, said BSEB chairman
Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh. This
college has a dubious distinction
of producing toppers almost
every year.
This year too, altogether
646 students appeared in intermediate exam from this college
of which 534 secured first division with three of them toppers,
96 passed with second division
and only 14 failed.
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61 fights in his three-decadelong career, slaying established
names as a precocious youngster, Ali’s greatness was that his
major punches also rained on
racism, for Black rights and
in warzones.
When he passed away on
Saturday, he had global ovations, awe and heartfelt tributes
to take with him into the final
sunset. In his death, the world
acknowledges that an icon
much more than just a heavyweight champion has been
lost forever, some even calling
him greater than Martin
Luther King Jr.
ner lacking in mental and
physical capacity to commit the
alleged offence and on the
date of incident he had the ability to understand the consequences of the offence, it
added.
It further said that he drove
very fast and dangerously
despite warning of his friends,
who were co-occupants of his
car at the time of incident.
Besides, he did not help the victim and did not even stop
after mishap. Rather, he fled
from the spot to avoid getting
caught for his misdeed, said the
court order.
The court observed that his
conduct before and after the
incident clearly reflected that
he understood the offence
alleged against him. The circumstances collectively indicate
that he was indifferent towards
life and safety of other users of
the road but mature enough to
think of ways to escape from
lawful punishment of the
offence.
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over allegations of misuse
of office and conflict of interest in the Pune land deal and
other cases, Maharashtra
Revenue Minister and senior
BJP leader Eknath Khadse on
Saturday finally toed the party
line and resigned from his
post, prompting Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis to appoint
a retired High Court judge to
enquire into the charges against
the outgoing Minister.
Khadse — whose continuance in office had become
untenable after the BJP’s central leadership took serious
cognizance of a report submitted by the Chief Minister —
drove to Fadnavis’ official residence “Varsha” and offered to
put in his papers.
An hour later, Khadse
addressed a news conference in
the presence of State BJP president Raosaheb Danve-Patil
and debunked the allegations as
“misleading, baseless and
defamatory in nature”, but said
that keeping in with the BJP’s
traditions, he had already told
the CM that he would like to put
in his papers and would do so
after the news conference.
Soon after Khadse submitted his resignation, the CM said,
“I have accepted it and sent it
to Governor Ch Vidyasagar
Rao. A retired High Court
judge will be appointed to
probe charges against Khadse”
The countdown for
ple would be afraid of me. Now
they feel sorry for me. They
thought I was Superman. Now
they can (say) ‘he is human like
us. He has problems’,” he said
about his ailment.
For once, and perhaps the
only time in his life,
Muhammad Ali was being
publicly modest. For, he fought
disease as men rarely do, like
an undefeatable soldier fighting his enemy in a fight to the
finish. RIP The Greatest. RIP,
the man who could float like a
butterfly and sting like a bee.
RIP American icon, global
legend.
with police on Thursday when
they tried to evict them.
The death toll has risen to
27 with three more among the
injured encroachers succumbing, IG (Agra) Durga Chandra
Mishra said. Chief Medical
Officer Vivek Mishra said several other bodies have not
been identified as yet. The
bodies have to be kept for 72
hours in the mortuary, which
will end on Sunday evening,
and later postmortem will be
done, he said. 18 bodies are in
Mathura district centre and
seven in Agra, he said.
Tight security arrangements remained in place with
police preventing BJP MP from
Mathura Hema Malini, who led
a protest by the party, from
entering the violence-hit area,
citing combing operation.
Sharma said the situation
“is normal in Mathura and the
ground has been cleared”.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
raised compensation to the
next of kin of the two slain
police officers from C20 lakh to
C50 lakh even as Opposition
stepped up attack on him,
questioning why he did not
visit Mathura.
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BJP’s president Amit Shah and
submitted a “factual report”
about the allegations faced by
the number-two minister in the
Maharashtra Cabinet.
Having made up its mind to
give marching orders to Khadse,
the BJP’s central leadership had
waited for the Rajya Sabha and
State Council polls to get over
on Friday, before it formally
sounded him out on the need
for him to put in his papers.
Embroiled as he was in
four major controversies — the
arrest of a person claiming to
be his “personal aide” in a
bribery case, the Dawood call
log case, the Pune land deal and
an expose that his son-in-law
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to an impressive victory in the
West Bengal Assembly election a
few days ago, it is tempting to look
back to Singur, the otherwise nondescript place in Hoogly district,
that catapulted her to power, ending
the 34-year-old Left regime in
2011.
The seventh Left Front
Government with Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee as the Chief Minister
was sworn in on May 18, 2006. The
same day, Bhattacharjee and Tata
group chief Ratan Tata announced
in Calcutta that a car factory would
be set up at Singur.
The factory was supposed to
come up at Uttarakhand. It is one
of the states aside from Himachal
Pradesh and Northeastern States
where there are several exemptions
in terms of taxes and duties for
industrialisation.
Bhattacharjee had asked Tata
days before the election if the small
car factory could be located
anywhere in West Bengal. Tata
had said that setting it up in
Uttarakhand was more profitable
because of the state providing tax
concessions (C18,000 for 1 lakh per
car).
However, he had assured that
he would talk to the members of the
board of directors whether it was
feasible to have it in West Bengal.
Teams had visited around six sites.
Bhattacharjee had first proposed
Kharagpur for the small car factory.
But Tata Motors had not been
interested. They had finally selected
Singur. This was because of the
vicinity of the Durgapur
Expressway and Calcutta.
A team of representatives from
the Tata Motors visited the site
earmarked for the proposed car
factory on 25 May. Some farmers
confined them, protesting against
the proposed plant. Around 300
farmers committed to give their
lands for the proposed factory at a
CPI-M meeting in Singur on 30
May. Some Trinamool Congress
activists shouted slogans against the
proposed factory the same day.
Singur Farmland Protection
Committee was formed on 4 June
to protest against any plan to
acquire land.
Mamata Banerjee addressed a
public meeting in Singur on 18
June. She lambasted the state
government, saying that it might
accept if the Tatas asked the chief
minister to give them his daughter.
Banerjee planted paddy seeds inside
the proposed car factory complex
by way of token protest against the
proposed acquisition of farmlands
on 18 July. A notice was issued,
proposing to acquire 997.11 acres
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section 4 of the Land Acquisition
Act on 20 July.
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Durgapur Expressway, protesting
against the notice on 24 July. A case
was filed at Calcutta High Court on
28 August, challenging the land
acquisition in Singur. But the court
refused to stay the government
notice. Trinamool activists allegedly
beat the ‘willing’ farmers and
torched their houses at several
places on 8 September. Cheques
began to be issued to the owners of
the acquired lands from the BDO
office on 25 September.
Mamata Banerjee arrived in
Singur that evening. Police asked
her to return to Calcutta in
anticipation of violence. But she
remained unmoved. Police
whiskered her into a car and
brought her back to Calcutta the
same night. But she began a sit-in
under the statue of Mahatma
Gandhi on Mayo Road.
She alleged that the state
government was giving cheques to
the CPI-M activists, masquerading
as the farmers. She wrote, “I decided
to move to Singur after I came to
know that a CPI-M co-ordination
member had received cheque
producing identity of a farmer
who had refused to receive the
compensation cheque. I left for
Singur after informing police an
hour before. But conspicuously,
police did not follow me.
This is because they had made
a blue print of a conspiracy.
However, I reached Singur safe.
When I reached the peasants told
me that nobody was being allowed
into the BDO office from where
cheques were being issued. We
decided to stage a sit-in. It was
around 5 in the evening when we
started the sit-in. It was around 1
am when the attack was launched.
Police started charging baton,
lobbing tear gas shells and opening
fire to disperse the people who were
peacefully taking part in the sit-in.
The women were not spared.
Holding them by their hair, police
thrashed them mercilessly. They
forced me into a vehicle while
holding me by my hair and
pounding punches all over my
body.
Cries ‘beat her, beat her’ rent
the air. Some goons threatened that
they would murder me. They
brought us to my residence at
Kalighat. We were shattered. We did
not return home. We went to Mayo
Road and began a sit-in beside the
statue of Mahatma Gandhi. Is there
any right, any respect for the
common people, any democracy
here, I was wondering.”
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expect the buffoonery. You,
in fact, await the rollercoaster, nonsensical, loud stupid
humour. But that doesn’t happen
and Housefull 3 instantly falls into
the crevice of an un-happening
mount sniggering on its brand
value and that of its lead actor
Akshay Kumar.
Now Akshay Kumar is all gungho in the film, even emulsifying into
a twin role as Sandy and Sundy, the
latter a pathological rioter who
turns so every time he hears the
word ‘Indian’.
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impact, some kind of, any kind of
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effort of the dudes, bimbos and
Boman Irani and his PJ one-liners
(the only attraction in the film) is
its complete alienation with funny
those ones. Whatever is attempted
is rather deliberate and thus
tediously generated. As compared
to the earlier franchises, this one
comes way below in the laughter
quotient and considering that
laughter is the only medicine for
such otherwise terminally ill films,
not having it questions the basic
existence of such a caper.
Despite this huge malfunction,
Akshay shines in his effort as do
Riteish and AB Jr, to a certain
extent. Lisa Haydon is miscast,
Nargis Fakhri way away from even
being a sideshow and Jaqueline is
the only saving grace, though one
can give very few grace marks to
Housefull 3.
t’s the 70s, flary booms, long locks, a lot of
cigarette (with ‘smoking kills’ warnings
imported from 2016), alcohol haze,
Nixonian issues and happenings that
Americans may know more about than
Indians.
What we know better, however, are Russell
Crowe and Ryan Gosling and what they can
do to a film. Here, they indulge in a loosely
constructed bromance pivoted around a
murder mystery with a tag to those 70s issues
that rocked America — like environment
protests and the underhand push to the auto
lobby, not to mention a corrupt justice
department baying, in this case, for its very own
daughter’s blood.
It all starts with a car crashing into the
home of a young boy in the dead of the night
with porn star Misty M driving it — yes you
guessed right — stark naked. Of course she dies
instantly and seems to have no connection with
the film, till young girl Amelia hires contract
bouncer Crowe to beat up detective March
(Ryan) who is on her trail.
The film has a sense of humour as stark
as the punches that Crowe pulls on many faces
without a care in the world, or conscience for
that matter. In a way, it is an interesting story
to tell though it is not really a global kind of
film. The digs taken at Nixon and his
administration may make sense only to those
who know about it.
But other than that, it is a hatke film in
which two far-removed guys get together, along
with a 15-year-old daughter, to solve the case
of Amelia which has left three people dead,
goons on trail and a band of funny protestors
trying to be dead in the middle of life.
What struck me most? The girth and the
grizzle of Russell Crowe. He is just too fat and
looks veritably unhealthy. Ryan Gosling? Too
much in an alcoholic haze to make sense but
still makes impact.
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year with a trail of comic book
heroes visiting Hollywood ever
since Deadpool made his debut last year. This
one, again from the Marvel closet in quick
succession of the much bigger heroes flying
around the screen just the other week, is not
that much of a marvel as you may have
expected from these shadowy monster
warriors of New York city.
Another matter though, that these ninja
turtles hate being seen as monsters and are
almost bereft of cohesion as a team once the
opportunity to look like humans presents
itself at their doorstep. But there’s a mission
at hand after a high end criminal is freed by
a misplaced scientific genius and used by a
slurpy, wet, yucky alien with tentacles to wage
a war against humans.
There’s a lot of spatial gizmo punctuating
the film, including an ozone breaking
warship that needs to be assembled through
a three-point device that the scientist can put
together, and he does before being shipped
to Japan as a caged specimen.
Turtles, meanwhile, are happy with
their pizza dropping high perches over
soccer stadiums till they find out about the
nasty escape. The mission, in a garbage truck
and out of it, strays a lot into personal issues
of the turtles and thus take away from all the
swinging action.
A good one for diehard fans; discharge
spewing villains, howsoever daunting, are not
everyone’s cup of tea. Add to that turtles with
human issues and you might just want to
have them in another story, another time.
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Q You play Paridhi in Kawach. Tell us more.
She is a positive, modern woman with a
strong mind. A historian by profession, she falls
head over heels in love with Rajbir (Vivek
Dahiya) and gets married to him. All hell
breaks loose when Rajbir’s obsessive dead lover
Manjulika (Maheck Chahal) returns to haunt
the couple as an evil spirit. Paridhi has to be
her husband’s kawach to save him.
Q What drew you to Kawach...?
I’ve never played such a character. Paridhi
doggedly fights the evil spirit that possesses her
and endangers her husband’s life. There were
scenes where I bang my head against a wall,
talk aggressively and much more. I saw it as
a challenging role. I love doing unconventional
roles and this one was something that’s never
been attempted on TV.
Q What was the biggest challenge?
To fly mid air on harness was a fabulous
experience but to balance on it was a tough
task as you have to keep your body at a
particular angle so that the harness
gets aligned. To have the right cuts
and a computerised background,
it’s important to be precise. Second
was falling and the fire scenes.
Then there are action sequences
with the ghosts.
Q What were the toughest ones?
There are a lot of chase
sequences with a dog who is
trying to kill me. Fortunately, the
makers didn’t use a real dog; they
created an artificial one through
VFX. It’s a bit tricky to work on
the croma background as you have
to imagine the situation. So it is fun
as well as tiring as there is a lot of
running around to do. People on
the sets would jokingly tell me,
‘bhaag Mona bhaag’.
Q How scary will the show be?
We aren’t calling this a horror
show. It’s based on supernatural
activities. There’s possession,
exorcism, love, obsession etc. There
are funny characters too. The
minute you think something scary
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attention. But the show will keep you on the
edge. I don’t like horror as a genre but this one
is different.
Q Your make-up is very scary...
Credit goes to my make-up artist Rukesh.
We did a couple of tests for reference with grey
make-up base, lenses, scars, black smudged
kajal and blood on my lips. When I saw myself
in the mirror, I freaked out and put the mirror
away. But when I went for the promo shoot,
people around me wanted to get a selfie clicked
with me in my ghost avatar. They loved it so
much. So I knew we had got the perfect look.
Q Did playing a victim of supernatural
element impact you?
It did. During the shoot, you don’t get
scared as a lot of people are around you but
when you are home, your senses are so sharp
and you become aware of the slightest noise
around you. Listening to the story which
is in its fifth and sixth episode, it’s a little
eerie and spooky. I couldn’t sleep for days.
Most things happen because your mind
is playing tricks. It just freaks you out
more when you try and not think about
situations which are very scary. The
best way to deal with it is to totally
switch off and do something different
altogether.
Q Was it really difficult for you to
switch off from being Paridhi?
When I was doing Jassi Jaisi Koi
Nahi, if there were emotional scenes
I used to not talk to people the whole
day and listen to the saddest songs
to keep myself sad. I later realised
that I was actually torturing myself.
People who don’t come from an
acting school learn these things
from everyday experiences. So I’ve
learnt how to dissociate myself
from the characters I play.
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n order to provide justice to
the victims, the Central
IGovernment
is taking measures to fill the vacant posts of
judges, said Union Minister of
Law and Justice DV Sadananda
Gowda while addressing a seminar and training session 2016
on ‘Need of Continuing Legal
Education’ for lawyers and law
students at a private hotel in
Dehradun on Saturday.
The two-day seminar was
organised by Bar Council of
India. The Minister said that
from January to April 2015, 31
judges had been appointed in
the country. This year, 51
judges have been appointed, he
added. He further said that
after a collegiums have sent a
proposal for the appointment
judges the Centre is seriously
considering it, he added. The
seminar aims at to provide a
unique opportunity to the students of law as well as new
entrants to the profession of
direct interaction with national level legal luminaries, includ-
ing judges of the Supreme
Court of India and High
Courts, said the organisers.
Gowda said that this being
the era of globalisation, globalisation of legal education poses
multiple challenges of legal
practice. “We must take the
challenge head-on,” he said,
adding that they should all
work to provide justice to the
poor people of the country.
Gowda said his ministry
had not held back any file
regarding appointments. “The
appointment of judges is the
prerogative of the judiciary. It is
decided by the collegiums of
judges and the files reach the
ministry after the panel of
judges decides on it,” he said.
Stressing on the urgent
need to fill judge posts, the minister said that access to justice
cannot be achieved and justice
cannot be delivered to people if
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ehradun police have
arrested Sagar, alias Sahil,
native of Meerut, Uttar
Pradesh on the charge of
hacking his wife Renu, native
of Meerut, to death on Friday
night. The body was later
dumped on the railway tracks
at Lachchhiwala in Doiwala.
The recover y of the
woman’s body by the police
from railway tracks created
panic in the locality. Senior
police officers along with
forensic team and dog squad
rushed to the incident site. As
per preliminary inquiry, the
married woman was hacked to
death. On the basis of the
investigation, police arrested
the accused Sahil.
Deceased Renu was working as domestic help in
Lachchhiwala area, police
said, adding that Sahil used to
frequently visit Lachchhiwala
from Meerut. Rekha,
deceased’s sister, living in
Lachchiwala area had identified her body.
“The accused did not disclose his real name to his wife
nor did he disclose that he had
married twice prior to marrying her. The accused admitted his offence while being
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severe heat and humidity
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cloudy, spawning expectation
of rain. But it eluded till the
evening. Frequent power cuts
compounded their suffering
further. The Met office has
forecast light to moderate
rain/thunderstorm at isolated
places in Dehradun on Sunday.
However, the people would
get respite from the sultry heat
in the coming days as the Met
office has issued heavy rainfall
warning in Uttarakhand from
June 7 to June 9.
People of various localities
faced frequent spells of powercuts throughout the day, aggravating the people’s suffering.
Among the areas worst hit by
the power-cuts were Raipur,
Premnagar, Shivlok Colony,
the posts of the judges lie vacant,
he added.
The Union minister said
they are well aware of the situation. “Things regarding the
appointment of judges would be
cleared soon. The pending cases
are piling up. If things continue this way this would amount
to denial of justice,” he said.
“In this milieu, the work
done by Legal Services
Authorities (LSAs) is very sig-
EC Road, Badripur, Salawala
and Ballupur.
In Dehradun, the sky was
overcast since the morning on
Saturday. It drizzled in the
afternoon. However, it failed to
cool things even a little.
Met director Bikram Singh
said that the weather forecast
for Dehradun on Sunday is
partly cloudy sky and light
rain/thunder cloud development in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around
36ºC and 24ºC respectively on
Sunday. He said his office has
issued warning of heavy downpour for three days starting
from June 7.
Singh further informed
that the maximum and mini-
mum temperatures were
recorded at 35.9ºC (normal)
and 24.8ºC (three degree above
the normal) in Dehradun while
it was 24.2ºC (normal) and
15.7ºC (three degree above the
normal) in Mukteshwar, 26.8ºC
(normal) and 18.8ºC (normal)
in Tehri and 35.8ºC (two degree
below the normal) and 27.5ºC
(four degree above the normal)
in Pantnagar on Saturday.
Over the past 24 hours by
8.30 am on Saturday, rainfall
was reported in various parts of
the state. While 16.3 mm rainfall was reported in Dehradun,
it was 3.0 mm in Ranichauri,
3.0 mm in Munsiyari, 1.4 mm
in Pithoragarh, 4.2 mm in
Mukteshwar and 1.8 mm in
Pantnagar, it is learnt.
nificant as they clear large number of pending cases. LSAs
have not only been making
‘access to justice’ a reality but
also relieving courts of enormous burden and pressure,”
Gowda said, adding that the
most important challenge before
LSAs is lack of awareness among
the poor and marginalised sections of people about rights.
“Some measures have been
taken in creating legal awareness
among the people of most backward areas of the country. But
we need to do more in this
direction,” he said.
