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VOL 13 ISSUE 22 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● MAY 31 - JUNE 06, 2019 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news IAF chief Dhanoa is new chairman of chiefs Takes Oath as Prime of staff committee of for the Second Term inducted into Cabinet 36 ministers sworn in for a second term 20 MPs take oath of office as cabinet ministers for the first time 24 cabinet ministers, ministers of state sworn in Nine sworn in as MoS (Independent charge) Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa on Wednesday , May 29, received the baton , 5 other women in Modi government of Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee from outgoing Navy Chief Admiral Sunil NEW (TIP): Narendra Modi Lanba who retires on May 31. took oath of office and secrecy as the (TIP): "Air Chief for a second Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa will consecutive term amid thunderous be the Chairman COSC with effect applause from a select gathering in the from May 31 consequent to sprawling forecourt of the Rashtrapati relinquishment of charge by Bhavan, May 30th evening. Admiral Sunil Lanba upon President superannuation," a Defense ministry administered the oath to Modi, 24 spokesperson said. Cabinet colleagues, nine Ministers of The Chairman of Chiefs of Staff State (Independent Charge) and 24 Committee is tasked with ensuring Ministers of State. The loudest cheer synergy among the three services was reserved for BJP chief Amit Shah, and evolve common strategy to deal whose induction means the party will with external security challenges have to elect a new president. facing the country. The event was marred by ally Janata Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa is a Dal (United) deciding not to take oath Kargil war veteran and top rated even as party chief Nitish Kumar fighter pilot with over 3,000 hours of marked his presence by attending flying experience. contd on Page 32 contd on Page 32 Narendra Modi takes oath as Prime Minister for the second time at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Related stories on Page 10 & 11 Delhi on May 30, 2019. Photo / Courtesy R.V. Moorthy Fresh calls for Trump impeachment US administration after Mueller’s statement removes India from Israel to hold fresh election as WASHINGTON (TIP): its currency Netanyahu fails to form govt Special counsel Robert monitoring list Mueller's first - and possibly last Knesset votes to dissolve itself; Paves way for - public statement on the Russia WASHINGTON (TIP): The September 17 poll investigation is fueling fresh Trump administration on JERUSALEM (TIP): Israeli calls on Capitol Hill to begin Tuesday,May 29, removed India lawmakers on Thursday, May 30, impeachment proceedings from its currency monitoring voted to dissolve Parliament and against President Donald list of major trading partners, hold fresh elections after Prime Trump, a step that Democratic citing certain developments and Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaders have so far resisted. steps being taken by New Delhi failed to form a coalition before a Surprising Washington with which address some of its major midnight deadline, becoming the brief remarks on Wednesday, concerns. Switzerland is the first prime minister-designate in Special Counsel Robert Mueller May 29, Mueller indicated it's other nation that has been the country's history who was known for his reticence made a up to Congress to decide what to removed by the US from its unable to form a government. In candid public statement, Benjamin Netanyahu failed to get suggesting President Trump was not do with his findings. currency monitoring list which little more than six weeks since Avigdor Liberman's support to form cleared by his investigation contd on Page 32 contd on Page 32 contd on Page 32 a government. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 NY/NJ/CT 3 Dr. Nimisha Shukla 2019 New York Indian Film Festival Eyes Edison Town Council Apolitical Announces Award Winners by nature, Dr. Shukla NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The 19th was Annual New York Indian Film Festival encouraged announced, May 13, the winning to run by Mayor filmmakers and actors at this year's Thomas awards ceremony. Winning Best Film Lankey was Rohena Gera's "Sir" which also played as the opening night selection for the festival. Ritesh Batra won the Best Director prize for his latest film "Photograph" starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra which EDISON , NJ (TIP): Among the Amazon Studios will release in U.S. candidates vying for their party's theaters starting this Friday, May 17. endorsement in this year's Democratic ● 'Sir' directed by Rohena Gera was Primary for Edison Town Council, one adjudged the Best Film. is unique - Dr. Nimisha Shukla. A 25- ● Ritesh Batra was adjudged the best year resident of the township, director for the film 'Photograph' Nimisha has led a life of service to her contd on page 6 community as a pediatrician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Apolitical by nature, she was encouraged to run by Mayor Thomas Lankey and will provide an Vaishali Deshmukh wins CVS 2019 independent voice and fresh ideas to resolving the challenges facing the Division Paragon Award community. contd on Page 7 Picked for the nationwide award among 10+thousands of Pharmacists Acting Consul General Shatrughna Sinha and Dr. NEW YORK (TIP): "I've worked with Vaishali for 3 years now. She is not just Vasudha Gupta, ADG, our Pharmacy Manager , she is my Ministry of Information & friend. Vaishali is a team player at work and at home. She is compassionate, Broadcasting launched friendly and empathetic. Vaishali is the book - 'Sabka Saath always available to our patients, customers, and myself Vaishali is very Sabka Vikas' passionate about what she does. She learned very carly about taking care of others from both her parents especially her Father who is a Dr. She is very involved with her children and still finds time to hold clinics in her community and speak al our local high schools. I look up to Vaishali and the way she deeply cares about others. She always knows how to make me feel better afler a bad day. 2019 Division Paragon Award Vaishali Deshmukh celebrates the honor with her team members contd on Page 7

Acting Consul General Shatrughna Sinha and Dr. Vasudha Gupta, ADG, Ministry of Yash Modi is honored Information & Broadcasting, launching the book 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas'

by Town of Oyster NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Vasudha Gupta, ADG, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India Bay Supervisor and Acting Consul General Mr. Shatrughna Sinha jointly launched a LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): Yash Modi, a student of compilation of speeches of PM Jericho High School, son of Sudha and Mukesh Modi Narendra Modi- 'Sabka Saath Sabka was honored by Town of Oyster Bay board headed by Vikas' for the US market on May 29, all local Councilmen and Town Supervisor Joesph 2019 in New York. Saladino. The books have been showcased as The New York State FBLA (Future business leaders part of the Publications Division of America) conference was held in Binghamton from booth in the New York Book Expo & April 10-12. One of the events there was PSA (Public New York Rights Fair(NYRF) 2019. Service Announcement) where students had to make a Mr. Sinha held discussions with video on soft skills and present it to panel of judges. It Publication Division delegates Dr is a great honor that a Long Island native team, Vasudha Gupta, ADG & Mr. Rajinder Jericho, came in first place. Chaudhry, Director regarding the Yash Modi's father Mukesh Modi is a successful rights negotiations process for the businessman, community leader, philanthropist and a books during the ongoing NYRF2019. very good human being. He is involved in many social (Read full story on and public organizations. www.theindianpanorama.news) Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joesph Saladino honoring Yash with a Citation THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019

Indian American Ajay Banga Joins Ivanka Indian American Global Arts Professor Trump to Lead Closing Session at Global at UC Merced Wins UCOP Fellowship

Entrepreneurship MERCED, CA(TIP): Aditi Chandra, were transformed into modern tourist Summit an assistant professor of global arts, monuments in the 19th and early 20th media and writing studies at centuries. University of California at Merced is Chandra is one of eight recipients among handful of UC faculty who from seven different campuses all of received the 2019-2020 University of whom focus on a range of humanities California President's Faculty disciplines. As a winner, Chandra will Research Fellowship. receive paid leave from her regular Chandra's work is titled "Unruly teaching duties for the spring 2020 Monuments: Disrupting the State at semester in order to pursue her own Delhi's Islamic Architecture." A research project. continuation of her thesis at the (Source - UC Merced) University of Minnesota, Chandra's work examines how the historical Aditi Chandra, an assistant professor of Islamic structures built in Delhi, India global arts, media and writing studies at University of California at Merced between the 12th and 17th Centuries

Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga will lead the closing session at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) on Indian Professor Honoured with SAE International's Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in The Hague WASHINGTON (TIP): US Excellence in Engineering Education Award Department of State and the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced that NEW YORK (TIP): Professor Raj for the SAE aSOP (Automotive Student Advisor to the President Ivanka Rajendran, Professor in the Automobile Orientation Program), a unique Trump and Indian American Engineering Department at SRM program that has enabled the student business leader Mastercard CEO Ajay Institute of Science and Technology, members to prepare for a career in Banga will lead the closing session at Chennai, has won the SAE Excellence in Industry. the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Engineering Education Award. Since becoming an SAE Member in (GES) on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Dr. Rajendran was presented with the 1998, Dr. Rajendran has continued to be The Hague, The Netherlands. award during the recent SAE Members an active volunteer supporting SAE Manisha Singh, Assistant Secretary Annual Business Meeting held in student activities. His 20-year tenure at for Economic and Business Affairs, conjunction with SAE International's SAE has afforded much success in will moderate the session. Co-hosted WCX19. welcoming, supporting, advocating, and by U.S. Michael R. This annual award recognizes mentoring new arrivals to the Southern Pompeo and The Netherlands Prime outstanding contributions made by an Section (India). Minister Mark Rutte, GES 2019 is the individual toward activities related to SAE International is a global ninth gathering of entrepreneurs, SAE Education related programs, association committed to advancing business leaders, supporters, and including the promotion of SAE student mobility knowledge and solutions for government officials. activities at the international or local the benefit of humanity. By engaging "I am excited to visit The levels, contributions that advance nearly 200,000 engineers, technical Netherlands and participate, for the engineering education, contributions in experts and volunteers, we connect and second year, in the Department of support of the SAE Collegiate Design educate mobility professionals to enable Dr. Rajendran was presented with the award State's Global Entrepreneurship competitions, and promotion of safe, clean, and accessible mobility during the recent SAE Members Annual Summit. I plan to address issues educational related activities at any Business Meeting solutions. We act on two priorities: related to women's economic level. . encouraging a lifetime of learning for empowerment, with a focus on Dr. Rajendran has 25 years of teaching SAEINDIA Engineering Education mobility engineering professionals and women's entrepreneurship. A core experience and 16 years of research Board taking care of collegiate design setting the standards for industry pillar of our W-GDP initiative, experience and is currently Chairman series and AWIM. He is also a volunteer engineering. launched by the White House this year, is to help women in developing countries succeed as entrepreneurs Indian American Named MSU Assistant Provost Indian American Professor through access to capital, markets, for Undergraduate Education at UC Davis to Deliver networks, and mentorship. I am looking forward to joining Queen MICHIGAN (TIP): Kanchan Distinguished Lecture Maxima, Secretary Pompeo, Pavangadkar - an Indian American is Mastercard's CEO Ajay Banga and among two Michigan State University entrepreneurs from around the world College of Natural Science advisers, who at this powerful Summit to build on were recently named MSU Assistant the progress", said Ivanka Trump Provost for Undergraduate Education, or GES is the preeminent annual APUE, Fellows for 2019-2020. entrepreneurship gathering that Pavangadkar,an undergraduate adviser convenes emerging entrepreneurs, for the neuroscience program,will be the investors, and partners. This year's fellow for the assessment and metrics Summit will accelerate the group, which reviews current advising Biswanath Mukherjee, distinguished professor of momentum of the 2017 GES in assessments to identify gaps in assessment computer science at UC Davis is a pioneer in Hyderabad, India, which highlighted across the university. communications network technology "Women First, Prosperity for All." The APUE fellowships are part of MSU's More than 1,000 entrepreneurs from Proactive Advising Project,which focuses DAVIS, CA (TIP): Biswanath around the world will have on assessing student experiences with Mukherjee, distinguished professor of unprecedented opportunities to advisers and offering targeted professional computer science at UC Davis, will deliver a showcase their start-ups to more than development to advisers to improve distinguished lecture next week - the 300 investors that collectively students' experiences with academic Faculty Distinguished Research Award represent trillions of dollars of assets advising. The fellowship year covers 20% of Lecture - under a new format. The lecture, under management. Kanchan Pavangadkar is an each fellow's time and runs from May 2019 to Tuesday, June 4, is free and open to all. undergraduate adviser for the neuroscience program May 2020. (Full story on www.theindianpanoramanews) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 ADVERTISEMENT 5 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 NY/ NJ/CT FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 contd from page 3 Indian National 2019 New York Indian Indian Businessman in New Charged in Syracuse Film Festival Announces Federal Court for Award Winners Jersey indicted for Allegedly Transporting Illegal Here is the compete list of Aliens winners. Stealing $750,000 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK(TIP): Best Film: Sir (Director: Rohena Gera) An Indian origin man Jaswinder Best Director: Ritesh Batra TRENTON , NJ (TIP): Attorney Singh age 30, of Philadelphia, (Photograph) General of New Jersey Gurbir S. Grewal Pennsylvania, has been charged in Best Actor: Adinath Kothare (Paani) announced that a businessman of Indian federal court in Syracuse with Best Actress: Tillotama Shome (Sir) origin has been indicted for allegedly transporting aliens in the United Best Child Actor: Sunny Pawar stealing $750,000 that he solicited from States, knowing or in reckless (Chippa) investors to open a bar and restaurant in disregard of the fact that the aliens Best Screenplay: Baggage (Roopa Rao) Hoboken. were in the United States illegally, Best Documentary Feature: Sindhustan announced United States Attorney (Director: Sapna Bhavnani) Patel is a real estate and business Grant C. Jaquith and U.S. Border Best Documentary Short: Daughters of investor whose primary focus has Patrol Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Polo God (Director: Roopa Barua) been restaurants and bars in New Agent Robert Garcia. Beat Short (Narrative): Bebaak A criminal complaint filed in (Director: Shazia Iqbal) Jersey and New York. In 2014, Patel solicited investors for a World of United States District Court charges More information on this year's Singh with transporting two aliens edition of NYIFF can be found at: Beer franchise in Hoboken. who were without lawful status in the https://www.iaac.us/nyiff2019/index. United States and alleges that he htm Nirav Patel, 39, of Hoboken, N.J., was received approximately $2,200 as About NYIFF indicted earlier this month by a state grand payment for his services. The jury on a second-degree charge of theft by complaint further alleges that an The New York Indian Film Festival deception. Patel was indicted as the result agent from the United States Border (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious of an investigation by the Division of Patel is a real estate and business investor Patrol stopped Singh's vehicle in St. whose primary focus has been restaurants film festival screening premieres of Criminal Justice Financial & Computer and bars in New Jersey and New York Lawrence County near the Canadian feature, documentary and short films Crimes Bureau. Second-degree charges border, after a U.S. Customs and made from, of, and about the Indian carry a sentence of five to 10 years in state "When New Jersey residents invest their Border Protection (CBP) Air and subcontinent in the Independent, prison and a fine of up to $150,000. hard-earned money, they are entitled to Marine Unit helicopter spotted arthouse, alternate and diaspora Patel is a real estate and business nothing less than a fair and honest deal," multiple people entering a vehicle in genres. Seven days of screenings, post- investor whose primary focus has been said Attorney General Grewal. "We are the area after crossing the St. screening discussions, industry panels, restaurants and bars in New Jersey and committed to protecting investors by Lawrence River from Canada into the award ceremony, special events, nightly New York. In 2014, Patel solicited investors diligently investigating allegations of United States. networking parties, red carpet galas, for a World of Beer franchise in Hoboken. financial fraud and prosecuting dishonest The charge filed against Singh media attention and packed audiences He allegedly accepted $750,000 from an operators." carries a maximum sentence of 10 build an awareness of Indian cinema, investment group as a share in the "We urge individuals who believe they years in prison, a fine of up to entertain & educate North Americans ownership of World of Beer Hoboken have been defrauded to contact the Division $250,000, and a term of supervised about the real India, and add to the butfailed to use those funds for the project. of Criminal Justice toll free at 866-TIPS- release of up to 3 years. amazing cultural diversity of New York Instead, Patel allegedly deposited the 4CJ," said Director Veronica Allende of the The defendant was arraigned City. For more information, please visit investor funds in his own business account Division of Criminal Justice. "We will before United States Magistrate the website www.IAAC.us. and used the money for personal and aggressively investigate financial crimes Judge David E. Peebles, and ordered About IAAC business expenses unrelated to World of and prosecute those responsible to the full detained pending resolution of the Beer Hoboken. extent of the law." charges. The IAAC supports all the artistic disciplines in classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. We work cooperatively with Indian Man in New Jersey Charged with Luring, Attempted colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared Sexual Assault, and Attempted Endangering of a Child information, resources and funding. NEWARK, NJ (TIP): Bergen County Prosecutor's Office under the Our focus is to help artists and art County Prosecutor Mark Musella direction of Chief Robert Anzilotti. organizations in North America as well announced the arrest of Kashmir Beginning on Thursday, May 16, 2019, as to facilitate artists from India to Singh (DOB: 9/8/1976; single; and members of the Bergen County exhibit, perform and produce their employed as a ride-share driver) of 139 Prosecutor's Office Cyber Crimes Unit work here. The IAAC is a 501(c)(3) tax- Donor Avenue, Elmwood Park, NJ on engaged in online conversations with exempt organization. All donations are the charges of Luring, Attempted Kashmir Singh who believed he was tax-deductible to the fullest extent Sexual Assault, and Attempted communicating with a 14-year-old allowable by law. For further Endangering The Welfare Of A Child. juvenile. During the exchanges, Singh information, visit www.IAAC.us. The arrest is the result of an arranged to meet with the purported investigation conducted by the Bergen juvenile to engage in sexual intercourse. On Friday, May 17, 2019, believing he was meeting with the juvenile, Singh drove to a location in Paramus where he was apprehended by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Cyber Crimes Unit. Singh was charged with one count of Luring, N.J.S.A. 2C:13-6(A), a 2nd degree crime; Attempted Sexual Assault, N.J.S.A. 2C:5-1(A) / 2C:14- Following his first appearance in Central 2C(4), a 2nd degree crime; and Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on Attempted Endangering The Welfare May 22, 2019, Kashmir Singh was remanded to the Bergen County Jail Of A Child, N.J.S.A. 2C:5-1(A)/2C:24- 4(A)1, a 3rd degree crime. Following May 22, 2019, Singh was remanded to his first appearance in Central Judicial the Bergen County Jail. Processing Court in Hackensack on (SOURCE: DA, NJ) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 NY/ NJ/CT 7 Vaishali Deshmukh wins CVS 2019 Division Paragon Award

contd from page 3 knowing anyone in America, and managed to raise her Last year Vaishali went out of her way to help me for children successfully. one of my fundraisers. She knew I was stressed at work Anyone that knows Vee, knows that she provides her and home. She drove all the way out to my house in the team with a nurtunng environment tor her colleagues pouring rain after a long shilt to drop olf homemade by inspinng then. She listens to them and demonstrates backed goods she made for my bake sale the next a deep level of understanding tor her team. As a result, moming. I told her not to but Vaishali being who she is, Veo has built a strong connection with past and present is ALWAYS trueto her word. I've met alot of wonderful colleagues. Vee is a preceptor and has developed many people in my 21 years at CVS but she truly is 1 of a kind great pharmacists. She provides a strong foundation for " -Dee (Store Manager) them and in the process has become a great mentor for Vaishali's has been with CVS tor 20 years. Vee has them. As a preceptor she offers the opportunity to tum always modeled our core values of innovation, their potential into reality. collaboration, caring. integrity and accountability. Our One of the things I admire the most about Vee is her core values created a strong foundation for influencing natural ability to identify potential. I think of a recent and leading her past and current teams. Vee started her example of a technician that worked with Vee and due career as a technician, then went on to become an to her intluence and guidance is now in pharmacy intem, a staff pharmacist, and currently a pharmacy The Deshmukhs school and has completed his first professional year. manager. not be able to do any of the things I do without their Vee lives in Farmingdale and is proud of that, She is Vee has been married to her husband Amit support, They tuly keep me grounded, humbled, and proud of the fact that the commitment she has to her Deshmukh for 15 years; they have 3 beauuful children blessed every day." store is also the same level of commutment she has to together, The first time I met Vee Lasked her to tell me Vee always speaks highly of her father, another her community.Vee shares stories of how she runs into a little bit about each of her children... here is what she source of inspiration in addition to her family. Her many of her patients at local events and around her said: Manav is 11 and our eldest boy. He has shown me father is a doctor and has practiced for many years on neighborhood. that if we truly believe in ourselves anything is Long Island. Vee says that she tries to emulate the same A quote that Vee constantly shares is: "Mentors possible. Meera is our 10 year old girl... she is a free care and empathy for her patients and team that her impact eternity because there is no telling where their spint. She has shown me that living in the moment is father (as a doctor) has for his. Vee has also shared her influence will stop." Vee constantly shows that her important. Milan is 7 and our youngest boy... he has a admiration for her mother. She sacrificed many things influence, coaching. values. and teaching has a deep heart of gold. Without my family I am nothing. [ would tor Vee and her sister. She left India at an carly age not impact on everyone that interacts with her.

