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Annual Blood Drive at Sikh Center inMemory of Those Slain during June ‘84

HOUSTON: A blood drive was held at the Sikh Center of the Gulf Coast Area on 8819 Prairie St. on Sunday, June 3. This annual blood drive is made in memory of those who lost their lives in what has come to be known in the Sikh community as the 3rd Sikh Holo-caust of June 1984.

“This blood drive has been go-ing on for the last 10 to 15 years,” explained Harjit Singh Galhotra, the Secretary of the Sikh National Center, “to remember those who not only perished in the Indian Ar-my’s attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984 but all the thousands who subsequently died in the senseless bloodletting that followed after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination later on October 31, 1984.”

The blood drive has become an annual tradition among the Sikh community to commemorate the infamous “Operation Blue Star” of June 1984 when Indian Armed Forces entered Sikhism’s holiest shrine, the Harmandir Sahib (The Golden Temple) with tanks and guns.

Thirty four men and women

volunteered for the drive and 25 were selected for whole blood do-nations with the remaining 9 be-ing deferred for various reasons. Among those who donated was Bhai Rajinderpal Singh, a well-known tabla player who has cur-rently taken up as a resident musi-cian at the Sikh Center.

For the last several years a sec-

Harjit Galhotra donating blood in the annual blood drive at the Sikh Center on June 3 .

ond annual Blood Drive has been added in December at the Sikh Center. Blood collections are performed by the Gulf Coast Re-gional Blood Center (www.give-blood.org) which encourages the donations in order to replenish the Houston Blood Bank that services area hospitals.

This India is Really Little - and Just South of Dallas

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But few if any have heard of In-dia, Texas. Or for that matter Del-hi, Texas or even Madras, Texas

One wonders about what mo-tivated someone to name these places after some very old but booming, bustling metropolises of the Indian Subcontinent. Could there have been an Indian person or family there when these places were settled back 80 to 100 years ago? Or was there another connec-tion? Or was it just random?

In the case of India, Texas, it is just a mere dot on the map three miles east of Ferris and Interstate 45 on FM 780. If it weren’t for the

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One of the first cotton gins con-structed in Ellis County was locat-ed in the community and operated as late as 1970. In 1890 India had a population of 150. The popula-tion was 84 during most of the first half of the twentieth century and was reportedly twelve from 1977 to 2000, according to the History of Ellis County, Texas. Now it has several small ranches and some developers are building subdivi-sions in nearby Bristol and Walnut Springs.

“With its proximity to Dallas, the community has now grown to about 50, with several old homes and mobile homes down one lane,” said Stephanie, a local resident who lives with her grandmother and studies in Navarro Commu-nity College, Navarro (just down I-45) but works part-time in Dal-las. “There’s a lot more cows than people here!” she added with a chuckle. “But don’t go down that street,” she added, pointing to the blacktop road, mentioning some unsavory types lived there.

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hums with activity all throughout the day, never mind the hot sun and the oppressive humidity from the Atlantic Ocean which hugs its southern edge at Labadi Beach. If you’re stuck in a mile-long traffic jam along the Akasanoma Road, wilting in the heat of the taxi with many missing parts (“Driver, can you pass the crank to roll down the windows?”), you witness the stream of human kiosks walking between the lanes, hawking every-thing that you could imagine, and maybe even need, like a pack of twelve rolls of toilet paper.

They walk with their precious items balanced on their head – chilled water in plastic bags, fried plantain chips, books, toys – or bundled over their arms – belts, all-in-one screwdrivers, tire air-pumps, maps, cheap jewelry, watches – a driver’s eye view of all the Chinese goods that have captured the West African mar-ket for cheap wares, including Chinese motorcycles that sell for Ghana Cedi 600 ($300).

Further up the Akasanoma be-comes Ring Road, going past In-dependence Avenue and the United Nations Headquarters compound and with a turn at the roundabout, becomes Oxford Street as it con-tinues into the trendy Osu district

which features restaurants and the first KFC restaurant in the country, a three story modern building with Col. Sanders smiling down from the side. The human kiosks walk along the edges of the road, hawk-er’s stalls on each side and traffic crawls to a trickle.

Beneath a billboard for Vidya Bookstore, a group of Sikhs ar-gue a point, but they are the rare Indian face in this city of 2.4 mil-lion, along with the occasional Sindhi woman shopping at the supermarket and the Muslim In-dian lady who came to inquire at the Global Mama boutique. Three

blocks down, the Heritage Indian Restaurant is closed till 6pm as is the Kohinoor restaurant further on the Ring Road East.

But the Tandoor restaurant just happens to not believe in after-noon siestas and we find it, a short taxi ride away (GHS 4, about $2.50), past the Cantonment and the Police Hospital. The genera-tor in the front courtyard tells the story of power failures, but inside through an open archway adorned with embroidered mirrorwork, the ceilings are draped with Rajast-hani stamped cotton sheets and

Tandoor restaurant is located across from the Avis Car Rental off Labone Ave. in Accra, Ghana Photos: Jawahar Malhotra

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pods of dough, Nik Khubchandani takes a puff of his cigarette and surveys the early evening crowd of European expats that is slowly trickling in. His black longish hair is combed back past his rimless

The entrance archway from the front courtyard features embroidered mirrorwork.

Nik Khunchnadani opened the restaurant two years ago, but grew up in the restaurant business that his father Harry had.

Ghanaians do most of the cooking, including rolling and making the rotis and naans in the tandoor.

The restaurant atmosphere is casual and the long tables and benches cater to big groups of European expats.

glasses, two earrings in one ear and a short black beard makes his round face appear fuller. He is ca-sual, in a brown tee-shirt and com-fortable jeans and runs between the diners and the kitchen making sure the orders are okay.

Nik is one of the few Indians in Accra. “We’re probably 5,000 In-dians here,” he says with a slight Ghanaian inflection. “I am third generation but I went to India for the first time earlier this year for a

few months. It is definitely a chal-lenging and interesting place,” he added tossing in some upsetting anecdotes. Nik grew up in the restaurant business, as his father owned one for 18 years until it was sold. So he was determined to start his own two years ago, in the front courtyard of the house his fam-ily lives in, behind and upstairs. Though the place was filling up, “we make most of our money ca-tering parties, mostly to European

expats,” Nik explained.Just then, the elder

Khubchandani walks in the door, in a grey tee shirt and jeans. With a grey goatee, Harry has an easy going way about him and a strain of an American accent. “Our family moved here from Hyderabad, Sindh in 1946 and we’ve been here ever since,” he ex-plained. “After the res-taurant was sold, I just took off (he has been single for a while) for the US and moved around the country, working occasionally. I loved it and stayed in Austin for a while but really liked

Jacksonville, Florida.”But an undiagnosed heart condi-

tion cut the existentialist lifestyle back “and now they,” Harry mo-tioned to Nik and his daughter who was just passing through to the family’s entrance, “won’t let me go anywhere anymore!” he la-mented. “But, I’m really proud of my son and what he has been able to do with this restaurant.”

Which is no mild statement as numerous dishes beckoned from the multi-page menu. Our choices included the perennial favorite saag-paneer competing with ro-gan-josh and a Goan chicken dish, served with naan and drowned with large Kingfisher beers. Their taste was authentic and the meats were succulent and fragrant. For my younger son, who had been in the Peace Corps for two years, the meal brought back memories of home. All told, it was about GHS 57 ($33) and we were pleasantly full.

Back out on Labone Ave, the evening was fast setting – Accra is just 5 degrees north of the equator and the sun sets almost like clock-work at 6:30 – and small lights lit up the bricked in courtyards of the homes and the Avis rental car branch that operates out of one. We hailed another taxi with miss-ing parts and haggled over a price to the Paloma Hotel.

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Harinath Medi, a Houstonion for over 38 years, was originally a structural engineer, who switched gears to real estate sales for 28

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NEW DELHI (Outlook): Shikha Bhatnagar moved to India in 2008 with the intention of mak-ing it home for at least two years. Armed with years of experience in the development world, including internships with NGOs in India, she was excited about the future. She accepted a job running the Pune operations of an education organisation. That’s when her In-dia dream started to unravel. The rampant unprofessionalism and nepotism at the workplace quickly got to her. An American woman raised to speak her mind, Shikha found that her Indian colleagues did not appreciate her bluntness or her opinions.

The “yes people” in the office were promoted while she was sidelined. “It verged on workplace bullying in some respects, espe-cially for those of us who spoke out the most,” she says. “It was frustrating being there.” Within eight months, she had chucked up her job and was plotting her return to America. “India wasn’t new for me, I knew some of the challenges of working in that environment,” says Shikha, who is now associate director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council in Wash-ington. “What was very frustrating was the complete lack of profes-sionalism.”

Shikha isn’t in a club of one. Many Indian Americans who

packed their bags and headed east to pursue their Indian dreams are returning back to the US frustrated by their expe-riences. The reasons are many, varying between a combination of a slow-ing Indian economy, an unprofessional work en-vironment, exasperating bureaucracy, the all-per-vading pollution, chaotic traffic and the astronomi-cal cost of living.

Rajesh Kumar (not his real name) moved to Mumbai in 2007 as the CIO of a family-owned business. “We thought moving to India would be a good cultural expe-rience for the kids,” he says. After two decades in the US, he had de-cided it was time to take the plunge. But in Mum-bai, he found himself a stranger in the city he had grown up in. The astro-nomical apartment rents alarmed him. The beach, used by locals as a toilet, disgusted him. And the two-hour commute to work exhausted him. “We thought we were getting a good allowance, but the cost of living in Mumbai is out of this world,” he says.

