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SNAPSHOTS AP Parliament attack mastermind killed 11-hour gun AFP Police find 21 kg battle; Gazi of explosives at Baba, 6 dead station IMES EWS ETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK T N N Srinagar: In a major success, secu- New Delhi: A police patrolling team rity forces killed the mastermind be- found 21 kg of explosives lying between hind Parliament attack and Jaish-e- platform numbers six and seven at Mohammad’s operational chief in 10.30 am on Saturday at the New Delhi Kashmir, Gazi Baba alias Shah railway station. On examination, the Nawaz Khan, and his deputy during police learnt the explosives were gelatine, an encounter on Saturday. commonly used for blasts in mountains for Three other militants were also constructing roads. killed in the gunbattle that lasted An expert who inspected the explosives for 11 hours. claimed they were enough to blow up the rail- The home ministry, however, way station. ‘‘These are high-end explosives had not confirmed till Saturday and are used in detonators to make bombs,’’ SISTER ACT: Tennis stars Venus and night that the killed JeM militant is the expert said. Serena Williams at a party hosted by Gazi Baba. Two important trains had arrived at the sta- P Diddy after the MTV Video Music tion 15 minutes before the bag was discovered. Awards in New York. Even as the electronic media broadcast that Gazi Baba has been While the Mumbai Rajdhani was stationed at killed in the encounter, quoting BSF platform number six, the Purva Express had sources, intelligence agencies have arrived on platform number seven. 7 killed in Himachal: Seven peo- Initial leads revealed that the explosives ple were killed, 31 rescued when a not confirmed it. were purchased from Bharat Explosives Lim- bus carrying over 45 passengers was According to home ministry swept away by the swirling waters of sources, the photograph of Gazi ited company in Lalitpur district, Uttar Sirsa river in Solan district of Hi- Baba that the intelligence agencies Pradesh. Joint commissioner of police machal Pradesh on Saturday. Eight have, has not tallied with that of the (crime) B K Gupta said: ‘‘These explosives are bodies were recovered while search killed militant. manufactured in a government ordnance. for the missing passengers is on, As utter confusion prevails over Only licence holders can purchase it. Special Ropar deputy commissioner Seema the identification of Gazi Baba, arrangements have to be made to transport it Jain said here. Twenty-two people, in- deputy prime minister L K Advani to any place.’’ cluding the driver and some perched has asked the intelligence and secu- Deputy commissioner of police (crime) on top of the bus, which was coming rity agencies to press into action. Deependra Pathak said: ‘‘The team of assis- here from Ropar (Punjab), were res- A TV journalist who had inter- tant sub-inspector Subhash Chand, constables cued, Jain said. FIRE AND SMOKE: BSF personnel take cover in Srinagar on Saturday after a house was blasted during a gun battle with Surender and Darpan were on a regular round viewed Gazi Baba earlier, however, militants hiding in there. identified the killed militant as being when they saw an unclaimed bag lying near WTO approves drug pact: The World the same person. BSF men laid a cordon around the Gazi Baba, terror kingpin the reservation chart stand.’’ Trade Organisation on Saturday sealed an Two Border Security Force (BSF) house after a wireless message The bag, a rucksack, was just 20 feet away agreement to allow poor countries to im- personnel were also killed in the flashed from the house was inter- from one of the check-points located near the • Was the brain behind the attack on Parliament on staircases leading from platforms six and sev- port cheap copies of patented drugs for gunbattle, while 10 others, including cepted. The house was bought by the December 13, 2001 killer diseases like AIDS, malaria and tu- three officers, were injured. outfit in the name of local resident en. The check-point was made recently follow- berculosis. The WTO’s supreme General The militants were holed up in a Mohammad Shafi Dar five months • Was the chief commander of operations of the ing the Mumbai blasts. Council gave formal approval to an house at Noorbagh in the old ago, said sources. Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad in Kashmir. The On checking it, the team noticed stick agreement reached by a lower body late city, under Safa Kadal police station Dar, his wife and four children group has an estimated strength of 300 foreign like objects. Thursday. The agreement had run into here. Deputy inspector-general of were evacuated from the house militants and an equal number of local supporters in ‘‘There were about 148 sticks, weighing 150 political wrangling that took intervention BSF K Srinivasan said two bodies safely. Dar also received injuries Kashmir. No prominent militant of the outfit has been gram each. These sticks were covered with a from governments to resolve. P15 of militants and one of a BSF during the encounter. Quoting killed or arrested after the December 13 attack paper which is generally used to wrap explo- Madhumita murder case: The CBI personnel were recovered from Dar’s wife, Raman said the house • Was still shown as commander-in-chief of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in sives. Sensing danger, the team immediately has released two computer-generated the house, partially damaged in the was being used as a hideout by Gazi confidential police documents cautioned the area police station and in- pictures of the suspected killers of poet- exchange of fire. Baba and his associates for several • Was a faceless entity hiding behind many aliases — Jehadi, Shehbaz formed the bomb disposal squad as well as the ess Madhumita Shukla. The agency has One of the bodies was identified as months now. Khan, Abu Hijrat, Doctor. Security agencies knew little about him dog squad,’’ Pathak said. stepped up its search for the accused in that of Gazi Baba also wanted in con- The militants hiding in the house • Said to be from Bhawalpur in Pakistan; operating in Kashmir for the last An alert was also sounded at the police UP and hopes to solve the case soon. P8 nection with the attack on the Jam- were initially asked to surrender but eight years station. All check-points were being mu and Kashmir assembly and the they opened fire, injuring BSF observed closely to spot any person behaving Venkaiah firm on Pota: BJP presi- Said to be in his thirties; an expert in guerrilla warfare hijacking of the Indian Airlines deputy commandant N N Dobai. The • suspiciously. dent Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday ruled • Though from Pakistani Punjab, was based in PoK out removal of Pota, but said there could flight in 1999. gunbattle started thereafter, Raman Pathak said it seemed the bag’s carrier be some safeguards against its misuse. According to BSF inspector-gener- said. The five militants were killed • Was in Kashmir for at least the last two months, if not more wanted to get it inside Delhi, but decided to He refused to go into the details, saying al, Kashmir range, Vijay Raman, the around 3 pm, said Raman. abandon it once he saw the check-point. that a committee constituted for its meaningful review, was already at it. Russian submarine sinks: A decom- missioned K-159 nuclear submarine of Bush is brawny, Sushma looks the Russian navy sank in the Barents sea on Saturday, killing at least two of the 10- member crew. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: good,Vajpayee is action hero Shakespeare set nearly half of his works in Italy. Now, Rome is honouring the play- wright by building a faithful replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre, where his most famous plays were shown. Diaz highest paid actress: Cameron Diaz is the world’s highest paid actress, snatching the title from previous winner Julia Roberts, Guinness Book of World Records has said. Diaz is listed the biggest earner in the 2004 edition of the Niharika Sheetal Anubhav Meena Dabas, Rohit Narendra Ragini group’s record book, based on earnings Sharma, Sharda, ABVP Sapra, ABVP INSO Choudhary, Tokas, NSUI Nayak, of 26.7 million pounds in 2001. ABVP secy president vice president president NSUI president vice president NSUI secy

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2 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 DELHI Statehood, masterplan? Give us paani-bijli

PAANI-BIJLI: ‘There’s PEOPLE a permanent power 1and water crisis in POWER the Capital.’ Question of the week TRAFFIC: ‘Delhiites ● spend most of their What are the three main 2time in massive issues that should top traffic jams.’ Delhi’s election agenda? CRIME: ‘Women in The main issues are garbage, security,es- Delhi don’t feel safe pecially of elderly people, and unemploy- walking alone even in ment and poverty.But neither the BJP nor 3 Congress want to talk about these issues. broad daylight.’ The main issues according to them are the Metro rail and flyovers, for which both are CORRUPTION: ‘You claiming credit, and statehood. What will have to wait in long statehood get us, the common people? H T Advani, Sarvodya Enclave 4queues and face cor- Successive Delhi governments have done rupt and inefficient offi- little to better the situation of the common cials, even to pay a bill’ man. It’s high time they took their job se- riously, stopped delivering long lectures FIGHT FOR DELHI: Issues loom large over the Capital as the elections to Delhi Assembly come closer and started delivering results. First, pro- would go a long way to en- vide basic civic amenities for the common sure hassle-free traffic. Sec- The three main issues are the three Cs: corruption, the least, eradicate corruption at all levels, in public man. Despite promises by various govern- ond, The Yamuna should be crime and cleanliness. Reduce corruption in offices utility services like the MCD. Unfortunately,even if ments, people are still without adequate cleaned at the earliest and and overseeing outfits; Reduce crime on roads and all these issues figure prominently on the election water and power. Delhi being the Capital clean drinking water en- in residential areas; Ensure a clean environment agenda of our political parties, they become non-is- city should at least have the basic ameni- sured. Third, ensure ac- and availability of resources. sues and redundant as soon as the elections are over. ties. It’s a shame that even on Indepen- countable, transparent and R K Malhotra, Alaknanda R L Pathak, Lodhi Colony dence Day,many parts of Delhi went with- corruption-free working sys- out power.Second, ensure the safety of First and foremost, improve the law and order sit- Rallies, processions, and demonstrations should tem in all government of- women, because Delhi’s women don’t feel uation. Second, streamline and ensure the free flow not be allowed in the middle of the city.It should be fices. safe walking alone even in broad daylight. of the supply line, be it water or milk. Last, but not restricted to the border areas of outer Delhi. This Niranjan Pathak, Everyday,they are subjected to some form Trilok Puri of eve teasing. Third, public dealing Reducing pollution,im- should be made more efficient. Ordinary IN THE LINE OF FIRE proving traffic conditions citizens who have to get any work done with the government have to stand in long First, full statehood. At pres- First, infrastructure devel- and improving civic ameni- queues, and face inefficient and corrupt of- ent, because of multiple au- opment. This includes all ties through further privati- ficials who don’t cooperate. thority no one is willing to take steps that would go sation. To reduce pollution, Karuna Thareja, Sarita Vihar responsibility,. there’s no towards making Delhi a a road should be built accountability. Second, the top-class city — state-of- around Delhi so that inter- Top priority should be given to amend the masterplan. Third, Delhi’s poor. the-art transportation, state vehicles do not have to present roads and traffic structure. Delhi- All over the country, those liv- plenty of water, power. go through Delhi. The traffic ites spend most of their time in massive ing below the poverty line — 2.5 Second, development of situation can be improved b traffic jams. The number of accidents in crore people — get rice at Rs 2 human resource to ensure utilising the existing rail Delhi are also due to the poor condition of per kg. Delhi is the only state where the poor that every individual gets equal opportu- tracks running between roads. Second, ensure safety of Delhiites don’t enjoy this benefit. If it comes to power nity. Third, making it a cultural hub. If west Delhi and Faridabad so that they can live without fear. Last, here, the BJP will ensure that the poor get all these three steps are achieved, The drainage system should there is a permanent power and water cri- wheat at Rs 3 and rice at Rs 2. Delhi will become a truly capital city. be refurnished so that it can sis in the Capital. These problems should Sheila Dixit, Delhi chief minister withstand the rains. be solved permanently. , former Delhi CM V K Puri, Anupam Apart- Pawan Kumar Rohira, Shalimar Bagh ments

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Gangajal (drama) ★★★ 1/2 biggest bet. As SP Amit Ku- a local kingpin and his son honest cop (Mukesh Tiwari). Bad Boys ll (action) ★★★ Wild action, graphic vio- Cast: Ajay Devgan, Gracy mar, the untouchable cop (yes, they call him Sadhu Ya- When the mob’s man in the Cast: Will Smith, Martin lence, witty one-liners and a Singh, Mohan Joshi who is posted to India’s bad- dav), the town has little to do force reinvents his morality, Lawrence pleasant evening at your Direction: Prakash Jha lands, Devgan essays a role with the men in khakhi. you know there is still hope. Direction: Michael Bay friendly neighbourhood Showing at: PVR Anupam that is absolutely riveting. While the top cop (Mohan Yet, there is no glorifica- Showing at PVR Anupam multiplex. Needless to say, this actor is Agashe) pledges servitude to tion of the men in khakhi. he last time Prakash re-inventing himself with the local dada, his cronies Their misuse of power (the ike (Smith) and Marcus Nikhat Kazmi Jha created an impact each new role he plays: Hum join the loot and turn a blind take on the Bhagalpur blind- M(Lawrence) are back. T was with Mrityudand, Dil De Chuke Sanam, Bhagat eye to Don Junior’s misde- ings), their fears, their frus- Back with their unconven- the film which gave Madhuri Singh, Company, Bhoot and meanours. trations are all there in this tional bonding that is quar- Dixit the platform she always now Gangajal... Carry on Into this throbbing den of slice-of-life representation. relsome yet cosy. Back with deserved — but rarely got — Ajay,we’re watching. And ap- crime and corruption comes And no, the real Sadhu Ya- their workstyle that is loud, to showcase her talent. This plauding. Devgan, the unbending, un- dav has no case against the hyperactive, bumbling yet ef- time, he’s provided a similar Tejpur, a small town in Bi- breakable cop who still chas- film. See it for its hard-hit- fective. Back with all the fizz platform to Ajay Devgan, har, is like any other small es dreams. He still believes in ting documentation of real and fireworks that their first currently, Bollywood’s town in Bihar or UP.Ruled by the law of the land and the India. And for Ajay Devgan film had. duty of the police force. The — a man with a mission. This time, the cops are beauty of the film lies in the ketchup in the dead of rorism became a synonym called to investigate the new fact that even the viewer be- Hawayein (drama) ★★ night...No sense behind these for survival amongst the tor- narcotics trade in Miami that gins to believe, along with Cast: Ammtoje Mann, senseless killings, yes. But mented sikh youth, so that can be traced back to the bad- Devgan. And not because Babbu Mann where’s the sense behind re- we may learn the truth. lands of Cuba. Behind the there is this larger-than-life Direction: Ammtoje Mann capitulating a 20-year-old his- The truth? It wasn’t the unbridled flood of designer cop who plays Superman in tory.And that too, with all the Sikhs versus the Hindus at Ecstasy into Miami is the sin city. No, on the contrary, urbanned men being hysteria that mainstream all. It was General Malik ruthless Cuban drug lord Devgan is normal, human, Tburnt in the middle of cinema is culpable of. from Pakistan who was be- (Jordi Molla) who looks like harried, harassed and uses the road, with smouldering The director has a noble hind it all. His mission: First Jesus Christ and kowtows honesty and human psychol- tyres round their necks and intention. He wants us to re- Khalistan, then Kashmir. the Satanic cult. Add to this, ogy to clean up, first, the po- hysterical women by their member post-’84 sikh history We know, we know Mr the beautiful undercover lice department, and then, feet; young women being so that we do not tarnish the Mann. We know it’s Pak- DEA agent, SYD (Gabrielle the city. stripped and raped by red- future. He takes us from that istan. Why subject us to such Union) who happens to be The most enduring mo- eyed lumpens; non-tur- traumatic day in Delhi when distasteful visuals, 20 years Marcus’ sister and Mike’s ments of the film lie in the banned men being pulled out sikhs were burnt to the back- later. Isn’t there a virtue in love interest and you now makeover of the most dis- of buses and doused with waters of Punjab when ter- forgetfulness too? what you have...

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DELHI SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 3 Couch Potato vs Cable Guy 1 dead in accident, CAS is out, cable hikes are in. Will Delhi pay up? They just might... teenager arrested

TIMES NEWS NETWORK ing from Africa Avenue and Kyunki television would never be CAS confusion reigns Jain, who was riding a mo- New Delhi: A teenager was torcycle, took a right turn arrested for allegedly rash from Indian Institute of and negligent driving which Technology towards Safdar- the same without Tulsi like a saas-bahu feud resulted in the death of one jung Development Area. The person and injured another accident happened at the Jia By Himanshi Dhawan TIMES NEWS NETWORK in Hauz Khas on Friday Sarai redlight when the The men behind night. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Santro car hit the motorcy- New Delhi: The average cit- Value For Money? your IDIOT BOX The teenager’s father cle,’’ Gogia said. New Delhi: This could well izen’s love-hate relationship owns a sports goods show- The impact was such that be the non-cooperation move- Come September, your cable with his cablewallah is prob- BROADCASTER room in Connaught Place besides the motorcyle the ment of the 21st century. ably beyond analysis. and he resides with his fam- bill could be Rs 450 car also toppled. In the times of Mayawati The cablewallah brings ily at Panchsheel Park. politics, Ayodhya archeology Your second cable connection entertainment to your exis- 4 Multi-Service Operators Both the victims, the po- ‘‘The accused and his + friend, however, escaped un- reports and Mumbai bomb- would cost an extra Rs 100 tence but there are also 65 Independent operators lice said, were in their twen- ings, the topic of discussion times when the scruffy cable ties. hurt,’’ Gogia added. in Dilli living rooms is Here’s how: operator has openly threat- While Nikhil Jain died on He said the police would ened to cut the umbilical initiate action against the whether Isha has been nasty Q Star (World, Movies, Plus, Gold)= Rs 60 the spot, his friend Lalit enough in Kkusum or cord to the bliss of your life. 50 Distributors in the city Sharma’s legs were crushed. teenager’s parents for letting whether Tulsi from Kyunki Q Zee (Reality tv, MGM, English,Turner movies)= Rs 55 With the introduction and Deputy commissioner of a juvenile drive at night. Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Q Sony + Discovery= Rs 55 deferment of the conditional police (south) Vivek Gogia will finally be appreciated for access system (CAS) the tur- Each distributor has 50- said:‘‘Sharma is still ad- Q ESPN + Star Sports = Rs 32 her saccharine goodness. bulent relationship contin- 200 Cable operators mitted at AIIMS.’’ With the deferring of the Q Ten Sports+ Hallmark= Rs 20 ues, slamming the Rs 400 Jain was pursuing his crore cable industry in typi- conditional access system Q Companies including Cable Video, Ultra,T-series, Eagle charge copy- engineering degree from a (CAS), dissecting a charac- right fees = Rs 15 cal saas-bahu style. Each cable operator has private college in Murad- ter’s extensive wardrobe or Barely has the dust settled 200-1000 cable homes abad. rubbing hands gleefully over Q Therefore total outflow for each subscriber from the cable operator= on the flurry of public an- Sharma is a student at another’s scheming machi- Rs 237 nouncements about defer- hary from the National Ca- Dayal Singh college. Since ring CAS till Delhi’s assem- nations seems like a distant Q Cable Delivery+ profit+ maintenance+ billing + ble and Telecom Association his father is working at the dream. collection cost= Rs 175 bly elections, that talks of said. Indian Institute of Tech- In the past week New court cases, protest marches While cable service nology, he resides on the Friends Colony resident Ravi Q Entertainment tax = Rs 20 and meetings have jammed providers at the high-end IIT campus. Sukhija, a garment exporter, Q Service tax = 8 per cent the air. have invested up to Rs 60-70 Gogia said the accused is has considered dismantling The wait for CAS has lin- lakh on inventory and equip- a National Open School the shiny piece of machinery Q Number of cable homes in Delhi: gered on, much in the nature ment, smaller cable opera- student. he bought when implementa- 13 lakh of the long wait before the tors have suffered losses of ‘‘He is to take his class decked-up bride makes her tion of CAS was first an- Q South Delhi: 3,80,000 Rs 2-3 lakh. ‘‘I had taken a tenth exam,’’ the police of- nounced. ‘‘I have spent Rs entry into the mandap — personal loan. My finances ficer added. 2,750 for the set-top box and Q Cable operators: 850 and onlookers find that she and budgeting have been According to him the ac- its installation. I will be is wearing mismatched completely thrown out of cused and his friend was lucky if a rag picker gives me shoes. CAS was supposed to the window. There is no way returning home after mid- Rs 10 for it now,’’ Sukhija be first introduced from July I can recover my losses,’’ a night in his father’s Santro says. 15 then postponed to August Saket cable operator said. car, while the victims were 15, subsequently to Septem- Sukhija is emphatic in his According to the cable op- on a motorcycle. ber 1, and now to after the as- condemnation, ‘‘Millions of erators CAS would have ‘‘The accused were com- sembly elections. viewers have just one source brought a transparent sys- The government had fixed of entertainment. We were tem and discouraged under- Rs 72 plus taxes as the fee for told that CAS will relieve us declaration of the number of receiving a minimum of 30 of this daily harassment by viewers by smaller, unregis- free-to-air channels. CAS cable operators. Instead no tered cablewallas. ‘‘The dis- ‘‘We have issued an advisory phasised the need to have an made it mandatory for all one is sure of what to do,’’ tributors are the middle- that consumers should only independent regulatory au- pay channels including Star, The turn of events has men who have formed a car- pay Rs 72 plus taxes for free thority and if need be, a con- Zee and Sony to be routed completely shaken Sukhija tel and thus dictate the in- to air channels and whatever sumer court through a set- and the few thousands who crease in price and encour- else they were paying earlier dedicated to ca- top box. The had bought set top boxes. ‘‘I age under-reporting. Unfor- for the paid channels, be- ble dispute cas- viewer could feel like a fool. I have spent Rs CAPITAL tunately we as service tween Rs 180-300,’’ Shukla es. ‘‘The police choose the 3,400. The picture quality is providers end up with the have refused to channels they good but the signal is irregu- added. raw end of the deal. We pay assist us. If the STORY wanted to lar. I don’t even know if the Viewers also feel that Rs the service and entertain- cable operator watch and pay cable operator will look after 450 is too high a price to pay. ment tax and get flak from brings his musclemen where the cable operator accord- the maintenance of the box ‘‘We are tortured for 15 min- the consumer who is none do we go for redressal,’’ V C ingly. Free-to-air channels now if something goes utes with useless advertising the wiser,’’ Roop Sharma Tandon from Gulmohar Park that include Aaj Tak, Sahara wrong,’’ O N Shukla from in a 30 minute programme. from the Cable Operators residents’ association asked. and Sab could be viewed Vasant Kunj Federation pres- Why should we pay so United Front (COUF) said. much for that?’’ Alpana Mo- There are other demands without a set-top box. ident said. There are approx- But cable operators are han, a Lajpat Nagar resident as well. ‘‘We are not going to Now however cable opera- imately 50 people in Vasant not willing to throw in the asked. accept the price hike. We will tors who were promised the Kunj who have bought the towel yet. They plan to meet The rounds of meetings organise protest marches new system are baying for set-top boxes. broadcasters’ representa- are gathering momentum. and motivate people to stop blood. ‘‘The government had Fearing a dramatic hike in tives in the first week of Sep- No one has forgotten how ca- watching pay channels if been assuring us one thing cable fees, some residents’ as- tember. For the viewer it is that is what it takes to stop since December last year. sociations have now issued blewallahs walked into their the n-th re-run of a bad soap. diktats urging their neigh- homes and cut connections the authorities from taking Now they have backtracked bours not to be cowed down. by force. Residents have em- us for a ride,’’ Tandon added. completely,’’ Vikki Choud- Court to question Ansals on Uphaar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The city court, hearing the Uphaar fire tragedy case, on Saturday, permitted the Central Bureau of Investi- gation (CBI) to summon and examine eight additional wit- nesses including family members of the Ansal brothers. Additional sessions judge Mamta Sehgal granted the CBI request to summon the witnesses after the investigating agency said it is necessary to examine them in the interest of justice. The additional witnesses sought to be examined by CBI in- clude Kusum Ansal, Pranav Ansal, Divya Ansal, Ritu Ansal, Kushagra Ansal, Karun Ansal, V K Aggarwal and Subhash Verma. The agency had sought their examination to ‘‘prove’’ that certain documents belonging to Uphaar cinema such as minutes of the meetings of the board of directors and the register of members, had their names. The advocate for the Ansal brothers, R K Naseem, had contended that CBI’s request for summoning was only to humiliate his clients’ family members. Naseem said that they would contest Seh- gal’s order and would file an appeal. He added that the people who had been sum- moned did not have any kind of participa- tion in the running of the internal affairs of the company when the ‘‘unfortunate inci- dent’’ happened.

