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THE HINDU DELHI FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Nonviolence is the answer, says Pawar Violence is sponsored goondaism: Congress NCP chief says Central government has left representatives of Independent India disappointed ‘HRD and Home Ministers involved’ Alok Deshpande are not being protected.” Mumbai The NCP chief said there Special Correspondent since the attack and the Del Nationalist Congress Party are members of several sec New Delhi hi police have information Rajnath, Esper discuss West Asia situation (NCP) president Sharad Pa tions, including the minori The Congress on Thursday on who indulged in violence NEW DELHI war has called for opposing ties, who cannot tell where demanded the resignation and vandalism. There has In the backdrop of the recent the Central government’s they came from and where of Jawaharlal Nehru Univer been a very casual and irres developments in West Asia, dictatorial policies with Ma they would live. sity ViceChancellor M. Jaga ponsible approach. We de India on Thursday conveyed hatma Gandhi’s way of “They will be forced to desh Kumar and alleged that mand that those responsible its concerns to the U.S. at a nonviolence. live in camps. The govern the perpetrators of Sunday’s for the violence be arrested telephone conversation “What happened at Jawa ment has left representa violence had not been ar immediately,” he added. between Defence Minister harlal Nehru University tives of the Independent In rested as it was “sanc Mr. Ramesh said, “It is Rajnath Singh and his U.S. ( JNU) is being condemned dia and shareholders of the tioned” by Home Minister clear that as long as Mr. Jaga counterpart Mark T. Esper. across the country. The go country disappointed,” he Amit Shah and Human Re desh Kumar continues as “We expressed firm resolve vernment’s dictatorship said. source Development Minis the ViceChancellor, nor to strengthen the bilateral needs to be answered with ter Ramesh Pokhariyal. malcy won’t return to the defence cooperation. He also Gandhiji’s way of nonvio ‘The right path’ At a press conference campus.” briefed me about the recent lence,” Mr. Pawar said on The government needs to be here, senior leader Jairam “It is essential for the go developments in the Gulf Thursday, adding the vio shown the right path of Ramesh described the vio vernment to take his resig region. I shared India’s lence at JNU has hurt senti Gandhi’s nonviolent way, lence as “offi cially spon nation for peace to return. A concerns and interests,” Mr. ments of the students’ com which only can help save the sored goondaism”. “It few months ago, there was a Singh said on Twitter. munity. Constitution, Mr. Pawar didn’t not happen suddenly compromise [over a pro He was speaking after said. but was done at the behest posed fee hike] that was NPF suspends fl agging off the ‘Gandhi NCP chief Sharad Pawar fl agging off the ‘Gandhi Shanti Yatra’ undertaken by Yashwant Sinha at Mr. Sinha said, “We will of some people. We know worked out by the HRD Se Rajya Sabha member Shanti Yatra’ started by the Gateway of India on Thursday. Former CM Prithviraj Chavan is also seen. * EMMANUAL YOGINI protect the Constitution who these people are. I am cretary between the stu GUWAHATI former Union Finance Minis drafted by Ambedkarji. We making a direct allegation dents and the ViceChancel The Naga People’s Front ter Yashwant Sinha against teway of India. The pro antiNCP stand. vernment. “Some steps ta will not let the country be that the HRD Minister and lor. It is strange that the (NPF) has suspended Rajya the Citizenship Amendment gramme was attended by Mr. Pawar, referring to the ken by the Centre have given partitioned again. We will the Home Minister were in HRD Secretary was trans Sabha member K.G. Kenye Act (CAA), the National Re Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi antiCAA protests, said a big a jolt to the country’s unity. not let Gandhi be murdered volved. This was statespon ferred, while the ViceChan from the primary gister of Citizens (NRC), and (VBA) leader Prakash Am section of society is feeling Members of some sections again. We are all one and will sored goondaism,” he said. cellor continued in his membership, almost a month the JNU violence, at the Ga bedkar, who is known for his disappointed with the go of society feel their interests remain one.” “It has been 72 hours post,” he said. after he voted in favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The NPF is no longer a friend of the BJP in Nagaland, M.M. Joshi but is part of the BJPheaded Amid antiCAA protests, Was brutally thrashed by coalition government in wants VC Manipur. police, says Deepak Kabir removed SBI to sell electoral Assam announces more sops bonds from January 13 He spent 3 weeks in police custody in Lucknow Special Correspondent NEW DELHI They will benefi t children, teachers and health workers NEW DELHI The State Bank of India (SBI) SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT my hands and legs and beat BJP leader and former Hu has been authorised to sell Special Correspondent LUCKNOW me as much as they can.” man Resource Develop and encash electoral bonds, GUWAHATI Theatre actor and cultural Mr. Kabir said his ordeal ment Minister Murli Mano the 13th such sale since the Sops continue to rain in As activist Deepak Kabir on did not end there. After get har Joshi on Thursday scheme started in 2018, from sam amid the ongoing agita Thursday alleged that the ting a medical examination sought the removal of JNU January 13 to 22, a Finance tion against the Citizenship police not only brutally done at a local hospital, he ViceChancellor M. Jaga Ministry statement said on Thursday. The bonds will be (Amendment) Act. thrashed and abused him in was thrashed again on the desh Kumar for failing to sold through 29 authorised The BJPled government custody but also labelled orders of a senior police of implement the Ministry’s SBI branches and the parties of Chief Minister Sarbanan him an “urban naxal”. fi cer, he alleged. proposal to settle the fee can encash them through an da Sonowal on Thursday an Mr. Kabir, 44, was re Actor Deepak Kabir increase issue. account with the SBI. nounced a set of sops for leased from the Lucknow ‘Hit with baton’ “There are reports that children, teachers, health district jail after a court snatched his phone, threw This time, four policemen the Ministry had twice ad workers and the diff erently granted him bail in the case off his cap and dubbed him caught hold of him while a vised the ViceChancellor ‘We must retain strategic abled. This follows a one of violence in Lucknow dur a “mastermind” of the vio fi fth incessantly hit him with to implement certain rea heights of Siachen’ time grant for artistes and ing a protest against the Citi lence. “He said, ‘you are a a baton, he claimed. “They sonable and working for NEW DELHI technicians and land settle zenship (Amendment) Act krantikari [revolutionary], were told to hit me till they mula for resolving the issue India needs to retain control ment deeds for landless indi At the forefront: Singer Zubeen Garg, centre, and other (CAA) on December 19 last. right...,” Mr. Kabir recalled. got tired,” Mr. Kabir said. of enhanced fees... He was of the strategic heights of the genous people. artistes at a protest in Guwahati on Thursday. * RITU RAJ KONWAR He was arrested on Decem He said his submission “He [district police chief] also advised to reach out to Siachen Glacier as they are vital to the country’s Finance and Health Minis ber 20 when he reportedly that he had come to the pol said, beat them so much the teachers and students. defences in Ladakh, and ter Himanta Biswa Sarma similar course. The Hindus to those pursuing gradua went to the Hazratganj pol ice station to look for his that they can’t sit for It is shocking that the Vice Jammu and Kashmir, Army said a onetime fi nancial as tan Paper Corporation Li tion in colleges or diploma ice station to inquire about friends fell on deaf ears. Fol months and make sure there Chancellor was adamant in chief General Manoj Naravane sistance of ₹ 1 lakh each mited used to run these in polytechnics, ₹ 25,000 to the whereabouts of his acti lowing this, 1215 policemen is a 1.5 2 inch swelling [on not implementing the pro said on Thursday. Gen. would be given to the wards mills. those studying in Standard vist friends who were escorted him to a hall and their buttocks],” he said. posal. This attitude is de Naravane made these remarks of 700 employees of two “Likewise, ₹ 75,000 each XI and XII and ₹ 10,000 to picked up following the took turns to beat him up The policemen also tried plorable and... such a Vice on his maiden visit to the dead paper mills, who are would be given to those pur those studying from nursery protests. and he was kicked for at to undress him to thrash Chancellor should not be glacier after assuming charge pursuing studies in medical suing postgraduate studies to Class 10,” he told He told The Hindu that least 10 minutes, he alleged. him but could not after he allowed to continue,” he as the Chief of the Army Staff. or engineering colleges, or a or doing Ph.D, ₹ 50,000 each journalists. the Hazratganj SHO fi rst “The SHO told them to tie resisted, he alleged. wrote on Twitter. 250 international academics 106 exoffi cials demand demand JNU VC’s resignation repeal of CAA
‘Campus violence violated every norm of democracy’ Special Correspondent NEW DELHI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Brazil, Portugal and New cally motivated mob was al As many as 106 former top NEW DELHI Zealand. lowed to enter the campus”, offi cials on Thursday ex Over 250 senior academics They include the former violated every norm of de pressed “grave reserva and university administra Archbishop of Canterbury mocracy. It violated the tions” about the validity of tors from various countries and current Master of Mag norms of academic freedom, the Citizenship (Amend have called for the imme dalen College, Cambridge, of the protection of universi ment) Act, and said there diate resignation of Jawahar Dr. Rowan Williams; presi ties from arbitrary state was no need for it, the NPR lal Nehru University Vice dent of the American An power and of the duty of un and the NRIC. Chancellor M. Jagadesh Ku thropological Association, iversity administrators to In a letter to fellow citi mar over the January 5 Professor Akhil Gupta; presi protect their students and zens, they demanded the violence on the campus. dent, Association for Asian faculty, they said. repeal of sections of the The signatories are from Studies, U.S., Prof. Prasenjit As for the failure to call in Act pertaining to the issue universities in the U.S., Ca Duara; and professors Dame the police “as well as the un of national identity cards nada, the U.K., Germany, Caroline Humphries and Sir iversity authorities’ crimina and the Citizenship Rules, Norway, France, Italy, Den Christopher Clark, lising of peaceful student 2003. The signatories in mark, Australia, South Afri Cambridge. protest”, they said the JNU clude Shivshankar Menon, ca, Ireland, Chile, Mexico, The signatories said the administration, and espe Najeeb Jung, K.M. Chan Argentina, Taiwan, Greece, incident, “which took place cially the ViceChancellor, drasekhar and Wajahat Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, when an armed and politi had lost all credibility. Habibullah. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE Iran plane crash: Ukraine to British royals feel hurt by the probe possible missile strike way Harry and Meghan quit No consultation before stepping back from their senior role ‘A terrorist act, a drone collision and an engine blast are the other possibilities’ Lebanon issues travel Reuters ban for Carlos Ghosn Anton Troianovski LONDON BEIRUT KIeV Britain’s royal family is hurt Lebanese prosecutors issued and disappointed by Prince a travel ban for fugitive Investigators will look into Harry and his wife Meghan exNissan chief Carlos Ghosn the possibility that a missile and asked him to hand in his shot down the Ukrainian Markle’s surprise announce French passport on Thursday, passenger jet that crashed in ment that they will step back following an Interpolissued Iran, a senior Ukrainian offi from their senior roles and red notice against him. The cial said on Thursday, but he spend more time in North ban comes after Mr. Ghosn did not rule out a range of America, a royal source said. was interrogated by other possibilities for the dis Prince Harry and Ms. Mar prosecutors about the aster that killed at least 176 kle’s decision to step away charges he faces in Japan people. from royal duties sent shock over financial misconduct. AP The offi cial, Oleksiy Dani waves through the royal fa mily as neither Queen Eliza Part-time royals: A fi le photo of Prince Harry and wife Meghan Five left-wing Ministers lov, Secretary of the National beth nor Prince Charles, Markle in west London. * AFP to serve in Spain govt. Security and Defense Coun heir to the British throne, MADRID cil of Ukraine, said investiga Spain’s new coalition tors were following up on had been consulted on the commented on the decision. who gave up the throne in government says that it will unconfi rmed reports that announcement, made on British tabloids said the an 1936 to marry American di include five members from fragments of a Russianmade Instagram. nouncement had left senior vorcee Wallis Simpson and the leftwing, antiausterity Tor surfacetoair missile — a The Queen, who has de royals such as Prince Charles lived out his life in France. United We Can party. The system used by Iran — had Heavy loss: Relatives of the crew members of the Ukrainian plane that crashed in Iran mourn at voted her life to the public and Harry’s brother, Prince
Socialist Party of PM Pedro been found near where the a memorial service at the Boryspil International airport outside Kiev on Thursday.* REUTERS duty of monarchy since she William, incandescent with Use of public money Sánchez has partnered with plane came down. became queen in 1952, and rage. The Queen and senior Opponents of the monarchy United We Can to give Spain Ukraine was negotiating other senior members of the royals have called on aides were scathing and even sup its first coalition government with Iran to allow the investi family felt hurt and disap to fi nd a “workable solution” porters questioned how one since the restoration of gators to search the crash ‘Iran may have downed plane’ pointed by the move, a royal to the future of Prince Harry could be a parttime royal. democracy in 1978. AP site near Tehran for possible source said. “We have cho and his wife in the royal fa “This really is wanting to rocket fragments, he told sen to make a transition this mily within “days, not have your cake and eat it,” 18 UN troops, 2 civilians Reuters bound for Kiev was airborne Washington believed the year in starting to carve out weeks”, U.K. media report said Graham Smith, head of Censor.net, a Ukrainian WASHINGTON injured in Mali attack news outlet. for two minutes after downing of the plane, which a progressive new role with ed on Thursday. Republic which wants to BAMAKO The possibilities of a ter The Ukraine airliner that departing Tehran when the occurred at a time of rising in this institution,” the royal abolish the monarchy. Eighteen UN troops and two rorist act, a collision with an crashed in Iran was most heat signatures of two tensions between Iran and couple said in their state ‘Queen is furious’ “They have said they will civilians were wounded on airborne object such as a likely brought down surfacetoair missiles were the U.S., was accidental. ment. “We intend to step “MEGXIT” read The Sun’s dip in and out of royal duties Thursday in a mortar attack drone, and an engine explo accidentally by Iranian detected. That was quickly U.S. President Donald back as senior members of front page headline. The as it suits them but won’t on a military base in northern antiaircraft missiles, U.S. followed by an explosion in Trump said the deadly crash the Royal Family, and work Daily Mail said Queen Eliza stop taking public money Mali, a UN official said, in sion were also being exa offi cials said on Thursday. the vicinity of the plane, the could have been a mistake. to become fi nancially beth was furious about the until they fi nd other sources fresh violence in the wartorn mined as potential causes of the crash, Mr. Danilov said According to satellite offi cial said. Heat signature Iran ruled out a missile independent.” move. While the manner in of income.” West African country. Mali has data, one U.S. offi cial said, data then showed the plane strike as the cause of crash, been struggling to contain an on his Facebook page. which they have tried to exit Ms. Markle, known for the Ukrainian International on fi re as it went down. saying such a scenario made Islamist insurgency that Ukraine brings unique ex Transatlantic stay the spotlight cast on the her role in the TV drama Airlines Boeing 737800 Two U.S. offi cials said “no sense”. erupted in the north in 2012, perience to bear on the case: They said the decision was world’s most famous family Suits, could return to acting and which has claimed In 2014, after Russian DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD taken after months of refl ec drew criticism, Prince Char in the U.S. though it is un thousands of military and backed separatists took con tion and discussion, and that les has long sought a slim clear how that would be civilian lives since. AFP trol of parts of eastern Uk itial Iranian report released storm of burning debris in contrary to usual practice, they would split their time mer and leaner royal family. viewed by the Palace. “Per raine, an antiaircraft missile on Thursday. It said that the the foreground. the black boxes would not be between the United King The haste of their deci haps she’d have to be careful U.S. strike kills Taliban that international investiga plane, a Boeing 737800 The plane’s “black box” sent to Boeing or the U.S. dom and North America to sion, though, raises ques about what roles she’d do splinter group leader tors later said was Russian bound for Kiev , was in fl ight data recorders were The priority “is to fi nd out allow their family the space tions for a family which had because she is a member of HERAT it needs. in Queen Elizabeth’s words a the royal family, so she U.S. airstrike killed a Taliban made, shot down Malaysia fl ames before it hit the damaged by the fi re, the Ira the causes of the tragedy,” Cast by the couple as an “quite bumpy” year that in couldn’t do too many racy splintergroup commander Airlines Flight 17 there, kill ground but did not send a nian report said. That raised President Volodymyr Zelen and several other fighters in ing all 298 people aboard. distress signal. the possibility that some of skiy of Ukraine said. exciting next step, it was not cluded her son Prince An sex scenes for instance,” said the western Afghan province The Ukrainian airliner the information stored in A team of 45 Ukrainian in immediately clear how the drew’s decision to step royal biographer Penny Ju of Herat, sources said on that went down on Wednes Damaged black box them had been destroyed, vestigators landed in Tehran couple will become what down due to his relationship nor. Thursday. Mullah Nangyalay day morning had turned A security camera captured but in other aviation disas on Thursday. Mr. Zelenskiy royal biographers said was with disgraced U.S. fi nancier Prince Harry and Ms. Mar split from the main branch of back toward the Tehran air the impact — fi rst the pre ters, investigators have been urged Canada — which lost akin to being a “half royal” — Jeff rey Epstein. kle, an American divorcee, the Taliban after the 2013 port before it crashed in a dawn darkness, then a series able to retrieve data even 63 of its citizens in the crash and who will pay for their Royal commentators met on a blind date but fell death of founder Mullah huge explosion minutes after of blinding bursts of light in from damaged recorders. — to participate in the