Justice Dipak Misra, judge,
Supreme Court of India was the
chief guest while other distinguished guests were Justice KM
Joseph, chief justice, high court
of Uttarakhand, Justice SK
Mukherjee, chief justice, High
Court of Karnataka, Justice
Vimlesh Kumar Shukla, acting
chief justice, high court of
Allahabad, senior advocate
Manan Kumar Mishra, chairman, Bar Council of India and
Vijay Bhatt, managing trustee,
Bar Council of India Trust.
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grilled. He married the
deceased in 2006. In 2008, he
married another woman
whom he later divorced. In
2014, he again married,” a
police officer probing the case
said.
Doiwala Police Station incharge inspector Pankaj
Gairola said that a case under
section 302 of IPC had been
registered against Sahil in the
Dowiala police station. The
police have collected some
evidences based on his information, he said, adding that
the accused would be sent to
jail after being produced in the
court on Sunday.
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ttarakhand Governor Dr
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KK Paul stressed the need
for more efforts to establish
Uttarakhand as a leading herbal
State, given its leading role in
Ayurveda and its immense
herbal wealth. In his address on
a symposium on “Herbal
Research, Opportunities,
Challenges and Beyond”, which
was organised at UCOST
(Vigyan Dham, Jhajra,
Dehradun) by the management
of the Universities’ Journal of
Phytochemistry and Ayurvedic
Heights (UPJAH), Dr Paul said
that Uttarakhand has great
potential in the area which needs
to be tapped and utilised in the
interests of the state. He said he
hoped this symposium would
prove an effective step in this
direction.
Uttarakhand is virtually an
herbal state and the State
Medicinal Plants Board had
been constituted and the Herbal
Research & Development
Institute at Gopeshwar had been
made the apex agency for synchronising and promoting the
sector, he said. “I have had a personal interest in this area, having
been a student of Chemistry. I
have also visited the laboratory
located at Mandal. The unit has
not had a Director for quite some
time and appeared to be in a state
of neglect. I gave them some
ideas.”
The systematic study on
herbs specially on their scientific documentation and research
was the need of the day, he
stressed while appreciating the
fact that the scientists carrying
out research on herbs had been
present at this fifteenth symposium of the UPJAH. Dr Paul
stressed that emphasis should be
laid on in-vitro studies of herbs
to prove their therapeutic efficacy and thus to standardise the
drugs so obtained. “The results
obtained should be documented scientifically. The programme
for development of the Medicinal
Plant sector needs research,
development and extension carried out in a planned manner.
The responsible use of the natural resources to ensure their
availability for the future is a
major global concern. Besides,
sustainable utilization of
Medicinal and Aromatic plants
was the most tenable strategy for
conserving them,” he said.
“It is best to have a policy
that allows the extraction of
medicinal plants from the wild
only up to a sustainable extent
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and the promotion of large scale
cultivation of MAPs to meet the
growing demands of industries”.
Dr Paul also released the
20th volume of the the bi-annual Universities’ Journal of
Phytochemistry and Ayurvedic
Heights on the occasion.
The journal had motivated
a large number of scientists and
highlighted their work under the
guidance of Dr S Farooq, Dr GK
Pathak, Dr IP Saxena and Dr IP
Pandey.
Dr Dobhal, DG UCOST,
briefed the Governor and participants about the activity profile of the UCOST and the progrmme. He added that the
Regional Science Centre is
attracting a large number of
students and common masses
and providing platform to create
scientific understanding of various principles of Science &
Technology.
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hief Minister Harish Rawat
is determined to take his pet
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scheme — Indira Amma
Bhojanalaya — to the nook and
corner of the State. While inaugurating a new one at Chardham
Bus Station in Rishikesh on
Saturday, he said
his
Government will open at least
100 more such canteens across
the State to enable the common
men to have nutritious lunch at
wallet-friendly prices. He said
that one thing is required and
that is land required to house the
project. “Such canteens would
come up soon after the district
panchayats, municipalities and
nagar panchayats provide space
for the purpose,” he said.
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Aside from providing the
people with nutritious lunches,
the scheme, deemed as a dream
one of the Chief Minister, has
been reviving the traditional
dishes of Uttarakhand which
were dying out fast in the state
where they originated and
thrived. Besides, the scheme is
also bettering the economic
condition of the women belonging to the self-help groups that
have been involved in it.
CM also inaugurated eRickshaw and Rent-a-Bike
scheme in Rishikesh and distributed cows and calves to five
people.
CM informed that the one
in Rishikesh was the 20th
Indira Amma Canteen in the
state. “Those now running are
doing good. Most of them are
exceeding our expectations.
This is what has charged us to
go for more,” he said.
Further, CM stressed that
scenario in Uttarakhand might
see a sea-change on the ground
if they would rope in more and
more all-women self -help
groups, Mahila Mangal Dals
and various governmental and
non- governmental organizations working for the women.
“We plan to develop allwomen SHGs as commercial
centres in rural and urban areas.
Over 100 all-women SHGs have
performed exceedingly well in
the last one year,” he said.
He appealed to the people
to use the state’s rural products
at least once in a week. “We are
trying to make available
Chaulay Ladoos as a Parsad to
devotees. The all- women
SHGs are providing us with the
laddoo in Badrinath. Besides,
we must promote our handicrafts,” CM said.
He said that the Char
Dham Yartra going on in full
swing tells a success story of
the ceaseless efforts being made
over the past two years. “We
have been successful to spread
the message that Uttarakhand
is safe for pilgrims and tourists
across the globe. A record
number of pilgrims are visiting
the state. It rains every year and
spawns road blocks. But this
time, the blocked roads are
being opened soon after they
are blocked thanks to the thriving system we have put into
motion. Things are smooth
subsequently,” CM said.
Rawat said Uttarakhand
could be transformed through
change of perspectives. “Village
and the poor are the focal
points of our policies.
Uttarakhand has become a
front runner state in the context of social security pensions. We have increased the
amount of social pensions from
C400 to C1000. Beneficiaries of
pension have increased from
1.74 Lakh to seven lakh. We are
providing bonus on the cultivation of Mandua, Jhangora,
Gahath and the like. Bonus is
also being given on tree plantation and milk production.
This would combine to help the
State stride ahead,” he said.
Tourism Minister &
GMVN MD Dinesh Dhanai,
Commissioner Garhwal
Chandra Singh Napchayal and
DM Dehradun Ravinath were
among those present at the
inaugural function.
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esolved not to lose a chance
to embarrass Chief
R
Minister Harish Rawat, facing
the heat from many quarters,
State BJP seized the matter of
the PCC chief Kishore
Upadhyay suggesting to the
CM to send the scam-tainted
UPCL MD SS Yadav on forced
leave till the probe is over and
the State BJP’s chief spokesperson Munna Singh Chouhan
asked Upadhyay to suggest the
same regarding the CM who
has a host of corruption charges
tagged to him. “If the PCC
chief dares go for it my party
would support him heart and
soul,” assured Chouhan.
Later, taking potshots at the
State Government, the BJP
leader said that the latter shifting DM/SSPs on whims is
resulting in serious law and
order problems across the State.
“Things are happening at the
behest of the Cabinet ministers.
This is tantamount to contempt
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of court as the Apex Court pronounced in Prakash Singh vs
Union Government of India
case that no IG/police officer/SP is to be changed unless
and until he completes two
years of his tenure. In case of
exigency, the State Government
can do things under police
establishment act while taking
police establishment on board.
In Uttarakhand, a police establishment exists. But seldom is
its recommendation sought by
the State Government,”
Chouhan said.
Rubbing salt into wounds
of the Harish Rawat
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Government, the BJP leader
said that the CM is using the
transfers of the administrative
and police officials to humour
the sulking Ministers, while citing the fact that Yashpal Arya
is now in a sulk mode.
“Whenever such mass transfers
are made they are being done
under the veneer of public
interests. But the people know
what is what. They are protesting against such indiscriminate
transfers of DMs and others,”
he said.
Training his guns on the
dissident BJP MLA Bhimlal
Arya who has been hobnobbing with the Congress,
Chouhan said he had bared his
fangs recently to the secretary
education over the re-appointment of a retired teacher.
“The MLA who is now the
blue- eyed- boy of the CM
threatened the senior education
department official, saying that
if his plea is not met he would
make the officials face dire
consequences.
He also said that he would
in that case do a sit-in outside
the CM’s residence. This is dangerous trend and the more the
CM allows himself to prove
pliable to such diabolical moves
the grimmer would be things
for the State,” the BJP leader
warned.
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ire broke out in a liquor
shop near Araghar police
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post under Kotwali police station, Dehradun around 4.55
pm on Saturday. It triggered
panic in the area. It took the
two fire tenders and two miniwater tenders nearly one and
half an hour to put out the
blaze.
There was no casualty,
though liquor worth lakhs are
learnt to have been destroyed
in the blaze.
Dehradun Fire Station officer Shiv Prasad Mamgai said
that swift action on their part
had stopped the flames from
spreading further. Two fire
tenders and two mini-water
tenders had been rushed to the
incident site to put out the
flame soon after the information was received, he added.
The cause of the fire is yet
to be ascertained, he said.
Preliminary inquiry, has, however, revealed that short circuit
had caused the fire, he further
said.
Mamgai said that his office
had been informed about the
fire at 4.55 pm on Saturday.
“Soon, two fire tenders were
sent to the incident site.
Later, two additional miniwater tenders were also sent in
about half an hour. Initially,
firemen faced difficulties as the
entire area was filled with
smoke,” he said.
The fire in the liquor shop
had destroyed liquor worth
lakhs of rupees, he said, adding
that the damage is yet to be estimated though. The liquor shop
owner was yet to submit details
of the loss he has incurred till
the time of the report being
filed.
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approach road to Info
Valley-II. Go-ahead was given
for construction of a flyover at
Khandagiri and an approach
road to Info Valley-II, both projects being in State capital city.
It was also decided that the
NHAI would engage retired
OAS and OFS officers for
expediting the land acquisition
and forest diversion proposals.
Regarding the issue of
shifting of the tollgates and collection of toll fees, both the
NHAI and State Government
agreed that the State would
give a detailed proposal on the
matter to the NHAI for consideration of the union
Ministry. Decisions would be
taken keeping in view the convenience of the people.
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Highway
Authority of India (NHAI)
led by its Chairman Raghav
Chandra interacted with State
administration led by Chief
Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi
here on Saturday.
The issues relating to
improvement of around 1,912
km of NH running through
the State was discussed and
resolved, said an official
release.
The NHAI Chairman said,
“Odisha is a very fast progressing State from the view
points of industrialisation and
tourism. The State is also very
important from the view point
of its location.”
The progress of the works
like 6-laning of the
Bhubaneswar-Chandikhol section of NH-5 ( 67 km), 4-laning of the Panikoili-Rimuli
section of NH-215 (166 km), 4laaning of the Talcher-DuburiChandikhol section of NH-23
(132 km), 4-laning of the
Rimuli-Roxy-Rajamunda section of NH-215 ( 96 km) and
4-laning of the BhubaneswarPuri section of NH-203 (67
km), were reviewed.
The matters relating to
forest diversion, environmental clearance, availability of
road construction materials,
disbursement of compensation awards to people, tree
felling in forest land, GPS survey, etc., were also discussed
and resolved. Timelines were
set for each work.
The status of upcoming
NH projects also figured at the
meeting. These project include
4-laning of the SingaraBinjabahal section of NH-6
(104 km), 4-laning of the
Binjabahal-Telibani section of
NH-6 (77 km), 4-laning of the
Cuttack-Angul section of NH42 (112 km), 4-laning of the
Angul-Sambalpur section of
NH-55 (153 km) and 4-laning
of the Biramitrapur-Rajamunda
section of NH-23 (76 km).
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of the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) office in
Dhanbad conducted search at
two residential and office
premises of a Superintendent
Engineer (E&T) of Bharat
Coking Coal limited here on
Saturday.
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Singh the Superintendent
Engineer (E&T) of the Lodna
Area of BCCL, (Dhanbad) the
CBI sleuths conducted search
operations at Dhanband in
Jharkhand and Motihari,
Muzaffarpur in Bihar, said PK
Manjhi Superintendent of Police
CBI Dhanbad.
A case was earlier registered
against Srinarayan U/s 13(2) r/w
13(1)(e) of the Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988 alleging
therein that the accused public
servant, during the check period between 1 January 2002 to 31
December 2015, had amassed
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assets an estimated worth of C2
crore which were disproportionate to his known sources of
income, said Manjhi.
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The Vishnu Rai College
registered extraordinary performance with 97.52 pass percentage in Science whereas the
average result of Bihar was as
poor as 67.07 per cent.
Singh said of the 13 toppers who took the retest and
were interviewed by a panel of
experts, 11 passed.
Ruby had informed that
due to mental depression she
could not appear. Even though
Ruby, who in an interview said
she had “prodical science” as
one of her subjects which
dealt with cookery, is the
most suspected topper, the
BSEB decided to give her
another chance to prove her
merit.
Despite the action taken
against the two toppers, the
entire result of the Class XII
has come under cloud. There
is wider suspicion that in the
order to hide its own wrongdoings the BSEB has acted
against the two students.
Earlier, the BJP demanded the Nitish Kumar
Government to take action
against the chairman of BSEB,
Vishnu Rai College and the
“topper mafia” for the scandal
that brought embarrassment
to Bihar following the discovery that the toppers of the
Intermediate exam did not
know the basics of the subjects
they studied but still secured
highest marks.
Former Deputy Chief
Minister Sushil Kumar Modi
said on Saturday that action
against the controversial topper of arts Ruby Rai would be
taken but he asked Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar to act
against the “topper mafia”
college principal Bachcha Rai,
who is close to RJD supremo
Lalu Prasad, and his college
and against BSEB chairman
Singh whose wife is a JD(U)
leader.
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recently issued notice to the
State Health and Family Welfare
Secretary to submit a report
within four weeks over an illegal
kidney transplant in Bargarh district. The NHRC gave the direction following rights activist
Akhand of Civil Society Forum
on Human Rights (CSFHR)
lodged a petition before the
NHRC in the matter.
Akhand brought to the
notice of the NHRC that the victim, Anil Swamy, lodged an FIR
in Bargarh Police Station on
January 2 last that his neighbours
Raghabram Dora, Dasarathi
Dora, Kanhu Charan Dora and
their family members used
deceitful tactics to get one of his
kidneys removed from his body
without his consent and got it
transplanted in the body of
Raghabram at the Apollo
Hospital in Bhubaneswar.
As Raghabram needed a
kidney transplant, the three
brothers planned to get it from
Anil, who at the time was suffering from stomach ailments.
They forged documents to prove
Anil was one of their brothers as
a kidney donation can only be
accepted from a relative. As per
the documents, Anil was named
Jayaram Dora and presented as
the younger brother of
Raghabram, alleged Akhand.
Even, the petitioner alleged that
they prepared fake ID card,
bank passbook and some other
documents on which Anil’s operation was conducted at the
Apollo Hospital. The transplant
took place in 2013. But after
operation, the victim realized
that one of his kidneys is missing.
Akhand alleged that the
officials of the Directorate of
Medical Education and Training
(DMET) and operating hospital
Apollo are allegedly involved in
the matter. The DMET is the
authority to give No Objection
Certificate (NOC) in the kidney
transplantation. Then how
DMET gave permission for
transplant of kidney without
proper verification of documents? Akhand said.
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Government has constituted
three committees for early operationalisation and monitoring of
various works relating to the
Kalpana Chawla University of
Health Sciences to be established
at village Kutail in district Karnal.
A spokesman of the Medical
Education and Research
Department on Saturday said
that the committees included
Concept Plan Approval
Committee, Committee for
Evaluation of Detailed Project
Report and Monitoring
Committee. He said that the
Concept Plan Approval
Committee would be headed by
Additional Chief Secretary,
Medical Education and
Research. The functions of the
committee would be to approve
the concept plan so that necessary provisions as per norms of
Medical Council of India are
included in the concept plan and
also the architectural designs and
layout of the project.
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call to re-start protests for reservation from Sunday, security
arrangements in Haryana have
been tightened with the deployment of 4,800 paramilitary personnel and the administration is
on high alert. Paramilitary forces
and the Haryana Police have
been deployed in sensitive areas
of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonipat, Jind,
Panipat and Kaithal districts to
ensure that the agitation does not
get out of control and turns violent.
“Besides adequate deployment of police personnel, as
many as 48 companies of paramilitary forces have been
deployed at various places in the
State keeping in view the stir call
from tomorrow. We have asked
for 15 more companies from the
Centre,” Haryana Additional
Chief Secretary (Home) Ram
Niwas said.
Niwas said, “We are not taking any chance,” even though
only one group was going ahead
with the dharna.
He also said police and
paramilitary forces have been
deployed to guard the Western
Yamuna Canal in Sonipat district. Protesters had disrupted
water supply to the national
Capital by damaging the CarrierLined Channel (CLC) of Munak
Canal during the earlier Jat agitation in February.
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themselves from the agitation
call. AIJASS leader Hawa Singh
Sangwan has assured that the
protests would remain peaceful.
Haryana saw the worst violence
in its five decades of existence in
February this year during the Jat
agitation for reservation.
As many as 30 people were
killed, 320 others injured and
property worth hundreds of
crores of rupees was destroyed
during the agitation. The State
remained paralysed for nearly 10
days. Meanwhile, the Haryana
Police has cancelled leave of all
personnel except in emergency
cases till further orders.
Prohibitory orders under Section
144 of the CrPc have already
been imposed in seven sensitive
districts of Haryana barring
gathering of five or more persons
and paramilitary forces have
been conducting flag marches
during the past few days.
specified one spot in each district
where people can peacefully
hold dharna, officials said.
However, officials said they were
wary of the fact that protesters
may attempt to block National
Highways and rail tracks, like in
February, and therefore they
have put maximum security to
prevent a repeat of the situation.
The call for the renewed agitation has been given by the AllIndia Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh
Samiti (AIJASS). Some other sections of the Jat community and
its leadership have distanced
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Resolving to stand by
Afghanistan, the Prime Minister
said India’s cooperation will
extend to “every part” of the
war-torn country and that the
partnership will benefit every
section of Afghan society.
“In your clear eyes, I saw the
deep well of affection for India.
In your smiles, I saw the joy of
this relationship. In the firmness
of your embrace, I felt the trust
in our friendship,” Modi said.
In his around 25-minutelong speech, Modi touched
upon the peace process in
Afghanistan, the massive terrorist attack on Indian
Consulate in Herat and reconstruction activities in that country. “When our people are under
attack, the brave Afghans guard
us as their own. They put themselves in the line of fire so that
their Indian friends are safe.
This is the nobility of your heart
and the strength of your friendship. I have seen this from the
moment I assumed office as
Prime Minister.
“For on that day, when terrorists launched a massive attack
on our Consulate in this city of
Herat, the heroic efforts of
Afghan soldiers, and of our personnel, saved many lives and
prevented a big tragedy,” he said,
referring to the 2014 attack on
the Indian mission here.
From Page 1
around in an illegally modified limousine — Khadse faced
a worst-ever political crisis during the last three weeks.
Not a day passed since May
14 when the ACB arrested one
Gajanan Patil who claimed himself to be his “personal aide” for
allegedly demanding a C30-crore
bribe from an entrepreneur over
a land allotment issue, Khadse
did not clarify matters relating to
various controversies involving
him.
Two of the most serious
controversies that Khadse faced
were: that several calls were
received on Khadse’s cell phone
no. 9423073667 from Karachibased underworld don Dawood
Ibrahim’s wife Mehjabeen Shaikh
between September 2015 to
April 2016 and he, his wife
Mandakini and son-in-law
Girish Chaudhary had hatched
a conspiracy and cornering a 3acre plot of MIDC land “worth
C65 crore” at a nominal price of
C3.75 crore.