NEW YORK (TIP): Geoffrey S. arrested May 23 and were presented conspirators: (i) claimed to be associated Three Indian Berman, the United States Attorney for before Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman. with major technology software the Southern District of New York, and Singh was arrested May 23 in St. Louis, companies when, in fact, they were not; Gregory W. Ehrie, Special Agent-in- Missouri. (ii) promised to provide computer Origin Men Charge of the Newark Field Office of the According to the allegations in the services when none were provided; and Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Complaint unsealed in Manhattan (iii) represented that computer repair announced the unsealing of a criminal federal court - services were needed when they knew Charged in Complaint in Manhattan federal court MALHOTRA, SINGH, PAL, and others that was false. As part of their scheme, charging Gunjit Malhotra, Gurjeet engaged in a scheme in which they and the defendants and their co-conspirators Singh, and Jas Pal with participating in their co-conspirators purported to accessed their victims' computers and Million-Dollar a conspiracy that for several years provide computer repair services to caused them to freeze or, in other exploited elderly victims by remotely victims located throughout the United instances, installed software on their accessing their computers and States, many of whom are elderly. The victims' computers and caused their Elder Fraud convincing victims to pay for computer defendants and their co-conspirators victims' email accounts to send emails support services they did not need, and provided their victims' false and that thanked the perpetrators for which were never actually provided. The misleading information to extract providing computer services. Scheme conspiracy netted at least $1.3 million for payment for computer repair services. (Read full story on the conspirators. Malhotra and Pal were For example, the defendants and their co- www.theindianpanorama.news) contd from page 3 physicians. Settling in Edison, she raised station that had operated under a variety economic development funding from the twin daughters and built a successful of formats into a hub for Indian and State of New Jersey and Middlesex Dr. Nimisha Shukla Eyes individual pediatrics practice; South Asian talk, music, and culture. County. The funding produced by subsequently, acquiring two other In all of her professional, savings and grant awards can then be Edison Town Council practices to form 7 Days Pediatrics, an entrepreneurial, and philanthropic earmarked for property tax relief and Dr. Shukla's views have been shaped by innovative, multi-facility primary care endeavors, Nimisha has sought to various quality-of-life initiatives - among her life experiences. Growing up in a practice that she currently operates. educate and empower her audiences. them, preservation of open space, repair tenement in her native India, she learned Together with her husband, she She vows to do no less should she be of roads and infrastructure, and the importance of prudence, thrift, and ventured into an early form of what honored by election to the Edison Town protection of families and hard work in achieving one's ambitions. would today be considered e-commerce - Council. neighborhoods. Caring for her mother in the battle enabling Indian Americans to affordably Dr. Shukla is beholden to no special Through enforced fiscal responsibility against depression instilled in Nimisha connect with friends and relatives in interests in the Township. She considers and renewed energy in identification of the desire and compassion that have India. Cognizant of her cultural herself a resident of Edison - no more, no funding opportunities from state and fueled her career in the field of pediatric heritage, she founded Nrityanjai USA, a less. She is concerned with the same county sources as well as municipal- medicine. dance institute dedicated to teaching the issues that disturb many residents - business partnerships, Nimisha believes Traversing three continents in pursuit classical Indian form of dance known as rising property taxes, crumbling roads that the Township of Edison can solidify of her professional development, she Kathak and to promoting it and its and infrastructure, poorly planned its financial footing and remain a ultimately immigrated to the United integration into other dance forms development, and a general decline in desirable place to live and work for its States where she held distinguished through cultivation of broader public the overall quality-of-life experienced by residents and businesses for years to teaching and leadership positions at awareness. many residents of the community. come. Nimisha encourages all residents Michigan State University as Assistant Her Indian heritage also led her into She believes that variable costs within concerned with their community to join Clinical Professor and at SUNY the world of broadcast communications the community can be contained with her in restoring Edison's quality-of- Downstate Medical Center College of in which she joined DHOOM-FM Radio through enhanced budgetary due life for all of its residents and to support Medicine in Brooklyn, New York as Chief Station. Her experiences with DHOOM diligence and that additional funds can her candidacy for Town Council by Resident providing clinical and inspired her to purchase WWRL 1600-AM be secured through identification and voting for her in Column A in the June administrative direction to 149 where she transformed a 90-year-old proper application for municipal aid and 4th Democrat Primary Election. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 GUEST COMMENT Get priorities right: Modi 2.0 should address key issues in earnest he BJP-led NDA rode on PM reached a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent in the average food prices in 2018-19 were government's roadmap in this regard Narendra Modi's combative 2017-18, according to the National Sample almost the same as these were in 2017-18, a should go beyond the rejuvenation of Tnationalism to vanquish the Survey Office's periodic labor force trend not witnessed for almost three Ganga and Yamuna rivers. India can't Opposition in the elections. survey.The desperate but futile attempt to decades. Remunerative prices for their afford to take climate change lightly Now that the new government has taken keep this report under wraps in the run- produce can help cultivators cope with anymore. As the PM and BJP president charge, the PM can't keep harping on up to the elections showed the powers that agrarian distress. The direct income Amit Shah have on Thursday sworn in the national security as a host of issues be in a poor light. An action plan should support of Rs 6,000 per year to small and name of God to uphold the Constitution, require immediate attention. The be readied at the earliest to tackle marginal farmers, announced in the 2019- they should at the very outset take up the expectations are even higher this time as joblessness, with an eye on energizing the 20 Interim Budget, should be hiked challenge of maintaining communal the NDA has had a stable five-year run, 'Make in India' campaign. substantially. amity. A stable and strong government unencumbered by the whims of self- The farming community - a key vote Environmental issues were should be synonymous with peaceful co- seeking allies. The failure to create bank that ensures the nation's food conspicuous by their absence from the existence of various communities, not enough jobs for the youth has been a huge security - can't be left to fend for itself. electoral narrative, but these are too with lynch mobs, self-styled vigilantes and let-down. India's unemployment rate Farmers have been at the receiving end as critical to be ignored for long. The hate-mongers. (Tribune, India) AS I SEE IT Expect an Era of Greater By Ven Parameswaran Cooperation between USA and India resident Trump, as soon as he was informed of the Modi's huge victory as Prime Minister of election results, took to Twitter and wrote: the largest democracy strengthens P national security and India-US relations. "Congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Trump Tweeted: "He is a great his BJP party on their big election victory! Great things man and leader of the people of india -they are in store for the U.S.-India partnership with the return are lucky to have him." of the Prime Minister Modi at the helm. I look forward to continuing our important work together." 11. Thus, trillion-dollar corporations (Amazon, The next day, May 24, Trump tweeted: Apple,Microsoft, Google) will have a big presence in India "Just spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when I because they are predicting India's GDP will grow @10 to congratulated him on his big political victory. He is a great 12% in the next decade or two. man and leader of the people of India - they are lucky to 12. President Trump wants to import less from have him." "Great things are in store for the US- India partnership with the and therefore as and when India is ready to manufacture return of the Prime Minister Modi at the helm", tweeted Trump. What is the meaning of President Trump's tweet: on a large scale, the US will import from India. GREAT THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR THE U.S. -INDIA with almost all heads of States. Although India has the President Trump wants to lower the cost of drugs and PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RETURN OF THE PRIME closest relations with the US, Modi has used his diplomatic pharma products in the U.S. Currently, the US is MINISTER MODI AT THE HELM. I LOOK FORWARD TO skills to get along with all major powers including China, importing a small portion from Canada and Ireland that CONTINUING OUR IMPORTANT WORK TOGETHER."? Russia and EU. offer some savings. But India can manufacture any and all For the first time since India won independence 72 years Now that Modi has received a huge mandate, he can do drugs for a fraction of a cost. American drug companies ago, the United States has decided to support India and wonders with his two thirds majority in the Parliament to can set up manufacturing in India with joint venture upgrade its relations to the highest level. President Trump shape Domestic and Foreign Policy. partners and lower the cost of drugs to the rock bottom. called India the closest ally of USA , on a par with the ECONOMIC REVOLUTION FOR INDIA'S American companies can reap huge profits by increasing . Trump has also allowed India to transfer MODERNIZATION its global market share. In fact, no other country can 100% of all U.S. technologies, hitherto fore restricted. US All of a sudden, India has become the most attractive compete with India, and therefore, the American will be sharing its intelligence and communications with country to invest because it has comparative advantages companies can get the lion's share of the global market. India. It is a well-known fact that modern warfare is won over China and the USA. To attract generous foreign India has a large and continuing supply of thru sophisticated technology. private investment India must stress the following points: biotechnologists, pharmaceutical scientists and At the same time, Trump gave ultimatum to to 1. India is the youngest country in the world. Average professionals. This can help President Trump's reelection get rid of all terror organizations including Lashkar-e- age is 27. 50% of India is under the age of 25; two thirds of in 2020 because Healthcare is a major political issue Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) responsible for India is under 35. This is a huge advantage creating a huge contested by the parties. attack on and the Indian Parliament respectively. supply of educated professionals and also factory workers. INDIA MUST PRIVATIZE 46 PUBLIC SECTOR Trump also cancelled all military aid to Pakistan. 2. India is the largest English speaking country in the CORPORATIONS AND 145 PUBLIC SECTOR China was quick to note the closeness and warmth of world, the US being the second. ENTERPRISES relations between the Western nations, Australia, Japan 3. India is the second largest user of internet after Prime Minister Modi must get rid of socialism and and India, spearheaded by the USA. In fact, I have noticed China. 400 million Online market of India is expanding Soviet styled economic policies that the failed Congress that China has been respecting Modi and has emphasized fast. Party had installed; it has encouraged corruption and expanding Sino Indian trade relations. 4. Wages and salaries in India are lower than that of the strengthened the bureaucracy. By privatizing the public President Trump said that he would be meeting Modi at U.S. and China - a great comparative advantage. sector corporations, India can raise more than a trillion G-20 meeting in Japan this week, and they were committed 5. Technology is the key for peace and war. India has the dollars for infrastructure building. to further strengthen relationship and take the largest supply of engineers, computer scientists, Large scale factories should have the capacity and partnership to the next level, building on the tangible pharmaceutical professionals, managers, and other capability to manufacture 100 million pieces of variety of achievements of the last two years since the advent of his technologists. Transfer of technology from the US to India consumer products including clothing for American and administration. will lead to research and development, new inventions, domestic consumption. This will create maximum Vice President of the USA said the Indian election was a new products, etc. employment potential for the unskilled and semi-skilled strong display of the Indian people's commitment to 6. IBM is the second largest private employer in India laborers. democracy. after Tatas, employing 150,000. Everybody is eagerly awaiting what the victorious Modi The State Department spokesperson commented: "THE 7. Google announced it is going to hire 50,000 new will be doing to help and modernize India. He must US-INDIA PARTNERSHIP HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER, employees in India within a year. prepare a Road Map and create the framework within his AND WE CERTAINLY EXPECT IT TO REACH NEW 8. Amazon has huge expansion plans in India because first 100days of administration. Export oriented economy HEIGHTS IN THE COMING YEARS." Indian internet population is increasing. can deliver several million new jobs year after year. Analyzing the ups and downs of Indo-US relations, it 9. Apple is exploring India and may even manufacture (The author is a Senior Adviser to Imagindia Institute, a think tank must be pointed out that Prime Minister Modi has all its parts in India. in New Delhi. He can be reached at [email protected]) managed to build and develop close personal relationships 10. Microsoft is also expanding in India. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 PERSPECTIVE 9 How to rescue genuine secularism The government must focus on its primary business; to prevent By Rajeev Bhargava religion-based violence, oppression and Secularism combats discrimination. distinguish communitarianism from not just communalism. Communitarianism simply notes that an individual is at least discrimination and partly defined by his or her religious/philosophical commitments, other worse forms of community and traditions. Therefore, it is entirely appropriate to claim that one inter-religious Fears of minorities is equally opposed to intra-religious is a Hindu/ Muslim/ Sikh/ Christian/ domination, i.e. the domination (of atheist etc, and to take legitimate pride On the treatment of minorities by women, Dalits, dissenters) within every in one's community or be ashamed of it domination such as other parties, the Prime Minister is religious community. For instance, the when there is good reason to be. partly right and partly wrong. Wrong, fight against the hierarchical caste Communalism is different. Here one's exclusion, oppression because the insecurity amongst system in India, quite like the struggle identity and the existence and interests minorities is created largely by Mr. against the church in European history, of one's community are viewed, even and humiliation. It is Modi's own political supporters. is integral to the fight for secularism - a defined, as necessarily opposed to others. Lynchings in the past few years and the point noted by both Ambedkar and It is communal to believe or act in a way fear such random violence creates are Nehru. Equally important for secularism that presupposes that one can't be a equally opposed to only the tip of this gigantic iceberg. is opposition to religious fanaticism and Hindu without being anti-Muslim, or Right, because when in power, most non- bigotry. Neither of these is explicitly vice-versa. Communalism is intra-religious Bharatiya (BJP) parties captured by 'sabka saath, sabka vikas'. communitarianism gone sour. It is to see have done little more than provide Misunderstanding secularism each other as enemies locked in a domination, i.e. the security. Now, the condition of feeling permanent war with one another. Every safe and secure must not be That Indian secularism is not anti- decent Indian national should be against underestimated. Freedom from fear is religious is widely understood - but not communalism. But no one should decry domination (of important, and to live in the fear of being that it is simultaneously against both legitimate forms of communitarianism. lynched only because you are a Muslim forms of institutionalized religious It is simply wrong to conflate women, Dalits, is a very real unfreedom indeed. Yet, domination. How did this communitarianism with communalism. political parties have not helped misunderstanding develop? First, the Attention must also be drawn to another dissenters) within Muslims with their vikas. Some have struggle against inter-religious problem of Indian secularism. Our even pampered the orthodoxy within domination (a defense of minority education system often fails to distinguish their communities and have done little to rights, opposition to majority and religious instruction and religious every religious bring them out of their ghettos. So, this minority communalism) became education. No publicly funded school or secularism is partly fake because it has separated from the fight against intra- college should have religious instruction, community. often meant tolerating minority religious domination (religion-related best done at home or in privately funded communalism and hobnobbing with the patriarchy and caste domination, schools; but reasonable, decent education most selfish and conservative fanaticism, bigotry and extremism). should include elementary knowledge of ne word conspicuous by its spokespersons of the multiple Muslim Then, this intra-religious dimension was all religious traditions. A deeper absence not only from the communities of India. jettisoned from the meaning of understanding of these traditions is vital, O election campaign but perhaps It is very sad indeed that in the election secularism and, much to the detriment of for it would enable students to discern from the entire political discourse in campaign, these 'fake secularists' failed its overall value, secularism began to be their strengths and weaknesses and recent times was secularism. Prime miserably to speak up for Muslims. identified, by proponents and opponents identify what in them is worth preserving Minister Narendra Modi brought it Perhaps they were terrified that if they alike, exclusively with the defense of or discarding. But Indians come out of back in his victory speech. Most spoke of the legitimate interests of minority rights. their education system without any political parties in the last 30 years had Muslims, they would be immediately This opened the door for viewing critical understanding of their religio- practiced a naqli (fake) secularism, he branded as pro-Pakistan, anti-national or secularism first as a tool to protect the philosophical traditions. As a result, a said. His great achievement, he implied, anti-Hindu. Yes, 'fake' secularism has interests of Muslims and Christians, of defense of our own religious traditions or was to have unmasked these fake failed the minorities and the people of no relevance to Hindus, and then for critique of others is shallow and secularists and single-handedly India, but the BJP and its supporters, twisting it to appear as pro-Muslim and frequently mischievous. This too is fake dismantled secularism. Until now, for particularly the so-called 'fringe', must anti-Hindu. The strength of Indian secularism. Mr. Modi, fake secularism has been the take a lot of blame for that. This needs secularism - its advocacy of minority What is to be done? handmaiden of minority appeasement. course correction and the nation would cultural rights - was easily made to Next day, however, he spoke of winning be grateful to the Prime Minister if he appear as its weakness and the burden of What then must be expected from real, back the trust of the minorities, who, began that process. its defense, rather than be shared by all genuine secularism? Justice to all he said, have been deceived and cheated But is the secularism propounded or citizens, fell on the shoulders of citizens, affirmation of all reasonable by other parties. With this, fake implied by the Prime Minister genuine? minorities and 'pro-minority' secularists. religious identities, rejection of majority secularism was given a different At least in theory, 'sabka saath sabka This is unfair. Secularism is needed as communalism, careful defense of meaning; it does not pamper but cheats vikas' gets one thing right: no individual much to protect Hindus from intra- legitimate minority rights only when minorities. In other words, it does not citizen should face discrimination on religious domination, from their 'fringe accompanied by a robust critique of satisfy their real needs, but only gives grounds of religion. Basic amenities, elements', as well as from proponents of minority extremism, and a critical the illusion of doing so. Here, Mr. Modi good health, education, housing and religion-based caste and gender appraisal of religions with a deeper, acknowledges that Muslims are a employment should be available equally hierarchies. And required equally to empathetic grasp of their traditions. The deprived lot. So, what, according to Mr. to all, regardless of their religion. If he protect minorities from their own government's primary business is to Modi, is asli (genuine) secularism? The succeeds in this endeavor, he would make orthodoxies and extremisms. Asli prevent religion-based violence, answer he gives is the inclusion of great strides towards realizing secularism plays that role. Naqli oppression and discrimination. Perhaps, minorities in 'sabka saath sabka vikas', secularism. secularism protects fanatics and those outside the government should which is translated by his party as However, secularism combats not just legitimizes gender and caste-based attend to its other functions. Together, we 'justice to all, appeasement to none'. To discrimination and other worse forms of domination. may just rescue our genuine secularism. this he added 'sabka vishwas', winning inter-religious domination such as Secularism today has other problems. (The author is Professor, Centre for the Study the trust of all. exclusion, oppression and humiliation. It One is its intellectual failure to of Developing Societies, Delhi) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 MODI: SECOND INNINGS FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 36 MINISTERS SWORN IN FOR SECOND TERM, 20 MPs FIRST-TIMERS

The President, Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President, M. with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the other members of Council of Ministers after the wearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 30, 2019.