inves transatlantic lifestyles. drew parallels with the abdi in love in Botswana and mar Omar. AFP takeoff , according to an in the distance, followed by a However, Iran has said that, tigation. NY TIMES No senior royal has yet cation crisis of Edward VIII ried in May 2018. EU Council chief defends Iran MPs approve Brexit Bill, Trump ‘statue of liberty’ deal after Trump call to quit it U.K. set for Jan. 31 exit It will now go to the House of Lords burned in Slovenian town Council President says EU has its own interests and vision Associated Press ter three days of debate that The wooden structure was built to criticise populist politics London brought none of the frayed Agence France-Presse Britain, France and Germa Britain passed a major mil tempers, latenight sessions Agence France-Presse Brussels ny — have led eff orts to save estone on the road to Brexit and knifeedge votes that Ljubljana The President of the Euro the deal, which has been when the House of Com marked previous rounds of Suspected vandals on Thurs pean Council, Charles Mi crumbling since Mr. Trump mons on Thursday ap Brexit wrangling over the day burned a wooden statue chel, defended the crum pulled out in 2018 and reim proved a Bill authorising the past year. of U.S. President Donald bling Iran nuclear deal on posed sanctions, and Mr. Mi country’s departure from After passing through Trump built last year by a Thursday after U.S. Presi chel insisted that it re the European Union at the Parliament’s unelected group of villagers to criticise dent Donald Trump urged mained vital. end of the month. House of Lords — which can populist politics, local auth Europe to quit it, but “The JCPOA agreement Lawmakers voted by 330 delay but not overturn the orities said. warned Tehran against “irre was an important achieve 231 to pass the Withdrawal result in the Commons — the The statue of Mr. Trump, versible acts” that would ment after 10 years of nego Agreement Bill, which sets Bill should become law in complete with his trade sink the accord. Charles Michel tiations and remains an im the terms of Britain’s depar time for the U.K. to leave the mark mane, blue suit, white The President of the Euro portant tool for regional ture from the 28nation EU on the scheduled date of shirt and red tie was built pean Council used a call top Generals. stability,” Mr. Michel’s offi ce bloc. The comfortable ma January 31 and become the last August. The statue was with Iran’s President Hassan On Wednesday, Mr. said in its readout of his call jority won by Prime Minis fi rst nation to quit the bloc. moved in December to Mo Rouhani to call for a deesca Trump calmed fears of all with Mr. Rouhani, adding ter Boris Johnson’s Conser Brexit Secretary Stephen ravce, where vandals dam lation of tensions after Teh out war, but demanded that that Mr. Michel had insisted vatives in an election last Barclay said he welcomed aged it by drawing a mous ran carried out missile other parties to the 2015 Iran that “the EU has its own in month secured the Bill’s the “constructive scrutiny” tache on its face in a clear strikes on U.S. military bases nuclear deal follow his lead terests and its vision” — im passage despite the opposi of the Lords but hoped the reference to Hitler. On in Iraq in retaliation for the and withdraw from the pact. plicitly distancing EU capi tion of smaller parties. Upper House would not try Thursday, unidentifi ed van The wooden sculpture resembling U.S. President Trump on assassination of one of its The European parties — tals from Washington. The Bill was approved af to delay the Bill. dals set the statue on fi re. fi re in Moravce, Slovenia, on Thursday. * AP
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13 Game not hard, may be kind of 5 Cap before pouring into empty The Tiruppavai celebrates the glory of the Supreme Lord as taxing (4) bucket (5) much as that of a true devotee. Its emphasis is on the eternal 15 A point on line is criminal quality of the relationship between them which, when inter 6 Military moves like bird on conversation (8) nalised by the latter, equips him with absolute humility , fl ight (5,4) pointed out Sri Rajahamsam Swami in a discourse. The Go 18 Check if able to get inside pis in Ayarpadi are all soaked in thoughts of Krishn a. They bottle (8) 7 Bloodsuckers pierce from top to bottom (5) never tire of recalling His feats and His master plans b y 19 Crown paste? (4) which He outwits Kamsa’s wily attempts to murder Him. Andal shows that along with this devotion, it is important 22 Duplicating a hit (5) 8 End of photography — winding slide returns (6) to realise that no one is infallible and that all are liable to 24 The entire workforce has to faults. So, in one verse, when one Gopi accepts that she is at return by end of August to get 14 Endless mirth leads to fault, and accepts this truth graciously and honestly, it gen a share (9) massacre (9) erates the ennobling trait of humility. When one is humble, 26 Harry enraged at the dog (5,4) one fi nds that shortcomings and failures are inherent in hu 16 Extremely difficult to control man nature and one does not succumb to the sense of ego unit, rules are broken (9) 27 Cowboys did it, only to follow and pride. The true devotee knows his limitations and is also the game (5) 17 Spooner’s issue with a horny aware that this bhakti bhava in him is owing to the compas 28 Regret over some writing, one in port (9) sion of the Lord. In his inner self he is honest about it. One who is endowed with the bhava of humility is indeed t he perhaps (7) Solution to puzzle 12828 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku 20 Harry offers token resistance most fortunate person. For in him devotion and virtu e can 29 Bar public transport, Arden’s ■ ACROSS (6) grow and thrive. left (7) 1 Odd/even accepted by iron lady One who lacks humility loses all and is lost in the cycle of 21 Idle time in school calender (7) birth. In this context, Bharata exemplifi es the virtue of abso ■ DOWN (6) 5 Huge effort to suppress — lute humility that is rooted in his faultless integrity. When nothing but intolerance (7) 1 As simple as every hidden Rama is exiled and Dasaratha dies, he is driven to a situation 23 Multipurpose use, support 9 Follow writers, as outstanding delight (6) when though guiltless, he faces blame and censure from all. with guts (5) leaders leave (5) But such is his mental maturity that springs from his sponta 2 Golfer’s curse heard in another 10 Mind getting feel of the neous love for Rama that he deals with this plight w ith tre place (9) 24 A day time motto... (5) architectural design? (9) mendous dignity. He invokes on himself all kinds of punish 11 Seed covering in part of 3 Irrigation — measures taken by 25 Water rationing — gained ment if he is guilty. But fi nally instead of blaming others, he Chennai (9) American (5) some ground (5) blames himself for all this.
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Bharti Airtel ...... 460.10...... 1.25 closing a cumulative default them would already be un defaulters for the benefi t of CG Power, has said that only dered, the Mumbai NCLT BPCL...... 470.55...... 10.65 amount of almost ₹ 75,000 der various stages either in the investor community. a probe by a government bench said on Thursday, Britannia Ind ...... 3001.10...... -22.50 crore as on December 31. IBC or NCLT,” said Arun Kej “Default is a pricesensi body would be considered while posting the matter for Cipla ...... 470.10...... 5.35
Coal India ...... 198.00...... -2.20 More importantly, there riwal of Kejriwal Research & tive information and what by the tribunal while decid January 23. Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2920.50...... 23.25 are nine companies that Investment Services. has been disclosed is not ing on the matter that stems The capital markets regu Eicher Motors...... 20328.90. .... 436.70 have defaulted on loans “Going forward, when some temporary default and from alleged siphoning of lator, however, has also or GAIL (India)...... 123.70...... -0.20 worth more than ₹ 1,000 this list appears every quar hence, investors need to be funds by the company’s dered a forensic audit — Grasim Ind ...... 757.30...... 14.65
HCL Tech...... 580.30...... -5.45 crore each even as bulk of ter, it would be interesting to informed so that they can former chairman Gautam which will qualify as inde HDFC ...... 2457.40...... 51.25 the overall default amount observe any new entrants take better informed deci Thapar. pendent — to verify allega HDFC Bank...... 1271.40...... 14.10 pertains to companies be on December 31, 2019. redeemable preference during the quarter, which sion in terms of investing,” This assumes signifi cance tions of manipulation and Hero MotoCorp ...... 2354.55...... 37.00
Hindalco ...... 210.75...... 3.35 longing to the Anil Ambani Within the group, Re shares (NCRPS). should raise the alarm bells.” said J. N. Gupta, founder, Sta since the allegations against misrepresentation in the Hind Unilever ...... 1935.05...... 5.70 Group. liance Communications ac he added. In November keholder Empowerment Ser Mr. Thapar and a few senior books of accounts of the ICICI Bank ...... 546.30...... 20.35 As per stock exchange dis counts for a chunk of the Other names 2019, the capital market reg vices, a proxy advisory fi rm. offi cials of the company — company. IndusInd Bank ...... 1507.65...... 49.05
Bharti Infratel ...... 250.60...... 14.30 closures, Anil Ambani Group portion at ₹ 32,575 crore. Apart from these entities, ulator mandated companies “However, since this infor who were barred from ac Interestingly, the appeal Infosys ...... 727.55...... 9.35 companies such as Reliance The default amount in wellknown names like Su to disclose any default in the mation will be disseminated cessing the securities mar at the NCLT for restatement Indian OilCorp...... 124.50...... 2.65 Communications, Reliance cludes both loans from zlon Energy, Jaypee Infra case of loans from banks and after every quarter, exchang ket by the Securities and Ex of accounts has been fi led ITC ...... 235.80...... 1.60
JSW Steel...... 278.10...... 15.60 Naval & Engineering, Re banks and fi nancial institu tech, Ansal Housing, Aban fi nancial institutions whe es should compile a list and change Board of India in by the government even Kotak Bank ...... 1665.05...... 10.20 liance Infrastructure and Re tions along with unlisted Off shore, ISMT, Religare En rein the default continued present a consolidated re September 2019 — are based though the dispute is bet L&T...... 1316.15...... 24.60 liance Power have defaulted debt securities such as non terprises, Bedmutha Indus beyond 30 days. port of all defaulters on their on the report prepared by ween a listed entity and its M&M ...... 541.25...... 16.60 on loans totalling a little convertible debentures tries, Hindustan Construc Further, such disclosures website for all investors to law fi rm Vaish Associates former chairman and senior Maruti Suzuki ...... 7227.90. .... 192.70
Nestle India Ltd...... 14643.45. .... 252.20 more than ₹ 43,800 crore as (NCDs) and non convertible tion and Bombay Rayon have to be made within se access,” added Mr. Gupta. that was mandated by the offi cials.
NTPC ...... 119.35...... -0.60
ONGC ...... 123.70...... 0.25
PowerGrid Corp ...... 192.95...... 2.40
Reliance Ind ...... 1548.00...... 34.85 State Bank ...... 330.20...... 10.40 IRDAI slaps ₹ 1 cr. penalty Stocks, ₹ on a Sun Pharma ...... 439.85...... -0.25 Banks plan to sell DHFL’s assets in three lots Tata Motors ...... 192.00...... 9.45 roll as U.S., Iran Tata Steel ...... 483.15...... 7.90 TCS ...... 2214.35...... -40.90 on Cholamandalam MS Loans to homebuyers, fi rms and those for slum rehabilitation projects to be split Tech Mahindra ...... 773.65...... 3.85 tensions ease Titan ...... 1163.45...... 20.15 MANOJIT SAHA creditors (CoC) will take a UltraTech Cement...... 4388.00...... 69.05 Insurer violated governance norms Slum rehabilitation Mumbai <> UPL...... 604.55...... 3.70 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT project loans may call on whether to sell the as Vedanta ...... 158.15...... 0.80 Special Correspondent supply and risk assessment Mumbai Lenders to the troubled sets in three lots,” said a se Wipro ...... 253.65...... -1.15 see huge haircuts HYDERABAD services. Easing of tensions between mortgage fi nancier Dewan nior offi cial from a public YES Bank...... 47.30...... 1.25 while retail loans are Zee Entertainment ...... 272.05...... 7.60 IRDAI has imposed a penal In the order, the Insu the United States and Iran Housing Finance Corpora likely to get good sector bank. ty of ₹ 1 crore on Cholaman rance Regulatory and Deve lifted the mood in the cur tion Ltd. (DHFL) are plan If CoC approves the plan, value dalam MS General Insu lopment Authority of India rency market with the ru ning to sell the assets in three separate expressions EXCHANGE RATES rance Company (Chola MS) said three of the payments — pee appreciating 0.67% three parts for which sepa of interest will be fl oated for holding that the fi rm had ₹ 22.98 crore to Ashok Ley against the dollar on rate bids will be invited. “Someone may be inter sale of the assets. Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m. on January 09 violated certain provisions land; ₹ 9.39 crore to Chola Thursday. In a recent interaction ested in retail loans and After DHFL started to de CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL of corporate governance MS Risk Services and ₹ 40.96 The rupee opened with the Reserve Bank of In some other bidder, in deve fault on banks loans, the US Dollar...... 71.01...... 71.33 guidelines for insurers. crore to DHFL Sales and Ser stronger at 71.44 to a dollar dia (RBI)appointed adminis loper loans,” said the chief RBI, on November 20, super Euro ...... 78.93...... 79.29 The trigger for the action vices — raise concerns on compared with the pre trators of DHFL, bankers executive of a bank on the seded the board of DHFL British Pound...... 92.59...... 93.01 Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 64.94...... 65.23 was an analysis of 201617 fi whether they were genuine vious day’s close of 71.70. It suggested that the assets projects. DHFL’s total loan proposal to sell loans in and appointed an adminis Chinese Yuan ...... 10.24...... 10.29 nancial statements and business transactions. closed the day at 71.21 a should be sold in three lots — portfolio is in the order of three parts. trator. Subsequently, the Swiss Franc ...... 73.00...... 73.33
Singapore Dollar ...... 52.53...... 52.78 specifi cally, advance pay On the ₹ 42.47 crore paid dollar, strengthening by 49 retail home loans, nonretail ₹ 85,000 crore and the bor “This is the best possible banking regulator fi led an Canadian Dollar...... 54.40...... 54.67 ments of about ₹ 115 crore to Chola Insurance Distribu paise. The rupee was also loans and slum rehabilita rowings are almost similar. solution,” the person said. application for initiation of Malaysian Ringitt ...... 17.36...... 17.44 made by the insurer to four tion Services Pvt. Ltd. supported by buoyancy in tion project loans. Bankers said they expect The RBI had initiated the corporate insolvency resolu Source:Indian Bank entities who, IRDAI said, (CIDSPL) for branding ser equity markets with the Typically housing fi nance good value for the sale of re process of resolution of tion process against the were corporate agents, re vices, IRDAI observed that benchmark indices rising companies extend retail tail loans that comprises 40 DHFL under the Insolvency mortgage fi nancier on No lated parties and auto origi CIDSPL was a group compa by over 1.5%. The BSE Sen loans (loans to individual 45% of the loan book. and Bankruptcy Code and vember 29, 2019. BULLION RATES CHENNAI nal equipment manufactur ny of the insurer and also a sex rose 634.61 points, or home buyers) and nonretail Chances of a signifi cant the case had been admitted Banks’ exposure to the January 09 rates in rupees with pre- ers (OEM). corporate agent. 1.55% to 41,452.35, while loans (which are loans to haircut will arise from loans in the Mumbai bench of the troubled mortgage fi nancier vious rates in parentheses Chola MS said that the ad Chola MS had not submit NSE Nifty surged 190.55 companies and developers). extended for construction of National Company Law Tri is almost ₹ 40,000 crore Retail Silver (1g) ...... 50.4...... (52.1) vances were paid towards ted the entity’s memoran points, or 1.58%, to DHFL has also extended slum rehabilitation projects, bunal (NCLT). while DHFL’s total debt is 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 3805...... (3897) advertisements, manpower dum/articles of association. 12,215.90. loans for slum rehabilitation bankers said. “Now, the committee of about ₹ 80,000 crore. IN BRIEF Tata Motors sees demand recovery in FY21 ‘Allow exit for Sterling Economy can bounce back, Automaker geared up for BSVI rollout with new product off erings and Wilson investors’ says PM Modi Special Correspondent ger and electric vehicles, to Use of funds not as per prospectus MUMBAI enable the ‘extended digital Special Correspondent Tata Motors has announced ecosystem’ of its customers. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT change of objects of the IPO NEW DELHI plans to introduce an allnew The electric vehicles MUMBAI from what was stated in the Prime Minister Narendra BSVI range of products with would support the govern Proxy advisory fi rm InGov prospectus. This has result Modi on Thursday said the RBI allows videobased passenger vehicles starting ment’s evision of promoting ern has said that the capital ed in aggrieved minority pu Indian economy had the customer identifi cation from January 2020. a clean and green India, he market regulator should blic shareholders. SEBI capacity to bounce back MUMBAI A grand showcase com said. force Sterling and Wilson (ICDR) Regulations, 2018 al due to strong fundamen The Reserve Bank of India prising four global unveil To leverage the shared Solar, which listed on the low for the dissenting share tals and called upon eve (RBI) has decided to permit ings, and 14 commercial and mobility ecosystem, Tata bourses in August 2019, to holders to be provided an ryone to work together and videobased Customer 12 passenger vehicle displays Motors would be providing give an exit option to its in exit off er by the promoters, ‘start to think like a nation’. Identification Process will made at the upcoming ‘innovative solutions’ in peo vestors for allegedly using in cases where there is a Mr. Modi was speaking (VCIP) as a consentbased Auto Expo 2020, at Greater ple and goods transport. the public issue proceeds in change in objects of the is at a meeting with various alternate method of establishing the customer’s Noida. In addition to product a manner that was not stat sue/ off er in the IPO pros senior economists, venture identity, for customer The company, which en showcases, the Tata Motors ed in the prospectus. pectus,” stated the InGov capitalists and business onboarding. For video tered its 75th year in 2020, pavilion at Auto Expo 2020 According to InGovern, ern report. leaders, ahead of the Un based customer said it was building a sustain Stepping on the gas: The carmaker had hired 500 engineers had been conceptualised while the objective of the is The company, however, ion Budget 202021. authentication, PAN able future by providing as for the BSVI transition and invested ₹ 1,200 cr. in FY19. * AP and designed to provide visi sue was to enable the pro has denied making any mis Home Minister Amit number and Aadhaar pirational and innovative tors an interactive expe moters — belonging to the leading statements in its Shah, Highways Minister number will be mandatory. mobility solutions for a Con duct off ering at the forth engineers for this transition rience. As part of its sustain Shapoorji Pallonji Group — prospectus. Nitin Gadkari, Railways nected India. coming Auto Expo. We are and invested ₹ 1,200 crore in ability mission, the company repay loans amounting to “The report contains fac and Commerce Minister Pi Tiger Global invests focussing on Connected, FY19. He said the company has also taken steps such as ₹ 2,563 crore taken from the tually incorrect, misleading yush Goyal and Agriculture $200 million in Byju’s Second half, next fi scal Electric, Shared and Safe upgraded over 20 engine going paperless and increas company, only ₹ 1,000 crore and unverifi ed statements. Minister Narendra Tomar NEW DELHI Stating that the demand for mobility.” platforms and had come out ing the green cover at the had been paid till December The author of the report has were present at the meet Edtech major Byju’s on automobiles would start in He said the company was with 100 lead vehicles with pavilion. 