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The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha is set to inaugurate its sixth traditional stone mandir in North America located in Robbinsville, New Jersey.

The mandir has been built according to the Hindu Shilpa Shastras or ancient architectural texts following a tradition of temple building through the millennia.

Inspired by His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the intricately hand-carved mandir is built to last thousands of years. It stands as a testament to the dedication, service and devotion of the organization’s many volunteers and well-wishers.

The inauguration of this traditional stone mandir marks the completion of the second phase of the Swaminarayan Akshardham complex that is currently planned for the site. The mandir is 134 feet long and 87 feet wide, comprising of 108 pillars and three garbha gruhs or inner sanctums.

The entire mandir has been covered by a permanent structure to increase

the structure’s life and accommodate darshan and worship during the region’s harsh winter.

The Mandir is made entirely of Italian marble and was completed in three years at a cost of $18 million. This was made possible by the dedication and selfl ess service of professional volunteers, including engineers and architects, who helped to minimize the cost of the mandir.

The inauguration ceremonies will begin with a Vedic Yagna or sacrifi cial ritual for world peace and will be followed by a Shobha Yatra or celebratory procession of the deities.

The inauguration itself will take place according to traditional Vedic rituals in the Murti Pratishta ceremony on Aug. 9 and 10.

Finally, the Mandir complex will be opened to the community and public on Aug. 16 at a special dedication ceremony hosting community leaders from within the Indian-American community and from

Traditional stone-carved Hindu Mandir set to open in Central New Jersey

Triggers Cricket Club (TCC), Houston based non-profi t organization, took initiative aimed at giving young children an opportunity to formally learn and play Cricket in a fun-loving environment of camaraderie, respect and sportsmanship.

To introduce and develop interest for Cricket amongst children of greater Houston area, TCC organized an inaugural TCC Colts Cricket League (TCCL) summer tournament 2014 for children ages 8-12 years from May to July (2014).

Over 70 children joined fi ve

participating teams namely Cubs, Wild Cats, KYC Super Kings, KYC Knight Riders and NT Texans.

Dedicated Team Coaches scheduled training sessions to teach Cricket fundamentals and scrimmage games to prepare for league games.

Games were played at Matzke Park, Canyon Gate Park and Paul Rushing Park.

All fi ve teams played the league games with Great Spirit and competition. Super Kings, Texans, Cubs and Wild Cats reached the playoffs based on their performances.

On July 12, Playoff games

Super Kings versus Wild Cats at Paul Rushing Park and Cubs versus Texans at Matzke Park. Super Kings and Texans won their respective games and reached into the Championship fi nals.

The Grand Finale to crown the Triggers Colts Summer Champions 2014 season started with a spectacular celebrations and a huge family picnic at Matzke Park on 19 July 2014. TCC invited family and friends of all youngsters to watch the grand fi nale, while having fun at the family picnic.

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TCC Colts Cricket LeagueKYCC SuperKings champions

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See MANDIR, Page 13

NEW DELHI: US secretary of state John Kerry, on his way to India for an offi cial visit, has pressed New Delhi to drop its opposition to global trade reforms, saying it was a test of the country’s commitment to advance trade and investment liberalisation.

Kerry made the call in an article in The Economic Times, penned along with US commerce secretary Penny Pritzker, hours ahead of his arrival for talks aimed at revitalising ties that have been mired in disputes over trade, intellectual property rights and climate change.

India has threatened to block a worldwide reform of custom rules, saying it must be accompanied by a parallel agreement allowing developing countries more freedom to subsidise and stockpile foodgrains.

The deadline for the deal, which economists say could save members of the World Trade Organisation more than one trillion dollars eventually, is Thursday.

Kerry said India stood to gain by setting up a level playing fi eld instead of erecting trade barriers.

John Kerry presses India on WTO deal ahead of arrival

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Saturday, August 23 @ 4 p.m.Cullen Hall, Univ of St. Thomas

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Samarth Nagarkar is one ofthe foremost and prolific artistes representing Hindustani classical music traditions. After years of rigorous trainingunder the celebrated performer and guru, Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar, Nagarkar graduated as a Grade-A scholar of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy,Kolkata in 2009. Earlier, he trained under the eminent late Pt. Dinkar Kaikini in Mumbai.

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Superb concert by Kashmiri singer Dhananjay Kaul

An evening with an outstand-ing star Dhananjay Kaul was or-ganized by India Culture CenterHouston (ICC) in association andsupport from Kashmiri OverseasAssociation (KOA) and Interna-tional Hindi Association Houston(IHA) on Sunday night, July 27.

Dhananjay Kaul was born inKashmir (land of Shaivite saintsand Sufi followers). His voice iscast in devotional mould andtrained in Patiala Shyam Chaurasimould. His singing is full-throatedand bold, with beautiful tapestryof Swaras and Shrutis (musicalnotes and sub notes) his voice hasrequisite bass and Jhawari (a kindof rattle in the throat) to executedifferent taan patterns. His daz-zling vocalism marks him as anartist of unique flair. Apart fromKhayal singing, he also specializes

in semi-classical forms ofHindustani vocal music such asThumri, Dadra, Kafi, Ghazal,Sufiana Kalam and Bhajans.

Kaul received his training inHindustani classical music fromhis father, Pandit Shanti ChaitanyaKaul. He also received trainingfrom Acharya Nirmala Arun, whois a renowned exponent of PatialaGharana. He has received formaltraining in Tabla from UstadHashmet Ali Khan of AjradaGharana. He has received numer-ous local and foreign awards. Thiswas his first trip to the UnitedStates.

The KOA, who were very en-thusiastic about Kaul, had madeall the arrangements to bring himto the Bayou City. ICC, as a co-ordinating link with the GreaterHouston community at large, was

approached and within a matterof one week all logistics wereworked out to hold this specialevent. In spite of the rigorous plan-ning of their signature event, the68th Independence Day celebra-tions, a few of the core directorsand trustees worked towards thegoal of bringing an outstanding tal-ent from India to Houston. Itturned out to be a sold out event.

The program, held at MadrasPavilion, Sugar Land, started witha sumptuous dinner. The programstarted at 8pm with the introduc-tion of the artist by ICC trusteeSangeeta Pasrija. She also intro-duced the local tabla accompanist,Raja Banga, who agreed to per-form at a very short notice. There-after she invited KOA PresidentSurinder Kaul, ICC President

ICC trustee Sangeeta Pasrija (left), IHA president Swapan Dhairyawan, tabla accompanist Raja Banga, ICCpresident Charlie Patel, the artist Dhananjay Kaul and KOA president Surinder Kaul.


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By Hasan Suroor

I’m not sure if the nameMaulana Syed Salman HussainiNadvi will ring a bell in manyplaces. My own first reactionwhen I heard it was “Nadvi,who?”

But apparently he is a bigcheese in Islamic circles. An in-fluential theologian and author ofnumerous scholarly tomes in Urduand Arabic, Nadvi is Dean of theFaculty of Shariah at Darul UloomNadwa, Lucknow, whose reputa-tion as a premier institution of Is-lamic teaching ranks in the sameclass as Darul Uloom, Deoband.He is also a member of the All-India Muslim Personal LawBoard and Aligarh MuslimUniversity’s court, its highest de-cision-making body.

So, what he says matters andcarries weight. It is important tostress this because what he hasdone has shocked even conser-vative Muslims.

Nadvi has written a long andpassionate letter (in Arabic!) to theSaudi government offering to raisea militia of 500,000 Sunni MuslimIndian youth as his contribution toa “powerful global Islamic army”he has proposed in order to fightShia militants in Iraq and “helpMuslims in need” elsewhere.

The army would become partof a Caliphate that he wants Sau-dis to set up for the Muslimummah, the international Muslimcommunity.

He also suggested that terror-ists should not be referred to asterrorists as they were engagedin a “noble cause” and called fora “confederation” of all jihadi or-ganizations so that they couldtransform themselves into a single“powerful global force.”

Earlier, Nadvisent fawninggreetings to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the notoriousSunni militant group Islamic Stateof Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and self-appointed caliph of a sharia ad-ministration he has set up alongIraq- Syria border.

Nadvi is the only Asian theolo-gian of to have recognizedBagdhadi’s “Caliphate”. But it ishis offer of raising an Indian Mus-lim militia to fight on foreign landswhich has caused a stir even inthe normally complacent Muslimquarters as it comes amid mount-ing concern over the increasingradicalisation of young IndianMuslims who had far defied theglobal Islamisation trend.

Reports that four educatedmiddle class Mumbai Muslim boys(two engineering students, onemedical student, and a call centreworker) have fled the country tojoin jihadisfighting a vicious sec-tarian war in Iraq and Syria havedeepened concerns about home-grown Muslim extremism and putthe entire community under thescanner.

It now seems so long ago whenthe then US President George W.Bush hailed Manmohan Singh asthe leader of the “most fascinat-ing democracy in the world” point-ing out that al-Qaeda hadn’t been

able to “recruit asingle Indian Mus-lim.” And TheWashington Postcommented thatIndia’s “large andtolerant” Muslimpopulation “mayserve as an allyagainst Islamicmilitancy”.

Suddenly, ques-tions are beingasked whether In-

Daft and dangerous: Muslim scholar’s planfor a militia to fight global jihad

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Maulana Salman Hussaini Nadvi

Gross Failure yet again in Uttar PradeshUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has predictably blamed

the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Saharanpur clash between Mus-lims and Sikhs over a disputed piece of land. Bipartisan observers willpoint to the many instances in which the ruling Samajwadi Party lead-ers muddied the situation by crass communal actions and speeches,and then followed up by meddling in the affairs of the police to get theaccused off the hook. There have been too many incidents of commu-nal conflict over the last two years in the State for the Chief Ministerand his Government to escape culpability. The dispute over propertyhad been simmering between the Sikh and the Muslim communities inSaharanpur (the same constituency, where Congress candidate ImranMasood had threatened to chop Narendra Modi to pieces), and thelocal administration and the police were aware of it. But they eitherfailed to anticipate the build-up on Saturday or preferred to ignore it. Ifreports that ‘outsiders’ had formed the bulk of the mob that went on arampage, burning and damaging public and private property, are true,Yadav must answer how his law enforcement agencies could not spotthe presence of these elements and take preventive action. The factthat Eid was round the corner ought to have heightened security con-cerns among the State agencies. The Chief Minister’s plea that secu-lar elements among the communities must sit together to ensure peaceis fine, but the fact is that his regime has previously taken sides incommunal clashes. He has been boasting of his credentials by pointingout that his administration had recently stopped a procession led bynoted Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawad. The fact is that MaulanaJawad and his supporters have been for some time now opposed tothe Samajwadi Party’s conduct, and it suited Yadav’s politics to comedown hard on the cleric. In any case, the Chief Minister has beensilent on the charge of corruption in the administration of Waqf affairsthat the Maulana has levelled.

The State Government must first ensure that life returns to normalin Saharanpur; that peace initiatives influential locals have undertakenare given a chance to work; and that the rioters are identified and triedin a court of law. The police have reportedly booked certain people. Itis to be seen whether the politicians at the helm allow the law to takeits course or intervene with malicious intent, like they did in the case ofthe Muzaffarnagar incident a few months ago. — The Pioneer

UPSC Must Fix ImbalanceThe Narendra Modi government has come under unexpected pres-

sure from protesting students who have taken to the streets in Delhi,railing against the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) conducted bythe Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The aspirants claimthat the second paper of the CSAT, which tests, among other things,logical reasoning, analytical ability, basic numeracy and English lan-guage comprehension puts rural students and those from non-Englishmedium backgrounds at a disadvantage. The protestors want the CSATformat scrapped and the civil services exam, due next month, post-poned. The Centre is waiting for the report of an expert panel beforedeciding its course of action.

The agitation does point to two troubling issues. One is the sheerlack of English proficiency among millions of youth, even among thosewho have been to English-medium schools. That English-comprehen-sion, which accounts for no more 22 marks in a 200 mark paper, shouldexercise the youth is a grim reminder of the quality of English teachingacross the country. It is of course not fair to punish students for poortransmission of English but both the Centre and states must reflect onthe political effects of having unfulfilled millions who seek to get aheadin the English-dominated globalized workplace, but cannot becausetheir schools have failed them. The civil service aspirants also arguethat the analytical and quantitative questions in the CSAT favor sci-ence students. There is a good deal of heartburn among students thatdoctors and engineers smoothly sail into the civil services through anexam tailor-made for them. Governments have shied away from dis-couraging this practice, both to seek talent and avoid taking on a pow-erful constituency. But severe competition in a tight job-market makesthat status quo untenable. The UPSC must fix the imbalance in thecurrent format. — Hindustan Times

A real dilemmaParents are now wondering whether to send their son to be a

chaiwalla’s apprentice so he becomes a Narendra Modi or to sendhim to IIT so he becomes a Kejriwal!!

dian Muslims are going the way of Pakistani youth. There are fearsthat what has started as a trickle with four Mumbai boys could turninto a “flood” if not nipped in the bud immediately. The Biju Janata Dalleader, Jay Panda, rightly reminded us of the Pakistani experiencepointing out how “their youth got involved in jihadist activities, later onthey came back and started hunting their own country”.

Nadvi’s action, not surprisingly played up by the Urdu press whichhas its own sectarian agenda, is certain to encourage extremist ele-ments already engaged in brainwashing and radicalising Muslim youth.There is a view that Nadvi may have broken Indian laws against incit-ing terror and there have been calls for an investigation into his con-duct and for him to be stripped of his Indian nationality.

“The worrying thing for me is that this is not just his view. There aremany takers for this view. If he is promising to put together an army offive lakh Muslim youth from the Indian sub-continent, essentially India,as he has no influence anywhere else, is he just making a tall claim?Only proper investigation can reveal,” wrote Sultan Shahin editor ofthe progressiveNewAge Islam website which published the text ofNadvi’s letter, both in Arabic and in English translation.

He pointed out that what Nadvi effectively wanted was for SaudiArabia to “organise a Khilafat for the Muslim Umma, the global Mus-lim community, which would have a world Islamic Army in which hewould contribute five lakh Muslim youth from India”.

“He says there is no need for recruiting youth from among themessed up youth of the Gulf, when you can find them right here. Thisarmy would stand behind Muslims wherever they are in trouble.

He wishes that terrorists should not be called terrorists and thusantagonized. They are sincere Muslim youth fighting for a noble cause.There should be a confederation of Jihadi organisations active acrossthe Islamic world midwifed by Ulema who should help them hold adialogue among themselves so they come together and iron out theirdifferences and emerge as one powerful global force.”

