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Suman Rao crowned Miss India World 2019

Suman Rao, an Accountancy student from Rajasthan, emerged the winner of Miss India World 2019. Chhattisgarh’s Shivani Jadhav, an engineer by qualification, was crowned Miss Grand India 2019, while management student Shreya Shanker from Bihar won Miss India United Continents 2019 title. Telangana’s Sanjana Vij was adjudged as Miss India Runner Up 2019. The winners were judged by a panel comprising renowned designer duo Falguni Shane Peacock, Miss World 2018 Vanessa Ponce de leon, actors Huma Qureshi, Chitrangada Singh, Aayush Sharma, choreographer-filmmaker Remo D’Souza, sprinter Dutee Chand and football captain Sunil Chhetri.The show was hosted by Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar and actor-anchor Manish Paul along with Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar.

Yoga Day this weekend The Consulate General of India, Houston in collaboration with Friends of Yoga, is organizing several events across Texas to celebrate the 5th International Day of Yoga.

This ancient Indian practice received unprecedented global attention four years ago when the United Nations recognized June 21st as the International Day of Yoga.

An initiative of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who himself starts his morning with yoga, the first IDY in 2015 saw people turning out in huge numbers stretching and breathing mindfully at public parks, convention centers and open spaces.

Yoga’s soaring popularity can be seen from the crowds that join in the celebration every year.

From serious yoga practitioners to curious beginners, each successive IDY has been drawing bigger crowds and garnering greater

interest. As with every year, this year too will feature a lineup of common yoga practices, relaxation techniques and guided meditation by wellknown yoga instructors.

An added attraction is an Indian Vegetarian Food Festival which will be held at select places to mark the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, Houston will celebrate IDY on Friday, June 21 on the lush green lawns of Midtown Park (2811, Travis St, Houston Texas 77006).

The event will begin at 6:00 pm with a demonstration of some of the more difficult yoga postures (asanas) and a cultural program.

After brief remarks from the Consul General of India, Dr. Anupam Ray, the guided group yoga (Asanas or Postures), Relaxation, Pranayama and Meditation will be led by different yoga experts.

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COMMUNITY

Chamber celebrates 20 years of service

By MANU SHAH “Diplomacy, it is said, has no eternal friends, only eternal issues. That may be the case for other countries but in my 20 years of experience, the US and India share common interests and a genuine friendship,” said US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster.

Ambassador Juster was the Keynote Speaker at the IACCGH 20th anniversary gala held at the Hilton Americas on June 15th. In a brilliant address to about 850 attendees, he put a lens on the existing strong USIndia ties as well as candidly acknowledged the “challenges and issues to confront” between the two nations.

Ambassador Juster pointed out four future challenges India will have to face: managing the rise of China, countering terrorism, promoting economic growth and modernizing its military.

He spoke of protecting a free and open Indo Pacific and “limiting the scourge of terrorism.” The US, he stated, wants to be a major partner in India’s economic growth and has given India STA 1 status– a license given “only to our closest allies” for the sale of high technology products.

India, he noted, is projected to spend $150 billion on military modernization in the next decade.

The US is keen to assist India’s efforts in building up its indigenous defense base and capabilities and major U.S. defense companies are in India producing components for complex defense systems.

Describing the relationship as one of “natural allies, he remarked that the two countries will face any challenges with the strong people-to-people relations shared between the two nations.

LyondellBasell CEO Bob Patel, who did the honors of introducing the Ambassador, described him as “eminently qualified and the right man at the right time.”

He pointed out that Ambassador Juster’s appointment was unanimously confirmed in two months which is “light-

ing speed in Washington DC.” Prior to the introduction, Bob Patel emphasized LyondellBasell’s commitment to protecting the environment.

Master of ceremonies and Chamber Past President Sanjay Ramabhadran welcomed the gathering which included several elected officials from the Federal, State and Local level.

He drew attention to the “visionary leadership of the Chamber founders” and offered interesting figures about US-India trade ties. In 1999, when the Chamber was founded, trade between the US and India was pegged at 12 and a half billion dollars and unflatteringly described as “flat as a chappati.”

Today, it’s a whopping 140 billion and growing exponentially. Texas accounts for about 15% of the trade while the Houston-India trade stands at $6.6 billion.

An Executive Director who “lives and breathes” the Chamber” Jagdip Ahluwalia spoke of the Chamber’s efforts in helping Houston and India discover business opportunities but added that the Chamber is also about local job creation, investment in the local economy, connecting small & medium enterprises; professionals, and businesses to global corporations.

As a member of the trade delegation led by Mayor Turner to India in 2018, Chamber President Swapan Dhairyawan highlighted the considerable bilateral trade contacts derived from this visit and the “durable friendships and strong economic impact” the mission would have in the Mayor’s Office, Greater Houston Partnership, Houston First, NASA, Houston Airport System and Station Houston.

Brief remarks were made by David MinceBerg, Director, Houston First and Ambassador Juan Sosa, Dean of the Consular Corps.

Guest of Honor Mayor Sylvester Turner acknowledged the work done by the Chamber for the “vibrancy and vitality of this city,” and noted that progress can happen only “when everyone gets a seat at the table.”

Jagdip Ahluwalia, left, Jacques D’Rovencourt, (General Manager, Hilton Americas-Houston) Rebecca Shindler (Hilton), Ambassador Kenneth Juster, Accamma Kallel, MSN, Nurse Practitioner (IANAGH President), Moani Thomas, Virginia Alphonso MSN,(IANAGH Secretary), and Swapan Dhairyawan.

Consul General Dr. Anupam Ray, whose “accessibility has endeared him to the community,” appreciated the friendship between India and the US and said it was not “a transactional one but one based on trust.”

Twenty years from now, India, he remarked, will be known as “a rich and powerful country, but should also be known as a kind, gentle and tolerant nation.”

Spotlighting the outstanding contributions of community members, the Chamber presented former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett and Dr. Durga Agrawal with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sugar Land Council member Himesh Gandhi was honored with the Rising Star Award while the Business of the Year Award went to Hilton Americas, Houston.

In a tribute to nurses, who form an integral part of the healthcare system, the Chamber presented the Trailblazers Award for Women in Nursing to Moani Thomas, a nurse who arrived on American shores 50 years ago and paved the way for many others and the twenty five year old Indo-American Nurses Association of Greater Houston whose President Accamma Kellel accepted on behalf of IANAGH. President Elect Tarush Anand, who described himself as a “second generation member,” – his father and uncle are longtime Chamber members,

Dr. Durga Agrawal receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from Ambassador Juster. Swapan Dhairyawan, left, Dr. Anupam Ray, and Jagdip Ahluwalia, right. stated that his efforts as President would be directed at bringing in the next generation in meaningful ways to ensure the continuity of the Chamber’s relevance.

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VIEWS

Electoral undercurrents of ‘new’ Sugar Land

By SESHADRI KUMAR At a time when American politics is painted with a brush of ‘identity’ and media headlines read “first woman,” “first gay” “first Asian,” “first Indian American” or “first Muslim ever elected,” predictably Naushad Kermally’s election earns the moniker “first Muslim” ever elected to the Sugar Land City Council.

It is incidental that Kermally is a Muslim, but such a description implies that despite bigotry, finally, (somehow) a Muslim got elected.

Even if the statement is made in a sense of euphoria, the innu-

endo is a disservice to the voters and to the candidate himself by suggesting that he won not on his own merits, but due to something else.

If one can make a slightly flippant remark, certainly a Muslim would have been elected here anyway because both the candidates in the race were Muslims.

The candidates were Nabila Mansoor, a Muslim of Pakistani origin, born in Canada, and Naushad Kermally, a Muslim of Indian origin, born in Uganda.

