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the forgotten History of cultures

reflections

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Cultures of knowledge and knowledge of culture need to be shared for peaceful and dignified co-existence

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In-fighting, Group-ism? After the assault and subsequent death Rubbish. Our party is fully of Nido Tania in Delhi in January, 2014 14 united. Ok? tch 20 For ba

NPCC reasserts for re-polling in 1344 polling stations

DIMaPuR, May 8 (MExn): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee, while appreciating the Election Commission of India for ordering repolls in three polling stations, has appealed for the ECI to do more. A press note from the NPCC reasserted that re-polling should be held in all the 1344 polling stations, where polling percentage had exceeded 90%.

It demanded that that repolling at 49 Ladigarh under Tamlu A/C should be held at Ladigarh GPS itself.

The NPCC asserted that for this, “the concerned Election Authority should take all precautionary measures to ensure smooth polling process without further derailment.” It reaffirmed the party’s position to “fight with full vigor against the communal and exclusive politics of the BJP, alien to the Naga culture as clearly manifested in its Manifesto viz a viz Abrogation of Article 370, Uniform Civil Code, Construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya and anti Cow Slaughter Law.”

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TACT ETAIL L KOHIMA 59 in diversity” The much flaunted FOR D R“unity IL H 26671 ’S 6 8 E 9 / IC 8 OFF 97499817 remains a mere statement as North East o.:8 Phone N India falls prey to racism. In the scampered investigation into Tania’s death, the Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister proposed to the Prime Minister of India for inclusion of North Eastern history and culture to the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus.

Though many might have forgotten about it, student communities and some others have raised their voices for recognition of their cultural identity in their country.

“Are you from Japan or from China?

These are some questions which sometimes makes me doubtful about my origin as an Indian. India is such a vast country and some cultural misunderstandings are ought to happen. The government should have at least mentioned a little about the existence of North Eastern states in text books so that the public is aware of their own countrymen,” said 59

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People from the North East are seen protesting in New Delhi, following the assault and subsequent death of Arunuchal Pradesh student Nido Tania in January this year. AP File Photo

Rev. Awala Longkumer, from the Interfaith Coalition for Peace.

Racist attacks against people of the North East have proliferated throughout India. The word, ‘Chinky’, for instance, is used widely to refer to the people of the North East by not just elders and youngsters but also kids in play schools of North India. All such perceptions about people from the North East can be pointed towards the ignorance of many Indians about the latter, and also on the silence adopted

by the North East states on the subject.

There have been several unions formed by students and working people from the region in metropolitan cities but their voices have gone unheard.

Srijani Bhaswa Mahanta, a political science student of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi said, “I am from Assam and I am not a chinky. The idea of separate unions is again about reinforcing these stereotypes. Changes like these in the psyche of people will take a long time to materialize. My idea to people is

that, one should not take shelter in our victim status. More and more people should come out of their oppressions and make their mark.”

The said ignorance, in itself, is a shame but the fact is that a platform to learn about and understand various cultures has never been made. State educational boards of the respective states of the North East include the history of almost all states of India, along with theirs. Thereby, people in this region know about Indian history and

Newmai News Network Dimapur | May 8

MDTOA call off agitation

in my leadership,” informed Zeliang to Newmai News Network this evening. “I will always respect the majority voice,” Zeliang added.

“It all depends on the elected members of the party and will decide only after the Lok Sabha poll result is declared,” he stated.

It may be noted that two months ago when Rio’s name was cleared as the consensus candidate of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN), in which the Naga People’s Front (NPF) is the principal constituent, for the Lok Sabha polls in Nagaland, names of Home minister G

Kaito, T.R. Zeliang and NPF chief Dr. Shurhozelie were speculated. However, after the poll, the names of Noke Wangnao, seniormost member of the DNA III cabinet cropped up as one of the contenders for the top post, while the names of Home minister Kaito and Dr. Shurhozelie left the speculation board.

There are altogether 38 NPF legislators in the 60-member Nagaland legislative assembly. T.R. Zeliang was Rajya Sabha MP for a term, after which he returned to state politics and contested in the 2013 Nagaland assembly election.

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which gave free coaching to young players and won many state level football trophies.

The club produced many national and state players like Velhukho Rakho, who represented India U-16 at Portugal and Vizovor Liezietsu, who represented India in Bangladesh. Apart from free coaching, the Club also organized cleanliness drives, peace rallies and banner campaigns supporting peace and reconciliation in Nagaland.

“There is no financial benefit in free coaching. But when the players come back home with laurels, that is my greatest achievement,” says Roko.

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culture while mainstream Indian cities have barely accepted these states as a part of India.

NCERT books are now planning to include the geography, history and culture of the peoples from the North East.

This initiative might be good but makes it seem as though a Nido Tania incident has to occur to hit the conscience of the authorities to formulate sensitive policies.

Dr. Asangba Tzudir, Editor at Heritage Publishing House said, “The modern world is learning the hard way to accommodate differences. So-called ‘mainland’ India and North East both need to understand the sensitivity attached to ‘differences’ towards a more inclusive project of Unity in Diversity.

Towards this end ‘cultures of knowledge and knowledge of culture’ need to be shared through texts, media etc towards the larger project of building a cohesive India.”

Without a doubt, much time needs to be dedicated and discussion needs to be had on which aspects of cultures of the North East are to be presented, or how.

“The (Nido Tania) incident has proved that some people do not think of us as people, but as aliens or as people infiltrating their land. The present generation can be caught young once such information on North East people is present in the NCERT text books,” said Emma Pia Khonglah, a student of Madras Christian College, Chennai.

The decision might be late but for many from the North East, it is still a ray of hope to assert their identity.

Arya Lakshmi studies journalism at the Madras Christian College, and is currently an intern for The Morung Express

I am prepared to accept responsibility: TR Zeliang roko’s passion for

Amidst speculation around who will succeed Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, senior minister T.R. Zeliang said he will not mind if responsibility is given to him to lead the State Government.

Media reports have been speculating that PHED minister Noke Wangnao and Planning minister T.R. Zeliang are vying for the top post.

“I’m prepared to accept the reMokokchung, May sponsibility if the elected members 8 (DIPR): Plying of com- and the party (NPF) has confidence mercial vehicles on Mokokchung-Mariani road has been resumed with immediate effect, following the Mokokchung District Truck Owners Association MANufACtuRING SECtoR (MDTOA) called off their Enterprises Investment in plant & machinery indefinite strike. DC MoMicro Enterprises Does not exceed twenty five lakh rupees kokchung, Murohu Chotso Small Enterprises More than twenty five lakh rupees but does not exceed informed all agencies of five crore rupees commercial vehicles to ply on the road from today onMedium Enterprises More than five crore rupees but does not exceed ten wards. MDTOA said that it crore rupees would resume their strike SERvICE SECtoR if the authority continues Morung Express News Enterprises Investment in equipments their lackadaisical attitude Dimapur | May 8 Micro Enterprises Does not exceed ten lakh rupees: towards the maintenance More than ten lakh rupees but does not exceed two of the road. Mokokchung- Who do you go to if you Small Enterprises crore rupees Mariani road is the life-line have a business plan? How for Mokokchung, Tuen- does one convert the pecu- Medium Enterprises More than two crore rupees but does not exceed five sang, Longleng districts and liarities of the local market core rupees parts of Wokha and Zunhe- into an advantage for the The meeting saw issues boto districts.

Micro, Small and Medium industries/MSME sector friends or moneylenders),” Enterprise (MSME) sec- to grow is missing. “That is said Barik, which, accord- highlighted by D. Sethy, tor? The Rural Planning why the RBI is emphasizing ing to him, can be expen- GM, RPCD, RBI Guwahati, and Credit Department of on MSME as it promotes sive and exploitative due A.K. Chaudhary, DGM, the Reserve Bank of India distributive growth,” Barik to their application of high SBI, V. Chelladurai, GM, and uncontrolled rates of NABARD, Rahul Rohatgi, (RBI), Guwahati, held a informed.

According to the Gov- interest. “The RBI is behind GM, SIDBI, Temsulong Town Hall meeting at the DIMaPuR, May 8 Ana Ki conference hall here ernment of India’s Ministry bankers and entrepreneurs Jamir, Jt. Director, Direc(DIPR): The Additional Dis- to address these and other of MSME, MSMEs current- and will try to see that more torate of Industries, Govtrict Magistrate, Sivasagar, issues faced by the MSME ly contribute nearly 8 per- and more credit is diverted ernment of Nagaland, N. cent of the country’s GDP, to MSME sector so it pro- Hushili Sema, DC DimaDN Morang has informed sector in Nagaland.

Second of its kind held 45 percent of the manufac- gresses in the North East,” pur, Pintun Sutar, DGM, that in order to check antisocial elements and pre- in the North East, ‘Town turing output and 40 per- encouraged the regional RBI Guwahati, and various entrepreneurs from vent occurrences of untow- Hall meetings’ have been cent of the exports. They director.

This was probably well Nagaland. The meeting ard incident, night curfew formulated by the RBI to provide the largest share of from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am has bring all stakeholders of the employment after agricul- received by representa- later focused on the report tives from the Government of survey on 25 SME units been promulgated in the As- MSME sector together to ture.

The role of banks in of Nagaland who felt that carried out by RBI in Dimasam side of Sivsagar district meet, listen to each other, bordering Nagaland and understand problems and credit lending is central the young entrepreneurs of pur, and produced data on Arunachal Pradesh. The cur- find solutions to them, ex- to small entrepreneurs. Nagaland need to be guid- challenges and opportunifew will prohibit movement plained Regional Director, “We request entrepre- ed on policies, schemes ties faced by MSME entreof any persons/group of per- RBI Guwahati, S.S. Barik in neurs to approach banks and facilities available to preneurs in Nagaland, who sons and vehicular traffic in his keynote address. Naga- (for loans) instead of non- them to take their business, also brought forth their the 5 kilometer belt in Assam land has potential, he said, institutionalised infor- and the State’s economy, perspectives to stakeholders present. but the push needed for the mal sources (like relatives, forward. side of the border.

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Roko Angami

Vibi Yhokha Kohima | May 8

It was a school tournament in his village Zhadima where Roko Angami was awarded the best player and discovered his first love in football. “Even if it was a small tournament, the award was a big encouragement,” says Roko who was twelve years old then.

The second Naga after Dr. T Ao to play for the professional club Mahindra & Mahindra, Mumbai from 1996 to 1997, Roko was also the first Naga to play in the Indian Premier League. After an injury that fractured his leg, Roko ended his career as a football player at his prime and went on to become a coach. Football coaches were scarce in Nagaland during the 90s, he says.

He took up coaching as a career and qualified for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), where he obtained ‘C’ and ‘B’ license and is currently awaiting the results for his ‘A’ license. He has completed the International Sports Leadership Training (ISLT) and was also awarded the ‘International footballer’ by Paul Moses of International Sports Coalition at ‘Night of Stars’ in 2005 in Dimapur.

On being a coach Roko believes that practice is more important than theory. “You need to watch good matches and plan out new techniques because players can become bored with monotony. The coach also has to be a player. Despite the theory, you need to demonstrate,” he says. Categorizing agegroups is very important to build up good players, he adds.

In 1999, he founded the Naga Boys Club,

On sports in Nagaland Roko says, “Nagas loves sports yet we don’t take it as a profession. We take it as a hobby. Encouragement is very less in our society. There is hardly any support from family, public or government.” He adds that sportspersons in Nagaland suffer from lack of proper training and equipments, absence of permanent/regular clubs, regular practice, football academies and dedicated professional coaches.

“To develop sports, you need to start from the grassroots. Catch hold of young players and assign them in the actual age group and train them in their ability is the most important,” he adds. Roko does not agree with the ideaofsendingoveragedplayersineachtournament where their age exceeds the mentioned age in the tournaments. “We are spoiling the careers of individual players and also earn a bad name for the state.”

Roko asserts that to develop disciplined players, a parent body is required where there is a planned yearly calendar of events and basic infrastructure. The government and the sports association needs to work hand in hand, he views.

Roko notes that many Naga players do not last. After a year or two, they disappear.

He states that a good player requires faith, fear in God, good character and the perseverance to maintain one’s dignity. He further states it is possible to earn a livelihood through sports but that in order to do this, a professional attitude, combined with proper coaching and practice is required.

At 39, Roko dreams of starting a football academy with a proper football field and produce players who not just represent the state but the country. Ask him what makes a good football player and a coach, he says, “Hardwork, dedication and discipline are essential. But you also need the ‘passion’.”

That is what keeps him going.

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Nagaland along with the rest of the world today observed World Red Cross Day here under the theme “My Red Cross Story to mark the birth anniversary of Jean Henry Dunant, the founder of Red Cross.

Speaking on the occasion, minister for school education C.M. Chang said Red Cross has always been in the forefront in rendering relief promptly and speedily wherever and whenever disaster strikes, transcending all barriers of nationality, race, religion and language.

“One significant aspect is the fast pace at which co-ordinate efforts have been made to minimize loss of life and suffering of the victims,” he said adding that Red Cross undertakes a number of activities such as disaster relief, disaster preparedness, various community and welfare programmes.

Red Cross movement founded

by Henry Dunant with a desire for improved care for wounded soldiers in wartime has now resulted in rendering humanitarian service worldwide drawing millions of volunteers and members to carry out its missions and programmes.

The Red Cross movement was born out of a desire to develop and assist without any discrimination and its endeavor to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found, the minister said adding that its purpose is to protect life and health, respect for human beings, to promote mutual under-

Minister for school education C.M. Chang addressing World Red Cross Day in Kohima on May 8. (DIPR Photo)

standing, friendship, cooperation and lasting peace among all people.

The minister said that he was impressed by the varied community service provided by the Red Cross members in bringing about joy to the less fortunate people in the community.

He also congratulated all for playing good role models for others “which will inspire them in helping to build a more caring and compassionate community.”

The minister also stated that Red Cross movement is guided by the seven fundamental principles with just one objective: “to help those who suffer without discrimination and this contribute to peace in the world. The seven fundamental principles include; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and

universally signify the principled action by the society.

The minister also lauded the Nagaland State Branch Red Cross Society, saying that it has always been active investors of human services for the assistance and development of weaker sections and communities on voluntary basis.

The minister also gave away prizes to the winners of painting and essay writing competition for junior and youth Red Cross respectively in commemoration of the Red Cross Day. Painting: IstVingunuo Mepfhü-o, G. Rio HSS Kohima, 2nd- Ashong, G. Rio HSS Kohima, 3rd- Kevisevol Thore, St. John School Merhülietsa. Essay: Ist- Neiketounuo Kiso, Kohima Science College Jotsoma, 2nd- Esther Lohe and 3rd- Dzuze Zao both from St. Joseph College, Jakhama.

KIPHIRE: Kiphire district today observed World Red Cross day at the Conference Hall of the Deputy Commissioner where Kiphire DC Neposo Thelu was the guest of honor.

The DC while addressing the gathering declared that he would sponsor a sum of Rs. 5000 to any elderly person who is a member of IRCS and writes good article on elderly life as prize money on Elderly Day this year. He asked the gathering not just to be a beneficiary but also to contribute to the cause of humanity and live life to the fullest with satisfaction.

The DC also launched JRC Unit of Loyola School. Calling upon the JRC Unit of Loyola School, the DC advised to be dedicated in duties keeping in mind the fundamental principles of IRCS. Lipichem, former hony. Secy IRCS Kiphire branch shared on the theme 'My Red Cross Story'. Tsointhe Hony Secy gave activists report and the plan of the Kiphire Branch.

JYRC Loyola School presented special song. Caroline chaired the program and Thomas proposed vote of thanks.

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ADC Dimapur, Elizabeth speaks at the workshop on e-Governance at the Conference Hall, Directorate of Food & Civil Supplies, Dimapur on May 8. (DIPR Photo)

DimaPuR, may 8 (DiPR): A two-day sensitization workshop on e-Governance for Middle Level Officers, Government of Nagaland started at the Conference Hall, Di-

rectorate of Food & Civil Supplies, Dimapur on May 8. The National Institute of Electronic and Information Technology Kohima organized the workshop, in collaboration with the Depart-

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ANATU Longleng elects new office bearers LoNgLENg, may 8 (mExN): The All Nagaland Adhoc Teachers’ Union (ANATU) Longleng Unit has elected new office bearers for the tenure 2014-15, after approval from nominating committee during the ANATU general session. The new office bearers will be headed by A Koba as president, S Bongang as vice president, T Lemba as general secretary, Imkongmeren as joint secretary, L Chingpom as finance secretary, Manow as assistant finance secretary, and Y Angmau as public relation secretary. This was informed in a press release issued by ANATU Longleng unit president.

APTMS raids illegal power connection DimaPuR, may 8 (mExN): Anti-Power Theft Mobile Squad (APTMS) conducted a raid in some parts of Dimapur on May 6 under the supervision of Er.Namheu Khate, SDO (E) No.1, Dimapur and detected 16 consumers using illegal electricity connection.

Er.Namheu Khate in a press release informed that the offences included lead seal tampering, meter by-pass, motor line direct, direct line hooking, AC line direct, meter tampering, 3 phase direct line, direct line, no seal. According to the release, FIR has been lodged against six of the offences.

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The ADC Dimapur,

Elizabeth in her introductory speech said that it was a good opportunity to have such a workshop and thanked the National Institute of Electronic and Information Technology, Ko-

hima for organizing such program in the district. She also stated that e-Governance is making things easier for the citizen and the administration and hoped that the training would be helpful and beneficial.

During the workshop the following topics were on discussed; ‘Introduction to e-Governance & National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), Case Study of Successful e-Governance Project of Government of Nagaland, e-Governance Project Lifecycle and Project Reference for e-Governance Implementation in India’.

On the 2nd day topics on ‘Government Process Re-Engineering (GPR), GPR & Change Management, Business Models’ will be discussed.

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Earlier, Abeni TCK, chairperson Indian Red Cross Society, Nagaland state branch presided over the function.

Welcome address was delivered by C.R. Lotha, member MC, IRCSN while vote of thanks was proposed by IRCSN general secretary Dr. Kepelhusie Therhüja.

JRC Unit, St. John School Kohima and students of School of Nursing NHAK also presented special songs.

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DimaPuR, may 8 (mExN): All Bengali community people are requested to attend the celebration in the Bengali New Year and Nobel laureates Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary on May 9 from 9.30 am morning onward at Society of Dhamma Bodhi & Meditation (Buddha Vihar), Kevijau village, Signal Bosti near plastic factory, Dimapur.

This was informed in a press release issued by President Dimapur Bangali Samaj (DBS), K K Paul, Advocate.

