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“The prime minister,despite having eyes,is unable to see the

democratic fight and spirits ofTelangana people for a sepa-rate state. The prime minis-ter’s statement is evidencethat the Congress has scantrespect for democratic valuesand rights of the people ofTelangana. The Telanganasociety will bury the Congressand the prime minister. Thisis my curse,” The TRS foun-der and leader K Chan dra -sekhar Rao spurted in angerand frustration at PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh’sstance yesterday that aTelangana was not possible atthis juncture.

Asking the people ofTelangana not to be disheart-ened over the PM’s statement,Chandrasekhar Rao said that hewas with them and would startall types of agitations to achieveTelangana.

The mood in the TRS campon Sunday, a day after the PMdropped the bombshell, wassombre but agitated. The Tleaders are meeting individual-ly and would hold a meeting ofall like-minded forces soon.What gleamed through the talkswith them points to a resolu-tion to step up agitation in amore forceful way.

K Taraka Rama Rao, TRSMLA and son of KCR whilespeaking to Postnoon onSunday morning said that thePM was showing more concernfor Kingfisher Airlines, whichwas owned by liquor baronVijay Mallya than for the senti-ments of Telangana people.

The Nizamabad MP MadhuYashki said, “The statement bythe prime minister is like break-ing news of a death coolly. I willtalk to other leaders to proceedon the issue.”

“The Prime Minister’s state-ment is highly irresponsible,”said the TRS MLA EtelaRajendra. Convener of theTelangana Joint ActionCommittee Kodandaram saidthat the time has come to“bury” the Congress. “Onlythen will Telangana beachieved,” he said.

Meanwhile, the prime min-ister has made one party happywith his statement. BJP leaderKishan Reddy said jubilantlythat the “T is possible onlyunder the NDA in 2014.” Reddysaid further, “If you need anymore proof that the Congress isplaying games, the PM’s stancehas come handy, said the BJPleader, Kishan Reddy. It’s nowquite evident that the Congresswill not give Telangana.”

(With inputsfrom Inkeshaf Ahmed)

T camp is preparing for an unrelentingstruggle after the PM’s statement

TWO FACES OF INNOCENCE We’ll buryCong: TRS

D Sree Charan

The CBI has, in a deci-sive step towards deal-ing with the vexedquestion of OBC min-

ing case, today arrested the for-mer Andhra Pradesh Mines andGeology director VD Rajagopalon charges of granting miningleases to Obulapuram MiningCompany. However, his exactrole in the illegal mining case isstill not officially declared bythe CBI sleuths.

It is known that several

times after the arrest of GaliJanardhan Reddy, the CBI offi-cials had questioned VDRajagopal and Y Srilakshmi,former Mining Secretary inconnection with the allegedviolation of rules for grantingmining leases to OMC duringtheir tenure. On Saturdaymorning, VD Rajagopal wastaken to Dilkusha GuestHouse for questioning.According to sources, late inthe evening he along withsome of the CBI officials wentto his house and returned to

the guest house after collect-ing some clothes. On Sundaymorning CBI declared hisarrest and shifted him to CBIoffice in Koti. It is expectedthat he would be producedbefore the Magistrate in hishouse this afternoon.

After the arrest of GaliJanardhan Reddy onSeptember 5 from Bellary inKarnataka, the investigatingagency told the special courtthat the illegal mining was car-ried out in collusion with sev-eral public servants.

CBI arrests VDRajagopal, morein the line of fire

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Why net connections are more in CityHyderabad hurtles past Bangalore to stay connected.

Small office, home office and SME concepts giveHyderabad the extra edge. The Internet and Mobile

Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB survey said thatthe cla imed Internet users were 2.2 million each in

both cities, the actual users were 17 lakh in Bangalore,while the number is 18 lakh in Hyderabad

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 2Spirit of Twin CitiesPage Two

A Saye Sekhar

HYDERABAD: If left and rightth umbs of a teen are busy danc-ing on the keys of a smartphone,you can be sure they are postinga comment on Facebook or tw -eeting. A love story could be blos-soming or flourishing or an affaircould be breaking. A head hon-cho could be checking her busi-ness mail on his Blackberry or anexecutive must be navigating tofind a location on his iPhone.

What’s common among all ofthem? They are all connected th -r ough the internet. Hundreds ofstudents in engineering collegesstay glued to the net, thanks tofree Wi-Fi offered on their collegecampuses.

Hyderabad proudly surpas -sed India’s Silicon Valley, Ban ga -lore, in number of internet users.

The Internet and MobileAssociation of India (IAMAI) andIMRB survey said that the cla -imed internet users were 2.2 mil-lion each in both cities, the actualusers were 17 lakh in Bangalore,while the number is 18 lakh inHyderabad. Of course, Mumbai,Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai areahead of Hyderabad.

Youths drive growthThe survey finds that while inter-net usage within the older men’ssegment (35-58) along withwomen continues to gauge con-stant stability, the newer genera-tion dominates the usage. Morethan 75 per cent of internet usageis still driven by youngsters.

Schoolchildren have startedusing internet more than theyhave ever had in the past decadeowing to the now existent e-learning services and education-al information available on theinternet. In the 30 cities, wherethe survey was conducted, 89 percent use it to access emails, 71per cent use it for social network-ing activities, 64 per cent access itto search education-related con-tent, 55 per cent use internet forchatting purposes and 49 percent access videos, music andimages.

Experts in the domain feelstaying in touch with peers andfriends through social network-ing sites moved from the being afavourite pastime or hobby to ahabit and in some cases businessfor many.

e-payments make lifehassle-freeOfficials spokesperson of TataIndicom says that the basic rea-

son for the spurt in internetusage is the manifold growth inavenues (touch points) and alsonecessities. For instance, manypeople are logging on to internetto make bill payments on line. Itis lot more easier and one can

avoid travel and standing in longqueues. This trend is catching upin the city.

He also goes on to add that alarge chunk of student commu-nity is making use of the internetfor studying online, taking online

tuitions and preparing for exam-ination and project reports. Evenschoolchildren are using internetfor this purpose.

Internet penetrationholds the key

Wi-Fi hubs and wireless internetconnections by almost everynational service provider andtransformation of internet ontomobile phones and the smart-phone revolution have con-tributed their might to the rise ininternet user base. Hyderabad’squick adaptability to the ever-changing landscape of internettechnologies perched the cityamong the top eight metros. Veryhigh speeds — from 256 kbpsand 512 kbps to 3.2 mbps and 6.2mbps — revolutionised theaccess, he observed.

P Sridhar Reddy, managingdirector of Pioneer Online, one ofthe earliest internet serviceproviders in the city, feels thatgrowth of internet penetration inHyderabad is not a big surprise.The activism of cable operators,who have been doing a far betterjob than many service providers,have really taken internet to thedoorstep of common man.

The penetration is very highand it is because of increasedparticipation of people in socialnetworking sites. “After all, inter-net is available wherever we are,”he observed. Pioneer Onlinesupports the bandwidth of sub-providers of internet service.

Allipuram Rajasekhar Reddy,Managing Director of BRIO Fa -ctors group, which is mainly intointernet technologies, says thepr e sence of large student comm -unity, large Telugu diaspora stay-ing abroad and wanting to stayconnected with their near anddear, and, of course, social netw -orking—“as we are outgoing peo-ple” — have shown their impact.

He recalled Hyderabad aloneused to have 9,000 cyber cafesand his friend Mohan Reddy hadlaunched 45 cafes with an invest-ment of Rs3 crore some 10 yearsago in the city. That shows theenthusiasm of people here, hepoints out.

Availability of hardware foran affordable cost, telecom revo-lution, and now tablets haveimprovised internet craze into anopportunity and then necessity.

Managing director of BeamTelecom Brijesh Chandwani sa -id: "Small office, home officeand SME concepts are veryactive in Hyderabad. While alarge section of youth aremigrating from ot h er parts ofthe State to the city, they are alsodriving the growth of internetmostly in entertainment-relatedcontent — music, videos andmovies. The spike in internetuse only going to grow here."

Tweet, like, socialise or converseHyderabad hurtles pastBangalore to stay connected.Small office, home office andSME concepts giveHyderabad the extra edge

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 3Campaigns, hard news and spirit of Twin CitiesHyper Local

HYDERABAD: The Centraland State governments haveare likely to have their handsfull as more Telangana state-hood voices join the fray.Telangana Praja Rajyam, a newpolitical party, was launchedunder the leadership ofSupreme Court lawyerVenugopal.

Freedom fighter KondaLakshman Bapuji, TelanganaTDP leaders Errabelli DayakaraRao and MotkupalliNarasimhulu were present.Some of the leaders, who hadearlier worked for the PRP of

Chiranjeevi have also joinedthe new party.

Speaking on the occasion,Konda Lakshman Bapuji saidall the political parties wereworking for their own selfishends and none of them wastotally devoted to the cause ofTelangana. He called upon par-ties to keep their flags andagendas aside. He said time hasnow come when political lead-ers should decide whetherTelangana or their parties wereimportant to them. He saidthere was need for all to worktogether.

New Praja Rajyamlaunched to fight for TKonda Lakshman Bapuji calls upon political parties to set aside their individualagendas and unite in the fight for a separate Telangana state

HYDERABAD: The erstwhilePRP leader Parakala Prabhakarhas thrown a challenge at theTelengana agitators to come toopen debate on why aTelangana State is untenable.He said “VishalandhraMahasabha,” the forum for aunited Andhra, that began hereon Saturday, would hold opendebates in Visakhapatnam,Tirupati, Karimnagar andWarangal soon.

Prabhakar was speakingafter the pro-Telanganaactivists disturbed theMahasabha that began at the

Press Club on Saturday. “Theyare timid fellows who cannotanswer our questions,” heremarked.

The former PRP leader,now with the Congress, saidpeople indulge in violencewhen they can not respond toqueries reasonably. “Violenceis the consequence of failure ofreason,” he said. No amount ofacrimony can bring Telanganaand he wanted the T-leaders tounderstand the need for a unit-ed State rather than smallregions which will only harmeverybody's prospects, he said.

T champions disturbUnited Andhra forumParakala challenges pro-Telangana leaders toopen debate on viability of separate State

HYDERABAD: The HinduVahini has cast aspersions onthe city police officers who,they said, are hand-in-glovewith the MIM.

Hindu Vahini State presi-dent B Rajavardhan Reddytold media on Saturday thatthe police have been harass-ing the Hindu Vahini workersat the behest of MIM chief,who was acting as “de factoruler of the Hyderabad city.”

The MIM leaders were alsocoercing officials of the labourdepartment and GreaterHyderabad MunicipalCorporation not to take up

drive against child labour andillegal constructions respec-tively in the Old City.

Rajavardhan Reddy saidthat on November 10, unrulyelements attacked the“Karthika Pournami” functionheld by the RSS at Rajiv Nagar,Erragadda. But, the policehave failed to take actionagainst the attackers andremained silent spectators.

He said the Vahini hadpetitioned city police com-missioner AK Khan onNovember 8 opposing the visitand participation of FranklynGraham in the City Children

festival, which began onNovember 9.

In a shocking move, on thesame afternoon, the policearrested Hindu Vahini work-ers. He said that they firstthought it to be preventivearrests in connection with theFranklyn Graham Childrenfestival, but later came toknow that they were takeninto custody in connectionwith sporadic incidents of vio-lence that took place atKachiguda, Baghlingampallyand Bowenpally.”

Reddy that the HinduVahini State vice-president

Mallesh Yadav and treasurerSrinivas were among thosearrested.

The city police had beenresorting to such illegal arreststo please the MIM leaders, healleged.

He also suspected that themischievous plan hatched byhidden forces was the reasonbehind sporadic incidents inthe city.

Rajavardhan Reddyappealed to the police to beimpartial and conduct a thor-ough investigation into theincidents to find the real cul-prits.

Children with visual impairments, along with their families, take part in the 10th annual “Funcamp for Visually Impaired Children” organised by the Vision Rehabilitation Centres of LV PrasadEye Institute at Jalagam Vengal Rao Park, Punjagutta on Saturday.

Cops foisting cases on us: Hindu Vahini

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3. A parent-child meet on child-hood glaucoma on November14, 10am to 1pm. At LVPrasad Eye Institute.

4. A talk on diabetes and itscomplications for doctors onNovember 14, 1.30pm to 3pm.at Yashoda Hospital,Somajiguda.

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7. A public awareness lectureon diabetes by Dr RamanBoddula and team onNovember 14, 2pm to 3 pm.At conference hall, KIMSHospital.

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9.Exhibition on diabetes toeducate people about the dis-ease on November 14 from2pm to 8pm at Dr Mohan’sDiabetes Centre, LowerTankbund.

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Dario Thuburn

ROME: Italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi quit power onSaturday to cheering from acrowd of thousands in Rome af -t er a wave of market panic thatshook the eurozone and bro -ught his long rule to an end.

Berlusconi submitted his res-ignation to President Gior gioNapolitano, triggering an explo-sion of joy in the Italian capitalwith people uncorking bottles ofchampagne, dancing in thestreets and honking car horns.

“I am deeply embittered,”the 75-year-old Berlusconi,who has been in power for 10 ofthe past 17 years, told reportersafter he was greeted followinghis last cabinet meeting withshouts of “Buffoon!” and “GoHome!”

“Ciao! And above all don’tcome back!” shouted one man,while another declared: “We arevery, very happy!”