NEW DELHI (TIP): , Nitin , Gadkari, Smriti Irani, DV Sadananda Gowda, S Jaishankar, India’s China expert, is and were among the 36 , Ravi ministers who were sworn in Thursday for a second term, besides 20 MPs who took oath of Shankar Prasad, Harsimrat surprise pick in PM Modi’s cabinet office as cabinet ministers for the first time. Kaur Badal, Thaawar Chand While 24 cabinet ministers were sworn-in Gehlot, Harsh Vardhan, Piyush the Modi government, nine took oath as Goyal, ministers of state (Independent charge) and 24 others as ministers of state. and Muqtar Abbas Naqvi Ten of the newly-inducted ministers are were among those who got from the and 45 are from the Lok a second chance. Sabha Home minister in the previous Narendra Modi government, Rajnath Singh was the first to take oath after the prime BJP's unit in 2017, also took minister. oath as a cabinet minister. Ram Vilas Paswan, DV Sadananda Gowda, Similarly, , a six-time Narendra Singh Tomar, , MP from Mandla constituency in Madhya , Thaawar Chand Pradesh, who was for Health Gehlot, Harsh Vardhan, , in the previous government during 2016-17, Dharmendra Pradhan and Muqtar Abbas was inducted in the new council of ministers. Naqvi were among those who got a second While the inclusion of Amit Shah, seen as chance. BJP’s key strategist who helped the party to President Ram Nath Kovind administering the oath as Cabinet Minister to Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 30, 2019. , Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep expand its base after taking over the reins of Singh Puri, , Sadhvi the party in 2014, was much speculated, NEW DELHI (TIP): Former foreign following the incursion in Ladakh’s , , former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, secretary S Jaishankar, a surprise pick Depsang and the Doklam stand-off, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Sripad Yaso Naik, considered close to Modi, was a surprise pick. in Narendra Modi’s council of handling the tough negotiations with Jitender Singh, , Mansukh Like Paswan, Jaishankar is also not a ministers, is a seasoned diplomat who Beijing. Mandavia, , Krishan Pal member of either of the Houses and he will be was the Indian government’s pointsman Among other positions, Jaishankar Gurjar, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Purshottam also fielded as a Rajya Sabha candidate. for China and the US. has been India’s High Commissioner to Rupala, Ramdas Athavale and , Former Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Jaishankar, son of late K Singapore and Ambassador to the Czech were among the ministers of state in the Munda, former Uttarakhand chief minister Subrahmanyam, one of India’s leading Republic. previous government who were retained in , four-time MP from strategic analysts, was a key member of Last year, Tata Group appointed the new council. 's Dharwad-Prahlad Joshi, Shiv the Indian team which negotiated the Jaishankar, who was Indian foreign Ram Vilas Paswan is not a member of Sena's , five-time MP from landmark Indo-US nuclear deal. secretary from January 2015 to January either of the Houses and he has been 's Jalna-, The deal, initiated in 2005, took 2018, as its president for global promised a Rajya Sabha seat. Hardeep Puri, Gangapuram Kishan Reddy from , several years to craft, and was signed by corporate affairs, within three months who is a Rajya Sabha MP, was reinducted into three-time Hamirpur MP , the UPA government headed by of his retirement from the government Modi's council of ministers despite losing the were among those who took oath as Union in 2007. service. Lok Sabha polls.He was given a ticket by the ministers for the first time. Jaishankar’s appointment as foreign A graduate of St Stephen’s College, BJP to contest from Amritsar. Prakash Other first-timers included Debasree secretary in January 2015 had evoked a Jaishankar has an MA in Political Javadekar who handled four portfolios in the Chaudhuri, , Pratap sharp reaction from various quarters Science and an MPhil and PhD in previous regime of the Modi government Chandra Sarangi, Rameshwar Teli, Renuka over the timing of the government’s International Relations from Jawaharlal including Human Resource Development, Singh Saruta, V Muraleedharan, Ratan Lal decision to remove Sujatha Singh. Nehru University (JNU). Jaishankar is Environment, Information and Broadcasting Kataria, , Angadi Syresh The 64-year-old had earlier served as married to Kyoko Jaishankar and has and Parliamentary Affairs, was sworn in for a Channabasappa and Dhotre Sanhay Shamrao. India’s Ambassador to the US and before two sons and a daughter. second term. Prahlad Singh Mulayam Singh Patel who that to China. In 2019, Jaishankar was conferred ,who was appointed was the Coal Minister in the Vajpayee A 1977-batch IFS officer, Jaishankar with Padma Shri, the fourth highest as the Minister of State for HRD in the Modi government also took oath at the glittering played a key role in resolving the crisis civilian award of the country. government before he was made president of ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 MODI: SECOND INNINGS 11

SUSHMA SWARAJ AMONG BJP PRESIDENT TO UNION EX-MINISTERS ABSENT FROM MINISTER, AMIT SHAH IN PM MODI’S NEW CABINET NEW DELHI (TIP): In a major surprise, , one of the senior- A NEW AVATAR most leaders of the BJP, was among seven ministers of the NEW DELHI (TIP): Hailed as the previous Council of Ministers “Chanakya” of present day Indian to be dropped as Prime Politics, Amit Shah, as the president of Minister Narendra Modi ruling BJP, meticulously crafted the formed his government for handsome return of the Modi regime, the second term. has now been charted into the The 67-year-old Swaraj who government. has held key positions in the The 67-year-old Swaraj who Now with him in the government, party and its governments has held key positions in Shah is all set to combine his astute since decades was the party and its political mind with his delivery skills to conspicuous by her absence governments since decades help his mentor Prime Minister in the new Cabinet. was conspicuous by her Narendra Modi in implementing his Also missing in the new absence in the new governance agenda in the next five years. Council of Ministers were Cabinet. It is broadly understood that Shah’s , JP Nadda, induction signals that he will now play a , Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Jayant crucial role in the government and Sinha. would remain eyes and ears of the Prime Although the reasons for Swaraj’s omission were not Minister in the government. immediately clear, the main reason possibly could be her ill- However, given the sequence in which health. the members of the council of ministers Swaraj, who was External Affairs Minister during the took oath, Rajnath Singh appeared to previous term of Modi government, did not contest the Lok have retained officially the number two Amit Shah likely to be FM Sabha elections this time, declaring that her health did not position in the government. permit her to enter the fray and campaign. For all practical purposes, Shah has NEW DELHI (TIP): Narendra Modi Lanka. During her tenure as the External Affairs Minister, she been the party’s second most powerful is set to name Amit Shah, the chief of Shah is tipped to replace Arun was very popular among the Indian diaspora and the leader after Modi since he became its his (BJP), as Jaitley, who wrote to Modi on compatriots stranded anywhere across the globe. Just one president in 2014 after the BJP-led NDA the country's new finance minister Wednesday asking not to be considered tweet to her about any problem any Indian faced anywhere assumed power. after taking his oath of office for the for a ministerial position because of and she would immediately swing into action and activate Shah made his debut in Lok Sabha second time on Thursday, according to health problems. the Indian mission in those countries for help. with a massive win from Gandhinagar, a several Indian media reports. Shah would be taking over the When the BJP was in Opposition during the UPA seat earlier represented by BJP veteran L As Modi's right-hand man and long- finance portfolio at a sensitive time. He government from 2004 to 2014, Swaraj was the Leader of K Advani.Shah (54) was a crucial aide to time strategist, Shah would be in a will probably need to move quickly to Opposition in the Lok Sabha and a successful one. Modi during his near 13-year-old reign as powerful position to direct financial stimulate an economy beset by weak Along with her, Prabhu, who held the key portfolios of Gujarat chief minister between 2001 and policy in Asia's third-largest economy farm incomes, slow jobs growth and Railways and then Commerce and Industry and Civil 2014, holding the powerful home in his first role as a federal lawmaker. falling sales of key consumer goods Aviation, also did not find a place in the new Council of portfolio. Though his organisational Shah masterminded the BJP's including cars and motorbikes. Ministers. skills are much-storied since he landslide victory in the April-May This week, two major industrial Nadda, who was the in the previous term, delivered 71 of 80 Lok Sabha seats of general election, but there are bodies called on the new government was also absent from the list of ministers this time. Uttar Pradesh in 2014, prompting Modi to questions about his lack of central to take steps to bolster a growth rate However, there is speculation that he could be made the BJP call him “man of the match” of the BJP’s government experience and financial that slowed to 6.6% in the three months President to succeed Amit Shah who has been included in win in that general election. Many in the background, especially at a time of to December - the lowest in five the Cabinet. party say he was instrumental in growing signs of weakness in the quarters - and is expected to have Rathore, a former Olympian, who was a successful Sports executing a slew of welfare policies of economy. dropped further to 6.3 percent between and Information and Broadcasting Minister, also did not the party’s government in Gujarat. Modi is expected to announce his January and March. figure in the list of ministers. He has strongly supported the ministers' departments on Friday,after Several investors and traders said Gen V.K.Singh, a former Army Chief who was Minister of expansion of National Register of all of them were sworn in on Thursday they did not expect Indian markets to State for External Affairs earlier, was also dropped this Citizens in different parts of the country evening at an open-air ceremony react much if Shah's appointment was time, as was Mahesh Sharma, the Minister for Tourism and to identify and expel illegal immigrants, outside the colonial-era presidential confirmed, believing his ability to get Culture in the previous government. whom he has termed “termites”, palace with some 8,000 guests things done would offset his lack of , Minister of State for Finance in the scrapping of Article 370 and 35A, which including Bollywood stars and leaders financial experience. previous government, also was missing in the new Cabinet. gives special powers to and of neighbours Bangladesh and Sri Source: Reuters He is the son of former BJP leader , who Kashmir, and building of Ram temple in has been extremely critical of Modi. Ayodhya. Source: The Tribune Nadda emerges as likely replacement for BJP president

NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP leader JP Nadda has emerged as the likely replacement for SIX WOMEN MINISTERS SWORN IN Amit Shah as the party president after he was left out of the Union Council of Ministers, NEW DELHI (TIP): A number of women ministers were inducted into Prime Minister which was sworn in on Thursday,according to Narendra Modi’s new Cabinet. Senior BJP leaders Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani and BJP sources. Harsimrat Kaur Badal are some of the prominent women ministers in the newly elected With Shah joining the Cabinet of Prime government. Minister Narendra Modi, he may demit the in the Modi government 1.0, Nirmala Sitharaman, 60, is one of the six office of BJP chief as part of the party’s “one- women who have been sworn in as part of the new government. She is a Rajya Sabha person one-post” principle. member and the second woman to helm the key ministry after former PM Nadda, a Brahmin leader from Himachal who had held the portfolio in the seventies. Giant killer Smriti Irani, 43, who defeated Pradesh, enjoys the confidence of the party’s will be expected to run the organisation in Congress chief from the Gandhi bastion of Amethi, has also taken oath as a top brass, is trusted by the Rashtriya cohesion with the government and carry on Cabinet minister in the new government. Irani has held a number of portfolios earlier. Swayamsewak Sangh — the party’s with organisational agenda firmed up by Harsimrat Kaur Badal, 53, the former union minister for food processing and Member of ideological parent — and enjoys a clean Shah. Parliament from is another woman MP who has secured a ministerial berth for reputation. He is a member of the BJP’s parliamentary the second consecutive term in PM Modi’s new Cabinet. He was the health minister in the first Modi board, its top decision-making body having its Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, 52, has been sworn in as a Minister of State in the new Cabinet. government. most important members, which gives him Saruta, 58 was sworn in as a Minister of State in the Modi government. A That Nadda (58) maintains a low profile also requisite seniority for the job as well, party BJP leader from , Deboshree Chowdhury is a first timer in the newly elected goes in his favour as the new party president sources said. government. She has taken oath as a Minister of State. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 US FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 India's Consul General in Chicago hosts Bose and Khorana Fellows CHICAGO (TIP): India's Consul General in Chicago Mr. Sudhakar Dalela last week interacted with a group of young Air India Announces minds from India selected as Bose and Schedule Change for Khorana Fellows for 2019 to undertake research in U.S. universities during Chicago Flight summer break. University of Chicago NEW YORK (TIP): India's national hosted them for the orientation program. carrier Air India announced schedule The Khorana Program will provide change for travel to and from Chicago. In opportunities to Indian students to its release it stated that effective June 1, undertake research at University of 2019, up to June 30, 2019, their daily non- Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and partner stop flight AI 127/AI 126 Delhi-Chicago- universities in Summer 2019 for a period of Delhi would operate as Delhi - 10-12 weeks. Stockholm-Chicago -Delhi. AI 127 The Khorana and Bose Programs are departs from Delhi at 22:05 hours (local leadership programs that are designed to India's Consul General in Chicago Mr. Sudhakar Dalela last week interacted with a group of time) and arrives in Chicago at 07:25 spark the imaginations and broaden young minds from India Photo /courtesy Consulate General of India, Chicago hours (local time) the following day. AI intellectual horizons by introducing the and won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology principles of quantum physics. His 126 departs from Chicago at 12:00 hours top Indian and US students to scientific and Medicine while a faculty member at fundamental breakthroughs led to several (local time) and arrives in New Delhi at and innovation ecosystems of leading US University of Wisconsin - Madison. discoveries with the latest, the Higgs- 14:15 hours (local time) the following day. and Indian institutions. The goal is to Khorana Program is funded by the Boson, being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize According to media reports, the debt- nurture and inspire future thought leaders Government of India's Department of in Physics. The term "Boson" for laden airline recently decided to across a broad spectrum of sciences, Biotechnology (DBT) and supports fundamental particles was coined by the discontinue direct flight service industry and society. The programs also students whose research interests are at Nobelist Paul Dirac to honor S. N. Bose. between Mumbai and New York. The intend to seamlessly bridge the academic, the interface of biology and physical The Bose program was launched by the airline is reportedly discontinuing the industrial and entrepreneurial sciences, medicine, and technology. Science and Engineering Research Board flights on this route due to poor demand. communities in US and India. The S. N. Bose program honors (SERB), in collaboration with Indo-US It may be noted that direct flights The Khorana program is named to honor Satyendra Nath Bose, whose Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) between Mumbai and New York were Har Gobind Khorana, a pioneering Chemical- groundbreaking mathematical insights, and Winstep Forward (WSF) to support started by the airline in December last Biologist who deciphered the genetic code, first on his own in India and then with scholars from all sciences and engineering year. According to reports, the direct chemically generated the first synthetic gene Albert Einstein underlie the fundamental disciplines. flight operation between Mumbai and New York were causing losses to the airline. The carrier operated Mumbai- Deeply Concerned About Election Results in India, says New York direct flights thrice a week. The operations were temporarily suspended in February when Pakistan Indian American Christian Organizations closed its airspace for Indian flights and WASHINGTON (TIP): The student of Indian electorate, the margin Constitution of the Republic that was expected to resume in June but the Federation of Indian American with which party is claiming guarantees equality and freedom of airline has decided to discontinue the Christian Organizations (FIACONA) victory seem very suspicious. religion, expression and association to service. says that they are deeply concerned (Interestingly, the "malfunctioning" every citizen. Under a new "Hindu about the future of Indian Christians EVM machines tallies votes only to the Constitution" which Modi and his party Indian American and the future of Indian democracy in Hindu nationalist BJP party in every wants to implement; all these freedoms Congressman Ro the wake of just concluded national instance) we take for granted may not exist. The elections. The fact that the BJP Hindu party and BJP and Mr. Modi needed a two third Khanna Named 'Best In a statement FIACONA has said: Prime Minister Modi's appeal failed in majority in the Parliament in their Officer' for Constituent states like and Kerala shows scheme to replace the Constitution. They "In a world that is getting more and that the level of cooperation and support do have that strength in the Parliament Services more polarized on religious grounds, the needed from election officials to use the now. Other requirements to change the SAN JOSE, return to power of a Hindu extremist "malfunctioning" EVMs was not Constitution are already in place. CA (TIP): On party is not surprising. forthcoming easily in all states. All 600,000 Indian American May 30, the Though all Hindu voters did not vote It is our firm belief that the political Christians have strong ties to their Congressional for extremist views of the Hindu party, landscape of the country does not allow mother churches back in India. Besides Management many have. The assertion of extremist such margin of votes in an honest and that, almost all mainstream and Foundation Hindus to claim a multi religious, multi- transparent election. independent churches in the United (CMF) announced cultural and multi-linguistic country We urge the world leaders to be States have close ties to this 2000-year-old that Rep. Ro like the Union of India to their view of cautious in their endorsement of the church. An assault on the rights and Khanna (D-CA) is exclusive Hindu ideology is certainly extremist Hindu ideology. A full independence of the church in India by a winner for the troubling. Now this election has further endorsement of Modi's claim to victory the Hindu nationalist government 2019 Democracy deepened that to a crisis level. will jeopardize the future of almost 2000- headed by Modi and his gang would have Rep. Khanna is Awards, CMF's Though, there are several reliable year-old church in India and will also direct and negative impact across recognized for honors program reports about rigging and large-scale cause tremendous disruption to the Christendom and particularly among the excellence in the Constituent Service recognizing non- voter fraud combined with voter Unity of India as a one nation state Evangelical, Catholic and Protestant category legislative suppression not to mention the envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi. populations in the United States. achievement in "malfunctioning" of Electronic Voting While we are concerned for the future We continue to urge President Trump operations and constituent service by Machines, EVMs, in many parts of the of the church in India, we are also to re-asses his misplaced endorsement of congressional offices and Members of country during the elections, for a concerned about the very survival of the Modi and his government." Congress. Rep. Khanna is recognized for excellence in the Constituent Service Measles Outbreak in US This means 2019, which is not quite children and adults who can get category, which focuses on how an office half over, now has the greatest number of vaccinated, do get vaccinated. Again, I interacts with and serves constituents, Poses Serious Threat cases in a single year in nearly three want to reassure parents that vaccines especially how it utilizes and leverages WASHINGTON (TIP): There have decades. The number of cases in 1994 was are safe, they do not cause autism. The specific, methodical, and consistent been 971 cases of measles reported in the 963, which was lower than in 1992 when greater danger is the disease that processes for achieving measurable United States this year, the US Centers there were 2,237 cases. vaccination prevents," said CDC Director results in constituent service. (Read full for Disease Control and Prevention said "Measles is preventable and the way to Dr. Robert Redfield. (Read full story on story on www.theindianpanorama.news) Thursday, May 30. end this outbreak is to ensure that all www.theindianpanorama.news) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 US 13 India Pavilion showcases strengths of Indian education system

India's Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla inaugurated Education Promotion Society Ambassador visited the pavilion set up by Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL) at the of India (EPSI)'s India Pavilion at 2019 NAFSA Annual Conference and Expo NAFSA Expo and lauded their initiative 'Study in India.'

