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Not content with reportedly labelling his engineers, ‘worse thanmasons’, GHMC commissioner MT Krishna Babu has flown off to

China for the second time in a few months and seemingly renegedon his promise that his engineers too would be sent on

globe-trotting ‘study tours’.

KRISHNA BABU

STUMPS HIS ‘MASONS’

WEALTH FROM WASTE!HMDA officials are finally hopeful ofHussain Sagar lake’s water being fit forreuse. By reuse, they mean almostpotable quality that will soon be usedby industries and for construction purposes. Meanwhile, an integratedelectronic waste collection programmewill be launched in Hyderabad.

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Adam Scott sank a 10-foot birdie putt onthe second playoff hole on Sunday to beat

Angel Cabrera and win the 77th Masters,becoming the first

Australian golfer to cap-ture the green jack-

et. Nine months aftermaking bogeys on the

last four holes to squan-der a British Open lead

at Royal Lytham andtwo years after

sharing second atthe Masters, the

32-year-old fromAdelaide wonhis first major

title inimpressive

fashion.

GREAT SCOTT!ADAM WINS THE 77th

MASTERS IN AUGUSTA

MAHI RACINGDOES IT AGAINFabien Foret sealed MahiRacing’s second consecutive winat the FIM World SupersportChampionship by clinching thesecond race of the season inSpain on Sunday.

city eventsMONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

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AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES

Baisakhi Food FestivalCarrying forward the festive moodand spirit, GreenPark introducesBaisakhi Food Festival, bringing inthe authentic flavours of Punjab.Where: Once Upon a Time

Green Park Hotel,Greenlands, Begumpet

When: April 11-15,7:30pm to 11pm.

Contact: (040) 6651 5151

Malvani cuisineTaj Deccan is hosting Malvani FoodFestival at Spice Junxion. Enjoy ascrumptious spread of classic disheslike pandhara kombdiche saar, kalevatana ni gawarchi bhajji and puran poli. Where: Spice Junxion,

Taj Deccan,Road No 1,

Banjara HillsWhen: Till April 25Contact: (040) 6652 3939

Corporate express lunchTesta Rossa has added a new on-the-go corporate express lunch servicefor its customers. The lunch is eco-nomically prices at `199 for veg and`249 for non-veg.Where: Testa Rossa,

Jubilee HillsWhen: Ongoing,

noon to 4pmContact: (040) 6555 6519

IPL Fervor You can order any four or six itemsfrom the menu and get the chat ofday free.Where: Kailash Parbat,

Above Ebony Gautier,2nd floor, Road No 36, Jubilee Hills

When: OngoingContact: (040) 2355 8856

Vaishali Bisht’s theatreworkshopVaishali Bisht is conducting specialSummer Holidays theatre workshopsfor children between the ages of sixand 12. The course consists of 20classes held Monday to Saturday.Using theatre games and exercises,the workshop helps children usetheir imagination and get creative.

Where: Road no 7,Banjara Hills

When: From April 15,Monday to Saturday,4.30pm to 6.30pm

Contact: 94904 40986

All about cyclingA half day interactive workshop oncycling, the technical considerations,fitness, nutrition, common problems,how to plan a training programme,planning for competition and pre-vention of injuries. Where: Alliance Franchise,

Road no 3, Banjara Hills

When: : Registration: OngoingEvent: May 4

Contact: (040) 2335 0008

Filmmaking workshopsfor children

Yavanika Films is conducting aunique filmmaking workshops thissummer vacation for children inHyderabad. Each participant willmake their own short film as part ofthe workshop. Even a parent andchild can register as one student pairto make a short film together.Where: Begumpet When: From April 24,

2pm to 7pm,Daily classes except on weekends

Contact: 94901 00404

French animated film Alliance Française of Hyderabad presents Le chat du Rabbin, directedby Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar. Where: Alliance Française,

Banjara Hills

When: April 18,6.30pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2355 4485

Reflections and Images An exhibition of paintings by artistsincluding Agacharya, Anand Panchal,Arvind Kolapkar, Datta Bansode,Devyani Parikh, and Kaushik Raha. Where: Kalakriti Art Gallery

468, Road No 10,Banjara Hills

When: Up to April 30Contact: kalakriti.in

Kumbh Kumbh: Native Realm, a search of thetrue self is a photography show byJoydeep Mitra.Where: ICONART Gallery,

Road No 12, Sri Ram Nagar Colony, Banjara Hills

When: Up to April 18Contact: 98499 68797

Three for twoTaj Safaris offers guests the option ofextending their two-day trip. It givesyou a third day complementary stay.There are four exquisite lodges in thenational parks of MP. Where: Taj SafarisWhen: Offer is valid from

April 15 to June 30Contact: (022) 6601 1825

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HOSPITALGeneral Hospital, Sec-bad 27505566Niloufer Hospital, Red Hills 23314095NIMS, Director, Punjagutta 23390933Osmania General Hospital 24600146Railway Hospital, Lalaguda 27001134Apollo, Jubilee Hills 23607777Care Hospital, Banjara Hills 30418888Care Hospital, Nampally 30417777Care Hospital, Musheerabad 30419000Care Hospital, Sec-bad 30416666Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar 39879999

BLOOD BANKSBlood Bank,Narayanguda 27567892Chiranjeevi Blood Bank 23559555Blood Bank Mediton Goal 23226624Red Cross, Vidyanagar 27633087ADRM Blood Bank 27035588Mythri Charitable Trust 27550238NTR Memorial Trust 30799999Care Banjara Hills 30418296

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Beside Meridian School, Banjara Hills-34. Working hours are from 8 AM to1 PM And 2 PM to 3PM.

MUSEUMSSalar Jung Museum 24523211AP State Museum 232431300/7641Nizams Museum 24521029

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AMBEDKAR JAYANTI: Children dance at the Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations at Tank Bund. M ANIL KUMAR

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YESTERDAY’S QUESTIONWILL THE ARRAIGNING OF 6 MINISTER DESTABILISE KIRAN GOVT?

YES (A)

NO (B)

CRIME

SECURITY

MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

3City TODAY’S QUESTIONIS THE EMINENT RESHUFFLE GOING TO RESULT IN A JUMBOCABINET?A) YES B) NO

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Mohd [email protected]

JAnasuya, a woman pushedaround by fate and ill-treatedby men, came to the Cityfrom Nawabpet in

Mahbubnagar district with herillegitimate girl child and tried toabandon her on the roadside.Anasuya was, however, caught inthe act and her daughter handedover to the child welfare depart-ment. The infant is now in the careof Shishuvihar in Ameerpet.

Anasuya’s tragic tale wasrevealed after her arrest.Chandrayangutta inspector ASrinivas Rao said that at 35,Anasuya was widowed and herhusband J Sankaraiah left hiswife and child behind with nofinancial security. He was a dailywage earner and had little sav-ings. Anasuya found work as adaily wage labourer but was con-stantly hounded by men whochased her seeking sex, she complained.

In an attempt to fob off the

pack, Anasuya decided to marryagain. Slowly, she came to trust aman and intimacy developedbetween the two. The man keptpromising to marry her as soonas he could earn enough money.In the meantime, Anasuyabecame pregnant.

She was terrified of socialostracism and her inability tobring up a girl child. She wasalready finding it hard to makeends meet with her six-year-oldson. When the father of the infantknew of the pregnancy, he insist-ed on an abortion, but doctors

refused to abort as the foetus wassix months old.

Anasuya’s lover turned tailand refused to accept responsibili-ty. As she was perturbed by sex-seeking men at night, Anasuyaplanned on to leaving Nawabpetand coming to Hyderabad tosearch for job. She also planned togive up the child once it was born.Anasuya told police that she triedto hand over the infant to manypeople but nobody wanted to‘buy’ the child from an unknownwoman. It was then that sheattempted to leave her baby onthe roadside, saying she did nothave the heart to kill her.

During questioning, Anasuyarefused to give away the name ofher lover who promised mar-riage and impregnated her. Theinspector said that in spite of hisbest efforts, Anasuya stuck to herstance and said that it was all herfault and it was pointless puttingher lover in trouble. “Will thatthug who cheated her ever knowwhat a sacrifice the woman hasmade for him?” wondered Rao.

J Anasuya, who tried to dump her baby, is questioned by a police officer.

POSTNOON [email protected]

After the recentDilsukhnagar blasts,the importance of

surveillance cameras hasbecome an important securitytool in places of worship thatattract huge crowds.

ITVS Suryanarayana, assis-tant commissioner of police,Begumpet, yesterday inaugu-rated CCTV cameras at theAyyappa temple at Bolarum. Inall, 12 high-resolution camerashave been installed all around

the temple premises to trackthe movement of people andvehicles, both inside and out-side the temple.

Equipped with a UPS sys-tem, these cameras will workround-the-clock and will cap-ture images even during whenthere is no electricity. The cap-tured video will be stored fortwo months and can beaccessed by law enforcementand traffic police.

The temple at Bolarum isthe first Ayyappa temple thatwas established in AndhraPradesh.

Cameras to help monitor movement ofpeople and vehicles, both inside andoutside the temple premises. Demanding that the

State governmentinitiate immediate

steps to save the school chil-dren from fluoride watercontamination in Nalgondadistrict, the engineering stu-dents of the State capitalorganised a huge rallyunder the banner of ‘StreetCause’ on Necklace Road onSunday.

The ‘Street Cause’ repre-sentatives said they werestriving to mobilise fundsand planning to provide flu-oride-free pure drinkingwater to the students in atleast five identified govern-ment schools in Nalgondadistrict. NSS

Run for fluoride-freewater

STREET CAUSE

REGISTRATION WOES

Ayyappa temple installs CCTV

Hapless woman abandons infant, caught

Pushed to desperation by poverty and an indifferent society, the womansays she had no option left but to abandon the child.

Auto Drivers UnionsJoint ActionCommittee (TAD-

JAC) has demanded that theState government direct theRoad Transport Authority(RTA) to immediately regis-ter 300 autos which werepurchased seven monthsback.

It also threatened to holddemonstrations if the gov-ernment fails to respond totheir request.

Speaking to the mediahere on Sunday, MohdAmanullah Khan, TADJACleader, demanded that thegovernment adequatelycompensate the auto driversconcerned for delaying reg-istration of new autos asagainst government order(GO) number 90.

He expressed anguishthat several auto driverswere unable to pay install-ments to auto financiers,who lent money for buyingnew autos.

Khan also alleged thattraffic police personnel wereimposing heavy penaltiesfor not getting their vehiclesregistered. NSS

Autodriversthreatenagitation

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

1 Mantris focus on polls, givegoing to ‘office’ a skip.

Ministers have admitted to regu-larly giving the Secretariat a skipto concentrate on polling. Whatthen about the crucial decisionsthat are likely to be put on hold?

2 HMDA cleans Hussain Sagar,allows dumping as well.

The HMDA has begun dredgingwork to clear sewage from thelake, but at the same time efflu-ents continue to be pumped intoother parts of the lake.

3 Political allies change aselections approach.

With TRS deciding to contest sep-arately, T-JAC has been criticisedby leaders for being silent on theissue.

4 Is it necessary to spendmoney on ‘study tours?’

With Lokayukta questioning thewhole point of such tours and thecommissioner’s tour to China,engineers are left in the lurch.

5More CCTV cameras to keepan eye on State.

A total of 12 high resolution CCTVcameras have been installed at theAyyappa temple in Bolarum.

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OU erupts in violenceLast year we had reported how vio-

lence broke out on the OsmaniaUniversity campus, where a group ofstudents, under the leadership of aPhD student, Sudarshan Bala Boina,organised a ‘beef festival’ to protestwhat they said “imposing brahminicalfood culture on Dalits.” A media vehi-cle was torched and several lamps andother campus property were damaged

APRIL 15, 2012

Govt to sanction `10Lfor SC/ST studentsChief Minister N Kiran Kumar

Reddy on Sunday announcedthat his government would sanction`10 lakh as grant to SC and ST stu-dents who intend to pursue higherstudies abroad. He also said that thegovernment would take steps toprovide another `5 lakh, if necessary, to these studentsthrough the banks.

‘Keep carriagewayclear’ driveThe City police have registered

5,803 footpath encroachmentsand 17,524 wrong parking cases, aspart of their campaign to "keep carriageway clear". The drive hasenabled the traffic police to ensurean average speed of 20km/hr forvehicular traffic on City roads. Thedrive had started on March 26 this year.

CM to visit New Delhion WednesdayChief Minister N Kiran Kumar

Reddy, who was scheduled to goto New Delhi on Monday, has postponed his visit to Wednesday,following a call from Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi. Kiran andPCC president Botsa Satyanaryanawill be meeting the party vice president to discuss the affairs ofthe State.

Meet to assess loss dueto droughtAteam of officials formed by the

Union government to studydrought conditions in the State willhold a review meeting in the Citytoday with State government officials. The review is being held toassess the quantum of losses suffered by the farmers and theamount of aid needed to be provid-ed to the State government.

LAST YEAR... HERE CIVIC

NEWS BRIEFS

4nallahs flow into the Hussain Sagarlake, three of which carry non-toxicand non-hazardous dredge which is

being treated.

5THINGS WELEARNT TODAY

NUMEROLOGY

Most of the timewe are away

from Hyderabad...Most of the times, weare discharging ourduties from ourhomes instead ofvisiting secretari-at these days.

A State ministerSee page 5

Md NIZAMUDDIN [email protected]

One of the major worksafter CoP was the sec-ond phase of theCharminar Pedestrian

Project (CPP). It was generallyagreed that it turned out to bean eyesore which promptedGHMC commissioner MTKrishnababu to call engineers“worse than masons.”

And, a munificent commis-sioner promised engineers thatthey would be sent on studytours abroad to see how pedestrianism is achieved witha touch of beauty, not ugliness.

But the promise made lastyear remains a mirage. WhileKrishnababu is on a China tour

for the second time in a fewmonths, the engineers continueto dream of foreign locationswith little hope of fulfilling it.

Corporators at least have thesanction to go on inland jaunts,euphemistically called “studytour.”

But engineers who getwhipped for everything at theGHMC must remain grounded.

The commissioner had madea public announcement of “for-eign education for engineers”during the workshop of “non-motorised transport system”held here in December withexperts from Delhi explainingthe concept to engineers. Theupgradation trip was to havecost `1 crore.

Only senior officials get for-

eign jaunts. But when the com-missioner made the announce-ment, many marveled at hismagnanimity. What these for-eign trips resulted in remains amoot question and evenLokayukata is yet to get ananswer as to what these tripshas brought to the citizens ofHyderabad.

After the commissioner’ssensational announcement,

many engineers are learnt tohave studied various foreigncities that took their fancy.