So much so that Pune-based
blower Hemant Gawande on
Monday lodged criminal complaint against Khadse with the
local Band Garden Police station
against him, his wife Mandakini,
son-in-law Girish Chaudhary for
allegedly hatching a conspiracy
and cornering a 3-acre plot of
MIDC land.
What made matters worse
was that Shiv Sena’s Industries
Minister Subhash Desai went to
town suggesting that Khadsehad
erred in purchased in land
belonging to the Maharashtra
Industrial
Development
Corporation ( MIDC) in the
names of family members. The
senior MIDC officials publicly
opined that the purchase was
“illegal”.
Earlier in the afternoon
when he announced his decision
to resign from his post, Khadse
made no bones about disgust
over the kind of “media trial” that
he faced during the last three
years. “During my 40 years of
political career, I have never
experienced the kind of media
trial that I faced during the
recent weeks. Ever since allegations surfaced, I have clarified
matters. I have also demand
proof for the baseless allegations
that my opponents have been
making. None of my opponents
has so far provided any proof of
the allegations made against
me,” he said.
Khadse said that he would
expose all those behind attempts
to destroy his 40-year-long
political career through baseless
allegations.
Meanwhile, in what came as
an embarrassment for the ruling BJP, the workers of its ally
Shiv Sena celebrated Khadse’s
resignation from the State
Cabinet by bursting crackers in
the Minister’s home district of
Jalgaon in north Maharashtra.
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Uttar Pradesh, the top BJP leadership has been counseled to
adopt the Assam model by projecting a clear-cut Chief
Ministerial face, who could connect with the voters and compete with rival CM nominees.
The party has, however,
failed to zero-in-on a single
leader with a ‘Pan-UP’ presence,
who is acceptable to a wide section of castes besides commanding ‘loyalty’ to those who
are at the helm of the leadership.
According to sources, the
dominant view that it may go
to the polls with ‘development
agenda’ without projecting its
Chief Ministerial nominee has
taken a back seat, after rounds
of deliberations and ‘internal
assessments’ which advise
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which is more diverse in caste
and religious aspirations.
The BJP National Executive
at Allahabad on June 12 and
June 13, which would be attended by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, may take a call on the
issue that is not an easy task
given the pulls and pressures of
forward and backward castes.
The party may be inclined
to push “a polarising figure”
who is acceptable by a large section of Hindu majority as also
to an assorted backward class
combination. “After appointing
an OBC as State party president, the CM candidate has to
come from a forward caste,”
said a leader, who had worked
on the ground in the UP Lok
Sabha polls.
New BJP UP head Keshav
Prasad Maurya, an OBC and
MP from Phoolpur, could get
approval for the party post
from all castes as he had a 18year-long innings with the
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
as a pracharak. He is a known
Hindutva hardliner.
The social engineering that
goes into winning votes and
thereby, polls in UP, has to factor around 13 per cent Brahmins
and their inclination to back the
projected face in the State.
As per an internal survey of
the party, “it has to compete
hard” with the Bahujan Samaj
Party even though officially BJP
chief Amit Shah has claimed
that it was Samajwadi Party
that was its main rival.
The survey suggested “an
aggressive campaigner”, who
could “polarise” votes in favour
of the party as against two main
rivals with ‘captive caste votes’
and would fit the bill.
The names listed as probable CM face included Smriti
Irani, Varun Gandhi, Yogi
Adityanath and Mahesh
Sharma. Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh has at the outset
expressed his disinclination to
move to the unstable theatre of
UP politics.
Irani, who has campaigned
energetically in her constituency Amethi, however,
carries ‘an outsider’ tag and
could be opposed by other
contenders in the fray. It is
understood that Adityanath
has the traction with a section
of voters but does not have a
pan-UP acceptability.
Varun has moved high in
the popularity charts but is seen
to be taking “an independent
left of the centre approach” that
is not keeping with the party’s
stated line. Varun, who has
been donating money to
drought-hit farmers in the
State and distributing cheques,
is seen to be ploughing his lone
furrow away from BJP’s programmes. The two-time MP is
also not understood to have
“best of line of communication
with the party chief ”.
Such is the dilemma of the
BJP that at one point of time the
name of erstwhile ‘hero’ of
Ayodhya and incumbent
Rajasthan Governor Kalyan
Singh, 84, also did the round on
the ground that his re-entry in
the centrestage of UP politics
may not raise eyebrows of hardliners, OBC voters and not lead
to factional feud in the State.
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Iattack
patient from one of its islands and
flew her to capital city Male for treatment.
The Advanced Light Helicopter MKIII
that was used for medical evacuation
(MEDEVAC) was the one gifted to
Maldives in April this year. This was the
first MEDEVAC sortie of the chopper.
The action took place at 3 pm on
Friday, when Maldives National Defence
Force (MNDF) Advanced Light
Helicopter MKIII, provided by Indian
Government and based at ISHKANDHAR airbase in Laamu Atoll (Male) was
tasked to immediately evacuate one
woman named Hareera Ibrahim. She has
suffered a massive heart attack and was
surviving on ventilator. The patient was
in the Regional Hospital on Veymandoo
island of Thaa Atoll.
The crew of MNDF ALH Helicopter
comprising Indian Navy pilots and divers
was airborne at 4.15 pm for the MEDEVAC sortie and landed on a football field
in Veymandoo. The patient, two doctors
and the patient’s son were embarked in the
helicopter and quickly flown to Male,
where the patient was transferred to
Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital by
6.30 pm. “We wish the patient a speedy
recovery,” the Indian Navy spokesperson
DK Sharma said while giving out details
of the evacuation operation.
Indian Navy, which has a strong
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been very prompt to emergency and security needs of Maldives.
Though the Indian Navy has in the
past too responded to emergency situations but what makes this trip unique is
that this is the first time Indian ALH was
used for MEDEVAC. This is the first ALH
gifted to Maldives in April this year and
is being operated by Indian Navy pilots
due to shortage of aviators in the country. However, India is training Maldivian
pilots to help them operate this chopper
and the Dornier that it plans to give them
soon.
“This chopper is now asset available
to Maldives which they can use for emergency and humanitarian relief situations,” Sharma said.
India and Maldives are close maritime
neighbours with strong defence and
diplomatic relations. The Indian Navy and
the Indian Coast Guard, in conjunction
with MNDF, regularly undertake surveillance in the Maldivian Exclusive
Economic Zone. Apart from looking
after maritime security and disaster relief
Indian Navy is also helping Maldives in
capacity building by providing helicopters
and small ships and training their defence
personnel.
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the
State
Governments can shell out pay
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packages at par with the private sectors, that can go beyond the C1 lakh
mark, for calling on private doctors
to treat patients at Community
Health Centres (CHCs), first referral points, sub-district hospitals
and district hospitals.
In a move aimed to make the
public health services lucerative as
that of private sector to meet the
shortage of specialists, the Modi
Government has allowed flexibility
in its flagship National Health
Mission (NHM), to the States to
source specialists from the private
sector and those retired from
Government services.
They can be sourced on contract
basis or fixed days or hours or surgical sessions, ie as per need.
Presently, just 18 per cent of the
required specialists are posted at the
CHCs CK Mishra, Additional
Secretary and Mission Director in
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many in Assam, newly swornin Chief Minister of Assam
Sarbananda Sonowal has asked
the Border Security Force
(BSF) to ensure sealing the
porous Indo-Bangladesh border on a war footing.
The Chief Minister said
this while chairing a highlevel meeting with BSF
Director General KK Sharma
and urged the border sentinels
to ensure erection of fencing
expeditiously for a safe and
secure border with the neighbouring country.
It may be mentioned here
that India and Bangladesh share
over 4,000 kms of International
Border — also the fifth-longest
land border in the world —
which falls under the jurisdiction of five Indian States —
Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura,
Mizoram and West Bengal.
While West Bengal has the
highest length of Indo-Bangla
border with 2,217 km, Assam
has 262 kms of International
Border with Bangladesh, which
is guarded by the BSF.
The Chief Minister has also
asked the BSF to make use of
‘smart technological solutions’
like laser walls and surveillance
gadgets to keep security at the
frontiers at all times. The Chief
Minister also asked the BSF to
remove all challenges coming in
the way of ensuring a secured
border at the earliest.
“Erection of fencing along
the border including ‘riverine’
areas has to be dealt with resolutely if we want to make our
borders safe. It is a part of our
pledge that we will completely
seal International Border with
Bangladesh in order to keep
infiltration and smuggling from
across the border at bay,”
Sonowal said.
Terming the BSF’s
patrolling the Indo-Bangladesh
border as a challenging job,
Sonowal assured all help from
the Government including
technological solutions to seal
border and keep the State free
from infiltration. It may be
mentioned here that Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
had on Friday asked the BSF to
be more alert and vigilant to prevent cow smuggling along the
Indo-Bangla border and asserted that the criminal activity
across the International border
has to stop.
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Union Health Ministry told The
Pioneer recently that a detailed
guidance note on ‘strengthening
specialists in public health facilities’
has been shared with the State
Governments in this regard.
The Government has already
increased the retirement age of its
doctors to 65 years.
As per plan, the State
Governments can engage doctors
especially for fixed day in CHCs,
sub-district hospitals and district
hospitals which are grappling with
acute shortage of doctors particularly specialists such as gynecologists
and anesthetists, said Mishra. The
States have been asked to seek
lump sum funds to hire specialists
services on part-time basis too.
The suggested pool from which
the specialists could be drawn from
includes those retired from the
Government service but continue to
be mentally and physically fit,
employed in Government medical
colleges but who could come on
fixed days, from charitable or NGO-
run hospitals or those in the private
sector working in the surrounding
areas, as per the note.
These specialists should be
deployed at the post for which
there are no specialists or where the
number is insufficient to meet current caseloads and HR augmentation is required or where periodic
shortage occur, the note suggests.
The plan also allows annual
contract at competitive market rate
for specialists whose services are
required on a daily basis, fixed number of hours/working days, fixed
day/date/week, fixed number of
hours/week, fixed surgical sessions/week according to need/disease condition and also case by case
basis, on call.
The plans aims to improve the
efficiency of available specialist
resources who at times render nonfunctional, for instance irrational
deployment such as surgeons and
obstetrician posted at a facility with
no anesthetist, lack of appropriate
equipment/infrastructure, inadequate support staff, absenteeism
and vested interest such as diverting Government patients towards
personal practice and using specialists for general duties.
As per the World Health
Organisation, there is only one
doctor per 1,700 citizens in India
against the WHO stipulated 1:1,000
ratio.
As per the Health Ministry
data, as of March 31, 2015, more
than 8 per cent of 25,300 primary
health centres in the country are
without a doctor, 38 per cent without a laboratory technician, and 22
per cent had no pharmacist. Nearly
50 per cent of posts for female health
assistants and 61 per cent for male
health assistants remain vacant.
In community health centres,
the vacancy figure is grimmer —
surgeons (83 per cent), obstetricians
and gynaecologists (76 per cent),
physicians (83 per cent), and paediatricians (82 per cent).
While the Ministry figures claim
that there are about 6-6.5 lakh doctors available, India would need
about four lakh more by 2020 50,000 for PHCs; 0.8 lakh for community health centres (CHC); 1.1
lakh for 5,642 sub-centres and
another 0.5 lakh for medical college
hospitals.
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again in south Kashmir’s
Anantnag district killing two
police personnel, including an
assistant sub-inspector. The
attack was carried out a day
after three Border Security
Force (BSF) personnel were
shot dead in an ambush by
Hizbul Mujahideen militants in
Bijbehara town. The two spots
where militants struck without
being tracked down are barely
8 kilometres apart.
Sources said that the
policemen were shot at from a
close range at around 10:45 am
near bus stand on KhanabalPahalgam road, around 50
kilometres south from here.
The two policemen were managing traffic when they were
targeted, a police officer said.
After being hit, they were
immediately taken to a local
hospital but they had succumbed to injuries before
reaching the hospital.
The slain cops were identified as ASI Bashir Ahmad
Ahangar and Constable Reyaz
Ahmad.
The attack was carried out
barely 18 hours after militants
ambushed a Srinagar-bound
BSF convoy at Bijbehara, the
ancestral town of Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti on
Friday afternoon. Three BSF
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owned by pro-Pakistan outfit
Hizbul Mujahideen. The outfit
had warned of more such
attacks.
The security forces cordoned off a major area around
the site and launched manhunt
in an attempt to track down the
militants involved in the attack.
The authorities are perplexed
over the sudden rise in militant
activities in the town that has
largely remained peaceful during past several hours.
The attacks took place at a
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time when campaign for the
Anantnag bypoll scheduled for
June 21, began. Mehbooba
Mufti filed her nomination
papers from the constituency
that fell vacant after the demise
of her father and former Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed. The State Government
had pleaded for postponement
of the bypoll citing law and
order situation. However, the
Election Commission of India
decided to conduct the crucial
poll after some rescheduling.
Soon after the attack, a picture with two militants armed
with automatic rifles and carrying stuffed bags went viral.
The picture has been taken
some 200 metres away from the
spot where the policemen were
killed. The source of the picture
was not identified.
Several legislators took up
the matter in the assembly and
demanded a resolution be
passed against Pakistan for
backing up such activities in
Kashmir. Speaker Kavinder
Gupta said that the House was
unanimous in condemning
such acts. Rural Development
Minister Abdul Haq Khan
informed the House that DGP
along-with several officers has
reached the post to take stock
of the situation.
The Chief Minister also
expressed anguish over the
“senseless violence perpetrated
by the enemies of peace” and
said that the recent attacks
once again show the desperate
levels to which the militants
can go to disrupt peace and
normalcy in the State.
“Violence is a zero sum game
which does not solve any problem but gives rise to more
complexities,” she said.
“The security forces personnel and the policemen, who
are performing difficult duties
not out of choice but to earn
bread and butter for their families, are losing their precious
lives in such dastardly attacks,”
she said and added one fails to
understand why unsuspecting
cops should fall prey to this
senseless violence. She also
praised the security forces and
the police for exercising
restraint to ensure that the
innocent civilians don’t fall
victim to any retaliatory action.
Earlier, Mufti visited the
Frontier Headquarters of the
BSF at Humhama here to lay
wreath on the mortal remains
of the three BSF personnel
killed at Bijbehara on Friday.
The Chief Minister
expressed solidarity with the
Director General BSF KK
Sharma who arrived here at the
instructions of Home Minister
Rajnath Singh.
“My heart goes out to the
families of the slain BSF personnel and I hope that the perpetrators will be taken to task
soon,” she said.
Meanwhile, DG BSF called
upon Governor NN Vohra at
the Raj Bhavan to discuss the
obtaining security scenario in
the State, particularly in the
aftermath of recent ambush on
the BSF convoy at Bijbehara.
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criticism against the
national leadership, demand
Iforntense
change in State leadership and
furious attacks against those who
had led the former UDF
Government in the State were the
highlights of the first day of the
two-day Kerala PCC camp executive being held after the devastation the party suffered in the
recent Assembly election.
The meet, which started on
Saturday, is being held at a time
when the State Congress is worried about the possibility of further erosion in its mass base
which had suffered a massive
dent in the Assembly election as
an exercise to identify ways for
strengthening the organisation
through open dialogues and by
bringing in fresh norms with
regard to its functioning.
“The aim is to find solutions
for the problems the party is facing through open discussions
with an open approach. The
meet will also strive to prepare
itself to fulfill its mission of
being a creative Opposition. We
have to find out where we had faltered, what our weaknesses were
and other such things,” said State
Congress president VM
Sudheeran before the start of the
camp.
In the May 16 Assembly
election, the Congress had suffered devastation with its tally in
the House getting reduced to just
22 from 38 in the 2011 election.
UDF, the then ruling coalition
headed by the party, also underwent a similar collapse when its
strength in the Assembly came
down to 47 from 72.
However, what the meeting
being held at the Rajiv Gandhi
Institute for Development Studies
near Neyyar Dam in
Thiruvananthapuram saw on the
first day, devoted almost totally
to analyzing the reasons for the
electoral drubbing, was the eruption of ferocious criticisms
against the entire leadership.
One of the main complaints
that came up during the discussions was that the central leadership was totally ineffective and
that it did not have the capacity
even to carry out agitations. The
leader sho put forward this argument also said that senior leaders like AK Antony should not
remain silent in total obedience
to the central leadership.
Sources said that everybody
in the top leadership –
Sudheeran, former chief minister
Oommen Chandy, Opposition
Leader Ramesh Chennithala,
Chandy’s bête noire in the party,
and AK Antony – came under
intense criticism. Speakers
attacked Chandy saying that corruption in the former
Government had contributed
heavily to the defeat.
While PCC vice-president
VD Satheesan, a loyalist of
Chennithala, pointed out that
the party was not properly prepared to face the election, MM
Hassan, another vice-president
and Chandy-loyalist, attacked
Sudheeran saying that the people
had lost trust in the party leadership, adding that it had failed to
draw lessons from the defeat in
the civic polls of November last.
Satheesan called for a generational change in the State leadership, alleging that the present
leadership lacked credibility and
a secular face and that there was
a general feeling that it was neckdeep in corruption. The muchtouted liquor policy of the UDF,
which it hoped to help it in the
election in a big way, was a
totally ineffective, it was alleged.
The second day of the executive meeting, Sunday, is expected to see the presentation of a
draft policy document on how
the party should function in
order to avoid further setbacks.
One of the main proposals in the
draft document is said to be that
nobody should be allowed to
hold organizational or parliamentary positions for more than
three terms.
The draft, according to
sources, also proposes that those
carrying official positions for
more than ten years should be
removed and that leaders should
function with total loyalty to the
people. That the lower committees of the party should abide by
the instructions of the higher
units and that youth and women
should be given better representation are some of the other proposals.
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa has written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing her anguish over the Sri Lankan Navy’s
frequent assaults on fishermen from the State.
Taking strong objection to Thursday’s
arrest of four Tamil Nadu fishermen by the
Sri Lankan Navy, Jayalalithaa demanded the
Centre to direct the concerned officials in
the Ministry of External Affairs to take
urgent action to secure the release of 11 fishermen and 90 fishing boats in Sri Lankan
custody without any delay.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister also
asked the Prime Minister not to treat the
International Maritime Boundary Line
(IMBL) with Sri Lanka as a settled question
‘as the Constitutionality of the 1974 and
1976 agreements have been challenged on
extremely valid and legal grounds in the
Supreme Court’.
The Sri Lankan Navy arrests the Tamil
Nadu fishermen who violate the IMBL and
fish in the island nation’s side of the Palk Bay.
Jayalalithaa reminded the Prime Minister
that though she had in the past brought to
his attention the Sri Lankan Government’s
inhuman and cruel strategy of delaying the
release of the boats and the fishing gear of
the Tamil Nadu fishermen, the Government
of the island nation has not released the
seized boats and the fishing gear.
“I once again request that the fishing
boats and gear of our fishermen should
immediately be released and restored to them
in a refurbished condition as long periods
of disuse would have caused severe damage
to them,” said Jayalalithaa in the letter,
excerpts of which were released to the media
on Saturday.
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said it will recall 1.90 lakh cars
sold in the country starting
next month to fix the emission
software. The company said
that the recall is purely voluntary in nature as it did not
face any charges regarding
violating emission norms in
India unlike the US.
This marks the beginning
of recall of 3.23 lakh vehicles as
announced by the company
earlier. “Starting from the second half of 2016, Volkswagen
will recall 1.90 lakh cars and
continue till ten months,”
Volkswagen India head of marketing Kamal Basu told PTI.
“Since recall was done in
the US to fix the emission software, the company decided to
do also the same in India to
keep updated with the changes
made outside,” he said.
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and also to make them understand that the recall was purely voluntary in nature, Basu
added. The company also need
approval of the regulator for the
recall. Volkswagen complied
with all the emission norms
compliant with Bharat Stage IV
standards, he said.
