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A s he started his indefinite fast against the “arbitrari- ness of the Centre in dividing Andhra Pradesh”, YSR Congress president Jagan- mohan Reddy on Saturday hit out at Congress president Sonia Gandhi, though without nam- ing her, blaming her for the State’s bifurcation. He also said his party would challenge the Union Cabinet’s decision in the Supreme Court which was taken without a resolution in the State Assembly. “Someone wanted their son to become PM and divid- ed the State,” Jagan told a TV channel, referring to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and her son Rahul Gandhi. Fiery protests, in the mean- time, continued to rage through Seema-Andhra region and some places witnessed sporadic violence on the sec- ond day of the 72-hour strike in protest against the bifurca- tion. Andhra Pradesh, as well as other neighbouring States are bracing for a massive power blackout as the employees’ strike has resulted in several power generation plants trip- ping in Seema-Andhra since Friday night. In Delhi, sources said Union Minister Pallam Raju, who announced his resignation over the division of Andhra Pradesh, met Congress presi- dent Sonia Gandhi, who just like the Prime Minister, advised him “not to act in haste.” Around half-a-dozen other Central Ministers and several Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh have already resigned in protest. Flanked by several senior leaders of his party and fami- ly members, Jagan sat on the indefinite fast at his Lotus Pond residence in Jubilee Hills area at 11.30 am. However, his fast came under attack from Telangana Congress leaders who urged the police not to permit the fast. They also advised Jagan to take his fast to his hometown Kadapa. Noting that there were “legal problems” involved in the State’s division, Jagan won- dered how the Centre could find solutions in six weeks. “We will challenge the Centre’s deci- sion (to divide AP) in the Supreme Court,” Jagan said. “We are opposing the uni- lateral manner in which the Centre is functioning. How can it go ahead with the bifur- cation process without a reso- lution in the State Assembly?” Jagan asked adding, “We have never heard of an instance of State bifurcation without a res- olution in the Assembly.” This is second time that Jagan has gone on a fast against the formation of Telangana demanding equal justice to all the regions. He had gone on fast in September inside the Chanchalguda jail where he was lodged as an accused in the dis- proportionate assets case but it ended six days later when he was shifted to hospital in view of his worsening health. The indefinite fast was part of the one-upmanship between Jagan and his bête noire Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu as both their parties were eyeing a dominant role in Seema- Andhra region post the divi- sion of the State. Interestingly, Naidu has also announced his plans for an indefinite fast in New Delhi from Monday to mobilise sup- port at the national level from other parties to stall the divi- sion process. Both Naidu and Jagan are being seen as trying to emerge as the champion of an united Andhra Pradesh. Related report on P6 T he sleepy town of Puttur in Chittoor district woke up to the sound of gunfire on Saturday as the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh Police carried out a joint operation, which finally after 12 long hours led to the arrest of two key Islamic terrorists suspected to be involved in killing of BJP and Sangh leaders from South India and planting a pipe bomb in 2011 on the route through which BJP leader LK Advani was to travel in Madurai. The arrested accused Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik were not only wanted in the murders of Tamil Nadu BJP secretary Auditor Ramesh at Salem and Hindu Front leader Vellaiyappan in Vellore but also around a dozen-odd other cases. According to the Tamil Nadu Police, Ismail and Bilal belong to a fundamentalist organisation Al-Ummah. A Police Inspector was severely injured in the incident and Ismail suffered bullet injuries, police said. The police- man was being treated at a pri- vate hospital in Chennai while Ismail has been admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital, where a three-tier security has been accorded. A gun and some explosives were also recovered from a house in the area, police said. The arrests came after another arrested Islamist Fakruddin spilled the beans on his cohorts. Turn to Page 4 E ighteen years after he com- mitted the “heinous crime” of planting a kiss on a minor girl, the law has caught up with a “juvenile offender”, who is now a 34-year-old man. Finding him guilty of outrag- ing the modesty of the girl, now a grown up woman, the Supreme Court (SC) has direct- ed the offender to surrender and undergo six months in jail. The girl and the offender both were 16 years of age at the time of the crime. The two are now settled in life with their own families. While handing out the unique judgement, the SC noted that in the prevailing sce- nario, the modesty of a woman has to be strongly guarded. The incident was of Malda in West Bengal where both the accused and the victim resided. In her complaint lodged 18 years ago, the girl had said that on November 6, 1995, while on her way to attend tuitions, the accused forcibly caught hold of her hair and planted a kiss on her lips. Her lower lip was injured and started bleeding. However, it was only last year, on May 9, 2012, that the trial court sentenced him to six months in jail for the offence of outraging the modesty of the victim under IPC Section 354. Later, the Calcutta High Court too decided against the accused and dismissed his appeal on September 19, 2012, against which he approached the SC. The judgement holds sig- nificance as the SC refused to give the juvenile offender the benefit under law to escape a harsher punishment when it came to crimes committed against women. If the accused was to be tried before a Juvenile Justice Board, the maximum punishment he would have incurred was three years in a correctional home. The bench of Justices BS Chauhan and SA Bobde said, “If any person uses criminal force upon any woman with the intention or knowledge that the woman’s modesty will be out- raged, he is to be punished.” The judgement could serve as a precedent in the develop- ment of law relating to juveniles who are in conflict with law. Turn to Page 4 T he flush out operation along the Line of Control (LoC) in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district continued for the 12th day on Saturday as troops shot dead four more infiltrators in Fateh Gali area. Defence sources said that with the latest casualties, seven infiltra- tors were shot dead in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, General Officer Commanding-in- Chief, Northern Command Lieutenant-General Sanjiv Chachra and Srinagar-based XV Corps Commander Lieutenant-General Gurmeet Singh carried out aerial recon- naissance of the forward posts to oversee the preparedness of the troops. The Army Commander arrived here on a three day visit to review the ground situation and hold discussions with the Governor and Chief Minister. A Defence spokesman said that troops deployed in Fateh Gali area of Keran sector detected move- ment of some terrorists about 50 metres in front of their post located around three kilometres inside the LoC. Turn to Page 4 T he famous Cottage Number 13 of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) has been spruced up during the last couple of days. The RIMS administration has kept most of its cottages, especially number 13 and 14, free for some undis- closed VIP inmates. Hospital staff appointed to look after VIP patients told The Pioneer on Saturday that the administration has asked them not to allocate the cottages to any patient till further orders. “We have been asked to keep both the cottages (13 and 14) vacant. But we don’t know who will be admitted to these cottages,” said a medical staff requesting anonymity. Both cottages are equipped with air-conditioners that dif- ferentiates them from the rest of the 12 cottages. At present three of the hospital’s cottages are being occupied by Nalin Soren, Jagannath Mishra and Sawna Lakra. Turn to Page 4 M oroccan police have arrested a teenage boy and girl for posting a photo on Facebook of them kissing, with the incident provoking a slew of copycats, a rights organisa- tion has said. “It involves a teenage boy and his girlfriend. They were arrested on Thursday for vio- lating public decency by post- ing a photo of them kissing on a social networking site” in the north-eastern town of Nador, said Chakib al-Khayari, pres- ident of the Rif Association of Human Rights, on Saturday. The photograph of the young lovebirds was taken out- side the high school where the two are students. The young cou- ple are being held in the juvenile detention centre in Nador, where a sit-in has begun to demand their release, Khayari said. The incident has caused such a stir among young peo- ple that a number of other cou- ples have posted similar pho- tos on their Facebook pages. A local official contacted by AFP confirmed the arrests, but declined to comment any further on the incident. Khayari said the pair are to appear before a juvenile court judge next Friday.

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As he started his indefinitefast against the “arbitrari-

ness of the Centre in dividingAndhra Pradesh”, YSRCongress president Jagan-mohan Reddy on Saturday hitout at Congress president SoniaGandhi, though without nam-ing her, blaming her for theState’s bifurcation. He also saidhis party would challenge theUnion Cabinet’s decision in theSupreme Court which wastaken without a resolution inthe State Assembly.

“Someone wanted theirson to become PM and divid-ed the State,” Jagan told a TVchannel, referring to Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi, andher son Rahul Gandhi.

Fiery protests, in the mean-time, continued to ragethrough Seema-Andhra regionand some places witnessedsporadic violence on the sec-ond day of the 72-hour strikein protest against the bifurca-tion. Andhra Pradesh, as wellas other neighbouring Statesare bracing for a massive powerblackout as the employees’strike has resulted in severalpower generation plants trip-ping in Seema-Andhra sinceFriday night.

In Delhi, sources saidUnion Minister Pallam Raju,who announced his resignationover the division of AndhraPradesh, met Congress presi-

dent Sonia Gandhi, who justlike the Prime Minister, advisedhim “not to act in haste.”Around half-a-dozen otherCentral Ministers and severalCongress MPs from AndhraPradesh have already resignedin protest.

Flanked by several seniorleaders of his party and fami-ly members, Jagan sat on theindefinite fast at his LotusPond residence in Jubilee Hillsarea at 11.30 am. However, hisfast came under attack fromTelangana Congress leaderswho urged the police not topermit the fast. They also

advised Jagan to take his fast tohis hometown Kadapa.

Noting that there were“legal problems” involved in theState’s division, Jagan won-dered how the Centre couldfind solutions in six weeks. “Wewill challenge the Centre’s deci-sion (to divide AP) in theSupreme Court,” Jagan said.

“We are opposing the uni-lateral manner in which theCentre is functioning. Howcan it go ahead with the bifur-cation process without a reso-lution in the State Assembly?”Jagan asked adding, “We havenever heard of an instance ofState bifurcation without a res-olution in the Assembly.”

This is second time thatJagan has gone on a fast againstthe formation of Telanganademanding equal justice to allthe regions. He had gone on fastin September inside theChanchalguda jail where he waslodged as an accused in the dis-proportionate assets case but itended six days later when hewas shifted to hospital in viewof his worsening health.

The indefinite fast waspart of the one-upmanshipbetween Jagan and his bêtenoire Telugu Desam presidentN Chandrababu Naidu as boththeir parties were eyeing adominant role in Seema-Andhra region post the divi-sion of the State.

Interestingly, Naidu hasalso announced his plans for anindefinite fast in New Delhifrom Monday to mobilise sup-port at the national level fromother parties to stall the divi-sion process. Both Naidu andJagan are being seen as tryingto emerge as the champion ofan united Andhra Pradesh.

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The sleepy town of Puttur inChittoor district woke up to

the sound of gunfire onSaturday as the Tamil Nadu andAndhra Pradesh Police carriedout a joint operation, whichfinally after 12 long hours ledto the arrest of two key Islamicterrorists suspected to beinvolved in killing of BJP andSangh leaders from South Indiaand planting a pipe bomb in2011 on the route throughwhich BJP leader LK Advaniwas to travel in Madurai.

The arrested accusedPanna Ismail and Bilal Malikwere not only wanted in themurders of Tamil Nadu BJPsecretary Auditor Ramesh atSalem and Hindu Front leaderVellaiyappan in Vellore butalso around a dozen-odd other cases.

According to the TamilNadu Police, Ismail and Bilalbelong to a fundamentalistorganisation Al-Ummah.

A Police Inspector wasseverely injured in the incidentand Ismail suffered bulletinjuries, police said. The police-man was being treated at a pri-vate hospital in Chennai whileIsmail has been admitted toRajiv Gandhi GovernmentHospital, where a three-tiersecurity has been accorded. Agun and some explosives werealso recovered from a house inthe area, police said.

The arrests came afteranother arrested IslamistFakruddin spilled the beans onhis cohorts.

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Eighteen years after he com-mitted the “heinous crime”

of planting a kiss on a minorgirl, the law has caught up witha “juvenile offender”, who isnow a 34-year-old man.Finding him guilty of outrag-ing the modesty of the girl, nowa grown up woman, theSupreme Court (SC) has direct-ed the offender to surrenderand undergo six months in jail.The girl and the offender bothwere 16 years of age at the timeof the crime. The two are nowsettled in life with their ownfamilies.

While handing out theunique judgement, the SCnoted that in the prevailing sce-nario, the modesty of a womanhas to be strongly guarded.

The incident was of Maldain West Bengal where both theaccused and the victim resided.In her complaint lodged 18years ago, the girl had said thaton November 6, 1995, while onher way to attend tuitions, theaccused forcibly caught hold of

her hair and planted a kiss onher lips. Her lower lip wasinjured and started bleeding.

However, it was only last

year, on May 9, 2012, that thetrial court sentenced him to sixmonths in jail for the offence ofoutraging the modesty of the

victim under IPC Section 354.Later, the Calcutta High Courttoo decided against the accusedand dismissed his appeal onSeptember 19, 2012, againstwhich he approached the SC.

The judgement holds sig-nificance as the SC refused togive the juvenile offender thebenefit under law to escape a

harsher punishment when itcame to crimes committedagainst women. If the accusedwas to be tried before a JuvenileJustice Board, the maximumpunishment he would haveincurred was three years in acorrectional home.

The bench of Justices BSChauhan and SA Bobde said,

“If any person uses criminalforce upon any woman with theintention or knowledge that thewoman’s modesty will be out-raged, he is to be punished.”

The judgement could serveas a precedent in the develop-ment of law relating to juvenileswho are in conflict with law.

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The flush out operationalong the Line of Control

(LoC) in North Kashmir’sKupwara district continuedfor the 12th dayon Saturday astroops shotdead four moreinfiltrators inFateh Gali area. Defencesources saidthat with thelatest casualties,seven infiltra-tors were shotdead in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, GeneralOfficer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command

Lieutenant-General SanjivChachra and Srinagar-basedXV Corps CommanderLieutenant-General GurmeetSingh carried out aerial recon-naissance of the forward poststo oversee the preparedness ofthe troops. The ArmyCommander arrived here ona three day visit to review theground situation and holddiscussions with the Governor

and ChiefMinister.

A Defences p o k e s m a nsaid that troopsdeployed inFateh Gali areaof Keran sectordetected move-ment of someterrorists about50 metres in

front of their post locatedaround three kilometres insidethe LoC.

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The famous Cottage Number13 of the Rajendra Institute

of Medical Sciences (RIMS) hasbeen spruced up during the lastcouple of days. The RIMSadministration has kept most ofits cottages, especially number13 and 14, free for some undis-closed VIP inmates.

Hospital staff appointed tolook after VIP patients told ThePioneer on Saturday that theadministration has asked themnot to allocate the cottages toany patient till further orders.

“We have been asked tokeep both the cottages (13 and

14) vacant. But we don’t knowwho will be admitted to thesecottages,” said a medical staffrequesting anonymity.

Both cottages are equippedwith air-conditioners that dif-ferentiates them from the rest

of the 12 cottages. At present three of the

hospital’s cottages are beingoccupied by Nalin Soren,Jagannath Mishra and Sawna Lakra.

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Moroccan police havearrested a teenage boy

and girl for posting a photo onFacebook of them kissing, withthe incident provoking a slewof copycats, a rights organisa-tion has said.

“It involves a teenage boyand his girlfriend. They werearrested on Thursday for vio-lating public decency by post-

ing a photo of them kissing ona social networking site” in thenorth-eastern town of Nador,said Chakib al-Khayari, pres-ident of the Rif Association ofHuman Rights, on Saturday.

The photograph of theyoung lovebirds was taken out-side the high school where thetwo are students. The young cou-ple are being held in the juveniledetention centre in Nador, wherea sit-in has begun to demand

their release, Khayari said.The incident has caused

such a stir among young peo-ple that a number of other cou-ples have posted similar pho-tos on their Facebook pages.

A local official contactedby AFP confirmed the arrests,but declined to comment anyfurther on the incident.Khayari said the pair are toappear before a juvenile courtjudge next Friday.

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If the youthful exuberance ofRanbir Kapoor, his laudablehistrionic abilities, his

screen presence, hisMidas touch and his dropdead looks fail to save afilm, there must besomething really reallywrong with either thescript or the direction.In the case ofBesharam, it is a littlebit of both.

For one, not everyfilm can be put into themaster mould of Dabanggfor it to work even if thedirector happens to be thesame bloke. Why Ranbir wouldsign a film so obviously slimon a story is bewildering,considering that, so far, the lad hasstood out in Bollywood for beingdifferent and choosing differently.

Besharam is gauche andunhinged, and that despite thecomeback couple Rishi and NeetuKapoor living it up as Chulbul and

Bulbul Chautala. But the audienceneed more than just a family reunionand much more than mereattempted hilarity. And as the

raunchy Ranbir puts it aptly, sirfnaam rakhne se hi koi ChulbulPandey nahi ho jaata. Wonder

why then, he didn’t say thisto his director in thevery beginning. Atleast then, theviewers may have gota better, revisedversion of a filmthat could havebeen so muchbetter if it hadbeen givensome flesh.

Ranbir ismade forbetter stuff.He has erredin choosingthis one.DirectorAbhinav

Kashyap, too,is made bowl betterdeliveries. This one,however, goes awryfrom the verybeginning and neverreally recovers from itsinherent follies.

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Just when you are about to give up onthe potential of this time travelromance with family heartbeats, the

story starts unfolding and you rise abovethe below average looks of the hero andhis extraordinary ordinariness. You realisehe has a gift that transcends even his rareability to travel back in time every nowand then to reset his future. He is a manwith a lot of earnest emotions, gentlehumour and kindness, traits that makethis movie a puller, may be a late pullerbut a puller nevertheless.

The director does well to keep thisone simple, hinged on romance andfamily woven together beautifully. Thepace too is deliciously languid much likethe Cornish moorings its draws itslocational beauty from. The strength of amother’s character who is about to lose

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Justin Timberlake, and even BenAffleck for that, are capable ofbetter films. Runner Runner limits

them to a rather unhappening casinothriller unfolding into a megafinancial scam in Costa Rica wherecorruption is the second name toalmost everything. From Princeton tothe bad alleys of fraudulent moneyminting, Justin almost sleepwalksthrough the film, in the end winningeyes closed! In comparison, as thewily and ruthless owner of the casino,the director accords some nuances toBen’s character though that too failsto save the film from ennui.

It would have been much morefun had there been more twists andturns, more imaginative sequencingof events, more punctuations in astoryline burdened by inaction.

�What is your routine at thezoo?

That’s a challengingquestion to answer as every dayis different from the next.Usually, the alarm call of thetigers, elephants and the chorusof birds wakes me up. Then I goto school and write an article forCrikey! magazine. At times, I gofor a photo shoot and filmingand then head for the zoo.�Your father Steve was doinga lot of work with crocodiles.Are you just as proactive?

I want to make sure thatmy father’s message and legacycontinues forever. I havededicated my life to being awildlife warrior and speakingfor those who can’t speak forthemselves. The favourite seriesthat I participated in was myparents’ Crocodile Hunterseries. It was so much fun totravel with them and film withall sorts of wild animals. Ilearnt so much along the way.Getting to spend time with myparents was very special. Theshoots gave me memories thatI will cherish and carry with mefor the rest of my life.�What should every 15-year-old know about wildlife?

Many children my age feelthey don’t have a voice when itcomes to saving our planet. Butthat is not the case. Every timewe lose a species, it’s like losinga brick from the house. Prettysoon, the house will fall down.Everybody can appreciateNature. One can love wildlifeeven if one has not grown uparound them. That is whateveryone should know.�Your father was awildlife campaignerand so is your mother.

How did acting come to you?I have been accompanying

my parents on their wildlifetrips since I was a toddler sostanding in front of the cameracomes naturally to me. I enjoyacting and hosting shows,especially those on wildlife.�How difficult has it been tocontinue your father’s legacy?

Stepping into my father’sshoes was definitely not easy. AllI wish is that I am able to makea difference and encourageothers to stand up for what theybelieve in and help to protectMother Earth for futuregenerations. We have to be thechange we wish to see in theworld. I hope to make my fatherproud by carrying on in hiswork. �Who is your inspiration?

My mother. She is thestrongest woman I know, hastremendous work ethics and akind heart. I know that I canalways count on her and she isalways there for me — throughthe good times and the bad. Idon’t know what I would dowithout her. I feel so blessed tohave her in my life to guide me.�Any animal you hate towork with?

Not really. I have grown upin an environment filled withall kinds of animals. I believeall animals are beautiful andneed protection in some way orthe other.�Do you have a favourite

animal?I love

working withc r o c o d i l e s .Snakes, koalasand elephantsare favourites

as well.

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As for the film, it is a poignant love storyof this century’s most charismaticpersonalities but one wishes it was a littleless linear. Because Diana was anythingbut linear and her relationship withanyone couldn’t have been so simple.

Granted, this one is specificallyfocused on just this one relationship ofher life. But her feelings for her children,her ties with the palace, her tussle withPrince Charles — all these coexisted evenin this period of her life but all of themhave been virtually ignored in the film.

her indispensable husband to canceris as powerfully portrayed as a dyingfather’s love for his son whom he willsee for the last time.

In short, it is a sensitive story,told sensitively.

She sits pretty on a benchwhile a slew of men come

to her with gifts. One evengoes on to hug her while theother holds her hand as shesheds a tear or two. This isjust one of the promos whereMallika Sherawat plays thebachelorette in a reality showon Like OK that goes in airfrom tomorrow. While thismay not be the first of its kindof show where a woman isbeing wooed by many men —Ratan Rajput Ka Swayamvarbeing a case in point, this oneis based on the internationalformat of The Bachelor, anAmerican reality televisiondating game show.

Even though manyquestion the authenticity ofsuch shows, it doesn’t stoppeople from wanting to watchthe ins and outs of acelebrity’s life, the spice, thehigh drama and theentertainment it provides. Inthat sense, The BacheloretteIndia will take the viewersinto Sherawat’s journey tofind a perfect date partner.

“This show has been arollercoaster ride for me withlots of fun. It’s not a made-upshow but my real life journeyin search of a perfect andromantic partner. I considermyself lucky that 30 men willbe fighting for me and willmake me feel wanted. Thereare going to be fights, politics,cut-through competition andlove on the show,” Sherawatsays, adding that in thisjourney, she had the best dateof her life at Taj Lake Palace,Udaipur, with Vijay, one ofthe contestants.

“He sang romanticnumbers and took me into hisarms. But not all was funwhen we had to eliminate acontestant,” Sherawat tells you. But her best moment in lifestill is meeting US PresidentBarack Obama over a cup ofcoffee.

But why Sherawat for thisshow? “We wanted a personwho is well recognised bythose who watch TV and hasoomph. Sherawat fits the bill.The show is not just about 30men wanting to woo her, itwill talk about her life, familyand aspirations. We wanted tohave a special show for thefestive season and one with a

love-reality angle to it isjust perfect,” Ajit Thakur,

general manager, Life OK,says.

Though Sherawat mayhave carved a niche for herself

in this glamour world, shefeels she has become typecastand in that context the

glamour quotient has workedagainst her on the personaland professional fronts.

“That’s one of thereasons why Icouldn’t get into a

serious relationship. Theglamour world is fake. It hasmade me lonely. I want to livea common person’s life andnot a celebrity’s. I want to befree now. I have earned aname for myself and money,all I need is a genuine personwho can love me. I definitelydon’t want him to be from

the entertainment industry.If my soulmate belongs toa middle class family, I willprefer to spend my life with

him instead of looking for abillionaire,” Sherawat says.

It appears that shemay get her wish

after all sincearound 1.27 lakh

entries werereceived for

this show.“Of thetotal

entries wegot, our

production teamselected 30 after a

series of interviews and othertests,” Pratik Seal, head,marketing, Life OK, says.

One can get a sneak peakinto what the show entailswith Sherawat talking abouthow the men — be it afather, brother or a lifepartner — play an importantrole in shaping a girl’s lifeand that the same hashappened with her as well.

After her fatherdisowned her, she doesn’treveal why — though shesays it was the saddest phasein her life — her brother hasbeen a big support systemfor her. As part of her life’sjourney, her family will alsobe apart of the show.

One man she would liketo go on a date with?“Narendra Modi. He is verygutsy and courageous. Irelate to his views though Iwill never like to joinpolitics,” this bachelorettesays.

The toughest challengethat the industry poses ishow stay at the top position.“To get a break in thisindustry is easy butmaintaining top spot withoutany support is very difficult. Ihave been away fromBollywood because I was notgetting good scripts. I don’twant to do glamourous roles.I want to take up challengingroles. My next film — DirtyPolitics — based on the life ofBhanwari Devi is a very

promising project,” Sherawatconcludes.

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Much like her life, this film onPrincess Diana also deals withmany tragedies, the biggest one

being an over simplified encapsulation ofa very brief period of her life, a periodthat was very intense, very messed up andultimately very complex. Actually toocomplex for the black and white veneer itwas made to wear.

But that does not take away fromyour heart going out for the people’sprincess whose biggest snag in life washer unparalleled fame. “Can a surgerystitch up a broken heart?” she asks herheart doctor plaintively. Apparently not.

The film tells you that Dodi Al Fayedwas not even a diversion for Diana. Hewas merely a ploy of a lovelorn girl tryingto make her one and only love in lifejealous. Another matter though that allshe manages to get from her actual loverboy from Pakistan is a deathly silence anda bigger love in the doc’s life — the lovefor his privacy over his love for Diana.

Naomi Watts tries her best to beDiana but who can really be Diana? Shewas one and only, rarest of rare. Naomimanages to portray a lonely woman’sangst with life, her overwhelming need tobe loved and her losing fight againstultimate doom. What she falls to splashthough is the charm, the style and therare mix of elegance and chutzpahPrincess Diana wore ever so easily. Also,she is a few notches shorter than the tallDiana who fuelled people’s imaginationworldwide till she drove into that tunnelin Paris never to return.

The film tells us that the Pakistanisurgeon is still operating hearts atLondon and he doesn’t agree with thisfilm. It also tells us that he did lay awreath at his beloved’s altar afterspurning her consistently. Was thisversion the real version of Diana'stempestuous relationship with thisdoctor? No one will really know will he?

