postnoon e-paper for 23 october 2012

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HAJ ASPIRANTS LOOTED BY AGENTNearly 20 men and women from the City who had saved for a

year to fulfil their heart’s desire to go on Haj pilgrimage find themselvesgrounded. They had no inkling till this morning that the agent Sayed Khan ofOld City had vanished with all their money (amounting to `25 lakh) and travel

documents without a trace. His family, besieged by shrieking victims, isspending sleepless nights praying for his return, sources said.

HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

MID-TERM POLLS?The Telugu Desam Party, that had launched amarathon padayatra, is all set to wind up itssecond leg of the campaign in the Telanganaregion, fearing a mid-term poll, sources closeto the party told Postnoon.

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city eventsTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES

Photo exhibitionAlliance Française ofHyderabad invites you to TheUpside Down World ofPhilippe Ramette, an exhibition of photos.Where:Alliance Francaise,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 3

When: Omgoing,9am-6pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2355 4485

In tune with lifeJiva — In tune with life, an art exhibition of paintings and sculptures by 120 artists andart talks by experts on theconcept of biodiversity is being held. Where: Iconart Gallery,


When: Ongoing,11.30am to 7pm

Contact: 98499 68797

Tribute to MahatmaAn exhibition depicting thelife of Mahatma Gandhithrough the drawings of LateVenkateshwara Raju Palala isbeing held at SalarjungMuseum. The exhibition is ontill October 31.

Where: Salarjung Museum,Afzal Gunj

When: Ongoing,4.30pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2457 6443

Folds of disguiseFolds of disguise, a show ofrecent works by artist Hetal

Chudasama is being held atKalakrithi Art Gallery.. Where:Kalakrithi Art Gallery,


When: Ongoing,11am onwards

Contact: (040) 6656 4466

PrakritiAn exhibition of paintings byBhaskar Rao B, Shravan

Kumar, Konda Srinivas,Jagadeesh G, Bholekar Srihariand Jayaprakash V. TheExhibition will be held tillOctober 24.Where:Shilparamam,

Crafts VillageMadhapur

When: Ongoing,

10.30am onwards Contact: (040) 2310 0455

Feline graceFeline Grace Art Show, apainting exhibition by artist D.jayaprakshy is being held atMuse Art Gallery. Where: Muse Art Gallery,

Tank BundWhen: Ongoing,

11am onwards

Contact: (040) 2752 2999

Spiritual questA painting exhibition byPadma-nabh Bendre titledSpiritual Quest-Lord Shiva willbe held from November 3.The exhibits will be on displayfrom 11am to 7pm atKalakrithi Art Gallery.Where:Kalakrithi Art Gallery,


When: November 3 onwards, 11am onwards

Contact: (040) 6656 4466

Musical fiestaShefali Alvares a jazz/rockvocalist will be performinglive at Hard Rock Cafe onOctober 26. She is a versatileSinger who has also sung forBollywood. Where: Hard Rock Cafe,


When: October 26, 8pm onwards

Contact: (040) 6463 6375

Play timeGrim Pumpkin Theater pre-sents their production of VijayTendulkar's play, Silence! TheCourt Is In Session on October26 at Lamakaan.Where: Lamakaan,


When: October 26, 7.30pm onwards

Contact: 98490 26029

Film workshopA filmmaking workshop and afilm appreciation workshop isbeing held. The workshopsare being held on weekendsonly.When: October 27 onwards,

1.30pm onwards

Contact: 94904 40986

Navrathra food festHead to De Taali for theNavrathra food fest. Sample avariety of Navrathra specialdelicacies. The food fest is ontill October 23.Where:De Taali,

Begumpet When: Ongoing,

7pm onwardsContact: (040) 4020 4001

Rannaghor food festHotel Ista, Gachibowli is host-ing a Bengali Food Fest. Thefest is open for lunch and dinner till October 28.Where:Hotel Ista,

Gachibowli When: October 19 to 28

1pm onwardsContact: (040) 4450 8888

Maach mango mishtiAditya Sarovar, Gachibowli ishosting a Bengali food festcalled Maach Mango Mishti.The fest is on everyday forboth lunch and dinner tillOctober 28.Where: Aditya Sarovar

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

3City YESTERDAY’S QUESTIONSHOULD WE GO IN FOR STRICTER POPULATION CONTROL MEASURES?

YES (A)

NO (B)

TODAY’S QUESTIONARE WE HEADING TOWARDS A MID-TERM POLL?A) YES B) NO

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Nearly 20 menand womenfrom the City

who had saved for ayear to fulfil theirheart’s desire to go onHaj pilgrimage findthemselves grounded.

They had noinkling till this morn-ing that the agentSayed Khan of OldCity had vanishedwith all their money(amounting to `25lakh) and travel docu-ments without a trace.His family, besieged

by shrieking victims, isspending sleeplessnights praying for hisreturn, sources said.

According todetails, Khan, a resi-dent of Ahmed Colonyin Toli Chowki, wasrunning a travel agen-cy at Hussaini Alamfor the past few years.

In July and Augustthis year, he had takenlakhs of rupees fromprospective Haj pil-grims and promisedthem their flightwould leave onOctober 23 at 5.30am.

The unsuspectingpilgrims reached theairport but found to

their horror no suchflight was scheduled.

The last flight forHaj had left onSaturday. The franticpilgrims tried to callthe agent on hismobile whichresponded with areply, “out of reach.”Some others got a mes-sage of switched off.Some of the relativesof the victims rushedto his office and foundit locked. There wasnobody to answerabout Khan’s where-abouts.

They dashed to hishome in Toli Chowki

where his wife andchildren expressedtheir helplessness asthey too did not knowwhere he was. In fact,they swore they cameto know of the scandalonly now.

Shahzadi Begum, awidow and a residentof Ali Nagar Jahanumatold Postnoon that shehad saved for manyyears for this momen-tous occasion but nowis left devastated.

The other prospec-tive pilgrims too werein a similar situation.They are now plan-ning to lodge a crimi-nal complaint.

Pilgrims’ progress haltedHaj pilgrims from the City found to their horror that theirmoney, passports and travel documents have been swiped.

Bid to smuggle gold in pilgrim’s bagPOSTNOON NEWS

AHaj committeefunctionary is sus-pected to have

used a pilgrim’s bag tosmuggle gold but thealert airline securitydetected it before thepassenger boarded theplane to Saudi Arabia onSaturday.

The issue, which

created a flutter amongthe security staff and theHaj committee, led tochaos in the Haj House.Checking resulted in thediscovery of gold anddiamonds wrapped inplastic sachets. The esti-mated worth is around`5 lakh, officials said.

This incidentoccurred where some300 Hajjis boarded the

plane. Questioningrevealed that the pas-senger was being usedby a suspected Haj committee member,though exact detailscould not be ferretedout as yet. Postnoon’srepeated efforts to con-tact Haj committeechairman SyedKhaleeluddin Ahmedproved futile.

POWER

Virasam revolution-ary writers’ forum,on Monday

demanded that the gov-ernment immediatelywithdraw all the casesfiled against its membersof fact-finding committee,which was headingtowards Kudamkulam inTamil Nadu to study thesituation where peoplewere agitating againstnuclear power plant.

Virasam leader VaraVara Rao alleged that theTn government was usingpolice force to muzzlevoice of the people. NSS

‘Withdrawcases againstmembers’

The column that teaches everyonesomething new about the way theCity functions.

1 Going to Haj? Get a reliableagent or you’ll be cheated.

Enthusiastic Haj pilgrims in theCity were in for a rude shock whenthe agent who had promised toorganise their tour fled with theirmoney and travel documents.

2 Political unrest is affectingState’s economy as well.

While Hyderabadis might havereconciled to the unrest prevailinghere, domestic tourists wouldrather avoid the City, causing losses to the City’s economy.

3 It might be illegal, but it’sbeen around for 40 years!

The second-hand bike market inRamkote might be breaking sever-al laws, but for 40 years now theGHMC has turned a blind eye to it.

4 GHMC’s coming up with allthe wrong solutions.

The GHMC would much rather hikethe property tax than round up thedefaulters and raise revenues.

5City makes presence felt atthe Mumbai Film Festival.

It’s a prestigious event and theAnnapurna International Schoolfor Film+Media ensured that it gotnoticed in the fraternity.

city TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 4

Clean up City airLast year we had reported how the

APSRTC in a bid to do their bit toreduce air pollution in the City hadintroduced a fleet of CNG buses. Thefirst such bus had been flagged off onthis day last year and CNG buses wereexpected to ply regularly along Cityroutes. Also CNG buses were expectedto bring down operation costs byalmost 30 per cent.

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Thieves steal van fromunder owner’s noseAvan parked in front of a home

was stolen at night. The com-plaint lodged with the Bowenpallypolice said one Mohd Shabbir ofMudfort had parked his van beforehis house but it was stolen by morn-ing. He did not hear anythingunusual, leading to speculation thatthe thief had pushed the vehiclebefore speeding away.

Police arrest four forrunning arms racketMahbubnagar police have busted

an illegal arms running racketand arrested four people in thisconnection. The police claimed tohave seized a huge cache ofweapons and ammunition fromtheir possession. According to thepolice, the four accused originallyhail from Bihar. A case has beenbooked and investigations are on.

Woman killed in hit-and-run incidentKDeviya, 40, a native of Siddipet

who was on a visit to the City,was fatally run over by a speedingcar while she was out on her morning walk yesterday in theGandhinagar area. The vehicle, afterthe mishap, sped away and thepolice are on the lookout for thevehicle. A case has been bookedand investigations are on.

Cop whistle-blowerfinally arrestedFormer constable, KV Giri Prasad

Sarma, who threatened to exposelarge-scale irregularities in thePolice Transport Organisation, wasarrested by the City police onMonday. Sarma was dismissed whenhe had allegedly kidnapped PTOsuperintendent Lakshminarayana onSeptember 12 and held him hostageat Adarshnagar for a few hours.

LAST YEAR... HERE TOURISM

NEWS BRIEFS

641crwas the total property tax

yielded last year. Despite this, theGHMC has decided to raise the

property tax amount this year.

5THINGS WELEARNT TODAY

NUMEROLOGY

I have beenworking here

since 1998. I under-stand we are wrong inencroaching space,but we have no alter-native. If the govtgives us space, Iwould move.

Syed Hashmi, mechanicSee page 6

stand at 17,29,987 whichis somewhere equal tothat of last year.However, the domestictour operators who expe-rienced some businessduring the summer,point out that they aremaking losses owing toreasons like Telanganaagitation. “We are pay-ing taxes from our pock-ets. What else can wesay? This has beengoing on for three-fourmonths,” says Prakash, atour operator inSecunderabad.

The number ofdomestic tourist visits(DTVs) to AndhraPradesh was 153.1 lakhlast year. With 18 percent share, it stood sec-ond for both number oftourists and share, as perthe official figures.

Hyderabad is the topdestination for touristsvisiting from TamilNadu, Karnataka,Maharashtra and WestBengal. But, according tothe Hyderabad andSecunderabad CitiesContract Carriage BusOwner’s Association,there has been a drop inthe number of touristscoming to the City.

“What keeps us busyis the local population

which engage buses formarriages and parties.Those who are spe-cialised in tourism areexperiencing losses,”acknowledges MauzamAhmed, general secre-tary of the association.

One of the reasonspointed out by Cityoperators is the politicaldisturbances. The lastfew months according tothem were the ‘worst’.

Interestingly, thosewho are more into inter-national tourism areuntouched by the phe-nomenon. Garuda IndiaHolidays, much ofwhose focus is on inter-national tourists isdoing business as usual.“We are doing goodbusiness,” quippedJohnson John, manager,operations, Garuda.

However, the APTourism DevelopmentCorporation claims thesuccess of CoP as animportant achievementas part of tourism pro-motion. "Because of theseveral hotels engagedfor the event, domestictourists might have post-poned their plans.Otherwise there is nobig dip in the numbers,"said B Srinivas, execu-tive director.

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Even thoughofficial figuresof domestictourism gives a

feel good factor aboutHyderabad being inthe list of top destina-tions, the ground reali-

ty seems different.While festival crowdsswell, actual domestictourists are dwindling,they say.

The tour operators,who were doing goodbusiness until recentmonths, blame it onthe prevalent politicalinstability. However,this stance is not quite

convincing to many forlack of evidence aspolitical turmoil due tothe T factor has beensubdued this year ascompared to last year.

According toHyderabad Metro Rail,the latest figures ofdomestic tourists’arrivals in Hyderabadand Ranga Reddy

The inflowof domestictourists to

the Cityhave come

down following

the numerous

politicalagitationsthat have

rockedHyderabadfor the lasttwo years.

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POLITICS

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The Telangana JointAction Committee'scall to boycott the

ruling Congress leadersduring Dussera is givingsleepless nights to T-Congress MLAs and ministers.

Ministers, particularly,have become a worried lot.They are facing a lot ofpressure from the party'ssecond-rung leaders andgrass root cadres on theseparate Telangana issue.Besides, the continuousdemand from T-JAC lead-ers that the T-ministersshould mount pressure ontheir party high commandto ensure that the separatestate becomes a reality isalso multiplying worriesof the ministers.

To ward off the troubleto an extent, a few T-minis-ters met with party AP in-charge and Union healthminister Ghulam NabiAzad on Saturday morn-

ing. Major and minor irri-gation minister PSudarshan Reddy andcivil supplies minister DSridhar Babu, panchayatraj minister K Jana Reddyand BC welfare minister BSaraiah apprised Azadabout the problems thatwere being caused due tothe inordinate delay inannouncing the decision ofa separate state.

“Our only concern isthat we are facing lot ofpressure from our sup-porters in our Assemblyconstituencies. They areconstantly telling us oftheir inability to minglewith people because of theparty’s attitude on a sepa-rate Telangana. We wantour party high commandto immediately make itsstand clear on Telangana.This would not only helpus keep our heads high butalso allow us to meet ourpeople,” BC welfare minis-ter B Saraiah told Postnoon.

