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But bookies in the illegal betting business already ‘know’ the election results in Delhi, Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh

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By Neel Shah

MUMBHAI Vikas Sabnis

There! The only construction in this area built without violation of the FSI rules.

onsidering the current political scenario in the country, NaMo magic will play vital role in the elections slated this month in four states, believe bookies in the illegal betting business, popularly known as Satta Bazzar in India, who are expecting a turnover of more than Rs 8,000 crore.

Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Chhattisgarh go to polls this month and bookies are predicting a clean sweep for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in all four states.

There is a belief among the bookies, formed after the Bihar bomb blasts during Narendra Modi’s rally, that elections this time could witness violence. "Due to this, all the bets would be called-off in the event of the death of any prominent leader during blasts or other violent acts during elections,” said a Dubai-based bookie.

It is for the first time that such a dictate has been issued by top bookies.

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Betting on state elections Delhi: Total No. of seats 70.

BJP winning seats Seats (over every Rupee bet) 28 24 paise 32 57 paise 36 Rs 1.10 40 Rs 3 45 Rs 5

Congress winning seats Seats (over every Rupee bet) 22 28 paise 25 65 paise 30 Rs 1.70 36 Rs 3.25 AAP winning seats Seats (over every Rupee bet) 4 28 paise 5 57 paise 6 Rs 1.40 7 Rs 2.25 8 Rs 8

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Happy Marathi Diwali!

Minister for UDD and Marathi language chastised

by Sena for sending Diwali greetings in English

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CP Minister of State for Urban Development and Marathi language, Uday Samant would not have imagined that his Diwali greeting

in English sent to die-hard Shivsainik and MLC Diwakar Raote would have him literally hauled over the coals as it were. The newly appointed Continued on pg 6 «

Mosquitoes swim here MU’s swimming pool is a breeding ground for mosquitoes due to its unsanitary conditions. With the spread of dengue and malaria, the BMC has asked the varsity to fill up the pool with mud or reconstruct it within seven days.

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3D or not 3D – is that the question?

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The makers of two Marathi films are locked in a tussle over whose work should carry the honour of being termed the first 3D film in that language

By Raju Vernekar

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n response to a defamation case (393/SW/2013) filed by Satyaprakash Mangatani, producer of Marathi film Aai Mala Maru Nako, the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate has issued summons to another film maker Mahesh Kothare directing him and Viacom 18 to appear before the court on December 11.

The Metropolitan Magistrate S.E. Bangar has issued the summons through the Vile Parle police station to Kothare and others, based on Mangatani’s complaint that despite him being the producer of the first Marathi 3D film Aai Mala Maru Nako, a campaign has been launched through the media by Kothare, claiming that the film Zapatlela 2 produced by him is in fact the first Marathi 3D film and Mangatani’s claim was false.

Mangtani has sought relief under sections 420, 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code, saying that the court should direct Kothare to stop the misinformation campaign and pay him a compensation of Rs.2 crore.

Mangatani had produced the film Aai Mala Maru Nako based on the topic of female foeticide, on a

Producer Satyaprakash Mangatani with star cast of Aai Mala Maru Nako. budget of Rs 70 lakh. It was released in February 2012 through big multiplexes like INOX, PVR & BIG Cinemas and ran for over 50 days.

The film featuring Jayashri T, Viju Khote, Mukesh Khanna and others was produced with a 100 per cent Indian cast and crew, entered the ‘India Book of Records’ and received a certificate issued by the Central Board of Film Certification which clearly mentioned that Aai Mala Maru Nako was the first 3D

Marathi film, Mangatani says.

In contrast, Kothare’s Zapatlela 2. was a sequel to the original one made in the early 90's. The film was loosely-based on the English horror flick Child's Play. Zapatlela 2 brought before the audience the menacing doll, ‘Tatya Vinchu’, back on screen after almost 20 years. It was released this June.

Commenting on the issue, Adinath Kothare, son of Mahesh Kothare, told the ADC that

‘Tatya Vinchu’ is almost like a mascot of Zapatlela 2.

Zapatlela 2 was the first 3D Marathi film using “different type of technology” with the help of foreign crews. It was a multi-crore rupee film and did exceedingly well at the box office. Mangatani might have shot have shot his film on Sony digital camera, and the debate at this state was pointless, he claimed.

However Mangatani maintained that Kothare and Viacom’s various media statements had tarnished his clean and honest image in the in-

For the love of Rajni

Now, YouTube on your TV

By Claudelle Monis

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uperstar Rajnikanth has been the God of Indian cinema for the longest time, with filmmakers vying to have him in their movies, and stars looking up to him for inspiration. He has also been the subject of several emails and text messages which portray him as being larger than life and actually on par with God, if not God himself. But behind all this adulation is something Rajnikanth can speak of with confidence – his fans.

While enough and more documentaries have been made on Rajnikanth’s fans that are spread across age groups and the world, a jnikanth’s dedicated fans who go recent documentary by an Amster- out of their way to arrange massive dam based independent film com- celebrations for the superstar’s films pany called Anecdote Films, has when they are released.

Shot over four years, For The Love showcased the lives of some of Raof a Man features exclusive footage of several key events organised by fans such as a group of people who climbed 1,200 rock steps up a mountain on their bare knees to pray at a temple, another group of men who Always keep the most gathered together to pray for the romantic area of your actor’s success, frenzied shots inside house attractive, say and outside the theatre during a by using candles, major release, and finally coverage of flowers etc. his birthday celebrations – including street parties, ritual bathing of a giant statue with milk, and massive

by Dr. Prem Gupta food donation drives, all arranged (9820045774/9930318119, for and paid by fans, mostly low-inwww.drpremgupta.com) come men from slums.

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dustry. As such he would continue to fight against injustice meted out to him.

In the recent past, Bollywood has caught on to the trend of releasing films in 3D, riding on the coat tails of Hollywood. The likes of Ram Gopal Verma and the Mahesh Bhatt began the use of the technology with mixed success, primarily for their long list of horror titles, which are spun out with considerable regularity.

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Rajanikanth fans bathing a cut-out of the superstar in milk. however is that this is not a big budget, corporate sponsored documentary, but a ‘labour of love’ as Kalsa puts it. That is why Anecdote Films is now commencing a crowd sourcing campaign to raise funds for its postproduction. “It has been running on passion. It is entirely self-funded, with no corporate sponsors. A part of the crew has worked primarily out of their love for Tamil cinema. Now we’re finally moving to a crowd funding campaign to finish the last stage of the work,” said producer Joyojeet Pal, a university professor who is working on a film for the first time.

To learn more about the film visit: www.fortheloveofaman.com To donate to the crowd sourcing campaign visit: http://cinecrowd.com/love-man

ouTube has always been restricted to gadgets other than a television set, for obvious reasons. However, if Patrick Dou, Vice President of NationalChip, a Chinese digital TV developing company is to be believed, you will soon be able to watch YouTube videos on your TV sets through your set top boxes.

NationalChip has come out with a range of new set top box chips catering to the needs to the Indian market. Apart from delivering an improved HD picture quality, the GX 3201 will also allow users to access what they call Over-The-Top services (OTTs) including YouTube and Hungama through the use of onboard Wi-Fi. For those interested in better picture and an easier and more responsive user interface, without the frills, the GX3001R and the GX3012Q are more cost effective without compromising on speed and clarity. All these chips can support advanced security implementation required by vendors and Multiple System Operators (MSOs) across the world.

Patrick Dou, VP, NationalChip.

Owing to the company’s growing presence in India, NationalChip has also established a dedicated support team in the country to assist customers.

“NationalChip is enhancing local support capability through cooperation with local partners”, said Dou while speaking at the launch of the new chips. “We have a leading product lineup and the technical ability to support the sustainable development of the Indian market and its customers and hope to be well received”, he added.

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HE good news is that the Mantralaya is going to look interiorly like a corporate office.

The bad news is that it is not likely to happen any time soon, and even the February deadline (extended from the present November) is unlikely to be kept.

Though Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has moved into the refurnished Mantralaya office on sixth floor, the fragmented state headquarters with scattered departments in many parts of the city is unlikely to come under one roof at least for the next six months. And while it may be much more swanky than before, the question that is exercising the minds of people is – will the state headquarters be as functional as it was before the fire that damaged it so badly? The helpless government has now admitted that the makeover project is running behind schedule.

However, the administration is tightlipped even about whether all the departments will come together by mid-2014.

In June last year, the top four floors of Mantralaya were gutted in a major blaze. This had created a state of disarray which directly affected the functioning of the bureaucracy.

Initially, the administration showed a feisty spirit by resuming work in Mantralaya merely four days after the blaze. But indecision and a dillydallying approach virtually forced it on to the back foot, badly affecting not only the administration but even the work of repair and refurbishment. As a result, even after 17 months of the fire, many staffers operate from one temporary location, while their secretaries and chiefs lounge in another.

Apart from the new administrative building and Vidhan Bhavan near Mantralaya many departments have been shifted to World Trade Centre, the GT hospital complex, St George’s hospital compound and the Inox building at Nariman Point.

A few departments has been shunted out into the Bandra-Kurla Complex. This arbitrary arrangement of offices has kept files and documents in a state of continuous motion, flying from one building to another, making people run from pillar to post.

There is also much heartburn over the way offices were shunted out and broken up in the wake of the fire.An official revealed that temporary arrangements made by the General Administration Department (GAD) was totally unplanned.

The allotment of places for various departments was done haphazardly.

In the beginning the Urban Development department has been relocated to four different places, while the Water Resources department was spread over seven different locations.

The Home department is spread on different floors in the World Trade Centre, while the general administration department is working from two places. This is causing great inconvenience to the common people who visit Mantralaya from different parts of the state. Most of their time is wasted in searching the department and after the hectic exercise if they mange to trace the office the officials cannot be located as they are in the meeting with a superior at some different location.

Last year’s fire caused extensive damage to the six-storey building and the initial estimate for repairs was given as Rs 138crore, with the project finally starting last November. There was a delay of three months as the lowest bid of Rs 168 crore by Unity Infrastructure was

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The November deadline for the Mantralaya repair and refurbishment has come – and will go. The deadline has now been shifted up to February, but it is unlikely to be kept. Meanwhile, costs are also going up. Suyash Padate reports...

`1,800-cr makeover plan

A space-frame glass atrium over the central courtyard, grand steps leading to the façade, 14 escalators for public use, advanced fire-fighting systems, central air-conditioning, dedicated lifts for VIPs and a rooftop garden are some of the aspects of Phase One of the Mantralaya makeover project. It will be a stark transformation of the once unplanned building to a state-of-theart corporate style state headquarters.

In 2007, a Rs.1,800 crore makeover plan was bagged by IndiaBulls. It was scrapped in 2010, ostensibly because it was regarded as “extravagant”.

Currently, as the work of restoration proceeds, it is learned that Godrej is providing furniture worth Rs 15 crore while Philips is providing lighting worth Rs 5 crore.

CM to move on 6th floor

Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who is about to move into the new sixth floor office, is presently working from the first floor as well as the Vidhan Bhavan. Other ministers have been conducting their duties either from their official residences or their chambers at Vidhan Bhavan. Minister of state for home Satej Patil has been allotted a chamber at Vidhan Bhavan, while his staffers are seen reporting to his official residence at Sarang building. Nearly 20 secretaries of various departments have been relocated, separated from those working under them.

much higher than the state’s planned expenditure. The firm later quoted Rs 138 crore and bagged the contract. The other two bidders were Shapoorji Pallonji (Rs.167 crore) and Larsen & Toubro (Rs. 177 crore). A senior official on a condition of anonymity said that the process of floating tenders was slow; as a result, the final bid of Rs 138 crore was awarded to Unity Infraprojects in November 2012. Indecision on the part of the senior officers and ministers led to delay.

The cost of the restoration of the entire building has already crossed Rs 230 crore. The total amount after project completion may be even more than double the estimated cost, including the cost of shifting offices elsewhere.

When contacted in the matter, Shyamal Kumar Mukherjee, secretary, Public Works Department, admitted that the makeover project is running behind schedule. He said, “The restoration work on the top three floors of the building is almost completed. The lower four floors would need an additional six months. We can say by February next year it will be completed. The cost of the escalators, audio-video systems, IT facilities, electrical fittings and furniture is above the contract cost of Rs 138 crore”. However, even after repeated queries he declined to disclose the details of the cost.

The agreement with the contractor, Unity Infrastructure, for the restoration was for eight months

starting on December 26, 2012. The government has announced that it would offer a bonus of Rs. 2.5 lakh per day if the contractor completed the job before the deadline, but would charge a penalty of Rs. 5 lakh per day, if the work extended beyond the deadline. Both K.K. Avarsekar, chairman and managing director of Unity Infrastructure, and Raja Aederi, the architect who prepared the design of the restoration, said that the building would have fire-fighting and security mechanisms. The sprinklers and smoke detectors at every 150 sq. ft. would ensure 100 percent fire safety. According to Avarsekar, if the building had been vacated earlier, then the renovation work would have been completed much faster. Mantralaya

is a government building and due to which clearances from over 25 agencies had to be taken, he declared.

“The delay was due to unavoidable circumstances. We were working in the building while the offices were still functioning. Sewage treatment plant and the retrofitting took a lot of time”, he added.

Chief Secretary Jayant Banthia has already moved into his office on the sixth floor, the first to do so. Earlier the chief secretary’s office was on the fifth floor. Now it has been shifted to the sixth floor along with the offices of the Chief Minister and his deputy. The bigwigs will move in one after another. But when all the departments will come together has still remained an unanswered question.

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Lost of Share Certificates Habibabai Jalaluddin Amlani & Amin Jalaluddin Amlani a member of the Holi View Co.Op. Hsg. Society Ltd., having address at : A wing, 2nd fl, Room No.37, J.B. Shah Marg, Masjid Bunder, Mumbai -400009, have been Lost of Share Certificate No.32, Distinctive No. 156 to 160. The Society invites claims or objections from the heirs or other Claimants/Objector/Objectors. If no claims/Objections are received within 14 days from the Publication of this Notice for above said mention society address, after the society shall be free to deal issue the duplicate share certificates to above said mention society members.

I have changed my name from Pushpa Narayan Anmula to Shankaramma Narayan Anmula as per Maha. Govt.

Gazette No. X-125082 dated: May 17, 2012.

C-22067 I Ritesh Biren Bachhawat changed name to Ritesh Kumar Bachhawat vide Affidavit dated 17/10/2013.

C-22068 I Mr Jayendra Ranchhodlal Barot hereby declare that Mr Jayendrakumar Ranchhodlal Barot as mentioned in passport No L 4337675 and Mr Jayendra Ranchhodlal Barot is the same person as per Affidavit dated 7th Nov 2013.

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I have changed my name from Shazia to Shazia Mohammad Irfan Haider as per Affidavit No 373255.

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C-22072 I have changed my name from Ebrahim Shoib Bhanpurwala to Ibrahim Shoeb Bhanpurwala as per Gazette No ( X-124067).

C-22073 I have changed my name from Ujwala Chandrakant Gurav to Janhavi Sunil Ghadi vide Affidavit No. HT681690 Dtd 25.10.2013.

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NOTICE Mr. Rashpal Singh Sandhu member of the Pushpalata Shantinagar Co-op. Hsg. Soc. Ltd. having address at Flat No. 101 & 102, Bldg. No. D-83, Sector-9, Shantinagar, Mira Road (E), and holding Flat No. D-83/101 & 102 in the building of the Society, died on 16-11-2004 without making any nomination.

The society hereby invites claims or objection from the heir or heirs or other claimant or claimants/objector or objects to the transfer of the said shares & interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the Society within a period of 15 days from the publication of this notice, with copies of such documents and other proofs in support of his/her/their claims/objections for transfer of shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/property of the society. If no claims/objections are received within the period prescribed above, the Soiety shall be free to deal with the shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/ property of the Society in such manner as is provided under the bye-law of the Society.

The claims/objections, if any, received by the Society, transfer of shares and interest of the deceased member in the capital/ property of the Society shall be dealt within the manner provided under the bye-laws of the Society. A copy of the registered byelaws of the Society is available for inspection by the claimants/objectors, in the office of the Society/with the Secretary of the Society between — a.m./p.m. to — a.m./p.m. from the date of publication of the notice till the date of expiry of its period.

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Public notice is hereby given on behalf of and at the instructions of my Client Mr. Zaid Ali and his partner Mr. Rizwan Hakim having office address at Above Shop no.1,Ashok Mill Compound, opp.

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The said Mr. Zuber Khan has purposely entered into the above transactions only with the intention to cheat my clients and hence public notice is hereby given so as to caution the general public for not dealing with Mr. Zuber Khan or its associates with respect to the above said goods and if engaged in dealing with him, will be at their own risk and consequences and may be unnecessary involved in probable legal consequences along with the said Mr. Zuber Khan.

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tion is not known as yet.

The cause of fire is also yet to be fire that erupted in the wee ascertained but prima facie it seems hours of Thursday morning at to be a case of short circuit.

Surprisingly, Gokul Hospital, Gokul Hospital in Mulund West claimed the life of a 25 year old which is more than fifty years old BAMS doctor. Dr. Rahul Mukundrao and has several set ups like diagRudrawar, who was a resident of nostic centres, laboratories and Beed had been called in as a substi- medical shops in its building, did tute for a staff doctor who was on not have sprinklers as a part of its fire fighting system. leave for Diwali.

“Fire audits are done every April “He was a doctor from Indira Hospital in Mulund and had come but we don’t have sprinklers. But we in as a substitute for one of our doc- had been recently thinking of intors who is on leave for a few days,” stalling sprinklers and were in talks said Dr. Naresh Mehta, Physician with a company too. The installaand Cardiologist at Gokul Hospital. tions were to happen in December Rudrawar’s body was sent to Ra- but in the meanwhile this hapjawadi Hospital for post-mortem pened,” said Dr. Mehta.

This eighteen bedded hospital and the cause of death is yet to be had fourteen admitted patients ascertained.

“After all the patients were evacu- when the fire broke out. Fortuated, the fire brigade personnel nately, the patients were safely brought the doctor out and took taken to another polyclinic.

“We got a call at 3:15am and the him to M.T Agarwal Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival,” fire was doused within two hours. said a police official from Mulund The fire was a grade one fire. We police station where a case of ADR sent five fire engines and three tankers to the spot,” said a fire has been registered.

Apparently, the deceased was brigade official.

Councillor Bhavan Jobanputra The charred remains of Mulund’s Gokul Hospital on Thursday. (Inset) Dr. Rahul Mukundrao Rudrawar, the victim. sleeping in his cabin and had locked the room from inside. And when the who visited the spot said, “Hospitals building got engulfed in fire, he have to adhere to the prescribed but nobody follows them. The hos- ficult. In this case, luckily, the fire lives. It would have been a major couldn’t open the door. Whether he norms. Everybody knows there are pitals are so congested that escape brigade arrived on time, else so tragedy.” died due to burns or due to suffoca- rules and regulations to be followed during such mishaps becomes dif- many people would have lost their shwetha.kannan@afternoon.dc

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Asaram’s illegal Hit-and-run horror at Andheri ashram in Virar A demolished Two knocked down by a speeding SUV, one dead, another injured; driver absconding

By Zuber Ansari

42-year-old man died on the spot while his colleague received major head injury after a speeding SUV rammed into them and fled the spot. Both the victims were walking on the road late night on Wednesday near the BSES Hospital just outside the Andheri railway station, when a Mahindra Xylo (MH-04-ES-3137) knocked them down.

Ajay Gala, the deceased.

The SUV which knocked down the duo.

The police later found the Xylo at owned a ration shop in Jogeshwari. Desai. “We will catch him soon, it is an isolated place in Vile Parle.

While family members of Ajay suspected that he may be under the According to investigation officer in the case, Pravin Pawar from D.N. Gala alleged that it was not an acci- consumption of alcohol at the time Nagar police station, the deceased dent, they informed the police that of the incident, but it is too early to has been identified as Ajay Gala at around 10.30 on Wednesday say anything”, Chavan said. while his friend is identified as night Ajay’s friends forced him to A case has been registered under accompany them for dinner.

Hasan Ali Zafar Ali Shah. various section of the IPC including After hitting them, the car driver According to Senior Police Inspec- rash and negligent driving. “We also reportedly dashed an auto tor from D.N. Nagar Police station, have seized the car and are doing driver, who did not receive any Rajendra Chavan, the driver of the further investigation”, PSI Pawar major injury. The deceased, Ajay, SUV has been identified as Vishal said further.

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FALLEN FROM GRACE...Amidst the rubble lies the controversial godman’s photo.

By Suresh Golani

Narayan Sai is believed to have illegally built the ashram. special demolition team from Both the father and son are facthe Vasai Virar Municipal Cor- ing charges of raping minor girls at poration (VVMC) on Thursday de- their ashram. While the senior molished the illegally-constructed godman is cooling his heels in jail, Asaram Bapu Ashram in the Kum- his son Narayan is absconding, pobarpada area of Virar. Asaram’s son lice said.

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t 12.30pm on Thursday, around 10 policemen, led by PI (law & order) Dattaram Vittal Girip allegedly beat up eight hawkers at IITPowai main gate which is a hawking zone.

According to Dayashankar R. Singh, president of Azad Hawkers Union, in 2009 the Supreme Court in its order had said that till the central government implements National Hawking Policy, hawkers will not be removed from their hawing places.

“The IIT Powai main gate area is

Powai cops beat hawkers declared as a hawking zone since December 9, 2003 itself. Therefore it is the high handedness of police and civic authorities that lead to the fracas which is very unfortunate”, added Singh.

When ADC spoke to Y.L. Jadhav, the senior inspector of Powai police station, he said, “I am not aware of the incident. However, I will enquire into it”.

Later in the day when hawkers’ president Singh approached the

senior inspector, he promised to look into the matter and also said that he will warn the inspector to be more cautious in dealing with the hawkers’ problems in future.

Singh also said that inspector Girip told him that he took the action as women hawkers squatted inside municipal vehicles and did not allow civic officials to confiscate their wares. Hence, to give protection to civic officials he took this drastic step.

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Roman Mohammed Rafeeque Belef as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name from Mohd.Umer Mohd.Salim Sahab to Mohammed Umar Mohammed Salim Ansari as per Gazette No. U-44363.

