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T he car in which Sheena Bora was allegedly killed was on Saturday traced, while questions cropped up of a cover-up by Raigad police for not registering a case of mur- der or accidental death three years ago when a partially- burnt body, believed to be hers was found. “We have traced the car. The car had changed many hands in three years and we are yet to recover it,” said a senior police official. Meanwhile, Mumbai Police continued the interrogation of three main suspects, Sheena's mother Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyam Rai all of whom are to be taken to the spot in Pen tehsil of Raigad district where the body was found a month after the murder in April, 2012. Police said Khanna and Indrani were giving evasive replies. The police also sought call data records of the three accused. Police are also interrogating Indrani’s son Mikhail Bora at a hotel in suburban Bandra in the murder case. They are probing Mikhail’s claim that just hours before Indrani and Sanjeev Khanna met Sheena Bora on April 24, 2012 and took her for what would be the last drive of her life, Indrani had also alleged- ly drugged her son, Mikhail. Turn to Page 4 P akistan Army and Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) have stepped up their activities on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Rajouri by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for recon- naissance. The development has alarmed the security establish- ment since it is for the first time that Pakistan has used such a sophisticated devise to survey strategic Indian territory. In the last one week alone, at least two airspace violations by UAVs were detected in the region. The UAVs entered more than two kms inside Poonch and hovered around for some time to gather Intelligence about strategic targets like Army loca- tions and crucial road links. Security forces fear that Intelligence gathered by the UAVs will be used by the Turn to Page 4 T here was heavy rush on roads and in Metro trains on Saturday, as the Raksha Bandhan festivities drew a huge number of people out of their homes, bringing the national Capital literally to a standstill at various places. Outer Ring Road, its major arteries and areas such as Vikaspuri, Uttam Nagar in West Delhi, Aurobindo Marg, Vikas Marg, Marginal Pusta Road connect- ing Old Iron Bridge to Khajoori Khas Chowk, NH-24, Mukarba Chowk, Wazirabad in North, Badarpur and Nehru Place in South and Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri in East saw traffic jams since Saturday morning. ISBT Kashmere Gate and Anand Vihar witnessed heavy crowds since Friday night. Due to heavy rush, the Delhi Metro daily ridership touched a new high of 31.75 lakh on Friday on the eve of the festival, while commuters poured in, in large numbers throughout the day as well. Authorities took extra measures for the festival that celebrates the bond between siblings. Additional DTC buses and increased Metro trips had been arranged for the day. Free trav- el for women in non-AC DTC and orange cluster buses acted as a sweetener for many. Turn to Page 4 A t a time when the Government is making all- out efforts to popularise pen- sion schemes in the country, two regulators, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) and Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), have locked horns over the pension fund business, which is still operated by some life insurance companies. PFRDA is waging a war against insurance companies by telling the Government that the pension fund business of life insurance companies must be regulated by it on the plea that the PFRDA Act clearly states this. “Our long-pending demand is that all pension fund business should come under the PFRDA. We have already requested the Finance Ministry to look into the matter. The pension fund business of life insurance com- panies has already been reduced to one-tenth in the past four years due to the IRDA’s diktat on making it a guaranteed one,” a senior PFRDA official told The Pioneer. According to the PFRDA, under the National Pension Scheme (NPS), individual sav- ings are pooled into a pension fund and invested by PFRDA- regulated professional fund managers as per approved investment guidelines into diversified portfolios compris- ing of Government bonds, bills, corporate debentures and shares. In spite of good returns and being a defined benefit scheme, NPS has lagged behind other long-term investment products such as Provident Fund, due to lack of Exempt- Exempt-Exempt (EEE) or tax- free status at the time of with- drawal. NPS, however, has Exempt-Exempt-Taxed (EET) Turn to Page 4 Y ou will scarcely believe this but there are people in India who are undergoing cos- metic surgery and skin treat- ment to post a perfect picture on Facebook. Facebook facelift”, a term coined by the doctors, is a trend gaining pace in the country with people aiming for more ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ on their profile pictures. Various doctors with whom IANS spoke said people these days don’t mind spend- ing lakhs of rupees and under- going multiple surgeries to get a “perfect photogenic” face. “Everyone wants to look young and, in the age of social media, there is a craze among the netizens to look better in profile photos and selfies, by opting for facelift procedures,” Anup Dhir, MD, Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery at the Apollo Hospital here, said. Asked who — men or women — seek these facelifts, Dhir said, “Both men and women come, but there are more females than men, although males are catching up fast.” This comes as a surprise in the country where, till a few years ago, people considered social networking sites like Facebook and Google+ a mere “time pass”. Dhir said that for real change, patients have to under- go three interventions, with each procedure costing up to 30,000. But he cautions that a facelift is not suggested for all. Navin Taneja, director of The National Skin Centre, said that the trend is likely to see a major surge in the coming days with internet penetration in the country constantly increas- ing with every passing day. “The trend has increased 200 per cent in the past three years. It will keep growing with the time and advancement in technology,” Taneja said, adding “people are getting more con- scious about their looks and they want to look their best in each and every event.” Turn to Page 4 New Delhi: India’s tennis ace Sania Mirza on Saturday said it was a ‘huge hon- our’ to be con- ferred with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the recognition will push her fur- ther to do well in future. Meanwhile, Arjuna Award was conferred to 17 sportsper- son, including PR Sreejesh (hockey), Dipa Karmakar (gymnastics), Jitu Rai (shoot- ing), Babita (wrestling), Bajrang (wrestling), Rohit Sharma (cricket), K Srikanth (bad- minton), Manjeet Chhillar (kabaddi), Abhilasha Mhatre (kabaddi). Detailed report on P11

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The car in which SheenaBora was allegedly killed

was on Saturday traced, whilequestions cropped up of acover-up by Raigad police fornot registering a case of mur-der or accidental death threeyears ago when a partially-burnt body, believed to be herswas found.

“We have traced the car.The car had changed manyhands in three years and we areyet to recover it,” said a seniorpolice official.

Meanwhile, Mumbai Policecontinued the interrogation ofthree main suspects, Sheena'smother Indrani Mukerjea, herformer husband SanjeevKhanna and her driver ShyamRai all of whom are to be takento the spot in Pen tehsil ofRaigad district where the bodywas found a month after themurder in April, 2012. Policesaid Khanna and Indrani weregiving evasive replies. Thepolice also sought call datarecords of the three accused.

Police are also interrogatingIndrani’s son Mikhail Bora at ahotel in suburban Bandra in themurder case. They are probing

Mikhail’s claim that just hoursbefore Indrani and SanjeevKhanna met Sheena Bora on

April 24, 2012 and took her forwhat would be the last drive ofher life, Indrani had also alleged-

ly drugged her son, Mikhail.Turn to Page 4

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Pakistan Army and InterService Intelligence (ISI) have

stepped up their activities on theLine of Control (LoC) in Poonchand Rajouri by using unmannedaerial vehicles (UAV) for recon-naissance. The development hasalarmed the security establish-ment since it is for the first timethat Pakistan has used such asophisticated devise to surveystrategic Indian territory.

In the last one week alone,at least two airspace violationsby UAVs were detected in theregion. The UAVs entered morethan two kms inside Poonchand hovered around for sometime to gather Intelligence aboutstrategic targets like Army loca-tions and crucial road links.

Security forces fear that

Intelligence gathered by theUAVs will be used by the

Turn to Page 4

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There was heavy rush onroads and in Metro trains

on Saturday, as the RakshaBandhan festivities drew a hugenumber of people out of theirhomes, bringing the nationalCapital literally to a standstillat various places. Outer RingRoad, its major arteries andareas such as Vikaspuri, UttamNagar in West Delhi,Aurobindo Marg, Vikas Marg,Marginal Pusta Road connect-ing Old Iron Bridge to KhajooriKhas Chowk, NH-24, MukarbaChowk, Wazirabad in North,Badarpur and Nehru Place inSouth and Dilshad Garden,Seemapuri in East saw trafficjams since Saturday morning.ISBT Kashmere Gate andAnand Vihar witnessed heavycrowds since Friday night.

Due to heavy rush, theDelhi Metro daily ridershiptouched a new high of 31.75lakh on Friday on the eve of thefestival, while commuterspoured in, in large numbersthroughout the day as well.Authorities took extra measuresfor the festival that celebratesthe bond between siblings.

Additional DTC buses andincreased Metro trips had been

arranged for the day. Free trav-el for women in non-AC DTCand orange cluster buses actedas a sweetener for many.

Turn to Page 4

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At a time when theGovernment is making all-

out efforts to popularise pen-sion schemes in the country,two regulators, InsuranceRegulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (IRDA) and PensionFund Regulatory andDevelopment Authority(PFRDA), have locked hornsover the pension fund business,which is still operated by somelife insurance companies.

PFRDA is waging a waragainst insurance companies bytelling the Government that thepension fund business of lifeinsurance companies must beregulated by it on the plea that

the PFRDA Act clearly states this.“Our long-pending demand

is that all pension fund businessshould come under the PFRDA.We have already requested theFinance Ministry to look intothe matter. The pension fund

business of life insurance com-panies has already been reducedto one-tenth in the past fouryears due to the IRDA’s diktat onmaking it a guaranteed one,” asenior PFRDA official told ThePioneer.

According to the PFRDA,under the National PensionScheme (NPS), individual sav-ings are pooled into a pensionfund and invested by PFRDA-regulated professional fundmanagers as per approvedinvestment guidelines intodiversified portfolios compris-ing of Government bonds, bills,corporate debentures andshares. In spite of good returnsand being a defined benefitscheme, NPS has lagged behindother long-term investmentproducts such as ProvidentFund, due to lack of Exempt-Exempt-Exempt (EEE) or tax-free status at the time of with-drawal. NPS, however, hasExempt-Exempt-Taxed (EET)

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You will scarcely believe thisbut there are people in

India who are undergoing cos-metic surgery and skin treat-ment to post a perfect pictureon Facebook.

“Facebook facelift”, a termcoined by the doctors, is a trendgaining pace in the countrywith people aiming for more‘likes’ and ‘comments’ on theirprofile pictures.

Various doctors withwhom IANS spoke said peoplethese days don’t mind spend-ing lakhs of rupees and under-going multiple surgeries to geta “perfect photogenic” face.

“Everyone wants to lookyoung and, in the age of socialmedia, there is a craze among

the netizens to look better inprofile photos and selfies, byopting for facelift procedures,”Anup Dhir, MD, Cosmetic andPlastic Surgery at the ApolloHospital here, said.

Asked who — men orwomen — seek these facelifts,Dhir said, “Both men andwomen come, but there aremore females than men,although males are catching

up fast.”This comes as a surprise in

the country where, till a fewyears ago, people consideredsocial networking sites likeFacebook and Google+ a mere

“time pass”.Dhir said that for real

change, patients have to under-go three interventions, witheach procedure costing up to�30,000. But he cautions that afacelift is not suggested for all.

Navin Taneja, director ofThe National Skin Centre, saidthat the trend is likely to see amajor surge in the coming dayswith internet penetration inthe country constantly increas-ing with every passing day.

“The trend has increased200 per cent in the past threeyears. It will keep growing withthe time and advancement intechnology,” Taneja said, adding“people are getting more con-scious about their looks andthey want to look their best ineach and every event.”

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New Delhi: India’s tennis aceSania Mirza onSaturday said itwas a ‘huge hon-our’ to be con-ferred with theRajiv GandhiKhel Ratna andthe recognitionwill push her fur-ther to do well in future.

Meanwhile, Arjuna Awardwas conferred to 17 sportsper-son, including PR Sreejesh(hockey), Dipa Karmakar(gymnastics), Jitu Rai (shoot-ing), Babita (wrestling), Bajrang(wrestling), Rohit Sharma(cricket), K Srikanth (bad-minton), Manjeet Chhillar(kabaddi), Abhilasha Mhatre(kabaddi).

Detailed report on P11

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26/11 capers were alwaysthe thing to do inBollywood. But this one, to

say the least, is audacious. Itplays to the gallery of avengingthe dastardly attack on India bygoing into enemy territory andliquidating — under cover ofcourse — the perpetrators of26/11 who are enjoying theirfreedom and patronage inneighbouring Pakistan.

Such capers are usuallythrillers and Saif has earlier toobeen in some such trans-national spy-kill-terror mounts(Agent Vinod). However, he andthe director, for someunexplained reasons, takes itvery slow in this one. The resultis that even though the subjectis pulsating, the means to get toit is rather unhappening.

From America to Londonto Kashmir to Beirut toPakistan — it’s a journey undercover agent Danial Khan takesto kill all 26/11 masterminds,including David Hadley in anAmerican Jail and Maulana inPakistan.

Even though the terroriston target are real, the entireoperation is so unreal andfantastic that even our RA&Wagents would be surprised theywere regarded capable of it. Saifwalks through the role andKatrina Kaif, as a globalsecurity agent undercover fromRA&W, is a neither here northere character in a film thatcould have done so much betteronly if it had been faster andslicker.

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On stage Ricci wasmagic. An unhinderedvoice of rock & roll. A

diva in worship of music. Awoman, or should we say amusician of conviction. Bringher down the stage, and she isa mess. She is not even Ricky,she is a woman of a differentname, an absolute shirker of amother, a horror for the well

From showcasing daayans andnaagins in Sasuraal Simar Ka(SSK) and Swaragani,

vampire in Qubool Hai to thechudails in Jodha-Akbar orunravelling a murder in CID andAadalat, the Indian TV is underthe spell of the supernatural.Showmakers have started infusingthe ghost element in storylines toadd suspense to the track.

SSK, which has completedfour years on Colors with a TRPof 4.0 in week 33, roped in SaraKhan in December 2014 to playMaya, an icchadhari naagin. Afteran accident and Roli’s (AvikaGor) plastic surgery, Khan enteredthe show as Roli.

Such was the interest re-generation that the productionhouse decided to introduce achudail as Sunaina played byNeetha Shetty. Showmakers werenot done yet and then camedayaan played by PratyushaBanerjee as a mysterious girlMohini who fell in love withPrem, and created a rift betweenSimar (Dipika Kakkar) and Prem(Dheeraj Dhoopar).

Rashmi Sharma, the producerof SSK and Swaragani, created amahasangam of these two showsand showcased Mohini kidnapPrem and hide him at Swara(Helly Shah) and Ragini’s (TejaswiP Wayangankar) place. WhenRagini got to know about Mohini’struth, she asked for help instopping Swara and Lakshya’s(Namish Taneja) marriagethrough black magic.

“The supernatural strain onthe small screen is a relativelyunexplored terrain in fiction

shows and we are utilising it tocreate a unique fabric ofentertainment that keeps theviewers engaged. The Indianaudience has always been privy tostories of daayans and spirits. Itexcites them to watch suchconcepts unfold in a daily soap,”Sharma says.

For 24-year-old, PratyushaBanerjee, taking up a role ofdayaan for two shows was a bigrisk. “Earlier there was a bit ofinhibition as when you play anegative character, people startputting you in boxes andcategorise you as the vamp onIndian TV. But then I realised thatthis role is very challenging and Ihad never done anything like thatbefore. As an actor, nothing can getbetter than this,” Banerjee says.

The actress had to shoot forfive days for these two showswhich was not only mentally andphysically exhaustive but too muchnegativity was a big turn off. “Thescene where Mohini put a garlandon Tvisha’s (child artist Sanjana)neck and takes the sword to killher, I felt extremely bad after it gotover. I didn’t speak to anybody that

day,” Banerjee expresses. Sharmafeels that the main reason forexploring this supernatural angleon SSK is to cater to viewers wholike to watch Simar and Roliunravel the mystery, emergevictorious and stand stronger thanbefore. “The fact that they fight toprotect their family adds to thedrama. These elements make forhigh voltage drama which holdsthe viewers’ attention,” he tells you.

It is not just the producerswho feel that introduction of the

supernatural track generatescuriosity among viewers. Showslike Uttaran, Fannah, HamariSister Didi have paranormalelements in them. Jodha Akbar toofell for the supernatural trap.Laboni aka Leela (Melanie Pais),Jodha’s long-lost sister practisedblack magic so that she can marryAkbar and become his begum.Now all eyes are on the fourthseason of Qubool Hai-MohabbatKhatarnak. But this isn’t the firsttime that Qubool Hai weaved in

ghost track.“The inception of

supernatural element started inseason 3 where we did anexperiment by introducing thevillain Nai Sanam (Additi Gupta)as daayan. It was a very mysteriouscharacter and we also showcasedher walking with her legs twistedback. At the climax, we showcasedSanam taking revenge by killingeverybody but she lost her lifewhile fighting with the daayan.

“The background story ofvampire is under development butthere is a strong love trianglebetween Mahira, Azaad andAmaad,” Faizal Akthar, writer ofQubool Hai, Ashoka and Ek ThaRaja, Ek Thi Rani, tells you.

Sharma tells you that weavingsupernatural content in fictiongives a lot of opportunity to createan intriguing story around thefight between good and evil. “Thefocus is on creating anenvironment which has the vieweron the edge. They are eager towatch the show on a daily basis justto see how the story movesforward,” he says.

When the paranormal trackwas introduced in tele-series likeCID, Aadalat, Humne Le HaiShapat, FIR, Ek Thi Nayika amongothers, the viewers loved it. CIDeven ran a haunted special serieswhich featured a headless biker, ahaunted house and boat. Theteam had to unravel the truthbehind mysterious deaths.Another episodic show Code Redis currently running Talaash seriesthat showcases popularparanormal occurrences and whyit exists in our country.

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�Will season 4 of Best of Luck Nikki bejust as crazy and have plenty of funelement as its previous seasons?

Definitely. It will have a lot more tooffer in terms of fun and laughter. Thosewho have been following the previousseason will find that this time round,Avtaar Singh and his family is evencrazier that before.�Is doing comedy shows a consciousdecision?

In real life too, I am a fun-lovingperson. It is something that runs in thefamily. My children tell me that I shouldact like a father than this person who likesto joke all the time. So, in some ways,doing comedy comes very naturally to me.The other reason why I choose to do thesekind of roles is that I want people — fromthe elderly to the youngest — to sit andenjoy my show. Best of Luck Nikki is ashow in which even a small child canunderstand what is happening onscreen.Nobody has to sit and explain to him.�But in films, your characters are verydifferent. Why?

While comedy comes easily to me, Iwant people to know that I can doserious roles as well. Hence, when I dofilms the characters I do are so different.But it is not as if I will not do a comedyrole for a film. If the role is good and Ifeel I can do justice to it, I will take upthe project.�Is doing serious roles a challenge foryou then?

Playing any character is a challengeincluding comedy which happens to bemy forte. But when it comes to doingother kid of roles, one has to get into thecharacter, understand what the directorwants from that role and deilver it. Withevery role that I am given, whether it isTV or films, I bring in my own versionof what I think the character should be.�What makes Best Of Luck Nikki sopopular?

Like I said, the show have lots of funelement to it. Viewers can sit with theirfamilies and watch and have a good laugh.Avtaar Singh and his family is verywacky, the trouble they get into and theantics they play are funny to watch. �What are the other TV projects thatyou have in hand?

There was Shastri Sisters. But that isnow off air. So for now I am concentrating

on Best of Luck... As an actor I prefer tonot do too many things at one time. First,there is the dates issue which then leadsto time constrains. Though I havereached a stage where I can juggle a fewprojects at one time, it is better to giveyour 100 per cent to one show beforesaying yes to another.�Why is it that popular TV actors areunable to make a mark for themselvesin films?

There are a few reasons. While TVindustry pays well, for an actor,Bollywood is the ultimate benchmark asfar as popularity goes. But the filmindustry doesn’t make it easy for anyoneto make a name for himself. For a TVactor to make it big, he needs tocompletely concentrate on one thing —films. For this he needs to have enoughmoney to sustain himself for at least twoto three years for a good enough projectto come his way. If the money becomesa problem, the actor is forced to take upany film that comes his way.

For a TV actor to make it big, heneeds to concentrate just on films. Hecan’t say that he will do a lead in dailysoap and do a lead in films too. In thatcase he should take up smaller roles.�Any Bollywood projects that you areworking on at present?

There are a few of them, five to sixfilms — that are to be released in the nextfew months including a Punjabi movie.

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4�% /����ON COMEDY NIGHTSBACHAO

A comedy show based on theinsult genre or lampoon is very rareon Indian TV. But Comedy NightsBacho (CNB) will fill this gap andhave celebrity guests who willbecome the butt of all jokes. Notjust that, they’ll get opportunity topoke fun at the comedians too.

ON THE USPIf a celebrity comes to a TV

show, hosts and various otherpeople on the show do sweet talkto praise them like they are big fanof them and have watched all theirmovies. But in CNB, we are tellingthem the truth and making fun oftheir work, life and personalitytraits. It takes guts to face insults.

ON CELEBRITY GUESTSOnly those celebrities can sit on

the chair of CNB who have thecapacity to listen to the truth andface criticism with laughter.

ON OTHER COMEDIANSIt’s not a single person’s show.

Instead, we have a team of 10comedians who work like a jointfamily. We have divided ourself infive groups — Krushna Abhishek,Sudesh Lahiri and Sara Khan; me,Karan Wahi and Pritam Singh;Anita Hassanandani and Mubeen;Shruti Seth and Shakeel Siddiqui;and Pooja Bose and Naseem Vicky.

ON SIMILARITY WITH AIB This show is very different

from the AIB roast. With theamount of vulgarity that AIB had,being an Indian, we would never beable to watch it sitting with ourfamily. Whereas CNB is laughter

created out of criticism but it isfunfilled. It’s like when a brother-in-law comes to live for a day in aPunjabi family and everybody pullshis leg and teases him.

ACTORS GETTING OFFENDEDIn the first episode, we have

Sohail Khan and Mika Singh as theguests. We asked Mika: ‘Paaji apkepaas Hummer hai. Toh aapnerikshawali jaisi ladki ki pappi kyuli?’. We asked Sohail Khan that ‘aaptoh Salman Khan ka autographmarket me beech ker paise kamatehai naa?

These are the awkwardquestions and punch lines theyfaced but they didn’t feel bad aboutit but laughed it off. Mika and Khanbrothers are renowned in the

industry and wouldnot l ike ifsomebody wouldmake fun or critisethem.

But on thisshow, they took itvery sportingly andour confidence grewmanifold after theirreaction.

ON SCRIPTINGOur creative team is

very strong and we havebeen doing comedy showsfrom very long time.

They are our backboneof the show and the creativeteam, director and writersit together and

brainstrom over thescript.

If we tell themthat we can’t say or do

what is written in thescript, they take it in a

good spirit and makechanges according to our

convenience.

FUTURE PLANSI’m a very big fan

of Gaurav Gera andSunil Grover andtheir charactersChutki and Gutthilooks hilarious yet

relatable. I really like the way

when Chutki saysshopkeeper. . . hanjibehenji. If Chutki andLall i would cometogether, it’s going to bea laughter blast .

7 YEARSI am becoming more

enthusiastic and havegrown stronger day byday. I love to do comedyand when I see peopleappreciating me it givesme a high.

There are so manypeople whose’s living isbased on the show. If we10 comedians areperforming in CNB, thereare 700 people who havebeen associated with us

who work hard.

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heeled society from where her ex-husband comes and a woman inacute emotional distress.

Ricki and the Flash is a moviethat gets its moments from MerylStreep in both these contrastingroles. As we know over the years,Streep is a powerhouse of deepseated histrionics and meticulousperformances on screen. Over theyears, she has also developed heralternate talent — of singing andthat is in wholesome display here asshe sings everyone from BruceSpringsteen to rock and roll greats.Her booming voice makes you tideover her edginess of a failed motherand a woman in the lookout formoney and stability.

After her grown up daughtercomes close to a breakdown after hernew husband leaves her for anothergirl, Ricki’s ex-husband Pete calls infor help. Ricki comes flying, literally,and straight away lands in the up-market society and family homewhose woman of the house is out ona father errand to another city. Thefamilial dysfunctionalities and theultimate coming together have beenwell strewn into the film which getsall its edginess from Streep andStreep alone.

See it for her and herinbounding talent as the ultimatestar of any age.

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Aweek after the South Delhigang war, the sixth abscond-

ing accused has been arrested bythe Crime Branch on Saturday.The accused identified as AnupKumar Tiwari, 28, was the dri-ver of gangster Deepak Panditfor four years.

According to JointCommissioner of Police(Crime) Ravindra Yadav, thesixth absconding accused hasbeen arrested, identified asAnup Kumar Tiwari. Of the sixassailants, Anup Tiwari was theonly one who managed to

escape despite a combing oper-ation launched by police. Hewas nabbed by a Crime Branchteam on Thursday nearISKCON temple in South Delhibased on a tip-off. Tiwari hasbeen handed over to theGreater Kailash police stationwhere a case against him hadbeen registered in connectionwith Sunday’s incident.

On the intervening night,between August 22 and 23,Pandit and his associates hadallegedly shot dead anothergangster-turned-property deal-er Raju Ramakant Rao at anintersection in South Delhi’sGreater Kailash area.

They first hit Rao’s motor-bike with their Scorpio SUV,being driven by Tiwari, andthen opened fire at him. Tiwariwas constantly changing hishideouts after the incident andthe district police could not

track him despite conductingraids at several locations inDelhi-NCR.

“On Friday evening, policearrested him near ISKCONtemple where he had come tomeet an associate,” said thejoint commissioner of police.

After the SUV was chased

by a police team, Tiwari spedthe vehicle towards GreaterKailash I and ended up enter-ing a residential lane with nofurther escape route.

After the SUV rammedinto an iron gate, the occupantsrushed out of the vehicle andscattered around.

While five of the allegedassailants chose to hide in andaround a park, and later gotpinned down one after anoth-er by policemen, who werehelped by residents and secu-rity guards, Tiwari chose totake shelter inside a building,a senior police official of south-east district said.

The next day, one of theCCTV grabs, obtained from SBlock of GK-I, revealed thatTiwari had escaped from thelocality between 8.30 am and 9am, long after the action wasover, the police official said.

Police are yet to recover sixlakh rupees in cash, whichRao was reported to be carrying at the time of the incident. He was headingtowards southwest Delhi’s Tigrivillage after collecting the cashfrom a property consultant inouter Delhi.

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The Aam Admi Party (AAP)on Saturday suspended

party MPs DharamaviraGandhi and Harinder SinghKhalsa from primary mem-bership of the party and initi-ated disciplinary proceedingsagainst them.

The AAP’s Political AffairsCommittee (PAC) suspendedthe MPs and referred discipli-nary proceedings against themto the National DisciplinaryAction Committee. Gandhi isan MP from Punjab’s Patialaconstituency whereas Khalsarepresents Fatehgarh SahibConstituency in the State.

The National DisciplinaryAction Committee constitutesof three-members whichinclude Pankaj Gupta, DilipPandey and Deepak Bajpaiwho will look into the com-plaints of anti-party activities.

According to the state-ment, there have been severalinstances where the two weretrying to establish a parallelorganisation within the partywith the sole objective of dam-aging it in Punjab.

“Gandhi and Khalsa havecriticised the party leadershipand the decisions taken by theparty on several occasions inthe media. Not only Gandhiand Khalsa used the Press toexpress their disagreement withthe party on various issues, theyalso openly disobeyed the partyon several occasions andrefused to follow party disci-pline,” the AAP stated.

Alleging that Gandhi andKhalsa have joined hands withthe BJP-SAD leaders in Punjaband have betrayed the party,they party accused the BJP-SADregime of making the State ahub of narcotics trade. “Well-oiled state run corruptionmachinery has completely par-alyzed the Government appa-ratus. Fed up with two terms ofmisrule by the BJP-SAD com-bine, people of Punjab havedecided to go with AAP to bringDelhi model of corruption freegovernance to the State,” theparty claimed.

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Seeking to make people awareof the importance of skill

development in today’s India,the 21st edition of the DelhiBook Fair began at PragatiMaidan on Saturday. Based onthe theme of ‘SkillDevelopment’, the event thisyear aims to offer people anidea about skill developmentand how it can change the lifeof the youth. The fair wasinaugurated by Jitendra Singh,Minister of State (MoS) in thePrime Minister’s Office.

It has been jointly organ-ised by India Trade PromotionOrganisation (ITPO) and TheFederation of Indian Publishers(FIP). Subsidised entry ticketspriced �Rs 20 for the nine-dayfair have been made available atseveral Delhi Metro Stations forconvenience of public. DelhiDeputy Chief Minister Manish

Sisodia also visited the BookFair on Saturday afternoon.

At the inauguration, MoSSingh stressed that the chal-lenge was to create a passion forbooks among the public.“Better than employment isemployability. Therefore, betterthan facilitating people’s arrival

to the fair, we need to inspiresome passion in them... It is ahuge challenge to create a pas-sion which would not requirefacilitation,” he said.

While Internet is seen as athreat to the tradition of read-ing books, the optimisticMinister suggested the need for

encouraging a harmonious co-existence of the two. “I don’tthink that (Internet) should betaken as a challenge. It shouldbe taken as a supplement. A lotof things have become easier. Ifyou cannot find a publisher,you can publish it on theInternet. It automatically getsreadership across the world,” hesaid, adding that a book, how-ever, will always have a longershelf life as compared to itselectronic counterpart.

Addressing a query byAshok Gupta, president of FIP,regarding any possibility ofbooks becoming taxable withthe passage of the GST Bill,Singh said, “We can make asubmission in front of theFinance Minister to urge himagainst any such move.” Thefair is featuring titles and pub-lications by over 215 partici-pants, including overseas par-ticipation from China.

New Delhi: A 30-year-old man,who rebuked his drunkenneighbours for causing nui-sance in the neighbourhood lateat night, was stabbed to death atDasna village in southwestDelhi. According to the police,the incident was reported ataround 12.40 am on the inter-vening night between Fridayand Saturday. The deceased,Rajender was a skilled labour-er who lived in a dormitory withfive others. Other labourers liv-ing in the neighbouring dor-mitory allegedly got drunk lastnight and created nuisance inthe locality.

A group of localsapproached Rajender and askedhim to control the menace asthey had known him for a longtime. Rajender went to theneighbouring dormitory andrebuked two youths, whicherupted into an altercation. Theyouths, identified as Jagannath(24) and Mohan (25), alleged-ly stabbed Rajender and fled thescene before the locals couldstop them. When a police teamrushed to the spot, they foundRajender lying in a pool ofblood. He was rushed to a hos-pital where he was declaredbrought dead.

“A case was immediatelyregistered. The accused duowere later tracked down andarrested,” said DCP (south-west) RA Sanjeev. SR

New Delhi: A 20-year-old DU student fromManipur was allegedly molested by a labourerin North Delhi, police said on Saturday.

“The accused, identified as MohammadFarmood (55), a native of Darbhanga district ofBihar, was arrested after being booked underSections 354A (advances involving unwelcomeand explicit sexual overtures) and 509 (word, ges-ture or act intended to insult the modesty of awoman) of IPC, said a senior police official.

