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GUBERNATORIAL RAIN-CHECK a NOW REPORT ... and in the meanwhile check this out! he “rubbish awards,” might have done little to ac tivate the residents of featured areas into getting Ttheir act together, but it did concern the Raj Bhavan enough to trigger a visit by the Governor V Rama Rao to Gairi Gaon [Tadong], and Arithang. Both areas were fea- tured in the last issue of NOW! for being acutely lacking in civic sense when it came to waste management. Accompanied by members of the district administra- tion and Civil Defence, the Governor saw for himself the garbage disposal condition and jhora clogging in the two areas. The DC [East], K. Srinivasulu, while talking to NOW! revealed that the Governor was specially disturbed by the clogging of the jhoras. The tangle of water pipes running through the jhoras was something that disturbed him enough to call a meeting with officials of the PHE, Forest, UD&HD and PWD departments to discuss possibilities of less congested drains. Ordering immediate action on this front, the Governor was pacified only when officials in- The second ‘AMBLENT AIR QUALITY MONTIORING STATION’ installed near STNM Hospital by the formed him that work on that front was already underway. STATE POLLUTON CONTROL BOARD SIKKIM. a HOW? pic

7 extras 2 extraneous GOOD AFTERNOON, GANGTOK THE GANGTOK STATE OF MIND pic by KARCHOONG DIYALI

NOW!rubbish AWARDS NOW!, now has a weekly award that will see no celebrations when it is announced. “The NOW! Rubbish Awards” each week, goes to a locality which the office camera finds to be specially dirty and littered. Not just an embarassment for the department responsible for clearing the mess, each pic also speaks of the social consciousness of the residents. Needless to add, we will be the uhhhh..... [tom tom tom] gladdest when the awards need to be discontinued for want of areas filthy enough to make it to this space. This is the fourth instalment. The award this week goes to the New Lall Bazaar complex PANORAMA COLOR LAB offers a panorama of photo which has appropriated the top floor of a public toilet as it’s garbage dump. services: Mounting and Hard-board lamination, enlargements, slide processing and framing in imported mould. SANGRAM SANKALP “slammed” Apollo, as it is wont MG Marg, Gangtok, Sikkim - 737 101. ph: 225098 / 222488 hese are strange times in to do in such situations. The lo- deed for the Sikkim BAZAAR cal weekly “splashed” the story TSangram Parishad. Mixed and we were convinced that signals from would-be partners Buzz Apollo Millenium guys were is leaving them quite confused. verry bad indeed. When what WHAT’S UP, SIKKIM As is apparent by the jottings . . . happens? The next week the found in a diary belonging to an when they thought they had got said paper signs an exclusive CONTEST SSP man. It reads “What kind everything right, the weather contract with Apollo Millenium for of days are these dear diary. gods have let them down. Their routing patients from Sikkim to Where in Sikkim will a 100ft Why is the Cong party behaving daily monsoon prediction of the hospital, run by as they now tall statue of Bhanu Bhakta like this. Leading us up the aisle “Rain will occur at isolated call them, “well meaning and be installed? and then refusing to say I Do. places in Sikkim,” has been re- wealthy people”. What is the WIN A FREE MEAL Don’t they have any compas- ported faithfully by a local daily reader supposed to make out of FOR 2 AT sion? Any heart at all? How and also the cable channel. this volte face. Is it just a case ------many times have we traveled in Seemed like a safe enough bet. of wrong “ascription” or just busi- the searing heat to meet But last week was bad. Not only ness prevailing over ethics? You NAME: Madam. How many hours have did it not rain for three days at tell us. And what about a recent ...... any spot in Sikkim, but some Address