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New Delhi June 29, 2003, Capital • 40 pages including Men & Women & Classifieds + 8 pages of Delhi Times Price Rs. 2.75 14 killed, 7 Graphic: Neelabh SNAPSHOTS AP injured in suicide attack on Army camp
TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES Jammu: In the first major strike since Prime Minister A B Vajpayee’s peace initia- tive, two heavily armed ter- rorists dressed in military uniform carried out a suicide attack on an Army camp here early on Saturday. Twelve personnel were killed and seven injured in the attack, before the two terrorists were shot dead. OH MARIAH! Singer Mariah Carey greets Hurling grenades and fir- her fans at Universal Studios Japan, in ing indiscriminately,the mil- Osaka, a Hollywood-style theme park. itants stormed the Sunjivan The singer, now on a concert tour in camp at around 4.30 am Japan, visited the park for charity on killing two guards at the June 27. main gate. Three plans: Which one will work? They entered the barracks Lok Pal Bill: The Union cabinet on and fired on the sleeping By Sakina Yusuf Khan area will be protected by build- makeshift temple stands today. ture. The court decides on the All sections of the govern- Saturday approved the Lok Pal Bill. It jawans, an Army spokesper- and Mohua Chatterjee ing a wall around it and a pas- The two structures could be fate of the disputed site which ment have more or less agreed rejected a suggestion of the Constitution son said in New Delhi. The TIMES NEWS NETWORK sage way leading up it. The separated by a stream or canal. will be walled in. to accept this as the best possi- review commission that the prime militants were shot dead by a New Delhi: It’s Ayodhya, now court will decide the title suit. Proposal three: The mandir The situation is extremely ble path to resolve the crisis be- minister’s office be kept out of the quick reaction team of the The government will also give fluid and plans are changing fore the assembly elections in ombudsman’s purview. P6 or never, feels the government will be built on the undisputed Army, he said. The attack as it readies to face the polls. an undertaking that if the land. The masjid will also be everyday.Hectic parleys are on November so that the temple Raid at Badal’s houses: Vigilance came as President A P J Ab- But what exactly is the formula court verdict goes in favour of built but outside the panch kosi to arrive at a consensus formu- construction can begin before Bureau conducted raids on two houses dul Kalam wrapped up his locked in the Shankaracharya’s Muslims, it will help them in la since there is massive dis- the parliamentary elections . of the former Punjab chief minister three-day visit to Jammu and proposal which shall be dis- building the mosque. sension between the govern- On behalf of the Vajpayee Prakash Singh Badal on Sunday in con- Kashmir. ‘‘Leads on the ter- cussed by the members of the (For pitfalls, see graphic). ment and the Sangh Parivar on government, former Chief Jus- nection with a dispropotionate assets rorists and their linkages are Muslim Personal Law Board on Proposal two: The mandir SUNDAY the issue. Efforts to bring the tice A R Ahmadi and former case against him. He has termed the ac- being followed up,’’ the and the mosque be allowed to VHP on board will continue President R Venkataraman, a tion as ‘‘political vendetta’’. P9 July 6? Sunday Times brings spokesman said. you the real picture. co-exist. The Muslims give SPECIAL right up to July 4 when the final follower of Shankaracharya, Liberhan panel: The Liberhan Com- However, a lesser known According to sources, cur- away the ‘garbh griha’ land and proposal will be handed over to are actively involved in facili- mission visited the areas near the Babri militant outfit Al Nasreen rently there are three formulae the Hindus remove the parikarma (i.e. 18 km away). In the representatives of the Mus- tating the negotiations. Ahma- Masjid in Ayodhya on Sunday to acquire claimed responsibility for the which have been mooted by the makeshift temple. The temple lieu of this, Muslims will get lim Personal Law Board. It will di is communicating with the a first-hand knowledge of the circum- attack. One Abu Salim government for a peaceful reso- will be built where the ‘garbha permission to pray at all ASI then be discussed at the AIMPLB and Venkataraman stances leading to the mosque’s demoli- Mehmood, claiming to be the lution of the tangle. girha’ is located. Since this is held mosques (nearly 1,000; 30 Board’s crucial Executive Com- with the Shakaracharya. tion in 1992. P8 spokesman of the outfit, Proposal one: The Muslims on the land which belongs to in Delhi) in the country. The mittee on July 6. With Vajpayee’s return from called up the PTI office from Iraq’s orchestra plays again: Iraq’s (the Waqf Board) will give a ‘no Muslims, they will have to VHP will give an undertaking The government finds the China, the process has gained National Symphony orchestra held its first Srinagar and said three Al objection’ certificate to build- agree to gift it away. The that they will not rake up third proposal most viable and momentum. Vajpayee and Ad- concert since the ouster of Saddam Hus- Nasreen militants had car- ing a temple at the undisputed mosque will be built on the ad- Kashi-Mathura and other tem- is studying the legal proce- vani have already had a de- sein. It presented a patriotic song, bring- ried out the attack. site (2.77 acres). The disputed jacent land where the ple-masjid disputes in the fu- dures for its implementation. tailed discussion on Saturday. ing tears to the eyes of many in the audi- This is the second major at- ence. The song ‘‘is a message to the tack on an Army installation world that we are still proud of our coun- here in the last two years. On try and existence,’’ orchestra conductor May 14, 2001, militants had at- Abdel Razak Al-Azawi said. tacked family members of Wan a Mont’lan? Just 100 bucks, okay 60 is fine Army personnel killing 34 of N Korea flays US: North Korea sharply By Manoj Joshi criticised the United States in a letter them at Kaluchak. North Face windcheaters, Nike, Gap and tween 15-20 yuan. With a bulk order, the goes like this: Shopkeeper punches 240 warning the UN Security Council to take The two terrorists had TIMES NEWS NETWORK Tommy Hilfiger products. Most are price could go down to 10. yuan for that ritzy linen shirt. Shopper: taken shelter in Sarkanda copies but well-made and at one-twenti- Located near the Temple of Heaven, 20 yuan. Shopkeeper howls with laugh- a neutral stance regarding Pyongyang’s Beijing/Shanghai: The Ralph Lauren nuclear ambitions. The five-page letter Area to enter the military eth the price. So hey,who’s complaining! Hongqiao is a microcosm of the quintes- ter, punches 200. Shopper comes back Polo shirts that came from a street ven- was peppered with fiery language accus- station, he said. The Mont Blanc pens in the first floor sential China bazaar and a cornucopia of with 25 and begins to walk away. Shop- ing Washington of threatening his country The injured soldiers were dor near Xiu Shui (Silk Alley) at 5 for 100 of Hongqiao market are obvious fakes, desires with it’s multi-floored display of keeper drops to 50. Shopper generously and violating international treaties. shifted to military hospital yuan ( 1 Yuan= Rs 6) were perfect copies, but only the cognoscenti would be able to consumer goodies. But the real ecstasy closes it at 30. Shopkeeper’s last offer 35. in Satwari near Jammu. from the ultra-smooth cotton to the dis- tell. From the distinctive white star to the comes from bargaining. Begin with 10-15 Victory at hand and the deal is clinched. Paes-Rikl advance: India’s Leander tinctive label describing the product. Per- Paes and David Rikl of Czech Republic Two, critically wounded, oversized nib and heavy feel, it looks like per cent of the seller’s original price and All this, without losing your cool as in haps they were the real thing. advanced to the third round of the men’s were airlifted to the military the Meisterstuck Le Grand Fountain Pen go up to 30 per cent. No interpreters are Hong Kong, and Sarojini Nagar. The doubles event at Wimbledon tennis hospital in Udhampur, the Here there are not just silk products, that retails at about $350 in the US. The really needed. The hand-held calculator sales are managed by teenagers, super- championships with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win sources said. bags and shoes, but Timberland sandals, Chinese version comes at anywhere be- is the communication medium. And it vised by impassive shopkeepers. over Nicolas Kiefer and David Prinosil of Germany on Saturday. P17 Twist in the tale Noida: Navneet Rai, a former classmate of dowry- buster Nisha Sharma, claims to have married her on February 14, four months before she packed off Muneesh Dalal, her would-be-groom on charges of dowry harassment. Navneet has produced a copy of indiatimes.com POLL an affidavit, signed by Nisha, which says she had married him. Navneet said, he had not made the doc- Is sex becoming the new mantra for ument public earlier, as he hoped Nisha would come hit-starved Bollywood? back to him. ‘‘But I decided to act as my silence was Yes 87% No 13% keeping Munish and his mother in jail for no fault of theirs’’. Navneet claims, the Dalals had discovered VOTE NOW: Would Bollywood films without that Nisha was married to him. ‘‘So, she filed a report song-and-dance sequences make against them.’’ Nisha’s response: ‘‘The signature on for better viewing? the affidavit resembles mine. But, it’s not mine. Na- Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Nisha with Navneet on their ‘engagement day’. vneet has colluded with the Dalals to defame me.’’ TNN WEATHER
Max. 38oC/Min. 28oC Moonset: Sunday – 7.17 pm Splurging, the Crorepati way... Moonrise: Monday – 5.35 am By Sujata Dutta Sachdeva ry vehicle priced at Rs 85 lakh — Sunset: Sunday – 7.23 pm TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hedonist Index were sold in India. Till May Sunrise: Monday – 5.26 am this year, 38 S-Class cars priced Mainly cloudy sky with possibility of rain/thunder- New Delhi: India has over 50,000 Mercedes Roadster Features: Salon-cum- at around Rs 62 lakh have shower in some areas. Maximum temperature will high net-worth individuals with been sold.’’ be around 37oC. Maximum relative humidity on sports-luxury vehicle financial assets of more than Rs Louise Vuitton launched last Saturday 87 per cent and minimum 47 per cent. one crore, according to the latest Price: Rs 85 lakh Maximum sales: 10-15 annually February,has been selling 12 to 15 World Wealth Report (2003) by bags per day. Priced between Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini Sony Ericsson P 800 35,000 and Rs 1 lakh, some of them Ernst & Young. But, that’s not Features: Colour screen, are sold out within days of being the news. The news is that big pen-based user inter launched. Mont Blanc pens, bucks are going into big-ticket phase, 12 MB internal whose average price is Rs 15,000 purchases, spawning lifestyles of memory with limited editions going upto the global mega-rich, with Price: Rs 32,000 Rs 3 lakh, have been doing brisk wardrobes, bars, garages and liv- Sales: 4,000-5,000 per month business in its seven showrooms ing-rooms — and aspirations — Samsung 42’’ plasma panel across India. ‘‘The 100 pens of the that are club class. Features: Ultra slim, limited edition writers series ‘‘The number of rich are in- can hang on the wall priced at Rs 35,000 were sold with- Book your Classifieds creasing every year,’’says Hamen- Price: 4,75,000 in days of being launched,’’ says 24 hours service: “51-666-888” dra Mathur of KSA Technopak. Sales: 500 by December 2003 retail manager Rashmi Asrani. ‘‘India has over 25,000 households (See Box). Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” with an annual income of more Mont Blanc So what drives a person to The ATM of information than Rs 50 lakh. And it’s likely to Feature: Solid gold splurge on these items? ‘‘You are The Largest Classifieds Site double in the next five years,’’ iridium tip nibs as rich as you can spend,’’ says in- he predicts. Price: Rs 15,000 dustrialist Lalit Suri who Hedonism is on the rise, say ex- (fountain pens) splurges on pens, Ganeshas and perts. And high-priced lifestyle Sales: Adequately high watches. ‘‘I buy them for the pas- products like watches, bags, pens, sion and also because I can afford cell phones, plasma TVs, sports Dior, Rado account for about 5 to it. Money in the bank is just like cars are selling big time. A dekko 10 per cent of the sales or Rs 150- paper,it’s worth nothing.’’ Agrees, at how Hedonist India shops... 200 crore. adman Suhel Seth who buys de- According to a recent KSA Nearly 10,000 premium cars signer ties, watches and Zenia Technopak Survey there is a big (Mercedes, Sonata Octavia, suits. ‘‘I’m not guilty about living market for high-end luxury prod- Lexus), are sold every year. Ac- well. For example, I like flying the ucts in India now. Of the total cording to a Diamler Chrysler’s of- Concorde, so I have booked myself watch market of 22 million units, ficial, ‘‘Last year 15 sports road- for the last flight from New York to Tag Heuer, Longines, Christian ster’s — a salon-cum-sports luxu- London on October 31.’’
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2 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 DELHI
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CINEMA OF THE WEEK
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon and so extra-sweet, it fills you But we’re not dismissing makes the film both tire- (Romance) ★★1/2 with nausea. He tries to the film entirely. On the con- some and bothersome. Even Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Hrithik please everybody, including trary,MPKDH does end up as a seasoned actor like Atul Roshan, the cockatoo, the pet dog, the a coming-of-age film, but for Kulkarni (remember Chand- Abhishek Bachchan house help and ends up dis- Abhishek Bachchan instead ni Bar and Dum) can do lit- Direction: Sooraj Barjatya pleasing the viewer who now of Hrithik and Sooraj. As the tle, despite being accidental- Showing at: Chanakya likes his hero somewhat brooding lover who learns ly embroiled in a hooker’s crooked, thoda sa selfish. As the art of carefree living, Ab- murder on a dark Mumbai rithik’s back. Sooraj the wrong Prem who man- hishek makes you long for a monsoon night. Barjatya’s back. And ages to win the maiden’s bit more screen time with Flashes of Jis Raat Ki H yet, neither of them is heart, he strikes too many him. Kareena is refreshing Subah Nahin (Sudhir back with a bang. Both need- false notes to actually win too and continues to impress Mishra’s innovative take on ed a hit. Hrithik, after a re- your sympathy. Quite an un- with her crackling screen a night-stand-gone-wrong) lentless string of flops follow- usual act since Hrithik has presence. Word of advice: and 88 Antop Hill fills you ing his smash debut in Kaho managed to impress us even Scale down your expectations with a sense of loss: It could Naa Pyaar Hai and Sooraj, in films which have bitten and you might just like it. have been a successor to after the debacle of Hum the dust. Bhoot; it isn’t. Saath Saath Hain. Both may Second problem: Sooraj 88 Antop Hill (thriller) ★★ still need a hit for MPKDH is- Cast: Atul Kulkarni, Jasmine Bruce Almighty Barjatya. The director has re- ★★ n’t exactly the answer to fused to keep abreast with Direction: Kushan Nandy (comedy) 1/2 their prayers. Showing at: Regal Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer changing trends and tastes Aniston Here’s why. First, Hrithik and continues to potter he debutante director Direction: Tim Shaydac hams his way through the en- around in his candy floss El Showing at: PVR Anupam tire length of the film. His Mr dorado peopled with teflon Tgets it all wrong. He feels Nice Guy act is so affected souls with plastic smiles. His thrillers are all about magni- fied sound effects and artifi- arrey is losing his touch. cial Boos. So much so, the CThe laugh lines are straightening out and only attempt to cater to the bescent as it was in Maine background score grows hys- terical and screechy even the Ace Ventura tactics are New Millennium viewer is to Pyaar Kiya and Hum Aapke toning down. Only because acknowledge the word SEX Hain Kaun. Sample the ex- when an ice cube drops into a glass of whiskey or the the comic actor is trying to split the river for Moses and doesn’t answer his prayers. in the lexicon of the young tended Valentine Day games metamorphose into a serious you might just end up Angry Almighty gets sick of lovers. Love divided by sex: in the Love Boat and you’ll lighter ignites a cigarette. Scared, are we? actor. Don’t Jim. We love you splitting your sides. But his constant whining and that’s his new formula for understand. In fact, you with your Mask on. when he tires to play asks him to be God for a day love. And yet, it remains just might even miss his old-fash- But the awry soundtrack Bruce Almighty sparks up sensitive, serious do-gooder and find out how tough and a bookish formula, despite ioned antakshri games. isn’t the only irritant in An- only when Carrey brings out guy, he loses interest. There tricky this whole business of the fact that Kareena does Thirdly, the music (Anu top Hill. It’s the amateurish the clown in him. When he are too many of them, divinity is. Key question? fleetingly kiss her boyfriend. Malik) — generally a high acting, the elementary tries to pay God with the anyway. What’s Jennifer Aniston do- For the rest, the love story re- point of Barjatya’s ro- screenplay and the non- funny bone. Sample him The story? Angry Bruce ing here? mains as propah and pre-pu- mances — lets you down too. thrilling storyline which splitting his soap like God wonders why the Almighty Nikhat Kazmi POOR★ AVERAGE★ ★ GOOD★ ★ ★ VERY GOOD ★ ★ ★ ★ OUTSTANDING ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Scarcity of drugs at LNJP hospital
By Abantika Ghosh from Aligarh, was diagnosed TIMES NEWS NETWORK as cancer several months New Delhi:It has the biggest back. Since then, he has been OPD in Asia. And for author- going through a series of ities and doctors at the Lok- tests. ‘‘The earlier tests were nayak Jay Prakash Narayan done free of cost. Now I have Hospital, that is excuse been asked to get this X-ray enough for non-availability of for which I am supposed to drugs, even ordinary ones pay Rs 750. Where will I get like pain-killers. this much money?’’ While the pharmacy out- Employees manning the side the OPD teems with pa- pharmacy counters claim tients and their relatives that all medicines that come queuing up to procure drugs in get distributed. ‘‘Ask the prescribed by hospital doc- authorities about the supply,’’ tors, they are forced to resort is the usual retort. to nearby druggists’ shops. A junior doctor at the OPD Brandishing a bill of Irwin complained of patient over- Medicos on Asaf Ali Marg, load as the main problem. Suniti Biswas, a resident of ‘‘Besides, they are given med- ITO powerhouse, said, ‘‘I icines for only three days. have been coming for two But, most of them don’t both- years now. Rarely have I got er to come back and buy them drugs from this pharmacy, from outside,’’ he added. sometimes all the prescribed Commenting on the short- drugs had to be bought. With age of medicines, additional a monthly income of around medical superintendent, Dr R Rs 2,000 it’s very difficult.’’ C Nath said: ‘‘There should The pharmacy, is supposed be no problem in getting ba- to provide medicines free of sic drugs like painkillers as cost to needy patients. they come under central pro- Gyan Singh, who had come curement items. for his son’s medicine, has a We have adequate supply of similar woe. The prescription these and can replenish had five medicines. ‘‘I got stocks without going into the just one .” complicated procedure of the A wound in the lower jaw director of health services of Hari Singh, who comes inviting tenders.
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DELHI SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 3 ‘DU colleges Thank God, it’s over! But... should have Dikshit, Mehta on A report on all that’s wrong with Delhi University admissions and lessons for the future a common collision course By Pallavi Majumdar ceived 40,000 applications for TIMES NEWS NETWORK 750 seats, while Khalsa re- criteria’ By Saurabh Sinha Warning that the elec- ceived 30,000 applications for and Nistula Hebbar tions will not give a clean he wanted mathe- Mansi Seth, student of Bal TIMES NEWS NETWORK matics, but got its 700 seats. The college ad- Defeated by numbers chit to law violators, he mits 1,100 students to count- Bharati chemistry instead. New Delhi: The Election said the demolition will er the high attrition rate. School. The choice was be- Commission’s directive to continue as planned under What does this mean for Scored 80 tween getting the states going to polls, in- court orders in the south students? Even 85 per cent per cent. collegeS she wanted to join cluding Delhi, has set chief Delhi colonies of South may not be enough to bag the BSc (Hons) and the course on offer. Rati- minister Sheila Dikshit Extension, Lajpat Nagar best combination of college maths as- ka Arora chose the college. and MCD commissioner and Geeta Colony. and course. Neetu Khandelw- pirant who But thousands have done it has taken Rakesh Mehta on a colli- The owners of the iden- the other way round. al, a student of Modern Pub- tified 198 properties in lic school got 88 per cent in admission sion course. While Dikshit The choice is, however, in chemistry (Hons): has welcomed the direc- South Extension, 37 in Laj- limited. While lakhs of stu- physics, chemistry and biolo- pat Nagar and 160 in Geeta gy (PCB) and wanted to do ‘‘It is almost impossible to tive, Mehta says the demo- dents apply for regular Colony will have to revert microbiology from Gargi. get the course and college of lition drive will go on as courses in Delhi University back to the MCD in 10 days ‘‘But I will have to do it from your choice. I am waiting for planned. (DU) every year, the number and inform them if they Institute of Home Econom- the second list. Everybody A Delhi government re- of seats has remained static have stopped the misuse of ics,’’ she said. cannot score 90 per cent. Dif- lease quoted Dikshit as at 50,000. their property. Eighty per cent is no-mans ferent colleges have different saying that the EC direc- The insecurity among stu- criteria for admission to tive ‘‘was in the interest of Within this period, dents is such that every can- land, too. Cut-offs of courses like economics, commerce courses and that creates a lot free and fair polls and to Mehta said, people having didate applies in about 10 col- of confusion’’. maintain the fidelity of compoundable alteration leges in an average of five and English hover above 85 per cent in popular colleges. electoral rolls .... so that can pay for getting them courses each. This year, DU Sakshi Sharma, Student of citizens were not deprived regularised. sold an unprecedented 20 The cut-offs for psychology and sociology, too, are fixed Rukmini of their right to vote.’’ ‘‘We will check if the lakh forms. Devi Pub- On the other hand, misuse of residential prop- The admis- at 80 per cent. The only cours- lic School. Mehta said: ‘‘Demolition erties has actually sion process Scored 77 does not infringe on the stopped. If people are will, however, es on offer at 60 CAPITAL to 70 per cent per cent. voting rights of an individ- ready to remove the non- drag on through BSc (Hons) ual. We won’t be razing the compoundable portions on July. The com- are history, po- STORY litical science statistics entire structure, but just their own, then we won’t petition is aspirant remove the unauthorised step in. Otherwise we killing — there and BA (pass). Cut-off for Sanskrit and Hin- who took portions.’’ will,’’ he said. are over a 1,000 students vy- admission ing for a single seat. di is as less as 50 per cent. This year a large number in chemistry (Hons): Hindu College, for in- ‘‘I have applied in five col- stance, received 25,000 appli- of colleges hitched them- selves on to the e-bandwagon, leges. There is lack of coun- cations for its 350-odd seats. selling in colleges at the time Kirori Mal College claims to offering information and forms at the click of a mouse. of admission. It is so difficult have received over 92,000 ap- for a student fresh out of plications for its 650 available Some even offered the facili- ty of online application. school to be able to decide seats. Of these, a whopping what to do.’’ 37,000 applications were for Colleges like Hindu, Han- the humanities subjects, sci- sraj, Bhagat Singh, Daulat 93,628 50,000 5,000 77,000 ence followed with 35,000 ap- Ram, College of Vocational plications. The quotas were Studies and Jesus and Mary PASSED OUT SEATS SEATS ADMISSIONS inundated too — 1,000 appli- have tied up with private cations for sports and 760 for agencies to enable the stu- in Class XII, for regular in professional DU’s non-formal extra-curricular activities. dents to apply online. KMC 2003, undergraduate courses of stream of Venkateswara received claims to have received the under CBSE courses in DU. Delhi Univerisity education in 2002 50,000 applications for 650 largest number of online ap- seats. Hansraj College re- plications — 6,272. Why not change Now, an air the system? tax for the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mission admission residents New Delhi: Students going berserk applying in several •Admission process be of Noida colleges and courses. And centralised at DU By Lalit Kumar then taking admission in a •One form can be TIMES NEWS NETWORK course that one dosen’t really submitted with DU Noida: The phrase ‘‘As want to do. Is there a way out giving the students’ of this admission madness? preference of college free as the air we Experts say that though the and course breathe’’ may soon be- American or British system come a myth. The Uttar is not applicable here, certain •Government must en- Pradesh Pollution Con- cues can be taken to stream- courage other quality in- trol Board (UPPCB) is line the system. stitutions in the country considering levying an Shri Ram College of Com- •Students should be al- air cess, if air is used as merce principal J L Gupta lowed to take credits in a raw material in manu- says in comparison to the US varied courses facturing units. Motor where there are a good num- vehicle producers may ber of universities around, •Large number of coun- also be taxed according selling centres at the we have few quality institu- to the amount of pollu- time of admission tions here. ‘‘Accountability tion their vehicles emit. should be fixed and the gov- The UPPCB says, ernment must encourage said. ‘‘This could not only net quality institutions in other Bhagat Singh principal Ji- the exchequer a consid- parts of the country,’’ he said. tender Kaur suggests anoth- erable sum, but it could Moreover, the university er solution. ‘‘There is too also help to reduce air should be more responsive to much parental pressure,’’ she pollution in the state market forces. ‘‘The fact that said. Many experts have vot- sharply,’’ said official it takes decades to revise ed in favour of the centrali- sources. The need for courses here shows where sation of the admission this air cess has already the value of the degree has process at DU. been discussed in meet- gone,’’ he added. This would entail that a ings of regional officers Head of social sciences student submits one form of the UPPCB. with DU T K V Subramanian with the university giving J S Yadav,chief of the says part of the problem is his preference of college and UPPCB for Gautam the lack of time for the stu- course which will then be Budh Nagar district, dent to be able to make up his granted according to his says, ‘‘The complete mind. merit. combustion of a kilo- In western countries, the ‘‘This will eliminate much gram of coal needs 2.45 admission process starts a of the running about that the kg of air. This kind of good year in advance. ‘‘The student has to undergo. For a calculation an be used problem can be partly re- start, centralised admission as a factor in assessing solved by having a large num- can be done for clusters of the amount of air fee to ber of counselling centres at colleges,’’ Daulat Ram princi- be levied on a unit.’’ the time of admission,’’ he pal M Subramaniam said. 3 shops gutted, 20 damaged
Mohammad Ilyas
A Balujas shop in Chandni Chowk which was gutted on Friday night.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 31 tenders in action to A DFS officer, however, quell the fire. said, ‘‘We don’t want to New Delhi: Three shops were gutted and about 20 The fire broke out around make any statement before others damaged at the Ka- 10.15 at night could be con- the inquiry into the inci- tra Mohan market oppo- trolled only after three in dent is completed. Proper- site Town Hall in the the morning. A prelimi- ty worth lacs is reported to Chandni Chowk area on nary enquiry revealed that have been destroyed. No Friday night. The Delhi the fire could have started loss of life was reported in Fire Service had to press because of a short circuit. the incident though.