Telfair, New Territory and Riverpark subdivisions, which make up 90 percent of Sugar Land’s Dist. 2 certainly play a

pivotal role in local elections because of the demographics of this area, comprising a majority of Asians, and Hindus and Muslims, in particular.

Also, voter participation from this area is perhaps the highest in Fort Bend County so much so that these three subdivisions often decide the election outcome.

Consequently, any analysis of election from this area has to take religion into account, albeit reluctantly.

There are several features that distinguish this race from others.

In Sugar Land’s District 2, New Territory was recently added when the city annexed the

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There are seven voting precincts in the district. Pct. 4135, is the largest comprising nearly half of New Territory and all of Telfair. The rest of New Territory comprises three more precincts, Pct. 4026, Pct. 4039 and Pct. 4124. River park is designated Pct. 1076. A small portion on the side of Ismaili Jamatkhana, The Lakes subdivision, makes Pct. 4080. And there is one more Pct. 4158.

Dist. 2 of Sugar Land has about 19,000 registered voters and Pct. 4135 has one-third of those voters. Over all, voter turnout in the May election was 18. 36 percent in Dist. 2 and in the runoff 16.95 percent. In Pct. 4135 alone, the turnout in the May election was 26.58 percent and in the runoff 18.25 percent.

In the May 4 election, Mansoor overwhelmingly carried Riverpark, David Gornet won his precinct and Kermally took the rest. In the June run-off race, again Mansoor won Riverpark and Kermally won the rest of the precincts.

It is relevant to note here that Kermally belongs to the Ismaili sect of Islam and Mansoor belongs to the Sunni sect.

An estimated 1,700 registered voters in Dist. 2 are Ismailis and the Sunnis are believed to be about 1,400. This partly explains the support for Mansoor in Riverpark and Kermally elsewhere, reflecting the concentration of their respective supporters.

Kermally received 1,811 votes (57.26%) and Mansoor 1,352 votes (42.74%).

Thus, this race between two Muslims presented a novel scenario, where anti-Muslim sentiment would have limited or no impact on either of the candidates.

Though the city council race is non-partisan, Mansoor was backed by the Democratic Par-

ty and she was endorsed by the Democratic Party nominee for Congressional Dist. 22, Sri Preston Kulkarni. Even former DNC Chair Keith Ellison lent his endorsement to Mansoor.

Though Kulkarni lost to Republican Pete Olson, Hindu and Muslim voters pre-dominantly supported Kulkarni last November. The presence of two Muslim candidates posed a dilemma for the Indian Americans in general and Hindu Americans, who support Kulkarni. In the end, a sizeable section of Hindus chose to support Kermally.

Kermally was not formally endorsed by the Republican party of Fort Bend County, but many Republicans supported him. In some sense, this race could be seen as a shadow battle between Kulkarni and Olson. Not surprisingly, the victory party of Kermally was attended by Olson and Fort Bend County Republican party Chair Linda Howell.

Kermally also earned the endorsement of many sitting and former city council members, and that level of support is unprecedented.

Sugar Land’s Dist. 2 had not seen a contested city council race in 8 years as the incumbent was re-elected unopposed in three previous terms. With the new voter base, this election sheds light on the trend for the future.

In countywide races, Telfair and New Territory make a distinct mark in tilting the election one way or the other as was demonstrated in 2016 and 2018.

When the Democrats vote in high number elsewhere, with the Sugar Land’s Dist. 2 voters turning blue, the countywide Democrat sweep becomes inevitable.

The end of straight party voting from 2020 brings the possibility of slowing down the oneparty sweep, at least in local races, but that is not a certainty.

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COMMUNITY

Yoga

From Page 1 The event will wrap up at 7:30 pm with a color powder dance party or Holi as it is known in India. (RSVP at yogadayoftexas2019. eventbrite.com) Coordinator of Houston’s yoga events and a firm believer in yoga for optimum health, Sharad Amin expressed his appreciation for the cooperation from Houston’s yoga community in celebrating IDY for the past four years.

Yoga is a precious gift given

by Indian sages to humanity, he noted, and emphasized the importance of practicing yoga for good health every day.

International Yoga Day 2018 in Houston “Each one should teach one” the health benefits of yoga as it is key to “being and wellbeing,” he added.

The Hindu Temple of The Woodlands will host the event on Saturday June 22 from 7:30 -10am at the Town Green Park.

(2099 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, TX 77380).

Opening remarks will be made by Consul General Dr. Anupam Ray followed by yoga practices from participating yoga studios, Surya Namaskars or the Sun Salutation practice

by HTW Yoga Group and the 35 minute yoga protocol set by the Government of India led by renowned yoga instructors Sriram Sarvotam and his wife Ekaterina Jeleva. The morning

will conclude with a guided meditation session.

The Consulate General of India, Houston has also planned a series of events in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio.

IDY will be observed in front of the stately State Capitol building in Austin on Saturday June 15 at 6:00 pm (1100 Congress Ave. Austin, Texas 78701), in Dallas on 22nd June, Saturday at 8:00 am at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza (1201 Hidden Ridge Dr., Irving, Texas, 75038) and in San Antonio on 21st June, Friday at 6:00 pm at the Riverwalk Mall (San Antonio, TX – 78205).

In addition to these main events, multiple events are

being organized at churches, temples, community centers, Arya Samaj Greater Houston, Brahma Kumaris, India House, Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Shakas (HSS), Jamatkhanas and Patanjali Yogpeeth USA Trust between 15th and 23rd June.

Please visit the following links for more information: Website : http:// yogadayoftexas.org/ Facebook : https://www. facebook.com/yogadayoftexas/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/ yogadayoftexas The events are free and open to all. Bring your yoga mats and plan to arrive 20 minutes ahead to find a comfortable spot.

(The events are being organized in association with The Art of Living Foundation, Arya Samaj Greater Houston, Brahma Kumaris Texas, Ekal Vidyalaya, Hindus of Greater Houston, Hindus Swayamsevak Sangh, Hindu Temple of the Woodlands, His Highness Aga Khan Council for the Southwestern United States, IMAGH, India House, IDoYoga, Isha Foundation, JK Yog, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas, Midtown Houston, Patanjali Yogapeeth USA Trust, Pralaya Yoga, Sahaj Yoga, Sewa International, Youniversoul Fest, Vyasa USA, Yoga Studios, Yoga Friends and volunteers.)

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NEWS India’s election cements “Hindu nationalism” intoup. government; The cost of living keeps going Modi tweets about “an inclusive India”

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By VED NANDA Elections in India are a massive undertaking — 900 million eligible voters and a 67% turnout this year meant over 600 million people, almost twice the population of the U.S., voted.

Polling officials traveled to the most inaccessible and dangerous terrains. A booth was set up 70 kilometers inside a lion sanctuary in Gujarat state for a single person to vote and for 126 voters in Himachal Pradesh a worker took a threeday, more than 40-kilometer trek to reach the polling place.

Another polling place for 49 voters was located 15,256 feet above sea level, the highest in the world.

The Election Commission of India makes sure “that no voter is left behind.”

The electorate speaks 22 official languages and countless unofficial ones. The entire process took six weeks over several phases, cost the government approximately $7 billion and concluded with the counting of Houston votes on May 23.

My recent visit to India began on that day. In the morning, there was uncertainty about the result: a coalition of opposition parties had hoped to topple the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had won handily in 2014.

After all, for the last 50 the fear among minorities and have compared his “Hindu na- extremely hard and selflessly. years, no prime minister had win their heart.” Minorities, he tionalism” or “Indian national- This aspect of his personality won a second consecutive term said, were “exploited” by poli- ism” with extreme nationalism has served him well in leadbecause the electorate has been ticians during elections. His currently witnessed in Poland, ing such a diverse country and notoriously anti-incumbent. motto (as translated into Eng- Hungary, and Austria, among earned him widespread respect.

But as the evening approached lish) is “All together, all pros- other countries.

