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H LABOUR UNREST IN YANAM, POLICE OPEN FIRELabour unrest broke out at Regency Ceramics factory in Yanam, part ofPondicherry State, annexed to East Godavari district, following the deathof labour leader Muralimohan. Police opened fire at the enraged workers.

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WE ARE INVINCIBLE:IT CROWD City IT leaders and employees remainedunfazed despite Obama’s anti-outsourcingtirade. They asserted business would go on as usual.

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Cops and customs officials take classes on new‘intoxicating’ sapling! Khat leaves are the latest

worry for the enforcement authorities.

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Many have come, manyhave gone, but weManipuris remain how

we were 30 or 40 years back—nochange, no development. “Manypolitical parties have come up withvaried promises which were neverfulfilled,” is the general tone ofManipuris in the City.

With the Assembly electionround the corner, all the politicalparties of the state have come upwith their own election mani-festoes with various promises, theysay about the impending Assemblyelection in their home state.

“During every election thescenario is the same: develop-ment and change. But we are

wiser now and know better,” said,Bipin Phongam, Ph.d studentfrom University of Hyderabad. Heclearly harbours disbelief inpolitical parties.

“The blockade in Manipur hasunleashed corruption in a big way.An LPG cylinder costs arou nd`2000. A litre of petrol costsaround `200 in the black market.

How can anyone afford a cylinderat such prices? Whatever the issueis, it’s always the common manwho suffers,” he laments. Bipin isreferring to the ethnic str ifes fre-quent between Kukis and Nagasthat often lead to highway block-ades and consequent shortage ofessential goods. The state isextremely backward as compared

to other states. There are no prop-er roads, and there is shortage ofdrinking water and electricity.Many important roads are filledwith dust he said, emphasisingthat vast changes are the need ofthe hour. “A common platform isrequired for different communi-ties to come forward, talk andexpress their differences to bringpeace in the state.” he says.

It’s not just Bipin but otheryouths from the state are of thesame view. Anguished by thepoor state of affairs in their homestate youngsters have started anonline campaign on a social net-working site ‘People’s Campaignfor Assembly Election 2012:Deciding Our Destiny’. Manypeople are networking onlineand offline in a bid to bring abouta popular platform that wouldlead to development of the state.

“The scenario in Manipur has

forced many of us to stay awayfrom our homeland. It’s like a mil-itary rule in Manipur, no matterwhich government comes in topower, nothing is going tochange. The candidates shouldrealise that people are not askingfor the moon or the stars; theyjust want basic necessities likefood, water and electricity. It’s nota matter of who promises what,but it’s a matter of how the peoplejudge their promises,” said HitlerMaibam, employee of MahindraSatyam and chief coordinator,Hyderabad Manipuri Society.

“I am not going to Manipur tocast my vote as it’s a long journeyfrom Hyderabad. Moreover noone takes the election seriouslybecause no matter whicheverparty comes to power the situa-tion will remain same in thestate,” he adds.

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Arts and craft funPopular arts and craft guruwill be holding a workshopat Oakridge InternationalSchool.Children will have anelectrifying experience asthey get to Rob performinghis innovations live.

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Lahore on your plateGet a taste of Lahore at theGreat Kabab factory’s Lahorifood festival .

Where: The Great Kabab Factory, Banjara

HillsWhen: 12 pm onwardsContact: (040) 23302244

Flowering delightThe annual AP Horticultureexpo is being held atPeople’s Plaza from January26 to January 30.

Where: People’s Plaza, Tank Bund

When: Ongoing, 10am to 8pm

Martini ‘n musicEnjoy the winter eveningswith grey goose martinis andcrooner Kelly dishing out yourfavourite numbers.

Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills

When: Every EveningContact: (040) 66662323

Goldspot live

Goldspot has performed atthe prestigious Glastonburyand iTunes festivals, andhave opened for severalmajor acts. Catch them per-forming live only at HardRock Cafe.

Where: Hard Rock CafeBanjara Hills

When: January 27, 9pmContact: (040) 44767900

Cognac and CigarThe Seasons Bar opens upagain as a Cigar and Cognaclounge with a wide selection ofcognac, rare whiskies, singlemalts and cigars.

Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills

When: Ongoing, 7pm

Contact: (040) 66662323

Visual artAn exhibition cum sale ofpaintings by Hari Srinivas. Theexhibition is on display tillJanuary 30 2012.

Where: VSL Visual ArtGallery, Plot No100, AP Text BookColony, Gun RockEnclave

When: OngoingContact: 9247175135

NumaishA childhood favourite ofevery Hyderabadi, The AllIndia Industrial Exhibition ison.

Where: Exhibition

Grounds, Nampally

When: Ongoing

Bapu in coloursA painting exhibition titled,Bapu-Mohandas Karam ChandGandhi by Siva Kesara Rao.

Where: Marriott hotel & Convention

Centre, Tank Bund

When: Ongoing, 11amContact: (040)

27522999

Music and shoppingFatman Trio will be perform-ing live at Inrobit Mall.Their music is an amalgama-tion of Blues, Jazz and Rock

‘n Roll.Where: Inorbit Mall,

Hitech CityWhen: January 27,

7.30pmContact: (040) 44880000

Childhood memoryKites are a childhood memo-ry of carefree life.They havebecome a metaphor of soar-ing freedom, of flights sky-high, above the humdrum oflife. Artkites are an expres-sion of festivity and vision.

Where: Iconart, BanjaraHills

When: OngoingContact: (040) 32411554

1001 nightsAn exhibition titled 1001nights featuring drawingsand paintings by SantoshKotagiri.

Where: Iconart Gallery,Banjara Hills

When: Ongoing, 11amContact: 9849968797

One loveOne Love is an International exhibition by artists fromaround the world who aim atpromoting humanity aroundthe world.

Where: State Gallery Of Fine Arts

When: Ongoing, 11amContact: (040)

32913922

Lunch treatCome eat n feel our lavishlunch buffet@ `199/-

Where: Equator Lounge, Jubilee Hills,

When: 12 to 3:30pmContact: (040) 64566161

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The police are on their toesthese days at theShamshabad airport. No, not

looking for International gangstersor terrorists but for African pas-sengers coming with Khatsaplings, which when chewed canintoxicate a person. The police areespecially alert when it comes tothose innocuous-looking visitorscoming from South Africa who arebelieved to be staying mostly inthe Tolichowki area, peddling Khatleaves. As part of the Republic Dayalert, the police who were search-ing baggage along with customsofficials were asked to specificallycheck for saplings, leaves or rootsof this plant.

Of late some Africans havebeen coming into the City withthese saplings that are otherwisebanned in countries like the USand UK. According to reports thisis the next addictive drug that hasbeen doing the rounds in the Citysince Cocaine and LSD are expen-sive. The stems and leaves of thisplant are chewed for a “kick”, andis said to have an exhilaratingsmell. The police say, that the Khatis like any other banned drug witha narcotic effect.

The leaves and stems of theseplants that are popularly known asKhat or Khata Khat are now beingsold in Hyderabad. Although it is

not used like brown sugar, it ischewed on like a pan leaf withoutany masala.

The cost of the Khat sapling

ranges from `100 to `500, which ismuch less than the price of othernarcotics.

Though the saplings were

brought in earlier as well, theywere passed off as just someexotic saplings that were beingbrought in for greenery. eventu-ally though, the police learntabout its intoxicating effects andhave now begun scanning for-eigners and other tourists at theairport for possession of Khat.The police themselves are under-going classes on this so that theycan identify the saplings. Sincethe leaves and stem do not havean aroma they are difficult toidentify this drug.

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Indian artists have managed to make amark in the international art market inthe past. The rapidly growing Indian art

market is giving these creative minds animpetus as is seen in the Indian art fairthat kickstarted on January 25 in NewDelhi. This is the fourth time India is host-ing artists of international repute.

The art fair has galleries fromAustralia, Spain, France, UK and Italyamong others exhibiting works of theirartists. For art lovers, it’s a treat with theworks of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali,Damien Hirst and others on display. Thefair will also offer a perfect platform toIndian artists to showcase their works.Curator of Muse art gallery, Kali Sudheerwho was at the opening ceremony of thefair, said, “With recession, the art sectorhad taken a beating. But this fair willbreathe a new life into it. The influx of for-eign buyers is increasing. The displays thistime are fabulous and I am trying todecide which ones I will pick up.”

Hyderabad is still at a nascent stage

when it comes to art. Yet it has its share ofart lovers like Avani Rao, curator andowner of Iconart gallery, who will be at thefair on January 28. “The quality of workthis time is excellent and for an artist it isvery satisfying to receive appreciation.Hyderabad is still very conventional,though. People are unable to appreciatethe different forms of art and are not curi-ous to learn more which we are trying tobreak here by displaying varied pieces ofart,” she said.

Sudheer agrees saying, “Hyderabad ishardly on the art scene. It is going to takeus at least a decade to reach whereMumbai or Delhi are in terms of art. Wedon’t have a very huge section of art loversor artists in Hyderabad.”

For city-based artist Laxman Aele, thisis the perfect opportunity to showcase hiswork. A three-foot tall painting by himusing 24,000 crayons has been lauded. Hesaid, “This is a great platform for artists.With European galleries investing inIndian art work, it’s a good opportunity toshowcase our work in the Western marketas well. Besides, the paintings on displayare very inspirational.”

African ‘kick’ coming Cops and Customs officials take classes on new ‘intoxicating” sapling! Theseleaves of an African plant called Khat are the latest cause of worry

CRIME

India enjoys the art attack

All about KhatKhat (catha edulis) is a leaf thatwhen chewed releases juicesthat act as a natural stimulant.It is widely and wildly popularacross the Horn of Africa, especially in Somalia.

They’ve bannedKhatNetherlandsSaudi ArabiaDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyNorwayPolandUnited States

A sculpture by Australian artist Sam Jinks on display at the India Art Fair

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“We used to con-sume waterdirectly fromthis lake about

10 years ago. In fact, wheneverpeople ran out of water, they usedto fill a bucket from the lake anduse it. Now the lake is so pollutedthat the water can’t be used foranything,” said Sideshwar Goud,member, Save Our Urban Lake(SOUL) who was born in the areaand continues to live here. TheNGO has been crying hoarseabout the deteriorating conditionof Kamuni Cheruvu, a lake nearthe Shamshabad Airport.

Kamuni Cheruvu is a 25 acrelake, that until 10 years ago, wasthe pride of the residents whoused this lake extensively. Thelake is now polluted, and what’sworse is that it has beenencroached even by the AndhraPradesh Cental Power Distri -bution Company Limited(APCPDCL) sub-station.

The APCPDCL sub-station isliterally in the middle of the lake,blatantly ignoring the Full TankLevel (FTL) limit, says JasveenJairath, member of SOUL. “It issurprising how the governmenthas chosen to ignore the sub-sta-tion when it is clearly violatinglake rules. The sub-station extendsonto the waters so much so that,part of the water seeps into theboundary. In fact, there are electri-cal poles inside this water body,”pointed out Jasveen.

The assistant engineer of thesub-station on Kamuni Cheruvu ,however, remained unavailablefor comment.

Jasveen added that the FTL,marked by stones, is wronglymarked. “If they are marked cor-rectly, the water should not crossthe FTL stones, but the watercrosses the stones. How does thisindicate the full tank level?” ques-tions Jasveen.

Misused by residentsThe proprietor of a leading

jewellery store has allegedly

encroached eight acres of landnear the lake where even theboundary wall extends onto thelake. Sideshwar said that thesepeople are well-known and hav-ing great political contacts andthat is why no one, not even thegovernment, can question them.

Apart from the seweragewater that is channeled into thelake, residents also freely throwgarbage into the water. “There arefour major restaurants in thearea. They dispose their wasteinto the lake throughout the dayand add to the pollution. All theserestaurants have dedicated sew-

erage lines which empty in thewater body. We have tried to stopthese restaurants, but they refuseto comply,” said Sideshwar.

The irrigation departmenthad sent a notice to the fourrestaurants for disposing wasteinto the lake in September, 2011.“But that hasn’t deterred them.They continue as they please,”said Sideshwar. To the naked eye,the water in Kamuni Cheruvu willappear green and infected withsolid waste floating around.

Postnoon encountered a manwho came on a scooter to dumpwaste and another who relieved

himself into the lake. Advamma, who has been living

here since age 7, said that the air-port’s proximity to the lake wasresponsible for its degradation.“No one had even heard of this lakebefore the airport was set up. It wasonly after Shamshabad came intothe limelight during the realtyboom that people started cominghere. This has proved to be a bane.The lake is in a neglected state. Itneeds to be restored immediately,”she opined. Despite repeatedattempts, the officials of the LakeConservation, HMDA, remainedunavailable for comment.

It’s a free for all dumping zone

WATER FOLLIESKamuni Cheruvu

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With the Budget Sessi -on fast approa chingand the Jagan-sup-porting MLAs not

res p onding to the speaker’s sum-mons to answer his queries ontheir resignation, pressure ismounting on the political bossesto show them the door, it is learnt.

In this context, Speaker NManohar’s recent remark isindicative of the official mood.Asked why MLAs are either ignor-ing or slow to respond to his sum-mons, he said, “Replying to anotice by the speaker is the discre-tion of the MLAs, but the speakerneed not wait until the responsecame from a member.”

It is learnt that the ChiefMinister Kiran Kumar Reddy and

PCC chief Botsa Satyanar ayanahave come to a conclusion thatall the MLAs who have defiedtheir party whip must be disqual-ified. The decision was also con-veyed to the AP in-charge for theCongress affairs, Ghulam NabiAzad. The speaker would act justbefore the Budget Session so thatthey may not come in the waywhile the Bill is getting passed. Itmay be noted that some of theMLAs supporting Jagan wantedto go to Court for getting disqual-ified. Taking all these into consid-eration there is every scope thatthey might be expelled.

Disqualification petitions arepending aga inst 17 MLAs, who vio-lated the pa r ty whip during therecent vote of confidence on thefloor of the ho use. Sixteen areCongress MLAs and one from PRP,all loyal to Kadapa MP YS JaganMohan Reddy, violated the whipduring the trust vote against thegovernment recently.