Information tech nolo -gy and comm unications

minister P Laxmaiahhoped that the Congressleadership would take afavourable decision on theissue of a separateTelangana.

“Emotion on a T-Stateis very strong.Our party highcommand hastaken cogni-sance of theseemotions andthe problemsbeing faced byus. TheTelangana peo-ple will soonhear the goodnews on for-mation of aseparate T-state,” he said.

‘I CHALLENGESEEMANDHRA LEADERS’Another senior leader ofthe party and former BCcommission member VKrishna Mohan Rao criti-cised the attitude of theparty for causing confu-sion among the people of

the region. He doubtedthat the party high com-mand was still under theinfluence of Seemandhraleaders, who he says havebecome an obstacle in theformation of a separate T-

state. “I am chal-lenging all see-mandhra lead-ers whetherthey canensure the victory ofCongress with-out formingTelangana. Butwe will ensureour party’s vic-tory if theT e l a n g a n astate is creat-

ed,” he said. He said that the confu-

sion created by the highcommand is weakeningthe party in T-region andwarned that the Congresswould be reduced to anought if it continues dillydallying on the Telanganaissue.

Untold miseries of T-ministersT-ministers are a worried lot due topressure from grassroot cadres.

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The used bike mar-ket in King Koti,Ramkote areas,touted to be Asia’s

largest second-hand bikemarket is increasinglybecoming a traffic block,thanks to the inability ofthe GHMC and trafficpolice to restructure busi-ness spaces and traffic asper modern needs.

The four-decade-oldused bike market has beena source of employmentfor over 1,500 workerswho work, repair, modifyand sell the bikes to clientswho come from far andwide. The problem todayis that most of these shopshave encroached upon thefootpaths to showcase

their vehicles. The everrising vehicle populationand the presence ofschools in and around thearea add to the woes of thetravelling public.

While many sympa-thise with those whodepend on the market as asource of economy andemployment, it is,nonetheless, proving aproblem. The Hyderabadtraffic police seem to havegiven up on solving thisproblem.

ACP A Narsing Rao ofthe Sultan Bazaar policestation says, “The GHMChas never raised this issuewith us. The departmenthas never bothered tocheck on the footpathencroachments noraddress this issue with us,despite the market being

around for 40 years in theCity. How are we to take anyaction if the civic body con-tinues to turn a blind eye to it?”

The police officer is notwrong. None of the standingcommittee meetings haveever addressed this issue sofar. Corporator MP SriramChander of the SultanBazaar circle says, “Theproblem with this area isthat the entire market stretchis divided between threemunicipalities — HimayathNagar, Barkatpura andSultan Bazaar. Despite beingunder the watch of three cor-

porators, this issue hasnever been raised in thestanding committee or withthe commissioner.”

The corporator’s stancereflects the GHMC’s apathyto civic problems in the City.Other second-hand bikemarkets have come up apingthe Koti’s example .

Syed Hashmi, a bikerepair mechanic says, “Ihave been working heresince my father set up theshop in 1998. I too under-stand that we are in thewrong, encroaching on thefootpaths or taking up themotor-space of the roads.But what are we to do? Wedo not have an alternative. Ifthe government is willing toprovide us space, I will glad-ly move.”

Added to this is the pres-ence of schools in the area.Autos carrying children jamthe roads during the morn-ings and the evenings result-ing in absolute chaos. Of the

While the usedbike market hasover the yearsbecome popularamong clientsand has alsoacted as asource ofincome formany, lack ofplanning hasresulted in traffic gridlocksin the area.

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400 second hand bike deal-ers in the City, more than160 are in the Ramkote-King Koti stretch. Whilethe GHMC and the trafficpolice need to resolve theirresponsibilities, traffic and commuter woes are boundto continue.

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TDP leader GoneHanmanth Raowarned the TJAC to

refrain from meaninglessattacks on the TDP padaya-tra. “Telangana is not yourancestral property,” he toldT-JAC leader ProfKodandaram on Monday.

His warning came afterthe T-protagonists’ demandthat the TDP should makeits stand clear on Telanganabefore undertaking paday-atra in the region. The TRSand T-JAC are set to blockChandrababu Naidu’smarathon padayatra in theregion. However, policeintervened and prevented a

clash yesterday. Rao said that Kodan da -

ram was barking up the wr -ong tree. “He should inst e -ad question Telangana Ras -htra Samiti (TRS) president

K Chandrasekhar Rao andCongress leaders SoniaGandhi and Manmohan Si -n gh as to why they delayeddelivering Telangana. Whathas Naidu to do with

Telangana formation?” heasked.

The senior TDP leadersaid the T-JAC should askKCR what happened to hispromise of the Telangana’sbirth by Dussera, Rao sug-gested. He termed the anti-TDP stance of the TRS illog-ical and unwarranted.

The TDP leader furthersaid that his party presi-dent had made the standamply clear in his letter tothe Union government.“Naidu committed himselfto the stand taken duringthe 2009 Mahanadu and itis stated clearly in the letterto the PM. Naidu made itclear on Monday he had noobjection to the formationof Telangana,” he said.

Mind your business, TDP tells T-JACTelangana is not anybody’s property and Naidu has as much right to campaign as any other leader in the State, says an MLA.

GHMC punishing honest tax payersThe civic body is all set to make a slew of fresh property tax hike, while it fails to extract several hundred crores owed by big commercial establishments and residential owners.

Md [email protected]

The GHMC’s ongoingdeliberations on apossible hike in the

property tax to net `1,000crore revenue has givenrise to a new debate onwhether a fresh dose of taxis avoidable by pluggingthe loopholes.

Those who oppose thehike point out that if holesare mended, the corpora-tion could very well col-lect `1,500 crore withoutthrusting additional bur-den on the paying public.

With the 13 lakh prop-erties of different kinds inthe City, around 10 lakhare residential and theremainder comes underthe commercial category.During the last year, theGHMC was able to gener-ate `500 crore and byMarch-end this year, therevenue yielded totalled`641 crore against thebudgeted `653 crore.Instead of tweaking thecurrent mechanism, theGHMC aims at achievingthe target by hiking theproperty tax.

The hike would affecthonest tax payers, while itwill reward those resorting

to short-cuts like under-valuing their propertiesand obtaining court stayorders. According to offi-cials, there are more than 30per cent defaulters in theGHMC limits. Some of thebig hotels, business estab-lishments and corporatehospitals, most of which arelocated in Banjara Hills,have run up defaults ofhuge amounts. Tax evasionand ‘under-valuation’ aresome of the biggest loop-holes being exploited byunscrupulous owners.Getting court stay orders isanother major stumblingblock. Asked if theCorporation could not havefiled a common caveat inthe court to discourage ex-parte stay orders, officialsexpressed ignorance of theprovisions. Rather, an offi-cial offered a queer reason-ing: “Everyone has theright to defend if he is notsatisfied with the govern-ment decision. We cannotcompel them.”

The Opposition TDP is‘opposing’ the moveunconditionally. TDP floorleader Singireddy SrinivasReddy said, “We opposethe hike as it will raise theburden on the commonman who is alreadycrushed under inflation.

Instead of increasing theproperty tax, the GHMCshould look into theoptions where several dis-crepancies can be cleared.”

Officials who are upsetwith the working style ofthe GHMC point out thatthere could be close to 80per cent ‘under-valuation’and the hike would onlyopen more doors for morecorruption. “It will nothelp the corporation butthe valuation officers anddeputy commissions to filltheir pockets,” points outan official on the conditionof anonymity.

LAXITY ANDILLOGICAL DECISIONS The GHMC failed to showits mettle in cases of chequebouncing for property taxamounting close to `70lakh. Another fact that mayraise eyebrows is the penal-ty waiver clause providedby the government at theend of the financial year2011-12. The waiver hadcost the corporation a sub-stantial amount that wouldotherwise have helpedcross the annual targetedrevenue of `700 crore.

Residents feel that thelong-term governmentpolicies, hiking taxes on

one hand and providing awaiver on the other, hasmade a huge dent in theirincome. “It’s the failure ofthe government’s policy,ado pted at each level atmost of the institutions.The common man will con-tinue to suffer due to thismismanagement. If peoplepay their taxes on time,there would be less scopefor officials to reinforce thetax structure,” says SyedBad sha, assistant generalsecretary, United – Feder -ation of Resident WelfareAssoci ations.

However, officials don’tseem interested in rectifyingthe loopholes in the system.When asked about the casesof cheques bouncing, addi-tional commissioner (fina -nce) K Ashok Reddy shrugsoff the problem, citing thisto be the most commonaspect in government orga -nisations. “Cheques bounceand every department facesthis problem. We keepsending notices,” he says.

About the govern-ment’s penalty waiver lastyear, the official describesit as ‘policy’ adopted bythe government. “Lastyear, it was adopted by thegovernment, this yearthey may not,” the officialadded.

We oppose the hike as it will raisethe burden on the common man

who is already crushed under infla-tion. Instead of raising the tax, theGHMC should plug loopholes.

Singireddy Srinivas ReddyTDP floor leader

T-leaders said theTDP should makeclear its stand onTelangana beforeundertaking apadayatra there.

city TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 9FILM FESTIVAL

EXCLUSIVE

HEMANTH [email protected]

Mumbai Film Mart,a part of theongoing Mumbai

Film Festival, was createdlast year to build a plat-form to connect buyers,distributors and studios toexplore different businessventures related to filmmaking and distribution.Amongst the variousbooths set up to interactwith delegates, it was apleasant surprise to seeAnnapurna Studios reach-ing out to more people.

For a film school and aleading studio inHyderabad, the MumbaiFilm Mart provides agreat platform to reachout to a wider audience. “Imust have interacted withat least 100 delegates,mostly independent film-makers, to show them thefacilities that Annapurna

Studios has to offer andwe also got quite a fewinquiries about the filmschool,” says Sharan, arepresentative fromAISFM as we got talkingat the Mumbai Film Mart.

There are plenty ofopportunities to explorefor both parties. “Most of

the people who camehere were interested incontent selling or buying.Some were also lookingfor funding their pro-jects,” he says, adding, “alot of filmmakers wantedto come down toHyderabad to shoot theirfilms and after they cameto know about the filmrelated programmes andfacilities at AnnapurnaFilm School, most of thedelegates were unhappythat they don’t have sucha school in Mumbai. Thisis a good step forward inour endeavour to reachout to more people.”

Cutting productioncosts was clearly a priorityfor filmmakers and thefacilities at AnnapurnaStudios was a big drawfor the delegates. “Wehave tried to convincethem to also look at postproduction in AnnapurnaStudios. A lot of peopletend to ignore the fact thatpost production and DI isan expensive process,”Sharan adds.

So did they see anynew opportunities toexplore in future? “Yes.We had several screen-writers-turned-directorswho were looking for ven-ture capitalists to fundprojects. So far,Annapurna Studios hasn’tgone big on that front, butlooking at the kind ofresponse we’ve had, ourboard will look into thisprospect of funding goodprojects in near future,”Sharan says.

Spotted: AISFM atMumbai Film Mart

Officials from the City-based AnnapurnaInternational School for Film+Media and

Annapurna Studios interacted with plenty of delegates at the ongoing Mumbai Film

Festival about facilities at the studio and the filmschool. Postnoon gets a low down.

Cutting produc-tion costs was apriority for film-makers. Facilitiesat AnnapurnaStudios is a draw.

Most of thepeople who

come here wereinterested in con-tent selling orbuying. Somewere also lookingfor fundingtheir projects.

SharanAISFM representative

Poll threat halts TDP yatraFearing the possibility of a mid-term poll, Naidu is contemplating callingoff the second phase of his padayatra, scheduled for June-Sept next year.

INKESHAF [email protected]

Threat of a mid-term elec-tions is becoming real, itseems. The TDP, that had

launched a marathon padayatrais all set to wind up its second legof the campaign, fearing a mid-term poll, sources close to theparty told Postnoon today.

The TDP supremoChandrababu Naidu planned tocover 16 of the 23 districts of APincluding seven of Telangana byJanuary next. The remainingseven districts including three inTelangana were to be covered bySeptember 2013. However, the

plan now is to suspend thepadayatra after the first leg forthree reasons: budget session inFebruary, local body electionsand political uncertainty. “Yes,we are yet to decide on the sec-ond phase. Initially, we haddecided to undertake the secondphase during the next monsoon(June-September).

“But, we may not able to holdit as we are expecting drasticpolitical changes in the State. The threat of a mid-term electionis also looming large,” TDPsenior leader E Peddi Reddysaid.

Another senior leader of theparty and MLA Jaipal Yadav also

said that the party is yet to chalkout the schedule of the secondleg of the yatra. “We don’t knowwhat will happen with the sec-ond phase. As of now, the entireparty machinery has put its focuson the ongoing padayatra tomake it a huge success,” he said.

It may be emphasised herethat when the decision to under-take the padayatra was made bythe party president, it was decid-ed to cover all 23 districts of theState in a phased manner.According to this plan, a total 16districts were chosen to be cov-ered in the first leg of the yatraand seven districts in the second phase.

POWER

Keeping in view the severeshortage of power due to

inadequate fuel, the State gov-ernment is making all-outefforts to ensure seven-hourpower supply to the farm sec-tor and to minimise the incon-venience to the other categoriesof consumers by purchasing

additional power from outsideand also encouraging renew-able energy sources apart fromenhancing the generatingcapacity by adopting short-term and long-term measures.

M Sahoo, principal secre-tary (energy), said the Stategovernment is expected to getconsiderable additional capaci-ty of Transmission corridor ofPower Grid Corporation ofIndia Ltd. by the end of 2013.

