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THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH CHENNAI I SUNDAY 22 I NOVEMBER 2020 WEATHER CITY | 2 WORLD | 5 SPORT | 8 Max: 30OC Min: 23OC Metro Phase-II set to make Jan Morris, author, Thiem edges past Rainfall: Nil Chennai a world-class city passes away at 94 Djokovic in semis ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Karthigai 7 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No. 237 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `4.00 Tithi: Ashtami Star: Avittam COVID-19 FIGHT Rahukalam: 4.30 pm to 6 pm Yamagandam: AIADMK seals alliance with BJP Tally crosses 90L; states 12 noon to 1.30 pm DC CORRESPONDENT PRAYERS CHENNAI, NOV. 21 Ex-DMK MP joins Home minister Fajar: 4.54 am told to ramp up testing Zohar: 11.58 am The AIADMK’s alliance BJP, may wean walks on road, 3.12 pm with the BJP will continue DC CORRESPONDENT control. In view of the Asar: in the 2021 Assembly elec- NEW DELHI, NOV. 21 increase in Covid cases of Maghrib: 5.39 pm tions, chief away Alagiri too entices supporters some of the north Indian Isha: 6.53 pm minister Edappadi K. The Union government states, the Centre has Palaniswami and deputy Chennai, Nov. 21: Chennai, Nov. 21: Union has directed state govern- advised all states and UTs chief minister O. Former DMK MP K. P. home minister Amit Shah ments and Union territo- to ramp up testing," offi- Soldier killed, 3 hurt in Pak Panneerselvam declared on Ramalingam joined the on Saturday sprang a sur- ries to ramp up testing for cials said. Saturday in the presence of BJP here on Saturday and prise here when he virtu- Covid-19 as 46,232 fresh Health ministry officials firing along LoC in J&K Union home minister Amit said he would try to con- ally broke protocol to get detections were made on said an average of more Jammu: A havaldar in the Indian Shah at a function in Union home minister Amit Shah lighting a lamp and dedi- vince the expelled out of his vehicle and walk Saturday, taking India's than 10 lakh tests are con- Army was killed and three others, Chennai organised to cated Kannankottai-Thervoy Kandigai reservoir and laid Dravidian party leader M. on the busy GST Road out- overall tally of novel coro- ducted now. including two women, were launch projects worth the foundation stone for various infrastructure projects, K. Alagiri to join the saf- side the airport to greet navirus crossed 90.5 lakh. 12 states/UTs have lower injured on Saturday as Pakistani `67,758 crore. totalling over `67,758 crore, across the state in Chennai fron party. supporters, minutes after The death toll so far has tests per million than troops resorted to unprovoked fir- Dedicating the Saturday. — DC Ramalingam joined the he landed here for a two- been nearly 1.33 lakh out national average, and ing on forward posts and villages Kannankottai-Thervoy BJP in the presence of day visit to the city. of which 564 fatalities have been advised by the in different sectors along the Line Kandigai reservoir to the right to speak about corrup- ernment has fought against national general secre- Mr Shah, who thanked occurred in the last 24 Central government to of Control (LoC) and the nation, besides laying the tion. corruption, dynasty and tary and Tamil Nadu the metropolis for its love, hours. substantially ramp up the International Border (IB) in foundation for a slew of Mr Shah, who addressed caste politics all these years, incharge, C T Ravi and said it was “great” to be in “With a continuous levels of testing. Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. high-profile projects, the crowd in Hindi, praised Mr Shah said and urged the Tamil Nadu unit presi- Tamil Nadu. surge in daily cases in , Haryana, West including the Chennai Tamil Nadu for its antiquity people of Tamil Nadu to dent L Murugan at the Police detained a man for European and the Bengal continue to remain metro rail phase 2, Mr Shah and culture and regretted teach a lesson to those prac- party office here ahead of allegedly flinging a plac- American countries, India areas of concern even as COUNTER POINT took a swipe at the that he could not speak in ticing dynastic politics, like the visit of Union home ard when Mr Shah was is taking all cautionary cases have started surging Congress-DMK alliance, the ancient language. the people of some other minister Amit Shah to the walking outside the air- steps to bring the trajecto- again in Maharashtra over saying that they had no The Narendra Modi gov- states have done. I P3 metropolis.— PTI I P3 port. —PTI I P3 ry of the disease under the last two days. Kerala brings ordinance to punish ‘600 BC Keeladi pottery had carbon nanotubes’ cyber abuse; opposition cries foul New Delhi, Nov. 21: that these coatings are Technology (VIT) in Tamil CNTs are tubular struc- the layer sustain more Thiruvananthapuram, had alleged that the amend- Scientists have discovered made of carbon nanotubes Nadu, the coatings are tures of carbon atoms than 2600 years," he added. Nov. 21: Kerala Governor ment would give more the oldest known human- (CNTs) which have “the oldest nanostructures arranged in an ordered Carbon nanotubes have Arif Mohammed Khan has power to the police and also made nanomaterials in the enabled the layer to last observed till now.” manner, Dr superlative properties, signed the Kerala Police curtail the freedom of the “unique black coatings” of more than 2600 years, rais- “Until this discovery, to Chandrasekaran said, including high thermal Act Amendment ordinance, press, the charge which was ancient pottery shards -- ing questions on the tools our knowledge, the most adding that coatings in and electrical conductivi- envisaged by the LDF gov- rejected by Chief Minister dated to 600 BC -- used during those periods ancient known nanostruc- ancient artifacts may not ty, and very high mechani- ernment in to prevent cyber Pinarayi Vijayan saying unearthed from an archeo- to achieve high tempera- tures in human-made arti- usually last this long due cal strength, explained attacks against women and the decision had been taken logical site in Keeladi, tures for making earthen- facts are from the eighth to wear and tear caused by nanomaterial scientist M. children which the opposi- based on factors such as Tamil Nadu. wares. or ninth century AD,” changing conditions. M. Shaijumon from IISER tion had alleged would cur- abuse of social media to tar- The research, published According to the scien- study co-author “But the robust mechani- Thiruvananthapuram, tail freedom of expression. nish the image of individu- recently in the journal tists, including those from Vijayanand Chandra- cal properties of the CNT who was unrelated to the The opposition parties als. — PTI I P4 Scientific Reports, revealed Vellore Institute of sekaran from VIT said. based coating has helped study. — PTI I P4 CITY pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | SUNDAY | 22 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI 2

OTHER STORIES Passing out parade at OTA Sick IAS aspirant Metro Phase-II set to make reunites with family from Chhattisgarh Chennai a world-class city T. SUDHEESH I DC In the phase-II project, of public transport trips, have Rs 10,000 monthly DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, NOV. 21 there are three corri- which can transform the income. Otherwise, the CHENNAI, NOV. 21 dors at an estimated metropolis into a world- CMRL will really struggle With the stone laid for class destination for to live up to the expecta- A 40-year-old IAS aspirant, who phase-II of Chennai metro cost of `61,843 crore investments and economic tion of common public. became a mentally challenged rail project by Union supported by the activities. Our cities have various person, was reunited with his home minister Amit Shah Government of India, It may be recalled that levels of socio-economic family with the help of volun- on Saturday, Chennai, is Government of Tamil the state government, in conditions and public teers of Udhavum Karangal. going to become a major Nadu, JICA, ADB, AIIB the last budget, had sanc- transport is expected to Vidyabhushan GhritLahre, of hub of metro services in and NDB tioned Rs 3,100 crore for serve everyone and rea- Nandor Kalan, in Janjgir- the country. the development of the sonably priced. We need a Champa of Chhattisgarh com- The phase-II having 128 Mylapore and metro phase-II which clear policy on public pleted his MA Sociology at Guru Lieutenant General RP Singh, Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, metro stations, estimated Purasawalkam with 50 requires 1,309 properties transport affordability’, Shasidas University, Bilaspur, Vishisht Seva Medal, GOC-in-C, Western Command accepts the Guard of Honour. to cost around Rs 69,180 metro stations comprising including 104 residential he says. in 2002 and prepared for IAS crore and targeted to be 20 elevated metro stations and 937 commercial. Meanwhile, CMRL’s exams. completed by 2026, would and 30 underground sta- V. Ramarao, of Traffic phase-I project, covering Much to his dismay, he did not cover a total 118.9-km tions. The 26.1-km light- and Transportation two corridors for 45 km succeed in the IAS exam in the including 76.3-km elevated house to Forum (TTF), says though from to first attempt. He made up his rail and the rest under- bypass corridor will cover the Chennai Metro Airport (Blue Line) and mind for the second attempt but ground. the commercial hubs of entered the phase-II, the from Puratchi Thalaivar thoughts of failure pervaded his According to the the city like Nandanam, price fixation committee Dr MG Ramachandran mind, leading to depression. He Chennai Metro Rail T.Nagar, , mandated by the Metro Central Metro to St. made three attempts but could Limited (CMRL), the Valasaravakkam, Porur Railways (operation and Thomas Mount ( Green not succeed. He pulled on for phase-II initiated within and Poonamallee with 30 maintenance) Act 2002 Line) with a total of 32 years without any medication four years of inaugura- metro stations comprising remains a distant reality metro stations, is in opera- for mental illness. tion of phase-1 was 8 elevated and 12 under- According to him, lower tion being the first metro In January 2020, when his ill- planned considering the ground stations. income people are not rail system in India to con- ness was at its peak, he slipped growing demand from the The Madhavaram to availing metro services nect the city’s main rail- out of his house in Chennai citizens for a fast, Sholinganallur corridor due to high fares. ‘It is dif- way terminal, bus termi- Chhattisgarh and landed in safe, efficient and sustain- that covers 47 km will con- ficult for an office-goer to nals and airport in the Chennai. He wandered aimless- able public transport sys- nect prime locations inc- spend Rs 140 for a daily first phase itself. ly in Chennai for the past 11 tem. luding Villivakkam, Anna travel, and impossible for The phase-I extension of months without proper food and In the phase-II project, Nagar, Koyambedu, Viru- a daily labourer. I can see the project from shelter. On November 8, social there are three corridors gambakkam, Ramapu- lot of casual labourers, Washermanpet to workers of Udavum Karangal at an estimated cost of Rs. ram, and masons and electricians, Thiruvottiyur (Wimco saw him lying on the side of the 61,843 crore supported by with 48 sta- apart from the officegoers Nagar) covering 9.051 km highway to Bengaluru. When the Government of India, tions comprising 42 elevat- utilise the suburban rail with 8 metro stations (2 the social workers called him, Government of Tamil ed and 6 underground sta- system which is very underground and 6 elevat- he got into the ambulance and Nadu, JICA, ADB, AIIB tions. cheap compared to Metro. ed stations) will connect was given psychiatric care for a and NDB. With the completion of Instead of taking too the northern part of the few days. The corridors including these three corridors, much care on the exten- city to the central busi- Workers of Udavum Karangal Madhavaram to Sipcot Chennai will have 173 km sion of metro, CMRL has ness district area and is interacted with him and got his covering 45.8 km will con- of metro stretch carrying to develop an inclusive targeted to be opened for family details. With the avail- nect the prime locations 25 lakh passengers per day fare strategy including traffic in the end of able information, the volunteers like IT corridor, Adyar, accounting for 25 percent concession to poor who January 2021. traced his father and spoke to him. On learning the news of his son traced, his father DC CORRESPONDENT son Ramprabhu. She is also According to the sources, Ra- Sauram rushed to Chennai on Woman CHENNAI, NOV. 21 survived by another son Bala- mani was heartbroken after November 20. They reunited at ji(32) and daughter Priya (34). learning about the demise of Udhavum Karangal. Unable to bear the loss of her Ramprabhu had been work- her son and hanged herself to commits son, a 72-year-old woman han- ing as an electrical engineer death on Saturday at her res- On November 8, social ged herself to death at her in a private company in idence. Priya broke open the workers of Udavum suicide residence in Chennai on Perungalathur. Police sources door and found her mother ha- Karangal saw him lying Saturday. said that Ramprabhu was nging. The police were alerted. after her The deceased has been iden- hospitalised a couple of days police on the side of the high- tified as Ramani, a resident of back to treat a blood clot in rushed to the spot and sent way to Bengaluru. When P.V. Nagar 3rd street in his heart and subsequently the body for post-mortem. the social workers called son dies Palavanthangal. Her husband passed away on Friday morn- Further investigations are on. him, he got into the Datchinamoorty passed away ing after failing to respond to Ramani is a retired Indian a few years back and she was the treatment at a hospital in Council of Medical Research ambulance and was Cadets in their various moods of celebration. — DC living with her unmarried Velachery. employee. given psychiatric care for a few days Rowdy hacked to FILM REVIEW death by gang in Chengalpet Biskoth is less crispy! A novel attempt errs in execution DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, NOV. 21 BISKOTH QUOTA