India’s economy continues to grow at a pace that dwarfs the rates

of the US economy, but signs of a slowdown and high rates of infla-tion are deterring those thinking about making India home. “The rupee has depreciated considerably and foreign investors are not going to invest. It’s a grim picture,” says an Indian American banker who recently returned to the US after a

brief stint in India.The absence of an ap-

propriate work-life bal-ance, unreliable domestic helps and non-existent day-care facilities for toddlers are other irritants often cited by those re-turning from India. Chil-dren’s education, too, is an important factor in the decision to return to the US.

As general manager for Tata Services in Mumbai, Kapil Sharma had the perfect job. Eventually, school admission for his son was one of the reasons he decided to pack up and leave the city to which he and his family moved in 2008. “We were not sure if we could afford the top schools in Mumbai for our children—such as the American School,” says Kapil. In 2010, he and his young family returned to Washington where he currently serves as se-nior general manager for

Tata Sons (North America). As an American living in India, Kapil found the double taxation—being taxed by the US and Indian author-ities—cumbersome and stressful. He had to hire both US-based and India-based accountants to file his family’s taxes.

Those who stay on in India of-ten have the luxury of extravagant mnc salaries-and-benefits pack-ages. They are also shielded from some of the daily irritants faced by those in less fortunate circum-stances. Others remain in India for emotional reasons. “For many people who move back, family is a big factor,” says Rajesh. “To them, these daily frustrations may not matter as much.” In 2010, Ankur Jain, a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, took a sabbatical from his job as a management consultant to test the waters in Delhi, where his family lives. Two months later, he too was back in the US, disap-pointed by the lack of appropri-ate job opportunities. “Those two months made me more realistic,” says Ankur.

Similarly, Raghu Mamadgi, a Boston-based software developer who came to the US in 2002 to do his masters, returned to Hydera-bad in ’08 so that he could be near his parents. He was back in the US by 2011. Mamadgi has mixed feelings about India. “You are a citizen there and don’t have to deal with all the visa paperwork. That’s a huge advantage,” he admits. On the other hand, he was struck by how expensive India had become. “I am so happy here because I feel everything is cheap in America,” he says with a laugh. “I live a more comfortable life now compared to life in India.”

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House Ethics Panel Reopens Complaint on SC Governor Nikki HaleyCOLUMBIA, SC:(Indiawest):

The House Ethics Committee May 30 officially reopened an eth-ics complaint that accuses South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley of il-legally lobbying for two previ-ous employers before she became governor. The 6-0 vote comes four weeks after the panel dismissed all charges regarding her jobs as a fundraiser for a hospital and consultant for an engineering firm while she was a representative for Lexington County.

Questions about the process prompted further discussion.

“It’s a shame that South Caroli-na’s political system is once again failing the people and that politics are trumping the law,” said Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey. “The governor will do what she has done time and again throughout this process, before and after the claims were dismissed: be open and honest about her work as a legislator.”

He declined to say whether that included testifying before the committee. The dismissal May 2 on a 5-1, party-line vote came im-mediately after the panel unani-mously found probable cause that a violation existed — a vote that opened the complaint to the pub-lic. Prior to that, the committee was barred from even acknowl-edging it existed.

The back-to-back votes prompt-ed an appeal from long-time GOP

activist John Rainey, who filed the complaint, and a resolution from Rep. James Smith, D-Columbia, that the panel reconsider its dis-missal. The committee took up the resolution two weeks ago and de-cided to ask Haley for documents to back up her defense — insisting that did not reopen the case.

Attorney Butch Bowers May 30 reiterated Haley’s arguments that she did not lobby for Lexington Medical Center or Wilbur Smith Associates. Bowers repeatedly noted three affidavits Haley’s of-fice turned in from officials repre-senting those businesses.

Robert Ferrell, vice president

of Wilbur Smith’s successor firm CDM Smith, said Haley was hired to bring in private-sector and coun-ty business, not state work. Fred Johnston, chairman of the hospital foundation, said the foundation is separate from the hospital, no foundation employee did lobbying work, and that Haley received no bonuses for donations.

Haley has never denied asking lobbyists to donate to the founda-tion, contending there’s nothing wrong with that, since she didn’t work on commission. Haley’s de-fense includes that her work on the hospital’s open heart center appli-cation was for her constituents,

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not an employer. She contends she worked for the hospital’s nonprofit, not the hospital itself. But even if she did, Bowers insisted, what she did could not be considered lob-bying because the definition un-der state law in that scenario only covers agency regulations. He said foundation employees were paid by the hospital only so they would be covered by the state retirement system as a public employee.

“This may sound like lawyer-speak, but it’s not. Words matter

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June 22, 201218 EDITORIALIn one of the Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes strips, Calvin

says, “You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood” — the right mood being “last-minute panic”. This seems to be the mantra of the All India Tennis Association (AITA), which waited till the eleventh hour to announce a team for the doubles for the London Olympics, the deadline for which is June 21.

No sooner did it announce the names, Mahesh Bhupathi refused to partner Leander Paes and so did Rohan Bopanna. Before we could get a hang of what’s going on in the tennis circuit, sports minister Ajay Maken served an off the court ace, tweeting that India should send two teams.

It seems that the AITA has an uncanny knack of being a good sport when it comes to leaving people red in the face. First, it overlooked the bad blood between the two feuding tennis veterans and announced the team. This does not seem like serving an ace with Bhupathi calling Paes a “back-stabber”.

To counter that the AITA delivers a bit of patriotism. It is not quite love all. Putting two and two together, the AITA has stood by its decision to pair Paes with Bhupathi, insisting that teaming the former with a junior player would be “most inappropriate”. The controversy seems far from over with this announcement. But then who’s complaining? We loved this controversy espe-cially when it took our time off cricket and the Indian Premier League.

With just a day left for the nomination, our advice to the Olym-pics team is that the best way to play a doubles match is the Mamatadi way. Despite differences, she has stood by the UPA government through thick and thin.

The UPA was thick-skinned and Banerjee’s arguments thin. Game, set and match — but we are not sure to whom.

BY AMITAVA SANYALIt seems there is a lot about Mid-

dle India that we can learn from its matrimonial ads. One of the most popular characteristics it seems to crave for in partners — ‘traditional yet modern’ — is reflected in its choice of music. It partly explains the popularity of television shows such as Coke Studio and of the rash of re-recordings of old classics that seems to be breaking out in most large vernacular music industries.

At such a time, composer Sneha Khanwalkar is making her mark in a rather radical corner of the mar-ket. She was the one sent out by di-rector Dibakar Banerjee to find out a song for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (‘Tu raja ki raj dulari’) from the gut of Haryana. She not only found it, but sampled enough sounds on her trips to lend an air of authenticity to the rest of the plain-speaking film’s score. In recent weeks, she has surprised us on MTV Sound Trippin’ by picking up local voices and sounds from regions as far-flung as Ludhiana and Majuli is-land, and mixing them into strik-ing ‘modern’ compositions. In an era of DJ mixes, she has been able to keep her ear closer to the ground than have most of her peers.

Her latest work is for The Gangs of Wasseypur, Anurag Kashyap’s film in two parts, for which she has shared the composing credits with Piyush Mishra, who has left his in-imitable sarcastic kick in some of the songs’ lyrics, too.

Now even after a lot of vapour-ware clouding the film’s music re-lease, the CDs were not available in Delhi music shops till the middle of the week. But that didn’t prove to be a barrier, as the songs — all 14 of them from the first part of the film — had been released on the internet more than a week ago. I shopped on Flyte, Flipkart’s mp3 store (bit.ly/wasseypur), though you can also go to gaana.com or other such websites.

The music, which has been fetched up from the bowels of Bihar and Jharkhand, is a testa-ment to the incredible churn the Bhojpuri film and music industry has gone through. It is reflected

in the rise of Manoj Tiwari, one of the most popular singers in the language who has sung the album’s first song, the rollicking, dholak-boosted, heavy-bass-lined ‘Jiya hai Bihar ka lala’.

On Twitter, writer Naresh Fer-nandes (@tajmahalfoxtrot) recent-ly pointed to a remarkable paper — ‘Music mania in small-town Bi-har’ — published in Economic and Political Weekly. In it, researcher Ratnakar Tripathy gives us a rare view the spread of the Bhojpuri/ Maithili/Magahi music industry. He puts down the moment Tiwari became a star as a Budhwa Mangal concert held in Varanasi in 1988. The year before, Anoop Jalota had offended the concert’s audience by inviting them to match an intricate taan. This year, he was booed off stage and there was a roar to bring back Tiwari, who had sung earlier. So the vernacular took over a stage that had been given to semi-classi-

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In the decades since, Bhojpuri music has grown several folds. Es-timates are difficult, but Tripathy’s research says the CD/VCD indus-try alone could be worth R500-1,000 crore today; and then there’s the larger live concerts market.

To their credit, Khanwalkar and Mishra have acknowledged the richness of such a thriving industry and not given them a Bollywood makeover. They have kept the earthiness and storytelling tease in the voices of singers such as Man-ish Tipu and Bhupesh Singh, and Gaya’s Ranjeet Baal Party. Even some of the typical drum-and-cymbal instrumentation has been maintained in places. The film’s team seems to have curated the songs and then provided a texture or highlighted some portions with western sounds and rhythms.

