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NEARBY
Realtor Rahul Gaur
arrested for cheating
Rajapaksa underlines need to India rebuts
China on As new cases rise,
Modi’s visit
sustain DelhiColombo ties leprosy in spotlight
NEW DELHI
Rahul Gaur, son of Gaursons’
chairman B.L. Gaur, and his
wife Navneet alias Neetu
to Arunachal
were arrested on Saturday for Special Correspondent Govt. views detection as a sign
their alleged involvement in Bilateral relations should not fall victim to changes in govt., says former President NEW DELHI
of better disease management
several criminal cases. India on Saturday strongly
CITY A PAGE 3 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Mr. Rajapaksa, whose go reiterated its claims on Aru
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Sri Lanka’s Leader of the Op demise of the LTTE and its objected to Prime Minister
INSIDE position and former Presi once allpowerful leader Ve Narendra Modi’s visit to the
SECTION 1 dent Mahinda Rajapaksa lupillai Prabakaran, said Sri frontier State.
made an impassioned plea Lanka and India must ensure The Ministry of External
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for Colombo and Delhi to en that their territories were Aff airs said the Chinese
A page 14
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Science & Technology
tal. Calling for strong people tegral and inalienable part
A page 16 Addressing the third edi topeople relations, he said of India. Indian leaders vi
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tion of The Hindu’s Huddle the civil services of the two sit Arunachal Pradesh from
Being conclave here, Mr. Rajapkasa countries — not just the Fo time to time, just as they vi
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SECTION 2 the effi cacy of the “troika” The Huddle 2019 in Bengaluru on Saturday. K. MURALI KUMAR *
institutional mechanisms to MEA said. Bindu Shajan Perappadan
mechanism of senior offi foster better bilateral ties. China objected to Mr. NEW DELHI SUNDAY SPECIAL
Framed
A page 4&5
cials used by the two coun smooth, he pointed to the chanism to ensure that mis Modi’s visit, saying it “fi rm The rise in the number of
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Despatches Admitting that the bilateral troubled of times between place,” Mr. Rajapaksa said in SAYS RAJAPAKSA A PAGE 13 A spokesperson of the from 86,147 (in 201314) to Today, though, Bihar,
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Open Page had not always been “We must evolve a me twoday thought conclave. A PAGE 12 said China does not recog a decade and a half after Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh,
A page 9 nise the State. “China urges India was declared lepro West Bengal and Maha
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the Indian side to...respect syfree in 2005, has rashtra remain the ‘hot
Delhi CEO to counter ‘misinformation’ campaign
Takes note of ‘voter deletion calls’ allegedly being made by AAP, mulls legal action
Damini Nath orities would consider He said AAP had been given
New Delhi reaching out to voters a list of 24 lakh names that
With Delhiites receiving calls through social media and had been deleted by the EC
over the past month claim SMS as well. and enquiries by the Delhi
ing to be from the Aam Aad For the past few months, government found some of
mi Party, telling them that AAP has been alleging mass the deletions to be wrong.
their names have been voter deletion ahead of the Addressing a press confe
struck off the electoral rolls, Lok Sabha elections, a claim rence here, AAP spokesper
the Offi ce of the Chief Electo denied by the Election Com son Raghav Chadha said: “I
ral Offi cer has decided to mission of India and the want to ask the EC that is it
counter the “misleading Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said CEO. While the party has not true that the names of
calls” with its own aware enquiries by his government claimed that anywhere bet over 22 lakh voters were mis
ness campaign. had found some of the ween 24 lakh and 30 lakh sing from the voter list dur
In a statement on Satur deletions to be wrong. names have been deleted ing the recently concluded
day, the CEO offi ce said: “It since the 2015 Delhi Assemb elections in Telangana?” He
has been brought to the not their names are on the rolls ly elections, the electoral roll added that AAP had “un
ice of Chief Electoral Offi cer, through the helpline 1950, published by the CEO on Ja earthed” deletion of over 30
Delhi, that large number of the website www.nvsp.in or nuary 18 shows an increase lakh electors in Delhi.
calls have been received by visiting a voter centre. of 9,88,925 voters since the “Will the EC step up and
from unknown persons/enti Though the statement did 2014 Lok Sabha elections. initiate an inquiry against of
ties/sources by many citi not name AAP, it added that fi cers who are committing
zens of Delhi telling them “separate legal action” was AAP cries foul this crime in collusion with
that their names have alrea being taken. Sources in the Reacting to the CEO’s state the BJP? While the EC may
dy been deleted in the elec CEO offi ce confi rmed that ment on Saturday, AAP na have permitted the BJP to kill
toral roll and the caller(s) the calls referred to in the tional convenor and Delhi democracy in Telangana,
will get the same restored in statement were the ones Chief Minister Arvind Kejri but in Delhi we have AAP
the electoral roll.” claiming to be from AAP. wal said through a series of and we will not permit the
The statement further A senior offi cial in the tweets that the Election BJP to snatch people’s demo
cautioned Delhiites to “be CEO offi ce said apart from Commission had incorrectly cratic right to vote,” he said.
ware of such misleading advertisements in print and deleted names from the rolls
calls” and to check whether on radio, the election auth in Telangana and in Delhi. SEE ALSO A PAGE 2
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IN BRIEF
Will do everything to nail AAP’s ‘CM playing victim card to hide failures’
BJP leader attacks Kejriwal while referring to Narela incident
lies on voter deletion, says BJP Staff Reporter
New Delhi
A day after he was allegedly
<
> He has been
indulging in such
behaviour to garner
which seems to be declining
with each passing day,” Mr.
Gupta said.
AAP govt. to celebrate Seeks legal opinion; Kejriwal and Vijender Gupta engage in Twitter war attacked in Narela, Leader of cheap publicity to Mr. Gupta further at
four years in power the Opposition in the Delhi tacked the Chief Minister for
fan his political
Jatin Anand Legislative Assembly Vijen “attacking institutions” in
NEW DELHI relevance, which
With it completing four years
New Delhi der Gupta criticised Chief stead of “answering the peo
Terming it “largescale Minister for “playing the vic seems to be ple” and engaging in the
in power on February 14, the
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) fraud”, the BJP is seeking le tim card to hide his incom declining with each “politics of confrontation”
government said on Saturday gal opinion, and hopes for petence and failures”. passing day which had been “exposed”
that it would hold a the initiation of penal action Vijender Gupta in front of the people on
celebration on February 12. against the Aam Aadmi Party Convoy attack Leader of the Opposition in numerous occasions.
Delhi Assembly
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister (AAP) in relation to phone Referring to the protest in
Manish Sisodia said in a calls allegedly being made by Narela, which he argued was ‘His politics is exposed’
tweet, “To celebrate 4 years its members regarding the staged by locals “because of “CM Kejriwal has made it “The EC has been under fi re
of Delhi Government, join us deletion of votes from elec deliberate delay in the con a habit of playing the victim from the AAP supremo. In
for a grand celebration with toral rolls. struction of metro line card whenever it becomes the latest case he has tweet
Vishal Dadlani Live! Feb 12, Union Minister Vijay Goel, PhaseIV”, the Chief Minister too diffi cult to answer for his ed fl inging unwarranted alle
Tuesday 5 PM All are who took the matter to the had, once again, resorted to failure in governing the Cap gations at the constitutional
welcome See you there!
Chief Election Commission “spreading lies” as the prot ital. In fact, he has been in body. His politics of confron
[sic].” STAFF REPORTER
er (CEC) on Friday, said the esters were “wrongfully por dulging in such behaviour to tation has been exposed in
BJP would “do everything which everyone in Delhi is each other over the issue on been exposed early thats trayed as attacking the CM’s garner cheap publicity to fan front of the people on nume
Govt. reviews steps to possible to nail the AAP’s evidently getting,” Mr. Goel Twitter. Mr. Gupta charged why you are so fl ustered. convoy”. his political relevance, rous occasions,” he added.
curb Yamuna pollution
lies” regarding phone calls in told The Hindu. Mr. Kejriwal with “lying” Will EC resign if I give you
NEW DELHI
which citizens are being told “The EC has rightly decid about 24 lakh votes being de the list of those whose
The plan to curb pollution in
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A 40yearold man has been ary 13. son. He was arrested from Staff Reporter from an observation home gistered last year at Ambed A 23yearold man was shot
arrested for allegedly killing The boy was shown the Garhi when he came to pick NEW DELHI in north Delhi,” Mr. Kumar kar Nagar police station dead in outer Delhi’s Bawa
his wife over suspicion of be woman’s photo and told up the boy (from his mar Three persons, including a said. against one Himanshu Paha na on Saturday morning, the
ing friends with other men in about the clothes she was riage with Geeta), the police minor, have been held for al The police said they re dia, an acquaintance of Su police said. A case has been
southeast Delhi’s Lajpat Na wearing, after which he said. legedly killing a 20yearold ceived a call around 11.45 nil. registered and a probe has
gar, the police said on Satur identifi ed her as his mother. During interrogation, the man in south Delhi’s Ambed p.m. regarding a body lying “The accused said that Su begun.
day. The woman’s decom “The boy also said that he accused told police that he kar Nagar on Friday alleged in Dakshinpuri. nil was threatening the mi A senior offi cer said that
posed body was found on used to reside with his moth had met Geeta in 2008 when ly because the victim asked The deceased was later nor to turn hostile. On the the victim has been identi
January 21, they said. er and stepfather [Sanjay] at she was living separately the minor to turn hostile in identifi ed as Sunil. His day of the incident, the fi ed as Karan Dabas, a resi
Additional Deputy Com Garhi village and that the from her husband and with an attempt to murder case. brother Raj Kumar told the brothers and their accom dent of Sultanpur Dabas. His
missioner of Police (South couple often used to fi ght. her son. The two fell in love, Deputy Commissioner of police that Sunil had a scuf plice Saurabh took the vic nephew Mohit Dabas was
East) Ghanshyam Bansal He said that his stepfather got married and Geeta gave Police (South) Vijay Kumar fl e with Sunny and his broth tim to a deserted place and shot dead only a week ago.
said that the accused has Deceased Geeta Devi was also missing since Janu birth to another boy. “He said that the accused have er a few days ago and was al clobbered him with a stone The police said that Karan
been identifi ed as Sanjay Ku ary 13,” Mr. Bansal futher suspected her of being been identifi ed as Sunny Ne so seen with the accused and stabbed him to death,” was in his fi elds, getting
mar Singh alias Sanju, a rick spot, they found a woman’s said. friends with other men, to pali alias Lallu, his juvenile around 5 p.m. on Friday. Mr. Kumar said. some work done by the
shaw puller, who allegedly decomposed body. The body During investigation, the which he objected and often brother, and their accom The police said that raids farmers, when he was shot
killed his wife Geeta Devi. remained unidentifi ed for police said, it was revealed picked up fi ghts with Geeta. plice Saurabh Singh and the were conducted and Sunny Criminal record at least fi ve times by a few
Singh was Geeta’s second days after which it was cre that Geeta was last seen with On January 13, the day of the victim as Sunil alias Sheru. and his brother was nabbed The police said they have re men, who had come in an
husband, he said. mated on January 30. Sanjay. incident, he took Geeta to a Sunil was involved in a fi r with the help of local covered the weapon of of SUV. They fl ed after the inci
The police said that on Ja All his suspected hideouts secluded place on the pre ing incident at Karkardooma intelligence fence and a pistol along with dent. The farmers informed
nuary 21, a passerby made a Missing report were raided but he could not text of resolving the issues court in which a head con During interrogation, he live cartridges from the ac Karan’s family. He was
PCR call regarding a body. However, on February 2, a be found anywhere. On Fri between them and strangu stable was killed. “The vic said that the his minor cused. All the three accused rushed to a hospital where
When police reached the 15yearold boy approached day, the police said they re lated her,” Mr. Bansal said. tim was a minor at the time brother was an witness in an have criminal records, Mr. he was declared brought
and was recently released attempttomurder case re Kumar also said. dead.
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Batchmates say he was upset for not being able to clear competitive exams
Staff Reporter hailed from Madhya Pra two batchmates returned batchmates told the police
NEW DELHI desh’s Rewa. “The police around 9 p.m., they found that their friend was upset
A 25yearold Indian Engi control room received a call the door locked. They called for not being able to clear
neering Services (IES) offi cer regarding the incident the deceased who did not competitive examinations.
was found dead at his rented around 10:45 p.m.... During answer. “They arranged a The offi cer further said
accommodation in Munirka investigation, it was revealed ladder from their neigh that the family of the de
on Friday night, the police that he had moved to Delhi bours and climbed up from ceased has been informed
said on Saturday. The police about two months ago and the rear side of the house. about his death. Inquest pro
suspect that he died by sui lived with three of his batch When they fi nally went in ceedings have been initiated,
cide. mates. It was his fi rst posting side, they found him hang he said.
No note left behind by the here,” the offi cer said. ing,” the offi cer said. The Suicide prevention hel-
deceased has been found, On Friday evening, two of two then rushed him to a pline: Sanjivini, Society for
they said. the batchmates had gone to a hospital where he was de Mental Health, Telephone:
A senior police offi cer said mall, while the third was clared dead, police said. 011-4076 9002, Monday-Sa-
that the deceased IES offi cer away in his village. When the When questioned, the turday, 10 a.m. -7.30 p.m.
es of Delhi are not being gi
ven the status of farmers. claimed. 81 as even if a small room is “rapidly spread among the
The Kejriwal government Member of Parliament built on any farmland, the youth” with the Delhi go
has totally neglected 360 vil Udit Raj, who was also part same gets vested in Gaon vernment having “complete
lages of Delhi that has of the program, said that Sabha land. There is also a ly turned a blind eye to this
caused a lot of resentment when the Delhi govern need to amend Section 33, issue”.
against him in those residing ment’s Land and Building due to which any farmer “I will start a people’s
in the villages,” Mr. Goel Department acquired land having less than 8 acres of movement and uncover the
claimed in a statement. belonging to villagers, the agricultural land is not able truth of the Delhi govern
“The residents of Barwala villagers were promised si to sell the same and is ment, which is involved in
told me that the condition of milar plots; however, thou stopped from dividing it drama in Punjab, but have
the roads is deplorable and sands of villagers had still amongst his children as chosen to remain silent in
the water available was not not received the promised well,” Mr. Raj said. Delhi. The villagers are hap
potable ...They were angry plots and the Delhi govern Mr. Goel further argued py with the land pooling pol
with Mr. Kejriwal for creating ment was “sitting idle on that the law and order situa icy of the Centre and a portal
hindrances in starting the these fi les”. tion in the area had deterio has been launched which
PhaseIV metro of Rithala “Similarly, there is an ur rated and the problems of al will prove to be benefi cial for
BawnaNarela line too,” he gent need to delete Section cohol and drug abuse had them,” Mr. Goel added.
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* PTI Masood, in his letter sent on police and district offi cials peace and harmony and
Friday, termed the NSA was on the basis of informa therefore, he had said, such
move “onesided”, adding tion given by an informer. a move was made against
Odisha BJP releases charter of promises
Assures shelter for homeless, records of rights for landless, jobs for youth
Staff Reporter
BHUBANESWAR
Gas Minister. Pradhan. “In its 2014 manif
“About 25.57 lakh houses esto, the BJD had promised
The Odisha unit of the BJP re were allotted to poor during housing for all, but everybo
leased a charter of promises the United Progressive Al dy knows how many families
on Saturday, assuring shelter liance regime [at the Centre]. have got roofs over their
for homeless, records of Each dwelling unit measured heads,” he said.
rights for landless and em 20 sq metre and fi nancial as
ployment for youth. sistance to the tune of Cong. declaration
The charter called ‘Pratis ₹ 75,000 was being given. Af This exercise of releasing a
ruti Patra’ is like a printed de ter the Narendra Modi go written charter of demands
claration where people seek vernment came to power, had been adopted by the
ing home, land or jobs can the number of dwelling units State Congress too, which
fi ll up their personal details Dharmendra Pradhan * FILE went up to 1.4 crore while the had issued guarantee cards
and submit the document at PHOTO assistance was doubled,” to its supporters when party
the party offi ce. The forms said Mr. Pradhan. president Rahul Gandhi had
are also being collected by vernment during its 19 years He said that the NDA go visited Rourkela on February
the BJP workers and acknow of rule failed miserably. Ac vernment has promised that 6. The party had promised
ledgement receipts are being cording to offi cial statistics, nobody would be left with minimum basic income for
issued to the applicants. 27.48 lakh families do not out roof, power, and LPG gas poor and crop loan waiver. It
The BJP while releasing have roof over their head connection by 2022. had also assured fi nancial as
the ‘Pratisruti Patra’ here an while 25 lakh landless people “Mr. Patnaik enjoyed pow sistance for higher education
nounced that it would fulfi l are yet to have records of er thoroughly during 19 and marriage of girl child,
the promises upon being vot rights in their name,” alleged years of his rule, while Mr. water supplies in every hou
ed to power. Dharmendra Pradhan, Un Modi spent 55 months in ser sehold and steps to prevent
“The Naveen Patnaik go ion Petroleum and Natural vice of the people,” said Mr. violence against women.
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IN BRIEF
Modi’s visit kicks
‘Take suo motu notice of Karnataka tape’ up political dust
Congress leaders want Chief Justice of India to take note of attempts to defame the judiciary
Special Correspondent “Since Mr. Yeddyurappa is
BJP fi les plaint against hoardings in A.P.
New Delhi heard saying that Amit Shah Staff Reporter Chief Minister Chandra
Kerala’s stance stalls
The Congress on Saturday will manage judges, the CJI Vijayawada babu Naidu set the tone for
tourism projects: Alphons
KOTTAYAM
asked Chief Justice of India should take suo motu cogni Protests erupted on Satur the protests by exhorting
Union Minister of State for Ranjan Gogoi to take suo mo sance of attempts to defame day against the injustice al the people through a tele
Tourism K.J. Alphons has tu notice of the audio clip the judiciary,” he said. legedly being meted out by conference to expose the
accused the Kerala where senior BJP leader B.S. The Congress chief spo the Central government to BJPled NDA government
government of being ‘non Yeddyuruppa is heard alleg kesperson said the Prime Mi Andhra Pradesh, on the eve that failed to implement the
cooperative to proposals by edly off ering a bribe of ₹ 10 nister needs to explain the of Prime Minister Narendra Reorganisation Act and
the Centre,’ thus affecting crore to a Janata Dal (Secu “source of the BJP funds to Modi’s visit to Guntur. The turned down the State’s
the timely implementation of lar) lawmaker’s son while his buy 20 MLAs” and allegedly TDP and the BJP traded plea for Special Category
projects. Addressing party colleague tells him that “feed” the Assembly charges and a delegation of Status (SCS). The critics of
presspersons here on BJP’s top brass can manage speaker. the national ruling party the BJP put up massive
Saturday, Mr. Alphons said the judiciary. “Did the money come lodged a complaint with hoardings at some places
the State had not spent a The party said it will take from the BJP, the PMO or el R.P. Thakur, DGP, against near the Gannavaram air
single penny of the ₹ 20 crore up strongly in Parliament sewhere? Which deal did it hoardings which read ‘Modi port, but they were re
sanctioned in the first phase next week how the BJP was come from?” he asked and No Entry’ and ‘Modi Never moved later.
of the ₹ 99.99crore trying to destabilise the H.D. dared the Prime Minister to Again’. A banner that surfaced in
Call for action: Congress leaders K.C. Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala addressing a press
Sabarimala corridor project. Kumaraswamyled Karnata apply anticorruption laws to The cadre of the TDP, the Vijayawada city, showing
meet in New Delhi on Saturday. Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi is also seen. PTI *
ka government by off ering those who were trying to Left parties, the ‘Pratyeka Mr. Naidu shooting an arrow
Jalandhar diocese stays bribes of up to ₹ 10 crore ter Narendra Modi and BJP through horsetrading,” al should be condemned,” he oust the Kumaraswamyled Hoda Sadhana Samiti’ and at the BJP leaders and Telan
transfer of five nuns each to about 1820 lawmak chief Amit Shah were in leged Mr. Venugopal, who al said. The audio tape was government in Karnataka. other civil society organisa gana Chief Minister K. Chan
KOTTAYAM ers of the JD(S)Congress volved in attempts to topple so handles Karnataka. made public by Chief Minis “Will the CBI and the ED tions took to the streets and drasekhara Rao, had creat
Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias coalition. the Karnataka government. He asserted that the Con ter Kumaraswamy on Friday. raid Yeddyurappa? If not shouted ‘Modi Go Back,’ ed a fl utter.
of the Jalandhar diocese has Addressing a joint press “From day one, since H.D. gressJD(S) coalition will con Mr. Surjewala said that a then it will become clear that holding him responsible for The protesters took mo
directed the Missionaries of
conference, Congress lead Kumaraswamy became the tinue in Karnataka irrespec criminal complaint has been Narendra Modi and Amit the plight of Andhra torcycle rallies in the city
Jesus congregation to
ers K.C. Venugopal, Randeep Chief Minister, BJP's national tive of the BJP attempts to fi led in the matter and audio Shah are behind it (the al Pradesh. holding black fl ags.
withhold the transfer orders
Surjewala and Dinesh Gundu leadership is trying to desta topple it. “We are 100% sure samples will be collected to leged topple move),” said Mr.
of five nuns who had been
part of a protest against
Rao alleged that Prime Minis bilise the government about it. BJP type of politics start investigation. Surjewala.
Bishop Franco Mulakkal,
accused of raping a nun, till Doctors leave forceps
the case is over. In a letter to
the nuns, Anupama
Kelamangalathuveliyil, Nina
B.C. Patil won’t join Cong. Will retire if proved wrong about in woman’s abdomen
Rose, Ancitta Urumbil, Alphy
Pallasseril and Josephine rebels: Siddaramaiah the tapes, says Kumaraswamy It was found 3 months after surgery
Villoonnickal, the bishop
expressed his dismay over the Special Correspondent Staff Reporter
move to transfer them from a Bengaluru Special Correspondent When his attention was Hyderabad
convent in Kottayam. A day after skipping the Mangaluru drawn to Ramesh Kumar’s Three months after a wo
Congress Legislature Party Karnataka Chief Minster reported statement that the man from Mangalhat under
Films by women get meeting, Congress MLA B.C. H.D. Kumaraswamy on Sa voice in the clip was not that went a hernia operation at
funds in Kerala Budget Patil on Saturday called on turday said he would retire of Mr. Yeddyurappa, he said the Nizam’s Institute of Med
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM CLP leader and former Kar from politics if the voice in he has submitted both audio ical Science (NIMS) here,
The issues raised by the nataka Chief Minister Sidda the audio CD released by clips to the Speaker, who she was readmitted on Fri
Women in Cinema Collective ramaiah at the latter’s resi him is proved to be not that said an inquiry was re day only to learn that a pair
over the past couple of years dence and claimed that he of BJP leader B.S. quired. “Let us see what rul of artery forceps had been
had a reflection in the Kerala
would not leave the party. B.C. Patil Yeddyurappa. H.D. Kumaraswamy ing the Speaker gives in the left behind in her body dur
Budget this year. Finance
The Hirekerur MLA is be Interacting with reporters Assembly on Monday,” he ing the surgery.
Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac
lieved to have provided an photos of Mr. Gowda receiv after attending the inaugura On the second audio clip, in said. Maheshwari Choudary, An Xray showing the
has set aside an amount of ₹ 3
crore as “partial funding
explanation for his absence ing treatment in a hospital. tion of the Mahamastakabh which the names of Assemb He also claimed that even 33, underwent a surgery on forceps inside the patient.
support for two feature films at the CLP meeting. Speak Mr. Gowda did not attend isheka rituals of Lord Bahu ly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Ku after the audio clips came November 2. She was dis * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
made by women” in the ing to reporters later, Mr. the State Budget session in bali at Dharmasthala near mar and others were men out on Friday, the BJP has charged on November 12.
Budget. The idea was Siddaramaiah said Mr. Patil spite of strict instructions gi here, Mr. Kumaraswamy tioned, Mr. Kumaraswamy not stopped luring JD(S) However, she complained of The botched operation
proposed by the Kerala State had no intention of desert ven by the party. Specula said he was standing in a ho said he did not say that the MLAs. stomach ache on and off came to light when the Xray
Film Development ing the party. tions were rife that top BJP ly place and reiterating that voice was of Mr. Yeddyurap “Today morning, one of post surgery. showed the forceps inside
Corporation. The allocation Meanwhile, supporters of leaders in the State were try it was Mr. Yeddyurappa who pa. “It was [that of ] Deodurg our MLAs called and told me On Friday night, she com her body. Ms. Choudhary
has been included under the JD(S) leader K.C. Narayana ing to poach him under the is heard attempting to lure a MLA Shivanagouda Patil,” he that he was lured to go with plained of extreme pain, fol was operated upon on Sa
detailed gender budget Gowda on Saturday released Operation Lotus. JD(S) MLA to switch sides. #331007
said. the BJP,” he said. lowing which her husband turday and the forceps was
document. rushed her to NIMS again. removed.
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DELHI
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IN BRIEF
India set to overtake Pakistan in Wild elephant
in no mood
Swine fl u death toll
touches 100 in Rajasthan,
to return
number of Haj pilgrims: Naqvi Special Correspondent
COIMBATORE
even as 2,793 test positive
Two crore expected to
50% of applicants Wild elephant Chinna Rise in cases in Gujarat, Punjab
Thambi, which returned to
take ‘shahi snan’ today this year are Tirupur district after cross
Asian News International
ALLAHABAD
All roads led to Sangam city, women: Minister ing River Amaravathi a cou
NEW DELHI
NAGAPATTINAM Khadim Ul Hujjaj that saw Department offi cials tried fresh cases, Jaipur wit
The Sri Lankan Navy on members from across the to chase it from the agricul nessed the highest number ed a large number of fatali
Saturday reportedly arrested country gather at the Haj ture fi elds by bursting fi re of 43 patients, followed by ties due to the H1N1 infec
seven fishermen of House near the Chhatrapati crackers, but it did not Barmer where 9 people tion,” said an offi cial from
Akkaraipettai, a fishing Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. budge. were tested positive. the ministry. Both the teams
hamlet on the outskirts of “From our country, Mus Later, they tried to chase Meanwhile, in view of the comprise a microbiologist,
Nagapattinam, and lims participate in Haj in it back into the forest by us rising cases of swine fl u and an epidemiologist and a
confiscated a fibre reinforced huge numbers. There are ing the kumkis, Kaleem deaths due to the disease in clinician.
boat for foraying into the Sri two Islamic countries – Indo and Mariappan, but with Gujarat and Punjab, the Un The Ministry had earlier
Lankan waters. nesia, from where around 2 little success. In the after ion Health Ministry has sent deputed a public health
1 held after video of boys lakh people participate and noon, Chinna Thambi two teams to assess the sit team to Rajasthan.
harassing a girl goes viral then there is Pakistan from moved back into the sugar uation and assist the States The States have also been
JEHANABAD where 1,84,000 people par dual rise in the number of The GST was reduced from nions. This year, that num cane fi elds. The elephant in strengthening their res advised to involve district
A video showing a group of ticipate. As of today, India al women willing to participate 18% to 5% on Haj. We will al ber has gone up to 2,340.” then continued moving ponse mechanism to con collectors in enhancing pu
boys harassing and beating a ready has over 1,75,000 par in the pilgrimage without a so ensure a signifi cant drop He said the government between Sengazhanipudur tain the ailment. blic awareness and outbreak
schoolgirl has gone viral on ticipants and we are aiming mehram (male companion). in the airfare on nine of the was tightening its leash on and Kannadipudur, owing Fiftyfour deaths and response.
social media in Bihar’s to supersede Pakistan this According to Mr. Naqvi, 21 embarkation points in the private tour operators who to the availability of food in 1,187 cases were reported in In a recently held high
Jehanbad district, following year,” Mr. Naqvi said while digitising the application country,” he said. will now have to disclose ev farms. On hearing about Gujarat till February 7, while power meeting with senior
which the police swung into addressing the Khadims. process and reduction in the The Minister added that ery detail on a portal. “The the elephant, eager villag 30 deaths and 301 cases offi cials of the Ministry, Un
action and arrested one of the According to Mr. Naqvi, of GST on Haj yielded signifi the number of women parti PTOs will have to disclose ers rushed to the spot. were reported from Punjab, ion Health Secretary Preeti
perpetrators of the crime. the total number of applica cant results. “We made the cipating without male com details regarding those they The Forest Depart according to data by the Sudan reviewed the state of
Superintendent of
tions received by the Haj process online this time. As a panions has also shot up. are ferrying, rental costs and ment’s strategy was to keep Health Ministry. preparedness and action ta
Police Manish Kumar said that
Committee of India, around result, approximately 40% “Last year, we had around total expenditure. We have track of the elephant and “Two Central teams have ken to deal with H1N1 in
one person had been arrested
50% were from women. He applications were received 1,300 women undertaking even blacklisted some tour gradually push it back into been sent to Gujarat and fl uenza cases in the country.
in this connection on
Saturday. PTI
also said that there was a gra through the online medium. Haj without male compa operators,” he said. the forest, sources said. Punjab as they have report (With PTI inputs)
Stalin terms cash dole announced in
Central Budget as ‘bribe for votes’
DMK leader says Modi’s promise of doubling income remains just a promise
Staff Reporter be fulfi lled. “The cash dole
SALEM to be given in instalments is
DMK president M.K. Stalin bribing the electors,” he
said that the ₹ 6,000 a year said.
cash dole announced by the Mr. Stalin said that 10% re
Centre to farmers in the inte servation for the economi
rim Budget amounted to in cally weaker sections among
directly bribing the voters the forward castes would
ahead of the Lok Sabha help only the upper castes
election. and not the poor.
Speaking at a conference Taking a dig at Chief Mi
organised by Adi Tamilar Pe Future allies? DMK president M.K. Stalin fl anked by R. nister Edappadi K. Palanis
ravai at Magudanchavadi in Adhiyamaan of Adi Tamilar Katchi and E.R. Eswaran of wami, who said he went to
the district, he said those in Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi. E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN
* prison seven times, Mr. Sta
power were not thinking of lin wanted the Chief Minister
the downtrodden, but think the Central government and added that the protest to list the reasons why he
ing of the welfare of the cor keeps on saying this every by farmers in New Delhi was went to prison.
porates. He said that during year,” he said. a shame for all citizens. E.R. Eswaran, Kongunadu
the election campaign in Since the elections were two Makkal Desiya Katchi presi
2014, Prime Minister Naren ‘Shame for citizens’ months away, Mr. Modi dent; Adhiyamaan, Adi Ta
dra Modi promised to dou The DMK president said that planned to visit the State fre milar Katchi president, and
ble the income of farmers af farmers’ income had only quently and added that their A. Raja, former Union Minis
ter coming to power. “But dropped in all these years dream of winning would not ter, were present.
30 injured in jallikattu in
Pudukottai, Tiruchi districts
Events held in strict compliance with safety norms: Minister
Special Correspondent
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Twitter offi cials absent cused of cow slaughter and
cattle smuggling.
The party described Randeep Surjewala
gress Legislature Party (CLP)
leaders to take stock of Con
gress’ battlereadiness for
at House panel meeting
#331007
Flights to
Srinagar
CBI grills Rajeev Kumar Rafale deal a non-issue Push for generous rehab
for 8 hours in Shillong scheme for Naga cadres
resumed
Press Trust of India
Questioning may continue today
for the voter, says Goyal Parliamentary panel wants early talks
New Delhi RAHUL KARMAKAR ‘People will repose their faith in Modi in Lok Sabha election’ Vijaita Singh
The Ministry of Civil Avia SHILLONG NEW DELHI
tion said on Saturday that Sleuths of the Central Bu Sharad Vyas Force and Defence Ministry A Parliamentary panel has
Mumbai
airlines are now operating reau of Investigation (CBI) to benefi t his “cronies” in recommended the Ministry
additional fl ights to Srina questioned Kolkata Police The controversies surround the Rafale deal. of Home Aff airs (MHA) pre
gar to ease rush of passen Commissioner Rajeev Ku ing the Rafale deal is a non pare a detailed and gener
gers stranded due to a halt mar for more than eight issue for the Indian voter Talks on with Sena ous rehabilitationcumset
in fl ight operations earlier hours in connection with who is likely to retain full Mr. Goyal, who was speaking tlement scheme for the
this week owing to heavy the Saradha chit fund scam faith in Prime Minister Na on the sidelines of the party cadres of National Socialist
snowfall. at the agency’s offi ce in Shil rendra Modi’s leadership in programme to launch the Council of Nagaland (Isak
“After the closure of Sri long on Tuesday. the upcoming Lok Sabha Bharat Ke Mann Ki Baat in Muivah), the group that
nagar airport earlier this Mr. Kumar arrived at the election, Finance, Corporate itiative in Maharashtra, said signed a Naga Framework
week due to snow, airlines CBI offi ce in the hill town’s Aff airs, Coal and Railways the consultations with the Agreement with the Centre
are now running extra Oakland locality in a convoy Minister Piyush Goyal said in Shiv Sena for an alliance in in 2015. A fi le photo of NSCN (IM)
fl ights to take passengers to
their destinations. The
escorted by the Meghalaya
police at 10.45 a.m. He left
Rajeev Kumar the wake of the fresh revela
tions by The Hindu on “pa
<
> The allegations are
only keeping the
the State were going on and
could come to a conclusion
The panel also wondered
at the delay in concluding
cadres. RITU RAJ KONWAR
*
weather is now clear & the offi ce at 7.25 p.m. after being interrogated as he is rallel negotiations” by the Opposition busy soon. the Naga peace talks “when theless, stay prepared for
these extra fl ights should what his lawyer Biswajeet not an accused (in the Sa PMO in the €7.87 billion and away from real Alluding to the demands all other stakeholders other any scenario that may
help all reach their destina Deb termed “sharing of radha case) but a witness. deal. issues of public for simultaneous elections, than the Government ap emerge in the aftermath of
tions soon,” the Ministry information”. He is here to share informa Speaking to the press in interest the Minister said it cannot be pear to be eager to conclude this agreement, and keep
tweeted. “11 extra fl ights Mr. Deb told newsper tion. He has cooperated ear the fi nancial capital on Sa selectively applied to Maha it.” Any further delay may security forces on the alert,”
will be fl ying today from & sons that he was not privy to lier, and he is cooperating turday, Mr. Goyal said insin impact the Bharatiya Janata rashtra and Mr. Modi would harm the progress achieved the panel said in its report.
to Srinagar; 2 had fl own what transpired in the ques now after the Supreme uations and allegations of Party’s chances in the elec only look to move in that di in the last few years, it said. After signing a Frame
yesterday & some more, tioning room as he and two Court order,” Mr. Deb said corruption and cronyism in tions. “This is and will be a rection if there was a nation The panel headed by work Agreement with the
depending on the need, other West Bengal police of after the questioning ended. the deal were only a fi gment nonissue for the voters,” he al consensus on it. Congress leader P. Chidam NSCNIM, the largest group
are planned for tomorrow fi cers — Kolkata Additional The interrogation is being of the Opposition’s imagina said. Objecting to West Bengal baram submitted the 219th representing the Nagas, the
and day after,” it added in Commissioner of Police headed by a 10member tion and had no basis what According to a recent re Chief Minister and Trina report to the department re Centre signed a preamble in
another tweet. Jawed Samim and Deputy team of CBI offi cials who soever in reality. port in The Hindu, at height mool Congress supremo Ma lated Standing Committee November 2017 with six Na
Kashmir had remained Commissioner (Special Task came from Delhi, Lucknow “They can [Opposition] of the negotiations over the mata Banerjee’s alleged ef on Home Aff airs in the Rajya ga National Political Groups
cut off from the rest of the Force) Murlidhar Sharma — and Bhopal. A couple of CBI show whichever documents controversial €7.87billion forts to disturb BJP’s poll Sabha on February 7. (NNPGs) to hold discussions
country for the past few who accompanied Mr. Ku offi cers, including the inves they want, but the people of Rafale deal between India preparations in the State, to fi nd a solution to the issue
days as the SrinagarJam mar to Shillong, were made tigating offi cer of the case, India have full faith in the and France, the Defence Mi Mr. Goyal said the anarchy ‘Stay prepared’ lingering on for decades.
mu National Highway re to wait in a separate room. came from Kolkata. leadership provided by nistry had raised strong ob created by the Trinamool “NSCN (IM), being the lar The NSCNIM has been
mained closed and fl ight A CBI offi cer, declining to Prime Minister Narendra jections to “parallel negotia leaders was condemnable. gest group in the entire re fi ghting for ‘Greater Naga
services were disrupted at Not an accused: lawyer be quoted, said Mr. Kumar Modi. At the least, the allega tions” conducted by the They blocked preparations gion, would have thousands land’ or Nagalim — it wants
the airport due to heavy The trio kept moving in and would be questioned again tions are only keeping the Prime Minister's Offi ce with for even the Prime Minister’s of cadres who must be adeq to extend Nagaland's bor
snowfall in the region. out of the CBI offi ce situated on Sunday along with Kunal Opposition busy and away the French side. rallies while not making ar uately settled to make the ders by including Naga
Delhi Airport tweeted, on a narrow lane, heavily Ghosh, a journalistturned from real issues of public in The Opposition has since rangements for lakhs of vo agreement successful and to dominated areas in neigh
“More than 20 fl ights have guarded by State police politician and Trinamool terest,” the Minister said in alleged that Prime Minister ters who wanted to come prevent the emergence of bouring Assam, Manipur
operated to Srinagar to commandos. Congress MP in the Rajya reaction to a question if the Narendra Modi had consis and hear him talk, Mr. Goyal any splinter groups…. the and Arunachal Pradesh, to
day.” “He (Mr. Kumar) is not Sabha. controversial Rafale deal will tently undermined the Air claimed. government should, never unite 1.2 million Nagas.