WASHINGTON (TIP): India's Noting that the Indian Education available; from the modern and cutting by Educational Consultants India Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan system is the world's third largest Higher edge to the traditional. Indian education Limited (EdCIL) at the NAFSA Expo and Shringla inaugurated Education Education System with 907 universities, ranges from exposure to the latest lauded their initiative 'Study in India.' Promotion Society of India (EPSI)'s 43,000 colleges and a capacity of advancements of science and technology The web portal, 'Study in India' India Pavilion at 2019 NAFSA Annual enrolling more than a whopping 30 like Virtual and Augmented Reality, developed by EdCIL is a wonderful Conference and Expo on May 28. million students, the Ambassador Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive platform for students and education Ambassador also addressed the explained how the higher education Computing to Yoga, Ayurveda, Sanskrit, administrators across the globe to participants at the EPSI Pavilion. institutions in India offer languages, and classical music and understand the process of getting Education Promotion Society of India courses/degrees that are competitive in dances. This vastness of the Indian admission into Indian Universities. (EPSI), a not for profit organization from the world market in terms of quality but education system directly translates to Later, a delegation of top educators led India put up the pavilion to offer an are delivered at one-fourth the cost. enhanced opportunities for its students by the President of the Board of opportunity to education administrators "The Indian Education system is vast and global learning for an all-round Trustees of MIT Peace University, Pune from across the globe to acquaint in size, as well as its academic offerings. academic and personal development", he also called on Ambassador and presented themselves with the strengths of Indian A vibrant and diverse education system said. plans for a joint conference to exchange education system. means a wide variety of courses are Ambassador visited the pavilion set up best practices in the education sector. Unprecedented congratulatory messages pour in for Modi from over 50 US leaders WASHINGTON (TIP): In a testimony to the strength of Senator Kevin Thomas : "Congratulations to @narendramodi on his win India-US relations, unprecedented congratulatory in the Indian elections today. India and the U.S. share a great relationship and looking forward to continuing cooperation going forward. messages have been received from over 50 US leaders in every domain, including the Administration, Congress, Senator John Cornyn : "Congratulations @narendramodi on your historic victory. Looking forward to seeing you soon business, academia/think tanks on the historic electoral victory of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Senator Dan Sullivan : "I want to congratulate @PMOIndia@narendramodion achieving a commanding victory in ADMINISTRATION his reelection bid today. Modi, a steadfast friend of America and free President Donald Trump : "Just spoke to Prime Minister people everywhere, has clearly earned a strong and lasting @NarendraModiwhere I congratulated him on his big political confidence among the people of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a historic mandate in the victory. He is a great man and leader for the people of India -they are recent . He is seen here being welcomed by Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL) : "The world's largest democracy and lucky to have him! senior leaders of BJP at party headquarters in New Delhi, May 23. one of our strongest partners in the Indo-Pacific has chosen their Vice President Mike Pence: "Congrats to an American ally & friend leadership in free and fair elections. Congratulations to @BJP4India PM @narendramodi, on his party's win in India's parliamentary and @narenbramodi on your historic re-election. THINK TANKS/ ACADEMICS election. This was a strong display of the Indian people's Ambassador Nikki Haley , Stand for America : "India continues to Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) : "Congratulations to commitment to democracy! We look forward to continuing to work have amazing potential and is a strong US partner. Congratulations with India for a freer, safer, & more prosperous region. @narendramodi and his party for their landslide victory in India's election. The relationship between India and the United States has to @narendramodi on your success with the elections and the Secretary Mike Pompeo: "Congratulations to @narendramodi and never been stronger! direction you are taking India. We look forward to seeing our the NDA for their victory in India's election, and to the Indian people partnership continue to strengthen for casting their votes in such historic numbers. As the world's Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY) : "Congratulations to @narendramodi on his re-election! The India-U.S. relationship is Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School : largest exercise in democracy, #India's election is an inspiration "A major victory for PM Modi and the BJP in #India. The Trump around the world. based upon shared values. This alliance will be very important overthe next 50 years & I am looking forward to continuing our work Administration now has an opportunity to expand our military and Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President : "Congratulations with PM Modi & Indian government to strengthen our alliance. economic partnership with Delhi, particularly to limit China's @narendramodion a great victory! Exciting times ahead for the ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. wonderful people of India! Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi : "Congratulations to Prime Minister @narendramodi on his re-election -it was truly an Renu Khator, President of University of Houston : "Congratulations Governor Phil Murphy (New Jersey): "Congrats to Prime Minister inspirationto see so many Indians exercise their democratic rights, to Prime Minister Modi on his decisive victory in election...1.3 billion @narendramodiand the NDA on your historic election! New Jersey and I look forward to working with PM Modi and the Indian people have chosen their leader to continue to shape India's future has a vibrant Indian American population and deep ties to the government to strengthen the US-India partnership. at home and abroad! world's largest democracy -we look forward to strengthening our relationship in the years ahead. Congressman Steny Hoyer : "Congratulations @NarendraModion BUSINESS winning re-election this week. I look forward to strengthening the Governor Greg Abbott (Texas) : "Prime Minister Modi, Gates, Microsoft : "Congratulations @NarendraModion a important U.S.-India partnership. Congratulations on your election win. I view it as a very important to remarkable win in #IndianElections2019. Your continued the future of India. Texas looks forward to continuing to work with Congressman Ami Bera : "Great job to the people of #India on their commitment to improve health, nutrition, and development will you as we advance the economies of India and Texas historic election. Never before have so many voted in a single significantly improve lives of many. democratic election. Congratulations to PM Modi for his win and I IBMCEO Ginni Rometty : "IBMcongratulates Prime Minister Modi on CONGRESS look forward to working with his government to strengthen the ties his reelection, and I look forward to continuing to work with him on Senator Chris Coons (D-DE): "Congratulations to the new between our two great nations. issues that are critical to India and its people -from skills to government and the people of India for concluding the world's Congressman Ro Khanna : "One lesson from Modi's win is that emerging technologies like AI. largest democratic election in which 600 million votes were cast dynastic, establishment candidates are weak. Democrats need to Ajay Banga, President & CEO, Mastercard : "Congratulations to forthe country's leadership."I look forward to continuing my work to make sure that our candidate against Trump can connect with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this historic win with this decisive strengthen and deepen ties between the United States and India, people's frustration and offer a positive vision for change. two of the world's great democracies, in the years ahead. mandate from the world's largest democracy, he will propel the Asm. Raj Mukherjee, Assembly Majority Whip, NJ Legislature : country further on all fronts. We are proud of our long-standing Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) : "As co-chair of the Senate India "Congrats to @narendramodi on a decisive reelection and to the commitment to India and its citizens. And, we are excited to expand Caucus, I want to congratulate the Indian people on today's historic Indian people on the largest display of participation in democracy in our investments and local partnerships in the country to deliver on election -the largest democratic election in history. I look forward to the history of the world. Looking forward to furthering the strong the Digital India vision and help power it's continued economic continuing our work with PM Modi's administration to strengthen bilateral ties between our two great democracies. @IndiainNewYork growth. our important alliance with India. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 MODI: SECOND INNINGS FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 MEET THE A-TEAM OF MODI’S 2.0 CABINET Narendra Modi cabinet: As the Modi-led government returns to power, we take a look at the profiles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new council of ministers NARENDRA MODI Modi government 1.0, Gadkari Born on June 12, 1957 at Modi, a member of the successfully shouldered the Murar in Gwalior district, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) responsibility of Shipping, Tomar was president of the and the Rashtriya Surface Transport, Water Gwalior unit of the BJP youth Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Resources and Ganga wing from 1980-84. He was represents the Varanasi Rejuvenation Ministry. He is elected as a councilor in 1983, constituency in Parliament. He likely to get an important entered the is the first non-Congress prime ministry in the second term as assembly in 1998 and served as minister to win two well. a minister in the BJP consecutive terms with a full Nitin Jayram Gadkari government in the state from majority, and the second one to started his political career 2003-2007. complete five years in office with student's wing ABVP. At the age of 38, Gadkari served as Later, he was appointed as state BJP president. After a brief after . PWD minister in the Shivsena-BJP Govt in 1995. Gadkari was stint as a Rajya Sabha member, Tomar was elected to the Lok Born to a Gujarati family in Vadnagar, the 68-year-old has credited with building with nation's firstever Express way Sabha from Morena in 2009. come a long way from his humble roots. He completed his from Mumbai to Pune. higher secondary education in Vadnagar in 1967. According to Gadkari rose in the national scenario when he was made the RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD his affidavit filed with the Election Commission, Modi has an national president of BJP in 2009 replacing Rajnath Singh. In PM Narendra Modi has MA degree from Gujarat University in 1983 and is an arts 2014, he contested and won the Lok sabha elections from reposed faith in senior BJP graduate from Delhi University. Nagpur seat. leader Ravi Shankar Prasad Before assuming the coveted position, Modi served as the and inducted him into the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. While his tenure DV SADANANDA GOWDA Union Cabinet. During the as Gujarat CM was often credited for its economic growth, his Lawyer-turned-politician DV previous Modi government, administration was accused of complicity in the 2002 Gujarat Sadananda Gowda is a Prasad was Union Law and riots and criticised for failing to improve health, poverty, and returning minister in Modi Justice and Electronics and education indices in the state significantly. Cabinet. In the previous Information Technology In the 2014 general election, Modi led the BJP to a landslide government, Sadananda Minister. victory as the saffron party secured a majority of its own, the Gowda handled railway A noted Supreme Court first time for any single party since 1984. While his first term ministry, law and justice, advocate, 54-year old Ravi as PM was praised for high-profile sanitation campaign and statistics and programme Shankar Prasad who fought his first Lok Sabha elections from improving efficiency in the bureaucracy, his administration implementation and chemicals Patna Sahib in 2019, defeated Congress's by was criticised for demonetisation of high-denomination and fertilisers for various a margin of over 2,85,000 votes. banknotes and hasty implementation of Goods and Services spans of time. Tax. In the recently-held 2019 elections, Modi rode a wave of is HARSIMRAT KAUR BADAL nationalism and his popularity as the BJP swept the elections Sadananda Gowda's fourth entry to Parliament. In 2019 general leader with a bigger mandate than 2014 by winning a total of 303 elections, he defeated Congress heavyweight Krishna Byre and former Union Food seats. Gowda, a member of the HD Kumaraswamy ministry. Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has RAJNATH SINGH NIRMALA SITHARAMAN been reinducted in the Union Senior BJP leader and Union Nirmala Sitharaman has Cabinet. Harsimrat Kaur Home Minister Rajnath Singh risen from the ranks of the Badal is the wife of Shiromani represents Lucknow Lok Sabha BJP and reached the Akali Dal (SAD) president and seat. He has been elected from prestigious chair of the former Deputy Chief Minister the coveted seat for the second Ministry of Defence during and time, before that he had previous Modi government. daughter-in-law of former representated Gautam Budhh Before becoming the first Punjab Chief Minister Nagar Lok Sabha constituency woman defence minister of . in 2009. Number 2 in Modi India, she handled the Minister Born on July 25, 1966, Harsimrat belongs to the family of government, Rajnath Singh is of State portfolio in the Attar Singh Majithia, who was a prominent general in likely to be appointed as the , Ministry Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Army. home minister of India again. of Corporate Affairs and Rajnath Singh had started his career as RSS volunteer but Minister of State (Independent charge) of the Ministry of THAWARCHAND GEHLOT joined politics in 1974 as secretary of Janasangh of Mirzapur Commerce and Industry. A prominent Dalit face of region and later became the MP from Mirzapur in 1977. Sitharaman has served as Member of the Rajya Sabha, the the BJP, Thawarchand Gehlot, Known for his no non sense attitude, Rajnath is a soft spoken upper house of Parliament, since 2016. In 2003, during Prime has made his way to the politician and the senior most leader in the Modi Cabinet. Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure, she became a member Narendra Modi cabinet for a of National Women for Commission and served on the position second consecutive time. AMIT SHAH till 2005. Sitharaman had joined the BJP in 2006, when Nitin Gehlot was appointed as the Considered as BJP's key Gadkari was the party chief, and she became the national Minister of Social Justice and strategist, Union minister spokesperson of the party. Empowerment during the Amit Shah is likely to get a key Modi government's first stint portfolio in Modi Cabinet 2.0. RAM VILAS PASWAN in 2014. Before the Central government, Eight-time Lok Sabha MP Gehlot represented the Amit Shah and Narendra Modi and former Rajya Sabha Shajapur Lok Sabha seat worked together in the Gujarat member Ram Vilas Paswan between 1996 and 2009. Following delimitation, Shajapur ministry. Amit Shah's tuning was on Thursday once again constituency ceased to exist and Dewas constituency came into with PM Narendra Modi is inducted into the Narendra being in 2008. hailed as jodi of Jai and Veeru. Modi cabinet. The Lok In 2009, Gehlot lost the Lok Sabha poll to Congress leader In the 2019 general elections, Janshakti Party National Sajjan Singh Verma. Amit Shah contested and won President was Minister of from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of Consumer Affairs, Food and S JAISHANKAR over 5.5 lakh votes. He broke all records of LK Advani. Public Distribution in the PM Narendra Modi's Amit Shah has had a meteoric rise in national politics in previous Modi government. surprise pick, S Jaishankar is recent years. In 2010, Shah spent time in jail for the Paswan's party had a career diplomat, who retired Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. He got conditional bail to contested six Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in the recently as the foriegn secretary of stay away from Gujarat. Four years later, Amit Shah became concluded elections and emerged victorious on all. The LJP India. Jaishankar was a key national president of the BJP and took party to astronomical chief this time refrained from contesting election from member of the Indian team heights. According to party's own estimates, the BJP is today Hajipur after he was assured Rajya Sabha birth by the BJP. which negotiated the world's largest party. Under his leadership, the BJP managed landmark Indo-US nuclear to get re-elected to Union government with a massive increase NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR deal. He is also credited with in their vote share. Three-time MP Narendra Singh Tomar returns to Modi helping resolve the Doklam Cabinet for a second stint. In the previous term, Tomar served stand-off between India and at the helm of several ministries, including mines, steel, China. Known as the Highway man, 62-year-old Nitin Gadkari has labour and employment and rural development and A 1977-batch IFS officer, Jaishankar had earlier served as been sworn in for the second time as cabinet minister. During panchayati raj. India's ambassador to the US and before that to China. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 MODI: SECOND INNINGS 15

RAMESH POKHRIYAL NISHANK DHARMENDRA PRADHAN Ministers of state (independent) Poet-politician Ramesh Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP's Pokhriyal Nishank's face in Odisha, has found a , 70: A veteran parliamentarian, appointment as cabinet spot in the Modi Cabinet for he has won the LS election eight times minister is his comeback to the second time. During the , 69: He was elected to politics after eight years. After previous term, Dharmendra the LS for the fifth time his term as the Uttarakhand Pradhan served as Union SHRIPAD Y NAIK, 66: He has served as MoS chief minister ended in 2011, minister for Petroleum and (independent charge) for Ayush ministry Ramesh Pokhriyal was lost in Natural Gas. JITENDRA SINGH, 62: A diabetologist, he was political wilderness, until this As Union minister, Pradhan the chief spokesman of J&K BJP day.During these years, he won was credited for leading the every election he contested, but Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala , 67: A former diplomat, he has served as an MoS did not get any ministerial Yojana (PMUY) from the front. The party credits berth in his state or at the Centre. Dharmendhra Pradhan for significant in roads in BJD MANSUKH MANDAVIYA, 46: He has been a dominated Odisha. member of the RS since 2012 Ministers of state Prominent tribal leader Arjun Munda is a three-time BJP spokesperson Mukhtar FAGGANSINGH KULASTE, 60: He represents MP’s chief minister and favourite Abbas Naqvi is the lone Mandla constituency among public not only in his Muslim in the cabinet of ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY, 66: This will be home state of Jharkhand but Prime Minister Narendra second stint as union minister also in neighbouring Bihar, Modi, who has won the 2019 ARJUN RAM MEGHWAL, 65: A former IAS Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Lok Sabha elections on the officer, he joined politics in 2009 Munda, who began his slogan 'sabka saath, sabka GENERAL (RETD) VK SINGH, 68: An ex-army chief, he career with the JMM during vikas and sabka vishwas'. joined BJP in 2014 the statehood struggle before Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has joining the saffron brigade, found himself back in the KRISHAN PAL, 62: He has served as MoS for was first elected as MLA in Council of Ministers for a social justice and empowerment 1995 in undivided Bihar and went on to win three consecutive second stint. DANVE RAOSAHEB DADARAO, 64: He is a terms from Kharsawan before losing the seat in 2014. five-term MP from Jalna G KISHAN REDDY, 55: He was a three-time MLA from SMRITI IRANI Pralhad Joshi, 56, has been Himayatnagar seat in Hyderabad Smriti Irani is back with a elected MP from Darwad in , 64: He is ex-MoS for pan- bang. In 2014, Smriti Irani had Karnataka for the fourth chayati raj, agriculture become the yougest cabinet consecutive term. , 59: A maverick Dalit minister and held several Joshi is among three other leader from Maharasthra, he is known for his illustrious portfolios, including parliamentarians from poetry HRD, Textiles and Information Karnataka who have landed a NIRANJAN JYOTI, 52: She is the former MoS for food & Broadcasting Minister. In ministerial berth in the Modi processing industries 2019, she has been reinducted government that was sworn in in the Union Cabinet and is on Thursday. BABUL SUPRIYO, 48: He has tried his hand at likely to be alloted a key banking, playback singing and politics portfolio. Smriti Irani, who lost , 46: He has served as MoS Lok Sabha elections in 2004 and for agriculture and food processing 2014, emerged a giant-killer of 2019 by defeating the Congress MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY DHOTRE SANJAY SHAMRAO, 60: He is a president Rahul Gandhi in his home turf. Mahendra Nath Pandey has surprise pick in the 2nd Modi govt made a comeback in Modi Dr HARSH VARDHAN ANURAG THAKUR, 44: He is the son of Prem Cabinet. Pandey served as a Kumar Dhumal, ex-CM Doctor-turned-politician Union minister of state (MoS) ANGADI SURESH, 63: A four-time MP, he has Harsh Vardhan is the only MP in the Ministry of Human interests in the sugar, education sectors from the national capital to get Resource Development a place in Narendra Modi's between 2016 and 2017. He was NITYANAND RAI, 53: He is a three-term BJP MLA from Hajipur in Bihar council of ministers. He given the responsibility of the served as the Minister of BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit in , 67: He got elected to Health and Family Welfare 2017 after the party's massive from Ambala during the Modi government's win in the assembly elections. V MURALEEDHARAN, 60: From Kerala, he first stint and was later given started his political career with ABVP ARVIND SAWANT the charge of the Ministry of RENUKA SINGH, 55: She won the 2019 polls Earth Sciences and Ministry of From building the party's from Chhattisgarh ‘s Surguja Lok Sabha seat Science and Technology. organisation in northern , 70: The former IAS officer is During his tenure as health minister of Delhi, he had Maharashtra's Dhule to an MP from Hoshiarpur LS seat successfully launched the Pulse Polio Programme, which was wresting the high-profile later launched nationwide. Mumbai South seat, it has been , 48: He won the 2019 elections from seat in a long journey for PRAKASH JAVADEKAR lawmaker Arvind Sawant who , 64: He’s the only BJP Prakash Javadekar is among has got a berth in Prime leader who breached Odisha the returning cabinet Minister Narendra Modi's KAILASH CHOUDHARY, 45: He has been a ministers in Team Modi 2.0. In cabinet. legislator from Baytoo since 2013 the previous Modi government, , 48: She won by a margin of Prakash Javadekar rose from a 60,574 votes in minister of state with GIRIRAJ SINGH independent charge to HRD Giriraj Singh, who minister. He was first inducted reluctantly contested against in Modi Cabinet as MoS for CPIM candidate Kanhaiya environment with independent Kumar in Begusarai and won, charge. has been reinducted in Modi Cabinet for a second stint. PIYUSH GOYAL BJP's go-to-man, Piyush Goyal took oath of office to Union GAJENDRA SINGH Cabinet for a second stint as SHEKHAWAT minister on Thursday. During Second-time Lok Sbaha MP the last Modi government, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is Piyush Goyal held coal, power, ready for his second stint in the railways and finance portfolios Union ministry. Shekhawat, for different time spans. A who has returned to Lok Sabha chartered accountant by after defeating Rajasthan Chief profession, Goyal, known for his Minister Ashok Gehlot's son corporate network developed during his days as an investment from the high-stakes Jodhpur banker, is considered to be a key backroom strategist who seat, was made the minister of played a significant role in resource mobilisation of the party. state for agriculture and farmers' welfare in September 2017. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 THEATER FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 NJSO 2019 SEASON FINALES A Harry Potter Film Concert: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Facebook: facebook.com/NJPAC By Mabel Pais YouTube: NJPACtv he New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Cineconcerts and Warner Bros. and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) CineConcerts and Warner Bros. 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NJSO musicians Night's Dream" NJSO, visit www.njsymphony.org or email continues her acclaimed leadership of the annually perform original chamber music RACHMANINOFF "Symphony No. 2" [email protected]. NJSO. The Orchestra presents classical, programs at community events in a NJSO ACCENTS New Jersey Symphony Orchestra pops and family programs, as well as variety of settings statewide through the Prelude Performance - June 9 at 2:15 pm (NJSO) outdoor summer concerts and special NJSO Community Partners program. The extraordinary Anne Lieberson Ensemble Named 'a vital, artistically significant events. Embracing its legacy as a statewide (Mabel Pais writes on the Arts and from the NJSO Youth Orchestras in a special musical organization' by "The Wall Street orchestra, the NJSO is the resident Entertainment, Social Issues, Spirituality, and performance in the lobby. Journal," the NJSO embodies that vitality orchestra of the NJPAC in Newark and Health & Wellness THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 ADVERTISEMENT 17 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 TAAPSEE PANNU UNDERGOES INTENSE PREP FOR ‘GAME OVER’ ctor Taapsee Pannu says she had to Amentally prepare a lot to play a wheelchair-bound woman dealing with a mysterious identity trying to invade her home in her film 'Game Over'. "Keeping the physical aspects aside, mentally a lot of things were new for me to experience. Like post- traumatic stress, anniversary MOUNI ROY IS HAPPILY effect reactions and low self- confidence... All these are SINGLE, ‘MY WORK IS emotions, I haven't experienced before and don't KEEPING ME BUSY’ come to me naturally," Taapsee said in a statement. he has been keeping very busy, signing "With the co-writer of the films back-to-back and that has left very film, Kaavya Ramkumar, I Slittle time for Mouni Roy to focus on her could understand the logic personal life. The actor, who was earlier behind all these effects and reportedly dating a co-star, Mohit Raina, reactions and how to use shares she is enjoying her ‘single’ phase, more them naturally in my so given that her work is keeping her occupied. performance. It needs to be “I am completely, absolutely single and the controlled to the right way they say it, in love with my work now. proportion to make it look There is no time for anything else. And I am believable." completely enjoying the phase… once there is Taapsee said since the film someone in my life, everyone will get to know also addresses anxiety and about it,” laughs the actor, who has been quite nyctophobia (fear of a popular TV star. darkness), she took the help Asked about the former co-star she was of her co-writer "to reportedly dating, she chooses not to answer understand how it really the question. Rather, Mouni says she would happens" and saw videos and prefer talking about her films. And there are documentaries addressing three of them on the list at present — the problem. Brahmastra, Made in China and Bole Presented by Anurag Chudiyaan. Mouni shares that she has got two Kashyap, 'Game Over' will more offers, but they are still at the discussion release June 14. stage. BEFORE BRAHMASTRA, ALIA BHATT AND RANBIR KAPOOR FEATURE IN FIRST EVER AD TOGETHER

ctors Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor, who will be seen together for the first time in a film in Brahmastra, have gone ahead and Afeatured in an advertisement instead. Featuring in an ad for Flipkart, the couple come together only in the end of one of ads. In one of them, a boy, shows off his latest fashion in front of Alia, who is at a party in the company of her girl gang (again featuring girls dressed as grown-up women). At one point, one of the boys says he is wearing Ranbir’s look that the actor sported two months back at a premiere. Alia then shows him real Ranbir’s images in latest outfits from two days back. Embarrassed, the boys make a hasty retreat. One of Alia’s friends teases her about knowing every detail about Ranbir, to which Alia shrugs off with a self-assured grin. As the ad ends, the two actors walk towards the camera and pose in different outfits. In another ad, released along with the first one, Ranbir features without Alia. In the movies, the couple will be seen for the first time in Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra. The release of film was postponed last month. The fantasy drama film, which was initially scheduled to release around Christmas this year, will now hit the big screens in summer 2020. The campaign is expected to be live on television and digital platforms, for a period of eight weeks till July. In addition to Alia and Ranbir, the campaign will also feature popular movie icons of South India, namely, Samantha Akkineni, Vijay Deverakonda and Dulquer Salman. Ayan announced the news on his Instagram account. While according to the statement, the release has been postponed because the team needs “more time in order to get the VFX right,” multiple media reports have pointed out that the makers might have taken this decision to avoid locking horns with ’s 3 at the box office on Christmas 2019. Earlier that month, Salman had announced that his upcoming flick would release on December 20, 2019. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 HOLLYWOOD 19 NATALIE PORTMAN DENIES HAVING DATED MOBY ctor Natalie Portman refuted rumours of having been in a Arelationship with singer-songwriter Moby, saying he was a "much older man being creepy with me." Portman's statement comes after, Moby recently recalled their rumoured romance in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart, reported People. The 53-year-old singer claimed to have engaged in a brief romantic fling with Portman after meeting her backstage at one of his shows. According to Portman, the singer's recollection of their time together was far from accurate. She didn't see him as a romantic partner but as a "creepy" older Kate Mara, Jamie Bell man. "I was surprised to hear that he characterized the very short time that I welcome baby daughter knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me ctor Kate Mara and husband Jamie Bell when I just had graduated high school," have welcomed their first child, a baby Portman told Harper's Bazaar UK as cited Agirl. The child was born a few weeks ago, by People. Mara wrote on Instagram along with a picture The Oscar-winning actor stated that she of her newborn daughter's feet. was just 18 when they met, despite Moby's "We had a baby a couple weeks ago... Here are claims that she was 20. Although they her feet," Mara, 36, wrote.’ struck up a friendship, it ended when she before I realized that this was an older man errors and inventions." This is the first child for Mara while Bell, 33, realised he had other intentions. who was interested in me in a way that felt "There was no fact checking from him or shares a son with former wife Evan Rachel "I was a fan and went to one of his shows inappropriate," she said. his publisher -- it almost feels deliberate. Wood. when I had just graduated. When we met The Thor actor also slammed him and his That he used this story to sell his book was The birth of their baby comes months after after the show, he said, 'Let's be friends.' He publisher, Faber and Faber, for not paying very disturbing to me. It wasn't the case. Mara revealed the pair were expecting in was on tour and I was working shooting a attention to the details of the story. She There are many factual errors and February. film, so we only hung out a handful of times stated that the story is littered with "factual inventions," she said. Women directors don’t get second chances: Eva Longoria