At the best of times, such conduct should be a matter of concernbecause it amounts to exporting terror but it becomes even more alarmingin the current climate with a full scale bloody conflict raging across theMuslim world.

Ask Nadwi about his daft and dangerous proposal, and I’m sure hewould do what all fundamentalists do—resort to some Islamic justifi-cation by selectively quoting the Qur’an and Hadith (compilation ofProphet Mohammad’s sayings and teachings).Believe it or not, thereare people who cite Hadith to claim that a male child’s urine is purerthan a girl child’s!

Can it get any more absurd than this? Yet such claims, citing unreli-able and inauthentic Qur’anic verses and the Prophet’s sayings areroutinely made on Islamist websites making a mockery of Islam.

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By Swami Mukundananda Question: The popularity

of Yoga has skyrocketedaround the world. What is thescience behind the effective-ness of the Yogasans?

Swami Mukundananda: Theart of healthy living must incorpo-rate all aspects of the personality:the physical, mental, emotional,intellectual, and spiritual. While thecentral theme of Yog remains thehighest goal of the spiritual path,physical yogic practices enshrinedin it give direct and tangible ben-efits to everyone regardless oftheir spiritual aims.

Yogasans harmonize the body,mind and emotions. For example,at the physical level, organs,muscles and nerves may not befunctioning properly. Asans bringthe different bodily functions intoperfect coordination so that theywork for the good of the wholebody.

At the mental level, people har-bor poisonous thoughts and emo-tions within. Muscular knots canoccur anywhere in the body – inthe neck as cervical spondylitis, inthe face as neuralgia, etc. Everymental knot has a correspondingphysical, muscular knot and viceversa. For example, emotional ten-sions can affect the smooth func-tioning of the lungs, and breathingprocess, contributing to a verydebilitating disease, which isasthma.

The aim of asans is to releasethese knots. For full benefit, theseasans should be performed alongwith the meditation. Meditationalexercises cleanse the mind, tobring a feeling of peace and con-tentment within.

Proper asans, Pranayam, subtlebody relaxation, meditation, tacklethese knots both at the physical

and mental levels. As a result ofthe release of dormant energy, thebody becomes full of vitality andstrength, the mind becomes lightand creative, joyful and balanced.

Yogasans have succeeded asan alternative therapy in diseasessuch as asthma, diabetes, bloodpressure, arthritis, digestive disor-ders and many ailments of achronic and constitutional nature,where modern medical sciencehas failed.

What is consciousness?How is it different from thesoul?

SM: “Consciousness” is thesymptom of life that is manifestedby the soul. It is not the soul itself;rather, it is a quality of the soul.This is just as heat and light aremanifestations of the fire, but bythemselves, they are not the fire.

Everything that exists is verilythe energy of God. However, it isnot all consciousness. Matter is“insentient” or devoid of con-sciousness, while the soul is “sen-tient” or possessing conscious-ness. This is an important distinc-tion between the soul and matter.

Apart from having conscious-ness itself, the soul also has theability to impart consciousness tomatter, when it associates with it.Just as “a flower carries aromaitself, and the garden where itgrows also becomes aromatic byits presence.”

Likewise, the soul is sentient,and by its presence, it makes thedead matter of the body sentientas well. As long as the soul re-sides in the body, the senses, or-gans and limbs, all display signs oflife. Upon death, when the souldeparts, the body is dead matteronce again.

Q: How does the soul com-municate with the elements in

our body? Where is the con-nection between the body andthe soul?

SM: The soul communicateswith the body by energizing it withthe force of life, or consciousness.Its presence makes the intellect,mind and body work. As alreadymentioned the soul is sentient, andby its presence, it makes the deadmatter of the body sentient as well.

Now the reverse communica-tion – how does the body com-municate with the soul? The linkbetween the material body and thespiritual soul is established by theego. In the materially conditionedstate, the first covering on the soulis of the ego. The word for ego inSanskrit is asmita, which means“that which is not.” This ego cre-ates a false identity for the soul.Due to it, the soul is under the illu-sion that it is the body, mind andintellect.

In this illusion that it is the body,the soul identifies with the plea-sures and pains of the body. Whenthe senses come in contact withthe sense objects, they experiencefleeting pleasure. Under the illu-sion that it is the body, the soul tooexperiences this pleasure. How-ever, the experience does not sat-isfy the soul, which can only besatisfied by Divine Bliss. So thesearch for pleasure continues.

This is how the two-way com-munication between the soul andthe body-mind-intellect works.

Swamiji is the senior disciple ofJagadguru Shree KripalujiMaharaj. He has inspiredpeople all over the world, on thepath of Spirituality, holistichealth, yoga, meditation, ser-vice to society and God-realiza-tion. He has been invited tospeak at various Fortune 500companies like Google, Oracleetc. For the youth, Swamiji hasconducted programs at presti-gious universities such asStanford, Princeton, MIT,Kellogg and Duke University.

Swami Mukundananda willhave a week-long program inHouston. Swamiji’s program willbe held at India House at 8888W Bellfort Ave, Houston, TX77031 from August 23rd to Au-gust 28th, 2014. Each day’s pro-gram will include Yoga, Medi-tation, Lecture program and

Swami Mukundananda is aworld-renowned teacher ofspirituality, Yoga and Medita-tion. He is the founder of theunique Yogic system JKYog,also known as Yoga for theBody, Mind and Soul. He re-ceived His degrees in Engineer-ing and Management from IIT(Delhi) and IIM (Kolkata).

Devotional chanting. The topicof the discourse is “The Path toHappiness”. Admission is freeand Prasadam will we servedafter discourses. For inquiresvisit www.jkyog.org or call 281-630-5982 / 832-377-6070.

Body, mind & soul relationship

Charlie Patel and IHA Presi-dent Swapan Dhairyawan to rec-ognize and felicitate the artist.Each of them updated the organi-zation’s activities and the synergyin which they came together topresent the evening show.

Sam Merchant was invited topresent the Congressional Proc-lamation from the office of Con-gressman Al Green to DhananjayKaul.

The musical program startedwith a thumri, followed by ghazalsand sufiyana music. The audiencewas awestruck hearing Kaul per-form. The company given by RajaBanga was phenomenal and nonewould believe that both perform-ers had met for the first time. Thesound system was provided by theperfectionist Darshak Thacker ofKrishna Sounds. As the eveningprogressed, Kaul fine tuned withthe audience and took requests

from them.The original and evergreen

Damadam Mast Kalandar wasa big time hit that brought the au-dience on their feet. Even thoughit was Sunday night, none of the90+ audience wanted to leave.

“My first live ghazal concert isan unforgetable one! Kumar andI had a wonderful music experi-ence,” said Srimathi.

“We had an excellent time,”said Prabha Roopani. It was amesmerizing evening and sitting soclose up to the singer was just anamazing experience.”

The musical program whichwas initially slated for just 90 min-utes ran for more than 150 min-utes with each and every individualmesmerized and enjoying the voiceof Dhananjay Kaul.

The program ended with a voteof thanks by ICC Director NishaMirani. For more information visitwww.icchouston.org

Kashmiri singer Dhananjay KaulFrom Page 3


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lected and the younger Lakshmi Achari fiery, energetic, and charis-matic performed their joint Odissi Rangapravesh at the Jewish Com-munity Center the evening of June 28, 2014. It was a treat watchingthe two sisters dancing delightfully with their ethereal movements asthey kept the august audience captivated. It is interesting to note herethat although the sisters performed their Rangapravesh together in thesame dance style, they did it under the tutelage of two different gurus,Lakshmi under Guru Smt. Supradipta Datta, and Radhika under GuruSmt. Aparupa Chatterjee.

Lakshmi and Radhika started learning dance at the early ages of 5and 6 respectively and dance seems to be part of their bloodstream !Their first introduction to the Indian classical dance form was underGuru Smt Rathna Kumar who taught them Bharatnatyam.. Havingalready performed at several prominent functions in and around Hous-ton, their Rangapravesh turned out to be their crowning glory.

Radhika, who had begun learning from Guru Supradipta had to takea break from dance when she went off to attend Texas A&M Univer-sity to pursue her undergraduate degree in psychology. It was therethat she was luckily able to find in Guru Aparupa, a mentor who re-kindled her old passion for Odissi. Radhika through sheer determina-tion, managed to train for her Rangapravesh inspite of her rigorouscollege course work and emerged to a skilled dancer.

Lakshmi, on the other hand, was not particularly interested in Odissiwhen she initially started accompanying her sister for the classes. Itwas only when her sister moved away, did she come to her own andbegin to blossom as an Odissi dancer.

The program commenced with a small puja offered to LordJagannath. Emcee Ratna Sinha, the girls’ aunt, charmingly and elo-quently took us through the evening proceedings in her inimitable style.

The evening’s repertoire was very adroitly choreographed by thetwo gurus. The recital started with Mangalacharan, invoking the bless-ings of mother earth, the gods, the gurus and the audience. This dancewas beautifully choreographed by Guru Ratikant Mohapatra and di-rected by Aparupa Chatterjee. The audience was blown away by theappearance of the gorgeously attired dancers.

Aravi Pallavi, a beautiful tapestry of lyrical movements and typicalsculpturesque poses performed by Radhika, brought out the essence,charm and artistry of the Odissi dance technique. A pure abhinayapiece, “patha chaadi de” depicting the playful interaction between youngLord Krishna and Radha was masterfully performed by Lakshmi.

The next dance, “Ardha-narishwara,” describing the contrasting

yet complementary attributes ofthe masculine (Shiva) and thefeminine (Shakti) energies of theuniverse was very fittingly por-trayed by Radhika performing theShiva bhaava and Lakshmi per-forming the Shakti bhaava. Thetwo sisters complemented eachother perfectly in this well choreo-graphed dance by GuruKelucharan Mohapatra and di-rected Guru Supradipta Datta.

It was very heartwarming tohear teachers, relatives, friends,siblings, gurus, and parents talkabout the special places the twosisters hold in their hearts andshare interesting anecdotes aboutboth. They unanimously believedthat the two sisters are both dedi-cated, driven, and passionate.

The second half of the programbegan with another Pallavi basedon the raga Hansadhwani, per-formed by Lakshmi. It involvedspeedy intricate footwork andcomplex movements throwinglight on the degree of mastery andexpertise of the dancer.

The next dance “LalitaLavanga Lata”, a famous versefrom Jaydev’s Geeta Govinda wasan enactment of Radha’s longingfor her beloved Krishna at theonset of the spring season wheneverything around is buzzing andhumming with blissful joy. Thisdance was brought to perfectionby Radhika.

“Sri Rama Chandra KripaluBhajamana”, is a Sanskrit poemwritten by Tulsidas in the 16th cen-tury and is one of the most popu-

lar bhajans dedicated to Lord Ram. The dance choreographed to thissong by Aparupa Chatterjee and danced by Radhika and Lakshmidisplayed many modern, innovative dance moves while highlightingthe different facets of Lord Rama’s life.

The final dance, the “Mokshya Mangalam”, symbolizes the reinte-gration of the Atma (the soul) with the Paramatma (the absolute) andrepresents a spiritual culmination for the dancers who uplift them-selves into a realm of pure aesthetic delight. This dance brought theevening to an end, an evening which epitomized and rewarded theimmense hard work put in by the two talented young Odissi studentsand their Gurus. We wish them continued support and success in ev-ery future endeavor.

Radhika will be graduating in December 2014 and pursuing a Doc-torate of Psychology thereafter and Lakshmi, who has just graduatedcum laude from Memorial High School, will be attending Texas A&MUniversity with the aspiration of becoming a lawyer.

Radhika & Lakshmi – The Rhythmic Duo

Radhika (left) and Lakshmi Achari. Photo: Amitava Sarkar

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It was an awkward moment for US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Biswal and US department of Commerce of-fi cial Arun Kumar when they faced questions from freshman Congressman Curt Clawson (R-FL), who mistook them for diplomats from India last week. Biswal was forced to reply, “I think your question is to the In-dian government. We certainly share your sentiments and will advocate that on behalf of the U.S. government.”

In India just a few weeks ear-lier, Biswal had faced an equal-ly awkward moment, when she was told by a retired senior of-fi cial at a think-tank meeting,

“It is a bad idea for the US to send Indian-American diplo-mats here, they end up having to prove their loyalty to the US more than others, and it doesn’t help us.”

Even so, Biswal is one of a growing number of Indian-Americans in the state depart-ment and in other senior posi-tions.

The Obama administration counts more than 30 offi cials of Indian-origin, including Bisw-al, who is the point-person for India.

Ahead of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s meetings in Delhi on Thursday, others like Arun Kumar have visited In-dia , and amongst those being

‘Desi’ diplomats don’t have it easyconsidered for the new US Am-bassador to India is Rajiv Shah, the head of USAID, The Hindu said.

Countries like Australia, UK, Portugal have already posted envoys and sent offi cials of In-dian origin to New Delhi over the past few years. Australian Foreign Secretary Peter Var-ghese was actually sent to India as High Commissioner to deal with anger over ‘racist attacks’ in Australia. A spokesperson for the British High Commis-sion, that has posted two dep-uty High Commissioners to India told The Hindu that their appointments “refl ect British multiculturalism in all fi elds”.

“It doesn’t really give them an edge”, says retired Ambas-sador K.C. Singh, and quotes the case of Chinese-American Ambassador Gary Locke, who ended a hostile tenure in Bei-jing earlier this year, because the Chinese government ex-pected him to be more friendly to them.

In the Devyani Khobragade incident too, much of the out-rage in India came because all the offi cials connected to the case, from Nisha Biswal, to New York State Attorney Preet Bharara, to State dept offi cial for Labour and Human Rights Uzra Zeya, were of Indian-or-igin.

NEW DELHI: As fi ghting between militias loyal to the Libyan government and Islamist forces escalates, India remains diplomatically hard-pressed to ensure the safe return of close to 6,000 Indian nationals stuck in the strife-torn country. Among those caught in the confl ict, in parts of Tripoli and Benghazi in eastern Libya, are again Indian nurses mostly from Kerala.

Intense fi ghting in Benghazi, Libya’s second city, and battles between rival militias in the capital Tripoli have pushed the country deeper into chaos after two weeks of the fi ercest vio-lence since the 2011 civil war ousted Muammar Gaddafi . At least 30 people were killed in overnight fi ghting on Monday as forces battled militants with rockets and warplanes for control of an army base in Benghazi.

There are around 750 Indian nurses in Libya in all. While all are said to be safe as of now, at least 80 of them have said they want to return home and are looking for help from the Indian mission in Tripoli. Fearing another Iraq-like crisis, the govern-ment has decided to arrange air tickets for those who can’t afford it even though offi cials admitted the situation still did not call for an evacuation like Operation Safe Homecoming witnessed in 2011 when thousands were either fl own out of Libya by special Air India fl ights or were evacuated with help from Indian Navy.