At present, 1,000 MW trans-mission corridor facility wasavailable between Southernand Northern, Eastern, Western(new) grid and shared by theother southern States. NSS

Efforts on to ensurepower supply to all

PRUDHVI RAJU [email protected]

“Live as if youwere to dietomorrow.Learn as if

you were to live forever,”said Mahatma. Learningand constanly updatingoneself with the knowl-edge is the key to success.Sandhya Volety does notknow anything about thesubject when she startedWonders, an interior and

exterior designing busi-ness. Her creativitybrought her the firstopportunity but passiontowards the subject anddesire to learn made thebusiness to grow overtime. Wonders has grown30-40 per cent year-on-yearin revenues and startedserving not only clients inthe City but aslo inMumbai.

About her educationalbackground, she says, “Iam a graduate in life sci-ences. My journey towardsprofessionalism included avariety of jobs from school

teacher to a centre head forSSI computer institute.However, it was alwaysmy dream to start some-thing on my own. Therewas also a burning desireto create employment as itis not only a source of liv-ing for one person but sup-ports the entire family,”

Sandhya had her firstassignment by chance dur-ing a coffee with herfriend. “I visualised anddrew the interior designfor my friend’s clinic dur-ing our conversation. Sheliked the idea instantly andhired me,” she says.

However, Sandhya didnot get herself satisfiedwith her creativity andapproval of the first pro-ject. She has sharpened hercreativity by various meth-ods of learning as she didnot have theoretical know -ledge. “I collected books,purchased magazines,attended seminars andexhibitions all across Indiathat dealt with designingand space enrichment.Interaction with profes-sionals in the same linehelped me to understandthe challenges and learntechniques,” she explains.

The learning processhas been continuingthroughout the career.“The first few years of my

BusinessTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

10TOYOTA CUTS OUTPUT TARGETToyota Motor is cutting its target of producing more than 10 million vehicles this year after suffering a sales drop in keymarket China amid strained Sino-Japanese ties, a report said onTuesday.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo! on Monday reported that itsquarterly profit rocketed above $3 billion, fueled by thesale of part of its stake in Chinese e-commerce giantAlibaba.

Alibaba last month announced that it bought backbillions of dollars worth of stock from Yahoo! in a steptoward independence from the US Internet pioneer.

The California company’s revenue from displayadvertising was little changed from the same quarterlast year but Yahoo! reported its income from ads servedup with online search results was up 11 percent.

The earnings topped Wall Street expectations andYahoo! shares climbed nearly three percent to $16.20 inafter-market trading on the Nasdaq.

AFP

Learning is never over Yahoo! profit surgesabove $3 billion

POWER STRUGGLE

For her, success isabout being passionateof the work one doesand being committedto it.

Wonders hasgrown 30-40 percent year-on-yearin revenues.

business were smooth sail-ing and I experienced nat-ural growth. I have decid-ed to do a managementcourse to take the businessto the next level. I wasselected by ISB for theGoldman Sachs 10,000Women Program whichhelped structure my busi-ness better and also toincrease my networking.Interacting with otherwomen entrepreneurs dur-ing the program helped toincrease the knowledgebase.

“In April 2010, I wasselected by the Fortune/US State DepartmentGlobal Women’s Mentor -ing Program in USA. Thisis a high-touch programdrawing on the knowledgeand expertise of America’smost accomplished lead-ers to empower aspiringwomen professionals. Thishelped to me enhance theexposure and interact

with famous personalitieslike Condoleezza Rice,Cherie Blair and LloydBlankfein,” she says.

Sandhya did not limitthe knowledge she gainedto herself but started aninitiative to pass it to theother women, who do nothave access to manage-ment education. Wondershas initiated Anuva in2010, a forum for knowl-edge sharing for womenentrepreneurs from fieldslike beauty shops, bou-tiques, food courts, tailor-ing and embroidery. Tocreate interest and aware-ness on enhanced lifestyleand modern living,Wond ers initiated Ativain 2008. The event is con-ducted exclusively forwomen in district towns,where the entrepreneurscan display their productsin exhibitions, which actas marketing and salestool for these businesses.

Bar Vastanvi fromentering Gujarat: BJPAHMEDABAD: Gujarat's rulingBJP has lodged a complaint with theEC seeking to bar ousted VC ofDarul -Ul-loom Deoband MaulanaGhulam Mohammad Vastanvi fromentering the state following hisallegedly provocative utterancesagainst the CM. Vastanvi wasremoved from the post for praisingModi's development policy.

Two children killed inRanchi grenade blast RANCHI: Two children werekilled on Monday in a grenadeexplosion after they picked up theshell presuming it to be junk metalin Jharkhand, police said. Accordingto police, the children found anunexploded grenade while pickingwaste at Silwar Firing Range of theBorder Security Force in Hazaribaghdistrict, around 110 km from Ranchi.

Two minors killed inDelhi wall collapseNEW DELHI: Two minor girlswere killed and a woman and herdaughter injured after a wall of astructure belonging to the Delhiflood control department collapsedhere, police said on Monday.Monika, 4, and her neighbourMunni, 5, died after the wall col-lapsed early morning in east Delhinear Ganga Vihar.

DK district president, 2others held for protestSALEM: The Dravida Kazhagamdistrict president Sakthivel and twoother party functionaries have beenarrested for protesting against con-duct of 'Ayudha pooja' at a govern-ment engineering college, policesaid. They were among a group of10 DK workers who protestedagainst the ritual and shouted slo-gans in front of the college.

16 power engineerssuspended in UPLUCKNOW: Taking a seriousview of the persisting grim powersituation in the state, the UP gov-ernment on Monday suspended 16engineers of the power department.The decision was taken at a high-level meeting in which CM AkhileshYadav reviewed the performance ofthe department. The engineers weresuspended with immediate effect.

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Eminent litterateur and Sahitya Akademi president SunilGangopadhyay died at his South Kolkata residence in theearly hours today following a massive heart attack. Hewas 78. Gangopadhyay's body will be kept in a mortuarytill his son arrives from Boston for performing the lastrites, family sources said.

A prolific writer and winner of several awards,Gangopadhyay was the founder editor of Krittibas, aseminal poetry magazine that became a platform for anew generation of poets experimenting with many newforms. Author of over 200 books, Gangopadhyay excelledin different genres but declared poetry to be his "firstlove".

His Neera series of poems are popular.Gangopadhyay also excelled in short story, novels, travel-ogues and children's fiction.

He had won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1985),Ananda Puraskar (1989) and the Hindu LiteraryPrize(2011).

After serving five years as the Vice President, he waselected the President of the Sahitya Akademi onFebruary 20, 2008. He used the pen-names of Nil Lohit,Sanatan Pathak and Nil Upadhyay.

Gangopadhyay is survived by wife and son. PTI

BLUE AND WHITE JAIPUR IN KOLKATA FOR MAMATA The pink city of Jaipur has been recreated in blue in a puja pandal in south Kolkatawhere Goddess Durga also wears a sari of a matching colour. The colour of thepandal, lights and even the facade of most of the houses on the road leading tothe pandal are in blue and white, the favourite colours of Mamata Banerjee.

SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY PASSES AWAY

2 armymen killed in ‘friendly fire’SRINAGAR: Two armypersonnel were killed andanother was injured as anarmy team fired at anoth-er mistaking it to be mili-tants in central Kashmir'sBudgam district today,official sources said.

Troops of 53 Rashtriya

Rifles set up a vehiclecheck post at Chattergamchowk, 20 kms from here,in Chadoora area ofBudgam following infor-mation about movementof militants through thearea, the sources said.

A team of 35 Rashtriya

Rifles men travelling in acivillian vehicle did notstop at the check point,giving rise to suspicionamong the troops at thecheck post, who openedfire.

Sepoy Ghulam RasoolSheikh, Naik Setien Tao of

25 Rashtriya Rifles andTerritorial Army driverAbdul Rauf were wound-ed and admitted to the 92Base Hospital atBadamibagh Army head-quarters where Sheikhand Rauf succumbed, thesources said. PTI

22 test positive fordengue in ErodeERODE: A total of 22 per-sons of the 109 peoplehospitalised with feverhave tested positive fordengue in the district sofar, officials said. Of these,four are children, they said.

Officials said there areenough medicines instock to treat affectedpatients. Further the Elisatest would be introducedtoday in the GovernmentHeadquarters Hospital,

they said. Forty five health

department officials havealso been going aroundthe villages and attendingto fever cases, they said.

HC SENDS MINOR BRIDETO NARI NIKETANPEOPLE’S LEADER

Congress president Sonia Gandhi waves to the crowdduring an election rally in Mandi on Monday.

PTI

nationNEW DELHI: A minorgirl, who married herboyfriend after elopingwith him, has been sent bythe Delhi High Court to awomen's shelter till sheattains majority to ensurethat she is able to exerciseher right to repudiate hermarriage, in case she wishes so.

Citing an earlier judge-ment, the bench refusedthe minor girl's custody to

her husband saying shewas a minor — only 15years 10 months old andshe would attain majorityafter two years. "Keeping inview the earlier judgement,this court is of the opinionthat to keep alive the peti-tioner No.1's (girl) option ofrepudiating the marriage,she should not be allowedto reside in the house ofpetitioner No 2(husband),"the court said. PTI

GOLDEN OLDIESObama: Governor, when it comes toour foreign policy, you seem to wantto import the foreign policies of the1980s, just like the social policies ofthe 1950s and the economic policiesof the 1920s.

FREEDOM, NOT DICTATORSHIPRomney: You said that on occasionAmerica had dictated to other nations.Mr President, America has not dictatedto other nations. We have freed othernations from dictators.

OBAMA’S ‘APOLOGY TOUR’Obama: Nothing Governor Romneyjust said is true, starting with thisnotion of me apologising. This hasbeen probably the biggest whopperthat’s been told during the course ofthis campaign.

THE TOURObama: And when I went to Israel asa candidate, I didn’t take donors, Ididn’t attend fundraisers, I went toYad Vashem, the Holocaust museum.

BE AFRAIDRomney: I look at what’s happeningaround the world and I see Iran fouryears closer to a bomb. I see theMiddle East with a rising tide of vio-lence, chaos, tumult. I see jihadistscontinuing to spread.

MANHUNTObama: I said, if I got bin Laden inour sights, I would take that shot. Yousaid we shouldn’t move heaven andearth to get one man, and you saidwe should ask Pakistan for permis-sion. And if we had asked Pakistan forpermission, we would not have got-ten it. And it was worth moving heav-en and earth to get him.

GEOGRAPHICALLY CHALLENGEDRomney: Syria is Iran’s only ally in theArab world. It’s their route to the sea.

`Moderator: What do you believe isthe greatest future threat to thenational security of this country?

Obama: Well, I think it will continueto be terrorist networks. We have toremain vigilant. But with respect toChina, China’s both an adversary butalso a potential partner.

Quotes of the night

BOCA RATON, FLORIDA: BarackObama pummeled Mitt Romney asbeing “all over the map” on foreignpolicy, dismissing his “wrong and reck-less” leadership in a heated final debateof a knife-edge White House race.

With just twoweeks until poll -ing day, Obamahas unexpectedlyfound himselfrunning neck-and-neck with hisonce unfanciedchallenger, andMonday’s face-off on worldaffairs was thelast chance toland a decisiveblow.

“I know youhaven’t been in aposition to actual-ly execute foreignpolicy, but everytime you’ve offe -red an opinion,you’ve been wro -ng,” Oba ma toldhis foe, comingout swinging inthe debate inBoca Raton.

R e p u b l i c a nc h a l l e n g e rRomney played itsafe, avoidingany catastrophic error that wouldhave undermined his claims to becommander-in-chief, but was often onthe defensive, apart from when lam-

basting Obama over the strugglingeconomy. “Attacking me is not anagenda,” the former Massachusettsgovernor said, and renewed chargesthat Obama had mounted “apologytours” abroad, prompting the presi-

dent to accuse him of telling a “whop-per”. Obama had the best lines of thenight and sharply cross-examinedRomney on his approach to Syria, Iran

Obama pummels Romney over foreign policyDismisses Republican’s ‘wrong and reckless’ leadership in the final debate.

and trade rows withChina, accusing him “air-brushing history” bydumping conservativeposi tions. An instant pollby CBS News found thatObama won the debate by53 per cent, after a clashthat appeared to polish hisleadership credentials andsaw him showing the pas-

sion missing in his disas-trous first debate.

But foreign policy isseen as unlikely to decidethe election, with voterspre-occupied by the slug-gish economy, and it willtake several days to gaugewhether the clash had anyimpact in the tied up polls.

AFP

“I know you haven’tbeen in a position toactually executeforeign policy, butevery time you’veoffered an opinion,you’ve beenwrong.”

“I look at what’s happen-ing around the world

and I see Iran fouryears closer to a

bomb. I see the MiddleEast with a rising tide

of violence, chaos,tumult. I see jihadists

continuing to spread.”

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Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney

US children give Obama landslide winIn a poll conducted on a children’s current affairs show, 65 per cent said they favour the incumbent president over Romney.

WASHINGTON: The young-sters of the United States havevoted, the results are in — andit’s a landslide victory for BarackObama.

Sixty-five per cent picked theincumbent president, and 35 percent his Republican challengerMitt Romney, in a bellwetheronline poll conducted by chil-dren’s current affairs show “NickNews with Linda Ellerbee”.

The outcome will raise eye-brows because, for five out of thesix previous US presidential elec-tions, the viewers of “NickNews” have correctly picked the

winner weeks before the vote.In grown-up surveys, Obama

and Romney have been runningneck and neck. “Obama wonbig,” said “Nick News” anchorEllerbee, who doubted thatRomney’s failure to join Obamain a “Nick News” election speciala week ago on the Nickelodeancable channel might haveswayed the outcome.

“In 2004, when John Kerryrefused to participate in theshow, the kids still electedKerry,” who went on to sufferdefeat at the hands of George WBush, she told AFP.

