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Balapur laddu adds zing to Ganesh immersion. However, the first citizen of the City was missing from the scene. REPORT ON PG 4
Ferdinand reveals hate campaign over Terry case In his first comment after Terry was found guilty, the Queens Park Rangers defender said on Twitter he had received abuse on the site since Thursday’s ruling.
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India’s GSAT-10 launched India’s advanced communication satellite GSAT-10 was successfully launched early today on board Ariane-5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. GSAT-10, with a design life of 15 years is expected to be operational by November and will augment telecommunication and DTH services.
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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz definitely not dating The rumour mill has been churning out stories recently about this superstar pair. But this hook-up is only happening onscreen. PG 25
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DIVINE LIGHTS
Life together
Iconart Gallery is hosting Life Together, a group show featuring sculptures, paintings and prints by 22 artistes. A preview for the exhibition was held at the Gallery on September 28. Where: Iconart Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: Ongoing, 11.30am to 7pm Contact: 98499 68797
Mediterranean food fest
Take a trip and experience a variety of Mediterranean delights such as bruschetta and seafood marinara pasta, bruschetta and antipasto at Truffles cafe. The fest is on till September 30. Where: Truffles Cafe, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 10 When: Ongoing, 8am onwards Contact: (040) 2355 0105
Calligraphy art
On the occasion of Vinayaka Chathurthi, Sri Parameshwar Raju presents a series of calligraphic artworks based on Lord Ganesha. Where: Truffles Cafe, Jubilee Hills, Rd No 10 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 2355 0105
Recent and retrospective
Women light diyas at a Ganesh pandal in Himayathnagar. Contact: (040) 2770 0734
A painting exhibition by artist Sudip Roy is being held at Kalakrithi Art Gallery. Where: Kalakrithi Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 6656 4466
Film workshop
Play time
Lamakaan will be hosting Manch Theatre’s humorous offering titled A Plateful of Plays. Where: Iconart Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: October 6, 7.30pm Contact: 9642731329
A play titled The Refund will be presented at Lamakaan . The play takes a dig at the state of the education system in the country. Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 1 When: September 30, 7.30pm onwards Contact: 9642731329
Photo talk
Photo exhibition
My photographic journey in Asia — a talk by well known French photographer Thierry Girard with a slideshow of his works in China, Japan and India will be held on October 3. Where: Alliance Francaise, Banjara Hills, Rd No 3 When: October 3, 7pm onwards
CINEMAS
A film making workshop and a film appreciation workshop is being held by Yavanika films. When: September 29 onwards, 11am onwards Contact: 94904 40986
The refund
An exhibition titled Imagine is being held at Alliance Francaise De Hyderabad. The exhibition features work by Manohar Chiluveru, Srinath Vadapalli, Satya Sai Mothadaka and Shivaprasad Chiluveru. Where: Alliance Francaise, Marredpally, Secunderabad When: Alliance Francaise, Marredpally,
Secunderabad Contact: (040) 2770 0734
Dominic Wesley
Humorous play Dominic Wesley will be presented on September 29. Where: Nift, Madhapur When: September 29 7.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2311 4537
Oktoberfest
Taj Krishna is hosting Oktoberfest at its coffee shop, Encounters. The festival offers an array of German delicacies like meatloaf, bockwurst, steckerfishz and beers to satiate your taste buds. Where: Encounters, Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills When: Ongoing, 6pm onwards Contact: (040) 6666 2323
Painting workshop
A Warli painting workshop is being held at Best Hands India, Somajiguda from October 1. Where: Best Hands India, Raj Bhavan Road, Somajiguda When: October 1 and 2, 2pm-3pm
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Unspoken harmony
A painting exhibition by artist Jaya Baheti titled Unspoken Harmony — a show of art and antiquity will be on display at Taj Deccan. Where: Taj Deccan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 1 When: October 5-12, 11am onwards Contact: (040) 66663939
Folk Art
An exhibition of folk paintings by artist Krishna Prasad will be held from September 29-October 15. Where: Earth Art Gallery, Banjara Hills, Rd No 12 When: Ongoing, 11am onwards Contact: 98480 22011
Petals exhibition
The exhibition being will display the ethnic and contemporary works of new designers along with a collection of jewellery and various lifestyle accessories. Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills When: October 12 Contact: (040) 6666 2323
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CITY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
TUF leader taken in custody
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he Telangana United Front (TUF) leader Vimalakka was taken into preventive custody by the City police yesterday. She was recently arraigned in a case of defacing the KBR statue. The arrest was made after Vimalakka got involved in a brief scuffle with her supporters. She was taken into custody by the police from her home in Domalguda.
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Sujatha, 23, a newly married woman who had suffered burns after she allegedly tried to immolate following unbearable harassment of husband and in-laws for dowry died yesterday in Gandhi Hospital. Her husband, G Srinivas, has been taken into custody. Police believe that the incident could be a case of murder.
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he Telangana patriarch, K Chandrasekhar Rao, ensconced in Delhi, hoping to wrest a T-assurance from UPA, is likely to miss the Telangana march to be held in the City tomorrow. Sources close to him said that he has exhorted all to participate in the march in large numbers and make the march an eye-opener to the Centre.
Groom and mum land in jail The SR Nagar police arrested a man who despite being engaged to one girl was all set to marry another girl as she was in a better financial position.
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reed, ingratitude and insensitivity, have landed a bridegroom and his mother in police custody. The SR Nagar police brought out the incident reflective of the society’s decadent face where a youth who got all helps from the family of one girl
he was engaged to be married tried to marry another after taking more benefits. Both son and mum are counting bars in the jail.
Mohd Rafiq, 27, a resident of Hasmathpeth, Secunderabad, was a labourer till a year ago and he was engaged to be married to his cousin, Zarina
Begum, in 2010. The engagement ceremony was conducted as per religious system in the presence of the elders and relatives. At that time, girl’s father Mohd Shabir, who works as a real estate broker, had given the boy a gold chain and a ring. Later, Rafiq got a chance to work in Saudi Arabia. His parents sought and got `70,000 from the girl's parents and he went to Saudi Arabia. Recently, Rafiq came on leave, and he allegedly got engaged to another girl who is financially better placed. The
marriage was to take place today. Meanwhile, Shabir saw the wedding card and he was shocked. Enquiries revealed that the youth and his parents had kept the earlier engagement under wraps. The parents and girl he was newly engaged to were in the dark. Shabir alerted the SR Nagar police and inquiries exposed the youth and his parents. Exactly 24 hours before the marriage police handcuffed the mother and son. “It was an outright cheating of a girl and her parents,” remarked a police officer.
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CITY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Grand finale to City’s Ganeshotsav
Balapur laddu fetches record amount rom just `450 to nearly `7.50 lakh is the phenomenal jump in popularity the Balapur Ganesh laddu achieved since 1994. Today’s winner was P Govardhan Reddy of Balapur who bagged the famed 21-kg laddu for `7.50 lakh. The laddu has attained a rare secular status with Muslims too participating in
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the bidding with fervour. It was a never-before spirits when the auction began today around 10am. The crowd gathered had numbered nearly 500, of whom some 200 were Muslims, who witnessed and a couple of them participated in the auction. The auction which began with 24 bidders gradually came down to 18.
Balapur laddu adds zing to Ganesh immersion. The first citizen of the City was missing from the scene.
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he usually choc-a-bloc City roads today gave way to Vigneshwara's march. All arterial roads since morning were nearly deserted as most offices, private and public, had declared a holiday today. The City today witnessed an unprecedented combined action of cleaning Ganesh idols immediately after they are immersed, in view of the world conference on biodiversity beginning on Monday. Whether it was the police security or lake cleaning, everything assumed a gigantic proportion. The City police commissioner had posted some 15,000 policemen to ensure peaceful
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conduct of the immersion ceremony that starts around 2pm today. Besides the three major immersion centres — Saroonagar lake, Hussain Sagar lake, and Hasmathpeth lake — the civic authorities had allowed immersion in 18 other small and medium lakes. The Ganashotsav committee in collaboration with GHMC and lake protection committee had arranged in all, 42 cranes to hoist the idols and immerse in the lakes. Hundreds of volunteers and sanitation staff were kept ready to immediately remove them so that the lakes are clean before the world event begins. The record sale of the Balapur laddu auction added
zest to the festive fervour. By 11am over 10,000 devotees had gathered at Khairatabad Ganesh, the largest of them all. While the police said permissions were given for 8,748 Ganesh pandals, the City had set up nearly 40,000 pandals, most of them small. Both the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and Mayor Mohd Majid Hussain did not come out. The CM was in his camp office while the mayor remained at home. Only the DGP and municipal commissioner were seen busy visiting various places to ensure smooth conduct of the festival. With inputs by Rahul Ramakrishna, Inkeshaf Ahmed, Mohd Subhan and Md Nizamuddin.
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FOCUS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Drug epidemic grips Punjab Sixty-seven per cent of all rural households in Punjab are home to at least one drug addict. Ammu Kannampilly
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n a muggy evening in the north Indian city of Amritsar, Sunil Sharma prepares for another heroin hit in a decrepit, abandoned building. Before inhaling the fumes of his brown paste heated on a piece of tinfoil, the 23-year-old explained he had tried heroin for the first time six months ago when his girlfriend left him to marry another man. “I feel bad... why have I become like this? Why have I tied this noose around my neck?” he told AFP, slurring his words. There are thousands like him across the state of Punjab, which leads the country in drug-related crime with a rate that is nearly ten times the national average, according to police records. In an affidavit submitted in 2009 to the state high court, the local government estimated that 67 percent of all rural households in Punjab were home to at least one drug addict. Located on a long-standing smuggling route that sees heroin transported from Afghanistan via neighbouring Pakistan and on to markets elsewhere in the region, Punjab is now increasingly a final destination for the contraband. When local couriers involved in smuggling “came to know
that drugs have a lot of profit then they began to indulge in local selling of these things,” says S Boopathi, assistant inspector general of the state police narcotics cell. He said it was impossible to estimate the amount of drugs crossing Punjab, but added that “trade is huge”. Rajiv Walia, regional coordinator at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told AFP that Punjab had “a serious problem because it borders trafficking routes and drug-producing regions.” “You will do anything to support the habit.” In the 1970s, Punjab was regarded as India’s “bread basket”, due to its fertile soil, prosperous farmer community and booming agricultural output. Some, like former addict Navneet Singh, see the growing appetite for drugs as “a problem of abundance.” Singh, a successful restaurant owner who has been clean for 11 years, grew up in a wealthy family. He believes that Punjab’s relative affluence and its cultural norms, coupled with the easy access to drugs, make addiction a commonplace reality. “Punjab has a very macho culture, very prone to showing off. It’s a ready-made market for drugs,” the 38-year-old told AFP. “What does the Punjabi do when he gets rich? He buys an SUV, a gun and he gets high,” he said.
“Then as time passes and you get addicted you will do anything to support the habit,” he added. Doctor JPS Bhatia has witnessed the problem of addiction in Punjab from close quarters. When the psychiatrist set up his hospital in 1991, he would see one or two drug-related cases a week. Today, out of the 130 patients he sees every day, some 70 to 80 percent are battling drug addiction, he tells AFP. In response to the expanding scale of the problem, Bhatia set up a rehab centre for recovering addicts in 2003. “I see cases where the son is into addiction, the father is into
addiction... the whole family is sick,” he says, comparing the state’s situation to “a ticking time bomb”. Those who are too poor to afford heroin or cocaine take to swallowing or injecting cheap prescription drugs or consuming a locally-produced crude form of opium called “bhukki”, a tea-like drink made from ground poppy husk. The Amritsar neighbourhood of Maqboolpura has lost so many young men to overdoses or drug-related illnesses, that it is locally known as “the village of widows”. Schoolmaster Ajit Singh has
Doctor JPS Bhatia (left) tends to recovering drug addict Amardeep Singh in Amristar. Located on a long-standing smuggling route that sees heroin transported from Afghanistan via neighbouring Pakistan and on to markets elsewhere in the region, Punjab is now increasingly a final destination for the contraband. AFP/NARINDER NANU
two cousins who are addicted to crude forms of heroin. Another cousin, whose morphine habit saw him leave home to beg on the streets, died at the age of 31. According to Singh, who grew up in Maqboolpura, the working class community here began to dabble in the sale of opium in the 1960s, when they realised how lucrative the business could be. “First, it was an easy way to make money. Then they developed a taste for the stuff,” he said. Today, he estimates that each house along the 13 narrow streets that make up this neighbourhood is home to at least one drug addict. Unlike his older cousins, Singh managed to finish school and he became a teacher of political science and a local community worker. He began by offering evening classes to local children whose fathers had fallen victim to addiction and went on to found a school for more than 600 pupils. Local mother, Kiran Kaur whose two children attend the school, worries for her husband who has struggled to find work as a labourer since developing a prescription drug habit. “I have asked him many times to quit but I don’t think he can do it,” the 32-year-old sighed. As she waited for her children to finish class, she added: “I can’t see a way out of my life, but things can be different for my children if they study hard.” AFP
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NATION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
‘Police Mitra' help cops
Bengali poems to be archived
Modern labs to come up
KOLKATA: To archive and showcase
JAIPUR: The government will set up modern
PUNE: In a socially pro-active initiative
laboratories in 100 districts of the country for diagnosis of serious diseases including cancer and diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said. The project is aimed to provide better medical services to the people in remote areas, the Minister said at 19th annual conference of Vascular Society of India . Three districts of Rajasthan have been included in this.