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From Page 5The reason they get away with it is because the Qur’anic text is

hugely ambiguous and often contradictory, allowing people to cherry-pick to back their argument. Likewise, the Prophet ‘s sayings are toonumerous and were uttered in vastly different situations. It is easy tomanipulate them by plucking them out without context—such as theclaim over the relative purity of a male child’s urine vis- a-vis a female’s.Islamic theology is full of inauthentic Hadith. Even many authenticHadith have been found to be flawed because of misinterpretation orcontextual mistakes.

Coming back to Nadvi, it will not be easy to dismiss his behaviouras the act of a mad mullah. Because, as I pointed out, he is no ordi-nary clergy but a highly respected figure. And so is the institution herepresents. What is particularly disturbing if it is true, as Shahin pointsout, that Nadvi’s view is widely shared by mainstream Muslims.

My own sense is that moderate opinion is far more widespreadthan there is public evidence for it. But moderate Muslims are reluc-tant to speak up for a variety of reasons. One is the fear of playinginto the hands of Hindu Right. Second, most Muslims don’t have suf-ficient knowledge of Islam to challenge those who invoke Islamicteachings to justify their actions. Third, many simply want to get onwith their lives instead of sticking their neck out.

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DMK seeks removal of KatjuCHENNAI: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Wednesday,

July 30, shot off letters to the Vice-President and Supreme Court ChiefJustice, seeking removal of Press Council Chairman Markandeya Katjusaying a person with continuous outbursts and temperamental behaviouris not fit for holding office.

Last week, DMK president M. Karunanidhi had lashed out at Katju,also a former Supreme Court Judge, for his allegations on a TamilNadu additional judge, which put his party under a cloud, and accusedhim of acting under ‘indirect pressure’.

“DMK is submitting this representation to bring to your notice thevarious omissions and commissions of Markandeya Katju, whichamounts to misconduct and proven misbehaviour and therefore seek-ing removal from said post”, the letter, which was also sent to theUnion Ministers of Law and Justice and Information and Broadcast-ing, said. “Katju has belittled the post due to his continuous outburstsand temperamental behaviour, which is not expected from a personholding the public office”, the letter sent by DMK Legal Wing Secre-tary R S Bharathi said.

PUNE: The landslide nearPune is turning out to be a majorhuman tragedy with 17 bodies re-trieved so far and around 158 per-sons, including 61 children and 60women, feared trapped in the de-bris. Around 378 personnel of theNational Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF), which was req-uisitioned by the district adminis-tration at 10.45am on Wednesday,are either at the spot or travers-ing the muddy approach road onfoot.

17 die in landslide near Pune; 158 injured

NDRF sources told TOI thatof the 46 of the total 70 houses inthe affected village of Malingaon,spread over 50 km radius, havebeen razed by the landslide. Thelandslide is being attributed to de-forestation undertaken over theyears to facilitate human settle-ments in the area, resulting in loosesoil. “Though 8 people were res-cued until Wednesday evening, thechances of finding many of the158 trapped persons alive are nottoo bright,” an NDRF officer said

adding that 17 bodies have alreadybeen recovered.

Union home minister RajnathSingh left for the site at 6.30pmon Wednesday, accompanied bysecretary (border management)in the home ministry and IG,NDRF. He will review the res-cue work along with the districtadministration and meet the af-fected people.

Of the seven NDRF teamsrushed to Malingaon soon after thedistrict administration sent in arequest at 10.45 am, two reachedthe spot first after covering a 5-km muddy stretch on foot. Theremaining five teams were stillnegotiating the muddy stretch to-wards the evening. Two moreteams of the NDRF pre-posi-tioned at Andheri Sports Complex,Mumbai, left for Malingaon in theafternoon and are expectedaround midnight. Another sixteams have been kept on thestand-by in Gujarat, and will berushed as and when reinforce-ments are required.

All the nine teams assigned forthe rescue operations comprisedoctors and paramedics, besidespersonnel trained as medical first

responders. These teams are carrying state-of-the-art rescue equip-ment and communication sets. In addition, two unmanned aerial ve-hicles (UAVs) are helping the forces with the rescue work.

Though rescue operations may slow down at night, a senior NDRFofficer told TOI that the teams will continue to look for survivors in thehouses still left standing in the foothills.

Listening devices in Gadkari’s home?NEW DELHI: The controversy triggered by a newspaper report

that highly sophisticated listening devices were planted at the resi-dence of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari could not be contained by anexplanation from the Minister that stopped short of a complete denial.

After the Minister described the report as “highly speculative,” theCongress said the government must explain the issue in parliamentand suggested that there was a trust deficit among ministerial col-leagues. “If ministers’ houses are bugged, then it is not a good omen.It should be investigated. How can it happen? It should be explainedby the government in the House,” former Prime Minister ManmohanSingh told journalists at an Iftar reception hosted by Congress presi-dent Sonia Gandhi.

BJP leaders remained tight-lipped, only saying it is for the govern-ment to confirm or deny the report, but pointed out that according todocuments released by the U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden, aU.S. court had in 2010 authorized the country’s spy agencies to snoopon the BJP. “We must wait for the government’s response on whetherthe report is true or not. As of now, it is speculation,” said SidharthNath Singh, BJP spokesperson.

RSS-sponsored Iftar parties?AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat chief

minister Anandiben Patel may have refrained from hosting iftar par-ties but these symbolic functions for sadbhavana have found supportfrom an unlikely quarter.

Some senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders haveattended iftar parties organized in the state by the Muslim RashtriyaManch (MRM) — a platform for Muslims formed in 2002 at theinitiative of then RSS sarshangchalak K S Sudarshan. The MRM or-ganized at least seven iftar parties across the state this year.

On July 21, the MRM had held an iftar party in Vadodara that wasattended by senior BJP leader Jayanti Barot, and senior RSS leaderand MRM patron Indresh Kumar. Incidentally, Kumar is a suspect inthe Samjhauta Express blast case. “Nearly 800 people, including 40Muslim religious leaders and 30 Maulvis, attended the iftar party heldat Purshottam Hall in Vadodara to give fillip to communal harmony inthe state,” said Gani Qureshi, state coordinator of MRM.

Iftar and sehri parties were held in seven places. MRM’s nationalconvener, Mohammad Afzal, said that the manch had organized suchparties across the country, including Gujarat. “An iftar party was or-ganized in Vadodara on July 21 while a sehri party was organized inAhmedabad. Programs were also held in Surat and Navsari to spreadthe message of Hindu-Muslim brotherhood,” he said.

Afzal further said that a mega-Eid Milan celebration is also plannedin August, tentatively on August 3. “We have sent an invitation toUnion minority affairs minister Najma Heptullah to be part of Eidcelebrations in Vadodara where she will also be felicitated,” Afzalsaid. Qureshi said that the MRM works towards building confidenceamong Hindus and Muslims. “Senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar isthe patron-in-chief of the manch. Kumar had given the slogan, ‘Ek rotikum khayenge, magar bachchon ko padhayenge,” the MRM’s statecoordinator said.

However, RSS officials have distanced themselves from iftar par-ties. State RSS chief Dr Jayanti Bhadeshia said that the sangh is notaffiliated with the MRM. “I have no information regarding any iftarparty being organized by the RSS,” Bhadeshia said.

RSS spokesperson Pradeep Jain said no member of the state RSSwas directly or indirectly associated with the MRM in Gujarat. “Weare not associated with any iftar programs in the state,” he said.

Chief of the BJP minority cell, Sufi Sant Mehboob Ali, said thatlocal BJP workers had organized iftar parties at Junagadh, Surat,Rajpipla and even Gandhi Hotel in Juhapura area of Ahmedabad.

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NEW DELHI: Pakistan has told India that the 26/11 Mumbai ter-ror attacks trial was a judicial matter and there was nothing the gov-ernment could do over the adjournment of the trial, The Hindu news-paper said. Along with that, Pakistan also expressed its concern overthe delay in the Samjhauta Express blasts trial in India.

On Friday, July 25, India summoned Pakistan’s Deputy High Com-missioner in New Delhi, two days after the ongoing trial of the 2008Mumbai terror attacks was adjourned in Pakistan on Wednesday.

In a conversation with The Hindu, the Pakistan High Commissionsaid it had conveyed its inability to “do anything” in the matter to theIndian government.

“Like everywhere else in the developed world, the judiciary (inPakistan) is independent… the executive has nothing to do with it,”Manzoor Ali Memon, spokesperson for the Pakistan High Commis-sion told The Hindu.

“Our job is to present evidence and prosecute the accused…wecannot push the judiciary…it is an independent institution and takes itsown time,” said Memon.

Pakistan also expressed concern over the delay in the 2007 SamjhautaExpress bombing case, in which 68 people were killed, most of themPakistanis. “Families of the Samjhauta Express (blast) victims are wait-ing to see the perpetrators of that heinous incident brought to justice,”said Memon.

The trial of the seven Pakistani accused, going on in a Pakistananti-terrorism court, was adjourned for the seventh time on Wednes-day, leading to India’s “strong diplomatic protest”.

“The Pakistani Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi was sum-moned to the Foreign Office today. Also the Indian Deputy High Com-missioner went to the Pakistani Foreign Office and has lodged a simi-lar protest,” official sources told The Hindu.

In the meetings — in New Delhi as well as in Islamabad — Indianofficials sought regular briefings on the progress of the trial and theinvestigation being conducted by Pakistani authorities.

Indian officials also reiterated the “high importance India attachesto bring to justice all those responsible in Pakistan for the Mumbaiterrorist attacks,” the sources said.

The last two hearings in the trial could not take place because of thepresiding judge being on leave. Earlier, on four occasions, trial couldnot be held owing to the prosecution lawyers being absent over secu-rity reasons.

NEW DELHI: India’s biggest online retailer Flipkart has raised $1billion in fresh capital from new as well as existing investors with agoal to become the “mobile e-commerce company of the future”. Theamount is the single largest round by any Indian internet company andis among the largest in a single funding round for any e-commercecompany globally, the company said. It puts the company in the leagueof companies such as Facebook and Uber whose funding rounds haveequaled or surpassed $1 billion.

The announcement on the latest round of funding came on Tues-day. The valuation of the company is a matter of much speculationand has been put at $5 billion, but one report in the Economic Timesnewspaper said it could be as high as $7 billion.

Flipkart said it has 22 million registered users and handles 5 millionshipments every month. Some months ago, Flipkart had announcedthat it was India’s first online retailer to hit $1 billion in gross merchan-dise value. “These numbers were unheard of a few years back andwe are excited about the scale we have managed to achieve. Butwhat is even more exciting is the huge opportunity that we still seebefore us,” the company said in a media release.

The latest round of capital came from Singapore’s sovereign wealthfund, GIC, as well as existing investors including Tiger Global Man-agement, Naspers, Accel Partners and Morgan Stanley InvestmentManagement.

Co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (they are not re-lated; they were classmates in IIT-Delhi) said the capital would beused to make long-term strategic investments in India, especially inmobile technology. India currently has 243 million internet users butthe user base is galloping as users with smart phones capable of ac-cessing the internet proliferate rapidly. India will have over half-a-billion mobile internet users by 2020, Flipkart estimates.

“We believe the internet will improve the quality of life for millionsof Indians, and e-commerce is going to play a huge role in this change.The focus at Flipkart is to continue to make shopping online simplerand more accessible through the use of technology,” the founders saidin a statement.

Flipkart wants to enable every Indian to either shop or sell onlineand believes that the power of the mobile internet is going to help itachieve the goal, the founders said.

The company’s founders told the media on Tuesday that they wantto be India’s first $100-billion company in five years.

Flipkart offers 15 million products across over 70 categories andwas founded by the Bansals, former classmates who quit Amazon.comto launch the startup. Their firm now competes against Amazon.com,a recent entrant into India that is ramping up aggressively.

The founders have previously said that they are in no hurry to makean initial public offering of Flipkart shares.

Co-founders Sachin Bansal (left) and Binny Bansal (they arenot related; they were classmates in IIT-Delhi) told the mediaTuesday they want Flipkart to become India’s first $100 billioincompany in five years.

WASHINGTON: Identifyingthis as “a potentially transforma-tive moment in our partnership,”US secretary of state John Kerryon Monday said the Obama ad-ministration is determined to de-liver on the strategic and historicopportunities with India as heembarked on a visit to New Delhifor the annual strategic dialoguebetween the two countries. Thethree-day visit starting Wednes-day, July 30, is also aimed at build-ing bridges with the new govern-ment led by a man Washingtonabhorred for nearly a decade be-fore his resounding electoral vic-tory changed American policy andresulted in a rapid turnaround, in-cluding an invitation to visit theUnited States The Times of Indiareported.

Having presided over damag-ing US processes on the NarendraModi visa issue and the diplomaticfiasco involving an Indian foreignservice official, Kerry ramped uptalk about a “new set of opportu-nities, new possibilities” with thenew government, going as far asto cite Prime Minister Modi’sSabka Saath, Sabka Vikas slogan.There were several other lauda-tory references in his speech toModi’s vision and dynamism, a farcry from the harsh language andcontempt State Department fac-totums had displayed during thevisa imbroglio.

All that is evidently in the past,because, Kerry told the Center forAmerican Progress thinktank,“this is the moment to transformour strategic relationship into anhistoric partnership that honors ourplace as great powers and greatdemocracies,” a partnership thathe projected will be consecratedwhen the US President will wel-come Prime Minister Modi toWashington in September. Deep-ening ties, Kerry maintained, is a“strategic imperative” for bothcountries — “It doesn’t matter justto us or to India; it actually mat-ters to the world.”

While much of his address wasupbeat with its panoramic visionof a strategic US-India partner-ship that stopped just short of analliance, Kerry subtly flagged sev-eral bilateral areas of concern forWashington, mainly in the tradeand business domain that will bepursued by his co-traveler to NewDelhi, Commerce SecretaryPenny Pritzker. They include re-moving various trade barriers, in-

cluding fewer limits on US tech-nology and products in areas rang-ing from energy to agriculture.From the solar spat to the unful-filled civilian nuclear agreement toclimate change, there were sev-eral areas of dispute Kerry qui-etly underlined, although he em-phasized that “we need to keepour eye on the prize out there andnot get dragged down by one smallor lesser particular aspect of arestraint.”

“The bigger picture has to guideus and the end game has to guideus,” Kerry said.

That big picture end game, inWashington’s vision, is a US-In-dia partnership that can create a“more prosperous and secure fu-ture for the world and for one an-other.”