Khurana protests milk crisis: Delhi BJP president Madan Lal Khurana called attention to the milk crisis and the incident where children in an MCD school fell ill after eating the midday meal. Around 2687 people protested with him at chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s residence on Saturday. TNN

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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rainfall at many places — East: Arunachal, , Inquiry into torture Meghalaya, Nagaland - - Mizoram - , NATIONAL WB and Sikkim (Gangetic WB), Orissa, , Bihar; New Delhi: A day after riots broke out in Okhla Mumbai: I-A 0700, North: East UP, Uttaranchal, Punjab, HP, J&K, east Ra- City on alert, panic over mystery car 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, jasthan, few places in west UP, , west ; Central: area over alleged police torture, a vigilance in- 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Sanjay Sekhri 2300 Jet Air 0650, West MP, a few places in east MP, Vidarbha, ; Penin- TIMES NEWS NETWORK quiry was started against three police officers 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, sula: , Konkan, , coastal AP, coastal , a few working at the police post there. 1935, 2030, 2200, places in madhya , Marathwada and Telangana. New Delhi: High alert and Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD Safety drill The boy, Iqbal, who was allegedly thrown by 1520, 1800, 2025 tight security arrangements the policemen is still admitted to AIIMS. ‘‘He is KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min within Connaught Place took 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 34 27 Pune 27 22 Amsterdam 18 12 New Delhi: The police out of danger,’’ deputy commissioner of police Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 31 25 Guwahati 33 26 Bahrain 37 32 the public by surprise on Sat- will start a drill for the oc- (south) Vivek Gogia said. Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 35 26 Dehradun 29 23 Bangkok 32 27 urday. Barricades were put up cupants of high-rise Iqbal, a vegetable vendor, reportedly misbe- CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 32 27 Hyd’bad 29 23 Beijing 22 17 at the main entrance points 0640,0955★★★ Ban’lore 29 20 Indore 27 22 Chicago 33 15 buildings in Connaught haved with a woman when she alleged that he 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 32 25 Geneva 27 17 and checking of cars was in Place area. The exercise 0645,1900 Jaipur 31 26 was cheating in weights. Police was called and T’puram 32 23 Lucknow 35 26 Hong Kong 32 27 full swing. would include training of- BANGALORE: Iqbal fled. In the evening he was spotted and tak- I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 27 23 Shimla 23 17 London 18 12 Senior officials claimed that fice staff on how to deal Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 30 25 Srinagar 30 17 Los Angeles 29 18 en to the post. Traders alleged that the police had Sahara 0725, 1745 Patna 32 27 V’patnam 34 28 Moscow 15 10 the security beef-up was in the with situations similar to thrown Iqbal from the second floor. TNN HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 wake of intelligence inputs the one at World Trade GOA: I-A 1200, Sahara 1200 TRAIN RESERVATIONS stating an attack on the city’s Centre. KULU: Jagson 0630, busiest market was on the Police said that confu- ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on 0650, 1215 30.08.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. anvil. ‘‘Security was tightened : sion at World Trade Cen- I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl on Friday night itself. It was tre had helped the robber Jet Air 0610 NORTH important to take the precau- flee. ‘‘There was no co-or- GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 31.08 01.09 08.09 08.09 I-A 0555★★, 1010• tions specially after the Mum- dination between the se- ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 12.09 15.09 08.09 2403 Jammu Exp 01.09 09.09 09.09 15.09 bai blasts and the recent hap- curity guards of different Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST penings in Srinagar,’’ a police floors. Also people should Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 31.08 01.09 02.09 — officer said. 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 03.09 31.08 31.08 03.09 know how to react if there Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, A visitor to Connaught Place (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 01.09 01.09 01.09 16.09 is such a situation,’’ a Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 02.09 04.09 05.09 said:‘‘I have never seen such police officer said. TNN 2392 Magadh Exp 31.08 02.09 31.08 31.08 strict security here in the INTERNATIONAL 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 31.08 31.08 31.08 BANGKOK/TOKYO: 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 02.09 31.08 31.08 01.09 past,’’ Thai Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 16.09 13.09 In the midst of all the wanted to go to the ‘‘New Del- A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 31.08 04.09 05.09 hi’’ area. FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 01.09 03.09 01.09 02.09 checks, police went into a tizzy 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 01.09 01.09 01.09 after receiving a call at the con- When asked to produce the AMSTERDAM: KLM 2802 Purshottam Exp — 05.09 01.09 03.09 trol room at 4:30 pm. car’s papers, the driver went 0745 (KL-476) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 02.09 05.09 31.08 back to the vehicle pretending LONDON: British 4230 Lucknow Mail 01.09 05.09 02.09 03.09 The call was about a car with Air 0210 (BA-142) WEST three occupants. It was spotted to bring the papers but fled. PARIS: Air France 0040 2904 Golden Temple Mail01.09 01.09 01.09 10.09 making rounds at Vijay The police have noted down the (AF-147), A- 2926 Paschim Exp 31.08 01.09 03.09 11.09 registration number (JK-14- I 0735 (AI-141) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 31.08 01.09 01.09 — Chowk. SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 01.09 01.09 01.09 — The car, with two men and a 3030) and would get it verified. Airlines 2315 (SQ-407), 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 04.09 11.09 11.09 The city also received four 1078 Jhelum Exp — 02.09 02.09 09.09 woman, made two rounds of I-A 0050 (IC-855) hoax bomb calls on Saturday. HONG KONG/OSAKA: A- 2916 Ashram Exp 31.08 03.09 01.09 04.09 the chowk in a suspicious man- I 2320 (AI-318) SOUTH ner sending alarm bells ring- Three of them were in New ROME/GENEVA: 2616 G T Exp 31.08 01.09 01.09 02.09 ing. When the police stopped Delhi area, while the fourth The city has gone on a security alert after Delhi Police discov- A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 01.09 31.08 04.09 07.09 2432 Trivandrum Raj 31.08 14.09 30.09 — the car, the driver said they one was from Chandni Chowk. ered explosives at New Delhi Railway Station on Saturday. AIR INDIA 2626 Kerala Exp — 02.09 01.09 10.09 2618 Mangala Exp — 11.09 08.09 08.09 AHMEDABAD: 0120 2628 Karnataka Exp — 01.09 31.08 01.09 (AI 610) 2724 A P Exp 31.08 01.09 01.09 01.09 Citizens to be involved in budget MUMBAI: 0615 (AI 140), 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 01.09 09.09 09.09 — Man held with Rs 77 lakh 0700 (AI 170), 1855 (AI 7022 Dakshin Express — 01.09 — 31.08 301), 2145 (AI 319) TIMES NEWS NETWORK nual plan. She was speaking at No. of passengers dealt on 29.08.2003 (Delhi Area): 48,652 (N. Rly. Area) the valedictory function of a TIMES NEWS NETWORK of income-tax who will take-over A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 1,88,029. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all New Delhi: Delhi CM Sheila (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for Bhagidari workshop. the investigations from us,’’ (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. Dikshit announced that steps New Delhi: A man, working as a 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) Pathak said. 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 were on to directly involve cit- She added that next year on- tele-operator with Bihar empori- Roy had reportedly reached the izens in the exercise of draw- wards the government will be um, was detained at the Hazrat Brothers held for murder: Two brothers were shot dead in ing up the budget and the an- calling a conference of vari- Nizamuddin railway station on railway station at 7 am. He had Gautam Budh Nagar district on Saturday by their nephews over ous bhagidari groups such as Saturday morning for carrying come from Bangalore. On seeing the patrolling team, Roy apparent- a property dispute. The accused are absconding. TNN RWAs and industrial associa- unaccounted cash of Rs 77 lakh. tions for inputs. Deputy commissioner of police ly became uneasy. This caught the (crime) Deependra Pathak said team’s attention who moved to- the man, Ram Roy, was appre- wards him and demanded to see hended after he failed to give a sat- his two bags. isfying reply to their queries. Roy, initially, refused. When ‘‘Although he claimed the mon- asked to prove his identity, he took ey belonged to his brother-in-law, out a card declaring him as an em- M N Upadhyaya, we are yet to ployee of Bihar bhawan. But cross-check it. We have, however, when the police pressurised him informed director (investigation) to open his bags, Roy finally did. Pain relief: Govt remains indifferent By Abantika Ghosh TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Delhi government can afford to spend Rs 1 crore every year on each of its ministers. But for the past two years, it has not been able to spare Rs 20 lakhs to alleviate the pain of terminally ill cancer patients. The Radio Frequency Thermo Coag- ulator (RFTC) is a sophisticated ma- chine that is used to carry out exami- nations on terminal cancer patients and also on patients who have a chron- ic, unexplained low-back pain. Esti- mated to cost about Rs 20 lakh, author- ities at Guru Tegh Bahadur (GTB) Hospital had sent a requisition for the machine to the health department about two years ago. According to doctors, RFTC is the preferred mode for examining patients in whose cases surgical intervention is not recommended, like in cancer pa- tients who are in such an advanced state that they are beyond the scope of chemotherapy. According to a professor of Anaes- thesiology at the hospital, ‘‘Through the use of a very high temperature (60 degrees-90 degrees Celsius), the exact seat of the pain is pin HEALTH pointed and then since in terminal HAZARD patients, there is lit- tle else we can do, we concentrate on symptomatic relief. The cost of the probe per patient comes to just about Rs 300, a meagre amount compared to what a private hospital would charge.’’ The hospital, on an average receives about ten patients every month who are candidates for RFTC. Had the ma- chine come soon after the requisition was sent, it would have meant less pain for at least 250 patients. ‘‘This is not taking into account the numerous other referred patients we could have treated as this is a referral hospital,’’ said a hospital official. He added that the other option for such chronic pain patients, is the cost- ly intrathecal pumps, each of which cost about Rs 2-3 lakh. ‘‘The govern- ment is loathe to shell out money for RFTC. Given the fact that most of our patients come from the neighbouring regions of Delhi and are mostly poor people, we cannot even ask them to buy the pumps,’’ a doctor at the pain clinic said. Moreover,he added, any in- stance of a patient at a government hospital being asked to buy something very costly for treatment is usually not encour- aged. ‘‘Even if a rare pa- tient can afford the pumps, we need ap- provals from a number of authorities before pre- scribing it for him.’’ Medical superintend- ent, GTB Hospital, Dr D K Srivastav said, ‘‘I cannot say off-hand when the requisition was sent. Must have been sometime back since I do not recol- lect it.’’

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CINEMA OF THE WEEK

Gangajal (drama) ★★★ 1/2 then Kashmir. Cast: Ajay Devgan, Gracy We know, we know Mr Statehood, masterplan? Singh, Mohan Joshi Mann. We know it’s Pak- Direction: Prakash Jha istan. Why subject us to Showing at: PVR Anupam such distasteful visuals, 20 years later. Isn’t there a he last time Prakash virtue in forgetfulness too? Jha created an impact Just give us bijli-paani T was with Mrityudand, Bad Boys ll (action) ★★★ the film which gave Mad- Mohammed Ilyas Cast: Will Smith, Martin huri Dixit the platform she Lawrence always deserved — but Direction: Michael Bay PEOPLE rarely got — to showcase Showing at PVR Anupam her talent. This time, he’s POWER provided a similar platform ike (Smith) and Mar- to Ajay Devgan, currently, Mcus (Lawrence) are Question of the week Bollywood’s biggest bet. As back. Back with their un- SP Amit Kumar, the un- conventional bonding that ● than-life cop who plays Su- round their necks and hys- What are the three main touchable cop who is posted perman in sin city. No, on terical women by their feet; is quarrelsome yet cosy. issues that should top to India’s badlands, Devgan the contrary, Devgan is nor- young women being Back with their workstyle Delhi’s election agenda? essays a role that is ab- mal, human, harried, ha- stripped and raped by red- that is loud, hyperactive, solutely riveting. Needless rassed and uses honesty and eyed lumpens; non-tur- bumbling yet effective. Back to say,this actor is re-invent- human psychology to clean banned men being pulled with all the fizz and fire- The main issues are garbage, securi- ing himself with each new up, first, the police depart- out of buses and doused works that their first film ty,especially of elderly people, and un- role he plays: Hum Dil De ment, and then, the city. with ketchup in the dead of had. employment and poverty.But neither Chuke Sanam, Bhagat The most enduring mo- night...No sense behind the BJP nor Congress want to talk This time, the cops are Singh, Company, Bhoot and ments of the film lie in the these senseless killings, yes. about these issues. The main issues called to investigate the new now Gangajal... Carry on makeover of the most dis- But where’s the sense be- according to them are the Metro rail narcotics trade in Miami Ajay, we’re watching. And honest cop (Mukesh Ti- hind recapitulating a 20- and flyovers, for which both are claim- that can be traced back to applauding. wari). When the mob’s man year-old history. And that ing credit, and statehood. What will the badlands of Cuba. Be- Tejpur,a small town in Bi- in the force reinvents his too, with all the hysteria statehood get us, the common people? hind the unbridled flood of har, is like any other small morality, you know there is that mainstream cinema is designer Ecstasy into Mia- H T Advani, Sarvodya Enclave town in Bihar or UP. Ruled FIGHT FOR DELHI: Issues loom large over the Capital as Assembly elections near. still hope. culpable of. mi is the ruthless Cuban Successive Delhi governments have by a local kingpin and his Yet, there is no glorifica- The director has a noble drug lord (Jordi Molla) who done little to better the situation of the son (yes, they call him Sad- tion of the men in khakhi. intention. He wants us to re- looks like Jesus Christ and common man. It’s high time they, PAANI-BIJLI: TRAFFIC: ‘Delhiites CRIME: ‘Women in hu Yadav), the town has lit- Their misuse of power (the member post-’84 sikh histo- kowtows the Satanic cult. stopped delivering long lectures and tle to do with the men in take on the Bhagalpur ry so that we do not tarnish Add to this, the beautiful un- ‘There’s a perma- spend most of their Delhi don’t feel safe khakhi. While the top cop started delivering results. First, pro- nent power, water time in massive walking alone even blindings), their fears, their the future. He takes us from dercover DEA agent, SYD vide basic civic amenities. Despite 1 2 3 (Mohan Agashe) pledges frustrations are all there. that traumatic day in Delhi (Gabrielle Union) who hap- promises by various governments, peo- crisis in the Capital.’ traffic jams.’ in broad daylight.’ servitude to the local dada, And no, the real Sadhu when sikhs were burnt to pens to be Marcus’ sister ple are still without adequate water his cronies join the loot and Yadav has no case against the backwaters of Punjab and Mike’s love interest and turn a blind eye to Don Ju- and power. It’s a shame that even on In- nent power and water crisis in the Cap- issues figure prominently on the elec- the film. See it for its hard- when terrorism became a you now what you have... nior’s misdemeanours. dependence Day, many parts of Delhi ital. These problems should be solved tion agenda of our political parties, hitting documentation of synonym for survival Wild action, graphic vio- Into this throbbing den of went without power. Second, ensure permanently. they become non-issues and redundant real India. And for Ajay amongst the tormented sikh lence, witty one-liners and a crime and corruption comes safety of women, because Delhi’s Pawan Kumar Rohira, Shalimar Bagh as soon as the elections are over. Devgan. youth, so that we may learn pleasant evening at your Devgan, the unbending, un- women don’t feel safe walking alone R L Pathak, Lodhi Colony the truth. friendly neighbourhood even in broad daylight. Third, public The three main issues are the three breakable cop who still Hawayein (drama) ★★ The truth? It wasn’t the Cs: corruption, crime and cleanliness. Rallies, processions, and demonstra- multiplex. dealing should be made more efficient. chases dreams. He still be- Cast: Ammtoje Mann, Sikhs versus the Hindus at Nikhat Kazmi Reduce corruption in offices and over- tions should not be allowed in the lieves in the law of the land Babbu Mann Karuna Thareja, Sarita Vihar all. It was General Malik seeing outfits. middle of the city. This would go a long and the duty of the police Direction: Ammtoje Mann from Pakistan who was Top priority should be given to amend R K Malhotra, Alaknanda way to ensure hassle-free traffic. force. The beauty of the film behind it all. His mis- the present roads and traffic structure. First and foremost, improve the law Second, The Yamuna should be lies in the fact that even the urbanned men being sion: First Khalistan, Delhiites spend most of their time in and order situation. Second, stream- cleaned at the earliest and clean drink- viewer begins to believe, Tburnt in the mid- massive traffic jams. The number of ac- line and ensure the free flow of the sup- ing water ensured. Third, ensure ac- along with Devgan. And not dle of the road, with cidents in Delhi are also due to the poor ply line, be it water or milk. Last, but countable, transparent and corruption- because there is this larger- smouldering tyres condition of roads. Second, ensure not the least, eradicate corruption at all free working system in all government safety of Delhiites so that they can live levels, in public utility services like the offices. POOR★ AVERAGE★ ★ GOOD★ ★ ★ VERY without fear. Last, there is a perma- MCD. Unfortunately, even if all these Niranjan Pathak, Trilok Puri GOOD ★ ★ ★ ★ OUTSTANDING ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ IN THE LINE OF FIRE

First, full statehood. At present, because First, infrastructure develop- of multiple authority no one is willing ment. This includes all steps that to take responsibility, there’s no would go towards making Delhi a accountability. Second, the masterplan. top-class city — state-of-the-art Third, Delhi’s poor. All over the country, transportation, plenty of water, those living below the poverty line — 2.5 power. Second, development of crore people — get rice at Rs 2 per kg. human resource to ensure that Delhi is the only state where the poor every individual gets equal op- don’t enjoy this benefit. If it comes to portunity. Third, making it a cul- power here, the BJP will ensure that the poor get tural hub. If all these three steps are achieved, wheat at Rs 3 and rice at Rs 2. Delhi will become a truly capital city. Madan Lal Khurana, former Delhi CM Sheila Dixit, Delhi chief minister

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CAS launch under a cloud: Though only 2 days are left for launch of CAS in Kolkata, uncertainty still prevails as the West Bengal government has expressed opposition to its im- plementation without discussing the matter with the states. PTI Marooned by nature’s fury AFP HC dismiss- es Sadhu’s petition: A writ petition for banning release of the Prakash Jha-directed film Gangajal filed by one Sadhu Yadav, brother of Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi was on Saturday dis- missed by a divi- sion bench of the Allahabad HC. The Luncknow Bench on August 27 last, had re- served its verdict on the writ peition. PTI

Villagers stranded in flood waters at Padmapur village in Orissa on Saturday. Lakhs of people were affected by the rising waters of Mahanadi, Kathjodi and their tributaries Daya, Bhargavi, Kusabhadra, Chitrotpala and Luna. Around 200 villages have reportedly been marooned. The of- ficial death toll stands at eight. Another bastion falls: Women muftis in Md A Basith TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hyderabad: A separate Dar-ul-Iftah (collegium of muftis from where fatwas are issued) for Muslim women is coming up in the city within 15 days. This is the first of its kind in India. Though several ulema have reservations on women issuing fatwas, the Jamiat-ul-Mominat, an institution where women are taught the cours- es of Alim, Hafiz and Mufthia, located at Moghalpura here, thinks otherwise. The objective is to ensure availabiliy of women muftis to help needy Muslim women on religious aspects, guid- ing them on marital issues and in all walks of life and issue fatwas if needed. The Muftias (women muftis) will issue fatwas from this centre on a par with their male coun- terparts on various issues. It was at the recent meeting of the All India Sunni Ulema Board here that the Board converted the results of study by two women muftias, one on bank interest which said this facility can be availed of, and another on permitting organ transplantation. Since there is no separate Dar-ul-Iftah for women, they have had to seek the help of muftis on all issues. Because of the social stigma of speaking to men who are strangers, women were unable to express their personal problems freely. Moreover, because of purdah, most Muslim women are not able to face muftis and have to in- stead mention the issue in writing.

