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India Plans Manufacturing Policy to Boost Job Creation NEW DELHI (ET): India aims to sharply crank up its manufacturing base to help provide jobs to 100 million young people who will join the workforce by 2025, a minister said Friday. “About 100 million young people will enter the job market and emphasis on manufacturing is the critical part of creating
twice the number of jobs added to the economy between 2005 and 2010, adding job creation had not kept pace with growth in gross domestic product (GDP). “GDP growth increased to 8.6 percent during 2005-10 from six percent during 2000-05, but the net addition to jobs remained almost flat at around 27 million during
India has a population of 6 billion plus, more jobs are needed.
employment for them,” Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said. The “National Manufacturing Policy”, to be unveiled in a few weeks, plans to boost the share of manufacturing in the country’s economy to 25 percent from a current 15 to 16 percent, Sharma said. The proposals will include a policy aiming for creation of world class manufacturing infrastructure by setting up special manufacturing zones, Sharma said. India’s Crisil Research, a private research house, said in a report earlier in the week the country needs to generate at least 55 million new jobs by 2015 to maintain current levels of employment in the country of 1.2 billion people. Crisil noted this would be nearly
the two time periods,” chief Crisil economist Dharmakirti Joshi said. India’s government has been seeking to promote industrial expansion and shift its economy away from service-sector led growth to create jobs. Services including the flagship outsourcing sector account for 55 percent of India’s GDP but provide only 25 percent of jobs while agriculture represents 15 percent of the economy but nearly 60 percent of employment. Such factors as restrictive labour laws, poor supply chains, bureaucratic red-tape, dilapidated infrastructure and land acquisition problems have held back growth in the manufacturing sector. The country also suffers from a major vocational skills shortage.
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Manmohan Singh Says 9 Pct growth in 12th Five-Year Possible, but With Fiscal Correction NEW DELHI (NTI): The Prime M i n i s t e r, D r. Manmohan Singh, on Saturday said achieving nine percent growth during the 12th five-yearplan period (201217) would require large investments in infrastructure development as well as appropriate fiscal corrections in the Indian economy. Delivering an opening statement at the start of a full planning commission meeting here today, L-R: Lee Myung-Bak, Nicolas Sarkozy, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Gordon Brown, Dr. Singh, referring to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Taro Aso, Angela Merkel, Mario Draghi, Dmitry the Approach Paper Medvedev, Kgalema Motlanthe, Silvio Berlusconi, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, on the 12th five-year- Tayyip Erdogan, Manmohan Singh, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Felipe Calderon, Kevin Rudd, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Ban Ki Moon, Jose Manuel Barroso, plan, said: “Achieving Jan Peter Balkenende, George W Bush, Hu Jintao, Robert Zoellick, Stephen nine percent growth Harper, Abdullah II of Jordan. will require large to both these components so that Mukherjee), even if this means investments in infrastructure sector development. present infrastructure shortages can that total resources available for the The Approach Paper notes that be addressed in the shortest time plan in the short run will be limited. Resource limitations imply the need we have been fairly successful available. He added: “The Planning to prioritise carefully. Some priority in the eleventh Plan in using a Commission has rightly endorsed areas, e.g., health, education and combination of public investment and Public Private Partnerships the importance of the process infrastructure will have to be funded for infrastructure development. We of fiscal correction announced CONTINUED ON PAGE 28 need to bring greater momentum by the Finance Minister (Pranab
Rupay Card Launch by Fiscal End: NPCI
NEW DELHI (IE): Nearly a year after the soft launch as a limitedservice debit card, the Rupay Card, which is the domestically developed equivalent of the Visas and MasterCards of the world, will offer full-service debit card services by the end of this fiscal. “We hope to commercially launch the Rupay Card before the end of this fiscal. We will be equipped to offer full service debit cards to our mainstream partner banks by February or March next,” National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) MD and Chief Executive
Abhaya Prasad Hota said. “By then, we hope to integrate our software with the nearly 4.5 lakh merchant terminals across the country,” he said. NPCI, set up by the Reserve Bank, has developed the Rupay Card in April. In 2009, RBI had asked the Indian Banks Association to launch a notfor-profit company and design a rival card to Visa and MasterCard. China has already developed a similar card called the Union Pay of China.