Whether Kerry will be able tosell that vision to the new BJPleadership in New Delhi where itsold allies such as A B Vajpayee, LK Advani and Jaswant Singh havebeen sidelined, is a $500 billion (thetargeted figure for bilateral trade)question.

Despite the rosy verbal out-reach, distrust of US intention -and lack of attention to NewDelhi’s concerns - remains highin the current Indian establish-ment, exacerbated by the spying/snooping scandal (some of it di-rected against the BJP) and vari-ous trade disputes in which Indiahas been subjected to immensehectoring with little concessionfrom the United States. Therehave also been consistent voicesin the Indian establishment cau-tioning against becoming a UScat’s paw in Asia-Pacific and urg-ing strategic autonomy.

Kerry appeared to acknowl-edge that saying that the US rec-ognized that in a globalized world,India’s going to have many dif-ferent partners. “But we believethere are unique opportunities forjust United States and India,” hemaintained, identifying commonareas of dynamism and entrepre-neurial spirit (Hollywood/Bollywood, Boston/Bangalore)that few other countries couldgenerate.

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“In this regard, as we work with our trading partners around the world, India must decide where it fi ts in the global

Surinder Kaul of the Kashmiri Overseas Association presents a memento to renowned Kashmiri singer Dhananjay Kaul who gave a concert of folk, semi-classical and Sufi music at Madras

Pavilion in Sugar Land on July 27.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd L) looks down as he boards a plane to New Delhi at Andrews Air Force Base out-

side Washington July 29, 2014.trading system. Its commitment to a rules-based trading order and its willingness to fulfi l its obligation will be a key indication,” he said in the article in The Economic Times.

India and the United States have already clashed at the WTO, with Washington saying Delhi’s 11th hour resistance could kill a deal that could create 21 million jobs. Kerry is arriving in New Delhi later on Wednesday for an annual strategic dialogue, the fi rst engagement with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that took power in May promising to put India back on a high growth path.

So far, the new administration has moved slowly on reforms and its hardening of stance at the WTO suggests a more nationalist response on key issues than the Congress party’s centre-left government.

Kerry said India and the United States were on the cusp of an “historic transformation” in their relationship and that Washington stood behind New Delhi’s rise as a political and economic power.

“We are coming to India to deliver a single message: that the US is prepared to be a full partner in this effort. We will work hand in hand with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government to promote open and liberal trade and investment, jobs training and closer strategic ties,” Kerry and Pritzker wrote.

Such rhetoric, including calls to build India as a counterweight to China, have however fallen short of concrete progress in the past.

Disputes over protectionism and intellectual property rights have soured the business climate and India has remained cautious about committing to US strategic designs in the region.

The relationship took a dive last year after an Indian diplomat was arrested in New York on charges of mistreating her domestic help, an episode that provoked outrage and resentment in New Delhi.

Modi himself has yet to make clear how closely he plans to work with Washington.

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drink breaks, with many exciting prizes to give away. Plate fi nal to determine 3rd Place in the league was played between Wild Cats and Cubs, prior to the Championship fi nal. Cubs scored 46 runs in

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Presentation party included Chief Guest Brian Hodgden, Mrs. Hodgden, Guest of Honor Sakhi Muhammed, TCC President Nanda Kumar, TCC VP Krishna Sikharam, TCC Secretary Nataraj Rao and TCCL Program Director Surya Saladi. TCC Secretary welcomed Hodgden and Muhammed for their encouragement and presence. Surya Saladi presented a plaque as token of appreciation to Chief Guest Hodgden.

Coaches from all fi ve teams were recognized for their efforts to build such team spirit amongst these young cricketers. Man of the match trophies for each league games, Play-off games and Championship Final were awarded. Top performers of various categories Rohit (League MVP) Arya (Finals MVP), Prateer (Best Batsman), Arir (Best Bowler) and Numair (Best Fielder) were recognized with award trophies. KYC Super Kings won the TCC Colts Cricket League 2014 Championship Trophy and the League Champions Trophy.

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Vidya Balan-starrer Kahaani isgetting a Hollywood remake withDeity, an upcoming film directed byNiels Arden Oplev of The Girl withthe Dragon Tattoo fame.

Jose Rivera (The MotorcycleDiaries) and Richard Regen(Tehran) have adapted the SujoyGhosh-directed 2012 Hindi film.

“It’s an incredible step by YashRaj Films. Years back, AdityaChopra had said he wanted to makeKahaani for a global audience … Ithought he was kidding — but obvi-ously not. YRF has left no stoneunturned on making the English ver-

Kahani gets Hollywood remakesion,” Ghosh said in a state-ment.

“The new script by JoseRivera and Richard Regen isperfectly suited for the West-ern audience and I am reallylooking forward to see Niels di-rect this version,” he added.

The new movie is a thrillerabout an American woman whogoes to Kolkata in search of hermissing husband. As she getscloser to the truth, she finds her-self at the centre of a danger-ous conspiracy. The story un-folds in the context of acolourful, week—long festival.

“Niels is the perfect directorto transfer the appeal ofKahaani into Deity,” said UdayChopra, CEO of YRF Enter-tainment.

Oplev aims to make a “neo-realistic” story. “Deity will bea compelling and exciting thrillerwith complex and interestingcharacters. A neo—realisticstyle to story and images willtake the audience deep intoCalcutta’s many different lev-els. A fascinating clash betweenAmerican and Indian culture,”Oplev said.

The film begins production inFebruary 2015 and will be shoton location in Kolkata.

The promos of Finding Fannyare out and we can see ArjunKapoor is shifting gears frompopular masala to somethingniche. In fact it happened earlythis year when he shed his intensegangster image for a studious boyin love for 2 States.

How did he get Finding Fanny?“Director Homi Adajania

watched Ishaqzaade andwanted to cast me as Savio D’Gama, a mechanic,” he says. Tosee Ishaqzaade and want to pitchme in an English language film, Ifound it very interesting. It wasn’tmy comfort space, but I wantedto take that challenge and I amglad I did.

What kind of roles does he planto do in future?

“Obviously, I don’t ever want

to get typecast; I want to dabblewith all kinds of films. I think that’swhere even a Finding Fannyhappened for me because I didn’twant to get stuck in a rut doing aparticular type of films. Thesedays I am inclined to do somethingon the lighter side. I would like todo a fun, urban film.

Arjun Kapoor has said hewants to be a director.

What sort of films would hemake?

“I am very clear in my headthat I want to direct. But, nowis not the time. I am just startingout as an actor. Facing the cam-era makes you understandwhat’s on a director’s mind. Thisis like a nice grooming schoolwhile I get ready to direct, in thefuture. I just don’t know when.

“I don’t know as of yet,” hesays candidly. The first twoscripts I had written were bigcanvas scripts. At that point Idon’t think anybody would’vebacked me.

“What I wrote when I was 17or 18 doesn’t hold up anymore.What I do know is that I want tomake entertaining films not subtlefilms I would like to present filmswhich are larger than life, yet re-latable to each and every audiencein the country.”

Finding Fanny: Arjun changes gears

Pakistani actress HumaimaMalik has created a buzz in Indiawith her upcoming Bollywooddebut, Raja Natwarlal, and con-tinues to add a bit more spice withher chic looks at the film’s pro-motional events.

The star recently attended thewrap up party of Raja Natwarlal.

The film features EmraanHashmi in the title role, alongsideHumaima Malik, Paresh Rawaland Kay Kay Menon. YuvanShankar Raja has composed mu-sic. The character of EmraanHashmi, who plays a con man, issimilar to Amitabh Bachchan’s inMr Natwarlal.

Humaima Malik debutsin Raja Natwarlal

Yo Yo Honey Singh gaveShahrukh Khan one of the biggesthits in 2013 with his Lungi Dancesong. The singer has surely cre-ated a special place for himself inKhan’s camp. However, it seemsthat SRK has apparently chosenHoney Singh over Vishal-Shekhar.

Vishal-Shekhar who have com-posed the music of the film arenot seen in the poster for KingKhan’s SLAM tour to USA, butHoney Singh is.

SRK likes Honey Singh

Girl with a mind of her ownHuma Qureshi’s journey in

Bollywood has been one of doggeddetermination and that rare never-say-die spirit.

An industry outsider in everysense of the word (she was born andbrought up in Delhi), this 5’5” beautyalways had her eyes set on being anactress. After honing her acting skillswith Arvind Gaur’s theatre groupAct One in the capital, she shiftedbase to Mumbai in 2008 to try herluck in films.

Sadly, the transition didn’t go asplanned: Huma was selected for twofilms, but she had to wait for herdebut in the industry as both the filmswere shelved even before they went to floors. Destiny, it seemed, haddifferent plans for her.

Huma’s blink-and-you-will-miss role in Anurag Kashyap’s Gangsof Wasseypur wasn’t really the debut any newcomer dreams of, butshe made the most of the opportunity that came her way. She wasintroduced in the second half of the film, but that was enough for herto get noticed.

She played Mohsina, a ferociously headstrong girl who is wooed bythe gangster, Faisal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). Mohsina played by herown rules, using her sexual charms whenever needed, so much sothat even the unscrupulous Faisal didn’t mind bending over backwardsto win her. Huma announced her arrival in the industry with this dreamdebut: she bagged the Filmfare and Screen awards for best support-ing actor and female debut that year.

Huma played a similar woman, set in different environment in theMadhuri Dixit-Naseeruddin Shah-Arshad Warsi-starrer DedhIshqiya. Only, this time it was royal Awadh where she dominated andalso used her sexual charms to her end.

The recognition didn’t change anything in Huma’s mind though.She remained level-headed and didn’t go on a film signing spree. EktaKapoor’s Ek Thi Daayan was a stupid film, but Huma’s charactercertainly did not conform to the usual rules of a desi ‘daayan’.

In Love Shuv Tey Chicken Khurrana, Huma showed signs ofher comic timing and the audience loved her. This one was also adefiantly non-feminine character in the traditional sense: her fans lovedHuma riding her scooter in the fields of Punjab, with the hero sittingbehind her. The film flopped at the box office, but Huma was onceagain noticed by the critics.

Not too many heroines have ever looked convincing playing anundercover RAW official. Huma not only signed up for the critically-acclaimed D-Day, but also effortlessly stepped into the shoes of ZoyaRehman. Despite sharing screenspace with veterans such as IrrfanKhan and Rishi Kapoor, such was Huma’s performance that she wasnominated for the Zee Cine Best Actor in a Supporting Role—Fe-male and the BIG Star Entertainment Awards Most Entertaining Ac-tor in a Thriller Film—Female.

The actor ruffled a few feathers recently when she posed on thecover of a lifestyle magazine for a feature that ridiculed zero size.Huma posed with a manequin that said “I don’t owe you perfection.My Body My Rules.”

Huma took a strong position across her public appearances andmade it a point that she specifically clarified that it was not a one-offadvertisement assignment but something she believes in.


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Cast: Salman Khan, Jacque-line Fernandez, NawazuddinSiddiqui

The film is built around an in-teresting concept, sadly marred bya worn-out story. The idea of acentral character, a genius ofsorts, always looking for a “kick”is immediately arresting. For thatkick, Devil Lal Singh (Salman)doesn’t mind being chased aroundby sword-wielding ruffians, takingon local MLAs, fighting off mo-lesters etcetera.

He falls in love with Shaina(Jacqueline) whom he begins tocall Dr. Psycho (because, youknow, ... she’s a psychiatrist). Intypical Bollywood fashion, pursu-ing a woman, despite her lack ofinterest is encouraged (she saveshis number under “Headache”).Great message to stalkers andother pests!!

Now, Devi can’t hold down a

Typical Salman flick — all cliches are in place

job because that requires somediscipline and falling into routine.Shaina’s father offers him resi-dence in their house, but hiswounded ego screams, “gharjamai...never!” They break-up.

The film then dips into othergenres — it becomes a Dhoom-type good-hearted thief tale, mixedwith a chor-police yarn. You know,where the police and chor arefrenemies, threatening each otherthrough smart-ass dialogue andtalking like long-lost buddies.

With the cat-and mouse game,romantic triangle, and a socialtheme insinuated, the story getstoo crowded, and no aspect is wellexplored.

What works for the film is itsconcept of “kick” and how thecharacter ends up discovering itin the unlikeliest of places.Randeep Hooda plays the cool copwho’s never in a uniform and

Nawazuddin Siddiqui makes acrackling appearance as the badguy, walking away with the bestlines.

Their equation with Devi’scharacter makes for some veryarresting moments, full of crack-ling dialogue and twists.Jacqueline hangs around, lookinggorgeous and making up for hershaky performance, with a sen-sational dance moment.

The mainstay of the film —Devi’s character — is inconsis-tent. This born “genius” is dumbenough to call a psychiatrist Dr.Psycho, throws roadside romeo-type lines at the woman he likes,and hardly uses any of the specialskills he possesses (shown to usin an animated aside). Indeed, theonly extraordinary quality heseems to have is that he slaps onegoon, and the others run away.And that when he beats up people,their bones get crushed and altered(again shown through animatedX-ray type footage). I guess youcould call him grey-hued, but thischaracter is more confusing thanconvincing.

Plus, it suffers from a seriousChulbul Pandey hangover. AndSalman plays Devi very muchlike he did Chulbul. Meaning, he’llsay a serious statement then letout a goofy laugh. He’ll say some-thing funny before beating up abaddie. He hangs Ray Bans onthe collar behind, Dabangg-style.

Salman pulls it off, but he hasdone better. This performance isjaded, being a repetition of sorts.Still, no one does the goofy laughin the middle of a serious situationbetter than him. And his presencestill fills up the entire screen, in alarger-than-life manner.

Producer and debut directorSajid Nadiadwala gives us a filmthat starts off interestingly, butveers along the trodden path. Hesets out to make a Salman film,and keeps all the cliches in place.

It’s no surprise that the film,especially the latter half, is a giantshow-reel for Salman Khan’sBeing Human image. His fans willrejoice. The others will call it atrick where Salman and the filmfeed off each other. Either way,what you get is an archetypalSalman film with the regular cli-ches, and few kicks.

Thirumanam Enum NikkahCast: Jai,

Nazriya Nazim,Heebah Patel. Di-rector: Anees

How far willyou go whenyou’re in love andthe going getstough? Throwingyourself off a cliffis easy — you’redead. It’s more dif-ficult to stay aliveand persevere,even if it means adrastic realignmentof your life. Jai’s character, in Anees’s Thirumanam Enum Nikkah,chooses the tougher option — and I’d rather not tell you the name ofthis character. This is a film where people aren’t who they say theyare, and their names play a big part in these charades. Let’s just callhim X. On the surface, this is just another story where man X andwoman Y (played by Nazriya Nazim) fall in love and have to clear anumber of obstacles before they breast the tape that says “happilyever after”. But because religion plays such a big part in the proceed-ings, this isn’t just another story.