“The woman has a pet kitten which had raninto the grocery shop adjacent to her rentedhouse. She lost track of the kitten till the entranceof the shop. The owner of the shop told her thathe had last seen the kitten entering the storeroom. Inside the storeroom, the woman saw alabourer taking rest but it was too dark to lookfor the kitten. When she returned, the labour-er advanced towards the woman allegedly in anindecent manner. The woman rushed out of theroom and reported the matter at the police sta-tion,” the official added. SR

New Delhi: Two persons wanted in connection withan attempt to murder a restaurateur in Geeta Colonyin East Delhi have been arrested. The accused havebeen identified as Harpreet Singh and Naresh.

DCP East district Bhairon Singh Gurjar said thatHarpreet Singh and Naresh who had allegedly firedat the restaurateur Ajay Mehta in Geeta Colony, werecaught by the police from their hideout on Fridaynight. In his complaint to police, Mehta had said thatfour to five men had came to his house on August26 evening and thrown bottles at his house. Theyalso shot at him. One round of pistol was recoveredby the cops from the spot. An FIR was registered inthis connection at Geeta Colony police station.

Ajay revealed that he had borrowed Rs 20 lakhfrom some persons in Geeta Colony and had openeda cafeteria in Noida but the business was not doingwell and he had to close it down. The arrested duotold police that they had given more than Rs 2 lakhto Ajay but despite their request he was not payingback and they had tried to instil fear in him by throw-ing bottles at his house and firing in the air. SR

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Saturday

extended his greetings to thepeople on the occasion ofRaksha Bandhan. In a tweet,Kejriwal said, “Warm greetingson the occasion of RakshaBandhan. I pray for safety of allsisters. I am going to Haridwarto celebrate Raksha Bandhanwith my younger sister.”

He left for Haridwar to cel-

ebrate the festival with his sis-ter. According to PTI, Kejriwalarrived at Haridwar railway station by Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi Express at11 am where he was given aguard of honour.

However, the ChiefMinister returned the vehicleprovided by the district admin-istration and went to his sister’splace in his brother-in-law’s car.Kejriwal’s sister — who is adoctor in Bharat HeavyElectricals Limited (BHEL),

Haridwar - tied a Rakhi on hiswrist only after 2 pm as it wasnot propitious to do so in themorning hours due toBhadrakal.

Talking to the media atHaridwar, Kejriwal describedhis visit to the city as purelypersonal and offered his greet-ings to the people on the occa-sion of Rakhi.

After spending the daywith his sister, the ChiefMinister returned to the capi-tal by the Shatabdi Express.

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Delhi University has allowedcandidates for Delhi

University Students Union(DUSU) elections to campaignthrough university website andsocial networking sites likeFacebook and Twitter. To reacha wider audience the universi-ty has decided to allow thebroadcast of speeches by therespective candidates on itswebsite for the maximum allot-ted time of five minutes.

The university has alsoallowed campaigning on itscommunity radio but strictly barred to follow the“paid” means.

“They can use the univer-sity website for campaigningfor a wider reach and socialnetworking sites like Facebookand Twitter could also be usedfor connecting with students.But the candidates are strictlybarred from using paid servicesfor campaigning. It will exceedthe specific amount thus vio-lating the guidelines issued forthe DUSU polls,” Chief

Election Officer, DS Rawattold The Pioneer.

The committee comprisingof Rawat and two other officialsof the university heading thepolls would make the criticalexamination of the speech ofcandidates and edit it before

uploading it on the website. The speech would be

uploaded in alphabetical orderstarting with the first name ofthe candidate. According to thetime slots available, the candi-dates would be able to uploadspeeches from September 7 toSeptember 9.

The DUSU elections arescheduled for September 11.

Rawat had sent a letter tothe political parties mainly theCongress, the BJP and theAam Aadmi Party asking fortheir co-operation in main-taining a distance from the stu-dent’s polls and directing theiryouth wings to follow code andconduct for a fair and trans-parent election.

However, the relaxation ofallowing campaigning on community radio and web-sites has been welcomed by theorganisation.

The two main organisationcontending against each otherare the Congress youth wingNational Students Union ofIndia (NSUI) and BJP’s AkhilBharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP). The Aam AadmiParty has launched its stu-dents wing Chhatra YuvaSangharsh Samiti which wouldalso to contest against the two.The ABVP won all the fourseats of the DUSU polls in thelast election.

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To put Delhi at par withLondon, New York,

Shanghai and Stockholm, theArvind Kejriwal Governmenthas consulted Google, Facebook,Cisco, Aruba, Ericsson,Vodafone and several otherinternet and telecom compa-nies for its free Wi-Fi project inthe national Capital. The ten-der document is ready. DelhiCabinet is expected to clear thefree Wi-Fi project by the thirdweek of September.

Top sources said thatGoogle, Facebook, Cisco, whichis a global leader, Aruba,Ericsson, Vodafone, all of thesecompanies, including manydomestic firms, have showninterest in the Aam Admi PartyGovernment’s pet project toprovide free public Wi-Fi.

Around 150 companies fromaround the world haveexpressed interest in the project.

According to sources ifeverything will be all rightthen global tender is likely tobe floated by October. TheGovernment has plans to makefree Wi-Fi functional byFebruary of next year.

On Friday, Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal presided a

high-level meeting on Wi-Fiproject but had to leave halfway, apparently because hehad an appointment with thePresident. According tosources, half of the discussionhas been finished and theremaining half will be done onSunday afternoon. “The tenderdocument is being finalised,”said the sources.

The plan to give free Wi-Fiaccess was among the originalpoll promises of the KejriwalGovernment but the new planis that the service will now begiven on the basis of limiteddata usage, and not based on atime limit. Within the Wi-Fi ser-vice, browsing websites, socialmedia, email and WhatsAppwill remain free and users willonly have to pay for watchingvideos, video chats and down-loading content.

Officials said they will lookto ensure a minimum internetspeed of 512 kbps and theGovernment is considering fix-ing the data usage to 50 MB perday. Every day the system willbe reset. Once the data limit of50MB is exhausted, users canavail the service by paying forextra usage. User will have topay for watching videos. Videochat and downloading contentwill be charged. As it is a pub-lic Wi-Fi, it will be available onlyat public places. Residentialareas, green belts, farm belts andrural belts will not be covered.

The InformationTechnology department is inthe process of identifying 1,000places along with the GroundWater Survey andDevelopment Agency for set-ting up hotspots in the firstphase of implementation.

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Lucknow: A minor altercationbetween some people snow-balled into a communal clash inUttar Pradesh’s Barabanki districton Saturday, as two communitiesfought pitched battles, attackedpolice and set aflame vehicles,police said.

The violence started whentwo men of one communitywere beaten up by a bus cleanerfrom a different community,soon bringing the two commu-nities face to face with each other.

An official said thatGyanchandra and JangBahadur, two residents ofPhoolmati travelled in a privatebus to Jaidpur on Friday. Theyhad a verbal spat with the busdriver and cleaner. IANS

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Aman in West Bengal’sHooghly district was

arrested on Saturday while hewas trying to dispose off thebodies of a woman and aminor girl suspected to bekilled by him, police said.

The accused SamareshSarkar, was caught with threetrolley bags inside which thedismembered bodies of awoman and a minor girl werefound. He was caught by fellow passengers after he threwthe bags into the river whileriding a ferry.

“The passengers of theferry grew suspicious afterSarkar threw the bags into theriver and detained him.

“We have recovered thetrolley bags from which wehave found dismembered bodies of a woman and a five-to six-year-old girl,”Superintendent of Police(Hooghly) Pravin Tripathi said.

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Two of the ex-servicemen on an indefinitehunger strike at the Jantar Mantar here to

demand implementation of the “One Rank, OnePension (OROP)” scheme were hospitalised onSaturday. They are retired Havaldar AbhilekhSingh and retired Havaldar Major Singh.

Four ex-servicemen were taken to hospitalearlier, while others continue to sit on a fast-unto-death at the Jantar Mantar.

A group of agitating veterans on Friday metUnion Home Minister Rajnath Singh, whoassured them about OROP and about meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to getthe issue resolved.

New Delhi: The CBI onSaturday carried out searches atthe residential premises ofincumbent directors of ZiqitzaHealth Care Limited againstwhich a case of alleged cheatingwas registered by the agency onthe recommendation of BJP-ruled Rajasthan Government.

CBI sources said the hous-es of present directors of thecompany Sweta Mangal, NareshJain and Ravi Krishna weresearched.

“The FIR was registeredagainst the then Directors ofthe private firm atMumbai/Jaipur and othersincluding public servants undersection 420 (cheating), 467(forgery), 468, 471 and 120-Bof IPC on the allegations ofirregularities in the award oftender in favour of the said firmby deliberately inserting tech-nical specifications and irreg-ularities in the implementationof the project which includedexcess bills claimed by said firmand paid to them,” CBIspokesperson said. PTI

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The driver of a security vanwas shot dead while a secu-

rity guard was critically injuredwhen unidentified assailantsrobbed seven kg gold worthcrores of rupees from the vehi-cle in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao dis-trict, police said on Saturday.

Inspector General of Police,Lucknow, Zaki Ahmad said thevan belonged to Sequel LogisticsPrivate Limited and was used asa delivery van by jewellers.

When the incidentoccurred the van was returningwith a major consignment ofgold from Kanpur to Lucknow.

The gold was to be sent toMumbai by plane.

The van started the journeyon Friday night from Kanpurwith the custodian, driver HariShankar Yadav and guard RamBachan Pandey.

The heavily armed robbers

attacked them and tried to snatchthe gold. When the guard andthe driver put up resistance theywere shot at.

The driver died on the spotwhile the guard was admitted tothe Lucknow trauma centre incritical condition, police added.

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Inadequate staff and poorinfrastructure are the major

causes of recent spurt in infantdeaths in the Sishu Bhavanhere, felt a team of experts fromUnion Health Ministry.

The four-member Centralteam headed by a Joint Secretaryvisited the paediatric hospitalhere on Saturday and expressedtheir desire to cooperate with the

State Government to improvethe situation.

The Central team appar-ently came to the hospital afterUnion Petroleum MinisterDharmendra Pradhan dis-cussed the Sishu Bhavan situ-ation with Union HealthMinister JP Nadda. Earlier inthe morning, Pradhan accom-panied by State BJP presidentKV Singhdeo and some Stateleaders visited the paediatric

hospital and held discussionswith hospital SuperintendentNiranjan Mohanty.

Speaking to media, Pradhanexpressed concerns over theincrease in deaths of the infantsat the hospital and assured thatthe Central Government woulddo whatever necessary to arrestthe infant mortality rate in theState. Meanwhile, the deaths inthe Sishu Bhavan continuedunabated on Saturday also and

at least four deaths were report-ed on the day taking the num-ber of deaths to 47 during thepast nine days.

Echoing the observationsof various previous committees,the Central team also men-tioned that patients in extremecritical condition are referred tohere from the peripheral hos-pitals. As a result, many of themdie within 24 hours of theiradmission.

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AGovernment schoolteacher posted inremote Doda district of Jammu region

has landed himself in big trouble after hemotivated the schoolchildren to singNational Anthem during morning prayersin the school premises.

The practice of singing NationalAnthem was not in vogue in majority ofGovernment schools in the erstwhile Dodadistrict when militancy was at its peak.

But with situation returning to normalcyacross the region many Government andprivate schools have started organisingmorning prayers and sing National Anthembefore dispersing.

But in case of Bhanu Pratap Singh,Physical Education Master of GovernmentHigher Secondary School Bhagwah thepractice of singing National Anthem andmotivating children to do so has won himmore enemies than friends in the commu-nally sensitive region.

Following a complaint against him bythe majority of schoolteachers DistrictDevelopment Commissioner, DodaBhupinder Kumar has issued him a showcause notice to explain his position withinnext five days failing which appropriateaction as warranted under law would be ini-tiated against him.

Speaking to The Pioneer, Bhanu Pratap

Singh said, “I am being targeted by themajority of schoolteachers for starting thepractice of singing National Anthem in themorning prayers”.

He said for last two years the school-teachers were not allowing the school-children to sing National Anthem. OnAugust 15, when we organised a flag hoist-ing ceremony and invited officers of tenRashtriya Rifles our schoolchildren partic-ipated in the programme and also sangNational Anthem. “For next two days chil-

dren sang National Anthem but somesenior schoolteachers objected to it and pre-vented children from singing the same”.

Singh said, “On August 18 large num-ber of students of GHSS, Bhagwah took outa protest march covering around 15 kmson foot to reach office of the DeputyCommissioner where they held a peace-ful demonstration seeking action againstthe teachers who had allegedly preventedschool children from singing NationalAnthem in the school”.

He said instead of appreciating my con-tribution i was held responsible by the major-ity of school staff for motivating the studentsto take out a protest march. They even fileda complaint with the local SHO to registerFIR against me. Later, under pressure fromthe local people a high level inquiry was alsoordered by the DC, Doda to ascertain thefacts in the sensitive matter. AssistantCommissioner Revenue, Vaibhav Kohliafter conducting the inquiry has submittedhis report. Acting on the report DC, DodaBhupinder Kumar told The Pioneer, a show-cause notice has been served to Bhanu PratapSingh to explain his position. When askedwhether any action has been initiatedagainst those who prevented school childrenfrom singing National Anthem, DC Dodaclaimed i cannot disclose the identity of thoseteachers adding a show cause notice has beenserved to one of the teachers as well.

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From Page 1status or taxable at the

time of withdrawal. The corpusfrom an NPS account, oncereceived, is taxable under theappropriate bracket.

“PFRDA has been seekingEEE status from theGovernment for a long time togrow this business and to bringit at par with other such instru-ments,” the official said.

“As per the NPS tax breakbenefit that was announced inthe budgetary declaration byUnion Finance Minister ArunJaitley early this year, the prob-lem is that the EEE status hasbeen given to life insurers only,

where we have been deprivedof such benefits,” he added.

The Finance Minister in hisBudget speech declared that ifone invests an extra Rs 50,000in NPS, in addition to Rs 1.5lakh tax-free investment, thenit will not be taxed.

On the other hand, lifeinsurers feel that in casePFRDA starts regulating pen-sion funds, then investors willlose interest in parking theirmoney in such funds.“Currently, insurance compa-nies enjoy EEE status, where-as pension funds under NPSdon’t have this facility. It meansthat investors putting theirmoney in pension funds beingregulated by PFRDA will have

to pay tax at the time ofredemption, whereas theyneedn’t pay any tax in case ofinvestments in life insurancecompanies,” said a top officialof a State-owned insurer.

At present, the fund regu-lator has eight pension fundmanagers who are managingpension wealth of subscribers.The growth of this fund is notpicking up due to some reasonor the other.

However, PFRDAChairman Hemant GContractor said: “TheGovernment is very keen tocover every Indian under somepension scheme or the other,but sadly the pace of its growth,especially in NPS, has not been

too encouraging. Despite suchan acute need, people have notcome out in large numbers toparticipate in it.”

NPS being the lowest-costpension schemes in the world,its architecture is low-cost andflexible and there is no fixedamount that one needs to pay.Talking about growth of thepension scheme, he said: “Wehave reduced it considerablyand simplified the system.

There are attempts to cre-ate more flexibility and increaseawareness about this product.”

“The PFRDA is all set tolaunch an online facility foropening of accounts under theNPS to grab its prospective cus-tomers,” he added.

From Page 1He said it was not only the young who

come for such a procedure, but people over50 also opt for it.

“At our centre, the common requirementis of non-surgical facelift, wrinkle reduction,treatment for under-eye darkening, pig-mentation, lip job, glowing and rejuvenat-

ing skin procedure,” he added. “There are a lot of men who want to look

good and are willing to spend as much asthey can to achieve this.” he said.

Although no facelift recipient was will-ing to come on record, a photographer whoshoots pictures for social media says that ithas become an integral part of people’s life.

“They easily agree to pay up to �50, 000for an album shoot to upload it on

Facebook,” Zubain Khan, founder of theZubai Khan Studio in Delhi said. “We givearound five to seven photos which theyupload one by one as and when they feel likeupdating,” he added.

Khan said the rate depends on therequirement of the clients which includesmake up and loacation shoot as well.“College students are the most who come forsuch shoots,” Khan said. IANS

From Page 1Pakistan Army to hit loca-

tions in India using long-rangemortar firing besides unearthingnew ingress routes to push inmilitants from launch pads locat-ed in Pakistan OccupiedKashmir (POK). These pads aresituated close to the LoC andhigh resolution pictures cap-tured by the UAVs will enable theISI handlers of various militantgroups to plan and execute “dar-ing” infiltrations in the comingdays. Disclosing this, officials saidPoonch and Rajouri have seenmore ceasefire violations thanareas like Kupwara, Gurez and Tangdhar in NorthKashmir, where militants try toinfiltrate in the summer after thesnow melts.

This summer has so farseen reduced infiltrationattempts in North Kashmir dueto aggressive and dynamic pat-tern of counter-infiltrationdeployment. Failing to breachthe security wall there, PakistanArmy and ISI are now focusingon Poonch and Rajouri locatedsouth of Pir Panjal Ranges.

Elaborating upon thisaspect, sources said many partsof the LoC in these two areasare not fenced to stop the infil-trators due to tough terrain and

rivers. Militants find it easierto sneak in through rivuletsand nullahs now in spate dueto monsoon and thick jungles.In order to enable the ultras tohave a “smooth” entry intoIndian territory, Pakistan Armygives them covering fire by tar-geting Indian Army posts.

In fact, out of 250 ceasefireviolations this year more than 80per cent have taken place inPoonch and Rajouri sectors,indicating that Pakistan Army isgoing all out to make this zone“hot,” sources said. They also didnot rule out more air space vio-lations by the UAVs and increasein ceasefire violations in thecoming days.

Pointing out another crucialfactor, they said, unlike NorthKashmir where villages are locat-ed far from the LoC, farmers tilltheir land very close to the borderin Poonch and Rajouri, and so theyare easy targets for PakistanRangers.

In the last couple of weeksthe manner in which thePakistan Army targeted civilianareas in Poonch forced majori-ty of residents to vacate theirhomes and hearths. Since theyact “eyes and ears” of the Army,their absence in the forward areaprovides easy access to militants

inside the Indian territory. In the last three months

about two dozen infiltrationbids have been recorded alongthe 740-km-long LoC andInternational Border in Jammuregion.

Though Army authoritiesand the BSF officers maintainedthat not a single infiltration bidwas successful and all of themwere foiled by the robust anti-infiltration grid, but in some ofthe cases where these infiltratorshave managed to sneak in, it hasthrown open a new challenge tosecurity forces.

According to field reports ahandful of new ‘terror factories’have reportedly come up acrossthe LoC and InternationalBorder. ISI is imparting armsand explosive training to freshbatches of militants before push-ing them inside the Indian ter-ritory to spread its ‘arc of terror’.

Intelligence inputs indicatedthat five groups of militantswere now poised to infiltrate intoPoonch in the next few days.Two to three teams of ultras arealso ready to get into KrishnaGhati sector in Rajouri. Eachteam or group has five to sevenmilitants equipped with sophis-ticated weapons and communi-cation sets, they said.

From Page 1Anticipating the traffic

snarls, Delhi Traffic Police hadappealed to the public on Fridayto use public transport likeMetro or buses to avoid conges-tion on the roads. As peopleabided by the advisory, it left theMetro trains and buses packedto capacity.

Owing to huge commutermovement at various places inthe city, there was heavy trafficsince morning. Approach roadsto every major marketplacewere chock-a-block with traffic.Those who drove to SarojiniNagar, Karol Bagh, ChandniChowk, Sadar Bazaar, SouthExtension or Lajpat Nagar eitherhad to turn back disappointedor remained stuck for hours.The traffic police was caught offguard with this rush.

“Roads leading toConnaught Place, Karol Bagharea, Vikas Marg, AurobindoMarg, Station Road, Kali DassMarg, Pankha Road, AfricaAvenue Marg, August KrantiMarg, Subhash Marg have beenfacing traffic jams since themorning due to RakshaBandhan,” a Delhi Traffic Policeofficial said.

Areas around Sangam Vihar,Badarpur Road, Mangolpuri,Jamia Hamdard Hospital,Dharamshila, Kanpur road,Maharanapratap Road, Patel

Road, and Rohini were alsoaffected.

“The problems were furthercompounded with breakdown ofbuses at major connecting roadsacross the city,” the official added.

With more commuters pre-ferring the Metro for travel, theDelhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) decided to introducean additional 210 trips on Fridayand Saturday due to RakshaBandhan. “In view of theincreased ridership observedby the DMRC in earlier years onthe day before and on RakshaBandhan itself, the Delhi Metrowill run about 210 extra traintrips on the two days,” an offi-cial statement from DMRCsaid. “On Friday, Metro ferriedmore than 32 lakh people,”Anuj Dayal, chief spokespersonof DMRC, said.

But for Sanjeev Kumar, a res-ident of Noida, more Metrotrains didn’t serve the purpose ashe had to stand for over 10 min-utes in a long queue just to enterthe Metro station.

“I stood in a long line thatran onto the road for over 10minutes to enter the Noida CityCentre Metro Station. I found theMetros were running rather tooslow, although the frequency wasfine,” Kumar said. He also said aMetro ride to Dwarka took himmore than two hours in anovercrowded compartment.

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From Page 1Mikhail has claimed that on the pretext

of discussing a property deal, he was givena spiked drink in his hotel room in Worli byIndrani and Sanjeev, who then left to meetand murder Sheena. By the time they cameback, the suspicious, groggy Mikhail had fled.

Meanwhile, the mystery surroundingthe murder took a new turn with a mediareport claiming her brother Mikhail oper-ated her social media accounts, sent her res-ignation letter, and cancelled her rented flat’slease well after her death. Telegraph quotingan unnamed relative from “Sheena’s moth-er side” has reported that Mikhail did thisat his mother Indrani’s behest. The police hadearlier claimed that the resignation letter waswritten by a woman, who was apparently anemployee of Indrani .

In another major development, theRaigad Police admitted that no due proce-dure was followed when Sheena’s remainswere first found on May 23, 2012. In a star-tling disclosure that may have a bearing onthe ongoing investigations Raigad Policeadmitted that they had neither registered aFirst Information Report (FIR) nor filed anAccidental Death Report (ADR), after they

found the highly-charred body of Sheena inthe jungles of Gogade Khurd Village near Pentown on May 23, 2012.

Upset with the “botch-up” in preliminaryinvestigations into the sensational murdercase, Maharashtra’s Director General ofPolice Sanjeev Dayal ordered an inquiry intothe “lapses” in the initial investigations andpromised action against the erring police offi-cials. A day after Dean of the JJ Hospital DrTP Lahane disclosed that his hospital couldnot determine the “age, sex and cause ofdeath” of Sheena from the “pieces of bones”submitted to the hospital on May 25, 2012,Raigad District Superintendent of Police(FSP) Mohammed Suvez Haq came cleanand conceded that neither an FIR was reg-istered nor an ADR was filed by the localpolice after the recovery of a body (pur-portedly that of Sheena) from the jungles ofGogade Khurd village near Pen town on May23, 2012.

Addressing a news conference atAlibaug, Haq - who took over as the RaigadDSP early this year - said: “Before sendingthe mortal remains of a deceased for anautopsy in May 2012, the Raigad Police didnot register a crime or a report of acciden-tal death. … My superiors (DGP) have askedme to probe this and I have prepared a fac-tual report and sent it to them”.

Replying to a query, Haq said: “InspectorGeneral of Police (Konkan Range) hasordered me to conduct an enquiry into thelapses in the initial investigations. I will com-plete it and send across the report to oursuperiors at the earliest.”

Asked why the Raigad Police had han-dled the initial investigations in such a casu-al and lopsided manner, Haz said: “Anenquiry is on and this is not the right timenor am I the right person to comment onwhy a case was not registered.”

Giving details of what transpired afterthe recovery of the body from the jungleslocated in the neighbourhood of Pen townin Raigad district, the DSP said: “(on May23, 2012), the Pen police received informa-tion about an unidentified dead body foundin the nearby jungles. Three police person-nel went to the spot. The inquest panchna-ma and body panchnama were done, a doc-tor was called and the post-mortem was con-ducted. Before burying it, samples were col-lected from the body. The samples were latersent to the Sir JJ Hospital in Mumbai forexamination.” Police have also collected theblood and hair samples of Indrani andMikhail Bora, her son from her first marriageSiddharth Das, and sent them to the CentralForensic Laboratory (CFL). A report isexpected from the CFL early next week.

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The State administrationcompletely lifted the curfew

in the violence-hit Gujarat onthe auspicious day of ‘RakshaBandhan’ and by Sundaymorning five columns of Armywill return from various areas.However, ban on social mediawould continue till Monday.

Commercial capital ofGujarat — Ahmedabad wit-nessed normal traffic with allthe routes of Bus RapidTransport System (BRTS) andcity bus services functionednormally. Shops, malls andother commercial establish-ments not only remained openbut also witnessed heavy rushin the wake of RakshaBandhan. Similar environmentof peace and harmony wasmaintained across the Statethat include cities like Surat,Vadodara, Rajkot, Junagadh,Jamnagar, Morbi etc.

Additional DirectorGeneral of Police (ADGP) PPPandey confirmed that curfewwas lifted from across Gujaratas no report of violence came.In fact, curfew was lifted from

most parts of the State onFriday itself barring few areasin Ahmedabad — includingRamol, Nikol, Odhav,Bapunagar, Krishnanagar andNaroda. On Saturday, earlymorning curfew was lifted inthese areas too. Curfew wasclamped on Wednesday afterwidespread violence across theState that included incidents ofarson, burning of propertiesand stone-pelting.

As violence erupted after

‘Maha Kranti Rally’ organised byPatidars for OBC quota onTuesday, the State administra-tion was forced to call in para-military forces as well as theArmy. With complete normal-cy returning in the State gradu-ally these forces are being with-drawn. Five columns of Armywhich were maintaining peacein various parts of Ahmedabadwould return by Sunday morn-ing, said Ahmedabad collectorRajkumar Beniwal. According to

a notification issued by theGujarat Police, Mobile internetservices are barred till Mondayto avoid rumours and provoca-tive messages.

Meanwhile, convener ofPatel Anamat Anadolan Samiti(PAAS) Hardik Patel is expect-ed to visit Delhi on Sunday. Hewill meet leaders of seven dif-ferent States there. Accordingto Patel, Patidars have consid-erable population in SevenIndian States. During the rally

on August 25, the 22-year-oldhinted to make the quota stirnationwide by saying that inGujarat alone population ofPatidars is 1.80 crore and totalpopulation of Patidars in thecountry is around 27 crore.

In the afternoon, Patel lead-ers — including representativeof PAAS — Dinesh Patel — metGujarat’s Health Minister NitinPatel and submitted memo-randum at his office.

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Tamil Nadu may see earlypoll to the Assembly if the

words and deeds of ChiefMinister J Jayalalithaa are anyindication. Last week,Jayalalithaa announced in thelegislative Assembly a series ofpopular social welfare measureslike Amma HealthProgrammes for the benefit ofeconomically backward sec-tions of the society. She fol-lowed it up with anotherimportant announcement thather Government would con-struct a suitable memorial forlate Sivaji Ganesan, a popularTamil movie actor.

Friday saw Jayalalithaaordering a major reshuffle inthe bureaucracy. Many seniorofficers who have been put onwaiting list got postings andsome have been entrusted withcrucial departments like TamilNadu Housing Board andChennai MetropolitanDevelopment Authority.Jayalalithaa, who is also thegeneral secretary of theAIADMK, strengthened theIT wing of the party onSaturday by introducing agroup of computer and man-agement professionals drawnout from the corporate world.

It is widely believed thatshe may prefer to go to theelectorate immediately afterthe Global Investors’ Meetscheduled for September 9and 10. “In normal course,Tamil Nadu Assembly elec-tions should take place eitherin April or May 2016. But rightnow what we see is thatJayalalithaa is in a powerfulposition with no anti-incum-bency factor against her. Thepopular schemes like Amma

Canteens, Amma Pharmacy,Amma Mineral Water, AmmaCement, Amma Homes andthe Amma HealthProgrammes have been a hit inTamil Nadu and it is certainthat she would sweep the elec-tions if it is held now,” NKalyanasundaram, veteranscribe and chronicler of TamilNadu politics, told The Pioneer.

The entire propagandawing of the AIADMK is on amission mode since earlyAugust. All spokespersons ofthe party like CR Saraswathiand Avadi Kumar are all in acampaign mode addressingpublic meetings in the districts.During the day time, they meetindividual voters and speak tothem about the importance ofre-electing the AIADMK foranother term.

Rama Ramanathan, for-mer AIADMK MLA fromKumbhakonam is a busy per-son nowadays. “I am address-ing street corner meetings topropagate the details of thegood works done by Amma inthe last four years. We are get-ting good turnout for thesemeetings and the generalimpression is that Ammawould win with a massivemandate,” said Ramanathan.

What strengthensJayalalithaa’s position in TamilNadu is the failure of theOpposition to find a commonground against her. There arefive Chief Ministerial candi-dates among the Oppositionparties and all are pulling eachother’s legs rather than sortingout their differences.

Vaiko, the MDMK leaderhas declared that a non-AIADMK and non-DMKGovernment would be formedafter the next election. TheJoint Movement for People’sWelfare, the self-styled ThirdFront in Tamil Nadu has theCPI(M), CPI, MDMK, VCKand the MMK as constituents.Interestingly, the MMK is anIslamic extremist outfit whichis propped up by the Lefts whoswear by secularism.

The factor which strength-ens the possibility of an earlyelection is the weather in TamilNadu. While March, April andMay are known for scorchingheat, the pleasant weather dur-ing November and Decembermay suit Jayalalithaa for cam-paigning. She had to cancelsome of the travel plans in therecent past because of the hotweather or her indifferenthealth.

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Intensifying their agitation for‘One-Rank, One-Pension

(OROP),’ ex-servicemen onSaturday wrote a letter to thePresident Pranab Mukherjeeseeking his intervention toresolve the issue. They also saidif anything happens to fastingveterans he and the Governmentwill be “solely responsible.”

Condition of four formersoldiers, who are on fast untodeath in the national Capital, isserious.

In the letter to the President,who is also the SupremeCommander of the armedforces, United Front of Ex-ser-vicemen (UFESM) said a soldieris supposed to kill the enemybefore laying down his life forcountry, “but under your rule,a soldier’s life is at stake and is

being wasted as he is beingdeprived of his legitimate dues.”

Copies of the letter werealso sent to Defence MinisterManohar Parrikar and BJPpresident Amit Shah. Parrikaron Friday had sought somemore time to resolve the vexedOROP issue and assured theveterans that the Governmentin principle has decided toimplement it but “small gapshave to be filled.”

He also said the PrimeMinister’s Office (PMO) isdirectly involved in finding asolution.

UFESM, an umbrellaorganisation of agitating vet-erans, noted that as many asfour former soldiers, who areon fast- unto-death, havebeen hospitalised and thathealth of another ex-service-man Havildar Major Singh,who was on an indefinite fast

since August 16, was fastdeteriorating.

“Your Excellency and theGovernment of India will besolely responsible if any dam-age/mishap happening toHavildar Major Singh or anyother ex-servicemen because ofhunger strike,” it said.