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They were there, lined upneatly, shipshape and shiny.The golden rays that filtered

in through the tree leaves madethem more beautiful. Men whowere on the premises were lost inadmiration for this bevy of metal-lic beauties. If they forget theirflames for a while, they may be for-given, for they were in the pres-ence of beauty that withers notwith age. And curiously, there werenot many of the fairer sex on thespot: perhaps they may haveforseen the situation.

There were 30 vintage carsand 70 vintage bikes on displayon Thursday at Lumbini Park aspart of the Vintage Car and BikeRally that is held on Republic

Day and Independence Dayevery year.

Owners stood by their ‘babies’well-dressed flashing smiles.When someone came up to themand asked about their prized ones,some seemed like they were intro-ducing a supermodel girlfriend;few almost flew into a rage whenadmirers accidently touched theirbeloveds while posing and gettingphotos clicked.

The rank of bikes boasted oflegends such as BSA, Norton,Triumph, Royal Enfield and Jawa.In cars, there were Austins, Hin -dustans, and Fiats. Apart from thisthere were Willys jeeps and a cou-ple of parachute cycles — thosefrom the days of World Wars — too.

One would say it’s a costlyaffair keeping these vehicles ship-shape. It’s a given that for many

owners of vintage cars, money isno object. They would go to anyextent to keep their babes hale andhearty. But many owners disagreethat maintenance is a problem. Infact, most of them retain thesevehicles because it’s zero mainte-

nance. “I just change the oil, refuelthe tank and check the tyres —that’s it. My BSA (1938 model) hasnever let me down,” said Mir HadiHussain. “And I use it daily.” Thisbike is so sophisticated that it hassuspension regulators: a rider maychange the level of suspensiondepending upon how good or badthe road is — something which amodern bike can rarely boast of.

“If my grandfather or myfather had been alive, they wouldbe taking medicine daily,” saidHussain, who also owns a vintagecar that dates back to 1919. “Butmy machines… never.”

But aren’t getting spares a bittough? “Yes, but these machinesare engineered so well that goingspare-hunting does not happenthat often,” said Ram Karan, exec-utive committee member of theDeccan Heritage Automobile

Association, which started thisevent 10 years ago.

The rally came into being aftersome of the organisers who hadbeen abroad were inspired by vin-tage vehicle museums in foreigncountries. Hyderabad is yet tohave one. The organisers havebeen trying for it.

“We have talked with thetourism department and theyseem to be keen,” said Anirudh,secretary, DHAA. “Mayor Moham -med Majid Hussain also seemedpositive about the need for a placeto showcase these classics,” headded. The mayor looked verypleased when he was takenaround shown these beauties onwheels. “This is my first time I haveever been to a show like this,” heconfessed. “It’s amazing.”

Would he like to collect one?“Sure.”

Jagan MLAs toget the boot

Vintage beautiesseek place of pride

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In yet another bike-burningincident, one more bike was

set on fire in Banu Nagar,Mumtaz Colony under theMadanpet police station limitsin the wee hours today (Friday).

According to KV SuryaPrakash, inspector, Madanpetstation, the incident took placearound 3.45am. Owner of thebike (registration number

AP11-R-5346), Mohd Sar dar, acivil contractor with the GHMC,had parked it within his housecompound but the gate was notlocked. Some miscreantsentered the premises, sprinkledpetrol over it and set it ablaze.

Police have booked a caseon the complaint of Sardar andstarted an investigation. Thisis the fifth incident within 10days in the locality. The policehave neither a clue, nor aname on their list of suspects.

One more bike burnt,tension in Madanpet

Drug trial kills Warangal tribalPostnoon News

Ayoung tribal woman hasallegedly fallen victim to a

case of unlawful drug testingby a pharmacy company inWarangal district on Friday.Chintamani Rajitha, 21, isalleged to have died when shewas administered a drug thatwas under test; details werenot immediately available.

She was reportedly work-ing for the last six monthswith DC Tanda Vardhanapetmandal of Warangal district.

According to DSP MamnurK Eeshwar Rao, the tribalwoman died due to a ‘healthproblem.’ But the workers ofthe company are not con-vinced and are accusing thecompany of testing a drug onher, which led to her death.

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One killed inYanam firingPostnoon News

Death of labour Unionleader Murali Mohan in a

police lathi-charge aggravat-ed the situation at Regen cyCeramics factory at Yanam(geographically attac hed toEast Godavari district) inPondicherry on Friday mor n -i ng. Following this, the policeopened fire at the agitatinglabourers in which four weresaid to have been injured.

The workers have beenagitating against the man-agement and they have beenconducting demonstrationsin front of the factory forquite some time. On learn-ing of the death of thelabour union leader, theworkers set the Regencyoffice on fire and vandalisedsome company buses.

The workers attacked thepolice station in which sixpolicemen were reportedlyinjured. They also ransackedschools run by the company.

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The City is growing geographi-cally and demographically,but the roads are in a shame-ful state, thanks to the

authorities who allow shoppingcomplexes and other commercialestablishments freedom to misusepublic road for obvious reasons.

Most of the City’s well knownshopping complexes do not have anyparking space, and these are all well-known brands. The City’s famous

shopping areas like Himayat Nagar,Patny, Begumpet, Trimul ghe rry,Banjara Hills Road number 1 and 2,Jubliee Hills Road number 36, KBRPark stretch and Swanaplok com-plex, which host big brands, do nothave any parking arrangements.

Due to lack of proper parkingfacilities, the customers are facinghuge problems. They are compelledto park on the road meant for trafficand this result in traffic jam andsometimes their vehicles gettingtowed away. It’s now a common sightto see that shoppers come with somehelping hand to sit in the vehicle toprevent their vehicles ending up inthe traffic police station.

“All these big stores in the Citydon’t have parking facilities. We haveto park our vehicle on the road. Till Ifinished shopping, I was tensed asour car was not in a safe place,” saysS Nair, a mass communication stu-dent. These stores ask the first cus-tomers to park in the little spaceavailable and the remainder is asked

to park on the road. Compoundingthe problem, the GHMC has recentlytaken over some roadside parkingslots and charge customers for park-ing. However, this has been a remedyworse than the problem becausenow the authority itself is blockingroad meant for traffic. But, the sameGHMC did not insist on the commer-cial establishment to provide parking

space. Why? All agree on this thing:corruption.

“As the parking woesincreased we collaborated

with the traffic police andmade a little portion of

the roads as GHMC parking area. Weconverted some area into parkingspace,” says Santos, estate officer,GHMC. There are in all 170 parkinglots in the City.

Big brand managers say they arebranching out to buildings com-pletely owned by them and once thathappen they could use the basementfor customers’ parking. The rentedpremises do not allow them muchleeway, managers say.

“We have a basement, but othersuse it, so we ask our customers topark on the road. Very soon we willbe moving out to the opposite build-ing which has parking space for carsand also we can use the basement,”said manager Feroz Mohmmed, gen-eral manager, Pantaloons BegumpetBranch.

Parking at these centers cost `5per vehicle for one hour. Shop own-ers say that this money will be reim-bursed. But a lot of them are windowshoppers on whom they’d to wastethe money, laments Pavan Kumar, amarketing executive.

CIVIC

THE FACES OF HYDERABADSangati Lakshmi, Sweeper, Kutbiguda

U Srinivas

A city is defined bythe people who liveand work in it. Herewe take a look at

the human threadsthat make up our

urban tapestry

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Saganti Lakshmi came allthe way from Khammam,to Hyderabad seven years

ago to take up the job of roadsweeper, outsourced to pri-vate agencies on contractbasis. She earns about `5,000 permonth but has to shell out`2,000 out of it as rent for adwelling in a slum at RoadNo. 12, Kaman area. She hastwo children depending onher.

Lakshmi says she is wor-ried that she would lose herjob under once theYuvakiranlu programme ofChief Minister Kiran KumarReddy gets implemented. Shehas heard that services of allcontract workers might beterminated as it has been pro-

posed to provide those jobs toothers on permanent basis.

She is uncertain if hersweeping job would be regu-larised under theYuvakiranalu programme.

When asked if she hadapplied under theYuvakiranalu scheme, shesaid she does not know howto apply and that she is notliterate. Asked if her contrac-tor is aware of the employ-ment programme announcedby the government, she addsthat they have discussedabout lakhs of jobs to be gen-erated under the project, butdoes not know if they wereincluded.

She is appprehensive thatshe might be sent back toKhammam.

Film star and MLA Chiranjeevihas said he will not bow to

anyone for positions. After hoist-ing the national flag at his bloodband here, Chiranjeevi rubbishedhis detractors’ ridicule that hewas bending backward for politi-cal positions.

If his erstwhile party, PRP, gottwo ministerial berths it isbecause the party deserved it andit was an understanding whilemerging with the Congress.Reading too much into suchthings was vile, he remarked.

Chiranjeevi has been underattack from several quarters,especially from the TDP over hissupport to the Kiran KumarReddy government despite beingsidelined for long after joiningthe Congress.

Won’t go onmy knees forposts, saysChiranjeevi

TTD toexpandSravanamservices

The TTD hasdecided to set

up sub centres ofSravanam projectat Mahbubnagarand Visakhapatnamfor the hearing-impaired childrenup to five years .

TTD executiveofficer LVSubramanian saidthat the objectivewas to widen thebenefit to morechildren with hear-ing impairmentacross the State.

A remedy worse than disease

Campaigns, hard news and spirit of Twin CitiesHyper Local FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 7Spotlight

Revisiting the alma mater SPORTS AND FUN

THE TASTE OF FREEDOM RIDING FOR A CAUSE

Automobile cosmetic surgeonDilip Chhabria is all set to take on

the south market. On ThursdayChhabria inaugurated his firm’s

outlet, DC design lounge at BanjaraHills Road no 12.

DESIGN GURUSETS BASE

Jain Group of Institutions Hyderabad, organised their first Alumni meet for thestudents at a prestigious club in the city . The alumni were welcomed by AcademicDirector JGI,K Lakshmi Rao, also their founder Principal.

Cricketer Venkatpathi Raju hoisted the national flag at the third annualsports day at the Jain Heritage, a Cambridge school, Kondapur. Lively displayslike Sari Drill, Yoga, and the Mass Drill by the tiny tots of UKG mesmerisedthe audience

Visitors at theJumbo Buffet

that wasorganised atThe Square,

NovotelConvention

Centre,Kondapur onThursday as

part ofRepublic Daycelebrations.

India's biggest corporate cyclingevent was organised by the

Atlanta Foundation in Hydera badat Gachibowli Stadium on

Thursday. More than 3,000 bicy-clists from well over 50 MNC

companies participated in TheRepublic Ride 2012.

Minister Ponnala Laxmaiah greets the participants

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 8India unveiled India‑View

MUMBAI: Veter an socialactivist Anna Hazare was onThrusday chosen as the ‘Hero ofMumbai’ in a spot ballot held toelect the contemporary popularleader. The voting which wasopen for all was held at theGateway of India on Thursdayevening. The exercise was called‘Mumbai Ka Hero Kaun’. IANS

NEW DELHI: Anna Hazare onThursday appealed to people inthe election-bound states to votefor candidates who promised theywould, if elected, support theenactment of a Loka yukta Bill onthe lines of the one passed by theUttarakhand asse mb ly.

In his election message postedby his team on YouTube, theactivist said he had not been ableto travel to the five poll-boundstates due to health reasons but histeam will talk to people in thesestates and convey his message.

Hazare indirectly hit out at

the Congress-led United Progre -ssive Alliance (UPA) government,saying it had no intention ofbringing a strong Lokpal bill.

He said people should askcandidates to declare “if theywere willing to bring a LokayuktaBill like that in Uttarakhand”.

He said he was happy with theBill passed by Uttarakhand,which is among the states goingto the polls and is ruled by BJP.

“Do not vote for the corrupt.Send those with clean, goodthoughts,” Hazare said. TeamAnna members said the activistwill travel to the poll-boundstates after he gets well. They saidthat a video of his message will beshown at public meetings.

‘Village councils aboveParliament’In his video message “RebuildingRebuplic” posted on YouTube byhis team, Hazare said that gramsabhas were the highest struc-tures in the country as theyderived their strength directlyfrom the people. IANS

NEW DELHI: Eminent Punjabiwriter Kartar Singh Duggal diedon Thursday of old-age relatedailments. He was 94. The writer,who had also served as a Directorof All India Radio, was admittedto All India Institute of MedicalSciences on Monday last and theend came on Thursday evening.

Duggal has carved a place forhimself by penning novels, shortstories and plays in Punjabi,Urdu, Hindi, and English, withequal elan and was a winner ofSahitya Akademi award and thePadma Bhushan. PTI

EminentPunjabi writerDuggal dead CHENNAI/THIRUVANANTHA

PURAM: Kerala Governor MOHFarook on Thurs day died in a private hospital in Chennai dueto multiple myeloma - a cancer ofplasma cells - at the age of 75,officials said. A seven-day Statemourning has been declared inKerala.

Farook was recently grantedleave to go for medical treatmentto Chennai.“He was admitted formultiple myeloma at ApolloHospital in Teynampet. He diedon Thursday at 9.20pm,” anApollo official said.

Kerala Chief Minister Oom -men Chandy, who was on an offi-cial trip to Thrissur, cancelled hisprogramme and would leave forChennai to pay his respects.

The Kerala government hasdeclared a holiday for all Stategovernment offices and the cen-tral government offices in theState capital will not function aswell. IANS

NEW DELHI: As TeamAnna members debated corrup-tion and participatory democracyhere, a man created a mini stirat the event by asking why AnnaHazare did not speak up againstRaj Thackeray in his home statewhere the politician had target-ed north Indians.

At a seminar on ‘Rebuildingthe Republic’ organised by TeamAnna, the man named LiladharBhat demanded to be heard onstage and after being offered themicrophone raised the issue.