And this isn’t just another “religion angle”, with the lovers fromdifferent religions but not really caring about it (though their parentscertainly do) because their real religion is love. Here — and this is thefilm’s USP — there is an attempt to immerse oneself in the other’sreligion, something that’s part empathetic act, and part subversive thrill.

But the director is clueless about how to tie up these threads. Whatdoes X feel about his own religion?

Does it matter to him at all that he will leave it behind if he con-verts? Is there guilt, owing to what his family will undergo after hisconversion? There are no answers — and it appears, after a while,that the whole religion angle is just flavoring to spice up a bland meal.If you just want to make a feel-good film, why wade into such deepwaters?

Thirumanam Enum Nikkah is infuriatingly bad. For a romance,there are few scenes of love. All we get, by way of explanation, is theold love-at-first-sight scenario — they meet on a train, he helps her, hesings a song, it rains, and splat, they are in love.

This is the extent of the detailing. There is no depth to the interac-tions and conversations; worse, many lines end abruptly and the next

line swoops in too soon. It’s likelistening to a series of interrup-tions. It’s as if Arnab Goswamiwrote the dialogues.

Jai and Nazriya Nazim neverconvince us that X and Y belongtogether. He does his usual light-weight lifting. She does what shedid in Naiyaandi — all those ges-ticulations and wide-eyed anticsso beloved of Tamil film heroines.

The Tam-Brahm milieu, theMuslim milieu, the IT office mi-lieu — none of it is convincing.These aren’t characters; they’redoodles.

And there is contrivance aftercinematic contrivance. All Xneeded to do to learn about Y’sreligion was to approach a learnedman and express interest. But no,he has to pretend to be someoneelse, he has to lie... it’s all veryoffensive.

SOUTHAMPTON: India faced an uphill task of scoring 445 runsto win the third Test here after England declared their second inningsat 205 for 4.

Earlier, India were all out for 330 giving England a lead of 269 runsin the first innings.

England’s bowlers backed up the good work of their batsmen toleave the hosts in a commanding position after three days of the thirdTest against India here.

India were reduced to 323-8, 246 behind England’s total of 569-7declared and 47 short of avoiding the follow-on.

In an improved display from the attack as a whole, Stuart Broadclaimed three wickets, James Anderson added two to the one he tookon day two and Moeen Ali two of his own.

Ajinkya Rahane, who should have been given out on eight, resistedfor 54, while Mahendra Dhoni remained unbeaten on 50.

However, on a blameless pitch, India did little to help themselves,with all of the top order falling after passing 20 on Tuesday.

Bowling a consistent full length to find movement in the air and offthe pitch, and sparingly using hostile short deliveries, Anderson, Broadand Chris Woakes impressed.

Spinner Moeen chipped in as Rohit Sharma (28) and Rahane giftedtheir wickets before tea, while only Chris Jordan was regularly way-ward.

On a scorching day, there were periods that looked ominous forEngland as Murali Vijay (35), Virat Kohli (39), Rahane, Sharma andRavindra Jadeja made confident starts.

Yet, through patient probing, the hosts were able to prise the regularwickets that leave them well placed to level the series.

Anderson, swinging the ball both ways, struck to remove two im-portant threats — Kohli, who edged to Alastair Cook and Jadeja whomade a counter-attacking 31.

Broad, overlooked in favour of Woakes first up, eventually arrivedto take two wickets in the morning session.

First, a bumper that followed Cheteshwar Pujara took a glove throughto give Jos Buttler his first catch as a Test wicketkeeper.

Then Vijay, India’s highest scorer of the series and again lookingdangerous, attempted to leave an outswinger that hit the bat and bounceddown on to the stumps.

Following Kohli’s exit, Rahane, who survived gloving Moeen downthe leg side to Buttler, scored heavily through the off side as he rebuiltin a stand of 74 with Sharma.

But both men would fall to the off-spinner in inexplicable fashioneither side of tea.

Sharma, looking to repeat a hit down the ground, sliced horribly toBroad at mid-off.

And after the break, Moeen, who was warned by the InternationalCricket Council not to put on the pro-Gaza wristbands he wore onMonday, served up a long hop that Rahane toe-ended to mid-wicket.

At 217-6, India were exposed to the second new ball, only to besteadied by captain Dhoni and the dashing Jadeja.

That was until Anderson ended a partnership of 58 and, when GaryBallance made up for dropping Bhuvneshwar Kumar at third slip offBroad by diving forward to take the same batsman off an inside edge,India were left further away from the follow-on mark.

England 1st innings 569 for 7 decl (Cook 95, Robson 26, Ballance156, Bell 167, Butler 85; B. Kumar 3 for 101, Jadeja 2 for 153, Shamiand Ro Sharma 1 wkt each) and 2nd innings 205 for 4 decl (Cook70, Ballance 38, Root 56, Bell 23; Jadja 3 for 52)

India 1st innings 323 for 8 (Vijay 35, Dhawan 6, Pujara 24, RoSharma 28, Kohli 39, Rahane 54, Dhoni 50, Jadeja 31, B. Kumar 19;Anderson 5 for 53, Broad 3 for 66, Moeen 2 for 62)

India need 445 to win 3rd Test

4 more wrestlers assured of silverIndian wrestlers continued their impressive showing in the 20th

Commonwealth Games with Bijneesh Bajrang, Satyawart Kadian,Lalita and Sakshi Malik assuring themselves of at least a silver medaleach by entering the finals of their respective events in Glasgow onWednesday.

While Bajrang and Kadian advanced to the finals of the men’s61kg and 97kg freestyle categories, Lalita and Sakshi booked theirberths in the summit clash of women’s 53kg and 58kg respectively.

Bajrang ensured his final berth after beating Amas Daniel of Nige-ria 3-2 in a hard-fought semifinal bout.

Bajrang, the 2013 World Championship bronze medallist, was 0-2down in the first minute of the semifinal bout but made a superb come-back to take a 5-2 lead after the first period of three minutes and thenmaintained his lead till the end.

Bajrang had earlier defeated Sasha Madyarchyk of England insidethe three-minute mark in his opening bout at the SECC before over-powering South Africa’s Marno Plaatjies 4-1 in the quarterfinal.

In the semifinal, Bajrang floored Amas Daniel of Nigeria 3-1 toadvance to the gold medal bout, where he will face David Tremblay ofCanada later on Wednesday.

In the men’s 97kg category, Kadian started his campaign on a re-sounding note and took less than two minutes to overpower UduwilaManjula of Sri Lanka to storm into the quarterfinals.

The referee stopped the bout in 1:45 min of the first period afterKadian led by 10 points. Kadian, the 2014 Asian Championships bronzemedallist, won the bout 4-0.


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CHEF’S CORNERThe Story of Mahatma Gandhi - VII

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In December 1902, a cablereached Gandhi from South Af-rica urging him to return as prom-ised. Joseph Chamberlain, theColonial Secretary, was arrivingfrom London on a visit to Nataland the Transvaal and the NatalIndian Congress wanted topresent their case to him Gandhikept his promise.

He reached Natal in time tolead the Indian deputation, but theColonial Secretary gave the depu-tation a cold reception. The Indi-ans felt disheartened. From Na-tal, Chamberlain proceeded to theTransvaal. The Indians there alsowanted Gandhi to present theirgrievances to him. Before theBoer war, Indians had been freeto enter the Transvaal at any time,but now they had to obtain a per-mit from the newly created Asi-atic Department.

The new rule was designed toseparate Indians from the whites.To get a permit was no easy mat-ter. The officers of the AsiaticDepartment did their best to pre-vent Gandhi from entering theTransvaal but he had his way inthe end. He got a permit and wentto Pretoria. He was not allowed,however, to lead a deputation andpresent the memorandum he haddrafted. Gandhi now decided tostay in the Transvaal and fight thecolor bar which was taking suchugly shape there.

He realized that now he wouldnot be able to leave the country,as he had hoped to. He thereforesettled down and prepared to dohis utmost for the cause of thecolored people, particularly theIndians.

He was enrolled in the Su-preme Court at Johannesburg. Herented a place and established hisoffice. He made good earningsfrom his practice, but his heart wasin the service of the people.Meanwhile, he continued his ex-periments with vegetarianism.

He gave up all luxuries andpleasures. His idea was to tunehis physical body to his spiritualself. It was at this time that afriend, Madanjit, came to Gandhiwith a proposal to start a journalcalled Indian Opinion. Gandhiliked the idea and in 1904 the jour-nal was launched. MansukhlalNaazar was the editor. Gandhihelped the journal generously, con-tributing money and editorialwork!

The journal, published everyweek in Gujarati and English, re-

flected his ideals and gavethe Indian readers a liberaleducation. With absolutefrankness Gandhi pointedout to them their failings andprejudices. Indian Opinionalso gave the Europeans acorrect picture of the diffi-culties faced by the Indiansin South Africa. After therains in 1904 there was asudden outbreak of plaguein one of the gold-mining ar-eas near Johannesburg. Itsoon spread to the Indianquarters.

Gandhi rushed to the spotand organized preventivemeasures. With the help offriends, he set up improvisedhospitals and looked after the

Gandhi’s first experiment with Satyagraha Black Bean and Rice EnchiladasIngredients: 1 tbsp olive oil,

1 green bell pepper, chopped; 1onion, chopped; 3 cloves garlic,minced; 1 (15 ounce) can blackbeans, rinsed and drained; 14.5ounce can diced tomatoes andgreen chilies; 1/4 cup picantesauce, 1 tbsp chilli powder, 1 tspground cumin, 1/4 tsp red pepperflakes, 2 cups cooked rice, 8 flourtortillas, warmed; 1 cup salsa, 1-1/4 cup shredded Cheddarcheese, divided; 3 tbsp choppedfresh cilantro.

Method: Preheat oven to 350degrees F (175 degrees C).Lightly grease a 9x13-inch bak-ing dish. Heat oil in a large skilletover medium heat; cook and stirgreen pepper, onion, and garlicuntil tender, about 7 minutes. Stirin beans, tomatoes, picante sauce,chili powder, cumin, and red pep-per flakes; bring to a boil. Reduceheat to low and simmer, uncov-ered, until heated through and mix-ture thickens, about 5 minutes.

Fold in rice and 1 cup Cheddarcheese; cook until heated through,about 5 minutes.

Spoon a rounded 1/2 cup beanmixture down the center of eachtortilla. Fold sides over filling androll up. Place enchiladas seam sidedown in baking dish; spoon salsaover each tortilla. Cover bakingdish with aluminum foil. Bake inpreheated oven for 25 minutes.Uncover and sprinkle with cilantroand 1/4 cup Cheddar cheese.Bake until cheese is melted, 2 to3 minutes.

Eggplant InvoltiniIngredients: 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, 4 large tomatoes, seeded

and coarsely chopped; 1/2 tsp salt, divided; 4 garlic cloves, crushedand divided; 2 medium eggplant cut into 1/4-inch-thick lengthwiseslices; 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper, Cooking spray, 2 tbsp pinenuts, lightly toasted; 1 ounce whole-wheat French bread, toasted andtorn into pieces; 8 ounces ricotta cheese, 1 tsp grated lemon rind, 1large egg, 3/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves, divided; 2 ouncesParmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated (about 1/2 cup) and divided.

Method: Combine oil and tomatoes in a medium saucepan; stir in1/4 tsp salt and 2 garlic cloves.

Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; reduce heat, and simmer 15minutes or until reduced to 2 cups. Cool 10 minutes. Place mixture ina food processor; process until smooth. Set aside. Preheat broiler tohigh.

Sprinkle eggplant slices evenly with 1/4 tsp salt and pepper; ar-range slices in a single layer on a foil-lined baking sheet. Lightly coateggplant with cooking spray. Broil 4 minutes on each side or untillightly browned. Cool 10 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375°. Place remaining 2 garlic cloves in a minifood processor; pulse until chopped. Add nuts and bread; pulse 10times or until coarse crumbs form. Add ricotta, rind, and egg; processuntil smooth. Stir in 1/2 cup basil and 1/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano.

Spread 1-1/2 cups tomato sauce over the bottom of an 8-inch squareglass or ceramic baking dish coated with cooking spray.

Spread 2 tbsps ricotta mixture onto each eggplant slice; roll up jelly-roll fashion. Place rolls, seam sides down, over sauce in dish. Spoonremaining sauce over rolls.

Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano. Bake at375° for 25 minutes or until bubbly. Sprinkle with remaining basil.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic VinegarIngredients: 1 ½ lbs Brussels sprouts, rinsed and trimmed with

outer leaves removed; 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 1 Tbsp balsamicvinegar, salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste.

Method: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut off the stem endsof the Brussels sprouts and remove the outer leaves. If the Brusselssprouts are large, cut them in half. Leave the smaller ones whole.

Place sprouts in a medium bowl. Toss with olive oil and balsamicvinegar. Arrange the Brussels sprouts on a baking sheet and seasonwith salt and pepper.

Bake for 15"20 minutes or until sprouts are just barely tender andmaybe even still a little crunchy. Turn the sprouts over once halfwaythrough cooking. Remove from the oven, place in a serving bowl andenjoy this amazing side dish.

sick. Another thing that happenedthat year was that Gandhi met H.S. L. Polak, then a sub-editor ofThe Critic. The two soon becamefast friends as their outlook on lifewas similar. Polak presented toGandhi a copy of a book by JohnRuskin called Unto This Last.This book on economics pre-sented many new ideas, and it in-fluenced Gandhi a great deal. Hethen hit upon the idea of starting afarm and founding a communitywith a true sense of brotherhood.

His friends supported theproject enthusiastically. About 100acres of land was acquired at aplace called Phoenix near Durban,and a farm was set up. In the be-ginning six families were settledthere. The office of Indian Opin-ion was moved to Phoenix, com-plete with press. Members of anyrace could freely go and live onthe farm, tilling the soil or workingat the press. Gandhi, however,could stay in the Phoenix Settle-ment only for brief periods.

His headquarters were atJohannesburg where he continuedhis practice as a lawyer. He knewthat it would not be possible to re-turn to India in the near future, sohe decided to send for Kasturbaiand the children.

They soon joined him. When-ever he found time he undertookthe task of educating his threesons. He also pursued the experi-ments with his diet. “I intend to bethe ruler of my body,” he wouldsay. “The spirit can only rule meif I am free of earthly wants.”

