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Reliance Industries Completes $7.2 Bn Deal with BP NEW DELHI (ET): Reliance deliveries. of infrastructure for receiving, Industries on Tuesday announced Commenting on the completion transporting and marketing natural completion of its 30 per cent stake of the deal, RIL Chairman and MD gas. sale in 21 oil and gas blocks, Mukesh Ambani said: “The alliance BP Group CEO Bob Dudley including the showcase KG-D6 with BP will boost our efforts to said: “This major investment is block, to British energy giant BP realise the true potential of India’s directly aligned with our strategy of Plc for over USD 7 billion. hydrocarbon reserves.” creating long-term value by forming Industrialist alliances with strong Mukesh Ambaninational partners, led Reliance gaining material Industries (RIL) positions in significant said in a statement hydrocarbon basins that the completion and increasing our of the deal has exposure to growing paved the way for energy markets.” commencement RIL is India’s largest of its strategic private sector company alliance in India with a turnover of with BP. “This Rs 2,58,651 crore significant step (USD 58 billion) will commence the and net profit of Rs planned alliance 20,286 crore (USD which will operate 4.5 billion) in the last across the gas value Mukesh Ambani, Industrialist, Reliance Industries is happy to fiscal ended March chain in India, make a strategic alliance in India with BP. Exploration in gas, 31, 2011. from exploration production, distribution and marketing are planned It had on February and production to “The globally renowned expertise 21 agreed to sell 30 per cent stake distribution and marketing. of BP and the in-depth domestic in 23 out of its 29 oil and gas “The completion of the deal experience of Reliance make for blocks to BP. Earlier this month, the delivers one of the largest ever a formidable alliance which will company said that it has received foreign direct investments into deliver unparalleled value for the the government approval for sale India,” RIL said. country in its pursuit of energy of stake in 21 blocks. RIL will get USD 7.2 billion security,” he added. However, the approval has been for the stake sale in 21 blocks and RIL said that the two companies held back for two blocks, one a could get further USD 1.2 billion w o u l d a l s o f o r m a 5 0 - 5 0 deep sea area off the Orissa coast as performance payments based joint venture for sourcing and and the other an onland block in on exploration success resulting marketing of gas in India which Assam, over technical issues. into development of commercial will also accelerate the creation
Pakistan Agrees to Grant Most Favored Nation Status to India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has possible meeting between the agreed to grant the Most Favored commerce ministers of India and Nation (MFN) status to India, Pakistan after a gap of over three something which New Delhi had years in New Delhi next month been demanding for many years, to discuss ways to boost trade and a media report said on Sunday. A senior official of the ministry of trade said on the condition of anonymity that the status of MFN would be granted during the current year, Urdu daily Jang reported. Pakistan has in return asked for immediate lifting of non-tariff restrictions on its exports to India. Sources said that trade and commerce minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim would soon announce basic changes in Pakistan’s trade policy. One of the amendments will be a draft to review the Trade and commerce minister Makhdoom list of trade items between Amin Fahim along with Pakistan officials is easing trade restrictions with India the two countries. According to the source, Pakistan proposals to remove non-tariff has agreed to grant MFN status to barriers as the two countries make India this very year in return for efforts to normalise relations. lifting the non-tariff restrictions on Indian commerce minister Anand imports from Pakistan. This will Sharma has invited his Pakistani fulfill the long-standing Indian counterpart Fahim, a senior leader demand in return for lifting of non- of the ruling Pakistan People’s tariff restrictions alone. Party, to visit New Delhi for the The report comes ahead of a meeting.
Indians are Displaying a Hunger not seen in Americans or Europeans: Marc Effron, Talent Strategy MUMBAI (DNAI): Marc Effron, CEO of The Talent Strategy Group, frequently visits India as a bulk of his clientele is based in the country. The author of the bestselling One Page Talent Management is writing another book on his favorite subject. Effron, who has worked with Hewitt and Avon Products before he branched out as a consultant to many enterprises including Bank of America, Philips and Reliance Industries in India, says people he has come across in the country, entrepreneurs or their employees, display a hunger that’s not seen these days in Americans or
Europeans. This hunger is positive, as it is aspirational, with a pride to take their nation forward, Effron tells Satish John in an interview: Are challenges for Indian companies different from those for their western counterparts? There are different challenges for Indian companies as they are in the growth phase now. When firms move from entrepreneurial to operation stage, their needs change. Most companies around the world mess up that transition. This is a unique set of challenges for fast growing companies in India to manage that transition from an
entrepreneurial environment to a more established operational environment. How do you improve the mean level of performance of people? Basic performance management sets clear goals, coach people throughout the year and reviews on a regular basis every year. Most firms struggle to set those stretch goals that interest and challenge employees. If you set that right, so many other things fall in place easily. Set up a small number of understandable goals for everyone, which will be the easiest way to manage the aspirations of
employees. How much is compensation a factor to keep the morale of an employee up? Compensation is a hygiene factor. If one is paid 30% more salary, it won’t make him more motivated. I think there is brain chemistry around it. There have been studies which prove that when one gets a compensation increase, it will give an effect of a dopamine release that drugs cause. The individual will feel good for a moment and then completely go back to the old level. It has no lasting impact at all. The
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average employee wants a great manager, a great career and just enough of a salary. But managing attrition is a huge challenge for Indian companies... Part of it is opportunistic. If given an opportunity to earn extra few bucks and you don’t see a career for self in a company, then why not. Especially in an aspirational economy. That’s a human behaviour. There are two things companies can do to retain a larger percentage of people. It is to engage their people with a good manager and a good compensation. Companies have to identify the top 10% of high potential employees around them. Then invest in a very different way in the top 10% of your staff. If a company wants to retain those people, first of all, you’ve to tell them that they are one of the best. The top 10% of people should be given a compelling proposition. Do you find stereotypes in Indian, Chinese or American talent? My experience suggests how consistent (in behavior) we all are across geographies, because our brains all come from the same place. The personality factor comes from the same factors around the world even if cultural nuances shift us in one way or the other. Many people ask me when you go to India what is it that strikes you. I find them hungrier in a positive way. They are more aspirational than I see in other parts of the world. For instance, in the US
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people lack the drive to succeed. Whereas Indians believe that if they all act collectively the country will win. Some of the pride is driven by the entrepreneurial behavior. It will be a huge competitive advantage. They will be working hard for their families and their countries. That kind of a mindset is almost unbeatable. If there is one differentiator then that is the entrepreneurial mindset. Leaders in India are also starting to understand their talent, perhaps a little better than their western counterparts. I see they have started realizing that they need to invest more in acquiring and training talent. Three companies you admire the most in spotting and nurturing talent? IBM has done an amazing job in the last 15 years. IBM has a true leadership machine. IBM has done a tremendous job in nurturing talent through their ranks. PepsiCo and Bank of America are a few. What about companies such as General Electric? General Electric is a perfect example of doing it well for years. A lot of companies have failed trying to cut paste the GE model to their organization. How does one improve talent what would be your advice? The first thing is to tell your manager that you want to do more. Every individual grows through experiences. So he or she has to seek those experiences. It can be a special project experience or a
full time job. Experience might be shadowing someone’s job to understand the job. As a young individual, your job is to collect as many experiences as you can get. Step one is you have to raise your hand and say you want to do more. Step two is to volunteering for any experience just for the learning experience.