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I have changed my name from Mr.Shabbir Ahmed Aslamali Shaikh to Mr.Shabbir Aslamali Shaikh as per Affidavit Dated 07/11/2013.

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I have changed my name from Abbas Ali Anware to Abbas Anware as per Affidavit.

C-22143 I have changed my name from Pradeepkumar Arjun Landge to Pratapkumar Arjun Landge as per Affidavit.

C-22144 I have changed my name from Anatai Sherman Paval to Annatai Sherman Paniker as per Affidavit.

C-22145 I have changed my name from Sherman Aranachlam Paval to Sherman Aranachlam Paniker as per Affidavit.

C-22146 I have changed my name from Lalmuhammad Shekh to Lalmohammad Kasim Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22147 I have changed name from Niyaz Ahmed Maniyar to Mohammad Niyaz Maniyar as per Affidavit.

C-22148 I have changed my name from Rameshkumar Dhanraj Jain to Ramesh Dhanraj Jain as per Affidavit.

C-22149 I have changed my name from Deepak Kumar Singh to Deepak Shashikant Singh as per Affidavit.

C-22150 I have changed my name from Samir Maqbool Ahmed to Sameer Maqbool Ahmed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22151 I have changed my name from Maqbool Ahmed to Maqbool Ahmed Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22152 I have changed my name from Vaihida Banu Yunus Sheikh to Wahida Yunus Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22153 I have changed my name from Wasim Yunus Sheikh to Waseem Yunus Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22154 I have changed my name from Yunus Ali Usman Ali Sheikh to Yunus Usman Ali Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22155 I have changed my name from Babulal Ramdas Rabdas to Momin Abdullah as per Affidavit.

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I have changed my name From Mr.Mohammed Asad Fateh Mohammed to Mr. Mohammed Arshad Fateh Mohammed Siddiqui as per Affidavit Dated 7/11/2013.

C-22160 I have changed my name from Vivek Madhavan to Madhavan Vivek as per Affidavit.

C-22161 I have changed my name from Nashhat Shaikh to Nazhat Shaikh as per Affidavit.

C-22162 I have changed my name from Hari Dayaldas Lund to Hari Dayaldas Lalwani as per Affidavit.

C-22163 I have changed my name from Alka Maruti Wanve to Vithabai Maruti Wanve as per Affidavit.

C-22164 I have changed my name from Kanchanben Dharsi Bheda to Kanchan Jayantilal Dharod as per Affidavit.

C-22165 I have changed my name from Jaytunbi Ibrahim Bachha to Jaitunbee Ibrahim Bacha as per Affidavit.

C-22166 I have changed my name from Swapna Sarkar to Sapna Sarkar as per Affidavit.

C-22167 I have changed my name from B. Unnikrishnan Nair to Unnikrishnan Bhaskaran Nair as per Affidavit.

C-22168 I have changed my name from K.S.Sumadevi to Suma Unnikrishnan Nair as per Affidavit.

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Navy Week celebrations In the run up to Navy Day, the Navy Band will be performing for the public at the following open places from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the following days: Friday, Nov. 8 at Hanging Gardens; Saturday, Nov. 9 at Cooperage Band Stand; Sunday, Nov. 10 at Central Park, Kharghar and Saturday, Nov. 16 at Phoenix Mills, Parel. For details, call Mr. Narendra Vispute (PRODefence) on 99690 48491.

Also Indian Naval Ship (INS) Delhi and Talwar Class will be open to visitors from Thursday, Nov. 21 to Sunday, Nov. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The entry will be from Tiger Gate near Ballard Estate.

Coin exhibition-cum-sale Coinex Mumbai will be holding a 3-day coin exhibitioncum-sale at Sundarbai Hall, Nathibai Thackersey Road, behind Income-Tax Office, Churchgate, on Friday, Nov. 8 till Sunday Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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young and dynamic Minister of State for Urban Development had made a mark for himself through his replies to queries from legislators during the recent monsoon sesI have changed my name from sion of the state legislature.

Little did he realise howLaxmi Ramesh Nepali to Laxmi ever that his best intentions Rameh Joshi as per Affidavit.

C-22182 to extend Diwali greetings to all legislators cutting across party lines would have I have changed my name from rubbed the senior Sena MLC Mahendra Ramesh Nepali to the wrong way. Samant had Mahendra Ramesh Joshi as per in his Diwali greetings wished Affidavit. that “the festival of lights be C-22183 the harbinger of happiness and success. As the holy ocI have changed my name from casion of Diwali is here and Gurneek Sukh Dev SinghHeer the atmosphere is filled with to Gurnek Sukh Dev Singh Heer the spirit of joy and delight, as per Affidavit.

C-22184 here’s hoping this festival of lamps brings your way, bright I have changed my name from sparkles of contentment that Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Chavhan stay with you through the to Dnyaneshwar Vitthal days ahead”.

Raote in a sarcastic tone reChavan as per Affidavit.

C-22185 marked that after receiving the greeting, he for a second thought that the greeting was sent by some friend staying abroad. But upon closer inspection he was in a quandary as to how a minister for the Marathi language CLASSIFIED REGULAR would commit such a gross Rs. 150/- for 25 words, insult of the language which Rs. 6/- each extra word he was constitutionally duty bound to uphold. He asked CLASSIFIED BOLD that if the minister for Rs. 12/- per word Marathi language shows such CLASSIFIED DISPLAY disrespect to the language, should he have the moral Rs.100/ - per Sq.cm right to continue in office.

To make matters worse for Samant, Raote has suggested that as a matter of atonement for showing disrespect to the Marathi language, he should request the chief minister to DESPATCH & COURIER change his portfolio. The Sena MLC pointed out that Janmabhoomi Bhavan, 3rd Floor, the Diwali greetings sent by Chief Minister Prithviraj ChaJanmabhoomi Marg, Fort, van also mentions his wife’s Mumbai 400 001 name which in a way goes to TEL: 40768999 FAX: 40768916 show how much the CM respects his wife.

I have changed my name from Ramesh Padamsingh Nepali to Ramesh Padmasingh Joshi as per Affidavit.

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of one week. He said that the resi- using the TDR and handed over the dents of Chabbaiya Park were living same to the corporation. The only under tension since the contro- hitch was that we had not followed

wo prominent structures involving the interests of Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik, and embroiled in controversy have finally been given clearance by the Thane Municipal Corporation which issued its CC on the last day of October.

Addressing an impromptu news conference here today in the ‘controversial’ premises, Sarnaik said that a politician from Thane of the NCP made all efforts to defame him and put the residents of the Chabbaiyya Park ofVartak Nagar into untold hardships. But the efforts of the politician (whom he did not name but directed towards NCP State Working President Bunty Awhad) led to the corporation giving a clean chit to his sites.

The Sena MLA alleges double standards in issuance of Clearance Certificates.

According to Sarnaik, the leader had taken assistance of the then versy erupted and they are relieved the technicalities. He questioned Municipal Commissioner R.A. Ra- now, said Sarnaik. He also said that the role of the corporation of levyjeev and troubled him. He also said at the time of granting the CC, the ing two yardsticks for two builders that it was on his birthday April 25 corporation had under the new in the same city. In the case of Hithat the civic engineer filed an FIR commissioner Aseem Gupta levied ranandani Medows, he said that the against him and his family mem- a penalty of Rs.3.90 crore which “we builder had built the Kashinath bers stating that the establishment have refused to pay”, he said adding Ganekar Natyagriha and utilised owned by them ‘Rock and Wood’ that he had given an undertaking the TDR for his building but the was illegal and action be taken that he would abide by the decision corporation had not levied any penalty to the Hiranandanis. of the state government. against it.

“Is it because I am from the Shiv He pointed out that his firm had However, the same officer withdrew the complaint within a period constructed a school building while Sena?” he questioned.

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ight people were injured in a stabbing spree between two groups in Vikhroli after a 17-year-old boy staged his own kidnapping on Wednesday. Arbaaz Shaikh called his uncle at around 11 pm on Wednesday and informed that he had been kidnapped by some people at Tagore Nagar in Vikhroli. His uncle Sufiyan, 30, reached the spot with his friends and attacked Vinay Jadhav, 44, and his family. The groups hit each other with choppers, stumps and steel rods, resulting in injuries to eight persons, of who three are critical.

Vikhroli police said that Arbaaz was smoking near Jadhav’s house in building no 8 of Tagore nagar and was told to leave by Aditya, 19, Vinay’s son, to which Arbaaz refused. “Arbaaz stays in building number three of the same colony”, said Senior Inspector Mahipat Indalkar of Vikroli Police Station. “Arbaaz’s father, Arif, 40, came in search of him and was informed by Aditya that his son was smoking near his house. Arbaaz was battered by his father for his act. Arbaaz was upset over Jadhavs as they insulted his father saying that your son disturbs others and informed him about his smoking. To revenge this insult Arbaaz staged kidnapping.”

Vikhroli police has booked both the groups for rioting and attempt to murder and will arrest them soon. Four members from Jadhav family were injured after they were stabbed.

Vinay his brother Atul, 46, wife Vanita, 40, and father Hirama, 70, have been admitted to a private hospital in Mulund. Vinay suffered around 100 stitches on his head and legs and his brother also suffered stab injuries of his

face and chest both have been kept under observation. His wife and father were released after few stitches.

From the Shaikh family three people have been injured, Arbaaz, his uncles Sufiyan and Imran, 44. Arbaaz and Sufiyan have been admitted to National Hospital in Vikhroli, whereas Imran, who is critically injured, is undergoing treatment in Sion Hospital.

Arbaaz and his uncle had a different version of the incident. “I was going to gym when Aditya stopped me and assaulted me. I called my uncles to save me, but Vinay and his brother assaulted them too. They brought out weapons from their house.”

Arbaaz’s family has runs a transport business and stay in Tagore Nagar. Arbaaz is a junior college student of Sandesh College in Vikroli. Jadhavs have a real estate business.

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not reply. On Wednesday morning, when Maru kept knocking on the 26-year-old youth committed door repeatedly over four hours he suicide by hanging himself in did not get any reply from Thakur his flat at Lokhandwala area in who was in the house. So Maru Andheri. Police have not recovered panicked and called the police.

“We rushed on the spot, broke any suicide note yet but they have found around 200 missed calls on open the door and found Thakur his mobile phone and the number hanging from the ceiling fan. We belongs to a girl in Punjab. Follow- have sent his body to Cooper hosing preliminary investigation, po- pital for post mortem. We searched lice are suspecting that the youth his bedroom but did not find any was having an affair with the girl suicide note,” said assistant police who resides at his native place and inspector Ravindra Patil of Oshiwhile talking to her on phone wara police station.

“During investigation, we learnt something must have prompted that he was having affair with a girl him to take the drastic step.

According to police, the de- at his native place and would alceased, Raghav Narendra Singh ways speak with her on phone. We Thakur, who was employed with a also found around 200 missed calls private firm and resided in Wood- on his phone from a mobile phone land society near Vaibhav circle in which belongs to a girl. So, it seems Lokhandwala, Andheri along with a something triggered him to take the roommate, Deepak Maru, 32, who drastic step” said a police officer.

“We have informed his family also works in the same firm. The company had taken the flat on rent members in Chandigarh; they will and provided it to Thakur and Maru. be reaching Mumbai on Friday.

Maru said in his statement to the After their arrival we hope to get police that when he called Thakur the exact reason for the suicide,” on Tuesday night for dinner, he did police said.

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NOTICE Shri/Srimati Eknath G Prabhu a member of the Gaurav ratan 56789 Co-operative housing society Ltd . having, address at (Bldg No. 7, Mira Bhayander Road, Mira Road, Near Green Court club Mira Road, Thane) and holding flat / tenement No 204 in the building of the society. Died on 29/09/2002 without making any nomination.

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Further, the bookies are predicting that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may not play spoil-sport as generally perceived.

According to bookies, the AAP is not expected to win more than 8 seats in Delhi that has 70 assembly seats in all. For the BJP winning 28 seats in the state, the odds are 24 paise over every rupee bet.

For Congress winning 22 seats, the odds are 28 paise over a rupee. Bookies believe Congress may win a maximum of 36 seats in Delhi this time, as compared to 43 they had won in the 2008 elections. The BJP had won only 23 seats in Delhi in 2008.

In the state of Rajasthan, which is also currently under Congress rule, bookies are predicting an easy victory for the BJP. The odds on the saffron party winning 101 seats out of the 230 assembly seats in the state are 14 paise over every one-rupee bet.

Bookies are willing to pay 26 paise over a rupee if Congress manages to win 60 seats in the state. The prediction is that Congress could win a maximum of 75 seats in Rajasthan, for which the odds are Rs 2.80 over every one-rupee bet. In 2008 elections in Rajasthan, Congress had won 96 seats while the BJP could corner only 78 seats. If the BJP wins 120 seats now, bookies are willing to pay Rs 2.50 over a rupee.

MP has a 230 seat assembly, and bookies are expecting the BJP to retain its rule in the state with at least 130 seats, for which the odds are 20 paise over a rupee. For 135 seats the odd is 40 paise and for 140 seats of BJP, it is Rs 1.35 over a rupee. For Congress win of

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he rising number of malaria and dengue cases has led to a BMC crackdown on sites that serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes. The latest on the list is the swimming pool at Mumbai University. A BMC inspection labelled it a breeding ground for mosquitoes adding to the spread of diseases like malaria and dengue. The corporation has therefore asked the varsity to either fill up the pool with mud or reconstruct it within seven days, failing which the varsity will be liable to pay a penalty.

MU's Kalina campus has a swimming pool opposite the sports complex which has not been cleaned or had its water changed in years. As a result mosquitoes and other insects have started breeding here.

Rajasthan Total No. of seats 200.

Congress winning seats Seats odds (over every Rupee bet) 60 22 paise 62 56 paise 70 Rs 1.10 75 Rs 2.25

Congress winning seats Seats odds (over every Rupee bet) 60 26 paise 65 62 paise 70 Rs 1.35 75 Rs 2.80

Chhattisgarh Total No. of seats 90

BJP winning seats Seats odds (over every Rupee bet) 101 14 paise 112 32 paise 110 95 paise 115 Rs 1.65 120 Rs 2.50

MP Total No. of seats 230

BJP winning seats Seats odds (over every Rupee bet) 130 20 paise 135 45 paise 140 Rs 1.35 145 Rs 2.80 150 Rs 4 over 60 seats, the odds are 22 paise over a rupee, for 62 seats 56 paise and for 70 seats it is Rs 1.10 over a rupee bet.

Bookies believe that Jyotindra Scindia could be the trump card for Congress, who may be able to pull votes if declared as the CM candidate.

Out of the 90 assembly seats of Chhattisgarh, BJP is expected to win 38 seats and the odds are 14 paise over a rupee. For Congress win over 30 seats,

BJP winning seats Seats odds (over every Rupee bet) 38 14 paise 42 35 paise 46 Rs 1.00 50 Rs 2.00

Congress winning seats Seats odds (over every Rupee bet) 30 22 paise 32 38 paise 35 90 paise 40 Rs 3.25

bookies are giving 22 paise on every rupee. BJP is expected to win maximum of 50 seats in Chhattisgarh and Congress 40.

Meanwhile, it is usually noticed that the bookies give out odds on the likely chief minister of the state. But this time, with BJP firmly declaring their candidates in every state, the bookies have not issued any odds on them. neel.shah@afternoondc.in

Mosquitoes swim here MU’s swimming pool in its present condition at the Kalina campus.

The notice sent by the BMC to MU states that MU swimming pool in the Kalina campus holds water and is likely facilitate the breeding of mosquitoes. According to the provisions of Sub-Section (1) of Section 381 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, the varsity needs to close down and fill up the swim-

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in it. With the spread of mosquito borne diseases like malaria and dengue, it is risky to keep this swimming pool as ming pool with mud till it is. Several students have also ground level so as to leave no complained that they have depression which is likely to been suffering due to the hold or collect water and odour from this pool. The MU breed mosquitoes in it; or to should reconstruct the pool produce an approved plan re- rather than prolonging or side garding the swimming pool tracking this issue before from the Executive Engineer someone falls prey to a mosBuilding Proposal (western quito borne diseases.”

In October, MU had desuburbs) and obtain the necessary no objection certificate. cided to reconstruct its sports If the varsity fails to follow complex but took no decision the direction of THE BMC, it about the swimming pool and will be liable to pay a penalty its cleanliness.

When the ADC spoke to under Section 471 of the Mumbai Municipal Corpora- Vinod Patil from the Engineering Department of MU, tion Act. Pradeep Sawant, Senator, he said, “The correct and necMU, says, “This swimming essary decision will be taken pool is now dangerous to stu- by the varsity and the Engidents as well as to residents neering Department as soon living near the varsity as mos- as possible within the given quitoes have started breeding deadline.”

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EC extends deadline for voter enrolment drive at 3 Graduates and 2 Teachers constituencies in the state

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he Election Commission of India (EC) has extended the deadline for revision and enrolment drive for three Graduates and two Teachers constituencies in the state from October 30 to November 15.

The three Graduate division constituencies include Aurangabad, Pune and Nagpur divisions. While the two Teachers constituencies are Amravati and Pune divisions. This is being done in view of the elections to these Legislative Council constituencies due next year.

The qualifying date for enrolment to

these constituencies has been fixed as August 31, 2013. Unlike the enrolment for Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies where ordinary voters who attain the age of 18 years are eligible to enroll as voters, in Graduates and Teachers constituencies all those who are graduates or are employed as teachers in educational institutions are eligible to enroll as voters.

Another added advantage that the voters, especially for Teachers constituency, is that the teachers by virtue of being in teaching profession can cast votes twice — once for Teachers and another for Graduates constituency — by virtue of being qualified graduates. As

per EC’s latest data, there are 28,126 registered voters in Amravati division Teachers constituency and 91,445 registered voters in Pune division Teachers constituency.

In the case of Aurangabad division Graduates constituency there are 2.72 lakh graduates enrolled as voters, in Nagpur division Graduates constituency there are 1.83 lakh graduates enrolled as voters. In Pune division Graduates constituency 3.78 lakh graduates are enrolled as voters. Overall in all the three Graduates and two Teachers constituencies there are 8.34 lakh graduates and 1.19 lakh teachers registered as voters as of now.

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ith the increase in electricity tariff, power loom unit owners in Bhiwandi have decided to shut their looms from November 6 to 15, in a general meeting of Bhiwandi Power Loom Bachao Sangharsh Samiti on Wednesday.

Torrent Power, which is the main source of providing electricity in Bhiwandi, had a franchise agreement with the Maharashtra Electricity Distribution Company for Bhiwandi circle for ten years beginning December 2006. However, the hike in electricity tariff and loss recovery in electricity billing cycles, had led the company to increase their rates by 40 to 60 percent. Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) is suffering huge losses in the form of theft of electricity and non-payment of bills.

Power loom owners are not in a situation to bear the increased rates and burnt bundles of electricity bills in front of the Toronto Office in protest. Distortion in electricity bills by the Torrent Staff and black marketing in yarn roles (bheem) affected the power loom industry adversely.

This shutdown will affect power loom workers, most of which worked on daily wages. A good 12 lakh power looms are located in Bhiwandiand even a day of shutdown will affect lives of many on a large scale.

Ashish Rajbhar, a daily wage worker, said, “I am

working here since I was 20 year old. I gave my eight years to the power loom industry and this is the only source of income for my family. If this industry shuts down, I will have to go back to my native place in Utter Pradesh.

To protect the common interests of the power loom industry, Suresh Tavare (member of parliament, Congress), Rupesh Mhatre (Shiv

Sena MLA), Rashid Tahir Momin (Sapa MLA) and Habif Baba (Social Worker) worked together to protect the Bhiwandi loom industry.

“If the government fails to withdraw the hike in tariff rates, we will write a letter to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and the textile minister”, informed a Bhiwandi Power Loom Sangharsh Samiti member.

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he mysterious disappearance of four citybased advertisement professionals finally proved to be a case of accident as rescue workers on Thursday fished out their car from Nira river along with the bodies of the three remaining occupants, who had set out on an excursion on November 1.

The search for the missing car had been undertaken by police and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescue workers after body of one of the four occupants of the vehicle -- Chintan Buch (28) - was recovered on Wednesday, indicating possibility of the car crashing over a bridge on river Nira along Pune-Bangalore highway.

After pulling out the car with the help of crane and recovering bodies of three other victims - Pranav Lele

(29), Sahil Qureshi (28) and Shrutika Chandvani -- police officials said prima facie it appeared to be an accident, reports PTI. The group was supposed to drop 28-year-old Shrutika at her home at Kolhapur on their way to Karnataka.

The car was last spotted at a toll check post at Khed on the highway.

The relatives of the victims had lodged a missing complaint after their cell phones became unreachable on November 2.

While Chintan's body was recovered from the river water, the other three victims remained in the car as they had their seat belts fastened, police added.

The three bodies extricated from the car were sent for post-mortem.

Autopsy of Chintan, who hailed from Vadodara, confirmed death by drowning.

was named for the Baburao Sawant Gaurav Award instituted this year.

These awards carry a cash purse of Rs 25,000 each and mementos which would be presented at a function to be held in Nashik in February 2014, the release said.

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nominated for the Biennial Awards instituted by the Nashik branch of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad (ABMNP) on Thursday.

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Can secularists stop Modi?

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Ponder awhile…

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Case against MP Kurup must go on S

HWETA MENON’s molestation complaint against Member of Parliament Peethambara Kurup has triggered nation-wide interest. She cut her speech at an event in Kollam, did not wait for the main function and made a beeline to the police station. The member of Parliament who appears to be compulsorily seeking cheap thrills touched her several times. He took her to the dais pushing her by the waist. And he would not let go of her hand. Finally, she had to ask him and only then he took his hand off.

At the same function, Shweta had one more touching experience. He, according to her, was touching her back. Evidently he was less daring than the MP. The mindset of these two men is, to say the least, quite pathetic. Shweta is an attractive woman, but that does not mean one of our lawmakers can molest her – right in full view of the public. The MP must have thought that he, as a big all India VIP, had the right to molest her. He must have thought he was doing her a favour by touching her and that she would not dare object. He must have been quite surprised when she went and complained to the police.