Bhat, who had submitted aquestion was disappointed abouthis issue not being raised at theforum and started shouting.

He refused to back downafter repeated requests by thevolunteers, following which hewas called on stage.

“I am also against corrup-tion and I am myself agitated byit. But the Delhi Lokayukta doesnot take into account the evidence provided about the cor-rupt practices of a NigamParshad. How do we deal withthis now,” he asked.

He then said he was a northIndian and was agitated byMNS’s targeting of the peoplefrom this part of the country inHazare’s home state.”Shall Annanot give his statement on thisissue,” he asked. PTI

A man dressed as Mahatma Gandhi interacts with security women during the 63rd Republic Dayfunction in Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on Thursday. PTI

HAVING A BLAST WITH BAPU

Elect leaders who promisea strong Lokayukta: Anna

Anna is ‘Heroof Mumbai’

Kerala governordies of cancer

Why are you silenton Thackeray, askAnna supporters

NEW DELHI: Bitten and batt e -red with severe head inju ries, atwo-year old baby who wasadmitted to a hospital here lastweek is “showing signs of recov-ery’, doctors said on Thursday.

Falak was brought to the AllIndia Institute of MedicalSciences’ (AIIMS) Trauma Centrearound 2.15 pm on January 18 inan unconsciousness state withinjury marks all over her body bya 15-year-old girl who claimed tobe her mother.

The girl has been sent to ajuvenile home, police said.

“The baby has been uncon-sciousness since the day she wasadmitted but she is showing signsof recovering,” Sumit Sinha, anassociate professor of neuro-surgery and one of the doctorstreating Falak said.

“She has a fractured skull andthere is blood clotting on theright side of her brain. It appearsthat either her head wassmashed against a wall or shesuffered a blow from a heavyobject. There are human bitemarks all over her face, foreheadand right leg,” he added.

According to doctors, Falak ison ventilator support and haseven suffered a cardiac arrest.“On January 18, when the childwas admitted she was in coma.Her surviving chances are verylow due to her severe braininjuries. It might take more thana month to drag her out of herunconsciousness,” added Sinha.

While admitting the baby, the

girl said that she lived along withher ‘husband’ Rajkumar Gupta ina paying guest accommodationin Mahipalpur area of southDelhi, said Nirmal Thakur,spokesperson of AIIMS TraumaCentre. DCP Chhaya Sharma saidthat the girl was stopped in thehospital on January 18 after herstory seemed suspicious.”She hasbeen sent to a juvenile home,"said Sharma. According toSharma, the girl had gone miss-ing from her home in SangamVihar area of south Delhi last yearand her parents had lodged acomplaint. A police officer saidthe girl had eloped. “The parentsof the child have not been tracedyet," Sharma said. IANS

Battered two-year oldrecovering, parentsstill not traced

Bhartiya Chaitanya Partycandidate holds a part ofTelevision during his electioncampaign on bicycle inAmritsar. AFP

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201210Around the World Beyond Borders

GLOBE AT A GLANCEEx-Guatemala dictatorto face genocide chargeGUATEMALA CITY: A Guatemalanjudge ruled on Thursday that there wassufficient evidence to try Efrain Rios Montton charges of genocide for abuses commit-ted during the ex-general’s 1982-1983 mil-itary dictatorship. Judge Patricia Flores saidthat the information presented showedthat Montt,should answer to charges oforchestrating the destruction of nativeMaya villages during the civil war.

Hundreds arrested forNigeria attacksABUJA: Hundreds of foreign nationals,believed to be from neighbouring Chad,have been arrested in Nigeria for the mas-sacre of 186 people, including an Indian,last week, Xinhua reported. The killingstook place in Nigeria’s second largest cityKano in Kano state. Boko Haram extrem-ists were said to be behind the January 20massacre.

Australian PM rescuedby police during protestMELBOURNE, :Australian PrimeMinister Julia Gillard and opposition leaderTony Abbott were trapped in a buildingThursday in the capital Canberra during aviolent protest and had to be rescued byriot police.The two political leaders wereattending a function to mark Australia Daywhich is the day the first British fleet cameto establish a colony in 1788.

Musharraf return maybe a ‘misadventure’

A visitor tries flavoured oxygen atthe oxygen bar during theMacworld/iWorld on Thursday inSan Francisco. AFP

Miriam Lasso holds a burningcandle next to pictures of severalpolice and military hostages of theFARC in Cali, Colombia. AFP

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani presi-dent Pervez Musharraf’s heroics in return-ing to his country could prove to be anoth-er misadventure for him, a Pakistani dailysaid on Thursday. Not only half a dozencourt cases await Musharraf in Pakistanbut all political parties have agreed that heshould face trial.

SAN FRANSISCO: Twittersaid on Thursday that it now hasthe ability to block tweets fromappearing in a specific countryif legally required to do so.“As we continue to grow inter-nationally, we will enter coun-tries that have different ideasabout the contours of freedomof expression,” Twitter said in ablog post. “Some differ so much from ourideas that we will not be able toexist there," the San Francisco-based company said.“Others are similar but, for his-torical or cultural reasons,restrict certain types of content,such as France or Germany,which ban pro-Nazi content,”Twitter said.Twitter said that previously, if itwas required to remove mes-

sages, it could only removethem globally.“Starting today, we give our-selves the ability to reactivelywithhold content from users in

a specific country while keep-ing it available in the rest of theworld,” Twitter said.“We haven’t yet used this ability,but if and when we are required

to withhold a tweet in a specificcountry, we will attempt to letthe user know, and we willclearly mark when the contenthas been withheld,” it said.Twitter said it would postdetails of any incidents involv-ing the removal of content onChillingEffects.org, a publicdatabase of takedown requests.“One of our core values as acom pany is to defend andrespect each user’s voice,” Twit -ter said. “We try to keep content upwherever and whenever we can,and we will be transparent withusers when we can’t.”China, notably, blocks Twitter, asituation which Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey describedrecently as “unfortunate anddisappointing.” AFP

SYDNEY: Two Australianadventurers have madeAntarctic history by becomingthe first team to travel unaidedto the South Pole and back, sur-viving three months of“extreme hardship”, th ey saidon Friday.

James Castrission, a 29-year-old accountant, and JustinJones, 28 and a scientist, skied2,270 kilometres to completethe arduous trek, overcomingfatigue, injuries and hallucina-tions from lack of sleep andfood.

“It’s an absolutely fantasticfeeling, I can’t describe the ela-tion I am feeling right now,”said Castrission after reachinghome base late Thursday.

“It has been nearly threemonths of extreme hardshipand at times simply survivingthis adventure has been our

goal.“It’s great to finish this trek

on Australia Day (January 26)too and we can’t wait to steponto the tarmac at SydneyAirport next week.”

The pair reached the Poleon December 31 and en routepassed the previous longestpolar skiing trip without air-drops or sails. That record wasset in 2009 when NorwegianCecilie Skog and AmericanRyan Waters covered 1,800 kilo-metres.

Both men beefed up byabout 20 kilograms (45 pounds)each in preparation for the gru-elling trip, during which theytowed 160 kilograms of gear.

They ended up losing 55kilograms in weight betweenthem.“Despite the blisters,ulcers, soreness and fatigue Ifeel fantastic,” said Jones. AFP

UNITED NATIONS: The UNSecurity Council will discussthe Syria crisis on Friday, andwestern and Arab nations couldmake public their draft resolu-tion condemning the govern-ment’s deadly crackdown,diplomats said.

The unexpected meetingwas announced by Frenchdiplomats after representativesof the council’s five permanentmembers — Britain, China,France, Russia and the UnitedStates — held talks on Thursdayon the new resolution.

Friday’s consultations werecalled by Morocco, the currentArab member of the 15-nationbody, which has been unable to

agree a resolution on Syria sincethe protests erupted last March.

“A draft resolution could besent to all members of the

council tomorrow,” oneSecurity Council diplomat said.

A new resolution givingstrong backing to the Arab

League’s initiative to end theSyria crisis has been drawn upby Britain, France, Germanyand Arab nations, includingMorocco and Qatar.

The draft’s supporters hopefor a vote next week. ArabLeague secretary general Nabilal-Arabi and Qatari PrimeMinister Sheikh Hamad binJassim Al-Thani are to brief thecouncil on Syria on Monday orTuesday.

The Arab League has calledon President Bashar al-Assad tohand over powers to a deputyso that elections can be held inSyria where the UN says morethan 5,400 people have beenkilled in the violence. AFP

The owner of a Frenchbreast implant maker that

sparked a safety scare hasbeen charged with “involun-tary injury”, his lawyer says.

He said Poly ImplantProthese (PIP) founder Jean-Claude Mas, 72 - arrested in amanslaughter case - hadbeen freed on bail of 100,000euro ($130,000).

In 2010, France bannedPIP implants made with thelow-grade silicone, amidfears they could rupture andleak.

Up to 400,000 women in65 countries are believed tohave been given implants.

Mr Mas remained at hishome in Six-Fours-les-Plages, in the South ofFrance, while police searchedit - as required by French law.He was later taken to the

national police station inMarseilles. His lawyer, YvesHaddad, said “He is not well,he is tired and he is waitingfor his doctor.”

Mr Jean Claude Mas hasbeen under investigationsince he revealed in a policeinterview last year that PIPordered employees to hide unauthorised silicone wheninspectors visited with regardto the silicon implants. BBC

UN Council to discuss Syria

PIP implant boss chargedwith involuntary injury

Australian adventurersmake ‘Antarctic history’

Syriangovernmentsupporterswavenationalflags as theystand in afountain infront of aportrait ofPresidentBashar al-Assad. AFP

File image ofJean-ClaudeMas. AFP

Twitter to start filtering its content

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It is election time in the US of A.The ‘state of the union’ speechof Barrack Obama had its dose

of antipathy to American compa-nies outsourcing jobs.

India Inc. asserted that theywere creating jobs and not usurp-ing them – refer the observationsof Vineet Nayar of HCL, AzimPremji of Wipro at WorldEconomic Forum (WEF) at Davosand even Mahindra Satyam.

Elections are slated forNovember.

The major concern is his callfor immediate enactment of thetax plan. The City has aroundthree lakh employees who aredirectly dependent on the IT andITES industries. These industriesalso created employment for ninelakh people such as securityguards, taxi drivers, catering, etc.

Would these jobs be at stakewith Obama’s proposed policy?Nobody is sure, but industry feelsit wouldn’t affect much. Butemployees have their owndoubts. Skilled staffers are willingto go abroad to work, though.

Dependence on outsourcingdiffers from company to the com-pany. However, on an average 60per cent of their business is beingoutsourced from USA. The indus-try gradually reduced this num-ber from 90 per cent in last fiveyears by moving over to countrieslike Russia, Europe and SouthAmerica after recession; said KHarikumar, Executive Director, ITand ITES Industry Association ofAP (ITsAP).

Even though, there is an 8.5per cent of unemployment, thereis a dearth of skilled human reso -urces in USA for IT and ITES jobs.

Education is also extremelyexpensive to create adequate hu -m an resources. India adds valueto the business by providingskilled manpower, low salaries,and 24-hour work cycle in differ-ent shifts.

The companies also want to

be with the consumers forresearch and development andalso create appropriate servicesto the local people, he said.

Talking about Obama’s state-ment, Harikumar said it would hitthe American companies likeIBM, Accenture and Microsoftoperating here.

However, Obama’s statementis politically motivated and didnot have any details on how

much tax would be levied on theprofits of the companies. “It is tooearly to comment, but I believeeven after tax, the costs of operat-ing would be lower in India. Theyare already discouraging Indianemployees to work for Indiansoftware companies in USA byvisa rejections and delay,” he said.

There is an enormous costbenefit for software companiesby operating from India. Startingsalaries for high-end jobs in ITindustry would be anywherebetween $30,000 (`15 lakhs) to$50,000 (`25 lakhs) in the USA.

The same professional’ssalary ranges from `1.5 lakhs-`9lakhs in India. On top of the CTC,the healthcare benefits are alsohugely expensive in USA, whichranges from 20- 25 per cent ofthe salary. But it is five per cent ofthe salary in India. It can comedown to three per cent with anincrease in salary. The cost ofhuman resource is six timeshigher in USA compared toIndia, said JA Chowdary, co-Chairman, FICCI, AndhraPradesh State Council.

“Obama cannot control theindustry. It is the cost benefit ratio

that decides to drive outsourcingbusiness to India or not. There isalso need to provide tax incenti -ves by the government based onthe tax breaks provided by USA tonullify the effect,” Chowdaryadded. The IT employees are con-fident in the city. Obama issued asimilar statement two years agobut industry continued to grow.IT industry in the City is strongwith a lot of openings from vari-ous major IT companies, said ChRaghurama Raju, SeniorConsultant, Hitachi Consulting.

The costs to produce a qualityapplication with research anddevelopment (R&D) of productand give 24/7 support servicewould be several times higher inthe USA than in India, saidHarshitha, a consultant in Oil andGas practice in a big IT firm.

The costs of software applica-tions would be many times high-er than what they are now byoperating in USA. If such a thinghappens, that will not only affectthe IT industry but all the indus-tries that are dependent on IT,said Arif, a project manager ontelecom practice with an ITmajor.

We are invincible: IT crowd

n Companies will not get the35 per cent tax deductionsfor moving their operationsabroad.

n Companies moving theiroperations back to the USwill get a tax rebate of 20per cent. This lures the com-panies back.

n Make companies pay a mini-mum tax for profits and jobsoverseas (quantum not spec-ified)

n The proceeds of such taxeswill be spent on manufactur-ing in USA.

HYDERABAD: IndiaFirst LifeInsurance, a joint venture of Bankof Baroda and Andhra Bank alongwith UK’s risk, wealth and invest-ment company Legal & General,launched a new policy, ‘Autolife’,on Friday in the City.

The car buyers can buy lifecover while buying a car insur-ance, according to P Nandagopal,managing director and CEO,IndiaFirst Life Insurance.