Pune Police, confronted with spectre of terrorist violence, roped in about 5,000 college students to aid them in maintaining law and order during the ten-day Ganesh festival which concluded today. Called "Police Mitra", the young boys and girls kept a constant vigil during heavy crowding at thousands of mandals dotting the city.
the art of writing poetry in Bengali, a group of musicians and music lovers have come together on a single platform. Not only does the website www.kobitaclub.com collects poetries from young Bengali poets from every corner of the world, it also acts as a networking platform for enthusiasts. It started off as a Facebook page.
GSAT-10 successfully launched
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India’s heaviest satellite with a design life of 15 years is expected to be operational by November.
Tibetan Buddhist devotees wait for the arrival of their spiritual leader The Dalai Lama for a prayer meeting at The Namgyal Monastry in Dharamshala, on Friday. The prayer meeting was held on the concluding day of the four-day second Special General meeting of Tibetans which was held in Dharamshala to discuss the critical issues of recent self immolations by Tibetans in Tibet. AFP/MANJUNATH KIRAN
BJP’s HP poll list out NEW DELHI: Even before the official announcement of election schedule for Himachal Pradesh, the BJP tonight issued its first list of 45 candidates, which included Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal who will contest from Hamirpur seat. The party candidates were
finalised following a marathon late night meeting chaired by BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Also present were Dhumal, former state Chief Minister Shanta Kumar, BJP's Himachal in charge Kalraj Mishra and coin-charge Shyam Jaju besides other senior party leaders of the
BJP's central election committee. CM Dhumal, who earlier contested from Bamsan seat has shifted to Hamipur following delimitation. Sitting MLA from Hamirpur Urmil Thakur has been shifted to Sujanpur in the CM's home district. PTI
Another girl gang-raped A teenaged girl was gang-raped by four youths in Gohana town in Haryana's Sonipat district on Friday as CM tells media “All’s well”. CHANDIGARH: In the third incident of its kind in less than 20 days, a teenaged girl was gang-raped by four youths in Gohana town in Haryana's Sonipat district Friday, 190 km from here. The victim, a class 11 student, had gone to a grocery shop Friday afternoon and was asked by the shop owner, Kali, to pick up things from his godown nearby. In her complaint to the police, the victim said when she went to the godown, Kali came
POLICE, WHICH REGISTERED A CASE OF RAPE, LATER CLAIMED TWO OF THE ACCUSED HAD BEEN ARRESTED. after her. Three other youth, identified as Harish, Deepak and Shanty, were already there. They overpowered the girl and raped her. They threatened her not to complain to police. Police, which registered a
case of rape, later claimed two of the accused had been arrested. The crime took place almost at the same time when Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was telling the media in Chandigarh Friday that the law and order in the state was completely under control. On Sep 21, a married woman in Jind district had alleged that she was gang-raped by three men in her house at gunpoint in the presence of her family and children. Two accused were later arrested by the police.
BANGALORE: India's advanced communication satellite GSAT-10 was successfully launched early today on board Ariane-5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana. GSAT-10, with a design life of 15 years is expected to be operational by November and will augment telecommunication, Direct-To-Home and radio navigation services. At 3,400 kg at lift-off, GSAT-10 is the heaviest built by Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation. It was ISRO's 101st space mission. Arianespace's heavy lifting Ariane-5 ECA rocket launched GSAT-10 about 30 minutes after the blast off from the European launch pad at 2.48 am, prior to which it injected European co-passenger ASTRA 2F into orbit. GSAT-10 is fitted with 30 transponders (12 Ku-band, 12 C-band and six Extended CBand), which will provide vital augmentation to
THE HEAVY LIFTING ARIANE-5 ECA ROCKET LAUNCHED GSAT-10 ABOUT 30 MIN AFTER THE BLAST OFF FROM THE EUROPEAN LAUNCH PAD AT 2.48AM. INSAT/GSAT transponder capacity. It also has a navigation payload – GAGAN (GPS aided Geo Augmented Navigation) — that would provide improved accuracy of GPS signals (of better than seven metres) to be used by Airports Authority of India for civil aviation requirements. This is the second satellite in INSAT/GSAT constellation with GAGAN payload after GSAT-8, launched in May 2011. GSAT-10 was originally scheduled for a September 22 launch, but was deferred after scientists detected a small PTI glitch.
Don't air video of child abuse victim: NCPCR NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked the media to restrain for airing or publishing a video released by a Bangalore lawyer which shows a man playing in an "inappropriate" manner with his daughter. The NCPCR said the lawyer who was representing the "child victim" had released the video to the press earlier. The father of the child is in custody for allegedly molesting her. The Child Rights body said that as per the Norms of Journalistic Conduct 2005 of the Press Council, media should refrain from publishing or airing clipping of child abuse.
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COMMENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Take stringent action
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he government should take stringent action against activists who damage public property. While a peaceful protest is alright, vandalising public property, like burning the toll booth, is completely unacceptable. It is because our laws are not strict enough. Ramesh Kumar Kukatpally
he government knew that they would be hosting the CBD more than a year ago. Yet, they did not bother beginning beautification works until the eleventh hour. They were too busy haggling over who would fund the works. Now, the works are yet to be completed, and are shoddy. Jithin Shekar Marredpally
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Shocking public outrage
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his is with regard to the large scale violence that has erupted all over the world to protest an anti-Islam movie made by a US filmmaker. While I believe that what the filmmaker has done is incorrect, the attacks on foreign embassies and killing innocent officials is no solution. Reena Mohan Ameerpet
EDITORIALS WHAT SORT OF austerity is this? Nobody would accuse our netas of matching their words with deeds. But just after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s pontification of ‘hard economic realities’ and ‘money not growing on trees’, the news that media brought out about the UPA bash and dinner which cost the exchequer `28 lakh comes a shocker. Unless rulers live by their words, cadres and masses would not follow them. But in our situation, the scenario is too depressing. Let us face it. It is not just Congressmen or UPA, each of our political party and netas has a penchant to say something in public and do something else in private. These leaders have forgotten the ageold wisdom that a ruler lives in a glass house and all their actions are transparent. If, at least, the top ones do not lead an exemplary life, the country will decay. Belated though, the ruling party must correct its mistakes and lead a way of life that match their promises and words so that the hardworking people of this country is reassured that their taxes are not going to a foreign bank.
WHAT GOES AROUND comes around It’s an irony that it is mostly the son — who gets preference over the daughter in affection and attention from parents who hope that he will look after them when they grow old and helpless —who abuses parents in their old age. This is one among the tragic findings of a study on the issue. One in three senior citizens are abused by either their children or daughter-inlaws. Delhi claimed the infamous title of the city with the largest number of such cases. The next time we fault our parents, chide them, remember, what goes around comes around.
Hierarchy of power Soul Curry SUMAA TEKUR
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designer-friend was creating a poster, last week, to announce a district-level football match. There was a long list of local leaders and VIPs, whose names had to be accommodated on the poster. The task was a rather complex one considering that the hierarchy of the VIPs had to be upheld while making the list. Whose name appears first on the list? Chief guest or guest of honour? Is the person who presides over the event more important than the special invitee? The hierarchy of guests at such events is made apparent in the order in which the names appear in the invitation. The
most important guest gets top spot and maybe even a bolder display with thick fonts. The boldness of colour and fonts tapers as the list progresses. Just one goof up and the organizers are bound to have a rough time explaining the hierarchy to all the special invitees, and managing their hurt egos. This plays out almost everywhere. Ever noticed the local political party posters? This is the best shot at fame for the relatively unknown faces to show that they’re hardworking party workers. The hierarchy of the party’s members plays out in the size their portraits are blown up to. The more enlarged their photos, the higher up they must be in the order. Why just at the very local level, even our national leaders fuss over who sits where in a public function. If the front seat is not reserved for them, they are most upset, and will throw tantrums to show their displeasure and hurt ego. Ego is such a
fragile thing. It can lay bare one’s deepest desires, fears and apprehensions without even having to say much. We create systems in order to wipe out equality and make it easy for people with better intellect, opportunity and talent to shine. Physical hierarchy is the most common and most lethal amongst all hierarchies. This includes political power and financial power. The scams tumbling out of the government’s cupboards, and the closed-door meetings to forge new friendships and wipe out existing ones as if without a trace, are all but attempts at wrestling for power and climbing up the ladder we ourselves created. In the designs of the maker of this universe, there was actually no room for hierarchy. The universe is not designed for individuals to shut out the rest of the world and live as though on an island. Existence is only possible if there is constant
give and take. This happens almost on a moment-to-moment basis. In this process, we open ourselves to the fears, insecurities, frustrations, dysfunction and anger of others around us. The dualistic superiorityinferiority complexes we experience are a function of our own perceptions of society. We look down on people we think are below us in the hierarchy, and we look up to people who we think are more successful than us. By doing this, we are feeding our insecurities more and more. Agreed that only those spiritual seekers very deep down the road of spirituality can remain detached and not allow human emotions to dictate day-to-day existence. For the rest of us, even as we bicker over whose photo should be printed bigger on the poster, we can reflect on what this all means at the end of the day. And was it worth it?
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COMMENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Opening up to Myanmar: Proceed with caution ing indicator that ethnic communities rich in natural resources may face increased levels of oppression as international companies are welcomed into Myanmar.
Affairs of the World DR ROBERT LAWRENCE and ADAM RICHARDS
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ung San Suu Kyi’s widely heralded visit to the United States provides ample opportunity to celebrate her freedom and inspires high hopes for Myanmar’s transition to a more peaceful and democratic future. Yet her visit also reminds us that much more work remains to be done to achieve that goal for all the people of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The international community must proceed with caution to ensure that progress toward greater openness and new commerce does not come at the cost of greater human rights abuses for Myanmar’s ethnic minorities. During her visit, Suu Kyi, has given the green light to Congress to ease sanctions on her country and promote investment. Investment can certainly be a force for good, creating jobs and eradicating the poverty that is epidemic in Myanmar. But economic development can have
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The high correlation between economic development and human rights abuses (especially forced labour) is a worrying fact.
a downside as well. A survey of 665 households this summer in eastern Myanmar conducted by Physicians for Human Rights showed that nearly one-third of them had experienced human rights violations in the past year, including forced labour, forced displacement, and physical attacks. Abuses were much more common in communities situated near economic development
projects like roads, or ports — just the kind of infrastructure projects likely to proliferate with the lifting of sanctions. The survey was conducted in Karen State, a mountainous region home primarily to the ethnic Karen minority, where conflict with the Burmese military has carried on for decades. The high correlation between economic development and human rights abuses, especially forced labour, is a worry-
The international community should use all tools at its disposal to guide new investment in a way that will best promote democratic values and protect all Myanmar’s people from violations of human rights. Companies should conduct human rights impact assessments, consult with local communities that may be affected by their investment, and adhere to United Nations guiding principles on business and human rights. National governments should ensure that the companies they regulate do not collaborate with perpetrators of human
rights violations in Myanmar, and that any company complicit in abuse is held accountable. States should also adopt Suu Kyi’s advice to make investment as transparent as possible. In her words, increased transparency would enable policymakers and watchdogs to “find out if what [companies] are doing is actually helping our country or harming it.” Experience over decades has shown us that repressive regimes with long histories of targeting minorities do not change their entrenched patterns overnight. People concerned with human rights and democracy in Myanmar must recognize this moment in history as a crucial opportunity to press for changes that will ensure that the benefits of Myanmar’s welcome reforms can reach its ethnic communities. Dr Robert Lawrence is board chair of Physicians for Human Rights and professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr Adam Richards, is a member of PHR board and is affiliated with that American Heart AssociationPharmaceutical Outcomes Research at UCLA.