Are Indian human resource practices comparable to the rest of the world? Indian HR practices are now changing focus from talent acquisition to talent management for all the obvious reasons. If businesses are growing at a fast clip, recruiting people is essential.
Among the CEOs that you have come across, can you name someone who has been good at spotting talent? CEO of Avon Products, Andrea Jung, has a tremendous insight into talent. She understands the culture of Avon so well that she could screen people very effectively. Hugh McColl, former CEO of Band of America, understood very well who could fit well in his bank and in what role, whether as a retail banker or as a treasury manager.
When I talk to my HR friends here, they are shifting from the growing part to the developing part. They are identifying the high potential individuals, developing succession planning strategies. Avoid the mistakes we made in the West. Reliance Industries has had a top leadership that has been around from the time it was founded? What are the challenges for RIL? The current crop of leaders in Reliance Industries may be wonderful. Most companies don’t even understand what a great leader
is and therefore it is impossible to build a second line-up of leaders. Indian companies have a peculiar problem as they dabble in too many sectors. Is this good for identifying and grooming leaders? If it is a multi-line business then life is much easier. If one business is on a turnaround mode, then there is already one person in the group who had the experience of turning it around. A multi-line or a diversified business can deal with economic shocks better. One has to execute it by moving people according to their capabilities. Some of the leading Indian IT companies hire people in lots of 20,000-30,000 a year. Isn’t that a challenge? It is a huge challenge. It is more of a question of cultural fit. One Page Talent Management, or OPTM, is a science that allows companies such as Infosys and TCS (who hire 30,000 people annually) to grow their workforce asleaders and accelerate them on their career path. The basic requirement for learning is you take feedback and you practise. A 15-minute fast interaction is all it takes, say every month, with your team individually. It goes a long way. Very few people climbing from ranks to positions of power? Indian entrepreneurship is a perfect example. I think the model is still very valid in India as it is a growth economy. There are a lot of people who are growing from shop floor up.
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Nepal Elects Baburam Bhattarai, a Maoist as Prime Minister
KATHMANDU, NEPAL (NY T) : The deeply fractured Parliament of Nepal elected a Maoist as the country’s new prime minister on Sunday, after weeks of efforts to form a national unity coalition proved fruitless. The new prime minister — Baburam Bhattarai, 57 — is a senior leader and intellectual force in the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which gave up armed rebellion in a 2006 peace accord and unexpectedly won the most seats, though not an outright majority, in the 2008 legislative elections. Bhattarai faces the same thorny problems that made previous governments of Nepal short-lived: how to reintegrate the 19,000 former fighters of the Maoist rebellion back into civilian society or the army, and how to balance power in a permanent new constitution for the country. “This is the last opportunity,” Bhattarai told the Parliament before the vote on Sunday. “I am determined to complete the peace process and constitution drafting.” It will be an uphill task. The other two major parties — the non-Communist Nepali Congress Party and a rival Communist group, known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) or C.P.N.-U.M.L. — remain in opposition, and to win Bhattarai
needed support from smaller parties that could withdraw it at any time. Though seen as the No. 2 Maoist leader after the chairman, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Bhattarai is not universally supported in his own party. The Maoists have struggled to turn their plurality into a stable coalition government. Three successive prime ministers have resigned after a few months in office, followed by weeks of deadlock over a successor. The latest, Jhalanath Khanal of the C.P.N.-U.M.L., who was elected in February, stepped down Aug. 14, saying he had made little or no progress. Bhattarai was one of the central negotiators of the November 2006 accord that ended the country’s bloody 10-year insurrection, and he won praise as finance minister in the first elected Maoist government. He has a reputation for integrity and for a modest lifestyle that is unusual among top Nepalese politicians. He said Sunday that despite the failure to organize a national unity government, he would continue to try to garner agreement from the main opposition parties for measures to complete the peace process. “I am hopeful that they will support me,” he said. “I will try to move ahead with the confidence of other parties.” Still, he said, “I do not have any magic.”
S.Africa Keen to Boost Exports to India
PRETORIA (AA): Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has urged the private sector to come up with projects that will enhance South African exports to India. “The minister has urged the private sector to explore opportunities presented by the political and economic relationships that India and South Africa have.” Speaking at a reception hosted by the South African High Commissioner to India in New Delhi, Davies said Tata India is one
of South Africa’s largest foreign investors. Africa and India has experienced an upward trend from 2006 to 2010, growing from R16.3 billion to R43 billion. Coal, solid fuels, manganese ores and copper ores are some of the exported goods to India, while petroleum oils and vehicles are some of the goods that are imported from India. The SA-India CEOs Forum is a platform for business community interaction between SA and India.
Nepal’s newly elected prime minister Baburam Bhattarai greeted supporters, vouching to work towards national coalition unity and peace. The two other major parties - the non communist Nepali Congress party and the Communisty party of Nepal have to cooperate in what Baburam Bhattarai claims will be an uphill task to unify over 19,000 former fighters of the Maoist rebellion back into civilian society and help balance power in a permanent new constitution for Nepal
Sri Lanka Plans Undersea Power Grid Link With India COLOMBO (SANA) “The power to India and vice-versa. plan is at conceptual level. We have lot of excess capacity We are doing a feasibility in terms of wind power,” he study… and plan to set up an added. On the situation in undersea power transmission Jaffna in the aftermath of the line between India and Sri war which led to decimation Lanka (Anurhadhapura),” High of LTTE, Kariyawasam said Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Sri Lanka was in the process India Prasad Kariyawasam told of rebuilding, reconstruction reporters. and reconciliation. Of the 2.90 Sri Lanka was planning to lakh Tamilians displaced, only set up a power grid connection 5,000 remain to be resettled. between the island and Mysore He also said of the 11,000 in India which is facing growing LTTE cadre, 7,000 have been requirement for electricity, a rehabilitated and otheres top envoy said today. “The remained to be resettled. plan is at conceptual level. Kariyawasam said the Sri We are doing a feasibility Lankan Government was study… and plan to set up an planning to commence ferry undersea power transmission High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India services between Taliamanar Prasad Kariyawasam Talent Strategy line between India and Sri and D hanus hk odi near Lanka (Anurhadhapura),” High Rameswaram in India. “… meet the increasing demand for Commissioner of Sri Lanka to electricity.”In the current context of Dhanushkodi is a flourishing tourist India Prasad Kariyawasam told India’s power requirement, it may and pilgrimage town,” he added reporters here. The idea was to be very right for Sri Lanka to sell
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Ghastly Political Violence in Karachi - An Effective Solution Needed
By Hammad Siddiqi KARACHI (DAWN): After making headlines for months, the ghastly political violence in Karachi seems to have taken a breather but for how long no one knows. However, what is apparent is the fact that it brought back memories of trussed up bodies, sounds of automatic gunfire and the reign of terror that became a hallmark of the city in the 90s. Karachi is a layer cake, with the MQM, PPP, ANP and various gangs vying for an ample share over its resources. Over the years, there has been a demographic shift in Karachi, with this division igniting economic and political problems and leading to the emergence of ethnically homogenous communities where an outsider cannot enter. The periods of prolonged violence in Karachi are directly linked to periods of political confrontation. Currently, there are very important issues of favourable electoral demarcations for future, local body systems and important portfolios in the cabinet that area at stake. The making and breaking of deals to achieve higher political objectives will decide which political group in the city maintains an upper hand. Believing whole heartedly in ‘the end justifies the means’, the political parties leave no stone unturned, even if it means engineering violence. The political parties have militant cadres and have
