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Hillary Clinton Proposes India-China-US Relationship among India, the US and China. “We know this will not always be easy. There are important matters on which we all disagree, one with the other. But we do have significant areas of common interest. “Ultimately, if we want to address, manage or solve some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century, India, China and the US will have to coordinate our efforts,” she said. The Secretary of State answered questions on Indo-US ties, India’s role in world affairs Hillary Clinton is a tad bit late in proposing a trade relationship, as India and and the recent US spat China has already started forging relationships in defence, tourism, sports, and with Pakistan over its cultural interaction arenas in early 2011 approach in dealing with terrorism. WASHINGTON (ET): Secretary only of South and Central Asia, but Appearing to soft-pedal the of State Hillary Clinton today also of the Asia Pacific, she said proposed a “strong, constructive” urging New Delhi not just to “look strain in US-Pak ties, Clinton said Washington was deeply committed relationship between India, China East, but to engage East”. and the US to solve “pressing Outlining a new US thinking, to long-standing relationship with issues” of the 21st century. 63-year-old Clinton said here that Pakistan “despite the complexities India’s leadership will “help to her country was committed to a and challenges that sometimes shape” positively the future not strong, constructive relationship arise”.
India has More Affluent Households Than Europe
NEVADA(NTI): India and China have overtaken many European countries in the number of affluent households, according to a new Global Affluent Investor study by leading market research company TNS. India appears in the top five countries where the affluent have more than 1 million dollars investable assets, study points out. Reg van Steen, TNS Director Business and Finance, comments: “...emerging markets will become new centres of affluence in coming years. India and China have already surpassed major European markets like Germany and France”. But there is big contrast in wealth
distribution as only around one percent are affluent in India. Among 80 percent if affluent households in India, men are the primary decision makers. Indian investors are keen investors in precious metals. Meanwhile, Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on Sunday, said that although India was on track to become a global power, but her new prosperity had remained evasive for many. Despite economic miracle, many Indians still lived in desperate poverty. Inequalities in opportunities blocked poor people from participating in the growth process and they remained trapped
in vicious cycle of poverty. It was blight on a country, which prided herself on having joined the league of hottest growth economies. Zed, who is Chairperson of Indo-American Leadership Confederation, also appealed to India’s billionaires/millionaires, who had enormously benefitted from India’s economic growth, to pledge some of their wealth to charitable causes aimed at poverty eradication. Zed urged India to wake up and deal with her monumental poverty crisis at an emergency level as according to an estimate, about one third of world’s poor lived in India.
Poverty Bane in Economic Boom
test than may be practical in what By Coomi Kapoor CHENNAI (Star): Two decades is the world’s biggest dysfunctional after India abandoned the licence- democracy. Economic prosperity can be quota-permit raj for an openmarket economy, the jury is still measured by the evidence of those out on the efficacy of the new who had a bicycle in the early 90s now ride scooters and motorcycles, economic system. For the second fastest growing while those with scooters and economy in the world, India motorcycles have graduated to has a record number of people cars. Now, invariably it is the car living below the poverty line. Rising living standards and a huge owner who is part of the middle increase in the middle-class numbers have failed to hide the groaning poverty of well over a third of the billion-plus people. Quality education and health services are still a distant Hyundai factory in Chennai, India, sign of affluence dream for a vast majority of people, though class while the one with a scooter everyone in some way has benefited or a cycle is generally clubbed with from what the economists love to the lower middle class. In the past India barely produced, call the trickle-down effect of faster economic growth. Yet, economic annually, 20,000 cars of shoddy disparities have grown in the last quality in the pre-reforms years. Now, it sells more than 20,000 in two decades of liberalisation. Officially, the percentage of less than a week. There was a waiting list of 10 people living below the poverty line, that is on less than a dollar to 15 years for a basic model of a a day, is over 33% of the total Fiat or an Ambassador then. Now, you can buy the Rolls Royce, population. There is no death from starvation Jaguar, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes anymore. Food stocks are plenty off the shelf. India is an attractive and governments have been quite market. Back then, there was a decadesgenerous in providing highly long waiting list for a land-line subsidised rations to the poor. Yet, people sound far more telephone connection from the aggrieved, even angry, now than state-owned monopolies. And, they had when India was growing of course, there were no cellular at a mere 5% to 6% in the pre- phones. Now, India boasts of over reforms years. The 7% to 8% 800 million cell phones and the average growth recorded in the two cheapest tariff possible in the entire decades since the liberalization has world. State-owned telephone raised aspirations, and led to the companies are in huge losses. Foreign travel was a dream growth of some 300 million-strong middle class which, traditionally, those days when airfares were tends to be critical of its leaders prohibitively high and there were and tries to hold them to a sterner Continued on page 30
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Can Football Make an Impact in Cricket-Mad South Asia?
