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hree decades after the
Bofors controversy severely hit India’s long-range firepower capabilities, the Army is
finally set to get state-of-the-art
artillery guns. The Defence
Acquisition Council (DAC)
headed by Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar on Saturday
cleared the induction of 24
indigenously-designed and
manufactured Dhanush 155
mm guns, and acquisition of
145 M-777 Howitzer guns from
the US.
The apex body for giving
the go-ahead to acquisition
plans for the armed forces, the
DAC also reviewed and cleared
deals worth over C28,000 crore
— including six missile boats,
five diving support vessels,
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Vihar and Vice-Chairman
of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB),
Dinesh Mohaniya was on
Saturday arrested by the Delhi
Police for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women
who had gone to him to complain about a water crisis.
Police dragged him from his
seat while he was addressing a
Press conference at his office in
Khanpur in South Delhi.
Reacting to the arrest, Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
tweeted, “Modi declares
Emergency in Delhi. Arresting,
raiding, terrorising, filing false
cases against all those whom
Delhi elected. Mohaniya arrested from his Press conference in
front of all TV cameras. What
message does Modi want to give
to everyone?”
Mohaniya, was booked on
June 23 after locals of Sangam
Vihar alleged that the MLA and
his supporters roughed them up
and misbehaved with women in
his office when they went to
complain about irregular water
supply.
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New Delhi: The first flight trial of Brahmos supersonic missile
fitted on the SU-30 MKI frontline fighter jet was successful at
test range in Nashik on Saturday. The supersonic missile capable of hitting a target at 290 km is already inducted into the Army
and Navy. The ultimate test will be conducted in the next few
months with the SU-30 firing the missile at a target while performing manoeuvres in simulated battle conditions.
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fighter jets and indigenous
electronic warfare systems for
the IAF.
However, the most significant approval by the DAC is
the induction of Dhanush,
often labelled as “desi Bofors”.
Manufactured by Ordnance
Factory, Jabalpur, the Army will
get the first three guns by the
end of this month for user trials followed by another three
guns by September-end.
Another lot of 18 guns will
come to the Army in the next
one year.
The Bofors controversy in
the mid-1980s hampered the
induction of state-of-the-art
long-range artillery guns thereby impacting the Army’s operational capabilities in the subsequent years. At present, more
than 3,000 long-range artillery
guns capable of hitting a target
at more than 40 kms in all
kinds of terrain are needed as
the present set of Bofors guns
are in the last stage of their
operational life.
Giving details of the
artillery gun acquisition plan
approved by the DAC during
the two-hour-long meeting
here, officials said the bulk production of Dhanush guns will
enable better exploitation and
setting up of indigenous manufacturing facility later on.
The drawing, design and
manufacturing technology was
acquired from Bofors when the
deal was inked with the Swedish
firm in 1980s and Ordnance
Factory, Jabalpur started developing the indigenous gun here
five years ago. Dhanush has a
range of more than 38 km as
compared to Bofors’ 27 km. The
“desi Bofors” also has an electronic sighting system for aming
the gun accurately at the target.
The Army has placed an order
for 114 guns and will expand
the order to 415 guns if the present lot of 24 guns passes the
test, officials said. The total
cost of the project is more than
C1,300 crore.
The other artillery gun to
get the nod by the DAC is M777 Howitzers for fighting wars
in the mountains. This light
weight gun can be airlifted by
helicopters or carried on horseback to the forward-most posts
for deployment.
The Army will get 145
Howitzers from the US
through the Foreign Military
Sale (FMS) route wherein the
US Government will stand
guarantee for delivery schedule
and maintenance.
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including two officers, and two
militants were killed in one of
the worst highway attacks at
Pampore town, 12 kilometres
south from here on Saturday
afternoon. Sources said that 25
CRPF personnel have been
wounded in the attack, some of
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website of the House of
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because of the high numbers of
people who visited the website
to ask for the rerun.
The petition, set up by
William Oliver Healey on Friday,
hours after the shocking Brexit
result, called for implementing
the rule that “if the Remain or
Leave vote is less than 60 per
cent based on a turnout less than
75 per cent, there should be
another referendum”.
Parliament released a message on its official website that
it will consider the request for
a discussion, as Parliament is
committed to consider any
request or initiative with more
than 1,00,000 signatures.
The committee concerned
with petitions will meet on
Tuesday to decide whether to
approve a debate in this regard.
A total of 51.9 per cent of
Britons voted on Thursday to
leave the EU in a referendum,
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Eyewitnesses said that militants waylaid a six-vehicle
CRPF convoy when it reached
a highway cur ve near
Tanchibagh at Namlabal in
Pampore town around 4: 45 pm
and opened indiscriminate fire
on a bus filled with CRPF personnel. The troops of 161-battalion CRPF were returning
from Panthachowk area in
Srinagar after going through a
day-long practice session.
“The attack was sudden,
quick and intense,” a police officer said. Two attackers were
quickly neutralised in the retaliatory action, sources said.
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referendum over the country’s
EU membership following the
shock Brexit vote. The petition
will now have to be discussed
in the British Parliament, having crossed the 1,00,000 signature-mark that is required to
trigger a debate in the House of
Commons. The petition, till
now has garnered 13,00,321
signatures and the number is
constantly rising. Meanwhile,
in Berlin, the EU’s founding
nations said on Saturday that
they want Britain to begin
leaving the union “as soon as
possible”. However, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel
said the EU need not be particularly nasty in the exit talks
with Britain.
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Anantnag Assembly constituency of south Kashmir on
Saturday defeating her
Congress rival with a margin of
12,085 votes. Her rivals were
unable to put up a formidable
fight in an election that saw
one-thirds of the electorate
exercising their franchise in the
constituency on June 22.
Mehbooba polled 17,701
votes from the total of 28,500
votes while her nearest
Congress rival Hilal Shah
secured 5,616 votes. The
Opposition
National
Conference candidate Iftikhar
Misger stood a distant third
with 2,811 votes.
The verdict is much better
for the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) as compared to the
2014
elections
when
Mehbooba’s late father Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed had faced
a tough challenge from Shah
who had polled more than
10,000 votes.
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should not be treated as
“calamity” but as an “opportunity” to transform for the better the lives of people living in
the cities, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said on
Saturday that the Government’s
efforts were to strengthen the
infrastructure in cities to such
an extent that they can “digest”
maximum poverty.
Launching the flagship
Smart City Mission into implementation mode with the
launch of 14 projects at the Shiv
Chhatrapati Sports Complex in
Pune, Modi described the
“Smart City Mission” as a “people’s movement” in which the
Government had successfully
brought about “participatory
approach” among the people,
an approach that involved tapping of the “talent pool” among
the citizens.
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not merely allocating money for
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attempt to sow seeds of a bright
future based on past experience.
Our experiment has been suc-
cessful,” Modi said.
Exhorting city planners not
to treat urbanisation as a
“calamity” but as an “opportu-
nity”, the Prime Minister said,
“There was a time when urbanisation would be considered a
calamity. There used to be
debates on the ill-effects of
urbanisation. My thinking is
different. We should not consider urbanisation a calamity
but an opportunity. If we consider urbanisation a calamity,
we would be more worried
about providing basic amenities
to the population. If we consider it an opportunity we can
effectively bring about makeover of the cities in question.”
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was arrested on Saturday by the
Special Investigation Team of
the police from the premises of
Bihar School Examination
Board (BSEB). She was arrested soon after an interview by
a panel of experts that had
called her for a retest.
Ruby had been given a
third opportunity to appear
before the panel of experts to
prove her merit. After failing to
turn up for the retest the first
two times on different pretexts
she came on Saturday and
appeared before the panel, but
her replies were found to be
highly unsatisfactory.
All the 13 students who
topped the Class 12 Board
exams had been called for a
retest after it was revealed that
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your memory to the 1996 original which
came in to sweep you with its own version
of alien invasion, albeit with a much smaller
space ship and way lesser CGIs.
Independence Day: Resurgence plies you
into a much, much bigger alien ship, a
behemoth as big as 3,000 miles in diameter.
Naturally then, the invasion and the design
of destruction is much bigger too and that’s
where the film scores most — its lifelike
visuals of a queen bee alien throwing death
in all directions, not to mention the energy
it generates to steal the core of the Earth and
end life on the planet.
The story, the characters, even the
premise is much the same as the original
version. So, in a way, it does breed familiarity
but the grand scale on which it unfolds this
much too similar story gives it back some
punch.
Just when the American President is
giving a salutary speech of return of peace to
Mother Earth, a sinister force from an alien
hive is seeking to take away life itself.
Encased in a shield so strong that it is
unbreachable, this queen bee is a force none
in humanity has seen or imagined, not the
delectable psychiatrist on a trail of unravelling
alien signage, not the scientist doctor, not even
“Mr President” who was the centre point of
action in the last film.
A lot of officialese and big talk later, the
great American solidarity pulls back from the
brink and all is saved till the next invasion.
The realism, sadly, goes missing alongside the
Prez and the film, despite great designs and
greater special effects, falls here and there in
the campaign it stretches through territory
that is not too unfamiliar and thus less
scintillating.
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the human mind as
graphically as Anurag
Kashyap. Raman Raghav 2.0 is an allin-one show of the debauchery of the
human mind through two characters
— one a mindless, certified killer who
kills for the heck of it, the other a
uniformed law enforcer high on
abuse, and not just of substance.
Together, the two script a racy
psycho-thriller which stands still in
some places as starkly as it runs amok
with unimaginable and yet unstated
violence in other. The mind games
are splashed in blood and gore which
the director skillfully makes you
imagine more than he shows.
Though the film lets out a big and
clear disclaimer that this is not about
the 1960s’ serial killer Raman Raghav,
it draws heavily from the much
documented Mumbai marauder who
infamously confessed to have killed
more than 40 people on the streets as
also to raping and killing his sister.
Here, Nawazuddin Siddiqui as
Raman is cataclysmic, in other words
brilliant as the unrelenting killer
with dilated eyeballs covered in eerily
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brown contact lens. Siddiqui’s
approach to the kills is stealthy, well
studied and sparingly habitual and as
he treads the slums of Mumbai, or the
footpath dotted with the sleeping
homeless, he brings you to the edge
of fear without really throwing the
blood at you. His killing instrument,
an iron jack, trails him with curdling
noise but it is his entire demeanour
of coolness to crime and the
philosophy of killing that makes
you cringe.
Vicky Kaushal as the cop on this
killer’s trail mesmerises too with his
inherent negativities which, sadly go
unexplained. Why would he be in the
haze of cocaine, why would he kill
with such impunity, why would he be
so abusive of his girlfriend, are areas
which needed to be fleshed out. But
as far as Kaushal goes, he too does his
best to show the worst.
The covert violence in the film
draws you inexorably into the mess
that’s on display in a dingy, smokey,
unforgiving Mumbai where the
darkness of its principle characters
complements the shades given to the
lanes, bylanes and slums of the
megapolis.
It’s an uncomfortable film to be
with, especially because it pulls you
in without an escape.
ab TV has been known to
tickle everybody’s funny bone
ever since its inception. The
channel, which always brings in
new comedy concepts, has come
up with the ultimate concept —
telling the story of the viewers.
Titled Khidki, the latest
offering from Sab TV is being
helmed by actor, director and
producer JD Majethia who is
popular for making shows like
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai; Khichdi;
Badi Door Se Aaye Hain; Baa,
Bahu aur Baby etc. Majethia will
be seen in the role of the
sutradhaar or the narrator.
Explaining the show’s pattern,
Majethia said: “We wanted to do
something new. Creating a new
story from scratch is fine for a
while but the writers get tired of
doing the same thing over and
over, and it starts looking stale. So,
for Khidki, we invited our viewers
to send mazzedar stories of their
families which we will adapt into
mini-series of five-six episodes
each. What can be a better way to
connect to the audience?”
Anooj Kapoor, Senior EVP
and Business head, Sab TV, said:
“Khidki is a concept that will
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screen. There will be new stories
and new characters each week.”
The show is being directed by
Umesh Shukla of Oh My God fame
and will see some stellar actors in
various stories, including Sarita
Joshi, Rajeev Mehta, Lubna Salim
and Aishwarya Sakhuja. The actors
will, possibly, be seen playing
other characters in later stories.
The producers have already
received over 12,000 entries within
two weeks from different parts of
the country.
“We came up with the name
Khidki because through these
stories you can peek into people’s
homes. Khidki ke andar bhi
jhaank sakte ho, aur bahar bhi.
Along with a fun story, we also
want to give people a message,
much like my film Oh My God,”
explained Shukla.
Being great storytellers
themselves, Majethia and Shukla
have also contributed a few
stories from their own lives and
families. “There was a funny
incident with my father’s mamaji,
back in the 1940s. He was
supposed to get married but had
been told that he can’t meet his
bride before the wedding. The
story will see his attempts to have
a chat with his future wife,”
revealed Shukla.
The show will go on air on
June 28, 2016 and the team already
has enough stories to last the next
six months at least, they said.
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Q Will the audience see a different Aishwarya
in Khidki?
This is the first time you’ll see me doing
comedy. Second, the role I’m playing in this
story, Anju, is a girl only for name’s sake. She
is a total tomboy and enjoys punching people.
She is totally mad.
Q Is there any actor you always wanted to
work with?
I always wanted to work with the cast of
Khichdi, and my dream has come true. Rajeev
Mehta (who played Praful) will be my father
here and JD sir is there as the sutradhaar.
Q How difficult is comedy?
Very. I learnt so much in my 10 days of
shooting. Comedy is all about timing and the
actors need to rehearse a lot to get that right.
The action and reaction has to be perfect.
Q Saas-bahu drama, comedy, reality shows.
What’s left?
For now, this is enough. If you start
exploring everything at once, you become jack
of all trades and master of none. I want to make
people laugh now.
Q Any other projects?
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much right now. But it’s a daily which will also
be a comedy.
Q You were away from fiction for two years…
It was not a conscious decision to stay away
from fiction. But the things that came my way
did not excite me. The content seems repetitive
and it’s not morally satisfying for me. An actress’
shelf life is quite short and I want to explore
everything within that.
Q Is the content regressive?
As an actor, I am responsible for the things
I portray. Superstition is a major problem in
our country and our Government is making
a lot of effort to get rid of it. I don’t want to
support superstition. But I won’t say I’ll never
do that. It’s possible that two years later I’ll have
no work and I have to do such a show.
Q Why do these shows work?
It’s all about the audience. Good shows like
Dahleez, which people like me can relate to,
don’t get enough TRPs because people like us
don’t have time to watch TV. And those who
have time to watch TV don’t have the mentality
for these kind of shows.
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acting?
I go to NTCC school in Malad, Mumbai, and
my teachers there are very supportive. So I don’t
find it hard to work as an actor and study alongside
it. When I’ve a lot of homework to do, I take it
with me to the set and I complete it there. I don’t
work late nights, maximum time would be nine.
Q Do your parents accompany you to the set?
My father always accompanies me to the
shoots. My parents got divorced when I was
three. Since then, my dad has continuously
supported me. He is a choreographer and he
really understands me. My dadi, too, was very
supportive and now that she is no more, I feel
like I’m living her dream.
Q Do you get treated differently by your
friends at school?
I don’t have many friends at school. I’m hoping
that once I start coming on TV I will become more
famous.
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and dancing, to acting. I was a non-actor when
I did my first short film, Pari Ki Pukar in Delhi.
Later, I went for acting classes and I’ve been
acting since then. Whenever someone asks me
what I want to do in life, I say ‘I want to be all
in one’.
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worked for?
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playing Anarkali in Jodha Akbar. Then I worked
in Shapath, Balika Vadu and Sumit Sambhal
Lega. Since I have started working in Waaris, my
confidence has reached another level.
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the set?
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Doraemon, so I avoid watching any of that. I
usually work on myself from acting to stunts. I
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the Centre and BJP and
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claimed that its MLA Dinesh
Mohaniya was arrested on false
charge. It said that it was a “pressure tactic” by BJP to deviate
attention from NDMC estate
officer MM Khan’s murder case
and “save” Lt Governor Najeeb
Jung and MP Maheish Girri.
Delhi’s ruling party also
claimed that Station House
Officer of Jamia Nagar Mangesh
Tyagi, who led the probe in
Khan’s murder case, was transferred on June 9. Also, the ACP
of the area was shifted.
The Union Home Ministry
has returned 14 Bills passed by
Delhi Assembly, saying proper
procedures were not followed
by the AAP Government while
adopting the legislations.
“If you look at the events in
the last few days. 14 Bills (passed
by the Delhi Assembly) have
been sent back (by the Centre).
Mohania was arrested today.
The SHO probing Khan’s mur-
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“All these suggest one thing,
that it is to pressurise AAP,
which has been taking forward
the case, and save LG Najeeb
Jung, BJP MP Maheish Girri
and NDMC vice-chairman
Karan Tanwar,” AAP leader
Ashutosh told reporters here.
AAP also furnished a letter, claimed to have been written by Khan’s elder daughter
Ikra, demanding reinstatement
of Tyagi.
Convenor of AAP Delhi
unit Dilip Pandey termed as
“unusual” the transfer of police
personnel ahead of Ramzan,
saying at this point of time
policemen are not shifted
because of their familiarity
with an area.
Delhi Police had termed it
as “routine” transfer as 53
Inspectors were also shuffled in
the same list, he claimed.
“We have been demanding
that Delhi Police should stop
reporting to the L-G as he has
started influencing the case,”
Pandey alleged.
AAP has also been
demanding the arrest of Jung,
Tanwar and Girri in Khan
murder case. The party claims
that Tanwar and Girri had
written letters to Jung, in favour
of hotelier Ramesh Kakkar,
the prime accused in the case.
Girri has denied writing
any such letter.
Referring to a sting by
AAP in 2014, party leader
Raghav Chadha said Mohania
is the MLA who was involved
in the operation that “caught”
Delhi BJP vice-president Sher
Singh Dagar allegedly offering
bribe, in an attempt to poach
party Legislators.
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Delhi, major power distribution
companies in the national capital on
Saturday claimed that they are prepared to check incidents of moisturerelated breakdowns through a series
of measures. Power major BSES,
which supplies electricity to around
70 per cent of Delhi, said its two discoms — BRPL and BYPL — have
given a gap between the ground and
the base of transformers in low-lying
areas and have undertaken the task
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of pruning trees to prevent entangling of cables.
The other measures include
cleaning rooftops to avoid water logging that may lead to seepage and
moisture and ensuring proper fencing around all plinth and polemounted transformers.
“We urge people to alert BSES in
case somebody comes across fallen
trees and branches on electricity
wires due to rain or strong winds.
This will enable us to take prompt
corrective action,” an official statement said.
Government refused to accept Union
Home Ministry’s order on the appointment of the Chief Vigilance Officer
(CVO) in the South Delhi Municipal
Corporation (SDMC). The AAP
Government has instead proposed
another officer for the post. According
to sources, the AAP Government has
reportedly rejected the MHA order
appointing Mangesh Kashyap (
DANIPS 1995 batch) as CVO of the
SDMC and has instead issued order
proposing the name of BR Meena, a
1997 batch IPS officer of UP cadre, for
the post. The argument of Delhi
Government is that it had sent a panel
of officers including the name of HPS
Sran (DANICS officer) and BR Meena
to MHA to appoint one of them as
CVO. But the MHA did not consider
Delhi Government’s panel at all. Instead
SDMC proposal to appoint Kashyap as
CVO was accepted by MHA and the
Ministry has issued orders appointing
him as the SDMC CVO. The Delhi
Government’s contention is that
Kashyap is neither an IPS officer nor
senior enough to hold the high-profile
post.
The Delhi Government has also
issued a note to SDMC stating that it
is going to seek clearance of the CVC
on the appointment of Meena for the
post. Meena’s name, however, did not
figure in the SDMC’s list. The SDMC
in its list had recommended the name
of Mangesh for the post of the CVO.
It was on June 7, that the Union
Home Ministry ordered the appointment of DANIPS officer Mangesh
Kashyap as the CVO of the SDMC. In
an office memorandum, Director
(Services) AV Dharma Reddy said,
“The undersigned is directed to convey the approval of the Competent
Authority for appointing of Shri
Mangesh Kashyap, DANIPS, presently in Delhi Police, as the Chief Vigilance
Officer in South Delhi Municipal
Corporation for a period of three
years extendable by another two years
with specific concurrence of the
Central Vigilance Commission. You are
requested to issue appropriate
order/notification.”
The copy of the memorandum
among others has also been marked to
the office of the Lieutenant Governor,
Delhi Chief Secretar y, SDMC
Commissioner, Police Commissioner
and Director (Local Bodies) of the
Urban Development Department.
As per the procedure, the MHA
clears the name of the CVO and the
same is notified by the Delhi
Government. The final clearance for the
said post is given by the Mayor and the
South Delhi Municipal Corporation
Appointment Committee.
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day after a man was lynched by a mob in
north-east Delhi’s Khajoori Khas on Friday
night, Delhi Police has arrested two persons in connection with the crime. Although police still
claimed that they could not identify the victim yet.
According to a senior police official, the
accused has been identified as Mohammed
Salim(25) and Ishtiaq(27).
“We have till now arrested two persons in
connection to the lynching of the 30-year-old
man. We will soon identify the victim and there
can be further arrests. Further investigation is
on,” said the police official.
The man was lynched by a mob for allegedly trying to kidnap a five year-old-girl near her
house while she was playing in the E-Block of the
Khajoori Khas area on Friday afternoon.
The incident took place at around 1pm when
the girl was playing with her friends near her
house.
Sources said that two men walked up to the
child and one of them tried to lift her and walk
away. However, the girl somehow managed to
free herself from him and ran inside her house.
Locals standing nearby saw what was just
transpired and caught hold of one of the two
men. The mob allegedly thrashed him. In order
to save himself, he ran inside a building.
Sources further said that Mini, who was living on the first floor, saw the man and asked
him who he was. On being questioned, he ran
upstairs. Simultaneously, the mob which had
been trailing him caught and dragged from the
first floor of the building and brought to the
main street. Mini alleged that the man was half
unconscious.
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Delhi’s Neb Sarai on Friday.
According to a senior
police official, the deceased
has been identified as Firoza.
Firoza’s in-laws allege that she
commited suicide but Firoza’s
family says that due to pressure
from her in-laws and husband,
she committed such an act.
Police took her body to
AIIMS for post-mortem where
both Firoza’s family was present. Firoza’s husband Firoz
said that her father had died
few days back due to which she
was very depressed.
On 24th evening, Firoza
was with her husband and
kids in one room. After a
while, she left and went to
another room and closed the
door. When her husband went
to knock on the door, there
was no reply. Her husband
kept banging and then called
neighbours who came and
broke the door open. Firoza
was then seen hanging from
the ceiling.
Firoz immediately called
the police who took the body
to AIIMS. “We have registered
a case under section 174 crpc
and and inquest proceedings
have been initiated. Further
investigations in this matter is
on,” said the police official.
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New Delhi: A truck carrying cement
toppled in outer Delhi’s Alipur
killing three persons and injuring
three on Saturday.
According to a senior police official, the deceased has been identified
as Bucchan Singh(40), Pawan(30)
and Dilip(30), who were from Munger
and were staying in Shakurbasti in
Delhi. Police have sent the bodies for
postmortem to a nearby hospital.
The injured persons have been
identified as Arvind, Nangu and
Varun. The deceased were sitting on
the back of the truck while the injured
were sitting with the driver, who is the
accused, identified as Kailash(37), in
this case. Police are currently searching for the accused truck driver.
At 5:20 Saturday morning, a
passerby at the place of incident
informed police about the overturned truck. Police immediately
rushed to the spot and took the six
persons to the hospital where three
were declared brought dead while
the othree three were critically
injured.
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Delhi Police constable posted
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with the PTC unit of the
force committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at
his residential home in north-west
Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Saturday.
According to a senior police
official, the accused has been
identified as 47-year-old Kamal
Kumar, who is survived by wife,
two sons and one daughter.
Police said on Friday night
that Kumar had gone to his
brother’s house in Keshavpuram
and his kids had gone to their
grandparent’s house along with
their mother. After having dinner
at his brother’s house, Kumar
wanted to stay over at his house
but his brother could not accommodate him as his house was too
small and there was no place for
Kumar to stay.
“Kumar kept insisting his
brother if he could stay back at his
place but his brother could not
accommodate him as there was no
place for him to sleep in the
house. So kumar had to get back
home,” said the police official.
Police sources said Kumar had
financial problems and was suffering from tuberculosis. Apart from
these, Kumar also had a drinking
habit, claimed police. “Kumar used
to indulge in drinking and was suffering from tuberculosis. He sometimes used to have arguments with
his wife due to this reason,” said the
official.
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by some miscreIants,nmischief
torn pages of the holy
Quran were found in Punjab's
only Muslim-majority town of
Malekotla late on Friday triggering a night of arson and
violence in the city.
Sources said the incident
occurred after prayers on the
third Friday of the holy
month of Ramzan. A mob targeted the house of local
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)
MLA Farzana Khatoon after
damaging 12 cars, including
four of the legislator, forcing
the police to resort to firing.
Police sources said 100
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the mob.
Farzana, 62, is the wife of
former Punjab Police DGP
Mohammad Izhar Alam, who
is also an Akali loyalist. Alam
made Malerkotla his home in
2010 after retirement when he
became the Punjab Wakf
Board chairman. He would
have got the SAD ticket but for
Sikh hardliners who raked up
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the days of militancy.
Farzana won the 2012
Assembly elections on the
SAD ticket after a bitter battle with her Congress rival and
two-time MLA Razia Sultana,
49, who is backed by her husband and IPS officer
Mohammad Mustafa. She was
a sitting two term MLA when
she was defeated by Khatoon.
Many in police and bureaucratic circles see the desecration as a power struggle
between the two powerful
leaders, backed by their husbands in the run-up to the
Assembly polls early next year.
