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New Delhi May 18, 2003, Capital • 44 pages including Men & Women & Classifieds + 8 pages of Delhi Times Price Rs. 2.75 Mayawati drops 10 suicide bombers set off five blasts; 40 killed Larkins spy Tripathi, gives AP case accused case to CID absconding TIMES NEWS NETWORK Spy saga Lucknow: Chief minister Mayawati on Sat- urday dropped minister of state for govern- Nov 1983: Larkin brothers caught ment printing presses Amar Mani Tripathi passing documents to Americans from the ministry for his alleged links to 1985: Convicted for 10 years Madhumita Shukla’s murder. 1989: Released on bail However, the chief minister said he would be taken back if the probe proved him inno- 2001: HC dismisses appeal SNAPSHOTS cent. If found guilty, he would be thrown out Apr 2003: SC dismisses appeal, AFP of the BSP. Sources attribute the CM’s sud- non-bailable warrants against brothers, den decision to mounting pressure from the now in their 80s Opposition and her main ally, the BJP. Mayawati’s decision coincided with the By Pradeep Rana visit of BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu, TIMES NEWS NETWORK who arrived here on Friday to take stock of the political situation in the state. Till Friday, New Delhi: The saga of the infamous Mayawati had maintained a discreet silence Larkins spy scandal, which rocked the coun- on the issue and evaded all media queries. try’s defence establishment in the 1980s, con- But at the hastily convened press confer- tinues. In the latest development, one of the ence, she announced the handing over of the convicted brothers, Air Vice Marshal (retd) K investigation to CB-CID and set a one-month H Larkins, has been declared ‘absconding.’ deadline. The CB-CID department is consid- Non-bailable warrants have been issued ered a cold storage for high profile cases. against both brothers — K H Larkins and The CM also announced the transfer of Policemen inspect the wrecked terrace of the Casa de Espana restaurant in Casablanca, Morocco. Major General (retired) F D Larkins, in their SSP, Lucknow, Anil Agarwal. Describing him 80s now — after their appeal was dismissed as an honest officer, the chief minister said by the Supreme Court last month. The he had to be removed as his credibility had Larkins have been out on bail since 1989, af- taken a beating following charges by the ter serving four years of their 10-year prison Shukla family that he had ‘‘tampered with terms. Now, after dismissal of their appeal, the evidence’’. Terror hits Casablanca the Larkins have to surrender and serve This is the second time that Tripathi has their remaining sentence. been dropped from the ministry under such Casablanca: Terrorists set off a PORTUGAL SPAIN an explosive belt in a Spanish string of deadly blasts in the restaurant. Residents had re- However, K H Larkins’ present where- circumstances. While Mayawati took almost abouts are unknown. ‘‘He no longer lives at eight days to decide his fate, her predecessor heart of Casablanca, killing at Atlantic Ocean Med. Sea ported hearing a fifth explosion. least 40 people and injuring 60. The blasts damaged a Jewish the Goa address provided to the court at the Rajnath Singh did not waste any time in 2002, beginning of trial. Now he is said to be living when Tripathi’s name figured in a kidnap- The blasts damaged a Jewish Casablanca Rabat community centre and cemetery, community centre, apart from MOROCCO the Belgian consulate, the Span- with a relative in Sri Lanka,’’ says special ping case. The case is still pending. Following public prosecutor B R Handa. that debacle, Tripathi joined BSP and was re- two western targets. ish restaurant and a hotel. CANDID IN CANNES: Jury member In 2001, When the Delhi High Court dis- warded with a ministerial portfolio. The attack which apparently Car bombs exploded While the targets were places Aishwarya Rai at the screening of “Les killed the most people took place killing at least 40 people frequented by foreigners, most of missed their appeal against their 1985 con- Egares” by French director Andre Story so far... at Casa Espana, a Spanish cul- the casualties were local inhabi- viction by the trial court, K H Larkins was Techine at the 56th Cannes film festival. tural centre and a nearby Span- tants, officials said. living in Australia with his daughter. He ap- May 9: Madhumita shot ish restaurant. ALGERIA Ten of the dead were de- parently returned to India and filed the ap- Pak names envoy to India: Pak- dead. Sister accuses At least 18 people were be- Western scribed as suicide bombers who, peal in the Supreme Court. 0 200 mi istan’s career diplomat and Ambassador Amar Mani of having affair lieved to have been killed in ei- Sahara at least in part, had carried out The seniormost military officers ever to be to China Riaz Mohammad Khan was on and killing her. Post mortem ther one or two bomb blasts MAURITANIA 0 200 km the attacks. ‘‘They were terror- convicted of espionage, the Larkins brother Saturday appointed as the country’s new and two others, Lt-Colonel (retd) Jasbir report claims she was there, although little debris was SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI AP ists, suicide bombers,’’ interior High Commissioner to India. Khan will re- 7-month pregnant visible from outside. Casablanca, minister Mustapha Sahel told re- Singh and arms dealer Jaspal Singh Gill, place Ashraf Jehangir Qazi. May 10: Police take body for Morocco’s economic centre, was the attack confirmed fears that porters. ‘‘These are the well- were charged with passing on classified mil- MTNL’s new schemes: The MTNL on DNA samples. CM Mayawati thrown completely out of gear. terrorists have plans to strike known signatures of interna- itary documents to US intelligence officials. Saturday launched an upgraded WLL-M reportedly hauls up police for Police and rescue workers less defended sites. tional terrorists.’’ While the Larkins brothers and Singh (mobile wireless in local loop) service unwanted publicity. Probe rushed to the aid of dazed, blood- However, no group has The interior minister said were sentenced to 10-year terms, Gill got two Garuda, which will allow people to ac- comes to stand-still splattered survivors. Bodies claimed responsibility for the at- there were similarities between years. The high court later acquitted Gill and cess Internet on their handsets at high Singh. The State’s appeal against their ac- May 11: Amar Mani Tripathi were seen scattered on the tacks yet. According to investi- the attacks in Casablanca and speeds. The company also introduced quittal is still pending in the Supreme Court. denies affair wreckage-strewn streets. Ambu- gations, all the attacks were sui- those in Saudi Arabia on two new services — one that will offer lances were called in from sur- cide bombings but car bombs Monday, in which 34 people The spy ring was detected in April 1983, people a ‘virtual phone’ through calling May 15: Some officers proceed with rounding areas to aid the in- were not used. were killed. but the government ordered further surveil- cards and another that will enable people probe. Sister retracts earlier statement, jured, a police source said. Government officials had orig- Sahel added that three Moroc- lance for another seven months in view of to get high speed Internet connection at gives Amar Mani clean chit; says police The Moroccan government inally reported that at least three can suspects, one of them al- ramifications involved in arresting such sen- homes and offices. P8 cooked up foetus story did not directly implicate Osama of the explosions were from car leged to have been a would-be ior officials. F D Larkins was caught red- May 17: Amar Mani stripped of charge. Bin Laden’s Al-Qaida in the nea- bombs, and a fourth was detonat- suicide bomber who was injured, handed on November 18, 1983, while was CID takes over case indiatimes.com POLL rly simultaneous explosions, but ed by a suicide bomber wearing had been arrested. Agencies passing documents to an American. K H Larkins was also arrested the next day. Yesterday’s results: Do you think Kashmir is the only roadblock to peace between India and Pakistan? Yes No Summer school: Kids do catwalk 54% 46% Bonita Baruah • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to By Bonita Baruah participate, and not necessarily of the general public. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Today’s question: Do special-effects Hollywood thrillers make for better viewing than New Delhi: Music. Action. And song-and-dance Bollywood movies? the girl in the shiny-green pant- suit struts down the stage. The Cast your vote on www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 rest just dawdle around and have to be coaxed and cajoled to strike the right poses. This is Aashna and her batch mates, all toddlers, learning the fine art of catwalking in their playschool. Schools are closed and summer holidays have started, but for many four-five-year-olds it’s back to school again: learning to rampwalk, pose for photogra- WEATHER phers, veejaying or getting lessons Max temp: 42.5oC/Min temp: 24oC in confidence building, personali- Sunset: Sunday — 7.06 pm. ty development or table manners. Sunrise: Monday — 5.29 am. Just lolling around won’t do any Moonset: Monday — 8.11 am. more; nor will plain old arts and Moonrise: Sunday — 9. 53 pm. craft or painting. STARTING YOUNG: Pre-school kids learn to strike a pose. At Mother’s Pride, an upmarket Mainly clear sky with dust haze, dust storm, thun- agencies and which agencies to feel: ‘‘If they are familiar with the play school with branches in derstorm accompanied with squall is likely in choose. ‘‘There are so many stage or speaking into a mike Punjabi Bagh, Paschim Vihar some areas. Maximum relative humidity on Friday brands out there targeting kids now,they will never be afraid later and Pitam Pura, they have 46% and minimum 14%. and teens, and most ad agencies on,’’ she adds. introduced three new summer are looking out for kids with some The flip side? ‘‘It’s ridiculous to courses this year: modelling, an- professional exposure,’’ he says. subject a four-year-old to fluency choring and dramatics: ‘Three Playschools are cashing in on courses,’’ says Jitender Nagpal, new ways to make your child a this current craze with the psychoanalyst. ‘‘A lot of behav- star’, as they hardsell. courses ranging from the fun to ioural issues can emerge if you Their sales campaign: ‘Groom the inane: English speaking, pres- just overload a child with achieve- your child into the next star of entation and communication ment targets.’’ It’s a fad in urban the ramp’, and ‘Soon all the TV skills, personality development, culture, he says. Parents tend to channels could be vying for your home decoration, personal groom- get carried away by what their child’. And parents are biting. The ing and dining etiquette. The neighbours or friends’ kids are do- response has been terrific, says hottest courses, of course, are ing. ‘‘They forget that home is the principal Sudha Gup- modelling, veejaying most important place for personal- Book your Classifieds ta.‘‘It’s the craze to- and personality de- ity development.’’ 24 hours service: “51-666-888” day. Parents want SUNDAY velopment. Most of these classes are on five Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” their children to ex- But why would days a week. While most toddlers The ATM of information cel in all fields, not parents want to send have abundant energy and these just in the classroom. SPECIAL The Largest Classifieds Site a toddler for a per- courses can be useful, it’s a mis- There is a demand for sonality develop- take to put them into strait-jacket- Videocon International Ltd. 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Armaan (drama) ★★★ play which is original and win over the Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Anil real: The actors talk and cry girl of his Kapoor, Preity Zinta like real people. For the lan- dreams (Hrishi- Direction: Honey Irani guorous pace that works like ta Bhatt), Showing at: PVR Anupam an aphrodisiac in this rush of Irfaan is absolutely high-adrenalin films. And for mesmeric. His swa- irst the faultlines. a sweet story,simply told. The gger between control Faultline number one: fact that we’re already seeing and unbridled power Voters ID, export F Gross underutilisation a similar soap — Sanjeevani is the finest balanc- of Amitabh Bachchan. Here — on prime time television ing act witnessed in was the Shahenshah, ready only adds that extra dash of mainstream cinema for a makeover that went far masala. Just a naughty query: so far. orders: Gypsies beyond his wispy white hair. So who’s copying whom... Hero or villain? And look what the debutante You keep asking ★★★ director does to him? She Haasil (romance) 1/2 yourself and fail to gives him three and a quarter Cast: Jimmy Shergill, find a straight an- of a new hue scenes and then fades him Irfan Khan, Hrishta Bhatt swer. And that’s into the background as a Direction: Tigmanshu Dhulia what real acting, he gypsy camp has vanished into the Showing at: Regal wispy white frame in the flesh-and-blood blue. Meet Banjara Pammi who has been liv- shadows. Absolutely unfor- characters are T ing in your city since 18 years.‘‘Ab hum Dilli- int fresh and mindblow- givable, specially since the all about. wale hai. Aur vote bhi detey hai,’’ says the 42-year-old ing, Haasil is a double gariwala lohars (ironsmiths-on-carts). three-and-a-quarter cameo M university campus with blood ly take home the Oscars? As for something that Urmila whammy. First, the mint- Needless to say, he’s ably Eighteen years ago, Pammi and his band of gyp- displays the ageless actor in and gore. It’s the familiar hate the spoilt young heiress who and the rest have already ex- fresh flavour. Debutante di- supported by an ensemble sies camped on the outskirts of Delhi, in a wooded great innovative form. Watch game of caste politics fuelled celled in (remember, Pyaar rector Tigmanshu Dhulia cast. Ashutosh Rana, Rajpal area which later became Patparganj. Today, they him talking about a lost love wants her Barbie or Ken any by the party bosses sitting in Tune Kya Kiya). turns his attention to virgin Yadav,Murad Ali, and the rest have voter identity cards, black and white TVs and or a lost youth — ‘‘long time which way — so what if Ken’s the state Capitals. Add to Fault number three: Gracy territory: The underbelly of of the bad boys. Even the lead claim they even have orders for their wares from ex- since I looked at waterfalls’’ not for sale — she pitches in a this a torrid story of covetous pair — Jimmy and Hrishita — Singh. Aaah. This homespun grassroots politics in a small port houses. But that’s not enough. They want the — and you’ll realise there’s unidimensional show. One love and you look what you are credible and cute with housefrau is okay for Lagaan town university. And rightly government to give them land to settle down. Plus still loads of molten lava wait- which is as cliched as it comes have: A dramatic story of their small town romance but here it’s hard to keep your so, for what’s replayed in the Mohua Chatterjee ing to explode from this Vesu- — she stomps her feet, flings heartbreak, passion and poli- played out in empty cinema eyes on her. And here, we’re higher echelons of politics is vius of the silver screen, the glassware, crashes her tics played out against a back- halls, clandestine my-cycle- not talking about looks at all. only what flows from the three decades later. drop of real India. will-follow-your-rickshaw- limo, slits her wrists and So far, so bad. But that’s not gutters of backwater India. rides. Fault number two: Preity grows hysterical when things the end of the story. You can Two warring student lead- And now the mindblowing Zinta. Okay,she’s cute, cuddly don’t go her way. Come now settle for Armaan for several ers transform the townscape part: Irfaan Khan. As the fire- Truly, a compelling debut and vivacious — a veritable Honey, there are ways and reasons. For Anil Kapoor into a battlefield, complete brand student leader who by a young director who has a live-wire on the screen. But ways of playing the girl who who’s getting better with each with country-made pistols wins the support of the bright future. when did a teddy bear actual- can’t take ‘No’. So why settle greying hair. For the screen- and dirty bombs spraying the ‘Hi-Bye’ people and tries to Nikhat Kazmi
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ration cards. Pammi and his DELHI clan trace their antecedents to Maharana Prat- UNDERBELLY ap. Their origi- nal home was Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, from where they branched out some ‘‘hundreds of years ago.’’ Today,home is 12 tents pitched near wooden and iron carved carts, parked on the roadside beside a garbage heap near the Mother Dairy crossing in Patparganj. And bread and butter comes from the family business where each member has a part to play. Evenings see the women selling their wares in the weekly markets around the area. That’s when men congregate for a drink or two and watch Hindi films, songs or cricket on TV.Any dispute is settled by the elders. There’s also a panchayat which meets during weddings and other occasions. Today,the itinerant has settled down and nurtures settler’s dreams. He wants his children to go to school and not end up as ironsmiths. ‘‘Abhi zamana badal gaya hai. Sarkar hamey sadak pe rehne nahi deti hai. Isi liye buzurg bhi yeh chahtey hai ki hum bas jaye,’’ he explains, puffing away at his brass hookah. And sometimes, dreams do come true. Ex- plains Shiela, his wife, ‘‘Two of my sons, Vicky and Sunil, joined the local MCD school three days ago.’’ As of now, none of these gypsies can read or write. Pammi’s most pressing concern right now is the increasing density of the place. “We fear being thrown out because they are going to broaden this road.’’ And then it’ll be back on the road. Not an easy change for a gypsy who likes to watch TV. Mohua Chatterjee
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K K Laskar Stamp duty cut Lover bleeds himself TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Delhi state cabi- net on Saturday decided to bring down the rate of stamp to death, almost duty from 13 per cent to eight per cent. A notification to By Maneesh Pandey his ex-girlfriend Romanji this effect will be issued by TIMES NEWS NETWORK (22) that he still loved her. the state government and The girl, however, told him municipal corporation of New Delhi: A married that he was lying as he’s man almost bled to death Delhi separately next week, married to someone else.’’ sources said. trying to prove his love to In a fit of rage, Inderpal his ex-girlfriend on Satur- ‘‘This will be done to avoid hit a window of Romaji’s any confusion,’’ said a day. house in Safdarjung En- Son of a Greater Kai- source. clave with his right hand. The state cabinet also re- lash-I businessman, Inder- The DCP said he was ferred the Water Act to Delhi pal Singh (24), needed five bleeding profusely and the Jal Board for necessary bottles of blood to regain neighbours called up the changes. consciousness after he in- police when they saw flicted an injury upon him- blood flowing out of the self. The victim is stated to room. Police said the two be out of danger. were involved in an affair Deputy commissioner of which lasted for two years. police (southwest) Tejin- Inderpal’s family, how- der Luthra said: ‘‘The inci- ever, got him married to dent occurred while Inder- another girl from its com- Mahila Dakshata Samiti felicitated Nisha Sharma at a function held in the city. Nisha’s pal was trying to prove to munity in January. parents were also present in the ceremony. ‘Nisha’s boyfriend, not dowry disrupted the wedding’ By Lalit Kumar According to Munish, Sharma also admitted he TIMES NEWS NETWORK Navneet and Nisha were had recently told a Noida po- classmates at her computer lice officer that he expected Ghaziabad:Munish Dalal, institute. A few days before trouble from Navneet at the now in the Ghaziabad jail for the wedding, Navneet threat- wedding. ‘‘The officer con- allegedly demanding a dowry ened D D Sharma not to mar- tacted Navneet and assured of Rs 12 lakh from Nisha ry Nisha to Munish. Sharma me there would be no trou- Sharma’s family,has claimed that his wedding was called had even informed a senior ble.’’ Vidya Dalal said: off because Sharma’s former Noida police officer about ‘‘Navneet phoned me on May suitor, Navneet, created a this, he added. 8. He asked us to call off the ruckus during the ceremony. When Nisha was contact- wedding, or he would ‘‘The trouble started when ed, her family claimed she forcibly stop the ceremony.’’ Navneet, an old suitor of was suffering from fever and Munish said when they Nisha, arrived at the wed- not available for comment. reached the pandal they were ding pandal with his friends. Sharma admitted that Nisha not allowed inside. ‘‘Our He told my mother Vidya had once been close to band was not allowed to play. Dalal that for all practical Navneet. ‘‘She wanted to I was not even allowed to purposes, he was already marry him. I had gone with mount the horse. Navneet married to Nisha. And there her to meet Navneet’s father. was there with a dozen of his was no way he was going to While his father agreed to friends. When we tried to en- allow anyone else to marry the match, he told us that ter the pandal, we were beat- her,’’said Dalal. Navneet was unemployed en up. My mother was as- At a meeting in the Ghazi- and had no means of earning saulted with chappals.’’ abad jail on Saturday after- a living. He suggested that Munish alleges that Nisha noon, Vidya Dalal alleged Navneet come live with us. called the police during the that Nisha’s father Devi Dutt We did not agree to this pro- confusion to ‘‘give the whole Sharma bit her and beat her posal. I am glad my daughter thing a different color. It was with a chappal. broke up with Navneet.’’ not about dowry at all.’’ Another bride walks out TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ranjan, said: ‘‘The police bride’s home, Yogender and has offered help to the his relatives allegedly de- New Delhi: A new bride re- bride’s family and asked manded Rs 8 lakhs from the fused to go with her hus- them to lodge a formal com- bride’s family. Otherwise, band when he demanded plaint so that matter could they threatened to call off dowry of Rs 8 lakh on the day of the wedding. The be investigated properly, the marriage. groom’s family made the but they have refused to do This led Anupama, a tex- demand just before leaving so. They want to settle the tile designing student, to the bride’s house. matter through the pan- take the strong decision Anupama, the bride, is chayat of elders. Both fami- and walk out on the new yet to lodge a formal com- lies know each other and marriage. plaint. The bride’s family they hail from Meerut.’’ Joint commissioner of told the police that they will Anupama’s father, Kehar police (crime against settle the matter them- Singh had reportedly given women cell), Vimla Mehra, selves. Anupama’s husband Rs 51,000, a motorcycle, jew- said: ‘‘Unlike Nisha, this Yogender is a constable in ellery and other gifts in case is different. Because of Central Reserve Police dowry to her in-laws during the social stigma attached Force. She is a resident of the engagement. The mar- to such cases, not every- Nand Nagri. riage took place on May 14. body dares to come out in Deputy commissioner of But just before the mar- the public or lodge com- police (northeast), Praveer riage party was to leave the plaint.’’ Teen crushed between two speeding buses TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A teenager was killed between two speeding buses in Delhi Cantt area on Friday. According to police, Samarpal (17), had boarded the bus, plying on route num- ber 740 to visit his brother in Uttam Nagar. There was another bus ply- ing on the same route and the drivers tried to overtake each other. ‘‘Samarpal was peep- ing out of the window when the accident took place near Dhaula Kuan. His head was crushed. The Delhi canton- ment police have arrested the errant driver,’’ a police officer said. On May 10, a Class 10 stu- dent of St Columba’s School was crushed under the wheels of a Blueline bus.