The Rupay card is set to replace the visa card for performing debit services. The card will be linked to major banks in about a year. The software linked to this card will act 4.5 lakh terminals throughout the country
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more than others. “Faced with resource constraints we must also focus much more on efficient use of available resources. The paper makes several suggestions in this regard, including giving implementing agencies greater amount of freedom , flexibility, promoting convergence between resources from different plan schemes and the need for much greater attention to capacity building, monitoring and accountability. We need to engage the states on all issues,” Dr. Singh said further. He said that the draft Approach Paper reflected the directions that had been given during the last meeting of the Planning Commission and the important inputs that have been received from the consultation process. Touching on some other key points, Dr. Singh said that the Planning Commission had examined the range of 9 to 9.5 percent growth which the government had asked it to consider, and the commission had said that the nine percent target is feasible only if some difficult decisions were taken. “The commission has emphasized the importance of achieving four percent growth in agriculture both because it provides broad based income benefits to the rural population and also because it is necessary to avoid inflationary pressure which could arise if high levels of growth are attempted
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without corresponding growth in domestic food production capabilities,” the Prime Minister said. He revealed that the Approach Paper also outlined the multiple interventions necessary to achieve the agricultural growth objective. He said that the three percent agricultural growth stated in the Eleventh Plan, would now be raised to 3.3 percent in the 12th Five-Year plan. Reflecting on the government’s major flagship programmes, Dr. Singh said that a total of Rs.1,87,000 crores has been spent on these programmes in 2011-12. He said that these program would continue in the Twelfth Plan, with a focus on issues of implementation and governance to improve their effectiveness. He said that the Approach Paper also pointed out that high growth requires supporting growth in energy and because domestic energy supplies are limited. “Our dependency on energy imports is likely to continue to go up. In this situation we have to take steps to reduce energy intensity of production processes and also to increase domestic energy supply as quickly as possible. Rational energy pricing will help achieve both objectives even though it may seem difficult to attempt,” he added. On the issue of the rapidly increasing water stress that is being faced in various parts of the country,
the Prime Minister said: “The total quantum of water available to the country is fixed. In order to ensure that we are not constrained by the availability of this precious natural resource, we will have to focus our energies on evolving a holistic water management policy aiming at more efficient conservation of water and also in water use efficiency particularly in the field of agriculture.” On the issue of land acquisition, Dr. Singh endorsed the argument
put in the Approach Paper that a new legislation is necessary, which strikes an appropriate balance between the need for fair compensation to those whose land is acquired and whose livelihood is disrupted, and the need to ensure that land acquisition does not become an impossible impediment to meeting our needs for infrastructure development, industrial expansion and urbanisation. On issues of health, education and skill development, Dr. Singh that the
strategy of inclusive development pursued in the Eleventh Plan, would continue in the Twelfth Plan. “We must ensure that these sectors receive adequate resources. However, the effectiveness with which these resources are used is also critical. We need to ensure that resources provided are spent to achieve maximum efficiency in terms of outcomes. We also need to harness private investment in these areas,” he added.
India Holds 40 Percent of Dubai Export Market (DH): Dubai export markets by value are highly concentrated in India and Switzerland, comprising 40 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively, a government agency has said. According to Dubai Exports, an agency of the Department of Economic Development (DED), this has been due to the export of gold to these countries, whereas other direct exports go mainly to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the neighboring countries in small shares. “While India still took the biggest portion of 36 per cent of direct reexports, there was a clear pattern of re-exports relative focus in Iran and Iraq with 17 per cent and 5 per cent shares respectively, including a number of other markets in small shares,” DED said in a statement. According to the statement, Dubai trade with its partners continued to
grow, while some new export markets emerged as potentially important for Dubai, including Brazil, South Africa, Kazakhstan and Australia. Also, based on trade flows, the report highlighted some trade opportunities with Free Trade