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Chief Minister SheilaDikshit on Saturday

challenged the Oppositionparties, both BJP and AamAadmi Party (AAP), to eitherprove the graft charges orstop making baseless and false allegations against her Government.

Rejecting BJP and AAP’s allegations of“widespread corruption” inher Government, Dikshitchallenged them to provide“proof ” of their charges andaccused the two parties ofmisleading people in order towin the Assembly polls.

In a scathing attack on BJPand AAP, Dikshit said neitherparty had an alternativeagenda for the Capital’sdevelopment and exudedconfidence for a fourthstraight victory in theDecember 4 electoral battle.

“Both BJP and AAP havebeen defaming us by allegingthat there has been corruptionin our Government. If youhave come across cases ofcorruption, then please tell uswhere the corruption is.Nobody becomes corrupt ifyou keep repeating thecharges. I challenge them togive us proof of graft. We willtake action,” she said.

Dikshit was speaking at amedia briefing along withDelhi Congress president JaiPrakash Agarwal and AICCGeneral Secretary in-charge ofDelhi, Shakeel Ahmed.Alleging that both BJP andAAP were trying to misleadpeople on a number of issuesfor electoral gain, the ChiefMinister said they were yet tocome out with their own“policies and vision” for thecity. The 75-year-old Dikshitsaid Congress was going to thepolls with “confidence and

conviction” as people of Delhiwere well aware of herGovernment’s performance.“I am certain that the Congresswill win the Delhi Assemblyelections for the fourth time.We have changed the face ofDelhi — 24 universities,Metro, flyovers... We don’tneed to remind you ofdevelopment under ourGovernment. The partymanifesto will be releasedwithin 10 days,” she said.

On BJP’s promise of

slashing power tariffs by 30per cent if voted to power,Dikshit wondered how theparty could have made such apromise and what theOpposition parties want toconvey to the people of Delhi.She said that her Governmenthad been giving subsidies to consumers.

“The power tariff in Delhiis the lowest in the country.The rates in Delhi are lowercompared to Gujarat, UttarPradesh and Haryana. We

have ensured round-the-clockpower supply. But, at the sametime, we felt there may be aburden (of higher bills) oncitizens. That is why wedecided to give subsidies to 78per cent of the consumers,”Dikshit said.

Speaking on the occasion,Agarwal said the DelhiGovernment had worked hardto ensure development in thecity. “Our Government hasworked very sincerely... Wecomplete projects. That is whywe cut ribbons. Should weinvite the BJP to cut ribbons?They (BJP) see everythingwrong here. Our Governmenthas done enough for the city,”he said. Praising Dikshit’sperformance, Agarwal, too,exuded confidence about aCongress victory in theDecember 4 polls.

Ahmed also said, “I assureyou, we will cut ribbons in thefuture also, after winning thepolls for the fourth time.” Inhis rally on September 29, BJPPrime Minister hopefulNarendra Modi had termedDikshit a “ribbon-cuttingChief Minister”.

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Considering the sizeablepresence of

Poorvanchalis in the Capital,the Delhi BJP on Saturdaymade attempts to garner theirsupport in the run up to theAssembly polls. President ofthe State unit of the party,Vijay Goel assured the partywill take concrete steps torestore the pride ofPoorvanchalis living in Delhi.

He said the BJP will workfor improving the livingconditions and take care oftheir overall development.The Capital has an influentialpopulation of 40 lakh peoplefrom Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Addressing a mediabriefing, Goel said, “The BJPwill declare Chhath a publicholiday in Delhi, when electedto power and mostimportant ly restore thedignity and pride of thePoor vanchalis l iving in the city. The present Govern-ment has created asense of alienation amongthe Poorvanchalis and hurttheir pride during its misrulein Delhi.”

A former Union Minister,Goel, also said Poorvanchalisliving in Delhi are part andparcel of the city but theyhave been neglected by successive CongressGovernments. “Lack ofaffordable housing for them

has pushed a large section ofPoorvanchalis to live in JJclusters, s lums andunauthorised colonies. Theproblem of employment ishurting the community themost. A large section of themis employed in the informalsector or as informal labourforce in the organised sector,contributing immensely insustaining the lifeline ofDelhi,” Goel said.

It was stated that commonproblems faced by peoplefrom the two States have beenidentif ied and wil l beaddressed when the party isvoted to power. “ Their

children struggle to getenrolled in Delhi schools.Obtaining a ration card isanother Herculean task forthem. An LPG connection, atelephone connection andAadhaar card are other issuesfaced by them,” the BJP said.

Meanwhile, Goel alsofacilitated local leaders ofCongress, Janata Dal(United), BSP andindependent Councillors,who joined the BJP onSaturday. “This reflects thepopular mood in Delhi infavour of BJP, which is all set tounseat the Congress party frompower,” Goel said.

Former Chandni ChowkDistrict Congress CommitteePresident and CouncillorAmod Sharma, MunicipalCouncillor from MukundpurWard of Lok Janshakti PartyGulab Singh Rathore,Independent Councillor fromTigadi Ward under DeoliAssembly constituency SaritaGarba, Farid Shah, whocontested the MunicipalCorporation election fromJahangirpuri on Bahujan SamajParty ticket and Janata Dal (United) Delhi StateGeneral Secretary KapoorChand Chhikara joined theparty ranks.

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Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP's) nationalconvenor Arvind Kejriwal is the

Chief Ministerial candidate in theupcoming Delhi elections from the party.This was declared by its one of the keymembers Yogendra Yadav on Saturday.“After a long time, Delhi has a candidateit can trust. We have always projectedArvind Kejriwal as our CM nominee,”Yadav said.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal on Saturdaypledged a special Assembly session atRamlila ground on December 29 to adoptthe Jan Lokpal Bill as proposed by anti-

graft activist Anna Hazare if elected topower. He said it would be a befitting replyto those MPs who have made a mockeryof the Bill during the Winter Session of Parliament.

“Election dates have been announcedand by December 15 we will form theGovernment and on December 29 aspecial session (of the Assembly) wouldbe called at Ramlila ground, where AnnaHazare was on an 11-day long fast untodeath for the Jan Lokpal Bill; the Bill would be adopted there,” Kejriwal asserted.

He said Congress and BJP are twosides of the coin campaigning against AAP.

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APunjab Police officer of SP rank, posted withPunjab Bhawan as chief security officer

(CSO), was arrested for allegedly opening fire ata 22-year-old man in North West Delhi’s KeshavPuram area on Friday night, following an argument.

Preliminary investigation revealed that theaccused, Narender Singh, was in an inebriated stateand opened fire with his service revolver when notsatisfied with the victim’s directions to his wayhome. The victim suffered two gunshot woundsand is stated to be critical. Police said that the

incident took place around11.15 pm on Friday inRampura Colony in KeshavPuram area.

The victim, Arun, whoruns a hotel in Tri Nagar,was walkinghis dogaccompanied byhis two friendsin Tri Nagar.“Narender was

passing through Rampur Colony andasked for directions. Arun explained the routehome but was rebuked by Narender and calleda liar. A heated argument ensued. It turned ugly.In a fit of rage, Narender whipped out his servicerevolver and fired two bullets at Kumar aiming forhis chest and arm,” a senior police officer said.

The accused was overpowered by the victim’sfriends. Narender was apprehended by police. “Acase under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of theIPC and several Sections of the Arms Act wereregistered against him at Keshav Puram PoliceStation. His service revolver too has beenconfiscated,” the officer added.

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Delhi Police on Saturday claimedto have arrested two persons for

allegedly gang-raping a 13-year-oldDalit girl, in West Delhi’s UttamNagar area.

The victim had earlier allegedthat she was molested by the StationHouse Officer (SHO) of UttamNagar, who also usedderogatory language againsther in front of other police personnel.

Following her allegation,the police of f icial wassuspended. In her writtencomplaint to Delhi Lt Governor

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by the SHO to Nirmal

Chhaya, a destitute home, instead ofregister ing her rape complaint.

Meanwhile, the DeputyCommissioner of Police (West)Ranveer Singh refused to commenton the allegations made by thevictim against the SHO and said thatthe matter was being investigated bythe DCP Vigilance.

The DCP (West) Ranveer Singhsaid that after receiving informationabout the incident on September 14,the victim was taken to the policestation and her statement wasrecorded in front of two NGOs.

“Apart f rom a womaninvestigating officer, the SHO and

two NGO officials were alsopresent along with thevictim and her mother. Acase under Sections 376, 328 of IPC and severalSections of POCSO wassubsequently registered the

same day at Uttam Nagar Police Stat ion and the accused were arrested the same evening,” he clarified.

According to the plaint bythe victim, on September 12, her

neighbour Sheela invited her home. “Sheela’s father asked four men

to accompany the two girls to anearby temple. They took the girls toa flat instead on Dwarka More,where the Dalit minor’s modesty wasoutraged by the men,” said a police officer.

An MMS clip of the act wasallegedly taken by the perpetrators.The victim was dropped off atDwarka More. Along with Sheela, thevictim took an autorickshaw to reachher Uttam Nagar residence. Two dayslater, she mustered courage to informher aunt about the incident whoinformed police.

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Swathed in hues of varied shades offlowers, the flower markets welcomed

the nine-day long festival of Navratriwearing a festive look on Saturday but atthe same time compelled devout Hindusto shell out more money for a garland ora nosegay of flowers. The prices offlowers, especially marigold, has increasedthreefold with the advent of the festiveseason in the Capital. A medium-sizemarigold garland is available for �40though it was normally sold at �10 perpiece before Navratras. Florists cannot nipprice rise in the bud.

Rising threefold, the price of the mostcommonly used flower during festivals,marigold, which was �60 per kilo is nowbetween �150-180 per kilo. The retailersselling flowers outside the 800-year-old and

famous Gauri Shankar Temple in the heartof the Capital unanimously said that theprice of flowers has gone up, leaving themwith almost little or no profit margin.

“Marigold, tube rose and roses are soldthe most during the festive season. Whilemarigold rates have tripled, the prices ofroses and tube roses have doubled. Rosesare available for �250 a kilo while tuberoses are for �400 a kilo,” informed aretailer of Rajender Saini Flower Shop,selling blooms for over five decades near

the temple in Chandni Chowk. “The mostpopular blossom — the crape jasmine —is being sold between �400-500 while itsusual rate is �200 per kilo,” he added. Forthose buying garlands, the price of amedium-size garland varies between �40 to �400 depending upon the flowersthat have been used.

“This year, the prices of flowers havedoubled, mainly because of low produceand washout by rains,” said another florist.“The most expensive garland is made withroses, tube roses, marigold and lilies. Theprices of these can go upwards of �500,”said another florist, adding that despite theskyrocketing prices they do not make aprofit margin of more than 5 per cent.

The retailers buy flowers in bulkmostly from Ghazipur Mandi (wholesaleflower market) and quite a lot of it goeswaste as flowers wilt within two days. “Atleast 15 per cent of what we purchase goeswaste. Besides, if garlands are being madethen a lot of flowers remain unused,” saidRamesh, a florist.

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Saturday inaugurated the newsecretariat Nabannya, shift-ing for the first time theadministrative headquartersof the State from the 300 plusyear old Writers’ Buildingwhich once housed the Britishgarrison before functioningas the abode of the clerks ofthe British East IndiaCompany deriving its namethereby.

Banerjee whose party hadduring the earlier regimeopposed the construction ofthe massive 14-storey buildingallegedly setting afire its gen-erator room and damaging itsinteriors on Saturday hoistedthe National Flag in front ofthe new building — about

one-sixth the size of the majes-tic Writers’ Building — amidblowing of police bugles andconchshells even as Ministers,top bureaucrats and MPs jos-tled with each other to be apart of what they called a “his-torical frame.”

“We have taken a grandprogramme much to the cha-grin of our detractors who hadstagnated the State and are

confident of finishing it instyle,” the Chief Minister saidtaking on the Opposition whohave been criticising her “lux-urious plans” to renovate theWriters’ to its colonial glory ata cost of more than �300crore. The shifting and deco-rating cost of the new build-ings has come to around �50plus crore, insiders said.

“The Chief Minister is

complaining of huge lack offunds and frenziedly takingloans from the market placingBengal on the top of the list ofborrowing States — fromnumber 12 or 13 that it hadbeen during our times,”Opposition Leader SuryakantoMishra said, lampooning theGovernment’s lofty moneyguzzling plans — grants toclubs, women’s marriage fundsand unemployment doles.

Currently about 11 depart-ments held by the ChiefMinister and some others suchas the Finance Ministry wouldfunction from the new build-ing for space crunch issues.

Home, Minority Affairs,Land Development,Agriculture, Information andCulture, Animal Husbandry,Planning and Personnel, apartfrom Finance and PWD wouldfunction from the buildingwhich would house the CMOon the 13th and 14th floorfrom where the Chief Ministerwould be able to savour thepanoramic view of Kolkataand Howrah skyline, flowing

Hooghly River apart from thethree gigantic landmarks:Howrah Bridge, Vidya SagarSetu and the Eden Gardens.

Insiders said the newbuilding would go the distancein reducing the number ofemployees working in the newbuilding — on the ground ofinadequacy of space — lettingthe Government to transferthem to other departments,maybe outside Kolkata.

“This is done to teach alesson to the Oppositionemployees’ unions,” said S Roychowdhury a formersecretary of a staff association.This apart, the new secretari-at is fortified with about threedozen electronic eyes. Most ofthese high-resolution surveil-lance cameras have beeninstalled at strategic locationsand would help theGovernment not only to checkintrusion but also to keep tabson the malingerers and mis-chief mongers who removefiles and important papers forthe benefit of the media, asenior official said.

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Many Central CongressMinisters during their

visits to Odisha have been giv-ing good performance chits tothe Naveen Patnaik-led BJDGovernment from time-to-timeto the great discomfiture of theState Congress, which, as theState’s main Opposition party,has been fighting against theBJD on several issues.

And the latest is UnionMinister Shashi Tharoor, who,after meeting Naveen Patnaikhere on Thursday, went to theextent of making it clear thatthe Congress’ door is alwaysopen for Patnaik and his BJD.

Tharoor told a televisionchannel here that Patnaik issecular as well as a democrat.

While the general electionsare nearing fast and the StateCongress leaders have beencampaigning against thePatnaik Government, Tharoor’sstatement has proved them

wrong in a single stroke, creat-ing huge embarrassment andsending shockwaves among theState party hierarchy.

An angry PCC presidentJayadev Jena on Saturday saidTharoor had no right to pokehis nose in the affairs of theState politics. Sources said Jenais likely to draw Tharoor’s“interference” to the party highcommand’s notice.

Interestingly, Tharoor’sremark came on the day whenPatnaik announced that bothRahul Gandhi of the Congressand Narendra Modi of the BJP,are unacceptable to him asfuture Prime Minister. AndPatnaik has been on a dailybasis tearing into Congress-led

UPA Government at the Centrefor its “stepmotherly attitude”towards Odisha’s development.

What was more shockingto State Congress leaders waswhen Tharoor did not care tomeet any of them, particular-ly his only Ministerial col-league from Odisha, SrikantJena, who was present inBhubaneswar during his visit.It is Jena and another UnionMinister Jairam Ramesh whohas been visiting Odisha on aregular basis, who have beentargeting the PatnaikGovernment on the issue ofpoor use of Central funds.

“Let me say that the(Congress’) door (for the BJD)is always open, but it’s not myplace to work on this area. Ihave a very different role in theparty,” Tharoor said.

He further said, “I knowthat many in our party havehigh-level of respect for NaveenPatnaik and for his leadershipof the State of Odisha.”

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India’s ruling Congress whichis out of power in mineral-

rich Chhattisgarh for a decade,has a greater possibility to pro-duce a shocker to the overcon-fident ruling BJP in next month’stwo-phase polls for a 90-mem-ber State Legislative Assembly.

Despite being mired infactions and intra-party rival-ry, the Congress has chances tobelie all recent independentpoll projections, which indicatethat BJP’s hat-trick is certain.

No leader of either the rul-ing BJP or the main OppositionCongress can claim inChhattisgarh that there is awave in support or against ofany political outfit. The BJP topleaders in Chhattisgarh claimthat party is set to register thirdconsecutive victory in Assemblypolls on the basis of overalldevelopment of the State but thefact is somehow different.

The development in State’ssprawling violence-hit but ironore rich Bastar as well as of coal-rich vast Surguja belt is yet topick up and even several seniorleaders, including Ministers,don’t enjoy ‘public respect’because of arrogance they havedisplayed on a number of occa-sions in public. Some of theMinisters don’t believe enter-

taining public problems exceptduring election year.

The only big asset for theBJP is Raman Singh, who hasstill maintained the image of ‘MrClean’ despite in office of ChiefMinister since December 2003.The 61-year-old Ayurvedic-doctor-turned politician haskept his image intact as “a goodhuman being, honest man anda person who believes in devel-opment and is always availableto the common people”.

Experts say that Raman has

a real lust for development andif he manages to get a third-term on the trot he couldaccelerate the pace of develop-ment and industrialisation ofState’s poverty-hit areas, main-ly of tribal heartland Bastar andSurguja. But the worst thing forthe BJP in Chhattisgarh is thatits rank and file are overconfi-dent and ‘complacency canvery much spoil the game’.

In Chhattisgarh, just one ortwo per cent votes swing infavour or against will provedecisive and in the lastAssembly polls held in 2008,the difference between the BJPand the Congress was just twoper cent votes which allowedthe BJP to walk away with 12

extra seats than the Congress’total tally of 38. The Congressis still facing serious rivalry inthe State with Ajit Jogi in “nomood to shake hands withCongress high command’s ManFriday Charandas Mahant”.

The saga of intra-partyrivalry in the Congress will getunfolded only after the partydeclares candidates for all the90 segments. Majority of peo-ple believe “Jogi can renewrivalry with Mahant and caneven raise a banner of revolt ifhis supporters were not accom-modated properly.”

Chhattisgarh’s first ChiefMinister Jogi had in recentmonths dropped enough indi-cations at several public forumsthat “Jogi Express” was a pos-sibility in Chhattisgarh if hewas continued to be ignored bythe Gandhi family. “JogiExpress” means Jogi’s openrevolt against Congress.

Political pundits and expertsand even senior leaders of theBJP and the Congress admit thatthe poll outcome in Bastar’s 12seats will largely decide the vic-tor. The BJP had won 11 seats inBastar in 2008 polls and theparty needs to repeat its perfor-mance in 2013 but recent surveyindicated defeats with 4-5 seatswhich keeps the Congress muchin the race.

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Defending the KhapPanchayats, Haryana

Chief Minister BhupinderSingh Hooda on Saturday saidthey don’t order “honourkillings” and most such casesinvolve relatives of boys orgirls, whose relations areopposed by their families.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, the Chief Ministeremphasised on the need tochange the mindset of peoplewho commit such crimes.“Those behind such killings areparents or close relatives ofeither the girl or boy. There isa need to change the mindsetof people. Khap Panchayatsdon’t order such killings,”Hooda said. “Anyone who takeslaw into their hands will bedealt with as per law,” he added.

In the last one month, sev-eral such incidents came tolight in Haryana. The recentone was from Rohtak where acollege-going couple wasallegedly killed by the girl’sfamily members.

Their families wereopposed to the relationsbetween them. When askedwhether Khap Panchayats inHaryana are playing a notori-ous role, and in some casesordering honour killings,Hooda said, “Khap Panchayatsdon’t kill anyone”. “The inci-dents of honour killings don’t

take place just in Haryana, butelsewhere too,” he said.

Asked about the oppositionof Khaps to the same gotramarriages, Hooda said there are“some customs prevalent insociety. Tell me one thing, howmany of you marry to thegotra? I am asking, do youmarry within your gotra?” he asked.

“There are some customsprevalent here (in Haryana)that dictate we don’t marry intothe same gotra, at some placesthey do. If you go to SouthIndia, men marry their niece.Can anyone of you do thishere? It is not the customhere, but it is in South Indiaand Andhra,” the ChiefMinister said, when askedabout the stand of his party onthe issue. However, Hoodasaid that Khaps don’t haveany legal standing. “They don’thave any legal status, theyhave social status.”

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Union Finance Minister PChidambaram rather

hopeful that the country hasthe capacity to overcome thecurrent financial crisis by con-taining Current AccountDeficit (CAD) below $70 bil-lion at current fiscal.Addressing bankers at a StateBank organised event inBangalore on Saturday, he saidthat the Government wouldcontain CAD below $70 billion.

He said, “Last year, I wastold by pundits, analysts, ratingagencies and all the wise peo-ple who appear on televisionsevery day that we cannot con-tain fiscal deficit. I am happythat we were able to surprisethem... We are told that theGovernment cannot containthe current account deficit. Isaid last year we had the deficitof $88 billion, this year I’m bet-ting at $70 billion, and I willcontain it below $70 billion,”“Let me tell you, I will surprisethem once again, we will con-tain it below $70 billion. I saythis because we have the intel-lectual capacity among oursenior economists and admin-istrators. We have the institu-tional capacity and above all,we have our people who give usthe confidence to overcomestress,” he said.

Finance Minister compli-mented the people of India fortheir nature of saving. He alsosaid the growth rate would bebetter than last year He said,“This year our growth will bebetter than last year, and nextyear, we should move to agrowth close to between 6-7per cent and in the year after,we must discover our truepotential growth rate of 8 percent.”

“Our people save and thatis our biggest asset”,Chidambaram said, adding,“People in our country save likeno other people anywhere inthe world. In the worst oftimes, our savings ratio did notgo below 30 per cent,” headded.” Chidambaram wasconfident that savings becomea productive investment totide over crisis. Answering aquestion about his confidencein controlling CAD, he said,“The confidence comes frommy knowledge of numbers,from the fact that gold importshave sharply compressed in themonths of July, August andSeptember, exports have pickedup briskly and smartly.”

“Only yesterday theGovernor (of RBI) said he hasgot $5.6 billion of FCNRBaccounts, so I’m confident andI want you to share my confi-dence,” he added.

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The Delhi Police wereordered by a city court on

Saturday to probe into theconditions of other girls whocould have been employedthrough the placement agency,which had provided the maidwho was allegedly assaultedand confined by her employerin Vasant Kunj. Meanwhile, areport of bone ossification testof the victim confirmed she isnot a minor.

“Were there some other

girls who were employedthrough the placement agency?What is their condition, findout as you (police) haveinvoked Sections of the BondedLabour Act and there are alle-gations against Dorothy (place-ment agent) that she did notpay these girls even after tak-ing payment from the employ-er,” Metropolitan MagistrateGomati Manocha said. Thecourt made the observationwhile hearing arguments on thebail plea of arrested accusedVandana Dhir, who is now injail under judicial custody.

The magistrate also askedthe police to find out whethermoney was paid to the victimfor her services as a maid inDhir’s house and also directed

the investigating officer (IO) toprobe the two places where thevictim had worked prior to herbeing employed in the house ofthe accused.

“Whether any amount waspaid to the girl (victim)?Newspaper reports says �15,000was paid to her. Whatever theamount paid to her would bevery crucial. She (victim) hadworked in Noida and one otherhouse (at Lajpat Nagar). Whatwas the amount paid to her? Itis very crucial. You (police)investigate the amount whichwas paid to her,” said the court,which reserved its order on thebail plea of Dhir for October 7.It also asked the police to veri-fy if Dhir had paid any salary tothe victim.

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Bangalore: The partial shut-down of the US Governmentwould not affect the IndianMars Orbiter Mission (MOM)scheduled for launch Oct 28,the Indian space agency said on Saturday.

"National AeronauticsSpace Administration (NASA)and Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) authorities of the US havereaffirmed support to our MarsOrbiter Mission spacecraft,scheduled for launch Oct 28,"the state-run Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO)said in a statement here.

The space agency's clarifi-cation came in the wake ofreports in a section of the mediathat the US Government shut-down could affect the groundsupport of NASA for India'smaiden mission to the red plan-et, 400 million miles away.

"The launch windowremains open till Nov 19. NASAand JPL will provide navigationsupport from their deep spacenetwork facilities in the US,"ISRO's scientific secretary V.S.Hegde said. NASA is also sched-uled to send its Maven (MarsAtmosphere and VolatileEvolution) mission Nov 18.

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From Page 1The arrest of the three key sus-

pects comes days ahead of BJP'sPrime Ministerial candidate andGujarat Chief Minister NarendraModi's proposed visit to Chennai onOctober 18.

Fakruddin was arrested on Fridayevening and is touted as Tamil NaduPolice's most wanted accused. He wason the run for the past 12 years andwas arrested for his alleged role in thebomb blast at Karnataka BJP head-quarters in April this year. The triowas allegedly involved in the foiledbid to target Advani.

According to K Ramanujam,DGP Tamil Nadu, one of the inspec-tors from Chennai was injured whenthe terrorists holed up inside ahouse in Puttur opened fire at them.

Based on the leads fromFakruddin, the Tamil Nadu Policelaid a siege around the house atMedara Veedhi area near Puttur rail-way station in the wee hours on

Saturday. Police suspect that at leasttwo others including a fourth suspectAbu Backer Siddique managed toescape their dragnet.

The sleuths are interrogatingFakruddin on his latest terror mis-sion as the agencies suspect that hecould have a larger design asBrahmotsav at Tirupati-Tirumalashirnes are on and a huge processionwas scheduled for Friday. Islamiczealots have killed at least six peoplebelonging to the Sangh Parivar in thelast six months.

In Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshDGP B Prasad Rao told reportersthat a team of 30 commandos of anti-terrorist Octopus force was alsosent to the scene after receiving thereport of an encounter.