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IN BRIEF
Shah ridicules alliance moves Tejashwi says he will respect
Says the Opposition parties have no idea who their PM candidate is court order on bungalow
Prakash Kamat said. “That one step of
Minister slams Cong. for
Panaji
avenging the 12 martyrs SC asked him to vacate house meant for Deputy CM
opposing triple talaq bill BJP president Amit Shah on changed the way other coun
MOTIHARI (BIHAR) Saturday ridiculed the Oppo tries look at us.” India was Press Trust of India Mr. Yadav, who lost the
Union Law Minister Ravi sition alliance (Mahagath- being compared to America Patna Deputy Chief Minister post
Shankar Prasad on Saturday bandhan) against the party and Israel, the only two Chastened by the Supreme upon Nitish Kumar’s exit
slammed the Congress for for the Lok Sabha election. countries that were known Court’s order to vacate his from the grand alliance in Ju
opposing the legislation Addressing a gathering of to take revenge on behalf of bungalow, RJD leader and ly 2017, also accused the
against triple talaq, saying boothlevel party workers their soldiers on enemy soil. former Bihar Deputy Chief Chief Minister of being in oc
the party was supporting a from across the State here on He said Piyush Goyal who Minister Tejashwi Yadav on cupation of “two residences
social practice that has been Saturday evening, Mr. Shah presented the budget this Saturday said he would “res by clubbing together as ma
banned in more than 20 said: “Ask the “Gathband year had hiked the Defence pect” the order while assert ny as six bungalows“.
Islamic countries. Addressing han” who their Prime Minis allocation to ₹ 3 lakh crore, ing that his fi ght was against The Chief Minister’s offi
a farmers’ congregation in terial candidate against Modi its highest since Indepen the Nitish Kumar govern Tejashwi Yadav cial residence is 1, Anne
East Champaran district, Mr. is... It will be Mayawati on dence. ment’s “arbitrary and spite Marg, while Mr. Kumar is liv
Prasad alleged that under the
Monday, Akhilesh on Tues ful” action and it would may not know that as the ing at the adjacent 7, Circular
leadership of Rahul Gandhi
day, Deve Gowda on Wed War of words: Amit Shah addressing a gathering of booth- Parrikar on the dais continue. leader of the Opposition in Road, which had been allot
the Congress was continuing
nesday, Chandrababu on level workers of the BJP in Goa on Saturday. PTI * Earlier, ailing Chief Minister He, however, alleged that the State assembly, he was ted to him in his capacity as
with the politics of minority
appeasement. PTI
Thursday, Stalin on Friday, Manohar Parrikar, who ar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar entitled to the same type of a former Chief Minister after
Sharad Pawar on Saturday had taken a back seat. He took on the big project of rived at the meeting venue himself was occupying “two bungalow as the one he is he stepped down for a few
and the country will go on a commended ailing Chief Mi modernising the Army. along with Mr. Shah, residences” created by club presently occupying. months in 201415.
Rahul to address rally holiday on Sunday!” nister Manohar Parrikar for “Every day Alia, Maliya, climbed the dais with the bing six bungalows here. Following objection by
in Gujarat on Feb. 14 “This kind of leadership his commitment to Goa’s de Jamaliya would enter the help of several aides and The Supreme Court on ‘Partisan attitude’ the Patna High Court, the
AHMEDABAD
cannot take India ahead in velopment. country at will. There was no gave a brief speech. Friday dismissed Mr. Yadav’s “I have even been allotted a Circular Road bungalow has
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi
the world,” he said. “The one to fi x accountability. Af The Congress would bite plea challenging a Patna bungalow of the same cate been allotted to the Chief Se
will address a rally in
coalition which opposes Security matters ter Narendra Modi became the dust if BJP workers came High Court order asking him gory. But it is the State go cretary. However, the top
Dharampur in Gujarat’s Valsad
Prime Minister Narendra “The partnership of Mano PM, there was a Pakistan together and fought the Lok to vacate the government vernment’s arbitrary, spite bureaucrat is yet to shift
district on February 14, its
State unit chief Amit Chavda
Modi and the BJP is bereft of har Parrikar and Narendra sponsored terror attack in Sabha elections in the right bungalow meant for the De ful and partisan attitude there since “repairs and re
said on Saturday. He said a leadership, principles and Modi has accomplished the Uri. Twelve of our men were spirit, he said. puty Chief Minister. against which I had put up a novations” are reportedly
meeting of the Congress policy.” task of securing this country. burnt alive. There was a “I will not give a big The court also imposed a fi ght and my democratic taking place. The State go
Working Committee, to be He alleged that under the For 10 years that the Sonia mood of despondency speech today. I will reserve it fi ne of ₹ 50,000 on the Rash fi ght would continue,” he vernment wants Tejashwi
attended by top leaders, erstwhile United Progressive Manmohan government across the country. Mr. Parri for the elections.” triya Janata Dal (RJD) leader said. The Supreme Court Yadav to shift to 2, Polo
including Sonia Gandhi, Alliance regime led by Sonia functioned, it was reckless kar was the Defence Minister “Come together, forget for pursuing a litigation up had asked him to vacate the Road, which was occupied
Manmohan Singh and Gandhi and the then Prime and negligent about the and Modi the PM. Within ten small diff erence and let us to the top court even after bungalow at 5, Deshratna by the current Deputy Chief
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is also Minister Manmohan Singh, country’s security. It was on days we entered the Pakista give it our all to make Modi two benches of the high Marg to make way for Depu Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.
scheduled in the State. PTI modernisation and streng ly when Mr. Parrikar became ni soil and a surgical strike PM again,” he said. court dismissed his plea. ty Chief Minister Sushil Ku He vacated the bungalow
thening of the armed forces the Defence Minister that he was carried out,” Mr. Shah Mr. Yadav said people mar Modi. last month.
CBI probe likely into U.P.
MBBS admission scam
Lt. Gen. Dhillon NPP says will quit NDA if
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The government has decided
to refer the Uttar Pradesh Come snow or shine takes charge of
Combined Medical Test –
2015 MBBS admission scam
to the CBI for investigation. Chinar Corps Citizenship Bill is passed
Amit Biswas, Under Secretary
in the Ministry of Health and Press Trust of India
Decision taken at general body meeting
Family Welfare, in a letter on Srinagar Press Trust of India
February 8 to petitioner
Surender Singh Hooda, said Lt. Gen. Kanwal Jeet Singh Shillong
“the matter has been referred Dhillon has taken over as Amid widespread protests
to the CBI for further the 48th Corps Commander across the northeastern re
investigation.” Mr. Hooda, an of the Army’s Srinagar gion over the contentious
investigative journalist, had based strategic 15 Corps, Citizenship Bill, National Pe
filed the petition seeking a which mans the Line of ople’s Party (NPP) president
CBI probe into the alleged Control (LoC) in Kashmir, a and Meghalaya Chief Minis
corruption in the exam. IANS defence spokesman said ter Conrad K. Sangma on Sa
on Saturday. turday threatened that his
India slams Pak. PM for Lt. Gen. Dhillon took ov party would quit the BJPled
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er the command of the 15 NDA if the proposed legisla Conrad K. Sangma
NEW DELHI Corps, also called the Chi tion was passed in Rajya
India on Saturday said nar Corps, on Friday from Sabha. with the NDA,” Mr. Sangma
Pakistani Prime Minister Lt. Gen. A.K. Bhatt. The NPP adopted a reso told reporters here after the
Imran Khan’s recent remarks “A befi tting farewell was lution on its decisions at its meeting. He added that the
on the treatment of given to Lt. Gen. Bhatt who general body convention in NPP would submit the par
minorities in India were an
has moved to New Delhi as which its leaders from all ty’s resolution to the Centre
“egregious insult” to all
Military Secretary at the the four northeastern States for information and its con
Indians. Mr. Khan was quoted
Army Headquarters,” the where it is holding power or sideration.
by the Pakistani media as
saying that his government
spokesman said. Lt. Gen. backing the government He said the resolution
would not allow minorities to Dhillon was commissioned were present. was adopted after receiving
be treated like “second class in December 1983 and has “The party took a unani reports from various States
citizens” as is done in India. a military career spanning mous resolution to oppose on the opposition to the Bill.
Ministry of External Affairs 35 years during which he the Citizenship Amendment Besides being in power in
(MEA) spokesperson Raveesh held varied command, Bill 2016 and based on that Meghalaya, the NPP backs
Kumar said the remarks were staff and instructional ap decision, a resolution was the BJP governments in Aru
an “egregious insult to all Solitary soldier: A CRPF jawan keeps vigil during a strike called by separatists in connection with the 6th death anniversary of pointments, the spokes passed. If the bill is passed, nachal Pradesh, Manipur
citizens of India”. PTI Parliament attack accused Mohammad Afzal Guru, in Srinagar on Saturday. NISSAR AHMAD *
man said. the NPP will break its ties and Nagaland.
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Thought conclave
(clockwise from
left) Mahinda
Rajapaksa
inaugurating
The Huddle in
Bengaluru. N.
Ram, Chairman,
The Hindu
Group; N. Ravi,
Publisher of The
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Padmanabhan,
Editor, The
Hindu; and R.
Ravichander,
group president
and regional
director, Yes
Bank; are seen;
the audience at
the conclave;
and historian
Ramachandra
Guha asking a
question. G.P. *
SAMPATH KUMAR
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Tamils fi rst to
oppose IPKF, says
A buoyant economy must lift all boats
Some of the best minds in business discuss how to mould Reforms 2.0, moving beyond just economic statistics
Rajapaksa Thomas K. Thomas
the faculty.”
Sinhala, Muslims joined in Policymakers and industry Mr. Srinivasan said while the
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT should now focus more on the basic philosophy behind the fi rst
BENGALURU execution of plans and address wave of reforms was to ensure
ing structural issues than merely the share of manufacturing in
Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Ra announcing incentives and sops GDP grew substantially, which in
japaksa on Saturday said it was the Tamil to encourage economic growth turn created more jobs, the real
community in the island nation that had in India. While the fi rst wave of problem was being faced by the
fi rst opposed the Indian PeaceKeeping economic reforms led to GDP agricultural sector in terms of re
Force (IPKF) when the latter was invited in growth, the real challenge now is munerative pricing for farmers.
1987 to end the ethnic confl ict. Later, the to make the growth more broad Agreeing with this observa
majority Sinhala and Muslim community based to cover sectors such as tion, Ms. Bali said, “We are
also opposed the presence of Indian agriculture, education, and spending too much time solving
troops on the island, Mr. Rajapaska said. healthcare. the problems of the rich. The
The Sri Lanka Leader of the Opposition This was the sum and sub software industry, which we are
was responding to questions after his in stance of the panel discussion on all proud of employs 34 million
augural address at the third edition of The “Reforms: time for Version 2.0,” people, but there are 35 million
Hindu’s Huddle in Bengaluru on Saturday. moderated by Raghavan Sriniva weavers who have no voice.”
“After they [the IPKF] left, the [Tamil] is san, Editor, BusinessLine.
sue was internationalised. It should have “When 50% of the world’s Job creation
been settled between us,” the senior Sri stunted children live in India and Commenting on the policies to
Lankan leader said. if indeed there is 15% or 16% re encourage the startup ecosys
Asked by the Chairman of The Hindu ported unemployment then tem, Mr. Murugesh said to focus
Group N. Ram about the current concerns these are not good statistics. In on startups was good as it indi
of the Tamil community relating to devolu economic terms. yes we’ve got a Charting a new path: B.V.R. Mohan Reddy (left), founder and executive chairman, Cyient, Vinita Bali, former cated the shift in thought from
tion of powers, Mr. Rajapaksa responded, pretty decent rate of growth of MD of Britannia Industries, and Keshav Murugesh (right), group chief executive offi cer, WNS Global looking for a job to creating jobs.
“People can be satisfi ed, not the politi 7.5% over the past decade or so, Services; with Raghavan Srinivasan, Editor, BusinessLine. K. MURALI KUMAR * Ms. Bali said the focus should
cians.” Responding to another question but relying merely on GDP shift from startup to scale up to
from Mr. Ram, who presided over the ses growth may not be enough as it policies should be minimal. “We lent. There’s a disaster waiting to fundamentally change the eco
sion, Mr. Rajapaksa said unfortunately he just measures one sliver of a na didn’t wait for sops and reforms. <
> We are spending too
much time solving the happen in the education space. system.
could not contest the forthcoming presi tion’s development,” Vinita Bali, We created a business out of problems of the rich There are 16.87 lakh seats availa “We need to build capabilities
dential election in Sri Lanka, but was look former managing director of Bri what no one wanted to do. To ble across engineering institutes that deliver on a plan. Other
Vinita Bali
ing for a “good candidate” to do so. tannia Industries Ltd, said. day, there are 17,000 companies, Former MD, Britannia in the country of which only 51% wise, we have money chasing
1.3 million employees directly in were taken by students and the startups and not scaleups due
Minimal government volved, $37 billion of revenue,” employability is not more than to which capital productivity is
From the wings Keshav Murugesh, group chief
executive offi cer, WNS Global
Mr. Murugesh said, talking about
the growth in the business pro
and executive chairman, Cyient,
said incentives alone were not
3132%. That’s a big disappoint
ment,” Mr. Reddy said. “There
low. We also have to start think
ing in terms of return on labour
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Services, said the dependence cess outsourcing sector. going to help industries grow. has to be some intervention just as much as we think about
on government incentives and B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, founder “We need infrastructure and ta here, starting with improving return on capital.”
Silicon binaries: language,
ISI Generals as 'attractive women'
Shekhar Gupta, founder and editorinchief
culture and identity
of The Print, said that in the age of social
media, most of the Indian influencers were
followed by ISI Generals, posing as
How Bengaluru accepts change and migrants
“attractive women”. “Go to my profile, the K.C. Deepika
first comment on every post I make is by this Jayant Kaikini, who recently won the DSC
woman,” he said. prize for South Asian Literature for the
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How much change is good for a city? translated No Presents Please-Mumbai Sto-
Should people who migrate assimilate ries, drew comparisons between Mumbai
themselves into the culture of the new and Bengaluru.
place? These were among the questions “Change has to be there, but at what
that the panellists tried to solve about the cost? The people who come here from out
puzzle that is Bengaluru. side, they are working here. It is all about
The session on “Who is a Bengalurian? evolving as an individual and what the city
Identities in a changing, cosmopolitan ci enables and empowers you. The Mumbai
ty” saw diff erent perspectives being put and Marathi ethos and ambience too had
forth: from a growing feeling of neglect of to go through this, but it ultimately evolved
the Kannada language to whether knowing into a collective, larger mindset. I hope it
Kannada was the same as being a Bengalu happens in Bengaluru too,” he said.
rean. He also spoke about the other form of
Vanamala Viswanatha, academic and migration — of people from within Karnata
‘Pseudo’ and ‘psycho historian’ translator, who moderated the session, ka moving to Bengaluru. “There is an im
On the panel that discussed the complexities Demystifying Indira: Author Srinath Raghavan, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and journalist Shekhar started off the discussion with how Benga age that disturbs me: a tractor in the city. It
of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, there Gupta in conversation with Mini Kapoor, Ideas Editor, The Hindu. K. MURALI KUMAR * luru had historically been “multi” because was designed to be in an agricultural fi eld.
was a historian, a journalist who covered her of its location, which makes it diff erent But it has come to Bengaluru to take the
and a “pseudo historian”. Congress leader
Jairam Ramesh, who has written two books
about the former Prime Minister, called
Dynast or democrat? Unpacking from Dharwad or Mysuru, which are “re
cognisably” Kannada in their orientation
and identity. The PSUs heralded the “mul <
> The language issue is important.
But how much do we love
himself a “pseudohistorian” while trying to ti” culture to Bengaluru, which has grown
ascertain the reasons behind Indira Gandhi
lifting the Emergency. Later in the discussion,
he said if he were a “psychohistorian”,
the ‘mixed legacy’ of Indira Gandhi more “intense” recently, she said.
Delving into the reasons for this, nove
list and playwright Vivek Shanbhag said
Bengaluru? The city is getting to
be like an ailing mother
Zac O'Yeah
questions about her relationship with her son Author
the “linguistic tolerance” of Bengalureans
could be understood better. The biggest mystery was why she called the polls in 1977 and Kannadigas is something people can construction debris to give rise to sky
“immediately experience”, given the in scrapers. On the trailer is an entire family
<
> Strong leaders post
Nistula Hebbar Gandhi, “without which we fl uences other languages have in diff erent from north Karnataka, who have come
magnifi cent would have had Indian troops in regions of Karnataka: Marathi in north Kar here to build this city,” he said.
The legacy of the former Prime achievements if they are Afghanistan today, such was our nataka, Tulu and Konkani in coastal Karna Author Zac O'Yeah, who has made Ben
Minister Indira Gandhi is a set of surrounded by people dependence on food aid and im taka and Telugu and Tamil in south Karna galuru home for the past 27 years, said of
contradictions, and the session who can speak truth to ports”, Mr. Ramesh said she taka. However, what is unique is that many all the cities in the world he has visited,
“A mixed legacy: the many facets placed ecology at the centre of — even legendary names in Kannada litera Bengaluru is the only one where “a shop
power
of Indira Gandhi” turned out to her governance imperatives, ture such as Da. Ra. Bendre and Masti Ven keeper will be able to converse in Kanna
Jairam Ramesh
be an attempt to sort out the va Congress leader which was important. katesh Iyengar — did not have Kannada as da, Hindi, English, Malayalam, Tamil and
rious skeins that made that Mr. Gupta said Mrs. Gandhi’s their “mother’s tongue” but belonged to Telugu”. But he raised a question: is being
fabric. the time when Zulfi kar Ali Bhut contribution to handling internal the Kannada culture. This was what was a Bengalurean the same as speaking Kan
Moderated by The Hindu’s to, former Prime Minister of Pa security, citing her actions in Na lacking now. nada? “The language issue is important.
Ideas Editor, Mini Kapoor, the kistan, had declared polls in his galand, sending the Air Force to Referring to the “IT revolution” that But how much do we love Bengaluru? The
As city paces ahead, writing suff ers
session with historian Srinath own country. The international Mizoram and handling of the propelled Bengaluru into becoming the city is getting to be like an ailing mother,”
In the chaotic maze of Bengaluru, most
Raghavan, Congress leader Jai press, with which both Mrs. Suba movement in Punjab were “silicon city”, Mr. Shanbhag said, “When he said. Pointing to the sense of owner
people navigate using landmarks. But for a
city that is changing at a rapid pace,
ram Ramesh and veteran jour Gandhi and Bhutto were familiar, often overlooked. these people moved in, there was so much ship, Ms. Viswanatha said diff erent kinds
directions are difficult. “Take a left turn where nalist Shekhar Gupta saw lively were painting the latter as a de Mr. Guha said the most posi change in such a short time. There was no of people were participating in civic acti
there was a Banyan tree,” said writer Zac questions from the audience that mocrat and her as an authoritar tive contribution of Mrs. Gandhi time or support given to these people to vism in the city, which was about how pe
O’Yeah, speaking at The Huddle, on the included The Hindu Group’s ian ruler. “A psychological expla was in her respect for science connect themselves with Kannada. There ople can contribute in developing a city.
session on “Who is a Bengalurian.” “When I Chairperson N. Ram and ac nation can be that she was more and scholarship, while the most are so many IT companies here. Compa Madhu Nataraj, dancer and choreogra
started writing my first novel Mr. Majestic, claimed historian Ramachandra Nehru’s daughter than Sanjay negative aspect was to validate nies have a responsibility to make sure pher underlined a fact that the panellists
there was a cinema called Majestic and by the Guha. While the Emergency and (Gandhi’s) mother,” he said. and promote dynasty politics. “If their employees are comfortable, and were pointing to: that Bengalureans were
time I finished the novel, it was pulled down. the runup to it were discussed in Shekhar Gupta, founder edi tomorrow the head of the know the language of the street. As far as I resilient to all the change that was happen
This city changes at a faster pace than one can detail, including the punitive tor of The Print, wanted an answ science programme in India dies know, there is no such training being gi ing around them. Speaking from an artist’s
write. This forces the writer to assume a past rates of infl ation (at 33%), it was er to another mystery of why in a crash, will Rahul Gandhi be ven. Emotional health is as important as perspective, she said, “Bengaluru has al
tense writing of the present, very peculiar to the mystery of why Mrs. Gandhi Mrs. Gandhi signed the Simla able to call up another man to infrastructure.” ways allowed people to be creative. The au
Bengaluru,” he said. called snap polls in 1977, ending Agreement with the kinds of take his place, like Indira Gandhi Talking about “change,” poet and writer diences are openminded and welcoming.”
the Emergency, that provided va terms and conditions that it did. did by calling up Satish Dhawan?
luable historical insight. Mr. Ragahvan said territorial am No,” he said.
bitions with regard to West Pakis Mr. Ram intervened to say that
Three theories and one more tan were never the brief at that it was not really necessary to re
Mr. Raghavan discussed three time. “It was to make Kashmir a duce the contributions of a
theories with regard to the polls bilateral rather than an interna strong leader to one facet.
of 1977. tional issue,” he said. The last word was given to Mr.
“One, that the Intelligence Bu Mr. Ramesh quoted C. Rajago Ramesh, who said, “Strong lead
reau had told Mrs. Gandhi that palachari as describing the Simla ers post magnifi cent achieve
she would win by a landslide; Agreement as the “Pact of Good ments if they are surrounded by
two, that she knew she wouldn’t Hope”. people who can speak truth to
win but that calling the polls was As Ms. Kapoor rounded off the power. When she [Mrs. Gandhi]
Honking for an ‘identity’
Writer Jayant Kaikini came up with a new
better done sooner rather than discussion asking each panellist had those people around her,
theory on why drivers of ride hailing later; and lastly, that she saw her what they thought was the en she did great things, and when
aggregators such as Uber and Ola honk self as a radical democrat espe during legacy or facet of Indira you don’t have such people you
incessantly on Bengaluru’s streets, speaking at cially after managing to attract Gandhi, her questions attracted take Tughlaq decisions like de
the session on “Who is a Bengalurian.” He the depressed sections in an un the intervention of Mr. Guha and monetisation,” he said, adding
called it a “desperate cry” to seek space in an precedented manner into sup Mr. Ram. that Mrs. Gandhi's contradictions
overcrowded city. “There is an anxiety for porting the Congress,” he said. While Mr. Raghavan said the were evident in that she knew Going local: Zac O’Yeah, author; Madhu Nataraj, dancer; Vivek Shanbhag, novelist; and
identity in the city and that’s a genuine Mr. Ramesh had an interesting Green Revolution was the most scientist Satish Dhawan and also Jayant Kaikini, writer; in conversation with Vanamala Viswanatha, academic, at the session
concern,” he said. theory of his own, saying it was important contribution of Mrs. R.K. Dhawan (her late aide). on Bengaluru. K. MURALI KUMAR
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A 1989 batch IPS offi cer, Kolkata Police diction of the Bidhannagar Commis day, as she began her protest, she de the early 1990s. Western Uttar Pra the Saradha scam exploded and inves
WHO
Pp q
Q Commissioner Rajeev Kumar hogged
the limelight along with West Bengal
sionerate, and Mr. Kumar was its fi rst
Commissioner. Ms. Banerjee blocked
scribed Mr. Kumar as among the “best
in the world.” He studied engineering at
desh’s Kumars, with many teachers in
their family, shifted to Chandausi,
tors hit the streets in protest, it was Mr.
Kumar who partly diff used the anger by
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the the CBIKumar interaction to “protect the University of Roorkie, now an IIT, where Mr. Kumar’s father joined a local arresting Sudipta Sen and his associates
better part of this week. After a CBI herself,” said Union Minister Prakash Ja preceding the decade when India college as a professor of social science. from Kashmir, tracking wireless devic
The lowdown to liquor, for defaulting on over $1.4 bil
lion in loans Kingfi sher took out from
month period, explains Ms. Reddy. If he
manages to get permission to appeal,
pean Court of Human Rights though
such appeals are only granted in very
ations because of race or religion and so
on.
Indian banks. Authorities argue misre the appeal process should begin within rare cases, she notes. In 2014, only 4 of Others include the passage of time,
on Mallya’s presentations were made to acquire
those loans, while Mr. Mallya had no in
76 days, though with options for seeking
extensions available to both sides, the
833 applications for appeal were grant
ed. The 2003 Extradition Act says he
and rules against double jeopardy.
While it is not common for extradition
tention of repaying them and sought to appeal could take 68 months to begin must be extradited within 28 days of the appeals to succeed, last year India suc
extradition squirrel away funds and use them in
ways that were not permitted by the
with. If — following the paper considera
tion — the judge denies permission to
court of appeal’s decision (or when ap
peal proceedings are discontinued). If
cessfully appealed a Westminster Magis
trate Court’s ruling that discharged the
What is it? Earlier this week, Bri terms of the loans. However, the ample appeal, Mr. Mallya can push for an oral the deadline (including any extension) alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla, who In
tain’s Home Secretary Sa opportunities for appeal available to Mr. hearing, which could add a further is passed without the extradition hap dia had been seeking to extradite over
jid Javid signed the order for Vijay Mal Mallya — who has indicated his inten three months to the process. If at this pening, he could apply to be discharged the 2002 cricket match fi xing scandal.
lya’s extradition to India to face charges tion to pursue them — means the entire stage, permission is still refused that from extradition, unless the Home Of As per the guarantees off ered to the
of fraud and money laundering, follow process could take another two years, would end his appeal options. fi ce could provide a good reason for any Chief Magistrate, if Mr. Mallya is extra
ing the judgment handed down by estimates Pavani Reddy, managing delay. dited, he will be held in Barrack 12 of the
Westminster Magistrates Court Chief partner at Zaiwalla & Co. in London. How long will the He can seek Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai — with cer
Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot in Decem process take? permission to What can While the applications tain assurances of space, daylight and
ber. She concluded there was a prima Will he be allowed The signing appeal to the India do? for permission to appeal medical facilities — both ahead of any
facie case against Mr. Mallya, rejected to appeal? of the order Supreme Court — at fi rst instance from can’t be speeded up, an trial and after any conviction.
the argument that the case was politi means the ap the High Court, and if unsuccessful he expedited appeals process can be re
cally motivated, and labelled him a “gla peal process can now be kickstarted. can seek permission from the Supreme quested if leave is granted, which would VIDYA RAM
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What happened? However, swarms are common in pe pothesised as the reason for swarms in that more evidence is needed to deter
WHY
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ar district has experienced dozens of
ninsular India and mostly harmless be
cause of their low magnitude. In fact, a
peninsular India, water from heavy
rainfall enters small fractures in rocks.
mine the extent of this fault and how ac
tive it is.
small earthquakes. As on February 6, a city called Jawhar in Palghar district has This raises the pressure within them. A
seismometer located around 70 km experienced swarms several times ear study from the ISR in 2008, published What next?
are quakes from Palghar and operated by Gujarat’s
Institute of Seismological Research
(ISR), recorded 74 quakes, with 26 mea
lier, Dr. Gahalaut said. Another vulnera
ble region is Amaravati in Maharashtra,
in the Journal of Geological Society of
India, estimates that with every 10
■ Palghar falls in Zone 3 of the seismic
zoning map developed by the Bureau of
which saw swarm activity last August. metre rise in groundwater, pore pres Indian Standards. This means that
happening suring between 1 and 1.9 on the moment
magnitude scale (Mw), 39 measuring 2
Subsequently, the NCS set up seismom
eters in the region. They found that #331007
sure increases by 1 bar. This pressure is
released in earthquake swarms. Howev
buildings here must be able to with
stand earthquakes of intensity 5.56.5
and 2.9, and nine measuring over 3, ac most earthquakes there were very shal er, such activity typically starts in June on the MedvedevSponheuerKarnik
at Palghar? cording to ISR director Sumer Chopra.
This pattern of several small earth
low: they originated from within a few
kilometres below the surface. Further,
and dies down in December, said Dr.
Chopra. In Palghar’s case, it has conti
(MSK) scale. Intensity is a qualitative
measure of how people experience
quakes occurring in a brief timewin the tremors stopped soon after the nued into February. This raises ques earthquakes, rather than the energy re
dow is called an earthquake swarm. “It monsoon. The researchers concluded tions about the mechanism behind it. In leased, which is measured by the mag
is like a swarm of people. There is no that the swarms were related to the general, quakes are caused by geologi nitude scale, said Deepankar Choudhu
leader, and all of them are similar [in monsoon, and were attributable to a cal faults, or cracks in the earth’s crust ry, a civil engineer at IITBombay. In
magnitude]. So, there is nothing like a phenomenon called “hydroseismicity.” across which rocks get displaced. There earthquakes measuring 5.56.5 on the
foreshock or mainshock,” says Vineet Whether the Palghar quakes are a happens, the temblors so far will be are plenty of faults along the Konkan MSK scale, people are frightened and
Kumar Gahalaut, director of Delhi’s Na swarm, however, will only be clear after called foreshocks. Because there is no coast of India (where Palghar lies), alth run outdoors, and heavy furniture can
tional Centre for Seismology (NCS). they stop. Researchers will then cate way to predict whether such a large ough how many of these are active isn’t move. Buildings that follow the BIS
gorise them based on the distribution of quake will follow, Palghar residents known. In 2007, a Current Science stu codes are likely to survive swarms and
Why is it a worry? the magnitude. Even if the magnitude must be careful. dy by researchers from IITBombay sug even larger quakes. So, it is crucial for
■ The epicentres of the current swarms distribution so far suggests a swarm, gested that swarm activity along the the code to be implemented stringently.
haven’t seen such activity in the past. said Dr. Gahalaut, this will change if a Why is this happening? west coast was due to a major fault pa
Why it is occurring now is a mystery. big earthquake follows. If and when that ■ In “hydroseismicity,” which is hy rallel to it. Dr. Gahalaut said, however, PRIYANKA PULLA
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Off track: Seven people died and several
WHEN
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11 coaches of the Delhibound
Seemanchal Express derailed in Vaishali
district of Bihar. Survivors recalled
3 hearing a deafening bang and being
fl ung off berths. Initially, offi cials
suspected that the accident happened
due to a “rail fracture” or a fault on the
February 2019 tracks. However, the reason has not yet
been confi rmed and a probe has been
launched. On February 1, in the interim
Budget for 20192020, the government
announced a massive allocation for the
Railway’s capital expenditure, at ₹ 1.58
lakh crore. Presenting the Budget,
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, who also
holds the Railways portfolio, said the
Railways had “experienced the safest
year in its history” in 2018. He said the
launch of the fi rst indigenously
developed and manufactured semi
highspeed Vande Bharat Express (Train
18) will give passengers a world class
experience in speed, service and safety.
Picture shows rescue workers looking
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catchmeifyoucan, the exact epi ique ways of spending their illgotten ing the same fl owers, fi gures against a
centre of the season can be hard to pin crores. As soon as your group approach you, can I take that card? It’s onetime ‘car’ mill the potential buyers and wai Some rewards in the maze mountainside brought alive by the most
point. An early winter show can defi ne a es the lounge (your own card having use only. Thank you, this way please.’ ters with international cuisine canapes Away from the Art Fair crowds, the big parsimonious deployment of brush
particular season, or a big retrospective been acquired by dint of a friend being a that tend towards the vegetarian. You KNMA retrospective of Arpita Singh’s strokes. Nobody sensible can argue that
of a bigname artist at a museum might part of the offi cial proceedings), the Through the grids look at the SUV and you can just see it, work spanning half a century is quietly only this drawingpainting of Benode
yank the point into March, but one stea young women at the desk put you Entering the lounge you feel as though as still as it is now, embedded in the rewarding. For a while you can be lost in babu’s and Arpita’s is genuine art and
dy fulcrum is the India Art Fair (IAF) through the questionnaire: ‘What car you’ve stumbled into some illcon slowmoving car park that is the Meh the maze of rooms hung with good, old that all the installery and concept
that usually takes place in end January/ do you drive, sir? Umm, usually Uber, ceived art installation. At the centre of rauliGurgaon Road at 6 p.m. on a Wed fashioned watercolours and oils, the churning of the contemporary art world
early February, with all the shows and sometimes threewheeler.’ ‘Oh. And the space is the fattest, most obscene nesday in April — you can just see this form of the two dimensional ‘fl at work’ should be dismissed as gimmicks. But
events that are clustered around that which model of our brand would you be staukampfwagen the sponsoring brand shiny thing in that oceanic traffi cjam, centuriesold, but the images painted when searching for something that hits
sales jamboree. looking to purchase, ma’am?’ ‘None, at produces. Inside it is the suited sales preening like some godman, with dirty upon them like fresh maps and scans of you, that moves you and makes you
For this year’s IAF, the Arterati land least not in this life. No, wait, maybe I man trying to show off all the bells and Ubers and spluttering autos surround the last few decades. As you slowly think, it’s good to think of these pictures
ed in force from out of town, while their can aff ord one at Hamley’s toy shop, I’ll whistles to two gangstaconstumed ing it like worshipful bhakts. make your way through the rooms you as being somewhere near your genuine
local allies came out of the city’s for go look.’ ‘Okay ma’am, okay sir, thank chaps from Chandigarh. Around the After this vision, even the worst art can see the explorations becoming north pole.
Raghavan Srinivasan
happened.