Six policemen, including a
DSP was injured as protesters
who numbered around 300400 indulged in stone pelting,
torched a car and a room
meant for security men outside the MLA's house. The
legislator who was in the
house was safe, DSP Randhir
Singh said on the incident
Friday night.
Police and security men of
Khatoon fired in the air to disperse the crowd. The mob
pelted stones at police personnel injuring to six policemen, including a DSP, said
police.
Heavy police force has
been deployed in the wake of
the incident. DIG (Patiala
Range) BS Sidhu said,
"Situation (in Malerkotla) is
peaceful now." A case has
been registered in this
regard, police said, adding
that no arrest has been made
so far.
DGP (Law and Order)
Hardeep Singh Dhillon along
with IG (Patiala Z one)
Paramjit Singh Umra Nangal
on Saturday visited the area
and reviewed the situation.
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Mehbooba’s election to the
Assembly was necessary as she had to
become member of one of the two
Houses of J&K legislature within a period of six months from taking oath as
the Chief Minister. She became the first
woman Chief Minister of Jammu &
Kashmir on April 4.
The bypoll in Anantnag was necessitated after the demise of Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed on January 7. The
PDP has now regained its number of
29 legislators in the Assembly.
Mehbooba’s election to the
Assembly would necessitate by-election
in Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency
that she is currently representing.
After winning the election Mehbooba
thanked the voters for reposing faith in
her and vowed to continue her efforts
for development of Jammu & Kashmir.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
congratulated Mehbooba on her “phenomenal” victory. “Congratulations to
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DAP Latehar and the CRPF
seized huge stocks of deadly
improvised explosive devices
(IED), pressure cooker bombs,
cartridges and chemicals on
Saturday from the jungles
falling under two police stations of Herhunj and Manika
in Latehar district.
Latehar SP Anoop
Birtharey said that the security forces recovered two IEDs of
35 kg each, besides two pressure cooker bombs weighing 5
kg each along with 1,145 cartridges of 0.22 bore. All these
seizures were done during two
search operations made in the
jungles of Herhunj and
Manika.
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containers. The chemicals were
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Earlier, Opposition legislators in
the Assembly alleged that several electronic voting machines were not properly sealed that led to protest by candidates at the counting hall in
Anantnag.
Former Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah had congratulated Mufti
three days ago in the Assembly saying
that her win was imminent in the backdrop of “misuse of official machinery
for the Chief Minister’s election”.
Abdullah ridiculed her for skipping the
Assembly when the demands for the
grants for departments under CM’s
control were being discussed in the
Assembly.
Meanwhile, the PDP has thanked
Anantnag people for the support. “I
salute the people of Anantnag for
having shown immense political maturity and steering clear of the propaganda floated by the Opposition and
having voted for PDP in great numbers,” PDP chief spokesperson
Mehboob Beg said in a statement.
The people have reposed their faith
in Mufti Sahab’s idea of sewing together PDP-BJP alliance for the larger good
and development of the State and have
not fallen for the gimmicks played by
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Apart from this, security
forces also recovered naphthalene balls that are used as
insecticides in houses. The
Maoists use these balls to further make their IEDs more
deadly, said the SP. These balls
were more than 2,000 to 2,500
in numbers.
Police sources said that
Maoist badges were also recovered from the dumping site
that was found with the help of
specific inputs from intelligence sources.
These articles were just
hidden in the jungles in a way
nobody could get any suspicion about them.
Notably, on May 27 last,
security personnel had recovered another huge consignment of the Maoists. As many
as 577 pipe bombs, 335
gelatin bombs, 263 hand
grenades, 183 cartridges and
3 ammunition chargers were
buried in a 500-litre capacity
water tank.
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Giving the breakup of the time lag, officials said
once the 750-million-dollar deal is inked in the
coming months, the first 25 guns will be bought
off the shelf and delivered in India. This will save
cost of transportation. The remaining guns will
be brought to India in knock down condition and
assembled here, they said.
The DAC also approved parleys for fixing the
pre centage of offsets for this contract, officials said.
At present, the vendor has to plough back at least
30 per cent of the total contract price back into the
Indian industry if the deal is over Rs 300 crore.
The other deals cleared by the apex body
included six missile boats for the Navy. The Rs
13,000-crore deal will see the Navy opting for
Indian manufactured boats to replace six ageing
vessels acquired from Russia in the 1980s. In all,
the Navy has 12 boats as of now. The Navy also
got the go-ahead for a Rs 386-crore plan for modernisations of its dockyards besides Rs 150 crore
sanction for procuring five diving support vessels.
The IAF was sanctioned Rs 500 crore for
procuring flight simulators for Jaguar fighter aircraft and a Rs 1,300-crore approval for indigenous
electronic warfare system from Bharat Electronics
Limited (BEL). The DAC also approved design and
development of counter measures system for T-90
tanks, officials said.
New Delhi: BJP MP Kirit
Somaiya has sought registration of a criminal case against
Robert Vadra, son-in-law of
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi, by the Rajasthan
Government in connection
with an alleged land deal scam
in the border town of Bikaner.
In a letter written to the
Rajasthan Director General of
Police, Somaiya has said that
as Vadra was the "ultimate
beneficiary" in the said deal,
a criminal conspiracy FIR by
police should be made against
his companies and and his
agent.
The MP added that while
the State Government had
"confiscated" the said land
after the case came to light,
the "issue of criminal conspiracy remains as it is".
The State Police had earlier registered an FIR in the
land deal, without naming
Vadra, and has also filed multiple chargesheets against a
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The identity of slain militants suspected to be Lashkare-Tayyeba cadre, is being ascertained.
Sources said that almost
everyone in the bus that came
under the attack received bullet injuries. The wounded personnel were immediately
rushed to hospital where eight
of them succumbed to injuries.
The CRPF spokesman,
Bhavesh Kumar Choudhary
said that two militants were
killed in the exchange of gunfire. Unconfirmed sources said
that two attackers managed to
flee the encounter site in a car
towards Srinagar.
“I saw a CRPF vehicle frantically manoeuvring a traffic
jam at Panthachowk while
escorting injured personnel to
hospital,” a college professor
told The Pioneer.
This is the second highway
attack on security forces on
number of accused involved in
the case.
The
Enforcement
Directorate (ED) is also probing this land deal, in the
Kolayat block of Bikaner,
under charges of money laundering and has recently issues
summons to a firm linked to
Vadra in the case— Ms
Skylight Hospitality Private
Limited.
The case is related to the
purchase of 275 bigha land
allegedly by the company in
Bikaner.
Vadra has denied any
wrongdoing even as Congress
party called the action "sheer
political vendetta".
Rajasthan Government
had last year cancelled the
mutation (transfer of land) of
374.44 hectares of land, after
the land department claimed
to have found that the allotments were made in the
names of "illegal private persons".
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Srinagar-Jammu National
Highway during this month.
Earlier, on June 3, Hizbul
Mujahideen
militants
ambushed a Border Security
Force convoy at Bijbehara town
in south Kashmir, 45 kilometres from here. Three BSF men
were killed in the attack.
A LeT spokesman Abdullah
Ghaznavi while claiming
responsibility for the attack said
that 13 CRPF personnel were
killed in the attack that lasted for
one hour. “These martyrs are
the sons of Kashmiri nation,”
Ghaznavi said.
Sources said that flow of
traffic came to a grinding halt
after the attack as people went
helter-skelter when the
exchange of fire was taking
place.
Governor NN Vohra and
Chief Minister Mehbooba
Mufti have strongly condemned the attack.
“The only purpose of such
blood-spattered acts of violence
is to add to the tragedies and
miseries of the people and
subvert the Government’s
efforts aimed at bringing per-
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Mehbooba said the elements inimical to interests of
Jammu & Kashmir have always
tried to derail the peace efforts
and the latest militant strike at
Pampore was again aimed at
subverting the peace and development initiatives launched
by the Government.
Mehbooba, while expressing solidarity with the bereaved
families of the security forces
personnel, prayed for early
recovery of the injured including civilians.
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conveyed his sympathy to the
families of those killed and
wished early recovery to the
injured personnel.
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of the State, Deputy Chief
Minister Nirmal Singh said,
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work to defeat these forces
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“Some people get uneasy
the moment they hear the
word smart city. My concept of
smart city is very simple:
People should get sufficient
water and other basic amenities uniformly through modern methods. The cities should
become centres of economic
activities; there is development-friendly environment
and the cities should have
increased capacities to tackle
poverty,” the Prime Minister
said.
Elaborating on how he
looked at cities as places that
combat poverty in a big way,
Modi said: “Economists look
at the cities as mere growth
centres. I look at it differently. For me, it is cities that have
the potential to digest poverty. It is for this reason that the
people from places where
there is poverty migrate to
cities and make a living. The
migrants not only eke a livelihood in cities but also send
some money back to their
families in villages. Our effort
is to make cities powerful that
they can digest maximum
poverty”.
Talking of the role played
by citizens in the execution of
“smart city projects”, the Prime
Minister said: “All cities should
accept the challenge of turning
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is not just the civic bodies and
elected representatives, but
the citizens should also accept
the challenge, the people
should participate in making
their cities smart. All these
things will happen because of
people participation and partnership. When I asked for
suggestions from people on
smart cities, 25lakh people
sent suggestions to me
Expressing his happiness
over the successful manner in
which the Swachchh Bharat
Mission had taken off across
the countr y, the Prime
Minister said: “Cleanliness has
become a favourite subject in
our country. There was a time
when only such schemes
where the Government would
invest money and those
schemes where the people
would derive individual benefits would become popular.
For the first time there is
change in the approach where
the Prime Minister is not giving any money and at best he
offering suggestions on why
we should keep homes, localities and cities clean. Recent
media surveys have said that
the Swachchh Bharat Mission
has emerged as to number one
Government scheme in terms
of
popularity.
The
Swachchhata Abhiyan is a
reflection of the changing
mood of the people.”
Through video-link, Chief
Ministers of Rajasthan, Odisha
and
Andhra
Pradesh
Vasundhara Raje Scindia,
Naveen Patnaik and N
Chandrababu Naidu respectively outlined their smart city
vision.
Alluding to a statement by
Rajasthan Chief Minister
Vasundhara Raje congratulating him and Urban
Development Minister M
Venkaiah Naidu for selecting
Jaipur and Udaipur in the
Smart cities project, Modi
said: “Vasundharaji congratulated me and Venkaiah Naidu
for choosing Jaipur and
Udaipur for inclusion in the
smart cities project. Let me
clarify that we have not chosen the two cities and other
cities under the Smart Cities
Mission. The credit should
go to people of Jaipur and
Udaipur. It is they who have
emerged winners in the smart
city entry competition. It is
they and the officials of the
local municipal corporations
who have fulfilled the parameters required for the selection of their cities in the smart
city project”.
The Prime Minister congratulated media houses to
have smart city projects on to
a mission mode and through
their newspapers they
attempted to make citizens
vigilant and built up pressure
on the local civic bodies to fulfil the parameters required
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for the selection of smart
cities.
“For instance after Mysore
turned out to be first among
the list of chosen smart cities,
there is now pressure on the
people in Bengaluru and they
are working hard to catch up
with Mysore. We would like to
take competition forward and
create an atmosphere of competition,” the Prime Minister
said.
Speaking on the occasion,
Urban Development Minister
M Venkaiah Naidu said that
the smart city projects
launched on Saturday was the
first fruits of urban renaissance
taking place in the country as
a result of paradigm shift in
the approaches to urban development ushered in by the
Government. “The journey
towards the much desired
urban transformation has
begun in a Team India spirit
with the collective effort of
people, urban local bodies
and State Governments. This
transformation is an integral
part of Making of Developed
India,” Naidu said.
Earlier, Modi visited an
expo on Smart Cities, inaugurated a contest on ‘Make Your
City Smart’ and a Smart Net
Portal on the occasion at the
Shiv Chhatrapati Sports
Complex at Balewadi, on the
outskirts of Pune. Maharashtra
Governor Ch Vidyasagar
presided over the function,
Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis and Minister of State
for Urban Development Babul
Supriyo were among the dignitaries present.
Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena
and other Opposition parties
- Congress, NCP and MNSboycotted the function for the
ruling BJP’s failure to address
the concerns expressed by
them about the Smart City
project and lack of invitations
to their leaders.
However, Pune Mayor
Prashant Jagtap - who had earlier announced that he would
boycott the function as he
had not been invited properly and that his name did not
figure on the invitation card attended the function, keeping
in mind the protocol of the
first citizen of Pune city.
On his part, the Prime
Minister sought to keep the
Punekars in good humour by
saying at the end of his 30
minute speech: “Pune fell
short of Bhubaneswar just by
one and half marks in the ‘City
Challenge Competition’. When
I come next to Pune, I would
like Pune - which is the land
of Chhatrapati Shivaji and the
city of Lokmanya Tilak - to
become number one smart
city in the country. At the
same time, I would also like to
appeal to the cities across the
country not to lag behind
Pune. Then we will have a real
competition on hand”.
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Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav reiterating his
resentment over the merger
with gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s party,
the Samajwadi Party on
Saturday called off the merger
with Qaumi Ekta Dal (QED).
The QED’s merger with the SP
had evoked much criticism.
The SP also decided on
reinduction of Secondary
Education Minister Balram
Yadav, who was sacked by
Akhilesh apparently for facilitating the merger.
Earlier, as Akhilesh minced
no words in saying Ansari will
not be welcome in the SP, his
party’s parliamentary board
met here to decide on revoking
the merger besides reinducting
Balram.
“Mukhtar Ansari will not
be welcome in the party. We
don’t want such people in the
party,” Akhilesh said during a
programme organised by a
news channel here, publicly air
his displeasure over on the
merger with Ansari’s QED.
“There will be no merger of
Qaumi Ekta Dal in the
Samajwadi Party... This has
been decided at the parliamentary board meeting,” SP
national general secretary Ram
Gopal Yadav told newspersons
after the meeting of the party’s
highest policy-making body.
Akhilesh had taken a similar tough stand on the inclusion of mafia-turned-politician DP Yadav before the 2012
elections.
The announcement of the
merger on June 21 by Cabinet
Minister Shivpal Yadav, who is
brother of Akhilesh’s father
and party chief Mulayam Singh
Yadav, had led the Chief
Minister to say that he didn’t
take the decision.
Akhilesh had earlier too
expressed his unhappiness over
the merger with QED, as it
came ahead of next year’s Uttar
Pradesh Assembly polls. “If
party workers perform their
responsibilities, then there will
be no need of another party.”
Besides sacking Balram,
he is also understood to have
been upset with prisons minister Balwant Ramoowalia, who
had reportedly ordered Ansari’s
transfer from Agra prison to
Lucknow jail. Ansari was
lodged in Agra jail in connection with killing of BJP MLA
Krishnanand Rai in 2005.
Akhilesh had, however,
later described the merger as an
“internal matter” of the party
and said he had no displeasure
over it.
By merging QED, the SP
was hopeful of attracting the
Muslim vote bank in eastern
Uttar Pradesh especially in
Ghazipur, Mau and Varanasi.
he first flight trial of
Brahmos supersonic missile
fitted on the Sukhoi-30 MKI
frontline fighter jet was successful at test range in Nashik on
Saturday. The supersonic missile
capable of hitting a target at 290
km is already inducted into the
Army and Navy. The ultimate
test will be conducted in the next
few months with the SU-30 firing the missile at a target while
performing manoeuvres in simulated battle conditions.
The maiden demonstration flight, carried out at
Hindustan
Aeronautics
Limited(HAL)
Nashik,
involved the long range Russiamade fighter jet flying with the
2.5 ton missile fitted on to its
undercarriage for more than 45
minutes. However, the triad of
missiles integration into all
the three Services will only be
complete when the fighter jet
is successfully able to fire air to
ground missile in the coming
months. The IAF plans to
modify 45 SU-30s to carry
Brahmos if the firing tests are
successful.
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JP leader and Rajya Sabha
member Subramanian
B
Swamy on Saturday stepped up
his verbal attack on Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
by questioning his admission
to IIT-Kharagpur. Alleging
that Kejriwal did not get
admission to IIT on merit,
Swamy waved copies of replies
from IIT-Kharagpur on the
issue sought under Right to
Information Act.
Earlier, Swamy and
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert
Vadra took on each other on the
social media over the former’s
remarks about ‘waiters’.
“All his life he (Kejriwal) has
done fraud. He says he was a
meritorious student in IIT but
I have records of how he got his
admission,” Swamy alleged.
Suggesting Kejriwal had not
taken the IIT-JEE entrance
exam, Swamy said that the
Delhi CM may have possibly
used his father’s connections to
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get enrolled in the institute.
“Last row of RTI column shows
that Kejriwal has no rank (IIT).
He probably came through
other methods,” Swamy said.
The BJP leader had sought
details of the process by which
Kejriwal got admission to IITKharagpur in the 1980s and was
awarded a BTech (Hons) degree.
In a Press release, he cited the
RTI reply from the institute
which was asked to provide
basis of Kejriwal’s entry into BTech programme and his All
India Rank (AIR) in any competitive exam such as the Joint
Entrance Exam (JEE). IIT-
Kharagpur replied it does not
have the information available.
However, the RTI gave
other details of Kejriwal —
including his Roll No in the
Mechanical Engineering course
and the years of study and did
not provide the copy of grade
sheet of subjects since it is
exempted from disclosure
under the RTI Act.
Meanwhile,
Swamy
engaged in a verbal dual with
Vadra after the latter criticised
the BJP leader over his remarks
about waiters. Taking a dig at
Swamy over his apparent swipe
at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
in which he had said Ministers
who wear a coat and tie look like
waiters and must be instructed
to wear Indian clothes, Vadra
wrote on his Facebook page that
using such a terminology was
derogatory and classist.
“Undermining waiters who
work hard for a living; making
condescending and derogatory
remarks about them is
deplorable and classist,” Vadra
wrote.
However, Swamy retaliated
by saying: “Mr Vadra should
concentrate on staying out of jail
instead of making political comments.” He then went on to add:
“Vadra’s mother was a waitress
in a small restaurant in England.
Perhaps this is why he felt bad
when I spoke about waiters…I
only said that Ministers shouldn’t look like waiters. It wasn’t
against anyone.”
He sought to downplay his
threat of “bloodbath” making it
clear he did not intend the literal meaning of the word but
only hinted at “chaos” which has
not happened.
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escribing the Harish Rawat
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Government
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Uttarakhand as “one steeped in
SP legislature party on
Saturday named Dalit leader
B
Gaya Charan Dinkar as the
Leader of Opposition in the
Uttar Pradesh Assembly days
after Swami Prasad Maurya
quit the party.
The decision was taken at a
meeting of Bahujan Samaj Party
legislators chaired by party
supremo Mayawati here.
After Maurya raised a banner of revolt against Mayawati
and quit the party, the names of
four MLAs were doing the
rounds for the coveted post.
Dinkar's name for the post
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believed to be one of BSP's key
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62-year-old Maurya, who
was the former Leader of
Opposition in the state
Assembly, had quit the party on
June 22.
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corruption”, BJP president Amit
Shah on Saturday asked the people to dislodge it from power
and help the lotus “bloom” in
the State.
“With a BJP Government at
the Centre, it would be ideal if
there is a BJP Government in
the State as well. That would
ensure smooth implementation
of development schemes conceived for the State by the
Centre,” he said sounding the
poll bugle from the party’s
Shankhnad rally at Rishikul
Maidan here.
Asking the people to get rid
of a “corrupt Government
embroiled in scams”, Shah said
if they were looking for development, they should overthrow
it in the 2017 Assembly polls in
the State and let the lotus bloom.
Mocking at Congress for
accusing BJP of “murdering
democracy” in the hill State,
Shah urged the people never to
forget June 25, the date on
which former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi had declared
Emergency and “muzzled the
whole nation”.
“You should never forgive
those who imposed Emergency
and murdered democracy
silencing a whole nation and
reducing the media to a helpless
mouthpiece of those in power,”
he said.
Assuring that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had
“grandiose”
plans
for
Uttarakhand, Shah said it was
necessary to have a BJP
Government in the State to
help those plans materialise.
Taking a dig at Congress
vice president Rahul Gandhi for
“repeatedly asking” what has the
BJP Government done in the
last two years, he said the party
has given the country an “audible” Prime Minister in place of
“one who was audible only to
Sonia and Rahul Gandhi”.
“You ask us what did we do?
My answer is, we have given the
country a Prime Minister who
speaks. You had given the country a PM who could be heard
either by you or Soniaji,” he said,
adding that the Congress’ also
left a legacy of scams worth C12
lakh crore.
Rolling out a long list of
schemes launched by the Modi
Government, especially for the
poor, farmers and women, the
BJP president said Rahul should
pose the question to Rawat
instead.
“While you (Rahul) relax
and beat the heat in a foreign
land, you ask us what did we
do in two years. You better ask
that question to your Harish
Rawat whom the whole country saw negotiating a deal to
buy back the support of disgruntled MLAs for C5 crore
each,” said Shah referring to
the sting CD controversy
involving the Uttarakhand
Chief Minister.
With his “track record of
corruption”, Rawat has no right
to remain as the Chief Minister
even for a minute, he said,
exhorting the people to give BJP
a mandate so that Centre’s
schemes, including distribution of free LPG connections to
five crore poor by 2018, could
be achieved in totality.
penetrate deep inside the enemy
territory to destroy their vital
installations from stand-off
ranges. Moreover, the integration
brings a paradigm shift in the
capability of the IAF vis-a-vis its
adversaries, officials said here.
The Su-30- Brahmos combination will carry out air
combat operations within and
beyond visibility range and
Brahmos is a joint venture
between India and Russia for
the design, development and
manufacturing of the supersonic cruise missile. Many
countries — including Vietnam
— have evinced interest in
procuring this missile and the
Indian Government is seriously considering the proposal.
Explaining the significance
of the successful test flight,
Brahmos chief Sudhir Kumar
Mishra said the test will go
down in the history as first in
the world marking combination
of supersonic cruise missile
with a long range fighter aircraft.
Once successfully integrated in the firing mode in the coming months, the air version of
Brahmos will enable the IAF
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ive police teams are working
round-the-clock in search of
the person who murdered the
24-year-old Swathi, a software
engineer, at Nungambakkam
railway station on Friday morning. Though there were no
CCTVs installed at the suburban
railway station, the police could
get the image of a young man
leaving the Nungambakkam station from CCTV outside the station immediately after Friday’s
gruesome murder.
A senior police official told
reporters that they had some definite clues about the person
who is believed to be the murderer. “Swathi had confided to
her friends that she was being
followed by a stalker. Though her
friends had asked her to
approach the police, she chose to
ignore it,” said one of the investigators. The image of the murderer which the police collected
from the CCTV has been
released and the police expect
that the murderer may either
give in himself or the investigators may zero in him in the next
few days.
The call records of the victim are being pursued by the
police. Nungambackam saw
another murder on Friday night
when a security guard working
in one of the business complex
was found murdered late Friday.
Ramesh(48) was murdered by
his colleague Pazhani on Friday
night and the police arrested him
on Saturday from a bus station.
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Rahul Gandhi, who is out
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of India for a short visit, took
to social media to take jibe at
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
over the NSG fiasco. In a tweet,
Rahul equated the failure to
gain membership with failed
Modi diplomacy. CPI too said
India should not think if the US
has agreed to a slot for New
Delhi in Nuclear Suppliers’
Group (NSG), everyone else
will agree to it.
“NSG: How to lose a negotiation by Narendra Modi
#FailedMo diDiplomac y”,
tweeted the Gandhi scion. This
came after the attack from
other Congress leaders at PM
Modi.
The Congress, who termed
the developments at the NSG
meet an “embarrassment” to
the country and a “huge diplomatic letdown” by the
Government, questioned the
“desperation” to gain mem-
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Environment Ministry on
ISaturday
said it had “inadvertently” uploaded a “study”
and “not issued” any draft
forest policy, days after it put
up a document, titled the
Draft National Forest Policy
2016, on its website and sought
public opinion.
The Ministry said the
study done by Indian Institute
of Forest Management (IIFM)
in Bhopal was “inadvertently”
uploaded on its website as
draft forest policy.
“The Ministry has not
issued any draft notification
on National Forest Policy.
What has been uploaded on
the website was a study done
by Indian Institute of Forest
Management, Bhopal. The
study has not been evaluated
by the Ministry.
“The Ministry has not
taken any decision on draft
forest policy. The study report
prepared by IIFM, Bhopal was
inadvertently uploaded as
draft forest policy on the website,” said SS Negi, Director
General, Forest, and Special
Secretar y, Environment
Ministry.
The Ministr y had
uploaded the draft national
forest policy on its website
which, once ratified, would
have replaced the 1988 policy.
bership of the elite nuclear
club.
Senior
Congress
spokesperson Anand Sharma
too came down hard on the
Modi-led Government. “We
do not know why India showed
its desperation and allowed
the country to be equated with
Pakistan on the issue of NSG
membership,” Sharma said.
For his part, CPI General
Secretary D Raja said the BJP
and the party-led central
Government should first take
Parliament into confidence on
such foreign policy matters.
Raja said that in 2008, India
could not get technology
despite a waiver from NSG due
to the “adverse” position taken
by the US. "Why India is not
questioning the US on
this?...The US is supporting
India now because it wants to
capture the market here,” the
Rajya Sabha member said.
“It is not China (which is)
stonewalling the membership,
but BJP and the Government
that have created hype over the
issue after the US assured support for NSG membership.
NSG is a body which has its
own criteria and regulations.
India should not think that
once America agrees, everyone
will agree,” Party’s Raja said in
a statement.
will provide the IAF with the
capability of attacking targets
protected by powerful air
defence assets.
Integration of Brahmos
with the Su-30MKI will render
the weapon a multi-platform
capability while making the
IAF the only air force in the
world in prosession of a supersonic cruise missile system.
HAL chief T Suvarna Raju,
who was present at the flight
test, said “it is a perfect example of Make in India and an
engineering marvel in aviation
history of India.” He pointed
out that this unique program
was taken up by HAL as an
indigenous challenge at its
Nashik Division and the
required data was generated
without the assistance of Russia
for the modification.