The plan was also drawn upfor a batch of 10 superintendent engineers to be flown out followed by another batch of executive engineers.

“While our general knowl-edge improved with the exer-cise, the dream has not cometrue,” said an engineer derisively.

Instead, they face the wrathof corporators who are planningto take engineers and officials totask for various delayed works.

In fact, the postponed general body meeting sched-uled for April 9 was to haveproved an “official bashing” byelected representatives.

Commissionerstumps engineers

And he flies to China. Engineers who had been dreaming of foreign‘study tour’ are asked to sweat it out in Hyderabad instead.

GHMC’s roll of engineersEngineer-in-chief 1Chief engineer 1Superintending engineers 11Executive engineers 38

city MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 5POLITICS

POLITICS

INKESHAF [email protected]

The entire State Cabinetseems to have plungedinto election mode. Thelaunch of the Indiramma

Kalalu-Netiki Saakaram (dreamsof Indiramma-realised now) andAmma Hastham (mother’shand) programmes to lure thedominant SC and ST and majori-ty of people living below thepoverty line have acted as abugle for starting the race for thenext government.

Not surprisingly then thatonly a few ministers are seen intheir offices in the Secretariatthese days.

The feeling that governmen-tal welfare schemes are not beingproperly highlighted has seepedinto the leaders’ mind and eachis eager to get a headstart,

remarked a political observer. Many ministers are either

accompanying Chief Minister NKiran Kumar Reddy forIndiramma Kalalu public meet-ings or participating in the masscontact programme on theirown. But, they are said to beattending to urgent files on themove. “Yes, we are in election

mode. Most of the time we areaway from Hyderabad. The obligation of participating in Indiramma Kalalu and AmmaHastham programmes has led to a change in our workingstyles. Most of the times, we are discharging our duties fromour homes instead of visiting the Secretariat these days,” said

one minister. Another minister said that

they had to change their workstyle as the general elections arefast approaching and they mustface the electorate sooner.

HOLIDAYS ALSO BLAMEDToo many holidays keeping theSecretariat closed is also quoted

as one of the reasons for minis-ters to stop going to office.Minister for women and childwelfare Vakiti Sunitha LakshmaReddy said, “There have been alot of holidays since we kickedoff the Indiramma Kalalu pro-gramme to promote the revolu-tionary SC and ST sub-planacross the State. Apart fromGood Friday, which is a publicholiday, there were continuouspublic holidays like Ugadi, sec-ond Saturday and Sundays.” Shesaid that these holidays are alsoone of the reasons for the slack-ened ministerial visits.

Sunitha added that she gen-erally clears files at home duringher leisure hours. The ministersaid that she held a review meet-ing with her department officialsto monitor the progress of devel-opment activities of her depart-ment a few days back.

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Telangana RastraSamithi’s (TRS)announcement that

it would contest the nextGeneral Elections in 2014on its and not form analliance with any politicalparty, including theBharatiya Janata Party, hascome as a shock for theTelangana Joint ActionCommittee (TJAC), whichis spearheading the ongoing agitation for aseparate state .

TJAC was formed byall leaders who support thecause of a separateTelangana and not neces-sarily just those whobelong to the TRS.

It has people from allwalks of life and politicalparties.

The TJAC is now in afix over chalking out itsnext course of action tokeep the agitation alivewith the support of boththe TRS and BJP.

“It is definitely a diffi-cult situation for us. Wehave been put on the spot

by the TRS. On one hand,the TRS says that theCongress will never carveout Telangana at any cost,and on the other it showsreluctance to join handswith BJP, which is openlyfighting for the cause ofseparate Telangana state.This could be as a result ofthe fear of losing Muslimvotes,” a TJAC leader toldPostnoon on Monday.

The leader further saidthat the very stand of theTRS is creating trouble forthem at many places andmaking them the butt ofcriticism in the eyes ofseveral pro-Telanganaleaders.

“Many pro-Telanganaleaders have criticised usfor not opposing the deci-sion of the TRS. They areciting the support extend-ed by the TJAC to BJP can-didates in Nizamabad andMahbubnagar districts,which led to their victoryeventually,” he said.

The TJAC has primari-ly decided to ignore thisissue at this juncture asthere is still a lot of timeleft for the elections.

Mantris get into poll mode...and skip the Secretariat. Few are seen regularly coming to the seat of power as they

are warming up for the next electoral battle which is only months away.

TV ARTISTES SEEK JUSTICE

Telugu TV Artistes Association members gather to submit a memo at the Banjara HillsPolice Station, demanding the release of 12 artistes arrested for attacking Maa TV officelast week. SRINIVAS SETTY

Many ministers areeither accompanyingthe CM for IndirammaKalalu public meets or participating in the programme ontheir own. But, theyare said to be attending to urgentfiles on the move.

TRS puts TJAC in trouble Pro-Telangana leaders have criticised the TJAC for

not opposing TRS’s decision to fight the polls alone.

TRS supremo KChandrasekhara Raohas been moving quick-ly for preparinggrounds for the 2014General Elections.Towards this end, KCRmet TelanganaCongress senior leaderand former CWC mem-ber Dr K Keshav Rao atthe latter’s residencehere on Sunday. He wasaccompanied byNagarkurnool MP DrManda Jagannadham.

KK, Manda set tojoin TRS soon

city MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 6ALL ABOUT ADAM

PADMINI [email protected]

In the wake of the alleged sui-cide of an IT employee inBangalore, Save IndianFamily Foundation (SIFF)

took up the cause of male sui-cides on Sunday when it held acandlelight vigil in the Citydemanding that the ‘draconiangender-biased’ dowry-relatedlaws be rectified.

The NGO dedicated to men’srights, distressed husbands andtheir families, alleges that over60,000 men (twice the number ofwomen) commit suicide eachyear due to fake allegations in498A cases or due to harassment

from their wives and relatives. In a country that’s deemed

absolutely the worst place in theworld for women to live, thevery notion of men claiming tobe the real victims of the system,to put it kindly, beggars belief.Even more so when men’s rightsgroups anoint themselves ‘themartyrs of marriage,' assertingthat it is men that suffer most indowry cases which they say arebiased solely in favour of thefairer sex. This, at a time whenNCRB data estimates that a brideis burned every 90 minutes inthis country.

Still, while SIFF’s data inter-pretation is highly contentious.Their concerns, however, are

very legit. Almost every memberof the AP SIFF that congregatesat Public Gardens every week isanticipating or already fighting alegal battle with their spouse.Each of them has a horror storyto tell — of false accusations,nights spent in jail, mothers andsisters arrested, jobs lost, pass-ports confiscated, police abuse,costly expenses, custody battlesand lives put on hold, while tri-als prolong endlessly.

Compared to the plight ofmillions of women in the countrytoday, there might be few willingto cry them a river. But the ques-tion here is not so much thenature of their fight or their gen-der as it is about their right to a

fair hearing and an open trial. Butin a system in which the odds arestacked against them from thebeginning, it is indeed hard forthem to make their voices heard.

“We can’t register an FIR in apolice station. They won’t takeour complaints seriously. We feelrejected by the legal systemwhich is completely biased. So,we have no place to register ourgrievances or seek redress. Weare being treated as second-classcitizens. It is because of this thatmen are turned into criminals orotherwise, take their own lives,"rues Partha Sadhu Khan, a long-standing member of SIFF. Headds that it’s not just them buttheir families and even their chil-

dren that are suffering in theseconflicts. “Traditionally por-trayed as protectors andproviders, there’s no one to pro-tect us now. So we are demand-ing that a separate ministry beset up for men," chip in others.

The group say their aim is tofight for their own rights, not tocurb women’s rights. “We are notanti-feminist. We are not anti-women. But it shouldn’t be as itis now either, which is awoman’s word against mine; noinvestigation necessary. So whatwe are asking is be given achance for us to make our case.We are asking for laws to bemade gender-neutral," concludesanother member Shailesh Koona.

A ministryfor men

A rights group claims that twice asmany men commit suicide as women

over false harassment allegations.

S Balakrishna

TDP CORPORATOR JOINS BJP

Telugu Desam Party corporator Raja Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party onSunday. Raja Singh’s entry into the BJP was formalised by BJP State president G Kishan Reddy in the presence of senior leaders like Bangaru Laxman and BandaruDattatreyya. It is said that the Mangalhaat corporator has been an advocate of hardcore Hindutva.

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‘Near potable’ lake water?HMDA officials are finally hopeful of Hussain Sagar lake’s water being fit

for reuse. By reuse, they mean almost potable quality that will soon be used by industries and for construction purposes.

RAHUL [email protected]

Before the tirade againstthe lake cleaning pro-ject begins, it is vital topoint out that HussainSagar lake’s water is

being supplied to over 33 parksand industries in the Azamabadindustrial area near OsmaniaUniversity (OU) and five hous-ing ventures. The HyderabadMetropolitan DevelopmentAuthority (HMDA) had request-ed the Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation (GHMC)to pay for the water that is beingsupplied to these public proper-ties, but the GHMC has refusedto comply.

HMDA officials are now positive that the lake’s water willsoon be of “near potable” quality,despite the fact that industrialeffluents continue to flow intothe lake from the Kukatpally nallah.

HOW HAS THIS BEENACHIEVED Vivek Deshmukh, chief engineerof HMDA, says: “Two sewagetreatment plants (STP) of 30 and20 mega litres per day (MLD)hydraulic range have been work-ing throughout the year to cleanthe lake. Apart from this, wehave placed interception anddiversion (I&D) structures alongthe four nallahs that flow intothe lake. Three of these nallahscarry non-toxic and non-hazardous dredge, which isthen treated.”

The I&D structures have beenplaced along the Picket, Banjaraand Balkapur nallah. The 30MLD STP (that is still undergo-ing trials) is located at the Picketnallah opposite KIMS Hospital

on Minister Road, and the other,with 20 MLD capacity, is on theBalkapur nallah adjacent to theKhairatabad flyover. TheKhairatabad STP is the pride ofHMDA’s environment wing as itwas recently upgraded to ter-tiary level using membranesimported from Australia.

DRAWBACKS The fourth nallah in Kukatpallycontains most of the toxic indus-trial waste and has not yetreceived its share of dredging.“We have not been able to

dredge the Kukatpally nallahdue to some technical issues, butwe have placed I&D structuresand this diversion initiative takesmost of the industrial effluentaway from the lake. A small partof it, however, still finds its way

into the lake,” says Deshmukh. Public toilets and arresting

sewage from businesses thathave sprouted around the lakehave not figured in the grandplans yet. The weak Water, Landand Trees Act (WALTA) has notstopped the mushrooming offood and beverage joints aroundthe lake, which add to the lake’sgarbage and sewage.

A result of this is that on oneside there are STPs working in afrenzy to clean up the lake andon the other there are nallahswhose industrial effluents are

still flowing into the lake. So far,the pollution control board,which is the governing authorityin this issue, has remained mum.

THE FLIP SIDE As part of dredging theKukatpally nallah, the HMDAhas decided to even dredge upthe polluted lake bed and shift itto the quarry areas in HyderabadCentral University. The earlierplan was to dump it inJawaharnagar, which seems to bethe obvious choice for any gov-ernmental agency to dump anysort of waste. The HMDA reas-sured the public that this sludgewas “rich in nutrients” andwould not cause any harm.

“After facing opposition fromresidents of Jawaharnagar, wehave changed our plans and willdump the waste in the quarryareas of the varsity campus. That,however, has not yet been decid-ed. The dredge contains high lev-els of cadmium and we are work-ing out a plan with the RangaReddy district collector to find asuitable place for dumping thelake bed dredge,” Deshmukh said.

The promise of making thiswater potable is expected to berealised by 2014, according toHMDA officials. This, however,remains to be seen.

Effluent inflow from nallahsBanjara: 11.98 MLDPicket: 20.39 MLD

Kukatpally: 29.06 MLDBalkapur: 10 MLD

As part of dredgingthe Kukatpally nallah,the HMDA has decid-ed to even dredge upthe polluted lake bedand shift it to the quar-ry areas in HyderabadCentral University.

M ANIL KUMAR

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PICS: N SHIVA KUMAR

RUNNING WITH BULLS IN

KURNOOLBulls and donkeys

participate in a mud-run competition atthe Chowdeshwari Devi

Temple in KolluruMandal, Kurnool district.

Over 300 farmers andwashermen marked theage-old ritual by taking

part in the race withtheir decorated bulls and

donkeys on the secondday of the Ugadi

festivities.

The sun’s setting on MandviThe anti-piracy ban have ruined India’s dhow builders in the sleepy town in western Gujarat.

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9BAD TIMES

CENTURIES-OLD PROFESSIONFor four centuries, generations of craftsmen from the small townhave built ships prized by traders for ferrying goods along theancient Indian Ocean trade routes that link Asia to the Middle Eastand Africa.

CHARLOTTE TURNERAgence France-Presse

Shailesh Madiyar forlornlysurveys the giant shipyardin the port of Mandvi. Aplace synonymous with

wooden boat-building for cen-turies, it now lies largely deserted.

“Four years ago, around 20ships were being made at anyone time, now there are just two,”says Madiyar, of the Mandvishipbuilders’ association.

“These days, no more thanfive or six are made in a year,” hesaid, gesturing towards around adozen half-built boats whichhave been shored up like carcass-es after construction was aban-doned.

Mandvi stands on the banksof the Rukmavati river whichflows into the Arabian Sea. Asleepy town located in westernGujarat state, it’s a place whereshipbuilding and sea tradinghave traditionally gone hand inhand.

But both industries havebeen pummelled by a ban fromsailing in the pirate-infestedwaters off Somalia, once a lucra-tive trading destination.

The restriction on certain

Indian-registered vessels wasintroduced in 2010 shortly afterSomali pirates captured eightboats from Gujarat and almost100 Indian crew members in aflurry of attacks over a period ofseveral days.

Small cargo boats, or‘motorised sailing vessels’, arenow prohibited from sailingsouth of Oman, effectively block-ing trade not only to Somalia butother African countries such asKenya and Tanzania, as well asYemen.

“No Somalia, no trade. Thisban has been disastrous for us,”

said Musabhai Sameja, whosefamily has been involved in ship-ping in Mandvi for three genera-tions.

“Most traders have seen theirincome drop by half,” he added,complaining that investment inthe construction of new boats hasall but dried up.

For four centuries, genera-tions of craftsmen from the smalltown have built ships prized bytraders for ferrying goods alongthe ancient Indian Ocean traderoutes that link Asia to theMiddle East and Africa.