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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER Cow hide seized: Two men were arrested for smuggling 194 cow hides to Hapur by the southwest police.TNN OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers likely to occur at many places in Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at a few places in NATIONAL Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mumbai: I-A 0700, Dilli ko gussa kyon aata hai? Manipur, Mizoram,Tripura,Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lak- 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, shadweep and at isolated places in WB and Sikkim, Orissa, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Haryana, Punjab, HP, J&K, coastal Andhra Pradesh and south inte- 2300 Jet Air 0650, 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, rior Karnataka. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the The pressure of urban living, a troubled past and poor civic amenities have ensured 1935, 2030, 2200, country. Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD that Delhiites are perennially in a heightened state of rage 1520, 1800, 2025 KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min ★★ Delhi 41 24 Amsterdam 16 05 By Sachin Parashar and 1600 ,1700,1945 Guwahati 33 22 Swati Chakrabarti Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 33 27 Dehradun 37 20 Bahrain 39 22 Diya Koshy Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 39 29 Hyd’bad 43 26 Bangkok 35 28 TIMES NEWS NETWORK CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 38 29 Indore 43 28 Beijing 22 15 0640,0955★★★ B’lore 33 23 Jaipur 43 28 Chicago 14 07 onfucius said 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 44 27 Lucknow 43 23 Geneva 17 04 0645,1900 when anger rises, T’puram 33 26 Patna 38 26 Hong Kong 32 27 BANGALORE: think of the con- I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 43 26 Rajkot 41 25 London 17 08 Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 38 28 Shimla 26 17 Los Angeles 21 13 sequences. To Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 40 24 Srinagar 26 09 Moscow 24 09 many in the city, HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 GOA: I-A 1200, Chowever, flaring up over TRAIN RESERVATIONS Sahara 1200 small things is a matter of KULU: Jagson 0630, 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2003 hrs. on routine. AHMEDABAD: 17.05.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. More than 150 cases of I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Jet Air 0610 Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl murder have been reported GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH in Delhi in 2003, 34 of which ★★ I-A 0555 , 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 24.05 27.05 04.06 27.05 resulted from minor provoca- ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 22.06 18.06 28.05 tions. Every year almost 80 Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 23.05 10.06 14.06 11.06 Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST people lose their lives in Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 19.05 23.05 13.06 — 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 small scuffles all over the Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, 2304 Poorva Exp 21.05 04.06 11.06 12.06 (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 23.05 09.06 16.05 16.06 city. Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 23.05 25.06 23.06 Aggressive naturally: INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 28.05 29.05 29.05 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 21.05 27.05 29.05 One school of thought says BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 22.05 22.05 22.05 26.05 that this happens because Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 01.07 19.06 Delhiites are innately aggres- A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 17.06 24.06 19.06 FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 20.05 03.06 09.06 16.06 sive. There are others, how- 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 02.06 12.06 14.06 ever, who believe that Delhi’s AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 17.06 16.06 13.06 transition from a bureaucrat- KLM 0745 (KL-476) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 22.06 17.06 01.06 LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 21.05 26.05 26.05 02.06 ic city to a bustling metropo- 0210 (BA-142) WEST lis has acted as a catalyst in PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 25.05 12.06 17.06 17.06 keeping the city on a perma- 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 27.05 16.06 18.06 18.06 A-I 0735 (AI-141) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 29.06 12.06 16.06 — nent short fuse. AWARENESS CONTROL SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 31.05 10.06 11.06 — Pankaj Mullick, an execu- • Admit you are • Go to the washroom, clench your fists, confess Airlines 2315 (SQ-407), 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 12.06 26.06 19.06 tive with a multinational I-A 0050 (IC-855) 1078 Jhelum Exp — 24.06 17.06 16.06 angry you are angry HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2916 Ashram Exp 27.05 17.06 16.06 10.06 says, ‘‘ Aggressiveness is the A-I 2320 (AI-318) SOUTH law of the jungle here. You • Focus on what • Be realistic about expectations ROME/GENEVA: 2616 G T Exp 21.05 10.06 17.06 04.06 have to bear your claws to be A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 04.06 10.06 17.06 09.06 makes you angry • Have a balanced diet with three square meals
2432 Trivandrum Raj 24.06 01.07 29.06 — taken seriously. I smile at FIRST STEP AIR INDIA • Be sensitive to others needs 2626 Kerala Exp — 21.06 18.06 12.06 people and am polite. That • Anger often AHMEDABAD: 2618 Mangala Exp — 26.06 21.06 10.06 tends to unnerve them. ’’ results from fear SECOND STEP • Assert yourself positively, avoid getting offensive 0120 (AI 610) 2628 Karnataka Exp — 18.06 17.06 04.06 MUMBAI: 0615 (AI140), 2724 A P Exp 10.06 16.06 20.06 10.06 ‘‘The paradigm shift tak- or insecurity • Don’t carry office anxiety home 0700 (AI 170), 1855 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 14.06 28.06 27.06 — ing place in the city is adding (AI 301), 2145 (AI 319) 7022 Dakshin Express — 11.06 — 29.05 • Recall the last • Consult a doctor or a psychiatrist No. of passengers dealt on 16.05.2003 (Delhi Area): 61,983 (N. Rly. Area) to the anger which then man- A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,60,831. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all ifests itself on the city time you were • Sleep for 7-8 hours a day (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: streets. Delhi is no longer a angry 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. • Avoid excessive consumption of alcohol 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 (Information supplied by Indian Railways) traditional, laidback city.Un- • How often you and nicotine like Mumbai, Delhi was nev- er an industrial society. It’s get angry • Aerobic exercises, yoga, meditation at least Wrestler dies in freak accident only now that we see more • Think of three to four times a week can help entrepreneurs and execu- situations that • In case none of this works, just count ten before TIMES NEWS NETWORK Colony akhara with other tives in the city.The transfor- anger you you explode. You may not. wrestlers. mation from the traditional New Delhi: In a freak inci- A friendly scuffle had oc- dent on Friday, a wrestler to the modern has been laced curred when Sandeep tried with violence for the city,’’ problem is the absence of a will ever get where they are which, leads to anger,’’ says died when he was accidental- to cut his friend Narender’s ly stabbed by a pair of scic- says psychiatrist Jitender social fabric in the city. Psy- going.’’ Chugh. hair. Narender twisted Nagpal. chiatrist Sanjay Chugh says There are many who be- Blame game: Experts are cors. The police said the de- Sandeep’s hand and the scis- ceased, Sandeep (19), was The competitiveness in- the large migrant population lieve that Delhi is yet to rid it- unanimous that it’s high sors stabbed him in the chest. duced by this transition has in the city prevents Delhiites self of the legacy of partition time people did some intro- staying at the Railway Sandeep fell unconscious ensured that people are al- from evolving as a society. and there is this collective spection and recognised and was taken to a nearby ways at each other’s throats. ‘‘People don’t have roots sub-consciousness through their own fault rather than hospital where he was de- Sapna Bharwani, an immi- here. The joint family system which memories are passed just point fingers. clared brought dead. TNN gration executive says, ‘‘ is on its way out. There is less on. ‘‘The way most people be- According to Chugh, peo- People here don’t like to emotional support and fewer have, it’s like they are reliv- ple in Delhi have failed to take no for an answer and outlets for pent-up feelings. ing the partition days. It’s reprioritise their lives. they don’t like being disci- All this leads to a pressure- similar to the Germans still ‘‘Most people spend 80 per plined.’’ cooker situation,’’says reliving the trauma of the cent of their time doing 20 Rebekah Samuel, a call- Chugh. World War II,’’ says Mitra per cent of the things which centre executive says, ‘‘If ‘‘You always Quality of are important. As a result, you follow the rules, you seem to be walk- life: Poor civic they only have 20 per cent get left behind. People have ing a social amenities in time left for 80 per cent of no regard for rules here.’’ tightrope here. CAPITAL the city have the things which are impor- According to Dr Rajat Be it at home or also compound tant. It’s called the 80-20 Mitra, director of a society in the work- STORY the issue. The principle.’’ for mental health, place, expecta- buses are over ‘‘There has to be some Swanchetan, Delhi is not tions are high and stress lev- crowded and it’s impossible stress management system. an isolated case. ‘‘There’s is els higher,’’ says Mullick. to get off a taxi or an au- We have to stop iving so the case of Boston where Samuel also attributes it to torickshaw without haggling much in the past and live in people are more aggressive the large population. ‘‘There over fares. Nothing comes the present and for the fu- and there are more cases of are just too many people and easily here, except the rage. ture,’’ says Bharwani. road rage there than in any not enough to go around. However, it’s not just the Samuel takes a less sympa- other part of the country. Everyone wants to be first in system which can be blamed thetic stand. ‘‘Delhiites have Initially, tribal societies line. Even at the traffic light for the acrimony. to get over their arrogance never fought with each oth- there is always someone who Extreme climatic condi- and the assumption that they er, but it all changed after wants to be just ahead of that tions contribute no less to the are invincible and that the things were put on offer for white line. What’s funny is seething rage in the city. rules just don’t apply. Till them,’’ says Mitra, who that you will meet the same ‘‘It’s not just the summer that changes, no amount of conducts anger-manage- person again at the next when we experience gru- criticising the system will ment classes in Tihar. crossing. So everyone seems elling heat. The absence of work. It is they who failed the Fragmented society: to be in a terrific hurry and sunlight in the extreme Delhi system, not the other way What’s compounds the no one seems sure if they winter causes depression round.’’ Who will win the Mirchi car? he Mirchi car has been zipping all T across Delhi over the last week. Thousands of people have written the word Mirchi on it, and guessed how many Mirchis the car would sport by the end of its jour- ney on Sunday. The lucky winner of the Kitni Mirchi Hai contest, whose name will be an- For booking & nounced on Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM on May 19, has The Mirchi car attracts curious throngs wherever it information, guessed a number that is goes. Here it is parked at Karol Bagh. please call: closest or equals the final chance to guess Kitni slew of mega prizes and tally. Today, which will be Mirchi Hai, and if lucky, cool contests lined up in the last day of the Kitni you drive home the hottest the coming months. Al- 23302000 Mirchi Hai contest, the little car in town. ready the Samsung Shut 51-666-888 Mirchi gaddi is going to be Those contestants, Up and Listen Contest, stationed at 3Cs Cineplex whose estimates fell far where listeners won MP3 23492027, at Lajpat Nagar in the short of the final tally, players and Radio Mirchi 23302351 morning and PVR Saket in need not worry. Radio goodie bags, has created the evening. It’s your last Mirchi promises to have a great excitement. Residents protest trader’s encroachment New Delhi: A building material dealer who was evicted from a government- owned land in Green Park Extension on Tuesday morning, returned to occupy the land in the evening. Residents alleged collusion between MCD officials and the encroacher. ‘‘It was so disheartening to see building ma- terial being unloaded at the spot the same day in the evening,’’ said resident Aruna Bhomwik. MCD south zone’s administrative offi- cer, Nirmal Kumar, said a complaint about the al- leged encroachment had been received. ‘‘We have been briefed about the problem and we will en- sure that the action is tak- en to its logical conclu- sion.’’ He said he investi- gate the allegation of con- nivance between the en- croacher and officials.