The IndiaFirst Life aims totarget more than 2,500 customersevery month through 100 centresof Varun Motors. According to thecompany, it does not require anydocumentation and medicals forapplication approval and assuresspeedy and empathetic settle-ment of claims within 48 hours.

IndiaFirst Life is already pre-sent in Andhra Pradesh through1,172 branches of its promoterbanks. It has tied up with SERP(Society for elimination of Ruralpoverty) to provide cover to allmembers of self-help groups. Theproject will cover 1.5 -1.75 crorewomen who take small loansfrom the banks as part of itssocial sector obligation.

IndiaFirstlaunches Autolife

PARIS: India has become the32nd signatory for the Conv -ention on Mutual AdministrativeAssistance in Tax Matters, theParis-based Organization for Eco -nomic Cooperation and Develo -pment (OECD) said on Thursday.

India's signing of the conven-tion, a multilateral agreementpromoting international cooper-ation while respecting the rights

of taxpayers, sent "a strong signalthat countries are acting togetherto ensure that individuals andmultinational enterprises pay theright amount of tax, at the righttime and in the right place," theOECD said.

"I expect it will be the firstnon-OECD G20 country forwhich the updated Convention isin force," said Jeffrey Owens,

director of the OECD Centre forTax Policy and Administration.

The convention was devel-oped jointly by the Council of Eu -rope and the OECD and ope nedfor signature by the member sta -tes of both organisations on Jan -uary 25, 1988, Xinhua reported.

It was amended in April 2009in response to the G20's callingfor action "to make it easier for

developing countries to securethe benefits of the new coopera-tive tax environment, including amultilateral approach for theexchange of information".

The convention promotesadministrative cooperation in theassessment and collection oftaxes, with a view to combatingtax avoidance and evasion whilerespecting the rights of taxpayers.

India signs global tax agreement

MUMBAI: The BSE benchmarkSensex today shot up by another176 points in early trade, extend-ing gains for the fourth straightsession on continued buying byfunds and retailers amid a firmingtrend in Asian markets.

The 30-share index rose fur-ther by 176.39 points, or 1.03 percent, to 17,253.57. It had gainedover 338 points in the past threesessions.

In a similar fashion, the wide-based National Stock ExchangeNifty index regained 5,200 pointslevel to trade 49.75 points, or 0.96per cent, higher at 5,208.05 points.

Brokers said apart from afirming trend on other Asianbourses, hopes of easing liquidi-ty in the market after the RBI cutcash reserve ratio by 0.50 per-centage point in its policyreview on Tuesday, buoyed thetrading sentiment. In Asia, HongKong's Hang Seng Index rose by0.13 per cent and Japan's NikkeiIndex by 0.40 per cent in earlytrade today.

Rupee up 31 paise The rupee strengthened by 31

paise to trade at fresh 10-weekhigh of 49.77 against the dollaron the Interbank ForeignExchange market in early tradetoday, supported by continuedforeign fund inflows.

Sensex gainsover 176 pts

What Obama proposed?

TALK BACKStudents should studyWhile it is a commendable gesture on thepart of the government to withdraw casesagainst students involved in the for-a-Telangana agitations, it alsobecomes governmentalresponsibility of ours to ensurethere is no repeat of such inci-dents. It is a shame for ours, thestudent community to beindulging in acts that unbecomingof cultured people. Should we beinterested in politics and want totake it up as career, there are other andgood ways to go about this endeavour. Byadopting wrong ways, we are bringing dis-grace to the community.

Ehasanuddin AminNampally

Shortage of vehicleparksI fully empathise with vehicle owners of the

city on their grouse over parking facili-ties. While the number of vehicleskeeps increasing, space to park themis shrinking. Is it not the duty of theadministration of the city to ensurethis basic facility? Don’t their advis-ers enlighten them on the need forspace for vehicle owners to park

these ever increasing tax earners? Or isthe government only too happy to create asituation from which it can milk even morerevenue in the form of fines? Prevent, deartraffic police, and not capitalise on disorder.

Abdur RehmanKhairtabad

Parking problemsI read your story on how park-ing has turned out to bea major cause of concernfor car owners and busi-nessmen across the city.Leave along parking spaces,what this city really needs isan elaborate plan to regulatethe traffic conditions at differ-ent points of time. Every evening, the entireblock from Secunderabad to Hi-Tech City getschoked with traffic and I can’t imagine the sit-uation in crowded areas like Koti andAmeerpet. It’s quite sad that infrastructure,required to accommodate the ever growingnumber of vehicles in the city, is pathetic.

Jhanvi KumariBowenpally

No shopping onweekendsParking woes is something that all ofus relate to as residents in Hyderabad.Marketing during the weekend espe-cially becomes a task. Earlier Satu rd -ay and Sunday were two days eve -rybody used to like going out and

spending time window shopping at least.But now to think of marketing on a week-end is a scary thought. I stay near Ameerpetand the market during the weekends or forthat matter even during the week is difficultto negotiate. There is no proper parking facil-ity. We have wind our way through the near-by alleyways to find a suitable spot.

Noel D’ SouzaAmeerpet

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201212Fair, free and forthrightComment

Somewhere in Malaysia, a family weepswith relief. In Haditha in Iraq, citizenscry out for justice. In the hallways ofpower in Ankara and Paris bureaucrats

haggle over what constitutes genocide. Theone common strain that ties the above threescenes is the fact that all the victims wereinnocent. They were not soldiers fighting awar; they were not insurgents resisting occu-pying forces; they were parents and children,husbands and wives, sons and daughters.

On Tuesday, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterichwas told he would serve no time behind barsfor his part in the 2005 massacre of 24 civil-ians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. He was theonly soldier accused in the horrific incident.As this paper reported on Wednesday, the USarmed forces have a rather chequered recordwhen it comes to killing civilians in battle (MyLai was the most infamous before Hadithaand Mamoudhiya), but then again, can anyarmy say that their collateral damage did notinclude children and the elderly?

On Wednesday the British governmentfinally allowed relatives of the 24 unarmedMalays killed in 1948 by British forces inBatang Kali, access to hitherto confidentialinvestigation papers into the killing describedas the ‘British My Lai’. It’s a small step, but forfamilies that need closure, it is a gigantic one.

There are wars being fought all across theglobe. We know of the big ones; the ones thatget the TV coverage; the ones where anchorsin flak jackets shout above the perceived dinof an artillery barrage. On these ‘reality war’fronts the skies are filled with state-of-the-artcombat aircraft and drones, the seas feel thewake of guided-missile destroyers and aircraftcarriers, and the tanks that rumble across theground were built in the last 20 years.

But there are other theatres of battlewhere the protagonists wield machetes, notguns; where the fear of rape and torture over-rides any sense of doom inspired by thesound of creaky artillery and Cold Warweaponry. There are no TV crews here, noAnderson Coopers and John Simpsons, all

that resides here is the blood of innocents.Spreading fear and panic through a local

population has been a vital tool in warfarefrom the days of the ancients: From theVikings berserker rage and a conquistador’slethal cross, to the firebombing of Dresden,and the atomic bombs over Japan; war isabout terror, inasmuch as terrorism is.

There have been those in military circleswho had enough, who went against theirtraining and defied superiors, either directlyor through a covert operation. Field Marshal

Erwin Rommel was forced to consume poisonbecause he attempted to stop Hitler and a warhe knew his beloved country could never win;Bradley Manning faces the full brunt of theAmerican military legal system for Wikileaks.All they wanted was to stop the killing.

Will Sergeant Wuterich dream of the facesof the dead as he sleeps the sleep of the free?He might. But the families he destroyed willlive the nightmare every waking hour.

In an Armistice Day speech in 1948, USGeneral Omar Bradley said: “The world hasachieved brilliance without conscience. Oursis a world of nuclear giants and ethicalinfants. We know more about war than weknow about peace, more about killing than weknow about living.”

In the 64 years since then, the world’smilitaries have continued to kill innocentpeople without so much as a backwardglance at the human debris. The world haschanged, but our lust for carnage never will.Our one constant is bloody, and that is thehuman condition.

Urban JetsamDean Williams

Editorials From Iraq to Vietnam,the ghosts of war scream

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BACKING VIGILANTESis un-Gandhian

Twice in two months, AnnaHazare has blurted outhis support for people

who slap the corrupt. In hisyouth, Hazare and his friendsused to go around smashing

liquour shops to enforce prohi-bition. Age may have mellowed

him but it has not diluted hisadmiration for vigilantism. Likeevery other person, Hazare too

is entitled to his opinions butwhen he dons the Gandhian

mantle for his agitations itamounts to hypocrisy. Millions

of Indians, tired of all officialanti-graft machinery, look up tohim for a model they can adoptand justifying vigilantism is def-

initely not helping. May be hismemory has failed to remind

him that Gandhi, whose mas-sive posters form the backdropof his agitation venues, called

off the Non-cooperationMovement at its peak when

violence broke out.

WHY WE LOVENavy SEALs

In a sequence that could havebeen a Hollywood movie

scene, US Navy SEALsparachuted into Somali pirate

territory and whisked away twokidnapped Western aid workers.

The operation, carried out bythe same squad that took out

Osama bin Laden, took lessthan an hour. Nine pirates were

killed and there were no SEALor hostage casualties. Citizens

can rest assured that suchcapable men will be sent by

their country from any scenario.They are also the pride of the

country because these men willrisk their lives, kick Hades in the

nuts and bring home theircountrymen.

From the Vikings berserker rageand a conquistador’s lethalcross, to the firebombing ofDresden, and the atomicbombs over Japan; war is aboutterror, inasmuch as terrorism is.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201213Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Neonataljaundice iscommon

Dr Kiran Krishnamurti

My sister delivered a baby girl threedays ago and she has been havingjaundice for the last 2 days. I haveheard that jaundice in the newbornbaby happens because of a differ-ence in the mother’s and baby’sblood groups. However, my sisterand her baby are both opposition.Right now her jaundice level is 14and we have been giving her pho-totherapy. Is there any cause forworry? Do we need to change thediet of the mother? Will it affect thebrain?Neonatal jaundice is a fairly com-mon occurrence. Yes, it is true thatit happens because of an incompat-ibility of the blood groups of moth-ers and child. However there arefactors other than that.

Rh(+ or-) and ABO that need tomatch. Neonatal jaundice can becaused by an incompatibility ofthese and it is likely to be milder. Alevel of 14mg% Serum Bilirubin atDay 3 is no cause for worry. It willsettle down. There is absolutely nothreat of brain damage with thislevel. Kernicterus (ie bilirubin dis-coloring and damaging brain cells)happens at a level above 20-22mg%.

There is no connection betweenthe mother’s diet and the baby’sjaundice. She should be breast fedas often as possible and fed withmaybe a few teaspoons of boiledand cooled water when she is onphototherapy.

(The writer is a paediatricianpracticing at Andromeda Centre.

You can write in to her atkiran_krishnamurti@hotmail.com)

Sprains can occur due tomany reasons such as askid or slip on a wetfloor, a fall on your wrist,

jamming a finger or while play-ing various sports such as foot-ball, basketball, gymnasticsand volleyball.

Is it a sprain or atear?

A common confusionamong many of us isbetween a sprain and atear. Ask anyone what thedifference is and we usu-ally get a confused reply.A sprain in simple termsis an injury to the liga-ment. Ligament is a bandwhich connects the differentjoints in the body. Ligamentsoccur in all parts of the body.

According to Dr M HariSharma, consultantorthopaedic surgeon, ApolloHospital, Hyderguda, “Sprain isa non-medical term. A sprainoccurs when a ligament isinjured. The tear is placedunder three grades. A mildinjury which is usually a spraincomes under grade 1, a slighttear is grade 2. When the liga-ment is completely torn it iscalled grade 3.”

The most common liga-ment injuries occur in theankle (commonly known

“twisted ankle”) or the knee.Extreme pressure on

the ligament orstretching of theligament may bethe cause of theinjury.

A ligament tear ora fracture?

“In the early stages peoplewith both a ligament tear and afracture have immense pain.But a ligament tear usually

recedes within a few days. Incase of a fracture, a clickingsound is heard at the time ofthe injury,” mentions DrSharma. Dr Sharma advisesthat a person should visit adoctor after an injury so that hecan assess whether it is a sim-ple sprain or a more serioustear or fracture.

Sports-related tearsand sprains

Ligament injuries are alsovery common in sports people.The first kind is very commonin footballers. It is known asthe anterior cruciate ligamenttear in which the ligamentinside the knee is torn andbecomes unstable.

This may require physio-therapy and in some seriouscases surgery. The second is acommon injury among crick-eters and tennis players. It isknown as tennis elbow. BothSania Mirza and SachinTendulkar have been in thenews for having suffered from a

tennis elbow. It occurs due tothe strenuous overuse of theelbow. It is commonly associat-ed with playing who play tennisand other racquet sports,though it can happen to almostanyone. It makes it difficult for aperson to even fold or move hisor her elbow. For a tennis elbowthe person undergoes physio-therapy and is given pain killers.In certain cases injections aregiven or a surgery may beadvised.

TreatmentThe best treatment for a

sprain or a tear is rest. “Restwill help the tear or sprainsheal. Crepe bandage or Plasterof Paris (POP) bandage may beused around the injured area toimmobilize the sprain and pro-vide support. For a mild spraina regular bandage is used butin severe cases a POP bandageis used.” Ice or cold compresswraps can be used to provideinstant pain relief.

What a sprain!Anishaa Kumarfeedback@postnoon.com

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201214Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Asthma is aform of allergy

Postnoon News

“Asthma is a form of allergy inwhich a person’s immunesystem recognises non-

infectious parts like dust, pollen asallergens and causes the airway tonarrow down. While there are no spe-cific studies, nearly 10 in 10,000 peo-ple are affected by asthma,” says Dr YGopi Krishna, consultant pulmonolo-gist at Mythri Hospital.