Today, using techniques

passed down through genera-tions, the few craftsmen who stillhave work build a kind of mast-less dhow favoured for its dura-bility and also its size, whichallows easy access to the region’ssmaller ports.

The working day begins atthe crack of dawn with a dizzy-ing ascent up a ladder pitchedsteep to the side of the boat.

The craftsmen then use tradi-tional tools such as hand-saws,hammers and chisels to cut andshape planks of sal, a hard woodnative to South Asia.

With an average cargo capac-ity of 1,000 tonnes, Sameja saidthe boats fill a niche in the tradeof basics such as rice and flour towar-ravaged Somalia, a countrywith a long coastline but fewports accessible to big containerships.

But more recently, the boatshave been seen as easy prey forpirates operating in one of theworld’s busiest shipping routes,according to the ban imposed byIndia’s Directorate General ofShipping (DGS) in March 2010.

Much smaller than tankersand lacking sophisticated track-ing equipment, the boats are eas-ier to seize and then use as moth-

er ships from which to attacklarger vessels.

But Sameja said traders areprepared to take the risk andwould have preferred to employprivate security to protect theirships.

Meanwhile, with no suchrestrictions, business to Somaliafor traders based mainly in theUnited Arab Emirates is thriving.

Edward Simpson, an experton the dhow trade at the Schoolof Oriental and African Studiesin London, said shipbuilders inDubai are constructing woodenboats with twice the cargo spaceas the vessels from Mandvi.

He recently saw a Somalia-bound ship being loaded inDubai with everything fromJapanese second-hand cars, gen-erators and tractors, to eau decologne. While some familieshave moved their business fromMandvi to the UAE to skirt theban, others have quit altogether.

“There are only about 10 fam-ilies left in the trade now,” saidSaleh Mohammed, who sold hislast cargo boat a year ago.“Before the ban there were morethan 30.”

Workers take part in the construction of a vessel at Mandvi some425kms west of Ahmedabad. This is the only sign of activityamong a dozen or so similar boats half built and shored up likecarcasses along the banks of the Rukmavati river — once thesite of a flourishing shipbuilding industry. AFP /Sam Panthanky

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Want to trade-off youelectronic waste fora decent discountvoucher on your

next purchase of the similaritem? Want to be a responsiblecitizen by not dumping elec-tronic waste in open areas,which is pushing water andland contamination? You cansoon do this with help of Attero,India’s largest electronics assetmanagement company.

A UN report projects that by2020, e-waste from computerswould dramatically increase by500 per cent and that from dis-carded mobile phones willincrease 18 times from 2007 lev-els in India. Info rmal workerscurrently collect; dispose andrecycle majority of e-waste. Thiswill be a serious problem for theecosystem if citizens do not fol-low proper recycling channel indumping e-waste.

In this regard, IFC, a mem-ber of the World Bank Grouphas also launched an initiativewith Attero to collect and respo -nsibly recycle e-waste throughan inclusive approach that inte-grates informal waste collectorsin an organised network.

Rohan Gupta, COO and co-founder, Attero, says, “We areeducating rag-pickers andincentivising them to bring thise-waste to near by collectionpoints. This will make a formalsupply chain. On the other side,we will also educate public withhelp of media to raise awarenessto make proper supply chain.”

Talking on viability of rev-enue model of Attero, he says,“Any business cannot live ongrants forever. It has to be self-sustainable to bring in actualbenefits to the society. As ofnow, we have collection centresnation wide in 22 states and

thus drive the reverse logisticnetwork. The whole businessruns on advanced recyclingtechnology and economicallyviable model. We will generaterevenues by extracting puremetals from e-waste.”

E-waste disposal also posesthe threat of losing personal andbusiness data. “In todays sce-nario, all personal and valuabledata is stored in our mobiles,

computers and external drives.If we through it irresponsibly, itcan actually go in to wronghands creating problems forindividuals,” he points out.

“Leaving old electronicappliances like refrigerators,ACs and TVs in a store room isneither a good thing do. Theyrelease harmful gases, whichmay create various health prob-lems. Even if an individualsdumps in an open space, it canend up in canals or rivers caus-ing serious environmental haz-ards,” he says.

In the developed world, acitizen has to pay decentamount and get his electronicwaste disposed safely. However,In India customer psyche is dif-ferent and he expects somethingin return for giving his electron-ic waste. To make this a success-ful model and to bring a win-

win solution for everyone, wedecided to incentivise the cus-tomer with a voucher in returnto his or her old product withthe support of IFC. We startedoff this with mobile phone;wherein in a customer get cashfor his old mobile athttp://www.atterobay.com. Thisinitiative helped in recyclingand reusing mobile phones.

This integrated electronicwaste collection program, sup-ported by IFC, will be launchedin four cities — Delhi,Hyderabad, Mumbai andAhmedabad by the end of May.More than 15 leading producersincluding Wipro, Samsung,Voltas, Acer, Vide ocon, andHaier are supporting this initia-tive. On its own, the companyhas a dedicated toll-free numberand collects e-waste from any-where in the country.

Make best of wasteGREEN BUSINESS

An integrated electronic waste collection programme will be launched infour cities — Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

THUS SPAKEThe truth is that we are rejoining thecommunity of nations and we must con-tinue to demonstrate, both to Somalisand the world, that we justify this new-found confidence. There is much hardwork ahead of us.

ABDI FARAH SHIRDONSOMALI PRIME MINISTER

China's economic growth slowed to7.7 percent in the first quarter, thegovernment said Monday, a surpriseresult that came in below expecta-tions and raised concerns the nation'srecovery is faltering. The figure for thethree months to March, announced bythe National Bureau of Statistics, com-pared with a median 8.0 percent fore-cast for the world's second-largesteconomy in a poll of 12 economistsby AFP. China's economy expanded7.9 percent in the fourth quarter oflast year, snapping seven straightquarters of slowing growth andfuelling optimism for a solid recoverywhile other major economies remainrelatively weak.

CHINA GROWTH DIPS

President Nicos Anastasiades saidSunday that foreigners with bankdeposits in Cyprus who lost at least 3million euros ($3.9 million) under anEU bailout for the island would begiven passports. "Non-residentinvestors who held deposits prior" tothe bailout and lost "at least 3 mil-lion euros will be eligible to apply forCypriot citizenship," which bringswith it an EU passport, Anastasiadessaid. "We believe that a number ofmeasures to be adopted could onthe one hand mitigate to someextent the damage the Russian busi-ness community has endured," hetold a Russian business conference inthe coastal resort of Limassol.

CYPRUS PASSPORTS OFFER

1,000is the estimated number of Boeing

737s the US Federal Aviation Agencyplans to inspect for corrosion on

certain pins that could compromisesafety.

NUMEROLOGY

A UN report projectsthat by 2020, e-wastewould increase by 500per cent and thatfrom discardedmobile phones willincrease 18 timesfrom 2007 levels.

A worker operates a conveyor belt at Attero’s e-waste plant.

nationMONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

11HIMACHAL PRADESH

COCONUT WATER TO KEEP ZOO ANIMALS COOL With the mercury crossing 40 degrees celsius, chimpanzees, bears, apes andother animals in Bihar’s Sanjay Gandhi Botanical Garden are beating thesummer heat with fresh daab (fresh coconut water), honey and fruits likewatermelons, grapes and bananas with the mercury, officials said.

BUILDING COLLAPSE

UTTAR PRADESH

Pick at the airport, -

LUCKNOW: An elderly couplewas found brutally murdered inGomtinagar in the state capitallate Sunday. The bodies ofRakesh Narayan Mehra, 61, andhis wife Lata, 59, were found inpools of blood when policebroke into the house, an officialsaid.

The police were alerted byneighbours, whom the daughterof the couple had called over thetelephone from Delhi afterrepeated calls to her parentselicited no response.

Mehra had retired fromDena Bank as a cashier last year;his wife worked as a labourenforcement official (LEO) inBarabanki, on the outskirts of

the state capital. When the police forced their

entry into the house, they foundfresh blood spattered all around.

The body of Mehra lay on thefloor near the dining table,while his wife’s body was on thesofa in the drawing room.

Police said prima facie itappeared to be an attemptedrobbery. There were signs ofphysical resistance by the cou-ple, as the intruders may havetried to overpower them.

Some valuables were foundstrewn around.

The couple was last seen tak-ing their regular walk with theirpet dog at around 9 pm onSunday. Police found the petlocked in a room of the house.

Mehra had been stabbed 16times; the woman had 28 deepwounds and gashes, police said.

“There are clear signs of bru-tal attack — the kitchen knivesused in the attack were foundbroken,” a policeman told IANS.

THANE: Two more employeesof Thane MunicipalCorporation (TMC) were arrest-ed in connection with the build-ing collapse which claimed 74lives, police said.

With these arrests, the num-ber of those taken into custodyrose to 17, they said.

TMC’s suspended clerkSubhash Waghmare andRamdas Burud (the driver ofarrested deputy municipal com-missioner Deepak Chavan)were arrested by the CrimeBranch yesterday.

According to police, the duohad direct contacts with thebuilders who allegedly dis-tributed cash to officials to“safeguard” the illegal seven-storey building at Lucky

Waghmare had been sus-pended on January 30 after he

was held by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Thane unit,for allegedly taking a bribe of`30,000 from a housing societyin Diva.

His name was also found inthe diary of builder JameelShaikh who allegedly bribed

civic officials to overlook viola-tions in the construction of theillegal building that crashed onApril 4.

Police said Burud allegedlydemand money from Shaikh,who maintained a record of thecash paid to officials.

Builders Abdul Salim AzizSiddiqui and Jameel AhmadJajaluddin Shaikh, who con-structed the structure, areamong those arrested. They facethe charge of culpable homicidenot amounting to murder andcriminal conspiracy among others.

Three officials of TMC, oneof them a Deputy MunicipalCommissioner, an architect,Corporator Hira Patil, a build-ing material supplier and a localjournalist, are among thosearrested earlier. PTI

SHIMLA: Twelve people,all belonging to a villagein Himachal Pradesh’sChamba district, werekilled when a private vehi-cle skidded off the roadand fell into a 700-metre-deep gorge Sunday night,police officials said.

All 12 bodies wererecovered early Mondayfrom the wreckage of thevehicle, an official toldIANS. The victims, allfrom Kuthar village, werereturning in a multi-utilityvehicle after playing acricket match.

Police officials said theaccident occurred Sundaynight in Badgran panchay-at in Bharmour subdivi-sion, some 85 km from dis-trict headquartersChamba. Eyewitnessessaid the authorities had atough time extricating thevictims from the gorge.

Chamba is one ofremotest places in the stateand scarcity and low fre-quency of passenger busesin the district leads to over-crowding of vehicles.

12 killed as vehiclefalls into gorge

Three killed, five injuredas car overturnsNAMAKKAL (TN): Three per-sons were killed and five injuredwhen the car in which they weretravelling hit a median and over-turned near here today, police said.The injured have been admitted toa hospital. Police said the driver,who was among the deceased, issuspected have fallen asleep andthe car veered off course.

India, Tajikistan to holdtalks on terror, tradeDUSHANBE: Vice PresidentHamid Ansari will hold high-leveltalks with top Tajik leadershiptoday during which the issue ofterrorism emanating from Pakistanand Afghanistan and trade ties arelikely to top the agenda. They willalso discuss trade ties and capacitybuilding in areas of ITES andentrepreneurship development.

One dead, 8 injured incracker unit explosionBHUBANESWAR: One personwas killed and eight others injured,some of them critically, when oneof the fire crackers they were mak-ing exploded in a village inOdisha’s Puri district, police said.The crackers were being manufac-tured for use in the procession of alocal deity in the village.

NEWS BRIEFS

2 more Thane civicbody men arrestedOne of the arrested was caught by the ACB in Januaryfor taking a bribe of `30,000 from a housing society.

Elderly couple found murderedNEW DELHI: Police need tobe provided a better workingenvironment that is “insulatedfrom pulls and pressures”,Union home ministerSushilkumar Shinde saidMonday as he pitched forpolice reforms.

“Public order and policetoday in India are facing chal-lenges; with the ever changingsocial landscape and the everrising public expectations, theload on the police force willonly increase further with anenhanced focus on accountabil-ity and transparency in policefunctioning.” IANS

Shinde pitchesfor policereforms

WorldMONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

12CANADA LIBERALS PICK TRUDEAU AS LEADER Canadian Liberals on Sunday chose Justin Trudeau, eldest sonof former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, to lead the party as itseeks to rebound from a major defeat at the polls in 2011.

TEMPLE ISSUEThailand and Cambodia are to faceoff at the UN’s highest court todayin a dispute over land surrounding aflashpoint temple that has seendeadly clashes along their joint bor-der. The International Court ofJustice (ICJ) in The Hague is to holda week of hearings after PhnomPenh asked two years ago for aninterpretation of a 1962 ruling onthe Preah Vihear temple. Thailanddoes not dispute Cambodia’s own-ership of the temple, a UNESCOWorld Heritage site. But both sidesclaim an adjacent 4.6-square-kilo-metre patch of land.

Gangnam Style star Psy’s newmusic video had received morethan 44 million views on YouTubeby Monday, re-writing the video-sharing site’s records for single-day hits. The dance video to“Gentleman", the South Koreansinger’s long-awaited follow up to“Gangnam Style, was only postedon YouTube at 9:00pm (1200 GMT)on Saturday. In the first 24 hours,it racked up around 20 millionhits, destroying the previousrecord for single-day views of 8.0million, set by Canadian heart-throb Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend".

GENTLEMAN’S HERE

NUMEROLOGY

$34mn“Crocodile Dundee” star Paul

Hogan has taken legal action in aUS court to recover $34 million held

in a Swiss bank account which healleges has been misappropriated,

reports said Monday.

It is very regret-table that the

North dismissedour offer for dia-logue, which hadbeen made aftermuch delibera-tion.

Kim Hyung-SeokSK Unification Ministry

spokesman

US urges talks as worldwatches for NK missileSEOUL: Secretary of State JohnKerry said Monday the US will talkwith North Korea if it takes “mean-ingful steps” towards peace, as theworld watched to see if Pyongyangwill mark its founder’s birthday witha missile launch. The isolated statehas a habit of linking high-profilemilitary tests with key dates in itsannual calendar.

London readies forThatcher funeralLONDON: London’s historic StPaul’s Cathedral will on Wednesdayhost 2,000 guests ranging from roy-alty to celebrities for the funeral offormer British PM MargaretThatcher. Queen Elizabeth II willattend the funeral, the first time thatshe has attended one of her primeministers’ funerals since that ofWinston Churchill in 1965.