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AFP Flailing through Eminent citizens rally for peace and harmony in Mumbai PTI life? Must be TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: Is the Maharashtra government doing enough to curb hate speech and writ- ing at a time of growing communal tension? the brain CEO Communal harmony groups and con- cerned citizens who believe that enforcing Neelabh By Vithal C Nadkarni anti-hate speech laws will help promote peace say the state government is reluctant TIMES NEWS NETWORK to crack down on rabble rousers. In a meeting Mumbai: Why do some with chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde on people, who are truly Wednesday, several prominent citizens smart and talented, still pressed for vigorous enforcement of laws struggle and flail through like Section 153-A and 295 of the Indian Penal life like headless chickens? Code, which provide for punishment against Why do they act as though inflammatory speeches and writings. they lack the rudimentary ‘‘The real aim of a terrorist is to polarise ability to plan and organ- society,’’ lyricist Javed Akthar reasoned. ise their time and space, to ‘‘Such writings also polarise society, and aid initiate and execute proj- terrorists.’’ Akthar’s views were echoed by ects to fruition? Mumbai University vice-chancellor B L And, like monkeys tear- Mungekar, who said: ‘‘Since 1993, the politi- ing down banana blossoms mental image of a cal process in the city has been based on ha- in favour of more substan- destination. tred because of communal propaganda and tive but late-arriving ba- A deficiency in this cru- poison spread through various publications. nanas, why do such people cial area could make the We need to stop it.’’ also have such a hard time person ‘future-blind’, say A vendor sets up his stall to sell Ganesh idols in Mumbai on Saturday. The 10-day Ganesh Additional chief secretary (home) U resisting the temptation of researchers. festival begins on Sunday. Mukhopadhyay said the state government more immediate gratifica- This was dramatically would consider the citizens’ demands. ‘‘But Actor Javed Jafri and film director Tanuja tions? highlighted in the cele- will wielding a big stick stop communal ha- Chandra during a rally for communal harmo- brated case of Phineas Shinde to revamp police force tred? In the name of pursuing action, we ny in Mumbai on Saturday. Gage, an upwardly rail- should not create more conflict,’’ he said. enforcement of Section 153-A, momentum on PSYCHO road contractor, otherwise By S. Balakrishnan The CM conceded that fac- development. Now Munde While it is the recent bomb blasts that have this demand has been building since the Gu- a Victorian model of recti- TIMES NEWS NETWORK tionalism existed among IPS should explain to Mum- spurred citizens’ groups to lobby for greater jarat communal riots last year. tude and diligence who officers of the state. ‘‘It is un- baikars why he failed to get BABBLE turned into an aimless Mumbai: A major revamp of fortunate. But I am deter- the necessary funds,’’ the CM drifter and cussed so- the police force is on the mined to put an end to it. You said. Recent research sug- ciopath after surviving cards, chief minister will see some action in a few Shinde said the Central gests that rather than be- grievous brain injury in a Sushilkumar Shinde told days,’’ he said. government has agreed to ing wilful or perverse, freak accident. TNN here on Saturday. Indi- Referring to his recent hand over 50 per cent of salt many of these puzzling Noted neurologist Anto- cations are that the exercise meeting with Prime Minister pan lands in Mumbai to the underachievers may nio Damasio examined will be carried out after the A.B. Vajpayee, Shinde admit- state government while the actually be suffering from Gages case in Descartes Er- Ganesh Chaturthi festival ted that he returned empty rest will be retained by it. neurological abnormali- ror, his best-selling synthe- commencing on Sunday. handed from Delhi. ‘‘However, the development Shinde said he would not ties involving the brains sis of emotion and reason. ‘‘When there was a discus- of this land will be subject to like to comment on the law CEO, or a control centre He and his wife Hanna sion in the assembly on coastal regulation zone (CRZ) and order situation or the re- which is really an array have studied patients with Mumbai, BJP leader norms. The initiative in this cent serial bomb blasts of of executive function that similar front-lobe damage, Gopinath Munde suggested regard was taken by BJP MP Mumbai. ‘‘I do not want to orchestrates resources that similarly devastating that I should lead an all-party Kirit Somaiya,’’ Shinde say anything at present as it such as memory, language impact, which leaves IQ, delegation to Vajpayee. added. He denied that he was may impact the morale of the and attention to achieve a memory and language in- Munde had assured that he under pressure by the police force. But a revamp goal, be it a fraction of a tact, but with a profound would persuade Vajpayee to builders’ lobby to relax CRZ will be done after a few days second or five years from lack of feeling and an in- release funds for Mumbai’s rules. now. ability to put current so that the challenge of ter- Executive functions en- events in context and rorism can be faced more able you to hold on to a make future judgments. effectively,’’he stated. No pact with Mulayam, says Venkaiah TIMES NEWS NETWORK Coimbatore: Refuting allegations that the BJP had played a role in the formation of the new govern- ment in , BJP presi- dent Venkaiah Naidu said his par- ty did not have an understanding with the Samajwadi Party. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Naidu clarified that BJP had not entered into any ‘‘tacit un- derstanding’’ with the Samajwadi Party. Asked about his party’s strategy, Naidu said a meet- ing of senior BJP leaders would be held during the first week of September, wherein future strategies would be chalked out. Asserting that the BJP did not regret its alliance with the BSP, headed by former UP chief minister Mayawati, Naidu clarified that his party did not oppose the formation of a new gov- ernment in Uttar Pradesh as the people did not want an- other election. Further, he admitted that BJP also lacked the requisite number. Stating that both the BSP and Samajwadi parties fanned casteist agenda, Naidu, however, predicted that Mulayam would have a tough time ahead.

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5 booked under Pota: Five people were booked under Pota on Friday for being part of the last September’s Aksharsham temple massacre conspiracy. TNN Sex, lies, murder... How wicked can our soaps get?

By Rachna Subramanian know that viewers enjoy it.’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK Arjun Walia, a regular sit- com-watcher says, ‘‘We may New Delhi: Last week, a not be as degraded as these man got his three-year-old serials make us out to be, but nephew murdered for there must be something moolah in a prime-time seri- wrong with us if we enjoy al (Kasauti Zindagi Kay). this kind of mindless evil on Then, a jealous wife a daily basis.’’ So why contin- tripped her nine-month preg- ue to watch them? ‘‘It’s an ad- nant colleague, causing a diction,’’ says Aruna Dhin- miscarriage (Sanjivani). An- gra, another soap aficionado. other young girl had to be ‘‘What’s more, we see them abandoned at the marriage Anu in Des Mein Nikala Hoga Simran in Sanjivani, trips her Rishab Bajaj in Kasauti Pallavi in Kahani Ghar Ghar with our children.’’ pandal. Reason? She had Chand is willing to kill, lie 9-month pregnant colleague, Zindagi Kay is another Ki is schemestress par But there seems to be a faked pregnancy and black- and steal babies causing a miscarriage master plotter excellence shift. ‘‘Now we prefer to mailed her groom-to-be. If ping and murder have be- HRD ministry and an avid ple’s homes in Lucknow, In Sanjivani, the writer, watch more down-to-earth se- that’s not enough, there’s a come everyday activities for soap-watcher. ‘‘Take where he promised to take not satisfied with turning a rials like Astitva or a detec- hero who duped a girl into characters here. Kasauti.... Why for God’s back their message to Balaji hospital drama into a ro- tive one like Krishna Arjun,’’ marriage, all for revenge It could be Komolika and sake, did they kill that little Telefilms so that ‘‘middle mance between interns, dis- adds Dhingra. (Kyunki...), another who Rishab Bajaj in Kasauti..., boy? And devote the next two class family pe negative ef- torted the character of Sim- Will Sara Akash, Star TV’s duped her for unrequited Simran and Aman in Sanji- episodes on the family going fect na pade.’’ ran to such an extent that a new soap about those mag- love and a woman who is vani, Anu and now Rohan in through the funeral rites. It’s Akhila Sivadas of the Me- change of face became neces- nificent men and women in willing to kill, lie and steal Des..., Pallavi and Avantika more obscene than any dia Advocacy Group’s view- sary. Schemers and black- flying machines, do the trick? babies to fulfil her grand mis- in Kahani.... They’ll stop at amount of flesh and gore er’s forum, agrees: ‘‘To retain mailers have taken over from ‘‘If doctors (Sanjivani) and sion in life (Des Mein Nikala nothing to get what they shown in Bollywood films.’’ eyeballs, the producers of doctors and administrators. police officers (Kehta Hai Hoga Chand). want. Last month a PIL was filed popular soaps have raised In defence, Tarun Katyal Dil), both dealing with hu- How vile can you get? If ‘‘Our sitcom scriptwriters in the Lucknow High Court the threshold of emotions Star TV’s senior VP, content man tragedies and triumphs, you watch prime time televi- are breaking all barriers of against the negative portray- like joy, sorrow, anger, re- and communications, says, couldn’t hold their own sion in India, your answer sensibility to satisfy viewers’ al of women in soaps. Later,a venge to such an extent that ‘‘A TV soap is like a novel. against the saas-bahu melo- could well be ‘‘There are no appetite,’’ says Aditi Das, a Star Plus team, including ac- they’ve become victims of There are high points like a dramas, how long can pilots limits.’’ Blackmail, kidnap- research assistant with the tor Jeetendra, visited peo- their own creations.’’ marriage or a murder. We survive?’’ asks Walia. CBI claims headway President views red planet AFP New Delhi: The CBI is on the verge of a breakthrough in TIMES NEWS NETWORK tiful and colourful features of Mars, the Madhumita Shukla mur- apart from the scientific aspects in New Delhi: Was it the scientist in der case, sources claimed. the southern sky and our expanding him, or the poet? Whatever the rea- The agency which released universe, inspired him’’. son, the President stayed up with two computer generated pic- Kalam said Mars will become ‘‘a much of Delhi to watch the red plan- sought-after planet for human explo- tures of the suspected killers et as it swept close to Earth . of the young poet, had stepped ration for wealth and habitat, in a few But unlike those who clambered decades’’. But there’s a message in it up its search for the two per- onto rooftops to peer at the sky, Pres- for India as well. The Indian estab- sons all around Uttar ident Abdul Kalam did get a better lishment is aiming for the moon, but Pradesh. TNN view through a telescope at his home, the President wants the moon mis- Rashtrapati Bhawan. And, we are sion to lead to ‘‘another’’ purposeful told by an official release, ‘‘the beau- mission to the red planet.

Ranjit Kumar, 19, (centre) is handed over by Pakistani officials to Indian officials at Wagah on Saturday. Pakistan hands over youth By Yudhvir Rana after having experienced and TIMES NEWS NETWORK watched the miserable condition of Indian prisoners languishing in Wagah: The Pakistan government various jails in Pakistan. ‘‘Many of released Ranjit Kumar, 19, to BSF them have become mentally chal- officials at the Wagah border on lenged and have almost given up Saturday.Ranjit had inadvertently any hope of their release,’’ Ranjit crossed over to Pakistan from his said, adding that the government village Karyali Brahmana in Jam- must take notice of their predica- mu district in June 1999. ment and take measures to secure Ranjit told mediapersons that it their immediate release. was ‘‘not the governments but Ranjit, who has studied up till common men like him who were the ninth standard, said that he bearing the brunt of bitter rela- had inadvertently crossed over to tions between India and Pakistan’’. Pakistan from his village near the Ranjit appeared slightly shaken Abdal post.

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Ajit Ninan

• June 23, 1991: Mula- • December 6, 1992: • June 2, 1995: Maya- • October 27, 1995: The • Sept 20, 1997: An • Nov 11, 1999: Kalyan • October 28, 2000: • October 29, 2000: Raj • August 25-29, 2003: yam Singh’s government resigns wati withdraws sup- honeymoon with the amazing arrangement of Singh is expelled from Nath Singh made CM to The BSP-BJP alliance falls in the wake of firing following demolition of port to Mulayam BJP is over Mayawati power-sharing between the BJP party and is falls from grace. He is improve the BJP’s elec- derails on Taj Heritage on kar sewaks and the sub- the Babri Masjid in following a tacit under- pulls the plug. The bone the BJP and BSP,each is replaced by Ram removed from office toral fortunes. May Corridor issue. Mulayam sequent withdrawal of Ayodhya. President’s rule standing with the BJP of contention the meant to rule for six Prakash Gupta as after a year of incom- 2002: Mayawati heads occupies the UP CM’s support by the Congress. imposed in the state. to make her the CM. Dalit Act. months. chief minister. petent rule. BSP-BJP coalition. throne for the third time. 14 chief ministers Will he be third time lucky? in 11 years As the political drama unfolds in Uttar Pradesh over the next two weeks, Sunday Times assesses the developments s the nuts and bolts of a of the government treasury. disparate coalition is There are ministers who ight years is a long so out of place after all. The iconic following among the rebelled against. Why,some A put in place in Uttar spend nearly a crore on just time. In politics, where swish set that made his spe- OBCs and Muslims. Mu- might even complain that Pradesh, scenes from the snacks and you can’t do E friends, priorities and cial moment look like a siz- layam’s politics of identity Amar Singh’s Mulayam state’s turbulent past come a thing about it. Natu- ideologies change every zling page-3 event might was a statement against the was hardly to be seen. In- to mind (See above panel). rally the revenue deficit season, eight years could be have discomfited yester- upper caste-upper class es- deed, in recent years, it is Eleven chief ministers in is mounting everyday,’’ year’s Maulana Mulayam. tablishment. The ‘90s Mu- a whole millennium. So, the Mulayam’s genial lieu- fourteen years! An abysmal laments a senior state But Mulayam’s 2003 avatar, layam was the iron man tenant who has been the record for a state which official. large glamour quotient at one must remember, is a who defined mandal and de- public face of the Samjawa- once prided itself of giving The only thing that Mulayam Singh Yadav’s post-Amar Singh phenome- fended the masjid. Man- di Party. From wooing So- the country most of its seems to have been institu- swearing-in-ceremony in non. And where there is dalite Mulayam overthrew nia Gandhi to arranging Prime Ministers. Today it’s tionalised in this decade of Lucknow was perhaps not Amar Singh, there must entrenched caste orders surreptitious meetings know for its ayaram ga- political instability is cor- be “my dear brother and rewrote UP’s political with ‘friends’ in the BJP yaram chief ministers. ruption and the only indus- Amitabh (as in history. He combined with to courting advantageous Since 1989 no ministry in try that seems to be flour- Bachchan) and my dear Mayawati to forge a Dalit- business interests to grac- Uttar Pradesh has lasted a ishing is the transfer indus- friend Anil (as in Am- OBC alliance so mesmeric, ing glitterati dos, it is Amar full term. Each party has its try. ‘‘We’ve had a minister bani),” not to forget their so powerful that it had the Singh who has done what own compulsions. But the who if he needed money, accompanying bandwag- underclass applauding the needed to be done. That the pursuit of power has forced would simply suspend an on of wives, children, event as the dawn of a new exertions had paid off them, time and again, to put official and then reinstate friends and business as- era. Similarly,Maulana Mu- handsomely was evident their acrimonious legacies him after extracting a hefty sociates. layam swore to protect the from the veritable who’s aside and get down to the bribe,’’ says police official From social backward- Babri masjid with his life who gathered at the swear- familiar business of power who’s had a spate of ‘non- ness to socialite connec- and he did. His ringing chal- ing-in ceremony: Mu- sharing. lucrative’ for tions, it has been long lenge to the sangh parivar layam’s new friends includ- As a result of being fearlessly journey for Mulayam. was: Masjid par ek parinda ed not just luminaries from this wink and honest in a The irony is Mulayam bhi par nahi maar sakta walk-over poli- DEEP thoroughly cor- the business and glamour was once proud of his so- (I’ll ensure even a bird does- tics the state rupt While offi- worlds but, perhaps more cial disadvantage. In- n’t fly across Babri masjid) has seen a se- FOCUS cials blame importantly, his once bitter deed, his social disadvan- Amar Singh’s Mulayam ries of corrupt, their political enemies in the BJP. tage was his political ad- could be everything that the bloated and non-perform- masters for the mess UP is vantage. It earned him Mandalite-Maulana version Vidya Subrahmaniam Ajit Ninan ing governments. in, the common man is Any notion of develop- equally disillusioned with ment has been singularly the bureaucracy. Corrupt absent from UP’s landscape inefficient and ineffective in this period. ‘‘We’ve had, are adjectives they use for The Great Indian Rope Trick instead only political chi- them. ‘‘The happy-to be- canery, the hounding of ri- politised babudom knows hief ministership is not new to populace and political decisions in- was evident in his first press confer- Now at the helm of affairs himself, vals, confidence shattering too well which way the Mulayam Singh Yadav. He’s volving the coalition partners. ence after assuming office. The chief maintaining law and order will have scandals, caste antago- bread is buttered.’’ says Ma- C been CM twice before, but the The new chief minister’s pro-peo- minister announced a reduction in to be his priority. Ayodhya will also nism,’’ says Abid Hussain, a hendra Sharma a retired task cut out for him in his third ple measures in essence are best hospital registration fees. He has, all call for deft handling. With talks of a retired bureaucrat. BHU professor. regime is markedly different from summed up in the one-liners he gave along been espousing the cause of tacit understanding between the SP Adds an Mukesh Bajpay- Do the people of the state the previous two. This time round, workers in his capacity Samajwadi free education till intermediate level and the BJP having gained currency ee, a Kanpur based assis- see a ray of hope in the new Mulayam, is heading a rainbow Party chief. These were ‘Roti-kapda and cheap education at higher levels it is now to be seen how the CM han- tant engineer:‘‘There’s no dispensation coming to coalition with heavyweight part- sasti ho, dawa-padai mufti ho’, and now that he is at the helm, one of dles the vexed issue. Keeping the power, industries have had power in Lucknow? Do they ners who are leaders in their own (make food and clothing cheap and the first things he announced was coalition together is not going to be to shut down and all our look forward to a better right and have their own agendas. medicine and education free) as also that there would be no government- easy either.Kalyan Singh, Ajit Singh politicians seemed con- times ahead? ‘‘Nahinji, sab And big egos too. ‘bekaron ko kaam do, varna bekari aided college where student union and the Congress joined hands with cerned with is mandir and ek thali ke chate-patte hain,’’ It will mean tight rope walking for ka daam do’ (give employment to the elections would be banned. him to ensure Mayawati’s ouster,the masjid.’’ is octogenarian Naseem Mulayam. Governing UP at this unemployed or else give an unem- Mulayam had always decried the real task of keeping them in good Khan’s, cynical response. juncture will involves a two pronged ployment allowance). deteriorating law and order situa- humour begins now. ‘‘Honest bureaucrats, the breed is fast disappearing, Can Mulayam prove him strategy — measures aimed at the That these weren’t empty slogan tion under the BSP-BJP coalition. Archana Srivastava find themselves helpless in wrong? stemming the systemic loot Sakina Yusuf Khan