“We’re all delighted. We’vehad enough of this person whoalways acted in his own inter-

ests. Italy is headed for a betterfuture,” said 50-year-oldTommaso Romito, muffled upin a white scarf on a cold nightin Rome.

Napolitano said he wouldhold consultations with allpolitical forces until around1700 GMT on Sunday, after

which he is expected to nomi-nate former EU commissionerMario Monti as head of a newtransition government.

The outgoing premier’sannouncement this week thathe would resign following par-liamentary approval of a pack-age of economic reforms that

he had promised the EuropeanUnion prompted fears of a pro-longed political crisis.

International MonetaryFund chief Christine Lagarde,US President Barack Obamaand French President NicolasSarkozy have all called on Italyto move quickly to form a newgovernment instead of declar-ing early elections.

Speaking on the eve of anAsia-Pacific summit in Hawaii,Obama said: “There is still workto be done in the broader Eur -opean community to providemarkets a strong assurance thatcountries like Italy will be able tofinance their debt.”

In a tumultuous parliamen-tary session that voted througheconomic reforms includingstate asset sell-offs and a liber-alisation of the labour market,opposition lawmakers spoke oftheir relief at Berlusconi’s exit.

“We hope today marks thebeginning of a new spring inItaly,” said Massimo Donadi, alawmaker from the oppositionItaly of Values party.

Dario Franceschini of themain opposition DemocraticParty said: “Today the curtainfalls on a long and painful phaseof Italian political history.

In the cold streets of centralRome, crowds gathered chant-ing “Resign! Resign!” and hold-ing up placards reading: “ByeBye Silvio!”. Motorbikesstreamed past waving Italianflags and an impromptu choirsang: “Hallelujah!”

There were also smallergroups of Berlusconi support-ers who shouted “Silvio! Silvio!”.His supporters said they werebereft that their beloved leaderwas leaving.

His possible replacement,68-year-old economist Monti,has a formidable reputation: asthe former top trust-bustingbureaucrat in Brussels, he tookon US corporate giantsMicrosoft and General Electric.But has no experience in politi-cal office.

Under the current tim -etable, the next elections areonly due in 2013.

Sabrina Guillard

VIENNA: Austrian law student MaxSchrems may be just one of about 800million Facebook users, but that hasn’tstopped him tackling the US giantbehind the social networking websiteover its privacy policy.

The 24-year-old wasn’t sure what toexpect when he requested Facebookprovide him with a record of the per-sonal data it holds on him, but he cer-tainly wasn’t ready for the 1,222 pagesof information he received.

This included photos, messages andpostings on his Facebook page datingback years, some of which he thoughthe had deleted, the times he hadclicked “like” on an item, “pokes” of fel-low users, and reams of other informa-tion.

“When you delete something fromFacebook, all you are doing is hiding itfrom yourself,” Schrems told AFP in hishome city of Vienna.

Shocked, Schrems decided to act.Hitting a dead end in Austria, he tookhis complaints in August to the DataProtection Commissioner (DPC) inIreland, where Facebook has itsEuropean headquarters.

Believing that Facebook was contra-vening European Union law, and hadmore data on him that it is not releas-ing, Schrems has filed 22 complaintswith the DPC, details of which can be

found on his website:http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/.

“It’s a shock of civilisations.Americans don’t understand the con-cept of data protection. For them, theperson with the rights is the one withthe data. In continental Europe, wedon’t see things like that,” Schrems said.

“If a company wants to operate in acountry it has to abide by the rules.”

Facebook, he says, has agreed inGermany to stop keeping records ofusers’ IP addresses -- informationshowing where someone is connectedto the Internet -- but in other Europeancountries the practice continues.

“This is Facebook strategy. Whensomeone gets really annoyed, they backoff one step, but continue advancing inother ways,” Schrems said. The prob-lem is that most people don’t take thetime to read the small print inFacebook’s terms and conditions, hesays. “For the average citizen data pro-tection is too complex and subtle,” hesays, believing it is therefore theresponsibility of the state to ensure thatusers’ rights are upheld.

The David-versus-Goliath battle isis by no means the first time thatFacebook has come under fire.

In spite of everything, Schremsremains an avid Facebook user.

“Social networking sites are a greatinvention. Depriving yourself is not theanswer.”

Facebook on mat

Crowd cheers as Berlusconi quits

A woman celebrates in front of The Quirinale, the presidentialpalace in Rome, after the prime minister resigned on Saturday

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With many homeownersreluctant to buy a new housebefore they can sell their old onefor fear of being stuck payingtwo mortgages, especially in ahousing market slump, swap-ping provides some peace ofmind.

In a swap, you offload yourhouse at the same time that youtake possession of another.

Spain’s vbiggest propertysearch website, Idealista.com,had 1,200 properties availablefor swapping in its listings inSeptember, up from just 257 inthe same month of 2009.

While the number of proper-ties up for swapping represents atiny minority of the total of900,000 homes listed by the web-site that month, the increasenevertheless points to a dramat-ic increase in interest.

Since August 2009 there isone website, “Teapetecemi ca -sa.com” or “Doyouwantmyho -use.com”, which only lists prop-erties available for swapping. It

has 4,800 registered users withproperties listed.

“At a time when people don’thave access to credit becausebanks are not loaning, swappingcould be an option,” saidIdealista.com spokesmanFrancisco Inareta.

The number of mortgagesapproved in Spain’s once boom-ing housing sector plunged 44.2percent from a year earlier to46,980 in July, the lowest sincethe National Statistics Institutedata series began in 2003.

Mortgage approvals inchedup in August from the previousmonth by 1.5 percent to 47,696.But the total was still down by38.3 percent from a year earlier,the 16th consecutive monthshowing an annual decline.

Banks are reluctant as theirbad loan ratio has soared to a16-year-high as Spaniards,blighted an unemployment rateof 21.52 percent — the highestrate in the industrialised world— fall into arrears.

They also have far less mon -ey to loan because many are sh -ut out of inter-bank lending andbecause deposits have not gro -wn following three years of re c -ession and sluggish growth, sa idPaula Papp, a financial analyst at

management consultancy AFI.“Deposits in Spain are not

growing because of the macroe-conomic situation. The otherlever left to banks is to restrictcredit,” she said.

Banks are likely to tightenlending further because theyhave to raise billions of euros tomeet higher capital demandsimposed on European banks bythe European Union last month,she added.

Gabriel Aznar, the owner ofthe Aznar Inmobiliaria realestate agency which coordinatedLucero’s home swap, saidexchanging homes was a goodway to get around lenders’unwillingness to give mortgages.

“It is not the same thing toask for a mortgage for the valueof 85 or 90 percent of a house asit is to ask for just 50 percent withthe difference made up by thevalue of the property that I amswapping,” he said.

Negotiations in home swapscan be fraught, with ownersoften struggling to reach anagreement on the fair value oftheir properties, but Aznar hasclosed 30 deals since he got intothe business two years ago.

“I never though it would bethis successful,” he said.

Spaniards back to barter businessSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 6Sunday Special

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 20117Sunday Business

On November 10, when the clockstruck 11 am, every one – if not all,almost everyone – at the Satyam

Infocity, the corporate headquarters ofSatyam Computer Services Ltd, thought ofRamalinga Raju.

What could Raju be doing sitting athome on being released on bail? Someguessed that he could be browsingthrough the business news channels. A fewothers blurted out that it could be déclasséfor him to brood over what went wrong?So much does he know about Murphy’sLaw that ‘if anything can go wrong, it will’.

So, no point in crying over the proverbialspilt milk. Then, what?

Sources indicate that he is mulling athought of floating a business afresh.Savant businessman that he has provenhimself to be, he sprang surprises everytime – from converting his constructioncompany into a software firm to scalingdizzier heights. Raju was the most-sought-after guest to many.

Who are visiting Raju these days? Oneof the early birds was sensational directorfrom the tinsel town Ram Gopal Varma,giving rise to speculation that Raju’s storycould be the plot for his next movie. Butthat seems to be far-fetched.

After having spent 32 months in cus-tody, will the man, who spearheaded thesoftware movement in the State, sit idle?He is only buying time for something orthe other to happen in the corporatefraud case. Even without participatingovertly, “If he floats a company, I amready to join him,” said a senior execu-tive in Satyam. And, he says oneshouldn’t be taken by surprise, if a largechunk of them follow suit demonstratingherd culture, given the business acumenand leadership Raju can provide.

As if to lend credence to the specu-lation, his brother-in-law Srini Rajuof iLabs and Peepul Capital is exit-

ing from popular media house,Associated Broadcasting Company Ltd,which owns TV9. Srini Raju is a serialentrepreneur. He was the Chief OperatingOfficer of Satyam Computer Services Ltd.He was the founding CEO of CognizantTechnology Services too.

His company, iLabs Venture CapitalFund, was an investor in the pharma-ceutical chain, MedPlus. He was associ-ated with DQ Entertainment, UniverCellchain of mobile stores, and many othercompanies.

He was also part of ventures like SriCity special economic zone (SEZ) inChittoor district, Oriental Cuisines, andVSoft. If his existence in TV9 as aninvestor made news during the Satyamcrisis, his exit from the channel againmade news now. While he is regarded asa leader promoting successful enterpris-es, the available information indicatesthat he will once again take forward thethoughts of his brother-in-law.

His nephews, Teja and Rama Raju Jr(Ramalinga Raju’s sons) are anyhow

available to carry forward the businesseswhich most likely are to be conceived bytheir father. Srini is not only popular, butpowerful too.

The worldly wise Srini Raju is a phi-lanthropist and contributes his might tothe growth of education in premier B-schools like Indian School of Businessand IIIT. He is the glimmer of hope forthose looking forward for funding, whilehis critics call him as an arriviste businessman. Will he become a benefactor for theembattled Ramalinga Raju clan is only aconjecture of time.

Brothers-in-law

in arms

Second is betterWanna buy a car? Doesn’t suit

your budget? It doesn’t matter.Rajiv Dubey came up with an

answer and Mahindra rolled out its com-pany-owned outlet at the upmarketKondapur in the city, the other day.

Colour, mileage, upholstery, engineand even tyres – all are reconditioned togive a feeling that the customer chose abrand new car. Of course, the speedome-ter is not altered. It indeed indicates howmany kilometres of road the car stampedin its arduous journey before it reachedthe First Choice.

Permeating the air is happiness. Thatis the bonus for you, besides the car. Foryou it is a new possession and for the carit is a rebirth. And, what is more, you

select a car of your choicest brand andcolour, switch the gear and drive out.

The ratio of new to pre-owned carsin Andhra Pradesh is 1:1, while the pre-owned car market in Hyderabad stood atabout 4,000–4,500 cars a month.Mahindra FirstChoice Wheels plans to sellover 1,000 cars in Hyderabad by the endof this financial year.

We prefer seconds. As if to prove this,the size of the Indian pre-owned car mar-ket is estimated to be about 2.1 millionvehicles a year. This market is growing atthe rate of approximately 20 per centannually, indicating great potential fororganized players.

The new car market took a toll inOctober owing to a variety of reasons.

Poor, substandard

New entity

in offing

A SAYE SEKHAR

It is the season of rating agencies. OnAugust 5, when Standard and Poor (S&P)downgraded the rating of United States

of America (USA) from ‘AAA’ to AA+, themarkets bled. The baronial land of opportu-nities began making cold stares at theworld on being jolted. When economistsmade a beeline writing off the US of A, theunfazed Barrack Obama regime infusedconfidence into the system and kept thespirits revved up. Then came the Moody’sdowngrade of several Eurozone countries.For a while, it was ‘Greek’, if not Latin, tothe rest of the world. As the Greece debtcrisis overcast the skies of the 17-nationEurozone economy, Italy followed suit.Eurozone rattled and American and Asianmarkets faced the ripple effect.

Then Moody’s downgraded the rat-ings of Indian banks, while the S&P bol-stered the sagging morale of the Indianbanks by hiking their grading with a fewhours of gap.

Meanwhile, the S&P downgraded therating of France from ‘AAA’ by accident.Though it retracted in less than an hourand a half, the message that went out tosome subscribers spooked the investorsand rattled the debt-ridden Greece andItalian markets that have been suffocating.French Finance Minister Francois Baroin didhis best to quell fears, calling the error a“rather sho cking rumour of informationthat has no foundation.” Rating agenciesare part of the problem by entire world’seconomy.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 20118A critical look at games and players Play Field

England team director AndyFlower insists the Inter -national Cricket Council

must act quickly to maintain theprimacy of Test cricket.

Flower pointed to the retire-ment from the longest form ofthe game of Sri Lanka bowlerLasith Malinga in order to con-centrate on playing in lucrativeTwenty20 competitions such asthe Indian Premier League as adangerous sign. He also believesfinancial considerations cur-rently play too great a part in theplanning of fixture lists in theinternational game.

Asked if other top playersmay follow suit with Malinga, hetold the Independent: “There’s agreat danger. The rewards outthere for playing less cricket areobvious.”

Flower added: “The ICC haveto address that as a serious prob-lem looming in the future. They

have to act very responsibly andmake decisions on what’s goodfor the game in the future. I’mnot sure that’s the case at themoment.”

Flower said he could notunderstand why one-day inter-national series routinelystretched to seven matcheswhen Test series like the currentone between heavyweightsSouth Africa and Australia werelimited to two matches.