Rao's deputy VSK Kaumudi said,"In all six people were taken into cus-tody during the commando opera-tion in Puttur. They include threechildren and a woman." Posing asbeedi workers, four persons had

taken the house on rent a couple ofmonths ago. The police was nowquestioning the house owner andothers in this regard, local residentssaid.

TN police say that Al Ummahwas also involved in conspiracy toattack senior BJP leader LK Advaniin Madurai in 2011 and attack onRSS office in Bangalore.

What has raised the heckles ofthe police and intelligence officials inAndhra Pradesh is that the suspect-ed terrorist selected a town likePuttur to hide which was hardly 35km away from Tirupati-Tirumala,the famous abode of SriVenkateshwara temple.

During the course of investiga-tions into the killings of BJP andSangh leaders, the Tamil Nadu Policerecently seized 17 kg of explosivesand 141 electric detonators from ahouse in Melapalayam in Tirunelveliin south Tamil Nadu and arrestedTasim, Katta Shahul, Kutty aliasNoorul Hameed, Samsu and Bismi.

From Page 1These AC cottages, that come at a pittance of Rs 250

per day, provide a better environment to VVIP patients,who in most cases are high-profile politicians and scam-sters who had been lodged at the Birsa Munda CentralJail (BMCJ). The cottages which became famous for pro-viding safe havens to high-profile inmates, includingMadhu Koda, Kamlesh Singh, Enosh Ekka, lodged at theBMCJ at different points of time are likely to welcomefodder scam convicts serving their sentence in the jail.

The jail administration is finding it difficult to han-dle a large number of visitors who throng the prison everyday to meet Lalu and other high-profile convicts. A PILhas also been filed in Jharkhand High Court saying thejail administration was violating rules by allowing Laluand other convicts in the fodder scam to lead a com-fortable life in the prison.

Jail IG Shailendra Bhushan, however, denied that therewas any move to shift Lalu to the RIMS cottage. SSP SaketKumar Singh also feigned ignorance in this regard.

Incidentally, Lalu, who is serving five years ofRigorous Imprisonment in connection with the multi-crore fodder scam, is suffering from a number of ailmentsincluding diabetes and hypertension. According toreports, Yadav's blood sugar level had gone up on Friday,however it was below alarming levels.

Notably, former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra, anoth-er convict in the fodder scam, is already recuperating atcottage number 11 at RIMS. Mishra was undergoingtreatment at another hospital in Delhi before he wasbrought to Ranchi for hearing in the scam.

These cottages have been occupied by many VIPsconvicted in scams in Jharkhand. The list includes ShibuSoren, MLAs Sawna Lakra, Bhanu Pratap Shahi, formerMayor of Ranchi Municipal Corporation Rama Khalkhoand former Secretary Health Dr Pradeep Kumar who arejust some of the high-profile people to have stayed atRIMS cottages on the pretext of receiving treatment.Their lavish lifestyle, in violation of the jail manual, hadoften invited the wrath of the Jharkhand High Court.

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heavy firing on the troops, who retaliated imme-diately. In the ensuring gunfight, four terror-ists were killed. During the initial search a largequantity of war like stores including six AK-47s,ten pistols, four Uni-barrel Grenade launchers,four Disposable Rocket Launchers and sixsmall rucksacks have been recovered so far," thespokesman said. He said that the infiltrators wereintercepted due to the alertness of troops in thesector following a surge in infiltration attempts.

Singh has said infiltrators are attempting tosneak in before the onset of winter when moun-tain passes are blocked due to heavy snowfall. Hesaid the militants were desperate to replenish theirsupplies and manpower in the hinterland.

Meanwhile, Chachra, who arrived to over-see the preparedness of troops along the forwardposts and hinterland, visited the Rashtriya RiflesHeadquarters to receive briefing by theCommanders on the prevailing security scenarioin their areas of responsibility.

"Gen Chachra also carried out an aerial recceof forward posts and expressed his satisfactionover the preparedness of security forces. Hepraised the high level of synergy existingamong the police, CRPF and the Army," thespokesman said. The Army Commander isscheduled to visit the forward formations andunits to review the anti-infiltration grid and alsothe ongoing operations being conducted by theArmy. He will hold meetings with Governor NNVohra and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.Omar Abdullah is Chairman of the UnifiedCommand Headquarters.

In another development, police claimed tohave busted a Hizbul Mujahideen module byarresting a top-ranking militant of the outfit inSopore area of North Kashmir.

Speaking to reporters, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (North Kashmir) JP Singh saidthat Hizbul Commander Nisar Ahmad Dar aliasUsman, who was previously a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba cadre, was involved in a number ofattacks on police and security forces. He alsotried to sabotage developmental work inWullar Lake. Singh claimed that the attack inWullar Lake was carried out at the behest ofHizbul's supreme commander Salahuddin, whois based in Muzaffarabad.

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The BJP on Saturday said it wouldcontest the forthcoming Assembly

election in Madhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh on the plank of “goodgovernance” and bring out a chargesheet to expose the “corrupt” Congressregime in Delhi and Rajasthan.

The party will also approach theElection Commission (EC) soon tobring to its notice certain news reportsabout a move from the UPA to enticeminority voters with assurances aboutjobs in the Armed forces.

The BJP leaders are hopeful thatNarendra Modi’s unmatched popu-larity among electorates would be anadded fillip for the party this time. Alltop leaders of the party will campaignfor the candidate across five States ina phased manner.

The BJP vice president MukhtarAbbas Naqvi said good governance willbe an issue in State elections. “ButModi’s popularity and people appealwill definitely bolster the party in thesepolls,” Naqvi said.

The party is hopeful about retain-ing Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarhwhile snatching Rajasthan from theCongress. Factionalism in the Delhiunit remains a concern for the BJP,which has also failed to project a CMcandidate in the Capital.

“We will go to the polls under col-lective leadership. We will surelyunseat the corrupt regime of SheilaDikshit,” Naqvi said, adding, “The BJPwill go to the people in the electionsin Rajasthan and Delhi with the issueof corruption and maladministra-

tion under Congress rule. We will pre-pare a charge sheet on it.”

In Madhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh where BJP is in power,the party will highlight the achieve-ments of its Government, especiallythe “impressive” implementation of itswelfare schemes.

The BJP claims that the ShivrajSingh Chouhan Government inMadhya Pradesh has established newrecords of development and prosper-ity in all fields. The Raman SinghGovernment in Chhattisgarh has

made efforts to ensure the benefits ofgood governance to the “last man inthe queue”.

“These two States have performedwell despite stepbrotherly treatmentby the Centre and the hurdles created by it for various developmentprojects,” Naqvi said. On the contrary,he said, Delhi and Rajasthan were examples of “bad governanceand corruption”. Despite economicsops by the Central Government, theBJP leader alleged, these States wereengaged in pillaging public money.

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The Indian Railways willspeed up production of

locomotives with regenerativebraking feature, which repro-duces electricity when brakesare applied thereby cuttingdown energy consumption.Production of such engineshas already started and theRailways is now planning toexpedite the process.

“The ChittaranjanLocomotive Works (CLW), aproduction unit of the IndianRailways, made 270 electriclocomotives out of which 170had this regenerative brakingfeature. We have decided thatfrom April 2014 onwards, allelectric locomotives producedat the CLW will have thisunique feature,” said KulBhushan, Member of RailwayBoard (Electrical).

Locomotives without thisfeature cause loss of energywhen loco pilots apply brakeson moving trains.

However, when the pilotapplies brakes on those with theregenerative braking feature,the motors of the locomotiveswhich are normally pullingthe train, change their mode ofoperation from motor to a generator.

The mechanical energy ofthe train is then convertedinto electrical energy and electricity produced is thenrouted to overhead wiresthrough provisions alreadymade in the engine.

According to an estimate,an engine with this featurecauses 32 to 35 per cent regen-eration and results in savingnearly 15 per cent of electrici-

ty. “Indian Railways is currentlysaving electricity worth �125crore through these locomo-tives,” a Railway official said.

According to an estimate,one EMU with this featuresaves �1 crore per year. Since180 rakes of similar EMUs arepressed into service in theMumbai suburban railways,the savings in this sector isnearly �180 crore.

The Ministry of Railways has decided to further revisethe fares of AC classes of Duronto Express trains in

order to bring it at par with the Rajdhani-ShatabdiExpress for comparable classes.

“There shall be no change in the fares of sleeper classand non-AC chair car classes of Duronto Express. The newchanges in fares of the Duronto Express shall come intoeffect from October 10,” said a Railway official.

In case of tickets already issued at pre-revised rate, thedifference in fare and other charges will be recovered forjourneys undertaken on or after October 10, either by TTEson trains or by the booking/reservation offices before thecommencement of the journey.

The Railways also announced on Saturday that pas-senger fares and freight tariffs will be linked to the FuelAdjustment Component (FAC). The revised passenger fareswill be effective from the midnight of October 6 and 7.

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Unable to provide houses tothe urban poor on its own,

the Housing and UrbanPoverty Alleviation (HUPA)Ministry is now lookingtowards aggressively promoting Public PrivatePartnership (PPP) for address-ing the increasing gap betweendemand and supply of dwellingunits in the country.

Also, even as the fate of theAadhaar card hangs in balancewith the Supreme Court sayingthat it has no legal value, theMinistry has asked the States tolink beneficiary identificationas a pre-condition in its Aadhaar enrolment schemeswherever these cards have been issued.

These are some of the mainfeatures of the draft guidelineof the Model State AffordableHousing Policy for Urban Areas2013, recently prepared by theMinistry with an aim to enablethe State Governments to workwithin its framework for construction of houses for theurban poor.

“The demand for dwellingunits is on rise due to rapidurbanisation and population

growth. The mammoth invest-ments needed for creation ofthe housing infrastructure ismuch above the limited publicresources available with theGovernments and therefore,private sector needs to play animportant role in this,” said asenior official from theHousing and Urban PovertyAlleviation Ministry. Hereferred to the observation ofthe report of the TechnicalGroup on Urban HousingShortage (2012-17) whichnoted that there is a shortage of

18.78 million dwelling units outof which nearly 96 per centbelongs to the EconomicallyWeaker Sections (EWS) andLower Income Group (LIG) households.

The guideline also seeks toset up a State Shelter Fund ineach State that would be exclu-sively earmarked for fundingaffordable housing projects tobe undertaken on PublicPrivate Partnership (PPP)model.

According to Census 2011estimate, about 27.5 per cent of

the urban population is livingin rented accommodations.The Affordable Housing Policyscheme would also encouragecreation of rental housing stockfor the new migrants, he said.

The draft guideline is nowavailable for public commentsfrom stakeholders, includingStates.

“The last policy wasframed in 2009. This newguideline has been proposedfollowing a meeting with theState Governments recently,”the official added.

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New Delhi: Issues pertaining topreparations for upcomingAssembly elections in fiveStates and strategies to bringtogether non-Congress andnon-BJP parties on a commonplatform before general elec-tions 2014 will be discussed ata meeting held by the CPI(M)leadership, which begins inthe Capital on Saturday.

The party politburo, whichhas decided to put up candi-dates in four of the five Statesgoing to polls, has called thetwo-day meet to give finaltouches to its strategy for theupcoming electoral battle,CPI(M) sources said.

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Former Prime Minister and socialist leader Chandra Shekhar’s

elder son, Pankaj Shekhar Singh,joined the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) on Saturday. Pankaj made overtures to BJP leaders in the last fewmonths and had expressed his desireto join the party.

The BJP chief Rajnath Singh wel-comed the Thakur leader from UttarPradesh into the BJP fold. The BJP UPunit chief Laxmikant Bajpai andnational general secretary JP Naddawere also present on the occasion.

The development has fuelledspeculation that BJP might fieldPankaj from Ballia or some neigh-bouring constituency in the nextParliamentary election. The formerPM’s younger son, Neeraj ShekharSingh, represents Ballia Lok Sabha seatas a Samajwadi Party (SP) member.

The BJP has been trying toimprove its performance in the nextelections, particularly in UttarPradesh that accounts for 80 LokSabha seats. From a high of 58 seatsin 1998, BJP’s tally in UP in the gen-eral elections came down to nine inthe 2009 polls.

The BJP’s Prime Minister prob-able Narendra Modi had recently sug-gested to party leaders to induct newfaces into the party.

Incidentally, Bhojpuri singerManoj Tiwari, who contested 2009Lok Sabha election from Gorakhpurin Uttar Pradesh on SP ticket, joinedthe BJP on Thursday.

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The lost battle for the con-servation of Hanguls or

Kashmir stags may receive aboost after the recent meetingof State Wild Life Board(SWLB) of Kashmir consent-ed to shift the sheep farmfrom Dachigam National Park(DNP) in the State, which isthe traditional habitat of thisendangered species. Theexperts, however, expressedapprehensions on how soonthe decision will actually be implemented.

The Pioneer had earlierreported on the alarmingimpact of sheep farm of theState Animal HusbandryDepartment within 141 sq. kmof the National Park since1961. The presence of such afarm within a National Park isin contravention to Jammuand Kashmir WildlifeProtection Act 1978.

“There is at least somehope after the meeting, con-sidering that this meeting washeaded by the Chief Ministerhimself,” said MK Ranjitsinh,member of SWLB. He is also

the Chairman of the SpecialCommittee constituted by theEnvironment Ministry forrecovery of Hanguls.

However, what is impor-tant is that this shifting has tohappen before winter, other-wise one year will get wastedagain, said Ranjitsinh. TheHanguls descend to the lowerflat terrains of the National

Park in winter to forage forfood. Hence, till then, thefencing has to be removed andtheir habitat cleared of sheepgrazing, he added.

The sources, however,pointed to the real side of thestory. “The main hurdle lies inthe fact that there are certainestablishments on the lowerterrains of the park that are

occupied by the employees ofthe State Animal HusbandryDepartment. They arebelieved to enjoy strong cloutand it is not likely that theywill vacate the premises easi-ly,” the sources said.

These buildings are orig-inally under the jurisdiction ofthe State Wildlife Department;hence, with the shifting of the

sheep farm, these construc-tions should also be handedback to the Wild LifeDepartment, added sources.

The issue of commitmentby SWLB is not new; thesame situation arose duringthe meeting held on February3 last year.

The members had notonly decided on shifting thesheep farm, but had even setthe deadline for May 2012.More importantly, even theState Cabinet had taken asimilar decision way back in 2005. But, the decisioncontinues to hang in balanceeven today. “Hence, the issueis not simply agreeing onshifting out, but how soon?” they questioned.

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Even as fiery protests contin-ued to rage through Seema-

Andhra regions, some places wit-nessed sporadic violence on sec-ond day of the 72-hour strike inprotest against the bifurcation,YSR Congress presidentJaganmohan Reddy launched afresh assault on Congress pres-ident Sonia Gandhi.

A massive power blackoutwas also staring in the eyes ofAndhra Pradesh as well asother neighbouring States asthe employees’ strike has result-ed in several power generationplants tripping in Seema-Andhra since Friday night.

As most of the units ofVijaywada Thermal Power Plantstopped working, Krishna dis-trict plunged into darkness onFriday night. More such plantsin Nellore and Kadapa alsotripped on Saturday furtherreducing the power generation.

As the anti-Telangana

protests continued throughoutthe region, Vijayanagaramremained the worst affected asmobs targeted the houses of StateCongress president BotsaSatyanarayana’s family. A bigmob tried second time to bargein to Satyanarayana’s house in thetown forcing the police to useforce. His brother Srinivas Rao’shouse was also targeted andequipment of his cable networkbusiness were destroyed. Policefirst lobbed 40 tear gas shells andthen opened fire in the air to dis-perse the mob. The protestersalso pelted stones on the DistrictCollector building and set twobikes on fire. Police used batonsto chase the mob away.

In Amalapur, (East Goda-vari) it was other way roundwhen Congress MP Harsha Ku-mar’s supporters beat up the agi-tators who tried to attack hishouse and college building.Later, Harsha Kumar tenderedan apology to AP Non Gazetted-Officers Association.

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In a surprising move,Govindachamy, a one-armed

Tamil Nadu native who wassentenced to death by a court inThrissur, Kerala for raping andmurdering 23-year-old Soumyaafter pushing her out of a run-ning train in February, 2011, hasrequested the Kerala HC to hearhis appeal in his presence. Thiswas the first time such a plea hadcome up before the High Court.

The final arguments on theappeal filed by the rapist throughhis lawyer BA Aloor began onSaturday before the bench ofJustices TR Ramachandran Nairand B Kemal Pasha, who werealso looking into the death sen-tence. The lawyer also wantedthe judges to conduct examina-tion of the crime spot identifiedby the Prosecution.

The Fast Track Court inThrissur had sentencedGovindachamy, identified as ahabitual criminal who earned his

livelihood through begging andthefts, to death on November 11,2011 after an expeditious trialthat started on June 6 that year.As per the verdict of JudgeRaveendra Babu, the death sen-tence was to be executed with theapproval of the High Court.

The lawyer justified thedemand for hearing the appealin his presence of Govindachamyby pointing out that such a pro-cedure had been adopted in thecase of Ajmal Kasab and the Ger-man Bakery case. He also clai-med that the Delhi HC was hear-ing the appeals of the accused inthe December 16 rape-murdercase in their presence.

Aloor said that in all thesecases, the accused had got theopportunity to observe the pro-ceedings through video-confer-encing facility. The divisionbench, constituted for hearingcases relating to atrocities againstwomen, said such requests couldbe considered if necessary at thestage of detailed hearing.

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cylinder as they had decidednot to attend the school.

When quizzed further, oneof the students produced theLPG registration booklet issuedunder Registration No 600294in the name of Principal, GovtMiddle School, ChanniHimmat and admitted the factthat they were lying earlier.

The students claimed thatthey were deputed by their

teacher to bring the refill ofLPG cylinder. When they wereasked about their class work,the students replied it must begoing on in the school.

“We cannot do much aboutit as we have been directed by theschoolteacher to do so and weare here,” the students claimed.

When this correspondentmet them in the beginning, thestudents were sharing a snack

on the roadside and cursingtheir fate as their labour hadgone wasted. The school-teachers seldom use their pri-vate cars or other means oftransport to ferry LPG cylin-ders, the students revealed.

The students alsoinformed while they werewaiting for their turn in thelong queue that the distribu-tor directed them to comelater as he was not in a posi-tion to provide them with therefill of LPG cylinder.

The students while return-ing were completely exhausted.It was already more than onehour when they stepped out ofthe classroom to bring refill ofLPG cylinder. The students hadroughly covered the distance ofmore than 2 kms between theGovernment-run middle schoolbuilding and the distributionpoint of LPG refill in the area.Ironically, a police control room(PCR) van which is normallyparked in the area never tooknote of presence of students in

school uniform standing in thequeue during school time.

When the students wereasked how many times theycome out of the school to refillthe LPG cylinder they replied,“Whenever it is required”.

The LPG cylinders in thearea are normally distributedthrough home delivery facili-ty and in case of Government-run schools the same should have been delivered tothem at their doorstep.

A local shopkeeper in thearea said, “It is a routine affair forthese children as their teachersdirect them to stand in a queueand bring the cylinder instead ofstepping out of the schoolpremises and bring the LPGcylinder on their private fourwheelers”. “I am doing businesshere for last one decade and eversince this mid-day meal schemehas started I have never seenanyone else apart from theseschoolchildren ferrying the LPGcylinders from the nearby pick-up point,” he added.

On Board Special Aircraft:President Pranab Mukherjeeon Saturday described as spec-ulation LK Advani creditinghim for the withdrawal of theOrdinance on convicted law-makers, saying he had nothingto do with the development.

“I cannot comment on theviews of the Opposition.Whoever wanted to seekappointment with me, I gavethem. BJP leaders met me, AamAadmi Party met me. I receivedvarious representations (againstthe Ordinance),” he toldreporters on board his specialaircraft during the second leg ofhis visit to Belgium and Turkey.

“I had a discussion with thePrime Minister and what tran-spired everyone of you know.Cabinet is the mother of the ordi-nance,” he said, adding that theCabinet, in its wisdom, decidedto withdraw the ordinance at itsmeeting on October 2.

“This is the fact. Inbetween who is responsible,how responsible, to what extentresponsible, these are specula-tions of individuals. I havenothing to do with it,” he said.

BJP leader Advani onFriday credited the President forthe withdrawal of the ordinanceand slammed Rahul Gandhi for“rubbing off the authority” ofthe PM and the UPA with hisstrong words.

“The victory that has cometo the country by withdrawal of

this illegal and immoral ordi-nance has thus been thanksonly to the Rashtrapati, who hasproved that UPA would err seri-ously if it assumed that like mostother Congressmen who hadearlier occupied the high officeof President, he too would rem-ain a rubber stamp President,”Advani said in a post on his blog.

Mukherjee also laughedaway Belgian King Philippe’sdescription of him as a “con-sensus builder in India” and saidthere was “nothing to read inbetween” the remark.

“What King Philippemeant was my (earlier) role inbeing the leader of the coalitionin the House ( Lok Sabha) andnothing more than that,” hesaid when he was asked if themonarch’s words referred to therole he might play after the2014 general election.

Mukherjee on Saturdayreached Turkey, the second legof his tour, after a four-day visitto Belgium where he attended ahost of state events and held talkswith top leaders. PTI

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In Jammu & Kashmir, stu-dents are being treated as

labourers by teachers and aremade to skip the classes inorder to get refill of LPG cylin-ders to run the kitchen fire andprepare mid-day meals.

Left with no choice, theschoolchildren often step out oftheir school premises and standin a long queue of LPG con-sumers and wait for their turnto get a refill.

Ironically, the studentsnot only have to miss theirclasses at regular intervalsbut they have to shoulder theburden of ferrying the LPGcylinder while covering thelong distances on foot.

This correspondent spottedthree Class VIII students ofGovernment Middle school,Channi-Himmat with a LPGcylinder waiting on the road-side near a distribution point ofLPG cylinders.

On preliminary enquiry, allthree students claimed thatthey were carrying their own

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BJP’s prime ministerial can-didate Narendra Modi crit-

icised the UPA Government’sgold policy while inauguratingIndia International BullionSummit held at Mumbai onSaturday via video-conferenc-ing. Modi said the gold whichwas traditionally revered inIndia is perceived as villainowing to faulty policies of theUPA Government.

Addressing the summit,which was organised underthe aegis of Bombay BullionAssociation, the Gujarat ChiefMinister expressed concernover the adverse effects of goldimport and pointed out that itwould once again create thescene of 1968, when the GoldControl Act gave birth to mafiasindulging in gold smuggling,narcotics drugs, weapons,bogus currency and terrorism.

Modi appealed the BullionAssociation to raise voiceagainst the CentralGovernment’s gold policy. Hesuggested the Indian artisansshould be encouraged fortheir skill of making goldjewellery. Their skills shouldbe upgraded so that they canmaintain their hold over themarket of handmade goldjewellery, which has greatdemand in the world.

Time has ripened when all

the Indian States should cre-ate their own ExportPromotion Council to encour-age export. IndianGovernment should also comeup with a policy to give specialincentives to the States mak-ing highest exports, he added.

“From centuries, the goldhas never been merely a finan-cial asset for the Indian society,it has been revered and con-sidered auspicious,” said Modiadding that Ayurveda has alsorecognised the importance ofgold in its formulas like suvarn-abhusma and suvarnaprash.People buy gold when it comesto saving for future, be it fortheir daughter’s marriage orother difficult situations. It isonly owing to the false policies

of the Centre that the gold isseen as a problem instead ofsolution, he said.

“Congress’s policy for goldin past had ruined the lives oftwo generations of gold arti-sans. Ministers of presentUPA Government keep adopt-ing odd solutions for theproblems of the country, onlyto intensify the problems.History suggests that theGovernments which fail to feelthe pulse of the social tradi-tions cannot take right deci-sions,” said the Chief Minister.

Referring to a report ofReserve Bank study groupModi said the gold price has noconnection with its demandamong people. Hence levyingduty on gold import wouldmake gold dearer but it wouldnot affect its demand. Our aimshould be on the efforts of max-imising the export of value-added gold jewellery, and onempowering the gold artisans.

He said that gold is the bestinvestment for rural areas butthe rural coverage of banks isquite less. The people have lostthe trust on the Governmentpolicies and intentions, he saidadding that rather taking prideon the ancient grandeurs of ourcountry, which was onceknown as sone ki chidiya theGovernment harasses thosewho express their concernsover right issues.

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Gunmen attacked a Libyanmilitary post southeast

of the capital Tripoli early onSaturday killing 15 soldiers, anofficial and Libya’s State news agency said.

The attackers rode vehiclestopped with machineguns, themilitary official said. The high-way between the towns ofTarhuna and Bani Walid, onwhich the post was located, wasclosed immediately after theattack in an attempt to trackdown the attackers.

The official said the attacktook place at Wishtata area,some 60 kilometres from theentrance to Bani Walid. Thetown was one of the last strong-holds for supporters of dictatorMuammar Gaddafi in thecountry’s 2011 civil war, andwas besieged again by pro-Government militias last year.

More recently, Libya hasbeen hit by a months-longwave of attacks targeting mili-tary officers, activists, judgesand security agents.

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Coming down heavily onPakistan, President

Pranab Mukherjee has saidunless it dismantles the terrorinfrastructure on its soil, there is no scope for progressin talks between the twocountries.

“We demand fromPakistan that the infrastruc-tures created by the terroristoutfits in your territories,dismantle them! Keep yourcommitments to India, don’t allow terrorists to useyour land to perpetrate their nefarious activities onIndia.

“Unless that atmosphereis created, how could youtalk about other develop-

ments? Therefore, we do hopethat what Nawaz Sharif stat-ed, he will try to implementthat,” Mukherjee said in aninterview to Turkish newspa-per Today’s Zaman.