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INDIA SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 5
LET’S TALK MONEY Women inducted into Many Dalits convert to Christianity in Bhojpur TIMES NEWS NETWORK have converted to Christiani- the district administration monetory incentives to con- Patna: There are reports ty. But our probe suggests 10 has recorded their state- vert. ‘‘In most cases, bicycles ‘I sold my horses country’s elite forces that several Dalits in Bihar’s to 15 persons have converted ments. ‘‘In many cases, the have been distributed among Bhojpur district converted to in the past one month and head of a family embraces the new converts,’’ he said. By Mohua Chatterjee training and those who qualify Christianity. not 100 as suggested by some Christianity but not the According to media reports, and slept peacefully’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK to join the NSG will be retained ‘‘Preliminary investiga- media reports,’’ Bhojpur dis- rest,’’ Kumar said. missionaries distribute bicy- for three, four or five years tions reveal that a group of trict magistrate Sanjay Ku- Kumar says there are indi- cles so they can spread the re- New Delhi: For the first time, e was the first Indi- (like the men in the force), be- Dalits in Udwantnagar block mar said on Saturday.He said cations that they were given ligion in the area. women are being inducted into an to sell a painting fore being returned to their the country’s elite commando for Rs 1 lakh. M F parent agencies,’’ said NSG H force. The National Security Husain again made news chief R S Mooshahary. when a recent work sold for Guards (NSG) sent out the The decision is not a sudden Rs 2 crore. Money seems to word to its feeder agencies — one. Even countries like Pak- chase the octogenarian, but the Central Reserve Police istan had women commandos he warns, ‘‘Don’t hang on to Force (CRPF), the Central In- for many years now, said every paisa you earn. You dustrial Security Force (CISF) Mooshahary.This has assumed won’t be able to live life.’’ and state police forces — about importance in the light of the Are you a spender or a two months ago. growing counter-insurgency in saver? Names of willing and suit- the country and the fact that able police officers have al- the insurgents are using more A spender. How else did I Udayshankar set up the museums — in ready started coming in. The women now. Faridabad, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad — or make eligible ones are being recruit- On the directives of the my films? ed for training. Since Tamil home ministry, intelligence Nadu and West Bengal already How much money are you carrying? agencies — with the help of have women commandos, most I haven’t counted (fishes out about Rs 5,000 from professional organisations — names that have come in are his pocket). I don’t keep a purse. I just stash some conducted surveys on whether from these two states. money in my pocket and set out. Nor do I keep a bank women could be inducted. ‘‘We have decided on raising account. In fact, I keep a zero balance account. When Women were found to be in- a contingent of 20 to 25 women, money comes in, I just do all that I want. I guard stinctively better suited for the against hoarding it — even though I had such a large to begin with. So far, about sev- job than men, when it came to family. en or eight names have come to taking swift decisions, apart us. We will give them special from other skills. Do you carry credit cards? Yes, for convenience. Plastic money gives you the freedom to do things on the spur of the moment. Have you invested in property? My museums are my property. What’s your best investment? What I put into buying my paint. They say, ‘Ghode bech kar so gaya.’ (He sold off his horses and slept without a worry). But I did everything by selling my ‘horses’ — I built museums, made Gajagamini, painted a 100-feet canvas. Who will buy a painting that size? I also knew I won’t get a single paisa from Gajagamini. But one must have the guts to do things one wants to. Your worst investment? None. And you’ve had hard days? Yes. But even then, material possessions were not a lure. Once, a fire broke out in the chawl we lived in. People ran to save furniture, clothes, valuables. I just picked up a favourite painting and said to my wife, ‘‘Let’s go.’’ Even after such experiences, I haven’t gone for insurance or shares. I don’t believe in in- vesting money into something in order to get more out of it. What do I want of life? I have all I need and have done all I wanted to. As for my children, they’ll get my paintings. Most expensive thing you have bought? Once in New York, I went wild buying art materi- al. The bill I paid was the biggest for any one thing I bought. I also love cameras. What does money mean to you? Money is good as long as it doesn’t come with a sense of possession. When there’s an urge to hoard, you become its slave and cannot enjoy life. When I wore shoes, I was scared to take it off lest someone walk off with it. I lost that fear when I gave up wear- ing shoes. Money for me means the ability to go see a movie, watch an opera, and buy more paint. Na aane ki khushi, na jaane ka gham. Like the faqir, I’m not ju- bilant when money comes nor dejected when it goes.
Ratnottama Sengupta
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6 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 INDIA West beckons designers, but it isn’t a cakewalk FOCUS ON REFRIGERATORS A TIMES SPECIAL REPORT By Nona Walia Conventional fridges are TIMES NEWS NETWORK Who’s selling where NYT New Delhi: When a Tarun Tahiliani label travels from rustic Mehrauli to Fifth Av- good buys but cool enue’s Lord & Taylor, the price tag reads $ 2,000 for a beaded tunic; a Manish Arora quilted silk jacket costs a cool $ 750. And a hand-crafted Raghuvendra Rathore evening gown sterling 2,500 in Selfridges. customers want frost-free For Indian fashion designers, going West obviously means big business. But BY SANJAY KUMAR to the Frost-free market . coming important for con- it’s no cakewalk: it’s also mean business, THE level of penetration for The factors that con- sumers. Thereafter an indi- needing big bucks and big orders. refrigerators is quite low in sumers consider before mak- vidual’s brand preferences ‘‘It took me two years of lobbying,’’ says •Tarun Tahiliani: Selfridges, Zaineb the country at present. ing a refrigerator-purchase- come in. Indophile and wife of former American Alam in London; Karma in New York; Hence various refrigerator- decision are primarily: Brands like Whirlpool, Ambassador Jacqueline Lundquist, who Sun MotoYama in Tokyo, Sanskrit in segments have good business a) The technology -that is Samsung and LG enjoy top showcased Indian designerwear in the US Hong Kong, Aesthetic in Dubai. potential in the Indian mar- whether they want a Frost- consumer sales in the coun- recently . ‘‘We did 18 trunk shows in 11 •David Abraham: Selfridges, ket. The segments that are try of their various refriger- cities, where celebrities like Uma Thur- Kimono’s, The Conrad Shop, SAKS growing very well are the One major change ator brands. In the bid to man bought outfits. Only then, did we and Macy’s Direct Cool refrigerators be- keep enhancing their prod- catch the eye of a store like Lord & Taylor.’’ tween 165-184 litre segment in the refrigerator ucts, top refrigerator brands After rave reviews from the US press, they •Hemant Sagar: Harrods in London, and the low end Frost free keep constantly innovating have offers from five other stores. Vivaldi in New York, Dale in Paris, Star category between 185 market is the their product-features to of- But only a minuscule fraction of our de- in Chicago, Mezzaluna in Riyad litres-250 litres segment. The fer maximum consumer sat- signers are doing business abroad. Global •Suneet Varma: Fafateen in Dubai, refrigerator market is ex- increase in isfaction. One major change exports constitute only Rs 30 crore of the Zaineb Alam in London, Metropolitan pected to grow by around contribution of the that has happened in the re- Indian fashion industry which has a Museum, in New York 6% this year to achieve a vol- frigerator market in the turnover of Rs 200 crore. ume of around 3.3 million country is the increase in Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla: frost-free segment But the potential is huge: a study by • units. contribution of the Frost- And London Ltd in London FDCI-KPMG puts it at Rs 300 crore. ‘‘The The MNCs are by and from virtually free segment from virtually global market for Indian designers has large dominating the Frost- zero to a level of over 13% to- great potential,’’ says Anurag Mehra, di- Designer Rina Dhaka may have been free refrigerator segment of zero to 13% day.This change is primarily rector of KPMG Consultancies. They are driven around in a limousine, and she may the Indian market. In the Di- on account of MNCs focus- studying how the fashion industry became have had full-page ads in The New York rect Cool Segment, Indian today ing on making available a billion-dollar industry in the West and Times and rave reviews from Women’s companies are holding sig- their latest technology,bring- are trying to identify strategies for growth Wear Daily, but she agrees it’s tough. ‘‘You nificant market shares. free or a Conventional Re- ing in feature-rich models in here. need a big budget. It’s a big gamble with a MNCs who have set up man- frigerator; b) the efficiency this segment, educating cus- ‘‘There’s a lot of East-West interaction. huge investment.’’ ufacturing facilities in the of cooling c) the features- tomers on the benefits of The Indian influence is getting stronger in Designer Raghuvendra Rathore agrees. country are also successfully the utility compartments, Fost-free technology as well the West, this is the time to explore the He’s worked for Oscar de la Renta in New tapping the Direct Cool mar- vegetable box, egg tray etc as the drop in prices that has global market in a planned way,’’ says Vin- York, ‘‘I have my regular clients, so every ket, which is a more price and finally, d) the aesthetics, been happening in the past od Kaul, executive director, FDCI (Fashion summer I take my trunk and sell overseas. sensitive market compared which are increasingly be- few years. Design Council of India). But to retail in a store is more organised Ask La Vella Olexa, director, fashion business, you need an agent to promote merchandising at Lord & Taylor, New and sell your clothes. Unless you want to York. ‘‘Indian designers have potential, spend Rs 70 lakh just travelling to get or- New i-Cool technology brings we’ve had a fabulous experience with ders and deliver them. There has to be a them,’’ he said. sustainable business model with solid fi- India, then, is the flavour right now and nancial backing.’’ Indian textiles have always generated in- So who’s making a mark abroad this on the goosebumps terest in the global fashion world; So why summer? Tahiliani’s ensemble will travel aren’t more of our designers out there? Be- to Lord & Taylor stores in Florida and SAMSUNG India has launched its new i-cool ensures that every corner of the compart- cause going global has not been easy. Chicago. series of Frost-free refrigerators in India. ment is evenly refrigerated even when the re- ‘‘The global market is tricky. For in- He also retails in Japan, Hong Kong These are targeted primarily at customers frigerator is filled to full capacity. States R stance, Christian Dior spends $ 2 million and London; Varma makes his mark in a upgrading from a Conventional Refrigerator Zutshi, V.P-Sales, Samsung India, "The Twin on one fashion show, I don’t have money shop opposite Harrods, London. Other (DC) to the Frost-free segment. Available in Shower Cooling feature in the Samsung i- like that,’’ says designer Suneet Varma. names who are already selling abroad: the capacities between 310 litres and 440 cool refrigerator ensures 35% faster cooling ‘‘I’ve been doing four shows in Dubai every David Abraham sells in 30 outlets in 11 litres, the i-cool series provide optimum cool- and more even cooling of food, enabling it to year and I retail in Faftafeen, but Europe countries; Hemant Sagar’s couture line ing on account of the Twin Shower Cooling stay fresh longer." The i-cool range is avail- and US require huge investment. Most of sells in Paris. feature in the refrigerator. The Twin Shower able across five models, 310lt., 330lt., 360lt., us survive on trunk shows or become de- In the meantime, Jacqueline Lundquist Cooling feature entails cooling from three 400lt. and 440lt., is priced between Rs.21, 900- sign developers for Ralph Lauren or Don- is planning to get more aggressive. ‘‘I’m go- sides and hence a cooling process that is 36, 700/-. The i-cool series have a stylish, lux- na Karan,’’ says Varma, who represented ing to expose the brightest stars of Indian more powerful and speedy. Furthermore, it urious design and all the models come with the fashion industry at the World Econom- fashion in the US. We’ll be making fash- the modern stainless steel finish. ic Forum in Davos, last year. ionable milestones.’’ Equipped with ergonomic features like one twist ice cube maker and adjustable AFP shelves, the i-cool series offer an ener- gy efficient cooling solution to con- sumer's needs. With the launch of the new series, Samsung now has a range of 14 Frost-free refrigerator models in its product portfolio, priced in the range Rs.16, 400/- to Rs.116, 000/-. To maximize the sales of its Frost- free refrigerators in the summer months, the company is currently running a 'Samsung Rang De Kismat Offer' Consumer Promotion. “This promotion is valid till May 31, 2003 and entitles a customer to Lucky Gifts with the purchase of any Sam- sung Frost-free Refrigerator catego- ry” says R. Zutshi, VP, Marketing- Samsung India. "The 'Samsung Rang De Kismat Offer' is the first of its kind promo- tion that we have ever launched for our refrigerator category”, he adds. “We are targeting a 100% jump in our Frost-free refrigerator sales during the promotion period over sales in the corresponding period last year," says Zutshi. Pakistani MP Sardar Saleem (2nd from R) and other legislators wave at the Wagah border on The company is spending Rs 5 Saturday, before returning to Pakistan after a 10-day peace mission to India. crore on this promotion. Every man’s fantasy: A classy Maximum refrigeration with minimum power IF your business involves added bonus, these curtains ● Consider installing a blast selling or serving food, a repel airborne chiller, which reduces the second-hand Mercedes-Benz significant portion of your contaminants like dust and core temperature of food energy bill goes towards pollutants. before it's stored in a By Shobha John Vrooming ahead of Mercs are clear. Pedigree keeping the food ● Defrost regularly so your conventional cooler. In TIMES NEWS NETWORK and repairs done are all refrigerated. Here are some refrigerator can more addition to chilling food recorded. The customer will things you can do to reduce efficiently remove heat from effectively and efficiently,a New Delhi: She’s every not be short-changed,’’ says refrigeration costs: the case. blast chiller is crucial to man’s dream girl — classy,re- the dealer. ● Keep the temperature at complying with Food Code. liable and quite a head-turn- Is it any wonder then that ● Add strip curtains to the right setting. Better yet, ● Each month, clean er. Infact second-hand bhi John Thomas came all the walk-in coolers to reduce consider installing variable condenser coils and check chalegi. An increasing num- way from Kochi to Delhi for the amount of energy lost to speed drives which for the proper amount of ber of people are buying sec- this beauty? Two weeks of in- the surrounding air. Your automatically adjust the refrigerant. Also check ond-hand Mercedes-Benz and Worldwide sales of new tense search and he found system will use less energy level of refrigeration and gaskets and latches on catapulting themselves into a Mercedes-Benz what he wanted: a second- and will not work as hard, are being used on the doors to make sure they niche segment. What’s more, passenger cars reached hand W124, 1989 model 250D. which also can cut motors of all kinds of form an airtight seal when there’s little to distinguish it 1,026,900 units from ‘‘As an engineer,I can say this maintenance costs. As an refrigeration units. closed from a new car. Jan-Nov 2002. A look at car is the best engineered ve- And the price difference the second-hand market hicle I have used. While it’s between new and old Mercs in India. Figures of an not a fast car, its reliability is COOLING OFF WITH SELECT BRANDS is substantial. Manjeet Bala authorised Delhi dealer: beyond question. It has won- SAMSUNG WHIRLPOOL LG ELECTROLUX of Tai-pan Traders Ltd, Year No. of derful character.’’ He’s obvi- Chandigarh, says the price of second-hand ously smitten. SR-A17 175 Corona Elite FFI GR-T252 GP 170 liter Insta Cool a brand-new C-Class Merc Mercs sold However, the second-hand starts at Rs 22 lakh approx. A 2000 35 car market is not organised. ● 170 litres ● 7 year protection ● 250 litres ● Unique ice lock second-hand costs Rs 15-17 2001 45 V C Aggarwal, a business- ● Conventional plan ● Patented door ● Extra large lakh depending on age, con- 2002 45-50 man with a penchant for con- cooling ● Deep door cooling vegetable tray dition, model, mileage and 2003? 60 (hopefully) verting second-hand petrol ● Dial temperature design technology ● Large pet bottle accessories. A new E-Class Mercs to diesel ones, has a control ● Fast forward ● Cell fresh crisper space (fully loaded) car costs Rs word of advice: Don’t go for
Second-hand Mercs are LEVEL ENTRY 35.7 lakh. Second-hand — Rs also testing ground for first- Mercs more than 10 years 10-28 lakh. The Rs 58 lakh S- time buyers who want to old. ‘‘It’ll eat up your time SR-25 Ice Magic 230 Elite GR-T282GP Electra Class can be had for Rs 42-45 eventually graduate to new and money.’’ He himself has lakh. ‘‘Still, the demand out- Mercs. ‘‘These cars are well- used seven second-hand ● 250 litres - Frost ● Special roll bond ● 280 litres ● External themostat strips supply.’’ maintained, without too Mercs over the years. This, free opreations freezer ● Grey colour control Car expert Murad Ali Baig much mileage — about after trying other cars. ● Crystal shelves ● Humidity control ● Patented door ● Digital clock with says over the last 10 years, 35,000-50,000 kms,’’ says one The market for second- ● Humidity control ● Large multipurpose cooling alarm some 10,000 Mercs have been dealer. They are also passed hand Mercs in the South, chiller technology ● Entertainment music put on Indian roads. ‘‘Sec- on to vice-presidents by com- says a spokesman of Sun- MID LEVEL ond- hand Mercs are fine for pany heads, who then go in daram Motors, one of Chen- those who want a luxurious for new ones. nai’s largest car companies, SR-45 IceMagic 350 Elite GR-T382GV Ozone-frost-CFC Free car and are not hung up on ‘‘The most popular series is about 60 cars a year. So can latest models.’’ But why in the second-hand market is ordinary mortals own a would anyone want to buy a the E124 series. It’s been in Merc? One dealer is categori- ● 440 litres; ● 6th sense cooling ● 380 litres ● 360 air power second-hand Merc when a India longer and is afford- cal. ‘‘It’s meant for those who 100 HCFC free ● Door open alarm ● Z4 Airflow ● Digital vigilante new Lancer or Honda City able,’’ says Bala. Plus with have worked hard, done well ● Bio-deodoriser ● Electronic ● Special ● Humidity control costs less? ‘‘A Merc is a Merc. easy financing by banks, en- and are ready to enjoy them- ● Chilled room monitoring exchange
Formidable reputation, great tering this exclusive segment selves.’’ For the rest, starry PREMIUM price looks,’’ says Baig. is smoother.‘‘Service records eyes are the only option.