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ere anything to discredit the idea of holding a parliamentary inquiry into the Libor rate-rigging scandal, it would be the behaviour of the House of Commons yesterday. In a series of rancorous exchanges, Ed Balls and George Osborne came across more as squabbling schoolchildren than statesmen capable of steering us through the economic storm. Leaders of the global fight to eradicate polio vowed at the United Nations on Thursday to step up their efforts to eliminate the virus from the three countries where the disease still has a foothold — Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. The challenge is that those countries are troubled by political unrest, violence and social customs that can interfere with the delivery of vaccines to the children and adults who need protection. Polio erupted in frightening epidemics around the world during the 20th century and crippled or killed hundreds of thousands of victims a
year. There is no cure, but vaccines eliminated the virus from advanced countries and relegated it to poorer regions of the world. In 1988, a global campaign was organized by public and private organizations to eradicate the disease. It has been an enormous success. At its start, more than 350,000 children were paralyzed each year in more than 125 countries. This year, only 145 cases have been reported, and the disease remains endemic in only three countries. Afghanistan pushed down the number of cases to 17 so far this year from 80 last year. Pakistan drove its polio burden down to 30 cases as of mid-August, but has run into difficulties because of opposition from the Taliban and Muslim religious leaders who depict vaccination campaigns as a cover for espionage. Nigeria experienced a drop in cases in 2010 followed by an upsurge to 84 cases this year, mostly in areas where militant groups are fighting and people distrust Western vaccines. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said he would enlist agencies of the UN to make eradication a top priority this year. Ridding the world of polio should be a crucial part of a broad campaign to immunise all children against infectious diseases.
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BUSINESS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
India, US to enhance ties
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ndia and US are setting up a group to discuss financing options for encouraging energy generation through renewable sources. The decision to set up the group was taken here Friday at the just concluded India-US energy dialogue co-chaired by BK Chaturvedi, member, Planning Commission of India and US Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Apple sorry for maps glitches
BlackBerry stock rebounds
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pple apologised Friday for its glitchridden maps application in the new operating system used by the iPhone 5 and urged customers to use rival programmes while improvements are made.”At Apple, we strive to make worldclass products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps, we fell short on this commitment,” CEO Tim Cook said.
lackBerry maker Research in Motion’s stock rallied sharply Friday a day after reporting a narrower-than-expected loss, as analysts debated whether the company is poised for a rebound. RIM, whose shares dipped earlier this year, climbed 5.05 per cent to end at $7.50, after paring some early gains. Still, the stock remains a far cry from 2008 highs above $140.
Do you know what it takes? PRUDHVI RAJU K
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aking a loan is commonplace these days. Be it a car, housing or personal loan. Yet, not many people are aware of what banks look for before approving one. In a bid to increase their profits, banks try to reduce potential non-performing assets (NPAs) by offering loans to those individuals who have a high credit score. Banks have been increasingly dependant upon the credit information bureau of India limited (CIBIL) since 2006 for these scores, before they pass a loan. However, there are not too many companies that help educate the public on the importance of creditworthiness. This is where Satya Lalith Kumar V and T Krishna stepped in with ICrediZen, a credit counselling and consultancy firm with an investment of `4 lakh. Talking about the business idea, Satya says, “We knew the importance of credit rating will
increase over time. In the West, different institutions check these credit ratings for not only offering loans, but to rent a house or buy a house and at times even while offering an employment. This will soon become the trend in India as well. The idea behind our business was to educate people about financial credit rating that include building credibility and credit worthiness of an individual or a business.” Incidentally, Satya is a chartered accountant and also a qualified cost accountant. “I had previously worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and RSM International before initiating this project. My partner, Krishna is a management graduate from IIM, Kozhikode and has worked with credit rating companies. We met at a com-
Loan applicants are many, but few are really aware of the criteria banks look for when passing one. This is where Satya Lalith Kumar and T Krishna step in to educate people about credit rating.
mon friend’s wedding and I knew his expertise would be valuable for our business venture,” says Satya. Although, the company got a breakeven in its first four months, the challenge lay in tapping the huge potential in the Indian market. “The first and foremost challenge is to educate and make people aware about the importance of credit rating in financial planning. Although, the credit repair industry is at a nascent stage in our country, it is a billion dollar industry across the world. We want to grow and expand to other cities,” he says. Talking about services they offer, Krishna says, “We offer a range of services — credit health check-up of an individual, by seeking a credit report. This will help the individual to make sure that there is no identification theft on his name. After which, we act as an intermediary between banks, individuals and credit information companies to solve issues of identity theft and clearing loans and credit card defaults misusing an individual’s identity. “We also do financial settlements between the bank and an individual. If an individual is unable to pay the loan due to a bad financial situation, we talk to banks and get issues settled. We also take care that the credit score does not get seriously damaged by such a default.”
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Satya Lalith Kumar, co-founder, ICrediZen
My aim is to create products and services that will help build the ‘Made in India’ tag. We want the world to choose Indian products. Satya Lalith Kumar, co-founder The 10-employee company is seeing 200-300 per cent growth month on month for the last six months with 40 per cent margins. It is also planning to raise investments of `2 crore to expand operations to eight major cities in the country next year, which will happen over a two year period. After which, it will go for a second round of fund raising to expand operations to another 20 cities. Talking about his ultimate objective, Satya says “As a young boy, I grew up seeing people around me going passionate about western products. The ‘made in Japan’ or ‘made in USA’ tag made people make a beeline for those products. “I always thought of becoming an entrepreneur and my ultimate aim is to create products and services that will help build the ‘Made in India’ tag. Our ultimate aim is to do our part in making the world go crazy in choosing Indian products and services.”
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WORLD SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Chef cooks wife’s body
Solution for n-programme
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AE’s permanent representative to the UN has called for international efforts to tackle the deteriorating human rights situation in Somalia. UAE ambassador Obaid Al Zaabi addressed the Human Rights Council in Geneva, where he welcomed a report on the status of human rights in Somalia. Al Zaab UAE was concerned about the report.
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49-year-old chef from Los Angeles faces prison for alleged murder after he is said to have told the police that he boiled his wife’s body for four days to hide the evidence, a media report said. According to the Daily Mirror, David Viens stuffed his wife’s body in a 55-gallon drum of boiling water and kept it submerged with weights.
oscow believes that a solution regarding the Iranian nuclear programme is possible without military strikes. Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow hopes solutions could be found with no military strikes against nuclear facilities. The minister blamed Western sanctions for hindering talks between Teheran and world media.
Blair could’ve stopped it: Annan Iraq war LONDON: Former British PM Tony Blair was the only person capable of turning George Bush against the 2003 Iraq invasion, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan claimed in an interview on Saturday. Annan argued in an interview published in the Times newspaper that Blair could have changed Bush’s mind because of the special relationship between the two nations and the two world leaders. Annan said he often had con-
templated what might have happened if “Blair had said ‘George, this is where we part company. You’re on your own’,” following the failure to secure a second UN resolution. “I really think it could have stopped the war,” he added. Annan was UN secretary general at the time of the crisis. A first Security Council resolution, which offered Iraq a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations passed unanimously in November 2002. But a second resolution proposed by the US, Britain, and Spain in 2003 that called for
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action to be taken against Saddam Hussain’s regime was withdrawn when it became clear it would be vetoed. The US decided that the resolution was not needed before military action could lawfully take place, and the invasion commenced on March 20. Annan rejected suggestions that his resignation, or that of then US secretary of state Colin Powell, would have altered the course of history. Annan gave the interview to mark the launch of his memoirs: “Interventions — a Life in War AFP and Peace.”
US carjacking suspect shoots self live on TV
A car drives through a flooded area on Thursday after heavy rainfalls in Bobadilla, near Malaga, southern of Spain. An elderly woman died in floods driven by a rainstorm that overturned cars and forced hundreds from AFP/JORGE GUERRERO their homes in southern Spain, officials said on Saturday.
WASHINGTON: A high-speed chase turned ugly for Fox News on Friday when it televised — live — a fleeing carjacking suspect shooting himself in the head in the Arizona desert. Twitter exploded in reaction to the real-time broadcasting flub, while video of the graphic incident briefly found its way onto YouTube, as a badly shaken senior Fox News anchorman apologised profusely. “We really messed up and we’re all very sorry,” said anchorman Shepard Smith, who told viewers that a five-second delay in the live feed ought to have enabled the graphic scene to be stopped before going on air. “That didn’t belong on TV,” Smith said. “We took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from being on TV. And I personally apologize to you
that happened.” Fox News online later cited police confirming that the man had died. But even before that, Twitter users proclaimed that Fox News, had telecast a “suicide” as it happened. The Fox affiliate in Phoenix said police had pursued the carjacking suspect at speeds of up to 175 kilometers per hour for more than an hour. From the expressway, the red Dodge Caliber hatchback veered onto dusty back roads in the vicinity of Salome. The driver, wearing an American football jersey, was then seen abandoning the car and fleeing on foot, with no police officers visible in the tightly framed aerial shot. The live broadcast drew criticism from a number of IANS media observers.
Pope’s former German court to Muslim butler goes on trial girl: You have to ‘swim’
$450m US aid to Cairo frozen
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler Paolo Gabriele goes on trial on Saturday for leaking confidential Vatican memos that revealed cloak-anddagger politics among the pope’s closest aides. A once loyal servant who said he grew disgusted by the “evil and corruption” he witnessed, Gabriele told investigators he was acting as an “agent” of the Holy Spirit to help the pope put a weary Catholic Church back on track. Gabriele faces up to four years in prison for aggravated theft in a trial that is unprecedented in the modern history of the world’s smallest state. Using the codename “Maria”, he is accused of meeting investigative reporter Gianluigi Nuzzi earlier this year and passing him copies of secret papers.
WASHINGTON: A Republican congresswoman on Friday froze a request by the Obama administration for $450 million in cash for the Egyptian government, saying it needed new scrutiny amid rocky US ties with Cairo. The lawmaker, Kay Granger, from Texas, who chairs the Appropriations Sub-committee on State and Foreign Relations, put a “hold” on the application, meaning it could be held up indefinitely. “This proposal comes to Congress at a point when the US-Egypt relationship has never been under more scrutiny, and rightly so,” Granger said in a statement “I am not convinced of the urgent need for this assistance and I cannot support it at this time. I have placed a hold on these funds.”
BERLIN: A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys. The 12-year-old, originally from Morocco but going to school in the southern German city of Frankfurt, had refused to take part in swimming lessons and had been marked down accordingly. She filed to be given the right to skip the classes, her lawyer arguing that according to the Koran, she was not only forbidden from showing herself to boys but also from seeing the topless boys. An administrative court in Kassel, western Germany, rejected her application. It said in its ruling that she could wear the full-body swimsuit, known as the “burkini” already used by several girls at her school.
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On winning and more... We speak to Raju Jittu of the Mumbai-based NSD clan that came third at the Asia eSports Cup.
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sports tournaments aka videogame tournaments have been organised regularly in India for the past five years, but Indian gamers have hardly made their presence felt at an international level. All that changed last week when a team of five youngsters from Mumbai came third at the Asia eSports Cup in Counter Strike 1.6. Raju Jittu (20), Imtiyaz Khan (22), Bhavesh Nachnani (25), Akash Gudhka (21), Roshan Fernandez (23), Sadanand Dey (20) have been playing together as part of the clan (a gaming team) NSD since 2010 and have won several times at the national level.