Mi tin been spent waiting for a small corrigendum on quotes ascribed g HOTEL ...... darshan. We have laid bare our people have actually been call- to a SSP leader. There were Italian, Mexican, Chinese, intentions, agreed to all their ing in asking to specify “isolated some quotes he did not make Last Week’s answer: Jelep La places”. How the hell are they Winner: Kipa Bhutia, PNG Road Indian and conditions, given up on all of we were told. And which ones Continental cuisine ours. And look where it has got supposed to know? Anyway, af- were those? Your guess is as Tibet Road, Gangtok. ph: 224101 us. They told us go and wait and ter much brainstorming a solu- good as mine. we’re still waiting. Where is that tion has been found. From now Khurshid fellow? Why isn’t he on the weather report will read THE “PHALEY” MAN here? Why? Why? This is so “Rain will or will not occur at ife is hard most times but - QUESTION OF THE WEEK - embarrassing. Now they’re even some isolated places in Sikkim”. never as hard as it seems What is the part of the denying giving us that tiny table- That should do the trick. Lto Pappu, the “Phaley” brain that coffee affects? top Congress flag. When will this man right now. Just the other day
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vertex humiliation end? I’m promising BAD GUY/GOOD GUY he was walking about, selling his you one thing, dear diary, if noth- t’s becoming more and more “Phaley” in the morning, when a
latex ing happens within a week, we’ll difficult to understand what truck knocked him down near wait one more week, and then Inewspapers believe these Hotel Shere Punjab. Today he another and another. That is our days. Take the example of the lies at the orthopeadic ward at fresh everyday NAME: ...... Sankalp. Who the hell do the Apollo Millenium Hospital. We STNM with both legs bandaged, did not even know of its exist- Congress think they are? Only wondering what happened to ADDRESS: ...... they can make Sankalps!” ence till we were informed by a the truck owner who had prom- coffee Last week’s answer:TWO. Winner: local English weekly about how ised him compensation. Unable IT ONLY RAINS ON ME some officials of the said hospi- to get up and go find him, he can Khagendra Sharma, Lower Luing redicting the weather is a tal were “spreading malicious only curse his fate. Maybe the CONTEST thankless task most lies” and “deliberately mislead- police can help locate the man Tick the right answer and rush entries to NOW! office at Tadong to Ptimes. This the met office ing the people of Sikkim”. The and get some money for the here is slowly discovering. Just Sikkim Journalists Association poor fellow? WIN A COFFEE & SNACKS COUPON WORTH Rs. 100 AT BAKER’S CAFE, [email protected] MG MARG, GANGTOK

8 extras 3 PRESTOLITE batteris start from: for MARUTI - Rs. 1250/- for COMMANDER - Rs. 2550/- WHAT THE Kalimpong Supply Agency CAPITAL’S NH Way 31 A, Gangtok (Sikkim) Ph: 226237, 9434103124 BEEN Deals in: Genuine Spare Parts, Lubricants & Batteries UP TO Distributor: Exide, Amron, Shell, Prestolite rajdhani No holding back Deorali’s Shiv Mandir anymore to the people of Sikkim to see to it lar. The Mandir Committee ap- a NOW! pic by TINA RAI that such an ugly turn of events is pears to have finally brought avoided,” he said. things under control now. he delays in initiating work Reminding the people that This new mandir is being built to reconstruct the Shiv Sikkim had till date not suffered at an estimated cost of Rs. 35 TMandir at Deorali seem fi- any disturbances in the name of Lakhs. Manoj Pradhan, a mem- nally resolved. On July 11, last religion, the CM urged that such ber of the mandir committee told Friday, the Chief Minister Pawan a situation not be allowed to de- NOW! that the members have al- Chamling laid the foundation velop in the future either. ready raised about Rs. 7 lakhs stone of the Shiv-Mandir, now re- “Religion should not be