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FOCUS ON REFRIGERATORS
A TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Destroy and conquer bacteria - Hot tips for Chill Zone: Cherry-pick your way to the best Homemakers can make this summer a truly comfortable and enjoyable season, thanks to some smart refrigerators strutting in the market-place. Major fridge brands are pushing select new models that bring an array of superb features and value-added functions toward germ-free refrigeration! understanding and providing what homemakers and their families really need. These models compare with the best among the world-class First, let's learn a little bit The appliance is made to range of refrigerators and pack a slew of consumer - relevant innovations. about refrigerators. Your cool down foods. The chill- BY SANJAY KUMAR Another home-appliances major, peratures evenly, minimizes ty.“With our new state-of the-art re- refrigerator should be set ing process will happen At Whirlpool India, the buzz in its LG, too has taken the lead market spoilage and is whisper-quiet,” frigerator facility getting ready to to a temperature of 40 de- more quickly in the fridge, refrigerators’ business is on the rev- position in a number of large said an LG top honcho. Conven- commence domestic production in grees Fahrenheit or below once again giving bacteria olutionary Fast Forward Ice Sys- home appliance products in India tional refrigerators cool food by August 2003, we will be in a position to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. less time to grow in the tem, that gives superior cooling and including refrigerators. Accord- pushing cool air up and forward to offer an even more enhanced re- This is low enough to help temperature danger zone makes ice super fast - all at just the ing to a survey by a market-re- from the back of the refrigerator, frigerator range to our Indian con- slow enzymatic processes of 40 - 140 degrees Fahren- press of a button. This new feature search company, the LG Frost but food items stored near the sumers, introduce new refrigerator and the growth of bacte- heit. If you have a large was introduced in Whirlpool’s Ice Free Refrigerator sold 19,000 front and on the door shelves may models with shorter lead times as ria, but not cold enough to casserole or dish that Magic Range of Refrigerators last units in January alone this year, not receive proper air circulation. well as allow for greater customiza- affect food quality by al- needs to be chilled, sepa- year and has been a surefire hit making it among the most popu- Hence, they may not be as cold as tion of the range,” says R. Zutshi, lowing ice crystals to de- rate the foods into smaller, with consumers, says Ashok lar refrigerators in India. LG was items in the back of the refrigera- V.P,sales of Samsung India. velop. It's a good idea to shallow (no more than 3" Bhasin,VP Marketing-Whirlpool In- also the first global consumer tor. However, LG’s patented door- According to Zutshi, Samsung In- keep a refrigerator ther- deep) individual contain- dia. products manufacturer to intro- cooling technology,in its refriger- dia is targeting refrigerator sales of mometer in the fridge to ers for faster cooling. It “This feature is now present in duce a digital refrigerator, the In- ators offer an idea cooling solu- 400,000 units in the Indian market make sure the tempera- can take a pot full of hot both our Frost-Free Refs and Direct ternet Digital DIOS Refrigerator, tion to beat such problems. this year including both the Con- ture is low enough for food chicken soup 24 hours to Cool Refs and has resulted in a mar- in June 2000 in Korea. Like Whirlpool, Samsung India ventional as well as Frost-free re- safety. cool to a safe temperature ket share gain of over 3% for the While the refrigerator became too is counting on its newly frigerators. Always cover food in in the refrigerator! Don't company”, heinforms. After its an early target of designers and launched attractive refrigerator- Besides selling the ‘Bio-Fresh’ Re- overload the refrigera- huge success in 2002, this unique engineers seeking to bring the In- models to perk up its share in the frigerators in the capacity 290 litres- Foods that need tor. There should be feature has now been extended to ternet into the kitchen, LG was market. Samsung’s new 500,000 670 litres, ‘Bio Cool’ Conventional refrigeration should enough space between Whirlpool’s entry segment DC re- the first to make available the capacity Refrigerator plant is Refrigerators in the 165 litres- 200 foods that air can freely frigerators also. With this, Fast For- Internet Refrigerator to con- now under construction at Noida litres capacity, Samsung expects to be placed in the circulate around them. ward Ice is now available in nine sumers. in which the company is invest- notch up a 21% market share in the This way the tempera- Whirpool’s fridge models, making “Our research indicates that ing US$25 million. Samsung In- Frost-free refrigerator market in refrigerator within ture will be more even this extremely successful consumer consumers shopping for new re- dia will be manufacturing both the country this year. The company throughout the appli- proposition available to many more frigerators look for one that cools Conventional as well as Frost-free sold 200,000 refrigerators in the year two hours after ance. consumers at an affordable price. food efficiently, maintains tem- refrigerator models at this facili- 2002. Use your refrigerator eating to help thermometer to check the temperature of the prevent bacteria crispers and shelves. The coldest part of your growth. fridge is not the place to store fragile food like your refrigerator. The air lettuces and delicate inside your fridge is ex- fruits. In any refrigerator, tremely dry and food will the top shelf is the oldest quickly dry out and lose spot; lettuces develop ice quality, and become unap- crystals there, so make petizing in a short period sure to store them on a of time if not covered. lower shelf. Covering foods also pre- Foods that need refriger- vents bland or delicate ation should be placed in foods (like dairy products) the refrigerator within two from acquiring odors from hours after eating to help other foods (like cabbage). prevent bacteria growth. If The cool temperatures the ambient temperature in the refrigerator slow is more than 80 degrees down the process of en- Fahrenheit, that time safe- zymes in the food and slow ty zone shrinks to 1 hour. down bacteria reproduc- Don't violate this rule!!! At tion. This prolongs food least once every three quality, taste, and texture, weeks, remove everything and keeps food safer from your refrigerator. longer. Refrigeration does Wipe down all the interior not kill bacteria and can- surfaces with a baking not improve food quality. soda solution. Dry thor- Don't be afraid to put hot oughly.Pay attention to the foods in the refrigerator. seals and gaskets too. Instant ice at the zap of a button Whirlpool Icemagic Re- Auto Power Save mode frigerators have been spe- provides energy efficiency cially designed keeping in by automatically shifting mind the consumers' the refrigerator to mini- needs especially during mum power consumption the hot and tropical Indian mode if the door is not summers. opened for over 24 hours. What makes these re- The Icemagic does not frigerators special, is the need to be switched off host of unique benefits when going on short vaca- aimed at enhancing per- tions. formance. Like - the That's not all. The other unique sixth sense cooling unique features includes in these refrigerators Door Open Alarm, the reaches and maintains the Quick Serve which serves desired temperature in the ice by the simple twist of refrigerator section quick- the knob, Flexible Shelves ly and efficiently. The and the Auto Shelf Lock- Quick Cooling System ing facility, Toughened cools every corner of the glass shelves, Freezer refrigerator including the light, Internal water dis- door, giving perfectly penser, Can rack etc... . chilled drinks, fruits and These products are priced vegetables every time. The between Rs 7,000-35,000.
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8 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 INDIA Ex gratia denied to kin Reuters of ticketless travellers By Raju William Dharamvir and Jasvir Singh — were TIMES NEWS NETWORK placed under suspension the day the mishap occurred. Ludhiana: Railway authorities de- Divisional railway manager nied ex gratia payment to the next of (DRM), Ferozepur Division, H C Pu- kin of seven deceased passengers on nia, when asked why they were sus- board the ill-fated Mumbai-Amritsar pended, said the action was taken on Frontier Mail on the grounds that the basis of passengers’ statements they were travelling without reser- about their absence on the train. But vation. The authorities had earlier he also added that preliminary de- denied that the ticket examiners had partmental inquiry showed their been negligent and allowed more presence. They were on duty and than the permissible number of pas- helped rescue passengers, he sengers in the affected bogies. claimed. The names of Sakha Ram, Gotiya, Denying the negligence factor, Pu- Jai Gopal Mehra, Kashmira Singh, nia argued that suspension is not Jasminder Kaur, Jaskaran Singh, considered punishment as per rail- and Sunita were not there in the way rules and the final action would chart, sources said. They added that depend on the outcome of the in- their bodies had already been identi- quiry report. He confirmed that ex fied and handed over to their fami- gratia was denied to the seven de- lies. ceased as they were not bonafide Another factor giving credence to travellers as per record. this fact is that three officials on Punia denied that officials on VHP activists practise the art of fighting with swords at a summer training camp in Mumbai board — conductor Sudhir Prakash, board allowed passengers into re- on Saturday. Over 100 camps have been organised across India to train lakhs of Hindu girls aged 15-35 in karate, judo and combat with knives and swords. train ticket examiners (TTE) served bogeys by taking money. Garuda service launched TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘launched’ the service. get on dial-up connection. MTNL officials cited rea- The service has four tariff New Delhi: The Mahanagar sons like poor coverage and plans ranging from Rs 200 to Telephone Nigam Ltd inadequate capacity for the Rs 1,200 a month and call (MTNL) on Saturday poor take-off of Garuda so charges from Rs 0.40-0.75 a launched an upgraded WLL- far but said that this time minute, depending on the M (mobile wireless in local those constraints had been one chosen and the service loop) service Garuda, which removed and the ‘‘new being called — WLL-M, cellu- will allow people to access In- avatar’’ would offer ‘‘the lar or fixed line. The pulse ternet on their handsets at most advanced and most af- rate or call duration has been high speeds. fordable’’ mobile service to kept at 12 seconds. The company also intro- customers in Delhi. MTNL is offering Kyocera- duced two new services — The network, with a capac- 2235 3G 1x handset that one that will offer people a ity of over one lakh connec- would cost Rs 4,500 on down ‘virtual phone’ through call- tions, has been upgraded by payment or a monthly instal- ing cards and another that Motorola to enable Net con- ment of Rs 200 for two years. will enable people to get high nectivity of up to 144 kbps, As for the high speed con- speed Internet connection at said MTNL CMD Narinder nectivity at home, people will homes and offices. Sharma. In actual usage, have to pay about Rs 7,000 a As for WLL-M, it is the however, people will get month that will cover regis- third time in almost as many about 60 to 70 kbps, which is a tration, installation and se- years that the company has higher speed than what they curity. BSNL moves court New Delhi: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has filed a peti- tion in the Kerala High Court seeking the cancellation of an order staying for a month the implementation of its tariff for fixed telecom serv- ices. A division bench of the Kerala High Court had, earli- er in the week, stayed for a month the BSNL circular re- vising basic telecom tariffs, which came into effect on May 1. TNN
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INDIA SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 9
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s injunction against the serial Karishma and a legal notice from J K Rowling and Warner Brothers to Harry Potter copycats in Kolkata have thrown up serious questions on copyright and its boundaries. Sunday Times scans the creativity radar at home and abroad. The great Hollywood heist machine The big business of lifting ideas TOI By Subhro Niyogi By Vikas Singh would not have been possible without my script of ‘The ahitya Tirtha and Nandi- “ They would have nothing to say if Bollywood’s DVD-dependent Alien’ being available Plagiarism: Look who’s talking Sta Publishers, the two I had changed the name to Hari writers and directors may be throughout America in Kolkata-based publishing the butt of many jokes, but Patra. But then, wouldn’t have mimeographed copies.’’ Magnificent Seven was houses accused of trademark Hollywood’s hottest have of- Spielberg, though, says he a remake of Kurosawa’s infringement by US enter- been the same thing, would it? ten been ‘inspired’ them- was still in high school when Seven Samurai tainment giant Warner selves. Japanese master Aki- ... My book is not plagiarism.” the script was circulating in Brothers and copyright vio- ra Kurosawa, for example, Hollywood. lation by Harry Potter’s cre- Uttam Ghosh, author of was vastly admired — and Likewise, Kaante is clearly ator J K Rowling are back in Harry Potter Kolkatay frequently copied — by Hol- a remake of Quentin Taran- business after ‘‘amicably’’ lywood. Rashomon became tino’s Reservoir Dogs. But settling the issues. The Outrage. Yojimbo got re- Tarantino’s cult classic about Shockwaves hit College cycled twice over, first as a heist gone horribly wrong Street, Kolkata’s famous spaghetti western A Fistful of was itself inspired by an ob- book mart when the legal no- Dollars, then as the prohibi- scure Hong Kong movie, City tices first arrived from tion-era gang war saga Last of Fire. European films are Akash Chittranshi & Associ- Man Standing. fair game too: Luc Besson’s ates, the Delhi-based lawfirm The best-known Kurosawa Nikita became Point of no Re- hired by Rowling, Warner remake, though, was John turn, with Bridget Fonda es- and Co some months ago. Sturges’ The Magnificent saying the role of the convict- Panic-stricken publishers Seven, a copy of Seven Samu- turned-assassin (a quick gen- swiftly removed unautho- rai (traces of which can also Tarantino’s der switch later, the same rised Bengali translations of be found in our very own Reservoir role was essayed by Sanjay James Hadley Chase, Harold Sholay). Kuro- Dogs is a Dutt in Kar- Robbins, Alistair McLean sawa, though, copy of a toos). and Sidney Sheldon from probably did- Hong Kong etor of Sahitya Tirtha and book is not plagiarism. I did When Hol- movie, their shelves. n’t mind too DEEP publisher of ‘‘Harry Potter use the names of characters lywood runs City of Fire ‘‘There’s a great market for much. Yojim- Kolkataye’’, is remorseless. with reference to the magic out of foreign such books. No one had bo itself re- ‘‘The case is now over. There FOCUS films to re- threatened a lawsuit before,’’ school at Hogwarts but the sembles was no compensation in- make, it sim- says Uttam Ghosh, author of storyline is essentially based Dashiell Hammett’s detective volved,’’ he says, pointing out ply recycles old classics. J Lo copied Harry Potter Kolkataye (Har- in Kolkata,’’ Ghosh insisted. novel Red Harvest, and Kuro- that it would be small change Steve McQueen and Faye the famous ry Potter in Kolkata). He Apparently, the lawfirm sawa adapted both western for Rowling given her earn- Dunaway indulged in the Flashdance spins a story around the Har- had nothing against the story literature — Throne of Blood ings of over Rs 100 crore. Thomas Crowne Affair in dance routine ry Potter adventure by intro- line. Its objection were the (Macbeth), Ran (King Lear) 1968; Pierce Brosnan and in her video ducing a Kolkata boy Jhontu. Rabi Chakraborty, of Nan- use of original characters — and pulp fiction — High ‘I’m Glad’ and Rene Russo followed in 1999. ‘‘This episode may act as a dita Publishers which print- names and printing 16 stills and Low (King’s Ransom) — is now starring Peter Cook Bedazzled Dudley deterrent to College Street ed Harry Potter O Paras from the movie Harry Potter to Japanese settings. in the remake Mani (Harry Potter and The and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Moore in the 1960s, Liz Hur- version of this Thomas Crowne Affair is publishers. They will be less Philosophers Stone), is ‘‘They would have nothing to Then there was the curi- ley did the same to Brendan 1983 movie recyled from the 1968 version adventurous in lifting titles ous case of Satyajit Ray’s Fraser 30 years later. Charl- in future,’’ Ghosh feels. equally defiant. ‘‘We were not say if I had changed the 1967 script, ‘The Alien’, ton Heston not only starred Ghosh’s writing career aware of the legal intrica- name to Hari Patra. But then, sourced from one of Ray’s as a heroic human astronaut started with smut. Among cies. Now that we have been that wouldn’t have been the own short stories about a boy in the first Planet of the Apes, movie’s famous ‘What A Feel- to the potential goldmine Heller accused a certain Will his best-sellers are Nishid- told about the matter, we same thing, would it?’’ and a marooned extraterres- he also played a cameo as ape ing’ dance routine almost en- they were sitting on and Shakespeare of plagiarising dha Swad (Forbidden Taste) have withdrawn the book,” The unauthorised Harry trial. Ray had also done an il- general Thade’s dying father tirely in her own music promptly began talks with J from the psalms of David! and Bedside Stories. But, the Chakraborty said. Potters are off the market lustration for the story.Years in the 2001 version. video, ‘I’m Glad’. Lo for a full-length feature. Perhaps, there is truly noth- testimony to his range, is his While its translator but other translations are later, a remarkably similar- In the ultimate irony, Jen- Executives at Paramount, And just in case you thought ing new under the sun — in- next project — a two-volume Arghya Das remains elusive, back. Publishers argued they looking alien cropped up in nifer Lopez is set to star in a which holds the rights to copying was a modern phe- cluding that last cliche. translation of Vivekananda’s the author of Harry Potter couldn’t ignore hard facts. ‘‘It Steven Spielberg’s ET.Ray remake of the 1983 hit Flash- Flashdance, were initially nomenon, consider this: In (Inputs by Aditya English writings. Kolkataye is more than will- makes business sense to be il- categorically wrote, ‘‘ET dance — after copying the outraged, but then woke up his book God Knows, Joseph Chatterjee) Tirthapati Dutta, propri- ing to hog the limelight. ‘‘My legal,’’ said a publisher. Wake-up call for Indian idea-mart By Sanghamitra Chakraborty Some major gains New Delhi: They are a wake- up call to lazy publishers, en- •Vaults India into league of copyright-compliant societies tertainment professionals Will enforce greater copyright compliance in India and academics. Barbara Tay- • lor Bradford’s case against •Will prevent Indian ideas from being stolen. the TV serial Karishma — A Miracle of Destiny and J K •Help encourage creativity and original thinking Rowling and Warner Broth- •Highlights India’s strong Copyright Act er’s legal notice against Harry Potter copycats in Kolkata successful in lifting unautho- looked into as there are a lim- have focussed on how law can rised Bengali Harry Potters ited number of core themes catch up across continents from the market says: “In the doing the rounds which are li- when stories, ideas and char- West, people feel it is easier to able to have similarities. “The acters are copied. tackle copyright infringe- story of an alien coming to Says Amal Ganguly, senior ment in India. A simple legal earth and making friends SC counsel who argued notice could result in resolu- with an earthling goes back to against Karishma: “Writers tion.” Tamali Sengupta coun- H G Wells. Also, I think Raaz like Barabara don’t want com- sel for major Hollywood stu- is not a copyright violation of pensation, they want people dios in India sees the impact What Lies Beneath as its set- to stop copying them.” While of such cases as encouraging. ting is different, the se- Sahara channel refused to “The injunction is 80 per cent quences are not repeated.” comment, Ganguly is confi- of the legal remedy, the re- Chittranshi says there has dent that Bradford is on very maining 20 per cent will cease been a change in the Indian strong ground as Akashdeep, to matter as it could take upto market. “In 1995, when I rep- the serial’s director,is on free- five years for a judgment.” resented Microsoft and BSA lance journalist Pammi So- Sengupta points out, “Th- against software, it took us 19 mal’s tape admitting that Kar- ere is a problem about the way days to convince the police to ishma was “based” on Brad- we Indians perceive copyright conduct raids, it will not take ford’s Woman of Substance. and cheating in India.” She even 19 hours now,” he says. “He even told Somal he had says Indian students in the US Having worked in many south decided upon Woman of Sub- are seen with great suspicion Asian and West Asian coun- stance as it was a tried and by academics. tries, he is convinced that In- tested subject,” says Ganguly. Bollywood is notoriously dia is doing quite well. The Akash Chittranshi, who copycat. Even so, Sengupta best news is that “the juris- represents Rowling and suggests that the scope of diction has become hospitable Warner Bros in India, was copyright in the arts must be to protecting copyright.” Message for CEOs: Do the job well or move out By Sujata Dutta Sachdeva Experts say And what’s triggering TIMES NEWS NETWORK this trend is the pressure from boards and sharehold- New Delhi Chief Executive ers making CEOs more ac- Officers (CEOs) all over the countable, say experts. ‘‘The world are facing hard times. board is unforgiving on the A record 253 of them lost performance issue. It does their jobs last year, a 10 per not hesitate to shuffle the cent increase over 2001, said pack,’’ says Puri. a recent Booz Allen Hamil- Adds Donny Koriakose of ton survey. Edge Executive Access, Most of them were forced out because of poor per- ‘‘With good corporate gover- nance becoming an issue, formance. In the US, the av- •30 pc more CEOs fired erage tenure of CEOs has CEOs are being recruited on on performance issues performance parameters. A gone down to 20 months. last year In India, Pranab Barua re- report card is then drawn •Trend is towards short- out, making them more ac- signed as the managing di- er tenures with more ac- rector of Reckitt Benkiser countable.’’ countability How a company has per- in January this year. The •Pressure from boards buzz was it was the result of formed under a particular making CEOs more ac- CEO is what is being looked mounting problems for the countable company. at before choosing an in- After a decade as the top cumbent. ‘‘If the record of boss of Britannia Indus- on performance issues. the previous company is not tries, Sunil Alagh, the flam- ‘‘Many more CEOs are job good it becomes difficult for boyant MD, decided not to hunting compared to previ- the CEO to move to a new extend his contract beyond ous years. Our internal job. It’s not the name of his February 2003. No real rea- studies have also shown a previous company but how sons were given. According rise in the number of CEOs the company performed un- to a top headhunting firm, in the job market today.This der him that matters more,’’ last year, four CEOs in ma- means, the supply is far explains Puri. jor MNC telecom companies more than the demand,’’ The situation is likely to were asked to leave on per- says Ronesh Puri, India magnify in the future with formance issues. head of Executive Access. more CEOs being available While the scenario in In- The trend has caught on in the market, say experts. dia may not be as bad, CEOs in India too as many long- ‘‘Many more CEOs would be are feeling the pressure now, time CEOs are being phased looking around as compa- say experts. ‘‘Unmistakably, out as consultants. At times, nies that have not yet re- the trend is towards shorter CEOs wait six to nine structured also make tenures with more account- months between jobs. Ac- changes at the top,’’ con- ability,’’explains Atul Vohra cording to an expert, ‘‘There firms Koriakose. However, of Heidrick and Struggles. have been instances where the situation may not yet be Studies conducted in In- CEOs from middle-level out of hand, feels Vohra. ‘‘Al- dia by Executive Access — companies have settled for a though the trend is towards Asia’s largest search firm — director’s job in a bigger smaller CEO tenures, there show that last year 30 per company as they could not are still many good jobs cent more CEOs were fired find jobs at their level.’’ chasing good men,’’ he adds.