Q: How did you guys meet and when did you decide to create a clan? Raju: We met at the AR gaming cafe in Thane in 2010, before that most of us were playing for different clans and I was part of this clan called Energy. All of us used to game Counter Strike at the cafe and knew each other well enough like that, so we decided to form a clan Q: What do you think of gaming as a profession in India? Do you have sponsors and what has been your experience of working with sponsors like? Raju: In 2011, we won around `3-4 lakhs by winning 2-5 tournaments. The most money we won was at a tournament organised by Nvidia, then we won `1 lakh and a gaming laptop. Before we went for the Asia Cup Youth
Republic, Talk eSports decided to sponsor us. Sponsors help as they help us pay for the travel and accommodation when we go to other cities or countries for gaming tournaments. The only problem as of now with being a professional gamer is that most tournaments give gamers goodies such as laptops, graphic cards and such instead of cash. It would help us a lot more if we received cash. Q: What was your family’s response? What do they think about gaming? Raju: Our parents were initially skeptical about us spending so much time playing games. However their attitudes changed when they found out later that we are among the top gamers in the country. Since then they have been extremely supportive and that is another reason I wish tournament winners would be paid in cash, so we can be less dependent on our parents to fund our gaming. Over the past five years all of us have spent so much of our parents money to game and we don't want to do that anymore.
Q: How did you prepare for the Asia esports cup? Raju: We didn't do anything special for the tournament. Our basics are strong and that is what helped us win and reach where we have. Normally we practice very little; if there's a tournament in the weekend we meet once on a week day and form a basic strategy. We followed the
same approach for the international tournaments as well. Q: Was this the first time you played against international level teams? Raju: In a way yes, we have played a couple of them earlier in India, but this was something else. Q: What's your favourite Counter Strike map? Are you
Previous wins 1. World Cyber GamesNational runner up- 2009. 2. Indian Cyber Gaming Championship –National Winner-2009. 3. Zapak Pro LeagueNational runner up- 2010. 4. World Gaming Day(Zapak)National runner up-2010. 5. Indian Gaming Championship- Wild card entry winner-2010. 6. World Cyber Games-PuneRunner up- 2010. 7. BYOC winter national winner- 2010.
8. Razer tourney Winners 2011 9. BYOC Summer National Winners - 2011 10. ICGC National Runner up - 2011 11. World Cyber Games India - National Winners - 2011 12. Masakre - National Runnerup - 2011 13. Asia Esports Cup India Finals Winners - 2012 14. Asia Esports Cup Grand Finale Tokyo - 2nd Runner up (bronze medal)
guys practicing Counter Strike: Global Offensive? Raju: Our favourite map is Inferno and no we haven't started practicing Global Offensive yet. The game is just out and only a few clans in India like ATE and Brutality are practicing the game right now. Next month the ICGC finals are being organised in Goa so we'll think about Global Offensive after that. Q: You guys have been around in the industry for a while, what do you think of esports right now compared to a few years back? Raju: The gaming tournaments have improved little by little over the years. There are some really good ones like ICGC and BYOC and some really bad ones too. So it all depends on the organisers. Q: So what next, you guys are planning to add more gamers to your clan? Raju: Yes, actually our sponsors had suggested that we recruit other gamers who specialise in games such as Fifa and NFS. That way we'll have a larger presence so we'll be auditioning for gamers pretty soon.
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ANIMAL KINGDOM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
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It was the sheer love for animals that led Dr Lakshmi Srinivasan to become a veterinarian and now, after 20 years in this field, she is still in awe of animals. She talks about her journey and much more. AMY ROSE THOMAS
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fter getting scratched, bitten and mauled by animals for the past 20 years, Dr Lakshmi Srinivasan Ramana, one of the founders of Animal Care Clinic, is just as excited to get to work as she was years
back when she started out as a veterinarian. “I wanted to be a veterinarian since the time I was four. Animals have always been my passion and now, after 20 years in the field, they still are. Some animals are more than willing to come to the hospital but most of them are not. There are some who are vindictive and hate coming to the hospital. I have been attacked so many times
through my career but they are not doing it out of malice. I feel that it is my fault that I got bitten. I should not have let my guard down,” she says. Animals are simple and straightforward and these are the lessons that humans should learn from them, she adds. “Each day is an adventure for me and I learn more about animals every day. I am in awe of these creatures. Humans are
way too complicated. They should learn from the simplicity and straightforward nature of animals. Yesterday, this lady brought in a baby rabbit with a fractured leg. She told me that when its brother saw the injured bunny, it licked it all over. I doubt if even kids nowadays show similar love to their siblings,” she says. She has a big family complete with 14 dogs and one cat.
“All of us are animal lovers and each of my kids has a dog each. My elder daughter loves animals and says that she wants to become a vet when she grows up. She always has a choice and I would never pressurise her to take it up and if she wants to, I will give all the support she needs. I would be like how my mother was with me when I was a kid and I told her that I want to become a vet,” she says.
DR LAKSHMI SRINIVASAN FEELS THAT ANIMALS ARE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD AND THESE ARE THE LESSONS THAT HUMANS SHOULD LEARN FROM THEM. As a child, Lakshmi says that she picked up all kinds of animals and brought them home to take care of them. “I used to bring home lizards, frogs, mice, dogs, cats and goats. There was never a time when there wasn’t an animal in the house. Since I was the only child, I connected well with them rather than other children. My mother never liked animals but my father was very fond of them,” she reminisces. So, how did her parents react when she declared that she wanted to become a vet? “Being a vet was considered to be a back door profession at the time and my family was not very happy when I told them about my decision to become one. Mine is a family of businessmen and doctors. But my mother was a pillar of support for me during those times,” she says.
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BOOKS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
SHORT READS Title: The Black Count Author: Tom Reiss Publisher: Crown Alexander Dumas's swashbuckling, noble heroes are the stuff of legends, but few know that his characters were inspired by his father, General Alex Dumas, the son of a French count and a black, Haitian slave. The Black Count brings to life this real-life hero, who was immortalised in his son's books.
Title: Sutton Author: JR Moehringer Publisher: Hyperion The story of America's most successful bank robber, Willie Sutton, is one of love, daring and comedy. Moehringer recreates New York at the turn of the twentieth century and casts new light on a man who once appeared on FBI's most wanted list.
Title: My Heart Is An Idiot Author: Davy Rothbart Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Davy Rothbart's new collection of brilliant essays is based on the premise that he falls in love too easily — and that the feeling is rarely reciprocated. His efforts to impress his loves are usually wild, crazy and more often than not, fail, but he sure gets great stories from them.
Title: The Yellow Birds Author: Kevin Powers Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers tells the story of two soldiers trying to stay alive during a bloody war in his debut novel. The narrator, 21-year-old Bartle, takes 18-year-old Murphy under his wing as they navigate the war.
Blood Games
Kyle Mills makes a solid effort to continue the Covert One series with The Ares Decision – a book that might be a let-down for Ludlum fans but a decent read nevertheless. PADMINI C
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ou know Ludlum is gone. You know there will never be another original Bourne. Yet everytime you see a paperback with his name sprawled across, even alongside a ghostwriter's, your heart jumps a little bit faster, and before you know it you are at the billing counter. Kyle Mills continues the Covert One series with The Ares Decision — a thriller that opens with a US Special Ops team landing in Northern Uganda on a recon mission. Not long after, the team consisting of some of the best operatives in the world is captured on video being completely decimated by what appear to be simple farmers. Men, women and children with superhuman strength, agility and completely immune to fear, pain or even bullets. Colonel Jon Smith, army microbiologist cum top Covert One operative is sent to investigate. With his two-member team, he soon uncovers the mystery — a
A box of tissues should be in handy when you read A Monster Calls and get ready to face your own monsters. Fleme Varkey
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atrick Ness dedicates this book to author Siobhan Dowd who died of breast cancer. Dowd was a wonderful writer of children’s fiction and this story was in fact her idea. A Monster Calls is only a furthering of her idea. Ness confesses that he did not try to recreate her story, he only wrote it the way she would have wanted to
deadly parasitic infection that causes men to turn into monsters, which is controlled by an Ugandan rebel leader. And an even deadlier plot hatched by the Iranians who plan to turn it into a bioweapon against the United States. With time running out, Jon and his team must stop the parasite from being weaponised, con-
tain the infected, all the while fighting the Ugandan rebels, Iranian forces, and merceneries from his own country and concentrate on staying alive. Kyle Mills is the son of an FBI agent and it shows. The book is decently plotted out, but where The Ares Decision suffers is the pace and the characterisation. There are
unnecessary subplots and threads that affect the pace and never quite tie together in the end. The fifth author to dabble in the Covert One series, Kyle struggles to sketch Jon Smith to keep in tune with his character in the other books of the series. If you have zero expectations, have never read Ludlum or Kyle Mills originals, you might be
content with this read. Or else, a word of advice. Pay your respects and make peace with it. Robert Ludlum is not coming back.
Name The Ares Decision Author Robert Ludlum and Kyle Mills Pages 432 Publisher Hachette India
Not just a teen fantasy write. The idea that Ness toys with is every child's nightmare — monsters. The only difference is that this monster is not hiding under the bed but occupies a significant portion of land outside his house. It's an aged yew tree, come to life. This is a story about how a young boy plagued by nightmares, worry and guilt, deals with the illness that is eating his mother Conor O'Malley has the same nightmare every night, the one which ends with him staring at a pair of red eyes and him screaming. He is then visited by the yew tree. His nightmare does not end there, in school he is bullied mercilessly but there is also another half that gives him the silent treatment. They all knew him as the boy who's mother had
cancer. It is this failure of people around him to address the reality of the situation that aggra-
Name A Monster Calls Author Patrick Ness Pages 236 Publisher PanMacmillan vates the 13-year-old. He does not want to be looked upon as an object of pity. The purpose of the monster one later gathers, is to allow Conor to get in touch with his buried emotions about his mother's illness. The yew tree narrates to him three tales and demands that the fourth tale be told by Conor. It seems to be a kind of replaying of the appearance of the three ghosts in Christmas Carol. Like Scrooge is a changed man by the end, so is
Conor. He realises what he has been fighting against for so long and what the nightmare is actually about. A Monster Calls has won Ness both the Carnegie Medal and its sister prize for illustration for the first time in awards history. And the novel deserves full credit for it. This heartrending story is sure to elicit some tears after reading. It makes the reader connect with the story on a personal level too. The fear of letting go of someone you love is very difficult and you tend to sympathise with the young hero. What’s impressive as well is that though this book is written for children, adults too will find it tugging at their heartstrings. The book, like all Ness’s books, tries to see teenagers clearly — “accepting a teenager as a genuine human being, not as a symbol of transition from boy to man but as a real person.”
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BOOKS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Turn off the light E JYOTSNA NAMBIAR
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A house in the south of France is an idyllic setting for a story but does the author do justice to it?
milie de la Martiniéres, who always rebelled against her aristocratic roots, has just inherited her family's ancestral mansion in the South of France. And she whines about it. Then she falls for a total stranger whose opening sentence pretty much says, “Aren't you that rich girl who just inherited a mansion?” Seriously, would you root for her? Now that we've got that breathless rant out of the way, let's talk about the book. It starts awkwardly, with strange similes where clouds and uncooked meringue are compared. But, after a while, the prose becomes a little more easy flowing, and the story (not the protagonist, though) gets bearable. Emilie's gold-digger fiance Sebastian (this is not a spoiler; it is amply clear to everyone but Emilie) tells her about his grandmother Constance who knew Emilie's father, Edouard. Jacques, who was Edouard's friend and knew
Constance, starts to tell her the story of her family. Somewhere between all her whining, Emilie finds time to marry Sebastian, join him at his dreary crumbling English mansion on the moors and meet his mysterious paraplegic brother. It is only when the book goes into flashback mode and gets to the story of Edouard, his blind sister Sophia and Constance (who is a British spy) does the story get interesting. The author recreates 1940s France well, capturing all the nervousness and tension of the war. One wishes the author had allotted more space to these flashbacks. Her characters do spin out of control after a point, but they're a lot more fun than the present day ones. And when you come back to Emilie, it's almost with a sense of dread. Did she learn anything from the blast from the past? Not really. Now she's realising (very, very slowly) that her husband isn't all that wonderful, her whining is not really justified and she's
allowed to have a mind of her own. For someone who rebelled against her family's elite lifestyle all her life, you think she'd have more gumption and brains. Unfortunately, a lot of the characters are one-dimensional cardboard figures and are utterly either black or white. Caricatures of Nazi officers and squabbling siblings flit in and out of the pages. None of the leading characters are really worth cheering for and the book ends on a soppy note. The half-baked romances, poorly sketched-out relationships and a dreary writing style made the book seem longer than its 400 pages. While the book is not entirely a terrible read, it is far from being a shining example of great literature. Ploughing through the novel, for most part, felt like a waste of time.