For example, the live version of ‘Womaniya’, with its playful lan-guage benders, comes off all raw in the voices of Khusboo Raaj and Rekha Jha. (As happens so often with tunes in the piracy-ridden Hindi heartland, the melody is mostly borrowed from the popu-lar Laxmikant-Pyarelal song from Karz, ‘Mere umar ke naujawano’.) But in the regular version, there are layers of beats and sounds added to pace the song while keeping the voices intact.

Vedesh Sokoo and team’s ‘Hunt-er’, on the other hand, is a laid-back reggae beat that has, somehow, been doused in Bhojpuri sensibil-ity with the lyrics and some of the instruments. It’s East going over to the west of West.

Not all the songs are by Bhojpur locals. Composers Khanwalkar, Mishra and Amit Trivedi have sung some other numbers. Usri Banerjee has provided a rare pol-ished voice on ‘Manmauji’, which reminds us of flirtatious numbers from the early talkies. (Disclosure: Banerjee is a sister-in-law to me.)

But the overall feel is unmistak-ably Bihari. It’s as if the compos-ers are standing in the middle of Bhojpur and shouting: “This, too, can be Bollywood.”

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Engagement is the KeywordFrom a foreign investors’ darling to a slowing economy

prone to risky policy flip-flops, the turnaround of India’s image has been as rapid as the sizzling growth it had once peaked between 2004 and 2008. On Monday, Fitch Ratings, a U.S. credit rating group, joined some of its global peers in launching a scathing attack on India’s economic manage-ment — or the lack of it.

The road ahead is clear to all — push infrastructure invest-ment and ride the multiplier; open employment-intensive sectors; welcome global capital where domestic risk isn’t able to or willing to go; open the defence sector to private Indian capital. But before that, the Congress needs to learn one word and use it thrice over: engagement.

All told, it’s time politicians worked together to sell and serve economic growth as a priority, rather than on who will occupy India’s most sought-after address at Rashtrapati Bha-van.

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NEW YORK (NYT): IN his early 20s Vikram Gandhi, a fl edgling Indian-American fi lmmaker from New Jersey, decided to make a documentary about the yoga industry in the United States, focusing on its offshoot, the guru.

Then he decided to become one himself.

The result was “Kumaré,” named for Gandhi’s alter ego, a yoga teacher from Aali’kash, a fi ctional place in the shadow of the Himalayas, who carries a trident and imparts his wis-dom on some unsuspecting spiritual seekers in Arizona. The lesson, to those willing to listen closely: The only guru you need is the one inside you.

Gandhi said the inevitable com-parisons of “Kumaré,” his fi rst full-length movie (which opens June 20 in New York), with Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” didn’t bother him. Gandhi, now 33 and a resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said he had already begun his transformation before that fi lm came out — and be-sides, his documentary is 100 percent unscripted. In a recent interview, for which he traded his character’s fl ow-ing attire for an untucked white shirt and jeans (he kept the beard), Gandhi spoke about his spiritual path and pretending to be what he was not.

These are excerpts from their con-versation.

Q. How did what began as a yoga documentary become “Kumaré”?

A. I was meeting tons of different spiritual leaders and teachers, and I’d be saying: “This person is just making something up. Why does everyone else think this is legitimate?” What I saw made me think: “What if I pretended to be one of these people? Wouldn’t that show something about the nature of why people are grasping onto things, especially if I’m going to be saying that what I’m teaching is not real and it’s kind of nonsense?”

Q. How did you progress? A. I made up a name. My middle

name is Kumar, so I put an “é” at the end.

Q. What about the yoga poses? A. Anyone nowadays who thinks

that they know what authentic yoga asanas are is full of it. India has a lot of scriptures, but it doesn’t have tons of diagrams of all these scorpion poses.

Q. What was Kumaré’s appeal? A. Kumaré is not based on a char-

A. I was prepared mentally for everything. I already knew that there was no movie without the unveiling. I needed to display the mechanism of the guru and the mechanism of faith. And then laying all the cards on the table and telling them: “You’re making changes in your life, and you don’t need me because I don’t know anything about you. I don’t know anything at all.”

Q. Has Kumaré appeared again since the movie?

A. I went to New York Fashion Week [as Kumaré]. Of course ev-eryone at Lincoln Center was going, “I’m sorry, what is this? [Circles hand and points at imaginary clothing.] This is amazing.” And I’m barefoot, carrying a trident.

The next thing you know, someone has put a picture of me on the front of The Hindustan Times entertain-ment section with a caption that says, “Swami steals the show at New York Fashion Week.”

acter in India; he’s based on a char-acter in mythology. And even though people saw this man who looked like he was from another planet, he was super relatable — because he’s just me. You imagine this man to be talking on a much higher level, but in fact Kumaré was the simple straight man in every scene. No great wisdom. He was always saying, “You have the answer.”

Q. Did you ever break character? A. There’s a smile that Kumaré

has and a laugh like some old Indian people I’ve seen who laugh with-out making a sound. It was like the masked laughter on top of my own laughter. I told people that the trans-lation of my name, Kumaré, meant “divine child.” I’m a child trapped inside this big man who has a trident and a picnic basket.

Q. After gaining the trust of these people, did you feel responsible for hurt feelings once you revealed your-self?


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BY SOWMYA NANDAKUMARNovelist Anita Mazumdar Desai

was born in Mussoorie, India, on June 24 1937, to a German mother, Toni Nime and a Bengali business-man, D.N. Mazumdar. Growing up, she spoke German at home and four languages outside home, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and English. German was her fi rst language but she started learning to read and write English in school at the age of seven. Since then it became the language of her short stories and novels. Desai read the classic, Wuthering Heights, at the age of nine and apparently recollects that as being a story that strongly moved her always.

Desai got her education in Delhi at the Queen Mary’s Higher Secondary School and Miranda House, Delhi University. In 1957 she received her B.A in English literature. She started writing short stories regularly. In 1958 she married Ashvin Desai, a busi-nessman - the director of a computer software company and author of the book: Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and The Cosmos.

In 1963 Desai published her fi rst novel, Cry The Peacock. This is the story of rebellious woman who kills her husband to liberate herself. This was followed by Voices of The City in 1965, a story about the very different lives of three siblings living in Kol-kata. Fire on The Mountain, focusing on the complex life and experiences of three women, was published in 1977. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award (National Academy of Letters Award) and the Winifred Holtby Me-morial Prize in 1978.

Desai is known for writing on wom-en centric issues and themes. She is reputed for being able to portray with sensitivity and fi nesse, the personal-ity, characteristics and emotions of her female characters. Many of her char-acters belong to the anglicized Indian bourgeoisie and often, their marriages and marital problems are in the fore-front of these stories. These characters try to deal with the monotonies of their lives by resorting to some form of es-capism. In Fire on the Mountain, one of the characters retreats in to a private world of isolation; In Where Shall We Go This Summer, published in 1977, the character Sita, is pregnant with her fi fth child and takes shelter from her marriage in her deceased father’s magical island.

Clear Light of Day (1980) told the story of siblings, Bimala and Tara, woven in with Delhi’s history, the partition and its many consequences. This book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Desai won the Guard-ian Award for Children's Fiction for the novel The Village by the Sea (1982).

From the mid-1980s Desai started to look at social issues and problems

in society. Her novels, characters and situations refl ect Indian society and politics. In 1984 Desai wrote In Cus-tody, (also short listed for the Booker Prize) revolving around the many life disappointments of the three central characters. In 1993, In Custody, was directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Shahrukh Husain, and produced by Merchant Ivory Productions. Starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri, the fi lm won the 1994 President of India Gold Medal for Best Picture and Stars.

In 1988, Desai’s German lineage came through in her writing when she wrote Baumgartner’s Bombay, the story of a retired Jewish businessman who escaped the Nazis in his youth, to India, and stays there in poverty, taking care of stray cats. In 1993 Desai became member of the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology and taught creative writing. She also won the Neil Gunn Prize, (named after the prolifi c Scottish novelist and dramatist, Neil Gunn) for International Literature from the Scottish Arts council.

In 1995, she wrote Journey to Ithaca, which explores a pilgrimage to India through the perspectives of three people, two young Europeans, Mateo and Sophie, and Mother, a mysterious woman.

In 1999, Desai wrote Fasting, Feasting, which contrasts American and Indian cultures, and gender roles. The story is about Arun, who studies in Massachusetts, and his sister Uma who lives back home in India, with their parents, in a small city. Uma attempts to leave home and get mar-ried. This raises pandemonium! This novel was a fi nalist for the Booker Prize in 1999. She won the Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature in 2000 and Benson Medal of Royal Society of Literature in 2003.

In 2004, Desai’s In the Zigzag Way, was set very differently from her usual terrain of story telling. This story set in Mexico, explores identi-ties. Her latest book was The Artist of Disappearance, which came in 2011.

Since the 1950s Desai has lived in New Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, and other Indian cities. She has held several prestigious positions in ac-claimed literary institutions. She has been member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Lon-don. She has taught at Girton College and Smith College in England, and at Mount Holyoke College in the United States.

Desai and her husband Ashvin have have four children, Rahul, Tani, Ar-jun and Kiran. Kiran Desai, following in the footsteps of her mother is a Booker Prize winning novelist.

To read a conversation between Anita and Kirna Desai, mother and daughter, visit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/11/kiran-desai-ani-ta-desai-in-conversation

Anita Desai: A Booker Prize Finalist

Anita Desai (left) in conversation with her Booker Prize winning daughter Kiran Desai.