India’s power problem, long
WORD COUNTS back centre stage in Britain, it is in
structive to map the London of charac
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is Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine thought to lie on the generation side, Mini Kapoor ters in Trinidadian writer Samuel Sel
is Ideas Editor, The Hindu
has shifted to the distribution side. We von’s 1956 novel, The Lonely
What happens if you don’t pay your ble political pressure to not make it are now comfortable on the genera Londoners. Kate McNaughton shows
electricity bill? The power company seem like a BJP vendetta. tion side. But with State governments Ruskin Bond never tires of describing how the opening line of Selvon’s clas
cuts you off (unless you happen to be a That may have solved the political stubbornly refusing to change, using Landour, a little settlement high in the sic uses not just imagery but also
politician, slumlord or goon), right? problem, but it doesn’t solve the pow discoms as handy vehicles to push all hills above Mussoorie in Uttarakhand’s nuances of diction to contrast the Lon
Now what happens if you happen to be er producer’s problem. As of Novem kinds of populist agendas without ac Garhwal where he’s made his home for don everyone is presumed to be fami
the power company, and haven’t been ber 2018, the latest month for which tually having to spend their budget many decades; and his readers never essays. In the introduction to Landour liar with the diverse ‘Londons’ various
paying your bills to your supplier — the data are available, the money owed by monies on it, the discoms have virtual fail to fi nd something new in his de Bazaar, for example, he describes immigrants, specifi cally of the Win
power generating company? discoms to power producers was over ly reached the point of no return. scriptions as they fi ll in more details of how “the Garhwal Himalaya and the drush wave, occupy: “One grim winter
Ideally, the same rules should apply. ₹ 41,000 crore. That number will climb #331007
the place in their imaginations. He people who live on these mountain evening, when it had a kind of unreal
After all, what is sauce for the goose closer to the ₹ 55,000 crore mark, if A workable solution does this by way of new stories, me slopes in the mistfi lled valleys have ness about London, with a fog sleeping
must be sauce for the gander. Only, the you add the dues which are still within The Centre has taken several shots at moir and essays, through introduc long since learned humility, patience, restlessly over the city and the lights
same rules don’t apply. All kinds of the 60day credit off ered by genera solving this. Initially, privatisation was tions to his books, and most curiously and a quiet resignation”, with a fami showing in the blur as it is not London
reasons are trotted out: power distri tors. Pending payments are growing at thought of as the panacea, but the ex through the manner in which he con liar rhythm to their cheerfi lled days at all but some strange place on anoth
bution companies (discoms) are essen 29% per year. perience with privatised discoms has stantly reassembles his writings in suc but very tough lives — but he notes, er planet, Moses Aloetta hop on a
tial utilities, electricity is a basic re This is clearly unsustainable. If pow been only marginally better (Mumbai cessive anthologies. with a tone of regret, the changes that number 46 bus at the corner of Chep
quirement, the discoms are all (or, er producers don’t get paid, their only kars are up in arms over sharp bill in To read and love Bond is to look for have come to the legendary bazaar in stow Road and Westbourne Grove to
almost all) owned by the government option is to go belly up or shut shop, creases after Gautam Adani bought out ward to fi nding a short story or narra the twenty or so years since he wrote go to Waterloo to meet a fellar who was
so the money isn’t going anywhere, since power distribution is, for all Anil Ambani’s distribution utility tive you’ve read before nestled among the title essay. Yet, even as Mussoorie coming from Trinidad on the boat
and so on and so forth. practical purposes, a monopoly. If you there). Then the Modi government a diff erent set of writings. I can read and Landour change, for countless train.” Selvon and Barbadian George
have only one customer and that cus came up with UDAY. But clearly, UDAY ‘Time Stops at Shamli’ or ‘Voting at readers who may make their way Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin,
The power problem tomer isn’t paying you, there’s little too has just kicked the can down the Barlowganj’, to take just two of the around these hill stations, what they 1953) found the key for generations of
Usually, the generators tend to cave in you can do. This is one of the reasons road, since discoms haven’t cleaned pieces collected in his latest collection, see will be some unique combination West Indian, and other, writers to
and simply let the dues mount till they why over 30,000 MW of capacity is up their act. Landour Bazaar, endlessly — but I of the actual landscape and the picture come, that to depict a place, language
reach a point where they can’t pay currently under the “stressed asset” In 2018, a highlevel committee never fail to experience a thrill of dis Bond has painted over time not just in was key.
their suppliers or their employees and category and looking for resolution. headed by the Cabinet Secretary sug covery when I fi nd them in a new vol his nonfi ction, but especially in his Cairenes, on their part, caution
then the cycle of threat and bargaining With or without resolution, lenders gested that public fi nancial institutions ume, with diff erent Bond neighbours, fi ction. fi rsttime visitors to their city to read
starts. Last week’s standoff between are already facing a monumental hair like the Power Finance Corporation as it were, in the table of contents. Se Naguib Mahfouz before they set foot in
India’s largest power producer, NTPC, cut. If one adds productive, operation discount discom receivables and pay rendipitously, the text feels just that ti Transforming memory the Egyptian capital or they’ll never
and the discoms of Andhra Pradesh, al assets to this — because the buyer is power producers. However, these in ny bit diff erent each time, simply by No Ruskin Bond story is there in Liter know it. Andrew Taylor recommends
Telangana and Karnataka is a classic not paying up – then we are looking at stitutions were wary of default by dis being in new surroundings. In fact, it’s ary Landscapes: Charting the Worlds Midaq Alley (1947) to get a measure of
example. a systemic collapse. coms and wanted the government to long been a dream project to fi nd all of Classic Literature, a vividly illustrat the city’s profi le: “Mahfouz makes the
Stuck with unpaid dues of over Currently, the accumulated losses of create a threeway arrangement with the anthologies of Bond’s writings and ed volume edited by John Sutherland. alley much more than a setting for his
₹ 5,838 crore, of which more than discoms are in excess of ₹ 17,000 crore. the Reserve Bank of India, such that map how diff erent stories show up in He summarises it as “a collection of characters. From the fi rst page it is
₹ 4,100 crore were due for more than But this is after two years of the go fl ows to State government treasuries diff erent collections amidst old and the world’s most memorable fi ctional presented as a character in its own
two months, NTPC threatened to “reg vernment’s Ujwal DISCOM Assurance would be diverted to pay the institu new writing. The labour of tracking ised geographies”. Sometimes the fi c right, depicted through not just its
ulate” supply — eff ectively, reduce by Yojana (UDAY), instituted after the tions in case of default. This proved down each and every volume apart, I tional touches don’t just change our physical appearance but the textures
over 3,400 MW the quantum of power cumulative losses of discoms crossed unworkable. suspect the task is not doable for perception of a place, they actually al of its crumbling walls, the smells of
it supplies to these three discoms — ₹ 51,000 crore in 201516. Under the Now, yet another committee has another reason — as happens spookily ter the map. Patrick Modiano, who spices and folk cures, the deep colors
from midnight of February 5. Within a scheme, State governments took over been formed, which is of the view that in his stories, the chase for his collect won the Nobel Prize for literature in of a city sunset, and the intimate even
day, threat was kept in abeyance, with the liability for half the accumulated discoms should go into a prepaid ed collections may bring the archivist 2014, had situated his 1997 novel The ing whispers as the daytime noises die
the three discoms promising to pay “as losses, allowing the discoms to start mode with power producers. This too to one trap door after another that Search Warrant (Dora Bruder in the down.”
soon as possible”, although no clear with a near fresh slate. In return, dis looks unlikely. What also looks unlike take her to books no one else even French original), set against the Holo That’s one of the reasons we keep
date was given. Needless to say, with coms were expected to cut losses re ly is a workable solution — unless the knew existed. caust and the German occupation of going back to great works — to catch
all three States ruled by nonBJP par sulting from theft, nonmetering and political class stops playing politics Perhaps, Bond may also spice up France during World War II, in the snatches of, among other things, “inti
ties or coalitions, there was considera leakages to 15% of the total by March with power. the mapping project by updating some nontouristy quarters of Paris’s 18th ar mate evening whispers”.
A few days ago, I translated a verse by a court who wrote stirring essays about ly dominate not just our aesthetics but euphonic prose that sought to please
mighty Indian poet — a sprawling ba honour and courage. The great Shakes even our consumption patterns. only Edward Gibbon and more express
nyan tree of literary consciousness — peare, some evidence points, may have The logic of consumption in an age ly aimed to stir Indians out of their self
from his mother tongue to English. It is been in support of the Inclosure Acts where artists and writers transform satisfi ed stupor — would be hard
a sensitive, minor poem that avoids easy which threw out tenantfarmers from themselves into products also forces pressed to fi nd a place. This is not be
sentimentalism or glib endings. Then, I British feudal estates. The greatness of them to conform, to behave and speak cause we are more egalitarian today but
made a critical mistake. I looked up the T.S. Eliot is scarred by his antisemitism. in a certain manner, to ascribe to forms because art and the artist have fused in
poet on YouTube. For all of the poet’s Ezra Pound and Curzio Malaparte be del Castro, who ran an authoritarian gu sort of radical transparency about the of progressive claims lest the consumer, to a single marketable product. Antici
literary sensitivities on page, on stage, came fellow travellers of Mussolini’s fas lag state. Pablo Neruda, ever ready to private lives of our favourite authors. Be and therefore the publisher, deem them pating this commingling, some like the
in the presence of an audience, he me cism. Closer to our times, V.S. Naipaul make art out of the artlessness, con it either through social media, new unmarketable. The upside of this relent great Thomas Pynchon or the pseudo
tamorphosed into a moralist who took it declared that he became “a great prosti fessed to raping his Sri Lankan manual spapers, or archival works — we know less pressure of the markets is evident — nymous ‘Elena Ferrante’ have simply
upon himself to catalogue the failings of tute man” as his wife lay dying. Law scavenger, all the while admiring the more of those who produce our culture more voices now add to the collective chosen to vanish from the public eye.
society, all the while selfaggrandising rence Durrell’s daughter topped off the “brimming cup of her breasts” during than any time before. The result is that noise. But the downside is that these They are content to let only their words
his own commitment to literature and description of her father as an “aggres the attack. Despite knowing all this, it our knowledge of a work of art comes voices are largely similar because they speak. The rest knowing very well that
higher ideals. sive and demonic drunkard” with insin has never stopped me from reading, en coloured with the results of extraneous emerge out of the same production the sins of the creator will be foisted
To an extent, among the great crimes uations of incest. Gabriel Garcia Mar joying, and profi ting from their works. information. What do they sound like, chain — born from similar creative writ upon their creation muddle on, work
of humanity, the harmless vanities of a quez, who spoke about human In our times, however, unlike any are they liberal or conservative, is she a ing programmes subject to similar edi ing to craft a public persona superior to
bureaucratpoet are minor, almost in freedoms, enjoyed the friendship of Fi generation before, we are gifted with a vainglorious fool or is he merely a gar torial tastes and ultimately package their own artistic creations.
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IIT Madras identifi es unique Unique composition of Indian
pathways of eye cancer gut microbiome revealed
Aswathi Pacha The Hindu. He is the corres ly of people eating a plant
ponding author of a paper based diet and also showed
Salt in the stars
13 drug targets for treating retinoblastoma have been identifi ed By studying the faecal sam recently published in an enrichment of branched
Astronomers have detected
ples of over 100 healthy peo GigaScience. chain amino acid and lipo
chemical fingerprints of R. Prasad ple from Madhya Pradesh Faecal samples from 53 polysaccharide biosynthesis
common salt (sodium chloride) and Kerala, researchers people from Madhya Pra pathways.
in an unusual place - around a Based on computational mo from the Indian Institute of desh and 57 from Kerala
star. Orion Source I is a young delling, researchers at the Science Education and Re were used to construct the Faecal metabolites
star behind the Orion Nebula, Indian Institute of Technolo search (IISER) Bhopal have microbial gene catalogue. Using largescale metabo
and the paper published in gy (IIT) Madras have identi decoded the Indian gut mi The catalogue contains lomics, the study also identi
Astronomy Journal suggests fi ed the biochemical path crobiome and have created a 1,551,581 genes and 943,395 fi ed the diff erent faecal me
that the salt may be formed ways that eye cancer gene catalogue. Constructed genes out of them were iden tabolites (end products after
from colliding dust grains in (retinoblastoma) preferen using multiple omics ap tifi ed as unique to the Indian microbial metabolism) of
the surrounding disk. Search tially chooses for growth and proaches such as genomics population. “So about 9% the Indian samples and
for more metallic molecules in survival. The pathways cho and proteomics, the cata (almost one million) micro mapped their association
this region have been started. sen are very diff erent from logue contains details on the bial genes were found un with the gut microbial
the ones that normal, diff erent genes coded by the ique to our population, and species.
healthy cells choose. gut bacteria and the func were not identifi ed in the in “If we have a data of the
Retinoblastoma is a child tions carried out by the tegrated microbial gene ca faecal metabolites, we can
hood tumour, aff ecting sin bacteria. talogue constructed from compare how it changes
gle or both the eyes. Retino other populations across the during some metabolic dis
blastomarelated mortality Comparitive analysis globe,” adds Prof. Sharma. orders and this can serve as
rate is high in Asian and Afri This study also compared The study also highlight simple signatures,” says Mr.
can countries due to its late the gut microbiome of In ed the diff erences in micro Darshan Dhakan, PhD scho
stage presentation. The cur dians with people in China, biome composition between lar at the institute and the
rent treatment methods — the U.S. and Denmark. The the two states. Samples from fi rst author of the paper.
chemotherapy and enuclea Indian gut microbiome Kerala had a higher abun “The results of this study
MRI to save the heart tion — are associated with showed higher levels of Pre dance of shortchain fatty will also help develop pre
By studying the MRI results of severe disabilities. There votella bacteria compared to acid producing bacteria and probiotics according to
about 9,000 patients, fore, a systems level under the other populations. “The such as Faecalibacterium our needs.”
researchers from Duke
standing of the disease is ne The diff erence: Unlike in normal cells, amino acids are a major source of energy for tumour presence of these species in and Roseburia, in addition According to Mr. Dhakan,
University Medical Center, U.S.
cessary for suggesting tissue, says Swagatika Sahoo (second from left). SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
high abundance in Indian to Prevotella. a drug made and tested in
have pointed out that cardiac
alternative treatment and gut microbiome correlates This may be due to the the U.S. may not work for
magnetic resonance can be an
alternative to stress
novel diagnostics. were used to derive patient for energy, the tumour tissue extracted from the patients. with the food habits and the fact that they consumed an the Indian population. So
echocardiograms, currently As a fi rst step, the re and healthy cellspecifi c mo preserves the fatty acid for “The disease subtypes arise diet of the Indian popula omnivorous diet containing understanding the gut mi
used to study the severity of searchers used tumour sam dels. The subsequent mo other important functions because the tumour tissue tion, which is very diff erent rice, fi sh and meat. Prevotel- crobiome will help custo
heart diseases. The study ples taken from seven retino dels were then used to ana such as signalling and mem chooses to synthesise specif from the other western pop la, the key species in Indian mise drugs and also develop
noted that there is a strong blastoma patients and three lyse the biochemical brane structure. ic fatty acids — long or very ulations,” says Prof. Vineet gut was comparatively high new strategies for tackling
association with abnormal normal retina samples. Un pathways. While amino acids are long chain fatty acids — for K. Sharma from the Depart er in the Madhya Pradesh the metabolic diseases by
CMR scan and mortality. like cell lines, actual patient “This way we were able to used at a higher rate, choles its survival,” Dr. Sahoo says. ment of Biological Sciences population. correcting the imbalance in
samples were used and so diff erentiate the biochemical terol synthesis is underutil “The disease subtypes are at the Institute in an email to This group consists most the gut microbiome.
even fewer samples would pathways that cancer cells ised by the retinoblastoma well known and our model
suffi ce for the modelling. preferentially choose for tissue. “The reason why the was able to correctly and ful
The RNA sequence was ex
tracted from the tumour and
normal samples as a fi rst
their survival,” says Dr. Swa
gatika Sahoo, a INSPIRE fa
culty at the Department of
tumour underutilises chol
esterol synthesis is to pre
serve the redox potential of
ly capture this information.”
The researchers com
pared the metabolism of dis
IGIB: TB bacteria use a new
step to derive the model.
Biochemical pathway
Chemical Engineering, IIT
Madras who coled the team.
The results of the study were
the cells, thereby mask the
diseased condition. Any
change in the redox poten
eased and health tissue and
zeroed in on proteins critical
for cancer cells but not the
way to subvert host defence
RNA translates into pro published in the journal tial is seen as abnormal and normal cells.
Deep sea treasures
teins (enzymes) and the en FEBS Letters. can alert the stress path “Based on modelling, we The abundance of 86 proteins were altered
zymes catalyse the reactions For instance, unlike ways,” says Dr. Sahoo. identifi ed 13 drug targets
Hydrothermarchaeota, or R. Prasad
which form part of diff erent health cells which use carbo that can be used for treating
microbes living in extreme
pathways. These compo hydrate for energy and sur Diff erent subtypes eye cancer. Eight of the 13
environments may hold clues
nents are exploited to gener vival, the tumour tissue pre Unlike normal cells, the targets are already known It is well known that TB bac
to the evolution of early life.
These microbes use carbon
ate respective data types — ferentially uses four amino tumour tissue specifi cally and drugs that have already teria can actively manipu
monoxide and sulfate as RNA sequence data, prote acids instead. synthesised only long and been approved for other late the degradative path
sources of energy - omics data and metabolom “Amino acids are a major very long chain fatty acids, cancer types are specifi c to way of macrophages (cells
chemosynthesis. Published in ics data — each of which can source of energy for the tu which play a major role in the eight targets. The re responsible for detecting,
The ISME Journal, the study be integrated to derive the mour tissue, while carbohy signalling. #331007
maining fi ve are novel drug engulfi ng and destroying
used genomic approaches to model. drate and fatty acids are The researchers were also targets,” says Dr. Karthik Ra pathogens) such that in
unravel the secrets of its For this study, the RNA se used to a lesser extend for able know the diff erent sub man from the Department of stead of getting destroyed,
survival. It may help predict quence data and physiologi energy,” says Dr. Sahoo. types of retinoblastoma Biotechnology at IIT Madras the TB bacteria can actually
about extraterrestrial life. cal/biochemical information By relying on amino acids based on RNA sequence data and a coauthor of the paper. multiply inside the ma
crophages. Now, researches
at the Institute of Genomics
The Table that defi nes chemistry turns 150
T. Pradeep their properties. John Newlands intro Mendeleev put em were found to be part of nuclei in 1917 a place in Moscow, they next went to St.
duced the concept of octaves in che phasis on chemical and the nucleus itself was discovered in Petersburg where Mendeleev joined
The majestic table of elements that mistry, wherein properties repeat for properties. As a re 1911, both by Rutherford. In 1869, atom the pedagogy course. After graduation
hangs on the walls of chemistry class every eighth element. There were other sult, in a few cases ic weights were considered as the single and a few years of work, he returned to
rooms across the world has turned 150 attempts too. systematically in most important property of elements. St. Petersburg for his Masters degree.
years old in 2019. However, the proposal of Mendeleev creasing atomic Mendeleev had a compelling reason The current periodic table decorat
The ‘Periodic Table of Elements’, or was unique. On February 17, 1869 he weights did not match to discover the periodic table. He was ing the walls of class rooms, printed on
simply, ‘The Table’ for many, was writ sent out a single page note to the Rus well with chemical deeply concerned about the prevailing teacups, Tshirts and memorabilla is
ten by Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev on sian Chemical society outlining his properties. He hesi systematization of chemical knowledge far removed from the original version
17th February 1869. Looking back, the fi ndings and it was published in the fi rst tatingly placed telluri and decided to write textbooks (Princi of Mendeleev. Yet, the core principle
Table opens a window to the world of volume of the society’s journal. In the um before iodine with ples of Chemistry, Vol. I & II). He could that ‘properties of elements are period
inanimate matter. Mendeleev’s pro same year, its German abstract with a a question mark, alth cover only eight elements in his fi rst ic functions of the inherent properties
found impact on chemistry is compara table and eight comments was pu that time, his periodic table placed four ough tellurium is heavier than iodine. volume of the book, which was fi nished of its atoms’ remain. This would indeed
ble to those of his contemporaries, Gre blished in Zeitschrift für Chemie, taking slots between the known ones with Today we know that his placing was in in January 1869 and wanted to con be one of the most fundamental in
gor Mendel and Charles Darwin in it to larger Europe. question marks. He labeled them with a deed justifi ed. dense information in the form of a table sights into the puzzles of nature for
genetics and evolution, respectively. Mendeleev’s fi nding was that “The prefi x, eka. All eka elements were dis Periodicity in properties made syste for the second volume. It is said that the which Mendeleev would be known for
Therefore, the United Nations General elements, if arranged according to their covered subsequently: ekaaluminum matisation of information. Modern pe fi rst version of the Table appeared in eternity. For that reason, element 101 is
Assembly and UNESCO have decided to atomic weights, exhibit an evident step (gallium) in 1875; ekaboron (scandium) riodic law states that, “the properties of his dream. aptly named as Mendelevium (Md).
celebrate 2019 as the “International wise variation of properties”. In his Fa in 1879; ekasilicon (germanium) in the elements are periodic functions of Intense passion of the man to study Although narrowly missed the Nobel
Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical raday Lecture, delivered in 1889 the 1886 and ekamanganese (technitium) their atomic numbers.” This restate science should motivate anyone. He Prize of 1906, he became one of the 15
Elements (IYPT2019)”. statement of the periodic law appeared in 1937. Periodic table predicted the ment is due to Moseley who worked on was the youngest of 17 siblings who lost scientists to be remembered with an
Mendeleev was not the fi rst one to in the more familiar form: “The ele properties such as metallicity, density, the topic in 1913. Here, we must note his father at the age of 13 and saw the element, a more illustrious recognition
create a table of elements. Earliest of ments, if arranged according to their melting point, etc., of the eka elements. that Mendeleev related the properties destruction of his mother's factory by considering that 181 have won a Nobel
such eff orts was due to the father of atomic weights, exhibit an evident pe Today, all the 118 elements are put in to atomic weights at a time when atom fi re. She took him across Russia, walk Prize in chemistry so far.
modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier riodicity of properties”. While putting the periodic table based on the period ic numbers, or number of protons in ing all the way from Siberia to Moscow, (T. Pradeep is an Institute Professor at
in 1789 who classifi ed them in terms of together all the 63 elements known at ic law. the atomic nucleus was unknown. They a distance of 3,500 km. Having denied IIT Madras. Email: pradeep@iitm.ac.in)
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long with the Hippocratic stances (blood group diet, gluten fasting plasma glucose criteria for
medical advice
oath, the MBBS curriculum free diet as panacea, bhasma (holy diagnosis of diabetes was revised
has a mantra: bar God, all ash) and alternative medicines by downwards (from 140 mg/dl) to 126 diabetes. Interestingly, the state
must provide data. A good physi gurus to cure asthma, tuberculosis mg/dl in a rigorously scientifi c ment about increased limit of
cian treats patients based on scien and HIV) abound. All these result manner. These criteria are based HbA1c by ACP was limited to con
tifi c principles derived from solid in selling food items or medication on the tendency of a large number trol of diabetes, and not its
evidence. The physician’s personal to unsuspecting patients, which of people with diabetes to develop diagnosis.
“Drivers who use handsfree electronic devices, as experience may embellish or tem most diabetics cannot achieve re brings lucrative gains to the complications (eye damage) after a The medical fraternity should
opposed to handheld ones, are less likely to get into a per these principles, but should mission. But the pull of a message perpetrator. particular threshold of blood sugar partly take the blame for not coun
crash.” — Virginia Tech, U.S. not be ‘contrary’ to them. off ering cure is magnetic. People One galling news item from No (in this case 126 mg/dl), based on a tering frauds and fake news. Most
In India, the mantra of scientifi c ignore advice from qualifi ed doc vember 2016 states that insulin use review of a large body of scientifi c physicians/scientists are media
data and evidence is often not the tors and fl ock to authors of these in India is a scam, insinuating that data. shy. Many of them can write good
AROUND THE WORLD basis of beliefs. The attraction of falsehoods. doctors are unnecessarily pre scientifi c papers, but not someth
alternative, unscientifi c treatment One video tells us that if we con scribing insulin. Years ago, the Confl icting data ing that appeals to the masses.
Fat aggravates prostate methods has been irresistible. Aid sume ‘fruit juice’ diets or mangoes, landmark United Kingdom Pros Not in all cases are perceptions Their messages on audiovisual
cancer ed by social media, ‘curemon we could control, even cure dia pective Diabetes Study showed and opinions of the public at fault. media are considered ‘boring’. Ef
A scientifi c team in Australia, Canada, gers’, ‘quacks’ and ‘diet gurus’ is betes. This amounts to a con. Fruit that with the passage of time it is Sometimes confusing messages fective communication to the
the U.S. and the U.K. has linked sue medical diktats. Some are juices are high on fructose or fruit diffi cult to control diabetes with come from the scientifi c commun masses is never taught in medical
aspects of fat metabolism to the confused, and others believe sugar, which raises blood sugar le oral drugs alone, and insulin admi ity. Maintaining glycosylated hae schools. On the other hand,
aggressiveness of prostate cancer them. vels. One patient with diabetes and nistration becomes unavoidable to moglobin (HbA1c, used for moni quacks, frauds and fake godmen
Getty Images/iStockphoto cells, reports a new study. The One hoax relates to chronic dis kidney disease following such a halt serious organ damage. Delay toring blood sugar control and for (and even some retired, disgrun
research suggests that targeting the eases such as diabetes. The lure of diet without the doctor’s know in initiating insulin treatment diagnosis) value of less or equal 7% tled physicians) deliver incorrect/
uptake of fatty acids and the formation of new fat stores a complete cure is greater than ledge was brought in with not only (‘clinical inertia’ which can in (meaning good blood sugar con fake statements eff ectively. One re
(lipogenesis) could slow the progression of prostate cancer, boring, often predictable medical high blood sugar but also high po crease complications) is danger trol) would decrease chances of tired physician even has the audac
although further studies are needed. Prostate cancer is one of advice. In addition, the eff ort tassium levels. People with dia ous. Interestingly, less than fi ve complications. This cutoff point of ity to tell people that the best thing
the most common cancers, representing 15% of all cancer needed to sustain lifestyle changes betes can take fruits in limited million people (67% of the diabet HbA1c was based on data from to do if one has a heart attack is to
diagnoses in men and 8% of all cancer cases. Although most often pushes people to ‘miracle re amounts, not more than two serv ic population) currently use insu large trials in the U.K. and the U.S., stay at home and do nothing; if one
prostate cancers are slowgrowing, some men have highrisk medies’ that free them from life ings containing 15 gm of carbohy lin in India, which is far less than conducted over a decade. Recent goes to a hospital, one would sure
cases that can progress to aggressive disease. The new study long restrictions. drates each. that in the U.S. and the U.K., where ly, the American College of Physi ly die!
fi nds that the molecule CD36 transported fatty acids to Most of such messages are cians (ACP) said that maintaining
the fi gures are 3050%. People listen. People applaud.
prostate cancer cells, which promoted their growth and
‘Claims’ on social media against national and international Another item says diagnostic HbA1c up to 8% (equivalent to aver People discuss and forward such
proliferation. Mice lacking CD36 in the prostate displayed less
Social media is fl ooded with claims guidelines, and play to the gallery. criteria for diabetes (by blood su age blood sugar value of 180 mg/ messages. It is therefore essential
aggressive prostate cancer cells and a slower progression of the
that diabetes can be reversed or These (‘eating saturated fat, for ex gar cutoff s) have been repeatedly dL) is fi ne. This statement has been that more medical leaders and
disease. The fi ndings appear in Science Translational Medicine.
cured in hours or days. Through ample, ghee, butter, in any lowered, and these are infl uenced vehemently and universally de medical associations, issue eff ec
experiments we now know that re amount will do no harm’; ‘there is by the pharma industry for profi ts, nounced, including by key Indian tive and clear messages countering
Depression drug useful mission is possible only in a small no such thing as bad cholesterol’), implying that more drugs will be researchers (includes the authors). such fake news.
for sepsis number of those with Type 2 dia are lapped up by the public be used if more patients are diag The distorted message now adds
Researchers in the U.S. have betes, most of whom are obese cause these give them freedom to nosed. This is a lie. The fasting glu that blood sugar levels of 200250 A. Misra (Delhi), A. Mithal (Delhi) and V.
repurposed an antidepressant drug to and freshly detected; and that such eat what has been restricted by cose criteria for diabetes was arbi mg/dl are normal and only a value Mohan (Chennai) are experts in diabetes
combat sepsis in mice. Their fi ndings lay remission will take months. And doctors. If one attempts any scien trarily set at 140 mg/dl about three above 250 mg/dl is diagnostic of and related diseases
the groundwork for addressing a major
unmet need in clinical care — the lack Getty Images/iStockphoto CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
of a treatment which is able to target
the systemic infl ammation that makes sepsis so dangerous.
Sepsis occurs when bacterial infections spiral out of control and
Mapping bugs on the ISS Winning the war
cause an infl ammatory cascade to propagate through the body.
The resulting infl ammation then damages blood vessels and
deprives organs of oxygen and nutrients, leading to organ
on worms
failure and death. For this study, the scientists zeroed in on the
ast year, the World
endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a subcomponent of cells that is
increasingly linked to infl ammatory signalling and observed
L Health Organisation
said approximately 1.5
that a protein in the ER named sigma1 receptor (S1R) acted as a
brake on the production of infl ammatory molecules. The
billion people globally
fi ndings appear in Science Translational Medicine. were at risk of contract
ing soiltransmitted hel
Ashutosh Mishra minth (STH) infections —
Blood protein can warn or roundworms. That is,
of Alzheimer’s 270 million preschool children and 600 million chil
When tested in individuals with dren of schoolage live in areas where these parasites
cognitive impairment whose amyloid #331007
are intensively transmitted. India accounts for a quar
beta status was previously ter of the world’s STHinfected children; 64% of them
determined, a team of researchers
are younger than 14 years.
Getty Images/iStockphoto from Australia, the U.K. and Sweden
Because of the pronounced impact on child growth
report that several individual plasma
and development, the 54th World Health Assembly, in
proteins in the blood can predict amyloid beta in the preclinical
stage of Alzheimer’s disease, or AD. This work is a step towards
2011, committed itself to reducing the prevalence and
creating an easier way to identify individuals at high risk of AD, the intensity of soiltransmitted helminth infections in
for early intervention. Experts have been working to fi nd a all countries by 50%.
bloodbased measure that can accurately reveal AD pathology. Recognising this challenge, India’s Ministry of
The researchers built a protein classifi er model to build a Health and Family Welfare, in 2015, launched the Na
predictive model. The amyloidpositive individuals were tional Deworming Programme under the National
identifi ed with 90% accuracy in the mixed diagnosis cohort. To adapt than harm: New research shows that microbes stranded in the International Space Station (ISS) have diff erent Health Mission, one of the largest fi xedday, mass drug
Relative increases in certain amyloid beta precursor protein genes from the equivalent bacteria on earth. While there have been many concerns about these microbes forming a new administration public health programmes in the
fragments were important in predicting plaque burden at the generation of ‘superbugs’, it now appears that the diff erences are making the bacteria more able to withstand the harsh world, to reach out to over 230 million children by
earliest stages. The fi ndings appear in Science Advances. conditions of space, rather than increasing pathogenicity. Numerous bacterial species can be found in the ISS, from the 2020. Primarily a school and Anganwadibased initia
clothing of the astronauts or in the cargo. Thousands of these, and other, microbes have been cultured from samples taken tive, this involves teachers and frontline health work
Drug addiction and from the ISS, the genomic data of which is stored in a National Center for Biotechnology Information public database, in the ers administering deworming tablets (Albendazole).
U.S. With increasing talk of enabling travellers to visit space, there is growing interest in understanding how microbes This initiative has garnered many accolades globally,
gender diff erences behave in enclosed environments including the harsh conditions on the ISS that encompass high levels of radiation, especially from public health advocates of neglected
Women’s hormonal cycles may not only microgravity, and lack of ventilation. In their research, Dr. Erica Hartmann and her team at the Department of Civil and tropical diseases.
make them more prone to drug Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, U.S., compared the genomes of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus
addiction but also more aff ected by
Open defecation, contaminated soil and water, un
cereus cultures isolated from the ISS with those on Earth. The analysis showed that the bacteria isolated from the ISS did cooked food, and not following basic hygiene are the
triggers that lead to relapse. The contain diff erent genes from their terrestrial counterparts. Interestingly though it was shown that these genetic
research by a team in the U.S. is Getty Images/iStockphoto main reasons for transmission (worm larvae and eggs).
diff erences would not increase the pathogenicity of the bacteria or make them more detrimental to human health. It was
signifi cant since there are virtually no If undiagnosed, worms persist in the body and lay
reported that the changes merely refl ect the bacterial responses to living in a stressful environment. However, infected
addiction studies in women that account for these cycles. The thousands of eggs every day. Worms cause a decline in
individuals can still spread illness on space stations and space shuttles. — News Medical GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO *
Researchers historically have avoided using female animals in
rathon runners and readily at hand, in the looked at the scans of each lescents through intensifi ed outreach and also using
medical studies specifi cally so they don’t have to account for
other endurance athletes health records of tens of man’s heart. The degree of peergroup and youthgroup networks to administer
infl uences from hormonal cycles. As a result, medication
are familiar with concerns thousands of people who plaque accumulation can the drug. Third, private schools need to raise aware
development has often focussed on correcting dysfunctions in
men, which may explain why women often don’t respond to from their loved ones — and had undergone exams at generally be assessed using ness among parents and increase participation. Final
available medications/treatments in the same way as men do. occasionally their physi the affi liated Cooper Clinic. a coronary artery calcium ly, the State departments (of health, women and child
The fi ndings are in Neuropsychopharmacology. cians — that they might be Many of these exams in score. Someone with a development, and education) must coordinate better
exercising too much and cluded scans of people’s score higher than 100 is and improve drug procurement and the timely deliv
straining or harming their loping heart disease. hearts, along with detailed considered to have worri ery of drugs. The reach of mass drug administration is
Getting one’s just desserts commendable, but what India needs to do on a war
hearts. There have been some questionnaires about their some plaque buildup.
If you’re going to choose dessert fi rst, footing is to focus on preventive chemotherapy, im
For all of them, a large hints, however, that people exercise habits. Comparing the groups,
then the highcalorie option might proved sanitation facilities, enable access to clean/safe
scale study published re can exercise too much, es the researchers determined
lead to your eating a healthier meal, drinking water, and enable hygiene awareness. Since
unless you have a lot on your mind,
cently in JAMA Cardiology pecially if the exercise is in The data that the men in the highest
should be mollifying. It tense. In past studies, re The researchers focussed exercise group were prone eradication of STH infections is diffi cult, given its fae
according to new research published cooral and penetrationviaskin transmission pat
Getty Images/iStockphoto by the American Psychological fi nds that middleaged men searchers scanning the on the records of 21,758 to developing plaques.
who work out often and vi hearts of longtime endu men, most of them in their They were, in fact, about terns, the chances of reinfection are very high in pop
Association. In the study, researchers
gorously do tend to develop rance athletes, such as ma 50s. (They did not include 11% more likely to have a ulation living in endemic areas. This is particularly a
placed either a healthy or less healthy dessert (fresh fruit vs.
worrisome plaques in their rathon runners, have found women but plan to in a fol calcium score higher than concern in regions with tropical climate with high hu
lemon cheesecake) at the beginning or end of a university
cafeteria line. When diners picked the cheesecake fi rst, they cardiac arteries. But those scarring in those athletes’ lowup study.) They cate 100, compared to men who midity and warm temperatures such as Tamil Nadu,
then chose a lowercalorie main or side dishes and ultimately men also are less likely than heart muscles and also hef gorised the men into moved less. Some of the ex Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, and West Bengal and
consumed fewer calories than diners who chose the fresh fruit more sedentary people to ty deposits of coronary groups, based on how treme exercisers had scores in cities that have seen unplanned urbanisation.
fi rst. Those eff ects weren’t found when either dessert was die prematurely from a plaques, which can break much they exercised. Those above 800. In February 2018, India reached out to more than
placed at the end of the food line. Three additional online heart attack or other cause. free and block arteries, in the sweatingthemost Finally, the researchers 266 million children through the National Deworming
experiments that mimicked a food delivery website had similar The fi ndings raise the in causing a heart attack. But group worked out vigorous checked death records for a Day programme. State governments are also leverag
fi ndings, except when participants were distracted because teresting possibility, in oth most of those earlier stu ly for at least fi ve hours a decade or so after each ing this programme to tackle health challenges such as
they had a lot on their mind. er words, that strenuous ex dies were small and provid week and often more. The man’s latest exam, to see if anaemia and malnutrition by complementing it with
ercise may protect the ed a single snapshot of the researchers used a mathe any had died. other health programmes, for example, the Govern
heart against the very pro athletes’ hearts; they did matical measure (known as In essence, these results ment of India’s Vitamin A as well as the Iron and Folic
DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE blems to which it also not follow people for years metabolic equivalent of suggest that large amounts Acid Programme. The Swachh Bharat Mission has to a
contributes. to see whether their heavy task) to characterise the of exercise can up some large extent addressed the issue of open defecation in
What is Bedin 1? No one doubts, of exercise and any subse men’s workouts. But in one’s risk of developing many States, but we need to ensure that this rigour is
It is a modestly sized, elongated galaxy that measures only course, that our hearts be quent buildup of plaques practical terms, these ex plaques, while also lessen maintained. Issues of clean drinking water, safe faecal
around 3,000 lightyears at its greatest extent — a fraction of sludge management, and safe waste disposal and recy
nefi t from exercise. Study was linked to heightened treme exercisers were do ing the likelihood that he
the size of the Milky Way. Not only is it tiny but it is also cling need to be prioritised. Alternatively, the problem
after study shows that peo risks for heart attacks and ing the equivalent of run will die from a heart attack
incredibly faint. These properties have led astronomers to of STH infections should also be considered as a part of
classify it as a ‘dwarf spheroidal galaxy’. Dwarf spheroidal ple who meet the standard shorter lives. ning about six miles a day. precipitated by those
exercise guidelines, which So, for the new study, A second group complet plaques, says Dr. Laura De India’s urbanisation and cityplanning mandates.
galaxies are defi ned by their small size, lowluminosity, lack of
dust and old stellar populations. Bedin 1 was discovered by the call for about 30 minutes a scientists at the Cooper In ed somewhat less exercise, Fina, the chief science offi c
day of moderate exercise, stitute in Dallas and other and a third group fi nished er for the Cooper Institute, Dr. Ashutosh Mishra is with RTI International, India
Hubble Space Telescope when it was looking for white dwarf
stars. — Science Daily have a reduced risk of deve institutions decided to less than half as much exer who led the study. NY TIMES
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With universities constantly under the scanner, two books on what ails our campuses and why students are so angry
Prabhu Guptara pled means than agitating for a
better and more just society.