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Indian Parents Paying top Dollar for Private Education NEW DELHI (JG): Parents Swati and Sunil Singh watch as their year-old son crawls around a room full of toys stacked up against the wall and picture books scattered all over. The working professionals, who are in their early 30s, hope the books will help their son learn the basics. After all, he will need to know how to count from one to 10 by the time he is two, to get into a good preschool. In a country where the population has exploded to 1.2 billion, and Singh have decided to have just one child. “We can give more time and a better lifestyle to one child. And with education costs going through the roof, I don’t think it makes financial sense for us to have another child,” said Singh. She is already obsessing about getting her child into a good preschool. “One of my friends told me that they would help my son get into a top kindergarten which is by invitation only,” she said. “That’s a start.” As the demand for education rises in India, the cost of private education is also going higher and higher, pinching household budgets. Education has emerged as the No. 1 item for discretionary spending in household budgets. The cost of sending a child to a private school has been rising by as much as 200 per cent in the last five years, according to a survey by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. The survey on the steep rise in education fees, which polled 1,000 parents, showed that they poured 60 per cent of their income on average into their children’s education, including coaching and extra-curricular activities. Even private tuition fees have doubled from 60,000 rupees in 2005 to 120,000 rupees (S$3,200)
for one child this year. Saumi Saha, a 38-year-old single mother who works as an education consultant, spends half of her salary of 60,000 rupees on her nine-year-old son’s school fees and extra-curricular activities at a top Delhi private school. When summer comes, there are added expenses for summer camps and theatre workshops, which she feels are giving her son a well-rounded education. “I now think twice about going out to eat which has also become expensive,” she said. “At the end of the day, you can’t compromise or skimp on school fees and tuition, so the compromise takes place in other areas.” There are about 75,000 private schools in the country, which can charge anything from 20,000 rupees a year to 600,000 rupees. Some of the fanciest private schools in the big cities offer everything from swimming pools, air-conditioned classrooms and buses to gyms, computer labs, sports and tennis courts. A Mumbai school in Juhu, a posh area where movie stars live, was in the news for charging a whopping 700,000 rupees for admission into its preschool, setting a new record. The school offers everything from a swimming pool, teacher, maid and assistant teacher for seven to nine children in a class to imported toys and an air-con classroom. But it is not just middleclass families who are shelling out more than half of their salaries for education. Lower-income families are also struggling. Although India has a vast network of 950,000 government schools which provide free education, poorer families also prefer to send their children to private schools. Most government schools are seen as dispensing a poor standard of education, with one teacher
The present day generation indian parents are getting more selective about how many kids they want to birth. Most parents prefer to have just one kid. They have a lot on their minds how to educate their kid giving him or her a well-rounded education and all the attention they can give the child. Parents are also willing to put their children in schools in the Middle East and Europe to get their child the best education they can have. Indian parents strongly believe in a good education and its benefits
for every 40 students and poor infrastructure. Education crusader Ashok Aggarwal, a lawyer who specializes in the area of education and is fighting frequent fee hikes by schools, said he sees the impact of rising fees all around him. “Indian parents, whether they are illiterate or poor or rich, all of them want a good education for their child. If they can spend money, their child goes to a private school,” he said. “But the fee hike in schools is starting to pinch people and has reached a boiling point. I have seen people selling jewelry and withdrawing long-term investments to pay for fees.” In India, by law, schools are notfor-profit institutions, but Aggarwal contends that the opposite is now
true. An audit report by India’s Comptroller and Auditor General on 25 public schools in Delhi from 2006 to 2009 found they were charging parents exorbitant fees in a haphazard manner. Thirteen of the schools, many of them top schools in Delhi, had covered a retrospective hike in teachers’ salaries dating back two years by passing it to students instead of dipping into their cash reserves. The Delhi High Court is now monitoring fee hikes in the region. So, it is no wonder that families
are left balancing budgets which are already creaking under the weight of not just the yearly rise in school fees but also increasing food prices. Housewife Anita Virk, 32, sends her two children to a top school in Gurgaon, which charges 70,000 rupees every quarter for each child and has facilities like interactive blackboards and dance studios. “I wanted a different type of education for my children, in which apart from good education they also receive other skills,” she said. “And that is important.”