lim- and RC Mundra, the contractor christened Shri Kedarnath ited just to temples, churches, for the project, assured that work Shivalaya Mandir. would not suffer any Also present at the more delays. “Our tar- ceremony were Minis- get is to complete this ter Tourism and area mandir within fifteen MLA, KT Gyaltsen months,” he said. and UD&HD Minister, The Shri TT Bhutia. Kedarnath Shivalaya Given the Mandir is planned as rumblings of commu- a three-storeyed nal discord running complex with a library through the State, it was only gumpas or mosques. All reli- consisting of holy books on the natural for the CM to speak on gions teach the truth and this ground floor, a meditation hall on communal harmony at this reli- search for the Truth unites the the first floor and the main tem- gious event. people. As Sikkimese, we ple on the top storey. “Some people have been should use our different religions Even Pratimaan Gautam, floating rumours that Sikkim could as the binding factors of our the worried priest of this temple soon face a Babri Masjid-like situ- unity,” Mr. Chamling said. appeared satisfied on the day. ation and some people seem to Built in the year 1985, the old His grand son told NOW! that Chief Minister Pawan Chamling at the foundation stone laying ceremony have worked towards creating Shiv Mandir was dismantled on the priest was overjoyed that fi- of the reconstruction of the Deorali Shiv Mandir on July 11, 2003 such a situation. It is, however, up January 9, earlier this year. Work nally his dream was showing since has, however, been irregu- signs of taking shape. REAL MUGHLAI DISHES PREPARED WITH Thodi masti, Thoda food... RARE SPICES AT LAST IN GANGTOK!!! a NOW REPORT hey came, they performed Tand they conquered the hearts of music lovers in the Rajdhani in the last week of June earlier this year. Barely two dho-tapu weeks later, the Reincarnation, RESTAURANT the most happening band from (ROAD LEVEL) SNOD SHOPPING ARCADE Darjeeling returned to the town NEAR SNOD PETROL PUMP to perform at a local pub. DEORALI, GANGTOK Last weekend, from 11-13 PH: 281501 EPABX EXT: 44 July, Vicky, Sandeep, Kalyan, Sahadeo, Sanjeet and Diwaker, rocked the usual pubbers and FOR BIRYANIS, PULLAOS, CURRIES, hand-bangers at a “food n mu- KABABS, PARATHAS, ROLLS, ETC. sic” festival organised by a local pub with some of the all-time fa- vourite rock tracks as well as their original Nepali rock numbers. Reincarnation provide some music for the booze at a performance in Gangtok While the kebabs were day. Compulsive patrons [and plan to provide,” Little Italy’s drowned along with a steady it has many] and friends were Zimba had said at its opening flow of cocktails, the crowd invited to an evening of Ital- last year. He provided ample rocked away late into the night ian hospitality, Sikkim style at loads of that X-Factor and then in high spirits, with the Band the restaurant which put some. Little Italy, undoubtedly Jewellery to brighten your life promising to come back soon. downtown Deorali on the food is what anyone looking for a And then, there was the map of the capital. good slice of pizza, some good anniversary binge at Little Italy “It’s the ‘X-Factor’ that peo- music and the right ambience Silver Necklaces, Earrings, which turned “one” on Satur- ple look for and that is what I seek out in Sikkim.

WANTED Rings, Pendants & an assistant editor for a magazine Pieces Set with Gem Stones ] in all Colors ] based in Sikkim. enthusiastic & willing to learn, urgently! SNOD Shopping Arcade please send bio-data + 200 word essay on what a Sikkim Near SNOD Petrol Pump magazine should be like. e-mail: [email protected] Deorali, Gangtok WANTED

9 extras 4 UNDERAGE raBREADEARNERSjdhani INTHECITY

pics by KARCHOONG DIYALI

NO SUMMER HOLIDAYS FOR THEM: These children, a brother-sister team of roadside acrobats and a jhaal-muri hawker, get their education on life on the streets, not schools.