“The intent behind creatingthe fixture list has to be add -ressed,” he added. “We want to fi -nd out who the best side in theworld is and we want to have th -em competing in exciting condi-tions and exciting series but atthe moment the intent is a finan-cial one and that’s why the fixturelist is comprised (the way it is).”

Flower’s next assignment asEngland boss is the seriesagainst Pakistan in the United

Arab Emirates early next year.The series comes soon after

custodial sentences were hand-ed to former Pakistan captainSalman Butt and bowlers Moh -ammad Asif and Moha mmadAmir for their part in a spot-fix-ing conspiracy during the Lord’sTest between the countries inAugust 2010, but Flower isadamant his players should notapproach this series any differ-ently to any other.

“I envisage us playing a goodseries, played hard but played inthe right spirit, and there’s noreason why that shouldn’t be thecase,” he added.

“There’s been a very publictrial and a very serious trial forthese young men and it’s a sadstory. None of us are perfect andwe’ve all made mistakes of vary-ing degrees over the years. Weshould not sit too high on ourpedestals.”

Flower concernfor Test cricket

Bopanna-Qureshi in Paris Masters finalPARIS: India’s Rohan Bopannaand his Pakistani partnerAisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi enteredtheir first ATP World Tour 1000Masters final, stopping Cana -dian Daniel Nestor and MaxMirnyi of Belarus from reachingtheir fourth consecutive finalSaturday, winning 6-3, 7-6 (9-7)at the Paris Masters.

Seventh-seeded Bopannaand Qureshi, who made theirfirst season-ending World Tourfinal from Nov 20-27 beforecoming here, muffed two matchpoints and saved a set point inthe second set before sailingthrough in an hour and half.

The Indo-Pak Express wontwo ATP titles this season —Gerry Weber Open in Halle be -ating Dutchman Robin Haa seand Canadian Milos Raonicand the Stockholm Open defea -ting Ca n a dian pair MarceloMe lo and Br uno Soares - have a37-23 record.

Bopanna and Qureshi hadseven aces and broke theiropp onents’ serve twice. “It’s atough l oss but we now have toconce n trate on London,” saidNestor. “It’s too bad we can’t gothere wi th a win but we got out-

played today.”Bopanna and Qureshi will

me et the winners of the matchbetween French wildcards Jul -ien Benneteau and Nicolas Ma -hut and Mexican Santiago Gon -zalez and his German partnerCh r istopher Kas in Sunday’sfinal. Meanwhile, world No 4and third seed here Roger Fed -erer cruised past fifth seed and2005 champion Tomas Berdych

and will meet 2008 winner Jo-Wilfred Tsonga in his first BNPParibas Masters final today(Sunday).

Federer, who has won 801career matches, beat Czech instraight sets 6-4, 6-3, whileFrenchman Tsonga saved threematch points in the third setbefore overpowering big-serv-ing American John Isner in thetiebreak, 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3).

Federer, who will be playingin his 30th ATP World Tour Ma -sters 1000 title round (17-12 ove -rall), has become the first playerto have played in the fin als of allthe nine Masters 1000 to u r -naments. However, th is year hehas not won even one Mastersevent, Serb Novak Djokovicdominating the year with fivetitles, Scot Andy Mur ray two andSpaniard Rafael Nadal one.

SYDNEY: Renowned cricket writ-er Peter Roebuck was found dead athis hotel in South Africa where hewas covering Australia's Test serieswith the Proteas, his employers saidon Sunday.

British-born Roebuck, 55, studiedlaw at Cambridge and played 335first-class matches before making acareer writing about the sport, quicklyestablishing an avid following withhis forthright, intelligent prose.

He regularly commentated forthe Australian Broadcasting Corpo -ration and wrote for the nation'sFairfax newspapers, and was cover-ing the South African Test when hewas found dead in a Newlandshotel, according to the media firms.

The circumstances of his deathwere not immediately clear, but theSydney Morning Herald said he hadreportedly been "spoken to bypolice earlier in the day".

"Peter was a wonderful writerwho was the bard of summer forcricket-loving Australians," said IanFuge, the Herald's sport managingeditor.

"He was also an extraordinarybloke who will be sorely missed."

Cricket writerRoebuckfound dead

Andy Flower

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 9Sunday Special

Jason Cowley

Tiger Woods, according tohis former caddy SteveWilliams, is a “black

a***h ole” or words to thateffect. England captain JohnTerry is the subject of policeand Football Association inves-tigations for allegedly callingAnton Ferdinand, the QPRdefender and young brother ofthe more famous Rio, a “f*****gblack c**t”.

Williams has been calledNew Zealand’s wealthiest spor -tsman (if carrying a set of golfclubs qualifies as a sport). Hedisparaged Woods at a privateawards dinner at a Shanghaihotel attended by many of thegame’s best golfers. Golf has along history of racial discrimi-nation, with many clubs refus-ing to accept people of colouras members. We have all metthe stereotypical golf club bore,sipping his gin and tonic as herants about the “darkies”.

Williams has since apolo-gised for his racial slur andinsisted that he is not racist, justas Ron Atkinson did after hewas heard, during an ITVbroadcast, calling the French-Ghanaian defender MarcelDesailly a “lazy f*****g nigger”.The polyglot Desailly was oneof the great players of his gener-ation and since retirement hasworked as a broadcaster andgoodwill ambassador forUNICEF.

In every sense, he isAtkinson’s superior.

There is too much double-

think in sport. Too often we areasked to believe by officials andapologists that the man whouses racist language is not aracist. But no non-racist wouldhave the hateful word “nigger”in his vocabulary.

No non-racist would use theadjective “black” pejoratively asformer Spain coach LuisAragones did when he casuallydismissed Thierry Henry as “ablack s**t”.

Terry was foolishly reinstat-ed as England captain by FabioCapello having previously beenstripped of the role. He has saidthat his remark about Ferdin -and has been misunderstood ormisinterpreted. He did not saywhat he is being accused of say-ing, even if video evidenceseems to suggest otherwise.

He is, of course, innocentuntil proven guilty. In the me a -n time, he should not have beenselected for the latest Englandsquad. He is too tainted, evenby association in this instance.

When I first began to watchfootball in the 1970s, theEnglish national game wasinstitutionally racist, from theboardroom to the terraces. Allof us of a certain age rememberhearing England-born blackplayers, mostly fr om Caribbeanfamilies, being ra cially abusedas they were tr ying to establishthemselves in the game.

Most television commenta-tors, with the exception of BarryDavies, used to ignore the mon-key chants that could be pickedup by microphones duringmatches. Had they denounced

what was going on it may havehad some beneficial culturaleffect but they remained com-placently silent.

The racial abuse remainedwidespread in the late Eighties.I remember being at a So ut -hampton-Millwall FirstDivision game at the Dell, and,standing among the away fans(my paternal grandfather sup-ported Millwall), I was appalledby the hatred being directed atthe black Wallace brothers whoplayed for the home team.

It was unceasing - a caco -phony of loathing. On anotheroccasion one of my friends wasat Anfield for a game againstGeorge Graham’s Arsenal, wh -en, in anticipation of the emer-gence of David Rocastle, Mic -hael Thomas and Paul Davis, asection of the crowd startedchanting “bring on the nigge rs”.A few years later, I was at a pressconference after a First Divisiongame and heard one of themanagers, a former En glandcaptain no less, say of the blackplayers who had taken part that“they all looked alike”.

The journalists surroundinghim in a tight cluster merelychuckled along. “It was particu-larly bad at Sunderland, Leedsand at Chelsea and West Ham,”Davis, who made his debut forArsenal in 1980, once told me.

“Those four grounds stickout in my memory. You just hadto find a way round it and con-centrate on what you’re doing.Concentrate on your work.Don’t retaliate. Try to get a resultfor yourself and the team.”

Davis, Cyrille Regis, GeorgeBerry, Bob Hazell, GarthCrooks, Laurie Cunningham,Viv Anderson, the first blackman to play for England - thesewere the pathfinders whoseextraordinary resilience anddetermination opened the wayfor all those who would followthem, from all over the world.

Today, the atmosphere atgro unds, especially in thePremier League, is much morebe nign. Black players are amo -ng the most popular and cele-brated at most clubs.

Yet the old racism remains,even if it operates more covertly.Just recently at Emirates St a di -um a colleague of mine, who isJewish, pleaded with a man sit-ting in front of him to stop mak-ing anti-Semitic comme nts. Anargument followed and a stew-ard was forced to intervene.

My friend was correct to callout the Arsenal bigot. Thereshould be no tolerance ofracism in society and one is notbeing pious, humourless orpolitically correct to say so.

Adam Scott, for whom SteveWilliams now caddies, shouldhave done the decent thing andsacked the erratic Kiwi bagman.If the accusation of racismagainst Terry is proved, heshould never be picked for thenational side again. It is a sim-ple black and white issue. Youare either on the side of theracists or against them. Thereare no spaces in between, noshades of grey.

Jason Cowley iseditor of the New Statesman

Terry is nota racist:Lampard

Frank Lampard haslaunched a strong defenceof England skipper and

Chelsea club-mate John Terryand insisted: “He is not a racist.”

Terry has been in the spot-light after he is alleged to haveracially abused QPR defenderAnton Ferdinand three weeksago, an allegation which is nowthe subject of a MetropolitanPolice investigation.

Lampard will lead his coun-try against world championsSpain in Saturday evening’sfriendly at Wembley with Terrynot under consideration to startthe game for footballing reasons.When asked if Terry was a racist,Lampard said: “That’s a ridicu-lous question. No. Absolutelynot. Absolutely not.”

Lampard, who is also a closefriend of Ferdinand’s brotherand England team-mate Rio,admits he has left Terry to dealwith the allegations in his ownway.

He said: “I’ve dealt with it inmy own way. With these things,you have to keep your counseland get on with your job. I workwith John closely. I speak withhim all the time and work withhim, as I always have. It’s a diffi-cult time for him.

“If it was a difficult time forme, I wouldn’t want someonecoming in and asking me ‘what’sgoing on, how do you feel?’ soI’ve let him be. He’s getting onwith his job, as he always hasdone. In terms of Rio, I haven’tspoken to Rio, but I’ll remaingood friends with both. It’ll be aneasy thing to talk about once it’sall probably been dealt with inthe right way.”

Lampard also understandswhy Terry has not felt the need toaddress the England squad overthe issue.

Why there’s no grey area whenit comes to fighting racism

10Fair, free and forthright commentIssues SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The Christian banker -who can marry Godand Mammon - mayseem like an oxymoron

now. But Ken Costa, the 62-year-old City grandee enlistedby St Paul’s to play mediatorbetween banking and its crit-ics, is an evangelist who readsthe Bible every morning - afterthe FT, of course. If anyone canpreach morality to the City, it isthis righteous rainmaker.

Costa, who was chairmanof investment bank LazardInte rnational until earlier thisyear and spent more than threede cades at UBS, is the topbank roller and chairman ofAlpha International, the inter-denominational programmethat introduces non-believersto Christianity.

The ultimate God Squadhas been a big success in theCity, converting scores offinanciers to the Christianfaith. But, as research from theSt Paul’s Institute showed earli-er this week, the bonus-obsessed Squ are Mile is still a“less pro-God community”than society at large.

And despite the use ofmoney being the number onemoral issue in the Bible, morethan three-quarters of bankersdo not think the City shouldlisten more to the guidance ofthe Church. And yet Alpha’spopularity is undeniable.

Despite emptying pewselsewhere, the Holy TrinityBrompton in Knightsbridgeand its fellow Alpha coursechurches preach to burstingcongregations each week.

Since Nicky Gumbel tookover the programme twodecades ago - and chose tofocus its attention on encour-aging non-Christians toexplore the faith - the move-ment has mushroomed, withmore than 16 million peopleattending its courses world-wide.

A course lasts 10 weeks andincludes a day or weekendaway but Alpha also runs aswifter, lunchtime version -Alpha in the Workplace - inboth offices and venuesaround the City.

Jeremy Crossley, the rectorof St Margaret Lothbury, whichis the centre of the Alphacourse in the City, says: “Alphaappeals because it is a way ofresponding to people’senquiries and musings aboutthe meaning of life.” But it isnot without its critics, some ofwhom have accused the pro-gramme of “brainwashing” andbeing almost cult-like.

Even fellow Christians callit “happy-clappy”, say it placestoo little emphasis on thegospel, or express discomfortat its practice of speaking intongues (members chant in alanguage “from heaven”). “Sp -ea king in tongues is one of thegifts of the spirit,” saysCrossley. “It is one small aspectof the course and more a fea-ture of newspaper articlesabout Alpha than a feature ofAlpha courses. But I speak intongues, lots of people I knowspeak in tongues.”

Their reservations aside,Alpha has been such a successthat it has sparked a boom inevangelical organisationsfocused on the City, includingan annual City Prayer Breakfast(which is next Wednesday) andChristianity Explored, whichruns London’s only floatingchurch at Canary Wharf, andwhich has a programme muchlike Alpha, minus the tongues,inviting non-Christians for ameal and discussion.

St Peter’s Barge is itself tes-tament to God-fearing Cityfolk, who paid for it and con-tinue to fund it through dona-tions. Its senior pastor, MarcusNodder, believes the financialcrisis has had a positive effectalongside all the negatives,encouraging City workers to re-evaluate their lives: “Spiritualneeds are always there -whether you are rich or poor -but when crises happen, youbecome more aware of yourneeds and realise that some ofthe things we have been rely-ing on are not lasting.”