Shweta should not have forgiven the man: She withdrew her complaint. Why did she do it? Was she under pressure? Did the man go down on his knees and apologise? He must have done so. He also made a public apology.

There are female netas who say that Shweta was quite happy with the touching incident.

The incident brought her centrestage and people across the country were talking about it. It is a fact that some women – particularly those in the film industry, who will do anything to get publicity. To say the least, it would be a most unfair way of looking at the incident.

Shweta should have gone for the jugular of the MP and got him disqualified and thrown out of Parliament.

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HEN I saw our ‘secularist’ leaders gather together in Delhi last week for a conference to discuss communalism, I was gripped with a disorienting sense of deja vu. Not again, I found myself saying with a silent groan, not these same old characters from long ago saying the same old things that they have been saying for such a long time without conviction and without any other motive than to try and form a third front once more as if to deliberately repeat history as farce.

Watching the likes of Deve Gowda, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Sitaram Yechury, Prakash Karat and A.B. Bardhan stand on that stage and raise their arms up like schoolboys at some inter-school tournament made me conscious of the fact that all that had changed was that these gentlemen had aged since they last gathered together in the nineties to form a government headed by H.D. Deve Gowda. It was a shaky arrangement even then that would not have survived a single day without the support of the Congress Party and what these secularists are cooking once more is the same pulao or shall we call it khichdi?

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ters that it was hard to keep count of them.

It was then that realisation began to dawn that something was happening that could force the Congress Party out of power for the next five years and that this must be stopped at all costs. So it was that the ‘secularists’ were encouraged to band together in Delhi and raise the same tired old slogans and reiterate the same tired old political ideas that they have always spouted.

The Congress Party has been in power long enough to know how to play every devious political game in the book and so it took them hardly any time at all to work out that if it was not going to be a Congress government in

at all. As if there was no Internet and Twitter and as if just the advent of Narendra Modi signaled the end of India as we know it, at least as they know it in the Delhi drawing rooms in which they spend most of their time.

If that sounds strange to you who may believe that these worthy communists and secularists are humble people who live humbly in their desire to serve the poor then please seek an interview with them in Delhi and notice how they live. They may live in shabby fashion but they live in shabby fashion in bungalows whose market value runs into more than Rs.200 crore. The only private citizens who can afford to live in the bungalows of Lutyens’ Delhi are billionaires. Nothing has disturbed the ‘socialist’ life style of these secular leftists since 1947 and they fear Modi because they think he threatens it.

‘India First’

He brings with him new slogans like ‘India First’ and new economic ideas that appear to have nothing to do with the kind of socialism they espouse so they are rightly terrified that if Modi does somehow make it to Delhi the world as they know it will come to an end.

This is why it has become so urgent for them to come together in the name of secularism.

This is easily done because their interests and Let me give you some context here. Ever Tavleen Singh Congress interests coincide where Modi is since Narendra Modi started sweeping his way across the country gathering larger and Delhi then it would be best to have a secular- concerned. So will they succeed in taking us larger crowds wherever he went, panic but- ist, leftist government because it would be as back to those times when the Government of tons have started to be pressed in Congress ineffectual as it was last time and this would India was led by regional leaders and nambyParty headquarters. Until Modi’s rallies began make ordinary Indians long to have Congress pamby socialists of the Inder Gujral genre? It does not seem that way, but it is dangerous to the advisors of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi had and the Gandhi family back in power. convinced themselves that he was no more The secularists think exactly like Congress make definite predictions in politics.

Modi fights a lonely battle because there than a media myth that would begin to dissi- does and like most Congress socialists have pate into the political wind as soon as he tried paid no attention to the failure of their eco- are vast states like Uttar Pradesh in which the to build a base outside Gujarat. So when at nomic ideas in Eastern Europe, China and the BJP barely exists as a political party any more. that first rally in northern India in Jaipur, he former Soviet Union. They behave like people Under the aegis of Shri Lal Krishna Advani the gathered vast crowds they comforted them- who have remained oblivious to the tearing BJP has spent the past ten years in opposition selves with the thought that this was only be- down of the Berlin wall, the introduction of a turning itself into a bad Xerox of the Congress cause Rajasthan was a state in which there free market economy in China and the col- Party. For Modi to become prime minister he was a strong BJP base and Vasundhara Raje lapse of the Soviet Union. It is as if the past has to rely on a caboodle of so-called leaders had spent 80 days on a yatra that had taken two decades of history just passed them by who are as venal and ineffectual as those that her through every district. Then, a few days unnoticed, as if the time warp they were in has sit today in the Government of India. Can he create new ideas of governance and a new later when huge crowds gathered to hear him remained secure in its cocoon of ignorance. in Rewari in Haryana the first of the panic So at the communalism conference or the dream for India with this lot? The secularists buttons got pressed and by the time he got to anti-communalism conference as they called think not which is why their cries of fascism Kanpur and Patna there were so many panic it, they talked of the rise of communal forces and communalism will get louder and louder buttons being pressed in Congress headquar- and ‘fascism’ as if the world had not changed as the general election draws near.

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‘God in all, and all in God’

HERE are ten principal Sufi thoughts, ‘There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of which comprise all the important subjects all Souls, Who constantly leads His followwith which the inner life of man is concerned. ers towards the light.’

The Sufi understands that although God is the source of all knowledge, inspiration, and ‘There is One God, the Eternal, the Only guidance, yet man is the medium through Being; none exists save He.’ The God of the Sufi is the God of every creed, which God chooses to impart His knowledge and the God of all. Names make no difference to the would. He imparts it through one who to him. Allah, God, Gott, Dieu, Khuda, is a man in the eyes of the world, but God in Brahma, or Bhagwan, all these names of God is his consciousness.

It is the mature soul that draws blessings beyond the limitation of name. He sees his God in the sun, in the fire, in the idol which di- from the heavens, and God is busy speaking verse sects worship; and he recognizes Him in through all things, yet in order to speak to the all the forms of the universe, yet knowing Him to be beyond all form; God in all, and all in God, He being the Seen and the Unseen, the Only Being. God to the Sufi is not only a reli- deaf ears of many among us, it is necessary for gious belief, but also the highest ideal the Him to speak through the lips of a man. He has done this all through the history of man, every human mind can conceive.

The Sufi, forgetting the self and aiming at great teacher of the past having been this the attainment of the divine ideal, walks con- Guiding Spirit living the life of God in human stantly all through life in the path of love and guise.

In other words, their human guise consists light. In God, the Sufi sees the perfection of all that is in the reach of man’s perception and yet of various coats worn by the same person, who he knows him to be above human reach. He appeared to be different in each. Shiva, Budlooks to Him as the lover to his beloved, and dha, Rama, Krishna on the one side, Abraham, takes all things in life as coming from Him, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed on the other; and with perfect resignation. The sacred name of many more, known or unknown to history, alGod is to him as medicine to the patient. The ways one and the same person.

Those who saw the person and knew Him divine thought is the compass by which he steers the ship to the shores of immortality. recognized Him in whatever form or guise; those who could only see the coat went astray.

God is the only purpose of his life.

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MATTER & SPIRIT

To the Sufi therefore there is only one Teacher, however differently He may be named at different periods of history, and He comes constantly to awaken humanity from the slumber of this life of illusion, and to guide man onwards towards divine perfection. As the Sufi progresses in this view he recognizes his Master, not only in the holy ones, but in the wise, in the foolish, in the saint and in the sinner, and has never allowed Master who is One alone, and the only One who can be and who ever will be, to disappear from his sight.

The Persian word for Master is Murshid. The Sufi recognizes the Murshid in all beings of the would, and is ready to learn from young and old, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, without questioning from whom he learns.

Then he begins to see the light of Risalat, the torch of truth which shines before him in every being and thing in the universe, thus he sees Rasul, his Divine Message Bearer, a living identity before him. Thus the Sufi sees the vision of God, the worshipped deity, in His immanence, manifest in nature, and life now becomes for him a perfect revelation both within and without.

It is often for no other reason than clinging to the personality of their particular teacher, claiming for him superiority over other teachers, and degrading a teacher held in the same esteem by others, that people have separated themselves from one another, and caused most of the wars and factions and contentions which history records among the children of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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INDIA’S maiden inter-planetary odyssey of Mars sans logic apart from being a waste of time, money and energy. It is only of academic interest and nothing else which a poor country like ours can ill afford.

The spacecraft was successfully launched into earth orbit but would take several months and land on Mars in September 2014 at an exorbitant cost of several hundred crores with failure too not ruled out.

Should India be launching such missions in sky when they are finding it hard to control vegetable prices and other prices of basic commodities on ground is a matter of serious debate, more so when it USELESS EXERCISE: The mission to Mars which has already cost Rs.450 crore, is would not serve any purpose. Yes. only of academic interest, which a poor country like ours can ill afford.

We need to develop technology but Also, we must use science, techthat should serve some purpose

and not just create a hype for no nology, money and our resources ‘MISSION to Mars’ ( ADC , Nov 6 ), reason. The govt. should improve to develop medicines which fight the edit piece certainly deals with life of the people on our shores be- fatal diseaes and other things to two very important issues, one of fore thinking of sending citizens on help mankind. which is that in a way it becomes other planets.

— S.N. Kabra, Goregaon the first successful nation in Asia to

Is JD(U) with Cong yet?

IT appears that even after a few months of divorcing the NDA over the issue of “secularism”, the JD(U) has not yet firmly attached itself to the UPA II band-wagon led by the Congress. On the contrary, the Bihar CM was seen sharing the dais with the leaders of other parties engaged in forging a non-Cong, non-BJP front. In order to nudge the JD(U) into falling in line, a sort of reminder seems to have been issued by the UPA II govt. It is in the form of an FIR filed by the ‘caged parrot’ against the Party’s Rajya Sabha MP over his alleged involvement in the LTC scam.

— Arun Malankar, Santa Cruz

Questionable largesse THE Karnataka govt. recently announced Rs.50K to Muslim girls for their marriages, provided the family income is less than Rs 1.5 lakh annually. This move throws up a few questions such as (i) the basis on which this income is worked out as a cut off; (ii) how would it be confirmed that a family actually falls within this limit; (iii) why are other minority communities being excluded from the scheme; (iv) why can’t the scheme be extended to every Indian who has an income of less than Rs.1.5 lakh; (v) the Congress has always claimed to be a secular party and champion of the downtrodden throughout the country. Ground realities show it practices just the contrary.

— Harischandra Parshuram, Juhu

Modi’s got enough security THE demand made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for adequate or more security for Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of the party in view of the Patna blasts is a political gimmick as he has been given the best and efficient security which no other political leader enjoys in the country. Since the law does not permit to give him extraordinary security in line with that of the prime minister, BJP is playing dirty politics and trying to pressurise the people to believe that Modi will definitely be the next PM which shows that they are

from Modi phobia. Thus Congress and JD(U) are digressing from the main national issues and are opposing and criticising Modi with full force and strength. They fail to understand that after all it is for the electorate of India to decide whom to elect as prime minister.

— S.P. Sharma, Mumbai

achieve such a rare feat post the failures of two other powerful nations like Japan & China — both of whom had failed in this venture.

The other issue is that if even the Indian space scientists succeeded in penetrating the Mars orbit after a 200 million km coasting at the budgeted cost of Rs.450 crore after ten months, which of course is a pittance involved with such a complex space project, thereafter what?. However, certainly on one side every Indian would feel that this is certainly a huge historic feat

by ISRO in India, but at the end of the day I wonder whether we would gain any benefit out of it, which only time will reveal.

— Bikram Banerjea, Mumbai

I AM sure all of you must have watched the successful launch of the rocket to Mars by Indian scientists from Sriharikota. The vehicle is already established in the Earth’s orbit where it is likely to remain for pily sanctions a paid junket to Istanbul by their corporators on a flimsy excuse that would seem ridiculous even to a dimwit. Both are equal examples of corruption since they both involve a reckless waste of taxpayers’ money. It just depends on who holds the purse strings.

— Firoze Hirjikaka, Colaba, Mumbai

Shiv Sena is just as bad SAFE AND SOUND: The Gujarat CM has already been provided the best security available in the country, only second to the prime minister. living in a live fool’s paradise and dreaming every day about Modi as the PM without knowing the reality and mood of the people.

— Bhagwan Thadani, Mumbai

THE Congress never fails to adopt double standard when it comes to criticising the Opposition. When the disputed structure at Ayodhya was felled, it wept by invoking OF the bogey of “secularism”. LETTER THE DAY But when somebody expresses sympathy towards the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, he is at once termed as “communal”. When NaMo is aspiring to be PM, he is chided as being a bridegroom in a hurry. But, the Crown Prince’s (Rahul Gandhi) vying for the same post is termed as a “natural” choice.

The visit of mother-son due to the riot affected areas in UP is hailed as “Sadbhavana”, but NaMo’s condoling the families of the Patna blast victims is promptly dubbed as “politics”.

APROPOS your articles ‘Sena smells scam in multi-crore sewerage project’ and ‘Research or holiday’ (ADC, Oct.30). One would think that by now, we would have become immune to the staggering hypocricy displayed by our elected officials, but they continue to surprise us. So the Shiv Sena is alleging corruption in the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC), where they are not in power, in the contract awarded for connecting housing society sewer lines to the main drainage pipelines. They are probably right. However, the same Sena in Mumbai, where they are in control of the municipal corporation, hap-

— S. Krishna Kumar, Dombivli

TWINKLE, twinkle little stars India’s satellite is going towards Mars.

Who’ll reach first is the question, Our satellite?

Price of onions, or Rahul Gandhi?

— Harischandra Parshuram, Juhu

could result in diseases. The Railways seem to be interested only in collection of money and not in providing even the barest minimum facilities to the commuters. There is hardly any security in the trains. We are said to be in the 21st Century.

— T.M. Uday Shankar, Mumbai

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Pay teachers their salaries

— Jorhat Singh, Kandivli

AS reported, after NAMO was declared prime ministerial candidate of BJP, he is working very hard and has taken over full responsibility and is approaching various sections of our society with full gusto, courage and expressing his attitude to the full dismay and horror of Congress party and JD(U) which cannot digest his way of approach or method and are almost suffering

about 25 days before its onward march towards the Red Planet which is likely to take around 300 days because of a new low cost method being employed by Indian scientists and also because of the very long distance. It is a very proud moment for all Indians and all scientists associated with this mission deserve recognition and appreciation. I feel more happy to see the highly encouraging reports in foreign newspapers and media on India’s Mars Mission. Incidentally, one should watch the latest English movie ‘Gravity’. Watch it in 3D to get an idea about the difficulties of space mission and the real feeling of being in space. For a change….no politician can take credit for this mission!

BLOT ON EDUCATION: How can teachers perform their duties efficiently if the government does not bother to pay them salaries for 13 years?

THIS refers to the front page report ‘Bad luck: 13 years without pay!’ (ADC, Nov. 7). It is very disquieting to note that as many as 21,000 teachers across the state have not been paid their salaries for 13 long years, forcing them to double up as rickshaw-pullers, gardeners and waiters in restaurants to feed their families. This appears to be the result of the implementation of the government’s permanent non-grants commission under which schools are not provided grants from its coffers for paying them. The affected teachers have been on hunger strike at the Azad Maidan for the past one week. If they do not get their salaries for years, how will they teach properly? And if they are not able to perform well, the students suffer and the education scenario in the country is already not satisfactory. It is high time that the government stepped in and arranged to pay the suffering teachers their salaries without any further delay.

— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane

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SUSHI EXPRESS Hop on to this ride as the 48HRS team takes you through some of the best sushi available in the city

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efore we present our favourite picks of sushi from across the city, we’d like to give you a brief history of this Japanese food that consists of cooked vinegar flavoured sticky rice combined with other ingredients — usually raw fish or other seafood. It is widely believed that sushi came into existence in the second century A.D. in Southeast Asia, not as a dish, but as a way to preserve and keep meat fresh for a longer duration. They used to cure meat and fish and wrap it in rice, where it was left to ferment for several months. Eventually, when enough time had passed, they would discard the rice and eat the cured insides.

10 centuries later, people started adding vinegar to their sushi to aid in the fermentation process.

This way, they didn’t have to wait so many months for the sushi to be ready. Coming to the present time, the contemporary version of sushi was created by Hanaya Yohei in the late 1790’s in Japan.

It was an early form of fast food that was not fermented (therefore prepared quickly) and could be conveniently eaten with one’s hands or chopsticks.

Today, sushi is famous worldwide and there are several restaurants that are dedicated to this culinary delight. Mumbai has quite a few restaurants that make this dish either in an authentic manner or by presenting it with a unique twist. We visited several restaurants to bring you a list of some of the best places to get sushi in the city.

SuShi and More Sushi and More is the perfect place to check out if you want sushi delivered to your doorstep. The prices are quite reasonable, but the only hiccup is that you might have to wait for a while till your order gets to you. However, the freshly made sushi makes the wait worth it. In terms of flavour, they have a wide variety of both vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian options. Some of their must-try sushi includes the non-vegetarian California Roll (crabmeat, cucumber, lettuce and flying fish roe) and the Tuna Tartare Roll (minced tuna with spring onion). Those who like a little bit of spice can opt for the Prawn Tempura Roll (prawn tempura and spicy mayo) or the Spicy Salmon Roll (fresh salmon and Japanese chilli paste). All these dishes are priced in the range of `300-400 for eight pieces.

They also have platters which will cost you `650 (14 pieces) and `800 (20 pieces) and will include a mix of sushi from their menu.

Where www.sushiandmore.com

noM noM Authenticity and Nom Nom go hand-in-hand and so, it is hardly a surprise that if an authentic sushi experience is what you want, Nom Nom is the place to go to. The experience isn’t just limited to your taste-buds; they have a live sushi counter where the chef will serve you freshly made sushi. continued on pg 14 «

>> Don’t know which places to visit for mouthwatering sushi? Look no further than our article to take your pick

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continued from pg 13 « The choice is quite wide and in terms of taste, almost every dish manages to hold its own. So, the best thing to order at Nom Nom would be the chef recommended Assorted Sushi Selection (`950) that has four pieces. Two varieties still stand out — the California Rolls (`690 for eight pieces) have a nice tangy aftertaste to them while the Salmon & Cheese Rolls (`790) have a creamy flavour that blends well with the strong pink ginger and wasabi.

Where Nom Nom in Bandra (W) and Seven Bungalows Contact 9920055059

>> Aoi has very unique sushi offerings that will delight your tastebuds

Global Fusion We’ve had sushi at the Andheri (E) and Bandra (W) outlets of Global Fusion, but we prefer the Bandra branch. The sushi section in this restaurant will delight sushi lovers as they have several vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. From the vegetarian range, their best is the mushroom and corn sushi.

But, sushi is only sushi when there’s seafood involved! Their salmon and snapper sushi is good and while we haven’t tried it yet, they also offer chicken sushi too. The sushi comes with pickled ginger which is a highlight on its own. Paired with the sushi, it will be like heaven in your mouth which will make you keep coming back for more. They have a package pricing when it comes to their sushi counter. You can have unlimited sushi at a price of `699 for lunch from Monday to Saturday, `1,079 for dinner from Sunday to Thursday, `1,199 for dinner on Fridays, Saturdays and for lunch on Sundays.

Where Link Square Mall, Third Floor, Linking Road, Bandra (W) Contact 9022912367

Wasabi by MoriMoto Situated inside Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, if your wallet is big, we suggest that you look no further than Wasabi by Morimoto.

While there, we tried three of their sushi offerings — Salmon (`710), Soft Shell Crab (`975) and Shrimp Tempura (`660). After eating them all, we couldn’t really come to a conclusion as to which one tasted better. If your palate is inclined towards Indian cuisine then the spicy varieties on the menu will be your best bet. They also have a wide range of vegetarian sushi with some uncommon ingredients used. The flavours in the sushi are well-balanced, not dry at all, which is a frequent complaint with this dish and you won’t be able to stop at just one.

Where The Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Colaba Contact 66653366 >> To sample a wide variety, try the 18-piece sushi platter at Kofuku

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Where Ramada, 16/17, Paspoli, Saki Vihar Road, Powai Contact 30932030

These are the guys who want to make Japanese food more accessible to the Indian palate. We know it’s not 100% authentic, but it’s really worth visiting. We think the “inspired” sushi is a perfect blend of traditional technique and modern flavours.

And one of our favourite parts of the meal is that you can sit right at the sushi bar and watch the team roll the sushi. We recommend their California rolls (`425), Grilled Prawn Sushi (`350 with guacamole!) and the Raw cucumber & Philly cheese sushi (`325). All are well-made, each with a distinct taste and just the right size. They’ve also got a Lunch Tasting Menu which is valid from Monday to Friday, from 12 pm to 3.30 pm. For `700 (all inclusive), you can avail a choice of three starters, a special Chef’s Sushi selection, four main course options and Aoi’s signature chocolate sushi dessert!

Where 1, Gloria, St. Baptist Road, Near Mount Mary Steps, Bandra (W) Contact 30932030

uMaMe The restaurant is well known amongst food connoisseurs and while most of it is your usual Pan Asian fare, they give sushi a delicate new twist with their tempura prawn based sushi. They call it Sun Set Boulevard and its part of their set menu, with asparagus and snow crab softly melting in your mouth when you bite into it. They do have a vegetarian avocado version that’s good, but we suggest sticking to the prawn and crab version. You’ll have to part with `1,500 for a set meal, per person.

Where 1st Floor, East Wing, Eros Theater Building, Churchgate Contact 61110303

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KoFuKu Kofuku means “happiness” and based on their extensive sushi menu, you’re bound to find happiness here. To make the most of your meal at Kofuku, order the 18-piece sushi platter (`1,500) that includes tuna maki rolls and four types of nigiri: tuna, salmon, octopus and white pomfret. The tempura in wasabi-mayo was delicious and lightly crunchy, although the sushi rice was slightly dry. The Hamabagu (minced beef) was served with a delicious Japanese sauce and was moist, tender and full of flavour, with a lovely after-taste. While all the dishes here may not rock the boat, certain dishes are truly delicious such as the Philadelphia sushi and the Kakuni. Kofuku is slightly expensive if you want to eat your fill.

Sushi plates were between `450-700 and mains were from `600-1,500.