Urging the President toinstruct the Government toimplement OROP as perDefence Ministry letter datedFebruary 26, 2014, the protes-tors said there are some issueswhere financial cost cannot bethe sole determinant factor andthat the pensions of Defenceveterans is one of these. “OROPstands approved both by theUPA as well as the present NDAGovernment. However, itsimplementation has not beencarried out so far for the reasonbest known to yourGovernment,” the letter said.

It added that during theveterans’ meeting with DefenceMinister, they were informedthat the proposal for imple-mentation of OROP costing�8,298.48 crore had beenapproved by him and forward-

ed to the Finance Ministry onMarch 17, 2015. “It is here,where OROP file seems to havebeen stuck,” the letter said.

The Government had ini-tially wanted base year being2011 but then relented to stickto the veterans’ demand of2013-14 as per vote on accountand Finance Bill 2014. But theywanted the payout date bepushed forward from April 1,2014 to April 1, 2015, a pro-posal rejected by the veterans.

In subsequent talks, theGovernment pushed the pay-out date from April 1, 2014 toSeptember 1, 2014.

However, there would be aprovision of review of pensionsonce every five years against theveterans’ proposal of once a yearor once at least every two years.

Close to 22 lakh retired ser-vicemen and over six lakh warwidows stand to be immediatebeneficiaries of the scheme,which envisages a uniformpension for the Defence per-sonnel who retire in the samerank with the same length ofservice, irrespective of theirdate of retirement.

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In the run-up to the Bihar Assembly polls, theElection Commission has ordered transfer of

State officials posted in their home districts andthose who have served long at one place in orderto ensure free and fair polls.

The Commission’s letter addressed to theBihar Chief Secretary and Chief ElectoralOfficer, Bihar on July 28 was released onSaturday where the Commission sought anaction taken report from the Chief Secretary andCEO before this month-end.

The development marks an important steppreceding the formal announcement of polls inthe State where the tenure of the Assembly endson November 29 this year. Earlier this month,CEC Nasim Zaidi had visited the State and metChief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh and DGPPK Thakur, who assured him cooperation forsmooth conduct of polls. The ElectionCommission team even met representatives of 10national and State parties in the State who sharedtheir suggestions on possible poll schedule.

Revealing contents of the letter communi-cating transfer of officials, the EC said, “TheCommission, in its task of conducting free andfair elections has followed the consistent poli-cy to ensure that officers, who are connectedwith the conduct of elections in the State, do notserve in their home districts or places where theyhave served for long,” the EC letter said.

In the past, the Commission received sev-

eral queries with regard to transfer-postings. Thepoll panel said that no officer — either from theadministration or police service, connecteddirectly with elections should be allowed to con-tinue in the present district of posting if she/heis posted in her/his home district and if she/hehas completed three years in that district dur-ing the last four years or would be completingthree years on or before November 30, 2015.

The Commission further stated, “If primafacie any complaint is received with regard toofficers who are indirectly connected with elec-tion, the Commission shall take appropriateaction against such officials.”

The panel clarified that the transfer orderwill not be applicable to Sector officers thoughthey are directly involved with the poll process.This exception was made for the reason that theirduties require them to be deployed in the fieldwhere their knowledge of the area or terrain iscrucial to their effective performance.

It, however, directed senior poll officials tokeep a close watch on such officers during theelection period to ensure their performance is“strictly impartial”. The Commission asked theState Government to scrupulously follow the cut-off date prescribed for calculating the three yearperiod as past experience showed how statesfailed to strictly enforce it.

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To further attract invest-ments in railways, Railway

Minister Suresh Prabhu onSaturday invited foreign play-ers to make India their manu-facturing base as theGovernment would be invest-ing $120 billion over the nextfive years to develop railwayservices. Prabhu reiterated thatRailways is working on Makein India strategy to attractinvestments.

Prabhu said the mainthrust of any transport organ-isation should be on safe andsecure transportation with zeroscope for accidents and empha-sised the need to launch “zeroaccident mission” with definite

timeframe.“World-wide focus on

transportation is safety and itis for Indian Railways as well.It is most important for us toensure safe travel with the helpof latest technology,” Prabhusaid at International RailwayConvention on “Advances inCommand, Control andCommunication Systems forMain Line, Metro and HighSpeed Transit Systems.”

Highlighting the scope ofinvestment in rail sector, hesaid, “The Government will beinvesting about USD 120 bil-lion in the next five years inrailways and the amount willbe more in future.” The sem-inar was attended by manyrepresentatives of foreign

nations including Japan,Korea, Russia, among others.He said India has technologi-cal collaboration with manycountries in rail sector.

Targeting investmentsfrom abroad, Prabhu said Indiahas the advantage of skilledmanpower, big market andlarge manufacturing base and

in addition to internal con-sumption; such manufacturinghubs have export potential.

“There is a positive envi-ronment for make in India. Wewould like to have partnershipwith other countries to makeIndia a manufacturing hub.Come and make your goodshere and then export fromhere,” he said.

He also laid emphasis ondevelopment of technologylike remote sensing to controlaccidents at unmanned levelcrossings by providing indi-cations about approachingtrains and any obstruction ontrack. Prabhu pointed outthat in such conferences “weshould focus on global bench-marks and assess our stand-

ing as compared to globalstandards.”

“We should adopt newappropriate technology to min-imise human errors. Our objec-tive should be to have zero acci-dent mission with a definitetime line,” he said. He howev-er said that this requires inte-grated approach involving useof cost effective advanced tech-nology and properly trainedmanpower.

He further said that newadvances in command, controland communication systemcan play a very vital role inevolving safe and secure oper-ation environment on IndianRailways where there should beno scope of accidents even incase of human errors.

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Moderate ideologueGhulam Mohammad

Bhat was elected Amir(Chief ) of Jamaat-e-Islami(JeI), a prominent politico-religious organisation inKashmir. He has remained theJeI head thrice in the past andreturned to the post after 12years. His election is signifi-cant because he is a knownopponent to hardlineapproach of HurriyatConference chief Syed AliGeelani, who floated his own

Tahreek-e-Hurriyat party in2003 after leaving Jamaat.

Bhat is known for bringingout JeI from a tumultuousperiod of early 1990s when asignificant cadre of the organ-isation was targeted by thesecurity forces for their supportto militancy. HizbulMujahideen, the indigenousmilitant outfit, derived most ofits cadre from the Jamaat. TheHizb was officially the militarywing of Jamaat for some peri-od but Bhat played crucialrole in distancing the twogroups and returning Jamaat toits reformist basics.

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AICC president SoniaGandhi is likely to share

dais with Bihar’s regionalsatraps Chief Minister NitishKumar and RJD supremo LaluPrasad on Sunday here atGandhi Maidan during theSwabhiman Rally of the JD(U),RJD and Congress alliance.

But in a setback to thealliance, the chief of JanataParivar and Samajwadi Partypresident Mulayam SinghYadav is unlikely to attend therally. He seems to be unhappywith the seat sharing for BiharAssembly polls in which hisparty was totally ignored. Yadavis also uncomfortable withsharing dais with Sonia.

In bid to keep MSY in

good humour, Lalu onSaturday announced to givefive seats to the SamajwadiParty. He said three seats whichwere left out and two moreseats from the RJD quotawould be given to Yadav’sparty. “Netaji never made anydemand and I am doing this onmy own,” he said. However,

Lalu evaded a question if MSYwould attend the rally. StateJD(U) president BashisthaNarain Singh said, “Lalu’sannouncement would be dis-cussed among the parties andwould be implemented. Thiswill further strengthen ouralliance.”

The Bihar unit of

Samajwadi Party was up inarms for being ignored by thealliance leaders and some of itsState leaders resorted to indef-inite fast which was broken fol-lowing intervention by SP andRJD leadership. BiharSamajwadi Party chiefRamchandra Singh Yadav saidthe State executive has decid-ed to authorise Mulayam totake a call on Lalu’s offer.

Bihar Congress presidentAshok Chaudhary on Saturdayannounced that Sonia Gandhiis expected to address the rallyon Sunday. She would beaccompanied by Leader ofOpposition in the Rajya SabhaGhulam Nabi Azad and AICCgeneral secretary and Bihar in-charge CP Joshi. “Sonia’s par-ticipation will give a big boostto grand alliance and energisethe Congress workers,” he said.

When asked about thelikely crowd at the Sundayrally, Nitish said, “The Maidanwill be filled and the crowdwill spill out the spacious

maidan’s periphery. It will behistoric one.”

Lalu had been sweatingout almost every day by trav-elling to places for inviting thepeople. He concentrated on therural areas of Patna district andneighbouring regions sayingthe maximum crowd wouldcome from those areas. Largescale preparations have beenmade at the residences of all theMinisters, MPs and legislatorshere to host the people comingfrom their respective con-stituencies. Meanwhile, Laluhas warned them not to makeany arrangement for singingand dancing at the venues ashad been common practiceduring earlier rallies of the RJD.

Barricades have been putup in the spacious GandhiMaidan and high alert sound-ed. Each gate has been fittedwith metal detector and sectormagistrates and police per-sonnel have been deputed withone gate earmarked exclusive-ly for the arrival of the VVIPs.

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S u s h i lKumar Modibelieves thatpeople of thep o l l - b o u n dBihar, irrespective of caste andcreed, have heartily welcomed thespecial package announced byPrime Minister Narendra Modiand would vote for NDA in thename of development. Bihar is amission possible for the NDA,Sushil Modi, the most recognis-able face of the BJP in Bihar, whois seen as undeclared candidatefor the top post, talks to FaizanAhmad in an exclusive interview:

Q: The Assembly election ispoised to be a clash betweenspecial package versus specialcategory status.

A: We will definitely makespecial package an election issue.Bihar for the first time has gota tool to make big leaps. I amconstantly travelling and foundthat people are quite happy andimpressed with this package. Idid not find a single person talk-ing about special category status.

In the 14th FinanceCommission, thechapter of special cat-egory status to Stateshas been closed.Even in the

Raghuram Rajanreport there is no mention ofspecial status. Now this demandhas no relevance. Without anyspecial status to Bihar, invest-ments worth �10 lakh crorecame during the last one decadebut only a meagre amount ofinvestment could be maturedbecause the Government failedto provide land to prospectiveinvestors. All the big companies,which had shown interest inBihar, have gone back.

Q: Nitish Kumar and LaluPrasad are making DNA anelection issue saying the PMinsulted Bihari pride by ques-tioning the DNA of the CM.

A: Go anywhere in theState and ask people aboutDNA and they will feign igno-rance and will ask back ‘whatis this’. All issues raised byNitish have backfired.

Q: The Bihar Assembly elec-tion is likely to be NarendraModi versus Nitish Kumarfight since the BJP has notdeclared its leader.

A: It is not only in Bihar butin other States like Maharashtra,Haryana and Jharkhand, theBJP fought under the leadershipof Narendra Modi and won.Let’s give the BJP a chance andthe party will provide a strongGovernment and deliver. Theleadership issue will be decid-ed after polls in consultationwith other allies.

Q: Your allies LJP and RLSP

are getting restive over delayin seat sharing and issuingultimatum to BJP.

A: We share their con-cern. All the BJP leaders rightnow are engaged in Parivartancampaign and PM’s Bhagalpurrally but we are in touch withour allies. After these engage-ments we will sit together verysoon and sort out all issues. Wehave three allies in Bihar andtwo of them (LJP and RLSP)are in Union Government. Thethird ally is Jitan Ram Manjhi’sHindustani Awam Morcha.

Q: Who will be the CM onceNDA comes to power?

A: The CM will be electedfrom the biggest party in theNDA and that is the BJP. Thedecision will be made by theParliamentary Board.

Q: But one of the senior lead-ers of BJP Shatrughan Sinhahas publicly said that LJP’sRam Vilas Paswan could bebest person to be made CM.

A: This is his personalopinion. But Paswan himself

has time and again clarifiedthat he is neither interested norin the race. Paswan has statedthat CM should be from thebiggest party.

Q: How do you view the entryof Asaduddin Owaisi’s MIMin Bihar polls which held arally in Kishanganj recently?

A: Anybody is free to con-test polls. But this time, the BJPis attracting Muslims. In 2010,we fielded two Muslims and oneof them won. This time we willgive more tickets to Muslims.

Q: How do you say thatMuslims are attractedtowards BJP?

A: Muslims are impressedwith our performance duringseven years. They have watchedthe behaviour and performanceof BJP Ministers. In the capac-ity as Finance Minister Ifinanced and facilitated sever-al minority-oriented projectslike fencing of graveyards andassistance to madrassas. We areconfident to get sizeable num-ber of Muslim votes.

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The annual pilgrimage to theholy Amarnath Cave in

south Kashmir concluded onSaturday as devotees chantedhymns and offered prayers at theshrine located in the mountains.

The pilgrimage, which wasscheduled for 59 days this year,concludes on SharavanPurnima when the holy maceof Lord Shiva carried by Hindumonks reaches the cave shrineafter a weeklong journey fromSrinagar. With 282 pilgrimsreaching the cave shine on theconcluding day, as many as3,52,771 pilgrims paid obei-sance at the cave shrine thisyear. The pilgrims arrive tohave a glimpse of ice stalagmiteformed naturally in the cave,which is believed to be the formof Lord Shiva.

Governor NN Vohra, whois the ex-officio Chairman ofthe Shri Amarnath ShrineBoard (SASB) that regulatesand arranges the annual pil-grimage with the logistic assis-tance of J&K Government,attended the concluding wor-ship at the Cave. The Governorprayed for sustained peace,harmony, progress and pros-perity in the State.

The pilgrimage began inthe first week of July amid tightsecurity throughout the 59-dayperiod. The pilgrimage is car-ried out through Pahalgamand Baltal tracks.

The Governor compli-mented the Civil and PoliceAdministrations of Anantnagand Ganderbal districts, J&KPolice, Central Armed PoliceForces, Army, and all theinvolved State Governmentdepartments and other agen-cies for the smooth conduct ofthe yatra.

The Governor directed theCEO to ensure complete clean-ing of all camp sites and to pre-pare a camp and route-wiseAction Plan for Yatra 2016,keeping in view the experiencesgained during this year’s pil-grimage.

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At least a dozen soldiers wereinjured, seven of them crit-

ically, when a blast occurred dur-ing a training session at anArmy training unit in southKashmir’s Khrew area onSaturday morning. The injuredwere airlifted to Base Hospital inSrinagar for treatment.

Sources said that an explo-sive went off during a pre-induction training exercise atArmy’s Corps Battle School(CBS) situated at Khrew insouth Kashmir’s Pulwama dis-trict around 8.45 am. The Armydid not specify what kind ofexplosive went off and the rea-

sons behind the blast.Khrew formation is highly

fortified and one of the oldestin Kashmir valley. The Armysaid that investigation was on tofind out the cause of the blast.Army choppers were pressedinto service to evacuate theinjured soldiers to 92 BaseHospital. Sources said seven ofthe injured were critical whilethe others were dischargedfrom hospital after first aid.

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After remaining calm forseveral months, Kerala

slipped into political violenceamidst the Onam festival witha BJP worker and a CPI(M)activist losing lives in attacks bypolitical enemies in Thrissurand Kasaragod respectively onFriday, the main day of the fes-tival, and violence eruptingsubsequently in several placesin the State in which manyactivists of the two parties suf-fered grave injuries.

The Kerala Government,which promised urgent andeffective measures to restorecalm, suspected that there wasa deliberate bid to trigger wide-

spread violence in the State.Police officials expressed appre-hension about the possibility ofthe situation getting out ofcontrol in the context of theupcoming local bodies elec-tions in the State.

The BJP on Saturdayobserved a dawn-to-dusk shut-down in the PuthukkadAssembly constituency andKodakara Panchayat areas inThrissur district to protestagainst the violent incident inwhich its activist Abhilash (31)of Vellikkulangara was hackedto death, allegedly by CPI(M)activists, on Friday afternoon.

Abhilash was attacked atVasupuram nearVellikkulangara in Kodakarawhen he was going on amotorbike with a friend,Satheesan. Police said thatSatheesan, who was driving thebike, also suffered hack injuriesand had been admitted to theICU of a hospital. In theprotests that followed, a

CPI(M) office came underattack which led to further ten-sion in the area.

Normal life was thrownout of gear on Saturday inKasaragod, northernmost dis-trict of Kerala, when theCPI(M) observed a day-longhartal to protest against theattack on Friday afternoon inwhich its activist C Narayanan(45) of Chamundikkunnu,Kodombeloor was stabbed todeath, allegedly by BJP work-ers. His brother C Aravindan

also suffered stab injuries inthe attack.

The two were attacked atKayakkunnu, Kanhangadallegedly by three men whoarrived on a motorbike.Narayanan died on the spotwhile Aravindan was battlingfor his life at the ICU of aMangalore hospital. Police saidthat tension had been prevailingat Kodombeloor and nearbyplaces for the past several days.

The police have taken twoCPI(M) workers from

Vasupuram in connection withthe murder of Abhilash. Sourcessaid that seven persons couldhave taken part in the incident.In Kasaragod, two BJP workerswere booked in connectionwith the murder of Narayananbut the BJP said it had nothingto do with the incident.

The police clamped pro-hibitory orders on areas in andaround Azhikode in political-ly sensitive Kannur districtafter violence erupted on Fridaynight between CPI(M) and BJPactivists. Two CPI(M) activistshad been admitted to hospitalwith stab injuries and a BJPworker also suffered injuries inthe violence in Azhikode.

Several party offices and aminimum of a dozen housesbelonging to CPI(M) and BJPactivists came under attack.Police officials said that the areahad been witnessing tension inthe past several days but theyhad no clue about the reasonfor the sudden eruption of

violence. The CPI(M) called fora shutdown in the area inprotest against the attacks ontheir men.

Tension prevailed even onSaturday evening in theKanjiramattam area ofThodupuzha in Idukki districtfrom where two RSS activistswere admitted to a Kochi hos-pital with serious injuries suf-fered in the violence that haderupted around Friday mid-night. The CPI(M)’s area com-mittee office came under attackfollowing the incident. FiveCPI(M) men have been booked.

State Home MinisterRamesh Chennithala expressedthe suspicion that the violentincidents taking place in theState since Friday afternooncould have been pre-planned.Requesting the CPI(M) and theBJP to withdraw from the pathof violence, Chennithala saidthat stringent action would betaken against those responsiblefor the incidents.

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Rattled by the intense oppo-sition from inside and out-

side, the Andhra PradeshGovernment has dropped theidea of forcible acquisition ofland for the construction of thenew capital city Amaravati inGuntur district and revertedback to the old model of landpooling.

The decision was taken inview of the increasing resis-tance from the affected farm-ers and support extended tothem by all the Opposition par-ties as well as an ally film star,Pawan Kalyan.

Days after Pawan Kalyanthreatened to go on indefinitefasting to oppose invoking ofLand Acquisition Act, AndhraPradesh Minister for UrbanDevelopment P Narayanaannounced that the Govern-ment will resume negotiationswith the farmers to pool theirlands for the Capital project.

Of the 2,500 acres of land innine villages, which the

Government wanted to acquireafter the refusal of farmers to vol-untarily surrender, theGovernment has managed toconvince the owners of 600acres land, he said.

At a review meeting withthe officials of Capital RegionDevelopment Authority,Chandrababu Naidu directedthe officials to persuade thefarmers to opt for land pool-ing. Naidu said theGovernment wanted a peace-ful atmosphere conducive forinvestments as several coun-tries including China, Japan,Germany and Singapore werekeen to make investments inthe new Capital region.

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Sex ratio in the States of Telangana andAndhra Pradesh was much better than many

other States in the country.The sex ratio in the united Andhra Pradesh

in 2011 stood at a healthy 993 women per thou-sand men, a significant improvement to the 978women in 2001.

According to the data issued by the RegistrarGeneral and Census Commissioner, there was adegree of difference in the sex ratio of differentcommunities and here the Hindu community hasoutdone the Muslims in Andhra Pradesh andTelangana. But it is the Christian communitywhich has the highest female to male ratio.

The sex ratio among Muslims in Telanganaand Andhra Pradesh was 968 and 984 womenper thousand men, Hindu community was stillbetter at 989 and 995 women respectively.

The most surprising figure was for theChristians. Though their decadal growth of pop-ulation was showing a marginal decline, the pop-ulation of their women was far higher than men.Their gender ratio stood at 1033 and 1076 womenper 1000 men in Telangana and Andhra Pradeshrespectively. In united Andhra Pradesh Christianpopulation has come down 11.8 lakhs in 2001to 11.2 lakhs in 2011. The sex ratio among theSikhs in the two States follow their national levelpattern, which was causing a concern to the com-munity heads.

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In the first big step towards the link-ing of river Godavari with Krishna,

officials of Andhra Pradesh Governmenton Saturday released the water ofGodavari into the right bank canal of theunder construction Polavaram project.

Officials said that 150 cusecs ofwater was released from Tadipudi liftirrigation project canal at Guddigudemvillage of West Godavari district.

“This is merely a trial run,” saidExecutive Engineer of irrigation depart-ment Devprakash. “If need be we canincrease the release of water to 450cusecs,” he said.

Diversion of Godavari river watersto the water-starved parts of WestGodavari district and to the KrishnaDelta region was one of the main aimsof the Polavaram project as every yearmore than 3000 tmc ft of Godavari iswasted into the Bay of Bengal.

The State Government had startedwork on Tadipudi scheme a month agoto make the diversion of water intoPolavaram canal possible and now thewater was released without any fanfare.

Officials assured the farmers ofTadipudi that the water will be releasedonly after fulfilling their irrigationneeds and they need not worry about

the development.“This water will take 15 days to

reach Prakasham Barrage nearVijayawada,” Devprakash said.

The development is of far reachingimpact as Krishna delta region was fac-ing a severe crisis due to the failure ofMonsoon and lack of water in the riverKrishna. Water level has touched an alltime low in the Srisailam andNagarjuna Sagar projects on Krishnariver hitting the farming activitiesbadly in the normally fertile delta.Officials hope that by diverting atleasta part of excess Godavari waters to theKrishna delta they can help the farmers.

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Tens of thousands ofMalaysians marched in a

massive anti-government rallyhere on Saturday demandingthe resignation of PrimeMinister Najib Razak followingweeks of simmering anger overcorruption allegations againstthe premier.

Online reports said therewere at least 40,000 protestersin the rally in downtown KualaLumpur.

Unfazed by hundreds ofpolice which had declared therally as unlawful, thousandscarrying placards joined theprotest organised by Bersih, acoalition of NGOs which hasalso called for electoral reformsand transparency.

Public disenchantment hasbeen rapidly on the rise afterleaked documents published bythe Wall Street Journal showedthat Najib received some USD700 million in his private bankaccounts from Malaysia’sindebted state fund 1MDB. Helater said the money was adonation from the Middle East.

Protesters in yellow BersihT-shirts and headbands gath-ered at several points with theintent to march towards theMerdeka (independence)square where celebrations tomark Malaysia’s 58th NationalDay will be held on Monday.The protesters have agreed notto enter the square.

Najib meanwhile said thoseinvolved in the anti- establish-ment demonstration held closeto the independence day cele-

bration were devoid of love forthe country. He is not in KualaLumpur and had travelled toPahang state.

“We are about to celebrateMerdeka Day (on August 31).Are they too shallow to under-stand that the venue (for theirrally) carries historical signif-icance (for the birth ofMalaysia)?,” he said.

An activist Wong ChinHuat said those gathered forthe Bersih rally had no inten-tion to bring down the gov-ernment. “We are not here tobring down the government.We want to correct the wrongs.That’s all. Things are goingawry and we are voicing ourthoughts,” said Wong.

Former premier MahathirMohamad, a strong opponentof Najib told a large crowd out-side Kuala Lumpur that someleaders had forgotten theirduty to the people who votedfor them as their representative.“Come back to the right path.

You are lost,” he said.Malaysia is a mainly Malay

Muslim nation with 25 per centethnic Chinese and eight percent ethnic Indian minorities.

As the mystery over the$700 million deposit intoNajib’s account grabbed head-lines, Malaysia’s anti-graftagency said the amount paidinto the premier’s account wasa donation from the MiddleEast before a 2013 election, butno names have been revealed ofthe donor.

Najib, 62, has denied tak-ing any money for personalgain. However, he dismissed hisdeputy who had questionedhim about the funds and theattorney-general who wasprobing the state fund 1MDB.

Najib heads the rulingBarisan Nasional coalition,which has been in power since1957. The coalition lost thepopular vote for the first timein the 2013 polls to an opposi-tion alliance that split this year.

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Bangkok: A man resemblingthe prime suspect in Thailand’sworst terror attack here thatkilled 20 people, who wastoday arrested with dozens ofpassports and several bomb-making tools and materials, isa Turkish national, securityofficials said on Saturday.

Colonel BanphotPhunphien, spokesman of theInternal Security OperationsCommand (ISOC), was quot-ed by a media report as sayingthat the arrested man “is aTurkish national”, in the firstdetention in the attack atBangkok’s Erawan Brahmatemple. “He carries many pass-ports. It’s unusual how he car-ries so many passports,”Banphot added.

“We have detained oneperson,” deputy national policechief General ChaktipChaijinda told reporters butpolice would not confirm thenationality of the detained per-son who local media said wasTurkish. “We have found com-ponents of bomb-makingmaterials in his apartment andI am confident that he is like-ly involved with the bombattack,” he said.

National police spokesmanPrawut Thavornsiri said in atelevised statement that policehad also found detonators,metal pipe with lids at the sus-pect’s apartment during the raidthis afternoon.

The 28-year-old man, whowas not identified and wasarrested from his rented apart-ment in Nong Chok district ina suburb in eastern Bangkok,was also found in possession ofmultiple passports. PTI

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Three Al-Jazeera journalistswere on Saturday sen-

tenced to three years in prisonby an Egyptian court forspreading false news andendangering national security,in a case that has triggered aninternational outcry.

The three — Canadiannational Mohammed Fahmy,Australian journalist PeterGreste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed— were sentenced after alengthy retrial. At least threeother co-defendants, accused ofworking with Al-Jazeera,received similar sentences.

All three were convictedlast year on charges thatincluded conspiring with the

Muslim Brotherhood, spread-ing false news and endanger-ing national security, but theyhave maintained their inno-cence, saying they were simplyreporting the news. They werealso accused of operating with-out a press license.

The three journalists were originally sentenced toup to 10 years in prison. Buttheir convictions were over-turned in January this year andwere freed in February toawait retrial.

After Saturday’s verdict,Greste tweeted: “Shocked.Outraged. Angry. Upset. Noneof them convey how I feel rightnow. 3 yr sentences for@bahrooz, @MFFahmy11 andme is so wrong.” (sic)

Al-Jazeera English acting

director-general Mostefa Souagsaid the sentence “defies logicand common sense”. “Thewhole case has been heavilypoliticised and has not beenconducted in a free and fairmanner,” Souag said.

The case began inDecember 2013, when Egyptiansecurity forces raided theupscale hotel suite used by Al-Jazeera at the time to reportfrom Egypt.

Authorities arrested the trioand later charged them withallegedly being part of formerPresident Mohammed Morsi’sMuslim Brotherhood which wasdeclared a terrorist organisationby authorities. They wereaccused of airing falsified footageto damage national security.

The earlier verdict brought

a landslide of international con-demnation. The country’s high-est appeals court, later orderedtheir retrial, saying the initialproceedings were marred by vio-lations of the defendants’ rights.Egypt deported Greste in Febr-uary, though he remained cha-rged in the case. Fahmy and Mo-hammed were released on bail.

Meanwhile, Al-Jazeeravowed on Saturday to appeal anEgyptian court verdict to sen-tence three of its journalists tothree years in prison, calling ita "deliberate attack on press free-dom". The Qatar-based broad-caster said it would appeal the"grotesque" verdict as soon asthe Cairo court has explained itsdecision, and would also "inten-sify" its campaign to get itsreporters freed.

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Beirut: Thousands of peoplebegan gathering on Saturdayamid tight security in downtownBeirut, ahead of a major rally toprotest government corruptionand the country's dysfunctionalpolitical system. At least two orthree armoured personnel car-riers were deployed around theprime minister's office. A manover a megaphone chanted:"Declare it a revolution!" Theprotest is expected to be thelargest of the demonstrations thatbegan last week over garbage pil-ing up in the streets of Beirut, fol-lowing the closure of a mainlandfill. But the government'sfailure to resolve the crisis hasevolved into wider protestsagainst a political class that hasdominated Lebanon since theend of civil war in 1990. AP

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Media mogul RupertMurdoch’s News Corp is

believed to be in talks with for-mer News of the World editorRebekah Brooks for her returnas chief of its UK division fouryears after she had quit amidthe phone-hacking scandal, anewspaper reported.

Brooks had quit as chiefexecutive in 2011 at the heightof the scandal involving thehacking of phone voice mailsby journalists though she waslater cleared at the trial last year.Her re-appointment could beconfirmed by next month, TheFinancial Times reported.

Evan Harris, joint executivedirector of campaign groupHacked Off, said the appoint-ment would show News Corphas no regard for the feelings ofthe victims of phone-hacking.“There’s a gall to just carry on

appointing someone who — yesshe’s entitled to her verdict of notguilty — but she achieved thatwith a defence of incompe-tence; she didn’t know what washappening, and yet she’s comingback. It’s astonishing,” he said.

The FT said a return couldbe perceived as a “slight tri-umph” for Brooks, but someformer colleagues might notwelcome it.

Brooks, 47, had said afterbeing acquitted of all chargesfollowing a 138-day trial thatshe felt “vindicated”. Her for-mer colleague, Andy Coulson,another former ‘News of theWorld’ editor, was jailed afterbeing convicted of conspiracyto intercept phone voicemailsof several people includingcrime victims and celebrities.

The News of the World isthe subject of a police probeinto the phone hacking calledOperation Weeting.

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US National SecurityAdviser Susan Rice is

expected to pay a day-longvisit to Pakistan tomorrow fordiscussions on various bilat-eral and regional issues, offi-cials said here today.

Rice is expected to hold

important talks with PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif over ahost of issues. Sharif ’s pro-posed trip to the US inOctober will also be part ofthe talks.

Rice would also meetarmy chief General RaheelSharif to discuss defence tiesand regional situation includ-ing the status of talks betweenthe Taliban and the Afghangovernment.

The visit coincides with rising tensions betweenPakistan and India along the LoC.

The US has been urgingthe two countries to sort outtheir differences throughpeaceful means after Pakistancalled off NSA-level talks setfor August 23 when Indiamade it clear that discus-sions on Kashmir and a meet-ing with separatists will not beacceptable.

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Johannesburg: At least 38 girlsand young women were killedin a crash while travelling to atraditional festival in Swaziland,a rights group said on Saturday.

About 20 others wereinjured when the truck theywere in collided with anothervehicle on Friday, the SwazilandSolidarity Network said. Theyoung women and girls wereallegedly travelling on the backof an open truck, the rightsgroup said.

Police in Swaziland dis-couraged reporting on the acci-dent, said the group.Photographers were preventedfrom taking pictures at thescene, said a Swazi journalistwho insisted on anonymity forsecurity reasons.