A rowdy was hacked to death by ANUPAMA ANUPAMA a gang of goons in Chengalpet SUBRAMANIAN SUBRAMANIAN on Friday night. According to the police, the CAST: SANTHANAM, TARA CAST: CHELLA, NARESH deceased has been identified as ALISHA BERRY, ANANDRAJ, MADESWAR, BHAVAZ, SAJI Vimal alias Kullavimal (38), a SOWCAR JANAKI SUBAMA, NIHARIKA history-sheeter and a resident of Annai Anjugam Nagar in DIRECTION: KANNAN DIRECTION: P. Chengalpet. The incident AMUDHAVANAN occurred on Friday night when RATING: ** he was standing outside his RATING: ** house. Eyewitnesses told police The film starts with an that, at around 10: 30 pm, four intro where we see Quota is a message-orient- men on two motorbikes with Dharmarajan ed film where a poverty- machetes and sickles waylaid (Aadukalam Naren), often narrates kutty sto- (humour portions) and stricken family has to sur- Vimal. On seeing them Vimal founder of a small biscuit ries to him. To his sur- ordinary dialogues ends vive in a system that is began to run. However, the gang factory, who has dreams of prise, Raja finds that up in not yielding the stacked against the small chased him and hacked him on making it a big brand and everything Janaki tells desired results. Sowcar guy. It revolves around a the road. wishes that his son Raja comes true in his life. How Janaki in her 400th film talented child from a trib- Police said the neighbours (Santhanam) would head one such story pondered stands out with her versa- al hamlet who yearns to locked themselves inside their the company one day. by Janaki helps Raja to tile performance. become a gymnast. His houses and later alerted them. However, fate has some- get back his biscuit Anandaraj and Motta economic condition and Manickam (Chella) sells financial burden and angle, which the title hints Though the Chengalpet Town thing else in store as empire forms the Rajhendran are funny in identity are a huge deter- tapioca for a living, which cross over the poverty towards. Instead, the film police came to the spot, within a Dharma passes away and reminder of the film. bits. The two heroines rent to his dream. in and of itself is a very line. marches on with the two few minutes after the alert, his close friend The movie is heavily Tara Alisha Berry and Director Amudhavanan fickle source of income. Quota is a tad bit senti- siblings trying their best Vimal succumbed to his Narasimhan (Anandaraj) dependent on Swati Muppala have not puts the spotlight on chil- Nurturing utopian ideas mental and proselytizing. to rise above and fulfill the injuries. assumes charge of the Santhanam’s one-liners much to do. dren from underprivi- alongside is a sure shot Yes, one can incorporate a dreams from their father. The body was sent to the business. Raja grows up and counter dialogues and Indianising Adam leged backgrounds and way to cripple you finan- strong message but the The plot does solidify Chengalpet government hospi- only to become a worker the actor tries his best to Sandler’s Bedtime Stories, how they often miss out on cially, and Chella leaves audience would prefer to towards the latter por- tal for post-mortem. Chengalpet in his own company. keep the audiences in director Kannan has opportunities. In the his family in peril when be absorbed and enter- tions. The gymnasium Town police registered a case In the meantime, Raja splits. The plot had the attempted to make process, the film suffers as he dies in an accident. tained first before having themes are drawn upon in and began an investigation. who frequents a senior cit- potential of an engaging Biskoth engaging but only aspects of the making, Now it’s all on his son thoughts about the an inorganic manner. Hunt has been launched for the izen home meets Janaki laugh riot. However, the partially succeeds. This engagement, and enter- Paari (Bhavas), a gym- ‘greater good.’ It does stay Overall, a novel attempt assailants. (Sowcar Janaki), who inconsistency in writing ‘Biskoth’ is less crispy. tainment are all curtailed. nast, to carry his family’s clear of the reservation that misses the mark. Police informed that Vimal was involved in two murder cases apart from some criminal cases. He had been living with his mother Padma in Chengalpet. Police suspect the involvement of rival rowdy Tamil Nadu Congress needs no enemies gang in the murder. On Friday evening, the body ed: There are three sets of gangai MP Karti P through the survey, sug- over such instances of candidates. That would of a woman in her early 20s was seats - A means safe seats, said that gesting that the Congress MPs shooting from the hip. enable the ministers to found under B means close seats and C when it came to coalition had been short changed in The statements could jeop- have a smooth sailing in Sathurangapattinam police lim- means Opposition strong- it was not just about bar- the last elections. ardize the seat sharing their own constituencies. its in Chengalpet district. The G. Babu Jayakumar holds. He said ‘If we gaining for numbers. Also he was trying to say talks, they fear. Though the magazine it- deceased has not yet been iden- analyse, regional parties “Every constituency must that the Congress had gro- More deadly than the self had raised counter qu- tified by the police. take A & B seats and leave be individually analysed wn tremendously and hen- MPs, who were definitely estions to Vijayasundar- Mamallapuram ASP Just spamming C seats to Congress.’ through discussion and ce deserved a better deal, taking pot shots at the am’s incredible claims, the Sundharavadanan along with What he was trying to parties to decide on though the reality was TNCC leadership, was a fo- disgruntled Congressman the local police came to the spot he Congress leader- ship, joining the ranks of say was that the DMK prospective candidates.” that the DMK’s success rmer district congress co- had managed in his mis- after being alerted by the local ship in Tamil Nadu those like Kapil Sibal. But dumped the C seats, which Again the suggestion rate in the 2016 Assembly mmittee president from sion to besmirch the name people by around 7 pm. Police Tis caught in a piqua- in Tamil Nadu, such in other words mean was that the Congress election was 55 per cent Cuddalore South M. N. Vij- of Alagiri and two other sent the body for an autopsy. nt situation. With election things are happening unwinnable constituen- should be allotted and that of the Congress ayasundaram, who launc- top TNCC leaders A. Gopa- A police officer said, “we will fever slowly gripping the when the state leadership cies where the Opposition winnable seats by the was just 20 per cent. hed a scathing attack that nna and Selvam, whom he wait for an autopsy report to state and political parties is treading carefully with was in a dominant posi- DMK. To top it all he More than the veracity of defamed the party in the had accused of collecting know the cause of death. But revisiting alliance ques- a view to not ruffling the tion, in the 2016 Assembly claimed to have with him a the claims it was the brav- eyes of the people. Vijaya- the money from the minis- she had injury marks suggest- tions like seat-sharing and feathers of the cadre of elections, leading to the report of a survey of all ado of the MPs that came sundaram went to a Tamil ters on behalf of their ing physical violence. A probe seat allotment, the party their alliance parties, party’s poor performance. the 234 constituencies in as a dampener to the cor- bi-weekly magazine to give leader. into the matter is underway. We seems to be on a sticky wi- whose support would cer- Tagore also said “our state the State, taken by the dial relationship the Cong- them an ‘inside story’ on This is not the first time are exploring all angles and due cket. Not because of its di- tainly be required during team which negotiate in Congress. He also com- ress otherwise maintained TNCC president K.S. Ala- Vijayasundaram is mak- action will be taken.’’ smal performance in Bih- the elections. identifying of seats usual- pared the survey to that of with all its alliance par- giri’s alleged corruption. ing wild allegations ar elections or any other Of the recent indiscreet ly got more the C and few the one taken by Prashant ties, particularly the DMK. Without any evidence or against TNCC leaders. Police informed that reason connected with the remarks made by some B & A,” which was a Kishor’s Indian Political The TNCC top brass, basis, Vijayasundaram When he did it last year, party's functioning in the Members of Parliament straight attack on his own Action Committee – trying whose assessment of the told the magazine that the TNCC wrote to the Vimal was involved in two State but because of some that threatened to even party’s state leadership. to tell the DMK “we are not political situation is that Alagiri had collected a high command, seeking murder cases apart from smart-alecky statements rock the alliance boat, one Angered by the MP’s inferior to you”. an alliance with the DMK whopping amount of Rs 35 action against him but some criminal cases. He of some leaders. was a tweet by brazen insinuation, the He was also making and other present friendly crore from seven minis- nothing came about it and had been living with his Of course, the Congress Virudhunagar MP DMK retorted saying the sweeping statements like parties like the VCK and ters in the AIADMK gov- that has emboldened him mother Padma in Cheng- faces similar problems at Manickam Tagore, which Congress was allotted 41 seat-sharing should the Left in Tamil Nadu ernment. The gratification to do more damage, rues a the national level with angered some DMK lead- seats from out of the list of ensure fair representation alone would help the was in lieu of TNCC ask- leader. But the real ques- alpet. Police suspect the even former Union minis- ers so much that they 65 seats given to them by to every party in the coali- Congress take on the ing to contest in the minis- tion is: with such hyperac- involvement of rival row- ter from Tamil Nadu P. reacted swiftly, turning the then TNCC president tion. Seat-sharing with Hindutva brigade at the ters’ constituencies during tive functionaries in the dy gang in the murder Chidambaram making the table on the Congress. E.V.K.S. Elangovan. DMK will purely be on the state and also the national the seat allotment talks party, does the Congress open attacks on the leader- Tagore had smartly tweet- Soon after that, the Siva- basis of data collected level, is deeply concerned and then fielding weak need enemies? STATE pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | SUNDAY | 22 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI 3

OTHER STORIES CM seeks Central Amit Shah given a rousing welcome DC CORRESPONDENT aid for river linking CHENNAI, NOV. 21 Man who threw project Union home minister Amit Shah was accorded placard at Chennai, Nov. 21: Tamil Nadu a rousing welcome when Chief Minister K Palaniswami he arrived at the Chennai on Saturday sought the Centre's airport on Saturday with HM arrested intervention in expediting the AIADMK and BJP cadre DC CORRESPONDENT GodavariCauvery (Grand turning up in large num- CHENNAI, NOV. 21 Anicut) link project. bers holding party flags He also sought its intervention and placards and lining The city police on Satur- in sanctioning funds for the up on both sides of day arrested a man for Cauvery (Kattalai)Gundar link the road leading to the throwing a ‘go back Am- project and Nadanthai Vaazhi city. it Shah’ placard at Union Cauvery rejuvenation of Throwing all norms of Home Minister Amit Cauvery and its tributaries a protocol to the winds, Shah when he got down project inspired by the much Chief Minister Edappadi from his convoy and acclaimed BJP governments K. Palaniswami and walked on the GST Road 'Namami Gange.' Deputy Chief Minister O. to greet the BJP cadres. In three separate letters Panneerselvam were per- According to the poli- addressed to Union Home sonally present to receive ce, the man has been ide- Minister Amit Shah, the chief the visiting home minis- ntified as Durairaj (67), a minister said the Detailed ter as he stepped out of resident of Project Report (DPR) for the the special aircraft in Chennai. GodavariCauvery (Grand belonging to BSF that In a video that is viral Anicut) link under Phase-I, landed at 1.50 pm. Union home minister Amit Shah waves at supporters in Chennai on Saturday. — PTI on the social media, should be expedited and work Besides top BJP leaders Durairaj who was stand- taken up on priority basis, so several state ministers ing posing as a BJP sup- Amit Shah with state BJP leaders in the city. — DC that water needs of southern were also present to wel- porter on the GST Road States could be fulfilled while come Shah, stepped out of threw the placard at the mitigating the problem of floods his car on the arterial Shah lauds CM, dy CM union minister. The in Godavari. road seeing the huge flag placard, however, did "There is a need to rework the raising slogans and wav- not affect the movement CM orders creation of revolving link so as to terminate it in the ing crowds on both sides of Mr Shah. The police River Cauvery at Kattalai just as he came out of the for handling of Covid officials posted there Barrage, instead of Grand airport. detained the man. It may fund to pay fees of medicos Anicut," the chief minister said. He walked a distance From P1 be noted that the hash- He demanded that the Jal waving at the cheering tag #GobackAmitShah Chennai, Nov. 21: Chief Shakti Ministry be asked to pro- crowd of AIADMK and Praising the chief minis- has been trending since Minister K. Palaniswami vide at least 200 TMC ft water to BJP supporters. After ter and deputy chief min- Will try to convince Alagiri to Friday night. on Saturday ordered cre- Tamil Nadu from this Phase I boarding his vehicle, too, ister of Tamil Nadu for The arrested man had ation of a revolving fund and ultimately 300 TMC ft water he was waving at the their handling of the recently made headlines to pay fees of government in Phase II, when River crowds gathered on the Covid-19 pandemic and for interrupting a school students who Mahanadhi is linked with kerb as he drove down to their performance in join BJP, says Ramalingam protest organised by the cleared Neet and were Godavari. On the Hotel Leela Palace, where other areas like water BJP in Chennai in allotted seats in private From P1 CauveryGundar, which is part he would be staying dur- management, Mr Shah the party fold, Ravi said September. During the medical and dental col- of the GodavariCauvery link- ing his visit. said, “To the DMK leaders The former MP of both on his twitter handle, "It protest, Durairaj raised leges under the govern- age, Palaniswami said the diver- Twitter started trending who have been accusing Lok Sabha and Rajya is a great sign that former slogans against Prime ment’s 7.5 per cent reser- sion of surplus flow to the with a hashtag the Centre of doing injus- Sabha said he would try to DMK MP Thiru Dr K P Minister Narendra Modi vation. drought affected parts of Tamil #GoBackAmitShah since tice to Tamil Nadu, I want convince Alagiri, whom Ramalingam has joined and the BJP. He alleged- The Tamil Nadu Nadu will benefit several dis- late Friday evening. The to ask what they had done he supported to the hilt @BJP4TamilNadu on the ly accused the Prime Medical Services quota,” Palaniswami said tricts in Tamil Nadu. The state hashtag that was on top of to the state in the 10 years while in the DMK to join day Union Home Minister Minister of cheating Corporation, which has in a statement here on government has already con- the trending list this of Congress rule when the BJP adding however a Sri @AmitShah is visiting people by promising to been directed to create Saturday. structed a barrage at Mayanur morning saw many they were in an alliance decision has to be taken Chennai. This will not credit `15 lakh in every this fund, has been asked Accusing opposition across the Cauvery at a cost of Twitter users comment- with that party.” Mr only by him. only weaken DMK and its person's bank account if to settle the tuition and DMK leader M. K. Stain of about Rs 255 crore in anticipa- ing on the issue. Palaniswami, in his Ramalingam was sus- base but further st- he comes to power. hostel fees directly to the enacting a farce by offer- tion of this national project. Meanwhile another speech, urged the Centre pended from the DMK rengthen BJP across the respective colleges. ing to pay the fees, the The excess flood water of hashtag welcoming Amit to give permission for its early this year for 'viola- State." "This measure is aimed Chief Minister said the Cauvery during surplus years Shah to Tamil Nadu was project to link rivers with- tion' of party discipline by Expressing confidence The police offi- at giving effect to my students need not wait for can be diverted upto Gundar to also trended by BJP sup- in the state. expressing a view against that Ramalingam's entry cers posted there announcement on scholarship funds. improve the recharge of ground porters, which at one Describing the home min- the party's demand for an would strengthen his detained the man. November 18 to provide "Despite being aware that water, meeting drinking water point came close to the ister as a modern day all party meeting to dis- party, the senior leader, post matric scholarship these students would get needs, and stabilisation of aya- ‘Go Back’ hashtag. “Chanakya”, Mr cuss the coronavirus pan- extended a warm welcome It may be noted and other financial assis- financial assistance from cuts in drought prone areas in Other social media was Panneerselvam said the demic. to him. Tamil Nadu senior that the hashtag tance to all government the government,DMK , , Pudukk- also abuzz with me- state was able to imple- He was also relieved leaders including Pon #GobackAmitShah school students who have offered its help. This is ottai, Sivagangai, Ramanatha- mes and comments on ment many developmen- from his party post of sec- Radhakrishnan, C P been allotted seats (in the nothing but a political puram, Virudhunagar and Th- Shahs’ visit to Chen- tal schemes because of retary of the agriculture Radhakrishnan and H has been trending undergraduate courses) drama," Palaniswami oothukudi districts. nai. their cordial relationship . wing. Welcoming him to Raja were present. since Friday night under the 7.5 per cent charged. — PTI Palaniswami sought financial assistance of `10,700 crore for the Nadanthai Vaazhi Cauvery project for which a DPR has been prepared. The CM who so- ught early approval of the Chen- Stalin demands withdrawal nai Metro Rail Phase-II project, said it could be executed with 50:50 equity sharing basis by central and state governments, as was done for Phase-I project.. of ECI circular on elders He also demanded technical and financial support for early DC CORRESPONDENT establishment of Mega Textile CHENNAI, NOV. 21 Udhayanidhi arrested for Industry Parks for Dharmapuri and Virudhunagar districts DMK president M. K. Sta- besides a Bulk Drug Park.