31, 2019. acted irresponsibly as he ing along with secretaries Thursday said it has raised creasing from the second geared up for the BSVI roll 1,000 variant upgrades. Keeping the growing start The initial public off er has neither found it appro from various Ministries, Ni an undisclosed amount of half of the next fi nancial out and 3,500 engineers had Tata Motors is building a up culture in mind, Tata Mo (IPO) was an off er for sale by priate to ascertain the facts ti Aayog ViceChairman Ra funding from Tiger Global year, Guenter Butschek, CEO worked on this project and common Connected Vehicle tors would use this platform the promoters who got nor provide us with a draft jiv Kumar and CEO Ami Management. While Byju’s and MD, Tata Motors said, come out with new indige Architecture, which will to also crowdsource and en ₹ 2,850 crore through the of the report for our res tabh Kant. Finance did not disclose the “We are ready to roll and we nous products. The compa serve the entire portfolio gage with the startup com off ering. ponse,” said the company in Minister Nirmala Sithara quantum of investment, will showcase a strong pro ny hired an additional 500 across commercial, passen munities, he added. “This is tantamount to a statement. man was not present. sources said Tiger had pumped in $200 million into the company. “We are happy to partner with a strong investor like Tiger Ashok Leyland, ABB arm Mahindra to unveil eKUV in Q1 2020 RInfra gets nod to sell Global Management. This partnership will advance our longterm vision of ink pact on electric buses Working with States, operators to make emobility viable: MD DelhiAgra road project creating an impact by Special Correspondent changing the way students Quickcharging TOSA to power vehicles NEW DELHI Deal with CUBE III valued at ₹ 3,600 cr. learn,” Byju’s founderCEO Byju Raveendran said. PTI Special Correspondent fecting passenger capacity Mahindra & Mahindra plans Special Correspondent pany for the equity part. CHENNAI or the journey time, said to introduce the electric ver MUMBAI The deal, to be to closed Commercial sector Commercial vehicle manu ABB Power Products and sion of its mini SUV — Reliance Infrastructure has by the end of this month, is credit supply slows facturer Ashok Leyland and Systems India Ltd. (ABB KUV100 — in the AprilJune received inprinciple appro likely to make the Reliance MUMBAI ABB Power Products and Power Grids’ business in In 2020 quarter, with a likely val from the National High Infrastructure account regu Amid a slowdown in Systems India Ltd. have en dia) in a statement. price tag of less than ₹ 9 lakh, ways Authority of India lar for lenders as the fi rm economic activity, state tered into a memorandum When connected to a senior company offi cial (NHAI) to sell the 180km had defaulted on a payment owned Sidbi on Thursday of understanding (MoU) to charging infrastructure, the said on Thursday. sixlane DelhiAgra (DA) Toll of ₹ 1,050 crore. said credit supply growth develop electric buses using batteries can be charged “We have the eKUV that Road Project to Cube High According to the compa to the commercial sector the latter’s fl ash charge tech with a 600kilowatt power will come up in the fi rst ways and Infrastructure III ny, the entire proceeds from had slowed to a multiyear nology ‘TOSA.’ boost in 15 seconds. An ad quarter of next year... we are Pricey possession: We are focussed on how to make the Pte. Ltd. (CUBE III) for an the deal will be used by Re low of 8.1% for the 12 According to ABB Power ditional few minutes of focussed on how to make it eKUV aff ordable, says Mr. Goenka. * PAUL NORONHA enterprise value (EV) of liance Infrastructure to pay months ended September Products, TOSA (Trolleybus charge at the fi nal terminal aff ordable and pricing it at ₹ 3,600 crore. lenders and reduce the debt 2019. The data, put together in association with Optimisation Systeme Ali would result in full recharge less than ₹ 9 lakh,” Mahindra ty viable. The company, next current fi nancial year. CUBE III, which is owned of the company. credit information company mentation) is the fastest without interrupting the & Mahindra managing direc which has electric vehicle And that would probably ful by a Singaporebased global Meanwhile, IDBI Trustee TransUnion Cibil, comes at fl ashcharging connection bus schedule. tor Pawan Goenka said. models such as eVerito and ly redefi ne lastmile connec infrastructure fund, I ship Services on Thursday a time when economic technology that does the TOSA can prevent 1,000 He added that the compa e2O in its portfolio, has till tivity,” Mr. Goenka said. Squared Capital, and a invoked pledge of 55 lakh growth for the country is topping (charging) in se tons of carbon dioxide emis ny was also focussing on now sold about 30,000 such M&M said that about wholly owned subsidiary of equity of Reliance Infras estimated to slow to a conds even as passengers sion on a line covering six shared mobility in line with vehicles. “We have the Atom 1,000 Mahindra evehicles the Abu Dhabi Investment tructure, representing decadal low of 5% for get on and off the buses. Be lakh km per year. It also off the government policy, and [quadricycle], which was are part of Lithium Urban Authority, will acquire 2.09% of the company’s 201920 and overall credit sides, it reduces the envi ers operating cost savings of was working with State go displayed in the last Auto Ex Technologies’ fl eet, a zero ₹ 1,900 crore debt of Re share capital, according to a growth has slipped to 7.1% ronmental pollution of the 30% compared to an equiva vernments and fl eet opera po.... it will be launched per emission employee tran liance Infrastructure and regulatory fi ling. for 2019. pti transit systems without af lent diesel transit system. tors to make electric mobili haps in the third quarter of sportation service provider. pay ₹ 1,700 crore to the com (With PTI inputs)
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who were chosen as volunteers for PEOPLE SEA TRUTHS the search for South Australia’s ol An indepth look Maritime archaeology is a dest shipwreck. It was a privilege to Madhumathy conducts discipline within archaeology work with the team which consist A leaf from the rough book research on historical that specifi cally studies human ed of some veteran maritime ar shipwrecks interaction with the sea, lakes chaeologists and divers. Shamji Vishram, a National award winning weaver, tells * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT and rivers through the study of Initially, it was diffi cult to fi nd us his story of making desi wool fashionable and of his associated physical remains, be the shipwreck because of bad they vessels, shoreside weather conditions. But luckily, on workshop in Delhi facilities, portrelated the fi fth day, one of the team mem structures, cargoes, human bers encountered a hard metal ob remains or submerged ject which when brought to the sur landscapes. face, turned out to be a copper bolt Madhumathy is currently a that was used to attach wooden Master Scuba Diving Instructor. planks together for the ship. It was hard work and we were diving in She was awarded the Elite cold water with strong currents. It Instructor award by PADI was one of the most rewarding ex (Professional Association of periences I have ever had. Diving Instructors) in 2017. She is the fi rst recipient of the What are your future plans ? MaP fund, Australia, which is ● My goal is to pursue MARCH in In F dedicated to the advancement dia. I want to focus my research O of maritime and underwater here because there is so much to be archaeology and the protection explored in this country. Since I am and investigation of also a scuba instructor, I would like THE underwater cultural heritage in to reach out to archaeologists in In Pirate the Asia and Pacifi c regions, in dian universities and get them to particular in Australia and the train in scuba diving, which would ASEAN countries. enable them to do archaeological She has done Maritime projects underwater. archaeology fi eld work in Sri On Republic Day 2001, when Shamji Vishram and his Lanka, Australia and Vietnam Tell us about your love for community of weavers were preparing to celebrate with and an internship at the Naval scuba diving. song and dance, an earthquake struck, destroying Bhujodi PACIFIC History and Heritage ● village in Bhuj, Gujarat. With it, his home and loom I fi rst came to know about it from disappeared, as did that of his neighbours; he was Command, Washington D.C.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA S. B. Aravind, who started Temple Adventures, a dive centre in Pudu shattered. “Two hundred and fifty looms existed before the From investigating shipwrecks to swimming alongside gigantic turtles, cherry. Right from my fi rst dive, I quake. After the devastation, only 70 survived,” says realised that this was something I Shamji. Weaving, once a flourishing way of life, almost Madhumathy Chandrasekaran, a maritime archaeologist from India, came to a standstill. wanted to do for the rest of my life. narrates her underwater experiences I went on to complete my fi rst pro It pushed those who remained in the trade to begin fessional diving course, Divemas using synthetic wool to bring down the cost of their Reji Varghese I started taking swimming lessons What exactly is maritime ter, in 2014 when I was 19. In 2015, I products. Shamji worked hard at changing this, after travelling across Kutch to identify traditional products and when I was very young and my pa archaeology? got a job in the Cook Islands, near their uses. New products were recreated for urban centres. When Madhumathy Chandraseka rents always told me how diffi cult it ● Maritime archaeology or Fiji, where I also did my instructor In 2005 he received the National Award from then ran fi rst started swimming lessons was to get me to come out of the ‘MARCH’ is basically conducting ar course. At that time, I was India’s President Pratibha Patil. at the age of four, little did she real water. Being an absolute water ba chaeology underwater or on anyth youngest female scuba instructor. This week, the 45yearold weaver will be in Delhi, ise that her love for water would by, it was not surprising that I was ing marine related. Take lighthous conducting a spinning and embroidery workshop at a four lead her onto a pathbreaking ca mesmerised by large bodies of wa es for example: even though they Do you have any day long exhibition Desi Oon, organised by Khamir, an reer: she says she is India’s fi rst fe ter. are not submerged, conduct interesting underwater organisation that came up after the earthquake rocked male maritime archaeologist. Cur ing research on them is con incidents to share? Gujarat with a mission to preserve the crafts, heritage, and rently a scuba diving instructor at How did you embark on this sidered part of maritime ar ● I was diving in the Cook culture of the Kutch region. Excerpts from a conversation. Bond Water Sports in Kovalam, Ker littleknown career? chaeology. My fi eld of interest Islands when I spotted ala, 24yearold Madhumathy has ● I have always been fascinated is nautical archaeology, within a big, gorgeous sea tur What is the tradition of using indigenous wool? also dived in the waters of Sri Lan by history, which, combined which I conduct research on tle, and he was very The Rabari, a pastoral community that also lives in the ka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Austra with my love for the sea, made historical shipwrecks. shy in the beginning. jungles, wore clothes made from indigenous wool. They lia among others. maritime archaeology a great ca He started to warm up wore all white shawls, dhoti, turban, blankets. Women She tells us about her life, career, reer choice for me. I joined a What was it like being part to me and during my wore black outfits – ghagras with mirrorwork and blouses and future plans. Masters programme in maritime of the team that discovered last dive, made eye con that were heavily embroidered. Now only a few members archaeology at Flinders Universi South Australia’s oldest tact with me for a long of this community wear traditional clothes. These outfits Tell us about your early ty, Australia. The faculty was shipwreck? time and we were happily kept them warm in chilly weather. Similarly the Ahirs, infl uences and love for the sea. amazing and I was hooked from ● I was amongst three Masters swimming side by side. I farmers who walk long distances with their cows and ● I was born and raised in Chennai. day one. MARCH students from Flinders was in love. buffaloes, wore multi coloured blankets.
How have you used this wool for an urban audience? I have worked with desiwool from the Kutchi sheep that has FOOD SPOT New off erings (Left) Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani; Gulati coarse hair not found anywhere else. With this, I made
Butter Chicken * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT carpets, bedcovers, jackets and stoles. Since Dilliwalas prefer softer shawls, I blended cotton and silk with desiwool. For the jackets, 40% is cotton, while 60% is tened up. Then the market itself The menu includes Chicken 65 and wool. The Kutchi sheep wool is bought from the Maldhari changed, with a cobbled front cour a Mushroom 65 and Vegetable Ga community. Products have been designed on the basis of tyard and a fountain welcoming vis louti Kebab for vegetarians. There my understanding of the Delhi market. I also experimented with handstitched garments by engaging women into the itors. Gulati is the biggest there, is also a bustling buff et table, and I process. So, kurtas and kaftans were made by mixing with 140 covers, I was told. could see diners going back for se cotton and wool. In the olden days, we used to go conds and thirds. Havemore for its brain curry, and to The buff et, I am told, is a great At Bikaner House, January 10th – 13th, 11. a.m. 1 p.m.; 2 p.m. 5 Gulati for the butter chicken. The hit, and especially so during festiv p.m. are timing of the workshop conducted by the master weaver butter chicken is still its most popu als. For Lohri, for instance, there MADHUR TANKHA Rahul Verma lar dish, Namit tells me. But I had will be a special buff et, with a the Hyderabadi cuisine — Hydera spread of seasonal dishes. The Nostalgia is best served hot, with badi Chicken Biryani and the Hyde good bit about the buff et is that it onion rings on the side. I thought rabadi Handi Gosht — and found starts early, and then carries on till PRODUCTS that some days ago when a friend them both delicious. The fi ne 4 or 4.30 p.m (₹ 819 plus taxes, a la from Singapore came home. Since grained biryani was not over carte meal for two approximately he misses Dilliwallah food, we’d or spiced, and the chicken had been ₹ 1500). Clothing with a cause dered some mutton korma for him. cooked just right, with just the right The friend’s visit — and the meal But, while we chatted, I realised masalas. The mutton in the Handi at Gulati — opened up the fl ood that what he missed the most was Gosht was nice and tender, and the gates of memory. Ah, those days the food of Gulati, a restaurant on gravy was deliciously rich. when we dug into our butter chick Pandara Road that he and his We started with the Gulati Mut en and brain curry without worry friends often went to. ton Burrah Akbari. The burrah was ing about clogged arteries. Time If I had known then that Gulati superb: The meat was tender, and machine, anyone? delivers food to areas even 15 km had soaked in all the spices. The away (via Zomato and Swiggy), I Nostalgia in the air Murgh Malai Tikka, The writer is a seasoned food critic would have ordered some butter again, was deli chicken for him from there. But I ciously only got to know this when I went The famous Gulati restaurant on Pandara creamy. there for lunch a couple of days Road has more than just its Butter Chicken ago. I was told by the young man in charge of the restaurant that they to off er, these days deliver food to afi cionados through Just launched clothing brand PECKD says it's sustainable the day. course, but he has been adding to Tikka Lajawaab, I remembered because every part of the garment decomposes — the I was a bit surprised when I re the menu keeping diner demands the time when Delhi was a hick fabric, thread, and buttons too. The first collection, Delta & ceived an invite from Gulati. After in mind. town, and the Pandara Road Mar Dawn, is named after a motherdaughter pair of humpback all, the restaurant has been there Right now, Gulati has on the me ket was one of the few places whales that were inujured at sea and swam upstream into since 1959, and has quite a few nu select Punjabi, Mughlai and where you could go late at night the Sacramento River, before they were rescued. The hardcore fans. But Namit Gulati Hyderabadi dishes, but he hopes to for a rich meal. There was even a packaging and product tags are also made from has plans: For one, he has expand expand that as well. Sometime in Chinese restaurant there called, of biodegradable seeds paper. ed the delivery system, and wants the near future, there may be new all things, Shahi Andaz! When Gula to expand the buff et. The old favou Gulatis in other parts of the town. ti was fi rst set up, it was just a dha Available at Peckd.co, upwards of ₹ 10,999 rites — such as butter chicken, brain “But not franchises,” he says fi rmly. ba. But over the years, the eateries curry, dal makhni — are all there, of As I bit into a fi rm yet juicy Fish (Gulati, Pindi, Havemore) smar Contact us at [email protected]
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MOVIE PERFORMANCE F&B GIG FILM Tamil drama Sitar and vocal recital Barbeque Techno Documentary IHC Film Club will screen Kanchivaram, a Tamil The IIC Double Bill Concert will feature two Elan, a restaurant in The Lodhi has unveiled a Raasta, in association with Nightvibe presents Alliance Française de Delhi will screen a film directed by Priyadarshan. The film depicts performances this evening. The first is a solo menu Barbeque Unlimited, available every the Dutch Techno/House icon Eelke Kleijn live multilingual documentary titled Earth Witness: the struggles of silk weavers in the town of sitar recital by Debojyoti Mukherjee from Delhi, a Thursday to Saturday through winter. It offers an tonight. Eelke owns the label Days like Nights Reflections on the Times and The Timeless. Kanchipuram, as they live a perpetual handto disciple of Pandit Barun Kumar Pal. This will be unlimited selection of live barbecue dishes and is also signed onto prestigious labels such as Directed by award winning filmmaker Akanksha mouth existence. It comments on the need for followed by a Hindustani vocal recital by paired with two rounds of house whiskey. On Suara, Toolroom Records. Known for his Joshi, the film reflects on climate change organised cooperative initiatives to safeguard Purnendu Bains from Chandigarh, a disciple of offer are Seekh Kabab, Lamb Chops, Chicken electronic dance music, Eelke will perform his through the lives of four people from four the interests of workers. Pandit Madhup Mudgal. Shawarma, Paneer Tikka, and Malai Broccoli. label songs, with support from DJ RÆDL. different parts of India. Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC Venue: Elan Courtyard, The Lodhi Venue: Raasta, Green Park Venue: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Lodhi Road Time: 7 p.m. Time: 6 p.m. Time: 7 p.m. 11 p.m. Time: 9 p.m. onwards Time: 6 p.m.