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INDIA SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 11 ‘We are becoming American Desi: Here comes Generation Next By Nona Walia ing. My parents came here unhealthy people’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK with a few dollars. Today,my father is watching me run New Delhi: They’re funky, ara Singh, wrestler-turned-actor will soon take on a for senator. I fulfilled my daring and creative. And new avataar — that of politician. He’s just got nom- American dream because D making a difference. Move inated to the Rajya Sabha. What are the issues this reel- America accepted me.’’ But over Sabeer Bhatia and life Hanuman will wrestle with? Sports, naturally, will be yes, after 9/11, it was hard Manoj Night Shyamalan. top-of-the-mind for him. wearing a turban and beard. What’s your solution to the Kashmir problem? Gen X of the Indian Diaspo- ra has arrived. Meet five New-York based script- We can’t arrive at a solu- writer Sabrina Dhawan, got tion by applying force. I Uday Shankar success stories. Blonde-haired Anand a lucky break when she feel the Line of Control scripted Monsoon Wedding should be made the per- Shah, 26, founder of Indi- corps, says his is a confused in just three days. This stu- manent official boundary dent of Columbia Universi- between India and Pak- generation. ‘‘I’m an Ameri- can first, I should love Anand Shah Tony Ashwin Kanal Bobby Piyush Jindal Sabrina Dhawan ty is now busy writing the istan. After all, Punjab Entrepreneur Rock star Asst secy in Bush Admn Scriptwriter America. But I’m also an In- on-screen adaptation of and Bengal have been di- Gets young NRIs His Hey Baby sold Running for governor Scripted Monsoon Wedding dian, living far from the Manil Suri’s, Death of Vish- vided this way before. to rural India one million copies from Louisiana in just three days land that defines me. I’m try- nu. ‘‘Mira and I had so much Is it time to talk to Pak- in common. We came from istan? ing to combine the best of year in India, ‘‘studying the ‘‘She was really impressed 10 extraordinary young peo- ified doctor. Plus is running the same middle-class Pun- There’s no other option. both worlds.’’ And this Har- Bhagvad Gita’’. with my Indian culture,’’ he ple for the next millenni- for senatorship for Illinois, jabi society in Delhi.’’ In today’s political cli- vard graduate does that by Tony Ashwin Kanal, 34, is says. Music binds them to- um.’’ The youngest assistant after making a fortune with She loved Hindi movies, mate, it is essential to be inviting young US residents a rocking story of success. gether. ‘‘We co-wrote a song secretary in the Health and his businesses, valued at $1 so much so that she used to friends with one’s neigh- of Indian origin to work in His song Hey Baby had plat- with Dave Stewart of The Human Services, Bush per- billion. ‘‘I helped setup Mor- miss classes as a medical bours. But, of course, we rural areas in India. He’s inum sales of one million. Eurythmics, and a song with sonally advised him on top gan Stanley’s investment can’t do it by ourselves. brought nine people to India No wonder he says, ‘‘I have The Neptunes (a hip-hop pro- health issues facing the na- banking operations in In- student to watch them. She Pakistan has to extend a — to build life skills in Kam- truly arrived.’’ This blonde- duction team).’’ tion. ‘‘I removed Medicaid dia.’’ His company,X-Stream filmed her thesis, Saanjh — friendly hand and talk to balakkad, Wayanad district, haired guitarist wears poly- Bobby Piyush Jindal, 30, from the verge of bankrupt- networks, Inc. went public As Night Falls with Nandita us too. Kerala and improve slums ester suits, loves Prince and might become the first Indi- cy to a stable ground.’’ He on the Paris Stock Exchange Das and Arjun Raina. ‘‘It How can we solve the in Ahmedabad. Red Hot Chilli Peppers. In- an-American governor in finds politics the best way to for $ 2.9 billion. was shot in a train in Delhi. Ayodhya tangle? Shah shuttles between fluenced by his Sindhi cul- US history. He’s the leading contribute to society. How’s does he view his In- The film bagged the ‘Audi- For those of us who are truly religious and have faith in California and Gujarat, has ture, his ex-girlfriend of sev- Republican contender from Billionaire Chirinjeev dian legacy along with his ence Impact’ award at the God, the Ayodhya problem is not a problem at all. God is an apartment near Gandhi en years Gwen Stefani, in- Louisiana. Scholastic Up- Kahturia, 38, has his finger American citizenship? ‘‘In- Los Angeles film fest.’’ She’s everywhere, why pick on one site? We should forget the Ashram and travels in rick- troduced bindis, bangles date magazine even labelled in a few pies. He’s an MBA teresting, fascinating and also scripted Nisha Gunatra issue and move on. shaws. He spent a whole and mehandi to the world. him ‘‘one of America’s top from Stanford, plus is a qual- frustrating. But never bor- Chutney Popcorn. Why is the public so disillusioned with politicians? For decades now, the common man has wanted certain Curfew relaxed in Daman: things to make his life better. In the hope of getting Arunachal CM joins BJP Curfew was on Saturday relaxed in them, he has been voting for various politicians who PM launches BJP Dalit agenda most areas of Daman which ob- promise him these things. And every time, his hopes TIMES NEWS NETWORK served a total bandh to protest the By Suchandana Gupta attack in Srinagar during retary Mukhtar Abbas have been dashed after the elections are over. The declaration Naqvi at the BJP headquar- government apathy towards Is there a cure for corruption in politics? TIMES NEWS NETWORK the conference with chief New Delhi: Arunachal ters here. With the dissolu- repairing the bridge that collpased ministers as a desperate at- Pradesh chief minister The best cure is for Khandwa: Five days after •Promises food, cloth- tion of his party’s identity, killing 27 people on Thursday tempt to get attention. Gegong Apang formally the society to reform separation from Mayawati ing, shelter for all Dalits the strength of BJP MLAs in and the police firing that left one itself before pointing ‘‘There is a speedy develop- joined the BJP Saturday,say- and her BSP, the BJP on Sat- Will provide education, the 60-member Assembly person dead on Friday. PTI fingers at politicians • mental process on in the ing, ‘‘We will leave no stone urday launched its own Dalit health facilities to every goes up to 42 and Arunachal only. We are all country,’’ he said. ‘‘But ter- unturned to fulfil the Prime agenda from Madhya Dalit Pradesh becomes the first greedy enough to of- Pradesh. The 38-point decla- rorists are raising their Minister’s dream of bring- fer bribes. Once we •Emphasis on bringing heads again. And we will not ing the North-East into the BJP-ruled state in the North- ration, titled Mhow Sankalp East. all reform ourselves, Patra, was released in the SCs closer to other let them succeed. People national mainstream.’’ He politics will be sections of the society were threatened with death added that he had merged On his part, Chin- presence of Prime Minister mayanand said various cleansed too. Atal Bihari Vajpayee at a if they stepped out of their his party into the BJP as he steps were being taken by What difference can you make as a member of the public meeting in sis on bringing the Sched- houses to cast votes. But vot- did not want to be ‘‘merely a the Centre to bring the Rajya Sabha? Chhaigaon, 15 km from here. uled Castes ‘‘closer’’ to other ers turned out in lakhs and coalition partner’’. North-East into the national I will air my views and give advice. Whether this advice The 56-page declaration castes and sections of socie- elected their government.’’ Apang was welcomed into mainstream, as desired by is heeded or not, remains to be seen. analyses the state of Dalits, ty instead of isolating them. Two months to assembly the party by MoS for home Is there any particular issue that you would like to notes failures of past gov- The PM arrived in elections in four states, in- Swami Chinmayanand, par- the Prime Minister, and take up? ernments to improve their Omkareshwar, 110 km from cluding this one, the PM said ty vice president Pyarelal end militant activities in the Khandelwal and general sec- region. Health issues need discussion. We’re turning into a plight and says what the BJP Indore, on Thursday to lay corruption would be an is- nation of unhealthy people because we give no will now do. the foundation stone of the sue. ‘‘The government importance to sports and physical exercise for The declaration promises 520 MW project of the Nar- should not be corrupt and children. Children grow up swallowing pills. We food, clothing and shelter for mada Hydroelectric Devel- the guilty should be pun- should provide more career opportunities for sportsper- all Dalits. It speaks of the opment Corporation. He ad- ished,’’ he said. sons. BJP’s determination to pro- dressed a large gathering at ‘‘We have to uproot cor- Do you feel you deserve the nomination? vide education and health fa- a kisan rally in Chhaigaon, ruption from the roots, be- How can I comment on that? It’s an honour that I am cilities to every Dalit, to gen- where the Dalit Declaration cause governance requires happy to accept. erate employment and to was launched. honesty. It is necessary that Piali Banerjee stop exploitation of the com- At the meeting, the PM re- we make up our minds about munity. There is an empha- ferred to the recent terrorist the upcoming elections.’’

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Photos: Sanjay Hadkar Mumbai is a ow do you even begin businesslike to tell the story of a city that never bends? city. There is What do you make of a anxiety, yes, and H life punctuated by un- Mumbaikars derworld crossfire, political know that their scams, financial thuds, civic city is wounded, but they have snags, communal battles, and terror attacks? Not a pretty learnt to take things in their sight, you would say. stride and work though times But Mumbai is more than of crisis. just charm. It hasn’t flinched Javed Anand, Activist since 8/25, six days ago, when two exploding taxis at Zaveri Bazar and Gateway of India Mumbai is just ripped its rhythm. It survived bloody 1992-93; and it has sur- too cool about vived the odd bomb that desper- everything. ately seeks national headlines. Mumbaikars Nothing can fully describe need to wake up Mumbai’s agony or resilience. and feel the kind Like its locals, resilience is a daily affair. It’s the city’s of shock, fear and outrage lifeblood. But Mumbai isn’t just that such incidents should a city. It’s an inspiration to cause.They need to react the diverse peoples that against the machinery which constitute its social, economic, and moral fabric. Take Mumbai has failed to protect them. out of India, and you remove Shobhaa De, Writer the gist of life: entrepreneurial- ism, entertainment, and suc- cess. Hurt Mumbai and you There’s a lot to complain about pain India. in Mumbai. But after seeing When somebody tells you the way Mumbaikars have up- he’s a Mumbaikar, notice pride held peace despite two blasts, welling in his eyes. It’s a differ- ent emotion. It’s an apun I have nothing but admiration feeling. It’s the Deewar attitude: for this city and its people. Main phenke hue paise nahin Farooque Shaikh, Actor uthata. Mumbai is Mumbai. Here, heroes and anti-heroes script Mumbaikars life. What’s Mumbai without live in rush Tendulkar,Bachchan,Mangesh hour.They don’t kar, Tata, Ambani...? And have the time to what’s Mumbai without Mu- daliar, Mastan, Gawli...? Yet pause or to Mumbai’s true self lies in think about a Sachin clones at Shivaji Park, blast for more than a few min- bhel-puri dates at Chowpatti, utes.After that, it’s business and the constant buzz of Bollywood. That’s its rhyme as usual. and reason. Kiron Kher, Actress For all its allure, Mumbai’s essence is simplicity. Humility. Resilience is Tenacity.Yet, like the unassum- ing masterblaster Sachin, the need of the Mumbai’s strength is under- hour, not just stated. It deceives the enemy. for Mumbaikars It even deceives itself. Even but for every- as Mumbai puts 8/25 far be- hind, it must aspire to be bigger, one. It’s just stronger and greater. It must that in Mumbai there are so strive to be a truly global city,a many people doing so much, modern metropolis, setting so fast in order to survive, benchmarks for the rest of In- that the city creates an extra dia. That’s a city terror would fear to tread. buzz which pumps spirit into Vinay Kamat SARTAJ: It’s business as usual at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Hotel, a few yards away from the blast scene. Other than a few shattered window panes there was no impact on the hotel. All its citizens. services have been operating normally. Mahesh Bhatt, Filmmaker Jo ho gaya, so ho gaya...got to earn a living now ita Goswami, recently trans- continue to earn my living by selling tea day) or for cabbies. ‘‘Our business has- there’s no other option. Commuters whether it’s the sight of blood, severed Shobhaa De. ‘‘I was at the Gateway ferred to the Mumbai branch here. Tourists will come back, where n’t been affected,’’ says taxi driver who travel 30 km from farflung suburbs limbs or dead bodies,’’ she says. A cocky within an hour of the blast and I didn’t of her ad agency, didn’t go to will they go?’’ Umesh Kumar. ‘‘The very next day I have no choice but to board local trains shoe shop assistant at Ground Zero in find a pro-active or stressed atmosphere M work the day after the twin ‘‘Mumbai’s work culture is such that drove some passengers to Zaveri Bazar.’’ to go home, minutes after a local train Zaveri Bazar confirms this when he there. People were just too cool and ca- blasts. To her embarrassment, the new- it keeps the Mumbaikar on a perpetual When asked if he didn’t feel apprehen- explodes with a bomb. ‘‘People call us says, ‘‘Terrorist attacks have become sual. And the same night, the party set comer discovered that she was the lone treadmill,’’ says filmmaker Mahesh sive about cabs being made the medium brave, but do we really have a choice?’’ part of our lives now. We’re prepared to continued to party. I don’t know staffer to do so among her 100-odd col- Bhatt. ‘‘You can’t get off it, you can ei- of bomb blasts and whether he makes asks Shraddha Bhatia, a student of St hear bad news every day.’’ whether this amounts to resilience or leagues. Goswami had always heard ther go to work or die. Excuses, either of sure now that passengers don’t leave Xavier’s College, who confirms that at- Mumbaikars have done themselves apathy.’’ Resilience, fortitude, apathy. that Mumbai is a city that never sleeps. a deluge or a bomb blast, don’t work packages behind in his cab, he replies tendance in her college was completely and their city proud by being stoical. And emotions too, as we found out last Now she knows that it’s also a city that here. It’s a city of survivors who are so with a laugh, ‘‘Who has the time to normal the day after. ‘‘We all know in Yet one wonders if this stoicism isn’t Monday when, even as hospitals an- never stops in its stride. The average weatherbeaten by dangerously crowded think about all this? I know it can hap- the pit of our stomach that it could be laced with apathy and indifference. As nounced that they were short of blood Mumbaikar is here to survive — no, local trains, deluge, riots and bomb pen to anyone any day,but we can’t stop us the next time, but there’s nothing we Bhatt confesses, his driver heard the for victims, several young office-goers succeed. So he’s ready to take all knocks blasts, that they’ve realised resilience is earning a living. I drive so many pas- can do to protect ourselves.’’ news of the blasts with equanimity and took an hour off to donate blood. Local on the chin and spring back for a fresh the only way out.’’ sengers around daily,I can’t keep check- Actress Kiron Kher believes that the then slept in the car for the rest of the youths rallied round too, ferrying vic- bout. As a chaiwallah at the wounded So it’s business as usual here — ing the cab each time someone gets off.’’ constant bombardment of horrifying day — he had to be woken from deep tims to hospitals, helping the police to Gateway of India put it, two days after whether for the good Samaritans who Many Mumbaikars admit that this images on TV have inured, even hard- slumber when Bhatt finished work. control traffic... and earning a salaam the blast: ‘‘Jo ho gaya, so ho gaya (what- feed pigeons at the Gateway (both pi- denial of fear is often just a defence ened, people into behaving stoically. ‘‘The city has begun taking these for Mumbai from the rest of India. ever had to happen has happened). I’ll geons and feeders flocked back after a mechanism they have to adopt since ‘‘People have got used to it all now, blasts almost too casually,’’ says writer Piali Banerjee

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Mumbai On the terror trail... accounts for... Q 90 % of the he Zaveri Bazar and Gateway December 2002 put the police on the that the new entrants in the world of country's mer- of India blasts that stopped SIMI trail. Detention and question- terror have no police records and in- chant banking Mumbai in its tracks on Au- ing of a few suspects led the police to volve women as cohorts. transactions. gust 25 were the sixth and sev- the conclusion that the conspiracy Q 80 % of mutual enth attacks within nine had been hatched by the LeT. ● funds are regis- T Is there a Gujarat link? tered here months on the beleaguered city. As Acting on intelligence informa- the shock gradually wears off, an un- tion, the police first gunned down It was only when Haren Pandya was Q 90 % of trading easy truth is beginning to dawn on three alleged LeT terrorists, includ- volumes take gunned down in Ahmedabad on place in BSE and Mumbaikars: that they haven’t seen ing the southern commander, Abu March 26 this year, that the Gujarat NSE the last of the terror agents yet. ‘‘We Sultan, in an encounter on March 29. police realised how deep-rooted were just have to accept the fact that this is Diaries and other incriminating doc- the seeds of revenge after the riots. going to go on,’’ says A V Karnik, for- uments recovered from him led the Most of the accused belonged to the mer deputy director of the Intelli- police to Padgha-Borivli village in Sunni Bohra community of busi- gence Bureau. ‘‘Knee-jerk reactions Thane, Aurangabad, Parbhani and nessmen, which was badly affected like asking for this or that politi- Malegaon. The police arrested sever- in the riots, and are alleged to have cian’s resignation will not help. We al SIMI activists, including prime trained in terror camps across the have to fortify the city ourselves.’’ suspects Saquib Nachen, Dr Abdul border. The finding shocked the po- Q December 2, 2002: Explosion in BEST bus Indeed, Mumbai is particularly Mateen and Noor Sikander. lice who had never imagined that outside Ghatkopar railway station. Two killed, 31 vulnerable to terrorist attacks, given The police claim to have solved the injured. Explosive used: Ammonium nitrate. Seven English-speaking boys from well-to- arrested. its teeming millions and the fact that blasts of December 2002 as well as do families could be so fired up. hundreds of migrants continue to the explosions in Vile Parle on Janu- Earlier, there were reports of Gu- Q December 6, 2002: Blast at McDonalds at pour into the city everyday.‘‘The city ary 27 and Mulund on March 13. But Mumbai central suburban railway station. Twenty- jarati Muslim boys getting training five injured. Explosive used: Crude bomb made of is conducive to terrorist activities on they are still to solve the last three with the LeT after being indoctrinat- potassium nitrate, sulphur, charcoal, gunpowder and account of the anonymity it affords blasts in Mumbai. The police suspect ed into jehad at a camp in Morad- sugar. 16 arrested. people,’’ says Karnik. the role of a few other terrorist abad. Shahid Ahmed Bakshi, who groups including the Jaish-e-Mo- Q January 27, 2003: Bomb planted on a bicycle was arrested with three LeT opera- goes off outside Vile Parle railway station. One killed, ● Motive behind madness... hammed and Dukhtaran-e-Millat in tives in Delhi in August last year,was 30 injured. Explosive used: Ammonium nitrate, the recent blasts. from Gujarat. He had lost a relative potassium chlorate. Three arrested. Why is Mumbai increasingly under in the riots and had quit his driver’s Q March 13, 2003: Powerful bomb blast shatters a attack from the terror bandwagon? ● The new face of SIMI job in Kuwait to seek revenge. The bogie of a local train at Mulund station during peak While there is a theory that the at- scouting was done at Gujarat’s hours. 13 killed, 65 injured. Explosive used: tacks are linked to the post-Godhra The interrogation of hardcore SIMI biggest relief camp at Shah-e-Alam Ammonium Nitrate. SIMI activist Saquib Nachan is pogrom in Gujarat last year, experts activists Maroof and Mobeen — ar- and another camp in Behrampura. the suspected mastermind. Nine held under POTA. maintain that there is no evident rested in Agra in 2001 and recently Some 33 boys between 14-15 years Q July 28, 2003: Another blast on a bus in link. Yes, home minister Chhagan released on bail — added important were identified and taken to UP. Ghatkopar kills 3, injures 31. Explosive used: Bhujbal did make a statement that information to the data bank on the Psychologists who counselled Gelatin sticks, ammonium nitrate. Arrests none.

the terror in Mumbai was linked to banned outfit. Tips provided by around 300 boys at the Shah-e-Alam Q August 25, 2003: Two blasts — at Gateway of the riots, but that, say observers, was Mobeen, who was arrested in con- camp were shocked by accounts from India and Zaveri Bazar. Fifty-three killed, over 100 a political statement meant specifi- nection with a blast in Agra’s Sadar young boys who eulogised Osama bin injured. Explosive used: RDX. Needle of suspicion cally for the BJP politicians who de- Bazar, have given the investigating Laden. ‘‘Does someone who has seen points to LeT and SIMI. No arrests so far. scended on the city demanding the agencies details of how SIMI ac- his father being killed before his eyes resignation of the Congress-led gov- tivists are being trained at joint need any indoctrination or motiva- ernment. Indeed, even the last blast camps of the Hizbul, LeT and JeM in tion?’’ asks a senior intelligence offi- in Ghatkopar on July 28, a month af- the Khobar pass area of the Pak- cial. Intelligence sources say the cent blasts and is believed to be in the Gulf. was released 10 years later. ter the Best Bakery judgment, was istan-Afganistan border,according to Ahle-Hadees, a fundamentalist Is- TERROR DOSSIER SIMI was banned in 2001. ● Dr Abdul Mateen: Accused in the construed as a revenge attack, but in- intelligence sources in Lucknow.The lamic group, has influenced a large ● ● Saquib Nachen (43): Former general Ghatkopar blast in December, allegedly telligence sources pointed out that it new offshoot of JeM, Anjuman section of Muslims in the border dis- SIMI: Founded in 1977 by Dr Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqui, who later left to teach secretary of SIMI is prime accused in the hatched the conspiracy in his hostel at the was more likely linked to the arrest Khuddam-e-Islam, is believed to have trict of Kutch. “The atmosphere has Mulund blast. Belongs to an influential government-run J J Hospital.Arrested along of SIMI activists in Padgha village trained the fresh batches of jehadis. certainly got vitiated since the riots,” in the US. Began as the student wing of the near Thane earlier. More important, SIMI seems to remarks an official of the Anti-Ter- Jamaat-e-Islami but soon parted ways.In family of the Padgha-Borivli village in Thane with four associates from Ahmednagar on SIMI or the banned Students’ Is- have revamped its cadres after the rorist Squad in Ahmedabad. 1989, C A M Basheer, an aircraft engineer district. Two of Nachen’s brothers are doc- December 28. He has also been charged lamic Movement of India is, accord- ban. The new offshoots have acade- tors, although he himself is a commerce with having links with banned organisations ● from Kerala, took over and exhorted mem- ing to the police, a key player in all micians, doctors, engineers, software Reports: Somit Sen and Radha Rajad- hyaksha, Mumbai; Leena Misra, Ahmed- bers to prepare for a jehad to counter Hin- graduate.Nachen was arrested under TADA like JeM, SIMI and LeT, and propagating the Mumbai blasts of the past year. experts in their rank and file. What is abad; Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, Lucknow, in 1992 for aiding Khalistani terrorists and their causes. Investigations after the two blasts in compounding the problem is the fact and Mohua Chatterjee, Delhi du extremism. Basheer is wanted in the re-

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The market for celebrity snaps is booming Global Terrorism Index Colombia faces a higher risk of terrorism than NYT ummer in the news lancers. Competition en- any other country in 2003-04, according to an It's not just about hard courts business brings a courages ingenuity. The tra- index compiled by the World Markets Research and smashing serves. The tennis S drought of words but a ditional way is a combina- Centre, a provider of country intelligence. Along court has also been the stage for flood of pictures, particular- tion of chutzpah and pa- with Israel, Colombia is given an ‘extreme’ risk making grand slam fashion ly when a starlet in a bikini tience, some paparazzi will rating. Pakistan is rated third riskiest, followed statements. From the stuffy (or, even better, out of it) is wait by a subject’s doorstep and starched to the bold by the US. While India is on the ninth spot, and backless... involved. For paparazzi pho- for a fortnight. Is it becom- Britain ties for the tenth place. According to the tographers, who make their ing more intrusive? Not ac- index, NKorea is reckoned to be the least likely In the 1950s, Gertrude living from snapping celebri- cording to the Press Com- place for a terrorist attack. "Gussy" Moran caused up- ties, it is the busiest time of plaints Commission, the me- roar at Wimbledon by wearing the year. dia self-regulator. Readers like their starlets The number of com- 2003-04 High risk Extreme risk lace-trimmed pants under her (65.5-85) (85.5-100) skirt, a rebellion against the startled, in the form of pic- plaints upheld about pa- All England Club's refusal to tures taken without the sub- parazzi pestering has halved 60 70 80 90 100 allow her to wear some ject’s consent. The market in the past five years. One colour in her outfit. for these in Britain has reason is that more celebri- Colombia grown sharply since early ties are collaborating with last year, with the launch of Heady time for the paparazzi as magazines have ignited bidding wars for celebrity photos. their pursuers. It strikes Israel PLANE JANES? new magazines like North- cused magazines alone now have been paid this year for Barriers to entry in the many people as more than Q Gracious but never showy ern & Shell’s New! to com- sell almost a million copies one set of particularly gawp- market are low (a camera pure luck that Jason Fraser, Pakistan that was Billie Jean King, pete with EMAP’s Heat and every week. worthy snaps. Oddly, pic- and quick wits). Coupled one of the most controver- US Martina Navratilova and IPC Media’s Now. These ti- Prices reflect exclusivity, tures of stars in mundane with high rewards, that has sial paparazzi, has such a Chris Evert. Even Steffi tles have increased their cir- newsworthiness and the sub- settings (shopping for gro- attracted newcomers. Dar- knack for catching David Afghanistan Graff never flaunted her culation at the expense of ject’s fame. Details are rarely ceries for example) are ren Lyons of Big Pictures, a and Victoria Beckham, when glamourous image old-style celebrity maga- released, but range from a worth more than those bor- specialist agency, says he the famous footballer and his Indonesia zines that feature posed pho- few thousand pounds to the ing ones set in exotic night- now has 22 regular photogra- wife are supposedly un- tographs. EMAP’s fame-fo- 150,000-pound believed to clubs. phers and 400-600 free- awares. The Economist Iraq Chairs for TV addicts: LUV2HATE MAIL The University of Warwick is India Q Anna Kournikova may not Both of you, Dubyaman and TOI, have assisting a Birmingham-based one thing in common — total Sri Lanka have won a single ATP disregard for people’s opinion. firm to spread awareness Tour event, but so what? — Agnel Fernandes about a unique fitness sys- How many hate mails do you need to tem, which uses motorised Britain scrap this disgusting strip? Haven’t chairs to lend couch potatoes Q The Williams sisters set the been there enough brickbats for you to ball rolling by creating gauge the readers’ mood? Are you a safe all-body workout and Nepal waves for their choice of people so dumb in TOI? to help those unfit or over- clothing as their tennis —Paritosh, Delhi weight, to get in shape. It also Russia acts as substitute to the exer- achievements. ``We look at For bouquets log on to www.timesofindia.com cise machines currently found each other's outfits and we in gyms, providing a novel S Arabia decide who has the better e-mail: [email protected] way of achieving a healthier outfit'' -- Venus Williams. lifestyle. ANI Source: The Economist New kid on the court Mary Shaparova-She Blaster worm came wearing baby pink. Russian blonde bombshell and heir apparent to Anna Kournikova may have lost creator held in the second round at the New York: A Minnesota teenager who the au- US Open this week, but thorities said created a virulent version of the she won many hearts with Blaster computer worm was arrested on Fri- her fashion sense. day by American investigators who were track- ing the origin of the worm that wreaked havoc on users of Microsoft Windows. ‘People should Federal law enforcement officials said that stop looking the teenager, Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hop- for a babe. kins, was acting alone when he copied the They should Blaster virus and wrote a variant known as Blaster.B. Parsons, who used the Internet ook at us as name “teekid,” was able to develop the B ver- tennis players sion by modifying codes of the original virus. first.’ Federal authorities in Seattle have taken the — Serbian Jelena lead in the investigation because Microsoft’s Dokic, headquarters are in nearby Redmond. They said Parson had no connection to those re- sponsible for unleashing the original Blaster worm. It and its variants have affected more IBM retakes top spot than 500,000 computers worldwide and cost North American companies $1.3 billion. New York: International Business Machines Federal investigators were able to find Par- Corp. reclaimed the top market share spot son by intentionally infecting a computer with among computer server companies world- the virus and then watching it connect to a wide during the second quarter, pushing Web site, www.t33kid.com, which they eventu- Hewlett-Packard Co. back into second place, ally linked to Parson, the creator of the site. according to market research firm IDC. By hacker standards, Parson apparently did IBM had 30.4 per cent of global server sys- not hide his tracks very well. He is said to have tems revenue during the quarter. HP, which changed the name of a file to “teekid.exe,” held the No. 1 spot in the first quarter, had which is similar to his Internet pseudonym. 27.7 percent of total revenues. The overall That simplified the task of finding him for law server market was worth $10.62 billion. Reuters enforcement agencies. NYT News Service