A
modern university can All that was a generation or
fl ourish only under a mo more ago. So when Gaurav Patha ■ Belt and Road
dernising government with nia encountered the intense move Bruno Macaes
in a society that supports moder ment for Telangana’s statehood, Penguin Random House
nisation. In contrast, what the he felt impelled to research it, re ₹ 599
British Raj did, and what most of sulting in The University as a Site of
our own governments continued Resistance, the very fi rst detailed What does the biggest
geopolitical project of our
to do, was to try to build modern ■ The Idea of a University account of the Telangana Student
time tell us about China’s
universities within an overwhelm Edited by Apoorvanand Movement in English. ambitions? What will the Belt
ingly traditionalist society. Context, Westland
and Road initiative which
The eff ort was countercultural: ₹ 699 The Telangana stir covers almost 70 countries
till recently, our universities have The outcome of a year of fi eldwork mean for the region? As
been statesanctioned and state in Hyderabad by an outsider (a America becomes
supported engines to modernise north Indian), it is an examination isolationist, will Beijing be
Indian society. The year 2014 of the contribution of an institu the new centre of
marks the revenge of that part of tion (Osmania University) to the globalisation? Macaes
traditional Indian society which is movement. The book explores the outlines China's strategy and
why it symbolises a new
infuriated by modernity and everyday life of activists on cam
phase in its endeavour to be a
wants to aggressively perhaps re pus: how did activists deal with superpower.
verse whatever national moderni the issues and problems of the Te
sation has taken place. langana movement? Why are cul
For that purpose, antimoder ■ The University as a Site of tural identities the basis of Indian
nisers employ marauding bands of Resistance politics? How did the demand for
hired goons for physical attacks, Gaurav Pathania Telangana statehood succeed?
and use nods, winks and none Oxford University Press Moving lines: Students and police clash on the premises of Osmania University, Hyderabad, during the The book argues that the Telan
₹ 895 Telangana statehood movement. NAGARA GOPAL
tooveiled threats to try to intimi *
gana movement is a new cultural
date the average person. or social movement, not merely a
Then, apparatchiks are appoint structures of surveillance through pagating Hindutva. Our public un by national and global capital but, tions that challenged policies and political one. Social movements
ed to top positions — whether as which everyday academic work iversities are in the process of be much more importantly, the nur toppled governments. require material and cultural re
culture secretaries, heads of insti must be produced, continuously ing converted into party turing of values, discernment, In the 1980s, students led or sources to be able to raise con
■ Power and Diplomacy:
tutions like the Film and Televi bleed the energy of our propaganda centres — as in Iran nuance, creativity, citizenship, a collaborated with regional move sciousness and to represent it. India’s Foreign Policies
sion Institute of India and Indian universities. and North Korea. The assaults sense of perspective, and a love ments in Assam and Punjab. Stu What student activists gained from during the Cold War
Council for Cultural Relations, and have not been confi ned to univer for lifelong learning. dents provided cadres for the Jaya joining an institution of higher Zorawar Daulet Singh
ViceChancellors of our universi Propaganda centres sities, but have been directed Students not only put their prakash Narayanled movement in education was access to cultural OUP
ties. The rot has now spread so far Will the attacks of the modernisers against all modernising institu skills and abilities at the service of 1974–75 for decentralisation, hon capital, and specifi cally to cultural ₹ 845
as to aff ect not only the appoint succeed? Perhaps so, fear the 18 tions, ranging from the media to companies and governments, they est government, and a more just resources unique to their own The notion that a monolithic
ment of faculty but even the selec outstanding authors whose essays the judiciary. also launched important national society. identity. idea of ‘nonalignment’
tion of students. are included in The Idea of a Un- However, assaults on other in initiatives. However, it is also true that In By looking at the struggle for shaped India’s foreign policy
The attacks of antimodernisers iversity, edited by Apoorvanand. stitutions are much less damaging In the 1960s, students dropped dian student politics has often Telangana in the light of university is a popular view. Singh
range from the reduction of bud But these authors are also cau to the country — because it is un out of St. Stephen’s College (Delhi) been partisan and factional. activism not only in the whole of challenges this by unveiling
gets for higher education, to the tiously hopeful that the whole of iversities that curate and commun and Presidency College (Calcutta) In the 1980s, Sanjay Gandhi’s India but also around the world, another layer of India’s
criminalisation of debate and crea Indian society, having had at least icate the best of the past, as well as to join the extraparliamentary mobilisation of educated and am Pathania’s book provides a per strategic culture. In a
tivity, and the increasing bureau some of the real benefi ts of moder develop in young minds the abili struggles to support the landless bitious but frustrated youth into ceptive, thorough and thought detailed narrative, the author
presents worldviews that
cratisation of higher education. nisation, will not want to decline ties which create a nation’s future. labourers. In Tamil Nadu and Guj the Youth Congress produced stu provoking analysis that eff ectively
underlay geopolitics during
Book bans, curbs on seminars, into the merely imaginary benefi ts This involves not merely giving arat, students created massive an dent groups more interested in ris complements Apoorvanand’s bou
the Jawaharlal Nehru and
and the imposition of intervening of a past dreamed up by those pro young people the skills required tiHindi and antiprice rise agita ing to power through unprinci quet of essays. Indira Gandhi years.
E
xactly a decadeandahalf has year just outside his offi ce in jective journalism, Bukhari Edited by Gunnel Cederlöf,
passed since the ‘landmark’ le Srinagar. Before launching the stood for the resolution of the Mahesh Rangarajan
gislation meant to transform the newspaper, he had been the Kashmir issue and remained OUP
power sector was brought in. The Srinagar correspondent for involved in the Track II dia ₹ 1,195
grand objective of the wellinten Frontline and had worked for ■ The Dirty War in Kashmir: logue process with Pakistan. Ecologies as diverse as the
tioned Electricity Act, 2003 was the The Hindu for 15 years bet Frontline Reports His reports are relevant as Himalayas and the Indian
creation of a free market for power in ween 1997 and 2012. Now his Shujaat Bukhari they provide pointers to the Ocean coast, the Negev
which energy companies have the reports have been compiled LeftWord Books way ahead in Kashmir. For ex desert and the former
₹ 150
freedom to generate power from into a book, The Dirty War in ample, he elucidates why the military bases of Vietnam all
anywhere in the country and sell to Kashmir, with the foreword special status of Jammu & have in common a longtime
any consumer at prices determined by written by the editor of Fron- one giving it an Indian or a Pa Kashmir needs to be protected human presence and the
the market, and the consumers have tline, R. Vijaya Sankar, in kistani twist. and how tampering with Arti many ways people have
the option to choose their supplier. which he talks about his asso The rest of the book is divid cle 370 and Article 35A will modifi ed nature. With
research covering countries
Fifteen years down the line, such a ciation with Bukhari and his ed into 10 chapters dealing further deteriorate the situa
from Asia, Africa, and
free market remains a pipe dream. courage in reporting from a with reports on wideranging tion in the State. He rues the Australia, the writers ask how
Status quo: ‘Aam Aadmi Party’s armwrestle with Lieutenant Governor confl ict zone. subjects over a period of time. nonseriousness on the part of and why human impacts on
Hurdles of the mission of Delhi Najeeb Jung (left) led to a consequent paralysis in the electricity In the introduction, ‘Shu He wrote for instance on the the Bharatiya Janata Partyled nature have grown in scale.
Why so? The answer, in one word, is: distribution sector.’ KAMAL NARANG
*
jaat Bukhari: A man of peace’, simmering anger among the government in New Delhi to
politics. Political imperatives make sector whose performance has been the Associate Editor of Fron- Kashmiri youth towards New resolve the Kashmir issue.
radical reforms practically impossible. consistently outstanding at a national tline, R.K. Radhakrishnan, re Delhi; election boycotts; how While he is critical of New
Political masters have tried to shape level.” However, this is not to say that calls how Bukhari would make the killing spree of civilians at Delhi, Bukhari does not spare
reform measures in a manner that all is hunkydory. The sector may have offi cers of the Army uncom the hands of troops was push the separatists either for their
would avoid a negative fallout for reached a ‘stable but a suboptimal fortable with his probing ques ing the youth toward militan lack of acumen to engage in a
them. equilibrium’. The negatives include tions. cy; and how total alienation dialogue process. The book
Wrong approach, says the book, banking on shortterm trading at the He writes that Bukhari and the social media ban was achieves its goal of telling the
Mapping Power: The Political Economy power exchange as a protectionist wanted people in India to un resulting in student protests. stories of Kashmir and making
of Electricity in India’s States, an an measure that favours discoms at the derstand the Kashmir issue in In all his reports, Bukhari readers across India under
thology of case studies in the power expense of industrial consumers, caps a holistic manner — he wanted stressed on the need for dia stand why New Delhi should ■ The Globotics Upheaval
sector in 15 States, edited by Navroz K. on solar, and failure to promote suffi the Kashmir story to be told by logue to end the ‘dirty war in not deal with Kashmir with an Richard Baldwin
Dubash, professor at the Centre for ■ Mapping Power: The Political cient public engagement. a Kashmiri and not by some Kashmir’. He was vocal about iron fi st. Hachette India
Policy Research, New Delhi, Sunila S. Economy of Electricity in ₹ 699
India’s States
Kale, faculty member at the Henry M. The case of Tamil Nadu Automation, artifi cial
Edited by Navroz K. Dubash & Others
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Rey on Wednesday. the second.
The Welshman’s goal, his It was Jeje’s fi rst goal of seen their team get a solitary visitors on the break.
100th for Real Madrid, will the season. point at home this season. However, Francisco Her
not have been lost on coach The visiting side, which Jeje’s inclusion in the nandez’s inswinging cross
Santiago Solari and ended made fi ve changes to the striker’s role meant Vineeth from the right in the 57th mi
Atletico’s hopes of a come starting lineup from its last had to be moved to the right nute left Chennaiyin’s de
back after Sergio Ramos’ pe game, had controlled the wing. fence fl atfooted. Sunil
nalty put Real in front at half proceedings until the half Just before the break, Ani Chhetri, who had a subdued
time, with Antoine Griez hour mark when an error in rudh Thapa found him with game on the left wing until
mann earlier cancelling out the midfi eld cost the side a diagonal pass on the right that point, ghosted into the
Casemiro’s acrobatic opener. There it goes! Casemiro, left, of Real Madrid beats Atletico Madrid custodian Jan Oblak. *
AFP dear. which he laid on for Laldin box unmarked to score off a
liana Renthlei who hung a diving header past Karanjit
Cruising home provisionally go three points er Fulham. Southampton 1 (Stephens (Wendell 5, Havertz 19, Brandt Surging run cross on the face of the Ben and halve the defi cit.
In the Premier League, Liver clear again. 90+1) lost to Cardiff 2 (Bamba 30, 64, Bellarabi 43); Borrusia Raphael Augusto nicked the galuru goal. Chennaiyin’s But the comeback was
pool reclaimed the lead with It has won 10 of 11 matches ball off Harmanjot Khabra No. 7 Nelson outjumped Ri
69, Zohore 90+3); Watford 1 Dortmund 3 (Sancho 32, Goetze never really on after that
a convincing 30 win over Goals from Sadio Mane in all competitions since (Gray 65) bt Everton 0. 43, Guerreiro 66) drew with near the halfway line and no Anto to head the ball low strike as Eli Sabia mar
Bournemouth as Jurgen and Georginio Wijnaldum Solskjaer replaced Mourinho La Liga: Getafe 3 (Mata 39pen, Hoff enheim 3 (Belfodil 75, 87, made a surging run and to the right of a sprawling shalled Chennaiyin’s de
Klopp’s team showed no sign essentially decided the game as interim boss. 81, Jorge Molina 62) bt Celta Kaderabek 83). squared the ball to C.K. Vi Germanpreet. BFC went into fence well to snuff out Ben
of jitters in the tightening tit after just 34 minutes, and The result: EPL: Fulham 0 lost Vigo 1 (Araujo 2); Real Vallado Hannover 2 (Mueller 45+5, neeth. the break 20 down for the galuru’s attacking threat for
le race. Mohamed Salah added the to Manchester United 3 (Pogba lid drew with Villareal; Atletico 77) bt Nuremberg 0; Leipzig 0 The latter found Jeje second successive game. the remainder of the game.
third in the 48th. 14, 65pen, Martial 23); Crystal Madrid 1 (Griezmann 25) lost to drew with Frankfurt 0; Freiburg
With Manchester City hav through a defl ection off At the restart, the Blues, This was Chennaiyin’s
Palace 1 (Zaha 76) drew with Real Madrid 3 (Casemiro 16, Ra 3 (Grifo 37, Petersen 70,
ing gone top on goal diff e mos 42pen, Bale 74).
Nishu Kumar’s legs and the yet again, dominated pos fi rst win at home, and the se
United fourth West Ham 1 (Noble 27pen); Waldschmidt 87) drew with
rence on Wednesday after Huddersfi eld 1 (Kolasinac Serie A: Chievo 0 lost to Roma 3 Wolfsburg 3 (Roussillon 11, striker blasted the ball past session but their passing was cond of the season.
erasing a sevenpoint gap Earlier, Manchester United 90+3og) lost to Arsenal 2 (El Shaarawy 9, Dzeko 18, Kola Weghorst 63pen, Steff en 74); Germanpreet Singh to put quicker this time. The result:
since January, Liverpool res swept into fourth place as (Iwobi 16, Lacazette 44); Liver rov 51). Moenchengladbach 0 lost to Chennaiyin ahead. Chennaiyin was content Chennaiyin FC 2 (Jeje 32,
ponded with a confi dent and Anthony Martial’s sublime pool 3 (Mane 24, Wijnaldum 34, Bundesliga: Mainz 1 (Quaison 5) Hertha Berlin 3 (Kalou 30, Duda The goal lifted the side playing the waiting game — Nelson 42) bt Bengaluru FC 1
rampant display at Anfi eld to strike inspired its 30 win ov Salah 48) bt Bournemouth 0; lost to Bayer Leverkusen 5 56, Selke 76). and the supporters who had sitting deep and hitting the (Chhetri 57).
RACING
Palace On Wheels fancied Mauritania wins feature
Ruffi na in great heart, HYDERABAD: Palace On Wheels
runs with a good chance in the
first division of the Smt. Teegala
Kumar 57.5, 3. Semper Fidelis (2)
Nakhat Singh 57.5, 4. Asteria (5)
Kuldeep Singh 57, 5. Sea Castle (7)
Singh 55.5, 7. Time To Climb (5)
A.A. Vikrant 55, 8. Brave Warrior
(14) Kunal Bunde 53.5, 9. Coruba
BENGALURU: Mauritania (David Al
lan up), won the D.P. Sharma Me
morial Sprinters Trail Stakes, the
and 13/4. 1m 24.88s. ₹ 42 (w), 17, 17
and 15 (p), SHP: 45, THP: 50, FP:
285, Q: 97, Trinella: 628 and 261,
Sulochana Reddy Memorial Cup chief event of the race held here on
primed for a hattrick
A.A. Vikrant 56, 6. Southern Leg (13) Gaddam 53.5, 10. Wood Bridge Exacta: 3,632 and 1,506. Favourite:
(1,200m), the feature event of the acy (6) Suraj Narredu 55.5, 7. (3) Surya Prakash 53.5, 11. Aarohi Saturday (Feb 9). The winner is Winning Heart. Owners: Five Stars
races to be held here on Sunday Mandy (1) Surya Prakash 55 and 8. (2) Sai Kumar 53, 12. Limousine (1) owned by Mr. M. Rishad, Poon Shipping Co. Pvt Ltd rep by. Mr &
(Feb. 10). Prince Caspian (8) Jitendra Singh P. Ajeeth Kumar 52.5, 13. Madonna awalla Racing & Breeding Pvt Ltd Mrs. K.N. Dhunjibhoy and Mr &
55. (7) B.R. Kumar 52.5 and 14. rep by. Mr. Zavaray S. Poonawalla & Mrs. Z.K. Dhunjibhoy. Trainer: S.
MUMBAI The wonder mare
Ruffina, who is in great heart ac
53.5, 6. Juliette (2) Bhawani 53.5,
7. Nekhbet (3) L.Roche 53.5 and
62, 4. Westeros (16) Chouhan 62,
5. Super Mario (5) Peter 61.5, 6.
1 CAPACHINO PLATE (Div.I),
(1,200m), maiden 3yo only
(Cat. II), (Terms), 115 p.m.: 1. Ace
#331007
cording to her last two victories
this season should not find it dif
8. Princess Scarlet (1) Akshay
53.5.
Night Watch (10) Trevor 61, 7.
Artista (4) Yash 60.5, 8. Rain
Misile (12) Sai Kumar 55, 2. City Of
Wisdom (10) G. Naresh 55, 3. 4 NAWAB MIR MUSHTAQ ALI NEWS, 3. LIMOUSINE.
1 SOMANATHAPURA PLATE (Div.
II), (1,100m), rated 00 to 20: IS-
5 D.P. SHARMA MEMORIAL
SPRINTERS TRAIL STAKES
(1,200m), 4yo & over, (Terms):
ficult to score a hattrick in the
Dr. S.C. Jain Sprinters’ Champi
1. DREAM,
2. VICTORIOUS SERMON,
Dance (15) Shubham 59.5, 9. Run
Happy (14) Baria 58.5, 10. Gan
Gusty Note (1) Kiran Naidu 55, 4.
Royal Treat (5) Nakhat Singh 55, 5.
KHAN MEMORIAL
(1,600m), 4yo & over, rated 42 to
62, (Cat.II), 245: 1. Staridar (7) N.
CUP
7 SMT. TEEGALA SOLOCHANA
REDDY MEMORIAL CUP (Div.I),
(1,200m), 4yo & over, rated 58 to
LAND PEARL (K. Raghu) 1, Naayaab
(T.S. Jodha) 2, Aqua Blessing
MAURITANIA (David Allan) 1,
Tutankhamun (Trevor) 2, Star
onship (Gr.2), the feature event 3. ECLAIR. dalf (12) A. Prakash 58, 11. Power Acadian Angel (14) N. Rawal 53.5, Rawal 60, 2. Durango (5) Dhebe 78 (Cat.II), 415: 1. Classic Remark (Chetan K) 3 and Future Bright Carnation (A. Imran) 3 and Siobhan
of Sunday’s (Feb.10) afternoon Of Thor (7) S. Amit 57.5, 12. 6. Angel Tesoro (13) A.A. Vikrant 59, 3. Rahil (10) Gopal Singh 58, 4. (Antony) 4. 21/4, 3/4 and 33/4. 1m (Akshay K) 4. Snk, 61/4 and Nose.
races here.
Rails will be placed 2 metres
4 DR JAGJIT SINGH TROPHY
(1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to
46, 4.00: 1. Frieze (6) Sandesh
Grand Eyes (9) Zervan 56.5, 13.
Velvet Vibes (13) Altaf 56, 14.
53.5, 7. British Empress (3) Akshay
Kumar 53.5, 8. Paso Robles (7)
The Special One (3) Akshay Kumar
56.5, 5. Valee Tiger (8) Deepak
(3) Gaurav Singh 60, 2. Dancing
Leaf (7) Kuldeep Singh 60, 3.
Palace On Wheels (2) Tanwar 57.5,
07.57s. ₹ 49 (w), 17, 19 and 24 (p),
SHP: 54, THP: 49, FP: 620, Q: 342,
1m 10.71s. ₹ 21 (w), 13 and 10 (p),
SHP: 25, THP: 30, FP: 19, Q: 11,
wide from 1400m to 1200m and 61.5, 2. Tenerife (1) Neeraj 59, 3. Mandrake (8) Aniket 55.5, 15. Kuldeep Singh 53.5, 9. Private Em Singh 55.5, 6. Egyptian Prince (1) 4. Warrior Supreme (9) Kiran Trinella: 3,024 and 1,296, Exacta: Trinella: 71 and 40, Exacta: 136 and
4 metres wide from 1000m upto Adonijah (8) D.A.Naik 58.5, 4. Cristo Boss (1) Merchant 55 and pire (4) I. Chisty 53.5, 10. Remem Tanwar 54.5, 7. Your Grace (6) Naidu 57.5, 5. Star Gazer (6) C.P. 20,592 and 3,922. Favourite: Coun 66. Favourite: Tutankhamun. Own
the winning post. King Khalil (13) Yash 58.5, 5. 16. Wizard Of Odds (6) Nazil 50. ber Forever (8) B.R. Kumar 53.5, Koushik 54.5, 8. Crimson Fire (4) Bopanna 57, 6. Royal Dynamite (8) try’s Pearl. Owner: Mr. Gnanadeva ers: Mr. M. Rishad, Poonawalla Ra
11. Surseine (9) Kunal Bunde 53.5, Rao. Trainer: Narayana Gowda. cing & Breeding Pvt Ltd rep by. Mr.
1 SONNY BRAR TROPHY
(2,000m), Cl. II, rated 60 to
86, 2.30 p.m.: 1. Gloriosus (2) R.
Octavius (4) Bhawani 58, 6.
Skysurfer (7) Kuldeep 58, 7. Ara
bian Storm (2) S.Amit 57, 8. Th
1. BAKHTAWAR,
2. ARTISTA, 12. Top Saga (11) Md. Ismail 53.5,
13. Tough Lady (2) Dhebe 53.5 and
Kuldeep Singh 54, 9. On My Way
(2) Rafique Sk. 54 and 10. Wings Of
Eagles (9) I. Chisty 54.
I. Chisty 56, 7. Ashka Ashka Ashka
(4) Afroz Khan 55.5, 8. Astra (1)
Dhebe 55 and 9. Tootsie Roll (5) 2 ROYAL RUSSIAN PLATE
(1,400m), rated 15 to 35, 5yo &
Zavaray S. Poonawalla & Mr. P.J.
Vazifdar. Trainer: S. Padmanabhan.
Downey 60, 2. Texas Gold (3) 3. WESTEROS. 14. Wah Ms Zara (6) Gaurav Singh
ea’s Pet (12) Kaviraj 57, 9. Walk 1. THE SPECIAL ONE, 2. EGYPTIAN Jitendra Singh 55. over: LIMATO (B. Harish) 1,
Nazil 57, 3. Bronx (4) Chouhan
52.5, 4. Gold Bond (1) Neeraj
On By (14) Jaykumar 57, 10.
Aquarius (9) Vishal 53.5, 11. 7 SPRUNGLI PLATE DIV.II
(1,400m), Cl. V, rated 4 to 30,
53.5.
1. PRIVATE EMPIRE, 2. TOUGH
PRINCE, 3. DURANGO. 1. PALACE ON WHEELS, 2. ASHKA
ASHKA ASHKA, 3. CLASSIC
Hafnium (I. Chisty) 2, Incitatus
(Md. Akram) 3 and All By Myself
6 PLANETARIUM PLATE
(1,600m), rated 15 to 35, 6yo &
52.5 and 5. Sagittarius (5) Peter
49.
Smart Choice (11) Ayyar 53.5, 12.
Ruffo (3) Shubham 52, 13. Crack
5.30: 1. Flipper (8) Ajinkya 60.5,
2. Actionable (5) Vishal 60, 3.
LADY, 3. PASO ROBLES. 5 BOMBAY SAPPER PLATE
(2,000m), 5yo & over, rated REMARK. (Antony) 4. Not run: Parting Shot. 1,
Lnk and Nose. 1m 27.66s. ₹ 374 (w),
over: Amazing Skill (Yash) 1, Ex
tremelydengerous (T.S. Jodha) 2,
1. BRONX,
2. GLORIOSUS.
lin’ Rosie (5) Merchant 50 and
14. Royal Classic (10) Malam 50.
Strong Values (4) S.Amit 58, 4.
Dream Trail (12) Chouhan 57.5,
2 CAPUCHIO PLATE (Div.II),
(1,200m), maiden 3yo only
(Cat. II), (Terms), 145: 1. City Of
26 to 46 (Cat.III), 315: 1. Golden
Hope (3) A.A. Vikrant 60, 2.
Sunday Carnival (7) Md. Ismail 60,
8 ROCK OF GIBRALTAR PLATE
(1,200m), 5yo & over, rated
upto 30 (Cat.III), 445: 1. All Star
97, 16 and 29 (p), SHP: 47, THP: 78,
FP: 5,695, Q: 2,847, Trinella: 77,567,
Bazinga (Rajesh K) 3 and Love Is
Life (Antony) 4. 51/4, 13/4 and 1. 1m
38.74s. ₹ 42 (w), 16, 39 and 30 (p),
1. KING KHALIL, 5. Hi Ho Silver (1) Neeraj 57.5, 6. Blossom (13) G. Naresh 55, 2. Ex Exacta: 1,21,961 (carried over). Fa
2 TAPPED CUP (1,600m), Cl.
IV, rated 20 to 46, 3.00: 1.
Finest Moment (9) Bhawani 61,
2. FRIEZE,
3. WALK ON BY.
Saddle The Wind (9) Bhawani
57.5, 7. Nusrat (13) Merchant 56,
clusive Blue (9) Akshay Kumar 55,
3. Explosive (2) A.A. Vikrant 55, 4.
3. Ta Ta (10) Akshay Kumar 60, 4.
San Vinto (12) B.R. Kumar 58.5, 5.
Carnival Express (6) Jitendra Singh
General (11) Kuldeep Singh 62, 2.
Cowboys Delight (ex: King David)
(9) Abhay Singh 62, 3. Patron Saint
vourite: Colour Of Gold. Owners:
Mr. Y.B. Singh & Mr. P.S. So
SHP: 94, THP: 60, FP: 616, Q: 347,
Trinella: 3,859 and 2,757, Exacta:
14,715 and 12,612. Favourite: Sum
2. Aurora Australis (7) Merchant 8. Romantic Eyes (14) Trevor 55, Golden Faraska (3) Kunal Bunde makanthan. Trainer: B. Prithviraj.
59.5, 3. Strong Storm (6) Trevor
58.5, 4. Star Aligned (5) L. Roche
5 DR S.C.JAIN SPRINTERS’
CHAMPIONSHIP
(1,200m), 4yo & over, 4.30: 1.
(Gr.2) 9. Saffron Flower (11) Shubham
54, 10. Lilibeth (6) Kuldeep 53,
55, 5. Linewiler (4) Kuldeep Singh
55, 6. Ruletheworld (5) Tanwar 55,
57.5, 6. Cash For Rank (4) Afroz
Khan 57.5, 7. Platinum Claasz (11)
Deepak Singh 57, 8. Dean's Gal (5)
(2) Jitendra Singh 62, 4. Proud
Warrior (8) Koushik 62, 5. Recum
bentibus (7) Akshay Kumar 62, 6. 3 AMAZING GREY PLATE
(1,200m), rated 30 to 50, 5yo
mer Dawn. Owner: Mrs. Radhika
Narredu. Trainer: S. Narredu.
58, 5. Its A Deal (2) G. Amit 54.5,
6. Fundamental Right (1) Neeraj
Bateleur (4) L. Roche 59, 2. Cap
tain Courage (6) Chouhan 59, 3.
11. Lovely Fairy (2) Nazil 51.5, 12.
Top Wizard (7) Aniket 51.5, 13.
7. Son Of Sardar (6) Suraj Narredu
55, 8. Turbulence (8) Md. Ismail
Sai Kumar 56.5, 9. Lancashire (2)
Kuldeep Singh 56, 10. My Windfall
Sweet Pistol (5) Afroz Khan 62, 7.
Dippy Dip (12) Deepak Singh 61, 8.
& over: TARINI (Yash) 1, Call Me
Maybe (T.S. Jodha) 2, Ispelldanger
7 SOMANATHAPURA PLATE (Div.
I), (1,100m), rated 00 to 20:
DESERT GOLD (Darshan) 1,
52, 7. Imperial Heritage (8) Holy Smoke (2) Zervan 59, 4. Olly Boy (3) Malam 51, 14. Ricar 55, 9. Turf Choice (7) Sai Kumar (8) Gaddam 55.5, 11. Joy Of Giving Rose Petal (1) G. Naresh 61, 9. Sil toall (Md. Asif Khan) 3 and Silken Cashmere (Md. Asif Khan) 2, Desert
S.Amit 52, 8. Laburnum (4) Lincoln (8) Neeraj 59, 5. St. An dus (15) Zervan 50 and 15. 55, 10. Artistryy (10) B.R. Kumar (9) Gaurav Singh 52.5 and 12. Vi ver Dollar (14) A.A. Vikrant 61, 10. Striker (I. Chisty) 4. 1, 11/2 and Shd. Gilt (T.S. Jodha) 3 and Purity (Mu
Sandesh 51.5 and 9. Honourable drews (7) Trevor 59, 6. Iron Age Grapevine (10) A.Gaikwad 49. 53.5, 11. Break The Ice (1) Nakhat jay's Harmony (1) Tanwar 50. Sweet Story (13) C.P. Bopanna 61, 1m 13.84s. ₹ 57 (w), 26, 19 and 27 (p), dassar) 4. Not run: Have A Nice
Eyes (3) Zervan 51. (1) R. Downey 58, 7. Clymene (3) 1. LOVELY FAIRY, Singh 53.5, 12. Spritual (11) Dhebe 1. TA TA, 2. SAN VINTO, 3. 11. Sisco (10) Rafique Sk. 59.5, 12. SHP: 50, THP: 55, FP: 229, Q: 140, Day. 1, 3/4 and Hd. 1m 09.41s. ₹ 159
1. STAR ALIGNED, Sandesh 57.5 and 8. Ruffina (5) 2. ROMANTIC EYES, 53.5 and 13. Sweet Brandy (12) Ro LANCASHIRE. All That Jazz (6) Sai Kumar 58, 13. Trinella: 2,508 and 1,290, Exacta: (w), 26, 16 and 16 (p), SHP: 42, THP:
2. FINEST MOMENT, David Allan 57.5. hit Kumar 53.5. Aalishaan (3) Tanwar 55 and 14. 30,767 and 9,230. Favourite:
3. HONOURABLE EYES. 1. RUFFINA,
2. LINCOLN,
3. HI HO SILVER.
Day’s Best : RUFFINA.
1. EXCLUSIVE BLUE, 2. RULETH-
EWORLD, 3. SON OF SARDAR.
6 NORTHERN DANCER PLATE
(1,200m), 4yo & over, rated Hammer (4) Ashhad Asbar 51.5. Amazonite. Owners: Mr. Shantanu
Sharma & Mr. S. Narredu. Trainer:
35, FP: 2,132, Q: 673, Trinella: 5,371
and 4,028, Exacta: 47,719 (carried
3 N.M.IRANI TROPHY
(1,400m), Maiden, 3yo only, 3. ST. ANDREWS. Double : BRONX — KING KHALIL.
3 SMT. TEEGALA SULOCHANA
26 to 46 (Cat.III), 345: 1. Natasha
(6) Abhay Singh 60, 2. Dancing
1. PROUD WARRIOR, 2. PATRON
SAINT, 3. RECUMBENTIBUS. S. Narredu.
over) and 20,451. Favourite: Savisa.
Owner: Mr. S. Vishwanatha Reddy.
3.30: 1. The Cheetah (4) Yash 55,
2. Victorious Sermon (6) Trevor
55, 3. Walk The Talk (5) R.
6 SPRUNGLI PLATE DIV.I
(1,400m), Cl. V, rated 4 to 30,
5.00: 1. Bakhtawar (3) Neeraj 62,
Jackpot : 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7.
Treble : 5, 6 & 7.
REDDY MEMORIAL CUP (Div.II),
(1,200m), 4yo & over, rated 58 to
78 (Cat.II) (No whips), 215: 1.
Doll (4) Suraj Narredu 59.5, 3.
Latest News (9) Akshay Kumar 58,
4. His Excellency (10) Dhebe 57.5,
Day's best: EXCLUSIVE BLUE
Double: DANCING DOLL — PALACE
ON WHEELS
4 F.K. IRANI MEMORIAL TROPHY
(1,400m), rated 45 to 65: SAK-
URA (Akshay K) 1, Poseidon (Dar
Trainer: Rajendra Singh.
Jackpot: ₹ 27,204 (16 tkts); Runner
up: ₹ 666 (280 tkts); Treble (i):
Downey 55, 4. Dream (8) 2. Sixth Emperor (11) Kuldeep Tanala : All races. Ashwa Raftar (4) Gaurav Singh 60, 5. Curcumin (12) Rohit Kumar 57, Jkt: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8; Tr (i): 1, 2 & 3; (ii): shan) 2, Winning Heart (Trevor) 3 ₹ 16,527 (one tkts); (ii): ₹ 1,889 (16
Sandesh 53.5, 5. Eclair (7) Neeraj 62, 3. Smart Vision (2) Jaykumar Super Jackpot : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. 2. Amazing Elegance (3) Akshay 6. Southern Meteor (11) Kuldeep 3, 4 & 5; (iii): 6, 7 & 8; Tla: all races. and Standout (Antony) 4. 3/4, 13/4 tkts).
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
SUDOKU
Calicut Heroes blanks Kochi Blue Spikers England 46 for
one at lunch
Beat the home boys 50, pick up a bonus point and stay close to the semifi nals AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS
GROS-ISLET (ST. LUCIA)
major part on the other side.
PRO VOLLEYBALL That was noticeably clear England was 46 for one at
early in the second set when lunch after being put in to
Stan Rayan the Heroes raced to a 91 lead bat by the West Indies on
KOCHI
and the Blue Spikers began the fi rst morning of the
One wouldn’t be surprised if to commit a series of third and fi nal Test at the
the Kochi Blue Spikers were mistakes. Darren Sammy Stadium on
wondering what hit them Karthik impressed in this Saturday. West Indies
here on Saturday. set, he came up with a strong holds a 20 lead in the se
Calicut Heroes looked too block for David Lee and later ries following victories by
good as they thrashed the produced fi ne serves and 381 runs in Barbados and
home boys 50 to pick up a smashes. K. Praveen Kumar 10 wickets in Antigua.
bonus point and stay close to was the Blue Spikers’ top
the semifi nals in the RuPay
Pro Volleyball League and at
scorer with 10 points while
David was next in the list.
Anju scores
the Rajiv Gandhi indoor sta
dium here.
“I think we are a complete
team and we put them under
India’s winner
The Heroes appeared to service pressure all
have a plan in place and they through,” said manofthe PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
were quick to execute it even match Paul.