The German auto major
had admitted use of defeat
device in 11 million diesel
engine cars sold in the US,
Europe and other global markets that allowed manipulation
of emissions tests by changing
the performance of the vehicles to improve results.
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HYDERABAD: Telangana
Government has inked a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with California state of
the US for cooperation in a
number of sectors, including
business innovation, alternative energy and education.
“This MoU will open new
avenues for exchange of innovative ideas between startups in
Telangana and Silicon Valley. I am
confident that startups in both geographies would benefit immensely from this MoU,” Telangana IT
Minister KT Rama Rao said.
The southern Indian state and
the California Governor's office
have pledged to work together in
alternative energy, environmental
technology, health, agriculture,
business innovation, technologybased industries, research and
development, among others,
for which a delegation led by
Rao signed the MoU.
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SINGAPORE: The US is working ‘very hard’ on changing its
‘outdated’ export control policy
on India as the two strategic partners seek to continue working
together on a large number of
projects, including in the military
sector, Defence Secretary Ashton
Carter said on Saturday.
“The United States is working very hard on changing India’s
status in the US export system
which is also somewhat outdated,” he said in response to a question on what was expected from
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
visit to the US next week.
He said he along with his
Indian counterpart Manohar
Parrikar would ‘identify new
ways’ to co-operate in defence
sector in advance of Modi's visit.
The US and India are committed,
as part of our growing security
coverage, to co-development and
co-production of military capabilities, Carter said at the 15th
Shangri-La Dialogue here.
“That is something we
have not had since the birth of
the modern Indian state, and
we had two systems which
grew up apart and we are trying to bring them together –
that would be very productive
thing to do,” he said.
“We have a large number
of projects we are working on
together which will be developed and launched in coming
months” elaborated Carter,
adding that he had recently
visited India's aircraft carrier
INS Vikramaditya.
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NEW DELHI: Global pharma
major Mylan Inc, and Biocon have
confirmed the efficacy and safety
of MYL-1401O, a proposed
biosimilar trastuzumab co-developed by the firms, in comparison
to Roche's branded Herceptin
used for treatment of cancer.
The companies will present data from a clinical study
during the American Society of
Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Annual Meeting being held in
Chicago from June 3-7, Biocon
said in a statement.
“As one of the first companies
in the industry to successfully
complete a confirmatory efficacy
and safety study comparing a proposed biosimilar to a branded cancer drug, this is a significant
milestone for Mylan’s biosimilar
program,” Mylan President Rajiv
Malik said on Saturday. There is
an urgent, unmet need for more
affordable versions of biologic
products and through “our col-
laboration with Biocon we are
well-positioned to be at the forefront to help deliver these complex
products to patients around the
world,” he added. Trastuzumab is
indicated for treatment of a type
of breast cancer, Biocon said.
“The positive outcomes of the
global Phase III clinical study
with our proposed biosimilar
trastuzumab for HER2-positive
breast cancer patients are a significant milestone in our joint biosimilars development program with
Mylan,” Biocon Chairperson and
MD Kiran Mazumdar Shaw said.
The trial will enable regulatory filings of the product in the
developed markets, she added.
Mylan and Biocon are exclusive
partners on a broad portfolio of
biosimilar and insulin products.
The proposed biosimilar trastuzumab is one of the six biologic products co-developed by Mylan and
Biocon for the global marketplace,
the company said.
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NEW DELHI: Listing out
initiatives she has taken for
de velopment of Andhra
Pradesh as the Rajya Sabha
member from the state,
Union Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman on Saturday said
she has utilised the entire
amount under the MPLAD
scheme and facilitated setting
up of several projects.
“M PL ADs, just for
records: fully utilised both
years’ funds for development a l
work.
Had
Bhimavaram and Vizag declared
centers of export excellence.
Money for building export
infrastructure comes through,”
Sitharaman said in a series of
tweets.
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n a blistering attack on
Hillary Clinton, Republican
presidential presumptive nominee Donald Trump has termed
his Democratic rival as a
“thief ” and said she should be
in jail for her “terrible” email
scandal.
“Hillary Clinton is a weak
person. Hillary Clinton is totally scripted. Hillary Clinton is a
thief. And Hillary Clinton
should be in jail for what she
did to our national security,”
Trump said.
“I think she (Clinton) is
pathetic. I think she should be
in jail for what she did with her
e-mails. OK?.. She should be in
jail for what she did with those
e-mails,” Trump told his supporters at an election rally in
California yesterday where the
primary elections are scheduled
on Tuesday.
Trump, 69, is assured of his
presidential nomination as he
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has already got the required
number of delegates, whereas
Clinton is facing a tough battle from her Democratic primary rival Senator Bernie
Sanders from Vermont.
However, over the last few
days the war of words between
Clinton and Trump has
reached a new height.
Yesterday at a campaign
event in California, Clinton
compared Trump to a dictator.
“We are trying to elect a
president, not a dictator.
I don’t understand Donald
Trump running a whole cam-
paign based on nothing but
denigrating immigrants. At
some point you have to ask
yourself, is this nothing but a
political stunt?” Clinton said at
a campaign stop in San
Bernardino.
“It’s all about him getting
attention. All about him getting
his name in the newspaper and
seeing his face on TV. That is
not a good enough reason to be
president,” she said.
Describing Clinton as a
“very weak” candidate, Trump
claimed that he can win in
California, a Democratic bastion.
“What the hell are they
talking about? We have to win,
right? We have to win. We didn’t come this far to lose. So
we’re going to play California,
because I think Hillary is very
weak,” Trump said.
“I mean, the only problem
is I’d like to run against her, if
you want to know the truth. But
she shouldn’t be. What she’s
done is terrible,” Trump said.
Trump alleged that by
using a personal email hosted
over a private server, Clinton
risked the national security.
“For her to do what she did
puts our country at risk. She’s
Secretary of state. She’s got
people like Huma (Abedein),
she’s the wife of Anthony
Weiner. Now, how would you
like Anthony Weiner to be
having all these secrets? Well,
guess what? She tells Anthony
Weiner everything there is. I
know Anthony Weiner. I don’t
want him knowing anything,
folks. OK?” he said.
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the anti-Trump bandwagon,
US First Lady Michelle Obama
took a dig at the presumptive
Republican presidential nominee by saying that America
does not build “walls” to keep
immigrants out.
“Here in America, we do
not give into our fears. We do
not build up walls to keep people out because we know that
our greatness has always
depended on contributions
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elsewhere but sought out this
country and made it their
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address to students of City
College of New York yesterday.
“From innovations like
Google and eBay to inventions
like the artificial heart, the
telephone, even the blue jeans;
to beloved patriotic songs like
“God Bless America” like
national landmarks like the
Brooklyn Bridge and the White
House — both of which were
designed by architects who
were immigrants,” she said
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said that she had the privilege
of travelling aroundthe world
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Barack Obama has condemned
the violence at a California rally
of presumptive Republican
presidential nominee
Donald Trump, saying “that is not what
our democracy is
about”.
“It is very important for us to remind
ourselves of who we
are and what is best
about
American
democracy and not
slip into some of the bad habits
that currently manifest themselves in the other party,”
Obama said at a fundraiser in
Florida.
“We saw in San Jose these
protesters starting to pelt stuff
on Trump supporters. That is
not what our democracy is
about. That is not what you do.
There is no room for
violence.
“There is no
place for shouting.
There is no room for
a politics that fails to
at least listen to the
other side even if you
vehemently disagree
because I believe if
you have got the better argument, you do not need
to do that. Just go out there and
organise and persuade,” Obama
said referring to the violence
against Trump supporters at a
California rally.
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Islamic State (ISIS) group’s
bastion province Raqa on
Friday, threatening to catch
the jihadists in a pincer
movement as US-backed
Kurdish-led fighters advance
from the north.
The lightning advance
from the southwest with
Russian air support brought
the army to within 40 kilometres of the Euphrates Valley
town of Tabqa, site of the
country’s biggest dam, the
Syrian Observatory of Human
Rights said.
The dam, 40 kilometres
upstream from the jihadists’ de
facto Syrian capital Raqa city,
is also the target of the
Washington-backed offensive
which Kurdish-led fighters
launched late last month.
It was the first time that
Government troops had
entered Raqa province since
they were ousted by IS fighters in August 2014.
Regular Army troops were
backed by militia newly
trained by the regime’s ally
Russia, Observatory director
Rami Abdel Rahman told
AFP.
He said that the twin
offensives which threaten to
cut off ISIS-held Raqa from
jihadist-held territory along
the Turkish border raised suspicions that Moscow and
Washington were covertly
coordinating operations by
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China Sea.
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arbitration case actually has
gone beyond the jurisdiction”
of a UN arbitration panel, said
Rear Adm. Guan Youfei,
director of the foreign affairs
office of China’s National
Defence Ministry.
The Philippines has filed
a case in the United Nations
under the UN Convention on
Law of the Sea, questioning
China’s territorial claim in the
South China Sea.
An arbitration panel is
expected to rule on the case
soon. The Permanent Court
of Arbitration ruled last year
that it has jurisdiction over
the case despite China’s rejection. “Because the territorial
and sovereignty disputes have
not been subjected to the
arbitration, we think the arbitration is illegal,” Guan told
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“Therefore, we do not
participate in it not accept it.”
Guan’s statement is a reiteration of China’s longstanding
position that it wants to settle its disputes with various
countries on a bilateral basis
and that it will not accept
international mediation.
Still, it gains significance
because of the overtures made
by Philippine President-elect
Rodrigo Duterte, who said
recently that he is open to
bilateral negotiations with
China. This has given Beijing
an opening that it hopes to
leverage in the event the panel
r ules in favour of the
Philippines.
China also has conflicting
claims in the sea with Taiwan,
Indonesia, Vietnam and
Brunei, who all are looking for
US help, much to Beijing’s
chagrin. “The new Philippine
leader also said that the
Philippines hopes to conduct
a dialogue with China,” Guan
said. “We hope the Philippines
could get back on to the track
of dialogue. The door to dialogue is always open.”
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report on terrorism, saying
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that it carried “false accounts”
of its crackdown on
East Turkistan Islamic
Movement in the volatile
Xinjiang province.
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the false accounts relating to
China in a US State
Department report on terrorism, Foreign Ministr y
spokesperson Hua Chunying
said.
In the “Country Reports on
Terrorism 2015,” the US
blamed China for primarily
At least 26 jihadists and
nine government troops and
militia were killed in the
army’s advance, according to
the Britain-based Observatory,
which relies on reports from
medics and activists on the
ground.
Tabqa dam has a huge
reservoir named Lake Assad
after President Bashar alAssad’s late father and predecessor Hafez.
When IS overran the area
with its garrison and airbase in
2014, it summarily executed
160 captured regime troops.
focusing on East Turkistan
Islamic Movement (ETIM) in
its international counterterrorism.
“China is dissatisfied with
the false accounts relating to
China, and regrets the unobjective remarks concerning
China-US counterterrorism
cooperation,” Hua was quoted
as saying by state-run Xinhua
news agency.
“China does not accept
the US making irresponsible
comments about the counterterrorism policies of other countries including China,” Hua
said.
The report alleged that
China had implemented
stricter controls and curbs on
religious practice in Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region,
and that there is a lack of transparency and information provided by it about violent incidents in China that the government characterised as terrorism.
Calling terrorism the
“arch-enemy of human civilisation,” Hua said joint counterterrorism efforts were a
pressing task and the responsibility of the international
community and double standards will do little to help
international cooperation.
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States and other nations, US Defence Secretary
Ashton Carter warned on Friday.
Speaking at a security summit in Singapore,
Carter said Beijing risks building a “Great Wall
of self-isolation” with its military expansion in
the contested waters, but he also proposed
stronger bilateral security cooperation to reduce
the risks of a mishap.
“I hope that this development doesn’t occur
because it will result in actions being taken both
by the United States, and actions being
taken by others in the region that will have the
effect of not only increasing tensions but isolating China,” Carter said when asked
about
Scarborough
Shoal
in
a
forum also attended by senior Chinese military
officials.
Yangon: Over a thousand hardline Buddhists gathered on the
outskirts of Yangon for the annual summit of their ulta-nationalist group on Saturday, as the
anti-Muslim network looks to
stay relevant under Myanmar’s
new civilian leadership.
Maroon-robed monks,
nuns and other followers filled
the monastery in northern
Yangon to mark the third
anniversary of the founding of
Ma Ba Tha, which has been at
the forefront of anti-Muslim
sentiment in Myanmar in
recent years.
The group proved a
potent political force under
the former military-backed
Government, who they successfully lobbied to pass a
series of controversial laws
that rights groups say discriminate against women and
religious minorities.
But the organisation ultimately lost out in November
elections that saw their allies in
the incumbent party trounced
by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National
League for Democracy (NLD),
which is now leading the former junta-run country’s first
civilian administration in half
a century.
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Washington: The federal judge
who’s hearing a Trump
University lawsuit is “a hater of
Donald Trump” and ought to be
removed from the case.
So says Donald Trump, in
just one of the recent comments
by the presumptive Republican
presidential nominee that have
legal experts worrying about his
commitment to an independent
judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
In the midst of a heated
presidential campaign, Trump
has expressed unusually personal criticism focusing on the
judge’s Mexican heritage though
his lawyers have never actually
sought to have the judge
removed.
His comments are bringing overwhelming disapproval
from politicians and lawyers
in his own Republican Party.
Yesterday, House Speaker Paul
Ryan said of the statements
about the judge: “It’s reasoning I don’t relate to, I completely disagree with the
thinking behind that.” And
conservative legal scholars say
Trump’s statements reinforce
their worries.
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he day before the French Open final, Serena Williams' coach,
Patrick Mouratoglou, was discussing whether his player would need
to lift her level to beat Garbine Muguruza and collect a recordequaling 22nd Grand Slam title.
"I don't know why everybody's so impressed with Garbine,"
Mouratoglou said. "Did she win a Slam ever?"
His comment, accompanied by a chuckle, was intended in a lighthearted way. About 24 hours later, his question required a new answer.
Muguruza won her first major trophy and prevented Williams yet
again from collecting No. 22, outplaying the defending champion in a
7-5, 6-4 victory at Roland Garros on Saturday.
"She has a bright future, obviously," said Williams, who at 34 is 12
years older than her Spanish opponent. "She knows how to play on the
big stage and ... clearly, she knows how to win Grand Slams."
The fourth-seeded Muguruza used her big groundstrokes to keep
No. 1 Williams off-balance and overcame signs of nerves in the form
of nine double-faults. Most impressively, Muguruza broke Williams four
times, including three in a row.
"I can't explain with words what this day means to me,"
Muguruza said.
This was her second major final; she lost to Williams
at Wimbledon last year. But Muguruza has won her past
two matches against
Williams on the clay of
Roland Garros, including
in the second round in
2014. So dating to the
start of the 2013 French
Open, Williams is 0-2 in
Paris against Muguruza,
21-0 against everyone
else.
"I have grown
up playing on
c l a y , "
Muguruza
said during the
trophy
ceremony,
"so for Spain,
and for me, this
is amazing."
For Williams,
whose timing was
not exactly right
much of the afternoon, Saturday's
loss postponed her
pursuit of
S t e f f i
Graf 's Open-era mark of 22 major
singles championships. Margaret
Court holds the all-time record
of 24.
Williams got No. 21 at
Wimbledon in 2015, her fourth
major title in a row. Since, she
was beaten in the U.S. Open
semifinals by Roberta Vinci,
in the Australian Open
final by Angelique
Kerber, and now by
Muguruza. It's the
first time in
Williams'
career she lost
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men's team head coach through its website, chief
selector Sandeep Patil has thrown his hat into
the ring for the high-profile job.
"I have just applied
(for the post)," Patil said.
He did not confirm or
deny whether anyone
from the BCCI had asked
him to do so.
There was speculation that the former dashing batsman and ex-coach
of Kenya had been advised
by higher-ups in the
Board to apply for the job as the senior selection panel headed by him has already completed most of its top-level assignments till
September when his term is scheduled to come
to an end.
Sanjay Bangar has been named the interim
coach of the new-look side to Zimbabwe, to be
led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
If he gets the job of head coach before
September, he will have to quit his current job
in the selection panel.
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back-to-back Slam finals.
Mouratoglou said Saturday that chasing a 22nd major "isn't an obsession" for Williams.
"She doesn't wake up every morning thinking about it. That's for
sure." But he added: "The pressure of leaving an indelible mark on history is incomparable."
Williams credited Muguruza with playing "unbelievable," adding: "The only thing I can do is just keep
trying."
This year's visit to Paris hardly could have started off more inauspiciously for Muguruza: She lost
the first set she played, against 38th-ranked Anna
Karolina Schmiedlova.
But, oh, how Muguruza turned things around.
She won her next 14 sets, displaying take-the-ballearly aggressiveness.
The final began under a slate ceiling of clouds,
but at least there was none of the heavy rain that led
to flooding in Paris and a temporary shutdown of
the Louvre museum. The showers jumbled the tournament schedule, and Williams was in action a fourth
straight day in the final.
She did not blame that or a problem with a leg
muscle. "I don't think it's like something that I would
say: 'Oh, that was the reason,'" Williams said.
Muguruza won the coin toss and let Williams
serve first, a fascinating choice given the American's
prowess with that part of the game. And the decision seemed only more dubious as Muguruza put the
ball on play on only one of the first six points
Williams served.
And yet, it all wound up working out. And how.
Muguruza won all six points of 10 shots or more
in the first set and, indeed, there was no junkballing
on this day. Both women hit hard, trading bold forehands and backhands from the baseline that made it seem unfair to characterize nearly anything as an "unforced error."
Williams finished with 39 forced errors, 18 more than Muguruza.
After a run of breaks gave Muguruza the first set and a lead in the
second, Williams never recovered. She did, however, cast aside a quartet of match points for Muguruza at 5-3. There was nothing Williams
could do about the fifth, which Muguruza converted with a delightful
lob that landed right on the baseline.
Williams applauded. Maybe stunned by that shot, maybe stunned
that she was now a Grand Slam champion, Muguruza turned toward
her coach and other supporters in the stands with a blank expression.
Soon, she was flat on her back, caking her dress and arms with the rustcolored clay she will never forget.
"Just goes to show you, you really have to play the big points well,"
Williams said, "and I think she played the big points really well."
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record 15th Grand Slam
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title — a number he has since
pushed to 17 — at Wimbledon
in 2009 it seemed to put to bed
tennis' enduring argument
about who is the greatest man
to have played the game.
By beating Federer in his
prime at Wimbledon in 2008,
winning the 2010 US Open for
titles at all four major tournaments and with a record nine
French Open wins in his overall haul of 14 Grand Slam trophies, Nadal left-armed his
way into the conversation.
With victory on Sunday in
the French Open final against
Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic
would become part of that
debate, too. Not simply because
it would give him the complete
collection of titles at all four
majors without which no player can pretend to have been
among the very best, but because
he will achieve a rare feat that
eluded both Federer and Nadal:
winning four consecutively.
Murray, who will be
Britain's first French Open
champion since Fred Perry in
1935 if he beats Djokovic for a
third time in a Grand Slam
final, sometimes gives the
impression that willpower,
more than his play, is the backbone of his game.
But the Scot, so irascible on
court, so seemingly normal off
it, has the full armory of strokes
and the tennis brain needed to
break down Djokovic's defenses. He shot-by-shot dismantled,
rather than simply beat, Stan
Wawrinka in the semifinals,
not letting last year's champion
find his bearings in a 6-4, 6-2,
4-6, 6-2 performance that
seven-time major winner Mats
Wilander described as "the
greatest tactical masterpiece
I've ever seen at Roland Garros."
Mentally, neither player
has a clear edge: Murray benefits from the knowledge that
he won their last meeting on
clay, 6-3, 6-3 in the final in
Rome last month; No. 1
Djokovic can draw on the
inspiration of having beaten his
understudy in the rankings in
the Australian Open final in
2016, 2015, 2013 and 2011.