interlink ages with the underworld who unleash violence as and when needed. Political parties use their criminal bands and the underworld as an instrument of violence, terror, intimidation and impunity. The mafia who have a symbiotic relationship with politicians of Karachi in return expand their own business of gun running, drug trafficking and land grabbing. While the mayhem continues, there is a glaring lack of political will on part of the federal government to address the issue, all the while as it struggles to appease its allies. An indiscriminate operation against groups would alienate them from the government and that is what the government wants to avoid, throwing Karachiites further into the blazing inferno. In any civilised society, law and order is held supreme but here it is the other way around. With the news trickling in that 200 Frontier Constabulary (FC) troops have arrived in the city, one wonders how long before lasting peace returns to the city. There is no dearth of security forces in the city. Karachi has over 56,000 law enforcement personnel comprising police along with the Rangers and FC. But are the law enforcing personnel in the police independent? That simple answer is that they are not. Years of misuse by political actors has turned the police into a politicised force on a tight leash. In the ’90s, the police
force led by Shoaib Suddle carried out a successful operation against political terrorism and restored peace. The same is needed now but the force needs a free hand and a strong will on part of the government. As for the calls of deploying army in the city. There is no doubt that the army can clean up the mess by sorting out the different political patrons in an even handed manner. But the army would fail to address the underlying complicated political problems which could only be addressed by the politicians. Even in the past, following the military operation of 1992 in Karachi and Sindh, the problems reappeared after a short while. Of late, an operation in Karachi has finally begun but there are few takers in this activity. When the government is pitted to keep allies on its side, then operations cannot be indiscriminate. What kind of operation was this which could not be launched against the mafia in Lyari when ‘human
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An Opportunity to Clean System of Corruption: Business Leaders
MUMBAI (DH): With the nation’s focus on corruption as highlighted by Anna Hazare, business leaders see an opportunity for cleaning up the system by openness and abolition of red tape which generates corruption. Industry body Assocham called for “bold and concrete steps” to ensure “effective, transparent and accountable” governance. Assocham also supported creation of accountable institutions along the lines of Election Commission, its President Dilip Modi said. S P Hinduja, Chairman, Hinduja Group Worldwide gave specific suggestions for eradication of corruption, including legalizing contributions by individuals and businesses to political parties and bringing funds held offshore into the accounting system by imposing a one-time tax of 15-30 per cent as was done by the US and other countries. Hinduja also called for introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in order to urgently streamline transactions and bring greater transparency to them. Other measures suggested by him include reducing the large number of permissions required for new projects and awarding mega projects to businesses on condition of building social infrastructure in education healthcare and water supply. Efforts must be taken up to
break the unholy nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen that has created an entire parallel economy to corner the benefits of rapid growth, he said. Corruption, he said, is now seriously affecting governance in India with consequences for its social cohesion, inclusive economic growth, inflows of foreign investment and even internal security. Making his stand clear in favour of a strong Lokpal Bill, Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej also suggested reducing the number of government permissions required could help curb corruption. “I feel the best way to tackle corruption is to drastically reduce issues on which government permissions or discretionary decisions are required and make all government sales and purchases of assets, goods and services by a transparent auction,” Godrej said. While most of the corporate leaders stayed away from making direct comments on the ongoing issue, top industrialists like UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya, Mahindra & Mahindra Vice-Chairman and MD Anand Mahindra and Biocon’s CMD Kiran Mazumdar Shaw have been expressing their views through social media like twitter. “ I s u p p o r t Te a m A n n a ’s movement against corruption
deciding on a final mode to tackle corruption. “We have had a very strong parliamentary system for 64 years and it should have due deliberations and all the bills should go the standing committee and it will consider good points of all bills. As something of such great importance should not be rushed through,” he said. Assocham’s Modi said: “Given India’s emerging role as a global leader, it is imperative that we take bold and concrete steps to ensure effective, transparent and accountable governance”. He further said, whether it was the Lok Pal Bill or any other institutional arrangement, it must be ensured that power does not accumulate in the same hands and the balance of power envisaged in the Constitution is Corruption in India has gotten so deep and layered in Indian businesses. respected. It is also affecting governance, social standards, economic growth, Hinduja suggested foreign investment and internal security. With such a large and diverse democracy as India’s rapid growth is being hampered by several outside confiscating black money factors like terrorism, political riots, social propagandas, but the worst generated by corrupt politicians culprit that stops economic growth in India is bribes accepted by officers and bureaucrats or through at every level in society. Many social groups are trying to get corruption criminal activities as one of the eradicated while Hazare fasts steps to tackle the black money issue. lightly, or go unheeded,” Mahindra He also highlighted the need for Mallya tweeted. tweeted on August 25. “If Team Anna does not trust Compromise is not always a creating a large number of small Parliament n (sic) its elected bad word. It’s part of the DNA of feeder infrastructure projects for implementation in the semi-urban representatives, do we need democracy, he had said. general elections to re- elect Organization of Pharmaceutical and rural sector to create investment acceptable representatives,” Mallya Producers of India (OPPI) and employment at grassroots level questioned. President Ranjit Shahani said due that can help in reducing rural “Appeal by the PM, opp (sic) deliberations must take place before migration to city slums. which must b (sic) eradicated. But this takes time n (sic) patience n (sic) a careful approach. Not this,”
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Cycling Tour to Spread Importance of Education VIJAYAWADA (HINDU): Five the Mangalore chapter of the MAD aspirations and potential rather volunteers of Make A Difference on Cambridge syllabus textbooks than on their financial situation (MAD), a youth volunteer network for the 300 children under its or their background. About 1,000 volunteers of the MAD teach close that works for underprivileged wings. children, have set on a cycling tour They said that MAD tries to to 3500 children in the Indian of India to cover 12 cities travelling empower the children in orphanages, cities of Cochin, Pune, Delhi, 4,240 km, beginning at Mangalore on August 7. The team comprising two persons from Germany and one from Mangalore, stopped here on Sunday on their way to Chennai. The other two cyclists proceeded directly to Chennai as they suffered some injuries, said MAD core team member Surya Teja Aduri. The MAD Vijayawada chapter was launched recently. The cyclists interacted with members of Child Aid Foundation. They participated in various events such as break the ice, dance etc., organised at the Child Aid Foundation near Benz Circle. They also participated Volunteers of Make a Difference (MAD) with underprivileged children in wall signing ceremony, he said, adding, KLU pro chancellor Raja Hari participated street shelters and poor homes with Mumbai, Mangalore, Bangalore, as chief guest. English along with its partner, Trivandrum, Vellore, Chandigarh, The cyclists set few objectives, Cambridge University Press. The Hyderabad, Nagpur and Chennai. including raising Rs.100 for every English project takes learners from The team would visit Chennai, kilometre they cover, and to stress starter to intermediate level using Vellore, Bangalore, Mysore, Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram the importance of education to the Cambridge English for schools. future of our country. The MAD wanted to bring about and Cochin and conclude their The fund thus raised would be a situation where all children ‘Tour de Difference’ at Mangalore used to meet the costs incurred by can select a career based on their on September 23.