Mr. Modi will be called upon the ruling Bharatiya Janata Par- perous, with everyone’s trust WHY ButPRE-PLAN viewing it YOUR through a to meet Like high expectations creMEMORIAL? ty (BJP) had secured a stunning and confidence.”

Western prism is not accurate. ated by his renewed many things, costs will continue to increase, so mandate. victory — an absolute majority I spoke with several peoplelocking India’s history is replete with In his second in now is a wise decision. Yes, perhaps term, he will with 303 out of 542 seats in the in Delhi, among them Yash- the evidence of its warm em- continue to follow principles of a longofwaypersecuted away, but people, all the more to and work for Parliament. Many opposition want Pathak, an academic andit’s brace good reason governance your plan together now.reliContact your local leaders who had vociferously university administrator at theget coming from different sustainable development. ChalDignity provider for the bestthat prices. criticized Modi lost their own University of South Florida, gions,Memorial ethnicities,® and cultures. lenges confront him and seats.

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As flag bearers to the motto of selfless service, Sewa International has relentlessly served the community in many areas including education, family services, public health and Disaster Relief & Rehabilitation (R&R) but perhaps its most significant contribution over the years has been its Get Inspired Houston (GIH) & LEAD Internship programs.

Every summer, Sewa International, as part of its volunteer & community building outreach selects College undergrads and High School students under six cohorts that set a baseline for developing well rounded young community leaders that emerge at the end of the 2-month internship.

The college undergraduate students take a lead on various projects assisted by 2-3 High school students in Youth Education, Public Health, Family Services, Grant Writing, PR & Media and Event Management.

Students from various backgrounds and across state & city boundaries come together to put in over 200 hours during the summer across Sewa’s flagship projects which include ASPIRE after-school tutorial program, Disaster R&R at Rosharon in Brazoria county and Stop Diabetes Movement (SDM).

Running three after-schoolprograms for children from low-income immigrant and refugee communities at no cost to the families; the ASPIRE program presents interns with tasks to create fun- curriculums that teaches these children English and draw their creativity to learn.

The most recent batch of GIH interns also came out to support the Hurricane Harvey rehabilitation efforts in the Brazoria County where Sewa GIH interns volunteered through the day to support building over 60

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Social media’s lack of nuance arises from the medium’s limitations

An unprecedented scale of interactions, a stilted language to speak to strangers, and a brew of algorithms that lay premium on ‘stickiness’ of content One of the great truisms of our public life, especially mediated through social media, is that it is full of abuse, snark, insinuation, and in some cases, threats of violence and more.

Perhaps the most disconcerting is to discover that kind and generous people acquire online personas indistinguishable from the malicious.

In part, this transformation is facilitated by the complex so-

cial media machine mind that leverages to its fullest the two dimensionality of the electronic screen, where neither facial micro-expressions, intentions, nor the past histories of the individuals account for anything.

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While it is tempting to ascribe bad faith (justifiably, perhaps) on the part of technology companies to exacerbate this problem, the real issue speaks to limitations imposed by the very medium itself. The underlying model of human interaction as deployed by social media algorithms is shaped and constrained by three factors.

One, the still evolving programmability into a code of a rich model of human interaction. Two, an assumption that human interaction with 10 people is the same as it is with 100 or 10,000 people. And three, a simple action (a ‘like’ or a ‘retweet’) is treated as a signifier of a pattern which, like a drug dealer inferring the needs of an addict, leads to further curated content that entrenches one’s a priori views.

Of these three, the second throws open many questions.

When one is ‘followed’ by 100, 1000, or even a million people on social media, who is our interlocutor? For much of human history, the axiomatic assumption was that our social interactions over a lifetime would be limited to a small set — family, community, and so on.

Our poetry, language, and even cultural ideas iteratively developed to ameliorate the absence of those unseen by keeping the flame of their psychic presences alive in our lives. Thus we have aphoristic formulae like ‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ or ‘ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti’ — to impress upon us the commonalities of human experience, to transform the quest of others into something recognisable.

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Perhaps the prowess of this new influence is most evocatively conveyed in the film Iruvar when actor Prakash Raj’s character (a scriptwriter) introduces Mohanlal’s character (an actor in the 1950s Tamil film industry) to a crowd that waits outside the gates for the latter. Bemused, Mohanlal’s character, unsure what to make of his demigod status, says, “But I am just an actor.” Ever attuned to the politics pregnant in the present, Prakash Raj’s character prophetically instructs his colleague, “This is what Hitler, Stalin and others have sought after; this is what you have now.”

That these characters were fictionalised portraits of M. Karunanidhi and MGR is interesting, but the larger point that director Maniratnam was making was that from mass communication was born a new kind of man. One with the ability to speak to millions, to lead them into new paths of self-destruction or renaissance.

Language of abstractions The result of this power to move millions is that a language of abstractions became

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From Page 8 homes. Additionally, interns as part of Disaster R&R will also be presenting Emergency preparedness checklists and documentation. In addition to these they will also execute specific projects like planning vaccination drives and assist SDM camps under public health and planning field trips from scratch under event management. Sewa thrives on ambitious volunteers and openly welcomes creative ideas from the interns to run their own special projects that they are passionate about. This year Sewa onboarded 10 GIH interns from universities like University of Houston, Rice, St. Mary’s College, Arkansas Tech, UT and UTSA to take point on these projects and they will be supported by 28

the only meaningful way to subsume a vast array of experiences. Thus an entire intellectual infrastructure that spoke in amorphous terms — ideology, class, identity — became an efficient, perhaps the sole, way to construct taxonomies of human societies. The old world language of ‘honour’, ‘loyalty’, ‘duty’ — words that described commitments and roles of an individual — were effaced to make space for these new terminologies.

In due course, those on the receiving end internalised this language to describe the world around them.

What we have now, courtesy social media, is a stranger phenomenon, which commingles all of the above: an unprecedented scale of interactions, a stilted language to speak to strangers, and a brew of algorithms that lay premium on ‘stickiness’ of content.

How does one navigate this minefield to retain some semblance of one’s true self? Perhaps the answer lies in learning to give others the benefit of doubt much as we expect it from them. The Mahabharata has a name for this disposition: “Do not do to another which one regards as injurious to one’s own self. This is the rule of dharma.”

(The writer lives in New York City.)

—The Hindu

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NEWS 7-year-old Indian migrant NASA funds program to make videos to teach Hindi through Indian scientific innovations dies at border after being A programme funded by mented by funding from ence, mathematics and mediabandoned by group NASA in the US has produced Chaudhary’s New Jersey-based cine. “I met a number of high-

A young girl believed to be from India was found dead on the U.S. side of the border in Arizona Wednesday, and authorities say she was likely forced into making the remote crossing by smugglers.

Two adult women from India who were apprehended said they were part of a group of five that had been brought to the border by smugglers then ordered to cross in the desert west of Lukeville, a border crossing point.

The group got separated, the two women said.

Border Patrol agents went looking for the other three and quickly found the remains of the dead girl. Based on the information from the women, they believe the girl was 7 years old, and also from India.

Another young child and an adult woman are still missing, though agents said they spotted footprints and believe the two may have headed back to Mexico.

U.S. and Mexican authorities have searched, but as of Thursday night said they had not located anyone else from the group.

Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the border, said temperatures on Wednesday reached 108 degrees in the remote desert region where the group was dropped off.

“Our sympathies are with this little girl and her family,” said Tucson Chief Patrol Agent Roy Villareal. “This is a senseless death driven by cartels who are profiting from putting lives at risk.”

Reports of deaths of migrants during the journey across the border have surged in recent weeks — though they get far less attention than deaths that occur of migrants in U.S. custody.

Last week in Texas, smugglers driving a Chevrolet Suburban with 18 illegal immigrants in it crashed the vehicle.