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10 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 SPECIAL REPORT
Didn’t we ban dowry 40 years ago?
the New Age credo. The business of marriage has According to Raghav K, an executive with a car friends and the response has been tremendous,’’ Nisha Sharma said No. been truly transformed into a mandi (market) finance agency, the lowly Maruti has been re- he exults. She’s safe, secure and still where greed is good and inability to pay up a fatal placed by the Santro, Zen even the Ford Ikon. In Delhi, they starry-eyed about her future lapse. Ironically,women’s emancipation and edu- Meanwhile, the Maruti itself has ousted the two- Kaun Banega Crorepati? cation seems to have stoked the fires even more. wheeler from the government clerk-as-groom cat- o whose stock is currently the highest in the apart from becoming a global As Vijaya Pathak, activist, points out, ‘‘Educated egory. marriage mandi? women face more harassment for dowry.And the For the upper middle class, the sky is becoming S call it ‘decent celebrity. Look what hap- ‘‘It is a fallacy to think that only semi-literate or greed never seems to stop. The parents keep giv- the limit as the father of the bride is ready to pan- the middle-class demand dowry,’’ says Shalini pened to those who didn’t... ing out the money hoping that everything will be der to every ugly wish of the groom’s family. A Mathur, secretary, Suraksha (an anti-dowry or- Romil Wahi, a 24-year-old London-trained com- alright, but the demands keep increasing.’’ senior government officer in Lucknow boasts: ‘‘I marriage’ ganisation). ‘‘In the last 18 years, I have seen high- have ensured a tension-free groom hunt for my puter professional was tortured by her in-laws be- ly educated and top professionals, including chief anish Tandon, a computer engineer who has two daughters.’’ And how? He has bought two cause her father failed to deliver the promised engineers, IAS officers, top businessmen, even n the nation’s capital, marriage is been looking for a groom for his younger sis- identical flats for both of them. ‘‘I have already car. Three years after living together, her in-laws M high court judges making direct demands,’’ she all about give and take. The ‘giv- ter feels marriage has been transformed into just circulated the news among my relatives and starved her to death by denying her food and wa- adds. Up North, it is the IAS groom who sells the I ing’ often starts much before the another business deal. ‘‘This is the era of direct ter for three days. Her father-in-law was the joint highest — Rs 50,000 to 1 crore. ‘‘No average man nuptials. When a senior Army offi- director prosecution in the UP government at the talk where negotiations are conducted across the cer’s IAS son was getting married, table between the two families.’’ He recalls his can aspire to have an IAS son-in-law’’ says Vijaya time of her death, four years ago. Pathak, activist. ‘‘There is always a queue of min- the bride’s parents sent them a two- Dr Snehlata Shukla, a physician was allegedly last negotiation and silently shivers. The engi- The law on dowry tonne National AC and a jumbo neer father of the prospective groom took a cur- isters, top politicians, principal secretaries of murdered with a poisonous injection when she state in front of an eligible IAS officer. Mantris Whirlpool fridge for the engage- could not fulfil her in-laws demands — money for sory glance at the bride’s photograph and de- If you demand dowry ment. ‘‘It was as if they were paying clared: ‘‘Theek hai, chal jayegi. (Okay, she’s pass- are ready to shell out abominable sums of money a nursing home. Her husband was a doctor; his According to the Dowry Prohibition Act to get their daughter an IAS groom.’’ This is fol- us a bayana (advance) to ensure that brother, a senior IAS officer. able). If she is as fair as she looks in this photo- we didn’t look for better options. It’s graph, it’s fine. But if she isn’t, you’ll have to pay 1961, giving or receiving dowry is an offence lowed by the doctor (Rs 20-30 lakh), the engineer Dr Anita Jain also failed to bring a nursing punishable by imprisonment between six (Rs. 20 lakh), the software professional, the NRI, only when we threatened to call off home along with her trousseau for her doctor a few extra lakh.’’ Manish is still hunting. the ceremony that they took the Today, if dowry negotiations are an intrinsic months to two years. the businessman and the bank manager. A col- husband. ‘‘Pocha lagao’’ (swab the floor), her hus- lege lecturer will have to settle for less than Rs 2 goodies back,’’ says the officer. band ordered. The lady doctor acquiesced and part of the lagna patrika (wedding pact) down He may be the exception in a city South, then Punjab has devised its ‘Maruti mar- If you harass her lakh. In Kolkata and Bangalore, it’s the software died of an electric shock. A live wire had been al- professionals and the corporate executives who where the demands are getting up- legedly dropped into the bucket of water. riages’, says Pramod Kumar, director, Institute of ● You could be imprisoned for three years graded by the day.Home theatre has Development and Communication. ‘‘In rural Pun- command the highest dowry followed by doctors. So what’s the real picture in upmarket, post- and fined under Section 498-A of IPC, which ‘‘The barristers and the bureaucrats, who till now replaced TV, car models are speci- millennium India, 40 years after we turned our jab, we have what are called Maruti marriages deals with cruelty by husband or his relatives. fied, and if the groom is an NRI it’s whereby a farmer takes a loan from a bank to buy enjoyed the greatest market value have clearly backs to the inimical dahej pratha? Cruelty is harassment of the woman with a lost their edge,’’ says Subrata Mullick, a marriage not unusual for the bride’s family to a tractor and then sells it to buy a Maruti for his view to coercing her or her relatives to meet sponsor the entire baraat’s air tick- ● daughter’s dowry.” counsellor. According to the latest NCRB figures, dowry an unlawful demand for property or valu- Isn’t it time for a lot more Nisha Sharmas to ets. ‘‘Growing consumerism is mak- deaths registered a 4.4 per cent increase in the ables. Cruelty also includes any conduct find their self-esteem and just say No? After all, ing the problem worse,’’says lawyer 21st century.UP alone accounted for 31.8 per cent How about a bus, Papaji which is likely to drive the woman to commit they have nothing to lose but a greedy groom Kirti Singh. of these cases followed by Bihar (15.5 per cent). ot only has the incidence of dowry increased suicide or cause grave injury or danger to her. who’s just not worth the moolah. In 2002, 130 dowry deaths were re- ● Section 406 of the IPC stipulates imprison- ported in the Capital. But the disease ● Nin middle and upper middle-class India, there At least three girls are burnt for dowry in Kar- has been a mutation in its form too. Consider a ment upto three years, or fine, or both for the is far more widespread than the nataka every day. From December 2002 to March check list of most favoured dowry items from Pat- husband and in-laws of a girl if they refuse to Postscript headlines reveal, according to NGOs 2003, over 150 women were admitted to the burns part with the streedhan in their safe-keeping. na: ere’s a real life story.Nidhi, a double MA mar- working with dowry victims. ‘‘The ward in Victoria Hospital, Bangalore, with 80 to ● Laptop, designer mobile set (not less than Rs. ried an engineer in Indore. Her father was a trend is set by the cash-rich and fu- 100 per cent burns. In 2002, of the 632 women who H 25,000), home theatre, digital video camera, mi- If you murder her forest officer and owned two houses in Bhopal. elled by five-star ladies’ sangeets and sustained burns (80 per cent cases were dowry-re- crowave, diamond jewellery sets, digital flat TV, ● Dowry death falls under Section 304-B. If The in-laws insisted he sell both the houses and designer weddings. The middle lated), 446 died. honeymoon package somewhere in Europe, mid- she dies due to burns or injuries or not under give them the money for a bungalow at Indore. classes emulate them and the lower size luxury car, a flat in one of the metros. middle class kills itself trying to ● According to unofficial estimates nearly 25,000 normal circumstances within seven years of The family resisted. ‘‘I told my in-laws since I was All this, apart from good, old gold, now de- keep pace,’’says counsellor Prem women die due to dowry harassment, with many her marriage and it is proved that before her the only daughter, I would inherit all my dad’s manded in kilograms. In traditional Gujarat too, Sharma of the National Federation more left maimed or scarred. death she was subjected to cruelty or ha- property. My husband said: What if your father the four F’s (phone, fiat, fridge, flat) have been re- rassment in connection with dowry, such lives for 20 years. I can’t wait that long for a house of Indian Women. ● placed by cell-phones, Santros, frost-frees and death will be called ‘‘dowry death’’. The hus- of my own!’’ says Nidhi. She underwent mental According to Vimla Mehra, joint In UP, 75 per cent of marital discord is directly commissioner of the Crimes against attributable to dowry disputes, say NGOs. low-rise, quake-proof apartments. And if that is- band or relative shall be deemed to have and physical torture until the police intervened n’t big enough, you can also add a bus to the list. caused her death. The punishment: Impris- and her in-laws ordered: ‘‘Go home and don’t She’s educated. So what? In Mysore, a doctor who recently married a busi- onment for not less than seven-years which come back till you bring the money.’’ Dowry demands are nessman running a private bus service carried a may be extended to life imprisonment. Are grooms like this worth the trouble... “ No apologies here, with consumerism becoming brand new bus along as dowry. Nikhat Kazmi getting upgraded — home theatre systems instead of TV, select cars and air tickets Material guy? Not for me Greed versus a few good men for the entire baraat’’ hey’re smart, educated and encourage the practice. They Not more than 10 per cent. s Munish Dayal (Nisha to marry off.’’ independent. Yet, the D- don’t realise that even gifts like Then what choice do the Sharma’s spurned But there are many more who Women cell, they get complaints T word still crops up to haunt white goods, furniture etc are a girls have?’’ I groom) a rarity among do not subscribe to the view. from families of defence services, them. Is today’s young urban form of dowry.’’ For many, today’s upwardly mobile Says S Jacob, an M Com student bureaucrats, businessmen and top woman willing to toe the line there’s clearly a dilemma, and young men? Not really. from Chennai: ‘‘In our commu- professionals. Most of the com- and pay up? ‘‘I am not for sale. If the desire to swim against the There are many who cite nity, dowry is a prestige issue plainants are between 25 to 35 years. the boy asks for dowry, I will tide is tempered by hard reality. tradition as defence. ‘‘It’s for the bride’s parents who feel Around 35 per cent of these cases get call him an illiterate and shut “When it comes to marriage ne- okay as a ritual but not as a their daughter will not get any mutually settled. Most of the com- the door on his face,’’ says Niki- gotiations, we do not have much means of satisfying greed,’’ respect otherwise. But I’ll insist plaints are filed after marriage and ta Rao, a final year B.Sc student say in the matter,” says Smita argues Bhanu Pratap, a that no dowry is accepted.’’ rarely (2 per cent) do girls’ families from Bangalore. Prasad, a convent-educated girl Lucknow-based marketing Delhi doctor Swapan Debroy seek police intervention before mar- Archana Rajendran, an engi- of Patna. executive. ‘‘Some accept it as insists, ‘‘I won’t even accept fur- riage. Activist Deepti Bharati says neering student from Chennai Then there’s Vinita Duggar, compensation when the bride is niture from her father.I want us they cry foul only when they can’t is equally firm: ‘‘It’s so stupid an interior decorator in either not up to the mark or to build a home together where meet the growing demands. As Shar- and silly. Who would want to Kolkata, who admits she does- when her parents want to en- we buy our things with our own ma points out: ‘‘There is no dearth of marry a guy who’s under his n’t know the answer. ‘‘I guess I sure her comfort at her in- money.’’ Suranjan Rao, a law those who want to give and those parent’s thumb and asks for would not let my parents de- laws’ home.’’ Chennai’s student from Bangalore, is will- who want to grab. Nor is there a dowry? Maybe, I will get some mean themselves before Anand J, a professor in a ing to disown his family if they paucity of money. Non-compliance jewels and cash for my security. strangers. But it is such a business school, argues: broach the topic of dowry. For generally results in humiliation.’’ But since I’ll be prevalent ‘‘Dowry is Bangalore tax A recent study by the All-India De- working, I won’t custom in traditionally consultant mocratic Women’s Association really need it.’’ my commu- considered a Rishikesh Red- shows that dowry has spread to more For Chennai- Speak nity that I re- security blanket dy it’s not dowry Speak communities. The done thing is to based software ally don’t that can help the but the girl’s announce: ‘‘All we want is a decent executive Padma Shenoy,the know how I would react if girl if something goes wrong. I character that matters more. marriage,’’ but it could set the very idea is demeaning. Pat- faced with the situation.’’ would not demand it but if it Mumbai lawyer Suneet Joshi, bride’s parents back by several na’s Natasha Sinha has al- Samira Gupta, a journalism comes, I will not say no.’’ who’s getting married soon lakhs. As in Moushmi’s case. Her in- ready turned down five men, student from Kolkata draws a Ajay Singh (name says, ‘‘I would not dream of ask- laws, leading hoteliers, wanted a ‘‘de- including an IPS officer, after line between what constitutes changed), an IRS officer ing for an almirah or a Santro cent wedding’’, so her middle-class they started giving dowry de- dowry or does not. ‘‘If my par- from Patna has no qualms or whatever else it is that parents spent a fortune on their tails. “I am still looking for my ents were to give me a car or a about declaring: ‘‘Why grooms are supposed to ask for.’’ aadar satkar. Later, it was discov- suitable guy,”she says. TV for my use, I have no prob- shouldn’t I take dowry? Delhi-based architect Shresth ered that the boy was impotent. The Succumbing to demands sim- lems. But why should they shell My late father paid Nagpal says, ‘If one is clear marriage broke up. ply encourages greed. As Luc- out money for my in-laws? I Rs 10 lakh to get my about their principles they can Often, the demand is disguised as know collegiate Nida Ahmad would never agree to that.’’ sister married and I convince others about it — I a loan. Sunita’s father had to shell points out: “The girl’s parents Sangeeta Mcgee, teacher at a have two more sisters know I can and I will.’’ should then be prepared for fur- Lucknow public school, is pes- out Rs 5 lakh for an additional floor ther demands even after the simistic. ‘‘All these protesta- ●Reports: Pranav K Chaudhary, Patna; Manjari Mishra, in her in-laws’ Noida house. ‘‘It’s marriage. So why not stay away tions are a farce. For the bride’s Lucknow; Swati Das, Chennai; Suchandana Gupta, Bhopal; been four years, there’s no talk of from proposals involving any parents, it’s often a status sym- Seethalakshmi S, Bangalore; Chitra Siddarth and paying back, and I dare not remind element of dowry.” bol. Besides, how many groom Krishnendu Bandyopadhyay, Kolkata; Tina Parekh and Priya my husband,’’ says Sunita helplessly. But as Delhi’s Suruchi Vohra families really do not think Adhyaru, Ahmedabad; Siddharth Singh, Chandigarh; Nina Sakina Yusuf Khan points out:‘‘Girls themselves about dowry as a pre-condition? Imaging: Neelabh Martyris, Mumbai