BHUBANESWAR
Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku before the Blue Spikers The Indian women’s foot
Ukkrapandian, the Blue
could make sense of it. The Spikers’ captain and setter, ball team defeated Iran by
serve was their biggest wea Biggest weapon: Calicut Heroes captain Jerome Vinith, left, was at his best in serve. * H. VIBHU
appeared to agree. “Their a solitary goal to begin its
pon — A. Karthik, captain Je serves put pressure on us all, campaign on a winning
rome Vinith and American inspired man. He was in full Spikers, who were in action Paul who were well served note at the Hero Gold Cup
that aff ected the rest of our
Paul Lotman were their best fl ow as he rose and sent the previous night too, ap by the young setter Vipul Ku here on Saturday.
game.”
in this department — and it down thunder frequently peared lost. mar while the 38yearold Anju Tamang’s strike in
The result: Calicut Heroes bt
rattled the home boys, from the right fl ank. And C. They did not have the fi re libero C.K. Ratheesh Kochi Blue Spikers 1511, 159, the 48th minute ensured
played havoc with their fi rst Ajithlal, an attacker who has power to match the Heroes manned the backcourt well. 1514, 1513, 1510. India made it fi ve wins in a
pass which set off a chain grown in stature in this and their block, two and la Sunday’s match: Black Hawks row, having won the last
reaction. league, also stood out. ter three, could do little to Confusion Hyderabad vs Calicut Heroes, 7 four friendlies against
Jerome was once again an For a change, the Blue stop Jerome, Ajithlal and There was confusion for a p.m. Hong Kong and Indonesia.
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TV PICKS
New Zealand vs India: 3rd Chikkarangappa is champion Usha pins hopes on Jeremy takes
weightlifting
Neeraj and Hima
T20I, Star Sports 1 (SD & HD),
8.30 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; SS
Select 1 (SD & HD), 12.30 Aman Raj and Dharma share runnerup spot silver
p.m.
West Indies vs England:
3rd Test, Sony ESPN (SD & GOLCONDA MASTERS Says she doesn’t understand the
HD), 7.30 p.m.
ISL: Star Sports 1 & 3 (SD & Special Correspondent importance given to coach Galina
HD), 7.15 p.m. HYDERABAD
<
> Jisna’s
Premier League: SS Select 1 Bengaluru’s S. Chikkaran K. Keerthivasan only fault is
(SD & HD), 6.45 p.m. & 9.20 gappa came up with a bril CHENNAI she is not training
p.m. liant performance in the fi
Bundesliga: SS Select 2 (SD with Galina. [But]
nal round scoring sixunder It may have been 20 years performance must
& HD), 7.45 p.m. & 10.15 p.m.
65 to outclass the rest of the since she announced her re
La Liga: Sony Ten 1 (SD & speak
HD), 11 p.m. fi eld and emerge winner by tirement from active athlet
Serie A: Sony Ten 2 (SD & two shots at 20under 264 in ics, but former sprint queen formances till now, Neeraj
HD), 5 p.m., 7.20 p.m. & the Golconda Masters golf P.T. Usha has retained her and Hima have done well.
10.30 p.m. championship at the Hydera popularity and the respect “But it will not be easy to
NBA: Sony Ten 1 & 3 (SD & bad Golf Club on Saturday. — through her work at Usha win a medal. [I will] wait for Jeremy Lalrinnunga.
HD), 7 a.m. Patna’s Aman Raj pro School Athletics in Kozhi the results before
* FILE PHOTO
Pro Volleyball: Sony Ten 3 &
Six (SD & HD), 6.45 p.m. duced the last day’s best kode — she receives wherev commenting.” Sports Bureau
round of sevenunder 64 to er she goes is one thing Usha said she didn’t un CHIANG MAI (THAILAND)
fi nish joint runnerup at 18 which has to be seen to be derstand the importance gi Youth Olympic Games gold
IN BRIEF under 266 along with Benga believed. ven to 400m and relay team medallist Jeremy Lalrin
luru’s M. Dharma (69). In the City for the Little foreign coach Galina Bukha nunga aggregated 288kg to
Chikkarangappa (65, 64, Millennium’s Kids Marathon rina of Russia. take the silver medal in the
70, 65), lying tied second, on Saturday, the 54yearold “In our country, more men’s 67kg category in the
two off the lead going into spoke about Indian athlet concentration is given only EGAT’s Cup international
the fi nal round, began the ics’ chances in the Tokyo to relays now. weightlifting champion
day with birdies on the fi rst Olympics while questioning “Whatever they want, ships, an Olympic qualify
two holes even as overnight the undue importance given AFI is providing it. I don’t ing event, here on Friday.
leader Dharma dropped a to the relay teams by the know why. It will not help Jeremy lifted 131kg in
bogey on the second. Athletics Federation of India other events if they do that. snatch and 157kg in clean
There was no looking Good going: S. Chikkarangappa fi nished on top with a fi ne run on the fi nal day. (AFI). And whatever the relay and jerk behind gold medal
back for 25yearold Chikka *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT While Usha hoped Neeraj coach [Galina] says they winner Deni (303kg, 132kg,
rangappa, with birdies on Chopra ( javelin) and Hima [AFI] will do.” 171kg). Ruben Katoatau
Davis wins over the eighth and ninth and 11th “I had an outstanding 10th in the inaugural edi bogeys. Das (400m) would do well (125kg, 160kg, 285kg) of Ki
Pelicans fans and 12th, where the two week with as many as 28 bir tion,” Chikkarangappa said. Chandigarh’s Karandeep in Tokyo, she maintained ‘Jisna being ignored’ ribati won the bronze.
LOS ANGELES time Asian Development dies. Aman Raj gained six spots Kochhar (69) took fourth that it would be diffi cult as The former athlete lament
Anthony Davis scored 32
points to turn jeers to cheers
Tour winner knocked in his
longest putts of the day from
“I attribute my perfor
mance to my muchim
from his overnight tied
eighth after an errorfree
place at 16under 268 while
the trio consisting of last
other countries too would
be training as hard as these
ed that just because Jisna
Mathew is training under Perry makes
on Friday, leading New
Orleans Pelicans to a 122117
nine feet and 15 feet.
The win meant fi ve world
proved ballstriking. My tee
shots and approach shots
fourth round of 64.
M. Dharma, the third
year’s champion Udayan
Mane of Ahmedabad, Guru
two. her, she is being ignored.
“Her [ Jisna] only fault is merry
NBA victory over Minnesota ranking points. He also leads were terrifi c today. round leader by two shots, grambased rookie Priyan Season yet to start she is not training with Gali NEW DELHI: Matthew Philip
Timberwolves in his first the PGTI Order of Merit with “I really wanted to fi nish dropped to tied second on shu Singh and Delhi’s Honey “The season has not yet na. [But] performance must Perry scored eight goals in
game since asking to be earnings of ₹ 6,46,600 from well at the HGC as my pre day four after a 69 that fea Baisoya shared fi fth place at started. If you see the per speak,” she said. powering Rajnigandha
traded. Davis scored 10 quick the seasonopener. vious best here had been tured four birdies and two 15under 269. Achievers to a 13 goals to 2
points and finished the first 1/2 victory over CavalryAr
half with 24. AFP my Service Corps (ASC) in
Churchill battles
back to hold Bagan
Punjab to meet RSPB JeevanPurav pair the semifi nals of the Caval
ry Gold Cup 10goal polo
tournament on Saturday.
VASCO DA GAMA
Churchill Brothers rallied
from a goal down to hold
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
GWALIOR
jab. RSPB got past Petro
leum Sports Promotion loses in semifi nals In the fi nal, Ranjigandha
Achievers will play Garcha
Defending champion Pun Board (PSPB) 54 in a shoot GroupAravali Polo.
Mohun Bagan in their I
jab defeated Punjab and out after the teams were Sports Bureau points. The results (semifi nals):
League match here on
Sind Bank (PSB) 20 to set locked 22 at regulation Sofia The results: €596, 140 ATP, Garcha GroupAravali Polo
Saturday. After Aser Dipanda
up a clash with Railway time. Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Sofi a: Doubles (semifi nals): 6 (Manuel Llorente 3, Angad
put the visitors ahead in the Nikola Mektic (Cro) & Jurgen Kalaan 2, Satinder Garcha) bt
39th minute, Anthony Wolfe Sports Promotion Board Varun Kumar (eighth) Purav Raja were beaten 57,
(RSPB) in the fi nal of the and Mandeep Singh (23rd) 64, 106 by Nikola Mektic Melzer (Aut) bt Jeevan Ne APRCNavy 3 1/2 (Deepak
got the equaliser off a dunchezhiyan & Purav Raja Udar 2, Akhil Sirohi, handicap
penalty in the 78th minute. ninth senior men’s National gave PSPB a 20 lead before and Jurgen Melzer in the dou
57, 64, [106]. 1/2).
The home side remained third hockey championship (Divi RSPB made a late surge and bles semifi nals of the $15,000 ITF women, Sharm Rajnigandha Achievers 13
in the table with 30 points sion A). scored through Yuvraj Wal €586,140 ATP tennis tourna El Sheikh: Doubles (quarter (Matthew Philip Perry 8, Gau
from 17 games while the Akashdeep Singh (eighth miki (45th) and Dilpreet ment here on Saturday. fi nals): Mariana Drazic (Cro) & rav Sahgal 3, Salim Azmi, Hurr
Kolkata giant was sixth with minute) and Dharamvir Singh (50th) to take the con The semifi nal entry was #331007
Malene Helgo (Nor) w/o Anna Tough road ahead: P.T. Usha feels it would be a huge Ali) bt CavalryASC 2 1/2 (Na
23 points in 16 matches. Singh (39th) scored for Pun test to a tiebreaker. worth €8,240 and 90 ATP Morgina (Rus) & Zeel Desai. challenge for Indian athletes at Tokyo. B. VELANKANNI RAJ*
veen Singh 2, handicap 1/2).
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right leg seriously and at one Race 2 second on the reverse
point faced amputation. grid, had a brilliant start as sizeable lead for a deserving Andreas Estner took the mula LGB 1300 (Race 1, Eight
The incident in 1992 hap Star power: Mick Doohan, who won fi ve consecutive 500cc motorcycling championships, seen she moved past polesitter win. Young fi nished second, third spot. laps): 1. Tijil Rao (Momentum
pened during practice for with Arun Mammen, vicechairman and Managing Director, MRF. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT. *
Dylan Young of Australia and almost a second behind Motor Sports) (20:04.219); 2.
the Dutch TT race when over the 20 laps built up a Chadwick, while German Pasma pulls away Ashwin Datta (Momentum Mo
tor Sports) (20:05.309); 3. K
Doohan was leading the fi t I could be competitive.” cause he is the lead rider. alltime great of the sport. Earlier, in Race 1, Pasma,
Suriya Varathan (M Sport)
championship by 65 points Doohan is in the city with The bike development has “He is young enough, just starting from pole, had a (20:06.090).
with fi ve wins and two se
condplace fi nishes and was
forced to miss three rounds,
his son Jack, who has pre
ferred fourwheelers and tak
ing part in the MRF Chal
been heading in his direc
tion. Lorenzo should adapt
to the machine fairly well
going to turn 26. Rossi’s gon
na be 40 and he is still there.
It’s just about how many
Thumbs up for MRF great start and surviving a
strong challenge in the fi rst
lap, gradually pulled away to
Race 2 (10 laps): 1. Ashwin Dat
ta (Momentum Motor Sports)
(19:50.799); 2. Karthik Krishna
losing the title by four lenge 2000 this weekend. but it will come down to years to hang around to sur Sports Reporter some experience,” said complete a comfortable win,
(Hasten Performance)
points. The injury meant he who’s mentally the stron pass that number (eight pre Chennai Doohan. his second in the (19:51.142); 3. K Suriya Varathan
could also not use his right New season gest. mier class titles held by Gia The ongoing MRF “The cars are championship. (M Sport) (19:51.332).
ankle for braking and in The most exciting aspect of “If Marc likes something como Agostini). Marquez has Challenge has come in for competitive, the platform The results:
MRF Challenge (F2000): Race Saloon Cars (Super Stock –
stead used a leftthumb op the new season of MotoGP is and Lorenzo doesn’t, it’s go certainly got the desire and praise from Mick Doohan. is basically identical. This
1 (20 laps): 1. Patrick Pasma Race 1, 10 laps): 1. Rithvik Tho
erated rear brake. that the reigning fi vetime ing to start messing with as long as he doesn’t burn “I was in Dubai a few is what attracts a lot of mas (Race Concepts)
On coming back from that champion Marc Marquez your head. They both are out, he has plenty of time years ago and a number the drivers. There is a (Finland) (30:42.140); 2. Mi
chelangelo Amendola (Belgi (20:33.163); 2. Joel Joseph
injury Doohan said, “It was will be joined by threetime coming off injuries. I am ex left in him.” of the Australians I knew wide variety of drivers (Race Concepts) (20:39.841); 3.
um) (30:47.192); 3. Jack Doo
about physically getting my champion Jorge Lorenzo at cited to see how it unfolds. The motorcycling legend were driving in MRF here. Prateek Benya (Race Concepts)
han (Australia) (30:53.293).
self back. By the end of the Honda, and the Australian Marc is a bit crazy and I don’t said India can have success Challenge. We had heard “This (MMRT) is a great Race 2 (20 laps): 1. Jamie Chad (20:59.922).
1993 season, I still had issues feels that the mental think it will bother him. Lo at the world level with a a lot of good things about circuit. I actually like wick (UK) (30:51.643); 2. Dylan MRF F1600 (Race 1, 10 laps): 1.
with my right leg but the de strength of the riders will be renzo is calm and calculat strong national series, point it (MRF Challenge). circuits with a little bit of Young (Australia) (30:52.669); Nayan Chatterjee (Mumbai)
sire to win the championship the crucial factor. ed,” said Doohan. ing to the examples of Japan “It was pretty easy for character. It adds 3. Andreas Estner (Germany) (16:47.925); 2. Sohil Shah (Ben
kept me going. I knew if I “The Honda bike is prima Doohan also feels Mar and Malaysia which produce us to get here, and get attraction to the series.” (30:53.260). galuru) (16:57.206); 3. Arya
could get myself physically rily built for Marquez be quez could well become an top riders. MRF MMSC FMSCI INRC – For Singh (Kolkata) (16:57.719).
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IN BRIEF
Humanelephant confl ict kills 1,713 people, 373 pachyderms in 3 years
Electrocution is a leading cause of elephant deaths; factors, including habitat disturbance, cause for rise in confl ict, Minister tells Parliament
Sanjana Ganesh In 2018 alone, Dr. Sharma unaccustomed to the pre tion between wild elephants
MADURAI said, 227 people were killed sence of elephants in their and people, disturbed land
J&J decides to add prices In the three years between by wild elephants in 16 midst. This leads to many ac scapes, like Thevaram in Ta
to TV commercials 20152018, humanelephant States, with Assam reporting cidents,” he said. mil Nadu’s Theni district,
CHICAGO
confl ict caused 1,713 human the highest number (86). Mr. Desai said that de are linear forests and hence
Johnson & Johnson has said it
and 373 elephant deaths by Electrocution of ele tailed post mortems of ele lead to issues such as crop
will start adding the price of
its medicines to television
unnatural causes, including phants is a particular cause phants is diffi cult as the bo raiding and human deaths,”
commercials by next month, electrocution and poaching. for concern in managing In dies are decomposed at the he said.
becoming the fi rst drugmaker Experts say various factors, dia’s elephant population. time of examination in cases Mr. Desai also noted that
to heed a call by U.S. including habitat distur Deaths caused by electrocu of death by electrocution. degradation of habitat and a
President Donald Trump for bance and urbanisation, tion stood at 226, contribut “Some deaths are caused by rise in elephant population
price transparency of drugs could be the cause of the ing to 60.6% of deaths since the presence of low hanging in certain parts of the coun
advertised directly to alarming rise in unnatural wires, others are retaliatory try are not discussed in de
consumers on TV. It will human and animal SUNDAY SPECIAL in nature. Situation analysis tail. Recognising problems
include both the list price of a casualties. of each death must be done like deforestation is seminal
product — the price before 2015, according to the data. by the Forest Department to to creating a solution, he
any rebate or discount to Highest numbers In comparison, elephant eliminating the possibility of West Bengal dates back Bengal,” he said. Since ele ascertain the cause of the said.
insurers or pharmacy benefi t In a response to Parliament, deaths by all other causes, looking at casespecifi c three decades. “In the phants were not confi ned to death,” he said. Dr. Sharma said that the
managers — and potential Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minis including train accidents, details. 1980s, elephants in the Dal a restricted environment, Ministry has approved the
outofpocket costs that ter of State in the Ministry of poaching and poisoning, ad ma Wildlife Sanctuary widespread confl ict bet Localised solutions construction of physical bar
patients will pay. Environment, Forest and ded up to 147. Human deaths would be confi ned to the ween humans and animals Dr. Kalaivanan recommends riers such as barbed wire
BUSINESS ABROAD A PAGE 8 Climate Change (MoEFF), The data showed that the The fragmented landscape Dalma hills, as food and wa increased. localised solutions to ele fences, solar powered elec
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said damage to houses and mean number of elephant in West Bengal makes it diffi ter was available for them. Elaborating on Odisha’s phantrelated problems. tric fences, and biofencing
U.S.North Korea talks crops had been reported in deaths per year would be cult to prevent elephant or When cultivation of paddy problem, Mr. Desai said that “Policy should be formed using cactus and boundary
productive, says Trump several States. Data present 56.6 — a worrying statistic. human deaths, said N. Kalai began in the plains near the the growing number of to provide solutions suited walls, to prevent the entry of
WASHINGTON ed by him showed that the While the data provides vanan, veterinarian and ele hills, elephants began mov mines would continue to be to the particular geography. elephants into agricultural
President Donald Trump said highest numbers of human information on the causes of phant expert. ing downwards to raid a problem for elephants Habitat degradation is a ma land. Dr. Kalaivanan sug
on Friday that U.S. diplomats casualties had occurred in the deaths, it does not men Ajay Desai, consultant, crops. Villagers chased them there. “Elephants move jor cause of elephant deaths. gests the stepping up of com
had a “very productive West Bengal (307 deaths), tion the States with the high World Wildlife FundIndia away and elephants began from Odisha and Jharkhand While compact landscapes munity participation in the
meeting” with North Korean followed closely by Odisha est number of elephantre (WWF) explained that hu moving all the way to the to Chattisgarh. The Chhattis like ones in the Nilgiris pro protection of crop lands and
offi cials, and his summit (305). lated deaths, thus manelephant confl ict in southern portion of West garh population, however, is vide little space for interac elephants.
later this month with North
Korean leader Kim Jongun
would be held in Vietnam’s
capital Hanoi.
Prime Minister was nixed
on Saturday after her party
agreed to comply with a special correspondent
command from the King JAIPUR
opposing the plan.
Rail traffi c on the Delhi
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rupted for the second day on
Mullah Baradar freed at Saturday with hundreds of
U.S. request: Khalilzad Gujjars continuing to block
WASHINGTON the track near Malarna Dun
Taliban leader Mullah gar in Rajasthan’s Sawai
Baradar, who now leads the Madhopur district. The prot
peace eff orts with the U.S., esters are demanding 5% re
was released by Pakistan at servation in government
the request of the Donald jobs and educational
Trump administration, special institutions.
envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Gujjar leader Kirori Singh
Khalilzad said. He said
Bainsla, spearheading the
Pakistan had a crucial role in Staying put: Women of the Gujjar community joining
agitation, announced that
the reconciliation process, the protest in Sawai Madhopur on Saturday. PTI
any talks with the State go *
but had “historically not
played a positive role.”
vernment would be held
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People’s initiative: Forty families on PavoorUliya Kudru (River Island) formed by the Netravathi, near Mangaluru, are now “nowhere else, but only al Highway89 from Ajmer to been deployed to meet any
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His statement was in res by the police. tration was keeping a watch,
ponse to Tourism Minister Chief Minister Ashok Geh he said.
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suspended
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Press Trust of India
Delhi zoo to get white Raipur
tiger from Lucknow
LUCKNOW
Two IPS offi cers from
The National Zoological Park Chhattisgarh, including a
in Delhi is set to greet a white Special DGP, were sus
tiger, which will soon arrive pended on Saturday after
from Lucknow under an the Economic Off ences
exchange programme. “One Wing registered an FIR
of the two male cubs, Jay and against them for alleged
Vijay, born to a white tigress criminal conspiracy and il
at the Lucknow Zoo will be legal phone tapping during
sent to Delhi,” Lucknow Zoo the Civil Supplies Corpora
director Rajendra Kumar tion scam probe in 2015.
The staircase leading to the metal halide lamp (right) inside the False Point tower at Batighara panchayat in Kendrapara district of Odisha. *
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Singh, said. ANI The offi cers were identi
fi ed as Special DGP Mukesh
Three dead as bus falls
False Point — a true friend for sailors of the Bay
Gupta, posted at the Police
into ditch in U.P.
Headquarters, and Na
LAKHIMPUR KHERI
A private bus from Lakhimpur
rayanpur Superintendent
to Palia in Uttar Pradesh fell of Police Rajnesh Singh.
into a deep ditch under Palia A senior State Home De
Kotwali area here, killing India’s oldest functional lighthouse at 180 years continues to guide seafarers and fi shermen despite entry of new devices partment offi cial said Mr.
three people and injuring over Gupta and Mr. Singh would
a dozen. The deceased were Satyasundar Barik lighthouses used to be proud for this place and its light The light system was re of False Point. Authorities at the DGLL be attached to the State
identified as Arun Kumar
BATIGHAR structures. Despite the house would be False Point paired around 1879 and con The perils of working and are now toying with the idea Police Headquarters in Rai
Mishra, 35; Ashfaq Ali, 60; Contrary to its name, False march of communication and not Hukitola,” Mr. Pra verted into an occulting light maintaining the lighthouse of converting False Point, pur during their
and Ajit Mishra, 18. The driver Point, the British era light and satellite technology, sad explained. in 1884. After 47 years, in can be gauged by the fact with its rich history, into an suspension.
tried to give way to a tractor- house standing tall on the False Point, which is under The British administration 1931, the sixwick capillary that even today one has to ecotourism spot. “As per our
trolley and reportedly lost Odisha coast in Kendrapara the direct supervision of the had then spent the huge sum lamp was replaced with a pe navigate thick mangrove ve pilot project, a lighthouse SIT inquiry
control over the vehicle. PTI district, has actually been Director General of Light of ₹ 36,528 for erecting the troleum vapour lamp. Subse getation and sail past croci near Konark is being reno The case was lodged on the
guiding ships and vessels houses and Lightships lighthouse over 11 months — quently, an incandescent dileinfested waters to reach vated to attract tou basis of a probe by a Spe
221 police personnel through the choppy waters (DGLL) under the Ministry of between December 1836 and lamp with a vertical fi lament the lighthouse from the sea. rists. Depending on cial Investigation Team
transferred in M.P. of the Bay of Bengal for the Shipping, has not outlived its October 1837. was used for better illumina Stating that False Point its success, False (SIT) constituted by the
BHOPAL
past 180 years. utility. Commissioned in March tion. Now, a metal halide continues to guide local Point could get a newly formed Congress go
The Congress-led Madhya
The oldest functional “When someone meets lamp is used to fl ash lights fi shermen, who regularly new identity,” vernment to inquire into
Pradesh government has
transferred 221 police
personnel, including 34 IPS
lighthouse in India, False
Point has remained a fami
with an accident at sea and
all modern navigational ap <
> We cannot aff ord a
breakdown of the
every 20 seconds, with a pro
posal to upgrade it to an LED
venture into the deep sea
for fi shing, Mr. Chatter
said Amitash Ray,
Assistant Engi
the alleged multicrore civil
supplies scam unearthed
officers, across the State. liar symbol for seafarers who paratuses are lost, there is no light system even on lamp. jee said, “We cannot af neer at DGLL, during the previous BJP
M.R. Krishna, a 1985-batch would know its location at a other way than going back to a single day “A notable feature of the ford a breakdown of Noida. government.
IPS officer, was appointed distance of 40 km from the the basics. That’s why ad Jayanta Chatterjee
lighthouse is the cluster of the light system even The Home Department
chairman of the M.P. Police fl ashing of two white lights vanced countries like the Un Head light keeper graves close by. The British on a single day.” said the act of the offi cers
Housing Corporation, a post every 20 seconds — its navi ited States are still continu workers, who had lived in was in violation of the All
earlier held by Rishi Kumar gational code after dark. ing with lighthouses,” said 1838, the tower fi rst fl ashed isolation, worked in inhos India Services (Conduct)
Shukla, who recently took During the day, the 129 Mr. Prasad. lights via an imported lan pitable conditions and died, Rules, 1968, and the pro
over as CBI Director. PTI foottall, massive minaret tern room with brass refl ec were given a burial on the cess to institute disciplin
like structure of redwhite Mistaken for Kolkata tors. “The light was a fi xed premises of False Point. The ary action against them
Anti-tobacco campaigner bands with a huge embossed According to legends, there one and the illuminant was a cemetery, with 11 vertical was under way.
enters Book of Records star on the side facing the sea were uncanny similarities coconut oil wick lamp,” said graves and a horizontal one, The two offi cers were
BHUBANESHWAR
was visible for a considerable between the mouths of river Mr. Prasad. is still being maintained booked on Thursday night
An anti-tobacco talk by
distance. Hooghly in West Bengal and According to the research by us,” said by the EOW on a complaint
Mohammad Imran Ali on
“I had heard a lot about the Mahanadi in Odisha. er, since the light was insuffi Jayanta Chat fi led by Deputy Superin
Community Radio aired in 19
this station, but what attract Ships proceeding to the colo cient to warn mariners sail terjee, pre tendent of Police Anil
States has entered the Limca
Book of Records 2019. Mr. Ali,
ed me the most was that it nial hub of Calcutta often ing at a distance from the sent head Bakshi, who is the investi
who gave the talk on World was the oldest working light mistook Hukitola in the Ma shore, blue lights were light keeper gation offi cer of the SIT.
No Tobacco Day on May 31, house in India,” said I.C.R. hanadi for Palmirah Port, beamed and maroon lights Denying the charges,
covered topics like the harm- Prasad, a former electrical which was actually 1 degree were fi red from the tower Mr. Gupta had said all tele
ful effects of tobacco and engineer and a passionate farther north, at the mouth once every four hours. phone interceptions were
de-addiction. He has been lighthouse researcher. of the Hooghly. “That mis carried out lawfully and
campaigning against tobacco In an era before GPS and take made the authorities de The 129-ft False Point started #331007
“with the approval of the
for the last 12 years. ANI other navigational devices, cide that the befi tting name working in 1838. BISWARANJAN ROUT
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‘U.S. in contact with Venezuela Trump, Kim to meet again
military to induce defections’ in Hanoi on February 27, 28
U.S. ready to formally bring the Korean war to an ‘end’
The military is pivotal to President Nicolás Maduro’s attempts at retaining power
Reuters
Public debt still high in Reuters of the Council of the Ameri Washington
Arab countries: Lagarde Washington cas think tank in Washing President Donald Trump
DUBAI
The United States is holding ton. The U.S. government al said on Friday that U.S. di
Public debt has rapidly
direct communications with so sees European allies as plomats had a “very produc
increased in many Arab
countries since the 2008
members of Venezuela’s mil likely to do more to prevent tive meeting” with North Ko
global fi nancial crisis, due to itary, urging them to aban Mr. Maduro from transfer rean offi cials, and
persistently high budget don President Nicolás Madu ring or hiding Venezuela go announced that his summit
defi cits, the International ro and is also preparing new vernment assets held out later this month with North
Monetary Fund warned on sanctions aimed at increas side the country, the U.S. Korean leader Kim Jongun
Saturday. “[T]he region has ing pressure on him, a senior offi cial said. would be held in Vietnam’s
yet to fully recover from the White House offi cial said. capital, Hanoi.
global fi nancial crisis and The Donald Trump admi More sanctions “My representatives have
other big economic nistration expects further Major European countries just left North Korea after a
dislocations over the past military defections from Mr. Our President: Supporters of President Nicolás Maduro have joined the U.S. in back very productive meeting
decade,” IMF head Christine Maduro’s side, the offi cial demonstrating in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday. AP * ing Mr. Guaidó but they have and an agreed upon time
Lagarde said. AFP said, despite only a few se stopped short of the sweep and date for the second Let’s meet again: U.S. President Donald Trump with North
nior offi cers having done so of the former Maduro re Mr. Maduro, a source in ing oil sanctions and fi nan Summit with Kim Jongun. It Korean leader Kim Jongun in Singapore in June last year. *
AP
Trump may skip deadline since Opposition leader Juan gime, with military mem Washington close to the Op cial measures that Washing will take place in Hanoi,
on Khashoggi report Guaidó declared himself in bers, although those conver position expressed doubts ton has imposed. At the Vietnam, on February 27 & dismantling and destruction
WASHINGTON
The Donald Trump
terim President last month, sations are very, very whether the Trump adminis same time, the Trump admi 28,” Mr. Trump said on Twit <
> Iknow
have gotten to
Kim and of plutonium and uranium
earning the recognition of limited.” The offi cial de tration has laid enough nistration is readying further ter. “I look forward to seeing fully understand enrichment facilities and
administration signalled on
the United States and dozens clined to provide details on groundwork to spur a wider possible sanctions on Vene Chairman Kim & advancing that “corresponding mea
Friday that it was unlikely to how capable he is
meet a deadline to report to of other countries. the discussions or the level mutiny in the ranks. zuela, the offi cial said. the cause of peace!” he said. sures” demanded by North
Donald Trump
Congress on whether it at which they are being held, Members of the country’s Gen. Francisco Yanez of Earlier this week, Mr. U.S. President Korea would be the subject
intends to impose sanctions ‘First few pebbles’ and it was unclear whether security forces fear they or the Air Force’s high com Trump announced the dates of his talks. At the same
on those responsible for the “We believe these to be such contacts could create their families could be tar mand became the fi rst active for the second summit with Democratic People’s Repu time, he set out an extensive
murder of Saudi journalist those fi rst couple pebbles cracks in the Venezuelan so geted by Mr. Maduro if they General to recognise Mr. Mr. Kim and said it would be blic of Korea, gave no indica list of demands that North
Jamal Khashoggi. Reuters before we start really seeing cialist leader’s support from defect, so the U.S. would Guaidó, but he is one of held in Vietnam, but the city tion of any progress in the Korea would have to meet
bigger rocks rolling down the military, which is pivotal need to off er them someth about 2,000 Generals. Vene had not been disclosed. talks. Just weeks ahead of eventually, including full dis
Call to remove Sharif’s the hill,” the offi cial said this to his grip on power. ing that could outweigh zuela’s chief military attache the planned summit, to fol closure of its nuclear and
name from ECL rejected week. ”We’re still having With the Venezuelan mili those concerns, said Eric to the U.S. also said he was Meeting of envoys low on from an unprece missile programmes, so
Islamabad conversations with members tary still apparently loyal to Farnsworth, vice president defecting late last month. Stephen Biegun, the U.S. dented fi rst meeting bet mething Pyongyang has re
The Pakistan government on special representative for ween the leaders in jected for decades.
Saturday rejected requests of North Korea, held three days Singapore last June, the two
former Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif, his daughter Maryam
and soninlaw Mohammad
Safdar that sought removal
Thai party to obey royal command of talks in Pyongyang to pre
pare for the summit, the
State Department said on
sides have appeared far
from narrowing diff erences
over U.S. demands for North
‘Hard work ahead’
On Saturday, Mr. Biegun said
his talks in North Korea had
Friday. It said Mr. Biegun Korea to give up a nuclear been productive and Mr.
of their names from the Exit
Control List (ECL), which is
King had expressed displeasure at his sister’s bid to contest general election had agreed with his counter weapons programme. Trump looked forward very
preventing them from fl ying part Kim Hyokchol to meet Mr. Biegun said last week much to his meeting with
abroad. PTI
Agence France-Presse ing junta to hold onto power swiftly, cancelling a cam again ahead of the summit. his Pyongyang talks would Mr. Kim in Hanoi. “We have
Bangkok after the March 24 vote. paign event on Saturday and In their talks in Pyon be aimed at seeking progress some hard work to do with
Jihadists get life term Thai Princess Ubolratana’s The Thai Raksa Chart par issuing a statement saying it gyang, from Wednesday to on commitments made in the DPRK between now and
for 2015 Tunisia attacks unprecedented attempt to ty, affi liated with the power “complies with the royal Friday, Mr. Biegun and Mr. Singapore. He said Washing then,” Mr. Biegun said in
TUNIS
become the country’s next ful Shinawatra political clan, command”. Kim Hyokchol “discussed ton was willing to discuss South Korea before a meet
A Tunisian court has
Prime Minister was abruptly had announced the Princess Thailand has some of the advancing President Trump “many actions” to improve ing with its Foreign Minister,
sentenced seven jihadists to
nixed on Saturday after her as their candidate on Friday most severe lese majeste and Chairman Kim’s Singa ties and entice Pyongyang to Kang Kyungwha.
life in prison over attacks at a
museum and on a beach in
party agreed to comply with morning. The move rattled laws in the world and the pore summit commitments give up its nuclear weapons “North Korea, under the
2015 that killed 60 people, a command from the King the status quo and threa King’s word is seldom chal of complete denuclearisa and that Mr. Trump was rea leadership of Kim Jongun,
many of them British tourists, opposing the plan. tened the ambitions of the Princess Ubolratana. * AP lenged. The Princess has yet tion, transforming U.S. dy to end the 195053 Ko will become a great Econom
prosecutors said on Saturday. The party’s announce Generals, who have con to address the rebuke head DPRK relations, and build rean War, which concluded ic Powerhouse,” Mr. Trump
Dozens of defendants faced ment, eff ectively blocking trolled Thailand since they statement the same day that on. She thanked supporters ing a lasting peace on the Ko with an armistice, not a said on Twitter. “He may sur
two separate trials over the Ubolratana’s candidacy, toppled the administration said bringing senior royal fa Saturday on her widely fol rean Peninsula,” the State peace treaty. prise some but he won’t sur
closely linked shootings, came after an extraordinary of Yingluck Shinawatra al mily members into politics lowed Instagram account, Department said. Its state Mr. Biegun said Mr. Kim prise me, because I have got
which occurred just months rebuke by her brother King most fi ve years ago. But the was against tradition and saying vaguely that she want ment, which referred to committed during an Octob ten to know him & fully
apart in Tunis and Sousse, but Maha Vajiralongkorn, and Thai king torpedoed his sis “highly inappropriate”. Thai #331007
ed Thailand to “move North Korea by the abbrevia er visit by U.S. Secretary of understand how capable he
many were acquitted. AFP removes a hurdle for the rul ter’s bid in a sharply worded Raksa Chart responded forward”. tion for its offi cial name, the State Mike Pompeo to the is,” Mr. Trump said.
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Timeless
Face to face: The
TU 142 aircraft and
the INS Kursura
submarine lie in
their respective
museums opposite
Tupolev
each other on
Beach Road in
Visakhapatnam.
The irony of the
two veterans lying
in peace is not lost
on naval personnel
as an aircraft and a
The Sovietera naval aircraft is not just submarine share a
a museum piece, but remains a stellar huntedhunter
relationship.
example of a sturdy fl ying machine
Text and images by K.R. Deepak
#331007
The TU 142 Aircraft Museum in Visakhapatnam nar
rates a tale of resilience, keeping the accolades
earned by the Sovietera fl ying machine fresh in me
mory. The longrange maritime patrol aircraft
served the Navy for 29 years with a rare feat of
30,000 hours of accidentfree fl ying at a time when
the MiG21s were earning the dubious distinction of
fl ying coffi ns. Once the world’s heaviest and fastest
fl ying turboprop aircraft, the Tupolev was part of
major naval exercises and operations since its in
duction into the force in 1988.
President Ram Nath Kovind opened the walk
through museum opposite the Kursura Submarine
Museum — the irony that TU 142 once specialised in
helping detect and destroy submarines is not lost
on the naval personnel — on Beach Road in the city
on December 7, 2017. It was thrown open to the pu
blic on December 28 that year.