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Global Nexuses Undermining India: Talk by Rajiv Malhotra Did you know that: 1) The “Dravidian” race was invented in the 19th century and is now being used to create splits in Indian society? 2) “Conferences” are being conducted where theories and declarations such as “India is the mother of racism”, “India is a Dravidian Christian Nation”, and “Christians made Sanskrit” are being promulgated? 3) Many Dharma traditions and rituals are being misappropriated by proselytizing missionary organizations in the guise of syncretism? 4) The Aryan Race theory, completely rejected in Europe after the Holocaust, is still masquerading as the Aryan Invasion Theory, which has been used effectively by vested interests to create the Sinhalese-Tamil schism that led to massive civil war in Sri Lanka? In their r e cently released and critically acclaimed 640-page book “Breaking India”, authors Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan present a systematic study of
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the manufacture of many such myths over the last several years and tracked them to organized vested interests. Backed by painstaking & analytical research, detailed references and an incisive analysis, they lay bare the prominent actors in a race to undermine India and have sparked a debate on the extent to which human rights and other “empowerment” projects are cover-ups for these nefarious activities. See: www. BreakingIndia.com Rajiv Malhotra is one of the first scholars to argue strenuously
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why Indians must own and control their discourse. He says that much of the anti-Indian culture portrayal today - which he has termed the “caste, cows and curry” culture - is due to the Indian story written by vested interests. This is in stark contrast to the studies of Japan, China, South Korea, or even religions like Islam or Christianity. He likens this lack of ownership to a company like, say Hewlett Packard, outsourcing its public relations, marketing and research to its competitor Epson. “Don’t outsource your discourse”, he says. Arsha Vidya Satsanga (AVS), an organization dedicated to bring the teachings, critical thinking and humanitarian vision of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, has invited Rajiv Malhotra to Houston for a presentation on September 11 from 3:30- 6 pm at Holiday Inn Southwest which is open to the public. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion, and a Q&Asession to encourage audience participation. The organizers believe that the topic is important for the general public as well as academics (from the Political Science, India Studies, Sociology, and History departments), professionals and religious leaders who are all concerned about the welfare of India. Houstonians are encouraged to register at www.AVShouston.org , or contact Dr. Jayakumar Srinivasan at ArshaVidyaHou@gmail.com
GURGAON (TOI): Anna Hazare was discharged from a hospital here on Wednesday evening where he was admitted on Sunday after he broke his 12-day fast demanding a strong Lokpal. “Yes, he is out,” Dr Yatin Mehta, who was attending on 74-year-old Hazare, said when asked if the Gandhian was discharged from Medanta Medicity where he had been under treatment for the past four days. The activist left from the back door to avoid the media which was present in strength outside the hospital premises. Hazare took solid diet for the first time on Wednesday since being
admitted in the hospital, Dr Naresh Trehan, CEO and chairman of Medanta Medicity, earlier said, adding, “His condition is near normal. “He has started taking dal-roti and khichidi (porridge),” he said. Trehan said Hazare’s blood-pressure was 140/90, which is normal, and his pulse rate was 80 per minute. Hazare has also gained 400 gms in the last 24 hours and he now weighs 67 kg. The doctor said ketones presence in his urine is normal now and his liver and kidneys were functioning well. According to sources, Hazare is headed to his village in Maharashtra, Ralegon Siddhi.
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If Rajiv’s Killers Escape Gallows, so may 21 Others on Death Row
By Vishwa Mohan NEW DELHI (TOI): If ‘delay’ in disposing a mercy petition is taken as the ground to commute the death penalty of those convicted of heinous crimes, it will have a bearing on the fate of 21 people on the death row, whose pleas have been pending for over five to 10 years. Asking for the Centre’s reply, the Madras high court on Tuesday observed that there had been a delay of over 11 years in the disposal of the petitions filed by the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The HC also stayed for eight weeks the execution of the three convicts fixed for September 9. Besides, the Tamil Nadu assembly had also passed a unanimous resolution urging President Pratibha Patil to reconsider the mercy plea of the three convicts.
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Members of various Tamil organisations during a protest demanding clemency for Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan, three convicts on death row in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, in Chennai on Tuesday.
Abdullah to speak about the Parliament House attack case convict Afzal Guru. “If J&K assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru would the reaction have been as muted? I think not,” Omar said on the micro-blogging site twitter. The argument of ‘delay’, if accepted, can also be taken as a ground to pitch for the case of terrorists Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. The development has already witnessed ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab writing to the Centre for commuting the death sentence of the Khalistan Commando Force terrorist. While the President had rejected Bhullar’s mercy plea in May, the final nod onAfzal Guru is awaited after the home ministry forwarded its opinion rejecting his plea. There is one more
murder convict, Mahendra Nath Das, from Assam whose mercy plea was rejected by the President in May. However, all the mercy pleas have not ended in ‘rejection’. Since November 2009, President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 22 convicts in different cases to life imprisonment. None of these convicts was guilty of any terror-related crime. The Madras High Court’s observation now opens a debate, taking a cue from what the Supreme Court had held in similar cases. The apex court had in 1989 held in the Triveniben vs State of Gujarat case that “undue delay” in execution of a death sentence entitled the condemned prisoner under Article 32 of Constitution to approach the court that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. The apex court, however, did not quantify the period of “inordinate delay”, leaving scope for interpretation especially when the clemency powers of the President, under Article 72 of the Constitution, do not prescribe any time frame for disposal of mercy petitions by the President. Sources in the home ministry said that the Centre, which received notice from the Madras HC on the petition filed by the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi case, will tell the court about provisions of Article 72. A senior official said: “The Constitution does not provide any time limit for the President to decide any clemency petition. So, the argument of the delay does not hold any ground.”
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Indian Business Delegation to Tap Africa’s IT Market ACCRA (ET): An Indian business delegation is to visit Nigeria and Ghana as part of an African tour in order to tap into the continent’s growing IT market which it said is headed for growth this year with market levels expected to reach $26.53 billion. The NASSCOM delegation is due to visit Ghana and Nigeria during Sep 15-22 as part of the group’s Global Trade Development Initiative to explore new geographies for its members, a statement said. NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industries in India. It has more than 1200 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. The statement said the delegation would also visit Kenya which, it said, has “the most aggressive ICT economy in East Africa with the government being proactive and willing to invest in the sector.” “Nigeria is the second biggest economy in Africa and is the largest in terms of its population and opportunity,” the statement said, adding that “Ghana offers the most suitable investment climate in the region and is often referred to as the Gateway to West Africa. This delegation would give ample exposure and flavour of the entire African continent.”
The delegation is led by Jai for the Indian IT industry. The Menon, Group CIO of Bharti liberalisation of Africa continues Enterprises & Director of Global and most countries have established Innovation & regulatory bodies IT, Airtel, and to ensure a fair, Anil Bakht, competitive Managing and enabling Director, Eastern environment.” Software “NASSCOM is Systems. also counting on a The statement $5-billion credit line said, “The for Africa signed emphasis of by Prime Minister the NASSCOM Manmohan Singh delegation to expand trade with would be Africa in May this on creating year, as offering awareness more opportunities among the local for its members. companies The statement about India, said the NASSCOM identifying delegation to Africa potential last year was well companies for participated and partnership appreciated, adding and building that “it was through a l o n g - t e r m Jai Menon, Group CIO of Bharti participation in e n g a g e m e n t Enterprises & Director of the delegation that Global Innovation & IT, Airtel, member companies programme.” The statement is set to lead the delegation of realized the huge said, “Over the businessmen and women to business potential in past few years, tap into the African IT market Kenya and Nigeria. Africa has been Feedback from members has one of the faster growing markets indicated that they have started worldwide in ICT adoption and participating in tenders and began communication technology and submitting proposals both in the has the potential of becoming one government sector and non-govt of the most important markets sectors.”