GPP Kohima informs Kohima, may 8 (mExN): An executive body meeting of the Gorkha Public Panchayat (GPP) Kohima was held to discuss the matter of the ongoing construction of the GPP building where the obstruction caused to the construction by the private cable water pipelines

Christ for the Downtrodden Ministry (CFTDM) president Ato Angami and Managing Director Old Age Home, Neithonuo T. Liegise with the elderly people at the Home premises in Kohima on Thursday. The CFTDM visited the Home and interacted with the elderly people and distributed some basic needs. At present, the Home is housing 22 elderly persons from six districts. Meanwhile, CFTDM president has thanked the director and staff of Food & Civil Supplies department for providing rice to the ministry at welfare rates, which was used as an aid during the visit.

NRC on Mithun (ICAR) Jharnapani, Medziphema, Nagaland and Nagaland University signed a MOU signed for the Collaborative Research work as well as for Research Programme of PG students of Nagaland University on May 7. The MOU was exchanged between Prof. NS Jamir Pro-Vice Chancellor, Nagaland University and Dr. C. Rajkhowa, Director, NRC on Mithun, in the presence of Prof. M. Aleminla Ao, DEAN, SASRD, Medziphema. Dr. KK Baruah and Dr. Nazrul Haque, Principal Scientists from NRC on Mithun, Nagaland also present during this occasion.

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20; Mokokchung Town Hall on May 21 and Longleng Town Hall on May 22. The Commission requests the following Apex leaders of the following tribes to participate in the said programme: Sumi Hoho, Sumi Totimi Hoho, Sumi Kiphimi Kuqhakulu, GB & DB Union, Sumi Gazzeted Officers Union, VCC, Women Pastor, GB and President STH of all village; Ao Senden, Watsü Mundang, Ao Students’ Conference, all Village VCCs, all ward Chairmen, GBs and DBs Union; Phom Public Council (PCC), Phomla Hoichem, Phom Students’ Kohima, may 8 (mExN): Election for the Conference, all village VCCs, all town area new team of Office Bearers for the Kohima GBs and DBs. Press Club (KPC) will be held on May 10 at 11:00 am at its (KPC) office here at Kohima.

The election will be held for the posts of the President, Vice President, General Secretary, Joint Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

The criterion for the eligibility to become the PhEK, may 8 (mExN): The Zuketsa Area candidate for the aforementioned posts or to Public Organization (ZAPO) Phek Town held vote is to be the KPC ID Card Holder. Oken its general office bearers meeting on April 13 Jeet Sandham, senior journalist and member at its then union president’s residence. Folof KPC is the election commissioner. Accord- lowing new team of office bearers for the tening to a release, the KPC has informed all its ure 2014-2016 were elected: President – Lhipmembers to note of the election schedule and elo Thahu; vice president – Kekhwengulo the criterion of their eligibility to contest and Krome; general secretary – Kekhangulo Zhiemi; joint secretary – Lhinyi Wetsa; finance vote during the election. secretary – Khape Lomi; treasurer – Lhiwenyi Wetsa; social & cultural secretary – Lhipekha Marhu; youth co-ordinator – Neikedu-ii Therie and Lezote-ii Kreo; publicity & information secretary – Neitezu Lekro; represenKohima, may 8 (mExN): HUDCO award tatives from village units – Medowe Krome, for excellence was given away for different Kedulhou Losou, Kezungulo Kreo; advisory categories on the occasion of 44th Founda- board members – Teiso Therie, Kelhikha Ketion Day celebrations on April 25 at Stein Au- nye, Senokha Krome. ditorium Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Nagaland PWD (Housing) was awarded in recognition of its excellent performance in implementing projects among the borrowing agencies in India. The award was received by Er. Chanbemo Lotha, Chief Engineer, PWD ( Kohima, may 8 (mExN): Assam Rifles Housing), Nagaland on behalf of the depart- High School, Kohima celebrated its 56th Anment from Anita Agnihotri, Union Secretary, nual Day on April 29 with great pomp and Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. show. A press release from the Assam Rifles Meanwhile, PWD (Housing) Nagaland extend- informed that the chief guest of the event, ed hearty appreciation to HUDCO for giving Commander 5 Sect Assam Rifles, Patron, the award in recognition of good performance. Assam Rifles High School, Kohima encouraged and motivated the students with valuable words of wisdom and congratulated all the students and teachers. The principals of G. DimaPuR, may 8 (mExN): The Naga- Rio, Cherry Blossom and Little Flower School land State Commission for Women in col- were among the special guests. The school laboration with National Commission for principal, Swati Kumar, presented the School Women is organizing a one-day seminar on Annual Report followed. Various dances, Legal Rights of Women on “Marriage, Di- songs, fashion show and skits -‘Snow White vorce & Inheritance”. The venue and date are and seven Dwarfs’ by the students were the as scheduled: Zunheboto Town Hall on May highlights of the day, the note added.

Trainees of UCTE at the Khriesaneisa General Mo-U Epitaph on May 2 last.

passing through the complex was discussed.

It is resolved to request the public owning the cable water pipelines to kindly divert/remove the pipelines from the GPP complex, opposite Government printing press, Chandmari to felicitate the construction within a week time from the date of release. This was informed in a press release issued by Gorkha Public Panchayat, Kohima Press & Publicity Secretary, Rajeev Rai.

Kohima, may 8 (mExN): As part of the college co-curricular activities, the trainees and faculties of URA College of Teacher Education (UCTE), Kohima undertook a field trip to Khonoma village on May 2 last.

The group paid a visit to different historical sites like Khriesaneisa and General Mo-U Epitaph, Indo Naga War Khonoma

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Agriculture director release power tiller

Martyrs Epitaph, Merhü Fort, Semoma Fort (the strongest Fort in Northeast during the British rule) and Hiekha Kikie Epitaph. The group also visited Alder tree plantation and management sites at the village. The field trip culminated with a visit to Dzülake where Mithuns are reared and preserved.

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Nagaland PWD (Housing) receives award from HUUDCO

Assam Rifles School celebrates annual day

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N. Tekatoshi Ao hands over a power tiller to a beneficiary Duohelie at Vürie, Kohima on May 6. (DIPR Photo)

Ko h i m a , m ay 8 (DiPR): The Agriculture Director & SNO ATMA Nagaland Kohima, N. Tekatoshi Ao handed over a power tiller to a beneficiary Duohelie at Vürie, Kohima on May 6. In a short handing over programme, the Director stressed on the importance of farm mechanisation to achieve food

sufficiency and cited that work efficiency is indispensable right from land preparation till harvesting stage in farming. He also pointed out that it is high time for our farmers to adopt improved technologies which are suited to specific locations and to improve farm productivity.

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was led by DAO & PD ATMA Kohima, Nosezole while training on handling of power tillers and preparation of Paddy flat bad nursery for mechanised paddy transplanter was imparted successfully for field functionaries of DAO Kohima by Kekhrieletuo Yhome (APPO, DAO Kohima).

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BTAD: appeal to Govt for action; to people for peace and harmony GUWAHATI, MAY 8 (MExN): In the wake of recent violence in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD), the Justice & Equity Demand Samiti (JEDS) Assam has recommended that the Government of Assam should “immediately arrest and prosecute persons who made provocative speeches to trigger the recent violence as also those who instigated Govt personnel to take part in the slaughter of innocent persons living in the area.”

This was stated at a press meet at the Guwahati Press Club on Thursday, addressed

by Prof. Abdul Mannan, Secretary JEDS and editor of Assamese monthly ‘Ayna’. The death toll in the violence had

risen to 43 on Thursday as more dead bodies were being unearthed in different areas of the strife-torn BTAD. According to Prof Mannan, while the Police have arrested some Forest Department personnel said to be involved in the killing, “the kingpin of the planned murders has not been booked till now because of his close proximity to some important functionaries of BTAD.” Keeping this in mind, the JEDS Assam and its allies have also recommended that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) be constituted immediately under the stewardship of a retired Supreme Court Judge to inquire into the matter as the jurisdiction

Primary teacher found dead IMPHAL, MAY 8 (NNN): An Autonomous District Council (ADC) primary teacher at Chinaomei Primary school was found dead at around 9 am in the hillock of Katomei village located West ward 3 km away from Senapati police station. The dead body of the teacher identified as one L. Matthew (45), s/o Lounipao of Tungjoy village, Senapati district was cited by some students of Don Bosco School at Katomei village with injuries in his head and waist today in the morning. According to family members, Matthew had left home for Senapati town on May 6 in the morning but his dead body was recovered today. A case has been registered by Senapati police regarding the death of Matthew today. Meanwhile, the dead body of Matthew has been handed over to his family members after conducting post mortem examination at JNIMS.

Security stepped up in Mizoram AIZAWL, MAY 8 (PTI): In the wake of reports that Bru militants may unleash violence ahead of the proposed repatriation of refugees from six relief camps in Tripura from May 17, the district administration of Mamit has stepped up security, official sources said today. The administration has issued alerts to the employees of government and private companies and also village elders in the border and remote areas, they said. It also prohibited people from venturing out near the border, especially with Bangladesh border areas including Rajiv Nagar and Amchurinukh villages between 7 PM and 4 AM. The prohibitory order would be in force for two months, they said.

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of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) covers acts of “terrorists alone, and they have no brief over the acts of politicians.”

The Samiti stated that a compensation of Rs. 10 Lakh be given to the next of kin of those killed in the violence and Rs. 5 Lakh to those injured in the violence. It called for adequate family pension be instituted for women widowed in the violence and Government take the responsibility of bearing the educational expenses of the children orphaned in the violence. Since providing security to the citizens is the responsibility of the Government, stated the JEDS Assam, let the Government

ABSU condemns violence GUWAHATI, MAY 8 (MExN): The All Bodo Students Union has expressed concern on the recent mass killings in Kokrajhar and Baksa district of BTAD. The Union reiterated demand for security of live and property of every citizen in the state and BTAD in particular. It informed the union will initiate a three hour dharna in Guwahati on May 7 to protest against the violence.

A press note from the ABSU said that the repetition of the killing and violence in the region is damaging the spirit of unity and understanding among the communities in the area. It has been demanding the resolution of the extremist problem which has been considered as one of the sources of such violence and also to seize all illegal weapons. “Violation of human right is a crime and government machinery should take this issue more serious than any other issue in their hand,” it added. maintain law and order with full authority.

The process of social assimilation, noted JEDS Assam, is of “utmost importance in which, besides the Govt, the civil society and

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Dated Kohima, the 8th May 2014

NOTICE INVITING TENDER.

The Chief Engineer PWD (R&B) on behalf of the Governor of Nagaland invites short tender notice for the following mentioned works from the Registered Contractors of Nagaland PWD Class-I/CPWD/MES on percentage basis as per / above /below Scheduled of Rate 2013 NPWD. Sl. No

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1 Construction of Foothill Road Connectivity -Tizit to Suffry River under Mon Sector Length-17.00 kms (Site Clearance, Earthwork in road formation & Surface side drain), Nagaland 2 Construction of Foothill Road Connectivity -Yajang-C To 60.80th km near Longtho MI Project -Total Length=34.52 Kms under Mokokchung Sector. ( Site Clearance, Earthwork in road formation & Surface side drain), Nagaland

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The Bid will be opened on the same day at 13.00 hrs. in the Office of the Chief Engineer PWD (R&B) Nagaland, Kohima.

2. The sealed envelope should clearly specify the name of work.

3. Contractors are advised to purchase the bidding Tender documents from the Office of the Chief Engineer, PWD (R&B) Nagaland Kohima from 12th May’ 2014 upto 16th May’ 2014. The tender documents shall be issued on payment as mentioned above during office working hour.

4. The criteria for issue of tender documents in respect of eligible registered contractors will be given provided they have completed one similar nature of work individually during the last 5(five) years costing not less than 1/3 th of the tender value of the above mentioned work.

5. The tenderer should not have abandoned any Roads & Bridges project in hand.

6. The undersigned reserves the right to accept or reject any or all tenders without assigning any reason thereof.

7. The acceptance of the lowest tender is not obligatory.

8. Works Tax will be deducted out of the Contract amount and forest tax etc will be deducted as per the prevailing rate of the State Govt.

9. Other details can be obtained from the Office the undersigned during purchase of Bidding Documents.

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ounds and hurts not transformed are always transferred”. The soon-to-conclude fight for the Lok Sabha seats has revealed again the terrible truth in this observation, and how the transferring can go on and on.

Zahiruddin Mohammad Babur, also called Babar, the founder of the Moghul Empire, built the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in the 16th century. Many Hindus believe he built the mosque on the site where Ram was born. The BJP organized the Rath Yatras across India to build Ram

Temple on the site of the Masjid. The campaign to build the Temple tells the story of the hidden outrage in Hindus against the humiliation inflicted on them by Muslim conquerors down the centuries.

The Masjid was eventually demolished by right-wing Hindu extremists in the Yatras during Narasimha Rao’s tenure as the IndiraCongress Prime Minister.

The demolition revealed the untransformed bitterness still in many hearts that energizes Hindutva’s Hindu nationalism that easily starts to cry for revenge and honour if it is

raked up for politics. What Narasimha Rao the consummate power player really knew and thought about the demolition that took place not all that far from Delhi will be known only to him and Ram and Allah. That’s a related story.

Watching on TV the “Wave” stirred up by ‘Modi the Hindutva polarizer’ calling himself Mr. Development yet igniting fear and producing a Muslim counter wave provoking a greater wave in turn from the Hindu masses, one recalls the appeal Vamuzo, who had just taken as the

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ately the Nagaland Pollution Control Board has been receiving complains of loud music from hotels in Dimapur city that runs late into the night. Loud music is also disturbing the Dimapur Civil hospital at night and the authorities had expressed concern.

The owners of hotels / buildings; where such activities are taking place, are requested to see that they do not disturb the quality of the environment by playing loud music late into the night. Music to you may be noise to your neighbor so please think of your neighbours.

Related rules under Noise Pollution (Regulation & Control) Rules 2000, which restrict the use of loud speakers / public address system or any sound producing instrument or musical instrument or a sound amplifier: 1. A loud speaker or a public address system shall not be used except after obtaining written permission from the Deputy Commissioner.

2. A loud speaker or a public address system or any sound producing instrument or musical instrument or a sound amplifier shall not be used at night (between 10:00 pm to 6:00am) except in closed premises for communication within e.g. auditoria, conference rooms, community halls and banquet halls or during a public emergency.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule(2). The State Government may subject to such terms and conditions as are necessary to reduce noise pollution permit use of loud speakers or public address systems during night hour (between 10:00pm to 12:00 midnight) on or during any cultural or religious festival occasion of a limited duration not exceeding fifteen days in all during a calendar year.

4. The Deputy Commissioner is the authority for maintaining the Ambient Air Quality Standards in respect of noise under the above rule.

It is hoped that good sense will prevail.

Rusovil John Member Secretary Nagaland Pollution control Board

were also present with the Imam. After paying tribute to the magnificent, many facetted heritage so evident all over Delhi that Islam has bequeathed to modern India, Vamuzo said: “Our voice and our numerical strength are insignificant in the present dispute between the two contending giants, the Hindus and the Muslims. But on behalf of my people, the Nagas, I would like to say that to countless millions of devout Hindus, Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Ram, must be what Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, is to us Christians.

So we can understand what they feel. I venture therefore to humbly but urgently appeal to you to please make an inspired gesture that will touch and satisfy the hearts of the Hindus without harming the dignity and message of Islam. Indeed in doing what is right for Hindus on this issue will be strong affirmation of the true greatness of Islam. Such a generous gesture would lead to the followers of all the religions of India offering to help our Hindu brothers and sisters to build a temple for understanding, healing and true wor-

ship. In view of the rising communal tension in the country, allow me to make this fervent appeal to your Eminence for high statesmanship”.

Cutting across the palpable tension in the room and looking straight at the Muslim leaders Vamuzo spoke from his heart. Shahi Imam Bukhari listened quietly and nodded gently in response revealing the burden of history weighing on his shoulders. The editor of an Urdu paper in UP who had acted as interpreter said, as he escorted Vamuzo to his car, “I was so moved by the challenge of

the appeal from the Naga people that you expressed, I found it difficult to speak.

Thank you for thinking of us and trying to help us.”

It was a creative and imaginative thought projected into the crisis. Shahi Imam did not rise to the appeal. It did not change the situation. But it showed the contribution that thinking and going in the right direction can make despite our many limitations. *“Vamuzo and the Naga Politics” by Zapra Chakhesang, 2001. NV Press, Kohima.

Niketu Iralu

The spiritual and material responsibilities of humankind to human affairs

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he Highway Markets especially on Dimapur Road, were highly appreciated by all some years ago. But, today they are turning out to be inconveniences and accident risks as well as reasons of traffic jams. There is need for urgent rethinks and remedial actions.

We have outgrown these amenities just as we outgrow our shoes and clothes. Gone are the days when roadside markets had to be the only shopping modes.

new Chief Minister of Nagaland, tried to make to the Muslims of India.* One of the first initiatives VP Singh took after he became the Prime Minister was to call a conference of all the Chief Ministers of India to evolve a consensus on the crisis created by the upheaval over Babri Masjid.

The first thing Vamuzo did on reaching Delhi was to call on the Shahi Imam Bukhari of the Jama Masjid, the leading Muslim voice in the crisis at the time. The members of the powerful committee for the protection of Babri Masjid

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n a recent talk about the present political instability in Nagaland by some concerned citizens, one of our friends expressed his opinion that our present political and socio- economic problems are all spiritual problems in nature. I for one fully agreed with his analysis of our present problems. But the question I asked the group was “Who has created these spiritual problems in our land?” After all no human problems come into existence without someone causing it to happen.

However, as to its cause, we of course cannot say that spiritual problems are related to spiritual things and since God is a spirit, God must have created these spiritual problems in our lands.” That being an obvious illogical explanation, who then has created these spiritual politico-social and economic problems in our lands?

To begin with, let us first be clear about the following spiritual and material facts: 1. The material has not created the spiritual but it is the spiritual that has created the material.

Now, we all know that the material universe was not created by material human beings or material objects like stones, wood or material living cells like plasma or chemicals whatsoever.

Here, so called scientific theories like the Evolution theory are just theories and not proven scientific facts. Only the naïve and the credulous blindly believe whatever the scientists say. In fact, at the end of the day, evolutionary scientists are asserting a most unscientific theory when they defend the theory of evolution. This is because modern science has now shown through Thermodynamics Law 1(The conser-

vation of matter), that matter is totally incapable of creating itself. Hence, the only other logical and rational option is to accept that some other non material spiritual being created the material universe and all that is in it. And this is precisely where the theological explanation gives the only reasonable explanation. Now, the theological explanation says that God who is a spirit (Jn.4:24), has revealed through the Bible that the material world was created by him. In Gen. 1:1 we are told: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Again in Heb. 11:3 we are told: “By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.” The material therefore rests on the spiritual and not vice versa. And that being the case, the material has its existence from the spiritual.