— PTI lin demanded the with- coronavirus norms violation drawal of the circular fr- R VALAYAPATHY | DC police vehicles in which om the Election Commi- , NOV. 21 their leaders were being Vaikundarajan ssion of India urging the taken away. But police Chief Electoral Officers Police on Saturday took managed to arrest them issue: Cases filed in the states to enable into custody DMK youth and took them to a mar- senior citizens over the wing leader Udhaya- riage hall. Police sources against 12 age of 80 and persons nidhi Stalin along with told DC that they would with disabilities vote party’s principal secre- be released in the ARULOLI M | DC through ‘postal ballot.’ tary K.N. Nehru and oth- evening. TIRUNELVELI, NOV. 21 He said there was scope ers on charges of over- Udhayanidhi told news- for several irregularities crowding and violating men that the AIADMK Police here registered cases in the new system and Covid-19 norms, after he government was scared against 12 persons including a the Bihar Model had campaigned for the sec- about his campaign and noted businessman for attempt- given rise to suspicion ond day at the fishermen was trying to prevent his ing to murder beach mineral over the BJP alliance’s hamlet of Akkaraipettai campaign. He said that miner and exporter, S victory in the recent here, and also went sail- in the recent Bihar asse- Vaikundarajan. Bihar Assembly elec- ing into the sea along mbly election campaign, The cases were registered tions going by the allega- with the fishermen. Prime Minister Naren- based on a complaint made by tions made by the As soon as they dra Modi and Union Vaikundarajan to the city Rashtriya Janata Dal. returned ashore, police Home Minister Amit police commissioner (in- The post ballot system took them into custody shah participated, but charge), Praveen Kumar was fraught with several and detained them in a they were not arrested. Abinapu, on Thursday, that a problems as it would dis- private marriage hall. He said soon after the gang under the instruction of rupt the direct polling Protesting against this, election to the assembly his brother’s son, Senthil process happening in the DMK volunteers squat- here, there will be a defi- Rajan, had been spying on him booths. The circular had ted on the road and pre- nite change in govern- and his family for more than a come as a shock to inde- vented the movement of ment. month. Vaikundarajan also pendent and honest peo- sought protection for his life ple, believing in electoral Commission in advance years fixed for the senior from Senthil Rajan and his democracy, Stalin said. would provide scope for citizens to become absen- men. On the direction of city Pointing out that the sp- irregularities, Stalin tee voters was arbitrarily commissioner, Perumalpuram ecial category of absen- asked the government to changed to 65 years just police registered case against J tee voters who would be get the approval of before the Bihar elec- Senthil Rajan and 11 others. eligible to go for postal Parliament for imple- tions and said that there ballot would not be iden- menting the scheme. was no transparency in tified by the Election He alleged that the 80 the system. Tigress dies, leaves behind 2 cubs B RAVICHANDRAN | DC the dead tigress. They res- OOTY, NOV. 21 cued the healthy looking cubs. It was a pathetic sight on It was concluded that the Friday witnessing two tigress was strolling the jun- healthy male tiger cubs left gles with its cubs, but sud- behind by a dead tigress in denly collapsed and died. the Mudumalai Tiger The hapless cubs had spent Reserve (MTR). the whole night near the A forest patrol found the carcass and went into hid- carcass of a tigress at ing on seeing human move- Seemarkuli Odai area near ment there. Akkarai in Singara forest Deputy Director, MTR range in MTR buffer zone (buffer zone), LCS Srikanth, limits on Friday evening. Its said that visceral samples teeth and claws were found were collected from the car- intact with no external cass of the nearly nine-year- injuries on the carcass. old tigress, and is to be sent Forest officials planned for a for lab analysis to ascertain spot autopsy on Saturday the cause of death. The two morning. cubs are nearly three-weeks- Reaching the spot on old. Forest officials would Saturday morning, the for- soon take a call on whether est personnel searched the Two abandoned tiger cubs. — DC the cubs should be sent to surrounding area to look for Park in Chennai the presence of any marks the tigress. To their sur- tiger cubs hiding inside a to raise them there, he or evidence for the death of prise, they found two male bush, a few feet away from added. NATION pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | SUNDAY | 22 NOVEMBER 2020 4

SHORT TAKES Par panel: Pvt hosps FUEL PRICE HIKED NCB arrests Bharati after FOR SECOND charged exorbitant DAY IN A ROW seizing cannabis from her New Delhi, Nov. 21: Petrol price on Saturday was hiked by fees for Covid-19 15 paise per litre and diesel by Bharati, hubby confirm that they had bought the banned substance 20 paise, the second straight day of increase in rates after firm- SAURABH JOSHI | DC THE OFFICIALS New Delhi, Nov. 21: Amid ris- due to absence of a dedicated ing international oil rates broke MUMBAI, NOV. 21 recently questioned ing Covid-19 cases, inadequate healthcare system, the com- nearly a two-month-long hiatus beds in government hospitals mittee observed that the num- in price revision. The Narcotics Control actor Arjun Rampal in and absence of specific guide- ber of government hospital The price of petrol in Delhi Bureau (NCB), on connection with the lines for Covid treatment beds in the country were not was hiked to `81.38 per litre Saturday, arrested come- probe and after the NCB resulted in private hospitals adequate to handle the increas- from `81.23, according to a noti- dian Bharati Singh fol- arrested his girlfriend charging exorbitant fees, a par- ing number of Covid and non- fication from oil marketing lowing search and Gabriel’s brother over liamentary panel on Saturday Covid patients. companies. seizure of cannabis, in his alleged links with said, asserting that a sustain- “... Cost of health service Diesel rates went up from connection with the the international drug able pricing model could have delivery increased due to `70.68 to `70.88 per litre. ongoing probe into cartels. averted many deaths. absence of specific guidelines On Friday, petrol price was drugs consumption by Chairperson of the parlia- for Covid treatment in private raised by 17 paise per litre and stars of entertainment mentary standing committee hospitals as a result of which diesel by 22 paise. industry. tion. “One of the arrest- on health Ram Gopal Yadav patients were charged exorbi- This is the first revision in The NCB officials had ed drug peddlers had submitted the report on tant fees,” the committee noted petrol prices since September taken Singh and her hus- named her during his ‘Outbreak of Pandemic Covid- in the report. 22. Diesel rates had not changed band Harsh Limbachiya interrogation. We are 19 and its Management’, to Stressing on the need for bet- since October 2. for questioning at the conducting more search- Rajya Sabha Chairman M. ter partnership between the Public sector oil marketing agency's office. The offi- es based on the informa- Venkaiah Naidu. government and private hospi- companies - Indian Oil cials later confirmed tion received from the This is the first report by any tals in wake of the pandemic Corporation, Bharat Petroleum that the seized item was arrested peddlers,” said parliamentary committee on and shortage of state-run Corporation Ltd and Hindustan cannabis. an officer. the government’s handling of healthcare facilities, the Petroleum Corporation Ltd - A team of the NCB The officials said that the Covid-19 pandemic. report said, “The Committee is revise rates of petrol and diesel raided the residence of the accused were ques- Underlining that healthcare of the view that arriving at a daily based on benchmark the comedian at tioned about the con- Bharti Singh arrives at the NCB office for questioning after a raid at her resi- spending in the country with a sustainable pricing model to international oil price and for- Lokhandwala Complex sumption when they population of 1.3 billion is treat Covid patients could have dence by the agency in a drug related case in Mumbai on Saturday. - PTI eign exchange rate. in Andheri following a confirmed about having “abysmally low”, the panel averted many deaths.” They have, however, resorted specific information of bought the banned sub- decision based on the links with the interna- Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan said fragility of Indian health The committee believes to calibrating the rates since the presence of banned sub- stance and also consum- findings of the probe, tional drug cartels. and Rakhul Preet Singh, ecosystem posed a big hurdle healthcare should never be pandemic broke out with a view stance. ing it. officials said. The officials are now after the agency found in generating an effective limited to only those who can to avoiding volatility in retail The officials found 86.5 They are being ques- The officials recently probing the links of the chat exchanges between response against the pandem- afford to pay but should move prices. gram cannabis from the tioned further in con- questioned actor Arjun peddling of drugs to the some of them and man- ic. towards the noble vision of The 58-day hiatus in petrol residence of the couple. nection with the same. Rampal in connection entertainment industry, ager Karishma Prakash. “The committee, therefore, universal health coverage. For price revision and the 48-day The investigators were The officials are verify- with the probe and after including Bollywood. The larger drug probe strongly recommends the gov- this happen, the government status quo on diesel rates were probing her after her ing details of her hus- the NCB arrested his The NCB earlier ques- started following the sui- ernment to increase its invest- needs to be considerate and preceded by no change in rates name cropped up during band Limbachiya and girlfriend Gabriel’s tioned actors Deepika cide of actor Sushant ments in the public healthcare support the private health care between June 30 and August 15 the course of investiga- they would take further brother over his alleged Padukone, Shraddha Singh Rajput on June 14. system and make consistent sector, the report said. and a 85-day status quo between efforts to achieve the National The committee was all praise March 17 and June 6. Health Policy targets of expen- for healthcare workers and In Mumbai, the petrol price on diture up to 2.5 per cent of doctors for being on frontline Friday was raised to Rs 88.09 GDP within two years as the in handling of the deadly virus per litre from Rs 87.92, while set time frame of year 2025 is and said they should have diesel rates went up from Rs Bodoland Front Custodial death issue far away and the public health defined working hours, pre- 77.11 to Rs 77.34. cannot be jeopardised till that dictably functioning reliever Rates vary from state to state time schedule,” the report stat- rosters and scheduled off-duty depending on the incidence of ed. days. local sales tax or VAT. ties end, BJP to rocks Odisha Assembly The National Health Policy The doctors, who have laid 2017 has set a target of govern- down their lives in fight AKSHAYA KUMAR alleged unbearable physi- House till Sunday ment expenditure on health- against the pandemic, must be BJP FOR LAW SAHOO | DC cal assault by the cops (Sunday has been includ- care up to 2.5 per cent of GDP acknowledged as martyrs and induct BPF MP BHUBANESWAR, NOV. 21 during the custody led to ed in Odisha Assembly by 2025 from just 1.15 per cent their families be adequately AGAINST ‘LOVE their deaths. calendar as a working in 2017. compensated, it suggested in Turmoil reigned supreme The Opposition lawmak- day). “We have very firm Stating that the public had to the report. - PTI JIHAD’ IN MAHA MANOJ ANAND | DC in Odisha Legislative ers, while participating in on demands to book the undergo trauma and distress GUWAHATI, NOV. 21 Assembly on Saturday as a special debate on law Puri SP on murder charge BHAGWAN PARAB | DC the Opposition Congress and order situation in the and disciplinary action MUMBAI, NOV. 21 In what has almost confirmed the break up and BJP strongly con- House, repeatedly rushed against Sundergarh SP. in alliance between the BJP and Bodoland demned custodial deaths to the well of the House to Besides, judicial probes On the lines of Yogi Peoples Front (BPF), the BJP national parlia- of two youths – K. Ramesh press for their demand. must be ordered into the Study says 600 BC Aadityanath government, mentary board has formally approved the of Puri and Tarique Salim Unable to conduct the leg- two custodial deaths that which is planning to bring a law joining of BPF MP in the Rajya Sabha, of Kuanarmunda police islative businesses, the happened in the two dis- against unlawful conversions in Biswajit Daimary, in the saffron party ahead station in Sundergarh dis- Speaker Dr S.N. Patro tricts in the last 48 hours,” Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has of the Assam assembly election due in April. trict - and sought judicial adjourned the thrice. said the Leader of Keeladi pottery had demanded a similar act in The meeting was held at the official resi- probe into them. The Speaker also con- Opposition. Maharashtra. The BJP will pro- dence of BJP national president J.P. Nadda in The transfer of Puri vened an all-party meet- BJP lawmakers – pose to bring such an act New Delhi and was attended by union home superintendent of police ing to resolve the impasse. Lalitendu Bidyadhar against ‘Love Jihad’ in minister Amit Shah, chief minister Akhileswar Singh and However, no consensus Mohapatra and Jayant carbon nanotubes Maharashtra, said senior BJP Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam BJP president suspension of the was reached at the all- Kumar Sarangi – also leader Kirit Somaiya. Ranjeet Kumar Dass and cabinet minister Kuarnmunda police party meeting as came down on the ruling From Page 1 (NIAS) in Bengaluru, said “We support the move of the Himanta Biswa Sarma. inspector Suprabha Opposition members BJD heavily on the custo- nanotechnology has made UP government, which has Pointing out that parliamentary board has Pradhan and two other remained firm on the dial deaths. But the people of this time strides since the 