Name The Light Behind The Window Author Lucinda Riley Pages 400 Publisher Pan
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WOMEN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
APPS OF THE WEEK Geotracks: Geoloqi has released its GPS logging and locationsharing app. Its focus is something we've seen before – the ability to share your location with friends in real-time.
MyShelf: A tough challenge, given the popularity of Evernote. Even so, MyShelf is having a crack at it, with the promise that it exchanges data across devices without ever storing it in the cloud, using Wi-Fi or USB.
TocaBand: Children's apps publisher Toca Boca has hit a home run with its new musical app, which gets children to play a song by dragging and dropping colourful characters, triggering loops and samples.
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Harini Rao quit her job at an MNC to follow her passion of designing alternative jewellery and her efforts are already paying off. She tells Postnoon more about herself. Hemanth Kumar
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here's an inexplicable charm about jewellery made out of gold and diamonds. They have always been the preferred ornaments for every major event in a woman's life. With the advent of contemporary fashion, several designers have been experimenting with alternative forms of jewellery. That explains why junk jewellery and oxidized silver is so popular for these days. Harini Rao, a Hyderabadbased designer, is one such entrepreneur, who’s betting big on making alternative jewellery aesthetic. Couple of days ago, she was one of the speakers at Ignite Hyderabad about alternative jewellery and she was the only person selected by UX India to talk about the subject. Her company, Hearth Treasures, excels at making terracotta jewellery which already has plenty of takers in the country. So how did it all begin? “I was always intrigued by jewellery. I used to play with a lot of beads and in my school days, I used to make tiny bracelets and colourful necklaces for myself and my friends. It was just a hobby for a very long time,” Harini Rao says. Having studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore, she went on to major in accounting at the Badruka College in Hyderabad. After college, she worked as a tax researcher and tax consultant at Promantra and Deloitte. From being a tax consultant to a jewellery designer, we ask if it was a tough decision to take the leap. “I must give a lot of credit to my husband Kamal Aakarsh for that. He was the one who encouraged me to quit
my job and take up my passion seriously. Initially, my target was to make at least half of what I was earning at my previous company. It’s been two months since I quit my job and already, I am earning more than what I used to,” she smiles. Interestingly, she met Kamal at one of her jewellery exhibitions. “He bought a necklace. That was his investment and I was the return on investment,” she laughs. “Making terracotta jewellery,” she says, “is quite a liberating experience. There’s a lot more freedom to experiment in terms of designs when you are making terracotta jewellery when compared to other metals. Since it’s made with riverbed clay, it can be moulded well.” Each ornament is
painstakingly created by hand, which takes a lot of effort. “I don’t think gold and diamond jewellery will ever lose their sheen. But I urge people to see terracotta jewellery as something equally precious. Everything is handmade and each creation takes about 25 days to be completed,” Harini confesses. Currently, she works along with two other artists, who happen to be her domestic help’s daughters and few groups of artisans across the country. Most of her clients approach her through Facebook and sometimes she gets orders from USA, Singapore and Malaysia. “The best part about terracotta jewellery is that everything looks beautiful. I experiment more with contemporary abstract design and temple jew-
ellery. These days, people are in mood to experiment since they want to stand out no matter what the event is,” she opines. Apart from Hearth Treasures, she also runs a music school named Raageshree in Secunderabad. “I have learnt Hindustani Classical Music for 15 years. I began this school in July and I teach students both offline and on skype. We have an active Facebook group where, every Wednesday, we discuss a lot about raagas in filmy music. I really want to connect with more people who are interested in Hindustani Classical Music,” she says. Not surprisingly, her favourite music director is Ilayaraja. “He stills follows the old fashioned way of composing music and he doesn’t have to compete with anyone. Ilayaraja has been one of the biggest inspirations in my life. I also like Hindi music directors from the 50s and 60s who created so many masterpieces,” she adds. So what’s the best compliment she’s got so far for her creations? “Sometimes clients place orders for terracotta jewellery for special occasions like marriage or engagements. I take that as a big compliment because they are actually thinking of jewellery which is not made of gold or diamonds. There’s so much to explore in alternative jewellery. I have just started with terracotta and I am planning to experiment more with jewellery made with wood, glass and black lava beads,” she signs off. Contact : Harini Rao http://facebook.com/hearthtre asures Raageshree - http://facebook.com/Raageshree
Beauty and the beard All About Eve
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recent story that I had read got me thinking. I am sure by now most of you might have also read it. It is the story of the Balpreet Kaur, an aspiring Sikh neurosurgeon who became the subject of ridicule all because a clickhappy idiot thought he would have some fun at her expense. He posted a picture of hers complete with facial hair and beard and a comment which said, “'Im (sic) not sure what to conclude from this'.” Had I been in her place I would have ached to get my hands on the fellow and push his face in. But Balpreet did what few people would have the guts to do. She calmly explained to all that poked fun at her, that as part of her religion, she cannot cut her hair. She then went on to explain the religious significance of it and in a very polite way handed the poster a taste of his own medicine by saying that if he had wanted a picture he should have just asked and she would have smiled. The tides turned and the same public that laughed at her called her an inspiration and awesome. The very incident causes me to reflect on the society’s concept of beauty. Remember the bearded woman would be a thing of attraction at every fair and circus. Despite almost all beauty pageant winners saying ‘ beauty is only skin deep, look at the inner beauty’, the world is still hung up with notions of skin colour, size and height being important to judge whether a person is beautiful. No matter how many tshirts we wear proclaiming ‘ fat is beautiful or black is beautiful’ the mentality still remains the same. I do wish there were more of us who are able to do what Balpreet did — maintain her dignity and her composure in the face of adversity and to answer back to the perpetrator. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.” If only we’d wait a little longer to see the beauty.
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Get ready to splurge
This is style
Kala Kunj Sari Vatika launched its third outlet in Kukatpally on Friday. Models Farah Hussain, Diksha Panth, Sony Kaur & Sadhna Singh displayed some beautiful embroidered saris from the collection.
Designers Ekta Reddy and Preeti Reddy launched the brochure for Splurge, an exhibition which brings together some of the finest designers in the country. The event was held at Mebaz. The exhibition will be held at Taj Krishna from October 2 onwards.
Putting their own spin
The first ever sound and music recording school in the state will be launched on October 2 at Banjara Hills. The institute is called Panache. Founders Navdeep Ahuja and DJ Piyush Bajaj are making sure the preparations are complete.
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EXERCISE FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH
I AM ALL EARS
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am a 20-year-old girl and have just begun dating. My boyfriend is my classmate and he is extremely popular among the girls in my class. Sometimes I feel he acts in a certain manner to get their attention. He even goes out to parties with them. I am feeling very jealous and obsessive. Is this normal?
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xercise is not just good for physical health — research shows that daily physical activity can also boost our mental health. A new article in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, explores whether certain psychosocial factors may help to explain the benefits of daily physical activity for adolescents' mental health. Source: Science Daily
Dear disturbed kid, Twenty is not the age where you should be asking such questions. It’s the time to have fun and experiment with life, though do it carefully. Your boyfriend is doing exactly that. As long as he is not cheating on you or using you as an arm-candy, its perfectly normal that he mix with other friends in class. Do fun things with your friends and then you will realise that you always don’t need to be attached at the hip to him. And you will do fine.
Dial D for drunk
Drinking and dialing is as injurious to your sanity and your relationships as drinking and driving is to your safety. Postnoon Team
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his one time, I had a really bad day at work. But thankfully, it was the weekend and so I got out with some friends to drown my sorrows in a bottle. A few hours, and a lot of shots later, everything was looking good again. I vaguely remembered making a call to a friend and shooting my mouth off. The next morning, I checked my phone log to realise that it was my boss I called and not her namesake. Facing her on Monday morning was the most embarrassing moment of my life," Priyanka Saxena, a marketing professional from Mumbai recounts. If you are a drinker, you might be familiar with this condition. It's usually a nocturnal affliction, likely to hit a person after a few rounds of alcohol, when the neurons in their head have re-arranged to make the
person feel like every thought in their head is now of the genius variety, immediately worthy broadcasting. Their newly found wisdom propels them to do something their still-sane brain is categorically telling them not to do — reach for their phones and call people/say things that they never normally would. Romantic interests though are most often the subject of these phone calls. "I had just broken up with my boyfriend. We parted very amicably and I liked how cool and unaffected I was by the whole thing. Ten hours later, I was dialling his number, calling him names, all the things that were wrong with him, how I still love him and how he should now beg me to take him back. I now ensure I never call anybody when I'm drinking," says model Shruti Singh. Drunk dialing is such a common and widespread problem that even companies are basing bankable models on them. Virgin Mobile, in some
countries, offers its customers the options of blocking certain numbers for a few hours. LG takes it one step ahead and has a model that comes with a breathalyzer. It lets you make calls depending on your blood alcohol content. As ridiculous as it might seem, there's little doubt there'd be more than a few takers for it. Chaitanya Gogula, a software developer from Bangalore would order one of those, he says. "When you are drunk, you do stupid things. That's a given. Except you won't remember anything and neither will your drinking buddies. But when you call your exes or someone sober and exhibit your monumental stupidity, not only will they remember it, they will cherish it and remind you of it for the rest of your life. My friend called his ex at two and her husband picked up, and so he panicked and claimed he was from Blue Dart and had a courier parcel for her. At 2'o clock in the morning. When she
recounted this on Facebook, it became a legend. My friend could never live it down." After a few traumatic experiences very similar to this, Neha Gupta and her bunch of friends wisened up. "It seems like it's the most fun thing in the world the night before but the morning after is a nightmare," she says and adds, "We have a pact. If it's a house party, we make sure we put all our mobiles into a box and stash it away. If we go out, each one will have a buddy who will make sure the other one is not drunk dialing. It's very effective." The verdict is unanimous. Drinking and dialing is as injurious to your sanity and your relationships as drinking and driving is to your safety.
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Priya Anand on cloud nine P riya Anand couldn't believe her luck when she realised that Superstar Rajinikanth is going to watch English Vinglish at a private screening recently in Chennai. “'Superstar Rajinikanth' thinks I did an Awesome job! I think I can conquer the world! Thank You God/Universe for giving me this opportunity! (sic),” she posted on Twitter soon after watching her film for the first time. She's already excited that she acted alongside her idol Sridevi and Rajinikanth's compliment was the icing on the cake. Gauri Shinde has directed this film, which is slated for release on October 5.
CMGR in trouble?
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awan Kalyan's upcoming film Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu seems to have run into trouble. Director Puri Jagannadh has reportedly filed a complaint on DVV Danayya, the film's producer, over the latter's reluctance to pay his remuneration. The AP Director's Association is trying to solve the issue in an amicable manner; however, sources say that the tiff between Puri Jagannadh and Danayya might take an ugly turn. Pawan Kalyan and Tamannaah have played the lead roles in this eagerly awaited film. If the issue between Puri Jagannadh and Danayya isn't sorted out soon, there's a chance that the film might be postponed. As of now, it's expected to hit the screens on October 18.
LOUD AND UNIMAGINATIVE HEMANTH KUMAR
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t's a crime to expect a lot from the so called 'mass entertainers' which are in vogue; however, one doesn't realise that until watching the film till the end. The plots including the conflicts are more or less the same and perhaps, the only thing that varies is how the hero is portrayed. In Rebel, Prabhas plays the quintessential loner who's out to avenge his parents' death. You know exactly how the story is going to pan out and that is the biggest problem with this utterly cliched film. Except for the action sequences, every bit of the film has a sense of deja vu. Maybe Lawrence, who directed the film, was trying to pay homage to his own films. We'll never know the truth. Rishi (Prabhas) comes to Hyderabad in search of two mysterious dons named Stephen and Robert. He realises that the only way to find out more about Stephen and Robert is through Nanu, a high profile don who's the only one to have interacted with Stephen and Robert. Nandini (Tamannaah), the daughter of Nanu, is a hip hop dancer in Bangkok and Rishi decides to make her fall in love with him in his attempt to reach Stephen Robert. The rest of the story is about who Rishi is and why he wants to kill the dons. Prabhas tries his best to instill some interest in the film and the only respite in this cliched film is when he flexes his muscles during the action sequences. Tamannaah ups the glam-
Raghava Lawrence succeeds in portraying Prabhas in an action-packed role, but there's nothing else to boast about his latest offering Rebel. Movie: Rebel Cast: Prabhas, Tamannaah, Deeksha Seth Directed by: Raghava Lawrence Rating: our quotient and she dazzles in the songs with her dance moves. Deeksha Seth is good in her shortlived role. Krishnam Raju plays a good hearted don, albeit for a short duration and Supreeth is quite impressive as his confidant. All said and done, one can't help but feel sad for all the actors in the film who find themselves trapped in a bubble which doesn't give them a distinct identity in the end. There have been countless films made on similar lines and there lies the biggest problem with the film. It's so unimaginative that it packs in every cliché to drive the story forward. It's obvious that Lawrence is still suffering from a hangover of his earlier films like Mass, Don and Kanchana. One can draw several parallels between those films and Rebel. The only thing which he hasn't done in the film is play the lead role. Other than that one can spot Lawrence's trademark in almost everything, right from characterisation to music. At a run time of almost three hours, Rebel is incredibly long and tests our endurance to sit
through a film; however it is what you expect a mass entertainer to be. Is the film is good? Perhaps the only thing one can say is — As It is ga undhi.