More than 521,000 votes werecast over the past week, Ellerbeesaid, a significant reduction inturnout “because Nickelodeonfixed it this time so you couldn’tvote more than once”.

And while there was no wayto guarantee that everyone whovoted was under the legal votingage of 18, “it’s safe to say themajority are kids”, based onanecdotal evidence from previ-ous years, she said.

Launched 21 years ago,“Nick News” is the longest-run-ning children’s news programmein television history.

WorldTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

13S KOREA IRKED BY JAPAN INDIFFERENCE TO ‘GANGNAM STYLE’While South Korean rapper Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has taken the world by storm, it haslargely fallen flat in Japan — an anomaly viewed with grave suspicion by some in thesinger’s home country. Korean K-pop music is huge in Japan, but for one reason or anotherJapanese music fans have remained relatively immune to the seductive powers of Psy.

PAUL KURTZ DIESPaul Kurtz, American sceptic, founderof modern secular-humanist move-ment and philosopher, passed awayon 20 October 2012. He was 86years old. He was HonoraryAssociate of Rationalist Internationaland also Honorary Associate ofRationalist Association (formerlyRPA) of UK. In 1999, Kurtz receivedInternational Humanist Award by theIHEU, and in 2000 he receivedInternational Rationalist Award bythe Rationalist International. Heauthored 50 books and nearly 800articles. His books have been trans-lated into over 60 languages.

Australian opposition leader TonyAbbott apologised Tuesday aftersaying the government was inex-perienced when it comes to hav-ing babies, a comment seen as adig at childless Prime MinisterJulia Gillard. Abbott, recently sav-aged by Gillard as sexist and amisogynist, made the remarkwhen referring to cuts in a babybonus scheme announced as partof the government’s mid-yearbudget review.

FOOT IN MOUTH AGAIN

NUMEROLOGY

11people were killed and as manyinjured Monday afternoon in a

Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, aftera passenger bus plunged over a cliff,

Xinhua reported.

“The whales andpenguins can’t

speak for themselves,so it’s up to us todefend them. Let’schange negotiators’minds with a mas-sive wave of pub-lic pressure.

Leonardo DiCaprioActor

Mexico digs up relativeto identify drug lordPACHUCA: Mexican authoritiesexhumed a relative of drug kingpinHeriberto Lazcano on Monday andtook DNA samples from the corpseto remove any doubt they had killedthe Zetas leader. Lazcano is believedto have been killed at a baseballfield in the northern state ofCoahuila on October 7, but gunmenstole his body from a funeral home.

Army, gunmen exchangefire in LebanonBEIRUT: Lebanese troopsdeployed in Sunni areas of the capi-tal as more sectarian violence erupt-ed, stoking fresh fears after a topsecurity official was killed in abombing blamed on Syria. The armysaid it was determined to restoreorder, but the northern port ofTripoli was also shaken by fightingbetween partisans and opponents.

BBC chief to be grilledover Savile scandalLONDON: The BBC’s chief faces agrilling from legislators Tuesday, aday after one of his editors — whohad dropped an investigation intosex abuse claims against a top BBCstar — stepped aside. GeneralGeorge Entwhistle will appearbefore a parliamentary committeeto answer questions about the scan-dal about the late Jimmy Savile.

Ukraine heads to pollswithout jailed TymoshenkoKIEV: Ukrainians vote Sunday inparliamentary elections overshad-owed by the absence of jailedopposition leader Yulia Tymoshenkoand marked by EU worries over thefate of democracy in the ex-Sovietstate. The ballot will be Ukraine’sfirst national vote since ViktorYanukovych beat the 2004 OrangeRevolution mastermind.

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MYANMAR

TAIWAN

YANGON: Three people havebeen killed in a fresh outbreakof communal violencebetween Muslim Rohingyaand Buddhists in Myanmar’swestern Rakhine state, a localofficial said Tuesday.

“We got the informationthat three people, an ethnicRakhine man and two Muslimwomen, were killed at

Pandeinkone village duringyesterday’s (Monday’s) clash-es,” Hla Thein, Rakhine Statechief justice told AFP.

Hundreds of homes werealso torched in the clashes thataffected two neighbouring vil-lages, he said, adding: “Thetwo villages were very close.More than 300 houses wereburnt down.”

Dozens were killed inBuddhist-Muslim clashes inJune and tens of thousandsdisplaced, prompting rightsgroups to warn of a humani-tarian crisis.

More than 50,000 Muslimsand up to 10,000 Buddhists arethought to be displaced acrossRakhine state, where peoplefrom both communities were

forced to flee as mobs torchedentire villages in June’s flare-up. The stateless Rohingyahave long been considered bythe United Nations to be oneof the most persecuted minori-ties on the planet. they facetight restrictions on theirmovements and limited accessto employment, education andpublic services.

Violence breaks out afresh; 3 killed

Firemen tending to rescued patients outside the SinyingHospital following a fire, near the southern Taiwanese city ofTainan. AFP/TAINAN FIRE DEPARTMENT

12 die, 60 hurtin fire accidentThe incident occurred at a hospital insouthern Taiwan on Tuesday.

TAIPEI: At least 12 people werekilled and 60 injured when a blazetore through a hospital in southernTaiwan on Tuesday, health authori-ties said.

The fire started in the early hoursin a nursing facility housing mainlybed-bound senior patients in Tainancity and more than 100 patients wereevacuated during the incident, alocal health official said.

An earlier estimate by an officialhad placed the number of injured at

72 but this was revised down in ahealth department statement.

The cause of all the deaths wasbelieved to be smoke inhalationwhile the injured were rushed to adozen hospitals for treatment, theofficial said.

It was the worst hospital fire inrecent years and the cause of the fireis under investigation, she said.

A fire official told reporters thatthe blaze possibly started in a stor-age room on the second floor of the

five-floor building, part of the publicSinying Hospital.

Television footage showed theburnt-out second floor and bed- andwheelchair-bound patients beingcarried out to the hospital’s lawn.

Relatives of the patients rushedto the hospital seeking their where-abouts as health minister Chiu Wen-ta assured the public that the author-ities will identify the patients assoon as possible, according to TVBScable news channel.

Indian techieto be freedfrom Pak jail A jobless IT engi-neer fromMumbai whoboarded theSamjhautaExpress, thepeace trainbetween Indiaand Pakistan, in2005 during about of depres-sion will bereleased from aLahore jail Oct25, a Maharashtralegislator saidMonday.Bhavesh Parmar,a resident of VileParle suburb innorthwestMumbai, wentmissing in 2005after he lost hisfather to cancerand was himselfsacked from job.When his motherfound that hewas in a jail inLahore inPakistan, shesought help fromlegislator KrishnaHegde.

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CommentTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

14HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTSThe teaser of Iron Man 3 is out. The 17-second video tells us not much but what ever isin it promises excitement. Apart from the fact that Iron man’s got a different suit withmore gold in it, what’s even more exciting is the baddie Mandarin played by BenKingsley. Like Batman, has Iron Man met his match?

On M -ondaynight,thepres-

idential candi-dates willundoubtedly con-tinue to debatethe administra-tion’s handling ofthe attack on theUS Consulate inBenghazi, Libyaand its signifi-cance forAmerican policytowards theMiddle East.

Unfor tunately,they are likely tocontinue toignore the mostimportant ques-tion posed by theSeptember 11murder ofAmbassadorChristopherStevens and threeother American officials by anIslamic militia that may be con-nected to an Al Qaeda affiliate,namely: “How is it that oneyear after the US providedessential military and diplomat-

ic support to the NATO opera-tion that enabled Libyan rebelsoverthrow dictator MuammarGaddafi, Libya finds itself at the

mercy of hundreds of lawlessmilitias and without a function-ing state?”

The answer is that althoughtheir declared objective was toprotect civilian areas under

threat of attack from Gaddafi’sforces, the US and its alliesactually promoted relativelyrapid and violent regime

change — then leftthe country in thehands of a fledglingrebel political leader-ship with tenuouscontrol over decen-tralized fighters. Inframing its policies,the Obama adminis-tration appears tohave paid little atten-tion to Libyan historyor political realities.Libya was only 60years old and hadweak national institu-tions. It had no histo-ry of democratic elec-tions or political par-ticipation, strongregional and tribaltensions, a historicalbasis for an Islamicmovement, and wasincreasingly awashwith weapons. In thiscontext, the situationin Libya today wasutterly predictable.

Where were theRepublicans on thisissue? During

Congressional debates in June2011, they posed no effectivechallenge to administration pol-icy. They accepted at face valuePresident Obama’s March 28assurance to the nation that

“broadening our military mis-sion to include regime changewould be a mistake” — eventhough it was by then obviousthis was not at all the case. Afterexpressing concerns about non-strategic “humanitarian” inter-vention, fiscal consequencesand evasion of legal require-ments for congressional partici-pation, they did nothing to limitfunding for the president’s poli-cy. Nor did Gov. Romney’s frag-mentary statements during thatperiod offer any coherent alter-native.

Yet there was a reasonablealternative, versions of whichwere put forward by the Afri canUnion (spearheaded by SouthAfrica) and the Brussels-basedInternational Crisis Group.Basically, the parties to the con-flict would have agreed to: acease-fire to be monitored by aUN peacekeeping force, politicalnegotiations to establish demo-cratic institutions, and a transi-tional government that wouldinclude representatives of theformer rebels and those on thegovernment side without bloodon their hands. The linchpinwould be a firm understandingthat Gaddafi would leave poweras part of this package.

Stephen R. Weissman, formerstaff director for the House of

Representatives’ Subcommittee onAfrica, is author of “A Culture of

Deference: Congress’s Failure ofLeadership in Foreign Policy.”

Tumultuous times for the UPA

The cumuli of mid-term polls are gathering over the horizon with Mamata Banerjeeleading from the front a rebel threat to dislodge the UPA government. Skeletons

tumbling one after another from the UPA cupboard also are indicating to uncertainpolitical times ahead. Indications to this are available with the hurried preparations of

political parties in AP. The TDP, for instance, eager to make a serious bid for power nextelections, are trying to wind up Chandrababu Naidu’s marathon yatra to start prepara-tions. That no party wants a mid-term election is the only guarantee that the UPA will

survive somehow, albeit hurt and maimed. No doubt, the ruling dispensation at theCentre has lost much of its moral right to continue as reports emerge of massive

bungling. If the situation leads to a snap poll, only the Congress is to be blamed, andnobody else. It is sad that the ruling party has not seen the writing on the wall and

should have gone into fire-fighting rather than shadow-boxing the Opposition.

Obama scores again

Well, Barack Obama seems to havenailed it again this time. He main-

tained the momentum from the seconddebate and contributed the best quotes.Obama was completely on the offence say-ing that his opponent’s policies were inco-herent. Romney was not at all like the manwho was in the first and the seconddebate... perhaps he knew were he stoodwhen it comes to talking foreign policywith a man like Obama. Now it’s all downto the American people.

EDITORIALS

READERS’ VIEWSWe invite you to write to us comments, suggestions, viewpoint or just about anything to [email protected] or#1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa, Road No 62, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 or even by way of a call on 4067 2222. Editor: Dean Williams

It took mefour years to

paint likeRaphael, but alifetime topaint like achild.

Pablo PicassoPainter

THE THIRD EYEStephen R. Weissman

OBAMA, ROMNEY MISSTHE POINT ON LIBYA

Will Merkelplan backfire?

Chancellor Angela Merkel’spromise to her conserva-tive coalition partner, the

Christian Social Union, or CSU,to enact a childcare subsidy forkeeping toddlers out of public

daycare, will take more womenout of Germany’s workforce. It is

an antediluvian measure whenthe European Union is propos-

ing quotas for women in theboardroom, and will not help

Germany in its quest to boost itsbirthrate.

For two years in a row, ForbesMagazine has crowned Merkel

the most powerful woman in theworld. Rightly so: She has

steered her country away fromrecessionary waves that haveswept across much of Europe

and the United States. Today, thefate of the EU rests in the hands

of this former physicist whogrew up behind the Iron

Curtain. She is a role model forwomen who aspire to reach the

pinnacle of international politics,but her own government is on

course to set back women inGermany’s workforce. Such adevelopment will ultimately

hurt the economic powerhouseof Europe.

The proposed Betreuungsgeld,or childcare subsidy, will not

solve Germany’s birth rate prob-lem. Instead, it will simply com-

pound the tenuous footholdmothers have in the workplacein a country that already has a

gender pay gap of nearly 20 percent.

Germany’s GDP hasremained relatively robust in

comparison to anemic growth inother parts of Europe, but its

total fertility rate is the opposite.At approximately 1.4 per cent,

Germany’s fertility rate is on parwith Greece in falling below the

norm where two children perfemale is the replacement ratefor a population. GLOBAL POST


15TOURIST’S DELIGHTS

workplace

SRISAILAM

If you are a spir-itual person

then don’t thinktwice beforeheading toSrisailam whereyou can spendthe day leisurelyvisiting the tem-ple and thenexploring thesurroundings.Situated inNallamala Hills ofKurnool district,Srisailam isabout 212 kmsouth ofHyderabad.While you arethere, you canalso visit AkkaMahadevi caves,Srisailam dam,SrisailamSanctuary andMallelaTheertham.

One-daygetaways

With Dussehra holiday around the corner, therecouldn't be a more perfect time to take a break from

the maddening crowd. We bring you a list of blissfulholiday destinations that are just a drive away.

ANANDAGIRI HILLS

It takes about three hours to cover the 90 km drive fromHyderabad to reach the 'Ooty of Andhra Pradesh'—

Ananthagiri Hills. Ananthagiri is a good trekking destination,especially for first-time trekkers. The AnanthapadmanabhaSwamy Temple — which was built by the Nizam Nawabs400 years ago — is one of the prime attractions on theAnanthagiri Hills. The ideal thing to do is visit this templefirst and then proceed to trekking. A good way to wrap upthe trip is by visiting the picturesque Nagasamudram Lake.