PARIS JACKSON PERFORMS WITH BOYFRIEND GABRIEL GLENN ctress Eva Longoria said women photography and when I hire her, she ctor-model Paris Jackson performed to the audience, before strumming the guitar directors don't get second chances in makes sure that the camera crew hires live with boyfriend Gabriel Glenn at to start the beat. This wasn't the first time duo AHollywood, and that needs fixing. women. So you are really out of luck if you AGood Times at Davey Wayne's bar in performed together, earlier they were spotted "Unfortunately, women don't get a second are a man because we just fill those Hollywood on Thursday. performing at a private party which bite of the apple. So that is something we positions first with women and then people According to an American celebrity celebrated the launch of the new Pizza Girl by have to fix," Longoria said in a video posted. of colour. Because we have to start building magazine, the couple ended the show with Caroline D'Amore pasta sauce. "If a female director fails, if her movie this pipeline of talent." 'Margaritaville' when the audience demanded During the month old event, the adorable doesn't do well, then she can't direct. That's On the work front, Longoria is excited to close the musical with a happy song. "Do couple sang four songs which they wrote not the case," she said. about 'Dora and the Lost City of Gold', you guys want a sad one or a happy one?" the together. Paris and Gabriel celebrated their Longoria, who has a production house , which is based on the popular animated 21-year-old Paris asked the audience, as anniversary together in April. finds it important for women to support series. perceived by a fan's video shared after the Paris took to her Instagram to express her each other. "It is important once the door is The live-action adaptation follows Dora's show. "Happy one!" the audience responded. happiness and wrote, "You're the light of my open and 'you are there' to leave the door life as she band together with a group of Thereafter one audience member suggested life. Thank you for making me the happiest open for other women." teenagers to save her parents (essayed by playing 'Margaritaville' and the Paris, the and luckiest girl in the world. happy The actress said, "I produce and direct a Longoria and Michael Pena) and solve the daughter of Michael Jackson, happily anniversary baby. Can't wait for another trip show. I said I want a female director of mystery of a lost Incan civilization. obliged. "'Margaritaville' it is," she responded around the sun. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 NY THEATER FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 ENTER LAUGHING: The Musical Begins The York’s 50 By Mabel Pais THE YORK RECEIVES A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD In May 2019, The Outer Critics Circle has given The York Theatre a Special Achievement Award "in recognition of 50 years of producing new musicals, as well as classics from the past".

nter Laughing: The Musical! What audiences. better way to celebrate The York's The Perfect Antidote to The York's intimate, imaginative E 50th Anniversary than with the producing style has become its return of The York's runaway hit, - Based Today's Depression" trademark. Its productions have won on Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical critical acclaim, a host of honors and novel and Joseph Stein's stage - Time Out New York awards, and a loyal audience. Just as adaptation, this hilariously tuneful “ important, The York provides a ….the funniest show in musical careens through the nurturing, constructive environment for misadventures of star-struck, stage- town since "The Producers" new artists to hone their craft, and for struck, woman-struck teenager David - New York Post some of the masters of the musical Kolowitz, who pratfalls his way into “ theater's Golden Age to take fresh looks manhood via the theatre in 1930s New You can't pack more at their classic works. A special Drama York City. laughter and fun into a Desk Award was presented to the "ENTER LAUGHING: The Musical" company for its "vital contributions to is the perfect show for anyone who has finite space and time!" theater by developing and producing new ever had a dream of stardom, an “ - Jerry Seinfeld musicals." overbearing mother, a song in their Started in 2015, the York Theatre offers heart, or who just needs a heartfelt, side- a Musical Theatre Training Program splitting laughfest. As the New York Post Production Stage Manager is Chris (MTTP) that trains great performers and said, "you may not enter the theatre Steckel with Assistant Stage Manager inspires great minds. Started in 2015, the laughing, but once there, you're Kayla Santos. The Casting Director is York's MTTP brings working guaranteed not to stop." Michael Cassara, CSA. professionals in to work with eager and Chris Dwan as David Kolowitz. "ENTER LAUGHING: The Musical," "Enter Laughing" performances Photo / CarolRosegg dedicated theatre students. Our rigorous is presented by The York Theatre continue until June 16, 2019, except Company with Producing Artistic Monday and Thursday evening at The Director, James Morgan and Executive York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's Director, Evans Haile. (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of The "Company" is dedicated to the Lexington Avenue). development of new musicals and For more information on the rediscovery of musical gems from the past. In association with Riki Kane schedule and York Theatre, visit Larimer and Keylight Productions, the www.yorktheatre.org York presents the creative team for the For tickets, visit the York website or return engagement of the hit Off- call (212) 935-5820. Senior, student and Broadway musical Enter Laughing: The group discounts are available. Groups of Musical" with book by Joseph Stein and 10 or more, contact Great White Way at music and lyrics by Stan Daniels, based 212-757-9117, or GreatWhiteWay.com. on the play "Enter Laughing" by Joseph The York Theatre Company offers the Stein from the semi-autobiographical York! Membership Program, an novel by Carl Reiner. "Enter Laughing: exclusive membership package with The Musical," with direction and special ticket and theater privileges. The Chris Dwan (center) and Cast. Photo / CarolRosegg. musical staging by York Theatre favorite York Memberships can be purchased Stuart Ross (York's "Forever Plaid," online at Mainstage Series (most of them world, yet nurturing programs offer training in "Enter Laughing"), music direction by www.yorktheatre.org/membership, or by American or New York premieres) and singing, acting and movement and Phil Reno ("Something Rotten"), and visiting The York Theatre Company Box revivals in its popular Musicals in Mufti include master classes with some of New choreography by Jennifer Paulson-Lee Office, or calling the Box Office at (212) series of semi-staged readings. York's top theatre artists. Programs ("Enter Laughing"), returns to kick off 935-5820 during regular business hours. Each season consists of three or four culminate in a showcase performance on The York's year-long 50th Anniversary York Theatre Company Gift Cards are Mainstage productions, six or more the York's Off-Broadway stage. York Celebration. available for any production during the concert presentations and dozens of currently offers a Summer Intensive for The ten-member cast features Raji 2018-2019 season by visiting the box office Developmental Readings. middle and high school students 6th-12th Ahsan ("Stage Door") as Pike, Farah or calling (212) 935-5820, or online at The mission of The York Theatre Grades and a Winter Intensive for college Alvin ("It Shoulda Been You") as Angela www.yorktheatre.org Company is fourfold: students and recent college graduates Marlowe, Dana Costello ("Finding About The York Theatre Company from across the nation. Neverland") as Miss B, Ray DeMattis (the 1. Be a birthplace for new literate, Established in 2003, in March each original "Grease") as Mr. Foreman, Chris Founded in 1969, by Janet Hayes intimate musicals, and a place year, The York also produces the NEO Dwan ("Finding Neverland") as David Walker, The York Theatre Company is an where underappreciated musical Concert recognizing New, Emerging and Kolowitz, Alison Fraser ("Falsettos") as Off-Broadway company located at 619 gems from the past are Outstanding musical theater writers, Mother, Robert Picardo ("Star Trek: Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022. rediscovered; and is proud of its longtime association Voyager") as Father, David Schramm The York has presented more than 70 2. Provide support for the creators of with Marymount Manhattan College, its ("Finian's Rainbow") as Marlowe, Allie full-scale musical productions, including new musical theatre and be a Education partner. Trimm ("Bye Bye Birdie") as Wanda, and such classics as "The Golden Apple," showcase for new musical theatre Join The York in its celebration! Joe Veale ("The Rivals") as Marvin. "The Grass Harp," "On the 20th Century," talent of all kinds; www.yorktheatre.org The creative team includes James "A Doll's Life," "Lost in the Stars," 3. Provide students with Morgan (sets), Tyler M. Holland "Carnival!," and "Merrily We Roll Along." opportunities for hands-on theatre Twitter:@yorktheatrenyc (costumes), Ken Billington & Jason Under the guidance of Producing education; and www.facebook.com/yorktheatrecompany/ Kantrowitz (lights), Julian Evans Artistic Director James Morgan since 4. Serve the community by presenting (Mabel Pais writes on the Arts and (sound), and Brooke van Hensbergen 1997, The York has focused exclusively on free or low-cost musical theatre Entertainment, Social Issues, Spirituality, and (props). The Production Manager and musical theater: newer musicals in its performances to under-served Health & Wellness) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 FEATURE 21 Eid Mubarak The spirit of Ramadan is for all humanity

hether you are an Atheist, Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, WHindu, Jain, Jewish, Native American, Pagan, Shinto, Sikh, Wicca, and Zoroastrian or from any other By Mike Ghouse tradition, you may feel a sense of connection with the spirit of Ramadan. Don't we all want to get along and live God has no need for without tensions and fear? Of course, we do. When we live in a community, we might as well learn about each other. The the hunger or thirst best way to build cohesive societies is for its members to understand each other's of someone who sorrows and joys, and festivities and commemorations. Wouldn't it be nice if you know a little bit about your hurts others, neighbor's festival and perhaps invite them to your celebrations? violates their Every human and every religious group celebrate something or the other dignity, or usurps in their way,each one is different, but the essence is the same, that is celebrations and commemorations. their rights. The Festivities bring people together. Here kindness, charity, and caring. gathers up wearing new clothes and we explore Ramadan, two of the major True fasting is self-purification; and thank Allah for completing the blessed consciousness of festivals of Muslims. A simple language from this comes an abundant inner life month of Ramadan. is used for most people to get a gist of it. that brings about values such as justice, Practices differ in each town. In Rituals signify the milestones of our generosity, patience, kindness, Dallas, Texas, they rented the Auto behavior and daily life. Every significant moment of forgiveness, mercy,and empathy -- values Exhibit hall in Fair Park that held about the day is a ritual. Every faith is that are indispensable for the success of 25,000 people with ample parking. I saw a vigilance over action composed of a set of unique rituals to the community. similar happening in Louisville, bring discipline and peace to human life. Ramadan will come and go with such Kentucky. Back in Yelahanka, a suburb are the most Fasting is one of the five essential rituals stealth that we cannot but be reminded of of , all of us went to the that Muslims around the world observe. our mortality. What is it that we value Eidgah - a place for large congregations. Ramadan is the ninth month of the and why? Habits, customs, even Back in the late 70's film Actor profound Islamic lunar calendar and is generally obsessive behavior like smoking can be Mehmood lived near my town, and he observed with a ritual precision; it is an curtailed with relative ease in the face of invited many actors for Eid celebrations dimensions of annual training or a refresher. It a higher calling. at his home. Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh requires one to abstain from food, drink, For fasting to be truly universal, its Khanna, and other actors joined in the intimacy, ill-will, ill-talk, ill-actions and benefits must extend beyond the Eid prayers with Mehmood. fasting: the fasting other temptations from dawn to dusk, fraternal ties of Muslims and must Eid is also a day to pray for the every day for the whole month. One has continue to forging a common humanity deceased; almost all Muslims visit the of the heart focuses to rise above his or her baser desires. with others. Fasting is meant to impart a cemeteries and pray for their loved ones. Islam gifts this month to its followers to sense of what it means to be truly It is one of the most beautiful prayers on the attachment teach discipline to bring moderation to human, and its observance reflects its that seeks forgiveness for all humanity, their daily lives. universality in Baha'i, Buddhist, for the living, and the deceased. Although Ramadan is popularly Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Sikh, Typically,it is a day to clean your slate, to the divine. That known in the west for its culinary Zoroastrian and other faiths. seek forgiveness from the ones you have delicacies and fancy iftars (ceremonial Eid Rundown! hurt or forgive those who have hurt you. is when Ramadan breaking of fast at sundown), the spirit When you see Muslims hugging each and intent of Ramadan lie in a human The number of days one fast other, it is washing off ill-will from their becomes a source of transformation in a month-long inner corresponds with the Moon cycle, which hearts for each other. spiritual journey of finding oneself in varies from 29 to 30 days. At the end of Now comes the food! tune with spirituality. the fasting period, it is time to celebrate! peace and solace, Hindus can see that transformation in It is thanking the creator, living a The most popular dessert of Ramadan nine days of fasting during Navaratri, disciplined life, and rewarding in South Asia is "Dum ke Saviyan" and just as Christmas or the Jains in 8-10 days of fasting during yourselves. "Sheer Qurma" - that is vermicelli's Paryushana, Christians during 40 days Before you celebrate, the essential cooked with milk, cashew, raisins, and of lent, Jews for seven days around Yom duty is to pay fitra, sort of income tax, other dry fruits. My favorite! Dussehra goes Kippur, and likewise you find fasting is a and it is roughly 2.5% of your earnings. Each nation has its food and delicacies. way of life in most traditions. To make your celebration wholesome, Goat Biryani is the most common item in beyond the rituals God has no need for the hunger or and guilt-free, you thank the Lord for South Asia. thirst of someone who hurts others, your blessings and share a portion with Most people have an open house on the violates their dignity, or usurps their the underprivileged, so they can also day of the Eid, check with your Muslim to bring forth rights. The consciousness of behavior celebrate along with you. The idea is to friends and visit them and enjoy the and vigilance over action are the most fill the environment with positive fellowship and food. kindness, charity, profound dimensions of fasting: the energy. (The author is a public speaker, author, fasting of the heart focuses on the Chand Raat - That is the evening of interfaith wedding officiant, a newsmaker and and caring. attachment to the divine. That is when moon sighting, it is a shopping spree and the executive director of the Center for Ramadan becomes a source of peace and surprise gifts for children in particular Pluralism in Washington, DC. More about him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeghouse/) solace, just as Christmas or Dussehra but for all in general. goes beyond the rituals to bring forth Eid - festivity. The whole community THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 WORLD FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019

Indian American Student at MSU Earns Over 7,50,000 EU nationals seek National STEM Scholarship UK residence for Brexit LONDON (TIP): Britain has received 7,50,000 applications from EU citizens seeking to settle in the UK in the first four months of 2019, with Poles leading the way, official data showed on May 30. The government’s scheme for offering an estimated 3.8 million EU nationals the right to live permanently in Britain after Brexit has been riddled with controversy. Mohit Bansil is an Honors College junior Responding to a public outcry, Prime majoring in advanced mathematics in the Minister Theresa May in January College of Natural Science scrapped a 65 (USD 82, 74-euro) fee that would have been imposed had a so-called MICHIGAN (TIP): An Indian “no-deal Brexit” gone into effect. American Michigan State University The programme’s status has been undergraduate studenthas been weighed further by uncertainties over named recipient of the nationally when—or even if—Britain pulls out of competitive Barry M. Goldwater the EU. Scholarship. The UK interior ministry said 10,30,000 Mohit Bansil is an Honors College Polish citizens had applied for junior majoring in advanced permanent residence in the first four contribute so much to this country. in 2016. mathematics in the College of months of the year. Whatever the outcome of Brexit we want Britain’s split from the other 27 EU Natural Science. Romanians filed 90,000 applications them to stay,” Javid said in a statement. nations, originally scheduled for March Each year, the Goldwater and Italians 71,000, the figures showed. “Our free and straightforward EU 29, was delayed until April 12 then Foundation seeks scholars committed Portugal and Spain rounded out the top Settlement Scheme has already seen postponed until October 31 due to the UK to a career in science, mathematics or five. 7,50,000 applications - which is parliament’s refusal to approve the sides’ engineering who display intellectual The scheme is being overseen by Home immensely encouraging. I hope this separation terms. intensity and who have the potential Secretary Sajid Javid, who is one of 11 early success continues in the coming London may still ask Brussels to grant for significant future contribution in declared candidates in the race to months.” Economic worries and a desire it another extension, or decide to walk their chosen field. Those students are succeed May as government chief in to limit migration—particularly from away without a deal—an option that given funding for undergraduate July. eastern European countries such as businesses worry would lead to chaos at tuition and living expenses. “EU citizens are our friends, Poland and Romania—was one of the the border and across the broader "I am greatly honored by the neighbours and colleagues who factors that pushed voters to back Brexit economy. — AFP Goldwater Scholarship," Bansil said. "I believe that the Goldwater Scholarship will help me pursue my Saudi Arabia gathers Arab leaders Budapest boat capsize: dream to attend graduate school and Victims weren’t wearing excel in mathematics." Bansil is from Farmington Hills, over attacks on oil assets life jackets Michigan, and graduated from North JEDDAH (SAUDI ARABIA) (TIP) : Gulf leaders and Arab leaders at BUDAPEST (TIP): Initial Farmington High School. Arab leaders gather in Saudi Arabia on midnight in Mecca would discuss Shi’ite investigation into the Budapest tour He has been active in various Thursday for emergency summits that Iran’s “interference” in Arab affairs. boat capsize that claimed the lives of mathematical research opportunities Riyadh hopes will deliver a strong Tensions have risen between the seven South Korean tourists had both at MSU and other institutions. In message to Iran that regional powers United States and Iran after Washington revealed that none of the victims were 2017, he won first place in MSU's will defend their interests against any quit a multinational nuclear deal with wearing life jackets, authorities said. Herzog competition, earning him a threat following attacks on Gulf oil Iran, re-imposed sanctions and boosted Thirty-five people--including 33 South spot representing MSU in the assets this month. its military presence in the Gulf. Koreans--were on board the sightseeing international Putnam Competition Saudi and the United Arab Emirates, US National Security Advisor John boat when it collided with another Top 150. which have lobbied Washington to Bolton said on Wednesday that the vessel in the Hungarian capital on (Source - Michigan State University) contain their foe Iran, have said they attack near a UAE bunkering hub was Wednesday night, leading to the capsize, want to avoid war after drone strikes on connected to the strike on pumping reports CNN. Paris wants a oil pumping stations in the kingdom and stations on the kingdom’s East-West The captain of the other boat had ‘Princess Diana the sabotage of oil tankers off the UAE pipeline—both alternative oil shipping been detained and his arrest proposed, coast. routes to the Strait of Hormuz—and a Budapest police said in a statement on Square’ at site of her Riyadh accused Tehran of ordering rocket attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone. Thursday. The 64-year-old Ukrainian the drone strikes, which were claimed by “There is no doubt in anybody’s mind citizen was first questioned after police death Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group. A in Washington who is responsible for found evidence that warranted PARIS (TIP): Paris City Hall wants top US security official said Iranian this and I think it’s important that the suspicion during their investigation to name a small plaza after Princess mines were “almost certainly” used in leadership in Iran know that we know,” into the accident’s cause. Diana, at the site of the 1997 car crash the tanker operation. Tehran denies any Bolton said of the operation against four The police said they were continuing that killed the cherished British involvement. vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers. their search for the 21 people who royal. The site is adjacent to the Alma Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al- He said the United States was trying to remain missing. Tunnel where the accident occurred. Assaf told a gathering of his take a “prudent and responsible” Of the seven who were rescued, six The plaza is currently named after counterparts in Jeddah ahead of the approach but warned Tehran against have now been discharged from the opera singer Maria Callas. A city hall summits that the attacks must be any new attacks. hospital. One person remains in official said on Thursday that the city addressed with “strength and firmness”. An Iranian official dismissed Bolton’s hospital with several broken ribs, a council would vote next month on a “While summit leaders are likely to remarks as “a ludicrous claim”. The doctor told CNN. measure to rename it after Diana. discuss how best to avoid a war, King Islamic Republic has said it would Of the seven victims, two have been The city noted that Callas already Salman is equally determined to defend defend itself against any military or identified so far. had a nearby avenue named after her, Saudi and Arab interests amid economic aggression. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and that the city wanted to honour increasing tensions between the US and GULF FAULTLINES: During the US said in a statement on Thursday night Diana for her humanitarian work. Iran,” Prince Turki al-Faisal, former adviser’s visit to Abu Dhabi, officials that rescue efforts had been hampered The 36-year-old princess, her Saudi intelligence chief and envoy, activated a defence cooperation by poor weather. boyfriend and driver died after their wrote in an opinion piece published by agreement signed earlier this year President Moon has ordered a rapid Mercedes crashed into a concrete Al Arabiya. between the United States and the UAE, response team to be dispatched to help pillar in the tunnel. AP He said the meetings of Sunni Muslim which hosts a US air base. Reuters the rescue effort in Budapest. IANS THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 SOUTH ASIA 23