Six of the migrants died, and nine others had to be rushed to the hospital.

The smugglers abandoned the vehicle and the migrants, who were from Mexico or Central America.

—The Washington Times.

a series of videos about famous archaeological sites and institutions in India along with lesson plans in Hindi to teach the language internationally in the context of science and technology.

The videos focus on scientific innovations at various sites like Amer Fort palace and Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, the rustresistant Iron Pillar of Delhi, UNESCO Heritage site Qutub Minar, the Chand Bawri step well and headquarters of the Jaipur Foot, a prosthetic given free to impoverished amputees in 80 countries across the world.

The NASA-funded programme STARTALK, which makes it a priority issue for national security to expand the teaching and learning of Hindi, Arabic, Chinese and other world languages, made a USD 90,000 grant to Ved Chaudhary, director of the project.

The programme is supple-

foundation Educators’ Society for Heritage of India.

The programme is administered by the National Foreign Language Centre at the University of Maryland.

“This was a unique experience. I never knew I was going to have so much fun doing my research,” Alok Kumar, principal investigator in the project, said.

Supported by research studies, Kumar said, context is crucial in learning new languages.

Each video, designed for learners from middle school through college, employs a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) perspective “to provide interesting and incredibly rich context to create learning experiences that can push learners to the advanced level of Hindi.”

Kumar, professor of physics at State University of New York, has published several books on ancient Hindu sci-

quality individuals who have made a profound impact on my life,” he said.

The University of Maryland said that science-based innovations are abound in the sites Kumar chose.

With no air conditioning in 1799, a Hindu architect designed the honeycombpatterned Hawa Mahal as a “Palace of Breezes,” taking advantage of what is known as the “Venturi effect,” Kumar said, adding that air enters narrow passages of the building, increasing the speed of flow and producing natural cooling.

The nearly 24-foot-tall Iron Pillar of Delhi, built in the year 402, is a testament to the skill of Hindu metal smiths who processed phosphorus-rich iron that, instead of corroding, creates an even, protective layer that has withstood centuries of monsoons and scorching summer heat, the university said.

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Let’s grow a shared vision

By MICHAEL R. POMPEO We’ll probably discuss the GSP. We remain open to dialogue, and hope that our friends in India will drop their trade barriers and trust in the competitiveness of their own businesses, their own people It’s great to see so many Indian and American business people coming together to talk about how to draw our two nations closer together, and to talk about big ideas. That project has been in the forefront of my mind too, in preparation for my upcoming trip. I want to give you a sneak preview of my mission, and tell you why I truly believe that our two nations have an incredibly unique opportunity to move forward together, for the good of both of our peoples, the Indo-Pacific region, and indeed the entire world.

The idea of a US-India partnership frankly stretches back a long way. When the Indian people first courageously won their independence over 70 years ago, a strong relationship between our countries was something people talked about.

Our two democracies and a close relationship seemed inevitable, a matter of “when” not “if.” But for too long — indeed, for decades — we found ourselves on different trajectories.

The US was fighting the Cold War. And India was asserting itself, its new-found, cherished independence through its nonaligned movement, trying not to take sides. We cooperated when we could, but frankly I

think most would agree that we mostly fell short of our potential.

We couldn’t trade much because India had a closed economy. The Licence Raj kept businesses and innovators out of the black and covered in red tape.

Five-year plans became the received wisdom, something like our 2 per cent growth here in the last administration became sort of a new normal. We focussed our attention on other Asian trading partners, and what were once cubs grew up to be true tigers in the region.

But all that changed in 1991, when India opened its doors to the world. Prime Minister Rao said that at the time his government would “sweep the cobwebs of the past and usher in change.” India’s free-market reforms unleashed the innovation, the entrepreneurship, the sheer drive of its own people to do remarkable things. First, we’ve had a seven per cent growth in India from 1997 to 2017, year-on-year. Millions of Indians have been lifted out of poverty. India became a world leader in IT — IT services, engineering, pharmaceuticals, and so many more things that you all know so well. The USIndia bilateral trade reached $142 billion just last year, a seven-fold increase since 2001.

Additionally, more than 500 American companies now successfully operate in India. And of course, the US is a market for roughly 20 per cent of India’s exports in both goods and services.

Indian-Americans,

too, have contributed mightily to things that happened here in the US. We’ve watched Indians reach the heights of industry, and academia, and government. People like Microsoft’s CEO and the FCC chairman Ajit Pai, a great Kansan, have done remarkable things all around the world.

US Presidents of both parties have seized the opportunity for closer ties. President Clinton’s visit in 2000 set a real marker, he set the table for closer cooperation between the two countries, and then President Bush inked a historic civil nuclear deal. More recently, President Obama granted India “Major Defence Partner” status and supported India’s quest for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council — a position that the US continues to support. And under President Trump, we’ve taken our defence cooperation to new heights, solidified our common vision for the Indo-Pacific and taken a far tougher stand on Pakistan’s unacceptable support for terrorism in the region.

Just a few weeks ago, in a truly historic election, 600 million Indians voted in the largest exercise of the franchise in history. And they gave Mr Modi a huge mandate. Not since 1971 has an Indian Prime Minister been returned to office with a single-party majority, and — to borrow a phrase – he enjoyed an awful lot of winning.

Many observers were surprised by the result, but, frankly, I wasn’t. I’ve been watching

closely. And we knew that the Prime Minister was a new kind of leader for the world’s most populous democracy. He is the son of a tea seller who worked his way up to governing a state for 13 years and now leads one of the world’s truly emerging powers. He’s made economic development for the poorest Indians a priority. And indeed, millions who once went without light bulbs now have electricity. And millions who lacked cook stoves now have them. It’s interesting that young Indians constituted one of the Prime Minister’s largest voting blocks, one of his biggest groups of support in this most recent election. I think that tells you something.

For my part, as the Secretary of State, I know I have a strong partner, a new, great counterpart in Minister Jaishankar — a former Ambassador to the US. First, we have to build everstronger relationships. In fact, we’ve sent some of our finest minds to New Delhi, thinkers like Daniel Patrick Moynihan and our current ambassador, Ken Juster. But forging stronger ties is more than that. It means formalising these individual friendships, building out a diplomatic framework for our two countries. I think we’ve done that but there’s more to do. Last year we kicked off a 2+2 dialogue and I went to attend it alongside the Secretary of Defence. We also reinvigorated the Quad Dialogue among the United States, Japan, and Australia — all like-minded democracies in the Indo-Pacific.

But I want to talk about a couple other things I believe we can do together. We must embrace that strategic framework that works for both of our nations. We respect India as a truly sovereign, important country, with its own unique politics and its own unique strategic challenges. We get it. We realise it’s different to deal with the likes of China and Pakistan from across the ocean than it is when they are on your borders. That’s why in this room, not so many months ago, I elaborated on President Trump’s vision for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. It starts from the premise that we share a common set of values — the values of democracy and freedom and a core belief in the ingenuity of the human spirit.

We also have to make sure that we have economic openness. We have to have a central theme being the idea that we have liberty and sovereignty in each of our two nations, and build on those ideas. These need to be places in which economic growth reinforces our democratic values, and not dictatorship. It needs to be a place where our partnership is one of true equals, not of domination. Based on my conversations in New Delhi last year, and in subsequent phone calls and meetings, I believe this is a deeply shared vision.

Third, we have to deliver.

We have to execute. The Trump administration has already enabled American companies to export more high-tech items to See POMPEO, Page 13

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NEWS Akademi rejects Left Govt’s decision to review cartoon award

A State-run Akademi on Monday rejected the Left Government’s advice to review its decision to honour a cartoon, depicting Bishop Franco Mullakal as a rooster and alluding to the rape charge against him, saying the jury’s decision was final and Akademi would stand by it.