MANJEERA DAM & SINGOOR DAM

The Manjeera Dam is 50kms away fromHyderabad and boasts of a dam as well

as a bird sanctuary, in addition tocrocodiles and marsh muggers. If theweather is conducive, it’s a beautiful placeto enjoy the beauty of nature. SingoorDam is about 70km from the city. It is a tir-ing ride but worth the trouble. In fact, ifyou start early on you can touch boththese dams before the day ends.

NAGARJUNA SAGAR

Nagarjuna Sagar, located at a distanceof 150 km from Hyderabad, is oneof the most prominent Buddhist

centers. Known in ancient days asVijayapuri, Nagarjunasagar takes its presentname from Nagarjuna, one of the mostrevered Buddhist monks. Nagarjuna SagarDam is the world's largest masonry dam atthe time of its construction, which is builtacross Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar inGuntur district and Nalgonda district.

BHUVANAGIRI FORT

If you’re willing to use the Dussehra holi-day to your advantage and get away

from the traffic in the city, a visit to theBhuvanagiri Fort might be the ideal way.Located 48kms from Hyderabad, the fortin Bhongir or Bhuvanagiri was built on an

isolated monolithic rock by westernChalukya ruler Tribhuvanamalla

Vikramaditya VI and was thus namedafter him as Tribhuvanagiri. A moat thatencircles the fort, a vast underground

chamber, trap doors, an armoury, stables,ponds, wells etc., make for a fascinating

viewing.

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$11.8bnthe amount Engineering giant

Eaton used to buy out electricalequipment supplier Cooper

Industries (CBE). It made it theindustrial merger the largest US

acquisition of 2012, and bolsteredexpectations for additional M&A in

the sector.

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is aleading global investment banking,securities and investment manage-ment firm that provides a widerange of financial services to a sub-stantial and diversified client basethat includes corporations, financialinstitutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals.GoldmanSachs resources in the Bangaloreand Mumbai offices include invest-ment banking, global investmentresearch, operations andtechnology.

Sexual harass-ment and the

objectification ofwomen still

plagues the work-place in Britain's

top professions, aleading human

rights lawyer haswarned.BaronessHelena Kennedy,

who hosts theWomen of the

Year Lunch saidsexism was still a

problem in Britishsociety and that

women wereunder pressure

not to challengecolleagues who

sexually harassedthem for fear ofdamaging their

career prospects

The Tata-con-trolled IndianHotels revivedtheir plans to hoponto the luxuri-ous OrientExpress Hotels(OEH) chain androped in CEO ofMontezemoloPartners, Matteodi Montezemolo,35 for a consor-tium, a move thatmost say, is pre-dominantly towin over criticsand pacify hostilesentiments. Theymade an $1.86-billion unsolicitedoffer. This associ-ation couldbreak a five-year-old logjam.

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CO-WORKERS HELP TO QUIT SMOKINGA cessation programme for smoking co-workers providing financial incentives to the teamcollectively in return for success of the programme helped the smokers to quit smokingand remain abstinent for 12 months. This data was presented at the 11th Annual AACRInternational Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held in California.


18CLASSIC ROCK Enjoy tunes from an era when music was the only religion and rock ruled.The likes of Doors, Floyd, Led Zepp, Dire straits and more. Head to 10Downing Street for your dose of music. The celebration starts tonightfrom 8.30pm onwards .

JUST THE RIGHT MIX Fitness expert Dinaz Vervatvala tries her hand at cake mak-ing at the cake mixing event held at the Golkonda Hotel onMonday.

IN THE LIMELIGHT The International Audio Visual Week is being celebrated in

the City in a big way. An AV campaign was launched onMonday and the function was inaugurated by NadendlaManohar, speaker, AP Legislative Assembly, MLA Venkat

Ram Reddy and former MP Kambampati Ram Mohan Rao.

CITY BUZZ

spotlight

HAPPY TUNESThe music launch of Okkadine, a Telugu film starring Nara Rohit and Nithya Menen

was held at the Shilpakala Vedika recently. Superstar Balakrishna unveiled thealbum.Okkadine is directed by Srinivas Raga and produced by CV Reddy. Also

spotted at the event were Krishnam Raju and Nagababu among others.

SRINIVAS SETTY

NEW TECHNIQUE TO HELP BUST STRESS, IMPROVE SLEEPTension Tamer, a simple and brief technique to reduce stress, can help improve sleepquality and decrease fatigue, say researchers. Researchers from Walter Reed NationalMilitary Medical Centre, Maryland, attempted to determine the effect of stress reductiontechnique on improvement of sleep parameters in a heart health programme.health


19Importance of physiotherapy

While timely treatment is important for those suffering from breast cancer, post-surgery physiotherapy is equally important and should not be avoided.

“Treatment is important but post-surgerycare is also equally important. You need totake care,” explained Meera’s Doctor.Meera had just undergone a mastectomy

and had been shattered by the breast cancer diagnosisand the subsequent surgery. In despair, she didn’t wantto do anything. But physiotherapy is an important partof post-surgery rehabilitation in breast cancer.

Various studies have proven that early physiothera-py, which includes shoulder exercises and massage, canhelp prevent lymphoedema in mastectomy and axillarydissection patients. According to Dr Niti RaizadaNarang, consultant medical haem-oncologist, Fortis hos-pital and Vikram Hospital, Bangalore, “After a mastecto-my or post-axillary dissection, in which lymph nodes areremoved, physiotherapy is advised. Post these surgeries,the lymph nodes of the arm get deranged. There is a ten-dency of lymph congestion known as lymphoedema.Shoulder exercises help prevent this condition. The sec-ond reason is that post-surgery the patient is advised bedrest. However, there is a chance of the patient developingdeep vein thrombosis, infections etc.”

As the patient may not be able to exercise on herown, she requires assistance such as physiotherapy toprevent infections and other medical problems.According to a study, physiotherapy includes manuallymph drainage, massage of the scar tissue, and shoulderexercises by a physiotherapist.

The educational strategy included materials aboutthe lymphatic system and advice on how to avoid injuryand prevent infection.

Post-surgery physiotherapy has many benefits suchas helping to improve the patient’s movements, preventlong-term arm and shoulder problems and lymphoede-ma. Swelling is a common symptom of lymphoedema.

Dr Niti says, “Removal of the lymph nodes preventsnormal lymphatic drainage. This results in a swelling inthe shoulders making them disproportionate. Thisswelling may be permanent and may cause disfigurationas well.” Usually when one refers to physiotherapy peo-ple are hesitant as it involves committing time towards itand regular visits to a physiotherapist. However, Dr Nitisays, “People now understand the process and are more

open to physiotherapy.These exercises need to be doneregularly for better improvement. They are usually andmay need to be done a few times a day. It is a continuousprocess. They are simple exercises such as rotational

exercises or climbing. These exercises can be done any-where, even at work. The job of the doctor and physio-therapist is to explain how the exercises need to be done.There is a lot of information and study material availableeverywhere about these exercises and even YouTubevideos to help a patient learn more.”

Physiotherapy is usually advised for 6-8 weeks aftersurgery. Dr Niti explains, “Post-surgery they are imme-diately referred to a physiotherapist. The physiotherapybegins as soon as the patient’s wound begins to heal oronce the patient regains enough energy. It is a part of thetreatment process.”

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HypothyroidHypothyroidism is a state in which the thyroid gland does not makeenough thyroid hormone. Iodine defi-ciency is often cited as a cause ofhypothyroidism worldwide but it can becaused by many other factors. It canresult from a lack of a thyroid gland orfrom iodine-131 treatment, and can alsobe associated with increased stress.Severe hypothyroidism in infants canresult in cretinism.

Nails don’t growafter deathNails and hair do notcontinue to grow afterwe die. They do appearlonger when we die, however, as theskin dehydrates and pulls back from thenail beds and scalp. The human bodybegins to dehydrate after a person dies.This makes it appear as though the nailsand hair are growing.

W Grey WalterW Grey Walter was an American-bornBritish neurophysiologist and robotician.He visited the lab of Hans Berger, whoinvented the EEG machine, for measur-ing electrical activity in the brain. Walterproduced his own versions of Berger'smachine with improved capabilities. Inthe 1930s Walter made a number of dis-coveries using his EEG machines. Hedeveloped the first brain topographymachine based on EEG.

NEWS BRIEFSAPP-LY YOURSELF HOUSECALL DID YOU KNOW? PIONEERS

What is lymphoedemaLymphoedema is a chronic (long-term) condition thatcauses swelling in the body's tissue. This can lead to painand a loss of mobility. Lymphoedema usually affects thearms or legs, although in some cases there may beswelling in the:n chestn headn genitals

Lymphoedema is caused by damage or disruption tothe lymphatic system. One function of the lymphatic sys-tem is to drain excess fluid from tissues. If the lymphaticsystem is disrupted or damaged, it can lose this abilityand the excess fluid will cause the tissue to swell. It isestimated that 1 in every 10,000 people are affected byprimary lymphoedema.

Source: www.NHS.uk

health TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 20

Survival reflex sparks male perception bias: study

Humans are predisposed to assume that a hazy silhoutte of a stranger in a dark alley is bound to be that of a man and feel threatened.

PARIS: You glimpse a stranger standing in the street.The light is hazy and the person’s face and clothing areindistinct. Who is it?

Chances are you will think it is a man — and the rea-son for this is a survival reflex, according to an unusualstudy published on Wednesday.

Psychologists at the University of California at LosAngeles delved into our quest for visual clues when weassess other people.

They asked male and female students to look at 21human silhouettes, all of them the same height, but witha progressively changing waist-to-hip ratio.

The figures began with an obviously female “hour-glass” figure and, after incremental changes, ended withan obviously male “hunk” figure.

The volunteers were asked to say whether each of the21 silhouettes was male or female, the idea being to iden-tify the point where they saw a shift in gender.

What was striking, said researcher Kerri Johnson,was a preference for the volunteers to deem a shape tobe a man whenever it was ambiguous — or could readilyhave been taken for a woman.

“I was surprised by the size of the effect. It was amuch stronger effect than I ever imagined,” Johnson saidin a phone interview.

In the natural world, the demarcation between awoman’s shape and man’s shape comes when the ratioof the waist and hip circumferences is 0.8.

But the volunteers, on average, placed the boundaryat 0.68. In other words, an identifiable female shape forthem was close to the idealised curves of a pinup.

Johnson’s team carried out three further studies,using a slightly different methods to see whether theirapproach had been skewed, and found that the bias infavour of men was unchanged.

Are these errors in perception?Not so, said Johnson, who believes it to be an ances-

tral survival mechanism.

A man is likelier than a woman to be a bigger physi-cal threat and our default perception is to prepare forrisk: it’s better to be safe than sorry.

“We suspect that this might be for a self-protectivereason,” she said.

“If you are walking down a dark alley at night, awoman poses no great physical threat to you in general,

but if you encounter an unknown man, he’s more likelyto have a physical formidability that could pose somerisks.”

Johnson conceded that there could be cultural or eth-nic factors which influence judgement but argued thatthe same kind of bias would prevail anywhere.

“I think it’s entirely likely that if we were to test thisin different populations we would probably have thesame basic effect, the same pattern of judgement,although the strength of the judgement might vary,” shesaid.

The findings show how gender stereotypes can bereinforced, sometimes dangerously so, said the study.

A woman could struggle if she has a body shape thatis perceived as masculine and thus unattractive.

“Consistent with other research, this is likely to pro-duce preferences for extreme body shapes, particularlyfor women,” said the study.

The paper appears in the British journal Proceedings ofthe Royal Society B. AFP

RESEARCH

EXERCISE STUDYNo exercise? Vibrate to keep

prediabetes awayWASHINGTON: Whole-bodyvibration may keep prediabetesin adolescents at bay, significant-ly reducing inflammation, aver-age blood glucose levels andsymptoms such as frequent uri-nation, researchers report.

Prediabetes is the state inwhich some but not all of thediagnostic criteria for diabetesare met. It is often described asthe “gray area” between normalblood sugar and diabetic levels.

In mice that mimic over-eat-ing adolescents headed towarddiabetes, 20 minutes of dailyvibration for eight weeksrestored a healthy balance of key

pro- and anti-inflammatorymediators, said Jack C Yu, chiefof plastic and reconstructivesurgery at the Medical College ofGeorgia.

It was better than prescrip-tion drugs at reducing levels ofhemoglobin A1c, the most accu-rate indicator of average bloodglucose levels, according to aGeorgia statement.

Vibration mimics the motionbones experience during exercisewhen muscles are doing thework. The slight bending andunbending of bone triggersremodelling so it can stay strong.

IANS

LONDON: Seniors gorging ona carb rich diet are four timesmore likely to develop mildcognitive impairment — anearly warning of Alzheimer’sdisease, shows a new research.

The research from the pres-tigious Mayo Clinic in Americahas found that risks are similarwith a diet high in sugar. Onthe other hand, proteins andfats appear to offer some pro-tection — people who con-sumed plenty of them are lesslikely to suffer cognitivedecline. Not everyone withmild cognitive impairment(MCI) develops Alzheimer’sdisease, but many do, saidRosebud Roberts, professor ofepidemiology at the Mayo

Clinic, who led the study.High-carb diets may play a

role in the development of betaamyloid plaques, proteinsfound in the brains of peoplewith Alzheimer’s, the DailyMail reported.

MCI is defined as memoryloss apparent to the individualand those around them, butwith an absence of otherdementia symptoms such aschanges in personality andmood. IANS

High-carb diets tend toraise Alzheimer’s risk

EntertainmentTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

21HOPING FOR THE BEST

Okkadine’s audio launched

The audio of Nara Rohit, NithyaMenen starrer Okkadine was

launched recently in Hyderabad.Balakrishna, who was the chiefguest of the event, praised Nithyaand even said that she's an asset tothe industry. Srinivas Raga hasdirected this action entertainer.Karthik has composed the music.Okkadine is likely to release inNovember.