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celebration of abundance and a time to In rural Tamil Nadu, you know it is around the feet of cows and thank Mother Earth. We ask our food Pongal time when you see a fresh salangai (brass bells) for bulls. coat of limewash on the walls Members of the household, providers in the hinterlands about how of houses. We limewash our bedecked in new clothes, gather they mark the day homes, use kaavi (a red around a makeshift stove made of pigment) highlights stacked bricks or stones at dawn. wherever necessary, a This time of the year is when couple of days leading farmers have money on them, and up to the festival. The hence, they spend it on clothes night before, a small and good food. On the stove, set bunch of bright yellow up outdoors in front of the A toast aavaram fl owers doorway, sits a clay pot that (Senna auriculata) and bubbles with a heady concoction white koorai fl owers of milk, justharvested rice, toor B Gangadharamurthy (Aerva lanata) are dal, jaggery, and ghee. This dish, Manager, Grameena Angadi, which suspended at the doorway. the star of the season, is fi rst markets rural artisans’ work in Karnataka The heroes of the big day off ered on a banana leaf to the sun. to the sun are farm animals; cows and We worship the sun and hence We call the time during Sankranti suggi kala. bulls, especially. They play a key off er him the dish made from the Harvest is a time of happiness for farmers, after role in agriculture and toil in our fi elds fi rst harvest of the season. many months of hard work of planting and growing The features team all through the year. On Pongal day, we The cows and bulls are fed next, the crops. pay them our obeisance. They are like followed by the children and then In the villages of Karnataka, the celebrations begin our children. We bathe the animals, adults. We then distribute the in the morning. New clothes are worn, the cow is apply turmeric paste on their bodies, pongal among our neighbours. cleaned, fed (till its stomach is full!), decorated and a decorate their faces with kumkum Festivities last for three days. The special puja is done. Games are played, such as the pottu, garland them. We tie fl owers best part is, farm animals are one which involves making the cow jump over fi re. A untied and allowed to graze freely, torana made of rice grains still in their husks is hung as much as they please. They meet at the doorways of houses and even the rangoli their friends, run about. Everyone drawn in front of houses has elements of what has is happy. been harvested. Of course, it is compulsory that As told to Akila Kannadasan yellu bella (a mix of sesame seeds, jaggery, dry coconut or copra, groundnuts and fried gram) is made, for neighbours to give and receive from each Time to celebrate (Clockwise other. from centre) Kitefl ying is a There is a saying, “yellu bella kottu olle mathadu”. It common component of the refers to the good wishes and blessings people give festival; a plateful from a Bihu each other on this day, along with the yellu bella and feast; cows being bedecked for sugarcane. This is a time of sowhara (harmony). Pongal in Tamil Nadu; Assamese Yellu bella has many health benefi ts and after so youngsters prepare for Bhogali many months of hard work, the farmers need the Bihu; Yellu bella prepared for energy they get by eating it. It is something made Suggi Kala in Karnataka
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Bikash Pratim Buragohain and hard as stone). It is a night of revelry, as we gratitude to the fi eld and the sky for the good Farmer from Barpathar get together to celebrate our harvest and take year that went by and for the year to come. stock of what could have gone better. With every Following this, we sit for another round of in Upper Assam farmer’s barn full, we do not hesitate to feed as feasting or jolpan — Assamese breakfast of In Assam, the day before bhogali bihu or magh many people as possible. homemade cereal made of rice like muri, akhoi, bihu is called Uruka — community feasting by a Once the food is prepared, we dine inside a hurum, xandoh, or sira. These are best enjoyed bonfi re. bhela ghor (a temporary house made of leftover with curd and juliya gur (a runny form of Families get together and contribute to the dried straws and banana leaves). Those who do jaggery which is almost like caramel). We set the meal that is to be cooked: not by way of money, not make the bhela ghor prepare the meji by curd in earthen pots. but meat, fi sh, rice, vegetables or anything arranging logs of fi re wood. Our main breakfast is followed with grown and bred by us. The following day is called magh bihu. Before homemade snacks and pithas. Two musthaves That night, the men cook out in the open, sunrise, everyone in our household takes a bath, are tubers like kaath alu (air potato) and kosu while the women and children sit by the fi re and our houses are cleansed and doors and windows pura (roasted colocasia). sing songs, play games or engage in marathon are opened for ‘goodness’ to fl ow in. The rest of the day goes in visiting friends and pithamaking sessions. The sutal or the front yard gets a fresh coating family, or taking part in the village games. Assamese pithas like til pitha (made of sticky of cow dung and mud and then we off er our This festival also marks the beginning of our rice), gheela pitha (made with jaggery and rice respect to the bhela ghor by lighting an earthen planning for the coming ploughing season, fl our), narikolor laru (coconut laddoo) and poka lamp inside it, before setting it on fi re with saving and exchanging seeds. laru (laddoos made with rice fl our and jaggery off erings of til, rice and dubori bon to show our As told to Prabalika M Borah
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Dhawan, and Shardul Thakur or Cricket Australia and the Don’t mess with Tests Amol Karhadkar on the other hand, put his against the quality spin of Board of Control for Cricket Meanwhile, Sri Lanka head PUNE head down and worked on Kuldeep Yadav and Washing in India (BCCI) are set to dis coach Mickey Arthur has Besides Jasprit Bumrah’s re getting his timing right. ton Sundar. cuss fourday Tests when urged that the fabric of Test turn to competitive cricket His was perhaps the lon the top brass meet next cricket should not be after four months, the most gest stint in India’s twoand Pleasant memories week. messed with. signifi cant aspect of the ahalfhour session. With an injuryplagued bow CA chief executive Kevin “Test cricket challenges threematch T20I series With the countdown to ling attack, Sri Lanka cannot Roberts will meet BCCI pre you mentally, physically against Sri Lanka is the face the T20 World Cup in Octob even think of reliving the sident Sourav Ganguly and and technically and a lot of off between K.L. Rahul and er having switched to the feat of 2016, when it bowled his team of offi cebearers the time on the fi fth day (a Shikhar Dhawan for the se next gear at the turn of the India out for 101 at the same ahead of Tuesday’s fi rst In result comes). We just wit cond opener’s position. decade, it will be interesting venue. If it has to be compet diaAustralia ODI. nessed a very good Test to see if Dhawan can seize itive on Friday, Mathews and While it is public know match (England versus Stage set for duel the opportunity on a belter Perera will have to lead a bat ledge that the Boards are South Africa) that fi nished With Rohit Sharma rested, of a track and add to the se ting revival. likely to fi nalise the number on day fi ve,” Arthur said on Rahul and Dhawan have lectors’ headache. The teams (from): of pinkball Tests during In the eve of the third T20I been presented an oppor The absence of leftarm India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Shik dia’s yearend tour of Aus against India here. tunity to make their case, pacer Isuru Udana, who hurt har Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, tralia, The Hindu under “We can talk about fi nan against a mediocre bowling his back in the fi eld in In Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), stands the fourday Test cial pressures (for smaller unit. After the fi rst match dore, will leave the Sri Lan Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, proposal is also set to be dis teams). I think the fabric of was washed out in Guwahati, kan bowling attack as a one Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Ya cussed at the meeting. Test cricket should not be dav, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Rahul had a better outing in man unit, with captain La “He (Roberts) is set to messed with. You want Saini, Shardul Thakur, Manish gauge the BCCI stand on the Tuesday’s second T20 in sith Malinga barely having Pandey, Washington Sundar wickets deteriorating on day Indore. any credible support. and Sanju Samson. fourday Test proposal. CA fi ve, you want (situations) Come Friday, stylish left Udana’s injury will most Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga is pushing for it and knows it where there is lot of really hander Dhawan will be keen likely result in Angelo Math (Capt.), Danushka Gunathilaka, can’t happen without BCCI good exciting draws. I defi to have his say in helping In ews’ T20 comeback after Avishka Fernando, Angelo support,” revealed an nitely think fi veday Test dia win yet another home se well over 16 months. Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Kusal insider. cricket is the way to go, ries at the Maharashtra Captain Malinga and new Perera, Niroshan Dickwella, The BCCI hierarchy, without doubt,” he said. Cricket Association Stadium lyappointed coach Mickey Dhananjaya de Silva, Isuru Uda meanwhile, has kept its here. Arthur will be hoping that na, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada cards close to its chest and Kuldeep’s take While Rahul preferred to Mathews gives the team the Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga, the matter will most proba Kuldeep Yadav reiterated Lahiru Kumara, Kusal Mendis, rest instead of joining team fi llip it needs, especially in bly boil down to Ganguly’s captain Kohli’s stand. “To Lakshan Sandakan and Kasun views on the issue. mates for an optional train the batting department. Rajitha. be very honest, I prefer fi ve ing session, Dhawan, who The Sri Lankan batters, Onfi eld umpires: Virender Considering that India day Test cricket. Test cricket looked a bit rusty in his fi rst barring Kusal Perera, looked Sharma, Nitin Menon; TV um captain Virat Kohli has is made for fi ve days and I appearance for India in two at sea against the Indian at pire: C. Shamshuddin. Fourth stressed on the need for would not like to see any months, made optimum use tack in Indore. umpire: K. Srinivasan. Match Tests to remain fi veday af changes to it. Something of Thursday’s training. They appeared listless, be referee: David Boon. Every which way! Shikhar Dhawan, who had the longest stint at Thursday’s nets, seemed set on fairs, it would be surprising that is classic should remain Rishabh Pant, meanwhile, it against the raw pace and Match starts at 7 p.m. proving his value to the team. * VIVEK BENDRE if Ganguly’s dispensation classic,” he said.
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Raring to go Kuldeep — putting to rest the ghosts of 2019 The chinaman bowler stresses on need to set aside more time for planning and refl ection Amol Karhadkar show against Sri Lanka in In ahead culminating in the PUNE dore on Tuesday. T20 World Cup and the fol At the start of 2019, Kuldeep Speaking on the year that lowing Test series in Austra Yadav was on cloud nine. was, here on Thursday, Kul lia, Kuldeep said he had been Having picked up a fi vefor in deep said: “It was a tough “eating the brains” of the the Sydney Test, the china one. But, I learned a lot of performance analyst and man bowler was billed as In things and the biggest posi coaching staff . dia’s premier spinner by tive was getting to know that head coach Ravi Shastri. By I could have planned things Support staff ’s help the end of the year, however, better. If I had given it more “I will defi nitely take the Kuldeep was struggling to thought and given more time help of video analysts and keep his place in the team in to myself, I could have per speak to the bowling coach all three formats. formed better. in the nets. We need to work “In 2020, I will try to plan on fi guring out the opposi Back on track every game better and give tion batsmen’s strengths and Not just the National team, myself more time to refl ect weaknesses,” he said. Kuldeep was even dropped on my game. You play a lot of by Kolkata Knight Riders matches, but at the same Since everyone was aware during the Indian Premier time you have to give your that he was a chinaman bow League. self more time to plan for the ler, who has wronguns and Fighting fi t: Angelo Mathews will return to action after a However, the bowler next game. I want to be more fl ippers, he needed to bring long injury layoff and hopefully provide the fi llip Sri Lanka seemed to have got his mojo mentally prepared this year.” changes to his bowling and needs in the fi nal T20I. * VIVEK BENDRE back in his fi rst outing in the In his endeavour to pre catch the batsmen by sur Back in the thick of things:Kuldeep Yadav’s performance at Indore points to a more CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC new decade, with a strong pare better for the year prise, he said. rewarding year. * VIVEK BENDRE
India-C meets ‘Dhoni may end his ODI career soon’ Goncalves continues to press forward India-B Buhler maintains his top20 position; Santosh at 39th spot overall He will be left with T20, will defi nitely play IPL: Shastri SPORTS BUREAU DAKAR RALLY fi nish for the team with the After the refuelling, there Press Trust of India fi nished his Test career, he The coach reiterated that CUTTACK 10th spot. Goncalves was 200km of open off piste New Delhi may soon end his ODI the 38yearold veteran In the most gripping match climbed several positions for stage that could be fast but Twotime World Cup career... In all probability, could still be a contender of the women’s Challenger K. Keerthivasan the second day inarow to dangerous as well. So I decid winning India captain M.S. he will fi nish oneday for the T20 World Cup if he Trophy, IndiaC edged out HA’IL fi nish 59th overall. ed to slow my pace a bit to Dhoni may “soon end his cricket,” Shastri told CNN does well in the upcoming IndiaA by two runs to Hero MotoSports Team Ral Buhler maintained his avoid crashes.” ODI career”, head coach News18. Indian Premier League. book its spot in the fi nal ly’s Paulo Goncalves ap top20 position to reach 19th Buhler said: “It was a hard Ravi Shastri has revealed. “At his age, probably the “So he will be left with against IndiaB on Friday. peared supremely confi dent and Santosh rose a few ranks stage and we had almost Shastri also slammed the only format he’ll want to T20, he will defi nitely play In the other match, In at the start of the Stage 5 of to break into the top40 at 200km in the off piste to ICC’s fourday Test play is T20 cricket which the IPL. diaB chased down India the Dakar Rally here on 39th place in the overall wards the end. I tried not to proposal, calling the means he’ll have to start “One thing I know about C’s 148 with eight balls to Thursday, under tough con rankings. With just one more go too fast to avoid making concept “nonsense”. playing again, get back into Dhoni is that he will not spare. Smriti Mandhana’s ditions including tempera stage to go and the complex any mistakes.” “I have had a the groove because he’s impose himself on the IndiaB topped the table tures ranging around two de ion changing from being Santosh sounded upbeat. conversation with MS and going to play in the IPL and team. But if he has a with 14 points. gree Celsius in the morning. Sebastian Buhler. technical to wideopen des “What an amazing last two that is between us. He has see how his body reacts.” cracking IPL, well, then...” The scores: IndiaC 135/4 in The 36yearold from Por * RALLYZONE - EDOARDO BAUER ert, Friday is expected to see days it has been... tough but 20 overs (Veda Krishnamur tugal justifi ed his confi dence more competitors trying to incredible. I really enjoyed thy 47, Madhuri Mehta 36, as he went on to record a fi ne stage to keep it steady before push hard in tackling the lon riding the stage and am feel Radha Yadav 3/23) bt IndiaA show to fi nish 10th. His the rally halts in Riyadh on gest stage, with 830km to be ing more confi dent.” 133/9 in 20 overs (Priya Punia mates, Sebastian Buhler and January 11 for a rest day. done. The placings (provisional): 60, Taniya Bhatia 31, Rajesh Jurel powers India to the title C.S. Santosh, did equally Stage 5 was a special Goncalves said: “Today Stage 5: wari Gayakwad 3/28, Arund 10. Paulo Goncalves; well to complete the race in phase covering 353km from there was change in the scen 21. Sebastian Buhler; 37. C.S. vered through Dhruv Jurel never in the chase, losing hati Reddy 3/29). QUADRANGULAR 21st and 37th respectively. Al Ula to Ha’il and tested the ery from the trials and stony Santosh. Overall: 18. Buhler; and Thakur Tilak Varma who wickets at regular intervals. IndiaC 148/8 in 20 overs competitors. Goncalves con tracks of the last 34 days to 39. Santosh; 59. Goncalves. forged a 100run stand for (Shafali Verma 48, Renuka Jurel was named manof Hero consolidates tinued to press forward on the more open desert. In the (The writer is in Saudi SPORTS BUREAU the fourth wicket. Singh 2/21) lost to IndiaB thematch while Tilak was In fact, Hero consolidated its Thursday as well and deli fi rst part of the stage, I tried Arabia on the invitation of DURBAN While Tilak scored 70 152/5 in 18.4 overs (Pooja adjudged manoftheseries. Vastrakar 37, Richa Ghosh 36). showing from the previous vered a backtoback top10 to push hard and rode well. Hero MotoCorp) India defeated South Africa (103b, 7x4, 1x6), Jurel made The scores: India u19 259/7 in by 69 runs in the fi nal to win 101, his 115ball innings con the Quadrangular series (un 50 overs (Tilak Varma 70, Dhruv taining eight fours and two Jurel 101, Siddhesh Veer 48 der19) on Thursday. sixes. Siddhesh Veer (48, n.o., Gerald Coetzee 3/19) bt The visitors, reduced to 31 37b, 3x4, 2x6) powered India South Africa u19 190 in 43.1 ov Kyrgios and de Minaur bring joy to the locals for three by mediumpacer to 259 for seven in 50 overs. ers (Jonathan Bird 39, Jack Lees Gerald Coetzee’s burst, reco In reply, the hosts were 52, Atharva Ankolekar 4/31). Australia edges past Britain; Russia has it easy against Argentina ATP CUP Belgium on Friday. and de Minaur, and it looked a Russia, spearheaded by Da poor decision when they lost niil Medvedev, won both its the fi rst set 63. But, spurred Agence France-Presse singles to sweep past Argenti by Kyrgios’ booming serve, SYDNEY na. The reward is a semifi nal they took the next set 63 be A dynamic Nick Kyrgios and against either Novak Djokov fore a nailbiting tiebreaker. dogged Alex de Minaur po ic’s Serbia, or Canada. The results: Australia bt Britain wered Australia into the ATP Kyrgios crushed Cameron 21 [Nick Kyrgios bt Cameron Cup semifi nals on Thursday Norrie in the opening singles Norrie 62, 62; Alex de Minaur with an epic 21 win against 62, 62 before Dan Evans lost to Dan Evans 76(4), 46, Tim Henmanled Britain, and came through a memorable 76(2); Kyrgios & de Minaur bt the host was joined by Russia showdown against de Minaur Jamie Murray & Joe Salisbury which overpowered Argenti 76(4), 46, 76(2) to set up the 36, 63, 1816]. Russia bt Argentina 30 na 30. decisive, winnertakesall [Karen The home team clinched doubles. Khachanov bt Guido Pella 62, 76(4); Daniil Medvedev bt Die the tie after an 1816 thirdset Australian captain Lleyton go Schwartzman 64, 46, 63; tiebreaker in the doubles to Hewitt took a huge gamble by Teymuraz Gabashvili & Kon set up a potential blockbuster dropping regular doubles stantin Kravchuk bt Maximo lastfour clash against Rafael pair John Peers and Chris Gonzalez & Andre Molteni 76 Two to tango: Alex de Minaur and Nick Kyrgios turned it on