The decision was taken unanimously at the execu-

tive committee and the general council of the Kerala Lalithakala Akedmi Akademi, which met at its headquarters here.

An autonomous cultural organisation of the government,the Akademi also turned down the criticism that the cartoon,titled ‘Viswasam Rakshathi’ (protection of faith) drawn by K K Subhash of

Pompeo

I know that these conversations that we will continue with the new government in India that has so much promise for its people, for our relationship, and for the world – I hope together, we will finally fulfill the great promise of cooperation that was present at India’s birth and which remains evident today.

I did business in India when I — before I lost my mind and ran for Congress — ran a small business that made machine parts for the aerospace industry. And I spent a fair amount of time in Bangalore and in Chennai working with HAL. I’ll tell you what. It was tough. India was still opening up, it was still figuring its way through, but there was a real value proposition there and we did well. When I think about that, when I think about what businesses need when they go to invest in each other’s countries, they need stability, they need a set of rules that they can understand, they need to make sure that the efforts that we put forward together from the US have sufficient bipartisanship, that they won’t be whipsawed as we have elections here. That is, when you invest, your ROI often extends beyond any particular congress or any particular administration.

It’s already happening in technology and engineers.

I know all of the amazing, brilliant Indian students that come to study in our schools at Wichita State University in my hometown, lots of amazing people doing amazing things want to come work in places where they can go make money and be successful. They don’t care so much if it’s with an Indian company or an American company. They want to go out and use their skill set. If we can, at the State Department, lay the foundation for that, then I’m confident the folks in this room will knock it out of the park. They’ll take risk, they’ll invest capital, they’ll invest capital here and in India, and we’ll grow both sides of the relationship.

From Page 12 India. This includes cutting-edge defence platforms like armed UAVs and ballistic missile defence systems.

We’ve already launched the Asia-EDGE programme to help India raise private capital to meet its energy and security needs for years to come. These are solid achievements but we want to do so much more.

We clearly have overlapping interests: defence, energy, space. The list goes on.

The first batch of Apache helicopters is coming off Boeing’s production line in Arizona even as we speak. Lockheed Martin’s F-21 and Boeing’s F/A-18 are state-of-the-art fighters that could give India the capabilities it needs to become a full-fledged security provider throughout the IndoPacific.

On energy, we want to complete the Westinghouse civil nuclear project and deliver more LNG and crude. These steps will give Indians reliable, affordable, diversified energy independence. So they will no longer have to rely on difficult regimes like those in Venezuela and in Iran. On space, NASA is already working with the Indian Space Research Organisation on the world’s most advanced earth-observation satellite and India’s second lunar mission. I mean, how cool is that?

Now, I’m sure we’ll broach some tough topics too. But as we democracies have come to know, that we work out our disagreements. We bring them to the table honestly and fairly.

And we’ll probably discuss the recent decision on the GSP programme. I do hope, and remain open – and we remain open to dialogue, and hope that our friends in India will drop their trade barriers and trust in the competitiveness of their own companies, their own businesses, their own people, and private sector companies.

We’ll also push for free flow of data across borders, not just to help American companies, but to protect data and secure consumers’ privacy. And speaking of privacy, we are eager to help India establish secure communications networks – including 5G networks as well.

(Excerpted from the remarks of the US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo at the India Ideas Summit and 44th Annual Meeting of the US-India Business Council)

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Chengalam, had hurt the sentiments of the Christian community.

“We have unanimously decided not to intervene into the decision of the expert jury which had selected the cartoon for the award.

Their decision is final and we will not make any change in it,” Akademi chairman Nemom Pushaparaj told PTI. “Last time, the award was given to a cartoon criticising Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijay-

an. We had never attempted to change that decision also,” he said.

The cartoon ‘Viswasam Rakshathi’ had appeared in a Malayalam magazine last year after Mullakal was accused of rape by a nun.

Showing Mullakal as a rooster, it also has a pink coloured lingerie in the crosier (staff), carried by a bishop as a symbol of the pastoral office, while a group of nuns is shown fleeing.

Pushparaj, however, made it clear that no religious symbol was shown in a poor light in the award-winning cartoon.

“What had been depicted in the cartoon was the symbol of power and not any Christian symbol.

When the staff is carried by a person, whom we can describe even as an anti-social,it is just a symbol of power.. there is no need to attach any holiness to it,” he said.

Two members of the akademi’s general council belonged to the same church denomination, which had raised objection to the cartoon and they were also of the opinion that there was no need to review the jury’s decision, he said.

Gujarat man booked for giving triple talaq to wife on WhatsApp A man in Gujarat’s Valsad district has been booked for allegedly giving triple talaq, prohibited by law, to his wife through a WhatsApp message, police said on Monday.

An official identified the accused as Jailun Javed Kalia (27) and said he has sent the divorce message to his father Javed Kalia a few days ago.

“The victim, a 25-year-old woman now residing with her parents in Umargam town in Valsad, filed a complaint on Sunday. Jailun, a resident of Sanjan, works in a shipping firm and is currently abroad,” said Inspector PM Parmar of Umargam police station.

“Upon getting the divorce message from his son, Javed Kalia took a print-out and approached a cleric to formalise the separation,” he said.

The couple were married four years ago and have a three-year-old son, he said, adding that the victim has complained that she was tortured in her marital house.

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Ganga to Kaveri — dances depict the grace of rivers

By THARA NARASIMHAN va, across the mountains and Indian Performing Arts through Uttar Pradesh and BiSamskriti recently presented an har, once the seat of powerful extraordinary program, Ganga empires mentioned in the Rato Kaveri, conceived and pro- mayan and Mahabharat. duced by Churchill Pandian of The final Ganga Arathi had a Utsav Music, India at MATCH. spiritual effect on the audience This was one of Samskriti’s and had everyone participating best and finest presentations, in the prayer. Bhavana Reddy celebrat-ing the sacred rivers, stole the show with her vibrant through four different classical dances in the lively incorporatdance forms, to delineate the ing the footwork on the brass mythological stories associated plate, one of Kuchipudi’s hallwith these rivers. marks.

Beautifully evocative dances The Rasalila of Krishna and per-formed to hymns in San- the Gopis, the dancing on the skrit, songs in Tamil, Hindi, hood of the serpent Kaliya, and Telugu and Kannada, set to Jayadeva’s “Dheera Sameere mel-lifluous music by Ban- Yamuna theere”, were all porgalore’s famous Praveen D. trayed to artistic perfec-tion.

Rao (brilliantly sung by Vari- Nitya Narasimhan chose the jashree) all merged into the riv- Bharatanatyam style to present ers on the stage in a harmoni- the river Narmada. ous confluence.

With a beautifully evocative Churchill Pandian, a cel- face and compelling expresebrated journalist, artistic sion of emotions, Nitya porconsultant and cultural event trayed the origins of the river director from Chennai, India, as well as little known stories scored a perfect 100 with his of the unique Bana Lin-ga, wonderful idea of combin- found only in this river, and of ing dif-ferent genres of music Ganga propitiating Narmada and dance styles and bringing every year. It is on the banks of together young and highly tal- the Narmada that Adi Shankara ented dancers from within the met his Guru Govinda BhagaUS to present his novel theme. vadpada.

Astha Dixit of Los AngeBrahmaputra stands apart les, CA, a versatile actor and as being one of the few ‘male’ Kathak dancer, depicted Ganga rivers in India. The river baand covered the holy places tra- sin is made up of parts of Inversed through the Indo Gan- dia, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and getic plain.

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and Sadrita Mondal, the dance high-lighted the mythological story of matricide committed

by Parashurama. When the axe (which he used to cut off his mother’s head) stuck to his arm with blood and could not be removed, he cleansed himself and his arm in Bramha Kund where he broke the peak of the mountains to let Brahmaputra flow freely. The river, being the son of Brahma, cleansed him of his sin.