KVJ to release on Nov 9

Rana, Nayanthara starrerKrishnam Vande

Jagadgurum is expected to hit thescreens on November 9. Krish has

directed this action entertainerwhich is set in the backdrop of min-ing mafia. Saibaba Jagarlamudi andY Rajeev Reddy have produced the

film. Mani Sharma has composedthe music and it seems like thefilm's trailer is already a big hit.

CINE BYTES

An unusual love story

Brahmanandam's son Gauthamwill soon be seen in Chaitanya

Dantuluri's upcoming film. Thelatter had earlier directedBaanam. The film is said to be alove story between a kite and aflight, which gives a subtle hintabout the characteriszation of itslead pair. The film's title is goingto be announced on October 24.

It's been four years since Srinu Vaitla's Dheereleased and that still remains the biggesthit in Vishnu Manchu's career. His upcom-ing film Dhenikaina Ready, which is slatedfor release on October 24, is already carrying

good reports in the industry. No wonder, Vishnuis confident of delivering a hit this time at the boxoffice. The film is about a young man who woulddo anything for his mother to achieve his goal.The action comedy is a remake of UdhayapuramSultan, a Malayalam film which released over adecade ago. In a recent interview, Vishnu con-fessed that some of his earlier films might nothave impressed the audience, but DhenikainaReady is going to be his best film till date. Fourwriters — Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan, BVS Raviand Marudhuri Raja have worked on the scriptand the dialogues and apparently, everyone whohas seen the film so far has assured Vishnu thathe has a winner in hand. The film's Malayalamversion is going to release in Kerala on October26 and to reach out to a wider audience, Vishnudecided to add subtitles to the film. "This will bemy ticket to stardom," Vishnu said. He has alsoproduced the film under the 24 Frames Factorybanner. Chakri and Yuvan Shankar Raja havecomposed the music. G Nageshwara Reddy hasdirected it.

Vishnu Manchubets big on

Dhenikaina Ready

Holy Motors will probablyremain as one of the

most challenging andpuzzling films to have releasedin a long time. Leos Carax, whodirected the film, almost leaves

no hints to decipher the messagethe film tries to convey and it

gets very frustrating. The film trails Oscar's (Denis

Lavant) life in a day as he travelsacross Paris in his limousine. We

are told that he's a former actorand everyday, as he travels in

the limousine that is equippedwith costumes and props, he

gets a set of assignments whichhe must accomplish. The firstone requires him to pose as a

beggar in a busy street, another

one as an actor performing acro-batics and simulated sex on a

sound stage and there's even onewhere he is a filthy, eccentric

man who must kidnap a model(Eva Green) and take her to acemetery. And there are more

such acts...One way of looking at the

film is that Oscar leads parallellives, something similar to whathe used to do while he was act-

ing in films. There no way ofexplaining some of the events inthe film without suspending our

belief in reality. The film wouldhave been unbearable, if not for

Denis Lavant who captivates ourattention. Having said that, it's

tough to understand what couldhave inspired Leos Carax tocome up with such a bizarre

film.

Simplybizarre

Leos Carax's HolyMotors is a weird filmand leaves so much toour interpretation thatit's difficult to reach to

a logical conclusion.

The Hunt isabout a

teacher whohas beenwrongly

accused of paedophilia

and themass

hysteria thatensues after

that.

Thomas Vinterberg'sThe Hunt is one of thefinest films of the yearand it's not without

reason. The film is nothingshort of a masterpiece consid-ering how Vinterberg takes afamiliar subject and still comesup with a gut wrenchingdrama.

The film stars MadsMikkelsen, who plays Lucas, ateacher in a local school, alonely divorcee. He's a wellrespected man in the localcommunity and he yearns tomeet his son Marcus, whonow lives with his mother.Klara (Annika Wedderkopp),the daughter of Theo (ThomasBo Larsen), who's a closefriend of Lucas. Klara bondswith Lucas over long walksand she takes an instant likingfor him. One day, in theschool, Klara kisses Lucas on

the lips and she's dejectedwhen Lucas tells her that sheshould do that only with herparents. In a stunning revela-tion, Klara informs theschool's principal Grethe thatshe's victim of sexual abuseand Lucas is the culprit. Therest of the story is about thefar reaching consequenceswhich Lucas must face and theimpact it has on his life.

The film's biggest successlies in its terrific performancesand the screenplay. There's noteven a single scene in the filmwhich seems unnecessary andthe pace at which the dramaunfolds completely hooks you.In one particular scene, afterLucas is accused of paedophil-ia, he goes to a grocery storeand he's told that he's not wel-come there anymore. When heinsists that he just wants tobuy some pork chops, he's lit-

erally thrown out of the store.There's an undertone of ten-sion and anger throughout thefilm and this particular sceneleaves a lump in the throat.Mads Mikkelsen, best knownfor his role in Casino Royale,delivers a knock out perfor-mance in The Hunt. The subtlenuances in his expressions ashe faces humiliation and therage that comes after beingtormented by the local com-munity deserve an applause.It's a performance so real thatmakes you sympathise withhim instantly. AnnikaWedderkopp is wonderful asKlara and so is Thomas BoLarsen as Theo. CharlotteBruus Christensen's cine-matography is top notch.

The Hunt is a harrowingfilm and it's bound to leave astrong impact on our minds.Three cheers for Vinterberg.

Movie:The Hunt(Jagten)

Cast: MadsMikkelsen,Thomas BoLarsen, AnnikaWedderkopp

Directed by:ThomasVinterberg

Rating:

Movie: Holy Motors

Cast: Denis Lavant, Édith Scob

Directed by: Leos Carax

Rating:

Fernando Trueba's The Artistand the Model, set in 1943 inFrance, narrates the story of

a famous sculptor Marc Cros(Jean Rochefort) who's strug-gling to create a masterpiece.One fine day, he comes across agirl named Merce (Aida Folch)in the town. Merce tells him thatshe has escaped from a concen-tration camp and she has no ideawhere she's going. Cros offersher a job as a model to pose forhim which begins an interestingrelationship between the two.

We are told that Marc Cros isinterested in trying to recreatethe balance which is seen allaround us. He's especially fondof a sketch drawn by Rembrandtwhich he believes is a master-

piece. Merce tries her best to liveup to his expectations and onefine day, Marc Cros miraculous-ly finds the exact expression onMerce's face which he has beendreaming about. The film isalluring in terms of how well ittreats its characters. They talkabout art and life post WWII.The conversations betweenRochefort and Aida form mostpart of the film. It's a simple tale,remarkably shot in black andwhite by Daniel Vilar and wellwritten.

Fernando treats the nudity inthe film with so much heart thatthere's no lust anywhere in thefilm. The Artist and the Model is afine film about people who havelived through tough times andthe solace they find in each otherfar away from the chaos.

Memoirsof an artistAn alluring film abouta sculptor's dream tocreate a masterpieceand what happenswhen he comes acrossthe perfect muse.

Movie: The Artist And theModel (El Artista y la modelo)

Cast: Jean Rochefort, AidaFolch, Claudia Cardinale

Directed by: Fernando Trueba

Rating:

22TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 POSTNOON GOESTO THE MOVIES

with Hemanth Kumar in Mumbai

A GRIPPING FILM

It's a filmwhichreinforcesour love forcinema andgreat storytelling.

Entertainment TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 23

Entertainment TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 25HALLOWEEN-STYLE CELEBRATIONS

Too sweet!

P op diva Mariah Carey andhusband Nick Cannon have a

candy room in their house andthe America’s Got Talent hostlikes to spend most of his timethere. The couple, who have 18-month-old twins Moroccan andMonroe, created the room withphoto booths and tubs full oftheir favourite treats.

‘Hunger’ to finish

Actor Liam Hemsworth wasleft with a twisted knee

while shooting for an actionsequence in forthcoming film,The Hunger Games: Catching

Fire. However, the 22-year-oldgave his best shot without stop-ping. “I twisted my knee. I try to

just fight through it. There’s somany people around waiting for

you to do your thing.”

CINE BYTES

‘Mad’ about itActress Christina Hendricks

says she would love to film aMad Men reunion set in theeighties after the final series airsin 2014. The 37-year-old, whoplays busty temptress JoanHolloway in the film, said therewould not be too many shenani-gans because the characters willbe getting on a bit.

Katy Perry can start celebratingearly if she wants to! The popsinger jumpstarted her birth-day festivities this weekend by

throwing a massive costume party inLos Angeles at the famous Magic Castle.Perry, who turns 28 on Thursday,dressed as a sultry vampire alongsideher date for the night John Mayer whowas a vampire hunter (clever), and evenlooked to have gone full-out with hiscostume by reportedly wearing a pros-thetic nose and chin. Guests includedKristen Stewart, popular House musicDJ Skrillex, songwriter Diane Warrenand America’s Next Top Model’s JohnnyWujek, according to Us Weekly. DavidBurtka and Neil Patrick Harris—whotweeted a photo from the event—alsocelebrated with the Wide Awake song-bird. “Thank you @KatyPerry for having@DavidBurtka and me at your frightful-ly fun B’day Bash at the @MagicCastlelast night,” NPH wrote. Earlier thisweek, Katy joined Mayer’s family andclose friends to celebrate his 35th birth-day at Freemans restaurant onManhattan’s Lower East Side.

BIRTHDAY PARTY

Thank you @KatyPerry for having @DavidBurtka and me at yourfrightfully fun B’day Bash at the @MagicCastle last night.

Neil Patrick Harris

KATY PERRY’S EARLY

ACROSS1 Place for a lark7 Squish11 Air traffic control agcy.14 White fur15 Wait for the start of a dragrace16 Move back, as a tide17 Creating a ruckus19 Veep before Al20 Cliquish group21 Pear-shaped instrument

of old22 Follow, as advice25 One in a congregation27 Dinosaur trapper28 Give in to gravity30 Brown in the sun31 Metals in rocks33 Coat with plaster36 Man of Steel portrayer40 Be unacquainted with43 Beast of Borden?44 Skyrocket45 Winter Olympics sled46 Mythical bird48 “___ all in the wrist”50 Hustler’s need51 Kind of drip56 Perfume compound

58 Delivery org.59 A striking arrangement61 Lead-in for Bravo62 December 3166 Bard’s “always”67 Snack machine inserts, often68 Group of fish69 Before, in verse70 “Star ___” (Lucas film)71 How something may beveiled

DOWN1 Debussy’s “La ___”2 Notable time in history3 “___ seeing things?”4 “Saturday Night Fever”

dance genre5 Some Big Mac ingredients6 Exited7 Film introduction?8 “Robin ___” (old ballad)9 Most devious10 Female lobster11 Not going to take it

anymore12 Slack off13 Dogpatch denizen18 Trinkets21 In a straight line of descent

22 Make restitution23 “God Rest Ye Merry

Gentlemen,” e.g.24 Trade allowances26 Hippocratic Oath word29 “And now, without further

___ ...”32 Steers clear of, as an issue34 Mysterious saucer35 Touchy subject?37 Drawn-out substance38 Undefined39 Arabian aristocrat (Var.)41 Advertising sign gas42 Table scrap47 Chain of connected ideas49 Look for something51 Blender setting52 Wickerwork willow53 Mushroom-to-be54 Lumberman at

work, say55 Vast chasm57 Japanese fish dish60 One of the four

directions62 “This second!”63 Untold millennia64 Remote abbreviation65 “Tarzan” star Ron

KAKURO

QUICK CROSSWORD

Chai TimeTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

26THOUGHT OF THE DAYAll the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Ben Kingsley

SCRIBBLING PADPREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

How to play kakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudokuin some ways. But is also suitably different.The key question: ‘How do you playkakuro?’, well here are the rules of kakuro.The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike insudoku, can be of any size. It has rows andcolumns, and dark cells like in a crossword.And, just like in a crossword, some of thedark cells will contain numbers. Some cellswill contain two numbers.

However, in a crossword the numbersreference clues. In a kakuro, the numbersare all you get! They denote the total of thedigits in the row or column referenced bythe number.

Within each collection of cells — calleda run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may beused but, like sudoku, each number mayonly be used once.

Let’s have an

example to explain this concept more clear-ly:

In the image above, which shows a sec-tion of a kakuro puzzle, you will see thenumbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Lookat the 14. This means that the total of thethree cells underneath must sum to 14.Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, orperhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actualcombination? Well, this is done throughelimination and cross-referencing. Forinstance, as you work out the answers forother kakuro clues, this will naturally limitthe valid combinations, and hence theanswer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two — itcontains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30refers to the vertical run underneath thenumber 30 and the 11 refers to the twocells to the right, horizontally, of the num-ber 11.

SUDOKU

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ARIESSudden finalisation of mar-riage proposal likely for some.Interview attended by thosewho are in search new job, will be successful to get ajob. Some of you will get hon-orary post in social organiza-tion.

TAURUSYou will be disappointed fornot getting proper recognitionfor your calibre and skills.Employees might face the ireof superiors and co-workers.Your confidence of gettingpromotion and pay hike maynot materialise.

GEMINIBoldness and self confidencelevels will be at their highestever. Be in good harmony withclose relatives, friends and wellwishers which will be helpfulanytime in the future. Fatherwill be prosperous in his newventure.

CANCERGood effects will keep you incheerful mode. You will actswiftly without magnifying theconfusions that exist. Plans topurchase new immovable assetneed to be postponed. Bloodrelatives and friends willextend their help.

LEONew efforts to be planned wellso that they get implementedsuccessfully. Never allow lazi-ness to dominate you so thatyou can progress well. Yourapproach need to be soft andsweet to retain the happyatmosphere at home.