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Volunteer teaches Yoga to Women in Karachi Prison KARACHI (Dawn): Behind the high walls and gates of the only prison for women in Pakistan’s commercial hub, inmates such as Sadaf escape from prison every day – even if it’s only in her mind. Small and thin, with friendly eyes set in a weathered face, Sadaf has been an inmate since 1998 after being convicted of kidnapping. But she says she’s much calmer and hopeful thanks to an innovative yoga programme for the prison’s inhabitants. “Though my surroundings haven’t changed, my life has and I have yoga to be thankful for,” she said in an interview with Reuters in the prison courtyard. Sadaf, along with other inmates, has been taking yoga classes from volunteer instructor Aisha Chapra for almost a year and a half as a way to cope with the rough life of prison. Pakistan’s prisons have a reputation as brutal holding pens, but wardens and jail administrators praise the programme for calming the inmates and preparing them for eventual release. “I have seen a great change in the girls since they started doing yoga,” said Sheeba Shah, a police official and administrator of the prison. “They have become less stressful and you can see a more positive attitude.” Chapra partly took her inspiration from the Bhopal Central Jail in India, which holds some of India’s most notorious convicts. Since
yoga classes have started there, incidents of violence have dropped and inmates report a greater control over anger. The Indian government gives
help others learn to heal themselves, especially those who cannot afford to do so.” So in October 2009, she offered to teach yoga to the inmates in
prisoners an incentive to do yoga: for every three months they remain in the programme, their jail sentences are reduced by 15 days. Pakistan, however, has no such incentive yet. Yoga helped Chapra heal personally, too, when she felt lost and trapped by life. Chapra used to be a social worker in Toronto’s rougher neighborhoods, where she witnessed gang violence and drug abuse. But following the dissolution of her marriage, she returned to Pakistan in June 2009. Looking for something to occupy herself, she turned to the ancient art of yoga. “Yoga helped me survive and provided me a lot of relief,” she said. “And because yoga was my way of healing, I figured I should
Karachi, who have since responded enthusiastically. “Yoga has given me peace of mind, it takes away all my tension,” said Yasmeen Arif, who has been in jail for the past three years for kidnapping. “Since we started yoga, with time, I have learned to channel my frustration and anger towards being more calm.” Chapra also raises funds for the inmates so she can buy them small comforts. She started small, buying them yoga mats. Then she raised funds for items such as soap, shampoo and feminine products. “I teach yoga at another location and the money I get from teaching, I divert the funds for what the inmates might need,” said Chapra. Chapra’s students say the programme is vital to their present
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gilani Calls for taking uS-Pakistan Relations Beyond terrorism ISLAMABAD (DAWN): Senator Carl Levin, Chairman Armed Services Committee called on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani here Tuesday in which the Senator underlined the importance of bringing back US-
part of the problem and favoured three Ds namely, Dialogue, Development and Deterrence, as the best strategy to seek out the solution of the Afghan imbroglio. Gilani, during the meeting
Pakistan relations on even keel because both the countries were fighting a common enemy. The Prime Minister said that Pakistan desired a sovereign, independent, peaceful, stable and prosperous Afghanistan, adding that his country supported Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process of reconciliation. Gilani said that Pakistan was a part of the solution and not the
appreciated Hilary Clinton who took stand and supported Pakistan’s case for assistance at the time when the voices of imposing restrictions were being raised in Washington. She wrote to the House Foreign Committee Members that the proposed restrictions would damage the ‘the US considered foreign policy and diplomacy.’
– and future – prospects. “I have become a yoga addict now,” said Sadaf, who says she is 24, but looks a decade older, told Reuters. She said she would be released next month and would
continue practicing yoga. “I know now when I step outside, I have been enabled with the tools required to cope with everyday life,” said Sadaf.
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Sources say that it was co-producer Atul Agnihotri and wife Alvira’s idea, who are close to her, to ask Katrina to do an item number for the film to which she immediately said ‘Yes’. The chemistry between the two is said to be sizzling and the shoot was filmed quite smoothly. Interestingly, Salman’s real life bodyguard Shera makes his onscreen debut with this item song and will be seen dancing and doing
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36 Indo American News • Friday. August 26, 2011 KARACHI (Dawn): Pakistan has become the world’s sixth country and the first Muslim state to map the genome of the first Pakistani individual. The complete genome mapping was done jointly by the Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine & Drug Research (PCMD) at Karachi University and Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) in China. The details were revealed to the Pakistani media by Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Director International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Karachi University and Dr. Kamran Azim of ICCBS at a press conference at PCMD. Highlighting the importance of the project, Dr. Choudhary said Pakistan had officially entered into the world of genome mapping and the details of the work would be published soon in a research journal. He disclosed that eminent Pakistani chemist and former chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman was the first Muslim and Pakistani whose complete genome was mapped by Dr. Kamran Azim. “The important work will pave the way for research on heredity diseases, evolution and the over all genetic make up of Pakistanis which now hold a unique genetic pattern as a nation. In the past many people like Dr. Watson and others urged scientists not to reveal their genome publicly but Dr. Rehman has never put any restrictions for his