Murray won their other two
Grand Slam championship
matches: at Wimbledon in
2013 and, in another five-setter, at the 2012 US Open.
Ultimately, any argument
about greatest players may
never get a conclusive answer.
How, after all, can the woodenracket era of Rod Laver — the
last man to win the Australian
Open,
French
Open,
Wimbledon and US Open in a
row, in 1969 — be fairly compared to the furious game
played now?
Murray, as good as he is,
isn't close to knocking on the
door of tennis' pantheon of true
legends. Not so Djokovic.
He stands on the cusp of
greatness. Win on Sunday, and
that will be beyond doubt.
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goals from James Rodriguez and
Cristian Zapata gave the South
Americans a comfortable 2-0 victory.
AC Milan's Zapata and Real
Madrid star Rodriguez struck in the
first half before a sell-out 67,439
crowd at the Levi's Stadium in northern California to puncture American
hopes of emerging from a difficult
Group A.
US coach Jurgen Klinsmann's
side had hoped to score an upset victory to emulate the Americans'
famous defeat of Colombia at the
1994 World Cup in the United States.
But for long periods here Friday
Klinsmann's men were chasing shadows as the skilful 2014 World Cup
quarter-finalists delivered a stinging
reality check.
Klinsmann sought to put a positive spin on the game, insisting his
team had competed as equals.
"For our players it's really important that they can see we can beat
them," Klinsmann said.
"The end result is 2-0. But the players will take a lot out of this game."
Klinsmann admitted the defeat
left his team with little margin for
error in their remaining group games
against Costa Rica and Paraguay.
"Obviously we have even more
hunger in our second game now,"
Klinsmann said. We have our backs
against the wall and we need three
points against Costa Rica. But there's
a lot of positives."
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grip on the contest.
The Colombians took the lead
after only eight minutes, when poor
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to the Italy-based Zapata.
Stoke City defender Geoff
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in, and Zapata stole in front of his
man to thunder home the finish.
The USA struggled to build any
sort of momentum after that, with
Colombia flooding midfield and
pressing the Americans relentlessly.
Colombia dominated territory
and possession and carved out the
better chances with Sebastian Perez
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minute with a rasping drive.
Monterrey's Cardona proved to
be a menace to the USA back four
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shooting on goal.
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a 36th-minute run and shot from
Clint Dempsey, whose curling effort
whistled just past Ospina's upright.
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dealt a killer blow when Yedlin was
adjudged to have flicked a hand out
to block Farid Diaz's cross.
America's players protested but
referee Roberto Garcia was in no doubt
and pointed to the spot. Rodriguez
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South Africa by four wickets in the opening match
of the Tri-Nation One-Day International series at the
Guyana National Stadium on Friday.
Forced to remodel his action after it was deemed illegal during the Caribbean side's last ODI campaign in Sri
Lanka last November, the 28-year-old mystery spinner
was at his mesmerising best on a turgid surface where
the South Africans were dismissed for 188 off 46.5 overs.
They found it difficult to establish any sort of momentum despite two useful partnerships at the top of the order.
Narine's returns were not only a personal milestone
but also the best-ever by any opponents in one-day cricket against South Africa.
Kieron Pollard, back in the good graces of West Indies
selectors after 20 months in the ODI wilderness following the shock abandonment of the tour of India in
October of 2014, then lifted his team to the target with
a robust unbeaten 67 that included six sixes.
It was the first time in 15 years that the Caribbean
side had defeated the South Africans in a one-dayer on
home soil.
Rilee Rossouw topscored with 61 and featured in a
78-run third-wicket partnership with skipper AB de
Villiers. That effort followed an opening stand of 52
between Quinton de Kock and Hashim Amla.
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Le Mans, the world’s most demanding
endurance race, something strange
happened. It was not the first time that
the German carmaker Audi had won
the race, indeed they had won 11 of the previous 13 runnings of this race. But this was
the first time that two hybrid cars had
crossed the finish line in such a famous race
to take the top two positions.
The R18 e-tron was the culmination of
many years of work, not just of the aerodynamicists and engine developers but also
incredible electrical engineering that allowed
a battery pack and diesel engine to work
together towards victory. It may not sound
like a traditional racecar, missing the thunderous noise of a Chevrolet Corvette or the highpitched scream of high-revving Ferrari, the
R18 almost whooshes by, the main noise on
the car being it slicing through the air, yet one
cannot argue with success. Even as the Audi
R18 lost at Le Mans last year, it lost to a
Porsche 919, which was also a hybrid.
The racetrack is the crucible of major
automotive development. Everything from the
rear-view mirror to the synchromesh gearbox
that many of us take for standard today stem
from developments made on the racetrack.
The hybrid technologies that were developed
for the racetrack are getting more and more
advanced. And Audi, which developed the ‘etron’ technology for the hybrid-electric R18, is
now making its way into products such as the
Audi A3, the carmaker’s entry-level sedan.
Porsche, Ferrari and McLaren have all made
their latest supercars into hybrid monsters.
Today, hybrid technology is becoming
increasingly standard, and now there is even
an all-electric racing series, the FIA Formula
E championships, in its second season. Even
in Formula 1, cars regenerate
energy lost both in braking
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and in heat. A lot of Mercedes-Benz F1 success in the past three seasons is derived from
their expertise in such systems.
However, in India the debate about the
virtues of the internal combustion engine
has taken centre stage as the pollution issue
comes to the fore. Obsessed with producing
low-cost cars and (until recently)
Governments unwilling to promote alternative energy systems as well as a systematic
bias towards diesel, which was heavily subsidised, have left the Indian auto industry
in a sort of strange situation.
Across the rest of the world, in America
in particular, where the cult of the car
remains strong, electric vehicles from carmakers such as Tesla have become increasingly
popular. Other carmakers, like Toyota, have
made cars such as the Prius — the poster-car
for hybrid vehicles — a best-seller. In Europe,
cities are toying with the concept of shared
electric cars made by companies such as
Smart. Even in China now there is a move to
electric and hybrid cars.
In India unfortunately, despite incentives
by the Government and the development
work undertaken by manufacturers such as
Mahindra, the adoption rate of electrics and
hybrids is minimal. Indeed, cars with rudimentary hybrid systems, ‘partial hybrids’ are
being sold by Maruti but these are not vehicles that have additional battery systems. Such
cars are, however, going to become standard
as stricter Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency
(CAFE) norms kick in for carmakers.
There is the Faster Adoption and
Manufacturing of (Hybrid and) Electric vehicles in India scheme (FAME India) that was
launched by the Heavy Industries Ministry in
2014. This incentivises the manufacture of
such vehicles. Despite the fanfare and quite
generous incentives — C1.24 lakh for the
Reva E2O and C1.38 lakh for the E-Verito —
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prices after the scheme was launched and
despite the car having no VAT in Delhi as
well as a relaxation of road tax and registration, it is still very expensive at C4.9 lakh for
what is essentially a micro-car.
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week and launched a battery-powered version
of their Verito sedan. Arvind Matthews, of
Mahindra Electric, pointed out that every day
over 800,000 vehicles go on to Indian roads
for ‘employee transportation’ and these vehicles use a combined 3.2 billion litres of fuel
every year, “for a nation with a huge fuel bill,
this is a travesty”.
In Bangalore, Mahindra Electric has sold
140 of its E2O cars to ‘Lithium’, an electric cab
company, which in conjunction with 23 fastcharging stations, the cabs are covering an
average of 220 kilometres a day. “Any distance
over 100 kilometres, an electric vehicle blows
an internal combustion engine out of the
water,” Matthew adds. The new e-Verito has a
running cost of C1.15/km (assuming power is
C7 a unit) and has been launched in Delhi,
where the Arvind Kejriwal-led Government
has committed to build 140 fast-charging
stations, where a car can get 80 per
cent of charging in under two hours.
However, the high price of electric cars,
even with the FAME scheme, impacts the
e-Verito as well, with the basic version of the
car selling for a steep C9.5 lakh even with
Central Government incentives more than
double the price of a regular Verito sedan.
Even as several State Governments,
notably Delhi, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu,
have drastically reduced VAT and Road
Tax on electric cars or removed them altogether, the high upfront cost of an electric
car might scare away many buyers.
However, Pravin Shah, President,
Mahindra Automotive, believes that with
the Delhi Government incentivising electric cars and building fast-charging stations, such vehicles could become very
popular with environmentally conscious
commuters as well as taxi companies.
Mahindra has one advantage that many
other electric car manufacturers do not. As a
participant in the Formula E championship,
it is able to gain insights into battery and
motor technology that is being proven on the
racetrack. The Formula E championship
might lack the noise and the speeds of
Formula 1, but it is becoming increasingly
popular and the lower carbon footprint of
the series is allowing races to take place in
city-centre racetracks.
The growing popularity of Formula E
has forced Formula 1 to become more
friendly, while F1 cars are not technically
full-hybrids like the Audi R18, they are
increasingly moving in that direction with
battery power filling playing a bigger role in
the car’s performance with 140 horsepower
out of the total of 800+ horsepower coming
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Kalila va Dimna is a tribute to
the cultural interflow between
India and Iran over millennia,
attested by the nexus of the
Rigvedic hymns and Gathas of
Zarathushtra, coming down to the reign
of Akbar, who introduced Persian as the
language of administration in India
which continued till the middle of the
19th century under the East India
Company. The Persian version of the
Kalila va Dimna entitled Anwar-i
Suhayli had the historic destiny of
being the textbook for learning Persian
to run the Government of the day.
India and Iran are the “we together” in the glory of language, with similar divinities in classical times, the
Gathas and Vedic hymns with mindprints of common essence, Iranians of
Parthia and Sogdiana translating
Buddhist Sutras into Chinese, Iranian
doctors curing Samba, the son of Lord
Krishna, or Jivaka, the physician of
Lord Buddha, studying under “white
clad medicos”: Endless sharings throbbing with harmony.
The dynasty of Sasan were hereditary priests of a Zoroastrian temple.
The grandson of Sasan Ardashir I
defeated the Parthian king Ardavan I
in 224 AD and founded the Sasanian
dynasty. He advised his son Shapur I
(ruled 241-72): “Know that faith and
kingship are brothers, one cannot survive without the other. Faith is the
foundation of a kingdom, and the
kingdom defends the faith”.
There is a similar saying in
Sanskrit: “Dharmo rakshati; Dharmo
hato hanti.” He conquered the Kushan
kingdom of Bactria, and the Sasanian
kings came close to India. Shapur I
ordered the collection and translation
of religious, astronomical, medical and
philosophical texts from the Byzantine
Empire and from India. The books of
moral precepts (andarz) were an
important genre in Sasanian literature.
Pahlavi inscriptions of Kartir, who
was a dominant figure in the
Zoroastrian church in the reign otBahram II (276-293), refer to
Buddhists and Brahmans in Iran.
King Khusrau I (Susravas in
Sanskrit) came to the throne in 531
and had a four decade-long rule till
579. His reign is famous for the final
redaction of the 21 divisions of the
Avesta, the vitalisation of the Iranian
state, the blossoming of art and literature, and the translation of many
Indian works into Pahlavi.
His epithet was Anushirvan “of
immortal soul”. He was an enlightened monarch. When Justinian closed
Plato’s Academy at Athens, which had
been a centre of Greek culture and
philosophy, some philosophers took
refuge at his court. Greek and
Sanskrit works began to be translated
into Pahlavi.
Several collections of andarz or
“advice” or “mirrors for princes” from his
period have survived. The Pahlavi adaptation of the Panchatantra was the
prime mirror for princes and commoners. The Avestan alphabet is also attributed to his reign. The pomp and glory
of his reign can be seen in the immense
size of the aivan or central arch of Taqi Kisra in Ctesiphon.
The numerous quotations in Ibn
Qutayba no longer reproduce AlMuqaffa’s text word to word. An edition
for school use was done as late as 1910.
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cultivated by writers, priests and royalty as ethical and practical precepts, maxims and epigrams. The Sasanians considered history and myth as validating
social and political ideals and institutions.
Visnusarma states in the opening of the
first book of the Panchatantra that it is
a collection of the essence of all the
arthasastras, composed as delightful
lessons in polity. It was designed to teach
polity and statecraft to young princes
in the form of fascinating stories and
fables. With a penetrating insight into
human affairs and a sense of humour,
it reveals social consciousness in its
mobility and treachery, in its maturity
and worldly wisdom.
King Khusrau Anushirvan sent his
physician Burzoe to India to get
books on royal governance, particularly, the Panchatantra. Burzoe translated the Sanskrit Panchatantra into
Pahlavi and expanded it from other
Indian sources: Its chapters 11-13 are
from the Mahabharata 12.138, 139,
111, and the other five chapters have
to be traced in Indian sources. This
Pahlavi translation is lost.
Syriac version: The Pahlavi was translated into Syriac by Periodeut Bud in
570, and it survives in manuscripts.
Ibn al-Muqaffa translated the
Pahlavi into Arabic as a stylistic work
of art intended for literary connoisseurs.
Its stories became very popular and that
led to frequent changes in its wording.
Arabic version: It was put into Arabic
verse three times — the first version was
by al-Laqiki, a contemporary of AlMuqaffa. It has been lost. The second
verification was by Ibn al-Habbariya in
1100 with the help of both versions, in
elegant and flowing language. The
third versification was by Abd alMumin completed in 80 days on
November 15, 1242.
A Syriac priest translated AlMuqaffa’s text again into Syriac and
endeavoured to give it a Christian tinge.
Poet Rudhaki (died 916) put the
book into Persian verse, but only 16
verses have survived as quotations in
Asadi’s Lughat-i Furs.
Nasr Allah reproduced AlMuqaffa’s work in all rhetorical adornments of prose in 1144. On its basis
Al-Tusi Qani composed a metrical version in the 13th Century. In 1504,
Kashifi gave a new version in a more
florid style and it had unparalleled success. He called it Anwar-i Suhayli in
honour of the minister of the king in
whose court he was. It was printed in
England in 1836 as a text book for the
examination of English officials in
India in Persian. It was translated into
several Indian languages.
It was translated twice into Eastern
Turki, into old Ottoman Turkish,
Ethiopic, Hebrew, Greek, Malay and
several European languages. The
Mongol translation was read by the
Yiian Emperor Mongke Khan (ruled
1251-58) as a treatise on political theory and practice.
Kalila va Dimna inspired Iranian
artists of the pre and post-Mongol
schools and there is a large number of
illustrated manuscripts.
Kalila va Dimna led to numerous
translations into European languages:
Greek (11th Century), Hebrew (12th
Century), Latin (1480), German (1483),
Italian (1563). Its distant echo is to be
found in the charming fables in La
Fontaine as late as the 17th Century. Ph
Wolff calls it a book “that inspired the
entire mankind and was held in reverence by kings and princes”.
The present facsimile reproduction
of the manuscript, calligraphed by Sultan
Muhammad in the Timurid period and
preserved in the Raza Library at Rampur,
Uttar Pradesh, is a homage to the
“cousin cultures” of India and Iran. It
reminds of Emperor Akbar’s desire to
come close to the Iranians, for which he
prepared the ground for Iranian intellectuals to flourish in India. Poet Salim
Tehrani went so far as to say: “Henna did
not acquire colour till it came to India.”
Humankind has to envision the
emergence of a new awareness which will
make life harmonious within ourselves
and without with the world, to shake off
the dust of minds. Humans have to wash
their inkstone of its profane words, leaving body and soul transparently pure. As
poet Rumi says:
“You dance inside my chest,
Where no one sees you.
But sometimes, I do,
And that sight becomes this art.”
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and leisure activities. It is the time of the
year where people plan their vacations to
relax, destress from the daily routine work. In
addition to refreshing trips, the season brings
with it a host of health problems.
Prolonged exposure to sun can cause
health issues such as sunstroke, food poisoning, dehydration, prickly heat and skin infection. In fact, it could not only cause extreme
stress and irritability but can lead to fatality.
In the recent past, deaths due to extreme summer temperature have seen a sharp rise.
With the temperature soaring this summer,
one should not remain negligent about one’s
health. However, before we offer any solutions
or precautionary measures to combat the health
risks associated with the inevitable heat, it is
important to break certain myths and beliefs
that people have about summer.
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of the body’s weight and is the most important nutrient of our diet. Most of us believe
that drinking 8-10 glasses of water will help
in staying hydrated during summers.
Although water should be an integral part of
our diet, it is important to note that mere consumption of eight glasses of water is not
enough. It’s important to ensure that the water
you drink is not only safe, but also enriched
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Reality: Air conditioners are considered to be an
integral part of every household and workplace
during summers. People prefer to spend most of
their time indoors to enjoy the chilled air and
avoid the heat outside. They often believe that air
conditioners will help them beat the heat and cool
their bodies, thereby also purifying the air.
However, the fact is that air conditioners affect
our health negatively in the longer run. Constant
exposure to ACs dries out the mucus membranes,
causing sore throat and sneezing, and makes us
more susceptible to colds and upper respiratory
tract infections. Also, natural ventilation is
blocked, which further leads to accumulation of
contaminated air inside the room. Moreover, air
conditioners recirculate the same air over and over
again around the room which is harmful for us.
While ACs are inevitable in today’s time and
age, one should not be overexposed to them. To
breathe cleaner air indoors, one can instead install
an air purifier. We often believe that air conditioners have pre-filters in them which can trap pollutants but fail to realise that they are not effective against all micro-organisms.
An air purifier with a high efficiency particulate air filtration (HEPA) filter or a purifier with
ultra-precision purification process that has
double the efficiency to eliminate sub-micron respirable particles and infection-carrying microbes
in the air could be a better option.
Myth 3: Any drink alone can quench your thirst
and rehydrate you.
Reality: During summers, most of us tend to
rely on sodas and iced water to quench our
thirst and feel that they are sufficient enough
to keep us rehydrated on a hot day. In reality,
this is a myth. It is important to understand
that consuming too much of iced water tends
to slow down the digestion process. Moreover,
the sugary drink that you consume might actually cost your body more fluids and make it
work extra hard to metabolise them and will
further dehydrate you. The best way to keep
yourself hydrated and beat this scorching heat
is to drink plenty of water which has the essential nutrients and minerals, keeping you energetic and active at all times.
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that the mass market will
be addressed by hybrid cars.
The market for electric cars in
2015 crossed 287,000 of which
40 per cent came from China,
yet hybrid car sales in the
United States alone exceeded
half a million in 2015. This is
because while hybrid cars can
become fully electric for shorter distances, the petrol or
diesel engines can be used as
generators to recharge the
engine and boost performance, and when the battery
runs dry, hybrid cars can
always become regular cars.
But carmakers are seeing
the trend; Audi is now seriously contemplating the introduction of their road-going ‘etron’ technology as the
Supreme Court sticks to its
guns with the ban on highcapacity diesel cars in Delhi.
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that the FAME scheme should
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part so manufacturers can
seed the market with cars
brought in from overseas.
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that hybrids and electric
vehicles avoided schemes like
the odd-even programme
that impacted cars in Delhi.
“We feel that short-term
decisions lead to increased
uncertainty and ambiguity
for the future, not just for
manufacturers but also for
dealers and customers. As
manufacturers, we need clarity on policy direction so that
we can amend our strategy in
line with the customer
demand. The need of the
hour is a multi-pronged 360
degree cohesive approach,
which looks at the entire
environmental issue holistically, without affecting the
business environment.”
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schemes by the Government
are a start but in a cost-conscious country like India
such cars cannot have the
massive premiums they have
right now because they will
then be stuck with a small
sliver of users. Given the high
levels of taxation on motor
vehicles, the Government has
a lot of wiggle room over
here and should promote
such vehicles. And while the
National Green Tribunal and
the Supreme Court want to
ban big diesel engines, they
should look at the huge
advancements made in
hybrids and electrics and
question the high taxation
levels on such cleaner cars.