Pak authorities arrest Top Afghan officials hold talks with 3 JuD members from Punjab province Pak authorities LAHORE (TIP): Three members of the Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz ISLAMABAD (TIP): A high-level until his death was disclosed in 2015. Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa have been Afghan delegation led by national Mullah Baradar was arrested in 2010 in arrested on the charges of terror security adviser has held talks with top joint ISI-CIA operation from Karachi but financing in Pakistan’s Punjab civilian and military officers in released by Pakistan last year to help province, amid pressure from the Pakistan, discussing security issues, jumpstart the peace process. global community on Islamabad to peace process with Taliban and also to But there are many irritants rein in the militant groups. prepare the ground for a possible visit of undermining such efforts, including the In a statement issued here on May President Ashraf Ghani next month. trust deficit between Pakistan and 30, the Counter Terrorism Hamdullah Mohib – who led a high- Afghanistan. Department (CTD) of Punjab police powered delegation that included the Kabul is still wary of Islamabad’s role said it arrested the three members Afghan interior minister – was the first prospects for peace with particular in the peace process. Pakistan, on the during a raid on their hideout in senior Afghan official to have travelled emphasis on reconciliation process in other hand, has its own list of Faisalabad, some 150 kilometres from to Islamabad in months. Afghanistan were discussed,” the Inter- grievances, including Afghanistan’s Lahore. The crucial talks with Pakistani Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in patronage of certain militant groups “Millions of rupees have been authorities, including Army chief a statement. that often launch attacks from across the recovered from their possession Qamar Javed Bajwa, were part of the Diplomatic sources said that Ghani border. which they had collected for terror- latest push by the two neighbours to was likely to visit Pakistan next month A senior official said the Afghan NSA’s financing,” it said. remove irritants in their bilateral ties for which was invited by Prime Minister visit was meant to discuss all such The CTD also said a report had been that have undermined efforts for a peace Imran Khan when the Afghan leader issues. The official said Pakistan was submitted to the Anti-Terrorism deal in Afghanistan, officials said on talked over phone with him last month. trying to improve ties with Afghanistan Court in Faisalabad against them. May 29. Mohib mission was to hold initial talks and the visit of President Ghani could Last week, the Pakistani Diplomatic officials said that main on key issues to see if progress was help achieve that goal. authorities arrested 10 members of engagements were with the security possible during visit of President Ghani. The Taliban are currently holding the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror officials but foreign secretary Sohail Pakistan’s role is considered as a key talks with the US but have so far refused group in Punjab on similar charges. Mahmood also attended delegation level to bring peace in Afghanistan. to sit across the table with the Kabul A nation-wide crackdown against talks on border security, Afghan peace The Afghan peace initiative has been administration. They are in discussion terror financing had been under way, process and political ties. moving at a snail’s pace due to refusal of to end more than a 17-year long bloody police said. Army spokesman in brief statement the Taliban to sit for talks with the war in Afghanistan. The Pakistan government has on Wednesday said that Mohib also met Afghan government officials. The Taliban control nearly half of launched a crackdown against the Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa. Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Afghanistan, and are more powerful outlawed organisations under the “Matters related to mutual interest, Baradar is the co-founder of the Taliban than at any time since the 2001 US-led National Action Plan 2015 to peace and stability in the region, Pak- movement with Mullah Omar who invasion after the 9/11 terror attacks in eliminate militancy and extremism Afghan border management and remained a synonym for the Taliban 2001. PTI from the country’s soil. The Imran Khan-led government HIV positive Pak woman has also announced the freezing of Maldives ex-President Nasheed elected accounts and seizure of assets linked murdered by husband to organisations banned by the UN after objecting to his Parliament Speaker Security Council. PTI second marriage MALE (MALDIVES) (TIP): The up plans to contest the 2018 election Blast hits Afghanistan Maldives’ Parliament has because his candidacy could have capital Kabul decision overwhelmingly voted the country’s first become invalid as he was still serving KARACHI (TIP): A 30-year-old HIV democratically elected President as the his sentence. KABUL (TIP): A large explosion positive Pakistani woman was killed by Speaker of the House. Nasheed and other politicians jailed hit Kabul on May 31, sending a plume her husband in Sindh province after she Mohamed Nasheed received 67 votes under Yameen’s government were of white smoke into the sky, objected to his decision to marry again, from among 87 members. His rival released after Solih was elected to office according to Reuters reporters in the police said. The incident happened in a received 17 votes past midnight May 28. while others returned from exile. — AP Afghan capital. village near Larkana district on The Speaker also has a role in the There was no immediate word on Wednesday when the husband of Judicial Services Commission that Everest logjam fails to the cause or casualties from the blast, Kareema Rind insisted for a second regulates the Supreme Court, and is thwart climber's record which came a day after Islamic State marriage after she was recently tested third in line should the positions of the claimed a suicide attack outside a HIV positive during a blood test. President and Vice-President become 14-peak bid military training academy that killed “The HIV positive woman who had vacant. KATHMANDU (TIP): Former at least six people. Reuters five children refused to allow the second President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s soldier Nirmal Purja remains marriage and her husband, Bahadur Maldivian Democratic Party has swept on target to conquer the world's 14 Pak teacher booked Rind with the help of his brothers the parliamentary elections, winning 65 highest mountains in a record-breaking for forcing student to strangled the woman and hanged her out of 87 seats. Last year, Solih defeated seven months despite death-defying from the tree in the village,” Faheem strongman Yameen Abdul Gayoom in queues on the biggest peak of them all. eat grass Tunio, a police officer, said. the presidential vote. Waiting for more than seven hours last ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani The body was handed over to relatives The elections paved the way for week to get to the top of Everest and then school teacher has been booked for after post-mortem examination, the Nasheed’s return home after years in back to the safety of his camp -- in a pile- forcing a primary school student to Dawn newspaper reported. exile. Nasheed, a former pro-democracy up that he documented in a photo that eat grass as punishment for not The police registered an FIR against activist was elected President of the has gone viral -- injected doubts into learning his lesson. The incident Bahadur, his brother Darya Khan Rind Indian Ocean archipelago in 2008, Purja's minute-by-minute strategy. happened at the Government Primary and relative Johar Rind on the ending a 30-year autocratic government. "My plan was to climb Everest and School in Fatehpur, Lodhran, a small complaint of Akbar Rind, brother of the He resigned in 2012 amid public as fast as possible, breaking my city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, deceased, the paper reported. upheaval over his decision to arrest a own previous record but that day, I was Dawn newspaper reported on May 29. Muzaffar Ghangro, a doctor from the senior judge. stuck in traffic," Purja told AFP back in The video of the school teacher went district, who was arrested on the He lost the 2013 presidential election to the comfort of Kathmandu. In 2017, the viral on social media, showing seven- suspicion of having spread the HIV Yameen, and was later jailed over the ex-British specialforces member climbed year-old Kashan being forced to either virus with infected needles at his clinic judge’s arrest following a trial criticised the two mountains in a record 10 hour eat grass or read out the lesson in front has been cleared of “intentionally” for due process violations. He was and 15 minutes. "I sat four hours on the of his class fellows. The video clip spreading the deadly virus in Ratodero granted asylum in Britain when he way up and three and half hours on the shows Kashan failing to read the town. The virus but it confirmed the travelled there for medical treatment. way down and that kind of made me lesson and instead ending up eating doctor was one of the major sources for Nasheed had planned to campaign (worry) like I won't be able to achieve the grass after being forced by his teacher the virus' spread. PTI from neighbouring Sri Lanka but gave record," he said. - AFP -- identified as Hamid Raza. (PTI) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 WOMEN FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 RULES FOR SAVING FOOD CORNER YOUR MARRIAGE