THINGS NOT TO DO IN DON’T give in when your driver asks for more, because which The Durbar comes to town route he takes back is surely not your blooming problem. On the other hand the poor souls, I sup- pose, did have to come up with Mughlai takeaway opens shop something to compensate for the ‘JUSTIFIED’ depreciation their daily collection suffers. a NOW! pic One Way on the roads. One by KARCHOONG DIYALI Man in the departments. In case hat happened last you dint know, any question you week? It’s not easy have, any information you seek, being cheesy y’know! any clarification you require, W there’s just one person in any I mean how much cheese can one guy come up with every department who really works. week? No lateral connotations The others are just there to RE- here. Shucks! sounds like a DIRECT you. “You will have to script straight off of a porn flick. talk to the SECRETARY himself.” Anyway, was riding around So DON’T trouble other MANNE- for uselessly-existent norms in QUINS in the departments, just our hill-top when I go BANG! into ‘May I Come In Sir?’ your way it. One Way! And I just so hap- into the big man’s cabin, and pened to overhear a quarrel. more times than often, wait until “One way chha nee ta! Bajaar he finishes his PERSONALLY pasnu paundaina, lhamo bato official chat with the next-big-man jaanu parchha.” Cabbie to pas- (or Madam!) from the cabin next senger trying to fleece the poor door. guy off ten bucks more than the Until next time. One world, usual fare from MG Marg to one man, over the one way. Power Deptt (Rs. 20). Taxis All incidents and characters mentioned are seem to be the only one making purely NOT fictional and bears ABSOLUTE hay while the ‘one way’ reigns. resemblance to persons living, NOT dead! a NOW REPORT the restaurant opened on July 1. pullao, curry, paranthas and rotis, We’ve tried Italian, Thai and all at very affordable prices. [email protected] ughlai cuisine is ranked Japanese cuisine over the last Initially planned as an in- NOW! you know where to send those mails among the most lavish year, good as they were, food house service for his guest Min the world. Developed lovers of Gangtok now have house at the same location, the during the times of the Mughal something new to tantalize their restaurant has now taken a life empire, it was considered a royal taste buds. And there is nothing of its own. So much so that COMPUTERISED RUBBER STAMPS cuisine. Use of rare spices, that suits Gangtok weather and Namgyal plans to shift to larger MADE WITHIN 10 MINUTES WITH ANY LOGO cooked over a long period of taste buds more than hot juicy premises at the same building, time, Mughlai food mainly con- kebabs, delicately flavoured while using the present place as & Wedding Cards, Visiting Cards, ID Cards, sists of roasted and barbecued biryani, succulent meat dishes, a takeaway. dishes, biryanis, kebabs and dry and curries that make you imme- The food is cooked by two curries. Over the ages, Mughlai diately reach for that naan. Muslim ladies who provide the Business Cards, Door Name-Plates, food has transcended all taste “People who have tasted correct authentic touch. “We barriers and is now one of the Mughlai food in the metros call have taken great effort to locate Chest Name-Plates more popular cuisines in the up and say that Gangtok badly the right spices from all over. world. needed a place like this. A place Many ingredients are brought and all kinds of printing works done at reasonable rates Bringing some of the royal that serves such good food,” said from Kolkata. Our focus is on Please Contact: Mughal dishes to town, at down- Namgyal, sounding mighty tasty, affordable food which has to-earth prices, is T. Jigme pleased with the overwhelming the right touch,” adds Namgyal. SIM-PAL’S PRESS Namgyal, the brain behind the response the place has received And going by the rave re- new Dho-Tapu restaurant in from the word go. views given by people who have Opp. Sadar Police Station, Gangtok - Sikkim town. Located at the SNOD The restaurant serves only eaten there, he seems to be on ph: 226119/ 220412 [m] 94341 03171 shopping complex near Deorali, Mughlai cuisine. Biryani, rolls, the right track. “PLANET EARTH IS GASPING FOR FRESH AIR AND FRESH WATER. STATE POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD - SIKKIM PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, SAVE PLANET EARTH.” Department of Forest, Environment & Wildlife