90s with the decided to bring a law against given approval for the induction of the BPF sub-inspectors for their demands for lodging crim- “It seems that the gov- may not have intentionally advent of advanced tech- love jihad. There should be a Rajya Sabha MP Mr Sarma said,“In the par- alleged role in custodial inal cases against the ernment under pressure added CNTs, instead, during niques like the scanning tun- similar law in Maharashtra. liamentary board meeting, our national pres- deaths on Friday night superintendents of Police from some non-Odia the processing at high temper- nelling microscopy. The BJP will table a proposal in ident JP Nadda gave the approval for Mr failed to pacify the of Puri and Sundergarh bureaucrats has atures, these would have just “But it is increasingly recog- Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha in Daimary’s joining in BJP. This approval was Opposition lawmakers. districts and judicial unleashed a reign of ter- formed accidentally,” Dr nised from archaeological this regard,” he said. necessary because Mr Daimary is a sitting Two youths who were probes into the two custo- ror using the police force. Shaijumon said. studies that past skilled arti- MP in the Rajya Sabha.” Mr Daimary had picked up by the police on dial deaths in the two dis- Women, children and “If there is some processing sans sometimes accidentally resigned from the post of working president different criminal charges tricts. common people are not of the potteries, which proba- or empirically made nanoma- ACCIDENTAL of BPF recently. Meanwhile, Mr Daimary on Thursday died under With no solution in sight safe here,” said Mr bly would have involved some terials -- such as the famous while announcing his decision to join the mysterious circum- to end the deadlock, Mohapatra and Mr high-temperature treatment, Egyptian Blue -- without FIRING KILLS 1 IN BJP told reporters that he has resigned from stances. Their families Speaker adjourned the Sarangi. then it will add more justifica- being aware of the science of his Rajya Sabha seat on which he was elected tion to the findings,” he working at the nano-scale,” MLC’S RESIDENCE on the symbol of BPF. “I have sent my resig- added. Dr Srinivasan said. Lucknow, Nov. 21: A 35-year- nation to the chairman of the Rajya Sabha,” According to Dr Based on their analysis, Dr old man died of gunshot said Mr Daimary whose resignation from the Chandrasekaran, the closest Chandrasekaran said the injuries suffered in an acciden- BPF has been seen as a major setback for the scientific explanation for the ancient Tamil civilisation of tal firing amid the playful scuf- party. 25 tigers die in MP in 11 finding is that some “vegetal this time were aware of, and fle among friends for a pistol Earlier, reiterating that the alliance with fluid or extract” might have mastered high-temperature during a birthday celebration at BPF is over, Mr Sarma clarified that the issue been used in the coatings of processing, but added that the the official residence of of breaking the alliance with the BPF was these pots which may have led means and mechanism by Samajwadi Party MLC Amit not discussed at the parliamentary board months, highest in India to the formation of CNTs dur- which they produced these Yadav, police said on Saturday. meeting. “Why will the BPF issue be dis- ing high-temperature process- artifacts with carbon-nan- Following the death of cussed in the parliamentary board of BJP? RABINDRA NATH mortality of tigers in MP “Most tigers died of nat- ing. otubes is not widely explored. Barabanki native Rakesh When BJP is going to form the next govern- CHOUDHURY | DC to congestions in reserves. ural causes, while some Rajavelu S, professor of his- “Black and red pottery ware Rawat, four men have been ment in BTC after this election (in BHOPAL, NOV. 21 “The state is witnessing deaths were a result of tory at Alagappa University associated with megalithic arrested, said Deputy December), where is the question of the an increase in tiger popu- human-animal conflicts”, in Tamil Nadu, who was unre- sites in southern India contin- Commissioner of Police Somen alliance between the two parties in the 2021 Madhya Pradesh which lation due to favourable he told the media here. lated to the study, said the peo- ues into Keeladi dated back to Barma. The incident occurred assembly elections? BJP will contest all 12 has the highest number of habitats. But, at the same According to him, the ple of this time may have 6th century BC. The fine on Friday night at MLC’s offi- assembly seats in Bodoland Territorial 526 big cats as per the lat- time the growth of tiger Bandavgarh tiger reserve added or coated something black and red effect was cial residence in Lucknow’s Region (spread over four districts) on its est census has earned the population has left less has encountered a severe similar to plant-sap to the achieved by high temperature Hazratganj where the five peo- own. But our alliance with AGP will dubious distinction of than 10 sq km for each problem of congestion inside of the pots, and subject firing temperatures at about ple had gathered to celebrate remain,” Mr Sarma asserted. recording deaths of maxi- tiger in these reserves”, a and witnessed deaths of 9 it to the nearly 1100-1400 1100 degrees in the presence the birthday of one Vinay A day before the parliamentary board meet- mum tigers - 25 - in the senior forest officer of the tigers in the last 11 degree Celsius high-tempera- of carbon-rich matter and Yadav. PTI ing, Mr Sarma had announced that their five- country in the last 11 MP government told this months. ture fire treatment as seen in iron-rich red soils,” Dr year old partnership with BPF will not be months. newspaper requesting not While 4 tigers in the kilns. Srinivasan said. renewed on expiry of the term of the present According to tiger mor- to be quoted since he was reserve died in territorial “This fire treatment may “They do not look like nor- KERALA BRINGS alliance in January, which means that the tality updates provided by not authorized to speak to fights, one was killed in have led to the formation of mal pots, these have glazed two allies will not fight the 2021 election as the National Tiger the media. poachers and the reasons the coating which has likely finishes, and are made of ORDINANCE friends but as rivals. Conservation Authority, “We need to learn from for the death of 4 others strengthened the pot and high-quality clay,” Prof. Assam BJP president Ranjeet Dass who MP has witnessed death of the conservation model of were yet to be ascertained, made the coating durable," Rajavelu added. AGAINST ABUSE was also present in the parliamentary board 25 tigers, the highest where the a senior forest officer Prof. Rajavelu said. He said these earthenwares meeting of BJP in New Delhi said that the among the states in the tiger mortality is much said. “Normally with high-tem- were likely used by the From Page 1 party’s national leadership was apprised of country, since January lower”, he added. The PCCF has recently perature processing of car- “sophisticated people of the the situation in the Bodo heartland in the 2020 and majority of tiger Karnataka has the sec- written letters to all chief bon, they form these type of time,” adding that “a lot of The state cabinet, last month, context of the coming council election. mortalities were reported ond largest population conservators of forest, tubular nano-structures, but the shards” have been found had decided to give more teeth “We have told the party parliamentary outside the reserve forests of tigers (524) in the coun- field directors of tiger until about the 1990s there in Keeladi, “some dating back to the Police Act by recommend- board that BPF has lost the trust of people in in the state. try. reserves, directors of were no sophisticated instru- even as early as 900 BCE.” ing addition of Section 118-A. Bodoland Territorial Region and BJP will Incidentally, it was the Principal chief conser- national parks and divi- ments available to charac- “We have known for a long It stipulates either imprison- win the ensuing council elections on its 6th year in a row that the vator of forest (PCCF) of sional forest officers seek- terise them. So these struc- time that in iron smelting and ment for up to five years or a own.” In January, 2016, BJP had forged a pre- state has topped the chart MP government Alok ing urgent measures to tures are already even present manufacture, India was a fine of up to Rs 10,000 or both to poll alliance with the BPF and the AGP rid- of tiger mortality among Kumar, however, said the strengthen conservation, in nature and only now we are world leader at the time. Even those who produce, publish or ing on which the saffron party formed its the states. Forest officers tiger population in the protection and safety of observing them,” explained the Sangam ancient Tamil lit- disseminate content through first government in the state. have attributed the high state was increasing. wildlife. Dr Shaijumon. erature has noted about steel any means of communication Prof. Rajavelu concurred. He manufacture,” Prof. Rajavelu with an intention to intimidate, said the ancient people would said. insult or defame any person not have known these as “The technological skills of through social media. BIG | RESPITE Farmers resorted to ‘rail roko’ to protest Central farm laws CNTs, but may have just had the Tamils in high-tempera- Expressing concern over the the need to make their pots ture manipulation of car- rising crime graph, fake propa- have high durability, and may bonaceous matter to make ganda and hate speech on social have needed a certain colour ultra-high carbon crucible media since the outbreak out of their products on steel known as wootz by about of Covid-19, the LDF govern- Punjab farmers to lift rail blockade applying high-temperature the mid to late centuries BC ment had said since cyber firing.” was also reported by us, while attacks are amajor threat to pri- Chandigarh, Nov. 21: talks here. “Punjab farmers to erate the rail blockade issue. maintained that they would “They likely knew the tech- carbon nanotubes were vate life, it has been decided to Different farmers’ organisa- completely lift their rail block- The farmers’ organisation, consider allowing passenger nique to make these coatings reported in medieval pat- amend thePolice Act as the tions in Punjab, protesting the ade from Monday (November that had resorted to ‘rail roko’ trains to run in the state if the practically, but may not have terned ‘Damascus’ blades existing legal provisions were three Central farm laws, on 23) to allow all goods and pas- agitation from September 24 Centre starts running goods known this as a thesis with forged from such steel,” Dr inadequate tofight such crimes. Saturday announced to lift senger trains, in response to over the farm laws, had already trains first. However, the any kinds of formulae," Prof. Srinivasan explained. It said while the Supreme their rail blockade for passen- impassioned appeal by the agreed to allow goods trains to Railways had refused to resume Rajavelu added. She believes the findings Court had repealed section 66-A ger trains from November 23. chief minister at a meeting run in the state, besides clear- goods trains, saying it would Commenting on the signifi- expand the broader knowl- of the IT Act and Section 118 (d) The decision to allow passen- with Kisan Unions,” tweeted ing rail tracks and vacating either operate both freight and cance of the research, edge of the history of science of the Kerala Police Act on the ger trains in the state came Raveen Thukral, media advisor platforms. But the deadlock passenger trains or none. The Sharada Srinivasan, an and technology in India, and grounds that these were against after a meeting of representa- to the Punjab chief minister. between the protesting farmers Railways has maintained that expert in archaemetallurgy point to potential future appli- freedom of expression, the tives of farmer leaders with Before meeting the chief min- and the Railways continued it needs full guarantee from the associated with the National cations of such nanomateri- Centre has not introduced any Chief Minister Amarinder ister, farmers’ organisations over resumption of trains. state government that no trains Institute of Advanced Studies als as durable coatings. - PTI other legal framework. Singh who had invited them for held their own meeting to delib- The farmers’ bodies had will be disrupted. -PTI WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | SUNDAY | 22 NOVEMBER 2020 5

IN BRIEF RESIGN WITH ME, Daily US virus deaths highest since May GUATEMALA VP URGES PREZ Country now averaging over 1,300 Covid deaths per day, daily infections at a record high of 188,000 Guatemala City, Nov. 21: Washington, Nov. 21: Guatemala's vice president The surging Coronavirus DON ELDEST SON told President Alejandro Gia- is taking an increasingly mmattei that both men should dire toll across the US just Russia Covid-19 toll hits new high resign their positions “for the as a vaccine appears at DONALD TRUMP good of the country” following hand, with the country Moscow, Nov. 21: Russia than elsewhere in the wo- that virus fatalities could growing.” The medical the approval of a budget cutt- now averaging over 1,300 JR. TESTS +VE on Saturday registered rld, they need to be treat- be much higher. Most of team he worked with col- ing educational and health Covid-19 deaths per day — record numbers for daily ed with caution. The offi- the new cases announced lecting samples to identi- spending that caused a public the highest since the Washington, Nov. 21: infections and deaths cial Russian death toll Saturday were recorded fy cases visited around 20 outcry. “We both resign,” Vice calamitous spring in and Donald Trump Jr, the eld- from the Coronavirus, only includes those in in Moscow (7,168) and in addresses every day, he President Guillermo Castillo around New York City. est son of US President two days after having which Covid has been the country 's second city, said. “People are scared, said he told Giammattei Frid- The overall death toll has Donald Trump, has tested passed two million cases. established as the pri- Saint Petersburg (2,476), and they are calling for a ay. He had suggested vetoing reached about 253,000, by positive for Covid-19, his Health officials reported mary cause of death after with other regions record- doctor as soon as they get the approved budget, firing far the highest in the spokesperson said, latest 24,822 new infections and an autopsy. ing figures in the tens or a little cough,” said government officials and atte- world. Total confirmed in the First Family to have 476 deaths, bringing the Data published by Russ- hundreds. Lyudmila, one of the two mpt more outreach to various infections have eclipsed been infected by the dead- national total to 2,064,748 ia's federal statistics serv- “We are getting a lot of nurses on the team. sectors around the country. more than 11.7 million, ly virus. Trump Jr tested million cases and 35,778 ice earlier this month calls at the moment,” On Wednesday, Russian Giammattei had not respond- after the biggest one-day positive at the start of the fatalities since the begin- indicated excess deaths of Dmitri, a Saint President Vladimir Putin ed publicly and Castillo did gain on record Thursday week and has been "quar- ning of the year. more than 117,000 year-on- Petersburg ambulance described the surge in not share the president's reac- — almost 188,000. And the antining out at his cabin While those figures sug- year between March and driver, told AFP. “The infections and deaths as tion to his proposal. number of people in the since the result,” the spok- gest a lower death rate September, suggesting number of sick people is “alarming”. — AFP Castillo said he would not hospital with Covid-19 hit esman said on Friday. "He resign alone. Discontent had another all-time