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4 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 DELHI
FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at many places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Arunachal, As- NATIONAL Authorities on sam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Mumbai: I-A 0700, Tripura,WB and Sikkim, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, UP,Ut- Gen Niazi’s pistol stolen from museum 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, taracnahal, Haryana, Punjab, HP, J&K, east MP, Konkan and Goa, Pankaj Nangia 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Chattisgarh, coastal AP, Telangana and coastal Karnataka. Heavy 2300 Jet Air 0650, By Sachin Parashar was on leave on Saturday. Ali rain is likely to occur at isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, As- IMES EWS ETWORK high alert after 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, T N N has been detained by the police 1935, 2030, 2200, sam and Meghalaya, Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram and Tripura. for questioning. Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD New Delhi: A 1974 war relic has 1520, 1800, 2025 The director further said that KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min reportedly been stolen from the Amsterdam 20 12 security of the museum was first dengue case 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 38 28 Guwahati 31 25 National Museum in Delhi. The Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 31 26 Dehradun 33 28 Bahrain 37 32 taken care of by the CISF. How- pistol belonged to Pakistan’s TIMES NEWS NETWORK Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 36 29 Hyd’bad 33 24 Bangkok 35 27 ever the gallery from where the CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 32 NA Indore 32 23 Beijing 35 17 General A K Niazi, the Pakistan 0640,0955★★★ pistol was stolen was under the Bangalore 31 20 Jaipur 37 30 Chicago 33 22 chief of Eastern Command who New Delhi: Twelve-year-old Aman is on his way 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 39 28 Lucknow 35 27 Geneva 35 19 supervision of the naval head- 0645,1900 signed the surrender docu- to recovery.The Okhla resident became this sea- BANGALORE: T’puram 32 23 Patna 35 26 Hong Kong 31 28 quarters. Bhopal 38 24 Rajkot 37 27 London 22 13 ments after the 1974 war with In- son’s first victim of the killer dengue which I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 The police did not rule out the Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 35 26 Shimla 25 16 Los Angeles 26 15 dia. Niazi had supposedly hand- threatens to assume dangerous proportions in Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 30 23 Srinagar 32 19 Moscow 20 05 possibility of involvement of the coming days. HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 ed over the pistol to India’s then some museum employees. ‘‘The GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS Lieutenant General J S Arora as Dengue, which had claimed over 420 lives in Sahara 1200 museum remains open to visi- 1996, is spread by the aedes aegypti mosquito KULU: Jagson 0630, a mark of Pakistan’s submis- ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on tors on Saturday. Maybe, an in- which breeds in fresh rain water.And every year 0650, 1215 26.06.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. sion. AHMEDABAD: sider was involved. We are keep- about 120 cases of dengue are reported in the I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl However, with experts and re- ing all angles in mind,’’ said Jet Air 0610 city. But Aman’s case, reported soon after the NORTH tired army officers questioning Deputy Commissioner of Police GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 30.06 03.07 13.07 13.07 pre-monsoon showers, has served a warning to I-A 0555★★, 1010• the authenticity of the stolen (new delhi) Manoj Lall. Visuals ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 22.07 17.07 12.07 health authorities. ‘‘The aedes mosquito needs 2403 Jammu Exp 04.07 14.07 15.07 20.07 weapon, whether or not the pis- Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, from the closed circuit cameras fresh water, primarily from first rains, for as- ★★ ★★★ EAST tol belonged to Niazi is open to A police officer looks at the place from where a pistol of General Fri, Tue, Thu, Sat, installed in the museum is also suming its killer form. We are really eager to Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 29.06 30 .06 04.07 — speculation. Niazi was stolen from the National Museum in New Delhi on 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 29.06 02.07 02.07 16.07 being scrutinised. know the reasons for the water stagnation in Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, According to the police, the Saturday afternoon. The pistol was surrendered by General Niazi to (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 30.06 30.06 30.05 18.07 According to the police, the Okhla that led to mosquito breeding near the Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 04.07 02.07 16.07 General Arora after losing the Indo-Pak war in 1971. weapon was stolen from the pistol was lying in a glass case first patient’s house,’’ said a Delhi government INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. N.A N.A. N.A. naval gallery in the museum 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 30.06 02.07 30.06 which was unbolted by the cul- actually a revolver and not a pis- pistol of Chinese make. ‘‘It was official. BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 02.07 03.07 03.07 01.07 around 12.15 pm. The gallery prit and the weapon carried tol. Kumar said, ‘‘It’s common a 7.62 Chinese pistol. Maybe, the ‘‘If this is the level of water logging caused by Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 22.06 22.07 was being looked after by em- A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 08.07 22.07 23.07 away. The investigation has knowledge among senior army general surrendered two pre-monsoon showers, it is scary to imagine the FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 29.06 09.07 07.07 03.07 ployees of the Naval Headquar- been handed over to the crime officers that what Niazi surren- weapons,’’ said the officer. things to come during monsoon.’’ he said. 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 30.06 03.07 03.06 ters. ‘‘Daily two officers are on branch. dered was a 0.38 Webley Scot re- According to a retired mili- Municipal health officer,K N Tiwari, said sur- AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 13.07 09.07 09.07 duty at the gallery. Today, how- KLM 0745 (KL-476) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 13.07 08.07 01.07 Even as the investigation for volver and not a pistol. It even tary officer,the actual weapon, a vey teams were rushed to Okhla after Aman’s LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 03.07 07.07 08.07 08.07 ever, only one of them, Akbar the missing pistol continued, ex- had a brass plate attached to it revolver, is in possession of one case was reported. ‘‘It is still not clear whether 0210 (BA-142) WEST Ali, reported for duty. Ali says perts and retired army officers saying ‘surrendered to J S Aro- of the army’s training acade- PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail30.06 01.07 03.06 09.07 he acquired the disease in Okhla. He had visited 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 30.06 08.07 11.07 18.07 that he left the hall to call an claimed that the pistol which ra, 1971’. The stolen pistol actu- mys’. ‘‘The surrendered weapon Aligarh and we suspect he may have been infect- A-I 0735 (AI-141) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 01.07 02.07 03.07 — electrician around 12.15 in the was stolen from the museum on ally belonged to a major in the is an embodiment of sacrifices ed there,’’ said Tiwari. SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 01.07 30.06 02.07 — afternoon. When he came back Saturday did not actually be- Airlines 2315 (SQ-407), 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 10.07 17.07 03.07 Pakistan army.’’ made by our soldiers in the war. Tiwari claimed MCD teams have been con- I-A 0050 (IC-855) 1078 Jhelum Exp — 15.07 15.07 28.06 at 12.35 pm, the pistol was miss- long to Niazi. According to an A senior navy officer associ- It can never be exposed to the ducting surprise checks across the city to detect HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2916 Ashram Exp 30.06 08.07 09.07 30.06 ing,’’ said S P Singh, the director expert on military history, Kr- ated with the naval gallery in risk of theft by keeping it in the breeding grounds of aedes mosquito . ‘Our A-I 2320 (AI-318) SOUTH (conservation) with the muse- ishna Kumar, the weapon which the museum confirmed that the the national museum,’’ said the ROME/GENEVA: 2616 G T Exp 30.06 07.07 07.07 02.07 surveys have revealed the presence of aedes A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 03.07 01.07 08.07 30.06 um. The other officer, D K Saini was handed over by Niazi was stolen weapon was actually a officer. mosquito in the city but its density was found to 2432 Trivandrum Raj 29.06 22.07 15.07 — Pankaj Nangia AIR INDIA 2626 Kerala Exp — 01.07 30.06 03.07 be a harmless 2 per cent. A density of about 20 AHMEDABAD: 2618 Mangala Exp — 14.07 13.07 01.07 per cent is alarming,’’ he added. 0120 (AI 610) 2628 Karnataka Exp — 07.07 12.07 30.06 1 dead in illegal Tiwari said Aman’s case was a warning which MUMBAI: 0615 (AI 140), 2724 A P Exp 03.07 07.07 09.07 09.07 the civic agency cannot ignore. ‘‘Though he 0700 (AI 170), 1855 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 08.07 14.07 14.07 — (AI 301), 2145 (AI 319) 7022 Dakshin Express — 06.07 — 02.07 could have got infected from a neighbouring No. of passengers dealt on 27.06.2003 (Delhi Area): 46,000 (N. Rly. Area) building collapse town, we are not taking chances,’’ he said. A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,10,023. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for Tiwari said sparsely-used coolers are the most (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. TIMES NEWS NETWORK 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) common breeding ground for the mosquito. 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 ‘‘During rains people don’t use coolers as much, New Delhi: A multi storeyed building, so they don’t even replace their water for days,’’ under construction near Turkman Gate, he said. in the walled city collapsed around 9.15 on These killer mosquitoes bite mainly during Saturday morning. One person died and the day. ‘‘Aedes aegypti prefer to bite below the another was injured in the incident. Ac- knees and elbows - distinct from the malaria- cording to unconfirmed reports about 5-6 causing mosquito,’’ he pointed out. people are feared lying under the debris. Tiwari further said if their appeals to the pub- Deputy Commissioner of Police (cen- lic to check the breeding grounds of the aedes tral) Arvind Deep said, ‘‘The injured was mosquito went unheeded, the municipal corpo- taken to LNJP hospital. We aren’t sure if ration would be forced to invoke Section 376 of there is anybody under the debris. Disas- the Delhi Municipal Act, with Section 188 IPC, ter management teams have been rushed with a fine of Rs 500 and imprisonment for six to the spot.’’ Rescue work continued till months, he said. late in the evening. Delhi Fire Service em- ployees were trying to remove the rubble. The police say that the building was an unauthorised construction about which the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had been warned. ‘‘Some local builders were involved in the construc- tion work. We had written to theMCD on June four, stating that the building was il- legal,’’ said Deep. The MCD feigned ignorance on the mat- ter. ‘‘We have asked fora report on this matter. We will inquire if the building was illegal. Action will certainly be taken A young boy looks on as workers remove debris from the site where an authorised the guiltyofficers,’’ MCD commissioner five-storeyed building collapsed near Turkman Gate on Saturday. Rakesh Mehta said. Dilli boor ast? Yes, yes yes scream visitors Neelabh By Nona Walia pass.’’ We don’t wallah thinks he runs the TIMES NEWS NETWORK blame Paul for country. A noisy population of New Delhi: Call them bad- admitting: ‘‘I nouveau rich puppies are shahs —and begums—of boor- had a strong flouting values that Dilliwal- ishness, if you will. But, Dilli- urge to box the lahs had held dear,’’ writes wallas are creating new bench- brat.’’ Menon. marks of rudeness in their dai- * Writer Sociologist Radhika Chopra ly interactions. Gillian Wright blames it on Delhi’s new-found Move it, you SOB! Honk, often has rude global status: ‘‘Norms of po- Honk, Honk... Arre bhai, jaldi encounters liteness have been forgotton, kar. Between the shrugs and walking on Del- daily interaction reflects frus- pushes, shoves and nudges, hi streets, ‘‘Peo- tration which stems from our Dilliwallas are touching new ple won’t think high-handed bureaucratic cul- lows. Listen to outsiders, for a twice before giv- ture. Abuses are becoming cre- reality check. ing ma-bahen ative and part of our vocabu- * Mario Littmann, 29, does gaalis.’’ Howev- lary.Everyone is at a rude war truck road shows in various er, she feels, Del- with each other.’’ cities — Hamburg, Moscow, hi is better than Sample the lingo the chill Beijing, Mumbai and Delhi. Lucknow, which pill generation has acquired: On his scale of impoliteness, is losing its Bloody creep, dumb-headed Delhi was the rudest. ‘‘Other- tashreif rakhiye nut, crazy SOB or yeh tera baap wise courteous, once they hit culture because ki sadak hai kya...’’ Thinking the roads, Delhiites go MAD. of political ag- of grabbing a survival kit? One traffic guy stopped me money are you carrying? gression, while A BBC News Online survey and asked me for Rs 1,000. ‘‘They took my cellphone, Kolkata ‘‘which has no money, reveals why the mask of good When I asked the reason his made a few calls, checked my is the apex of civilisation.’’ manners is slipping from pub- English failed him. He SMSes.’’ But rude manners don’t pay. lic face. In fact, 42 per cent of shrugged brazenly and abused * Paul Danahar, BBC’s A recent survey by Columbia the 400-strong sample thought in Hindi.’’ South-Asia Bureau Editor, University reveals that organi- rudeness was necessary ‘‘to * Namita Singh, 19, a went shopping to Khan market sations spend 29 per cent of get your own way’’ — Delhi’s Chandigarh resident, felt hu- with his wife Bhawana. She their time resolving conflict. sentiments precisely. David miliated during the admission helped an elderly lady to her ‘‘ButDelhi is better than Paris Lewis, carried out extensive process at Delhi University. car. ‘‘The lady’s son, crossed- and Britian,’’ says Danahar. research on ‘rude behaviour’ Brash seniors asked her over my wife’s way.’’ The boy’s Artist Anjolie Ila Menon has in Sussex University says, cheeky questions: Have you answer: ‘‘Equal rights are for written a paper on Delhi’s ‘‘most people are not aware of got boyfriends? How much men too, why should I let you changing culture: ‘‘Every Dilli- their own bad manners.’’ Car thiefs held HC rejects thermometer New Delhi: The west district police have arrested two per- sons on charges of car theft. manufacturers’ plea The police claim to have seized four cars from them as well. By Sachin Parashar quality of the product and has Deputy commissioner of po- TIMES NEWS NETWORK nothing to do with the location of lice (west) Satish Golcha said, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court the manufacturing units,’’ said Bhatia. ‘‘The accused would dispose has rejected the plea for immedi- The petition sought reprieve in off the vehicle after disman- ate reopening of clinical ther- view of the product falling under tling it.’’ mometer manufacturing units the ‘compulsory certification The accused had been into which had been sealed for operat- scheme’ being promulgated by this for the last six months and ing without a licence by the Con- the government of India under had disposed off 7-8 vehicles troller, Weights and Measures De- the provisions of the Bureau of after dismantling them. The partment (WMD). These manu- Indian Standards Act 1986. accused were allegedly also in facturing units did not possess li- touch with other autolifters cences as they are situated in the The petitioners had claimed and purchased stolen vehicles ‘‘non-conforming areas’’ as de- that the WMD was not entitled to from them. fined in Delhi’s Master Plan. insist on obtaining licence in The police said that the ac- The Clinical Thermometer view of the ‘‘quality assurance re- cused would dismantle the ve- Manufacturers and Importers As- sponsibility’’ un- hicle at a work shop in sociation had filed a petition seek- dertaken by BIS. CHAUTHA Haryana.TNN They said the gov- ing a stay on the closure saying Our beloved mother MRS GOGI LAI, was ernment was in- that they had obtained a licence united with the Almighty on Friday, 27 June from Bureau of Indian Standards sisting on produc- 2003. A prayer Meeting will be held on (BIS). The court postponed the ing thermometers Monday, 30 June 2003 at Arya Samaj Mandir, matter till August 19, for further in Celsius scale Jor Bagh (opposite Jor Bagh Market) New hearing. It has also asked senior saying that people Delhi-110003, between 5.00 pm - 6.00 pm. counsel Meera Bhatia to file a re- in India are famil- In grief: iar only with the ply on behalf of the Union of In- Renu & Dr. Arun Kumar dia and the WMD. Fahrenheit ther- Ravi & Rocki Lai ‘‘The BIS licence is about the mometers. Arun & Beverly Lai Rajan & Radha Lai
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INDIA SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 5 TOI Shilpa tells Where is Zahira Sheikh? police: I know TIMES NEWS NETWORK son who could shed light on her nothing Best case scenario whereabouts. However, she can’t be Vadodara: The verdict in the Best Zahira Sheikh contacted. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Bakery case is out, all the 21 accused Social activist J S Bandookwala has been missing Surat: Film actress Shilpa in the case are enjoying back home says he is disappointed with Zahira. since she deposed Shetty has denied any knowl- with their families — their pain dur- ‘‘She approached us on a number of before the court edge of the involvement of ing their one-and-half year jail term occasions for financial help. I know last month an underworld group at her forgotten. But, amid all this, there is that a lot of aid was given to her by dif- Where is she? one name that is haunting everyone. ferent agencies,’’ he says. parents’ behest in the Prafful Eighteen-year-old Zahira Sheikh is •In Mumbai with Muslim activists, who had at one Sarees extortion case. She untraceable but nobody has forgotten her relatives? point taken up cudgels for her, don’t was quizzed by a Surat police her. •In Delhi, married mind rattling off the different ways in team for about four hours in ‘‘Where is Zahira Sheikh?’’ is a to a cousin? which she was helped. For instance, Mumbai on Saturday. question that has become troubling Surat police commissioner •In her native village in UP? the community collected nearly Rs now. 30,000 to pay for her house at the KGN V K Gupta says Shilpa had The rumour mills here have •Many say that Zahira had struck told the investigating offi- a deal to turn hostile in the case. Nagar. Insiders say that only one or- churned put several answers. One ver- ganisation had spent about Rs 50,000 cials that she had given pow- sion says she is in Mumbai with her •One thing is certain — she has a er of attorney to her mother, steady income. Recently, she rent- on her after she came out of Hanuman relatives, while another says she is in Tekri. There were many other indi- Sunanda, for all financial Delhi and has got married to one of ed out another of her houses in deals and film contracts and Ram Rahim Nagar to a laundry. viduals and agencies who doled out her cousins. The neighbours of her aid as soon as she asked for it. she was not aware of the new house at KGN Nagar on Ajwa present case till it became class near their house in KGN Nagar After coming out of Hanuman Road add another twist to the tale by Tekri, she stayed in a rented house for public through the media. regularly. claiming that she is in her native vil- which nearly Rs 800 were paid by the She told the police that she The house in KGN Nagar is, howev- lage in Uttar Pradesh. community for four months. All her had started her modelling ca- er, unoccupied. However, Zahira’s rel- Many say that Zahira had struck a medical bills were paid from the mon- reer with Limca in 1991 and deal to turn hostile in the case. Those atives frequent it. Says Mohammed ey collected from the community. since then her mother had who have followed the case closely say Salim Memon, who stays in the house Even her trip outside Vadodara to at- been looking after her fi- there could have been no other reason adjoining Zahira’s, ‘‘We do not see tend a wedding was arranged through nances. for her volte face. them around often. Zahira has been donations. She was taught sewing and When asked specifically After all, till recently, she was the missing since she deposed before the a machine was donated to her so that about the Prafful Sarees case, wronged woman, whose angry out- court last month.’’ she could eke out a living for herself. she said she was not aware bursts against the police and the mobs Memon’s mother adds that Zahira’s Obviously, many of the community about anything related to it. drove many delegations visiting riot- family had little interaction with leaders are upset with her.‘‘Each time She even said she had no idea affected areas of Vadodara to tears. those around. ‘‘I remember her moth- a national delegation visited the city, of the terms of the contract One thing is certain — she has a er telling me once that Zahira was in Zahira was presented before them. for the ad-film made for Praf- steady income. Recently, she rented UP. She used to say that she would be She was the witness to the worst car- ful Sarees five years before, out another house of her’s in Ram going there to bring her back soon,’’ nage in Vadodara and a representative Gupta said. Rahim Nagar to a laundry. Her broth- she said. of our suffering. The last thing we ex- Shilpa had featured an ad- er Nafitullah and sister Sahera are Sources say, BJP MLA Madhu Sri- pected was her turning her back on film for Prafful Sarees in 1998 seen here once in a while. Sahera vastav, with whom Zahira made her us,’’ said a Muslim leader on condi- and there was no contract comes to a stitching and beauty-care last public appearance, is the only per- tions of anonymity. agreement. The Shettys were asking for Rs 2 crore from Prafful Sarees owner Pankaj ‘Justice has Agrawal, as the ad-film had Celebration time for families been telecast for more than been defeated’ five years. Agrawal registered a com- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ravi Prakash (left), a car enthusiast, with Ford India Ltd managing director David Friedman in plained with the police on as the accused return home Vadodara: ‘‘The Best Bak- his 1915 Ford Model Tvintage car at Bangalore Palace Grounds on Saturday. Ford India Ltd is May 1, saying he was being ery carnage is a perma- organising a vintage rally on Sunday to commemorate the companies centenary. threatened. TIMES NEWS NETWORK where the Best Bakery now Municipal Council and his nent blot on the city. It is stands charred. Dodging re- cousin BJP MLA Madhu not bravery, it’s cruelty,’’ Mumbai building collapse: Vadodara: The place which porters, they ran on to meet Shrivastav who had come to observed judge H U Mahi- India offers fresh tariff Three persons were killed and mourned the death of 14 their family members. our chawl two days back and da as he acquitted the ac- five injured when a portion of a people on March 1, 2002 Mahendra Jadhav, was had assured us that the boys cused on Friday. six-storeyed building collapsed wore a festive look a year- greeted by his sister-in-law, would be freed on June 27. Rights activists were at Grant Road in Mumbai on and-half later on Friday. concessions to China Saturday. One person was who was waiting for him at We have been celebrating more vocal in their con- Meanwhile the state gov- her doorstep with an aarti since then,’’ said Jyotsna demnation of the system. rescued and shifted to the near- TIMES NEWS NETWORK which constitute about 30 per ernment on Saturday par- thali. His mother took him Bhatt, a neighbour of ‘‘No one seems to be in- by Harkishandas Hospital. He cent of Indian exports. China ried the issue of whether it away to a room on the first Shailesh Tadvi, one of the terested in finding out who New Delhi: The union cabi- was reported to be out of dan- would offer concessions to PTI would appeal in the high floor, where a small wooden accused in the case. perpetrated the crime,’’ net on Saturday followed up ger, police said. 182 tariff lines and India court over the Vadodara ses- temple where there was a When asked about Zahira says Rohit Prajapati of on the just-concluded China sions court’s decision. traditional family deity. Sheik who was the first to People’s Union for Civil visit of Prime Minister Vaj- would extend such conces- As anxious family mem- ‘‘I was not involved. We turn hostile, Bhatt said, Liberties. “The govern- payee by offering fresh tariff sions to 217 tariff lines. bers waited with bated were the vulnerable lot and ‘‘She is in Mumbai and ment has used this to show concessions to Beijing under The measure was an- breath for their ‘‘heroes’’, became easy targets.We might settle there. She’s how justice can be defeat- the Bangkok Agreement. nounced by ministers, Arun acquitted in the case, the knew that one day we would gone for good. Her sister and ed,’’ he said The tariff concessions are Shourie and Sushma Swaraj aroma of incense hung get justice. The police did her brother-in-law are stay- MSU professor and ac- expected to be reciprocated at separate briefings to the heavy in the narrow lanes of not have any evidence ing at her place now.’’ tivist J S Bandukwala by China, leading to a rise in reporters. The cabinet also Hanuman Tekri. against us,’’ said Jadhav. ‘‘I took the blessings of says, ‘‘This just goes to exports of major items like gave ex-post-facto approval to All 21 rushed out of the ‘‘Bhattu (Chandrakanth my parents and visited my show how the criminal jus- chemicals, leather, textiles the Indo-Afghan trade agree- heavily-guarded police van Shrivastav), a local munici- relative’s place in Ganesh- tice system has been com- and diamonds to China. ment signed this March dur- which got them to the place pal councillor at Vadodara nagar,’’ said Shailesh Tadvi. munalised,’’ he said. The concessions will be ing the visit of President available for about 700 items, Hamid Karzai. PTI Pathak to oversee Amarnath security
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Srinagar: Union minister of state for home affairs Harin Pathak will arriving at Jam- mu on Sunday for two-day visit to the state to review the security arrangements with the state administra- tion and police officials, for the Amarnath yatra. The pil- grimage will begin next month. During his visit he is also scheduled to visit Pahalgam and Amarnath Cave on June 30. The security on the route was tightened after an at- tack by militants killed a number of pilgrims at Pa- halgam few years ago.