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TV PICKS Bengaluru may not Bagan downs NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD), Saina, Sindhu in quarterfi nals 5.30 a.m. & 8 a.m. Arrows Khelo India Youth Games : host PBL matches Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), 9.30 Sameer and Prannoy shown the door Amitabha Das Sharma a.m. KOLKATA Senior Women’s T20 : Star Unavailability of venue cited as reason; Mohun Bagan posted its Sports 1 (SD & HD), 10.45 MALAYSIA MASTERS fourth consecutive win in a.m. Hyderabad may benefi t Big Bash League : Sony Six IANS the ILeague, beating In Kuala Lumpur (SD & HD), 1.40 p.m. dian Arrows 10 here on India vs Sri Lanka: 3rd T20I, Ashwin Achal authorities did not grant India’s P.V. Sindhu and Saina Bengaluru Thursday. Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), 7 Nehwal came out with a permission to use the Sree Bengaluru is unlikely to Daniel Cyrus scored off a p.m. spectacular performance on Kanteerava Indoor Stadi ISL: Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), host Premier Badminton spectacular volley in the Thursday, winning their res um. The Mini Olympics, a 7.30 p.m. League (PBL) matches, due fi rst quarter giving Bagan Premier League pective secondround multisports event organ : SS Select 1 to the unavailability of the full points and the right to matches in the Malaysia Mas ised by the Karnataka Olym (SD & HD), 1.30 a.m. Sree Kanteerava Indoor Sta stay on top of the standings (Saturday). ters badminton and entered pic Association, is sche dium. Hyderabad has with 13 points from six the quarterfi nals. duled to be held at the emerged as the frontrunner matches. IN BRIEF However, it was curtains stadium in the same week. in the search for a replace for both Sameer Verma and “The league commences Bagan dominated pro ment venue. H.S. Prannoy. in just about 10 days, so we ceedings from the start em Saina defeated eighth In the original schedule, cannot wait for much lon ploying a consistent fl ow of seed South Korea’s An Se Bengaluru was set to host ger. attacks through the fl anks. Young 2523, 2112 in 39 mi two league stage matches, “It is a pity, because the V.P. Suhair was excellent in nutes. followed by the semifi nals people of Bengaluru have keeping up a steady supply and fi nal (February 5 to 9). been denied the chance to into the Arrows box. Made to sweat “Bengaluru is unlikely to see big stars like P.V. Sindhu The goal came in the In the fi rst game, Saina was host matches this season. and Tai Tzu in action,” 18th minute. Nongdamba made to work hard by the 17 We are looking to shift the Pande said. Naorem’s attempt at goal yearold as both the shuttlers matches to Hyderabad,” The PBL commences on rebounded off Arrows de Nuggets see off Mavericks Atul Pande, managing di kept going at each other. But Great going: Saina Nehwal needed 39 minutes to down eighth seed South Korea’s January 20 at Chennai, be fender Bikash Yumnan and LOS ANGELES rector, Sportzlive, the offi fore moving to Lucknow on the Indian had the last laugh An Se Young. * RAJEEV BHATT/THE HINDU Cyrus was on hand to fi re Nikola Jokic (in pic) made a and ultimately won 2523. cial licence holder of PBL January 25. in a rasping volley from the The Hindu clutch goahead layup with Saina, however, didn’t lina Marin of Spain. some improvement but it sia’s Lee Zii Jia. The Malay told on The Hyderabad leg starts top of the box. eight seconds left and have to sweat too much in Sindhu easily put it across wasn’t enough to stop sian won 2119, 2120 in 52 Thursday. on January 29, and if the ci Other result: At Kozhikode: finished with 33 points as the second game as she won Japan’s Aya Ohori 2110, 2115 Sindhu. minutes. Prannoy too, ty is chosen as the replace Gokulam FC 2 (Shibil 81, 90) Denver Nuggets outduelled 2112. in just 34 minutes. After a In the men’s section, Sa bowed out after going down Organisers disappointed ment venue, the league will Luka Doncic’s Dallas lost to Chennai City FC 3 She will now face Rio onesided contest in the fi rst meer went down in a hard 1421,1621 to Japan’s Kento PBL organisers are disap stay on there until its con Mavericks 107106 on (Araujo 44, Raju 54, Sri Ram Olympic gold medallist Caro game, the Japanese showed fought battle against Malay Momota in 45 minutes. pointed that government clusion. 76) Wednesday. . The results: San Antonio Spurs 129 bt Boston Celtics CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 114; Toronto Raptors 112 bt Charlotte Hornets 110 (OT); Ankita overcomes Joshi gains from Harsha’s blunder Miami Heat 122 bt Indiana Unfortunate Pacers 108; Orlando Magic 123 bt Washington Wizards CHESS 87; Houston Rockets 122 bt Irina Falconi Atlanta Hawks 115; Denver RAKESH RAO Nuggets 107 bt Dallas INDIANS ABROAD The results: $25,000 ITF wo NEW DELHI Mavericks 106; New Orleans men, Bendigo, Australia: Sin Grandmasters and Interna Pelicans 123 bt Chicago Bulls gles (prequarterfi nals): Anki SPORTS BUREAU tional Masters had a mixed 108; Utah Jazz 128 bt New ta Raina bt Irina Falconi (US) BENDIGO (AUSTRALIA) day with some of them being York Knicks 104; Milwaukee 26, 64 64. stretched more than expect Bucks 107 bt Golden State Ankita Raina battled past $15,000 ITF women, Monastir, ed by far lesserrated fi rst Warriors 98. AGENCIES former World No. 63 Irina Tunisia: Singles (prequarter Falconi of the United States fi nals): Zeel Desai bt Olympe round rivals. Overall, a few Ridhima Dilawari 26, 64, 64 in the prequar Lancelot (Fra) 60, 62. surprises were thrown in as in sole lead terfi nals of the $25,000 ITF $15,000 ITF men, Antalya, the Delhi International Open Turkey: Doubles (prequarter Grandmasters chess tourna PUNE women’s tennis tournament fi nals): Gianni Mina (Fra) & Jo ment got off on a chilly after Ridhima Dilawari moved into on Thursday. han Nikles (Sui) bt Luca Gel noon here on Thursday. sole lead after the second In the $15,000 ITF wo Wrong move: Harsha Bharathakoti, left, was the only GM to hardt (Ger) & Aryan Goveas After Iran’s Pouya Idani round of the first leg of the men’s event in Tunisia, Zeel lose on the day after missing a trick against G.B. Joshi. 64, 62; Osmancan Soyler & missed his fl ight from Teh Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour Desai outplayed Olymmpe * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Mert Naci Turker (Tur) bt Va ran and brought down the 2020 at the Poona Club Golf Lancelot of France 60, 62 lentin Vanta (Rou) & Nitin Ku Course here on Thursday. after a bye in the fi rst round. mar Sinha 61, 63. number of Grandmasters to GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, Leading fi rstround results (In Ridhima, who shared the 37, not all of these could win rated 2597, in 48 moves. In dians unless stated): Anish firstround lead with amateur as expected. fact, it was Dhananjay who Gandhi lost to Farrukh Amona Pranavi Urs (70, 73), shot 71 The decision to adopt ‘ac pressed for victory after ad tov (Tjk), Pavel Ponkratov (Rus) to aggregate oneunder 141. celerated pairings’ to the vancing a protectedpawn to bt Manish Kumar; Vinayak Kul karni lost to M. Karthikeyan; Ridhima is now two shots Ishaque to meet fi rst three rounds also meant the sixth rank but Yakub clear of Pranavi and higherranked players faced Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcan boev defended accurately. tara (Per) bt Harshal Shahi; Kar Amandeep Drall, whose higher rated players than thik Thirsh lost to Abhijeet second round 70 was the only Armaan in the fi nal what they would have Peace off ering subpar round of the day. Gupta; Levan Pantsulaia (Geo) Sports Bureau The results (semifi nals): Sin played under normal Chilean GM Rodrigo Vas bt Soham Datar; Kiran Manisha Vani Kapoor moved up with Raipur gles: Ishaque Eqbal bt Suraj pairings. quez Schroeder (2487) Mohanty lost to Aleksey Goga oneover 72 and at 147 for Prabodh 26, 62, 63; Armaan nov (Rus); Rodrigo Vasquez two rounds, is now tied A 12yearold girl is given medical attention after being hit Ishaque Eqbal fought his sensed that his rival Aashna Bhatia bt Ganta Sai Karthik Poor decision Schroeder (Chi) drew with fourth alongside Afshan by a stray arrow during a practice session ahead of the Khelo way past Suraj Prabodh 26, Makhija (2068) was unwell Reddy 63, 75. GM Harsha Bharathakoti Aashna Makhija. Fatima (73, 74). Diksha Dagar India Youth Games in Dibrugarh on Thursday. She was to be 62, 63 to set up a title clash and chose to off er a draw in Doubles: Faisal Qamar & Far was the only GM to lose. Lo Nguyen Van Huy (Vie) drew (72, 77) and Saaniya Sharma fl own to AIIMS, New Delhi, for further treatment. * ANI against Armaan Bhatia in a dominating position after deen Qamar bt Suraj Prabodh & cal veteran G.B. Joshi bene with Vedant Pimpalkhare; Atul (73, 76) are tiedsixth. PTI CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the ₹ 250,000 Gondwana 45 moves. B.R. Nikshep 75, 63; Armaan fi ted from Harsha’s poorly Dahale bt Muhammad Khu Cup AITA men’s ranking Bhatia & Ishque Eqbal bt Omin Former Commonwealth calculated knightsacrifi ce senkhojaev (Tjk); P. Karthi tennis tournament a the der Baishya & Ankit Chopra champion P. Karthikeyan keyan drew with Siddhant Gaik VIPs Club on Thursday. 62, 63. on the 30th move. Soon, was another GM who could wad; Sammed Shete drew with Harsha realised he could not only get a draw, after facing Akila Kavinda (Sri); Mohed Catching the boundaryline rule right get suffi cient compensation Sidhant Gaikwad. Ameir (Egy) drew with Bha and resigned three moves Atul Dahale (2025) gyashree Patil; Ketan Khaire bt Reshma beats Sarah later. stunned Tajikstan’s IM Mu Akash Thakur; Niladri Bhatta Agence France-Presse as he fell backwards. and once they told me he S. Dhananjay, rated 2144, hammad Husenkhojaev, rat charya drew with N. Sudhakar Babu. Sydney He landed off the fi eld was allowed to (go) outside Sports Bureau (Issr) 41, 43(3); Leo Raquin held seventhseeded Uzbek ed 2420. A twoman catch to dismiss and then jumped to slap the fi eld of play and tap it CHANDIGARH (Fra) bt Arnav Pathange 43(1), Hobart skipper Matthew the falling ball back over back in, I knew I was out.” Reshma Maruri beat compa 42; Han Chih Lin (Tpe) bt Ud Wade in a T20 Big Bash the ropes to Tom Banton, The 2017 update to the triot Sarah Dev 41, 40 to dayvir Singh 40, 40. match in Brisbane has led running round from deep laws included a provision make the girls’ quarterfi nals Girls: Juliette Bovy (Bel) bt Yu Maguire laid to confusion over the laws midwicket, who caught for boundaries and of the ITF grade3 junior Yun Li (Tpe) 41, 42; Yaroslava with even Lord’s weighing the pass. After a long video “airborne fi elders”. tennis tournament at the Bartashevich (Rus) bt Xinyue low by injury in. review, the third umpire Lord’s, home of the MCC CLTA Complex on Thurs Hu (Chn) 43(3), 42; Jasmine Conway (GBR) bt Suhitha Ma Hobart batted fi rst and decided that Wade, who who act as cricket’s rule day. Agence France-Presse ruri 43(1), 41. had limped to 98 for fi ve had already walked off , makers, tweeted that The results (prequarterfi London off 14.4 overs, largely was given out. “Under Law 19.5, the catch nals): Boys: Jean Marc Mal Mika Dagan Fruchtman (Isr) Manchester United defen bt Teja Tirunelveli (US) 14, thanks to a captain’s knock “I had no idea of the is deemed lawful.” kowski (Sui) bt Nishant Dabas der Harry Maguire could 43(4), 40; Orel Kimhi (Isr) bt 41, 41; Jiaqi Huang (Chn) bt by Wade. On 61, he rule really — once he hit The law says: “A Lakshanya Vishwanath 41, be sidelined for several launched the ball high to outside the fi eld of play I boundary will also be given Chirag Duhan 34(4), 43(1), weeks with a hip injury, ac 42; Haoyuan Huang (Chn) bt 40; Reshma Maruri bt Sarah the longon boundary. didn’t know if he was if a fi elder in contact with cording to British media re Denim Yadav 41, 42. Dev 41, 40. Brisbane’s Matt allowed to touch the ball or the ball makes contact with Martin Katz (Bel) bt Yamato Amelia Waligora (Bel) bt ports on Wednesday. Renshaw, fi elding just not,” Wade told match any object grounded Sueoka (Jpn) 43(4), 43(2); Dana Issabayeva (Kaz) 42, There has been no offi cial inside the ropes, leapt and broadcaster Channel 7. beyond the boundary, Bohua Dong (Chn) bt Sushant 40; Sabrina Kalandarov (Isr) confi rmation from United parried the ball into the air “Umpires said he was, including another fi elder.” Dabas 41, 43(1); Raphael Col bt Alessandra Simone (Ita) on a likely return date for lignon (Bel) bt Samer Al Tori 04, 42, 41. the England international. Bengaluru FC proves too good for Jamshedpur ISL Subrata Paul. tion at opposite ends of the Jamshedpur did little of pitch. First, with Gourav Shreedutta Chidananda note in the fi rst half, failing Mukhi racing towards the Bengaluru to trouble Gurpreet Singh BFC goal, Juanan put in a Bengaluru FC climbed to the Sandhu in the BFC goal. Da perfectlytimed sliding tack second spot on the ISL table vid Grande, the team’s new le. With possession reco with a dominant 20 victory signing, put in a good cross vered, Paartalu clipped a over Jamshedpur FC here on for Farukh Choudhary but long, aerial pass for Chhetri. Thursday. the India international’s shot Gahlot was caught ball Erik Paartalu headed the was blocked by a deter watching as Chhetri slipped home side in front on eight mined Kuruniyan. past him before rounding minutes before the indefatig the goalkeeper to score from able Sunil Chhetri scored Three man defence an acute angle. another in the second half. Jamshedpur switched to a Jamshedpur fought back The loss was Jamshedpur’s threeman defence at half but simply could not break third in succession, with the time, replacing rightback Ji through. Grande was side winless in its last six tendra Singh with Bikash Jai through on goal with only games. ru. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu to Not long after, BFC beat but the BFC custodian Early goal brought on Udanta Singh — pulled off a stunning save BFC took an early lead, the who was benched after an with his outstretched right goal scored from what is now Hero! Erik Paartalu is the toast of his teammates after putting BFC ahead in the eighth minute. ineff ective display against FC hand. The goalkeeper was in a familiar setpiece routine. * K. MURALI KUMAR. Goa — to a rousing reception top form on the night, as was A corner was won after a sus from the home crowd. the rest of the side; Jamshed tained spell of pressure, and rose high to head home. repeatedly from the right quiet. Kuruniyan had an op A little past the hour pur was simply secondbest. Dimas Delgado delivered a Ashique Kuruniyan made fl ank. Narender Gahlot, who portunity to double the mark, BFC scored a second. The result: Bengaluru FC 2 (Erik fi ne ball for Paartalu at the an early impression on the was stationed at leftback, home side’s advantage, but The goal was a product of Paartalu 8, Sunil Chhetri 63) bt near post. The Australian game, surging into the box did not get a moment’s his powerful volley saved by two excellent pieces of ac Jamshedpur FC 0. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Associated Press Tokyo Tokyo Olympic athletes be ware — particularly larger ones. The bed frames in the Athletes Village at this year’s Olympics will be made of cardboard. Sturdy cardboard. “Those beds can stand up to 200kg,” explained Ta kashi Kitajima, the general manager of the Athletes Vil lage, speaking through an in terpreter. Surely no Olympic athlete weighs that much.