Aparupa esthetically incorporated folk styles from the North Eastern regions of India into her presentation, giving it a beautiful new dimension.

Considered a sacred river in South India, the River Kaveri is re-ferred to as Dakshina Ganga, flowing from Karnataka to Tamilnadu, and streaming by the magnificent temples of Brihadeeswara (in Tanjavur) and Sri Ranganatha (in Srirangam), before it reaches the Bay of Bengal.

Houston’s own Dr. Rathna Kumar marvelously choreographed this dance in the Bharatanatyam style and it was per-formed by the Anjali Center’s Assistant Director Venugopal Josyula, Ananya Gokhale, Isha Parupudi, Jvalanti Prasad, and Keerthana Varma.

Thyagarajan’s famous song on Kaveri was cleverly incorporated into the dance. The grand finale was the merging of all the rivers in a group dance of the five lead dancers who came together emphasizing the

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Sanchali Basu, President of Samskriti welcomed the gathering and also was the em-cee of the evening. The delightful program was well attended and appreciated by the august audience through every moment of it.

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By CLAUDE ARPI Since the Lok Sabha results were announced, the Indian media has been speaking about rebooting, something you do when you change your Operating System (OS) — new and high expectations about the new Government probably explain the term and Modi 2.0. Though analysts usually think of it in terms of better control about internal security (with Amit Shah in command of Home Ministry) or improvement of defence preparedness with the trusted No 2 (Rajnath Singh) as Raksha Mantri, many other fields need ‘rebooting’, too.

There is, however, one domain which is never mentioned by the commentators — it is the opening and re-organisation of our historical records. A reboot or revamp is absolutely crucial in this domain, especially if India wants to become a respected world player.

Remember the standoff at the tri-junction between Sikkim, Tibet and Bhutan during June-August 2017? Day after day, Beijing used a historical argument — the 1890 Convention signed between the British and the Manchus, without any reference to the main stakeholders, the Tibetans. For Beijing, it was an occasion to conveniently “erase” several posterior agreements, particularly the 1914 Simla Convention, during which the north-eastern border of India was defined (McMahon Line).

At that time, nobody countered China on the 1890 Convention, which spoke of an un-surveyed place called ‘Gipmochi’, but it was only in 1956 that a tri-junction was demarked on a map after a bold officer from the Indian Frontier Administrative Service, TS Murty,

accompanied by staff from the Survey of India, found out that the tripoint was at Batang-la and not at all Gyemochen, located a few miles south of the physical tri-junction (Gipmochi was a misspelling for Gyemochen).

The Chinese could bluff the Indian media for nearly three months with their 1890 Convention. With the current rebooting, one can only hope that deep changes will soon take place in this domain. A telling example is the Sikkim Papers.

Soon after the merger in 1975, the responsibility for the Himalayan State shifted from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to the Ministry of Home Affairs. An acquaintance, who as a young diplomat was posted in Gangtok in the political officer’s office, recalled that at the end of 1975, he spent months going through all the historical records kept in Gangtok relating to the period between 1885 and 1975 — it was indeed the Memory of the Himalaya. Once his work was over, the officer was told to dispatch the papers to Delhi — four lakh precious files were moved in six trucks to Delhi under CRPF escort.

South Block was keen to keep the papers but other officers, probably from the Intelligence Bureau, prevailed and the corpus was taken away. Since then, these Sikkim Papers are missing in action — they would have an immense historical value today to prove that India and Tibet had a different relation than the one portrayed by China. It is just symptomatic of a lack of interest in historical issues in India.

What can be done? Leaving the Sikkim Papers aside for a moment, the first thing to do is to reopen the historical division in the MEA. It

existed till the 1990s when an officer decided to close it down, “We don’t need one more division”. As a result, the MEA has today only a “Boundary Cell” manned by a Lt Col from the Survey of India. It is insufficient when the country is facing so many boundary disputes (and will face more in the months and years to come).

The Division needs to be headed by a professional historian and not a foreign service officer bound by short tenures. When one reads some of the notes prepared by the historical division available in the National Archives of India (NAI), one is surprised by the in-depth historical background material provided to the deciders to take decision and inform the Indian public better.

The Ministry of Defence faces a similar problem. The records of the Army, for example, can’t be kept by a few officers posted for a short term, even if these officers are extremely dedicated.

Only a professional from outside the Army hierarchy can provide the professionalism and continuity required.

The same argument applies to other Ministries, particularly Home Affairs. One of the problems is that very few scholars have the necessary knowledge to go through the files to decide if there is anything which could jeopardise India’s ‘security’ or ‘national interests’. In my experience of years of working in the archives, particularly with the Nehru Papers at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), very few documents (perhaps one out of tens of thousands) would need to remain ‘classified’.

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ourous’ cases, ie, the HendersonBrooks-Bhagat report on 1962 or the report into the mysterious death of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 in Tashkent.

In the latter case, the Government was ordered by the Chief Information Commissioner to “consider the fundamental right to know and demand of the people, (and) to declassify (them), either through an expert committee or by any other process, to get the mystery probed and resolved”. Nothing happened.

The ‘right to know’ applies to all papers more than 25-years-old.

It is not that India has no law; the Public Records Act exists, but unfortunately, laws seem to have been made more for the ‘common man’ than for the Government offices. It is sad!

Apart from separate divisions in important Ministries, what is today required is an Office of the Historian, directly under the Prime Minister’s Office with a large oversight over the different historical divisions, sections or desks. It needs to be headed by

a senior reputed historian, with a team of scholars, who will make sure that the different divisions work properly and follow the laws about declassification. This will, of course, have to be closely coordinated with the NAI and other State archives.

The historian, or whatever name is given to the officer, should be of Secretary to the Government rank and should be able to coordinate with other Ministries and supervise digitalisation of records, joint indexing and timely transfer to the NAI. The historian should be supported by an advisory board of senior historians, diplomats, bureaucrats and Army generals, who could help him to decide for difficult cases. Would this happen, it will be a great re-booting. It would show that India has become a mature Republic and the ‘right to know’ is respected.

(Born in France, Claude Arpi is now settled in India. He is the author of several books on Tibet, China and India and a regularly contributor on Indo-French relations.)

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MUSINGS by Gadfly

An Unseen Hand

Some years ago, I called a cousin in India to wish her Happy Mother’s Day. Her son answered.

“What’s for Mother’s Day?” I asked.

“Uncle, I don’t really believe in this Mother’s Day and Father’s Day business because it is really a business imported from the West.”

“Oh, so you celebrate Matrudin huh?”

“No, no,” he said. “Every day is Mother’s Day, Matrudin, Pitrudin for me. I think, people should treat their mother every day like on Mother’s Day.” I realized I was talking to the wrong person. There is a special day for mothers & fathers because there can be no one more special in our life.

Spouse comes later & may or may not improve on the original product.

Children bring special joy while you, as a father, are just beginning to wonder how your parents managed to get the time and the energy to do all those things that made you who you are today.

Same logic as Presidents Day in America. It’s about a debt owed, impossible to repay to forefathers of a nation, every nation. Every day can’t be President’s Day and y/our parents deserve a special day of acknowledgment of their debt, more so than the Presidents.

Forefathers & Presidents give blood & sweat to their nation. Parents go further. They give blood, sweat & tears to us and for far more years.

Growing up with my brothers in Mumbai, there was no globalization & no Mother’s Day. There was Matrudin & Pitrudin based on our Hindu calendar, Nirnaysaqagar Panchaang. My parents wouldn’t have put up with any kind of ‘celebration’, calling it tamaashaa.

They were happy with our special namaskar after the shower that day, as we did on Dussehra, and Diwali days starting with Narakachaturdashi. About five years after my father passed away, our mother let us celebrate Mother’s Day in a special way because we were all here in the US and everyone was celebrating Mother’s Day including the TV commercials.