high at has been asymptomatic so been building over the new more than 80,000. far and is following all THE RECENT brea- 2021 budget on social media With health experts guidelines," the spoke- kthroughs on Co- and then generated clashes deeply afraid Thanksg- sman added. — PTI vid-19 vaccines offer a Warangal doc finds possible with police Friday in front of iving travel and holiday ray of hope. But that ray the congress. The spending gatherings next week will Officials are offering more of hope needs to reach plan was negotiated in secret fuel the spread of the than $27 an hour for work everyone. That means and approved by the congress. virus, many states and described as not only cure for Covid-19 issues cities are imposing near- physically arduous but ensuring that vaccines lockdowns or other restri- “emotionally taxing as are treated as a global Washington, Nov. 21: Kanneganti, an Indian- The researchers JAN MORRIS, ctions. California ordered well.” The county had public good — accessi- An Indian-American sci- born researcher working detailed how the inflam- a 10 pm to 5 am curfew already begun paying jail ble and affordable to entist has discovered a at St. Jude Children's matory cell death signal- starting Saturday, cover- inmates $2 an hour to help everyone, everywhere. potential strategy to pre- Research Hospital in ing pathway worked, AUTHOR, PASSES ing 94% of the state's 40 move corpses and has vent life-threatening Tennessee, identified the which led to potential million residents. ordered at least 10 refrig- ANTONIO GUTERRES inflammation, lung dam- drugs after finding that therapies to disrupt the AWAY AT 94 The Texas border county erated trucks as morgues UN Secretary General age and organ failure in the hyperinflammatory process. “Understanding New York, Nov. 21: Jan of El Paso, where more run out of room. Covid-19 patients diagnosed with immune response associ- the pathways and mecha- Morris, the celebrated journal- than 300 people have died deaths in the US are at about 2,200 a day in late Covid-19. ated with virus leads to nism driving this inflam- ist, historian, world traveller from Covid-19 since Oct- their highest level since April, when New York City Published online in the tissue damage and multi- mation is critical to and fiction writer who in mid- ober, is advertising jobs late May, when the was the epicentre and bod- journal Cell, the research organ failure in mice by develop effective treatme- dle age became a pioneer of the for morgue workers capa- Northeast was emerging ies were being loaded onto coming from the lab of triggering inflammatory nt strategies,” said transgender movement, has ble of lifting bodies weigh- from the first wave of the refrigerated trucks by Dr Thirumala-Devi cell death pathways. Kanneganti. — PTI died at 94. ing 175 pounds or more. crisis. They peaked at forklift. — AP Morris died in Wales on Friday morning, according to TERROR FINANCING: TWO her literary representative, Un- ited Agents. Her agent Sophie TIBETAN LEADER IN WH: 1ST IN 60 YRS Scard confirmed her death. HAFIZ SAEED AIDES JAILED Morris had been in failing Washington, Nov. 21: a historic feat. political head... This unp- Lahore, Nov. 21: A respectively. ATC health. Additional details were The head of the Tibetan This is the first time in recedented meeting perh- Pakistani court has Judge Arshad Hus- not immediately available. The government in exile has the last 6 decades the head aps will set an optimistic jailed two more sain Bhutta also British author lived as James visited the White House of the Central Tibetan tone for CTA participation aides of Mumbai imposed a fine of Rs Morris until the early 1970s, for the first time in six Administration (CTA) has with US officials and be attack mastermind 10,000 on each of when she underwent surgery decades and met the newly been invited into the more formalised in the and Jamat-ud- them. On Thursday, at a clinic in Casablanca and appointed senior US offi- White House, the CTA said coming years," said the Dawah (JuD) chief the 70-year-old JuD renamed herself Jan Morris. cial on Tibetan issues, the in a statement. "It is a CTA, which is based in Hafiz Saeed in a ter- chief was sentenced Her best-selling memoir Central Tibetan great honour to be the first Dharamshala in India. ror financing case. to 10 years of impris- “Conundrum,” which came out Administration said on political head of the Sangay, the President of The Anti-Terrorism onment in two terror in 1974, continued the path of Saturday, a development Central Tibetan Adm- the Central Tibetan Admi- Court (ATC) of cases by ATC such earlier works as Christine that could enrage Beijing, inistration to formally nistration (CTA), was Lahore on Friday Lahore. Jorgensen's “A Personal Autob- which has accused the US enter the White House," invited to the White House handed down six and Saeed's two close iography” in presenting her of trying to interfere in Sangay said in a tweet. to meet the newly appo- five-and-a-half years aides — Zafar Iqbal decision as natural and liberat- China's internal affairs. "Today's visit amounts to inted US Special Coordi- of imprisonment to and Yahya Mujahid ing. “I no longer feel isolated Dr Lobsang Sangay an acknowledgement of nator for Tibetan Issues, JuD leaders — were sentenced to and unreal,” she wrote. Morris entered the United States both the democratic sys- Robert Destro, on Friday, it Muhammad Ashraf 10 and a half years was a prolific and accom- White House on Friday — tem of the CTA and its said. — PTI and Lucman Shah, each. — PTI plished author and journalist who wrote dozens of books. WH: Trump admin did BOB DYLAN everything for transition DOCUMENTS Washington, Nov. ates. Trump, 74, has 21: The Trump made allegations of SELL FOR $495K administration has widespread elec- done "everything toral fraud, without Boston, Nov. 21: A long-lost statutorily providing any evi- trove of Bob Dylan documents required" to do in dence. including the singer-song- the event of a transi- Former US vice writer's musings about anti- tion, the White president Biden was Semitism and unpublished House has said, declared the winner song lyrics has sold at auction asserting that a con- of the closely-fought for $495,000. Boston-based R R stitutional process US presidential elec- Auction said Friday the collec- is being played out tion on November 7. tion privately held by the late to determine the Biden now has 306 American blues artist Tony winner of the electoral votes to Glover, a longtime Dylan friend November 3 presi- Trump's 232 votes. and confidante, was sold dential election. To win the race to Thursday to a bidder whose Incumbent US the White House, the identity was not made public. President Donald successful candidate The collection included tran- Trump, a Republic- should have at least scripts of Glover's 1971 inter- an, has refused to 270 electoral votes views with Dylan and letters concede the election out of the 538-mem- the pair exchanged. to 78-year-old Joe ber Electoral The interviews reveal that Biden, a Democrat, College. reveal that Dylan had anti- and has filed multi- His lead in the pub- Semitism on his mind when he ple lawsuits chal- lic vote overall changed his name from Robert lenging the poll stands at more than Zimmerman. results in several st- 5.9 million. — PTI EDIT DECCAN CHRONICLE | SUNDAY | 22 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI pg 6 LETTERS Subhani UNWELCOME SUGGESTION The suggestion of the Reserve Bank of India 22 NOVEMBER 2020 (RBI) that big business houses in the country may be allowed to set Ranjona Banerji up banks (Corp houses set to get banking licences, Nov.21) is Off the beaten track unwelcome. Actually, there is no dearth of banks/ branches in the country. Let the exist- ing banks (in private as How I tweeted away well as public sector) avoid non-performing assets (NPAs) and ens- my pandemic summer ure liquidity and prof- itability to sustain in say this to sound like I have an all-round life, but I mean Twitter. Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and his strange ideas of how threaten- the business. One can- ing decapitation is not threatening decapitation, my interactions not be oblivious of the Iwith Facebook have diminished. WhatsApp I have always merger of some nation- abhorred because there are only so many “Good Morning” fake cups of coffee and bunches of flowers that you can receive without falling vio- alised banks to guaran- lently ill. tee cost effectiveness Aha, I hear you thinking, this means you are in favour of “fake news” and efficient function- and are actually a secret WhatsApp addict. You could imagine that but ing. you could also imagine that I ruthlessly block anyone who bores me with endless rightwing rubbish. S. Ramakrishnasayee, It is true that I have another Zuckerberg product or acquisition on my Chennai phone and that is Instagram. This I like. I haven’t fully grasped its pur- pose other than the purpose of all social media which I understand is to Get priorities straight sell me as “data”. But I do enjoy the photographs. Especially of endless DUTY AND ROLE OF SC images of boiled eggs and avocadoes in such creative and innovative THE EDITORIAL SC fails if it juxtaposition. The human mind is fabulous. can’t protect fundamental rights of Is that it? There’s the Nasa app for the latest on space exploration, the all (Nov. 21) highlighting the duty Chirp app for the latest on gravitational wave detections, the free weath- and role of the Supreme Court of er apps which are quite my favourite to waste time on, the Google map in time of a pandemic India as the protector of the funda- app which forces me to find geographical locations mentioned in mental rights of the citizens every book I read. The tennis apps, well their purpose is obvious. If I defined under the extant In India, there is no law against the might of government can’t remember anything else after laws.” He also said: “No barring couples from dif- is worth its weight in gold. The looking at my phone to check, well, this Patralekha such case of ‘love jihad’ ferent faiths from getting editorial contains the historical is it. has been reported by any married. Couples, includ- background and perspective of the I don’t have much to do with the “gig” Chatterjee of the Central agencies.” ing interfaith ones, can Indian Constitution and the economy either and not just I live in a Mr Reddy was replying to get married under a quotes of the speeches of eminent remote area where no one really wants a question by Congress Special Marriage Act men like late Ananthasayanam to gig by. I am wary of using my phone Dec 360 MP Benny Behanan in without changing their Iyengar the first LS Speaker with to pay, transact, bank. And I do like Parliament on “whether religion. The law, howev- regard to Article 32 (right of citi- humans and physical shops and such. Central agencies have er, requires the registrar zens to take legal remedy through And I don’t want to chat with my phone reported any case of ‘love to post a notice about the Supreme Court). The Supreme service provider on WhatsApp no mat- he number of the same playbook. jihad’ from Kerala during intended marriage 30 Court of India is not simply a ter how many annoying messages they Indians infected At an election rally in the past two years and if days before the wedding structure created out of cement send me! by Covid-19 has Jaunpur last month, Uttar so, the details thereof?” and this has triggered lime and iron but it is a standing So after this long detour, we reach crossed 90 lakhs. Pradesh chief minister Mr Reddy also noted many problematic situa- but silent symbol of hope of the Twitter. Or do we? Once, angry with Over 1.3 lakhs Yogi Adityanath warned that Article 25 of the tions, with families and common man to seek remedy Twitter for its Zuckerbergian refusal to haveT died of the virus. The of dire consequences to Constitution provides for right-wing groups trying against state oppression. But of stop toxicity and for suspending anti- economic distress in the those found guilty of “love the freedom to profess, to stir the pot if it the cou- late the Supreme Court and judges toxic handles, a few of switched us to wake of the pandemic is jihad”. practice and propagate ple are from different are brought to ridicule and open Mastodon. This was really sweet for a It’s a great escape too palpable. Millions have Earlier this month, religion subject to public faiths. criticism by those who expect the while. There were only like-minded peo- from the real world seen their earnings drop. Haryana home minister order, morality and The All India Lawyers’ judges to dance to their tunes. ple on it and you had lovely chats. But and that’s why it’s an Amid the deaths, dis- Anil Vij announced that health. “Various courts, Association for Justice, a None would forget the mocking of boy did it get hellishly boring after a ease, debt and despair, his state was planning to including the Kerala high national lawyers’ collec- Prasant Bhushan against the judi- while. There was no information you addiction. An guess what some state bring in a strict law to court, have upheld this tive, has condemned the ciary a few months before and his see, because there were no news sites, ever-widening circle of governments in India are control “love jihad” cases view,” he said in a written announcements made by reluctance to pay the fine of one no information sites, no sports sites. No information, concerned about? They and soon a committee reply. the BJP-ruled states to rupee imposed upon him for con- nothing, really. Bye-bye it was to entertainment, inter- are worrying about who would be constituted to It is astonishing that in pass a law against “love tempt of court. Mastodon. I still get plaintive emails action, annoyance, one marries, whether the draft the law. The tourism 2020, an adult woman in jihad”. Kooduthuraiyan, Coimbatore telling me what I’m missing, like from person is of the same faith minister of Karnataka, India is not seen as capa- In a statement, the asso- humour, joy and so on. ble of making decisions on ciation said that it an old flame who hasn’t realised it’s People you might or a different one, and if also BJP-ruled, has tweet- over. there is any hint of con- ed that the southern state her own about herself and “believes that every per- LIFETIME BAN ON CONVICTS Now we reach Twitter. It’s got every- never have known versions, forced or would bring in a “a law there are so many who are son has the right to marry THE PROPOSAL (of the Central thing right with it and everything existed otherwise. otherwise. banning religious conver- willing to believe that or not, and to select their government to bring lifetime ban wrong with it. I’m not going to get philo- People you never In the last few weeks, sions for the sake of mar- there is a vast conspiracy partners as per their will on persons convicted for crimes sophical and stuff and tell you it’s a would have met. And several BJP-ruled state riage”. Assam minister leading to young Hindu and desire… from seeking public office through microcosm of life blah blah. But it is yes, I have met some governments have been and BJP Northeast point- women being seduced and Governments, instead of elections is a right step in cleans- compelling and it is negotiable. And I ratcheting up tension by person Himanta Biswa coerced into marriage by pursuing a communal ing society and political climate of spend most of my day on it. Yeah, it Twitter friends in publicly announcing their Sarma has joined in the Muslim men under false agenda that penalises the country. Law abiding people sounds pathetic, but do I care? real life. plans to bring about legis- chorus against “love pretexts. Hadiya Jahan’s those who exercise their with limited means at present fear You want the obvious: you interact lation to outlaw what they jihad”. case comes instantly to constitutional freedoms, and hesitate to contest against per- with a wide range of people from all describe as “love jihad”. What is behind this rush mind. Her family claimed must take immediate sons with muscle and money over the world. There is no endless procession of smiling cups of coffee. Last week, it was the for laws to outlaw “love that she was a victim of steps to enact a law that power and criminal background. Fake news may proliferate but is easily called out. News itself is widely turn of Madhya Pradesh, jihad” in the time of a “love jihad”, despite her would specifically cover If honesty and straightforward- available with “real time” updates. You can take part in conversations where night curfew has pandemic? saying that that she had the field of so-called ‘hon- ness is to be restored in public life or you can just watch. now been imposed in It is clearly a rallying converted willingly. The our’ crimes.” it is very essential that persons Trolls? Yes. There are trolls. They can be putrid, vile, scary. You have Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, cry to mobilise BJP sup- Supreme Court subse- It is clear that charges of with doubtful and dubious reputa- to deal with them. For journalists, trolls have long been part of our lives. Vidisha, and Ratlam dis- porters. But that is only quently restored the mar- “love jihad” may not stick tion are barred from entering pub- Earlier, trolls would write postcards and letters. Then they sent emails tricts from November 21 part of the story. riage. A Supreme Court- in court. It is also clear lic life permanently. and wrote comments below your articles and columns. They made more as Covid-19 cases surge. In Think of all the issues ordered probe by the that the “love jihad” V. Rakesh Kaushik, Chennai or less the same threats of death and rape. It was just a question of scale the middle of all this, and questions that gets National Investigation bogey is more a marker of and accessibility. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. I don’t interact; Madhya Pradesh home pushed off the news cycle Agency into 11 cases of the politics of intimida- they wither away. minister Narottam each time “love jihad” inter-faith marriages in tion than anything else. TRUMP NOT CONCEDING It’s a great escape too from the real world and that’s why it’s an addic- Mishra found time to grabs headlines. Public Kerala has not found any All this high-decibel talk THE INCUMBENT Donald Trum- tion. An ever-widening circle of information, entertainment, interac- declare that a “love jihad health experts like Anant evidence of forced conver- about an imagined “love p’s blatant refusal to concede the tion, annoyance, humour, joy and so on. People you might never have bill”, which intends Bhan and Hemant sion in any of the cases. jihad” and the rush for US presidential election by flagging known existed otherwise. People you never would have met. And yes, I imposing five years of rig- Shewade point out that laws to stop something unsubstantiated allegations of have met some Twitter friends in real life. And sometimes, especially orous imprisonment for India is far from being on that does not exist is fraud and casting aspersions on the since Covid, have interacted more with real friends on Twitter than in “violators”, will soon be the top of the pandemic All this high-deci- worse than tilting at wind- very integrity of the electoral real life! introduced in the state and governments at the bel talk about an mills — it is helping process had cast a big shadow over I get that it’s not for everyone. It can be too political, too in-your-face, Assembly. Centre and in states must imagined ‘love divert attention from far the smooth transition of power. too demanding of responses. It can force you to fall into weird rabbit Madhya Pradesh is not focus on addressing the jihad’ and the rush more pressing issues sur- Trump’s menacing manoeuvrings holes. Words, phrases, ideologies you don’t understand. I feel my age on the only state stoking sen- needs of those with Covid- for laws to stop rounding the pandemic. with an intent to overturn the elec- Twitter at all times and have to use online dictionaries to understand timents around the “love 19 and those who have We can neither afford tion results with its potential nega- what people, young people, say and mean. There are worlds within jihad” conspiracy theory, other diseases. There is something that deepening of fissures nor tive ramifications on the country’s worlds revealed. If I were a proper psycho-babbler, I would have more which pivots around the literally no time to waste. does not exist is diversions. democratic credentials are insights to offer into human nature and the infinite spirals we can tra- belief that Muslim men in Why then this noise worse than tilting unheard of in the independent his- verse! India are part of some about “love jihad” when at windmills — it is The writer focuses on tory of the United States. With key I get that some people prefer cat videos and holiday snaps. Either way, organised campaign to in February this year, G. helping divert development issues in battleground states such as Georgia we are part of this grand social media exercise. If you’re up for a fight, convert Hindu women to Kishan Reddy, Union attention from far India and emerging and Michigan won by Joe Biden, you know where to find me! Islam. Four other BJP- minister of state for home economies. She can be Donald Trump is making his last- ruled states — including in the Narendra Modi more pressing reached at ditch efforts to scuttle the final The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics Uttar Pradesh and government, said: “The issues surrounding patralekha.chatterjee results. and social trends. She tweets at @ranjona. Haryana — are following term ‘love jihad’ is not the pandemic @gmail.com. M. Jeyaram, Sholavandan

e jubilant, but keep it short. platforms of Mr Sanders and Ms an inability to gain a Senate majori- Mr Biden’s good manners will be a people who run it are. An New York Kurt Jacobsen Donald Trump clings to the Warren, complacent Democrat offi- ty should alert the Democratic relief, but only for a short spell. Times poll attests two-thirds of US White House but it’s a pret- cials are determined to revert to the Party lords that something essen- Kamala Harris praised Mr Biden citizens want a wealth tax, national and Sayyed Bty good bet that he will same stale economic policies that tial is missing in their economic for his “audacity” in choosing her healthcare, free college tuition and depart, kicking and tweeting, on bred Mr Trump’s resistible rise to programmes, but all they do is as running mate when nothing was a Green New Deal, just for starters. Hassan Khan January 20. He nonetheless gar- power in the first place. blame the left for their own short- more obvious than the careful polit- A recent Fox News poll put those nered 72 million votes, so his long- Throughout his lacklustre cam- comings. ical calculations involved in the figures even higher. anticipated exit may not be perma- paign, Mr Biden avidly played the Mr Biden’s popularity was only choice. In mainstream American Mr Biden and Ms Harris became nent. The Democratic Party failed Covid-19 card of extreme lockdown, modestly higher than Mr Trump’s. politics, “identities” of race, creed, Democratic candidates because to cut into his support because they pleasing perhaps a third of the pop- The bulk of Democrats voted for Joe ethnicity and gender are are they are “safe hands” who enable were loath to say one word that ulace who can afford a Zoom Biden out of distaste for Mr Trump, allowed to flourish instead of class Wall Street, mega corporations, and smacked of the visionary aspira- lifestyle but far less so a hard- not enthusiasm for he who has little interests, which are not supposed to too-big-to-fail banks to go on bilking tions of FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s pressed majority who plead that the to offer those outside his high- exist. One hopes that Ms Harris’ average citizens. The top 10 per cent Great Society, regarded as hideous- economy (jobs, wages, small busi- income social orbit. Mr Biden has a shattering of race and gender barri- in the US now own 78 per cent of the ly socialist by their big donors. nesses and housing stability) is track record any conservative can ers puts those symbolic goals wealth. At this rate, the top 10 per The real social Wall Street injected millions of their foremost worry. cherish — servant of the credit card behind us, because Barack Obama’s cent should own everything in dollars into Joe Biden’s campaign, Lockdown proponents like to industry in his home state of presidency gave black voters who another lifetime, but something has and awaits Cabinet appointments claim that disobeying their rules Delaware, passing a 2005 law strip- weren’t already prosperous nothing to give. The real social distancing distance in US: and more, which will be duly grant- means you will murder your ping people of bankruptcy relief; but a vicarious thrill. Canny elites that the US has practised since the ed given that some 40 former lobby- granny. They don’t like to hear that tormentor of Anita Hill during a can always pick useful opportunists 1970s is the ever-yawning gap ists populate his transition team. So lockdowns mean condemning mul- 1991 Supreme Court nomination to do their bidding, on the assump- between the wealthy and the rest. we are a long way from Mr Biden titudes to poverty, homelessness event, installing a judge who tion that all that people crave is to Mr Biden is by no means a remedy, Can Joe, Kamala posing credibly as a humble man of and early deaths (from untreated became a reliable rubber stamp for become part of the establishment. unless the social justice movements the people. It was truly bizarre lis- illnesses) in order to protect their reactionary views; pushing a 1994 Too often, they’re right about that. arising during Trump’s era pres- tening to affluent Democrats dis- privileged selves. The anti-Covid crime bill that sent the incarcera- Ms Harris is a dedicated careerist sure him ever so reluctantly into ensure change? miss Bernie Sanders as not a “real” measures in the United States sim- tion of minorities skyrocketing; and who played her cards right as a pub- the role. party member when he and ply managed to shift the risks from blithely offering several times, lic prosecutor with a merciless Elizabeth Warren were the only the upper class to the poor, and is no including as Barack Obama’s vice- approach to the poor, even threat- By arrangement with Dawn. candidates who stuck to the values small part of the reason for the president, to slash social security ening to jail parents of truant The writers are the authors of No of traditional FDR Democrats. boosted Trump vote. A loss of seats and Medicare to make foolish com- children. Clean Hands and Parables of After fending off the left-liberal in the House of Representatives and promises with crafty Republicans. 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INDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLERS Marwari wife’s NON-FICTION How the ‘republic of fear’ THE BATTLE OF sexcapades end 1 BELONGING Shashi Tharoor on surprisingly Aleph, `799 PORTRAITS OF POWER has become a reality! flat note 2 N.K. Singh Rupa, `595 migrants), the identitarian fear the crisis, whether in terms of increasing reach of the surveil- THE INDIA WAY of demographic eclipse (from dealing with the catastrophic lance state. Already the BJP gov- Rupa Gulab Muslim over-procreation, ‘love human cost of the disease or the ernment had expanded the S. Jaishankar 3 jihad’, and the like), the nation- collapse of the economy, were reach of the Aadhaar scheme — HarperCollins, `699 Shashi Tharoor alist fear of territorial fragmen- difficult to hide. At the same initially conceived by its prede- tation (caused by a left-liberal- time the outbreak facilitated cessor UPA government as a review REMNANTS OF A Kashmiri ‘tukde-tukde gang’, nationalist projects in many means of providing verifiable 4 SEPARATION excerpt abetted by Pakistan, deter- countries, including India. It secure identities to the poor to Aanchal Malhotra mined to break India into has also convinced many (who permit the direct transfer of orn into a wealthy Marwari family in HarperCollins, `599 pieces), and the traditionalist needed little convincing) that government benefits to them — Kolkata, Srilaa has everything a girl fear of the unfamiliar ruptures foreigners are to be feared, that as an all-embracing mandatory Bcould ask for, apart from love and JINNAH HIS SUCCESSES, hen Prime Minister gerous and perverted form of of globalisation. strict border and immigration means of amassing biometric attention from her parents. Her father is far 5FAILURES AND ROLE IN Narendra Modi speaks ethnonationalism is being fos- The ‘Hindu nationalists’ have controls are essential, that free information on every citizen, too immersed in work to be anything but HISTORY Wof a ‘New India’, and tered; and, in this India that is an ideology they want to imple- trade should be restricted, and even linking it to people’s vaguely interested in her — she has to make Ishtiaq Ahmed defines it as an India free from being sought to be created, a ment but the resistance they that national interests should mobile phone numbers and do with the occasional pat on the head. Her Penguin, `999 the shackles of casteism and narrow-minded majoritarian- have run into — from the anti- trump international coopera- bank accounts. Though the beautiful mother is very sweet but very dis- communal tension, an India ism prevails, where incidents of CAA protests to unruly, suffer- tion. To many, including those Supreme Court partially put the tant — she’s a mystery that is never properly around Mr Modi, the answer brakes on this digital overreach, THE ULTIMATE GOAL that successfully solves its communal violence proliferate, ing but defiant migrant workers explained. She avoids her daughter and endemic problems of corrup- driven by mob-lynching zealots, — causes doubts and prompts lies in strong government, in the government was unde- backs away nervously when Srilaa wants to Vikram Sood 6 tion, nepotism, and terrorism, and gau rakshak vigilantes. In them into exaggerated counter- putting the nation’s needs over terred... During the coronavirus talk to her. Besides, she spends most of her HarperCollins, `699 an India where every woman, this grotesque New India, driv- reactions as a way of masking individual citizens’ freedoms, outbreak, concern about the waking hours away from home doing “some man, and child would be given en by Hindu zealots, Bharat their confusion. It is ironic that and in dispensing with demo- inadequacies of existing data charity work”. THE KHALISTAN an empowered and dignified Mata ki Jai and Jai Shri Ram in their strutting hyper-nation- cratic niceties, from federalism systems to monitor and track Srilaa often wonders why the house-help 7 CONSPIRACY standard of living, thanks to a have become rallying cries of alism, bereft of any real under- to parliamentary oversight, in the spread of the virus’s trans- refers to her mother as “Madamji” rather G.B.S. Sidhu society that harnesses India’s bigotry rather than the beauti- standing of the country’s histo- what the government deems to mission was used to justify the than “Bhabiji”, the traditional Marwari title HarperCollins entrepreneurial spirit to ful slogans Indians are free to ry and heritage and devoid of be the national interest. development of dedicated apps for a housewife. The actual “Bhabiji” at `599 become an economic power- use or not as they wish. As any commitment to the true There have been signs of pop- and tools to track, along with home is her bua who keeps traditional house, he is not wrong. Rather, Pratap Bhanu Mehta fittingly idea of India, they most resem- ulism’s inroads into people’s GPS, Bluetooth, and cell phone Marwari customs alive and the large