People greet President A P J Abdul Kalam on his arrival at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar on Saturday. He made a presen- tation here to top state government officials on strategies they could adopt for development. He later visited the Govern- ment College for Women and spoke about religion and challenges of diversity. We could do more with finger prints By Mona Mehta Crime Record Bureau here. signals present within DNA mole- TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘Take the recent Punjab train cules which are unique and individ- tragedy, identifying bodies would ual. Yet twins can have same DNA New Delhi: What’s the only unique have been easier if we had every- configuration, but are bound to have and consistent thing about you from body’s finger prints. It would have different finger prints. the cradle to the grave? Your finger also helped us in checking bogus com- But we don’t seem to be exploiting prints of course! pensation claims later,’’ says a finger the full potential of finger prints ex- Finger prints are a foolproof means print expert. clusivity, say experts. Unlike the US of identification and offer immense ‘‘We can put an end to issuance of where it is mandatory for everyone to potential for personal and even na- duplicate driving licenses, passports, give their finger prints, the Identifica- tional security. But in India, finger track bogus bank accounts, not to tion of Prisoners Act, 1920, here al- print technology has been restricted mention trace terrorists and identify lows authorities to take prints of only only to crime detection, despite the criminals through finger prints,’’ the those who are arrested or convicted. fact that we were the pioneers in this deputy director added. Special permission of the magistrate field and set up world’s first finger The finger print technique of per- is needed to so for non-convicted. print bureau a century ago. sonal identification was devised by ‘‘This law will have to be amended Highlighting the ‘‘under-usage’’ of Sir Edward Richard Henry, IGP, Ben- once the government decides to issue finger print technology,experts at the gal, with the help of two officers, lead national identity cards based on fin- Central Finger Print Bureau (CFPB) to the setting up of world’s first finger ger prints for all the citizens,’’ says an here say that recent US decision to print bureau at the Writers Building expert. finger print all visitors was a step in in Kolkata in June 1897. Their system Also, the entire data base of finger the right direction for any country of finger print classification, Henry’s prints needs to be computerised and that wanted to prevent people with system, is popular world over. The inter-linked. ‘‘At present, we have terrorist links and criminal viola- Scotland Yard set up its bureau in records of only those arrested or con- tions from entering the country. 1901. victed for crime. Of these, we have ‘‘If we had a data base of every citi- Hundred years on, finger prints are digitised over six lakh records, anoth- zen’s finger prints, we would be able still considered fool proof, cheap, er two lakh prints and our entire col- to root out illegal immigration,’’ said quick means of identification. A DNA lection will be available on the com- S Prakash, deputy director, National finger print is a pattern of chemical puter,’’ says an CFPB official.
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6 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 INDIA 40 people affected by mystery disease Lakdawala attack case Heavy security Shivpuri: More than 40 peo- dropsy-like symptoms. ple, including women and District hospital superin- TIMES NEWS NETWORK pers at Pydhonie on Friday. Cabinet okays Lok Pal Bill children, fell ill in the city tendent Dr S C Goyal said He had been threatened by for Rath Yatra Mumbai: The police suspect TIMES NEWS NETWORK during the last three days that all the people were suf- Chhota Shakeel three TIMES NEWS NETWORK the involvement of the Chho- cabinet rejected a sugges- the suggestion of a group of due to sudden outbreak of a fering from swelling after months ago over the acquisi- tion of the Constitution re- ministers (GOM) headed by ta Shakeel gang behind the New Delhi: The much-dis- Ahmedabad: Some 10,000 mysterious disease having consumping mustard oil. PTI tion of a garage near Craw- view commission — headed deputy PM L K Advani that attack on Arif Lakdawala, a cussed Lok Pal Bill, meant policemen and para-military ford market. by Justice M N Venkatache- the legislation should be key witness in the Bharat to constitute the office of forces will be deployed in the The police have recorded liah — that the PM’s office passed in the monsoon ses- Shah, Gulshan Kumar and an ombudsman, may be city along the Rath Yatra his statements in the recent be kept out of the ombuds- sion of Parliament. route on July 1 this year. The Sara shopping centre case. Sara shopping centre case in- fourth time lucky if passed man’s purview. The committee had sub- external forces comprise five Lakdawala survived the at- volving underworld don Da- by Parliament with a sim- It also accepted the re- mitted its recommenda- companies each of the CRPF, tack. wood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal ple majority in the mon- port of the parliamentary tions on December 31, 2001. Border Wing, Rajasthan Sources said that Lak- Kaskar. The Dawood gang soon session, which begins standing committee on the The Bill was introduced for Armed Constabulary and the dawala was attacked by two has been accused of illegally next month. legislation, including the the fourth time in Parlia- BSF. The 126th annual Rath unknown people with chop- acquiring properties. The legislation, which seeks to check corruption recommendation that it be ment on August 14, 2001 and Yatra festivities may be at- in high places and bring a simple measure and not a then referred to the parlia- tended by Pramukh Swami within its ambit the constitutional amendment mentary committee. Maharaj of the Akshar Pu- prime minister, was ap- Bill, parliamentary affairs It was earlier introduced rushottam temple in proved by the Union cabi- minister Sushma Swaraj in 1989, 1996 and 1998, but Shahibaug. The recent bomb net on Saturday. told reporters. all the attempts came a blasts in the city, before the While approving it, the The Bill also agreed to cropper. event scheduled for Tuesday, have sent out alarm signals. Digvijay’s OBC quota is a political stunt: Uma
TIMES NEWS NETWORK now give more than 50 per cent reservation,’’ she Bhopal: BJP chief minis- added. terial candidate Uma Bhar- She said Digvijay was ti has said that chief minis- playing ‘‘along the cow- ter Digvijay Singh’s 27 per slaughter line’’. ‘‘During cent reservation to other the cow-slaughter issue, he backward castes (OBCs) is wrote to the Prime Minis- only a political stunt. ter and asked for a Bill in She told reportes here on Parliament against cow Saturday, ‘‘It is an impossi- slaughter. When the Bill ble task for Digvijay to im- was introduced, it was plement it as a Supreme Digvijay’s Congress that Court order had stated to- opposed it. This is Digvi- tal reservation cannot ex- jay’s second political gim- ceed 50 per cent. When the mick,’’ she said. Jayalalithaa ‘‘By doing this he has be- government trayed the OBCs as the in Tamil state ‘‘has no jobs’’. First Nadu gave the chief minister re- reservation trenched 30,000 daily wa- exceeding the gers, most of them were 50 per cent Dalits and OBCs. Recently limit, a Pub- he attended a Planning lic Interest Commission meeting whe- Litigation re he promised to retrench was filed. The 80,000 more government matter is in employees. If the CM is out the Supreme to shut all job opportuni- Court and no ties, the talk of enhancing state govern- the quota is meaningless,’’ ment can Bharati said.
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8 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 INDIA Ayodhya tangle: The now or never gamble What is the way out of the deadlock? Is a negotiated settlement the best bet? Should Muslims give up the disputed site? On what conditions? Sunday Times brings you prominent voices— voices that matter— from civil society. Mushirul Hasan, historian Salman Khurshid (Congress) The opinion of Ayodhya Mus- The Babri The dispute is lims on this issue is more rele- Masjid has not really vant than that of self proclaimed ceased to be a about a temple leaders of the two communities. Muslim affair. and a mosque. G Parthasarthy, ex-diplomat It is the symbol A negotiated The Constitu- of the secular settlement is tion must be aspirations of the only way respected by all Indians. So out. But courts everybody.The the onus of a can and must government negotiated set- facilitate it. must enforce tlement does And finally the rule of law. not rest on the Muslims alone. stamp it with their authority.But A negotiated Yes, we must break the im- for negotiations, capacity build- settlement passe to isolate the communalists ing of potential negotiators is which has a le- in our public life. But we must ne- very crucial. It is easy to lead a gal basis could be a way out. Fail- gotiate not with those who target de- ing this, there is no option but to the minorities and are deter- struc- await the court verdict and in the mined to undermine the secular tive DEEP meantime not disturb the sta- fabric of society. mob tusquo. This is the moment to assert but the primacy of a secular consen- very FOCUS Tara Sinha, advertising sus arrived at by all those who diffi- professional swear by the secular spirit of cult to persuade such followers to A negotiated Constitution. Let us not fritter compromise. A settlement must settlement is away this opportunity for short- be part of a paradigm shift in in- the only way term political goals. ter-community relations, consti- out. The mat- tutionally,politically and socially. ter has Bipan Chandra, historian To speak of giving up will dragged on for A negotiated make the process a non-starter. 10 long years. settlement Hope and confidence building, The Muslim made sense be- not conditionalities is the answer. leadership fore December and the 6, 1992 when Ashis Nandy, social scientist Shankaracharya are doing their the Babri A negotiated best. Since it is matter of faith for Masjid was settlement is the Hindus, Muslims should brought down. the best way make this concession and Hindus What hap- out. Too much should reciprocate with a match- pened was tru- dependence on ing concession. None should see ly unforgiveable. the judiciary themselves as winners or losers. Now, a negotiated settlement can be problem- makes litle sense. If at all, they go atic. Whichever Mahesh Dattani, playwright for it, it should not be with VHP. way it decides If we are talking about the na- Nor with the present government it will lose a bit of legitimacy tional interest, then both Hindus which consists of people respon- with a section of the people. Even and Muslims should give up their sible for the demolition. after that, one is not sure if the stake to the Ayodhya site. The government should take over the The negotiations should be be- state will faithfully implement the court’s decision. There will site, cordon it off and put up a tween responsible representa- signboard saying: ‘This is the site tives of the two communities be more venom in public life. As for Muslims giving up their that two communities fought who appreciate that negotiations over and over which there was are part of the Indian culture. claim in national interest, I don’t think national interest is in- needless bloodshed’. Any agreement that is made volved in this issue. Why should (Sakina Yusuf Khan, Delhi, must keep in mind the dignity of Muslims be pressurised to give Gunvanthi Balram, Bangalore, Indian Muslims. up their claim? Nina Martyris Mumbai)
VHP’s stand : The VHP on Saturday de- cided not to allow Liberhan panel construction of any mosque virtually in the entire Ayodhya and opposed any compro- visits Ayodhya mise with Pakistan on Kashmir. The decision Ayodhya: The Liberhan ters L K Advani, M M was taken after VHP’s Commission, which ar- Joshi and other senior governing council dis- rived at Ayodhya on Satur- BJP leaders had delivered cussed a resolution on day, visited the Saket De- speeches on the day of the Ram Temple. PTI gree College and other ar- demolition. eas close to the acquired The visit follows the land to gain first-hand Centre’s submission be- knowledge of circum- fore the panel that the stances leading to the then UP government hea- demolition of the disput- ded by Kalyan Singh had ed structure on December no contingency plan to 6, 1992. deal with any eventuality Justice M S Liberhan, resulting from massive who led the four-member gathering of Karsevaks at team, first visited the col- Ayodhya on December 6, lege where the Rapid Ac- 1992. Singh then sought to tion Force was then sta- blame senior BJP leaders tioned, but was not al- including PM A B Vajpay- lowed to proceed towards ee and Deputy PM L K Ad- the disputed site by the vani saying the karsevaks district authorities, offi- acted at their behest. cial sources said. The commission is like- The team also visited ly to study the site to as- ‘‘do rahi kaun’’, Ved sess if the security forces Mandir crossing and the could have prevented dem- Rang Mahal crossing to olition of the mosque. study the topography of Meanwhile, a Muslim the areas situated nearby organisation on Saturday the acquired land. suggested a ‘‘give-and- It studied the revenue take’’ formula for resolu- map of the localities and tion of the Ayodhya dis- also spoke to the revenue pute, saying Muslims departmental officials. could give up their claim The team was also like- on the disputed land if ly to visit the makeshift dalit Muslims were in- temple and Ram Katha cluded in the scheduled Kunj where Union minis- castes category. PTI Laloo Yadav to pen Emergency story By Dipak Mishra against the Emergency as TIMES NEWS NETWORK the second freedom strug- gle. The Congress did not Patna: After being wooed lose power because of the by film-makers, RJD chief Emergency. It lost power and ex-chief minister because of the nasbandi Laloo Prasad Yadav is (family planning meas- thinking of becoming an ures). The people believed author. that both old and young ‘‘A book based on truth persons, even unmarried about the Emergency. youths, were being ster- Who can be a better man? ilised,’’ Laloo maintained. I am a witness to many of Regarding the role of the events,’’ he said on Sat- BJP leaders, Laloo said urday. during the JP-led agita- The idea appears to tion, it was decided to ask have come to Laloo after groups of young agitators the media hype on the to court arrest as part of 1975-77 Emergency and the ‘‘Jail Bharo Andolan’’. the various statements by ‘‘The ABVP (Akhil BJP leaders on it. The agi- Bharatiya Vidyarthi tation led by Jayaprakash Parishad, which is now Narayan, in which Laloo the student wing of BJP) emerged as a youth leader, volunteered before JP to ended in the imposition of be the first group to go to the Emergency in 1975. jail. But when the time Now Laloo wants to pen came, not a single ABVP his recollections and ob- member turned up. Final- servations in a book. ly, I had to get some per- ‘‘The BJP leaders are sons to court arrest,’’ he projecting the resistance observed.
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LET’S TALK PARENTING Political agitations against Taj project Vigilance raid at Badal’s Agra: Political parties on A Congress party proces- heritage structure. Saturday launched separate sion carrying spades and AICC member Azad Kar- When angry, I just agitations against the con- hand diggers marched dam demanded an inquiry on struction of heritage corri- through main parts of the how the ‘‘Centre and UP gov- houses draws a blank dor along the banks of river city and ‘‘symbolically de- ernment bungled with crores PTI Yamuna behind Taj Mahal. molished’’ the controversial of public money’’. TNN leave the room TIMES NEWS NETWORK Udayshankar Chandigarh: Sleuths from arod maestro Amjad the Punjab Vigilance Bureau Ali Khan is the father on Saturday raided the resi- S of young sarod play- dence of former Punjab chief ers Aman Ali Bangash (26) minister Parkash Singh and Ayan Ali Bangash (24). Badal at House No 256, Sector He is mentor, guru all 9, here. The raids were in rolled into one for them. connection with the dispro- But what do they mean to portionate assets case ag him? Does parenting come ainst him and seven others. to him as naturally as play- The team, which included ing the sarod? one SP, three DSPs, three in- Is ‘‘discipline and pun- spectors, three executive en- ish’’ an important part gineers and three architects, of parenting? began the raid at 9.15 a.m. Discipline yes, not punish- But the six-hour raid by ment. Parents should sen- the Vigilance team failed to Punjab vigilance officials take measurements of former chief sitise their children and find anything incriminating. minister Prakash Singh Badal’s residence in Chandigarh on make them realise if their Bureau SP Surinder Pal Saturday. mistakes hurt. I show my disapproval by leaving the Singh, who led the team, said some resistance when Akali went off smoothly. room. Once, on a London tour, Aman and Ayan did not while ‘‘nothing objectionable leaders present in the com- The Vigilance Bureau re- perform well in a concert. I did not talk to them and had been found, an assess- pound, objected to the team portedly conducted raids at even got fever that night. They realised I was hurt. ment of the property in members’ exercise of meas- the ancestral residence of Any major do’s and don’ts you have laid down for terms of its market value uring up the constructed Badal in Badal village of them? would be made’’. area. Manpreet, however, Muktsar district. Never to bring disgrace to the khandaan.They have Except for Manpreet Singh sorted it out for the raiding A court in Kharar, near to be graceful and say aap to everyone irrespective of Badal, nephew of Parkash party and let them carry on Chandigarh, had issued the their age and status. Never abuse, hurt or hate anyone. Singh Badal, none of the fam- with the exercise. warrant for searching over a Any books you made mandatory for them? ily members were present Earlier, DIG B K Uppal ac- dozen properties of Badal, As kids, they read 22 volumes of Amar Chitra Katha. during the raid. companied the raiding team his son Sukhbir and wife Also, they have read some Hindu shlokas and parts of The Vigilance team faced to ensure that the exercise Surinder Kaur. the Quran while growing up. How do you handle dissent? We allow them to make their own decisions and not Iraq does not figure at impose ours. They have taken up music by choice. To- morrow, if one of them plans to give it up for modelling or acting they are free to do so. What’s your idea of ‘‘quality’’ time with your PM’s briefing to CCS kids? Sharing the first cup of tea in the morning. Meal TIMES NEWS NETWORK of the ground reality. times are for family.Also, every night we spend time dis- ‘‘The meeting was about New Delhi: The issue of the China visit,’’ external af- cussing our day.Of course, quality time is also when we sending troops to Iraq did not are playing together. fairs minister Yashwant Sin- figure at the informal meet- Would you sit and drink with your teenage sons? ha told reporters after the ing of the Cabinet Commit- I have asked them to have a glass of wine with me hour-long deliberations. He many times. They have not yet accepted my offer. tee on Security (CCS) over did not elaborate. Is it important to talk to them about sex? Are which the Prime Minister Asked whether the issue of your kids allowed to bring their date home? presided on Saturday. sending troops to Iraq fig- They have talked about their girlfriends from time to A well-placed source said ured during the meeting, the time. Sometimes they have even brought them home. no early decisions were on minister shook his head. Vaj- We have also talked about sex like any father and son. the cards. ‘‘There is no such payee briefed CCS on his just- How much pocket money do you give them? compulsion,’’ he said, adding concluded China visit during None at all. Even now when they have their individ- that the government was still which India and China ual bank accounts and credit cards, they sometimes ask awaiting the US response on signed the joint declaration their mother for money. clarifications sought and outlining the road map for How important is religion to their upbringing? making its own assessment bolstering bilateral ties. We are a religious family.But we do not believe in rit- uals. They have been taught to feel connected to God the Power projects creator and destroyer. Would you like to live with them after marriage? under scanner It’s upto them. But I would prefer them to live inde- pendently Dehra Dun: Thirty-nine hy- What are the vital components of parenting? dro power schemes in Ut- To make your kids responsible human beings, who tranchal of the total capacity know what’s wrong and what’s right and follow the of 6,374 MW have been iden- right path. tified for feasibility studies Your proudest moment as a parent... under the hydro-power ini- When Aman and Ayan gave their first solo perform- tiative launched by Prime ance in Kolkata. The crowd applauded them and I felt Minister Vajpayee. very proud for they were accepted on their own right. The initiative aims at gen- erating around 50,000 MW — Sujata Dutta Sachdeva hydro-power in the next 10 years. TNN TOI
A house in Alleppey with home-stay facilities. Making waves in Kerala’s backwaters By Shobha John a day) and heritage (over Rs TIMES NEWS NETWORK 4,000 per day). ‘‘Many stay in a hotel, get fed up and then Alleppey (Kerala): It seems move on to ethnic homes.’’ like the second coming after Thomas Zacharia of Green Vasco da Gama. For many Palm Homes gets 4-5 groups a families in Kuttanad, the rice month to his 50-year-old bowl of Kerala, their lush an- house. ‘‘Women learn to cestral homes in the backwa- make string hoppers and ap- ters are a lucrative bait for pam from my mother,’’ he foreign tourists. says. They also interact with The tourists come either for lunch or for ‘home stays’ the villagers. ranging from two days to two The tourist inflow has lead weeks. Dr P T Joseph’s 102- to the renovation of old year-old house, Pooppally’s homes. However, many say En-Nature, has attracted the government should help tourists from some 17 coun- in marketing. Amitabh Kant, tries. ‘‘This year I have had 10 joint secretary, ministry of groups of 10 each coming for tourism says, ‘‘These entre- lunch. Many want to see the preneurs can us details of old architecture of Kerala, their ‘home stays’ and we can spend time with us, share our put them on the official India food and the homely atmos- tourism and Kerala tourism phere,’’ he says. For Edmund websites. ’’ Hillary exulted about the Its been worth it. Janine ‘‘gracious old house imbued Renard, product manager of with timeless charm.’’ French tour operator High-end tourists don’t Voyageurs Du Monde,says: mind forking out Rs 3,000 a ‘‘Our company sends clients day (all inclusive) where the to places with a special and drone of boats and bees and traditional atmosphere. We chirping of birds are the only have proposed houses like sounds. A smitten Teresa En-Nature in our yearly Gameiro, a Portuguese poet- brochure.’’ She says some ess says: ‘‘If in every corner places become too touristy of the planet you feel this and lose their soul which peace you would not need to may be the case with Goa or go to heaven as you would al- Kovalam. ready be in Paradise.’’ ‘‘But there’s no place with Most entrepreneurs have the atmosphere of the Kerala tie-ups with travel agents in backwaters — the life around India and abroad. A S Mad- the water, the landscape, the havan, MD, Pettits India people, the traditions around Tours, says these homes are temples or churches...very classified into budget (Rs 400- unique,’’ she says. So what 500 per day), normal (Rs 1,500 are you waiting for?