The President exhortedthat a “serious effort” shouldbe made by Pakistan on thissubject as he said most ter-rorist activities against Indiaare emanating from “territo-ries under the control ofPakistan.”

“Let the appropriateatmosphere be created. Theactual line of control onwhich the ceasefire exists, ithas been violated.”

He also expressed happi-ness over the steps taken bythe two countries to resolvetheir differences. PTI

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With chilling nonchalance,gunmen who massacred

at least 67 people wander thro-ugh Kenya’s Westgate mall, seenfor the first time in security cam-era footage providing possiblevital evidence to investigators.

Calmly searching cornersof the mall — possibly huntingfor more victims to kill afterexecuting scores in the mainhall of the upmarket complex— the closed-circuit televisionfootage shows four young menambling around with AK-47rifles in hand.

Witnesses in the malldescribed how the fightersstormed the complex middayon Saturday when it wascrowded with shoppers, firing

from the hip and hurlinggrenades at shoppers and staff.

But hours after the attackstarted, the men are seen in thebread section of the super-

market, the bulk of their vic-tims most likely already dead.

They wear backpacks, per-haps stuffed with the ammuni-tion that they would use to keepKenya’s Army — backed by for-eign special forces — at bay forfour days.

Two weeks since Somalia’sAl-Qaeda linked Shebab insur-gents attacked Nairobi’s upmar-ket Westgate mall, the CCTVfootage could help answer ques-tions about the bloodbath.

One thing is clear: the menwere organised, apparentlyunafraid, and utterly ruthless.

During the attack, Kenyanofficials said that between 10 -15 gunmen were involved, andlater claimed to have killed five,although it is not clear wherethose bodies are now.

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Washington: The voice fed as the ‘virtual assis-tant’ in Apple’s smart devices is of a womannamed Susan Bennett from Atlanta,who laid down recordings for a clienteight years ago but had no idea theywould be used to communicate with over 100 million people througha smartphone.

Bennett’s voice was introduced asApple’s voice-activated virtual ‘assis-tant’ Siri through the iPhone4S on October 4,2011. However, the tech giant won’t confirmit, but Bennett insists that she is Siri and evenan audio-forensics expert with over 30 yearsof experience has agreed that it is 100 per cent

Bennett’s voice.According to CNN, Bennett’s voice is

heard worldwide, in commercials,phone systems, GPS devices andalso in Delta airport terminals.However, since Apple’s latest iOS7comes with an updated Siri,Bennett’s reign as the American Siriis slowly coming to an end.

Bennett said that initially she didnot reveal her identity of being connected toSiri, but after a Verge video broke out thatshowed people being curious to find out whothe real voice behind Siri was, she decided tobreak the silence. Agencies

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AGovernment shutdownmay be on, but President

Barack Obama is continuingwith his appointments to keypositions in his administra-tion. On Friday, he nominat-ed Indian-American executiveArun M Kumar to head thetrade promotion arm of theUS Department of Commerceand help US companies suc-ceed in markets across the world.

Kumar, as and when con-firmed by the Senate, will takeover as Assistant Secretary andDirector General of the UnitedStates and Foreign CommercialService at the CommerceDepartment’s InternationalTrade Administration — suc-ceeding another Indian-American, Suresh Kumar, wholeft the administration earlierthis year.

Arun M Kumar was a part-

ner and member of the Boardof Directors at KPMG. From2005 until his retirement inSeptember 2013, he led thefirm’s West Coast FinanceManagement Consulting prac-tice. Kumar also led the com-pany’s US-India practice from2007 to 2013.

Nominating Kumar alongwith four other individuals tokey posts, Obama said: “Theextraordinary dedication thesemen and women bring to theirnew roles will greatly serve theAmerican people. I am grate-ful they have agreed to serve inthis administration and I lookforward to working with themin the months and years tocome.”

Prior to joining KPMG asFinance Management Leader in1995, Kumar was the founderand CEO of Planning & Logic,Inc, a software company.

Before that, he was co-founder and CFO of Netlabs,Inc from 1991 to 1993.

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Far from any signs of an earlyend to the US Government

shutdown as it entered Day 5,Washington witnessed a meredisplay of frayed tempers andhardening of public postures,making the average Americanwonder how long this stand-offis going to last.

“Stop this farce. End thisshutdown now,” PresidentBarack Obama told HouseRepublicans in the course of hisweekly radio address onSaturday, making it clear yetagain that he “won’t pay ran-som in exchange for reopeningthe Government” or “for rais-ing the debt ceiling”.

“The American peopledon’t get to demand ransom inexchange for doing their job.Neither does Congress. Theydon’t get to hold our democ-racy or our economy hostageover a settled law,” Obama said.

Republican Speaker JohnBoehner, riled by Obama’s

tough stance and reportedremark by a White House offi-cial that Democrats were “win-ning” the shutdown battle,fired back: “This isn’t somedamn game.”

The comment, cited in anarticle in The Wall StreetJournal, angered Boehner somuch that he even suggestedthat he might still try to drivea hard bargain on spendingcuts as a condition to raise byOctober 17 the US debt ceiling,which currently stands at $16.7trillion.

“All we’re asking for is to sitdown and have a discussion,reopen the Government andbring fairness to the Americanpeople under Obamacare,”Boehner told reporters.

The only compromise thatshould offer some solace to thefederal employees put onforced leave without pay issupport by both parties for aproposal to restore back pay toall the employees furloughedduring the shutdown.

Save for that concession,both sides are sticking totheir rigid positions. Obamahas ruled out any negotiationson the shutdown or the debtceiling. However, once thesedecks were cleared, he wouldbe willing to negotiate withthe Republicans on spendingcuts, he said, noting: “Wecan’t do it with a gun held tothe head of the Americanpeople.”

“There’s only one way outof this reckless and damagingshutdown: pass a budget thatfunds our Government, withno partisan strings attached.The Senate has already donethis,” he said, yet commentingthat “the far right of theRepublican Party won’t letSpeaker John Boehner givethat bill a yes-or-no vote”.

House Democrats arecounting on 22 moderateRepublican lawmakers whoare reportedly willing to helpend the shutdown by declaringsupport for an unconditionalbill to fund the Government.But the moot point is whetherthe Speaker would be ready tocome up with a “clean” billwithout the riders over“Obamacare”.

In the absence of any dealwith Democrats, HouseRepublicans have been occu-pying themselves with piece-meal legislation to fund near-ly a dozen targeted pro-grammes, including nutritionfor low-income women andtheir children, intelligencegathering and border patrols.

But the Democrat-major-ity Senate has threatened toreject all such piecemeal fund-ing initiatives. The WhiteHouse also says PresidentObama will veto the piecemealmeasures, except the one topay federal workers retroactively once theGovernment reopens.

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RBI recently took charge tochange a few ongoing

schemes that it considered waspart of malicious design to lurecustomers into products they didnot understand. Coming rightbefore the onset of festive sea-sons, the industry, quite under-standably, made lots of noise.Sure, customers do get lured toschemes that defer payments forsometime in future. The ease ofmaking buying decision doeshelp the industry to pump updemand, especially during festiveseasons. RBI, on the other hand,reiterates its commitmenttowards innocent customerswho fall for schemes that looklucrative on the face, but havehidden financial arrangementsfor self serve. While both partiesare right on their part, may be,the solution lies somewhere inthe middle.

It started when RBI banned‘zero percent interest rate’schemes on the purchase ofconsumer goods on September

25. Notably, such schemesare quite popular amongconsumers who are eagerto enjoy the product nowbut are happy to deferpayments in future.Companies respondedwith zero interestschemes where the costprice of the product getsdivided equally to bepaid, say, in six install-ments. It was a win-win

situation for both consumers andproducers because, on one hand,consumers could afford theproduct and on the other hand,producers could ramp up thenotional demand for their prod-ucts. RBI does not like thisbecause the hidden costs areeither not communicated toconsumers or are too compli-cated to be understood by them.For instance, usually suchschemes come loaded with pro-cessing charge and, at the sametime, do not pass on the discountto consumers, which is otherwiseavailable. In reality, consumersare effectively paying substantialinterest (sometimes, as high as20%); contrary to ‘zero interest’claims made by companies.

Industry experts were quickto argue the rationality of themove by RBI. They seem to havea point when they claimed thatsuch schemes are merely tools tohelp consumers make decisionsfaster. Consumers usually takesome time before committing tohigh-ticket products. Industryalso claims that consumers areaware of the costs. They gethooked to schemes because theysimply do not mind payingslowly. The merit of this argu-ment lies in the fact that suchschemes are not new. They havebeen in the market for a fewyears now and consumers sim-ply love it.

RBI, meanwhile, alsobanned 80:20 loan schemesprevalent in real estate. Hereagain, the industry cried foul onthe pretext that such schemeswere responsible for seasonalspurt in demand. They alsoclaimed real estate industry thatis going through challengingtime will lose the opportunity toprop up demand this festive sea-son due to RBI’s policy.

RBI’s move is anything butvindictive. Notably, there aremany other schemes in the

market that are still operating.With these smart moves, RBIhas tried to solve a few prob-lems. Evidently, real estate andconsumer goods industries aretwo very large sectors havingsignificant impact on economyof India. These are interestsensitive industries that run pri-marily on loans. Recent policydecisions by RBI clearly indicatethat fighting inflation will be itsmain objective. Accordingly, ithas clamped down on Zerointerest and subventionschemes because they tend topromote inflation in two ways.First, juicy offers rack up thedemand encouraging produc-ers from increase prices further.RBI intends to force price cor-rection to promote organicdemand, and thus controlmainstream inflation. Second,disguised in such schemes areloans, which need to be fund-ed from the economy. This iscontradictory to RBI’s currentpolicy of controlling liquidity inthe system. By discouragingloan and forcing price correc-tion, RBI intends to controlextra liquidity and inflationrespectively.

By coming down heavilyon industries, RBI is takingproactive actions to controlmainstream economy. Themessage to everyone, includingthe government, is clear thattangible actions are required tocome out of the mess we areinto. In this process, growth issure taking a back seat for thetime being. Industry is correctin responding negatively tostringent moves by the RBI. Thegood thing is that both par-tiesaresticking to their guns.Now that is good news.

(The write is Director,InvestCare, a leading wealthmanagement firm. He can bereached at [email protected])

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The second quarter of the cur-rent fiscal has been a chal-

lenging one for sectors whichhave huge revenue generation indollar terms. With rupee depre-ciating below �68 per dollar, per-formance of many sectors wentfor a toss. This currency crisis hasbrought mixed results for thetourism sector as with rupeebecoming considerably cheapercompared to the dollar, industryleaders are expecting more for-eign tourists, while at the sametime they are concerned aboutthe dip in the numbers of Indiansgoing abroad.

While the volumes of for-eign tourists are expected to goup, foreign exchange earnings(FEE) for the tourism sectorwould take a hit. During August2013 the FEE fell to $1.29 billionas compared to $1.31 billion inthe same month last year.

Talking about the impact therupee depreciation would have,Vikram Malhi, GM (South andSoutheast Asia), Expedia said,“owing to a rise in the overall costof travel and the rupee dip,there has been a dip in Indianstravelling to foreign destina-tions. But while the fall in thevalue of the rupee has impactedthe overall cost of travel, it hasalso opened up huge opportu-nities in the domestic and (SouthEast Asia) SEA markets.”

He felt that while there willbe a considerable impact of cur-rency depreciation, there is a sil-

ver lining to it for the SEA coun-tries. “People who were planningto visit Europe or USA are nowlooking at South East Asiandestinations like Thailand,Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam,Philippines, Indonesia andSingapore. Also we have seen asurge in inbound traffic to India,given the weakening rupee hasmade India all the more attrac-tive to foreigners, especiallytourists heading to Goa,Rajasthan and Kerala forChristmas holidays.”

The rupee has dented theoutbound part but has also cre-ated an opportunity in domes-tic tourism. Overalltravel.com isa fast growing company whichaims to tab this domestic andinbound tourism market of thecountry. Bhupender Mehta, CEOof Overalltravel.com said,“Market has become quite pricesensitive and with rupee falling,we are expecting a significant risein the inbound tourism. Wealready have tie ups in South EastAsia, Middle East, New Zealandand Australia and are expectinggood volumes from there.”

Citing that now moreIndians would prefer a vacationin the country than abroad, headded, “The net costs have goneup which has added pressure onIndians looking to travel abroad.Domestic travel would be ben-efited the most by this and wealready have started working onweekend getaways and adventuretrips in the country as theirdemand is expected to rise.”

Aiming to attract more andmore foreign travelers to thecountry, Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce andIndustry (FICCI) recently organ-ised ‘The Great DomesticTourism Bazaar’. Talking on thesidelines of the event, JyotsnaSuri, Chairperson, FICCITourism Committee andChairperson & ManagingDirector of the Lalit SuriHospitality Group said, “Foreigntravelers won’t be affected by thecurrency depreciation as theirtrips are planned well in advance.As far as domestic tourism isconcerned, we are expecting thenumbers to increase this year asmore people would now avoidgoing abroad.”

As per the data by theMinistry of Tourism for 2012,Andhra Pradesh was the mostvisited state contributing 20 percent of the total share followedby Tamil Nadu and UttarPradesh which held 18 per centand 16 per cent share respec-tively.

Unlike Bangkok, Indiantourism is still growing andfrom mere 310 million domes-tic visitors in 2003, it hasgrown to 1,036 million visitorsin 2012. With currency crash-ing so much, the industrywould face a crunch when itcomes to foreign exchange feeand outbound travelers but italso has made India a perfectvacation destination for for-eign tourists as well as domes-tic.

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In an attempt to attract moreforeign investors towards

Indian stock markets, SecuritiesExchange Board of India (Sebi)on Saturday announced ForeignPortfolio Investor (FPI) regula-tions. Through this new regimeSebi aims to ease the registrationprocess and operating frame-work for foreign investors. UnderFPIs, SEBI has included all for-eign institutional investors (FII)and qualified foreign investors(QFI).

For FPIs, know your client(KYC) norms and other regis-tration procedures would bemuch simpler as compared tocurrent processes. The Sebi alsoannounced their decision togrant FPIs permanent registra-tion. Currently foreign investorsare only one year or five yearapproval to invest in the coun-try.

The move came after ameeting where the Sebi boardapproved the new FPI regula-tions. As per the official state-ment issued after the boardmeeting Sebi said that the newregulations have been framedkeeping in view the provisions ofexisting norms for FIIs andQFIs, as also the recommenda-tions made by a Committee onRationalization of InvestmentRoutes and Monitoring of

Foreign Portfolio Investments.Under the new norms, all

existing FIIs and QFIs will beeventually merged into this newinvestor class. Sebi also approvedsetting up ‘DesignatedDepository Participants (DDPs)’,which would register FPIs onbehalf of the market regulatorsubject to compliance with KYCnorms.

The new class will be divid-ed in three categories as per theirrisk profile. Category I FPIs,would enlist the the lowest riskentities including foreign gov-ernments and government relat-ed foreign investors. Category IIFPIs would comprise of broadbased funds, appropriately reg-ulated entities, funds whoseinvestment manager is appro-priately regulated, universityfunds, university related endow-ments, pension funds etc.

The Category III FPIs wouldinclude all others not eligibleunder the first two categories,Sebi said that all existing FIIs andSub Accounts may continue tobuy, sell or otherwise deal insecurities under the FPI regime.All existing QFIs can also con-tinue to buy, sell or otherwisedeal in securities till the periodof one year from the date ofnotification of this regulation.In the meantime, they mayobtain FPI registration throughDDPs.

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�July 2013: Of the 24 girls rescuedfrom a placement agency by BachpanBachao Andolan, 18 were pregnant andunder 15 years.

�August 2013: Two girls fromJharkhand (both minors and sevenmonths pregnant) were rescued from awell established placement agency inLajpat Nagar IV. So ashamed were theyabout their plight that they refused to gohome despite their fathers pleading withthem. They said they would rather diehere than face humiliation at home.

�January 2013: Three girls were res-cued from a businessman’s house inJanakpuri East. Aged eight, 13 and 16,they were bonded labour. The eldest onehad had two abortions in a year and theyounger one has been seriously abused.Their master sent them to his relatives’houses to work for free. None had beenpaid for 18 months.

�May 2013: A 16-year-old maidfrom Nepal ran away from a house inGhaziabad. She had injury marks on herhead and private parts. She had beenassaulted by her employer and his broth-er-in-law for six months. She said she wasraped and beaten up frequently. Whenshe asked the owners to send her back tothe agency, they locked her up in theirbasement and beat her up. Doctors sayshe is unlikely to recover from trauma.

�These girls are brought into theCapital, made to work as bonded labourand misguided about where they are beingtaken and for what purpose. Once they arehere from their villages, it’s an unendingtrail of deceit and torture. They areexploited sexually and thrashed at theplacement agency by several men. Whenthey are “placed”as maids, they end upbeing physically and mentally abused bytheir employers

— Kailash Satyarthi, founder ofBachpan Bachao Andolan

Whether it is the yellowpage services like justdial,or portals like asklaila or,for that matter, yourfriendly neighbourhood

helping hand, placement agencies areeverywhere — some registered, othersworking on word by mouth but none reg-ulated by law to protect the rights ofdomestic workers.

“It is the illegal and irregulated supply

chain in the form of agencies and brokersthat need to be taken to task. There areno less than 250 large placement agenciesin the Capital and law doesn’t recogniseeven a single one of them. They are allillegal and work under false alias. Most ofthe people behind these agencies arecriminals wanted by the police or haveserved term for something or the other,”says Satyarthi.

In the long haul of busting suchunscrupulous agents, Satyarthi adds thatit is difficult to monitor such operators.“We have busted many small agencieswhich supply girls not just as maids butto brothels too. Still, there are many whomanage to escape our notice. These aremastermind criminals who have theirnetwork in localised places. These localgoons work in tandem and supply chil-dren to agency owners who then sellthem off as labour. Nowadays, most agen-cies work under the false name of samitisor welfare societies. More audaciously,some have even registered themselves asNGOs working for child rights! This isone of the most well organised crimesdifficult to crack,” senior inspectorAbhjeet Ray, investigating the Pritampuramaid abuse case, says.

He tells you that in this particularcase, the owners had paid the maidagency �35,000 as a yearly contract and amonthly sum of �2,800 due to the girlwas also paid to the agency. The sad partis that the agency knew the girl was beingtortured but it didn’t come to her rescue.

“When my team went to rescue themaid locked up in the ground floor houseNo 1178 in Vasant Kunj Sector A, MsVandana Dhir made them wait for overfour hours and showed up with herlawyer. When she opened the door, whatmy team saw they we will never forget.They recounted how the maid’s nails andbody had been brutalised. She was isextreme trauma. She could not speakmuch about her sustained torture but thedetails will come out soon,” Rishi Kant,founder of Shakti Vahini, the NGO thathelped rescue this maid from Dhir, says.

And that’s just one case. In July 2013,Bachpan Bachao Andolan rescued 13girls who were being exploited at anagency called Adivasi Samiti which wasregistered as an NGO in Kirti Nagar. Thisso called NGO was supplying maids tohouses as far away as Faridabad andNoida. More than 90 per cent of these

girls were minors living in pathetic condi-tions in the NGO’s official premises.“They were huddled up with boys in a6/6 room. Most of these girls had beenmolested. To escape the abuse, they hadrequested the manager to get them homeswhere they could work. They were sodesperate to move out that they wereready to accept whatever was throwntheir way. And, what may happen tothem at their employer’s place was purelytheir luck,” Satyarthi says.

Pinki Senapathy (name changed) wassold to one such samiti by her aunt for apaltry �5,000 when she was only 14. Shehad been brought in on a ruse of beingtaken to Delhi for a summer vacation.Little did she know that she would bemade to work and carry out all sorts ofchores for the “placement agent” towhom she was sold, and his friends.While at this agency, where she was leftby her aunt, she was made to cook, washutensils and clothes of all residents. Hermaster demanded all kinds of sexualfavours, including oral sex which she per-formed on a number of occasions. Pinkigot pregnant five times and bore a childout of wedlock when she was 20. Shedoesn’t know who the father of her four-year-old son is. Today, she is long dead.

Pinki and her son found owners inChattarpur in 2011. She was working as afull-time maid on a �2000 a month salaryfor all household work, including cookingthree meals a day. Her employer, a bankerand his wife, thought they had got a realgood deal. When Pinki came to workhere, she carried the wounds inflicted onher at the agency. One visit to a doctorrevealed she was AIDS-infected. She wasthrown out with her son immediatelywithout a penny to her name.

“Pinki was spotted by a sevasharamkaramchari who got her to us. She passedaway in July 2012. Her son, who is alsoHIV positive, is admitted in a ward inSafdarjung Hospital,” Minu Yadav,founder and chairperson of the NGOSAVE India, says. Yadav has rescuedmany girls from evil agents and employ-ers. But she is appalled that even after somuch has been done and so much noisecreated, the Government continues toturn a blind eye to the issue.

In 2011, 314 minors died due toabuse. In 2012, the number escalated to789 (mostly reported from Delhi) and in2013, the number is already alarming. But

with no law in place, there is no stoppingsuch illegal trafficking of the fertiledomestic workforce.

While New Delhi is the epicentre ofsuch nefarious crimes, most girls are traf-ficked from Assam, Meghalaya,Jharkhand and Odissa. “In early 2000,girls were being brought from Bangladeshand sold here. But since the borders lawsand the police turned strict, inter-statetrafficking has increased. These criminalsare no standalone individuals. They arewell networked and influential,” Yadavtells you.

Satyarthi gives you an example ofhow such a network works: In January2013, BBA rescued a girl from Assamwhen she was being arrested for sellinggirls of her village to agency owners inDelhi. The truth in fact was somethingvery horrifying. It was her maternal unclewho had sold her off to a placementagency in Patparganj. After being repeat-edly raped, this girl pleaded with theagent to let her go. But the agency hadsomething else in store for her. Theyasked her to bring four girls as herreplacement and then she would be freeto return to her village.

“At first, she thought of running away.But she had no money or idea about thecity. So, she complied. She got four girlsto Delhi through phone calls back home.When one of her replacements ran away,she was forced to bring in anotherreplacement. She managed to get hercousin to Delhi under the pretext ofshowing her the city. When she left forher village, there was quite another scenewaiting for her there. The agency ownershad informed the local police in Assamthat she was their main supplier of girls(even infants). She was jailed and tor-tured for three months before our NGOrescued her,” Satyarthi recalls.

These multi-million rupee maidbusiness is so murky and well organsiedthat agents hail from all kind of regionsand cater to all kind of demands byfuture employers. Helps with specificgotra, caste, type, religion — you nameit and they have one ready for you astake away.

So, is there a way out of this unend-ing exploitation of rural manpower?Activists say that in more than 60 percent cases, the woes of these girls onlydouble. These helps are so desperate toget away from the agency that they suc-

cumb to whatever comes their way. Theyare ready to make any kind of compro-mise. Many die a thousand deaths beforebeing rescued.

In August 2013, Gayatri, 18, wasfound locked in a servant’s room inNetaji Nagar, Type VI quarters. She hadbeen locked up for two days withoutwater or food. She was lying unconsciousin a pool of her own urine and vomit.Gayatri’s employer, a bureaucrat, wasaway for a get-together when Sai Kriparescued her on a tip-off by a cook.

Gayatri was being punished for hav-ing used the employer’s bathroom andhairbrush. She was beaten up by thebureaucrat’s wife with the same brushand dragged into the room. And this wasnot the first time. Gayatri had been beat-en up, humiliated in front of guests andlocked up without food or water onseven earlier occasions. Each time, thecouple would give her food only afterthree days of punishment!

“Gayatri had several internal hemor-rhages and she doesn’t remember any ofher family members. She told us thatonce she was beaten up so mercilesslywith a steel rod that she fractured herhand. Her employers did not take her toa hospital to get her a plaster. She wasmade to work in this painful condition,”Anupama Goswami from Sai Kripa tellsyou. The matter was reported to thepolice but nothing concrete has yet beendone.

The biggest gap in dealing with thesituation lies in the lack of appropriatemeasures for the recovery, rehabilitationand integration of victims. Post rescue,there are no effective measures available,particularly for victims of sexualexploitation.

“It will go a long way to have aStandard Operating Procedure, whichnot only defines the standards that needto be followed during the different stagesof rescue, rehabilitation, repatriation andreintegration, but also define the roles ofstakeholders such as the police, medicalprofessionals and civil society organisa-tions in this process. In the context ofminors, this assumes greater significanceand all-out efforts need to be made toensure that processes and procedures arechild friendly and do not allow forretraumatisation,” Vijaylakshmi Arora,Cry’s policy research and advocacy direc-tor, concludes.

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Dwayne Smith helped IPLchampions MumbaiIndians beat Trinidad and

Tobago to secure a place in sec-ond Champions LeagueTwenty20 final in three years hereat the Ferozeshah Kotla stadiumon Saturday.

Mumbai will now face anoth-er IPL team Rajasthan Royals inthe final on Sunday.

Chasing 154-run target,Smith along with SachinTendulkar provided Mumbai thekind of start they needed againstT&T, a strong bowling unit. Afterthe duo departed within a spaceof two balls, middle-order bats-men didn’t let the good start gowaste and sealed a six-wicket vic-tory with five balls to spare.

After three consecutive flop-shows in the CLT20, Tendulkar(35 off 31 balls) finally came goodwith bat and along with DwayneSmith (59 off 38 balls) added 90runs for the first wicket to laystrong foundation for his team.Along the way, Tendulkar alsocompleted his 50,000 runs, anoth-er milestone by the master blaster,in all formats of cricket. His tallynow stands at 50,009 from 953matches.