By John Duerden (Dawn): In the third round of qualification for the 2014 World Cup, as we all know, Pakistan was absent but it was not only Pakistan. India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives were also busy doing other things. It is disappointing for South Asia as a whole. To say that it is disappointing for Pakistan is to make an obvious point. Pakistan may have found it difficult to cheer on India and Bangladesh in the second round – of course, that is the nature of football and the nature of rivalry – but fans of the Greenshirts should have been at least a little sad that their neighbours didn’t even make the group stage. That stage includes teams such as South Korea, Japan and Australia. It includes players who play their club football for Arsenal, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Everton, Wolfsburg, CSKA Moscow, Osasuna, Schalke, Hamburg, Sunderland – some of the established European teams. There are coaches like Frank Rijkaard who has managed the likes of Barcelona and Netherlands, Carlos Queiroz who arrived in Iran with the names of Real Madrid and Portugal on his CV, Japan’s Alberto Zaccheroni has coached a whole host of top flight Italian clubs – the list goes on. The point is that this is a whole new ball game and a whole new level and Pakistan and South Asia have missed out. They have missed out on six games with good teams. This is what the team needs to improve. Playing against good teams and good players is a great way to get the experience necessary to improve. It is not just about the players and the games. It is the atmosphere
at the stadiums and especially the guest teams if that was so desired. leagues make strong national teams. can be as small as having just four The timing of the tournaments Of course, it is not quite that simple teams in total in a mini-tournament facilities. The players get to see some top of the range stadiums, practice could be such that they would take but that such a network gives a played over a weekend or it can be pitches and everything that as large as having a group stage and a top player gets to use. The then a knockout stage. administrators and support It would take a little sponsorship staff and members of the money to get off the ground but federation and the travelling would give clubs something to journalists also get to see look forward to and give players how the beautiful game is at these clubs valuable experience organized in places like in playing against teams from Japan and South Korea, different countries. countries that have hosted The nations in south Asia have the World Cup. It is all a to focus more on the region. India great example for Pakistan especially are always looking to look at. outside and the national team can And then playing such be found in any other region in big names gives the entire the world except for their own football community a boost. backyard. That is partly India’s It gets the game in the news, fault but also the fault of other it gets the fans excited and countries. If everyone pulls together it gets people talking about Efforts are being made to sign up local clubs to play each other in a way to and works together then South Asia foster football all over South Asian nations. Sponsorship is a big issue the game. can become known for something That is why it would have other than cricket. been good to see a South Asian place during preparation ahead of country its football spine. We need team in the group stage. It may not qualification campaigns for the to get Indian and Pakistan clubs Note: To subscribe to Indo appeal to Pakistan fans to see India World and Asian Cups but still be playing each other in a South Asian American News to have it mailed facing Japan but that is what the a valuable tournament in its own club competition along with clubs to your home or office, please call region needs. It benefits everyone in right. from elsewhere in the region. It us at : 713-789-NEWS (6397) Anyway, the tournament should South Asia if all countries develop be a regular annual event that and improve. Imagine if India, Maldives is fixed in the schedule so that Since 1986 in Houston and Bangladesh were teams that everyone knows when it will be. It qualified for the Asian Cup on a needs to become a more important regular basis and perhaps even part of the football calendar and reached the latter stages of the become a competitive challenge qualification for the World Cups. for all. India should no longer be ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR IN HOUSTON It would make South Asia a strong allowed to send its under-23 team, football region on the continent and it has to become a well-respected and valued tournament. would be great for Pakistan. There needs to be something for Just look at the South Asian Football Federation Championships. the clubs too. Indian teams perform This could become an annual reasonably well at the AFC Cup event and one that would become though have yet to reach the Asian increasingly important and become Champions League. For clubs from a great way for good teams to test Pakistan and other South Asian themselves against good teams. It nations, that is still quite a long way would produce interest outside the in the future. We all know that strong clubs region and there could even be the possibility of inviting a couple of make strong leagues and strong
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The new Hindi film hero reflects the change in social mores, embracing global values, shedding squeamishness over greed and ambition and ready to forsake principles for money and women. Film-making has become more tech-savvy and cinema halls are veritable centres of opulent luxury with more single-screen 1,000-plus seater cinema halls giving way to five-star multiplexes. A major downside, however, is the rise in economic inequality. Higher economic disparities, especially in the rural areas due to a stress on agricultural incomes, is a major source of concern. The rate of growth in employment has also slowed down in the postreforms years. A higher rate of migration from the rural to urban areas has added to the woes of town planners with pressure on land, water, electricity, etc., stretching civic services to the breaking point even in metropolises like Delhi, Mumbai
and Bengaluru. Political and bureaucratic corruption has attained new heights. Dismantling of the restrictive permit-quota-licence raj was expected to eliminate corruption by providing a level-playing field and by unshackling the entrepreneurial spirit of Indians. Instead, the nation has been witness to the most pernicious crony capitalism phenomenon, with politicians perpetrating humongous scams in mining, telecoms, land allotment, the aviation sector, et al. Indians are disgusted with the growing culture of corruption. Whether it was the modernisation of the airports or the exploration for oil and natural gas or the construction of six- and eight-lane expressways, the participation of the private sector in these tasks has proved most controversial. The stink of corruption is so strong that it has vitiated the gains of economic reforms and liberalization.