A high-ranking police offi-cer contacted by The AssociatedPress refused to comment, say-ing the matter was related to the“highest authority,” and so nodetails could be disclosed to themedia. “You don’t hide a death,”said Lucky Lukhele, spokesmanfor the Swaziland SolidarityNetwork. Members of theSwaziland Defense Force alert-ed the rights group to the acci-dent, Lukhele said, adding thathe expected the death toll to rise.

The females were travellingon a highway between the Swazicities of Mbabane and Manzini,when the truck carrying themsmashed into another vehicleand was then hit in the rear bya second truck, the Times ofSwaziland reported. AP

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Rescuers have retrievedfrom the sea the bodies of

117 migrants whose boat sank off the coat of Libya, theRed Crescent said on Saturdayin a new toll.

A spokesman for the Libyanrelief organisation said dozensare still missing after Thursday’stragedy. “So far 117 bodies havebeen retrieved from the seawhile dozens of people are stillmissing,” the spokesmanMohammad al-Misrati toldAFP. He said the boat carried400 would-be migrants, andthat 198 had been rescued.

On Friday Misrati said that

76 bodies had been retrievedafter the boat sunk near thewestern Libyan port of Zuwara.

Red Crescent teams wearingprotective white clothing and

masks on Friday collected bod-ies that had washed ashore,placing them in orange plasticbags and carrying them toambulances.

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British foreign secretaryPhilip Hammond has

expressed serious concernover the suspension of thedialogue process betweenNew Delhi and Islamabadand urged them to resolve allthe remaining issues at thenegotiating table.

Philip Hammond saidBritain reiterates that the twoSouth Asian nuclear arch-rivals should resolve all theirissues with dialogue, TheDaily Times reported onSaturday.

The British diplomat in ameeting with PakistaniInterior Minister ChaudhryNisar Ali Khan in Londonadvocated his view that “Indiamust understand the dialogueprocess cannot proceed fur-ther without discussions onthe issue of Kashmir.

“Without furthering dia-logue there can be no peace inthe region.”

Nisar added that Indiawas trying to sabotage theefforts for peace on one pre-text or the other and isputting regional security andstability at stake.

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Republican presidential hope-ful Donald Trump, who has

mostly been targeting his polit-ical rivals thus far, opened a newline of attack on Friday by slam-ming Hillary Clinton’s Indian-American aide Huma Abedin inthe wake of the Democraticfront-runner’s escalating privateemail server controversy.

At a rally in Massachusetts,Trump charged that Abedin,who served as Deputy Chief ofStaff while Clinton was Secretaryof State, used to receive classifiedinformation which she thenshared with her “sleazebag” hus-band, former Democratic law-maker Anthony Weiner. Abedinis currently Vice Chairman ofClinton’s presidential campaign.

Trump who has been accus-ing Clinton of compromising

official secrets by using her pri-vate email server and projectingthat she would end up in jail sur-prised political pundits by tak-ing aim instead at Abedin andher husband, who had to give uphis Congressional seat in thewake of a sexting scandal. “It(classified documents) all sort ofcame through Huma,” Trumpthundered. “Who is Huma mar-ried to? One of the great sleaze-bags of our time, AnthonyWeiner. Did you know that? She’smarried to Anthony Weiner.”

“Now, these are confidentialdocuments, she’s married to thisguy, and guess what happens toAnthony Weiner?” Trumpquizzed, adding: “A month ago,I see he went to work for a pub-lic relations firm.”

“So she’s married to a badguy. I’ve known Anthony Weinerfor a long time,” Trump charged,adding: “Do you think there’s

even a 5 per cent chance that she’snot telling Weiner, now of a pub-lic relations firm, what is com-ing across? I don’t think so.”

At some of his recent out-ings, Trump has sought to com-pare Clinton with disgraced for-mer CIA Director DavidPetraeus, saying the latter hadpaid a much higher price for afar lesser crime. “His life wasdestroyed for two per cent ofwhat Hillary did,” says Trumpabout the former four-star gen-eral who was sentenced to twoyears’ probation and fined$100,000 after providing classi-fied information to his mistressand biographer.

Reacting to the latest Trumpoffensive, a Clinton spokesmansaid: “He should be ashamed ofhimself, and others in his ownparty should take a moment tostand up to him and draw theline for once.”

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Vienna: A six-year-old girl isbeing sued for more than$38,000 in Austria for alleged-ly causing a skiing accidentwhich left a woman with seri-ous injuries.

The woman has startedlegal action against the child,with the Feldkirch ProvisionalCourt considering this weekwhether someone of this agecould be held responsible forcausing an accident, theIndependent reports citedreports from The Local Austrianews paper.

Under Austrian law, a childaged under 14 cannot be heldresponsible in cases of civilwrongs, such as personal injury

accidents.“First and foremost, super-

visors such as the instructorsand the parents would be suedfor neglecting their supervisingresponsibilities,” according to acourt spokeswoman.

The case against the six-year-old was brought after anearlier attempt to sue the adultwho had been supervising thegirl at the time of the accidentwas dismissed, according to theDaily Telegraph.

An exception to 14 beingthe age of legal responsibility inAustria was when a child underthis age would have been capa-ble of judging the consequencesof their actions. IANS

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“They were shot this morn-ing at the Massaguet firingrange,” said one of the sources,referring to a city about 60 km(40 miles) northeast of thecapital N’Djamena. Among theexecuted was MahamatMoustapha, a 30-year-oldCameroonian who was accusedof masterminding a series ofattacks on N’Djamena.

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Washington: The AssociatedPress has sued the USDepartment of Justice over theFBI’s failure to provide publicrecords related to the creation ofa fake news story used to plantsurveillance software on a sus-pect’s computer.

AP joined with theReporters Committee forFreedom of the Press to file thelawsuit in US District Court forthe District of Columbia. Atissue is a 2014 Freedom ofInformation request seekingdocuments related to the FBI’sdecision to send a web link tothe fake article to a 15-year-oldboy suspected of making bombthreats to a high school nearOlympia, Washington. AP

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President Hassan Rouhanisaid on Saturday he oppos-

es a parliamentary vote on thelandmark nuclear deal reachedwith world powers becauseterms of the agreement wouldturn into legal obligations ifpassed by lawmakers.

Rouhani told a news con-ference that the deal was apolitical understanding reachedwith the five permanent mem-bers of the UN SecurityCouncil and Germany, not apact requiring parliamentaryapproval. The deal also saysIran would implement theterms voluntarily, he said.

The historic deal calls for

limiting Iran's nuclear pro-gram in exchange for liftingeconomic sanctions.

"If the JointComprehensive Plan of Actionis sent to (and passed by) par-liament, it will create an oblig-ation for the government . Itwill mean the president, whohas not signed it so far, willhave to sign it," Rouhani said."Why should we place anunnecessary legal restriction onthe Iranian people?" A specialcommittee of parliament hasalready begun studying thedeal before putting it to a vote.But the legality of such a moveis in doubt because the gov-ernment has not prepared a billfor parliament to vote on.

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In a major top-level bureau-cratic shakeup, Shaktikanta

Das was named newEconomic Affairs Secretaryand would be replaced byGujarat cadre IAS officerHasmukh Adhia inDepartment of Revenue,while former Air India chiefSunil Arora will become I&BSecretary.

As many as 16 appoint-ments were approved onFriday night by theAppointments Committee ofCabinet headed by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andinclude 15 RPT 15 newSecretaries and one for theposit ion of NationalHighways Authority of India(NHAI) Chairman, a covetedpost that has gone to MadhyaPradesh cadre IAS officer of1982 batch Raghav Chandra.

As per the order issuedlate tonight by theDepartment of Personnel andTraining, Air India's currentChairman and ManagingDirector Rohit Nandan willreplace Arora as Secretary inthe Ministr y of Skil lDevelopment andEntrepreneurship.

Deputy Elect ionCommissioner Vinod Zutshihas been appointed as newTourism Secretary. Das, 1980

batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre, would replaceRajiv Mehrishi as EconomicAffairs Secretary upon hissuperannuation on August31. Financial Ser vicesSecretary Hasmukh Adhia,an IAS officer of Gujaratcadre, will replace Das asRevenue Secretary.

Tapan Ray, anotherGujarat cadre IAS officer,would become CorporateAffairs Secretary in place ofAnjuly Chib Duggal, whowould replace Adhia in theDepartment of FinancialServices. The changes inFinance Ministry comesmonths ahead of the UnionBudget and also at a timewhen a one-time compliancewindow is open as part of the-new black money law.

Arora, currently Secretaryin Ministr y of Ski l l

Development andEntrepreneurship, wouldreplace Bimal Julka asSecretary in the Informationand Broadcasting Ministryon his superannuation onMonday.

The appointment ofArora, a 1980-batch IAS offi-cer of Rajasthan cadre, comesat a time when the I&B min-istry is in the midst of sever-al important activities includ-ing the e-auctions of Phase IIIFM radiostations and PhaseIII and IV of Digitisation.

The I&B ministry has alsobeen under fire over the two-month-old impasse at theFilm and Television Instituteof India (FTII) where studentsare demanding removal ofGajendra Chauhan as itschairman. Earlier, Arora hasfunctioned as the CMD of AirIndia.

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NEW DELHI: Realty majorDLF on Saturday announcedappointment of its two whole-time directors Rajeev Talwarand Mohit Gujral as co-CEOsof the company with immedi-ate effect. The decision toappoint Gujral and Talwar asco-CEOs was taken in a meet-ing of the board of directorsheld on Friday.

In a BSE filing, the coun-try's largest real estate firmsaid the board has “entrustedadditional responsibilities uponMohit Gujral and Rajeev Talwar,both of whom are whole timedirectors of the firm, by re-des-ignating/appointing them asCEOs of the company withimmediate effect’.

In February last year,Talwar and Gujral wereappointed as whole-time direc-tors of the company. PTI

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India's apex bank has cau-tioned its US counterpart on

going ahead with a rate hike,especially at a time when worldeconomic growth is stallingwhich has led to massive volatil-ity in currency, equity and com-modity markets.

Caution regarding a hikeduring the upcoming US FederalReserves (US Fed) rate decisionwas conveyed by the ReserveBank of India (RBI) GovernorRaghuram Rajan in an interviewwith CNBC at Jackson Hole,Wyoming.

"My position over time hasbeen don't do it when the worldis in turmoil. It's a long antici-pated event, it has to happensometime - everybody knows ithas to happen - but pick yourtime," Rajan said during theinterview aired on the channel's'Closing Bell' show.

Rajan is in the US to attendthe global central bank chiefs'meet at Jackson Hole, a skiresort located along the borderof Wyoming and Idaho for theFederal Reserves' annual retreat.

Rajan's comments come ata time when investors arespooked by a slowdown inChina, massive devaluation inemerging markets' currenciesand growing chances of the USFed going in for a rate hike.

The US Fed is expected toannounce its decision to hikeinterest rates after a decade or soof easy monetary regime withinterest rates pegged at nearzero levels during its policymeet scheduled on September16-17. The Indian markets areworried that the recent positivedata points from the US hasheightened chances of a US ratehike in September.

High interest rates in the US

are expected to lead away the for-eign portfolio investors (FPIs)from emerging markets likeIndia. It is also expected to dentbusiness margins as access tocapital from the US will becomeexpensive. At the same time,Rajan showed great worry overa Chinese slowdown which hasthe potential to send the worldeconomy back into a recession,start currency wars and damp-en capital markets.Notwithstanding the possibilityof a Chinese slowdown, he wasquick to point out that India wasrelatively well placed due to itsstrong macro economic condi-tions. "If in fact there is a greater

Chinese slowdown than is antic-ipated, it won't affect us as muchas other countries around theworld," he said, adding that ofcourse, everybody would likestronger Chinese growth, but tosome extent we are among theleast affected.

On the question of reducinginterest rates Rajan said that he isnot done with easing monetarypolicy, however adding that anyfuture decision will be data dri-ven. "We'll look at the data as itcomes in and take a furtherview. We have not said we are fin-ished," he added.

Indian Inc has been urgingthe central bank to cut rates in the

light of an expanding economywhich is expected to grow around7 per cent with contained infla-tion, reining-in of fiscal deficit,good monsoon coupled with aplunge in commodity prices.After having cut the short termlending rate thrice thus far in thiscalendar year to bring it down to7.25 per cent, the RBI kept keylending rates unchanged duringits last monetary policy meetheld on August 4. RBI that timesaid that further cuts can only beeffected if commercial lenderspass on the previous reductionsto borrowers. RBI has so farreduced lending rates by 75 basispoints in 2015.

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WASHINGTON: Hinting atthe fourth interest rate cutthis year, RBI GovernorRaghuram Rajan has said he isnot done with lowering ratesand the central problem for theentire world remains slowingeconomic growth. Rajan, whowas participating in the eliteJackson Hole economic sym-posium of the Kansas CityFederal Reserve, also said RBIhas reached an agreement withthe government on a new rate-setting panel, the MonetaryPolicy Committee, whichwould be announced soon.

Rajan, who has beenunder pressure from theGovernment and the indus-try to further cut rates, saidRBI is still in an 'accom-modative mode' and wouldtake a decision as per the dataon inflation and other macro-economic factors. "We also

have inflation which otherpeople do not have. We havecut the interest rate thrice sofar this year and we are stillin accommodative mode. Wewill have a look at data as itcomes in and take a viewaccordingly.

“We have not said we arefinished (on cutting rates)and we will take a view as thedata allows us to do,” Rajantold a news channel in aninterview on the sidelines ofJackson Hole summit.Interestingly, it is the samesummit where Rajan hadonce famously presented apaper that talked about animminent global financialcrisis, which eventually hit theworld markets in 2007-08.Rajan was IMF's chief econ-omist when he made thatfamous 'prediction'.

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IHH Healthcare Berhad, aMalaysian healthcare

provider, has signed a defini-tive agreement to acquire a73.4 per cent stake in city-based GE Medical AssociatesPrivate that runs GlobalHospitals, for �1,284 crore.

According to a releaseissued by IHH, pending nec-essary approvals and satis-faction of certain conditions,the deal is expected to closewithin 3 months.

As part of this transaction,IHH will use �265 crore tofund the hospital chain’s capexrequirements and optimiseits current cost of borrowing.

Founded in 1999, GlobalHospitals operates a chain offive hospitals -- supported bythree feeder centres -- withapproximately 1,100 opera-tional beds in Hyderabad,

Bangalore, Chennai andMumbai.

The number of opera-tional beds is expected to goup to approximately 1,900within the next 5 years, therelease said. Dr Tan See Leng,MD and CEO of IHH, said theacquisition will be a game-changer for IHH in India.

“Together with our exist-ing hospitals, the acquisitionof Global Hospitals catapultsus towards becoming one ofthe leading hospital groups inIndia. India has tremendousgrowth potential with its

rapidly increasing demandfor quality private healthcare,”Leng said. IHH’s India port-folio comprises approximate-ly 1,800 beds with potential toreach up to 4,000 in the next5 years, he said.

Dr K Ravindranath,founder and Chairman ofGlobal Hospitals, said thatwith its expanded presence inIndia, IHH aims to gain fur-ther business synergies, costsavings and operating leveragethrough centralised procure-ment, optimised backroomfunctions, common brandingand marketing strategy, shar-ing of doctors and better util-isation of facilities.

Tan Sri Dato’ Dr AbuBakar Bin Suleiman, IHHChairman, said the acquisitionof Global Hospitals boostsIHH’s beds globally to morethan 8,000 across 45 hospitalsin 10 countries.

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US cult bike maker HarleyDavidson is recalling 3,698

units of its XG750 model manu-factured this year to rectify a faultyfuel pump inlet. “Harley-Davidson confirms that it has vol-untarily recalled model year 2015Harley-Davidson Street familyvehicles, of which the XG750model is available in India,”Harley-Davidson India said.

Explaining the reasons, itsaid: “We identified that someof the motorcycles may have apoor seal at the fuel pump inlet,and announced the recall in theinterest of customer safety.”

Stating that the company iscommitted to correcting thisissue, Harley-Davidson India said

it is working with its dealers inIndia to notify customers tobring their motorcycles in forinspection.

Ever since auto industrybody SIAM initiated voluntaryrecall for safety related issues inJuly 2012, companies have proac-tively recalled vehicles.

Recently, Honda Motorcycleand Scooter India recalled 13,700units of its CBR 150R and CBR250R bike models, mde betweenJuly 2014 to June 2015, in Indiato fix a defective starter relayswitch assembly.

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Promoters of agro-chemicalsand drug intermediates

Astec Lifesciences will sell 45.29per cent stake in the companyto Godrej Agrovet Ltd (GAVL)that could entail a considerationof �167.41 crore.

“The board of directors ofthe company has approved exe-cution of a share purchase agree-ment, whereby the promoters ofthe company have agreed to sell45.29 per cent of the currentpaid-up equity shares of thecompany at a price of �190 pershare to Godrej Agrovet Ltd,”Astec Lifesciences said in a BSEfiling.

Based on information avail-able on BSE, 45.29 per cent ofthe company's shares amountsto over 88 lakh shares. As onJune 2015, its total shares were1,94,55,055.

At a price of �190 per share,the transaction value is �167.41crore. The company furthersaid, pursuant to the transaction,GAVL will make an open offerto the shareholders of the com-pany under the SEBI(Substantial Acquisition ofShares and Takeovers)Regulations, 2011, for which apublic announcement will bemade by GAVL separately, itadded.

“Depending on theresponse to the open offer,GAVL may acquire additionalshares from the promoters suchthat GAVL's total holding reach-es 50 per cent plus 1 share of thefully diluted share capital of thecompany after completion of theopen offer,” Astec Lifesciencessaid.

The transaction is subject tovarious conditions precedent,which include the sale of theequity shares held by the com-pany in its wholly-owned sub-sidiary, Astec Crop Care Pvt Ltd.

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Shree Shubham Logistics,co-promoted by Bafna

family, has appointed 62-year-old Dr Prakash Bakshi,the former Chairman ofNabard as Managing Director.Aditya Bafna, ExecutiveDirector of Shree ShubhamLogistics, a subsidiary of pub-lic listed Kalpataru PowerTransmission, has put in hispapers.

The exit of Bafna comeswhen the company is gearingup to launch its initial publicoffering to raise �210 crore.Sebi approved its applicationin June.

Incidentally, Bafna alongwith his brother ShubhendraKumar Bafna hold minoritystake in the company. Theproposed IPO provides a part-exit for private equity investorTano Capital which has offeredto offload 70 lakh shares.

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Private airport operatorGMR has put in place an

action plan to decongest thedomestic terminal (1D) at theIndira Gandhi InternationalAirport (IGIA). The actionplan include optimum utilisa-tion of check-in counters, intro-duction of flap gates at theboarding place and anincreased boarding gate areaamong others.

Budget carriers IndiGo,GoAir and SpiceJet currentlyoperate from this terminal,which was built to handle 16million passengers annually.

Civil Aviation Ministry hasalready given its nod to theaction plan, after aviation sec-retary RN Choubey held areview meeting during a recentvisit to the Delhi Airport, anofficial release said on Saturday.

The review meeting wasalso attended by officials fromCISF, Bureau of Civil AviationSecurity (BCAS) besidessenior management of DelhiInternational Airport Limited(DIAL), the joint venturecompany which runs IGIA.

The civil aviation secre-tary during the meetingemphasized for better coordi-nation among all stakeholdersincluding government agen-cies to provide a passengerfriendly environment at theairport, the release said.

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KOLKATA: India will be able to double its power generationin the next seven years, Union Coal and Power inister PiyushGoyal has said. “Very clearly, as we work to provide energy accessto every citizen of India 24X7 and as we work to eliminate diesel-generated power, sadly we still have several thousands of croresof rupees (spent) on diesel-generated power, which is muchmore expensive. The cost is borne by the people of the coun-try directly or indirectly,” Goyal said during a programme organ-ised by the BCC&I here. “All of these are sought to be replacedby thermal, gas, nuclear and renewable power and this will gen-erate great demand,” he reasoned. PNS

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Finance Minister ArunJaitley on Saturday kept up

suspense on whether contro-versial land acquisition ordi-nance will be repromulgated,saying a decision will be takenin the next 48 hours.

“Wait for next 48 hours(for a decision on land ordi-nance),” he said, when askedwhether the government hastake a decision with regard torepromulgate the ordinancewhich lapses on August 31.

The land acquisition ordi-nance, which sought to makeland acquisition for industrialprojects easier, generated lot ofpolitical controversy and waspromulgated for three times. Itwill expire on August 31.

The Government onFriday issued a statutory order

on Land Bill in lieu of re-pro-mulgation of land ordinance.The order will ensure com-pensation for land acquiredunder 13 Acts and will safe-guard the rehabilitation ofland owners.

Replying to a host of ques-tions at a function here, Jaitleymade a case for lowering inter-est rates saying it was essentialto raise the growth rate to 8-10 per cent.

“If we have to jump to 8

per cent plus or 8-10 per centgrowth bracket than all thestalled projects (have to berevived) and cost of capitalhave to go down,’ Jaitley said.

Although Reserve Bankreduced the benchmark inter-est rate by 0.75 per cent inthree tranches since January, itmaintained the status quo at itspolicy action earlier thismonth despite pressure fromindustry and Finance Ministry.

The next monetary pol-icy is due on September 29.The Government, he said,was working on the processof ease of doing business,bringing in bankruptcy law,rationalising taxation andintroducing proper publicprocurement policy. Theseare couple of areas onwhich work is in advancedstage, Jaitley said.

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Reliance Capital has pledged1.30 crore shares, or 5.14 per

cent stake, with Axis TrusteeServices. In a disclosure to theBSE, Reliance Capital said itstotal pledged shares with AxisTrustee Services stand at 22.56per cent.

Reliance Capital has pledged1.30 crore shares, or 5.14 per centstake, with Axis Trustee onAugust 26, the disclosure said. Atthe current market price of�307.70, the 1.30 crore pledgedshares are valued at around�400 crore.

Reliance Capital already had4.40 crore shares, or 17.42 percent, pledged with Axis TrusteeServices. This takes the totalpledged shares to 5.70 croreshares or 22.56 per cent.

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Facing economic downturn,China on Saturday removed

75 per cent loan-to-depositratio stipulation for its com-mercial banks to improve liq-uidity and imposed $2.5 trillionas ceiling for localGovernments to control thespiralling debt.

National People's Congress(NPC), China's legislature,adopted an amendment to theLaw on Commercial Banks,removing a 75 per cent loan-to-deposit ratio stipulation.

The ratio will instead beregarded as liquidity-monitor-ing indicator, state-run Xinhuanews agency reported.

China has kept the 75 percent ratio since the law wasenacted and put into effect in1995. The amendment will

take effect on October 1.“The ratio was set to pre-

vent over quick expansion ofcommercial banks' credit scaleand control liquidity risk, butit has become improper forcurrent needs,” said ShangFulin, chairman of the ChinaBanking RegulatoryCommission.

In another crucial policymove, the NPC also imposeda ceiling of 16 trillion yuan($2.505 trillion) for localGovernment debt in 2015. Itconsists of two parts, 15.4 tril-lion yuan of debt balanceowned by local governmentsby the end of 2014 and theremaining 0.6 trillion yuanthe maximum size of debtlocal governments are allowedto run up in 2015. China hasstruggled for years to rein inlocal government debt.

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Indrani Mukerjea alias Pori Borawas the pampered daughter of teagarden owner Upendra Kumar

Bora and Durga Rani Bora. Born inGuwahati, Indrani was always ambi-tious and a much talked about girl intown. “She was vivacious, friendly andoutgoing,” her classmate said. Herumpteen affairs come as no surpriseto her close friends but they areshocked to know about the coldblooded way in which she is allegedto have murdered her daughter. Canshe kill? “I really can’t say. She wasover the top and very smart but thishas come as a shocker,” her friendadded.

During her growing up years inAssam, there was a lot of unrest dueto the long-running anti-foreigneragitation that started in 1979. As aresult, Indrani continued her educa-tion in neighbouring Meghalaya. It ishere in Lady Keane College (Shillong)that Indrani met Siddharth Das andfell in love with his wit and charm. Itis believed that she had two childrenfrom a relationship with him —Sheena and Mikhail. “We were notconstantly in touch once she movedto Shillong but during her visit toGuwahati, she used to talk about her‘good handsome’ friend who reallycared for her,” the friend said.

There is another theory about herchildren. Some say, Indrani hadeloped with Chirag, her senior in col-lege. They were not married, but hadtwo children — Sheena and Mikhail.According to those rumours, Indrani’sfather had set up a restaurant forChirag, who was jobless then, in theGaneshguri area of Guwahati.However, the business did not take offand the couple soon separated.Indrani went to Kolkata, leaving thechildren with her parents inGuwahati. There she met and marriedSiddhartha Das, a businessman fromAgartala with trade interests inGuwahati and Kolkata.

She was a popular girl in collegebut never an open book. One couldnever say for sure what went on in hermind. In Kolkata, in the 1990s, shestudied computers and took up anapartment as a paying guest.

Within three years, she starteddating influential businessmanSanjeev Khanna. They got married in1993. Indrani’s parents were not pre-sent on the occasion. Indrani andSanjeev had a daughter, Vidhie in1997. In 2001, the couple moved toMumbai.

But all was not well in their mar-riage. Sanjeev’s friends recall that thefallout was extremely bitter anddragged on for more than six monthsbefore the couple decided to call itquits.

While Sanjeev was broodingbecause of a failed marriage, Indranimoved on pretty quickly. In 2002, shewas introduced to Peter Mukherjeaby Alyque Padamsee. “In three daystime, Peter told me that he was see-ing her and was very happy,” SuheilSeth recalls that incident.

After a six-month courtship, inNovember 2002, Indrani married

Peter Mukerjea. After this marriage,Vidhie Khanna moved in with theMukerjeas and took the Mukerjeasurname. Sheena and Mikhail by thattime had also found jobs n Mumbaiand were looking to connect withtheir biological mother.

In 2005, after much deliberation,Indrani introduced her childrenSheena and Mikhail to Peter as heryounger siblings.

In 2006, Sheena Bora moved inwith the Mukerjeas when she waspursuing her graduation from areputed college in Mumbai.

Apart from her colourful life andumpteen affairs, Indrani was aknown person in the broadcastbusiness circuit. Along with Peter,she held 50 per cent stake in INXMedia and the rest came frominvestors such as New Silk Route,Temasek Holdings and New VernonPrivate Equity. INX was in thenews from the very beginning. Asthe founder and CEO of the net-work, Indrani became a regular fea-ture in the business Press. She wascelebrated as the youngest femaleCEO of a broadcast company glob-ally. In 2008, she received the ‘UttarRatna’ award for “achieving hervision of creating a cable and satel-lite network from scratch”. Thesame year, she was nominated as theprestigious “50 women to watch outfor” global list released by WallStreet Journal. As she soared, herchannel dipped and eventually thecouple had to take their stake in thecompany and move out for good.From 2012 to 2015, the Mukerjeasdivided their time between resi-dences in Worli, Mumbai, Bristol(UK) and Marbella (Spain).

Today, Indrani is in custody forallegedly killing her daughterSheena in cold blood. Sheena wasstrangled on April 24, 2012, alleged-ly by Indrani's ex-husband SanjeevKhanna, with Indrani and her dri-ver Shyam Rai also in the car.

All mails sent from Sheena'sphone after that were aimed at pro-jecting that Sheena had left for theUS and was not interested in return-ing to India.

Asoft spoken girl with impeccable manners is how Sheena’sfriends remember her. Born in Guwahati, Sheena was a bright

student with a vision to make it big in life. She was an achieverwho always wanted to venture out of Guwahati. She had friendswho worked in Delhi and Mumbai and Sheena wanted to followsuit.

Immediately after finishing her higher secondary school,Sheena came to Mumbai looking for a career and more impor-tantly to be with her mother. “Sheena was very emotional aboutour mother. She had many questions and wanted answers to allof them,” her brother Mikhail said.

Sheena pursued her graduation in Economics from St Xavier’sCollege in Mumbai and moved into Indrani’s home as her sister.In 2009, she joined Reliance Infrastructure as a management traineeand in 2011 became an assistant manager with Mumbai MetroOne Pvt Ltd (MMOPL), a joint venture company owned byReliance Infrastructure, Veolia Transport and the MumbaiMetropolitan Region Development Authority.

While living with her mother in Mumbai, Sheena fell in lovewith Rahul (Peter Mukherjea’s son from this first marriage).Although Peter was fine with the relationship, Indrani was nottoo happy because Rahul was not earning.

“They used to converse in Assamese which was difficult forme to follow but I could gauge that there were a lot of problems.I assumed the sisters would talk it through and sort the issues,”Peter Mukherjea told mediapersons. On April 24, 2012 Sheenawent on leave and was not seen again. Her mother, IndraniMukerjea, claimed that Sheena finally saw reason and broke offwith her boyfriend Rahul. Her friends were told that Sheena hadgone to the US for higher studies. She had in fact been ruthless-ly murdered by her mother.

The last time I saw her was in February 2012 when Sheenahad come to Guwahati for a friends wedding. She never men-tioned about going to the US,” Mikhail told reporters.

Born in United Kingdom, PeterMukherjea had it in him to make

it big. The Doon school product wasalways amongst the toppers and hedeveloped a strong business acumenvery early on in his career.

When he was 29, Peter was cho-sen by global media baron RupertMurdoch to steer his ship in India.Broadcast was much in news at thattime as private broadcasting wasstill an upcoming phenomenon.Peter, as CEO of Star India, redefinedentertainment in Indian by launch-ing iconic shows like Kaun BanegaCrorepati and Kyunki Saas Bhi KabhiBahu Thi.

Peter hogged all media attentionand his newly-wed glamorous wifeIndrani received equal praise. In2007, the couple hit the headlineswhen Peter announced his departurefrom Star India to launch a rivalbroadcast network, apparently at thebehest of Indrani. That is how INXNetwork was born.

However, INX never really tookoff. The Mukerjeas were made to stepdown amid controversies and alle-gations of mismanagement andfinancial problems in 2009. As pro-moters, they were handsomely com-pensated for their stake in the ven-ture. The couple shifted base toBristol in the UK soon after the exit.“They were pretty much settled in theUK though they would occasionallyvisit their house at Worli in Mumbai,”says a person close to the couple.“Early this year, however, they cameback and were planning to once againsettle here,” he says.

Peter, today, is a non-plussed hus-band, who maintains that he had noidea about his wife’s nefarious activ-ities and that he genuinely believedthat Sheena was, indeed, her sister. Heeven fell out with his son over whenthe latter suggested to him that therewas something fishy.

Kolkata’s whisky circuit is agog,thanks to their most active

member Sanjeev Khanna and hisalleged involvement in a murdermost foul. Jaws have never droppedlike this before at Calcutta Cricketand Football Club, the most sought-after evening addresses among thecity’s ‘hi-bye’ socialites.

Sanjeev Khanna is definitelyshort-tempered but was he so cold-blooded as to murder a young girlso unscrupulously? Kolkata’s partycircles are still asking this question,particularly CCFC, an ancient colo-nial institution.