However, T&T’s Sunil Narine,known as mystery spinner incricketing circles, kind of undidthat good work with two wicketsin his one over to go with anoth-er wicket by Lendl Simmons, who

dismissed Tendulkar. Mumbai were reduced to 96

for 3 in 12 overs from 90 for noloss in 10.5. In T20 format, thematch doesn’t take much time to

slip away and three wickets inseven balls was a big setback forMumbai.

But skipper Rohit Sharmaand Dinesh Karthik knew the

target wasn’t very far and a cou-ple of good overs were enough toget there. They added 42 runs innext five overs. Though Rohitwas foxed by Narine in the 18th

over, by then the match wasfirmly in Mumbai’s grip. Karthikfinished the job with six overlong-off.

Earlier, T&T posted a decent

score which could have beenbetter had other batsmen, apartfrom Evin Lewis and YannickOttley, contributed more.

There last match hero, LendlSimmons (0) was a bit unlucky inthis match as his cheross-battedshot went straight into the handsof Dwayne Smith, who stood atthe boundary edge and waited forthe ball to land in his big, safe pairof hands.

His opening partner, Lewis,however, didn’t show any sign ofslowing down in the wake of earlyloss of wicket. He continued in hisbelligerent fashion and matchedMitchell Johnson pace with hisbat speed accumulating fiveboundaries, including a six overthird man, in Mumbai bowler’stwo overs.

Mumbai was finding it hardto stop Lewis but wickets atregular interval from the

other end kept them inthe game. After Lewis,Ottley did some dam-

age to Mumbai butNathan Coulter-Nile,

Pragyan Ojha and Kieron Pollardbowled intelligently to keep thescoring rate in reach.

Brief scoresTrinidad & Tobago: 153/5 in 20overs (Evin Lewis 62, YannickOttley 41 not out; NathanCoulter-Nile 1/20) lose toMumbai Indians: 157/4 in 19.1overs (Dwayne Smith 59, SachinTendulkar 35; Sunil Narine 3/17)by 6 wickets.

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Rafael Nadal will supplant NovakDjokovic atop the rankings after

advancing to the final of the ChinaOpen on Saturday when TomasBerdych of the Czech Republic retiredwith a back injury.

The Spaniard was a break up at 4-2 in the opening set of their semifinalwhen Berdych retired soon after tak-ing an injury timeout. Nadal could faceDjokovic on Sunday, as the Serbplayed Richard Gasquet of France inthe other semifinal later Saturday.

Nadal, who improved to 27-0 onhard courts this season, will return tothe top ranking for the first time sinceJuly 2011. Djokovic has been No. 1 for101 weeks.

“The personal satisfaction is notbecause I am No. 1 today, it’s because(of) all the work (I put in) to be whereI am today,” Nadal said. “I don’t feel(like) a better player now than fivehours ago, and I won’t go to bed tonightfeeling that I am the best player in theworld_that’s something I’ve neverthought.”

In the women’s draw, top-rankedSerena Williams and Jelena Jankovic ofSerbia advanced to the final with con-trasting wins.

Serena earned a straight-forward6-2, 6-2 victory over AgnieszkaRadwanska of Poland while Jankovicrallied for a 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-1 win overPetra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.

Nadal had been assured of reclaim-ing the top spot if he reached the finalin Beijing or Djokovic failed to defendhis title.

Nadal, the reigning French Openand U.S. Open champion, has had adominant year since returning inFebruary from a seven-month layoffdue to a left knee injury. He has won10 titles and reached 12 finals overall,compiling an ATP Tour-best record of65-3 on the season.

He hasn’t lost a match since fallingin the opening round at Wimbledon to135th-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgiumin June, his only blip this year.

“(This is) a great year, one of thebest years of my career without anydoubt,” Nadal said. “Sure is special (to)be back to the top position of the rank-ings after more than a half year with-out playing tennis.”

�����������������������������Tokyo: Top-seeded Juan Martin delPotro overcame Nicolas Almagro 7-6(7), 7-6 (1) on Saturday to reach thefinal of the Japan Open.

Del Potro hit 12 aces to dispatchthe sixth-seeded Spaniard and set upa final with third-seeded Milos Raonicof Canada, who beat Ivan Dodig ofCroatia 7-6 (4), 6-1 in Saturday’s firstsemifinal.

Del Potro is seeking his third titleof the season following wins inRotterdam and Washington.

Raonic, who is coming off a win atthe Thailand Open last week, won sixstraight points in the tiebreaker andcruised through the second set to reachthe Japan Open final for the secondstraight year.

The 22-year-old Canadian, who is11th in the world rankings, brokeDodig twice in the second set to winthe last five games, finishing the matchwith three straight aces.

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Sebastian Vettel maintainedhis extraordinary dominance

of Formula One on Saturday byclaiming pole position for theKorean Grand Prix.

The German has now takenpole for three straight races andis aiming for a fourth successivewin. He’s also chasing a hat trickof wins at the Yeongam circuit,and most importantly, a fourthconsecutive F1 championship.

Vettel set his pole timeearly in the final qualifying ses-sion, and was able to abort hisfinal flying lap when nearestchallenger Lewis Hamilton ofMercedes came up two-tenthsof a second short in his bid tobeat Vettel’s time.

“I had a very, very good lap

in Q3 at my first attempt, and Iknew that would be tricky tobeat that time myself,” Vettelsaid. “Fortunately the first lapwas good enough,” he added.“Mercedes was very strong.”

Hamilton had been the

fastest in Friday’s practice, butMercedes could not improve thecar as much overnight as RedBull did. Still, Hamilton said hewas satisfied with second.

“I felt I got the most out ofthe car,” the British driver said.

“In general it’s been a goodweekend and I really hopetomorrow we can fight withthem (Red Bull).”

The positive news forHamilton, and everyone elsewho qualified in an even-num-bered grid slot, is that the evennumbers have the inside line tothe first corner, while the odd-numbered places are outsidebut on the rubbered racing line.Last year it was the inside linewhich won the short sprint tothe single-file first corner.

Vettel’s teammate MarkWebber qualified in third butcarries a ten-grid-place penaltyinto Sunday’s race for hitchinga ride back to the pits onFernando Alonso’s Ferrari afterthe Singapore Grand Prix. Hewill be demoted to 13th.

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Badminton Association ofIndia President Akhilesh

Das Gupta will seek a responsefrom Jwala Gutta following BAIdisciplinary committee’s rec-ommendation of a life ban onthe top Indian doubles shuttlerfor trying to stop some playersof her franchise Krrish DelhiSmashers from playing a matchagainst Banga Beats in the inau-gural IBL.

“The BAI president is writ-ing to Jwala Gutta for herresponse on the recommenda-tion report,” a well-placed sourcein the BAI said.

“She will have seven days torespond,” he added.

In a surprise decision, BAI’sdisciplinary committee recom-mended a life ban on Jwala forher role in the IndianBadminton League controversy.

“The disciplinary commit-tee has recommended a life ban

or suspension for a certain peri-od of time on Jwala Gutta for herrole in the IBL controversy,” asenior BAI official said.

“The recommendation hasbeen circulated to the memberassociations but no decisionhas been taken as of now. It hasnot been implemented.”

S Muralidharan, chairmanof BAI’s disciplinary committee,

said: “I don’t want to talk aboutit much. It is the discretion ofBAI President Mr Akhilesh DasGupta and on an uncondition-al apology, Jwala can be set free.But she should feel apologetic forwhat happened.”

A controversy had eruptedduring the August 25 tie whenDelhi smashers had threatenedto pull out against Banga Beats

over the last-minute replace-ment of injured singles player,Hu Yun of Hong Kong withDenmark’s Jan Jorgensen.

As an icon player of DelhiSmashers, Jwala was involved inthe whole matter, which wasresolved after Beats finally leftout Jorgensen and playedArvind Bhat, who was alreadypart of the team.

Jwala was then served a 14-day showcause notice by BAI forher conduct during the tie,which was delayed by half anhour. “Jwala had replied to thenotice, saying that ‘it was adecision by the Delhi franchiseand not an individual move.Owners asked me to act like thatand there is nothing wrong onmy part. I have been appointedas an icon player by Delhi andas a captain I acted’,” the BAI offi-cial said.

The BAI official said anoth-er notice has also been sent tothe Delhi franchise.

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Opener Kraigg Brathwaitesmashed a brilliant centu-

ry while Narasingh Deonarainecracked a flamboyant 93 as thesecond unofficial Test betweenIndia ‘A’ and West Indies ‘A’ended in a tame draw here onSaturday.

In reply to West Indies A’s406 in the first innings, IndiaA were allout for359, con-ceding aslender 47-run lead to thevisitors.

With a result out of ques-tion, West Indies A reached 223for three in 81 overs in their sec-ond innings when the umpiresdecided to call off the match dueto bad light around 3.30 pm. Forthe West Indies A, Brathwaitetop-scored with 104 not out,

while Deonaraine delighted thecrowd with some aggressiveshots during his 93-run inningsbefore he was trapped leg beforeby Baroda lad Bharghav Bhatt.

Brathwaite, riding high onhis two fifties in the series,played a ShivnaraineChanderpaul-style game, grind-ing the ball and attacking thoselanding in the hitting zone.

The left-handed Guyanesebatsmandid notget muchsupport

from Kieran Powell and captainKirk Edwards as the visitorswere in a hole at 43 for two.

Brief ScoresWI A: 406 and 223/3 (KraiggBrathwaite 104 no, NarsinghDeonarine 93; Bhargav Bhatt2/104, Zaheer Khan 1/27) drewwith India A: 359 on fourth dayof the unofficial Test.

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Rajasthan Royals were dealt amassive blow ahead of their

Champions League Twenty20 sum-mit clash as destructive batsmanBrad Hodge, who injured his kneein the semifinal, was declaredunfit for Sunday’s match.

Hodge had collided with ShaneWatson whose head hit Hodge’sknee at point during the finalover of Chennai Super Kings’chase in the first semifinal matchat the Sawai Mansingh Stadium inJaipur on Friday night.

The Aussie had to go off thefield, and scans were performed onhis knee, of which result is awaited.

Kushal Perera joins the team ashis replacement.

Also, paceman Shaun Tait toohas been ruled out and in place ofhim, Sachin Baby will play.

The 38-year-old has scored 109

runs in three innings, including twonot-outs at a strike rate of 198.

His unbeaten 52 off 23 ballsagainst Otago Volts was instru-

mental in Royals securing a homesemi-final, which they won by 14runs. Watson fined for usingobscene language

Rajasthan Royals all-rounderShane Watson was on Saturdayfined USD 750 for using obsceneand offensive language duringthe f irst semifinal of theChampions League Twenty20against Chennai Super Kings here.

“Shane Watson of RajasthanRoyals was fined US$750 forbreaching the CLT20 Code ofBehaviour during the first semi-final match against Chennai SuperKings at the Sawai MansinghStadium last evening,” theChampions League Twenty20 saidin a statement.

“Mr. Watson admitted to theLevel 1 offence (Section 1B - 1.4)of using language that is obscene,offensive or insulting and/or mak-ing an obscene gesture,” he added.

For Level 1 breaches of theCLT20 Code of Conduct, theMatch Referee’s decision is finaland binding.

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�How are the preparations for theAsian Champions Trophy going?

As you know, the ChampionshipTrophy begins from November 1,2013 in Japan. And so far the train-ing is on the mark. Having said that,the national camp started fromSeptember 28, it has only been sixdays, so early days into the prepara-tion. But with a three-week longcamp at the Major Dhyan ChandStadium in the Capital we will befighting fit.

�What are the areas, the team isfocusing on?

We have just come back from theAsia Cup and have been on a break.We are focusing on the fitness aspectfor now. Some of our players wereinjured during the Asia Cup havealso joined the squad and their fit-ness is also being monitored regu-larly. Some of the reserves too havejoined the squad. Once that is over,we will work on the basics of thegame and train accordingly.

�The team doesn’t have a chiefcoach. Any preferences?

For now, we are training underour high performance director andinterim coach — Roelant Oltmans.And I don’t have a preference. Playersdon’t get involved in these decisions.It is in the hands of the associationsand its officials. They will appoint achief coach after looking at variousfactors. I am ready to welcome who-ever is appointed.

�You have a goalkeeping coach(Dave Staniforth) to go for help.How is that working for the team?

After three years, I am gettingcoaching lessons from a specialisedgoalkeeping coach. Dave. It has beengood working with him. He has beenof great help ever since he joined us.He was a South African nationalteam custodian.

Being a player himself, he under-stands what I am going through andmy game in a better way than a non-specialised coach would. He wastravelling with the junior team for theSultan of Johar Cup when we wereon a break. I am sure that the younggoalkeepers would have picked up alot of his suggestions and taken helpfrom him.

�What are some of the areas heworked with you on?

He worked on my basics. He rec-tified the minor mistakes committed.He turned my negatives into posi-tives. I feel good about my game now.He has instilled a lot of confidencein me which was quite necessary. Wehad worked on my game, two prac-tice sessions every day, for the threeweeks before we left for the Asia Cupin Malaysia.

�You got the Best GoalkeeperAward. How does that feel?

Yes, it was good that I was ableto performer well. It helped the teamto do well as well. We played goodhockey. Even in the final, we playedwell.

But, at the last moment, the ref-eree awarded a short corner and weconceded a goal. It was very unfor-tunate that we lost. Our aim was towin the Asia Cup and qualify for theWorld Cup. But it didn’t turn out thatway. Haarne ke baad kya khushi hogi.Bahut dukh hua mujhe. But, it’s partand parcel of the game.

�What about the confidence levelfor ACT?

We are concentrating on thetraining and need to raise the bar ofthe fitness level. Though the juniorshave played well, we also need theexperience. Since the selection of theteam has yet to be finalised I am hop-ing that a mix of experienced play-ers with juniors will work for us.

�You were the hero of ACT in 2011where India defeated Pakistan inthe final. Do you have any strate-gy this time round?

No such strategy in place. All Ican say is that I will give it my bestso that the team can win. That yearwe had performed really well. Andin the following year too, we had fin-ished runners-up to Pakistan.Hopefully, we will do well.

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The side from the sport’s secondtier will receive a US$ one million

preparation fee from the global gov-erning body, the International CricketCouncil (ICC), ahead of the tourna-ment in Australia and New Zealand.

It comes on top of theUS$422,000 awarded to theAfghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) bythe ICC Board in April of this yearas part of its Targeted Assistance andPerformance Programme (TAPP),aimed at raising playing standards.

In 2014, the top ICC Associateand Affiliate Members - includingAfghanistan - will also receiveapproximately US$750,000 in basesupport through theICC DevelopmentFunding Policy.

And according tothe ACB ChiefExecutive Officer DrMohammed Noor,there is the potentialfor further funding thatcould amount to asmuch as US$850,000from the country’s gov-ernment and sponsor-ship agreements fromdomestic and interna-tional businesses eagerto ride the wave ofAfghanistan success.

“All the money wewill receive will allowus to develop the gameeven more, and it willalso allow us to be as ready as we canbe for the ICC Cricket World Cup,”said Dr Noor.

“We have already begun work-ing on our plans and we are lookingat a three-month camp for the play-ers ahead of the tournament.”

And those sponsorship dollarsare likely to multiply thanks to thesuccess of broadcast coverage ofAfghanistan’s latest matches.

The two matches against Kenyathat sealed the side’s place at the glob-al 50-over event in Australia and NewZealand were shown back home onnational television as well as on theInternet thanks to the ICC.

That followed on from matchesagainst Namibia streamed live inAugust, coverage that has given sig-nificant exposure to the nationalside.

It has allowed millions ofAfghanistan cricket fans starved ofaction due to continuing fears oversecurity the chance to enjoy theside’s triumphs, just five years after it

was competing against cricketingminnows Japan and Jersey.

“It has been great for people backhome to see the matches because itmeans they can now see the boys inaction,” said Dr Noor. “The cricketteam is now recognisable on thestreets of Afghanistan.

“I understand His ExcellencyPresident Karzai was also watchingFriday’s match and the coveragehelps the profile of the game through-out our country and throughout ourregion,” he added.

The ACB’s coffers may be swelledstill further in the coming months ifthe team can qualify for 2014’s ICCWorld Twenty20 in Bangladesh, withthe qualifiers for that event in the

United ArabEmirates inNovember.

If Afghanistancan secure a placeat that tournament— and it has qual-ified for the pasttwo, in the WestIndies in 2010 andSri Lanka in 2012 -the ACB wil lreceive an addi-tional US$250,000.

“Cricket isalready the mostpopular sport inAfghanistan andour idea, with thehelp of this extramoney, is to furtherimprove and devel-

op so we can get even more partici-pation in the country,” said Dr Noor.

The US$ one million preparationgrant will go to all four Associate andAffiliate sides as well as the 10 FullMembers who will participate in theICC Cricket World Cup in Australiaand New Zealand.

Ireland is already set to receivethe money having been the first sideto qualify for the tournament, whileanother two sides are set to qualifyfrom a ten-team tournament in NewZealand in January.

ICC Chief Executive, DavidRichardson, said: “The ICC is delight-ed to be playing a part in that growththrough not only the preparationgrant which also goes to the otherqualifiers for the ICC Cricket WorldCup, but also through the TAPPfunding and the coverage we havebeen able to help provide through thebroadcasting of matches during thePepsi ICC World Cricket LeagueChampionship.”

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�Lunchbox has done very well at the boxoffice. How does that make you feel?

I am very pleased. It was a special film forme and I had full faith in the script. AlthoughI had my doubts about people liking such anoff-beat film, but someone reminded me thatPaan Singh Tomar, too, was not a run-of-the-mill Bollywood film and yet it was liked by all.I take the success of Lunchbox very person-ally because I had told Ritesh Batra thatthis film will do wonders. I had to provea point.�There were reports that you were notconvinced about the ending.

On the contrary, I was very happythat it did not end the conventional wayin which the hero-heroine meet andembrace. I did tell the director that thislove story may not be taken very wellbecause the protagonists don’t meet at all.But he told me that this was the USP ofLunchbox. It was a risk we were all pre-pared to take.�How was it workingwith NawazuddinSiddique, anotherupcoming talent?

He is a superbactor many timesbetter than me.Nawaz is amethod actorwho can donmany hats.He isextremelytalented.You willbe sur-prised howwell he cancarry off acomic role. Heis also the mostsincere actor in thisindustry. Newcomershave a lot to learnfrom him.�Is it true that youstarted off on awrong note withhim?

There was somemisunderstandingregarding a quotein the media. Butwe cleared the airand all is well now.Nawaz understandsthat such incidents willkeep happening in thisindustry.

We have a lot of respect for each other andwe hope we get to work together more often.�You are always on the lookout for uncon-ventional roles...

I have done enough films to understandwhat kind of roles suit me. I cannot pull of araunchy comedy. Also, I have my own limita-

tions and I am not scared to facethem.

I know I don’t have thedashing good looks to star ina larger-than-life commer-cial film.

I would rather docharacter roles whichdefine me better. Havingsaid that, I feel the time is

right to experiment in dif-ferent genres. �How would you summarise

your journey thus far?I have had a lots of ups and

downs. Have committed a lot ofmistakes, hurt a few

people unintention-ally and thenmoved on. Ifinally realisedthat I have tofight my waythrough.

I have tomake my own

space. When Idid that the

j o u r n e yseemed won-derful. Now, Iam having thetime of my life.I have finallyarrived.� So whatwas in yourl u n c h b o xwhen you

went to school?I had roti and

achaar for 10 years.I was very happy if I

would get parathasinstead but I know my

parents had to gothrough a lot of hardshipto give me a square mealso I never complainedand polished off whatev-er I got.

I have never enviedother children’s tiffins.

Guess I was too mature forthat.

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‘I had only roti & achaar for10 years in my lunchbox’

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that a lady has and a mandoesn’t to get her way, we

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“A woman can charm herway into or out of any situation.She can just bat her eyelids andthe job is done (or undone)whatever the case may be. Iunleash my charm quotientonly when I have to bypass along queue or have been stoppedby a traffic cop. It works 9 timesout of 10,” the spunkyChandigarh ki kudi, Neha Baggasays. Rajji of Bani..., a show onColors, throws caution to thewind too. “But I don’t do it toooften. You may get caught andthen no amount of charm willsave the day,” she says. ���8������ 0��� ��

If you have expressive eyes,just flaunt them. Seal your lipsand speak with your eyes. Sayswho? Sangeeta Ghosh of Jee LeZaraa on Sony advises. For her,the shakti lies in the eyes. “Mencan’t express with their eyes atall. But a woman can do it well.She can warn you throughthem. She is not scared of shed-

ding a tear or two ife m o t i o n a l ,”Ghosh says,adding that sheuses her eyes totell peoplethat they arecrossing thel i n e .“WheneverI am travel-ing or am atan event, Iuse my eyesto let peo-ple knowthat theyare notmaking mefeel com-for table .They getthe mes-

sage,” she says, showing offher expressions to conveyvarious emotions.

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A woman knowswhen to step away —

Toral Rasputra akaAnandi of Balika

Vadhu says.“When I amright, I am nota quitter andwill fight tillthe very endto prove a

point. But some-how women

know when toput a full stop.They can backoff at the right

time without making a com-promise. Later, it is the otherperson who comes begging foranother chance. With a man,this can never be the case. Hewill keep at it,” Rasputra says.She has been using this shakti tomake her script writer tweakcertain portions which she feltwere right.

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But is that a power at all?“You will be surprised how it isa huge plus. I have been on astrict shooting schedule thanksto Bani... and I have to travel forhours to reach the sets, but I candeal with all problems waybetter than any other man.Because a woman can endurea lot of pain. It takes a lot ofeffort to break her spirit. Thatis her real shakti. I have had myfair share of struggles and eachtime someone throws a chal-lenge, I take it up. They have noidea how to beat me so theygive up. You should try itsometime,” Shefali Sharma,aka Bani, says.

She tells you that the moreyour ability to withstand, themore shakti you derive to facethe world. Atta girl!

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Ishq knows hip hop andrap music well and I am wellversed with Indian classicalmusic like thumri and sufi. Sowe make quite a combo. Wehave created around 300tracks till now and we aregearing up for many more. Wecompose the scratch versionin a day but to finalise thetrack, it takes months.

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In India, there is no ded-icated music industry. Thetrend of albums has becomepassé. Even TV channels havelimited space to run and pro-mote a music video. BothBollywood and music areinter-dependent. But that isnot all there is to music. I wishwe were treated better.

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Business in this industryhappens at different levels. Ifthe single is declared a hit, thesinger gets an opportunity toearn a lot of money throughlive performances. If he islucky he may get a few filmproject as well. But through asingle we don’t earn anythingmuch. The trend is to down-loading for free.

Most times we have tospend from our pocket tomake a single and present it toa music company.

No one is buying goodmusic albums these days. Only5 per cent pay for download-ing songs. Rest make a freepurchase. I don’t blame them.As per habit, I do that too.Although I have my albumCDs at home, I still prefer todownload music for free!

I am glad that JavedAkhtar took up the initiativeto fight for royalty and patent-

ing. He has been fighting forthe rights of writers, lyricists,singers and composers so thatwe get a fair share in revenuein the form of royalties frommusic companies and pro-duction houses. If this isimplemented properly, wewouldn’t have to depend onfilms for making our compo-sition a hit.

�� �����������It is one such initiative

that is promoting not justsingers from all over India butalso provides a sole identity tothe industry. The big changehas begun. From instrumen-talists, singers, composers andmusic directors, everybodygets their due credit. This isone of the biggest achieve-ments for Indian music indus-try.

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(Bihar) has a claim to be the ancient heart ofIndia. These days it is seen as the armpit... Ithas become a byword for the worst of India:Of widespread and inescapable poverty; ofcorrupt politicians indistinguishable from themafia dons they patronise; of a caste-riddensocial order that has retained the worstfeudal cruelties; of terrorist attacks by groupsof ‘Naxalite’ Maoists; of chronic misrule thathas allowed infrastructure to crumble, theeducation and health systems to collapse,and law and order to evaporate.

— The Economist, February 19, 2004

Till 2005, for at least a decade anda half, if not more, Bihar was an‘unliveable’ place. It appearedchaotic, lawless and ludicrouslyhazardous. To be here was

“outright dangerous”, as Rajesh Chakrabartisays in his recent book, Bihar Breakthrough.In truth, however, the State had its own setof rules and regulations — the dos anddon’ts of survival in Lalu Prasad Yadav’sBihar. There was a method in thismadness, which most outsiders missedowing to their fixed notions of governance.No wonder, for an outsider a MohammedShahabuddin or a Pappu Yadav appearedas a hardcore criminal who deserved to bebehind bars, but for most people in Biharthey were one of the indispensableingredients for day-to-day survival. Thesegangsters needed lawlessness to thrive, andpeople needed these very unruly elementsto endure this lawlessness.

In Siwan, ironically the land forRajendra Prasad, the first President ofindependent India, Shahabuddin was amodern-day Robin Hood who would getwork done for the poor. Among otherthings, he got the Siwan hospital renovated,built a stadium, a girls’ college and a townhall, besides ensuring there was a medicaland an engineering college in the area. Asthe ‘messiah’ of the downtrodden, he wouldissue a fatwa to doctors to limit their fees to�50 and set aside a day for free treatmentfor the poor, and such was his terror thatvery few medical practitioners would dareto disobey his diktat. Being extraconsti-tutional, he brought law in lawless Siwan.Similar was the case in Purnea, wherePappu Yadav ruled the roost. And hispresence made the difference: Theconstituency would have almost 24 hoursof power supply when he became MP forthe first time — just because he allegedlythreatened to burn down the power stationif there was a power cut. Brought up in theneighbouring district of Katihar, I (likemany others) would often wish for a PappuYadav-like don to become my MP or MLA.My district, unfortunately, despite being soclose to Purnea or Kishanganj (the karma-bhoomi of Mohammed Taslimuddin),never had a don to take up its cause!