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NEW DELHI: As India’s milk production falls 20 million tonnes short of the demand, leading global dairy players offered to help the country increase its output. At a global dairy conference here, representatives from US, Canada, New Zealand, France and Ireland narrated their success stories in dairy farming and offered to help India boost its milk output. “India’s milk production was 140 million tonnes in 2010, whereas the domestic demand was 160 million tonnes, hence the demandsupply gap was 20 million tonnes,” said Sanjay Bhoosreddy, Joint Secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. “The dairy sector needs to grow at six per cent per annum to attain the target as against around four per cent annually at present,” Bhoosreddy said and stressed upon the need to step up research and development (R&D) in the sector. “We need to map India with the priorities and issues in the areas where dairy development has not yet started,” Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Sudip Bandopadhyaya said. The day-long conference on dairy development in India was organized by industry chamber Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII). Cherie L Bayer Director of Development American Jersey Cattle Association said her country improved its milk output by 69 billion pounds reaching 187 lbs in 2007. This was due to greater genetic capacity for production, better nutrition and improved cow health, she added. N e w Z e a l a n d ’s Tr a d e Commissioner in India Cliff Fuller offered partnership with India in the dairy sector. Ireland’s Ambassador to India Kenneth Thompson said that India will have to open its doors to foreign inputs on technology to meet the demands of a growing population. JeevMantra CEO Michele Janezic, said that milk productivity could be enhanced by paying attention to breeding policy, hygiene, fodder and genetic selection. She said her organisation would be conducting a survey to devise a model farm approach to help Indian farmers in increasing dairy output. Canadian High Commissions Counsellor (Agriculture and Food) Sudha Kshatriya said that her country is already exporting bovine embryos to India and they want to extend this cooperation further.
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Depleted India Seek New Start
SUSSEX (ET): A week of A trio of youngsters - Alex relative downtime, and India’s Hales, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes tour of England is finally up and - are vying for an opportunity to running. Three low-key county present their credentials, under the fixtures - against Sussex, Kent and leadership of Stuart Broad, whose Leicestershire - have given a bruised captaincy career started edgily squad a chance to rediscover that against Sri Lanka in June, but will winning feeling, and with a trio of doubtless have benefitted from an hard-earned victories to fall back on, attention now turns to the limitedovers leg of their campaign, starting with the one-off Twenty20 at Old Trafford on Wednesday. As far as India are concerned, a change ought to be as good as a rest. A chance to swap their benighted w h i t e s for their familiar blue one- Stuart Broad keeps his eye on the ball in training day outfits is an opportunity to draw injection of confidence courtesy of a line under their shortcomings his Man-of-the-Series performance of the Test series, and revert to in the Tests against India. the mindset of champions. After As for India’s line-up, it’s a all, less than five months have pragmatic blend of old and new. elapsed since that night of nights Gautam Gambhir heads back home, in Mumbai, and no matter how and Sachin Tendulkar will sit this poorly they may have fared in the match out, but Rahul Dravid, at interim, they’ll always have that 38, will make his T20I debut achievement to fall back on. in recognition, perhaps, of the Wednesday’s fixture, however, is liveliness of English wickets and unlikely to prove much about the the fallibility of some of his batting mindset of either set of players. In colleagues against the moving ball. Twenty20 cricket, it is England, not With no Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, India, who are the reigning world Ishant Sharma, Gautam Gambhir or champions, although their squad Harbhajan Singh, among others, has little in common with the one there’s an air of experimentation that triumphed in the Caribbean in on display in India’s selection. But, 2010, and has been selected very ahead of the serious business in the much with a view to next year’s ODIs, this is clearly the game in defence in Sri Lanka. which to test the waters.
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Shooter Gagan Narang Conferred Khel Ratna
NEW DELHI (ET): Ace shooter Gagan Narang, who notched up four gold medals at last year’s Commonwealth Games, was on Monday conferred the country’s highest sporting honour - the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award - in a glittering ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here. The 28-year-old rifle shooter, who was the first Indian marksman to qualify for next year’s London Olympics with a bronze in the World Championships last year, was an automatic choice for the prestigious award. Narang, who was disgruntled at being “ignored” for the award last year, collected the trophy that consists of a medal, citation and cash prize of Rs 7.5 lakh from President Pratibha Patil. Besides winning four gold medals in the 2010 CWG, Narang bagged a silver in the men’s 10m air rifle singles event at the Asian Games last year. He also won a team silver at the Asian Games when he combined with Abhinav Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput in the 10m air rifle event. Among the Arjuna awardees, the most high-profile among the ones chosen this year - Indian pace spearhead Zaheer Khan - could not attend the function as he recently underwent surgery on his injured ankle in England. Others who were also not present due to varied reasons were tennis ace Somdev Devvarman, gymnast Ashish Kumar and discus-thrower
Vikas Gowda. Badminton ace Jwala Gutta and India’s first woman world champion Tejaswini Sawant, who
year, including the Commonwealth Games gold. Dronacharya Award, the top recognition for coaches in the
clinched the top honours in the 50m rifle prone event, were among the star athletes who received the Arjuna award. Zaheer, who has taken 271 Test wickets at an average of 31.94, besides 273 one-day wickets at an average of 28.84, is the first male cricketer to have got the Arjuna Award after Gautam Gambhir bagged it in 2009. Somdev had struck a golden double last year by finishing on top in both the Commonwealth and Asian Games singles events, while flyweight boxer Suranjoy Singh clinched an astonishing seven back-to-back gold medals last
country, was conferred on five including Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao (boxing), Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastics), Ramphal (wrestling), Kuntal Roy (athletics) and Rajinder Singh (hockey). The Arjuna and Dronacharya awardees got statuettes, citations and cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh each. Dhyan Chand Award, given for the life-time contribution to sports development, was conferred on Shabbir Ali (football), Sushil Kohli (swimming) and Rajkumar (Wrestling). The award carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh ($11,111), a statuette and a citation.
Fishing Much More Than a Hobby in Meghalaya
SHILLONG (SAN): Fishing is no more just a recreational activity in Meghalaya, but has transformed into a popular annual sporting event that draws huge crowds from each and every part of the state. Recently, over 1000 anglers including women, children and men gathered at the Thadlaskein Lake near Jowai in Jaintia Hills to participate in the sixth edition of the Sajar Nangli Fishing Festival in Meghalaya. Enthusiastic anglers shelled out an entry fee of Rs. 1500 to participate in the event and competed for the bumper prize of
Rs 5 lakh. We have heard about this competition earlier and it sounded very exciting. I am very impressed with the number of the participants and it is really exciting. Khasi love fishing. All together this was a good experience, s a i d Tr e d i p , a visitor Fish is one of the important items in our daily life at the same time people can rear fish at their own house and can sell it in the market and it will help improve their living standards, said S K
Lato, promoter. Currently fish consumption in Meghalaya is around thirtythree thousand metric tons a year whereas production is only seven thousand MT. The Meghalaya government is planning to launch an aqua culture mission next year and has allocated Rs 37.40 crore ($81M) under the Special Plan Assistance in 2010-11. Both state and central governments are also regularly organizing fairs to promote commercialization of fisheries among the locals in the region and spread awareness on the modern methods of cultivating fish.