Where Kenilworth Shopping Arcade, 33rd Rd, Bandra (W) Contact 67105105

There are a lot of reasons we love visiting Skky and one of the biggest is their sushi bar. With a wide variety of sushi made right in front of you, this is the place to go to if you want delicious sushi that won’t burn a hole through your wallet. They have some great vegetarian options with pickled shitake and asparagus, but their fish varieties are a force to reckon with. We love the Norwegian salmon based Sake Nigiri sushi, the Maguro niri sushi made with yellow fin tuna, Tako Nigiri octopus sushi and the Ika nigiri sushi, made with Japanese cuttle fish. While individual sushi (non-vegetarian) costs `700 onwards, they’re all so good we can very rarely decide which one to pick. We suggest opting for their small and large assorted platters. We also love their tuna California rolls from their sashimi bar. The platters are priced at `2,950 (large) and `1,950.

Japanese Food season If you want to experience more than just sushi, check out the ongoing Japanese cuisine promotion that has been organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in association with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Japanese Food Season — Oishii Japan, aims to promote and showcase Japanese cuisine. Oishii Japan has been going on for quite a few weeks and will end on November 10. Events range from cooking workshops, restaurant promotions, food retail promotions, recipe contests and food festivals. The festival will also include set menus at selected restaurants such as SanQi at The Four Seasons Hotel, India Jones at The Oberoi, Kofuku, Aoi in Bandra, Umame by Farrokh Khambata at The Eros Cinema Building and the Sushi & More Store at Warden Road, Mumbai.

Prices for the restaurant season range from `1,000 to `3,500. Check out their website www.cooljapanfestival.com/oishii

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>> Shobha De with festival director Anil Dharker at last year’s LitLive

umbai’s biggest celebration of literature is back, with Tata Literature Live! — The Mumbai International LitFest. This year, over 120 writers and thinkers from all over the world are expected to participate and you can head over to check out works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry and plays. With book launches, conversations between authors, publishers and literary agents along with poetry readings, talks and lectures, there’s something for everyone this year.

Catch Ashley Tellis, advisor to American Presidents; Sir Nicholas Hytner, the director of the National Theatre of England; Nik Gowing, ace presenter from BBX; neuroscientist from Cambridge University, John Coates; author of The Mighty Heart, Mariane Pearl; political editor of The Economist, James Astill and best-selling author Peter James among others.

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Get ready for a meal you’ll never forget this weekend, with chefs Kshama Prabhu, Pooja Dhingra, Jaydeep Mukherjee, Irfan Prabaney and Viraf Patel cooking up a storm with a five-course meal that’s for a good cause. Proceeds from the dinner will go towards Manav Foundation as part of their inaugural fundraising event for the Food with Benefits platform. The five-course dinner, which includes wine, will have each of the chefs presenting one course each. The meal costs `3,500 per person.

One of the planners of the event, Mangal Dalal from Cellar Door Hospitality, says, “We’re excited about the launch of this event for Food With Benefits. The dinner at Café Zoe supports Manav Foundation, an NGO we worked with last September to organise unique culinary events to help raise funds for a different NGO each time. Our aim is to organise such events quarterly for now, with the hope of doing so more often in the future.”

Food for Benefits is a fundraising platform where chefs come together to raise awareness and funds for NGOs. Participants this weekend include Le15 Patisserie and Studio 15 owner and head chef Pooja

If you want to get fit in a really fun way, head over to JG’s Fitness Center for their Masala Bhangra Mela/ Convention. The mela is going to have some of the world’s best masala bhangra experts teaching you the latest in the dance as well as performance artists from Chandigarh teaching you authentic bhangra moves. Shalini Bhargava, director of JG’s fitness centre, says, “Masala bhangra is an effective workout that’s high on fun, post which you will feel rejuvenated and confident. This is the only workout form after yoga that is Indian in origin and yet has such a huge global impact. This masala bhangra

« PERFORMANCE: SCOTT CAPURRO The Comedy Store is bringing down one of the most openly gay and racist international comics, USA’s Scott Capurro to India. He will be accompanied by performances of our homegrown stand-up comics Rohan Joshi, Gursimran Khamba and Tanmay Bhat. Scott Capurro is your quintessential shock comic whose style appeals to many and he has received immense critical acclaim far and wide for his brilliant performances, take on his gay lifestyle and white trash background. For all those comic lovers out there, this performance is a must-watch.

When November 15, 16 and 17, from 8.30pm onwards Where Bluefrog, Todi Mills Compound, Lower Parel (W) Tickets 39895050

Convention will showcase the world’s best masala bhangra instructors and professionals from Chandigarh who will be present to showcase some desi moves with a contemporary touch. Trust me when I say this, exercise has never been this much fun, so come and join the fun.“ Registration is mandatory though, so get in touch today.

When Up to November 10 Where JG’s Fitness Center, Gopal Bhavan Tagore Road, Santacruz (W) and Courtyard by Marriott , Near Mumbai International Airport, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E) Contact 9819496966/ 9324246680/ 26496277

Tata LitLive is about to commence next week. Rhea Dhanbhoora gives you the lowdown on what you can expect from this year’s edition Mumbai’s own international literary festival, it is now recognised internationally as one of our country’s very best litfests. As always, it will feature literature in all its forms, presented by some of the liveliest minds, with engaging interactions between audiences and participants.

The line-up is exciting and entry is free, so anyone who loves words and ideas should block these four days.”

You can also catch a number of performances at the festival, including Martin Kiszko’s More Green Poems for a Blue Planet, Alyque Padamsee’s Arthur Miller: An Actor’s Godsend and Antigone: A Stage Reading. From Holocaust love story The Tin Ring to Edinburgh festival sensation The Price of Everything, you can also see several great plays. Free and open to all on a first-come, first-serve basis, this is one festival you shouldn’t miss out on.

When November 14 to 17 Where NCPA, NCPA Marg, Churchgate schedule www.litlive.in

Dhingra; head chef of White Owl, Kshama Prabhu; head chef and coowner of Café Zoe, Viraf Patel; head chef and co-owner of The Sassy Spoon, Irfan Pabaney and head chef of Indigo Delicatessen, Jaydeep Mukherjee. Funds will go to Manav Foundation, which supports people suffering from mental illnesses and personality disorders.

Organised by Cellar Door

Hospitality, the event is supported

by Jacob’s Creek wines, design partner DesignAren, knowledge partner Gyaan Exchange, social partner Skarma and communications partner Mirabilis Inc. Head over to support the cause.

When November 11, 8pm onwards Where Café Zoe, Mathuradas Mill Compound, Lower Parel Contact www.foodwithbenefits.org

>> Chef Viraf Patel is one of the many chefs whose food you can look forward to at the Food for Benefits event

« GIG: VANS FRESH OFF THE WALL Vans, action sports and apparel company and ennui.BOMB, an independent music label which is also the brain behind gigs such as BOMB Thursdays and Control ALT Delete, have announced another edition of ‘Fresh Off The Wall’, a platform created for supporting emerging bands and artists from the

independent music scene of India.

Vans Fresh Off the Wall will now be hosted at European and Continental restaurant D’Bell at One India Bulls Centre. The cross genre music lineup will include Imphal based indie postpunk rockers, The Dirty Strikes, along with Spud in the Box and Laxmi Bomb, allowing an opportunity for

music fans to experience a range of acts from alternative pop-rock to electronica. Entry is free.

When Tomorrow, from 9pm onwards Where Tower 2B, Lobby Level, One Indiabulls Center, Jupiter Mills Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel (W) Contact 65374666

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Exhibition

desiGner exhibition at CaChe

To see 15 Pakistani designers showcase their collections in the city this weekend, head down to Cache to witness the initiative by designer Ayesha Aejaz. She explains, “I am delighted to invite Pakistani designers to our country. The point of the event is to bring Pakistani clothing to the Indian market as their cuts, silhouettes and colour combinations are different as compared to local designers. Also, they have a great price point. We have a very affordable range and some great designers are showcasing their collections at the exhibition. I am sure the visitors are going to truly love and enjoy this exhibition!” Designers at the event will include Gul Ahmed, Ahsan Khan, Sheep, Lylak, Zari Faisal, Madiha Noman, Agha Noor and Iffat Sarwani. The collections range from `2,000 onwards. when November 9 & 10 where Cache, The Arts and Craft Gallery, 187, Turner road, Bandra (W) Contact Ayesha Aejaz: 9820640708/ Rahat Aejaz: 9769701167

kids Central exhibition

Do your kids enjoy watching Chhota Bheem? Well, for the first time the cartoon character and his team will make a public appearance at an interactive fashion show at a special bonanza just for kids, to celebrate Children’s Day next week. The exhibition spans over 25,000 square feet and offers a range of products and activities for children. Organiser Hetal tells us, “Kids are an integral part of our lives and to have an exhibition dedicated solely to them is very exciting.” Head over with your children to buy kids products, let them take part in workshops and exhibitions and see their favourite characters while taking part in fun activities. when November 16 & 17 where World Trade Center

Travel deltin royale’s offers

Enjoy an extended festival of lights this year with free entry to the newly-launched Deltin Royale when you book a 2-night-3-day or a 3-night-4-day package. Play at the casino, enjoy unlimited free house drinks, a multi-cuisine dinner and live entertainment. As an added bonus, hotel guests get a complimentary bottle of red or white wine and a hamper filled with goodies in their suite. The 2-night-3-day package is priced at `23,999 and the 3-night-4-day package is priced at `29,999, both exclusive of taxes. when Up to November 30 where Goa Contact www.deltingroup.com/deltin-royale

Get your adrenaline rush at aamby valley City

Continue your Diwali festivities by heading to 19 Degree North at Aamby Valley City for a camping experience amidst nature. The Wilderness Picnic is a unique way to spend the festive season, with rides and activities such as zorbing, paintball, rock climbing, picnics, rappelling and jungle safaris.

Vivek Kumar, CEO, says, “19 Degree North at Aamby Valley City is a premium destination for adventure lovers. The park offers a plethora of unique options such as wilderness camping amidst the forest terrain, zorbing and ATV biking for guests to enjoy.”

Contact www.aambyvalleycity.com

Salon Candle mani/pedi at nailspa experienCe

NailSpa Experience has introduced a candle manicure and pedicure. The treatment is a moisturising blend of choco-vanilla, sandalwood and gardenia, along with a relaxing tea tree foot soak and mineral masque. Director Amyn Manji says, “Today, due to the fast pace of life, people do not have time to tend to their feet. They concentrate on various other aspects of their body apart from their feet. So, we have introduced this treatment to make you feel relaxed and beautiful.” Head over to see how it’s different from a usual manicure and pedicure. It costs `1,400 for the manicure and `1,500 for the pedicure. where Linking Road, Kusum Kunj Building, Khar (W) Contact 65324444

Get your skin GlowinG for six months

If too much work and stress has left you with no time to follow a rigorous skincare routine, a visit to an expert cosmetologist can work wonders for your skin. A session with Restylane Vital Skinboosters by Forever Young can replenish your skin and rejuvenate it for up to six months. Restylane Vital is a new breed of skinboosters that when injected into the skin rejuvenates and beautifies it from within. One of the makers of this treatment, H. K. Madhusudhan, spokesperson of Galderma, says, “Restylane Skin boosters is a novel, unique way to add glow to your skin. It nourishes skin through deep skin hydration and makes it glow over time. It also smoothens skin and makes it tighter. It is a big hit because it delivers the promise and lasts up to six months.” The starting price for the treatment is `15,000. where Forever Young, Gurunanak Marg, Bandra (W) Contact 26459543

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Food

maishaa’s new ColleCtion

seafood festival at saptami

Bed linen and home furnishing brand Maishaa has launched a collection called The Princess Kokachin. It’s made from Sofin, a micro fibre, in a perfect blending ratio with cotton and is incredibly luxurious. Arun Garg, president of A.K.Retail Inc., explains, “The home furnishing market is growing on a huge scale and there is an increasing demand for contemporary upholstery and furnishing items for Indian homes.

Maishaa is well positioned to deliver the best international range of fabrics, which provides good value to the Indian consumer. This is why we keep adding new collections in our stores.” The collection is priced at `2,450 for pillow cases, `14,595 for sheets and `25,100 for duvet covers. where Outlets across the city

exhibition by hemant Chiplonkar

Artist Hemant Chiplonkar is showcasing a collection of his work called Stoned by the Hues at Nehru Centre Circular Art Gallery this weekend. The collection is done using colours and mix media on paper and canvas. The work reveals his love for nature and intense urge to memorise them through his artistic endeavours. Electrical engineer by profession, Hemant’s true love includes the nature and wildlife that you can see in his paintings. Artist Hemant Chiplonkar says, “My exhibition will reveal my unique innovation of the scenic beauty at picturesque places all over the world, with due relevance of our heritage and cultural vignettes at places such as Hampi, Dev Prayag, Bijapur, Bhutan and Pattokal. In a way, this exposition in water colours and mix media on canvas is picturesque and tranquil.” when Up to November 11 where Nehru Centre Circular Art Gallery, Discovery of India Building, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli Contact 9969401600/ 40244416

>> Try the delicious food at the seafood festival hosted by Saptami this weekend

This weekend, head over to Saptami to experience their delicious seafood festival. The buffet, decorated with a fisherman basket, nets, oars and a delectable selection of food is the perfect place to indulge your seafood cravings. Executive chef Sudhir Pai tells us, “We are giving customers a choice of seafood such as pomfret, Indian salmon, mackerel, crabs, shrimps, kingfish, squid, clams, pearl spot, basa and karimeen. We have prepared a menu keeping in mind the preferences of various seafood lovers. Food will be cooked in a variety of styles.” You can also enjoy sea based drinks such as Blue Lagoon, Bullfrog, Sex on the Beach, Maitai and Long Island Iced Tea. The dinner buffet is priced at `999, exclusive of taxes. when Up to November 28 where Saptami, Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport, Sakinaka Junction, Andheri (E) Contact 40851800

weddinG boxes from under Cover linGerie

With wedding season just around the corner, now is the perfect time to grab an exclusive nightwear box for your trousseau from Under Cover Lingerie.

Co-founder and CEO, Monica Anand says, “A wedding is a very special event and we wanted to add to the joy in our own small way. So, we launched a collection of wedding nightwear boxes.

They are offered at a special bundled price and are available at our eStore.”

The price ranges from `1,899 onwards and includes a sensuous box, erotic box, accessory box, playful box and luxury box. where www.buyundercover.com

Country of oriGin’s assorted dessert hampers

Country Of Origin (COO) brings you a variety of assorted dessert hampers. The new offerings include red velvet cookies, chocolate jars and hot chocolate spoons. COO were the first to introduce desserts in a jar with flavours such as Red Velvet, Cookies & Hazelnut Praline Crème and Haute Chocolate & Hazelnut. Kiran Salaskar, founder of COO, says, “The assorted hampers are the perfect gifting option as they come in all shapes and sizes, fit the smallest budgets and have something for everyone in a family of even the most diverse tastes.”

These assorted hampers are priced from `500 to `1,800. where Outlets in Bandra, Napean Sea Road and Juhu Contact 65635222/ 23642221/ 26244422

Gourmet Gift boxes

Gourmet food brand, The White Glove Gourmet has introduced gourmet gift boxes for the festive season. This range includes Insanity Box (choice of any three Dave’s Gourmet Hot Sauces), The Olive Box (one bottle of extra virgin/lemon enhanced olive oil, one bottle of green/kalamata olives, one bottle of green/black olive paste) and The Truffle Box (one bottle of truffle oil/truffle mushroom paste/truffle cheese paste, one bottle of green/kalamata olives and one bottle of green/black olive paste). These products can be purchased individually or you can customise your boxes. Viveck Shah, CEO of the company, says, “The Gourmet Gift is a healthier option to gift your friends, family and corporate associates this festive season. It includes some of the best gourmet products from around the world, all gluten free, which makes it a better option than your regular chocolates and mithai.” when Up to December 14 where info@thewhiteglove.in Contact 22883355

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MUMBAI | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013

« STORE REVIEWS: THE BIG DOOR & WARREN TRICOMI

A big welcome “I Madhurjya Saikia | HRM

Aptly named art, décor and jewellery store, The Big Door left Priyanka Singh bewitched.

Here’s a look at the details of her visit

Where The Big Door, M Square, Plot No. 246, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Opp Dr. Ambedkar Statue, Khar (W) ContaCt 9820282836

>> The Big Door (below, left) impressed us with its royal collection. If you visit the store, don’t forget to have a look at their snake pots (above), a bed made of silver and a wall hanging made of silver garuda (below, centre and right)

have seen with my own eyes doors so massive/ that two men would have been required to push open just one of them./ Bronze, grating over stone sills, or made of wood/ from trees now nearly extinct.”

The Big Door is nothing less poetic than the lines above, borrowed from the poem Big Doors by Richard Tillinghast, to describe how awestruck I felt as I stood gawking at its soaring entrance. While I didn’t get to find out how heavy the doors were, as they were opened for me by a burly doorman, I was giddy with excitement when I spotted double-door entrances and jharokhas, which reminded me of the Rajput and Mughal dynasties.

By adjusting our gaze overseas, we often ignore the mammoth beauty that lies dormant in our country’s heritage. Vivek and Sunita Gupta, a couple who are aficionados of all things with a rich, Indian heritage, are trying to bring those gazes closer home through their palatial store for Indian jewellery, handcrafted home décor, art and collectibles.

As tempted as we were to sprint to the first floor where the décor and art pieces lay, we halted to scrutinise their jewellery spread on the ground floor.

The jewellery section is divided into equal parts of traditional and contemporary designs; the former variety is Mughal and Rajput inspired from Ravi Jewels of Jaipur. But, when I say contemporary, I mean the bucolic and tribal inspired pieces that are in style right now. Our favourites were the kadas, a gold south Indian tribal neck piece and an emerald and diamond encrusted (flat stones, à la Jodhaa’s ornaments in the movie Jodhaa Akbar) necklace among several other standout pieces. Starting range for the jewellery is `5,000 and goes up to `20 lakh.

Moving over to the art and décor part, every piece at The Big Door has a standalone quality of its own — from the large silver doors manufactured in their factory, door frames and entrances sourced from palaces that are 150 years old, to even door knobs and mirrors. Their first floor is a celestial cove for those who love Indian-inspired artifacts. Their faux antique sculptures (‘faux’ as they are less than a century old) are as rustic as the original ones and their paintings and wall pieces employ the regal craftsmanship that belongs to royal India of the past.

When you visit The Big Door, don’t forget to check out their door knobs, paintings, window mirrors, a golden parrot, snake pots and of course, the bed made of silver. Pricing starts at `5,000 and can soar up to `25 lakh.

Nothing at The Big Door is understated. If your card’s limit is set at a high and you have a taste for Indian regality, then step into this store’s VIP section to discuss your establishment’s décor.

« NEW LAUNCHES: FIND OUT WHAT’S JUST OUT IN STORES adidas adiPure Crazy quiCk

If you love running, then the latest shoe collection by Adidas is something that should be on your shopping radar. Called the adiPure Crazy Quick, this shoe has been designed to allow quicker lateral movements while running. Also, it features side ventilation and two layers of mesh to ensure that your feet remain sweat free. What’s more is that the lining has been designed in a way to manage heat and reduce sweat, helping increase your comfort as well as performance.

Price `7,599 onwards Where Adidas stores in the city

Men’s festive ColleCtion

by Mayyur r girotra

Designer Mayyur R Girotra has launched a new collection for men that is a mix of traditional and western. The range features sherwanis, traditional jackets and shirts in simple and understated designs.

Where the collection shines is in the use of colours. Hues such as purple, brown, green, blue and red give all the designs a regal touch, making them perfect for all occasions. If you haven’t started your festive shopping yet, do not miss checking out this collection.

Price `20,000 onwards Where www.mayyurgirotra.com

>> Warren Tricomi boasts of 4,000 square feet and our spa experience at this salon and spa was divine to say the least

Serenity calling Warren Tricomi is an impressive force in the world of salons and promises a luxurious, relaxing experience. Rhea Dhanbhoora checks out the new outlet at Shivaji Park to see whether it’s entered the city with style

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kay, I’ll admit it. My day does get decidedly better when I have the opportunity to visit a spa or salon at the end of a harebrained week. But, there’s still always a little risk to be endured. What if it’s a dingy place? What if the treatment makes me breakout? Brushing away some horrendous past experiences, I couldn’t help but look forward to Warren Tricomi. After all, with 4,000 square feet dedicated to a salon, there has to be something good.

Think old Bombay and you’ve got an idea of what the building the salon is located in looks like. Tucked away behind high walls and with a chandelier twinkling through the glass door, it’s embellished with high ceilings, subtle cream wallpapered walls and wooden furnishings. There’s even a café outside separated by stained glass.

Everything is tastefully done and not too showy.

While Warren Tricomi usually opens in hotels (The Leela), this one stands out because of a dedicated spa area with treatments by Forest Essentials, not to mention, better prices devoid of hotel tax.

Once I’d made my way around the spa and salon, I settled in to try the Signature Serene (`2,500). It started off with a warm green tea, infused with heady hints of lemon and a honey. I was then whisked off into the spa room, with attached steam, bath, a closet and a little box to store your valuables. Everything was placed impeccably and every step of my treatment from start to finish was a slow, deliberate movement that added to the luxurious feel of my visit.

Lying back in the armchair, my feet dipped in a basin with rose petals floating in warm water; I’m told that the Madurai Jasmine oil used for my full body massage will erase the stress of a hectic work week and soothe my nervous system. As far as massages go, it met my high expectations but did not exceed them. Pressure was firm but gentle, the oils were warm and soothing and my therapist was a doll. If it had been anything less, I would have been sorely disappointed. Their steam is better than in other salons because you can control time and ventilation. An indulgent shower later, I was ready to hit the sack, but unfortunately, I had to make my way back to the chaotic suburbs. But, when I finally turned in for the night, I had the most relaxing sleep I’ve ever had, making it all worth it. My skin also had a soft, well-rested glow all weekend.

Warren Tricomi also has a special dry cut treatment, luxury manipedis and a host of other salon treatments, along with a Kerastase room. I hope I’ll be traipsing back to try them out soon.