He gave up drinking coffeeand tea. Next to go was milk.Sometimes he would fast, takingonly water. Kasturbai watched allthis silently. She knew it was use-less to argue with her husband onsuch matters.

In 1906, the Zulu Rebellionbroke out in Natal. It was a notaxcampaign. The Zulus were onlyasserting their rights, but thewhites got panicky and declaredwar against the Zulus.

Gandhi’s sympathies were withthe Zulus, but they were fightingagainst the British and Gandhibelieved that the British Empireexisted for the welfare of theworld. He considered it his dutyto help the British.

He offered to form an IndianAmbulance Corps. The authori-ties accepted the offer. The In-dian Ambulance Corps wasformed. It consisted of a squad of

24 men, and was in active servicefor six weeks, nursing and look-ing after the wounded.

Gandhi realized that the whiteswere determined to enforce thetax on the unwilling Zulus. Theywanted to put down all resistanceand deny the colored people theirrights in their own land.

The Zulu Rebellion was finallyover and Gandhi returned toJohannesburg. His presence wasneeded there to look after the in-terests of the Indians, for theywere facing all kinds of oppres-sion from the white settlers. InAugust 1906 an ordinance wasissued by the Transvaal Govern-ment requiring all Indians — men,women, and children — to regis-ter themselves and obtain a per-sonal certificate bearing name andthumb impression. This card wasto be carried by all individuals atall times and had to be shown ondemand. Anyone failing to pro-duce the certificate was liable tobe fined, imprisoned, or deported.

The police even had orders toenter private houses and checkcertificates. “This is too much tobear,” Gandhi told his colleagues.“If we meekly submit, it will spellabsolute ruin for us in South Af-rica. We must take action imme-diately if we are to live here.”

The Indians decided not to sub-mit to this humiliating and insult-ing measure. They resolved tofight it. But how? Gandhi saw herethe need for passive resistance orsatyagraha. He explained to thepeople his concept of satyagraha.First, he said, they must be pre-pared to observe absolute nonvio-lence.

The authorities would take allmeasures to put down the agita-tion. They might use violence, ar-rest people and send them to jail,but all this must be faced withoutresistance. “Merely disobeyingthe government’s laws will not beenough,” Gandhi told them. “Youmust have no hatred in yourhearts and you must cast awayall fear.” — To be continued

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Shias protest Waqfboard nominees

LUCKNOW: Members ofShia community were lathi-charged by police today as theywere marching to gherao thehouse of Uttar Pradesh Waqf min-ister Mohd Azam Khan over thealleged move to appoint “corruptpersons” to the Shia Central Boardin the state.

After ‘Alvida Namaz’, a pro-cession, led by prominent Shiacleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad,was taken out here to gheraoAzam’s residence, but police putup barricades near ShaheedSmarak to stop them.

When the protesters attemptedto force their way and marchahead, they were lathicharged bypolice.

Reacting strongly to the policeaction, Maulana Jawwad said theprocession was being taken outpeacefully, but “on the directiveof Azam, police lathi-chargedpeople observing roza (fast) inwhich several persons, includingelderly and children were injured”.

The Maulana alleged that theelection of Shia Central WaqfBoard are scheduled soon andAzam intends to appoint peoplewho intend to loot Waqf proper-ties, to important posts.

Later, agitated with police ac-tion, the cleric sat on dharna infront of Shaheed Smarak, de-manding that he should either beallowed to move ahead to Azam’shouse or be arrested.

232 teeth in teenager’s mouth!!3 die in Muslim-Sikh riot in Saharanpur

Three persons were killed and26 injured in clashes betweenSikhs and Muslims in Saharanpuron Saturday, July 26, promptingthe district administration to im-pose curfew and issue shoot-at-sight orders. The Army has beenput on alert. The violence is saidto be a fallout of a dispute betweentwo communities over ownershipof a vacant plot.

Members of the Sikh commu-nity began construction at a va-cant plot near Gurdwara Road inthe Qutubsher police station areaallegedly without the permissionof the Saharanpur DevelopmentAuthority. Muslims objected tothis, saying the land, near a grave-yard, belonged to them. Follow-ing a heated exchange, the twogroups indulged in arson, threwstones and even exchanged fire.

Among those injured are theSaharanpur City Magistrate andsix policemen. A constable whoreceived bullet injuries has beenshifted to the Postgraduate Insti-tute of Medical Education andResearch, Chandigarh. UttarPradesh Chief Secretary AlokRanjan expressed anger at the in-

Surgeons in Mumbaihave removed 232 teethfrom the mouth of anIndian teenager in whatthey believe may be aworld-record operation,the hospital said July 24.

Ashik Gavai, 17,sought medical help fora swelling on the rightside of his lower jawand the case was re-ferred to the city’s JJHospital, where theyfound he was sufferingfrom a condition knownas complex odontoma, head of dentistry Sunanda Dhivare-Palwankarsaid. “We operated on Monday and it took us almost seven hours. Wethought it may be a simple surgery but once we opened it there weremultiple pearl-like teeth inside the jaw bone,” she said.

After removing those they also found a larger “marble-like” struc-ture which they struggled to shift and eventually had to “chisel out”and remove in fragments, she added.

The youngster’s father, Suresh Gavai, feared the worst. “I wasworried it may be cancer, so I brought him to Mumbai,” Gavai said.

Dhivare-Palwankar said the literature they had come across on thecondition showed a maximum of 37 teeth being removed in such aprocedure, whereas she and her team had counted more than 232taken from Ashik Gavai’s mouth. “I think it could be a world record,”she said.

Gavai’s jawbone structure was maintained during the operation soit should heal without any deformities, the surgeon added.

The dental team was all smiles after theseven-hour operation

telligence failure.According to Daljeet Singh

Kochar, an advocate in theSaharanpur civil court, oneMoharram Ali Pappu filed a peti-tion in the court 10 years ago, stat-ing that a mosque had been builton the land and it must not be usedby the gurdwara. But Kochar saidthe Additional District Judge hadruled in May 2013 that the landbelonged to the gurdwara.

Kulveer Singh, a member of theGurdwara Prabandhak Samiti,said, “The land where the samitiwas constructing an extension tothe gurdwara premises was theplace from where the violencestarted around 4 a.m. on Satur-day.”

He alleged that a mob of morethan 700 people approached thegurdwara and started throwingstones.

Soon the violence that went onunabated for the next four hourstook the shape of a massive riotthat engulfed the entire city. Onegroup of armed rioters even triedto overrun the Qutub Sair policestation, forcing the cops there toresort to lathi charge and firing.

“Cops had to run for their life andit was only after a policeman wasshot that reinforcements came toQutub Sair chowk,” said AnilSharma, a local resident. By af-ternoon large parts of the citywere covered in smoke comingfrom the shops and vehicles thatwere burnt by angry mobs.

Saharanpur District MagistrateSandhya Tiwari said, “The con-struction was carried out withoutthe permission of the SaharanpurDevelopment Authority (SDA).”The SDA stopped the construc-tion when it was reported aroundfour days ago, she added.

According to the SaharanpurSenior Superintendent of Police,Rajesh Pandey, “12 persons havebeen arrested” for the violence.

Tiwari said curfew would con-tinue to be imposed through Sat-urday night.

Alarmed at the ferocity of thecommunal flare-up and clearlywiser after the Muzaffarnagar ri-ots of August last year that dis-placed over 50,000 and left 62dead, the district administrationquickly deployed 8 companies ofthe Provincial Armed Constabu-lary, two companies of the RapidAction Force, four companies ofthe Central Reserve Police Force,two companies of the Indo-TibetanBorder Police and two companiesof the Sashastra Seema Bal havebeen deployed.

Union Home Minister RajnathSingh asked Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Akhilesh Yadav to ensurecommunal harmony, and offeredall help to contain the situation, PTIsaid.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Trans-port Corporation incurs a loss ofabout Rs 1,000 crore annually. Itsrickety and unreliable fleet is anembarrassment for the capital.Yet, in a bizarre instance of en-forcing accountability, it has beenfighting a case against a formeremployee for causing it a loss offive paise — 41 years ago! It isanybody’s guess how much DTChas spent from the public exche-quer in keeping the man, who isnow 70, down.

Ranvir Singh, a conductor,faced a flying squad of ticket-checkers in 1973 in a bus goingtowards Mayapuri. The overzeal-ous checkers found that he hadcharged a woman passenger only10 paise for a trip when the ac-tual fare was 15 paise. Singh re-alized the enormity of this lapsewhen the squad decided that hehad cheated the corporation andhad been negligent.

A departmental inquiry wasconducted and Singh was foundguilty of causing a loss of 5 paiseto the public exchequer and dis-missed from service in 1976 onthe grounds that he was a repeatoffender.

Singh challenged the DTC de-cision before a labor court. Thecourt ruled in his favor in 1990,

directing DTC to reinstate himwith full wages. It found the pun-ishment handed out by DTC dis-proportionate to the “crime”.

But DTC, instead of honoringthe labor court verdict, approachedthe Delhi high court in appeal. Itgot no sympathy from the HighCourt which threw out its appealin 2008, over two decades later.While Singh demanded post-re-tirement benefits and back wages,DTC continued to oppose any re-lief. After suffering a setback be-fore the HC, the corporation choseto appeal once again, this time byway of a review petition beforeJustice Hima Kohli.

Arguing that an employee whocheated the government can’t beallowed to go scot-free, DTC hasin the process spent much moreand forced Singh to do the same.It is also challenging Singh’s de-mand for back wages though hehas got some partial relief. Claim-ing that Singh’s past record con-tains adverse entries, the corpo-ration has accused him of allow-ing ticketless travel to several pas-sengers and justified his sacking.

In its latest affidavit filed be-fore Justice Kohli, DTC has indi-cated its resolve to punish him.The High Court will take a call onSingh’s fate on August 12.

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‘Pakistan ki bahu’ taunt upsets SaniaNEW DELHI: As India’s

capital baked in a heat wave,banker Gaurav Gupta sat downfor lunch at a new air-conditionedrestaurant, to be greeted by asmiling waiter who took his orderfor a traditional “thali” meal.

Nothing unusual, except thatthe employee, like most of his col-leagues, is a convicted murdererserving time in Tihar jail, SouthAsia’s largest prison complex.“Tihar Food Court” in west Delhi,a rehabilitation effort kicked offby the Tihar prison, opened in thefirst week of July on an “experi-mental basis.” It is sited half a mileaway from prisoners’ dormitories.The 50-seat restaurant has beenpraised for the polite behavior ofits employees, who were trainedby a prestigious nearby hotel man-agement school.

“The food is average,” saidGupta. “But the hygiene is good,very clean. And it’s a good thingthey are employing prisoners.”

Mohammad Asim, restaurantmanager, said there are around 50customers a day; workers are paid74 rupees ($1.20) for a day’swork. The vegetarian menu fea-tures food items such as samosas,and rajma with rice. The deluxethali is the priciest item, costing150 rupees ($2.50), while samosasare among the cheapest, at 10rupees (17 cents).

“Those who come once to haveour food come back again,” saidAsim, who has spent 14-1/2 yearsin jail for murder.

To be eligible to leave prisonand work in the restaurant, inmatesmust have an “unblemishedrecord” through at least 12 years

Tihar special: Samosa & service with a smile

of imprisonment and a high school education. Prisoners eligible to bereleased within two years are picked for the job, to minimize theirtemptation to escape. They travel to work by cycle or on foot, asauthorities “trust them enough” not to need a security escort. Com-ments in the visitors’ book are mostly encouraging. “The food wassimply delicious,” wrote one guest. “The service provided was alsocommendable ... 10/10 for cleanliness and humble service.”

Revenue from the non-profit restaurant and the TJ’s brand of prod-ucts made by prisoners, is earmarked for prisoner welfare and voca-tional training, said Sunil Gupta, a spokesman for the Tihar jail.

Once notorious for corruption, drug problems and prisoner abuse,the Tihar jail complex has ushered in several reforms, with vocationaltraining and painting featured among the rehabilitation programs of-fered to its 13,552 inmates. “The restaurant was set up to give em-ployment to the inmates and project the positive aspects of prisonwork to the public,” said Gupta. A similar experiment has run for morethan two years in Kerala state, where prison inmates dish up food soldat a counter near the jail, or distributed by mobile vans.

Customers had few qualms dealing with prisoners. “The Tihar au-thorities have observed them for years and have decided they can beplaced in front of the public, so I am not worried,” said customer AtulSingh.

Bal Krishan Grover, 49, wearing the restaurant uniform shirt of redand white stripes, said he was an electrician before going to prison 13years ago for “accidentally killing” someone in a quarrel. He says heenjoys working at the restaurant and plans to switch careers as soonas he is a free man.

An inmate prepares chapatis in the restaurant kitchen.

NEW DELHI:Tennis star Sania Mirzabroke down in tears Fri-day, July 25, after be-ing described by a BJPpolitician as “Pakistan’sdaughter-in-law” andunfit to be an Indianrepresentative.

Mirza, 27, who ismarried to Pakistanicricketer Shoaib Malik,wiped away tears asshe told India’s NDTV network she was tired of continually beingforced to defend her “Indianness”.

“I am a very patriotic person that is why I am so emotional rightnow,” Mirza, who wed Malik in 2010, said in the interview.

In comments reported earlier this week by local media, K. Laxman,a regional BJP legislator, questioned Mirza’s credentials to be “brandambassador” for Telengana. Laxman was quoted as saying Mirza’smarriage to Malik made her a “daughter-in-law” of Pakistan.

“Telangana is proud of Sania,” the state government said in ap-pointing her the region ambassador. She was also paid Rs. 1 crore forthe honor. “Fans across the country don’t think her Indianness hasgotten mysteriously diluted,” because of her wedding to Malik, theTimes of India said in an opinion-page piece. She has also been de-fended by leaders across the political spectrum, including BJP mem-bers who said Laxman’s comment did not reflect its official stance.

Mirza earlier this month achieved a career-best rank of numberfive in the world when the new World Tennis Association doubleschart was released. “After winning medals for India after I got mar-ried, (I) don’t know why I have to keep justifying that I am Indian,”Mirza told NDTV.

Sania Mirza married Shoaib Malik inHyderabad in 2010.

IIT-Kharagpur honors Azim PremjiKHARAGPUR: Wipro chairman AzimPremji, 69, was on Satur-

day, July 26, honored with a doctorate by IIT-Kharagpur. Premji wasgiven the honorary degree of Doctor of Science “for being one of thepioneers of entrepreneurship in modern India through the establish-ment of Wipro, an organization deeply committed to values” at the60th convocation of the institution. Premji received the DSc (HonarisCausa) from ‘Bharat Ratna’ scientist C N R Rao.

ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan, eminent statistician C R Rao,Faqir Chand Kohli, often referred to as the father of the Indian soft-ware industry, Prof Roddam Narasimha and Pradeep K Khosla alsoreceived the prestigious award.


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Marriages between Bangladeshisand Rohingyas banned

DHAKA: Bangladesh said Thursday it has barred official mar-riages between its nationals and Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya refu-gees, whom it claims are attempting to wed to gain citizenship.

Law minister Syed Anisul Haque said he has ordered marriage reg-istrars not to officiate any unions between Bangladeshi nationals andRohingyas and also between Rohingyas themselves, thousands of whomhave fled to Bangladesh.

He said Rohingyas try to use the resulting wedding certificate togain Bangladeshi passports and other documents, while Rohingyas whomarry Bangladeshis could automatically qualify for citizenship.

“By registering their marriage in Bangladesh they try to prove thatthey’re Bangladeshi citizens,” he told AFP.

“We’ve told the marriage registers not to list any marriage ofRohingyas and also between a Rohingya and a Bangladeshi citizen inBangladesh.”

Law ministry spokesman Abdullah Al Shahin said marriage regis-trars have been warned of punitive action if they officiate any suchmarriages.

There are around 300,000 Rohingyas living in Bangladesh’s south-ern coastal districts bordering Myanmar who have fled alleged perse-cution in the Buddhist-majority nation since the 1990s.

Sectarian clashes flared up two years ago in Myanmar’s westernRakhine state, with fighting that has displaced about 140,000 people,mainly stateless Rohingya Muslims.

Bangladesh recognises only around 28,000 of the refugees in itscountry, who are entitled to food, basic housing and other aid providedby the United Nations.

The rest of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh live in slums set up incleared forests and on beaches.

Bangladesh border guards regularly turn back Rohingyas caughttrying to cross the Myanmar border.

Rights groups and charities have criticised Bangladesh’s treatmentof Rohingyas, claiming they lack basic healthcare and many are on theverge of starvation.

Bangladesh leads in commercialproduction of Bt brinjal

DHAKA: Bangladesh is leading the world in commercial produc-tion after the country’s government gave approval for this last year,according to a leading not-for-profit international organization thatshares the benefits of crop biotechnology with various stakeholders.

Bangladesh approved the commercial planting of four varieties ofinsect resistant Bt brinjal Oct 30, 2013, becoming the first country inthe world to do so.

Following this, 20 farmers planted Bt brinjal seedlings on over twohectares of land in four brinjal growing regions of Gazipur, Jamalpur,Pabna/Ishurdi and Rangpur in the spring of 2014, the InternationalService for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) saidin its latest status report.

“Notably, Bt brinjal allowed farmers to raise healthy and vigorousbrinjal crop, substantially cut down pesticide sprays to control fruit andshoot borer (FSB), considerably decreased cost of cultivation and sig-nificantly increased marketable yield,” the report stated.

The report cited Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhuryas saying that her government supported the use of Bt brinjal inBangladesh and endorsed the commercial approval of Bt brinjal as astep in the right direction.

“...We accord the highest priority to the safety and benefits to thesociety but shun any activity that intends to spread misinformation andmisguide the public about Bt brinjal or other products that are evalu-ated by public sector research institutions,” she said, while congratu-lating the ISAAA for highlighting Bangladesh’s success in commer-cially producing Bt brinjal before the world.

COLOMBO: The U.S. onMonday, July 28, urged the SriLankan government to protect therights of journalists after a govern-ment-backed protest forced thecancellation of a training programfor journalists from the island’sformer northern war zone.

The United States embassy inColombo said in a statement thatit “is deeply concerned by the cir-cumstances surrounding the can-cellation of a journalism trainingsession” over the weekend inColombo.

The training focused on digitalsecurity for journalists based in thenorthern town of Jaffna and wasfinancially supported by the U.S.government.

Sunil Jayasekara, convener ofthe local media rights group FreeMedia Movement, said traininghad been cancelled because of in-

Sri Lanka asked to protect journalists’ rightstimidation and a government-backed protest in front of the train-ing center.

The embassy said in the state-ment that it had “raised our con-cerns with the Government of SriLanka and the Sri Lankan Em-bassy in Washington, and stronglyurged the Government to takeimmediate steps to ensure the pro-tection of fundamental rights forjournalists and for all Sri Lankans.”

It was the third journalism train-ing session to be cancelled sinceMay. “These events continue atroubling pattern of impunity forthose who interfere with both free-dom of speech and freedom of as-sembly in Sri Lanka,” the embassysaid.

Last month, corruption watch-dog Transparency International Sri

Lanka accused the governmentand military personnel of disrupt-ing the group’s two training pro-grams for journalists also from thenorth, accusing participants of be-ing agents for the defeated TamilTiger separatists. The defenseministry rejected the allegation ofdisrupting the training.

Sri Lanka’s military has beenaccused of excessive interferencein civil matters since the country’squarter-century civil war endedfive years ago.

Earlier this month, Sri Lanka’sdefense ministry banned civil ac-tivist groups from holding newsconferences, issuing press re-leases and training for journalists.But the civil organizations haverejected the move as unconstitu-tional.

Legacy of riots overshadowscelebration of Eid

ALUTHGAMA, Sri Lanka: At least four people were killed lastmonth when Muslims and their properties were attacked by SinhaleseBuddhists in Aluthgama, Beruwala, and Dharga, and 2,000 people weredisplaced in southwestern Sri Lanka in violence that followed rallies bya hardline Buddhist group, Bodu Bala Sena.

The two-day violence in June overshadowed the traditional obser-vance during Ramadan, which has been a stressful time for local Mus-lims who were forced to rebuild damaged homes and businesses. Presi-dent Mahinda Rajapaksa responded to the clashes by ordering theMinistry of Defence and Urban Development to rebuild damaged homesand businesses.

But while an older generation in the coastal settlement remains an-gry at their neighbours, children are looking forward to the Eid al-Fitrcelebrations that mark the end of the fasting month.

Ashraff, a Muslim boy on his way to the mosque, said he was ex-cited about celebrating Eid and about sharing the food with his Sinha-lese friends. “My friends always bring food during the Sinhala andTamil New Year, and I do the same during Eid,” he said. “This yearwill be no different - they did not attack our homes, so I do not knowwhy they cannot celebrate with us.”

A ministry spokesperson, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya, told AlJazeera that 35 houses and seven shops had been restored and re-turned to their owners while an additional 103 houses and 25 shopswere still undergoing repairs.

The upheaval disrupted Ramadan and left many Muslims fearfulabout the future. Mohammed Shezad, a resident of Aluthgama, saidthis year his children did not observe the fast.

“I have two young children whom, on the night of the riots, I had totake to the mosque so that they would be safe,” he told Al Jazeera.“For several weeks they had sleepless nights, I could not ask them tofast as well.”

Shezad did not believe Eid al-Fitr would be joyful for his family thisyear. “How can we celebrate when our homes were attacked andshops burnt down? Every night I am scared for my family’s safety:those riots targeted us because we are Muslim.

“If we celebrate Eid, who is to say they will not attack us again?”Some Muslims like Mohammed Althaf, whose house suffered sev-

eral broken windows and a damaged roof, believe that simply rebuild-ing homes and shops will not repair the damage done to the communityas a whole.

“We were a community of Sinhalese and Muslims who had livedtogether for decades in peace. Now both sides are suspicious of oneanother,” Althaf said. “I do not believe that the Sinhalese of Aluthgamatook part in the riots, but they did not help us either. By the second day,Sinhalese homes were putting out the Buddhist flag so as to make surethey were not affected.”

Althaf urged the authorities to take strict action against those re-sponsible for the violence. Police spokesperson SSP Ajith Rohana saidthat 124 people had been arrested in connection with the violence,nearly 100 of whom had appeared in court.

There are mixed feelings on both sides in this community about whois to blame and what the future holds.

Ranjith Boteju, a Sinhalese resident who has lived in Aluthgama for60 years, condemned the rioters. “As a Sinhalese I am ashamed thatthis happened,” he told Al Jazeera.

Yet, not all Sinhalese residents share his sentiments. “Some Mus-lims had stoned a procession that was going to the temple and theSinhalese involved fought back,” said resident Asela Ratnasinghe. “Sev-eral of them attacked a Buddhist monk on Poson poya, which is areligious day for us. “I do not support those who burnt down shops andhomes - but the Sinhalese must be allowed to defend themselves ifattacked by someone.”

Andhra rice forTripura via Ashuganj

AGARTALA: For the first timean Food Corporation of India con-signment will enter Tripura usingAshuganj river port of Bangladesh,a senior official said. About 5000tonnes of foodgrains, dispatchedby the Food Corporation of India(FCI) from Kakinada port inAndhra Paradesh, has reachedAshuganj river port in Bangladeshfor entry into Tripura, Chief Sec-retary S K Panda said.

“FCI officials informed that theconsignment of foodgrains havereached Ashuganj port. Unload-ing of the foodgrains and trans-portation by trucks for Tripurawould be started after the Eid fes-tival on Tuesday,” Panda said. Theconsignment had earlier reachedKolkata from where it wasbrought to the Ashuganj port byusing Bangladeshi waterways.The port is 37 km from here.

Thanking Bangladesh, TripuraTransport Minister Manik De saidit had cut down our cost and dis-tance from 1650 km to 350 km.He said Bangladeshi trucks wouldcarry foodgrains from Ashuganjdirectly to the FCI warehouse atNandannagar to prevent a secondtrans shipment at the Akhaura In-dia-Bangladesh border and for thepurpose of allowing Bangladeshtrucks inside Indian territory, theMinistry of External Affairs hadgiven clearances and ‘truck scan-ners’ had been installed at theAkhaura checkpost.

PAKISTANINDIA HERALD • WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 • PAGE 21

No drive against anti-India jihadis?By Hussain Haqqani

Last month, the Pakistan army launched what it describes as amajor military offensive against the jihadi terrorist safe haven in NorthWaziristan. Senior generals and the civilian defence minister insist thatthis time Pakistan will go after all militant groups, including fighterswho target Afghanistan and have, in the past, been deemed Pakistan’sstrategic assets.

Accompanied by much media discussion of “Operation Zarb-e-Azb”, the Pakistani army has fought many battles over the last fewweeks, killed several terrorists and lost some soldiers. The offensivehas also caused a huge humanitarian crisis as more than half a millionpeople have become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), leaving vil-lages shelled by artillery or pounded from the skies by F-16 aircraft.

But most foreign observers and many knowledgeable Pakistanicommentators remain sceptical about the extent to which Pakistan’sgenerals have truly changed their minds about jihadi militias as aninstrument of state policy. The Pakistani military, the critics say, is onlyeliminating extremist groups that have started targeting Pakistan andPakistanis. Anti-India jihadis, such as Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), con-tinue to flourish with Hafiz Mohamed Saeed and his cohorts paradingopenly in major cities like Lahore.

According to the naysayers, the military operation will target hardlineUzbeks, Chechens and footsoldiers of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan(TTP), who have claimed responsibility for the recent assault on KarachiInternational Airport. Groups such as the Haqqani Network and theAfghan Taliban have already been directed or pushed across the Pa-kistan-Afghan border (the Durand Line) so that they can resume op-erations once NATO forces leave Afghanistan.

The Pakistani establishment has responded to its critics with a pub-lic relations offensive. In a conversation with Indian journalist AakarPatel, a retired ISI general even made the argument that the sharpspike in violence in Pakistan over the last decade was the result of thePakistan “military’s decision to crack down on terror groups operatingagainst India.”

According to Patel, “The ISI general said that the thinking in Indiaappeared to them to be that of satisfaction at the situation Pakistanfound itself in. ‘Let them stew in their own juice’ and ‘You created theproblem, now you suffer the consequences’ were some of the phraseshe used to describe what he thought the Indian attitude was.” TheIndian journalist was also informed of “limitations of the state withrespect to the LeT and Hafiz Saeed in particular,” but he was also toldthat “this must not be seen as encouraging the group.”

Unfortunately, crisp statements are not a substitute for sound policy.Pakistan’s establishment has made similar arguments since GeneralPervez Musharraf famously proclaimed soon after 9/11 the country’sU-turn away from its jihadi past. Even the declaration of intent toclear the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), including Northand South Waziristan, of jihadi terrorists is not new, neither is the launch-ing of a military offensive.

There is no doubt that a large number of Pakistanis, including seniormilitary commanders, now realize the dangers posed to Pakistan byIslamist extremists. There is substantive evidence also that the latestNorth Waziristan offensive is better planned and better executed thanprevious such military operations. But instead of dismissing the opinionof sceptics and critics, Pakistan’s military and intelligence leaders musttry and understand their arguments.

Pakistan’s jihadi infrastructure grew out of a carefully nurturednational narrative and state ideology. Since independence in 1947,Pakistanis have been told that their country is a “citadel of Islam”, thatits destiny is to be an Islamic State, and that its army is “the sword ofIslam”. Advocates of modern, secular values or pluralism have beendenigrated as traitors and “enemies of the ideology of Pakistan.”

This ideological milieu has helped religious-political groups exercisegreater influence on national discourse than is justified by either thesize of their membership or the number of votes they have obtained inPakistan’s sporadic general elections. The jihadi groups, one moreextreme than the other, is also an outgrowth of the decision to castPakistan as an ideological state.

If the Pakistan army is as serious about eliminating extremism as itasserts then it must realign itself in the context of Pakistan’s domesticideological polarization. If Pakistani nationalism continues to be de-fined solely in religious terms and the state rhetoric does not change,General Raheel Sharif’s efforts against some jihadis will prove as in-effective as similar attempts under Musharraf and General Kayani.

The generals’ promise of fighting extremism would be more cred-ible if it was accompanied with an embrace of groups and individualsmarginalized and labelled as traitors because of their advocacy of asecular Pakistan or for supporting close ties to the West or India.

Until then, one cannot blame sceptics abroad for being unmoved bya military operation against terrorism that is supported by Hafiz Saeed.Nor will the army’s critics at home change their stance easily if clericswho issue fatwas against human rights activists are also the first onesto march in support of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

The writer, director for South and Central Asia at the HudsonInstitute, Washington DC, served as Pakistan’s ambassador tothe United States. He is author, most recently, of ‘MagnificentDelusions: Pakistan, the United States and an epic history ofmisunderstanding’ — Indian Express

Pillion-riding banKARACHI: Sindh govern-

ment on Sunday decided to im-pose a five-day ban on pillionriding in Karachi starting fromfrom today Sunday, July 27 to toAug 1 to ensure security duringEidul Fitr, a Sindh home depart-ment notification said.