“But who knows what is buriedin whose mind? We were partyfriends and seldom venturedbeyond that,” says a Khanna buddywho was also his drinking partnerfor the past few years. “But I havenever been to his place. If he haskilled someone then it is his busi-ness and he has to give an accountof that.” Sanjeev’s life took an uglyturn last Wednesday with the door-bell ringing at 20B Belvedre Roadin South Kolkata’s Alipore areawhere he was having dinner. Thosewho entered through the door inthe guise of Cable TV operatorssoon morphed into cops who hadsniffed him out.

After a brief interrogation,Khanna was arrested under Section302 (murder) Section 364 (kidnap-ping), Section 201 (destruction ofevidence) and Section 120B (crim-inal conspiracy).

Going back in time, Khanna’slife changed years ago the momenthe fell in love with Indrani Bora/Dasa deeply charming yet ferociouslyambitious lady of not-so-highmorals, of Guwahati and decided totie the knot with her, overrulingfriends’ advice against going steadywith a woman to whom love meanta means to reach the summit,sources at CCFC say. “Sanjeev is awhisky buff. Sometimes he gets sodrunk that he even picks up brawlswith others” says a friend. Once hewas suspended from the heritageClub. “But he is philosophical tooand seldom gave the impression thathe can kill even an ant.” He keeps

within his own group though hewaves at everyone with whom hehas spoken at least once, sources say.

But then why would he tell hisfriends a couple of days ago that hewas in trouble and might have toinvoke a politician to bail him out?Asked whether money played a rolein Sanjeev’s journey to Mumbai andsubsequently him getting involvedin the crime, a friend requestinganonymity said “he has his ownbusiness houses at Kolkata’sHastings and other areas. One is notsure whether he needed more cash.”

Co-incidentally, Khanna’sfather was also reportedly murderedwhen he was a child and he wasbrought up by a relative.Subsequently, he was educated at

Mayo College and came back toKolkata to start his own businessthat had its own ups and downs.First, he tried his luck in the CableTV business, worked as an HRDperson during which time he camein touch with Indrani who was thenrunning a placement service. Shelived at the YWCA hostel. Thoughthere was nothing abnormal in herconduct that she was ambitiouscould be proved by her tendency togo make friends with high andmighty who visited the club, says afriend and wife of an Air Force offi-cial. DJ Clair, a friend of Khanna’s,says: “It is difficult to believe that heis involved in a murder but he him-self was such a distressed person attimes”. On whether he could have

killed Indrani’s daughter Sheena,there are not many answers. “You donot look into people’s bedrooms. Ifhe has done so let him pay the price.But his outward appearance is dif-ferent,” a friend said. The onlyexpression his mates would see inhim for the past a few years was adeep urge to meet his daughterVidhie who had been kept awayfrom him by his ex-wife Indraniever since they separated.

Apart from loving his drink“which could be one way Indranimight have trapped him” Sanjeevwas a good dart player representinghis club. He is also a businessmanrunning his own business and man-aging the ones owned by friend AjayRawla.

In fact he has been managingRawla’s heritage hotel at BudgeBudge off Kolkata for a long time.Friends say, he was in touch withIndrani and would regularly beg herto let him see his daughter who hadsince been adopted by PeterMukerjea, Indrani’s current hus-band. “In fact, he had not marriedthe second time and was perhapsnurturing a faint hope that one dayhe might be united with Indrani andVidhie,” his friend said.

Khanna’s longing for his daugh-ter had led him to write on herFacebook post: “A daughter is oneof the most and beautiful gifts thisworld has to give.” This is one rea-son why his friends wonder whethera person who loves his own daugh-ter so much will kill someone else’s.By the same logic, others argue“perhaps his uncontrollable desirefor his daughter may have ledIndrani to lure him into doing thisact. Who knows!”

In another post, he has written,“there is no need for revenge. Justsit back and wait. Those who hurtyou will eventually hurt themselvesand if you are lucky God will let youwatch.”

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Cheteshwar Pujara marked his come-back with a gritty unbeaten centu-ry as India recovered from an early

slump to reach a decent 292/8 in their firstinnings of the third and final cricket Testagainst Sri Lanka here on Saturday.

The 27-year-old Pujara (135 batting)notched up his seventh Test century as heanchored the Indian innings brilliantly totake them to a respectable total after beingreduced to 119/5 at one stage on anengrossing second day.

Pujara found an able ally in tailenderAmit Mishra (59) as the duo put on a res-olute 104-run partnership, the highesteighth wicket stand on this ground, whichallowed India to claw back into the game.

Ishant Sharma (2) was giving Pujaracompany when stumps were drawn earlybecause of rain and a wet outfield result-ing in the loss more than 12 overs.

Resuming at the overnight score of50/2, India lost the wickets of captain ViratKohli (18), Rohit Sharma (26), Stuart Binny(0), Naman Ojha (21) and RavichandranAshwin (5) in quick succession but Pujaraand Mishra frustrated the hosts.

For Sri Lanka, Dhammika Prasad (4for 83) was the pick of the bowlers, whileNuwan Pradeep, Angelo MathewsRangana Herath and Tharindu Kaushalchipped in with a wicket apiece.

The first session clearly belonged to thehosts as they took two wickets for 69 runsand also claimed the honours in the sec-ond session by reducing India to 220/7.

However, the visitors relied on Pujara’stemperament and application to rebuildthe innings while Mishra also showed thathe was no pushover with the bat. Pujarahit 13 boundaries during his long vigil andmade his comeback into the Test team amemorable one after a four- Test layoff.

The day began 15 minutes early as stip-ulated for the remainder of this Test match,and the Sri Lankan bowlers were imme-diately on top.

Dhammika and Pradeep got good pur-chase from the still- fresh pitch. The formerlooked especially threatening throughout themorning session and was really unlucky notto have picked up more wickets.

He had two huge shouts for LBWagainst Virat Kohli (18) in the very firstover of the day, and the first one a veryclose call, but umpire Nigel Llong did notaccept the bowler’s appeals.

At the other end, Pradeep also madePujara hop and skip as the ball took off

from a good length, displaying the differ-entiating bounce in the pitch. India’sscoring rate was very slow of course as itwas a tough first hour’s play, with only sixruns coming off the first five overs.

The Pujara-Kohli combine brought uptheir 50-partnership in the 23rd over, andthen immediately Angelo Mathews (1/8)dismissed Kohli, who was caught behind

chasing a wide ball outside the off-stump.Keeper Kusal Perera, who had droppedKohli on 8 yesterday, did not make anymistake this time and gleefully acceptedthis chance.

Rohit walked in to join Pujara at theother end as Rangana Herath (0/37) cameon. He looked to attack the spinnerimmediately, going over the top a couple

of occasions, and hitting him for a six aswell. This positive intent rubbed off onPujara as well and runs started flowing inthe latter half of the session. The first hourof play yielded just 22 runs at the expenseof one wicket in 15 overs.

Playing with soft hands against pac-ers, Pujara opened up against the spinnersas well, stepping out of the crease time andagain. He was severe on Tharindu Kaushal(0/17) smacking three fours in his very firstover as India crossed the 100-run mark inthe 41st over. Two overs later, theSaurashtra batsman reached his half-cen-tury off 127 balls.

Their 50-run partnership came off 117balls as Kaushal was hit out of the attack afteronly a couple of overs. Prasad then returned

for one last spell before the lunch break andgot instant purchase from the pitch.

Just when it appeared that the twoIndian batsmen would go safely into thelunch break, Rohit went hard at an outswinger and edged the ball to first slip.

Ashwin failed once again with the batin what is proving to be a lean series byhis standards. But Mishra then stuckaround long enough to help push India’stotal past the 200-mark in the 70th over.

The day was, however, all about Pujara,who batted at a strike-rate of 46.11 and ges-tured keenly towards the dressing room onreaching his hundred off 214 balls. Pujaraand Mishra continued to frustrate Sri Lankain the post-tea session, furthering their 40-run partnership despite second ball taken.

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Pakistan’s tainted former captainSalman Butt has asked the

PCB’s anti-corruption officials andlegal advisors to reconsider thereintegration and rehabilitationplan for the disgraced trio.

Butt met the PCB’s anti-cor-ruption officials and legal advisorson Friday and requested them toallow him to resume playing firstclass cricket from September 2.

“Salman Butt has requested areview of the action plan and is keen

to get clearance to at least play firstclass cricket,” said a board official.

The Pakistan Cricket Board onWednesday had announced a com-prehensive action plan for Butt,Muhammad Asif and MuhammadAamir to reintegrate them back intomainstream cricket.

But the plan rules them out ofplaying first class cricket untilFebruary 2016 as they attend anti-corruption programs, deliver anti-corruption lectures in differentregions, have counselling sessions,train and meet fitness standards at

the national cricket academy andmend fences with the members ofthe national team.

The trio’s five-year bans forspot fixing expire on September 1midnight and the ICC said theycan return to national and inter-national cricket after that date.

But Pakistan’s former Test cap-tain Ramiz Raja has advised thePCB to rule out any chances of thetrio returning to the national team.

“The PCB can give them per-mission to play some domesticcricket and perhaps even assist

them financially but they must notbe allowed to represent Pakistanagain,” Raja said in Lahore.

The former skipper made itclear that the trio by indulging inspot fixing in England on the2010 tour had brought a badname to Pakistan cricket and tar-nished its image.

“It would be unfair to haveeight players in a team who areclean and want to win and threeplayers about whom they willalways be doubts that they don’twant to win,” he said.

Raja said even the reintegra-tion/rehabilitation plan would notmake the trio corruption free crick-eters. “They did something whichbadly hurt Pakistan cricket and itsintegrity and image and it hastaken many years to once againrestore our image internationally. Idon’t think they deserve a secondchance to play for Pakistan,” he said.

Raja also felt that the currentPakistan team had become anunified outfit, which could surviveand continue to do well withoutthe three tainted players.

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ing a flurry of wickets, pacerDhammika Prasad on Saturdaysaid Sri Lanka can claw backinto the game as the nature ofthe wicket was changing and itwas not as bowler friendly as atthe start of the Test.

Riding on Pujara’s unbeat-en 135, India closed Day 2 on292 for eight with lot of time lostdue to rain interruptions — only15 overs were possible on theopening day. Dhammika, whohas picked up four wickets so far,is confident of making it counton the morning of Day 3.

“In the first session (yester-day), we could get lots of seammovement. In the latter part ofthe day it has changed a bit. It’snot doing as much as it did yes-terday. It’s changed a bit,”Prasad said.

“There was a lot of swing inthe morning today too. Whenthe pitch had some sun in theafternoon, it slowed down a lit-tle. Now that the wicket is cov-ered, there will be something init tomorrow morning. I think weshould be able to get those twowickets (remaining),” he added.

India were struggling at 119for five and then were reducedto 180 for seven before Pujaragot going with Amit Mishra(59). The duo stitched a 104-run eight-wicket partnership tobring Indian back on their feet,but Prasad sees a lot of light at

the end of the tunnel.“We had seven of their

wickets for 180, then they hadthat 100-run stand. We were inthe ascendancy, but with thecentury stand we went down alittle bit. But I think we can getthe remaining wickets cheap-ly and regain a good position,”Prasad said.

Making batsmen play andmiss on his away-going deliver-ies, Prasad (4-83) was morethan a threat to many an Indianbatsmen. His verbal chats withPujara and Virat Kohli alsoadded spice to the days play andPrasad said it’s all part of thegame. “At the time, I had hadtwo close lbw appeals againstKohli. I was a little frustratedbecause I didn’t get them. Also,Kohli and Pujara were gettingbeaten a lot by the balls I wassending down. I was desperatefor a wicket, so with that frus-tration, I did anything I coulddo to try and get that wicket,” hesaid, when asked about thechatter in the middle.

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Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anandwill have an uphill task at hand when he takes

on Dutchman Anish Giri in the sixth round of the$300000 prize money tournament here.

After losing the first two games and draw-ing the next three, Anand is in joint ninth spotin the 10-player round-robin tournament. He isnow desperately looking for a turnaround in hisperformance and fortunes.

Anand started the tournament losing toHikaru Nakamura of United States and then suf-fered another defeat at the hands of RussianAlexander Grischuk in the second round.

Thereafter Anand drew the next three withVeselin Topalov of Bulgaria, American FabianoCaruana and French star Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Up against Giri in the next round, Anandwill have black pieces but then he will play with

Wesley So of United States with white.Anand’s only concern could be against

Armenian Levon Aronian in the penultimateround, while he could really turn things aroundin the final game when he takes on World cham-pion Magnus Carlsen of Norway,

Carlsen, meanwhile, has staged a big comebackin the tournament after losing the first round to

Topalov. On 3.5 points, the Norwegian shares thepodium currently with Aronian and these two arefollowed by Giri and Topalov with three points each.

With just four games to go, Hikaru Nakamurais also training his sights for a good finish alongwith Vachier-Lagrave on 2.5 points, whileGrischuk and Caruana would be hoping for thesame having pocketed two points each.

After a rather sedate start, Carlsen has wonthree out of his last four games and it all startedwith a dramatic victory from a lost position againstCaruana in the second round. The world cham-pion is getting better with each round and hisdemolition of Wesley So in the fourth round wasa remarkable effort. Aronian is showing his truemettle after a long time in elite tournament andhe, too, looks determined to make things go hisway. The showdown with Carlsen in round sixmight be decisive for the Armenian who is theonly unbeaten player here, besides Anish Giri.

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Shiv Kapur, the lone Indian tomake the cut at the D+D REAL

Czech Masters, shot a two-under70 that included two birdies and 16pars in the third round of the tour-nament.

Kapur, whose even par 72 insecond round helped him get intothe weekend rounds, is now three-under 213 and rose from tied 61stto tied 44th. In the third roundKapur birdied the first and 10th andhad pars on all remaining holes.

Meanwhile the remaining threeIndians missed the cut, as SSPChawrasia (73-73), GaganjeetBhullar (72-73) and Jeev MilkhaSingh (76-70) exited early.

Rising star Matthew Fitzpatrickholed a 15ft birdie putt on his finalhole for a share of the lead at thehalfway mark. The Englishman,who turns 21 next Tuesday, alsosank a 30ft eagle putt on the 12thhole in his five under par secondround of 67 to move to 11 under parfor the tournament, a total whichwas match by Sweden’s Pelle Edberg,who also birdied his final hole for around of 67.

It was Fitzpatrick’s second con-secutive bogey-free round atAlbatross Golf Resort as he bids fora maiden European Tour title, hav-ing finished runner up to fellowSheffield native Danny Willett in lastmonth’s Omega European Mastersin Switzerland.

�����������::������C������C������A� Himmat Rai played hisbest round of the week on the finalday of the Ciputra GolfpreneurTournament to finish Tied-22nd.

Rai, a former Asian Tour win-ner, had seven birdies against threebogeys as he finished at 10-underpar 278 for the week. Rai shotrounds of 70, 71, 69 and 68.

Rai began with a hat-trick ofbirdies and then added furtherbirdies on sixth, 10th, 13th and 17th.He dropped shots on fifth, seventhand 11th. Michael Tran of Vietnamsensationally won his maiden AsianDevelopment Tour (ADT) title afterdefeating overnight co-leader LamChih Bing of Singapore on the firstplay-off hole.

��6�����A Former wrestling coach VinodKumar, who was to be considered for theDronacharya Award 2015 following a DelhiHigh Court order, will have to wait longer asa larger bench today ordered further hearingon various “disputed questions” on the issue.

A single judge bench had on Fridaydirected the Centre to include Kumar in thelist of awardees, saying that it was “alarming”that the selection committee had not consid-ered the accolades conferred on him.

A division bench headed by Chief JusticeG Rohini, however, ordered further hearingof the matter saying that “there are variousdisputed questions of facts which need to bedealt with by the single judge bench.”

“In the light of the material available onrecord, it appears to us that the matterinvolves various disputed questions of facts andrequire consideration after giving an oppor-tunity of being heard to all the parties,” thebench, also comprising Justice Nath, said.

It, however, gave a green signal to theMinistry of Youth Affairs and Sports to goahead with the function to confer the pres-tigious award on the other coach Anup Singh.

The court made it clear that the confer-ment of the award would be subject to theoutcome of the pending litigation.

It said that “the single judge is requiredto dispose of the matter expeditiously, prefer-ably within six weeks from today without hav-ing regard to any of the observations/findingrecorded in the order under appeal.”

The bench said that although the orderchallenged by the Ministry of Youth Affairs andSports is interim and the main matter is pend-ing but the direction in the order that petition-er Vinod Kumar be included in the list ofawardees amounted to the relief actuallysought in his petition. It also took into theaccount the statement of Additional SolicitorGeneral Sanjay Jain that in the event of VinodKumar succeding in his case, the SportsMinistry will take appropriate steps in termsof the order that may be passed in his, includ-ing the conferment of the award. ./7

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Relieved after notching up his firsthundred in close to two years,

Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara onSaturday thanked A team coach RahulDravid for reassuring him that therewas “nothing wrong” with his tech-nique during the prolonged lean patch.

Pujara, who made a grand come-back to the playing XI by scoring anunbeaten 135, had spent quality timewith Dravid last month while playingagainst Australia A in Chennai.

“The best thing came out ofRahul Dravid when I was playing withIndia A team.He said thatthere is nothingwrong with mytechnique. So hetold me to keepcalm. Hewatched me batin the nets andtold me thatthere is a big onecoming verysoon, maybe inSri Lanka oreven in the India-A game. So that gaveme lot of confidence and belief inmyself,” Pujara said.

“He (Dravid) felt that overall, Iwas batting really well duringEngland and Australia tours. It’sjust that I didn’t convert the 30s or40s into a big one. So I decided tostick to what I do and continue play-ing the way I have been.”

Pujara said that he decided tokeep things simple today even whenwickets fell at the other end.

“I kept things simple. When Iwent in, I just had to go bat and playmy natural game. I thought that if Ithink about all the stuff that had beenhappening, that I am not batting atmy regular position and this is thelast opportunity that might be thereand so on, I wouldn’t be able to goand perform to the best of my abil-ities,” said the Rajkot-born player.

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Usain Bolt is perfect yet again.Dispelling two years of injurydoubts, the Jamaican won three

sprint gold medals this week for an over-all world championship record of 11.The last of them came on Saturday whenhe anchored the 4x100-meter relayteam with free-flowing, giant strides thathave made him an icon for the sport.

“This is even better to me. Just toprove everybody wrong,” Bolt said. “Icame out and proved you can nevercount Usain Bolt out.”

Behind him, the United States wasfar back in second place. But JustinGatlin, who had been unbeaten in twoseasons of sprinting, lost the chancefor a third silver when the Americanteam was disqualified for a badexchange on the anchor leg.

According to Bolt, the Americansjust couldn’t deal with the situation ofbeing the favourites.

“It is stress. It is pressure,” Boltsaid. “It is easy for people to chasepeople, but when you are the onebeing chased it is much harder.”

The Americans lost their chancefor a medal when they botched theirlast handover, just as Bolt grabbed thebaton for the last leg of the race.

“We looked good in prelims. Welooked good in practice,” Tyson Gaysaid after he got the baton to MikeRodgers outside the exchange zone.“We just didn’t get it around.”

To the delight of the tens of thou-sands of fans in the Bird’s Nest, Chinamoved up to silver and Canada tookbronze.

It was Bolt’s third sprint triple ina row, starting at the London Olympicsand continuing through the 2013worlds in Moscow, and fifth overall.

There was a distinctly gladiatori-al atmosphere in the Bird’s Nest as allteams entered the arena through a tra-ditional Chinese facade, passing cheer-leaders and flagbearers to be intro-

duced to a raucous capacity crowd.Not only has Bolt won 11 individ-

ual world or Olympic sprint titles froma possible 12 since he took track andfield by storm at the 2008 BeijingOlympics, but the 29-year-old has alsobeen a key part of the relay team.

Despite losing to the US team atthis year’s World Relays, much to Bolt’svisible annoyance, the Jamaicans havewon all world and Olympic sprinttitles since the 2008 Beijing Games,and also set a world record of 36.84secwhile winning gold at the LondonGames.

The Americans got solace fromAshton Eaton’s world-record perfor-

mance in the decathlon. The Olympicchampion beat his own mark with astirring run in the closing 1,500meters of the race.

Eaton was around world-recordpace throughout the 10 events overtwo days and, with exhaustion hang-ing heavy in the Bird’s Nest, he pushedthrough pain to total 9,045 points, sixbetter than his previous best.

His chest heaving, he crumpled tothe track. Once he got up, he only hadone thing on his mind: seeking out hiswife, heptathlon silver medalistBrianne Theisen-Eaton, for an emo-tional embrace in the stands.

“The result is awesome,” Eatonsaid.

For the Jamaicans, the women’s4x100 relay team made Saturday’s

sprint party complete.They brought a smile to Bolt’s face

ahead of his race when they won gold,beating the US team with a champi-onship record and the second fastesttime in history at 41.07. It also was thesecond gold for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, whose performances wereagain as flashy as her green hairdo.

The Jamaican win denied AllysonFelix a 10th world title, but theAmerican veteran will get anotherchance in Sunday’s 4x400 relay. “Thisis not the end for me,” Felix said.

Veronica Campbell-Brown, how-ever, got another sprint relay gold 11years after winning the 4x100 title atthe 2004 Athens Olympics. At 33, shewas the leadoff runner.

Earlier, Mo Farah joined Boltwith a third straight double in indi-vidual events at global competitionssince winning the 5,000 and 10,000meters at the London Olympics. Afterdefending the 10,000 world title on theopening day last weekend, he had arelatively easy race in the 5,000 meterson Saturday.

Hanging back in last place for thefirst two kilometers, Farah then quick-ly moved up. When Caleb Ndikusought to sprint away over the last lap,Farah kept the Kenyan in check andbeat him in the finishing straight. “Itfelt amazing,” Farah said. “Incredible.”

Ever since the 2012 Olympics,Farah has been unbeatable over thelong distance races and has six majorgold medals to show for it. Only Bolthas done similar.

On a road just outside the Bird’sNest, Matej Toth of Slovakia won thelongest event at the championships,taking gold in the 50-kilometer walkin 3:40:32. In other events, Russianhigh jumper Maria Kuchina tookgold ahead of Blanka Vlasic of Croatia,Marina Arzamasova of Belarus wonthe 800 and Piotr Malachowski wonthe discus, giving Poland a third goldin the throwing events.

>��C���A�Indian athletes continued their disappointingperformance in the World Championships as country’sbest hope Vikas Gowda finished a poor ninth in thefinal round of the men’s discus throw event on thepenultimate day of competitions here on Saturday.

Gowda, the reigning Asian and Commonwealthchampion, had an off day in the office as he could only comeup with a best effort of just 62.24m, well below his season’sbest of 65.75m and personal as well as national record of66.28m. He had made it to the final round with a best effortof 63.84m in the qualification round on Thursday.

The 32-year-old United States-based Indian began thefinal round with a below-par 60.28m and then fouled hissecond attempt. With a big throw needed in the third roundto stay in the competition, Gowda apparently buckled underpressure and came up with a mere 62.24m which was notgood enough for him to make it to the top-eight.

After three rounds, the top eight throwers remained inthe competition for three more attempts to decide the podi-um finishers while the four bottom placers are eliminated.

Piotr Malachowski of Poland won the gold medal witha best throw of 67.40m while Philip Milanov (66.90m) ofBelgium and Robert Urbanek (65.18m), also of Poland, took

the silver and bronze.This was Gowda’s

fifth appearance in theWorld Championshipsand third to be in thefinal round. He failed toqualify in the finalround in 2005 and 2007while he had finishedseventh in both 2011and 2013 editions.

Earlier in the day,Indian women’s 4x400mrelay team and men’s50km race walkersbrought up the rear witha disappointing show.

Sandeep Kumar and Manish Singh Rawat finished 26thand 27th respectively out of 38 athletes who completed themen’s 50km race walk event with timings of 3:57:03 and3:57:11 early in the morning. It was though season’s bestperformance for Sandeep while Rawat’s effort was his per-sonal best.

Then the Indian women’s 4x400m team crashed outat the heat stage. The quartet of Tintu Luka, MRPoovamma, Debasree Majumdar and Jisna Mathew finishedlast in an eight-team heat number two with a season’s besttiming of 3:29.08.

Indian women’s team had never entered the finals ofWorld Championships earlier and the sad story continuedhere as well. Lalita Babar, O P Jaisha and Sudha Singhwill take part in women’s marathon on the last day ofcompetitions on Sunday.

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Indian women’s hockey team will return to theOlympics after a long gap of 36 years as it qual-

ified on Saturday for next year’s Rio Games, cour-tesy England making it to the final of the ongo-ing Euro Hockey Championships in London.

England’s semifinal victory over Spain, com-ing after the Netherlands’ win over Germany in theother semifinal in the European Championshipsfreed one quota place as both the finalists havealready qualified for the Olympic Games.

India took the quota place on the basis of itsfifth-place finish in the women’s Hockey WorldLeague Semifinals in Antwerp last month.

International Hockey Federation (FIH) con-firmed that Indian women’s team has qualifiedfor the Rio Games.

“India qualified after England defeated Spainin the semi-finals of the Unibet EuroHockeyChampionships in London, which ensured that theonly teams — The Netherlands and England (asGreat Britain) — who can now win the event havealready qualified for Rio through the Hockey WorldLeague Semi-Finals,” the FIH said in a statement.

“The winner of the EuroHockeyChampionships will qualify for the 2016Olympics as European continental champions,opening up a further qualification spot whichIndia secure as the team who ranked highest atthe Hockey World League Semi-Finals notalready qualified,” it said.

Indian women’s team now join nine otherteams, who have already qualified for 2016 RioGames — Korea as Asian Games champions,Argentina as Pan Am Games champions andGreat Britain, China, Germany, Netherlands,Australia, New Zealand and the USA through theHockey World League Semi-Finals.

Indian women’s hockey team last featured inan Olympics in the 1980 Moscow Games, wherethey finished at a respectable fourth position.

Hockey India applauded the historic achieve-ment of the women’s hockey team.

“It is a proud moment for Hockey India andthe whole country. We have been waiting for this

for the last 36 years and this achievement is thesweetest and the most memorable among all ourprevious feats in recent times,” HI PresidentNarinder Batra said in a release.

“I congratulate all the players and coachingstaff who made this dream real and this achieve-ment also shows their commitment toward theirresponsibilities. Hockey India thanks all thecoaches who trained these players at their respec-tive academies, parents, sponsors and the entirehockey fraternity, who continuously motivated theplayers and without their support, we could nothave achieved this success. I am sure the girls willmake us proud at the Olympics,” he said.

Hockey India Secretary General MohdMushtaque Ahmad said: “The Olympics quali-fication is indeed a great achievement for theIndian Women Team and the Indian hockey fra-ternity. The players and the Coaching Staff havedone a commendable job and they are still train-ing hard for the 2016 Olympic Games. HockeyIndia is doing its part and fulfilling all the require-ments of the team.

“I congratulate the whole team and the peo-ple who have been working hard behind the sceneto achieve this success. However, the job is stillhalf done and the team now has to set a new aimof clinching the first Olympic medal,” he said.

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Tennis star Sania Mirza was on Saturdayconferred with the prestigious Rajiv

Gandhi Khel Ratna — the country’shighest sporting honour — while shoot-ing sensation Jitu Rai was among theArjuna award recipients in a glittering cer-emony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.

President Pranab Mukherjee pre-sented the award to Sania, clad in amaroon saree and blue blazer, amid thun-derous applause at the Durbar hall whereSports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal wasamong the attendees.

Sania became the second tennis play-er to receive the country’s highest sport-ing honour after Leander Paes on a daywhen Sports Ministry was fighting a courtcase that raised questions against itsprocess of selecting the awardees.

The President also gave away the

Arjuna awards even as the line-up was lowon star power in the absence of cricketerRohit Sharma, who missed the ceremo-ny alongside boxer Mandeep Jangra andquarter miler M R Poovamma. In all, the(retired) Justice V K Bali led panel had rec-ommended 17 names for Arjuna.

Sania, who attracted the loudestapplause from the esteemed gathering atthe Rashtrapati Bhavan, received a medal,certificate and cash prize of �7.5 lakh. Shehad flown in just to receive the awardahead of the US Open starting in NewYork on Monday.

The Arjuna awardees received stat-uettes, certificates and award money of �5lakh each.

The ceremony, however, was shroud-ed in controversy with the ignored athletesand coaches not accepting the recommen-dations of the Ministry-appointed panel.

Just when it seemed there would be

no controversy in the lead up to this year’sfunction, para-athlete H N Girishaapproached the Karnataka High Courtchallenging Sania’s recommendation forKhel Ratna.

While Girisha will still be hopeful ofgetting the award later, another court case

pending is of wrestling coach VinodKumar, who went to Delhi High Courtclaiming he was more deserving for theDronacharya award than his rival AnoopSingh, whose name was recommended bythe government-appointed panel. It willbe known in the next weeks whether hegets the Dronacharya or not.

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to be conferred with the Rajiv Gandhi KhelRatna and the recognition will push herfurther to do well on the professional tourand next year’s Rio Olympics.

Amongst Sania’s many achievements,what stands out is her women’s doubles tri-umph at Wimbledon with partner MartinaHingis earlier this year, becoming doublesworld number one and now the KhelRatna, country’s highest sporting honour.

“I would not like to pick any and say

one was a bigger achievement than theother. It is a simply a huge honour to getthis award. It has been an amazing yearso far, becoming the world number oneand winning the Wimbledon of course,”Sania said after receiving the award fromPresident Pranab Mukherjee.

Sania got the honour with the awardsmired in controversy again. Her recom-mendation for Khel Ratna was chal-lenged by para-athlete H N Girisha in theKarnataka High Court, which sent noticesto the Sports Ministry and the tennis play-er herself.

Asked about controversies year afteryear in the National Sports Awards, Saniabluntly refused to comment.

The star further said that she is look-ing forward to the US Open starting onMonday and is not thinking about RioOlympics yet.

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Jose Mourinho endured anothersetback at the start of Chelsea’s

title defense as his 100th premierleague home game ended in a 2-1loss to Crystal Palace on Saturday.

It was only the second timeMourinho’s Chelsea has lost in theleague at Stamford Bridge, leavingthe champions eight points behindleader Manchester City.

For Palace manager AlanPardew it was a third victory overMourinho in less than two years,with the previous successes com-ing while in charge of Newcastle.

After winning at Chelsea forthe first time since 1982, Palace hasa five-point advantage on itsLondon rival after four games.

Saturday’s game came to lifeafter Bakary Sako put Palace aheadin the 65th minute. AlthoughRadamel Falcao leveled with hisfirst Chelsea goal in the 79th,Palace was back in front inside twominutes through Joel Ward.

Meanwhile in the other majorupset Mark Noble scored andwas later sent off as West Hamstunned Liverpool 3-0 for its firstvictory at Anfield since 1963 inleague game that both teams fin-ished with 10 men.

Liverpool had not conceded agoal in its opening three games butwent behind after just three min-utes when Manuel Lanzini cele-brated his first league start for WestHam with an early goal.