Since factors like dust, pollen andpollution are triggers for asthma, theincidence of the ailment has been ris-ing with the increase in pollution lev-els in our cities. “Also people’s immu-nity levels are coming down due tovarious lifestyle factors, poor foodhabits and poor exposure duringchildhood. It is no wonder then thatthe incidence of asthma is on the risethese days,” says Dr Krishna, adding,“While it can’t be cured it can certainlybe controlled and prevented. The twomainstays of treatment are coun-selling on the precaution to be takenand inhalers.”

Inhalers, says the doctor, are thefirst line of treatment for asthma.“Besides these are better than tabletsand other forms of oral medicationsince the dosage is very low comparedto them. So even inhalers withsteroids and bronchodilators are per-fectly safe as they are administered invery low doses. Alternately there arealso tablets and injections availablefor treatment of asthma,” he says.

Monitoring lung function isessential for asthma patients to effec-tively control the ailment. “They canuse a peak flow meter either at thehospital or at home regularly or get aspirometry done at the hospital oncea year to determine how well thelungs are functioning. Doctors canalter treatment based on these read-ings,” says Dr Krishna.

“Asthma during pregnancy can berather tricky as if it is not managed itcan lead to complications like growthretardation. But inhalers are a greatway to handle asthma in pregnantwomen since the dosage is so low andthe drugs don’t cross the placentalbarrier,” he says.

BREATHE EASY

Dr Y Gopi Krishnaconsultant pulmonologist at

Mythri Hospital

risk withfood

fried inolive oil

No cardiac

Food fried in olive or sun-flower oil is not linked toheart disease or prematuredeath, but the same is not

true of solid or reused oils. Whileeating lots of fried food canincrease some heart disease riskfactors such as high blood pres-sure, high cholesterol and obesity,a link between fried food andheart disease has not been fullyinvestigated.

So the study authors, led by

Pilar Guallar-Castillon professorat the Autonomous University ofMadrid, Spain, surveyed thecooking methods of 40,757adults aged 29 to 69 years overan 11-year period. None of themhad heart disease when the studybegan, the journal bmj.comreports.

Trained interviewers askedparticipants about their diet andcooking methods. Fried food wasdefined as food for which frying

was the only cooking methodused. Questions were also askedabout whether food was fried,battered, crumbed or sauteed,according to an Autonomousstatement.

The participants’ diet wasdivided into ranges of fried foodconsumption, the first quarterrelated to the lowest amount offried food consumed and thefourth indicated the highestamount. During the follow-up

there were 606 events linked toheart disease and 1,134 deaths.

The authors conclude, “In aMediterranean country whereolive and sunflower oils are themost commonly used fats for fry-ing, and where large amounts offried foods are consumed both atand away from home, no associa-tion was observed between friedfood consumption and the risk ofcoronary heart disease or death.”

IANS

Not all bakery products are healthy

Dr Suneetha Sapur

I have a weakness for freshlybaked biscuits that are avail-able in bakeries in Hyderabad.However, I’ve been advised toavoid them as they are not veryhealthy. But I don’t understandwhy? Are these biscuits high infat?

Unfortunately, the fooditems that are tasty are notalways very healthy. Yes bakery

biscuits have a high fat contentand are also prepared withmaida and sugar. If you look atit 95 per cent of it contains onlycalories and no other nutrient ispresent in significant amounts.So it is not healthy and excesseating can lead to weight gain.

Apart from high fat contentand empty calories most of thebakery biscuits are preparedwith vanaspati. Vanaspati isprepared by hydrogenation ofvegetable oils. During hydro-genation, the liquid oilsbecome solid because themono and polyunsaturatedfatty acids are converted, into

saturated fatty acids and iso-mers called fatty acids. iegroundnut oil or sunflower oilare hydrogenated so that theybecome solid like ghee or but-ter. Vanspati is used as a substi-tute for ghee in cooking and thepreparation of bakery products,sweets and snacks. The hydro-genation process producestrans fatty acids, which are notgood for health and it may leadto heart diseases and varioushealth problems. Therefore, itis essential to limit the intakeof bakery biscuits. Ideally,the intake of trans fattyacids should not exceed 2per cent of energy intake.

(The writer is the direc-tor of Akkshaya

Foundation and a consultantnutritionist at LV Prasad Eye

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Big girl’sdon’t cry

Women should not cry atwork, could have wellbeen one of the Ten

Commandments. It's almost liketelling a man 'pink is not hiscolour'. The moment your well-kept guard drops at work and themoment the tear gates open, thereyou are — you can kiss your careeradvancement goodbye.

These rules go for almost allwomen, unless the woman inquestion is an actor and she earnsher career advancement throughemotions.

A recent incident at the work-place forced me to think about thispredicament. The feeling of shameat being caught with your guarddown is so overpowering that mostwomen when they want to cry atwork run for the nearest rest roomor a secluded spot to release theflood gates. Way out of the reach ofa male colleague.

Strong declarations made bywomen all over, come floodingback to me. We believe in being thealpha woman; she is strong, inde-pendent and is able to tackle anyand every problem at work. Is thisthe reason why women should notcry at work?

People scrutinise a woman'sbehaviour in male-dominatedenvironments, searching for anysign of weakness. Given thedemands of such workplaces, anysort of emotional display can sug-gest weakness and therefore,women are advised to avoid cryingwhen upset.

Showing emotions at workother than the occasional smile orlaugh is taboo. Blow your top andthere you are, branded as rude andmoody, and if you cry — then forthe next two days, office corridorgossip will echo with only your actof weakness and then every otherstatement will end like 'I hope youare not going to cry, if I tell youthis'.

So now take to tearing up, ifyou must, it still shows your abilityto control your emotions. If it hasto, let it be a trickle, not a flood.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201215Hers TrulyPatricia Day

Bidinger, aCalifornian, hasalready dedicat-

ed 35 years ofher life to a sec-

tion of Indiansociety, whose

only companionsare poverty, sick-ness and dispari-

ty. She runs theInstitute of Rural

Health Studies

Shiba Minaishiba.m@postnoon.com

Picture this — a warmand unassuminglycharming white blue-eyed beauty living in a

cowshed with one door (nowindow) and one electric bulb.This is not a figment of ourimagination but the truth. Weare talking about Patricia DayBidinger 35 years ago. She is aresearcher in health care, whichinvolves extensive interactionwith the locals of the villagesshe visits.

Patricia tells us about the

incident that made her thesaviour of hundreds of needyfolk, “One day, a woman walksup to me and says, ‘Oh Amma!You have asked us so manyquestions and we haveanswered them. We hope itwill help someday, but rightnow what our village needs ismedical help and care, don’tyou think that will be morehelpful?’

“That was a simple thingthat struck me like a bolt oflightning and from the next daymy group put a table there for afew hours to extend whateverlittle medical help we could.

Now we have a clinic atMahbubnagar that treats over200 patients a week.”

Listening to this, we couldnot help but wonder wasn’tbeing an expat a challengehere? And pat comes the reply,“Absolutely! For some strangereason most people think it iseasy for foreigners, but it’s notthe case. There are times whenI am faced with what I like tocall ‘reverse racism’.” Shelaughs, and continues, “It wasalso a challenge because when Icame to Hyderabad 35 yearsago the caste system was verystrong. I had people ‘guiding’me to help only certain com-munities. I also had peopledoubting why a foreigner wouldwant to help the poor or down-trodden.”

To what motivates her to dothis kind of work, she says, “Istarted when I was very young,and my first job was to teachphysically challenged people toswim, and I realised how littleefforts can change many lives.So now, I provide health careservices in villages for women,children and the elderly. Wealso have a mobile health vanattending to emergencies. Apartfrom that, we started TravelersAid for the sick at the Imlibundstation in 1976, and the officespace was given to us by the

APSRTC.”She continues, “But now,

our Imlibund office is in dangerof closing down. Local goonsharass us, so do junior level offi-cers of the organisation who tryto extort money and havethreatened to throw us out. Weare also fighting a legal battle forthe same.” You can see thedetermination in her and it’sadmirable to see her willing togo all out to fight this selflessbattle.

Patrica believes in equalityof all religions so much so thatshe ensures that all her employ-ees hail from different religionsand castes. While you arereminded every day of the bigbad world out there, suchencounters reinforce your faithin humanity!

THE CVName: Patricia Day Bidinger

First job: Swimming coach for polio-affected children

Last book read: The Hare with AmberEyes

Last movie seen: Three movies on Gandhiand non-violence

Motto in life: Who has a motto in lifeexcept government and coins

Place no bar!

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201218Because you are what you wearF‑Folio

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER'S

TRIBUTE TOUNIQUE AMYWINEHOUSE

PARIS: There is no mistakingthe look of the first model atJean Paul Gaultier's coutureshow on Wednesday, the bee-hive hair and thick eyeliner,black skirt and brassiere visibleunder a white top.

"Amy Winehouse was a truestyle icon," Gaultier toldreporters backstage after theshow, conceived as a tribute tothe soul singer, six monthsafter her untimely death.

"What she stands for aboveall, is uniqueness. Both in musicand the way she dressed, shemixed a great many influ-ences" to create her style, hesaid.

Playing on the late star'sstyle, rooted in the 1950s and1960s, Gaultier sent out corsets— a staple of his — as well asbustiers and layered brassieres,mixing bold colours with black.

The French designer tookcare to keep his tribute subtle— with nothing too literal —and Winehouse's voice rang outonly at the very end, blendingwith the sound of a cappellaband on stage.

Stars lined the front row,from the Grande dames ofFrench cinema CatherineDeneuve and CharlotteRampling to the US rocker BethDitto, or RnB singer Shy'm.

Top models of the momentKarlie Kloss or MilagrosSchmoll dazzled the roomwrapped in hooded capes ofbillowing chiffon, or a suitmatching asymmetric jacketand a man's pinstriped pants —tailored to a woman's curves.

Hand-crafted artistry wason ample display, like in thethousands of pieces of glitterembroidery on a violet-bluecoat, worn over a pleatedwhite skirt and plant-green topmade entirely from sequins.

Purple pearl embroideryadorned a jacket, worn over anelectric blue chiffon dress,while pointed-tipped bustierswere entirely embroideredwith stones.

After the wedding dress —a corset-gown in powder pink— the models returned withouttheir skirts, revealing thesophisticated lingerie under-neath, with a black veil overthe face like Spanish widows.

"It's not a funeral," smiledGaultier afterwards. "They arehappy brides." AFP

PICS:PIERRE VERDY

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201219The story behind the newsFocus

LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD?Come November and either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney could be sittingin the White House. Brigitte Dusseau profiles two contrasting characters

They hail from the same genera-tion and the same Republicanparty, but Newt Gingrich andMitt Romney provide a starkstudy in contrasts ahead of next

week’s make-or-break Florida primary.The two politicians — top contenders in

the battle to become their party’s presi-dential candidate — offer dramatically dif-ferent temperaments, campaign styles,and even in their life narratives.

Gingrich, 68, was born to a teenagemother who divorced his father while hewas still a baby and married a US service-man. Gingrich’s itinerant childhood onvarious US military bases included over-seas stints in France and Germany.

By contrast, Romney, 64, a monied scionof privilege, was the son of millionaireMormon businessman George Romney.

The elder Romney became governor ofMichigan, US housing secretary of stateand chairman of the American MotorsCorporation.

George Romney tried and failed in hisbid to become US president, becoming atop contender for the 1968 Republicannomination before losing out to RichardNixon. Now Mitt, who was elbowed out forthe 2008 nomination by Senator JohnMcCain, gets his shot at the White House.

Gingrich, a former speaker of the Houseof Representatives who has surged to thefront of statewide polls one week before

the January 31 primary here, has a pugna-cious style, and is known to verbally pum-mel opponents into submission with arazor sharp intellect.

As an academic and college professor,Gingrich had a proclivity toward boldpolitical schemes and “big ideas” that ledhim to engineer his audacious plan for theRepublican takeover of Congress in 1994.

But in one of the frequent knocks againsthim, Gingrich is also criticised asgrandiose and overbearing, given to bom-bast and bluster.

Impulsive even as an adolescent,Gingrich decided at the age of 15 that hewould study history and politics after avisit to Verdun, France.

He followed that chosen path, trying andfailing twice in his bid to be elected to theHouse, before succeeding on the third try.

Gingrich represented his Georgia districtfor several years before being electedspeaker by his fellow lawmakers — a posthe held from January 1995 to January 1999,when he was forced out.

His fall, facing a rebellion after amidterm poll rout and ethics violations,was as spectacular as his rise had beenimpressive.

Even after his ouster, Gingrich neverreally left the world of politics, creatingand chairing several policy think-tanks,and taking on work as a highly paid con-sultant for the mortgage giant Freddie

Mac, which is seen as complicit in the USfinancial meltdown of 2008.

Where Gingrich runs hot, Romney blowscold. He is steady, patrician, even aristo-cratic. But he is often parodied as unexcit-ing and overly studied, every bit thetrained lawyer and businessman.

With his silver spoon and Ivy Leagueeducation, Romney amassed a fortune atthe head of Bain Capital during the 1980sand 1990s, and now is said to be worthabout $250 million.

That would make him one of the richestmen ever in the White House — if he getsthe nomination and defeats PresidentBarack Obama in November’s election.

Romney failed at his first attempt to gainelective office, when he tried to unseat lib-eral icon Ted Kennedy from the US Senate.

After being elected governor ofMassachusetts for a term, he tasted elec-tion defeat again, when he lost out toMcCain for the 2008 Republican presiden-tial nomination.

He now faces an unlikely challenge fromGingrich deemed by some too intemperateand controversial to get the nomination.

But Romney — from all appearances thevery picture of everything a candidateshould be, down to his graying templesand ram-rod straight bearing — is seen bymany as being too stiff, too perfect.

Taking those criticisms on board, in adeparture from four years ago, the candi-

date has taken to wearing his hair a bitmore mussed and his shirts a bit rumpled,to give himself more of the air of an aver-age guy.

There are also lingering doubts in con-servative circles that the former governorof liberal Massachusetts really shares theirviews on hot-button issues such as gaymarriage and abortion.

Another Romney vulnerability is hisMormon religion, his bedrock faith, butone which is seen by many Americans asstrange and cult-like.