London symphonypresident dies aged 85LONDON: Colin Davies, the pres-ident of the London SymphonyOrchestra (LSO), died on Sundayaged 85, the prestigious organisa-tion announced. “Sir Colin first con-ducted the LSO in 1959 and becameprincipal conductor in 1995," saidthe statement. “He was the longest-serving principal conductor in theLSO’s history.”

‘Clashes in C Africaleave over a dozen dead’BANGUI: More than a dozenpeople were killed in weekendclashes between residents and fight-ers from the Seleka rebel coalitionthat seized power in Central Africalast month, according to medicaland police sources and witnesses.Twelve people were killed in onearea of the capital, several witnessestold AFP.

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VENEZUELA

CARACAS: Venezuela’s actingPresident Nicolas Maduro wasdeclared the winner of the elec-tion to succeed his late mentorHugo Chavez on Sunday by arazor-thin margin over an oppo-nent that voiced fears of votemanipulation.

Fireworks erupted after theNational Electoral Councilannounced that near completeresults showed Maduro had wonwith just 50.66 percent of the votecompared with 49.1 percent foropposition rival HenriqueCapriles — a difference of lessthan 300,000 votes.

“This victory is another trib-ute to our comandante Hugo

Chavez," the 50-year-old Madurosaid in front of cheering support-ers at the Miraflores presidentialpalace. “Today we can say thatwe had a fair electoral triumph,"he added, saying he was open toan audit of the close vote tally.

Named by Chavez as hispolitical heir, Maduro rode awave of grief for the late leader,who ruled Venezuela for 14 yearswith a socialist revolution thatmade him popular among thepoor while disenchanting othersfed up with the weak economy.

Maduro has vowed to contin-

ue the oil-funded policies that cutpoverty by almost half to 29 per-cent through popular health, edu-cation and food programs.

But he also inherits a litany ofproblems left behind by his men-tor: South America’s highest mur-der rate, with 16,000 people killedlast year, chronic food shortages,high inflation and recurringpower outages.

Opinion polls had givenMaduro leads of 10 to 20 pointsduring the campaign, butCapriles — who lost to Chavez by11 points in October polls — ener-

gized the opposition in his secondshot at the presidency.

Hundreds of Chavistas beganto celebrate in front of theMiraflores presidential palace

well before the results wereannounced, launching fireworks,dancing and holding pictures ofMaduro and Chavez.

“This is a very important vic-tory for the future of the country.This is the legacy of our coman-dante, who is no longer here. Buthe left us Maduro and he willdefend his project," said RafaelPerez Camarero, 29.

Before the results were dis-closed, Capriles warned onTwitter that there was an “inten-tion to change the choiceexpressed by the people."

Maduro scrapes throughMaduro was declared the winner of the election to succeed his late

mentor Hugo Chavez on Sunday by a razor-thin margin.

Tight raceMaduro won with just

50.66%of the vote compared with

49.1%for opposition rival Henrique

Capriles — a difference ofless than

300,000 votes.

Today we cansay that we

had a fair elec-toral triumph

Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro celebrates next to his wife Cilia Flores.

VANGUARD OF CHANGEOne stop to prevent violence

Thailand recently launched the One Stop CrisisCentre to respond to and prevent violence againstwomen and girls. The move comes after Thailand

joined UN's latest pro-womencampaign, COMMIT. It includes ahotline managed by trained staff, anetwork of 22,000 crisis centresaround the country and 1,300mobile units to access communi-ties nationwide, reportswww.unwomen.org.

Girl guides say no to Page 3

Girlguiding UK is the latest institution to sign upfor the 'No More Page 3' campaign, aimed atgetting media mogul Rupert Murdoch to stop

publishing pictures of topless women in The Sun. Thedecision was made by its advocate panel which is

made up of 16 girls between the ages of 14 and 26.The organisation, in its letter to The Sun's editor,

Dominic Mohan, said, “Anyone can pick it (a copy ofThe Sun) up, turn to page 3, and think that it is normalfor young women to be treated as objects. We feel this

is just wrong and has to stop.”

£10 million to tackle sexual violence

Afurther £10 million has been pledged by therecently concluded G8 summit to tacklesexual violence in conflict and violence

against women and girls especiallyin DR Congo and Somalia. The UK,

under its presidency of the G8,announced that an additional £5mil-

lion from the Foreign Office, aimedtowards supporting UK’s efforts to

tackle sexual violence in conflict andviolence against women and girls.

The beheading of an elderly woman suspected of being a witch is the latest in the series of sorcery-related murders in the Pacific nation.

Papua New Guineamust tackle thescourge of sorcery-related murder, theUnited Nations said

Friday, after an elderly womanwas beheaded in the nation.

The UN demanded an endto extra-judicial killings linkedto accusations of sorcery andrenewed calls for the govern-ment to repeal the Sorcery Act1971, introduced to aid thepassage of witchcraft casesthrough the courts.

While the Act criminalisedthe practice of sorcery, humanrights groups say it has also ledto an increase in false accusa-tions by people against theirenemies and has given thenotion of sorcery a legitimacy it

would not otherwise have had.“The provision of protec-

tion to victims of sorcery-relat-ed violence must also beincreased as a matter of urgen-cy,” the UN said in a statementfrom Port Moresby.

”The UN is deeply dis-turbed with the increasingreports of violence, tortureand murder of personsaccused of practising sorceryaround the country. These vig-ilante killings constitute mur-der and must not be treatedwith impunity,” it added.

In the Bana district ofSouth Bougainville, twowomen accused of sorcerywere kidnapped and torturedbefore one was beheaded.

“This case adds to the

increase of reports of extra-judicial torture and killings ofboth men and women, espe-cially elderly women, accusedof sorcery,” it said.

Local media had initiallyreported that police were pre-sent but were outnumberedand could do nothing to pre-vent the grisly deaths.

The women were torturedfor three days, suffering knifeand axe wounds, reports said.

The killing came just daysafter six women accused ofsorcery were reportedly tor-tured with hot irons in theSouthern Highlands.

In February, a womanaccused of sorcery wasstripped naked and burned todeath by a mob. AFP

Fight sorcery, PapuaNew Guinea told

Twenty-five of usgathered togeth-

er and said we shouldrape 10 women each,and we did it. I haveraped 53 women. And children (asyoung as) fiveand six years.

Congolese soldierAs told to The Guardian

I was 7 when myfather told me

about the greengrocer’sdaughter (Mar garetThatcher) who hadbecome our first femalePrime Minister. Iwas enchanted by this.

Geri HalliwellSinger

UNDER ATTACKArmy officers held forrape of 126 women

The Kinshasa government hassuspended a dozen seniormilitary officers and is interro-

gating suspects in connection witha mass rape incident in easternDemocratic Republic of Congo,reports The Independent. The UNsaid 126 women were raped inMinova in November afterCongolese army troops fled to thetown as so-called M23 rebelsbriefly captured the provincial cap-ital, Goma. The action was takenafter the UN sent an ultimatum toCongolese authorities.

WORKING WOMENWomen still face discrimination at work

Women in large numbersbelieve they face disad-vantages in the work-

place, including lower pay thanmen, a new Wall StreetJournal/NBC News survey shows.Some 84 per cent say men arepaid more for similar work, aview borne out by governmentdata but which draws agreementfrom only two-thirds of men.What is particularly depressing isthat the findings are littlechanged from a similar surveydone in 1997.

THE PAGE DEDICATED TO WOMEN AND THE ISSUES THEY FACE ACROSS THE GLOBE

Syrian women take part in an anti-regime protest in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

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A CHANGE IS COMINGW4

Women’s WorldWideWeb (W4) is anonline platform

that raises funds and in-kind support for grassrootsgirls’ and women’sempowerment projectsacross the globe. UK-bornLindsey Nefesh-Clarke offi-cially launched W4 onInternational Women’sDay 2010. W4 is currentlyhelping organisations likeThe Village Net and HopeOfiriha.

ON THE FRONTLINESTARABAI SHINDE

An activist whoprotested patriarchyin 19th century India,

Tarabai Shinde is knownfor her book, Stri PurushTulana (A ComparisonBetween Women and Men),

publishedin Marathi in1882. The pam-phlet is a cri-tique of patri-archy, and isoften considered

the first modern Indianfeminist text.

POLITICS

CommentMONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

14HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTSOne cannot condole someone’s death. One can condole with some-one, condole someone, but never condole someone’s death. And it’sa shame that such solecism appear on ‘premier’ newspapers.

This edition of theIndia political lexicon,first in India, comes inresponse to constantdemand for a concise

dictionary of Indian electionterms, words and phrases.

This year being the steppingstone to the stage for 2014 arena,students of history and Indiansociology need to update theirknowledge of various terminol-ogy, accents and nuances ofIndian democracy and its prac-tioners: our netas. It’s a quick-ready reckoner, not a detailedexamination of words and theirroots like a traditional dictio-nary. Advanced students mustrefer to the OD, CD.

Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram: Thephrase refers to trapeze artists inthe Great Indian Political Circuswho swing and jump fromcamp to camp for material bene-fits. They should not be con-fused with circus artists who areprofessionals. Antonym: StickyRam: who never leaves a partybecause he is not in demand.

Aam Aadmi: Not to be con-fused with Mango people. AamAdmi means an imaginary rep-resentative figure of Indian pro-letariat. The Congress hasappropriated this character and

others too swear by him, butwithout success. The rationaleof Congress existence is aamaadmi but he never exists for theparty in reality. Antonym:Hamara Aadmi: This refers tothe widely practised policy ofIndian politicos where this labelis given to the favoured.

Andha Kanoon: Refers tothe law that is moot. By usage itmeans the law used against oneis andha while used against myhis rival is acha kanoon. Mostpopular usage: Law will take itsown course, meaning the lawwill take my course. Antonym:jaagte kanoon which refers tovigilant law which exists in the-ory, not in practice.

Arree: Exclamation, oftenderogatory. Slang. It meansmany things like you stupid,look here, oh man. It dependson the taste and context ofusage. Oxford Dictionary foundit the most often used Indianejaculation. Antonym: Ye, inHindi the suffix ye adds rever-ence to the subject eg: aayiye,please come, jayiye, please go.

Yeh Dil Mange More: Thisslogan originally coined by asoftdrink co. is now meant forpoliticians’ avarice. It meanshe/she is yet not satiated withthe black wealth earned, butwants more.

Antonym: Tyag, give up,renounce, (outdated, no longerin daily use).

Baap ka Raj: (derog) rivalparties’ favourite phrase whenlashing out at opponents sayingit is not their family reign butdemocracy. Frequently usedtoday in mass communication.Antonym: Garib ka Raj, meansnobody’s raj and the speaker isonly a subject, not ruler.

Mota Maal: Big money. Tobe qualified for this term, thescandal should be of the orderof `1 lakh crore or more.Frequently used in UPA rule.Antonym: Chota maal, refers tolakhs upto `1 Crore, widelyused terminology today inIndian politics where tariff forvarious works are availableunwritten every sphere of pub-lic works.

Goonda Raj: Once used tomean a rowdy/rascal runningthe show, but today means rule ofpoliticians. Derogatoriness of thephrase has waned off from wideusage. Antonym: Moonga Raj,rule by the dumb which is con-sidered worse than Goonda Raj

(To be continued nextMonday)

TAILENDDisclaimer: Neither the authornor the paper nor any individu-al is responsible for the dictio-nary as it evolved in the Indiandemocratic practices over theyears. If anyone, it is the aamaadmi who is to be held forerrors as he is always accusedfor all ills of the country.

It won’t be easy for Maduro

While campaigning Nicolas Maduro had said that he would invoke a curse upon those whodid not vote for him. Despite that, and being the chosen one by the Commandante, he

could only scrape past the contender Henrique Capriles. What does that say about the affairs ofVenezuela? Maduro says it was a fair result and so on, but if he were to take the right message

from result, it is that he cannot now sit back and run affairs like his mentor Hugo Chavez. For thepeople Chavez was more than a leader; he was many things to them, the embodiment of their

aspirations and nationalism. But the 50.7 majority that won Maduro the top post says that almosthalf the nation do not repose the trust they did on Chavez. And how long can one remain oblivi-ous to the various problems that plague their country? Venezuela’s economy is in doldrums, and

the people are fed up of rising prices and shortage of basic goods and incessant black-outs.Blaming America and facist powers for failures of Venezuela might have worked for Chavez, but

Maduro cannot play that card. The people want him to deliver, not rhetoric, but results.

‘Son’rises again

Union labour ministerMallikarjun Kharge and former

chief minister Dharam Singh suc-ceeded in getting tickets for theirsons Priyank Kharge and AjaySingh respectively. Now, if this isthe modern path of progress thatthe Congress wants to take to theGeneral Elections, it will never beable to wash away the blot it hasbeen bearing for a very long time,the blot of favouritism.

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

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in eighteen cen-turies, has had thecommon humanityto pray for the onesinner thatneeded it most?

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DefiantMubarakJAILAN ZAYAN

Agence France-Presse

After months of rumourstha t Egypt ex-presi-

dent Hosni Mubarakwas at death’s door, footage of

the toppled leader lookingstrong and defiant in court

stunned many who had caredlittle about his fate.

The 84-year-old Mubarak who isbeing held at a military hospital

in Cairo, has been treated for aheart condition, fractured ribs,

fluid in the lungs, depressionand high blood pressure, accord-

ing to lawyers and officialaccounts.

At one point last year he waseven declared clinically dead as

he slipped into a coma.There were questions over

whether he would appear incourt for his scheduled retrial

along with his top security chiefsfor their alleged complicity in

the murder and attempted mur-der of hundreds of peacefulprotesters on January 25-31,

2011.But on Saturday he was in the

dock, sitting upright and look-ing strong. Wearing sunglasses,

he waved and smiled at sup-porters, chatting casually with

his two sons Alaa and Gamalwho face corruption charges.

In the event, the retrial came toan abrupt end with the main

judge stepping aside and send-ing the case to the Court of

Appeal, which will then refer itto a new circuit.

“I expected to see a sick old manand I expected to feel sorry forhim,” said Cairo resident Heba

Radwan. “But the pictures ofhim smiling and waving, they

were so provocative.”His demeanour was in stark con-trast to the pictures of a pale andailing Mubarak at the start of his

trial in August 2011.

campusMONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

15WHO GETS THE WIFEComedy play My Wife's Husband will be staged on April 20 from 7.30pm. The play is written by Miro Gavran.

COLLEGE OF THE WEEK

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university located in Princeton, NewJersey. It is one of the eight universi-ties of the Ivy League in the US, and

one of the nine Colonial collegesfounded before the AmericanRevolution. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate

instruction in the humanities, socialsciences, natural sciences and engi-

neering. On a per-student basis,Princeton has the largest university

endowment in the world.