Jeremy Marshall, a trusteeof Christianity Explored andthe chief executive of the pri-vate bank C Hoare & Co, addsthat the recession has madebanking believers more openabout their faith: “When every-thing is going well, it is not soobvious that there needs to bea solution to the world’s prob-lems. When things are not,people are more open to talk-

ing about it.” But while senior figures

such as Costa, HSBC’s StephenGreen and hedge fund starPaul Marshall have all dis-cussed their faith, JeremyMarshall (no relation) believesit is harder for the young:“They constantly fear they’ll befired so the last thing they wantto do is stick their head abovethe parapet and say, ‘I am aChristian’.”

But does the City need aninjection of Christian ethics?Jonathan Ruffer, an evangelicalChristian and the founder andCEO of investment manage-ment firm Ruffer, believes so:“Our industry is a moral disas-ter.

In Genesis, the tower ofBabel [signals that] man hasgot above himself - the finan-cial world now has all theflavour of Babel. It is undoubt-edly bad for people on thewrong side, but it also suckstoo much money to a very

small number of people whoare utterly miserable becausethey are under too much pres-sure, so it’s not even fun forthem.”

Despite Goldman Sachschief executive LloydBlankfein’s declaration thatbankers are “doing God’s work”,what of the apparent contra-diction between chasingmoney and serving God? TheBible isn’t exactly fond ofwealth: “It is easier for a camelto go through the eye of a nee-dle than for a rich man to enterthe Kingdom of God” and “Thelove of money is the root of allevil”, just for starters. So is itpossible to square the two?

“You can love money as apoor person,” says Nodder.“And there are rich godly peo-ple in the Bible - Abraham, Job.

Those who are rich need tobe committed to doing good,rather than living in luxe andself-indulgence. We are notencouraging people to give uptheir jobs, but wallets shouldbe included in discipleship.”

Jeremy Marshall agrees:“The Bible teaches, ‘To those towhom much is given, much isrequir ed’. If Christians make

money, then as Christians webelieve we will meet God andhe will say, ‘What did you dowith it?’” Both bankers -Marshall and Ruffer - live bytheir word. Marshall is co-founder of philanthropy gro upGenerous Giving UK and Ru -ffer gives huge sums to charity.

He recently splashed out£15 million to buy and thenredonate paintings to theChurch of England. Hedescribes his pay packet as an“absurdity, not a disgrace”: “Itbecomes a disgrace if I come toregard that money as mine todo whatever I want with.

To sit on it is wrong: peoplewho have telephone numbersof wealth shouldn’t see it astheirs. Money is meant to gointo you, pass through you andgo somewhere else. It’s not asacrificial th ing, it just seemsright: I’ve got plenty to rollabout like a pig in clover.”

This isn’t just evangelism toameliorate a troubled con-science. To those who havedespaired of the absence ofethics in the City, Marshall’sfinal words may offer a littlehope: “There are more of usthan you’d think.”

Holy BankrollersROSAMUNDURWIN

11Fair, free and forthright commentIssues SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The news of ShyamVepa Rao, betterknown as SwamiAgnivesh, entering the

TV reality show Bigg Boss, sentripples of shock across thecountry in the political, enter-tainment and spirituality cir-cles. Raised eyebrows andsmirks met social media com-ments, both furious and funny.

Bigg Boss, for the uninitiat-ed, is a celebrity reality show inwhich a bunch of celebritiesare locked in a house for threemonths with cameras watchingtheir every sneeze and everyexpression. Catfights break outover kitchen duties; egos arebruised and enemies are madein seconds as the nationwatches these celebs without

make-up and their tantrums,which are mostly made up.

Enter Swami Agnivesh. Thenation reacted to the newswith disgust and anger. TheArya Samaj banned SwamiAgnivesh and refused to beassociated with the Godman.He has tainted the saffron-cladcommunity, they said, andadded that if he, indeed, want-ed to enter the Bigg Bosshouse, he should have notworn saffron. As if in responseto this reaction, SwamiAgnivesh said in a press con-ference before entering theBigg Boss house that religionhas too much dogmatism andritualism today. If it does notserve the purpose of the mod-ern world and cannot help uslead better lives because it’sjust too difficult, people willgradually opt out of it.

Of Swami Agnivesh’s deci-sion, member of BharatiyaJanata Party and Bollywoodactor Kirron Kher said it’s

bizarre. Congress partyspokesperson RenukaChoudhury expressed shockand, in her inimitable style, leftno stone unturned in taking adig at this publicity circus.Jammu & Kashmir chief minis-ter, Omar Abdullah tweeted “Idid not see this one coming andcannot wait to watch his entry.”Among the top trending topicson Tuesday was, no prizes forguessing, Swami Agnivesh’s par-ticipation in Bigg Boss. Thoughthe responses were from peoplewith different political affilia-tions, they all seemed to agreeon one point: They didn’t watchthe show till now but now theydefinitely would. Purposeserved for Endemol and Colorschannel in this clever idea coupthey seem to have pulled off.But have they, really?

A good idea with half-heart-ed execution can only take youhalf the way. I tuned in to BiggBoss expecting action, a fewcatfights and to watch how the

saffron-clad swami wouldbreak up the fight betweenhouse inmates at each others’throats. Instead, what I got wasa meek-looking, smiling sadhutripping over his dhoti whilewalking on the treadmill, get-ting the house inmates to praybefore eating and asking aninmate Pooja Mishra to avoidthe sun and sit in the shade.The swami organized a medi-tation and pranayam pro-gramme in the morning for allinmates and, for some time atleast, it seemed as though thecatty and crass Bigg Boss househad turned into a spiritualitycamp. Until, a fight started tobrew. But Swami Agnivesh sim-ply watched and didn’t reactwhen he saw a fight bubblingup between two inmates (itlasted all of three minutes). Heinitiated a discussion onfemale foeticide in the house,and smiled and clapped tosinging and dancing inmates.

When a swami with a che-

quered history as varied as his –with a stint as lecturer of busi-ness and economics at StXavier’s Institute ofManagement, and two arreststhat had him spend 14 monthsin jail before he was acquitted— decides to play the game, atleast we know that the inten-tion to stay in the limelight isvery real. But what thoroughlydisappointed me was that hav-ing gone that far, the swami isaloof and distant. In a man-eat-man world, wouldn’t it be anabsolute delight to show how aswami tackles troublemakers?Use the cloak-and-daggerapproach or open attack, buttell the world that the swami ishuman, too, after all.

Maybe Swami Nityanandawould have been a better play-er. Just may be.

Godman in the goldfish tankSUMAATEKUR

Soul Curry

Having it all – be nice to your husband

The public cannot quitema ke up their minds abo - ut the Tory MP Louise Me -

nsch. In her favour, she is spirit-ed and good on television espe-cially when she is challengingthe powers of the tabl oid press.Against her, she boa sts th at herpalms sweat at the sight of herhusband and hints that she hasgone under the knife in order tolook nice for him.

My sympathies are the otherway round. Mrs Mensch’s TVtriumphs look vain and sloppy.After her courtroom drama per-formance on the culture selectcommittee in the summer, shehad to apologise to PiersMorgan for “misreading” herevidence. Would HelenaKennedy have allowed her preyto slip away so carelessly? Thereis also too much palm sweatingin her appearances on Have IGot News for You. It is unseemlyto relish appearing on televisionso much.

Yet in her private life she is

thoughtful and analytical. Herflattery towards her husband issavvy. She may sound like asurrendered wife but she livesapart from Peter Mensch inorder to build her politicalcareer in Britain. I like to thinkthat her slightly crazy televi-sion appearances are in fact amating call across the Atlantic.They are Skype sex.

Louise Mensch is clever andshe knows that for men admi-ration is like sunshine. Sayingyour husband’s attractivenessand virility make you hyper-ventilate at the sight of him isnever going to go down badly,is it? It strikes me as a sign ofconfidence rather than sub-mission. Whenever wives ofpublic figures denigrate theirhusbands it looks like insecuri-ty. Michelle Obama learnedquickly that her snappyremarks about her husband’searly morning breath did notplay well in the polls.

Using your career as a vehi-cle for nuptial flirtation maynot be recommended in thefeminist handbook but it hasits uses for high maintenancehusbands. It neutralises anyimplicit rebuke in women’sprofessional advancement. Thefemale fighter jet pilot who

returned to the Norfolk RAFbase from Libya wearing fullmake-up had a touch of theMensch. I doubt whetherNigella Lawson would bother

with television much were itnot a method of entertainingher husband.

Refusing to make heavyweather of your job should be

regarded as enlightenmentrather than weakness. Why,Aung San Suu Kyi was passingherself off as a housewife, evenas she led the revolution inBurma. And for MargaretThatcher, Denis’s dinner was asacred calling.

Having it all means keepingyour husband happy withoutmaking any professional sacri-fice. Would Mensch’s critics behappier if she made AngelaEagle-style gestures to describeher beloved?

We celebrate almost everyvariation of relationshipsexcept married ones. I wouldrather listen to Louise Menschon how to keep the show onthe road than to her erraticpolitical philosophy. n The Dean of St Paul’sCathedral, Graeme Knowles,was ridiculed for citing health-and-safety issues as a reason forclosing the doors. St Paul’s hasnot shut since the Second WorldWar. How could a few tent ropesbe considered as great a threatas the Nazis? Weeks down theline, there are reports ofprotesters using the doors to theCathedral as a makeshift latrine.Now it really does sound like melike an urgent matter for Healthand Safety.

SARAHSANDS

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201112Allure

Rather than reaching for theheavy creams, think in termsof treating your skin with lightlayers of protective products.

A creamy cleanser that leaves skinsupple is a good start, followed by ahydrating serum to plump up yourskin cells with a reservoir of moisture.To stop all this watery goodnessescaping into your Sahara-like officeatmosphere, you need your usual

moisturiser to seal it in. Joanne Evans, one of London's

best facialists, has other tips, too, "It isso important to exfoliate! People tendto slow down or stop routines becauseit's cold and dark. When you exfoliate,any serum you are using will be betterabsorbed. And remember your hands.Colder air will really dry them out."

She is also keen on omega-3 sup-plements (three times a day), which

help keep the membrane around eachskin cell in good nick — if these mem-branes are doing their job, they lockmoisture in the skin.

If you ask acupuncturist Annee deMamiel, there is a larger picture tothink about. She works with the prin-ciples of Chinese medicine that seelife and health entwined in a series ofseasons and cycles: in autumn, sea-sonal symptoms of lethargy and vul-nerability are likely to show up in theskin.

“Adding an extra level of moistureto your routine will help prevent dehy-dration and give you extra protectionand nourishment,” she says.

Annee advises choosing ingredi-ents rich in essential fatty acids likenatural vegetable oils such as eveningprimrose oil, blackcurrant or Arganand seabuckthorn. Her own hand-blended oils can be used neat ondamp skin in the evening, or a coupleof drops can be used to super-chargeyour morning moisturiser.

And if you find your skin dries outduring the day, take your skincarewith you. One of the top dermatolo-gists carries a vial of Shinso Mist in herbag to spritz on as needed. It's full ofmoisturising and anti-ageing ingredi-ents which, because they are in nano-sized particles, vanish into her skinstraight through her make-up.

Alice Hart-DavisWeatherproofyour face

It is a cruel quirk of fatethat as the clocks go backand we shiver as winterlooms, our skin protestsas well. It feels dry —thanks to the heating andthe colder air — so youslather on more moisturis-er, or use a thicker one.Then you get spots. Soyou stop using so muchmoisturiser and your skinfeels tight and scaly. Jointhe club — you've gotOffice Skin. And somehowevery year it comes as anasty surprise, just in time

for the party season

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 13SNOW PATROL

Fallen Empires

Snow Patrol began recording their sixthalbum in California’s Joshua Tree NationalPark, a location synonymous with U2, but

the band they most closely resemble isColdplay. Like Chris Martin, frontman GaryLightbody specialises in arms-aloft chorusesand lyrics that are drippier than water torture.It’s been three years since the NorthernIreland band’s last album - Lightbody havingsuffered from a bout of writer’s block - and ini-tially it seems that the break has done themgood. Opener I’ll Never Let Go, complete with itsGimme Shelter-style crescendo, is as bold and vitalas Snow Patrol have sounded. Unfortunately, it provesa false dawn. When Lightbody croons: “It’s like wejust can’t help ourselves” over Called Out in theDark’s plodding chord pattern, you start to think “No,perhaps you can’t”.Part of the album’s problem lies in the fact that itssongs are so repetitive. Inspired by the success oftheir mega-hit Chasing Cars, Lightbody seems tobelieve that repeating a chorus indefinitely magicallymakes it meaningful; it doesn’t, it doesn’t, it doesn’t.Yet there are moments when the band make good on

theirclaim that this

is their “best album”. The Garden Rules - not a pro-horticultural statement but a slow-burning acousticballad - is Lightbody at his most affecting, while TheWeight of Love is testament to his unerring ear for amelody. Ultimately, though, Snow Patrol sound toosafe and predictable: a Celtic Coldplay with little newto add.

ETTA JAMES

The Dreamer

This is the retirement record from Etta James. She was born in 1938, soshe has put in a good shift. Perhaps best remembered for her coruscat-ing performance on I’d Rather Go Blind, James had a voice that could

simultaneously strip paint and repaint at the same time. Time has inevitablyturned those vocal cords to emulsion. The

Dreamer is immaculately arranged,ingeniously suffused with

snaky guitar, organ andbrass. It starts with the

relaxed funk of KingFloyd’s Groove Meand makes its impe-rious way throughsongs likeChampagne andWine, Cigarettesand Coffee (bothOtis Redding), RayCharles’s In the

Evening and Bobby“Blue” Bland’s

Dreamer. All the songshere were written by

men for men to sing. EttaJames turns that around.