domes- VOICES OF DISSENT he is merely reiterating a his- asked: ‘How did this fantasy of ble the imperialist bluster of the psyches. Already this pandemic towers, people’s data, their trav- tic staff in shape. It is left to her bua and a 8 Romila Thapar toric commitment to the free- hope, painted in the colours of a British Raj. period seems to have ushered in el history, contact with other maid to actually bring Srilaa up, and Seagull Books doms that were preserved and nation marching to one tune The Covid-19 pandemic an increased fear of the ‘Other’, individuals and possible prox- between the guaranteed in the Old India. and one purpose, completely showed up the Modi govern- as unfounded rumours and imity to known carriers of the two of them `499 But, as usual, between the blanket out the actual republic ment from the time the first accusations against people virus. The government has they don’t rhetoric and the reality there of fear?’ cases began to be detected — its blamed on the basis of their already made its Aarogya Setu exactly do a HONOUR AMONG SPIES falls a great shadow. For all If this ‘republic of fear’ was multiple failures in dealing with national, religious, ethnic, or app, reliant on these tools, com- fantastic job. 9 Asad Durrani, these statements and ideals only hinted at in the first term of regional identity have had a pulsory for every government Perhaps it’s HarperCollins, `499 (which one can find very little to Modi’s BJP government, in its field day in many countries. In employee and is trying to extend because of this disagree with), one is struck by second term it has become a India, citizens from the its reach to every citizen. affection-less DEEPAWALI the complete lack of any idea of clearly illustrated reality... The Northeastern states have suf- Post-Covid-19 India is unlikely upbringing 10SPOOJA-VIDHI how our country is going to British also ruled India as an fered racial discrimination to give up these useful instru- that Srilaa Pawan Kumar Mishra achieve any of this. And, on the ‘empire of fear’ for this very because of their supposedly ments of surveillance and con- falls back on Tara-India Research contrary, plenty of evidence of reason: as historians have ‘Chinese’ features. Social media trol. China has already shown fantasies — Press, `299 the opposite: whether it is the shown, the colonial regime was and nativist populism have the way to a form of ‘digital sexual fan- ‘Achche Din’ of 2014 or the ‘New constantly fearful, even para- amplified prejudices; the fact Leninism’; India’s is heading tasies, to be India’ of the present, under the noid, because they were unsure that a puritan Muslim sect, the towards ‘digital nationalism’. precise. Or BJP government, these phrases of whether or not they really Tablighi Jamaat, had held a India could well see an en- perhaps she appear to be a mere smoke- understood what they were major gathering just before the hanced deployment of surveil- just has a screen for the real agenda that doing. The BJP government has lockdown, whose attendees lance and data gathering under healthy sexual this government has pursued begun showing similar symp- spread the infection to many the guise of preventing a simi- appetite. When SRILAAJI: THE GILDED LIFE since coming to power. The road toms. Their populism is built on THE BATTLE OF states when they returned lar scenario in the future, des- we first meet AND LONGINGS OF A to New India appears littered the exploitation of fear: the home, was used to justify open pite the Supreme Court rulings her, she’s fan- with the wreckage of all that nativist fear of foreigners BELONGING bigotry and discrimination on individuals’ right to privacy. tasising over a MARWARI GOODWIFE against Muslims. was good and noble about the (migrants, minorities, threaten- By SHASHI THAROOR painting in her Old India. ing neighbours), the middle- Another risk thrown up by the Extracted with permission bedroom—an By SHOBHAA DE In its place, an ugly distortion class fear of competition from Aleph government’s response to the from Aleph, the publishers, from English duke Simon & Schuster of the Indian idea is rising, an rising socio-economic groups `799 pandemic, that may help further Shashi Tharoor’s The Battle of astride his `399 India where an especially dan- (OBCs, Dalits, Muslims, its nationalist project, is the Belonging (448 pages) horse. An assault by her cousin’s boyfriend is her very first sexual experience—she enjoys it so much, she wants to tell everyone she meets about it, including her fiancé. PREACHY TONE MARS THIS QUIRKY HISTORY OF PILGRIMAGES Marriage and children don’t dampen Srila’s enthusiasm for sex. Fortunately, her If you don’t take kindly to lessons on left their homes and travelled long dis- iterations of the various stories and husband is as understanding as a good being a good person, you’ll probably tances to seek locations of piety that mythologies. Anyone who has read his friend would be, and they have what would Kushalrani throw the book at the wall and then tear would lead to a darshan of God in one earlier books will recognise the way he be called an “open marriage”. out the pages and use them to mop up form or another, and thus purification deals with each anecdote gently and We get brief respites when De shifts her Gulab noxious excretions. from sins and a renewed joy in life. thoughtfully, asking questions and pro- focus to the subtitle of the book: “The gilded FICTION But if you can manage to As centuries passed, the viding different points of view on the life and longings of a Marwari goodwife.” HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT review put your beliefs aside for a idea that God has more same stories, ultimately expanding his The occasional glimpses of life in a Marwari Jeffrey Archer short while, you might than one form led the peo- theme to cover all sorts of worship and joint family are interesting. The Maharaj 1 find yourself a teensy bit ple of the subcontinent to devotion. (cook) has pride of place in their kitchens, Pan Macmillan, `450 hatever your political affilia- charmed by a book that accept as their own the However, if you are familiar with and Marwari women have no qualms about tion, your idea of religion, your takes you through 32 gods of other faiths as well. Pattanaik’s earlier books, you will also luring really good ones from friends. Being A TIME FOR MERCY Wstand on history, and your atti- places of pilgrimage in And now in these modern note that this book is not quite in his associated with charities is seen as a great 2 John Grisham tude to learning, it’s safe to say that you the country, across all times, while some attitudes usual style. For one, his tone of voice asset: the women look saintly, and all that Hodder & Stoughton will be offended — or at least made a bit major religions, complete to God seem to have does not carry quite the same sense of goodwill rubs off on the family business as `699 unhappy — by mythologist Devdutt with stories of how and become more single-mind- understanding when he talks of imam- well. De is beautifully tongue-in-cheek about Pattanaik’s latest book, Pilgrim Nation: why these places came to ed, some gods are not asso- baras, mosques, gurdwaras and church- this obsession with charity, as Srilaa cyni- THE DISCOMFORT OF The Making of Bharatvarsh. summon worshippers and ciated with any particular es as it does when he talks of shrines cally tries her hand at it too. 3 EVENING If you do not like the concept of secu- the kind of worshippers faith: they may well be film and temples – he usually writes on Srilaa discovers her most precious Marieke Lucas larism, you’ll be purple-faced with rage who answer the call. stars as the last chapter of Hindu mythology. For another, Marwari genes along the way: Business acu- Rijneveld at the syncretism of various places of Pattanaik’s premise in the book shows. Pattanaik never imparted obvious les- men. Every venture she tries her hand at worship around the country. this book is that from With this premise as his sons in his earlier books; he merely pre- flourishes, till she gets distracted by yet Faber & Faber, 499 ` If you do not like the idea of using the times way back when base, Pattanaik divides sented several viewpoints that let read- another man. past to justify the present, you’ll be dis- borders were fluid and PILGRIM NATION: THE his book into ideas of ers see possibilities. In Pilgrim Nation, This book started out with promise, if only PRIVATE MOSCOW tressed by the many reiterations of how India did not exist as a MAKING OF devotion rooted in periods however, you get in-your-face lectures because of the dysfunctional family Srilaa 4James Patterson & Adam invaders looted and destroyed temples. national entity, the sub- like the Vedic age, the on how to be a good human being. This grew up in. However, don’t expect the Tolstoy Hamdy, If you think faith must be single-mind- continent was still per- BHARATVARSH Tantrik Age, the detracts so greatly from the charm of maxim to kick in here: “Happy families are Century, `699 ed and you must worship in one partic- ceived as a single unit By DEVDUTT European Age and so on, the book that I cannot re-read it ever. all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in ular manner, you’ll be incensed by the because it was tied PATTANAIK covering the Hindu, its own way.” Srilaa’s childhood doesn’t HAMNET myriad ways in which human beings together by the threads of Aleph Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, Kushalrani Gulab is a freelance appear to have cast any shadow on her future. 5 Maggie O' Farrell, make their own mythologies to suit all kinds of pilgrim `499 Christian and Sikh faiths, editor and writer who dreams of All she’s interested in is sex, and nothing else Tinder Press, `699 their own needs. routes. Women and men as well as local and tribal being a sanyasi by the sea matters. Her breasts are the only things that developed in the book, and while they may be stunningly globular, she is completely flat— GIRL IN WHITE COTTON just like all the other characters. 6 Avni Doshi, Harper, `599 This year’s JCB Prize awardee Malayalam writer S. Hareesh is 45 years old. His debut novel, Rupa Gulab is a freelance writer and the Meesha (translated into Moustache), ran into troubled waters in 2018 for its observation of author of Girl Alone, Chip of the Old THE LYING LIFE OF women going to temples to draw the attention of male admirers. However, it has now been Blockhead and The Great Depression 7 ADULTS applauded for its chronicling of life in Kerala’s underrepresented Kuttanad region, its of the 40s Elena Ferrante, biodiversity and caste politics, all seen through the lens of magic realism and folklore. Europa Editions, `699

THE SHADOW KING 8Maaza Mengiste, Canongate, `799 Profile of a Punjabi queen PIRANESI The brutal education of a New Delhi: Indian-American fought hard to keep them from 9Susanna Clarke, author Chitra Banerjee annexing Punjab. Defying tradi- Bloomsbury, `699 Divakaruni’s new novel will bring tion, she stepped out of the zenana, alive one of the most fearless cast aside the veil and conducted WHAT THE BODY women of the 19th century — the state business in public. Addres- 10REMEMBERS young serial killer legendary warrior queen Jindan sing her Khalsa Shauna Singh Baldwin, Kaur. troops herself, she Tara-India Research justifying narrative, Alfa says nibals, Zulus’. The rumour which grandiosity. The Last Queen will be released by inspired her men Press, `599 ‘God’s truth’ so often that the grows among his fellow Africans Alfa’s account of his upbring- HarperCollins India in January in two wars notion is drained of meaning. is that Alfa is a ‘dëmm’ or devour- ing in Senegal, brief and power- 2021, the publishers announced on against the Brit- Suzi Translated from the French, the er of souls, which only feeds his ful as anything else in the novel, Tuesday. ish. In the end, she text revolves around recurring makes clear that he was a much- Daughter of was imprisoned Feay images and verbal tics, as though loved child in an ordered society the royal ken- and exiled by the Alfa is trying a series of keys to bound by ties of honour and nel keeper, the British. Her son, review unlock his troubled psyche. After respect. It is this war of the beautiful Jind- Dalip Singh, was seeing Mademba’s guts, ‘slimy as European powers that twists him an was exiled, too. Though he freshwater snakes’, tumbling into a monster. ‘Only obeying Maharaja never ruled, he is often ref- from his belly, it suddenly strikes orders’ always sounds like a cop- Ranjit Singh’s erred to as the last mah- lfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese Alfa that their trench resembles out, but the punishment meted youngest and araja of the Sikh empire. soldier fighting for France ‘a woman, open, offering herself out to those who defy the captain last queen The Last Queen is being Ain the trenches of the to war, to the bombshells, and to is as brutal as any of Alfa’s besides his described by the publish- Great War, is consumed by blood- us, the soldiers’. The night before crimes. favourite. She ers as an exquisite love lust, which you’d think might be call-up, the village beauty, Fary With elegant brevity, Diop pres- became regent story of a king and a com- an asset under the circum- Thiam, granted Alfa her sexual ents a world with no firm divid- when her son moner, a cautionary tale stances. But after watching the favours, and his account of the ing line between courage and Dalip, barely about loyalty and betrayal. protracted, gruesome death of way she ‘opened the interior of madness, murder and warfare; six years old, The novel has already been his friend and ‘more than broth- her body’ takes on a the most dedicated killers are unexpectedly Queen Jindan Kaur; optioned for film rights. er’, Mademba, a switch is flicked disturbing tone. awarded the Croix de Guerre. inherited the (inset) Chitra Banerjee Houston-based Divakaruni in Alfa’s mind. He becomes, in For a while Alfa’s fellow sol- Alfa’s final transformation, as he throne and has authored books like Divakaruni effect, a sadistic serial killer, diers, both Toubab (white) and AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK attempts to atone for his guilt went on to The Forest of until war itself cannot provide Chocolat, applaud his antics and over the death of his friend, is become a leg- Enchantments, Before We sufficient cover for his extremity. laugh at the grisly trophies he By DAVID DIOP unexpected, poetic — and endary warrior queen. Visit the Goddess, Oleander Girl, David Diop’s powerful novel, brings back to the trench. After Translated by ANNA chilling. Passionate and dedicated to pro- The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My not much more than novella all, the French captain has MOSCHOVAKIS tecting her son’s inheritance, Jin- Heart, Palace of Illusions and One length, is full of echoes and por- encouraged the Africans to play Pushkin £14.99 By arrangement with dan distrusted the British and Amazing Thing. — PTI Bahrisons, New Delhi tents. Over the course of his self- the part of ‘savage Negroes, can- the Spectator GAMES pg 8 DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | SUNDAY | 22 NOVEMBER 2020