10 LiTNOW extras 5 WHEN THE HILLS WRITE he arrival of a child allevi local biggie, who, like the other taking. Though with his educa- the insides were dank and those who couldn’t afford the ated the dark monotony biggies in The New Town, tion, Class 7 pass, it was un- lightless. Srilata was the only price of a hotel meal otherwise. Tof Aseem’s house. After owned little else apart from a thinkable that he could actually thing that smiled apart from the “He should never have left Hotel Pipalay had slipped from swagger and a concrete house. attempt to become anything lifeless dolls. The shop had that vegetable business of his. his hands; after his wife’s past It faced east and so was spared besides a tea-ferrying peon. He been an upward move in her He would have made some- became common knowledge the harshness of the midday and could also not get into the serv- eyes. And it gave her a space thing of himself by now. See and after he had made Bhim, his evening sun. ice of private companies. away from home, her mother- how he has to make do with the father cry a couple of times for His father had died slowly There weren’t any. in-law and those fights which small hole of a hotel. You his tragic lack of far- in the third year of Aseem’s They didn’t come in as were charting out an ancient, should stick to one thing in a sightedness, a son was born to downward spiral, contrite but much as they should predictable route. The town place like ours.” Aseem. not knowing whom to blame for gossips were already aligned This was one venture he He named his first born Aseem’s current state, himself against her. Srilata maintained was determined to see Kiran. It seemed optimistic and or destiny’s ineluctability. it was because her opponent through. His cooking was pass- pertinent. For a few bitter mo- Bhim’s death brought all of his had an unfair advantage in her able. He’d seen what hap- ments during the naming cer- sacrifices to Aseem’s mind. widowhood. pened to mismanaged hotels. emony, Aseem had reflected on Events which had been men- Srilata provided liveliness And the failure tag no longer the irony of his own name. tioned in family arguments so and little else in the shop. Her held any romance, now that Kiran’s birth was timely and gave many times they ceased hav- business sense was as good Kiran had to be given a decent what he would call a lease on ing any relevance; their enor- as Aseem’s sense of popular- future. This was not a great life. The drugs had made Aseem mity now highlighted by si- ity. She attracted everyone business, he was aware and so an introvert and at times, sui- lence. The act of leaving without money. Aseem’s show- resolved to use it as a stepping cidal. In later years, he would fre- Yambung with its ceaseless till- piece they called her. They stone. Nobody cared if the ho- quently allude to those times ing and coming to The New came, laughed, flirted and de- tel guy didn’t speak to you so when he thought about death. Town to carve out an easier life parted when Aseem was long as his fare was edible. The mere fact that he had so for himself and by extension, sighted. The fights that ensued Srilata stayed at the counter, much as considered it, sealed in his family. Of pushing a proudly also became common knowl- did the accounts and laughed his mind, the graveness of his dull Aseem through Class edge though she was rarely the easily. Aseem stayed in the situation then. Seven, after which it was de- victim in these debates. kitchen and kept an eye on her Later, when stability was ap- cided that it was all the edu- When Bhima Stores squeals. He ran the Fast Food parent in the running of a small cation one would need. And gave way to Anil Hard- for two years. Until he realised shop, Aseem thought that the the great Hindu burden of Small full ware Agency, few that a vegetable vendor made three years between the relin- getting his daughters mar- mourned. Aseem had more than him. quishing of Hotel Pipalay and the ried, for Hotel Pipalay was reconciled himself to this The morning he had to go establishment of Bhima Stores never a success, merely a -ii inevitability. The general and hawk vegetables after the were easily the worst of his life, lifeboat. And he had been nocircles feeling was of surprise that nineteen year interval, he circlesby CHETAN RAJ SHRESTHA alleviated only partially by higher than a chowkidar in the something so doomed should cried. The situation was bereft Kiran’s birth. PWD offices. have had - the customers. He have lasted five years. He of any subtleties. He won- His wife would have helped, Bhim died without seeing reasoned it may have been be- spent a few months collecting dered, as he sat cross-legged had he not silenced her with the his grandchild; Srilata deliv- cause he couldn’t provide gos- evasive debts and the remain- and indulged in the first proc- occasional but fearful hiding. ered a few days after Bhim’s sip like the curtain-sellers on der of the year clueless. esses of building up a clientele, The