Stronger than wood “They are stronger than wooden beds,” Kitajima ad ded. He also took into ac count the possibility of a wild room celebration after, say, a goldmedal victory. “Of Recyclable: A cardboard bed that is to be used in the Athletes Village on display. * AP course, wood and cardboard would each break if you and the fi rmness of each can headquarters. The entire Olympic sponsor Airweave jumped on them,” he said. be adjusted. The idea was to Athletes Village complex will Inc. for the execution. The singlebed frames will use materials that could be be completed in June. The Organisers say this is the be recycled into paper pro remade after the Olympics Olympics opens on July 24 fi rst time that beds and bed ducts after the Games. The and Paralympics. But the followed by the Paralympics ding in the Athletes Village mattress components — the cardboard frames and sup on August 25. have been made of renewa mattresses are not made of ports should give the rooms “The organising commit ble materials. cardboard — will be recycled a spartan look. tee was thinking about recy The Athletes Village, be into plastic products. Organisers showed off the clable items, and the bed ing built alongside Tokyo The mattress is broken up beds and a few other furnish was one of the ideas,” Kitaji Bay, will need 18,000 beds in into three distinct sections, ings on Thursday at their ma explained, crediting local 21 apartment towers. More tennis stars join exhibition game Proceeds from ticket sales to be donated towards bushfi re relief GENERAL on January 15 at Melbourne’s tel, alongside a donation en devastating bushfi res in Rod Laver Arena. The Aus velope for fi re rescue eff orts. Australia. tralian Open Rally for Relief They’re yours to keep, we Taking to Twitter, Warne ANI Atlanta will be donating the pro just ask you to donate AUD made the announcement ceedings from ticket sales to 300 a pair. All money going and posted a statement. Top tennis stars like Roger the bushfi re relief eff orts. directly to Red Cross,” Shara “The horrifi c bushfi res in Federer, Rafael Nadal and Tennis star Maria Shara pova tweeted. Australia have left us all in Serena Williams will be play pova had also announced on Sharapova and Novak Djo disbelief. The impact these ing an exhibition match to Wednesday that she had left kovic have decided to donate devastating fi res are having raise funds for Australia’s 10 signed pairs of her tennis $25,000 each for Australia’s on so many people is unthin bushfi re relief. shoes in her Brisbane hotel bushfi re relief fund. kable and has touched us all. Apart from these three, that members of the public Lives have been lost, homes Naomi Osaka, Nick Kyrgios could buy with a donation to Warne’s gesture have been destroyed and ov and Stefanos Tsitsipas have the Australian Red Cross. Earlier, former Australian er 500 million animals have also confi rmed their availa “Brisbane, I have signed spinner Shane Warne on died too,” Warne wrote. bility for the match, CNN ten pairs of my tennis shoes, Monday had announced to Wildfi res have been rag reported. left them at the @Brisbane auction his Baggy Green cap ing across Australia for The match will be played Tennisdesk at the Westin Ho to raise funds for victims of months. Delhi • city EDITION • JANUARY 10, 2020
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Making a point (Clockwise from DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD SHRINKHLA SAHAI below) Maya Rao in performance; CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC All in the moment young artists working on a graffi ti; Artist Rachita Taneja recently con n times marked by political a cartoon by Rachita Taneja ducted sessions on protest posters turbulence, artists are ex * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT with the students at Jamia. Her ploring urgent and fresh comic series, “Sanitary Panels”, ways to raise critical ques started fi ve years ago, has gener tions and respond to social ated much enthusiasm on social media. An activist invested in hu iImpulses through art making. man rights and environment issues, Scouring a wide range of creative Taneja started the comic as a re expression like fl oor paintings, sponse to the arrest of students for graffi ti, invisible theatre, dance posting their opinions online. “I walks, slam poetry and protest named the comic so because I songs, art is integrating with polit wanted it to be representative of ical action to stage synchrony of what it would talk about – all that is radical articulation. The recent controversial, taboo. Some of the past has witnessed artistic out images from my comics that have pouring on the streets and so gone viral have also been used at protests where people have drawn cial media alongside speeches it themselves. Writing the text is and sloganeering, signalling a the more challenging part of the strong return of protest art. idea. My style keeps switching, sometimes I draw on the phone as We the people ideas emerge, sometimes I write In the women’s march in the fi rst. It is all in the moment and capital on January 3, theatre ar responses from people range from tiste Maya Rao made a perfor trolling and threats to appreci mance that involved draping the ation.” DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD sari while reciting the Preamble to the Constitution accompanied by music. The aesthetic is derived yesteryears like the fi st and fl ag. from the urgency of the moment. Others capture the contemporary Rao says, “Every time one can ap movement as images of Shaheen proach the Preamble from a diff e Bagh women make their way into rent lens. In the context of the wo the fl oor paintings. One of the men’s march, I wanted to create works brings together a portrait devices that speak to women, and of Gandhi alongside the text can be read with ease. The sari is –‘There are many causes I would not just a garment, it is layered so die for, not a single cause I would cially and culturally. Many wo kill for.’ men wear the sari from girlhood A student (name withheld on till the day they die, and for an In request) pursuing her Masters in dian woman, it is often a layering ART Uprising Visual Eff ects and Animation, of her own skin.” AJK, MCRC, says, “It is a silent, Street performances challeng creative protest. Being students ing gender norms are a massive Artists are rising up to the challenge of creating safe spaces of of art and media, we wanted to part of Rao’s oeuvre. In the 1980s, express ourselves in a relatable vi the antidowry campaign found expression at the intersection of politics and aesthetics sual way where people can un an artistic ally in street theatre. derstand what is happening, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Part of much acclaimed street movement and poetry. In today’s ping artistic challenge, “I am what we want to say, and how it plays like ‘Om Swaha’, Rao feels context it is doubly important be looking to make performances Using everyday aff ects the entire nation.” that the genre is still as politically cause it allows people to come to where a group of people can movements as Faculty member, Anugyan potent yet its prime objective has gether in a public space, to watch come together and make art in choreography, Raikhy Nag, agrees that the art works shifted with time. “In the tradi the performance together, bond, that moment without prepara have generated impactful res tional ways of making street actively think and start conversa tion, without rehearsals, almost devised a symbolic ponses and go a long way in re theatre, it was important to pro tions.” Pointing out that the inter in a folk form manner. In protest gesture where people building the spirits of the stu vide the material, to inform peo net and social media have events, the time is scarce, the gathered around the dents. “This art movement has ple. Now, with television and me brought in new forms of art and number of people is huge, and emerged spontaneously from the dia, that is already happening articulation, like memes, Desh passion is high. My artistic curios writing and went down on students. They have experienced much faster. So, for street theatre, pande emphasises, “Though me ity is how we can channelise this their knees in a gesture of fear, violence and trauma in the it is not about peeling apart an is dia may appear democratic, it is energy into uplifting, thought prayer. The participants same spaces a few weeks back, sue as it was earlier, but how to not entirely so and is mostly dis provoking collaborative art.” were free to interpret it as and it is important for them to re take it further and examine it proportionate in terms of what it sy and we were interrupted, chal ter the recent campus attacks, un claim the space as a site of resur through interesting artistic devic represents. Street theatre is a me Aesthetics of the street ‘sajda’ or ‘maatha tekna’ lenged and threatened for doing iversity spaces like Jamia Millia Is rection, resistance and love es.” dium of the marginalised com Coming together to create collec or just bowing in this.” lamia and Aligarh Muslim through these art works.” Sudhanva Deshpande, theatre munities.” tive artistic action, another prot reverence Using everyday movements as University resemble a visual art While visual political art, from artist, Jana Natya Manch, refl ects, Artists make critical choices est on January 5 in central Delhi, choreography, Raikhy devised a gallery. Here students have found posters to comics, has been a rad “Street theatre is a live art that about the extent to which they invited people to inscribe terms symbolic gesture where people their expression in graffi ti and ical form of dissent traditionally, combines so many diff erent want to align their art and polit such as ‘secular’ on the streets powerful action to sync well with gathered around the writing and fl oor paintings, covering the un the medium has taken on a new things from music and text to ics. Rao believes that it is crucial and pavements with chalk. Led the people and enable everyone went down on their knees in a iversity walls and roads with a life with art works and images go to give creative expression to im by Artists Unite, protesters used to join.” As more people gathered gesture of prayer. The partici daily exhibition. Painting in ing viral speedily on social media. portant political moments. Some multiple colours and a variety of around the protest sites, there pants were free to interpret it as groups of 34 people, the students Much of the art is work in pro of the protesting women from shapes to chalk out the alphabets. were also attempts at erasing a ‘sajda’ or ‘maatha tekna’ or just use spray cans, emulsion paints gress, yet artists are closely ima <> Shaheen Bagh joined the march Rahul Roy, fi lmmaker and one of part of the writing. The threat of bowing in reverence. While some and acrylic to translate their ideas gining ways of bringing commun The sari is not just a at Jantar Mantar and also wanted the organisers from the artists’ censorship follows any kind of seemed hesitant about joining in into images. Some works display ities together through to be part of the performance. collective says, “When we formed protest art. Roy points out that this choreography, unsure of only text like ‘peace’ written collaborative actions. As new me garment, it is layered Winging it in the moment, along Artists Unite, we wanted to ex though they want to do radical whether this was performance or across the road, much like the diums of socially engaged art socially and culturally... with artists, they all strung dupat plore how one can express dis critical comments as artists, it is actual prayer, there were others chalk inscriptions in central Del swoop through protest sites, pu for an Indian woman, it tas together, passing them sent apart from the usual speech important not to hurt sentiments. who followed with curiosity. hi. There are others in the format blic places and social media, ar is often a layering of her around, adding on to them and es and sloganeering.” Dancerchoreographer Mandeep of a protest poster where text and tists are rising up to the challenge holding them tightly as a rope, Talking about the concept of Raikhy adds, “Even a simple, On ground and online visuals merge to create a state of creating safe spaces of expres own skin creating a motif of collective ex chalk inscriptions, Roy refl ects, peaceful, creative act like inscrib While artists are attempting to ment. The visuals cite common sion at the intersection of politics Maya Rao pression. For Rao, this is the grip “We were looking for a simple yet ing words on the road was not ea bring aesthetics to the streets, af symbols from political posters of and aesthetics. Stepping back, stepping ahead The fi veday Natya Kala Conference ‘Nirikshana’ took a closer look at tradition and contemporary aspects of Bharatanatyam
Abhirami Rao CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC mance comes with experience. This experiment in choreography and on your acquaintance with the dance creativity, represented a celebration of form, Rajika also put forth questions to nly a year away from its 40th edi Alarippu patterns the new dimensions the upcoming gen ruminate upon. An interesting point she tion, this year’s Natya Kala Con ‘Alarippu Adventures’ with Christopher eration of dancers bring to the table. made was that until the 90s, students Oference convened by senior dan Gurusamy, Harinie Jeevitha, Radhe Jag The possibilities of building tension largely learnt from male teachers. While cerchoreographer Rama gi and Preethi Ramprasad explored dif in a room are aplenty. There was students copied their movements, they Vaidyanathan, was held at the Krishna ferent interpretations of alarippu. The enough to debate and deliberate upon did not copy their style. “Today, there’s Gana Sabha in Chennai from December navarasa, temple structures, garuda in ‘Arangetram: A Boon or a Bane’. It is the danger that students might become 26 to 30. Titled ‘Nirikshana: Bharatana and the joy of playing games were all to be noted that none of the gurus were clones of their gurus, who are them tyam under the magnifying glass’, the uniquely woven into khanda triputa, opposed to the concept of the arange selves performers and have their own conference set out to explore the dance khanda ata, misra jhampa and chatusra tram itself. A genuine concern among styles,” she said. Focusing on stylistic form and address some of the issues. dhruva talams, composed by Rama young dancers, with respect to oppor changes, infl uence of learned propo Here are snippets of selected sessions moorthy Sriganesh. At the end, a de tunities and the economics of perfor nents of other dance forms, changes in over the fi ve days of the conference: monstration in group dynamics to a mance, were refl ected in this session. the margam and reworking the pieces , Day one witnessed visible excitement chatusra alarippu explored interesting Moderated by Chitra Visweswaran, this she drew a comprehensive picture of over the fi rst session, hosting Dr. Padma formations and convergence of styles. session delved into how arangetrams Bharatanatyam’s evolution over a Subrahmanyam, Sudharani Raghu are being used as a social status show century. pathy and Chitra Visweswaran, titled BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB case, the rising exclusivity through ex The discussion on emerging trends in ‘Dance Buddies: Revisiting the Kura As it played out, the audience pensive arangetrams and navigating the newage training explored learning over vanji Story.’ The fi lm began with a shot GuruSishya parampara over these is Skype, workshops in regions with less of Sudharani Raghupathy. As it played relived a slice of 1987 with sues. Some in the panel refl ected upon access to culture, masterclasses in abhi out, the audience relived a slice of 1987 Doordarshan’s (DD) recording involvement and commitment students naya, classes for students unfamiliar with Doordarshan’s (DD) recording of of Viralimalai Kuruvanji. The exhibit for the arangetram. “(Children) with the framework of the art form and Viralimalai Kuruvanji, an abridged ver success of the episode took rise to the occassion. They must, they gurukulbased workshops for a specifi c sion. The success of the episode took have no choice but to,” quipped Leela period of time. Important takeaways them to the Festival of India in the USSR them to the Festival of India in Samson. “However, one does question from this session were the emphasis on and Middle East. This was followed by the USSR and Middle East. its purpose if it is only a oneoff perfor Kuravanji Trio Sudharani, Padma and Chitra * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT artistic expressions of diff erent schools, recreation of the piece by the trio that This was followed by re mancebased involvement. If dancers the exposure to diversity that master met with rousing applause and loud are not motivated by the love for dance, movement vocabulary. While tradition sion would lead to more temple perfor classes and workshops off er a dancer cheers. Although the hooting audience creation of the piece by the what is really the point?” ally teachers are expected to decide if mances, crowdfunded arangetrams or a and creating platforms to share know was a new addition to the Chennai trio that met with rousing Another concern with arangetrams is the student is ready for an arangetram, conscious economic cap for arange ledge among the dance community. dance scene, the session was an eye applause and loud cheers the presentation of a detailed repertoire the litmus test in honesty and parents’ trams need to be seen. The 39th Natya Kala Conference was opener in how improvisation in perfor without the theoretical knowledge or insistence are an open secret. Sheela overall a confl uence of knowledge, per Unnikrishnan mentioned that it is up to Evolution of the art formances and some of dance commun the student’s family to choose how lav ‘Of Bharatanatyam Then & Now: Trac ity’s legends. Over the course of fi ve READ INSIDE ishly to conduct the event. Samson said, ing changes in its content and perfor days, the sessions covered a variety of in particular to the young dancers, mance’ by Rajika Puri on the Third Day topics, however, one wonders if popu Vijay Kichlu and Ajoy Chakrabarty A tribute to Akbar Padamsee Ajay Devgn on the message “What is the choice you’re making to was an insightful presentation with vi larity tended to cloud relevance. Non on the Gharana system P2 P3 of “Tanhaji” P4 spend this amount of money?” suals, studied observations and wit. A etheless, Nirikshana laid the foundation Whether the takeaway from this ses crash course or a refresher depending of what it set out to address.