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14 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 INTERNATIONAL

Hopkins’ new film: Anthony Hopkins presented his new film ‘‘The Human Stain’’ at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. AP INTERNATIONAL GRAFFITI

AP Omar Sharif is back: Shidal Hossain used a blan- Debonair ac- ket to hide a mobile phone tor Omar when the unidentified rob- Sharif van- bers came to rob his home ished from and then slipped into his the big bedroom to call his father for screen in re- help. Shidal was watching cent years. cartoons with his four broth- At age 71, ers — one of them just nine the Egyptian- days old — when the trio of born star has returned, at a robbers knocked on the time of international ten- door of the family’s Brooklyn sions, to offer a tale of love home on Thursday morning. between a Muslim and a Pretending to be building Jew. The love depicted in maintenance workers, they Francois Dupeyron’s “Mon- persuaded Shidal’s three- sieur Ibrahim” which Sharif year-old brother to open the presented Friday at the door before charging in and Venice Film Festival is not threatening Shidal’s mother the kind of dashing romantic and brothers with what role that made him famous. turned out to be a pellet This is love between a lonely gun. Police nabbed them on old Muslim shopkeeper and the street nearby and recov- a neglected Jewish teenager ered the money. Reuters in Paris in the 1960s, who escape loneliness together Tying the knot or not? through a tender friendship. Either the rumours that Stel- Sharif, who made his name la McCartney’s wedding will in films such as “Lawrence be held this weekend in of Arabia” and “Doctor Scotland have been spot on, Zhivago,” also got a Golden or a whole galaxy of stars Lion for lifetime achievement have just received the same after a 50-year movie career. wrong invitation. Madonna, He termed his new film as “a Kate Moss and Liv Tyler comeback.” AP Cameron Diaz has been named by Guinness World were among the rock stars, Records as the world’s highest-paid actress, snatching supermodels and Hollywood Brothel invades soccer sensations who arrived by field: From next week, a the title from previous winner Julia Roberts. Diaz is listed as the biggest earner in the 2004 edition of the group’s ferry on a Scottish island on German women’s football Friday, where dozens of pa- team will take to the field record book, based on earnings of $42.2 million in 2001. of Halle, agreed to pay for parazzi have camped to wait sporting jerseys recom- 9-year-old foils robbery: for the fashion designer to mending that their fans visit the Teutschenthal women’s A quick-witted nine-year-old new grey and red kits. “The tie the knot. The daughter of a local brothel. “X-Carree: boy thwarted robbers who former Beatle Sir Paul Mc- Always Worth a Visit,” will be women have no problem made it out of his home with with it,” Andreas Dittmann, Cartney is due to marry her emblazoned across the $164,000 in cash before publisher boyfriend Alasd- women’s chests after the coach to the 23-strong they were nabbed by police team of amateurs, said on hair Willis. The precise time brothel, owned by a real es- alerted to the caper by his and place have been a tate firm in the eastern city Friday. Reuters covert mobile phone call. closely guarded secret. Reuters Those who live by spin alone, die of it very government — industries are way ahead of correspondents, denounce memory lapse when asked if including our very us and everyone else. their stories as inaccurate, Blair would be meeting any E own BJP — has a spin It is a vicious trade, inno- denigrate them to their col- “major, international lead- cycle. But few may have vating constantly to embed leagues and bosses. He ers” in the next few days. reached the end of their spin journalists within a develop- would work the clock to keep None that I can think of, cycles quite so decisively — ing news story; keeping damaging news stories off said the British prime min- and publicly — as the ad- politicians ruthlessly on- the evening news with its ister’s chief spokesman, ministration led by Britain’s message and journalists bid- huge national audience...” playing a straight bat. It was Tony Blair. At the weekend, ding for stage-managed in- Campbell did this too, and a point worthy of faithful Blair’s spinmeister extraor- terviews in a brutal free more. Everyone has their record and reportage back dinaire, Alastair Campbell, market for 24-7 news. And it own Alastair Campbell story. home. The fact that Blair’s announced his resignation. employs gate-keepers to Leastways, anyone who had spokesman appeared not to It was seen by some as the keep politicians at a distance anything to do with the Blair remember our Prime Minis- end of all the modern laun- while fos- administra- ter as a “major, internation- dering that goes with the tering the tion during its al leader” who would be wash-and-dry policy versus impression EURO six years in of- meeting his boss in a few presentation issues con- of greater fice. Here is days time. fronting a 21st-century accessibili- VISION mine and it in- Campbell saw red. Like British government. But, if ty. volved Prime McCurry, he “yelled”, “de- you really believe that, Campbell Rashmee Z Ahmed Minister Vaj- nounced the story as inaccu- you’re on some spin doctor’s did all of payee’s im- rate”. And he spun, and he drip. this and pending visit spun, till it became a story The spin cycle, of course, more. He was Blair’s version to the UK a couple of months that never was. is not a pre-programmed of President Clinton’s one- after September 11, 2001. It is a truth universally ac- function of a sophisticated time spokesman Mike Mc- Campbell, was briefing knowledged that he who washing machine. It is the Curry. As one eponymous me and the rest of London’s lives by spin, may often die highly professional selling authoritative book on the international press corps on of it. So too Blair’s adminis- of a political message, in- Clinton propaganda ma- the issues of the week and tration, constantly obsessed volving maximum manage- chine put it: “McCurry un- he responded quite properly by headlines, news toplines, ment and manipulation of derstood the ebb and flow of — if dully — to a routine playing to the market, pack- the media. In this respect, In- the fungible commodity question I asked about Vaj- aging, re-packaging and bub- dia still mercifully remains called news... he would mis- payee-Blair’s proposed talks. ble-wrapping its fragile poli- a developing country. The lead reporters on occasion... Right at the end though, he cies. We have been fore- American and British spin he would yell at offending appeared to suffer a severe warned.

NYT

G M Building sells for a record $1 bn New York: Harry Macklowe, the develop- er whose career has died a thousand deaths, came alive again Thursday when he signed a con- tract to buy the 50-storey General Motors Build- ing for a record-setting $1.4 billion, the most ever paid for a sky- scraper in the US. The big gold letters, T- R-U-M-P,that spelled out the name of a former owner of the G M Build- ing were stripped from the marble exterior of the trophy tower on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets earlier this year. But do not expect Macklowe, the man who became in- famous 18 years ago for his connection to an ille- gal demolition in Times Square, to splash his name over the sky- scraper. To get it, Macklowe did have to outfight and outmanoeuvre more than two dozen other de- velopers and investors for what is regarded as one of the best office buildings in the world. If, as expected, the deal is completed in a month, he will pay $1.4 billion, or about $800 a square foot, the most by far for a single office tower and on a square- foot basis. NYT News Service

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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 15 Developing nations AP Four linked to Pak plans buying F-16s Rawalpindi: Pakistan is Pakistan is vying with India contemplating to buy one for the purchase of one Qaida held for squadron of Mirage aircraft squadron of the latest Mi- can import cheap from a West Asian country rage aircraft, which the un- Iraq bombing and two squadrons of F-16 named West Asian country fighter jets from Belgium, the had acquired from France, Najaf: Iraqi police have ar- Dawn reported on Saturday. but now wanted to sell them. rested four men in connec- medicines now A meeting was held here in Similarly, Belgium pur- tion with the bombing of this regard on Friday. Presi- chased the F-16 fighter air- Iraq’s most holy Shia Geneva: The World Trade said that thousands were dy- dent Pervez Musharraf craft from the US, but now mosque, and all four have Organisation approved a deal ing as trade envoys bickered, presided over the meeting, at- wants to sell them. Pakistan connections to Osama bin on Saturday to let poorer na- got the talks back on track af- tended by all services chiefs, has reportedly approached tions import cheaper generic ter a deal agreed on Thurs- Laden’s Al-Qaida terror net- apart form defence secretary the Belgium government drugs to fight killer diseases day by the main negotiating work, a senior police official Lt Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz with a formal request to pro- such as AIDS and malaria af- body on medicines ran into said on Saturday. Khan. vide it with two squadrons of ter days of emotionally last-minute problems. The official said the four According to the report, F-16 fighter jets. ANI charged debate. The US and European arrested men — two Iraqis The deal plugs a gap in Union also applauded the and two Saudis — were world trade law and allows deal, which allows a country caught shortly after the car poorer countries unable to that lacks capacity to pro- bombing. manufacture medicines do- duce medicines for itself to The official, who lead the mestically to override inter- obtain them from abroad by initial investigation and in- national patents and import making importing generics a terrogation of the captives, cheap generic drugs when right protected by the WTO. said the prisoners told of they need to. But health activists at- other plots to kill political “The decision that you tacked the accord, hammered and religious leaders and to have just taken is an historic out by the US, Brazil, India, damage vital installations agreement for the WTO,” Kenya and South Africa, say- Iraqi protesters take out a rally in Baghdad on Saturday to condemn the killing of Shia such as electricity genera- WTO Director-General Su- ing it imposed too many con- cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and as many as 106 others in Friday’s bomb tion plants, water supplies pachai Panitchpakdi told ditions on countries seeking attack in Najaf. and oil pipelines. AP member states. to use it. “Today’s WTO The accord, given a final agreement that is ostensibly seal of approval by the intended to get drugs to the WTO’s 146-member executive poorest countries does not General Council on Saturday, provide a workable solu- waives patents owned by tion,” Medicins sans Fron- multinational firms that are tieres and Oxfam said in a protected by trade rules. joint statement. “I find a special satisfac- The pact aims to balance tion in the fact that the deci- the need for poor states to sion will be of particular val- fight health problems with ue to the smaller and poorer the demands that WTO mem- countries... in Africa and bers set aside patents to im- elsewhere,” he said. “It will port generic medicines “in enable them to make full use good faith” and not abuse the of the flexibilities in the system for commercial gain. WTO intellectual property It allays concerns of the US, rules in order to deal with the home to many drugs majors, diseases that ravage their that waiving patents could be people.” abused for commercial gain An impassioned plea on by generic producers such as Friday by African states, who Brazil and India. Reuters

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16 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 ALL THAT MATTERS

POLITICALLY INCORRECT Shobhaa De Ayodhya: Is it time to fortify and forget it? Bomb-bay Yes. It’s time to let go of a past we cannot change, and focus on the future. No. Forgetting it would override reason and intelligence. I strongly dents. If we give in to com- ples and mosques have never If I had di- omnipotent powers, if one sciously raised by these for- Dear Ganpati Bappa, believe that petitive vendetta, the tragedy topped people’s wish list. vine powers ducks the issue, wishes or mations.Such actions vitiate Welcome back. You’ve been away from the Ayodhya of Ayodhya will continue. We They need peace and harmo- and could dreams it away,one would act the ambience to an extent Mumbai for a year, and look what’s hap- controversy need to ask when will this ny to work and earn their operate a like the proverbial ostrich in where even court adjudica- pened. Less than a week before your joy- should nev- madness end and what pur- livelihood and lead life with huge extra- the sand. Since we cannot re- tion — what to talk of con- ous arrival, the peace of the metropolis er have been pose will it serve? dignity. Let us all unite and terrestrial set the global clock, we are sensual settlement — be- that adores and worships you has been raised and We should be very careful in one voice say that at all eraser to destined to suffer the present comes extremely difficult. shattered. I hang my head in shame. unfortu- in handling the lessons of disputed religious sites, we create a new without ignoring the past. Even if the forget and Forget about Mumbai becoming anoth- nately hav- history.Even if archeologists shall build schools and hospi- tabular The appeal to forgive, forget, move-on theory does miracu- Anu Aga Abhishek Singhvi er Shanghai. The way things are going Chairperson, ing been prove that there had been a tals, open to all sections of Supreme Court rasa, I fortify and move on has an lously find large acceptance, it’s beginning to resemble Beirut. Thermax Ltd raised sh- temple at the same site cen- the society. Let us follow the Advocate would wipe emotional quotient (EQ) it is highly doubtful if those Don’t laugh, but fancy foreign consultants tell us to ap- ould be bur- turies ago, does it still justify true spirit of every religion the slate which tends to override the who first brought Ayodhya point a CEO to take care of the present mess. If you ask me, ied and forgotten. True reli- demolition of the present which is to honour and cele- clear as if the entire Ayodhya more rational intelligence into the national mainstream we need a general at the helm. Or at least a leader capable gion teaches us that we are structure to rebuild a tem- brate life. Can we all come to- episode had never occurred. quotient (IQ). It can substi- and made it the prime issue of sorting out our myriad problems — not the least of all human beings first and ple? By using the past to jus- gether to end this madness? But in the absence of such tute rhetoric for reality and of national importance— which is terrorism in our backyards. Check out the pa- are part of the same Being. It tify our sectarian objectives, propound a romanticised ide- over governance, population thetic scenario: The state has no money. And we clearly helps us to recognise the fact we will be setting a danger- alism where none exists. problems, drinking water, il- have no leadership, as was clear the day bombs exploded. that in spite of the religious ous precedent. From reli- SUNDAY DEBATE In any event, once the literacy et al — will find it ac- Sadly, along with innocent lives, several myths about labels we carry, there’s a ba- gions against one another, Deepak Harichandan courts are seized of the Ayo- ceptable. To do so would Mumbai’s ‘spirit’ exploded too. While the usual suspects sic humanity that we all this fire can fan out, setting dhya case, there is pretty lit- threaten their very identity. were rounded up for appropriate sound bytes, the fact re- share. In contrast, destruc- caste against caste and state tle one can do to forget and Compassion and coopera- mains nobody gave much of a damn. I know. I was there at tion legitimises violence, it against state. In the name of fortify.The only two finite op- tion can achieve miracles. the Gateway of India under an hour after the killer cab justifies revenge. It distracts ‘historical injustice’, it can tions available are: a court Egypt and Israel brokered a flew into the air and took 17 people with it. Bystanders people from the essence of re- tear apart the fabric of toler- adjudicated verdict, which lasting peace and the two watching the cleaning-up operations in the parking lot ap- ligion. If God is omnipotent ance which holds our plural- all principal contenders Germanys reunited. But that peared almost bored. ‘‘These things happen,’’ shrugged a and all pervasive, do we need istic society together. It’s gracefully accept or a unani- requires statesmanship of an regular to the popular tourist spot before shuffling away. to establish that He is from a time we let go of the past, mous consensual settlement order which does not exist Equally unmoved were hotel personnel more concerned particular location? Imagine which we cannot change, and between all such contenders within the warring factions about ensuring the safety of their own pampered guests. how clumsy it would sound if do everything in our powers which receives the impri- represented in Court. So spir- You, O Ganesh, Destroyer of Evil, Protector of the Help- I argue that God resides only to make our present lives matur of judicial approval. itually evolved a person like less, would’ve wept had you watched the complete mess in Pune cantonment and not meaningful. This is as far as the past the Shankaracharya would made by competing TV news channels. The tragedy was in Pune city. To make issues of non is- goes. For the future, there is have been not a little aston- turned into a ludicrous circus. Self-important anchors vied The Ayodhya issue has sues is to fritter away our one area where the "forgive ished to find such opposition to jump the gun and reel off rubbish. They got everything been used by politicised reli- limited resources that should and forget" theory still has to his initiatives emanating wrong — the number of blasts, the locations, the casualty gion to exploit communal be used to address our basic some relevance. If we are se- within the so called bastions count, everything. While I was at the Gateway, the state’s prejudices and divide people. challenges: how to provide rious about this theory, it is of the Hindu fold. Similarly, leaders arrived officiously,looked around for TV cameras, For over 10 years we have our people drinking water, time for certain known for- Muslim leaders dare not risk provided meaningless assurances and zoomed off. All un- been witnessing the spiral of houses, education, employ- mations to refrain from peri- any commitment transcend- der 15 minutes. Meanwhile, wild rumours did the SMS violence and hate it let loose ment, healthcare. Are we jus- odically whipping up a fren- ing the established matrix of rounds as distorted versions got mass-circulated. in different parts of India. tified in spending so much zy on this subject. There has the dispute. In this scenario, No, Ganpati Bappa, I’m glad you weren’t there to witness Think of the anguish of hun- energy and time to prove that hardly been any election -- lo- awaiting a court verdict the abject depths to which Mumbai has fallen. It’s all very dreds of families who, for no a temple existed in place of a cal, state or national -- since avoids a further churning well to congratulate ourselves and talk about how swiftly fault of theirs, were caught mosque? It’s significant that 1992 when the issue has not process which this country India’s commercial capital bounces back. It’s true that it up in those traumatic inci- in survey after survey, tem- been deliberately and con- can ill afford. does — but should it? I’m sorry, it oughtn’t to be ‘business as usual’ under such ghastly circumstances. It just isn’t morally right. Do we owe nothing to the dead? Have we a hugely productive warren of enterprise, made it so simple for enemies of the State to walk in, hire ERRATICA and will soon metamorphose from hovel to a cab, fill the boot with deadly RDX, cruise into a densely Bachi Karkaria We are liking you like that only high-rise. In a prime example of creative populated area, take a lunch break — and boom! Watch the subversion, the city’s ubiquitous encroach- fireworks that follow? That’s despicable. And worse, it’s ir- It took the bomb blasts to were RDX-ed to their knees. But instead of been trying to deconstruct this patented at- ments are more about urban aspiration than responsible. We cannot afford to abdicate and say philo- show me how much I the expected apocalypse came an epiphany. titude ever since the first serial bombs blast- about building-rules violation. And bomb- sophically,‘‘We have cope as best as we can. Terror is a fact miss Mumbai. I’d been Within moments, strangers were pulling ed away my dismissal of the city as a self-ab- planters should have known better than to of life in today’s world.’’ That’s like issuing an open invi- raving about Delhi these victims out of the still-spluttering wreck- sorbed strumpet concerned only with the taunt a citizenry whose steel is tempered tation to those who want to destroy us. past months: the open age; passing cars ferried them unstintingly pleasure of business and vice versa. twice-daily in the hell-fire of the rush-hour We need your benign blessings, Ganpati Bappa. Give us spaces and the close en- to hospitals. Within hours, blood banks were My guess is that the clue lies in Bombay commute. the courage to fight back fiercely.Mumbai was never a po- counters with political filled by donors not waiting to be asked. rather than in Mumbai; in the polyglot pas- But the ultimate distinction lies in the at- larised city — help us to keep it free from communal rot. blah-blah and cultural Within days, even the blown-out offices tiche of communities rather than in the titude to power. While Kolkata makes a Ne- We don’t need naive netas who come here and issue diktats wah-wah. Monday limped back, bandaged but unbowed. parochial monoculture into which Bal’s taji Stadium-sized production of challeng- to the CM (‘‘Find the culprits. Catch them immediately. brought home the truth. Last Monday,in a chilling-cheering replay boys want to squeeze it. The can-do-and- ing it, and Delhi can’t move a step without Finish them. This should not recur,’’ roared Sonia Mumbai is Mumbai, no? of that decade-ago afternoon, Mumbai again won’t-die spirit comes from a heterogeneous its netas, Mumbai has made authority irrel- Gandhi). We need a pro-active approach to solving the I’d always been love-to-hate about it. Like showed how it slaps you with the most bru- bunch of people whipped ahead by their in- evant. Its people don’t wait for the state, they crisis. We need citizens who feel involved and concerned. everyone who came of age in Calcutta, I pre- tal realities, and then socks you with the el- dividual dreams. They won’t allow anyone pick up the pieces themselves, and re-cast We need an action plan. Not mere lip-service by our ferred to sing Robindro Shongeet hosannas evating antidote. Can you think of a single to detonate them. Hey ‘Bhai’ — or any other them to their own, improved specifications. pompous captains of Industry. to that city.Bangalore and Ahmedabad were other Indian city being shaken right down to brand of ‘bombaiya’— jara dekh ke chalo. In case you didn’t know it, dreams come In short, we need you. The best CEO on earth. To heal short-stay arrangements, so it was easy to its DNA helix, and immediately flicking off It’s the same glitter-glue grit that, even in only in Do-It-Yourself kits. bestow on them the uncritical salivation of our wounds. But also to carry the fight into the enemy the trauma as if it were a fleck of cigar ash less traumatic times, turns dross hardship ★★★ camp. As we bow before you, today,we ask for strength and the one-night stand. But, in Mumbai I rev- on a fashionable pair of crushed linen into gold. With the insouciant ease of black protection. And may you have a safe journey back yourself, elled in pricking the inflated notions that its trousers? being laundered into white, in Mumbai all Alec Smart said, ‘‘The legendary with lusty cries of ‘Ganpati Bappa Morya’ to see you off. denizens harboured about their anointed Mum-bai or Bom-babe, they’ve been the usual indices of degradation are al- Mumbai Chinese restaurant has just Till next year, then give us your aashirwad. selves. 1993 changed all that. Utterly. equally bindaas long before the rest of the chemised into icons of achievement. Dhar- been reopened in Delhi. Here they call it Faithfully yours, That March, seven of its power towers world discovered the cachet of ‘cool’. I’ve avi may be Asia’s largest slum, but it is also Naanking.’’ Devotee De