faults that caused these cremation. Relatives consoled the flanking road. “Bhai, do something for why destiny was so short eruptions were rarely hers. The Amla that Bhim’s soul had Then, he developed a your family. You have a six year sighted in his town. Most lives disappearance of a steady in- found its way into the child. theory about a person’s pass- old son. Your mother still runs didn’t seem to progress. A come, the pall of uncertainty Bhima Stores - Domestic port to better places. Everyone a canteen in the high school.” cousin’s words, “We’re like over the future and geographic Items and General Order Sup- had a chance for escape, he “Whatever has happened frogs in a well,” came to him re- claustrophobia provoked rages pliers. The shop, established thought, and in most cases it is past. You’re not very old. You peatedly. that were difficult to contain. with a light bequest from Bhim, usually came only once, have your son’s future to think Lives encompassed small full These outbursts could not be sold small numbers of toys, flashed and then moved on if of.” circles, gathering nothing but ex- unleashed on the actual sources children wear, cheap sport not taken, to someone more “The chhola-wala has just perience which could not be uti- for he hadn’t yet identified them. gear, utensils and other ‘do- eager. It was a belief that would vacated his slot in the gully. lised profitably outside the per- When he did, he realised that mestic items’. Aseem, unable gnaw at his insides for the re- You could open up a fast food sonal sphere. He considered his they were mostly abstractions. to reconcile himself to the mainder of his life for every- there. You’ve managed a hotel life, Rani Bahini’s, the Pipalay He turned on the only one he comedown from a hotel-wala to thing indicated his chance had before so this shouldn’t be too Hotel Aunt’s and Yusuf’s. Srilata could. Srilata, his wife, beautiful a bhanda-dokan-wala, looked come and gone. When later he difficult.” started life as a truck driver’s and the victim of a publicised almost embarrassed outside visited an affluent Pemba in Kiran Fast Food, Aseem’s daughter. She might end it as a affair whose aftershocks had his shop. Feigned gaiety was Darjeeling, a friend who had third venture came up in the sabzi-wala’s wife. There had never left her. She was partly not something that came to him gone in his stead to the Gur- gully that connected two of the been no greater movement in relieved by her pregnancy and easily. kha Regiment in Hong Kong, it three main roads that made up their lives. Attempts had been then redeemed momentarily with “Is that the way for any per- was this belief that resurfaced, the bazaar of The New Town. made, but strangers rarely came Kiran’s birth. Then the beatings son to open up a new shop? I producing distress. It was a right angle and twenty and every face was familiar. The resumed after the child lost its saw him, he didn’t smile, didn’t It was only natural that metres away from where comfort suffocated any intelligent novelty. even ask me to come inside Bhima Stores should have Bhima Stores previously stood. breather. Bhima Stores, its name an and buy something. Andhere, folded up. The very idea that But by location and its implica- Kiran, now ten and in amalgam of his parents’ names, saala.” something so unattractive, for tions, it could have been in a Gangtok, studying and living with Bhim and Padma, stood in one Aseem realised shortly that Aseem unenthusiastically had neighbouring village. But he a kind relative, came home often. of the three main streets of the an aggressively reticent per- left everything as it had been. did good business on Sundays He didn’t like The New Town. The New Town and was Aseem’s sonality was not something that The shutter boards had not and Wednesdays, when the heat and ennui put him, a child, second attempt at a respectable handles entrepreneurship well. been painted over. The sign weekly market unfolded on the off. He’d told his father he wanted commerce. It was on the street But it was too late. The govern- board had been half a job and streets. 