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Hindi Belt What’s in a gharana? A glorious tradition Ahead of a seminar in Mumbai, Vijay Kichlu and Ajoy Chakrabarty talk about the nomenclature of gharanas and their relevance in the contemporary world So long as people remain suppressed and oppressed, poets like Faiz Ahmed ‘Faiz’ will continue to Meena Banerjee his twentytwo years tenure and CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC take their side strived to maintain their originality; everal delightfully diff erent and AC, one of the fi nest products of Khayal schools emerged out VK’s vision! According to both, a aiz Ahmed ‘Faiz’, a communist coming days when the illegitimate rule of many insignifi cant towns gharana actually represents an ar who all his life fought the tyranny of the tyrant will come to an end and pe of North India. These tiste’s individuality, devotedly fol Fof Pakistani rulers and lived for de ople will become the arbiter of their des schools are popularly lowed by his progenies. cades in political exile, must be turning tiny. No wonder that this poem came to Sknown as gharanas, a word deriving VK: I don’t believe in gharana sys in his grave as the Hindutva forces have acquire an iconic status and continues out of ghar or house. Intriguingly, tem because each gharana has pro discovered a Muslim Faiz, thirtysix to inspire all those who rise to oppose each gharana is associated with a duced artistes who are diversely dif years after his death. Faiz was despised injustice or abuse of power anywhere in particular town; and not the master ferent from their brethren. Look at by the Islamists in Pakistan because he the world. of the house. the legends like Krishnarao Shankar successfully used Islamic symbols to op “Jab arzekhuda ke ka’abe se, sab bu Pandits Vijay Kichlu and Ajoy Pandit, Omkarnath Thakur, Kumar pose the tyranny of both Islamic clergy ut uthwaae jaayenge / Hum ahlesafa Chakrabarty, who will be participat Gandharva and a host of others be and military dictators like ZiaulHaq mardoodeharam, masnad pe bithaaye ing in ‘Khayal and Gharanas’ a semi longing to Gwalior Gharana. There is who used Islam to further political jaayenge / Sab taaj uchhale jaayenge, nar at the National Centre for Per no similarity even in their voice goals. Every poet uses the symbols from sab takht giraaye jaayenge/ Bas naam ra forming Arts at Mumbai on January throw, what to say of their stylistic his tradition to convey his poetry to his hega Allah ka… (From the abode of God, 1819, try to put the conundrum in preferences. audience that is familiar with that tradi when the idols will be removed/ When perspective. AC: For initial foundation, one tion. But, we have reached a situation in we, the faithful, who have been barred Edited excerpts: does need the support of a Gharana; our country where a government school from sacred places, will be seated on a just like the stamp of a renowned in headmaster in Uttar Pradesh can be sus high pedestal/ When crowns will be Why are Khayal gharanas named stitution; but today children are pended because children in his school tossed, when thrones will be brought after cities? spoilt for choice. The olden rigidity sing a beautiful poem of Allama Iqbal tit down, only Allah’s name will remain.) VK: Because the ‘ghar’ belonged does not work now; neither the con led “Bachche ki Dua” (A child’s prayer) Only those who do not understand reli to the States where musicians lived cept of closeddoor sadhana or ri and accused of turning a government gion would not know that in every reli and the real masters were the rulers yaaz. Under the circumstances one school into a madarsa. gion, God or Allah or Ishwar is equated of the States. As patrons of music, must be able to pick and choose the In the same manner, a teacher in IIT with Truth. they off ered salary, housed their best suited ornaments available Kanpur recently complained against Sufi mystic Mansur was hanged (ac chosen musician and looked after across Gharanas; but under the gui those who were cording to some their needs. Apart from being court dance of the guru. I try to preserve protesting against sources beheaded) musicians these erudite musicians the uniqueness of all my disciples by the Citizenship for declaring “Anal groomed the inmates of their homes allowing them to explore according Amendment Act haq” (I am the that also included a few dedicated to their preferences. and singing Faiz’s Truth). This poem disciples. That is how the word ‘gha celebrated poem of Faiz also speaks rana’ (pertaining to house) got asso As the name suggests – Khayal “Hum Dekhenge” of the slogan of ciated with the ‘music of the State’; gave freedom from the clutches (We shall see). Analhaq and of a fu the preceptors chose to remain in of structured music of yore; yet Why? Because it ture when “raaj ka cognito behind Rampur, Maihar, Khayal gharanas were restrictive used the world “Al regi khalkekhuda, Agra, Gwalior, etc. too and maybe that is why they lah” and not “Ra jo main bhi hoon are falling apart. Under the cir- ma” and because aur tum bhi ho” The Qawwal Bacche hailed from Custodians of a specialised musical style (Clockwise from top) Pandit Ajoy cumstances what will be the guid- Faiz was a Pakista (people of God who Lucknow; then why do we accept Chakrabarty; Pandit Vijay Kichlu, the duo with Kaushiki Chakrabarty ing factors? ni. Another charge are you as well as Gwalior as Khayal’s Pitri (parent) * NARENDRA DANGIYA, THE HINDU ARCHIVES, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT AC: I plan to delve on that in de was later added me will rule). Op tails during the seminar. There are that the poem was posing idol worship gharana? one hugely gifted musician. His sons, four major factors that defi ne antiHindu as it is certainly not VK: Qawwal Bacche shifted base relatives and other followers adopt Khayal; and they are: voicethrow; spoke of the remo against the Hindus. to Gwalior because their music was ed his style to the extent of copying embellishments; elaborations and val of idols from If that were so, why greatly appreciated in Gwalior State. him; sometimes at the cost of their compositions. Lyrics play a vital role Kaaba. The absur don’t the Hindutva Makkhan Khan’s son Natthan Pir most precious gift – voice. We are in music making. With guided ‘vi dity of these charg forces demand a Baksh nurtured this new trend of aware of so many instances wherein sion’ of sur (tunefulness) and swara es is obvious. Even ban on Satyarth music. His son was Kadir Baksh Ustad Faiyaz Khan’s followers tried (notes), every talent can embark on a child knows that Prakash, written by whose sons Haddu and Hassu Khan to emulate his robust voicethrow his musical journey with confi dence. “Bhagwan”, “Ishwar”, “God” and “Al Swami Dayanand Saraswati who was a took this gayaki to greater heights. and in the process ruined their voic lah” are synonyms. Poetry, especially fi erce opponent of idol worship. Unfortunately Haddu Khan died es. There are some who copy the resistance poetry, is universal and in The fact is that poets like Faiz are pro young; Hassu Khan preferred to mannerisms of their idols more than spires people across continents. Faiz, people and antidemocratic forces eve groom numerous Brahmins of the their music. Conversely, there are a who was a close friend of revolutionary rywhere despise such poets. Pakistani region such as Vasudev Joshi, Balk few like Rashid (Khan) who made poets such as Nazim Hikmat, Pablo Ne poet Habib Jalib spent many years in jail rishnabuwa Ichalkaranjikar and sev their gurus proud by scaling the ruda, Ernesto Cardenal and Mahmood as he had the courage to tell the rulers of eral others. His logic was simple. He peaks of music in their own way. Darvesh, continues to inspire to this day his day that their predecessors too had wished to be remembered as the Us Moreover, the soil, air and water of a all those who rise in opposition to tyran similarly believed that they had become tad of this new style which was region play a vital role in texturing ny. And he belongs to a glorious tradi God. Iqbal too exhorted people to burn scoff ed at by other wellestablished voice and tonality; so do the tion of such poets in Urdu itself. a fi eld if it failed to provide grain to the Ustads of dhrupad. Legend has it food habits and fami poor. Our own Majaz spoke of the need that Hassu Khan’s debut khayal reci ly traditions. Virtual ban to demolish the edifi ce of the present tal was a fl op in Bengal. He had to Let’s fi rst take a look at the history of day exploitative society. woo his listeners back with dhru Is the concept of this particular poem. Reciting Faiz’s So long as people remain suppressed <> pad, the popular genre of that era gharana relevant works was not allowed in Zia regime and oppressed, poets like Faiz will conti For initial foundation, one ruled by Vishnupur Gharana. now? that had also imposed a virtual ban on nue to take their side and rise in revolt does need the support of a A vehement ‘no’ women wearing sari, as it was consi against the illegitimacy of the esta How did Gharanas evolve? came from both Kichlu, dered to be Indian and Hindu. When blished authority. Gharana; just like the stamp AC: In their comfortable cocoons, the founder director of Faiz’s fi rst death anniversary was ob of a renowned institution; almost cut off from the rest of the ITC Sangeet Research Aca served in Lahore, famous singer Iqbal but today children are world, the unique ideas of gifted demy who revived the Gu Bano wore a black sari and sang “Ham musicians took shape and crystal ru Shishya Parampara Dekhenge”. spoilt for choice lised as individualistic styles. Each and nurtured almost all It electrifi ed the atmosphere as the Kuldeep Kumar is a Ajoy Chakrabarty style, termed as gharana, boasts of Khayal gharanas during poem contained lines that spoke of the senior literary critic A stirring musical dialogue
Paying a moving tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, the na today, is a talented disciple of Pt. Arvind Parikh, the doyen of Imdadk Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival saw an hani Gharana. Guided in dhrupad interesting amalgamation of Indian and Western style under Shri Rajiv Janardan, Sha rada chose the melodious evening strands of music Raga Yaman and displayed admira ble restraint in her unhurried ren Manjari Sinha CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC strings like violin, viola, and cello. dering of the AlapJodJhala before It felt like an breeze of talent, gift she played a medium tempo dhru he 29th edition of the Laksh and presence, energising the whole pad composition set to Chautala. minarayana Global Music Fes ambience with their opening piece Meaningful Ttival (LGMF), presented as a “J. Turina”, followed by the “Spring Meditative meend exchange (From ‘Tribute to the Mahatma’, featured Rhapsody”, composed by Dr. L. Sub The very fi rst stroke, a meditative right) Dr. L Dr. L Subramaniam and Kavita ramaniam. Later, they accompanied meend of just one swara from nishad Subramaniam Krishnamurthy along with the Cas Subramaniam and Kavita Krishna to shadja, captured the attention of and Kavita tile and Leon Symphony Orchestra murthy, presenting ‘Raghupati discerning audience. Elaborating the Krishnamurthy from Spain, at the Siri Fort auditori Raghav…..’, the favourite Ramdhun raga in mandra and atimandra oc with the Castile um. The evening opened with two of Bapu that created the most serene taves, she proceeded towards the and Leon superb solo performances by the or atmosphere. madhya and taar saptak, weaving Orchestra ; chestra, comprising woodswinds Kavita also sang the Narsi Mehta anticipatory web around each pro Sharada Mushti such as fl ute, oboe, clarinet and Bhajan ‘Vaishnav jana toh…’, anoth gressive swara. The magic of meend er favourite of the Mahatma. This continued in jod and jhala too. was surprisingly not in the popular Seemingly not so sure of rhythm, Khamaj based tune but in Kirwani to Sharada was ably accompanied on suit the splendid Orchestra accom pakhawaj by Sukhad Munde, who panying her. She concluded with a mirrored her rhythmic patterns in a self composed Meera Bhajan “Jo tum variety of chhandas in chautala. todo…”, arranged for the Orchestra Adarsh Saxena is a post graduate by Dr. Subramaniam, that added the in music from Indira Kala VishwaVi sumptuous ‘bharaav’, a pliant resi dyalaya, groomed as the ITCSRA lience, to the bhajan. pressivo and Allegro. Starting with a tures of 7,8 alternating 3,4 changing cases young talents with remarkable scholar, under Pt. Arun Bhaduri in “Spring Rhapsody” was a classical solo fl ute section, it had tradeoff s to 6,8 and 12,8; that truly inspired potential during their annual Winter Kolkata. contemporary composition where between diff erent Orchestral instru the Indian percussionists. Festival, but they deserve extra cre Opening with raga Bihag, he pre the ragabased Western classical ments ending with a rhythmic motif The viola section was based on ra dit to open the festival this year with sented the bada Khayal “Kaise sukh Harmony with complex rhythmic repeated three times, like a Tihai. ga Vakulabharanam where the im a Rudra veena recital by a young and sove..”, set to vilambit Ektala, elabo structures, sounded like a perfect The evening reached its climax provisation was further developed upcoming artiste who has dared to rating the raga with barhat, behela blend, creating global musical ex with ‘Nada Priya’, composed by Dr by the violin soloist and joined by opt for this rare and fast disappear wa and a variety of sargam and akar change and dialogue. L. Subramaniam for violin solo, In the entire orchestra towards the ing ancient Indian instrument that taans. The Western harmony based on dian percussions (mridangam by end. The third and concluding belongs to the endangered species of The rhythmically fascinating Indian ragas like ShivaRanjani and Mahesh Krishnamurthy, kanjira by movement was based on raga Indian string instruments nowadays. chhota khayal had its mukhda start Kirwani with the changing rhythm in Ganamurthy, morsing by Sayasai Shuddha Saveri, with quick changes The IIC featured Sharada Mushti on ing from the 5th beat of Teentala. time signature 5/4 changing to 4/4, and tabla by Tanmay Bose), wood in time signatures creating an awe Rudra Veena and Hindustani vocal Adarsh also presented a Jhaptala and 3/4, etc, sounded like varied rhyth winds and strings. some rhythmic cadence. ist Adarsh Saxena from Dehradun, at Teentala composition of Pt. Arun mic cycles of Indian tala system. This Here again the ragaharmony was the C.D. Deshmukh auditorium. Bhaduri and Pt. Jnanprakash Ghosh composition was written in three based on ragas like Kanakangi and The IIC Winter Festival Sharada Mushti, one amongst just in raga Jog before concluding his vo movements – Rubato, Rubato Es rhythmically interesting time signa The India International Centre show a handful practitioners of Rudra Vee cal recital with a Bhairavi Bhajan.
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Tribute The Sanskrit scholar among the Progressives
Striking a balance between modern art and Indian philosophy, Akbar Padamsee strived to bring the conscious and the unconscious on the same plane
Uma Nair CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC later years, he favoured a perceptual and atmospheric style. His cubist archi kbar Padamsee’s passing tectonic forms gave way to warm earthy away invited an elegiac si hues translating into an experiential lence in the contemporary and sensory semblance. Deliberately art world. India has lost the nebulous, Padamsee perfected the ter Sanskrit scholar among the rain between representation and ab PArogressives. Padamsee, as an artist, led straction. us into a space of refi ned aesthetic, ba lancing between the hieratic and the hu Metascapes and Shakuntalam man. Padamsee’s works were born out of lit In the best of two centuries, Padam erary refl ections and indepth philoso see nourished himself as the fountain phy. He chanted shlokas/verses with a head of regional and ancestral tradi gentle eloquence. When one asked him tions to translate an epoch of about the idea of using the sun and modernism in his sensibility and lan moon in his metascapes, he said, “This DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD guage. Born in Mumbai on April 12, originated when I was reading the intro Spiritual and truly transcendental quality 1928, into a Khoja Muslim family with in ductory stanza to ‘Abhijnanashakunta Among the Progressives, Akbar was one of tellectual leanings, Padamsee joined Sir. lam’. Here Kalidasa speaks of the eight my favourites. He was gentle, thoughtful, J.J. School of Art in 1948, with consider visible forms of the Lord without men deeply philosophical and truly committed able support from his family and the tioning them by name, the sun and the to his work. He stood apart because he had blessings of Aga Khan. moon as the two controllers of time, wa a rare understanding and immense know ter as the origin of all life, fi re as the link ledge of Indian history and ancient literat Sanskrit scholar between man and god, and the earth as ure. Remember he was not born into a Hindu family but he was so well read, so Padamsee drew from Kalidasa’s “Ab the source of all seed. I was exploring informed about Kalidasa and great works hijnanasakuntalam” extensively. The adding poetic meaning to create new of Indian poets including ancient texts. In principle “Ye dve kaal vigattah (These forms from nature.” today’s world he sets a great example for two controllers of time)” indicate the si In 2005, at his studio in Mumbai, in other artists to follow. The beauty is that multaneous presence of the sun and the front of a magnifi cent Metascape, he ex he successfully implemented all that he moon. In the same way, each aspect of plained. “It talks about all the senses knew and felt into his metascapes. They his paintings was elemental: “Sarva bija and the eight elements. I use the sun had a spiritual and truly transcendental prakruti (That which is responsible for and moon and water. Earth and water quality. We have lost a great artist and the growth of all seeds). This duality, at and fi re I use. It is actually Shiva’s Metas thinker who had invented his own lan guage in his works over more than six dec once spiritual and aesthetic, and the Gaze of a visionary Akbar Padamsee (19282020) * THE HINDU ARCHIVES cape. Shiva, as an element, is fi re. But I ades. core of much of Indian and Chinese phi don’t use the word Shiva, I call it Metas Jogen Chowdhury, artist losophy, defi ned Padamsee’s art. me. He was so wonderful and really be DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD capes,” he explained to the writer. “Ex DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Post Partition, it was Sayed Haider ‘Grey Period’ came a friend of mine. He didn't budge, Best friend pression must contain its dialectical op Raza’s moving to Paris that prompted The Jehangir solo saw him execute four he would just sit in his own place look Choosy about his friendships, like Tyeb posite, the conscious and the mon preoccupation with Sanskrit and Padamsee to move to the French city to paintings. They belonged to his ‘grey ing at me. Not barking or anything, all (Mehta), Akbar barely suff ered fools. unconscious on the same physic plane. I rasa aesthetics. I was 20 when I fi rst met study and peruse painting. Raza, Souza, period’. Greek Landscape, Reclining night as I worked.” Often, the two were interchangeable. have two eyes, two retinas, but the him, at which point he had long ago They were the best of friends, perhaps and Padamsee became the trio who Nude, Juhu and Cityscape were argua mind compounds the two images into mastered both the language and the because they had a similar intellectual whose canvas was fermented by French bly among the fi nest of Padamsee's Portraiture as a pretext prowess. He had his wits about him al one.” theory, and I was studying both formal avantgarde sensibilities. oeuvre. His fi gurative works and citys Among his greatest works were his early ways! ly. Akbar could open up enormous hori His fi rst show was held with Raza and capes were preludes to the panoramic portraits. Padamsee treated portraiture Apart from a great artist, Akbar was Dynamism of movement zons, whether on colour fi eld abstrac Souza at Gallerie Saint Placide in 1952 paintings – they had no linear narrative as a pretext, approaching it only to leave also a smart administrator of his Padamsee spent a lifetime probing tion, mathematics, language, yoga, or and a twoperson show with Raza, In nor defi nite beginning and end, dense it behind. At the Saff ronart’s September wealth. the subtleties of human existence Shaiva philosophy. Over the years, I dian Painters in Paris, in 1953. His fi rst landscapes were almost entirely fi lled sale (2018) his Untitled portrait had an ShireenDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Gandhy, gallerist through his work. The critic who of wrote about various bodies of work that solo in India was held at the Jehangir Art by blocklike architectural forms, abut elusiveness and aura of exclusivity. The fered indepth insights into Padamsee’s he produced, ranging from his metas Gallery in 1954. By then, there were in ting each other on what looked like a English scholar and critical theorist Ho pectively. Subsequently, in the works is Ranjit Hoskote. “With Akbar's capes through his series of heads to his fl uences of Picasso, Braque, and Modi gentle hillside. mi K. Bhabha wrote, “...this illusive, mid1960s, he travelled to North Ameri passing, I lose another early mentor – experiments with computer graphics. gliani that had formed their own im Another salient solo was his 1960 so enigmatic look is what gives the work its ca on a John D. Rockefeller III fellowship one who off ered me his generous gui He, for his part, always responded with pressions on his palette. lo exhibition, in which he decided he presence... the look here, is not the kind where his landscapes took on a more dance both in aesthetic and practical intensity and generosity to my writing would not paint indoors, but out in the that makes the spectator feel imme experimental character, laying the foun matters. Among the shared interests across genres. ‘People will always be open and only at night. Spreading a diately identifi ed. It invites and at the dation for a major transformation in his that brought us together was our com asking for your writing on art,’ he would huge canvas on the fl oor of the lighted same time elides his look, so it is more practice in the 1970s. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD tell me. ‘But never forget that you are a <> court, he would start to work, confi ning like a gaze.” Colours for him were soft and suf poet.’ Aesthetics and mathematics Akbar could open up himself to the use of two colours: black It was in the late 1950s that Akbar Pa fused. He would say, “It’s far more excit Akbar was a friend from whom I learnt Akbar was a great inspiration. His af enormous horizons, whether and white. damsee fi rst turned from fi guration to ing for me as a painter, to work in grey about art and life. I understood what the fi nity for the most essential forms and on colour fi eld abstraction, Refl ecting on this change, Padamsee the landscape as the primary mode of or sepia. The brush can move freely scientist Dr Homi Bhabha had said, that 'art colours came from early childhood im said, “Painting in my Juhu fl at I started his artistic expression. The period coin from fi gure to ground, and this interac is a science' after knowing Akbar. His art pressions, and his work, despite being mathematics, language, yoga, working on it for three or four nights be cided with frequent travels between tion off ers me immense formal possibil emerged from a deep understanding of quite abstract at times, can be very or Shaiva philosophy cause the sunlight was too much in my Mumbai and Paris. These two cities in ities.” aesthetics and mathematics to create visu emotional. I fi nd this stuff more inspir Ranjit Hoskote open courtyard, I had to work at night. spired monumental grey landscapes Landscapes for Padamsee represent als that could not happen by accident. ing, more futurelooking than anything And a dog used to come and sit next to and architectonic views of city roofs res ed experimentation and expression. 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Beyond the obvious A portrait of Sir IN SHORTS “Sawanehe Sir Syed: Syed Ahmed Khan on the cover Ek Baazdeed”, a es. Similarly, three diff erent dates have been given of the beginning of Sir biographical account Syed’s employment by Hali, Graham, Remembering of Sir Syed Ahmed and Alam. Kidwai casts his dice in fa Khan, throws new light vour of Alam who considers 1838 as the year when Syed started his offi cial Bapu on the life and times career. of the reformer and Sir Syed is usually discussed as a re former and educationist by all com On the 12th death anniversary of renowned choreographer, educationist mentators. Kidwai throws important Narendra Sharma, Naren Jayan Studio presents Teen Adhyaya, an light on his role as the member of Vice evening of solos dance and choreographed by Bharat Sharma at its Mohammad Asim Siddiqui premises near Nirman Vihar Metro Station Pillar No. 75 on January CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC roy’s Legislative Council. Sir Syed was deeply concerned that a lot of children 14. “Dandi” is a new solo choreographed as a tribute to Mahatma aulana Abul Kalam Azad’s died of small pox and ironically this Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary with reference to his book “India Wins Freedom” is was accepted as the curse of God. A ra seminal Dandi March (Salt Satyagraha). It also refers to the solo Mone of the most widely read tionalist to the core, he prepared and Dandi in Mayurbanj books on the events and happenings introduced the draft of the bill to erad Chhau which has similar leading to the partition of India. In res icate small pox. In his second term as ideas of departure and ponse to this book Rajmohan Gandhi the member of the Council, he threw renunciation. wrote “India Wins Errors: A Scrutiny his weight behind the proposal of rais “Agyeya” is based on of Maulana Azad’s India Wins Free ing the age of civil services aspirants select poetry and thoughts of eminent dom”(2006) which, as its self explana for Indians and conducting the exami writer Sachidanand tory title suggests, tried to point to nation in India as well as in England. Vatsyayan whose some inaccuracies and errors in the Of Sir Syed’s two sons, a lot has been contribution to Hindi Maulana’s book. written about his younger son Syed poetry and literature Shafey Kidwai, the winner of 2019 Mahmood (18501903) who was the were critical in shaping Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for his fi rst Indian jurist to be appointed to Al cultural contours of book “Sawanehe Sir Syed: Ek Baaz lahabad High Court. Kidwai impor Delhi in 1950s and deed”, a biographical account of Sir tantly dwells on the redeeming quali 1960s. “Neti! Neti!” explores Syed (18171898) which covers some, ties of his other son Syed Hamid who the ancient Indian though not all, important aspects of was given to drinking and who had to philosophical system of his life (Brown Publications, 2017), quit his job. Kidwai also presents some arriving at a belief performs a similar task when he sub interesting anecdotes from Sir Syed’s through negation. It is jects another iconic book, Altaf Hus Correcting life to bring out his sense of humour, an important tool in sain Hali’s (18371914) biography of Sir his truthfulness, and his aff able traditional wisdom to Syed “HayateJaved” (1901) to a tho nature. make an argument to rough scrutiny. Baffl ed by Hali’s errors, Kidwai conduct a discourse. According to Bharat looks at the sources of Hali’s book and Sharma, these three Source text the errors discovers that Hali relied a great deal solos have evolved over “HayateJaved” has generally been on one unpublished biography of Sir last six years, and are used as a basic source text for scores of ment. He brings the rigours of social discovers that Sir Syed’s father’s and Syed written by Munshi Sirajuddin. Si being put together as a books, both in Urdu and English, on sciences to his investigation of various his sister’s names are not mentioned rajuddin’s text, considered too hagio cohesive performance of approximately 60-minute duration. Sir Syed. It is only appropriate that facts in Hali’s book, cross checking and correctly by Hali and Graham. His fath graphic and also lacking proper style, Kidwai’s book gets important notice in correcting them. A believer in C.P. er’s name was neither Mir Mohammad was not approved by Sir Syed and was the bicentenary year of Sir Syed’s birth Snow’s dictum ‘comment is free, but Muttaqi, nor Syed Mohammad Taqi, later handed over to Hali when he Bridging the gap when not only the vast literature avail facts are sacred’, one of the methods but Syed Mohammad Muttaqi whereas found time to write “HayateJaved”. able on him is being looked at afresh used in his study is the critical cross his sister’s name, as written by Sir Kidwai is scathing in his criticism of but also a number of programmes on checking of some opinions and facts Syed, was Ijbitun Nisan and not Safi a Hali’s inaccuracies which he considers The Udaipur World Music Festival 2020, a city-wide, multi venue music festival featuring over 150 global artists and collaborations the great thinker and educationist are about Sir Syed’s life in the works of his tun Nisan as recorded by Hali. He also unpardonable because Hali could ac with participation from over 20 countries, will be held in Udaipur next underway in diff erent parts of the other biographers, in particular, G.F.I. puts on record the fact that Sir Syed’s cess both Sirajuddin’s draft as well as month. world, thanks to the vast network of Graham’s “The Life and Works of Sir ancestors came to India during the pe Graham’s which had come out by The festival - to be held at Amet Haveli, Ambrai Ghat, Fateh sagar Paal AMU alumni. Saiyyed” (1885) and Iftikhar Alam riod of Akbar, and not Shahjahan as re then. and Gandhi Ground from 7th to 9th February - seeks to bring the A very respected name in Urdu liter Khan’s “Sir Syed: Duroone Khana” corded by Hali. At the end Sir Syed’s own words on world together on one platform, bridging diversities and binding ary criticism and journalism, Shafey (2006). the genre of biography reveal his mod diverse people through music, joy and multiculturalism. Kidwai, interestingly, has never stu For him the primary source is the Excellent command esty and his care for an honest scholar This year, the festival seeks to celebrate the concept 'We are the died Urdu formally. The grandson of writings of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, es Kidwai also disagrees with Hali’s view ship: “Biography is not hagiography. It World: Unity in diversity'. Through planned curations, on-ground celebrated Islamic scholar Abdul Majid pecially Sir Syed’s biography of his ma that Sir Syed read only halfseriously should be such that it should be a spe events and artist interaction, the festival promises to be a microcosm to a diverse yet one world. Daryabadi (18921977) has been a stu ternal grandfather “Sirate Faridiya”, the elementary books of Arabic and cimen of the good and bad aspects of The upcoming edition will feature a range of artists that include Sudha dent of social sciences and has mostly “Life of Mohammed”, his letters and Persian. Syed’s writings, Kidwai ar the subject….Writing about me that ‘ Raghuraman, Carnatic vocalist, Ginni Mahi and Habib Koite, a mastered the intricacies of Urdu lan the periodical “Risala Khair Khwahan” gues, prove his serious reading and ex he is very learned and perfect’, how prominent singer from Mali. guage at home in a literary environ which Sir Syed started. Thus, Kidwai cellent command of the two languag wrong is this.”
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Telling Voices ‘‘Tanhaji’ can serve as a strong Between fi ction inspiration for the youth’ and non fi ction
Ahead of the release of “Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior”, Ajay Devgn underlines the importance of freedom Giving his personal account, noted French and need for dialogue in a democracy writer Emmanuel Carrere explains the rationale for switching writing from fi rst Murtaza Ali Khan person to third person CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Regional fl avour Ajay Devgn says the fi lm will be released in Marathi as well * PTI m Raut’s “Tanhaji: The Un Sudhamahi Regunathan sung Warrior” is based on CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the life of the 17th century lavish period fi lms.” Maratha warrior Tanhaji o get the right title for a Malusare who led an army Director’s take book is perhaps a greater tOhat successfully captured the Kondha The basis of Tanhaji is the strong re Tchallenge than writing the na fort from a Rajput fort keeper named search done by director Om Raut and book itself. Emmanuel Carrere Udaybhan Singh Rathore. Said to be his team of writers. “I was in the US calls his latest collection of es fought during the night of February 4, when Zack Snyder’s ‘300’ came out. says, “97196 Words”. Now if 1670, the Battle of Sinhagad brought Ta When I watched the fi lm, I was blown you wonder what it contains, is naji, a warrior in Shivaji’s army against away by the bravery of King Leonidas in it fi ction or nonfi ction etc., you Rathore, who was working under the the war fi eld. I got out of the theatre in are quintessentially asking for command of the Mughal Emperor Au New York and I said to myself that there Carrere’s profi le. rangzeb. Noted actor Ajay Devgn, who are so many amazing stories that we Carrere answers, “I don’t plays the fi lm’s eponymous character, is have in our motherland that we need to care very much about genres…I also one of the fi lm’s producers. showcase to the world. And the fi rst did write novels for more than “When we make fi lms we look for name that came to mind was Subedar ten years. Now what I write is subjects that can engage the audience. Tanhaji Malusare because I have been not fi ction, you can call it non same time that I switched writ When I heard Tanhaji’s story it made me hearing about his bravery from my fi ction. I try to write it as a no ing from fi rst person to third realise that such big sacrifi ces have been grandparents and parents since when I vel, the diff erence being that person…I think both these made by people which we can’t think of. was a child,” reveals Raut who started the characters have not come changes are linked very closely He fought bravely against the might of his research on Tanhaji back in 2015, fol from my imagination. But I craft ..when it is fi ction the writer the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. But, lowing the release of his fi rst fi lm “Lok the story like a novel. I hope it knows everything about the the people in the north don’t know manya Ek Yugpurush”. gives the pleasure and excite characters. But if you have to much about him,” says Devgn, commit The fi rst step for Raut was to get the ment that one expects from a write something about Romand ted to making more fi lms about unsung script right. “It was important to get the novel.” whose mind is a black box to regional Indian heroes as part of the ‘un core foundation right. So it was about He continues, “I was writing which you have no access…it is sung warriors’ series. reading books, meeting with historians, about Jean Claude Romand who immoral and complicated to visiting the actual places, going through was the worst type of crimina say Romand thinks like this or Story of sacrifi ce the paintings of the time, etc. Once the l…It was very diffi cult for me to feels like that. The only way to Devgn believes that the sacrifi ce script was ready, the next challenge was write as non fi ction about how manage that is to say,” I guess…I made by Tanhaji can serve as a strong to actually create the world of Tanhaji, he had cold bloodedly planned think…I suspect…he was think inspiration for the youth. “Tanhaji sa Unfortunately, the forts are completely all the murders. I began writing ing like this. So third person be crifi ced himself for the freedom of his in ruins. So, we took pictures of the this in 1993 but the book The comes essential.” people. But we often take freedom for ruins in many diff erent ways. We did ae Adversary was published only Carrere redefi nes the idea of granted. The story of Tanhaji is a remin rial photography and also brought some in 2000…I had it in the back of non fi ction saying, “When you der that we owe it to our country and scanners to do the architectural scan of my mind all these seven years. are writing non fi ction you can our society. If everyone starts caring a the location. We brought all that data It was some kind of a psycho not be claiming to be writing little, it can make a huge diff erence,” av back into our offi ce and tried to create a logical ordeal to do that terrible the truth. You can at best say it ers Devgn, expressing concern on the vision on top of it. So that’s how we suc story…I met him in jail, I attend is your truth…it could be a very ongoing student protests in the country. ceeded in recreating the Kondhana ed his trial…there was a mo narrow truth. You have to be “Frankly, it’s not a great situation to fort,” recollects Raut. ment when it came to me that I aware of that and so too your be in for the country. I think in a democ The extensive research allowed Raut had to write it like fi ction, not readers. Another reason why I and the team to pay attention to the mi fi ction, but with true facts. I had made this change and now I can nutest of the details. “We paid great at a legal responsibility because if not imagine any other way of <> tention to the type of cannons em I got any fact wrong I could be writing. This is how I feel more ployed, the various varieties of spears, sued…it was also around the honest with myself, with my We paid great attention to the and the diff erent kinds of swords wield readers and the characters in type of cannons employed, ed by the diff erent warriors at the time. BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB the book.” the various varieties of spears, racy things should be sorted out politics in life. When I feel that some A foot soldier’s sword is very diff erent Carrere redefi nes the Carrere also writes in Rus through dialogue. The establishment good work is happening, I support it. If I from that of a horse rider who needs a sian. His mother was of Russian and the diff erent kinds of has the right to take its decisions and the don’t like something, I share my opi much longer sword. Also, the Marathas idea of non fi ction origin and a well known expert swords wielded by the people have the right to protest peace nion. And when I am not too sure, I were not very tall and so their swords saying, “When you are on Russia in France. “We, my diff erent warriors at the time. fully. So, the only solution is to sit to usually keep quiet,” explains Devgn. were bent to match their speeds as op writing non fi ction you sisters and I grew up very gether and discuss it out so that it can be After “Shivaay”, he has once again posed to the tall Mughals who used a A foot soldier’s sword is very cannot be claiming to be French, but some memories of settled amicably,” opines Devgn. spent heavily on special eff ects. Fond of long sword with a thicker blade. We Russia still give me a comfort an diff erent from that of a horse Seen as a supporter of the present dis trying new things, Devgn reminds that don’t have funny weapons like the ones writing the truth. You warmth. So I learnt Russian and rider who needs a much pensation, Devgn says he doesn’t like to he has been doing it since “Pyaar To Ho we have seen in some fi lms. The wea can at best say it is your am able to write somethings in longer sword be seen as a supporter of any political na Hi Tha”. “I feel access to bigger bud pons that we have used in Tanhaji are all truth…it could be a very Russian which I may not be able party. “I have no links to any political gets and better technology has made it real and they were actually there. So, it’s to do in French. Russian is both Om Raut party. Also, I have no plans of joining possible for Indian fi lmmakers to make no fi ction,” sums up Raut. narrow truth. familiar and unfamiliar…”
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Lillette Dubey weekend A delight for the senses
In Shunya – A Journey”, artist Rita Jhunjhunwala and photographer Shreekant Somany collaborated to create a tapestry of the fi ve elements through paintings and photographs
Anuradha Vellat The Primetime Theatre Co will stage three popular award CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC winning plays directed by Lillette Dubey at Kamani Auditorium, Mandi House. This Saturday, 11th January pirituality in Indian arts has will feature Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, a been a common theme for passionate portrayal of love and survival; Mahesh Dattani's centuries. But to string it Dance like a Man, a comic drama. Sunday will witness S Kishwar Desai's, Devika Rani - Goddess of the Silver seamlessly across diff erent medi Screen, a biographical drama. ums requires an eye for detail. At a recent exhibition titled “Shu A 100 years of Guayasamín nya – A Journey”, artist Rita An exhibition of Jhunjhunwala and photographer lithographic prints by the Shreekant Somany collaborated celebrated master painter to create a tapestry of the fi ve ele and sculptor from Ecuador, ments or panchatattvas through Oswaldo Guayasamín is on paintings and photographs. The view at Annexe Art Gallery, India International Centre. show included more than 60 The works represents three works showcasing Jhunjhunwa periods of Maestro Guayasamín’s artistic trajectory: The la’s mixed media works on paper Trail of Tears; the Age of Rage; and The Tenderness. inspired by Benaras and Soma ny’s photographs shot in across Battle of wrong and right the Himalayas, including Kazakh stan, Ladakh, Spiti and Kashmir. Interpreting fi re (from left) Works of Rita Jhunjhunwal and Shreekant Somany Says Jhunjhunwala, “What keeps me going back to Benares tured, I could see the ethereal many’s take on water, captured hovering around crowded boats ones, to see how we could depict is the vibrancy, the energy, the vi beauty of it, rather than mere on the shores on Mansarovar and the fl oating scent of fresh the elements. The biggest chal suals; these things attracted me physical.” Lake. marigolds and jasmines.” Similar lenge was to fi nd exact photo initially. Over time, I have also For her paintings, Jhunjhun Shreekant Somany, primarily ly, the photograph titled Fire was graphs that would depict the ele gotten used to it. But every time wala used diff erent kinds of pap an industrialist, has been ob shot on a winter morning fl ight to ments. Fire and water are easy. Bela Theater Karwaan presents Ramkali, a Hindi play there is a new aspect. I see more er – handmade, acrylic, butter sessed with the mountains from Leh. It depicted the hues of How do you depict ether and air? written by Amitabh Shrivastava, on 11th January at Shri depth and spirituality behind it, and even newspaper along with early on. “I have trekked in va dawn, with the sun peeping from It was sheer luck,” adds Somany. Ram Centre for Performing Arts, Mandi House. Directed which is why we have called it acrylic colours, watercolours, rious places, gone up to 19000ft. behind Nanda Devi. “Fire”, for Another interesting display by Arvind Gaur, Ramkali is the adaptation of Bertolt Shunya. It is the merging of fi ve charcoal. “Even for a tourist, the The mountains are a part of na Jhunjhunwala, is depicted was “Weathered Wisdom” that Brecht's play, The Good Person of Szechwan. It raises core issues facing today’s world, of greed versus common good, elements, which composes the city is a delight for the senses. ture which make you realise through the consecrated fl ames showcased two sets of portrait and of the value of right and wrong. entire world. I have also ma And as an artist, I have never where you stand. Unless you are of the huge oil lamps that circle photographs and their replicas in ceased to be amazed at how it able to relate to yourself as a part around the priests in a holy painting, of elderly people from NT Live Broadcast makes me think about the cycle of that nature, you can never re dance amidst ringing of bells and Kohima. “I have always found National Theatre will <> of birth and death every time. late to your self,” says Somany. chanting of mantras. that people from the mountains broadcast Noël Coward’s The philosophy of Benaras ap The photograph titled “Air” The theme of the fi ve elements have wisdom engraved on their 1943 comedy Present The philosophy of peals to me because it compels caught everyone’s eye. It turns was both conscious and uncon faces. They have weathered the Laughter, this Sunday, 12th January at The Stein Benaras appeals to me me to think of us as part of the out, on the way from Darchen to scious. “It would have been very storm of life. None of the people Auditorium, India because it compels me to much bigger cosmos and how Ali in Tibet, Somany saw the maj boring to just put the pictures even knew I was taking their pic International Centre. minuscule we are in its compari estic peak through the eye of a next to the paintings. But these tures. They are absolutely can Directed by Matthew think of us as part of the son,” she adds. Her painting brewing storm. “It was a pheno pictures were depicting someth did,” says Somany. To which, Warchus, starring Andrew Scott, the plot depicts a few much bigger cosmos and called “Water” is a beautiful dep menon worth stopping for and ing and to my mind it came, why Jhunjhunwala adds, “I have tried days in the life of the successful and self-obsessed light how minuscule we are in iction of the Ganges on the ghats capturing,” says Somany. Jhunj not elements, which was instant to recreate the photographs but comedy actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for of Benares, with pilgrims pray hunwala depicts the same in her ly agreed upon. Then, I started show their experiences through a touring commitment in Africa. its comparison ing alongside. The painting was painting through “a sky brim collecting my round pictures and my paintings. There is wisdom Rita Jhunjhunwala displayed next to Shreekant So ming with the chatter of seagulls matching them with the straight but they are not bitter about it.”
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