The making of the museum was a yearlong pro
cess. The decommissioned aircraft was fl own in
from INS Rajali, the naval air station in Arakkonam,
Tamil Nadu. After landing at the INS Dega airport,
the aircraft was dismantled and its parts were tran
sported by road on trailers and reassembled. A fi
breglass wall was installed on the beach side to
withstand windspeeds of up to 250 km. An audiovi
sual experience through an Lshaped tunnel takes
the visitors to the aerobridge leading to the walk
through museum.
The museum has been drawing a sea of tourists.
Curator Dileep Kumar says the highest number of
visitors on a single day was 5,500 on January 15 this
year. Over 6.81 lakh people visited it in 2018. Last
December, there were 83,722 visitors.
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ties and Exchange Board of ket capitalisation get eroded Reliance Group said the
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ended December 2018 to
India (SEBI) and the stock ex in a single trading session. boards of its three listed
₹ 86.93 crore against changes have increased the Incidentally, the fi ve listed fi rms have recommended
₹ 67.44crore in the year vigil on such stocks by intro companies of Zee Group saw taking “all appropriate legal
earlier period. Revenue from ducing measures to mini their combined market capi steps” to protect sharehol
operations rose to ₹ 2,169.04 mise the probability of frau talisation erode by almost der value.
crore against ₹ 1,856.11 crore. dulent activities. ₹ 14,000 crore in a single day In separate regulatory fi l
Income from hospitality grew While the capital markets on January 25. ings, Reliance Capital, Re Big dent: Investors lost almost ₹ 13,000 crore after the
16.23% to ₹ 1,157.33 crore regulator has tweaked the Meanwhile, the National liance Infrastructure and Re fi nancial fi rms sold shares worth ₹ 400 crore. REUTERS *
and pharmacy by 17.57% to norms for derivative con Stitch in time: Stocks seeing extreme volatility will be moved Stock Exchange (NSE) and liance Power said their
₹ 1,011.89 crore. tracts, especially for such vo to a physical settlement mechanism. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK
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the BSE have also an respective boards met on Sa by what it termed as “illegal, lakh shareholders.
latile stocks, exchanges have nounced that the dynamic turday to review the events motivated and unwarranted The boards recommend
TVS Srichakra eyes amended the dynamic cir for stocks that witness 10% clients have to settle the con circuit fi lters of 10%, that are of last week, leading to a actions of L&T Finance.” ed legal action to protect
Indonesia, Vietnam cuit fi lters for stocks which or more intraday movement tracts with delivery of under applicable on all stocks that sharp fall in market Reliance Power separately shareholder value.
CHENNAI
are part of the derivative on 10 or more occasions in lying shares instead of cash. are in the derivative seg capitalisation. said its board also reviewed On Friday, the Reliance
The board of TVS Srichakra
segment. last six months or those that Earlier, in December ment, would be relaxed by the events leading to a sharp Group alleged that some
Ltd., on Saturday, granted an
The capital markets register 10% or more intra 2018, the regulator had di 5% based on certain Firms refute allegations fall in market capitalisation NBFCs, “substantially L&T
inprinciple approval to set
watchdog, which has alrea day movement on three or rected exchanges to move parameters. L&T Finance and Edelweiss and destruction of wealth Finance and certain entities
up foreign subsidiaries in
Indonesia and Vietnam to
dy laid down a roadmap for more occasions in the last stock derivatives in a phased “It has been decided, in Group had refuted the alle due to “illegal, motivated of Edelweiss Group, have in
cater to the company’s all stocks in the derivatives one month. manner to physical settle consultation with Secondary gations and charged Re and unwarranted actions of voked pledge of listed shares
business interests, the segment move towards phys ment mechanism based on Market Advisory Committee liance Group with failing to L&T Finance Limited and of Reliance Group and made
company said in a regulatory ical settlement, has now Physical settlement their respective daily market (SMAC) of SEBI to review the make timely payments, Edelweiss Group impacting open market sales of the va
fi ling. The automotive tyre mandated that stocks that Also, stocks that see 25% or capitalisation averaged for mechanism for relaxation of which, they said, necessitat its over 31.75 lakh lue of approximately ₹ 400
maker, meanwhile, reported see extreme volatility have to more intraday movement on December 2018. the operating ranges applic ed the sale of pledged shareholders.” crore from February 47, pre
a 23.84% dip in net profi t for be moved to a physical set one or more occasions in the This assumes signifi cance able to securities for which shares. Reliance Infrastructure cipitating a fall of ₹ 13,000
the third quarter ended tlement mechanism imme last one month would be as the recent past has seen derivative products are avail In a fi ling, Reliance Capi blamed L&T Finance for crore in market capitalisa
December 2018 to ₹ 23.60 diately from the new expiry moved to physical settle many prominent stocks like able,” stated a circular issued tal said its over 7 lakh share market value erosion, saying tion of Reliance Group over
crore against ₹ 30.99 crore in cycle. This will be applicable ment mechanism wherein Reliance Communications by both the exchanges. holders have been impacted it had impacted its over 8 just these four short days.”
the yearearlier period, due
to hike in raw material cost.
Avalara acquires
AI company Indix
HOEC gas processing IDFC reports
11fold rise in
Pension scheme for workers in informal
CHENNAI
Avalara Inc., a provider of tax
compliance automation
plant goes on stream Q3 net profi t sector to kickstart from February 15
software for businesses, has
acquired Chennaibased AI Assam unit to cater to northeast Press Trust of India
To provide minimum assured monthly pension of ₹ 3,000 from 60 years of age
fi rm Indix. Avalara intends to New Delhi
use the Indix AI to maintain
and expand its tax content
Special Correspondent lymer Ltd. IDFC, on Saturday, report Press Trust of India bute ₹ 200, while workers at
database. Avalara will also
CHENNAI Dirok Field is being deve ed an 11fold jump in net New Delhi the age of 29 years would
apply the technology’s The Hollong Modular Gas loped in phases by HOEC profi t for the December All unorganised sector work pay ₹ 100.
capabilities to further expand Processing Plant (HMGPP) along with its JV partners quarter at ₹ 26.28 crore, ers up to 40 years of age can The scheme would cover
its database through global of Hindustan Oil Explora Oil India Ltd. and Indian Oil mainly due to a tax subscribe to the Pradhan unorganised workers who
product mapping and tion Co. Ltd. (HOEC) at Di Corporation. adjustment. Mantri Shram Yogi Maand are working or engaged as
classifi cation, and automated rok Field in Assam has gone In the second phase, the The company’s standa han (PMSYM) scheme, homebased workers, street
content sourcing, said a on stream. company will drill four new lone net profi t stood at which entails a minimum vendors, midday meal
company statement. Prime Minister Narendra wells, expand HMGPP and ₹ 2.40 crore in the quarter monthly pension of ₹ 3,000, workers, head loaders, brick
Modi formally inaugurated build a 35km long pipeline ended December 31, 2017, from February 15, a Labour kiln workers, cobblers, rag
VA Tech Wabag
#331007
the plant in Assam on Satur to connect to the gas mar said a release. The compa Ministry notifi cation said. pickers, domestic workers,
profi t falls 36.92% day. keting hub at Duliajan and ny’s total income declined The scheme, announced washer men, rickshaw pull
CHENNAI
The HMGPP will initially increase the production ca to ₹ 7.87 crore during the by Finance Minister Piyush ers, landless labourers, agri
VA Tech Wabag has reported period under review from Goyal in the Interim Budget, cultural workers amd con
have a capacity to process pacity to 50 mmscfd.
a 36.92% drop in its ₹ 13.26 crore in the year is targeted at unorganised Retiring with dignity: A worker has to contribute ₹ 55 monthly, struction workers, among
35 million standard cubic
standalone net profi t for the with government making a matching payment. M. GOVARTHAN
feet per day of gas equiva Fast-track delivery ago period. sector workers with monthly *
others.
third quarter ended
lent to 15% of Assam gas pro Modular, innovative and However, there was a income of up to ₹ 15,000. However, informal work
December 2018 to ₹ 25.95
duction and 800 barrels of standardised design of this tax adjustment of ₹ 31.41 Mr. Goyal had said it called the Pradhan Mantri Labour Ministry said. ers will not be eligible for the
crore, down from ₹ 41.14
crore in the corresponding condensate. plant, a fi rst of its kind in In crore in favour of the com would benefi t 10 crore work Shram Yogi Maandhan, 2019. The monthly contribution scheme if they are covered
yearago period. Revenue The plant is located in dia, enabled fasttrack deliv pany in the third quarter of ers in the next fi ve years. The It shall come into force on by the worker joining the under the National Pension
from operations reported a Margherita, Tinsukia dis ery of the project, the com the fi scal. scheme would provide them the 15th day of February, scheme would be ₹ 55, with Scheme, the Employees’
5.8% dip to ₹ 451.62 crore trict of Assam. pany said in a release. For AprilDecember with an assured pension of 2019....the unorganised matching contributions State Insurance Corporation
against ₹ 479.41 crore. The The gas produced from The project was success 2018, the net profi t of the ₹ 3,000 from the age of 60 workers have option to be from the government. Scheme or Employees’ Pro
company had a order book of this fi eld will be supplied to fully delivered in a record 27 company was ₹ 153.78 crore years on a monthly contribu come the members of the The contributions would vident Fund Scheme.
over ₹ 9,060 crore, including consumers in the North months on a fasttrack basis as compared to ₹ 152.65 tion of a small amount dur scheme, on and from the rise at higher age. The work Workers who are income
framework contracts of East region, including Brah with the full support of State crore for the correspond ing their working life. 15th day of February, 2019,” er joining the scheme at the tax assesses are also not elig
about ₹ 700 crore. maputra Cracker and Po and Central Governments. ing period of the last fi scal. “This scheme may be the notifi cation issued by the age of 40 years would contri ible to join the scheme.
Exhale to set up bladeless ceiling fan unit
Company plans to invest ₹ 80 crore to enhance production capacity
N. Anand which are being sourced
CHENNAI from Coimbatore,” he said.
Chennaibased Exhale Inno In the fi rst year spanning
vations Worldwide Pvt. Ltd. seven months, the fi rm sold
is planning to set up a new 2,500 fans and exported
‘bladeless’ ceiling fan manu 3,000 units. This year, it
facturing facility, said a top plans to sell over 3 lakh un
offi cial. its. Today, it has an order
“We are planning to invest backlog for 5,000 units.
about ₹ 80 crore in a new Currently, the company
plant in Sriperumbudur and has a production capacity of
scouting for land,” said Prem 10,000 fans per month and
Khatri, managing director, this would be increased to
Exhale Innovations World 30,000 units by June 2019
wide. Ramping up: The fi rm has a production capacity of 10,000 and 50,000 units by Decem
Exhale Innovations is a fans a month, which will be increased to 30,000. BIJOY GHOSH *
ber 2019.
joint venture with the U.S. “This year, we expect to
based Exhale Fans LLC. Cur Restaurants, hotels, ₹ 10 crore in the assembling register a turnover of ₹ 250
rently, it outsources blade schools, colleges, corporate unit. The new plant will be crore to ₹ 300 crore. Exports
less ceiling fans and sells it in offi ces, hospitals, airports set up over the next two to would account for 70% of re
the domestic market after as and green buildings are its twoandahalf years time. venue. Exhale Innovations is
sembling them in Sriperum target customers. There, we will produce eve also on the verge of entering
budur. “So far, we have invested rything other than motors, more overseas countries.
Danfoss draws up fourpoint plan
to strengthen operations in India
Firm to expand mother plant, step up indigenisation
N. Anand chandran Purushothaman, Besides, it would be dou
CHENNAI president, Danfoss India. bling the production capaci
The Indian subsidiary of “This calls for a fresh in ty of hydraulics cooling
Denmarkbased heating, vestment of about ₹ 100 drives in Pune and heater ex
ventilation and aircondi crore in the next two years change in Baroda.
tioning (HVAC) major Dan to expand the mother plant “So far, we have invested
foss has drawn up a four at Oragadam, increase the $135 million in India and a
pronged strategy to increase localisation level from 40% further $15 million will be in
its business revenue, a top to 71% and supplier base,” he fused over the next two
offi cial said. “Over the next said. Danfoss’s plan is to de years to set up a new plant to
two years, we will invest in velop a strong portfolio of make 1.20 lakh lowvoltage
capital expenditure, in products to off er energyeffi drives per annum. It will be
crease indigenisation level cient solutions in the fi elds come operational by Sep
and double our presence of cement, steel, precision tember 2019 and produce
and products,” said Ravi airconditioning and mining. 1.20 lakh drives,” he said.
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IN BRIEF
When doves coo world markets’ Staff wanted: pensioners
themes for the week ahead welcome, but anyone, really
Hungary off ers tax incentives to get retirees back at work
Brexit, U.S.China trade talks, possible euro zone recession may hog limelight
Reuters
Reuters President Xi Jinping in the BUDAPEST
U.S. sues Lockheed for It’s just over a week since the coming month. Zsuzsanna Czeizel told her
‘bribes’ in N-site clean-up U.S. Federal Reserve formal If talks collapse and tariff s self she’d never work again
WASHINGTON ly paused its raterise cam increase on March 2, it will after she retired in 2012. But
The U.S. has sued Lockheed paign but central bankers spell more pain for China’s since October, she’s held a
Martin Corp., Lockheed around the world are falling economy — and the rest of job — scanning boxes of
Martin Services Inc., and over themselves to emulate the world. In turn, it will in sweets in a large warehouse
Mission Support Alliance LLC, Jerome Powell’s dovish turn. crease pressure on Chinese near Budapest.
as well as a Lockheed
Australia’s Philip Lowe, hav policymakers to ramp up sti The 65yearold pension
executive for alleged false
ing said for a year the next mulus at next month’s Parlia er is one of a growing num
claims and kickbacks in a
rate move was up, suddenly mentary summit. ber of retirees hired by com
multibillion dollar contract
to clean up a nuclear site. The
declared rates could go eith panies in eastern Europe
complaint claims Lockheed er way. The European Cen Headed for recession? desperate for workers. Eco Labour pain: Zsuzsanna Czeizel talks as she works in a
paid over $1 million to win a tral Bank can hardly cut its For months, the question on nomic growth and an exo warehouse in Budapest, Hungary. REUTERS *
J&J becomes fi rst drugmaker
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Sprint Corp. sues AT&T
over 5G branding
Sprint Corp. sued AT&T Inc.,
to add prices to television ads #331007
saying it was misleading
consumers into believing that
they were using fi fth Blood thinner Xarelto will be fi rst to have pricing details
generation or 5G wireless
network, a technology that Reuters
CHICAGO
has not yet been widely
deployed. AT&T customers Johnson & Johnson ( J&J) said
were seeing ‘5G E’ logo on it will start adding the price
their mobile devices in 400 of its medicines to television
markets though users were commercials by next month,
still on 4G network, Sprint becoming the fi rst drugmak
said in a lawsuit. Reuters er to heed a call by U.S. Pre
sident Donald Trump for
price transparency of drugs
advertised directly to con
sumers on TV. First show: J&J said it will include both the list price of
The healthcare conglom a product as well as potential outofpocket costs. REUTERS *
erate said it will include both
the list price of a product — “We commend Johnson & the company said. The treat
the price before any rebates Johnson for recognising the ment used to prevent blood
or discounts to insurers or value of informing consum clots costs about $450 to
pharmacy benefi t managers ers about list prices and for $540 a month. Congress has
— as well as potential outof doing so voluntarily. We call increased its scrutiny of U.S.
No Trump, Xi talks pocket costs that patients on other manufacturers to drug pricing since Demo
before deal deadline will pay. follow their lead,” Mr. Azar crats took over control of the
WASHINGTON
said in a statement. House of Representatives in
U.S. President Donald Trump
Move lauded Mr. Trump made lowering January, while pressure is al
said he did not plan to meet
The move, announced in a the cost of prescription so coming from the Republi
Chinese President Xi Jinping
before a March 1 deadline set
statement on J&J’s website, drugs for U.S. consumers a canled Senate. Republican
by the two countries to won swift praise from U.S. central issue of the 2016 pre Senator Chuck Grassley,
achieve a trade deal. Asked Health and Human Services sidential campaign and em chairman of the Senate Fi
whether there would be a Secretary Alex Azar. Last phasised it again in his State nance Committee, and De
meeting before the deadline, May, Mr. Azar’s offi ce re of the Union Address this mocratic Senator Ron Wy
Mr. Trump said: “No.” Asked leased a blueprint for reduc week. Ads for the blood thin den, ranking member of the
whether there would be a ing the cost of drug prices, ner Xarelto, J&J’s most wide committee, invited execu
meeting in the next month, which included a proposal ly prescribed medicine, will tives from 7 pharma fi rms to Rest in peace: A trailer transports a Boeing 747400 plane from Schiphol Airport to a nearby hotel in Badhoevedorp, near
he said: “Not yet. Maybe. to require disclosure of list be the fi rst television spot to testify at a February 26 hear Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Boeing is making its way to its fi nal resting place in the garden of a hotel on the edge of
Probably too soon.” Reuters prices in TV ads for drugs. include pricing information, ing on rising drug prices. Amsterdam. The plane, formerly owned by KLM, is being turned into a Boeing 747 Experience by the hotel’s owner. AP *
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U.S. Steel wins tax breaks from one of America’s poorest cities
Indiana’s investment of $10 million in tax credits, along with $2 million in worker training grants, comes with the condition that U.S. Steel retains at least 3,875 jobs at Gary Works
Reuters new steel jobs, even after the from 1,75,000 in 1970 to American industry is making dent Douglas Matthews ack
GARY, Indiana city and state off ered the 77,000 today. investments that will protect nowledged the modernisa
United States Steel Corpora fi rm a $47 million tax break Steel industry employ their longterm viability and tion would cut costs and
tion founded Gary, Indiana package. ment nationwide increased ensure a strong domestic reliance on manual labour.
in 1906 — naming it after co by 1,000 jobs to 83,400 bet supply.” The state of India Productivity improvements
founder Elbert Henry Gary — Losses, not gains ween March, when tariff s na’s investment of $10 mil would likely results in a “de
and the city’s fortunes have The whole point of the in were imposed, and Novem lion in tax credits, along with creasing headcount over
been closely tied to the com vestment is to make the plant ber, according to the latest $2 million in worker training time,” he said.
pany ever since. more effi cient, so the incen available data from the U.S. grants, comes with the con But without the invest
When the fi rm started los tives will help fi nance a pro Bureau of Labour Statistics. dition that U.S. Steel retains ment, “then the business is
ing business to cheap Asian ject that city and company In a statement to Reuters, at least 3,875 jobs at Gary at risk, and then you put all
imports in the 1970s, waves offi cials concede could ulti Mr. Trump’s Commerce De Works. But a state spokesper the jobs at risk,” Mr. Mat
of layoff s followed as Gary mately result in job losses, partment called the 1.2% in son declined comment on thews said in an interview.
became a haven of blight, not gains. crease a “welcome change whether the company could U.S. Steel declined to com
crime and lost population. Gary’s dimmed hopes for from decades of decline and still collect part of the incen ment about why it needed
Last year, the city har a tariff driven renaissance layoff s” and said “many tives if the number of jobs tax breaks to make its invest
boured hopes for a revival af underscore how the policy more” jobs would be created falls below that threshold. ment viable and declined to
ter President Donald Trump has so far provided a windfall as planned industry invest The city would get no gua provide details about its ne
imposed tariff s on steel im for U.S. steel fi rms, but only a ments and expansions are rantees of job retention for gotiations with the city.
ports and the company marginal benefi t to workers completed, without specify its bigger and longerterm U.S. Steel’s 2018 profi ts
planned a $750 million in and struggling steel towns. ing how many. “Improving commitment of property tax shot up to $1.12 billion, from
vestment to modernise Gary Gary Works once em effi ciency is important and breaks, a benefi t estimated at $387 million the previous
Works, its largest North ployed more than 25,000 pe was one of the goals of the ta $35 million over 25 years. year. The tariff driven wind
American plant. ople, but now supports only riff s,” a department spokes The details of both deals are fall has allowed the company
But it’s now clear those about 4,000 in a city that has man said of the Gary invest still being fi nalized, offi cials to spend $300 million buying Steel city: A woman walks her dogs along the lake front at Marquette Park in Gary,
hopes will not translate into seen its population plummet ment. “We are glad to see the said. U.S. Steel Vice Presi back its own stock. Indiana, U.S. REUTERS *
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hapeless, colourless and munity. Most Indian doctors
invisible, the most intrigu are intrigued by the diverse
ing state of matter is gas. manifestations of ‘gas’ which
Kept in steel cylinders in a hos was never taught to them in
M
y earliest memory of a Vijay Shekhar
picnic is a school picnic picnic became no less than an trap people into consumerism? ment) – and fi nally ‘gas’. Many bad diseases can have
Robert Boyle in 1662, Jac a bloating sensation of the ab
A
when we were in Class ambition for people like me In contrast, how often does few months ago, I booked a cab
3. We were taken to Cubbon during childhood because they one fi nd picnics mentioned in ques Charles in 1784 and later domen and belching, but self from one of the appbased cab ser
Park. I remember sharing my appeared in the books we read, our popular culture, in movies, Avogadro tried their best to labelling everything as gas and vices to go to the Chennai Central
snack with Masood who shared such as Enid Blyton and chil stories and comics? Amar Chi clarify the physical behaviour delaying diagnosis and treat railway station. The train was at 11 p.m.,
his bread toast with me. The dren’s detective stories such as tra Katha and Indrajal were of gas relating to volume, pres ment is sometimes dangerous. so I made the booking around 930 p.m.
next memory of a picnic is Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys. popular comics. The former sure, temperature and molecu We had a patient of cerebral For some reason, there were not too ma
again a school picnic some four was generally based on religion, lar mass; but they could not hemorrhage presenting with ny cabs showing in the vicinity that could
years later to the scenic Deva Typical optics mythology and folk tales and anticipate or guess it’s more headache, which the patient reach me in two to three minutes. Lucki
rayanadurga. Memories of our Some of the picnic images we the latter focused on Phantom, important ‘sociobiological’ ef attributed to ‘potatoinduced’ ly, I was communicated (on the app) a
climb up the rock still remind were exposed to were those of Mandrake and Bahadur, a fects on the medical diagnostic gas going to the head; for fare and informed that the cab would
me of the movie Picnic on Hang- happy Caucasian families going Chambal valley Robin Hood. dilemma in the years to come. another lady, pulmonary em reach me in 10 minutes. I confi rmed the
ing Rock (1975). And can one on picnics in a car such as a The molecular physics of bolism (lung clot) reminded ride. I was tracking the cab through the
forget how the ‘teacher’s favou Morris with happy children and Attention needed gas met cellular biology in 1842 her of ‘gasinthelungs’ result app till it reached my pickup point at 9
rite and golden boy’ had his mi happy parents and a very hap Themes around picnicking when Dr. Crawford ing from eating tapio 45. Upon reaching, the ‘gentlemanly’
nute of fame when his trousers py pet. The images illustrated were quite common in western Long used ether to ca. Despite a turbu driver told me that the GPS on his cab
ripped at the crotch? But our the diff erent stages of the picnic books for children. How many numb surgical pain at lent inhospital app had suddenly developed some pro
teachers quarrelled and the stu from departure to return, how Indian writers wove a tale the Massachusetts course, both of them blem. He asked me for the fare that was
dents were split, and sent back they happily left, how they hap around picnicking? Few Indian General Hospital at survived. communicated to me on the app. I told
by diff erent routes, giving some pily enjoyed the journey, how movies were based on family Boston. Public reali An American med him the fare. He ‘off ered’ to ‘help’ me out
parents some anxious mo their pet remained happy and picnics but college picnic movie sation that the tech ical student who by offi cially cancelling my ride on the
ments. Ah! What’s anything clean, how their children hap scenes were common. Correct nique was safe came spent time with us app, but dropping me to the railway sta
without some anxiety? pily caught butterfl ies or picked me if I’m wrong: picnics, a truly when anesthetic gas mistook a patient’s tion at the same fare that was communi
fl owers on the way. simple way to destress our lives was used for Queen Victoria’s gas problem as nonavailability cated to me on the app.
Optimal conditions Then it’s about how they and enjoy the simplicity of liv ‘painless’ childbirth in 1853. of fuel (petrol), but quickly as Time was running out, and availability
Picnics, I believe, are funda happily disembarked from the ing, seem to have attracted little similated the Indian philoso of another cab was a big question mark. I
mentally nofuss, morningto car, happy pet fi rst, how they attention in our culture. One In the hospital phy of gas being the nidus of had no other option but to agree to the
evening outings limited to happily sat in an idyllic location therefore wonders: was pic ‘But you had this chest discom diagnostic confusion of many driver’s ‘help’. And he ‘honestly’ charged
small groups such as family carpeted by lush green grass nicking ever part of our popular fort for the last three days, why diseases. me the fare that had come to me on the
members and/or friends. Al with a pleasant mountain/hill culture, our living? If not, per didn’t you come to the hospital A hundred years back, we app…not a rupee more, not a rupee less.
so, picnic activity should range in the background, how haps it’s time we began it. earlier?’ The patient and his fa would attribute all diseases to This way the driver pocketed the en
involve something other they happily set the tablecloth For some years now young mily could sense the frustra god’s curse. Unravelling the tire amount, a percentage of which
than, or more than, what on the grass, how they happily sters are getting increasingly tion in my tone. He was a complexities and ambiguity of should have actually gone to the cab ser
is usual at home. Other ate sandwiches, and then, after fond of treks, expeditions, teacher in a college teaching human biology has given us in vice. And my thought process at that
wise, will not a picnic become a mildly scary misadventure hikes, mountaineering and commerce. His ECG showed a sights to many diseases. Early point of time and moment of hurry was,
just another ‘familyminus (for the sake of a little anxiety) what not, what former genera massive heart attack that was diagnosis promises better out ‘What do I have to lose? I am paying the
house’ occasion, a nominal they return home happily tired. tions could only imagine. Have at least 72 hours old. Delay in comes. Let’s not blindly blame same fare.’
picnic? Sponsored adult out As an adult I sometimes won they forgotten the humble, presentation tends to worsen everything on gas, and miss This is the general peopletopeople
ings should not be picnics. der if such stories served to ad ‘fi shbowl’ picnics? And will you the outcome of a heart attack, out or delay the diagnosis of a money dealing culture that defi nes the
How common was pic vertise or propagandise the contest the possibility that one even if the block was cleared. malady. Remember, it may not majority of us Indians.
nicking among past gener happiness of marriage and be indicator of a progressive socie Despite Dan Brown’s de be just ‘laughing gas’. Usually in money matters, there are
ations? Some 40 years nefi ts of having a family, tradi ty is when picnicking is seen to scription of hidden viaducts two aspects, honesty and dishonesty. In
back, for families like tional stages in a person’s life be as benefi cial as pilgrimages? and subterranean tunnels in The author is a cardiologist in our country there’s an additional third
ours going on a that were gradually being threa various Italian cities, such an Thiruvananthapuram. category called ‘accepted levels of dis
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States and across cultures. These are pe
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hen I was small, about work, and most important, kitchen like a thundercloud, un what we can with the two. Who name of gratitude. We Indians haven’t
seven, I had a sweet sans‘no more sweets for you!’, afraid to take what is mine. tells us if we’re wrong? Who realised it or have chosen not to realise it,
tooth. No, not the nor only the best food in the world. ‘Treasure precedes’, I decided, corrects and educates? When but the fact remains that ‘tips’ is the start
mal kind of sweet tooth, where I would come downstairs, walk and had my beautiful spoonful do the consequences of our in ing point of the ‘bribe’ culture. And these
people enjoy just sweets, cho into the kitchen, proud and tall, of sugar and basked in its am correct actions come? are the people who have been ‘hit’ to
colate or cake. I had the kind of and claim my daily dose of one brosial taste. Sigh, now it was But there’s another line of quite an extent in the demonetisation
sweet tooth that inspires one to spoon of sugar, in all its refi ned time for the cure. I took out a thought too. What is the conse and fi nancial inclusion processes.
put sugar into everything. Yes, glory, for the morning. Then in new alien spoon, whose glint quence? We do what we think is There’s a dire need for India, or rather
everything. The number of do two hours’ time for ‘midday ing round face was mocking right. There’s no law or su Indians, to become more conscience
sas I’ve had with sweetened snack’, then as seconddessert me. With a scowl at it, and a preme order against trying. Is oriented than being greedoriented. It
chutney is testimony, as are the for lunch, and next at tea and la deep breath, I planted it in the that not suffi cient? The attempt needs to come from within. It’s not go
countless jam rolls after dinner ter for a postdinner treat. strange glass jar from the is a prize to the problem in itself vernments that are honest or dishonest,
and aloo parathas dipped in su Then, the problem arrived. strange creaking cabinet. – the eff ort to gather informa it’s always the people. People need to
gar. Of course, my mother was One day, I, the supreme lord of Shaking, I drew it out slowly, tion, however limited or incor change their ways, and become more res
strict about my not eating too the TV, relented to lending it to stared for a moment and rect, the patience to analyse, ponsible citizens. Indians need to learn
much sugar, and I always my grandfather for the hea shoved it into my mouth. The and the satisfaction of complet to be happy with their hardearned mo
brushed my teeth at night (ob dlines on the news channel. awful taste exploded in my ton ing the selfprescribed solution, nies. If this doesn’t happen, irrespective
viously, because I’m very care Following the brief period gue, and I nearly gagged. I must unfruitful as it may be. Is that of whatever image our governments try
ful about my dental health, and where I unsuccessfully attempt do this. I can bear this. Soon but not at the heart of our very civil to project to the world, we will end up
maybe because the toothpaste ed to keep up with the words What was this curse? Why dared not ask about it nor speak not soon enough, it was done, isation? being known as a country where anyth
was minty and sweet) and at scrolling across the screen, I re would a disease come upon its name. But I couldn’t stop and I could breathe again. The energy and enthusiasm ing can be done by ‘paying some cash’…
home, my sugar intake was li solved to simply listen. The those innocent souls who had a having sugar, no. My brain ran Belch. I looked down at the of the action makes it pure, of there cannot be a more derogatory posi
mited. health programme right after little extra sugar, of all things? through diff erent possibilities glass jar of salt in distaste. I defi picking up that spoon and tioning for India than this.
But once in a while, rather, caught my attention. I did not Surely it was no crime, simply and outcomes for hours. Then nitely wouldn’t get the odd dis plunging it into the salt, be In a nutshell, it’s We The People who
twice a year, I travelled to my pay attention to what it was an understanding of how we be it struck me. ease now! cause maybe, just maybe, I defi ne our country and its culture… and
paradise of freedom and fun called, or who the doctor speak ings perceive taste and pay The next day I woke up and I revisit these experiences could be right. it’s now time to honestly be honest.
and sweetness (of both kinds) — ing was, but only two words re homage to the evolved sense. headed down, proud and confi now with a smile and contem
my grandparents’. I stayed gistered — the diabetes risk. Then, worry gripped me. I dent as ever. I knew the answer plate – is this what we do? We nanda.variar@gmail.com vijayshekhar1974@gmail.com
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IN BRIEF
Making of a maestro
‘in body’ gene editing
It may help in treating many diseases caused by faulty DNA
George Michael’s art
collection to be auctioned Associated Press
NEW YORK Scientists think they have
Pop superstar George achieved the fi rst gene edit
Michael’s art collection, ing inside the body, altering
featuring works by prominent DNA in adults to try to treat a
artists such as Damien Hirst,
disease, although it’s too
is to go on sale next month at
soon to know if this will
Christie’s auction house in
help.
London. As well as being a
charttopping singer, Michael
Preliminary results sug
— real name Georgios gest that two men with a rare
Kyriacos Panayiotou — was a disorder now have a correc
prolific collector of art. The tive gene at very low levels,
singer died in 2016. The which may not be enough to
centerpiece of the sale will make the therapy a success.
be Hirst’s 2006 work The Still, it’s a scientifi c miles Small steps: Brian Madeux, who received the gene editing
Incomplete Truth. AFP tone toward one day doctor therapy for Hunter syndrome, at a hospital in California. AP *
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THE SHAPE too, like buying
groceries, cleaning
the house, and so on
OF THE
WATER
BY ARPITA CHAKRABARTY skills like cooking or plumbing end up somebody’s water pump breaks down, draws 300 gallons of drinking water a
as bhadis. But paradoxically, even and I fetch water for them till they re day from 18,000 water taps, 12,000
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he frayed soles of his black rub though unemployment and migration is pair it. I supply water for weddings. My hand tubewells and 400 tubewells.
ber sandals scraping against the on the rise, the numbers of bhadis in earnings rise at such times.” He sends High levels of arsenic have been
gravel, his body canted forward Kolkata are declining: from thousands half his earnings home to the village. He found in the groundwater in various
for balance, his steps quick even a decade ago they are down to a is not unhappy, but his legs have begun parts of Kolkata. The prolonged water
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to hurt more often, so he has begun to depletion raises the risk of contamina
mani Palai makes his way through Kol “It’s a strenuous job,” says Palai. take painkillers. tion, especially in the areas that are hea
kata’s Shyampukur Street where houses “Those of us who were trained by our He may well be the last bhadi in his vily dependent on groundwater, forcing
look like boxes jostling for space. At fathers and grandfathers continue to family. “I want my son to study hard them to turn to bottled water and the
either end of the eightfoot bamboo work, but the young people don’t want and get a proper job. I tell him, become service of the bhadis.
pole he carries on his shoulders hang to be bhadis anymore. They want easy, something else. If you live as a bhadi, Corporation tap water has been
two large, fl uorescent yellow, plastic jer light jobs.” you die a bhadi.” found to be safer than the packaged wa
rycans fi lled with water that sloshes ❋❋❋ ❋❋❋ ter sold in the city, and to contain more
with every step.
It is Palai’s 21st trip of the day, bet
ween the municipal tap at the end of the
P alai left Odisha when he was just 12.
“It was the year Indira Gandhi was
killed. The political atmosphere in Kol Meet the men who make up Kolkata’s
T he Hooghly River fl ows west of Kol
kata; there’s a huge groundwater re
serve. The city’s eastern fringes are co
minerals and to be less acidic.
Since bhadis fetch water from Corpo
ration taps, they are still getting takers.
street and back to the various homes, kata was volatile. So I ran back home, vered with wetlands that naturally treat ❋❋❋
invisible water distribution system
where he sells the water at ₹ 2 per can of
15 litres.
“I don’t need water today,” says Arup
and returned to Kolkata a year later. I fi
nally began working as a bhadi in 1985.”