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the enclaves are orphans, citizens of no country. For decades, neither the Indian nor the Bangladeshi government has taken responsibility for them. Their villages do without basic public services like electricity and roads. Parents must forge documents to send their children to local schools. They cannot vote. Without identity documents they face arrest and imprisonment as illegal immigrants. “We were born like this,” said Abdul Mutalib, of Madhya Muhammad Nazir Hussain, left, considers himself Indian, but his village Masaldanga. “Our fathers were is officially part of Bangladesh. His younger brother, Manik Mia, right, born like this. Neither side claims managed to get an Indian voter ID card. us. But our land is here. What else side of the border will become Indians. can we do? Where can we go?” Now, after decades of indecision, the problem may soon be resolved. When India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, traveled to Bangladesh in September to meet his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, they signed an agreement that would finally allow the enclaves to dissolve into the country already surrounding them. Under the agreement, the 37,334 nominal Indians living inside Bangladesh will become Bangladeshis, if they wish, and the 14,215 Bangladeshis on the Indian
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People living in the enclaves are cautiously hopeful that their citizenship will finally be settled. The Bangladesh-India border is, for the most part, starkly marked: a fence bristling with concertina wire separates the two nations. Heavily armed sentinels prowl it to keep illegal crossers at bay, and hundreds of Bangladeshis have been killed by Indian security forces, rights groups say. The enclaves resulted from 18thcentury peace treaties between the conquering Mughal emperors and the maharaja of Cooch Behar, according to a 520-page historical study of the enclaves completed
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34 October 14, 2011 By Prem Rao (TR): Full credit should go to Harbhajan Singh and his Mumbai Indians who romped home to a 31 run victory against Royal Challengers, Bangalore to walk away with the ICC Champions League T20 Trophy. They get the handsome trophy and the winners’ cash prize of $ 2.5 million while the runners-up settle for $ 1.5 million. The Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bat first. When they managed 140 in their allotted twenty overs, many felt this would be an easy win for the Royal Challengers who had scored in excess of 200 runs to win their last two matches. The Royal Challengers failed to cash in on the psychological advantage. Apart from Dilshan, the other batsmen just couldn’t get
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going. The Chennai pitch suited Harbhajan and young Chahal perfectly and they put immense pressure on the Bangalore batsmen. When Chris Gayle, although to a dodgy LBW decision, and later Virat Kohli were out, the odds tilted in favor of the Mumbai Indians. They displayed great passion in the field to back their tidy bowling. In my view, the Mumbai Indians used the pitch to their advantage and Harbhajan’s aggressive captaincy gave them the edge. Somehow my favorite team, the Royal Challengers didn’t bring quite the same passion they showed to their previous games.It must be said though that both teams did much better than was expected of them at the beginning of the tournament. As always, T20 cricket continues to be exciting and will bring in the crowds.
Mumbai Indians celebrate, winning the coveted cup taking home the cash prize of $2.5 million
Hockey 9’s is made for India & Pakistan: Charlesworth
NEW DELHI (TOI): Traditional rivals India and Pakistan are bestsuited for hockey’s new nine-a-side format, Hockey 9’s which will make its debut with the LANCO International Super Series in Perth
India and Pakistan will have an edge over other teams in the upcoming four-nation tournament. “These rules are made for India and Pakistan in my view. Most of us in Australia, love the way India
will fight it out in the women’s section for top honours. “Hockey has developed significantly in the past couple of years. The game has become much faster and fluent with more spaces opening up and more opportunity,” he observed. “Just as in the 70’s when Kerry Packer revolutionized cricket and the game evolved, this (nine-aside format) is an opportunity to experiment with the rules of hockey,” added former technical director of the Indian hockey team. Just like Charlesworth, Indian women’s team coach CR Kumar too viewed that Indian and Pakistani players are better equipped to succeed in the new format. “It will be really tough for the Indian girls because we are still learning. Though we have enough Hockey, India’s National game is now being encouraged in a bid to skills it takes a lot of energy in such revolutionize it as a high powered sport across South Asia a format. ” he said. from October 20-23, said it’s and Pakistan traditionally play the “We have worked more on mastermind Ric Charlesworth. game. We learnt most of our hockey our fitness but we also need to With a view to revolutionize from what we saw in the sub- concentrate on skill. We will try hockey and make it more free- continent,” Charlesworth said. to give our best but our priority flowing and viewer-friendly, “The Indian players have fluency, remains the four-Test series against Charlesworth, Australian men’s speed, terrific skills and play an Australia” the coach added. team coach, had conceptualized attacking style of hockey.” As per the new rules of the the nine-a-side format which will The tournament will feature hosts format, a team will consist of nine played under new rules to ensure Australia, India, Pakistan and New players as against the usual 11 and fast-paced hockey. Zealand in the men’s category, there will be 15 minutes per half as Charlesworth was of the view that while India, Australia and Malaysia compared to 35 minutes halves.