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genome draft,” Choudhary added. The whole process cost US$ 40,000 and was equally contributed by PCMD and BGI. The blood samples of Dr. Atta ur Rehman were sent to BGI where his genome was sequenced by state of the art gene sequencing machines, however, the technical and research work was mainly done by Dr. Azim. Genome: The Book of Life In his marvelous book, Genome, Matt Ridley wrote: “Imagine that the genome is a book. There are 23 chapters, called chromosomes. Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called genes. Each story is made up of paragraphs called exons, which are interrupted by advertisements called introns. Each paragraph is made up of words called codons. Each word written in letters are called bases, which are Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine, Thiamine or shortly A,G,T,C.” The remarkable achievement of the first genome mapping of any Pakistani is just like opening the software or book of life of a nation. Later, in his presentation, Dr. Kamran Azim said the project would help improve the diagnosis of diseases and also help trace back mutations in genetics of the Pakistani nation. Both Dr. Azim and Dr. Choudhary emphasised to establish a national genomic center and Dr. Choudhary said that the center should be established
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r t i F l u Eid
Eid ul-Fitr (“Celebration of the Breaking of the Fast”) is a time of great happiness and rejoicing, to be spent in the warm embrace of the family, sharing presents and food with neighbors and friends. Eid Al Fitr is celebrated on the first day of Shawaal, the tenth month in the Muslim calendar. It marks the end of a month-long fast during the month of Ramadan. As the third “pillar” or religious obligation of Islam, fasting has many special benefits. Among these, the most important is that it is a means of learning self-control. Due to the lack of preoccupation with the satisfaction of bodily appetites during the daylight hours of fasting, a measure of ascendancy is given to one’s spiritual nature, which becomes a means of coming closer to Allah. Fasting is also a way of experiencing hunger and developing compassion for the less fortunate, and learning to be thankful for, and apprecia-
Eid means recurring happiness or festivity. There are two such Eid in Islam. The first is called Eid al-Fitr (the Festival of Fast Breaking). It falls on the first day of Shawwaal, the tenth month of the Muslim year, following the month of Ramadhaan in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed and which is the month of fasting. The second is called Eid alAdhaa (the Festival of sacrifice). It falls on the tenth day of Zulhijjah, the final month of the Muslim year. The Islamic Eid are unique in every way. To them there can be nothing similar in any other religion or any other sociopolitical system. Besides their highly spiritual and moral characteristics, they have matchless qualities. Each Eid is a wholesome celebration of a remarkable achievement of the individual Muslim in the service of Allah SWT. The first Eid comes after an entire month of ‘absolute’ fasting during the days of the month. The second Eid marks
tive of, all of God’s bounties. Fasting is, moreover, advantageous to the health and provides a break in the cycle of rigid habits. Ramadan is also a time of concentrated worship, reading of the Qur’an, purifying one’s behavior, giving charity and doing virtuous
the completion of Hajj to Mecca, a course in which the Muslim handsomely demonstrates his renouncement of the mundane concerns and hearkens only to the eternal voice of Allah SWT. Each Eid is a thanksgiving day where Muslims assemble in a brotherly and joyful atmosphere to offer their gratitude to Allah SWT for helping them to fulfill their spiritual obligations prior to the Eid. This form of thanksgiving is not confined to spiritual devotion and verbal expressions. It goes far beyond that to manifest itself in a handsome shape of social and humanitarian spirit. The Muslims who have completed the fasting of Ramadhaan express their thanks to Allah SWT by means of distributing alms among the poor and needy on the first Eid before the prayer.Eid also is a day of remembrance. Even in their most joyful times the Muslims make a flesh stall of the day by a plural session of worship to Allah SWT. They pray to Him and glorify His name to demon-
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deeds. It is a particularly beloved month for Muslims as it was the month in which the Holy Qur’an was first revealed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Eid means recurring happiness or festivity. Eid is celebrated all over
strate their remembrance of His favors. Along with that course, they remember the deceased by praying for their souls, the needy by extending a hand of help, the grieved by showing them sympathy and consolation, the sick by cheerful visits and utterances of good wishes, the absentees by cordial greetings and sincere considerateness. Thus, the meaning of remembrance on the day transcends all limits and expands over far-reaching dimensions of human life. Most of the imaam when delivering the Eid khutbah will mention that Eid is a day of victory. The individual who succeeds in securing his spiritual rights and growth receives the Eid with a victorious spirit. The individual who faithfully observes the duties, which are associated with the Eid, is a triumphant one. He proves that he holds a strong command over his desires, exercises a sound self-control and enjoys the taste of disciplinary life.