Anita Desai was the recipient of the Neil Gunn Prize for International Literature, from the Scottish Arts Council.


21 June 22, 2012

Ferrari ki Sawaari: Endearing Flick

Direction: Rajesh MapuskarActors: Boman Irani, Sharman

Joshi, Ritwik SahoreBY SARIT RAY

Rustam Deboo (Sharman Joshi) is a man you might meet on the streets of Mumbai. He’s the modest Parsi with neatly side-parted hair and round glasses who wears the sudreh-kusti, rides a scooter to work and lives in an old house with an ageing father (Bomxan Irani as Deboo). He barely manages to make ends meet on the salary of a head clerk at the RTO, yet is honest to a fault — when he runs a red light without getting caught, he fi nds a cop and insists on paying a fi ne. It’s the sort of thing only a Parsi would do. The one ex-traordinary thing in their otherwise ho-hum life is Rustam’s son Kayo’s (Ritwik Sahore) talent for cricket. Of course, there are a million parents in this country who believe their boy is the next Sachin Tendulkar. The difference is that, within the premise of Ferrari Ki Sawaari, Kayo is the next Sachin Tendulkar who can send a ball scurrying off to the boundary at will.

But Ferrari… isn’t really another cricket movie (and thank God for that). At its heart, it is an underdog story, with an Everyman up against

huge odds; the kind of movie that we have come to expect from a Rajkumar Hirani-Vidhu Vinod Chopra script. In both the Munnabhai fi lms, a com-mon, illiterate gangster overreaches himself, fi rst by questioning a rigid medical system and then by fi ghting corruption and injustice with Gan-dhigiri; Rancho in 3 Idiots is an un-likely engineering student up against an education system based on rote-learning. In fi rst-time director Rajesh Mapuskar’s Ferrari… (Mapuskar was associate director to Hirani on Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots), Rustam fi ghts fi nancial constraints and the politics of cricket selections to fulfi l his son’s dream of playing at London’s Lord’s Cricket Ground. That’s where the Ferrari comes in. The pressing need for money leads Rustam to take a reckless step and ‘borrow’ Sachin Tendulkar’s big red machine. A comedy of errors ensues, involving the wedding of a politi-cian’s son, a hunt for the missing car, and Grandfather Deboo, who has a backstory of his own that, let’s just say, also concerns cricket.

The second half of the movie large-ly devotes itself to resolving this plot and does so entertainingly, with wit, humour and pathos. There is even a symbolic deus ex machina, with a

god that comes riding on a bullock cart. Some stock characters exist purely for comic effect (the politi-cian’s idiot son, Tendulkars’ domestic help and a bumbling security guard), but the central characters are well fl eshed out. Sharman, one of the most underrated actors in Bollywood, is extremely convincing as the scrupu-lous Rustam (it’s astounding that in his 13 years in the industry, this is his fi rst ‘lead’ role). Boman Irani excels as the cynical grandfather (of course, he has a natural advantage in playing a Parsi) and has some of the best lines in the movie — at one point, he calls the whole Lord’s affair a “recession scheme” by the West to make money. The Hirani-Chopra infl uence, how-ever, pervades the fi lm — a morally upright, large-hearted protagonist; an old, brooding father (not entirely unlike the carrom-playing Parsi dad from Munnabhai), even a magic-realism song sequence.

Yet, judged on its own, Ferrari works as a fi lm. It’s a story of reach-ing for your dreams, of endearing father-son relationships, and of moral lessons that aren’t preachy. It’s a formula that rarely fails — the sort of feel-good movie that makes for perfect Sunday viewing with the whole family. HT

Himangini Singh Yadu Wins the Asia Pacifi c 2012 Title

MUMBAI: After 12 years of wait, fi nally another Indian beauty made us feel proud. Indore girl Himangini Singh Yadu crowned the Miss India Asia Pacifi c. Himangini is the fi rst girl to win the title in 12 years.

The beauty pageant was held in Busan, South Korea on Saturday. “This is a dream come true! All the hard work, time and effort that my mentors have put in with me has paid off,” said Himangini after winning the title.

She was selected by Sushmita Sen’s organization I Am She, an organization started in 2010, which sends its winner to Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Asia Pacifi c pageants. “I am extremely thankful to the entire I AM She team and Sushmita Sen... I couldn`t have done it without them! I am extremely thrilled at making them and India proud,” Himangini said.

Himangini Singh Yadu was the fi rst candidate from ‘I Am She’ to win the title. Sushmita, founder of the organization, is delighted over the victory. “We did it! The entire team is extremely happy and very proud of Himangini for winning the international title... She has so beautifully represented India and won us back that sweet taste of victory,” said the former Miss Universe. Mod-el-turned-actress Dia Mirza was the last Indian to win the Miss Asia Pacifi c title in 2000. Himangini Singh Yadu has done her graduation in computer application from Indore`s International Institute of Professional Studies. She won Miss Indore in 2006 and walked the ramp at various fashion shows. Bollywood Mantra

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23 June 22, 2012 23June 22, 2012INDIAOPINION

BY VIKAS BAJAJRANWAN, India (NYT): In this north Indian

village, workers recently dismantled stacks of burned and mildewed rice while fl ies swarmed nearby over spoiled wheat. Local residents said the rice crop had been sitting along the side of a highway for several years and was now being sent to a distillery to be turned into liquor.

Just 180 miles to the south, in a slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, Leela Devi struggled to feed her family of four on meager portions of fl atbread and potatoes, which she said were all she could afford on her disability pension and the irregular wages of her day-laborer husband. Her family is among the estimated 250 million Indians who do not get enough to eat.

Such is the paradox of plenty in India’s food system. Spurred by agricultural innovation and generous farm subsidies, India now grows so much food that it has a bigger grain stockpile than any country except China, and it exports some of it to countries like Saudi Arabia and Australia. Yet one-fi fth of its people are mal-nourished — double the rate of other develop-ing countries like Vietnam and China — be-cause of pervasive corruption, mismanagement and waste in the programs that are supposed to distribute food to the poor.

“The reason we are facing this problem is our refusal to distribute the grain that we buy from farmers to the people who need it,” said Biraj Patniak, who advises India’s Supreme Court on food issues. “The only place that this grain deserves to be is in the stomachs of the people who are hungry.”

After years of neglect, the nation’s failed food policies have now become a subject of intense debate in New Delhi, with lawmakers, advocates for the poor, economists and the news media increasingly calling for an overhaul. The populist national government is considering legislation that would pour billions of additional dollars into the system and double the number of people served to two-thirds of the population. The proposed law would also allow the poor to buy more rice and wheat at lower prices.

Proponents say the new law, if written and executed well, could help ensure that nobody goes hungry in India, the world’s second-most populous country behind China. But critics say that without fundamental system reforms, the extra money will only deepen the nation’s budget defi cit and further enrich the offi cials who routinely steal food from various levels of the distribution chain.

India’s food policy has two central goals: to provide farmers with higher and more consis-tent prices for their crops than they would get from the open market, and to sell food grains to the poor at lower prices than they would pay at private stores.

The federal government buys grain and stores it. Each state can take a certain amount of grain from these stocks based on how many of its

As Grain Piles Up, India’s Poor Still Go Hungry

Sacks of wheat are loaded into trucks in Jagraon. India’s food production has increased almost 50 percent in the last two decades Photo: Manpreet Romana

Sacks of rice stored in the open in Ranwan, India, have rotted and suffered other damage.

residents are poor. The states deliver the grain to subsidized shops and decide which families get the ration cards that allow them to buy cheap wheat and rice there.

The sprawling system costs the government 750 billion rupees ($13.6 billion) a year, almost 1 percent of India’s gross domestic product. Yet 21 percent of the country’s 1.2 billion people remain undernourished, a proportion that has changed little in the last two decades despite an almost 50 percent increase in food production, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute, a research group in Washington.

The new food security law could more than double the government’s outlays to 2 trillion rupees a year, according to some estimates.

Much of the extra money would go to buy more grain, even though the government al-ready has a tremendous stockpile of wheat and rice — 71 million tons as of early May, up 20 percent from a year earlier.

“India is paying the price of an unexpected success — our production of rice and wheat has surged and procurement has been better than ever,” said Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to India’s Finance Ministry and a pro-fessor at Cornell University. “This success is showing up some of the gaps in our policy.”

The biggest gap is the ineffi cient, corrupt sys-tem used to get the food to those who need it. Just 41.4 percent of the grain picked up by the states from federal warehouses reaches Indian homes, according to a recent World Bank study.

Critics say offi cials all along the chain, from warehouse managers to shopkeepers, steal food and sell it to traders, pocketing tidy, illicit profi ts.

Poor Indians who have ration cards often complain about both the quality and quantity of grain available at government stores, called fair price shops.

Other families do not even have ration cards

because of the procedures — and often, bribes — required to get them. Some are denied because they cannot document their residence or income. And critics say more people would qualify if the income cutoff were raised; in New Delhi, it is 2,000 rupees ($36) a month, regardless of family size, a sum that many poor families spend on rent alone.

Ms. Devi, who lives in the Jagdamba Camp slum in south Delhi, said she was denied a ra-tion card four years ago. She said her family’s steadiest income is a disability pension of 1,000 rupees a month she gets because of burns suffered in an accident a few years ago. While her husband sometimes earns up to 3,000 rupees a month as a laborer, she says she should be entitled to subsidized grain since they must often get by on 2,000 rupees or less.