Lanzini set up the second as heoutmuscled Dejan Lovren to stealthe ball and crossed for Noble todrive home in the 29th as WestHam ended one of the longest win-

less runs in English top-flight his-tory.

Things got worse for Liverpoolwhen Philippe Coutinho picked uphis second yellow card in the 53rdminute as Brendan Rodgers’ teamfell to its first loss of the campaign.

Noble was then sent off for alunging challenge in the 79th butDiafra Sakho polished off the winin injury time.

It was West Ham’s second winof the season, having beatenArsenal away on the openingweekend.

Arsenal relied on FabricioColoccini’s own goal to win 1-0 atNewcastle despite the hosts play-ing most of the Premier Leaguegame with 10 men on Saturday.

Aleksandar Mitrovic was dis-missed in the 16th minute for astuds-up challenge on FrancisCoquelin. Arsenal dominated pos-session the rest of the way butcouldn’t break through until

Coloccini inadvertently deflectedAlex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s shotinto his own goal seven minutesinto the second half. Arsenal hasnow collected seven points fromfour games — six of them awayfrom home.

“We were mature and intelli-gent and we played a little bit cau-tious but at the end of the day wewon the game,” Arsenal managerArsene Wenger said.

Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozilmissed the game with a kneeinjury, and Wenger started withTheo Walcott up front and OlivierGiroud on the bench. Walcottwasted the best chance of the firsthalf, though, when he missed thenet from a few yards out after TimKrul couldn’t hold on to AlexisSanchez’s shot.

Walcott was taken off forGiroud in the second half but theFrenchman was ineffective as well,and the team’s inefficiency is like-ly to increase calls for another strik-er to be brought in before the endof the transfer window on Tuesday.

Newcastle remains without aleague win after four games undernew manager Steve McClaren,with the only success coming in theLeague Cup.

Mitrovic has now picked uptwo bookings and a sending-off inhis first five appearances forNewcastle.

“It was harsh. It was moreclumsy, he had his eye on the balland kind of stood on his foot,”McClaren said. “All we could doafter that (red card) was showspirit and fight and discipline.They were magnificent in termsof that and what a fantasticcrowd.”

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Talktime���������After giving us hit music like Tum Jo Aaye Zindagi Mein from themovie Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, Piya Aaye Na fromAashiqui 2 and Saiyaan Superstar from Ek Paheli Leela, TULSIKUMAR is now set to experiment with different genres. She will bestarting off with sensual romantic songs. Kumar talks to SANGEETA YADAV about receiving the Rajiv Gandhi ExcellenceAward for being the melodious voice of the year

� You were recently honoured with Rajiv GandhiExcellence Award for being ‘Melodious Voice of the year’.How does this make you feel?

This prestigious award means a lot to me. Over the pasteight years of my music career, it was a great learning expe-rience and I’ve developed at every stage. Getting an awardencourages me to give 200 per cent to my work and achievegreat heights. It encourages you to take your tasks seriouslyand perform them with equal gusto. I’m still very youngin the industry and aspire to grow much higher.� Who do you give credit to for your success?

My success was a combined contribution of many musicdirectors starting from my father late Gulshan Kumar whospotted the talent in me and trained me since my childhood.I got professional training under Pundit Vinood Mishra ji.It was Himesh Reshammiya who gave me my first breakin Bollywood with the song Mohabbat Ke from Aksar movie.Anu Malik gave me the title song Humko DeewanaKergaye which was also the name of the movie. Pritam damade me sing Tum Jo Aaye Zindagi Mein along with RahatFateh Ali Khan which was beautifully written by IrshadKamil. Whenever I sing duets with Mithoon, he explainslittle things very beautifully and that helps me to give mybest performance. And with Jeet Ganguly, the emotionsand feeling comes out the best. I used to observe a lot ofveterans like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Sonu Nigamand many others that helped me to grow as an artist.� What is the biggest life-lesson that you have learnt fromyour father?

Music is not just a profession for me. It is a therapy, lan-guage and an institution. My dad was extremely dedicat-ed, hardworking and a great believer of God. His love formusic made him the man he is today. When he was youngmy father used to make a living by selling juice in Delhi’sDarya Gunj area. He then set up his own cassette shop andlater decided to come to Mumbai to pursue his dreams. Iimbibed all his values and principles.� How have you evolved as a singer over the years?

I have mostly sung melodious romantic songs but Iexperimented with my style for the first time by singingSaiyaan Superstar from the movie Ek Paheli Leela whichturned out to be superhit. I’m venturing into the sensualromantic and out and out dance number with my upcom-ing single and movie project one of which is Ram GopalVarma’s project. I have been the playback singer and for thefirst time, I have given voice-over for YouTube channel KidsHut.

It’s another creative side which I have explored. Likein music, voice over also requires nice vocal, expression andfeeling. I have started venturing into live performances aswell and from October onwards, I’ll be doing gigs in someof the colleges in Pune, Mumbai and Delhi and at inter-national concerts as well.

‘Moving on to thesensual romantic’

We know him better as thePunjabi singer who made

it big as an actor in Pollywood(Punjabi cinema) and made hisBollywood debut with SecondHand Shaadi opposite GeetaBasra and Govinda’s daughterTina Ahuja. Gippy Grewal is nowhogging all the limelight with hissecond film Faraar which gotreleased last week.

“This is for the second timethat I will be playing a doublerole. In Faraar, I am both an inno-cent student and a gangster Andit has been an amazing experi-ence. In fact, here I was made tojump into various avatars, froma studios geek to a rough fight-er,” he tells you, adding that thisaction thriller is one of the ideaswhich Jas Grewal has penneddown as a script and Baljit SinghDeo has given it a new face to itwith his direction.

Grewal was recently in theCapital for an event organised byAAS (a leading NPO inDelhi/NCR). The event sawmany Punjabi greats descend onthe stage to create awarenessabout Cervical Cancer, Save GirlChild & Educate the Girl to markthe Independence Day celebra-tion with Punjabi Tashan.anevent organised by AAS, a not-for-profit organisation. charityperformance at an awarenessinitiative on cervical cancer andsafety, health and education ofchild girl by AAS NGO.

Coming back to Faraar, thecinematography of the film hasgarnered a lot of praise. The

Punjabi movie has also beendubbed in Hindi. “We want to getourselves to the level ofHollywood cinema which is a tallorder but we are all striving veryhard. We have many Hollywoodtechnicians on board who keepteaching us the nuances of cine-matography,” the actor says.

For the action scenes andstunts, Baljit (director) wantedhim to perform the stunts byhimself to give it natural look.Grewal had to undergo strict fit-ness regime. “I did 14 monthsworkout to get six pack abs andhad to make sure of my diet planand daily workout for the roughlook of the fighter. The stuntsperformed by me in the film werevery difficult. Initially, I had a lot

of injuries while performing thestunts but gradually startedenjoying them,” Grewal tells you.

Though his singing journeystarted in 2002, Grewal managedto grab a few headlines by dub-bing for Jai Courtney’s characterin A Good Day to Die Hard. Overthe years, he feels that the enter-tainment industry has evolvedand it only helped him evolve.“Music Industry now has a widerreach. That is mainly because oftechnology that has made every-thing very easy. It’s easier to reachout to people quickly in less time.As an actor, I’ve always learnt atevery step. With every newmovie I learn something newfrom veteran co-stars likeDharmendra and others.

The one thing that works wonderswith this celebrity is nervousenergy. It keeps her going and

pushes her to give her best. “As a per-former, the moment you say you are nolonger afraid of consequences and johoga dekha jaega, you have reached thefag end of your career. There is noth-ing that can excite you any more. I don’tthink that is the best approach in thisindustry. Here, the moment you getcomplacent, your career is kaput,” vet-eran actress Tabu says. She is in her‘happy’ space at the moment, celebrat-ing the super success of her thriller filmDrishyam.

“It was such an amazing concept.My friends were behind the Telegu andTamil films, so I had seen the originalmake much before and I had always fan-tasised myself in the powerful role ofMeera. The moment Nishikantapproached me to be a part of the film,I was beaming. It was like a dream cometrue,” she says. Although the role wasthat of a ruthless cop, Tabu says she isvery scared of one in real life. “I don’twant to get entangled in any hassle withthe cop. I think they are doing atremendous job of safeguarding ourcities but I would never want to rubthem the wrong way,” she tells you.

So, how did she manage to pull offthe character so convincingly? “Afteraeon of experience in the film industryand having played characters, I think Ican handle anything coming my way(laughs). It’s a nice feeling to do a sub-stantial, powerful role. I really enjoyedbeing Meera for the duration of thefilm,” the Vijaypath actress says. Powerroles which she essayed in Haider are the

kinds that Tabu is eyeing. “From where I am right now, I

would only like to do these influencingroles where there is a challenge for meto overcome. I have been there for longenough to know what roles will suit meand which ones are not meant for meat all,” she says.

It is a known fact that Tabu does-n't go hankering after awards at func-tions bu the seasoned actor tells you shewont mind if the awards find herinstead. “I am never going to go afterawards and accolades but if they findme, I would be a fool to say it doesn'tmatter. Any kind of recognition in anyindustry matters a lot,” she explains.Having done all kinds of roles in herillustrious career, Tabu says she haslearnt a lot and grown very fast.

“It is an insider joke in theindustry; that here we age 10 timesfaster and experience everything 10times before we really should.Bollywood teaches you manythings — how to survive, how totake up challenges, how to mouldyourself to adapt to a situation,how to be patient et al,” she says.

Coming back to Drishyam, which

she says is one of her top five favouritefilms; Tabu feels the reason it had animpact on the audience was because itwas so real. “Nishikant being a

Maharashtrian has worked a lot on thecinematography. The way he took

the scene in and out of Goa madea lot of difference to the film.

Everyone thinks that it is easyto replicate a re-make but

for me it is tougher andmuch more backbreaking. The directorhas the added tensionof making his movie

different, yet not losethe soul of the film. In

drishyam this has beendone very subtly,” she says.

Working with ‘old pal’ AjayDevgn was the icing on the cake

for Tabu. Even though the duo wereworking after a 14 year gap, Tabu saysnothing has changed in Devgn.

“He is the same old hard work-ing person who wants to getinvolved in every nitty gritty of filmmaking. I have worked with somany actors, but I am yet to meetsomeone with filmy knowledge asDevgn. He knows a whole lotabout everything,” she says.Although the friends caught upon the sets, Tabu wishes she wasnot pitted as his rival in the film.

“I felt miserable while doingscenes where I had to troublehim and his family, especiallyhis young children (onscreen),” the sensitive Tabucomes to the fore.

According to the actress,Devgn is the best BollywoodPapa! “He is very good withhis children and gives them alot of his time. Ajay alwaysgives priority to his family overwork. That is very essential inthe industry that we work in,”she says. As for his pranks,“that has reduced in compar-ison,” Tabu offers as a reply.

With big banner films likeFitoor lined up for next year, Tabu

says there is so much more to look for-ward to.

“I love my work. Things are look-ing good at this moment,” she says.

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They were feudal in nature,zamindars actually. My fatherowned land along with hisbrothers and each had theirown share. But my dad sold hisproperty to his brothers sincehe had no interest in it and hada very different temperamentin comparison to them. Then,

he had an automobile tyrebusiness as well but a majori-ty of his life was spent as ahunter. �You wanted to go to Delhito become a professor?

I had told them that Iwanted to attend drama school.But I realised that they didn’tunderstand what I was tryingto say. I had heard that afterfinishing this course I canbecome a professor. So, I toldmy parents that version so Ithat I could go to Delhi. Afterthat they agreed.�Do you think you are anintrovert by nature?

The mike was right next tome and yet I didn’t sing. In mymind, I thought I was singing.

�You received your admis-sion to the National Schoolof Drama at your first try?

That was a miracle hon-estly.�I remember that they askfor a list of 10 plays duringadmission.

I faked all ten of them.But, they liked a few of themand I had that earnest quali-ty to learn that I think theypicked up on. I had even liedthat I wanted to act in playswhich wasn’t true since filmswas my priority. I remembereveryone spoke about NSD somuch, as if it was a sort ofplace where they gave you atablet to convert you to anactor!

She’s doing multiple filmsand even getting a chanceto sing. Shraddha Kapoor,

says her life gets exhaustingsometimes, but then it’s allworth it as her dreams are com-ing true via Bollywood.

“I really believe in the law ofuniverse. Have you heard abouta book called Secrets? It’s allabout laws of the universe,”Shraddha said when asked abouther love towards music-relatedfilms, as after ABCD 2, she willbe seen in the sequel to Rock On.

“Ever since I started lovingto sing, I got opportunities andnow Rock On 2 has happened.It’s not like I’m sitting and plan-

ning, but I truly feel blessed thatI’m doing this film. You knowyou’ve a certain wish and thathappens... it’s like that. I want-ed to do film where I play asinger who sings her songs andI’m blessed to be doing Rock On2 now. I just wish that moredreams keep coming true,” sheadded. At first, Bollywood wasa not a smooth ride for her,courtesy roles in films like TeenPatti and Luv Ka The End, butsuccess and fame came her waywith Aashiqui 2, Ek Villain andHaider. The actress is also doingBaaghi with Tiger Shroff, andhas shot a dance song.

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They lead us to formulae that help usin solving complex mathematicalproblems. But there is no formulathat can create a good teacher. Theyshare with us the delight of reading

evocative poetry or appreciating art. Butthere is no poem or any art that can helpmake one a good teacher. They transport usinto the magical world of sciences where themix of chemicals can produce the most exot-ic of elements. But is there any mix of chem-icals that can produce a great teacher? Theymap the world for us and chart the coursesthat history has taken. But can we map outa great teacher? Teachers and teachingcannot be conceived and delivered. Itrequires both art and craft to be a goodteacher and teach well.

We live in a world of listings. If wesurvey some of the most inspiring

teachers of India, we notice somenames that appear repeatedly. Firstand foremost is, of course, theman whose name is inseparablefrom Teachers Day as it wasnamed after him, Dr SarvepalliRadhakrishnan, the first Vice-President and the secondPresident of the country.Here was a teacher whoavoided the fancy title of Earlof Willingdon that had beenbestowed upon him, choosinginstead to use ‘Doc’ as the

title that he had achievedthrough his own hard work. It

is his pride in the teaching pro-fession that led him to request

his birthday be celebrated asTeachers Day. And so September 5

has come to be just that.Rabindranath Tagore is as memorable

an educator as he was a poet, philosopherand artist. Gurudev left for us not just his wonder-

ful writing, the pride of the nation, but a whole newway of learning outside the classroom and under thetrees, becoming one with nature and a higher intel-lect. For Tagore, teaching was not to explain thingsbut to “knock at the doors of the mind”. He called theschool he raised Santiniketan or abode of peace, andtoday it has become Vishwa Bharati University, aname only too fitting for the vision of a man whobelieved in universal brotherhood.

Very few today can recall Savitribai Phule, thefirst female teacher of India’s first women school. Thiswas a woman whose courage is the stuff mythicaltales are made of. Undaunted by the rotten eggs,tomatoes and cow dung hurled at her as she walkedthe streets of Pune, a city dominated by Brahmins,she accomplished her mission of starting schools forgirls. This, at a time when such ideas were consideredsacrilege. Issues affecting marginalised communities,such as widow remarriage and untouchability, wereamong those that she and her social reformer hus-band Jyotirao Phule engaged with tirelessly. Not onlywas she a teacher but she also wrote remarkable poet-ry and many see her as one of the leading lights ofMarathi literature.

Another educationist of note was Nissim Ezekiel,regarded as the foundational figure of post-colonialIndia’s literary history. Ezekiel is credited with creat-ing a new dynamics of Indian English poetry and lib-erating poetry in India, written in English, from acolonial hangover. He was a passionate teacher forover four decades, teaching in Bombay and havingstrived towards bringing simplicity of thought andlanguage to the Indian-English poetry.

And again, Rambhau Kundgolkar (SawaiGandharva) and Ustaad Alla Rakha Khan appear tobe much loved and revered as great teachers. The for-mer is known for his Hindustani classical music andthe guru of luminaries like Pt Bhimsen Joshi andGangubai Hangal, and the other is known to be anall-time great exponent of tabla, and it was his experttraining that made his son Zakir Hussain take tablaplaying to a new dimension.

So what do these half a dozen people have incommon that make them revered? Perhaps theirmost outstanding aspect is the ability to think out of

the box. To be able to think alongnew directions, what is necessary, ofcourse, is to have a vision and tobelieve in the viability or realisationof that vision. To sustain such faith,one must have a spine of stainlesssteel. Only then can one forge aheadto achieve the goals set by one’svision regardless of all the negativityand criticism that one faces.

It’s almost as if one must findwithin oneself a perennial spring ofpositive energy so that the steelydetermination required in the worstof times remains intact. Besides, tomove beyond conventional ideas, onewould need to be progressive and notmired in fossilised ways of thinking.It’s also clear that creative energy ispowerful among those consideredgreat teachers; maybe creativity canenergise like nothing else can. It canalso enable innovativeness. Humilitytoo is responsible for constantgrowth, for with humility there is thedesire to evolve further.

However, the most significantattribute that one observes in theseteachers is their sense of citizenship,their desire to contribute to thenation in visible ways, to recogniseand fill the gaps existing in societythrough education and especially ofthose less privileged.

Not only does one need tounderstand the rights of humans butone must also stand up for theserights. True recognition of all peopleas equals can only take place if webelieve in this principle ourselvesand strive to educate others throughexample.

Which brings me to the nextaspect I consider very important: Ateacher must be a leader, in everyway. Those we have come across asgreat teachers have been leaders intheir field, and also in the way inwhich they have led their lives.

The question is: All this isirrefutable but do teachers and teach-ing continue to command respect insociety? Are teachers changing thecourse of history? Are they con-tributing to national growth? Is edu-cation in India today one that we canbe proud of and is the education sys-tem a meaningful one?

If we hark back to our ancient textswhere the tradition of the guru shishyaparampara has been inscribed, thewords that instantly come to the foreare: “Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo, Maheshwarah, GuruSaakshat Parabrahma, Tasmay ShreeGuruve Namah.”

In Vedic times, a teacher wasconsidered to be privy to sacredknowledge; he enlightened his stu-dents through his discourses andoratory on a wide arena of subjectsand whose knowledge was consid-ered profound as well as complete.Undoubtedly the teacher was a veri-table God. Students were expected torevere their teachers and in turn,teachers were expected to lead thestudents towards attaining theiraspired goals. There was a deep bondas well that was forged due to theproximity of the teacher with the stu-dents for they lived together and fol-lowed a disciplined life and studentsdid a whole lot of daily chores, per-forming even the most menial tasks.It seemed to work well.

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Look back at a few leg-endary stories and youwill see how powerful

teachers were in those days.They had only to ask forsomething and it could notbe denied. So Guru Dronacould ask for Eklavya’s thumbas guru dakshina and he waswell within his rights. Again,Parshuram could dismissKarna and forbid him fromusing his archery skills, andthen too the teacher was notchallenged. What was theend result? Arjuna remainedthe undefeated master of theart of archery.

The gurus literally wrotehistory for who knows whatwould have been the histori-cal outcome if Eklavya andKarna were allowed to usetheir archery skills. Societywas literally structured theway the gurus wanted, andclass hierarchies werescrupulously maintained dueto their perpetuation by thegurus. Good or bad, theundoubted fact is that theguru ruled.

Cut to present times.Today a teacher is expectedto be quite a superhumanwhose skills are tested inmultitudinous ways.Changing times have madecurriculum interdiscipli-nary; advancing technologyhas opened entirely newoptions and access toresources across the world;

moreover students are notexpected to blindly acceptwhat the teacher says, theyare expected instead to chal-lenge the teacher.

Teaching is not aboutindoctrination or initiationanymore; it is about interac-tiveness and learning is par-ticipatory. Pedagogical toolshave thus to be sharpenedsuch that every student inthe classroom can respondto what is being taught witha certain critical reflective-ness. Importantly, a teacherhas to be an honest inter-preter between cohesion andpluralism, tradition andmodernity, radicalism andliberalism. Above all, theteacher has to be a livewireas a communicator.

However, is the teacherpowerful? Are teachersallowed to frame laws anddoes society function accord-ing to those laws? The ques-tions draw a bitter laugh.

Let’s look at what hap-pens at the college level.After you complete gradua-tion (and if you want to getinto a college in Delhi, youmay be in for a rude shockor some major changes inyour choice of discipline as

gaining admission into thehallowed portals of a DUcollege may be barred); youget into the race to com-plete post-graduation andfurther studies.

You are expected to clearthe NET (National EligibilityTest for Lectureship), whichseems to have been designedwith the express purpose ofgetting you down. Once youclear this, you generally joinin an ad hoc capacity (howmuch this teaching experi-ence counts especially if youare also doing a PhD along-side teaching is now highlyambiguous). Then begins theinterminable wait for a per-manent position and everyyear there are cuts in vacan-cies. This is attributed to theconstantly changing syllabi,which does little else exceptreducing workload.

Let’s presume you are thelucky one who after 10 yearsof ad hoc teaching gets into acollege as a permanent facul-ty. You are then expected toteach a full workload, andcontribute to the corporatelife of the college. You arealso expected, outside ofyour teaching duties (lectur-ing, tutoring, assessing, set-

ting papers, evaluating uni-versity papers, invigilatingetc), to publish books andarticles, preferably refereedones and present papers atconferences, preferably,international ones.

And aside from the studyleave for PhD, you don’t getsabbaticals to do this, con-trary to popular myth.Having done all of this, youare also subjected to the

demands of a constantlychanging (some would call it‘evolving’) curriculum, whichleaves little or no time topursue research in areas ofyour interest.

Also, the ‘refresher andorientation’ courses, whichyou are expected to do andwhich is what passes in thename of teacher training,have nothing whatsoever todo with preparing you to

teach. As for promotions,well, rarely are the interviewstimely (and besides, if youare teaching in say a college,you don’t even get to be aProfessor).

Not a very happy state ofaffairs and not one thatreflects either the ‘power’ ofteachers or the respect ofsociety towards them. Theplight of many teachers todayundergoing the trauma of job

uncertainty leads to job dis-satisfaction, depression, andlack of interest, which theGovernment has also largelyfailed to address.

Resultantly, there is lackof mental satisfaction andhappiness at the workplace. Ifthere is no joy in teachingthen what else is left? Thereis criticism today aboutteachers who are not skilledenough and about those whoare shirkers. Of course thereare all kinds of teachers justas there are teachers who areprincipled, proficient andhardworking. There are noexcuses for cheating or lazi-ness in any profession andteachers too cannot beexempt from these charges.But do the powers that beever bother to address thereasons that are responsiblefor making some teacherserrant or unprincipled? Is itonly because they lackmorals or have poor ethicalstandards? Or are there somedeeper reasons which havebeen habitually ignored?

With apologies to theBard, only ‘some’ can achievegreatness in such a scenario.An obstacle race seems a bet-ter option than seekingemployment as a teacher in acollege! And having clearedall these hurdles, one is thenexpected to fit into the proto-type of the ideal teacher withthe qualities that were

described earlier: Fortitude,courage, innovativeness, cre-ativity and so on. Perhapstime has come to create arobot that fits the bill of theideal teacher.

The fact of the matter isthat now, more than everbefore, in an increasinglyglobalised world you needgood, indeed great, teachers,who can lead people in theright track, towards devel-opment and progress. Youneed teachers who will buildglocal citizens; teachers whowill lead you to the light atthe end of the tunnel, be ittowards self-development ornational progress. You needteachers to foster balance inlife and society. And forthis, you need to give themmore space.

More significantly, youneed to get to the root of theproblem and analyse whatails teaching and teacherstoday. You need to give themtheir due as gurus. Test them;don’t make it child’s play forthem to take up this profes-sion. But when they do, don’tquote platitudes about teach-ers or sing paeans in praise ofgreat teachers. Help maketheir lives better too. You sayyou love and respect yourteachers, show it more con-structively./���������������=�"���������(�1�)�

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Andamans looks like a piece ofbeads strung together in the Bayof Bengal, straight out of adream set. It is flanked by thebeautiful and mesmerising

North and South Andaman Islands, andstretches till the Nicobar group of islandsin the south. Consisting of about 556 islets,this magical land hosts some remarkablehidden gems that are far away from theusual touristy hotspots. There are some ofthese, which are equally, if not less, appeal-ing and scenic than the usually knownplaces such as Havelock and Neil Islands.

My journey to the islands was intend-ed to be different and a bit daring, so tosay. It was a solo backpacking trip, theweather was not conducive, and I wouldsay there was never a single moment Iregret being all alone. You can easily fly toAndamans from any city through Chennaior Kolkata (which is usually a two-hourjourney). International travellers andtourists would, however, need to have apermit to enter the islands, which can becomfortably availed from the authoritiesupon arrival. So here’s my ultimate itiner-ary for you to plunge into the deep bluewaters and virgin islands of Andamans andmake a solo backpacking trip yourself.

������������� ����������A tiny piece of natural wonder tucked awayoff the eastern coast of the North andMiddle Andamans, Guitar Island has a crys-tal clear white sandy beach that you can haveall for yourself. It is not inhabited by humanpopulation except for a few boats cruisingand circumnavigating it for fishing. Theentire beach is yours, just you, the sand, andthe sea. Where else on earth can I find sucha place, I wondered. But why this name, Iasked curiously. “Its aerial view is in theshape of a guitar and hence its name,” saysthe forest department official who accom-panied me to the island.

These officials braved the monsoons tobring me here to witness its breathtakingbeauty. Located off the Long Island, GuitarIsland has a picturesque and exotic aura thatspells a magical charm. Another spectacu-lar beach you should visit is Lalaji BayBeach, which is a perfect hotspot for beachcombing, swimming and nature photogra-phy. It is situated on the northeast coast ofLong Island and one would need a coun-try boat (a ride of 45 minutes from LongIsland jetty) to reach here. You can reachLong Island by boarding one of theAndaman and Nicobar Administrationoperated ships from Port Blair. It wouldroughly take four to five hours (and about�600-700) to reach Long Island from PortBlair by ship (via Havelock/Strait Island).This place is off a touristy itinerary and quiteunderstandably, there are very few stayingoptions on this island. I stayed for a nightat the Vanashree, the Forest Guest House(make sure you book it in advance). Thereis also a privately owned resort on thisIsland. The Forest Guest House has fourbasic airy rooms, a manicured garden, san-dalwood trees and a view of the sea. You canget the most amazing fish fry here, whichI had during my stay. The staff is congenial,courteous and would give you your choiceof the meal on time.

I requested for a dinghy to make a quicktrip to Guitar Island. It was made albeit witha hovering overcast. After a brief 15-minute drive, our boat anchored on thecoast and I got off to set my footprint on

the secluded and unbelievably quiet beach.Lots of sea creatures, sand crabs, hermitcrabs, shells came through to the beach andI hurriedly captured them on my lens. Onehas to be really fast to photograph them; oneblink of an eye and they are gone, immersedbeneath their sandy holes.

In the meantime, the overcast sky tooka more threatening avatar. It continued togrow darker and darker. Fortunately, as amatter of precaution and to protect my cam-era, I had brought an umbrella. We mooredback our boat after spending some time onthe beach, chased the clouds and breezedpast the choppy waves to reach Long Island.

���������������������I got myself a boat ride of about an hourfrom Long Island (departed at 7 am) andreached Yerrata Creek near Rangat journey-ing through some of the most beautiful, calmand pristine mangrove creeks. At the otherside (Yerrata Creek near Rangat), my vehi-cle was ready to pick me up for my journey.I had breakfast on the way at Rangat (thisis a bustling hub and you can find local shopsand restaurants in the market. The AndamanTourism department has its own guesthouse, Hawksbill Nest, which offers a com-fortable stay with local delicacies.

Rangat is blessed with a few remarkableeco-tourism spots such as Aamkunj Beach,Morice Dera Beach and Dhani NallahMangrove Walkway. On my way, I first

stopped at Aamkunjbeach (8

km from Rangat) which is a long, sandy andpatchy stretch interspersed with pebbles.You can enjoy watching the waves, or sit qui-etly for some time at the eco-friendlybenches such as log sofas and logteapoys. Next was Morice Dera beach(12 km from Rangat) which has beendeveloped by the tourism and forestdepartment as an eco-tourism hotspot.It has unique twin rock formations righton the beach where you can walk along theridges through a pathway. But the mostexciting part was the 700-metre Mangrovewalkway at Dhani Nallah. It is an exemplarydisplay of mangrove conservation effortsby the Andaman and Nicobar administra-tion. The walkway takes you through therich biodiversity of mangroves, palm trees,breathing roots, and Hathi Kaan orchids.The walkway leads to a pretty long andexciting beach called the Dhani Nallahbeach. It is a vast expanse of sand stretch-ing from Curtbert Bay at one hand to as faras my eyes could go on the other hand.

����������������������������A boat ride of almost 15-30 minutes fromAerial Bay jetty in Diglipur (NorthAndaman) brings you to the exquisite Rossand Smith Islands in North Andaman. Theadministration has maintained someremarkable eco-tourism initiatives in SmithIsland. These are bare minimum, given thatthe duo islands are yet to take off in the

national and international tourism cir-cuit as a popular tourist destination.

But I felt these were adequate —there were about 10-15 thatched

huts, sitting arena, adequatehygiene facilities, chang-

ing room, a couple ofswings set romantically

amidst coconut trees,and beach reclining

chairs. Quite interestingly, the west side ofRoss and Smith Islands was extremelywindy while the east side was unexpect-edly calm. The waters in the eastern sidewere still and peaceful as if it’s a swimmingpool. When you are here, take advice fromthe forest and tourism officials if you wantto swim across its beaches.

Ross and Smith Islands are perfect forwitnessing the sunrise, beach combing andsunbathing. You can walk across thesandy stretch connecting the duo islandsduring low tide.

� ��������������������������Get yourself a chopper ticket from theState-run Pawan Hans Limited inter-island chopper services to fly from PortBlair to Hutbay. A ticket for Hutbay wouldcost you �2,625 and you can comfortablyreach there in 45 minutes. However,there are daily ships from Port Blair thatwill take five to eight hours depending ontheir speed. Hutbay boasts of hosting thebest surfing destination in India. It’s notan exaggeration and when you visit thisisle, you would believe that. Located inLittle Andamans, Hutbay hosts the longestbeach of Andaman and Nicobar Group ofIslands — 22-km stretch — from Netaji

Nagar at one end till Butler Bay beachat the other hand via Kalapathar.

The Butler Bay beach, which isgaining popularity among domestic

and international surfers for its exquis-ite sea surfing waves, is teemed with activ-ities during winter and summer. A hostof private resorts flanking Netaji Nagaroffer surf boards on rent, however docheck with them prior to arrival. Thereneeds to be adequate infrastructure facil-ities on this beach but you would be mes-merised by the golden sandy stretch here.If you are not a surfer, you can go forsnorkeling, sun bathing, or boatingamidst the clear waters.