With successful integration of BrahMos on Su-30
MKI aircraft, 40 Su-30 MKI
aircraft are expected to be
modified. The maiden flight
will be followed by series of test
flights and complete evaluation
and certification of BrahMos
missle on Su30 MKI aircraft,Raju said.
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New Delhi: Concerned over the
attack on the cavalcade of two
Union Ministers in Odisha,
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
on Saturday called up Governor
SC Jamir and Chief Minister
Navin Patnaik and asked them
to ensure safety and security of
central leaders visiting the State.
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Ministers Santosh Gangwar and
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and former Jharkhand Chief Minister
Arjun Munda was pelted with
stones allegedly by a group of
ruling BJD workers, led by one
MLA, when they were on way to
attend a meeting in Odisha’s
Bargarh to mark two years of the
NDA Government.
In his telephonic conversation, the Home Minister asked
the Chief Minister to look into
the incident and take appropriate action to prevent such untoward incidents in the future.
Singh also told Patnaik to
ensure safety and security of
Union Ministers visiting the
State.
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Governor, the Home Minister
took stock of the incident and
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Edinburgh: First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon is holding a
cabinet meeting on Saturday to
discuss
the
Scottish
Government’s response to
Britain’s vote to leave the
European Union (EU).
The historic referendum
on Thursday saw Scotland,
London and Northern Ireland
vote in favour of ‘Remain’ —
while England and Wales
backed ‘Leave’, BBC reported.
Scotland voted in favour of
Britain staying in the EU by 62
per cent to 38 per cent, but the
UK as a whole voted to leave by
a margin of 51.9 per cent to
48.1 per cent.
Sturgeon said it was
“democratically unacceptable”
that Scotland faced being taken
out of the EU against its will.
She said a second independence referendum was
“highly likely”.
Hundreds of people
protested against the EU result
in Glasgow and Edinburgh on
Friday evening. Sturgeon said
there was now a “significant
divergence” between Scotland
and the rest of Britain which she
“deeply regretted”. Agencies
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leaving the bloc after it voted to
end its membership in a historic referendum.
German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said
negotiations should begin as
“soon as possible”.
He made the comments
after an urgent meeting of the
six EU founder members to
discuss the decision.
British
PM
David
Cameron has said he will step
down by October to allow his
successor to conduct talks.
The six countries attending
the summit in Berlin —
Germany, France, Italy,
Belgium, Luxembourg and the
Netherlands — first joined
forces in the 1950s and still
form the core of the EU.
“We say here together, this
process should get under way
as soon as possible so that we
are not left in limbo but rather
can concentrate on the future
of Europe,” Mr Steinmeier said.
His Dutch counterpart
Bert Koenders said the continent could not accept a politi-
cal vacuum, saying “this will
not be business as usual”.
Meanwhile on negotiations, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said: “It shouldn’t take forever, that’s right, but
I would not fight for a short
time frame.”
She added that she was
seeking a “objective, good” climate in talks on Britain’s exit
from the EU, and that there was
no need to make deterrence a
priority. Mrs Merkel also said
there was “no need to be particularly nasty in any way in the
negotiations; they must be conducted properly”.
The first summit of EU
leaders with no British representation will be held on
Wednesday, a day after Mr
Cameron holds talks with
members.
Global stock markets and
the pound fell heavily on the
news of the so-called “Brexit”,
while credit rating agency
Moody’s cut the UK’s outlook
to “negative”.
The UK must now invoke
Article 50 of the EU Lisbon
Treaty, which sets out a twoyear timetable for negotiations
on withdrawal.
European Commission
head Jean-Claude Juncker said
the EU-UK split was “not an
amicable divorce”, but nor had
they had a “deep love affair”. He
has also said exit negotiations
should begin immediately.
“Britons decided yesterday (Friday) that they want to
leave the European Union, so
it doesn’t make any sense to
wait until October to try to
negotiate the terms of their
departure,” Mr Juncker said in
an interview with Germany’s
ARD television network.
Corbyn is facing a ‘coup’ from
within his party for not campaigning strongly enough to
prevent the country’s exit from
the European Union.
Two Labour MPs submitted a motion of no confidence
in the leader after the referendum results showed Britain had
voted in favour of leaving the
EU, saying he did not convey a
clear message.
Labour MPs Dame
Margaret Hodge and Ann
Coffey submitted a motion of
no confidence against Corbyn
to Parliamentary Labour Party
(PLP) chairman John Cryer.
The motion has no formal
constitutional force but calls for
a discussion at the PLP’s next
meeting on Monday.
Ankara: Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said
Britain’s planned departure
from the European Union signalled the “beginning of a new
era” and warned the bloc could
face new breakups.
“I see this decision made by
the people of Britain as the
beginning of a new era for
Britain and the EU,” Erdogan
said during a fast-breaking
dinner late on Friday, in his first
comments on the shock referendum result.
“Like the entire world, we
expected a ‘yes’ result in the referendum but it turned out like
that,” he said. Voters in Britain
decided Thursday to leave the
EU, raising questions over the
future of the bloc.
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Commissioner Lord Hill is to
stand down, saying “what is
done cannot be undone” after
the UK voted to leave the
European Union.
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did not believe it was right for
him to carry on with his work
as the commissioner in charge
of financial services.
But he will stay on for a
period of weeks to ensure an
“orderly handover”.
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Minister David Cameron, Lord
Hill had argued for the UK to
remain in the EU.
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Washington: The Pentagon is
set to lift its ban on transgender troops within the coming
weeks, US media reported.
The move would be another major milestone for
America’s vast military, which
up until five years ago still
banned gay troops from openly discussing their sexuality
under a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
policy. USA Today said the
transgender announcement is
expected July 1 and the plan
would require each branch of
the military to phase in the new
policy over a 12-month period.
Pentagon Press Secretary
Peter Cook declined to confirm
reports, but said a decision was
due “soon.” Currently, Pentagon
rules allow transgender
troops to be discharged from
the military.
Defence Secretary Ashton
Carter last year ordered all
military roles — including
combat positions — to be
opened to women.
AFP
He will be replaced by
Latvian politician Valdis
Dombrovskis, currently
European Commissioner for
the Euro.
Lord Hill’s announcement
comes as EU foreign ministers
urged Britain to hold speedy
talks on leaving the bloc, after
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Beijing: Chinese President Xi
Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin promised
ever-closer cooperation and
oversaw a series of deals on
Saturday, as the two countries
deepen ties in the face of growing tensions with the West.
In what was Putin’s fourth
trip to China since Xi became
President in 2013, the two
men stressed their shared outlook which mirrors the countries’ converging trade, investment and geopolitical interests.
“Russia and China stick to
points of view which are very
close to each other or are
almost the same in the international arena,” Putin said.
The Russian leader added
that the two had discussed
“strengthening together the
fight against international terrorism”, the nuclear issue on the
Korean peninsula, Syria, and
stability in the South China Sea.
Russia and China have
been brought together by
mutual geopolitical concerns,
among them wariness of the
United States.
AFP
on Thursday.
And Scotland’s First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon said
she would be seeking “immediate discussions” with Brussels
to “protect Scotland’s place in
the EU” following the so-called
Brexit vote.
Sturgeon has said a new
Scottish independence referendum is “highly likely”.
European Commissioners
are among the most powerful
officials in Brussels, with the
ability to make laws across a
range of policy areas, but the UK
will cease to have one when it
leaves the EU.
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competitive behaviour and the
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males had long been considered to be the more active
singer. Females were compared
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been applied to the blue tit.
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patterns. This suggests that
vocalisation is not limited exclusively to courtship or competition. Herbert Hoi and Katharina
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Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
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counties. Rescue efforts were
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devastated areas.
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sands after a storm system
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creek and was swept away.
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Saeed has said he will wage a “war” against India to get
Pakistani rivers “freed”.
“We are going to wage jehad (war) against India to
get our rivers freed,” Saeed said while addressing a gathering of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) workers in Sialokot district of Punjab Province on Friday.
Saeed, on whose head the
US has put a bounty of $10 million, claimed “freedom movement” of the Kashmiris is “gaining momentum day by day”.
Saeed said Dukhtraan-e-Milat’s
head Asiya Andrabi told him
that situation in Kashmir has
“changed” now.
“Asiya Bibi told me by telephone that those who were
talking about Independent
Kashmir are no more on the
scene while young leadership
has come forward and it will give a fresh impetus to the
freedom campaign,” Saeed, who founded the terror group
Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, said.
Saeed said Pakistan should take serious notice of the
United States’ warnings which have raised the curtain from
its “evil designs” against it.
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Beijing: The $46 billion China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CPEC), a mega
infrastructure project that is aimed to link
Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang province to
Gwadar deep sea port in Pakistan, has
made progress and benefited local people, a Chinese diplomat said.
The completed part of the CPEC
project, under China’s Belt and Road
Initiative, is bringing tangible benefits
to local people, Chinese Ambassador
to Pakistan Sun Weidong said in an
interview with Xinhua news agency.
Sun said the two countries have
launched a host of early harvest projects focusing on energy and transport
infrastructure to meet Pakistan’s immediate needs.
In the energy sector, 16 projects
have been sorted out to be implemented first, which can generate 10.4
million kw of electricity in total, Sun
said, adding that half of the projects
have been under construction, and will
help Pakistan ease its power shortages.
A solar power plant in Punjab
province’s Bahawalpur city, built by the
Chinese company ZTE Energy, has
recently installed a 300-mw generator
unit, which can produce 480 mn kWh
annually, enough to satisfy the daily
power consumption of at least 2,00,000
Pakistani families, Sun said.
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Committee has plunged
into a major crisis with EVKS
Elangovan announcing his resignation as president of the
State unit on Saturday. It was S
Gopanna, the spokesman of the
TNCC who announced that
Elangovan has quit as TNCC
chief owning the moral responsibility for the debacle of the
Congress in the assembly election held on May 16.
The Congress, which contested the election as an ally of
the DMK won eight of the 41
seats it was allotted by the
Dravidian major. In the last
assembly the Congress had
only five members. “Elangovan
has resigned from the post of
president of the TNCC. He sent
his resignation last week to
party president Sonia Gandhi,”
Gopanna said here on Saturday.
Elangovan was not available for
comments.
Elangovan was appointed
as TNCC chief early 2014 and
since then the party has seen
many events including women
party leaders filing police complaints against the former on
various counts. But during the
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last two years Elangovan was in
the forefront of all agitations
against the ruling AIADMK in
Tamil Nadu and the BJP at the
Centre.
The period also saw many
senior Congress leaders including P Chidambaram, KV
Thangabalu
and
H
Vasanthkumr meeting party
president Sonia Gandhi many
times demanding the ouster of
Elangovan as State unit chief.
Last week Elangovan had suspended some of the party functionaries including Vishna
Prasad, former MLA and son
of former PCC chief M
Krishnasamy for anti-party
activities.
Since Elangovan has not
issued any statements for or
against the high command,
one has to assume that there
was no pressure on him to quit
from the central leadership.
“He would have understood
the fact that the High
Command was not happy with
him. This resignation should
have happened long back as
Elangovan through his actions
and words had earned many
enemies,” said a senior TNCC
leader.
Once the news about
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the
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Government’s move to acquire
land for the Mallanna Sagar
dam in Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao’s home
district Medak district has further intensified with the
Telangana TDP president A
Revanth Reddy launching two
day hunger strike on Saturday.
Revanth Reddy, who sat
on the fast at Etigadda Kistapur
village, said that the struggle
would continue till justice
was done to the thousands of
farmers.
He lashed out at the Chief
Minister for using the brute
police force to suppress the
agitation by the farmers. “The
policemen are threatening the
farmers to sign the papers and
accept whatever compensation is paid to them”, he said
adding that he will be the first
person to face the stick and the
bullet of the police in this
struggle.
He demanded that instead
of making empty promises the
Chief Minister should pay the
compensation to the farmers.
Meanwhile concerned over
the spreading protests in the
districts the Chief Minister
today held a meeting with
Irrigation Minister T Harish
Rao and top officials of the
department to discuss the
rehabilitation package for the
oustees of the project.
The Chief Minister directed the officials to pay compensation to the affected farmers as per their wishes. “The
Government is willing to pay
the compensation either under
the land acquisition act 2013 or
the GO 123 as per the wishes
of the farmers,” he said.
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district have arrested a
security guard on the charge of
sexual harassment of a minor
girl at a Government-run
Children Home in the district.
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also the husband of the House
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Northeast Mission Children
Home at Barama in the district,
police said and added that the
district administration had
closed the Home after the incident and shifted all the 24
inmates to another children’s
Home located nearby.
Police said that the incident
of sexual harassment by the
person came to the light only
recently after a team of Child
Welfare Committee (CWC) of
the social welfare department
visited the Home and interacted with the inmates.
“The accused, Mangal
Bodo(55), is now in judicial
custody. A 13-year-old girl
inmate of the Home narrated to
the CWC team all about how
the accused sexually harassed
her. Later, another inmate narrated how she had escaped
twice earlier from his sexual
harassment
attempts,”
Inspector Durlav Chandra Das
of Barama police station said.
“The person was arrested
while based on a complaint
lodged by the CWC officials,”
police said.
Last year, a similar incident
of sexual assault was reported
from another Home in eastern
Assam’ Dibrugarh district.
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in a swollen nallah and at
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least 18 persons were rescued
in monsoon-related incidents,
even as eight houses collapsed
either partially or fully in various parts of the metropolis.
Mumbaikars prepared
themselves for a wet weekend,
as heavy rains lashed the Island
city and suburbs since Friday
night, inundating the suburban
railway tracks, flood-prone
roads and low-lying areas.
Civic officials said that two
children – aged 15 and 12 years
– fell into a swollen nallah
while they were playing at
Mulund’s Highland Park locality in north-east Mumbai in the
early hours of Saturday. Of
them, a 12-year boy Arbaj
Hasan Ansari was rescued by
the fire brigade officials, while
another boy Aftab Irfan Khan
(15) died.
Of the eight house col-
lapses reported from various
parts of the metropolis, the fire
brigade personnel rescued 17
persons stranded inside the
first and second floor flats of a
building that partially collapsed at Khar (east) in northwest Mumbai.
The ser vices on the
Central Railway ( Main),
Harbour and Western Railway
were affected because of the
water-logging of tracks at various places. The trains ran
anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes behind the schedule.
While the island city registered a rainfall 58.2 mm during
24 hours ending at 8.30 am, the
suburbs received 115.2 mm
rainfall during the same period.
Meanwhile, the city weather bureau has forecast intermittent rains with “heavy to
very heavy falls” at few places
and “extremely heavy rains at
one or two places” in the city
and suburbs, during the next 48
hours.
the TNCC headquarters, lobbying for the post has begun
immediately. One of the front
runners for the post is S
Thirunavakarassar,
an
AIADMK-turned-BJP-turned
Congress
leader.
Thirunavakasassar, who has
the image of a party-hopper,
stands a better chance to be
appointed as the TNCC chief
since he is acceptable to DMK
supremo M Karunanidhi also.
The names of P Chidambaram,
Peter Alphonse and H Vasanth
Kumar are also in circulation.
There is a strong feeling
that the High Command
should consider someone
young with experience for the
post. There are young veterans
like CD Meyyappan, who
headed the Youth Congress
for many years and known for
their integrity and dedication.
According to a senior Congress
observer in Chennai, the high
command should find out a
new face for the party in Tamil
Nadu. “The dissident leaders
will approach the high command with the demand to
ouster anybody who is appointed as the State party chief. Only
a new and young person would
be able to lead the party at this
juncture,” said the observer.
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the alleged disrespect shown to
Olympian Anju Bobby George
and the controversy over the
recital of Sanskrit Shloka on
the International Yoga Day
have made lusterless the performance of Kerala’s CPI(M)led LDF Government in the
first month of its rule despite
the several bold administrative
measures it has begun to adopt.
Incidentally, all these three
‘bloomers’ (as one Marxist
leader termed these controversies) were linked to CPI(M)
members in the Cabinet and a
section in the State party leadership itself and several functionaries of some of its partners
in the LDF are feeling extremely embarrassed about the incidents and their political fallout.
The 19-member LDF
Cabinet with CPI(M)
Politbureau member Pinarayi
Vijayan as Chief Minister was
sworn in on May 25 following
the Left combine’s tremendous victory in the May 16
State election in which the Left
bagged 91 of the total 140 seats
in the Assembly and reduced
the tally of the Congress-led
UDF, which was ruling the
State from 2011, to just 47.
“If I put the issue in the
simplest terms, these three
controversies were totally
avoidable,” said a top leader of
the CPI, which has four
Ministers in the LDF
Government. “The most serious among the three was the
jailing of the two Dalit women
in Thalassery, Kannur as the
Home Department is being
handled by the Chief Minister
himself,” he said.
The general criticism within the LDF against the
Government over this issue is
that the police had acted as per
the wishes of the local CPI(M)
functionaries who had made a
complaint against the two Dalit
women, daughters of a
Congress leader, creating an
opportunity for the Congress
and the BJP to allege that the
infamous “cell rule” of the
Marxists have returned to
Kerala.
What complicated the
sending of the two women, one
of them with her 18-monthold child, was Pinarayi’s comments over it. He first said he
had no knowledge of the incident though it took place in his
home district and despite being
in charge of Home affairs.
Then he told newsmen, “Ask
the police”. Thirdly he said this
was not the first time a child
had gone to jail.
“The fact is that Pinarayi
often tends to forget that he is
now Chief Minister and not a
Marxist Czar,” was how a close
aide of State Congress president VM Sudheeran responded to the issue. “He is yet to
grow up. If the captain himself
is being so undiplomatic, how
can his lieutenants like
Industries Minister EP
Jayarajan grow up into efficient
administrators?” he asked.
Jayarajan, also in charge of
the Sports Department, found
himself in the centre of a controversy after he allegedly
insulted Olympian Anju Bobby
George, who after the
encounter resigned as Kerala
State Sports Council’s president, by stating directly to her
that the council was neckdeep in corruption when she,
appointed by the former UDF
Government, was at its helm.
The controversy did not
stop at the borders of Kerala as
Anju was not just a Kerala
sportsperson but an internationally acclaimed national
athlete. However, unlike
Pinarayi, Jayarajan tried to be
as diplomatic as possible in the
aftermath saying that there
were no bad feelings between
him and her but that was not
enough to save the
Government from the trap he
had led it into.
“The new Government
does have the right to reconstitute the Sports Council just
like any other board or corporation. If there were allegations,
these could have been looked
into. But all this could have
done in an amicable way. If
that was done, we could have
avoided a lot of bad feelings
and criticisms,” said a leader of
the Janata Dal(S), a minor
constituent of the LDF.
He said CPI(M) Health
Minister KK Shailaja’s open
announcement of objections to
the Sanskrit Shloka recited at
the International Yoga Day
was equally avoidable. “What
she said about the secular
nature of Yoga was true but
how can a Sanskrit Keertana be
against secularism? There were
better ways of putting her feeling about it,” the JD(S) leader
said.
According to senior journalist PVS Warrier, three big
controversies in thirty days,
“that too in the first 30 days”,
is too much. “Most Keralites even the Left’s adversaries - feel
that Pinarayi can be a tough
administrator with the ability
to deliver what his front
promised: “Everything will be
all right”. But it seems that this
way, they are not going to do
that,” he said.
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Trustees (CBT) will consider a proposal on July 7 to appoint a professional
agency for managing its social media
presence on Facebook and Twitter to
avoid communication gaps. The development comes in the wake of protests
and street violence in Bengaluru earlier
this year, following EPFO’s order on tightening of rules for withdrawing provident
fund money. Later, the Labour Ministry
had to roll back the order. “The proposal to engage an agency to manage social
media platforms for EPFO is listed on the
agenda of the meeting of the CBT’ led by
Labour Minister on July 7,” a senior ministry official said. “It is mooted in the
backdrop of communication gap which
led to the violence recently. The agency
will be hired collectively by ESIC,
EPFO and the ministry for estimated
cost of C3 cr per annum,” he said. PTI
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NEW DELHI: Comptroller and Auditor General
of India (CAG) Shashi Kant Sharma has been conferred honorary professorship by the Nanjing
Audit University in China on Saturday. “Shashi
Kant Sharma was conferred the honorary professorship by the Nanjing Audit University in
China on Saturday. It is the only university which
is recognised by the Institute of Internal Auditors,”
the CAG office said in a release here. In his acceptance address, CAG put an emphasis on capacity building for auditors of international fraternity
in view of ever-changing governance structures.
He stressed on the need for co-operation
among the five Supreme Audit Institutions
(SAIs), especially in data
analytics, audit of infrastructure projects and environmental issues.
Sharma is in Beijing to take
part in the first meeting of
Supreme Audit Institution
(SAIs) of BRICS countries.
BRICS SAI leaders have
agreed to actively enhance quality of auditors to
enable SAIs to play a bigger role in advancing economic and social development, Sharma was quoted as saying. He also led a delegation of Auditor
Generals of BRICS to a meeting with Chinese
Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli and discussed progress
of the summit.
At Friday's meeting, CAG talked about the
big strides taken by the Indian Government in
automating services and collecting, compiling
and reporting data on its programme interventions. India is in the process of establishing a Data
Analytics Centre and has finalised a big data
management policy to meet the big data challenges in future, he told the audience on Friday.
He also hoped that this would enable the SAIs
to come up with more incisive audit findings and
to assist governments in formulating appropriate policies, the release further said.
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projects worth $2-3 billion
Iforndia
funding by the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB) in several areas including
urban development and energy
and offered to set up an office of
the China-backed bank in New
Delhi. On the third day of his
visit here, Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley made the offer while
addressing the Board of
Governors Session of the Annual
General Meeting (AGM) of the
bank headquartered here.
“India has a huge unmet
demand for investment in infrastructure and is preparing basket of projects worth $2-3 billion
for AIIB funding in the areas of
urban development (including
smart cities), energy, urban
transport, railways, inland waterways and water supply,” said an
Indian Embassy statement providing details of Jaitley’s address.
“(The) Finance Minister
offered India’s support in establishment of a regional office of
AIIB in New Delhi to effectively cater to this potentially large
portfolio and speed up the
process of project development,
monitoring and implementation,” the statement said.
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NEW DELHI: Seven asset managers -- SBI
Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential, Reliance
Capital, HDFC, LIC, UTI and Kotak
Mahindra -- are in the race to manage retirement fund body EPFO’s investment in stock
markets in the current fiscal.
“The Finance Audit and Investment
Committee (FAIC) will open technical and
financial bids submitted by seven firms -SBI Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential,
Reliance Capital, HDFC, LIC, UTI and
Kotak Mahindra -- for managing EPFO's
market investments in the current fiscal,” an
EPFO official said.
“FAIC will give recommendation on the
basis of bid evaluation to the EPFO's apex
decision-making body, the Central Board
of Trustees (CBT), headed by the labour
minister to take a final call on the issue.” The
meeting of the Employees’ Provident Fund
Organisation’s trustees is scheduled for July
7. Once approved by CBT, the selected firm
will manage EPFO's stock market investments for this fiscal. At present, SBI Mutual
Fund is looking after EPFO’s stock investments in ETF. The term of the SBI Mutual
Fund will end on June 30.
EPFO had started investing up to
five per cent of its investible deposits in
Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs) in August
last year and put in around C6,500 crore
in the ETFs till April-end. The body has
plans to invest about C6,000 crore in the
stock market in the current fiscal.
EPFO had chosen SBI Mutual Fund to
manage its stock market investments as
SBI has been its sole banker since it
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Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has
reviewed rolling out of pan-India e-auction for tea with a view to streamline the
process and ensure faster realisation.
“Faster realisation of auction proceeds
is likely to address the demand of the
producers who hesitate to offer their teas
in auction due to longer credit period,”
tweeted Sitharaman. On the first day,
Coonoor has registered the highest
amount of sale. “On the first day of the
auction following sales were made with
regard to lots offered. Kolkata (73 per
cent), Cochin (42 per cent), Coonoor (92
per cent),” she said. It will “lead to greater
transparency in terms of buyers' bidding
and settlement of payments,” she added.
The pan India e-auction was rolled out
by the Tea Board in all the auction centres except Coimbatore on June 23. PTI
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to C3,000 crore from its promoter Tata Teleservices through
allotment of preferential equities. “Board of directors of the
company at its meeting held on June 25, 2016, has considered and approved issue of redeemable preference shares up
to an amount of C3,000 crore to Tata Teleservices Limited
(Promoter) on preferential basis,” Tata Teleservices Maharashtra
(TTML) said in a regulatory filing on Saturday.
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AIIB has come up amidst huge
expectations in a difficult time
for the global economy.
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global economy remains very
modest and global growth rate
projections have been revised
downwards, even though the
Asia-Pacific region remains the
growth engine for the world,” he
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cover of more than a year would be
sufficient in managing the temporary effects of Brexit, a Reserve
Bank official said on Saturday.
“India's forex reserves of more than
$360 billion and import cover of
more than a year would be adequate in managing the temporary
effects of the recent Brexit, if at all
there is an impact,” RBI Regional
Director, Thiruvananthapuram, SMN
Swamy, said here.
He was speaking after inaugurating a day long seminar on
'Role of private remittances in
the socio-economic scenario of
Kerala' at the Indian Institute of
Management, Kozhikode (IIMK). Swamy also spoke on the
importance of remittances in
reducing India's reliance on foreign aid, building the country's
forex reserves as well as meeting the current account deficit,
an IIM-K release said.
Chairperson of Technology
Business Incubator of IIM-K
Prof Keyoor Purani stressed on
the importance of channelising
remittances into entrepreneurial
ventures so that Kerala can transform itself from a consumption
to a production economy. PTI
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“AIIB presents a much-needed additional financing window
dedicated to infrastructure projects and meeting the financing
gap that may be beyond the
capacity of the individual countries and the existing MDBs
(Multilateral Development
Banks),” Jaitley said of AIIB’s role.