Where Cadell Road, Triveni Apartments, Opposite Di Bella Coffee, Shivaji Park ContaCt 24446604

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ASIA IN A HURRY Afternoon Despatch & Courier

MUMBAI | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013

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With no actual plates in sight, Rhea Dhanbhoora samples Asian food in little black trays to see how newly opened, quick service restaurant, Asia On My Plate in Lower Parel fares

Madhurjya Saikia | HRM

>> The décor at Asia On My Plate is interesting. Try the Somtam salad (inset) but give the Chinese burger called Kecap a miss (right)

Where 7/8 Walachia, Opposite India Bulls, Next to Deepak Cinema, Lower Parel (W) Meal for two `800 Alcohol served No Contact 7666217007

ith no time for lunch and only a few minutes for a rushed dinner, working professionals in the city need something to suit their busy schedules. Enter quick service restaurants, a concept that Asia On My Plate is trying to wheedle into our lives.

With a promise of no-fuss, quick and tasty food, you can imagine why our interest was piqued.

Add to that, the promise of no chemicals, preservatives or MSG (a welcome relief from the usual Asian food we’re served) and we were looking forward to a meal at the Lower Parel outlet.

The restaurant is small, with a slightly strange but altogether interesting décor. The predictable Asian red walls and signs contrast against the eclectic, westernised black and white chequered floor tiles that I quite liked.

Service wise, you’ll be put at ease even on your worst work day. We entered in foul moods, stuck between firecrackers and chaotic festive Mumbai traffic, sweating because of the heat and coughing up smoke and dust courtesy the construction heavy roads. But, cheerful smiles, friendly greetings and warm suggestions await you inside.

We ordered a dish from every section and settled in with high expectations. The Satay Ayam (`175) that arrived first in a black, plastic tray (food on-the-go indeed) was tasty, but the sauce had so much peanut that it was all I could taste. Putting a ‘k’ in popcorn may make the Popkorn Shrimp (`200) sound unique, but they’re just crispy, batter fried prawns. They were tasty, but if you’re not a fan of spicy food, you won’t be able to stomach the pepper. Next up was Somtam (`125). Our expectations had been uncomfortably lowered after all that peanut sauce and looking at the generous sprinkle of peanuts in the raw papaya salad did nothing to boost our enthusiasm. But, the tasty salad was a pleasant surprise.

We then tried Kecap (`175), a Chinese burger with minced chicken mixed with garlic, ginger and soy in an oriental burger. Unfortunately, it was a miss. The Chinese flavours didn’t go well with the burger’s bun. Last on our list was the Asian Delight Combo (`229), a mixture of Chinese rice, an Indonesian yellow curry which was nothing special and a too-thick red Thai curry that may or may not have unsettled my tummy.

In a nutshell, Asia On My Plate doesn’t have interesting food. Some dishes are the usual, Chinese fare. Others are too oily and some of the curries taste more like thick coconut gravy.

With a good concept, quirky décor and great service, the only reason we won’t be picking up the phone for a delivery is because the food just didn’t do anything for our palate. If they improve on their lacklustre fare, this could be an interesting option for a quick lunch.

>> The new outlet is much bigger. You must try their super flaky, buttery and delicious cronuts (inset)

What a tart!

Tart’s got a new menu, a new location and a new lady gracing their box. Glynda Alves tells you how it has become much more than just a cake shop…

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or a reasonably priced sweet treat there are only a handful of places that really hit the spot. And Tart is one of them. That’s why we were more than excited when they opened a bigger outlet just off Linking Road in Bandra.

Just like the new lady gracing their box and signage, the new outlet is more sophisticated than before. The space is beautifully done up with sleek interiors. We particularly loved the lights that look like macarons. The display shelf is twice as long as compared to the earlier store, with one section stocking just savoury items. On the facing wall, you’ll get to see all kinds of decorated cakes as well as a rack of packaged cake loaves and bread.

We had to start off this food review with their newest offering — the savoury items. We ordered an Australian salad (`190) and a SriRacha + PButter Chicken (`180) sandwich. The salad was fresh and flavourful with a good helping of salty feta cheese and crunchy almonds. The sandwich was good too and we honestly didn’t expect the satay combination to work so well between bread.

Next up, we tried some of their new desserts — The Coca Cola Cake (`75), Wicked Whiskey Cake (`70), Biscuit Cake (`70), Gulab Jamun Pie (`75) and a Krispie cupcake (`40). The Coca-Cola cake had the sweetness of a cola, but tasted pretty much like any chocolate cake. The Whiskey cake however, was a real treat with a subtle undertone of alcohol. We expected the Gulab Jamun pie to be messy but it was surprisingly easy to eat. Sadly, the rich juiciness of a gulab jamun seemed to have been baked out, which resulted in a slightly dry tart. The Biscuit cake was good; crisp and crumbly biscuit encased in rich chocolate. The Krispie Cupcake was honestly something a 4-year-old could make at home; just rice crispies stuck together with a bit of chocolate. But, what you must, must, must eat here is their cronut (`70)! Yes, Tart has mastered the dessert that has everyone drooling just at the idea of it. And it lives up to its reputation. The soft, flaky dough covered in sweet chocolate and oozing with a perfect custard filling is heavenly.

Tart will also start selling Thai Curry, Khao Suey and other meals soon. They’ve also got a decent drinks menu (`80 onwards) that includes everything — from healthy ABC juice and Power Green (really what’s the point, you’re obviously not counting calories if you’ve walked in) to tea and different types of coffee. They’re also opening an outdoor seating area and that’s where I’ll be next week — eating cronut after delicious cronut. Uh-oh!

Where Solace Building, Near MIni Punjab, Bandra (W) Meal for two `700 Alcohol served No Contact 022-65284457

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Travel

Afternoon Despatch & Courier Special

MUMBAI MUMBAI| |FRIDAY, FRIDAY,SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER03, 8, 2013 2010

Where Della Enclave Road, Kune N.m., MH 410405 ContaCt +91 2114662600/ 80030705050

>> (Clockwise from top left) The aerial view of Della Adventure & Resort is beautiful. The entire space is done up well. Don’t miss out on the zip-line, comfortable rooms and quad biking

THRILL & CHILL Everyone has two sides and we’ve found the place that caters to your mild and wild side. Glynda Alves tells you about Della Adventure & Resort in Lonavala

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f you’re like us, you like a good mix on a weekend getaway.

Anything too relaxing can get a bit boring and anything very hectic leaves you too exhausted to face the work week ahead. That’s why we think Della Adventure & Resorts is the perfect combination of lazy and crazy.

take a Walk on the Wild side For an adventure junkie, this is your promised land! These guys have everything from bungee jumping and rocket launching to mini-golf and archery. There are over 90 activities to choose from but we’ll tell you about the ones you absolutely can’t miss out on.

The Rocket Launcher Ejector which catapults you four and a half floors high up into the air, is one such ride. After the initial feeling of your insides going haywire it’s sheer euphoria and a thrill you’re unlikely to ever forget.

Next up was zorbing — who would think that rolling down a hill in a giant plastic ball would be so much fun. You can go in twos and it’s a laugh fest right through.

There are other variants such as

Aqua Zorbing and Roller Zorbing which look like as much fun. We then decided to be brave and try the Flying Fox — a zip line that takes you across the expanse of the resort giving you an amazing bird’s eye view of Lonavala. We rode this at night and it was surreal. The ATV ride is also a lot of fun, even though it’s a bit of a challenge to maneuver the quad bikes at first. But, you can always take a marshal with you and fly through the mucky dirt course.

Sadly, we didn’t get to try out the Bungee Jump or Swoop that day. But, we did get to watch someone take the plunge and they screamed out, “This is awesome!” We would have to agree.

Chill out After the all the adventure sports, opening the door to one of their luxury rooms is pure bliss! The resort rooms are nothing short of five-star. Done up in sleek gold, black and white with touches of vibrant red, I just wanted to dive into the plush bed and lay there.

And while five-star bathrooms are always really posh, the bathroom

here, which was perhaps as big as the room itself, was one a notch above. It comes complete with an in-house Jacuzzi and even a TV! But the lavish rooms aren’t where it ends. Della has a spa that’s open 24-hours! The service here is on par with some of the higher end spas we’ve visited and each room is complete with a steam, shower and expertly hidden toilet.

The entire resort is done up beautifully — it’s classy, elegant and very sleek. But, you can see Jimmy Mistry, the brains behind the project, has a good sense of humor because when you’re least expecting it, there’s something that’s a little whacked out waiting to surprise you. For example, the bathrooms are completely crazy!

We don’t want to spoil the surprise; you should see it for yourself.

However, despite their five-star status, the food at restaurants failed to impress us.

Overall, Della Adventure & Resorts is a bit pricey when it comes to stay. A room will cost you on average `12,000 per night. But, the good part is that you can avail of the adventure activities as a standalone. So, make sure to take the plunge this weekend, you’ll love it!

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MUMBAI | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013

ALEX CROSS

TODAY’S BEST VIEWING

Dr. Alex Cross is on his last police duty to track down an assassin called Picasso, who’s been torturing and killing rich businessmen in Detroit. Soon when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits to end this once and for all.

HBO, 9 p.m.

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SOAPS & SERIALS

In tonight’s episode we will see, Prithvi goes to confront his mother Megha Singhania and discovers that his mother is the indeed source of Mehek Ahuja’s story. He confesses to Aditya about his mother being the source but Aditya wonders what would prompt Mehek to drop the story. Naina, who is standing outside the room, overhears this conversation. Around the same time, Abhilasha Grewal announces to the whole ATU to focus their energies on locating Max, the fake photographer who was involved in Aditya Singhania’s assassination attempt earlier that day. Tej warns Nikita that they won’t be able to keep helping Jai like this as Abhilasha is keeping such a hands-on approach to the whole investigation. They wonder where Jai can be and Tej states his concern that Jai may just be cracking under the pressure. Colors, 10 p.m.

MARVELLOUS MARVEN

Wildlife expert Nigel Marven travels to the Pacific island of Cocos, an atoll near the coast of Costa Rica. With a dive boat, a specialist crew and selection of equipment, including a state-of-the-art miniature submarine which can go 400 metres down for up to four hours, follow Nigel Marven on Animal Planet’s SHARK ISLAND WITH NIGEL MARVEN as he discovers why there is such a great concentration of sharks in the area - and the results and visual underwater footage will take your breath away. Animal Planet, 9 p.m.

SUPERWEAPONS OF ANCIENT WORLD

History tells of the Greek genius Archimedes creating a terrifying secret weapon that plucked Roman warships from the sea and smashed them against the rocks. This present-day team must debate how to successfully recreate The Claw and sink their test ship. D iscover y Science, 9.30 p.m.

THE UNEXPLAINED FILES

Spontaneous infernos in Italy, a town in Argentina plagued by hundreds of unidentified aircrafts, and bizarre hairless, blueskinned, blue-eyed and hunch-backed dogs roaming the southern

TITANIC

24, Colors, 10 p.m.

U.S.—across the world, baffling phenomena has occurred which science and logic fail to explain. THE UNEXPLAINED FILES investigates what lies beyond the shock and awe through eyewitness accounts, leading scientific experts, vivid first-person accounts and a healthy dose of journalistic skepticism. Discovery, 10 p.m.

THE BACHELORETTE INDIA – MERE KHAYALON KI MALLIKA

Mallika Sherawat sets out to choose her Mr. Perfect tonight.

The time for Mallika Sherawat’s biggest decision ever is here.

The final battle is now between her mind and soul. Who will win Mallika’s heart ? Life Ok, 9.30 p.m .

CRAZY ONES

Simon struggles with a pitch to the Australian Tourism Board and Sydney becomes the subject of a song by an infatuated excolleague. Star World, 10 p.m .

QUBOOL HAI

Nikhat and Najma embark on their honeymoon which Haseena has consipired to destroy. Dilshad and Rasheed have an unexpected meeting. what will it result into? Zee T V, 9.30 p.m.

MOVIES OF THE DAY

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

Chinna is an orphan kid adopted by a jailer. But as a teenager, he was sent to jail for committing a crime in the jailers house. But was it really his folly? He is released from jail in his youth and longs to get back to his foster family. But they refuse to take him back into the family. The story proceeds by showing how he is a good-doer but his ways are not accepted by the society because he resorts to muscle power to get his work done. The movie depicts his fight to be accepted back by his folks. Watch out for the odds that he fights to achieve his goal with the help of the love of his life, Anjali. Expect a powerful performance by Rahul Dev, who plays a negative character in this flick. Max, 9 p.m.

THE GRUDGE 3

In Chicago, the boy Jake is interned in a mental institution and his therapist Dr. Sullivan does not believe that he is haunted by the ghost of the boy Toshio. When Jake is killed in his cell with all his bones broken, Dr. Sullivan decides to investigate further with open-mind. Meanwhile, Lisa, who is the sister of the super Max of Jake’s building, steals the key of apartment 305 to have sex with her boyfriend Andy. When she realizes that the spot is a crime scene, she immediately returns to her apartment, where she lives with Max and their sister Rose. In the meantime, the Japanese Naoko decides to travel from Tokyo to Chicago to stop the curse of her sister Kayako. She meets Lisa and tells that she needs hers and Rose’s help her to stop the fiend of her sister, but Lisa does not accept the offer. Zee Studi o, 10.30 p.m.

THE EXPENDABLES

Barney Ross leads the “Expendables”, a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen.

When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition. Once there, they meet with local rebel Sandra and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.

When they escape the island and Sandra stays behind, Ross must choose to either walk away and save his own life - or attempt a suicidal rescue mission that might just save his soul. Pix, 11.40 p.m .

STAR PLUS

P.M. 2.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 2.30 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon..

3.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha 3.30 Ek Ghar Banaunga 4.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 4.30 Diya aur Bati Hum 5.00 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera 5.30 Mahabharat 6.00 Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon-Ek Baar Phir 6.30 Ek Ghar Banaunga 7.00 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 7.30 Saraswati Chandra 8.00 Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi..Meri Bhabhi 8.30 Mahabharat 9.00 Diya Aur Bati Hum 9.30 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain 10.00 Pyar Ka Dard Hai….

10.30 Ek Veer Ki Ardaas – Veera 11.00 Mahabharat P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 4.00 5.00 7.00

Titanic, Star Movies, 9 p.m.

VISHWANATH

An honest lawyer, Vishwanath is implicated and imprisoned at the behest of powerful underworld don, GNK and his associates. After his release from prison, Vishwanath decides to seek vengeance, but finds out that it is virtually impossible to do this through due process of law. So he decides to change his identity, hire a gang of crooks and assassins, to carry out his vendetta.

Not realizing that in doing this he is alienating himself from the love of his life, Soni; and making himself a wanted man by the police, leaving his crippled sister, Munni and mom, Shanti to fend for themselves, and at the mercy of GNK and his associates. Fi lmy, 9 p.m.

PARWANA

Shahtaj belongs to a group of Jihad freedom fighters who have taken it upon themselves to free Kashmir from India. They are now ready to terrorize Bombay, but before that could happen, Shahtaj is captured by Indian Intelligence agents and held in an interrogation cell. When he is being transported to another facility, his colleagues dramatically help him escape via a helicopter. Now there is virtually no one who can stop Shahtaj and his men from carrying out terrorist attacks during Ganesh Visharjan day, when thousands of people converge near the beaches to immerse Bhagwan Shri Ganesh into the sea. Then a bumbling con-man and thief, who calls himself Parwana, robs the suitcase that contains the bomb. Shortly thereafter, he is arrested by Police Inspector Hardev Singh Haryanvi and held for interrogation.

CVO, 9 p.m.

LISTING

3.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 3.30 Pavitra Rishta 4.00 Qubool Hai 4.30 Dance Ka Tashan 6.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 6.30 Pavitra Rishta 7.00 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan 7.30 Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 8.00 Jodha Akbar 8.30 Do dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se 9.00 Pavitra Rishta.

9.30 Qubool Hai 10.00 Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 10.30 Punarvivaah 11.00 Jodha Akbar

LIFE OK

P.M. 2.00 Best of Savdhaaan

8.00 Haunted Nights-Kaun Hai Who? 8.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali 9.00 Aakhir Bahu Bhi Toh Beti Hee Hai 9.30 Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati 10.00 Haunted Nights 10.30 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali.

11.00 Aakhir Bahu Bhi Toh Beti Hee Hai P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30

SAB TV

Taarak FIR Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyar Taarak Mehta Ka… Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyar Baal Veer Taarak Chidiya Ghar Jeanie Aur Juhu

Arrow II Castle Simpsons Two And A Half Men Masterchef Australia Castle One Tree Hill Simpsons Masterchef Australia Crazy Ones Welcome To The Family Castle

ZEE CAFÉ

BIG CBS LOVE

BNTM Game Rules of Engagement BNTM X Factor Jamie’s 30 Minutes Meal Rules of Engagement Game Life Unexpected Rules of Engagement

SONY TV

P.M. 1.30 CID 6.00 Crime Patrol Dastak 8.00 Sanjeev Kapoor Ke Kitchen Ke Khiladi 8.30 Kaun Banega Crorepati 10.00 CID 11.00 Crime Patrol

ZEE TV

P.M. 2.00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se 2.30 Ek Muthi Aasman

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.15 7.35 8.00 8.15 8.30

SCIENCE

P.M. 2.00 How It’s Made 3.00 Deadliest Space Weather 3.30 Everything You Need To Know 4.00 Future Weapons 5.15 How It’s Made 6.00 The Gadget Show 6.30 Tech Toys 360 7.00 Antariksh 8.00 How It’s Made 9.00 Deadliest Space Weather 9.30 Everything You Need To Know 11.00 The Gadget Show

News in Marathi Jini Ani Mini Sukh Pahata Lochani Tiwalya Bawalya Kalpataru News in Marathi Indradhanushi Pimpal Pan Suvarnakshan Krishi Varta Swastha Bharat News in Marathi Dail 100 Mohini News Samachar Pavitra Bandhan-Do

MOVIE CHANNELS

P.M. 12.00 1.30 4.30 6.30 9.00 A.M. 8.00 10.00 P.M. 12.50 2.42 6.00 9.00 11.00 A.M. 7.30 9.33 11.22 P.M. 1.00 2.50 5.30 6.00 8.35 10.30 A.M. 10.25

Mistresses, Zee Cafe, 11 p.m.

7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.30

India Gustakh Dil Devo Ke Dev Mahadev Ek Boond Ishq Do Dil…Ek Jaan The Bachelorette India: Meri Khayalon Ki Mallika Savdhaan India

COLORS

P.M. 2.00 Sasural Simar Ka 2.30 Balika Vadhu-Kacchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte 3.00 Madhubala 3.30 Sanskaar Dharohar Apnon Ki 4.00 Bani Ishq da Kalma 4.30 Comedy Night with Kapil: Hrithik Roshan 6.00 Balika Vadhu 6.30 Bani: Ishq Da Kamla Hai 7.00 Sanskaar Dharohar Apnon Ki 7.30 Sasural Simar Ka 8.00 Balika Vadhu 8.30 Madhubala 9.00 Bigg Boss Saath 7 10.00 24 11.00 Balika Vadhu

SAHARA ONE

P.M 2.00 Haunted Nights: Kaun Hai Who? 2.30 Rivaaz: Film, Aakhir Bahu Bhi Toh Beti Hee Hai 3.00 Pataal Bhairavi: Jeetendra, Jayapradha 6.00 Rishton Ke Bhawar Mein Uljhi Niyati 6.30 Aakhir Bahu Bhi Toh Beti Hee Hai 7.00 Jai Jai Jai Bajarangbali 7.30 Best of Haunted NightsAnhoni

The Bachelorette India, Life Ok, 9.30 p.m.

10.00 Lapataganj-Ek Baar Phir 10.30 FIR 11.00 Taarak Mehta

ZEE MARATHI

P.M. 2.00 Tu Tithe Mee 2.30 Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshat 3.00 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi 3.30 Radha Hi Bawri 4.00 Pakke Shejari 5.00 Tu tithe Mee 5.30 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi 6.00 Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshat 6.30 Home Minister 7.00 Tu Tithe Mee 7.30 Radha Hi Bawri 8.00 Honnar Suun Me Hya Gharachi 8.30 Mala Saasu Havi 9.00 Eka Lagnachi Tisari Goshat 9.30 Pakke Shejari 10.30 Radha Hi Bawari 11.00 Honar Soon Me Hya Gharchi

ANIMAL PLANET

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00

Nature’s Microworlds Animal Planet’s A to Z Untamed and Uncut AP Safari River Monsters Animal Strategies Natural Born Hunters Marvellous Marven Animal Planet’s A to Z Animal Strategies

DISCOVERY

P.M. 2.00 Earth Machine 3.00 No Kitchen Required 6.00 Wild Asia

DOORDARSHAN

DDI (Main Channel)

P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.35 5.00 5.05 5.30

7.00 Man vs Wild 8.00 Africa 9.00 Indian Ocean With Simon Reeve 10.00 The Unexplained Files 11.00 Forbidden

STAR WORLD

P.M. 2.00 The Living Game 3.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 4.00 Just for Laughs 6.00 The Laying Game 7.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Mike and Molly 9.00 Lost 10.00 The Lying Game 11.00 Mistresses

7.30 8.00 10.00 11.00

AUR EK ILZAM

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Dilon Ka 9.00 Jo Dil Na Kah Saka 9.30 Saraswatichandra 10.00 Film

Samachar.

News Sports News PSBT Samachar The News Samachar Rajyon Se Samachar Metro Scan Business Wrap.

Samachar Focus News Night

NAT. GEOGRAPHIC

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00

7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00

11.00

7.00 7.30 8.00

Saraswatichandra, DDI, 9.30 p.m.

