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VOLUME 2 ISSUE 15 26 SEPTEMBER 2016

Visaranai in Oscar

Rail Budget merges with General Budget

The next year budget session in Jan-uary 2017 will witness the merger of the Rail Budget with the Union Budget. A 92 year old British Legacy of having a separate railway budget has been phased out by bringing about a merger of it with the Gen-eral Budget.The end of separate budget will be a relief for the rail-ways as its revenue deficits will get transferred to the Finance Ministry.

URI Attacks – The AftermathSaptarshi Chowdhury and Nilanjan Sanyal

Touted as one of the most deadly attack on the Indian Army in the last 26 years, four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist struck the Indian Army Brigade headquarters at the town of Uri near the Line of Control in a pre-dawn ambush killing twenty soldiers. The attacks took place at 5.30 a.m. in the morning and ended at around 8. The army statement said,” “All four killed were foreign terrorists and had carried with them items which had Pakistani markings. Army spokesperson Lieu-tenant-General Ranbir Singh said “Initial reports indicate that the slain terrorists be-long to Jaish-e-Mohammad tanzeem (outfit).” Pakistan with little condemnation has denied any links with the at-tackers, calling it a “baseless and irresponsible accusa-tion”.In India sentiments are run-ning high with the general population urging the Modi government to take stringent steps against their western neighbour. Se-nior Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said,” Pakistan’s actions have gone beyond tolerance. India-Pakistan relations will never be the same again”. Congress Vice president Rahul Gandhi on the other hand is of the opin-ion that the government is also too blame for their repeated mistakes in terms of national security. Media reports indicate that the government is planning to isolate Pakistan on a global stage. As a direct result of the Uri attacks, world powers like USA, Russia, UK, Germany and France strongly condemned the terrorist activity. Rus-sia cancelled its joint military drill with Pakistan in the PoK region. It remains to be seen whether India could pull off some major diplomatic coup at the ongoing United nations General Assembly (UNGA) at New

York against Pakistan. India summoned Pakistan high commissioner Ab-dul Basit and issued a final warning for perpetrating such violent acts.At the ongoing UNGA Nawaz Sharif’s speech was all about India’s mis-takes in Kashmir, he glorified Burhan Wani saying that his death was a judicial killing by Indian forces. Sharif wants an UN fact finding mission to visit Kashmir and a plebiscite to be held to decide the self determi-

nation of the Kashmiri people. While saying all these things he remained in denial about Paki-stan’s own mistakes in PoK, Bal-uchistan and its proxy war with India.In New York, Pakistan has been cornered over various issues. They have flatly refused to follow US suggestion that Nukes should be limited instead pressing their own point that the world should put an end to India’s nuclear ac-tivity. Two US lawmakers have introduced a bill to declare Paki-

stan a terrorist state whereas UN chief Ban Ki Moon made no refer-ence to Kashmir in his speech. Pakistan’s intention of internationalizing Kashmir issue might have failed.The Army on subsequent internal probing has confirmed that twelve ter-rorists entered Indian Territory uncontested and divided themselves into three teams of four each. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been given the charge to probe the Uri attacks; in the mean time there are strong suggestions that there might have been some insider hand in this incident. Speaking at the Sidelines of an event Defence minister Mano-har Parikar said,” Prime Minister’s words will be implemented”. He also acknowledged that mistakes were made for which such a deadly attack took place.

National award winning tamil film Visaranai is India’s official entry in foreign language film category at the Oscar’s next year. Visaranai is a crime thriller pro-duced by actor film maker Dha-nush and is written and directed by Vetrimaaran.It is based on the novel ‘Lock Up’ by M Chandra-kumar.

Mumbai Alert

High alert declared in Mumbai after two school children in Uran five kilometers from Mumbai are reported to have spotted five suspicious men dressed in Pathan suits ,speaking an un-known language and carrying guns.The Maharashtra police, Anti Terror Squad are all in-volved in a massive multi agency search operation.