AIIB was officially established last
year with an authorised capital of
$100 billion in which India and
56 other countries joined as
founding members. China is the
largest shareholder with 26.06 per
cent voting shares.
India is the second-largest
shareholder with 7.5 per cent followed by Russia 5.93 per cent and
Germany with 4.5 per cent.
China also houses the New
Development Bank headquarters
of BRICS countries - Brazil,
India, China and South Africa in Shanghai. It is headed by eminent Indian banker K V Kamath.
The AIIB on Friday released
its first set of loans totalling to
$509 million for infrastructure
projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Indonesia and Tajikistan.
Outlining India’s development
paradigm, Jaitley said India has
undertaken reforms in FDI and
initiated large investments in
rural infrastructure, national
highway, inland waterways,
shipping, power sector and
smart cities, the statement said.
Jaitley also met China’s
Finance Minister Lou Jiwei
and held talks on bilateral
economic
cooperation,
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the country soon.
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primarily residing in New
Delhi, Lucknow, Bhopal,
Patna, Dehradun and
Bhubaneshwar, will get this
opportunity over next few
months, according to a top
company official.
The new recruits from
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aboard specialised fleet of 23
oil & gas tanker-ships owned
by MMSI's parent companyMeiji Shipping Group-one of
the oldest shipping companies
in Japan, established in 1911.
Meiji Shipping Group is listed on Japan's Stock Exchange.
Confirming the development, Sanjay Bhavnani, Chief
Operating Officer of MMSI
said, “The new positions we
are seeking to fill will be
across the full spectrum of
roles from merchant navy
officers and masters to chief
engineers
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has always been a preferred
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got one of the highest retention rates in the ship management industry. MMSI is
well known for offering its
merchant navy officers a
career progression, and tailored individual support and
training.”
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earn tax free remuneration in
foreign exchange, as high as
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in real estate, etc have contributed a lot over the years to
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who walked alone,
holding an umbrella in
his hand on the busy
streets of suburban
Mumbai. He liked being wellgroomed, would regularly massage
his body with coconut oil, comb his
hair and carry a mirror to see how he
was looking. His love for chicken
curry finally made him spill the beans
about his killing sprees. He never got
into any fights or kept grudges. Yet,
40-year-old Raman Raghav terrorised
Mumbai in the late 60s, murdering
over 40 people, including slumdwellers and chawl residents.
“If you looked at him, nobody
could have said that he could be a
killer, that too a serial killer. His outwardly appearance was deceptive
and showed no symptoms of madness. A well-groomed killer like
Raghav was extremely conscious
about his appearance. It’s much more
easier to identify a mad man than a
person like Raghav,” Vasan Bala, coscriptwriter of Raman Raghav 2.0,
tells you.
It all started in 1965-66 when a
series of murders took place in the
eastern suburbs of Bombay along the
Central Railway Line. Eyewitness
Krithika, a relative of one of the victims, gave a statement to the police
that she had seen a man of Raghav’s
description lurking in the area the
night her kin was killed. According
to RS Kulkarni’s book Footprints On
The Sand Of Crime, Raghav was
caught and interrogated by detective
inspector VV Vakatkar who recalled
that ‘he was a hard nut to crack.’
Vakatkar also mentioned that a pocket diary had been recovered from
Raghav in which he had penned
down words like khatam and khallas.
Due to lack of evidence, Raghav
was set free only to return in 1968,
killing over a dozen people, this time
in the northern suburbs. Nobody
knew who was behind the gruesome
killings. Some thought it was an animal, others thought it could be
aliens. But the cops suspected Raghav.
“Vigilante groups in the suburbs
would often lynch or beat up a
homeless stranger or migrant on the
suspicion that he was Raghav. There
were absurd rumours like the killer
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that’s why nobody could catch him,”
director Sriram Raghavan, who first
made a short film Raman Raghav, A
City, A Killer in 1991, tells you.
With no leads in the case, in
1968, the case was handed to the
newly appointed head of the Crime
Branch Ramakant Kulkarni.
Observing the pattern of the crime
and trying to connect the dots with
the 1965 cases, Kulkarni observed
that “19 people had been attacked
while asleep and had head injuries.
While nine of them had succumbed
to their injuries, none of the survivors
could not recollect anything useful
enough to establish the identity of the
assailant. They were killed by having
their skulls smashed with a hard and
blunt instrument” Kulkarni wrote in
his book.
“More than 2,000 cops were on
the manhunt around the MaladGoregaon-Jogeshwari area. During
that time, there was no television and
to make matters worse, there was a
newspaper strike in Mumbai. So there
was a lot of panic and rumour mongering amongst the populace,”
Raghavan recalls.
“My idea of a serial killer was
based mostly on crime fiction and
movies from the West. Raghav helped
shatter that. He was a semi-literate
migrant living on petty thefts. He was
suffering from schizophrenia and
heared a voice in his head telling him
to kill random people. He mercilessly bludgeoned a pavement dweller
and sat next to the corpse and had a
meal. I used to wonder what must be
going on in his head. Raghav, I was
told, used to be lucid in conversation
and suddenly got provoked and fly off
the handle,” Raghavan says.
It was the then sub-inspector
Alex Fialho, who was roaming
around Bhendi Bazaar and he spotted the suspect. “Those days, I used
to carry a photograph of Raghav in
my shirt pocket. I was waiting for a
bus and I saw a well-built man in
khaki shorts and a long blue bushshirt
walking towards me. Something
about the man struck me and I
instinctively decided to follow him.
As he walked past me, he gave me a
casual glance as I was in uniform. He
glanced again and drew my suspi-
cion,” Fialho said in an interview to
a newspaper in 2007.
Fialho observed that Raghav
was carrying a wet umbrella. As it had
not rained in south Mumbai that day
“I asked him where he was coming
from and he replied Chincholi
(Malad). This strengthened my
doubt. He was also carrying halfrimmed spectacles and a thimble that
belonged to a Malad tailor who had
been killed a couple of days back.
Later, I found out that he was going
to sell it in chor bazaar. I called for a
jeep and asked Raghav to sit in it. He
unsuspectingly sat and we drove off
to the police station. I called in the fingerprint experts and the prints
matched with him,” Fialho, who was
then felicitated and rewarded C1,000
for the big catch, said.
His personal belongings consisted of a pair of spectacles which he
stole from a victim, two combs, a pair
of scissors, a stand for burning
incense, soap, garlic, tea dust and two
pieces of paper with some mathematical figures on them. Looking at
his criminal records, it was found that
Raghav was a history-sheeter and had
spent five years in prison for robbery.
He had also raped his sister before
murdering her. His records disclosed
that he had several aliases like Sindhi
Dalwai, Talwai, Anna, Thambi and
Veluswami. But Raghav refused to
speak for weeks even after going
through third degree torture.
“His murders didn’t have any
motive other than the ones he himself justified. He used to kill for five
paise or two paise or for the household goods and food. He was a
necrophiliac. He would just pick on
people who were helpless and alone,
which is why he went untraced for a
very long time,” Bala says.
“It was a strange mix of power
and fear. Probably, he would have
killed someone older to show power
but someone as young as a sixmonth-old to show fear. A baby is the
most powerless person. It’s very difficult to explain why Raghav killed the
baby. But one thing was certain. There
was no guilt about his cold-blooded
acts & he was completely remorseless,
which made him scary,” Bala says.
The investigation took the cops
to a village in Tamil Nadu where
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who made akada (a metal object) for
Raghav, with which he would kill
people, knew him since childhood,
revealed that Raghav’s roommate
was also found dead, but no one ever
suspected him. Michael told the
cops that Raghav was a small-time
thief who was never went to school.
It was around this time that Raghav
left Tamil Nadu for Pune. Since his
return to killings in 1968, he had been
living in jungles outside the suburbs
of Mumbai.
“Not much is known about his
life before he came to Mumbai.
Some said that he was married and
his wife left him because he was jailed
on the day of his marriage. There
were different stories that were circulated but none had any validation,”
Bala says.
Meanwhile, the cops in Mumbai
were having a tough time trying to
make Raghav speak. The only thing
he kept saying was that he wanted
chicken curry. After a few weeks
when all efforts failed, the cops
decided to serve Raghav some chicken curry.
“We were sitting in the interrogation room of the Crime Branch
office when someone casually asked
Raghav whether there was anything
else he wanted. Without a moment’s
thought, without even batting an eyelid, Raman Raghav said, “murgi.”
Next, he wanted hair oil, a comb and
a mirror. ‘I would also have liked a
prostitute, but I guess, the law does
not permit that while one is in custody’,” Raghav was quoted as saying
in Kulkarni’s book.
After massaging his body with
coconut oil, he combed his hair and
looked into the mirror for a few seconds. He then agreed to talk and
what he revealed shocked every cop
present in the room.
Raghav went on to say: “I shall
tell you all about them. Get a vehicle, an armed guard and two witnesses. The law requires that. And I
shall show you the iron akada I used
to commit the murders, knives and
other things which I have hidden in
the bushes at Areray Milk Colony.”
Raghav confessed to committing
41 murders. Asked why killed people, he said that he had directions
from God to do so. He also detailed
the modus operandi.
“A few days later, I saw a hut
where a family was sleeping. I cut the
string which fastened the front door
and then hit the husband with an
iron rod, killing him instantly. The
woman and child who woke up,
started shouting. I killed them too.
I was thinking of sleeping with the
woman but someone came and I ran
away. The gold necklace turned out
to imitation jewellery,” Kulkarni
quoted Raghav in the book.
Talking about another murder
Raghav said: “On the Malad side, I
saw a hamlet. A bearded man was
sleeping. The door was open. I hit
him and he died on the spot. I took
his wristwatch and when I saw some
money in his jhabba. I also took some
peanuts, an umbrella and a torch.
Once home, I tore the jhabba to
make handkerchiefs.” Raghav also
confessed to killing a woman and two
children sleeping in a hut. He hit her
twice or thrice until she died. He then
removed the bedsheet and found she
was naked. Kulkarni doesn’t elaborate on this because what Raghav said
was too disturbing and horrifying to
pen down.
A chargesheet was prepared and
the trial began. Raghav’s defence
lawyer PV Pawar pleaded to the
Additional Sessions Judge that his
client did not understand the repercussions of his acts. A psychiatrist
observed Raghav for a month and
declared him mentally sound. He was
sentenced to death.
But Pawar appealed that Raghav
was mentally ill. This led the Bombay
High Court to refer Raghav to a
Special Medical Board of three psychiatrists. The panelists said that
Raghav was suffering from chronic
paranoid schizophrenia.
In all the five interviews he gave
to the medical board, Raghav showed
ideas of reference and fixed and systematised delusions of persecution
and grandeur. The delusions which
the accused experienced were about
two distinct worlds, the world of
kanoon and the world in which he
lived. He had an unshakable belief
that people were trying to change his
sex but that they weren’t successful
because he was a representative of
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power or Shakti. He firmly believed
that people were trying to put homosexual temptations in his way so that
he was converted into being a
woman. A homosexual intercourse,
he insisted, would convert him into
a woman.
He said that the Government
had brought him to Mumbai to commit thefts and other criminal acts. He
believed that there were three
Governments in the country — the
Akbar Government, the British
Government and the Congress
Government and that these
Governments were trying to persecute him by tempting him into
wrongdoing.
On the basis of the medical
board’s report, his death sentence was
commuted to life term in 1987. He
spent time at Yerwada Jail in Pune till
his death at Sasson hospital due to a
kidney failure in 1995.
But why a movie on a killer?
Director Anurag Kashyap was curious how a homophobic could turn
do such horrendous killings. “One
thing I wanted to explore was that he
was homophobic. It was exactly like
the shooter in Orlando’s gay night
club who had a homosexual orientation, according to his wife, and
feared this tendency. So he became
homophobic and took it out on others. I feel, Raghav was like that. In the
1960s, homophobia was not clearly
defined and people were ashamed of
being homosexual. I wanted to
explore these things in a time where
it was not talked about openly,”
Kashyap says.
“He had a superiority complex.
He came from a warrior background
and he used to take pride in it. He
was a misogynist. When I was
researching for my film Paanch and
investigating Rajendra Jakkal, who
committed several murders and was
serving a jail term wrote a book
which got banned, the jailers talked
about it. In the book, Jakkal refers to
Raghav as extremely respected and
saintly person. For me, how that transition in Raghav happened, was a big
gap. That made me curious and
through our imagination, we have
tried to fill the gaps in the film,”
Kashyap says.
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became the first Indian female athlete to qualify for the 100m dash in
Olympics in 36 years as she booked a Rio
Games berth at the 26th G Kosanov
Memorial Meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
20-year-old Dutee clocked 11.30 seconds in the women's 100m heats and then
ran an even better 11.24 seconds in the
finals to win a silver medal in the
Kazakhstan Meet too book the Rio
Olympics ticket.
In the process, Dutee bettered her own
national record of 11.33secs which she set
at
Federation
Cup
National
Championships here in April.
The qualifying mark for the Rio
Olympics was set at 11.32 seconds.
Dutee is the first Indian woman to
have qualified for 100 metres race in an
Olympics after legendary PT Usha com-
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as she was found to have a higher level of
testosterone (male hormone) than was permissible in a woman athlete, according to
the IAAF hyperandrogenism rules.
Dutee lost an entire year of training and
competition but faced the turmoil bravely
and fought the ban at the Court of
Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Switzerland.
In July last year, in a historic verdict, the
CAS partially upheld her appeal and
allowed her to resume her career.
"I am really happy to have qualified
for the Olympics. It has been a tough year
for me. My hard work and that of my
coach (N Ramesh) has paid off," Dutee
said after booking the Rio berth.
"I could qualify for the Olympics due
to blessings of a lot of people. I want to
thank Sports Authority of India, Sports
Ministry, Athletics Federation of India for
their support. I will continue to work
hard and hope to bring a medal for the
country," she added.
peted in the blue-riband event in the 1980
Moscow Games.
The Odisha athlete is the first Indian
woman athlete to make the cut for an
Olympics 100m dash since the qualification system was introduced in the event.
There was no qualification system when
Usha took part in the 1980 Olympics.
Overall, four Indian women have
taken part in the 100m dash in the
Olympics — Nilima Ghosh and Mary
D'Souza (1952), Mary Leela Rao (1956)
and Usha (1980).
Dutee is the 20th Indian track and
field athlete to have qualified for Rio
Games.
For Dutee, it is a remarkable achievement to qualify for Olympics as she had
to fight her way back to an international
career by winning a landmark 'gender' case
last year.
She was banned mid 2014 and
dropped from the Commonwealth Games
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Naveen Patnaik on Saturday congratulated sprinter Dutee Chand for having qualified for Rio Olympics and said that the
people of the state wished her all success
in the forthcoming Games.
Describing Dutee's Olympics qualification a historic achievement that
brought glory for Odisha, Patnaik wished
victory for her in Rio, according to a statement from the Chief Minister's Office.
Odisha Athletic Association
Secretary Asirbad Behera congratulated
Dutee and announced Rs 50,000 for her.
Joyed over her feat, Dutee told an
Odia television channel that her success
was the result of 14 years of hard work.
She said the support of her family played
a key role in her achievement.
She is the first athlete from Odisha
to have qualified for Olympics in an individual event.
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hauled England to a crushing 10-wicket win
over Sri Lanka in the second One-day
International at Edgbaston.
England, set a modest 255 for victory, finished
on 256 without loss as they won with more than 15
overs to spare to go 1-0 up in the five-match series
following Tuesday's tied opener at Trent Bridge.
Roy, named man-of-the-match after also completing two run-outs, was 112 unbeaten at the finish and Hales 133 not out, both batsmen recording
their highest scores at this level.
Their unbroken stand surpassed England's
record ODI partnership of 250 set by Andrew Strauss
and Jonathan Trott for the second wicket against
Bangladesh at Edgbaston in 2010.
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side winning an ODI by 10 wickets, topping the 236
scored by New Zealand against Zimbabwe at Harare
last year.
Victory also saw England win the inaugural
multi-format Super Series, with Sri Lanka now unable
to surpass their 13-3 points lead in the remaining
three ODIs and lone Twenty20.
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Saturday retained Sanjay
Bangar as the batting coach
while Abhay Sharma will continue as the fielding coach of
the Indian cricket team for the
upcoming tour of the West
Indies.
The BCCI in a short press
release stated that both coaches have been appointed after
consulting chief coach Anil
Kumble.
Sources say no bowling
was appointed since Kumble,
India's highest-wicket taker,
is incharge of the team. Both
Bangar and Sharma were part
of the coaching staff during the
recently-concluded limited
overs series in Zimbabwe
where India won ODI series 30 and T20 series 2-1.
Interestingly, Bangar is the
only member of the support
staff that came on board when
Ravi Shastri was made the
Team Director back in 2014.
Bangar's former Railways colleague Sharma was the fielding
coach of the U-19 India team
and also worked with the India
A team before landing his
maiden assignment with the
senior Indian team in
Zimbabwe.
It has been learnt that BCCI
did not want to delay appointment of assistant coaches as the
camp for the West Indies tour
will start in Bengaluru from
June 28.
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tury from Darren Bravo and three wickets
by paceman Shannon Gabriel. The hosts will
now meet Australia in the tournament final
at the same venue on Sunday.
Left-hander Bravo made 102, including
12 fours and four sixes off 103 balls, as his
third one-day ton lifted West Indies from early
trouble at 21-4 to 285 all out in 49.5 overs.
He shared a record fifth wicket stand of
156 with Kieron Pollard, who chimed in
with 62 off 71 balls, including seven fours
and two sixes.
South Africa's chase was undermined by
the fiery Gabriel as the visitors were bowled
out for 185 in 46 overs.
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in a return of none for 36 in 10 overs at Trent
Bridge, took two for 34.
Sri Lanka were struggling at 191 for seven in
the 41st over.
But an unbroken stand of 63 between Upul
Tharanga (53 not out) and Suraj Randiv (26 not out)
bolstered their total.
Dinesh Chandimal (52), restricted by a hamstring injury during his innings, and Mathews (44),
shared a fourth-wicket stand of 82 in front of a
capacity crowd of just over 23,000 at a sunny
Edgbaston.
Danushka Gunathilaka, dropped in the slips on
five, drove two straight sixes in three balls off leftarm paceman David Willey.
But fast bowler Liam Plunkett, whose last-ball
six secured Tuesday's tie, struck with his third delivery when Gunathilaka (22) was caught behind.
Rashid rocked Sri Lanka with two wickets for
no runs in three balls.
The series continues in Bristol on Sunday.
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After a technical time-out the host team
looked all charged up.
Manjeet Chhillar showed why he was
the captain with a superb tackle on Rahul
Chaudhari. With four minutes remaining,
Sandeep scored a vital raid point with an
outstretched leg to reduce the deficit to just
three points.
Late on, reviews were flying from the
Titan's end and they won most of them
except the last one as Pune made it 26-24
with two minutes to go. A frantic Rahul
went all in with his raid but was tackled
and so was Vinoth to make it 28-24.
Experience shone through in the end for
the Paltan as they won the opening game
of season 4.
Meanwhile, in the second game of the
day between Jaipur Pink Panthers and U
Mumba, it was the team from Mumbai
who beat Jaipur 36-34. Anup Kumar of U
Mumba started the proceeding with a
bonus point. U Mumba raced off to a solid
lead in the beginning of the game. In the
9th minute, Mumbai lead 5-2 and to add
more misery on Jaipur, the team was all
out in the 15th minute.
The play witnessed a stoppage as U
Mumba players were asked to go out due
to a technical violation. At stroke of halftime, the hosts were leading 20-12. In 21st
minute, the team was all out but this time
it was U Mumba.
Shabeer Bapu, who earlier played for
Panthers, caused more pain to his old side
as the visitors were again all out in the 29th
minute. In the end, it was Rakesh Kumar
and Shabeer Bapu were the hero for the
U Mumba team as they guided the team
to win.
On the opening night of the Star Sports
Pro Kabaddi League, bollywood stars
Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan,
Ranbir Kapoor, King of Bollywood — Shah
Rukh Khan — and cricketer Virat Kohli
were among the attendees to motivate and
encourage the players.
with 3-38 and all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite
took 2-39.
Gabriel provided the crucial early scalps
of Quinton de Kock, Faf du Plessis and A.B.
de Villiers as the Proteas slumped to 28-3.
De Kock chopped an inside edge to the
wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin, du Plessis
was lbw and de Villiers edged a drive.
Narine soon claimed Hashim Amla lbw
and captain Jason Holder had J.P. Duminy
fending to gully at 51-5.
Farhaan Behariden top-scored with 35,
Wayne Parnell contributed 28 and there
was a late flourish by the last pair of Morne
Morkel (32 not out) and Imran Tahir (29)
but there was no way back for South
Africa.
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Mumbai to witness the opening ceremony followed by the two exciting game of
the Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League season 4 here on Saturday.
After Puneri Paltan edged Telugu
Titans to a 28-24 win, U Mumba had an
easy outing against Jaipur Pink Panthers,
winning 20-12.
On the opening day, Puneri Paltan was
up against Telugu Titans. And the players
from the teams gave the audience exactly what they came for. Paltan started the
game on aggressive note and looked like
they meant business. Paltan were leading
3-1 in the fourth minute and were in good
rhythm. But Telugu Titans crawled back
in contention, superbly tackling Paltan
captain Manjeet Chhillar.
The Titans opened their score in the
15th minute, tackling Deepak Hooda.
Manjeet then made it 4-2 in the 14th courtesy of a well-executed running leg touch.
Both the teams were trading blows as
Rahul made sure the Paltan didn't run
away with an unassailable lead with a
clever hand touch. Hooda found it hard
to open his account as he was tackled for
a second consecutive time reducing Pune's
team to merely three.
In the 9th minute of the game, Paltan
were all out and Titans had gained 5 point
lead over their opponents. The away team
looked on fire and was looking to take the
game away from the hosts.
At half-time the score read 12-15 in
favour of Titans. Paltans then returned the
favour by inflicting more tackles and made
the team something to think about in
another break. But that was not the end
for Paltan. They fought back hard and now
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France camps have played down
Thierry Henry's infamous handball,
but Irish fans will be hoping for revenge
in Sunday's Euro 2016 last 16 clash.
It was at the Stade de France in Paris
on November 18, 2009 that Henry used
his hand — twice — to control the ball
in the buildup to William Gallas' late goal.
The incident, dubbed 'Le Hand of
God', helped seal France's 2-1 aggregate
win and left Irish fans feeling robbed of
a 2010 World Cup place.
Both squads still contain players
who were involved that night.
France's goalkeeper Hugo Lloris,
defenders Bacary Sagna and Patrice Evra
and striker Andre-Pierre Gignac all
started, while Moussa Sissoko and goalkeeper Steve Mandanda were unused substitutes.
For the Irish, Shay Given, John
O'Shea, Glenn Whelan and Robbie Keane
started the match, while Aiden McGeady
came on in extra-time.
Both teams have claimed that the
incident six years ago will have little bearing on Sunday's tie in Lyon.
"A lot of water has gone under the
bridge since then," said France's assistant
coach Guy Stephan. "Of course we have
discussed it, but I honestly don't think it
will impact on the game."
Irish boss Martin O'Neill took a similar line, but admitted his side's 'Green
Army' of supporters want revenge.
"I think we have decided to forget
about it -- that's something coming
from Ireland," the Ireland boss said.
"It will be a talking point obviously,
but I don't think it will concern us when
we play the game."
The Irish have a few injury concerns.
Full-back Stephen Ward has an ankle
injury from the 1-0 win over Italy that
earned the last-16 berth and sat out
Friday's training.
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tendon, but ran out with the team.
Robbie Brady wrote himself
into Irish football folklore with the
headed winner in the victory over
Italy, the 24-year-old's late effort
sparking wild scenes of celebration
in the stadium and at home.
"It makes me feel proud of
where we come from and (for
me) just to be a little part of the history of that is unbelievable," said the
Norwich City midfielder.
But Ireland's assistant coach Roy
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match their performance against
Italy if they are to knock out the
host nation at the Stade de Lyon.
"If they perform the way they
did the other night, we'll give ourselves a chance," said the exManchester United midfielder
Keane.
"We were in there fighting, but
we need energy.
"We need to close people down, win
the ball back and when we do get it back,
we need to take care of it."
"We'll roll our sleeves up and get on
with it. We'll be ready."
The prize on offer for the winner is
a quarter-final against England or Iceland,
who play on Monday.
France coach Didier Deschamps has
been given food for thought in midfield.
A purposeful display in the goalless
draw with Switzerland means Newcastle
United midfielder Sissoko is pushing to
keep his place at Blaise Matuidi's expense.
Despite a low-key start to Euro 2016,
Juventus' Paul Pogba was one of the few
French stars to shine against the Swiss as
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The profile of West Ham forward
Dimitri Payet has gone through the roof
in his host country, thanks to his goals in
the wins over Romania and Albania.
In the wake of those performances,
French magazine 'Society' has ran a
cover with his head photoshopped on the
body of France's president Francois
Hollande under the headline "Payet for
president".
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goal - an own-goal - to put Wales into
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with a 1-0 win over Northern Ireland on
Saturday.
Bale's cross was aimed at teammate Hal
Robson-Kanu but it was inadvertently
tipped into the net by Northern Ireland
defender Gareth McAuley in the 75th
minute.
"We knew it was going to be an ugly
match. Obviously no disrespect to Ireland,
but they make it difficult to play (against),"
Bale said. "We knew up top we weren't going
to get a lot of the ball. There's not much
space."
The only goal threat by the Welsh before
the slightly fortuitous breakthrough came
from a free kick from Bale. For much of the
game, Northern Ireland successfully nullified the world's most expensive player and
the tournament's co-leading scorer with
three goals.
oland spent time preparing for a
penalty shootout — and it showed.
The team qualified for the quarterfinals of the European Championship for
the first time after it converted all its penalties to beat Switzerland 5-4 in a shootout.