Cars are still an aspiration for millions of middleclass Indians, and unlike a
city-state like Singapore,
India cannot tax that aspiration heavily. Also with
patchy public transport
infrastructure, it will be a
decade before most city commuters in cities like Delhi
can ditch cars altogether.
However, with an improving
electricity grid and the focus
on electric and hybrid mobility, India can not only reduce
its dependence on imported
fuel but also reduce air pollution. And to convince people of the impact of hybrid
and electric vehicles, it may
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James Ivory’s Bombay Talkie, actress
Jennifer Kendal’s car is stopped on
the road for a funeral procession
where a crowd gathers. Among the
junior artistes assembled in the crowd was a
young Amitabh Bachchan who mysteriously disappeared after a day of shoot.
As is revealed years later, Amitabh was upset
to have lost out on earning C50 for being an
extra in the film but its star Shashi Kapoor had
told him, “Don’t do these bits parts. You are
made for better things.” Such was the magnanimity and vision of the legendary actor who has
somehow faded away from the public eye today.
The Bharat Ratna awardee is said to be so
humble and unfazed by fame that even at the
peak of his career, he used to introduce himself
to everyone on his film sets and say, “Mera
naam Shashi Kapoor hai”, as if they did not
know. Saif Ali Khan was so fond of “Shashi
uncle” in his childhood that once in the middle
of shooting for Paap Aur Punya (with Saif ’s
mother Sharmila Tagore), the villain who was
strangling Kapoor, screamed. Saif had secretly
crawled up to him and had bitten on his leg, to
rescue his Shashi uncle!
Unknown anecdotes and facets such as these
are a part of popular, New York based film critic
Aseem Chhabra’s book, Shashi Kapoor: The
Householder, the Star. In a freewheeling interaction, Chhabra divulges further about the enigmatic artiste.
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Shashi Kapoor if you could interact with him?
I would have probably asked him about certain
decisions he had made; what opinions he had,
what he could not do, and so on. After Jennifer
Kendal’s death, he not only sought refuge in
alcohol, but also in food, something that Jennifer
had always been strict about. It led him to obesity and subsequently, a heart attack and partial
paralysis. Today, he is said to be suffering from
dementia. So meeting him wouldn’t have been a
possibility. But over a year, I interviewed several
personalities from the film fraternity like
Amitabh Bachchan, Shyam Benegal, Govind
Nihalani, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi,
Aparna Sen, Simi Garewal, among many others.
Karan Johar wrote the foreword and Shashi
Kapoor’s children, Kunal and Sanjna, as well as
James Ivory lent several insights into his life, and
so did Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh Kapoor.
QHow is he regarded in the industry today?
He has been out of sight for so long that one
could argue that he has been forgotten. The ones
who remember him do so largely because of
films like Namak Halaal, Deewar and Kabhi
Kabhie, which are also considered to be Amitabh
Bachchan’s feats. That is where the need to write
this book was felt. He’s the performer who also
gave us Heat and Dust, Benazir, Junoon,
Shakespeare Wallah, The Householder, Jab Jab
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thanking me for bringing Shashi Kapoor back in
public memory. The objective behind writing the
book was to familiarise people with his spectacular legacy of work, particularly the young generation. I hope I have attained that.
QIt’s still rarely known that he was the first
international star from India.
Oh yes, he indeed was.
QBut wasn’t it Himanshu Rai (the founder of
Bombay Talkies) in the 1920s?
Well, Himanshu Rai brought foreigners to India
to work on his productions. So they were international artistes working on Indian films. Shashi
Kapoor, on the other hand, did American films.
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simple story which essays the lives
of three women — Ava Berriden,
Indira Sharma and Sapana to address
complex issues of feminism, feminist
ideologies and the female condition in
Nepal. Ava is a Canadian-Nepali adopted by a rich philanthropic Canadian
dentist couple. Sapana inhabits the interiors of a Nepali village with dreams of
change and revolution. Indira, placed
between the ‘Canadian’ and the village
girl is the ‘modern’ woman — the deputy
co-director of WDS-Nepal.
The novel opens with Ava deliberating over her life as a lawyer in
Canada, Indira’s disappointment in living with ‘no joy, no refinement’…
‘merely eating the needful done’ and
Sapana’s insistence on making sure her
brother Gyanu comes home for the last
rites of their father. It advances by
employing the ripple effect philosophy
where the actions of one individual are
never her own. It is thus not merely
what an individual progresses with but
also what they discard, ‘the path not
taken’ which bears consequences on the
lives of others. Sapana wonders if ‘all
lives are a part of a whole’.
The effects and possibilities connected with individual actions, depicted by Thapa, bear resemblance to what
Jeanette Winterson’s postmodern novel
Sexing the Cherry affirms: ‘Every journey conceals another journey: The
path not taken and the forgotten angle’.
The journey which Ava embarks on
brings her to Nepal. It brings Indira in
touch with Ava and Sapana not only
becomes the beneficiary of what Indira
and Ava work towards through the
NGOs and CBOs but also an agent of
change by working at the micro level
to improve the condition of women in
her village. The plot ends just how it
begins, with each of these women in
their own lives again but transformed
by the moment where their lives coincide and they collaborate.
In Thapa’s novel, all three waves of
feminism find representation. Women
suffrage, equal sexual and reproductive
rights and traditionally established
phallocentrism, heteronormativity and
sexual liberty are addressed through
Ava, Indira, Maleah, Chandra, Surya
and Sapana. All the women in Thapa’s
novel, irrespective of their intellectual,
economic and social stature feel they
are ‘just women’. One might assume
that girls from the lower rung of the
social fabric like Sapana or Durga are
the ones most exploited, but even
Indira as a women occupying a posi-
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QBut Irrfan had already done New York, I Love
You where he was paired with Natalie Portman
and A Mighty Heart with Angelina Jolie…
Yes, but you see, Natalie and Irrfan’s film in the
anthology New York, I Love You was directed by
Mira Nair who had already directed him in The
Namesake. A Mighty Heart also happened around
the same time. So, I like how a Priyanka and an
Irrfan are maintaining themselves internationally.
Shashi Kapoor, on the other hand, did not have
these advantages.
QWhy do we not know of this then?
QYou have mentioned his initial struggle with
Back then, there was no social media; internet
was not an option. Simi Garewal’s nude scene in
Siddhartha was controversial in India and the
Indian censor board at that time did not allow it
to be shown. Besides, there was no trace of the
kind of publicity and promotional strategies that
are planned today. There were no DVDs too.
For this reason, I must say I appreciate how
Priyanka Chopra approaches showbiz. Be it her
stint with music or her Hollywood projects, she
always tweets or posts about what she did
throughout the day at the end of it. Irrfan Khan is
doing right too. From The Namesake or Slumdog
Millionaire to Life of Pi and Jurassic Park and The
Amazing Spiderman, that’s quite a feat. He’s now
English theatre. But eventually, he was more of
a theatre artiste than a film actor. How?
Yes, initially when he joined Jennifer’s father,
Geoffrey Kendal’s theatre group, Shakespeareana
Theatre Company, he had to struggle with the
Shakespearean phrases and their delivery. But he
soon learned the craft and later aced it. Once
when Shashi was backstage during a performance of Deewar at the Royal Opera House, he
caught a glimpse of Jennifer Kendal through the
curtains. It was love at first sight. When
Shakespeareana fell short of actors, Shashi was
aksed to join the team. Geoffrey Kendal apparently wrote to Prithviraj Kapoor to loan Shashi
to his company for a while. That is also how
Geoffrey was extremely possessive of his children,
particularly Jennifer, his star performer. In fact,
he’d also often ridicule Shashi and scorn his
accent. Jennifer and Shashi, on the other hand,
were underslept and underfed during their theatre
days. They would contemplate affording half a
parantha and would then see Geoffrey have a huge
meal with beer while they strolled on the streets!
So when Jennifer and Shashi left Shakespeareana,
it was the ultimate blow to Geoffrey.
But yes, he eventually reconciled with them
in 1960, when their son Kunal was born. In fact,
after watching Shakespeare Wallah, Geoffrey
wrote in a letter to younger daughter Felicity,
“He should go into films in English with foreign
directors who know how to exploit him.”
QThe initial years after separating from
Shakespeareana were difficult for the couple. Is
that how Shashi Kapoor turned to films?
Jennifer and Shashi were without money after
they got married. So he turned to acting in films
for financial security. In fact, he signed almost
every film that came his way. Coming from a
strong theatre background, he was also uncomfortable with many aspects of a movie. For
instance, he didn’t want to lip sync. But eventually went on to do several films, both petty and
sublime.
QWhat were Shashi Kapoor’s complexities?
I think it’s interesting how he was part of films
that were so progressive and others that were
absolutely regressive. Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Haseena
Maan Jayegi, Pyar Ka Mausam, were all different.
At the same time, Chor Machaye Shor was repulsively derogatory with its mishandling of rape.
And then it was the same man who also produced films like 36 Chowringhee Lane, Vijeta,
Utsav, Kalyug etc.
Also, what is fascinating about him was that
he was consistent. While Amitabh Bachchan had
his share of bad times and Rajesh Khanna saw a
remarkable rise and then a steep fall; Shashi
Kapoor always maintained a status quo.
QCan you think of more actors (and actresses)
like him?
I would say Shah Rukh Khan is one such selfmade person. Although Shashi was a Kapoor,
Prithviraj or Raj Kapoor never lobbied for him.
For Shah Rukh to reach such heights on his own
is remarkable.
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set out for the ‘daughter-in-law of a
Nepali household’y Muwa. Ava acts as
a counterfoil, a possibility of both what
could have been Ava’s life and what
should be the lives of Indira and
Sapana. Indira’s model of feminism
could be problematic for some readers
especially in instances where she tells
her daughter how men will be waiting
to marry her one day, or how she gets
Durga married when Durga utters that
she a life. Through Indira’s character,
Thapa does drive home the point of
living in a phallocentric universe but
Indira’s success being dependent on
failing a man, fails the struggle of her
character to be free. However, put into
the context of Nepal, with its ‘constitution’s privileging of the male bloodline
over the female’, one does empathise
with Indira and her anguish against
men becomes understandable.
The novel incorporates both the
beauty and filth of Nepal. There are the
Himalayas which invoke a sense of awe
in Ava and then there is Sapana’s village
where the life and condition of the
inhabitants leave her crestfallen. The
earthquake and its impact on human
life and condition strain the heart of
the reader. The social and economic
exclusion and backwardness are gut
wrenching and the earthquake only
catalyses the already crumbling lives
and homes of people crushing their
houses, quite literally. The inner workings of the aid work in Nepal are
insightful with the NGOs, their funding and the corruption involved in
training and utilising the aid granted
for philanthropic purposes brought to
the forefront by Thapa. The demand
for a democratic constitution and its
adoption amid much protest and rebel-
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back of the novel.
What drives Thapa’s text is its
female characters, but the male characters too are varied. Gyanu (Sapana’s
brother), Thulo Ba (the Chairman and
village patriarch), Luke (Ava’s brother),
Indira’s husband (Uday Sharma) and
her bosses are characters well crafted
and extremely pertinent to the representation of multifarious associations
between men and women which is
essential to intricacies of the plot.
Thapa gives her readers a lucid,
comprehensive and thoroughly
researched novel. Those not familiar
with the technicalities and jargon of the
corporate world might find the first few
pages somewhat tedious. It moves rather
slowly, where boards meetings and corporate dealings are concerned but paces
up by the time one reaches its first half.
Settled in Canada, originally form
Nepal, Thapa’s novel is rich and
refreshing to read in the day and age
where South Asian diasporic writing is
moving towards a certain form which
tends to be formulaic — tales of nostalgia, loss and a crisis of identity for
the immigrants settled abroad. Like in
her previous novels, Thapa seamlessly
brings together the personal and the
political with representation from
every world she has seen, known and
experienced. With its insights into the
condition of Nepal, the condition of
women and the functioning of institutions it indeed is a short but insightful
read about Nepal — one that entertains and also educates.
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n the day’s last light the glowing
lake below the palace-city looked
like a sea of molten gold. A traveller coming this way at sunset —
this traveller, coming this way, now,
along the lakeshore road-might
believe himself to be approaching
the throne of a monarch so
fabulously wealthy that he could
allow a portion of his treasure to be
poured into a giant hollow in the
earth to dazzle and awe his guests.
And as big as the lake of gold was, it
must only be a drop drawn from the
sea of the larger fortune...”
Thus began Salman Rushdie’s
tenth novel, The Enchantress of Florence (Random House), with the
arrival of Mogor dell’Amore
(Mughal of Love) at Fatehpur Sikri,
the red sandstone capital city of
Emperor Akbar. Mogor dell’Amore
is carrying with him a secret so
startling that, once told to the
emperor, it will force another secret
to come tumbling out of the royal
family’s musty cupboards stuffed
with nasty tales of gore and lofty
stories of Mughal glory, forcing
Akbar to order the redrawing of his
genealogical tree by the palace
artist, a brooding man given to
dark thoughts.
In this book Rushdie has tried
to recreate life in two cities separated by land and sea. There’s Fatehpur Sikri, where Akbar agonised
over faith, fidelity and filial loyalty
— when and how would Salim,
remarkably cruel as a young boy,
turn on him? — while unbridled
hedonism prevailed in the bed
chambers of princes, princesses and
others less privileged. Then there’s
Niccolo Machiavelli’s Florence
where seductive mistresses cast
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magical spells — tulips painted on
underclothes — and authority is
exercised through appalling torture
even as humanist philosophy
sprouts from its violence scorched
soil. What is common to both
places is the brutality of power.
Mogor dell’Amore, with his distinctive European features and yellow hair, gets to tell his secret to
Akbar after demonstrating his ‘magical powers’: He is the son of a
Mughal princess, the forgotten
youngest half-sister (the Mughal
court, let’s not forget, till it lasted,
was teeming with half-siblings, each
conspiring against the other) of
Babar, the grandfather of Akbar.
How Qara Koz (Lady Black Eyes)
becomes the mistress of Argalia, a
Florentine soldier of fortune, and the
rest of the tale is told in the manner
of The Thousand and One Nights.
But Rushdie, for all his efforts
to create magic through words —
“His hair was long and black as evil
and his lips were full and red as
blood”; “It was as if every man in
the city had turned werewolf and
was howling at the moon”; “So it
was that Shah Ismail of Persia
drowned in the 17-year-old
princess’s black eyes”; “She
unleashed the beauty she had kept
veiled and he was lost” — failed to
take his readers (or at least this
reader) on a magical mystery tour.
His first historical novel, woven
around romance and fantasy, heavily
researched (as the detailed bibliography shows) and strenuously crafted,
did not quite add weight to his
admirable repertoire of fiction.
Rushdie began to slip with The
Moor’s Last Sigh, and hasn’t quite
stopped sliding down the hill since
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satiated the mortal Akbar’s desire by
scratching him — “she was adept at
the seven types of unguiculation,
which is to say the art of using the
nails to enhance the act of love” — is
a pathetic parody of history. Was
there ever a Jodha Bai in Akbar’s
palace? “She existed,” writes Rushdie,
“She was immortal, because she had
been created by love.”
To his credit, though, Rushdie
stopped short of venerating Akbar,
and mocked at those who refer to
him as ‘Akbar the Great’, for that
would be tautology and utterly silly.
And when Akbar would say, “Allaho-Akbar”, as he did before chopping
off the “unnecessary head” of a
“pompous little twerp”, the Rana of
Cooch Naheen (that’s what Hindu
rulers, including in brave Rajputana
where tales of valour outnumber
the grains of the desert’s sand, had
allowed themselves to be reduced
to under Mughal tutelage) did he
mean “God is Great” or “God is
Akbar”? That’s a question nobody
would dare ask, for secular mythmaking has placed a glowing halo
around the head of Akbar, who in
real life was as great and merciful as
his god but of which little is mentioned in our history books.
In an interview to Reuters,
Rushdie said writing The
Enchantress of Florence “saved him
from the wreckage of his divorce
from fourth wife Padma Lakshmi”.
By spinning a yarn from palace
intrigue and bedroom politics, by
taking refuge in magical realism,
he managed to escape the real
world which, at that moment, had
turned cold to him.
“It was a good place to go at a
time when my private life was in a
state of wreckage, and yes it was, I
suppose, a bit of a refuge,” Rushdie
told Reuters. “I think in the end
what got me through it was the long
familiarity of the necessary discipline of writing a novel. I found that
in the end a lifetime’s habit of just
going to my desk and doing a day’s
work and not allowing myself not to
do it is what got me back on track. I
was derailed for a while. I was in
bad shape and it brought me back to
myself,” the writer explained.
While that cathartic experience
may have helped him survive a personal crisis, it did not really produce
a book that’s worth comparing to
his early novels. But then, it does
provide a glimpse of what life may
have been like within the walls of
Akbar’s city where charlatans and
philanderers, flatterers and chatterers, connived and plotted as a
Mughal megalomaniac, not quite
sure of his faith as also that of others — “In the melancholy after battle, as evening fell upon the empty
dead, below the broken fortress
melting into blood, within earshot
of a little waterfall's nightingale
song... the emperor in his brocade
tent sipped watered wine and
lamented his gory genealogy... He
was not only a barbarian philosopher and a crybaby killer, but an
egotist addicted to obsequuiousness
and sycophancy... He felt burdened
by the names of the marauders past,
the names from which his name
descended in cascades of human
blood”, presided over the destiny of
Hindustan. As for life in Florence,
we will leave that for another day.
(The writer is a current affairs
analyst based in NCR)
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasgupta’s column,
Usual Suspects, published
on May 29:
The election race: Even if
the BJP trudges along as it
is doing, and be blessed
with a good monsoon this
year alongwith a low price
of oil, it will remain in
power at the Center in 2019.
However, if the banks are
cleaned up and the economy begins to
recover, the BJP’s victory in
2019 is guaranteed.
Bihar Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar is the only
possible challenger to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
because the former is ambitious as well as smart and
unprincipled enough to
look like he is principled.
Nitish can hurt Modi.
But can he defeat the Prime
Minister in the 2019 election? This is very doubtful.
Jackxon
Hypocritical debate: For a
third front to emerge victorious, there has to be a
strong revulsion against a
party/coalition that is in
power. Will the voters vote
for just any alternative to the
BJP? The writer has rightly
adviced West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee
to focus on her State.
As for Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar, the
jungle raj is back in Bihar
and is fast catching up his
national ambitions.
Aam Aadmi Party chief
Arvind Kejriwal has been
unable to manage his chief
ministerial post. So, it is
likely that the BJP will win
the 2019 election.
Jitendra
Changing politics: Bihar
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
is an opportunist who has no
principles of his own. First,
he betrayed the Bharatiya
Janata Party and then Dalit
leader Jitan Ram Manjhi.
Moreover, his party has no
presence in any other State
except Bihar.
As for West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee,
she won the Assembly election by appeasing the
minorities. Moreover, industrialists are fleeing Bihar and
West Bengal, reason,
increased cases of harrassement, violence etc.
The khichdi coalition of
regional parties and comminists are supporters, worshipers and backers of the
Congress. However, the voters are no fools, they are
educated and cannot even be
fooled by the media.
Premolal
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Reader response to
Shivaji Sarkar’s guest
column, published on
March 8:
Overcoming hurdles: I do
not agree with the writer’s
hypothesis. First, devaluation
of the rupee vis-à-vis the dollar only gave export competitiveness a fighting chance,
and it was not artificially
done, as was the case with
the Chinese yuan.
India is underdeveloped
as compared to the US and
Europe, and is gradually being
transformed from primarily
agricultural economy to an
industrial one. We lag behind
in terms of technology and
consequently, the quality of
products we produce.
Our produce, the artisinal and low value-addition
kind, found a ready market
in the developed world only
because of huge price differential which also incentivised
our exporters and added the
dimension of import substitution to our industry as an
attractive option.