2. The spiritual has given commandments and laws for the running and operation of the material.

This second fact means that all social, political and economic problems are ultimately connected to spiritual things and are therefore ultimately spiritual problems. Now, in Nagaland, there is a tendency to think that when we talk about spiritual things, we are only talking about matters related to God, the Church and its activities. We think that by spiritual matters, we are talking only about salvation, attending Church services, tithing, baptisms, holy matrimonies etc. What we fail to realize as a result, is that when we talk about political, economic and social matters, we think we are talking about material and non spiritual things! We however must get out of this mindset

and understand that, besides our spiritual and religious duties we also have political, economic and social duties which are all spirit related and therefore equally spiritual duties. For example, when the Pharisees tested Jesus and asked him what the greatest commandment was, he replied them saying that loving the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and mind and our neighbors as ourselves was the greatest commandment(Matt. 22:3740). Now, we cannot divide this verse and say that the first section is towards God and therefore spiritual; but the second part being towards man is material. What I mean to say is that all duties of man- whether religious duties or political duties or economic duties lies in the realm of the material world. (After all, we don’t go into a spiritual world to perform a holy matrimony or to worship God). Now, in this spirit-material relationship, only God is outside the material world and is not dependent on the material world for his origin or survival. He is also not limited by the physical laws of the world. For example Jesus was not bound by the physical law of gravity when he ascended back to heaven after his resurrection. But the important thing that we have to understand is that the invisible God has given us both religious spiritual duties as well as religious political and social duties for our survival in this material world. Consequently, when we fail in these spiritual political and social duties, we have spiritual political and social problems.

Let us now consider how our irresponsible as well as deliberate acts of indifference to God’s political laws have brought about our present political

mess. In my last article I had pointed to the fact that God is both the giver of our political as well as geographical identities. On this matter, Acts 17:26 says: “And he (God) made from one (Adam) every nation of man to live on the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation.” Now, our ancestors have inhabited the allotted boundaries of our habitation for thousands of years. But when our “allotted time” to become a modern nation state came in the 20th century (beginning from the 1929 Simon Commission onwards), we hoisted our flag on 14th August 1947.

In the subsequent years of defending that declared independence, the illiterate Naga did his duty but what did most of us other educated Nagas do? With the exception of Scato Swu who was a graduate, what did our other graduates and post graduates do for God and for country? Yes where were all the Naga IAS officers when our soldiers were marching to Pakistan and China?

Some of these retired officers are today pointing their fingers against this leader and that leader for all the political and economic mess of Nagaland today? The counter question to them is: What did they do for the nation and the national cause for all these years of their lives living in Nagaland?

Can a nation run away from its spiritual political duties and still hope for a political miracle to fall down from the heavens? On the contrary, if we fail in our political duties, we will reap the consequences of that failure not only in the political dimension but even in our economic, social and religious dimensions.

Kaka D. Iralu

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he election 2014 in India is nearing completion and we are eagerly awaiting the result that will be declared on 16th May 2014 to elect the new Prime Minister of India.

The world is watching who would be the next leader for India to lead the people. Leadership is what we need today. The world will be like sheep without a shepherd if there were no leaders. Leadership is a quality common to all social animals. When we look around the world in which we live, we observe that the pride of lions is led by one dominant male, a herd of elephant has a leader, migratory birds show social behaviour and are led by a dominant individual while the rest follow the leader. Likewise all human societies, groups and communities have their respective leaders from time immemorial. Every congregation of human beings; be it at

the micro level of religious or other groups and communities, or at the macro level of societies and nations, is bound to be headed by someone who stands out above the others and acts as a guide or a leader.

Leadership is a topic with universal appeal, in the popular press, academic research literature and much has been written about leadership.

Despite the abundance of writing on the topic, leadership has presented a major challenge to practitioners and researchers interested in understanding the nature of leadership. It is a highly valued phenomenon that is very complex. Through the years, leadership has been defined and conceptualized in many ways. The component common to nearly all classifications is that leadership is an influence process that assist group of individual toward goal attainment, it is a process where-

by an individual influences a group of individual to achieve a common goal.

The common forms of leadership are assigned emergent. Assigned leadership is based on a formal title or position in an organisation. Emergent leadership result from what one does and how one acquires support from followers. Leadership as a process applies to individual in both assigned roles and emergent roles. Here we have to understand the nature of leadership that we have today in our communities and society.

Leadership is an important factor for making any type of organisation successful. Throughout the history it has been recognised that the difference between success and failure, whether in a war or a political movement, a business or a team game, can be attributed largely to leadership. It is essential for the proper function-

ing of any society that work be clearly defined and assigned to different individual and would be required to supervise activities in each specialised area of work. These individuals in turn may be superseded by another individual who would co-ordinate and supervise their work. A leader is essential for smooth and proper functioning of any society, animals or human, primitive or highly evolved.

“He who would be the greatest among shall be the servant of all,” said Jesus our greatest leader and master. Similarly the maxim goes,” A true leader is a true servant.” A leader is supposed to serve his people. He/ She should be committed, honest and fully give himself / herself to work for the welfare of the people. A leader must be socially aware and conscious and have qualities of a magnetic personality, highly developed communication

skills, courage, physical fitness, pragmatism, tolerance and care for others.

One major attraction of leadership is the immense power, the recognition and the position it incorporates. It is unfortunate that many people get motivated solely by their greed for power and aspire to become and often become so as a leader. They cause damage to the social fabric through their selfish motives and preoccupation that hampers of the development of the society. Nepotism, favouritism and employment opportunities in public and private sectors are clear cut example of misuse of power. The multi faceted corruption we are facing today and lack of progress and development in our society are the outcome of greedy and wrong leaders. So, it is necessary to be wise enough to carefully elect or select good and capable leaders to lead us.

Leadership is universal and a necessity of every society for human development. Without leaders no society or nation can progress. And without a capable leader a society generally tends to degenerate, fall victim to decadence and finally degenerate. Good leaders are immensely popular, enjoy massive support and often leave an indelible impression on a nation’s character besides providing standards of excellence and dedication. The elections are over and the leaders to lead our nation need rethinking and regenerate the resources for the development of our society. A leader is one who makes sure that all his people receive fair share due to them. Hope this will happen this time, a right leader for our society today.

David Tep St. Joseph’s College Jakhama - Nagaland

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BJP Nagaland unit clarifies DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): The Nagaland state unit of the BJP has stated that the party, being a pre- poll alliance partner with DAN 3, “shall stand and support whichever consensus candidate the major NPF- partner will decide to support.” A press note from the BJP Nagaland Spokesman and General Secretary, K James Vizo stated that an earlier press stateFriends for the Poor Society, a Dimapur-based NGO, distributed relief material to the victims of the April 12 fire incident at L. Akuto colony, Signal Basti, Dimapur on May 8. Each of the 158 families affected by the fire was doled out basic household amenities ranging from utensils to rice. In the picture are volunteers handing away the relief items to one of the victims on Thursday. Friends for the Poor Society, started in 1998, is run under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.

ment issued by the party on the issue of the next Chief Minister for Nagaland state, was “made by some vested party workers” and that “it is of their own personal opinion, which has nothing to do with the party.” President of the BJP Nagaland unit, Dr M Chuba Ao reminded all party members that unless authorized, “all official press releases related to state affairs, policies and

programmes of the party will be released by the party spokesperson and media convener as per the party decision only.” The party further directed its members to “refrain from directly going to the media using the party name and voicing their individual opinion on this subject matter - “who will be the next CM, since it is internal matter of the other political party.”

JOK annual meeting on May 10 KohIMA, MAY 8 (MExN): The Jotsoma Officers’ Krotho (JOK) will hold its 10th annual meeting cum felicitation on May 10 at 10:30 am at Centenary Compound, Jotsoma.

Minister for Social Welfare, Kiyaneilie Peseyie, will grace the occasion as the chief guest while Kel-

houseto Nakhro, Deputy Secretary NPSC, will exhort the gathering.

All the members of the Krotho have been requested to bring annual membership fee of Rs. 500 and also a one-time donation of Rs. 2000 for those who have not paid. Leaders and elders of Jotsoma village

have also been invited to the programme.

The function will be chaired by JOK chairman Er. Kevide Nakhro while felicitation to successful candidates of NPSC and others will be led by Kenny Peseyie.

Vote of thanks will be proposed by JOK vice president Kenilhusa Senotsu.

SBC Unity Village organizes Revival Hour DC Tuensang, T Mhabemo Yanthan, with others during the Saarksar Bharat Interpersonal Media Campaigning & Training for Preraks at Tuensang town hall on May 8.

The programme, which was organised by SLMA in collaboration with DLMA, included topics on electoral literacy, legal literacy, rights, rights and entitlement, interpersonal media campaign, financial literacy etc. (DIPR Photo)

DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): The Sümi Baptist Church, Unity Village organized a three day Revival Hour from May 2 to 4 with Kahoto Jimo, Pastor, Sakipheto Baptist Church and Rev. Heikhu Achumi, Retired Pastor of Thilixü Baptist Church on the theme “Return to me and Receive Blessing”.

This Revival Hour was organized to prepare the

church members in the follow up to host the WSBAK Revival Hour in 2016.

Opening the theme, Pastor cautioned the congregation to be alert and work for the blessings that has to be reaped in 2016, for which we must sow the seeds today itself and keep nurturing it.

There were special sessions for Fathers, Mothers and Youths during the Re-

vival Hour. Prayer warriors from Henivi Prayer Centre were the counselors during the Revival Hour. The Revival culminated on Sunday evening general session with Rev. Heikhu who brought the blessings for the church members. The Deacon Board of SBC thanked all those who have contributed in making the Revival Hour a success.

AR apprehends three cadres DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): A routine mobile Food processing Industries Cell from the Directorate of Industries & Commerce, along with the District Industries Centre, Longleng, successfully conducted a one day semi- check post of 29 AR internar cum awareness programme on National Mission on Food Processing ( NMFP) at cepted an individual moving in vehicle with a bag in Longleng Town D.I.C Complex on April 28.

Dhansiripar on May 5. A press release from PRO, Assam Rifles, informed that an amount of Rs. 3,01,000/- and incriminating documents related to extortion were recovered from him. The indi-

vidual was identified as Corporal Sunep Ao (34) of the NSCN (IM). The individual revealed that he was asked to collect the above mentioned money from Super Market area. The apprehended along with recovered items was later handed over to Sub Urban Police Station, Dimapur.

In another operation on May 6 near Baghty village, 17

AR apprehended two NSCN (K) cadres identified as Rajapeyu Mhonthung Lotha and Second Liutenant Renbi Lotha were apprehended.

One .22 Pistol along with one magazine were recovered from the two. The apprehended persons along with recovered items were handed over to Bhandari Police, PRO AR stated.

Mokokchung celebrates World Red Cross Day The Lasumi Baptist Church celebrated Mother’s Day for the first time with the mothers residing in different places and mothers who have married into other communities on May 3 and 4, under the theme “Treasuring Family Value”. The speakers for the program were Welhipe-ü Medo and Neipete-ü Athisü. Resource person for the workshop was Mezivolu T. Therieh. Nevolu Therie extended greetings, and Ngulo-ü Therieh, the first person from Lasumi Village to convert to Christianity gave a short speech.

MoKoKChUNG, MAY 8 (MExN): The Indian Red Cross Society Mokokchung District Branch today celebrated the “World Red Cross Day” on the Theme “My Red Cross Story.”

A press note from Dr. Takosunep Ao, Honorary Secretary, IRCS Mokokchung, informed that 40 Junior Red Cross members from four schools with their Teacher Counselors partici-

OrganiSatiOnS cOndOleS dukru’S demiSe ANCA The All Nagaland Counselors Association (ANCA) mourned the early demise of late Deo Dukru, headmaster Govt. High School Nerhema village under Kohima district. ANCA president Zavise Rume in a condolence message stated, “Late Dukru was a great teacher, educationist and a social leader who had done so much for our society. His contributions to the society will be remembered in the days to come. “In his death, we lost a great leader,” the message stated and further prayed to Almighty to grant eternal peace to the departed soul.

ACWA The Angami Catholic Women Association has expressed deep pain over the tragic demise of Theo-

dore Deo Dukru, former president of Catholic Association of Nagaland.

Stating that the passing away of this great Catholic Stalwart is a tremendous loss to the Catholic community of Nagaland, it has shared the grief along with all his near and dear ones and prayed that God will welcome him to paradise and also grant comfort and solace to his family in this very dark moment.

CYF The Chakhesang Youth Front has expressed sadness to hear the untimely demise of Deo Dukru on May 2, while stating that he was a well meaning and concerned citizen and that the CYF has lost a great person in his sudden demise.

A condolence message issued by Zhopayi Nakro, President CYF said that he always put society first and

was an educated and analytical person, and was of great asset to the Chakhesang community. Extending their deepest sympathy and solidarity to the bereaved family, it prayed for his soul to rest in peace.

CGOA The Chakhesang Gazetted Officers’ Association has expressed shock to hear the sudden demise of Deo Dukru of Zhavame village, who was till recently serving as Headmaster of Government High School. The CGOA, in its condolence message, said he was a conscientious person, sincere in his duties as an educationist and was a man who showed serious concern in all social issues in the state, and was an officer with a vision for his people who had also served as the Joint Secretary of the

Chakhesang Gazetted Officers’ Association during 2005-06. With his demise, it said, the Chakhesang community in particular and the Nagas in general have lost an able officer. It extended its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that God grant them solace.

NSU The Nerhema Students’ Union has expressed shock and sadness at the sudden demise of Theodore Deo Dukru, Headmaster of Government High School, Nerhema, who breathed his last while journeying to Guwahati. The Union has offered its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed that the Almighty God will grant them solace at this time of untold grief.

pated in token distribution of Red Cross badge along with donation drive in the town. IRCS Mokokchung expressed thanks to everyone who contributed to the Red Cross Movement.

An Essay competition on the theme ‘My Red Cross Story’ was also conducted among the JRC members.

MEx FILE Inter Ward Social Work exchange programme KohIMA, MAY 8 (MExN): As per the discussion taken on May 1 with the Ward Sanitation Committee convenor, the Inter Ward Social Work exchange programme for the month of May will take place on May 10 at D Block (Ward No. 6) and on May 31 at Officers Hill and Hospital Colony (Ward No. 10). Stating this in a release, Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) administrator Lithrongla Tongpi requested the other wards to assist the selected wards with their vehicles and labourers.

The KMC will also assist the ward with the machineries.

Duncan Basti Council informs of social work DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): In preparation of the forthcoming inaugural and dedication of the newly constructed Community Hall on May 17, the Duncan Council has decided in its meeting held on April 21 to have a social work on May 10 starting from 8 am. A press release from the General Secretary Dr. Y. Y. Kikon, and the Chairman Er. Imti Longkumer, requested all the residents of Duncan Bosti including the council members to participate in the social work.

NSCN (IM) recovers bike DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): The office of the Union Territory, Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim, has issued a public notice about the recovery of a Bike - Pulsar 150 cc Black bearing Regd. No. NL-07J-7230, Chasis No. DHGBU676348, Engine No. MD2DHDZZUCE97804. A press note from Khekuto Jakhalu, Secretary, UT GPRN, informed that the bike was recovered on May 7 at 2:30 am. In this regard, the Secretary informed the rightful owner to bring necessary documents and claim the vehicle within 7 days. For further enquiries, contact – 9436971965 / 8575659190.

NSCN (K) Chakhesang Region conveys gratitude DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): The NSCN (K) Chakhesang Region has conveyed “heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the higher up functionaries of the NSCN (K) for induction of Kilonser Thupuvezo by attributing the portfolio of Law & Justice and Mineral Resources for strengthening the ministry as well as easy administration at large.” A press release from Zacupoyi Nyekha, Chairman, Chakhesang Region, NSCN (K) stated. “The NSCN/GPRN (K) Chakhesang Region pray to our Almighty God to protect our leader S.S. Khaplang and his fellow associates and to bless them with better health and longevity of life. So that our Naga nation solidarity could be bring forth to achieve our long cherish goal with Thy guidance and blessings,” the press note stated.

GBs and Chairmen of Ward No. 23 forms new body DIMAPUR, MAY 8 (MExN): The GBs and Chairmen representing seven colonies under Ward No. 23, Dimapur, viz. - Nagagaon colony, Y. Zhimo Colony, Viola Colony, Signal Colony, Metha Colony, Rio Colony, Lhomthi Colony, in a meeting formed a body with Panger Imchen and Mhashevikho (Apalo) Zao as the newly elected chairman and secretary respectively. A press release from the duo stated that the body strongly supports ACAUT and pledges to stand by the “One Government one tax” resolution. Further, it stated that any colony under Ward No. 23 violating the decision of the body shall be held responsible and bear consequences of violation. Appreciating the importance of ACAUT, the body also challenged other colonies, villages, and wards, to support ACAUT and extend all possible help to bring into reality “One government, one tax.”

NSSATA Wokha calls off agitation W o K h A , M AY 8 (MExN): The NSSATA Wokha Unit has called off the agitation, “accepting the thorough deliberation and understanding arrived at between the concerned department and the Naga Mothers Association (NMA) with NSSATA.” A press release from the Action Committee, NSSATA Wokha Unit, stated.

The unit stated that its members during the last meeting expressed that such unwanted delay in payment of salary should never repeat

in future, further requested the Department to uphold the conclusion arrived at during the meeting with NMA and NSSATA. On behalf of all affected teachers, the Wokha unit requested the concerned authority to withdraw the show cause notice served to the President and General Secretary of Central NSSATA, as an act of honor to the understanding being arrived between the Department and NMA with NSSATA. The unit appealed to

the Department to feel the hardships being faced by the teachers, and make necessary adjustment to clear up the salary for the month of March 2014.

The Unit further acknowledged Kyong Students' Union, Wokha Circle Students' Union, Zubemo Ngullie, Team metamorphosis, and Humri Bakers for providing refreshments, besides individuals, general public and NGOs from Wokha, who have cooperated and supported the genuine cause of the teachers.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express FrIDAy 9 MAy 2014 voluME IX IssuE 125

Along Longkumer Consulting Editor

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Michael Nagler and Karen Ridd

HUMOR BUT NOT HUMILIATION:

School Dropouts Finding the sweet spot in nonviolent conflict resolution

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an a government school produce good results? Can a government school produce nil results? Thankfully, yes is the answer to both the above two question if we go by the results of this year’s High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC). Government schools are well known for its dismal performance and therefore producing nil results is not surprising at all. This year too, 24 schools had zero pass percentage. The good news is that this year two students studying in government schools were placed in the top ten of the HSLC. For too long now, government schools have received negative publicity due to the dismal results it produces year after year. It is only fitting therefore that we must highlight the achievement of the Government school, Botsa and Rüzhükhrie Government Higher Secondary School, both under Kohima district, for the encouraging results.