Following a 1-1 draw Saturday that
Switzerland had dominated for long periods, Grzegorz Krychowiak stepped up to
score the winning penalty into the top left
corner.
Poland will play either Croatia or
Portugal in the quarterfinals on Thursday
in Marseille, its best performance in a
major competition since the 1982 World
Cup in Spain when it made the semifinals.
Krychowiak's winning penalty
capped an impressive display by Poland's
players during the shootout. The only
player to miss was Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka, who fired his kick wide
of the left post.
"Preparing for this match, we tried
to improve our penalties, and we knew
they'd be taken in the best possible way,"
Poland coach Adam Nawalka said
through a translator.
"We knew the five players to take
them. Emotions were running high so we
had to check at the end of extra time if
the players still wanted to take them.
Everyone had to confirm, and all five of
them did."
Towards the latter stages of the
match at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in
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the former industrial city of SaintEtienne, Poland had been pinned back
in its own half, seemingly content with
the prospect of the penalty shootout.
Jakub Blaszczykowski scored his
second goal of the tournament to give
Poland the lead in the 39th minute with
a low shot that went between the legs
of Switzerland goalkeeper Yann
Sommer.
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who danced with his daughter on the field
after the win. "We had to be patient. They
were probably the better team today. We had
to hang in there and show a lot of courage."
Wales will next play either Hungary or
Belgium in the quarterfinals in Lille on
Friday. It will be the first time Wales will
contest a quarterfinal match since the 1958
World Cup, its last appearance at a major
tournament.
In a drab British derby, it was the
Northern Irish looking more dangerous in
front of goal at the Parc des Princes in the
first half of their first major tournament
since the 1986 World Cup.
"It's devastating really," Northern Ireland
coach Michael O'Neill said. "To lose as we
did, the nature of the goal is very disappointing."
They certainly made the Welsh work
hard for their first-ever tournament knockout stage win.
"They made it difficult for us but we
showed a lot of heart, a lot of courage," Wales
coach Chris Coleman said. "The good thing
about these boys is they have that bit of spirit and when they aren't playing well they can
hang on. It wasn't pretty."
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Federation (AIFF) expressed
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regret and surprise over the sudden decision of two I-League clubs
Salgaocar SC and Sporting Clube
de Goa to pull out of the country's
top tier domestic tournament.
Terming it as a knee jerk and
speculative reaction, AIFF
General Secretary Kushal Das
said: "We along with our
Marketing partners have been
very transparent sharing our
thoughts with all stakeholders
regarding the way forward for
Indian Football.
"It was clearly stated that the
shared draft was only a proposal
and we would like suggestions
from various stakeholders. The
AIFF has been receiving various
suggestions and the last one was
received only a week back.
"Since it involves setting the
roadmap for Indian Football
every aspect needs to be carefully considered. So the assumption
made by the Clubs that AIFF has
not responded is presumptuous
and speculative," he added.
Reacting to the allegations of
the Clubs about financial matters,
Sunando Dhar, CEO, I-League
said: "The amount for fielding
age-group sides in the respective
competitions of AIFF which were
pending since 2008, was agreed in
an I-League committee meeting
that the same would be adjusted
against the I-League participation
fees. This has been in practice for
the last 3-4 years."
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Bengal on Saturday blasted the
AIFF for overlooking the I-League
clubs after two Goan giants,
Sporting Clube de Goa and
Salgaocar pulled out of the country's top tier domestic tournament.
"It's another nail in the coffin.
Now, what's left to play for in the
I-League. The president and his
entourage should play the ILeague now," East Bengal secretary Kalyan Majumdar said.
The East Bengal top boss,
however, did not specify what
would be their course of action.
Terming it a black day, Mohun
Bagan general secretary Anjan
Mitra called for an urgent meeting of all the state associations.
Switzerland equalized with an
82nd-minute bicycle kick from Xherdan
Shaqiri to send the match into extra
time. Allowed far too much space on
the edge of the area, Shaqiri jumped
with his back to the net before firing a
left-footed shot inside the post.
Shaqiri was a constant threat to
Poland with his speed of touch and play.
Switzerland substitute Eren
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it's unbeaten in its three games so
far at the European Championship, the world
champions have struggled to convert their
chances.
That was particularly evident in its final
group match against Northern Ireland when
Germany had 26 efforts on goal but only converted one through Mario Gomez.
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to the round of 16 at
Euro 2016. Its reward, a seemingly straightforward match against Slovakia in the northern
French city of Lille on Sunday.
Coach Joachim Loew knows there's a
problem and has juggled his front line during
the tournament, introducing Gomez into the
team for the match against Northern Ireland.
Though the rejigged attack created a lot
more and showed more fluency, Loew said he's
"not happy with the goal-conversion rate."
One puzzle is the performance of Mueller,
who has yet to score in eight games over two
European Championships. He arrived in
France following his best season yet for
Bayern Munich, scoring 32 goals and setting
up 12 others, helping his team to win the
Bundesliga and German Cup double.
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being the clear favorite to reach the quarterfinals surely has to be a good thing.
That's not how Belgium sees it. At least in
public, its players and coaching staff appear
wary as they prepare for Sunday's game in
Toulouse against Hungary in the round of 16.
Led by the likes of Eden Hazard and Kevin
De Bruyne, Belgium is among the teams being
tipped to win Euro 2016, while Hungary is
playing at its first major tournament since the
1986 World Cup.
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caused one upset
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thrilling 3-3 draw with Cristiano Ronaldo's
Portugal in their final group match.
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everyone, but they deserve it," Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel said. "We'll have to be careful."
Fellow midfielder Radja Nainggolan feels
Belgium has the players to at least make the
semifinals, and they have already showed their
resilience. The team opened with a 2-0 loss to
Italy, but was quick to bounce back with wins
against Ireland and Sweden to finish second
in Group E.
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latter period of extra time to win the
match but Lukasz Fabianski kept his
team in the game.
Those saves were crucial as they set
up the shootout that Poland had clearly prepared for.
"In general we are very happy as we
did something we had not done before,"
Blaszczykowski said.
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legacy as the greatest footL
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dream final against holders Chile
in the Copa America Centenario.
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admirers, the five-time world footballer of the year has already
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Sunday before a sell-out crowd of lash from critics in
"We will certainly win
on Sunday... And if we
81,000 at East Rutherford's MetLife Argentina who trot out a
don't win, they shouldn't
Stadium, the home of the NFL's familiar laundry list of
come back," Maradona
New York Giants, when Argentina grievances. He has no pastold an Argentinian television
face the Chileans in a rematch of sion. He doesn't sing the
anthem. He doesn't "feel" the shirt. network.
last year's Copa America final.
Messi is not above being
Barely a ball had been kicked
It is the third final in as many
years for Messi and his teammates, in this Copa America before angered by the criticism.
"I get annoyed by the people
who suffered agonizing defeats in Maradona, a regular sniper,
the 2014 World Cup final against accused him of lacking "personal- who attack you without thinking,"
he said in a recent interview. "We got
to two finals. We didn't win. What
can you do? But we got to the final.
It's not like we lost in the last 16."
So far in the United States,
Messi has shown no sign of being
overburdened by the pressure to
end Argentina's wait for a title.
After missing Argentina's
opening group match — a 2-1 win
over Sunday's opponents Chile —
he scored an electrifying 19minute hat-trick against Panama
after coming on as a substitute
before going on to equal Gabriel
Batistuta's Argentina goals record
in the 4-1 quarter-final win over
Venezuela.
Against the US on Tuesday, he
scored a magnificent curling freekick to become his country's leading international goalscorer with
55, while setting up two more
goals in a magical all-round display.
Since the opening loss to
Argentina on June 6, the Chileans
have improved with each game to
compile their best run of results
since Juan Antonio Pizzi replaced
Jorge Sampaoli as manager in
January.
They humiliated Mexico with
a 7-0 thrashing in the quarterfinals and polished off Colombia
2-0 in the semi-finals.
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Why not? I would love to take this
franchise forward. But I would like
someone to write a good script and
someone else to direct. I won’t direct
it the next time. Acting and directing simultaneously is a bit too
much.
Q How have the action sequences
changed?
We still like to do that hero-hitting-villain-flying concept. I
wanted to move away from
that and make it real.
There is the use of
technology but it’s
not
advanced
enough in India to
make it look real6811<'(2/
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PRAKRITI ROY catches up with DEOL
our
chase
before the TV premiere of his film Ghayal
sequences were
Once Again on Zee Cinema tonight at
pretty real.
8.30 pm to talk about his plans for the
Q What do you
next few months, his tryst with
enjoy the most —
direction & production and
acting, directing or
what he feels about
producing?
censorship
Acting is great fun,
nothing better than it. In direc-
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tion, you get to create something and
say what you want to say in totality.
It’s a bit tougher than acting as you
have to control a team. Production is
comparatively harder. It’s like a baraat
that’s with you for 100 days and you
never know kab kaun naraaz ho jata
hai.
Q Your views on the new actors?
There are various kinds of new
actors these days. Some believe that
they can become actors through their
six pack. Some think dancing will
make them actors. Some feel that they
can just look the part and be good
actors. And then there are few jinko
acting ka bhoot sawaar hai. They are
quietly working. I can’t recall names
but there are some like Abhay (Deol)
who are doing great work. Abhay does
cinema he believes in.
Q Any friends in the industry?
We make friends only during
school. After that, it’s convenience.
Q What about your son Karan’s
debut film? Any advice from you?
I am on it. We are in the pre-production stage. No advice as such but
as a parent I can only teach him what
is right and wrong. After a certain age,
you do what you want to do.
Q What films are you working on?
Right now I am entirely focussed
on Karan’s film. Apart from that, I’m
shooting Bhaiyyaji Superhit where I
am in a double role with co-stars
Preity Zinta and Ameesha Patel. I am
also part of the remake of the
Marathi film Poshter Boyz, directed
by Shreyas Talpade. Bobby (Deol),
Shreyas and I are acting in it. I am
in talks with SS Rajamouli for my
next production.
Q Any new movies you’ve enjoyed?
I don’t watch movies. I have only
seen my dad’s films. I’ve still not seen
Ghayal. I was so busy making it!
Q Your film Mohalla Assi (2010) got
stuck with the Censor Board
because of abusive language…
What can one say about controversies? Some producers know how to
cash in on it, some don’t. The producers of Mohalla Assi are still fighting for its release. I hope it sees the
light of day. I don’t think there was
anything objectionable in it.
Q Your thoughts on censorship?
As creative people, we never
want any curbs on our work. But
there’s a board sitting there to correct
us. Whether they are right or wrong
is an unending debate. I would want
only certification. People deciding
these things should look at films as
works of fiction. Many times, other
parties get involved, which should not
be the case. Actually, we need to censor Internet and TV where people
often get away with anything.
Q Does your father Dharmendra
comment on your films?
He tells me when my films are
good. But it’s more fun if he says“Yeh
kyun kiya? Nahi karna chahiye thha.”
Q Would you like to do a biopic?
That has become a fad these days.
I am not a great believer but if the subject is good and the character interesting I will do it, but not for the sake
of doing it.
Q If there was anyone you could
work with again, who would it be?
I wish it was possible for me to
work with Amrish Puriji. I don’t think
there is another person who comes
even close to him in acting.
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been creating a lot of buzz lately, what
with his ‘raped woman’ comments
and the alleged ban imposed on Arijit
Singh from doing playback for him. But
what has really caught people’s attention
in the film’s trailer is his langot or chaddi, as many like to call it.
The Bhai of Bollywood was quite
uncomfortable with the idea of wrestling
on the 70 mm screen wearing just a langot. Even director Ali Abbas Zafar says
how difficult it was to convince him to
wear it. But as we can all see, they managed it somehow.
When the poster was initially
released, many twitterati took to trolling
it, saying that it looked photoshopped.
However, there are supporters as well, and
none other than Aamir Khan, who said
at a Press conference that Salman looks
handsome in a langot. Even Salman
Khan told his fans through Twitter that
he designed the langot himself as “My only
concern with the langot was that it
shouldn’t look vulgarish #Sultan”.
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who was nothing short of a hunk with Keemat (1998) where Akshay Kumar
Not many would remember that this Satta don’t quite make the cut.
It is when an A-list actor appears on Greek God looks even back when could be seen in briefs and all his hairy
is not the first time Salman wore something like this on screen. The actor who screen sans shirt and pants that people untoned and hairy bods were in vogue, glory. His fans wouldn’t mind seeing him
is infamous for being shirtless wore long really get talking. And our Sallu Bhai is not sizzled the screen with his model-like in underwear now though, as he is pretty much hairless and extremely fit.
swimming trunks in a song for Hum the first one either, now will he be the last. body and his toned abs.
Rangeela (1993) saw Jaggu dada aka
King Khan Shah Rukh Khan also gave
One might remember veteran actor
Aapke Hain Kaun. In fact, he also wore a
bikini in his 1990 film Baaghi, unbeliev- Dharmendra in the film Dharam Veer the audience a peek into what he looks like Jackie Shroff wearing the briefest of
(1977). Although he did not exactly wear in the briefest of trunks in a song for the briefs. And how can the image of
able as it may sound.
While bikini-clad Bollywood actress- a chaddi, the skirt donned by him was dan- movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Shakti Kapoor posing for a magazine in
the 90s in just a blue cloth around his
es still make news (Alia Bhatt in Shaandar gerously short. Then there is Big B. Given (1995).
There is the hairy brigade, of course. loins ever leave anyone’s memory?
was the latest), an actor in his underwear his stature and the elegance associated with
Before Salman Khan made waves
makes for an even better headline. There the Bachchan family, seeing the film Don Anil Kapoor played a swimming instrucare exceptions to this, of course. That gang now, where he wears tiny swimming tor in Tezaab (1988). His job description, with his chaddi, it was John Abraham
of naive first-years in 3 Idiots saying trunks, will come as a shocker for many. in a way, entitles him to wear only the in Dostana (2008) who had all the
A memorable shot of a swimming trunks on screen, despite how cringe- women, and probably even men who
“Jahanpanah….tohfa qubool kijiye” and
were so inclined, drooling over his hot
the hooligan brothers named after days trunks-clad actor is that of Kabir Bedi worthy he may look.
Then there was the scene from bod. He had not one but two scenes in the
of the week from the 70s film Satte Pe from Khoon Bhari Maang (1988). Bedi,
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Not really. I’d always wanted to work with
Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin again because
I had such a good time making the first one. I didn’t consider it until they called. By that time I was
hoping that it would come to me because I loved
what I heard.
Q Your character David has changed over the
years. Is he still a reluctant hero?
He’s nothing if not conscientious. He is seriously immersed in his challenging job. He finds the
technological advances interesting. But even after
20 years, we’re still processing the loss of three
billion people.
Q How was this one
different from the last?
It’s not very different. Roland’s way of
filmmaking felt familiar.
He’s grown, the technology has grown and
the whole size of this
movie is bigger. There is
some impressive CGI.
Q How was it working
with people who were
fans of the first film?
Liam, with whom I
had a few scenes, couldn’t have been more
delightful. I’m not sure what he knows of my work.
We didn’t really talk about that, but I’d seen all the
Hunger Games movies and was interested in his
work. He’s an instinctual and admirable artist.
Q What about the aliens?
Well, we can’t travel like they do. They travel
using wormholes. And they have more knowledge.
But in some ways they seem to reflect our own
small stupidities. We learn from them some of what
we need to learn about ourselves.
Q Is there anything else that’s new?
Yes, we’re all in the same boat, the planet is fragile and human beings are all part of a family and
not to work in accordance with that is stupid and
unnecessary.
film where his extremely worked out body
was visible for all to see. In fact, audience even got a slight peek into what
was beneath the trunks. The yellow
swimming trunks remain etched in
everyone’s memory. In fact, the scene
became so popular that Tushar Kapoor
paid a tribute to it with a spoof in Kya
Superkool Hain Hum.
Finally, there is Dishoom that will
also hit the screens soon. John will be
seen once again wearing an extremely
tiny swim suit. And this time, the effect
will be doubled because joining him in
the exact same ‘outfit’ is none other than
his co-star in the film, Varun Dhawan,
who described the experience as “fun”.
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film industry for almost two
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decades now. The man who started as
a background dancer for Rangeela in
1995 recently won the National Award
for his choreography of the song
Deewani mastani from the film Bajirao
Mastani. The ace dance guru has a lot
on his plate right now, what with
Dance+ Season 2 starting from July 2,
2016 and his film projects happening
simultaneously. But he is not complaining because he says, “Dance is my
life. Woh hai toh main hoon. It’s as
important to me as breathing.”
Remo recalls his first ever audition
for a background dance that became a
life-changing moment. “I auditioned for
Rangeela. They wanted 50 dancers and
about 250 people turned up. They made
their choice without even seeing me
dance because of my looks. I was very
thin, very dark and didn’t have good
clothes. Ab AC mein rehke achha
dikhne laga hun! That is the moment I
will never forget. I requested them not
to reject me on my looks. Finally they
saw me dance and I got selected,” he
reminisces.
At that point in his life, his only
dream was “kuch toh banna hai”.
Now, that he has been recognised for his work with the
highest honour India has to
offer, he feels, “That dream
is back now. National
Award mila hai. I will
work harder to prove that
I deserve this and more.
It’s still the same feeling.”
For Remo, music
and dance are incomplete without each
other. “They have such
a positive effect on
you. Whenever I hear
music, I am at peace. I
feel a vibe and the
moves come to me
automatically. Like
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between the music and feet is the perfect dance combo.”
During his struggle days, Remo
shares, he had an experience that reinforced his belief in dance. He taught at
Maa Kali Ashram in Mumbai’s Andheri
to earn a living when he didn’t have
films. A special child came to him to
learn dance as a therapy. “The way he
learnt from me despite his physical
problem was very special and an eyeopener. That experience has left a deep
impact on me,” he tells you.
With his Deewani mastani choreography and the accolades he won for
it, Remo has silenced all who associated him only with western dance styles.
In fact, he tells you that Indian styles are
superior as it involves “using your body,
face and expressions”. He agrees that in
India, traditional styles are being overshadowed by western styles. “The
biggest example of this is my Bengali
film on the martial folk dance — chhau.
I made the film in 2008 and it has still
not been released. This year, I will try
to release it. I have a feeling I can do it
now,” he says. But he also believes in
bringing other dance styles to India.
“I would love to make a film on
ballet. People would be
encouraged to learn it from
a very small age,” he says.
Despite his own
expertise in various
dance forms, Remo
doesn’t believe that it’s
all about versatility.
“Through Dance+,
we want to break
that perception
and let the contestants do
what they
are good at.
In the
process,
I also
learn.
There are dancers coming with forms
I’ve never even heard of like Ghetto and
Dance Hall,” he says. Dance styles are
not the only new thing that one will see
on Dance+ 2. Super Judge Remo will
also be seen hosting some episodes
along with Raghav Juyal. “Raghav is very
funny. Standing with him and hosting
will be a challenge. He doesn’t listen to
me, he’s like a naughty kid. But he is a
bit afraid of me as well. We share a great
rapport, so it should be fun,” he elaborates.
The choreographer, who has two
sons aged 12 and 15 years-old, tells you
that neither of his sons are interested in
dancing. While one wants to be an
author, the other wants to play football.
Remo himself, however, knew at a
young age that he had to be a dancer.
He shares, “I used to live in Jamanagar,
Gujarat. That time, there was no cable,
only video cassettes available for rent.
I saw the video of Michael Jackson’s
Thriller at a friend’s place and couldn’t
believe how could anyone move like
that! I managed to collect C25 and rented the cassette. That is where I learnt
my first dance steps from.”
For now, Remo is also producing
a film starring Shakti Mohan (a captain
on Dance+) and Salman Yusuf Khan.
The film is the fulfillment of a promise
made to both the dancers during
Dance India Dance2. He is also directing a film that will star Ajay Devgn. “I
have made everyone dance, except
Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. So
that is still on the bucket list. As for Ajay,
that will be my test as a choreographer,” says the dnce master who has been
lucky till now to get actors like Ranbir
Kapoor and Deepika Padukone who are
good dancers.
There are hundreds like Remo who
dream of making it big as a dancer.
Remo’s advises: “Believe in yourself.
Unless you do that, why will anyone
believe in you? Work hard. Most
important is to have patience.”
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screening their film at Cannes Film
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Festival. There are even fewer who can proudly claim that at age 23. Varun Chopra is one
of those few.
After having screened his documentary
God on a Leash at Cannes, Varun is on a high.
The documentary was shot in Delhi, his
hometown, and documents two niche communities — the madaaris and the
beherupiyas. The film explores the concept
of veneration of God and regressive ancestral practices. It opens a window to an embellished niche world through comparative contrast with an unembellished human experience.
“The film draws parallels between the life
of a captured monkey family: 20-year-old
Dharmendra, his 15-year-old mate Hema and
their offspring Isha. All these personalities
travel from place to place with their human
master Daleep. These animals are dressed up
and made to perform human-like actions for
public amusement. Amid all the frolic lies the
true reality of how they are being mistreated and trained: Their teeth are taken out, they
are starved and kept in a pathetic state in an
area infested by flies and mosquitoes and tied
to a rusted iron leash.”
The documentary also follows the life of
a child from the behrupiya (impressionist)
community who dresses up like a monkey
and mimics the animal, again as a public
spectacle. The impressionist community is in
dire straits, trying to preserve a 1000-year art
form. “The behrupiyas are illiterate and in
poverty due to lack of alternate skills.
Without rehabilitation, they will continue to
be thrashed in the unbreakable cycle of physical, social and material oppression,” Varun
says.
The subject of the film came to the 23year-old from his childhood memories of
watching similar performances. “Making
the film helped me unravel the intricacies of
this of this performative space,” he tells you.
While Varun is doing his Masters in film
production at the School of Film and
Television, Loyola Marymount University,
US, he has spent most of his life in Delhi. He
went to Delhi
Public S chool,
Mathura Road, and
later to Ramjas
College for graduation
in
Mathematics. It
was at DU that he
came in touch with
the theatre scene
in Delhi. He always
wanted to get into
filmmaking but “it
needs courage to
come to terms with
what you really
want, to prove it to
yourself before you
begin to prove others”. For him, it
involved a journey from crunching numbers
in a math class to auditioning for small parts
in indie films.
Although he enjoys cinematography and
editing, his heart lies in direction. “I remember shooting play-acting with my cousins.
Most of the time I would feature in them, but
the idea of creating something was more
meaningful than the content,” he says.
God on a Leash was part of Court
Metrage, the short film corner at Cannes. It
was selected and featured through The
Creative Minds Shorts Selection. For Varun,
the Cannes experience was a lesson in
humility. “It was humbling. At Cannes, you
are only as good as your film. There are veteran filmmakers and producers who have
been coming to the festival for 15 years. There
is much sense in listening and grasping from
the greats instead of blowing your own trumpet. I learnt so much just from talking to people. Everyone has that little experience that
leaves you better informed. I talked to film
producers, actors, distributors, investors and
even entertainment lawyers,” Varun tell you.
Making a documentary is not how Indian
filmmakers usually like to start their career.
The ultimate dream is to have a feature film
with a huge budget and a star name. Varun
has worked on many shorts before, but for
his first film, he felt that the documentary
style would be the best to tell the story he
wanted to narrate. “There are many hurdles
to cross before moving to feature films. That
comes only with time and proving one's credibility as a filmmaker,” he admits.
Considering that he is one of a handful
of people representing India at Cannes, that
is if you don’t count the Bollywood divas, and
that he is studying at an international film
school, Varun is someone who can give you
a picture of how Indian cinema is seen
abroad. “We are everywhere. Literally. I am
a novice to comment on any statistical
standings but people have started to recognise the likes of Anurag Kashyap or Q
(Quashik Mukherjee) as frontrunners of
alternate Indian cinema.” he reveals.
Right now, Varun is working on a lot of
new projects, including a feature film script.
His next project is based on a true story of
at-risk kids in foster care. It will go into production this October and is to be shot in
California. Varun’s motto? Making his films
to tell poignant stories that have a personal
connect with him.
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release its first cut-off list for
undergraduate courses on June
30, its St Stephen’s College had
announced its own list last
week on June 20. The cut-off required for
admission into English Honours at Stephen’s
was 99 per cent! As comedian Vir Das summed
it up, “Stephen’s English cut-off is 99 per cent;
which means to study English, you probably
have to get 100 per cent in Physics, Chemistry,
Economics, History, Maths etc.”
This time every year, it has consistently been
the same farce that has dragged students by the
reins of a ludicrous monopoly of marks, of quantity over quality that eventually finds thousands
of students on the edges of despair and disillusionment. Not only do they battle the ordeal of
getting into the university, appropriate alternative
options that Humanities students have in this
country are few and far between. India’s
unhealthy obsession with medical and engineering sciences has clouded the vision of its finest
students and has reduced academic integrity and
intensive research to a state of doom.
At the same time, DU is not to be blamed
either. With the unbelievably lenient and excessive marking patterns of CBSE, school students
easily score over 80 and 90 per cent and apply
to DU for undergraduate studies. With thousands vying for 50-100 seats in every classroom,
the university has no option other than setting
up sky-high percentages to ensure that only the
fittest eventually survives. In fact, five days
before the registrations to undergraduate courses in the university were closed, two lakh students had reportedly already applied for 60,000
seats. By the time the registration process was
completed on June 19, the number of applicants
must have substantially increased.
Established in 1922, DU has consistently
showcased excellence in teaching and research and
has been the epitome of academic superiority for
other universities in the country. Its rich heritage
and records of intellectual distinction are unparalleled. But where do these thousands of rejected
students go when the frontiers they aspire for a
successful future lead them to a dead end? Looks
like the Delhi-NCR region now has a few answers
to this poignant question.
While much cynicism has generated about private universities mushrooming particularly in the
NCR, some of them seem to have genuinely
assumed the mantle of furnishing a forum for aspiring undergraduates. The fully residential Ashoka
University, set up in 2013, is one such option.