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His recognition in over 300 stage shows during his 5 year training encouraged him to keep at and improvise Bollywood dance moves and magic. Having seen that no one has combined music and magic, Kiron Kumar has now carefully crafted this into a niche.
By Anil Dharker (Outlook)“Corruption,”Iremarked the other day on a television channel, “takes more than one form.” We were talking about—what else?—the latest incremental progression in the Anna Hazare saga. “Everyone talks of money corruption, but what about the other kind—‘Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely’? And who has any kind of power now? Only two entities: Anna Hazare and television.” That’s all I got a chance to say: the anchor swiftly changed the subject and everyone got talking of the usual arguments. A few channels do allow you to discuss the rigidity of Team Anna and its constitutional implications, but no one wants to talk about how the television medium itself is dictating what we think, what we say and when we say it. Am I the only one disturbed at the supercharged atmosphere (almost amounting to mass hysteria) that surrounds us now on the issue of corruption? In this prevailing atmosphere, you better be for Anna Hazare completely, without any qualifications or reservations, or you will be deemed to be either for corruption or a lackey of the government. (“Your timing is terrible,” a ‘friend’ said to me after that particular television appearance, and then twisted the knife in with, “You sound like a Congress stooge.”) This mood has come about because of television’s blanket coverage of the Anna Hazare campaign, and the minuscule time given by it for the dissenting view.
“People enjoy it, they love the magic and the music combo. But it is not all that easy as it looks. We have to be careful to finish the magic sequence before the music ends. That is the tough part.” His sister Bindiya Damodaran, a classical artiste in New Jersey has been a constant source of en-
couragement, helping him go the extra mile in each project he undertakes. He has choreographed video songs, held dance shows in NY, NJ and the Gulf nations. Having seen the Bollywood music and magic act, parents have been lining up to register their children for dance. Many have joined to learn Classical styles of dance. “It is essential and helps a girl express grace. It also helps boys and girls learn Bollywood styles of dance easier and faster, if they have mastered the Classical forms.” Tina Bose says. Next year they plan to host the Namaste Bollywood Dance Teams talent show in February at the New Stafford Civic Center. With their media partner, Radio Hungama, KCHN AM 1050, they plan to make this a success. Infusion 2011 show on September 17 Saturday 5:30 - 9 PM., will have all students participating, their dance company alone performing six dances. Tickets are at $10 and $20 for VIPs. For details, www.infusedperformingarts.com Call
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Bollywood dance combined with magic is popular with the audience, “People enjoy it, they love the magic and music combo. But it is not all easy as it looks. We as a team have to be careful to finish the magic sequence before the music ends. That is the tough part.
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No one is saying that Anna is a television creation. We have tolerated corruption at all levels for a very long time, but the multiplicity and size of recent scams, and the UPA government’s complete inability to control them so disgusted us all that we had reached bursting point. Anna was more or less the right man at the absolutely right time. He has led a campaign which has been brilliantly conceived and orchestrated by his backroom boys till now. But if his movement has now lit a fire that is seemingly out of control, the flames have been fanned by television’s hyperventilating channels. Is it really old-fashioned to believe that the media should remain, under all circumstances, balanced and objective? In many cases, you may have to choose between good and evil. You obviously hope then that
In covering Anna, TV seems to have shed its critical faculties the media will be on the side of the angels. But even then, should its role continue to be of the news-gatherer, observer and analyst? Or should it be that of an activist? Everyone would want the media to be against corruption, so when a movement like Anna’s starts, you expect the media to be on that movement’s side. But do you expect it to act as the movement’s propagandist? As far as I know, all channels, even the ones not averse to airing
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the occasional opposing viewpoint, joined Anna’s campaign directly. They flashed messages—and continue to do so—right through their telecasts asking viewers to support the campaign by tweeting, texting or phoning messages to designated addresses and phone numbers. In short, on the dais where Anna and his team sit, television channels are ensconced too, albeit invisibly. This may make for exciting and— what’s the buzzword?—interactive television, but it does commit you firmly to one side of the equation, so much so that it becomes difficult to be even slightly critical. It goes without saying that Anna has started a social revolution that will change very many things for the better in the country; but it also goes—and this needs saying— that Anna and team have got so carried away with the momentum of what they started that they don’t know when (or how) to stop. Television’s lack of objectivity has
meant that really important questions are also not being discussed: like the dictatorial tendencies of Team Hazare, the flaws in the Jan Lokpal Bill, the monumental machinery required for the Lokpal agency and the difficultly in keeping it corruption-free. Television’s all-consuming obsession with the campaign has prevented it from looking at already established anticorruption agencies and why they are not working—agencies like the CBI, CVC, ACB, the Lok Ayuktas set up in some states. No one on television is asking who will do the required investigations for the Lokpal organisation once it begins functioning. The police? Or an agency much like the police? Once you’ve said that, you’ve said it all. But the channels won’t say it, or many of the other things that need to be said. If they did so, it just might weaken the movement, and that wouldn’t be good for trps, would it?
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“Deepavali, Acharya Thirunakshatram, Sri Rama Kratuvu and Sahasra Kalasa Abhishekam”. His Holiness Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji will be in Houston for this Momentous 6-day Event from October 26th 2011 to October 31st 2011. For details visit www.ashtalakshmi.org. Event Highlights:
• Celebrate colorful Deepavali in the Divine Presence of Sri Swamiji. • Sahasra Kalasa Abhishekam will be
performed to Sri Rama parivaar (Sri Swamiji’s Aaradhana Perumal) for the first time in the USA. Abhishekam will be performed with 1001 Kalasas by 40 qualified Ruthwiks from India under the aegis of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji. • Acharya Thirunakshtram will be celebrated during His Holiness visit for the first time outside of India. • Devotees will participate in Saamoohika Dhanalakshmi puja and Samoohika Sri Sita Rama Kalayanam under the guidance of Sri Swamiji. • Sri Rama Kratuvu (5-day Yagnam) with 40 Vedic scholars under the aegis of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji. • Ishtis:- Sri Vainatheya Ishti, Sri Hayagriva Ishti, Sri Nrusimha Ishti, and Sri Lakshmi Narayana Ishti for individual wishes. • Daily discourses by Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji. • Cultural Programs. • Devotees from around the World will be attending the Grand Celebrations.
To register or sponsor for any of the services, please visit:
www.ashtalakshmi.org or e-mail: sriramaseva2011@gmail.com or call:
(281) 498-2344
YOUR PRESENCE IS THE ESSENCE!
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Anushka and I have drifted apart: For the last time, are you dating Anushka? We are two young, attractive people. When people saw us going out and sharing wonderful chemistry, they speculated. The truth is, Anushka is a very good friend. We have drifted apart now unfortunately. So you were not in love? I was very attracted to her. I don’t know if I’ve ever been in love. I don’t know what love means. I have felt strong and deep emotions for people who are not related to me by blood. I don’t know if that’s love but yes, I’ve felt attraction and affection for Anushka. Did you and Anushka split because she wanted to concentrate on her career?