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A sermon well delivered
After the mortals, directors have now begun to look to gods for inspiration. And since the religious sentiments in our country are always high, this film is sure to find some fans.
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anbir Kapoor’s speech and hearing impaired character in Barfi! seems to be giving cousin Kareena Kapoor’s glamorous avatar in Heroine a run for her money! The sweet and simple love story in Barfi! seems to have touched the heartstrings of viewers who are still flocking to theatres to savour the unconventional romantic flavour. On the other hand, Heroine, with an overdose of glitz, doesn’t seem to have the same effect on IANS moviegoers.
h My God is based on a popular Gujarati play Kanji Virrudh Kanji. It is also said to be influenced from Paresh Rawal’s play Krishna vs Kanhaiya and thankfully does not go too overboard with the god gimmicks. The story revolves around Kanjibhai, an atheist living in Mumbai with his devout wife and two kids. He runs a shop selling – quite ironically — “God” paraphernalia in the infamous Chor Bazaar area. The man knows his business and has no qualms in making a profit selling cheap idols for exorbitant rates. Kanji not only does not believe in god, but even taunts others and attacks their blind beliefs with a sharp tongue and cruel wit. When an “act of God” ruins his business, he decides to sue God. So now Kanji has to argue the case against a colourful cast of holy people including the hand-flicking Mithun Chakraborthy, the fiery
Movie: Oh My God Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Paresh Rawal Directed by: Umesh Shukla Siddheshwar Maharaj (Govind Namdeo) and eyecandy Gopi Maiyya (Poonam Jhawer). What happens next is worth a watch. The film goes on to debunk many religious myths. Although in a
light-hearted manner, it also manages to expose the link between politicians and religious leaders. The director has bravely tried to address topics that are normally not discussed. Paresh Rawal excels in his role as Kanjibhai and Mithun as the effeminate godman is too good. Akshay Kumar is back to his funny self and adds the right touch of style. However, the much publicised song Go, Go Govinda, fails to pass muster. It looks forced. Overall, it’s a rather interesting take on God, his so-called “mediums” and the rituals that have been mindlessly passed on since generations. Sounds preachy? Well, the movie isn’t.
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ctress Mallika Sherawat believes that the institution of marriage is outdated and says she would never get married in life. “I don’t think I will ever get married. I say so because I feel marriage is outdated. I am loving being single. Why would I sacrifice the love and devotion of so many fans,” Mallika said.
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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz
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ave Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz taken their friendship to the next level? The rumour mill has been churning out stories recently about this superstar pair, with tales that the duo has gone from friends to lovers. Sorry, starryeyed fans, this hook-up is only happening onscreen. “It’s false. They are friends,” Cruise’s rep tells E! News. The Rock of Ages star, who split from wife Katie Holmes in June, previously starred in Vanilla Sky and Knight and Day with Diaz. It looks like we’ll just have to wait to see who inspires Cruise’s next couch-jumping stunt.
Katy Perry
devastated about Johnny Lewis’ death
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aty Perry is said to be distraught about the death of her exboyfriend Johnny Lewis. The Sons of Anarchy actor was recently found dead after suffering a fall at his home and is considered a suspect in the homicide of his elderly landlady. Perry dated Lewis for 18 months until early 2007, and is believed to have been inspired by her former partner throughout her career.
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etail therapy beats a court date any day. On Thursday, Amanda Bynes skipped her court hearing in LA and went shopping instead in New York City. The actress’ attorney, Richard Hutton, pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts of hit and run on her behalf.
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
SOLUTION ON PAGE 32
SUDOKU
KAKURO
How to play kakuro
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Kakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is also suitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play Kakuro?’, well here are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers. However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number. Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once. Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly: In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on... So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is done through elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work out the answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid combinations, and hence the answer for this particular run. Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the 11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Window treatment 6 William, to Charles 9 Muscle that’s a gun, in slang 14 ‘Hammerin’ Hank’ in Cooperstown 15 ___ mode (served with ice cream) 16 Like a successful dieter’s old clothes 17 Chemically nonreactive 18 Bro, to sis 19 Maternal relative 20 Female organisations 23 Outdo 24 ‘We ___ the Champions’ 25 Chessmen that move diagonally 27 Like Olympic competitors 32 Unable to hear 33 ‘Natal’ or ‘prene’ preceder 34 Ate sumptuously 36 Pulls along the ground 39 Fiddling Roman 41 Wasn’t renewed 43 Item held by an actor 44 Follow as a consequence 46 Stitched 48 Degree held by many a CEO 49 Spot in the distance 51 TV Guide info 53 Fortified position 56 Air pollution watchdog 57 ‘I finally get it!’ 58 Appropriateness 64 Chicken house 66 ‘Cant’ or ‘hallow’ ending 67 Borden spokesbeast 68 ‘He’s ___ nowhere man’ (Beatles lyric) 69 Old PC monitor type 70 Athenian lawgiver 71 Try a mouthful 72 Navigator’s dir 73 Head lock? DOWN 1 Seat of honour locale
2 Punjabi queen 3 Mythical Greek god of war 4 Gateway to the Internet 5 Came in 6 Miss America’s hip hugger 7 Musical miscellany 8 Big cheese, so to speak 9 Fortunate in life 10 It’s charged in physics 11 Heraldry emblem 12 Prevent, in legalese 13 Henhouse sounds 21 Fasten again 22 Completed 26 Angelic instrument 27 ‘Green Gables’ girl 28 Many a prom attendee 29 Pitching game 30 Quaint stopovers,
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Aries Four of Pentacles
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ork –You’ve gotten into a comfortable routine and have garnered the confidence to know that you can handle any crisis in your office. Romance – You need to make extra effort to convince your partner that you feel the love. Maybe you’re coming across as cold and insensitive. Health – The stability and comfort of routine is making you happy. The familiarity of situations around you is important. Money – Finances are stable. Just keep an eye on your bank account and ensure that money transactions are smooth and timely. Tarot message – This is an important phase when you understand the importance of tradition and old world charm.
Taurus Eight of Pentacles
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ork – Your boss trusts you with a new job and although you have little experience in it, you do extremely well. Romance – It’s the small things that matter in a relationship. Bring your partner flowers, cook for them or woo them again if it improves your chemistry. Health – You’re feeling slightly off balance given the demands of every other area of life. You haven’t been paying attention to your health. Money – Your loan is approved or you are able to arrange the finances you needed to start a dream project. Now, there’s no looking back. Tarot message – Live in the moment and enjoy what you do. Your choices will not feel like a burden.
Gemini Death
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ork – You may be considering changing your career path or trying something that’s totally unfamiliar to you. You may actually not have a choice. Romance – You see an existing relationship differently or decide to call it quits. Either way, major changes are headed your way. Health – Your body is crying for a system overhaul. Review your diet and lifestyle, and make necessary changes to ward off diseases. Money – Take care of finances and don’t blow away money that’s just about come into your bank balance. Steer clear of risky investments. Tarot message – Change is inevitable; this is the time when you cannot help but face change. Keep an open mind.
Cancer The High Priestess
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ork – You are very competent in your work and your bosses have noticed this and want to make use of your talent. Keep an open outlook to new options. Romance – Your partner and you may not agree on many issues but it’s not necessary that you do. Are the disagreements so bad that it has become difficult to be with each other at all? Health – Mental tension and stress can be tackled if you make up your mind. The first step is to strictly ensure worklife balance. Money – Finances are in good shape. The extra cash you make out of freelance assignments will do you a world of good. Tarot message – Use intuition to guide you into sensible decisions.
Leo King of Wands
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ork – You’re in a position of control and nothing gives you a bigger high than the fact that you get to make the rules. Be considerate of your colleagues. Romance – You haven’t had much time for romancing in the last few months. Now may be the time to pay more attention to your partner. Health – Those who are overweight need to watch out. Tough as it may seem, manage your weight for health reasons. Money – Money’s looking fantastic. You’re a good planner and this reflects on the way you have organised your money. Tarot message – You like to be in control of things around you. How about spending some hours each week letting go for unstructured time?
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Libra Nine of Swords
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ork – The worry and anxiety of having too much to do is making you more nervous than the work itself. Be practical. Romance – Your suspicions are your biggest enemy. You tend to make up negative situations about your partner that probably don’t even exist. Health –Meditation and any mental relaxation exercises are an absolute must. You need to think clearly and be able to make pragmatic decisions. Money – You’re worried sick about the money in the bank, about whether the money that’s to come will indeed come in or not, etc. Stop worrying, start working. Tarot message – Calm down, distance yourself from a difficult situation and see clearly.
Scorpio Nine of Cups
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ork – A dream project that had been delayed moves ahead in a steady, although unexpected, manner. Your dream is fulfilled and you get more out of it than you expected. Romance – A chance encounter brings to your life the person of your dreams. There is sexual passion. You also experience strange synchronicity. Health – You’re experiencing great health. Your inner contentment infuses energy to your physical body and you feel positive about everything. Money – Some kind of financial gain is indicated in the most unexpected and strange ways. Don’t look out for it. It will come when it has to. Tarot message – The power of your own will is at work now.
Sagittarius Six of Pentacles
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ork –An elderly person comes to your rescue at work and helps you find shortcuts to your daily routine. Romance – Singles look for financial stability in a partner. A date may not turn out to your expectation. There are many fish in the sea. Health – Health is doing great. There’s no need to worry about it. If you worry, it can make you feel more restless and edgy. Money – Learning a new skill will be directly related to earning more money. You’ll have options to earn extra and feel more confident about your finances. Tarot message – There is a sharp learning curve to navigate in the immediate future. Be prepared for hard work and some tough decisions.
Capricorn Nine of Wands
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ork – A stroke of good luck gets you a prestigious project in the office. Now, all eyes are on you. Coworkers want to see how you will manage this. Romance – Singles are in too much of a comfort zone and unwilling to go out and meet new people. Unless you meet people, how will you know what you want? Health – Your mind is on over-drive and your body may be needing some exercise to keep up. Go for a run every day. Money – You’ve locked up money in all the sensible and right places. Don’t expect big growth. That comes when you take risks. Tarot message – Tweak your current state of mind to include a more holistic viewpoint.
Virgo The Magician
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ork – Team work cannot be avoided no matter where you go or what you try. Learn to get along with people. Humour them and be nice. Romance – Clear the air immediately, if you are finding that there are some misunderstandings that haven’t been sorted out. Health – By being happy from within, you can ensure that you tackle any physical health problems, too. Money – If you are in the habit of eating out too many times in the week, it may be causing a huge dent in your savings. Check this. Tarot message – If you are in a dilemma about something, seek the advice of an expert or someone elderly with experience.
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Aquarius Seven of Swords
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ork – You will encounter avenues to promote yourself as the frontrunner for an important project. Nothing wrong in showcasing your talent. Romance – Celebrate important days like anniversaries and birthdays. These are important to keep the passion alive. Health – Be kind to your body and do not push it more than it can handle with excessive eating or drinking. Money – Expenses increase and you may have to cut down on your regular entertainment needs. Be creative, look for alternates. Tarot message – It’s an uphill task with this time testing your limits and making you do things you’re not used to. But you will come out on top without doubt.
Pisces The Devil
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ork – You’re after the money and the position. You’ve reached a point where you’re no longer looking to derive deep job satisfaction. Romance – The committed may be tempted to look elsewhere and have a quick fling. Singles may want to get experimental and try out new relationship styles. Health – Don’t self-prescribe medication even if it’s only for a seemingly harmless headache. Destress and detoxify. Avoid alcohol at all costs. Money – Avoid taking risks by investing in properties that you haven’t checked out. Take your own time deciding. Don’t let others pressurise you. Tarot message – Refresh life and take away all negatives. Determination will make life better.