Those two days of this year are behind us now but there is no statute of limitations for a special remembrance of unpayable debts. Everyone feels their parents were/are special, with echoes of ‘mine were more special’. What follows here may mirror those echoes – each one to his own. Anecdotal evidence is as good as echoes of that specialness.

This incident with my father occurred when I was barely eighteen. Movies, esp. Hindi movies & their music had a tight hold over me, turning me

from a fan to a certified buff.

Going to the movies began with lying to parents - going to friend’s house to study for exams.

There were some areas nearby where we ventured to tread with a fear-filled heart in our hands, in broad daylight. The movie tickets were dirt cheap, the only rate we could afford.

Like anyone age 15-20, there was this blissful ignorance that my father had no inkling of my wayward ways of getting in harm’s way just to go to a movie.

So it was ironic that one day, soon after final school exams, as I was looking forward to three months of outside food, fun & movies, he said,” Your mother & I don’t want to worry about what kind of (wrong?) company you’re keeping next three months. So…….” I’ll get to that.

Six years earlier, my father had lost his 25-year old job as a copy editor at a Mumbai weekly, after the owner-editor’s death, making his part-time business - buying from wholesale manufacturers (Dhootpapeshwar, Sandu, Zandu’s, etc.) & selling to retail shops, walking from Princess Street to Grant Road, almost Bombay Central - full-time.

At the time of this conversation, he was established enough to get by without us experiencing any hardships.

He had talked to a shop-owner - T. A. Wagh & Co., a chemist shop five minutes’ walk from our chawl - to hire me as one of their OTC (over the counter) salesmen.

They sold all medications – allopathic, ayurvedic, homeopathic, herbal – and injections (syringes), soaps, stationary etc. The job was from 8 am to 9 pm with three hours – 12 to 3 - for lunch. They had agreed on the prevailing rate for an apprentice.

The job would last for the duration of my summer holidays. My father said he’ll put all my earnings in my account at a local bank. He was still going to pay for my college education. He said, “This way your mother & I will know where you are every day from Monday thru Saturday & we wouldn’t be wondering where you were, with whom, every day, every week during summer, doing what.”

Before I had time to think & refuse (looking forward to a lot of fun times in those three months), he lured me with an offer I couldn’t refuse. This is the ironic part.

He said because my salary was going to my bank account, he would give me a weekly allowance (my first) & also give me additional Rs. Five every weekend to go to the movies.

A medium-priced ticket was Rs. 2:75, then 3:75 or so. That movie offer was the bait that

hooked this fish.

It was ironic because this offer was coming from someone who until then was blaming my movie & music ‘addiction’ for my low grades in high school.

The ingenuity was in sweetening the pot.

Not only did I agree but I went back to that job for two summers of first two years of college. Same deal. The money came handy later in the last two years of college to stay in college hostel.

He was uncomfortable about me staying somewhere else.

The 11 p.m curfew & a security guard – even with a warden on the premises - was not his idea of proper supervision but he was willing if I was going to study. “One incident, one complaint and you’ll be back here in no time.” I was fear bound now to keep my word.

I often wondered why he came with a job offer. His rule was, no job till we get a college degree. He had reluctantly made an exception for my brother Vinnie (IH – April 17 Musings). And here he was, with a job offer in hand!

Was I the only one he worried, about falling in bad company? Did he think I was more gullible, vulnerable than my brothers? Not very flattering.

Six or seven years later, I asked my mother about it. She said it cost them more money than other brothers to put me thru high school.

The extra tuitions for my weak subjects (geography, geometry, physics & chemistry) was a big bundle for his budget. And my college expenses were staring in his face. He felt I needed to learn the value of money early.

Another irony here is that except for geography, I’ve never used the other three – geometry, physics & chemistry – personally. Yes, they’re part of everyday life and, science cannot do without them. And yes, I am affected by them indirectly.

That job in the chemist shop taught me a lot more than value of money. The unexpected lesson was seeing how often the chemist shop’s owner & employees talked about my father with reverence. Later some other owners & employees I met repeated that feeling.

My mother had her own ways of going where she had never been before without

knowing she did something special. A year after my degree, I got a good job in a semi-governmental company & was posted in a building called (another irony) White House on Walkeshwar Road near Chowpatty. The #103 bus that stopped right outside our chawl also stopped in front of that White House.

Some three-four months into my job – still on probation - one day something my mother said or did upset me enough to get up in a huff halfway thru my meal, change & go to work. Age twenty-three.

In a hall full of desks, on the second floor of White House, my desk was facing other employees & the wall, with my back to the door. A little before lunch time, suddenly people facing me started looking behind me at the door.

I turned around to see what was going on. It was my mother, then fifty, standing at the doorway looking for me. As I turned, she saw me, but didn’t move. I jumped out of my seat and almost ran to the door – my fastest walk ever – feeling embarrassed, guilty & ashamed for walking out in anger.

She said, “You walked out in the middle of your meal. They say if someone walks out on

their meal, they never return.

The thought of never seeing you brought me here.”

Aside from being more embarrassed (that I caused her pain), I had that warm feeling that she loved me just as much as she loved her other sons. Of course, she did. This was my twenty-three-year-old incomplete brain talking.

I took the lunch box from her and pointing to the lunch room, said, “Let’s go sit down in the lunch room.” What she said was a reminder that I had inherited my sense of humour from her.

“No,” she said. “They will mistake me for a maid. I changed in a hurry.” She was decently dressed as always and nobody would’ve thought of her as a maid. She knew that.

But of course, she was joking.

That familiar smile was back on her face.

All she knew was that I work in a building called White House & that I took bus # 103 going to Malabar Hill. That was enough for her to find me on the second floor.

Clearly, an unseen hand had ‘arranged’ their marriage!

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STORY OF MAHATMA GANDHI Gandhi goes to England to study law

After passing his high school examination, Mohandas joined the Samaldas College at Bhavnagar.

He did not find the classes interesting and returned home after the first ten days.

A big surprise awaited him at home. His eldest brother and a family friend suggested that Mohandas should go to England to study and become a barrister.

Mohandas was thrilled. Here was a chance to see the world.

But his mother did not like the idea. She did not want her youngest son to stay away from her.

There was also the problem of money and she feared that Mohandas would lose his caste if he crossed the ocean (an age-old taboo against overseas travel among the high caste Hindus).

The family friend assured her that there would be no such difficulty and everything would be all right. But his mother was still opposed to the idea.

“I know many reasons why it is dangerous for a Hindu to leave India,” she explained to him. “You will have to eat meat. They drink alcohol there and you will be tempted to drink it. Then you might fall into bad company and there are many other temptations which may spoil you.”

“No, mother,” said Mohandas.

“I am no longer a child. I can look after myself.” He pleaded with her to allow him to go, and he took a vow not to eat meat, not to drink, and not to touch a woman.

Putlibai at last gave in and allowed him to go to England.

Mohandas was sorrowful when he left Rajkot for Bombay, because he had to leave behind his mother, his wife, and son Harilal, who was only a few months old.

On September 4, 1888, Mohandas left Bombay to set sail for England. Dressed in western style, he stood on the deck as the ship slowly steamed out of the harbor.

Mohandas never forgot his first morning on board. He felt most uncomfortable in his black suit, a white shirt, a stiff collar and a necktie. The stiff collar pinched him. It was quite a job to knot his tie properly. The tight, short coat also made him ill at ease. He thought that Indian attire was much more comfortable. Yet a glance in the mirror made him feel proud of himself. He thought he looked very impressive.

Mohandas was shy. He rarely left his cabin. He even ate by himself. He was not sure of all those unknown foods served on the ship.

He thought they might contain meat and did not wish to break his vow to his mother never to eat meat. So he lived mainly on the snacks and sweets he had brought from home.