It shows that a government school can also do well if there is collective effort of teachers, parents and students.

It will however be too premature to celebrate the success of government schools in general given that good academic performance and results will have to be sustained over time and replicated across the numerous government schools throughout the State. This will require the school system to function in a professional manner and to remain motivated. Society, especially the parents and students must also do their part to enable the growth of quality education. Also, the disillusionment with the present system unless addressed will continue to produce everything mediocre. For one, the practice of bogus appointments or issuing random transfer orders, which are largely the result of external interference in teachers’ recruitment and transfers by the politicians, has to be stopped. Also, besides holding of open competitive examinations for recruitment of teachers, monitoring and evaluation of schools should be carried out vigorously.

Let us now dwell on a concern that is often ignored while discussing HSLC/HSSLC results, including by the media. While it is easy to go hammer and tongs on the poor performance of government schools, what is the fate of those students, who fail in the examination? The failure to clear exams often leads students to drop out of school. We hear of many Class 10 dropouts in Nagaland, who can then become a liability for society. Although there is no official statistics as such, nevertheless, every year there are likely to be large number of dropouts. For instance, this year the overall HSLC pass percentage was around 65%. The remaining 35% of students would probably re-appear the exams but many could also end up in the category of school dropouts.

This is an area of concern for all of us. Something has to be done to help students cope with academic failure so that they don’t become frustrated with life and end up doing nothing in life, which in the long run will become a burden for our society. In fact the ideal thing is that no student should be out of school. However in reality this may not be possible. Even in an advanced country like the United States, the school dropout problem is a severe epidemic.

Perhaps, there is a need to identify potential dropouts and effective interventions made. School dropouts are more likely to turn to crime and other antisocial activities. Social intervention must be made to make sure that every young person’s worth and talent is acknowledged and channeled into something useful and productive for our nation. Surely the problem of school dropouts cannot be taken lightly.

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ARVIND KEJRIWAL: A politics of articulated angst

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e may be a toddler in Indian politics but Arvind Kejriwal is also its "sole symbol of hope, a true aberration to the existing structures, an outsider who has challenged established parties and ideas of the past". The Congress and the BJP may speak about the young but it took a 74-year-old, Anna Hazare, to capture the imagination of this segment. But it was Kejriwal who, with his realization that only political involvement could make a decisive difference to the battle against corruption, brought about a near revolution in Delhi in the December 2013 assembly election.

This book is a meticulous study of the birth and spread of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that presided over Delhi for 49 short days before Kejriwal decided to dump his minority government for the sake of the Jan Lokpal Bill.

Title: The Disrupter: This book is as much a comprehensive and critiArvind Kejriwal and cal study of Kejriwal and the Audacious Rise of his AAP as it is about the "audacious aam aadmi" the Aam Aadmi; the hero of today's India.

Author: Gautam It speaks admiringly of Kejriwal, his ideas, his ideChikermane with als, his passion, his team Soma Banerjee; and his stubborn determination to take on an Publisher: Rupa; entrenched system. But Pages: 225; the authors are not into hero worship: they point Price: Rs.295 out when Kejriwal and the AAP floundered. One such occasion was the street protest by Kejriwal, despite being the chief minister of Delhi, an act that didn't earn the appreciation of even some AAP supporters. His sudden resignation earned widespread crticism even from admirers.

The book calls it a naïve opinion that the Jan Lokpal is the panacea to all problems of corruption in India. Kejriwal's uncritical support of the auto-rickshaw drivers of Delhi also upset the authors. They also find fault with Kejriwal for assuming that only the government can help in employment creation. But on one critical point the authors give the thumbs up to AAP: yes, it did deliver governance in Delhi.

"You could say that in less than one month, he opened the proverbial Pandora's box, lying closed for 67 years."

Is the income tax officer-turned-activist-turned AAP leader an anarchist? "Kejriwal believes that he will not be able to change the system simply by being part of it. The only way forward for him, therefore, is to break the system down." In other words, "Arvind Kejriwal is a politics of articulated angst." Not having a political past of course helps political entrepreneurs like Kejriwal. But replicating the Delhi experiment nationwide may not be easy.

The complexities within AAP are an open secret; but party insiders, the book says, believe this diversity is its strength.

Kejriwal has promised to turn the 2014 election into "a revolution in politics". But party leaders admit they do not know where they stand nationally. AAP may have taken a huge risk by spreading itself too thin in this national electoral battle. But the danger was not doing so and turning back aspirants who wanted to plunge into the AAP surge.

Kejriwal is himself fighting a major battle against a political stalwart who is determined to be India's next prime minister. "Over time, we will know whether AAP was another flash in the political pan or if it will have a lasting presence."

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ive or six men stood over me yelling as I sat in a chair at the Ministry of the Interior in San Salvador in 1989. I was there to renew my visa as a member of Peace Brigades International (PBI), an NGO that provides 'protective accompaniment' for teachers, trade unionists, students, indigenous leaders, church workers and other activists when faced by threats of violence.

I was on the verge of tears, with horror stories fresh in my mind about people who had been detained, deported or ‘disappeared’ after visits to the Ministry.

But I’d been living with, and being inspired by, Salvadorans and Guatemalans who had found many ways to act creatively and nonviolently when under pressure. I had to try something.

“No, I said, I’m not a terrorist, I’m a clown.”

The men reacted with more taunts: “Can you believe these foreigners, what liars they are? This one says she’s a clown.”

As calmly as I could, I pushed a photo of myself in clown make-up across the table, and pulled out an animal modeling balloon that I kept in my bag.

Even as I began to inflate it I could feel the tension in the room subside. The shouts and jeers died away.

By the time the rubber was twisted into the shape of a dog, the atmosphere had been transformed. “Can I have a green one?” one of my interrogators asked, “Do you make rabbits?” Out came the 143 other balloons that I’d brought with me.

I was stunned. The turnabout was so rapid and so absolute. I got my visa, and in the process I learned a fundamental lesson about the role of humor in situations of potential violence.

Humor can be very effective in establishing a human connection between parties in a conflict, and thereby defusing the conflict itself, though it can be very hard to remember when the heat is really on. In fact humor is a time-honored strategy in the repertoire of nonviolence. But like any strategy it has to be appropriately applied. And that means exposing the folly in what someone is doing without ridiculing the person or the group they belong to: “humor but not humiliation.” It’s a fine line to tread.

Aside from its effects on opponents, humor is also a great way to relieve tensions in activists themselves.

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here is a Scottish side of history and it is the right side. In our age, peaceful separation of formerly integrated political communities is part of a geopolitical grand trend, and the Scottish independence movement belongs to this enduring tendency.

In our research – and forthcoming book, Disintegration as Hope – we argue that, contrary to much theory and the common assumption, the world is not heading towards further, greater political centralization. This is very good news, if one bears in mind that in every case the integration of different territories in a larger geopolitical space has inevitably led to the rise of imperial centers and the decline of exploited and depopulated peripheries. Every England, we could say emblematically, had its Scottish province, from which resources and workforces were drained.

Too many bigger-is-better supporters often overlook the historical fact that totalitarianism and total wars have been the ultimate consequences of centuries of Western agglomeration in ever bigger modern states.

The imperial crisis of big states was foreseen by Scottish theorist Tom Nairn, under the influence of Ernest Gellner’s theory of “grand nationalism” and the anti-colonialist thinking of Antonio Gramsci – which Tom Nairn had early encountered at the time of his university journey to Pisa, Tuscany, in 1957-1958. In the post-Cold War, post1989 world the pace and the direction of the turn have become still clearer.

Actually, those who have survived total wars, modernity and its contradictions – the gains in welfare alongside unacceptable inequality - and are now living in a post-colonial and postindustrial world, are coping with the rethinking and redistribution of power.

Geopolitical disintegration may lead to the creation of a multiplicity of smaller, independent, netcitizen-based communities, which bring with them pos-

Mahatma Gandhi once said that if it had not been for his sense of humor, he would have gone mad long ago in the face of such disharmony and hatred.

On the other hand, humor has a dark side, and it can easily backfire. To take one recent example, someone in the U.S. activist community got the bright idea of renaming General David Petraeus as “General BetrayUs.” At the time he was the Commander of the U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan. A good joke maybe, but it was widely regarded as a personal affront in poor taste that did nothing to build the anti-war movement in the USA. A similar attempt to style General William Westmoreland as “WasteMoreLand” decades earlier had not backfired as badly, but it still did no appreciable good in strengthening public support for the struggle against the war in Vietnam.

These examples illustrate an important rule of thumb that needs to be born in mind when invoking the power of humor to dissolve tensions in any nonviolent interaction: remember that you are not against the well-being of the person or people you are opposing.

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved in a way that benefits all of the parties in some shape or form, so no good is served by making alienation even worse. Humiliation is the most potent way of alienating anyone, a fact that activists sometimes forget.

The underlying good of all is served when a conflict can be moved towards the ultimate goal of reconciliation. This isn’t just a moral maxim; it makes solid, practical sense. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

This rule of thumb applies even when we are laughing at ourselves. Of course, it’s always helpful not to take oneself too seriously, but selfdirected humor has to be aimed with the same precaution in mind - to laugh at something that we’ve done or said, not at who or what we are. In nonviolence, we should not accept humiliation any more than we should dish it out.

Whether we ourselves or others are the target, the key is to poke fun at the behavior or the attitudes that are causing the problems, not at the person. This allows opponents to put some distance between themselves and what they are thinking or

doing - to relax their identification with destructive feelings and actions as an inherent part of their identity, and thus begin to let go.

When we can use humor skillfully, we’re well positioned to apply this basic rule of thumb in situations that aren’t funny at all.

In the same year as my visit to the Ministry of the Interior, I was briefly detained and imprisoned in El Salvador. At the time I was arrested, I was in a church refugee centre, trying to protect the safety of Salvadoran refugees and church workers who were inside. The Salvadoran military invaded the centre, scattered the refugees, detained the workers, and took me and four other PBI workers to the Treasury Police Jail. I was blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated, kept standing without food and water, and threatened with rape and mutilation.

This was a torture centre; that much I knew. I had Salvadoran friends who had been tortured in this prison, and I could hear torture all around me.

Under my blindfold I caught glimpses of people, broken, lying on the ground. But I also knew that I had lots of people watching what was happening to me. PBI had activated a “phone tree” through which people put pressure on the Salvadoran authorities and my own government in Canada using phone calls and faxes. I heard later that the President of El Salvador had called the jail twice himself that day. As the pressure mounted, the guards relented, and then said they would release me.

I said “no.”

I had been imprisoned with Marcela Rodriguez Diaz, a Colombian colleague, and my North American life was being valued more than hers, so I refused to leave the jail without her. Instead I was re-imprisoned and stayed until we could both be released.

The guards, their questions laced with sexual innuendo, challenged me: “Do you miss us?” they asked, “do you want us?” “No… of course I don’t want to be here,” I replied, “but you are soldiers, you know what solidarity is. You know that if a comrade is down or fallen in battle, you wouldn’t leave them, and I can’t leave my comrade, not now, not here. You understand.”

I don't know what response I thought I would get.

After all, I was speaking to a group of torturers. Yet I knew that by placing the guards in what Martin Luther King called a “dilemma action” I had some hope of changing their behavior: if they agreed with me they would have to implicitly acknowledge our joint humanity. If they disagreed they would show - even to themselves - that they were inhumane.

The guards went silent. Then after a long while one of them said, “Yes... we know why you are here.” From that point onwards, other guards kept coming from all around the jail, looking for the two that they had heard about, the “inseparable ones.” Just like at the Ministry, I had found a connection - a shared space of humanity - in which the threat of violence could be confronted without alienating those involved.

My small gesture of returning to jail for my friend, combined with the phone calls and other messages that PBI supporters around the world had sent to the Salvadoran government on our behalf, eventually led to our joint release.

Let’s be clear: there is no guarantee that actions like these will have the desired effect. No one can predict for sure that an opponent will be detached enough to look or laugh at themselves without feeling that they are the behavior that is being singled out. But we can’t afford to ignore humor just because it doesn’t always work.

In fact, there is a sense that humor, when used in the right spirit, does always work: it always puts quarrels into a larger context, and it humanizes the grimmest of situations. Even if the effects aren’t immediately visible, humor changes things for the better.

The Scottish side of history Mauro vaiani sibilities of local and concrete fostering of equality and sustainability, responsibility and prosperity, inclusion and peace.

Many people have achieved gains in education, welfare, information, access to international currencies, a global jobs and opportunity market, internet connection, smartphones, free speech, the freedom to organize demonstrations and electoral power. It is highly probable that they will use this considerable power to self-determine their lives, their territories and their common good. It would be surprising if they did not.

And they are very likely to use it peacefully, because the Gandhian lesson has become part of global consciousness. To use Gene Sharp's words: violence is today largely a specialty of imperial centers. They are almost invincible on that ground - as we are seeing in the Syrian drama and the events in Afghanistan, Somalia, Mexico, where imperial mercenaries are artificially prolonging very debatable imperial wars. But this is the subject of another discussion.

The specialty of grassroots, peaceful movements is, in sharp contrast to imperial violence, mass non-collaboration, which in every contemporary, complex society is capable of calling into question every sort of authoritarianism and centralism.

We look then at disintegration with hope. This is not naive optimism but a realistic assessment of the decline of war and violence, that has been confirmed in many studies and reports (most recently by the Human

Security Report, http://www.hsrgroup.org/, 2013).

The contemporary Gramscian “Prince” used to be a modern, hegemonic, political party. Today this subject tends to take the form of more liquid net-citizenries – wide, inclusive, networks of netizens (net-citizens) - which are coming out as “modern princely peoples”, sovereign in their territories. This evolution is still under scrutiny, but it ought to meet with more interest than opposition.

We are not naively forecasting a proliferation of states and statelets, however, if for no other reason than the fact that so many self-governing territories within bigger states – not only in “liberal” Canada and Australia, but also in “authoritarian” China and Russia – are concretely much more sovereign than many independent states, thus neither needing nor seeking the label of formal independence.

We do not then intend to predict the Scottish referendum results. Moreover, Scottish public opinion is well aware that – in the British pragmatic and elastic constitutional context – the difference between full and formal independence (New Zealand style, for instance) and the so-called devo-max (similar, perhaps, to the Isle of Man's status) is not that great, even if it is important. It does make a difference in the way the country will deal with the Westminster power machine; in how it makes choices in the areas of internal equality, social welfare and common goods; in re-discussing EU and NATO membership; and in managing relations with the UN and other interna-

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tional organizations.

The highest ranking positions in terms of socially meaningful indices – equality, welfare, environmental protection and freedom – are occupied by self-governing autonomous regions, de facto independent units, and especially small independent republics.

There are, indeed, very strong pro-independence arguments.

Only full independent states may take advantage of using strong international currencies (the Dollar, Euro, Pound or Swiss Franc), but also their freedom to create local currencies and, even more importantly, to authorize direct exchange between labour and goods produced locally, strengthening local small business and social justice.

They enjoy the blessing of closeness between citizens and their representatives and an environment in which welfare may be realized without fiscal oppression and bureaucratic gigantism. They are free to differentiate and experiment, sometimes in a more progressive, sometimes in a more conservative way in issues of freedom and civil rights. And, last but not least, they are also much more viable than large states, and it is easier for them to recover, even after having collapsed – as we have seen throughout Europe, from Iceland to Latvia, from Portugal to Cyprus, during the worldwide private and public debt crisis.

A “yes” victory on September 18, 2014 will be difficult, because Scotland is not the Åland Islands or Crimea. The Scottish referendum is very problematic for the Western military-industrial complex, the big corporations and the status quo of the financial sector. But a “yes” victory can still be achieved by including ever more people in the public debate, with a bit of that Gramscian spirit – a love for the bottom-up process of participation and liberation – that impressed Nairn as a young man visiting Tuscany almost half a century ago.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

The Global Nightmares of the Young Is Gerry Adams an Irish Nelson Mandela?

Exterminatory Worlds, Then and Now Donald M. Beaudette and Cas Mudde

Tom Engelhardt

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Acknowledgments of culpability from leaders on both sides of the South African conflict to the vaunted Truth and Reconciliation Commission, were fundamental to helping the country move beyond its deeply divided past into a more peaceful future

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n high school, I was one of those kids you probably loved to loath. You know, the one who grabbed a front-row seat and every time the teacher asked a question waved his hand so manically that he was practically screaming, me, me, call on me! But truth be told, amid all the things that made me unhappy in those years, school -- actual schoolwork -- wasn’t one of them. Yes, I was confounded by the math problems in which the current of a river flowed at one speed and a boat was heading the other way at a different speed, and a few more bits of weird information were tossed into the eddies and you were supposed to do something with it all. But generally speaking I enjoyed school.

I liked my teachers -- at least the ones who challenged me to think or, as we would start saying only a few years after I was out of high school, "blew my mind," the ones who seemed to bend the world in interesting directions. I liked to learn. I liked to read by myself in my room. I went to the local library regularly and came home with piles of books. I was a dinonerd (with the American Museum of Natural History’s T. rex on the brain), and a Civil War nut (no Bruce Catton volume went unread) with a sideline in advanced sci-fi. And it being the 1950s, I harbored the sort of nuclear fears that you barely thought about and didn’t really speak about, but that, in my case, appeared repetitively in unsettling dreams in which I found myself wandering through an atomically devastated world.

I was, above all, fascinated by history, in part perhaps because my parents were of a post-immigrant generation in flight from their past. Undoubtedly, that fascination represented an early, particularly nerdish form of rebellion (not that anyone noticed). Perhaps it was also comforting to nail myself into a narrative of American life in those years when the past, as my parents and so many other Americans saw it, was hardly worth thinking about, not when the future was so promising.

But let me hasten to add that not every class in high school thrilled me. There was, for instance, my American history teacher. He was a grey-haired ancient (though undoubtedly younger than I am now) who had, we kids then assumed, been passing news of the New World on to students since at least 1776. He must once have been inspirational, but by the time I came along he was lecturing off ancient notes on yellowed paper. I used to imagine those notes dissolving into a cloud of dust with the first gust of wind through the window by his desk. I was then teaching myself a version of American history at home at night and I couldn’t have found the daytime version less impressive.

The textbook we used then -- I still have it -- was Living in Our America: A Record of Our Country, History for Young Citizens. Unit One (“The Beginnings”) started with this poem: “In our great country can be found factories with parking lots of full of automobiles -not just cars of officials and factory owners, but cars of the workmen, too.