This June, Indian InternationalMUN is coming to Hyderabad tohost the second chapter. IIMUN2013 will be Asia’s Largest YouthConference with 2,000+ delegatestaking part in 30 committees.Prior registrations will be shut onApril 14. Dates of the conference :May 31 to June 2.

If you want to message yourfavourite celebrities on Facebook,you will be charged. This is one of

Facebook’s strangest revenue-building schemes of recent times.This decision of Facebook heads

hasn’t gone down easily with civil-ians. Messaging Tom Daley, forinstance, will cost nearly £11.

Miranda Hart, meanwhile, is 71p.Facebook’s aim, it selflessly claims,is to reduce the amount of spam in

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RAISING FUNDS

REMEMBERA walk to

College-based NGO Street Cause organised a walk to collect money to setup water-purifying plants in government schools.

AMY ROSE [email protected]

Around 400 studentsconverged at NecklaceRoad early on Sundayfor a walk to raise

funds to improve the infrastruc-ture of government schools inthe City. College-based NGOStreet Cause that has divisions in30 different colleges organisedthe event. One needed to pay `50to be part of the walk. Around1,500 people had registered for the event.

Street Cause student co-ordi-nator from Vasavi college ofengineering, Shrihari Agarwal,says, “We have been planningfor the event since last month.We wanted to organise a walkand the only confusion waswhich cause to donate themoney to. Then we came toknow about the problems facedby students at governmentschools in Nalgonda. Due to theexcess fluoride in groundwater,it is slowing turning poisonous.With the money raised by thewalk, we intend to install areverse osmosis water purifica-tion plant at the governmentschools in the area so that stu-dents get clean drinking water.The money raised is expected tobe close to `5 lakh.”

Participation certificates

were distributed to those whoattended the do.

Paul Oommen, one of theStreet Cause members whoattended the walk, says, “It wasa wonderful experience to bepart of something that wouldbetter someone’s life.”

Co-ordinators in every col-lege had been going around col-lecting money and registeringpeople for the event since lastmonth.

Apart from this, Street Causeis involved in many events andprogrammes that help make adifference to society. ‘ImpactDay’ celebrated by the NGO inMarch was a huge hit in the City,with more than 150 tasks per-formed by all 30 colleges that arepart of the NGO in Hyderabad.

Members of the NGO hadbeen part of events like visitingorphanages, donating clothesand food to the needy and donat-ing books and stationery itemson the day.

Members of the NGOhave been part of eventslike visiting orphanages,donating clothes andfood for the needy anddonating books and sta-tionery items on the day.


18LET YOUR HAIR DOWNCuba Libre is hosting Mongolian Night tonight with DJ Naveen churningout the latest foot-tapping numbers. Head to pub and let loose.

GAME SET MATCHTollywood actor Ramcharan Teja's polo team Ramcharan - HPRC team made a debut at the MumbaiPolo season and has reached the finals of the Porsche Polo Cup 2013.

EYE FOR ELEGANCEKhwaaish is all set to host a designer weekend at Hotel Taj Krishna this weekend. The curtain raiser

of the event that was held at Marigold hotel on Sunday had actors Tashu Kaushi and Sree of themovie Gola Seenu present at the do.

Celebration time

spotlightDANCING UP A STORM

UK-basedPunjabi bandRDB (RhythmDhol Bass) sentaudiences into afrenzy at AndhraPradesh PunjabiSabha's BaisakhiCelebrationsorganised at LBStadium onSunday.

Wearing socks andshoes throughoutthe day in this hot,humid weather pro-

vides just the condition for fun-gal growth. Top this with poorpersonal hygiene, and you’rewell on the road to getting athlete’s foot.

Athlete’s foot is a fungal dis-ease, often known as ring wormof the feet or tinea pedis.

“It is very common. Everyfourth or fifth person has it,” said

Dr SunithaSekhar Reddy, dermatolo-gist at ADI clinics. “It is verycommon in those with diabetesand people who always wearshoes, resulting in lack of air cir-culation to the feet.”

People who lack personalhygiene, wear the same or dampsocks every day, may developathlete’s foot.

SYMPTOMS Itching, peeling of skin, whiten-ing of skin between the last twotoe spaces, which can thenextend to the entire sole, are

some ofthe symptoms, said Dr

Reddy.“Itchy rashes occur between

the toes and gradually spread.There may be classical roundpatches or red scaly patches onone of both the feet,” said DrRadha Shah, consultant derma-tologist at Apollo Hospitals,Jubilee Hills.

Other symptoms listed inmayoclinic.com (MayoFoundation for Medical Healthand Research) include stinging,burning sensation, itchy blisters,discolouration of toe nails and

nails pulling away from thenail bed.

It can spread to other parts ofthe body as well.

It can spread through contactwith contaminated object orfloor.

TREATMENT“Let the skin breathe; avoidwearing shoes for long hours,”said Dr Reddy, talking about thepreventive measures. “Use dust-ing powder in toe spaces.”

She said patients respond tooral therapy, of which there aredifferent kinds, depending uponthe individual. “Start with topi-cal anti-fungal cream. Treatment

may take around one to one-and-a-half months.”

“It has a tendency to recur,”said Dr Shah. “Patients are toldabout local hygiene. When youcome home at night, wash yourfeet with soap and water, and usean anti-fungal cream.”

According to mayoclinic.com,some of the complications thatcan occur in extreme cases areallergic reactions and secondarybacterial infections.

According to medicinenet.com,during pregnancies, taking anti-fungal pills may not be recom-mended; vinegar soaks andsprays (one art vinegar with fourparts water) can be used instead.

BIRD FLU CASES REACH 51 IN CHINAThe number of confirmed infections in humans of the H7N9 bird flu in

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ur feet breatheDo you

wearshoes for

long hoursevery day?You mightbe patient

zero of acontagious

fungaldisease atyour home

or office.

My child is seven and stillcontinues to wet the bed. Is ita psychological problem? Children under the age of fourusually struggle wi th bed-wet-ting. However, for so me chil-dren, it continues past the nor-mal age and can be a si gn ofother issues affecting them.

For a child, wetting the bedis a huge source of shame andembarrassment. So how you, asa parent, handle your child’s

problem can go a long way inhelping him/her overcome it.

Bed-wetting does not neces-sarily indicate a psychologicalproblem. There are several caus-es for it, including it being inher-ited from the parent, if the parentwas also a bed-wetter. Other rea-sons can be that the child has asmall bladder, or is constipatedor has a sleep disorder.

Sometimes, emotional difficultiesin a child’s life can also cause this.Often though, this happenswhen the child has not been abed-wetter for a while and issuddenly going through somedifficulties psychologically.

You need a lot of patienceand understanding. As a firststep, get your child evaluatedby a paediatrician/doctor, so

that you know if there is anymedical reason behind it. If youknow that your child is goingthrough something that is caus-ing them emotional turmoil,then talk to him or take him toa child counsellor. Limit theamount of liquid your childdrinks are night. Encouragethem to empty their bladdertwice before bed time and

praise them when they have adry morning. Never punishthem for wetting their bed andconsider getting them a mois-ture alarm that will wake themup before they wet the bed.

The writer is a counsellingpsychologist at the Hyderabad

Academy of Psychology. Youcan write to her at

[email protected]

DR DIANA MONTEIRO

‘NEVER PUNISH THEM FOR BED-WETTING’growing pains

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NEW YORK: There may besome truth in women accusingmen of not understanding them!

A research found that menhad twice as much trouble deci-phering women’s emotions fromimages of their eyes comparedwith those of men.

To see whether men reallydid have trouble readingwomen’s emotions, BorisSchiffer, a researcher at the LWL-University Hospital in Bochum,Germany and his colleagues put22 men between the ages of 21and 52, with an average age of36, in a functional magnetic reso-nance imaging scanner, whichuses blood flow to measure theirbrain activity.

They then asked the men tolook at images of 36 pairs of eyes,half from men and half fromwomen, and guess the emotionthe people felt.

The men then chose which oftwo words, such as distrustful orterrified, best described the eyes’emotion. Men took longer andhad more trouble correctlyguessing emotion from women’seyes.

Their brains showed differentactivation when looking at menversus women’s eyes.

Men’s amygdala — a brainregion tied to emotions, empa-thy, and fear — activated morestrongly in response to men’s eyes.

The findings suggest thatmen are worse at readingwomen’s emotions.

This “theory of mind” is oneof the foundations for empathy,so the deficit could lead men tohave less empathy for womenrelative to men, researchers saidin the journal PLOS ONE. PTI

It’s official!Men can’tread women’semotions

PSYCHOLOGYSTUDY

SINGAPORE: Feeling cold? Trymeditation!

Meditation can make youfeel warmer, a new study conducted in Tibet suggests,which found the core body tem-perature can be controlled by thebrain.

Researchers led by associateprofessor Maria Kozhe-vnikovfrom the Department ofPsychology at the NationalUniversity of Singapore (NUS)Faculty of Arts and SocialSciences showed, for the firsttime, that it is possible for corebody temperature to be con-trolled by the brain.

The scientists found that corebody temperature increases canbe achieved using certain medi-tation techniques

(g-tummo) which could help inboosting immunity to fight infec-tious diseases or immunodeficiency.

Published in science journalPLOS ONE, the study document-ed reliable core body tempera-ture increases for the first time inTibetan nuns practising g-tummo meditation.

The g-tummo meditativepractise controls “inner energy”and is considered by Tibetanpractitioners as one of the mostsacred spiritual practises in theregion, researchers said.

Monasteries maintaining g-tummo traditions are very rareand are mostly located in theremote areas of eastern Tibet.

The researchers collecteddata during the unique ceremo-

ny in Tibet, where nuns wereable to raise their core body tem-perature and dry up wet sheetswrapped around their bodies inthe cold Himalayan weather (-25degree Celsius) while meditat-ing.

Using electroencephalogra-phy (EEG) recordings and tem-perature measures, the teamobserved increases in core bodytemperature up to 38.3 degreeCelsius.

A second study was conduct-ed with Western participantswho used a breathing techniqueof the g-tummo meditative prac-tise and they were also able toincrease their core body tempera-ture, within limits.

The findings showed thatspecific aspects of the meditationtechniques can be used by non-meditators to regulate their bodytemperature through breathingand mental imagery.

The techniques could poten-tially allow practitioners to adaptto and function in cold environ-ments, improve resistance toinfections, boost cognitive per-formance by speeding upresponse time and reduce perfor-mance problems associated withdecreased body temperature. PTI

MEDITATIONcan increase your body temperature

A newstudy conductedin Tibetfound thatthe core bodytemperature can be controlledby the brain.

The techniques couldpotentially allow practitioners to adaptto and function in coldenvironments.

JAPANESE HOSPITALITY

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Tanvi Vyas comes toTollywood

Former Miss India Earth TanviVyas is all set to make her

debut in Telugu cinema. She’splaying the lead role in P SunilKumar Reddy’s upcoming filmtitled Nenem…Chinnapillana? Thefilm’s first schedule has beenwrapped up and the next schedulewill be shot in Europe. RahulRavindran is playing the lead roleand D Ramanaidu is producing it.

Iddarammayilatho’saudio launch on April 21

The audio ofIddaramm

ayilatho is going to belaunched in a big way on

April 21. Allu Arjun, AmalaPaul and Catherine Tresa are

playing lead roles in thisentertainer. Puri Jagannadh

has directed the film andmost of the film has already

been wrapped up.

Kodi Ramakrishna, bestknown for films like

Ammoru and Arundhati, isnow making a family dramatitled Rani Ranamma. Arjunand Lakshmi Rai are playing

the lead roles and the filmrevolves around a couple

and their kid. RamachandraRaju is producing the Telugu

version. The film waslaunched earlier today.

CINE BYTES

Siddharth’s first trip to Japanis turning out to be quite anexperience, if his recenttweets are anything to go by.

He is currently in Toyama, Japan, toshoot for a few songs for hisupcoming film Something…Something in Sundar C’s direction.Hansika is his co-star in thisromantic comedy whereasBrahmanandam and GaneshVenkatraman are playing importantroles. Apparently, it’s the firstIndian film to be shot in Japan aftera gap of 29 years and when the filmunit landed in Japan, they got theirfirst taste of Japanese hospitality.“Japan so far has been eventful.Met the head of state of Toyama.Appeared in the local paper! Ahem!Super jollies:) The people of Japantake courtesy and hospitality toanother level (sic),” Siddharth post-ed on Twitter. He was all the moresurprised when an elderly coupleinvited him to a sushi restaurant inthe city and quite evidently, theactor was bowled over by their ges-ture and conversation.

Apart from an odd Rajinikanthfilm, Indian cinema’s presence in

Japan is quite minimal and it’s onlynow that Bollywood is looking for-ward to making inroads in theJapanese market. Considering allthis, Hansika, the lead actress of thefilm, was stunned to know that shehas fans in Japan. Sharing her expe-rience, Hansika tweeted saying, “Ihave never been so touched ever!Today a Japanese came running upto me and showed all my movieDVDs to me and said I’m your bigFan! Touched. Now I can proudlysay I have fans in japan too:) (sic).”For the last three decades, Indianfilmmakers have pretty muchneglected Japan as an internationaldestination for film shootings andpreferred locales in Thailand,Malaysia and China. With SundarC making an attempt to explorenew locations in Far East, this filmmight just pave the way for morefilmmakers to head to Japan in nearfuture. Tamil filmmakers will be allthe more keen to do just that,thanks to Rajinikanth’s imageamong moviegoers in Japan.Something… Something is expectedto arrive in screens in May. Sathyahas scored the music.

Arjun, Lakshmi Rai team up

FALLING IN LOVE

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Riteish enjoys being busy

Riteish Deshmukh isbusy with work and he

says he is enjoying it.“Shooting for Grand

Masti and India’s DancingSuperstar back-to-back.Long hours, but enjoyingbeing on both the sets,”tweeted Riteish. GrandMasti is the sequel to the2004 film Masti, whileIndia’s Dancing Superstaris Riteish’s first brush withreality TV. IANS

Zoya Akhtar to makesmall-budget film?

Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, whohas made movies like Luck By

Chance and Zindagi Na MilegiDobara, says she won’t mindmaking a small-budget movie.

“If I get the opportunity (tomake a small-budget film), Iwould love to. I think your bud-get depends on your choice. Yes,definitely, I will be making onetiny film soon for sure,” Zoyasaid. IANS

Chitrangada is the girlwith the studs

What’s one thingChitrangada Singh never

forgets? She likes her simplestyle, but one thing she says shenever leaves home without areher ear studs.”I have a stud onmy ear, and without that, I don’tstep out of the house,” she said.