Once you have had your fill fromthe sea and the sand, you can head toa nearby waterfall which is the only surfwaterfall in Andamans. It is locatedinside a forest and would require youto make a short jungle trek of 10 min-utes from the main gate passingthrough some creeks. There is anentry fee of �20 per person and a vehi-cle charge of �20. Andaman’s onlywaterfall, tucked away inside the ver-dant and thick rainforests, beckonsyou. The sight of this bewitching 20-metre pristine waterfall will surelyenthrall you. You can also take a dipbeneath its crystal clear waters, sur-rounded by bamboo and bananaplantation.

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With a track record ofthree decades as ajournalist and pub-lisher, JyotiSabharwal is

among the pioneers of celebritywriting. Her latest work is the biog-raphy of Dr Kapila Vatsyayan,prominent scholar of Indian classi-cal dance, art, and architecture, andwho has also been Vice Chairman,Sangeet Natak Akademi; AdditionalSecretary, Department of Culture;Member Secretary and AcademicDirector, Indira Gandhi NationalCentre for the Arts (IGNCA); LifeTrustee and President, IndiaInternational Centre; Secretary tothe Indian delegations to UNESCO,and so on. In an interaction, thewriter talks about how Dr Vatsyayanis an institution in herself.

Tell us about the unique title ofyour book.Needless to say, Dr KapilaVatsyayan and cognition are syn-onymous, and hence I looked atthis work as a ‘cognitive biography’.She is one of those iconic scholarswho treaded the path of knowledgein such a seminal way. Imagine,she coveted the BarbourFellowship and went to Universityof Michigan in 1948 after securinga first class in Masters in Englishliterature. This is where shebecame conversant with the writ-ings of Ananda K Coomaraswamyand Heinrich Zimmer. It dawnedupon her that she was grosslyunaware of her own cultural rootsand heritage. Finding a new call-ing, she had to satiate the burningcuriosity. The fire in her bellymade her beat a retreat eventhough one of her professors atHindu College had told herbrusquely that unless she had aPhD from the West (even if it wasin boot-polishing), her work wouldnot be acknowledged or validated.

That was an era when Americawas known to be a ‘land of goldenopportunities’, but she went againstthe tide and followed her instinct.It was her most courageous deci-sion. This fellowship was awarded

to select women from the Orientand she had earned it. So, whenshe left the scholarship midway, itshowed her sagacity, deep percep-tion, and clarity of mind. But inthose two years she spent inAmerica, she went beyond the aca-demics. Having been a disciple ofthe Kathak maestro, AchhanMaharaj, she delved into moderndance, and travelled with herHungarian dance teacher Juana deLaban, who also facilitated heraccess to other renowned dancersranging from Martha Graham,Bela Bartok, Hanya Holm, AlwinNikolais to La Meri. Later she sat atthe feet of stupendous scholars inBanaras Hindu University, toaccomplish her doctorate.As for the title, Afloat a Lotus Leaf,it was suggested by Dr Vatsyayan.Therein lies another tale. Her moth-er, Satyawati, was quite an adven-turous soul; rowing, horse-riding,trekking, boating, and all else.Kapila would collect lotuses whilerowing in Dal Lake. And her moth-er asked one day: “Khali kamal hiikathe kar rahi ho. Zindagi ko kamalke patte ki tarah jeena hai.” Whatshe conveyed through this analogywas that in life one has to rise abovethe muck, and yet, blossom magnif-icently, just like the lotus. And thus,right through her life, she stayedafloat with dignified silence and herhead held high, amidst all the cru-cial controversies.

She was born in an intellectuallyinclined family. Didn’t that also playa vital role in moulding her mind?We all are products of our environ-ment. The right kind of nurturingcan hone any skill and channeliseaspirations. Dr Vatsyayan certainlybelonged to a family that was bothartistically and academicallyinclined. Her maternal grandmoth-er had set-up the first non-sectari-an, non-purdah school for girls inSrinagar, which celebrated its cen-tenary in 2010. Her father held adouble Masters in Mathematicsfrom St Stephen’s College and alsoa degree in Law from Lahore. Hermother was extremely supportive

of creative arts, and in her forma-tive years her house in Calcuttawas more like a hub for litterateurs,thinkers, intellectuals, and artists ofall shades and hues.

As a child, she had the privi-lege of being in close proximity toPt Banarsilal Chaturvedi,Hazariprasad Dwivedi, KamaladeviChattopadhyay, Prithiviraj Kapoor,Madeleine Slade (associate ofMahatma Gandhi), among others.Accompanying her parents toSantiniketan, she not only recitedpoems to Gurdev Tagore, learnthow to hold a painting brush fromthe legendary Nandalal Bose, butalso observed remarkable women,like the Austrian-German art schol-ar Stella Kramrisch, Hungarianpainters Sass and ElizabethBrunner. Even at that nascent anage, she registered all these encoun-ters and the multiple insights thatcame along.

She is known to be media shy,how difficult was it to getthrough to her?I happened to be the very first personto have interviewed her way back in1989, when she was the AcademicDirector of IGNCA. She had categor-ically turned down the request, but Isuppose, one charmed her to givesome glimpses of her erudite mind.Fortunately, I managed to keep intouch with her over the years. It wasa long chase and eventually I suc-ceeded in convincing her that it wasimperative her life and times shouldbe documented for posterity. She hasbreathed knowledge and has beenprivy to the turbulent history of preand post-independent India. Shebroke fresh grounds in cultural diplo-macy and put Indian culture on theglobal map when the country waswidely known as the land of sadhusand snake charmers. So, this biogra-phy is a must-read for the youngaspirants of post-modern India. Inthe course of writing over these fouryears, not once did she interfere withthe editorial content, let alone askedany portion to be altered.

India’s first education minister

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad had astrong influence on her.That’s because she had this inces-sant urge to keep learning andbecame largely instrumental inimplementing Maulana Sahab’svision of ‘soft diplomacy’. He didnot want political expediency to bean explicit arm of diplomacy. Hewas not only deeply committed toIndian heritage but also wantedKalidasa’s Abhijnanasakuntalam tobe translated in Arabic or KathaUpanishad in Persian, and distrib-uted in West Asia.

This is a trajectory of relentlesssearch and research, for DrVatsyayan even pursued the fathom-less Gita Govinda for 50 years! Andthe way she handled the XXVIInternational Congress ofOrientalists in January of 1964, themaiden Oriental discourse in India,is an eye opener. Until then, theWest had defined and dictated whatthe Orient or Orientalism were allabout. She establishes that culturealways sustains itself: “It lies in whatthe essence is when all else is lost…”

Please tell us about how she han-dled bureaucratic controversies asan administrator of art and acad-emic institutions.Given her perspicacity, she chose tofollow what she deemed to be thecorrect path. Even when she wasshifted from the External CulturalRelations Bureau, travelling exten-sively and signing numerous cul-tural exchange programmes aroundthe world, and given the charge of ahoary department of languages andSanskrit studies, she made the bestof this opportunity and set-up theCentral Institute of Higher TibetanStudies in Sarnath with due guid-ance and benevolence of HisHoliness The Dalai Lama, and alsoworked on the revival of Sanskritstudies. For, many such initiativestaken by Pt Nehru and MaulanaSahab were languishing.Irrespective of bureaucratic blocksand a rigid steel-frame, she contin-ued to make strides as an advisor tovarious Governments.

The reason why many academ-

ic institutions and cultural centresin the West are able to safeguardand maintain their autonomy nomatter which Government comesand goes, is, because they enjoyfinancial autonomy by raising theirown funds too. And their systemsare well in place, which cannot beflouted by the whims and fanciesof people in power.

Does she see sense a serious disconnect between educationand culture today?Yes, of course, she feels quite dis-turbed about this disjunction. Andher candid views in the chapter,‘The Arts as a Pedagogical Tool’,would render worthy guidelines forthe educationists. There’s a growingchasm between aspiration andawareness, and disharmonybetween the goals and the means.Perhaps, that might explain whyyoungsters today are detachedfrom their roots and facing anidentity crisis. Instead of creating acosmos of culture, there has beenglobalisation of culture. She firmlybelieves in blending the socio-eco-nomic with artistic dimensions.

As a biographer, which facet of herlife appeared most striking to you?For me personally, it was herAlmora sojourn, as she visited theHimalayas seeking refuge frombureaucratic hassles. She went tomeet Sri Krishna Prem (Gopal da).He was a British fighter pilot,Ronald Henry Nixon, who came toIndia during the First World War,and decided to stay on. He turneda Vaishnavite as the disciple of SriYashodha Ma. Now completelytransformed, Gopal da was settledin this ashram, Mirtola. This meet-ing was beyond any quest forpower and attention, beyond whatis national and international. It wasthe beginning of another journeyat the deeper levels of conscious-ness that enabled her to stay afloatlike a lotus in murky situations,deflecting darts from all quarters,and yet, retaining that equilibriumto be at peace with oneself.

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Although Kapila was backfrom that green world(South India) and teach-

ing at Miranda House, notrejecting King Lear, AlbertCamus or Andre Jide, her sortiesto the South became anescapade from being explicit tomore implicit. She became anadopted daughter of Tamil Naduand Kerala alike, with an affinityof a hardcore North Indian, aKashmiri-Punjabi-Delhiite.

And one day, during a classin Miranda House, the principalcalled her over and said,“There’s a phone call from thePrime Minister’s office. Hewants to talk to you.”

She didn’t quite know whatwas happening. She took thecall and went over to see PtJawaharlal Nehru. On meetingher, he said, “Soon, we’re goingto have our first Republic Dayparade. Don’t you think itwould be a good idea to havefloats on the cultural history ofIndia? Also find out more aboutthe dances and the people of theremote regions of India.”

There was no such appella-tion as tribal, adivasi or Dalit,but Pt Nehru wanted to knoweverything, even if not much waswritten about them in hisDiscovery of India. Perhaps, hemade a mental note that it wouldbe worthwhile to involve theuniversity students and teachers.He asked Kapila, “What do youthink the first float should be? Iwant it to be devoted to the mes-sage of peace.”

She just mumbled what cameto her mind instantly, “We couldhave a float on Buddha. Not thescene of enlightenment but whereSujata brings him the pudding?”

He laughed, “Not a bad ideaat all. Fine! Why don’t you getgoing on this?”

A three-tonne truck wasparked at Miranda House andKapila activated all the girls tostart working, while the princi-pal oversaw the entire activity.And the student who befittedthe role of Buddha was RomaMazumdar, later to be theSecretary to Government ofIndia, and a proficient adminis-trator. They worked it all out,cutting a tree from the campus.It seemed very amateurish,

given the simplicity of the float,but this was an experience ofwhat it is to create a tableau ona truck. There was a sense ofeagerness as they started to takethe float, which had to be sta-tioned near Talkatora Garden.

On the way, as the truckpassed under a bridge, theBodhi tree came crashing down.The girls had yet to be seatedunder the tree, so no one gothurt. There was as muchlamenting as laughter. Thenthey had to recreate anotherBodhi tree. Kapila was shakingin her shoes if it would fall allover again. Mercifully, it didn’t,and became the inauguralpageant of the Republic DayParade. And soon after, even theDepartment of Education hadissued a statement:

Since its inception, theRepublic Day parade has hadtwo components: The militaryparade and the culturalpageant. The Indian State tooka deliberate decision in 1951 toincorporate these two elementsin the parade...which signifiesthat this young Republic valuescultural progress no less thanmilitary strength.

As meaningful was thisexperience the following year, asPt Nehru suggested, “We shouldcreate the Nishat Bagh.”

Going by the earlier mishap,this time round, the trailer ofthe truck was parked at No 5,Rajendra Prasad Road, wherethe IGNCA stands today. Asthey started recreating NishatBagh, all the vines and flowerswere needed, like cascadeswhich flow from terrace to ter-race. So also a motor for waterto be re-circulated. One ofKapila’s colleagues had some

engineering skills. But the morethey experimented with themachine, the more slush wascreated in the lawns. Also, it wasrather difficult to get roses inthe month of January.

While they were workinglike maniacs on that chillynight, guess who arrived thereto take stock of things? Noneother than Pt Nehru himself! Heinspected everything and said,“Kapila, you’ve recreated theNishat Bagh, but you must havethe vines of the white roses ofNishat hanging from all sides ofthe truck. Then only would theidea seem real.

None of them could haveconceivably imagined that thePrime Minister would land upat this ungodly hour past mid-night. They were working realhard but it wasn’t coming outtoo well. And here was PtNehru accompanied by Aliek

Percy Lancaster, Superintendentof Horticultural Operations.

Lancaster looked at theslush in the beautiful lawns, andsaid, “It’s all very well to thinkof white roses and cascadescoming down, but who’s goingto sort out these messy lawns?”

Kapila was at the end of hertether and started crying. Seeingthat she had reacted to this repri-mand, Pt Nehru said very gently,“It’s alright. We have to get whiteroses and Percy will ensure to getthem from wherever he will.”

That was the end of thematter. Nishat Bagh was ready.All of Kapila’s students weredressed up in Kashmiri gear.And the friend who had madethe motor work was operatingthis gadget, as the float wentthrough. A great sigh of relief!

But what became the mosttouching moment for Kapilawas receiving a note next morn-

ing that read, “The PrimeMinister would like to havebreakfast with you.”

All tears were forgotten.She cycled to Teen MurtiHouse and there she was beingreceived by Pt Nehru. Thisoverwhelming gesture was, per-haps, owing to the fact thatKapila did not have the heart totake any criticism. “Come on,we’ll have breakfast together?”That was the compassionate PtNehru she got to know.

Why Kapila and her stu-dents were roped in initiallywas due to the absence of pro-fessionals on the scene.

That’s another long history,as to how the presentation ofdiversities of India happened onthis occasion, which was pri-marily meant to be a militaryparade. Kapila puts down thereaction of the caustic critics tobasic ignorance and their inabil-ity to admit that the educatedIndia, the Indian, who callshimself ‘mainstream’, was barelyacquainted with the richness,vibrancy and the multiformity,which in socio-economic termsis called ‘tribal India’, or in soci-ological terms, ‘folk Indian’.

It was Pt Nehru and IndiraGandhi, evinces Kapila, whoconceived and thought that thereshould be a section of not quite apageant but a diversity of India,which should be annually repre-sented on the 26th of January.This parade was meant to sensi-tise the urban Indian to anotherIndia and arouse interest inother parts of the country, whichthey were not directly acquaint-ed with, but may have read inthe books of anthropology.

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There were two reminders viaTwitter. The first, rather unusu-al (it’s no longer fashionable to

recall the heroic deeds of those whorebelled against the subjugation ofIndia by foreigners) reminder wasabout Khudiram Bose, a young ladbarely 18-year old, who embraced thenoose on August 11, 1908, with anode to the motherland on his smilinglips. His accomplice, Prafulla Chaki,too had preferred death over slavery.The sacred memory of KhudiramBose, Prafulla Chaki and countlessother revolutionaries of Bengal haslong been erased from the nationalconsciousness, as has been the mem-ory of many others who shaped thedestiny of this nation.

Ceaseless hagiographic adulationof the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty by oureminent historians who wag theirtails every time a scrap is throwntheir way from the high table of theCongress has ensured this tragicmemory lapse. Or maybe this is simply a nation of ingrates who areso obsessed with securing theirquota of welfare doled out by a mai-baap state that they have had neitherthe time nor felt the need to recallthe martyrdom of India’s real heroes,leave alone express gratitude towardsthem. Hence, nobody cavilled whenfor decades, the Congress appropri-ated taxpayers’ money as tribute tothe dynasty that owns the party andruled the nation.

The other reminder came from aself-flagellating Hindu given to ped-dling fiction as fact in order todemonstrate his ‘secular’ credentials.On August 11, 1947, Mohammed AliJinnah, in his speech to the Con-stituent Assembly of Pakistan, mem-orably said, “You are free; you arefree to go to your temples, you arefree to go to your mosques or to anyother place or worship in this state ofPakistan…” That single line isrecalled every August 11, year afteryear, to foist the memory of Jinnahas a staunch secularist who would beappalled by the pitiful sight that isPakistan today, his moth-eatendream that has turned into a blood-soaked nightmare. No particularpurpose is served by recalling Jin-nah’s highfalutin rhetoric: It did notdiminish the tragic consequences ofhis quest for Pakistan then; it doesnot diminish the horrific conse-quences of forging an Islamic Repub-lic now. Yet, we are reminded howJinnah never wanted it this way, thathe had hoped for a secular state, andthat he continues to be misunder-stood if not maligned.

All that and more about the ‘solespokesman’ of the Indian sub-conti-nent’s Muslims is as much bunk asthe crafted history which glorifiesthe Nehru-Gandhi dynasty as the‘sole contributor’ to the shaping ofIndia’s destiny. But, for the moment,we shall talk about Jinnah and notthe Nehru-Gandhis, because Augustalso happens to be the month whenrampaging Muslim League mobslaid to waste thousands of lives (atleast 4,000 people were butcheredaccording to official estimates) inthe Great Calcutta Killing of August16, 1946. This is one dark event ofour past which has not received dueattention of scholars; the reasons donot merit elaboration, just as it’sunnecessary to point out that jour-

nalists pretending ‘Direct ActionDay’ never happened is a measure oftheir intellectual bankruptcy.

But that does not mean August1946 should be air-brushed fromour history, or that Jinnah nevercalled for ‘direct action’. The repeat-ed reminder of his speech on August11, 1947, is nothing more than anattempt to whitewash his crime ofAugust 16, 1946. That can’t beallowed, indeed must not beallowed. So let’s go back in time andhistory. “We will either have a divid-ed India or a destroyed India,” Jin-nah thundered as Muslim Leaguemembers cheered him lustily. Thiswas in late July 1946, a fortnightbefore Jinnah’s ‘direct action’ to forceIndia’s colonial rulers in London toconcede his demand for a separatehomeland for Muslims.

By then, Jinnah had decided toboycott the Constituent Assemblyand had rejected the initial plan fortransfer of power to an interimregime that would include the Con-gress and the Muslim League. Thiswas not what the Muslim Leaguedesired; it was definitely a repudia-tion of Jinnah’s two-nation theorythat laid down, in stark black andwhite, his vision of Muslims as anation separate and distinct fromHindus. The two, Jinnah decreed,could not live together. A day beforedeclaring that he and his MuslimLeague would settle for nothing lessthan “a divided India or a destroyedIndia”, he had railed against the“Hindu-dominated Congress”.

Today, much is made of Jinnah’spartiality towards constitutionalism.

On that July day, he had set aside allsuch partialities and declared: “Weare forced in our own self-protectionto abandon constitutional methods...The decision we have taken is a verygrave one.” If India’s Muslims, Jinnahadded, were not granted their sepa-rate Pakistan, they would launch“direct action”. Any doubts that mayhave lingered about the true inten-tions of the Muslim League underJinnah’s leadership, any uncertaintiesthat may have remained about whatexactly he meant by ‘direct action’,were washed away by the blood-let-ting that began on August 16, 1946,in Calcutta when Muslim Leagueactivists, observing ‘Direct ActionDay’, murdered men, women andchildren with chilling cruelty.

Huseyn Shaheen Suhrawardy, ashining star in the Muslim Leaguefirmament and head of the Govern-ment of undivided Bengal with aMuslim majority, did not so much aswag his plump little finger to admon-ish the killers. By the time the silenceof the dead descended on Calcutta,there were far too many carcassesthan vultures could feast upon.

More importantly, the GreatCalcutta Killing marked the begin-ning of Jinnah’s ‘direct action’. Themassacre at Noakhali, the depreda-tions inflicted on Hindus and Sikhsin the North-West Frontier Provinceand the horrendous communal vio-lence that swept through Punjabdirectly resulted from the Quaid-e-Azam’s questionable decision to“abandon constitutional methods” inhis search for a homeland for thesub-continent’s Muslims.

Jinnah was no mullah in a cleric’srobe with a flowing beard. MargaretBourke-White, a correspondent andphotographer for Life magazine, wasin India in 1946. She was present atthe Press conference where Jinnahhad announced the League’s decisionto go for ‘direct action’ and wasstruck by the oddity of it all. In herbook, Halfway to Freedom: A Reporton the New India, published in 1949,she described Jinnah as “cool, calcu-lating, unreligious... a thoroughlyWesternised, English-educated attor-ney-at-law with a clean-shaven faceand razor-sharp mind”. That some-one like him should have agreed to‘direct action’ was, to a Westernobserver, an oddity.

Not really, though. Never mindJinnah’s fondness for drink and foodforbidden by Islam. Forget too hisso-called liberal worldview. He sawhimself as distinctly separate fromhis erstwhile Hindu colleagues in theCongress; he saw no place for Mus-lims in Hindu majority India. Hispolitics was hinged on the ideologyof communal separatism.

To quote a snatch from Jinnah’sAugust 11 1947, speech in which hemade a passing reference to Pakistanas a ‘liberal’ state, in order to assertthat he was ‘secular’, to say the least,is extremely loathsome. It does graveinjustice to August 11, the day ayoung nationalist from a humblehome in Bengal walked the shortdistance between his cell and the gal-lows at Muzaffarpur Jail, his headheld high, chanting Vande Mataram.

(The writer is a current affairsanalyst based in NCR)

���������������� ������!����"#$������"��Reader response to Swapan Dasgupta’s column,Usual Suspects, published on August 23:

Voters no fool: The BJPshould, in fact, treat the Biharelection as a referendum onPrime Minister NarendraModi and the UnionGovernment. The voters ofBihar are no fools. Theyknow that if they elect NitishKumar as the Chief Minister,they will also provide somespace to Lalu Prasad for thereturn of the ‘jungle raj’.

Also, the so-called newschannels neither inform norentertain. They are there tofurther their own agenda. Abetter way is to stop watch-ing them. One should switchover to Doordarshan or thesocial media.

Jitendra

BJP’s win crucial: A fewyears ago, journalist NaliniSingh travelled to Bihar anddescribed the living condi-tions of a family in a villageover there. The word‘poverty’ is not potentenough to stir us.

However, what NaliniSingh wrote had a deepimpact on my mind. Thewomenfolk of that familyhad only one saree. Hence,when the mother-in-lawhad to step out of the house,the others covered theirbodies with papers. Whenthe daughter-in-law wentout, the mother-in-law andothers covered their bodywith the same paper.

This is the achievementof leaders like Lalu Prasad,Jagannath Mishra, andBindeshwari Dubey. I recall,BBC’s Andrew Whiteheadportrayed the same LaluPrasad as a ‘great leader’. It is

highly imperative that theBJP alone wins the electionin Bihar. Prime MinisterNarendra Modi also belongsto the Other Backward Classcommunity. Yet, he is India’sGeorge Washington Carver.

Janakiraman Rajalakshmi

Talking ill: Television chan-nels are now becoming moresensational in their coverage.They are not interested in

showcasing the positives. More than two lakh toi-

lets have been built inGovernment-run schoolswithin one year. This is avery positive achievementwhich received low coverage.

The television space isoccupied more by negatives.The result is that many peo-ple have switched over toother channels from theseso-called news channels.

These channels are waitingfor an opportunity to bad-mouth the ModiGovernment at the slightestopportunity and play downits achievements.

RRs

Tough contest: The writeris correct in saying thatthere are many factorsresponsible to conclude thatan election is an election,and certainly not a referen-dum in any manner.

Elections are fought onparty-to-party basis and,therefore, have nothing to dowith a personality. PrimeMinister Narendra Modi is aperson and not a personality.

The writer is also correctto contend that the electionin Bihar is being fought on‘local issues’ and ‘nationalissues’ have been put to thebackground. Now, it’s notjust the Rashtriya Janata Dal

but also the JanataDal(United) and the BJP thata share of the slice. It meansthere will not be any oneparty who will win the lau-rels. Let’s wait and watchwhich way the wind blows!

RL Pathak

It’s a referendum: Whetherone agrees with the percep-tion or not, the fact is thatNarendra Modi is going tobe the face of BiharAssembly election, and thatthe people will vote for theBJP on his strength andassurances. Whoeverbecomes the Chief Ministerlater on, is a different matter.Similarly, people will vote inthe name of Lalu Prasad andNitish Kumar. the comingpoll is, therfore, a referen-dum on all these three lead-ers, regardless of what theirparties say.

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It is a little surprising thatwhile we have innumerableaccounts of the First World

War and frequent literary investi-gations of the Partition, similarvigour in scrutinising India’s par-ticipation in World War II haslong been betrayed. Award-win-ning historian Yasmin Khan, whois also an author and AssociateProfessor of History at OxfordUniversity, does the needful inher grand archival project, TheRaj at War. In this monumentalwork, Khan traverses throughassorted facets of colonial Indiaand strings together the pressingconcerns that determined India’srole in WWII. Khan’s methodicalprecision merged with amplecompassion towards her subjectmakes this book for not only anenlightening commentary high-lighting hitherto unknown facts,but also urges the readers toindulge in a furthered discourseon the same. What makes it morecompelling and complete, so tosay, is that this detailed studyencompasses the stories of thecommon Indian people at thetime of the war.

She recounts the perspectivesof farmers, mothers, cooks atarmy boats, love letters from sol-diers, accounts from the brothelhouses, and much more, and thusdevises ‘a people’s history’, as thesubtitle underlines. Soldiers fromNorth India had always beenrecruited to British royalty dur-ing the colonial era, but in thebeginning of the 1940s, Britishofficers came all the way toPunjab, Rajasthan, and the south-ernmost parts of the country toengage Indian troops in graverconcerns. In fact, many of themwere also employed to fightGermany, Italy and their allies inthe Middle East and Africa, andalso to fight the Japanese in theFar East. And then there werealso the Gurungs, Rais, Limbus,

all collectively called theGurkhas, who played a distinc-tive role in Asia’s military history.But what makes the accounts ofthe war also fascinating is thatthis book projects the Indian sol-diers as willing participants atmany points, amidst being forcedto fight for an empire that wasoppressing their country. LikeKhan suggests, reasons for join-ing the war were diverse anddepended on individual circum-stances. If some joined out ofpoverty, some saw it as a venera-ble family occupation. If manywere unwilling partakers, manyothers saw in it their moment ofpatriotic glory. But within thisstructure, Khan writes that thegreatest resistance came from themothers who hid their sons andleft no stone unturned in protect-ing them. A large number ofmothers grieve how their sonswere simply grabbed by officersand that was the last they saw ofthem; many newly marriedbrides never got to know theirhusbands as well.

There is also a strong exami-nation of the War Fund, whichwas more of an imposition thanobligation and took a toll on thepoor lot. Contribution to the WarFund became a compulsion everytime one needed the smallest offavours from the officials. Thismade things worse for the poorpeasants who were already vic-

timised by inflation and pricehikes in clothes and wheat.Royalty in India, too, chose to beblind to their woes in return ofthe promise of protection fromthe British, should there beinstances of rebellions from thesubjects. Khan writes that theBritish failed to understand thatIndians resisted recruitment and

War Fund because of their finan-cial and political subjugation, andinstead blamed it on Indiansbeing “too backward, irrational,underdeveloped, uneducated,superstitious or unable to see theinternational picture”.

Although there is also themention of British officers whoshared the sentiments of the

resisting Indians’ nationalist aspi-rations as well; a British sergeantof the Sudan Ordnance Corpswrote home from the MiddleEast, “I have met scores of theIndian troops in Cairo and havehad drinks with many of themand would do so again. If Indiawas composed chiefly of thesekind of blokes I would say they

deserve Home Rule and be gladto see them get it.” Nonetheless,differential treatment betweenthe Indian and British troops andracism were widely prevalent. Infact, it is only in the middle ofthe war that Indian officers wereallowed to sit on the court mar-tials of the British officers.Needless to say, pay and otherconditions varied as well.

There are also fascinatingdepictions of the social world ofthe soldiers: “Men in uniformfilled local cinemas like the Regaland the Eros playing The Wizardof Oz, Casablanca and Gone WithThe Wind... As everyone waitedfor the next chess move in thewar, men took every chance theycould to go sightseeing, to visitshops and markets, cinemas,dances and bars… Chineserestaurants gained popularity…dances and parties promised ‘girlsgalore’ and ‘Louis Jazz Band’played in Delhi ‘in good oldYankee “Jumpin’ Jive” style’… TheGrand Hotel in Calcutta was aplace where you could ‘Forget theWar!’ with Teddy Weatherford atthe piano in the AmericanCocktail bar, Chinese jugglers,raffles, quizzes and ‘hand-pickeddance hostesses’. Markers of mod-ern living were further reinforcedby “Hollywood and Bollywoodcompeting for Indian audiencessince the 1930s. Now posters andmagazine showed curvy ladies

with puckered lips”. Cinema wasthus used as an instrument ofpower to mobilise mass support.

But of everything else, sol-diers missed their women. It wasa time of ruptured associations,and everyone longed for a senseof belonging, and the sentimentprevailed all over the world. AsLara Feigl had pointed out in TheLove Charm of Bombs, this was apeculiarly exciting time whenLondon too had become “a set-ting for intense love affairs andsurreal beauty”.

The Raj at War has a delight-ful and thoughtful cover thatmakes it look like a persuasivereading, credited to HaitenloSemy and Neeraj Nath, with twowomen volunteers of an ambu-lance service with a vague smileon their faces. The book has acharming gallery of photos fromthe time, more strikingly, ofwomen from the time. There arephotos of Parsi women’s precau-tion training, women protestingduring the Quit India Movement,of a female aircraft plotter, con-struction workers, anglo-Indianpolicewomen, and so on. There isalso a photo of Aruna Asaf Ali,leader of the underground move-ment during the Quit India cam-paign and later a political leaderof independent India, whomKhan mentions in detail. At thesame time, it would also havebeen rather captivating ifaccounts could be incorporatedof living people who have actual-ly endured that piece of history.

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RJD and JDU have made thesame mistake that had beencommitted by Lalu PrasadYadav and Ram Vilas Paswanbefore the 2009 Lok Sabha

Elections. Lalu and Paswan, after assess-ing their vote banks, had left theCongress in the lurch and it was com-pelled to go alone. Nitish Kumar madethe same miscalculation in 2014 LokSabha Elections. He left the BJP but didn’tcreate any other secular alliance.

This time also Lalu and Nitish havetaken the Congress in, but have left manyother parties to march on with separatepolitics and ideology. As a result, otherparties are gearing up for the third andfourth fronts, which are bound to affectthe grand alliance.

Earlier, it was being speculated thatNitish would tie up with the Left frontalso. During the Lok Sabha Elections,Nitish had left two seats for them. Butthis time, he distanced himself from thethree Left parties, and now they haveformed a separate front. When CPI, CPMand CPI-ML are fighting separately, RJDand JDU alliance will be adversely affect-ed. A fourth front is also in the offing inBihar. Leaders like Sadhu Yadav, PappuYadav, Dadan Yadav and Nagmani havealready formed their parties and are nowtrying to forge an alliance. NCP’s TariqAnwar is also not happy, and if hisresentment persists, then the grandalliance will be at bigger loss.

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Manmohan Singh’s problems are set tomultiply. After the coal scam, ques-

tions are being raised on his office’s rolein the CWG scam also. The CAG reporthas mentioned that when Manmohanwas the PM, his office had intervened inthe CWG process. CAG also said that twoSports Ministers of the UPA Government— Sunil Dutt and Mani Shankar Aiyar —didn’t want Suresh Kalmadi to be giventhe responsibility of organising the CWG.Despite that, the PMO intervened andKalmadi was given the green signal.