There will also be bigger goals (1 metre wider), unlimited substitutions, one player from each team will be required to stay in the opposition half to create more space, one-on-one penalty shoot out where the striker is allowed only
eight seconds to score. The ground rules has also been relaxed to encourage continuous play. The format allows only two defenders besides the goalkeeper to stop penalty corners.
F1 Grand Prix Good for India: Neel Jani
Neel Jani, the Swiss racer of Indian origin, today said that the Indian Grand Prix will surely provide a boost to popularising motorsport in the country but he himself does not seem to be too optimistic about his own Formula One Neel Jani, at Khardung La Pass at the top of career. the world in Kashmir this week sponsored by Jani, who had his Red Bull best racing results in now defunct A1GP series, yesterday is no track and the roads are bumpy. drove a Red Bull Racing show car It was different. It was great to see at world’s highest motorable road enthusiasm among people for this at the Khardung-La pass. show but I think Indian Grand Prix Jani, born to an Indian father will do the major work,” Jani said. and Swiss mother, said driving a Jani, who got a chance to test racing car in hilly area was a big drive for Toro Rosso in 2006 and challenge. for Red Bull in 2008, though was “It was a great experience. I had not keen in pursuing a career in F1, to adjust a lot. I had never been to the pinnacle of motorsport. the Himalayan region, where there
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Indian SC Stays Death Sentence for Ajmal Qasab
NEW DELHI (Dawn): India’s Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence handed down to the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, pending an appeal hearing. “This case has to be heard on top priority,” Supreme Court judge Aftab Alam told the court. “It is the demand of the judicial system that we have to hear this appeal.” Ajmal Amir Kasab, one of 10 gunmen who laid siege to Mumbai for nearly three days killing 166 people, was convicted in May 2010. Kasab was found guilty of a string of crimes including waging war against India, murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a trial at a maximum security prison court in Mumbai. The first appeal by the 23-year-old school drop-out from a poor farming area in Pakistan’s Punjab state failed in February, when the state high court in Mumbai confirmed both his conviction and death sentence. India reserves executions, which are carried out by hanging, for the “rarest of the rare” offences. During the trial, the prosecution produced fingerprint, DNA, eyewitness
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of the Maharashtra state antiterrorism squad, were killed as the gunmen fled the scene of the carnage.
Ajmal Amir Kasab is awaiting his final verdict the Supreme Court in India has stayed the death sentence for him. Kasab has been charged with multiple crimes including the fact that he is a sponsored terrorist who came into India with intent to kill innocent citizens of India
the November 26 attacks at Mumbai’s main railway station. A number of senior police officers, including the head
Three luxury hotels, a popular tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre were also targeted by the other gunmen.
India has accused Lashkare-Taiba of being behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which led to the suspension of fragile peace talks between the two neighbours and rivals. If the Supreme Court upholds the verdict and sentence, Kasab can appeal for clemency to India’s president Pratibha Patil as a last resort. Executions are rare in India. Most death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment, and convicts can sit on death row for years awaiting a final decision on their pleas for clemency. Afzal Guru, who was convicted of conspiring with the gunmen who attacked India’s parliament in 2001, killing 10 people, has been on death row for nearly a decade. His appeal against his death sentence was dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2006. The last execution in India was in 2004 when a 41-yearold former security guard was hanged for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl. In May this year, however, Patil unexpectedly rejected a mercy petition from a murderer in the northeastern state of Assam, leaving the state scrabbling to find a hangman.