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THE SATURDAY QUIZ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
DO YOU KNOW YOUR SPORT STARS?
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She is a Barbadian singer and actress. She was 16 when she was signed to Def Jam. Since then, she's amassed phenomenal success. Her new single Diamonds has already taken the number one slot on iTunes charts and she is poised to give competition to the One Direction band. Her former boyfriend has recently been arrested for the possession of marijuana and she is now willing to go to court to testify for him. Who is this singer ?
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She is an American businesswoman, socialite, actress, fashion designer and musician. She is also the heir- apparent to a vast chain of hotels. She was in the news for her anti-gay tweets which she posted on twitter. She immediately apologised, but her apology it seems had come too late. Who is she ?
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WHO AM I? I am married and have two children. I came as to India sometime ago, and more than the topic I came for, the people were intrested in my bag. I am in love with the son of a Prime Minister. Who am I?
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The Supreme Court came down heavily on the Karnataka government for ignoring the Prime Minister's orders in a huge dispute with neighbouring Tamil Nadu over sharing of water from which river?
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Champ switches coach
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ewly-crowned Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie of France has dropped coach Damien Inocencio to work with former international pole vaulter Philippe D’Encausse. “I can only confirm his decision. But the reasons given are so childish that they can’t justify his decision,” Inocencio, who had coached him for four years, told AFP.
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efending NBA champion Miami returns to work on Saturday for pre-season training camp, with star LeBron James coming off a gold medal effort at the London Olympics and two top teammates coming off injuries. Last June, the Heat captured their first NBA crown since obtaining James two years earlier, James winning his long-awaited first NBA title.
Spies of Yamaha leads way in rainy Aragon
The forecast for Saturday is also bad making morning practice an important one. ALCANIZ, SPAIN: American Ben Spies set the pace under the rain on his Yamaha after the first two practice sessions ahead of this weekend’s Aragon MotoGP on Friday. Spies like most of the MotoGP rides skipped the first session because of the part-wet surface but clocked the fastest time of 2min 00.219sec in the second afternoon session, finishing 11 seconds short of Australian Casey Stoner’s record on a dry surface at the Zaragoza track. “It was a good wet session so we’re happy with it, the bike feels good and we’re quick,” said Spies. “We got a good setting with the bike sorted and we got some new information with the electronics so we’ll see what happens tomorrow with the weather. “As long as everything keeps going smoothly then that’s all we need.” Dani Pedrosa was second on a Honda at 0.066sec with fellow Spaniard and championship leader Jorge Lorenzo third on his Yamaha at 0.527.
League cricket A Division three day league championship Day 3 India Cements 187 drew with R Dayanand 353 for 7 (PS Nag 116, GV Vaibhav 64, Jijo 77, Shabaaz 3 for 58, Md Shakeer 3 for 55) A 2 & 3 Divisions two days league championship Day 2 Cambridge XI 383 bt Saleemnagar 312 (Md Zameeruddin 68, Rachnesh 36, Ahmed Askari 30, Perveez Khan 3 for 41, Naef Sanai 5 for 69) A 4-11 Divisions one days league championship Col K Acrylic 323 for 9 (Md Kaleemuddin 130, Zeeshan Azam Ali 68, Aftab Mehdi 48, Affan 42, Azharuddin 3 for 69) bt Akshit CC 191 for 9 (Srikanth 70, Harsha 65, H Ali Khan 5 for 30, Md Asif 3 for 21) Eddie Aibara Cup HCA under19 inter-college knockout Round 2
“At least we had a full wet session this afternoon to work with the bike and I felt quite good,” said Pedrosa. “It looks like the weather forecast is also bad for tomorrow, so it will be important to take advantage of the morning practice to be well prepared for qualifying.”
Lorenzo admitted the wet conditions had threw up a number of problems ahead of Saturday qualifying. “In the morning we could have practiced but we preferred to stay in the box and save the engine life a little,” said the Spaniard. “This afternoon with full
wet conditions we were able to go out and see what the feeling is with the bike in the rain in case we have a wet race on Sunday. The track is very slippery.” Nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi of Italy clocked the eighth fastest time for AFP Ducati at 2.193sec.
St Marys Jr College 331 for 4 (Arun Deva 102,Tanmay Agarwal 106no, Pratyush 56, Anuraag Vittal 40) Bt Little Flower Jr C 94 for no loss (Pratheek Pawar 49no, Anirudh Reddy 45no) (Rain interrupted play; St Mary’s Jr College won on spin of coin)
Tintinnabulation, Nasheeta please
HYDERABAD: Tintinnabulation, Nasheeta, Crimson Look, Ashwa Shakti, Ring Of Fire, and Star Engagement impressed when horses exercised here Saturday morning. Sand Track 800 Metres Royal Shaan (Harinder Singh) 1-3.5, 600/48 Easy. Vijays Winner (Ravinder Singh) 55, 600/41.5 Slightly pushed. Rustic Gal (Imran Khan) 1-0.5, 600/45 Moved freely. Always Bullish (Sreekant) 1-3, 600/48 Easy. Euphonic (rb) 1-1, 600/46 Easy. Golden Rule (Kuldeep Singh) Golden Palace (AK Pawar) 56, 600/42 They finished together. Win And Enjoy (Ravinder Singh) 58, 600/44 Moved freely. Hawkspring (Laxman) 1-2, 600/46 Easy. Architect (rb) 1-3, 600/47 Easy. Ruffiano (rb) 59, 600/44 Easy.
Power Planet (S Nayak) 55, 600/42 Urged. Valentine (Ravinder Singh) 1-3, 600/46 Moved freely. Marquise (rb) 58, 600/44 Moved on the bit. Lake King (AK Pawar) 56, 600/42 Moved well. Romantic Champ (Ravinder Singh) Genius Empress (Mukesh) 57.5, 600/42 They moved together. Ring of Fire (Joshi) 53.5, 600/40 Impressed. Strategic Command (app) 58.5, 600/45 Easy. Seno Rita (S Nayak) 55, 600/42 Moved freely. 2y. Staminaoizd (Ramana) 1-1, 600/47 Easy. 2y. Mathematician/Cetralita (Mukesh) 2y. Fearless Moments (Uday Kiran) 1-2, 600/46 They finished together. Vijay’s Champ (rb) 1-2, 600/46 Easy. Dazzling Prince (M Mark) 1-0, 600/43 Moved freely. Aphrodisiac (rb) 58, 600/42 Moved on the bit. True Friend (M Mark) 1-1, 600/45
Sunday races shifted to Wednesday The Board of Stewards, Hyderabad Race Club resolved to postpone Day 21 races scheduled for Sunday to Wednesday citing administrative reasons. The Card published for Sunday will hold good for October 3. Easy. Ektto Ektto Ektto (rb) 56, 600/42 Moved well. Art Connoisseur (app) 1-3, 600/47 Easy. Khabza (rb) Great Warrior (M Mark) 1-1.5, 600/45.5 They moved together. Baba’s Gift (rb) 1-1.5, 600/46.5 Easy.
Sand Track 1000 Metres Racing Tycoon (Trainer) Arrow in Auto Mode (Ravinder Singh) 1-12, 800/55, 600/42.5 Former finished a length in front. Tintinnabulation (Joshi) 1-10, 800/55.5, 600/42 Moved well. Nasheeta (Imran Khan) 1-12, 800/57, 600/42.5 Pleased. Crimson Look (S Nayak) 1-10, 800/54.5, 600/42 Moved attractively. Snow Bird (Anil) Ice Wine (Dileep) 1-11, 800/54.5, 600/42 Former showed out. Ashwa Shakti (Joshi) 1-8, 800/52, 600/39 Caught the eye. Anacostia (rb) Ponte Verdi (Kuldeep Singh) 1-9, 800/55, 600/42 Former finished in front. Fighting Fit (Kuldeep Singh) Scubarioo (rb) 1-13.5, 800/57, 600/43.5 They moved together. Winjoy (Joshi) 1-12, 800/55, 600/43 Slightly pushed. Star
Engagement (S Nayak) 18.5,800/54.5, 600/42 Pleased. Azaiba (Ravinder Singh) Our Mascot (Imran Khan) 1-13, 800/56.5, 600/40.5 A fit pair. Sand Track 1200 Metres So Be It (Dileep) Custodian (Anil) 1-27.5, 1000/1-10, 800/56.5, 600/42 Former finished 2 lengths in front. Machiavellianism (Joshi) 1-23.5, 1000/1-7.5, 800/54.5, 600/42 Slightly pushed. San Ramon (Kuldeep Singh) Ocean Side (rb) 1-26, 1000/1-9.5, 800/55.5, 600/41.5 They finished together. Flowers of Music (Ramana) 1-25.5, 1000/1-12.5, 800/59, 600/44 One to note. Winning Tactics (Joshi) 130,1200/600 in 39.5 Urged. Odalis (rb) 1-30, 1000/1-12.5, 800/56.5, 600/42 Pleased.
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usa Vs Europe SEPT 28-30
US dominate first day
In a format that habitually favours the Europeans, US took the fourballs 3-1 after sharing the alternate ball foursomes 2-2 in the morning’s play. Allan Kelly
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: The United States emerged victorious from a pulsating first day’s play in the 39th Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club on Friday, dominating the afternoon fourballs to take a 5-3 overall lead. In a format that habitually favours the Europeans, Davis Love’s team took the fourballs 3-1 after sharing the alternate ball foursomes 2-2 in the morning’s play. All 24 players were in action during a day which started so promisingly for Europe but which ended so positively for the United States who are out to regain the trophy lost in Wales two years ago. “Just everybody played real well and hung in there and had a lot of fun. Seemed like as the sun came out, we just got better and better,” Love said. The American heroes were rookie Keegan Bradley, showing passion and talent in securing two points with Phil
Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley of US celebrate on the 17th green after defeating the McIlroy/McDowell team during the Four-Ball matches at the 39th Ryder Cup on Friday. ANDREW REDINGTON/GETTY IMAGES/AFP Mickelson, who was winning a record ninth US cap, and Bubba Watson who fired up the big Chicago crowd with his attacking game. “This is one of the most
emotional days playing in a Ryder Cup that we’ll ever have,” Mickelson said. “It gets emotion out of every player, good or bad, and this has been one of the
biggest highs that we’ve had. “I just love playing with Keegan. He’s just played so good all day and it’s just kept me up the whole time. It’s been awesome.” Tiger Woods was out of sorts for most of the day, losing twice with established partner Steve Stricker. “I didn’t play very good this morning at all,” Woods said. “I was hitting it awful and not doing anything well. But I hit it good this afternoon.” For Europe, Belgian rookie Nicolas Colsaerts excelled with an eagle and eight birdies, but eyebrows were raised over captain Jose Maria Olazabal’s nonselection of Ryder Cup firebrand Ian Poulter for the fourballs after he and Justin Rose had beaten Woods and Stricker in the morning. World No.1 Rory McIlroy played both sessions with fellow Ulsterman Graeme McDowell and they met with mixed success, winning in the morning and losing in the AFP afternoon.
Fourballs Scores CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Collated scores of Friday’s session of fourballs. Overall Score: United States 5 Europe 3 Fourballs 1.) Bubba Watson / Webb Simpson (USA) bt Paul Lawrie / Peter Hanson (Europe) 5 and 4. 2.) Keegan Bradley/Phil Mickelson (USA) bt Rory McIlroy/Graeme McDowell (Europe) 2 and 1 3.) Dustin Johnson / Matt Kuchar (USA) bt Justin Rose/Martin Kaymer (Europe) 3 and 2 4.) Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker (USA) lost to Nicolas Colsaerts/Lee Westwood (Europe) by one hole Score: United States 3 Europe 1 Foursomes morning scores Phil Mickelson/Keegan Bradley (USA) bt Luke Donald/Sergio Garcia (Europe) 4 and 3 Jim Furyk/Brandt Snedeker (USA) lost to Rory McIlroy / Graeme McDowell (Europe) by 1 hole. Jason Dufner/Zach Johnson (USA) bt Lee Westwood / Francesco Molinari (Europe) 3 and 2 Steve Stricker / Tiger Woods (USA) lost to Ian Poulter/Justin Rose (Europe) 2 and 1 SCORE: UNITED STATES 2 EUROPE 2
Tiger takes rare rest Greg Heakes
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Colsaerts stuns Woods CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Rookie Nicolas Colsaerts produced one of the greatest putting displays in Ryder Cup history on Friday to boost flagging European hopes of retaining the trophy. Colsaerts showed magic on the green, to sink putt after putt as he carried Lee Westwood to a one hole win over Woods and Steve Stricker in the final match of the day.