His smile is broad, his teeth are stained
waste water into raw water for fi sheries
and agriculture. Two decades ago, only
a handful of houses in the city had
P itabas Parida has been supplying wa
ter for just two years in the Bagbazar
area. Parida, who belongs to Odisha’s
Ghose, a resident. from the paan he chews incessantly, piped water supply. Bhadis formed the Jujpur district, has travelled to all major
“You don’t? Ah! But I have brought it mostly to dull the ache of hunger and water army who supplied water for metros looking for work. He worked in a
for you. I don’t like to throw away the fatigue. He squeezes in a couple of hours for tionship neither wants to forego. drinking and washing across house fi bre factory in Bengaluru, made milk
water. Don’t give me money.” The circadian rhythms of a bhadi’s lunch. It’s usually rice and fi sh curry. “We have piped water in our house,” holds. “There was an acute water crisis packets in Chennai, shaped iron rods in
“Okay. Fill the tank then.” life are dictated not by sunrise and sun Outside the small, square single room says Archana Dasgupa, a septuagenar in those days, and it was the bhadis who Hyderabad, and worked as a farm la
Palai removes his sandals, climbs up set, but by the Kolkata Municipal Corpo that he shares with another bhadi and ian who lives on Shyampakur Street. brought water to our homes, like they bourer back home, before coming to
two fl oors to the terrace, and upends ration. The corporation releases water two jhalmuriwalas (men who sell the “But Palai is more than a bhadi to us; his do now.” Kolkata.
his two cans into a plastic tank. He is to the taps between 5 a.m. and 9.30 spicy, puff ed rice street food), all from grandfather delivered water to my fath He has no house in the city. Parida
now back on the street, his stooped a.m., then again between 3 p.m. and 6 Odisha, pieces of rui fi sh are being fried erinlaw in the 1940s. He’s now a part of Manual support and another bhadi live in a dilapidated
shoulders a visible imprint of his profes p.m.. In hours in between, he fi lls water on a kerosene stove. Inside, the men are our family.” Today, the demand for bhadis is lower. Shiv temple in Bagbazar. It is surround
sion, on his way to fi ll the cans again. from tubewells in the area and delivers busy chopping potatoes for the fi sh cur In a city whose young have been mi Five water treatment plants have boost ed by highrises and wild shrubs have
Palai moved to Kolkata from his ho it to those who need extra water, or who ry. Another bhadi, back from work, is grating out in increasing numbers, Palai ed water supply to Kolkata’s homes. But taken over its crumbling walls. The du
metown in Odisha 33 years ago. He is a prefer tubewell water to tap water for crushing poppy seeds on a sil batta, and his peers are valuable resources for the city now grapples with depleting o’s belongings — some clothes, two mo
bhadi – literally, one who carries the washing. By noon, he has already fer working it into a creamy paste that will the ageing population left behind: Kol groundwater. As independent houses bile phones, two chargers, and two thin
load. ried 990 litres of water, crisscrossing go into the curry. kata has the biggest 60plus population turn into multistoreyed apartments mattresses — take up a corner of the
the lanes of north Kolkata. “I never of any city in the country, and it also has pumping their own water from large tu temple. Parida eats at a local dhaba and
Where are the jobs? counted this, all my life,” laughs Palai. Jhalmuri brothers the least number of 20 to 30 yearolds bewells, they deplete the city’s natural uses public toilets.
Odia bhadis have quenched thirsty Ben “Today, when I keep a count with you, it “We cook and eat together,” says Palai. among all the metros. “Without our groundwater reservoirs. Around the temple are water cans of
gali homes for as long as one can recall. seems quite a job.” “This is our bonding time. We talk, children, we depend on men like Palai In some places, the corporation does all sizes. It is wise to keep them there be
Palai’s father was a bhadi; so were his In the few hours that I shadow him, make fun of each other. There is no time for other regular jobs too, like buying not supply water at the right pressure cause no one will steal from the house
grandfather and greatgrandfather. The plotting his back and forth trips on Goo for any of this in the evening — by the groceries, cleaning the house, fetching for it to be piped to aboveground stor of god. Parida, 38, a frail man whose bo
work they do doesn’t count as regis gle Maps, I fi nd that he has walked 5.11 time the jhalmuriwalas return home, it’s water from the Ganges for the puja, and age tanks. Says Arunabha Majumdar, ny face is his most striking feature, de
tered employment — this is ‘make km. In this time he has refi lled his jerry close to midnight, and we are asleep.” so on,” says Dasgupta. Chairman, Indian Water Works Associa livers water to 30 houses every day.
work,’ necessitated by migration, unem cans 43 times, stopped at 26 homes, After a short siesta, Palai is back at the The price of delivery has increased tion, “The residents then depend on the “Why do you this job?” I asked him.
ployment and water scarcity. Back climbed three or more fl ights of stairs taps. Now there aren’t as many people from 20 paise per can in the 1980s to ₹ 2 manual support system, the bhadis, to “Back home there’s nothing I can do
home in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, Palai several times over. as there were in the morning, but Palai in 2018. But, says Palai, he doesn’t fetch water.” for a livelihood. Besides, Kolkata is close
could not fi nd a stable job that would is still impatient; he has dozens of charge everyone the same price. The Like 77yearold Shyamal Mitra. “Ev to home. This is my life,” he said.
provide for the 22 members of his fami homes to deliver to before the water is West Bengal State Cooperative Bank, ery summer we face an intense water Men like Palai and Parida make up
Odia bhadis have
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> quenched thirsty
ly. His family owns half an acre of land; shut off at 6 p.m. where he delivers, pays him a modest crisis. The piped corporation water is Kolkata’s invisible water distribution
his three brothers work intermittently “I have a client whose landlord salary of ₹ 3,200 per month. “I started not regular. The supply pipeline has no system. It is hard labour for little mo
as farm labourers, construction work doesn’t provide any water,” says Palai, with ₹ 20 when I joined the bank in the pressure and water cannot be pumped ney, but it is all they know.
ers and dairy farmers. “Most of the Bengali homes for as chewing paan as he waits in line at the 1980s.” Palai’s family has been deliver up to the fi rst and second fl oors,” says
work is seasonal, so we can’t depend on long as one can recall. tap. “So I supply them 90 litres of water ing water ever since the branch was es Mitra. (This essay is from a National
it throughout the year,” says Palai. two times a day.” Most of his regulars tablished 50 years ago. A fl oating population of six million Geographic Society and Out of Eden
And so, ablebodied men like Palai Palai’s father was a are inherited — his father once delivered After fi lling, carrying, emptying, re per day — greater than the city’s resi Walk journalism workshop.)
have been migrating to eastern India’s bhadi; so was his water to them — and so this equation is fi lling, and carrying water on his shoul dent population of 4.4 million — also de
biggest metropolis to look for work for much more than transactional: both ders every day of the week, Palai earns pends on public water taps. The city, The Uttarakhand-based writer explores the
decades now. Those without specifi c great-grandfather bhadi and customer have built up a rela ₹ 9,000 a month. “There are days when within the municipal corporation limits, lives of those who walk mountains.
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Living legend
Aribam Syam
Sharma. Borun
‘Indigenous people
will become strangers
in their own lands’
The acclaimed Manipuri director is afraid the
proposed Citizenship Bill will threaten the
distinctive identity of the people of the Northeast
L With 14 feature fi lms and 30
documentaries to his credit, Sharma
introduced Manipuri cinema to
BY IBOYAIMA LAITHANGBAM & MEGHACHANDRA KONGBAM international audiences of such an arrangement, nonMuslim
L Olangthagi Wangmadasoo (1980) people will simply rush to the north
A
ribam Syam Sharma, the 83yearold lyricist, actor, singer, remains the longest running fi lm in eastern States for many reasons, easy
music composer, fi lm director and college teacher, is busy di Manipuri cinema history means of livelihood in particular. A day
recting a new Manipuri fi lm, Nongphadok Lakpada. will come soon when the indigenous pe
L He is also known as a music
Sharma has made 14 feature fi lms, of which Saaphabee, ople will become strangers in their own
Olangthagi Wangmadasoo, Imagi Ningthem, Ishanou, Sanabi and Lei- composer, singer and theatre actor lands.
paklei bagged national fi lm awards. He has also made 30 documentar L He was awarded the Padma Shri in The people of Manipur have been de
ies on cultural and social issues. In 2015, a retrospective of Sharma’s ci 2006 for his contribution to manding the introduction of the Inner
nema was organised for the International Film Festival of India at Goa. Manipuri cinema Line Permit system. The ILP system that
Sharma hit national headlines recently when he announced that he is in force in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizo
would be returning the Padma Shri to protest the Citizenship Bill. It was ram and Nagaland regulates the entry of
awarded to him in 2006 in recognition of his contribution to Manipuri How do you foresee the swamping outsiders. The Centre, which is not lis
cinema. “A day will come soon when indigenous people will become of the indigenous peoples once the tening to the demand, is instead going
strangers in their own home States,” says Sharma in this interview. fl oodgates are opened? ahead with the Bill. This is highly objec
Excerpts: tionable. The chief ministers of some
L The indigenous people in the region Northeast States have already made
are very small in number. There are their stand clear on the issue. The Mani
What made you decide ers have made it crystal clear that the hardly 29 lakh people in Manipur, pur government is yet to make a similar
to return the Padma Bill will be passed. which has a territorial area much small clarifi cation.
Shri, one of the er than other big States and even any
highest honours Home Minister Rajnath Singh has district of Uttar Pradesh. Tripura is an How should the campaign go on?
accorded to a civilian? said that the Centre will protect the example of how the indigenous people
interests of the people of Manipur can be reduced to a hopeless minority. L A chief minister cannot do much in
Frankly, it is the most
L while enforcing the new Act, and The Tripuris are fi ghting a losing battle this regard. All sections of people in
precious award in my life. I Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren for preserving their distinctive identity. cluding young and old should join
would treasure it till my last Singh has said that a clause will be As things stand now, the population hands. Because next week may be too
moment. But I had to take added to protect the interests of the of nonlocals in Manipur is dominant. late. There is nothing we can do about
the most painful decision people in the Northeast. Once the Bill is enacted, people from those who will become bona fi de Indian
since it is for the cause of the Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan citizens after the Bill becomes an Act. A
people of Manipur and other north L People have spurned these assuranc can just enter India and settle anywh resolution could be taken in the As
eastern States. es, How will the Centre protect our in ere. The situation will be more scary sembly, and a strong message conveyed
With the passing of the Citizen #331007
terests? Besides, people are not con once Manipur is connected with Assam to Parliament. This will go a long way in
ship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in the vinced about the ‘clause’ as the Lok through rail lines. preserving the identity and culture of
Parliament, the fi nal nail will be Sabha had already passed the Bill in its The Centre could provide them suita the people of the region.
driven into the coffi n. I am glad present form. If some changes are to be ble land for settlement. In the absence But going by the stand taken by the
that the activists opposed to the made then the Bill should be withdrawn President, by Narendra Modi and Amit
contentious Bill have appreciated this fi rst. Shah regarding the Bill, there may be
Once the Bill is
step. Some of the activists personally
came to me to convey their
There are just two MPs from Manipur
in the Lok Sabha. The hopelessly micro <
> enacted, people from
virtually nothing the people can do. I
am afraid this Bill will spread hatred
appreciation. scopic representation cannot make any among the people since it is a question
However, I am very doubtful that the change, as they cannot have their voices Bangladesh, Pakistan of losing a distinctive identity.
Bill will be withdrawn despite the or heard. and Afghanistan can
chestrated demand by the people and The allout agitations in Manipur have Kongbam, Advisor of Film Forum, Manipur,
their representatives in the Northeast. failed to create ripples at the national
just enter India and and President of Film Society of Manipur,
The President, Prime Minister and oth level. settle anywhere was awarded Best Film Critic in 2015.
INSIDE INDIA
Valley of the bat woman
Business is thriving for Kashmir’s fi rst female bat
manufacturer despite all the unrest
BY PEERZADA ASHIQ Her frequent visits to the workshop, It’s a sixer! Rifat
with its allmale staff and carpenters, Masoodi at her
N
arwara is where we fi nd our were subject to neighbourly scrutiny. workshop; (below)
selves — an aged neighbour “Kashmir is a conservative society. It displaying her brand.
hood in Srinagar’s old city, was not easy to venture into a male Nissar Ahmad
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FIELD NOTES protester waves from a truck; and
scenes from the march: ‘We won’t
give up,’ the women say.
Battle
V. Sreenivasa Murthy & Sampath Kumar G.P.
against the
Bihar, the dry crusader
What impact has prohibition had on
States where it has been implemented?
Shaibal Gupta from the thinktank Asian
Development Research Institute (ADRI)
says that studies conducted in Bihar af
bottle
ter prohibition concluded in favour of
it. The report by ADRI and Develop
ment Management Institute (DMI), com
missioned by the Bihar government in
2018, shows a massive rise in sale of ex
pensive saris and honey, among others,
in postban Bihar. The studies also say
More than 3,000 women marched that 19% of households acquired new as
sets from the money they would have
last month from Chitradurga to earlier used to buy alcohol.
O
n Gandhi’s death anniversary were more than generous. Some ar reacts, lakhs of women will either exer
last month, January 30, a sea ranged food, some others medicines vernment gave us no response, but we cise NOTA or not vote in the coming
of women — around 3,000 — and sanitary napkins. They gave us wa will not give up our fi ght,” she said. Si elections. Let’s see if the liquor barons
poured into Bengaluru at the terbottles, chappals, bedsheets, swea milar agitations have been held by wo in the parties are the bigger pressure
end of a 12day march. There were 15 ters, even saris,” she said. men in other States, such as Odisha and group or democracy,” he said.
yearolds, there were 60yearolds, Sapnadeepa’s 28yearold cousin was Tamil Nadu, where women and chil The problem is not specifi c to region
there were middleaged women. They an alcoholic who fell ill and died in 2017. dren have echoed similar concerns. or socioeconomic status. According to
came from far and near, and they came “I won’t be wrong in saying there is one Kumar, “You can go to any village or ci
with one aim: to seek a ban on the ma wine shop for each house in our vil Root of distress ty. As we were passing through Tuma
nufacture and sale of liquor in Karnata lage,” she said. A 2017 report, ‘Farmer suicides — An all kuru and Bengaluru, women in slums
ka. Alcohol, they said, had ruined their Unfortunately, the marchers — all India study’, commissioned by the De came out to ask what the padayatra was
sons, husbands, brothers, homes, dent members of the Madya Nishedha Ando partment of Agriculture, Cooperation about, and started telling their own sto
ed their earnings, and eaten into the lana (movement for liquor ban) — could and Farmers Welfare, Government of ries of how houses have been destroyed
money meant for food and education. not meet Chief Minister H.D. Kumaras India, mentions drug abuse/ alcoholic because of alcoholism. We are not ask
Armed with a cloth bundles, unmind wamy and had to return emptyhanded addiction as one among the “prominent ing anything new. Prohibition is stated
ful of the blisters that had burst on their and with no assurances from the go #331007
causes” for farmer suicide (4.4%). The in Article 47 of the Indian Constitution.
feet, they had marched from Chitradur vernment. Their fi ght, however, is far other causes are bankruptcy or indeb What has been done all these years?”
ga and crossed many highways before from over, they say, now back home. tedness (20.6%), family problems The women’s frustration is tangible.
reaching Bengaluru. Bhagyamma, 30, from Davangere dis (20.1%), farmingrelated issues (17.2%), But can prohibition work? Govern
trict, described how her father conti and illness (13.2%). ments have usually been unable to fully
Long days’ journey nues to battle addiction. “My father However, many of the other causes of control sales or consumption of alcohol
The women had left their homes with a drinks his earnings away. We are four si suicide, such as indebtedness or illness, even after a ban, with people crossing
plate, a glass and some clothes. Sapna blings; we got a bit of education with can be connected to alcohol addiction over to neighbouring States or drinking
deepa, 24, from Bidar, who was among great diffi culty. My mother continues to and drug abuse. “Without exception, spurious liquor or feeding off a booming
those who had started out from Chitra toil to repay the loans. My father ended the victim households of all the States underground market as in Gujarat. Are
durga, said they had covered 15 to 20 up selling the land we owned because of were honest enough to accept that vic there other ways to control alcoholism?
km each day; they had camped wherev his addiction. Alcohol addiction is like a tims were alcohol addicts. Therefore, It’s a question that doesn’t have easy
er they stopped for nightfall. “We stayed virus and it has to stop. It is sad the go rehabilitation centres for drug abuse answers.
D
elhi or Shahjahanabad of the mid18th century was a place of terrible in and Banda. They tell us who the key invasion, Muhammad Shah’s noble
stability with frequent raids on the city. The Mughal rulers were often in supporters of music were — princely man, Amir Khan, asked permission to
exile, and the court musicians had to scramble for cover and patronage. and aristocratic patrons, of course, but take Anjha Baras with him to Allahabad
It was at this time that there was an explosion in the writing of tazkiras — also Sufi shrines and hospices, and a where he was being stationed as gover
genealogies and short biographies — of the court’s musical geniuses. whole new culture of gentlemen ama nor, and as Muhammad Shah was in
Katherine Schofi eld, senior lecturer, department of music, King’s College, Lon teur musicians training with ustads, mourning (he had lost much of his trea
don, describes tazkiras as “human documents” that off er insights into the music, when a century previously this would sury), he agreed. Younger brothers of
politics and society of the dying Mughal empire. Schofi eld is an exceptionally good have been done only by the boldest and ten moved to new patrons, while the
raconteur too, bringing alive lost worlds of courtesans, musicians and kings in ex those careless of their reputation. Most head of the family stayed with the he
quisite detail not only in her books and blogposts but also in her podcasts for the importantly to me, they reveal the emo reditary patron.
British Library. In Delhi recently for the Prof. Abidi Memorial Lecture on tazkiras, tions of the time in a way I think no oth
she speaks of the rich genealogies. er literature does. Any passages in these tazkiras that
particularly moved you?
late 16th century and the court of Ak How did tazkiras capture the
What drew your attention to the bar, but the fi rst such standalone tazki- tumult of the 1700s in Delhi? L The most moving for me is the Delhi
musical tazkiras? ra that I know of was written by Inayat born offi cial Ziauddin’s short biography
Khan Rasikh in 1753. L On the one hand, they memorialised of Chabbar Khan, who was from Delhi
L One of the most interesting things The musicians’ tazkiras were a new the culture of the “golden age” of Hin and 20 years past had frequented
about the culture surrounding Hindus thing in the late 18th century, and they dustani musicians — those musicians “great” Mughal emperors, Akbar, Ja Most importantly to Ziauddin’s mehfi ls at his new home in
tani music today are the anecdotes
about memorable performances, a riv
tell the story of musicians on the move,
under threat from the political and so
who were thriving in the courts of the hangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb,
through to the mini golden age at the
<
> me, tazkiras reveal the Patna. He writes that some years ago,
Chabbar Khan had gone to Murshida
alry between masters, one’s own guru, cial upheaval suff ered by the Mughal court of Muhammad Shah Rangeela. On emotions of the time in bad, but that he hadn’t heard from him
about a legend of the past. These gener court in Delhi between Nadir Shah’s in the other, they tried to hold on to the or the other kalawants since. A terribly
ally spring from a real event, but are of vasion in 1739 and Shah Alam II’s return tradition and keep track of it in as or a way I think no other poignant moment. And the probable
ten mythologised to educate students from exile in 1772. Most are written derly a fashion as possible as musicians literature does reason was that in 1772 an ignorant East
and audiences, and thus reveal a great from the perspective of musicians of moved all over India. But music is never India Company offi cial had reduced the
deal about musicians and patrons. Alth the Mughal court who ended up all over just about music — it embodies the emo budget of the Murshidabad Arbabi
ough I love the music, I am more inter India. They capture the stories of a tions and dreams and power of a whole know today despite their Nishat to almost nothing — ₹ 16 per an
ested in what music means to people, musical world under threat, but also world, in this case the Mughal empire dependence on the court? num! — because he thought music was
to society and culture. And it turns out keep track of where the musicians crumbling before its people’s eyes. In an unnecessary frippery for a Nawab
that these stories are not just in the oral went, which ones died. some sense, the writing of the tazkiras L An artist’s job was then, as it is now, Nazim of Bengal who, now that the Brit
tradition but also recorded in collec was an attempt to hold the broken to serve their patron, not to play polit ish were in charge of Bengal, was a pen
tions of biographies. What do they tell us of the cultural world together with nothing but the “si ics. And a number of musicians were sioner of the East India Company. The
The tazkira or “reminiscences” genre milieu of the time? bilant scratches of a broken pen” (as the formally attached to the imperial atelier musicians, including most likely Chab
is a very old one in Persian literature, Mughal writer Sher Khan Lodi once de or to their patron’s department of en bar Khan, lost their livelihoods with the
and later in other languages, and is es L They tell us in minute detail where scribed the act of trying to describe tertainment — for example, the Murshi stroke of a British quill pen. There is no
sentially a collection of life stories or the new centres of cultural power were music in words). dabad nawab’s Arbabi Nishat or the Jai record of where they went after that.
biographies put together on a theme. — and it was not just obvious places like pur maharaja’s Gunijankhana. These
Persian stories and short biographies of Lucknow. Musicians went in droves to Were these court musicians positions were of fulltime service to the The interviewer writes on and lives for
Hindustani musicians go back to the Murshidabad, Patna, Benaras, Kath ‘professionals’ in the sense we court. But musicians were always mo music, dance, theatre, and literature.
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pon being expelled from Sir J.J. School
of Art in 1945, the young painter, Fran
cis Newton Souza (19242002), rushed
home, dragged out a piece of ply that
his mother Lilia Maria had set aside to fashion in
to a dressmaker’s table, and began to paint in a
‘white heat’ of indignation. Within an hour he
had fi nished ‘Blue Lady’, that was sold in 1945 to
Dr. Herman Goetz at the solo show hosted by
Bombay Arts Society in December of the same Blissful
year. (Clockwise from
It is stories like this, rare photographs, and left) ‘Goan Rains’,
neverbeforeseen paintings from the lesser 1942; ‘Untitled
known period of Souza’s life that the travelling (High Street, Goan
exhibition, ‘Souza 1940s’, highlights. Curated by Village)’ ,1944;
Conor Macklin, the show is a collaboration bet and ‘Untitled
ween Saff ronart, Grosvenor Gallery, London, (Women on a path,
and Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts. Goa)’, 1948.
Grosvenor Gallery &
tion of colour,” observes Raj Salgaoncar, a collec
Sunaparanta, Goa
Crucial decade tor of Souza’s work and the patronfounder of
Centre for the Arts.
“We chose to focus on these compelling and for the Sunaparanta Centre.
mative years of Souza because the 1940s was a
crucial decade in his life,” says Macklin, the di Bucolic phase
rector of Grosvenor Gallery. He explains that af But if Souza is known today as the painter of the
ter Souza was expelled from Sir J.J. School for underbelly, he evidently took time to arrive
challenging the system (he disrupted the British there. The works on display are proof that Souza
fl aghoisting ceremony and was known for his went through a phase of bucolic landscapes, like
provocative graffi ti in the university toilets), he his 1942 painting titled ‘Rice Paddy Fields’ and
repaired to his ancestral home in Goa, which an ‘Untitled Landscape’ painted in 1941. These and toiling in the fi elds, bathing in a river or a la works at Chemould Frames in Mumbai, the
now lies in ruins. “It was here that he painted a works are calm, even sentimental: there is none goon, climbing palm trees, distilling liquor, as Goan community exclaimed that the fi gures
very important body of work that has often been of the dark, serrated lines or the brooding at sembling in a church, praying or in procession looked ‘nothing like them’ and wanted to break
overlooked. Souza left for England in 1949, and mosphere that characterise his later landscapes. with priests and acolytes. Carrying monstrance, the windows and vandalise the paintings. The
he carried with him the essence of these forma One might surmise that Souza was captivated by relics and images; ailing and dying, mourning or artworks were moved to another venue, where
tive years,” says Macklin. his native land and allowed it to permeate his merrymaking in marketplaces and feasting at they were fi nally sold.
“Through the exhibition and catalogue, we senses in a way that was not possible later when weddings.” Souza has always been controversial. The en-
hope to provide scholarship, research and analy he moved to Bombay and eventually left India. fant terrible of the Progressive Artists’ Group
sis of this period of Souza’s life and work, much It is a treat to read his notes on that period of Socialist side (PAG), for which Souza wrote the manifesto, was
of which has been erroneously represented,” his life: “Some years ago, I spent a few months in His painting titled ‘The Family’ (1940) captures a forever challenging the system, whether that
continues Macklin. Many reviews and cuttings an almost deserted village in Goa, which is my peasant family in their living room. The man, meant a given style of painting or an ideology
appear without dates. A set of photographs from native ‘country,’” writes Souza in his autobio woman and children are of dark skin and robust that suppressed his artistic impulses. The PAG,
the estate of Souza, the family archive, and some graphical essay, ‘Nirvana of a maggot’, published build: they hark back to the Socialist side of Sou while breaking away from the revivalism of the
taken by Ida Kar, a Londonbased photographer, in his book, Words and Lines (the catalogue has za, which lasted briefl y as he returned to paint Bengal School of Art, also refused to succumb to
have been sourced for the exhibition and the ac extracts from the book). “I was living in an old di ing ‘only for the self’. His erotic drawings and the the dry academic approach of contemporary art
companying book. Importantly, some paintings lapidated house. The village, quite a primitive archetypal ‘Mother and Child’ paintings that schools. Like his close friend, Husain, Souza was
have Souza’s own inscriptions, which are crucial one, was scantily populated. The tentacles of the #331007
dominate the latter half of his career have come a maverick who worked outside the system and
in getting the timeline right, Macklin points out. monstrous civilisation spreading on the outskirts to signify his signature style. The works from burnt a path of his own. This exhibition and the
In the 1940s, Souza was at the very beginning beyond, were gradually strangling it...” Souza’s around 1948 to 1950 indicate a bolder, more styl book are worthwhile for the way they capture
of his artistic career. “Souza was known for pro contempt for ideas of ‘civilisation’ and urbanisa ised approach to painting. his formative years.
Souza was captivated by his
ducing thoughtprovoking and powerful imagery
through his unrestrained and graphic artwork.
tion, especially of the kind being promoted by
the British, comes out here. <
> native land and allowed it to
By 1948, we begin to see the dark lines, the po
werful brushstrokes and the impasto colours.
ON SHOW: ‘Souza 1940s’,
till March 5, at Sunaparanta,
His Goan roots and rebellious nature, marred by Souza goes on to write, “In those days, I was But it is an oil like ‘Girl with Goat’ (1949) that ex
his troubled relationships and broken marriages, painting peasants, and rural landscapes. I paint permeate his senses in a way perts like Mackling think is rare and important, Goa Centre for the Arts
are refl ected in many of his works, which were ed the earth and its tillers with bold strokes, hea that was not possible later since it indicates the infl uence of folk sculpture
often very provocative and bold. He became vily outlining masses of brilliant colours. Pea and painting that left their mark on both Souza The writer is a critic-curator by day, and a creative
known for his aggressive lines and thick applica sants in diff erent moods, eating and drinking when he moved to Bombay and M.F. Husain. When Souza displayed these writer and visual artist by night.
I
t’s a wellknown fact that Agatha of a social family drama, dealing with an ment any more.
What was the first novel? Christie’s The Mousetrap is the lon ancestral home falling apart, just like the This, to my mind, is a direct result of
Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th- gest running play in the world. Noth joint family that lives in it. the present environment, a sign that the
century Genji Monogatari ing works as well as a good mystery. In contrast, it seems Gujarati theatre times are changing. The play worked in
‘The Tale of Genji’ — set Closer home, I did some research about believes in a massive number of shows in totality, but it was being watched with a
in Japan’s Heian court, a plays that had stood the test of time. a limited time frame, after which the play diff erent perspective. The characters
milieu with which the In Bombay, one has heard the legends is retired. Comedies and thrillers work were being judged. I was initially thrown
author was intimately of Marathi productions such as Sahi Re particularly well. However, one play, Ma- by this change, till I fi gured out why, and
familiar, being a member Sahi (which had a long running sequel reez, has been running successfully since it all made complete sense. There is a
herself — is certainly one too), Vastraharan (with over 5,000 2004. This is, quite surprisingly, not a co heightened sense of awareness in the au
of the candidates, and has been called the first shows), and Wade Chirabandi, which medy, but a poetic exploration of the life dience now.
psychological novel as well. An exhibition on the work and seem to have been running forever. and hardships of an artist. This led me to believe something else.
the art it has inspired over the centuries with over 120 There is a strong sense of legacy associat Hindi theatre has a couple of longrun A play needs to not just be relevant, but
pieces —from paintings, calligraphy and silk robes to a ed with these titles. ning successes. Hai Mera Dil, directed by stay relevant. How else will it achieve
palanquin for the shogun’s bride and even contemporary the late Dinesh Thakur, opened in the timelessness? This isn’t easy. Is the solu
manga — will be on display at The Met Fifth Avenue from Going strong year I was born. So it has been running tion to play it safe, and be more generic?
March 5 to June 16. Sahi Re Sahi is an out and out entertainer. for almost four decades. The play is an Running forever Scenes from The Interview That doesn’t sound exciting. Perhaps the
Funny and serious in parts, with a dead adaptation of an English play, Send Me No and Vastraharan (top left). key is to evolve. I guess it helps that
man outwitting notorious relatives and Flowers, by Norman Barasch and Carroll Special ArrangemenT theatre is one medium that allows that.
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to deviate from facts and take creative li
BIG SCREEN berties to create drama. The idea is to
tell a good story in an interesting way
and not be a slave to the truth. On the
Story behind the story
other hand, meddling with facts can
boomerang. The challenge is in know
ing how to strike a balance.
Look what happened to Sachin: A Bil-
lion Dreams (2017), a biographical docu
drama directed by James Erskine. The
It seems to be the golden age of the biopic. Just what’s the magic director tells the story of the cricketing
legend with an unnatural amount of re
formula to make it click at the box offi ce? verence and fails to add anything new to
the already wellknown narrative. Des
pite Tendulkar’s huge fan following, the
fi lm failed. Whereas M.S. Dhoni: The Un-
told Story (2016) gave his fans much
more to chew on.
Real lives (Clockwise from above)
Stills from biopics Thackeray, Paan Age-old themes
Singh Tomar, Man on the Moon and Casting is the other big challenge. It’s
Manikarnika. generally a balance between similarity
in physicality and looks and the ability
Kingsley as Gandhi, Johnny Depp as Ed to portray the role. In Paan Singh To-
Wood (Ed Wood, 1994), Jim Carrey as mar, where the protagonist’s persona
Andy Kaufman (Man on the Moon, was largely unknown, Khan carried the
1999), Irrfan Khan as Paan Singh Tomar, fi lm off with his acting talent, whereas
Ranbir Kapoor as Sanju, Deepika Padu in Sanju, Kapoor’s physiognomy played
kone as Rani Padmavati (Padmaavat, an important part.
2018) and Sonam Kapoor in and as Neer- Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, often
ja (2016) all gained respect as dramatic called the best biopic of all time, ex
actors after their roles. plores ageold themes of love, loyalty
and the pursuit of greatness. Released
Follow the dots in 1980, the iconic B&W fi lm was based
Scripting a biopic usually comes down on the life of middleweight boxer Jake
to what works best for the ‘character’ LaMotta and is less cinema and more
and the story. Traditionally, biopics fol documentary disguised as movie. The
low the ‘cradle to grave’ structure that conventionality of the plot could have
follows the character’s life chronologi easily led to a hackneyed storyline were
cally, with the most wellknown accom it not for Scorsese’s unfl inching camera,
plishments providing the drama. De Nero’s outstanding turn as LaMotta,
There’s also a framing device of sorts and a carefully written script.
that gives a glimpse of what’s to come Jamie Foxx’s unforgettable role as
right at the beginning. musician Ray Charles (Ray, 2004), Phi
Although the most common trick has lip Seymour Hoff man’s visceral por
been to begin with the present and then trayal of Truman Capote (Capote,
refl ect back on the character’s past, it 2005), and Halle Berry’s mesmerising
has been subverted in recent years with rendition of Dorothy Dandridge (Intro-
nonlinear structures that leave out ducing Dorothy Dandridge, 1999) are
BY O.P. SRIVASTAVA with a view of Gandhi based almost en ic triumph is like searching for a jewel in large chunks of the character’s life. As a other performances that made the biop
tirely on Sir Ben Kingsley’s spellbinding the deep sea. Usually, biopics eulogise result, the fi lm is more a character ic stand out.
B
iopics are very much the fash 1982 portrayal. For many young Ameri their subjects, seldom taking the road sketch than chronological documen Freshness of approach, something
ion now in the Indian fi lm in cans, it is not the old photos of Abraham less travelled to deliver a story without tary. Of late, such biopics with a smaller unexpected in the way the story is nar
dustry. From Paan Singh Tomar Lincoln that come to mind when they illusions and including lived experienc but tighter focus have become increas rated, or a new structure — it’s these
(2012), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag think of the 16th U.S. President but Da es that might be ‘unfl attering’. Today’s ingly popular. Hitchcock (2012), for in that make the biopic click. Like The Dir-
(2013) and Sanju (2018) doing fairly well niel DayLewis’s Lincoln in Steven Spiel viewers expect some semblance of stance, only tells the story of the making ty Picture (2011, on South Indian actor
to last year’s Manto not proving a great berg’s 2012 biopic. authenticity rather than manufactured of the 1960’s hit Psycho. Silk Smitha) or Ladies First (2017, on
commercial hit to the most recent ones reality. The age of free information has The Oscarwinning Alex Gibney, archer Deepika Kumari).
to hit the halls, Manikarnika and Thack- Searching for a jewel made it virtually impossible to tell a life hailed as one of America’s most prolifi c Unlike the straight documentary, a
eray, getting muted responses, it’s been Films like Lawrence of Arabia, Raging story and not be questioned about its documentary makers, believes each biopic always has an eye on the box of
a bit of a mixed bag. It makes one won Bull or The Social Network have always authenticity. From a fi lmmaker’s point biopic must have a specifi c approach or fi ce with its beguiling mix of fact and fi c
der just what makes a biopic tick. made a huge impact. But for every biop of view, stepping into biopic territory point of view. In Lincoln (2012), the tion. And clearly Bollywood has seen
A biopic basically dramatises the life ic that enthrals, there are countless oth means unleashing a Pandora’s box of moot point was whether or not the Pre the potential. Nearly 30 biopics have
From a fi lmmaker’s
of a real person and puts it on the big
screen with all the glamour of a feature
ers that fail. And critics have a fi eld day
dissecting the reasons for the failure.
complications, be it poor casting, weak
storytelling or confl icting views on the <
> point of view, stepping sident could bring about the end of slav
ery, while The King’s Speech (2010) was
been announced: including Batala
House, Tanaji, The Gulshan Kumar Sto-
fi lm. They are not fi lms ‘based on a true That doesn’t stop biopics from being fi lm’s artistic vision. about a British monarch who prevailed ry, Chankya and Mithali Raj.
story’ or ‘historical drama fi lms’ in the produced steadily. Since 2010, there Because the biopic’s protagonists are
into biopic territory despite his stammer. Bandit Queen
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sense that they try to trace a single per have been over 225 biopics released real people, whose actions and charac means unleashing a (1994) was a revenge drama and Dangal The bankerturned fi lmmaker won the
son’s life story comprehensively, or at worldwide, and that only includes those teristics are known to the public (or at (2016) traced the fulfi lment of a wres National Award for his 2015 feature
least the most important years of his or with Wikipedia pages. least documented), these roles are con
Pandora’s box of tler’s dream. documentary, Life in Metaphors: A Portrait
her life. A whole generation grew up Trying to fi nd out what makes a biop sidered the most demanding by actors. complications A critical issue is deciding how much of Girish Kasaravalli.
That tingling sensation Rogers’ America
4D can turn movies into massage therapy or whiplash injury He raised several generations, and is now making them cry
would have liked to watch the fi lm and when we bend to pick them, a ne
without all these accoutrements, I was onlit demon Hastar snarling from un BY ASEEM CHHABRA
Jai Arjun Singh also left with the feeling that the 4D der the seats.