Three people, among them aprayer leader and a muezzin, werekilled in separate attacks in the cityon July 26.

Four men on two motorcyclesopened fire at a camp set up out-side Masjid-i-Madinatul Uloom tocollect Fitra and charity. QariHafeez died while being taken tohospital, said SP Abid Qaimkhani.

There were reports of terror ac-tivity ahead of the holy festival,sources said. Senior citizens, jour-nalists, women and personnel oflaw enforcement agencies will beexempted from the ban.

GUJRANWALA: Three fe-male members of the Ahmadicommunity, including two minors,were killed late Sunday, July 27,and eight others were severely in-jured when an angry mob attackedand burnt five houses, a storagebuilding and several vehicles overalleged blasphemy.

Those killed in the attack in-clude a 55-year-old womanBashiran, a minor girl Kainat and7-year-old girl Hira.The woundedwere rushed to hospital and thecondition of some of them wasreported to be critical.

Deputy Superintendent of Po-lice of the People’s Colony Circlesaid that the trouble started withan allegedly blasphemous post onFacebook by an Ahmadi youth.

The son of a Imam of a localmosque, along with his friends,reached the house of the youthwhere they got into a scuffle andwere allegedly fired upon.

The Imam’s son and his friendsustained gunshot wounds follow-ing which a mob gathered andbegan protesting; it eventually at-tacked and damaged homes andother property belonging to mem-bers of the Ahmadi community.

“A crowd of 150 people cameto the police station demanding the

registration of a blasphemy caseagainst the accused,” said anotherpolice officer who declined to beidentified. “As police were nego-tiating with the crowd, anothermob attacked and started burningthe houses of Ahmadis.”

The youth accused of makingthe Facebook post had not beeninjured, he said.

Civil Lines SP Zeeshan Siddiqisaid the victims died of suffoca-tion and that a woman miscarriedduring the riots and was being pro-vided medical treatment.

Salimuddin, a spokesman forthe Ahmadi community, said it wasthe worst attack on the commu-nity since simultaneous attacks onAhmadi places of worship killed86 Ahmadis four years ago.

“Police were there but justwatching the burning. They didn’tdo anything to stop the mob,” hesaid. “First the mob looted theirhomes and shops and then theyburnt the homes.”

According to police and eye-witnesses, there were seven oreight houses of the Ahmadi com-munity in the vicinity. Following theviolence all Ahmadi families in thearea have fled.

Fearing further incidents of vio-lence and arson Gujranwala Elec-

tric Power Company (Gepco) sus-pended the supply of electricity inthe area.

Ahmadis have been arrested inPakistan for reading the Quran,holding religious celebrations andhaving Quranic verses on rings orwedding cards. Four years ago,86 Ahmadis were killed in two si-multaneous attacks in Lahore.

The number of blasphemy ac-cusations is rising, according to a2012 study by the Islamabad-based think tank, the Center forResearch and Security Studies. In2001, there was only one suchcomplaint, but in 2011 there were80. No more recent figures areavailable but 2014 looks set to bea record.

In May 2014, 68 lawyers werecharged with blasphemy for us-ing the name ‘Umar’ in protestslogans against a police official ofthe same name.

In the same month, prominenthuman rights lawyer RashidRehman, defending a Pakistaniuniversity professor accused ofblasphemy, was shot and killedafter being threatened in court byother lawyers.

3 Ahmadis killed over ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post

6 dead in attack onex-minister’s housePESHAWAR: An attack on a

guesthouse ‘hujra’ of formerKhyber Pakhtunkhwa ministerBakht Baidar Khan, belonging tothe Qaumi Watan Party (QWP)early on Tuesday, July 29, left sixpeople dead and four otherswounded in Lower Dir region ofthe province while another threepersons were killed and two oth-ers wounded in a gun battle be-tween two rival parties in Karak.

A tribal jirga was under way atKhan’s guesthouse to resolve adispute between two parties, whenunknown persons opened fire inwhich six people were killed andfour others were wounded.

Those killed in the firing in-cluded the brother of Bakht Baidarand two policemen.

Bakht Baidar is KP’s formerminister for labour and manpowerwho was sacked from his post byprovincial Chief MInister PervezKhattak along with another min-ister of the QWP over ‘poor per-formances and corruption.’

3 medals for Pakistan at C’Wealth gamesGLASGOW: Paki-

stan clinched two med-als in the Common-wealth Games as Paki-stani wrestler QamarAbbas on Tuesday, July29, grabbed a silvermedal in a free-style, 74kilogram categorywrestling match.

This brought the Pa-kistani tally to threemedals in the Common-wealth Games.

In the final wrestlingmatch of the Games,Abbas lost to his Indianrival Sushil Kumar who won the gold medal.

Meanwhile, Azhar Hussain in a near immaculate display of skillsthrew his South African opponent out of the wrestling ring within theinitial three minutes of the match.

Hussain won the bronze medal by 11 points to 1. He had also wona gold medal in the 2010 Delhi Games.

Earlier, Shah Hussain Shah from Pakistan had bagged a silver medalin the 100-kg Judo event.

Australia tops the Commonwealth Games with an impressive totalof 91 medals including 32 gold ones. England ranks on the second spotwith 81 medals, including 29 gold medals. Clinching 13 gold medalsand in all 31 meals, the host country Scotland is in third place.

Bronze medallist Azhar Hussain had won agold medal in the 2010 Delhi CW games

Police inspect damage in an Ahmadi’s house that was burnt down.

RELIGION / SPIRITUALITYPAGE 22 • INDIA HERALD • WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014

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By Deepak M Ranade

The human brain is the mosthighly advanced data processor interms of the speed volume andcomplexity of the data it pro-cesses. One could therefore saythat it is the epitome of the evolu-tionary process. At any given mo-ment the brain is exposed to a del-uge of data. The sense organs aregenerating terabytes of data eachmoment, being constantly shov-elled into the brain real time bytransmitting pathways or neurons.

What determines prioritisationof data processing? Which data isto be assimilated and which is tobe discarded?

Cognition can fluctuate betweena general background unfocusedawareness to sharp focusing on aspecific target.

The brain has the amazing abil-ity to process and sieve throughthis incoming barrage of data. Oneof the mechanisms deployed iscalled Latent Inhibition. Data(LID) that is repetitive in nature.

Signals Transmission: LIDcauses neurons carrying this datato suppress adjacent neurons car-rying the same information. Theseneurons are deployed to transmitother signals or at least not trans-mit “more of the same.” An ad-aptation by neural pathways whichnarrows the bandwidth and ac-cords a lower priority or inhibitsdata is meant to prevent crowdingon the cognitive horizon.

An example is the tactile sen-sation of clothes touching the skinwhich is constantly being relayedto the brain. The neurons keep thisdata in a “Standby” mode, relegat-ing its transmission to a lower pri-ority. This phenomenon becomeseven more important in increasingthe accuracy of visual perception.

Our Perceptions: Differentphotoreceptors in the eye respondto varying degrees of light. Whenone cell activates in response tolight, its activity impairs or preventsneighbouring cells from getting ac-tivated. This causes the edges be-tween light and dark areas to ap-pear more prominent than theywould otherwise. In the absenceof lateral inhibition, the border be-tween a black tile and a white tilewould appear less obvious. Per-ception is greatly impacted by thecontent of the delivered data.

When the filtered data arriveson the cognitive screen, the datais tagged with an emotion- byte.This emotion- byte is unique toeach individual. This emotiontagged data is transcribed intosamskaras or anagrams for en-cryption, storage and subsequentretrieval. This emotion- byte

Consciousness as computing processtagged database (samskaras) is unique to each individual.

Stored Samskaras: This emotion tag could be pain, fear, grief,pleasure or joy and becomes vritti or the software- that determinesone’s inclinations or aversions.

The concept of vritti is central to the main definition of Yoga -“yoga chitta vritti nirodha” given in Sutra 1.2 of the Yoga Sutras by thegreat sage Patanjali.

Vrittis refer to the different tendencies, or psycho-physical propen-sities. They are an expression of stored anagrams or samskaras. Col-lectively they represent motivation, behavioural patterns, desires, re-pulsions, predispositions and complexes.

Eightfold Path: The software thereafter not only shapes orpersonalises but also operates the hardware, the physical form withits identity. The eightfold path of Ashtanga Yoga aims to disconnect(nirodha) this database (vritti) from the personalised consciousness(chitta) to effect a pure, impersonal awareness. It ceases the genera-tion of new software obviating the need for any appropriate hardware— liberation “from” the person rather than “of” the person.

By Swami Parthaswarthy

Children are victims of the in-tense attachment exhibited bytheir parents. The love that par-ents bear for their children hasmetamorphosed into a dreadfulform of attachment.

This is happening universallybecause of the selfish trait in par-ents. The parental attachment totheir beloved ones has turned intoa deadly virus now sweeping theentire world.

Few can claim to be free fromthe parents’ compulsive attach-ment to their children. Howeverwell-meaning they may be, theirattachment turns the parent-childrelationship sour and destructive.

Confrontations: Constant con-frontation between parents andchildren invariably end in separa-tion, causing families trauma. Theparents being innocent have noclue of the effects accruing fromwhat they claim as love and carefor their dear ones. Blissfully un-aware of consequences, they doteon their beloved ones.

Parents’ attachment to theirchildren manifests in two distinctways:

1. Opulent parents pamper theirchildren by showering money andappliances, amenities and facilitieslimitlessly upon them. The youngare thus saturated with luxuries,only to lose their joy content.

2. Another class of parentsmanifest their attachment throughpossessiveness towards their chil-dren. They virtually pester themwith constant instructions and di-rections. They pound them withdo’s and don’ts, doctrines and dog-mas. And their directives invari-ably fall short of reason or judge-ment.

In the first manifestation, theparents indiscriminately let loosemoney and, sensual objects of allsorts upon the kids without restric-tion. The pampering starts withtoys, tricycles and bicycles, laterwith Ferraris, yachts, jets and theworks. Through indulgence in

luxuries, children lose direction andpurpose in life. It corrodes andruins their lives. Neither parentsnor kids anticipate the negativeeffects of such indulgence, that itcould lead to a state when oneloses the pleasure and joy derivedfrom sense objects. And then onedevelops boredom which coulddrive one to commit serious blun-ders, even suicide. Nevertheless,well-meaning parents continue topamper their children with sensualluxuries not realising the impend-ing damage to them.

With regards to the secondmanifestation, parents’ posses-siveness fixes their kids in an ironcasket. They are shackled byforceful directions and instructions.And when the parents constantlydictate their doctrines and dogmasto kids, they can take no more andbuckle under the pressure. Thenone of two dreadful consequencesfollows. Children become a ‘veg-etable’ or a rebel! In the first casethe kid turns inert and inactive,hardly responding to the externalworld. The kid reaches this stateif his nature is passive and sub-missive and succumbs to the con-tinuous onslaughts of his parents’dictations. If, however, the kid isvocal and aggressive, he becomesa rebel. He would argue, swear,counter the unsolicited advicesshowered upon him. He couldeven turn violent, or leave home.

Use Your IntellectIn either case, oppressive at-

tachment of parents toward theirchildren is a source of trauma tochildren even though such parentsare well-wishing, well-meaning,caring parents! Parents ought torealise the blunder that their loveand care lacks the support of astrong intellect. And their rigidcontrols flow from their emotionalattachment rather than a discern-ing intellect. They must visualisethe damage done and the dire ne-cessity of developing the intellectin themselves and their children.From the newly released book,‘The Holocaust of Attachment’.

Attachment to children

Light up the dark placesBy Janina Gomes

With the skies dark outside and pelting rain, it seemed appropriatethat I got a Forward from a nun friend — a prayer which says, “Womanof God, let your light shine in the darkest places, where it is impossibleto love”. That was a challenge to me, since I have been feeling unlov-ing to many of late.

The darkest places are often the places of sin, where accumulatedhatreds and prejudices have corroded the soul over many years. Inwhat way could I help the divine light to penetrate the darkness? Thefirst thing I thought of was that I could smile more often, to bringcheer all around.

I could be more gracious even if I met with hostility. I could sharea biscuit with a friend and I could give them a good book or article toread. Perhaps, I could help an elderly to clear her fridge of old food. Icould be feeling uncomfortable and irritated by the noise made byyoung students in the lift, but I could try to be friendly, not alwaysgrouchy.

The list makes me sound like an old woman already, but it is true. Iam no longer able to do remarkable things, but the darkest places forme are those just around my little room, where I could still meet theunmet needs of those who are now frail, feeble and in the evening oftheir lives.

The journey within is the hardest of all because that’s where weencounter the most darkness. The same prayer says that God is therefor us, always with us, with unconditional love. And so, when I wakeup in the morning, I thank Him for the grace of a good night’s sleep. Iwelcome the canteen boy, when he walks in with my breakfast tray atthe YWCA, whether it is Upma, Idli, Poha or Masala Dosa. Just asthe joys of life have become small ones, the ways in which I spreadGod’s light have become small too.

When I first read the prayer about shining in the darkest places, mythoughts went instantly to working for prisoners, criminals, prostitutesand what have you. After ruminating on it after my afternoon siesta, Ibegan to think differently. The darkness is where I am at the moment.All I need to do is to become a little more human by accepting myflaws and limitations.

It is strange how ‘holy’ people try to be ‘perfect’, when all they areasked to do is to accept their imperfections and work with them tohelp recreate the world. God’s love is after all for ‘imperfect’ humanbeings like us.

When I look at God’s creations, I can see that there are humanbeings of every shape, size and colour, sometimes even the absurdand ridiculous. So few are ‘beautiful’ in the sense of physical beauty.To love all these is to bring the light of love to the darkest places.Simpler than we thought, isn’t it?

This is an ordinary recipe for ordinary folk like you and me. So,now I do not think of “Woman of God’ as an awesome title that I cannever inherit. In my own little room and with the little I do, I can still bea ‘Woman of God’. I will live and work quietly and I hope die quietly.And I hope to find the gates of heaven opened for me because Ismiled often, joked sometimes and gave the canteen boy a small tipfor fetching my tea.

ParentsBrethren, one can never repay two persons: mother and father ...

Parents do much for their children; they bring them up, they nourishthem, they introduce them to this world. — Anguttara Nikaya i.61

My father, thank you for petting me; My mother, thank you formaking me comfortable; Thank you for robing me with wisdom, whichis more important than robing me with clothes. — Yoruba NuptialChant, Nigeria

If your parents take care of you up to the time you cut your teeth,you take care of them when they lose theirs. — Akan Proverb, Ghana

Children learn to smile from their parents. — Shinichi SuzukiLet parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of

reverence. — PlatoRespect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his

solitude. — Ralph W Emerson


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