JUGULAR VEIN INDIASPORA Jug Suraiya PASSING THOUGHT Chidanand Rajghatta Engineering an Indian success

Over the last month, ing, mathematics, and computer science particularly coveted. Deans and faculty Meeting point as the new American graduates are international students, a members of several schools have told this academic year began, majority from India and China. columnist that they are simply the best. some 600,000 students To get a sense of this, just go to the web- Some of the desi success owes to the The other night, my neighbours were from all over the site of Stanford University Computer Sci- rich Indian tradition in engineering stud- targeted by armed robbers. Five men, world, including ab- ences school (http://cs.stanford.edu/Peo- ies going beyond the IITs. India’s oldest brandishing knives and a country-made out 70,000 from India, ple/phD.html). Of the 170 Ph.D students engineering school, the IIT (formerly pistol, broke into the house, undeterred winged their way to listed, nearly half are foreigners, includ- REC) in Rourkee (established 1848) is as by a burglar alarm that went off repeat- the USA for higher ing 28 Indians. It’s the same story in oth- hoary as the Renssellaer Polytechnic, edly.Fortunately,the family managed to studies. From all ac- er well-known schools such as MIT, America’s oldest, which was founded in lock themselves into a bedroom and counts, the overall number of foreign ad- Carnegie Mellon, Purdue. 1825 during the Ulysses Grant presidency. escaped physical harm. When two missions has continued to climb even The boom in foreign students provides The Guindy Engineering College in security personnel belatedly responded post-9/11 amid indications of fewer stu- some answers to the job crisis in the US. Chennai derives from an industrial to the alarm, the robbers escaped after dents from countries on the US terrorist For all the hand-wringing going on, the school attached to a gun carriage factory inflicting a minor knife wound on one of the guards. radar screen. Indians seem to have had US simply does not produce enough of 1842 vintage. Many engineering But this column is not about the dacoity attempt. It’s no problems despite reports that Wash- home-grown science and engineering schools in India date back a century. In- about what happened afterwards. Or rather, what didn’t. ington has tightened scrutiny of students graduates. The crisis begins at the high dia’s founding fathers began working on All of us went over the next day to express sympathy and wanting to learn in sensitive areas such school level itself, where Americans have the IIT idea as far back as the 1920s, long solidarity with the victims for the psychological trauma as nuclear studies, robotics, and biomed- over the years zoned out of math and sci- before Independence, although they were they’d suffered, that terrible sense of personal violation ical engineering. ence (according to a study, 40 per cent of set up only in the 1950s. that such incidents engender. Everyone agreed that the More than 70 per cent of Indian stu- math classes in public schools are taught At last count, the Indian Human Re- most important thing to do was to ensure that such horri- dents come to the US to study engineer- by unqualified teachers; they are now im- sources Ministry put the number of en- ble things did not happen again. Several suggestions came ing and science. In the past, a majority porting math teachers from India). gineering schools in India at 1,200, crank- immediately to mind: better illumination for the area, opted to stay back in America. This year’s The National Science Foundation esti- ing out 360,000 engineers annually. Some more patrolmen on the beat, particularly at night. Every- stream is arriving at a time of increasing mated in 2000 that 12 per cent of US sci- of the brightest come here, study, teach, one agreed that these and similar measures be undertaken job loss and growing resentment about it, ence and engineering degree holders work for topnotch companies, found new at once. And so what happened? It was agreed to call a though mercifully, it has not so far been were of Indian origin and 9 per cent were ones, and burnish the Indian reputation. meeting to discuss the urgency of the issue. And the directed against foreigners. But given Chinese, although together they consti- Every indication is they will continue to upshot of that meeting? You guessed it. Another meeting. High-level inquiry? Please, sir, appoint a low-level their growing numbers in engineering tute only around 2 per cent of the US pop- come here in large numbers. If the US Basically, a meeting is based on the principle that no inquiry to look into my irregularities in view of my and science, Indians and Chinese could ulation. Universities too bank on foreign puts the squeeze on them, they will re- problem is so simple that it can’t be made complicated by seniority! be prime targets. According to recent turn to India and do equally well. It’s a getting two, 10, 20 or 200 people together to discuss it. And students both for the quality and the studies, around 40 per cent of engineer- win-win situation. by the time the meeting is over, the problem, which was of money they bring. Indian students are fairly manageable proportions before the meeting, has grown so humungus that nothing will do but to call another meeting, which will make it even more compli- Almost all leading Democrats cated. Like one of those snowballing avalanches which SWAMINOMICS backed the war against Iraq. The gather mass and momentum as they go, engorging Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar George Bush is smiling only one who opposed the war, themselves with their own insatiable voracity. Howard Dean, has suddenly Bunny says having meetings is a new form of congrega- As a frequent per cent is good going. not sure who or where exactly the 9/11. We do not view the Mumbai emerged as the front-runner in pri- tional worship, like the ancient Druidical rites they held at visitor to the enemy is, but they are determined blasts as war. But Americans view maries. One poll gives him a huge Stonehenge. I don’t know about ancient Druids, but there’s But, I’m asked, will not Ameri- US, I can say to do all that it takes to destroy 9/11 as the start of a war. lead of 22 percentage points over this contemporary executive, in publishing, who every cans soon rebel against casualties that most Indi- the shadowy foe. When you are at war, you do not John Kerry in the New Hampshire time I ring is busy at a meeting. When does he ever get any in Iraq, as they did in Vietnam, So- worry about fine points of interna- ans do not have We in India are so accustomed to primary. Dean, an obscure ex-gov- work done? I asked. The phone made a puzzled secretarial malia and Lebanon? Americans tional law.You make allowances for the foggiest idea bombs and insurgencies in differ- ernor of Vermont, has earned noise. But going to meetings is his work, it explained. seem happy to bomb countries setbacks that you never would in of American at- ent parts of the country that name-recognition by daring to Another guy someone told me about, advertising chap in from safe heights. But surely they peace time (which explains the titudes and we have lost the capacity to abandon safe centrist politics (anti- Kolkata, who was forever air-dashing to Delhi to have a will turn against a president who new US willingness to accept casu- trends following be shocked. Bindaas Bombay war politics is necessarily extrem- meeting with his boss. Problem was, when he was air- fails in what was always a dubious alties daily). You trust your politi- the Iraq war. ist during a war). Yet, American dashing to Delhi, his boss was air-dashing to Kolkata to war in Iraq? No weapons of mass cal leaders far more than you Many Indians ask me whether Indians simply have not presidential elections are typically meet him. So eventually they decided they had to have a destruction have been discovered. would in peace time (which is why President George W Bush is in se- won by centrist candidates. Right- meeting to figure out a way they could have meetings with- No longer can the US pretend that understood that 9/11 has the failure to finds weapons of rious political trouble because of ist Barry Goldwater was thrashed out bankrolling the entire Indian Airlines Dilli-Kolkata American soldiers have been mass destruction has not hurt the death of almost one soldier per changed America so radically in 1964, as was leftist George Mc- sector between the two of them. So how did they hold that welcomed as liberators by Iraqis. Bush badly). day in Iraq, and whether he will Govern in 1972. Dean may appeal meeting — by arranging a mid-air collision between their Tony Blair is under immense pres- that all the old yardsticks no Britain was not hit by 9/11. lose the presidential election next most to die-hard Democrats, but two aircraft? I asked. But the person telling me the story sure in Britain. Will not Bush suf- longer apply...Americans Hence Blair needs to give far year. I reply that Bush is riding will probably appeal least to main- had gone. To attend a meeting, what else? fer the same fate? stronger reasons to his people for high despite setbacks, Americans regard 9/11 in the same stream Americans. George Bush is Earlier, when asked what they wanted to do when they The answer is no. Indians simply invading Iraq than Bush needs to are taking military deaths with lit- smiling because he believes that of grew up kids would say they’d like to be astronauts, or VJs, have not understood, despite con- light as Pearl Harbour. give Americans. In a war, you often tle flinching, and Bush looks like all Democratic candidates, Dean or brain surgeons. Today, you ask a savvy kid what she stant repetition, that 9/11 has shoot first and ask questions later. winning next year’s election. This They truly believe they have will be the easiest to beat. wants to do when she grows up, chances are she’ll say she changed America so radically that This makes the US a dangerous su- does not go down well with Indian been forced into war. What if the Iraqi resistance be- wants to go to meetings. Just like Mommy. Or Daddy. Or, all the old yardsticks no longer ap- perpower. But it also means that listeners, many of whom long comes ever stronger? What if the better still, the Uncleji who’s the boss of both on account of ply.Forget the retreat from Somalia Bush remains popular despite hu- for a repetition of Vietnam in Iraq. American death toll accelerates? In the fact that he packs in more meetings a day than the two or Lebanon, when the US public miliating setbacks. All those who They confuse wishful thinking shrugged off the latest bomb the foreseeable future, I would say of them put together by virtue of having a multiple did not think, even remotely, that with analysis. blasts. When 100 people were killed harp on Lyndon Johnson’s igno- that the US is determined to stay personality syndrome which permits him to have meetings they were at war.Even during Viet- by a flash flood in Azamgarh dis- minious exit in 1968 need to re- the distance in Iraq, regardless of with himself 24/7, even in his sleep. True, President Bush’s popular nam, the US mainland was never trict on Wednesday, many newspa- member that the same man swept the cost in lives. It took five years of Why am I blathering on about meetings when I should be approval rating is down to 53 per attacked. But Americans regard pers did not even carry the news. the polls in 1964, in the early phase futile war in Vietnam before busy doing something to protect my house? Simple. I know cent from astronomical levels dur- 9/11 in the same light as Pearl Har- We have become so shock-proof of the Vietnam war. Lyndon Johnson became unelec- that the robbers are also holding endless meetings about ing the Iraq war.However,the third bour. They truly believe they have and so inured to deaths and out- Above all, Bush is smiling be- table. Bush has a lesser foe and will whom to rob next, and how, and when. So you see, there is year in office is often the low point been forced into war. It is a new rages that we cannot comprehend cause the Democrats seem inca- face voters much sooner, and so an upside about meet.... of an American president, so 53 kind of war where Americans are how traumatised Americans are by pable of exploiting his weaknesses. looks safe. 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With- fect, which is causing - the more insecurity it in the framework of my dance, there is a hurricanes and tidal breeds, because it has its Prefix STD code to call from other locations great deal of bhakti rasa — or devotion waves in third world genesis in fear. True secu- — to this art form. What I feel towards countries. rity comes from an ex- my dance cannot be described technical- The ancient wisdom panded sense of self ly. The gratitude, joy and emotion I feel tradition of India states where greed is replaced I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. towards dance has an offering quality that the reason why hu- by sharing; arrogance by That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. about it that is extremely spiritual. All man beings really suffer humility; aggression by — David Bissonnette elements of emotion are brought into it is that they are not in nurturing; demand by ◆ and I am absolutely passionate about my touch with reality — they conciliation. You can’t go around being what everyone expects you to be, dance. It means more than life to me. are in touch with a ver- Peace conscious is not living your life through other people’s rules and have peace. I come from a conservative Parsi back- sion of reality. If you angry activism against — Mark Twain ground and have studied at a missionary could really really this war. It is the ability to ◆ school. Dance has taken me to places moment be in touch with nurture human beings; Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, such as the temples of Guruvayur. I also reality in its stark naked- nurture the chain of be- it’s a waste of your time. travel around the world. As a result, tho- ness if you could be in ing; nurture the web of — Albert Einstein ugh my daily prayers are Parsi, I am a touch with reality as it is life; nurture the ecology, ◆ global citizen and believe in the sanctity in its utter and total the extended environ- When you live on a round planet, there’s no choosing sides. of all religions. There is one Almighty nakedness then you ment which is our physi- and various ways of worshipping Him. would feel pain and an- cal body — those trees are — Paul McCartney Nothing has come easy to me. In the guish. You would feel the our lungs — these rivers ◆ course of my life, I have had to fight to suffering of the world — and waters are our circu- You will never know happiness until you have been in love, and be heard and seen. And though I believe but we don’t feel that. We lation and our blood — you will never understand what pain really is until you lose love. nothing can be accomplished beyond have created a culture and the earth is our very — Britney Spears what is destined, I also believe in work- and we have created a cul- body. If we cannot feel ◆ ing hard for what I want. There have ture of such utter con- this at a deep level, if we I cannot always control what goes on outside, been times when I have been utterly de- sumerism that our notion cannot feel the pain that but I can always control what goes on inside. pressed and disappointed with life. But I of happiness is a brand name deodorant or a new au- the world is having right now — then there is no pos- — Wayne Dyer have trudged along, strongly believing tomobile — and we think that is going to bring us sibility for compassion. Compassion cannot be legis- ◆ that for those who work hard, success is closer to fulfilment so we are not able to feel our pain. lated. Morality cannot be legislated. It has to be felt sometimes delayed, never denied. As long as our polices of governments across the from a deep level of soul where our identity is our in- The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. I am an optimist and a realist. At world are based on self-interest alone and on greed, ter-beingness, our inseparability. But it is almost equally sad to leave this world without times, I have felt disappointed and angry there is no hope! The nations at war and their leaders I was talking to an anthropologist friend of mine ever telling those you love that you do. that acceptance has come late — or at might appear to be explicit enemies but they are im- and he said that if insects and ants disappeared from — Sigmund Freud times not come at all. But I am glad that plicit allies. They are implicit allies in the destruc- this planet — all life on this planet would cease in five ◆ I am still focussed and still have that zest tion and devastation and the misery and the suffer- years; but if human beings disappeared from this Your reputation is in the hands of others.That’s to perform, create and explore dance. ing of humanity. They are implicit allies because planet — life would flourish on this planet in five what a reputation is.You can’t control that. Whatever will be will be. I just live they are contributing to the anguish of the world. In years. So Mother Nature might be saying, You know, The only thing you can control is your character. and let live. this situation no amount of angry activism against this human being, it was an interesting experiment, — Jack Nicholson Astad Deboo is a contemporary war is going to help because angry activism against but it didn’t work. Let’s move on. Maybe that is our ◆ dancer war is anger nevertheless, and it contributes to the fate or maybe not. The world waits, with bated Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. (As told to Anubha Sawhney) turbulence of the world. breath, for the artists and lovers to lead us out — Billy Graham If we understand that consciousness is a field, from this nightmare.