VIRGOHealth problems will be over.Friends and well wishers willextend their help and support.Tensions through mother andmaternal relatives likely.Expenses too will increase butyou need to solve the issueswith a calm approach.

LIBRAHeld up works will resume andend favourably. Businessmenwill sign promising contractswith the help of their closefriends and well wishers. VIPfriends will help you to achieveyour goals. Employees will feelcheerful.

SCORPIOGood turning point likely. Yourself confidence and boldnesslevels will be at their high.Favourable results likely in yournew and innovative efforts.Financial situation will be morethan satisfactory. Childrenmight put you under tension.

SAGITTARIUSBusinessmen will plan freshinvestments which will benefitthem in long run and increaseprofits. Comforts are set toincrease. Employees will see afavourable atmosphere.Marriage talks will progresswell and end favourably.

CAPRICORNTake your own decisions andexecute the works on your ownto avoid disappointment.Joyful trip with your familylikely. Investments made in thepast will appreciate handsome-ly. Important plans held up inthe past will resume now.

AQUARIUSHurdles existed in the plannedworks will be over. Success willbe achieved as per the expec-tations. Professionals, especial-ly lawyers will have a boomtime. House construction willstart as the loan applied will besanctioned.

PISCESFinancially a very comfortableor strong position likely.Professionals will see a boomtime. Businessmen will have abrisk business activity andprofit is likely to soar beyondexpectation. Business travelswill fetch good result.

BoggleSEOUL ATHENS ATLANTA MONTREAL

SUDUKONUMBER GAME

STRIP TEASEAGNES

NON SEQUITUR

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

POOCH CAFE

TAROT READSumaa Tekur

for 24-10-2012

LEO: Queen of Wands– Do not fear that you will fail.If you think too much about it,it may lead you to failure. Thinkpositive.

ARIES: Five of Cups –You need to polish your toneand choice of words whencommunicating in a largegroup.

TAURUS: Knight ofSwords – Bake a pie; arrangeflowers and clean and dust yourhome. This will make you feelgood.

GEMINI: The World –You cannot dwell too much onwhich group you have tobelong to. You cannot avoidbeing labeled.

CANCER: Two ofSwords – There may be somerunning around at governmentoffices to get a job done. Do notlose your patience.

AQUAR-IUS: The

Tower – There aremany mysteries tosolve. You will neverknow all that youreally wish to. Learnto live with the sus-pense.

PISCES:King of Cups – Youare trying to escapeyour destiny and it ispulling you back intothe same situationrepeatedly. Stay put,meditate on your life.

VIRGO: Ten of Cups –You are amused by a lad, whowill uncannily give you a differ-ent world view. You tend to nottake it seriously. But think.

LIBRA: Seven ofWands – Free advice has littlevalue. It can also be a pain.When you pay for the sameadvice, it has a lot of value.

SCORPIO: TheEmperor – If you are a share-holder in a reputed company,take stock of the situation andconduct a routine review.

SOLUTIONS SCRABBLE

SAGITTARIUS: Nineof Pentacles – If you’re feelinglow, just think of all the wonder-ful things life has in store. Youare but a dot in this large galaxy.

CAPRICORN: Threeof Wands – Don’t get caught upwith sentiments and emotions.In a cold and unemotionalworld, they have no meaning.

FATHER’S RESPONSIBILITIES

Silva is a nuanced villain

Javier Bardem has said that hisBond villain Raoul Silva is a com-

plex character. Bardem told TheSun that the movie has a "power-ful and complex story" at its heart."The script was everything youcould expect in James Bond films,and in addition it was a powerfuland complex story," he explained."Sam had changed the wholedynamic of the baddie role, soSilva is not just a villain in theusual and obvious way.

SNL parodies Chanel ad

From Chanel ... to Taco Bell?Brad Pitt is now hawking

everything from Mexican food tocanine contraceptives — in a

series of Saturday Night Live par-odies. Taran Killam got into char-acter as the company's first-evermale spokesman. "I'm sorry - is

there really no script? 'Cause I'vebeen talking to myself for like

two hours straight and I'm start-ing to sound insane," he joked.

'Paranormal Activity 5' set forHalloween 2013 release

Paramount is set to continuethe Paranormal Activity fran-

chise with a new installment. Thestudio has planned for aHalloween 2013 release date forthe fifth installment, reportsDeadline. Paranormal Activity 4was just released on October 19,topping the US box office.


Lindsay Lohan's entire management teamwas allegedly in favour of the recentintervention staged by her father MichaelLohan. The Mean Girls star's estranged

father held the intervention on Friday (October19), bringing law enforcement officials with him.Since then, the incident has escalated into a fami-ly feud, as both Dina and Lindsay Lohan haverefuted the claims that the actress has had a drugrelapse. TMZ reports that new emails reveal thatMichael Lohan did not orchestrate the interven-tion on his own, but had help from his daughter'sown management team, including her lawyers.In the emails, written between September 23 andOctober 18, Michael Lohan discusses the plannedintervention with Lindsay's manager, entertain-ment lawyer and criminal defence lawyer. Hewrote that he had been told that Lindsay was tak-ing pills and drinking bottles of vodka daily,adding: "I have seen the empty bottles and evencocaine in her room at Chateau [Marmont]." Hethen pleaded: "I am asking you to PLEASEPLEASE find a way to get her to LA toward theend of the first week of October or the beginningof the second so we can do an intervention andFINALLY end this madness! (sic)". Lohan's man-agement team eventually agreed, decidingMichael Lohan should confront his daughter firstbefore the rest joined him.

I am asking you to PLEASE PLEASE find a way to get her to LA towardthe end of the first week of October or the beginning of the second so

we can do an intervention and FINALLY end this madness! (sic)

Michael LohanLindsay’s dad

Lindsay’steam wanted anintervention?

CINE BYTES

sports 29LEAGUE CRICKET

COL CK NAYUDU TROPHY

WORLD MATCH PLAY

HYDERABAD TRACK WORK


Col CK Nayudu CupDay 4

Assam 181 & 132 lost toHyderabad 449 (Samik Das 33

n.o., Vishal Sharma 6/51,Akash Bhandari 2/27.

Inter State U-19 Women’s one-day

Group A

Andhra 136/9 (Chandra Lekha22, Raavi Kalpana 46, Jaspreet2/10, Sunita Rani 2/27, SnehRana 2/19, Juhi Jain 2/29) bt

Punjab 66 (Sneh Rana 23,Jhansi Lakshmi 2/15).

Match between Bengal andMaharashtra was abandoned

without a single ball beingbowled.

Group B

Himachal Pradesh 126(Devakala Thakur 43, RenukaSingh 22, S.K. Rachana 5/29,

Praneesha 3/22) bt Hyderabad120 (Soumiya 32 n.o.,

Praseesha 21, Renuka Singh3/16, Herleen 3/16).

Assam 88 (Sapna Choudhary32, Manasi Bhuri 5/16,

Manashree Gavande 3/10) btMumbai 86 (Mugdha Joshi 21,

Archana Dutta 3/13).

HCA Coca Cola inter-school U-16

St-Johns Junior College ‘A’228/8 (Ajay Patwari 35,

Krishna Chartih 63, Raj Thakur32, Maneesh 58, Girish Goud30 n.o., Gabrial 3/39) bt Balaji

Memorial High School 43(Krishna Chartih 8/23).

All Saints ‘B’ 162 (Vikas 83,D.G.J. Chaitanya 5/33) lost to

Cal Public School 168/1 (D.G.J.Chaitanya 97 n.o., Syed Ali

Hyder 40 n.o.).

Pallavi Model School 90 (RahulSingh 4/25) lost to KV

Boloram 94/2 (Rahul Singh 30n.o., T. Mandhata 30 n.o.).

St-Mary’s Junior CollegeYusufguda 372/1 (Anurag

Vittal 150 n.o., A Jaysuriya 54,Nitesh Reddy 125 n.o.) bt

Model Mission High School81(Mir Omer Khan 4/14,

Jayasuriya 3/20).

Vigyan Vidhyala 89 (Deepak5/17, Aditya 4/20) lost to SriGayatri Academy Habsiguda92/1 (C.H. Deepak 55 n.o.).

Mahesh Vidhya Bhava 358/5(Shanthan Reddy 118, Sanjay

95, Chandan Sahani 56,Chandan 4/71) bt St-Joseph126 (Akash PG 40, Govind

Sharma 6/25).

Sairam Model High School234/4 (Pavan 94 n.o., Das 68,

Rishik 3/50) bt GitanjaliDevashala 120 (Rishik 41, Das3/20, Prashanth 3/20, Pavan

3/14).

St Andrews High School 221/7 (Sampath 43, Sarang 38)

lost to Bhavans 224/9 (Vignesh 33, Junaid Ali 3/50, Vijayendra

Singh 3/27).

Karimnagar 228/7 (SiddharthReddy 43, Srinath Reddy 56, P.Vishal 35 n.o.) bt P Obul Reddy

Public School 218/9 (Sameer65, Mayur Jhawar 56, Hari

Hara 3/51).

HYDERABAD: Vijays Pride, Fastest Finger andKallu Mama worked well when the horsdes exer-cise here this morning.

Sand Track 800 MetresHandsome Hunk (app) 57, 600/42 Moved well.The Best Man (Dileep) 58, 600/43 Urged.Arriviste (app) 1-0, 600/46 Easy. SpanishConquest (app) 2y.Fastest Finger (Joshi) 58,600/43 They moved together. 2y.Staying TheBest (N.Rawal) Aerosmith (rb) 1-3, 600/46Former moved well and finished together.2y.Sedgefield/Broken Silence (rb) The Himalayas(rb) 1-2, 600/46.5 Former finished a length infront. Oscar Royal (app) 1-2, 600/46 Easy.

Sand Track 1000 Metres:Naughty Gal (Trainer) Joel (Harinder Singh) 1-13, 800/1-0, 600/45 They finished together.Audacious (rb) 1-14, 800/58.5, 600/45 Movedfreely. Racing Tycoon (app) 1-18800/1-3, 600/47Easy. Kianoosh (Harinder Singh) 1-16, 800/59,600/44 Moved well. August Kranti (HarinderSingh) Lumier Blanche (Trainer) 1-15, 800/59,600/44 They moved together. Play The Music(app) 2y.Kallu Mama (Joshi) 1-15, 800/59, 600/44They moved together.

Sand Track 1200 Metres:Vijays Pride (Joshi01-26.5, 1000/1-11, 800/54.5,600/40.5 Impressed. Dauntless (Ramana) 1-35,1200/400 in 1-1 Easy. Enrapture (rb) 1-33.5,1000/1-18, 800/1-3, 600/47.5 Easy.Noted on Monday: 22/10/2012.Mock Race:1200 Metres:Key Note (Harinder Singh) Kohinoor Fighter(Ajit Kumar) Alexander Square (Sai Vamshi)Benita (Alikhan) Wunderbar (A.K.Pawar)Daniella (B.Shinde) 1-15, 1000/1-4, 800/50,600/37 Wunderabar slowly off and Daniellaplanted.Noted on Sunday 21/10/2012.

Sand Track 800 Metres:2y.Carnival Dancer/Integra (laxmikant) 1-1,600/46 Easy. 2y.Staminoizd (A.Ramana)2y.Lucifer Sam/Lyrical Bid (rb) 1-1, 600/45 Theymoved together. Power Planet (Alikhan) 1-0,600/44 Moved well.

PARIS: Next year’s edition of theVolvo World Match PlayChampionship will be held for thefirst time in Bulgaria, the Swedishcar company announced onMonday. It will be the first time theEuropean PGA Tour’s prestige eventwill have been held in easternEurope in what Volvo described asreflecting “the true global natureand growing global appeal of golf”.

The move from Spain, where theMatch Play championship has beenheld for the last three years, is partof a plan to rotate the tournamentbetween a few host destinations.

The tournament will be held at

the Gary Player designed ThracianCliffs Course overlooking the BlackSea from May 16-19.

The Volvo Match Play whichassembles some of the top players inthe world, who qualify on merit,was held at The European’s Tour’sWentworth headquarters outside ofLondon until 2009 when it wasmoved to southern Spain.

Past winners include ArnoldPalmer, who won the inauguraltournament in 1964, Jack Nicklaus,Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, NickFaldo and Greg Norman.

Over the last three years, thefield has been extended to 24 players

divided into eight groups of threeplayers to be played out on theThursday and Friday with 16 play-ers progressing to Saturday’s knock-out stage with the semi-finals andfinal held on the Sunday.

This year’s championship finalsaw Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaertsdefeat Northern Irishman GraemeMcDowell in the final.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister BoykoBorisov, in announcing his govern-ment’s support said: “This is a realcoup for Bulgaria being chosen tohost such a prestigious internationaltournament with a rich heritage andsporting traditions. AFP

Hyderabad thrash Assam in CK Nayudu Trophy

Vijays Pride, KalluMama impress

2013 edition of MatchPlay moved to Bulgaria

HYDERABAD: Parth Jhala has been named thecaptain of the Hyderabad “A” side which willplay against Jharkhand in the Col CK NayuduTrophy (Plate Group B) from 26-29 October.

The following are the players who have select-ed in the Hyderabad “A” side.

The Squad:Parth Jhala (Captain), N. Naveen, K. Sumanth(wicket keeper), B. Sandeep, Benjamin Thomas,V.E. Sandeep Rajan, Ashish Reddy, K. Sabarish,Lalith Mohan, Mehdi Hasan, Vishal Sharma,Akash Bhandari, C.H. Mohanty, M. Ravi Kiran,Habeeb Ahmed.

Parth Jhala to lead Hyderabad ‘A’

SYDNEY: World Anti-DopingAgency chief John Fahey saidTuesday that “everybodydoped” in cycling during theLance Armstrong era and thesport’s administrators at the timeshould take some responsbility.