Even in the coal scam, Manmohan’sproblems will increase. Madhu Koda hasfiled an application in CBI special courtthat Manmohan should be made anaccused in the case. Koda’s argument isthat the CM only gives recommenda-tions, and the final approval is given bythe Coal Ministry.

The coal block allocated on Koda’srecommendation had been finallyapproved by Manmohan, the then CoalMinister. After filing an application incourt, Koda is now planning to make it apolitical issue. He wants that recommen-dations made by other CMs at that timeshould also be probed.

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The attitude of the Centre and BJP haschanged towards West Bengal CM

Mamata Banerjee. The BJP has changedits strategy on the issues of politicalattack on Mamata and is helping herGovernment too. BJP leaders have alsostopped targeting her. Some say whenthe Congress and Left started comingcloser, the BJP changed its strategy. TheBJP is of the view that it won’t gain muchby attacking or criticising Mamata, and ifattacks on her continue, then theCongress and Left will benefit. So, thereis a change in the BJP’s strategy.

That is the reason why the WBGovernment has changed its approachtowards the Centre. Finance MinisterArun Jaitley has candidly said that politi-cal disagreement will not stop funds toWB, and the development of the Statewill not suffer. Probably, RailwayMinister Suresh Prabhu has alsoincreased funds for Bengal. Mamata’sparty TMC has also got good news fromthe CBI. After interrogating many lead-ers of the party and analysing their bankaccounts, the CBI said there were no ille-gal transactions between chit fund com-pany Saradha and TMC. This has comeas a big relief for Mamata.

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Rahul Gandhi is finding it extremelydifficult to handle the party kshatra-

pas. His action in Parliament, his padya-

tras in many States and his attackingmood against the Government gave amessage that his leadership was estab-lished. Leaders of the Congress were elat-ed with the idea that Rahul had becomea natural leader and could be given theparty reins any time. But results of thelocal body elections in Rajasthan andMadhya Pradesh have put a big questionon his leadership.

The effect of these elections can beseen in the North-East where HimantaBiswa Sarma has probably taken a deci-sion. Rahul had met Sarma and tried tomake him stay in the party. At one pointit seemed that he was ready, but sudden-ly he decided to leave the party. This wasalso seen as Rahul’s failure.

In the same manner, Rahul has notbeen able to appoint the leader of hischoice as Punjab’s party president.Probably, he would put his choice for-ward through Ahmed Patel, politicaladvisor of Sonia Gandhi. The nameswere: Ravneet Bittu, Kuljit Nagra andAmrinder Singh Raja. But the three big-wigs of the State — Amarinder Singh,Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and Pratap SinghBajwa — rejected all names. The samecrisis is prevailing against his youthbrigade in Haryana, Jharkhand andsome other States.

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Is the importance of IAS officers dimin-ishing in the Government of India?

There are many IAS officers in the PMOand among the personal staff of the PM,but it’s a fact that of late non-IAS officersare being preferred to look after gover-nance. The posts which were occupiedby IAS officers are now being given toofficers from other cadres.

At the Centre, a joint secretary levelofficer looked after the work, and nor-mally IAS officers were chosen for suchposts. But the Government seems to havechanged this tradition. More than 50joint secretaries have been appointedfrom non-IAS cadre. The same thing ishappening in the case of secretaries.

Apart from ministries, non-IAS offi-cers are being appointed even at PSUsand constitutional bodies. Recently, IPSofficer Karnail Singh was appointed asthe Enforcement Director. This is thefirst time that an IPS officer has beengiven this post.

Similarly, officer from railway ser-vices, Ashwani Lohani, has been appoint-ed as the CMD of Air India. Before this,revenue services officer KV Chaudharyhad been appointed as CVC. He is thefirst non-IAS officer to occupy this post.

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Assembly Elections of 2016 in Assamwill be a tough task for CM Tarun

Gogoi. He has won thrice but this timehe is facing big challenges. His problemshave increased after Sarma decided toleave the party. Though Gogoi thinks

Sarma was the strength of the party, hebelieves there will be no impact of hisresignation. In fact, reality is quite differ-ent. Sarma is very powerful in manyparts of Assam and can damage theGogoi Government right now.

The BJP leadership is not ready forthis. Sarma has challenged that if the BJPis ready to give tickets to his MLAs, thenhe can break them away from theCongress. But the BJP is not in a moodto topple the Gogoi Government as theAssembly Elections will be held at thebeginning of the next year.

So the question is what would Gogoido now? Sarma had told the Congresshigh command several times thatHagrama Mohilary of BPF andBadruddin Ajmal had left the Congressalliance only due to Gogoi.

In the present situation, the Congressis not in a position to do anything.Mohilary’s party BPF has given supportto the BJP. With this support, the BJP isin a position to polarise Hindu votes. Inreply, if Muslim voters go with Ajmal,then the Congress will be in the situationin which the BJP is today. If the Congressmanages to go into an alliance withAjmal’s party, polarisation will be in favour of the BJP and BPF.

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The BJP is facing problems in seat-sharing arrangements with its

alliance partners in Bihar. The party ismaintaining silence and all three part-ners have become apprehensive. Theythink the BJP is doing politics like inMaharashtra and Haryana, and willannounce the seat-sharing arrangementat the last moment. Then either therewill be no option left for them or theywill have to leave the alliance like theShiv Sena and HJC.

Sources say the BJP is giving veryfew seats to its partners. In fact, it wantsto fight on 175 seats and has startednegotiations on 20 more seats. Thatmeans the BJP can leave maximum 80seats for its partners and the three partieswill have to share these.

Delay caused by the BJP has madethe alliance partners restless and theyhave started holding meetings in and outof Delhi. Upendra Kushwaha has metPaswan. Probably, Paswan’s party isexpecting 40 seats. Kushwaha and JitanRam Manjhi are expecting 60 seats. Thethree alliance partners are saying thatthey can settle for minimum 90 seats.

This means the BJP will have to fighton 153 and leave 90 for its partners.Probably this is being considered as agood equation but the BJP wants to fighton so many seats that it can reach nearmajority on its own.

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Jennifer Lawrence has topped theannual Forbes list of the highestpaid female actors in the world for

the first time, thanks to lucrative rolesin the Hunger Games and X-Menmovies. Lawrence’s estimated $52mhaul over the past 12 months puts herway out ahead of the second-placedactor, Scarlett Johansson, who made$35.5m during the same period.

As well as the lead role ofKatniss Everdeen in the post-apoca-lyptic Hunger Games saga andmutant Mystique in the X-Menfilms, the 25-year-old will reunitewith director David O Russell andco-star Bradley Cooper on theawards season-friendly Miracle Mopbiopic Joy later this year.

Lawrence’s rise to prominence hasbeen stratospheric: It is just five yearssince her Oscar-nominated break-through as a teenager struggling tokeep her family afloat while searchingfor her missing father in the Ozarkhighland backwoods in 2010’s Winter’sBone. Since then, she has picked up abest actress Oscar for 2012’s Silver

Linings Playbook and a best supportingactress nomination for 2013’sAmerican Hustle, both also featuringRussell and Cooper.

“Jennifer Lawrence has been ableto negotiate very favourable deals onthe back end of the Hunger Gamesfilms,” said Forbes’s Natalie Robehmed.“No other actress could play KatnissEverdeen, and for that reason, she cancommand a substantial cut of profits.”

Mel Gibson did not push afemale photographer outsidea Sydney cinema last Sunday,

his US publicist has said, calling thestory “a complete fabrication”. OnMonday morning, Australian mediaoutlets reported that the Oscar-win-ning actor and director had allegedlyshoved, spat and shouted at NewsCorp Australia photographer KristiMiller as she photographed him leav-ing the Palace Verona cinema inPaddington with his girlfriend, the USequestrian vaulter Rosalind Ross.

Miller told the Daily Telegraph, forwhom she works: “I took a photo ofMel and his girlfriend and when Iturned around he shoved my backreally hard... It shocked me because Iwasn’t expecting it. I don’t know if itwas his hands or elbow.” But Gibson’spublicist Alan Nierob denied therehad been any physical contact.

“Basically Gibson and his friendwere being harassed by this photogra-pher and he asked her repeatedly tostop, which she did not,” he toldGuardian Australia. “There was never

any physical contact whatsoever andthe story being told by her is a com-plete fabrication of the truth.”

Nierob did not comment onMiller’s account that Gibson verballyabused her.

“He was spitting in my face as hewas yelling at me, calling me a dog,saying I’m not even a human beingand I will go to hell,” she told TheDaily Telegraph.

Hugh Jackman is in early discus-sions to take on the lead rolein an upcoming version of

Homer’s The Odyssey. According toThe Wrap, the Oscar-nominated starof Les Miserables would play the partof Odysseus, who undertakes an epic,decade-long journey home to his fam-ily after the fall of Troy.

The project is being directed byFrancis Lawrence, who broke out withConstantine and has since beenbehind Water for Elephants and thefinal three Hunger Games films. Itreunites him with Lionsgate, the stu-dio in charge of the dystopian adven-

ture franchise. In May, it was revealedthat the story might be split into twofilms. The project is apparently onfast-track, with an aim to start shoot-ing early next year from a script byMockingjay screenwriter Peter Craig.

Jackman announced that his nextouting as Wolverine will be his lastbefore he hangs up the claws. ThisChristmas will also see him turning tothe dark side with a role as CaptainHook in Joe Wright’s Pan.Forthcoming films from the actorinclude a role in sports biopic Eddiethe Eagle and high-profile Christianfilm Apostle Paul.

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It seems money is the bestmedicine to put the

undead to rest. The annualNew Jersey Zombie Walkhas fallen victim to risingcosts and growing popu-larity. The free eventbegan with a group offriends shuffling andgroaning their waythrough AsburyPark seven yearsago. It grew in sizeover the years andraised money forcharities.

In 2013, GuinnessWorld Records certifiednearly 10,000 zombieswere the world’s largestgathering of theundead.

Organiser JasonMeehan broke thenews on Facebookrecently. He wrotethat costs haverisen and the

decayed buildings that once served asthe event’s backdrop in the city havebeen replaced by new condos andrestaurants. Meehan is tentatively plan-ning an October 3 ‘funeral’ on the

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Awoman who bit anotherpassenger in a dispute over

a seat on a crowded subway wasbeing sought for assault, theNew York City police said.

The attack occurred on aManhattan-bound ‘F’ train from

Queens a week earlier, when a 45-year-old woman asked the suspectto remove her belongings from aseat so she could sit, saidLieutenant Thomas Antonetti,spokesman for the New YorkPolice Department.

When the rider did notrespond, the woman attempted tosit down anyway. “The suspectbecame enraged pushing thevictim, scratching her on thechest, pulling her hair and bit-

ing her on herforearm causing a lacera-tion and bleeding,” the NYPDsaid in a statement.

The suspect fled the train when itstopped at a station but not before thevictim snapped a cellphone picture of herbaring her teeth, which police sharedwith the public to help track down thesuspect. “Caught in the act,” Antonettisaid. The rider was taken to the hospitalbut has since been discharged.

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Acentury-old message in a bottle,possibly the oldest ever found, has

finally reached its destination. Tossedinto the North Sea sometime between1904 and 1906, the bottle washed up onthe beach on the German island ofAmrum, and was found by a couple inApril. Inside they found a postcard ask-ing that it be sent to the MarineBiological Association of the UK —which they did.

“We were very excited,” Guy Baker, aspokesman for the group, said. “We cer-tainly weren’t expecting to receive any

more of the postcards.”Baker said the bottle was

one of some 1,000 releasedinto the North Sea by

researcher George Parker Bidder, wholater became the association’s president.The bottles were weighed down to floatjust above the sea bed, and used as partof a study into the movement of sea cur-rents. Inside each bottle was a postcardpromising a “one shilling reward” to any-one who returned it to the association,along with information about where andwhen they found the bottle. Most bottleswere trawled up by fishermen andreturned decades ago, Baker said.

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AEuropean Space Agency astronautfamous for wearing her Star Trek

uniform on the International SpaceStation (ISS) is headed “where no manhas gone before” in a fan film. SamanthaCristoforetti, the first Italian woman inspace, returned to Earth in June after199 days on the ISS, and the makers offan-produced film Star Trek: Axanarhave now announced she is joining the

production in an as-yet unspeci-fied role. “As long as we can workout her schedule (as she will haveto fly back from Europe), shewould love to have a role inAxanar,” the film’s producers saidin a blog post.

Cristoforetti’s affection forthe science fiction franchisebecame clear in April, whenshe donned a Star Trek:Voyager-style uniform andsnapped a series of selfiesaboard the ISS.

Star Trek: Axanar is a fan-produced film following thecharacter Garth of Izar, whoappeared in original Star Trekepisode “Whom Gods Destroy.”The fan film takes place about21 years before the first episodeof Star Trek.

Cristoforetti’s journey“where no man has gonebefore” follows in the footstepsof NASA astronaut MaeJemison, who appeared ina small role on Star Trek:The Next Generation.

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APittsburgh defense attorney gota hearing postponed at the last

minute after convincing a judgethat his wife’s labour was a mat-

ter of life — or his death.The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports MarcDaffner was granted a con-tinuance after filing a bluntrequest with a PittsburghCity Court magistrate.

It read: “Defense coun-sel’s wife went into labour atapproximately 11.15 amtoday, and defense counselwill be killed by his wife ifhe does not get to the hos-pital immediately.”

Daffner says the dis-trict attorney and judge

agreed to the move. Hisclient is charged with

receiving stolen property.Daffner says, “I didn’t

have a legal reason for thecontinuance, but that wasthe truth.”

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There has always been a bit ofgold in the steep, tree-decked hills aroundWalbrzych in southernPoland. Enough to prompt

the opening of a few mines long ago,and enough for tourists to still chancetheir luck with a gold pan in the fastflowing rivers. But never enough togenerate excitement and frenzy. Untilnow, that is.

Two men have claimed to havefound what could be a legendary Nazighost train that disappeared withouttrace into the mountains aroundWalbrzych in April 1945 with a cargoof gold as it fled the advance of theRed Army. If the claim is true, thenthere could be a fortune beneath thepeople’s feet, and that has got themexcited.

“People are talking about it. Theyare talking about in the town. Myclients talk about it and we’ve had a lotof journalists coming by,” said MarekMarciniak, the owner of a cafe adja-cent to Walbrzych town hall. “Andwhen I go home and flick on the television I see a lot of news about the ‘gold train’.”

Marciniak, like many others, isquick to stress that everybody hasheard stories about the train and itsgold before, and how people have triedand failed in the past to gain theirfame and fortune by finding it. Whatsets this time apart from the others, hepointed out, is that the two claimantshave taken a legal step by filing a claimwith the local authorities in Walbrzychin the hope of attaining a finder’s feeof 10 per cent of the value of the find.

This is a measure nobody beforehas taken, and has fuelled speculationthat this time somebody may haveactually found something.

But just where the train mighthave been found remains unknown.The two who have claimed to have

found it have kept the location underwraps, saying, through their lawyer,that they may reveal their secret to thePresident of Walbrzych next week. Butuntil then the location stays secret.

The local press have claimed oneplace the train could lie is the villageof Walim. Stretched along a valleysome 12 miles west of Walbrzych andoverlooked by the forested OwlMountains, Walim has emerged as acontender for the location because itshills are home to some of the ProjectRiese tunnels.

One of the biggest constructionprojects in the history of the ThirdReich, Project Riese involved diggingmiles of tunnels in a series of complex-es across the Walbrzych region, whichwas until 1945 part of Germany.Thousands of slave labourers diedhewing the rock for reasons that stillremain unclear. Some say the tunnelswere for a secret command centre,others claim they were for under-ground factories for Hitler’s secretweapons, or even hid research on anatomic bomb.

To this day not all the tunnelshave been explored so believers in thegold train legend say the locomotiveand its cargo may still lie hidden in asecret siding. On his office computer,Pawel Brzozowski, Walim’s director ofculture and tourism, pulled up an oldGerman map of the village. It showeda now non-existent railway line run-ning into Walim. He explained thetheory was that there may have beena special track laid that led into aReise tunnel.

“In May we found that somebodyhad carried out illegal digging on oneof the hills near the cemetery not farfrom the track may have been, and thisindicates that somebody has beensearching,” he said.

Some of the tunnels and caverns inWalim’s hills are large, big enough, per-

haps, to house a train. Brzozowski saidhe hopes the legend and its gold liesburied somewhere in the hills butmaintains a dose of scepticism.

“It would be important for us, if itwas found,” he explained. “It couldbring people here, and already peopleare asking about it. We are just waitingto see what happens. But some peoplelaugh about it because there havealways been stories about the train.”

Further up the valley at theentrance to Walim’s Reise tunnels, nowa tourist attraction, Marcin Pasek,shakes his head at talk of finding thegold train. A tunnel guide for five yearshe has heard the legend many timesand it still fails to ring true for him.

“I have my reservations aboutthis,” he said with a slight laugh.“There has been talk but no evidence.Maybe there was some treasure butwhy leave it on a train? In the pastNazi loot has always been found inboxes, never on a train. Or maybesomebody has found a train, but per-haps it’s just an old abandoned trainwith no treasure.”

While his scepticism about the dis-covery claims appears to strike a chordwith many people in the Walbrzychregion, there is also abundant hope thetrain and its precious cargo will soonbe uncovered. That would bring asurge of publicity to a region unknownto many in Europe, and provide aneconomic boost to a town that has suf-fered of late.

Mines around Walbrzych haveclosed, jobs lost and the populationhas dropped from 170,000 to 110,000in just 25 years. “We hope it’s true. Forthis region it would be good news,”said Marciniak, the cafe owner. “Buteven it isn’t, the legend will live on,” headded with a smile. “Nobody ever seesthe Loch Ness monster but people stillgo to Loch Ness.”

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The word dharma is defined in anEnglish dictionary as truth, which isjust one aspect of dharma.

Righteousness comes a little closer, which isdefined as morally right and good. Thisword is better defined in a Sanskrit dictio-nary, which gives dharma several meanings.Some of them are: Duty, goodness, actionaccording to bona fide scriptures, justice,purity and being cultured. Dharma is basedupon several good qualities such as truthful-ness, mercy, humility, compassion, love, for-giveness, dutifulness, tolerance, patience,faith, etc. However, dharma transcends allthese; it is paramount.

The following examples will clarify thelast point. Mothers routinely lie to their chil-dren. For example, a child demands some-thing, which she is unable to provide due tomoney constraints. She convinces him thatsomething else that she can afford is better.Here dharma transcends truthfulness. Twochildren are fighting and the younger one isthe offender. Their mother takes the elderone aside and asks him to be more careful infuture because the younger one is still notold enough to understand things properly.The elder one is told to tolerate and try toavoid such fights. Here dharma is above jus-tice. The third example is that of a highly tal-ented girl having been placed third in acompetition, which she should have won.The explanation: Such early success willmake her proud, and could come in the way

of her reaching her potential. This conductof the judges was according to dharma,though they acted unfairly.

In life, we all face many problems andchallenges. How we tackle them determinesthe quality of our lives. How should wetackle any problem? The answer is simple.We must ascertain what the solution isaccording to dharma. Once we are certain,we should go ahead and implement it.

Now let’s see why dharma is supreme. Inthe Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna states thatwhenever there is decline in dharma andthere is ascendency of adharma, I incarnatemyself. In the next verse, he reaffirms themessage, ie he incarnates in different yugasfor re-establishing dharmic principles. Nowwe can understand why dharma is moreimportant than anything else, and why oneshould always follow it. If we tread the pathof dharma, god will assist us because heupholds dharma in all circumstances.

Therefore, wise persons first establishwhat dharma is in any circumstance. This

one can do with the help of bona fide scrip-tures like the Bhagavad Gita, talking torealised souls and following the examples ofgreat souls. Then, one must follow it in apractical way no matter how difficult orpainful it is. And, finally, the result must beleft to god — the protector of dharma.

The following stories will illustrate whathas been stated earlier. In a family, the fatheris acting irresponsibly. The mother takes fullcare of her children. Obviously, they love herand their father not so much. But the mothernever involves her children in her difficultieswith her husband. She tackles him on herown because she does not wish her childrento become hateful of their father. That woulddamage their psyche, which is worse thanany victory she will achieve with their help.

The next story is of a principal, who hadbrought his school to the top of all localschools by working diligently. The head ofthe Trust which ran the school was pleasedwith him. They decided not to seek capita-tion fee from new entrants. Everything wasdone on merit and based on dharma. Thehead died and his son succeeded him. Heasked the principal to start collecting capita-tion fee. The principal resigned. His new jobtook him to a school quite far from his localresidence but he did not mind. He appliedhimself there to make that school the verybest. I welcome your comments.

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There is a story about the last days of warriorking of Macedonia Alexander. The story goesthat while he was on his death bed and the end

seemed imminent, Alexander called his trusted wisemen near his bed and gave them the instructions tobe followed after his death. The first was that all thebest doctors of his kingdom would lead the funeralprocession. The second instruction was that thegems, gold and diamonds in his treasure thatAlexander had amassed during his many victoriesacross the world be thrown along the course of hisfuneral procession. The third instruction was thatwhile placing his body in the coffin his hands shouldbe kept hanging outside.

Baffled by the strange last wish one of the wisemen asked the king what was the significance ofthese three instructions. With a rather painful yetconfident smile Alexander explained his three wishesto his wise men. The first instruction to ask the doc-tors to lead the funeral procession was to prove thatthough he had too many doctors at his beck and callyet he could not be saved. Death, then, is inevitable.

The second instruction asking them to strew thegems, diamonds and gold along the path of funeralprocession was to prove that though he amassed somuch wealth, he could not carry it to the otherworld. He had to leave it here. The third instructionto let his hands hang outside the coffin was to provethat in the end you depart empty-handed. Just theway you had come into this world.

There is no means to ascertain whether the storyis true or imaginary, and whether the instructionscould be carried out or not. However, even if it is astory, there is a great lesson to be learnt.

The moral of the story, thus, is that death is agreat leveller and it visits the prince and the pauperwith the same degree of nonchalance. And mostimportantly, all your wealth has to be left here in thisworld. Nothing can be carried to the other world.You enter this world with zero balance and the otherworld too with the zero balance. But the point is thatwhy it takes so long to realise this basic truth. Whydo people spend their entire lifetime in the futilepursuit of material wealth?

A difficult question that perhaps can only beanswered through realisation that usually comes inthe face of death at the fag end of the life. It is igno-rance or avidya that makes human beings run aftermaya or illusion. Many before Alexander must haverealised this. Many after him would also haverealised this.

But the lesson could not be learnt by humanbeings. Such is the power of maya that even the wiseget entrapped. Was it not the pursuit of a golden deerthat befuddled Lord Ram and blunted his reason,thus resulting in misery? Maya is a formidableenemy and it can only be challenged through reasonthat leads to inner awakening.

But how to listen to this voice of reason is themain issue. Particularly because it is there in all of usand keeps trying to awaken us. The enemy numberone is the ego that gives us the vanity resulting froma false sense of invincibility./�������������������"�������7�����#�� � �6����&1���%��

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The saints and mys-tics are alwaystelling us that if weplace our attentiononly in the activi-

ties of the world, then wewill have turmoil in our life.This is a world of illusion;this is a world of maya.There is a time associatedwith how long everything isgoing to last here, and finallyeverything will deteriorateand decay. When we try toconnect with that which isnot permanent, thosemoments of happiness aretemporary and we neverattain lasting joy. For us to bein the state of eternal happi-ness and joy, we need to con-nect with that which is per-manent.

There is a story from thelife of Alexander the Greatthat illustrates the result ofengaging in the desires of theworld. Alexander the Greathad conquered many people.He was leading his army intothe north-western part ofIndia to conquer those peo-ple. When returning home,he asked his astrologers totell him how and when hewould die.

The astrologers told him,“O great king, our calcula-tions show that you will notdie until the earth turns intoiron and the sky is trans-formed into gold.” The kingwas overjoyed and said,“This is great news. It wouldtake many ages for the earthto turn into iron and the skyto turn into gold. What amiracle! I am going to livefor a long time.”

Alexander the Great nextdecided to go to Persia. Onthe way, he had an attack ofmalaria, and told his chief

minister who was ridingalongside him on a horse, “Ihave terrible fever. Mystrength is fading. I cannotride any longer.”

The minister grew wor-ried and said, “O great king,let us ride a few miles more.We can then find a tree andyou can lie down in theshade.” However, Alexandercould ride no longer. He gotoff his horse and lay downon the hot ground.

The minister could notbear to see the great kinglying in the hot sun, so hemade a couch for the king byremoving his own coat ofiron armour that was linedwith 40 layers of silk so thatthe king could rest upon thesilk. The minister then heldhis own shield over the king’sface to keep the sun off him.

When Alexander openedhis eyes and saw the shielddecorated with strips of gold,the astrologer’s predictioncame to his mind. “Oh, no,”thought Alexander. “I was afool to be happy with theastrologer’s prediction. Ithought it meant I would livea long time. Now, the predic-tion is true. I am lying oniron as if it were earth. Thesky above me is now the goldshield.”

Suddenly, the royalphysician rode up on hishorse to treat the king. Heexamined Alexander and toldthe king, “I cannot deceiveyou. You are lying at the doorof death.” Alexander cried,“Is there no remedy?” Thedoctor said, “No, great king,the fever is too severe. Nomedicine can help you.”

The king fell into despair.Although he was so weak, hecould not believe his life was

about to end. The kingturned to his minister andsaid, “Please announce that Iwill give half my kingdom toanyone who can enable meto live long enough to have alast glimpse of my mother.”The doctor said, “Sir, that isnot possible. You have only aminute or two to live.”

Alexander panicked,“Whoever will let me livelong enough to see mymother will receive all myconquests. I will live onlyon alms.” The doctor said,“It is useless. Nothing cansave you now.” Then,Alexander the Great, whohad terrorised and plun-dered thousands of peopleas he conquered theirnations, began to cry.

Suddenly, a saint wan-dered by. He looked insilence at the dying king. Hethen said to the ministerthat it was a shame thatAlexander threw away all hislife for temporary desires ofthe world. He added that theconquest of all the world isnothing compared to spiri-tual bliss.

This anecdote from his-tory says that although peo-ple may drink the wine ofthe world, such wine cannotoffer any salvation or eternalbliss as compared to the nec-tar of the lord.

In the scriptures it issaid that what is true today,was true in the beginning ofcreation, and will remaintrue until the end of cre-ation. The scriptures tell usthat to know God, we needto be still and focus ourattention within ourselves.As long as our attention ison the world outside, that isthe area from which we get

input into our system. Whenour attention is not on theobjects or the activities ofthis physical world andinstead is focused on theholy word or the naam orshabd within ourselves, theneverything that comes to uscomes from a source of per-manent happiness, of per-manent joy. That is why somuch emphasis is laid on usbeing able to experience thedivine for ourselves.

In the Sant Mat tradition,the technique that we use iscalled Shabd meditation. Werecognise that power of godwithin ourselves as the divinelight and sound of god.

When we sit to meditate,we experience that creativeforce within ourselves, asdivine light and sound. Thislight is coming from the cre-ative force, which is withineach and every one of us.

As we experience thelight and sound of God, westart to truly experience thedivine, and this connectionautomatically makes ushappy. That happinessshows in our face, it showsin the way we talk, and itshows in the way we act ordeal with others.

As we become more andmore in tune with this divin-ity within ourselves, the loveof god will permeate eachand every part of our being.No riches of the world, nogains at the mental level, thephysical level, or the emo-tional level can make usattain this state.

This is a state that comeswhen we are in tune with thedivine light and sound ofgod, and we open ourselvesto the will of the lord.

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When fundamental truth getsknocked down even out ofignorance, it leads to serious

consequences. So no wonder, theworldly existence has got into an exis-tential crisis, ever since seeds of con-sumerism have been sown in ourminds, which in turn, have bred thesense of individualism. We havebecome self-centric, not botheredabout others, and at the worst, reli-gion/culture/caste centric.

Somehow, a sense of identity crisisseems to have overtaken ignorantminds all across, which is what is dri-ving ignorant people trying to maketheir individual/group presence forcedupon others, even if it means takingresort to uncivilised methods. And allthis to grab the spoils even when it is atthe cost of others. Or for that matter,innocents are getting killed every daybecause of group vandalism in thename of religion or securing one’s casterights, here in India and beyond itsboundaries.

It may not be out of place to men-tion here that we are all born imperfect.That calls for a compulsive engagementwith others to make up for each other’sinadequacies, and together meet our

existential needs. This fundamentaltruth seems to have been forgotten bythe majority. Otherwise, all andsundry would not be living in ademanding mode. What we seem tohave forgotten is that if you wish toseek from others what you need, itbecomes imperative upon you to giveback in return what others require too.The obvious implication is that if at allwe wish to secure individual and soci-etal peace and welfare, we shall haveto live in a giving mode as naturedoes. If you expect food from motherearth for your survival, you need towater and nurture her resources too.Similar principle will apply both atsocietal and family levels.

Here I recall the statement of anAustralian Physicist, Paul Davies: “Fora naïve realist, the world is a collectionof objects. For a quantum physicist, itis an inseparable web of vibrating ener-gy patterns, where no one componenthas a reality independent of the entire-ty, included in that entirety is theobserver.” So, even modern science hasrealised that the world is a unitaryorganism where one’s individual exis-tence will become questionable if thefundamentals of collective existence get

anyway compromised. The irony, however, is that we have

become so self-centric that even withina small family, every member is tryingto force his/her whims and fancies onothers. As a consequence, hardly anyfamily is at peace. The other day a mid-dle aged man, by himself well meaningand professionally well established,came complaining that he feels lost andlike a loner. His wife and other familymembers remain in demanding modeall the time, seldom remembering thateven he needs some care. He gets sohassled that he had lost his peace ofmind, self-esteem and confidence. As aconsequence, his creative urges havegone for a toss.

Let us look at his astrologicalpointers. Lagna lord Saturn is lockedin adverse formation to Moon, the lordof spouse signifying 7th lord. It impliesthat the man is vulnerable to be at thereceiving end of an ignorant naggingwife. Moon again being mind indicatorposited in the 3rd house identifiedwith general mental dispensation, hewould get too much unnerved whenconfronted with unpleasantness. Ontop of that is debilitated Mars occupy-ing the 7th house and that too ill-dis-posed off to mischievous Neptune,

pointing to a domineering wife suffer-ing from inferiority complex. Shewould be over domineering with ‘myway or no way attitude’. She may igno-rantly misdirect her energies that mayprove self-destructive.

The question now is: How to dealwith such a situation? First, the manhas to take resort to spiritual processunder the guidance of a proven mentor.Following the process, he will be ableto clear off all negative imprints so fargathered in the mind. The mind-spacethus cleared off will help expand hisscope of vision and increase strengthof mind, which in turn, may helpregain his self-esteem and confidence.He may then realise that ignorance isthe root cause, underlying his wife’sappalling conduct. So, better she is putthrough continued psychologicalcounselling by a proven expert tomake her realise that her happinesscan be secured only by being support-ive to her spouse. And very soon theymay end up a happy couple.

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