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18 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 OPEN SPACE DO NOT LITRE e4 player should deny his oppo- What makes a person colour blind? Boy when I goof, I really do it nent the opportunity of elect- in diamonds, don't I? I left out ing not to spin and should AFP a whole sentence and a half, a spin prior to his first shot, giv- OPEN SPACE word here, a third of a phrase ing himself odds of 6/11. — there and some meanings Pradyut Verma, What is the meaning of ‘white completely in the pantry and [email protected] man’s burden’? went merrily whistling into the According to the hypothesis Coined by Rudyard Kipling, it is night, didn't I? Am I getting of Parallel Universes (You the presumed responsibility of too rusty at swiping things out mean the many-worlds inter- white people to govern and of where they properly and pretation of quantum mechan- “civilise’’ non-white people, often legally belong or what? Is this ics —MS), the moment you advanced as a justification for Eu- the thin end of the wedge the pull the trigger the existing ropean colonialism. Big G-word is tipping me off in universe gets divided into two terms of icebergs moving in sets called parallel universes. — Lalit Tewari, Longowal mysterious ways? I'm talking All these universes exist si- Why is Turkey known as the ‘Sick about last week's e4 problem. multaneously without realising Old Man of Europe’? When I saw it in print, the shirt the existence of one another. Turkey (once the Ottoman Empire) almost flew off my favourite In each universe one possible was engaged in a series of wars torso. Here's what it should outcome of the trigger-pulling with Russia in the 19th century.Fi- have been: “You have a sev- event happens. In one set of nally, the empire fell apart in 1922 en-litre and a five-litre jar and universes the revolver kills an unlimited supply of water. you, while in another set it and a number of smaller states What is the least number of doesn't. So it would hardly such as Serbia, Bulgaria and Alba- steps it would take to give matter whether you spun the nia emerged along with the pres- someone exactly FOUR litres magazine or not. (And, who ent-day Republic of Turkey. The of water if the seven-litre jar knows, maybe in one of those prolonged wars made it appear like has to be filled first as step universes you might have even a terminally ill old man. #1. And then starting from solved the problem instead of — Chandra Vasudevan, Delhi that exact configuration (with- faffing around the bush —MS) What is nanotechnology and where out actually giving anyone any —Nabarun Sengupta, is it applied? water, that is) you have to then nabarun give him or her a further [email protected] Conceived in 1959 by Nobel Laure- No-Ifs-Or-Butts-Dept: ate-physicist Richard P. Feynman, Re: maths contest Endgame. nanotechnology is molecular man- MINDSPORT It is a beautiful amalgamation ufacturing or, more simply, build- of set theory and pigeonhole Mukul Sharma ing things the size of one atom or principle. The logic struck me molecule with programmed preci- when I was having a smoke sion. It involves working with mat- THREE litres of water.” break (they give you that kick). ter at the scale of one-billionth of a DEAR MS, (They also kickstart carcino- metre (1 nanometre). The trick is to (The original problem was: gens till your tongue, throat or “Two people alternately shoot lungs falls off —MS) It took manipulate atoms individually, a six-shot revolver (only one me 35 minutes to explain to where needed, to produce the de- chamber contains a cartridge) my friends. Hence it's impos- sired structure. From converting at a target. The player who sible to put it into words for a sunlight into power to cleaning first gets a ‘bang’ rather than column as unimportant as oceans and beaches of oil slicks to a ‘click’ is the loser. However, MS. (Join the club as soon as sensors in the form of bio-chips an option exists. At any turn, your butts kick in dude — MS) built into the human body, nan- instead of shooting, a player Anyway the answer is: one otechnology does all this and more. An athlete jumps during the pole vault finals during the 9th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis outside Paris. QUESTION: Who holds the world record in men’s and women’s pole vault? can randomly spin the maga- problem.—Manish Agrawal, — Rohit Dubry, Mathura zine before shooting. But god-divided-by-zero-is- What is the maximum amount of stand themselves. ability to pull the devotee out of their legs? [email protected] How is the ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ direc- once either player elects to money that is allowed to be print- his worldly entanglements and spin before shooting, all suc- ENDGAME tion of trains decided? — Dipti Jain, Wardha — Mithilesh Kumar,Goa ed at any given time in India? bind him to the Almighty, the cessive shots, if any, have to Prof John (of card Endgame Trains going towards the head- What do the various parts of Lord If blood cells die every day, where modak the joyous rewards of spir- be preceded by a spin. If you fame) didn't just finish there. quarters of the railway zone in The Reserve Bank of India adopts Ganesha represent? do they go after they die? itual seeking, the food material had first shot would you spin He placed a box on the table question are known as ‘Up’ trains the Minimum Reserve System for Elephant head: superior intellect; — Om Prakash Tripathy, Tokyo printing currency. It maintains a wealth and power, the lotus first and shoot, or shoot with- and told X to take out five ba- and those leaving the headquarters curled trunk: the symbol Om or Why don’t birds get an electric reserve of Rs 200 crore— Rs 115 the supreme goal of human evolu- out spinning?” The additional lls from it (X didn't know about are called ‘Down’ trains. faculty of discrimination; snake shock when they perch on live spin given on it was: “What their colour\number). He re- crore in the form of gold and the tion and the mouse desire. Gane- — V.G. Ghate, Valsad around waist: cosmic energy; bro- wires? would you do if the first player moved five blue balls. Sur- rest in foreign exchange—against ken tusk: knowledge; large ears: sha riding on the mouse means What makes a person colour blind? — Nikhil Kathuria, Delhi to get a ‘bang’ wins?”) prised, John said: “That that which it prints money in keeping the ability to separate the real you should control desire, and de- Lettes-Roul-Again-Dept: What is a ‘baker’s dozen’? would happen was an 50-50 Vision cells in the retina called with the country’s total demand (as from the unreal; human body: sire should not control you. Working backwards, on the chance.” What is the smallest — Anuruti Uniyal, Dehradun cones are needed to see colour. provided by the Central Statistical supreme wisdom; large belly: the — Varadarajan, recd via e-mail fifth shot spinning gives odds number of balls and how There are three types of cone cells Organisation). Can a spider get entangled in of 6/11 against 1/2 without many of them blue should he digestion of all types of experi- its own web? which are sensitive to red, blue or — Sujith S. Kamath, Bellary ence, good and bad; leg on the ANY ANSWERS? spinning. So spinning is supe- have placed in the box to get Why do we dream? — Ajay Puranik, Indore (Submitted by green light. If one or more of these ground: dealing with the world rior at shot five. At shot four, that result? How have the words ‘left’ and ‘right’ spinning gives odds of 6/11 Vivek Jain, Baroda) types of cells is faulty, then colour In the 1890s, Sigmund Freud sug- with singular concentration upon come to stand for socialist and cap- You ask. Or you answer. Mark the envelopes against 1/3 + (2/3*5/11) = 7/11 blindness occurs. The ailment is gested that dreams are a fulfilment the Supreme Reality; four arms: italist ideologies respectively? ‘Open Space’ and address your answers and without spinning, so that no Snailmail: D-268 Sushant Lok- usually due to an abnormal gene in- of wishes. It is believed that a mind (manas), intellect (buddhi), questions to: spinning is superior. At shot I, Gurgaon, Haryana 122001 herited from the mother and affects person’s hidden feelings often sur- ego (ahamkar) and consciousness — Radhika Ghatage, recd via Open Space, Sunday Times of India, two, no spinning gives odds Email: mindsport@mantraon- only men. Sometimes, it occurs be- face in dreams. So psychologists (chitta). The axe in his hand sym- e-mail II Floor, S&B Towers, 40/1, M.G. Road, of 1/5 + (4/5*5/11) = 31/55, line.com cause of muscular degeneration. analyse their patients’ dreams in bolises cutting of all desires and Why do bats always hang upside Bangalore — 560 001 email: [email protected] making no spinning the better Website: http://www.mind- — Abhishek Avarani, Vadodara an effort to help them to under- worldly attachments, the rope the down? Why can’t they stand on percentage play. The first sport.org Neelabh COURTING Immigration? LETTERS Colours of the New Year Beef Issue FASHION TOI Just pad up It's not just about hard courts This refers to Swaminathan S. and smashing serves. The tennis Anklesaria Aiyar’s column, ‘Serving court has also been the stage for or do a jig beef at Ayodhya’ (Swaminomics, making grand slam fashion By Sachin Sharma and August 24). India has the largest statements. From the stuffy Tina Parekh number of cattle, yet more than half and starched to the bold TIMES NEWS NETWORK our people live in poverty or go and backless... without protein-rich diet. Our Hindu- Ahmedabad/Vadodara: In- dominated society and many state dian spinners may have left governments have created a situation PLAIN JANES? cricketers across the world be- in which beef is out of most people’s Q Gracious but never showy guiled. Sachin Tendulkar’s reach. Decisions on what to eat or that was Billie Jean King, willow has left many clueless. drink should best be left to an Martina Navratilova and But, what is foxing the inter- individual. The state shouldn’t Chris Evert. Even Steffi national cricketing communi- dictate its terms in such personal Graff never flaunted her ty now may have little to do matters. glamourous image with the gentleman’s game. Moreover, a ban on cow slaughter And, if the ‘‘disappear- could adversely impact the leather ance’’ of five members of a industry, which employs millions of COOL BABES women’s cricket team from people. This multi-million-dollar Jalandhar during their recent industry has already been suffering Q Anna Kournikova may not tour to the UK created a stir, at the hands of extremist Hindu have won a single ATP Tour donning white flannels to event, but so what? groups. A legislation banning cow ‘‘settle abroad’’ is a prevalent slaughter would only break its back. Tabloids went wild over practice in Gujarat. — Siddhartha Tripathy, via e-mail her form-fitting white ‘‘Pad up to go abroad’’ is the Wimbeldon outfit this year buzzword even if you have II even though she missed never stood in front of the the tournament.This Addi- stumps or walked up the Swami Vivekananda had once said das brand symbol’s bowler’s run-up. any statement that is qualified and favourite gear: Snug, re- Agencies have sprung up in interspersed with ancient quotes vealing dresses, midriff Anand, Vadodara and Ahmed- finds ready acceptability. Mr Aiyar showing outfits abad that form cricket teams, has cleverly grasped this psychology, organise ‘‘matches’’ in the UK but his choice of sources leaves a lot and also ‘‘ensure that immi- to be desired. Q The Williams sisters cre- gration aspirants get a chance He has quoted Nirad Chaudhuri, a ated waves for their outfits to stay back’’. But, all this self-proclaimed brown British babu as their tennis achieve- comes for a price. (was he a beef eater?) and ments. At the Australian One person, operating as an Bhavabhuti, a 8th century AD poet immigration agent from about whom little is known. Open, Venus’ daring blue- A traditional dancer performs at the beginning of Onam festival celebrations in Cochin on Saturday. and-black low-cut top and Anand, offered to take a TNN Moreover, Bhavabhuti’s play, Uttara- correspondent, posing as a de- Rama-Charitra, cannot be considered bra combination scorched coy,to the UK under the guise the courts. For Wimbledon an authentic interpretation of of a cricketer if he paid the Ramayana. Why can’t Mr Aiyar Venus wore a corset-style ‘‘fee’’ of Rs 3 lakh in advance. consider Valmiki’s Ramayana, which tennis dress by a NY de- ‘‘The method has been test- doesn’t talk about Vasista eating beef. signer. She has a $50m Who will bell the copycats? ed and there is very little risk Mr Aiyar should concentrate on deal with Reebok involved in it. You just have to economics and avoid making By Sofia Tippoo Copies won’t do such cases is usually damaging to the get your property documents, unqualified interpretations of TIMES NEWS NETWORK company. show necessary bank balance ancient texts. New kid on the court •Kolkata wholesaler booked for Awareness of a well-known brand and give me some other docu- — N.S. Chakravarthy, via e-mail Bangalore: The bakery where you duplicate floating around in the mar- ordered that Mickey Mouse cake for ‘importing’ towels with images of ments like a certificate from She came wearing baby Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, ket makes consumers nervous. your college stating that you Mistaken Identity your child’s birthday, could well “Every consumer will have that lin- pink. Mary Sharapova be hauled up some day for copyright Pluto are studying there,’’ said With reference to ‘Foreigner held with gering doubt about the authenticity the agent. Russian blonde bomb- infringement of Walt Disney’s fake visas,’ (Stoi, July 13), we note with •Caught copying two years of what he is buying,” says Aneel The fact that the candidate shell and heir apparent characters. concern the assertion made by your back, Bangalore’s Kids Kemp Khanna, managing director, Tops, a had little knowledge of crick- to Anna Kournikova lost Today, copyright infringement is correspondent that a Ghana national and Mumbai’s Sheetal settled Delhi-based security agency. et hardly bothered the agent. in the second round at becoming a serious issue. The ‘chalta was arrested for possessing four pass- their cases out of court with a Microsoft is another company ‘‘Visa officials never ask any- the US Open this week, hai’ era, when patent-holders over- ports that contained forged Indian Rs 5-10 crore payout that is hiring private investigators one to prove that you can play. visa slips. Though the arrested person but she won many looked products that made unautho- to stamp out the rampant sale They make inquiries with the claimed to be from Ghana, his identity hearts with her fashion rised use of their logos to push sales, •Out-of-court settlements of pirated copies of its Windows manager, coach and the cap- and especially his nationality has not sense. ‘To be a babe, is clearly over. preferred because publicity software. tain of the team. We brief all been established so far. In paragraph Walt Disney is among the compa- damages company that’s the last thing on these persons regarding the two of the news item, the correspon- my mind’ nies drawing a firm line on copy- Here too, however, whenever a •Censor Board hiring dealer is caught, the norm is under- persons we are sending with dent himself, states that the suspect right. According to sources, a couple them. They know what to tell investigators to check copyright the-table settlement. could be a Nigerian. The Mission has, of years before, two leading infringement and abuse the persons at the visa office,’’ in its letter to the Chanakyapuri Police Surprisingly, the Censor Board is ‘All of us just try chains, Kids Kemp, Bangalore and he added. Station, certified that the passport (in also hiring a team of investigators to compete. Sheetal, Mumbai, came under the And, there’s hardly a the name of Owusu Emmanuel Kwa- If you can copyright cosh. They settled their about Rs 25, whereas similar towels for copyright infringement and bouncer coming your way, he bana) is genuine, but the photograph look good cases out of court with a Rs 5-10 crore from a genuine Walt Disney licence- abuse. assures. ‘‘We will attach you has been changed. The Mission strong- at the payout. holder would cost nothing less than “The Censor Board often removes to a cricket club as an extra ly suspects that the arrested person is same Recently, a wholesaler in Kolkata Rs 250,” says Hemant Shah, a Delhi- a number of shots in movies which along with the regular play- not a Ghana national. He could neither time, it’s a was booked for ‘importing’ colourful based investigator specialising in border on pornography. But, then ers. All you need to do is slip speak the language nor name his home bonus.’ towels with lively images of Donald copyright infringement cases. there are many theatres in the cities out of the team once you land town in Ghana when questioned by Serbian Duck, Micky Mouse, Pluto and Little No company is willing to press for and outskirts who run the movies in the UK. Though I cannot as- the police. Jelena Dokic Mermaid. indictment. Out-of-court settlements with the deleted portions intact,” sure you a job there, I have — Head of Mission “These towels from China sell for are preferred because publicity in says a private investigator. contacts among lawyers who Mary Sharapova Ghana High Commission can help,’’ he assures.

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The Sunday Times of India, New Delhi, August 31, 2003 Move on, urges Young Where’s Sachin going? The home fun Jerome Young is right. He urges people “Nowhere,” says Ravi Shastri. He has It’s all for fun, says golfer Phil to move on from the negative of being dismissed claims that Showdiff, Mickelson as he ‘pitched’ in minor steroid-positive in 1999 to the positive Shastri’s recently floated player and league baseball on Friday. of being a gold winner in 400 meter event management company, has What more, Phil is aiming to play class at the World Championships. Too signed Sachin Tendulkar. “Sachin is with Detroit Tigers, a cherished bad, people are still suspicious exclusive to WorldTel,” he said dream for long Beckham discloses he nearly quit

BRIEFLY Leander, Lance and SPORT US parties on Roddick’s birthday AFP AFP New York: Fourth seed Andy lion-heartedness Roddick celebrated his 21st birth- day by reaching the third round of THE SPORTING LIFE Leander spirit that trans- the US Open with a 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 forms him from a modest ten- win over Croatia’s Ivan Ljubicic. Ayaz Memon nis pro into a titan when he Roddick’s victory,completed in wears the India colours. the early hours of Saturday ‘‘Show me a I can bet that Leander is morning, capped a day-long par- hero and I desperate to get into those ty for the Americans and their will write you colours, get back on court. But fans at Flushing Meadows after a tragedy,’’ since this may take a while, he Lindsay Davenport, Meghann wrote the could draw sustenance from Shaughnessy and James Blake American the opening para of Lance also advanced. novelist F Armstrong’s autobiography, World number one Kim Cli- Scott Fitzger- It’s Not About The Bike, which jsters ald. Had he been better ac- I am currently rereading:. inched to- quainted with the world of ‘‘I want to die at a hundred wards her sports, had he known of years old with an American maiden Lance Armstrong and Lean- flag on my back and the star Grand Slam crown earlier on Fri- der Paes (to name a couple of of Texas on my helmet, after Chinese shuttler Chen Hong hits a drop day but it was the end of the road those in the news recently), screaming down an Alpine shot during his Indonesian Open men’s for emotionally-fragile ninth Scottbhai would have been descent on a bicycle at 75 singles semifinal match against Lee seed Daniela Hantuchova, who more circumspect and not miles per hour.’’ Hyun Il of Korea in Batam on Friday. lost 6-2, 6-4 in the third round to coined the aphorism with The champion American Chen Hong won 15-6, 15-5. Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn. such an air of finality. cyclist, it might be recalled, Belgian Clijsters, seeded one at Leander is reportedly in was struck by testicular can- a slam for the first time, swept the clear now, the cyst in his cer a few years ago, but bat- Shooters for Italy: A 7-member shoot- aside Russia’s Svetlana brain discovered to be a pesky tled back courageously. This ing team, including two women, will leave Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-2 to reach the tape-worm and not a dreaded year he won his fifth Tour De for Lonato, Italy on Sunday to participate fourth round. tumour,but he has battled the France. In Lance, Leander in the shotgun world cup event to be held Next up for Clijsters will be disease and the accompany- will find a kindred spirit. And there from September 2 to 9. The squad is 17th seed Shaughnessy,who over- ing psychological trauma if Scottbhai was alive, two he- cleared by the government. A six-member came Russian 13th seed Vera with as much courage and roes who have licked tragedy. squad, which was also cleared at no cost Zvonareva 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. commitment that have made ✦✦✦ to the government, will also participate in him arguably India’s best the event. Double trap shooter Major Ra- Roddick probably did not plan A couple of ‘disenchanted’ to spend the first moments of his Davis Cup player ever. cricket lovers moaned re- jyavardhan Singh Rathore, who is under- More admirable was the going training in Italy will join the squad birthday sweating it out on a cently. ‘‘Where are the one- absence of melodrama and there. The trap and double trap shooters muggy centre court, but his spir- day matches? Tests are so will be looking to earn their quota places ited play against the hard-serv- hysteria. The Paes family has boring!’’ Reminded me of PG shown grace and fortitude in for the Athens Olympics next year. ing Ljubicic underlined his de- Wodehouse’s assessment of this crisis. Few deserve it Squads: Manavjit Sandhu, Mansher Singh, Anwar Sultan, termination to gift himself his how the Yanks saw this noble Birendeep Sodhi, RVS Rathore, Arti Singh Rao, Shagun more, but there has been no game: ‘‘What puzzles them is Chudhary. Coaches: Jagjit Singh, Sushil Choudhary. TNN first career Grand Slam. clamour for getting funds — Ljubicic was not in a giving how a game can go on for five Maria Kirilenko of Russia returns to Amelie Mauresmo of France during their US Open match on Friday. as is the current trend — for days. Would not the two mood, making his American op- BETTING METER that one,” said Roddick upon having ‘sacrificed’ so much teams, they ask, have been ponent work full out for the vic- reaching the legal drinking age Important results for the country. Leander has better occupied staying at tory,forcing the match to a fourth FORMULA ONE in New York. Mens singles (2nd round): 20-Mark Philip- 7-5, 7-Carlos Moya (Esp) bt Wesley Moodie emerged from his illness home with a good book? Why, World Drivers Championship set tie-break which Roddick fi- Earlier in the day, third seed poussis (Aus) bt Anthony Dupuis (Fra) 6-2 6-3 (Rsa) 6-2 7-6 (6) 6-3, 4-Andy Roddick (US) bt with family ties strength- in the time it takes to get JP Montoya 5/6 nally clinched on his second 6-4, Xavier Malisse (Bel) bt 19-Agustin Calleri Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) 6-3 6-7 (4) 6-3 7-6 (8). ened, new friendships and Davenport made a mockery of through the normal England M Schumacher 7/4 match point 10-8. (Arg) 6-2 6-7 (3) 6-3 3-6 6-3, 13-David Nal- partnerships reaffirmed, and K Raikkonen 4/1 her fitness concerns with a 6-0, 6- bandian (Arg) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 5-7 6-3 Womens singles (3rd round): 3-Lindsay Dav- v Australia game, you could R Schumacher 33/1 Hottest player: It extended the 6-1 4-6 7-6 (3), 12-Sjeng Schalken (Ned) bt enport (US) bt Melinda Czink (Hun) 6-0 6-2,19- an old one hopefully revived. read the whole of Shake- 2 victory over Hungarian Melin- F Alonso 150/1 hottest player on the tour’s win- Lars Burgsmuller (Ger) 4-6 2-6 6-2 6-2 6-0, 2- Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt 14-Amanda Coetzer There is a body of opinion speare’s output and quite a (Rsa) 6-0 6-1, 24-Paola Suarez (Arg) bt Alicia (as per ladbrokes.com) ning streak to 14 matches. But as da Czink while the unseeded Roger Federer (Swi) bt Jean-Rene Lisnard (Fra) that believes, his playing good deal of Erle Stanley Blake ousted Armenia’s Sargis 6-1 6-2 6-0, Alberto Martin (Esp) bt 25-Albert Molik (Aus) 6-4 4-6 6-2, 1-Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt LIVE ON TV he was presented with a cake and Costa (Esp) 6-3 6-3 3-6 6-2, 8-Rainer Schuet- (27) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) 6-3 6-2, 17- days are over. Not unfounded Gardner’s.’’ the crowd broke into a rendition Sargsian 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 in the tler (Ger) bt Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) 6-1 7-5 2-6 6- Meghann Shaughnessy (US) bt 13-Vera considering that he is push- I suspect there are a lot of ESPN: 1825 hrs: English Premier Football League. 0200 of “Happy Birthday”, there was men’s second round. 4, 22-Younes El Aynaoui (Mor) bt Rafael Nadal Zvonareva (Rus) 4-6 6-4 6-2, 5-Amelie Mau- ing 30, and complete recovery people today who want crick- hrs: WNBA Playoffs. more relief written on Roddick’s She will next face fifth seed (Esp) 7-6 (6) 6-3 7-6 (6), 10-Jiri Novak (Cze) bt resmo (Fra) bt Maria Kirilenko (Rus) 6-4 6-2, may take months, perhaps Star Sports: 2030 hrs: US Open tennis. Jan-Michael Gambill (US) 6-4 6-4 6-4, Nicolas Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) bt 9-Daniela Han- et, like most other things, to sweaty face than celebration. Amelie Mauresmo, who won 6-4, Massu (Chi) bt Thomas Enqvist (Swe) 6-3 6-2 tuchova (Svk) 6-2 6-4. even a year.But that would be be like an Archie’s comic. “I think I deserve a beer after 6-2 against Maria Kirilenko. Reuters discounting the legendary But count me out guys. CRICKET UPDATE Rawalpindi Express flattens Bangla Bedi lays into Peshawar: Pakistan, fired his second test, put on an wicket mark in his 27th by Shoaib Akhtar’s first opening stand of 140 with Test. Known as the Sourav again Test 10-wicket haul and a Taufeeq Umar (43). Man-of- ‘Rawalpindi Express’, the TIMES NEWS NETWORK maiden century by Moham- the-match Shoaib took four 28-year-old took two wickets mad Hafeez, fought back to for 30 in the second innings in three balls on Saturday New Delhi: Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi crush Bangladesh by nine to give him match figures of morning to trigger another on Saturday criticised wickets and take an unas- 10 for 80 as he passed the 100- Bangla batting collapse.Reuters Sourav Ganguly for seeking sailable 2-0 lead in the series SCORE BOARD tips from former Aussie on Saturday. batsman Greg Chappell. Bangladesh (1st innings): 361 Shabbir 7-2-21-1, Gul 4.5-1-16-3, The home team came “What can one learn in two back from a 66-run first-in- Pakistan (1st innings): 295 Kaneria 10-3-27-2 Bangla (2nd inngs, overnight 52/4): Pakistan (2nd innings): hours?,” he said referring to nings deficit to skittle R Saleh lbw b Akhtar 6 M Hafeez not out 102 Ganguly’s dinner date with Bangladesh for 96 in the sec- A Kapali c Latif b Shabbir 16 T Umer c Mashrafe b Mahmud 43 Chappell during a recent K Mashud lbw b Akhtar 0 Y Hameed not out 18 ond innings on the fourth K Mahmud lbw b Kaneria 1 trip for which the Indian Extras: (lb 1,w 1) 2 day of the second Test. M Rafique not out 9 Total: (For 1 wkt, in 47.3 overs) 165 cricket board shelled out Hafeez then scored 102 as M Murtaza b Gul 14 A Kabir b Gul 4 Fall of wicket: 1-140. $6,000. “Then, former India Pakistan, set 163 to win on a Extras: (lb 2, nb 2) 4 Bowling: Mahsrafe 7-1-26-0, Kabir cricketers who can be of docile pitch, reached their Total: (All out, in 33.5 overs) 96 7.3-1-39-0, Mahmud 14-5-28-1, help but ghar ki murgi daal Fall of wkts: 5-64, 6-64, 7-65, 8-75, 9-90. Rafique 12-2-34-0, Kapali 6-0-30-0, target in the 48th over. Bowling: Shoaib Akhtar 12-2-30-4, Ashraful 1-0-7-0. barabar.” The 22-year-old opener, in Bedi was speaking to re- AFP porters while announcing the launch of a pre-season ‘Don’t mix cricket cricket camp for fledgling cricketers at the Jamia Mil- with politics’ lia Islamia grounds from Islamabad: Former Test September 5 to October 3. cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar Bedi, whose contract as on Saturday said cricket the Delhi Ranji coach is up should be kept away from for renewal, also aired dis- politics and called for the re- pleasure over DDCA not yet vival of India-Pakistan ties announcing their Ranji in the best interest of the squad for this season. game. “Cricket should not “For some unknown rea- be linked to political insta- sons, DDCA is sitting idle. bility,” Manjrekar, who is Mumbai announced their commentating on the on-go- team a month ago and start- ed preparations. Karnataka ing Test series between Pak- and Tamil Nadu too are istan and Bangladesh said. preparing. But this isn’t a “The action on the field criticism, just an observa- should continue. That is tion,” Bedi said. what the people of both the He also wondered how’ll countries are looking for- DDCA organise matches ward to. Cricket is just a when the Kotla was under game and a game should be renovation. Bedi informed played for the sake of itself Shoaib Akhtar in his bowling stride on the fourth day of the that former cricketers like and not for politics,” the for- second Test against Bangladesh in Peshawar on Saturday. Erapalli Prasanna, Hanu- mer Indian batsman said. PTI Akhtar was declared man of the match. mant Singh, Madan Lal, Vi- jay Mehra, Raju Tondon and Mali succeeds Sonn Shoaib breaks century barrier Arun Bharadwaj would be Durban: Ray Mali was coaching the boys in an “In- elected president of the Peshawar: Express Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar broke dian way.” United Cricket Board of another century barrier as he completed his hundred wick- South Africa on Saturday, ets in Test cricket in the second cricket Test against Mumbai team for succeeding Percy Sonn. Bangladesh here on Saturday. Sonn, who had been presi- Shoaib dismissed Bangladesh’s Razin Saleh to complete Irani on Tuesday dent since 2000, did not his century of wickets in his 27th Test and became the 11th Mumbai: The Mumbai stand for re-election and Pakistani bowler to reach the milestone. team for the five-day Irani The 28-year-old, known as ‘Rawalpindi Express’ for his will attempt to further Trophy match against the his career in cricket admin- bowling speed, twice recorded deliveries over 100 miles per Rest of India side to be istration at international hour on a speed gun, a unique feat in international cricket. played at Chennai from Sep- level. He made his Test debut against the West Indies tember 18 to 22, would be “I am very conscious of at Rawalpindi in 1997-98, claiming David Williams for his picked here on September 2. the fact that I come from a first wicket. His 50th victim was Bangladesh’s Mohammad The MCA joint secretary cricket culture that stretch- Sharif in the Chittagong Test in 2001-02. Prof Ratnakar Shetty said es back more than 100 years Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Imran Khan head the that a strong 15-member but that was marginalised list with over 300 wickets. Abdul Qadir, Saqlain Mushtaq, squad would be picked by apartheid for nearly five Mushtaq Ahmed, Sarfraz Nawaz, Iqbal Qasim, Fazal Mah- by MCA selection commit- decades,” said Mali, 66, who mood and Intikhab Alam are the other Pakistani bowlers to tee chaired by Dilip was elected unopposed. AFP have taken 100 or more Test wickets. AFP Vengsarkar. PTI