I
is a Delhibased writer and fi lm critic
who fi nds it easier to concentrate on could have been more imaginative. All n 1968, Fred Rogers, a Protestant
specifi c scenes than entire fi lms as we got was chairs shaking every few Over our heads minister and a graduate of Pitts
he grows older
minutes, and on one occasion, a small Much can also be done with holo burgh Theological Seminary,
quantity of cool vaporous liquid grams. That scene in Andha Dhun started a lowbudget television
A
s I’ve said before in this sprayed on us from the side. (I forget where evil Tabu defenestrates an old show where he spoke to an unlikely
space, many factors deter now what was happening in the fi lm to woman? How much more thrilling if, audience — young children. And in
mine the eff ect a movie se necessitate this: did Armstrong’s at the moment of the assault, a spec stead of the loud, dramatic sermons
quence has on a viewer: her miff ed wife throw a glass of wine in his tral Mrs. D’Sa were to appear shriek on fi re and brimstone, which Ameri
mood on the day, her emotional con face?) ing and fl ailing over our heads. can TV preachers are known to deliv
nect with the setting, how much she There were so many other unex Notwithstanding our conceit that er, Rogers spoke in a calm voice, that
relates with a character. But as a re plored possibilities. For instance, such bold innovations are the preroga of a friendly neighbour.
cent experience showed me, a scene’s when our hero makes it to his zero tive of our age, none of this is new. As Rogers’ voice impacted genera
impact may also hinge on the chair gravity destination, our chairs could far back as 1959, American producer tions of young Americans who regu
you are sitting on. have detached themselves from their director William Castle used a vibrat larly watched his show, Mister Rogers’
Going in to watch Damien Cha moorings and fl oated about the large ing device — Percepto — in select chairs Neighborhood, until it ended in 2001.
zelle’s First Man, I had heard that the hall with us in them. during the screening of his Bhorror Now 40 years after it was fi rst
opening scene — in which Neil Arm It’s exciting to think about what the fi lm The Tingler; it would come into ef launched, American viewers are re Lessons in love Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood ran from 1968 to 2001.
strong narrowly escapes a rocket technique may accomplish for Indian fect in the creepiest scenes, which had visiting the show. They have been
plane accident in 1961 — was a marvel cinema. When we stand up for the na a wriggling creature attacking its vic watching Oscarwinning director Mor Neville’s word ‘assassination’ after the 1968
lous bit of fi lmmaking, both for the
claustrophobiainducing sense that we
tional anthem or watch an Akshay Ku
mar fi lm (or stand up when the an
tims’ spines. My favourite part of that
story, though, is that Percepto was ac
gan Neville’s documentary, Won’t You
Be Neighbor? on Rogers and his vast
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> documentary is high
killing of Robert F. Kennedy, and ex
plained the meaning of war, as news
are in the shuddering cockpit with them inevitably plays during an cidentally used during a tearful scene infl uence on America. And along the on nostalgia and it is reports covered the bombings and
Armstrong, and for the preechoing of Akshay Kumar fi lm), perhaps nozzles in the Audrey Hepburn starrer, The way, many of the viewers are tearing deaths in Vietnam.
things to come: we know this man will will spit itchy tricoloured powder into Nun’s Story (a fi lm as austere and high up and crying during the screenings. natural to see people He discussed divorce, an issue that
walk on the moon years later after an our eyes, making us feel even more pa minded as its title sounds). The crying began when the fi lm connecting with their impacted many American house
interspace journey more complicated triotic than we already are? Or ima In the Netfl ix age, I feel we could do premièred at Sundance last year. I holds. “Some people get married and
and fraught than his current gine a show of Tumbbad — a caution with such mixandmatches to enliven missed the its theatrical run last sum childhood after a while they are so unhappy that
adventure. ary horror story about greed — with theatre experiences. Imagine the last mer, but I heard from friends who they don’t want to be married any
Unfortunately, I barely registered gold coins thrown into the audience scene of Badhaai Ho: Neena Gupta’s found it comforting to cry with stran ers is in the works, with Tom Hanks in more,” he said on one show. And he
what was happening to Armstrong, baby has made its appearance and, in gers in the theatres. Actor, comedian the lead. would look right at the camera and
because I was worried about the state stead of a hologram of a cherub drop Kumail Nanjiani even tweeted in June: Rogers’ audience was children, tell children they were special, giving
When we stand up
of my own vitamin Ddefi cient bones.
Without realising it, I had bought tick <
> for the national
ping fl owers and glitter and baby spit
tle on our heads, we get a tiredlooking
“I saw Won’t You Be My Neighbor. Frig
gin’ face faucet, dude.”
home from school, as they sat in front
of the TV eating a snack before going
them the element of selfconfi dence
often missing in homes where both
ets to a 4DX show. This apparently Big B instead, in pirate regalia, waving out to play or doing their homework. parents worked. In his own small way,
means the sort of immersive expe
anthem, perhaps his sword feebly and calling out to his Connecting people They were children who had not yet Rogers raised generations of Ameri
rience where your chair performs cal nozzles will spit itchy bird. Neville’s documentary is high on nos leaned towards becoming Republi can children.
isthenics each time something bumpy If that won’t get lazy viewers away talgia and it’s natural to see people cans or Democrats. Each episode In an interview in the fi lm, Rogers
(like a plane ride or an astronauts’
tricoloured powder from their laptops and into the halls, connecting with their childhood, but would begin with Rogers walking on says ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ is
training session or maybe just two pe into our eyes? nothing will. it is also an important document for the set as he took off his jacket and got an invitation to ask somebody to be
ople dancing the salsa) happens on the age we live in. In the sharply divid into a sweater, took off his dress shoes close to you. “Everybody longs to be
screen. ed America of Trump, Rogers’ simple, and put on sneakers. All the while he loved,” he says. “The greatest thing
warm grandfatherly advice on com would sing: It’s a beautiful day in this we can do is to help somebody know
Beautifully boring passion, love and understanding your neighborhood/ A beautiful day for a that they are loved and capable of
Midway through, my friend was thank neighbours holds a special place. neighbor/ Would you be mine? Could loving.”
ing her stars she hadn’t brought her In December, the fi lm was shortlist you be mine? And he would end the Those are beautiful words and it
father along as initially planned. To re ed for the Oscars along with 14 other song with the line, Please won’t you be would not be wrong to suggest that
ference other Chazelle fi lms, the expe documentaries and it showed up on my neighbor? Rogers’ show contributed, at least a
rience was less lalaland and more many critics’ yearend lists. In the next half hour, Rogers took little bit, to some of the good that ex
whiplash. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? has won up important issues children would ists in America.
So I couldn’t fully appreciate First over 30 critics’ association awards. It hear adults talk about, but were con
Man — though I made up by listening ranks No. 11 on Rotten Tomatoes’ top fused and perhaps afraid to ask about. The author is an independent writer, fi lm
to the beautiful Justin Hurwitz sound fi lms of 2018, and is 98% fresh. Re Often using hand puppets and other festival programmer and the author of
track at home, sitting on my boringly ports say a narrative feature on Rog toys, he talked about, for instance, the Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, The Star.
stationary sofa. And yet, much as I Going beyond 4D and its fourfold possibilities. ThrillfxRide/ Wiki Commons
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Grassroots (Clockwise from left) During issoh, islanders set fi re to the grassland
to help regenerate it; a nyi hupul on Chowra island made largely from grass;
the grasslands support both wild and domesticated pigs. Manish Chandi
And worse, they built them on the sanguineous families who once used
RED EARTH grasslands. Construction material was their common hearth to share wealth,
brought in and over 250 workers from labour and food.
the mainland set about working. Today, The new social architecture of per
more than a decade after their resettle manent shelters has drawn faultlines
The fi nal straw ment, the grasslands have diminished,
much of it morphed into weedy woo
dlands dotted by partdeserted perma
nent shelters. Invasive weeds are eve
rywhere. Seeds of unknown origin have
taken root and colonised the ecosys
among kinship groups, disrupting re
source sharing systems. And during the
times issoh is still carried out, there is
always the fear that their homes will be
burnt down as they are now smack in
the middle of the grassland.
How tsunami rehabilitation destroyed the tem; toads never before known in these
parts now croak through the monsoon. My own home
grasslands of Chowri island and robbed the Birds found in the grassland, cistico
las, munias and Nicobar quail, that fed
The islanders I speak to tell me about
their dreams to rebuild nyi hupuls. Oth
Nicobarese of their sense of home and nested here, are no longer seen as ers have resigned themselves to the
easily as they used to be. Parakeets have changing landscape and say they are
completely disappeared from the waiting for the trees to colonise the
island. grassland so they can be converted into
And as the grasslands diminished, so food gardens and woodlots.
BY MANISH CHANDI Nicobarese language looks like an in the fi ve ceremonial nyi hupuls repre did cultural practices: before the reha Abner Simeon, member of collective
verted coconut shell, and is palpably senting fi ve community collectives of bilitation the grasslands were burnt ev Som au nyi Kamainj says, “If the trees
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howra is an 8 sq.km. dot on the cool despite the refl ecting heat of the Chowra, were washed away. And even ery year by islanders. This ritual, called take over the grassland leaf litter will
Andaman sea, part of the Nico white coralline sand. worse, social and cultural changes be issoh, helped regenerate the grass they help fertilise the soil, and we can con
bar archipelago. And on it live These are more than homes. They gan to sweep through the Nicobar Is needed to thatch their houses before vert that space into kitchen gardens.”
1,350 people, the Nicobarese protect against the tropical sun, but lands as the islanders were the monsoon. Another islander tells me that while
islanders of Chowra. They grow food in have common hearths and house ex ‘rehabilitated’. The grasslands did more for the islan he is grateful for governmental atten
shared gardens, catch fi sh, rear pigs, tended, joint families. The Nicobarese, ders than provide building material. tion after the tsunami he wished they
dogs and chickens. Idyllic as it sounds, over centuries, evolved a sense of com Vanishing birds They were also foraging space for free were allowed to rebuild their own hous
these islanders have struggled — prima mon property rights to share and man Central government rehabilitation com range domestic pigs, which are highly es. “We have always built our own hous
rily to make a living and fi nd freshwater. age the island’s limited resources. mittees moved the families to a larger valued among the community. The pigs es. The government houses were useful
But today they grapple with another But much of this changed with the neighbouring island, Teressa consi are fattened on fresh coconuts rather after the tsunami, but they don’t feel the
challenge: their sense of home is under 2004 tsunami. Almost every house, and dered ‘safe ground’. than food waste and are often cared for same as when our families lived togeth
threat. Here, they were lodged in houses as pets and seen as an indicator of er. If we were given materials, we can
Chowra is a coralline seamount, on meant for nuclear families rather than wealth. Pigs, like nyi hupul, have always still build our own homes, and the
Nyi hupuls are more
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ECOLOGIC FLASHPOINT
Beyond Ganga and Yamuna
At the Allahabad Kumbh this year, devotees dipped in unusually clean waters.
Can other rivers be similarly salvaged?
I
t’s a sea of humanity. The largest pushed wildlife to leave the swollen
gathering of people on earth. The Ross River and move into suburban
Kumbh Mela, a festival for salvation areas. The rain had been so
for the faithful, is centred around unremitting, with some areas
recording more rainfall over eight
water. The gathering this year in Allaha
days than in a typical year, that the
bad (renamed Prayagraj) is remarkable authorities had to open the
for one thing: the Ganga and Yamuna, at floodgates of a dam above Townsville after it was measured at 247% capacity
their confl uence, are not polluted at all. on February 3. Around 2,000 homes were flooded as a result, with about 1,000
For those who have visited the Kumbh people having to take refuge in evacuation shelters and the emergency services
on earlier occasions, this is a pleasant carrying out 18 ‘swiftwater’ rescues in flowing floodwaters.
surprise.
Over the past couple of decades, the
Kumbh, which is held in Allahabad, Ha Pinniped invasion
ridwar, Ujjain and Nasik, had one defi n With many federal employees,
ing characteristic. Except at Haridwar, including rangers at national parks,
where the swiftly fl owing Ganga enters absent from work during the recent
the plains from the Himalayas, the riv U.S. government shutdown, elephant
seals colonised Drakes Beach, a
ers stank.
popular destination that’s part of
The previous Kumbh was held in Uj Point Reyes National Seashore on
jain and the Kshipra River was dirty, California’s Pacific coast. Around 100
and a foul smell assaulted those who females and their pups, along with a
bathed in it. This was despite govern By the way Untreated sewage has been stopped from going into the rivers. getty images/ istock few adult males, are occupying the
ment eff orts that included diverting wa beach and are expected to remain until the pups are weaned by April. Hunted
ter from the Narmada to keep the Kshi ties stopped untreated sewage going in tives miserably despite billions being itors are highly polluted. Pollution in the nearly to extinction decades ago, the population of the huge beasts — the
pra fl owing freely. to the Ganga and Yamuna. spent on it. Damodar River in eastern India has males can reach up to 2,300 kg and 5 m in length — has recovered slowly over
the years, and though the beach is now offlimits to humans, the authorities
As a result, the biological oxygen de reached a critical point. More that 60% of
have welcomed the development.
Clear waters mand, an indicator of water quality, Work well done the water in the Narmada, a lifeline for
In contrast, the Allahabad Mela was dropped to healthy levels. The tempor The point, however, is that it is indeed Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, is unfi t for
sparkling clean. Although this time ary shuttering of polluting industries in possible to clean long stretches of a riv drinking. In the south, the Cauvery’s wa That Brexit smell
round it is an Ardh (half ) Kumbh, the Kanpur, upstream of Allahabad, helped er if there is suffi cient administrative ter is so toxic in some stretches that it is
Emails from the U.K.’s Environment
State government has tried to make the in keeping the pollution levels low too. will, and despite the systemic obstacles. unfi t even for irrigation.
Agency, leaked to The Guardian, have
event a success in an election year. But, The funds for this exercise came from It now remains to be seen whether the The situation is severe but can still be revealed serious concerns about
whatever the motivation, the authori Namami Gange, a scheme to clean up good work done in Allahabad is carried remedied as we see from the successful waste management in the case of the
ties’ eff orts to control pollution de the Ganga and its tributaries. The pro out after the Kumbh is over too. in Allahabad, but we must broaden our country leaving the European Union
serves praise. gramme, earlier iterations of which We have in the past 50 years or so man scope from a singleminded focus on without a deal on March 29.
One of the main contributors to river started as far back as 1986 in the form of aged to pollute most of the country’s riv the Ganga and its tributaries. ‘Putrefying stockpiles’ of rubbish are
pollution in India is the entry of untreat the fi rst Ganga Action Plan, has been ers. The Central Pollution Control Board As a fi rst step, it is entirely possible to expected if licences for exporting
ed sewage. In Allahabad, some 270 mil widely criticised for failing in its objec says that 275 rivers out of the 445 it mon treat urban sewage, which would by it millions of tonnes of waste to
European countries become invalid
lion litres of sewage once fl owed into self reduce the pollution load in rivers
overnight. This might well lead to
the two rivers every day through 46 signifi cantly. Millions of Indians consid waste being stockpiled in the U.K., leaking and causing pollution. Another issue
The temporary shuttering of polluting industries in
drains. With new sewage treatment
plants, boosting capacity at existing <
> Kanpur, upstream of Allahabad, helped in keeping
er the Ganga a holy river. But other riv
ers, for people living by them, are no
raised was that a lack of an agreement to facilitate beef and lamb exports could
lead to an overabundance of livestock on farms, causing (manure) slurry stocks
ones and using technology such as bio less sacred and deserve equal to overflow.
fi lters and bioremediation, the authori the pollution levels low too treatment.
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y metal tray slides along the
I
’ve written a few crime novels, but there purposebuilt rails generat
was a reallife murder case I was involved ing a loud, clanging sound
in that I had all but forgotten till recently. as it collides with that of the
Almost 20 years ago I used to share a person in front of me. I mutter a feeble
fl at with three other boys from Shillong in In apology and swiftly move ahead. The
dra Vihar in North Delhi, near Delhi University grumpy lunch lady behind the plexi
(DU). By the late 90s there were more and glass screen glares down at me, grunting
more young people from Assam and the every time I point at something that
Northeast coming to Delhi to study and look catches my fancy on the buff et counter
for opportunities. They were far too numer she’s manning. Plonking down a bowl of
ous for the university hostels to handle, lead luridly pink soup and a quarter plate of
ing to the development of ‘student colonies’, the greyish hamburger patty onto my
places like Outram Lines, Indra Vihar and tray, she all but ‘banishes’ me to the
Mukherjee Nagar, residential areas that had cashier with a wave of her mighty arm.
fi rst started out as refugee rehabilitation Now, before this begins to sound like
schemes mainly for Punjabis from Pakistan. some dystopian, boarding school
meetsprison lunch hall memory I’m
Rental idylls conjuring up, let me set the record
In Indra Vihar, the buildings were stacked one straight. I’m in St. Petersburg, trying out
against the other, and the fl ats all had the same a dining experience that I had been
layout: a balcony, a front room, an inside wanting to have a go at ever since I had
room, a small kitchen, all side by side, then a heard about it. Lunch at a Sovietera sto-
sort of storeroom with the bathroom beside it lovaya is slowly becoming something of
— a sort of traincompartment layout. Life a tourist mustdo when in the most
spilled outdoors, especially in the hot summer western city — culturally speaking — of
months, and there was a crowded, communal Russia. And so, there I was at the Ligov
feel to the colony. sky Prospekt branch of Stolovaya n.1 Ko
There was also a remarkable tolerance for peika, a popular chain in St. Petersburg,
Northeasterners, even when girls and boys where both the brusque service and the
threw parties and got high. pinktinted beetroot borscht are said to
We stayed in a second fl oor fl at at one end of getty images/ istock
be equally legendary!
the colony. The building owner was a Punjabi
man who worked in a government bank in the Servings of nostalgia
commercial complex in nearby Mukherjee Na dropped off by an offi ce van somewhere talk to us: it appeared their interest was in our Our landlord subsequently sold the build The word stolovaya simply means ‘can
gar, which housed, among others, the famous around 10 p.m. at night. It was the night of cook N., who hadn’t come to work since the in ing and moved to Bhai Parmanand Nagar, not teen’ in Russian, and is a nostalgic lef
Batra cinema, a government wine shop, and Lohri, and some people in Indra Vihar had lit cident. too far away. We kept our fl at, before fi nally tover (pun intended!) from Soviet times
the offi ces of the sleazy Crime & Detective ma bonfi res before their homes with pieces of A couple of constables came and took me shifting south to Amar Colony, sometime in when providing an ‘adequate’ level of
gazine. The landlord lived with his short, wood. on a scooter — with people in the colony 2001 I think. care and provision for the population in
plump wife and two teenage sons on the fi rst As the van turned into our lane, I saw a watching — to the thana at Kingsway Camp, all areas of their lives was the well
fl oor. The ground and second fl oor fl ats and crowd gathered below our building. What had where a convivial SHO had a chat with me. It Close call fl ogged mantra. The Germans even have
the barsati room were let. Our landlord would happened? It was only after I had made my took him a long time to write down my room A day or two before we shifted, my roommate the perfect name for this — Ostalgie, a
walk to work every morning on a back lane way up that I learned the story: our landlady mates’ Khasi surnames and their addresses. suggested we go and say goodbye to Uncle. We portmanteau of Ost ‘east’ and Nostalgie
that went past a black, stinking canal, the gan- had been throttled to death with a length of Finally, with nothing defi nite turning up, he met near his new home — he didn’t invite us in ‘nostalgia’, referencing East Germany.
da naala for part of the way, to Mukherjee wire, and it seemed to have happened around invited me to come and have a beer with him — out on a busy road as evening fell. The de
Nagar. noon that day. someday, presumably to try and dig some tails of that short meeting escape me now, ex
Sometimes, we would get calls from home more. cept for one thing that happened towards the
on their land line telephone, and sometimes Something amiss end, which I can never forget. With autos and
we would ask them for ice from their freezer Two of my roommates had been home that Who benefi ts? cars and buses screeching by, the mildman
for our whisky. We would play tennisball day, and they had decided to clean up the fl at. I must mention here that never did we feel in nered bank employee told us something to the
cricket in the lane in front with their two sons, They had music playing loud, and it was only timidated or harassed by the police; just the eff ect of: “And listen, remember that it was I
and when the younger one broke his leg in an when, a few hours later, they went out to the unease of being viewed as potential suspects who told the police not to go after you people.”
accident on his father’s scooter we went to see balcony for a smoke and saw a crowd below by the colony people, which was only natural I They still give me a chill, those words. Were
W
hen I was growing up, it was quaintances, the perfect image on social from success to rejection by broadcasting sia, it is St. Petersburg that boasts the
fashionable to talk about the media, bodies and faces and hair by big it to everyone else. And then there are greatest number — both venerable esta
The parent
generation gap. This was a business. We can see how easily they those who will put it down to the amount blishments and more recent, 21st centu
catchphrase that turned up could be happy and how inevitably they of chemicals we have in our air and our ry iterations trying to distil the tradition
in magazine journalism. It was about as choose to turn away from happiness and water and the radiations emitted by cell al bleak atmosphere. Right down to the
popular as ‘brain drain’ and ‘culture we get really, really angry. phone towers. Sovietstyle prints hanging on their
TRAP
shock’. They’ve all vanished because we None of this makes sense to the parents walls and staff drawn mostly from the
now see ourselves diff erently. (By we, I Masks, mostly of a child who is cutting herself in order to exSoviet republics of Central Asia.
mean, the middleclass, the people with We say it is the waste of potential. We say break through the numbness and into In St. Petersburg, most stolovaya are
money and the people who are made to that they could be so much better were it some form of feeling. None of this com open 24/7 and are cashonly establish
worry about everything. Those without not for [add detected fl aw here]. Even as forts parents who are sitting outside a psy ments. And in a city where buying groc
irony often refer to us as ‘the chattering we begin the lecture, we can see the chiatrist’s offi ce and looking at their fi rst eries and cooking one’s own food can be
classes’ as if they were not part of the pro masks slipping on, the mask of pretence, prescription for tranquilisers. It’s easy in an expensive aff air, eating all three
blem if ‘chattering’ is a problem.) We have A child is having a the mask of agreement, the mask of re hindsight to blame the parents. You put meals at a neighbourhood stolovaya is
turned the brain drain into a celebration pentance, all of which covers the grim pressure on the child and so she cracked the norm. For here, a hearty lunch of a
of the NRI and no one has to explain why tantrum. The mom gives face of mutiny. because she could not live up to your ex soup, soft drink, main course and dess
their sons and daughters are abroad; eve Perhaps they can smell the fuel that pectations. You didn’t put pressure on the
ryone understands that their talents and in and we think: bad generates the lecture: envy. They are the child and so he thinks he is entitled to a
ert can often be bought for as little as
200 roubles ( ₹ 218).
skills have found space ‘there’.
idea, Mom. She walks young, the inheritors of the earth, they
are tomorrow. They have everything to
good life without having to work for it.
Actually parenting seems to me to be a Herring under fur coat!
Sly pleasures
Culture shock cannot be part of the res
away and we think: bad look forward to while we can only look
back in a mixture of anger and nostalgia.
game of chance involving so many diff e
rent factors that you shouldn’t even begin
The food on off er at most stolovaya is
homestyle, fi llyourbelly, nofrills stuff .
ponse patterns of the global citizen who idea, Mom They have no idea how lucky they are. to try and codify it. And that is all we do. Here, one can fi nd dishes like the ubi
seeks skid marks on his passport. We now And yet, and yet. Every day I hear quitous mayonnaisedoused fruitand
arrive with insider information from a mil about young people beginning to fall prey veg Salad Olivier, known to the world as
We hedge them around
lion mouths and we know what to expect.
To admit to suff ering from any form of cul
to depression and anxiety. Their parents
are dumbfounded. I once told a pregnant <
> with tasks and goals and Russian Salad. Apparently, the salad was
named after Lucien Olivier, a Belgian
ture shock would be to admit that one is friend, “A child is a machine designed to origin chef who invented it at Moscow’s
naive enough to expect people to be make you a secondclass citizen in your
watch as they ignore
Hermitage restaurant in the 1860s.
the same everywhere. And it is a cli own life. But it is designed so well, them and seek other Equally popular are the kotleti ham
ché of the world tourist that he goes you give it supremacy willingly.” burgerstyle patty and the beetroot
to peoplewatch and thus the diff e Most parents I know build their
improbable goals
borscht — both of which I’d tried earlier
rences will be part of the sly plea worlds around their children. Va and loved. Not so much the insipid, wa
sures of travel rather than the cations are based on when school We see a woman in a shop with a child tered down kompot, however. This soft
source of discomfort. is out. Sleep timings are fi xed by having a tantrum. She gives in and we drink is said to be a stolovaya mainstay
The generation gap has the imperium of the school bus. think: Bad idea, Mom, your child is going and is made from synthetic ‘fruit’ syrup
been subsumed into the larg Some moms know the history syl to do this again and again. She walks away with tiny bits of fruit fl otsam bobbing
er matrix of the hipster pa labus as well as their little daught and we think: Bad idea, Mom, your child along its roomtemperature surface.
rent. “She tells me everyth ers. They do it all and suddenly, is going to have abandonment anxieties. But then some stolovaya specimens
ing,” says Mom. “I told him out of nowhere, the child She kneels down to talk to the child and are utterly confounding to a nonRus
he should learn to drink with crumbles. we think: Bad idea, Mom, that’s not a hu sian — the innocuous pickled fi sh and
me,” says Dad. I refrain It is easy to line up the man being, that’s a bundle of nearuncon boiled eggs shuba salad is translated as
from comment. I have nev reasons. We have built trollable desires only made controllable ‘herring under fur coat’ on menus,
er been a parent nor have I a civilisation that by the size of the package. while yezhik, a traditional side dish of
suff ered from the desire to places a premium The problem is the uniqueness of the ricespiked meatballs, is rendered liter
be one, so I keep my res on competition, not parent, the uniqueness of the child, and ally as ‘hedgehog’. Interestingly, break
ponses noncommittal. I cooperation. (‘My boy the resultant uniqueness of the bond bet ing away from the traditional model as
just look at the somewhat stood fi rst in class’.) We ween them. And fi nally, there’s just plain far the menu is concerned seems to be
sullen faces of the hipster kids have created a monster luck. Some kids get through, some kids the latest trend. I was soon to learn that
and I feel a wave of compassion. child who needs to do everything. fall through. But the whole edifi ce of the St. Petersburg has a number of speciali
It seems as if they have been set (‘My daughter does taekwondo parenting industry — which is built on ty stolovaya options such as allvegetar
an impossible task. They must en on Monday, ballet on Tuesday, guilt — would collapse if we admitted that ian (Rada & K on ul Gorokhova 36), or
joy what they have and must strive swimming on Wednesday, men every parent is fl ying by the seat of her ganic and even a few where the
to overcome it. They must live in tal gym on Thursday, Bharatana pants into a fog without enough fuel. emphasis is on ethnic cuisine. Puris in
the moment and must keep an eye tyam on Friday, ballroom danc From where I’m sitting, it looks heroic. St. Petersburg, anyone?
on the future. They must, they ing on Saturday and epibionics
must, they must. on Sunday’). The writer admits there is no epibionics class The Mumbai-based writer and restaurant
We hedge them around with The children themselves live nor does he know what it means but he is reviewer is passionate about food, travel
tasks and goals and going to patent the idea so if you’re thinking and luxury, not necessarily in that order.
watch as they ignore gettyimages/ istock of opening a class of that kind, be warned.
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1 This name is a Latinisation of the native word for
the island Pretanī and became its female personi
fi cation. In the 2nd century, it came to personify a
take? Never. Human be So when somebody is saying social
ings means mistake and media is the future of somethingso
goddess, armed with a trident and shield and wear all will happen. Important thing is mething, I will in my mind shout the
ing a Corinthian helmet. She was featured on British whether we are learning from mis choicest abuses. If social media is the
coins, in the Brit Awards statuette and in the British takes or not. future means no need for future,
Phonographic Industry’s music awards. What is her Madam/ Sir, as you are knowing ve Mathrubootham is going to Mamba
name which should remind you of a tea time snack? ry well, I am very much totally against lam Foot Overbridge and jumping in
Facebook and Twitter and WhatsApp front of Shatabdi.
and all. All waste of time and destruc Then last week what happened? I
2 The Elizabeth Tower, which stands at the north
end of the Houses of Parliament, was completed
in 1859 and at that time had the largest and most ac
tion of brain, and ruination of society. will explain. Suddenly news came on
Full jealousy and backbiting retired bank employees WhatsApp
curate fourfaced striking and chiming clock in the behaviour. group that Mr. Kapadia has passed
world. It has fi ve bells and the largest of them weighs Somebody will put on Facebook: away. He used to be manager of Surat
13.5 tonnes. This was the largest bell in the U.K. for “Friends by grace of god I have pur branch where I went for deputation
23 years. The bell has a popular name that is ac chased new BMW twothree times. It
counted to either a boxing champion or the engi car, this photo of was very sad news.
neer who installed it. What is the name of this iconic car taken outside He was very nice
bell? fi vestar hotel man. Honest
where we went means honest.
for family dinner, Hardworking
3 ‘The Knowledge’ is a series of tests which must
be passed by people of a certain profession be
fore they can get a license to work in London. Since Iconic This annual boat race covers a 6.8km stretch of the Thames in West London. Wiki Commons
food was very
good but so much
means hardwork
ing. Every bank
they are not allowed the use of technology, they went waste be function he used to
have to memorise roughly 20,000 landmarks and seen anything like this and it was a huge hit and it be theories as to its meaning. It could be about the des cause we ordered sing. Unfortunately
places of public interest which encompasses 25,000 came a status symbol. People took them to parties truction of the landmark by the Vikings in 1014 or by too much, hotel voice like sudden
streets. This has been in practice since 1865 and it and carried it in their arms (with adequate protec the fi re of 1633. It is generally thought to relate to the people said, braking water
takes a student almost four years to master it and tion) to show it off . Each cost £5000 (₹ 4 lakhs) at cur many diffi culties experienced in bridging River ‘please take re lorry.
pass. Once you have done so, you join which iconic rent rate but you could even rent one fruit for an Thames. What rhyme is this? maining food par Everybody said
profession in London? evening. Two are engraved on two towers in St. cel to your condolences and
house’, but we getty images/ istock all. And then some
4 In London in 1247, the ‘Hospital of Saint Mary of
Paul’s Cathedral. What fruit was this which was im
possible to grow in English climate and we enjoy in 10 These are one of the most iconic visuals of
London. Initially they were of diff erent colours said, ‘no need al
ready fridge is
body said we
So when somebody is should do someth
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Bethlehem’ was founded as a priory and in 1402 summer? as they were run by many companies. In 1907, one
became a hospital for the mentally insane. The company painted its entire fl eet in bright colour to full of parcel ing to support fami
from Taj Con saying social media is ly. I think they have
name of the hospital was contracted into one single
word and soon the colloquial version of it found its
way in to writing. This version soon became a word
7 The Lincoln Cathedral in England was built in
1311 and at 525 ft became the tallest building in
the world, and stayed so for 238 years before a taller
stand out from the competition. Soon it became the
largest of its kind and when London Transport was
formed it became the default colour. What entity is
nemara, it will
go waste.’ Next
the future of little fi nancial pro
blem. Anybody
time, when we something-something, have any inputs?
all by itself to mean ‘a scene of mad confusion’. What church was built in Germany. The structure it sur this about?
word is this? passed though had had the record for a staggering go there maybe I will in my mind Madam/ Sir, for
3,871 years. Initially 481 ft it gradually eroded to 456 A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster next week — we threefour days in
are eating in shout the choicest putoinput. My
5 This gentleman was one of London’s most iconic
residents. He went chasing after counterfeiters of
the Royal Mint (which he ran), bribed crooks for in
ft. What structure is this that has been a wonder for
thousands of years?
enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad
called ‘Coff ee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’.
@bertyashley
fi vestar weekly
in our family —
abuses phone was vibrat
ing like pneumonia
we should order patient. I said, “Ka
fo, threatened criminals and their families and then
he burned all his notes to cover his dirty tactics. Le
gend has it that when he served in parliament the
8 This word is a portmanteau of the two oldest and
most prestigious universities in the world. The
word is in order of establishment as the fi rst one was
10. Red Buses of London
9. London Bridge is falling down, falling down
less food. Anyway please enjoy new malam, look at these fools. Just wast
BMW photo. God is great. All his ing time. Everybody will put ideas.
8. Oxbridge (Oxford + Cambridge)
only time he spoke was to ask someone to close a started in 1096 and the second was in 1209. The riv 7. The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt blessings only.” But whether one fellow will do any
window because it was chilly. Who was this eccen alry between them is also intense and there is even a 6. Pineapple work. If India can export ideas means
tric genius who became famous for stating a theory famous boat race between them. What word is used
5. Isaac Newton Son in Helsinki richest country in the world, any
Then somebody will put: “Oh my god doubt?”
4. Bedlam
in physics? to refer to these great universities? 3. Black Taxi Cab driver
2. Big Ben Ms. Kanakalatha this is wonderful But do you know what happened?
news. I think this is very good car. Madam/ Sir, I was totally wrong.
6 This fruit is originally from Brazil and made it to
9 This is a rhyme about a landmark which can be 1. Britannia
London only in the 1600s. The people had never dated all the way back to 1636. There are many
Answers Last month I had gone to stay with my Within fi ve days group is doing so ma
son in Helsinki and we did too much ny things for the family. They made
sightseeing, by grace of god it is a bank account and deposit and all
blessing. During trip we took Uber papers are ready and everything. One
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car and it was many times this car on fellow went and did full accounting
ly. I think in Finland many taxidriv for Mr. Kapadia’s property and took
BY BOB JONES
spade to dummy’s ace. The ace of
diamonds was cashed, followed by
the ace and king of clubs. South dis THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD NO. 3034
carded his nine and queen of
hearts on the high clubs. He ruff ed
a club, which confi rmed that West’s ● It was on display at the
original distribution had been Festival Automobile ● Takumi Yamamoto is best
1552. International from January 31 to known for designing the
South could not be defeated at February 3 exterior of the GT by Citroën
this point as long as West held the
king of diamonds. Declarer led the BY ROHAN MANOJ passed away in January 2016 just as
queen of diamonds, covered by the the designer was planning to present
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king, and ruff ed in the dummy. He ong into form. ‘A portrait of the project to him.
crossed back to his hand with the db’, a fullscale 3D sculpture of The challenge of translating Bo
ace of hearts and led the nine of a concept car inspired by the wie’s music into vehicular shape
diamonds. This was covered with late singersongwriter David didn’t daunt Yamamoto, who used
the 10 and ruff ed in dummy. A Bowie, was unveiled recently at the his own tried and tested method to
heart ruff allowed South to lead the Festival Automobile International in “extract key words from the subject,
eight of diamonds, covered with Paris. in this case his music, to guide me to
the jack and ruff ed with dummy’s Designed by Takumi Yamamoto create form,” he said in an interview,
last trump. A club ruff back to his and Cyrille Ancely, its roots lie more adding, “It doesn’t matter if the
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orth was aggressive when hand left South with the esta than two decades in the past, when words confl ict. I get a deeper and bet
he bid the grand slam, blished seven of diamonds for his Yamamoto looked at a poster of Bo ter understanding of how I perceive
but not overly so. Had thirteenth trick. wie he had in his room and realised the target, then transform these into
either one of South’s red Once again we see a twosuited that the stylised ‘db’ (from the last let form.”
queens been the queen of clubs in bid backfi re when it fails to fi nd a ter of ‘David’and the fi rst letter of ‘Bo He worked with a former col
stead, the grand would have been fi t. The help it gave to declarer on wie’) he saw there looked like a car league, 3D and industrial designer
excellent. this deal was devastating. Perhaps emblem. Cyrille Ancely, to turn his sketches in
South won the opening trump these bids are overrated? We’ll be The idea was incubated over the to the fi nal, 3Dprinted product with
lead with his jack and drew the re on the lookout for deals that show years before Yamamoto eventually the help of Parisbased Marie 3D and
maining trump by leading a low these bids in a better light. took it forward, although Bowie printers Massivit.
Across 4 Article during revolution offering a bet
1 Bone, article left with waterless earthy ter hope? (8,5)
stuff (8) 6 Nonsense following support for clown
5 Spots king wearing glasses (6) (7)
9 Steal dossier mostly about hospital (5) 7 Sweet end of tale after crazy upset dur
ECOTISM BY ASHVINI MENON 10 Hut people demolished, being crazy ing conversation (9)
(2,3,4) 8 Check stalk (4)
12 Raise opinion and reflect the driver 11 Unreliable medium chaps follow? Not I
needs it (44,6) (13)
13 Clear, endlessly wicked impression (7) 14 Beloved home before noon or at
15 Passage, wide perhaps, beside court (7) middle of day (9)
17 Bird strikes back, joining quarrel (7) 16 Flat lacking refinement (9)
19 Songs from soldiers for instance pro 18 Full answer nearly given by alien leader
tecting border (7) of expedition (7)
21 Plain and simple herb once prepared 20 More irritable group raised row (7)
(14) 22 Live drama involving a party (5)
24 Flute that’s loud and played a lot with 23 At a distance, some loaf around (4)
glee (9)
25 Furious pace getting one in front (5) Solution No. 3033
26 Wandered from route around Middle
East (6)
27 Good treatment of our soil? Magnifi
cent (8)
Down
1 Progressives in past breaking resolu
tion (9)
2 Tree in tribal sanctuary (5)
3 Very entertained by composer with en
ergy in place in Normandy (2,5)
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