8.15 8.30 10.00 10.30 11.00

Samachar News Night Aamne Samne Raat Saddhe Dus Khel Samachar

The Indestructible Golden Chariot Secrets of the Taj Mahal Stuntmen of Bollywood Ultimate Animal Countdown Engineering Connections Stuntmen of Bollywood The Last Maneater Inside The 80s The Decade That Made Us Ultimate Animal Countdown

STAR CRICKET

P.M. 12.00 India vs WI 2013 1st Test Day 3 6.00 Sachiiiin… Sachin 7.00 India WI 2013 1st Test Day 3 7.30 The Sachin Years 8.30 India vs WI 13 1st Test Day 3 h/ls 9.00 Sachiiiiin …Sachin 10.00 India vs WI 13 1st Test Day 3 10.30 The Sachin Years 11.00 Sachiiiiin…Sachin P.M. 1.00 3.00 4.00 5.00

DDII (Metro Channel)

P.M. 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.05 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00

HISTORY CHANNEL

P.M. 2.00 Baggage Battles 2.30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 3.30 Big Rig Bounty Hunter 4.30 Modern Marvels 5.30 Baggage Battles 6.00 King sof Restoration 6.30 Pawn Stars 7.00 History Untamed: Wilderbeast 8.00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 9.00 Baggage Battles 10.00 Pawn Stars 10.30 Kings of Restoration 11.00 Big Rig Bounty Hunter

8.30

9.00

9.25

11.30

ESPN

Football Today 2013 Superstar BPL Hits Liga Bbva 2013 h/ls Barclays Premier League Superstar BPL Hlts Pl Netbusters 2013 Total Italian Football 13/14 Liga bbva 13/14 highlights Superstar BPL highlights FIFA U 17 World Cup UAE 2013 Pi Netbusters 2013

P.M. 12.47 2.41 5.11 7.04 9.00 11.40 A.M. 8.06 10.12 P.M. 1.05 4.00 6.50 9.00 11.45 A.M. 9.00 11.50

STARMOVIES

Bean Battleship Ratatuille The Mummy Titanic

Underworld Evolution Titanic

HBO

Step Up Revolution The Dictator Armageddon Alex Cross Ong Bak

Disturbia From Paris with Love 101 Dalmatians

ZEE STUDIO

Hamlet 2 Defiance Marvel Anime Wolverine Miami Vice Uninhabited The Grudge 3 Definitely Maybe

PIX

The Vow Black Hawk Down Paranormal Activity Fired Up! Spiderman 2 The Expendables

CARTOON NETWORK

P.M. 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 A.M. 8.00

Tom and Jerry Tales Oggy and the Cockroaches The Regular Show Ben 10 Omniverse Oggy and the Cockroaches Roll No 21 Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Johnny Test Adventure Time

Scooby Doo and The Legend of Vampire 9.00 Angry Birds 10.00 Oggy and the Cockroaches 11.00 Tom & Jerry The Magic Ring P.M. 12.00 4.00 5.00 6.00

POGO

Chhota Bheem Marathon Mr Bean Chhota Bheem Marathon Chhota Bheem: Jam Jam

STAR GOLD

Heyy Babby Vidhwanshak: The Destroyer Shaadi No 1 Mar Mitenge Yodha

The Expendables, Pix, 11.40 p.m.

International Khiladi Sapoot

MAX

ZEE CINEMA

Toofan: Amitabh B Ek Vivah Aisa Bhi: Sonu Sood No Problem: Anil Kapoor Aakhari Baazi Awara Paagal Deewana: Akshay Kumar

CVO

P.M. 2.00 Hogi Pyar Ki Jeet: Ajay Devgan, Neha 5.30 Be-Sharam: Amitabh B, Sharmila T 9.00 Parwana: Ajay Devgan, Amisha Patel A..M. 10.25 Jay-Vejay: Jeetendra, Reena R

FILMY

P.M. 12.00 Thodi Si Bewafai: Rajesh Khanna 3.00 Desh Ke Dushman: Raj Kumar, Hema Malini 6.00 Khoobsurat: Sanjay Dutt, Om Puri 9.00 Vishwanath: Shatrughan Sinha, Reena R A.M. 9.00 Shor In The City: Tusshar Kapoor, Preeti Desai

B4U

P.M. 12.00 Pratigyabaddh: Sunil Dutt, Anupam K 3.00 Muqubala: Govinda, Aditya P 6.00 Ghatak: Sunny Deol, Meenakshi S 9.00 Tumsa Nahin Dekha: Emraan

All programmes on this page are as per the official schedules of the various channels. Afternoon is not responsible for any last minute changes.

ZEE TALKIES

P.M. 2.00 Yedyanchi Jatra: Bharat Jadhav 4.30 Kamaal Mujhya Baykochi: Laxmikant Berde 7.00 Amhi Satpute: Sachin, Supriya 9.30 Dance Maharashtra : Grand Finale

The International True Legend

P.M. 1.00 Amar Akbar Anthony: Vinod Khanna, Amitabh B 3.30 Jab Tak Hai Jaan 9.00 Aur Ek Ilzam: Rahul Dev, Sumant A.M. 7.00 Veerana 10.30 Aabra Ka Dabra: Anupam Kher, Hansika P.M. 12.00 3.15 6.00 9.00 A.M. 11.30

Hashmi A.M 8.00 Udaan: Saif Ali Khan

Parwana, CVO, 9 p.m.

8.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 A.M. 8.00 8.30 9.00

Jambura Special Hagemarur Pokemon Takeshi’s Castle Sunaina MAD

Chhota Bheem Soori Poori Chhota Bheem : Journey To Petra 10.30 Krish Trish Baltiboy III P.M. 2.00 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 A.M. 8.00 10.00 P.M. 2.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.30 7.00 8.00 8.30 10.00 A.M. 8.00 8.30 9.00

DISNEY CHANNEL Doraemon Special Art Attack Have A Laugh Phineas and Ferb Best of Luck Nikki Doraemon Best of Luck Nikki Disney Q Oye Jassie Slokk Doraemon

Doraemon DJ-Sofia The First

DISNEY XD

Kiteretsu Tron Uprising Randy Cunningham Iron Man AA American Dragon Jake Long Phineas and Ferb Ultimate Spiderman Hulk VR Troopers

Space Goofs Rekkit Rabbit Spiderman and His Amazing Friends

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TOP VIEW

As of now, Rabi (winter) crop prospect is very good. Weather condition, soil moisture and water levels in reservoirs are better and ideal for wheat and other Rabi crops. If weather condition remains good throughout, wheat production should be a record this year.

Agriculture Secretary Ashish Bahuguna BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS ICICI Securities calls a ‘Buy’ on Sobha Developers CMP: Rs. 311 Target Rs. 390

Avoid Buying At Current Levels

NSE India: CNX Nifty — Daily Market Report for: Friday (November 8, 2013) (Based on the activity of the previous trading day) by Dominic Rebello

REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS DAY: The Nifty fell marginally on Thursday (November 07, 2013) a net 27.90 points (0.45%) and closed at the 6187 point level.

The market opened up 6228 points level. It then turned into a range bound movement until 11.12 a.m. The index then rose sharply into the green and registered the day’s high at the 6288 points level at 12.00 p.m. It then declined and turned into a range bound movement until 2.24 p.m. The index then declined sharply into the red and registered the day’s low at the 6180 points level at 3.17 p.m. and then turned into a range bound movement until closing at the day. The Nifty declined for the third consecutive session, moved in a range of 108 points and closed below the psychologically important 6200 points level.

Sentiment turned bearish in the last hour of the session and amongst the 50 Nifty stocks 32 were losers, while 18 stocks closed in the green. Some buying was seen in IT, metal and technology stocks, while substantial selling was witnessed in realty, consumer durables, banking and power stocks.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Volume: Volume (Qty shares) increased 0.23%. This change is small and indicates a moderate participation by investors.

Market Breadth: Overall Market Breadth on the NSE was negative. Amongst all the traded stocks, 516 were gainers, 880 were losers and 53 remained unchanged.

Slow Stochastic Indicator: The Slow Stochastic Oscillator has declined in the neutral zone. The Slow K line in the Stochastic Oscillator is below the slow D line (negative if it continues).

RSI Indicator: The RSI is above the 40 level but is now declining (negative if it continues).

MACD Indicator: The MACD is above zero but is now declining (negative if it continues). It is below its 9-day Average (negative).

ADX Indicator & DI Lines: The +DI line is above the –DI line but both lines are converging (negative if it continues). The ADX is falling while the Market Index is falling, which indicates that the present down trend is decreasing in strength.

Support Levels: For short-term traders the immediate main support is at the 6025 points level. The next support is at the 5921 points level.

Resistance Levels: The immediate main resistance is at the 6357 points level. The next resistance is at the 6428 points level.

Pivot Point Analysis: For intraday traders the support and resistance levels are calculated according to the pivot point theory and are: Pivot point = 6219 (This is the level where the trend is likely to change during intra-day).

Support (1) = 6149.

Support (2) = 6111.

Resistance (1) = 6257.

Resistance (2) = 6327.

OUTLOOK FOR TODAY: On Japanese candlestick patterns the index has formed a third consecutive black body candle. However, this black body candle has a long upper tail. A long upper tail indicates that the Bulls controlled part of the session but lost control by the end and the Bears made an impressive comeback. As such it indicates that the index was facing some selling pressure at higher levels. This candle also indicates indecisiveness amongst investors. Also, the index has dropped below the 15 days moving average. The index is now below the 5 and 15 days moving average. Further, the velocity parameters which were neutrally trended have now turned negative. All these indicate a negative bias and the possibility of a further decline unfolding. Investors are advised to avoid buying at current levels.

Work with strict stop losses on all positions

MOVING AVERAGES (TREND INDICATORS) The index: Is below its 5-day average (at 6256) Negative.

Has dropped below its 15-day average (at 6215) Negative.

Is above its 25-day average (at 6130) Positive.

Is above its 200-day average (at 5862) Positive.

All the four averages are positively trended. Positive.

Overall Market Strength/Weakness: The indicators and oscillators discussed here are indicating a neutral market but with a negative bias.

Disclaimer: Investment recommendations made in ‘ADC’ are for information purposes only and derived from sources that are deemed to be reliable but their accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed. ‘ADC’ or the analyst/writer does not accept any liability for the use of this column for the buying or selling of securities. Readers of this newspaper who buy or sell securities based on the information in this newspaper are solely responsible for their actions. ‘ADC’ and/or its affiliates and/or employees and/or the author, his company or his acquaintances may have interests/ positions, financial or otherwise in the securities mentioned in this newspaper.

Q2FY14 numbers of Sobha Developers (Sobha) are better than our expectations. Revenue rose 30.4% YoY to Rs5.4bn on the back of strong bookings from the contractual segment. EBITDA and PAT grew 11.5% and 13% YoY to Rs1.4bn and Rs566mn respectively. EBITDA margin declined slightly QoQ to 26.5% from 30.1% led by higher contribution from contractual segment revenue (from 25% in Q1 to 31% in Q2). We believe, on a full year basis, the operating margin could remain at ~30%, going forward. n the back of ~1.1mn sqft launches in Cochin and Bengaluru, the company registered strong sales of 1mn sqft valued at Rs6.3bn in Q2FY14 with realization remaining stable at Rs6,304/sqft.

Sobha is well placed to achieve targeted sales on the back of new launch pipeline of ~12mn sqft, (sales guidance of 4.2mn sqft in FY14); however, we believe with macro economy turning weak, surpassing the targeted sales growth could be challenging. We maintain our sales volume assumption for FY14/15 at 3.84/4.4mn sqft and NAV at Rs390/share. We believe with new land being acquired on an opportunistic basis in the National Capital Region (NCR), the company would achieve a next leg-up on sales volume from FY15E. The contractual order book also remained stable at Rs7.3bn. We remain upbeat on Sobha given its impressive sales run-rate, visible earnings momentum, improving cashflow from operations and deployment of free cashflow towards growth. We maintain BUY on Sobha — our top pick in the sector.

Visibility on cashflow: Sobha has 16.4mn sqft (54% sold) under development with receivables of Rs23.1bn on sold inventory and sales value of R60.5bn for unsold developments. Cumulative construction outflow stands at ~Rs49.6bn, translating into a net inflow of Rs35.2bn over the next three to four years. The contractual order book stands at Rs7.3bn. With collections averaging >Rs5bn (Rs6.3bn for Q2FY14) on a quarterly basis, we believe, the company will be well capitalised to explore incremental growth opportunities.

Attractive valuations: We remain upbeat on Sobha given its impressive sales run-rate, visible earnings momentum, improving cashflow from operations and deployment of free cashflow towards growth. The stock trades at FY14E P/E and P/BV of 11.8x and 1.3x respectively. Sobha is our top pick in the sector.

Religare calls a ‘Buy’ on Kajaria Ceramics CMP: Rs. 235 Target Rs. 285

KJC’s Q2 topline grew by a strong 23% YoY led by a 22% volume growth.

However, EBITDA margins slid ~170bps YoY to 13.7% on higher power costs.

This along with higher taxes led to flattish profit growth (PAT up 1.4% YoY Rs 269mn). We slightly pare our FY14/FY15 earnings by 7%/5% on lower margins/equity dilution, and roll over to a Dec’14 TP of Rs 285 (vs. a Mar’14 TP of Rs 270). However, we maintain BUY as capacity expansion at KJC’s own/JV units would continue to drive its revenues and earnings.

Strong revenue growth: KJC reported strong revenue growth of 23% in Q2FY14, marginally ahead of estimates, led by a robust 22% growth in volumes – the highest in five quarters even as the blended realisation growth remained largely flat YoY. Capacity expansion plans continued to be laid out, with the company announcing an additional capacity of 4.5msm/annum of double-charged vitrified tiles at the Jaxx unit and 3.0MSM/annum of soluble salt vitrified tiles at the Cosa unit.

Higher fuel costs hurt margins: Q2FY14 EBITDA grew by 10% YoY to Rs 656mn with margins contracting ~170bps YoY to 13.7% led by higher power & fuel costs, thanks to the sharp INR depreciation. This coupled with a higher tax rate (34.3% vs. 31.5% in Q2) hit profit growth (PAT up by a mere 1.4% YoY to Rs 269mn). The company has also announced a fresh equity issuance of 2mn shares at Rs 250 and 3.9mn convertible warrants at Rs 257.37 (total capital raising of Rs 1.5bn).

Capacity expansion to drive earnings; maintain BUY: We remain positive on KJC due to its strong brand equity, stringent working capital management and solid return ratios. While the margin dip was largely expected on higher fuel costs/a weak INR, capacity expansion at its own manufacturing (modernisation of the Sikandrabad facility)/JV units (Jaxx/Cosa/Vennar) and product mix diversification should drive revenues and earnings growth.

We cut FY14/FY15 earnings by 7%/5% to account for lower margins/equity dilution. Maintain BUY with a Dec’14 of Rs 285.

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NSE revises circuit limits of over 1,400 scrips Titan shares fall as RBI limits foreign investment India Cements reports Q2 net loss of Rs 22cr Abbott India Q3 net up 18% at Rs 45 cr Finance Ministry sanctions Rs 8,772 cr fuel subsidy for second quarter Audi sales grow 17.8% in Oct to 1,002 units Oilmeals exports jumps to 3.68 LT

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policy, we may revise the outlook to stable. If, however, we see contintandard & Poorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ratings Serv- ued policy drift, we may lower the ices may lower Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rating to rating within a year,â&#x20AC;? S&P said in a speculative grade next year if report released yesterday.

According to it, the vibrancy of the government that takes office after the general election does not Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s democracy will again come appear capable of reversing Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the fore in general elections, low economic growth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barring an which are due no later than May unexpected deterioration of the fis- 2014. Power has alternated between cal or external accounts before the the Congress Party and the BJP election, we expect to review the Party since 1998. The next governrating on India after the next gen- ment, regardless of its composition, eral elections when the new govern- will face several challenges. The ment has announced its policy 13th Finance Commission has recagenda. If we believe that the ommended a central government agenda can restore some of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiscal deficit target of 4.2% of GDP in lost growth potential, consolidate the fiscal year ended March 31, its fiscal accounts, and permit the 2013. Although the current Conconduct of an effective monetary gress administration tried to close

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said the weakness in rupee was due to shifting part of dollar purhe Finance Ministry has said chases by oil companies to open the rupee will stabilise within market. In August, the Reserve a couple of days as inflows of NRI Bank had opened a special windeposits and export proceeds are dow to help the three state-owned likely to be strong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strong FCNR oil marketing companies - IOC, (B) inflows, export realisation will HPCL and BPCL - to meet daily strengthen rupee... Rupee will sta- foreign exchange requirements bilise in 1 or 2 days,â&#x20AC;? Economic and buy dollars directly from RBI. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rupee weakness is due to Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram OMC forex demand being moved said, yesterday.

The rupee had weakened to to market. 30-40 % of OMC de62.58 against the US dollar in the mand has moved to market,â&#x20AC;? Maearly trade yesterday. Mayaram yaram said.

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the gap to this target, it did so by having one-off measures such as compressing unspent budget allocations and selling minority stakes of non-financial public enterprises to public sector financial enterprises.

S&P believes that the new government will face difficult tasks to place its fiscal accounts on a firmer footing: phasing out of diesel subsidies, financing the expansion of food subsidies, addressing other subsidies such as those for fertilizer, and introducing the nationwide rollout of a common goods and services tax.

Affirming its â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;BBB-â&#x20AC;&#x2122; long-term and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A-3â&#x20AC;&#x2122; short-term unsolicited sovereign credit ratings on India, it said â&#x20AC;&#x153;the outlook on the long-term rating remains negative. Our rating affirmation rests on several key strengths of India. These include a robust participatory democracy of more than 1 billion people and a free press; low external debt and ample foreign exchange reserves; and an increasingly credible monetary policy with a largely freely floating exchange rate.â&#x20AC;?

However, it believes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;These strengths are counterbalanced by significant weaknesses, which include an onerous burden from its public finance, lack of progress on structural reforms, and shortfalls in basic services typical of a nation with a GDP per capita of US$1,500.

Real per capita growth had averaged more than 6% annually for fiscal year 2004-2011 (ended March 31, 2011), and had eased Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiscal constraints and poverty levels. But growth has slowed steadily since then to half that level, fraying the social contract and putting at risk the declining trend in government debtâ&#x20AC;?

BUSINESS BRIEFS Equity Derivatives Turnover Drops On Boursesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Equity derivatives turnover on the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading bourses fell in September with BSE witnessing over 50% drop to Rs 4.03 lakh crore, while NSE recorded a fall of 11.3% to Rs 33.81 lakh crore. The monthly turnover in equity derivative segment of BSE decreased by 51.7% to Rs 4,03,591 crore in September 2013 from Rs 8,35,189 crore in August, as per the latest data compiled by Sebi.

Directors At NSEL, FTIL Under Corp Affairs Scanner

In the wake of the NSEL fiasco, the Corporate Affairs Ministry is looking at the role of directors at the exchange and its parent firm Financial Technologies to ascertain whether there has been violation of laws at board level. The continuing crisis at National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL), a part of Jignesh Shah-promoted Financial Technologies group, has already seen significant fallout with some arrests and rejig of boards at the bourse and some group firms.

Platform For SEZs To Resolve Grievances Online

The government has decided to set up a grievance redressal mechanism for SEZ developers and units with a view to expeditiously address their problems and boost exports. The Commerce Ministry is working with Export Promotion Council for EOUs (Export Oriented Units) and SEZs (Special Economic Zones) to prepare â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;EPCES Onlineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; system for the purpose.

Fund Raising Via Primary Market Drops 72%

Fund raising by Indian companies through the primary market route plunged by 72 per cent to nearly Rs 1,500 crore in September over the preceding month. This has left the cumulative fund mobilisation by companies for the first six-month period (April-September) of the current fiscal at Rs 9,130 crore as compared to Rs 8,987 crore raised during the year-ago period.

Mahindra First Choice Wheels Inaugurates 300th Outlet

Mahindra First Choice Wheels reached an important milestone by inaugurating its 300th franchisee outlet in Mulund, yesterday. The company has achieved a dominant status in retailing of multi-brand used cars in the country. MFCWL has made several innovations which includes developing a unique franchisee based business model, selling certified multi-brand used cars under warranty and offering the most comprehensive warranty product available on used cars in the country.

Decision On Vodafoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s FDI Proposal On Nov 13

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board will take a decision on November 13 on British telecom major Vodafoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal seeking approval to invest Rs 10,141 crore for raising its stake in India unit to 100 %. CGP India Investments Ltd, an indirect Mauritian subsidiary of Vodafone International Holdings B V, has applied to FIPB seeking its approval to buy stake held by minority shareholders in Vodafone India Ltd. The UK-based telecom major at present holds a 64.38 % stake in its Indian arm Vodafone India. After the FIPB approval, the matter will go to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs upon whose approval Vodafone India is expected to become the first mobile operator in the country to be fully owned by a foreign company. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Business Desk with inputs from PTI

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occasion. The second event was held again in the city in January imensions, a movement of 2012 and this time nearly 500 peoChristian entrepreneurs and ple attended. The aim of the conprofessionals, established more vention is to network with business than seven years ago with the aim of leaders and be part of the global vicreating wealth for its community sion of tomorrow, says Chairman of and its members by pooling and Dimensions, Joseph Mathews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we formed â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dimensionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, harnessing resources has announced that its third Global Con- there were some who thought it vention will be held in Bangalore would die a natural death. In fact it is doing very well and growing day early next year.

Called Entreprenet 2014, the two by day. This month we have new chapters opening in Pune and Goa, to add to those that already exists,â&#x20AC;? declares Freddy Mendonca, day event will be held on January 31 founder of Dimensions and chairand February 1 at the Park Plaza man for several years. He is now Hotel. It is being organized jointly managing editor of the monthly with the eponymous organization newsletter issued by the organizaKanara Entrepreneurs, and prom- tion. Incidentally, the highlights of ises to be bigger than the last such this convention include a Business Case Study contest and a Presidenevent.

The first such convention was tial Dinner.

For further details contact Leo held in January 2010 in South Mumbai and attracted 368 businessmen Antony on 9320825011, Joseph and professionals, with internation- Mathews on 9820283030, Freddy ally renowned motivational speak- Mendonca on 9320152052 or on ers like Ravi Zachariah gracing the email: entreprenet14@gmail.com

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Ace comedian Johnny Walker’s birthday is on November 11. Here’s a look at his journey in Bollywood.

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ohnny Walker cast a magic spell among the masses with his simple, innocent and unadulterated humor, providing comic relief in tense situations in the movies of the 50s and 60s. Badruddin Kazi aka Johnny Walker started his career as a bus conductor in BEST buses of Mumbai. He regaled passengers with his antics, and fortune smiled upon him one day when he had actor Balraj Sahani as his passenger. Balraj was scripting dialogues for the film ‘Baazi’ whose director was Guru Dutt.