The actress was in the capitalto walk the ramp at HazoorilalJewellers’ show at the IndiaInternational Jewellery Weekhere Friday evening. IANS

CINE BYTES

Entertainment

In the company of multi-talented Ash Chandler and Manasi Scott, ittakes less than a second to feel at ease. In Hyderabad to sing at the

third anniversary fundraising event of Heal-a-Child Foundation at TheWestin, the duo talks to Postnoon about their plans.

MUSIC AND HYSTERICS

They have been friendsfor a long time but thethought of performingtogether as singers

never occurred to them untilAsh Chandler was sponta-neously asked to join ManasiScott on stage once. “Very fewpeople have the heart to notthink about the consequencesand just sing. Not manysingers would have taken iton. The crowd danced to TheTime of my Life in the middleof a fast disco set,” they said.

Ash has been supportingHeal-a-Child foundation sinceits inception. He has per-formed earlier in Hyderabad asa comedian and with his band.This time, with an intention tooffer variety, it was only natu-ral to sing with Manasi.

Manasi has had a toughtime keeping a straight face onstage. “I hope I don’t laughwhile singing,” she says. Noprizes for guessing who is toblame. Jokes apart, they havefigured a way to bring in synctheir genres of music. “I docurrent Hindi songs and hedoes English numbers. Wehave nailed which composerhas copied which song fromwhere. We are going to do amash-up because they cansound so similar,” she says.

This is not their first timeand they are really lookingforward to Hyderabad’s audi-ence, and to raising a lot ofmoney, of course. “They arenot cynical. If you are good,they let their hair down andenjoy,” says Ash. On a lighternote, he adds, “And the men,if they get drunk, don’t dirtydance with me, like in othercities. I don’t enjoy that.Please tell your readers that.”

Ash is not only a stand-upcomedian and a singer. He isalso an actor and entrepreneur.He has an Italian bistro inMumbai and is the founder ofMumbai Motorcycle

Company. “Differentmoments ask me to do differ-ent things. I am staying true toeach moment. Life is notabout making a mark. It isabout doing what you are sup-posed to do. You see a dog onthe beach. He runs, digs,sleeps, eats, licks himself... heis not wondering if he is leav-ing a mark or if he is betterthan other dogs. I do itbecause I love doing it.”

Manasi too is a bag ofenergy and zeal. A mother, asinger, a composer, an actorand now a lyricist, there is nostopping her. “Singing is mypurpose,” she says. Andassures me there is no differ-ence between Manasi on stageand at home. “I love drama.What is life without drama?Everything for me is as excit-ing, as large, as emotional onand off stage. I love playingdifferent roles,” she says. Inspite of her busy schedule,Manasi makes it a point to

enjoy herself. “The last twoyears, post my divorce, I haveused to discover myself. Youmust travel because that iswhen you truly find yourselfafter losing yourself.”

Coming back to comedy,what does Ash think makespeople laugh? “Freedom,”says Manasi. He agrees.“People have things to do. Themoment comedy takes themaway, the brain automaticallyfeels relieved,” he explains.As a performer, he has hismanoeuvres to strike a chordwith the audience. “I let mymind go blank before goingon stage. The first thing youwant to do is not to rememberanything. Your job is to con-nect to the audience. It is likedancing with a woman. You

have got to figure out whatshe wants to do. Theidea is to be in themoment and say ‘Iwonder what moodthey are in’. Thefirst five minutesof the perfor-mance is thepreparation.” Atthis, Manasi adds“I think stand-upcomedians areundoubtedly themost genuinelyobservant peoplewith remarkablememories.”

Late comedi-an Richard Pryoris someone Ashlooks up to.“Comedy, at somelevel,” he says, “isabout peopletelling genuine andthought-provokingstories. Pryor start-ed taking painfuland powerful inci-dents of his lifeand used that incomedy. He usedhis own dark sidein the comedy. He set abenchmark for comediansimplying that you can talkabout things which are gener-ally considered painful, in ahumorous context. It can bequite cathartic.”

Speaking about the futureof stand-up comedy in India,he refers to his Ministry ofSchtick, which is a group ofcomedians who do everythingfrom stand-up, sketch comedyto improv. “We have the mosttalented people. Manasi hasbeen an honorary guest and Ithink she can be a part of us.We will be the first Indianstand-up comedians to be featured on Comedy Centralon April 21. I think it will be a big part of the future of com-edy,” says Ash.

They sign off with adviceon how to survive in theindustry. “Be lucky,” says Ash.“God, god, god, all the way. Iam his truly blessed child,”says Manasi.

KANCHAN [email protected]

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Kevin Zegers to learnHebrew for wedding

Kevin Zegers is gettingready for his summer

wedding to Jaime Feld andthe former Gossip Girl hunkhas a bit of extra preparationto accomplish before walkingdown the aisle. “It’s a Jewishceremony, so I have to mem-orize Hebrew,” Kevin told E!.Once he’s mastered the lan-guage task, the 28-year-oldactor has to work on hisglass-breaking technique

Matt Damon to renew hiswedding vows

Don’t expect to see MattDamon at the 2013 MTV

Movie Awards this weekend,because he’s got a bigger event toattend. It’s been revealed thatDamon and his wife LucianaBarroso will renew their weddingvows in the Caribbean eight yearsafter tying the knot. Those expect-ed to attend are Ben Affleck andhis wife Jennifer Garner.

Bruno Mars’ sistershoping to find success

Singer Bruno Mars’ four sistersare making quite a splash of

their own with their debut as popmusic group, The Lylas.Consisting of Tahiti Hernandez,Tiara Hernandez, PresleyHernandez and Jaime Kailani, TheLylas (an acronym for Love YouLike A Sister) are determined tomake it big without the help oftheir superstar brother, who shotto fame with songs like Marry You.

CINE BYTESCROSSING THE OCEAN

moves to London, boyfriendAshton Kutcher to follow

Mila Kunis hasheaded toLondon tofilm her new

Wachowski’s movieJupiter Ascending, butwhat about her boyfriendAshton Kutcher?According to a newreport, he’ll hop the pondsemi-permanently too sohe can stay close to hisgirlfriend.

“Mila has come overto London ahead ofAshton to start shooting,”an insider tells The Sun.“Ashton has a bit of timebetween projects so hehas decided to relocate toLondon and house-sitwhile Mila is at work.They originally plannedto move more central toMarylebone but she fellin love with Hampsteadwhen she had a day offthere with some friends.”

The couple hasalready been spottedaround the city sinceKutcher flew in to meetKunis earlier this week.On Friday, they wereseen attending an operaat the Barbican beforethey went to dinner inMayfair. Kunis’ apart-ment is situated in NorthLondon in theHampstead neighbour-hood.

“Mila’s schedulewon’t be so intense soshe’ll get some good timewith Ashton,” the sourceadds. “They’ll be stayingin her rented place innorth London and won’tkeep keeping their headsdown. They plan to goout — a lot.”

ACROSS1 ‘Four’ at the fore6 Kind of chase or trail11 M3, eg14 Diva’s repertoire15 By oneself16 Boat propeller?17 Alleyways19 Whichever20 ___ de cologne21 Mai ___22 No-win situation23 Credit, as a source27 Trial conference29 Carnival city, casually30 Certain citrus fruit32 Hilo happening33 Flightless Australian bird34 Unexpected obstacles36 Kick out39 Standard41 Encircles43 Jazz legend Fitzgerald44 Paid to get a hand46 ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and

Famous’ host48 Quick swim49 Let out, as light51 One of Goodrich’s goods52 WSW’s reverse53 Accomplices56 Exits the premises58 Fraternity letter59 Common Market letters60 Vaudeville routine61 Company with brown trucks62 It fell in 192968 Big fat zero69 Pang70 Jeweled crown71 Judge a case

72 Like a flophouse73 ‘Nay’ follower

DOWN1 Bar bill2 Special time in history3 Involuntary muscle movement4 One scratching the surface?5 Attacks verbally6 It’s for the course7 McSorley’s Old ___ House8 Poe and Pound, eg9 Consist of, as a plan10 Distillation leftovers11 Noah was one12 Suffix with ‘Wrestle’13 More ironically humorous18 River activity23 Venue for big crowds24 Do what he says25 In a polite manner26 Alternative to text messages28 House overhang31 Florida marsh bird35 Sedate37 Eastwood of Hollywood38 Captures on camera40 In-basket item42 Horror-movie sound45 Condensed books47 They dig jazz50 Cut one’s incisors53 Feat for a daredevil54 Endangered animal with a long

snout55 Gain points57 Spaces with skylights63 North Atlantic food fish64 CTRL, eg65 Diane, in ‘The Godfather’66 Before, of yore67 Sticky stuff in La Brea

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26THOUGHT OF THE DAYI have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to theseteachers. Kahlil Gibran

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How to play kakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku insome ways. But is also suitably different. The keyquestion: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well hereare the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakurogrid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It hasrows and columns, and dark cells like in a cross-word. And, just like in a crossword, some of thedark cells will contain numbers. Some cells willcontain two numbers.

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

Within each collection of cells — calleda run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be usedbut, like sudoku, each number may only be usedonce.

Let’s have an example to explain this conceptmore clearly:

In the image above, which shows a section ofa kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells under-neath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could bethe answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actual combi-nation? Well, this is done through eliminationand cross-referencing. For instance, as you workout the answers for other kakuro clues, this willnaturally limit the valid combinations, and hencethe answer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two — it con-tains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers tothe vertical run underneath the number 30 andthe 11 refers to the two cells to the right, hori-zontally, of the number 11.

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ARIESEmployees might face disap-pointment, frustration and bur-den at office. Businessmenmight face a tough time get-ting new business but need notworry as soon the situation willchange. Those planning to goabroad will be successful.

ARIES: Temperance – Bepatient about your work situation.Things will improve soon. You’re get-ting anxious about the sacrificesyou’ve made in order to get here.

GEMINI: Seven of Wands –You’re feeling tired and need to rest.Use some time by yourself to lookback, review your decisions and planahead for the weeks to come.

LEO: Nine of swords –Nightmares, restless sleep and anxi-ety are taking a toll on your health.Take time off and get away for a fewdays. Rejuvenate and refresh.

LIBRA: Eight of Swords –You feel restless and on the edge.You haven’t been sleeping well andit’s showing on your health. Taketime off and rest well.

TAURUS: Knight of Wands– You have the youthful energy andraw enthusiasm to try out the new.This is a lucky phase. Make the mostof it and use your positivity.

CANCER: Nine of Wands –You’re reaching the end of a presti-gious project and you’ve put in a lotof hard work. It’s showing and thebosses are extremely happy with you.

VIRGO: The Chariot –Travel is on the cards. This will be animportant journey when you meetinteresting people who make animpact on your future life course.

SCORPIO: Three of Cups –Celebration time! Bring out the bub-bly and celebrate your success. It’simportant to do so to attract morepositive energy into your life.

CAPRICORN: Four of Pen -tacles – Financial stability is making itworth it despite the lack of challengeyou feel in your current position.You’ll stick on despite the boredom.

SAGITTARIUS: The Sun –You’re bright and cheerful and thishappy disposition wins you manyfriends. People even come to you foradvice because you seem so practical.

AQUARIUS: The World –The world is at your feet and all yourplans are working perfectly. If thereare any minor glitches, you have it inyou to manage them.

PISCES: Knight of Wands– You’re feeling youthful, adventur-ous and ready to take on the worldwith new and creative ideas. Roman -ce is in the air. An old flame returns.

TAURUSFinancial assistance expectedfrom the bank will get sanc-tioned and keep you cheerful.Children will make you happyand proud. Employees likely toget a hike and promotion too.Businessmen will get co-oper-ation from their staff.

GEMINICourt verdict may not go in yo urfavour, which might depress yo -u. Blood relatives put you in anembarrassing situation. Main taincordial relationship with thosewho lent you money to avoid amisunderstanding. Delay in trav-el and repair of vehicle likely.

CANCERAs deficit financial situation islikely for some more time, youneed to take alternative stepsto tide over situation. Misund -er standing between couples in -creases widening the gapbetween them. If women donot stay cool, trouble is certain.

LEOBusinessmen might face troub -le in clearing debts. Minor ten-sions will come and go freque -n t ly but there will not be anymajor issue. Held-up marriagetalk will resume. Colleagues willcreate trouble for the employedat workplace; be alert.

VIRGOMoney inflow will increase butthere will be a deficit situationthat might upset you. You maybe in a dilemma in decidingwhat to do and what not to?Take decisions only after dueanalysis and on your own sothat things will never go wrong.

LIBRAFinancial commitments are tobe given only after you get theexpected amount in your hand;else, you might land in trouble.Avoid arguments and discussi -ons. Be cordial with neighboursso that peace will prevail. Ad -just well with family members.

SCORPIOSharing family secrets with oth-ers is not advisable; keep it inmind. Avoid emotional deci-sions as this is a wise thing todo now. Legal issues and courtcases get delayed. Employeesmight face work burden butincome will be abundant.

SAGITTARIUSBusinessmen will feel cheerfuldue to a boom trend and incre -ased profits. Misunderstandingbetween couples will come toan end. Those planning to goabroad will achieve success intheir efforts. Soon, they willleave for their destination.

CAPRICORNDebt issues will be under con-trol with efficient handling offinances and soon you will co -me out of your major debts.Differences between coupleswill be over and they will leada happy life hereafter. Marriageof a family member is likely.

AQUARIUSGood news on cards from dis-tant relatives. Money inflowwill be as per expectations andyou will be in a comfortableposition. Management will notbe able to use your skills fully.Employees will be unhappy astheir work is not recognised.

PISCESEmployees advised to avoidcontroversial decisions. Busine -s smen need to work with afocus to achieve their goals.They can be sure of good prof-its. Artists face a dull time.Politicians to keep a low profileand stay cordial with all.

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Entertainment MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 28HITCHCOCK’S MUSES

The Birds (1963)It has been 50 years since AlfredHitchcock’s The Birds releasedand along with Psycho andVertigo, it has become one of hismost talked-about films. The filmwas loosely based on a story ofthe same name written byDaphne du Maurier. Rod Taylor,Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy andSuzanne Pleshette played thelead roles and The Birds went onto become one of the most criti-cally acclaimed films of that year.The film is about a youngsocialite who goes to a smalltown in California only to findthat the town has attracted vio-lent birds for unknown reasons.

Hitchcock receivedfive Oscar nomina-tions for best direc-tor; DGA nominat-ed him six times as

best director, andhe also received

three nominationsfrom Cannes. Henever won any of

these awards.Before he died in1980, Hitchcock

was honoured withfive Lifetime

AchievementAwards in various

prestigious ceremonies.