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NEW DELHI (DNA): Team Anna member and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan was roundly thrashed on Wednesday, kicked in his chest, slapped, dragged by the feet, thrown about like a sack of wheat and pulled by the scruff of the neck by a young man who claimed the advocate had supported a call for a referendum on Kashmir. The man identified as Inder Senior lawyer and Team Anna member Verma was with two others of a Prashant Bhushan has been beaten up group called Bhagat Singh Kranti by three people inside his chamber in Sena (BSKS), which claimed re- the Supreme Court sponsibility for the assault on Twitter (Bhushan, however, said they mannered senior advocate, who had become belonged to the Sri Ram Sene), a well-known face on television screens after where the “president” of the group Hazare threw his weight behind civil society for gloated over the success of the at- a strong Lokpal Bill. Verma was overpowered and roughed up by tack, which has been condemned by one and all, including Anna other lawyers who heard the commotion and Hazare, who demanded temporary rushed in. They grabbed Verma — a clean cut, well-built youth, skewed in his thoughts and protection for Bhushan. The assault took place around indiscreet in the choice of friends — took him 4pm inside Bhushan’s chamber into another chamber and roughed him up. Quid near the Supreme Court while he pro quo! By then Bhushan had called 100 and was giving an interview to a chan- soon the police walked in to take charge of a pronel. The three men stormed in and fusely bleeding Verma, who refused to be cowed one of them started thrashing him. down. He kept up his harangue, which when he Caught on camera, the attack was was taking Bhushan to task was “Kashmir dega, brutal, swift, sudden, and humili- Kashmir dega kya”. Bhushan lodged an FIR right at the spot, his ating, too. Bhushan was caught totally unawares. The pummelling chamber in the Supreme Court. Two other acthat he got was intense and totally cused - Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga and Vishnu complete, a hammering that beat were on the run. The police have now registered cases against Verma and the other two under belief. An aide intervened but the sections 452 (trespassing), 323 (causing hurt) attacker sent him flying with a and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian well-aimed-timed jab to the faceT:10”Penal Code. But even as Verma was on his way to the cop and continued bashing the mild-
house, Bagga was tweeting to the world that he will “give his arrest” on Thursday. “I will give my arrest tomorrow. Desh Ko Todne Ki Maang Karne Walon Ke Saath Aage Bhi Yahi Kia Jayega (Similar treatment would be meted to those advocating nation’s division),” Bagga posted on his Twitter account. Before the attack he had tweeted, “God give us power to complete our mission”. Soon after the attack, Bagga claimed responsibility with the tweet “he try to break my Nation,i try to break his head. Hisab chukta. Congrats to all. operation Prashant Bhushan successful. We hit prashant bhushan hard in his chamber in supreme court. If u will try to break my nation, I will break your heads”. Hooliganism is nothing new to Bagga’s organisation. The group had targeted Arundhati Roy for her remarks on Kashmir a few months ago. Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was given a similar reception. Bhushan, who has filed several public interest cases, including in the 2G spectrum scam case, had supported a call for referendum in Kashmir in response to a question in Varanasi two weeks ago. Bhushan was taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi for a medical examination from where he went to his Noida residence. Later in the evening, Bhushan narrated the incident to media. “The attackers claimed to be members of Sri Ram Sene which is known for goondaism and for unprovoked assault on unarmed people. This is their trademark. This is an organisation which needs to be banned by the government,” he said. “I wish to tell everyone that none of Sri Ram Sene people should be assaulted. Violence is not the answer to violence. There will be legal proceedings against them. Police is taking action against them.” Fellow Jan Lokpal Bill activist Kiran Bedi was of the same view.
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STAFFORD - Sur Sangam, the musical night starts at 6 pm at the Immanuel Center, Stafford on Sunday October 16. The Muni Seva Charitable Foundation is raising funds for the Kailash Cancer hospital to benefit rural India. Bollywood Singers, Parthiv Gohil and Sadhana Sargam will be the stars of the evening. Kavitha Chibber writes, “Parthiv is the small town boy from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, a great inspiration for others. Parthiv does not come from a musical family. His father played classical music on the radio in the hope that his son may develop an ear for music at a young age. “My father had made up his mind that if I showed any talent for music he would enroll me in music lessons. He would take me to various classical concerts to see how I would respond.” Parthiv loved all kinds of music. “I was fascinated by western music and realized how different jazz, symphony and pop sounded different from each other. I would make listen to the music arrangements, fascinated by how the same seven notes can come up with different sounds.” Parthiv did his Bachelors, while studying under his guru Lakshmipati Shukla, a disciple of Pt. Omkarnath Thakur. Parthiv went on a 24 day trip to Bhopal, to learn from Zia Fariddudin Dagar, the dhrupad mae-