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We almost sold the Taj. But that’s not the end of the story. Sunday Times on tales of heritage hustling from all over India Heritage management: Monumental Plunder The videshi way TOI
Eiffel Tower, Paris ● Open 365 days a year, the Eiffel Tower welcomes close to 6 million visitors in a year. It is the world’s most visited site with an entry fee. ● The Tower’s electricity demands: 7,500,000 kw hours yearly. In case of breakdown, three electrical groups automatically take over. ● Specialised industrial cleaning teams keep it in tip-top condition. Through the year they use four tonnes of paper or rag wipes, The Ajanta caves are an exam- damage the sacredness of the the rock-cut elbows as ashtrays. 10,000 doses of detergents and ple of how the ASI bungled in its river or disrupt the harmony of The ASI, the body in charge of 25,000 garbage bags. attempt to restore the caves to Messingup the surrounding structures. The Shiva’s the heritage precinct, pleaded Cemented ● It is under surveillance 24 hours their former glory.A hue and cry approval of this plan was valid helplessness: it did not have the was raised a few years ago when for three years. manpower to police the caves. a day. In case of fire, it has 530 Walter Spink the world’s leading In April 2000 VDA refused to Till 1997, when Richard Engle- detectors, a network of sprinklers a majestic elbows as hardt, regional advisor to Un- and 200 fire extinguishers. porch,flaky Ajantologist, said that the ASI renew the approval as the same restoration has only caused year the state government had esco on culture, visited the is- ● Every seven years mark the more havoc. Spink provides the issued an order prohibiting any land and threatened to delist beginning of a re-paint job. example of how the porch of mahal construction within 200 metres ashtrays Elephanta from the World Her- ● Its maintenance costs 17 million frescos itage List unless something was Cave I was replaced by a cement of the Ganga. Still, demolition euros a year. janta and Ellora, although one. He also complained that the major portion of the two began in December 2000 and ex- ith 1,500 residents and done. The government decided A independently located, are ASI restoration had only made A centuries old Darbhanga pansion work started in Febru- W 4,000 monkeys, the popula- to pull itself up. In 1998, an apex always mentioned in the same the frescoes flakier and darker Palace, situated on the Munshi ary 2001 with the laying down of tion profile of Elephanta, the is- committee was constituted com- breath like twins joined at the and warned that they should be ghat along the Ganga in new foundations for substantial- land, which is a 90-minute boa- prising the ASI, INTACH, Ma- hip. These sweeping swathes of left well alone till a foolproof Varanasi is being demolished for ly extending the boundaries of tride from Mumbai, is more harashtra Tourism Develop- caves with sculpture and fres- method was found. commercial purposes. Construc- the old structure. The VDA than a little skewed. The fero- ment Corporation (MTDC) and coes, are situated outside the Now, the caves have found a tion work for building a five star blocked work in March 2001 but cious vanar sena is just one of MMRDA to restore the unique city of Aurangabad. new benefactor. A Japanese hotel is in full swing. According reconsidered its decision in its problems. The island has monument. The island’s two largest prob- bank has given a Rs 300 crore to Vrinda Dar, the general secre- March 2003. Currently, new con- no running water or electri- The Ajanta caves, which were lems are bureaucracy and water. soft loan towards their restora- tary of Kautilya Society,an NGO struction work and expansion is city, but hosts some exquisite sanctuaries where Buddhist on inside the monument and a There’s too much of the former tion. What does the ASI plan to engaged in the promotion of In- rock sculpture. monks lived for 1,600 years, con- new structure of five floors is and none of the latter. There are do? Carry out some rock-but- dian culture abroad, the palace Elephanta caves, world fa- tain luminous frescoes that de- coming up inside. eight government bodies in tressing and waterproofing in owned by the Darbhanga estate mous for the spectacular sixth- pict the various stages in the life B Ram, vice-chairman of VDA charge of Elephanta and to get the caves along with the chemi- was sold to a prominent hotel century AD rock-cut cave tem- of the Buddha. Ellora, whose cal conservation of a few fres- said there was nothing wrong as an idea of the entangled state of group of the country in 1995-96. ples dedicated to Shiva, were at sculptures represent Hinduism, coes. But next year. The Maha- no construction work was going affairs, here’s a simple example: the receiving end of vandalism Buddhism and Jainism was rashtra Tourism Development Dar says that the palace was on. Only repair work was taking The steps leading up to the caves for years. The caves had been re- carved over three successive pe- Corporation (MTDC) is consid- classified as a Grade I building place and that too within the su- are owned by the ASI but the Golden Gate Bridge, duced to garbage dumps and riods from 600 AD to 1200 AD. ering setting up a site museum- in 1992 by INTACH. This meant pervision of INTACH. Besides land on which they are built be- cricket pitches with balls regu- San Francisco Both are on the World Heritage cum-orientation centre for tou- that the monument’s originality the repair plan had been ap- longs to the Forest Department. larly bouncing rudely off the an- ● List. The sites attract seven lakh rists. ‘‘We are designing replicas had to protected at every cost. A proved by the VDA, much before The island has no running Till May 2002, 1,724,438,381 cient Shiva trimurti. tourists a year. And both are in of some of the important caves plan of renovation produced by the state government order of water and the toilets are enough vehicles had crossed the Bridge. need of preservation. Humidity so in the future, if the caves are the new owners of the palace 2000 that prohibits any construc- The caves receive over nine to repel the most intrepid ● Painting the Bridge is a affects the frescoes and care has closed to the public because of was approved by the Varanasi tion within 200 metres of the riv- lakh visitors a year. Half are tourists. The Japanese, it is said, continuous process. It was been taken to not allow more humidity, tourists will still be Development Authority (VDA) er.When informed of the ground tourists, the other half pick- do not drink water because they opened to the public in 1937. By than 40 tourists into a cave at able to see the frescoes,’’ says a in 1997 on the condition that the reality, he said he was going to nickers. Picknickers were actu- are terrified of having to use the 1965, the Bridge Authority began one time. Other protective meas- spokesperson. proposed alterations did not check the entire matter. ally spotted cooking in the caves public toilets. replacing the original paint. ures have not been as sound. Nina Martyris change the original structure, Anuraag and smokers were known to use NM ● A rugged group of 17 ironworkers and 38 painters battle wind, sea air and fog to repair corroding steel. Will trucks ply on ● Suspender ropes were replaced at a cost of $9 million in District funds. ●In 1993-94, the west side Hampi bridge? pedestrian railing was replaced with an exact replica at a cost of $1.3 million. ampi was deemed a der the state archaeology de- world heritage site in partment, while the rest of the H 1986 by Unesco, only to site is under the ASI, which has be put on the list of ‘‘endan- notified 55 monuments. gered’’ world heritage sites 15 Hampi’s fate continues to years later. Reason: unchecked hang in the balance. Unesco heritage vandalism and ruinous World Heritage Centre deputy developments at this ancient director Minja Yang, who visit- site of the Vijayanagar king- ed the site yet again last month, dom. Appalled by the encroach- reportedly expressed a measure ments, illegal constructions, sly of satisfaction with the remedi- demolition of minor monu- al steps taken by the state in the ments and ill-conceived infra- last two years but warned that structural schemes, notably the much more needed to be done. Pyramid of Giza, Egypt construction of a bridge over Ruing the fact that the Kar- ● The only remaining ancient the Tungabhadra river flowing nataka government had pro- through the temple-studded ceeded to build the Anekundi wonder of the world. In 1995 the precinct, Unesco threatened at bridge though Unesco was op- pyramids were threatened by a the time to delist Hampi if posed to it, Yang said that the highway project near Cairo that things were not set right. (half-complete) bridge could be nic beauty of Hampi but also in- ‘‘The site management plan de- Tonnes of stone are being cart- bridge, which stopped during could have seriously damaged the The 40-sq-km site consists of completed but should be used creasing the pressure on the del- manded by Unesco is also being ed away from smaller shrines the UN team’s visit, is likely to site. The project was altered after about 500 major temples and only as a stop-gap arrangement icate monuments around. prepared under the supervision daily for illegal construction, commence any day now,’’ fears negotiations with the Egyptian 1,000 lesser shrines built be- for light traffic, with a bypass Karnataka government offi- of INTACH,’’ said Kedar. encroachments and fly-by-night historian and Kannada Ithihas government. tween 1336 and 1536 by various being provided for traffic com- cials, including department of However, historians in Ban- lodges are springing up all the Academy chairman Suryanath ● Today, the number of tourists al- Vijayanagar kings. It is admin- ing from Anekundi to Tal- Kannada and Culture secretary galore, Hampi and Mumbai time, the hippie drug and hawk- Kamath, whose group has been lowed inside a pyramid is restrict- istered by both the ASI and the warghatta. She said Unesco CS Kedar say that the state cabi- such as Chidananda Murthy, V er menace continues and hy- crusading to save Hampi. ‘‘We Karnataka state archaeology would like the the bridge to be net has already approved the re- Balasubrahmaniam and Anila giene in the Virupaksha temple intend to file a PIL to stop the ed to 300 persons per day to curb department. The Matanga Par- demolished within five years as quired bypass and the land ac- Verghese lament that there is no area leaves much to be desired. work if it restarts,’’ he adds. the damage people cause to the vatam and the core area are un- it was not only spoiling the sce- quisition process has begun. let-up in the damage to Hampi. ‘‘Plus, work on the Anekundi Gunvanthi Balaram structures. The Qutab needs to be swept clean Golghar is now a house for jawans R Burman K M Sharma he Taj may have just es- to them is damp and slippery.The t’s a huge building perfectly round caped an ugly backdrop situation is made worse during in shape with a small roof connect- T but the Qutab Minar is not the monsoon especially since the I ed to the ground with two pairs of so lucky.An unauthorised colony Minar is not covered from the 142-step concrete stairs. Called Golghar with nearly 100 houses has come top. On December 4, 1981, 45 peo- because of its shape, it was built by the up within 25 metres from the ple including 20 kids were British in 1786, soon after the Great Qutab. Stalls, hawkers and beg- crushed to death in a stampede Famine, to store foodgrains. From atop gars crowd the entry to the com- along this very staircase. It was its roof, one can have the best possible plex. Though visited by up to then that the Delhi High Court bird’s eye-view of Patna, the modern- 12,000 people every day, the com- ordered the closing down of the day version of the ancient Pataliputra plex does not even have a proper staircase. The court has not or- city.Not surprisingly,everyone visiting parking place or toilets. dered its reopening.’’ Patna makes it a point to visit Golghar. Recently when Union culture The railings on the balconies The Golghar,which is looked after by minister Jagmohan visited the were added on during the the Archaeological Directorate of the site, he lost his cool. ‘‘Instead of Mughal Raj. These have not been Bihar government, has been declared a repairing the monument, the ASI repaired since. An excess of monument of state importance under simply locked it. The general force used on them could be a the Bihar Ancient Monuments and Ar- condition of the monument is sure recipe for disaster, warns chaeological Sites, Remains and Art very bad,’’ he said. On the spot he Gopakumaran, who has worked Treasure Act, 1996. But it is a picture of directed ASI to repair the dilapi- on the Qutab site for the last two sheer neglect. Patnaites fail to recall dated steps of the monument so decades. He also points out, ‘‘The when the building was last white- that people can once again relive Qutab has a major problem re- washed. The locals have encroached a its glory safely.A senior ASI offi- garding its verticality. Keeping plot of land on the campus and built a cial said access to the first floor this in mind, a leading Mumbai temple on it. A big concrete platform attaching an adjacent park to it. When Kumar Singh. would be opened by August 15. company, Cementation Corpora- has also come up near the temple. Rabri Devi took over as CM, she laid the Though the Centre sent the first in- But Jagmohan’s decision to tion has been doing grouting A government school was also al- foundation stone of Golghar’s develop- stallment of Rs 11 lakh in 1993, said the open the staircase has opened up work to stabilise its foundations. lowed to run in a double-storeyed build- ment and beautification project in 2001. minister, it soon withdrew from the a can of worms. Experts are The ASI should have perforce fo- ing constructed on its campus. Only re- “A Rs 1-crore proposal for Golghar’s project without assigning any reason. aghast at what they believe to be cused on controlling the number cently, the school was shifted and the beautification was sent to the Centre in “The Golghar is to Patna what the an extremely unwise step. Says K of tourists visiting this site. Too building was occupied by Bihar Mili- 1991 but it okayed a plan of Rs 50 lakh Qutab Minar is to Delhi,” said Shankar Gopakumaran, a consultant en- many people affect a monu- tary Police jawans! only with the condition that a sum of Rs Prasad, a local resident, “and hence it is gineer on heritage sites, ‘‘The ment’s stability.’’ When Laloo Prasad Yadav became 17 lakh of the total would have to be fit to be declared a national monu- Qutab’s balconies are extremely Rashme Sehgal and the chief minister in 1991, the govern- shared by the Bihar government,” said ment.” Is the Centre listening? unsafe. The staircase leading up Saurabh Sinha ment enlarged the Golghar campus by Bihar minister for tourism Ashok Vinayanand Jha
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INTERNATIONAL GRAFFITI Eight suspected Lashkar men arrested in US NYT By Chidanand Rajghatta istan’s military ruler Pervez jihad, that it was appropriate for Hamdi, Yong Ki Kwon, Hammad Ab- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Musharraf left the capital for the these members to take up arms in ji- dur-Raheem, Donald Thomas Sur- West Coast. had,” McNulty said. “These indict- ratt, and Caliph Basha Ibn Abdur-Ra- Washington: In the first major heem. Three more defendants named crackdown in the US on terrorism af- The men were arraigned in a court ments are a stark reminder that ter- in Alexandria, Virginia Friday after- rorist organisations of various alle- in the indictment are said to be living fecting India, the Federal Bureau of in Saudi Arabia. Investigation on Friday arrested noon. In a 42-count indictment, they giances are active in the US and these were “charged with conspiracy to groups exploit America’s freedom as According to the indictment, the 11 eight men, some of them suspected of defendants allegedly conspired to links to the outlawed Pakistani train for and participate in a violent a weapon to recruit and position jihad in Kashmir,” according to US themselves on our shores, in our so- prepare for and engage in violent ji- group Lashkar-e-Taiba. had on behalf of Muslims in Kash- attorney Paul J McNulty. ciety,” he added. The names of the The arrests took place in Virginia mir, Chechnya, the Philippines and “After the Sept. 11 attacks, Virginia suspects were given as Mohammed and Maryland, adjoining Washing- other countries. ton DC, and in Pennsylvania, and jihad network members were told Aatique, Masood Ahmed Khan, Ran- they were announced just as Pak- that it was time to engage in violent dall Todd Royer, Ibrahim Ahmed al- For more go to www.timesofindia.com BRICKBATS Spousal spats Dubya man is like Abhishek Bachchan. Nobody likes them both but they still persist. raise blood Akshay K. For God’s sake stop this nonsense, otherwise I’ll have to stop reading TOI pressure Ashish By Alison McCook For bouquets log on to New York: Although talking www.timesofindia.com things through is generally a good idea in marriage, new e-mail: [email protected] research suggests that seri- ous conflicts between part- ners can be hazardous to their health. Investigators at Miami Dennis Hof, 56, center, the proprietor of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Carson City, University in Oxford, Ohio, Nevada, poses with employees on Friday. Nevada legislators have agreed to tax found that, during discus- entertainment, including brothels. sions between couples with a Strippers own club: The about 60 dancers and sup- Joel Schumacher and pro- somewhat turbulent relation- United States’ only unionised port staff, took over the club duced by Jerry Bruckheimer. ship in which one partner strippers are now running the as a cooperative this month Despite both being block- wanted the other to make show. Dancers at the Lusty after the Lusty Lady’s former buster veterans, it is a mod- certain changes in their mar- Lady in San Francisco have owners decided to close up estly budgeted and reason- riage, the change-desiring made history by turning the shop. Reuters ably gritty account of the final spouse often experienced a peep show into the first em- year in the life of the crusad- marked increase in blood ployee-owned and-operated Drug-busting Cate: Cate ing Irish journalist Veronica pressure, which lasted as strip club in the country. The Blanchett plays the lead in Guerin, who was murdered in Veronica Guerin, directed by long as the conversation. new proprietors, who number 1996 by the Dublin drug A sustained and repeated Reuters gang she was trying to increase in blood pressure expose. Agencies can affect a spouse’s health, perhaps eventually leading Musical con game: Catch Me if You Can, the Leonardo to cardiovascular disease, DiCaprio film, looks likely to the study’s lead author said. be the next Hollywood prod- In general, people who ex- uct to be turned into a stage perienced the highest in- musical. Scott Wittman and creases in BP during the Marc Shaiman, are to collab- tense discussions were those orate with Steven Spielberg who also showed the most on a musical treatment of the negative behaviors, Newton tale of the con artist Frank said. Findings suggest that Abagnale Jr, who managed the person who desires to cash $2.5 million in forged change is more likely to feel China opened world’s longest steel-arch bridge, the Lupu cheques before his 21st the health effects of argu- Bridge, across Huangpu river in Shanghai on Saturday. birthday. Agencies ments, she added. Reuters Long, lush locks lure lovers By E J Mundell “We had a short-hair condition New York: Halle Berry aside, most where the hair was above the ears, American men show an “overwhelm- cropped close to the head,” Kline ex- ing” preference for women sporting plained. “We (also) had the hair in a long, luscious hair compared to short- medium style ... just a little bit below er cuts, researchers report. the ears, and then we had the long-hair Oh, and sorry, Madonna: Men also condition where it was at least 8 inch- seem to prefer brunettes over blondes, es or more past the shoulders.” by a wide margin. Otherwise, the woman’s face and ex- The findings are based on inter- pression were exactly the same in views with 50 men conducted by psy- each of the three pictures. chology researcher Dr Kelley Kline, of According to Kline, both men and Florida State University in Panama women “overwhelmingly find the long City, Florida. She and co-authors Dr hair length significantly more attrac- Colin Peeler and undergraduate stu- tive than the short and the medium dent Kim Fazzone presented their hair length.” findings earlier this month at the an- She said the biological imperative to nual meeting of the American Psy- find a healthy, fertile mate may ex- chological Society,in Atlanta. plain the finding, at least in men. One In their study, the Florida team had popular psychological theory holds 76 women and 50 men averaging 27 that while women are driven to find years of age rate the attractiveness of moneyed, ‘resource-rich’ men, men women depicted in 6 different photos. are primarily looking for reproductive Three of the photos were actually of fitness in their mates. “Hair is going to the same young Caucasian woman, be a signal of that, because a younger her hair altered by computer to short, woman will usually have longer,thick- medium and long lengths. er hair,” Kline explained. Reuters Laser-based biopsy sans the knife By Anne Eisenberg t takes time to do a prop- Ier biopsy: Typically,sev- eral days for a tissue sam- ple to be removed, pre- served, sliced, stained with labeling chemicals and placed under a microscope to be interpreted by a pathologist. Now a new laser-based method may enable pathol- ogists to do instant biop- sies of living tissue, speed- ing the process. Although the technique cannot yet see deep within tissue, it can provide images at a resolution of a single cell. “Unlike a biopsy, we get an instant and detailed im- age. It’s instant pathology,” said Watt W. Webb, of the Cornell University. The new technology takes advantage of the ability of animals and hu- mans to do something deep within their bodies that plankton and lightning bugs do in the open: Glow. Cells and connective tis- sue, it turns out, are full of molecules that can lumi- nesce when struck by the intense pulses of certain types of laser light. The researchers create detailed biopsy images by scanning live tissue with a pulsed laser that focuses intense light on a tiny spot. The image shows the stuff of biopsies —for example, any unusual shape or change in cells and their connecting tissue. “This is a useful, mini- mally invasive way in which living tissue can be examined,” said John G. White, of the University of Wisconsin. NYT News Service
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Reuters US hangs up on telemarketers AP gainst the many marketer is probably the grades etc. things indispensable most hated person in the Besides, there is still the A for Americans (re- United States. Americans physical junk mail, another mote controls, ketchup and get some 16 billion sales horrendous burden on mustard, ice cubes etc), calls each year, which hardworking postal work- there are some which they means almost every home ers, and electronic spam, a can really do without. At gets at least one call a day vulgar excess that is slow- the top of this list are pop despite 29 states having en- ing down computers and up ads, spam, junk mail and acted laws introducing “do networks across the world. telemarketing calls. not call” registries. A lot of this spam is now Doubtless there are sur- So enter the national “Do originating from India be- veys detailing how much Not Call” registry. Just how cause of the many open re- time Americans spend each severe the problem is can be lay non-secure servers that day getting rid of or avoid- judged from the fact that Bush announced on Friday a allow spammers to route ing such within do-not-call list, which will junk e-mail through them. pestilence, hours of the block about 80 per cent of While fulminating but let’s just ONLY IN registry telemarketing calls. against all these solicita- say it is a opening on wanted call. You wish New tions, spare a thought also monstrous Friday,some Delhi would enact a similar to the tens of thousands of problem. So AMERICA! 635,000 peo- law for touts? people the industry em- much, that But the battle is far from ploys. They will just have to Chidanand Rajghatta ple had in recent checked into won. The new law excepts stomach one more giant re- weeks, the www.donot- political organisations, jection in the form of the Federal government has call.gov at the rate of knots, charities, telephone survey- national DoNotCall registry stepped in to counter the knocking the website out of ors and companies with which will put nearly half menace that is as polluting service. Some 60 million which the consumer has a the American homes of the to the American home as people are expected to regis- recent business relation- reach. Mercifully, the Indi- the worst industrial efflu- ter to go off sales call in the ship, which means there is an accent hadn’t American- ents in a free-flowing river. next few weeks. Penalty for nothing to prevent AOLs ised to the extent that tele- Next only to used car telemarketing firms violat- and AT&Ts from going after marketing became a major salesmen and sleazebag at- ing the embargo will be se- their present and past cus- job spinner in India. We are torneys, the faceless tele- vere - up to $ 11,000 per un- tomers with new deals, up- saved the blushes. American troops face a torrent of attacks Baghdad: Two US soldiers, mately 30 kms northwest of missing with a Humvee vehi- Baghdad and have been posi- cle since Wednesday, have tively identified,” US Central been found dead, the US mil- Command said in a state- itary said on Saturday. It ment on its website. Lytisha Santiago and her dog Bailey stretch during a ‘Ruff gave no details on how the Earlier on Friday, another Yoga’ class in New York. The class teaches dog owners two soldiers died. US soldier was shot in the and their pets to interact while doing yoga. The discovery comes just head and critically wounded hours after one US soldier while shopping for video was killed and four others disks in Baghdad. On Thurs- were wounded in the latest day a motorist on a highway Should jawans help in a spate of guerrilla-style fired rocket-propelled attacks as occupation forces grenades at a convoy of struggle to impose peace. At trucks moving heavy equip- maintain peace of least 22 Americans have ment. been killed by hostile fire in Two fires, one which de- Iraq since major combat op- stroyed a warehouse storing erations were declared over paper for printing money in an unsought war? on May 1. Baghdad on Saturday and AP “Coalition forces today re- another still burning after or Lawrence of covered the remains of two three days at a sulphur plant Arabia, will we US Army soldiers missing in northern Iraq have added F soon be extolling since June 25. The soldiers to the headaches of occupa- the warlike skills and were recovered approxi- tion forces. Agencies bravery of Laloo of Ara- bia, sporting a cheery checked guttrah, the Arab males customary headdress? Is this the right time and method -of closing the circle of colo- nialism, by joining Iraq’s invaders, to police an In- British PM Blair’s press dian sector stretching up adviser Alistair Campbell to the Turkish border? So, is in a dispute with the is this the week Indian BBC over whether the troops will formally be government spiced up its committed to keeping the Iraq dossier. peace in Iraq? Or might it describes Britain’s at- be next week? Or never? tempts to establish a new- No one knows. look empire in the region, But it is surely signifi- different from the Raj be- cant that the British cause it will not “assume prime minister no less, the invidious burden of has thought fit to inform colonial rule” but still parliament of an expect- able to “secure imperial- ed happy announcement ist interests”. of “thousands” of peace- All of which brings us keeping troops from “19 to the tragic deaths of six or 20 countries”. Equally British signifi- military cant per- policemen haps, giv- EURO in south- en the do- ern Iraq. mestic po- The Iraqis litical sen- VISION who rose sitivities Rashmee Z Ahmed up and of the is- killed sue, was them are Deputy Prime Minister L routinely being described K Advani’s decision pub- as “baying Arabs”. The licly to put on record battle to keep the peace is Blair’s request for Indian being called “thankless”, troops. Advani’s frank ad- Iraq a “lawless land”. mission in London came In these familiar just hours after Indian of- echoes from a colonial ficialdom rejected the no- litany we collectively re- tion that Advani and member and agonise Blair discussed the issue about, there is little at all. Advani called their thought for Keay’s con- bluff. Could that signal stant refrain that the “yea” rather than “nay”? Brits were and are If the decision has not loathed by the Iraqis. already been made, there The question now is may still be time for our whether we want to be co- boffins to read a new opted with promises and book, Sowing the Wind, plaudits. Why should the on the unhappy manifes- jawan help keep the post- tations of colonialism in conflict peace of an un- West Asia. sought war? The others At each turn, John started it. Let them finish Keay’s Sowing the Wind it as best they might. Pakistan asks Sharif’s kin to leave country Islamabad: In an apparent reaction to the recent criti- cism by deposed premier Nawaz Sharif against Presi- dent Musharraf, the Pak- istan government has or- dered his brother Shahbaz Sharif ’s wife and daughters to leave the country and join the exiled family in Jeddah. “They will be sent today (Saturday),” interior minis- ter Faisal Saleh Hayat said. Hayat told private Geo TV that Shahbaz’s wife and daughters were allowed to return as the family wanted to marry off the daughters and asked for two months’ time to complete the mar- riage. “Now it is over three months. There is no sign of marriage,” Hayat said. PTI