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20 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 31, 2003 SPORT GRAB YOUR TICKETS NOW The upcoming sporting season promises to be the biggest and most exciting one in the country. Right from cricket, football, tennis to golf, chess and the Afro-Asian Games, the country THE BIG ATTRACTION can expect to look forward to some of the world’s top players. Times News Network hands you he inaugural Afro-Asian Games will be the the ready reckoner as the summer makes way for an action-packed winter Tbiggest attraction this year. Where will it be held: Hyderabad When: October 24 to November 1 What can you hope to see: Top sports persons from the two continents in Time to hit the stadium eight disciplines: athletics, box- ver the next few days, golden dust Just imagine what it could mean in the ing, hockey (both men and women), will silently and unobtrusively set- long run. football (men), shooting, swim- tle down on the jinxed Arjuna Unfortunately, the Games have been re- ming, weightlifting. O What will be the format: Awards; the acrimony of the initial stages stricted to only eight disciplines. Even and the eventual smiles on everybody’s there, only the top four individuals or Four top players or teams faces will also be soon forgotten. teams of the two continents will be seen in from Asia and four each from Our newly crowned heroes, jading cham- action. If the federations agree to send Africa. There might only be pions and aspiring stars will, then, slowly their best, that is. finals in each event. get back to the same The way thing are go- What’s the catch: The se- old business of break- ing, the AAG might lection of teams rests with the ing bureaucratic, polit- BETWEEN THE LINES eventually not sparkle respective federations and coun- tries. They might not send their best. ical and all other road- Bobbilli Vijay Kumar with intense competi- blocks in their pursuit tion nor spawn new ri- Last date for entries: From Asian federa- of greater glory. valries; the smell of top stars might not tions, September 23 and from Africa October They all have at least something special even permeate beyond the plains of Hy- World champions 18, because of the All-Africa Games in Nigeria. to look forward to this season: a packed cal- derabad and hundreds of crores might Australia and the endar and top-quality competition in their actually go down the black hole. But best wicket-keeper own backyard. for just a few days, when the Games are of our times Adam Gilchrist will be For you and me too, there’s going to be on, people might learn to appreciate seen in action in loads of action, dozens of sporting legends and enjoy other sports too. They the tri-series and tons of excitement. Yes, It’s soon going might even have something new to starting in October to be time to celebrate sport and to hit the cheer about. stadia with a song on our lips. Cricket, soc- Oh yes, there’s going to be lots cer,athletics, hockey,tennis, boxing, shoot- of cricket too. The Kiwis will be ing, golf, it’s never been bigger, grander or here for a couple of Tests; the more exciting than this in India. Aussies will then join them for Think of a sport and you will soon have a triangular One-day series. a majestic show running near your home, The problems begin after or in the vicinity of your neighbourhood. that: the Indians will zip The most ambitious event, of course, is down under for yet another the inaugural Afro-Asian Games. For the tough and demanding series. first time in the history of sport, these two This might well be your continents will come together: they might last chance to jump on to Ethiopians Bekela and Gebreselassie could light not be competing against each other but another bandwagon. Or get up the Afro-Asian Games, if only they land up. they will at least compete with each other. ready for another mauling. ALSO WATCH OUT FOR... No, unfortunately we will have to wait some time before we can hope to see Mike Tyson bite off somebody’s ear.What we can def- initely see is the Asian women’s boxing championships at Hissar, Harayana from October 18. Though the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation is yet to receive entries by name, top pugilist from mighty Korea (the North Koreans are the reigning champions in most disciplines), Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, China and Japan, besides hosts India are sure to be here. The Indian challenge will be spearheaded by World silver medallist M.C. Merrykom. In shooting, Abhinav Bindra and Anjali Bhagwat will test New Zealand square up against India this winter. their preparations during the Commonwealth shooting meet in New Delhi from Dec 1 to 9. BATTLE OF THE KIWIS They will be up against world- ew Zealand’s stop-gap coach Ashley Ross is building class shooters from Australia, Nan India in Kiwiland. India’s ‘‘permanent’’ coach New Zealand, England, Scotland, John Wright is seeing his players doing Pranayam. Hang Canada and Malaysia. on, where’s this world going? Agreed, Ross has been pop- In motorsports, MAI’s Indian ularly put on the ‘‘lunatic fringe’’ for his forward-thinking National Rally Championship innovative ideas. If he’s making his wards practice on makes a visit to the north for the loose-soiled pitches, if sudden noises go up in the back- first time with its September 19 to ground as they do at our very own Wankhede or Eden, he’s 21 Chandigarh leg, and serve as a just trying to equip the Kiwis for one of the toughest chal- prelude to the only event of its kind in lenges in world cricket: Beating India in India. the world: The Raid de Himalaya. Meanwhile, another Kiwi in Wright, is urging his bunch in blue to keep the slate clean at home. The recent conditioning camp in Bangalore saw the boys do yoga. The world in India Come September, the spotlight shifts to bat and ball at the SOME MORE STICKS U-19 JRD Tata Football Jamshedpur YET ANOTHER MEETING seven-day playing camp. The real action, though, begins Sept 11-22 Championship orge Lombi, Sohail Ab- its keenness to play match- he next big thing in when the Challenger series starts rolling on September 10 bas, S. Kuhan, Song es against India. Its wish India vs New Zealand in Bangalore. J Sept 26-Oct 20 New Delhi Ttennis is some time Sueng Tae. Yes, all of them might be fulfilled if the cricket series away — the Tata Open Indians are late starters. Sourav da and friends would could well be seen in action IHF’s plan to host a six-na- do well to get up and get going asap. After all, they have to Parsvnath Intl. Rating New Delhi from January 5 to 11 — right here, as the hockey tion tournament in Novem- Oct 2-10 but in between are a face the Aussies at home first before heading for that fever continued to grip the ber-December works out. It chess tournament dreaded trip down under. number of tourna- country. would obviously give the In- Oct 6-13 Maruti Raid de HP and J&K ments of Satellite Star Pakistani drag-flick- dian team a better chance to Himalaya stature. In addition, Inputs from Vineeta Pandey, Sukhwant Basra, Nilanjan Datta, er Abbas too might make an prepare for the Olympics Dinesh Chopra, Pradeep Kumar and B. Shrikant Asian Women’s Boxing Hissar there is the Bhupathi- appearance during the qualifers in March and in- Oct 18-23 Championship organised WTA week Afro-Asian Games; in fact, deed build some more sup- in February plus seven NO 2389 SUNDAY CROSSWORD he might come over much port for itself within the India-Australia-NZ India Oct 23-Nov 18 cricket tri-series international tourna- before that if the efforts of country. ments for men and five for women this year.India go to the the Pakistan hockey body Apart from India and Ar- Oct 24-Nov 01 Afro-Asian Games Hyderabad Netherlands for the Davis Cup World Group play-off in fructify. gentina, two teams from mid-September. Back home, three Challengers are sched- In the Afro-Asian, Europe and two from Asia Hero Honda New Delhi uled from September to October too. There is even the pos- Malaysia and South Korea are likely to be invited. Nov 6-9 Masters golf sibilty that Leander Paes (in pic) and Mahesh Bhupathi will also represent Asia In December,India would will team up during the Afro-Asian Games in October. while Egypt, South Africa also be hosting the 5th Dec 1-9 Commonwealth New Delhi and Zimbabwe will show up women’s Asia Cup in New Shooting Championship MASTER MINDS for Africa. Delhi. China, South Korea, CUNNINGLY YOURS Interestinlgy, Argentina Japan and Malaysiare the Dec 5-7 MRF India Rally Pune he $300,000 Hero Honda ike always, a string of has apparently expressed other teams. TMasters will remain Linternational chess Dec 14 Pune International Pune one of the biggest draws in events are on the anvil, in- Marathon golf. To be held at the Delhi cluding open-rated tourna- ments. India will host the 5th Women’s Asia New Delhi Golf Course from Nov. 6-9, Dec 22-29 Cup hockey it’s not yet clear who all will World Juniors (in Goa) and be here. So too for the Indi- probably the Common- Jan 5-11, 2004 Tata Open tennis Chennai an Open in March, though wealth championships too. champ Mike Cunning In October, Delhi will host Indian Open golf Chennai might make return. one of the country’s March championship Also, if rumours are to biggest-prize money tour- be believed, Nick Faldo naments. The organisers Coming soon might well make a flying are hoping to invite some Oct 3 — World half-marathon — New Delhi visit to the country just like Grandmasters. India’s chal- lenge will be led by five • World Junior Chess championships Vijay Singh had done last year, for a one-off fest. GMs, including Humpy, • Central Asia zonal volleyball championships Harikrishna and Kunte. Scenes like these -- the Pakistanis celebrating a strike Dates to be announced Watch this space. against India -- could be on show in India pretty soon

hen players b3, c2, e4, f2, g3, h3. Black: he BFAME-2003 entry to the Bermuda Bowl. W have castled on CHESS Kg8; Qc8; R-a8,f8; Be6; P- TChampionships were Here is an interesting the opposite sides, b5, f6, f7, g6, h7. held in Jordan in the first BRIDGE hand from the BFAME cham- the games are Pravin Thipsay Problem:Black to play and week of August. Formi- Prakash Paranjpe pionships. South opens a generally decided by win. dables (Kiran Nadar, B. strong 2C and the uncon- Kiewra King-side attack. In Solution:- Black initiated a Satyanarayan, R. Tewari, S Dealer EW Vul tested bidding proceeds conducting a King- 8 decisive attack with a Subhash Gupta, Sunit 2C-2D-2H-3C-3Nt. West side attack, one must brilliant sham sacrifice of Choksi, and Venkatra- ♠ K T 4 leads ♠9 to East's ♠6 and try to expose the 7 the QR. 1...Ra2!! 2.Rd2 (The man) easily won the event ♥ K South's ♠A. South cashes enemy King without 6 Black Rook could not have for India. The supremacy ♦ 8 5 3 2 the KQ of Clubs and plays hesitating to sacrifice been taken. 2.Kxa2??, Qxc2 of the Indian team (273 ♣ T 8 4 3 2 the ♦Q. What should West material when 5 ch with a quick mate. The Vps in Round Robin to do? ♠ ♠ necessary. Here (R. 4 Rook move defends against 246 of Pakistan and 206 9 8 7 5 3 2 Q J 6 The only winning defence ♥ ♥ Anderson vs Kiewra, the mate on ‘c2’.) 2...Qa6! for the third place and a J 3 A T 9 8 4 for West is to win the ♦King 3 ♦ 12th Chicago Open, (Threatening 3...Rfa8 100-odd IMP win in the ♦ K 6 4 T 7 and shift to a small Heart. 2003), we have a 2 followed by a decisive final) is beyond any ♣ J 9 ♣ 7 6 5 When East wins with the ♣ beautiful example of 1 check on ‘a1’.) 3.Qxf6! doubt. All the same, the ♠ A Ace and plays back a an attack against the Qa5!! (Threatening both Indian team has to go ♥ Q 7 6 5 2 Heart, if South ducks, West enemy King. a b cde f g h 4...Qxd2 and 4...Rfa8. It through the motion and ♦ A Q J 9 can win and exit with a Dia- R. Anderson ♦ White has an extra would have been a blunder players have to waste ♣ A K Q mond. If West ducks the Pawn, but Black has to triple the major pieces in two weeks of their time Q, South can prevail by all the trumps required for a successful the open 'a' file immediately—3...Ra8?? 4.Rd8 because the participation cashing the ♦A and exiting attack—an unchallenged open file, active ch! and White defends successfully by in the World Championships of the BFAME despite having with a Diamond. ♥7 will be pieces and scattered nature of enemy forces. eliminating an important attacking piece.) in the odd-year events de- the largest number of sub- South's ninth trick in case These factors enabled Black to win the game 4.Rhd1 Bxb3! 5.Qd4 (If 5.cxd3 then 5...Rxd2) pends on the BFAME. Indeed, scription-paying bridge mem- West begins Hearts with ♥J. with a brilliant and beautiful combination. 5...Bc4! 6.Rd3 Bxd3 and Black won very soon it is sad that India seems to bers. It is high time we www.demicoma.com Position: White: Kb1; Qd4; R-d1,h1; Bg2; P- since the attack still continues. have little say in the working thought about a direct Indian [email protected]

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CROSS COUNTRY INDIANS ABROAD York to play in the US Open Shandilya shocks Sethi Sania loses in junior championships which starts on Monday. Mumbai: Former men’s world billiards In the men’s $15,000 Futures champion and top seed Geet Sethi of Gu- doubles final event in Tunisia, Sunil Ku- jarat and world number two women’s New Delhi: and mar Sipaeya and Ajay Ra- player Wendy Jans of Belgium were Anna Tchakvetadze of Russia maswami won the doubles shocked in the CCI men’s and women’s lost in the girls’ doubles final title defeating Bart de Gier snooker tournament on Saturday.In the of the ITF Grade 1 junior ten- of the Netherlands and men’s pre-quarterfinal, lucky loser nis event in Quebec, Canada. Thomas Oger of France 6-1, 6- Ashok Shandilya of Railways upset Sania and Anna went down 1- 1 in the final. Sethi 4-2 while local girl Meenal Thakur, 6, 6-2, 3-6 to Ana Ivanovic of who ultimately lost to her younger sister Yugoslavia and Alla Anuja in the semifinals, subdued Wendy Paddlers win Geet Sethi Kudryavtseva of Russia in the Jans 3-2 in the women’s quarterfinals. New Delhi: Indian junior final yesterday. Sethi, who had not dropped even a frame in the league paddlers won three silver and Earlier, Divij Sharan won stages, found himself in a spot of bother losing the first five bronze medals in the STI- two frames 39-63 and 54-68 before finding his touch in the the boys doubles title with G GA Canadian Junior Open third frame winning it 62-9. Despite losing the fourth D Jones of New Zealand after table tennis tournament in frame 38-69, Sethi garnered two breaks of 32 and 57 to win their third seeded opponents Edmonton, Canada. the fifth 89-0. However, Shandilya kept his nerve when it Andrew Murray of Germany The silvers came from the mattered the most to win the crucial sixth frame. PTI and Daniel Vallverdu of girls’ cadet doubles team, the Venezuela gave a walk over in boys’ cadet doubles team the final, according to infor- of Devesh Karia and Aniket Railways reign supreme mation reaching here on Sat- Koparkar, and the cadet boys Lucknow: Defending champions Railways trounced Indi- urday. The Indians including in the team events, according an Universities 6-0 to retain the Senior National Women’s Somdev Dev Verman, Karan to a Table Tennis Federation hockey title at the Dhyanchand stadium here on Saturday. Rastogi, and of India release here on The Railways, which led 3-0 at half-time, exhibited an ,now proceed to New Saturday. PTI aggressive brand of hockey and never allowed their op- ponents to venture into their penalty area. Raliway’s Sangghi was the star striker scoring two goals including a field goal. The champions converted three of the 13 penalty corners they forced while the Uni- versities failed to take advantage of the solitary penalty corner that came their way in the 44th minute of the game. Railways went ahead in the very fourth minute of the game when Suman Bala’s sent a penalty corner crash- ing into the boards. PTI Hameed claims title Bangalore: Commonwealth gold medalist Abdul Hameed on Saturday claimed the men’s title at the Amoeba Tenpin bowling championship here on Saturday.Sabeena Athica begged the women’s title. The 32-year-old Hameed, who has had an excellent run in the tournament, rounded with an overall average of 200.87, accumulating a total pinfall of 6026 (after 30 games). Andhra Pradesh’s Ganesh Jadhav stood second with an av- erage of 191.43 while Karnataka’s Sethu Madhavan took the third spot with an average of 188.83. The top six play- ers will represent India in the AMF World Championship to be held in Malaysia from September 7 to 20. PTI Singles crown for Shweta New Delhi: GK Shweta beat Karina Ahuja 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 to take the girls under-14 title in the north zone Nike junior tennis tournament at DLTA on Saturday.The winner and finalists from the zonal rounds will compete at the na- tional masters in Bangalore. The Masters would begin from October 6 and would be played at the Nike-Bhupathi Tennis Village. The players will contest in a knock-out format to decide the 4 winners of the Nike junior tennis Masters 2003. Nike would send these 4 winners to compete at the Nike Junior Tennis In- ternational Masters to be held in November 2003 in Sun City,South Africa. Results: Girls U-14 singles: GK Shweta bt Karina Ahuja by 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; Doubles: Poo- jashree & Shweta Chandra bt Sanjana Kapur & Shalini Sahoo 6-0, 7-6(4); Boys U-14 doubles: Kaushik Das & Kinshuk Sharma bt Dhruv Gurwara and Parul Vama by 6-2, 6- 4. Singles: Kaushik Das bt Vijayant Malik 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Boys U-12: bt Shi- va Sangwan 6-1, 6-3. Girls U-12: Shweta Kumari bt 6-2, 6-4. TNN

AC Milan win 1-0: Andriy Shevchenko showed he’s still the man for the big occasion, scoring the deciding goal on Friday as Champions League winners AC Milan beat FC Por- to 1-0 to clinch the European SuperCup for the fourth time in its history. Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti said. “He has proved time and again what a great player he is.” AFP

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US’ Dwight Phillips clebrates his long junp gold at the World Athletics Championship in the Stade de France on Friday. Morocco’s Gharib strikes it rich Saint-Denis: Jaouad Gharib of Morocco won the gold ATHLETICS medal in the marathon at the seconds for the gold. On a World Championships on Sat- cooler night after a rain urday, running away from shower left the track wet, Spain’s Julio Rey in the last Capel led off the turn, fell be- few hundred meters. Italy’s hind, but recovered to beat Stefano Baldini took the Patton, the U.S. champion. bronze. Gharib won in 2 The two Americans then hours, 8 minutes and 31 sec- knelt together in prayer. U.S. onds, a championship record. sprinters were shut out of Rey was seven seconds behind the 100 medals here for the and Baldini finished in 2:09.14. first time since 1995. Meanwhile, John Capel Olympic and three-time de- edged Darvis Patton to cap- fending champion Maurice ture the 200 metres on Friday, Greene failed to qualify for giving American sprinters a the 100 final following an in- morale-boosting 1-2 finish af- jury and world 100 record ter they were shut out of the holder Tim Montgomery fin- medals in the 100 dash. ishing only fifth. Greene did- Felix Sanchez of the Do- n’t make the U.S. team in the minican Republic defended 200. Suetsugu crossed in his 400-metre hurdles title, 20.38, far off his best. the first to do so since Ed White free to compete: Moses, and clocking the Meanwhile, double world fastest time in the world in sprint champion Kelli White five years. Dwight Phillips will be allowed to compete in gave the United States its sec- the 4x100 metres relay at the ond gold medal of the day world championships despite when he won the long jump, testing positive for a stimu- adding to his indoor title. lant which will be banned at Behind the two U.S. runners next year’s Athens Olympics, in the 200, Shingo Suetsugu the IAAF announced on Sat- gave Japan their first sprint urday. The 26-year-old Amer- medal at the championships ican, who won the 100 and 200 when he grabbed the bronze. metres titles at the World Capel finished in 20.30 sec- Championships, tested posi- onds, edging Patton by 0.01 tive for Modafinil. AFP I nearly quit: Beckham London: David Beckham his wife came close to packing in and football as his life changed lifestyle. rapidly and things started “A n y to sour at Manchester time United, the Real Madrid there player has said. was a Beckham told the Sun problem newspaper: “I actually did with me, discuss retiring with (his my pri- wife) Victoria. There were vate life all sorts of things going on was brought up and the in my life at this time — way I lived my life,” he said. Romeo had just been born, The Real Madrid star in- my parents were divorc- sisted that despite his rise ing, there was the relation- to worldwide fame, he had ship with the manager and not changed as a person. the kidnap threats. I was- The England captain had n’t happy with the way always been expected to things were. I wasn’t hap- finish his career at Man- py going into work every chester United after help- day and I think that con- ing the club secure a host tributed to me thinking of major trophies. about that decision.” But his relationship Beckham, who plays his with the manager soured first game for his new side over the last two years, in Spain this weekend fur- with Beckham being ther revealed that former dropped for key games in boss Alex Ferguson may his last season with the have disapproved of both club. AFP Artois ready for double RACES TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi:Artois, imressive winner of the Governor’s Trophy, should complete a double in the Gen. Rajendra Singhji Trophy, the main event of the Pune races scheduled for Sunday. Selections: Ibiza Plate (div.II); 1,100m: 12.45pm: Psychedelic 1, Montana 2, Dillinger 3. Prince Jehan Plate (div.II); 1,000m: Daisy Cutter 1, Oh God 2, Aries 3. Prince Jehan Plate (div.I): 1,000m: Danc- ing Greens 1,Action Zone 2, Brave Beauty 3. Amber Royal Plate: 1,400m: Provocateur 1, Seville Star 2, Rising Passion 3. Bade Miya Trophy: 1,400m: Zante 1, Tarascon 2, Lord of Thunder 3. Victoria Falls Plate; 1,100m: Liquid Gold 1, Living Logic 2, Black Mamba 3. Gen Rajendra Singhji Trophy: 1,800m: Artois 1, Amazing Strides 2, One O One 3. Golfing Plate: 1,00m: Celerity 1, Seattle Swan 2, Silver N Gold 3. Ibiza Plate (div.I); 1,100m: 4.45pm: Staywith Me 1, Smokey Joe 2, Scarlet Sabre 3. Flying Hawk shines: Fly- ing Hawk shone well in the morning try-outs on Saturday. Outer-grass: 800m: Celine Dion (R Pravesh) and Alanis (Ramlal)- 50 secs: duo pleased. Flying Hawk (Rajinder) and John English (R Pravesh)- 51 secs: they were stretched out nicely, note. Sirgaa (Pramod)- 54 secs; moved quite well. Hong Kong Baby (Suresh)- 54 secs: easy.

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