He was infamouswith his cast andcrews for his prac-tical jokes. Whilesome inspiredlaughs, such assuddenly showingup in a dress, mostwere said to havebeen a bit morescary than funny.Usually he foundout about some-body's phobias,such as mice orspiders, and in turnsent them a boxfull of them. Weain’t surprised!

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Last year, AlfredHitchcock’s Vertigo pippedCitizen Kane in a Sight &

Sound poll to decide the great-est film of all time. The sameyear, Sacha Gervasi made afilm titled Hitchcock, whichthrew light on the relationshipbetween Alfred Hitchcock andhis wife Alma Reville duringthe making of Psycho. JulianJarrold made a film titled TheGirl, which explored the rela-tionship that Hitchcock sharedwith Tippi Hedren, the actresswho shot to fame withHitchcock’s The Birds.

Although Hitchcock andhis films have been a popularsubject in the field of film stud-ies, the spike in interest inHitchcock in the past fewyears is too glaring to ignore.We have known him as themaster of suspense who hadthe uncanny ability to surprisehis audience when they leastexpected him toand he has

plenty of films ranging fromRear Window to Psycho to provethis point. Anyone who haswatched at least a handful ofthe 25-odd films he made aftermoving to the US in the late30s would have noticed thepresence of blondes, who areoften the central figure in thefilm. Madeleine Carroll wasthe first blonde who was fea-tured in Hitchcock’s 39 Steps,which released in 1935, andafter that he worked withactresses like Grace Kelly,Tippi Hedren and Janet Leigh,to name a few. His obsessionwith looking for the perfectblonde has been well-docu-mented and it even inspired abook Spellbound by Beauty:Alfred Hitchcock and His LeadingLadies, which was written byDonald Spoto in 2009. That inturn was the inspirationbehind Julian Jarrold’s The Girl.

Was Hitchcock obsessedwith the lead actresses in hisfilms or was he trying to fulfilthe male fantasy of finding awoman endowed with greatlooks and wit? In SachaGervasi’s Hitchcock, there’s ascene where Alma Reville,played by Helen Mirren,

screams at her hus-

band to abandon his search tofind the perfect blonde,because she doesn’t exist inreal life. Behind the veil of the

surreal beauty most of

his actresses had, the mythicalblonde in a Hitchcock’s film isoften the most vulnerablecharacter. Be it Marion Crane,played by Janet Leigh inPsycho, or Melanie Daniels(Tippi Hedren) from The Birds,almost all of them stand out interms of their reaction whensubjected to great amounts offear and danger. The famousshower scene in Psycho featur-ing Janet Leigh was her gen-uine reaction to the incredibleamount of pressure whichHitchcock had put on her toget a perfect shot. At times, heprojected his actresses as dare-devils who are ready to risktheir own lives to save some-one they truly loved orbelieved in. A case in pointbeing Lisa, played by GraceKelly, in Rear Window.

As is the case with mostgreat directors, Hitchcock’srelationship with his actresseshas come under scanner, espe-cially after Donald Spoto pro-jected him as a sexual predatorin his book. Several actresseswho had worked withHitchcock denied this allega-tion, but we are absolutely cer-tain of one thing — that perfectblonde, once immortalised byHitchcock, no longer exists.

SEARCHING for the perfect blondeOver the past couple of years, there has been a revival in Hollywood’s interest in

Alfred Hitchcock’s works. Apart from being the ‘Master of Suspense’, he wasquite popular for his obsession with blondes. We take a look at this quirk.

Luck is every-thing. My good

luck in life was tobe a really frightenedperson. I’m fortunateto be a coward, tohave a low thresholdof fear, because ahero couldn'tmake a good suspense film.

Alfred HitchcockDirector

sports 29NBA

WORLD BOXING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPSPORTS BRIEFS

CHINESE GRAND PRIX CONTROVERSY


LEAGUE CRICKET

Tigers CC 115 allout (Shanawaz 4

overs 3 for 17) lostto Deccan Stallions119-7 in 18.4 overs(Abdur Rahman 34,Bilal 2 for 14, Ali 4for 27)

Pega Systems144 for 5 (PraneethPurigalla 33) lost toPhoenix 145 for 4in 18.2 overs (UzairSiddiqui 57).

INORBITCORPORATE T20CRICKET LEAGUE

Net Cracker 186for 6 in 20

over’s (Chethan 67*,Naresh 33) beatHSBC 174 for 8 in20 over’s (Arjun 45)

Capgemini 158for 8 in 20 over’s(Biswajit 49,Sampreeth 3 for 28)beat Worldview 91All-out in 17 over’s(Dushyanth 5 for13).

PRATEEK, VARUNWIN CHESSTOURNEY

Atluri Prateek ofDAV Public

School won the83rd Brilliant Chesstrophy in thejuniors’ category byscoring 6 points outof 6 rounds whileMeghanshramstood second with5.5 points. A Rohith securedthe third place with5 points.

LOS ANGELES: Just one dayafter Kobe Bryant underwentseason-ending foot surgery, theLos Angeles Lakers kept theirplayoff hopes alive by surpris-ing the first place San AntonioSpurs 91-86 on Sunday.

In a game that had hugeplayoff ramifications, DwightHoward (right) had 26 pointsand 17 rebounds and SteveBlake finished with 23 pointsand four assists for the Lakerswho are 1 1/2 games up on theUtah Jazz, who play Monday inMinnesota.

“Steve Blake was just goingcrazy,” said Lakers coach MikeD’Antoni. “Different guysstepped up but Dwight andSteve Blake carried the bulk ofthe work.”

In the heat of the NBA playoff race, Bryant tore his left Achilles tendon in Friday’swin over Golden State. The 34-year-old Bryant underwentsurgery Saturday and the recov-ery time is expected to be some-where around six-to-ninemonths.

Blake said everyone had to

step up with 15-time all-starBryant out for the season.

“When everyone is reallyfocussed and concentrating onwhat they are supposed to dowe can get a lot of stops,” Blake

said. Blake also joked that hehalf expected the ultra-competi-tive Bryant to try and call thedressing room at the half timeto give his teammates a peptalk. AFP

SHANGHAI: Red Bull teamprincipal Christian Hornerangrily dismissed talk of a con-spiracy against Mark Webber as“complete rubbish” after theAustralian’s dismal weekend inShanghai.

The spotlight was on Webberat the Chinese Grand Prix afterteam-mate Sebastian Vettelsnatched victory from him inMalaysia last month. Webbersaid he was looking forward togetting in his car and putting the

furore behind him.However, he was thrown out

of qualifying in Shanghai when atechnical error left him with notenough fuel, then on race day onSunday his afternoon came to anabrupt end when a wheel fell offon lap 16. Horner though wasdetermined to put any talk of acalculated team effort against the36-year-old Webber firmly to bed.

“That is complete rubbish,”he was quoted by autosport.comas saying.

“Forget conspiracy. It is allabout trying to get two cars tofinish as high as we can.

“Anybody that thinks there isa conspiracy here against one, oreither, driver doesn’t know whatthey are looking at.”

He added: “Mark knowsexactly what happened. That isit. There is no conspiracy.”

Webber had pitted after a col-lision with the Toro Rosso ofJean-Eric Vergne, an incident thatwill see Webber relegated three

places on the grid in Bahrain thisweekend.

His Red Bull team were fined5,000 euros ($6,500) over thewheel fiasco.

“After changing the nose andall four tyres, Mark reported aproblem with the right rear (tyre)on the out lap, which had cer-tainly left the pit lane fullytorqued up,” said Horner.

“The right rear then camedetached from the car and causedMark to retire,” he added. AFP

Red Bull chief says no Webber conspiracy

HOUSTON, TEXAS: Fifth seed-ed John Isner claimed his sixthcareer title and first on clay bybeating Nicolas Almagro instraight sets in the final of the USClay Court Championships onSunday.

The hard-serving Americanblasted seven aces en route to a6-3, 7-5 win over the Spanish claycourt specialist at River OaksCountry Club in Houston.

“I’ve always known I couldplay well on clay,” said Isner.“This week is a little surprising,as Monday was the first day I hita ball on clay since September.

Isner winsfirst clay title

JAKARTA: Undefeated WorldBoxing Association feather-weight champion Chris John ofIndonesia Sunday retained histitle in a technical draw after aheadbutt left a deep cut over hisright eye.

The bout with Japan’s SatoshiHosono at the indoor tennis sta-dium in Jakarta was stopped bythe referee at two minutes and 12seconds into round three after ahead butt by Hosono left Johnwith a bloody gash over his righteye.

John, 33, defended his titlefor the 18th time after a tie wasdeclared. With the latest result,his record stands at 48 wins,three draws and no losses —putting him within reach of thebenchmark set by Mexican greatRicardo Lopez, who retiredundefeated with 51 victories.

“Honestly, I’m not satisfiedwith my performance. But I suf-fered a serious injury that forcedme to stop,” he told the stadiumpacked with cheering Indonesianfans. AFP

NEW DELHI:Star player SaniaMirza has alsojoined IndianTennis PlayersA s s o c i a t i o n(ITPA) as one ofits Vice Presidents, it wasrevealed today. Sania is now oneof the four Vice Presidents ofthe newly-formed body withLeander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathiand Somdev Devvarman beingthe other VPs. PTI

SPORTS BRIEFS

Lakers stun leaders SpursLos Angeles Lakers went into the game without injured Kobe Bryant.

Red Bull driver Mark Webber ofAustralia gets a lift on a scooterafter his car broke. AFP

Sania joins ITPA

WBA featherweight champion ChrisJohn (L) lands a punch on the faceof Satoshi Hosono during the fightin Jakarta on Sunday. AFP

MIAMI: The Miami Heat onSunday got revenge on theChicago Bulls, winning 105-93 on the back of a 24-pointperformance from superstarLeBron James at AmericanAirlines Arena.

The Heat’s win comethree weeks after they werebeaten 101-97 by the Bulls —a loss that ended Miami’snear-record win streak at 27games.

“We wanted to win thisgame; we always want toprotect home court,” Heatcentre Bosh said. “We didn’twant to play any sloppy bas-ketball and lose a bad game.”

James also had sevenrebounds and six assists,while Dwyane Wade scored22 for the Heat, who shot51.4 percent from the fieldoverall. It marked the sixthstraight win and a franchise-record 36th victory at home.

Heat avenge streak-ending loss, beat Bulls

John retains crown in technical draw

sports 30AUGUSTA MASTERS


AUGUSTA, GEORGIA: AdamScott of Australia won the 77thMasters at Augusta National onSunday, winning a playoffagainst Angel Cabrera ofArgentina.

Scott won at the second play-off hole with a 10-foot birdie.They both parred the first playoffhole.

The 32-year-old Scott, thefirst Australian to win theMasters, shot 69 and Cabrera 70as they both finished with nineunder par totals of 279.

Third place went to JasonDay of Australia two strokesback after a closing 70, with TigerWoods (70) of the United Statesand Marc Leishman of Australia(72) in a tie for fourth place onfive under.

Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen(68) and Brandt Snedeker (75) ofthe United States shared sixth afurther stroke back.

NORMAN PLAYED A ROLE INSCOTT’S MASTERS WIN

Adam Scott withstood thesorts of challenges that foiledprior Australian bids to win theMasters thanks in part to thelegacy of heartbreak endured byhis boyhood idol, Greg Norman.

Scott trailed for much of

Sunday’s rainy final roundbefore making a 25-foot birdieputt on the 72nd hole, only tohave Argentina’s Angel Cabrera,a two-time major champion,match him with a birdie to forcea playoff.

Faced with intense pressure,Scott calmly kept his poise, made

his shots and dropped a 10-footbirdie putt on ther second play-off hole to capture the green jack-et, the jinx-shattering first everclaimed by an Australian golfer.

“It’s amazing that it’s my des-tiny to be the first Aussie to win,"Scott said. “Just incredible."

Part of what toughened the

32-year-old from Adelaide forthe intense Masters crucible waswatching two-time British Openwinner Norman suffer three run-ner-up finishes at AugustaNational without ever claimingthe victory.

“Part of this is for himbecause he’s given me so much

time and inspiration andbelief," Scott said. “I drew onthat a lot today. I somehowmanaged to stay in each shotwhen I needed to."

Norman took a bogey at the18th in the 1986 Masters to handJack Nicklaus his 18th and lastmajor title at age 46. In 1987,Norman lost a Masters playoffwhen Augusta native Larry Mizeholed a miraculous chip shot.

In 1996, Norman suffered thegreatest last-round collapse inmajor golf history, leading by sixover Nick Faldo only to lose byfive to the Englishman in an epicturnaround.

“Most of us would feel thathe could have slipped a greenjacket on, for sure," Scott said.

Scott himself settled for ashare of second at AugustaNational in 2011 with country-man Jason Day.

The breakthrough green jack-et might belong to Scott, butNorman earned himself a fewstitches at least.

“He inspired a nation ofgolfers," Scott said. “He was thebest player in the world and hewas an icon in Australia.Everything about the way hehandled himself was incredibleto have as a role model. AFP

279 — Adam Scott (AUS),Angel Cabrera (ARG) 71-69-69-70; * Scott won at second play-offhole; 281 — Jason Day (AUS) 70-68-73-70; 283 — Tiger Woods(USA) 70-73-70-70, MarcLeishman (AUS) 66-73-72-72; 284— Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN) 78-70-68-68, Brandt Snedeker (USA)70-70-69-75; 285 — Sergio Garcia

(ESP) 66-76-73-70, LeeWestwood (ENG) 70-71-73-71,Matt Kuchar (USA) 68-75-69-73;286 — John Huh (USA) 70-77-71-68, Tim Clark (RSA) 70-76-67-73;287 — David Toms (USA) 70-74-76-67, Ernie Els (RSA) 71-74-73-69, Dustin Johnson (USA) 67-76-74-70, Fred Couples (USA) 68-71-77-71, Nick Watney 78-69-68-

72; 288 — Henrik Stenson (SWE)75-71-73-69, Branden Grace(RSA) 78-70-71-69; 289 — BillHaas (USA) 71-72-74-72, JasonDufner 72-69-75-73. GonzaloFernandez-Castano (ESP) 68-74-73-74, Bo Van Pelt (USA) 71-74-70-74, Steve Stricker (USA) 73-70-71-75; 290 — MichaelThompson (USA) 73-71-79-67,

Rory McIlroy (NIR) 72-70-79-69,Richard Sterne (RSA) 73-72-75-70, Stewart Cink 75-71-73-71,Luke Donald (ENG) 71-72-75-72,Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 71-71-75-73, Fredrik Jacobson (SWE)72-73-72-73, Justin Rose (ENG)70-71-75-74, Jim Furyk (USA) 69-71-74-76, Bernhard Langer(GER) 71-71-72-76

For Tiger Woods, the long wait for a 15thmajor title continues. The 37-year-oldAmerican briefly threatened the leaders

going down the back nine in the final round ofthe 77th Masters on Sunday, but he had left him-self with too much to do and he eventually had tosettle for a tie for fourth place.