stro. The teaching was done tra- singers, memorizing those songs. love. To visit his website, visit ditional guru-shishya style, where Parthiv says he received great www.parthivgohil.com the teachers’ word was final. Sadhana Sargam’s real name is encouragement after Pandit Jas“Ustad ji would wake us up him- raj was bowled over by his per- Sadhana Ghanekar. Her mother self at 5 a.m., tune our tanpura and formance and host singer Sonu Neela is a well known classical teach us for a few hours. It was a Nigam too was very encourag- singer and music teacher. Sadvery intense period, he handled ing. hana grew up in an intensely mumy voice which had just broken Today Parthiv has moved to sical environment with musical with such gentle training starting finesse and moldat the age of 4. ed it so beautifulS a d h a n a ’s ly. I wasn’t sure mother knew if I was going to composer Anil pursue music seMohile, arrangriously, but after ing music for those 24 days, I Kalyanji Ananknew I was going dji. He introto devote my life duced Sadhana to music. What- Sadhana Sargam is a favorite of many composers in Bollywood, to them, and ever I sing today mostly A R Rahman who has even used her talent in many stage she was in the is rooted deeply shows. Parthiv Gohil, Sa Re Ga Ma winner is a mellifluous playback children choin what I learnt in singer who is versatile in range encouraged by Sonu Nigam, host rus in Pam Pathose 24 days.” of the show rarampam, Bole Parthiv was also Jeevan Ki Sarable to spend time with Pandit Bombay to sing for movies. gam sung by Kishore Kumar in Hariprasad Chaurasia, learning as Music to Parthiv Gohil is a lan- G. P. Sippy Trishna (1978).After Pandit ji did his practice. guage of true emotions which has the recording, he introduced her Parthiv started participating in divine powers to transport one to to Kalyanji, who christened her various state level and national a different world. A world where as Sadhana Sargam and took her competitions but his big break there are no boundaries, no reli- under his wing. Sadhana recorded came when he decided to audi- gions, no prejudice where every- her career first song for the Gution for saregama. “I had sent a thing seems to be in balance and jarati film Kanku Pagli. The first tape of my songs which were all in perfect harmony. Close your Hindi song she sang was Door classical numbers but was called eyes and listen carefully, you will Nahin Rehna (Rustom), a film reto audition a year later. It took me hear music all around. I owe ev- leased in 1985 but did not do so 2 years before I appeared in Sare- erything in my life to music, it is well. gama and won” She continued to sing for Kamy profession, my passion, my Parthiv says during the one year way of relaxation, the very reason lyanji Anandji, but shot to fame gap between the audition and the of my existence. To put it in a nut- after Rajesh Roshan gave her all actual contest he spent each day shell, my life is a musical journey the female songs of brother Rakelistening to all the film songs and by which I spread the message of sh Roshan’s Khudgarz (1987).
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Khoon Bhari Maang, Aasman Se Ooncha, Jurm, Kishan Kanhaiya and others. She is quite a favorite with the virtuoso AR Rahman. Now he has used Sadhana to sing for his international venture-a Chinese Production-Warriors of Heaven and Earth. She has also sung the Tamil song “ Snehidhane “ composed by A.R.Rehman in the film - “Alay Payudhe”. This is one of the largest selling songs in the history of Tamil film industry ( More than 6 million CDs ) amazing for the fact, that she is a Maharashtrian Sadhana has sung that song effortlessly in Tamil. Sadhana has devoted considerable time to Kala Veer Academy and to her pursuit of classical music. She has also sung a Ghazal album with Pankaj Udhas. Sadhna has a project which is an Oscar film Warriors of Heaven and Earth, her first opportunity to sing for an international production. She sings the theme song of the film. It was done in Chinese by a Chinese singer and Sadhana sang it in Hindi. Online tickets are available at www.greenashram.org. For program details, call Rajiv Malkan at 936-273-2707 or Bina Patel at 713-516-4515. Tickets range from $25 - $50, available at local venues. For details, see the Sur Sangam ad below. Credits: TOI, Hindi Lyrix
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At India-Bangladesh Border...
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by Brendan R. Whyte at the University of Melbourne in 2002. When British India was split in two, the region known as Rangpur went to Pakistan. The princely state of Cooch Behar, which like other princely states had not been part of British India, joined independent India in 1949 and was absorbed into the Indian state of West Bengal.
But the villages, known as chhitmahals, remained marooned. The first failed attempt to resolve the issue came in 1954, when Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan. In 1974, Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, agreed to sort out the border problem, but Rahman was assassinated before the agreement could be carried out, and the pro-Pakistan government in Bangladesh never followed through. A third attempt in 1992, between India’s prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and Khaleda Zia, then the leader of Bangladesh, also went nowhere. But there are reasons to be more optimistic
now. Bangladesh is more stable and prosperous than ever, its economy growing at about 6 percent a year. Muhammad Nazir Hussain, who lives in the enclave of Nalgram, certainly hopes that the question of his citizenship will soon be settled. He lives on land his family has farmed for generations and considers himself Indian. But his village is officially part of Bangladesh. His cousin’s house a few hundred yards away is in India, though half his fields lie in Bangladesh. “It is a very complicated problem,” he said, with considerable understatement. Hussain’s younger brother, Manik Mia, has an Indian voter ID card because he was able to register at the home of a relative in an Indian village. Every family, it seems, is divided in this way. “If we had been in India, we would have been connected to the road, we would have had a school, health facilities, electricity,” Mia said. “But we have none of that. At times I wonder, are we human beings or are we animals?” They are certainly not treated like Indians. Deeptiman Sengupta, a local activist who has been trying to help enclave dwellers get identity documents, said someone must take responsibility for them. “India says it is the world’s biggest democracy,” Sengupta said. “Bangladesh is also a democracy. Yet these people are truly stateless for now.”