It’s not as if no effort was made to curbcrime in Lalu’s Bihar. West Champaran,located in the northwestern corner of theState and home to Mahatma Gandhi’s firstexperiment with truth in India, had beenthe ‘Chambal of Bihar’ in the late 1980s andthe 1990s, thanks to the presence of anumber of dacoit gangs. Things had cometo such a pass that an SP was put in therewith the specific order to check the rampantdacoity in the area. This officer, in hisattempt to curb crime, took an unusualstep: He called up the heads of all majorgangs and told them that traditional dacoity

involved a lot of violence and risk for them.With wealthy families increasingly resortingto banking, dacoity was also turning into aventure of diminishing returns. It, therefore,made perfect sense, advised the police officer,to switch to kidnapping, which would forcethe families of the victim to mobilise fundsthemselves to secure the release of thekidnapped person. Less violence and, ifcaptured, even lesser punishment! In no time,the menace of dacoity was curbed andkidnapping became the most flourishingcottage industry in the State.

Amid all this, Lalu never forgot toforward his ‘socialist’ agenda. Wheneverpeople would seek a good, capitalist life, Lalu would come up with better, ‘socialist’answers. “Why do we need cars,” he wouldask, “when Bihar has no roads? And thepoor use (oil-burning) lanterns, so what willyou do with electricity?” Similarly, whenthere were floods, he would exhort people touse this opportunity to fish from the comfortof one’s own bed! It was Lalu’s world andthese were his ways of dealing with issuesplaguing the people and the State.

Lalu had his way of promoting literary/cultural activities as well. He discovered themodern-day Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, one ofthe country’s most renowned Hindi poets,in one Brahmanand Paswan and made himthe Rajya Sabha MP. Paswan’s claim to famewas that he had penned Lalu Chalisa on thelines of Hanuman Chalisa. Then, there wasone Rambachan Rai, who had written anarticle in praise of the RJD chief. TheGovernment introduced this piece of workin the Bihar Secondary School’s syllabus forClass VIII. For this ‘masterpiece’, he wasmade the chairman of the Hindi PragatiSamiti. Similarly, when one Amar KumarSingh penned a biography of Lalu Prasad,Gudri ka Laal (Diamond from Tatters), hewas appointed as the chairman of the BiharHindi Granth Academy. Likewise, ShankarPrasad was made the chairman of theSangeet Natak Academy. Prasad was a folksinger who had composed several songs inpraise of Lalu and his wife Rabri Devi, andwhich RJD workers would often use duringtheir election campaigns.

���������������������Eight years down the line, Patna standsunrecognisable. And Lalu appears to be athing of the past. The dinosaurian past.Roads have improved and are crowdedwith all kinds of vehicles — from tinyTata Nanos to large SUVs. Afterdecades of lying low, wealth is nowbeing flaunted openly and the cityseems to have been bitten by themall bug. One finds Dominos andMcDonalds everywhere. Last heard,a night bar has opened in the city.And women are finally on the roads,literally, well into the night, withoutfear of being harmed in any way.

The 1 Anne Marg, official residenceof the Bihar Chief Minister, too is atransformed place now. “Earlier, during Lalu’s time, there used to be a mela-likemilieu everyday. People would be seencoming and going even in the midnight. Itwould never appear like the official residenceof the Chief Minister. It was more like thehome of a big zamindar,” says a Patna-basedjournalist who is believed to be close to thecurrent incumbent Nitish Kumar.

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In the novel Vicomte de Bragelonne by theFrench writer Alexandre Dumas, an inno-cent man is imprisoned for life and hisidentity sealed behind an iron mask whichcannot be removed. The reason? He hap-

pens to be the twin brother of King Louis IV,then ruling France, and might have proved a bet-ter and more popular ruler. Alert to the threat heposed, Louis had him exiled for life with hisidentity concealed forever behind an iron mask.

When the details of Netaji Subhas ChandraBose’s disappearance and exile become fullyknown, we may find a surreal similarity betweenEustache Dauger, one of the names of themasked man, and Bose. For a man so famous —he was the most popular Indian leader at thetime of Indian independence — surprisingly lit-tle is known about his life, and what is known isheavily distorted to downplay his greatness toexalt Gandhi and Nehru.

The official story, of course, is that the asWorld War II was drawing to an end with Japannot far from surrender, Netaji took off fromSaigon on a Japanese plane to avoid capture by theBritish who had declared him a war criminal. Andthe plane crashed at Taihoku Airport in Farmosa(now Taiwan) on August 18, 1945, killing him andsome of his companions. He is supposed to havebeen cremated and his ashes deposited at theRenkoji temple in Japan.

����������������There are several things wrong with this story.First, there was no plane crash at the airport onthat day or during the weeks before or afterAugust 18. The nearest was the crash of a UStransporter in September, that too 200 milesfrom the airport. Next, there is no record ofNetaji or any of his companions on the planebeing cremated on that day. Most seriously, sev-eral people saw him alive after his supposeddeath, with one American reporter Alfred Weggnoting Netaji was still in Saigon where he sawhim three days later.

The British and later Indian governmentsmaintained different positions at different timesover Netaji’s fate, depending on what suitedthem. At first no one believed the plane crashstory because the allies — the British and theAmericans — knew there had been no suchplane crash. Americans had broken the Japanesecode and were carefully monitoring all Japanesemovements. Still it suited the British to maintainthe fiction that Netaji was dead. They fearednothing more than his return to assume leader-ship of the now defeated INA, soon to be joinedby the regular Army. It was a development theydreaded more than anything.

Thanks to Netaji and his INA the Indianarmed forces had begun to see themselves asdefenders of India rather than the British Empire.This was admitted by British Prime MinisterClement Attlee, who made the decision to grantindependence to India. Netaji’s leadership resultedin the British losing the loyalty of the Indian landand naval forces on which the British Empirestood. This was confirmed when naval and armypersonnel at several centers mutinied when theBritish put INA on trial as traitors. With thememory of the horrors of the 1857 mutinyrevived, the British decided to leave in a hurry.

While officially subscribing to “death in planecrash” theory, the British were not above raisingthe spectre of Netaji’s return when it suited them.In 1946, when Lord Mountbatten took JawaharlalNehru to Singapore, Nehru was enthusiasticallycheered by the INA soldiers. Archibald Wavellwas still Viceroy but Mountbatten hoped to suc-ceed him (which he did). He cautioned Nehru notto participate in any programmes with the INAbecause that might make Netaji return and takeover their leadership, leaving Nehru out in thecold! Nehru immediately cancelled his pro-grammes organized by the INA veterans.

���������������By then Bose had become a political hot potato.Indian leaders, Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi,didn’t want him because as the youngest andmost popular leader he would have posed a chal-lenge to Nehru. The British who still had dreamsof recovering their Empire saw him as a majorthreat because of Netaji’s growing popularity withthe soldiers who worshipped him. His leadershipwas legendary. He had shared in the soldiers’hardships during the INA march, which the

British officers did not. This was in striking con-trast to the British abandoning their troops andrunning away to India when the Japaneseattacked Malaya and Singapore.

To go with it, Netaji had seen clearly, moreclearly than the British themselves, that theywere a spent force and their ‘victory’ over Japanwas meaningless. At the Shimla Conference,when the British were trying to get the Congressto agree to the Wavell Plan on self-governancebased on communal representation, Netaji inone of his last broadcasts urged the Congressnot to accept it. He pointed out that eventhough Britain might ‘win’ the war, it would bereduced to the level of a second- or third-ratepower. He said it would be a great mistake tooverestimate the British and underestimate thepower of the Indian people.

Trust the Indian people and not theBritish, was Netaji’s message. To go with it, heprobably knew that he had gained the loyaltyof the Indian Army from the British. So by1946, like the legendary hero of the Dumasnovel, Netaji had become too great for every-one’s comfort. The British, still with dreams ofEmpire, and the Congress, hoping for asmooth transfer of power, both wanted Netajiout of the way. So the story of his death inplane crash concocted by the Japanese to cover

his escape to Russia suited them fine. TheBritish would rather deal with Gandhi andNehru than a firebrand nationalist like Bose.

���������������While he did not die, Netaji did ‘disappear’ withthe official story of his death in a plane crashsupported by two inquiry commissions, bothappointed by Congress governments. But therewere many sceptics, notably Netaji’s own familymembers. They kept pestering for files on Netajimaintained by the Government and moreinquiries. These files were under the direct con-trol of the Prime Minister beginning withNehru. In August 1978, Morarji Desai, India’sfirst non-Congress Prime Minister, stated thatNetaji was alive and had taken sanyas (a reclu-sive ascetic). He repeated it at a book releasefunction five years later.

As Prime Minister, Desai had access tosecret government files on Netaji. But by then,Netaji’s return and voluntary exile as a sanyasi ofthe dashanami order was already old news to hisfollowers. Nor was it a surprise, for Netajialways had a mystical streak in his personalityand was known to spend weeks and months insolitude and meditation as a youth. Beginningabout 1970, it was widely believed that oneGumnami Baba, later known as Bhagwanji liv-

ing in solitude in places like Varanasi andAyodhya, was indeed Netaji. He died onSeptember 17, 1985, aged 88.

While officially rejected by Congress govern-ments, there are good reasons to believeBhagwanji was Netaji. They were both of thesame height and build with similar voices andaccents with identical gaps in their teeth and ascalpel mark on their abdomen. With those whoknew Netaji earlier, including his niece LalithaBose and his associate Leela Roy, there was neverany doubt. To go with it, their handwritings werepronounced be of the same person by India’sforemost expert on handwriting analysis. Andthere were other similarities, far too many to bedismissed as coincidence. This is discussed intwo books — India’s Greatest Cover-up and thesoon-to-appear No Secrets by the investigativejournalist Anuj Dhar.

Unlike Netaji’s first reported ‘death’Bhagwanji’s death was no mystery. He died ofcardiac failure in extreme old age. Nor is it anymystery that he chose a life of ascetic and volun-tary exile, for Netaji had often expressed his wishto end his life as a sanyasi once his job was done.He had had enough action and adventure to fillseveral lives and not surprisingly he soughtpeace and solitude in his old age. Also, he wasnot after position; he had resigned from the ICSwhich he had passed with flying colours andplunged himself into the freedom movement.

��������)����)So the real mystery is: Where was Bose andwhat was he was doing from 1946 to 1970? Toanswer this definitively, several governments,especially the Government of India, have todeclassify their papers and make them availableto scholars. But so far all we have are bits andpieces and stonewalling by the IndianGovernment invoking ‘national security’. Butthese bits and pieces are interesting in them-selves. There is credible evidence that he was aguest of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1950and then went on to China and possibly Korea.

The most interesting of these are tantalisingdetails, including at least one photograph, sug-gesting he was in Vietnam and helped Ho ChiMinh in his war against the Americans. If con-firmed, that would explain his exile in India evenafter 1970. The US withdrew from Vietnam in1974 in a humiliating denouement. It was widelybelieved in official circles that what defeated theUS was the drug addiction of its soldiers facili-tated by Ho Chi Minh ‘drug war’ against the US.Bhagwanji claimed later that he had helped hisfriend Ho plan the drug war. This might havemade the US demand Netaji — Bhagwanji’sextradition to be tried in US courts. (The US toomaintains files on Netaji.)

Bhagwanji also claimed that he worked withthe Vietnamese delegation during the ParisPeace talks that led to US withdrawal. There is a1969 Associated Press photo of the peace talkswith Le Duc Tho that shows a large serious-looking bearded man at the extreme right. Inspite of the 25 year difference in time, it bears astriking resemblance to Netaji in photos taken in1942. The identity remains to be confirmed byforensic experts specialising in photo analysis.

���� ���������������Had he been present in India in 1946, Bosewould in all probability have become the PrimeMinister. Having exiled him in 1939, Gandhicould not have stopped him the way hestopped Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to elevateNehru. Bose did more to hasten the Britishdeparture from India than anyone else. He wasthe youngest and also the most popular leaderin India. But it was not to be. He was too greatand had too many enemies. Like the Man inthe Iron Mask, he too had to be forced intoexile and erased from history.

But this is the real tragedy: SuccessiveCongress governments have written him out ofhistory books, as if he never existed. We cannotrestore him to his rightful position, but the leastwe can do is give him his place in history byremoving his Iron Mask. This can be done onlywhen the Government releases the voluminousfiles it maintains on Netaji and makes themavailable to scholars. It is long overdue.

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He then clarifies: “It’s not that peopledon’t come now. They do. But todayit’s more professionally-operated. I

remember Laluji calling me up when hiswife was Chief Minister and saying, ‘Whydon’t you come here? We have got fish fromMunger, mutton from Nalanda... Comewith your family.’ His relationship would bemore informal. Nitishji has, over the years,made it formal... and professional. Now youfind more of a corporate culture here,rather than zamindari.”

This ‘corporate’ culture is not without itsside effects. Ajay Kumar, the editor of BiharTimes, reveals how this has impacted theState media. “Lalu is often the villain of thepiece, and not always for the wrong reasons.But as far as the media is concerned, Lalunever directly tried to control it. He couldnever think of institutionalising the controlwherein you would appear free, but inreality your freedom was conditional tofinancial/advertorial constraints. News-papers would often be full of anti-Lalustories then. Not anymore. You don’t findmuch of anti-Nitish stories now,” says he.

Though the Lalu era seems to be athing of the past, he still looms large overpeople’s imagination. Shatrughan Prasad, aPatna-based intellectual, puts it straightwhen he says, “People here are unhappywith Nitish not because he has suddenlystarted performing badly. What they are

wary of is that the Chief Minister, with hisstringent anti-Narendra Modi stand, hasopened the way for Lalu and his brand ofpolitics to make a comeback in Bihar. Atleast people here think so. For us, Lalu isthe area of concern, not Modi.”

���������������So, with Lalu getting sentenced to fiveyears in jail, a conviction that wouldeffectively mean that he would lose his LokSabha seat in Parliament, is it all over forhim politically? Can he still make acomeback? And, most importantly, howcould he manage to bring himself to such apass from being a darling of both themasses and the classes in the early 1990s?

Lalu, born in poverty, was the sixthchild of a cowherd and the first in hisfamily to be a graduate. So when hebecame Chief Minister in 1990, hesymbolised the maturing of Indiandemocracy and also the empowerment ofthe downtrodden. Sankarshan Thakur, inhis biography on the RJD chief, recountshow Lalu would wear clean clothes andcomb his hair neatly even when he took hisbuffaloes out to graze, for which he wouldoften be taunted by the upper-caste babus.They didn’t think a low-born Yadav hadthe right to wear unsoiled clothes, or be soimage-conscious as Lalu was, particularlyhis obsession with the ‘Sadhana cut’

hairstyle. As the story goes, one day when he was writing on a slate, a landlordcommented: “This is Kalyuga. Now eventhe children of milkmen will learn to readand write!” Soon after Lalu left the villagefor his studies in Patna. This single incidentshowcases the all-pervasive grip of thecaste system in Bihar, as well as theallegorical importance of Lalu’s politicalsuccess in the State.

But Lalu failed to go beyondsymbolism. He gave swara (voice) to thepoor, but couldn’t provide them swarg(heaven), as he would often promise in hispublic speeches. Then emerged the fodderscam. Thakur writes in Subaltern Sahib,“Lalu Yadav lost his magic the day he saidhe was going to cling on to the chiefministership even if he were to bechargesheeted in the fodder scandal. Thatwas the day Lalu Yadav, Bihar’s great rosy-cheeked hope, exposed himself. He wasn’tthere to deliver power to the people, he wasthere to keep it for himself.”

It had been a downward journey forhim since then, except perhaps his tenureas Railway Minister in the mid-2000swhen he transformed the Railways into aprofit-making enterprise. Some mayquestion his achievements at RailBhawan, but the fact remains that Laluwas a different man there. A formermember of the Railway Board says,

“Lalu never interfered with the day-to-day functioning of the Railways. All hedid was to get a few competent men, andleave the work to them.”

This was a clear transformation insomeone who would take the babus forgranted in Patna. In Delhi, he would listento them, trust them, and even go by theirsuggestions. The change, however, hadcome a bit too late, as Lalu had alreadyburnt the long rope people had providedhim. Now, with his conviction in thefodder scam, it’s an uphill task for him tomake a comeback, more so when he will bein jail for five years. His sons are not yetready for succession. And, one is not sure ifLalu can trust his party seniors like Raghu-vansh Prasad and Abdul Bari Siddiqui.Worse, with Lalu behind bars, his core M-Y constituency may slip to other parties.

Yet, Indian politics is unpredictable,more so in the Hindi heartland. It may,therefore, be too early to write the politicalobituary of Lalu Prasad and his brand ofpolitics, but the fact remains that people ofBihar no longer take his samosa idiomseriously: “Jab tak rahega samosa main aloo,tab tak rahega Bihar main Lalu!” Maybe inthis era of burgers, samosas are out offashion. So is Lalu. Maybe he was destinedto fall Icarus-like. Maybe his very purpose inIndian politics was to provide swara to thepoor. Now it’s on others to provide swarg.

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Iam against pretensions. I amagainst hypocrisies. Man onlyshows that he is civilised. Scratch

him slightly and you will find anuncivilised man. Scratch him a littleand all that is good is just superfi-cial, and all that is bad is very deep-rooted. It is a skindeep civilisation.Everything goes well; you are smil-ing and everything, and somebodyjust throws a word at you, an insult,and you are mad, and you are amaniac and you want to kill. Just amoment before, you were smiling;and just a moment afterwards, youare ready to kill, your murderouspossibilities have surfaced. Whatkind of civilisation is this?

A man can be civilised onlywhen he has become really medita-tive. Only meditation can bring realcivilisation to the world. OnlyBuddhas are civilised. And this isthe paradox: That Buddhas are notagainst the primitive — they use theprimitive as the base, they use the

childhood innocence as the base.And on that base a great temple iserected. This civilisation destroys theinnocence of childhood, and then itgives you just false coins. First itdestroys your primal innocence.Once primal innocence is destroyed,you have become cunning, clever,calculating; then you are trapped,then this society keeps civilising you.First it makes you alienated fromyour own self. Once you are alienat-ed, then it gives you false coins youhave to depend on. Real civilisationwill not be against your nature, willnot be against your childhood. Itwill be a growth upon it.

It will not have any antagonismtowards primitive innocence, it willbe a flowering of it. It will go higherand higher, but it will be rooted inthe primal innocence.

This civilisation is nothing but amaddening affair. Can’t you see thewhole earth has become a big mad-house? People have lost their souls,

people are no more people — theyhave lost their self, they have losttheir personality. They have lost all!They are just pretenders. They havemasks; they have lost their originalfaces. I am all for civilisation, but thisis not civilisation. That’s why I amagainst it. I would like a man reallycivilised, really cultured, but that cul-ture can only grow it cannot beforced from the outside. It can comeonly from the within. It can spreadtowards the periphery, but it shouldrise, it has to rise, at the centre.

This civilisation is doing just theopposite: It forces things from theoutside. There is a non-violentpreaching all over the world —Mahavir, Buddha, Jesus, they allteach non-violence. They teach non-violence because they have enjoyednon-violence. But followers? Theyhave never enjoyed it.

They know only violence. Butthey are followers, so they pretendto be non-violent, they force a non-

violence upon themselves, they cre-ate a character. That character is justaround them. It is an armour. Deepdown they are boiling like volca-noes. And on the surface they smilethe false smile, the plastic smile.

This is not civilisation. This is avery ugly phenomenon. Yes, I wouldlike the non-violence to come fromwithin, not to be cultivated from theoutside, but helped. That is the rootmeaning of the word ‘education’. It isalmost like drawing water from awell: Education means to draw out;that is the root meaning of the word‘education’. But what has educationbeen doing? It never draws anythingout — it forces in. It goes on forcingthings in the head of the child; it isnot worried about the child at all, itdoes not think about the child.

The child is just used as a mechanism into which more andmore information has to be fed. This is not education!

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We celebrate October 2 as the birth anniversary ofMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led per-haps the biggest mass movement in the world.

The hallmark of this movement was non-violence. It is inrecognition of his contributions that the United Nationshas declared October 2 as the International Day of Non-violence. But there is more to October 2 than theGandhian movement. On Gandhi, Albert Einstein hadonce said, “Generations to come, it may well be, willscarce believe that such a man as this one ever in fleshand blood walked upon this Earth.” For the post-Independence generation, however, most of the knowl-edge about Gandhi comes from Ben Kingsley’s classicGandhi, a film that introduced Gandhi to the classes. Forthe masses, however, it was Rajkumar Hirani’s Lage RahoMunna Bhai that introduced the Mahatma. But neitherGandhi nor the significance of October 2 ends here.Gandhi’s strength came from his spirituality, his honestyand simplicity and, of course, his absolute conviction. Hewould not have been the first man to be thrown out ofthe first-class compartment despite holding a proper tick-et in South Africa. But he perhaps was the first man toask why. And the rest is history.

October 2 is significant for yet another reason. It’salso the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, whoresembled Gandhi in many ways — from his simplicityand honesty to conviction and courage. Shastri was aGandhian on the issue of non-violence as well. Afterall, for Gandhi non-violence was never a sign of weak-ness or cowardice. It was his strength emanating from amoral courage and the Mahatma was very clear thatwhen the choice was between violence and non-vio-lence, the latter should prevail. However, when there isonly a choice between cowardice and violence, Gandhipreferred violence. He wanted India to resort to arms ifthe question of honour arose. For Gandhi forgivenesswas more ‘manly’ than punishment, but he believedthat abstinence is forgiveness only when there is powerto punish. It is meaningless when it pretends to pro-ceed from a helpless creature. And Gandhi was firmthat strength did not come from physical capacity. Itcame from an indomitable will. For him the world wasnot entirely governed by logic and when life itselfinvolved some kind of violence, prudence was inchoosing the path of least violence. These wordsdescribe Shastri as well. It is in this light that we have tounderstand the significance of October 2.

Shastri charged the entire nation with the sameenthusiasm during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, just theway Gandhi had done during the national movementbefore Independence. Shastri’s famous prescription wasa simple appeal to the people to skip Monday night din-ner to battle food scarcity. And people followed it.

The film, Guide, presented Shastri’s philosophydramatically. The protagonist, a fasting Dev Anand, isbeing interviewed by a foreign journalist who asksabout the efficacy of the fast. “If 40 crore (the thenpopulation of India) people skip one meal, 40 crorepeople can have one meal,” says the protagonist. WhileGandhi’s slogan was “Do or Die”, Shastri proclaimed“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”. Their philosophy was rooted inspirituality. They practised what they preached. This isthe significance of October 2.

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through his strength of character was able to lead the entire nation toindependence. There are manyinteresting stories about theMahatma related to non-violence and non-attachment.

One such story describes howGandhi was boarding a train. Just ashe was going inside, one of his shoesslipped off and got caught on thetrack. He tried to pull it but couldnot. People standing near watchedhim. When he was unable to pull theshoe from the track, he took off theother shoe as well and threw it on thetrack right at the spot where the firstone was stuck.

The astonished passengers asked,“Why are you throwing the othershoe onto the track?”

Gandhi replied, “The poor manwho finds the shoe lying on the trackwill now have a pair he can use.”

Look at the vision. There aremany lessons in this story. First, mostpeople would be so upset about losingone shoe. They would be upset,hassled and distressed. If they arewithout shoes, then they would haveto go barefoot, or wait to buy anotherpair. Their whole journey would beaffected by the ‘loss’ of the shoe.

What did Gandhi do? He did notlet the loss of the shoe mar his clarityof thinking. Rather, he weighed thesituation, and came up with abrilliant idea. If he could not use theshoe, then someone else should getthe help. Even in the loss, he wasgenerous and caring. He thought he

could use this as an opportunity tomake a contribution to some poorperson who might need shoes.

How many of us turn a badsituation into a good one? How manyof us see the brighter side of adifficult situation? We can learn a lotfrom Gandhi’s way of life.

This anecdote also shows usanother aspect of the Mahatma’s life,which is non-attachment. When weare not attached to anything, we arefree. If someone were attached to hisshoes, then his whole train ridewould have been caught up in theweb of anger, despair andhopelessness. This would havecompletely drained that person. By releasing his shoes, Gandhishowed how he was not attached tothem. He could give them up andmove on. He could spend the rest ofhis time in productive thoughts,instead of sulking over what couldnot be regained. Thus, Gandhi freedhimself from attachment and gainedfreedom in return.

Let us think about how manyattachments we have in our lives thatkeep us in bondage. If India coulddeclare its independence from Britishrule through non-violent means, wecan also declare our freedom fromthe attachments that we believe areimportant and necessary for us.

Some of us may be attached toour wealth and possessions. The lossof money might devastate us. Insteadof looking forward to how we canearn money in future, we are caughtup in the agony of the loss in thepast. The current moment in whichwe can get to work to make moremoney is instead spent in worry andanxiety. We dwell on what we have

lost instead of turning it into anopportunity to gain.

Some people are attached toname and fame. They are concernedabout their reputation and whatothers think of them. They becomeupset and lash out at others. Somebecome depressed and cannotfunction. They are so attached towhat others think of them that theylose their precious life breaths inanger when someone makes asuggestion to them, or criticises them and their ideas. They lose sleepover what others have said aboutthem. Instead of turning a badsituation into a good one, they aredevastated and sulking.