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11 extras 6 EXTRA SPACE FOR THE FAIRER SEX WOMEN NOW! who’s the So, weaker sex? en start out ahead: 115 sports, drinking too much, being more often than men, four times years ago. Whereas it took men speed. And it could play a cru- males are conceived for sexually predatory. Men also tend as many men actually kill them- 75 years to knock 25 minutes cial role in what are called ul- Mevery 100 females. But to take more chances with their selves. off the marathon record, women tra-endurance events. In long it’s downhill from there. The male health. They are more likely to What would be the health have done it in 15 years. In- distance swimming, extra body foetus is at a greater risk of mis- smoke or become overweight. equation between women and deed, men and women’s tim- fat is a distinct advantage, pro- carriage and stillbirth. Overall, And when things go wrong, men in the world of tomorrow? ings for the marathon are now viding both extra buoyancy and more newborn males die than they’re less inclined to do anything She could grow as tall as man. identical. Admittedly, women insulation. The English Chan- females: a ratio of five to four. about it, much less consult a doc- Or at least she won’t be much out – performing men is unlikely nel crossing record for both Sudden infant death syndrome is tor. Under the age of 50, men are shorter. Millions of years ago, in most present-day Olympic men and women is held by a one and a half times as common more at risk of heart disease than males on an average were 30 events. Equestrian is the only woman swimmer, Alison in boys as in girls. As teenagers, women; the latter, partially pro- per cent taller than females. sport in which men and women Streeter. boys die at twice the rate of girls, tected by the oestrogen they pro- That gap has been narrowing; compete head – to –head. During endurance races, an from sickness, homicide, and ac- duce until they reach menopause. it’s currently eight per cent in Shooting could be another. athlete uses both fat and gly- cidents. Men have a higher incidence of countries like the USA. There is a major physiologi- cogen (carbohydrate) to fuel Being a man can be damag- myopia, hernia, baldness and Women are again poised to cal difference between the the muscles. By using more fat ing to your health. And it’s dam- acne than women. They are heir out-perform men in certain sexes; men have more muscle to provide this fuel, athletes aging to the country’s health, too, to more genetic disorders such as sports. After a particularly late while women have more body preserve their glycogen store in terms of cost. Take the money colour blindness or left- start (while modern Olympics fat. Speed and strength require and so continue longer. It’s wasted in locking men up – men handedness. Men suffer hearing began in 1896, women were ad- muscle power, and the male only when glycogen runs out make over 95 per cent of the loss at twice the rate as women. mitted only in 1924), women sex hormone testosterone in- that an athlete reaches the limit prison population. Or take the Men have fewer infection fighting have made a dramatic improve- creases muscle mass. Con- of his or her endurance. Wom- havoc they wreak on roads. More T-cells and so a weaker immune ments in performance in almost versely, female sex hormones en’s extra fat, it was sug- than 90 per cent of road acci- system than women. Men have every competitive sport, espe- increase body fat, and fat to an gested, might mean that they dents are caused by men. higher death rates from pneumo- cially in the last two decades. athlete is excess baggage. Yet are less reliant on glycogen Men are natural, exuberant nia and influenza. Though women Women are now besting world fat can come in use in sports metabolism, making better use risk – takers: loving dangerous attempt suicide two to three times records held by men 10-15 needing endurance rather than of fat metabolism. KNOW YOUR SOAP CONTEST! KNOW CANCER NAME THE CHARACTER THAT THE HERO OF ‘JAAN Cancer is a group of more than 200 diseases characterized by unregulated growth of TERE NAAM’ PLAYS IN KASAUTI ZINDAGI KI. cells. It can occur in persons of all ages and all races. It has no respect for caste or class. 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12 extras 7 YOUR BODY IS A FACTOR WONDERLAND NOW! EXTRA FOR THE YOUNG The of GENIUSGENIUSeminem The July 2003 cover of RollingStone, yet again, features the inimitable king of hip-hop. Below is the first instalment of what, how and why’s behind the slim shady himself as appeared in the RS July 2003. ? emember when Eminem multaneously asserting his hip- per doing what rappers always was only a rapper? it was hop credentials and disavowing do: begging to be liked. Wasn't R just a few years ago. But them. that the reason he invented Slim since then, his records, videos Then there are the family Shady in the first place? He and movie debut have made him ties. The rapper who raps like wanted to entertain everybody. . . . what, exactly? If you're look- an angry kid is also a thirty-year- It's there in his rhyme flow, in the ing for a precedent, you may find old divorced father of one, and way he rants a mile a minute, We got the afternoon You got this yourself fumbling with Eminem is always reminding