the world by Muslims with much enthusiasm and fervor and people from all strata of life can be seen adorned in beautiful new clothes, visiting the mosques to attend Salat-ul-Eid (Eid prayers) in the morning. This is followed by a short sermon, after which everyone socializes. Greetings of “Eid-Mubarak” or “a blessed Eid” are exchanged. Next, people visit each other’s homes and partake in festive meals with special dishes, beverages, and desserts. Children receive gifts and sweets on this happy occasion. So, Eid ul-Fitr is a day of joy and thanksgiving. On this day, Muslims show their joy for the health, strength and opportunities of life, which Allah has given them to fulfill their obligations of fasting and other good deeds during the month of Ramadan. It is considered unholy to fast on this day. It is also a day of forgetting old grudges and ill feelings towards others.
A very important aspect of Eid ul-Fitr is charity, which all Muslims are expected to extend to the needy. The act of charity on Eid is known as Zakat-ul-Fitr. Earlier, this was in the form of gifts in kind but now cash is often given instead. The Prophet Muhammad warns his followers: “He, who sleeps on a full stomach, whilst his neighbor goes hungry, is not one of us.” Muslims are doubly fortunate as they actually have two Eids in a year to celebrate. The second important Eid celebration is called “Eid Al Adha”, (“Celebration of Sacrifice”), which marks the end of the pilgrimage or hajj on the 10th day of Dhul-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar. Although only the pilgrims in Makkah can participate in the Hajj fully, all the other Muslims in the world join them by celebrating. (BBC News)
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The Other Half - Another India, Another Protest
By Kalpana Sharma CHENNAI (Hindu): A day after Indians ‘celebrated’ Independence Day by following the annual ritual of hoisting the flag, singing the national anthem and patriotic songs and listening to politicians, including the Prime Minister, talk about the strengths of Indian democracy, the police cracked down on a much-celebrated campaigner against corruption, Anna Hazare and his team. The drama that followed his arrest and that of others in his team, the growing protests, the late night release and then Anna’s refusal to be released was not just farcical; it was a pitiful display of a government with no respect for people’s right to protest and no strategy to deal with those who demand that right. In one day, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government managed to unite the opposition. Even those who do not subscribe to every aspect of Hazare’s campaign, such as his demand that only his team’s formulation of the Lok Pal Bill be accepted, strongly condemned the government’s actions. On August 16, Anna Hazare successfully “arrested” the UPA government. Ignored Yet even as Hazare’s anti-corruption crusade gained momentum with hundreds courting voluntary arrest, in another part of India, a protestor who has used a similar tactic, of going on an indefinite fast, continues to be ignored by the rest of the country and
look of a war front. The scenario is not too different in other townships in Manipur as indeed in much of the Northeast. It has almost become a ritual every year. Various militant organisations would call for a boycott of the celebration of what is arguably the biggest and most important day in the country’s histoIrom Sharmila, force-fed and kept alive by ry and in response the the State. Photo: The Hindu Photo Library provincial governments would virtually stage flag marches to demonstrate by the political leadership. Given the issue — rooting out cor- the power of the establishment and ruption — and the mobilisation of push its way without being deterred groups in big cities across India, as by any threat whatsoever. Uniformed well as the concerted media attention, gun totting security personnel are on some might consider it irrelevant to every corner of the streets frisking talk about a corner of the country people, stopping motorists, checking where a lone woman continues her their vehicles, questioning them etc. fight against the truly undemocratic As expected, even a week before the Armed Forces Special Powers Act big day approached, Imphal already (AFSPA) imposed on Manipur that began wearing a deserted look, eshas made life a living hell for the pecially after sunset. People return home early so as not to be accosted ordinary people of that State. Indeed, when the rest of India — by security men and go through the barring, of course, the Kashmir Val- humiliation of being made to stand ley — celebrated Independence Day, on the side of the roads to be frisked the scene in Manipur was strikingly and questioned like potential trouble different. Pradip Phanjoubam, Editor makers. The ordinary people are supof the Imphal Free Press, wrote this posed to be mere bystanders in this moving opening paragraph in his war game, but every time tensions editorial on August 15 titled, “State escalate in moments like this, they have no choice than to be prepared of Independence”: “On the eve of the India’s Indepen- to be the undeserved casualties, and dence Day, Imphal is acquiring the sometimes become statistics of ‘
collateral damage’, the well known sugar-coating aimed at making civilian killing and harassment seem like necessary and pardonable fallout of a conflict.” Yes, Imphal is a long way from our relatively comfortable lives in cities in the rest of India, even if our lives are disrupted by the occasional power outage, by water shortage, by potholes on our roads, by inflation, and by the government deciding to deny those so inclined the right to protest. But Manipur is also India. Yet, here people live without electricity for most of the day, even in the capital city. Here, the areas with a sufficient water supply would probably be only those where the government and the army reside. Here, people are afraid to go out after dark and markets close as soon as the sun sets. Here, men with arms, the security forces and the various groups of militants, run the show. Here, ‘democracy’ seems a theoretical construct, certainly not a lived reality. Beacon of hope And here, since November 2000, a 38-year-old woman, Irom Sharmila, has been on an indefinite fast demanding withdrawal of AFSPA. She is under arrest and is being force-fed by the government in a public hospital in Imphal. Every year she is released, and then re-arrested. Yet, this woman of unimaginable courage will simply not give up. And by holding on to her resolve, she holds up a small candle of hope for the people of her state. A