Exchange rates are great
equalisers and now with
increasing exports and
investment, it will naturally
follow the development
curve to make the Indian
currency appreciate.
Second, the problem is
not diesel as much as it is
about the huge subsidy given
to the polluting fuel that has
led to irrational exuberance
in it’s consumption. There is
no qualms if it was following
the polluter pays principle in
it’s pricing and it wasn’t
cross-subsidised from petrol
which is at least six to seven
times cleaner, apart from the
cost to the exchequer in
terms of artificially keeping
it’s price low on the pretext
that it is used by poor transporters and agriculture sector, when actually the rich
are using it to run their huge,
costly, powerful over two
litre engine capacity vehicles,
and their personal generator
sets during power cuts.
Moreover, private car
manufacturers are selling
vehicles like hot cakes, earning thousands of crores of
rupees because the lure of
cheap fuel has given a huge
fillip to their sale causing traffic congestion and pollution.
Even now, the Modi
Government has not been able
to make the fuels cost the
same, as it is in other developing countries. So, the consumption of diesel fuel is not a
silly pretext and making it cost
as much as the cleaner fuel
will go a long way towards
environment protection.
Ashish Rai
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is planning another chintan
shivir this month. Though the
venue has not been decided,
there are speculations that it
will be held in one of the Congress-ruled
States ie Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand
or Karnataka. Before that, a CWC meeting will be organised to reach consensus
on Rahul Gandhi’s promotion to the post
of party President as well as for finalising
the agenda of the chintan shivir.
Before the meeting, Congress leaders
have started a campaign for Rahul. After
Kamal Nath and Kumari Selja, now Capt
Amarinder Singh has put demands to
promote Rahul, which is strange since
just before May 19, ie before the results
of five States were announced, the
Captain was speaking in favour of Sonia
Gandhi. He had said that Sonia should
leave the post only when she would be
tired. Now, he is saying that Sonia is 70
years old and must have tired so Rahul
should take command.
However, sources say that leaders
close to Sonia want her to lead and that
there must be a superstructure in the
Congress. But probably Sonia would not
be ready for that.
Congress has joined the bandwagon. This
year, in the biennial elections of Rajya
Sabha, the Congress is sending three
advocates. Sibal, who is looking after the
legal battles of the party as well as Sonia
and Rahul, will now represent UP.
Chidambaram will represent
Maharashtra and Tankha will represent
Madhya Pradesh. The Congress had earlier sent a big advocate, Anand Sharma,
to Rajya Sabha. Abhishek Manu Singhvi
is already there. After all, the party will
need experienced lawyers in the National
Herald and AgustaWestland cases.
In the same manner, Lalu Prasad
Yadav, who had been convicted in the
fodder scam, has sent Ram Jethmalani to
Rajya Sabha. Ezaz Ahmed, a leader of
RJD, was so annoyed with this move that
he openly posed this question to Lalu:
“Has Jethmalani promised to get relief
for him in the fodder scam?”
Mayawati has also sent her lawyer
Satish Sharma to Rajya Sabha for the
third consecutive term. Samajwadi Party
has not sent any big lawyer to Rajya
Sabha, but a party leader says Amar
Singh is sufficient from all aspects.
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disability helped me know a
lot about a domain which
otherwise I had little knowledge
of. Going to the field presented
before me an opportunity to get
acquainted with the state of
affairs of disability in our country,
which of course, was alarming.
My journey as a researcher in
this field has just begun and during the previous few months, I
have made a number of observations about this issue. I see different fragments of reality from the
groups, the stakeholders, and the
laymen. My standpoint as a
researcher is strongly rooted in
voicing the experiences and lived
realities of persons with disabilities
(PwDs). I take this as an opportunity to present some glimpses of
reality in the lives of PwDs, by
voicing their concerns through
some interview excerpts, my own
observations and reviewing what
others who empathise with this
issue have to say on it. My field site
is the city of Kanpur, UP.
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In a report by the World Health
Organization (WHO), it was estimated that in the year 2011, 15.3
per cent of the world’s population
dealt with disability of one kind or
the other. According to the latest
Census compiled in 2011, there
are about 26.8 million PwDs in
India, which is approximately 2.4
per cent of the population. The
2011 Census puts India’s disabled
at 2.21 per cent of the population.
The obsession with ‘normality’, the binary construction of
‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ and lack
of an acknowledgement of diversity in human beings led to inhumane treatment of people who
are differently abled. Such a viewpoint is further fueled by an age
where ‘perfect flawless bodies’
dominate the popular social discourse and ‘able bodies’ dominate
the economic front. This has led
to dehumanisation against people
who do not fit in these definitions
— PwDs being one such category.
because KP Maurya has been made
party President, a Brahmin face can also
be projected as CM candidate of the
party. While the names of Kalyan Singh
and Smriti Irani are doing the rounds,
some BJP leaders feel that almost 13 per
cent of Brahmin voters have not decided
anything yet and if a Brahmin face is
projected, they might come into the BJP
fold. That is perhaps why the BJP has
given the Rajya Sabha seat from UP to
Shiv Pratap Shukla.
However, this can’t be denied that
Mahesh Sharma is the most active face
among Brahmins. He also looks after the
work at the Prime Minister’s parliamentary constituency. Sources say if the party
thinks about projecting a Brahmin face,
he will be first in the race. Apart from
him, the national Vice-President of the
party, Dinesh Sharma, is also active.
Central Minister Kalraj Mishra has
also been spending more and more time
in Lucknow. His supporters say if the
name of Kalyan Singh can be discussed,
then the party should also think about
Kalraj as he is younger than Kalyan.
Before Shukla’s name was announced
for Rajya Sabha, the BJP’s media in-charge
Shrikant Sharma was also very active.
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he BJP seems to have kept the caste
equation in mind while finalising
the names for Rajya Sabha. In UP, there
is a need for Brahmin votes and polarisation of Hindu votes, so Mukhtar
Abbas Naqvi was sent to Jharkhand
where elections will be held after three
and a half years. In the same manner,
MJ Akbar was sent to Madhya Pradesh
from Jharkhand. From MP, Najma
Heptulla is the Rajya Sabha member
and her tenure will end in 2018, just
before the Assembly Elections.
In the same manner, the BJP has hit
the bull’s eye in giving a ticket to Vikas
Mahatme. He belongs to Dhangar caste,
for which Sharad Pawar had demanded
reservation. In Rajasthan, the BJP sent an
outsider, Venkaiah Naidu, but also kept
the equation in mind while finalising
names of the other three candidates. At
the same time, the BJP also kept
Vasundhara Raje in the loop. In Rajasthan,
the BJP has fielded a second candidate and
has tried to reap the benefit of contradiction of opponents. Now, it will be a com-
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Rajya Sabha candidates after giving
proper consideration to political and
caste equations and the strength of the
Opposition, the Congress has only considered loyalty to the Gandhi family.
Some of the names have even been
finalised under compulsion. For example, some of the Congress leaders are not
able to understand the logic behind Kapil
Sibal’s candidature from UP.
Next year, Assembly Elections are
scheduled in UP, and before that the
Congress has sent Sibal to Rajya Sabha.
The Congress was supposed to play the
Brahmin, Dalit and Muslim card. It is
said that strategist of the party, Prashant
Kishor, was not in favour of giving Rajya
Sabha tickets to any outsider, but
nobody paid heed to him.
The Congress was only calculative for
Uttarakhand, where Assembly polls will be
held next year, and gave a ticket to Pradeep
Tamta, a Dalit candidate. In the same manner, the Congress was compelled to give a
ticket to P Chidambaram. The party has
many spokespersons and almost all
senior leaders in Rajya Sabha. Despite
that if Chidambaram has been sent there,
it only shows the legal compulsions of
Sonia and Rahul. In fact, three lawyers —
Chidambaram, Sibal and Vivek Tankha —
have been sent to RS under this strategy.
From Karnataka, Oscar Fernandes has
been sent to Rajya Sabha as he is loyal to
the Gandhis. He always takes forward the
interests of the family on every platform.
Ambika Soni, another loyalist, has been
sent to Rajya Sabha from Punjab. One
experiment has been done in Chhattisgarh
but seemingly it is of no use. Lightweight
Chhaya Verma was given a ticket in place
of Mohsina Kidwai and State President
Bhupesh Baghel was behind this.
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arlier, regional stalwarts who were
stuck in legal battles would send big
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lawyers to Rajya Sabha. The same is happening now too, and this time, the
ticket announcement. After they nominated Pradeep Tamta from Uttarakhand
and Chhaya Verma from Chhattisgarh,
all is not well in the party.
In Chhattisgarh, Baghel was at loggerheads with Ajit Jogi and all other
leaders were supporting Baghel with a
motive to get rid of Jogi. But as soon as
Baghel became adamant about sending
Chhaya to Rajya Sabha, all leaders
turned hostile towards him. Now, people
are saying that many opponents of Jogi
can go with him and create problems for
Baghel. Many leaders had camped in
Delhi to put pressure to change the candidature of Chhaya, but Sonia and Rahul
didn’t pay much attention to them.
On the other hand, Rawat’s supporters say he has strengthened his position
by sending his close associate Tamta to
Rajya Sabha. Tamta is a Dalit and will
play a big role in the Assembly Elections.
But sources say the party is not in a very
strong position after Vijay Bahuguna and
Harak Singh Rawat left it, so Rawat
could have strengthened his position by
sending a strong leader to Rajya Sabha.
He should have sent a leader who could
have saved him in the State from the
attacks of the Opposition and would
lobby for him in Delhi. Tamta would be
incapable to doing this for him.
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A complicated web of negative attitudes and cultural discourses and discrimination in the
form of environmental barriers,
inefficient policies, stagnant laws,
systemic challenges results in
economic marginalisation and
social exclusion, thereby further
disadvantaging PwDs.
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Speaking about loco motor disability, accessibility is an important problem hampering this particular section from participating
as social and economic members
of society. This inability is aggravated by environmental and attitudinal barriers. In India, accessibility becomes an important issue
as the basic disabled-friendly
transportation facilities for the
PwDs are limited and the architectural barriers exempt them further from engaging with society in
a more meaningful way.
My interactions with many
persons with physical disability
have helped me know how lack
of accessible buildings exempts
them from basic rights, needs
and services. I am tempted to
mention an instance of gross
negligence on the part of the system engaged in working for this
particular group.
For instance, every
Wednesday, there is a special
arrangement for issuing disability
certificates for such persons at a
Government hospital (the State
disability centre where certificates
are made) in Kanpur. As I went
there to observe and interact, I
was baffled to see the circum-
stances. There is a small wing
with two small rooms for the service providers and a small hall for
people to sit as they wait for their
turn. At least 200-250 people
gather there every Wednesday
and the room is just not sufficient
to accommodate all. Even for submitting their application forms,
there is a small window and
PwDs have to struggle a lot to
make their way through it.
Some PwDs were lucky
enough to get a seat, while others
stand outside, some with one leg,
others with crutches, and also others who crawl their way to get
inside. Some came with a family
member or a friend, while those
who came all by themselves were
the ones who faced the most
hardships. And of course, each
person’s entry to the main chamber, which is where the team of
doctors evaluate and declare their
eligibility for a disability certificate
is intervened by a “group of staff ”,
which as per my observation were
the real deciders of who makes it
first to the room. The application
forms were in English and since
many of the PwDs were either
from nearby villages and low
socio-economic background, they
were unable to read, confused and
thus helpless. Due to unavailability of any help, each one was trying
the best to help the other. I
remember filling up a lot of forms
for them eventually. Interacting
with them I realised, how unaware
they were of their basic rights, the
facilities and Government
schemes that are there for them.
The gloomy reality of the struggle
of PwDs to get their basic right is
because of systemic challenges
and apathy of the masses.
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The Government has launched a
number of schemes for them, but
most of them do not reach them
and even if they manage to gather information about those
schemes, there is a long toil of
struggle, inaccessibility and callous attitude of people around
which comes in their way to get
these services.
As during one of my interactions with PwDs, an amputee
exclaimed how travelling in
trains was an arduous task
because of the general apathy of
the masses. He said: “The
coaches for PwDs are always
full with ‘normal’ people and
they refuse to give us seats; it
becomes a painful experience
when you have stand on one leg
for a long journey.”
This issue becomes complicat-
ed as service providers themselves
complain of inadequate resources
to perform efficiently, the PwDs
struggle with challenges in every
sphere of life to get their basic
rights and meanwhile the laymen’s apathetic responses which
further adds to it. One can always
turn a blind eye to it by blaming it
on the system.
However, it is important we
change our thinking and bring
about attitude changes by being
more open to human diversity and
embracing it. Another differently
abled person had something really
meaningful to say. He said, “The
usage of one word or the other for
us does not really make a difference, it is the intention and attitude which matters; we want to be
accepted for who we are, is it too
much to ask for?”
The least we can do to fight
this inaccessibility and exclusion is
by being sensitive to people around
us whose needs are a little different
from ours. It is time we paused,
reflected and tried to meaningfully
touch the lives of people by being
the way one would want other persons to be towards them and
which is something that every
human being deserves, that is,
respect and dignity.
I would quote a few powerful
lines by a 28-year-old who lost
his right leg in an accident and is
now fighting against all odds
with his strong will power: “No
individual with disability wants out
and out support and care, all they
seek is a little respect for themselves
and an opportunity to prove themselves. We can certainly work hard
and contribute to society for we
have a strong will power than any of
the ‘normal’ people around, however we do need an accessible society
for that to happen.”
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Referring to the context of my
field site, it is important to realise
that urban and non-urban realities are different and this holds
true for PwDs and their needs.
This becomes all the more crucial
as the percentage of disability in
rural India is more than that in
urban regions. Spreading awareness about their basic rights, disability legislation and the different Government schemes is of
utmost importance as most people are not even aware of these.
Together with this, it is essential to monitor the disability certificate obtaining process, as this
certificate opens up an access to a
better living for the PwDs. One
might always question the viability of such a certificate as the percentage of disability mentioned
in it becomes a deciding factor
for being recognised as a PwD
and get access to the basic facilities thereafter.
The reality as mentioned
above portrays a state of affairs
where PwDs are often at the
mercy of the State and its authorities for getting disability certification and thereby get assistance in
the form of free mobility aids,
transport passes etc. The State disability offices (where certification
and other documents are made)
should be made more accessible
and disabled friendly as they
clearly become the epitome of the
actual lived reality of PwDs.
Also, such offices should
cater to people’s confusions
about their basic rights and services by spreading awareness
about the same. The authorities
in charge should be accountable,
better informed and treat it as
the basic right of PwDs and not
as a favour endowed on them.
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he actor chosen to play the next
James Bond will be an unexpected candidate, the franchise’s outgoing director has said, suggesting
favourite Tom Hiddleston may not
land the 007 role.
British filmmaker Sam Mendes
said the choice for the next star of the
hugely successful franchise lies solely
with producer Barbara Broccoli. He
also confirmed he will not be returning to direct the next film, saying he is
ready to work on something new.
Speaking at the Hay festival,
Mendes, who directed Skyfall and
Spectre, said: “I’m a storyteller and at
the end of the day I want to make stories with new characters.”
He said he had loved the “incredible adventure” of working on Bond,
but that he thought it was “time for
somebody else to do a great job”.
Speculation is rife as to which
actor will next step into the spy’s
impeccably polished shoes to replace
Daniel Craig 10 years after he first
took the helm with Casino Royale.
Tom Hiddleston, Aidan Turner, Idris
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Elba, Damian Lewis and most recently
Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell have all been
touted as possible 007s.
Bookmakers recently suspended
betting on Hiddleston landing the
gig, after the star of the BBC’s hit
series The Night Manager was pictured meeting with executives linked
to the Bond franchise. Mendes said
the director and lead role were likely
to be unexpected.
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scar winner Colin Firth is
reportedly to star in the submarine disaster movie Kursk
for Far from the Madding Crowd’s
Thomas Vinterberg, Variety reports.
Based on Robert Moore’s 2002
book A Time to Die: The Untold
Story of the Kursk Tragedy, the film is
being produced by France’s
EuropaCorp. Kursk may be a more
cerebral creature than the Luc
Besson-owned studio’s usual staple
of exploitation-tinged action movies,
including Taken.
A Time to Die details events that
took place in 2000 in the Barents Sea
in the Arctic Circle. Captain Gennady
Lyachin was engaged in a torpedo
exercise on board the submarine K141 Kursk, called “the pride of the
Russian navy”, when the missile
exploded, instantly killing seven men
in the ship’s forward compartment
and leaving the other 111 crew members’ lives in danger.
The movie will tell the story of the
battle for survival on board the submarine and the desperate efforts of
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n the opening page of her new
book, Quiet Power, author Susan
Cain is introduced as someone
who “prefers listening to talking,
reading to socialising, and cosy
chats to group settings”. Yet Susan’s first
book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a
World That Won’t Stop Talking, became a
New York Times bestseller, with more
than two million copies sold.
Her TED talk on the same subject
has been viewed more than 13 million
times, making it one of the most popular
talks on the site. All of which proves
Susan’s theory that introverts can have
huge amounts of often untapped talent —
because their quiet natures are undervalued, overlooked or wasted by a society
geared towards extroverts.
Introverts, says Susan, are underestimated from early on in life: “From parents
telling their child to join in at a party, to
them being graded on class participation,
which happens in the US, the message is
clear.” In fact, Susan’s own childhood —
and the reaction to her first book — are the
reasons she wrote her second, which aims
to help introverted children and their parents. “When I was a child, I was very conscious of being shyer than my peers and
more reflective,” she says. “I was asked why
I was so quiet by friends and teachers, who
said I should speak up more. I also loved to
read. Especially stories involving quiet children like me who went off and had adventures. All the traits of an introvert.
“But despite the fact I got signals
from those around me that I wasn’t supposed to be this way [in her book she
talks about going to summer camp aged
nine and being made to feel self-conscious for reading rather than ‘joining
in’], I grew up in a very scholarly family
where it was fine to be me.”
In fact, as she got older, Susan
realised that many of her introverted
traits — being a good listener, thinking
before acting, forming close, loyal relationships, enjoying time alone (she says
great ideas spring from solitude) and a
calm approach to tense situations —
were pretty powerful.
In other words, introverts can be successful because of, rather than in spite of,
their quiet nature. And Susan, now 48
and living near to New York City with
her husband and two sons, certainly
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became successful. After graduating from
Princeton University she attended
Harvard Law School and became a Wall
Street lawyer, before giving it up to
become a writer. It was during this time
that she became interested in the psychology of human nature and published
her first book about introverts in 2012.
So, what is her definition of an introvert? “It’s to do with where you get your
energy from,” she explains. “If you’re an
introvert you get your energy from quieter settings, have two or three close
friends rather than lots of acquaintances,
spend a lot of time “in your own head”
and probably don’t enjoy small talk. “You
enjoy the company of others but also
need time alone. If you’re an extrovert,
the opposite is true and you get your
energy from busy, chaotic settings.”
Susan says that introverts aren’t necessarily shy (although they can be). A shy
person may be nervous of speaking up in
a meeting in case they get something
wrong, whereas an introverted person
may know what to say but is happier listening and observing. She adds that
many introverts appear socially confident
and are professionally successful, but still
have insecurities: “After my first book
came out and I did the TED talk, I
became this great confessor for successful
introverts. People started telling me how
they truly felt. Many CEOs and actors
admitted they were putting on a front in
their professional or social lives, but
underneath they had insecurities.
“One time, I interviewed the leader
of a large bank in New York. He was tall,
athletic, with a firm gaze — all markers
of confidence. But he told me he felt shy
in certain situations. Such experiences
make me see there is fragility in the
unlikeliest of people.”
After the TED talk, Susan founded
Quiet Revolution, a mission-based organisation focused on schools and workplaces — two places she says have long
been designed with extroverts in mind.