Instead of losing their life breathsover worry and hurt, they should lookat what was said about them in acalm, rational manner, and see if thereis even a grain of truth in it. They canuse this as an opportunity to work onthemselves to make their lives better.They can work to improve their lives.If after examining they find no truthin what was said about them, they cantake it as a misunderstanding on thepart of the other person. They canchoose to fix the misunderstandingand move on, or just ignore it. In thisway, people can remain independentfrom the bondage of attachment totheir name and fame.

We can find freedom in our lives from the bondage of habits thatexhaust our energies. If we are notattached to wealth, name and fame,we too can develop a state ofindependence (liberation) from thesehabits and find the joy of freedom.This is the true relevance of Gandhiand his teachings.

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Politics as practised (as well aspreached) by the Congressincreasingly resembles the the-

atre of the absurd that calls for thewilling suspension of disbelief. Themanner in which the Congress hassought to turn coat on the issue ofsubverting the Supreme Court’s ver-dict mandating the disqualificationof any lawmaker who has been sen-tenced to more than two years in jailfor a criminal offence is at oncelaughable and sinister. This is notabout conceding to popular demandor heeding to the ‘inner voice’ of anyindividual, big or small; it is aboutpractising politics of gross cynicism.

It’s laughable because the Congress actually thinks that today’sIndia is naïve enough to believe whatis told to the people through amorally corrupt and intellectuallybankrupt media willing to be manip-ulated in exchange of handouts andbecause of shared traits that arebereft of values and ethics. In thedecades when Indira Gandhi imperi-ously ruled India, state-run All IndiaRadio and Doordarshan served thepurpose of propagating fiction,backed up by newspapers that weredependent on newsprint quotas fixedby Government.

Today, when Sonia Gandhiimperiously rules India through aneffete wimp of a proxy in the PrimeMinister’s office, private news TVchannels and newspapers trip overeach other to do the Congress’s bid-ding — AIR and Doordarshansparkle in comparison. In a sense,nothing has changed in the past fourdecades: Congress continues to tryand sway public opinion usingaccomplices in the media. After thefall of Indira Gandhi’s Emergencyregime in 1977, LK Advani hadfamously rebuked the media, “Whenasked to bend, you chose to crawl.”Thirty-six years later, the mediacrawls without being asked to bend.

But this is not about the fecklessmedia in our country. It is about acowardly person who wants to berecognised and respected as thePrime Minister but lacks the gump-tion to be prime ministerial and isnot offended by the high office heholds (not on merit but because thePalace can trust him as the Regent)being crudely stripped and denudedof its dignity, authority and majesty.It is about an upstart, callow politi-cian who enjoys limitless powerwithout either office or accountabili-ty. It is about a Queen who can dono wrong and sees herself as theinterpreter of India’s destiny.

Let us go back in time for a fullerunderstanding. On July 10 theSupreme Court gave its verdict mak-ing it mandatory for any lawmakersentenced to more than two years injail for a criminal offence to be dis-qualified from being a member ofeither a State Assembly or Parliament. That sent the Government into a tizzy, not theleast because the judgement wouldseriously impact the Congress and itsallies in the UPA as well as thosesupporting the alliance from outside,namely the Bahujan Samaj Party andthe Samajwadi Party. Much midnightoil began to be burned to try andbeat the Supreme Court’s judgement.

Lest we get confused and thusstep into the trap laid by the

Congress, we should remember thatthere were two judgements by theSupreme Court impacting electoralpolitics and elected representatives.The first was about disallowing indi-viduals in custody from contestingpolls. This was patently unacceptablesimply because any State Government could use its police topick up political opponents on theeve of elections and prevent themfrom contesting the polls. Happily,the Representation of the People Acthas since been amended to obviatethis order.

It is the second judgement ondisqualification which is of relevancehere. While there is always thechance of a politician being indictedon false charges and an amenablelower court, for instance a magis-trate’s court, being used for anunfavourable verdict which the high-er judiciary would repudiate on alater date, in principle the SupremeCourt’s judgement is unexception-able. If the court had struck down asection of the Representation of thePeople Act as unconstitutional, itstood to logic that it would alsostrike down any amendment to obvi-ate the verdict. Understandably,Arun Jaitley, Leader of the Opposi-tion in the Rajya Sabha and one ofIndia’s outstanding lawyers, repeat-edly made this point at official andunofficial meetings with senior Ministers keen on an amendment.

On August 13 the Governmentcalled an all-party meeting wherethere was no formal agenda. Boththe judgements were discussed andthere was a unanimous view that thejudgement barring jailed personsfrom contesting elections should bemade infructuous while there were

differing views on the other judge-ment mandating the disqualificationof convicted lawmakers. Jaitley andLeader of the Opposition in the LokSabha Sushma Swaraj made it abun-dantly clear that the BJP wasopposed to any amendment in thelaw as far as this judgement was con-cerned. Subsequently, Jaitley reiterat-ed that view to Union Minister forLaw and Justice Kapil Sibal.

The Government, however,chose to persist with an amendment.It was discussed and approved firstby the Congress core committee,which really means Sonia Gandhi asthe other members are merely meantto make up what can be called a‘committee’, and then by the UnionCabinet. A Bill was introduced onAugust 30. As the Bill was beingintroduced, the BJP objected to it,placing on record its view that theBill would be deemed to be uncon-stitutional by the Supreme Court if itwere enacted into law. The Government ignored the objection.

On September 5, the Government tried to hustle the Billthrough the Rajya Sabha and take itto the Lok Sabha for a vote. It failedin its endeavour when the Opposition refused to be button-holed into towing the Government’sline and forced the Bill to be sent toParliament’s Standing Committeewhich deals with Law and CompanyAffairs. The issue should have endedthere, but it didn’t. The Congresswanted immediate action as verdictsin two cases dealing with corruptionwere expected — the first involvingits MP Rasheed Masood and theother RJD’s Lalu Prasad.

The Congress core committeemet again and decided to take the

ordinance route, confident that President Pranab Mukherjee woulddo the party’s, if not the Government’s, bidding. The Cabinetcleared the ordinance and sent it toRashtrapati Bhawan on September24. The BJP decided to take the bat-tle to the President: Advani, alongwith Jaitley and Swaraj, called onMukherjee on September 26, plead-ing with him not to append his sig-nature to an unconstitutional law.

The President later summonedParliamentary Affairs Minister KamalNath and Law Minister Sibal andsought an explanation from them. Bythe time the meeting came to an end,the two Ministers were convinced hewould not sign the ordinance. Theywent to 10 Janpath from RashtrapatiBhawan and briefed Gandhi. Thenext morning an irate Rahul Gandhidescribed the ordinance as “a com-plete nonsense” which should be“torn and thrown away”.

Instead of reacting to that slur byputting in his papers and steppingdown from office, Manmohan Singhhas meekly complied. The Congress isdesperate to pin the blame on the BJPfor a fiasco of its own making. All thisand more is known to the people.Hence the attempt is laughable.

But what makes the laughableattempt sinister is the fact that itbetrays the mindset of the Congress:It is willing to go to any extent towhite wash its mistakes, making amockery of democracy. Little won-der the son-in-law of the Congress’sFirst Family describes India as a“banana republic”. That’s what theNehru dynasty thinks of India —and Indians.

(The writer is a senior journalistbased in Delhi)

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$���� '�(����)*����+��,-*��.� ���/Reader response to Swapan Dasgupta’s column,Usual Suspects, published onSeptember 29:

Time is up: This is the timefor Narendra Modi, the BJPand the NDA to warn thebureaucrats that the time isup for their political masters.The Central Bureau ofInvestigation and othersshould be advised to do theirjob professionally like truepublic servants and not likethe hit-men of a Governmentthat is on its way out.

Jitendra Desai

They are counting on non-voters: The Congress isbanking on those voters whowill not vote, because that iswhere they will succeedagain. The turnout in the lastelection was 52 per cent, and

more than half of them votedfor UPA. The vast percentageof those who did not vote areanti-Congress, and, there-fore, did not cast their vote.

We need a Government ofstrong character and integrity.This regime is useless. The sit-uation has held the passivestruggling masses in contin-ued subjugation, resulting inIndia having hardly anyrespect internationally.

Frankview

Hope good sense will pre-vail: The article offers a goodbackground and analysis tothe present situation. Onehopes that the Indian elec-torate will take note of it andvote decisively. a fracturedmandate is dangerous for thecountry. Meanwhile, thosewho collude with unscrupu-lous elements must watchout now.

Shurku Mishra

PM has submitted himself tovested interests : It just tookone Rahul Gandhi to showthe nation that PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh isnot only weak, but incompe-tent and submissive to theinterests of the Nehru-Gandhifamily and its cohorts.

BV Shenoy

Act with caution: The writeris correct that the Congress isfacing hard times and doesn’tfind itself decisive enough tocontrol the situation arisingout of its skulduggery,whether it is in connection toGujarat or the assault on thereputation of former Armychief General VK Singh. Theneed of the hour for thenation is to deal with eachpolitical situation purely onmerit and not compromise onit, as it will give the Congressa chance to strike.

RL Pathak

�.��/,�)+ � ��������*�� ����-� ����0�)-�����*�Reader response to Kanchan Gupta’s column,Coffee Break, published onSeptember 29:

Too lazy to prove otherwise:Calcuttans cried foul whenRajiv Gandhi said their citywas dying. Yet, West Bengal’srulers for three decades, theCPI(M), and now MamataBanerjee, have spared noeffort to disprove him.

Tiharwale

Kolkata is not a lone guilty:While there is definitely a caseto be made for urban decaywith regard to Kolkata, when itcomes to the specific point ofheritage conservation, all Indi-an cities are guilty. The havelisof old Delhi are decaying andthe Rajabai Tower in Mumbaistands all but forgotten.

A Dutta

�.)����.�/��'1� �/���((� ���'Reader response to Rajesh Singh’s column, Plain Talk, published onSeptember 29:

Question of credibility: Iwould rather trust a retiredprofessional — in this case,former Army chief GeneralVK Singh — than aGovernment run by thepoliticians we have today.

Niladrinath Mohanty

Loaded with bias: If thewriter were to be consideredfair and bipartisan, he shouldhave also written about thecase filed in the courtsagainst Chief of Army StaffBikram Singh. Everybodyknows that VK Singh isbehind those moves.Moreover, the former Armychief has to tak responsbilityfor the actions of the intelli-

gence wing of the Army. Hecannot evade it. The writerhas demonstrated his bias bynot demanding answers tothese uncomfortable ques-tions. If only he had served afew years in the ArmedForce, he would have knownhow things function, andwhat is right and wrong.

Shiva

He is no saint: Former Armychief General VK Singh hadbeen previously targeted bysome sections of the media.But this time he may playedinto the hands of his adver-saries. Also, he may not be asinnocent as he claims —after all, throughout hiscareer, he had acceped pro-motions using his disputeddate of birth. It was onlywhen he was about to retirethat the controvery erupted.Is that not dishonesty?

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About 78.5 per cent of 4.25 lakh people ofNorthern Province, who

voted in the Provincial Councilelections on September 21, havegiven the Tamil National Alliance(TNA) a thumping victory. TheTNA won 30 seats, including twobonus seats in the 38-membercouncil while the ruling UnitedPeoples Freedom Alliance(UPFA) secured seven seats andthe Sri Lanka Muslim Congress(SLMC) won one seat.

The results were not unexpect-ed, but the large voter turnout of67.5 per cent evidently boosted theTNA figures. The TNA’s perfor-mance points to the broad accep-tance of its reading of politicalaspirations reflected in its mani-festo. It went into the election aftersome introspection with its diaspo-ra patrons and Tamil intellectuals.This resulted in the TNAnaming an apolitical per-sonality — retired SriLanka SupremeCourt judge CVWigneswaran — asits chief ministerialcandidate. This pre-vented it from dissi-pating its energies in aleadership strugglebetween the three majorparties that dominate the five-member conglomerate.

Justice Wigneswaran enjoyedexcellent national reputation as ajurist and did not belong to anyparty. Any doubts about his beliefin the Tamil cause vanished afterhe delivered the ThanthaiChelvanayagam Lecture “WhitherSri Lankan Tamils” at Colombo onApril 25, 2013. The rhetoric andnuance of the speech appealed tomost of the Tamils, despite someunorthodox views. Undoubtedly,the choice of Wigneswaran helpedthe TNA broaden its support base.Probably this persuaded a largenumber of voters to support theTNA after their energies havebeen sapped by two-and-a-halfdecades of war.

He also fitted in the TNA bidto project a new image distanc-ing itself from its tainted politi-cal association with VPrabhakaran while retaining theidiom of ‘Tamil Nation’ at itscore. This desire has made themanifesto more a vision state-ment than a mission statement,listing specific objectives of theParty. For instance, it reaffirmed

the Tamil’s right of self-determi-nation and the desire to find asolution to satisfy the Tamil aspi-rations within a federal struc-ture, as stated in Oslo Commu-niqué. The TNA failed to pursuethis objective when it meeklybowed down to Prabhakaran andallowed him to be the solearbiter of Tamils in the peaceprocess with disastrous results.

To resuscitate this objectivein the present context of SriLanka is going to be an uphilltask because much water hasflown in the Kelaniya river sincethen. The reality is the LTTE hasbeen eliminated as an extracon-stitutional rider on finding asolution to the Tamil issue.President Rajapaksa has beenelected twice after disowning thefederal solution and wishingaway the existence of any ethnic

problem in Sri Lanka. Tamilshave been reduced to

play their weakestpolitical wicket now.And last but not theleast, there is aGovernment “show-ing signs of heading

in an increasinglyauthoritarian direc-

tion” (to quote UN High Commissioner for

Human Rights NaveneethamPillay at the end of her recentvisit to Sri Lanka).

Now the TNA in office hasno choice but to build an equa-tion with Colombo to fulfil theexpectations it has kindledamong the people. This is goingto be a trying task for the TNA asa whole and the Chief Minister inparticular. If there is anyone whocan undertake the task well, it isprobably the Chief Minister des-ignate Wigneswaran. As a Tamiljudge at the highest court of thenation he had walked the tight-rope through the trying period ofethnic conflict. Though he is anon-political personality he hasthe acumen and ability to takeinformed decisions while dealingwith the Government.

Wigneswaran needs every-one’s good wishes to succeed in histhankless task of getting the jobdone. And that includes not onlyhis electors, but also TNA leadersand the Rajapaksa Government.

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There is a near-stampede in theJD(U). Three to four party MLAs,along with several MPs, have eithermet the BJP’s prime ministerialcandidate Narendra Modi or his

close aides. BJP sources believe that afterModi’s ‘Hunkar Rally’ in Patna on October 27,many JD(U) bigwigs will leave the party.

Recently, Chedi Paswan, a former MPfrom Sasaram and sitting JD(U) MLA fromMohania, met Modi. He, however, is not likelyto leave the party soon as he doesn’t want tolose his Assembly seat. But speculations are rifethat he may fight the Lok Sabha elections on aBJP ticket. BJP sources claim that the partymay give Lok Sabha tickets to more than half-a-dozen JD(U) MLAs. With this move, theJD(U) majority will end in the Bihar Assembly.

More than half-a-dozen JD(U) MPs alsowant to fight on a BJP ticket. Gopalganj MPPuranmasi Ram, Muzzafarpur MP Jai NarayanNishad, Aurangabad MP Sushil Singh, KarakatMP Mahabali Singh and Jhanjharpur MPMangni Lal Mandal are seeing their future inthe BJP. There’s, however, a twist in the tale:With RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s convictionin the fodder scam, there is strong possibilityof a JD(U)-Congress alliance in Bihar. In thisscenario, not many JD(U) MPs will want toleave the party.

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First it was BJP president Rajnath Singh whoignored all criticism and announced

Narendra Modi’s name as the primeministerial candidate. For this he even cameface to face with party patriarch LK Advani,who was not happy with the decision. Now,Modi is believed to have returned the favourwith Rajnath Singh being offered the post ofthe chairman of the campaign committee.

Advani was the chairman of the campaigncommittee three times and on all the threeoccasions the BJP could form its Government.In 2004, the party fought the Lok Sabhaelections under Pramod Mahajan andVenkaiah Naidu, but was badly defeated.

Likewise, when Advani was declared the

NDA’s prime ministerial candidate in 2009,the campaign committee was handed over toArun Jaitley. At that time, Rajnath Singh wasparty president. This time Rajnath Singh isboth the party president as well as thechairman of the campaign committee. BJPleaders are hopeful that what Mahajan andJaitley could not achieve, Rajnath will.

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The BJP has a very thin mass base in theSouth and the Northeast. But after

Narendra Modi’s elevation, the party isexpected to expand its base in south India. InKarnataka, the BJP is trying to regain some ofits lost ground with the possible return offormer Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa.Likewise, in Tamil Nadu, Modi shares a goodrapport with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, whomay eventually join the NDA. AndhraPradesh, too, augurs well for the party.Recently, YS Jaganmohan Reddy praisedModi; even TDP leader N ChandrababuNaidu is keeping his options open as far as hisparty’s alliance with the BJP is concerned. So,at present, the BJP’s stock in the South appearsto be rising with Modi at the helm of affairs.

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Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJDpresident Lalu Prasad Yadav has been

convicted in one of the cases in the fodderscam. Following his five-year sentence hehas now lost his Lok Sabha seat inParliament. It’s, however, not just the RJDwhich has been hit by the verdict. JD(U) MPJagdish Sharma has also been convicted andjailed for four years. Former Bihar ChiefMinister Jagannath Mishra, who joined theJD(U) and was occupying a post equivalentto a ministerial status, is also faced with asimilar fate. Mishra’s son is a minister in theNitish Kumar Government.

The connection between the two partiesdoesn’t end here. The Ranchi High Court hasdirected the CBI to submit a report on therole of Nitish Kumar and Shivanand Tiwari inthe fodder scam by November 22. In fact,

Shyam Bihari Sinha, the kingpin of the fodderscam, has said in his statement that he hadgiven �1 crore to Nitish Kumar and �30-35lakh to Shivanand Tiwari.

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It’s an incessant downward slide for theCPI(M), the most dominant of the Left

parties. After the Lok Sabha and Assemblyelections, the party has lost the panchayat andlocal polls in urban areas. There is now agrowing chorus for change in the Stateleadership. A former Speaker of the LokSabha, once a veteran leader in the party, toohas said that the CPI(M) must seriously thinkabout changing its State leadership. Partysources say that right now it is not thinking inthis direction. It will fight the next Lok Sabhaelections with the present set of leaders. InDelhi, Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury willbe in command, while in West Bengal BimanBose and Suryakanta Mishra will look after theparty till the 2014 elections. There’s, however,consensus that the CPI(M) will have to changeits strategy and reach out to its core voters.

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There is very little possibility that in the nexttwo weeks the Congress and the BJP will

announce the names of their candidates for theAssembly elections in four States due thiswinter. Both the parties are of the view that inthese States, the fight will be a close one. In thisscenario, victory and defeat will depend on theselection of candidates. That is why the BJP istaking time in declaring its candidates. A seniorBJP leader says that the name of most candid-ates will be declared only after Dussehra.

The Congress usually declares the name ofits candidates on the last day of the nomination.So, there is hardly any surprise if theannouncement remains a secret till Diwali. InMadhya Pradesh, the party has postponed themeeting of its screening committee for a week.It is believed that an internal survey is currentlyunder way in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarhand Rajasthan. Names will be finalised onlyafter the report is out.

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To measure the health condition ofchildren in India, a universally-accepted criterion is deployed.

Health conditions of kids revolve aroundwhether they are getting nutritious foodor not. As discussed in previous columns,malnutrition is caused by shortage offood, lack of nutritious food, food taboos,consumption of unsafe drinking water,and unhygienic living conditions. Thesecolumns also discussed why about one-fifth kids belonging to 20 per cent of therichest families are also malnourished.

In today’s column, we will discussregional variations in malnourished kids.The NFHS-3 survey of the Governmentof India has compiled data related tohealth conditions of children up to fiveyears of age. Regional variations raisemany questions that public policy enthu-siasts must consider. There are three prin-ciple criteria that the NFHS-3 surveyapplies in measuring nutritional status ofchildren. They are the following:

[1] Height-for-age called Stunting inmedical lexicon. To the common man,this means the child is short as per his age[2] Weight-for-height called Wasting inmedical lexicon. To the common man,this means the child is thin as per hisheight[3] Weight-for-age called Underweight inmedical terms. To the common man, thismeans the child is underweight or mal-nourished.

In medical lexicon, the weight-for-age index is a composite one that sets astandard to measure accurately whether achild is malnourished or not. Let us con-trast Punjab and Gujarat with TamilNadu and Nagaland to arrive at anunderstanding. As per the NFHS-3 sur-vey, 24.9 per cent and 44.6 per cent kidsin Punjab and Gujarat respectively aremalnourished. In case of Tamil Nadu andNagaland, 29.8 per cent and 25.2 per centkids are malnourished. The all-Indiaaverage is at 42.5 per cent.

The NFHS-3 survey also talks aboutanaemia in women and men. The surveydivides anaemia into four categories —mild anaemia, moderate anaemia, severeanaemia and any anaemia. I take ‘anyanaemia’ to explain this story.

According to the survey, 38 per centwomen in Punjab have any anaemia. In

Gujarat, 55.3 women have this problem.In Tamil Nadu, 53.2 per cent women suf-fer from this. Men too are anaemic.According to the survey, 13.6 per centmen in Punjab have any anaemia. InGujarat, 22.2 per cent men have thisproblem. In Tamil Nadu, 16.5 per centmen suffer from this. For some reason,

NFHS-3 doesn’t have data on Nagaland.The all-India average is 55.3 per cent forwomen and 24.2 per cent for men.

These figures suggest that apartfrom shortage of nutritious food, thereare other factors that are equally, if notmore, responsible for malnutrition andanaemia in India. The other factors arenothing other than cultural. India is avast country with diverse climatic zones,languages, food habits and attitudes. Dogovernment policies take into accountthese diversities?

Punjab and Gujarat are the bestexamples. Both the States are high inmigration abroad. Both are rich. Bothgive jobs to people from across the coun-try. Both contribute to India’s growthstory. But people in these States eat poor-ly. People are least diverse in their foodchoices. My experience in the two Statesmakes me believe that people are verysectarian when it comes to food choices.

In Punjab, for instance, excessive

importance to butter and oily food is acultural issue. A friend travelling in theState stopped at a roadside dhaba to relishPunjabi parantha. The group hadrequested the waiter to apply very littlebutter on it. The group complained to thedhaba owner that the paranthas theywere served had excessive butter onthem. Ironically, a Punjabi family wasdining at the next table. And theybelieved that the parantha they wereserved had very little butter on it.

Visit the Kathiawad region of Gujaratand you will find besan as the basis ofexistence for people. In north India, whenpatients enters the recovery stage, doctorsadvise them to eat khichadi. In Gujarat,however, khichadi is a celebrated delicacy.

It is time for India to re-think itsfood policy and take cultural diversity asone of the yardsticks in measuring peo-ple’s health. A campaign must belaunched to tell people what to eat, howmuch to eat and what not to eat.

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In early February 1937, Georg Gyssling,an ardent Nazi and the German consulin Los Angeles, called WarnerBrothers. He had heard that the studiowas making a film about the French

Government’s wrongful conviction of AlfredDreyfus, a Jewish officer, for the transmis-sion of military secrets to the GermanGovernment in 1894. The film was obviouslygoing to condemn one of the most notoriousinstances of anti-Semitism in the recent past,and Gyssling was determined to take action.He told the receptionist at Warner Brothersthat he wanted to speak to the producer.

A few days after this call took place, stu-dio head Jack Warner dictated some impor-tant changes to the Dreyfus picture (whichwould eventually be titled The Life of EmileZola): Scene 80: Start the speech of the Chiefof Staff with “He’s a man!”, losing the line“And a Jew!” Scene 190: Do not use theword “Jew” in the speech by the Comma-nder of Paris. Use Dreyfus’s name instead.

Scene 235: Use Dreyfus’s name hereagain instead of “... that Jew”. After Warner’schanges had been implemented, the word“Jew” was not spoken a single time in TheLife of Emile Zola. The only reference thatremained was a shot of a piece of paper onwhich Dreyfus’s religion was written. Andjust before the film was released, there was arequest for this to be cut too: “Take out thelast part of the insert where the finger runsacross under the line, ‘Religion Jew’.” But forsome reason the request was not carried out,and hard as it may be to believe, this one-second shot turned out to be one of the fewexplicit references to a Jew in American cine-ma for the remainder of the 1930s.

In the popular imagination, the 1930swas the golden age of American cinema, thegreat decade in which the studios producedsuch memorable films as The Wizard of Oz,Gone with the Wind, Mr Smith Goes toWashington and It Happened One Night. Itwas the decade in which Hollywood moviesreached a level of perfection that previouslyhad only been dreamt of.

An important fact about Hollywoodmovies in this period, however, is that theywere extremely popular in Nazi-Germany.Between 20 and 60 new American titles hitthe screens in Germany every year until theoutbreak of World War II. A casual observ-er walking the streets of Berlin could seethe evidence everywhere: There were linesof people outside the cinemas, photographsof Hollywood stars on the covers of maga-zines, and glowing reviews of the latestmovies in newspapers. But for all the suc-cess and hype, the American studios wereforced to pay a terrible price.

Like other American companies such asIBM and General Motors, the Hollywoodstudios put profit above principle in theirdecision to do business with the Nazis. Theyhad the chance to show the world what wasreally happening in Germany but the studioheads, who were mostly immigrant Jews,went to dramatic lengths to hold on to theirinvestment in Germany. Although fewremarked on it at the time, these men fol-lowed the instructions of the German con-

sul in Los Angeles, abandoning or changinga series of pictures that would have exposedthe brutality of the Nazi regime. (An execu-tive named Fritz -Strengholt, MGM’s repre-sentative in Germany, went even further: Atthe request of the Propaganda Ministry, hedivorced his Jewish wife, and she ended upin a concentration camp.)