United States head into Saturday’s foursomes without Tiger Woods, marking just the second time in seven Ryder Cups the 14-time major winner has had to sit down. Woods, who locked up the No. 1 spot in US team qualifying, will sit with partner Steve Stricker as his struggles in Ryder Cup continued on Friday at the Medinah Country Club course. “I think Tiger needs a rest,” said Davis Love. “They told me they would do whatever I asked them to do and I can guarantee you, neither one of them are very happy about it. Not
Tiger Woods reacts to a missed birdie putt on the 18th green during AFP/ANDREW REDINGTON the Four-Ball matches on Friday. because they are sitting out but because they have to wait til tomorrow afternoon to come back. They didn’t play great this morning but they were in it for awhile.”
World No. 2 Woods and Stricker were the only US team to lose both their matches during Friday’s opening day of the 39th Ryder Cup.
Foursome Pairings CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: The pairings for the Saturday morning foursomes at Medinah Country Club in the 39th Ryder Cup between the United States and Europe:Overnight score: United States 5 Europe 3 17.50 hrs (IST) - Webb Simpson/Bubba Watson (USA) v Justin Rose/Ian Poulter (Europe) 18.05 hrs (IST) - Keegan Bradley/Phil Mickelson (USA) v Lee Westwood/Luke Donald (Europe) 1820 hrs (IST) - Jason Dufner/Zach Johnson (USA) v Nicolas Colsaerts/Sergio Garcia (Europe) 1835 hrs (IST) - Jim Furyk/Brandt Snedeker (USA) v Rory McIlroy/Graeme McDowell (Europe)
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Pak, Oz victorious
Umar Gul and Shane Watson shone brightly to steer Pakistan and Australia respectively to important wins in the Super Eights stage of the World T20. Kuldip Lal
came back so strongly.” Watson, who was adjudged man of the match for the third consecutive time, shared an opening stand of 133 with David Warner as Australia eased past India’s 140-7 in the 15th over. Warner smashed three sixes and seven boundaries and Watson plundered seven sixes and two fours in a batting treat for a sell-out crowd of 35,000 at
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COLOMBO: Umar Gul and Shane Watson shone brightly under lights to steer Pakistan and Australia to important wins in the Super Eights round of the World Twenty20 on Friday. Gul turned an unlikely hero with the bat as Pakistan, chasing South Africa’s modest 133-6, survived a middle-order col-
Brief scores (SA vs PAK)
Brief scores (IND vs AUS) India 140/7 (Gautam Gambhir 17, Irfan Pathan 31, Suresh Raina 26, M. Starc 27/1, Pat Cummins 16/2, Shane Watson 34/3,) lost to Australia 141/1 (Shane Watson 72, David Warner 63, Zaheer Khan 0/18, Yuvraj Singh 1/16).
lapse to win by two wickets with two balls to spare in a thrilling group two match. Watson grabbed 3-34 and struck 72 off 42 balls to lift power-packed Australia to an emphatic nine-wicket win over India in the second match of the double-header in Colombo. Gul, a medium-pacer who averaged under 10 with the bat in Twenty20 internationals, smashed two fours and three
Hosts down Indies in Women’s T20 GALLE: West Indies on Friday suffered a dramatic collapse to lose to Sri Lanka by five runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method in the Women’s World Twenty20 here. In the day’s other match, Sophie Devine sizzled with both bat and ball to help New Zealand defeat South Africa by 22 runs. Devine scored 59 off 46 balls and then picked up two wickets. Chasing a revised target of 48 in a rain-affected match, West Indies were restricted to 42 for eight in as many overs. Needing 12 off 12 with six wickets in hand, Chamani Seneviratna had Juliana Nero stumped off the second ball of the penulPTI timate over.
Australia’s Shane Watson plays a shot during the T20 World Cup’s Super Eight match against India at the R.Premadasa International Cricket Stadium in Colombo on Friday. AFP/ISHARA S.KODIKARA sixes in his 32 off 17 balls after Pakistan had slumped to 76-7 in the 15th over. Gul and Umar Akmal, who remained unbeatebn on 43, combined to share a match-winning partnership of 49 in 27 balls. “We were lucky to get there,” said Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez. “There were a few bad shots early in the innings but in the end it
was a great team effort. “I knew Gul could play big shots and the good thing is that everyone in the team is contributing. The bowlers did well to keep South Africa to a low score.” South African skipper AB de Villiers said he was proud of the way the team fought back after batting badly. “We probably lost it in the last five overs, but I am very proud the way we
South Africa 133/6 (J.P. Duminy 48; Farhaan Behardien 18, AB de Villiers 25, Arafat 2/25, Ajmal 1/26, Hafeez 2/23, Gul 1/19) lost to Pakistan 136/8 (Mohammad Hafeez 15, Umar Akmal 43 n.o., Umar Gul 32, Saeed Ajmal 4 n.o., D Steyn 3/22, R Peterson 2/15, J Botha 1/10, JP Duminy 1/5, J Kallis 1/17).
the Premadasa stadium. The pair treated the Indian bowlers with disdain as Warner lofted Harbhajan Singh for two successive sixes and Watson hit leg-spinner Piyush Chawla for two sixes in his first over. When seamer Irfan Pathan came on to bowl the 10th over, Watson greeted him with a sequence of 6, 6 and 4 to bring up Australia’s 100 in the same over.
Pujara named WZ captain MUMBAI: Cheteshwar Pujara of Saurashtra will lead West Zone in their Duleep Trophy quarter-final against North Zone to be played in Chennai from October 6-9. The team: Cheteshwar Pujara (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Kaustubh Pawar, Bhushan Chavan, Ankit Bawne, Abhishek Nayar, Kedar Jadhav, Smit Patel, Harmeet Singh, Samad Fallah, Murtuza Vohra, Ishwar Choudhari, Kshemal Waingankar, Kamlesh Makwana PTI and Ankit Chavan.
Dhoni blames rain for loss COLOMBO: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni blamed a short rain-break for his team’s humiliating nine-wicket loss against Australia in their first Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 at the Premadasa Stadium here Friday. “Rain came just at the wrong time. Just after the wicket was rolled. The wet ball is not good for spinners. It was like bowling in England. That was the main reason we lost,” said Dhoni. “We need to analyse what really happened. We got off to a good start, but lost quick wickets, and we were not in a good situation to cash in. We were 20 IANS short,” he said.
SL, WI eye semis spot
PALLEKELE, SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka and the West Indies eyed up semi-final places after hardfought wins in group one of the Super Eights, with the hosts needing a dramatic one over eliminator for victory. With the scores level at 174, Sri Lanka needed one run off paceman Tim Southee’s last ball but Lahiru Thirimanne failed to reach the crease after attempting a sharp single. New Zealand skipper Ross Taylor had deflected the ball from his knee to the stumps after fumbling the throw, which took television umpire Steve Davis of Australia several minutes to rule the batsman out. Chasing 175 to win, Sri Lanka were well on course for a comfortable win but Tillakaratne Dilshan’s run out
Do or die for England, NZ
D after scoring a brilliant 76 helped New Zealand tie the regular match. Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene admitted that the tense finale had been “chaotic”.
“We were looking at Ross’s reaction. He wasn’t that enthusiastic about the run out so we thought we had scraped through. It was chaos down there,” said AFP Jayawardene.
efending champions England and New Zealand hope to put their World Twenty20 campaigns back on track after losing their Super Eights group one matches in Pallekele stadium on Thursday. England were edged out by 15 runs in an exciting finish to their match against the West Indies, while New Zealand fought back to tie the regular match before going down in Super Over to the hosts Sri Lanka. AFP
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Ferdinand reveals hate campaign over Terry case In his first comments after Terry was found guilty, the Queens Park Rangers defender said on Twitter he had received abuse on the site since Thursday’s ruling. Julian Guyer
fall foul of the governing body’s rules, regardless of intent or context. Terry, who has consistently denied all charges against him, is considering whether to appeal the FA panel’s decision. Meanwhile Manchester United manager Sir Alex
LONDON: Anton Ferdinand (left in pic) has revealed he was subjected to a hate campaign in connection with a racist abuse case that saw a Football Association disciplinary panel ban Chelsea captain John Terry (right) for four games. His family have also reportedly been targeted by hate mail since the controversial incident in October last year, which led to Terry being charged and later acquitted in a criminal case of a racially aggravated public order offence. “On a serious note people need 2 read the facts before they send stupid tweets 2 me with liar and grass in it,” Ferdinand wrote. Terry was cleared of criminal charges in July, although he admitted in court he had used a racist slur against Ferdinand but said he was merely repeating what he believed Ferdinand had accused him of saying. Despite the court verdict, the FA still found him guilty of a similar charge with their disciplinary process using a “bal-
Anton Ferdinand, QPR defender
ance of probabilities” burden of proof rather than the English criminal standard of “beyond reasonable doubt”. Last year, the separate FA
panel that found Liverpool’s Luis Suarez guilty of racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra said simply using racist language was enough to
Ferguson suggested Terry ought to think it “lenient” he’d only received a four-game ban after Suarez was given an eightmatch suspension last season. “There is danger of it resurrecting for it has been going on since long,” said Ferguson.
The club’s owners Venky’s, an Indian poultry firm, had controversially brought him in to replace the experienced Sam Allardyce. LONDON: Steve Kean (right)
second division Championship, Kean walked out of the northwest club ahead of Saturday’s match away to Charlton. “For reasons that I cannot discuss on legal advice, it is
with deep regret, given my hard work and service for the club for a number of years, that I have been forced to resign as manager of Blackburn Rovers Football Club with immediate effect, due to my position as team manager becoming untenable,” Kean said in a statement released by his lawyers. “I wish to thank all the players and coaching staff for their great support and the majority of the fans, who now see their club heading towards an automatic promotion position back to the Premiership. I
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LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Galaxy star midfielder David Beckham is back in training for the Major League Soccer club after a sprained left ankle and hopes to play in Sunday’s game at Colorado. The English midfielder has not played for the defending MLS champions since injuring his ankle in a 2-0 victory over Vancouver on Sep 1. The Galaxy has clinched a berth in MLS championship playoffs.
Blatter: FIFA not perfect ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp
On a serious note people need 2 read the facts before they send stupid tweets 2 me with liar and grass in it.
Kean ‘forced to resign’
quit as Blackburn Rovers manager on Friday, saying he’d been “forced to resign” with immediate effect due to his position becoming “untenable”. The Scot had faced constant criticism from Rovers fans throughout his two-year spell in charge at Ewood Park during his tenure. Kean, however, carried on despite the club’s relegation from the elite English Premier League in May. Yet despite Rovers currently lying a promising third in the
David back at work
wish the club all the very best for the future.” Before this season, the 44year-old faced fresh pressure when Rovers’ Malaysian global adviser Shebby Singh said Kean would be sacked if the team lost three successive games. As things stand, however, Rovers have just lost once in seven league games this term — a 2-1 home defeat by Middlesbrough last Friday. Kean’s position was further undermined by reports that Tim Sherwood, Rovers captain, AFP would take over.
Blatter admitted on Friday that football’s ruling body was far from perfect but was not the shadowy mafia-type organisation so often portrayed by international media. Blatter, whose reign has often been clouded by allegations of corruption, said he was happy with reforms being made inside FIFA to make it more transparent. “It is my reform and things are going well,” Blatter told reporters.
Rape charge dropped MARSEILLE, FRANCE: Brazilian footballer Brandao has had rape charges against him dismissed for lack of evidence, his lawyer told AFP. Brandao was accused of rape by a woman who claimed that he attacked her in his car after offering to drive her home from a nightclub in Aix-en-Provence in March ‘11.
Boris fights for his life HEIDELBERG, GERMANY: Hoffenheim’s Croatian midfielder Boris Vukcevic is fighting for his life after a surgery for head injuries he received during a car accident, his Bundesliga club revealed on Friday. “Vukicevic underwent surgery immediately and was placed in an artifical coma,” the club’s sporting director Andreas Mueller said.