Its aim is to raise awareness and introduce initiatives aimed at harnessing the
talent of introverts.
Susan says certain industries — like
banking and PR — have typically valued
extroverts, but hopes this will soon
change. This issue, she argues, usually
starts within the family, then moves out
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to school and then into society and the
workplace. “In some families, the quiet,
thoughtful child who loves to read is the
ideal child. In other families, that child
wouldn’t be considered outgoing, boisterous or confident enough.
“Gender plays a role, too, but it can
get confusing. On one hand, women have
more cultural permission to be quiet
(especially in childhood) but on the other
they’re supposed to be socially vivacious
and great hosts. Men are given the societal message to be alpha and authoritative, yet in a way introverted men have an
easier time of it because society automatically grants them that authority.”
Traditionally the British, with our
stereotypical ‘stiff upper lip’, have been
allowed to be introverted in a way that
Americans haven’t, according to Susan. “I
used to read British books for kids, like
Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, which
feature an American character who was
loud, enthusiastic and everything she said
was in capital letters with exclamation
marks. There’s perhaps more expectation
on Americans to be extroverts. “However,
American leaders — and self-confessed
introverts — like Bill Gates and Mark
Zuckerberg are changing this view.
“My company is doing lots of work
with large organisations to help them
harness the power of introverts in their
workforce. They’re really beginning to
understand there are two common and
valid ways of being — introverted and
extroverted — and both have strengths
that will help a business.”
Susan wrote Quiet Power after a huge
number of adult readers of her first book
told her they were still carrying around
scars from childhood, after being told
they should be more like their outgoing
sister, speak up more in class or join in.
“And this message was being delivered by
the people they loved most in life. Others
said they wished the book had been
around when they were raising introverted children. For years society has
drummed in the message that to be
happy, you should spend your time in
highly social ways. But why? There are
great strengths to being introverted,” continues Susan. Or to borrow a quote from
Gandhi, as Susan did in her book: “In a
gentle way you can shake the world.”
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the crew’s families to persuade authorities to mount a rescue effort.
The Danish film-maker
Vinterberg, known for his part in
forming the rules of the Dogme 95
movement alongside Lars von Trier,
has recruited his Far from the
Madding Crowd star Matthias
Schoenaerts to join the cast. It’s not
known whether Firth or Schoenaerts
will play Lyachin.
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krillex has responded to a lawsuit
filed by the artiste Casey Dienel
which claims he and Justin Bieber
stole a loop from the vocalist’s song to
use as part of their 2015 single, Sorry.
“SORRY but we didn’t steal this,”
Skrillex tweeted, adding a video which
showed how the section of the song
was produced. Bieber retweeted him,
adding the hashtag “#wedontsteal”.
Dienel, also known as White
Hinterland, claims the pair used her
vocal loop without permission on their
No1 track. The clip in question is used
repeatedly through her 2014 song Ring
the Bell, and she reportedly claims that
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the “unique characteristics of the
female vocal riff ” have been copied.
When asked about the case, US DJ
Diplo, who worked with Bieber and
Skrillex on the Jack Ü project, told
TMZ: “I thought they sampled it, but I
thought they cleared it. I’m sure
they’ll work out a deal with her. They
don’t want to go to court with it.”
Sorry was instrumental in
launching the credible comeback of
Bieber, topping the charts in countries including the US and the UK. It
has been streamed more than 6.5m
times on Spotify, while Ring the Bell
has racked up 500,000.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican reports
that people are expected to gather this
Saturday for ‘Fennboree’ and a screening of the documentary, Fenn’s
Searchers.
The annual gathering is
inspired by author
Forrest Fenn, who stated in his 2010 memoir
that he had hidden a
chest containing nearly
$2 million in coins.
The treasure has
drawn interest for
years. Randy Bilyeu, of
Colorado, disappeared in
January after telling family he planned
to search for it.
Some critics have said the search
should be stopped because of the
dangerous terrain.
Organisers of ‘Fennboree’ say
they will honor Bilyeu with a moment
of silence.
in Boston Harbor. The Majesty, a
Boston Harbor Cruises vessel, became
stuck around 7 pm last Saturday.
There were 152 people aboard,
including 137 passengers. No
one was injured.
A Boston Harbor Cruises
spokeswoman told The
Boston Globe that all passengers were safely transferred to the Asteria,
another Boston Harbor
Cruises vessel.
Coast Guard Petty
Officer Andrew Barresi
says five boats operated by
the Coast Guard, state
police, state environmental
police and the Massachusetts
Port Authority helped transfer
the passengers. It’s unclear why
the ship grounded. There’s no
word on whether the couple
tied the knot later on dry land.
glasses on the gallery floor. TJ Khayatan
shared photos of the prank to his
Twitter page showing groups of patrons
observing the glasses while some even
photographed them.
Khayatan told Buzzfeed that he and his
friends came up with the idea after observing one piece on display in the museum
that they found puzzling. “We stumbled
upon a stuffed animal on a gray blanket
and questioned if this was really impressive
to some of the nearby people,” he said.
The group then decided to leave the
glasses on the floor and watched as several visitors gathered around to observe
the “art”. Khayatan was surprised by
both the reaction to the prank and its
viral success, but said that his group
generally enjoyed the museum’s exhibits.
“Some may interpret it as a joke,
some might find great spiritual meaning
in it. At the end of the day, I see it as a
pleasure for open-minded people and
imaginative minds,” he said.
Amsterdam while dressed in formal
wear. Casey Neistat shared a video of
himself traversing Amsterdam’s canal
systems while wearing a full tuxedo.
Neistat was propelled by a jet ski
throughout the water channels as he
and members of his crew noted the
freezing temperatures of the water. He
fell into the water several times but was
equipped with both a wet suit and a life
vest underneath his tuxedo as shown in
his behind-the-scenes video. After completing the trip, Neistat was met by The
Next Web CEO Boris Veldhuijzen van
Zanten, whose company was holding its
annual The Next Web Conference.
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beyond amazing,”
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saw it was yesterday. I
never realised it was so
big. I was amazed at the
craftsmanship.”
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our baba — have you been in Wales for
any reason around 10 months ago?”
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baby as his, Ramsay replied, “Yes about
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Sun, adding: “I feel sorry for the baby.”
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Show, Ramsay simply wrote, “Poor kid.”
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oday is the World Environment Day. Well, yet
another environment day because it has been a
few decades since we have been shouting environment-environment even as temperatures rise, monsoons
go astray and catastrophes with fanciful names keep
striking mankind, year after year.
With one trend, though. Their frequency is rising.
So things have hardly changed. Yes, there is more
awareness about the threat environment degradation is
posing to mankind. Yes, there are events being organised to promote environment consciousness. And yes,
more and more people are talking about their concern
for environment. But is anybody listening? This perhaps is the biggest issue.
There are distinct lobbies. From green technologists,
to green crusaders to green businessmen. But the objective still eludes as global warming continues to increase
and the warning is loud and clear — the efforts are too
little and much more is needed. We are experiencing a
planetary emergency with the fever of the earth continuously rising. Ambient air quality tells that the suspended
particulate matter is reaching danger levels in more and
more cities. The groundwater is receding and is reaching
vanishing point. The soil quality is becoming more and
more alkaline. The forests are getting denuded and the
rivers are gradually disappearing.
But what is mankind doing? Organising meets to
think what to do and there are as many views as the
number of people. All this may sound pessimistic and
cynical but can we afford to be optimistic when with
each passing year there is more and more disheartening news? Striking a cautionary note may well be in
order and timely when despite so much environmentalism and environmentalists, the quality of environment fails to pick up.
Hard statistics suggest that summers are getting
warmer and longer with every passing year. In fact, we
are slowly approaching the threshold after which catastrophes will sweep civilisations. Awareness time is
over and enough warning has been sounded. It is time
to act, and act fast. What needs to be done may not be
a difficult question to answer if we realise just one
basic truth that the state of the environment is more a
matter of ethics and morality than science and technology; law and governance.
The fault lines can be seen in the consumption pattern and lifestyle changes that the rise in vulgar consumerism has brought about in society. Marketers and
manufacturers on one hand, and poverty and misery one
the other are both contributing towards environment
degradation. Greed of the rich and need of the poor have
made strange bedfellows in creating environmental mess
in a developing, nay, fast-developing country like India.
Solution lies in changing the ways of life that is the
consumption pattern. The kind of food that is wasted by
passengers travelling in the elite express trains like
Rajdhanis and Shatabdis may well be an eye-opener as to
where we are going wrong. The volume of water that those
RO purifiers waste is yet another pointer. To make one
glass of water families that have installed the ROs spill
three glasses. Petro fuel wastage and electric energy misuse
are a massive drain on our scarce resources. More than the
technologies it is our thinking that needs to change.
Global warming may not be clearly observable by individuals in their lifetime, but in the context of the earth it is
actually happening very fast.We need to act faster!
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soul is sent to a
life in the human
body for a certain
period of time.
When the soul
inhabits a body, the soul is
still a part of God and is still
one with God. The soul,
however, is now overpowered
by powerful forces, such as
the mind, the body and the
outer world, which cause the
soul, over time, to forget
itself. The soul slowly begins
to identify itself with the
body and mind and world
outside. It suddenly begins to
think that it can only receive
information from the outer
world through the senses.
Thus the soul has become
attuned to only one channel —
the channel of the world. If we
think about our life as watching a television programme,
we have multiple choices as to
what to watch. Just as there are
a dozen network stations and
then dozens if not hundreds of
cable stations from which to
choose, so, too, there are many
activities in this world that we
can engage in.
Now, let us take a look at
the other choices available to
us. This physical planet is not a
separate offshoot from all of
creation and God. Most religions believe that there are
higher regions or existence to
which the soul goes after it
dies. Scientists and doctors
have tried to verify this by
documenting accounts of people who were declared clinically dead but had near-death
experiences and described
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something beyond this world.
The question is, where are
these realms? They are not
zones in outer space delineated
by borders. All these realms
exist concurrently with this
one. The reason we are not
aware of them is because they
operate on a different frequency or vibration.
The saints and mystics tell
us that we have the choice to
either stay tuned to this physical world, or to tune into the
channels of God. God wants
us to watch his programming.
God is available 24 hours of
the day, 365 days of a year.
God’s programming does not
turn off at 3 am like some networks do. It is a free station
broadcasting all the time
without any cable fees. We
only need to know how to
tune into God’s station.
The hook-up to God is
not hard. It is just a matter of
making the choice that this is
what we want to do. The steps
to do this are very simple.
Step one is to stop identifying
with the body, mind, and
world outside, and identify
with the soul. Step two
requires that when we identify
with our soul that we shift our
attention to the frequency or
the higher realms and ultimately to God. That is all we
must do. God did not make it
hard for us to become aware
of our true home. It is we who
have made it complicated.
So how do we accomplish step one and two? To
accomplish step one, we
must withdraw our attention
here will be less suffering in the world if we have
a greater percentage of spiritual mentors amongst
us. Who do I call a spiritual mentor? These are
some of the qualities such a person must possess. First
and foremost is sufficient knowledge of spiritual science. Next, he should be able to explain it to others and
remove their doubts. He should be in a mood of disseminating such knowledge. Rather he must love doing
so because he does not wish to leave his body without
sharing with others; he is not miserly about it.
The third requirement is that he must be a practitioner of whatever he is preaching, and must show by
his own example that spiritual knowledge is practical
and not just theories or blind faith. He should never
claim to be God; it is difficult enough for a common
man to have faith in the real God; he only makes it
difficult for people to develop faith in God. Such a
person should not make false promises in the name
of God; his job is just to make people aware of the
spiritual reality.
Why have I avoided the term spiritual master,
which is commonly used? This is because people get
confused about what the word master means. It is
open to misinterpretation. The real meaning in this
context is master of spirituality, and not a master of a
person. The Sanskrit word ‘guru’ is much better
because it cannot be misinterpreted. It only means:
One who teaches. There is nothing like someone
becoming someone’s master.
Such a teacher should not claim to have some
kind of special privilege, the kind feudal masters
exercised over their bonded labourers. Such a person
should allow others to keep their independence of
thought and action. The Bhagavad Gita guides per-
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from our body, mind, and
the world outside. We must
decide to turn off the outer
programming. When that
programming is in the off
mode, then in the silence we
will experience ourselves as
soul. That is the step that we
call self-knowledge.
Once we identify with the
soul, we will be able to pick up
frequencies that the soul is
capable of receiving. We can
do a gradual shift in which we
go from the consciousness of
one region to consciousness of
the spiritual realms.
Once someone asked one
of the greatest saints of the past
century, Hazur Baba Sawan
Singh Ji Maharaj, how long it
took to get from the physical
region to the highest spiritual
region. Hazur closed his eyes
and opened them. He told
them, “I have just been there
and back.” He was showing
that the shift of attention could
be done in the blink of an eye.
Why? Because we are not
going anywhere physically, we
are merely shifting our attention from one state of consciousness to the other. The
other state of consciousness
does not exist in time or space.
They are operating concurrently. We are simultaneously
in the other realms and with
God at the same time but we
are not aware of it because our
attention is only focused on
one region — the physical.
So, for step one, if we
meditate accurately we will
experience ourselves as soul.
Once we identify with the
soul, then we will also be
aware of the inner light and
sound that is the radiance
and vibratory sound of God
within us. If we absorb ourselves in the light and sound
within, we can then attain
step two. We can shift our
attention into the light and
sound, which attracts our
soul to higher levels of vibration. The light and sound
function at different vibratory
rates in different regions.
As we shift our attention,
we find ourselves conscious of
being in different regions.
Ultimately, the light and
sound function at their highest vibratory rate, which is the
power of God itself.
It is simply a matter of
choosing where we want to
put our attention. That is the
true meaning of the anecdote
about Saint Bulleh Shah and
Saint Inayat Shah. When
Bulleh Shah asked his master,
Inayat Shah (who was a gardener by profession), “How
can I find God?” Inayat Shah
pulled out a plant and
replanted it in another place.
When Bulleh Shah questioned what that demonstration
meant, Inayat Shah said, “To
find God it is merely uprooting
your attention from one place
and planting it in another
place.” That is the simplicity of
spirituality. God did not make
things complicated. It is simple.
It is only we who have to
choose to transplant the flower
of our attention from the world
into God’s garden.
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from them and serving them. By approaching them
thus, they will give you wisdom. (4.34)
Before I go any further, I must address the ques-
tion of the need for a guru. The following two examples will clarify. Someone has an ear infection; should
he go to a medical college to learn about the ear to try
to cure his infection? Someone bought a new computer, and needs to install it. There is an instruction
manual of 600 pages. What is practical? Get a technician from the supplier. Similarly, if we have a question
on spirituality, it will be much easier and practical to
approach a spiritually-wise person, rather than begin
studying voluminous scriptures. Therefore, let us
agree that we need a guru, all of us do. Even the most
knowledgeable approach others for clarifications.
Today’s world needs gurus more than any other
time in our history. The mode of darkness — the lowest mode — is becoming quite prominent, which is
causing enormous damage to society. Absence of illumination (real knowledge), lack of motivation
towards duty, carelessness and foolishness are the
symptoms of this mode. (14.13) If we add greed,
unrest and craving for sense gratification — the
symptoms of the mode of passion (14.12) to the
above — we have a very dangerous cocktail.
How will spiritual mentors help in making the
world a better place to live in? They will be able to
explain that there is no clash between religions. The
underlying principles behind all of them are love,
cooperation, serving, helping, etc. We don’t have to be
divided due to the rituals we practise; we just need to
stick to the core values behind every religion.
People will not be confused about what actual
dharma is. Gurus will clarify that that dharma is not a
set of rituals only. It is essentially what God expects
us to. This includes doing duties according to time,
place and circumstances; purity; equality; justice,
which includes impartiality, what is justified; what is
proper, and is lawful; good character; and moral values, which motivate one to be good, for doing good
deeds. Finally, they should be able to tell what is
proper and what is not in different situations from
the spiritual perspective — the highest yardstick.
Can we now agree that the world needs more
spiritual mentors — the genuine ones — and we need
to consult them before taking major decisions? Then,
we can expect the world to be a better place.
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arrying forward the issue taken
up in the previous issue, it is time
now to look for how to restore
orderly functioning of the mind. What
does this call for? First, one needs to
become aware of the true nature of
mind — construct, driving tools and
their operative mechanism, as well as its
chemistry. Knowing this, one becomes
aware of how to drive the instrument of
the mind to one’s best advantage.
Next comes becoming aware of the
dynamics of life in holistic terms. It
offers us a lesson in the ‘art of living’.
For, one then becomes aware that this
universe is a unified organism where no
existence has a reality independent of
the entirety. And that the existential
order is set into an interdependent
mechanism. In this scheme of things, all
and sundry have to essentially complement and supplement the efforts of each
other to together meet our existential
needs. Had this not been true, every
individual would have been capable of
meeting one’s existential needs all by
oneself. It thus becomes imperative
upon us to improve our inter-personal
relationship skills so as to relate well to
all and sundry, overriding all individual
limitations, and be in harmony with the
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rest. In this context, it is worth quoting
Australian physicist Paul Davies: “For a
naive realist, this world is a collection of
objects. For a quantum physicist, it is an
inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns, where no one component has a
reality independent of the entirety, and
included in that entirety is the observer.”
Here again, it needs to be appreciated
that all form existences in this world find
presence following play and interplay of
progressively evolving energy chain
excited by the ‘primordial source’. So,
each being has ‘energy presence’, which
makes the above quote quite relevant in
practical terms. Remember, going by
established scientific perception, energy
and matter are inter-convertible.
Having of late lost the sense of ‘unity
in diversity’, being the defining principle
of the existential order, people are day by
day becoming more and more self-centric, intolerant and impatient. That is how
peace and harmony is missing in our
family, society, and the world at large.
The reason: Earlier, in the ancient days,
making people aware of the dynamics of
life used to be a part of curriculum,
which in today’s time has been ignored.
It is pertinent to note here that just
becoming academically aware of the
above reality is not enough. The idea
has to sink in the deep realm of our
mind for it to spontaneously find reflection in our day-to-day conduct. The
irony, however, is that our indwelling
limitations of mind and aspirational
urges, coming as they may as Karmic
carryover from the past, do not let us
easily move beyond their precincts. For
they become a part of our habit. And
habits die hard. In a way they seem to
involuntarily create a security ring,
which keeps pulling us back again and
again, if we ever try to even explore
beyond their confines.
Ordinarily, human minds remain
entrapped in pushes and pulls
between shadows of the past and
futuristic aspirations. Caught up in
this crossfire, the mind’s attention gets
fractioned, whereby often it loses the
sense of alert needed to invoke our
most profound empowerment tool,
buddhi, for due diligence.
Consequently, the mind’s orderly
functioning gets compromised, whereby
one often loses sense of direction. The
mind then becomes a trickster. One
thus becomes vulnerable to unmindfully
picking up inappropriate leads, often at
cross purposes with the callings of larger orderliness of nature. And our per-
forming self becomes a natural casualty.
What’s the way out then? First, one
has to resolve to come out of inherent
limitations of the mind. Second, one
needs to invoke one’s faith element so as
to believe and get motivated to carry
forward the task. Third, detoxify one’s
mind of all the negative memory
imprints as would be habitually misleading us, and create fresh mind-space
to add on fresh educative inputs. This,
however, can’t come about easy just by
oneself, as it is difficult to dispassionately identify one’s own infirmities for necessary correction. Also, standing on a
plane, which holds the key to our frailties, would not offer us any lead beyond.
Here comes into play the role of a
proven guru/mentor. He will first dispassionately let you see your true mirror
image. He will then lead you through a
course correction step by step. The
process involves cleansing and strengthening of mind, sharpening intelligence,
and learning the fundamentals of life in
small digestible doses.
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