Hitler was obsessed with movies, and heunderstood their power to shape public opin-ion. In December 1930, two years beforebecoming dictator of Germany, his party riot-ed against Universal Pictures’ All Quiet on theWestern Front in Berlin. After Nazi membersdisrupted a screening, the house lights wenton and Goebbels gave a speech from thefront row of the balcony in which he claimedthat the film was an attempt to destroyGermany’s image. His comrades waited forhim to finish and then threw stink bombsand released white mice into the crowd.

Throughout the 1930s, the term “collabo-ration” was used repeatedly to describe deal-ings that took place in Hollywood. Even stu-dio heads adopted the term. An executive atRKO promised that whenever he made a filminvolving Germany, he would work “in closecollaboration” with the local consul general.A Fox executive said the same. United Artistsoffered “the closest collaboration” if theGerman Government did not punish the stu-dio for the controversial 1930 movie Hell’sAngels. According to the German ForeignOffice, “Every time that this collaborationwas achieved, the parties involved found it tobe both helpful and pleasant.”

All this was a result of the Nazis’ actionsagainst All Quiet on the Western Front. Soonevery studio started making deep conces-sions to the German government, and whenHitler came to power in January 1933, theydealt with his representatives directly.

In late May 1933, a Hollywood screen-writer named Herman J Mankiewicz — theman who would later write Citizen Kane —had a promising idea. He was aware of thetreatment of the Jews in Germany and hethought, why not put it on the screen? Veryquickly, he penned a brief play titled TheMad Dog of Europe, which he sent to hisfriend Sam Jaffe, a producer at RKO. Jaffewas so taken with the idea that he boughtthe production rights and quit his job.

This producer, who, like Mankiewicz,was Jewish, planned to assemble a greatHollywood cast and devote all his energies to

a picture that would shake the entire world.Nobody had ever made a movie aboutHitler’s persecution of the Jews. For a start,The Mad Dog of Europe was not the greatestfilm script he had ever read. The pacing waserratic, the characters were shallow and thewriting was mediocre. Still, the news was notall bad. The subject matter was just as freshand original as it had been from the start.Nothing like it had ever been filmed before.Jaffe pushed ahead. Of course, various forceshad been put in place to prevent a picture likethis from ever being made. First and fore-most was Gyssling. The Mad Dog of Europewas never turned into a motion picture.Louis B Mayer, the head of MGM, said thatno picture would be made “because we haveinterests in Germany”. The decision not tomake the film was the most important mom-ent in all of Hollywood’s dealings with NaziGermany. It defined the limits of Americanmovies for the remainder of the decade.

On April 1 1937, Gyssling made hisboldest move yet. He sent letters to everyoneinvolved in the All Quiet on the WesternFront sequel, The Road Back and he warnedthem that any films in which they participat-ed in the future might be banned inGermany. That same month, the final vol-ume of Erich Maria Remarque’s trilogy,Three Comrades, which was primeHollywood material, was published in theUS. Whereas All Quiet on the Western Fronthad been about World War i and The RoadBack had been about its aftermath, ThreeComrades was set in 1928, when the Naziswere emerging as a significant political force.

The film rights to Three Comrades werein the possession of MGM. The companyconsidered cancelling the picture whenGyssling threatened the actors but eventuallydecided to push ahead with it. Once Mayerscreened the film for Gyssling, MGM execu-tives were presented with a list of changes,chief among them a suggestion that it be settwo years earlier “to get away from any pos-sible suggestion that we are dealing withNazi violence or terrorism”. In its completedform, Three Comrades neither attacked theNazis nor mentioned the Jews. The picturehad been completely sanitised. At this criticalhistorical moment, when a major Hollywoodproduction could have alerted the world towhat was going on in Germany, the directordid not have the final cut; the Nazis did.

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Two lovers whomofficials said had

“failed to overcometheir natural passion”were hit by a train inUkraine while theyhad sex on the rail-road tracks, Russiannews outlet RIANovosti reported.The unidentified30-somethingwoman died, andher 41-year-oldpartner lost bothhis legs in theincident in thecity of Zapor-ozhye. Reports saythe pair were suppos-edly drunk.

“My girlfriendand I could notovercome our pas-sionate nature andwanted to feel asense of thrill near arailway track,” the man

later confessed to the police. This wasn’t the first time that

lovers had tempted fate with atryst on the tracks. A similarincident had taken place aboutfive years ago. In 2008, both

participants were killed by a freight locomotive

in South Africaafter they ignoredtrain whistles.

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Unless someone hasbeen monkeying

around with the researchdata, chimps are making

chumps out of humans whenit comes to memory tests. Inan interview published in theGuardian, Tetsuro

Matsuzawa, a professor atKyoto University’s PrimateResearch Institute inInuyama, Japan, explainsthree decades of researchhave led him to the firmconclusion that chim-

panzees have muchbetter short-termmemories than people.“We’ve concludedthrough the cognitivetests that chimps haveextraordinary memo-ries,” Matsuzawa said.“They can grasp thingsat a glance.”

Matsuzawa theorizes that, ashumans gained certain cognitive abili-ties — like language — they lost theirancestors’ superior memory capabili-ties. “Our ancestors may have also hadphotographic memories, but we lostthat during evolution so that we couldacquire new skills,” Matsuzawa said.“To get something, we had to losesomething.” (Huffington Post)

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The bride wore white; the groomwore shackles. The marriage of

Danne Desbrow and his fiancee,Destiny, came just minutes after he wassentenced to 53 years-to-life in prisonfor first-degree murder.

Desbrow was sentenced for the 2003

killing of KevinSantos after a witnesswith key informationcame forward recent-

ly. His defence attor-ney argued Desbrow

was defending himself in afight. During the two-month

trial, Desbrow proposed to his girlfriend.The two met in high school but lost con-tact after she became pregnant at 16.They reunited in January after the moth-er tracked down Desbrow so their soncould meet his father. Desbrow was injail at the time awaiting trial. AfterDesbrow proposed, Cookson agreed tomarry them. (Huffington Post)

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The Oskarshamn power plant inSweden has one of the biggest nuclear

reactors in the world, but it’s apparentlyno match for tiny jellyfish. Tonnes ofmoon jellyfish clogged the reactor’s intakepipes from the ocean over the weekend,forcing the plant to shut down, reportsPopular Science. (Not so comforting tid-bit: It’s a “boiling-water” type reactor,same as at Fukushima.)

The jellyfish were in a“bloom” cycle, a phenom-enon that produces hugenumbers at once, and amarine biologist saysthat “more and more ofthese extreme cases ofblooming jellyfish” are croppingup. Moon jellyfish in particularthrive in areas that have beenoverfished and consequentlyoverrun by algae blooms.“They don’t care if the oxygenconcentration is low,” said thebiologist. The fish move out,and the jellyfish move in.

A similar clog happenedlast year at California’s DiabloCanyon plant, though the cul-prit then was technically seasalp. (Newser)

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Authorities in the State ofMexico believe they have a

solution to the problem of ram-pant corruption among trafficpolice: Replace them all withwomen. But only tall, thin ones.

“We get too many short and fatones,” says a local policechief, who has taken on 60women to work as trafficcops. “We need tall womenthat render respect whenout in the streets.” The chiefsays men listen more calmlyand attentively to tallwomen, and women aregenerally more trustworthy.“They don’t ask for or take bribes,” he says.

But this new anti-cor-ruption plan isn’t going so

smoothly. The state won’t letthe new female force actually

issue tickets until local police unitsadopt anti-corruption safeguards. Butthe old cops don’t really want to adoptanti-corruption safeguards. And tall,thin women may not be so incorrupt-ible after all. One driver says she wasstopped by a female officer a few

months ago, and was told her carwould be impounded if she didn’t

pay a bribe. “I had to pay her the200 pesos,” she says. “But let metell you, it’s not a pleasant thing

to do.” (Newser)

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As the United States is all set to with-draw its forces from Afghanistan,the interest in the country is

increasing and the prophets of doom arebusy making predictions. The US wants aface-saver before the 2014 withdrawal asthe global community looks with batedbreath at every American move. Most ofthe writings on Afghanistan emanatefrom the West and forecast doom andgloom, as if US withdrawal from Kabulwould be akin to the fall of Saigon. Thisview has primarily emanated from theWestern ignorance about the Orientalmindset; most of the authors have at besta perfunctory knowledge of the situationin Afghanistan. To fill in the void, manyAfghan writings have started emergingand have gone a long way in educating theworld. The credit must go to KhalidHosseini, whose three books have broughtAfghanistan to the Western homes.Through this book, Nushin Arbabzadah,who has lived in the West after leavingAfghanistan during the Communist rule,tries to follow in his footsteps.

Unlike, Hosseini, who used fiction toenliven Afghanistan, Arbabzadah hascome up with what she calls ‘non-fiction’.In reality, it is difficult to describe thegenre of the book; it is a potpourri of all— a travelogue, a biography, an analysisof Afghan society, its ailments and itshistory. The problem is that Arbabzadahis neither Hosseini nor an objective ana-lyst. The book is highly opinionated andmakes several contemptuous remarksabout Afghanistan, its people and soci-ety. If a Western author without muchunderstanding of Afghanistan had writ-ten it, he would have been branded aracist, but Arbabzadah being a daughterof the soil gets away with it.

The book is divided in three parts,which appear to have been written at dif-

ferent points of time. The first part isautobiographical. Not that personal expe-riences and anecdotes are missing fromother parts, but this one describes her lifeunder the Communist rule and how theauthor’s family escaped from Afghanistan.This has probably shaped her strong anti-communist views, which are evidentthroughout the book. This part also dealswith the author’s interactions with expa-triate Afghans and her subsequent visitsto Afghanistan. It gives an insight into thecurrent state there, but her tendency togeneralise things limits its analytical con-tent. Her one-liners make interestingreading, but fail to depict the situationclearly, which would be expected of anauthor born in Afghanistan, even if shehas spent all her adult life in the West.

Consequently, her narrative isgloomy. “Kabul’s air is famously filledwith shit particles floating about, cour-tesy the inadequate sewage system.Everyone who can leave the city for awhile leaves it — sometimes just toremember that there is something calledfresh air in this world.” She goes on tosum up the new Afghanistan as “a coun-try without a nation” and its society as“directionless, diverse and dynamic”. Inthe process, she proves that one does notbecome a good analyst of a country justbecause he/she was born there.

The second part deals with state ofreligion in Afghanistan. It covers numer-

ous incidents and shows that beneaththe façade of a deeply religious stateremains buried numerous faultlines. Itbrings out the society’s hypocrisy as faras women and gays are concerned. Itcovers Afghan society’s response todiverse issues like love, education, ethnicconflict and even corruption. The bookhighlights that ethnicity has always beena dominant factor in Afghanistan,besides showcasing how Afghans are

obsessed with linguistic distinctiveness. The book gives rare insight into

Afghanistan’s religious minorities and thegrowing trend of secret conversion toChristianity. The book, however, fails tocover adequately the growing sectarianschism in Afghan society — betweenShias and Sunnis. This part also delvesinto history, which is definitely not theauthor’s forte. Consequently, she talksabout mujahideen turning to foreign

sponsors to match the Red Army, whereas in reality the Western support to themstarted much before the Red Armymarched into Afghanistan. This part hassome rare nuggets of information, eventhough one might disagree with theauthor’s assertion that “Afghan national-ism has always been inseparable fromIslam” and obvious errors like demand forburial rights by Afghan Sikhs.

The third part chronicles the ongoing

developments in Afghanistan. It dealswith numerous experiments with democ-racy and attempts to co-opt Taliban intothe Government. The author criticises thecurrent Obama policy of pulling out asagainst the promises “that they were notgoing to abandon Afghanistan as they didafter the Soviet withdrawal”. She rightfullytreats it as “surrender before defeat”. Theauthor says, “There was pressure onKabul to negotiate with the Taliban sothat the foreign troops could leave with-out losing face.” She elaborates as to howthis premature withdrawal could put intojeopardy many programmes that havebeen going on for socio-economic devel-opment of Afghans and the people associ-ated with them. The author also looksinto Afghan politics, elections and itsimpact on society; however, her prognosisappears to be dated, as the narrative stopssoon after the last polls in Afghanistan.

The book does not flow logically and,therefore, requires efforts to read; thereare some repetitions, including statementsrepeated verbatim in different parts.There are some contradictions as well,with diametrically opposite statementsbeing made at different places. Theauthor’s narrative definitely exhibits herpersonal biases, but also shows her keensense of observation and eye for detail.This being her maiden effort, one shouldsee her writing improve in future.Undoubtedly, the book offers a student ofAfghanistan some rare insights; comingfrom someone, who has lived inAfghanistan and speaks its lingua franca,these are extremely valuable. The book is a treasure-trove of one-liners, whichhave been used liberally. Despite its flaws,the book helps the reader understandAfghanistan and recent developments in the war-torn country.

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From a reader driven todespair by the overwhelm-ing chaos of urban India,this book might elicit anunusual yearning. The

story of Indian cities has been sodistorted by their failures, that toentertain the notion that the Indiancity can indeed be the cradle of civil-isation is to overcome our habitualdisgruntlement and concede theauthor’s basic contention: That “thecity could be our ark rather than ourcoffin”. The book is, therefore, anevangelising text; it pleads for goodfaith, divests us of our blasé neglectof this prized invention, the metrop-olis, and exhorts us to collectivelyreclaim its powers. The author teas-es us to choose between two dia-metrically opposed visions of thecity, symbolically named Hobbes-town and Locke-ville, recallingthose famous thinkers who promot-ed, respectively, the authoritarianrule of the omnipresent state andthe free-willing actions of a sociallyconnected being.

An idle browse through theauthor’s endnotes will testify to theimpeccable credentials of his sourcesand references. As if it were createdin the image of the city that headmires, his text accommodatesPlato as well as Fukuyama, Engels aswell as De Soto, Le Corbusier as wellas George Simmel, in addition to adazzling array of other writers whohave treated the city as a home forman. These different takes mightsuggest that there is nothing morethat combines the chapters of thisbook than the author’s idiosyncrasy,making him behave like a bricoleur,a collector of parts, than one whooffers a fresh view of the urban reali-ty. However, we can argue that he isboth, a reporter and a thinker, andquite commendably. His able jour-nalism pays fitting tribute to themetropolis: A place that can be lovedand hated in equal measure, a placeto which we have a right and yet itcan deny us access, which gives lifejust as easily as it brings ruin.

The disarming proposition inthe title is backed by a stark com-

mitment to a single visionary, JaneJacobs, whose book The Death andLife of Great American Cities, firstpublished in 1966, provided a newparadigm for appreciating thegenius of the metropolis. Jacobsfamously challenged the moderntendency towards totalitarian plan-ning, the God’s eye perspective thatdeludes politicians, bureaucrats andcity planners alike with a falseimpression of power. Jacobs coun-tered this delusional politics with ahumanist and democratic stance: Itis the people, those anonymous,perambulating, toiling, congregat-ing, consuming and creative indi-viduals and communities that arethe city. They activate relationships,build communities, green ourneighbourhoods and teem ourstreets, parks and playgrounds. Thegenius of the metropolis is the col-lective creative genius of its inhabi-tants. “We are social animals and, asa result, the city is the most naturalplace for us to be.” Holiss finds that“the city is not a problem but a solu-tion”, and the emerging new tech-nologies, far from alienating us, aremaking us more social.

Holiss forays into the space ofthe city only to return time andagain to reflect on what he discov-ers. Behavioural and political sci-ences inform his argument for thepeople-centric city, as much asmathematics, probability and sys-tems theory. The study of anthillsand beehives fascinates him as muchas the application of ‘the travellingsalesman problem’, the ‘shared space’experiment, and the ‘broken win-dows theory’, all examples of howthe theoretical engagement with thecity, as an organism, informs thepractical solutions to urban prob-lems. It is in this back and forthbetween the abstract and the real,between “the ballet of the streets”and the scientific analysis of theirpatterns and flows, situations andevents, where the genius of theauthor’s writing is truly exhibited.

But to what avail, one might askafter reading this book? Is therehope for these crowded, rapidly

growing organisms on Earth, whichconsume so much of the planet’sresources as to even alter its mostprimordial rhythms and composi-tions, thereby threatening the sus-tainability of the man-made world?

To articulate an answer, Holissreturns to 555 Hudson Street, to thatquiet and very ordinary neighbour-hood in New York where JaneJacobs lived with her family andtook on the challenge of the metrop-olis. It is New York where his storybegins, and New York where it ends.Somewhere between the newly builtHigh-Line Park on the West Side oflower Manhattan and Jacobs’s neigh-bourhood on Hudson Street, theauthor recovers his muse.

This is a good read for thosewho would like to know why theworld loves Dharavi so much, whenIndians think it is urban blight. Inhis meander through archaeology,philosophy, political science, mathe-matics, logic, popular culture, encou-nters with game-changers, conversa-tions with activists and ruminationson the future of the world, Holisstouches upon some basic truths. Ingetting cars off the streets and reclai-ming urban spaces and communalgardens, in smarter management ofmega-regions and the ‘creativedestruction’ of decrepit precincts, theauthor finds the restoration of theforce that energises metropolitan life:The relationship of trust between thepublic and the Government.

Whether it is the design ofhousing estates, the operation ofcommunity kitchens and ‘smart’cities or the handling of land fillsand bus systems, the basic and com-mon principle that makes cities asdiverse as New York, Lagos,Copenhagen, Curitiba and Mumbaiwork, is this trust. Best describedthrough the poetic line — “if thecity is not good for all, it is not goodat all” — trust is at the heart ofurban society. This is the genius ofthe metropolis, a way of life thatmankind has invented in order toprotect a basic instinct.

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The world of the centralbanker is a repository ofarcane, almost limitless

power, magnified by the fact thateconomists rarely agree on thedisease, let alone the cure.Classic textbook economics sel-dom works in the real world,particularly when the centralbanker is invested with the mon-etary policy, and the politicianwith the fiscal, legislative/execu-tive side. And neither is capableof prescience to the degreerequired, no matter how learned.

Most of the paroxysms offinancial suffering, therefore,inflicted on the populace duringeconomic crises, are usually theconsequences of the assump-tions and actions of just twomen, the Reserve BankChairman and the FinanceMinister. And their well-mean-ing experiments to “do no harm”sometimes go horribly wrong.

In central banking, as inother fields, you need luck. It sus-tained the legendary AlanGreenspan through 19 years atthe helm of the US FederalReserve, with more or lessuntrammelled prosperity duringhis watch. His predecessor, thesix-ft-seven-inches tall PaulVolcker, tamed inflation by chok-ing off the US economy, ratherlike the Subbarao-Rajan effort on-going here in India.

Others — coming after BenBernanke of the US FederalReserve, Mervyn King and Jean-Claude Trichet of the Bank ofEngland and the EuropeanCentral Bank respectively —have been grappling with thegreatest threat to the world’s eco-nomic stability since 2007. Theselatter have prevented a collapseof a highly connected and glob-alised financial system with chal-lenges possibly greater than everbefore encountered.

All the expertise in the worldis essentially inert except as it isapplied. And the central bankeralong with the Finance Ministerhave the ability by law, to printmoney, thereby creating wealthout of paper and ink, and apply-ing it to the threats and objectivesthey deem appropriate.

The title of this book, TheAlchemists, alludes not so muchto the medieval pursuit of creat-ing gold out of base metals, but tothis sure-shot conjuring up ofwealth. But it was not always so.

Modern banking began withholding reserves of Copper inSweden. Huge, heavy plates of themetal were kept in vaults. Thenthere was gold, held in reserves inthe Bank of England and Franceand elsewhere. And right up toRichard Nixon’s time in the 1970s,you could give in your dollars andreceive a fixed, not variable,amount of gold, till it was noticedthe paper dollar had begun to fallin value compared to the gold.

And then finally, the worldmoved on to backing its papermoney with the perceivedstrength of the economy and thecredibility of its Government,albeit along with some gold. Therewere difficulties to understandexchange control mechanismsbetween currencies, but anythingof fixed value that began to faltermade speculators “short” it.

This meant borrowing moneyto be “settled” or paid for later, atthe estimated lower price, therebymaking a tidy profit for the short-seller if he got his speculationright. It forced currencies to“float” against a designated “bas-ket” of currencies in the main, sothat they could go up and down

in value in tandem with the stateof their economies.

This book is a compellingread for the reasonably educated,a masterful romp through thefears, foibles and prejudices ofcentral bankers and their benefi-ciaries, their assumptions andactions, the causes and effectsobtained, taken almost from thebeginning of the modern mone-tary system to date.

Neil Irwin, the young author,is a Washington Post columnist,and from 2007 to 2012 he coveredthe global financial crisis, reces-sion and its aftermath. Irwin hasan MBA from ColumbiaUniversity where he was aKnight-Bagehot Fellow inEconomics and BusinessJournalism. But this book recom-mends itself for being devoid ofjargon. It has made a difficultsubject fascinating, and is deliv-ered with the narrative style of areporter telling an engaging story.

The dilemma of the centralbanker runs along two mainlinetracks: In a time when the econo-my is in trouble, the Central Bankcan raise interest rates, thus tight-ening the money supply, slowinggrowth, and hopefully cuttinginflation. Or, it could lower inter-est rates and encourage growthand risk a measure of inflation.Other variations in vogue includestimulus such as Bernanke’s“Quantitative Easing”, meaningissuing bonds for billions of dol-lars a month to provide ‘liquidity’.

But great historical events likehyperinflation that occurred inpost-World War Germany, bothtimes, and the Great Depressionof the 1930s, in the US, tell usthat, at extremes, “When CentralBankers fail, so do the societiesthey serve”.

However, as Irwin also states,the processes are evolving andcentral bankers everywhere doget better at their craft, learningfrom their predecessors. They cansee better now and contributesubstantially towards the lofty andfar-reaching civilisational objec-tive of creating a “Just and pros-perous society”.

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We all wish to have asmooth run in life. Thatcalls for conducting

appropriately in life, besidesbehaving well with those around,the stage for which is set by ourminds. For, mind drives all con-ducts on our part. What we do inreal terms are first visualised andarticulated in our minds beforebeing put into action. It needs noelaboration that if ever our mindsfail to visualise our initiatives andresponses in the right perspective,we will pick up inappropriateleads, and with obvious implica-tions. Naturally, that calls for themind to be in proper shape sothat it could come out with itsoptimum best, but for which webecome due for failures, frustra-tion, pains and sufferings.

Remember, mind has its own

chemistry quite in contrast withour physical-self. So far as ourphysical working is concerned,the more the effort the betterwould be the result thereof. Onthe contrary, more relaxed themind is, more creative and pro-ductive it becomes. For, it thenspontaneously comes out with itsintelligent best. The thoughtprocess then remains easy, simple,free from any preconditioningwhatsoever, and worth dispas-sionately pick up the most appro-priate leads.

The paradox, however, is thatinvariably, we all are driven by acomplicated thought process; somuch so that even simple truthsgo ignored. As a consequence, wekeep moving in circles with noend result in sight, often loadingourselves with unwanted prob-

lems. The reason: Our precondi-tioned mind, coming as it may asa carryover from the past, nar-rows down our vision. Naturally,what remains outside theprecincts of our self-belief world,goes unnoticed. Ostensibly, truthoften goes ignored, and withobvious consequences.

It, therefore, becomes incum-bent upon us to watch our mind-trends, identify and acknowledgethe loose ends, and then fix themthrough conscious efforts. Theirony is that our ego often doesnot allow us to reach out theinner realm of mind to dispas-sionately figure out our infirmi-ties. Here, astrology can offer theright lead, for it knows no bias.

Let us now see how the com-plicated thought process of anotherwise well-educated man hasbeen responsible for vitiating hismarital life. And, instead of iden-tifying the underlying truths and

correcting them, he has beenunsuccessfully playing all tricks inhis hand to tame his better half.The most interesting part of thisman is that he himself has a fairknowledge of astrology. Butinstead of trying to figure out thereal reason behind his problem,he is busy identifying the righttime slot that would be suited totame his partner. Let us look atthe astrological pointers.

The Sun is placed adverse tothe planet of limitation Saturn,Uranus, mind-signifying Moon,emotionally-oriented Venus, andwisdom-indicator Jupiter. Theimplication is that he has a condi-tioned mind, stuck to his self-defined whims and fancies. Hehas a negative mindset that habit-ually keeps grudging and grum-bling and finding fault of others,and would not care for other’ssensibilities and concerns. He hasa swaggering ego, not open to lis-

tening and counsel. He is judge-mental, temperamental,andunconventional, someone whodefies established societal normsat will as a matter of right. He isemotionally volatile. He is toosensitive, and gets stuck even overtrivial issues. Moon in the signCancer, placed opposite Venusaccounts for his unpredictablemood-swings. On top of that, theintelligence-signifying Mercury isconjunct headless Ketu, and alsoplaced adverse to Mars. Thisaccounts for his restless mind,mindlessly chasing his make-believe fictional ideas. And theresult is there for all to see. I wishhe wakes up even now and triesto expand his vision; he will getback his lost happiness.����!!�����������������$����++�����������$���������� �����$��������$$�;�--�����������������??9

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When do I get married?— Vasudha Dawar

You are likely to get married any timewithin a year from now.Is there any chance to get a job in nearfuture?

— ShilpiTime is expected to turn to your advan-tage by the middle of 2014.When will my marital problem getover?

— VirabhadraIt is possible only when you temperdown your ego. You must alwaysremember that the world does notmove to your asking.I am going through a tough time atwork. When will the situationimprove?

— AnirudhHopefully, things should improve fromthe second week of November.

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