Gingrich, a convert to his wife’s Catholicfaith, is the more conservative of the two,harping frequently about his adherence tothe principles of Ronald Reagan, the latepresident.

Romney is criticised as lacking coreprinciples, and has shown a willingness toadapt his views those of the electoratewhen it is convenient to do so.

There is no greater contrast between thetwo men than in how they have conductedtheir personal lives.

Romney, an irreproachable family manwho has been married for 42 years to hishigh school sweetheart, has five grownsons and 16 grandchildren.

By contrast, Gingrich is married to histhird wife, Callista, a former congressionalaide more than two decades his junior,who was his paramour while he was stillmarried to wife number two.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201220The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Shankar usually stays away fromremakes and his latest filmSnehitudu is a bold move even

for the director who has a blockbusterlike Robot to his credit. It’s no easytask to recreate the magic of the origi-nal film, Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots,which dealt with the current educa-tion system and how students end upin a rat race rather than learning anddoing what they really like. Shankarsticks to the original version rightfrom the word go and thanks to someinspired performances from the leadcast, the film is almost as good as the original version.

Panchabatla Sarangapani (Vijay),Venkat Ramakrishna (Sriram) andSanakkayala Ravi (Jiiva) are thickfriends and all three of them study atIdeal Engineering College. The col-

lege’s principal, Virupaksha Sundaram(Sathyaraj) believes in competitionand expects the students to always beon their toes to How the lives of allthese characters change over a periodof four year forms the rest of the story.

Sriram, Jiiva, Sathyaraj andSathyan render commendable per-formances in this remake. On theother hand, Vijay underplays his role

to a great extent Ileana sizzles in acouple of songs. Scenes like Venkatconfessing his dreams to his parentsand Ravi impressing the interviewerswith his attitude deserves special mention and they touch the rightchord. This film is a must watch ifyou haven’t seen 3 Idiots and even ifyou have, it won’t hurt much towatch it again.

Movie: SnehituduCast: Vijay, Jiiva, Sriram, Ileana, SathyarajDirector: ShankarRating:

All is well, almost!

The first look of K Raghavendra Rao’s upcomingfilm Shiridi Sai starring Nagarjuna in lead rolewas unveiled yesterday.

After making films like Annamayya and SriRamadasu, K Raghavendra Rao and Nagarjuna haveteamed up once again for a biopic on Shirdi Saibaba.Nagarjuna’s transformation as Saibaba has got aunanimous thumbs up from the viewers. Prominentindustrialist A Mahesh Reddy is producing the film onSaikrupa Entertainments Pvt Ltd banner.

The film’s principal shooting will begin fromFebruary 2 onwards in a village in Karnataka and thefirst schedule will go on for 25 days.

M M Keeravani has already recorded all the songsfor this biopic. Couple of months ago, RaghavendraRao and M M Keeravani paid a visit to Saibaba’s tem-ple in Shiridi and began discussing about the film’smusic and it’s touted to be another musical block-buster in the making.

Little did Priya Anandand her close friendknow that a long

drive will turn out into anadventure of a lifetime.They were on their way toKadapa and all of a sud-den their car broke downon the highway. Luckily, alorry driver offered them

a lift and Priya Anand wasmore than happy to go ona ride and post a pictureon her Twitter profile.“Having an Adventure ofa Lifetime as my carbroke down on aHighway!Don’t worry Ma!We’re safe with ourTelugu Driver! Bless

Sritha, for going on acrazy road trip on herbirthday with me! Wespent 14 hrs on travel bylorry,buses, autos & a towtruck!!!” the actress post-ed on Twitter. PriyaAnand will soon be seenin Sridevi’s comebackfilm English Vinglish.

Priya goes on a crazy road trip

SHIRIDI SAI

Nagarjuna’sfirst look in

There are one toomany actors inBollywood whowould like to be cast

in the roles of that played byAmitabh Bachchan. Hebreathed an originality intothe character, the kind thatwas impossible to imitate.Comparisons are inevitableand Karan Malhotra realisedthat early on and so hedecided to take a freshapproach. With the film’stitle being retained, it is stillexclusively different.

The movie begins withthe events that lead to thedeath of the hero’s father andthe young son and pregnantmother travelling to Mumbaito find a new life. Vijay

Dinanath Chauhan (HrithikRoshan) then lives only to goback to his village inMandwa to avenge hisfather’s death from the druglord Kancha Cheena (SanjayDutt). In Mumbai, Vijaybefriends Rauf Lala (RishiKapoor) who eventuallybecomes his godfather incrime. Hrithik’s version ofVijay portrays him as calcu-lated, cold-blooded and onewithout any moralistic con-flicts. He has little dialoguesbut mainly his expressionsdo the talking. For debutantdirector, Karan Malhotra, themovie is more of a tributerather than a remake. Alongwith co-writer Ila Bedi Datta,Malhotra did away with a lot

of characters that were pre-sent in the original film likethat of Mithun Chakraborty,Goga Kapoor, Sharat Saxenaand Deepak Shirke toinevitably bend the plot tofocus more on Hrithik, Duttand Kapoor. The originaldialogues have been recreat-ed fashionably with both theepic introduction of VijayDinanath Chauhan as well asDr Harivanshrai Bachchan’spoem inspiring the film’stitle have been executed withpanache and dignity.

The background score byAjay-Atul seems to perfectlyblend in with the film’sscreenplay, with ChikniChameli and Deva ShreeGanesha making it to top of

the charts.Kaali (Priyanka Chopra),

is his best friend and loveinterest but fails to find astrong foothold in the film’sscript. Hrithik does morethan justice to Vijay and weare all glad that he didn’t tryand copy Big B. Dutt asKancha Cheena does send afew shivers with his villain-ous look and rippling mus-cles. But among all of thesecharacters, its Rishi Kapoorwho deserves a special forhis power-packed perfor-mance as Lala. High onaction, quick to surprise andwell-executed roles,Agneepath does deservepraise for not being a dampsquib.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201221The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Movie: AgneepathCast: Hrithik Roshan,

Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra, Rishi Kapoor

Director: Karan MalhotraRating:

Agneepath packs enough punch for the curious viewer, at the sametime, does not stray too far from the original screenplay

Bollywood starsRanbir Kapoorand Vidya Balan

picked the best actors’trophies at the star-stud-ded seventh edition ofChevrolet Apsara Awards onWednesday night for their per-formance in Rockstar and TheDirty Picture respectively.

The best film award went toZindagi NaMilegi Dobara,and Zoya Akhtarwon the best direc-tor for the movie. Heractor-filmmaker broth-er Farhan took home thebest supporting actoraward for the movie too.

The best supportingactress award went toPriyanka Chopra’s cousinParineeti, for her portrayal

of a bubbly, rich, spoilt Delhi girl in Ladies VsRicky Bahl. The act also bagged the best debu-tant (female) award for her.

The best debutant (male) honour went tosouthern actor Rana Daggubati for his firstBollywood project Dum Maro Dum.

The best choreography trophy was pickedby Bosco-Caesar for the peppy title track of DesiBoyz. Irshad Kamil picked the best lyrics awardfor Naadaan parindey from the film Rockstar.

Ranbir, Vidya named best actors at ApsaraAwards

Any remake of an AmitabhBachchan film cannotaffect ‘Brand Bachchan’,

says actor Prateik, who believesthe megastar is irreplaceable. “Idon’t think anyone can replace

t h e

brand ‘Bachchan’. You can callhim a brand. But for me, hedefines Indian cinema when itcomes to actors,” the 25-year-oldsaid at the launch of a gym.Prateik and Big B shared screenspace in Prakash Jha’sAarakshan. The young boy is cur-rently busy promoting his newfilm Ek Deewana Tha, which has

British model Amy Jackson asthe female lead. IANS

Brand‘Bachchan’ isirreplaceable:Prateik

The new Cult?

Johar in awe ofRishi Kapoor’sversatilityFilmmaker Karan Johar is all

praises for veteran actor RishiKapoor, who has portrayed

two completely opposite charactersin two of his productions —Agneepath and Student of The Year.

“When you watch Agneepathand then when you watch Studentof The Year, you will see the versatil-ity of Rishi Kapoor. You will be sur-prised to see that he can do twoextremely different roles in thesame year,” the 39-year-old produc-er-director said at a recent event.While Agneepath hit theatres onThursday, Johar’s directorial Stude -nt of The Year is expected to releasein the middle of this year. IANS

B-TOWN TWEETIES

@RGVzoomin Is the constitution celebratoryworthy bcos v understand itsgreatness or is it becos this isjst anthr lie we all love to telleach other?

@SrBachchanT 635 - The Mumbai air afterGujarat ... the home food ...the crowds at the gate forRD’12 ...a wedding and tomor-row early back to Gujarat.

@udaychopra I believe that men and womenare equal. I also believe theyare not. Both these statementshappen to be true, that’s whylife is interesting.

@iamsrk As much as I love the world Iam surrounded by...at timesthe encroachment of life sud-denly makes me uneasy anduncomfortable...on some days.

@Riteishd Being male is a matter ofbirth... Being a man is a matterof age... But being a gentle-man... Is a matter of choice!

@NeilNMukesh Had a super brunch at MrRamesh Tauranis place. Metold friends. Then a hectic dayof last min work before I leavetonight for KENYA.

@deespeak One of India’s greatest direc-tor’s Mukul Anand made theoriginal Agneepath... WatchingAgneepath today...my tributeto him!

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 22The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Bollywood celebrities likeAmitabh Bachchan,Hema Malini andBipasha Basu used the

Republic Day on Thursday toassert how proud they are to beIndians. They took to microblog-ging site Twitter to share theirsentiments.

Proud to be Indian,tweetsBollywood

Amitabh Bachchan: Happy Republic Day to all.

Bipasha Basu: This Republic Day, I want mycountry to be “saare jahaan

se achchaa” in true sense!Wish for a peaceful, healthy,

literate nation. HappyRepublic Day!

Lara Dutta: Wishing all Indian twitter

friends a very HappyRepublic Day!

Priyanka Chopra:Happy Republic Day

everyone! IANS

While BipashaBasu has

been ravingabout her latest song

Bipasha, actor ShahidKapoor, once

rumoured to be datingher, says he fails to

understand the logicbehind having songs

named after actors’ names.

Personally, he sayshe would be uncom-

fortable with it.“It’s very personal.I would be embar-

rassed by it but I amsure a lot of people

will like it. I don’t thinkthere is anything

wrong with it. I thinkin films we play differ-ent characters, so howcould you have songson your own name is

beyond my logic,” the30-year-old said here

at an event. Shahid has just

wrapped up shootingfor Kunal Kohli’s next

opposite PriyankaChopra. IANS

Shahidraises an

eyebrow onBipasha

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Academy givesnod to onlinevoting for 2013OscarsThe Academy of

Motion Picture Artsand Sciencesannounced onWednesday that it willbegin using an ‘elec-tronic voting system’starting with the 85thAcademy Awards in2013. Until thisannouncement, theAcademy has alwayscollected ballots bymail. Those ballotswere then counted byhand by a small teamof PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants.

But now theAcademy will teamwith the firm EveryoneCounts to develop anonline voting systemfor next year’s Oscars. Over the next year, theAcademy will ‘under-take a rigorous securityand user-acceptancetesting process.’ A chiefconcern will be ensur-ing that the systemcannot be compro-mised by hackers.PricewaterhouseCoopers will still beresponsible for ulti-mately tabulating andverifying the results.The move to online willhelp speed up the vot-ing process for theOscars.

Armie Hammer,who’s currentlysaddling up to

play the title role againstJohnny Depp in TheLone Ranger, has beenarrested for marijuanapossession in Texas,according to reports.

The 25-year-oldactor, who came toprominence playing theWinklevoss twins in TheSocial Network, wasbusted in Sierra Blanca,Texas, on November 30,after police found three

cookies and one brown-ie containing medicinalmarijuana.

Which is a bummerfor Hammer — who,ironically, played law-man Clyde Tolson in lastyear’s J. Edgar — butperhaps the actor cantake consolation in thefact that he’s not alone.Hammer was arrested inthe same town whereWillie Nelson and, morerecently, Snoop Doggwere busted on potcharges.

Lone Ranger starArmie Hammerbusted for pot

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201225The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Justin Bieber knows how to

make things happen (it ishis world, after all). The

charitable singeranswered the tweeted plea of a

fan with action, after the Belieberasked the Baby crooner to spreadthe word about organ and blooddonation to his Twitter followers.

Helene Campbell, who tweet-ed Bieber from the handle

@alungstory last week, wrote,“Hey @justinbieber! I BELIEB youshould use that Canadian voice of

yours and help save lives likemine #beanorgandonor bead-

onor.ca #giveblood”.Bieber quickly followed suit,

responding to the young woman(who is awaiting a lung transplant

herself), “i got the word....youhave amazing strength. i got u.

#BeAnOrganDonor.”

Justi

n Bi

eber

helps boost organdonor registrations

I hosted Wheel ofFortune drunk

Pat Sajak:

Pat Sajak has been hosting Wheel of Fortune for more than 30years, and it turns out that during that time, the host wasn’talways exactly swimming in sobriety while he was in front of

the camera.Sajak, who hasbeen hosting theshow since 1981,admitted that inhis early days ofhosting he wassometimesdrunk while onthe show.

“I had a greattime. I have noidea if the showswere any good,but no one saidanything, so Iguess I didokay,” he saidin an inter-view, addingthat he didn’tparticipate inthat kind ofactivity whenhe got older.

“I wouldbe hesitant tohave anythingto drink now,”Sajak added.

suffered an apparent seizure

Before Demi Moore was hos-pitalised, the actress “washaving what seemed like

seizures” at home, a source told amagazine.

“Concerned friends called911,” the source says.

The actress, 49, is being treat-ed for what her rep says is“exhaustion,” as friends privatelyexpress concerns about her

declininghealth

and mounting stress. While the cause of the report-

ed seizure wasn’t immediatelyknown, a second source insiststhat Moore “did not attempt sui-cide.” A website, meanwhile,reports that Moore went to thehospital after a bad reaction tonitrous oxide.