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hope that people will notice, that her determination will be recognised, that the current government, which in its earlier term had promised to look again at AFSPA, will not break one more promise. We have forgotten that a year after the UPA government first took office in 2004, it set up a five-member committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge B. P. Jeevan Reddy. The committee recommended, amongst other things, a withdrawal of AFSPA. So Sharmila’s demand is not unreasonable; a government-appointed committee has endorsed it. But the recommendation was given more than six years ago. Yet today, the security forces continue to enjoy the right to act with impunity, while the citizens of Manipur, who are also citizens of India, live without many fundamental rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. Anna Hazare’s campaign, in the national capital and in full media glare, is premised on scepticism about the government’s intent on the matter of dealing with corruption. But Sharmila has even a greater reason for scepticism given the absence of any movement on a recommendation that has been before the government for so many years. If we are concerned about freedom, about democratic rights, about the right to protest, let us also remember other protests, other parts of India where democratic rights are being denied. Let us remember Sharmila.
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Tendulkar falls Nine Runs Short of His 100th Century
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LONDON (Samachar): India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted it was his team’s batting failure that led to the 0-4 debacle against England in the justconcluded Test series. “I feel not getting more than 300 runs in a single innings speaks for itself. We tried our best and that’s what is important. As a team we need to stick together in tiough times,” Dhoni said at the post-match presentation ceremony. Dhoni ruled out complacency factor and said they got very little time to think on those lines. “There was no complacency but we didn’t get much time before the series started. Some of us came from West Indies and some joined in England and we got so little time that we couldn’t think about being complacent,” the skipper said. The Jharkhand dasher is aware India’s Sachin Tendulkar walks onto the field before the fifth day of the fourth test cricket match against England at the Oval cricket about the expectations and disappointments that are associated ground in London August 22, 2011.
LONDON (Samachar): Sachin Tendulkar succumbed nine short of an unprecedented 100th international century on the final day of the fourth test against
England at the Oval on Monday. Tendulkar, 38, playing in what might be his final test innings in England, was lbw to the first ball of Tim Bresnan’s second spell of the day for 91 in just under four hours. The Indian maestro, who holds the record for test and one-day centuries and runs, stood at the crease in disbelief before walking slowly back to the pavilion to a standing ovation. There are no reviews of lbw decision in this series because the Indian cricket authorities do not accept the ball-tracking technology but television replays showed the ball would have clipped the leg stump. Tendulkar, who had scored only 182 runs in his seven previous innings this series with one halfcentury, got off the mark with an inadvertent four through gully off Graeme Swann from his opening delivery on Sunday evening. Swann could have captured his wicket three overs before the close when wicketkeeper Matt Prior whipped the bails off with Tendulkar’s back foot in the air. England did not appeal and
Tendulkar ended the day on 35 not out. On Monday he late cut his second ball from James Anderson to the boundary and deliberately upper
cut the same bowler with the same result. A square cut for four off Anderson, England’s best bowler of the series, brought up his halfcentury from 74 balls and a second standing ovation from the crowd who had also applauded him all the way to the middle at the start of the day. Stuart Broad troubled him outside the off stump, as he and Anderson have done all series, before Andrew Strauss summoned Ravi Bopara to the bowling crease. Bopara, an open admirer of Tendulkar who modelled his batting style on the Indian maestro, served up a juicy half-volley which Tendulkar drove to the cover boundary with a full flow of his bat. A shorter delivery was cut to the boundary and, although Strauss abandoned his ill-fated experiment after three overs, Tendulkar was now into his stride. He was dropped at short-leg on 70 when Alastair Cook failed to hold a chance which hit him on the chest when an inside edge off Swann rebounded off the batsman’s pad. Tendulkar received another
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w i t h Te a m India and feels that he and Duncan Fletcher can revive the team. “Of course, myself and Duncan will take this team way forward. We still have an ODI series to look forward to. We are the world champions in this format. We have quite a few practise games and will try to come back hard,” Dhoni said. His opposite number Andrew Strauss termed the team effort as an “outstanding one.” “Our bowlers responded magnificently considering it was an unresponsive track. We knew it was hard work but we had a lot of
300 runs in a single innings would have given the Indian team a chance, there are several variables as to why the Indian team did not perform up to par, Dhoni implied after India lost in a 0-4 whitewash.