“These cars are something more than pieces of machinery to own and ride around in.

“They are symbols.

“They are symbols that in our country we can and do earn much more than a bare living.

“They are symbols, too, that their owners are free -free to live in city, town, or country, free to move on to other work, free to seek other ways of life, free in body and spirit.”

I’m sure history texts are just as uninspiring today, but in different ways. After all, I was living then in the American Age of Steel, so long gone that -- who can remember?

On Becoming a “Red Chinese” Subject Recently, going through some old files, I stumbled across an artifact from the ruins of that era. A map I had made on a single piece of white paper hidden inside that very history book, open-faced on my desk while I fiddled away my time, bored out of my gourd, barely listening to our teacher drone on. That document is as much an artifact of a lost world as the poem, but far more complex and confusing.

It was a map of the Chinese conquest of the world, which I drew in perhaps 1959 on that piece of paper onto which I had carefully traced the outlines of all the continents. While my teacher discussed the Constitution, I took the cartographical look of the U.S. military’s Pacific island-hopping campaign of World War II, globalized it, and set it in an unimaginable future nine years distant. The map is labeled -- yes, I actually labeled it -- “War Ends Oct. 6, 1968,” and by then, in case you’re wondering, the Chinese have it all, the whole kit and caboodle, the complete planet, from Australia to the Soviet Union, where in my handwriting it says, “Russia surrenders, Sept. 1968, including Moscow, Stalingrad & other areas.”

It’s an elaborate document, including an inset key that tells you how to read the various markings I used (“original territory of China & her armies,” “routes of invading armies,” “counterattacks,” “conquered territory”). This was serious stuff!

In order to indulge my fantasy history of a future world, however, I had to deal with one obvious problem of that moment: the possibility that any war could become a nuclear holocaust. Remember, I was part of a generation of kids who grew up ducking under our desks while air raid sirens howled outside as, with our teachers, we practiced for Armageddon -- for what to do if the Russians nuked New York City.

To fight a global war of conquest, the Chinese of my imaginary universe, who then had no nuclear weapons, would have had to face a massive American nuclear arsenal. Hence, in an otherwise blank mid-Pacific, I drew a crude mushroom cloud captioned, “Atom blast destroys Pacific Isles & U.S. missile supply” (i.e. the ability to get nuclear weapons aloft). I evidently wasn’t thinking about the Strategic Air Command or the already existing Russian arsenal, but, hey, give me a break: I was

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'Who knows how the young of today are processing the nightmares of our present world'

That mid-Pacific blast was a small reminder of how difficult it was, even in my fantasies, to imagine World War II-style battle scenarios in a nuclear age.

It was, believe me, a confusing moment in ways just about no one bothered to put into words. Not surprisingly, the children of that era, experiencing the pride of parents who had returned victorious from a world war and the fear of ultimate annihilation that the war’s most wondrous weapon had engendered, were in their own ways as unsettled as the adults. The question of whether to use triumphal weapons of a suicidal nature to accomplish national ends was a new and confounding one already being played out in the movies kids could see, even if transposed to other planets or alien beings.

After all, contemplating future “global wars of annihilation” (as America’s top strategists called them in private communications with each other), you could either forswear meaningful victory by not using your nuclear arsenal or you could strike first, by surprise, taking on the uncivilized and treacherous role long reserved in American lore for the enemy. In secret directives, the “wise men” who inhabited the upper levels of Washington policymaking circles then were already planning for the possibility that 100 atomic bombs landing on targets in the United States would kill or injure 22 million Americans, and that an American “blow” (i.e. surprise nuclear attack, or “first strike”) might result in the “complete destruction” of the Soviet Union.

No wonder in my own planning I had to remove atomic weapons from the equation, leaving me with a less daunting task than visualizing extinction with penciled marks on a map. My approach to the fighting was otherwise traditional -- hundreds of tiny arrows winging their way through the boredom of my history lesson and over every land mass from Greenland to Australia. It was clearly a task meant to occupy not one class, but days of classes. To reach the United States, tiny arrow by tiny arrow, my imaginary Chinese invaders had cross the Bering Strait, meet up with another army routed through Greenland, and then sweep down on my home. (The un-American word “homeland” would not make it into the language for another 42 years.) According to that 1968 date, I would have been 24 when I became a “Red Chinese” subject.

“Enemy-Occupied Areas” Today, I look back at a boy I can barely remember from 50-plus years into a future he had no way of imagining, though even he knew that the Chinese would never conquer the world. It’s hardly surprising, in that era when fantasies of enemy invasions and communist takeovers sprouted unchecked, that an adolescent, even from a liberal New York City family, would have absorbed the mind-set of his society. And so it’s no shock that my map of that moment did, in fact, trace a horror story that would soon obsess Kennedy-era officials like Secretary of State Dean Rusk and military adviser General Maxwell Taylor, who believed Chinese “aggression” and “expansionism” presented dangers not just for Asia, but for the world.

Yet, as with all ancient documents written in languages no longer easily decipherable -- as anyone knows who has ever followed the tale of the decrypting of Linear B, the lost language of ancient Crete -- you have to be careful how you interpret the markings of another time, including those on my map. One thing I still know about it, however, is that it was something more than a child’s version of Cold War fantasies and fears.

To make that map in a class presenting an idealized view of state and citizen, to make it inside a textbook whose dedicatory spirit was embodied in an ode to the American car, constituted a barely conscious act of opposition. It’s not simply that the map amuses me today, but that it amused me then. At the time, I found secret pleasure and entertainment in playing with and elaborating a version of the worst nightmare the anti-Communist mind could produce: the Commie conquest of the world, the idea that hundreds of millions of “blue ants” (as the Chinese were then often labeled) might be in charge. I was, that is, sitting in that classroom playing enjoyably with the worst that could happen to an American world short of absolute global extermination.

Like so many other adolescent acts in those years, that map was an affirmation of its moment, but also a corrosive gesture toward it. With every arrow, a bit of another country fell not to an American version of what I once termed “victory culture,” but to a darker culture of defeat. It was an act of faith, but also of mockery.

Representing horror and yearning, that map said: this is what it would be like if your vision proved true -- and wouldn’t that be something!

Part of the secret world of my childhood, that map prefigured a far more unnerving and oppositional future than I could have imagined. Only a few years from the moment I sat in that classroom, radical students, recently made aware of a horrifying American war in a country called South Vietnam, were producing a map

related to it. In that 1965 map, which appeared in the National Vietnam Newsletter, “enemy-occupied areas” of Vietnam turned out to be those occupied by the United States and its South Vietnamese allies.

Here was the thing: the boy who made that map was part of the first generation of American children to face the possibility of human extinction at our own, not God’s, hands. It was an obliteration that could be brought about by a bunch of no-good Commies, Ruskies, Reds, but also -- as the real world would bring home to us on October 22, 1962 -- by a group of sober American strategists, by, that is, the good guys.

What, Me Worry?

That strange amalgam of faith and mockery, of the American triumphalism those kids inherited from “the greatest generation” and a secret countercurrent of despair that lurked beneath it, burst into full-blooded life in the next decade, when kids like me took to the streets for a new sort of battle garbed in cast-off “good war” paraphernalia -- secondhand Army jackets, bombardier coats, and bush hats, while sporting "V-for-victory” signs transformed into the symbol of “peace.” At the same time, in a spirit of mockery and without access to the media, the young reconceived the cherished images of their American childhood on themselves. They became distinctly modernist endeavors, living critiques or parodies of a familiar world gone mad, which in those years stood both for Mutual Assured Destruction (i.e. nuclear obliteration) and MAD magazine -- or genuine worry and the “What, me worry?” of Alfred E. Neuman.

The particular images the young sported then were drawn in part from the World War II era, but also from an enemy-ness recognizable from any of scads of westerns we had seen growing up: the Pancho Villa mustache, sombrero, and serape; the Native American headband and moccasins; the painted face or long hair of the “savage”; the valued “love beads” (those previously worthless baubles with which, everyone knew, Manhattan had so fraudulently been purchased); the peace (now, drug) pipe; and so on.

In a continuous riff on the dominant imagery of their childhood, the young donned “body paint,” took on the aspect of the previous losers (as well as winners) in American history, and went on the peace path.

At that moment, we were faced with a vision of that former democracy of cars, so lauded in our childhood, now reconstituted as a pre-Reaganesque evil empire and doing terrible things in a distant land. At the same time, we had spent all too much time in the company of an American leadership mapping the world’s end with a relish all their own. It’s hardly surprising under the circumstances that those kids, myself included, jumped into the abyss that had opened beneath our feet with a certain relish. We displayed our maps, the ones where the Chinese conquered the world, on our bodies, and headed into the streets to show them off. There was a relief, I have no doubt, in that mockery, in leaping feet first and enthusiastically into an abyss filled with some of the worst fantasies adults could conjure up, in rejecting the reigning American triumphalism of that moment and passionately embracing the despair that lay just under the surface. It was a matter of making the best of what seemed increasingly like a bad bargain.

Little did we know! In 2014, half a century later and seven decades into a world in which humanity has figured out not one but two ways of ending its life on this planet -- nuclear weapons and the burning and releasing of fossil fuels -- in an America in which triumphalism is ancient history (except in the fantasies of the Republican right); in which education, formerly the royal path to the future, is increasingly the road to lifetime indebtedness and jobs a new form of peonage; in which oil company execs and oil state chieftains cook up energy-reserve recipes for total planetary combustion, I’m curious about something.

What alternate worlds are today’s kids mapping out while their teachers drone on? Undoubtedly, whatever they may be, they're on screens of some sort, not pieces of paper, but what worlds of fear are those teenagers preparing to leap into in a spirit of faith and mockery so many decades later?

In 2014, what strange pleasures -- and horrors -can be found in rising adult fears in an exterminatory world? After all, 1959 was an exceedingly quiet year for the young. Who knew what worlds they were mapping out for their future? 2014 seems like a relatively quiet year for the young as well, but who knows what’s happening in that classroom? Who knows how the young of today are processing the nightmares of our present world? Who knows what maps the young of 2020 or 2030 will be displaying, possibly in the streets, possibly on their own bodies, possibly in ways none of us can imagine?

Just don’t think for a moment that they don’t live in and try to grab life from the hell that we adults have cre-

he arrest of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams early last week came as a surprise to many people inside and outside of (Northern) Ireland. Adams is accused of having ordered the ‘disappearance’ of Jean McConville, when he was alleged to have been the commanding officer of the Belfast Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, a militant organization affiliated with Sinn Fein. The disappearance of McConville, a mother of ten, for her alleged, although now disproven, role as a British informant is one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles, the euphemistic term for the violent insurgency that gripped Northern Ireland from 1969 until the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and killed 3531 people.

Although the McConville killing took place in 1972, Adams’ connection to McConville’s death has come under renewed scrutiny as a result of allegations made by former IRA militant Brendan Hughes as part of an oral history project run through Boston College. When Hughes died in 2008 the Belfast project released his tapes. The release of Hughes’ tapes resulted in a prolonged court battle between the organizers of the Belfast Project and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, ultimately leading to the seizure of additional interviews from the project, including that of Dolours Price, who elsewhere had identified Adams as a key figure in McConville’s murder.

While Adams has always denied having been a member of the IRA, most analysts agree that he was heavily involved in planning IRA actions before his political career in Sinn Fein took off, as indicated by the young Adams’s participation in ceasefire talks held between the IRA – not Sinn Fein – and then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw.

Today, Adams is mostly celebrated for his prominent role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. Indeed, it was under Adams’ guidance that Sinn Fein began to assert its primacy over the IRA and it is fair to say that, without this shift in strategy, the Irish Peace Process (as it developed) would have been a practical impossibility.

As a result, many supporters of Adams see him as an Irish Nelson Mandela, who turned his back on violence and enabled a peaceful transition to powersharing and inclusive democracy. In their eyes, the arrest for a killing in 1972 is all part of a cynical political plot to destroy Adams’ personal reputation and undermine Sinn Fein’s rise to political prominence in and throughout the island of Ireland.

But this comparison is misplaced. Mandela, the organizer and commander and chief of the African National Congress’ paramilitary wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, openly acknowledged his role in orchestrating the group’s campaign of violence against the repressive apartheid regime. His admissions, and similar acknowledgments of culpability from leaders on both sides of the South African conflict to the vaunted Truth and Reconciliation Commission, were fundamental to helping the country move beyond its deeply divided past into a more promising, prosperous, and peaceful future.

Although Northern Ireland has never had a TRC of its own, with guarantees of general amnesty for participants, many prominent figures in the conflict have nevertheless come clean about their past activities.

Famously, Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness admitted to the Saville Inquiry that he was the second in command of the Derry IRA in the early 1970s, although he, too, has gone on to deny any subsequent involvement with the group. Anthony McIntyre, one of the principal investigators for the Boston College project and a sharp critic of both Adams and McGuinness, has been even more frank in admitting his membership and involvement in the IRA, and other prominent former republicans have done likewise. Adams, in contrast, has maintained the façade that he was never directly involved with the IRA. But worse than not coming clean, Adams has actively concealed the truth of his involvement and worked to suppress and discredit those who have sought to bring light to the subject. In one instance Adams famously, and falsely, denied his involvement in McConville’s killing, telling members of the McConville family “Thank God I was in prison when she disappeared.” In fact, Adams was free at the time of the killing.

Similarly, Adams has dismissed McIntyre as engaged in “shoddy” research, and famously sought legal advice surrounding the allegedly libelous nature of similar claims regarding the McConville case made by Ed Moloney in his 2002 book A Secret History of the IRA (although, perhaps tellingly, Adams never seriously pursued the charges). In short, with regard to both the McConville case in particular and his own involvement in the IRA in general, Adams has actively sought to distort and conceal the truth.

Consequently, the arrest of Gerry Adams is not simply about the past, about getting justice for Jean McConville and her family. It is also not merely a matter of political revenge, although the timing of the arrest undoubtedly gives it a strongly political tinge.

The arrest of Gerry Adams is as much about the future of peace and reconciliation in Ireland as it is about the individual sins of one man. It is about a nation that is still healing, and a process of reconciliation that requires all its leaders – Northern and Southern, Catholic and Protestant, Nationalist and Unionist, British and Irish – to be truthful about their former actions. It is time that

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Modi accuses EC of discrimination

NEW DELHI, May 8 (REutERs): Opposition leader Narendra Modi sharpened his attack on the Election Commission Of India on Thursday, accusing it of discrimination in barring him from holding rallies to back his candidacy in the holy city of Varanasi.

Veranasi goes to the polls on Monday, the final day of India’s mammoth general election. Results are due next Friday. “With full responsibility, I’m accusing India’s election commission of discrimination,” Modi told supporters at another rally in the electorally crucial Uttar Pradesh, where one in every six voters lives.

The independent monitoring agency is widely credited for ensuring free and fair elections in India, in which 815 million voters have been called to the polls over five weeks. The election commission’s head, V.S. Sampath, rejected Modi’s allegation, saying it was determined to act impartially and was not afraid of any political party.

Certain parties were making “harsh and sweeping allegations” against the agency, Sampath said in a rare televised news conference. Polls show Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning the most seats in the election, although it may need to recruit allies to secure a parliamentary majority.

The party has grown increasingly critical of the election commission as campaign efforts are funnelled into the seats still up for grabs, accusing it of being partial and not deploying enough central security forces at polling booths. On Thursday, BJP leaders wearing orange caps emblazoned with “Modi for PM” logos held protests both in Varanasi and the capital New Delhi, alleging that the agency was blocking Modi from campaigning in Varanasi.

The commission said that officials and police had raised security concerns regarding Modi’s rally which it could not ignore. It had granted permission for an alternative location, the agency said.

Candidates from both the BJP and the Congress party, led by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, have been rapped on the knuckles for campaign infractions in the run-up to elections.

More recently, police have opened an investigation against Modi after he flashed his party’s symbol and made a speech on April 30 after casting his vote in Vadodara, in Gujarat, in violation of election rules.

Modi is running in two constituencies, as election rules allow, and would resign one if elected in both.

“The overall job done by the election commission has been a tremendous job, a splendid job,” said P. Chidambaram, finance minister and a senior leader of Congress. He blamed the stand-off between the election commission and the BJP on the rival party “getting a bit desperate”.

EC rejects BJP’s charge of bias, says not afraid of anyone

Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath gestures as he addresses a press conference following protests by BJP over denial of permission for a rally by their prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Varanasi in New Delhi,on Thursday, May 8. Seen on right is Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi. (AP Photo)

VaRaNasI, May 8 (PtI): As the election juggernaut rolls on, the international media has descended in large numbers on this temple town to cover the most high-profile battle involving Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, both of whom figure in a recent Time magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

For many in the foreign media, the fight between AAP leader Kejriwal and BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Modi is a battle of “ideas” which has more resonance for the global audience than any other constituency, including Amethi and Rae Bareli. South Asia Bureau chief of AFP, Chris Otton, said the Varanasi

contest was the “most fascinating” of this Lok Sabha elections for the foreign media as it features the two most talked-about Indian politicians of their time.

“It’s not often that you have two candidates who have just been chosen by Time magazine in their list of the world’s 100 most influential people slugging it out for the same seat,” said Otton, who has been covering high-pitch campaigning here for past few days.

Kejriwal was ahead of Modi in the Time magazine’s readers’ poll two weeks back of the most influential people in the world. Otton said though there was a “dip” in foreign interest in the Indian elec-

Growing traffic on city streets is a major cause of air pollution.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said the government should respond by setting an ambitious agenda to reduce toxic risks in Asia’s third-

over one third of Delhi’s pollution level.

However, Gufran Beig, chief project scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, said New Delhi’s air quality was better than Beijing’s, at least during the summer and the monsoon season.

Pollution levels in winter are relatively higher in New Delhi because of extreme weather events, Beig added. “The value which has been given in this (WHO) report is overestimating (pollution levels) for Delhi ... the reality is that the yearly average is around 110 (micrograms),” said Beig.

After the WHO study was released, Beig said he analysed air pollution levels in Beijing using data available on the U.S. Embassy’s website. He found the Chinese city’s average to be around 100, nearly double the WHO’s estimates.

Air pollution killed about 7 million people in 2012, making it the world’s single biggest environmental health risk, the WHO, a United Nations agency, said last month.

‘The value which has been given in this (WHO) report is overestimating’ largest economy.

“This database confirms our worst fears about how hazardous air pollution is in our region,” Sunita Narain, director general at the CSE, said in a statement that called for uniform fuel emission standards to be implemented across India in 2015.

Thirteen of the dirtiest 20 cities were in India, the WHO said, with New Delhi, Patna, Gwalior and Raipur taking the top four spots.