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TOI graphic DVD that can INTERNATIONAL GRAFFITI Reuters AFP Tough one for Arnold: destroy itself Arnold Schwarzenegger says that Termina- tor 3 ranked after 48 hours as the tough- Los Angeles: This disc will self- est movie he destruct in 48 hours. had ever That is the warning The Walt made and Disney will issue this August vowed his when it begins to “rent” DVDs days as an that after two days become un- action hero playable and do not have to be re- were far from over. The 55- turned. year-old actor was reportedly paid $30 million to reprise his Disney home video unit Buena role as the unstoppable man- Vista Home Entertainment will machine from the future and launch a pilot movie “rental” pro- he hopes the release in July gram in August that uses the self- of Terminator 3: Rise of the destruction technology, the com- An Afghan model presents Machines will restore the box a traditional costume dur- pany said on Friday. office muscle he once The discs stop working after a ing an exhibition of Afghan wielded at the peak of his handicrafts in Peshawar, change in colour renders them career. Reuters Pakistan, on Saturday. unreadable. They start off red, but when they are taken out of Virginity for sale: A competition in both cate- Chilean student short on tu- the package, exposure to oxygen gories from the tough-talking ition money announced the turns the coating black and psychologist Dr. Phil Mc- auction of her virginity during Graw, Oprah Winfrey’s pro- makes it impenetrable by a DVD a local radio programme. ‘‘I tege. Reuters laser. have a gynaecological certifi- Buena Vista hopes the technol- cate that my hymen is in- Sharon’s film snapped ogy will let it crack a wider rental tact,’’ said the 21-year-old. up: A thriller starring Sharon market, since it can sell the DVDs The auction opens in a week Stone as a woman investi- in stores or almost anywhere over the Internet. Bidding gating the disappearance of without setting up a system to get starts at the equivalent of $ Miss Cyprus Evie Lazarou (left), Miss Turkey Ozge Ulusoy her spy husband has been 990 she said over the W ra- the discs back. (centre), and Miss Bolivia Irene Aguilera in Panama City on snapped up at the Cannes dio network programme, The The discs work perfectly for the Friday. The Miss Universe 2003 competition is scheduled film festival, the film industry Crab Club, one of the coun- two-day viewing window, said for June 3. magazine The Hollywood Re- Flexplay Technologies, the pri- try’s most popular shows. porter revealed. North Ameri- vate company which developed She insisted she was not a into an ‘‘ecotourism retreat’’. for his rookie TV series, can rights to A Different Loy- the technology using material prostitute. Rather, giving up The 25-acre island will have a which he accepted while alty, which also stars British from General Electric. her virginity was the only way main house, camping sites, a multitasking as the award actor Rupert Everett, has to defray her tuition, she Chief Executive Alan training centre and tree- ceremony’s host Friday night. been acquired by Lions Gate said. Reuters Blaustein said he was also in con- house accommodation and The 30-year-old comedian Films, the publication said versations with other companies will offer tennis courts, nature won best talk show host and Friday. The movie tells the It’s a girl for Brooke: story of a woman in 1963 to use the self-destructing discs. Brooke Shields has become walks and water sports. The Wayne Brady Show tied The technology cannot be Branson said he bought it to for best talk show with The Britain who tries to track a mother for the first time. down her missing husband hacked by programmers who thank staff for making the Vir- View, which had its first win The 37-year-old US actress and finds out that he is sus- would want to view the disc gave birth to a girl at a hospi- gin group a success.Reuters in six consecutive nomina- tions. Brady had been nomi- pected of being a communist longer because the mechanism tal here. No other details Emmys for Wayne Brady: defector. It is currently being were available. The former nated for prime-time Emmys which closes the viewing window It’s Wayne’s world, and we’re twice before for the comedy shot by Less Than Zero is chemical and has nothing t do wife of US tennis star Andre all just living in it. Wayne British director Marek Agassi, Brooke is now mar- show Whose Line Is It Any- with computer technology. Brady was the surprise win- way? He was up against stiff Kanievska, using locations in However, the disc can be copied ried to writer-producer Chris ner of two Daytime Emmys London, Malta, Montreal and Henchy. Brooke, who report- Reuters within 48 hours, since it works Moscow.AFP like any other DVD during hat edly struggled for several months to conceive, is now window. Gay Crocodile Dundee? planning to be a ‘‘stay-at- Are we about to see the ul- Buena Vista did not disclose home mom,’’ reports EOn- tra-butch Crocodile Dundee pricing plans but said the discs, line. ANI go gay? According to a film dubbed EZ-D, would be available industry magazine, it seems in August in select markets with Branson buys island for that’s exactly what Australian recent releases including The employees: Flamboyant actor Paul Hogan is aiming Recruit, The Hot Chick, and entrepreneur for in his next project. But the Richard Signs. Reuters transformation of ‘‘Hoges’’, Branson has as he is known Down Under, bought an is- is to be fictional in more BRICKBATS land off Aus- The episode on the recent railway ways than one in the movie, tralia’s east- titled Strange Bedfellows, tragedy was in very bad taste. Please ern coast for don’t impose your pathetic sense of Moving Pictures International humour on us. the world- reported in its Cannes film — A loyal TOI reader wide staff of If the largest selling newspaper in the festival issue on Friday. In the his Virgin companies. Bran- story, ‘‘two Aussie blokes in a the world’s largest democracy is son told mediapersons in gonna print lies about a man who had small outback town pretend the guts to stand on his own, you’ve Perth on Friday that Virgin to be gay for tax reasons — got a lot of soul searching to do. would be forking out A$5 mil- and then have to prove it to — Ashutosh Ratnam lion to buy Makepeace island For bouquets log on to Sex shop chain Ann Summers asked a British court on the tax inspectors, without off the plush Sunshine Coast Friday to force government job centres to advertise its the neighbours giving away www.timesofindia.com resort of Noosa and turn it store vacancies. their secret.’’ AFP e-mail: [email protected]
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12 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 INTERNATIONAL Pak won’t roll back N-programme Briton charged with Indian’s murder Islamabad: Pakistan’s for- was ready for “composite and suicide bomber go on a mar- Reuters eign minister said his gov- sustained” dialogue with Indian fishermen tyrdom mission, he does not London: Police have charged a 38- ernment will never give up New Delhi. He said Washing- take permission from any year-old man with the murder of an its nuclear weapons unless ton wanted both countries to released from jail one. Indian-born millionaire businessman India does, according to news adopt a “reasonable posture.” He however, said Pakistan whose body was found in the sea al- reports Saturday. He said Pakistan ap- Quetta: A group of 14 did have influence with most three months after he went miss- “Let me say categorically, proached the talks with India Indian fishermen began the people of Kashmir, but ing with his family. there will be no unilateral without any solution for their voyage home Sat- “we cannot dictate them, Amarjit Chohan, 46, from Heston, rollback of Pakistan’s nu- Kashmir. “Let the dialogue urday after being held in they don’t take dictation west London, disappeared with his clear program,” Khursheed start. Let us approach the a Pakistani jail for two from us”. wife, their two young sons and his Mehmood Kasuri was quoted talks in a positive spirit,” he years for crossing into Kasuri said that during his mother-in-law in February. His body by the state-run news agency said. Pakistan’s waters, a jail talks with US deputy secre- was found floating near a as saying in an interview Reiterating Pakist an’s official said. tary of state Richard Ar- Bournemouth pier in Dorset, south- with the Urdu-language Jang commitment to hold a “com- They were released as mitage he had made it clear ern England, on April 22. newspaper group. posite and sustained” dia- a goodwill gesture to In- that durable peace could not Chohan ran CIBA Freight Services, Kasuri said Pakistan has logue with India, he said it dia ahead of possible be established in the region a haulage company importing food reason to believe that India is would be a continuous peace talks between the without taking into account into Britain from Africa. a threat to its security. “Our process. Islamabad was two countries. the wishes of the Kashmiri But the businessman had also spent threat perception is real. It is ready to show flexibility, he “We have sent 20 Indi- people. time in prison after receiving a three- not imaginary,” he said. said, but insisted that Kash- an prisoners to Lahore, On developing trade rela- year jail term in 1996 for tax evasion. File photo of Indian-born millionaire Amarjit Chohan with his family. Kasuri was interviewed mir would be “an integral from where they will be tions with India, Kasuri said, Police said Peter Douglas Rees, 38, Friday by the newspaper in part of the dialogue”. taken to Wagha border India should join gas from Portsmouth, had been charged trates Court on Saturday. the time of their disappearance. Their London en route to Pakistan On cross-border terrorism, on Sunday,” Quetta jail pipeline project from Turk- with Chohan’s murder. Officers said the missing family bank accounts have not been touched following a visit to Washing- Kasuri said Pakistan was try- deputy superintendent manistan via Afghanistan He was arrested on Wednesday and members’ passports had been with the and they have not contacted friends or ton, where he told US govern- ing its “best to control the in- Naveed Ahmad said. AP and Pakistan to cater to its will appear at West London Magis- Home Office for routine paperwork at relatives. Reuters ment officials that Islamabad cursions”. He said when a energy needs. Agencies
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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 13 Matrix Reloaded sets opening day record Scent of a woman’s fury Maze of highways: NYT Jensen Beach (Florida): His wife denies using fra- After Taylor’s doctor sup- When Lynda Taylor put on grances to torment her hus- plied a letter to verify his sen- American roadmap perfume and lit scented can- band and suggests he is fak- sitivity to scents, police ar- dles around the house, it was- ing his sensitivity to chemi- rested the wife. She was re- n’t romance she had on her cals. She says she often leased after being charged mind. It was spite, police say. dabbed on perfume and it with aggravated battery, for development Taylor, 36, was arrested never affected him before which carries up to 15 years last week on charges she during their three-year mar- in prison. ay what you will The Federal-Aid High- tried to seriously injure her riage. The cause of multiple about the US, but way Act of 1956 provided chemically sensitive hus- Taylor’s husband claims to chemical sensitivity is un- S among the most ad- $25 billion to build an ex- band. suffer from a rare disorder known, and some authorities mirable things about this tended network of 66,000 In addition to using the called multiple chemical sen- question whether it even re- country is its road system km to handle the projected perfume and candles, Taylor sitivity, an allergic reaction ally exists. Taylor traces his known as Inter-State High- traffic till 1976. sprayed the house with bug to perfumes and other scents illness to toxic mold and ways. It involved nationwide killer and Lysol disinfectant, that he says can be fatal. cleaning chemicals in the The expanse and design standards, includ- plugged in scented air fresh- The couple had been feud- county. majesty of these ribbons of ing a minimum of two eners, and emptied lavender ing over a $150,000 workers’ He says his wife, with help concrete (nearly 100,000 lanes in each direction, 12 sachets around the home, her compensation settlement from his stepdaughter, sub- km of at least four-lane ft lane width, ten-foot husband says. that the husband received in jected him to three days of highways) is as vital as it paved shoulder, and capa- David Taylor, 46, says the March for his illness. Taylor torment in early April. She is speedy and convenient ble of handling speeds of fragrances caused him to says he and his wife were started with perfume, then and it has NYT 50-70 mph. swoon — and not in the talking about splitting up, moved on to other scents af- been cele- The federal Keanu Reeves as Neo in a scene from The Matrix Reloaded. The Matrix sequel raked in hearts-and-flowers sense, ei- and his wife became hostile ter police came to the cou- brated in government a record $42.5 million at American box offices in its first day on Friday, surpassing last ther.He says he fell into a stu- when he refused to give her ple’s home and said it wasn’t prose (if met 90 per- year’s smash hit Spider-Man, which took in $39.4 million on its first day. por that left him too feeble half the money and the a crime to wear fragrance, he you call cent of the even to call for help. house. says. AP Jack Ker- construc- ouac’s On tion costs the Road primarily that) and paid for by Birthdays, books and stirring film (Thel- fuel taxes. POW rescue that never was ma and The rest of Louise the costs TIMES NEWS NETWORK among and upkeep the Memory Mulligatawny others). was left to New Delhi: The dramatic Since state gov- t’s not only a birthday — to on the back cover. Every- rescue of US soldier Jessica India is ernments. mine and the literal birth one had their own personal Lynch on April 2 from an now well Buick will celebrate its cen- The effect Iday of an old new book- chart. It was the me-genera- Iraqi hospital made head- into its tenary on May 19. From top: of the new shop — that serves as a re- tion in a way, only it was lines everywhere, includ- first major 1963 Riviera, 1984 Grand Na- freeways minder of organic half-life. called the Third World con- ing in this newspaper. modern tional and 1992 Roadmaster. was stun- There are other signposts on sumer straitjacket back then. The whole world saw dra- road proj- ning. the road downhill to rheumy- This is the sort of chart- matic footage — conve- ect in the form of the $12 They relieved the pres- eyed discontent and wobbly less nirvana parts of the niently filmed by US army billion, 13,000-km Golden sure on American cities, decrepitude. Memories, for West are rewinding to. Just night vision cameras — of Quadrilateral, it’s instruc- hastened suburbanization, one. These were once memo- this month, the chart- helicopter-borne American tive to see and creat- rably described, as I recall, colonised alleyways of Lon- special forces kicking down US staged the rescue of Jessica Lynch for propaganda. how the ed a whole by one Plum Wodehouse, as don Town, clanking with the doors and firing their guns, Great ONLY IN new ethos, akin to Mulligatawny soup in chains of corporate book- apparently at Iraqi soldiers. at the hospital in Nasiriya Houssona told the Toronto American besides a cheap restaurant. It’s best selling, took a quantum leap The rescue of the young where Lynch was being Star, ‘‘is that Iraqi soldiers Interstates spreading not to stir them. backwards. POW boosted morale on the treated have revealed the and commanders had left came into AMERICA! out jobs But stir we must, despite The London Review of US home front at a time following facts about the the hospital almost two being. and busi- all. And it takes as little as a Books opened its own book- when the invasion of Iraq entire affair: days earlier’’. He said that Chidanand Rajghatta In 1919, nesses. sign in the window of a Lon- The London Review of Books shop with the unfashionable had appeared to run • All Iraqi troops and fe- the night they left, his col- General They also don chain bookshop to dip has recently opened its own promise of no crashing aground. ‘‘It was a classic dayeen had withdrawn leagues moved Jessica John Pershing, who had engendered a culture of the doubtful spoon in, whole. bookshop. prices, no bestsellers, no operation done by some of from the area two days be- Lynch out of intensive care been impressed by the Eu- long-distance driving that And one is off, down the ab- charts are meant to do. ‘‘three-for-two’’ bonanzas our nation’s finest war- fore the ‘daring’ rescue. and into an ambulance. ropean system of inter- endures to this day,as a re- surd alleyways of the past. Still, I remember an age meant to clear remaindered riors, who are dedicated to • The hospital staff had ‘‘We began to drive to the state highways during his sult of which many critics The sign was an advert for without ‘‘chart books’’ and it stock. In a prosaic resonance never leaving a comrade be- driven Lynch to a US check- Americans, who were just assignment as commander say the US has to fight (in the inevitable ‘‘price crash’’ wasn’t all that long ago. Back with that dim, fusty book- hind’’, US brigadier general post in an ambulance a day one kilometre away. But of American Forces in more ways than one) to that had apparently knocked shop of my mis-spent youth, Vincent Brooks declared. earlier in an attempt to when the ambulance got World War I, sent a young keep fuel prices low. as much as ‘‘four pounds off it emphatically houses no And the entire media hand her over but were within 300 metres, they be- army colonel named Still, it is commonly ac- chart books’’. It’s fitting, I coffee bar and offers no breathlessly retailed this fired upon. gan to shoot’’. Dwight Eisenhower on a knowledged that the Inter- suppose, to have a chart to EURO smart nibbles. Sushi-lovers story. • US soldiers involved in The BBC, whose docu- coast-to-coast drive from state changed US land- record the new Harry Potter can get their fix elsewhere. There was only one prob- the rescue fired blanks to mentary on the stageman- Washington DC to San scape for the better. saga’s dizzying rise to the top VISION The London Review Book- lem: the story simply was- create the impression that aged ‘rescue’ will be tele- they had to fight their way cast on Sunday, said the Francisco as part of a But what continues to of the bestseller lists more shop exists only to sell books n’t true. The dramatic res- Rashmee Z Ahmed in. Pentagon ‘‘had been influ- study to see how quickly grow the American inter- than five months before it to those who need to buy cue was a well-prepared ‘in- US forces could move was even published. them from those who are fowar’ operation staged for ‘‘It was like a Hollywood enced by Hollywood pro- state system is that succes- film’’, Dr Ammar Uday told ducers of reality TV and ac- across the country in case sive governments have Fitting too, for those charts home in small-town India, qualified to talk about them. the cameras. The purpose of war. to reflect Zadie Smith’s po- where you were guaranteed Unsurprisingly, no one being to shift media focus the BBC, ‘‘They cried ‘go, tion movies, notably the spent billions more on go, go’, with guns and man behind Black Hawk But between the depres- upgradation, expansion, tential for literary mega- to talk to the same bookseller quite expects the new shop to away from the killing of celebrity because she’s in her after school as you would af- succeed. We’ll find out if civilians by the US bom- blanks without bullets and Down, Jerry Bruck- sion and war, very little and upkeep, something In- the sound of explosions. heimer,’’ whose advice progress was made on the dia often fails to do after twenties and skin a delicious ter university, ‘‘chart books’’ they do by next birthday. By bardment of Iraq and on to shade of mocha. The charts were an unknown quantity. which time well be all be old- the ‘heroism’ of US forces. They made a show...’’ ‘‘was taken on and devel- Pershing plan, with the US undertaking Herculean ‘‘The most important oped on the field of battle in rail lobby exercising its projects. seem less preoccupied with Those were the days you er, but no wiser, about stir- Interviews conducted by bought a book because you ring the Memory Mulli- the Toronto Star and BBC thing to know’’, Dr Harith Iraq’’. dominance over the auto- So laying down the Quad Smith’s prose than with the mobile industry. poetic bow of her mobile liked the blurb on the jacket, gatawny. will only be part of the In- or,I confess, the author’s pho- It wasn’t until Eisen- dian achievement. Keep- mouth. But then that’s what hower himself became ing it going requires president in 1953 that he greater commitment and laid out the great Ameri- resources — not to speak can road map. of a little road sense.