JLS

Jukebox

With The Wanted, One Direction and this quartet of XFactor runners-up all riding high in the charts, the boyband is back in fashion. However, unlike the early days

of Take That and Boyzone, while your mum may secretly craveone of their bestselling, pec-heavy calendars, there’s nothing ofcross-generational appeal in their music. This is all-gloss popfor short attention spans, which on Do You Feel What I Feel?even stoops to swiping its melody from Little Drummer Boy. Thebuzzy, trancey synths of She Makes Me Wanna and 3D are highon energy and infuriatingly catchy, even if the latter’s promiseto “turn you on just like a TV” sounds less than appealing. It’sall over quickly, atleast.

CDs of the weekS N O W P A T R O L , E T T A J A M E S A N D J L S

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Both Ways Open Jaws

Finnish chanteuse Olivia Merilahti and French multi-instru-mentalist Dan Levy inhabit a peculiarly Scandinavianplace, not quite as inspirationally gifted as Lykke Li but

more listenable than Björk, with nods to Joanna Newsom andThe Cranberries along the way. Their first album, A Mouthful,topped the French charts, but its successor is a more confidentbeast entirely. Merilahti’s floaty voice may be an acquiredtaste but once acquired, most notably on the lavishly orches-trated standout Smash Them All (Night Visitors), it’s a hardhabit to break. Levy thumps away on everything from harpsi-chord to percussion via keyboards and trumpet. There’s muchlyrical nonsense to relish and the overpowering sense that, atthe very least, cult sta-tus beckons.

Special Notes Music and dance of all genre

ANOUSHKA SHANKAR

Traveller

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar,has a dual career as a classical sitar playerand using the instrument in various fusion

projects. This one, a meeting of Indian music and fla-menco, is terrific. The flamenco expertise came fromGrammy-winning producer Javier Limon, whobrought in vocalists Concha Buika and SandraCarrasco, as well as flamenco guitarist PepeHabichuela. From the Indian side there’s the classysinger Shubha Mudgal and Ravi’s favourite tablaplayer, Tanmoy Bose. She includes Basingstoke andthe QEH on her tour from November 20.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201114From the world of science & researchBrave New World

Laura Sanders

Instead of the indiscriminatedestruction of the atombomb or napalm, the signa-

ture weapon of future wars maybe precise, unprecedented con-trol over the human brain. Asglobal conflicts become murki-er, technologies based on infil-trating brains may soon entercountries’ arsenals, neuroethi-cists claim in a paper publishedonline in Synesis. Such ‘neu-roweapons’ have the capacity toprofoundly change the way waris fought.

Advances in understandingthe brain’s inner workings couldlead to a pill that makes prison-ers talk, deadly toxins that canshut down brain function inminutes, or super-soldiers whorely on brain chips to quicklylock in on an enemy’s location.

The breadth of brain-basedtechnologies is wide, andincludes the traditional psycho-logical tactics used in earlierwars. But the capacity of theemerging technologies is vastlywider — and may make it possi-ble to coerce enemy minds withexquisite precision.

In the paper, neuroscientistsJames Giordano of the PotomacInstitute for Policy Studies inArlington, Va, and RachelWurzman of George town

University Medical Centre inWashington, DC, describeemerging brain technologiesand argue that the United Statesmust be proactive in neuro-science-based re search thatcould be used for national intel-ligence and security.

“A number of these differentapproaches are heating up inthe crucible of possibility, sothat’s really increased some ofthe momentum and the poten-tial of what this stuff can do,”Giordano says.

In the not-too-distant future,

technologies called brain-machine interfaces could allowthe combination of humanbrains with sophisticated com-puter programs. Analysts with abrain chip could quickly siftthrough huge amounts of intel-ligence data, and fighter pilotsmerged with computer searchalgorithms could rapidly lockonto an enemy target, forinstance.

Neuroscience could also findits way into interrogationrooms: As scientists learn moreabout how the brain generates

feelings of trust, drugs could bedeveloped that inspire thatemotion in prisoners anddetainees. Oxytocin, a hormoneproduced by mothers’ bodiesafter childbirth, is one such can-didate. Perhaps a whiff of oxy-tocin could dampen a person’sexecutive functions, turning anuncooperative detainee into achatty friend.

Other sorts of psychophar-macological manipulationcould be used to boost soldiers’performance, allowing them toremain vigilant without sleep,heighten their perceptual pow-ers and erase memories of theiractions on the battlefield.Because neuroscientists arebeginning to understand howthe brain forms memories, it’snot inconceivable that a drugcould be designed to preventPTSD. Such technology couldenable more sinister applica-tions, though, such as creatingsoldiers who wouldn’t remem-ber atrocities they committed ordetainees who couldn’t recalltheir own torture.

Some of these abilities aremore probable than others, saysbioethicist Jonathan Moreno ofthe University of Pennsylvaniain Philadelphia. Drugs thatincrease alertness exist, but sofar no drug has clearly boostedbrain function. “Honestly, there

isn’t much, compared to caf-feine or nicotine,” he says.

Giordano and Wurzman alsodescribe drugs, microbial agentsand toxins derived from naturethat could harm enemy brainsin a more traditional way. Thelist includes a neurotoxin from ashellfish that is water soluble,able to be aerosolised and caus-es death within minutes; a bac-terium that can induce halluci-nations, itchiness and strangetastes; and an amoebic microbethat crawls up the olfactorynerve to invade the brain, whereit kills brain tissue. “The articlecontains an arsenal of neu-roweapons, and these raise lotsof ethical and legal issues,” saysbioethicist Jonathan Marks ofPennsyl vania State University inUniversity Park. “Any kind ofdrug that you administer fornational security purposes rais-es profound questions.”

Some scientists have alreadycommitted to resisting theapplication of their research towhat they consider illegal orimmoral military purposes. “It’snot enough just to study theissue of ethics. The potential formisuse of this knowledge is sostrong that the responsibility ofneuroscience goes further thanjust studying,” says Curtis Bell ofOregon Health & ScienceUniversity in Portland.

Future wars may befought by synapses

Har Gobind Khorana,(born in Raipur, India),India-born American

biochemist passed away earlierthis week (Wednesday) at theage of 89 years. Khorana wasconferred the Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine in 1968,which he shared with MarshallW Nirenberg and Robert WHolley for research that helpedto show how the nucleotides innucleic acids, which carry thegenetic code of the cell, controlthe cell’s synthesis of proteins.

Khorana was born into apoor family and attendedPunjab University at Lahore andthe University of Liverpool,England, on government schol-

arships. He obtained his PhD atLiverpool in 1948. He beganresearch on nucleic acids duringa fellowship at the University ofCambridge (1951) under SirAlexander Todd.

He held fellowships and pro-fessorships in Switzerland at theSwiss Federal Institute ofTechnology, in Canada at theUniversity of British Columbia(1952–59), and in the UnitedStates at the University ofWisconsin (1960–70). In 1966Khorana became a naturalisedcitizen of the United States, andin 1971 he joined the faculty ofthe Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, where he remaineduntil he retired in 2007.

In addition to the NobelPrize, Khorana received theAlbert Lasker Basic MedicalResearch Award (1968) and theNational Medal of Science(1987).

In the 1960s Khorana con-firmed Nirenberg’s findings thatthe way the four different types

of nucleotides are arranged onthe spiral ‘staircase’ of the DNAmolecule determines the chemi-cal composition and function ofa new cell. The 64 possible com-binations of the nucleotides areread off along a strand of DNA asrequired to produce the desiredamino acids, which are thebuilding blocks of proteins.Khorana added details aboutwhich serial combinations ofnucleotides form which specificamino acids.

He also proved that thenucleotide code is always trans-mitted to the cell in groups ofthree, called codons. Khoranaalso determined that some of thecodons prompt the cell to start

or stop the manufacture of pro-teins.

Khorana made another con-tribution to genetics in 1970,when he and his research teamwere able to synthesise the firstartificial copy of a yeast gene. Hislater research explored themolecular mechanisms underly-ing the cell signalling pathwaysof vision in vertebrates.

His studies were concernedprimarily with the structure andfunction of rhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein found in theretina of the vertebrate eye.Khorana also investigated muta-tions in rhodopsin that are asso-ciated with retinitis pigmentosa,which causes night blindness.

From government scholarships to the Nobel Prize

Neuroscientistsconsiderdefence

applications ofrecent insightsinto the brain

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201115

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Afew days after the Britishentered Basra in April2003, a company com-

mander led his patrol ofarmoured carriers to a village onthe bank of the Shatt al Arabwaterway. In festive mood oldladies, clerics and eldersmobbed the vehicles, and thecommander snapped it all onhis digital camera.

A few weeks later, he showedthe snaps to his wife, saying, “Atleast some people were glad tosee us.” She retorted, “But lookat the eyes of every young man— they are looking at you withundiluted hatred.” The com-mander, who I believe is stillserving, then told me that hewas against the Iraq invasion inthe first place, and so weremany of his men and their fami-lies. This was far from excep-tional among British units Iinterviewed soon after.

So began Operation Telic,Tony Blair's great contributionto George W Bush's war on ter-ror, the climax of which was tobe the overthrow of SaddamHussein, who had hardly a pass-ing acquaintance with al Qaeda,and the creation of a model

democracy in Iraq. Now we arecoming towards the close of thatenterprise as the Americansprepare to quit Iraq at the endof the year, their original mis-sion less than half accom-plished. Jack Fairweather, theaccomplished correspondent ofthe Daily Telegraph for much ofthe Iraq venture, gives a brilliantsummary of the British entan-glement for the fourth time inthat country in A War of Choice.It is very much an account ofthe story so far — and this con-flict is by no means over,according to latest reports —and by far the best of its kindyet.

It should provide an idealintroduction to the forthcom-ing, and much delayed, reportabout British involvement inIraq by the Chilcot committee.That inquiry should finally laybare who took the decisions forwhat, who knew what and atwhat time, and who should takeresponsibility. It won't do allthat, we know already, becauseSir John Chilcot himself has saidhe won't apportion blame.

He should, and the fact thathe won't means we will have to

rely on Jack Fairweather's pithyanalysis for a long time ahead.

From the first, this wasBlair's war. Fairweather rightlydiagnoses Blair's hubris inbelieving the Iraq incursionwould vindicate his ‘new’ doc-trine of humanitarian interven-tion laid down at Chicago in1999. With full UN backing, theoverthrow of Saddam wouldhelp create a new order in theMiddle East and pave the way toresolving its most enduring con-flict between the Palestiniansand Israel.

The Iraq adventure was ill-planned, underfunded and

under-resourced by the Britishfrom the off. The Americaneffort, for all the vast scale, wasscarcely better, which this bookdoesn't emphasise enough.

The British came for only abrief stay —and their forcesweren't configured for a longoccupation, let alone gettinginvolved in a bewilderinglycomplex civil war. The numbersof troops necessary were neveravailable. By 2006, the BritishArmy was sinking in a quagmireof guerrilla war in Basra andAmarah in Iraq, and was up toits neck in trouble in southernAfghanistan.

A squalid deal with a cap-tured insurgent commander ofMoqtada al Sadr's Jaish alMahdi militia army allowed theBritish to pull their forces out ofBasra to the airport complex inthe southern desert. The JAMmilitia took over the streets, andit was only when the Iraqi Army,backed by the Americans,returned in Operation Charge ofthe Knights in March 2008 thatpeace and prosperity wererestored to Basra.

Fairweather is too shrewd toswallow entirely this version,

put about by the most rabidpro-American generals in theArmy. The fact is that the Sadristmilitias were defeated only afterIraq's Shiite President Nuri AlMalaki had got the nod from theIranian authorities.

Iran is the net winner in theIraq debacle of the past 10years. The American forces areabout to retreat from Iraq thisDecember with a similar senseof underachievement as that ofthe British two years ago. Thegrowing tensions between theUK and US over bothAfghanistan and Iraq raise thequestion of whether Britishcommanders should be pre-pared to be treated like a mili-tary Eliza Doolittle by the over-bearing Henry Higgins of thePentagon. There is now everyindication that a new andpotentially more violent phaseof the conflict in Iraq is about toopen. This will pit the Sunnisbacked by Saudi Arabia againstthe disparate forces of Presidental-Malaki and the Shiite militiasbacked by Iran. Only this time,the UK will not, or should not,have a dog in the fight.

ROBERT FOX

A War of Choice:The British in Iraq2003-2009 by Jack Fairweather

The Wardiaries

Operation Telic, Tony Blair's great contribution to George W Bush's war on terror, the climax of which was to be the overthrowof Saddam Hussein, and the creation of a model democracy in Iraq, all that and more...

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201119Potpourri

Padmini Cpadmini.c@postnoon.com

Anumber of works ofdrama and proseemerged in France as a

result of the horrors of WorldWar II. They believed that thehuman condition is essentiallyabsurd and that the only wayto accurately describe it withany authenticity can be possi-ble only in works that werethemselves absurd. It was, in asense, a rebellion against pre-existing beliefs and values oftraditional culture and valueswhich held that man was arational creature who lived in areasonable intelligible world.However, after the 1940s, exis-tentialists started to propounda theory that man was an iso-lated entity, living in a hostileuniverse which has no inherent

truth, value or meaning. Describing the philosophy,

Camus wrote in the Myth ofSisyphus (1942) that “In a uni-verse that is suddenly deprivedof illusions and of light, manfeels like a stranger. His is anirremediable exile...This divorcebetween man and his life, theactor and his setting, truly con-stitutes the feeling of Absurdity.”