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By Raj Kanwar IAN india Correspondent Contrary to indications available in political circles until Sunday (9 October), the expected resolution of the Telangana issue seems to have taken an about turn with the further hardening of the contrarian stands of the two sides. There were many positive straws in the wind until Monday so much so that a leading news channel had forecast that there might be some “Good news for Telangana”. But the situation took a turn for the worse when Andhra chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on his return from New Delhi after consultation with the Central leaders decided on “zero tolerance policy” towards the ongoing agitation. As a result of this tough policy, police cases were registered against Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekar Rao who has been spearheading the ongoing agitation for the creation of a separate Telangana state. The TRS leader has been charged with making inflammatory speeches and creating rift between peoples from different regions in the state under section 153A of Indian Penal Code and Police Forces Rights Protection Act. Similar cases were also registered against two union leaders Swamy Gowd and Vittal. They were also charged with instigating policemen to revolt, a la JP Narayan clarion call to policemen to revolt against the government in the pre-emergency days. During the weekend, there had been hectic discussions in New Delhi on the matter of Telangana statehood between the Andhra chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Central government leaders such as Pranab Mukherjee and it was hoped that an amicable and a mutually acceptable solution would be found for the resolution of this intractable problem that had been hanging fire even before Andhra Pradesh was created as a state 48 years ago. But it appears now that the Union government opted to take a tough stand in order to bring about some sort of normalcy in the violence-ridden state. Here is a picture of the ground reality in the state of Andhra Pradesh since the start of the agitation around 10th September. · Unprecedented power crisis now stalks the state. The strike has greatly curtailed the movement of coal
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Though no formal discussions or negotiations at official or political level have taken place, yet some possible options are being discussed in political circles. · One, create Telangana with Hyderabad as its capital but this is not acceptable at all to the people from residue Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad residents by and large too oppose such a proposition. · Two, Hyderabad be made a Union Territory and the both bifurcated states should build their separate capitals. But this option has a very few takers. · Three, bifurcate the state with Hyderabad being the common capital as is the case Chandigarh, even though the latter is a Union Territory. · Four, another option being talked about is creation of Rayala Telangana, by including parts of Rayalaseema districts with Telangana. This doesn’t has much backing. But Telangana protagonists strongly feel that the new state without Hyderabad will be like a body without a head. The political parties in the non-Telangana part of Andhra Pradesh also feel that the residue Andhra Pradesh after its bifurcation without Hyderabad would be very much like “Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark”. Thus Hyderabad is the main apple of discord. A map of the proposed Telangana state
stocks to power generation stations and the power situation could go from bad to worse any time. As per the latest information available, the demand-supply gap in power generation has widened to 27.11 million units. There is a drop in generation of thermal power from 5,000 MW to 1,900 MW. · Normal life in the region stands crippled since the agitation began almost a month ago. Even the residence of Petroleum minister S. Jaipal Reddy was attacked reportedly by Telangana agitators even though Mr. Reddy is a supporter of separate state. · There is an utter chaos in the academic world with schools and colleges in a state of hibernation thereby drastically disrupting studies and examinations’ schedule. This is likely to cause students losing a year in school or college. The parents too are worried about the future of their wards and are hoping for an early end to the ongoing agitation.
· Due to the strike by Andhra Pradesh State Roadways Transport Corporation (APSRTC), the means of transport have been disrupted and the movement of people drastically restricted. The government has also now decided to break this strike and successfully persuaded a section of the striking workers to return to work. The pro-Telangana agitators allege that the government had offered substantial inducement to the strikers by promising them pay for the strike period and festival advance. This has brought about a rift in the union and further hardened the attitude of the agitators. · In the past one month, the agitators by further intensifying their movement have virtually crippled life in Hyderabad which incidentally lies in the proposed Telangana region. Industries and businesses are the worst sufferers and so is their large workforce. In fact, most of the businessmen and industrialists are
opposed to the bifurcation of the state and blame both the state and Central governments for failing to take a firm stand. This is somewhat a bad omen for the Congress party since it currently has a large number of MPs from Andhra Pradesh. Meanwhile, ambivalence is the keyword as far as the final position of the various national political parties is concerned. Even till today, neither the Congress nor BJP nor even the Communist parties have clearly spelled out their respective stands. The problem is that their parties in Andhra Pradesh too are a house divided with the Telangana unit supporting a separate state while the parties’ units in the rest of Andhra Pradesh stoutly opposing its bifurcation. The capital city of Hyderabad is the real apple of discord. It is a highly industrialized city with information technology dominating its landscape; it also boasts of a cosmopolitan demeanor.