The US rider’s epic fall con-cluded Monday with the loss ofseven Tour de France titles, leav-ing the sport grasping for a wayto move past a drug-tainted past.

The International CyclingUnion (UCI) supported the find-ings of the US Anti-DopingAgency (USADA), which brand-ed Armstrong the central figurein a sophisticated, systematicdoping scheme.

Fahey said those in charge atthe time must bear some respon-sibility.

“There was a period of timein which the culture of cyclingwas that everybody doped.There is no doubt about that. Theadministrators have to take some

responsibility for that,” theAustralian told ABC radio.

“Is that period gone? That’ssomething which I think the juryis out on and I think UCI are

meeting this Friday to consider anumber of aspects, includingwhat their response must be,going forward.”

Pressed on whether he meant

everyone — literally — in thatera used drugs, Fahey replied:“The evidence that was given bythose riders who are teammatesof Lance Armstrong, one afterthe other, they said the samething -- that you could not com-pete unless you were doping.”

In all, 26 people — including11 former teammates — toldUSADA that Armstrong and histeam used and trafficked inbanned drugs and also usedblood transfusions, and thatArmstrong pressured others todo so.

In a separate interview withAustralia’s Fox Sports, Faheysaid cycling would only regaincredibility when the senior offi-cials on watch during the “deba-cle” were removed. AFP

BASEL, SWITZERLAND:Roger Federer began hisbid for a sixth title at theSwiss Indoors by beatingsubstitute opponent Benj -amin Becker 7-5, 6-3 on

Monday to reach the sec-ond round.

The German ranked83rd, had replaced injuredFrenchman JeremyChardy as the first oppo-nent for the Swiss homehero and world numberone.

Federer, who has wonfive of the last six editionsat the St Jakobshallewhere he got his start intennis as a ballboy at thetournament almost twodecades ago, needed towork to get past the per-sistent Becker, whom hebeat in their last two meet-ings, the last in 2010. AFP

Lance was stripped off his 7 Tour de France titles, leaving a void in the sport’s history.JUSTIN DAVISAgence France-Presse

\GENEVA: Lance Armstrong’sepic fall concluded on Mondaywith the loss of seven Tour deFrance titles, leaving cyclingwith a void in its reco rd bookand grasping for a wa y to movepast a drug-tainted era.

“Lance Armstrong has noplace in cycling... He deservesto be forgotten in cycling,” PatMcQuaid, president of theInternational Cycling Union(UCI), said in Geneva as he

called the scandal “the biggestcrisis” the sport had faced.

In a highly anticipated an -nouncement, seen by some asa key marker of the UCI’sdetermination to battle dopingin the sport, the UCI backedthe US Anti-Doping Agency’sdec ision to erase Armstrong’sent ire career since August 1,1998.

It was the final blow to Ar -mstrong’s increasingly fragilereputation as the cancer survi -vor who beat incredible oddsto win cycling’s premier race

every year from 1999-2005.Although Armstrong him-

self had gone to ground onMonday, a change on hisTwitter profile hinted he hadaccepted his fate.

He is also now bannedfrom elite competition as adrug cheat.

But for his changed Twitterprofile, Armstrong had nocomment as the World Anti-Doping Agency, cycling feder-ations, race organisers and for-mer riders broadly welcomedthe UCI decision as an

inevitable step.“WADA is encouraged that

the UCI feels it can use thiscase as a catalyst to thoroughlyclean up its sport and removeany remaining vestiges of thedoping programmes that haveclearly damaged cycling overthe last decade,” WADA presi-dent John Fahey said in astatement.

USADA chief Travis Tygartsaid cycling must seize thismoment to end a code ofsilence that allowed doping toflourish.

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Fedex opens 6thtitle bid with win

SHOCKING REVELATION

SWISS INDOORS

All doped during Lance era: FaheyLOS ANGELES: Lance Armstr -ong, stripped of seven Tour deFrance titles and cast into cycli -ng oblivion on Monday, appar-ently acknowledged the deci-sion on Twitter. The phrase “7-time Tour de France winner”evaporated from Armstrong’sprofile on his @lancearmstrongfeed on the social networkingsite, hours after the Internation -al Cycling Union said it wouldback the far-reaching doping

charges against him. Now Arms -trong’s profile describes him as:“Raising my 5 kids. FightingCancer. Swim, bike, run and golfwhenever I can.” It’s a changefrom the “Father of 5 amazingkids, 7-time Tour de France win-ner, full time cancer fighter, parttime triathlete” formerly posted.It was the only immediate com-ment from Armstrong on theUCI decision that completed anepic fall from grace. AFP

Tour wins evaporate from Twitter profile

Federal agents crucial in uncovering dopingGENEVA: As world cycling chiefs look to a future after La -nce Armstrong, one man was singled out for special praise bythe International Cycling Union (UCI): special agent Jeff Novi -tzky. Novitzky was already known in the world of sport for aninvestigation into Marion Jones. Novitzky’s evidence on theathletics star would unveil an elaborate doping programmerun by the BALCO laboratory, and it proved likewise with Ar -mstrong. When Novitzky was asked to invetigate claims thatArmstrong’s US Postal team had used millions of dollars ofpublic money on a systematic doping programme, he went atit with the same gusto. He racked up thousands of air milesinterviewing dozens of people who frequented Lance. AFP

UCI approached before date with destinyGENEVA: Lance Armstrong failed in a bid to find out inadvance whether he would be banned for life and lose all ofhis major victories, according to world cycling chief PatMcQuaid. The International Cycling Union (UCI) announcedlast Friday they would be making an announcement regard-ing Armstrong on Monday, and immediately its president,UCI chief Pat McQuaid, received a surprise message. “He(Armstrong) heard we were having a press conference and hesent me an sms,” he said on Monday follwing the UCI’s “land-mark” announcement. “I rang him and told him, ‘I’m having apress conference on Monday and we’re announcing ourresult’. He asked me what that would be and I said, ‘I can’tsay, we’re still working on it this weekend’.” AFP

SPORTS BRIEFS

Titles stripped, ban confirmed ARMSTRONG DOPING CONTROVERSY

sports TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 31CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TWENTY20

THE FINAL CALL

BACK TO NORMALCYFORGERY CASE

DURBAN: Mumbai Indians’ dis-astrous campaign in theChampions League Twenty20came to an end with their thirddefeat in four matches as theymeekly surrendered to SydneySixers by 12 runs at Kingsmead,here on Monday.

Chasing a modest target of137, Mumbai frittered away agood platform provided byopeners Sachin Tendulkar andDwayne Smith as they ended on124 for eight in their stipulated20 overs. Tendulkar and Smithadded 52 runs for the openingstand in 8.2 overs but the middle

order failed miserably as the BigBash champions clawed theirway back into the match.

Mumbai Indians gained alucky entry as the fourth IPLteam in this tournament but theirentire campaign was a nightmar-ish one as they failed to performas a unit in high-pressure situa-tions, thus ending on a winlessnote.

Unlike Kolkata Knight Ridersand Chennai Super Kings, whoplayed with a no-holds barredapproach after being eliminated,the Mumbai Indians could notshrug off the rustiness that was

their companion for the entireduration of the tournament.

Australia’s gen-next pacers,Mitchell Starc and Pat Cumminsalong with talented all-rounderMoises Henriques shared bulk ofthe spoils between them. PTI

KARACHI: Players fromthe visiting InternationalWorld XI Monday saidoverseas teams shouldreturn to tour Pakistansoon, after two Twenty20sagainst an all-star homeside passed off successful-ly at the weekend.

The exhibition gameswere the first appearancesby high-profile foreignplayers in Pakistan sincedeadly militant attacks onthe Sri Lankan team busin Lahore in March 2009led to the suspension ofinternational matches inthe troubled country.

The visitors’ captain Sanath Jayasuriya (above) of SriLanka said international cricket should return toPakistan. “After these two matches I hope people willbelieve that Pakistan is a safe country for cricket,” hetold reporters on his departure. “We had two great dayswith good crowds coming and I am sure that with moreefforts international cricket will return to Pakistan.”

Security was tight as capacity crowds of 32,000packed into Karachi’s National Stadium — evidence, if itwere needed, of the Pakistani public’s desperation to seetop level cricket at home.

Jayasuriya, the dashing left-hander who was instru-mental in Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup win, said he feltsad for the deprived people of Pakistan. AFP

MI end campaign winless

Mumbai Indians’ Dinesh Karthik eyes the ball on Monday during theirCLT20 match against Sydney Sixers in Durban. AFP/STR

Pak ready forinternationals

Pakistan postpone Zimbabwe tourKARACHI: Pakistan postponed their tour to Zimbabweto next year as the dates clashed with a limited overseries with India. “We have written to Zimbabwe cricketboard for putting off the tour to next year as the dateswere clashing with our tour to India,” a Pakistan CricketBoard official told AFP. Pakistan were due to tour Zimba -bwe for two Tests, three one-day and two T20 matchesfrom early December but it will now take place some-time next year. India have invited Pakistan for a threeone-day and two Twenty20 match series starting fromDecember 25 — the first bilateral series between the twocountries since 2007. India had stalled all bilateral cricketwith Pakistan in the wake of November 2008 attacks onits commercial hub Mumbai which killed 166 people. AFP

Ijaz remains on bailuntil next hearingLAHORE: Former Pakistan Test batsman Ijaz Ahmed,charged in a forgery case, has been allowed by a localcourt to remain on bail until the next date of hearing onNovember 10.

Judicial magistrate, Imtiaz Ahmed didn’t issue anyarrest warrants after several hearings of the case, whichdates back to March 2009 when Ijaz was first arrested inthe forgery case.

Two local businessmen had filed a police complaintin 2009 against Ijaz that he issued them forged chequesof around Rs 10 million for a property deal.

Ijaz, 44, spent nearly six weeks in jail until May, 2009but the court later accepted his plea to be allowed bail.

The former hard hitting batsman said he would beappealing the decision.

“I will appeal through my lawyer and try to get myname cleared in this case, which is a false one to defameme,” he said.

Ijaz, who played 60 Tests and 250 One-dayInternationals, remains employed with the PakistanCricket Board (PCB) at its National Cricket Academy inLahore. He has also served as fielding coach of thenational team until recently. PTI

‘Can’t say when I’ll retire finally’SYDNEY: Australian cricket legendShane Warne Tuesday said he couldnot say when he would finally retire,as he prepares to captain a domesticTwenty20 team five years after leav-ing the international scene.

The 43-year-old leg-spinnerannounced his retirement in 2007,only to return as captain and coachof the Rajasthan Royals in the IndianPremier League (IPL) for four years,winning the inaugural tournamentin 2008.

Warne appeared to bring downthe curtain on his stellar, two-decadecricket career at the IPL in May 2011,but went on to join the AustralianTwenty20 team Melbourne Stars forthe Big Bash League’s inaugural sea-son the same year and has contin-ued playing with them.

“I have to never say ‘never’because in 2007 I said I’d never play

cricket again,” Warne told reportersin Melbourne.

“But 18 months later the IPLcame up, so that was something thatinterested me, to captain/coach anddo it the way I always thought itshould be done.”

Warne, who remains Australia’shighest ever wicket-taker with 708Test scalps in his kitty, said eachtime he thought he might haveplayed for the last time, anothercompetition came along thatsparked his interest.

“I do love cricket, I’m passionateabout the game and if I can helpAustralian cricket in any way, shapeor form then I will,” he said.

Warne returned to training onTuesday ahead of the BBL, whichwill kick off on December 7 whenthe Melbourne Stars play theMelbourne Renegades. AFP

Sydney Sixers 136/7 (MichaelLumb 28, Nic Maddinson 27,Steven Smith 41, NathanMcCullum not out 20, MunafPatel 2/17, Lasith Malinga 2/36,Thisara Perera 1/22, HarbhajanSingh 1/22) bt MumbaiIndians 124/8 (Dwayne Smith26, Sachin Tendulkar 22, DineshKarthik 18, Harbhajan Singhnot out 22, Mitchell Starc 2/32,Cummins 2/16, MoisesHenriques 2/29).

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sportsTUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012

32LOEW ADMITS MISTAKES IN SWEDEN DRAW Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted making mistakes during histeam's 4-4 draw with Sweden in the World Cup qualifier after the theythrew away a four-goal lead. Germany were 4-0 up with more than anhour played before the hosts' defence folded in the final 30 minutes.

LONDON: Arsene Wenger has calledon his Arsenal stars to deliver an imm -ediate response to their shock defeatagainst Norwich when Schalke visitthe Emirates Stadium in the Champio -ns League on Wednesday. Wenger’s

team are now 10 points behind Premi -er League leaders Chelsea after losingto previously winless Norwich for thefirst time in 20 years on Saturday. Anerror from Arsenal goalkeeper VitoMannone presented Grant Holt with

CHAMPIONS LEAGUENo room for

error for City AMSTERDAM, NET HE -

RL ANDS: Manchester Cityvisit Ajax on Wednesday kn -

owing that they can affordno further setbacks if they

are to avoid a painful repeatof last season’s Champions

League group-phase exit. Dealt another fiendish

draw, City find themselvesin third place in Group D

after two matches, fivepoints behind leaders Real

Madrid and thr ee pointsadrift of Borussia Dortmund.Both games to date have left

the English ch ampions inrueful mood.

The opening 3-2 loss inMadrid came courtesy of a

90th-minute winner fromCristiano Ronaldo, while

City needed a last-minuteMario Balotelli penalty to

snatch a 1-1 draw at home toan enterprising Dortmund

side three weeks ago. AFP

Wenger wants Arsenal response after shock loss the goal that condemned the Gunners to their second leag -ue defeat of the season and Wenger’s grumpy mood afterthe match reflected his frustration at a lacklustre perfor-mance. Arsenal will need a much improved display to seeoff German side Schalke and maintain their 100 percent.AFP

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