That means that by the time he tees off atMerion Golf Club in the US Open it will be fiveyears since he last won one of the big four titles.

It also means that he will need to wait anotheryear to add to his Masters green jackets, his

fourth and most recent coming in 2005.Woods’ driving ambitions are to match

and better the record 18 majorswon by Jack Nicklaus and tooverhaul the record six Masterswins by Nicklaus. Starting theday four strokes behind joint

leaders Brandt Snedeker andAngel Cabrera, Woods said thathe believed he had an outsidechance of winning a majorwhile coming from behind.

Adam Scott of Australia chips during the fourth round of the 77th Masters golf tournament at Augusta National GolfClub on Sunday in Augusta, Georgia. AFP/ JIM WATSON

Scott pulls off MasterstrokeAdam Scott had started the final round a shot behind joint leaders Cabrera and Snedeker.

It’s amazing thatit’s my destiny

to be the first Aussie to win.Just incredible.

Adam ScottMasters winner

Top 10final-

roundscores

Silver Cup for GuanGuan Tianlang’s his-

toric debut at theMasters ended with

a rousing reception fromfans gathered aroundAugusta National’s famous18th hole on Sunday.

Playing his final roundin the company of 55-yearold Scot Sandy Lyle, the1988 Masters champion, the14-year-old Chineseschoolboy carded a three-over 75 which left him at12-over 300 for the tourna-ment.

He ended up fourthfrom bottom of the 61-strong field that survivedthe cut, but Guan had

already left an indeliblemark on the tournament asthe youngest-ever player tocompete in the Masters andthe second youngest in anyof the major tournaments.

Bogeysat the first,fifth andsixth sawhim reachthe turn in39 and hedropped afurther shotat the 11thbefore finally bagging abirdie at the par-five 13th,his first since sinking a puttfrom the edge in the 18th.

The longwait goes

on forWoods

SCORECARDKKR V SUNRISERS HYDERABAD R ROYALS V KINGS XI PUNJAB

Kolkata Knight Riders innings (20 overs maximum)MS Bisla† c Vihari b KV Sharma 28 (37)G Gambhir* b Ashish Reddy 53 (63)JH Kallis run out (Mishra/†Patel) 41 (61)EJG Morgan run out (Steyn) 47 (29)YK Pathan not out 3 (5)Extras (lb 4, w 4) 8Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) 180Bowling O M R W Econ DW Steyn 4 0 29 0 7.25GH Vihari 1 0 14 0 14.00I Sharma 4 0 33 0 8.25NLTC Perera 4 0 44 0 11.00A Mishra 3 0 28 0 9.33KV Sharma 2 0 13 1 6.50Ashish Reddy 2 0 15 1 7.50Sunrisers Hyderabad innings (target: 181 runs from 20 overs)PA Patel† b Kallis 27 (35)CL White c Pathan b Kallis 34 (43)Sangakkara* c Tiwary b Bhatia 2 (11)DB Ravi Teja c Tiwary b Narine 10 (22)NLTC Perera b Kallis 36 (33)Ashish Reddy b Senanayake 4 (8)KV Sharma not out 5 (13)GH Vihari c Tiwary b Bhatia 1 (3)A Mishra not out 1 (3)Extras (b 1, lb 6, w 5) 12Total (7 wickets; 20 overs) 132Bowling O M R W Econ L Balaji 4 0 30 0 7.50Senanayake 4 0 18 1 4.50SP Narine 4 0 31 1 7.75JH Kallis 4 0 13 3 3.25R Bhatia 4 0 33 2 8.25

Kings XI Punjab innings (20 overs maximum)M Singh c Binny b Sreesanth 2 (8)Gilchrist*† c Trivedi b Sreesanth 0 (2)M Vohra run out (Faulkner) 3 (6)DJ Hussey c Dravid b Trivedi 41 (31)G Singh c †Samson b Trivedi 10 (15)R Sathish c †Samson b Faulkner 11 (12)Az Mahmood b Cooper 23 (20)Chawla c Rahane b Cooper 7 (9)RJ Harris not out 2 (3)P Kumar run out (†Samson) 15 (7)P Awana c †Samson b Faulkner 0 (1)Extras (lb 2, w 7, nb 1) 10Total (all out; 18.5 overs) 124Bowling O M R W Econ A Chandila 3 0 14 0 4.66S Sreesanth 4 1 20 2 5.00K Cooper 3 0 33 2 11.00JP Faulkner 3.5 0 30 2 7.82SK Trivedi 4 0 21 2 5.25STR Binny 1 0 4 0 4.00Rajasthan Royals innings (target: 125 runs from 20 overs)Watson c M Singh b Awana 32 (19)AM Rahane not out 34 (42)R Dravid* c †Gilchrist b Kumar 9 (12)STR Binny c †Gilchrist b Kumar 0 (4)BJ Hodge lbw b Chawla 15 (16)SV Samson† not out 27 (23)Extras (lb 6, w 3) 9Total (4 wickets; 19.2 overs) 126Bowling O M R W Econ P Kumar 4 1 10 2 2.50RJ Harris 4 0 30 0 7.50P Awana 4 0 35 1 8.75Az Mahmood 4 0 23 0 5.75PP Chawla 3.2 0 22 1 6.60

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 48 runs Rajasthan Royals won by 6 wickets


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METRE 6S 136 14Chris Gayle (RCB) 93*HIGHEST

SCOREBESTBOWLER 4-134S 471 26Virat

Kohli(RCB)

SunilNarine(KKR)

Virat Kohli(RCB)

Kevon CooperYadav (RR),

Vinay Kumar(RCB) 8 wickets

“It is the start of the sea-son. You need to main-tain your commitmentand maintain your disci-pline. Whoever getstense will lose the battle.It is important to staytogether and focus oneach and every practicesession and executethem to win matches,”CSK’s Suresh Raina.

Youngstersneed backing:MoodySurisers Hyderabad coach Tom

Moody today backed his non-performing young lot, sayingsooner than later they will deliver.

Hyderbad surrendered meek-ly against a clinical KolkataKnight Riders today as the visi-tors’ batsmen never looked likechasing a challenging target of181.

“We have some young faces.They are learning. We got to trustthem. Overtime, they will deliver.We just got to keep the faith on theyounger guys.”

“We were just outplayed butthat’s the nature of T20 cricket. It’sstill early stages. We are three outof five,” Moody said.

Moody said it must be notedthat even without explosive bats-man Shikhar Dhawan they havewon three out of five games. PTI

Virat Kohli(RCB) 256 runs

IPL 6 BATTLE OF THE TITANS

FLASH

Pune Warriors India,since their inception intothe Indian PremierLeague, have failed to

leave a mark and never seemedthreatening enough for theiropponents. Every season, theyhave ended at one of the bottomrungs on the points table, andare currently staggering at theeighth position.

Off the four matches thatthey have played until now inthe sixth edition of the IPL, theWarriors were successful onlyon one instance – againstRajasthan Royals.

The Warriors faltered onmany counts. Their batting hasfailed them and their bowlinghas a near similar tale to narrate.

While the PWI side boasts ofnote worthy names like RossTaylor, Yuvraj Singh, RobinUthappa and skipper Angelo

Matthews among the others, yetthey have not been able to capi-talise on their strengths.Matthews has appeared to beclueless since the beginning ofthe season and his teammateshave followed suit.

The Warriors take on formerchampions Chennai SuperKings today at the latter’s homeground, MA ChidambaramStadium.

The Kings from Chennai,who seem formidable in com-parison to their opponents,managed to sneak a victory intheir last match against theRoyal Challengers Bangalore. Itwas a game which manybelieve was won on the sure

power of luck rather than talentas a no ball in the final deliveryswung the fortunes of both theteams.

But that apart, playing ontheir home turf, the Super Kingsundoubtedly have an advan-tage. Also, their previous recordhas seen them rise to greatheights, overcoming initial hur-dles. Not only are they a strongteam on paper but have also per-formed well on the field.

Captain Mahendra SinghDhoni has lost his wickets at cru-cial stages of different games,but he has chipped at the timesof need. His other teammateslike Ravichandran Ashwin,Badrinath, Suresh Raina, MuraliVijay or Dwayne Bravo havealso played their respectiveparts well.

The Super Kings are current-ly placed at the fifth position onthe points table with two victo-ries from three matches. While itremains to be seen if CSK aresuccessful against PWI tonight,the Kings are being touted asfavourites for winning the tro-phy for the third time.

CSK VS PWI AT 8PMON SET MAX

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P W L T PT NRMI 4 3 1 0 6 +1.150

RCB 5 3 2 0 6 +0.439

RR 4 3 1 0 6 +0.230

SRH 5 3 2 0 6 -0.380

CSK 3 2 1 0 4 +0.250

KKR 4 2 2 0 4 +0.223

KXIP 3 1 2 0 2 +0.494

PWI 4 1 3 0 2 -1.392

DD 4 0 4 0 0 -0.836

P-played; W-win; L-lost; T-tie;NR-net run rate; PT-points

Shilpa Shetty (R) cheers her team Rajasthan Royals in the matchagainst Kings XI Punjab at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Sunday.

CHEERLEADER

PWI: 1-match wonder?

After a fantastic quali-fying round of theWorld Super SportChampionship cam-

paign Mahi Racing Team Indiarider Fabien Foret won the racein Motorland Aragon, Spain onSunday recording the fastest lapof 2’02.743 in the 18-lap race. Itwas Fabien’s16th race win andthe 2002 WSS Champ ion nowbecomes the new leader in thecurrent World Championship.

“We are absolutely thrilledwith our team’s victory today.During the qualification roundwe knew that our riders were allset to recreate the Philip Islandmagic in Spain and they did notdisappoint us,” team ownersNagarjuna and Nandish Dom -lur who are in Spain to cheer theteam said.

“It was a fantastic race andwe are super excited and hopeour fans in India will share ourexcitement,” Nagarjuna added.

Earlier this year, defendingand three-time World Super -sport Champion KenanSofuoglu gave Mahi Racing thefirst win of the season and set anew lap record in 1’33.283 inPhillip Island, Australia.

“It is a great win for ourteam” Fabien Foret said after therace. We look forward to main-taining our consistent perfor-mance throughout the season.

The 2013 race season isexpected to have 15 rounds. TheIndian Team rider line-upinclude triple world championKenan Sofouglu and former

world champion Fabien Foret.Supported by Kawasaki as itsfactory team, with technicaldirection in the hands ofAndrew Stone, the Mahi RacingTeam will be moving on to thenext race at Assen inNetherlands on 28th April 2013,

with supreme confidence.The Indian round will be

held at the Buddh InternationalCircuit in November this year.

N-MOTORSPORTN-Motorsport joined hands withRhiti MSD of CricketerMahendra Singh Dhoni to powerAsia’s first super motorbike rac-ing team - “Mahi Racing TeamIndia” in the FIM SuperbikeWorld Champion ship 2012-2013.

LONDON: Manchester Citywithstood a valiant fightbackfrom Chelsea to win a grippingFA Cup semi-final 2-1 atWembley Stadium on Sundayand knock the holders out of thecompetition.

Goals in each half from SamirNasri and Sergio Aguero putCity in control, but Chelseareplied through Demba Ba, onlyfor Roberto Mancini’s men toresist the holders’ desperatesearch for an equaliser.

Fifteen points behindManchester United in thePremier League, City seem des-tined to relinquish their leaguecrown, but they will be strongfavourites to defeat WiganAthletic in the FA Cup final onMay 11 and reclaim the trophythey won in 2011.

“I said before the game, itwould be difficult becauseChelsea are in a good moment,but we deserved to win,” saidCity manager Mancini.

“Now we have to win thefinal and finish second in thechampionship - that is our tar-get.”

sportsMONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

32WENGER TELLS ARSENAL TO HOLD THEIR NERVEArsene Wenger has challenged his Arsenal stars to hold their nerve as theGunners look to cement their return to the top four against Everton onTuesday. Wenger’s side moved up from fifth to third in the Premier Leagueafter Saturday’s dramatic 3-1 win over Norwich.

FIM WORLD SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP FA CUP

I said before thegame, it would be

difficult becauseChelsea are in a goodmoment, but wedeserved to win. Nowwe have to winthe final and finish second.

Roberto ManciniMan City manager

City hold onto end

Chelsea’s run

LONDON: Tear gas, stungrenades and knuckle-dustersprovided a grim, bloody back-drop as hooliganism returned tohaunt Euro pe’s top leagues thisweekend.

From London’s showpieceWembley Stadium to Munich’sglittering Allianz Arena and atthe 2004 Olympic Stadium inAthens, fans fought hit-and-runbattles with riot police.

Fourteen fans were arrestedand four police officers were

hurt after Millwall fans foughtamongst themselves as theirteam went down to a 2-0 defeatto Wigan in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley.

Police wielding batons even-tually brought the disorderunder control.

“Our position is clear.Anyone associated with ourclub found guilty of violentbehaviour will be banned indef-initely from Millwall matches inaddition to any punishment

they receive from the authori-ties,” said Millwall chief execu-tive Andy Ambler.

South London club Millwallhad been plagued by hardcoreviolence during the dark days ofthe 1970s and 1980s.

Saturday’s fighting was wit-nessed by millions of peopleworldwide tuning into TV cov-erage of the sport’s oldest cupcompetition.

Wigan chairman DaveWhelan said he had been

Foret wins race forTeam Mahi Racing

BLACK WEEKENDHistory of violence returns to England

Millwall fans fight among them-selves in the crowd during the FACup semi-final football match. AFP

We are absolute-ly thrilled with

our team’s victorytoday. It was a fantas-tic race and we aresuper excited andhope our fans inIndia will shareour excitement.

NagarjunaCo-owner, Mahi Racing

Winner Fabien Foret (kneeling) of Mahi Racing Team India celebrates hisvictory at the World Supersport Championship in Spain on Sunday withNagarjuna, Nandish Domlur, Akhil Akkineni and other team members.

Mahi Racing TeamIndia co-ownersNagarjuna andNandish who are inSpain to back theirteam are thrilled withtheir team’s back-to-back wins.

Results 1 Fabien Foret — Mahi

Racing Team India, 2 Michaelvan der Mark, 3 Luca Scassa,

4 Andrea Antonelli

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