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14 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 ALL THAT MATTERS
TALKING TERMS Dileep Padgaonkar Has corruption become a part of the Indian DNA? Heady days in Cyprus No. Ordinary Indians are as honest as people anywhere in the world. Yes. Our irresponsibility and ‘chalta hai’ approach to things make us corrupt. Corruption rules and become model citi- ment for corruption difficult. Corruption tribute all their misfortunes deviated from, separated Nicosia: Even as India and Pakistan is not a cul- zens when they live abroad. We need to increase the is the love of to fate, sins of past lives, sys- from, deprived of, expelled or were renewing their dialogue, ex- tural or ge- Neither the people, nor their risks of corruption to unac- imperfec- temic constraints, a perpetu- turned out from, decayed, changes of another, far more dramatic netic prob- values have changed; they ceptably high levels, and en- tion. Indi- al sense of being short- lost, vicious, depraved. We sort of some interest to both of them lem. Ordi- simply adapt to an environ- hance rewards for good con- ans thrive changed, the ISI, the CIA, the are all this and much more. had begun to convulse this island which nary Indi- ment which rewards good be- duct. Comprehensive elec- in tacki- rain god, colonialism among Corruption is, then, a lack has been partitioned along communal ans are as haviour and punishes bad be- toral reform including pro- ness, doing the chattering classes, and of vision for the future. Indi- lines since 1974. That year, Turkey, tak- honest as haviour. Here, we have built portional representation and things hur- foreign invaders among the ans constantly look forward ing the cue from a coup engineered by people any- an environment which does funding reform, substantial riedly, leav- caste-marked classes. to the past. Corruption is Jayprakash Narayan Jyotirmaya Sharma the fascist colonels who then ruled National Coordinator, where in the the exact opposite: reward decentralisation and empow- Resident Editor, ing tasks Corruption is the outcome handing out trishuls to peo- Greece to take over Cyprus, dispatched Lok Satta movement world. A re- bad behaviour consistently erment of local govern- Hyderabad edition unfinished of a melancholic tempera- ple instead of distributing its troops to occupy the northern part of the country.Over puted global and extravagantly, and often ments, measures for efficient and saying ment. Indians love to sulk. pens. It is wielding well-oiled 200,000 Greek Cypriots were uprooted and driven penniless magazine conducted a sur- penalise good behaviour. justice will radically alter the ‘chalta hai’ on being ques- Theirs is the longest sulk lathis instead of the plough. southwards just as several thousand Turkish Cypriots vey of levels of integrity in Abuse of authority is a risks and rewards and pro- tioned. Corruption is not be- in history. This tendency More so, corruption mani- were forced to head in the opposite direction. several nations by dropping natural propensity in all so- mote honesty. ing responsible. Indians at- emerges from a lack of en- fests itself in breaking reli- For close to thirty years there has been no contact at several public places cieties. And people submit to gagement with life. Why en- gious structures and insist- between the two sides. The north, under the iron rule equivalent sums of money in such abuse because they gage in life when it is all ing on building new ones of veteran politician Rauf Denktash, declared itself to be small packets containing ad- have no realistic options. Of- SUNDAY DEBATE maya? This body is after all a rather than opening schools an independent, sovereign entity. Only Turkey, whose dresses. About 85 per cent of ten the cost of resistance to Deepak Harichandan prison, they argue, and the and hospitals. powerful military backed him with troops and money Indians — mostly the poor, corruption is disproportion- world itself is ephemeral. We Corruption is a woeful lack for strategic reasons, recognised it. After the fall of the hard-working labourers — ately higher than the likely are pure souls, universal of aesthetics in the public Berlin wall in 1989, Nicosia remained the sole ‘divided’ returned the money to the benefit accrued. It is well souls. Between this endless realm. The shrill and mind- capital in the world. addressee. neigh impossible to resist de- preoccupation with brahman less speeches of politicians On April 21, Denktash, to the surprise of every party in- Yes, it cannot be denied mands for extortionary de- and atman, a lot of garbage and the paan-stained walls of volved in the Cyprus crisis, announced that Greek Cypri- that corruption is ubiquitous mands if your daughter is piles up in the backyard. government buildings are its ots could visit the north and Turkish Cypriots could go to in our national life. This is under a surgeon’s knife in a Corruption is moral pride. living embodiments. the south from several points along the ‘green line.’ The because we have made the government hospital. Very Indians revel in it. We are the Like children, our faith government in Nicosia feared that the travel permits is- price of honesty inordinately few people collude in corrup- best, they say.We have an an- and hope lies in toys. We sued by the Denktash regime would be tantamount to high. In most cultures hu- tion and benefit. Such behav- cient civilisation. We have think machines will min- recognising it. But the Greek Cypriots paid no heed. man behaviour is regulated iour is seen in all societies, the Vedas and the Upan- imise corruption. ‘Computer- Within the first ten days, a quarter of the entire island’s by three forces: fear of god, and we need strong institu- ishads. We know it all, and isation’ will solve all our population had crossed the ‘green line.’ By the end of the societal pressure and punish- tions and a governance sys- better still, we can teach the problems. What could be a fortnight, one in every third Cypriot had visited the other ment for unacceptable con- tem which promotes honesty. world a thing or two. We also greater instance of corrup- side. Stories in the press spoke of the warm reception vis- duct. Indians are more god- In India, honesty and sur- kill each other with a tion than trusting a machine itors received from the present occupants of their old fearing than most other cul- vival in elective office are in- vengeance, tolerate poverty more than a fellow human homes. To cap it all, labour leaders from both communities tures, and we still have creasingly incompatible. and conspicuous consump- being? Corruption, is not the appeared on the same platform on May Day in a prominent strong families and peer Centralised bureaucracy,life- tion, live in squalour, cannot bribe you pay a ticket tout for square here in Nicosia and jointly clamoured for the re- pressure to moderate our be- time job security,and virtual produce a bright idea for cen- getting to see a film, ‘first day, unification of the island. haviour. But the institutions immunity from punishment turies, and are generally hap- first show’. It is a disease of Why did Denktash lift the barriers? One reason, accord- of state no longer have the make public servants callous py to be mimic men. the soul; it is a character flaw, ing to Turkish Cypriots I spoke to, is that he had got wind capacity to promote honesty and corrupt. Inefficient and The Sanskrit word bhrasht an imaginative shortcoming. of the Greek Cypriot government’s plans to allow people and curb corruption. inaccessible justice, and ab- conveys the sense of corrup- It is like bad breath. It can be from the north to travel to the south with the minimum for- Indians by nature are not sence of instruments of ac- tion better for us. It means curbed temporarily, never malities. Fearing that this might lead to a massive exodus corrupt. They conform to countability make punish- fallen or dropped, strayed or eliminated. of his people, he chose to make a pre-emptive move. An- other reason could well be that the influx from the affluent south would shore up his flagging economy.His regime in- of an oil major.The autumn of the patriarch deed doubled the insurance payment for cars of the Greek ERRATICA had segued into the era of the gentleman Cypriots and compelled them to stay in hotels. Bachi Karkaria Memory Matrix Reloaded farmer. Mama no Minoo sat on the deep otla These reasons do not tell the whole story.Knowledgeable as Warli women sashayed in with baskets observers here point out that with Cyprus about to join the Last week I went home. tainly grew up on it. My mother had spent Over the years, I danced a tentative minuet piled with mangoes blushing at their own European Union less than a year from now, the regime in Not to Mumbai, my per- much of her childhood amidst the dark, around it, circling it, but never violating the voluptuousness. His wife Aban had made the north would come under intense public pressure to join manent-address home. deep acres of mango and chikoo belonging remembered space. I built a home, a creek her own leap from PTA Mom to Earth Moth- in the ‘gold rush.’ Even more significant, these observers Not Kolkata, my first- to her Framroze Mama, he of the aubergine- and two hillocks away. I delved just deep er. She wasn’t a stern matriarch like her vi- argue, Ankara’s government, now run by an Islamist par- crush home. Not Ahmed- eyed wife. Uprooted in a whirlwind ro- enough to reinforce my mother’s bed-time olet-eyed mother-in-law, but a benign con- ty, has decided that Turkey’s admission into the EU is far abad, my in-law home. mance, mother landed up as a bride in tales, but I refused to plunge right in for fear jurer of the same open-fisted repast. more important than supporting the Denktash regime. Not Bangalore, my just- Kolkata. Distance, apart from its acclaimed of crushing the myth under the mundane She supervised the procession of roe- The EU would not entertain any such application if the ap- to-show-off home. But to ability to lend enchantment, also has the no- weight of reality. plump fried boi and dried Bombay duck plicant happens to occupy the territory of one of its mem- an unmarked amble of torious tendency to distort. She fed us on And, then, last week, I took the decision patiyo, spit-roasted chickens, home-grown bers. Besides, after America’s victory in Iraq, Ankara’s orchards between Maha- highly romanticised stories of summers in and the country road to confront my moth- cluster beans and mounds of brown-flecked military generals know only too well that the strategic im- rashtra’s Dahanu and Gujarat’s Valsad, Garigam, a space-time module overflowing er-painted past. I wasn’t disappointed. rice that didn’t come from a health-food portance of Cyprus is bound to decline. which is my race-memory home. with milk and mangoes. Garigam, serene in its antiquity, couldn’t store. But, there was a praline mousse from For the moment, however,everyone here is still in a daze I’d never been to Garigam before, but I We lapped up her industrial-strength ru- have cared either way. an American packet. Her daughter is an ad- about the thousands of people who have crossed the ‘green could have told you exactly which tamarind ral idyll. For us, eggs came from refrigera- Framroze Mama had long passed on to the ministrator at UCLA, disbursing millions of line’ and, in a manner of speaking, made known their over- tree had the most swingable branches, and tors, not hens, so ours was not the romanti- great vaari in the sky, but his son who had dollars in grants. whelming desire to see that reunification occurs at the ear- the precise spot in the river where you could cists’ willing suspension of disbelief. With always been referred to as Mama no Minoo ‘The past is prelude to instant pudding,’ I liest. The rulers on both sides were clearly unprepared for laze without being horned off by a propri- no first hand access to fact, we had no disbe- (Mama’s Minoo) had taken residence in the thought to myself, as I bit into equal parts of this development. It is now up to them to work out power- etorial buffalo. I could have also whispered lief to suspend. So there we sat, blithely old raftered house with new plumbing. I had nuts and nostalgia. sharing arrangements, perhaps on the lines suggested to you the dubious pedigree of those decid- straddling our bedroom chairs and a cultur- embarked on a nervous rendezvous with my ★★★ by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Denktash has so edly tribal children running around with al chasm whose breadth we were too young past, but he had made a hiccup-less break Alec Smart said, ‘‘How do you measure a far refused to go along with the Annan plan. But his days unabashed Parsi names. to comprehend. with his. The smear of suavity apart, Minoo society’s stock? With the Downy Jones appear to be numbered. I didn’t grow up in Garigam, but I cer- Garigam remained an imagined place. bore no trace of his former life as the big-rig Index.’’