On landing at Southampton he looked around and saw that all the people were in dark clothes, wearing bowler hats and carrying overcoats flung over their arms.

Mohandas was embarrassed to find that he was the only one wearing white flannels.

In London, he stayed at first at the Victoria Hotel. Dr. P. J. Mehta, a friend of the Gandhi family, was

Gandhi as a law student in London

the first to meet him. Mohandas was impressed with Dr. Mehta’s silk top hat. Out of curiosity, he passed his hand over it and disturbed the pile of the silk. Dr. Mehta then gave him his first lesson in European manners. “Do not touch other people’s things,” he said. “Do not ask questions as we do in India when we meet someone for the first time. Do not talk loudly. Never address people as “sir” while speaking to them, as we do in India. Only servants and subordinates address their masters in that way.”

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Young Gandhi found everything around him strange. He was homesick. He almost starved until he discovered a vegetarian restaurant. Struggling to learn western manners and customs, he rented a suite of rooms. He bought well-tailored clothes and a top hat.

He spent a lot of time before the mirror, parting his straight hair and fixing his tie. He took lessons in dancing, but soon gave it up as he had no sense of rhythm. He tried his hand at playing the violin, but failed. He took lessons in French and elocution, but went to sleep.

His attempt to be an Englishman lasted about three months.

Then he gave up the idea. He converted himself into a serious student. “I have changed my way of life,” he told a friend. “All this foolishness is at an end. I am living in one room and cooking my own food. Hereafter I shall devote all my time to study.”

His meals were simple. He avoided expenditure on transport and went on foot everywhere in London. He started to keep an account of every penny he spent.

Mohandas joined the London Vegetarian Society and soon found himself in its executive council. He wrote articles for the magazine Vegetarian.

The bar examination did not require much study and Gandhi had ample time to spare. Oxford or Cambridge was out of the question because it meant a long course and much expense.

He therefore decided to appear for the London matriculation examination. It meant hard work, but he liked hard work. He passed in French, English, and chemistry but failed in Latin. He tried again, and this time passed in Latin too.

Meanwhile, he progressed in his study of law and in November 1888 was admitted to the Inner Temple.

It was the tradition of the Inns of Court for the students to dine together at least six times each year. The first time Gandhi dined with his fellow students, he was nervous. He was sure the boys would rib him for refusing meat and alcohol. When wine was offered, he said, “No, thank you.”

The boy sitting next to him said, “I say, Gandhi, don’t you want your share? As a law student in London you pay for it, you know!”

When Gandhi replied that he never touched wine, the boy shouted to his friends, ‘By Jove, fellows, we are in luck to have this chap sitting with us. That gives us an extra half bottle.”

“You can have my share of roast, too,” Gandhi told them, looking quite content with his bread, boiled potatoes and cabbage. He was pleasantly surprised to find that his strange habits did not make him unpopular. The next time he went for the dinner, he had a pile of law books with him. He was taking the books to his room to study. “Gandhi,” said a student, “you are not really going through this stuff, are you?”

He snatched up one of the fat volumes. “Look, you chaps,” he cried, “he is actually reading Roman law in Latin!”

The students laughed. One of them said, “Let me tell you, Gandhi, I passed the last examination in Roman law by spending two weeks on a printed summary.

Why do you slave at it like this?”

Gandhi explained to his lighthearted friends that he worked so hard for sheer interest in the subject, and that he wanted to acquire knowledge for its own sake.

After a short trip to France, he prepared for the final law examination. The results were soon declared. He had passed with high marks. On June 10, 1891, Gandhi was called to the bar. He was admitted as a barrister and the next day was formally enrolled in the High Court. The following day, June 12, he sailed for India.

Gandhi’s three-year stay in England was eventful. Those were days of great intellectual activity, and there was tolerance for every school of thought. The country as a whole was a living university. As Gandhi sailed for home on the S.S. Assam, he felt that, next to India, he would rather live in England than any other place in the world.

(To be Continued)

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Ingredients: 3 cups cauliflower florets, 1 cup maida (all purpose flour), 1 tsp ginger garlic paste, 1 tsp green chilli paste, 1/2 cup chopped spring onions, 1/4 cup chopped capsicum, 2 tsp chopped garlic, 2 tsp soya sauce, 2 tsp tomato ketchup, 1 tsp chilli sauce, salt to taste, oil for deep frying.

Method: Cook cauliflower florets in salted water for 5 minutes.

Remove the water and keep aside. Add ginger garlic paste, green chilli paste, salt and water to all-purpose flour to make a batter of medium consistency.

Dip the florets in the batter and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown. Remove and drain. Heat 2 tsp of oil in a skillet and sauté spring onions, garlic and capsicum for 5 minutes. Add soya sauce, chilli sauce, tomato ketchup and cook for 2 minutes.

Add the florets, mix well and cook for 5 minutes. If gravy is required, add 1 tsp of corn flour mixed in water (1 cup) with out any lumps before adding the florets. Cook for five minutes and then add the florets. Serves 4.

Time 30 mts.

place in a colander & set aside for 20 to 30 minutes. In a medium pan, heat ghee, fry the onions till translucent and add all the spices in order & saute for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Rinse eggplant.

Add to the pan along with the apple juice & water.

Cover & simmer over low heat for 10 to 15 minutes. In another pan, cook the spinach in a very small amount of water till it becomes lump but remains bright green. Drain & cool.

Chop finely when cool and enough to handle. Add bell pepper to the eggplant, cook for 5 minutes. Stir in spinach, lemon juice & extra salt if required. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes.

Serve over rice topped with toasted cashews.

Sweet N Sour Paneer

Ingredients: 450gm fresh green beans, sliced; 25gm unsalted butter, 4 garlic cloves, crushed; 1/2 tsp cumin seeds, 1/2 tsp chilli powder, salt to taste.

Method: Melt the butter over low heat and season with cumin seeds. Add the garlic and fry for 1 minute. Add green beans, salt and chilli powder.

Cover the pan and simmer the green beans in their own juice until they are tender for 10-12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and serve with chicken korma or fried rice.

Ingredients: 200gm paneer, diced; 1/4 tsp white pepper, 1-1/2 tsp salt or to taste, 1/2 tsp maida, 1 cup water, 8 tsp tomato ketchup, 1/2 cup sugar, 3/4 cup vinegar, 4 tsp cornflour, orange color used in cooking, 2 carrots, boiled; 125gm boiled green peas, 100gm French beans, boiled; 2 onions, chopped, 125gm chopped spinach, 100gm chopped mathi leaves.

Method: Marinate paneer with white pepper, 1/2 tsp salt, maida and fry the paneer pieces.

Cook sugar, cornflour (mixed with water), tomato sauce, salt, and vinegar in a pan on fire.

When the mixture thickens a bit, put in salt n’ pepper to taste and all of cottage cheese and other vegetables.

Put in two onions and cook for sometime. Serve with rice.

Eggplant & Spinach

Tomato-onion Chutney

Green Beans in Garlic Butter

Ingredients: 1 medium eggplant,

cubed; 1 large onion, chopped; 2 tbsp ghee or butter, 1 tbsp grated ginger, 1 tbsp cumin seeds, 2 tsp coriander seeds, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1/4 tsp red pepper, a pinch of cardamom powder, salt to taste, 1/2 cup apple juice, 1 cup water, 10 oz chopped spinach, 2 red bell peppers, cubed; 1 tbsp lemon juice.

Method: Mix eggplant with salt,

Ingredients: 1 cup chopped tomatoes, 1 cup chopped onions, 2 tbsp green chilli paste, mustard seeds, curry leaves, salt.

Method: Grind tomatoes and onions together. Heat oil. Add mustard seeds, ground chilies and cook for about 3 minutes. Add in tomato & onion paste. Add salt and a little brown sugar. Cook till it thickens a little. Serve with idli or dosai. Serves 4, Time 15 mts.

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