“Sometimes, we just have to sit and wait,” she said. “My mother-in-law gets subsidized food and she gives me some when she can.”

Indian offi cials say they are ad-dressing the system’s problems. Some states, like Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh, have made big im-provements by using technology to track food and have made it easier for almost all households to get ration cards. Other states, like Bihar, have experimented with food stamps.

Reformers argue that India should move toward giving the poor cash or food stamps as the United States, Mexico and other countries have done. That would reduce corruption and misman-agement because the government

would buy and store only enough grain to insure against bad harvests. And the poor would get more choices, said Ashok Gulati, chairman of the government’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.

“Why only wheat and rice? If he wants to have eggs, or fruits, or some vegetables, he should be given that option,” Gulati said. “You need to augment his income. Then, the distribution, you leave it to the private sector.”

But most offi cials say they are worried that if India switched to food stamps, men would trade them for liquor or tobacco, depriving their families of enough to eat.

“It has to improve, I have no doubt about it,” said K. V. Thomas, India’s minister for food, consumer affairs and public distribution. “But this is the only system that can work in our country.”

Offi cials say Parliament is likely to vote on a new food policy at the end of the year. In the meantime, the government is working on tem-porary solutions to its grain storage problems, putting up new silos and exporting more rice.

Still, much of it is likely to keep sitting on the side of the road here in Punjab.

“It’s painful to watch,” said Gurdeep Singh, a farmer from near Ranwan who recently sold his wheat harvest to the government. “The govern-ment is big and powerful. It should be able to put up a shed to store this crop.”

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Rahul Bhattacharya Wins Prestigious Ondaatje Literary Prize for Fiction

LONDON (Indiawest): Author Rahul Bhattacharya became the fi rst Indian writer May 29 to win the presti-gious Ondaatje Prize for his book, “The Sly Company of People Who Care,” a novel about an Indian journalist’s adventures.

The 10,000-pound award is given by the Royal Society of Literature an-nually to a work of fi ction, non-fi ction or poetry which evokes the “spirit of a place,” and which is written by some-one who is a citizen or resident of the Commonwealth or Ireland.

Bhattacharya’s book was described by judge Michele Roberts as “one of the most exhilarating novels I have read for years.”

Isolated Mamata Learns a Bitter LessonIndian Presidential Elections

BY RAJ KANWARIAN INDIA CORRESPONDENT

A twenty four-hour slot is too short a time de-pending upon what one is doing. An air journey from New Delhi to Houston would easily take 22 to 24 hours, if there are two stopovers en route and again depending upon what Airline one takes. In politics, 24 hours are too long a period during which even governments could get toppled.

India’s mercurial and temperamental Mamata Banerjee learnt this bitter lesson at her great cost and much ignominy Friday last week when her best laid out plan to derail the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee as the 13th President of India was miscarried. Her co-star in this farce of a drama was another equally temperamental but wily Uttar Pradesh chieftain Mulayam Singh Yadav. The two had suddenly developed an unexpected bonhomie and had addressed a joint press conference on Thursday at which the duo contemptuously rejected the choice of both the Congress presidential candidates Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari. Instead they announced their own three names, APJ Abdul Kalam, former speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The name of Manmohan Singh had been mischievously added to express their no confi dence in the Prime Minister and just to spite the Congress’ face.

The echo of the duo’s war cry against the UPA was still reverberating when Mulayam Singh made a complete about-turn on Friday and announced his unambiguous and uncon-ditional support to the Congress presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. This somersault took Mamata by total surprise and left her liter-ally speechless; the only statement she made was that the “game is not yet over”. If this shock was not enough, Mulayam’s bête noire Mayawati too followed suit and declared her support to Pranab Mukherjee. Thus this public support by the two Uttar Pradesh adversaries within an hour of the formal announcement of the candidature of Mukherjee took most politi-cal observers by surprise and gave a winning edge to the veteran Congress politician. In other words, Mukherjee’s election as the President became certain. Mainstream newspapers the following morning came out with fi rst lead sto-ries like “President Pranab, almost there” (The Indian Express), “Isolated in Capital’s power corridors, Mamata….” (Sunday Hindustan Times). It is almost certain the Left too would extend its support to Mukherjee, since it has no other option and if only to cock a snook at Mamata’s Trinamool Congress.

If the initial dithering by Congress in selecting its presidential candidate was inexplicable, the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) reached the nadir of indecisiveness by not be-ing able to take any decision whatsoever on the choice of their presidential candidate; it could not even decide if it was at all going to challenge Pranab Mukherjee. BJP, as a party, appeared to be a house divided and its top leaders spoke in many voices. They met for long hours on Saturday but failed to take any decision, leaving the fi nal say to a larger meeting of NDA con-stituents. It was the same story the following day on Sunday; it was announced that Advani would then consult with the NDA chief ministers. But the writing on the wall was clear with NDA’s two leading partners, JD (U) of Nitish Kumar (the ruling party in Bihar) and the Punjab’s rul-ing party Shrimoni Akali Dal had openly voiced their support to Mukherjee and did not want NDA to put up any candidate. Another longtime NDA partner, Bal Thackery’s Shiv Sena did not even bother to attend the meeting. There was no

further news from BJP till the time of writing on Monday afternoon.

It was a time of reckoning for Mamata; she is certainly street-smart in her own West Bengal and could easily hold her own there, but she found herself out of depth in the larger battle-fi eld of real politicking where fi ghts are no-hold barred and no quarter given or even asked. It is a moot point whether Mulayam stabbed Mamata in the back or was it a comeuppance for the Bengali ‘tigress’ who was all bent upon betray-ing Congress, with which it is a major coalition partner in the Central government.

Mamata, in fact, is very much piqued at the blatant refusal of Pranab Mukherjee to help her and the impoverished state of West Bengal with the huge fi nancial package amounting to as much as Rs. 100,000 crore. In other words, Ma-mata had set much in store on the munifi cence of Mukherjee and his natural love for West Bengal and had felt certain that the fi nancial package or at least much of it would be given.

However, Mukherjee could not, in all fair-ness, oblige Mamata even if he had wanted; it would have been too much of a risk as also dis-criminatory vis-à-vis other states. Thus it goes to Mukherjee’s credit that he did not succumb to the high pressure tactics and emotional black-mail exerted on him by her. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. True to her reputation as unforgiving and ruthless, Mamata planned to extract an immediate revenge. It was quite easy to entice Mulayam Singh to her side, and the two obviously hatched a devious plan to outwit the Congress. But in this game of one-upmanship, Sonia Gandhi turned out to be much smarter and was able to pull Mulayam away from Mamata within few hours of their joint media confer-ence. This has virtually isolated Mamata and has left her high and dry.

As per the current calculations, Pranab Mukherjee will have the support of over 51% of the total votes in the President’s Electoral College. This is without counting upon the votes of some partners in the BJP-led NDA and parties such as Jayalalitha’s AIDMK and Naveen Patnaik’s BJD in Orissa. There is every probability that BJP may eventually decide not even to put up a candidate against Mukherjee for the simple reason that it does not have the numbers in its favor and instead ask Congress and UPA to support its candidate for the post of vice president. In fact, this ‘give and take’ will be an ideal example of bipartisan politics and a happy development.

Pranab Mukherjee & Sonia Gandhi

U.S. Court Acts in New York Hindu Temple RowNEW YORK (SI) :A US court has told a Long Island pharmacist to stay away from the

elderly president of a Kali temple here after allegations of embezzlement led to an attack on the latter. The court has issued a temporary order of protection against pharmacist Suman Saha following his alleged assault on the president of New York Kali Mandir Hindu Temple, Ajoy Nayak. The 72-year-old Nayak is a left-leg amputee. According to court documents, Saha was arraigned in Nassau county criminal court Monday before Judge Douglas LeRose where the temporary order of protection was issued. The order prohibits Saha from having any contact with Nayak and requires him to return June 14 to Nassau County district court in front of Judge Sharon Gianelli.

Nayak alleged he was physically attacked May 13 in a locked room by Saha and several fellow offi cials of the temple. This was allegedly done to cover up Nayak’s discovery of inappropriate fi nancial dealings by the temple’s previous president, Kumar Sankar Mandal. Nayak said in a statement: “I have spent the early part of my tenure as president of New York Kali Mandir try-ing to clarify our fi nancial position and ensure a successful and secure resource for our Hindu community. “It is shocking and disheartening that members of our religious community would not only misappropriate the funds of our temple, but then resort to thuggery and violence in order to try to cover it up. “This is a sad time for our community, but I urge members to come together in peace and harmony and demonstrate that these behaviours are not demonstrative of our beliefs and culture and will not be tolerated by our community.”

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BY PETER LATHAM, AZAM AHMEDNEW YORK (NYT): Rajat K.

Gupta, the retired head of the con-sulting firm McKinsey & Com-pany and a former Goldman Sachs board member, was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy and secu-rities fraud for leaking boardroom secrets to a billionaire hedge fund manager.

The case, which caps a wave of successful insider trading prosecu-tions over the last three years, is a significant victory for the govern-ment, which has penetrated some of Wall Street’s most vaunted hedge funds and reached into America’s most prestigious corpo-rate boardrooms.