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TALKING TERMS Dileep Padgaonkar Is hardline Hindutva no longer fashionable? Churlish at best What’s hard and soft Hindutva? This is all media hogwash Twists in the BJP’s ideological journey have only one ending: Hard Hindutva This ‘soft’ Kashi/Vishwanath andMath- jority. But the Ram Janamb- The on- took the vision of a Deng and denly want to discuss it. When he assumed office, Atal Behari and ‘hard’ ura is like asking me when hoomi temple remains a live again, off- a decade of transformation Kashmir is a United States- Vajpayee, much like his predecessors, stance of did I stop beating my wife. issue because every Hindu in again Hin- to set China on the path of imposed compulsion. Atalji’s reckoned that without a vibrant econo- the BJP is But if I haven’t beaten her in India wants a temple to be dutva market economy. The BJP ‘‘open mind’’ on Kashmir is my,military clout and a sound national all media the first place, how’ll my built there. And the issue still tamasha strangely seems able to som- not a sign of ideological re- security environment, India was hogwash. I stand change? All claims that remains a vote catcher. has ceased ersault from one position to form. It is necessity mas- doomed to stagnate. Unlike many of do not wish the VHP campaigned for the Democracy is a game of even to en- another. Every so often, querading as a virtue. As for them, however, he chose to run high to qualify BJP during the Gujarat elec- numbers. It’s not going to be tertain. Ide- Atalji will pen a few soulful Ayodhya, what is the great risks in the pursuit of his objectives. In the BJP tions, are also false. Very few easy to implement all these ological lines on moderation and the Ram temple solution that has Pramod Mahajan, policy. The legislations in the next two Vidya change is a BJP gossip mills will have it stirred up so much excite- the process, he has had to weather bitter BJP general secretary joint meetings of any conse- Subrahmaniam criticism both at home and abroad. BJP joined quence were addressed by decades. We will have to ex- Senior Assistant Editor giant step that the party is through ment? That is being read as a Recall the hostility, especially abroad, to his decision the Ram BJP and VHP leaders. pand our support base. But if for any po- with Hindutva. signal of accommodation to conduct nuclear tests in May 1998. Consider the flak he Janambhoomi movement of- I am surprised at the VHP the Jews could wait 2000 litical party; it happens over Remember the prime min- by the BJP? received for his economic reforms even from sections ficially after the party passed criticism of our stand. The years to form a nation, we too years through much conclav- ister’s paean to secularism in From all accounts, the of his own parivar. His foreign policy initiatives, particu- a resolution in Palampur in BJP is the only political par- can wait. ing and brainstorming. It his much-toasted musings seer’s solution envisages larly as regards the United States and Israel, have met HP in 1989 supporting the ty, barring the Shiv Sena, from Kumarakom? A mere starting construction for the a similar fate. Meanwhile, in the name of realpolitik, construction of this temple which supports the VHP’s week before that he had ro- temple on the undisputed site he has been chastised for reaching out to Pakistan and at Ram’s birthplace. That’s stand on Ram Janambhoomi. SUNDAY DEBATE bustly embraced the Hindut- and building a mosque a few now for his China visit. been part of all our subse- When the VHP said it would Deepak Harichandan va cause by declaring that kilometres away. This is old The visit has been dismissed variously as a ‘grand quent manifestoes, except support a court verdict, we the nation’s sentiments were hat, and goes back to a time show’, an ‘extravaganza’, a ‘big picnic’ and so forth. Some the 1999 elections when we supported them. We continue tied to the Ram temple. That when the Babri Masjid was have gone so far as to assert that the prime minister ‘kow- shared a common manifesto to support what they have to had electrified the parivar: alive and well. Back then, towed’ to the Chinese and even ‘surrendered’ to them. with our NDA allies. say on the Ram temple and RSS weekly Panchajanya Muslim bodies had shot What the critics say in substance is this: India should Kashi/Vishwanath and yet they criticise us. Nor am I had hailed it as, ‘‘Atal satya down the idea saying any never have agreed to a formulation on Tibet which was Mathura have never been able to understand new-fan- ki jai’’. So which was the construction on the undis- acceptable to the Chinese unless they acknowledged part of our manifesto. Nei- gled definitions of right-lean- real ‘satya’? The tribute to puted site amounted to that Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh and ther has the BJP passed a res- ing or left-leaning with refer- Ayodhya or the retraction in sanctioning the temple, as Sikkim were part of India. olution on this issue. Nor has ence to political parties. To- the musings? Let’s face it. the latter’s garba griha was The blunt truth is, firstly,that the new formulation (The any national-level leader day,these are irrelevant. The twists and turns in the located in the exact spot Tibet Autonomous Region is part of the territory of the ever issued a statement on We stand committed to our BJP’s ideological journey where the masjid stood. It is People’s Republic of China) is not a departure in any sig- this subject. There’s no ques- key issues, be it Article 370, may rival Ekta Kapoor’s com- not as if the site plan of nificant sense from India’s stated positions in the past. Sec- tion of dropping this issue national legislation on cow plex plots in the Kyunki the temple has been altered ondly,the people who should be most concerned about any simply because it has never protection or the existence of soaps, but it has only one in the Shankaracharya’s deviation from these stated positions viz. the Tibetans ex- been part of our agenda in a Uniform Civil Code. These ending: Hard Hindutva. ‘new’ proposal. iled in India, have not reacted adversely to the new refer- the first place. are part of the BJP agenda, The BJP’s current ‘soft’ Far from it, the Ram tem- ence. Much more important, however, is the fact that any There is no point trying to but they are not part of the phase has been attributed to ple has become a fait accom- insistence on India’s part of a quid pro quo on the lines sug- equate the stand taken by the NDA agenda. two things: The peace moves pli, while Kashi and Mathura gested by the critics of the Vajpayee visit would have spelt VHP or the RSS on the Ram Let’s not forget that while on Kashmir and the Kanchi remain firmly on the agenda. an unmitigated disaster. Janambhoomi issue with the BJP won 183 Lok Sabha seer’s settlement plans for What’s more, the BJP’s state For, from all accounts, it is only a matter of time before ours. The VHP has always seats, our NDA allies won Ayodhya. Take Kashmir. It is units have got a carte blanche China formally accepts Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh as talked about these three tem- 112. The NDA agenda is being inconceivable that a party to use Hindutva in the part and parcel of India. The decision to open the ples and the RSS has always implemented, not our agen- that shrank back in horror upcoming elections. So, Tibet-Sikkim trade route is a first step in this direction. supported it. da. We can pass these legisla- each time anybody men- who says Hindutva is no The Chinese position would be even more forthright once Asking me questions about tions only when we get a ma- tioned Kashmir, would sud- longer hot? the talks to settle the overall issue of the borders between the two countries, which have now been elevated to the political level, get underway.And as far as Jammu & Kash- mir is concerned, suffice it to say that New Delhi should ERRATICA not lose any sleep so long as China observes a discreet Bachi Karkaria If it doesn’t get better, try verse silence on the issue even as India and Pakistan address it in right earnest. It’s nice to be back from a — which is a boon to politicians, journalists As toasting and touring Mr Vajpayee They’ve reduced the Palestine load. Clearly the most worthwhile outcome of the visit is trip, and know that noth- and global risk strategists, all of whom did pose. We’ve remade the Silk Route a la mode. the qualitative change in the atmosphere: the two ing has changed. That make a living from debt and destruction. But will this visit turn the tide? We may solve the Kashmir question mayhem continues in countries have moved away from decades of suspicion Indeed in the week that I’ve returned, Or will we again be Shanghai-ed? With or without intervention. June. That we didn’t lose to something akin to trust. things got verse. So you can ride on this lim- The answer can only be, ‘Hu knows’. Now to Ayodhya please give us a the monsoon, even if They are determined to exploit opportunities of cooper- erickshaw through the broad avenues and mapped road. we almost lost the Taj. Of the Mush-Bush-khushi let’s talk. ation, especially in the economic area, and, no less signifi- smelly by-lanes of history in the waking. It’s become another Shah-namah, cant, to ensure that contentious issues are sorted out in a That we’re still on the Their buddy-ness our shikara could rock. brink of both war and But on a conditional three billion, A filmi tale of extortion hungama. pragmatic manner and on a footing of equality. For Harry Potter wins the high-fiver toss. If Mrs Shetty gets no bail, India, such pragmatism on the border issue in particular peace with our neigh- Shows clearly he’s publishing’s boss. He shouldn’t ride pillion, bours, a state we’ve been in for so long that And zoom in to smash through the LoC. ‘Twill be a sari tale would mean that it can expect tranquillity on its northern Magically he encashes Of jailing both Shilpapa and Shilmama. and eastern frontiers which, in turn, will allow it to we might have serious trouble distinguish- A Phoenix from the ashes, ing between the two. With breath that’s bated we wait deal with its neighbour on the west, Pakistan, with a And proves again that Rowling tomes For the opening of heaven’s sluice-gate. Venus sure knows how to pack-it greater sense of confidence. It’s comforting to hear that, far from giv- gather no loss. But when the sewers clog, Agassi sure knows how to whack-it. All this is a far cry from what China was saying about us But our corrupting dream ing up the ghost, Bollywood made a come- Shah Jahan might find it sheer gall, And the roads water log, barely three decades ago: India was ‘expansionist’; it back with Bhoot, and that Hrithik doesn’t We wish that the monsoon was mon-late. Is not strawberries, just cream. had ‘hegemonic’ designs; it was a prime example of ‘tur- For Maya’s builders to cast such a pall. For, if someone has a ball, it’s a racket! want to be hwritten-off. That other block- But he’d really lose his marbles moil under heaven’ and so forth. Now, it regards India as a buster may not have given evidence of it in They’ve caught him at the point of a gun, ★★★ ‘partner’ whose interests and concerns transcend South If his Empress now warbles, recent weeks, but we can rest insecure in the ‘Keep your Taj, I want a shopping Ma-hall.’ Comical Ali who caused us such fun. Asia. Against this background, to dismiss the prime knowledge that Salman Khan can still make But we’d sleep a lot better Alec Smart said, ‘‘What’s the new minister’s China visit out of hand is churlish, at best, enough noise to raise the dead from their There was such a thaw in the borderline If instead they’d go-getter Vajpayee-Jiang starrer? ‘Do Bigger and at worst, an act of bad faith. Ashes. So all’s not-quite-well with the world snows, Saddam, Osama and our own Veerappan. Zemin’.’’
JUGULAR VEIN MEN AND IDEAS Jug Suraiya PASSING THOUGHT Gurcharan Das The sorcerer’s enchantment
When our tax refunds are on the tax rolls — and this the best cases to scrutinise. DIY Page 3 arrived in May,within testimonial to our economic reforms! The computer’s decision will be based six months of filing Despite these gains, the average Indi- on a mismatch between a person’s con- Since its inception a few years ago, Page our return, we an holds his tax officer in contempt; he sumption and income. Hence, the biggest 3 has become the benchmark of bashes. thought we were thinks him rapacious and corrupt, and task engaging the department is to collect If you haven’t partied at a Page 3 party, dreaming. Since it he’s probably right. My corner bania and monitor consumption data — who is you haven’t partied at all. But what normally took years, wants to pay his taxes but he refuses to be spending how much on cars, cell phones, if you’re not a card-carrying Page 3 something must be victimised. My accountant has been is- credit cards, hotels, airline tickets, and apparatchic? How then do you inveigle afoot we thought, and sued two PAN numbers by mistake and even jewellery. Since 95 per cent of the yourself into a Page 3 do without decided to pay North the ITO has the gall to ask for Rs 500 to fix gold is now purchased through banks getting done by the resident bouncer? Block a visit. There we were astonished his own mistake. The bribe for an indi- (and not smuggled), jewellery purchases Simple. You fake it. All you have to do is to learn that computers had already com- vidual assessment is Rs 10,000, for a com- can be monitored. The permanent ac- learn the right moves. pleted 95 per cent of this year’s returns. pany Rs 25,000, and for avoiding ‘‘scruti- count number (PAN) is crucial to all this, First, perfect the Stormtrooper Strut. Imagine you are Our meeting began with a common ny’’, it is Rs 20,000 to 50,000. No wonder and the Board realises the mess they have one of those televised Marines in Iraq, symbolically lament — why do so few Indians pay in- the tax department is known as the ugli- made of it. Hence, they have outsourced kicking aside such inferior species like non-combatants, come tax? We soon realised, however,that est face of the Indian bureaucracy. this activity, and from July, a PAN card waiters, autograph-seekers and other untermensch. this might be the wrong question. In On this scene walks in the sorcerer, Vi- will be couriered within 10 days on Stick your right arm out, fingers rigidly extended in March 1992, the year the reforms began, jay Kelkar, clutching Chapter 3 of his re- demand. Banks will provide refunds, anticipatory handshake. Fix your lips in a rigor mortis there were 78 lakh assessees; this rose to port, innocently titled ‘‘Reform of Tax there will be no challans, and no one need grin of greeting. Glaze your eyes with a glassy stare like a 1.4 crores by 1998 and climbed to 3.4 Administration’’, and with Jaswant visit the taxman. Great White Shark homing in for the kill. Intently gazing crores by March 2003. In a nation of 100 Singh’s support, he begins to cast a spell. Towards the end we were still scepti- straight ahead as though you’ve spotted someone who crores, this may seem small, but if you At the heart of the sorcerer’s enchant- cal, and we asked, won’t corrupt officials is only a little less of a VVIP than you yourself and subtract 65 per cent of the population ment is to break the link between the of- be able to get around this? Bhagwat whom protocol demands you greet without further ado, that is rural and exempt from tax, it ficer and the taxpayer, and remove the of- Swarup, who is implementing many of effect your grand entrance, unchallenged by the suitably leaves 35 crore urban people; divide this ficial’s discretion, and create transparen- these reforms, gently answered, ‘‘Just as intimidated security guards manning the gate and your by 5.2 persons per home, and you get 6.8 cy through technology. Although only computerisation in the railways took flummoxed host and hostess who’re wondering who the crore urban homes. Assume one taxpayer two per cent of the returns are scruti- away the clerks discretion to give a ticket, hell you are but haven’t the nerve to ask. per family, and divide 6.8 by 3.4, you re- nised today, officials arbitrarily decide so will ours.’’ If it does, generations of alise that this is every second urban fam- grateful citizens will remember Jaswant Once in, mingle with the throng. Avoid being asked aw- In this plant we are 100% self-sufficient. We make which ones, and this brings corruption. Singh’s innings at the North Block. kward questions as to who you are and what you’re doing every item ourselves—including the funds to ily. Even after subtracting corporate and Soon, thanks to new software, even the there by playing that popular Page 3 party game known as run the factory! multiple taxpayers per family, it still commissioner will lose this power. Each [email protected]; post box Periscope Peek-a-boo. This consists of engaging someone means more than two out of five families morning the computer will decide which 3046, New Delhi 110003 in animated conversation all the while craning your neck, periscope-like, over the person’s shoulder to see if you can glimpse someone with more social cachet that you’d rather talk to in preference to your current interlocutor. SWAMINOMICS Periscope Peek-a-boo is sometimes confused by Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar How to revive investment novitiates with that other ubiquitous Page 3 pastime Air Kissing. Air Kissing is not a full contact body sport. rather than lend at double or triple ones. Instead, each failed loan is The best security for a bank is You must never ever actually touch the cheek, or any Many things tries. In January 1998, the defini- have improved tion of small-scale industries was that interest rate to solvent, prof- seen as a possible crime. the profitability of the borrower. other part of the anatomy, of the person you exchange itable companies. Why? Does this discourage lending? Yet, bank lending rules tend to ig- Air Kisses with. Practise Air Kissing by standing in front in India since changed from companies with the reforms of plant/machinery of Rs 65 lakh to Because, says Bannerjee, the in- Bannerjee finds that commercial nore profitability and focus on of a mirror, and implanting a smooch on the glass a good centives for bank officers are all lending by a bank after a vigilance sales. Typically,bank rules suggest six inches wide of your reflected ear. Check the glass for 1991, but not the Rs 3 crore. Looking at a sample of country’s in- 253 borrowers of both kinds, Ban- wrong. Banking by its very nature inquiry declines by 3 to 5 per cent, lending up to 20 per cent of sales, telltale traces of sputum. Remember: Saying ‘Mud in involves risk-taking: in competi- and the decline continues for up to and officials are not allowed to as- your eye’ while raising a toast is one thing; inadvertently vestment rate. nerje finds that additional credit Investment is has a powerful effect on sales, and tive economies, some borrowers 18 months. Clearly, vigilance in- sume sales growth of more than 15 spitting in the eye of a bystander while exchanging Air will go bust even as others thrive. quiries stunt lending. per cent annually (thus castrating Kisses with someone else is quite another, and is a distinct profitable, and an even more powerful effect on corporate prof- profits. Additional credit of Rs So, defaults by a minority of bor- A banker would rather give one borrowers that could grow very Page 3 no-no. Novices at the game are advised to equip rowers are inevitable, and should loan of Rs 10 crore than 10 loans of fast with enough credit). themselves with a Band-Aid or length of cellotape to affix its rose by over 50 per cent last year. 1,000 improves the profits of bor- Yet, investment refuses to take off, rowing companies by an astound- not be interpreted as a corrupt Rs 1 crore each, since the latter ap- The solution: base lending on over the lips at the crucial moment and thus avoid the transaction. Yet this is what vigi- proach (which the country needs) profitability rather than sales. embarrassment of unpremeditated expectoration. despite many incentives from ing Rs 999, net of interest. many ministers. lance inquiries do. will increase the chance of an in- Now, even solvent businessmen Page 3 parties can broadly be divided into two categories Now, banks lend to small indus- quiry! Bannerjee finds the credit sometimes refuse to repay loans. of people: the Prowlers and the Pillars. The Prowlers prowl So let me suggest an alternative tries at a subsidised rate. But even Banks are guilty of gross limit for two-thirds of borrowers is So, get post-dated cheques from around seeing how many of their co-guests they can line of attack: reduce the share- if it were as high as 22 per cent, simply renewed with no change the them in advance. If the cheques engage in Air Kissing and Peek-a-booing. Pillars, remain holding of the government below which Bannerjee takes as the real under-lending. Higher following year, even though 73 per bounce, the borrowers will suffer fixed, and allow the Prowlers to orbit around them, like 51 per cent in public sector banks. cost of capital at the time, addi- lending could spur more cent of firms have expanding sales. criminal prosecution, a powerful planets drawn into the gravitational field of a greater Once this happens, officers in these tional credit of Rs 1,000 yielded ad- Bankers like to play safe by repeat- disincentive to wilful default. heavenly body. As a tyro you’d be advised to Prowl before banks will no longer be subject ditional profits of Rs 940. profits, investment, jobs ing last year’s figure, especially if Some years ago, Yashwant Sin- you Pillar.However,if you feel that all that Prowling round to vigilance (anti-corruption) Some people will quarrel with the original credit limit was set by ha introduced legislation to lower and round might make your head spin, and if you’re inquiries when loans go bad. This the calculations. Make all the ad- The Central Vigilance Commis- a predecessor. the government stake in public sec- prepared to risk varicose veins by standing stockstill for single step, with all its limitation, justments you like, but the fact re- sion contests this: it claims that Moreover, most bank lending tor banks to 33 per cent, while re- hours, by all means have a go at Pillaring. But a word of can give a major push to invest- mains that banks are guilty of honest officials have nothing to rules ask bankers to link lending to taining management control. Pri- warning. Nothing sticks out like a sore thumb than a ment and industrial growth. As gross under-lending. Higher lend- fear from impartial inquiries. But the sales of a borrower, not profits. vatisation would be a more thor- Pillar whom no one deigns to Prowl to. Take precautionary evidence, I cite a research paper ing could spur additional profits, even if an official is exonerated, it The theory is that bank lending is ough reform. But even this half- measures. Conceal on your person a serving tray and a few by Abhijit Bannerjee and his hence investment, hence jobs. can affect his image and promo- meant to finance inventories baked reform has been opposed by glasses. Everyone will assume you’re the waiter with the colleagues at MIT,(Bank Financing Why are banks such chronic tions, and cause great mental (stocks of materials), and the in- the Congress, whose help is re- drinks and stampede in your direction, conferring instant in India, 2003). under-lenders? stress. The vigilance approach does ventories themselves are the secu- quired to clear the Rajya Sabha. Dr Pillardom on you. Banks have to lend 40 per cent of They don’t lack cash. But they not judge a bank officer on his rity for the loan. Yet, widespread Manmohan Singh, you must know So now you know what it takes to be a DIY Page 3-er. But their funds to the priority sector, prefer to put enormous sums into overall record of lending, setting default in India shows that inven- that your party position on this so do all the others who’ve read this piece. Worse still, which includes small-scale indus- low-interest government bonds off bad loans against successful tories are a poor form of security. matter is nonsense. Please end it. so does the writer of the piece. And you wouldn’t be seen dead at any party, Page 3 or otherwise, which just might Vol. 14 No. 26 : Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via Rs.3, Indore and via 50 paise. National edition: No aircharge.Price in Nepal: NEP Rs 5, except Sunday: NEP Rs 7. RNI No. 50787/90 MADE IN NEW DELHI REGD. NO. DL-25001/92. Published for the proprietors, Bennett Coleman & Co. 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366 Readings From An Excerpt Life itself is your prayer... Hinduism & Bud- The body is fragile, like an earthen jar. dhism — Robert Van So make your mind as strong as a fortress. De Weyer Fight a constant battle against the Devil, Our thoughts, our words, our actions... life is a constant prayer,says motivation guru Neale Donald Walsch Price: Rs 350 who is constantly trying to tempt you. rayer is the most important part of the ly sent to God during our formal, ritualised time ask God to bring us enough. It is very difficult for This set of two books When you are victorious in a battle against human experience. It is the most impor- for prayer. Then for the rest of the week we go the universe to grant us our wishes when 95 per- is comprehensive collection of the spiritu- the Devil, do not become complacent, but tant part of our daily activities. The rea- around harbouring thoughts of insufficiency,sav- cent of the time we are, in fact, asking for some- al literature of the whole world presented watch over your conquests. son it is the most important part of our ing words of insufficiency, and demonstrating in- thing else. in accessible form. Always be vigilant. Remember that experience and our activities is because sufficiency in the everyday actions of our lives. So, This is the single most misunderstood aspect of 366 readings from Hinduism includes before long your body will lie lifeless in the it is the process by which we create our 95 per cent of the time we send prayers that affirm prayer in our human experience. This truth is that readings from the Veda, the ancient hymns earth. It will be cast aside like a useless lives.P It should be understood by anyone examin- we don’t have enough and 5 per cent of the time we which form the basis of Hindu spirituality, log of wood. Does that thought make you the universe is a giant xerox, sending us, all the the Bhagvad Gita and more. feel sad? ing the subject of prayer that everything we think, Neelabh time, the answer to our prayers. And we are, in see, and do is a prayer. Life is a prayer in the sense 366 readings from Buddhism includes An enemy can hurt you; someone filled fact, sending prayers to the universe all the time, teachings of Buddha, taken from the pali with hatred for you can harm you. But that it is a continuous request to the universe and from morning till night, from birth till death. Only God to present us with what we choose and desire. compiled soon after his death, the Dhamm- your mind, if it is wrongly directed, can do when we are willing to accept that our words are God understands our desires not just through apada, the famous summary of the Budd- you far greater damage. Your father or creative, our thoughts are creative, and our actio- the occasional utterances that we call ‘prayers’ in ha’s wisdom stories, poems, saying and your mother or a relative can do you great the traditional sense, but through every thought ns are creative, can this be attractive. We are unw- spiritual insights of the Mayana sages good. But your mind, if it is rightly direct- we think, every word we speak, and everything we illing to accept this as truth because they are not from Tibet, China and India. ed, can do you far greater good. do. Our thoughts, our words, and our actions are very proud of the majority of their thoughts, wor- our prayers. Most people do not think of life as a ds, and actions and don’t want them to be con- Buy this book @ 15% off. Our price Rs 298 constant prayer; most people believe they are pray- sidered as actual requests to God. And yet they are. To buy call 9604-600-600 from OR log on to: The injunction then is to speak, think, and act in ing only when involved in that deliberate, peculiar Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai. activity we know as prayer.Thus, many people feel a way of which we can be proud — in a way that that their prayers either go unanswered or or are sends to God our grandest thoughts and produces Prefix STD code to call from other locations answered sporadically and only in the affirmative. our highest visions and thus creates Heaven on But the truth is, prayer does not begin with kneel- Earth for all of us. ing down, or lighting a votive candle, or sitting in I have had the beautiful gift of experiencing my meditation, or picking up our prayer beads, or per- own conversation with God, and the most urgent forming some outward or inner ritual. While faith makes all things I don’t know the key to success, By seeing the seed of failure in prayer of my life has been answered through that possible, it is love that makes but the key to failure is to try to every success, we remain Prayer begins at the moment of our birth and conversation. Every question I ever had in my life ends with our death, if we speak in the classic ter- all things easy. please everyone. humble. By seeing the seed was answered in that conversation, including how ms of most human understanding. Of course, if — Evan H. Hopkins — Bill Cosby of success in every failure we best to pray. Two important points about prayer we more beyond the notions of birth and death to ◆ ◆ were made in that conversation. The first point remain hopeful. reach higher understandings, we learn that birth Earn all that you can, save all There is no such thing as a self- — Mel Ziegler and death are merely the beginning and the end of is that the most powerful prayer is the prayer of that you can, made man.We are made up of ◆ gratitude. When we thank God in advance for what thousands of others. an ongoing, cyclical experience through which we and give all that you can. The people to fear are not those move throughout the ages and for all time. we wish to use and experience in our lives, we — John Wesley — George Adams We pray for one thing and we go out and do an- affirm that we have already received it and all that ◆ ◆ who disagree with you, other. Or we pray for one thing and we go out and is awaiting is our perception of receiving it. Happiness isn’t something you Heartbreaks last as long as you but those who disagree with think another. Let me give you a typical example. Therefore, the power of a prayer exists in direct experience; it’s something want and cut as deep as you al- you and are too cowardly to We may pray for greater abundance in our life, or proportion to the degree of gratitude contained you remember. low them to go. let you know. for help with a financial problem. Those prayers within the prayer. — Oscar Levant — Sigmund Freud — Napoleon Bonaparte are earnestly offered, earnestly said, and earnest- Pray.Then see the miracle.