f your marriage is in trouble, the chances are that you and your Ipartner are stuck in trying to control rather than learn. Changing your intent can heal your marriage. Be honest with yourself regarding your primary intention. Which category do you fall into - the intent to protect or the intent to learn? Mishti doi Is your primary intention to protect ishti Doi is synonymous with Bengal in East India. yourself from your fears with some form The Bengalis are famous for their sweet of controlling behavior - such as anger, Mpreparations and Mishti Doi is among their most blame, criticism, withdrawal of love, well-known desserts. Mishti Doi tastes great but is amazingly threats, compliance, or resistance? Is simple to make. having power over your partner and winning more important to you than Ingredients being loving to yourself and your 1 liter full cream/ whole milk, 3-4 tablespoons yogurt, 250 partner? Do you make your partner grams sugar, responsible for your feelings? Are you more devoted to getting love and Method avoiding rejection rather than to Boil the milk in a heavy-bottomed pan, on a medium mutuality, caring, and sharing love? flame until it is reduced to half its original volume. Stir Is your primary intention to learn frequently to prevent the milk from scorching. When about loving yourself and your partner? done, cool the milk till it is just lukewarm. Are you more devoted to mutuality, Put the sugar in another pan and heat over a low flame caring and sharing love than to being to melt. Allow the sugar to caramelize (brown). Remove right, winning, having your way, or from the fire when done, add the reduced milk to this making your partner responsible for caramelized sugar and mix well to blend. your feelings? Is learning more When the milk and sugar are thoroughly mixed, add the important to you than whether or not take loving care of yourself in the responsible for causing them. yogurt to the mixture and stir gently to mix. you receive approval? face of your partner's choices. Accept your lack of control over Pour into the desired container and keep in a warm Basic to all the other rules is being in Keep your eyes on your own plate, the other person, choosing instead dark spot for the Mishti Doi to set. The best taste results the intent to learn about loving yourself sharing only about yourself and to see your partner as his or her are achieved by setting the Mishti Doi in an and others. If your primary intent is to your own learning. Let go of own person. Learn to cherish the earthenware pot. protect yourself from pain and rejection analyzing or defining your partner. differences rather than try to make When the Mishti Doi has set and is firm, chill for a few with controlling behavior, you will have Let go of interrogating questions your partner into you. Support hours and serve. no chance of improving your that are really attacks. These your partner in becoming all he or relationship. You will continue to create behaviors are controlling and she came to this planet to be. Mango Kulfi the very problems you are attempting to invasive. Your job is to define Support your partner in what avoid with your controlling behavior. yourself, not your partner! The brings him or her joy, taking Ingredients Let go of the past. Hanging on to more you define your own inner responsibility for whatever fears 2 fresh, ripe, sweet mangoes (use 3 mangoes if they are not old grievances is part of the intent worth and let go of attempting to your partner's independence very pulpy), 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk, 2 1/2 cups thickened to protect - blaming your partner define your partner, the better brings up for you. double cream, 1 3/4 cups sweetened condensed milk, 2 for your pain rather than taking your relationship will become. Make kindness to your self and tablespoons almond meal responsibility for whatever Do your own Inner Bonding work others your guiding light, even choices you made that resulted in to deal with your issues of when your fears are triggered. Method your unhappiness. abandonment and engulfment, and Once again, if you are stuck in the Remove the mango pulp carefully. Put all of the Disengage from conflict as soon as to define your own worth and mindset of protection and control, you ingredients in a blender and mix them until they are one person is not open to learning. lovability. Rather than making will not be able to make these choices. completely smooth. There is no point in trying to talk your partner responsible for your Your intent to learn is basic to being able Pour the ice cream mixture into molds or bowls, or into out problems and issues until both fears of abandonment or your to make these choices and improve your one large bowl and freeze it until it is almost set. people are open to learning. If you fears of losing yourself, do your relationship. You are in charge of your Remove the bowl or bowls from the freezer and whisk it are open and your partner is not, inner healing work to move beyond intent and you always have the option to thoroughly until all of the lumps are gone. This then give up trying to solve these fears. Take full 100% let go of the intent to protect/control prevents ice crystals from forming in the kulfi and gives problems by talking about them responsibility for these fears and move into the intent to learn about it a smooth texture. Put the ice cream back into the and unilaterally figure out how to rather than making your partner loving yourself and your partner. freezer and leave it until it is set. MULTANI MITTI FACE PACKS FOR ALL TYPES OF SKIN ultani mitti is very effective for few minutes so that it dries. 1-2 spoons of honey for skin glow. It is good Rinse with water. PROCEDURE Mcleanser that brightens our Multani mitti and Tomato face pack Mix Multani mitti with honey to skin immediately. Multani mitti is a form a paste. clay substance used as a cleanser, INGREDIENTS Apply it evenly on the face. toner. Multani mitti is rich in 2 tablespoons of tomato juice After a few minutes, rinse it. magnesium chloride helps to reduce 2 tablespoons of multani mitti Multani Mitti and Potato face acne. PROCEDURE pack Multani Mitti and Aloe Vera Mix multani mitti with tomato INGREDIENTS juice. 2 spoons of grated potato face pack Apply it on your face and leave it Few drops of olive oil INGREDIENTS for 10 minutes so the skin absorbs 1 spoon of multani mitti Multani mitti the needed nutrients. PROCEDURE Aloe vera gel Rinse with warm water. Mix grated potato with multani PROCEDURE Multani Mitti and Honey face mask mitti and olive oil. Mix multani mitti with some aloe Apply this mixture on your face vera gel to form a paste. INGREDIENTS and leave it for few minutes. Apply it on your face and leave it 1 spoon of multani mitti Rinse with water. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 HEALTH 25 HORMONAL LINK BETWEEN DIET AND OBESITY FOUND n a new study researchers have found that low levels of a circulating Ihormone called adropin predict increased weight gain and metabolic dysregulation during consumption of a high-sugar diet in a nonhuman primate model. LICORICE TEA MAY HAVE According to the study published in the ‘Journal of Biological Chemistry,’ HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS these findings will help set the stage to develop new therapies for managing xcessive consumption of licorice tea—a popular metabolic diseases. herbal beverage—may have health risks such as high Obesity is a growing public health Eblood pressure and reduced potassium levels, crisis, bringing with it many serious researchers claim. risk factors, including cardiovascular According to a case study, published in CMAJ (Canadian disease and type 2 diabetes. As the Medical Association Journal), consuming tea made from number of people who are either licorice root resulted in severely elevated blood pressure in overweight or obese now outnumbers an 84-year-old man. those with a healthy body weight by a "Excessive amounts of some herbal products can have ratio of two to one, researchers face an harmful side effects," said Jean-Pierre Falet from the McGill urgent need to better understand how University in Canada. the body burns fuel. "Products containing licorice root extract can raise blood Several years ago, Andrew Butler, pressure, cause water retention and decrease potassium professor of pharmacology and in metabolic health. development of type 2 diabetes was only levels if consumed in excess," said Falet. physiology discovered the peptide They examined the plasma of 59 adult observed in animals with low plasma According to the researchers, the patient visited the hormone adropin. Research by Butler’s male rhesus macaques that were fed a adropin concentrations. These animals emergency department for a high-blood pressure emergency. lab suggested that adropin regulates high sugar diet. also showed more pronounced His blood pressure was severely elevated, and he was whether the body burns glucose or fat. Overall, consumption of the fructose dysregulation of glucose and lipid suffering from a headache, light sensitivity, chest pain, They also found that young men with diet produced a 10 per cent gain in body metabolism. fatigue and fluid retention in the calves. high adropin levels had lower body mass weight and increases of fasting levels of Fasting hyperglycemia was also After admission to hospital and treatment, the patient, who index (BMI) levels. Moreover, some insulin, indicating insulin resistance, limited to animals with low circulating had a history of high blood pressure, told physicians he had studies indicated low adropin is which reduces glucose use and elevated adropin, indicating glucose intolerance. been drinking one to two glasses daily of homemade licorice associated with biomarkers of insulin fasting triglycerides which in humans “Monkeys with low adropin may root extract called "erk sous" for two weeks prior. resistance. increases the risk of cardiovascular therefore not be oxidizing glucose as Licorice tea is popular in the Middle East and parts of In the current study, Butler and his disease. well, explaining their higher fat content Europe, and erk sous is especially popular in Egypt during colleagues have conducted studies at Animals with low plasma adropin as the glucose is converted to lipids Ramadan. "Physicians should consider screening for licorice California National Primate Research concentrations developed a more severe instead of being used as a metabolic root intake in patients with difficult-to-control Center in order to explore adropin’s role metabolic syndrome. Interestingly, fuel,” Butler said. hypertension," said Falet. Source: PTI LESS THAN 7 HOURS OF FLOWER PESTICIDES LINKED SLEEP BAD FOR YOUR HEART eople who sleep less than seven hours each night are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease TO HIGH BP IN KIDS P(CVD) and coronary heart disease, warn researchers. The findings, published in the journal Experimental xposure to flower pesticide may Physiology, show that people who sleep fewer than seven increase blood pressure in hours per night have lower blood levels of three physiological Echildren and put them at the risk regulators, or microRNAs, which influence gene expression of hypertension, a study has found. and play a key role in maintaining vascular health. Researchers at University of “This study proposes a new potential mechanism through California San Diego in the US found a which sleep influences heart health and overall physiology,” link between higher blood pressure and said Christopher DeSouza, Professor at University of pesticide exposures in children— Colorado in the US. especially heightened pesticide spraying For the study,the research team took blood samples from a period around the Mother’s Day flower small group of healthy men and women, age 44 to 62, who had harvest, a holiday with one of the filled out questionnaires about their sleep habits. highest sales of flowers. While half of the participants slept seven to 8.5 hours The study, published in the journal nightly, the other half slept five to 6.8 hours every night. Environmental Research, involved boys The research team measured the expression of nine and girls living near flower crops in microRNAs previously associated with inflammation, Ecuador. immune function or vascular health. According to the researchers, Ecuador is among the largest commercial flower growers in the world, PAGE SPONSORED BY with significant rose exports to North America, Europe and Asia. DR. SATISH AND GITANJLI ANAND Commercial rose production relies on the use of insecticides, fungicides and DR. SATISH ANAND other pest controls, but little is known Former Chairman, Board of about their human health effects. ages four to nine, residing in examined within 81 days after the Trustees, AAPI National “These findings are noteworthy in floricultural communities in Ecuador. harvest were three times more likely to E-Mail: that this is the first study to describe The children were examined up to 100 have hypertension than children [email protected] that pesticide spray seasons not only can days after the Mother’s Day harvest. examined between 91 and 100 days,” he increase the exposure to pesticides of “We observed that children examined said. children living near agriculture, but can sooner after the Mother’s Day harvest Research regarding the effects of GITANJLI ANAND increase their blood pressures and had higher pesticide exposures and pesticides on the cardiovascular system Former President, India overall risk for hypertension,” said Jose higher systolic and diastolic blood is limited, but Suarez said there is some Association of Long Island R Suarez, an assistant professor at UC pressures compared to children evidence that insecticides, such as (IALI) San Diego. examined later,” said Suarez. organophosphates, can increase blood E-mail: The team assessed 313 boys and girls, “In addition, children who were pressure. Source: ANI [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 26 SCIENCE AND TECH FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 FLEXIBLE TEXTILE BATTERY MAY POWER WEARABLE DEVICES cientists have developed a thin, deposited highly conductive metal, APPLE SET TO UNVEIL IOS 13, highly flexible textile lithium copper (Cu) and nickel (Ni) uniformly Sbattery that could safely power onto pre-treated fabrics. MAJOR UPGRADES wearable electronics used in healthcare Such fabricated metallic fabrics, monitoring, smart clothes and Internet of featuring low sheet resistance and large ech giant Apple is set to unveil a slew of features and Things (IoT). surface area, serve as current collectors tools--from software to hardware along with major The lightweight Textile Lithium in battery. Tupdates--on its iOS and MacOS ecosystem. Battery, developed by researchers at the After adding active materials to act as While iOS 13 is a certainty,Apple could also refresh its Mac Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has cathode and anode, the metallic fabrics, Pro and announce interoperability between iOS and MacOS high energy density and excellent together with separators and at its annual developer conference WWDC 2019 in San Jose, flexibility. electrolytes, are assembled into the California, next week, reports CNET. The battery, which is less than 0.5 mm Textile Lithium Battery,researchers said. iOS 13, expected to be part of iPhone 11 this year, would thick, possesses fast Laboratory tests conducted by the have a new home screen, a system-wide “dark mode” setting, charging/discharging capability,and also team showed the extremely high expanded multi-tasking capabilities and an “undo” options. has a long cycle life comparable with imagination of today," said Zijian. mechanical stability, durability and Apple is also said to be “cultivating greater conventional lithium batteries. Lithium battery is currently the safety of the Textile Lithium Battery interoperability” between iOS and MacOS. "Global market revenues for wearable dominant rechargeable battery in the under deformation. “This would ostensibly make it easier for developers to devices are forecasted to grow by leaps market due to its relatively high energy When the battery is repeatedly folded share code among apps written for the iPhone and iPad and and bounds, of over 20 per cent annually, density and long cycle life. in half, twisted at different angles or Macs,” the report said. to reach USD 100 billion by 2024," said As conventional bulky heavy lithium freely crumpled, its voltage window The new MacOS 10.15 may let Mac users use an iPad as a Zheng Zijian, who led the research team. batteries are hard to use in wearable remained unchanged. Bending test second screen. "As all wearable electronics will devices, over the past decade, scientists showed that the battery can be bent over According to a Digital Trends report, not all Apple devices require wearable energy supply, our have put in efforts in developing bendable 1,000 times with marginal capacity may support iOS 13. novel technology in fabricating Textile lithium battery,often by using metal foils degradation. “Those rumoured to be cut off from the latest software Lithium Battery offers a promising as current collectors. The Textile Safety tests conducted by continuous include the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, the solution to a wide array of next- Lithium Battery overcomes the hammering, trimming with scissors and iPad Mini 2, and the original iPad Air,” said the report. generation applications, ranging from bottlenecks over energy density, penetrating with nail proved the battery The company could also debut the updated Mac Pro, which healthcare, infotainment, sports, flexibility, mechanical robustness and can stably provide power output for the it had pledged to reveal in 2019. aerospace, fashion, IoT to any sensing or cycling stability, researchers said. electronic components with no risk of Apple may also reveal its Marzipan project too, which tracking uses that may even exceed our To create the battery, researchers catching fire or bursting. would make iPads easier to use as a full laptop replacement. Google Search to rank sites on Melting glaciers may ORIGAMI-INSPIRED basis of ‘mobile-first indexing’ MATERIALS MAY HELP oogle has announced that starting July 1, all new add 10 inches to sea SPACECRAFT SURVIVE websites would be analysed and ranked on Search on Gthe basis of “mobile-first indexing”. COLLISIONS “Mobile-first indexing” means Google would consider the levels by 2100 mobile version of any new website for evaluating, indexing nspired by the paper folding art of origami, and ranking the site, instead of the desktop version which scientists are designing materials that can was used primarily. Iwithstand high impact collisions—an advance “We’re happy to announce that ‘mobile-first indexing’ will that may be used to build reusable spacecraft. be enabled by default for all new, previously unknown to Landing is stressful for reusable rockets because Google Search websites, starting July 1, 2019,” John Mueller, they must handle the force from the impact with Developer Advocate, Google, wrote in a blog-post on Tuesday. the landing pad. One way to combat this is to build For older and existing websites, Google would determine legs out of materials that absorb some of the force their readiness for “mobile-first indexing” based on the and soften the blow. parity of content including text, images, videos, links and Researchers from University of Washington in structured data as well as other meta-data-like titles and the US have developed a novel solution to help descriptions. reduce impact forces. “We will notify them through Search Console once they’re Taking inspiration from the Japanese paper- seen as being ready. Since the default state for new websites folding art of origami, the team created a paper will be ‘mobile-first indexing’, there’s no need to send a model of a metamaterial that uses "folding notification,” Mueller said. creases" to soften impact forces and instead Google said it is pleased to see that “mobile-first indexing” elting glaciers worldwide could result in almost 10 inches of sea promote forces that relax stresses in the chain. has come a long way. level rise by the end of this century,a study warns. The research, "If you were wearing a football helmet made of “We’re happy to see how the web has evolved from being Mpublished in the Journal of Glaciology, indicates that the this material and something hit the helmet, you'd focused on desktop to becoming mobile-friendly, and now to smaller glaciers could play a much larger role in sea level rise than never feel that hit on your head. By the time the being mostly crawlable and indexable with mobile user- researchers had previously thought. energy reaches you, it's no longer pushing. It's agents,” Muller said. The review is the most comprehensive global comparison of glacier pulling," said Jinkyu Yang, an associate professor simulations ever compiled, researchers said. at University of Washington. It estimates that glaciers worldwide are likely to lose anywhere from 18 For the research, published in the journal to 36 per cent of their mass by 2100. Science Advances, the team designed a “The clear message is that there’s mass loss—substantial mass loss— metamaterial to have the properties they wanted. all over the world,” said Regine Hock, from the University Alaska Fairbanks in the US. The anticipated loss of ice varies by region, but the pattern is evident. “We have more than 200 computer simulations, and they all say the same thing. Even though there are some differences, that’s really consistent,” Hock said. This is the only comprehensive and systematic endeavour to date to compare global-scale glacier models and their projections. The study compared 214 glacier simulations from six research groups around the world and “all of them paint the same picture,” Hock said. Researchers examined the mass changes for over 200,000 glaciers worldwide, totalling an area equal to the size of Texas. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 BIZ AND FINANCE 27 SUNDAR PICHAI TURNED ‘Provoking trade disputes is DOWN A BIG STOCK AWARD naked economic terrorism’: AFTER LAVISH PAYOUTS undar Pichai was, for years, one of the world’s highest- paid corporate executives. Now he’s facing the opposite Sreality: No big paychecks at all. China on trade war with US The Google chief executive officer hasn’t received an equity award in more than two years. A key reason is that BEIJING (TIP): Provoking trade Pichai turned down a big new grant of restricted stock in disputes is “naked economic terrorism”, 2018 because he felt he was already paid generously, a senior Chinese diplomat said on according to a person familiar with the decision. Thursday, ramping up the rhetoric It’s unclear how much he passed up. But another giant against the United States amid a bitter payday -- on top of hundreds of millions of dollars in trade war that is showing no signs of previous awards -- could have sparked a new round of ending soon. controversy for the mild-mannered executive. Trade tensions between Washington Technology companies are being increasingly blamed for and Beijing escalated sharply earlier all sorts of societal ills -- including rising income equality. this month after the Trump Pichai, given the top job in 2015 for his engineering prowess, administration accused China of having has had to address these concerns, while juggling a host of “reneged” on its previous promises to other politically charged issues. make structural changes to its economic “He may have looked at these numbers and said: ‘I’ve had practices. enough’ -- or he might just be trying to manage the optics of Washington later slapped additional his pay,” said David Larcker, a professor who researches tariffs of up to 25% on $200 billion of corporate governance at Stanford Graduate School of Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to Business. retaliate. The board of Google parent Alphabet Inc. is scheduled to Speaking to reporters in Beijing, revisit the CEO’s pay later this year, said the person, who Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang confidence, resolve and ability to countermeasures apart from rare earths asked not to be identified discussing private matters. By then, Hanhui said China opposed the use of safeguard our country’s sovereignty, to hand”. almost all Pichai’s previous stock awards will have vested. “big sticks” like trade sanctions, tariffs security, respect and security and “As Chinese officials have reiterated, That makes him an anomaly among US corporate leaders, and protectionism. development interests.” they have a ‘tool box’ large enough to fix and is even raising questions about what’s next for the 46- “We oppose a trade war but are not From combative missives in state any problem that may arise as trade year-old. afraid of a trade war. This kind of media and patriotic fervour on social tensions escalate, and they are ready to “Clearly there’s very little retentive effect left for Pichai,’ deliberately provoking trade disputes is media, to a mobilisation of ambassadors fight back ‘at any cost’,” it said in an said Fabrizio Ferri, an associate professor at the University naked economic terrorism, economic around the world to get its message out, editorial. of Miami who studies executive pay. homicide, economic bullying,” Zhang China has intensified its criticism of China has consistently rebuffed U.S. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment, and said the said, when asked about the trade war Washington since the United States this complaints about lack of access to its Alphabet board won’t comment either. The company and its with the United States. month moved to increase tariffs on economy for foreign companies, forced directors have said nothing publicly about the CEO leaving Everyone loses in a trade war, he Chinese imports and blacklisted tech technology transfers and intellectual any time soon. Pichai has never mentioned moving on either. added, addressing a briefing on Chinese giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. property protection, and repeatedly President Xi Jinping’s state visit to On Thursday, a broadcaster from promised further economic reforms. Russia next week, where he will meet Chinese state television and a Fox Speaking at a separate forum in Russian President Vladimir Putin and Business host staged an unprecedented Beijing, Wang Zhaoxing, a vice speak at a major investor forum in St live debate about the China-U.S. frictions chairman of China’s banking and Petersburg. on the U.S. cable network. insurance regulator, said the last four “This trade clash will have a serious Over the past two weeks, China has decades of the country’s economic negative effect on global economic hinted that it may use its dominant reforms have shown that “openness development and recovery,” Zhang position as an exporter of rare earths to brings progress, shutting off brings added. the United States as leverage in the trade backwardness”. “We will definitely properly deal with war. Rare earths are a group of 17 “It is undeniable that the current all external challenges, do our own thing chemical elements used in everything economic globalisation has indeed well, develop our economy, and continue from high-tech consumer electronics to encountered some new problems and to raise the living standards of our two military equipment. new challenges,” Wang said.”However, peoples,” he said, referring to China and On Thursday, the state-run China the solution is not to return to Russia. Daily newspaper said “it would be naive protectionism and unilateralism.” “At the same time, we have the to think that China does not have other Source: Reuters Bitcoin climbs to highest in a year HUAWEI ASKS COURT TO DEEM US amid cryptocurrency comeback SECURITY LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL itcoin soared to the highest level in a year, extending a run that’s SHENZHEN (TIP): Chinese tech giant Huawei Bseen prices more than double filed a motion in U.S. court Wednesday challenging since March. the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of The largest cryptocurrency climbed as telecom equipment, the latest action in an ongoing much as 10% Monday from levels late clash with the U.S. government. Friday, and was trading at $8,847 as of Huawei’s chief legal officer Song Liuping said at 10:25 a.m. in Tokyo. Rival coins were also press briefing that Huawei had filed a motion for stronger at the start of the week. summary judgment asking the court to rule on Litecoin added almost 9% and Ether, the whether it is constitutional for the U.S. to second largest digital token, rose 6%. implement a military spending provision that bars Crypto proponents are taking & Co. strategists that its price may have the government and its contractors from using encouragement from a string of recent surged beyond its “intrinsic value” -- a Huawei equipment. headlines showing greater interest in the concept that not all agree applies to a Huawei is the biggest global maker of network space from mainstream firms. Fidelity digital currency. equipment, but it is now fighting to maintain Investments is finalizing plans to buy “Easier to spend means a greater-use access to major markets for next-generation and sell the digital asset for institutional case and a greater level of adoption,” communications as the U.S. claims the company customers, and E*Trade Financial Corp. Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst threatens international cybersecurity. is poised to allow crypto trading. AT&T at eToro, wrote in a note Friday. “The In March, Huawei launched its suit against the Song said the “state-sanctioned campaign” Inc. said it will permit customers to use tipping point is likely very close now.” U.S. law in Plano, Texas, the headquarters of its against the company will not improve payment processor BitPay to settle their Bitcoin’s fantastic run this year U.S. operations. The summary judgment motion cybersecurity. online bills. follows a painful downtrend that lasted seeks to accelerate the legal process to give U.S. “Politicians in the U.S. are using the strength of Bitcoin is up almost 70% this month the majority of last year and saw the customers access to Huawei equipment sooner, an entire nation to come after a private company,” despite concerns from JPMorgan Chase digital currency tumble more than 70%. according to a Wednesday statement from Huawei. he said. “This is not normal.” Source: AP THE INDIAN PANORAMA 28 ASTROLOGY FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019

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The Indian Panorama brings you Weekly and Birthday Horoscope from the World's most trusted astrologer Bejan Daruwalla. Latest correct prediction: Modi's historic victory Weekly Horoscope - June 3 - June 9, 2019 ARIES: period with many influences working on you at SAGITTARIUS: Ganesha says work tightens and you have to the same time. Never lose hope, says Ganesha. The tide steadies itself somewhat in this phase. look hard at the nitty gritty. You have many After the long night is the dawn. Domestic issues There are important forces at play here and you responsibilities and duties to attend to. There is are at the forefront now. Your time is usurped by are pushed into career expansion at full throttle. hard, unrelenting work to catch up on. There is no family and friends. There is little time for work Your work grows in leaps and bounds and you win respite from paperwork. Bills, documents and but then you are not unduly perturbed as your the applause of your peers and bosses. If self - balance sheets occupy your time. You look for finances are in order and that is a great worry off employed, you look at starting new ventures as loans and may even sell assets to have a sustained your chest. you are filled with confidence and innovative cash flow. The phase is hectic as you drown VIRGO: ideas. yourself in more and more work. You will have to manage time and various CAPRICORN: TAURUS: commitments as your loved ones will want more Grab the moment by the horns and you will be You may be misunderstood but it is not your of you and it will be difficult to give them the time successful. You have a lot to gain now on the fault if you don't have time for close family and they demand. There will be romantic dinners, professional front. There will be minor pin-pricks, friends. There are many other demands on your overnight trips, exotic travel and shopping. There of course, like family matters to attend to and time, and you have several things to attend to. will be many binges and you may have to watch some legalities that need your presence. There This is a period of sustained and concentrated your weight. You could go overboard with all the may be some travel thrown in too, but you emerge work. Don't lose hope and leave it to Ganesha to drinking and eating. This is a period of the winner in the cauldron of events that try to steer your home. An interesting period with fun indulgence and you go all out. Enjoy, says snare you. Despite everything, your gains are and success, assures Ganesha. Ganesha! solid and profound and this is a good period to GEMINI: LIBRA: make substantial headway. There is a lot of travel now. You will be moving There is a lot to ponder over now. You are being AQUARIUS: fast and making fruitful contacts. Expenses pulled in different directions. At one level, work This is a very good phase as the moon is in mount and you look seriously at cutting back on and domestic responsibilities weigh you down. At your birth sign. Use the waxing phase of the non-essentials. This is a not a troubling phase but another level, you want time to indulge your moon well. Whatever you start now will lead to you need to get more disciplined and cut down on fantasies and fly. You want to dream and be success. There will also be great camaraderie your extravagant ways. There will be partying, carefree. You are busy with all sorts of things and and good vibes with loved ones. You expand you new friendships and many fun times. Ganesha's your energies are diffused. There are many sphere of influence at all levels. There is blessings are with you. projects on hand, repairs, renovations, partying and fun times thrown in and the CANCER: constructions and additions to property that need chances of a new affair in your life. Romance is Once again, you are pitch forked into a hectic to be supervised. kindled and you just let go. phase. You make plans for expansion. If in a job, SCORPIO: PISCES: you could get a promotion or a better offer There is a lot of buying and selling going on and You throw caution to the winds. While this elsewhere. There is movement and bluster. your mind is in a twirl. You are caught up in the could be dangerous, you are in no mood to Expenses mount and there could be domestic frenzy of activity. There are also many domestic listen to reason. These are grand times and you worries. Accidents and possible hospitalisation issues calling for your attention. You need to be just want to partake of the miracle of life with may also be a cause for concern. But all is not lost. steadfast now and focus. Take to meditation or gusto. Go for it, says Ganesha, as life is too LEO: yoga to still your mind. You are walking the short for regrets. The expansion of the last New projects will also get underway and you tightrope and it is necessary to ask Ganesha for period in several spheres of your life continues have your plate full. This is certainly an exciting help and blessings. unabated.

attention to life's little details creates JUNE 6TH: The Moon spotlights group JUNE 8TH: You may be cooking up Birthday Horoscope tension and adds an element of risk to ties friends, and other social interests. something behind closed doors today. June 3 - June 9, 2019 taking action, but this stressful potential Though reliability and consistency may Later, you just might be in the mood to soon dissipates, giving way to a more be lacking, and though some changes spend a quiet autumn evening all by JUNE 3RD: Ganesha says today beings tranquil day. are jarring, others can be exciting. yourself, or with a close friend or two. with a reassuring vibe. Maybe it's JUNE 5TH: Under today's influences it's JUNE 7TH: Extra motivation may be JUNE 9TH: Though you feel more because there's a certain comfort to be mandatory to accept new ways of doing needed to finish a project. Being yourself with the Moon in your sign, derived from the start of a new things; otherwise, a rebellion can erupt. preoccupied with private concerns, you you'll be more effective pulling the workweek and being part of a team. Everyone will benefit from being given a may see duties as a hindrance. Wherever strings while staying on the sidelines. JUNE 4TH: Too much or too little little space. possible, allow yourself a time-out. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 SPIRITUALITY 29