It is a private, non-profit university that seeks
to offer its students a multidisciplinary liberal
education; education that would substantially blur
the boundaries between arts and sciences, while
emphasising learning as a sacred responsibility. It
offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the humanities, social sciences
and fundamental natural sciences. It claims that
two third of its students are supported by scholarships and other forms of financial aid so that meritorious students can afford this expensive private
education. With state-of-the-art amenities available on its huge, posh campus, students are
exposed to the finest academic and extracurricular facilities, such as running its own newspaper,
creative workshops, a 24x7 library, a gym, cricket
pitch, football field with flood lights, a 10-m
shooting range, swimming pool, tennis, running
track, basketball, squash courts, and much more.
Its academic partners include University of
Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences; University of California,
Berkeley; University of Michigan; Sciences Po,
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Dublin; and Yale University. These partnerships extend to the development of faculty
exchanges, summer abroad programmes for
students and research projects. Its academic
council members include Kaushik Basu, Senior
Vice-President and Chief Economist, World
Bank; historian and author Ramachandra
Guha; global scholar Christophe Jaffrelot; Sunil
Khilnani, professor and director, King’s India
institute, among many other such illustrious
names. Its mentors are Basu; Robert Greenhill,
CEO World Economic Forum; Narayan
Murthy, co-founder, Infosys, and so on.
Stanford University’s professor and author
Saikat Majumdar, who is also one of Ashoka’s
visiting faculty members, says: “At Ashoka, my
special focus is the development of English as a
language of global literature. I also teach courses on literary modernism and interdisciplinary
critical theory. The professors have full freedom
in designing the courses. They are part of a
larger curriculum for the respective majors as
well as part of the general education requirements for the students, but individual texts and
assignments are up to the discretion of individual professors. For instance, in my class on
world literature in English, which I taught last
monsoon semester, I chose a selection of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and criticism from different parts of the global British Empire which I
taught through a combination of lectures, interactive discussion, multimedia presentation, as
well as smaller discussion sections led by a
teaching assistant once a week.”
Majumdar believes that the students at
Ashoka are, in fact, even better than his students
at Stanford, as in addition to intellectual excellence, these students brings a sense of history, a
political sense of one’s position in the world,
which he says he has not encountered often in
American students, bright as they are. Though he
does add, “It is very hard to compare Ashoka,
only in its third year now, with Stanford, which is
a major research university, now in its 125th year.
As of now, Ashoka offers more of the environment and the culture of elite liberal arts and science college rather than a research university,
though it is slated to open graduate and postgraduate divisions for individual disciplines soon
and so will also develop its research resources
more intensively. Presently, it probably compares
better with colleges such as Williams, Kenyon,
and Oberlin. The key thing is that Ashoka does
not plan to offer professional education, such as
in medicine, business and law, but emphasises
fundamental liberal arts and sciences education,
often in an interdisciplinary context, which is a
foundation on which any career or further training can be based, as it offers more of a lifetime
education rather than for a specific kind of job.”
Many universities that have evolved in the
Delhi-NCR region in the past share the sentiment
that they seek to revolutionise higher education in
India. All and sundry are making the claim that
they are substantially distanced from money-making schemes and will not propagate capitalist
greed placing education in the dock. So what is it
that makes Ashoka stand apart in the otherwise
cutthroat money-making dissection of the culture
of learning? Majumdar replies, “India, along with
its other Asian neighbours such as China and
Singapore, is now beginning to see a revival of liberal arts and sciences education. Many employers
in India are beginning to tire of employing monochromatic engineers of a single and linear kind of
training, and are looking to employ those who can
productively integrate humanistic, scientific, and
interpersonal aptitudes. While public education is
essential, India also needs a culture of elite private
institutions which can offer this kind of education
without the trappings of Governmental bureaucracy at every step. This is what private liberal arts
colleges and Ivy League institutions have achieved
in the US. Ashoka and other leading private, nonprofit liberal arts and sciences institutions are a
necessary step in this direction.
“They will serve and prepare some of the best
students in India, who are now beginning to
decide to stay back rather than leave for similar
institutions in the West. The hope is that this
reinvigorates the tradition of liberal arts and sciences education — which has existed in India
since Nalanda and Takshashila — but was stifled
by a British colonial university system. It will create a vibrant workforce for the new economy and
an educated and conscientious citizenry.”
This line of thinking is inspiring but it also
makes one wonder if higher education in India
will tend to be exclusivist and overly elitist. While
one is not sure where one can draw the line, the
growing popularity of such universities is soon
becoming inescapable. To cite another example,
the Shiv Nadar University (SNU) was established
in Greater Noida in 2011. Founded by Shiv Nadar,
a renowned Indian industrialist and philanthropist, the university with a 286-acre, fully residential campus claims to share the objective of
expanding similar higher education facilities.
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many years ago still
maintains his dominant
presence on both sides
of undivided Punjab,
although he is almost forgotten in
the city where he was born in 1810.
Sir Donald Friell McLeod, the East
India Company’s Lieutenant
Governor of Punjab, still has a road
named after him in Lahore. The
Indian part of Punjab, which was
later included in Himachal Pradesh,
still has a panoramic hill station
named after him on the lap of
Himalayas under the shadow of the
splendid Dhauladhar range.
McLeod Ganj, the hill town of
Himachal, was once a dream retreat
for the European community living
in this part of India who found it a
fitting replacement for Darjeeling
and Shimla, the other two preferred
hill stations where our former
rulers found their second home.
Though McLeod Ganj was
never blessed with huge development such as railways, top class
educational institutes and the best
of luxur y hotels — all that
Darjeeling and Shimla got over the
years — it was still a piece of little
Europe for many who left their
homes for this country years ago.
Walking down the memory
lane will show us that three historical incidents shaped the growth of
McLeod Ganj in the past 165 years.
The first was in 1850, just after the
second Anglo-Sikh war, after which
the East India Company took control of Kangra Valley and a garrison was set up in the upper part of
Dharamsala, then a small village.
It was the time when Lord Elgin
fell in love with the hill town, which
boomed with activity. Then came
the devastating earthquake of
Kangra Valley on April 4, 1904, that
left 19,400 people dead and
destroyed the entire region. This
made the place lose its shine in
comparison to Shimla, which
became the new favourite destina-
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tion of Europeans to set up home.
After 1947, with India’s
Independence, McLeod Ganj
almost became a ghost town.
It, however, got a new lease of
life in 1959 when the 14th Dalai
Lama, the spiritual Buddhist leader
of Tibet, fled his homeland after a
failed armed uprising against the
Communist Party of China and
took refuge here with a large number of Tibetan aristocrats and common people. Soon, the Tibetan
Government in exile was set up here
and the city, which was once a
peaceful home for many Europeans,
became a bustling mini Tibet.
No colonial hill station of India
changed its character as drastically as McLeod Ganj did and that is
why it is still exceptionally attractive. The radiant touch of the
British is still visible in its dilapidated houses, decaying shops, neardestroyed burial ground, and a
well-built church.
The romance with McLeod
Ganj starts from the city square
which was once a picture postcard
arena but is now an overcrowded
traffic jungle. Here stands a silent
solder of time in the form of a fade
shop which has been witnessing the
people of the place since 1860.
As unbelievable as it may
sound, the Nowrojee & Son shop
founded in 1860 was once the lifeline of this town because it was the
only place that ensured the supply
chain of commodities to the
European dwellers here. From the
best quality wine to chocolate or the
latest European matchbox to British
newspapers, every single domestic
need was met by this shop. It even
had its own postal service!
Today the shop is not even a
shadow of its past but still bears testimony of a bygone era. It still has
old furniture, giant glass jars, cabinets, electrical lampholders and
switch boards. The wall is full of
publicity materials of petrol, soda
water and cigarettes for brands that
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the ceiling reads: “The Statesman —
the dependable daily”, clearly implying what was the most preferred
newspaper of Europeans in that era.
Another interesting spot is the
St John’s Church built in 1852 to
serve British soldiers and their
families. A masterpiece of typical
European architecture, the church
is built of hand-cut local granite
stone placed block by block.
The wide range of Dhauladhar
Himalaya is visible from its courtyard.
Many years ago, this panorama captivated the attention of one man —
James Bruce, the eighth Earl of
Elgin, who after serving in Canada,
Jamaica and China finally landed in
India to serve as the Viceroy of the
East India Company. He loved the
place so much that he sent three deodar saplings from here to his home,
Broomhall House near Edinburgh,
where they still stand tall.
However, Elgin died in an accident here in 1863 when he fell off
his horse. He was buried in the
church ground selected by Lady
Elgin considering her husband’s
affection for this place.
The simple yet beautiful grave
of Elgin still stands with a star on
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one of India’s leading stylists
and fashion entrepreneurs, represent the modern Indian young
woman’s grace and flamboyance. Her
fashion website — Pernia’s Pop-Up
Shop — showcases the works of
India’s top designers, including
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Manish
Malhotra, JJ Valaya, Ritu Kumar,
Rohit Bal, Tarun Tahiliani, Satya
Paul, Masaba Gupta, and many more.
The website leads the style-savvy
customer to an extraordinary range
of the trendiest looks of the season
from Indian labels. Pernia’s signature
festive collection is Amrapali, for
which actress Sonam Kapoor was the
showstopper recently.
Pernia says, “The Amrapali collection is based on the 1960s’ era in
which the fashion revolved around
everything sexy and exquisite. We
have a lot of draped silhouettes, dhoti
pants, cut-outs, bustiers, and dabka
embroidery. So while it is inspired by
India, it is also very modern.”
Given her glorious list of clients,
one may wonder if they ever face
major creative clashes. She replies,
“The most important aspect about
handling clients is keeping communications open. The people involved
need to talk about the issue and discuss their feelings about any creative
clash, and that’s our mantra.”
What makes Pernia’s collection
unique is that it is inspired by the yesteryear film of the same name starring Vyjayanthimala as the royal
courtesan in the ancient empire of
Magadha. She adds, “The clothes in
the film are so exquisite and sexy yet
Indian; I thought every frame was a
painting. The music and the choreography in the film have also always
inspired me. I thought there could be
a modern version of the costumes —
that’s where the thought came from.”
Shehla Khan, on the other hand,
is designer to some of the leading
Hindi film actresses such as Priyanka
Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Jacqueline
Fernandez, and Sonam Kapoor, and
recently launched her spring collection. It entails short dresses, jump
suits, jackets and evening gowns
with intricate embroidery, digital
printing and other special techniques.
The line has been created with the
help of the Indian craftsmanship
and using the finest textiles.
Sensuous gowns as well short
dresses grace the collection enriching it with perfectionism and rejuve-
nating modernity. The range displays
an array of dynamic colours and varying styles apt for both day wear and
evenings out. She says, “It’s called ‘A
Sky full of Stars’, which is basically my
version of how I visualise the sky. It’s
a dreamy, surreal interpretation of elements of the sky: Stars, rainbows,
clouds. I have tried to depict all these
elements in my embroidery techniques in a somewhat different
approach, such as clouds of different
colours, a rainbow with clusters of
stars or even tiny flowers shown as
starbursts.”
About what is crucial for her
while designing, she says, “Sticking to
what I believe in first and foremost,
the fabric quality, finish and fit must
excel in quality, and lastly being
original with my ideas. Of course, we
all do take inspiration from various
other designers but I believe that
everyone has their own identity and
it’s unnecessary to try and imitate
that.” Probably that is why, Shehla says
she also does not feel pressurised having to deal with her superstar clients.
Far from being trapped in creative
confrontation and tantrums among
the stars, Shehla chooses to invest in
their individual charms and strengths.
She explains, “They all have a
sound knowledge of fashion. For
example, Sonam can add her own
insights to the outfit. Kareena is also
a pleasure to work with because she
is so beautiful that just anything looks
like it’s made of gold on her. That’s the
same with Katrina. Again, Karishma
can make the most plain outfit look
ultra chic.”
When it comes to tips for readers, both Pernia and Shehla have constructive fashion tips to share. Pernia
believes, “Styling is an expression of
a person’s vision and varies from person to person. It portrays a sense of
individuality. I think a sari can
never go out of style. But when it
comes to crocs, I detest them and will
never try them on!”
Shehla says, “My favourite fashion statement is always own what you
wear and if you can’t own it, then
don’t wear it. This is how faux pas
take place when fashion is forced on
someone. Spring advice is to go as
easy as you can. Less is more, bare
your shoulders with a pretty blouse
or a flowy dress. Rip your jeans as
much as possible or cut them off into
shorts and make it look chic with a
pretty blouse and heels. If you can
afford to show it, then flaunt it!”
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its top, with an iron railing encircling it. The grave has a marble
tablet with the introduction of
Lord Elgin, a man with whom this
place will always remain emotionally intertwined. Lady Elgin also
donated two Belgian stained glass,
which are still seen here.
The bell of the church has its
own story. After the earthquake, the
church was almost destroyed and its
bell tower collapsed, breaking the
bell into pieces. Soon a donation
drive was started to buy a new bell
for the church, and finally in 1915,
a new bell arrived but it was too
heavy to be installed on the top. So
it was placed on the left side of the
main gate. After local criminals
tried to steal it in 1994, the bell was
put under lock and key.
The real magic of a bygone era
can be best felt by visiting the burial
ground next to the church. Prevailing
in utter decay and extreme negligence,
the graveyard still has several marble and granite tablets announcing
many deaths. Earthquake, epidemics,
bear attacks, war and fever took several lives of Europeans who called
this town home.
The social scenario of Mcleod
Ganj took a dramatic turn from
1959, when the Dalai Lama was
given shelter by the Nehru
Government. Overnight a small
sleepy hill town with a colonial touch
got converted into a mini Tibet with
a flood of refugees who came with
their own language and culture.
Today it is known as mini
Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and the
evidence is palpable in every corner
of the town. In some places, there
are more Tibetans than Indians on
the road. Its shops are full of Chinamade Buddhist worshiping commodities and its air is heavy with
religious chants as well as political
slogans. Posters demanding Tibet’s
freedom or anti-China sentiments
are on the walls, and Tsuglag Khang
or the Dalai Lama temple, is the centre of Buddhist religious teaching
and as a museum of Tibet’s struggle for independence. The giant
Buddha statue faced towards Tibet
along with Padmasambhava and
Avalokiteshvara will surely blow
your mind.
The 11-headed Avalokiteshvara
statue has its own history. The original statue was established by King
Songtsen Gampo in the seventh
century at the central cathedral of
Lhasa, only to be destroyed by
Chinese soldiers in 1967. Fleeing
Tibetans somehow salvaged some
bits of the face and sneaked them
into Mcleod Ganj via Nepal. Here
they reconstructed the replica of
the statue in 1970. Inside the
complex, there is Kalachakra temple and Namgyalma stupa, a
memorial dedicated to those who
lost their lives in Tibet.
The centre also runs a well-documented museum vividly describing Tibet’s rich Hindu and Buddhist
legacy and its plunder at the hands
of China. The Tibetan theatre is
often performed here.
Just 14 km from Mcleod Ganj
stands the Norbulingka or the jewel
park. This is the replica of the last
summer palace of the Dalai Lama in
Tibet and houses an excellent museum and handicraft centre. The doll
museum and the Tibetan national
museum are also worth a visit.
The Thangka painting centre,
wood carving centre, and metal art
craft centre are full of talented
Tibetan craftsmen who settled in
India over a period of time. Over
and above there is a peerless view
of the Dhauladhar range, one of the
best ranges of the Himalayas. On a
clear day, when the snow-capped
peaks appear over the horizon and
the last beams of the sun rest on the
snow, it looks like heaven.
Today with many memories
and pain, Mcleod Ganj still stands
apart. It has regained its position as
the perfect hill retreat and its glory
is burning as bright as the flickering
flame of Buddhist butter lamps.
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research-focused university offering a range of academic programmes at the undergraduate, postgraduate and
doctoral levels. Sadaf Khan,
its Public Relations Officer,
says, “SNU offers an undergraduate curriculum that is
unique in India. It is designed
to allow students to major in
a particular subject while also
studying and experimenting
with a range of other minor
and elective subjects.
“As far as placements are
concerned, the first two graduating classes have been
placed in over 50 top-ranked
Indian and global companies,
including Dell, Edelweiss,
Larsen & Toubro, Axis Bank,
among others. Over 13 per
cent of the graduating class
of 2016 has secured admissions in Masters and
Doctoral programmes in
some of the top international
universities including the
University of Michigan, Duke
University, University of
Illinois, University of
California, University of
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Massachusetts, University
College London etc. In India,
the university’s students have
been selected by IIM
Lucknow and ISB Hyderabad
to pursue higher education.”
SNU is reportedly also
building global partnerships
with some of the best
institutions around the
world, including Carnegie
Mellon University, Duke
University, the University of
Pennsylvania, and so on.
Within the NCR region, it is
a full-time residential university with hostel facilities
separate for boys and girls.
The campus also has a post
office, a mini shopping complex, a bank, and a salon for
the students as well as entailing tuck shops, a night café
and a coffee shop.
It also boasts of a gym
and sports facilities of high
standards. It has synthetic
basketball and lawn tennis
courts with flood lights, volleyball courts, a football
ground, cricket field, two
fitness centres, badminton
courts, a yoga room, and
rooms for indoor sports.
About its admission procedure, Khan says, “SNU has a
comprehensive, multi-dimensional selection process which
consists of a basic eligibility
score based on Class 12 board
scores. Students fulfilling this
eligibility criterion are encouraged to apply to the university
where they are required to
appear for a two-hour Shiv
Nadar University Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SNUSAT)
and a one-hour Academic
Proficiency Test (APT). Based
on a comprehensive assessment of performance in all
the stages, the best of the students are selected.”
SNU’s fees ranges between
C6 lakh and C9.4 lakh for a
period of four years depend-
ing on the programme the
student wants to pursue. At
the same time, it also offers
scholarships to all the students
enrolled in undergraduate
programmes covering part/full
expenses for the entire duration of the course. Almost 90
per cent of the students at
SNU are on scholarships.
This year, it announced that
C35 crore has been earmarked
for scholarships alone.
Another such university
sharing similar academic
objectives is the Ambedkar
University Delhi (AUD),
which was established by the
Government of the National
Capital Territory of Delhi
through Dr B R Ambedkar
Vishwavidyalaya Act, 2007,
and notified on July 29, 2008.
Sarmistha Roy, its Deputy
Registrar, says: “AUD’s aim is
to reconceptualise social sciences and orient them to face
new challenges posed by
social, political and economic
realities of our times. At present, we have seven UG programmes, 19 PG courses and
14 research programmes. We
have 103 permanent faculty
members and 1,757 students.”
About the ethics of the
institution, she says, “The idea
is to create professionals/practitioners who are self-reflective, methodologically trained,
informed, skilled and sensitive
to social and political realities.
It strives to raise their consciousness above caste, class,
religion, gender, environment,
and other domains that
engender marginalisation and
discrimination.”
Soft skills development,
Roy says, forms an integral
part of education at AUD.
The university has stipulated
a norm of 25 per cent of curricular time to be assigned
for field-based learning experiences acquired through
internships, field attachments, field immersion,
team-building exercises, and
research projects. Students
are guided to develop
research proposals and tools,
collect data and analyse it in
the research courses, fieldbased projects and in the dissertation components.
Roy also mentions that
several postgraduate programmes have components
like a self-development
workshop or a basic research
skill training/writing workshop that facilitate and
enhance personal and professional skills development.
The MPhil Development
Practice programme has a
course on group processes in
every semester.
Tuition Fees for
Undergraduate Programmes
(BA Hons) is C1,100 per credit
(96 credits in three years), for
Postgraduate and Research
Programmes C1,380 per credit
where PG credits range from
64 to 70 in two years. At the
same time, the university
extends full waiver of tuition
fees to all students belonging
to SC, ST, and PwD. A comprehensive fee-waiver policy is
also adopted for meritorious
but underprivileged students.
Roy mentions, “The university offers full and partial
tuition fee waivers to students
who are in need of support
given their economic background. Students with an
annual family income of less
than C6 lakh will be considered for tuition fee waiver.”
For the differently-abled,
scheduling classes on the
ground floor and a provisional washroom are some measures undertaken. The university is in the process of
putting in place some facilities
at its campuses at Kashmere
Gate and Karampura, includ-
ing the hostel it shares with
IGDTUW for physically disabled students and staff.
These facilities include tactile
guiding path, JAWS and dragon software (for blind students), ramps, handrails,
height adjustable support
arm, chest and support grabber in toilets (for physically
disabled), lifts etc.
It’s high time we wandered
into ways that do not lead to
Delhi University alone. As in
every year, many dreams will
be shattered this year too
when numerous students will
not make it to the university
after the first list is out; many
of them will also be gifted and
devoted youths. Hopefully
they will realise that, as Tomas
Transtromer had once said, in
the middle of the forest there
is an unexpected clearing,
which can only be found by
those who get lost.
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music — the engine of the technology-enabled popular culture revolution — had found a radical new
sound in hallucinogenic highs
(Revolver, 1966). At a time when liberation
was the leitmotif and mainstream religion had
given way to non-denominational spiritual
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alternative states of consciousness. Enter
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Beatles were
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The plot of their second feature film, Help!
(1965), revolved around a Hindu cult intent on
recovering a sacred artefact and accordingly,
the soundtrack had a surfeit of Indian instruments. George Harrison had already begun
experimenting with the sitar under the tutelage of maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. The
Indian influence was apparent in many of his
songs including, ‘Love You To’ (Revolver) and
‘Within You Without You’ (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band). Harrison’s musical capers
were, perhaps, inspired by his obsession with
Swami Paramahansa Yogananda’s
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), which he
promptly recommended to other members of
the group. On June 25, 1967, when they performed ‘All You Need Is Love’ for the world’s
very first live satellite TV production, Ringo
Starr was dressed in what resembled a shimmering purple kurta.
The Beatles were by no means the only pop
group enamoured with drugs and higher states
of consciousness. The future drummer of The
Doors, John Densmore and keyboardist Ray
Manzarek met at a TM session in 1965 and
decided to put the band together there and
then. They borrowed the name from a book by
Aldous Huxley (who was closely associated
with the Vedanta Society of southern
California and its head, Swami
Prabhavananda) titled, The Doors of
Perception, published in 1954.
The Beatles, prepped for an encounter with a
real, live guru, found one in their own backyard.
Patti Boyd, George Harrison’s wife of the time,
who had attended Maharishi’s lecture in London,
persuaded the band to attend his address at the
Hilton. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and
George Harrison attended; Ringo Starr couldn’t
because he’d just had another son. Harrison later
said, ‘I knew I needed a mantra — a password to
get through to the other world. And, as we
always seemed to do everything together, John
and Paul came with me.’
John embraced TM enthusiastically. Ringo
Starr received an over-the-top phone message
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him, a TM seminar in Bangor at which they
were given mantras and the world’s most popular rockstars were hooked. Mick Jagger and
Marianne Faithfull joined them. At a press
conference, they proclaimed that LSD was over
and meditation was their new fix.
On August 27, 1967, while the “Fab Four”
were still in Bangor, they received news that
their business manager, Brian Epstein had died
of a drug overdose. They were devastated —
Brian had been a friend and confidante — and
turned to their new-found guru for comfort.
“F***ing idiot” — was John Lennon’s
description of Maharishi to Rolling Stones’
Jann Wenner, many years later. ‘I was stunned.
We all were. And the Maharishi — we went
into him, “He’s dead,” and all that. And he was
sort of saying, “Oh, forget it. Be happy”.’
Lennon’s outrage at Maharishi’s vapid
response took a long time brewing. At the time
the Beatles were deeply enamoured, with John
and George appearing on the Frost Report to
endorse meditation. Even so, they soon found it
necessary to tell the Maharishi — first through a
representative and then in person — that he
couldn’t use their names to advance his business
interests. George put the guru’s attempts to parley
his proximity to the Beatles into promoting TM,
down to his “unworldliness”. However, in terms
of business acumen, Maharishi was anything but
unworldly — UK’s satirical current affairs magazine, Private Eye, referred to him as “Veririchi
Lotsamoney Yogi Bear” as early as 1967.
By January 1968, John Lennon had begun
work on ‘Across the Universe’, one of Beatles’
most popular tracks of all time, with the
refrain “Jai Guru Deva...Om”. The following
month, George, John and their wives headed
for Rishikesh and were soon joined by Ringo
Starr and Paul McCartney. Scottish musician
Donovan, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Mia
Farrow — on the brink of a divorce from
Frank Sinatra — and her sister, Prudence, were
already there. Fifteen sherpa-loads of Heinz
baked beans were said to have preceded their
arrival. There, on a hill overlooking the town
and the Ganga, they listened to the Maharishi’s
lectures and practiced meditation seriously —
after they had gotten rid of the press, which
turned up at the ashram gates in droves.
Apart from spiritual gymnastics aimed at
self realisation under the guidance of their
guru, the musicians had a lot of fun — Mike
Love and George celebrated their birthdays at
the ashram; the Beatles and their partners
dressed in Indian clothes, gorgeous kurtas and
saris; they produced great music with Donovan
penning a number for George’s sister-in-law,
Jennifer Juniper and John for Mia’s sister, Dear
Prudence. He also wrote Bungalow Bill, mocking a young American called Rik de Herrera,
who’d come to visit his mother at the ashram.
And then the spiritual bubble burst. The
member of the group least enamoured of the
Maharishi, Ringo Starr, who had missed the
guru’s first lecture, also happened to be the
first amongst the four to leave the ashram.
Paul McCartney left a few weeks later. Finally,
it was the arrival of electronics wizard “Magic
Alex” — Yanni Alexis Mardas — a close friend
and business associate of the Beatles, which
signalled the end of the idyll. Not only did he
break the rules of the ashram by smuggling in
alcohol, he alleged that the Maharishi had
made advances towards his American girlfriend. This was to precipitate the departure of
George and John and dent the latter’s faith
permanently. To this day, the incident at the
ashram is subject to various interpretations.