Mr. Gupta is one of the 66 Wall Street traders and corporate execu-tives charged with insider trading crimes by Preet Bharara, the Unit-ed States attorney in Manhattan, since 2009. Of those, 60 have ei-ther pleaded guilty or been found guilty. Juries have convicted all seven defendants who have gone to trial.

After a monthlong trial in Fed-eral District Court in Manhattan, a jury took only two days to reach a verdict. It found Mr. Gupta guilty of leaking confidential informa-tion about Goldman to his former friend and business associate, Mr. Rajaratnam, on three different oc-casions in 2008. He was also con-victed on a conspiracy charge.

The jury found Mr. Gupta not guilty of two charges of tipping Mr. Rajaratnam, including an alle-gation that he divulged secret news about Procter & Gamble, where he also served on the board.

“Having fallen from respected insider to convicted inside trader, Mr. Gupta has now exchanged the lofty boardroom for the prospect of a lowly jail cell,” Mr. Bharara

said in a statement.After the verdict was

read in the courtroom, Mr. Gupta, 63, remained stoic. Just behind him, his wife, Anita, buried her head in her hands. His four daughters, who had squeezed into the front row of the spectators’ gallery each day during the trial, loudly sobbed and consoled one anoth-er. Several jurors cried as they left the courtroom.

Gary P. Naftalis, a law-yer for Mr. Gupta, said that his client would ap-peal the verdict. “This is only Round 1,” he said.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who presided over the case, set Mr. Gupta free on bail until his Oct. 18 sentencing. He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, but will probably serve less time. Mr. Rajaratnam is serv-ing an 11-year jail term.

Mr. Gupta, a native of Kolkata, India, was orphaned as a teenager. After earning an engi-neering degree, he moved to the United States to attend Harvard Business School on a scholarship. He joined McKinsey in the early 1970s and in 1994 was elected global head.

In 2007, Mr. Gupta retired from McKinsey and became a highly sought director at public compa-nies, joining the boards of Gold-man, Procter & Gamble and the parent company of American Air-lines. In recent years, Mr. Gupta had also devoted his time to hu-manitarian causes, raising millions of dollars to combat AIDS, tuber-culosis and malaria.

“Having lived a lifetime of hon-esty and integrity, he didn’t turn into a criminal in the seventh de-cade of an otherwise praiseworthy life,” said Mr. Naftalis, articulating one of Mr. Gupta’s defenses.

Yet the government, which was represented by federal prosecutors Reed Brodsky and Richard C. Tar-lowe, countered with evidence that Mr. Gupta brazenly divulged con-fidential board discussions at both Goldman and Procter & Gamble.

“Here’s a man who came to this country and was a wonderful ex-ample of the American dream,” said the jury’s foreman, Richard Lepkowski, an executive for a non-profit organization. “We wanted to believe that the allegations weren’t

true, but at the end of the day the evidence was just overwhelming.”

Prosecutors built their case around phone re-cords, trading logs, in-stant messages and e-mails. Mr. Gupta would participate in Goldman board calls, and after-ward quickly call Mr. Ra-jaratnam, the founder of the Galleon Group. Mr. Rajaratnam would then trade shares in Goldman.

The government also presented three telephone conversations between Mr. Rajaratnam and Gal-leon colleagues that were secretly recorded by the F.B.I. On those calls, Mr. Rajaratnam boasted that he had a source inside Goldman.

“I heard yesterday from somebody who’s on the board of Goldman Sachs that they are going to lose $2 per share,” Mr. Rajaratnam said on one

call, in October 2008.“McKinsey’s core business

principle is to guard the confiden-tial and private information of its clients,” said a former McKinsey executive, who spoke on the con-dition of anonymity. “It is mind-blowing that the guy who ran the firm for so many years could be going to jail for violating that prin-ciple.”

Mr. Gupta met Mr. Rajaratnam around 2007. Back then, Mr. Ra-jaratnam was at his peak, a bil-lionaire hedge fund manager with a superior investment record. For Mr. Gupta, who wanted to raise his profile in the lucrative world of money management, Mr. Rajarat-

nam was a top-notch connection.“Rajaratnam offered Gupta many

benefits,” said the prosecutor, Mr. Tarlowe, in his summation. “What was good for Rajaratnam and Gal-leon was good for Gupta.”

Together, the men helped start a private equity firm focused on India. Mr. Gupta invested at least $13 million in Galleon hedge funds and took on a fund-raising role at the firm.

During a telephone conversa-tion between Mr. Rajaratnam and Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey executive who has pleaded guilty to insider trading, the two gos-siped about Mr. Gupta’s ambitions to make more money, focusing on his job at Kohlberg Kravis.

“I think he wants to be in that circle,” said Mr. Rajaratnam, in August 2008. “That’s a billionaire circle, right?”

Mr. Gupta’s friends adamantly dispute the notion that he was driven by material gain. At the trial, his private banker at JPMor-gan Chase pegged his family’s net worth at $130 million, in addition to his home in Westport, Conn., a waterfront mansion once owned by the retail executive J. C. Pen-ney.

“I don’t know who came up with this business that Rajat had bil-lionaire envy,” said Anil Sood, a childhood friend from India who now lives in Virginia. “He has al-ways been quite content with his wealth.”

But one of the jurors, Ronnie Sesso, a youth advocate at the Administration for Children’s Ser-vices in Manhattan, had a different view.

“What did Mr. Gupta get by giv-ing Raj this information?” said Ms. Sesso. “A need for greed.”

Rajat K. Gupta leaving the federal court in Manhattan after his guilty verdict on Friday.

Rajat Gupta to Appeal After Conviction of Conspiracy and Securities Fraud


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BY MAHENDRA VEDNEW DELHI (New Strait

Times): Mukherjee, 77, India’s multitasking finance minister and a Congress veteran is set to be the next president.

A contest is on the cards, but he has the numbers and cross-party goodwill. Even the communists opposed to his economic policies may support him.

The opposition National Demo-cratic Alliance (NDA), divided on the wisdom to oppose him, may still put up a fight, given the cur-rent unpopularity of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and to keep its allies together, with an eye on the 2014 parliamentary poll. Mukherjee leaves midway the task of reviving Asia’s third largest economy that has, in the last few months, been battered by policy gridlock, inflation and slug-gish investment.

After surviving the 2007-08 global slowdown at a high rate, growth has skidded to a nine-year low of 5.3 per cent.

Criticism from investors and financial institutions, the pace of reforms and the economy’s open-ing up to global competition have together marred the reputation Mukherjee has enjoyed through four decades as minister and seven annual budgets.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may continue this task, pos-sibly temporarily. He was finance

minister during India’s 1991 crisis, initiating reforms that unleashed two decades of faster growth.

Mukherjee’s elevation boosts the fledgling im-age of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and of the UPA-II government that has been embroiled in scams and is accused of po-litical mismanagement. Ironically, his departure weakens it; he cannot be easily replaced.

As the government’s principal troubleshooter, Mukherjee chairs 25 Groups of Ministers (GOMs) that substitute the cabinet, go into and decides on most matters that impact on the econ-omy, politics and secu-rity. That work will now have to be divided.

Never a mass leader, Mukherjee, however, has been a political firefighter. A persuasive negotiator, he has ev-eryone’s respect -- enough to be called dada or elder brother.

One person who has not ad-dressed him thus in years is Mama-ta Banerjee, chief minister of his home state, West Bengal. Angry at Mukherjee not sanctioning a Rs20 billion (RM1.14 billion) bailout

package, she has campaigned vo-ciferously against him.

Defying the son-of-the-soil sen-timent, her Trinamool Congress, although a UPA constituent, is set to oppose Mukherjee, or abstain, to retain its foothold in the alli-ance.

The run-up to the July 19 elec-tion has been acrimonious, what with the current anti-government

mood. The national par-ties, Congress and op-position Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been virtually sidelined.

Winners of state-level elections since last year, they flexed muscles to the chagrin of the bigger parties. Thus it was that Mamata had a brief po-litical cohabitation with Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Uttar Pradesh boss.

For two days, the Mulayam-Mamata duo held centre stage. Mamta heard out UPA chief Sonia Gandhi’s preference for Mukherjee or the current vice-president, Hamid Ansari, then quickly met Yadav and emerged, alone, with three new names.

A shocked Congress took a full day to react to Mamata’s audacious demand that Manmohan himself be fielded. She

also proposed former speaker Somnath Chatterjee, her commu-nist foe. That was his turn to be shocked.

Former president APJ Abdul Ka-lam today told the Bharatiya Janata Party that his conscience doesn’t allow him to contest for the post of President of India, leaving the party and Mamata Banerjee in a

lurch.The BJP on Monday made sev-

eral efforts to persuade Kalam to contest for the top post, Sudheen-dra Kulkarni was sent as a emis-sary to him, later Advani called him up to convince him.

On Friday before UPA an-nounced its presidential candidate, Kalam had said that he will take reight decision at right time.

“It is a good idea, will take right decision at right time,” APJ Abdul Kalam told reporters on his name being suggested for President.

TV news channels report, Kalam is being pressurised by several po-litical parties to contest polls.

After being snubbed by the UPA, TMC chief Mamata Baner-jee is still keen on Kalam’s name for presidential poll.

After UPA announced its deci-sion to back Pranab, Mamata Ba-nerjee said the game is not over yet. She even launched a facebook page seeking support to back Ka-lam.

“I have said. I won’t say any-thing more. In my life, I do what I say and if someone thinks the game is over, it’s not that”, she told reporters.