time at our disposal. Full credit to Swann for the manner in which he bowled. The seamers also backed him well,” Strauss said.
life on 85 when Prior failed to over from Pietersen. exuberant England appeal. hold a thick outside edge off the Tendulkar could still reach his Bresnan’s first ball moved into off-spinner. Tendulkar, who played over the 100th century on English soil Swann, unable to contain his ball and was rapped on the pads. during India’s five-match one-day frustration, made a frenzied appeal Umpire Rod Tucker upheld an series which begins on Sept 3. for lbw which Simon Taufel rejected and Strauss again opted to for a part-time bowler in Kevin Pietersen. Pietersen’s KTRK, ABC-13 has an immediate opening for a Marketing Sales Producer. o ff - s p i n Candidates for this position should have at least one year of media experience proved no more (television or radio preferred), and a proven ability to write and produce sales presentations and station promotions. Extensive experience with Power Point, Photoshop, Illustrator and successful Microsoft Windows applications are required. Knowledge of Keynote, Creative graphic than Bopara’s design and television production experience is a plus. College degree a plus. medium pace. Te n d u l k a r Duties will include working with the Marketing & Sales Department on the planning and pulled and execution of station promotional events and sponsorships. The ideal candidate for this swept two position should be versatile and eager to jump in where needed. Superior people skills are a boundaries to must, as well as the ability to contribute creatively to the full spectrum of television projects. move into the Job Duties/Responsibilities: Assist in the initiation of the promotion from set up through 90s. execution; understand the process required to execute each promotion; understand client He lost specific promotion execution tactics; have ability to create quality one sheets and proposals; nightwatchman have ability to write and produce sales presentations and station promotions; handle sales Amit Mishra, promotional event planning and execution; understand the importance of deadlines and bowled by attention to planning detail; and the ability to work non-traditional hours and weekends. Swann for 84 after a fourth Candidates must apply on-line at www.disneycareers.com by uploading a resume file. wicket stand Please reference Job ID: 321995 on all materials submitted. No phone calls please, no third parties. of 144, and Bresnan took
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Returning to the Houston Area 2011 Public Events & Lectures by Himalayan Monk His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda h<sSy git ivStarm ivStarm! • h<s AaTman< Xyayet! • iÇxama h<s %Cyte • h<syaeg ivc][> • h<s> zuiczt!
August 28 Sun • 2 pm - 4:30 pm
Mountain Path by the River of Knowing
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Brown Auditorium Theater 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005 www.mfah.org Entrance free with museum admission
August 29 Mon • 7 pm I Youth program
Inspiring Treasures of the Vedic Heritage
Houston Durga Bari Society
13944 Schiller Road, Houston, TX 77082 www.durgabari.org Entrance free
Be in the serene divinity and saintly presence of a highly ordained Spiritual Master who is a K KriyaYogi riyaYogi,, Scholar and Monk trained riyaYogi KriyaYogi, in the Himalayan Mountains
Labour Day Weekend Retreat vedizrSk> VedaShiraskah Friday • Sept 2 through Monday • Sept 5
For registration details please visit: www.swamahiman.org/events/event-registration/
Camp Young Judaea (CYJ)
121 Camp Young Judaea Drive, Wimberley, TX 78676 I www.cyjretreats.org
Directly experience Vedanta and the truth of Upanishad by shruti learning along with Yoga vinyāsa practice, prānāyāma techniques and Ayurvedic sattwic meals in a sublime retreat environment.
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