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icrosoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates believes that
in five years, mosquitoes which
have been genetically modified to be
resistant to malaria and dengue, can
become part of our environment system.
In a related though unconnected development, scientists have used gene-editing technology to alter the patterns on
the wings of a butterfly. In the first case,
an engineered segment of the gene is
introduced into the mosquito’s DNA that
causes nearly 100 per cent of its offspring
to inherit the changed gene. Gates is
hopeful that the breakthrough will drastically reduce malaria and dengue deaths
across the world. There is no danger
from the butterfly with any wing pattern,
but the success in tweaking the design of
its wings demonstrates the tremendous
progress genetic science has made over
the last many decades since ‘gene’, as it is
understood today, came to be known to
humankind. In comparison to the ‘miracles’ unleashed by genetic scientists
today, the cloning of the first mammal —
Dolly the sheep — just 20 years ago, now
sounds like a walk in the park.
The story of the gene is, therefore, fascinating. But a story can be only as good
as its telling. The best written plots can
sink if they are rendered in an insipid fashion. This danger is all the more real when
the story-teller comes with a baggage of
impressive knowledge that can overwhelm
not just the reader and leave him befuddled but also the story-teller himself, who
has to constantly shuttle between his
expertise and the ignorance of the lay
recipient. One would, thus, expect
Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer physician,
researcher and geneticist, stem cell biologist and an assistant professor of medicine
(at Columbia University), to be struck
down as a writer by the very advantage
that has taken him this far in his medical
profession. He proved the expectation
wrong five years ago with his The Emperor
of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
That it fetched him a Pulitzer prize is
beside the point; with this book,
Mukherjee created a new style — a new
genre wouldn’t be an exaggeration — in
non-fiction science writing, much in the
way that Isaac Asimov did in science fic-
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tion. Imagine, a ‘biography’ of
uncles. It was only fair for a
cancer! Here, then, was an
future partner that I should
author who could rock, even
come with a letter of warnwhen dealing with a grim and
ing.” It was a difficult time for
specialised subject such as canhis family too. He writes, “By
cer. He has lived up to that
then, heredity, illness, norreputation with his latest book,
malcy, family and identity
The Gene: An Intimate History,
had become recurrent themes
and taken it a notch higher.
of conversation in my family.
There is a hint in the title
Like most Bengalis, my parof what must have prompted
ents had elevated repression
Mukherjee to broach the
and denial to a high art
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family history.” He refers to it
will have suggested itself. ‘An
as the “same scar of history”.
It is important to centralise the
intimate history’ is not merely a reference
to the depth of the subject that the author author’s ‘personal’ issue because it not just
triggered in him a burning desire to
traverses; it’s to do with his family as well.
explore as deeply and for as long as he
He begins, indeed, with a personal story
which is painful and traumatic. Two of his could, the world of genes and their
behaviour, but also surely prompted him
father’s brothers and a cousin suffered
from mental illness. It was clearly a genet- to write the book, intrinsically linking his
family’s tragedy to what appears as an
ic disorder. Mukherjee wondered if the
impersonal subject of science. It troubled
wayward gene, which must have found
place in his DNA too, would rear its head him always, and he admits as much when
he acknowledges, “While my family’s hissomeday. He tells the reader in the book,
tory of mental illness was cutting through
“When I met Sarah, now my wife, for the
my consciousness like a red line, my scifourth or fifth time, I told her about the
entific work as a cancer biologist was also
splintered minds of my cousin and two
converging on the normalcy and abnormalcy of genes.”
But then, fresh question began troubling him: What if we learned to change
our genetic code intentionally? If such
technologies were available, who would
control them? Who would be the masters, and who the victims, of this technology? The ethical part was, and remains,
the most tricky; scientific advances are,
after all, a matter of knowledge, technology, perseverance and some luck. So, at the
outset, Mukherjee offers that the book “is
the story of the birth, growth and future
of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: The
‘gene’, the fundamental unit of heredity,
and the basic unit of all biological information.” He expands on the use of the
term ‘dangerous’ by pointing out that the
‘manipulation’ of matter led to the invention of the atomic bomb. The manipulation of organisms through gene-altering,
could similarly lead to worrisome fallouts. He says that fiddling with genes in
test tubes is one thing; doing it in the
context of human cells is another, with
unknown consequences: “It is one thing
to try to understand how genes influence
human identity or human sexuality or
temperament. It is quite another another
thing to imagine altering identity or sexuality or behaviour by altering genes.” It is
the latter thought, he maintains, “inflected with both promise and peril”, that
must concern humankind. Mukherjee
will take heart from the fact that there is a
strong lobby across the world, not just in
theology or humanity, but also within the
scientific community, which shares the
concern and is maintaining a vigil to
ensure that science does not take on
more than it can handle.
Meanwhile, driven by personal quest
and professional understanding,
Mukherjee has shaped The Gene into an
eminently readable account. He traces the
progress of genetic science from the time
of Charles Darwin (whose theory of the
survival of fittest in the 19th century
ignited new thinking, though many of his
contentions later proved to be flawed)
and the priest, Gregor Mendel (who is
credited as being the father of modern
genetics, though many of his theories too,
like those of Darwin, later failed to stand
stringent tests). Incidentally, while both
these greats worked around the same
time, neither seemed to be aware of the
other’s path-breaking studies. The author
introduces interesting trivia to seize the
readers’ attention. He informs, for
instance, that Mendel had repeatedly
failed in the natural sciences test as part
of his initiation into the teaching profession; the priest also had enormous problems with biology (he found it, in
Mukherjee’s words, a “wild, overgrown
garden of discipline, lacking any systematic raising principles”). There is also the
case of a geneticist who went on to win a
Nobel prize, having ranked 250th in his
class of 250 students in a college exam.
In the course of the journey the
author takes the readers on, mapping the
discovery of the genes, to their individual
identification, isolation, understanding of
the human characteristics they determine
and seeking to weed out the bad ones,
and to their alternations, he sort of takes
a break to delve on some extremely traumatic episodes where the pretext of
genetic behaviour was used to exterminate populations based on their race (the
Nazi Holocaust, for instance) or to prejudice against people based on the colour of
their skin (in the United States). It
reminds us of the dangers of science
falling into the wrong hands.
Towards the end, he returns to where
he began from: His family problem. He
wonders, “Can we imagine a genetic test
for schizophrenia? The first step would
involve creating a compendium of all the
genes involved — a gargantuan problem
for human genomics. But even such a
compendium would be insufficient.
Genetic studies clearly indicate that some
mutations only act in concert with other
mutations to cause the disease. We need
to identify the combination of genes that
predict the actual risk.”
This would just be the beginning. For
all the huge strides that genetic science
has taken, and is taking, there is a great
deal out there which is beyond human
understanding. There’s no doubt it will be
cracked someday, but the thin line that
divides the application of scientific discoveries, and ethics, mustn’t get erased.
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Jamshedpur, a small sleepy
town in the 1970s where
there were few distractions from
the daily routine. This was some
three decades before the advent of
the Internet and cell phones.
Computers were unheard of and
television notionally existed, courtesy Doordarshan, in the big metropolitan cities. Few homes had telephones and still fewer had
telephones that were not
perpetually ‘out of order’.
In Jamshedpur, life was played
out, frame by frame, in monotonous black and white, with occasional stretches of technicolour
excitement. Jump cuts were considered too startling, but they
couldn’t be avoided entirely: These
usually came by way of unsettling
news from the world beyond
Jamshedpur, either borne by the
Calcutta papers that came by the
morning train and were distributed late in the afternoon, or riding the radio waves of Akashvani.
People tuned into All India Radio
to listen to Lotika Ratnam and
Nilima Sanyal, not so much for
what they had to say but to hear
their voice so that they could imitate their accent. But that was
okay, because, as I said, news travelled fast in Jamshedpur.
And so it was that although
the Calcutta papers did not arrive
on June 25, 1975, everybody knew
by mid-morning of the events
with cataclysmic consequences of
the previous evening in faraway
New Delhi. Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi had ‘recommended’ to
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
the declaration of Internal Emergency as she had information that
there was “an imminent danger to
the security of India being threatened by internal disturbances”.
The President had complied without a murmur of protest.
At the stroke of the midnight
hour the previous night, civil liberties and fundamental rights had
been suspended; censorship
imposed; Opposition leaders arrested; and, dictatorship of the dynasty
had replaced democracy of the people. India was in chains all over
again, this time enslaved by its own.
“Don’t talk to strangers,” parents
instructed their teenaged children.
Over the next few days a
strange fear descended upon the
people of this country — the fear of
being punished and persecuted by
the Emergency regime through its
many agents and agencies. The
dreaded midnight knock became
the metaphor of those dark, terrible
days when friends stopped trusting
friends, relatives shunned relatives,
teachers squealed on students and
vice versa, and censors eager to
please Congress bosses decided
what was fit to print.
Not everybody, though, was
appalled by Indira Gandhi’s
tanashahi — I learned that word
from our physics teacher who was
a tyrant in the classroom but
would incessantly rage against the
tyranny of what he would bitingly
describe as an “illegitimate Government”. There were middle-class
collaborators who, convinced that
imitation was the best form of
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flattery, mimicked Sanjay Gandhi’s
mannerisms and style of speech,
and wore white kurta-pajamas
similar to his. Hoodlums wore
white kurtas over drainpipe pants
and ran extortion rackets. Many
people thought the Emergency
was a good idea because trains ran
on time and Vinoba Bhave
endorsed Indira Gandhi’s evil
decision, calling the Emergency
“Anushasan Parv”. Newspapers,
barring honourable exceptions,
caved in without a fight: Journalists, asked to bend, chose to crawl.
Meanwhile, dissent and its
expression through protest was
met with swift retribution. The
RSS, which mobilised its vast network of swayamsevaks to launch
an underground movement against
Indira Gandhi’s dictatorship, was
banned. But that did not deter
swayamsevaks from persisting with
their movement that was described
by The Economist as “the only nonleft revolutionary force in the
world … its platform at the
moment has only one plank: To
bring democracy back to India.”
The only other organisation which
led from the front in the fight-back
was the Akali Dal. Indira Gandhi
tried to coopt the Akalis, but they
rebuffed her gesture; for them,
freedom was far more important
than power.
The Intelligence Bureau and
the Central Bureau of Investigation were used for intimidating
and harassing both rich and poor
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on mere suspicion of anti-Emergency activism. The Income Tax
Department was instructed to let
loose a reign of terror on trade
union leaders. People were arrested and packed off to jail; many of
them were brutally tortured to
extract a confession that would
serve the Emergency regime’s
political interests — for instance,
that he/she was a CIA agent.
The Constitution was slyly
amended to declare India a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic
Republic, an absurdity whose burden we are still forced to carry. To
inspire confidence in the Supreme
Leader, a massive Soviet-style propaganda offensive was launched.
Billboards were put up with slogans like “The Leader is right, the
nation’s future is bright!”In offices,
including those in the private sector, Congress goons put up posters,
urging people to “Work more, Talk
less.” It was all very darkly reminiscent of the Third Reich.
Indira Gandhi had the
Supreme Court packed with handpicked ‘committed’ judges whose
job was to overturn the Allahabad
High Court’s judgement of June 15,
declaring her 1971 election as void
and disqualifying her from contesting elections for the next six years.
To demonstrate their ‘commitment’
to her, the judges also suspended
the provision for habeas corpus
without which India is no different
from a police state ruled by a tin
pot dictator.
By the time Indira Gandhi
called a general election in the
spring of 1977, the people had made
up their minds. On voting day they
voted out the Congress! Indira
Gandhi and her son Sanjay were
trounced in constituencies they
considered to be their family heirloom and, therefore, theirs by right.
A chastened Indira Gandhi lifted
the Emergency on March 21, 1977.
Forty-one years later, the
excesses of the Emergency era may
appear too distant in the past to
be worthy of recall. But to believe
that would be incorrect. There has
been no change in the attitude of
the Congress and the party’s first
family makes no effort to hide its
unshakeable belief that it has the
divine right to rule India, either
directly or indirectly, and not be
held accountable for the many sins
of omission and commission of
which the Nehru-Gandhis are
guilty. Indeed, to forget the Emergency would be a grave injustice
to those who suffered so that liberty and rights would be ours.
A footnote: It will forever be a
matter of abiding shame for Bengalis that one of their own —
Chief Minister Siddhartha
Shankar Ray — came up with the
idea of using the Constitution to
kill freedom in India and drafted
the declaration of Emergency to
which Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
meekly appended his signature.
(The writer is a current affairs
journalist based in NCR)
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasgupta’s column,
Usual Suspects, published on
June 19:
Hardly matters: If Pakistan’s
exit from the South Asian
Association for Regional
Cooperation affects us,
Britains exit from the
European Union too should
affect us. Our economy does
not depend so much on
exports/imports. Brexit is
media-driven. Economies of
large countries do not collapse
because someone is in or out.
Jitendra
Staying aloof: Rightly, India
has no business to get
involved in the Brexit affair.
One thing is certain that no
country in this world can live
in isolation. The whole system
is so intermingled that living
in isolation will seal the fate of
a country. Trade has become
an essential thing. For example, India has trade relations
with Pakistan and China. This
proves the point that we cannot leave them because they
are our neighbours and we
have to do business whether
we like it or not.
Venkataraman Jagadesan
Looking beyond: When
there is so much prophecy
and analysis over the Brexit,
much of it with several
imponderables for India, and
the security net that even
after the divorce, only the
governing body of UK-EU
trade will change. As a diversion from our own state of
affairs, we are looking at this
impending international
event, the Brexit, to see more
in it for us than is fair or
even rational.
Ashish Rai
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Kanchan Gupta’s column,
Coffee Break, published on
June 19:
Being forest friendly: A tree
is a devata, a god on earth.
The sight of a solitary tree in
a barren land triggers a sense
of well-being. An atmosphere of calm prevails in a
forest. Forests were the nurturing ground for the rise of
the minds who gave us
the Upanishads.
Scientific studies have
shown that chemical environment of the atmosphere
around trees is good for
health. Soil scientists and
students of environment can
enumerate innumerable benefits of forests. And these
benefits are available equally
to animals living there.
Man, focused on himself,
tants are necessary for the
world as a whole. Humans
who cannot think beyond
their selfish interests must
realise that forests are
necessary if they wish to
retain their sanity.
Ashok Chaturvedi
forgets that forests are vital
for the survival of animals.
The recent culling of monkeys, nilgais and wild boars
has been contributed to by
the diappearance of forests. It
is sad that the Government
has succumbed to a method
which is totally alien to
Indian ethos and could not
think of a humane alternative.
We must adopt all measures to develop forests in
and around our cities,
including the planned smart
cities. Unplanned urban
spread, eating into agricultural land and forests, has to
be curtailed to avoid many
ills including the conflict
between man and animal.
Indeed forest corridors along
the rivers must be planned
for animals, including the
elephants, to help them move
around, a natural part of
their life cycle.
Forests and all its inhabi-
Saving our environment:
Human beings are increasingly becoming materialistic. However, they must
ensure that animals and
birds live peacefully in their
natural habitat. In order to
save animal lives and
environment, meat consumption must be reduced.
Also, it is a fact that vegetarianism or a climate
change diet can save this
planet. To safeguard climate
changing to worse and promote tourism model conservations — forest type must
be developed.
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he problems of Delhi CM
Arvind Kejriwal have grown
manifold. He tried with all his
might to push ex-CM Sheila
Dikshit into controversies. As
soon as the Congress started discussions
for her appointment as in-charge
General Secretary of Punjab, Kejriwal
took out the file of the alleged C400-crore
water tanker scam and wrote a letter to
the Central Government. He also wrote
to Delhi L-G Najeeb Jung and demanded
action. After that the police hurriedly
registered an FIR. But interestingly
Kejriwal’s name was also in that FIR!
Though Dikshit has been made an
accused in the case, Kejriwal is facing
charges for allegedly trying to save her.
Now it looks like it was Dikshit who
had laid the plot to entrap Kejriwal.
When the Delhi Government wrote a letter against her, she raised the question
that if there was indeed a scam, why did
the Kejriwal Government let it continue
for the past one and a half year?
The same question was raised on
social media too, with many saying that
Kejriwal had often raised the tanker
scam during his election campaign but
when he formed the Government, he did
nothing to put an end to it. Now, ACB
chief Mukesh Meena wants to interrogate
both Dikshit and Kejriwal.
Two more corruption cases have
become a headache for Kejriwal — the
controversy over app-based premium bus
service and contract for all investigations
to a special forensic lab. Gopal Rai has
been removed from the transport ministry in the first case. But the Kejriwal
Government should gear up to face the
heat in the coming days.
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appointed in-charge General Secretary of
the State, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and the
party’s election strategist, Prashant
Kishor, are of the view that no big
decision should be taken right now.
Reliable sources in the Congress say
the party will wait for the BJP’s move;
whether BJP puts forward any candidate
or not, and if it does, who will be the
candidate. Only after that will the
Congress decide. It is also being said that
leaders of the Congress are in touch with
the SP and BSP for alliance. Apart from
this, the possibility of a third front is also
being looked into.
The reason for not taking a decision at
the moment is obvious — the Congress is
seriously thinking about projecting a
member of the Gandhi family. If the
Congress, after the BJP’s decision, decides
to project Priyanka Gandhi, then there
will be no alliance with anyone and the
hough Nitish Kumar has time and
again said that he doesn’t wish to
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become the PM, in reality he has already
started his campaign for Mission 2019.
He is eyeing UP and Jharkhand from
where he can increase the number of his
MPs. Last month, first in Varanasi and
later in Patna, he said he was not a fool
and didn’t daydream to become the PM
on the basis of his limited MPs. This was
an indication that he would try to
increase the number of MPs. But this is
also clear that it will not be possible on
the basis of just Bihar.
That is why Nitish has accelerated his
politics in UP and Jharkhand. In
Jharkhand, he has partners such as former
CM Babulal Marandi. In the past two
months, Nitish has addressed three rallies
in Jharkhand. He has attended public
gatherings in Dhanbad, Palamu and
Ranchi. Nitish has also announced he will
launch a liquor prohibition programme in
the State. With all this, he is clearly laying
the groundwork to fight elections along
with the Congress, JVM and RJD.
Nitish has also addressed three rallies
in UP in the past two months and said
he will be taking an extensive tour of the
State soon. He hasn’t been able to find
any partner in UP, but despite that he has
held rallies in Varanasi, Lucknow and
Mirzapur. Along with the liquor ban
issue, he is also cautiously playing the
caste card and is trying to establish himself among non-Yadav voters.
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party will have to go alone. Ground preparations have started for this. More than
three teams have been roped in to find
answers to this question: What is the probability to win under Priyanka’s command?
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the sword of Damocles is hangIdaysningUP,ago,
over the heads of SP MLAs. Some
the party had announced the
names of 146 candidates for the upcoming Assembly Elections. After that, 10
more candidates have been finalised. But
there is no word on the remaining 229
sitting MLAs. Candidates for only those
seats are being announced where the SP
had lost in the last elections. The party
has a different strategy for the winning
seats and it is not disclosing it.
On the contrary, the BSP has given
an indication to its MLAs that they will
be made candidates. This means that
tickets of 79 MLAs are reserved.
Similarly, 41 MLAs of the BJP and 29
MLAs of the Congress have been assured
that they will fight again. Now, MLAs of
the BSP, Congress and BJP have started
working in their constituencies. But
MLAs of the SP are worried.
Sources in the party say that almost
100 MLAs can be denied tickets. CM
Akhilesh Yadav is ready to refuse tickets
to almost half of his MLAs to nullify the
effects of anti-incumbency. This has led
to a lot of anxiety among the MLAs, who
have now started reaching out to other
parties. Most of them are said to be in
touch with the BJP and are hopeful of
getting tickets from the party.
This time, the BSP has also kept aside
its traditional policy and is ready to give
tickets to all those who come from the SP.
So, many MLAs of the SP are also in contact with the BSP. Leaders of the SP are of
the view that firstly there will be a stampede-like situation in the party and then
a negative impression will be created. But
the problem is that the party can’t
announce it will cut tickets of its MLAs
immediately. Now, almost all Opposition
parties are waiting for the SP’s next move.
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UP, the BJP had got 42 per cent votes
Itheninelection
the last Lok Sabha Elections. Now,
strategists of the party are
calculating how much votes would
decrease in the Assembly Elections on
the basis of the past LS polls data. In
each State, the BJP has lost at least 10 per
cent votes in comparison to what it had
got in the Lok Sabha Elections. Will the
BJP become the number one party if it
loses 10 per cent votes in UP too?
Sources in the BJP say that Dalit
votes are quite important for the party.
Last time the party had got Dalit votes,
especially in western UP; Jat and Jatavs
had also come together due to polarisation. But probably this would not happen
in the Assembly Elections. There are
almost 8 per cent Dalit votes in the State.
The BJP had got Yadav votes in the
LS Elections, but it might not happen
this time. So, the party is eying 12 per
cent non-Yadav, OBC votes — Lodh,
Kurmis and Kushwaha. Apart from this,
Brahmins, Vaishyas, Tyagis and
Bhumihars make around 14 per cent
votes. Jat votes are 6-8 per cent and
Thakurs are 4 per cent. The BJP’s equation is based on these 45 per cent votes.
In comparison to the last Assembly
polls, the SP and BSP had lost 6 per cent
votes in the last LS polls, but other parties
were the greatest losers, with 10 per cent
of their votes being transferred to the BJP.
here has been a lot of debate and disT
cussion over former cricketer Chetan
Chauhan’s appointment as the chairman
of the National Institute of Fashion
Technology (NIFT). Attacking the
Government on this issue, the
Opposition parties have doled out several suggestions as well. But as soon as the
controversy over Chauhan started, the
issue of Raghuram Rajan’s resignation
crept in. After that, the so-called warriors of social media started debating
Rajan’s case, ostensibly forgetting the
controversy over Chauhan. So, for now,
this row has died down.
But when the debate on Chauhan was
taking place, social media warriors of the
BJP gave some interesting arguments. A
lot of things were written to support
Chauhan’s appointment. One supporter
of the Government raised the issue of the
Congress’s Ram Niwas Mirdha, who was
appointed as the chairman of Lalit Kala
Akademi in the 70s. Later, he was
appointed as chairman of the Sangeet
Natak Akademi also. The appointment of
UR Ananthamurthy as chairman of FTII
was also raised. If this debate had continued, some other controversies related to
some other commissions or institutes
would have also come out in the open.
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he history of the first half
of the 20th Century in
India mainly centres
around the Independence
movement and the Congress
party. Historywriting on the
World Wars from an Indian
perspective, in terms of India’s
contribution to the wars and
their impact on India, is almost
non-existent.
In last few years, some efforts
have been made to fill this lacuna. Srinath Raghavan’s India’s
War: The Making of Modern
South Asia 1939-1945 is one such
commendable endeavour.
Over the years, through
various intellectual mechanisms, the British rule in India
has been painted in benign
colours. The devastation it
caused in India for two centuries has been reduced to footnotes in history. Raghavan
brings out the exploitative
nature of British colonialism
brilliantly, especially the British
interest in increasing the size of
the Indian Army coupled with
their reluctance to provide the
soldiers with proper training
and necessary armaments.
In the chapter ‘Mobilizing
India’, the author documents
how the size of the Indian
armed forces was increased
exponentially from two lakh to
25 lakh in the span of a mere
five years. The British looked at
India as an inexhaustible source
of manpower and resources to
fight the war. But they were not
ready to equip newly raised
units to existing standards.
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Raghavan notes, “As a consequence, the forces raised in
India and sent abroad were
chronically under-equipped and
reliant on all manner of patchwork solutions.”
The concept of using the
forces raised in colonies as cannon fodder was still prevalent in
the British war planners’ minds
when they deployed illequipped and under-powered
armoured regiments to Iraq — a
tank country. Gen Archibald
Wavell, the Commander-inChief of India, wrote to the
Chief of Staff explaining the
shortage of essential equipment:
“There is not a single fighter in
India at present capable of taking the air against German or
Japanese machines; India has
not at present a single modern
tank or armoured car.” All this
changed once the Japanese
threat became real.
Through 18 chapters,
Raghavan takes us through the
socio-political-military aspects
of Indian life. The book touches upon various facets of military life, from the change in
the composition of the Indian
armed forces due to rapid
expansion, the British perspective of Indian castes and martial and non-martial races, the
varied reasons of soldiers for
serving the British, the loyalty
of Indian soldiers towards
their masters, the impact of
the Indian National Army
(INA) and their rebellion on
the psyche of British-Indian
armed forces.
A remarkable portion documents Subhas Chandra Bose’s
interaction with the Germans,
particularly Adolf Hitler. The
deftness with which Hitler
transferred the liability of INA
to the Japanese and sent Bose
eastwards in a German submarine is admirable. Hitler did not
interfere in Indian affairs as he
had plans to crack a deal with
the British. The book is full of
such nuggets which give its
readers a peep into the minds of
the mighty men of that era.
Three chapters, ‘Coils of
War’, ‘Declaration for India’, and
‘Post-war’, deal with the political
aspects of the war. The Indian
national leaders emerge as illequipped to understand the
intricacies of the global world
order; they were incapable of
exploiting the war contribution
of India to gain favours for her
from the comity of nations. In
spite of the great support that
India enjoyed in Washington,
particularly with President
Franklin D Roosevelt, China
stole a march on India.
The book touches upon various aspects of the politics of
that era and will inspire scholars
to explore this genre further. It
records an Indian Air Force offi-
cer as saying, “I am sure the
Indians who are fighting now in
this war will be the real reformers of India. I am not a politician but... you can be sure of
one thing, definitely India must
be reformed on the lines of
modern thought.”
Similarly a Pashtun soldier
told a British officer, “We suffered in the war but you didn’t...
we bore with this that we might
be free.” Everyone fought for his
own reason, but what is worth
pondering over is simply that
when Indians could fight so
valiantly for the British war,
which was fought using their
men and resources, why didn’t
they fight the British and win
their own freedom? Who could
have stopped Indians from
throwing the British out of
India? It remains for future
scholars to do so.