• •• IAM Neelabh am still searching... sear- ching for that elusive something. And I am en- joying my search, my journey. I believe in God, not godmen. I also believe in divine justice. But for me, it is a matter of physics rather than anything else: every action will have an equal reaction. If I’m good, the world will do good to me. If I am not, I Find peace within should not expect any- thing in return. yourself, says I don’t believe in idol Jagjit Singh worship. In fact, I think human beings exploit the or me, there are two very being that they have types of spirituality created by calling it God F — one, which deals and running to it in times with rituals; and the oth- of need. If human beings er, which is a way of thin- look within themselves, king. I believe that those they will find God right who indulge in the former there. Every human being are wasting their time. Po- is a part of God. The only time I experi- wer acquired by perform- ence the presence of a ing rituals is no power at Higher Power is when I all. Spirituality, for me, is am singing. I could be in Sufism. It comprises tho- the biggest of crowds, but ughts about the world at when I am singing, I am large, of introspection. with myself in spirit and Kabir was spiritual. Bulle peace descends upon me. Shah was spiritual, Mirza I believe in the science Ghalib was spiritual. Mi- of astrology but not the ra and Soordas were not. superstition of it. And I If one were to ask me who, don’t think wearing a I think, were the two most lucky charm will alter my spiritual people in history, fortunes. If I deserve it, I I would say Jesus Christ will get it. Today,if I am in and Guru Nanak. Spiritu- a position to give some- ality is about having pow- thing, I feel blessed. For er and then using it for this means that I have others. something. And I am Am I spiritual? I don’t grateful for that. know. Not as yet, at least. (As told to Anubha What I do know is that I Sawhney) I don’t care about what they say Marie T. Russell Once you have your list of ow many times have you guilts, big and small, ask been hurt by what some- yourself and write down wh- H one said about you? at belief you have formed fr- How many times have you om each one. You may be sur- doubted your self-worth be- prised at the results. Then re- cause someone criticised ally reflect and meditate on you, either to your face or be- these lists. Dig deep, and yo- hind your back? Why do we u’ll find those belittling be- react with such self-doubt or liefs and attitudes then you indignation when someone can pull out the weeds. You criticises us, or says negative deserve to have a Garden of things about us? Eden within yourself and I find that our reaction re- around you, not the weeds of flects our negative and limit- judgment, disharmony, and ing beliefs about ourselves. If self-condemnation. Love yo- someone said something bad urself and pull out the weeds, otherwise they may pop up at the most unexpected times and sabotage the most beautiful situations. People often wonder why relationships start out so harmoniously and lovingly and then seem to sour as time goes by. A very simple explanation is that any relationship starts out with a clean slate. Then, as two people spend time with each oth- er, each starts to become aware, consciously or sub- consciously, of the others about you and you knew com- weak points and negative be- pletely within every cell of liefs. So, here again, the key your body that it was untrue, is to dig up the limiting be- it would not bother you. You liefs and eradicate them. would simply shrug it off They are poisonous and and it would roll off of you can poison relationships, job like water on a duck’s back. situations, and life itself. The reason criticism up- There is always a solution. sets us is that we also, some- We need to take matters in how,somewhere, deep within our own hands, and only ac- us believe it to be true — or at cept and nurture those be- least we wonder if it might liefs that support our perfect be true. health and happiness.
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16 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 OPEN SPACE ROB’S YOUR UNCLE e4 — Abhijit Karnik, Let's talk moral wrongdo- [email protected] What is the ‘Cockroach Theory’? ing. You know things like sin This PROBABLY is a solu- AP and pinching and the various tion (or at least till someone rites and lifts of intellectual crops up with a loophole in it). OPEN SPACE property which, of course, al- First D paddles and takes A Why do the sun and the sky turn ways makes me gag with ter- along with him. D stays on the red during sunrise and sunset? minal guilt because the very other side and A paddles back According to Rayleigh’s law, mention of plagiarism causes alone. Then C paddles and the intensity of scattered my amoral universe to fandan- takes A with him. C paddles light varies inversely as the go with delight like a double back leaving A on the helix discovering Watson and other side. fourth power of its wavelength. Crick. Be that as it may Finally B paddles taking C Sunlight consists of seven though, a lot of correspon- along with him in the last colours. Of these, red has the dence has been coming in to round. Thus each one paddled maximum wavelength. During defend Jehangir Modi of continuously for at least one sunrise and sunset, the rays Surat, India, who, it was trip and C paddled twice! have to travel a larger part of claimed by one Dr V R Mu- — Shilpa Kendre, shilpak- the atmosphere because they ralidharan, clean and jerked a [email protected] are very close to the horizon. problem of his and submitted Thank you very much for Therefore, light other than red is it without even changing a hair ruining a near perfect Sunday mostly scattered away. Most of on its chini chin chin. In fact, by giving this sitter. I was the red light, which is the most of these people are say- wondering . . . canoe do least scattered, enters our eyes. ing JM of SI is more chinned better than that? Hence, the sun and the sky against than chinning. Why — Abhishek Ghose, NIT, appear red. this is not news to me is be- Jamshedpur — Chandreyee Datta, Kolkata cause of one simple reason — See-e4-Dept: In accountancy, why is the the Internet. There is this chap called S term debit represented by the You who submit problems G Bailey who is stealing puz- letters ‘dr’ though it has no ‘r’ for Endgame would be aston- zles from you or perhaps you in it? ished to know how many peo- are from him. I came across Debit being represented by ‘dr’ ple from all over the world his page on recreational has nothing to do with the (yes, WORLD) simply lie in maths (on Google) where I wait for Mindsport to appear letter ‘r’. Debit refers to the entry found the following problem in an account made for the so that they can extract from a that appeared in Mindsport a mother lode and laugh all the sum due to us from our debtors. couple of weeks ago which Sometimes we make sales on cred- had also appeared according it, as a result of which ‘the buyer’ to you earlier. The solution is becomes our ‘debtor’, the abbrevi- MINDSPORT that each succeeding line de- ation of which is ‘dr’. Similarly, a scribes what's there in the Mukul Sharma credit is the entry made in the ac- previous line. Accordingly we count for the amount which we have: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, way to their respective yanks. 312211, 13112221, owe others and its abbreviation In other words, your “stolen” 1113213211, is ‘cr’. problems thereafter appear on 31131211131321 and so on. — Renuka Shivaram, recd their sites. Although Jehangir — Ajit Athle, ajitathle@hot- via e-mail hasn't told me so but where mail.com Why is a ‘red herring prospectus’ do you suppose he could The sixth row of numbers in relation to shares offered have got his Mumtaz from? will be 3 1 2 2 1 1. Each row by way of disinvestment in (Oh heck, sorry, that was the defines the previous row using public sector undertaking other e-Azam.) Right, the Net. a simple scheme - namely, if called so? I have myself, during my one row is x x y y y, the next A preliminary prospectus is weekly purloining peregrina- row will be 2 x 3 y which issued to test the market for a tions discovered there the ex- means that there are 2 x's and new issue. It provides much of istence of almost all puzzles 3 y's in the previous row (in the information but is not an that ever appeared in Science that order). So the sixth row offer to sell the share; nor does Today magazine. So really, says that in the fifth row we what's one more? Even if it display an actual offering have three 1s, then two 2s A Chinese girl walks past an Olympic games logo near a stadium in Luoyang, Henan, central China. QUESTION: In the Olympic games logo, what there's one less this time. price. That type of prospectus and then one 1. is called ‘red herring prospectus’ do the five rings signify? DEAR MS, — Atri Mandal, University of as it has a disclaimer printed Ka-Yakking-A-Lot-Dept: California, Irvine, USA in red ink across the first That’s how the 707 got its upon kindly. about 12 obstacles with a maxi- — Chinmay Gupta, Durgapur This is in response to the ENDGAME page which informs the reader name. The later models were — Amit Kumar,recd via e-mail mum height of 1.2 m are to be What is a ‘wild card’ entry in ‘Canoe Believe This?’ puzzle. Consider the following se- successively named 717, 727, crossed to test the horse’s power of that it is not an offer to sell. Which are the equestrian events sport? At first A and C cross the river, ries of letters: ER, EU, AT, ??, In England, a red herring 737, 747, etc. Thus we have the at the Olympics? recuperation and concentration. — Amol Amrutkar,Nanded with C paddling. A paddles UE, AR, RU, EN. Now, pay at- prospectus is called a ‘pathfinder Boeing 747. Strange, but true — — S.P.S. Jain, Mumbai Why is an electric eel not effected At the Olympics, the equestrian and brings the canoe back. A tention to the question AFTER prospectus’. probably! by its own current? events are Dressage, Endurance and D then cross the river, you've solved the problem. — Shreevatsa R., recd via e-mail — Sharik Verma, recd via e-mail with D paddling. C brings the What are the two missing — Krishna Mahankali, recd and Stadium Jumping. The first ANY ANSWERS? canoe back, and B and C letters? via e-mail What is the ‘Cockroach Theory’ in phase ‘Dressage’ is intended to How does a glow worm glow? business? What is the origin of ‘the fat is in then cross the river, with B (Submitted by Ranjan Why does ‘747’ indicate in a demonstrate the horse’s obedience — Swarn Saurabh, Patna paddling. Sengupta, Jodhpur, India) Boeing aircraft? The ‘Cockroach Theory’ is a and communication with the the fire’? — Felita Figueredo, fel- Legend has it that the Boeing market theory that means rider. The ‘Endurance’ is the — Geetanjalee Kalekar,Indore You ask. Or you answer. Mark the envelopes [email protected] Snailmail: D-268 Sushant Lok- that “Bad news tends to be re- most physically and psychologi- What does ‘Dolby’ stand for in the ‘Open Space’ and address your answers and 707 got its name from the frequent questions to: The thing that I don't un- I, Gurgaon, Haryana 122001 leased in bunches”. The name cally challenging event for the term ‘Dolby stereo system’? use of the values of sine and Open Space, Sunday Times of India, derstand is what is such a Email: cosine of 45 degrees by the “cockroach” is used because horse and the rider. This event — J.M. Khanzode, Bhiwandi II Floor, S&B Towers, 40/1, M.G. Road, simple puzzle doing in [email protected] engineers working on it. The cockroaches travel in large has four phases. The last event What is C-commerce and Bangalore — 560 001 Mindsport? Or is there a Website: http://www. value of sin 45 = cos 45 = 0.707106. groups and are not looked is ‘Stadium Jumping’ in which Carrot Equity? email: [email protected] catch I missed out? mindsport.org
AP LETTERS The Lure Of Money This refers to the special report, ‘Madame Butterfly’ (June 22). It is disgusting to note that young women are falling prey to prostitution. One has heard stories of women being forced into prostitution, but the New Age commercial sex workers are obviously not preys of such social ills. They are ready to sell their soul for a few extra bucks. According to some reports, many college- going girls too are in this business. These A boy makes his way through a flooded street in Mumbai on Saturday. examples prove that we live in a material world, which is characterised by crass commercialisation. I wish I could change Such young girls are not worthy of sympathy simply because they are all doing this on their own free will. No one wants my physique: Hrithik to earn money in a dignified way, it seems. TIMES NEWS NETWORK lenges in life, it’s best to try and turn them — Amjad K. Muraf, into the biggest opportunities. I feel that the Mumbai Hyderabad: Hrithik Roshan, who was incident when my dad got shot at has been a here on Saturday to promote Main Prem Ki blessing in disguise. It was only then that Respecting Diwani Hoon in association with Interna- doctors diagnosed six blocks in his heart. tional Times Card, Indiatimes and Planet M, I have often been likened to Kumar Gau- The Anthem spoke to Priyanka Dasgupta and Amrita rav: Many have called me a one-film wonder. Mukherjee. Recently, while If it’s in my destiny to be a one-film wonder I watching a film in a I believe in undying love: Main Prem Ki can’t do anything about it. No man or maga- theatre, I noticed that Deewani Hoon celebrates the concept of zine can make or break a person’s career. A although everyone in undying love. Sceptics might say that this is film makes an actor and not vice-versa. the hall stood up when an era of changing value systems. But unless I have been overwhelmed by my fans’ the national anthem there is undying love, the world wouldn’t reactions: While shooting in Canada recent- started, not all were have existed. ly, I met an old security guard. He tuned in. While the I can’t surpass Salman Khan, started crying when he met me. I frisky children ahead who will remain the eternal was so overwhelmed. Though I of me were disciplined Prem for Soorajji’s films: I must don’t get time to answer fan mails by their parents, admit that I envy Salman for that. regularly, I check them once a collegians were busy He is such a good hearted person month. If I find a touching letter, I hooting and kicking and a sensitive human being. He check for a phone number at the one another. As soon as exudes a certain charm about him end of the letter and even call them the anthem got over, an that I feel is required to portray a up. I feel fortunate if I can bring a elderly woman walked character like Prem. smile to anyone’s face. up to the collegians I have always been keen on Though my fans keep compli- doing adventure sports: When and rebuked them for menting me for my dancing not being respectful Soorajji suggested that we will be doing abilities, I know that I am a rehearsed bungee jumping, scuba diving, and snow enough. As citizens of dancer: I dance with a lot of effort. If there India, it is our duty to boarding for the film, I was very excited. I is one thing that I would like to change about love doing free style stunts. If my face is vis- respect the national myself, it would be my physique. No, I am not flag and the national ible on the frame for the stunts, I do them. trying to be modest here. I am just being hon- Otherwise, I don’t take unnecessary risks. anthem, the most est. I wish I had a more symmetrical and obvious signs of our Tears come very easily to my eyes: I can well balanced body. independence. But the get emotional very easily.There have been so For the past two months, I haven’t been to point is, lamentably, many occasions when I have embarrassed a gym: I have been in Ladakh for shooting lost on the younger myself since I couldn’t fight back tears. Farhan Akhtar’s Laksha. Then, the post pro- generation. The best way to handle crisis is to look at duction of Koi Mil Gaya has also taken up — Amit R. Mayanikar, it from a different perspective: My mom much of my time. Otherwise, I like to spend Mumbai tells me that when we face the toughest chal- at least one hour a day at the gym.
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The Sunday Times of India, New Delhi, June 29, 2003 It’s all in the mind Worldly wise Another laurel He’s been doing it for three years. He was stopped for speeding; he Sebastian Coe has won many laurels The mental stuff that is. ‘I just keep responded by launching a verbal a in athletics; he’s just added another visualising wins,’ explains Germany’s ssault on the police officer. Germany’s wreath to his collection. Literally. Rainer Schuettler. It helped him come star footballer Stefan Effenberg is He’s been named Bislett-athlete of back from two sets to one down and going to pay the price now: a court all times for his string of world and enter Wimbledon’s third round ordered him to pay 100,000 euros other records in this historic city Raikkonen grabs pole in European Grand Prix
BRIEFLY All the results Men’s singles, 3rd round (x de- Indians lack a SPORT notes seed): Alexander Popp (Ger) AP Maria grunts ahead bt Jiri Novak (Cze x11) 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3); Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Jarkko AP Nieminen (Fin x30) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6- By Akshay Sawai 1; Mark Philippousis (Aus) bt Radek TIMES NEWS NETWORK Stepanek (Cze x35) 4-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6- sense of history 4, 7-6 (8/6).Sjeng Schalken (Ned x8) London: Hearing Maria Sharapo- bt Victor Hanescu (Rom) 6-2, 6-4, 7- I don’t necessarily sub- va is not a problem. She has a 6 (7/3); Paradorn Srichaphan (Tha THE SPORTING LIFE x12) bt Rafael Nadal (Spa) 6-4, 6-4, scribe to either point of view. sharp grunt. Now, hearing about 6-2; Andy Roddick (USA x5) bt Tom- Ayaz Memon Ranji’s greatness as a crick- her will not be difficult either. The my Robredo (Spa x25) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, eter is undoubted. Moreover, 16-year-old Russian, a wild card 6-4; Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) bt Justin By a co-inci- human beings make deci- entrant, dumped eleventh seed Je- Gimelstob (USA) 6-1, 6-3, 6-3; Rainer dence, Mario sions based on certain objec- Schuettler (Ger x9) bt Todd Martin Rodrigue’s lena Dokic of Yugoslavia out of (USA) 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (1/7), 6-1, 7-5; tives, and objectives them- Wimbledon on Saturday with a 6-4 Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt Ivo Karlovic (Cro) 7- much-debated selves change depending on 6-4 victory in the women’s singles 6 (7/5), 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4); Roger Fed- book on Ran- the choices available. third round. erer (Swi x4) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 6-3, jitsinhji — Bat- 6-1, 4- 6, 6-1. However, that does not Men’s second-seeded Andre ting for the Em- mean varied points of view Women’s singles, 3rd round: Elena Agassi weathered the strong chal- pire arrived just as I was fin- are irrelevant. Events and Dementieva (Rus x15) bt Aniko ishing re-reading Alan Ross’s lenge of the exciting Moroccan, Kapros (Hun) 6-3, 6-1; Maria Shara- entities in history derive val- Younes el Aynaoui. Agassi won 5-7 pova (Rus) bt Jelena Dokic (Sem x11) much-lauded, five-decade-old ue and credibility from myri- 6-4 7-6 (4) 7-6 (4) in three hours and 6-4, 6-4; Anastasia Myskina (Rus biography on the cricketing ad opinions, not one. It is x10) bt Conchita Martinez (Spa x18) 13 minutes. genius who, in many ways, simplistic to juxtapose Ran- 6-3, 6-3; Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus was the defining factor in Mahesh Bhupathi and Max x33) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 6-1, 6-2; ji’s helplessness with Gand- Mirnyi, the doubles top seeds, Mary Pierce (Fra) bt Lisa Raymond what is remembered as the hi’s resourcefulness in the Golden Age of Cricket. strolled into the third round as (USA x23) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Serena struggle for freedom from the Williams (USA x1) bt Laura Granville Think of an Indian who their Czech opponents Radek British. However, if there (USA x28) 6-3, 6-1. Vera Zvonareva has provided ‘original Stepanek and Jiri Novak gave can be a revisionistic view of (Rus x16) bt Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzb) thought’ to the game, and them a walkover. 6-3, 7-5; Ai Sugiyama (Jpn x13) bt Mahatma Gandhi and Veer Ranji’s name comes fore- Skill accompanies Sharapova’s Nathalie Dechy (Fra x22) 6-4, 6-4. Savarkar, why not Ranjit- most: Perhaps the only one A West Indian fan waves the Barbados charisma, which sports marke- Men’s Doubles, 2nd round: G eo- snhji? As a nation we sadly vanni/Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) bt J Kerr too. He ‘invented’ the wristy flag during the second Test against Sri teers and fashion scouts have al- lack a sense of history (except (Aus)/Sebastian Prieto (Arg) 2-6, 7-6 leg glance, that flummoxed Lanka in Kingston on Friday. ready noted. Revealing no stage for vendettas) and even more, (7/3), 7-6 (7/3), 6-3; Leander Paes bowlers and spectators alike fright — she was playing on Court (Ind)/David Rikl (Cze x5) bt N Kiefer the urge to document events No 1 against an established name (Ger)/D Prinosil (Ger) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4; M and stroke-play was never Rathore misses quota: the same again. For that and people. Any attempt to do Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore — Sharapova cleaned up Dokic’s Llodra (Fra)/F Santoro (Fra x6) bt D Adams (RSA)/J Gimelstob (USA) 7-5, alone, Ranji’s place in the this must be lauded. missed the Olympic quota berth by a clock with a determined perform- ★★★ 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, M Knowles (Bah)/D pantheon of cricket greats whisker as he finished fourth in double ance. Clenching her fist through- Nestor (Can x2) bt M Lee (GBR)/Miles Over lunch last week with John trap event in the shot gun World Cup in out the match, she seemed ob- Maclagan (GBR) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5. remains undisputed, though Cardus provides a better un- Buchanan I marvelled at his re- Granada, Spain on Saturday. Rathore, sessed with winning. markable success with the Aus- who shot 138 in the preliminary round, In singles, Olivier Rochus of derstanding of his genius with that immortal observa- tralian team. What makes him managed 139 in the final to miss th quota Belgium made it to the fourth click? John provided the answer berth for Athens by just 2 points, accord- round by defeating Finland’s Badani takes tion, ‘Ranji never played a Christian stroke in his life.’’ himself by citing the example of ing to information reaching here. TNN Jarkko Nieminen 7-6 6-3 6-1. Five another John (Wright) who feet five, Rochus is an oddity in a And what of the man? Taipei thrash India: Chinese Taipei Russia’s Maria Sharapova reacts after deafeating Yugoslavia’s Jelena India A to coaches India. sport where six feet seems to be Having read three books justified their superior status to tame India Dokic in the third round at Wimbledon on Saturday. ‘‘John (Wright) has been won- the minimum requirement. on Ranji, including the bril- 61-10 in a group league exchange of the under heavy skies. They broke Krishna Bhupathi, Mahesh’s fa- derful for your country,’’ said ‘‘This is amazing,’’ the 22-year- massive total liant one by Simon Wilde, I Asian Region 2003 IRB quadrangular se- Kiefer for 4-3 in the first set. The ther. The support boosted the pair John (Buchanan) ‘‘because he old right-hander said. ‘‘When I submit that Rodrig ue’s book ries rugby match in Kolkata on Saturday. game saw Paes hit the high notes, and they maintained a high level TIMES NEWS NETWORK has not tried to compete with was a junior people were always is no less significant. It lacks The match, the first ever international rug- starting with a forehand cross- of performance. The match ac- the stars, but has earned their telling me that I was short for ten- Ross’s sublime prose and by outing on Indian soil, turned out to be court return of serve winner and quired an edge when Kiefer New Delhi: Hemant Badani respect over time through his nis. But things have worked out Wilde’s comprehensiveness, one-sided with the winners establishing a following up with a backhand vol- smashed an easy overhead near cracked a century and Mu- diligence, compassion and vi- pretty well.’’ but is remarkable because an 32-10 lead by half-time. PTI ley interception. Paes serve car- the left-handed Rikl when he rali Kartik chipped in with a sion.’’ The tall Sharapova took an ear- Indian has dared to take a ried punch in next game. The Indi- could have placed the ball fifty as India A declared their So there you are. And all Hondo recalled: Zimbabwe have re- ly break in the match. Dokic had a contrary view of a legend. an held at 15, triggering a 115-mph anywhere in the court. first innings at 482 for nine this while, we thought only called pace bowler Douglas Hondo for few chances to recover in the sixth Ranji was an anomaly in the ace towards the end of the game. on the second day of the four- former superstars would do. Sunday’s triangular series match against game, but she could not convert Kiefer-Prinosil took a 2-0 lead in cricket of his era — by virtue The many Indians cheering day match against Durham ★★★ South Africa at Canterbury. Hondo, who them. As she said later: ‘‘As well as the second set when Paes lost his of his colour, nationality and has recovered from a minor knee injury, Paes-Rikl included Mahima at Chester on Saturday. Whether the governments Maria played, I did not make use of serve in the second game. But the ability — before he became replaces Gary Brent in the only change to Choudhary, Paes’s girlfriend, and The visitors, who resumed of India and Pakistan allow a the chances that came my way. fifth seeds lifted their game in the an icon. Rodrigue’s book is the team that beat England by four wick- at the overnight 275 for three, joint team to play exhibition Had I done that. it would have been next game. With Prinosil serving, an anomaly in Indian sports ets at Trent Bridge on Thursday in the were guided to the big total matches is under a cloud, but a different story. She had nothing Paes rolled a short forehand cross- writing precisely because it opening match of the series. by Badani who was well sup- the prospect of choosing to lose and just came and swung.’’ court return on the first point. Pri- seeks to knock an icon off his The squad: Heath Streak (capt), Tatenda Taibu (wkt), Dion ported at the other end by such a side is too exciting to Shriek-and-scramble Sharapova nosil lost another point and then pedestal. Ebrahim, Douglas Marillier, Grant Flower, Stuart Mat- double-faulted to trail 0-40. Rikl Ambati Rayudu and Kartik. resist. My team of 12 — cho- sikenyeri, Travis Friend, Andy Blignaut, Sean Ervine, Ray- was tenacious. Her ability to get Most sports writers, and collected the game with a fine fore- India A: SS Das c Wells b Hunter 125, W sen from only those playing mond Price, Douglas Hondo. 12th man: Charles Coventry. back into points drove Dokic to especially where cricket is hand crosscourt return winner. Jaffer c Lewis b Hunter 43, G Gambhir c currently — to play say world desperation or resignation. ‘‘There Mustard b Hatch 35, H Badani st Mustard b concerned, tend to get hagio- Bangladesh in strong position: were times when I just about made Paes, playing the right court, of- Gough 133, P Patel c Pratt b Hatch 21, A graphical: there are heroes champions Australia in a Bangladesh was in a strong position to my way through a point and forced ten returned Kiefer’s serve with a Rayudu c Wells b Phillips 25, M Kartik c and there are superheroes. one-day series is as under. Hatch b Phillips 50, A Mishra c Lewis b win its first tour match in Australia follow- her to make an error,’’ said Shara- lob. The ploy helped him and Rikl Rodrigues offers a view of Virender Sehwag, Sachin Phillips 10, L Balaji st Mustard b Phillips Ranjitsinhji without the Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly ing a good show on the second day on pova, ranked 88 in the world. to snatch a second break and take 14, A Bhandari not out 5, I Pathan not out Saturday of a three-day match against the Paes-Rikl win: Rain came and control of the set. 0. Extras (b-8, lb-10, nb-3) 21. Total (for 9 halo. He portrays him as a (captain), Inzamam-ul-Haq Queensland Academy of Sport at Bris- went but form stayed with Paes- Bad light stopped play at 6-4 6-4 wkts decl, 147 overs) 482. Fall of wick- weak-kneed opportunist who (it is idiocy to leave him out), bane. The local side was struggling at ets: 1-122, 2-202, 3-212, 4-275, 5-346, was more loyal than the king, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Rikl all through against Kiefer- to Paes-Rikl. Resuming on Satur- 6-402, 7-455, 8-467, 9-477. Bowling: 153-7 in its second innings at stumps, a Prinosil. The match began on day, they did enough to move into as it were. This has dismayed Rashid Latif, Abdul Razzaq, lead of just 151. Earlier, Bangladesh Hatch 33-5-77-2, Hunter 18-2-55-2, Ranji loyalists who believe Court No 2 late on Friday evening the second round. Davies 31-6-104-0, Muchall 12-1-49-0, Harbhajan Singh, Mo- squeezed out a two-run first-innings lead Wells 16-3-41-0, Phillips 34-4-126-0, that this is a belated smear hammed Sami, Zaheer Khan, as it reached 203-9 before declaring. AP Gough 3-1-12-1. campaign. Ashish Nehra. Thane marathon: Top runners in the India again run out of steam West Indies in country, including Bhairo Singh Lone of Delhi and Yashwant Singh Rawat of Ser- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Quemada while the lone Argentine goal was struck by Mario Almada in trouble as vices, would be seen in action in the Rs New Delhi: Another goal in the final between the two Spanish goals. five lakh prize money 14th Thane Mayor minutes and another defeat for India. Varsha national marathon to be held in A 33rd minute goal by Dilip Tirkey Once again India lost a crucial tie Lara flops Thane on July 13. Sugar Singh and Satish off India’s first penalty corner had from a good position, losing 2-3 to Lakhde (both from Services) and V Chi- given the visitors the lead. But Ger- Kingston: Sri Lankan spin- nappa of Karnataka have also confirmed Germany in their second match of ner Muttiah Muralitharan the Hamburg Masters four-nation many came back strongly in the sec- their participation. PTI ond half to level the score in the 36th dismissed in-form Brian hockey tournament at Hamburg, Lara for 10 runs to jolt the minute through skipper Florian Germany on Saturday. West Indies on the second BETTING METER Kunz. The hosts forged ahead 2-1 in Seasoned Bjorn Emmerling settled day of the second and final the 41st minute when Christian Wein TENNIS the issue in favour of the hosts in the Test here on Saturday. Wimbledon Women’s Singles 2003 63rd minute after India, who began capitalised on a pass by Christoph The West Indies were S Williams 8/13 their campaign impressively by beat- Bechmann. However, India restored strongly placed at 54 for no V Williams 3/1 parity when Gagan Ajit Singh sound- J Henin-Hardenne 6/1 ing Argentina 4-1 on Friday, had loss before slipping to 87-3 at K Clijsters 6/1 fought back to level the scores at 2-2 ed the board within five minutes. lunch in their first innings in (as per ladbrokes.com) in the 47th minute, according to in- The match seemed heading to- reply to Sri Lanka's 208. formation reaching here. wards a draw. But the hosts, needing Ramnaresh Sarwan was bat- LIVE ON TELEVISION Meanwhile, Spain managed a 2-1 to win following Friday’s 2-2 draw ting on 19 with Marlon ESPN: 1515 hrs: Tri-series in England: Zimbabwe vs South win over Argentina in the first match against Spain, put the Indians under Samuels. The hosts suffered Africa (3rd ODI). 0030 hrs (Monday): US Senior Open Golf Championships. of the day with all the goals coming tremendous pressure in the closing a big setback in the closing Star Sports: 1715 hrs: Formula One - European Grand Prix. in the second half. Spain scored stages and Emmerling made the overs of the first session through Eduardo Aguilara and Pau most of a good chance to seal victory. when off-spinner Muralitha- ran deceived left-handed Lara with the one that came in to Openers guide England to easy victory trap the batsman leg-before. Lara, who cracked 209 in Reuters South Africa no England bats- for 46, steadied England after the drawn opening Test in St man had made a hundred. they lost three wickets for Lucia on Tuesday, lasted just The result saw England, three runs in 16 balls, the 25 balls to leave his team four-wicket losers against Lancashire all-rounder chip- struggling at the break. Zimbabwe in Thursday’s se- ping in with a 21-ball 32. Prabath Nissanka had end- ries opener at Trent Bridge, Solanki, 27, first to three ed an early West Indies flour- win with 25 balls to spare as figures, made 106 - his maid- ish with two wickets off suc- South Africa too started the en one-day hundred in his cessive overs. Nissanka dis- tournament with a defeat. 13th game. missed free-stroking openers England’s previous best Trescothick, also 27, cap- Chris Gayle (31) and Wavell opening stand in one-day taining England after Hinds (19) in his opening cricket was the 193 Graham Michael Vaughan withdrew spell. He finished with 2-27. Gooch and Bill Athey shared following a back spasm sus- Left-handed Gayle and against New Zealand at Old tained in pre-match practice, Hinds began aggressively Trafford in 1986. led from the front with 114 against new-ball bowlers Andrew Flintoff, who ear- not out. Jim Troughton was Thilan Thushara and Chaminda Vaas, putting on lier led the attack with three five not out. AFP 54 for the opening wicket in less than 15 overs before the SCOREBOARD Lankans fought back. AFP South Africa: England: G Smith b Anderson 15 M Trescothick not out 114 SCOREBOARD England fast bowler James Anderson (R) celebrates the H Gibbs b Anderson 5 V Solanki c Kallis b Ntini 106 Sri Lanka 1st innings: 208 wicket of South Africa’s Herchelle Gibbs in their tri-series J Kallis b Flintoff 107 R Key c Boucher b Ntini 0 Windies 1st innings (overnight 4-0): J Rudolph run out 20 A McGrath c Boucher b Kallis 0 match at the Oval on Saturday. C. Gayle c Sangakkara b Nissanka 31 M Boucher b Flintoff 55 A Flintoff b Hall 32 W. Hinds c Kalu’tharana b Nissanka 19 London: Marcus Trescoth- The pair put on 200 - both M van Jaarsveld b Flintoff 13 J Troughton not out 5 R. Sarwan batting 19 S Pollock not out 12 Extras (3lb, 4w, 1nb) 8 B. Lara lbw b Muralitharan 10 ick and Vikram Solanki’s men making hundreds - after A Hall not out 23 Total (for 4 wkts in 44.5 overs) 265 record-breaking opening Jacques Kallis had propelled M. Samuels batting 0 Extras: (lb-11, w-3) 14 Fall of wickets: 1-200, 2-202, 3-203, Extras (lb2, w2, nb4) 8 partnership guided England the Proteas to 264 for six from Total (for 6 wickets in 50 overs) 264 4-247 Total (for 3 wkts at lunch) 87 to a six-wicket win against their 50 overs. Trescothick Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-33, 3-72, 4-183, Bowling: Shaun Pollock 8-0-41-0, Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-59, 3-85. 5-221, 6-240 Mkhaya Ntini 10-0-56-2, Jacques Kallis Bowling: Vaas 10-3-23-0, Thushara South Africa in their trian- and Solanki’s partnership 9-0-54-1, Andrew Hall 8.5-0-49-1, Bowling: Anderson 10-1-54-2, Gough 8-1-30-0, Nissanka 6-0-27-2, 10-1-61-0, Flintoff 10-1-46-3,Johnson Nicky Boje 5-0-31-0, Allan Dawson gular series match at the was all the more remarkable Muralitharan 3-1-5-1. Oval on Saturday. as in 23 previous ODI against 10-1-39-0. 4-0-31-0.
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18 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 SPORTS
By Akshay Sawai Nicolas Escude were produc- INDIANS ABROAD TIMES NEWS NETWORK ing in their third round had fter losing to John McEn- Everything’s fine except the cost of the tickets people spellbound not only at Hari, Ganguly Aroe in the 1981 final, Centre Court, but also mentary box. Centre Court ball toss. There are no big tion factor is low. take a loan, then we’ll tell around the Club. On Henman Bjorn Borg did not return to may have staged movie buildings around. The tournament is well-or- you. Centre Court tickets in Going to Wimbledon Hill, fans hurried back with must do better Wimbledon till 2000. ‘‘I had scenes. Technology may rule Inside the club, the atmos- ganised — from restaurants the first week cost 48 memories of the place, and I in most aspects of the Cham- phere is merry. People are is expensive. to ambulances — everything pounds. If you want to be food parcels and postponed Nakhchivan (Azerbai- wanted to let them be the way pionships. But the feel of out to have a good time. At is close at hand. Ground staff there when the women’s or appointments to follow the jan): It has been a good go- they were,’’ the five-time Wimbledon has remained Court 14 the other day,a lady Show-court tickets? is polite. You may or may not men’s champion lifts the tro- match, till injury forced Es- ing so far for Grandmas- champion said during a visit pristine. It’s like an ancestral wondered if she should jump be welcome, but someone will phy,be ready to part with al- cude out. The public was also ters Surya Sekhar Gangu- Call your bank, take ly and P Harikrishna but to India in November 2000. house with a DVD player.The over a bench to take a seat open the door for you. It’s to- most 75 pounds. Per person. excited on Friday evening Everything changes fast they will have to do even surroundings have stayed the that had become unoccu- a loan.And wait... kenism, but isn’t that better But it is the tennis and the when a grey-haired, earring- these days. There is little that same and that helps. The All- pied. Fellow spectators than rude treatment, some- better in the remaining players who contribute the clad figure cut through the you feel rooted to and you re- England Club cuddles in this egged her on, and she started football matches or to a pub. thing which Lord’s seems to rounds to entertain hopes most to making Wimbledon gangways and into the broad- alise the importance of part of London with lush to cross over. Good-natured These are very English set- be prone to? of winning a medal at the what it is — the world’s pre- casters building. It was John things that stay the same. At meadows, traditional English ribbing followed: ‘‘You got 90 tings, and, despite London’s Going to Wimbledon is ex- ongoing world juniors least, almost same. homes and the historic St seconds,’’ someone said. ‘‘We multi-racial anatomy, can pensive. The darned tourna- mier annual sports event. For McEnroe. Of course he did chess championship here. The players got a well-de- Advantage Wimbledon: Mary’s Church. The church are ALL watching you.’’ make foreigners self-con- ment manual costs six example, the quality of not smile at his fans. Some served rest day on Friday Boris Becker may have gone spire rises above the Club Asians in England seem to scious. That is not the case at pounds sterling. Show-court points that Juan Carlos Fer- things never change. and they are expected to from the court to the com- landscape like a nice, high think hard before going for Wimbledon. The intimida- tickets? Call your bank and rero and And that is a good thing. come out firing on all cylin- ders in the eighth round Ajit Ninan and Neelabh “Players could earlier gripe later on Saturday in the 50- about cramped showers and limit- player 13-round competi- ed change rooms but all that has tion. Bronze medallist in now changed. The British have the previous edition, Gan- managed to keep the hype about guly is half a point behind the tournament by managing the leader Kadir Guseinov of HIGH ON GRASS traditional aspect very well,” En- Azerbaijan who has 5.5 rico says, while even giving their points from 7 games played controversial seedings system a so far. Sharing the second clean chit of sorts: “Of course the position with Ganguly are separate seeding list is all humbug Azerbaijani duo of top and they should get rid of it but in seed Shakhriyaz Mamed- an age where grass is going ex- yarov and Vugar Gashinov, tinct, you have to applaud their Ukrainian Alexander AND TRADITION ability to get the best to keep play- Zubov and Georgian Izoria ing their tournament.”There are Zviad. Harikrishna is By Sukhwant Basra tradition had continued.” Ra- also, as Enrico reveals, subtle placed joint seventh with Strawberries and changes to maintain the romance manathan attributes Wimbledon’s 4.5 points in his kitty. PTI fter seven weeks of toil cream, straw boaters, charm to British efficiency, “the of grass court tennis without al- in Europe, which whole tournament ticks along like lowing the overwhelming domi- CROSS COUNTRY throws up twelve mil- polite applause, the a fine-tuned clock. There are rain nance of the server. The majority lion plus euros in prize occasional roar — delays and the various problems of players now prefer the baseline money, the ATP Tour that maintaining a surface like to net-rushing and they have to be PSCB triumph Abursts into the epic of tennis on there is more nostal- grass can throw up but they take it encouraged to keep coming back. ” Vijayawada: Star studded clay — the French Open. It’s a long all in their stride.” Former Davis Davis Cup and Wimbledon are Petroleum Sports Promo- gia for tradition as it like strawberry and cream for us in steady build up to the climax; play- Cupper and now chairman of the tion Board (PSPB) team India. They command special re- ers have ample time to finetune sits pretty with intro- selection committee Shyam Mino- emerged winners by notch- spect. Even as grass courts across their arsenal to the vagaries of the tra relates to the special respect ing up 22.5 points on the duction of subtle the world are being mowed down to surface. Then in mid-June, the and recognition given to players, concluding day of the 27th the practicality of synthetic sur- Tour convulses to four weeks of changes. In the age of “They treat you like a king. That’s Servo Indian Oil National faces, Wimbledon continues to frenzy.Grass is suddenly not just a why it stays every player’s dream Chess Championships. crass commercialisa- sprout yearning in aspiring play- lawn to amble on; it seduces with to first get to play tennis and then Tamil Nadu finished sec- ers. As Vijay instinctively respond- the promise of a Grand Slam. Ten- tion, what is it that go on to win Wimbledon.” ond with 19.5 points. ed when asked as to what makes Results: PSPB (22.5) bt Alekhine Chess nis’ faithful converge to their mid- Other than that there are the makes Wimbledon Wimbledon special: “Ah! Because Club, Kolkata (17); Tamil Nadu CA ‘A’, Chen- year pilgrimage. Wimbledon ex- privileges that the tournament ex- nai (19.5) bt Bank Sports Board ‘A’ (18); In- plodes, albeit in its characteristic Wimbledon is Wimbledon.” dian Airlines, Mumbai (18) bt SC Railway, boom? tends to those that excel. Every Secunderabad (16.5); Services Chess Team understated style. winner gets an honorary member- (16.5) bt Tamil Nadu CA ‘B’, Chennai (16); Just two weeks yielding two mil- mands respect and receives affec- ship of the Club and all those who Bank Sports Board ‘B’ (17.5) bt Maharash- lion euros prepare the best swot- tion. One plays Wimbledon not as tra SCA, Mumbai (15.5); Andhra Pradesh make it to the last eight in any (15.5) drew with Speace CA, Vijayawada ters of the yellow fuzz for the duel- a professional but as a player. You event are eligible for the Last 8 (15.5); B K Trust, Pune (15.5) bt Challenging zone. Tennis is thrown into a time see, it’s not work but pleasure,” Club. “Every January I get a letter Knights, Mumbai (14); Punjab Chess Asso- warp. Shaking off the dust from says Indian tennis’ most familiar ciation (15.5) bt Champion CA, Vijayawada from them offering me two free (13); Gujarat CA, Ahmedabad (15.5) bt the clay bowls, a different class of face at The Championships, Vijay tickets and my entry badge for the Chess Academy Sersa/CKB (12); Vijayawa- player holds court. The very mod- Amritraj. He’s been there for year. I have to respond with my da Sub-Juniors (13.5) bt BSNL, Delhi (12.5); ern, very plastic baseline and every Wimbledon the past 34 years plans. They never miss out a single West Bengal CA, Kolkata (14) bt APCA, Vi- jayawada (8.5). PTI baseline alone genre bows to the and it stays one Slam he’ll never person. That kind of courtesy to- phoenix of tennis’ past. Serve and miss. “It holds special appeal to wards past champions makes it all volleyers dominate quickfire dog- those from the Commonwealth as very special,” reveals Ramanathan. One Magic Moment fights well divorced from the we grew up on tales of Wimbledon But surely all other Grand trench warfare of clay. Its time to and Davis Cup,” he adds. Slams too run immaculate. They ready for glory tango in a suburb of London that But that then begs the poser as too have respect past champions New Delhi: One Magic Mo- holds ‘The Championships’. to how the rest of the world takes and offer their own blend of tradi- ment should prove her mettle The kind of game required to the old-world traditions and val- tion and hospitality more in tune in the Juvenile Sprinter’s yields limited results on the less ues? “I came here this year believ- the dictates of the modern game. Million (Gr III), the main speedy synthetic that players trod ing I would be one of the few who’d “Yes. But nobody does it with the event of the Bangalore races year-around, grass the surface of miss the curtsy to the royal box. I elegance of Wimbledon,” avows scheduled for Sunday. choice only for six of the 67 ATP was pleasantly surprised to hear Ramanathan. Selections: Nad Al Sheba Plate: 1,400m: Tour events, a seeding system the Williams sisters and Andre 2.00pm: Flying Spur 1, Buddy 2, Nesara 3. Vijay adds another perspective: Skyline Plate (div.II): 1,200m: Regal Effect 1, that’s rational to the All England Agassi saying they were disap- “The first thing that strikes one at Flawless Diamond 2, Etching 3. Honeyday Lawn tennis Club alone and straw- pointed they didn’t have to do it any other Slam is the stadium clut- Plate: 1,600m: Generic Emperor 1, Perfect berry and cream at prices as high anymore,” Vijay explains, “we Ten 2, Grunstein 3. Skyline Plate (div.I): tered with sponsored logos. The 1,200m: Noble Falcon 1, Zimmermann 2, Al as the current flavour Ivo Karlovic have to realise that no one here crass commercial aspect is missing Burq 3. Juvenile Sprinter’s Million (Gr III): (the 6’10” conqueror of Lleyton feels compelled to do what tradi- at Wimbledon. It’s the one place 1,200m: One Magic Moment 1, Top Executive Hewitt). Even then they come tion demands. Instead the ambi- where players can still feel that the 2, Onnu Onnu Onnu 3. Hampi Cup: 1,800m: Own Vision 1, Attorney 2, Destined Path 3. M abegging; discarding their colour ence of the place just makes every- money is not bigger than the game.” Ali Asker Memorial Plate (div.I): 1,200m: Fly and turning pristine in white. body want to blend in.” Enrico Piperno, who’s helped For Fame 1, Matchless Princess 2, Hello Baby What makes the titans of this Ramanathan Krishnan who Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander 3. Beautiful Babe Plate: 1,400m: Solarity 1, US Open Wimbledon French Open Australian Lusitania 2, Adarco 3. M Ali Asker Memnori- sport toe the line down to their stays the only Indian singles semi- Paes en route their Slam journeys, al Plate (div.II): 1,200m: 6.00pm: Sure Fu- very shoelaces for this particular finalist echoes the sentiment, “We feels that ever since Wimbledon Men’s Rs 4.24 crore Rs 3.56 crore Rs 3.23 crore Rs 2.53 crore ture 1, Belper 2, Limitations 3. Grand Slam? all loved to curtsy. It’s not at all underwent renovation a few years Women’s Rs 4.24 crore Rs 3.30 crore Rs 3.14 crore Rs 2.53 crore Prevalence triumphs: Prevalence (B “Wimbledon is the home of the about it being forced or required. I ago, its managed to offer state-of- Prakash atop) claimed the Karnataka game. It is the oldest tournament don’t know of any player who the-art facilities while persisting Sub-Area Cup, the feature event of and steeped in tradition. It com- chose not to. I miss it. I wish the in its old-world charm. Ajit Ninan and Neelabh the Bangalore races on Saturday. TNN
ational Women’s out how? NO 2380 SUNDAY CROSSWORD N Champion Vijay- CHESS POSITION: Weather will alakshmi Subbaraman Raikkonen takes pole Pravin Thipsay White: Kg1; Qh1; R- of India Airlines won d1, f1; N-f2, h5: P-a4, Nuerburgring (Germany): to start last. He was slightly the Women’s Gold b3, e4 play big role Kimi Raikkonen gained the behind Schunmacher’s clock- Medal in the 2003 Black: Kh7; Qd7; R-f8, first pole position of his ca- ing entering the final sector. By Gianluca Fisichella Commonwealth h6, Nb7; P-a5, b4, d4, reer on Saturday by clocking Then he came on to beat t was a rain-dominated Championship. Her g3. the fastest time in qualifying Schumacher’s time. Third tally of 7.5 points from weekend during the of the European Grand Prix. was Ralf Schumacher in a PROBLEM: How can Canadian Grand Prix in 10 games was superi- I Raikkonen, for McLaren- Williams-BMW in 1:31.619.AP White avoid defeat? or to that of the Men’s Montreal, making it a wet Mercedes, timed one minute Silver and Bronze SOLUTION: The only and tricky affair for the driv- 31.523 seconds, edging five- ers. Personally,I have always medal winners but defence is the brilliant time world champion Michael been quick in the wet. Yet due to the strange and unusual 1. Nh3!! Schumacher, who clocked rule “one player maxi- when it came to my turn to 1:31.555 in his Ferrari. (in the game Kotronias set a time on Friday’s quali- mum one medal’’, she played 1.Nd3? and lost Raikkonen’s Finnish com- was compelled to fying session before the race, patriot Mika Hakkinen had aflter 1...Qg4!! 2.e5? I found it was a real chal- choose one of the Nd8! as 3. Nf6+ was his first pole at Nuerbur- medals. This rule en- lenge.There was a lot of wa- gring in 1997. Raikkonen re- impossible due to ter on the circuit, and conse- abled Sasikiran and placed Hakkinen at McLaren 3...Rfxf6! After the quently the car was aqua- Abhijit Kunte to get move recommended, in 2002 after Hakkinen re- planing everywhere, so it tired. Under the new quali- men’s Silver and Bronze medals respec- Black can’t win. For example, 1...Rxf1+ was quite difficult just to tively. In the last round, Viji tactically out- fying rules all the drivers (Not1...Qg4? 2.e5! Nd8 3.Nf6+ Rfxf6 4.exf6 keep it on the circuit. have just one lap to set and played highly rated Greek Grandmaster when White wins.) 2.Rxf1 Rxh5 3.Ng5+! Being the second fastest Kotronias. Today, we shall see a position time. Raikkonen, as the Kh6 (Not 3... Kg6 4.Qf3!! winning for circuit after Monza, it is no- fastest in pre-qualifying, had from this game. Black has sacrificed a White.) toriously tough on the cars piece for King-side attack. White could and tyres alike. While the Pankaj Nangia have held his own but failed to find out the 4.Nf7+ Qxf7 5.Rxf7 Rxh1+ 6Kxj1 and it is Bridgestone tyres were work- correct defence and lost. Can you find it only White which has the winning chances. ing well, providing grip with- out overheating, we were ex- outh opened 1H in the player with the periencing problems with S the second BRIDGE long Spades would the brakes. Unfortunately, in qualify- position and the Prakash Paranjpe have found a bid or a uncontested bidding double sometime in the ing, I locked-up the front tyres went 1H-1S-1Nt-2Nt- auction. twice in a big way losing the 3Nt. West lead the E Dealer Both Vul A rough calculation line and valuable time. I was ♣ would give the very disappointed and frus- Jack. What is the ♠ T 6 5 4 3 best line for South? defenders about one in trated as the balance of the ♥ J 4 car felt good and I should have South has eight top ♦ three chance for A K 9 cashing four tricks. The been able to secure a top ten tricks. ♣ K 9 5 double finesse line slot. As it turned out, I was to For the ninth, South start the Canadian Grand ♠ ♠ would succeed about could take recourse to A 2 K Q J 9 Prix from 16th position, but I a double finesse in ♥ 3 ♥ Q T 8 7 5 seven out of 12 times. Playing a Heart to ♥J still felt optimistic for a points Hearts or play a small ♦ J T 8 7 ♦ 6 5 4 will lead to immediate finish in the race. Gameplan Heart to the Dummy's ♣ J T 8 7 4 3 ♣ 6 Jack at trick two and defeat four out of ♠ hope that the 8 7 12 times and a quick ♥ defenders aren't in a A K 9 6 2 success 6 out of position to cash the ♦ Q 3 2 12 times. four Spade tricks. How ♣ A Q 2 Would all the do we evaluate the defenders find the two lines? Spade shift after the finesses fail. The winning the ♥Q? Not really. If The double finesse in probability calculation will get you want to factor that into Hearts will always succeed if a bit involved when one tries your calculaations, you would East holds both the missing to find out the chance of need to know players' Heart honours. It will also defenders making four or ratings. Alas bridge doesn't succeed if the defenders more Spade tricks. One could have any! cannot cash four tricks upon begin by assuming that the winning a Heart trick. Spades would be 4=2 or 3=3, www.demicoma.com A South Korean taekwando team displays its skills to mark The Declarer will fail if both for with a 5=1 or 6=0 break, [email protected] Korea-India relations in New Delhi on Saturday.