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No. We have drifted because we don’t get to see each other as much as we used to. I think circumstances drove us apart. We worked together continuously for a year in Band Bajaa Baraat and saw each other everyday. Over a period of time we made common friends and hung out together going for dinners and movies. Now that our work is over, Anushka has forged her own path and signed on lots of movies. Now we don’t meet each other at all. Are you closer to Sonakshi now? I do find Sonakshi very attractive, but we are not dating. I have met her many times and we share a healthy friendship. Right now I am single. I wouldn’t mind if love comes along, but for the moment it’s work over love. Is Sonakshi a better friend or Anushka?
Interview with BODYGUARD Star
Salman Khan After Wanted (2009) and Dabangg (2010), will Bodyguard be your third consecutive Eid blockbuster? Let the Wednesday the film releases decide that. Everyone wants to make a film that will surpass their last films. I’m no different. And today, we have the technical know-how to up the standards but we still haven’t discovered a hit formula. So, all you can do is make a good, sensible, emotional film and leave it at that. But the expectations from ‘Brand Salman’ have risen? Expectations are high because people have watched my last few films. But it’s true in other cases too. For example, you always expect a little more from your girlfriend and vice versa (smiles). Your last two films with Kareena Kapoor, Kyun Ki! (2005) and Main Aur Mrs Khanna (2009) didn’t work. Will this one break the jinx? In our film industry, certain people dismiss an on-screen pairing as panvati (jinxed) if their last few films haven’t worked at the box office. But I believe that if a heroine is perfectly suited for a particular role, why shouldn’t I get her? In Wanted, we cast Ayesha Takia in the lead
because she fit the part. And the film was a superhit! Is Katrina Kaif doing a cameo in Bodyguard or a special appearance in the title track? I start out as her bodyguard so she appears in the title song, Aaya Re Aaya… to establish the fact. Later, of course, I become Kareena’s bodyguard. Is Bodyguard a special film for
Anushka! I am much closer to her. We became very close over a period of time. I could talk to her about everything, because she went through the same process I was going through as a newcomer. We connected at that level. Do you miss Anushka? Yes, I miss her a lot. Anushka is the kind of girl you’ll always miss, especially if she’s been a part of your life and then suddenly isn’t. You feel a void... Are you a romantic person? Yes. I am passionate, romantic and impulsive. For me, romance is when I go out of my comfort zone for someone and do anything for them. I have a few criteria I want in a girlfriend... good diction, personal hygiene and aesthetics.
you since your sister Alvira is co-producing it with husband Atul Agnihotri? It doesn’t matter who is producing the film. A film is a film. People are going to spend money, from Rs 10 to Rs 400, to watch it. So, my responsibility is towards them. Once audiences like the film and they start coming in numbers, my responsibility towards the producer will be automatically fulfilled. How is Dabangg 2 shaping up? Have you really written parts of the script? Dabangg 2 is simply an extension of the first film. Chulbul Pandey is an interesting guy so I think we won’t have any problems with the character. In fact, we have finalized and locked the script of the sequel. I haven’t written anything in the script since it’s completely Arbaaz’s (Khan) film. Since Chulbul has shades of gray, it’s eas ily i ly to
We’ve heard that Chulbul is moving to a metro now? Yes, Chulbul is moving to a bigger city. (Smiles) Now, there’s a lot more jhol in Dabangg 2. Many feel you seem to be stuck on action films these days? Nothing like that, every film has action, even Ready. For instance, you can’t call every film a musical just because it has 4-5 songs. In fact, I had to work harder on Ready because the action scenes had to make you laugh. Have you lost weight for Ek Tha Tiger? No, it’s just that I was training hard for the climax of Bodyguard and carried the lean
meander into different genres — comedy, action and romance. Now that the character of Chulbul is established, we can easily take it to the next level.
look into Ek Tha Tiger. You met Somy Ali recently in Bangkok while shooting for Ready? Sure, I did. She flew down to Bangkok from Hong Kong because she had some work in Hong Kong. What’s the big deal? Somy has said that Aishwarya Rai was responsible for your split? (Smiles) Somy said it, so ask her. I don’t know anything.
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44 Indo American News • Friday. September 2, 2011 By Salil Tripathi (Mint) Towards the end of Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as the alien spacecraft is about to make contact with the planet Earth, among the people who have gathered to see the landing is a scientist, played by the talented French film director, François Truffaut. Setting aside his rational scepticism, Truffaut looks at the extravagant sight of the spacecraft with a childlike wonder, visible on his face as his eyebrows widen, eyes go bigger, and the flicker of a smile appears on his awestruck face. Years of reason-based digital logic fade away; innocent amazement replaces that, and he looks as if he is witnessing a miracle. The fresh-faced nature of that discovery has an older cinematic parallel: Think of young Apu and Durga rushing to the palash field after they hear the sound of the train, looking for the engine both ways, stunned as the train rushes through the Bengali landscape, in Satyajit Ray’s film, Pather Panchali (1955). Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, who wrote the novel, had titled that chapter Achenar Anand, or the delight of the unknown. In his new novel, Gods without Men, Hari Kunzru seeks to capture that sense of wonder about contact with the unexplainable. Kunzru does not have a personal interest in unidentified flying objects, but he is interested in the people who are fascinated by them. Whether there is life in outer space, and whether the aliens are interested in contacting us interests him less than the certainty with which people believe that is the case. For his fourth novel, Kunzru takes us to the Mojave Desert in the American West, where a strange formation has attracted all sorts of believers— former scientists, hippies, and, as we discover in this novel, a New York-based hedge fund trader called Jaswinder Matharu and his wife Lisa, an editor—trying to figure out if there is someone else out there, and if so, what it means. Kunzru doesn’t provide an answer, but he creates a majestic, magical canvas filled with memorable characters, all disparate, none likely to meet the other in real life, and yet, through the quirk of coincidences and credible turns of plot, he connects them, weaving a narrative as rich as a Native American quilt. In the process, he writes what the writer and critic Lisa Appignanesi calls Kunzru’s Great American Novel. The landscape is epic: a military site, a desert, a place where missiles are developed, and where an ancient culture persists; the interest, the supernatural. “The people who were fascinated by the UFOs were also interested in theology and a particular form of spiritualism, as an anxious response to the nuclear world. Humanity has always been interested in aliens,” he says when we meet over coffee on a sunny morning in London. The psychic content, the end-of- civilization quality of the experience interests Kunzru. Born in Britain, Kunzru’s Kashmiri
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Creator and canvas: (from left) Kunzru (photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times); and the Mojave Desert in which the author’s new novel is set (photo by Doug Dolde/ Wikimedia Commons).