Beijing, notorious for the smog that has prompted some Anglophone residents to dub it “Greyjing”, was in 77th place with a PM2.5 reading of 56, little

tions due to “length of the whole process”, the interest has now gathered momentum ahead of the “grand finale” in Varanasi.

Nilanjana Bhowmick, Time magazine’s South Asia correspondent, thinks the fight here has symbolised the “sentient centre” of the Indian elections. “On one hand there is the formidable Modi, whose win most thought was pretty much assured, whom a neophyte like Kejriwal has dared to take on. It’s a political battle no doubt, but it is a battle of ideas too, and a pointer to the future trajectory of India,” she said.

Though Congress has fielded Ajay Rai, a Varanasi local and the MLA from Pin-

dra assembly constituency, most of the foreign correspondents say the main fight will be between Modi and Kejriwal who have been running a high-pitched campaign for the May 12 election. Describing Modi as the “greatest showman” in Indian politics, Bhowmick said he knows how to woo people.

“Modi, of course, has a huge fan following. He is an articulate man, an astute politician and a great rabble rouser. He knows how to reach out to people with his ideas,” she said. Commenting on Modi’s roadshow of April 24, Bhowmick said one wouldn’t have expected “any less” from the BJP’s prime ministerial nominee.

crying,” said the project’s lead scientist, University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju.

Biju said that, as researchers tracked frog populations, forest soils lost moisture and perennial streams ran inexplicably dry. He acknowledged his team’s observations about forest conditions were only anecdotal; the scientists did not have time or resources to collect data demonstrating the declining habitat trends they believed they were witnessing.

The study listing the new species — published Thursday in the Ceylon Journal of Science — brings the number of known Indian dancing frog species to 24.

They’re found exclusively in the Western Ghats, a lush mountain range that stretches 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) from the western state of Maharashtra down to the country’s southern tip.

Only the males dance — it’s actually a unique breeding behavior called foot-flagging. They stretch, extend and whip their legs out to the side to draw the attention of females who might have trouble hearing mating croaks over the sound of water flowing through perennial hill streams.

They bigger the frog, the more they dance. They also use those leg extensions to smack away other males — an important feature considering the sex ratio for the amphibians is usually around 100 males to one female.

“They need to perform and prove, ‘Hey, I’m the best man for you,’” said Biju, a botanist-turned-herpetologist now celebrated as India’s “Frogman” for discovering dozens of new species in his four-decade career.

There are other dancing frogs in Central America and Southeast Asia, but the Indian family, known by

The Independent’s Asia correspondent, Andrew Buncombe, felt the international media has been giving a lot of attention to the “story” because Modi has decided to contest from Varanasi. “The entry of Mr Kejriwal into the contest has added to the sense of drama.

And, of course, Varanasi is famous around the world.

It’s one of India’s most celebrated and historic cities,” he said.

Giving reasons for global media’s interest in Varanasi, Otton said it is one of India’s best-known cities internationally and the fight here has certainly more resonance for a foreign audience. He said the number of people in Modi’s road-

show before filing of nomination was “pretty striking” although that may say as much about the BJP’s organisational abilities as support for him in the city.

“I imagine quite a few of those who watched the roadshow from their balconies or shop-fronts were just interested in the spectacle rather than die-hard BJP supporters. Mind you, the sheer size of almost every aspect of India’s elections is a bit of an eye-opener for outsiders,” he said. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had won the seat after defeating Mukhtar Ansari, who is currently in jail in a murder case, by a margin of 17,000 votes.

Congress has good chance of forming government with allies: Chidambaram

NEW DELHI, May 8 (PtI): Congress has a “very good chance” of forming a government under its leadership with some allies, finance minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday amid growing chorus of an “enlarged” UPA-III to stop Narendra Modi from coming to power.

Talking to reporters at the AICC headquarters, Chidambaram also insisted that the political scenario this time is vastly different from the one after the 1989 polls when Rajiv Gandhi chose to sit in the opposition despite getting some 190 seats.

He said Congress has a “very good chance” of forming the government “under its leadership” with some allies.

“Whichever party is in a position to form a stable government should come forward and it must discharge its responsibility. You cannot run away from responsibility. This country cannot afford an election every three months.

“If Congress is in a position to form a government, it will

come forward, I believe it will come forward,” Chidambaram said in clear indication so far that Congress has not given up its intention to form a government even if its numbers are reduced.

He said the scenario in 2014 polls has changed from 1989 and this time the Lok Sabha poll is not one election but election of various states.

“We have to see the final tally of various parties,” he said but refused to predict how many seats the Congress will get. “I don’t make predictions of election outcomes. Every party goes into elections with the belief that it will win the election and form the government. I also believe that Congress will win the election and form the government”.

Chidambaram’s remarks came a day after a senior party leader floated the idea of an “enlarged” UPA-III taking on board new allies and keeping open the issue of leadership to stop Modi from becoming the Prime Minister.

“All options are on the ta-

ble and all options are off the table. It all depends upon the numbers we get and the BJP gets and the margin between them,” a senior party leader, who declined to be identified, had said.

Chidambaram, however, refused to get into comparisons on whether the poll outcome for Congress could be described as a rating of Rahul Gandhi’s leadership just as it can be said in case of Narendra Modi.

“That’s a very subjective view,” he said, adding that it was not possible to conclude elections in this for and against manner and hence he can give “anecdotal” answers to “anecdotal” questions.

Replying to a question in a lighter vein whether he believes that good days are going to come (Narendra Modi’s poll jingle), the finance minister said he had always been optimistic and believes that good days will come in future with Congress forming government.

A senior party leader had earlier maintained that the shape of things to come de-

New frog species found in troubled Indian habitat

NEW DELHI, May 8 (aP): Scientists have discovered 14 new species of so-called dancing frogs in the jungle mountains of southern India — just in time, they fear, to watch them fade away.

Indian biologists say they found the tiny acrobatic amphibians, which earned their name with the unusual kicks they use to attract mates, declining dramatically in number during the 12 years in which they chronicled the species through morphological descriptions and molecular DNA markers.

They breed after the yearly monsoon in fast-rushing streams, but their habitat appears to be becoming increasingly dry.

“It’s like a Hollywood movie, both joyful and sad.

On the one hand, we have brought these beautiful frogs into public knowledge. But about 80 percent are outside protected areas, and in some places, it was as if nature itself was

who is the district magistrate of Varanasi, had denied permission to the rally proposed to be held today on the “basis of professional advice” and there was no need for the EC to “deviate” from it.

“When the security and suitability issues are involved, the Election Commission naturally will go by the professional advice taken at the district level,” the CEC said responding to attacks by BJP. “The competent local authority, the DM and his team, took the decision taking into consideration relevant professional advice on security,” he said.

“There is no reason to deviate from the decision taken at the district level, specially when the issue of life and security are concerned,” Sampath said. He asserted that the Commission is “not afraid of anyone, any political party or any entity in discharging its duties”.

International media descends at Varanasi for Modi vs Kejriwal battle

India rejects WHO report saying New Delhi has worst air pollution

NEW DELHI, May 8 (REutERs): India on Thursday rejected the findings of a World Health Organisation (WHO) study that ranks New Delhi as the world’s worst city for air pollution, with government scientists saying the U.N. agency had overestimated levels in the capital.

A WHO study of 1,600 cities released on Wednesday found air pollution had worsened since a smaller survey in 2011, putting city-dwellers at a higher risk of cancer, stroke and heart disease.

The study found New Delhi to have the dirtiest air, with an annual average of 153 micrograms of small particulates, known as PM2.5, per cubic metre. “Delhi is not the dirtiest ... certainly it is not that dangerous as projected,” said A.B. Akolkar, a member secretary of the Central Pollution Control Board of India.

One health advocacy group welcomed the WHO study, however, saying it should spur the Indian government to tighten up fuel emission standards.

NEW DELHI, May 8 (PtI): Unfazed by BJP’s all-out attack, the Election Commission on Thursday rejected its accusations of bias in denying permission to Narendra Modi’s rally in Varanasi and made it clear that it was “not afraid of anyone, any political party or any entity” in doing its job.

At a hurriedly-called press conference here, chief election commissioner V S Sampath strongly defended the action of Varanasi returning officer Pranjal Yadav, saying his decision was based on “professional advice” and ruled out his removal as demanded by the BJP. Flanked by other two Election Commissioners, Sampath expressed disappointment over BJP’s attack, saying “certain harsh and sweeping statements” were made and political parties to “show greater maturity”.

Sampath said the returning office,

the scientific name Micrixalidae, evolved separately about 85 million years ago.

Biju and his team had long been baffled about the frogs’ mating patterns, after searching years around the forest floor for egg clutches without success. But one late October day in 2011 they witnessed a rare tryst, and saw the female immediately bury her eggs once fertilized. This confirmed the frogs were indeed breeding only after stream levels had come down, and underlined how vulnerable they might be to changes in rainfall or water availability.

These are tiny, delicate frogs — no bigger than a walnut — and can easily be swept away in a gushing mountain stream. So breeding happens only once the level of a stream levels drops to the point where the water babbles over boulders and stones, he explained. If streams hold less water or dry out too early, the frogs get

caught without the right conditions to breed.

“Compared with other frogs, these are so sensitive to this habitat that any change might be devastating for them,” Biju said.

“Back in 2006, we saw maybe 400 to 500 hopping around during the egg-laying season. But each year there were less, and in the end even if you worked very hard it was difficult to catch even 100.”

The Western Ghats, older than the Himalayas, is among the world’s most biologically exciting regions, holding at least a quarter of all Indian species. Yet in recent decades, the region has faced a constant assault by iron and bauxite mining, water pollution, unregulated farming and loss of habitat to human settlements.

A 2010 report by India’s Environment Ministry also said the Ghats were likely to be hard-hit by changing rainfall patterns due to climate change, and more recent scientific studies have

pended upon what kind of mandate is received by regional parties and which of them get more seats as there are some among them which cannot join hands with Modi in any eventuality.

At the same time, a sizeable section in the party is insisting that the Congress should participate to give the government not only stability but also strength and expertise.

The leader was of the view that the last 25 years or so have witnessed Congress and BJP together bagging some 300-odd seats while the rest have gone to regional parties.

There is also a section in the party which wants the Congress to sit in the opposition if it does not have respectable numbers to form the government.

Rejecting the idea of extending outside support to a Third Front to form government to stop Modi from coming to power, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh had earlier said that the “tail cannot wag the body.” Rahul Gandhi has also disapproved of any such idea.

This undated photograph shows one of the 14 new species of so-called dancing frogs discovered by a team headed by University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju in the jungle mountains of southern India. (AP Photo)

also suggested monsoon patterns will grow increasingly erratic.

India’s government has been working to establish a vast environmental protection zone across the Ghats to limit polluting industrial activities and human encroachment, but it put the latest proposal on hold earlier this year.

Meanwhile, as India’s population has grown to a staggering 1.2 billion, at

least 25 percent of the forests have vanished from the Ghats.

Many of these newly discovered frogs could soon be joining them, Biju said. Many of the 24 known Indian dancing frog species lives only in a single, small area. Seven were in what Biju described as highly degraded habitats where logging or new plantations were taking over, while another 12 species

were in areas that appeared in ecological decline.

Biju’s determination, or even obsession, with documenting as many new frog species as possible stems from his fear that many will vanish as “unnamed extinctions” before scientists ever learn they exist.

Scientists believe Earth has about 8.7 million distinct plant and animal species, but they have documented only 1.5 million.

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World powers join search for abducted schoolgirls KANO, MAy 8 (AFP): World powers, including the United States and China, have joined in the search for the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted

by Boko Haram Islamists who have also killed hundreds in the country’s northeast this week.

Amid global outrage over the kidnapping of the teenagers, the United States and France are sending specialist teams to Nigeria, while London has agreed to deploy “satellite imaging capabilities”.

China promised to supply “any useful information acquired by its satellites and intelligence services” to Nigeria.

The police on Wednesday police offered $3,00,000 (2,15,000 euros) for information leading to the rescue of the girls. The latest insurgent attack targeted the town of Gamboru Ngala on the border with Cameroon, where gunmen this week razed scores of buildings and fired on civilians as they tried to flee.

Area Senator Ahmed Zanna put the death toll at 300, citing information provided by locals, in an account supported by numerous residents. Zanna said the town had been left unguarded because soldiers based there had been redeployed north towards Lake Chad in an effort to rescue the kidnapped girls. Nigeria’s response to the kidnappings has been widely criticised, including by activists and parents of the hostages who say the military’s search operation has been inept so far.

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South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday, May 8. (AP Photo)

Jonathan’s administration has sought to appear more engaged with the plight of the hostages in recent days, especially after Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau released a video threatening to sell the girls as “slaves”.

In a second kidnapping, 11 more girls aged 12 to 15 years were seized Sunday from Gwoza, an area not far from Chibok and also in Borno state, Boko Haram’s base. The group’s five-year uprising has killed thousands across Africa’s most populous country and top economy, with many questioning whether Nigeria has the capacity to contain the violence. Islamist fighters riding in armoured trucks and on motorcycles

China’s air force creates a battalion of monkeys BEIJING, MAy 8 (IANS): The air force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has trained a group of macaques to help protect an air base close to Beijing. These monkeys have been put here to take care of the huge flocks of birds that pose a threat to flights.

According to China’s air force news website, the macaques have been taught to destroy nests in nearby trees and chase away the birds that have become a nuisance during the take-offs and landings of fighter planes in the base whose exact location was not revealed.

The base has used practically every means of tackling the problems of the birds, from firecrackers to scarecrows or even firearms but nothing proved to be as effective as the monkeys which are jokingly referred in military circles as “the Chinese army’s new secret weapon”.

The macaques respond with the obedience of a recruit to the whistles that their trainers use to give them orders and are capable of destroying more than 180 nests close to the base at a rate of around six nests per monkey.

It is certainly not the first army to use domestic animals in the elite forces: The Washington Post daily recalled that the US uses dolphins to detect, locate and mark mines.

However, dogs are the most used animals in armies around the world.

One of the most delicate operations in history that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, the alQaida leader, also featured a dog, a Belgian shepherd called Cairo.

stormed Gamboru Ngala after midday on Monday.

The extremists overran the town, making it too dangerous for locals to immediately return, survivors said. When the militants left, residents discovered their town “littered” with dead bodies, Musa Abba, a witness, told AFP. “All economic and business centres have been burnt. The market in the town which attracts traders from all over the area... has been completely burnt,” the senator said. Gamboru Ngala has been attacked repeatedly in the past but Abba said “this (was) the worst Boko Haram attack (the town) has seen”.

The Cameroonian military has reinforced secu-

rity in the town of Fotokol on the Nigerian border, a medical official told AFP by phone, requesting anonymity. “The toll is very heavy. We believe there are more than 200 dead,” the source said, adding that 2,000 Nigerians, including soldiers had fled to Cameroon. “Some of the bodies were charred. It was horrific. People had their throats slit, others were shot,” the source added.

In a fresh attack, suspected Boko Haram militants killed on Wednesday seven people in Buji-Buji village, also in Borno state, the village head, Mohammed Garba told journalists. “Gunmen numbering about 20 invaded our village around 3:00 am (0200

GMT) while most people were sleeping ... The gunmen opened fire on people as they attempted to escape from the ravaging fire.

“Seven persons died on the spot, while so many others were injured,” he said.

US President Barack Obama has described the Chibok abductions as “heartbreaking” and “outrageous”, and announced that a team of military experts had been sent to help Nigeria’s rescue mission.

Michelle Obama expressed sympathy for the schoolgirls, in a personal message on Twitter. “Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to #BringBackOurGirls,” said the US First Lady on her @FLO-

LOS ANGELES, MAy 8 (REutERS): U.S. President Barack Obama issued a somber warning on Wednesday that the kidnapping of Nigerian girls and sectarian conflicts worldwide are a sign that “we have not extinguished man’s darkest impulses.”

Obama accepted a humanitarian award from director Steven Spielberg at the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, a Holocaust museum founded by Spielberg after he made the film “Schindler’s List.” Obama spoke about a variety of global conflicts including Ukraine, Syria, and the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls by the Boko Haram Islamist militant group.

“We only need to look at today’s headlines: The devastation of Syria, the murders and kidnappings in Nigeria, the sectarian conflicts, the tribal conflicts to see that we have not yet extinguished man’s darkest impulses,” Obama said.

He expressed alarm about a rising tide of anti-Semitism based on events such as a TUS account, with a picture of her solemnly holding a sign saying #BringBackOurGirls” scribbled in black on white paper. The tweet was signed “mo,” meaning she wrote it herself, and it was retweeted more than 8,500 times in just a few hours.

British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the kidnappers as “pure evil” and said a small team of planning and coordinating specialists would head to Nigeria to advise on the search. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a “special team” was at Nigeria’s disposal, while Jonathan said that visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang had also pledged assistance.

Analysts said Jonathan’s

gunman’s attack on two Jewish facilities in Kansas and the distribution of pamphlets in eastern Ukraine that demanded the registration of Jews.

“None of the tragedies that we see today may rise to the full horror of the Holocaust,” he said. However, he said “they demand our attention that we not turn away.” “We have to act even where there is sometimes ambiguity. Even when the path is not always clearly lit. We have to try. That includes confronting the rising tide of anti-Semitism in the world,” he said.

Obama said Americans must speak out against any rhetoric that threatens the existence of Israel “and to sustain America’s unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security.” The Shoah Foundation’s annual gala featured Bruce Springsteen performing “Promised Land” and “Dancin’ in the Dark,” and a comedy routine from Conan O’Brien. At Obama’s table were Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and “Schindler’s List” star Liam Neeson.

acceptance of Western military assistance suggested an admission that he can no longer manage the Boko Haram uprising without help. As well as mounting pressure over the kidnappings, Nigeria has been hit by a spate of bombings. Just a few hours before the mass abduction in Chibok, a car bombing at a bus station on the outskirts of Abuja killed 75 people.

A copycat bombing at the same station killed 19 people on May 1. To contain the violence, Jonathan a year ago imposed a state of emergency in the northeast where he sent thousands of troops to flush out the insurgents, but critics say the offensive has achieved almost nothing.

Jonathan had hoped that a World Economic Forum summit which opened in Abuja Wednesday would highlight Nigeria’s economic progress.

Meeting Jonathan in Abuja ahead of the summit, China’s Li pledged stronger cooperation with Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, but public focus has remained fixed on Boko Haram. Amid the outrage over the kidnappings and the bombings, Nigeria has promised the World Economic Forum will be kept safe by the 6,000 troops deployed across the capital.

The police said in a statement that it has not recorded any security hitch so far during the conference, dubbed “Africa’s Davos”.