But incidentally, within thedepths of this existentialistangst were born some of thebest works in modern litera-ture. Samuel Beckett, the mostinfluential dramatist and writerin both drama and fictionstaged Waiting for Godot (1954)and Endgame (1958) which ledto a dramatic increase in inter-est in the Theatre of Absurd.The plays of this time wereirrational, grotesquely comic,filled with meaningless dia-

logue and defied all conven-tions of conventional drama.

Incidentally, the genre alsolead to influencing a number ofplaywrights and novelists in the

next 50 decades who specialisedin creating naive, inept or inno-cent characters set against fan-tastic, horrifying and nightmar-ish worlds. Some of them being

Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon,Kurt Vonnegut, Stanley Kubrick,Harold Pinter, among others.

Literature of the AbsurdThe Absurdists posed a fundamental question — how can one’s work be sen-sible if it has to accurately describe the senselessness of man’s existence?

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Compared to other citieslike Bangalore orKolkata, Hyderabad is

way behind in terms ofWestern music. Here, musi-cians just cannot make a living.There is also an acute shortageof proper teachers and instruc-tors. A lot has to be done,” herues, albeit with a glint ofdetermination in his eyes.

Joe Koster is already well onhis way to doing just that. Alongwith a few others, he’s foundedthe Western Music Forum,Hyderabad. “I realised thatwhile there was a lot of cultural

spaces which showcased talentfrom abroad, there was a lack ofhome-grown talent. So theForum is an attempt to create aplatform for local musicians tolearn and perform WesternMusic. It also aims to bringtogether people who lovemusic,” explains Joe, who alsohappens to be a curator at LaMakaan, as well as a musicteacher in the InternationalSchool of Hyderabad.

Incidentally, the Forumhappened to Joe quite bychance. His NGO was whatbrought Joe to Andhra Pradeshin the first place. Subsequently,Joe packed up his consultancybusiness and moved here fromZurich with his wife Ines, to domore substantial work in thestate. It was during that timethat he got involved in the city’scultural scene.

“In 2007, I joined the FestivalChoristers and I met a numberof interesting people. Slowly, Irealised Western music here waslargely limited to expats. I want-ed to change that. I wanted tointroduce Western music to thepeople here and at the same,create interesting fusion music,”says Joe, who can play thepiano, trambone and trumpetwith equal ease.

A life-long music lover, Joegrew up playing in a number ofbands including the Swiss ArmyBand. “I have had the privilegeof playing in different kinds ofbands and learn different kindsof music. It teaches you a lot ofthings about yourself,” heexplains. Now, he conducts and

plays in a jazz band called TheDeccan Voices.

Joe spends a lot of his timein school outreach programmesto spread awareness and inspirechildren to take interest inmusic. “I believe music caninfluence a child in a very posi-tive way. It inculcates practicalintelligence. Playing in a band,for instance, will need you todevelop discipline, hard work,practice, teamwork, reading andinterpretation. It is very, very,challenging. There are no short-cuts,” he states.

Joe is also special in that heis a Westerner who knows Indiamore than most Indians. He hastravelled extensively across thecountryside, even the state andsays that he now shares the joysand burdens of the aam aadmi.“A lot of foreigners have a verycliched view of India. They justsee as it as an exotic place withwarm and friendly people. Butwe’ve seen the social ills and thekind of suffering people under-go in the rural areas,”says Joe,whose collection of pho-tographs on rural India havereceived rare reviews.

THOUGHT CORNER

Spreadingthe music

Seeking to fill the lacuna that existsin Western music in the city, is Swiss-

national Joe Koster

SWEET NOTES: Joe at the piano;(top right) with wife Ines

PICS: N SHIVA KUMAR

20Body & Soul SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Stress-related burnout is no longer the classic middle-age malaise. More than 13 million

working days were lost to stress last year. It’s not always possi

ble to change the cause of the stress. But we can

change the way we react to it. Here are

a few tips

Work getting to you?A

s far as Don isconcerned, all hehas ever sufferedfrom was a worry

about the likely bankingcrisis. “I don’t use wordslike stress and depres-sion… I’d never in my lifehad any illness or prob-lem,” he explains. “It was

simply a nagging anxietythat the bubble was goingto burst.”

But for a senior bank-ing executive, as Don (now60) was, that worry wasstrong enough to keep himawake at night - and from2007-2008 he never sleptmore than an hour or two

a night. It was the first signof the super-stress that isspreading among cityworkers and which lastweek caused LloydsBanking Group chief exec-utive António Horta-Osório to take leave ofabsence.

Sharon De Mascia is a

programme manager atthe charity that trainsemployers to identify theearly warning signs ofstress-induced anxiety anddepression in their work-forces: irritability, impa-tience, poor concentration,social isolation and heavydrinking.

Exercise

Don’t cancel your workout.Exercise is one of the best

stress-busters around. Working offyour frustrations physically is agreat way to reset your personalpressure valve.

Plus exercise releases endor-phins, the feel-good chemicals thatimprove well-being, confidenceand alertness.

Find something that requiresmental focus too. Yoga, martialarts and pilates are ideal. Themore you have to focus, the lessyou can worry about tomorrow’smeeting.

Laughter

Whether it’s wry gallows humouror a hysterical hoot until you

can’t draw breath, laughter is a greatendorphin producer. It decreasesstress hormones, eases tension,boosts resilience and brings a vitalsense of perspective into our lives.

Drink

Water. Stress is a physical aswell as a mental phenomenon

— the adrenaline is running, yourheart and respiration rate increasesand it’s easy to become dehydrated— without noticing it. Aim for 2-3litres a day.

Nap

Most stressful situations -especially in the workplace -

are marathons, not sprints. Paceyourself. A 20-minute nap is agreat way to recharge during theday, especially if you’re not sleep-ing brilliantly at night.

A cuppa

And last but not least, the classiccure-all for everything from

insomnia to a broken leg, tea isanother great stress-buster. If you’realready feeling wired, ditch the caf-feine and go herbal. Mint’s my herbof choice.

H E R E ’ S W H A T Y O U C A N D O T O R E D U C E T H E S T R E S S A T T H E W O R K P L A C E :

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201121Design Talks

A chic facelift for

wooden furniture

The cheapest furniture by far is from boot fairs,charity stores and junk shops. Or you may havesome pieces already. It’s easy to give them aface lift, says Barbara Chandler

For the most effective furnituremakeover, choose pieces madefrom solid wood, and checkthat joints are well made and

sturdy. Do any small repairs beforepainting or varnishing. Don’t wastetime on rickety chairs or flimsy draw-ers. Change any handles for that finalfinishing touch.

You will need:An old cloth or sponge, bucket, wash-ing-up liquid and white spirit, medi-um-grade sanding paper and mask,small brush, your choice of finish(whether primer and paint, or var-nish), and brush cleaner.

Paintingyour furnitureA painted finish is easiest as youcan usually paint over old varnish or paint.Allow around three days. It is not particularlylabour-intensive but drying times are essential.

1Make sure your furniture is free from dirt. Wash it over withwarm water and allow it to dry completely. If your furniture

is very dirty, add a few drops of washing up liquid to the water,use a soft scrubbing brush, and give a final clean rinse.

2Sand the surface to smooth out rough areas, scratches anddents. Wear a mask to avoid inhaling dust. Use medium-

grade sanding paper, working with the grain, and then wipeover with a cloth dampened in white spirit.

3Using a small flat brush, apply a primer and allow to dry forat least six hours.

4Choose a good quality gloss paint colour for the final sur-face. Apply two coats, allowing at least 16 hours between

coats.

Stripping old furnitureIf the finish on your old furniture isvery poor (for example, uneven,cracked or flaking), you should stripit off. And of course you will need todo this if you want to simply var-nish the bare wood.Modern paint strippers canremove layers of paint withease

1Decant the active gel into the lidof its tin.

2Using a brush, apply a generouseven coat over the furniture sur-

face.

3Leave until the paint begins toblister (from two to four hours)

and gently test scrape, using a paintscraper or shave hook. You canleave it on for upto six hours if nec-essary. When ready, softened paintshould scrape off easily. Don’t tryand hurry the process: you mayscore the surface of your furniture.

4Remove all of the peeling layersof paint.

5Repeat the process if any paintremains.

6Wipe over with white spirit toremove any remains of

stripper/paint/varnish – this willavoid raising the grain of the wood.

7Clean brush with soapy water.

A varnish pad can be used onintricate bits of furniture, such aschair backs

Varnishing woodenfurnitureA simple way to varnish stripped woodis with a varnish pack, which comescomplete with a pad for easy and quali-ty application.

1Prepare furniture as described above,stripping back to bare wood, wiping

over with white spirit, and sanding to asmooth surface.

2Gently lower pad onto surface of var-nish, making sure that the flock

underside is evenly covered, but keepingfoam pad dry. Scrape off any excess ontosides of tub.

3Use pad flat to cover all flat areasin long smooth strokes – it’s quick

and easy.

4Use the angled front edge to reachany intricate bits, such as chair backs.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201122Animal Kingdom

Everyone can help preserve the world’s amazing, irreplaceable endangered species. One should time and againeducate oneself about the dangers facing them, volunteer at conservation organisations and write to localofficials highlighting issues facing conservation of animals

PET FINDER

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When it comes to emotional sup-port, nothing compares to the

support you get from a pet. Adopt apet and give it as much love andcare as you can. Adoption is the lov-ing option. Consider adopting fromthe Blue Cross before buying an ani-mal from the pet store. Contact: 91 40 3298 9858, 23544355 / 5523; Website:www.bluecrosshyd@gmail.com

INTERESTING FACTSn Don’t pick a kitten or a cat up by

the scruff of its neck; only moth-er cats can do this safely, andonly with their kittens.

n Cats knead with their paws whenthey’re happy.

n Your cat loves you and can readyour moods. If you’re sad orunder stress, you will notice a dif-ference in your cat’s behaviour.

n The domestic cat is the only catspecies able to hold its tail verti-cally while walking. All wild catshold their tails horizontally ortucked between their legs.

FUNNY BONE

A Cat’s PrayerNow I lay me down to sleep,I pray this cushy life to keep.I pray for toys that look like mice,And sofa cushions, soft and nice.I pray for gourmet kitty snacks,And someone nice to scratch my back,For windowsills all warm and bright,For shadows to explore at night.I pray I’ll always stay real coolAnd keep the secret feline ruleTo never tell a human thatThe world is really ruled by cats!

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While your kitties love tokeep themselves clean,they also ingest theirown hair. Fortunately,

most of the times, this hair passesthrough the gastro-intestinal sys-tem, and is expelled in their stool.However, cats with long fur have acomparatively not so easy run. Thelong hair, rather than being expelledfrom their systems, get accumulatedin the stomach wall’s lining thatgives rise to the hairballs problems,also in medical terms calledTrichobezoar.

Dr Surijit Puri, a vet based inNew Delhi says, “If you hear your cathacking a lot, he is most probablytrying to expel hairballs from hissystem. This needs a thoroughexamination by a doctor. But toavoid the problem in the first place,try to comb the hair of your petwith a wide-toothed comb to takeout the excess hair. So the next timeyour cat is grooming itself, it willingest less of its own hair.”

Smitha Kumari, a home-makerand an ardent lover of cats, lives withher family in Hyderabad. “I hadseven cats a few years back, but now

I live with two — Whiskey, a Siamesecat, and Wine, an Indian cat. I had atough time when I started with cats,but now I know what exactly they aresaying, or going through when theyhave a problem. Both my cats neverexperienced the hairballs problem,but I am vigilant when it comes totheir diets, and requirements. Theyare a happy pair, and seeing themhappy makes me happy too,” shesays.

Some of the other remedies comein the form of homeopathic medi -cines, available on doctor prescrip-

tion. Mild laxatives available exclu-sively for cats help keep their diges-tive tracts clean and are available invarious flavours.

Dr George M Alexander, a veteri-nary doctor based in Bengaluruadds, “Good fibrous food for catshelps in cleaning up the system. Thefibre in the food is supposed toattach itself to the stubborn hair-balls and naturally expel it from thesystems.” Agrees Dr Ravi Kumar, avet based in Hyderabad says, “I havea lot of my clients who have cats aspets, but are in many ways ignoranton how to take care of them. Fibre isyes, important, but cats don’trequire much, so don’t overdo it.They are meant to eat meat, and avegetable matter, but not in excess.So you should know where to stopfeeding them the fibrous foods.”

The independent and full-of-attitude feline friends are now becoming popular as pets inHyderabad. Their love to groom themselves and keep themselves impeccably clean is well-known. But there are of course, problems that come with self-grooming. Here, we discussa common problem in cats — hairballs

Hair carefor cats

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201123About stars, actors, and a bit of funMagic ScreenB-TOWN TWEETIES

@FarOutAkhtar

Delhi bound. Hope to get areal feel of what Nov weath-er should be like! Come onMumbai, get into wintermode asap!!

@kjohar25 Been shooting crazyhours..hectic but superfun...watchedROCKSTAR...and am a certi-fied Ranbir Kapoor fan!! Hisperformance is unbelievable!