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INDIA By Ann Louise Bardach (NYT) The party planning is in full swing throughout India. Never mind that the big day, Jan. 12, 2013, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vivekananda, is more than 15 months away. Not too long ago, Vivekananda, a household name in his homeland, was famous here as well, as the first missionary from the East to the West. If you’re annoyed that your local gas station is now a yoga studio, you might blame Vivekananda for having introduced “yoga” into the national conversation — though an exercise cult with expensive accessories was hardly what he had in mind. The Indian monk, born Narendranath Datta to an aristocratic Calcutta family, alighted in Chicago in 1893 in ochre robes and turban, with little money after a daunting twomonth trek from Bombay. Notwithstanding the fact that he had spent the previous night sleeping in a boxcar, the young mystic made an electrifying appearance at the opening of the august Parliament of Religions that Sept. 11. For most of the rest of the month, Vivekananda held the conference’s 4,000 attendees spellbound in a series of showstopping improvised talks. He had simplified Vedanta thought to a few teachings that were accessible and irresistible to Westerners, foremost being that “all souls are potentially divine.” His prescription for life was simple, and perfectly
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American: “work and worship.” By the end of his last Chicago lecture on Sept. 27, Vivekananda was a star.And like the enterprising Americans he so admired, he went on the road to pitch his message — dazzling some of the great minds of his time. Yet precious few of the estimated 16 million supple, spandex-clad yoginis in the United States, who sustain an annual $6 billion industry, seem to have a clue that they owe their yoga mats to Vivekananda. Enriching this irony was Vivekananda’s utter lack
of interest in physical exertions beyond marathon sitting meditations and pilgrimages to holy sites. “You are not your body,” he often reminded Americans, who tend to prefer “doing” over “being.” More distressing, for some, was his other message: “You are not your mind.” Yoga to the man who most famously delivered its message to America meant just one thing: “realizing God.” He abhorred channeling, séances and past-life hunts as diversionary. Worse, the great seer savored a good smoke, and on occasion chowed down on meat. Lacking a fig leaf of false modesty, he informed one Brooklyn audience, “I have a message to the West as Buddha had a message to the
East.” Among those who never doubted the messenger during his lifetime was Leo Tolstoy. The restless Russian was especially keen for writings on Ramakrishna, Vivekananda’s own guru. Two years before his death, Tolstoy wrote, “Since 6 in the morning I have been thinking of Vivekananda,” and later, “It is doubtful if in this age man has ever risen above this selfless, spiritual meditation.” The Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James was fasci-
nated by the 31-year-old Indian and quoted at length from Vivekananda’s writings in his seminal work, “The Varieties of Religious Experience.” “A very nice man! A very nice man!” Vivekananda reported after his first meeting with James, who called his new friend “an honor to humanity.” The novelist Gertrude Stein, then a student of James’s at Radcliffe, reportedly attended Vivekananda’s 1896 talk at Harvard — which so wowed the college’s graybeards that they offered him the chairmanship of Eastern philosophy. He declined, noting his vows as a monk. A later convert to the mystic’s writings was Aldous Huxley, who wrote the foreword to the 1942 English-language edition of “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,” which he described as “the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality.” Along with his friend Christopher Isherwood, Huxley was formally initiated at the Vedanta Center in the Hollywood Hills, where the two sometimes gave the Sunday lecture, often attended by their friends Igor Stravinsky, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Somerset Maugham and Greta Garbo. In 1945, Henry Miller, famous for his sex-drizzled novels, reported that his most important discovery of recent years was “two volumes on Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.” By 1962, Miller concluded that “Swami Vivekananda remains for me one of
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the great influences in my life.” J. D. Salinger’s commitment went deeper and he would leave Vedantic footprints in his work, often via his frontman, Seymour Glass. In his last published work, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” Salinger has Seymour hawking the wisdom of Vivekananda with the avidity of a pitchman on the Shopping Channel, calling him “one of the most exciting, original, and best equipped giants of this century I have ever run into; my personal sympathy for him will never be outgrown or exhausted as long as I live, mark my words; I would easily give 10 years of my life, possibly more, if I could have shaken his hand.” The waning of Vivekananda’s popularity in America began around the time the baby boomers commandeered the yoga business and the ascetic seams between the New Age and the Old Age inevitably frayed. Vivekananda, who always took the long view, might have been amused. His enthusiasm for America was boundless and, quite fittingly, he died on July 4, 1902. He was just 39 years old, but was exhausted from ceaseless work and untreated diabetes. He had returned to India and was living in the monastery he founded outside Calcutta. He excused himself for the evening and went into his room, meditated awhile, then took two deep breaths — and passed away. Earlier, he had remarked, “I have given enough for fifteen hundred years.” He was done.
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