Moore’s reps have not com-mented since releasing the initialstatement.

Demi Moore

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201226Chai Time

How to Play KakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is alsosuitably different. The key question: “How do you play Kakuro?”, wellhere are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike insudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells likein a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells willcontain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.

However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro,the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in therow or column referenced by the number.

Within each collection of cells - called a run - any of the numbers 1to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly:In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you

will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14.Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is donethrough elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work outthe answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid com-binations, and hence the answer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two - it contains two numbers, 30 and11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

KAKUROACROSS1 Lofty poems5 Burglar11 Cut off, as branches14 She "talks like a man"

in song15 Creed in the Best

Picture of 197616 "... partridge ___ pear

tree"17 Basketball film directed

by Jack Nicholson19 Silently indicate agree-

ment20 Gia Lam Airport location21 1991 AT&T acquisition22 Droop24 Hangs attractively on26 Yacht pronoun28 Melt together31 Rocky outcropping32 Moo ___ pork (Chinese

menu item)34 More wacky or silly36 Actors' platform38 Ted, Nat or Tina39 Duke Ellington classic42 Found on these pages43 He was singin' in the

rain44 Coated with flour, then

sauteed46 ___ Speedwagon47 Ryder Cup org.50 "Don't Tread ___" (old

flag warning)51 Captain Morgan's drink53 What fools do, prover-

bially55 You-here link57 ___ Paulo59 Spiced-wine punch60 Make a note62 Spike Lee film65 Onassis, informally66 Instant impression67 Eating regimen68 Home of "SNL''69 Town near Stamford,

Conn.70 Talk impudently

DOWN1 Outmoded2 El ___ (legendary city of

gold)

3 "Father Knows Best"actress Donahue

4 Relish5 Cheerleader's sound6 Ready for business7 "Garden of Earthly

Delights" painterHieronymus

8 Rang out, like a trumpet9 ___ Lilly and Company

(pharmaceutical giant)10 Angler's supply11 Pasta variety12 Lennon's wife13 Cape Canaveral plat-

form18 He was a genius, rela-

tively speaking23 Free-for-all25 "Star Trek" star William27 Snake that may warn

before it strikes29 Examined, as a patient

30 Goof33 "Yuck!''35 Military vacation36 Shish kebab necessity37 Reaction to a mouse

sighting39 Gull relative40 Sweet-smelling41 ___ Lingus (Irish carrier)42 Where peo-

ple dug "SixFeet Under"

45 OldPlymouthmuscle car

47 Fear48 Lively dance

movements49 Feelings of

anxiety52 A language

of NewZealand

54 Gravity-powered vehicles56 "Yikes!''58 This may be enough60 One of the Brady Bunch61 Sphere63 Air quality overseer

(Abbr.)64 Large cask for wine

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Nine of Pentacles –Youʼre happiest whe ‑n surrounded by yo ‑ur favorite things –bo oks, music or the‑atre. Donʼt alienateyo u rself from societyin your quest for joy.

Four of Cups – A joboffer is likely to co ‑m e your way. Youmay even get a cou ‑nter offer. Considerall options carefullybefore deciding. Do ‑nʼt jump to conclusions.

The Tower – Changesare on the way. Youmay have to considermoving to a newlocation for a jobassignment. Keep anopen mindset andtake it in your stride.

ARIES TAURUS GEMINIARIESYou will be appreciated for shrewd ness,hard work and for brisk actions. Bloodrelatives will help. Sharing of ancestralproperty will be done smoothly. Goodfinan cial flow. Kids will make you happy.

CANCER

LIBRAYou will look cheerful. Commissionagents, real‑estate players will earn agood income. Those married can expecttheir offspring to arrive soon. Marriagetalks will go smoothly and get finalised.

CAPRICORNHealth will be fine. A pilgrimage will besuccessful and it makes you hap py. For ‑tune likely thr ough daughter and alsofrom abroad‑related deals. You will spe ‑nd luxuriously, contrary to your nature.

TAURUSIncome is set to increase. Opportuni ‑ties will knock your door. Decision tosell ancestral property will be cons i d ‑ered. More travels need to be under‑taken, but be careful while travelling.

LEOEmployees can expect transfer or changeof responsibilities. Monetary gains thro ‑ugh spouse likely. Comforts will increase.Good news on the cards. Benefits throughjourney likely. Debts will be in control.

SCORPIOElder brother or sister will extend whole ‑hearted help. Some will go abroad. Hurd ‑les in the path of buying a plot or housewill go. Children might create tension, butexplain pros and cons and bring change.

AQUARIUSSupport from maternal relatives,make you happy. Famous celebritieswill become friends and will supportyou in a big way. Held‑up construc‑tion work will resume and complete.

GEMINIGood events to take place at home. Goodfinancial inflow likely. Your value andrespect will increase. Sports persons will bebold and achieve success with determina‑tion. Some will get married to the loved one.

VIRGOHappiness and comforts are set to incre ‑ase. Financial position is strong. Adjust ‑ing with family members is a must. Avo ‑id mag nifying petty issues in the family.Problems of daughter will get resolved.

SAGITTARIUSMarriage will be settled for many. Mon ‑e tary gain or an asset through father isexpected. Childless couples will receivegood news soon. Employees will scalenew heights at with their hard work.

PISCESDebts will be totally under control as amajor portion gets cleared. Marri age willbe finalised for some. You will feel proudbecause of children's ach i e vements and co‑operation. Businessmen will see a boom.

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Knight of Wands –Youʼre young andadventurous but youwill have to use yourcreativity to find aninnovative solution toa stubborn problem.Try humour.

Five of Pentacles –This may not be thebest time to makeany changes. Keepeverything as famil‑iar as possible. Youmay face some loss‑es. Be prepared.

Ace of Wands – Thisis a creative time, es ‑pecially for those inoff‑beat professions.Use your intuition toguide you, and donʼthesitate to share yo ‑ur ideas with seniors.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

Seven of Wands – Th ‑e re is some secrecyaround you. May beyour colleagues orpeers are not tellingyou the whole story.This may make youtake wrong decisions.

The Hierophant –This card indicatesthat the answers liewithin you. There isno need for you togo asking anyoneelse. Pick up the keyand open the lock.

Ace of Cups – Mattersof the heart are infocus. Those travel‑ling are likely to meetsomeone interesting.The chemistry isimmediate and youhit it off big time.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Four of Wands – Apromotion or raise inthe offing. The bossesare mighty pleased wi ‑th your work. Sing lesfind someone thr o ughfriends. It may le ad tosomething permanent.

King of Cups – Youʼreemotions are verystrong but it may notmean that youʼre intouch with them. Youmay be expressingthem in weird ways.Meditate!

Strength – You havetremendous innerstrength and forti‑tude to overcomeany problem. Do nothesitate to ask forhelp. It doesnʼt meanyouʼre weak.

CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201228Telly sitcoms, news and movie listingsChai Time

1400 Naadi Aadajanme1430 Pavitra1500 Movie1800 Sri Shanidevuni Mahimalu1830 Vasantha Kokila1900 Chinnari Pelli Kuturu1930 Anna Chellelu2000 Missamma2030 Edureetha2100 Money Money2200 CID2300 Challenge 0700 Silver Screen0730 Maa Punyakshetralu0800 Ayurvedam0830 Real City0900 Movie1200 Movie

1400 Kannavaari Kalalu1430 Maavichiguru1500 Sumangali1530 Movie 1800 Jai Shri Krishna1830 Shraavani Subramaniam1900 Mandhara1930 Auto Bharthi2000 No. 23, Mahalakshmi

Nivasam2030 Mogali Rekulu2100 Aparanji2130 Devatha2200 Mamathala Kovela2230 Anveshana2300 Gemini Vaarthalu0700 News0730 Subhalagnam - Live0800 Gemini Talkies0830 Special Programmes0930 Movie1130 Adhi Matter1200 Movie

1400 Abhishekam1430 Aadade Aadharam1500 Antahpuram1530 Aakasa Ganga1600 Prema Mandiram1630 Jagadeeswari1700 Paduta Teeyaga1800 Devimahathyam1830 Puttadi Bomma1900 Kumkuma Rekha1930 Manasu Mamata2000 Chandra Mukhi2030 Bharyamani2100 Etv News2130 Wow - Game Show2245 Movie 0700 Etv News0730 Subhamastu0800 Jeevana Jyothi0830 Tollywood Time0900 Movie 1130 Abhiruchi

1400 Ardhangi 1430 Movie1800 Veera Naari Jhansi Laxmi

Bhai1830 Kalavari Kodallu1900 Chinna Kodalu1930 Pasupukunkuma2000 Muddu Bidda2030 Radha Kalyanam2100 Kanyadanam2130 Baghyalakshmi Bumper

Offer 2230 Shree2300 Chitrapuri2330 Latest Songs0800 Subhamastu0830 Bhakti Samacharam0900 Movie 1230 Mee Inti Vanta1300 Movie

‘Event Horizon’ at 2200Hrs on AXN

1415 CSI - Crime SceneInvestigation

1510 The Real Housewives OfNew York City

1605 The Voice 1700 Wipeout 21800 Criss Angel Mindfreak 1900 Breaking The Magician's

Code - Magic's BiggestSecrets Finally Revealed

2000 Whacked Out Sports 2030 E Buzz2100 Minute To Win It 2200 Movie - Event Horizon0900 Sky Teleshopping0930 E Buzz0955 Whacked Out Sports 1020 Reaper 1200 Minute To Win It

‘Sawaare Sabke Sapne –Preeto’ at 2030 Hrs onIMAGINE1400 Haar Jeet 1500 Baba Aisa Varr Dhoondo 1600 Haar Jeet 1630 Gyaan Guru 1700 Haar Jeet 1800 Beendh Banuga Ghodi

Chadhunga 1830 Baba Aisa Varr Dhoondo 1900 Haar Jeet 1930 Gyaan Guru 2000 Dwarkadheesh - Bhagwan

Shri Krishn2030 Sawaare Sabke Sapne –

Preeto2100 Chandragupta Maurya2200 Baba Aisa Varr Dhoondo 2230 Haar Jeet2300 Sawaare Sabke Sapne –

Preeto ‘CID’ at 2200 Hrs on SONY

1400 Saas Bina Sasuraal1430 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai1500 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge1600 Crime Patrol - 22000 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge2045 Dekha Ek Khwaab2130 Parvarrish - Kuchh Khatti

Kuchh Meethi2200 CID2300 Crime Patrol - Dastak2330 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge0730 Sky Star Advertising0900 Comedy Circus Ka Naya

Daur1230 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai

‘[V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance’ at1900 Hrs on CHANNEL [V]

1400 [V] My Big Decision1430 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance1500 [V] Humse Hai Life1530 [V] Trailers1555 [V] Fresh Songs1600 [V] Zabardast Hits1800 [V] Fresh Songs1830 [V] Humse Hai Life1900 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance1930 [V] Humse Hai Life 2000 [V] My Big Decision2130 [V] Trailers2200 [V] Steal UR Girlfriend2300 [V] Humse Hai Life 2330 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance 2355 [V] Fresh Songs0700 [V] Trailers0730 [V] Zabardast Hits0800 [V] Mind Blasting

Mornings1100 [V] Fresh Songs1200 [V] Humse Hai Life

‘Top 10 At 10’ at 2200 Hrsonly on ET NOW1400 The F And O Show1430 Closing Trades1600 Business Day1730 Your Trades1800 Rush Hour1830 Tee Time With Shaili

Chopra1900 Global Business Report1930 Business Express2000 Business First2030 Your Trades2100 Business Tonight2200 Top 10 At 102230 Et Insight2300 Et Interview2330 Your Trades0700 Starting Up0730 Et Insight0800 Tee Time With Shaili

Chopra0830 The Market Makers0900 Your Trades0930 Investor's Guide1000 Talking Technicals

‘The Newshour’ at 2100Hrs only on TIMES NOW

1300 News Now At 11330 News Now1800 6 PM1830 Live Report1900 Primetime1930 The Game2000 News Now At 82030 Live Report2100 The Newshour2200 10 PM2230 E Now2300 News Now At 112330 News Now Overnight0900 News Now0930 The Hidden Truth1000 News Now

‘Heroes’ at 1400 Hrs onZOOM

1400 Movie - Heroes 1730 Star Bonanza1800 Letz Go!1900 Planet Bollywood News1930 The Zoom Review Show2000 Let's Design 4 2030 Letz Go!2100 Telly Talk2130 The Zoom Review Show2200 B - Tonite2230 Link'd2300 Bollywood Bonanza0700 Letz Go!0800 Red Carpet0805 Letz Go!1100 Zoom Box1200 Garma Garam1230 Bollywood Big Story1300 Zabar 101330 Telly Talk

‘Parenthood’ at 2200 Hrson ZEE CAFE

1400 Outsourced1430 $H*! My Dad Says1500 In Plain Sight1600 Parenthood1700 Outsourced1730 $H*! My Dad Says1800 E News 1900 The Tonight Show With Jay

Leno 2000 Outsourced2030 America's Funniest Home

Videos2100 In Plain Sight2200 Parenthood2300 Outsourced2330 $H*! My Dad Says0800 Parenthood1000 My Wife And Kids1100 Less Than Perfect1200 Better With You1300 Slot1330 America's Funniest Home

Videos

‘Two And A Half Men’ at2000 Hrs on STAR WORLD1400 Supernatural 1500 Achievers' Club1600 The Big Bang Theory 1630 The Simpsons 1700 The Shield 1800 Supernatural 1900 Love2 Hate U 2000 Two And A Half Men 2030 The Simpsons 2100 Supernatural 2200 The Shield 2300 The Big Bang Theory 2330 Two And A Half Men 0700 Dexter 0800 The Shield 1000 Combat Hospital 1100 Friends 1200 The Big Bang Theory