Hari Kunzru’s new novel is a majestic work with memorable characters, all disparate but connected through a credible plot family on his father’s side produced lawyers. Kunzru’s father, an orthopaedic surgeon, came to Britain in the 1960s. He married an Englishwoman; Hari was born in 1969, named after Haribaba, as his grand-uncle, Hridaynath Kunzru (an associate of the freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale), was known within the family. Kunzru studied the humanities at Oxford, wrote for magazines like Wired, and later The New Yorker, and was named one of Britain’s best young novelists by Granta magazine in 2003. Kunzru’s first novel, The Impressionist (2002), was, as he describes it, “an elbow nudge” to the English in India and the stories it spawned. Transmission (2004) was a comic novel, a satirical take on a software engineer who creates an artificial entity that might devour the computing world. My Revolutions (2007) captured the eternal cyclicality of radicalism, a teleological argument about aggression. Gods without Men, Kunzru says, is about faith, reason, the unknown, and the unexplainable. The America that Kunzru introduces us to is truly off the beaten track. There is New York, and there are some references to cities on the West Coast, but essentially, this story is about the desert. Kunzru loved the desert, which he travelled through a
couple of years ago with friends. He was in America as a fellow at the New York Public Library, working on a book about Akbar and Birbal, getting caught up in the exciting whirl of US presidential elections, when friends suggested he join them for the trip. While travelling through the desert, staying in motels in small towns, the idea of the novel was born. “That landscape connects everything—a single person, the empty space, a civilization,” he says. Gods without Men begins with a Native American tale about a coyote and its many lives, and quickly moves to the story of an aircraft engineer who has seen visions, and who is obsessed by the sky at night, hoping to contact the planet Venus. He thinks there are signs there, and messages to be deciphered. There is also a miner, who hears sounds in stones. There are Native Americans and émigré Iraqis, who delight in assisting the American army learn how to win hearts and minds in Iraq. The soldiers prepare for their mission in Iraq through simulation, and the Iraqis play hostile natives. There is a British rock star, trying to find meaning in his life, a caricature of drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, sex and fame. At the centre of the story is a fouryear-old boy, an autistic child, managing whom takes a toll on the relationship of the parents, Lisa and Jaz. Lisa is Jewish, and has crossed a cultural barrier in marrying Jaz, just as Jaz has. Kunzru describes the charms and awkwardness of a cross-cultural relationship. Circumcision is a ritual of great importance for Lisa, because not subjecting her son to it is the denial of Jewish identity; Jaz doesn’t want it, because refusing to submit oneself to that ritual is symbolic of the SikhMuslim conflict. Neither is particularly religious; neither likes all the traditions that are part of their heritage. Yet, neither is able to remove his and her self from the ingrained expectations of the community, finding the partner
they’ve chosen to make home with to be unreasonable instead. Crosscultural dynamics have rarely been shown with such empathy in fiction. “People have intimate, sentimental attachments with their culture, and that interests me,” Kunzru says. But the main story is about the boy, whose needs bring the couple to the desert. Raj is a difficult child to handle, and Lisa has become a full-time mother; Jaz finds the stressfilled life at a hedge fund, and the moral choices it forces upon him, difficult, and they leave for the Mojave Desert. What has also prompted Jaz’s decision to go west is his hunch, that an extremely powerful computer program called Walter that he and his colleagues have developed, has somehow precipitated the crash of the Honduran economy. Trained to identify market inefficiencies and gaps between prices, the program seeks out opportunities for traders, and when traders leave the program
on autopilot, it buys and sells commodities, currencies, products and futures with ruthless efficiency, sucking profits, leaving the real economy on the ropes. Walter attempts to model reality and chaos follows. Is it the butterfly in Indonesia flapping its wings that caused the hurricane in New Orleans? Who knows? Is it the program and its determined trades that brought about the global economic chaos? Who knows? Jaz is uncomfortable with that; his boss tells him to enjoy the bonus. Jaz wants time out. So they reach the desert. But the demanding child brings the couple to breaking point. Lisa leaves them for a night out; the following day, when they attempt reconciliation as they walk away from the stroller, Raj disappears. Kunzru shows how the public mood shifts from sympathy to dislike to horror and hatred for the couple because Lisa and Jaz are not emotive enough (a reference to a similar British story involving the McCanns in Portugal, whose daughter was abducted in 2007 and has not yet been found). “In America you externalize your emotions to show that you possess them,” Kunzru says. Lisa and Jaz don’t. The child is found months later, and nothing really explains how; and Jaz—the man of science, of certainties, of logic—begins to look for hidden meanings and messages. “If you take faith seriously, you have to follow through how it shapes people’s lives. There are experiences of the unknown and the unknowable. How do people negotiate with them? Through reason? Or faith? Or a bit of both? What do you do when you reach the limit of your ability to explain through only reason, or only faith? How comfortable are you with that?” Kunzru asks. These are profound questions. They don’t have pat answers. If we knew those, we could claim to be gods. But we are women and men, and sometimes children. That reality will continue to elude us. But that makes our lives more interesting. What would be the point of living it, if we knew all the answers?
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Udavum Karangal of USA Madras Pavilion proudly present 10th Annual event to benefit Udavum karangal
Crossing all language boundaries through music...
Band HUN (Hariyudan Naan) An enchanting evening of heart warming lilting tunes from Indian movies, Colonial Cousins, fusion, folk, and Ghazals!
Amazing young performers! Finalists in world famous TV reality show which ran over one year with Music Legend “Padmashree”
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Scintillating tunes from 1960’s to now!!!
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Grand Ganeshotsav Celebration of Shree Siddhivinayak Dev First Time In USA
From: Wednesday, 31st Aug. to Saturday, 10th Sept. 2011( 11 Days ) Bhadrapad Chaturthi to Anant Chaturdashi 31st Aug. Shobha Yatra @ 12:20PM ( From East-West International @ harwin & Hillcroft ), 4:00 PM Pooja, Aarti 7:30 PM Followed by Maha Prasad-( Priti Bhojan) 1st. Sept. to 10th. Sept. Daily Pooja Followed by Aarti at 7:30 Followed by Mahaprasad Come and Solve All Your Problems By Getting the Blessings from the almighty Shree Vighna Vinayak - Siddhivinayak Ganeshji. 2100 Laddu Naivedya will be Offered By devotees of Ganeshji (Prasad sponcers Welcome) Be A Grand Sponsors ($ 21,001 Donation) Gold Sponsors($ 11,001 Donation) Silver Sponsors ($ 5,001 Donation) You Can also Participate as Bronze Sponsors ( $ 1,001 Donation ) Naivedya Donation of 11 Laddus ( $ 21.00 ) Purely Prepared in Temple. Daily Pooja ( Donation of $ 51.00 ) Naam Archana ( Donation of $ 21.00 ) Pooja Thali With Flowers, Kumkum, Haldi, Chaval & Durva ( Donation of $ 11.00 ) Aarti Sponsors other than Above Donors ( Donation of $ 11.00 ) ( All donations are Tax Exempt )
To be Celebrated at " New Shiv Shakti Temple of Houston" 6640 Harwin Dr. Houston Texas 77036 Choose an item. For more Details Call Virat Mehta @ Tel: 713-278-9099 or 713-784-5500 Or Bhamarbhai Trivedi Tel: 281-733-6587 Or Jayantibhai Bhatt Tel: 713-983-9836 Ganeshotsav Supported By: Music Masala Radio, Gujarati samaj of Houston, Sindhi Assoc. of Houston, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Vallabh Priti Seva Samaj , Hindus of Greater Houston, ICC & India House of Houston, Jalaram Saibaba Temple, Iscon Temple of Houston, Radha krishna Temple, Hindu Worship Society, Friends of India, BAPS of Houston, Shree Swaminarayan Temple (ISSO), Jain Center, Durga Bari, Houston Maharashtra Mandal. JVB preksha Meditation Center, Special Food Supported By:- Bhojan, Shiv Sagar, Nitas Cuisine, Ishwarbhai Bhakta, Swaminarayan Temple (ISSO)( Support Still Remains Open for Daily Mahaprasad-Priti Bhojan) Indo American News • Friday, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 • Online Edition: www.indoamerican-news.com
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