Mamata is expected to formally announce party’s candidate for presidential polls. Mamata has is-sued specific diktat to ensure no cross-voting. A formal announce-ment will be made on Monday evening.

Pranab Mukherjee has been an erstwhile “jack of all trades” loyalist for the Congress party.

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BANGALORE: Pascal Ma-zurier, a French diplomat, was held by the police here on Thursday evening on charges of raping his three-and-half-year-old daughter. A deputy head of chancery in the Consulate of France here, the 39-year-old diplomat was let off on Friday under the Consulate’s custody.

Mazuerie was detained on the basis of a complaint filed on Thursday by his wife, Suja Jones Mazurier (37), a native of Kerala. Mrs. Mazurier’s complaint was accompanied by a medical report from the Col-laborative Child Response Unit (CCRU) of the Baptist Hospital here.

The police, however, re-fused to register an FIR against the diplomat and demanded “clinching evidence” that the act was committed by him, al-leged Geetha Menon, lawyer representing the victim. Finally on Friday noon, the FIR was registered under Section 376 of the IPC at the High Grounds police station.

Subsequent tests conducted on the child at the State-run Bowring Hospital on Friday afternoon confirmed sexual abuse. However, forensic ex-perts at the hospital said that it might be difficult to link the rape to the father since too much time had elapsed.

Ms. Mazurier alleged that she herself had been a “victim of severe domestic violence”.

The couple have three chil-dren, a seven-year-old boy, the alleged victim, and a 20-month-old toddler.

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French diplomat Pascal Mazu-rier was taken by Bangalore Police.

BY JIM YARDLEYMUMBAI, India — Men

and women here in India’s largest city, a congested, humanity-soaked metropo-lis of roughly 20 million residents, would seem bound by at least one com-mon misery: far too many people sharing far too few toilets.

But there is a difference — unlike men, women of-ten have to pay to urinate. So for months, social ad-vocates like Minu Gandhi have canvassed the city, arguing that this dispar-ity amounts to blatant dis-crimination and asking women to start demanding a right most of them had never contemplated: the Right to Pee.

“We all feel this is a ba-sic civic right,” Ms. Gandhi said, “a human right.”

India has long had a sanita-tion problem. Recent census data found that more than half of Indian households lacked a toilet, a rate that has actually worsened in the past decade despite India’s grow-ing wealth, as slums and other substandard housing have prolif-erated in growing cities. Yet what is unique about the so-called Right to Pee campaign — whose catchy title was coined by the Mumbai media and which now appears to be on the verge of achieving some of its goals — is the argument that the bathroom in India is governed by a double standard.

Like men, women in villages of-ten must urinate outdoors, in fields. But unlike them, they sometimes endure taunting and even sexual assault. Many rural women relieve themselves in small groups, before dawn, to protect against harass-ment.

In Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, millions of people de-pend on public toilets, which are usually in dark and filthy buildings that operate as male-controlled outposts. The municipal govern-ment provides 5,993 public toi-lets for men, compared with only 3,536 for women. Men have an additional 2,466 urinals. (A 2009 study found an even greater im-balance in New Delhi, the national

capital, with 1,534 public toilets for men and 132 for women.)

Almost always, a male attendant oversees these toilets, collecting fees. Petty corruption is rampant in India, and public toilets are no exception: Men must pay to use a toilet but can use urinals free (based on the premise that urinals, usually just a wall and a drainage trench, do not need water). But women are regularly charged to urinate, despite regulations saying they should not be.

“Even if you say you are only urinating, they say, ‘How do we know?’ ” said Yagna Parmar, an-other social activist involved in the campaign. “So they ask for money.”

At the northern rim of the city, inside a slum known as Shivaji Nagar, at least 350,000 people — perhaps twice that many by some estimates — live pressed together beside one of the city’s largest dumps. The exact number of pub-lic toilets is unclear but, by one es-timate, the ratio is no better than 1 toilet for every 300 people. Wom-en must adapt their daily routines: Many visit the bathroom early in the morning to avoid lines and leering. They avoid drinking much water. And they carry change.

On a recent broiling morning, Mohammad Nasibul Ansari sat at the counter in front of a decrepit public toilet, gripping 10 rupee notes in his hand. A salaried at-

tendant, Mr. Ansari said he did not charge anyone in the neigh-borhood — only outsiders — yet even as he spoke, a local woman walked up, wordlessly placed a 2 rupee coin on the counter and stepped into the women’s side of the small building.

Mr. Ansari said the city gov-ernment provided no money for maintenance and that he collected about 1,200 rupees, or $22, ev-ery day in toilet usage fees, from which he paid for electricity, water and cleaning.

“Do you really think what they are saying is true?” Usha Deshmukh, one of the Right to Pee advocates, derisively asked later. “They are cheating. They are eating all the money.”

Separately, a miniscandal erupt-ed in New Delhi last week when it was disclosed that the country’s Planning Commission had spent roughly $54,000 to refurbish its toilets. Reflecting the sensitivity in India over the issue, at least one critic argued that the money could have been better spent on public toilets.

The campaign began last year when a coalition of social advo-cates gathered from around the state of Maharashtra, which in-cludes Mumbai. Organizers in each city chose different issues, including domestic violence and equal access to water. The Mum-bai group considered campaigns

on housing, water or sanitation — all big problems in the city — before deciding on the Right to Pee.

Ms. Sheikh and other advocates saw an op-portunity to raise aware-ness among women. Women now constitute almost half the city’s work force, yet many of them work in jobs with no access to a toilet. In various parts of the city, including slums, activ-ists have gone door to door, collecting more than 50,000 signatures supporting their de-mands that the local government stop charg-ing women to urinate, build more toilets, keep them clean, provide

sanitary napkins and a trash can, and hire female attendants.

The toilet fees might be consid-ered nominal, ranging from 2 to 5 rupees (about 4 to 9 cents). Yet in India, the poverty line is so low that the government recently de-fined the urban poor as those liv-ing on less than 29 rupees a day.

“It’s expensive for me,” Shub-hangi Gamre said of the cost to visit the toilet. She lives in Shivaji Nagar and earns about $27 a month working in a tiny drugstore. “It cuts into our food money. How can we afford everything?”

Perhaps the months of canvass-ing and campaigning will pay off. Last week, social advocates met with city officials who told them of new plans to build hundreds of public toilets for women across the city. Some local legislators are now vowing to build toilets for women in every one of their districts. Nothing is official yet, and promises often do not become reality in Indian politics. But the activists feel momentum is now in their favor.

“Of course it’s a good feeling,” said Supriya Sonar, a member of the campaign, saying that the Right to Pee group is now lobby-ing for women to be hired in the proposed projects. “Our actual work starts now.”

Sruthi Gottipati contributed re-porting.

Campaign for End to Disparity in Public Urinals for Women

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labour department has threatened strict action against commercial establishments flouting the order.

However, malls in Noida have already begun mulling alternatives to keep business ticking, even if means incurring extra costs. “A clear picture will emerge only af-ter we receive the order. But eve-nings are peak hours in malls and we could use alternative sources of energy like gensets,” said Vikas Tyagi, GM of Shopprix Mall in Noida’s sector 62.

“We will harness power through diesel-run generators,” said Arch-

ana Browne, VP (Sales and Marketing), GIP Mall in sector 37 of Noida. “Visi-tors’ interests are of prima-ry importance to us and we will not let them return dis-satisfied,” she added. “This is an impractical order.

In this heat, people venture out only in the evenings,” said Shantanu Srivastava, manager of Phoenix Mall in Lucknow.

The order will be re-viewed after a fortnight by when monsoon is likely to reach UP, providing some relief on the power front. Average per-day de-mand in the state soared to 12,000mw in June, 1,000 mw more than the previous peak demand.

Official sources said the order could be withdrawn if the rains arrive anytime over the next 15 days.

The district administration of Gautam Budh Nagar is yet to re-ceive the order, but is aware of it. “We did not receive the orders to-day as it is a Sunday. We are aware such an order has been passed and we expect to receive it on Mon-day. We will pass it on to malls and owners of commercial estab-lishments immediately,” said Atal Kumar, assistant labour commis-sioner, Gautam Budh Nagar.


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LONDON (Guardian): Paki-stan could launch a nuclear strike on India within eight seconds, claimed an army general in Islam-abad whose warning is described in the latest volume of Alastair Campbell’s diaries.

The general asked Tony Blair’s former communications director to remind India of Pakistan’s nuclear capability amid fears in Islamabad that Delhi was “determined to take them out”.

Britain became so concerned about Pakistan’s threat that Blair’s senior foreign policy adviser, Sir David Manning, later warned in a paper that Pakistan was prepared to “go nuclear”.

The warnings are relayed by Campbell in a section in his latest diaries, “The Burden of Power”. The diaries start on the day of the 9/11 attacks and end with Camp-bell’s decision to stand down in August 2003 after the Iraq war.

The nuclear warnings came during a visit by Blair to the sub-continent after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Campbell was told about the eight-second threat over a dinner in Islamabad on October 5, 2001 hosted by Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan’s president.

Campbell writes: “At dinner I

Pak General: Nuke vs. India in 8 Seconds

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani po-lice commander has ordered tens of thousands of pot-bellied offi-cers to diet or quit frontline duties, officials said Monday.

Habibur Rehman, police chief (Inspector General) in the coun-try’s most populous province Pun-jab, has ordered 175,000 person-nel not to allow their waistlines to exceed 38 inches, spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar told AFP.