SHORT TAKES Thiem edges past A special hundred for Chandorkar Chelsea’s new castle Djokovic in semis New Delhi: Former first class cricketer Raghunath Blues take top spot for first time in over two years London, Nov. 21: Dominic match points. Chandorkar on Saturday turned Thiem recovered from He was unable to capi- hundred years old, becoming Newcastle, Nov. 21: squandering four match talise on the first of those only the third Indian cricketer Frank Lampard points in a dramatic sec- but won the second to take to complete a century of birth- warned Chelsea to stay ond-set tie-break to beat the match. days. humble after they Novak Djokovic in the last Chandorkar played seven first climbed to the top of four at the ATP Finals on BULGARIAN PLAYER class games, representing the Premier League for Saturday. GETS LIFETIME BAN Maharashtra (1943-44 to 1946- the first time in more The US Open champion In London, the Tennis 47) and Bombay (1950-51). The than two years with a won 7-5, 6-7 (10/12), 7-6 (7/5) Integrity Unit has banned wicket-keeper batsman had convincing 2-0 win at and will face either Rafael Bulgarian player scored 155 runs in seven games. Newcastle on Saturday. Nadal or Daniil Medvedev Aleksandrina Naydenova He also effected three catches Lampard’s side in Sunday’s final at the for life and fined her and two stumpings. moved above Leicester elite eight-man event. $150,000 for match-fixing Prof. D.B. Deodhar (1892-1993) on goal difference The world’s top four play- offenses. and Vasant Raiji (1920-2020) thanks to Federico ers all made it through to Naydenova “had partak- are the only other Indian crick- Fernandez’s first half the semi-finals for the first en in match-fixing activity eters to celebrate 100 birth- own goal and Tammy time at London’s O2 Arena, multiple times between days. — PTI Abraham’s strike after which is hosting the sea- 2015 and 2019,” the anti-cor- the interval. son-ending event for the ruption body said in a Chelsea are unbeaten 12th and final year. statement Friday. Kosgei, Yeshaneh in nine games in all Thiem forced the only The 28-year-old, whose competitions and break to take a tight first highest WTA singles rank- to run at DHM haven’t lost in their set 7-5 but neither player ing was 218, had been pro- last six league match- could make the break- visionally suspended Dec. New Delhi: The Delhi Half es. through in the second set, 27 last year prior to a disci- Marathon on Saturday With five clean sheets which went to a tie-break. plinary hearing. announced the entries of world in their last six match- Thiem had four match The TIU said Naydenova record holders Brigid Kosgei es in all competitions, points but agonisingly committed 13 breaches of and Ababel Yeshaneh for the Chelsea’s third succes- watched them all slip away the Tennis Anti-corruption upcoming event. At the sive league victory was as 17-time Grand Slam Program with 12 of them Chicago Marathon in October the perfect way to start champion Djokovic lev- relating to match-fixing 2019, Kenya’s Kosgei stunned a hectic period leading elled. and one relating to “sever- the world when she broke the up to Christmas. It was a similar story in al incidents of non-cooper- long-standing women’s world Maurizio Sarri was the third set, with both ation” with the investiga- marathon record by more than in charge the last time players rock-solid on serve tion. a minute, clocking 2:14:04. Chelsea were in pole and the match came down The sanction means that Yeshaneh was a distant second position in the Premier to a deciding tie-break. Naydenova “is permanent- on that occasion but still ran a League in September The Serbian world num- ly prohibited from playing superb personal best of 2:20:51. 2018. ber one raced into a 4-0 in or attending any tennis However, the tables were But Lampard’s squad lead and looked certain to event authorized or sanc- turned at the Ras Al Khaimah are more formidable win but Thiem stormed tioned by the governing Half Marathon in February this than his predecessor’s back, winning six points in bodies of tennis.” year when a contest between fragile team and a seri- a row to earn two more — Agencies the pair in the final stages of ous title challenge the race saw Ethiopia’s looks increasingly pos- Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham (left) scores against Newcastle United in their English Yeshaneh prevail in a world sible. THE RESULT Premier League match at the St. James’ Park in Newcastle on Saturday. — AP record 64:31 with Kosgei sec- “It’s not an easy ond in 64:49. game. We played well Newcastle 0 in patches and the Chelsea 2 result is key in these (Fernandez 10-og, Huesca’s winless streak MONACO COME Gangjee shoots games,” Lampard said. Abraham 65) “The Premier League even par in Japan is tough, relentless, BACK TO STUN and we dealt with the Lampard said. continues after 1-1 draw Miyazaki, Japan: Rahil Gangjee challenge of the game “First 20 minutes we Pamplona, Nov. 21: drawn seven and lost three staged a superb comeback on very well. were great, we had con- Osasuna came from behind games since returning to LEADERS PSG his back-nine to card an even “I won’t get excited trol and all the posses- to draw with Huesca 1-1, the topflight after one sea- par 71 in the third round of the about being top of the sion. I always felt that keeping the visitors win- son in the second division. Paris, Nov. 21: Kylian Dunlop Phoenix Open, here. table for five minutes. the real danger from us less since their return to The point lifted it from last Mbappe’s two goals Gangjee now has rounds of 71- It’s important to be would be on the count- the Spanish league. place to out of the relega- against his former club 72-71 and at one-over for 54 humble and know it’s a er. Huesca dominated early tion zone in 17th place. were not enough as holes he is Tied-49th in only his long race.” “You saw that with at El Sadar Stadium. “We were not able to play French league leaders second event in Japan in 2020. Chelsea could surren- Timo Werner on the Sandro Ramirez finished our game, but it was Paris Saint-Germain Almost 20 events have been der top spot before the break and then setting off a poor clearance by always positive to get a wasted a 2-0 lead and lost cancelled in Japan this year due end of the day, with up Tammy’s goal.” Osasuna goalkeeper Sergio point, especially at a tough at Monaco 3-2. to the pandemic. both Aston Villa and Lampard had com- Herrera to open the scor- ground like this,” Ramirez Mbappe’s first-half Tottenham able to go plained about having ing in the fifth minute. said. brace took him to 99 goals above them depending to play in the Saturday After not creating any “Victory still eludes us, for PSG since joining Austria’s Dominic Thiem celebrates after winning the first Suresh named in on their results. early kick off when scoring chances in the first but I think if we keep from Monaco three years set during the semifinal against Novak Djokovic of Serbia “We can’t have it all several of his players half, Osasuna improved doing things well it will ago in a deal worth a stag- at the ATP World Finals at the O2 arena in London on TNCA’s CAC our own way, but we had only returned with substitutes made at come.” gering 180 million euros. Saturday. — AP Chennai: The Tamil Nadu put the game away from international the restart. Defender David Osauna was in 10th place But lively German for- Cricket Association (TNCA) with a professional duty on Thursday. Garc scored an equalizer after a third consecutive ward Kevin Volland net- on Saturday named former performance,” — AFP in the 68th. Huesca have round without a win.— AP ted twice after the break, state captain S. Suresh the and was fouled by center new chairman of its Cricket half Abdou Diallo for a BEREAVED SIRAJ DECIDES TO Advisory Committee (CAC). penalty converted by for- Former Tamil Nadu opener mer Spain and Barcelona STAY BACK WITH TEAM IN OZ U.R. Radhakrishnan and Appiah wins it for NorthEast Utd midfielder Cesc Fabregas India women’s captain in the 83rd. Kolkata, Nov. 21: BCCI GG Board president Sudha Shah are the other Vasco, Nov. 21: Kwesi Diallo was sent off to secretary Jay Shah on Sourav Ganguly members of the committee Appiah scored from the leave PSG with 10 men in Saturday said that pacer which is likely to meet in a spot as NorthEast United NEW-LOOK GOA the closing stages. Mohammed Siraj, who took to twitter to few days to pick the state FC began their Indian The defeat was PSG’s has lost his father, was laud the Hyderabad selectors. Super League campaign READY TO FACE third of the season and given the option of flying pacer for his Meanwhile, TNCA’s Apex with a 1-0 win over ended a run of eight back home to be with his resilience and Council has decided to con- Mumbai City FC here on CHHETRI & CO. straight wins after losing grieving family but he duct its Annual General Saturday. the first two games. decided to stay back in mental fortitude in Body Meeting (virtual) on A red card and a penalty Margao, Nov. 21: A Monaco moved up to Australia for “national this hour of tragedy. December 28. turned a game, that new-look FC Goa, second place, and four duty”. Mumbai were otherwise strengthened by the points behind PSG, Ghouse, who was suffer- dominating, on their addition of fresh for- despite being without top ing from a lung ailment, for his resilience and head and handed eign players and a new scorer Wissam Ben died on Friday. He was 53. mental fortitude in this NorthEast United a win- head coach, will begin Yedder as he recovers “The Board of Control hour of tragedy. Live on TV ning start at the Tilak their ISL campaign from the coronavirus. for Cricket in India “May Mohammed siraj Maidan. with renewed vigour Another comfortable (BCCI) had a discussion have a lot of strength to CRICKET Appiah (49’) scored the when they clash with PSG win looked on the with Siraj and he was overcome this loss..Lots Big Bash League: Melbourne Stars only goal from a penalty formidable Bengaluru cards when Mbappe offered the option of fly- of good wishes for his vs Sydney Sixers from 8.15 am on after the Islanders were FC here on Sunday. latched on to a fine pass ing back and be with his success in this trip... Sony Six, HD reduced to 10-men follow- FC Goa have never from winger Angel Di family in this hour of Tremendous character,” ing Ahmed Jahouh’s red won the ISL trophy and Maria and finished confi- grief,” Shah was quoted Ganguly tweeted. TENNIS card just before the would be hoping that dently in the 24th minute. as saying in a BCCI media Ghouse, who was an ATP Finals: Final from 11.30 pm on breather. this time around they The France striker then release. auto rickshaw driver, was Sony Six, HD In the early stages, it go one step forward beat goalkeeper Vito “The fast bowler has the biggest influence in looked like NorthEast than 2018 and 2015 sea- Mannone from the spot in decided to stay with the Siraj’s life, as he encour- FOOTBALL were aiming for nothing sons, when they the 36th after midfielder Indian contingent and aged him to take up crick- Indian Super League: FC Goa vs more than a goalless emerged as runners-up. Youssouf Fofana gave continue performing his et as a career. Bengaluru FC from 7.20 pm on draw, with extreme cau- Mandar Rao Dessai (left) in action on his Mumbai City On the other hand, away a penalty. national duties. The BCCI Siraj first came into Star Sports 2, 3 tion visible in their game debut against NEUFC in an ISL-7 match at the Tilak BBFC who have won Striker Moise Kean and shares his grief and will limelight with 41 wickets English Premier League: Fulham vs plan. Maidan Stadium in Vasco on Saturday. — ISL the ISL once, would Mbappe had goals ruled be supportive of Siraj in for Hyderabad in Ranji Everton from 5.30 pm; Sheffield Predictably, it was also be hoping for a out for offside shortly this extremely challeng- Trophy, followed by a United vs West Ham from 7.30 pm; Mumbai who dominated to find a cutting edge. ating magic on their day, winning start and the before the break, and ing phase,” Shah added. record `2.6 crore IPL deal Leeds United vs Arsenal from 10 the first half. The Despite having players Sergio Lobera’s side contribution of star Monaco pulled one back Board president Sourav from Sunrisers pm; Liverpool vs Leicester City Islanders were neat and like Jahouh, Hugo failed to get a single shot striker Sunil Chhetri in the 51st when Volland Ganguly took to twitter to Hyderabad as an from 12.45 am (Monday) on Star Sports Select 1, HD proactive for long spells, Boumous, and Rowllin on target in the first 45 would be the key.— PTI turned in Fofana’s cross laud the Hyderabad pacer uncapped player. — PTI though they were unable Borges, all capable of cre- minutes. — PTI from the right. — AP Italian league: Fiorentina vs Benevento at 5 pm on Sony Ten 2; Roma vs Parma from 7.30 pm on Sony Six; Inter Milan vs Torino from 7.30 pm; Udinese vs Genoa from 10.30 pm; Napoli vs AC Milan from 1.15 am (Monday) on Sony Ten 2 Rohit will be sorely missed in white ball series UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs Perez Cricket Academy in return of Steve Smith and In 2018, India’s pace runs for bowlers to win the This will be a particular- and other bouts from 8.30 am on Bangalore. 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Now there is There has been wide oing by the cricket over the best part of a scuttled Kohli’s prospects man after his wondrous encore. doubt whether the bats- debate whether the cap- played between decade, Virat Kohli. of returning back for the exploits in the World Cup, However, former India men can do enough to sup- taincy should not be bifur- the two teams in More than just irony, this Tests, so he is available Rohit will be sorely captain Kapil Dev, has an port bowlers! cated between him (Tests) Gthe past few years, is a serious setback to only for the first day/night missed. Though K.L. interesting — and perhaps The Test series begins and Rohit (ODIs and Regd. No. India’s tour of Australia India. It leaves the batting pink ball affair at Rahul has shown superb more pertinent — take on after the ODIs and T20is T20is). England, Australia promises rich and exciting vulnerable across the dif- Adelaide. form, it is in white ball the matter. Kapil believes are completed, which and South Africa for TNENG/2010/35692 cricket in all formats. But ferent formats, which the The Test series are under cricket. How well he that the fate of the series should give the Indian instance follow the split there are hardships for Aussies will be eager to greater scrutiny as the pre- adapts to the longer format does not hinge on the fast players enough time to set- captaincy theory, Pakistan Printed & Published by Virat Kohli and Co which exploit. Though he came vious rubber — also played is now crucial for India. bowlers, but on the Indian tled down and acclimatize (now) and New Zealand K. Sudhakar on behalf of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited can’t be overwhelmed by back after a spell on the Down Under — was won by Much of the pre-Test batsmen, though for vastly to Australia conditions. (for the most part) don’t. and Printed at hype. bench to play in the knock- India: A wonderful series conversation and different reasons than in But this does not mean There are pros and cons Deccan Chronicle Presses situated In the ODIs and T20is, out stages and led Mumbai achievement considering debate has been around his playing days. that the next couple of to the theory, but what’s at SP 3, Developed Plot, Industrial Estate, India will be without their Indians to the title, Rohit no Indian team had ever how good the current “India’s pace attack is weeks is a slack period. clear is that in the Indian Guindy, Chennai - 600 032. best white ball batsman, wasn’t cleared by the done this in Australia in Indian pace attack is, even superb,’’ Kapil said when White ball cricket has its context, the debate will RNI Registration No: TN ENG/2005/14987 Rohit Sharma. In Tests, BCCI’s medical team for over 70 years. without Ishant Sharma we chatted the other day. “I own huge significance in intensify and Kohli placed Ph Nos: 22254747, 22254748, 22254750, the team will be without the ODIs and T20is. He is Obviously, the home (also in rehab in am confident bowlers will the sport today which play- under even further scruti- 22254751 the services of their best currently in rehab and team will be seeking Bangalore) and take 20 wickets. But will ers and teams will ignore ny if results are not Editor: KAUSHIK MITTER batsman in red ball cricket recovery at the National revenge, and with the Bhuvaneshwar Kumar. batsmen provide 350-400 at their own peril. favourable.