In the space of a single volume, the author has summarised an entire epoch of
Indian history, giving the readers a wholesome understanding
of that era. The book is well-furnished with maps, figures and
tables that provide relevant data
to substantiate the text. The economic data provided makes this
book valuable to students of
economic history.
More than 50 pages of notes,
mostly from primary sources,
highlight the massive effort put
into writing this book. A must
read for anyone interested in
Indian history and/or the military history of India.
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ordered by a judge to give testimony in a lawsuit surrounding
2013 comedy The Wolf of Wall Street.
Andrew Greene, a former associate of
the film’s subject Jordan Belfort, has
claimed that a supporting character,
presented as a “criminal” and “degenerate”, is loosely based on him. He’s now
suing producers, including Paramount
Pictures, for $15m. A judge has already
rejected claims of defamation, but has
allowed Greene to amend his initial
objection to malicious libel.
Greene’s lawyers have been trying
to depose DiCaprio but he has been
“too busy”, and the defendants have
stated that the testimonies of director
Martin Scorsese and screenwriter
Terence Winter should suffice. But his
involvement as a producer has led to
judge Steven Locke requiring him to
testify “at a reasonable time and place
agreed to by the parties”.
Greene, a childhood friend and
ex-colleague of Belfort, believes
that Nicky “Rugrat” Koskoff is
modelled after him. The character
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the portrayal repeatedly mocked
his hairpiece, as well as depicting
the character as a drug user.
“The motion picture’s scenes concerning Mr Greene were false, defamatory, and fundamentally injurious to Mr
Greene’s professional reputation, both as
an attorney and as an investment
banker/venture capitalist, as well as his
personal reputation,” the suit says.
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Chazelle’s musical romance La
La Land is set to open this
year’s Venice film festival. The film
reunites Crazy, Stupid, Love stars Ryan
Gosling and Emma Stone, and is
pitched as a tribute to Hollywood’s
golden age of musicals but will have a
contemporary setting. It will premiere
in competition on August 31. This year’s
jury will be headed by Sam Mendes.
Gosling will play a jazz pianist
who falls for Stone’s aspiring actor but
the two face problems when they
become more successful. JK Simmons,
who won an Oscar for his role in
Whiplash, and the singer John Legend
also star in the film.
“La La Land is a film that does not
merely reinvent the musical genre, it
gives it a brand new start,” said Alberto
Barbera, Venice artistic director, in a
statement. “If Whiplash was the revelation of a new filmmaker, La La Land is
his definitive, albeit precocious, consecration among the great directors of
Hollywood’s new firmament.”
Last year’s festival was opened by
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hen you shout out
the same message
repeatedly from
stage, posters, television — in fact from
every spot one turns toward, would
you be surprised if someone believed
you enough to act upon your word?
When a politician repeatedly asks
people to get enraged and hate
another community, he may hope to
be voted in as the right candidate to
protect these people from the perceived danger he has created. Of
course he knows well that it is
as much likely that someone in his
audience is pushed over the edge
to pull out the guns and kill the
danger himself. The reaction of
the audience to his persuasion is
decisively out of his control, and
yet he knowingly triggered it.
There has been an ugly antiimmigrant tone to the campaign over
the June 23 referendum on Britain’s
membership in the European Union
(EU). The Leave campaign essentially
highlighted that as a great nation
Britain will be truly sovereign only
away from Brussels.
A poster by Nigel Farage, the
leader of the UK Independence
Party, which has been strongly antiEurope and anti-immigration from
its inception, showed a long line of
Middle Eastern refugees waiting to
cross a European border. The text
said: “BREAKING POINT. The
EU has failed us all. We must break
free from the EU and take control
of our borders.”
Never mind that the border
in Farge’s poster was that between
Croatia and Slovenia. And we can
also ignore the fact that Britain, as
an island country and as a non-signatory to the Schengen treaty, remains
largely insulated. Further, we must
not mind the gross misinformation
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of the official and unofficial Leave
campaigns of Brexit that suggested
that Turkey and its 77 million
Muslims are soon to join the
EU. These deviations from the
truth are rampant as long as they
can successfully stir up emotions
of xenophobia amongst voters.
The lovely Jo Cox, a rising star in
the Opposition Labour Party who,
not coincidentally, was a strong
backer of Britain’s remaining inside
the EU, was murdered on June 16.
The suspect arrested in the killing,
Thomas Mair, has a history of mental
illness. But he was also reported to
have been in contact with far-right
groups in the United States and
Britain, and to have said, “Britain
first!” several times as he attacked Jo.
Britain First is a far-right nationalist group. Such an act of violence is
uncommon in Britain and there was
a shocking realisation that the Brexit
vote had made it socially acceptable
to voice anti-immigrant or xenophobic sentiment in a way it wasn’t a
decade ago. The Brexit campaign was
suspended by both sides for a day of
mourning and respect for Jo, shifting
the entire focus of the world on to
the anti-immigrant tactics of the
Brexit vote’s Leave campaign.
A vote exercises the right of individual choice, within the framework
of a democratic form of governance.
Ensuring governance — be it tribal,
monarchical, democratic — is yet
another vocation that we human
beings have historically engaged ourselves in as we wade through our
days in the world. But such is the
heady power derived from success in
this vocation, and so high are the
stakes involved, that when needed it
has led its participants to incite
hatred of man against man.
The campaigns to get votes are
out of control. Politicians stir up
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public sentiments to get votes and
then have no control on the reactions
they have generated. Conservative
movements rooted within a political
rhetoric of hatred can especially have
dangerous outcomes.
Violence could be deliberately
unleashed by the politician, and/or
there could be inadvertent bloodshed
as a result of an out-of-control emotional hate campaign. In the case of
the latter, indeed the perpetrators of
hate and the individuals reacting to
such political rhetoric are both to
blame. Because neither were supposed to take the vocation of governance so seriously.
In the United States, Republican
Presidential candidate Donald
Trump’s campaign has insisted on
racial profiling and the need to target
specific demographic groups living in
the country for extra scrutiny. He
bragged of his foresight
when just a few
days before Jo’s
murder this fortnight, a mass shooting occurred inside a gay night club
in Orlando, killing 50 people.
The victims included the gunman
who was identified as Omar Mateen,
an American born to Afghan parents.
It was the deadliest mass shooting by
a single gunman in the US, and historically the most violent attack on
the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender (LGBT) community in
the United States.
Trump hopes the incident would
improve his poll ratings. He tweeted,
“Appreciate the congrats for being
right on radical Islamic terrorism...”
He argued that the attack justified his
earlier proposed ban on Muslims
entering the US. He even falsely
claimed that Omar Mateen was born
in Afghanistan, whereas Mateen was
in fact born in New York not far
from Trump himself.
In a speech Trump made right
after the shootout, he called for suspending immigration “from areas of
the world where there is a proven
history of terrorism against the
United States, Europe, or allies”.
Anything goes for stirring up drama
and making politics quite literally a
matter of life and death.
How much blood will it take for
us to realise that these strategies for
winning votes is a game played by a
few fellows who have just chosen politics as their vocation? Can we snap
out of the frenzy and accept politics,
religion, corporations as man-made
institutions who have now become
larger than the cost of our own lives?
I ask this to all my readers, in tribute
to Jo Cox and the fearless defenders
of humanity who can never be
buried. Because they are seeds.
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Everest, which received middling
reviews and box office, but previous
years have seen Oscar winners
Birdman and Gravity kick things off.
The 31-year-old Chazelle made
his name with the acclaimed drama
Whiplash, which won three Oscars
and was nominated for two more,
including best picture. He also cowrote the hit sci-fi thriller 10
Cloverfield Lane.
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udi Dench is set to play Queen
Victoria for the second time in
drama Victoria & Abdul. The Oscarwinning actor will reunite with director
Stephen Frears for the project. It will be
their third film together after Mrs
Henderson Presents and Philomena.
The drama will be based on
Shrabani Basu’s book Victoria &
Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s
Closet Confidant, and the screenplay
will come from Billy Elliott’s Lee Hall.
It’s the true story of the unlikely
friendship between the monarch and
a young clerk who travelled from
India to participate in the golden
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jubilee. As the pair grow closer, he
begins to change her world view. He
became a replacement for her confidante John Brown. Their friendship
was brought to the big screen in 1997
in drama Mrs Brown, for which
Dench received an Oscar nomination
for her portrayal of Victoria.
Frears’ most recent film was period comedy Florence Foster Jenkins,
which starred Meryl Streep as a
socialite with ambitions to sing.
Dench is next to be seen in the longdelayed romance Tulip Fever, also
starring Alicia Vikander and
Christophe Waltz.
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running a marathon in a
national preserve in
northern New Mexico.
The woman suffered several bites and scratches and
had injuries to her head,
neck and upper body that
weren’t life-threatening.
The New Mexico
Department of Game and
Fish says the woman was
racing when a female black
bear confronted her in the
Valles Caldera National
Preserve. Officers say the
victim surprised the bear
after her cub had run up a
nearby tree. Other joggers
helped her until emergency crews arrived. She
was airlifted to an
Albuquerque hospital.
Game and Fish and
the National Park
Service are warning
people to stay away
from the area. Officials are trying to
find the bear to test it for rabies.
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Colorado company is looking to
help cat owners enjoy the experience of sharing a glass of wine
with their pets. The non-alcoholic,
beet-based cat wine was developed specifically for cats by
Denver-based Apollo Peak.
Cats can enjoy the company’s products in two varieties,
including the red Pinot Meow
and white Moscato.
“All of our cat wine products
have a proprietary blend that
includes all-natural organically
grown catnip, fresh beets and natural preservatives to help hold the taste
and colour,” the company says on its
website. “We believe in natural
ingredients for our particularly
classy feline friends.”
While the lack of alcohol
ensures that cats won’t get drunk
from drinking Apollo Peak’s wine,
the products do contain organic cat-
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nip, which can produce a kind of
drunken reaction.
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on how much
they drink —
the effects will
vary,” the company says. When
cats smell catnip, they tend to get funny,
move around and play a lot. The exact
opposite occurs when they ingest catnip.
They normally will become more “mellowed” out when they drink the wine, so
it might actually help for restless nights.
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own way of predicting the outcome of
Britain’s looming referendum on
whether to stay in the European Union
or leave — racing his miniature pigs.
The pigs of Pennywell Farm in
Devon successfully predicted the outcome of Britain’s national election last
year and are again fighting it out on the
track in some political racing that rival
the “Remain” and “Leave” sides’ own
campaign battles.
PM David Cameron is leading the
“In” campaign and former London Mayor
Boris Johnson, also from the ruling
Conservative Party, is urging Britons to
vote “Out” in the June 23 referendum. As
the latest polls show growing momentum
for the “Leave” camp, the farm in southwest England is putting four pigs to the
test each afternoon on a 137-m-long
course, with both sides represented.
Racing for the “Remain” camp are
‘David Hameron’ and ‘George Hogsborne’,
a play on the name of Finance Minister
George Osborne. For the “Leave” camp
the racers are ‘Boar-is Johnson’ and ‘Iain
Duncan Sniff ’, a reference to leading
Eurosceptic and Conservative ex-Cabinet
Minister Iain Duncan Smith.
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unconstitutional, the Commission for
Gender Equality ruled recently.
The ‘maiden’s bursaries’ offered by a
local Mayor sparked a nationwide
debate in January, with critics slamming
the scheme’s emphasis on virginity as
outdated while traditionalists said it
would help preserve African culture.
The gender commission said the
programme discriminated against
women because male students were not
subjected to the same tests. “Any
funding by an organ of state based
on a woman’s sexuality perpetuates
patriarchy and
inequality in
South Africa,” it
said in a statement.
“It is not the
cultural practice that
is the problem here; it
is the allocation of state funds on
the basis of girls’ sexuality that
violates the constitutional protection
to equality, dignity and privacy,” said
Sanja Bornman, an attorney with
Lawyers for Human Rights.
Recipients of the scholarships
were required to undergo virginity
testing each time they returned home
for holidays.
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two who identified the highest number of potential vulnerabilities in several
Defense Department websites, including its main
one, www.defense.gov.
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first “bug bounty,” where it
asked those with hacking
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your heart is. Or
probably, where
you intend to
keep it. With
home, you attach a number
of desires and wishes that
you want to be fulfilled in
this lifetime. It is not merely
a hearsay that you desire
peace, happiness and a lot of
love from your home. In fact,
you want to be in the best of
state at your home where you
are cohabiting with your
spouse, partner or where you
intend to share cordial relationships with other members in the family.
Although people have
awakened to the importance
of Vastu Shastra much later
than to that of astrology, yoga,
tantra and ayurveda; yet it is a
fruitful deviation. Today, people are using the science of
Vastu to ensure that they have
a blissful and happy married
life. There are a set of guidelines, both proven and scientific, that ensure that couples
remain married and in harmony with one another and
their surroundings.
A recent marriage or
years of togetherness may
strain or wear out the charm
over a period of time. There
could be a sudden jolt or a
nagging issue that can lead to
deeper troubles in the future.
Either or both the partners
may have already used conversation, family advice and
even counselling to a great
extent, but the end results
have been futile or unconvincing at the least. This is exactly
where the remedies and science of Vastu Shastra comes
into the picture.
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clutter. It is important to avoid
adding a dustbin or waste area
or dumping old articles in this
zone. It is also important to
avoid using red and pink
colour in this zone.
„Mirror or dressing table in
the South-East zone of the
house may result in bad consequences such as accidents or
injuries to the inhabitants.
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South-West also negatively
impacts your marriage.
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recipe to create magic out of
thin air. It is a study or the science of the effects of directions of a built-up space on
the lives of the occupants or
co-inhabitants of that space.
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hen work is duty, life is slavery; when work is
pleasure, life is joy.” These famous words of
thinker, writer Maxim Gorky more than sum
up the need for reinventing the present-day workplace.
The fast-paced modern society has demolished many a
beliefs about the workplace, created many and distorted some. Not that the workplace has not changed. It
has changed and changed significantly. There is more
speed, more technology and much more greed leading
to astronomically high productivity.
However, whether all is well or not is a question
that needs to be answered? Apparently yes. Salaries are
shooting through the roof. Technology is providing a
lot of leisure and there is significantly high output. The
simplest assumption is that it is a win-win. The management and the employees, the shareholder and the
vendors, everyone is gaining. Materially it seems to be
a highly viable model. But is this sustainable also?
Though it will not be easy to conclude, yet given
the various indications that can be noted about the
state of the affairs of the workplace, we may be inclined
to believe that all is not well. The frequent complaints
about work-life balance, the rising number of workplace stress victims, the increase in the number of
burnout cases are all suggestive that the workplace is
not as hunky dory as it is made out to be.
Managements complain about the attrition rates,
employees complain about a menace called 24x7x365.
None is at peace. This cannot be sustainable. What is
missing in all this seemingly colorful façade of the
workplace is the realisation about the basic nature of
the workforce. The workplace has changed. So has
the mix and the appearance of the workforce. But the
essence of the highly diverse workplace of today still
remains the same. At the periphery, the members do
appear to be technology-driven robots who are wired
to the many variations of networks and dance at the
click of the mouse. But in the core they remain emotional beings, who feel, think and who are moved
more by connectivity of the head and the heart
rather than the various programming languages that
are developed to control their behaviour.
It needs to be understood that merely a good pay
and pleasant work environment may not necessarily
make them productive. Productivity depends upon
the internal state of mind. The most important
attribute determining productivity is the happiness of
the employees. To make the workplace productive
there is a need to think beyond the ritual and awaken
the spiritual, the inner happiness of the employees. A
happy worker is a productive worker if he perceives
that happiness arises from the workplace.
It becomes extremely important for the managers
to create a happy workplace. Happiness is contagious
and happiness makes the workplace productive.
Happy people tend to be much more productive and
creative. They are willing to walk the extra mile.
They are less likely to take leaves and are considered
to be healthier.
How to do it? While models may not be easy to
find, cues can be picked up from the leadership style of
Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of South West Airlines.
His philosophy was simple — “the employees come
first”. Management thinker Kanter’s comment on
Kelleher style is noteworthy: “Remarkable results are
possible when employees are liberated to take charge of
the rules and have fun on the job.’’ The key — look
after your employees well.
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and its relevance in solving
the different mysteries of
human life, desires, aspirations and wishes.
For a beautiful marriage
to survive the test of time, it is
imperative to make a deep
analysis of your home and the
balance in its five different
elements or Panchtattava:
Water, air, fire, earth and
space, and the 16 different
directions or zones of Vastu.
Any extent of imbalance in
the elements and their respective zones can disrupt the
harmony of a dwelling and
even a workplace.
Vastu offers a wide array
of solutions that can be put
to practice to ensure that the
fine balance between the elements is restored. It is
through these remedies and
balancing acts (also referred
as space programming by the
Vastu Expert, MahaVastu)
that there is synergy and
symmetry in the energies
and balance is established
with objects and materials
within a living space.
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One of the highly recommended MahaVastu remedies,
based on Vastu Shastra, for
resolving marital discord is a
pair of love birds. When
placed in the South-West
Zone of relationships, skills
and marriage, the symbol of
love helps you experience the
hen we refuse to take responsibility of what we should,
we suffer. The following examples will bring out this fact in some
detail. I will start with the masses who
flock to gurus with the hope that such
persons can solve all their problems.
Yes, gurus can be helpful in guiding, but
the effort has to be ours. What is the
scriptural injunction?
The Bhagavad Gita guides, “Know
that from the real knowers of truth by
honouring them, properly enquiring
from them and serving them. By
approaching them thus they shall give
you wisdom.” (4.34) They will give you
wisdom but we have to implement it.
When we don’t do it, the original problem/problems remain and we have a
false hope.
The next example is similar. A rich
man has some pressing problem. He
looks for an easy solution; he consults
his favourite astrologer/palmist/panditji,
who suggests some solution like chanting
a particular mantra so many times. What
does this rich man do? He entrusts this
job of chanting to a panditji. Who benefits? Panditji mostly if he has chanted
properly. The rich man has false hope of
getting his problem fully solved.
The third example is of a good percentage of Indian husbands, who leave
the responsibility of their children to
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true meaning of love. It is one
of the proven Vastu techniques to strengthen love and
bonding in marriage. In case
there is a newlywed couple,
this remedy helps in forging a
loving relationship and lifelong bonding between the
husband and wife.
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„The wedding photograph is
the reminder of love and
companionship in your relationship. It can be hung on
the wall or placed on the bedside table in the South-West
zone of relationships to
ensure that the understanding, care and respect remain
intact in the marriage.
„Marriage photos should not
be placed in SSW, WNW, and
ESE zones.
„It is recommended to use
lighter shades on the walls as
well as drapes, curtains and
bedsheets in the bedroom of a
married couple.
„Kitchen or toilet in the
South-West can disrupt the
chords in marriage. Use a
Vastu remedy such as a
coloured stone under the fire
source/stove in the kitchen or
a similar colour remedy to
block the negative effects of
toilet in the South-West zone
of relationships.
„North of North-West
(NNW) is the zone of attraction and sex, hence it should
be activated and free of any
For a successful marriage, it
is important to exercise balance in other aspects of your
life as well. Monetary gains,
intellectual satisfaction, joy
and fulfillment, health and
immunity, peace and understanding are some of the
many factors that influence
marriage or any other relationship. The restoration of
harmony in these areas can
be achieved through the balance in their respective zones
of Vastu and the five major
elements or the Panchtattava
as discussed earlier.
For a successful relationship and to build the protective wall of trust and respect
around your marriage, it is
important to ensure that each
and every zone (including the
South-West zone of relationships that has already been
balanced) is also balanced as
per the Vastu science.
The use of the right
colour, the appropriate metal
and other materials symbolic
to that zone need to be balanced using the scientific
approach of Vastu.
The crux of Vastu Shastra
lies in the alignment of the
geometric axis of the earth
with the structural axis of a
property or a living space.
The stronger the alignment,
more favourable will be your
attribute (relationships, education, skills, health etc) in
that zone.
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their wives. Mothers do take such
responsibility, but what about the
father’s contribution? As no one can be
perfect, the mother is likely to err
sometimes. Then what happens? The
whole family has a problem.
Similarly, many parents appoint
tutors to oversee the studies of their
wards and then forget about it. What
happens in most cases? The results are
not at all satisfactory because tutors also
need to be supervised.
The fifth and sixth examples are of
how we misuse water and electricity.
When the water supply is abundant,
taps run full and many times unnecessarily. What happens? We may exhaust
the sources sooner than rains etc can
replenish them. Then we are stuck.
Same is the story with electricity. The
affluent class uses electricity as if using
more of it is better. At some point, they
face load shedding.
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How many bother to keep it clean? How
many are cognisant of not polluting our
rivers, including the holy ones? How
about not polluting the atmosphere by
burning leaves, etc? Why do we avoid
voting and allow wrong persons to get
elected? These all become our problems
in time and we pay a price.
Astonishingly, most of us have solutions for the problems of others. Our
topics revolve around those only.
However, these are limited to give advice
if someone affected cares to listen to us.
Others have to solve their problems, and
we have to solve ours. Don’t we have a
lot of stake in solving our problems?
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Unfortunately, a modern man has
learnt new tricks to deal with personal
problems. Painkillers like Opioid are fast
gaining acceptance. In one TV programme, they presented a person who
consumed an astronomical number of
Opioids and somehow survived. Some
others don’t. How did this person’s problem get solved? Why was it not attempted to be solved earlier? How long are we
going to escape facing our problems and
not become real problems ourselves?
There is an explanation for this.
Sometimes, we feel the problem is too
big to solve and we must now retreat to
the world of drinks, drugs, etc.
Fortunately, no problem is too big if we
do what Arjuna did in the Bhagavad
Gita. Pandavas were faced with unconquerable Bhishmadeva, Dronacharya
and Karna. What did Arjuna do? He
took shelter of the Almighty. And then
what happened? Lord Krishna used
Arjuna as an instrument and won the
war for the Pandavas. (11.33)
This is what we need to do too.
Become a devotee of God (18.65), totally surrendered to him and him alone
(18.66) and no problem will be insurmountable (18.58), and we will never
become problems ourselves. But
remember, we have to do our part first.
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detail about the dynamics of
mind in our previous issues
and also the need to remain conscious
about its orderly functioning. It is time
now to see in practical terms how a
disorderly mind could invite long
drawn pains and sufferings in life.
The other day a distressed lady, not
knowing how to come out of her traumatic situation, came seeking guidance.
Her opening question was: “What
wrong have I done for the ordeal I have
gone through for almost a decade now?
I have been subjected to continued
abuse, physically, mentally, emotionally
and otherwise. I am totally drained out,
my confidence is shattered. My mind
seems to have lost its balance, and have
lost all hope in life. I am just pulling on
my life for my children. And shall I be
able to come out of this marriage?”
Well, if you don’t remain true to
yourself, nobody can help you. Human
being is empowered to guide one’s
action by choice and discrimination. By
ignoring your discriminating abilities,
impulsively you made a wrong choice on
instinctive judgment. Evidently, you had
to bear with the consequences thereof.
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young girl, you too nursed fanciful
dreamy perception about your prospective mate. Befitting your expectations,
the first flamboyant handsome young
man you chanced upon, you blindly
went after him. And when you saw that
the guy spent lavishly on you, drove you
in swanky car, and lived in a posh locality, you thought he was resourceful
enough to take good care of you. In awe
of his seeming realities, you never cared
to do a reality check on his true nature.
You did not pay attention to elders’
counsel for buying some time so that
you were able to know the man in and
out. And you rushed through marriage.
The truth about his true-self dawned
upon you only after settling down in
marriage, but by then it was too late.
Your astrological pointers speak
loud of why you conducted yourself as
above. But no knowledge of astrology
was needed to explore man’s true
nature. You just had to buy time and
watch him closely.
Marital separation or not, is exclusively your prerogative. But before you
take the call, you need to get over your
present mental predicament and rebuild
yourself afresh. Otherwise, you may not
be able to take a reasoned stand.
Second, you may not be able to articulate your actions well. Third, you may
not be able to withstand the challenges
coming your way in the process. So,
work upon yourself by following the
process suggested. Let us now look at
her astrological pointers.
The Sun is locked in adverse formation to Jupiter. It speaks of her swaggering ego with a closed mind, stuck to her
self-beliefs. She may not take advice and
counsel of elders kindly. Both the luminaries, the Sun and Moon lock horns
with mischievous Neptune. The obvious
implication is that she would be stuck to
her fanciful dream perceptions, often
distanced from ground realities. Bound
by her self-delusions, she would not
acknowledge truth on its first appearance, and ignore it till pushed to the
wall. Moon, ill-disposed off to Uranus,
makes her erratic. Mars and Mercury
close by, makes her irritable and restless,
and which accounts for her distracted
attention. In a fit of anger, she may lose
her sense of reasoning and control.
Saturn placed adverse to Ketu, would
not allow her to take on challenges
coming her way head on. She may
rather try to find an easy escape route.
Consequently, her problems get dragged
on for long. All put together made her
vulnerable to act unmindfully in life.
Turning to her husband’s chart,
Rahu placed in his 3rd house identified with basal instincts, implies that
he would be mean-minded person.
Also, he would be in a bad company.
Neptune in the 4th house, crossing
path with Mars, implies in the first
place, speaks of bad parentage. Second,
he would be suffering from inferiority
complex. Third, he may have violent
temperament, and may often ill-treat
others, particularly the near and dear
ones. Moon placed adverse with
Mercury as well as erratic Rahu,
speaks of his weird mind-set, unpredictable mood swings, fuzzy thinking,
insensible reasoning and judgment.
The Sun placed adverse to Venus, read
together with Moon ill-disposed off to
Jupiter, speaks of his volatile emotionality and his self-indulgences.
The result is there to see. I wish, she
sincerely follows the advice offered, and
soon she would feel empowered enough
to conduct prudently.
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