@iamsrk Fifa soccer nite...going intomorning...its too much fun...

@SrBachchan T 557 - Its late but not with-out cause .. just back from‘RockStar’ and living in thebrilliance of all - Imtiaz Ali,Ranbir, AR and Nargis

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Producer’sjob not mycup of teaBollywood action hero Suniel Shetty, who

launched his own production companyeight years ago, describes producing

movies as difficult and stressful and says “it isnot my job.” In 2003, the 50-year-oldlaunched his production company, PopcornMotion Pictures Ltd, which produced filmslike Khel (2003), Rakht (2004), Bhagam Bhag(2006) and the latest, Loot.

“The transformation from being an actorto a producer has been difficult. A producer’sjob is very demanding. It is not my cup of tea,it is not my job, I know this for a fact,” Sunielsaid. “It is difficult to maintain relationshipsin this business. A lot of misunderstandingshappen and also there is too much stress. Idon’t think I want to be connected withstress,” he added without revealing whetherhe will discontinue with the moviemakingbusiness.

But his ultimate aimhe says is that peopleshould rememberhim as a goodhuman being. IANS

Gul has crush on JohnMarriage or no marriage,

pretty lady Gul is stilllooking out for some eye-candy. No, her marriage isnot in trouble. Earlier theactress had confessed abouthaving a crush on ArjunRampal, Chunky Pandey andeven heroine DeepikaPadukone; her latest crush as

she revealed is the dimpledJohn Abraham. The actresswrote on the microbloggingsite twitter, “Also present wasthe super hawt and extremelyhumble John Abraham -event ambassador for#SCMM #nowhavecrush.”John’s fan base only keepsincreasing by the day.

Motwane’s next isRs50 crore heist caper

VikramadityaMotwane is shellingout Rs50 crore to getthe old world look

right in his next project, aheist caper set in the 1950s.Apart from hiring vintagecars, the Udaan director hasset aside Rs5 crore just to getactor Ranveer Singh’s lookbang on in the film.

“The entire ethos of the

1950s is being recreated.When Motwane did Udaan,he went on location toJamshedpur to get a flavourof the 1970s in the Steel City.But this time the sights,sounds and flavours of the50s have to be recreated on astudio set. The cars and theclothes alone would costaround Rs25 crore,” said asource close to the project.

The producers, PhantomFilms, are going all out toensure that the period feel inthe film doesn’t look fake.Vintage cars are being soughtout from private owners inthe country and from inter-national car dealers, so thatthe aura of the era remainsintact.

Even Ranveer, who willfeature alongside SonakshiSinha in the film, is workinghard on his look. IANS

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201124About stars, actors, and a bit of funMagic ScreenDownload Donatella’s brainScottish designer Christopher Kane has admit-

ted he loves working with Donatella Versacebecause of her knowledge about the fashionworld. The two had collaborated for the Versuscollection and explained he would love to down-load her brain, reports a website. “I learned a lotworking for Donatella”.

Perrywants

kids withRussell

Singer Katy Perry thinks herhusband Russell Brand willmake a great dad and is

looking forward to start a familywith him.”I would love to havechildren. I think that’s one of thereasons you get married. Youthink, that person is going to be agood partner, a good parent,” awebsite quoted the 27-year-old assaying. “But I’m not sure it’s yet.We’ll see, ya know,” she added.

Brand married Perry in IndiaOctober last year. IANS

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Beyonce paid highestfor performancesBeyonce Knowles has been

named the highest earningentertainer in the world whocharges per minute for appearingon the stage. The Love on Topsinger topped a poll by socialmedia website saucytime.com byearning 1.25 million pounds for afive-song performance at a privateNew Year’s Eve 2010 party, equat-ing to 71,040 pounds for eachminute she was on the stage,reports a website. In second placewas Mariah Carey, who earned63,000 pounds per minute for afour-song set at a similar partyheld the previous year on the same

Caribbeanisland. Thirdhighest earn-er per minutewas Kylie Minogue, who com-manded 33,000 pounds every sixtyseconds or two million for herwhole hour set.

She had sung at the launchparty of the Atlantis Hotel inDubai, November 2008. Next wasJennifer Lopez, who received theequivalent of 25,000 pounds aminute from Russian tycoonAndrei Mein ichenko to appearat his wife’s birt hday party in2007. IANS

Kate Winslet loves her curvy figure andmakes sure to wear clothes that flat-ter her hour-glass shape. “I’m lucky

to go in and out at the right places, propor-tionately that’s something I have inheritedfrom my mother. I enjoy my shape and my

curves. At the same time, you have to knowhow to dress,” a website quoted Winslet as

saying. “If you are hippy, then pleats offthe waist? Forget it! You absolutely

cannot wear them. It’s about know-ing how to work with the right

fabric,” she added. The 35-year-old has two children,Mia, 11, her daughter with

first husband JimThreapleton, and

seven-year-old Joe,her son with

estrangedspouse Sam

Mendes.IANS

26About stars, actors, and bit of funMagic Screen SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Actor George Clooney considered killing himself sixyears ago, after he injured himself while shooting a

film. The 50-year-old injured himself while filming spythriller Syriana in 2005, and he was so racked with pain asa result of the spinal condition that he thought about ending his life, reports a website.

“I started to think, ‘I may have to do something drasticabout this.’ I was in a hospital bed unable to move, havingthese headaches where it feels like you’re having astroke,” Clooney told a magazine. “You don’t want toleave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, startthe engine. I was in a place where I was try-ing to figure out how to survive,” headd ed. IANS

Winslet proudto be curvy

George Clooney wanted to die

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 27About stars, actors, and a bit of funMagic Screen

Hip hop group Black Eyed Peas’ star Fergie is getting a breakfrom her hectic work schedule and is excited about decorating her house

The singer’s group is preparing to go on an indefinite hiatus andthe 35-year-old star admits she can’t wait to live a quieter life andsleep in her own bed for long stints, reports a website.

“I won’t miss sleeping in different hotel rooms all the time.I want to be home, because I moved into my house but I haven’t really been able to decorate it fully. I’ll be excited to be in my ownbed at night,” she said. IANS

Singer Rihanna has opted for a natu-ral look for her latest album TalkThat Talk. The We Found Love singer

is renowned for having crazy, ever-chang-ing hairstyles and colours and makingoutrageous music videos, but has decid-ed to focus on her singing for her nextalbum, reports a website.

“I didn’t want to make it such a bigdeal, like what hair colour. I wanted to goback to something simple, somethingflexible, something a little more natural.It’s more about the music,” she said. “Idon’t want to become a gimmick, ever,”she added. Talk That Talk will release onNovember 18. IANS

Former Friendsstar DavidSchwimmer is all

set to play a mafia con-tract killer in his nextfilm The Iceman.Schwimmer will playRichard Kuklinskiopposite actor RayLiotta’s portrayal of aMafia boss in themovie, reports a web-site. Kuklinski claimedto have killed morethan 250 peoplebetween 1948 and1986. The film alsostars MaggieGyllenhaal.

IANS

Schwimmerto playmafia killer Fergie

excited about homedecoration

Rihannagoes for natural look

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201128About stars, actors, and a bit of funMagic ScreenT-TOWN TWEETIES

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Ileana has reportedly bagged her second Hindi film.Her debut film in Bollywood, Barfee is still beingshot and she’s co-starring with Ranbir Kapoor and

Priyanka Chopra in this Anurag Basu’s film. The latest news in Bollywood is that she has

been signed up for Akshay Kumar’s upcoming filmtitled Khiladi 786. Akshay Kumar, HimeshReshammiya are playing the lead roles in the film,

which is expected to hit the screens in late 2012.An official announcement about the project is

expected to be made soon. In Telugu, Ileana isgoing to star in Trivikram Srinivas’ next film

where she’s paired up with Allu Arjun forthe first time in her career.

Ileana in AkshayKumar’s Khiladi 786

No biopic on RajinikanthFew days ago there was a

rumour that directorLloyd Baptista and pro-

ducer Atul Agnihotri wanted tomake a biopic on Rajinikanth’slife. Atul Agnihotri even wenton record to say that he hasbeen trying to talk toRajinikanth’s family to seekpermission to make this film.Now, Rajinikanth’s daughter,Soundarya Rajinikanth hasclarified that the news aboutthe biopic on her father wasjust a rumour. She tweetedthus: “Appa’s Biopic rumoursare false, if we work on some-thing as big as that you guyswill hear it from us first.” Onthe other hand, she also statedthat her dream project, Sultan— The Warrior has beenshelved due to various reasons.She’s planning to come up witha new storyline and title forthis dream project.

Anand Rangaturns producerwith PogaAnand Ranga who had

made his debut as a di -rector with Oy is all set toproduce a film titled Poga.Shan kar Marthand is goingto dir e ct this film. RandhirReddy and Bindu Madh -aviare playing the leadroles. Jayanan Vi n cent is thecinematograph er and thebuzz is that the en t ire filmis going to shot on digitalformat.

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1200 Movie - Haunted1500 Kaun Banega Crorepati1900 CID2000 Adaalat2100 Comedy Circus Ka Naya

Daur2230 Kaun Banega Crorepati0700 Telebrands0730 Sky Star Advertising0900 CID1100 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge1200 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai1230 Saas Bina Sasuraal1300 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge

‘[V] Steal Ur Girlfriend’ at1900 Hrs on CHANNEL [V]

1400 [V] Spot1430 [V] Axe Ur Ex 1530 [V] Trailers1555 [V] Fresh Songs1600 Gladrags Megamodel

Manhunt 20111700 [V] Humse Hai Life1900 [V] Steal Ur Girlfriend2000 [V] Axe Ur Ex 2100 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance2130 [V] Trailers2155 [V] Fresh Songs2200 [V] Axe Ur Ex 2300 [V] Steal Ur Girlfriend2355 [V] Fresh Songs0700 [V] Trailers0730 [V] Zabardast Hits0800 [V] Mind Blasting

Mornings1100 [V] Fresh Songs1200 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance

‘Et Insight’ at 2100 Hrsonly on ET NOW1400 Bollywood This Week1430 Et Insight1500 The Market Makers1530 Tee Time With Shaili Chopra1600 Technoholik1630 Your Trades1700 Zigwheels1730 Market Summit 20111830 The Market Makers1900 Investor's Guide1930 Starting Up2000 Zigwheels2030 Talking Technicals2100 Et Insight2130 Your Trades2200 Tee Time With Shaili Chopra2230 Brand Equity2300 The Market Makers0900 First Trades1000 Hot Stocks1100 Buy Now Sell Now - The

Stock Game1130 Buy Now Sell Now1200 Market Sense1300 Business Day1330 Markets Now

‘Deliver Us From Eva’ at 2000Hrs only on BIG CBS PRIME

1300 Movie - Deliver Us FromEva

1500 Survivor 1600 Bellator1700 Aspire1730 Big Wheels1800 The Defenders1900 Galileo Extreme2000 Movie - Deliver Us From

Eva2200 Aspire2230 The Defenders2330 Big Wheels

‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’ at1400 Hrs on ZOOM1400 Movie - Main Aur Mrs

Khanna1730 Letz Go!1900 Planet Bollywood News1930 Business Of Bollywood2000 Bollywood Big Story2030 Just For Love2300 Bollywood Bonanza0700 Fresh Mornings0800 Red Carpet0805 20 - 20 Songs0825 Fresh Mornings0900 My Top 201000 Fresh Mornings1100 Zoom Box1200 Garma Garam1300 Planet Bollywood News1330 Business Of Bollywood

‘Weeds’ at 2200 Hrs onZEE CAFE

1400 Cougar Town 1500 Scrubs 1600 The Big Bang Theory 1700 Better With You1800 The Event2000 Happy Endings2100 Private Practice 2200 Weeds2230 America's Funniest Home

Videos 202300 Better With You0800 Just For Laughs 0830 Scrubs0900 The Real Housewives Of

New Jersey1000 Pretty Little Liars1100 America's Funniest Home

Videos 20 1130 Better With You1200 Hell's Kitchen 1330 America's Funniest Home

Videos 20

‘Breakout Kings’ at 2200Hrs on STAR WORLD1400 Extreme Trail 1500 GQ Men Of The Year 2011

- Main Event1600 Masterchef Australia 1800 Terra Nova 1900 Necessary Roughness 2000 The Dewarists2100 India's Most Desirable -

Finale2200 Breakout Kings 2300 Dexter0800 Rules Of Engagement 0830 The Simpsons 0900 Masterchef Australia 1000 Criminal Minds Suspect

Behavior 1100 Melissa & Joey 1130 Home Improvement 1200 Terra Nova 1300 Melissa & Joey

‘Chillar Party’ at 1500 Hrson COLORS

1300 Hum Bhi Agar Bacche Hote1500 Movie - Chillar Party 1800 Movie - Spider-Man 22000 Hum Bhi Agar Bacche Hote2200 Bigg Boss - Undekha

Action2300 Parichay - Nayee Zindagi

Kay Sapno Ka0800 Veer Shivaji 0900 Parichay - Nayee Zindagi

Kay Sapno Ka 0930 Bigg Boss1000 Hawan 1030 Uttaran 1100 Balika Vadhu - Kacchi

Umar Ke Pakke Rishte 1130 Phulwa

‘Aa Gale Lag Jaa’ at 2000Hrs on SAB TV1400 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma1600 Sab Ka Evening Show1730 Fir2000 Movie - Aa Gale Lag Jaa2300 Fir0800 Teleshopping0900 Happy Housewives Club0930 Don't Worry Chachu !!!1200 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma

‘Destroyed In Seconds’ at2230 Hrs on DISCOVERYCHANNEL

1400 Curiosity1500 Revealed - Golden Temple1600 Discovery Biggest Shows1700 Discovery Showcase1800 Wild Discovery1900 Man Woman Wild2000 Dual Survival2100 Man Vs Wild2200 Gold Rush - Alaska2230 Destroyed In Seconds2300 Curiosity1000 Detonators1100 Worst Case Scenario1130 Million 2 One1200 Gold Rush - Alaska1300 Wild Discovery

MOVIES OF THE DAY AND OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

‘Bheja Fry 2’ at 1300 Hrson STAR PLUS1300 Movie - Bheja Fry 2 1530 Mann Ki Awaaz... Pratigya 1700 Movie - Singham 2000 Mann Ki Awaaz... Pratigya 2100 Master Chef India 2200 Masterchef India -

Zaykebaazon Ka Safar2230 Master Chef India 2330 Masterchef India -

Zaykebaazon Ka Safar0800 Superstar Preview0830 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai0900 Diya Aur Bati Hum0930 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri

Behnaa Hai1000 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya1130 Maryaada ... Lekin Kab Tak?