Cauvery DisputeTiyashi Datta

The escalating violence of Cauvery Dispute gripping the city of Ben-galuru for the last few days finally comes to an end with CM Siddara-maiah announcing that the state would abide by the order of the apex court. The city took a dramatic turn by maintaining a calm attitude withdrawing all the curfews and protests that almost paralysed the silicon valley of India. With normalcy returning, all the leading companies, schools and road transport within the state and in the border once again regained their speed.The long drawn string of the Cauvery issue that once marked the prologue of the age old dispute nearly 125 years back from now between the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka was once again put to light on September 5 with the Supreme Court ordering Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu for a period of 10 days. A series of protest started immediately thus making the apex court to modify its order, asking Karnataka to re-lease a reduced amount of 12,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu till September 20. The amount was reduced following an urgent plea by the Karnataka government. Anger spread in the streets of Karnata-ka with some fringe groups taking the responsibility of vandalising properties, majorly targeting Tamilians. Various incidents of burning down of Tamil Nadu -registered vehicles, buses and trucks were re-ported. Incidents featuring signs of revenge were seen in Tamil Nadu as well, with a hotel owned by a Kannadiga in Chennai coming under attack. With 2 people dying, the Karnataka government beefed up the security with nearly 1700 paramilitary personnel to maintain the law and order of the state. The government in all those years took various attempts to control the situation. The Cauvery water Dispute Tribunal Award on 5th Feb-ruary 2007 was one such initiative that could have resolved the issue back then. The tribunal apportioned the water among the states, and it even said what should be done if monsoon failed. But the vaga-ries of monsoon for the past few years made these two states con-tinue with their rivalry. With Karnataka depending on Cauvery for its drinking purpose and Tamil Nadu for its irrigation, the gargantu-

an need for Cauvery is at alarming height. However, the politicians in India never cease to play the nasty games even if it comes to something like water. They

never bury down the history, instead they cling to the anti modern approach of solving problems- playing up

the roles of monsters and villains and asking the citizens to pay for their dubious end. Here the play is no different. Instead of solving the problem by allowing Tamil Nadu a certain amount of water as asked by the court, the government on both the states con-stantly kept on nagging for revised petition and at times even sued the opposition. It only left both the states with nothing but literally playing the tug of war for so long. “Kaaveri Thanneer Pattal Kanniyal Meni Thangam” (if the water of Cauvery touches the skin of a young girl, it will make her glow like gold) - those are beautiful words woven together to form the lines of a song from the Tamil film “Kaveri” in 1955. That surely leaves no point of confusion in any sensible mind of how holy and important the river is to Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The end of this long era of water war is inevitably going to end but what’s most necessary is to keep a check on the time period. Instead of sitting together and hav-ing talks on ensuring citizen safety during curfew time, they should actually go to the core and solve the actual problem of the river basin that caused all the tensions for so long. As none of the two states can leave their position, the only way left to deal with this cocktail situation is to gulp the orders of the court down and help each other to manage things better to avoid a bleak future.

VOLUME 2 ISSUE 15 26 SEPTEMBER 2016

Editorial Team: Manasi Agarwal, Nilanjan Sanyal, Paramita Das, Saptarshi Chowdhury, Shashank Shekhar, Tiyashi Datta, Trina ChowdhuryDesign Team: Chayan Biswas, Abhimanyu Shekhar

Chief Mentor: Dr Buroshiva Dasgupta Mentors: Jhuma Basak, Sharmila Sinha, Reshmi Naskar, Barnali Ray, Debanjan Banerjee, Bhaswar Bhattacharyya, Ankita Ash

Pujor Adda with

Low cost heart transplant in the city awaits government nod

2016 Rio Summer Paralympics: The Strike of Excellence

“Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high.”-The 2016 Summer Paralympics at Rio experienced the aesthetics of this im-mortal piece of vintage poetry, one among the innumerous classical renditions by Tagore. The absence of fear evidently reflected through the determined glimmer of courage in the eyes of Devendra Jhajharia, a resident of Churu district in Rajasthan, when he won a Gold Medal for In-dia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, beating his own record of victory at Javelin, in 2004, respective-ly. At the age of eight, he experienced a fatal accident of electrocution and as a consequence, had to get his left hand clinically removed.. De-spite physical impairments and vulnerabilities, with an enormous stream of self-determination and will power, Jhajharia won a gold medal in the 8th FESPIC Games in South Korea in 2002. Onwards as a result of successive hard training, under the guidance of coach- R.D. Singh. De-vendra Jhajharia left no stones unturned to ex-perience his passion for the sport, once again, by a world-record throw of 63.97 meters, defeating his previous win.

Yet a few other gold medalists capped off a suc-cessful Paralympi c games campaign in Rio 2016. Mariyappan Thangavelu and Varun Singh Bhati secured India two medals in the high jump category. Thangavelu created a history with a leap of 1.89 meters. Deepa Malik ensured a his-toric silver medal by winning the second place in women’s shotput with a best throw of 4.61 meters. Breaking all stereotypical constraints, every ath-lete who participated in the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics, exhibited excellence through their exceptionally awe-inspiring skill and will pow-er. The 19 athletes representing India at Rio, in 2016 Paralympics, etched an eternal language amongst the minds of the old and young alike, a language resonating with the condemnation of disparity and inequality that isolates and makes an impromptu judgment about the capabilities of a man, on the basis of his physical ability as well as disability alike. Thus, the four medals resem-bling victory and a period of pride for India, the world’s largest democracy, also serves as a sub-tle shriek of an expression for the entire world to break out of the shackles of constricted mental disabilities, and learn to accept people with an acknowledgement of equality.