Inspired by Johnny’s antics Balraj took him to Guru Dutt and asked him to introduce himself. Johnny hit upon a brain wave and entered Guru Dutt’s cabin with the unsteady gait of a drunk, mouthing profanities. An irate Guru Dutt called up people from the unit to throw Johnny out but Balraj intervened, and the rest is history. After this incident, Guru

Johnny Walker and writer, Vrajendra Gaur, on the sets of Baat Ek Raat Ki (1961) Dutt rechristened Badruddin Kazi as JohnnyWalker after the famous Scotch brand as he was very impressed with his portrayal of a drunk.

Thus Johnny Walker became an integral part of many Guru Dutt movies like ‘Aar Paar’, ‘Mr and Mrs 55’, ‘CID’,

‘Pyaasa’, ‘Kagaz Ki Phool’, ‘Chaudvin Ka Chand’, ‘Sahib Bibi Aur Gulam’ and others.

His impeccable diction combined with his wonderful performances created a mesmerizing combination which the audience lapped up in excitement. His excellent

sense of comic timing in delivering dialogues helped him give stellar performances resulting in renowned film-makers seeking him out and specially writing characters for him.

C.I.D’s ‘Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan’ is still an anthem for Mumbaikars and who could forget the timeless ‘Sar Jo Tera Chakraye’ in Guru Dutt’s classic Pyaasa? His squeaky voice, wafer-thin moustache and brilliant wit added a different dimension to his personality.

After a long successful innings, Johnny took a break from Bollywood, but pleasantly surprised his fans when he returned to one last time in ‘Chachi 420’ (1997).

In a place like Bollywood, where morality is buried and the power of money overrides principles and ideals, people like Johnny Walker have stood like rocks. They made people laugh but ensured that never made themselves a laughing stock.

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sans from Mumbai’s red-light areas to converse with them and observe their street-smart yet courteous mannerisms which floored me. My fans will also get to watch my diverse dancing skills,” chuckles Kangana whose iconic reference for her ‘Rajjo’ role is the legendary Waheeda Rehmaan in ‘Pyaasa’.

In sheer contrast to her previous complex screen-characters Kangana’s Delhi-based naïve urbanite character in ‘Queen’ has its sensitive jilted romance moments.

“Life has a limited span. Never take it for granted is the inspiring message in ‘Queen’,” signs off the effervescent actress.

Rakesh-ji and my co-star Hrithik for their constant inll eyes are definitely on Na- spiring support,” smiles the tional Award winning ac- ravishing Kangana, who is actress Kangana Ranaut whose claimed for looking distinctly maverick movies ‘Krrish 3’, different every time she makes ‘Rajjo’, ‘Queen’ and ‘Revolver an appearance at events.

Currently, Kangana is earnRani’ are releasing in steady succession. As the half-human ing praise for her unconvenhalf-man yet stylish mutant tional performance, as is character ‘Kaya’ in ‘Krrish 3’, evident in trailers, in the upKangana has been highly ap- coming ‘Rajjo’ as a brazen yet preciated by both critics and angelic and bubbly nautch girl. “This is the story of a the audience.

“My role in ‘Krrish-3’ is not young Brahmin boy falling a vamp’s role as is being per- in love with a mujra ceived, but has multi-layered dancer and their innoglam, seductive, bizarre, scary cent romance. My bold, shades with a romantic under- coquettish and realiscurrent as well. It was a tough tic sex-worker role in challenge as there were de- ‘Rajjo’ directed by manding breath-taking ac- Vishwas Patil has tion-fight stunt scenes, in that m u l t i - l a y e r e d customized suit, which I guess shades. In fact, I was a new dimension for me. actually met up Major credit also goes to with a few courte-

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‘The Good Road is a metaphor for life’ says Ajay Gehi who’s film, ‘The Good Road,’ which is India’s entry to the Oscars, is about to be released. Sandeep Hattangadi spoke to Ajay about his much lauded film and this is what he has to say.

What do you have to say about the Oscar nomination category controversy?

I don’t think there is any controversy. We should be happy that we have so many good films being made, that we are spoilt for choice. We all are in the same boat trying to make good cinema and to make a mark in the international market.

What is your character in the film and what is the film all about?

I play a character called David who is a photographer by profession and a loving father and husband.

He doesn’t get bogged down by obstacles or hardships that life has to offer. However, he is not very successful in his career so he cannot afford the luxury of buying air tickets for his family and decides to take a road trip.

“The Good Road “ essentially is a metaphor for life itself. Life is a journey where we sometimes lose a few things and discover or rediscover others before we reach

Vivek Oberoi startles his wife Shah Rukh wants break post ‘Happy New Year’

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ctor Vivek Oberoi, who played the sinister Kaal in Rakesh Roshan‘s last film ‘Krrish 3’, is being appreciated for his look and performance in the film. In fact the actor recently revealed that his wife Priyanka almost fell down in shock on seeing him in the Kaal get-up.

In an interview, the actor revealed that one day after pack-up he came home without changing his onscreen look and startled his wife Priyanka, who almost collapsed on

seeing his Kaal look. It seems that his wife could not believe that her husband could look so evil and hence, was startled by his menacing look.

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uperstar Shah Rukh Khan feels he desperately needs a break despite having loads of film offers in hand.

Shah Rukh, who is currently shooting ‘Happy New Year’, is flooded with film offers from directors like Maneesh Sharma of ‘Shuddh Desi Romance’, Rahul Dholakia, Anurag Kashyap, R Balki, Ashutosh Gowarikar and others.

“Not yet doing Maneesh Sharma’s film. When I do the film I will let you all know. I haven’t started anything new.

I am going to work on ‘Happy

New Year’ for the next two months. There are two-four film offers. Whenever the film gets designed, I will decide accordingly,” Shah Rukh said.

“I will take a holiday after I finish ‘Happy New Year’, as I did not take it last time after completing ‘Chennai Express’. I will take a month off and then start a new film.

There is Maneesh Sharma’s film on top, Rahul Dholakia’s movie and few other offers on which I will take a call,” he added.

Incidentally, Zee TV has reportedly coughed up Rs. 50

crore for acquiring the satellite rights of the highest revenue grosser of the year ‘ChennaiExpress’, which brought the channel a good rating.

“There was a lot of responsibility. They took the film at a high price, and not at what the rumours say. It was an expensive film.

We don’t understand how it performs on TV but the team of Zee TV said they were happy and may be because of the film they are number one now,” Shah Rukh said.

our destination. The road trip taken by the characters makes them discover a few things which they never had.

You have produced ‘Madholal Keep Walking’.

What was it like? Do you plan to produce more films?

I became a producer by default. My friend had made the film and I loved it, so when he was facing problems I stepped in. Producing got me exposed to a whole lot of aspects of film making which you don’t know of as an actor. I understand the business of film making much better after that experience and can see things in a different perspective. I might produce more films later.

Which are the directors you would like to work with?

In recent times we have seen such diverse and good cinema that the list of directors I would like to work with is endless. But I would love to do another film with Mr. Gyan again.

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he unstoppable rhetorician Shatrughan Sinha addressed the UN General Assembly for third time on Tuesday.

It is a singular honour. No other member of the Indian film industry has addressed the UN thrice over.

“I suppose somewhere my words do have a certain resonance”, says Shatruji trying to sound modest. “Normally we in the Indian film fraternity are considered quite ill-informed on matters other than entertainment. But that isn’t the reality. Personalities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Kamal Haasan are not just interested in cinema. They take a keen interest in world affairs, and are also terrific orators”.

Shatrughan Sinha feels the Big B should be made the President of India. “He has all the qualifications. He’s articulate, well-read, suave and known all over the world”.

Shatrughan Sinha says his differences with the Big B are a thing of the past. “We go back a long way. There were creative conflicts when we shot together for ‘Kala Patthar’ and ‘Dostana’.

And the differences have been washed away with time. I remember while shooting for ‘Bombay To Goa’ where Amitabh was the hero for the first time and I was the villain, he accidentally hit my nose and it started bleeding. Amitabh got so disturbed at the sight of blood that I forgot my pain and started consoling and reassuring him. He’s a fine human being”.

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s Satya 2 gets ready for a troubled release, thoughts go back to Ram Gopal Varma’s1998 film Satya, a film that is now a cult in the gangster genre. It wasn’t the first gangster film, not even the first realistic one, but the history of crime in Hindi cinema can be divided into pre and post Satya.

Varma went deep into Mumbai’s underworld, and was so enamoured of it, that he never emerged. His Factory produced any number of gangster films, none as impactful as Satya.

After a chequered film career with more lows than highs, it was inevitable that a Satya 2 would emerge. But does Bollywood need another gangster film—now that the genre has not just been appropriated by other filmmakers, but well nigh done to death.

And where did it all start, this fascination for the Mafia, or organised crime? With The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola’s film that started off a veritable industry in crime films.

There is a startling piece of information about The Godfather in a piece titled The Mob, The Movies and Me by Peter Bart in which he writes, that the director, Francis Ford

Coppola was “totally ignorant of Mobdom”, and that writer Mario Puzo wrote a book on a subject he knew nothing about. (Bart was on the production team of the film.)

Don Corleone and The Family came out of their imagination, yet they created

RINGSIDE VIEW Deepa Gahlot such a powerful piece of cinema, that The Godfather became the standard Mafia Movie for everyone to follow.

In all probability real life gangsters started dressing, talking and behaving like the characters in the movie. If art imitates life, life has curious ways of returning the compliment.

Above all, the Honorable Don movie lent glamour and respectability to the mobster.

It was like, hey, these guys are not bad, they are family folk,

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rithik Roshan‘s latest release Krrish 3 has created a storm at the box-office and now, the superhero flick has entered the Rs.150-crore club.

The movie, which released in 4000 screens across India, on November 1, raked in a whopping sum of Rs.152.98 crore at the box-

office in just six days. The film grossed Rs.25.5 crore on its opening day and also set the record for the highest single day collection, by earning Rs.35.91 crore on November 4.

Now the Rakesh Roshan directed film has also left behind India’s biggest blockbuster ‘Chennai Express’ with its six days’ collection.

While ‘Chennai Express’ collected a total of Rs.137.10 crore, six days after its release, ‘Krrish 3’ collected Rs.152.98 crore on day six of its release.

The way the third edition of the Krrish franchise is keeping the cash register ringing, it is expected that it will soon enter the super elite Rs.200-crore club.

loyal friends and brave killers.

Just like you and me, if we had the nerve or inclination to kill people for a living—a good living too. Which is what Ram Gopal Varma’s trendsetting Satya said too, and later many films by other filmmakers. From being the hated villain, the gangster become a Hero.

According to a crime site, “Where does the fascination (for evil) spring from? Perhaps it’s due to the fact that identifying with criminals has a cathartic function, allowing us to vicariously live through the crimes of others so that we don’t feel compelled to engage in them ourselves…We like crime movies because they show us an underside to our society that we don’t get to see too often, and these people kick some ass.”

Interesting to note then, that a gangster on being asked his reaction to the Godfather movies, said they sent them “gloriously floating out of theatres.”

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ecently, Kareena Kapoor Khan, who is married to Saif Ali Khan, had remarked that she has no issues with intimate scenes in a film post marriage, provided the script requires it and now, Bebo has dropped another bombshell.

In an interview, Kareena said that as Saif is an actor, he should get intimate and romantic with his actresses as and when the script requires it and that she doesn’t feel insecure at all about this as acting is their profession and she keeps her personal life separate from her professional life. Saif and Kareena had starred opposite each other in ‘Tashan’.

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ctress Deepika Padukone, who will play an out-of-work bar dancer in ‘Happy New Year’, says she is working hard to be a great dancer in the film.

“Farah had a list of DOs for the actress. I will prepare for it like any other film. If I am required to be a great dancer in the film, I will have to work damn hard.

She wants a girl who is Maharashtrian, a good dancer and a specific look. Manish Malhotra

is doing my clothes, my hair stylist is there, I hope it turns out well”, Deepika said.

Deepika has just completed one schedule of the Farah Khan directed film and will shoot the rest in April.

Her character in the film influences the lives of her co-stars – Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Vivaan Shah and Boman Irani – as all of them are dancers and Deepika will help them win a dance trophy.

Deepika is riding high on the success of her last three releases - ‘Race 2’, ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ and

‘Chennai Express’.

Her last release ‘Chennai Express’ was aired on Zee TV last month and it managed to grab maximum eyeballs, leading Zee TV to be the number one channel.

“Record after record in our kitty, I am very happy. It is a great feeling. Whether we like it or not, it (film) did get lot of love and appreciation.

Forget it on TV, people even went to see the film again in theatres. It is that kind of the film that has repeat value.

It is a wholesome entertainer. When you make the film from heart, I think this can be the end result (records)”, she said.

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The clue to first word is given to help you get started.

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16 Cremona's complicated affairs (8) 19 More eager to be a mourner (6) 21 Cry of a yes man? (4)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Essence, 8 Craggier, 9 Zinc, 10 Admonishment, 12 Strewn, 13 Reformer, 14 Riotous living, 18 Police xi, 20 Dramas, 21 Gale warnings, 23 Emma, 24 All's well, 25 Editing.

DOWN: 2 Scimitar, 3 Escape notice, 4 Commando, 5 Massif, 6 Sire, 7 Oratory, 8 Congressional, 11 Marginal seat, 15 Indented, 16 Gravamen, 17 Epigram, 19 Enamel, 22 Lulu.

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MATHDOKU 652

Place numbers into the puzzle cells in such a way that each row and column contains each of the digits from 1 up to the size of the puzzle (4,5 or 6). Like a Sudoku puzzle, no number is repeated in any row or column. Each bold-outlined group of cells contains a hint consisting of a number and one of the mathematical symbols + x - /. The number is the result of applying the mathematical operation represented by the symbol to the digits contained within the domain. The solution to each puzzle is arrived at logically and is unique.

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JAGJIT UPPAL

WIZARD OF ID PARKER & HART

B.C. JOHNNY HART

BEAU PEEP THE ADVENTURES OF LEGIONNAIRE BEAU PEEP

FRED BASSET ALEX GRAHAM

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MODESTY BLAISE PETER O’DONNELL

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MOON : Moon in Sagittarius till 7.02 p.m.

TITHI : Surya Sashti NAKSHATRA : Purvashada RASHI : Dhan (Sagittarius) Bh.F.Dh. LUCKY COLOUR : Variegated and Brown LUCKY NUMBER : 5

BIRTHDAY FORECAST: Positive coincidences in the coming year help you fulfill your ambitions and aspirations in your career. Students will receive financial aid or grants to pursue higher education in a foreign country. The employed may have to work hard to strengthen their position at work before they are given additional benefits. A close friend of the opposite sex has strong romantic inclinations, invoking an equally passionate response from you.

BABIES BORN TODAY: Good looking, healthy and long-lived. Will be generally fortunate, intelligent and a go-getter. Will be fond of outdoor activities and friends.

Humble, honest and adaptable. Does well in most fields especially medicine, media, communication, philosophy and occult services. Success from overseas is indicated.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): With the help of a colleague you will be able to catch up with pending work with a particularly difficult assignment. You may have an opportunity to travel on a professional assignment. You will have a good chance of winning over an opponent if you use a bit of tact and set aside your ego. Improve your stance which seems intimidating right now.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20): News or a message from afar is favorable. This piece of news requires you to work overtime that could upset your plans for other important issues Since you cannot change your agenda at short notice there could be an overlapping of appointments. Some happy event taking place in your family will turn the family atmosphere into a festival of sorts. All differences and discord vanish.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Work is under control and you will consolidate your position. Financial security is achieved and you can invest money in fresh ventures. You will have a pleasant day full of happenings, communication, meeting new people and facing new situations. You will be feeling much more positive. You have been too busy to meet up with friends. Be in touch for you could lose out on meeting someone interesting and exciting.

CANCER (June 21 - July 21): Gains are indicated through real estate or property. Some of you will buy a new house or move your residence. Students specializing in any particular chosen field will achieve success. They may also receive offers for jobs as trainees to be absorbed in the company later. A day you will remember. Excitement, adventure and new contacts fill the day with activity you enjoy.

LEO (July 22 - August 21): Your capacity to take independent decisions aids your progress. Travel if it materializes will be comfortable and bring in desired results. You can look forward to new alliances in fresh business ventures, which will come your way. Consultants will sign a prestigious contract.

Find time to communicate more with your mate or beloved or you could be accused of not caring anymore.

VIRGO (August 22 - September 21): You are doing well for yourself and the prospects for work also improve. Invest profits back into infrastructure and also in your routine business. You are on to a good thing but don’t go overboard. Take one day at time and be practical. Comforts of home and family are gratifying. A few stolen moments in love ads spark to the dullness of your day.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22): You will strike a good bargain getting you immediate benefits.

Concentrate on your routine work, which is now, poised for a major growth.

Fresh investments in new ventures should be avoided. The employed are likely to set out on a sales promotion tour with great success. Relationships with loved ones will be good.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): Swift returns from business deals are likely. You will be in your element at work and do very well. Some favorable news, which you have been waiting for, will come through.

Routine matters are going well right now.

This is not the time to make any rash moves though you may be tempted to do so. Favorable developments in family and the news of the visit of a loved one will make you feel good. Look forward to an excellent time.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 December 20): While the routine work continues unhindered, you will come across a favorable deal, which requires minimum of investment and also assures a good profit. Be quick to avail of such an opportunity. This is also a good time to catch up people that you have not met in a long time. You get some interesting news about a close friend, which is fascinating. Be the one to get in touch and make your views.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18): Nothing seems to be going according to plan. Designate some work and you will find that you can achieve much more with teamwork and spirit. Cut down unnecessary expenditure, and tighten budget on purchase of goods that you really don’t need right now.

Things will get better. Someone from out of town will be in touch. Plans for the evening will be enjoyable and perhaps touch a romantic cord. Do not rush things.

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): A cheerful and happy mood will see you accomplish your work satisfactorily. Colleagues and associates will also respond positively. Some investments that you have made will translate themselves into a good profit for you. Make no haste in making further investments. Someone you care about will be in touch. A romantic evening is indicated.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20): You will conclude your task ahead of schedule. You could be attending a seminar or convention.

You will feel inclined to work independently or set up your own enterprise. You will have the necessary resources and support to do so. Employed are given more facility at work. You may decide to invite friends home for an evening together. This is a good opportunity for you to introduce a special person to family.

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QUICK CROSSWORD 4811

ACROSS: 3 Stupid person (5) 8 Above (5) 10 Made of hardwood, should we say? (5) 11 Race car driver ___ Fabi (3) 12 Beau's dad (5) 13 Brought into musical accord? (7) 15 More than enough, adequate in supply or quantity (5) 18 A cloth covering the mouth; joke (3) 19 Aztec god of rain (6) 21 Put into scabbard (7) 22 Makes a promise (4) 23 "Hear" a change for Greek Goddess? (4) 24 ___ are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth? (7) 26 Gulf of ___ : gulf off Gujarat coast? (6) 29 Era, epoch (3) 31 By __ and error : by a hit or miss method, in a way? (5) 32 ___ over : becomes lively, in a way? (7) 34 Popular German name - "Sulak" anagram? (5) 35 Famous Hindi movie of days gone by fire in Hindi? (3) 36 Our currency? (5) 37 "Warn a" change for a Moslem name?

(5) 38 Having a theatrical quality? (5) DOWN: 1 Lara or J P of Bollywood? (5) 2 Conduits, ravines or trenches (7) 4 Elevated tract of open country (4) 5 Casino ____ : James Bond novel by Ian Fleming? (6) 6 ___ Shri : award given by the President of India? (5) 7 First thing to say when you answer a telephone call? (5) 9 ___ theory : favorite; most preferred theory? (3) 12 According to law (7) 14 "No" in Scotland? (3) 16 Applied oneself diligently (5) 17 Acclaim, dazzling effect or success (5) 19 Anand Gandhi's Ship of _______ (7) 20 Oust, eject or expel (5)

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SUDOKU 1997 Sudoku is a number placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid such several given numbers.To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every digit from 1 to 9 must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, in each of the nine horizontal rows and in each of the nine boxes.

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Difficulty Level

CRYPTOQUIP

Today’s clue: K equals U

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another.

21 The Indian master or husband (5) 23 Poisonous plant with unpleasant smell (7) 24 Artistic dancing (6) 25 ___ story : a tear-jerker? (3)

27 Contend, maintain (5) 28 Cooks in an oven (5) 30 Lawful, judicial or permissible (5) 32 Cask stopper (4) 33 In ____ : relative by marriage? (3)

SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 4 Wisest, 7 Mea culpa, 8 Sticky, 10 Charm, 13 Viol, 14 Eire, 15 Vamp, 16 Dil, 17 A pin, 19 Prom, 21 Evergreen, 23 Pleb, 24 Ours, 26 Alf, 27 Big B, 29 Tabs, 32 Blah, 33 Islet, 34 Harlem, 35 Barbecue, 36 Issues.

DOWN: 1 Amice, 2 Pawar, 3 Culm, 4 Wasim, 5 Soil, 6 Sikkim, 9 Topper, 11 Hid, 12 Reave, 13 Van gogh, 15 Vir, 16 Don, 18 Pebble, 20 Rests, 21 Elf, 22 Rub, 23 Pleads, 25 OBE, 28 Iambs, 30 Alack, 31 Sties, 32 Bleu, 33 Izba.

IRREGULAR SUDOKU 1816 To solve an Irregular Sudoku puzzle, every digit must appear once in: Each of the vertical columns Each of the horizontal rows Each of the regions

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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B N C ' J

Y A S T J R N M L

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X A J T U K J J U

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob

Afternoon WORD MINE

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How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown in today’s puzzle? In making a word, each letter may be used once only.

Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper names are not allowed.

Today’s ratings: 35 average; 39 good; 43 outstanding.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: acne, acre, acting, antic, arcing, cage, cagier, cane, cant, canter, cape, caper, capering, care, caring, carp, carpet, CARPETING, carping, cart, carting, cater, catering, catnip, cent, certain, cigar, cite, crag, crane, crate, crating, creating, crept, cringe, enact, epic, grace, incept, nectar, nice, nicer, pace, pacer, pacing, pact, panic, pecan, pectin, pica, pincer, prance, price, prince, race, racing, react, reacting, recant, recap, rice, trace, tracing, tragic, trance, trice.