Ousted Thai PM indicted over rice subsidy scheme BANGKOK, MAy 8 (AP): Thailand’s anti-graft commission indicted ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday on charges of dereliction of duty in overseeing a widely criticized rice subsidy program, a day after a court forced her from office. Yingluck was accused of allowing the rice program, a flagship policy of her administration, to proceed despite advice that it was potentially wasteful and prone to corruption.

The National AntiCorruption Commission’s action had little immediate consequence following Yingluck’s ouster from power a day earlier. But It is likely to further poison a badly polarized political atmosphere. Many of Yingluck’s supporters already believe that the country’s conservative establishment is bending the rules to take back power.

A consistent string of decisions by the courts and independent agencies such

as the anti-graft commission against Yingluck and her political machine has eroded many people’s faith in the rule of law, raising the possibility of heightened civil unrest. Grenades were fired Thursday night by unknown people at three targets associated with the royalist establishment.

Rallies planned by Yingluck’s opponents for Friday and her supporters for Saturday will be a test of the political volatility.

The government lost billions of dollars on the rice subsidy plan, which also cost Thailand its position as the world’s leading rice exporter as the artificially high prices forced the government to stockpile the commodity.

National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Panthep Klanarongran said the commissioners voted unanimously that there were enough grounds to indict Yingluck. They said Yingluck, as head of government and in her capac-

ity as chairwoman of the National Rice Policy Committee, failed to cancel the rice subsidy scheme despite learning it could pose a great risk to the country’s fiscal status.

“The NACC had submitted letters to warn the defendant twice that the project would create problems and incur great losses, as well as allow corruption to take place throughout every step of the scheme,” Commissioner Vicha Mahakun told a news conference. “Yet the defendant did not consider suspending the project as soon as she learned about the country’s great losses from running the project.” The commission, however, said it was unclear whether Yingluck was involved in corruption or had allowed it to take place. Criticism of the commission has focused on whether it is appropriate for a small unelected body, instead of voters, to sit in judgment of government policies.

In this Wednesday, May 7, 2014 file photo, ousted Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, center, waves to her supporters in Bangkok, Thailand shortly after she was ordered to step down by the Constitution Court ruling, finding her guilty in an abuse of power case. (AP File Photo)

The ruling means Yingluck will face an impeachment vote by the Senate. If found guilty by a threefifths vote, she would be barred from politics for five years. The anti-graft commission, one of several independent state agen-

cies with powers similar to those of a court, is also looking into possibly filing criminal charges against Yingluck.

Its decision Thursday came a day after the Constitutional Court ousted Yingluck and nine Cabinet

members for abuse of power over the transfer of the National Security Council chief in 2011 to another position. It ruled that the transfer was carried out to benefit her politically powerful family and, therefore, violated the constitution.

Pro-Russians to hold referendum in east Ukraine on Sunday

DONEtSK, MAy 8 (AP): The pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine decided Thursday to go ahead with Sunday’s referendum on autonomy despite a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to delay it.

While Putin’s call on Wednesday to postpone the vote was seen as part of an effort to step back from confrontation and negotiate a deal with the West, he fueled tensions again on Thursday by overseeing military exercises that Russian news agencies said simulated a massive retaliatory nuclear strike in response to an enemy attack.

Putin said the exercise involving Russia’s nuclear forces had been planned back in November, but it came as relations between Russia and the West have plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War. On the ground in Ukraine, many have feared that the referendum could be a flashpoint for further violence between Ukrainian troops and the proRussia militants who have seized government buildings in about a dozen cities in the east.

The decision to hold the vote as planned was unanimous, said Denis Pushilin, cochairman of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic.

He said the suggestion to postpone the referendum “came from a person who indubitably cares for the population of the southeast” of Ukraine and thanked Putin for his efforts to find a way out of the situation.

“But we are just a bullhorn for the people,” Pushilin said. “We just voice what the people want and demonstrate through their actions.”

The question on the ballot is: “Do you support the act of proclamation of independent sovereignty for the Donetsk People’s Republic?”

Despite the phrasing, the organizers have said that only after the vote will they decide whether they want actual independence, greater autonomy within Ukraine or annexation

by Russia.

Putin on Wednesday also declared that Russia has pulled its troops away from the Ukrainian border, although NATO and Washington said they have

seen no signs of this.

“I have very good vision but while we’ve noted Russia’s statement so far we haven’t seen any — any — indication of troops pulling back,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a post on Twitter.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov accused NATO and the Pentagon of deliberately misrepresenting the situation on the border and urged them “to stop cynically misleading the international community,” the Interfax news agency reported.

Putin also spoke more positively about the Ukrainian interim government’s plan to hold a presidential election on May 25, calling it a “step in the right direction,” but reiterated Russia’s contention that the legitimacy of the vote depended on Ukraine ending its “punitive operations” in the east and beginning a dialogue to assure the Russian-speaking population that their rights would be guaranteed.

A poll released Thursday showed that a strong majority

A pro-Russian gunman atop a car patrols through the center of Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, May 8. A strong majority of Ukrainians want their country to remain a single, unified state and this is true even in the largely Russian-speaking east where a pro-Russia insurgency has been fighting for autonomy, a poll released Thursday shows. The survey results were released as the pro-Russia forces were considering whether to go ahead with a referendum on autonomy planned for Sunday in defiance of a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to delay the vote. A decision was expected later in the day. (AP Photo)

of Ukrainians want their country to remain a single, unified state and this was true even in the largely Russian-speaking east where the pro-Russia insurgency has been fighting for autonomy.

The poll conducted last

month by the Washingtonbased Pew Research Center found that 77 percent of people nationwide want Ukraine to maintain its current borders, while nearly as many, or 70 percent, in the east feel the same.

Only among Russian speakers

does the percentage drop significantly, but it is still over half at 58 percent.

The central government in Kiev has the confidence of only about 41 percent of Ukrainians, with a sharp divide between the west of the country, where sup-

port is 60 percent, and the east, where it is a low 24 percent, according to the poll.

Russia, however, is viewed with great suspicion, with three times as many Ukrainians surveyed saying Russia is having a bad influence on their country as say its impact is positive.

In Crimea, which Russia annexed in March following a referendum, 93 percent of people surveyed expressed confidence in Putin and said Russia was playing a positive role on the peninsula. Their confidence in U.S. President Barack Obama, on the other hand, was recorded at a dismal 4 percent.

In a parallel survey Pew conducted in Russia last month, 61 percent agreed that there are parts of neighboring countries that belong to Russia. The 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union left many ethnic Russians in other countries, including a swath of eastern and southern Ukraine that Putin had described as historically Russian territory.

In another echo of Putin, 55 percent of Russian surveyed said they saw the Soviet collapse as a great tragedy.

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SINGAPORE, MAY 8 (AFP): Andre Agassi has picked Rafael Nadal ahead of Grand Slam record-holder Roger Federer when asked to choose the best player in tennis history, a report said on Thursday.

The American, putting a new slant on one of the sport's great debates, said he prefers Nadal because the Spaniard has thrived in an ultracompetitive "golden age of tennis".

"I'd put Nadal number one, Federer number two," the eight-time Grand Slam-winner told Singapore's Straits Times in an interview.

"Federer separated himself from the field for four years. He separated himself from (Andy) Roddick and (Lleyton) Hewitt," Agassi added. "Nadal had to deal with Federer, (Novak) Djokovic, (Andy) Murray in the golden age of tennis. He has done what he has done and he's not done yet." Conventional wisdom ranks Federer ahead of Nadal, as the Swiss holds a record 17

Grand Slam titles against 13 for the current world number one. But Nadal has a convincing 23-10 head-to-head record against Federer and is one Australian Open victory away from becoming only the third man to win all four Grand Slam titles twice.

"He has won multiple (majors), every single one (more than once) except the Australian Open -- and give him another year on that," Agassi said. "It's just remarkable to me

what he has done, and he has done it all during Federer's prime." Agassi added that he did not discount Australia's Rod Laver, two-time winner of the calendar-year Grand Slam, when rating the greatest player of all time.

And he confirmed he would play in the Singapore leg of the inaugural International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) after the dates were rejigged to avoid Thanksgiving -- as long as the event goes ahead. "It seems like it's all happening. I just can't make any promises I can't control. What I can't control (is) if (the event) really exists or not," he said. "But if it's happening, I'm absolutely going to be there and I will spend time leading up (to the event) playing."

Agassi had initially balked at playing on Thanksgiving weekend, but Singapore is now due to host the IPTL from December 2-4, according to the report. Despite a player draft in March, some details of the made-for-TV, fourstop competition remain murky.

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Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. (AP File Photo)

BARCELONA, MAY 8 (REuTERS): Formula One's European season kicks off in Spain this weekend with Lewis Hamilton on a roll and ready to wrest the championship lead from Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg.

Hamilton has never won a grand prix in Spain but, after racking up three successive victories for the first time, the 2008 world champion can break new boundaries at the Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday.

"I'm in a good place right now and I'm hoping that this will be the year," said the Briton, who is four points behind Rosberg despite winning three races to the German's one. "The circuit is fantastic, our car has performed well so far and I'm really looking forward to a good race." Rosberg was on pole in Spain last year but

has also never won there.

Barcelona, the fifth round of the 19-race season that ends in Abu Dhabi in November, could also see the first big shake-up of the pecking order after the opening 'flyaways' in Asia and the Middle East.

The return to the sport's European roots, and its most fervent fans, sees the teams back in their palatial paddock 'motorhomes' and represents something of a fresh start. All the teams plan to bring upgrades and Renault, who power Red Bull and their four times world champion Sebastian Vettel, are confident they can bring much more to the party after a difficult start to the season. "There are significant improvements to the software that should further enhance driveability and therefore overall performance," said

Remi Taffin, Renault's head of track operations.

"With three weeks between China and Spain we've made a huge amount of progress and in fact this race may well show that the 'engine race' is a lot closer."

If that is the case, then predictions that Mercedes will run away with the season could be premature.

ALONSO AT HOME Ferrari's Fernando Alonso won in Spain last year, from fifth on the grid, and arrives buoyed by his first podium appearance of the season in China last month when he finished third and way ahead of team mate Kimi Raikkonen. The Spaniard, who also won his home race with Renault in 2006, can expect an improved car and huge support from the local crowd but Mercedes have not been

standing still either. The dominant team, who have taken every pole position so far and won every race, have also been working flat out to make their car even better.

"Our aim must be to increase the advantage we enjoyed at the last race in China," said Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff.

"If we are to build a sustained level of success in this sport, any small advantage must be seen as a platform upon which to build a bigger advantage."

While Hamilton and Rosberg have been out on their own, the gap between the rest of the midfield pack has been far closer and that pecking order could be in for a reshuffle in Barcelona.

The question is which of Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Force India or Williams will make the bigger step. "Spain is a good leveller," said Rob Smedley, head of vehicle dynamics at Williams, whose solid results so far have only hinted at the car's untapped potential. "We have got a big step coming in all areas of the car," added the Briton.

McLaren have failed to score a point in their last two outings after a strong start in Australia and have dropped to fifth overall. They too are hopeful a corner has been turned. "We know the areas where our package falls short, and we've taken steps - both short- and long-term - to address those," said Racing Director Eric Boullier. "While not all of those will be in evidence in Barcelona this weekend, they mark the start of a fresh push and spirit within the whole organisation."

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Derek Fisher (6) reaches for a rebound over Los Angeles Clippers forward Matt Barnes (22) in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 7. Oklahoma City won 112-101. Thunder center Steven Adams (12) is at right. (AP Photo)

OKLAHOMA CITY, MAY 8 (AP): Kevin Durant stood before his adoring home crowd, proudly holding his MVP trophy above his head during a pregame ceremony. He spent the next few hours showing how he earned it.

Durant had 32 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Clippers 112-101 on Wednesday night to tie their Western Conference semifinal series at one game apiece.

"We wanted to come back and respond," Durant said. "So, I think that's what fueled the team tonight.

We just went out there and played extremely well and left it all out there, and came out with a good 'W.'" During his emotional MVP acceptance speech on Tuesday, Durant called teammate Russell Westbrook an MVP-caliber player. Westbrook backed up Durant's words with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his third tri-

ple-double in his past five playoff games. "I think Russ played harder than all of us combined," Clippers guard Chris Paul said. "He was all over the place."

Thunder coach Scott Brooks took Durant out of the game with 1:21 remaining, costing him a shot at the triple-double. According to information provided to the Thunder by the Elias Sports Bureau, no pair of teammates has had tripledoubles in the same playoff game. Serge Ibaka and Thabo Sefolosha each scored 14 points for the Thunder, who shot 51 percent from the field and outrebounded the Clippers 52-36.

"It was the perfect storm," Clippers guard Jamal Crawford said. "They did everything they could to win, and they got everything they wanted tonight. That wasn't the Clippers team we've been and I'm sure we'll get back on track." J.J. Redick scored 18 points, Paul had 17 points and 11 assists, and Blake Griffin added 15 points for

the Clippers. Los Angeles made 15 of 29 3-pointers in Game 1, but just 9 of 27 in Game 2.

The Clippers will host Game 3 Friday in Los Angeles. Durant scored 17 points on 7-for-11 shooting in the first quarter to help the Thunder take a 3728 lead. Paul, who scored 17 points in the opening quarter of Game 1, went scoreless in the first quarter of Game 2 and watched most of the period from the bench with two fouls as the Thunder took control early.

Oklahoma City got an offensive boost from an unlikely source in the third quarter — Sefolosha, a defensive stopper. He hit a mid-range jumper, then dunked after a steal

by Westbrook to give the Thunder a 78-66 lead. Sefolosha dunked again, then got a steal that led to a 3-pointer by Westbrook and gave Oklahoma City a 90-73 advantage.

Sefolosha, who had averaged just 3.7 points in the playoffs, scored 12 points

in the quarter to help the Thunder take a 94-77 lead into the fourth. Clippers coach Doc Rivers said he expected Durant and Westbrook to score, but not Sefolosha.

"We can win if they (Durant and Westbrook) both have good offensive games," Rivers said. "What we can't do is then give them that plus everything else. And I thought that's what happened tonight."

Westbrook clinched his triple-double with 1:21 remaining when he was credited with an assist after a pass to Sefolosha, who took two dribbles on his drive to the basket. Rivers said the Thunder were the aggressors. "Every single possession, you have to have great focus and you have to be locked in, and today we were not," he said.

"I thought it was because of all the clutter today. We're upset at the officials, we're upset at everything instead of turning our anger on the opponent and focus. Tonight we just didn't have it."

WCup pressure in Brazil 'makes us alive' Maxwell is more destructive

LONDON, MAY 8 (AP): Behind the megawatt smile and mop of curly hair, David Luiz is aware of his duty to Brazil after being included in a World Cup squad for the first time on Wednesday. It's not just any World Cup, of course, but the first in the south American nation since 1950.

"Of course I feel the pressure," Luiz said at The Associated Press offices in London, where he watched Wednesday's squad announcement.

"Now is the moment to keep working hard because there will be a big pressure for us because we need to win," the Chelsea defender added. "That is the truth ... that is our life. All the Brazilian people (are) waiting for that. It is a big pressure but makes us alive and you want that. You want to win."

At the same time, the 27-year-old Luiz doesn't want his cheery outlook to be repressed by the size of the task facing the team when it opens the World Cup against Croatia in Sao Paulo on June 12. "It is an amazing feeling, I'm so happy (to be selected)," Luiz said. "It's my dream come true since I was a young kid. My dream was about playing in the national team, and I'm lucky because I can play in a World Cup at home ... we are a lucky generation and we need to enjoy it."

The country has been riven with protests, some about the billions of dollars spent on the World Cup project at a time of social hardship, but football can be a unifying force.

A boy controls the ball as he trains on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. (AP Photo)

"Brazil has people in some places with so difficult situations," Luiz said.

"They prefer to smile than cry because they love life.

They love to be happy.

That's Brazilian style."

If there's one player

without a sense of self-importance, it's Luiz, knowing he is paid to do what his compatriots would love to.

"Everyone there loves football — 200 million people want to be in the squad," Luiz said. "Every-

one dreams to see someone from the family in the squad ... life is too short to miss some things as well to enjoy life. I have the best job in the world." There is heartbreak elsewhere, though, with global stars

Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho left out of Scolari's squad, having fallen out of contention in their 30s.

"Scolari is a fantastic coach, a fantastic man and he is so transparent," Luiz said. "So during the year he was showing to everyone his team, so it's natural when you have big names out like Kaka, they only played one or two games with Scolari."

Although just five of the 23 squad members were at the 2010 World Cup, Luiz recalls how they won the Confederations Cup last year and regularly perform for their clubs at the top level. "I think (it is) inexperienced," Luiz said of the squad. "But if I ask you about the World Cup, I think you know the competition, you know that football pressure. So as players we know the history about World Cups. Everyone knows Brazil has five titles.

"It's the same pressure like you play every friendly game because you need to see it like that. ... I played many of the big games in this season, against all the big teams." Yet for Luiz, his Chelsea campaign will end in disappointment, with the team eliminated by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League semifinals last week and the Premier League trophy out of reach.

"I wish," he sighs. "I wish because this is a big club and big clubs need to win titles. It's natural and when you cannot win, of course, you are a bit sad, some frustration, but that's natural. ...

If you don't have ambition you cannot play sport."

than me, Gayle: Sehwag

CuTTACK, MAY 8 (PTI): Arguably the most dangerous opening batsman ever to play for India, Virender Sehwag has no qualms in stating that his Kings XI Punjab teammate Glenn Maxwell, who has been tormenting bowlers in the ongoing IPL-7, is more destructive than him and even Chris Gayle.

Maxwell has proved to be the most feared batsman in this edition of the Indian Premier League and has already notched up three 90-plus scores in the tournament. Asked if the Australian`s topnotch batting reminds him of his heydays, Sehwag responded in negative. "No, no. I was not that destructive. I was a bit, but not that much," Sehwag said.

Talking about what he likes the most about Maxwell`s batting, Sehwag said, "I don`t think he is worried about his game; he`s more worried about golf and practises more golf than cricket. He just goes out there in the middle, gives his 100 percent out there and comes back happily with whatever he gets."

The Delhi-based player said Maxwell is more dangerous than the strapping West Indian Chris Gayle. "I think Maxwell.

He and Miller. If the two of them going, it becomes very difficult for the bowl-

ing side because if one misses a ball, the other makes up for it with a six," he was quoted as saying in the IPL official website.

After scoring a 23-ball 30 in KXIP`s big win over Chennai Super Kings here yesterday, the out-of-favour India opener said the best is to yet to come from his blade. "Not yet.

The best is yet to come. I am striking the ball well and would like to continue to contribute to the team. I have been scoring 20s and 30s, but now it is time to score like the way Maxwell has been doing.