us trying to impress us all, like the room for two hypotheticals. What if Kurt how much he hates his mother most insecure guy at the party. One thing I've left to do Discover Cobain had been a movie star? and loves his daughter. If his Listen to "Just Don't Give a me Discovering you John Mayer What if Madonna were a vir- songs sometimes sound like Fuck," where he calls himself One mile to every inch of Your skin like porcelain tuoso? What if Tupac Shakur dinner-table monologues, that "the looniest, zaniest, spontane- One pair of candy lips and Your bubblegum tongue had been twice as popular -- and only heightens his appeal to dis- ous, sporadic/Impulsive thinker, And if you want love We'll make it Swimming a deep sea blond? affected kids who -- as he likes compulsive drinker, addict/Half Of blankets Take all your big plans And break 'em It's not just a matter of num- to say -- dress like him, act like animal, half man." He sounds as This is bound to be a while bers, although numbers matter. him and feel like him. Eminem if he's just waiting for someone Your body Is a wonderland Your body is a wonder Eminem has sold 20 million al- explains how it all works in "Sing to offer him a beer and tell him (I'll use my hands) Your body Is a wonderland bums, making him the top-sell- for the Moment," where he im- to relax. ing rapper ever. At a time when agines a parent's nightmare: He probably wouldn't know Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face most stars aren't selling what how. Eminem is far and away I love the shape you take when crawling they used to, he remains the only Walking around with his the least laid-back hip-hop star towards the pillowcase You tell me where to go and sure bet in the music industry. headphones blaring ever, and overachievement has Though I might leave to find it I'll never let your head hit the bed The Eminem Show was the Alone in his own zone, always been part of his appeal. Without my hand behind it best-selling CD of 2002, 8 Mile cold and he don't care His rise to fame began with a You want love? We'll make it Swimming a deep sea brought in more than $51 million He's a problem child, what kind of audition -- at the 1997 Of blankets Take all your big plans And break 'em in U.S. theaters, and its sound- bothers him all comes out Rap Olympics MC Battle, in Los This is bound to be a while Your body Is a wonderland Your body track moved 4 million copies. When he talks about his Angeles -- and a few years later, is a wonder (I'll use my hands) Even his business is booming; fucking dad walking out he was still rapping like a guy Your body Is a wonderland the year's most popular act, 50 'Cause he hates him so bad who was out to win a competi- Damn baby You frustrate me I know you're mine all mine all mine Cent, is signed to Eminem's that he blocks him out tion. He won over Dr. Dre by Shady Records. But if he ever saw him again, freestyling on a radio station, so But you look so good it hurts sometimes he'd probably knock him out maybe he figured he could win Your body Is a wonderland Your body is a wonder It's partly a matter of skills; His thoughts are whacked, over listeners the same way. (I'll use my hands) Your body is a wonderland Eminem can rap circles around he's - to be concluded. Your body Is a wonderland the competition. But it's also a mad so he's talking back matter of sensibility. Eminem is Talking black, brainwashed an extremist by inclination, but from Identify this Mr. Universe and he also has a knack for triangu- rock and rap. actor. lation, an ability to find a midpoint between seemingly contradic- But before he became a Answer: ______movies Name: ______tory impulses. 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13 extrasNOW!extra 8 curricular... of Love & FACEFACEthe WEEK WEEK Longing in Sikkim nother Nepali feature film, a local venture, pro Kishore Mangrati. lease the film in all Nepali-speak- Aduced in Sikkim pre- Shot in various parts of the ing areas in the region and in miered at Vajra on Tuesday. State like Tumin, Upper Nepal as well. The young team Bichod, a full length Nepali Samdong, Namchi and Gang- of producers are already work- feature film by Indrakhill Films tok, the film, took little over a ing on their next venture, a film Pvt. Ltd., is produced by first-tim- year to complete and cost titled Ajambari Saino, the script ers Sonu Basnett and Nima around Rs. 10 lakhs to make, for which is already ready. The Rapzang Bhutia and deals with Ms. Basnett, who also has a film should be on the floors in the theme of love and separa- cameo in the film, said. about ten month’s time, Miss tion. “This film is our first attempt Basnett said. 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