“I’m on a diet and if I can do it, why can’t you?” she quoted Reh-man as telling officials last month in the province. At least 50 per cent of Punjab police are overweight, Ghazanfar said.

A local daily said the number of overweight officers in the city of Rawalpindi stood at more than 77 per cent, adding that “policemen appear to be losing the battle of

the bulge”.Police said officers had been

given until June 30 to shape up and those deemed too fat from July 1 would not be given jobs in the field.

“Police officials are joining gyms, jogging and doing other ex-ercise, including a lot of running to become thin and slim,” Ghazanfar said.

Overweight officers are inef-fective and “cannot chase ban-dits, robbers and other criminals properly”, she added, blaming the problem on under-staffing.

The country is ranked 165 of 194 on the Forbes list of fattest coun-tries, with 22.2 per cent of the pop-ulation considered overweight.

Local reports have put the figure at 25 per cent.

Pak Police Told to Diet or Quit

ISLAMABAD (Dawn): The Na-tional Assembly would elect the new prime minister on June 22, DawnNews reported.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Khurshid Shah on Wednesday told reporters that a session of the National Assembly would be convened on Friday at 5:30 pm to elect the prime minis-ter.

Shah said nomination papers for premiership could be submitted on Thursday.

Media reports have been specu-lating on three possible picks, all members of the outgoing Cabinet.

Ahmed Mukhtar, minister for water and power, and textiles min-ister Makhdoom Shahabuddin, ap-pear to have emerged as the front

runners.After the verdict, PPP secretary

general Jahangir Badar and leader Qamar Zaman Kaira had said that the party had authorised President Zardari to take a decision after consulting the coalition partners.

Speaking to Dawn, a coalition party leader who attended Tues-day’s meeting at the Presidency in the aftermath of the Supreme Court verdict disqualifying Yousuf Raza Gilani claimed that no spe-cific name had been discussed for the next prime minister, except for those which had already been in circulation in the media since the announcement of the court’s ver-dict.

The meeting did take notice of speculations about various names,

Mr Gilani was the second longest serving prime minister with 1,494 days in power after Liaquat Ali Khan (1,524 days).

including outgoing ministers Mukhtar (water and power), Sha-habuddin (textiles), Syed Khur-shid Ahmed Shah (religious af-fairs) and Kaira (information and broadcasting), but no decision had been taken, one of the participants of the meeting told Dawn.

The ongoing political crisis in the country is the result of Tues-day’s verdict of the Supreme Court which disqualified Gilani from holding a seat in the parlia-ment from the date of his convic-tion in the contempt of court case (April 26).

The verdict on the petitions against the NA Speaker Fehmida Mirza’s ruling also sent the gov-ernment packing.

Gilani Out, PPP Picks New PM on Friday

was between two five-star gen-erals who spent most of the time listing atrocities for which they held the Indians responsible, kill-ing their own people and trying to blame ‘freedom fighters’. They were pretty convinced that one day there would be a nuclear war because India, despite its vast pop-

ulation and despite being seven times bigger, was unstable and de-termined to take them out.

“When the time came to leave, the livelier of the two generals asked me to remind the Indians: ‘It takes us eight seconds to get the missiles over,’ then flashed a huge toothy grin.”


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JAKARTA: India’s bad-minton star Saina Nehwal on Sunday said staying relaxed in crunch situations helped her win two titles in as many weeks and she is not thinking about the London Olympics yet.

Saina beat the formidable Li Xuerui of China 13-21, 22-20, 21-19 to win her third Indone-sia Open title in four years. The World No.5 had won the Thai-land Open Grand Prix Gold event in Bangkok last Sunday

“It has been a long two weeks and I just can’t believe that I have won two titles in this period. I have not yet started thinking about the Olympics but the victories have come at a very crucial time,” Saina told IANS after getting over the line against the reigning All Eng-land and Asian Champion.

“The main reason I’ve done well in the last tournaments is that I’ve stayed relaxed and played the pressure points well,” Saina said.

Saina lost the first game in 15 minutes and was two match points down after conceding six straight points in the second from leading 18-14. The 22-year-old said he was relaxed even while was at the brink of defeat and staying patient on her opponent’s match points enabled her to level the match

Saina Beats Xuerei forIndonesia Open Title

Saina Nehwal is getting ready for the London Olympics with wins in Thailand and Indonesia.

Sri Lanka 243 for 8 (Sangakkara 97, Jayawardene 40, Hafeez 2-37, Tanvir 2-43) beat Pakistan 199 (Ali 81, Misbah 57, Perera 4-42) by 44 runs

BY ABHISHEK PUROHITCOLOMBO (ESPN Cricinfo):

Pakistan have been abysmal chas-ers in recent years in ODI cricket. Three hours of accumulation of-fered hope that tonight wouldn’t end in another failed pursuit. And then, as if all the accumulation had stretched their patience too taut, the dam broke. From 166 for 2 chasing 244, Pakistan disintegrat-ed to 179 for 9. In less than four overs. Thisara Perera followed up his 6 for 44 in the second ODI with a hat-trick. Pakistan registered six ducks, and their 15th defeat in 18 chases of 240-plus in the last three years.

In the end, the match was decid-ed in the two batting Powerplays, with Sri Lanka surging in both. A cramping Azhar Ali, who became the first player to carry his bat in ODIs in more than a decade, and Misbah-ul-Haq had put on 113 for the third wicket, leaving Pakistan with 78 to get from 76 deliver-ies. In the 37th over, the second of the batting Powerplay, Misbah refused a tight single with Ali hav-ing run more than half way up the pitch. The effort required to get back worsened Ali’s cramp, mak-ing it harder for him to accelerate, like Kumar Sangakkara had earlier after a similar slow fifty.

Three balls later, Misbah depart-ed for an efficient 57, with Nuwan Kulasekara taking a sharp low catch at mid-off off Lasith Mal-inga’s bowling. Umar Gul had put down a much easier chance at long-on off Sangakkara, who went on to add 62 off 48. Malinga stepped it up after Misbah’s departure, peg-ging Umar Akmal back with three successive sharp bouncers. Akmal drove at and edged his fourth, off Kulasekara, to the wicketkeeper.

The fight had gone out of Paki-stan. Younis Khan, held back till No. 6, edged a rising Perera de-livery to the keeper. Shahid Afridi either explodes or implodes. He did the latter, punching his first ball to extra cover. Sarfraz Ahmed

obliged Perera with the hat-trick, guid-ing him to slip. The persevering Ali was reduced to a specta-tor, all his hard work undone in minutes of chaos.

Like Sri Lanka, Pakistan hadn’t found run-scoring easy in the first half of their chase, but Ali and Misbah kept the visitors going, taking their team to 100 four overs ear-lier than Sri Lanka had.

Pakistan’s top or-der continued its wobbly ways when Mohammad Hafeez collected his fifth duck in his last 12 international in-nings, pulling his fifth delivery from Malinga to long leg. Kulasekara kept Ali and Asad Shafiq under pressure with a probing opening spell of five overs for just 16 runs.

Still, like Sangak-kara and Tillakara-tne Dilshan had for Sri Lanka, Ali and Shafiq ensured Pakistan weren’t bogged down com-pletely. It was the left-arm spinner Sa-jeewa Weerakoon, bowling for the first time in international cricket in his sec-ond ODI, who got the breakthrough with his 10th deliv-ery, trapping Shafiq in front on 25 with a slider. The combination of Ali and Misbah was never going to blaze away, but it made sure the asking-rate stayed below six, and under control, finding the bound-ary just when required. Little did they know of the pandemonium that was to ensue.

Not remotely on the same scale,

but Pakistan had fallen apart in the field too after being disciplined for more than three-fifths of Sri Lan-ka’s innings. Gul dropped Sangak-kara off Afridi, when on 35 off 82 deliveries. Then came the batting Powerplay. Sangakkara carted 62 off his last 48 deliveries, and Sri Lanka reached the kind of total Pakistan have struggled to chase in recent years.

In 38 ODIs, Thisara Perera has been Man of the Match fi ve times.

Perera’s Hat-trick Helps Sri Lanka Beat Pak in 4th ODITill Sangakkara was

put down in the 31st over, Sri Lanka had been tied down, first by Pakistan’s fast bowlers, and then by their spin-ners. Sangakkara and Dilshan did add 55 for the second wicket, but they were hard-earned runs, and Dilshan’s de-parture immediately af-ter the first drinks break meant Sri Lanka had to continue with their cautious approach. The absence of scoring op-portunities consumed Dinesh Chandimal as well, after which the ex-pected rain came down to force a 70-minute break.

Pakistan’s spinners continued with the run-squeeze after the rain interruption. The next few overs were quiet, but Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene took complete charge in the batting Powerplay, which went for 49. Gul, who was feeling some pain in his right index finger, was to suffer the most. He had given just 16 off his first five overs; he disappeared for 26 in two overs in the batting Powerplay. Sangakkara stepped out to launch the first ball of Gul’s second spell for a straight six. When Gul overdid the bouncer in the next over, Sangak-kara pulled him for six more over fine leg.

Sangakkara dominat-ed the 110-run fourth-

wicket partnership with Jayawar-dene, who played some innovative strokes. He was quick to lap-sweep and sweep the spinners, and even reverse-pulled Saeed Ajmal for four over point. Pakistan managed to dismiss the duo in the 44th and 45th overs to limit the damage, but most of it had already been in-flicted. Pakistan’s self-destruction later sealed the issue.

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