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By Tapan Mohanta

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OLKATA: Rohit Sharma stamped his class by hitting a sparkling century on debut as India recovered from a top-order collapse to take a firm grip of the first Test against the West Indies with a 120-run first-innings lead here.

Sharma stole the thunder with his unbeaten 127 as the hosts, who were precariously placed at 83 for five at one stage, reached a comfortable 354 for six at close on an eventful second day's play.

Ravichandran Ashwin was the other batting hero of the day as he remained unbeaten on 92 as he combined with Sharma to pull India out of trouble. Sharma became the 14th Indian to score a century on debut.

With retiring legend Sachin Tendulkar being given out in a contentious manner in his penultimate match, the in-form Sharma along with Ashwin added 198 runs for the seventh wicket to almost bat the visiting side out of the match on a tricky Eden Gardens strip. Handed the Test cap by Tendulkar after his Man-of-the Series performance in the recently-concluded ODI series against Australia, Sharma struck 16 fours and one six while facing 228 balls.

The 26-year-old Mumbai righthander was playing in his maiden Test three years and nine months after playing his first ODI. Ashwin played the perfect foil as the offspinner made invaluable runs in their match-turning partnership that helped India get past the West Indies first innings score of 234.

On a pitch that has started to crumble, the match is tilted in favour of India, who will be looking to seal the issue without needing to play on the final day. For the elegant Mumbai batsman, who was assured of a Test debut on the morning of February 6, 2010 against South Africa before a freak collision with Wriddhiman Saha dashed his hopes, it was perseverance that paid off.

Having come after the unlucky dismissal of Tendulkar, Sharma showed amazing resilience. As wickets started to tumble with Shane Shillingford (4/130) reducing the hosts to 83/5 in the first session, it was left to Sharma and Ashwin to do the recovery act. Sharma got to the century in style, gliding one past between first slip and gully. And, the ones bowled by Sheldon Cottrell, just before and immediately after

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Rohit scores an unbeaten 127 on debut as India take big lead after early collapse “This is where I made my first class (Ranji) debut for Mumbai as well when I started off. If you've noticed, we have won the IPL final here (earlier this year). Also, this was the place where I was given the Mumbai Indians captaincy for the first time. The Eden is really special to me. I really love playing here. I got decent amounts of runs here while playing for Mumbai.

I hope it turns out to be better tomorrow.”

— ROHIT SHARMA

the batsman got to the three-figure mark, were also spanked for fours on either side of the turf.

Sharma, who had amassed 491 runs including a double hundred at an average of 122.75 in the Australia ODI series, remained composed as he initially rebuilt the innings with Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (42). Barring Tendulkar, who

got out to a dubious lbw decision by English umpire Nigel Llong, the Indian batsmen Shikhar Dhawan (23), Murali Vijay (26), Cheteshwar Pujara (17) and Virat Kohli (3) were lacking in temperament.

But Sharma showed temperament and excellent technique, and lived up to the challenge. Dhawan (187) was the last Indian to score a

century on debut against Australia in March.

Sharma walked out to the centre in the middle of an intense first session's play when the Eden crowd's emotions were punctured with the dismissal of Tendulkar after a 41minute outing.

Getting into the groove with two boundaries off Shillingford, Ten-

dulkar would be cursing his luck for being given out to a doosra that seemed to be going over the stumps. The ball did all the talking for Shillingford as WI had the hosts tottering at 120/5 at lunch.

BRIEF SCORES: West Indies 234 trail India 354/6 in 102 overs [Rohit Sharma 127 batting, R. Ashwin 92 batting, Shane Shillingford 4/130] by 120 runs.

It’s my job to appeal, says Shane Shillingford K

OLKATA: Even as a pall of gloom descended on the Eden Gardens after retiring legend Sachin Tendulkar became victim of a dubious decision in the first Test here, West Indies spinner Shane Shillingford said his "job was to appeal".

Off-spinner Shillingford returned figures of 4/130 on day 2 and one of his wickets included Tendulkar. It turned out to be a controversial dismissal as TV replays suggested that the ball was climbing and would have missed the stump.

Asked whether he was happy with the way Tendulkar was dismissed, Shillingford said: "That's a funny question... In terms of, at the spur of the moment, it's every bowler's reaction to appeal one time. But when I got in and I had seen it and stuff...

At the end of the day, the umpire made his decision. It's my job to appeal, so these things happen in the game."

But Shillingford said they're still hopeful as the wicket had "eased out" even though Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin were unbeaten. "The match is still wide open. It's only the second day, tomorrow is a very important day for us. We have to come out and stick to our plans and be patient. When we get them out, it will depend on how we will bat and stuff. Definitely (the wicket had eased out...) After lunch it really slowed down a bit. That's when you had to be a little more tighter as opposed to more attacking. The batsmen, they were really patient as well and put away the bad balls."

SPINNING A WEB OF GLOOM: Sachin Tendulkar in a dubious lbw decision is at the crease. [L] Shane Shillingford celebrates the dismissal causing sadness in the City of Joy.

ROHIT’S SOURCE OF INSPIRATION HAS BEEN MIKE HUSSEY

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Run machine Mike Hussey is Sharma’s Test hero

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OLKATA: Making his Test debut after playing in 108 ODIs over the last 45 months, ton-up Indian batsman Rohit Sharma said his source of inspiration has been former Australian run-machine Mike Hussey, who had played his first game in the five-day format aged 30.

Sharma stamped his class by hitting an unbeaten 127 on debut as India recovered from a toporder collapse to take a firm grip of the first Test against the West Indies with a 120-run first-innings lead at the Eden Gardens.

"Being a sportsman, there are a lot of inspiration to take from so many sportsmen around the world. You got to look at Michael Hussey... He made his debut at 30. There are a lot of other cricketers who waited for their opportunity... So I'm no different," Sharma told reporters.

"I am one of them. I know once I get an opportunity I would try and make the most out of it. I never wanted to put my head down. I always believed if you got the talent and ability, there's no need to worry about anything," Sharma added after his sparkling knock on the second day.

The Mumbaikar said he knew his time in Test cricket would come. "I know there was a phase when things were not going my way. But I never put my head

MIG Club to name pavilion after Tendulkar

A painting of Sachin Tendulkar at the entrance of the MIG cricket club in Bandra.

MUMBAI: The MIG Cricket Club in suburban Bandra will pay a tribute to retiring batting great Sachin Tendulkar by naming the pavilion, including the dressing room, after him.

"We have decided to name the pavilion as Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Pavilion. We spoke to him around six to eight months back and he acknowledged it," MIG Cricket Club secretary Ashish Patankar said.

Tendulkar, who is set to retire after the November 14-18 India-West Indies second Test which would also mark his 200th game, had practiced often at this ground during his formative years.

FIST AND FOREMOST: Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin greet each other during the second day of the first Test match against West Indies at Eden Garden in Kolkata. down. I just wanted to focus... I game hard and today I'm really knew there would be a time when happy what's happened."

In February 2010, Sharma was runs will flow. I just waited, waited... Kept working on my assured of making his Test debut

against South Africa in Nagpur, but he twisted his ankle in a freak mishap with Wriddhiman Saha, giving the opportunity to the Bengal wicketkeeper.

"I was a bit disappointed about what happened in 2010. I just wanted to have all my focus on this Test. Finally, it came. Whether it came after three years does not matter.

Asked whether he's in the form of his life, he said: "I really don't know. Whenever it happens you got to be proud, you got to take that."

"A Test match hundred is always special. I'm happy to score on debut. I was waiting for an opportunity for a long time. I was thinking to bat well and did not think much about scoring hundred. I just wanted to continue my ODI form," Sharma said.

He said the third day is going to be crucial for the hosts. "With this magnificent day today, I'm happier. We got a game in our hand, we just need to be focussed. Tomorrow it's going to be a more crucial day. If we can play till about lunch, or few overs after lunch and we can get good lead there, try and put them under pressure. "I just wanted to continue from where I left in Bangalore. If you're in good form, you got to take the responsibility to carry it forward," he added.

He refused to compare his ODI double ton in Bangalore with the debut century here.

Jaffer’s unbeaten 92 steers Mumbai against Punjab

RAO HITS TON FOR GUJ, NARWAL TAKES FIVE-FOR SURAT: Y Venugopal Rao struck a fine century as Gujarat posted 281 for seven in their Ranji Trophy Group A match against Delhi, whose star performer was medium pacer Sumit Narwal, who picked up five wickets. At stumps on the opening day, Akshar Patel and Rakesh Dhurv were batting on 22 and two, respectively. Venugopal Rao found the fence 13 times and cleared it once during his 190ball knock.

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HANDIGARH: Wasim Jaffer's unbeaten 92 helped Mumbai reach 207 in their first innings but not before Punjab had snapped up five wickets to share the honours on the opening day of their second Group A Ranji Trophy match here.

Electing to bat after their captain Zaheer Khan won the toss, Mumbai were reduced to 85 for four but Jaffer held one end to steer the visiting team to 207 for five.

Jaffer's 175-ball knock was studded with 11 fours and a six. Another notable contributor to the team's cause was Suryakumar Yadav, who struck 44 off 82 deliveries. Yadav put together 102 runs for the fifth wicket with Jaffer before falling to all-rounder Yuvraj Singh.

For Punjab, Siddharth Kaul was the top wicket-taker, bagging 2/40 in 15 overs. Yuvraj and discarded Test off-spinner Harbhajan Singh picked up one wicket apiece. It was not the best of starts by Mumbai as they lost their first wicket in the form of opener and wicketkeeper Aditya Tare (11) with just 17 runs on the board.

His partner Kaustubh Pawar (24) hung around a little longer but it was just not enough to rescue Mumbai. The fall of two quick wickets after his dismissal raised fears of a collapse but Jaffer and Yadav rebuilt the innings.

Punjab bowlers kept it tight and

did not allow Mumbai batsmen to break the shackles after putting them under pressure with early dismissals. Yadav's knock, which included seven fours, was in fact quite lively compared to the overall pace of run-gathering by his teammates. He was dismissed just a little more than five overs before end of play.

At stumps, Hiken Shah (9) was giving company to Jaffer as Mumbai partially recovered from the morning collapse.

Brief Scores: Mumbai 1st innings: 207/5 in 71 overs (Wasim Jaffer 92 batting, Suryakumar Yadav 44, Siddharth Kaul 2/40) vs Punjab.

SUNNY'S TON LIFTS HARYANA TO 235/4 AGAINST VIDARBHA NAGPUR: Sunny Singh slammed a fine unbeaten century to help Haryana score 235 runs for the loss of four wickets against Vidarbha at the end of opening day's play in a Ranji Trophy Group A match. At stumps, Sunny was unbeaten on 101 off 201 balls with the help of 11 boundaries and one six and giving him company was Jayant Yadav on 13.

SAXENA HITS UNBEATEN TON AS RAJASTHAN SCORE 222/6 JAIPUR: Opener Vineet Saxena remained unbeaten on 110 to guide hosts Rajasthan to 222 for the loss of six wickets at stumps on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match against Bengal.

Saxena found the fence 14 times during his knock.

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IN BRIEF Hard-working Sanjana selected

MUMBAI: Hard working junior Sanjana Choudhary, by sheer dint of hard-work and performance forced her way into the women’s and youth girls Mumbai Suburban teams for the forthcoming Maharashtra State Inter-District and State Table Tennis Championships, which gets underway at Dhulia from tomorrow. Noel Pinto and Charvi Kawla have been selected to lead the men’s and women’s teams.

The teams are: WOMEN: Charvi Kawle (captain), Mrunmayee Mhatre, Shruti Borkar and Sanjana Choudhary. YOUTH GIRLS: Charvi Kawle, Ashlesdha Trehan, Sanjana Choudhary,Shruti Borkar and Pranjal Shinde. JUNIOR GIRLS: Dyuti Patiki, Ashlesha Trehan, Payal Bohra, Srushti Haleagadi and Manushree Patil. SUB-JR GIRLS: Payal Bohra, Dyuti Patki, Srushti Haleangadi and Manushree Patil. CADET GIRLS: Aditi Sinha, Diva Chitale,Neeha Gupta and Vbidhi Shah. MEN: Noel Pinto (captain), Nishant Kulkarni, Chandrashekhar Gole, Sudhir Kesarwani.YOUTH BOYS: Ravindra Kotiyan, Chandrashekhar Gole, Rhys Albuquerque, Harsh Maniar and Bhuvitavya Shah. JUNIOR BOYS: Ravindra Kotiyan, Rhys Albuquerque, Bhuvitavya Shah, Harsh Maniar, Rutwik Pandirkar. SUB-JR. BOYS: Saurya Pednekar, Rutwik Pandirkar, Raegan Albuquerque and Mandar Hardikar. CADET BOYS:Chinmay Somaiya, Yajat Thanawala, Parth Ramhia and Ev Shroff.

Ishaan to lead State U-14 football squad for Nationals

MUMBAI: Ishaan Kandwal will lead the Maharashtra U-14 team, while Mohd.

Kamran will be his deputy for the AIFF U-14 National Championships being held in Kalyani. The state team is placed in Cluster VI with Delhi, Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh. They play their first game on10th November against Jharkhand.

AFC ‘B’ License Coach, Augusto D’Silva is the coach of the team. He is currently working with the Kenkre youth teams. Zakir Ansari is the assistant coach. The camp for the boys was held at Cooperage from 24th October to 6th November 2013 and saw boys from all the districts of Maharashtra take part. "We have a good squad and we will try our best to go as far we can in the tournament.” said Augusto ahead of the team's departure.

"The camp for the boys has been going for the past two weeks. They have prepared well for this tournament and we have confidence that they will perform well" said WIFA secretary Souter Vaz. Team: Ishan Kandwal (C), Mohd. Kamran (VC), Manav Baraskar, Jignesh Solanki, Sanathan Sridhar, Mohammed Kaif, Krish Parekh, Ruturaj Sankpal, Osama Ansari, Aryan Yugpurush, Ishan Dey, Yunus Shaikh, Pranav Kanse, Sumer Singh, Neal Job, Clivert Miller, Rahul Lewis, Neel Bhandari, Shoaib Memon, Shadrach Cardoza

Kaustubh, Dhruv bowl Oxford to win

MUMBAI: Oxford Public, after being restricted to 142 for seven off the allotted 30 overs, hit back tellingly through some fine bowling by Kaustubh Rajan (3 for 18) and Dhruv Padhiyar (2 for 11) to beat IES (Charkop) by 27 runs to enter the quarter-final of the Poinsur Gymkhana Inter-School Cricket tournament at their ground at Kandivali on Thursday. They next take on Swami Vivekanand (Kandivali), who beat Thakur Shyamnarayan by five wickets. The highlight of Vivekanand’s win was the bowling of Ashitosh Jaiswal, who captured five for 13 off five overs. He was well supported by Sohil Shaikh and Vivek Mishra as the Thakur school were bowled out for 113 in 24.4 overs.

The Vivekanand boys batted well enough to reach their target for the loss of five wickets.

Brief scores: Oxford Public 142 for 7 off 30 overs (Raj Dhavda n.o.38, Savrabh Naidu 34; Tushar Rende 2 for 16) bt IES Charkop 115 for 8 (Parag Panchal n.o. 45, Aaush Prasad 25; Kaustubh Rajan 3 for 18, Dhruv Padhiyar 2 for 11).

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IN BRIEF Youngster Marc Marquez within touching distance of title

MADRID: Marc Marquez is aiming to become the youngest ever MotoGP world champion at the age of 20 as the Spaniard takes a 13point lead over compatriot and defending champion Jorge Lorenzo into the season's final Grand Prix in Valencia this weekend.

Marquez has seen his lead whittled down by a late season charge by Lorenzo, but will seal the title in his maiden year in MotoGP should be finish fourth or better at the Ricardo Tormo circuit. The Honda Repsol rider remains very much the favourite for the championship having only failed to make the podium once this year, when he was disqualified for failing to pit in time for a mandatory change of tyres in Australia last month. "I am desperate to get back on the bike," he told Spanish sports daily Marca.

MESSI ON THE MOVE: Barcelona's Lionel Messi drives the ball while being chased by AC Milan's Kaka during the Champions League group H soccer match between FC Barcelona and AC Milan, at the Camp Nou stadium, in Barcelona, Spain.

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ARCELONA: Barcelona sealed their place in the Champions League last 16 with two games to spare as Lionel Messi scored twice in their 3-1 win over AC Milan at the Camp Nou on Wednesday.

Messi ended his three-game run without a goal as he smashed home the opener from the penalty spot after Neymar had been felled by Ignazio Abate. Sergio Busquets then headed home a second, but Milan were handed a lifeline just before half-time when Gerard Pique turned Kaka's cross into his own net.

However, Messi made the game safe seven minutes from the end when he dinked the ball home

Anand promises attacking game

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HENNAI: As a stern test awaited his quest for a sixth title, Indian chess wizard Viswanathan Anand was a picture of confidence and he promised an attacking game against Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the much-awaited World Championship match that begins here on Saturday.

Anand, the undisputed world champion since 2007, faces a strong challenge from the 22-yearold Norwegian sensation Carslen in one of the most awaited World Chess Championship matches in recent history. Asked how well he has prepared for the event, Anand said, "I worked as I always did.

Couple of months of training and I think I am ready to attack. We will see how it goes but I think I am ready to play."

"I am really excited to play in my home city. I am looking forward to the match starting and getting on to that," he said after the inauguration of the event by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

from Cesc Fabregas' pass. Defeat still leaves Milan in second place in Group H, a point ahead of Ajax and two clear of Celtic after the Dutch champions beat the Scottish side 1-0 in the night's other match.

An eighth meeting between the sides in just the past three seasons meant there was a more subdued atmosphere than would normally be expected for a meeting between two of Europe's heavyweights. However, Barca boss Gerardo Martino showed how intent he was on sewing up qualification as he named his strongest available side with the fit-again Adriano restored at leftback.

Milan boss Massimiliano Allegri, meanwhile, sprang a surprise by leaving Mario Balotelli on the bench with the former Real Madrid duo of Robinho and Kaka starting instead in attack. Both Brazilians were largely isolated in the first half though as Barcelona controlled proceedings.

Xavi Hernandez pulled an early free-kick just wide before Neymar ought to have scored when played in by Messi, but he took a heavy touch and allowed Christian Abbiati to smother. Milan's defensive resistence was finally undone on the half-hour mark by a moment of madness from Abate as he pulled back Neymar inside the area and Messi con-

verted from the spot for his fifth Champions League goal of the campaign.

Riccardo Montolivo then had Milan's first effort on goal 10 minutes before the break with an angled drive that flew just past.

Messi could have had his second as he wriggled into some space inside the area and dinked the ball over Abbiati, but Philippe Mexes got back to clear the ball to safety.

Barca did double their advantage six minutes before half-time though when Xavi's free-kick was easily headed home by the unmarked Busquets. Adriano forced Abbiati into a finger-tip save moments later.

Anand shows his cards; Carlsen refuses

By Vishal Sareen

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HENNAI: Hungarian Grandmaster Peter Leko was the surprise inclusion in defending champion Viswanathan Anand's team even as his Norwegian challenger Magnus Carlsen kept his cards close to his chest ahead of their much-anticipated World Championship match starting on Saturday.

Krishnan Sasikiran and Sandipan Chanda were the two Indians in the team of five-time world champion apart from his regular 'second' Radoslav Wojtaszek of Poland. Sasikiran was an expected inclusion and Chanda's name had also been finalised long back.

Surprisingly, Carlsen refused to comment on his team for the championship. "I appreciate Mr. Anand's openness about his team.

Alas! I am not going to return the favour," Carlsen said.

Leko's inclusion could be the masterstroke that Anand is known for. It may be recalled that Anand had former FIDE world champion

Russia launches rocket carrying three astronauts, Oly torch

BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN: Russia launched a rocket carrying Russian, Japanese and US astronauts and an Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the mission control said. The Soyuz-FG rocket and Soyuz-TMA capsule, emblazoned with the symbols of the Sochi Games and the Olympic rings, blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on time at 8:14 am (0414 GMT), it said. "The Soyuz FG rocket and the Soyuz-TMA capsule launched successfully from Baikonur cosmodrome at 8:14 am Moscow time," the Russian space agency said in a statement. The rocket decorated with the mainly blue Olympic logo and the words Sochi 2014 blasted off into a clear skies from the Kazakh steppe. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio earlier climbed the steps into the capsule carrying the Olympic torch.

Victories for Sanam, Divij-Raja; Myneni ousted

NEW DELHI: Indian qualifier Sanam Singh brushed aside the challenge of Germany's Nils Langer even as Saketh Myneni failed to recreate the magic of last week as he bowed of the ATP Challenger event in Knoxville, USA. Sanam beat his rival 6-1 6-4 to move to the singles pre-quarterfinals of the USD 50,000 hard court event, where he now faces American fifth seed Donald Young. It was Young who ended Myneni's campaign in the first round with a 6-4 6-2 win in the opening round. Myneni had reached the quarterfinal last week in Charlottesville with a shock win over top seed Tim Smyczek and Chase Buchanan. In the doubles event, Sanam and Myneni, who made the main draw through qualifiers, went down 3-6 4-6 to top seeded Australian pair of Samuel Groth and John-Patrick Smith.

Chinese Youth delegation arrives in India on a week-long visit SHOWING HIS HAND: Viswanathan Anand.

Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan as his team member for his 2008 match against Vladimir Kramnik and floored the Russian in all departments.

Peter Leko is known to be a tough customer who has played with Anand several times in various tournaments and also in a Rapid-match organised in his

home country.

Leko was known for his formidable approach when keeping the game quiet and outplaying opponents from level position in his prime, something Carlsen has mastered and executed with much more confidence than anyone.

In fact, Anand's whole team is a typical mix of 'positional masters'.

NEW DELHI: A 12-member core group of Chinese youth delegation led by Xu Xiao, secretary, Central Committee, and Communist Youth League of China called on the Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Jitendra Singh. During their 40-minute meeting both sides discussed matters relating to youth affairs and further strengthening of bilateral relations between India and China through youth exchange programmes. Welcoming the Chinese delegation, Jitendra Singh said in a statement that both countries have many complementary strengths and that there is a lot that they can learn from each other in the future.

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