hakti in Sanskrit means, power or energy. In Hinduism energy belongs to Sthe domain of Prakriti or the female aspect of Creation. Popularly known as the Mother Goddess, Shakti is worshipped in her various manifestations by millions of Hindus. THE ROLE OF SHAKTI God is pure and undivided consciousness. You may even say from a perceptual perspective that He is nothingness. In His purest state devoid of qualities He is Nirguna Brahman, that is (nir+guna) devoid of any distinguished features or appearances. IN CREATION Divisions of time and space and the impurities of ego consciousness created by the gunas do not exist in Him. For inexplicable reasons, as He wakes, He sets in motion Prakriti, the universal energy, that was so far latent in Him, and then enters into it. From this union arises ultimately all this reality that we know as the universe. This is something like the modern theory of the origin of the universe. The big bang is actually what sets in motion the latent energy hidden in the cosmic egg (Hiranyagarbha). All the matter that exists in this universe, that is tangible, sensible, unstable, with in the domains of sensory world and can be transformed from one state to another, is an aspect of Prakriti only. Matter is energy in its grossest form. (The scientific world took thousands of years to arrive at the same conclusion.). The human body and the mind and the various constituents that go into their making are also manifestations or aspects of Prakriti only, but at a higher level. The energies of the divinities are still higher on the evolutionary scale than the energies in the human beings, while the energies of the Trinity stand probably above the rest. At the highest level is the combined source of their distinguished energies. This is the energy of the Mother Goddess, acting as the Shakti of Isvara. Isvara is the awakened Brahman, Brahman in his dynamic and creative aspect, who provides the field for the play of Shakti. This in brief is the structure and origin of Shakti. All the while, the Real Self exists inside, completely. A small portion of it survives destroying our illusions. How Shakti manifests things and beings having lost itself in its own reflection in the containing its basic tendencies, desires and At the same time, being divine in origin and buddhi or higher intelligence, doing impulses, which becomes attached to the soul nature, she also helps individuals who Now about Her ways of working and how practically nothing, but keeping the body, the as a kind of program file and after passing worship her directly and seek liberation from the diversity arises in the manifested mind and the false ego alive and breathing by through the doors of death, heaven or hell as a bondage through her grace. Since she is the universe. According to our beliefs, creation its mere presence. subtle body is reborn again. This is in essence cause of illusion the logic is she is in a better arises out of the union of the Pure Self The delusion of the individual ego leads to the cycle of Prakriti. position to relieve us from the bondage. Hence (Purusha) with matter or energy (Prakriti). the bondage of the self. The bondage of self At the human level, Prakriti keeps us in the ascendance of Shaktism as time went by. Pure Self enters into matter and then does not mean that the Soul suffers. The Self delusion through the combination of Is Shakti really female? Shakti is pure awakens the various energies in the matter is pure consciousness and there is no elements and through the interplay of the energy, neither male nor female. This leading to the formation of a false self called suffering in it. No one can touch it and no one triple gunas. At the higher levels She enacts interpretation is purely human, figurative the ego. can punish it. We say it suffers because it is the same drama by becoming the Shakti of and relative and should not be taken literally. This happens over a period of time through caught in the cycle of births and deaths and various worlds and divinities. Since these It is also wrong to believe that Self is male and the differentiation and combination of the cannot go back to its source. It is a suffering divinities are awakened souls she would not the energy is female. Purusha exists in males five Mahabhutas (the five gross elements), for the soul from our point of view, not for the delude them, but become a force in their as well as females and so does Prakriti exists Panchendiryas (the five sense organs), the soul actually. Whether it exists in the heavens consciousness to help them in their assigned in males also. They are like the two sides of karmendriyas (the five organs of action), the or in Timbaktu, for the soul the experience is responsibilities. the same truth. It is also difficult to say who is tanmantras (the five subtle elements), manas one and the same. It is eternal, unchanging Thus in the world of Brahma, She becomes superior to whom. Without energy Self is (mind), ahamkara (deluded self) and buddhi and pure bliss consciousness. Saraswathi to assist Brahma in his acts of practically immovable and without Self (discriminating intelligence). What actually suffers or believes that it is Creation. In the world of Vishnu, She becomes energy does not have any field for its This is how individual beings come into the suffering is the false self or the ego. Suffering Lakshmi to help him manage the world by movements. The Truth at the highest level: world and evolves gradually towards however does not prevent the ego from providing the required amounts of wealth and pure energy (PRAKRITI is undivided liberation. Before the individual beings are indulging in its desire driven actions unless resources. In the world of Siva, she becomes a consciousness (PURUSHA). created this way, the same process takes place the suffering becomes too unbearable to force yogini or a siddhi and helps him in his task of Source: hinduwebsite.com at macro levels, resulting in the creation of to turn to spiritualism. Normally otherwise, it worlds and higher divinities. is so attached to the world that given an PAGE SPONSORED BY Prakriti develops the ego consciousness by opportunity it would not mind to live for this process to make it an important tool in its thousands of years. But unfortunately this is ARISH K. SAHANI armory. The ego is driven by the interplay of not possible because of the logistics and the the three gunas, namely sattva, rajas and physical limitations. Serving Since 1972 tamas, nourished by the activity of the senses So at the end of each life, the ego becomes Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs and motivated by the force of desires. These frustrated at the approach of old age and dies things give it a false sense of identity,through against its own wishes. It dies unhappily Arish K Sahani (Father) the formation of mind and the mind's because it leaves behind a lot of tasks awareness of the body. unfinished, dreams unrealized and the fruits Shiv Sahani (Son) Prakriti, bondage and delusion of its past actions untasted. Nature too does not seem to like this happening since it would Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) Thus the mind and the body become the not let the self escape from its clutches and field in space and time for the ego to since perpetuation of delusion by all means is 7 1 8 - 2 7 1 - 1 9 0 6 distinguish itself from the rest of the creation its chief design. [email protected] and act as if it is the real self and as if it is So it has worked out a compromise by different and separate from the rest of the which each created ego is permitted to come “If Hindus don’t maintain Hinduism, who shall save it?” creation. This is what we call ignorance that back again to the earth through another leads to the deluded belief that the individual rebirth and continue its unfinished work. “If India’s own children don't cling to their faith, who shall guard it?” ego is the real self where as in reality it is not. When a being dies, its ego would not dissolve “Indians alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA 30 ADVERTISEMENTS FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 CLASSIFIEDS 31

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President: David Ramsawmy (Elvis) PH# 718-925-0100 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 32 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 contd from page 1 Department policy, charging a sitting President with a in the next report. crime was "not an option." "India's circumstances have shifted markedly, as the Narendra Modi Takes Oath as But he also stressed he could not exonerate Trump. central bank's net sales of foreign exchange over the Prime Minister of India for the Instead, he cited that same policy to say, "The first six months of 2018 led net purchases over the four Constitution requires a process other than the criminal quarters through June 2018 to fall to USD 4 billion, or Second Term justice system." With Mueller closing his office and not 0.2 per cent of the GDP," the Treasury had said in its the ceremony. Among the allies, expected to comment further, it all amounted, for some, October 2018 report. (Source: PTI) chief Ram Vilas Paswan retained his place in the to an open invitation for Congress to launch Cabinet, as did Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the SAD. impeachment proceedings. Israel to hold fresh election as Arvind Sawant, who defeated in South "He's asking us to do what he wasn't allowed to - hold Netanyahu fails to form govt Mumbai, made it from the Shiv Sena quota. There was the President accountable," said Rep. Val Demings, D- no representation from Tamil Nadu. Tamil-speaking Fla., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the they were elected, Israeli lawmakers voted 74-45 in Nirmala Sitharaman, who took oath as a Cabinet panel with impeachment power. favor of dissolving the 21st Knesset (Israeli Parliament) minister, represents Karnataka in Rajya Sabha. "We have one remaining path to ensure justice is and hold an unprecedented repeat general election on Besides Shah, the new members from the BJP include served," said Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a September 17. Prahlad Joshi, former Chief Ministers Ramesh Democratic presidential candidate. Netanyahu's remarkable victory in the April 9 polls Pokhriyal Nishank and Arjun Munda, while party's UP But top Democrats, with almost no support from securing him a record fifth term proved temporary in chief Mahendra Nath Pandey makes a comeback into Republicans, are hesitant to go it alone on an the face of a logjam between potential coalition the Council of Ministers and has been elevated to impeachment inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi partners over a military conscription bill governing Cabinet rank, as was Giriraj Singh, who was MoS has warned would be divisive for the nation. exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary (Independent Charge) earlier. In a rare public appearance, special counsel Robert students. Former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar was the lone Mueller on Wednesday said his two-year Russia probe Ahead of the vote, taken just after the Wednesday surprise inductee into the Cabinet, becoming the had not exonerated Donald Trump, and not indicting midnight deadline, Netanyahu told the Likud faction second former ranking Indian Foreign Service officer him was not equivalent to clearing him that he had not succeeded in reaching a compromise to be drafted into the new team led by Modi. Modi has He said Justice Department guidelines prevented him with nationalist Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor retained former diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri as from charging a sitting President, suggesting Congress Liberman on the controversial Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Minister of State (Independent Charge). has both the constitutional powers and the conscription bill, and that he had also tried Missing among the Cabinet ministers from the responsibility to pursue the case unsuccessfully to woo MKs from the opposition to join outgoing government were and Sushma 'Russia helped me…oops!' his government. Swaraj. While the former opted out, Swaraj did not US President Trump briefly acknowledged in a tweet Lieberman, a former defense minister, had made it a contest the polls, both citing health concerns. on Thursday,May 30, that Russia helped him get elected condition of allying with ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties Similarly, missing from the MoS (Independent but quickly backtracked that they adopt a law aimed at having ultra-Orthodox Charge) list were Dr Mahesh Sharma, Rajyavardhan "…. I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get Jews serve in the military like their secular Singh Rathore and K Alphons, while failed elected," Trump said. Quickly recognizing the lapse, he counterparts. to make the cut as he lost the election. said: "No, Russia did not get me elected." The bill, which the Defense Ministry drafted under The new Ministers of State include Nityanand Rai, Liberman's leadership, sets rising annual targets for and first-time MPs G Kishan Reddy US administration removes India Haredi conscription in the Israeli Defense Forces. (Telangana), Debosree Chowdhury (West Bengal) and from its currency monitoring list Ultra-Orthodox Jews studying in religious Pratap Chandra Sarangi (Odisha). seminaries are currently exempt from mandatory PM Narendra Modi has dropped parliamentarians among others include China, Japan, South Korea, military service, a practice many Israelis view as and key economic ministers in the previous NDA Germany, Italy, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia and unfair. government like Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha and Vietnam. Lieberman told reporters just before the vote that Manoj Sinha. The name of Rajyavardhan Singh "India has been removed from the monitoring list in Israel was going to the polls because of the "complete Rathore was also missing from the list of ministers who this report, having met only one out of three criteria-a surrender of the Likud (ruling party) to the Haredim took oath significant bilateral surplus with the US-for two (ultra-orthodox)". consecutive reports," the Treasury Department said in Without Yisrael Beitenu, Netanyahu could muster IAF chief Dhanoa is new its latest semi-annual report on macroeconomic and support of only 60 lawmakers in the 120-member house, chairman of chiefs of staff foreign exchange policies of major trading partners of falling short of a majority by just one. Netanyahu the US sent to the Congress. launched a diatribe against Lieberman whom he committee After purchasing foreign exchange on net in 2017, the blamed for "dragging the country to unnecessary An alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College and central bank steadily sold reserves for most of 2018, elections". the National Defense Academy,he was commissioned in with net sales of foreign exchange reaching 1.7 per cent "Liberman is now part of the left. He brings down the flying branch of Indian Air Force in June 1978. of GDP over the year, it said. right-wing governments. Don't believe him again. I will The Air Chief Marshal has primarily flown the MiG- India maintains ample reserves according to the IMF tell you about it tomorrow. Maybe I will tell you some 21 aircraft with flying experience across the entire metrics for reserve adequacy, it said. things you don't know," the prime minister told spectrum of fighter aircraft of the IAF. In both Switzerland and India, there was a notable reporters immediately after the Knesset voted to During the Kargil war in 1999, he was the decline in 2018 in the scale and frequency of foreign dissolve itself. "We'll run a sharp, clear election Commanding Officer of a frontline ground attack exchange purchases, the report said. campaign which will bring us victory. We'll win, we'll fighter squadron. "Neither Switzerland nor India met the criteria for win and the public will win," he said. He has led many coveted operational and staff having engaged in persistent, one-sided intervention in "The public in Israel made a clear decision. It decided assignments that include command of a frontline either the October 2018 report or this report. Both that I will be Prime Minister, that the Likud will lead fighter base and director of the fighter operations and Switzerland and India have been removed from the the government, a right-wing government," Netanyahu war planning at Western Air Command. monitoring list," the Treasury said in its report said. He was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of running into over 40 pages. The move by Netanyahu's ruling Likud party to South Western Air Command and has also been the India for the first time was placed by the US in its dissolve the Knesset ensured that President Reuven Vice Chief of the Air Staff. (Source: PTI) currency monitoring list of countries with potentially Rivlin would not be able to call some other lawmaker to questionable foreign exchange policies in May 2018 try to form a new government. Rivlin had asked Fresh calls for Trump along with five other countries--China, Germany, Netanyahu to form the next government after 65 impeachment after Mueller’s Japan, South Korea and Switzerland. lawmakers, including five of Lieberman's Yisrael In its next report in October 2018, the Treasury had Beitenu party, submitted letters of support for him. statement said that India had made improvements and its name (Source: PTI) The special counsel reiterated that, bound by Justice would be removed from the currency manipulation list THE INDIAN PANORAMA PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja Mohammad Shahzad, Zia Khan DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: Ashishpal Singh Bureau Chief Phone: 972-330-3139 VICE PRESIDENT: Chitagam Saluja Nisha Rani : Manjit Sidhu E-mail [email protected]; Phone: 646-247-9458 CHIEF EDITOR: Prof Indrajit S. Saluja Vaaho Photographers LUDHIANA: A.S. Arora, R.P.Sharma www.theindianpanorama.news ASSISTANT EDITOR: Bidisha Roy Vijay Shah -Photo Journalist. 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anali is a high-altitude Himalayan resort town in India’s northern MHimachal Pradesh state. It has a reputation as a backpacking center and honeymoon destination. Set on the Beas River, it’s a gateway for skiing in the Solang Valley and PLACES TO EXPLORE trekking in Parvati Valley.It's also a jumping-off point for paragliding, rafting and in the Pir Panjal mountains, home to 4,000m-high Rohtang Pass. If you are planning a trip to Manali, these enticing getaways deserve a place in your itinerary. AROUND MANALI Vashisht Vashisht lies at just 19 km from Manali, and is a short drive away. A tiny hamlet, it is much famous for the ancient temple dedicated to sage Vashisht. The temple premise is also home to hot water springs, which are much frequented by the locals, especially in the freezing winter that the region sees. Go here for an inherently locals’ experience and an insight into the religious practices here. Jibhi If you are keen on another adventure and do not mind a three-hour drive, Jibhi is just the place for you. Cut away from the more crowded bylanes of Manali, Jibhi is where you can bask in nature, settle in a cosy homestay, count sheep all day,or doze off by a mountain stream. You will not have many for company, apart from a mountain dog or two. Gulaba Gulaba is a little village that lies en route Rohtang Pass from Manali, around 26 km away. It is named after King Gulab Singh of Kashmir, and is much loved for the scenic beauty around, meadows, and the banks of River Beas, your entire day admiring the cascading falls. making it perfect for a day of picnic. Enthusiasts can also indulge in skiing and Marhi paragliding here. Located midway between Manali and Rohtang La, this is a great town to visit if you Jagatsukh wish to calm the foodie in you. It has numerous Jagatsukh is another great alternative if you roadside restaurants with rolling green hills are seeking some time away from the rather around, that make this place ideal for a sweet tourist Manali. It lies on the road to Naggar short getaway. from Manali, and is an hour’s drive away.Apart from visiting the ancient temple here, this is Kothi where you can buy some of the best homemade If you’re in pursuit of peace, away from the cheese around. That is a secret that is known crowd in the busy streets of Manali, then only to the locals. escaping to the small village of Kothi is the best choice to make. Definitely one of the best Naggar places to visit near Kullu Manali, it lets you Naggar is an ideal outing from Manali, and reminisce the old-world charm, and witness lies at just 21 km away. This is where you can the magical beauty of nature. bask in the solitude of the region, poring over perfect sunsets from the porch of Naggar Bhrigu Lake Castle. While Roerich Art Gallery makes for an Located at an altitude of 4,300 metres, and on essential visit, Naggar is also home to some of the east of the Rohtang Pass, this lake is a the best bakeries in the region. Just your place surreal beauty to be witnessed, especially to enjoy the old-school joys of good coffee and during winters. You can stop by here during perfect mud cakes. your trek for a while and experience the bliss of nature, or even plan a special tour to this Himvalley Amusement enchanting lake. & Cultural Park One of the most unique tourist places near Kunzum Pass Manali Himachal Pradesh, Himvalley is full of One of the highest passes on the Kunzum joy rides and cultural extravaganzas, which range, this mountain pass offers stunning are a must-experience for a fun-filled holiday. landscape views from the valley top, and an out With so much to do and see, it is the perfect of the world experience. If you love the hills, place to visit with your partner, friends, and and adore the heights, this place is a must-visit even family. for you. Arjun Gufa Parvati Valley Located on the way to Naggar village and on Stretching from Bhuntar to Spiti, this the left bank of the Beas River, this cave is an breathtakingly beautiful valley is one of the interesting spot to explore, especially for best places near Manali. If you’re a history lovers. For others, the appealing beauty photography enthusiast, nature admirer, or an of the cave and stunning views of the adventurer at heart, you’d love traveling from mountain ranges around makes a visit here the town to all the way here. worthwhile. Rohtang Pass Rahala Waterfalls Known as one of the top places to visit Situated at an altitude of 2500 metres, it is around Manali, this mountain pass is a haven one of the best waterfalls in Himachal for adventure seekers. The beauty of the Pradesh. What makes it a top tourist spot is the glaciers, peaks, valleys, and rivers, can be dense silver birch and deodar forests, and witnessed at their best between the months of marvelous views around. You can visit here June and October, and are absolutely worth anytime between March to October, and spend capturing. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 34 SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 ROUND THE CLOCK DRILL TO ICC World Cup: England GET DIRECT THROWS RIGHT

SOUTHAMPTON (TIP): The Indian team has always been considered as a safe catching unit but fielding coach R beat South Africa by 104 Sridhar now wants improvement in the conversion rate for direct throws in the World Cup. Save Ravindra Jadeja, some of the younger Indian players in the current squad, despite their supreme fitness and runs in opening match agility, are not able to get their direct throws on target, a crucial aspect during close games. Trying to beat the monotony, Sridhar introduced a new fielding drill ‘Round The Clock’, wherein fielders at six different positions will take a shy at the non-striker’s end. While the drill seemed to be like an ‘old wine in a new bottle’, the players seemed to be enjoying the session, which is the key during a big tournament. “We had an interesting fielding session today. The theme of the session was direct hits. The focus was on the boys getting it right from different angles at the non- striker’s end. Initially, we started with a drill called ‘Round the Clock’where there were six different fielding positions from where they had to hit the stumps 20 times,” Sridhar said. Last man standing After a brief session where Sridhar spoke about the importance of having a “correct arm path” in order to get the execution right, he arranged for a competition where the last man standing was certainly not the ‘best man standing’. “Then we introduced a game where those who get a successful direct hit are out of the session and those who fail have to come back again. Finally, there was only one guy who was left in the end. The boys were rolling on the floor laughing,” Sridhar said. Kohli’s off-spin The other notable aspect of Thursday’s training session LONDON (TIP): England made a Plessis at mid-off. Three balls later Root Amla retired hurt was skipper Virat Kohli trying a bit of off-spin at the nets confident start to their World Cup departed for 51, playing a loose drive at but the batsmen facing him had no problems dispatching the campaign as they crushed South Africa Kagiso Rabada to give JP Duminy a South Africa opener Hashim Amla friendly tweaks. With no off-spinner in the squad and Kedar by 104 runs in the tournament-opener at simple catch at backward point and was forced to retire hurt after being Jadhav hardly bowling with his dodgy hamstrings, it The Oval. leave England on 111/3. struck on the helmet by a short delivery seemed like it was more about providing a bit of knocking Ben Stokes top-scored with 89 as the South Africa continued to bowl from Archer and England took wickets for the batsmen. Source: PTI hosts made a competitive total of 311/8 tightly as Morgan and Stokes set about at regular intervals. Markram was after being sent in to bat. Jofra Archer rebuilding the innings. Morgan struck caught by Root at slip off Archer for 11 took two early wickets and South Africa the first six in the 26th over and the and captain Du Plessis, on five, skied never looked likely to reach their captain cleared the ropes twice more in the fast bowler to Moeen at fine leg. De target, bowled out in the 40th over for a fourth-wicket partnership of 106. Kock made 68 and Rassie van der 207 to give World Cup favourites Morgan, on 57, was brilliantly caught Dussen 50, the pair sharing a third- England the perfect start. off Tahir by Aiden Markram at long-on, wicket partnership of 85 to keep South England lost Jonny Bairstow to the the fielder diving forward to catch the Africa in the match. second ball of the match, caught by ball inches from the turf, and England wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock off failed to cut free. Spectacular catch spinner Imran Tahir, but Jason Roy and Jos Buttler made a scratchy 18, Stokes pulled off a spectacular diving Joe Root shared a 106-run partnership Moeen Ali three before he too fell to a one-handed catch on the boundary to to steady the hosts. Roy never superb catch on the boundary by Du dismiss Phehlukwayo and the last three threatened to dismantle the bowling as Plessis and Chris Woakes 13 as the last wickets fell quickly, including Amla he has done regularly in recent 10 overs produced 76 runs to leave the who returned to the crease but was out matches, accumulating 54 runs before match finely poised at the half-way for 13. he skied Andile Phehlukwayo to Faf du stage. Source: Reuters Indian junior women’s hockey team beat Canada Jr. women 2-0 DUBLIN (TIP): India’s Jr Women team beat goals. India had the first of the opportunities Canada's Jr. team 2-0 in their final warm up with a PC that was smartly saved by the game prior to the Cantor Fitzgerald U21 Canadian goalkeeper. Bichu Devi was called International 4-Nations tournament on May into action soon after, saving from a Canada 29. PC. Within minutes of that save, India had the The game was a tightly contested encounter, lead, Sharmila Devi capping off a fine move with both teams eager to get off on the front with the opener. India went into the break with foot from the opening hooter. A lack of clear- the 1-0 advantage. cut chances and some smart defending meant The opening period of the final quarter saw the scoreboard was left undisturbed at the end the two teams exchange PCs but with little of the first quarter. effect -- both goalkeepers on top of their game Canada were quicker out of the blocks in the to deny the chances. With Canada forced into second quarter and earned the first PC of the action, India had more opportunities to avail game early in. Bichu Devi, in India's goal, on the counter, and duly earned their second though was at hand to parry it away and deny PC of the game soon. Mariana Kujur slotted them a goal. India pressed forward from there home from the ensuing drag flick to double but with little result. The two teams went into India's lead and guarantee a comfortable half time with the score still a 0-0 stalemate. victory. The third quarter proved to be the turning The Indian Jr team will next be in action at point of the game, as both teams threw caution the Cantor Fitzgerald U21 International 4- to the wind and went forward in search of Nations tournament from May 31 to June 4. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 ADVERTISEMENT 35 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 36 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019