‘Na Bole Tum Na MaineKuch Kaha’ at 2230 Hrson COLORS

1400 Parichay - Nayee ZindagiKay Sapno Ka

1500 Na Bole Tum Na MaineKuch Kaha

1530 Uttaran 1600 Phulwa 1630 Parichay - Nayee Zindagi

Kay Sapno Ka 1700 Sasural Simar Ka 1730 Na Bole Tum Na Maine

Kuch Kaha 1800 Uttaran 1830 Balika Vadhu 1900 Hawan 1930 Sasural Simar Ka 2000 Balika Vadhu 2030 Veer Shivaji 2100 Phulwa 2130 Parichay - Nayee Zindagi

Kay Sapno Ka 2200 Uttaran 2230 Na Bole Tum Na Maine

Kuch Kaha 2300 Na Aana Is Des Laado

‘Man Vs Wild’ at 2000 Hrson DISCOVERY CHANNEL1400 I Should'nt Be Alive1600 Swords1700 Discovery Showcase1800 Wild Discovery1900 Man Woman Wild2000 Man Vs Wild2200 Swords2300 Desire & Pleasure

Decoded1100 We Built This City1200 I Should'nt Be Alive1300 Wild Discovery

‘Chidiya Ghar’ at 2100 Hrson SAB TV

1400 Taarak Mehta Ka OoltaChashma

1430 Chidiya Ghar1700 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma1830 R.K. Laxman Ki Duniya1900 Chidiya Ghar1930 Lapataganj2000 Chintu Chinky Aur Ek Badi

Si Love Story2030 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma2100 Chidiya Ghar2130 R.K. Laxman Ki Duniya2200 Lapataganj2230 FIR2300 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma2330 Chidiya Ghar0700 Religious Programmes0800 Teleshopping0830 Religious Programmes0900 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma

MOVIES OF THE DAY AND OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

‘Y R K K H’ at 2130 Hrs onSTAR PLUS1400 Sapnon Se Bharey Naina1500 Navya1530 Diya Aur Bati Hum1600 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri

Behnaa Hai1630 Sasuraal Genda Phool1700 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya1730 Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam

Doon1800 Mann Ki Awaaz… Pratigya1830 Ruk Jana Nahin1900 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya1930 Sasuraal Genda Phool2000 Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam

Doon2030 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri

Behnaa Hai2100 Diya Aur Bati Hum2130 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai2200 Navya2230 Mann Ki Awaaz… Pratigya2300 Maryaada ... Lekin Kab Tak?

Parvarrish…Kuchh KhattiKuchh MeethiStoryline - Dadi asks Sweetyabout the suit she gifted toher last time. Sweety isshocked and worried tohere this.

‘Parvarrish… Kuchh Khatti KuchhMeethi’ at 2130 Hrs on SONY

Storyline - After crematingtheir father's body, Sam andDean refuse to discuss hisdeath. Instead, they headback to work, & track an oldmessage on John's phone toHarvelle's Roadhouse, a barfrequented by hunters.

‘Supernatural’ at 2100 Hrs on STARWORLD

Supernatural

‘Deconstructed’ at 2100Hrs on DISCOVERY SCIENCE

‘Lucha Libre’ at 2200 Hrson BIG CBS PRIME1430 Jerry Springer1530 Aspire1600 Survivor 1700 Bellator1800 Galileo Extreme1930 Frasier 2000 Entertainment Tonight2030 How To Be A Gentleman2100 Aspire2130 Big Wheels2200 Lucha Libre2300 Movie - Snake & Crane

Arts Of Shaolin0700 Galileo Extreme0800 Survivor 1000 Defenders1100 How To Be A Gentleman1130 Big Wheels1200 Galileo Extreme1300 Movie

1400 Megascience1430 What You Can't See1530 Discovery Science Classics1630 The Indestructibles1700 Million 2 One1730 Top Sniper1830 Best Of Discovery Science1930 How The Universe Works2030 Ultimate Cars2100 Deconstructed2130 Some Assembly Required2230 Weaponology2330 Industrial Revelations1030 The Indestructibles1100 Million 2 One1130 What You Can't See1230 Best Of Discovery Science1330 How The Universe Works

1330 Demolition Man1545 Catwoman1750 Troy 2100 Bloodsport 2255 Dreamcatcher0805 Friends 0835 Good Morning, Miami 0905 Friends 0935 Nikita1025 Demolition Man1240 Dreamcatcher

1415 Couples Retreat1635 The Bourne Identity 1915 Harold & Kumar Escape from

Guantanamo Bay 2100 Bangkok Knockout2320 Devil0800 Stormworld 0900 Nanny Mcphee & The Big Bang1115 Free Willy - Escape From

Pirates Cove

‘M K K P B’ at 2200 Hrs onZEE TV1400 Hitler Didi1430 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein1500 Afsar Bitiya1530 Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar

Kheli1600 Pavitra Rishta 1630 Club Repeat 1800 Hitler Didi1830 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein1900 Afsar Bitiya 1930 Choti Bahu 22000 Hitler Didi2030 Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar

Kheli2100 Pavitra Rishta2130 Ram Milaye Jodi2200 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein2230 Bhagonwali2300 Afsar Bitiya

‘Bangkok Knockout’ at 2100 Hrs on HBO

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 201229The games people playPlaying Field

ABU DHABI: Rory McIlroyused muscle power to steal anearly season march on hismain rivals for golfing domi-nance at the Abu Dhabi HSBCGolf Championship onThursday.

The 22-year-old Ulster -man, who spent much of hiswinter break in the gym work-ing on his physique, wrestledhis way around the par-72National Course for a fiveunder 67 that included sevenbirdies against two bogeys.

That was three shots betterthan Tiger Woods and fourahead of Luke Donald, the twomen he played with in whatwas the first round’s big draw-ing card.

It left him joint leader, withSweden’s Robert Karlsson, ofthe $2.7million dollars Euro -pean Tour tournament whichopens a three-week long swingthrough the Gulf states andeffectively kick-starts the sea-son for the elite of world golf.

Gareth Maybin of NorthernIreland, Richard Finch ofEngland and Jean-BaptisteGonnet of France were jointthird at four under.

A stroke further back cameNicolas Colsaerts of Belgium,Robert Rock of England andRichie Ramsay of Scotland

In what was one of the bestfields ever assembled outsideof a Grand Slam or WGC tour-nament, six of the world’s top10 were present as well as aresurgent Woods.

World number two LeeWestwood, looking to make itthree wins in a row after astrong finish to last year, had a72, while number four MartinKaymer, out to win this tourna-ment for the third straight year,disappointed with a 77.

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MELBOURNE: Maria Sha ra -pova Thursday revealed how shefeared injury may have endedher career after her revival tookanother step forward when shereached the Australian Openfinal.

The Russian former champi-on proved she was firmly backamong the best with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 over Petra Kvitova, avengingher defeat to the Czech in lastyear’s Wimbledon final and set-ting up a title match withVictoria Azarenka.

The elated Sharapova, whoraised both arms in triumphafter the win, said it showed shecould once again compete at thehighest level after shouldersurgery in 2008 and a series oflater injuries.

The 24-year-old Russian wonthe Australian Open in 2008, the

last of her three grand slamtitles, before the operation kepther off court for nine months.

“It means so much to be backin a grand slam final, a stage Ihave been to before a few yearsago here,” Sharapova said. “It’snice to get that far again af ter los-ing quite early in the last coupleof years. It means a lot to me.

“I played someone that’s justhad really great results and hasbeaten me the last couple oftimes. I just really wanted ittoday.” And Sharapova, whocould also return to world num-ber one if she lifts the trophy onSaturday, said there were timeswhen she thought she may not

be able to make itback to the top of the sport.

“As positive as I always try tobe, you always question whatyou’re doing, obviously, becausesometimes things work out andsometimes they don’t,” she said.“And especially just with theshoulder I think it was — I knewsome examples of some peoplethat did not quite recover fromsurgery and that was a littlefrightening, but I really had nooption.” AFP

MELBOURNE: Roger Federerinsisted his dismal record againstRafael Nadal did not play on hismind Thursday after he crashedout of the Australian Open semi-finals at the hands of his long-time nemesis.

The Swiss maestro holds arecord 16 grand slam titles but theSpanish world number two has ahold over him on the biggeststage, winning eight of their 10clashes in majors.

It was the same old story onThursday as Nadal, chasing his11th slam, battled back from a setdown to grind down his rival andset up a final against either topseed Novak Djokovic or AndyMurray.

Federer, 30, denied his recordagainst Nadal played on his mindwhen he went out on court, sayinghe felt the Spaniard raised hisgame in their meetings.

“It is what it is, you know. Atthe end I care about my titles, if I’mhappy or not as a person,” he said.

“Head-to-heads for me, Imean, are not the most important.If I beat Andre (Agassi) 10 times ina row or Lleyton (Hewitt) manytimes in a row, at the end of the day

I don’t care.“I remember the matches on

that given day, that I played wellagainst them or not, and I don’tremember the head-to-head thatmuch.”

Federer has not beaten Nadalin a grand slam since Wimbledonin 2007, with his only other victoryover the Spaniard coming at the AllEngland Club the previous year.He has never come from behind tobeat Nadal at a major.

“We have had good matchesover the years. I enjoy playing him.The crowd really gets into it, whichis nice. We have a lot of respect foreach other, which is good, too, Ithink,” Federer said. “We also playwell against each other. I alwaysthink he plays a bit better againstme than against other players.”

‘It’s okay’January 16 – January 29

“IF I BEAT ANDRE (AGASSI)10 TIMES IN A ROW ORLLEYTON (HEWITT) MANYTIMES IN A ROW, AT THE ENDOF THE DAY I DON’T CARE. IREMEMBER THE MATCHES ONTHAT GIVEN DAY, THAT IPLAYED WELL AGAINST THEMOR NOT.”

Rory takeslead at Abu Dhabi

Mariarecountsbleaktimes

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Indians set forwhitewash

n The Indians are at the point of no return once again.The tentative and defensive approach proved to betheir downfall. Australia were well on their way tocomplete a well-deserved whitewash.n The dry wicket had got harder to bat on with thebounce getting lower. But it was not alarmingly dan-gerous. Australia lost five wickets while setting a tar-get of 500. The Indian bowling was much tighter butthe usual one four-ball per over allowed Australia toget ahead easily.n Virendra Sehwag gave India some hope with ahard-hit 62 off 53 balls. His aggressive approach wasrefreshing. But once Sehwag left, the same old prodand push tactics were back on display.n Rahul Dravid never looked comfortable. SachinTendulkar seemed to have fallen into a defensivemindset once again which meant that he did not lastlong.n The Australian bowlers were relentless. SpinnerNathan Lyon was allowed to bowl well due to theIndian batsmen’s lack of initiative. It made painfulwatching the same old story unfold once again.

Twelfth ManBabu Kalyanpur

Michael Clarke (R) congratulates RickyPonting (L) for catching Indian openingbatsman, captain Virender Sehwag. Gautam Gambhir in action.

Same old story

Ryan Harris (C) is congratulated by teamates after taking the wicket of Rahul Dravid.

LIVERPOOL: Liverpoolskipper Steven Gerrard hasurged the club’s fans to be ontheir best behaviour whenManchester United visitAnfield for Saturday’s pow-der-keg FA Cup tie.

Saturday’s fourth roundshowdown is the first timethe bitter rivals have metsince Liverpool striker LuisSuarez was banned for eightgames for racially abusingUnited defender Patrice Evra.

Although Suarez is stillserving his ban, Evra is like-ly to start for United andGerrard wants supporters tofocus all their attention onbacking Kenny Dalglish’steam.

“We do all have a respon-sibility,” said Gerrard, whowas sent off when the sidesmet in the FA Cup last seasonin Dalglish’s first game backin charge, United winning 1-0 at Old Trafford.

“With Fair Play goingon, and the campaigns thathave been going on for along time, we all have aresponsibility to ensure thatthis game is rememberedfor the football.

“Liverpool andManchester United is amassive rivalry and of coursethere is going to be stuff inthe newspapers and banterbetween fans.

“But it would be fantasticif after the weekend it isremembered for being atop game and obviously,from our point of view, aLiverpool win.

“We don’twant any frontpage stories fromthis game or anystories besides afootball matchbetween two topsides and may thebest team win.”

With confi-dence sky-highafter overcomingManchester City3-2 on aggregatein midweek tobook a place innext month’sLeague Cup finalat Wembley,Liverpool aredetermined tocarry on the goodwork againstSir AlexFerguson’s side.

Gerrard hasdismissed sugges-

tions United are favouritesas they will be fresher aftera free midweek.

“The lads are morethan ready for theweekend,” addedthe England mid-fielder.

“It will begreat to notonly knockCity out ofthe (League)Cup, but tothen knockUnited out ofthe FA Cup.

“We set abenchmark againstCity. We have to makesure we play with the sameeffort and I’m sure we will befine.”

Craig Bellamy, whoscored the decisive goal inmidweek, could start on thesubstitutes bench after theenergy-sapping City tie.

Meanwhile, WayneRooney has warnedLiverpool that Unitedare arriving at Anfield bangin form.

Rooney insists Ferguson’steam are over their new yearblip which saw them loseback-to-back league gamesagainst Blackburn andNewcastle.

They have responded bydefeating Bolton andArsenal in the league — aswell as eliminatingManchester City from theFA Cup. And Rooney is confi-dent United can carry ontheir good form at Anfield.

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LONDON: Chelsea have plentyof reasons to want to avoid a

repeat of their last trip to neigh-bours Queens Park Rangers when

they return to Loftus Road onSaturday in the fourth round of

the FA Cup.The 1-0 defeat they suffered

there on October 23 last year wasa blow to their hopes of winning

the Premier League and AndreVillas-Boas’ side, who are current-

ly in fourth place, finished thegame with nine men following red

cards to Didier Drogba and JoseBosingwa.

The headlines were generatedby captain John Terry however after

it was alleged he had racially abu -sed Rangers defender Anton Fer di -

nand during the game. AFP

Be good, Gerrardurges fans

Chelsea look to avoid QPR blues