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SPORT SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 29, 2003 19
GRASSHOPPER Adere misses Reuters Reuters Don’t get in line: Many Wimbledon fans hoping to queue to get Centre world record Court tickets for Tim Henman’s third- Oslo: Ethiopian Adere of round match against Sweden’s Roger Soderling went away disappointed af- Ethiopia missed the women’s ter the All England Club trimmed the 5,000m world record by 1.23 number of tickets on sale on the first seconds at the Bislett Games Saturday from 2,000 to just 500. Those on Friday. And sprint available will not be discounted either, favourites Kelli White of the as had been customary in the past, United States and Dwain but will cost 44 pounds (72 dollars). Chambers of Britain, who Fans were already reeling from an train together in California, edict from officials not to queue had to settle for seconds in the overnight in the usual Wimbledon tra- 100m races. dition on security grounds. The move Adere’s time of 14 minutes, 29 comes after reports of a “breach of minutes, 32 seconds was an queue discipline” last year, when Ethiopian and African record. around 9,000 people camped She ran before a near-sellout overnight in nearby Wimbledon Park. crowd that included former Nor- This year, as every year, hundreds of wegian running greats Grete people from across the globe have Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen. pitched tents on the pavement outside the venue, several bedecked with flags China’s Jiang Bo set the world from Sweden, South Africa, Australia mark of 14:28.09 in 1997. and dozens of other nations. “It was a fantastic race,” said Adere, who led an Stars come out for Henman: The Ethiopian sweep of the first cream of British sport arrived to cheer four placings. “I thought it was on tenth seed Tim Henman on Centre possible to break the world CHAMPIONS IN THE STANDS: Serena Williams (L) listens to father Richard Williams while watching elder sister Venus Court, boosting his chances of break- record. ” ing through to the fourth round against play Nadia Petrova of Russia at Wimbledon in London on Friday. (Right) Former Wimbledon champion Australia’s Werknesh Kidane was sec- Swedish qualifier Robin Soderling. Lleyton Hewitt watches girlfriend Kim Clijsters play Samantha Reeves. ond in a personal-best 14:33.04. England rugby stars Jonny Wilkinson television. Last year some 13 million and completed late last night with rain reaches a fourth-round match against Third-placed Tirunesh Diaba- and Lawrence Dallaglio, Olympic gold viewers watched the 29-year-old home clouds and darkness looming. It came Henman. Nalbandian beat Henman ba, 17, broke the world junior medalist rowers Sir Steve Redgrave hope see off Swis Michael Kratochvil in 3 1/2 hours after Venus Williams beat last year in a Tennis Masters series record in 14:39.94, and Meseret and Matthew Pinsent, and former Eng- the fourth round but this year only 2.9 Nadia Petrova in her third-round tournament in Toronto. “If I continue Defar set a personal-best land football captain Gary Lineker million and 2.7 million respectively match. Resuming at 3-3 in the decid- winning, the experience from last year 14:43.46 for fourth place. were all in attendance. Henman hopes watched his opening two matches, giv- ing set, the sisters broke in the first will be important,” he said. “I’m play- to give the host nation their first men’s en his relatively early starts. game — ignoring Stubbs’ claims of a ing good and I feel really good.” The Ethiopian women’s re- champion since Fred Perry in 1936. double hit by Venus on a volley winner, sults were no surprise. Adere, Mill’s memories: Veteran Wimble- and helped by Morariu’s three double 29, won the 3,000 gold medal at Enraged Martina: Martina don referee Alan Mills is set to pen his Goodbye too tall: Ivo Karlovic, the faults. They saved two break points in 6’10” Croatian who ousted defending the World Indoor Champi- Navratilova became the latest player autobiography — but may wait until Venus’ service game to lead 5-3, then to blast Britain for its poor tennis 2006 when he is expected to retire. champion Lleyton Hewitt in the first onships in Birmingham in broke again on Stubbs’ serve to take round, bowed out himself on Friday in March, and Defar took the showing. With no British woman hav- The 67-year-old Mills is currently in the match with Serena volleying the ing managed to reach the second charge at his 21st Wimbledon. Assis- four sets to 6’5” Max Mirnyi. The bronze for the first two medals winner. The capacity crowd on Court tallest man to ever play in Wimbledon by Ethiopian women in the round of the singles the nine-time tant referee Andrew Jarrett is a candi- no. 1 was loud and animated on champion said: “It’s all about opportu- date to fill his post when Mills does was asked how he dealt with his championships’ history. AP Thursday, giving the players a standing height. “Well, I’m used to it,” he said. nity, it’s not in the genes.” The British eventually step down. ovation when they walked off in dark- media were merciless in their assess- Team Williams: The Williams sisters ness. The crowd was smaller on Fri- Bet on it: British bookies will lay ment, with one headline Saturday ask- are into the second round in their day, but just as boisterous. odds on anything. Bookmakers have it ing the brutal question: “Why are we quest to retain their doubles title. They at 6-1 that a streaker will cross centre such a bunch of losers?” need their sisterly teamwork to over- Forgotten: David Nalbandian, last court during the tournament. Bookies Tim in turn off: Tim Henman may be come Corina Morariu and Rennae year’s loser in the final against Lleyton William Hill has 250-1 odds that Tim the only Briton left in the event, but Stubbs 6-7 (7/9), 6-2, 6-3. The match Hewitt, is a forgotten man. He could Henman’s baby daughter Rosie will even he is not proving a star draw on was stopped on Thursday by darkness begin to get some attention if he win the Wimbledon title one day.
THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE AP FOOTBALL Russian Premier Liga: Rotor Vol- gograd 2 Rostselmash 0; Rubin Kazan 3 Lokomotiv Moscow 1; Shinnik Yaroslavl 2 Alania Vladikavkaz 0; Spartak Moscow 2 Chernomorets 1; Torpedo Moscow 0 Krylia Sovetov 0; Uralan Elista 1 Torpedo-Metallurg Moscow 0. ATHLETICS IAAF Golden League, Exxon Mobile Bislett Games, Oslo — Men: 100m: 1 Mark Lewis-Francis (Gbr) 10.12secs, 2 Dwain Chambers (Gbr) 10.15, 3 Matt Shirvington (Aus) 10.25. 110m hurdles: 1 Stanislavs Olijars (Lat) 13.14secs, 2 Chris Phillips (USA) 13.30, 3 Terrence Trammell (USA) 13.37. 400m: 1 Cedric van Branteghem (Bel) 45.55secs, 2 Clinton Hill (Aus) 46.09, 3 Iwan Thomas (Gbr) 46.11. 400m Hurdles: 1 Boris Gorban (Rus) 49.95secs, 2 Anthony Borsumato (Gbr) 50.87, 3 Atle McAdam (Nor) 50.98. 800m: 1 Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (Rsa) 1min44.11secs, 2 Wilfred Bungei (Ken) 1:44.15, 3 Antonio Manuel Reina (Spa) 1:44.65. 5000m: 1 Kenenisa Bekele (Eth) 12mins52.26secs, 2 Sammy Kipketer West Indian fast bowler Fidel Edwards celebrates after (Ken) 12:52.33, 3 Eliud Kipchoge dismissing Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara on the first (Ken) 12:52.61. Pole Vault: 1 Nick day of the second Test in Kingston on Friday. Edwards Hysong (USA) 5.70m, 2 Okkert Brits took five wickets in a sensational debut. (Rsa) 5.70, 3 Toby Stevenson (USA) SQUASH amateurs: 134 — Thomas Bjorn 5.70. Seville Spanish Open Champi- (Den) 70, 64; 136 — Anders Hansen Women: 100m: 1 Chandra Sturrup onship, Seville, Spain — (1st rd): (Den) 70, 66; Philip Golding 66, 70; (Bah) 10.96, 2 Kelli White (USA) (1) Peter Nicol (Eng) bt Ben Garner David Howell 71, 65; Jose Manuel 10.97, 3 Debbie Ferguson (Bah) (Eng) 15-6, 15-7, 17-15; (5) Joseph Lara (Spa) 67, 69; Nicolas Colsaerts 11.08. Triple Jump: 1 Yamile Aldama Kneipp (Aus) bt Borja Golan (Spa) 15- (Bel) 66, 70; 137 — Stephen Gal- Yamile (Cub) 15.11m, 2 Francoise 6, 15-9, 15-6; (3) Karim Darwish (Egy) lacher 68, 69; Justin Rose 68, 69; Mbango Etone (Cmr) 14.88, 3 Tatyana bt Stephen Meads (Eng) 15-8, 15-10, 138 — Miguel Angel Martin (Spa) 70, Lebedeva (Rus) 14.86. 800m: 1 Maria 15-13; James Willstrop (Eng) bt (8) 68; Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa) 70, 68; Mutola (Moz) 2mins00.62secs, 2 Nick Taylor (Eng) 15-12, 14-17, 15-9, Graeme McDowell 70, 68; Barry Lane Stephanie Graf (Aut) 2:00.92, 3 Diane 15-3; Mohammed Abbas (Egy) bt (7) Cummins (Can) 2:01.00. 1500m: 1 70, 68; Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 70, Mark Chaloner (Eng) 15-13, 15-10 68; Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 70, 68; Iryna Lishchynska (Ukr) ret; (4) Ong Beng Hee (Mal) bt Shahi- 4mins04.62secs, 2 Yelena Zadorozh- Pierre Fulke (Swe) 70, 68; Francois er Razik (Can) 15-10, 16-17, 16-17, Delamontagne (Fra) 69, 69; 139 — naya (Rus) 4:04.97, 3 Judit Varga 15-9, 15-12; Moh’d Azlan Iskandar (Hun) 4:05.82. 5000m: 1 Berhane Simon Dyson 70, 69; Carlos Rodiles (Mal) bt (6) Simon Parke (Eng) 15-8, (Spa) 70, 69; Richard Bland 72, 67; Adere (Eth) 14mins29.32secs, 2 12-15, 15-13, 6-15, 15-11; Amr Sha- Werknesh Kidane (Eth) 14:33.04, 3 Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 71, 68; Andrew bana (Egy) bt (2) Anthony Ricketts Oldcorn 69, 70; Bradley Dredge 67, Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) 14:39.94. (Aus) 15-9, 10-15, 15-13, 15-10. 400m Hurdles: 1 Jana Pittman (Aus) 72; Peter O’Malley (Aus) 70, 69; 54.42, 2 Ionela Tirlea (Rom) 54.47, 3 GOLF Stephen Dodd 72, 67; 140 Santiago Sandra Glover (USA) 54.80. High Collated totals after the second Luna (Spa) 70, 70; David Carter 71, Jump: 1 Inha Babakova (Ukr) 2.01m, round of the French Open at Le Golf 69; Brian Davis 68, 72; Simon Wake- 2 Vita Palamar (Ukr) 1.99, 3 National, Paris — (Gbr and Ire un- field 70, 70; John Bickerton 69, 71; Iryna Mykhalchenko (Ukr) 1.99. less stated, par 72) (x) denotes Stephen Leaney (Aus) 70, 70. Karnataka leave others far behind TIMES NEWS NETWORK 14) won the boys’ titles while V Sivaranjani (U-17) New Delhi: The powerful and Shubha C (U-14) went Karnataka contingent home with girls’ titles. swept to team honours in Meanwhile, Bengal beat the 30th National junior Kerala 14-4 to lift the boys swimming on the conclud- waterpolo crown, while ing day at the Talkatora Karnataka beat Maharash- swimming complex here on tra 3-1 to win the girls gold. Saturday. Important results: Boys under-17: Though Maharashtra did 50m butterfly: 1. Vinod Kumar (TN), 2. their best to bridge the gap Parikshit Shetty (Mah), 3. Sumanta Nath between them and Karnata- (Ben). 200m Back Stroke: 1. N S Abhiram ka. But it was not enough to (Kar), 2. Skandra R Ashwath (Kar), 3. Apruva Kulkarni (Mah). 9. 100m free prevent the latter from style: Parikshit Shetty (Mah), 2. Aniketh A clinching the champi- D’Souza (Kar), 3. Samir Das (Ben). 800m onship by a country mile. free style Relay: 1. Karnataka, 2. maha- Maharashtra finished with rashtra, 3. Bengal. Boys under-14: 50m a tally of 16 gold, 24 silver butterfly: 1. Bharath Kumar (Kar), 2. and as many bronze which Aswath Shetty (Mah), 3. Aditya Sang- wekar (Mah). 200m back stroke: 1. was way short of Karnata- Dhaval Bharitkar (Mah), 2. Sushanth Kr- ka’s 53 gold, 30 silver and 16 ishna (TN), Anirudh G V (Del). 100m free bronze. The final points tal- style: 1. Rohit Hawaldar (Kar), 2. S Suresh ly of Karnataka — 714 — Kumar (TN), 3. Vivek Shanbhag (Mah). was also way ahead of Ma- 800m free style Relay: 1. Tamil Nadu, 2. Karnataka, 3. Maharashtra. Girls u-17: harashtra, who finished at 50m butterfly: 1. Manasi Shelke (Mah), 2. 442. Amrapali Dasgupta (Ben), 3. B Praveena The highlight of the final (Ker) 32.26s. 200m back stroke: 1. Ko- day’s show was Karnataka’s mal Athare (Mah), 2. Soni Cyriac (Ker), 3. Shubha C’s effort in the Usha L ((Kar). 100m free style: 1. Ambica N S Iyengar (Kar), 2. Komal Athare (Mah), Group 2 50m butterfly for 3. Amrapali DasGupta (Ben). 800m free girls. The young girl twice style relay: 1. Karnataka, 2. Maharashtra, broke the existing mark, 3. Delhi. Girls under-14: 50m butterfly: 1. winning the final by clock- Shubha C (Kar), 2. M Vaishnavi (Kar), 3. P ing 30.79. Bhuvaneshwari (TN). 200m back stroke: Karnataka swimmers Amita Udpikar (Mah), 2. Bhargobi Gogoi (Asm), 3. Apurva Kulkarni (Mah). 100m also took the individual free style: 1. Niveditha M S (Kar), Justin awards. Rehan Poncha (U- Mellocastro (Mah), 3. Steffi Antony 17) and Rohit Hawaldar (U- Thomas (Kar).
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Killer posts: A three-year-old girl was killed and her mother slightly injured when a soccer A final like never before: 11 Foes will play for Cameroon goalpost fell on them in Syd- Reuters ney. The girl and her mother Paris: Cameroon will play in Sunday’s players were to hold a final training pitch to help make sure we got to the fi- were at a youth soccer day in Confederations Cup final against session to plot strategy for the final, al- nal.” nearby Moss Vale. AFP France in tribute to Marc-Vivien Foe, though few were eager to play in the Foe, who played in all three of wear his name on their shirt while game. Cameroon’s games at both the 2002 and FIFA will award a special medal to the There were some questions whether 1994 World Cups, fell to his knees in the deceased midfielder. Foe should have played the semifinal, 71st minute of Thursday’s game in FIFA President Sepp Blatter said the considering he had had diarrhoea ear- Lyon. He was lapsing into uncon- players will stand next to one another lier in the week, but doctors said he sciousness when he was carried off the in the midfield circle ahead of the final came through tests fine. “He assured us field on a stretcher to the sideline, to commemorate Foe in a moment of he was fine. He really wanted to play,” where he received treatment, including silence. Afterward, the anthems will be Song said. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and played with the players still standing Goalkeeper Idriss Kameni said that oxygen. shoulder to shoulder. Foe had warned during halftime that After 45 minutes of unsuccessful at- “This is solidarity, comprehension,” anybody who felt tired should leave the tempts to revive him at the stadium Blatter said. field. “If he had have felt problems, he first-aid station, Foe was pronounced After the match, Cameroon captain would not have tried to fool anyone,” dead. Rigobert Song will receive a medal for Kameni told Le Parisien newspaper. An initial autopsy report in Lyon Foe, just like his teammates. “He was a true professional and knew found no evidence of ruptured blood “Gold or silver,he will have deserved what he was doing.” vessels in his brain that could have it,” said Blatter. Cameroon coach Winfried Schaefer caused a stroke. A full report most like- He also said there will be a “special told the Guardian newspaper that he ly won’t be ready until next week, the tribute,” for Foe at the next Confedera- and the team doctor noticed Foe was city’s public prosecutor’s office said. tions Cup in two years time in Ger- slowing down in the game but indicat- Foe was on loan to England’s Manches- many, but added the tournament will ed he was able to continue. ter City in the just-completed season not be named after him. “It was a couple of minutes later and scored nine goals in 35 Premier Two days after the 28-year-old mid- when he collapsed,” Schaefer said. League games. He had eight goals in 64 fielder collapsed and died during a “Marco refused to come off. He said he appearances for Cameroon’s national semifinal against Colombia, Cameroon felt OK and he wanted to stay on the team. AP
People look at floral tributes lying outside Manchester City's stadium in memory of the late Marc-Vivien Foe who was on loan to the club from French side Lyon last season. He shouldn’t have been Dump Confed Cup: Ferdinand playing, says Foe’s wife London: England defender Rio Ferdinand has called on New Delhi: The distraught dysentery for two or three football’s wife of stricken Cameroon days. He’d had gastric prob- world ruling footballer Marc-Vivien Foe, lems and he knew he proba- body FIFA to who collapsed during the bly wasn’t well enough to dump the Confederations Cup semifi- play. When he collapsed I Confedera- nal against Colombia on never for a moment thought tions Cup fol- Thursday and later died, has he would die. I assumed he’d lowing the hit out at at her husband’s get up and walk away, or re- tragic death selection for the game. cover on the sidelines. The of Cameroon player Marc- A post mortem on the 28- family is in utter shock.” Vivien Foe. year-old Manchester City Foe was known widely in Ferdinand, a former team- forward ruled out a heart at- football circles because he mate of Foe’s at West Ham, tack as the cause of death had played at French clubs said FIFA must bring the and Foe’s wife Marie-Louise Lens and Lyon before mov- end-of-season competition to has revealed that her hus- ing on loan to Manchester an end if players are to be al- band had been experiencing City in the English Premier- lowed to rest after a tiring gastric problems in the days ship last year. He had also league season. “The Confed- leading up to the tragedy. been close to joining ‘Red erations Cup is a big no-go. “He should not have been Devils’ Manchester United What is the point of it,” Fer- playing at all. He desperate- three years ago until a bro- dinand, who said the France ly wanted to play for his ken leg ended his chance of and Turkey game on the country in France, in his joining Alex Ferguson’s for- same night should have been adopted home town of mer European Cup winning cancelled, wrote in The Sun Lyon,” said the 26-year-old team. newspaper on Saturday. as she wept, recalling how Results from toxicology “It is not a respected tour- he had seen a doctor on the tests conducted on the late nament — it is not the World day of the match, played in midfielfer are expected to be Cup or the European Cham- 32 degree temperature. released by the world’s gov- pionships. Why dilute those “But doctors should have erning body FIFA in the two by having another one?” stopped him. He’d had next few days. AFP he lambasted FIFA. AFP FIFA retain 32-team format for World Cup Paris: Oceania suffered a mas- Blatter, who had made get- sive blow on Saturday when ting Oceania an automatic they lost their automatic place berth one of his campaign in the 2006 World Cup finals fol- pledges when he was running lowing a FIFA executive com- for his second term, confirmed: mittee meeting here. “The executive committee has World football’s governing asked Oceania to give up half a body also decided not to in- slot from its full slot received crease the number of teams on December 17 in Madrid. The from 32 to 36 until at least after Oceania representatives are the 2010 World Cup as had been sad and I’m not very happy ei- demanded by the South Amer- ther.I know how to lose, they’ve ican federations, CONMEBOL. got to learn that too.” After FIFA’s executive com- He said the decision had mittee had voted overwhelm- been based on a number of fac- ingly to give Oceania’s half a tors, including New Zealand’s slot to the south Americans the poor performance in the Con- Oceania delegates showed federations Cup and adminis- their disapproval by staging a trative problems, especially in walk-out from the meeting. Australia. “There is no doubt The decision was taken with that if the distribution of slots 22 votes for, one against and was being discussed now Ocea- one abstention (by FIFA presi- nia wouldn’t have received a dent Sepp Blatter. full one,” he said. AFP CAPITAL SPORT Pranshu shines: Pranshu 53 runs. Besides Bindra, Gupta upset second seed Ku- Saurabh Saxena claimed 3 for nal Kathuria 11-13, 11-7, 11- 22 for the winners. 13, 11-8, 12-10 in the cadet IG Stadium: 206 in 36.2 overs Raghav boys league in the inaugural Bindra 58, Azad Bawa 4 for 28) Delhi Champion Cup table Shankaracharya Academy: 153 in tennis tournament at the Talk- 34.2 overs (Amit Chawla 69, Saurabh atora Indoor Stadium. In the Saxena 3 for 22). sub-junior category, Dhruv Arora and Varun Anand quali- Aditya scintillates: KG fied for the quarterfinal stage. Colts defeated Sonnet Cricket Important results: Cadet boys (2nd Club by 98 wickets in the U- round): Pranshu Gupta b Kunal Kathuria 15 DDCA cricket tournament. 11-13, 11-7, 11-13, 11-8, 12-10; Aditya Aima who scored a Sarthak Gandhi b Lovekesh Chawla 11- scintillating 96 for the colts 3, 11-3, 11-5. Boys singles: Yakshap Jindal b Kunal Puri 8-11, 11-8, 101-2, was the chief architect of vic- 12-10, 11-9; Karan Arora b Tushar Kalra tory. In another match, Chand 11-9, 11-8, 11-6. Sub-junior boys: Khanna routed Mayapuri by Dhruv Arora b Pavneet Tulsi 11-5, 11-5, 152 runs. 11-4; Ramit Bhatnagar b Piyush Dviwedi Sonnet CC: 160 in 45 overs (Rushil 7-11, 13-11, 11-4, 11-5. Bhaskar 63, Aditya Aima 3 for 33) KG Colts: 164 for 2 in 33 overs (Aditya Bindra excels: In the U-19 Aima 96). BDM Cup cricket tournament, Chand Khanna: 270 for 7 in 45 overs Raghav Bindra hit a strokeful (Vijay Kumar 130) Mayapuri: 118 in 58 to help IG Stadium beat 29.3 overs (Haricharan Chaudhuri 5 Shankaracharya Academy by for 35).
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