Paramita Das and Trina Chowdhury

Manasi Agarwal

The very exciting and rejuvenat-ing festival of Durga Puja is just round the corner. Less than just a week left for the extravaganza, which is eagerly awaited each year. The festival has its world-wide significance. Rest assured, all your queries, inquisitiveness else curiosity about this biggest religious ex-travaganza will be met by 91.2 Y FM NSHM Community Radio. Here you will get information from all over the vibrant city of Kolkata. Be it a theme puja or the very traditional yet impov-erishing Shabekiana idols, one can get information about pan-dals, rituals, history etc. of all paras(localities) and Bonedibaris (read heritage residential pujas).Kumartoli, the very iconic plac-es where the idols are created has its own stories from all pockets. Eminent idol makers already sent the niche and ordered list of idols to foreign lands.

The Dhakis from Jagatdalpur are the most significant attractions when the most auspicious ritual Aarti is performed. Also the ‘Pu-jor Adda’ at the studio will have Dhakis sharing their experiences on how they and their families enjoy pujo...? Moreover they talk about the variations which they have come up with in the rhythm section along with their folk instruments. The third gender also have their way of celebration which would be gossiped about. Students of the NSHM Knowledge Campus overwhelmingly contributing in this special programme for 91.2 Y FM. You will also come to know about the stories like how

sex workers in the red light area cele-brate their festival amongst the people of the society who condone them.There will be more which you will sure-ly enjoy in the Adda. To get the best of it, tune into 91.2 Y FM, NSHM Community Radio!

Saptarshi Chowdhury

Salt Lake AK block is one of the favourite des-tinations of pandal hoppers over the years. The organising committee of the block has decided to depict the rich traditions of various districts of Bengal under the theme of ‘Bangla Hasche Sri-shtir Ullashe’. The theme will basically portray the famous objects from each district of Bengal, for e.g. ‘Poramati’ from Birbhum, ‘Tea’ from Darjeeling and the like. AK block in Salt Lake have been celebrating their Durga Puja over the years with much fan-fare. Since celebrating their 25th year anniversa-ry of Durga Puja with the theme of ‘Sankalpo’, AK block has carved out a niche for themselves amongst the top Pujas in the town. Last year they celebrated with the theme of ‘Sutoi Sutoi Taant Korbo Ebar Maath’ under the guidance of art di-rectors Amit and Arindam. The theme highlight-ed the Bengal handloom industry.Artist Bapai Sen will be co-ordinating this year’s

Puja for AK block. He will also be using abstract materials to portray the idea of recycling and conserva-tion. Artist Bapai Sen who has pre-viously collaborated with AK block will also be working with ‘Labony Housing Society’ in Salt Lake, he has previously worked with Singhi Park as well.This year’s Special attraction will be the live ‘Chhau naach’ performance.Subhojit Chowdhury, a member of AK block’s organising committee said, “ Last year we focused only on one item so this year we will be fo-

cusing on the rich traditions of Bengal through the eyes of each district. There will be a com-pound inside the pandal where these items will be displayed”. 91.9 Friends FM have been roped in as the radio partner this year along with sponsors like Geeta Sarees etc. For over the years the block associa-tion has won prestigious awards like, ‘Biswa Ban-gla Sharod Samman’, ‘TTIS Choto Chokhe Boro Pujo’, ‘TOI Shera Barowari’, for their exemplary themes. With a budget of thir-ty two lakhs, AK block will leave no stone unturned to win the hearts of the people of Bengal once again.

Kolkata is set to take a giant leap in medical science. A team of doc-tors from Apollo Gleneagles Hospital are all set to perform heart transplant in the city. The team is awaiting permission from the State Health department. This permission is mandatory for all such cases. The cost of the operation will be Rs 6 lakh which is much less than Rs 30 lakh that a patient has to shell out if operated in hospitals in South India. The operation is not unique, the cost definitely is.Dr. Sushan Mukherjee, a cardiothoriac surgeon, will lead a team of 10 doctors for the surgery. He said that India has the skill and the talent required to carry out such operation, however there are other constraints. “Our results are as good as the results in western coun-tries but we only lag behind in numbers because of complex licens-ing issues and scarcity of donors.” However, the main concern remains the taboo regarding organ dona-tion and licensing of hospitals to carry out the transplant. Dr Mukher-jee added that citizens should be encouraged to donate organs which can save thousands of lives. “Whenever we have extra food we give it to someone who is in need. Then why don’t we do the same with organs?” he asked.The process of heart transplantation has to be completed within four hours, the main challenges being co-ordination and timing. If the heart transplants surgery at such low costs succeeds, it will benefit everyone all around the nation and will set marks in the terms of medical advancements.

Shashank Shekhar

“Bangla Hasche Srishtir Ullashe”AK Block Salt Lake