MasterChefIndiaStoryline - In this children’sday special episode thezaykebaaz have to preparea nutritious and attractiveJapanese bento box forkids. Who will bow out ofthe competition this week?

‘MasterChef India’ at 2100 Hrs onSTAR PLUS

Storyline - "ChangingWorld" captures the essenceof those collaborating onthe track; Dogra, whomoved from New York toMumbai recently, and Shri,who moved from Mumbai tothe UK years ago.

‘The Dewarists’ at 2000 Hrs onSTAR WORLD

The Dewarists

‘Treasure Quest’ at 2030Hrs on DISCOVERYSCIENCE

‘The Foodie’ at 1830 Hrsonly on TIMES NOW

1300 News Now At 11330 Total Recall1400 News Now1430 Enow Spice1500 News Now1530 Times Now Sport Weekend1600 News Now1630 Times Drive1700 News Now1730 Amazing Indians1800 Versus1900 News Now2000 Total Recall2100 9 PM2130 Total Recall2200 News Now2230 Times Now Sport Weekend2300 News Now Overnight0800 The Morning News0900 News Now1200 Live Report1230 News Now1300 News Now At 1

1430 Discovery Science Classics1530 Stan Lee's Superhumans1630 Breaking Point1730 How Do They Do It?1830 Best Of Discovery Science1930 Weird Or What?2030 Treasure Quest2130 How It’s Made2200 New Inventors2230 Weaponology2330 The New Inventors1030 Treasure Quest1130 How It’s Made1200 New Inventors1230 Best Of Discovery Science1330 Catalyst

1240 Iron Man 1505 Mortal Kombat 1705 Scooby-Doo 1850 Blade - Trinity 2100 Kung Fu Panda 2250 Bloodsport0855 Friends 0925 New Adventures Of Old

Christine 0955 Executive Decision 1230 Kung Fu Panda

1450 Nanny Mcphee & The Big Bang 1710 Clash Of The Titans 1935 Entourage - One Last Shot 2020 Entourage - Whiz Kid 2100 Charlie St. Cloud 2310 Iron Man 2 0830 Hercules 1045 Charlie St. Cloud 1250 At First Sight

‘Jalsa - Music for Soul’ at2330 Hrs on ZEE TV1200 Movie 1600 Star Ya Rockstar1900 Apka Sapna Hamara Apna1930 Shobha Somnath Ki2030 Star Ya Rockstar2200 Star Ya Rockstar Spotlight2230 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein2330 Jalsa - Music for Soul0800 Telemart 0900 Bhagonwali0930 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein1000 Choti Bahu 1030 Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar

Kheli1100 Ram Milaye Jodi1130 Hitler Didi1200 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein

‘Charlie St. Cloud’ at 2100 Hrs on HBO

‘Aakasa Ramanna’ at 1600Hrs on GEMINI TV

‘Ready’ at 1900 Hrs onZEE TELUGU

‘Edureeta’ at 2230 Hrs onETV‘Namo Venkatesha’ at

1900 Hrs on MAA TV

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201130Chai Time Take a shot at the brain game while sipping your cuppa

ACROSS1 Hollows6 Party-thrower’s plea10 Spouse’s brother (hyph.)15 Late summer flower20 Call for a new survey21 Iris center22 Steam bath23 Gradient24 Jung’s inner self25 Booster rocket26 Chef’s attire27 Bleached out28 Steakhouse choice (2 wds.)30 Kept from seeing32 Ogled33 Propagate35 A Saarinen36 Undulating39 Turner of TV40 Pacino and Unser41 Home page addr.42 Fine spray46 Berg or floe47 Flit about48 Medicine chest item

(hyph.)51 Sound a bell53 — — standstill54 Primitive, often56 Gals’ partners57 Walking — —59 Enthusiastic61 Word of welcome62 Having a good physique63 Prize fight64 Puget Sound port65 Chilean novelist67 Swit co-star68 Lyric poem69 Nope (hyph.)72 Sothern or Blyth73 Seek old haunts76 Accounts book80 Not masc.81 This, to Juan82 Cut timber83 Maintain85 Antiquity86 Apollo’s priestess88 Bowler hats92 Little kid93 Ottoman VIPs94 Boat implement95 Desk material96 Apple-pie order (3 wds.)99 Court game102 Maltese remark103 Like nice grapes104 Hindu sacred writings108 Sci-fi thriller109 Works the soil110 Ms. Anderson111 High waistline112 Sass113 Mild oaths115 Island off Scotland116 “— Kapital”117 Flag Day grp.118 Movie’s need120 Tint121 Add sound effects123 Prickly seedcase124 Free ticket125 Silica mineral127 Fable author

129 Existential writer131 Handy tool135 Low-budget travelers140 Knockout gas141 Yurt dweller142 Great Buddhist king of

India143 Undeliverable mail144 Lower leg145 Vote in146 Witch-hunt locale147 Catty148 — -turvy149 Bull-riding event150 Inspected151 Organic compound

DOWN1 Sabatini opponent2 Ms. Riefenstahl3 “Iron Man” Zatopek4 That is to say5 Burst of activity6 Mountainous7 Blow a paycheck8 In — veritas9 Backup (2 wds.)10 Juan Peron’s widow11 Port near Pompeii12 Like the tabloids13 Prolific auth.

14 Rolling stone15 Regarding (2 wds.)16 Zigzag course17 Lincoln in-law18 Fencing blade19 Funny Foxx21 In twos29 Alloy component31 Declined34 Break-dance music36 Also starring37 Lot size, often38 Conceal41 Moon — Zappa43 Shakespeare villain44 Quell45 O’Hara estate47 Liverpool poky48 — pro quo49 Mary — Moore50 Devotee’s suffix51 Hawaiian island52 Chief55 Humdrum56 Revved the engine57 Necessitate58 Gives silent assent60 Breezed through62 Twisted64 El Greco’s city66 Surgical devices

67 Circumvent69 Roswell crasher70 Any ship71 Ms. Thurman74 Nudges75 Japanese straw mat77 Golly!78 TV Tarzan portrayer79 Hwys.81 She loved Lancelot84 Mae West persona87 Ice-cream treat89 Big pitchers90 Motel vacancy91 Beauty parlor93 Noise from a pager97 Centurion’s moon98 Zoo workers (abbr.)99 Powder base100 Charles Lamb101 Bites102 Compelled103 Arafat’s org.105 Prima donna106 Kennel sounds107 Works as a tailor109 “Absalom, Absalom”

writer111 Sagan’s “pale blue dot”114 Steps to the Ganges115 Nigerian tribe

116 Duke locale119 Remembrances121 Mar122 Did, once (2 wds.)123 Provided capital124 Large ducks126 Cheerful127 Intended128 Stage129 Mink item

130 Dishwasher cycle131 Ant or roach132 He overthrew Galba133 Bloke134 — contendere136 By Jove! (2 wds.)137 Off-ramp138 Tease mercilessly139 Psychic

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King of Cups – Youʼ ‑re going by what yo ‑u feel rather than w ‑h at you think is theright solution. Thismay work well, con‑sidering your intu‑itive abilities aregood at the moment.

Nine of Swords –Payattention to your dr ‑eams. Youʼre feelingextremely anxiousabout somethi ng an ‑d that is reflec ting t ‑h rough your s u bco ‑nscious mind inyour dreams.

Seven of Wands –Someone close toyou is hatching asecret plan againstyou. Nothing to feelunduly worried abo ‑ut. Just donʼt ever ke ‑ep your guard down.

ARIES TAURUS GEMINIARIESBe cordial with blood relatives so thatyou will derive happiness. Avoid angerand bad habits like consuming alcohol,as they will make disturb you mentally.Avoid disptutes with bad people.

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LIBRAKeep away from bad friends. Avoid ge ‑t ting into disputes. Spend your time w ‑ith family today and keep them hap py.Your prayers will yield a good re sulttoday. Take decision of future today.

CAPRICORNAvoid being greedy and try to over‑power greed. Employees are advisedto be cautious at work place as cha ‑nces of minor accidents possible. To ‑day must be spent with patience.

TAURUSA good news is expected. Marriagemay be settled for any one of yourblood relatives. Powerful officials areadvised not to misuse their power astimes ahead could bring trouble.

LEOUnexpected fortune to surprise youtoday. Be cordial with blood relatives,especially with elders. Politicians willhave a boom time. Artistes will berewarded for good performance.

SCORPIOIncrease your self‑confidence and facehurdles with bold mind so that yourworks will end successfully. Avoid anytravel planned for today and makingfriendship with a strange person.

AQUARIUSAvoid thinking inferior about yourcapabilites. Be alert while driving.Those who want to involve in writingpoems, articles, etc, can start a projectto day. Certain adverse situations likely.

GEMINIChances of receiving unexpectedmoney. Spend good time with familyby taking them to outdoor locations. Iffacing hurdles, try to stay patient andresolve the same. Donʼt follow others.

VIRGOYour stock is set to pile up. A good dayto buy vehicle, assets or undertake pil‑grimage. Those appearing for interviewtoday will attain success. Many will fol‑low your advises and suggestions.

SAGITTARIUSThose in romance will have a favourableday and their marriage is on the cards.You look cheerful today. Donʼt try to takeanyone for a ride as it might rebound.Take financial decisions after analysis.

PISCESEnemies might target you and chancesof facing humiliation. Try to keep yourcool and keep them away. Extra care tobe taken during journey and driving.Avoid making fresh investments.

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Seven of Pentacles– Youʼre feeling tir ‑ed and exhaustedby the routine andby taking care ofeverything. You ne ‑e d to make cha ng ‑e s to feel refreshed.

Two of Wands –This is a waitingperiod. You havemade your movesand are now waitingfor the results. Keepyour fingers crossedand be patient.

The Devil – Youʼreitching to do some‑thing out of the ordi‑nary. Be practicalan d check if you wo ‑uld be investing toomuch time on some‑thing you wonʼt getback enough from.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

Knight of Cups –Youʼre chargingahead with newenergy and are feel‑ing creative and inthe mood to go allthe way with yourplans. Go ahead!

Ace of Wands – Thisis a creative timewhen you learnsomething new. Youuse this new skill ininnovative ways tobring effectiveresults.

Queen of Wands –Youʼre in controland need to do littleto make your planswork. Your wealth ofexperience comes tothe rescue and youuse it to grow.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Nine of Cups – Allyour plans are comingto fruition. Your wish‑es are all coming true.Do not get und ulyworried about an y ‑thing. You are gettingexactly what you want.

The Moon – Youʼrefeeling moody and itis reflecting on yourclose relationships.It takes away theirenergy and they feeltired and begin topick fights with you.

The Star –Not all islost. If youʼre feelingdisappointed that acertain plan didnʼt w ‑o rk, it may have b e ‑en for the best. Ev ‑ery thingʼs working toa larger plan anyway.

CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES

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Avoid fresh loans or any other type offinancial transaction today. Avoid con‑frontations as much as possible. Post ‑pone taking important decisions fornow. Be careful while driving.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011

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Your tomorrow today̶Star Power and Tarot

Date 14-11-2011

George W Bush, in an air-port lobby, noticed a manin a long flowing white

robe with a long flowing whitebeard and flowing white hair.The man had a staff in one handand some stone tablets underthe other arm.

Bush approached the man andinquired, “Aren’t you Moses?”

The man ignored Bush andstared at the ceiling.

Bush positioned himselfmore directly in the man’s view

and asked again, “Aren’t youMoses?”

The man continued toperuse the ceiling. Bush tuggedat the man’s sleeve and askedonce again, “Aren’t youMoses?”

The man finally respondedin an irritated voice, “Yes I am”.

Bush asked him why he wasso unfriendly and Moses replied,“The last time I spoke to a BushI had to spend forty years in thedesert.”

That’s G Dubbya Bush

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 201132Spotlight

Anahita, Hyderabad's high-fashionhub, has organised an ensemble of

designer products. 'Bridal Hyderabad'with lehangas by Anand Kabra, sarisby Varun Bahl, and for the first time,bridal collections of Adarsh Gill is on

till November 19.

Usher in thebridal season