Hopefully, in the coming games I will score big.

"Today, I was a bit unlucky; I got an edge and it went on to hit the wicket.

In the coming games, I will try to be a little more careful and not do anything rash after getting a start and concentrate a bit more."

Coming back to Maxwell, Sehwag says he feels like as if the Australian is playing book cricket. "Absolutely! The kind of form he is in, it is so difficult to stop him. Nothing matters to him the bowlers or the fielders or the boundary. I felt like he was playing book cricket and every time he opened a page, it was four or six. It has been great to watch him bat."

Sehwag also spoke about the younger crop of players in the KXIP set-up. "I speak a lot to

the younger guys. We have some young Indian batsmen like Gurkeerat Singh, Wriddhiman Saha, Mandeep Singh, Manan Vohra and even Pujara.

They all talk to me about T20 cricket and how they can improve their game and what they should do to keep their game intact when they are not playing.

"I share my experience with them. It`s good to chat with the young players because it makes you feel young too."

As far as young Indian players are concerned, Sehwag said Kolkata Knight Riders` Suryakumar Yadav, CSK`s Mohit Sharma and his own teammate Sandeep Sharma. "Sandeep Sharma and Mohit Sharma are the two guys who have impressed me the most.

As far as batsmen are concerned, I really like the look of Suryakumar Yadav. He seems like a very good talent and if he continues to focus, he has the ability to score a lot of runs in the future and also maybe play for India one day."

Ta l k i n g about Sandeep`s bowling, Sehwag said, "I like the fact that he can swing the ball in as well as take it away.

Also, he has tremendous control over his bowling."

"For us, he has been very vital because he gives us early breakthroughs, in the first or second over, which is very important in this format."

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ox is moving forward with its Batman prequel series titled ‘Gotham’. The drama explores the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon (Southland’s McKenzie) and the villains that made Gotham famous, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The series is based on characters from the DC Comics universe, including a young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz),

Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor), Riddler (Cory Michael Smith) and Catwoman (Camren Bicondova).

The drama boasts a cast that also includes Donal Logue as Det Harvey Bullock, Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney, and the series looks to reveal an entirely new chapter that has yet to be told.

‘Gotham’ becomes Fox’s third new drama series order for the

2014-15 television season, joining Hart Hanson’s Rainn Wilson starrer ‘Backstrom’, which was picked up straight to series after being developed for CBS last year; and ancient Egypt drama ‘Hieroglyph’, which was also picked up straight to series with a 13-episode order. It joins a slate of hour-long series that includes ‘The Following’, ‘Glee’ and ‘Sleepy Hollow’.

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elloRadio! (formally known as White Noise) started as a project band when Vitz (Drummer) and Atsa (Guitars) were just goofing off and chatting on Facebook trying to see who could come up with the funniest name for a band just for the heck of it, and one thing led to another and HelloRadio! was born.

The band comprises of members from various bands playing different genres coming together and forming this project band. HelloRadio! are: 1. Wapong Ozukum-Vocals/Acoustic(Incipit) 2. Atsa Lang Roths-Guitar/ Vocals(Incipit) 3. Vitz Zhimo-Percussions/ Vocals(Polar Lights) 4. Akok Imsong-Keyboards/Vocals(Incipit) 5. Imlier Jamir-Bass(Ex Clueless Attention)

HelloRadio! released its debut single Light Up The Sky(also the title of their debut EP) along with another single Summer Love on the 24th April 2014 via Sound Cloud, Reverbnation and Indihut.

Now The band is all set to release their debut EP today the 9th of May 2014 at Upstairs Lounge, Dimapur, Nagaland. HelloRadio! will also be performing the about ‘a need to be destruc- unplugged versions of the tive or rebellious—it’s that songs from the EP and more. need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you.’ She says that as a young, curious person ‘you want to be free.

S rock and roll legAnd as you start to feel that end Chuck Berry you are being corralled and American theinto a certain life, you kind of push against it. It may atre director Peter Sellars come out very strange, it have been named as 2014 may be interpreted wrong, Polar Music Prize laurebut you’re trying to find ates. They will be presented with their awards by out who you are.’

Because she started King Carl XVI of Sweden at working as an actress as the ripe age of seven, Ms Jolie says that her many scheduled engagements left her with a fear of leading ‘a life half-lived.’

‘I realized that very young—that a life where you don’t live to your full potential, or you don’t experiment, or you’re afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don’t get around to them, is a life that I’d be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I’m on the right a ceremony in Stockholm path is just to be true to my- on 26 August. The million self, whatever that may be, kronor prize (£82,000) was and that tends to come with founded 25 years ago by stepping out of something Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson, that’s maybe safe or tradi- the publisher, lyricist and tional,’ she added. manager of Abba. The first It’s interesting then, Polar Music Prize laureate that Ms Jolie cast three of her children – Vivienne, Pax, and Zahara – in her latest film Maleficent, which comes out on May 28. She says that this decision came about because Vivienne seemed like the perfect child to be cast as a young Aurora – but that she would prefer her children pick any career but acting.

‘Brad and I made the decision that we wouldn’t keep them from sets and the fun of making movies, but we wouldn’t [glorify it either]—we wouldn’t make it a good thing or a bad thing,’ she said. ‘But I would really prefer they do something else. [Anyway] after two days of it, Brad and I were so stressed we never wanted to do it again,’ she joked.

ELLE magazine’s newest issue hits newsstands on May 13.

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'I never thought I'd have children, I never thought I'd be in love: Jolie Angelina Jolie opens up in rare interview about Brad, babies, and her rebellious twenties

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he usually publicity shy Angelina Jolie has opened up about marriage, her six children, and her experimental twenties in a rare interview with ELLE magazine. The 38-year-old star of the upcoming Maleficent film has posed for the title’s cover, and reveals that she and fiance Brad Pitt are now ‘more interested in each other’ than ever before.

Photographed by Saint Laurent designer Hedi Slimane in the brand’s sharp black-and-white clothes, Ms Jolie also revealed that she never thought he would find true love – and that her wild-child youth was simply publicly ‘misinterpreted as [me] wanting to be rebellious.’

The mother-of-six says that her nine-year relationship with Brad Pitt, as well as their large family, still surprises her. ‘I never thought I’d have children, I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person,’ she said.

‘Having come from a broken home—you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.’

She says that rather than becoming uninterested in each other, her relationship with Mr Pitt, whom she got engaged to in April 2012, has evolved over time. ‘You get together and you’re two individuals and you feel inspired by each other, you challenge each other, you comple-

ment each other, drive each other beautifully crazy,’ she explained of their dynamic.

‘After all these years, we have history—and when you have history with somebody, you’re friends in such a very real, deep way that there’s such a comfort, and an ease, and a deep love that comes from having been through quite a lot together,’ she added. While Ms Jolie was no wallflower in her youth, she does feel that her famous antics, which included kissing her brother James Haven on the Oscars red carpet in 2000 and carrying ex-husband Billy Bob’s blood around her neck on the red carpet, were misinterpreted.

She said that they came from a place that was not

was Sir Paul McCartney.

The aim of the award is to "break down musical boundaries by bringing together people from all the different worlds of music.'

In a career spanning seven decades, pioneer Berry has released a string of classic

often with the focus on cars.

Chuck Berry, born in 1926, was the first to drive up onto the highway and announce that we are born to run."

Acclaimed opera, theatre and festival director Sellars is known for his reinterpretations of classic

‘Aashiqui 2’ singer arrested on rape charges layback singer AnP kit Tiwari and his brother Ankur have songs such as Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B Goode.

According to the award committee: "In the course of three minutes he conjures up an image of the everyday life and dreams of a teenager,

works. Sellars is working with the English National Opera later this year for the world stage premiere of John Adams's latest work, The Gospel According to the Other Mary. He is, said the award organisers, "a

Emma Watson likely to romance Sushant in Paani

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hekhar Kapur has finally found his lead opposite Sushant Singh Rajput for his most ambitious project, Paani. Well she is none other than the Harry Potter girl, Emma Watson.

Yes you heard it right, Shekhar Kapur has finally got the beautiful Emma Watson for his film Paani; the film that he has been wanted to make for around thirteen years now.

Paani is said to be a film set in 2050, where international corporations control the source of water due to which people are suffering from acute crisis.

“The film is going on floors in the first week of August 2014. The script, screenplay and dialogue have been

locked completely and the pre-production work is going on in full swing,” states Shekhar Kapur.

John Trovolta, stated that Shekhar Kapur has offered him Paani and is all goes well he would be a part of the project. “I have been offered a film that I

am considering doing, I believe its an honest Bollywood film and its called Paani, by Shekhar Kapoor, he’s asked me to be a part of it. I hope I don’t get that wrong. Even though the script does not have any song and dance routine in it, Shekhar said he’l put a

song, to make it truly Bollywood.” John Travolta said.

On the other hand Sushant Singh Rajput, who is likely to share screen space with Hollywood actor John Travolta in Paani, has requested Shekhar Kapur to give him at least hundred days to prepare for his role opposite the Hollywood legend. A source close to Sushant Singh Rajput stated “Especially now that Travolta is likely to star in the film along with Sushant, he wants to put his best foot forward. Also, he has been a fan of films like Face/Off (1997), Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994), so he wants to be fully prepared to work with someone like Travolta.”

living definition of what the Polar Music Prize is all about: highlighting the music and presenting it in a new context".

Previous laureates include Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, BB. King, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

Singer Rihanna attends the Dior Cruise 2015 Fashion Show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo)

been arrested by the Versova police here after a woman lodged a complaint with the police against the former for allegedly molesting and raping her.

A n k i t ’s l a w y e r Nagesh Mishra said: "Ankit has not been in touch with the girl since one year and before that he was in a relationship with her for a couple of years.”

“He has been accused of rape and molestation under sections 376 (rape), 417 (cheating) and 493 (cohabitation by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage) of the IPC (Indian Penal Code)," he added.

The woman in question is Nidhi Khanna.

"Nidhi is an advertising person. She is a divorcee and has a 12-year-old child," Mishra said.

Besides Ankit, his elder brother Ankur has also been arrested on the charges of intimidation and harassment, said a source.

Nidhi reportedly filed an FIR at Versova police station following which Ankit and Ankur were arrested and presented in Andheri magistrate's court.

Counsel Mishra said: "Ankur might get bail as the charge against him is not too serious. These are all false allegations and we will put our best foot forward to get bail for Ankit as well."

Nidhi has claimed that she married Ankit two years ago in a temple, while Ankit says they have not been in touch for the past one year.

Ankit became an overnight sensation after his number –‘Sun Raha Hai Na Tu’ from ‘Aashiqui 2’- became an instant hit.

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Manchester City's Edin Dzeko, centre, celebrates after scoring his first goal against Aston Villa during their English Premier League soccer match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday May 7. (AP Photo)

Na Li from China serves the ball during a Madrid Open tennis tournament match against Sloane Stephens from the U.S. in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, May 8. (AP Photo)

MaDRDI, May 8 (IaNs): Chinese tennis star Li Na was forced to dig deep in order to defeat No.16 seed Sloane Stephens 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in two hours and move into the quarterfinals of the WTA Madrid Open here Thursday.

Despite her progress, Li Na was not satisfied with her performance in which she made over 40 unforced errors, reports Xinhua.

The first set saw Li Na play her worst tennis since arriving at Madrid. Perhaps unhappy at her third consecutive early start, the World No. 2 was never able to find her rhythm on court and while struggling with her own serve, she also failed to deal with that of her rival.

Stephens concentrated on not making mistakes and allowed Li Na to make

a string of unforced errors.

Going into her service game at 5-1 down, Li Na had already made 16 unforced errors and although she held her serve to take the set to 5-2, it was not without two more errors and the successful defence of a set point against her.

That was to be just a temporary respite as Stephens then held her serve with ease to take the set 6-2.

The second set saw the Chinese player discover new aggression in her game and she looked to pressure Stephens' serve, forcing errors from the American and taking a vital break in the fourth game to go 3-1 ahead.

She then kept cool to hold her serve to go 4-1 up after a double fault had given her rival a break point, but then failed to close out

the set as Stephens struggled in the seventh game.

The American saved two set points against her and then went 0-40 up as Li Na served for the set, before the Chinese player showed why she is ranked second in the world by taking the next six points and with them the set.

Li Na's aggression had drawn her level, but she was still committing just as many unforced errors and was also struggling with a foot problem as she had the big toe on her left foot bandaged before the decisive set. She began the third set by against attacking Stephens, breaking her serve in the first game of the set and as her rival began to play for her earlier efforts, she held her own serve and broke Stephens again to take a decisive 3-0 lead.

LONDON, May 8 (ReuteRs): Manchester City moved to the brink of the Premier League title with an emphatic 4-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday as Edin Dzeko scored twice to leave them needing just a point from the final game of the season. Dzeko's double midway through the second half relieved the pressure that had gripped the Etihad Stadium and late strikes by Stevan Jovetic and Yaya Toure, his 20th of the season, secured a comfortable victory.

City, who brought up 100 league goals for the campaign, realistically need just a point from Sunday's home game against West Ham United to win their second league title in three years. Manuel Pellegrini's side moved two points clear of Liverpool at the top of the table but, with a superior goal difference of 13, a draw would be enough for City to be crowned champions while Chelsea's title hopes are over. At the other end of the standings, Sunderland guaranteed their Premier League survival when goals by Jack Colback and Fabio Borini sealed a 2-0 win over West Bromwich Albion which effectively ended Norwich City's hopes of remaining in the top flight.

With Sunderland moving to 38 points and West Brom one place above the relegation zone on 36, Norwich are three points further

adrift with a vastly inferior goal difference.

Within seconds of the kickoff at the Etihad Stadium, it became apparent that Villa would look to stifle and frustrate rather than go toe-to-toe with their talent-packed opponents.

With all 11 men consistently withdrawn behind the ball, the visitors set out to catch City on the break, but they rarely made it out of their own half as the title challengers launched wave after wave of attacks. "I was absolutely sure if we continued to play the same way we would find the space to score a goal," Pellegrini told Sky Sports.

"Now we can talk about the title.

We must win the last game against West Ham." BEST CHANCE City's best chance of the first half fell to Toure, whose shot from close range was turned wide by the outstretched foot of Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan, and the first 45 minutes ended with Samir Nasri poking James Milner's cross wide.

As the rain beat down incessantly in Manchester after the restart, palpable tension gripped the home fans with memories of Liverpool's stunning collapse from three goals up to draw 3-3 against Crystal Palace on Monday still fresh.

Dzeko rode to the rescue, however, in the 64th minute when he poked home Pablo Zabaleta's cross from close range before wheeling away in euphoric celebration.

City then cast off the shackles and Dzeko pounced to tuck away a rebound eight before Jovetic powerfully side-footed past Guzan with a minute remaining.

The coup de grace arrived in stoppage-time when Toure turned on the afterburners to stride clear of the Villa backline and powerfully finish, becoming only the second central midfielder to score 20 goals in a Premier League season after Frank Lampard in 2009-10.

"It was tough in the first half because there was no space," Dzeko said. "At halftime Manuel Pellegrini said just to be calm and we would get there in the end.

"When a team defends with 10 players, it is always about the first goal. They opened up a bit and then we scored another and another." City will go into Sunday's clash buoyed by their stunning home record, having won 16 of their 18 league games at the Etihad this season, with their only defeat inflicted by Jose Mourinho's Chelsea in February. "(Against West Ham) We have to concentrate, we did our job today. We have to take it more than

seriously."

Sunderland boss Gus Poyet had claimed they would need a miracle to escape the drop when his side lost 5-1 to Tottenham Hotspur in April, a defeat that left them bottom of the table and seven points adrift of safety.

His prayers were answered, however, as his side went on a remarkable run, culminating in victory over West Brom which gave them 13 points from their five matches. Poyet was punching the air in delight when his side took the lead through Colback on 13 minutes, the midfielder stabbing Marcos Alonso's cross past Ben Foster.

They doubled the advantage through Liverpool loanee Borini, who exchanged passes with Seb Larsson before poking in his ninth goal of the season in all competitions. "I don't know if you will see something similar ever again," Poyet said.

"We are the second team in the Premier League to be bottom at Christmas and stay up. With City, Chelsea and United away from home, to be seven points away from safety and to do it with a game to spare is amazing. "It's been an incredibly difficult season. For moments it looked like we were going down. I will start believing in miracles from now."

Real’s title hope dashed with draw ing up to the few challenges. "We couldn't maintain the necessary focus in relation to the importance of the match. In the second half we couldn't maintain our concentration," Alonso was quoted as saying. "I'm upset with the team for not being able to step up over the last 45 minutes."

As the Copa del Rey champion, Madrid's hopes of an elusive treble look to have been dashed.

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Real Madrid's goalkeeper Iker Casillas tries to stop the ball against Real Valladolid during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Jose Zorrilla stadium in Valladolid, Spain, Wednesday, May 7. (AP Photo)

VaLLaDOLID, May 8 (aP): Real Madrid's Spanish title ambitions are all but over after a late equalizer by relegation-struggler Real Valladolid secured a 1-1 draw on Wednesday.

Madrid lost Cristiano Ronaldo to injury early in the match and failed to create any clear scoring chances after the Portugal forward's exit. His team now trails city and Champions League final rival Atletico Madrid by four points with two games to play. Madrid led through Sergio Ramos' 35th-minute free kick, but the visitors sat back too deep in the closing

stages.

With Ronaldo on the sidelines encouraging his teammates, Madrid ultimately buckled after an 85th-minute corner kick.

Humberto Ososrio headed home a deserved equalizer — and an important goal in Valladolid's bid to avoid relegation. "We had the game controlled. We didn't have the mental energy to finish these games. There were mistakes in these games," said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, whose team recorded back-to-back league draws after routing Bayern Munich to reach the Champions League fi-

nal. "It's going to be very difficult" to win the title, Ancelotti added.

Midfielder Xabi Alonso was quoted as telling Spanish media: "It's practically over for us." Atletico leads with 88 points, Barcelona has 85 points and Madrid is third with 84. Atletico can secure the title on Sunday with a victory against Malaga if Barcelona fails to win at Elche. Barcelona can win its fifth title in six seasons if it wins its last two games, with Atletico visiting on the final match day.

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through Valladolid's half moments before being substituted for Alvaro Morata. The Portugal forward had recently returned from a left leg injury. With Ronaldo unavailable for free kicks, Ramos stepped up to curl a swooping right-footed shot over the defensive wall and under the bar past goalkeeper Jaime Jimenez for the Madrid defender's fifth goal in four games.

Madrid, the record 32-time domestic champion, failed to conjure up any more concrete scoring chances, with Angel Di Maria and Morata coming closest with Jimenez stand-

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