JUGULAR VEIN MEN AND IDEAS Jug Suraiya PASSING THOUGHT Gurcharan Das Secularism gone awry
Two weeks ago I met while my father meditated in the next failed is not the noble philosophy of sec- Foodies and fammies an old friend after a room. Despite this, I grew up like many ularism but its practice. And in the mean- longish gap and he Indians with a liberal attitude that is a time, intolerant fundamentalists have It was a great party.Aptly so. For it was asked me what I had mixture of scepticism but sympathy to- filled the vacuum. launching a great product. The second been up to. I admitted wards my tradition. So, how do we begin to privatise reli- edition of TOI’s Delhi food guide, a somewhat reluctantly Our most cherished ends in life are not gion? The answer, I expect, lies with the labour of gastronomic love brought out that I had been political. Religion is one of these and it moderate voices in each religion’s main- under the very capable orchestration of wrestling with our an- gets demeaned when it enters public life. stream. Moderates must come forward the Delhi Times editor, Sabina Sehgal cient Sanskrit texts, Hence, religion and politics must be kept and teach us that true religion has noth- Saikia. The launch underscored a vital but mostly in transla- separate, and to believe this is to be ing to do with hating others. It worked truth: Delhi doesn’t march on its stom- tion. On prodding, I confessed sheepishly secular. I agree with BL Mungekar that when Gandhi or Maulana Azad preached ach; it stampedes. There were more self- that I had been dipping into the ‘‘India will die if secularism were to die’’ secularism for they were believers them- proclaimed foodies per square inch Arthashastra, Manusmriti, Kathopan- and if we abandon secularism we will be- selves and the masses identified with than there are trishuls in a VHP jamboree. ishad, Bhagavad Gita, and Kathasarit- come like tragic Pakistan. But why has them. Secularism was successful in Eu- In days gone by,if you talked too much about eating you sagara. ‘‘Good God, man!’’ he exclaimed, such a sensible idea failed? Our secular- rope in the 18th century because people ran the risk of being dubbed a greedy glut. Today the food- ‘‘You haven’t turned Hindutva, have ism has failed to stem the tide of intoler- were disgusted with the corruption of in- ie has come out of the culinary closet and is considered to you?’’ I think his remark was made in ance because most secularists do not val- stitutionalised religion. In India too, be a member of the cognoscenti, an aficionado. jest, but it upset me. I asked myself, what ue the religious life. In well-meaning ef- moderate religious leaders must demon- A foodie is someone who can discourse knowledgeably sort of secularism have we created that forts to limit religion to the private life strate that the agendas of Ayodhya, con- about cuisine, the more exotic the better. Who knows that has appropriated my claim to my intel- they behave as though all religious peo- versions, and banning cow slaughter are hollandaise doesn’t refer to a jet-lagged globetrotter’s lectual heritage? ple are superstitious and stupid. This nat- perverse. They must show up the extrem- mnemonic that ‘If it’s Tuesday it’s got to be Amsterdam’. I was born a Hindu, had a normal Hin- urally doesn’t go well with the majority of ists for what they truly seek, which is a That guacamole doesn’t mean a deep-penetration espi- du upbringing, and like many in the mid- Indians who are deeply religious and sus- grab for power. The answers will not onage agent in a place called Guaca, wherever the heck dle class I went to an English medium picious of godless, westernised, brown come from the Congress or the BJP. Nor that is. And that sun dried tomatoes aren’t beach bimbettes school that gave me a ‘‘modern educa- sahibs telling them what to do. can we wait for another Gandhi to suffering the dehydrating consequences of solar radiation. tion’’. Both my grandfathers belonged to Secularists are also statist and think emerge. The answer lies with the many In short, a foodie is someone who knows his or her onions. the Arya Samaj, but my father was drawn that the state can reform society and reli- reasonable voices of good sense within So it was reassuring to see that Sabina’s bash was choc- Conditions are excellent here, young man — he was to the syncretic sant tradition of bhakti, gion, which is again arrogant and foolish the Hindu and Muslim communities. a-bloc with foodies. Then the stand-up comic doing double brought here for experimental purpose and today he and he joined the Radhasoami sect in for genuine reform must emerge from Surely, there must be a few courageous duty as an MC announced the award ceremony for the heads the department! Beas. When I was growing up, I vividly re- within society. Moreover, secularists for- individuals among them who will speak restaurants that had won special mention in the TOI guide member my mother telling us stories get that the truly religious people are up before their faith is totally hijacked by and asked for assorted celebs to come up and give away the from the Mahabharata in the evenings usually deeply secular. Thus, what has the terrorists. prizes. A walking clothes-hanger on stilts came on stage. I didn’t know this was also a charity event for starvation vic- tims from Kalahandi, I said. He’s not a starvation victim; he’s a famous male model, explained Bunny. She knew he SWAMINOMICS was a male model because he wore ear-rings. If he’d been Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar Can crooks improve governance? shaved bald instead, he’d probably have been a famous fe- male model, otherwise known as a fammie fatale. But why We have always as an excellent buy. Between 1999 pressures to improve operating result aided all investors. The Na- group no matter how crooked — does he look as though he hasn’t eaten in weeks? I persist- conditions in India to global stan- tional Stock Exchange came up as there was too much political pres- regarded our and 2002, two firms belonging to JP ed. Because he probably hasn’t eaten in weeks, said Bunny. dards. Second, they will bring high- a world class rival to the Bombay sure. But the FIIs ended the quasi- businessmen as Morgan Securities made payments It’s called the famished look; it’s very in. er standards of governance be- Stock Exchange, with comput- monopoly of the UTI and brought crooks, and for- of $1.3 million to other banks to The world — the Indian world, anyway — is distinctly cause they will worry about being erised trading that made price rig- in competition. Unlike the UTI, eign companies write bogus reports praising new bipolar. And it’s divided between the foodies and the fam- jailed for misgovernance in the US, ging through telephone calls im- they dumped wholesale the shares as more trust- issues that they underwrote. US mies, short for the famously famished. The fastest growing whereas Indian firms have virtual- possible. Paper shares were dema- of companies with suspect prac- industries today are food and fashion, for which read ema- worthy, warts Bankcorp Pipar Jaffray, Morgan and all. The ly no fear of being jailed by slow terialised into electronic shares, tices, whose prices crashed. And ciated. If you aren’t so thin that you can count every finger Stanley, Bear Stearns and UBS courts. Third, Wall Street firms ending forgery. Delivery was tight- they paid premium prices for com- you have with your ribs you’re as out of the picture as one stock markets Warburg made similar dirty deals. have always giv- bring additional competition, ened and expedited to happen two panies with a reputation for good of those sacks of grain decomposing in a FCI godown. US authorities investigated the en foreign companies higher valu- which benefits common investors. days after purchase. The Bombay governance. They did this for their So far, so bipolar. But what if there were a secret syner- 10 biggest Wall Street firms. The ations than comparable Indian Until very recently, Indian stock Stock Exchange was forced to imi- own self-interest. Yet the result was gy between foodies and fammies, as evidenced by the pre- Terrible Ten have now settled out ones, believing that foreign compa- markets were dicey places. Pro- tate the high standards of the Na- that, for the first time, the stock eminence accorded to fammies at what was a foodie gath- of court, paying $1.4 billion. They nies are less likely to cheat. moters of companies disappeared tional Stock Exchange to survive. market began to systematically re- ering? Were they the two sides of the same coin? In every have also signed a pact promising without trace after a public issue. The net result is that India today ward promoters with good gover- foodie was there a fammie waiting to out, and vice versa? Should this perception change $432 million over five years for in- Controlling families of companies has one of the best and most mod- nance over promoters with politi- Was it like the theory of the oscillating universe which pos- after mind-boggling corporate dependent research, and stop dubi- siphoned profits off the books at ern stock exchanges in the devel- cal connections or the ability to rig tulated a Big Bang followed by rapid expansion (foodie) scandals involving the biggest ous practices like bribing CEOs the expense of ordinary sharehold- oping world, Ketan Parekh markets. Many Indian companies which slowed and, through gravitational pull, reversed multinationals and investment with shares in hot new issues. Two ers. The Bombay Stock Exchange notwithstanding. still cook their books enthusiasti- into a contraction (fammie) which eventually led to anoth- banks of the world? Enron, Arthur top analysts, Grubman and Blod- was replete with price-riggers and Second, FIIs have brought in cally, but are easily recognised by er Big Bang, and so on, ad infinitum, and I do mean tum? Anderson, and WorldCom have get, have been barred from the se- crooks who enriched themselves at higher standards of research, and the low price-earnings ratios the But what about those who were so in fashion as to be gone bust after revelations of curities business. the expense of investors. One-tenth forced companies to provide more market gives them. foodies and fammies not sequentially,but simultaneously? skullduggery.The latest scandal in- This will not end wrong-doing. of all share certificates were pertinent information on a regular How did that work? Could you be a foodie who was so busy What this shows is that competi- volves the biggest firms of Wall But the stars of Wall Street have, forged. The delivery of shares basis. Companies that fail to live up talking about food that you never got a chance actually to tion, even between crooks and Street, which produced reams of not for the first time, been pilloried could take months. to their profit predictions are pe- eat the stuff, and so earned yourself that ultimate karmic semi-crooks, can improve out- bogus research to trap ordinary in- and penalised. They know they are nalised heavily by sharp falls in double helping of being a foodie and a fammie at the same When foreign institutional in- comes for ordinary investors. What vestors into buying shares of in the public gaze, and that im- their prices, a sea change from the time? But would a foodie faking being a fammie, or a fam- vestors (FIIs) entered India in the FIIs sought was improved trading dodgy companies whose new is- proves conscience and behaviour. bad old days. mie faking foodiehood, be a real foodie or fammie or only a early 1990s, they said it was impos- conditions for their narrow self- sues they were managing for a fat What does this imply for India? real fakie? Do you think they’re faking it? I asked Bunny.I sible to do much business in such Finally, competition has im- interest. Yet in the process they fees. A top analyst of a Wall Street No matter how crooked the top couldn’t say,she replied. All I know is that there are plenty an environment, and asked the gov- proved governance. In the bad old improved conditions for all in- firm called a company POS (piece Wall street firms are, they can help of fakes about; starting with fake humourists, she added. ernment to upgrade this to global days, the UTI dominated a thin, rig- vestors, and helped push our of shit) in an internal memo, yet improve governance in Indian You mean that stand-up comic who entertained us earlier? standards. They sought this for gable market. The UTI could not stock markets to become among later recommended it to investors markets. First, they will create I asked. No, she replied. I mean the sit-down comic who is- their own selfish ends, but the end dump wholesale the stock of any the best in Asia. n’t entertaining anyone right now. Vol. 14 No. 20 : Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via Rs.3, Indore and via 50 paise. National edition: No aircharge.Price in Nepal: NEP Rs 5, except Sunday: NEP Rs 7. RNI No. 507/87/90 MADE IN NEW DELHI REGD. NO. 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I’m not talk- with every breath out, each time you say re- years have taught me that whatever — Kurt Spiteri Cornish I didn’t think I ‘had it ing about magic here lax, you are becoming more and more calm happens, happens for the best. I also be- ◆ in me’ to accomplish or witchcraft. I’m talk- and relaxed. If you get lieve in karma but I think it can be these grandiose possi- ing about believing distracted or if your The people to fear are not those who disagree influenced by an individual’s continu- bilities for my future. enough in ourselves to thoughts wander, refo- with you, but those who disagree with you and ous efforts and hard work. Too many ‘what ifs’ believe in our own suc- cus as often as you need are too cowardly to let you know. Everybody knows about God. stood in my way, too cess, in our own divine to. Don’t forget, practice — Napoleon Bonaparte But how many of us surrender our- much self-doubt, too potential. is the key. If you can ◆ selves to that Higher Power without little self-esteem. Build it and they will practice between 5-7 any expectations? To be spiritual ‘What if it doesn’t come... Follow your times each day,even if There are two gifts we can give our children: is to experience the delight of complete work out... What if I dreams, follow your only for a few minutes, One is roots.The other is wings. surrender. fail... What if I’m just heart, and know that you’ll gradually master — Carter Hoddings Sound is my life. Whenever I am not talented enough... What if I can’t make money at success (happiness, peace of mind, abundance) will the skill. ◆ be yours. Whatever your dream is... whether it has to Breathing deeply can relieve patients suf- tense and need to relax, I immerse it....’ These ‘what ifs’ were the walls between me and Love is not finding someone to live with, It’s myself in music. There is so much my future. do with career, lifestyle, relationship... whatever that fering from nausea after surgery. Voluntary dream is, believe in yourself. breath control is probably the oldest known finding someone you can’t live without. beauty in the music of everyday life. Most of you can probably relate to that. Most of us — Rafael Ortiz The sound of a heart beating is music. have grown up with self-doubt — not receiving the I firmly believe that we are not given a dream with- stress-reduction technique. It is a major com- Recitation, chanting and singing are encouragement to ‘take the risk’ and go for our out the potential to make it come true. If you have a ponent of yoga, the ancient Indian self-help ◆ the purest forms of music. When a dream. At times, not only were we not encouraged, seed, a dream, a vision, planted within you, then you system of health care and spiritual develop- Great men are they who see that the spiritual child is born, it associates with sounds we may have been actively discouraged and told to have the capability to make it happen, and the Uni- ment. Tai Chi, a Chinese movement art form; is stronger than any material force, that before words. Music is the reality of life choose a career that would have security and a good verse will help you in making that seed flourish into and the Lamaze method of natural child- thoughts rule the world. — words come much later. pay-check. Some of us traded our happiness for that a grandiose creation. birth. These and other methods share a focus — Ralph Waldo Emerson One needs to get away and look with- security... and everyday, some people choose to stick Whatever your heart yearns for, whatever your on the four distinct phases of the breathing ◆ in to find bliss. My most peaceful mo- with that path, and others choose to go for their highest vision of yourself is, if you can dream it, you cycle: inhalation, pause, exhalation, and ments are spent when I sit back and lis- dreams. can achieve it. Start by believing in a loving support- pause. Once you gain control of your breath- Don’t expect to build up the weak by ten to the sounds of silence. In the movie, Field Of Dreams, another dream is ive Universe, and then go the next step by believing ing in a non-stressful environment, you can pulling down the strong. (As told to Anubha Sawhney) presented... building a baseball field in the ‘middle of in yourself as a ‘perfect’ child of that Divine more readily call up your relaxation breath- — Calvin Coolidge nowhere’. The dream is so ludicrous that Iowa Universe. Everything is possible. Just go for it! ing during times of stress.
Marie T Russell your ‘inner teenager’. Be- on’t tell me what to do! We’ve come a team! Set goals heard that said many times... and agree on how to reach we’ve even said it, and at times Don’t tell me what to do! them in a way that is fun D when we didn’t say it, we and that gives both of you thought it! Don’t bug me! Don’t get on (Sounds like a teenager response, does- tivity (notice I did not call it exercise, ing her some space on this one. I have ‘space’ to be who you are. my case! Don’t tell me what to do! n’t it?) So what came to me was that it since she considers that a ‘dirty word’) complete confidence that if I don’t im- We sometimes treat our Sounds like a teenager speaking... ah! wasn’t so much the exercise that ‘‘I’’ she would like. So we came us with a pose my will on her, she’ll come inner teenager the same but it is! It’s that inner teenager that was resisting (after all, we all know list of things that are fun to do: walk- around... After all, she doesn’t want to way we were treated as te- most of us still carry around inside. that exercise, especially once we’re out ing, jumping on the trampoline, riding be living inside an old saggy tired over- enagers. Do this! Do that! That teenager has had enough of be- of our teens, is a needed attribute to a bike, playing tennis, etc. weight middle-aged woman (who me?) Don’t talk back! Behave! ing bossed around... being told what, staying healthy,fit, and full of vitality). I then gave ‘her’ (we’re still talking whose main exercise is moving fingers We need to respect our when, where, how, and why to do So, what was I resisting? Ah! It was about my inner teenager) a choice... My on a computer keyboard... inner teenager, so that things. Never having any say in the the being told that I ‘‘had to’’ exercise. thought was that perhaps by offering So, we’re still working on that one... she can then learn to re- matter...or if he/she did have some say, Who was telling me? Not my doctor, her a choice between various types of some days we exercise, some days we spect us. We need to ac- was it listened to? Mostly not. though I’m sure if I went to see one, I exercises (oops, activities) to do each don’t. But, we’re accepting the fact that knowledge her needs, her So that teenager still resides inside might get that advice. Not my husband, day,she would be willing to participate we have a choice... And that no one is derstanding. She is a teenager after all, fears, her emotions, and many of us. Mine pops up when it’s though, he also is aware of the benefits (or at least to let the adult ‘me’ partici- ‘forcing us’ to do anything. We do what and is very conscious of her looks and open up a dialogue with her. Yes, we time to exercise. (It’s not a four-letter- of exercise. So who then? ME! I was the pate). we choose, when we choose, if we of ‘looking cool’, so in the food area, we can talk to our inner teenager. How? word, but I swear my inner-teenager one telling myself to exercise. Logical, So we made a deal. Every morning I choose to. have less of a tug-of-war. But even Simply sit down, close your eyes, and thinks so.) I sat myself down (along right? Yes, except that my ‘‘inner let her choose which type of ‘activity’ Another time my teenager rebels is there, I have to ‘make deals’ with her. ask her some questions. Ask her about with my inner teenager), to get to the teenager’’ was resisting having me (the she would like to partake in that morn- with food! She sometimes trips me But after all, this teenager and I re- the areas of your life that aren’t ‘work- root of this attitude. The ‘I don’t want adult ‘me’) telling her what to do. ing. Now, I must admit that she’s still when I’m reaching for the lettuce in the side in the same body, and, since I’m ing out’. Ask her about why you’re hav- to exercise’ attitude. So how to get out of this dilemma? ‘testing’ me. There’s still quite a few store, and ‘makes me’ pick up pastries, older and wiser (we hope), I do feel that ing certain difficulties... Ask her if What I asked myself was, ‘‘why don’t Definitely by sitting down and talking mornings that she says she doesn’t cookies, and ice cream instead. Mind I ‘know best’. So... What’s the answer? she’s upset with you and why...You may you want to exercise?’’ ‘‘Dunno.’’ to ‘her’ and finding out what type of ac- want to do any ‘activities’. OK, I’m giv- you, in this area, we have a better un- The solution is to make friends with be surprised at the answers!
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NOW I C U LETTERS Gender Politics e4 obstructs the fielder, the Why are bubbles always round in shape? Recently I was in an ICU for a ninth takes more than two The question, ‘Do day (though heck only knows AP minutes to come out to the women make better why they call it that con- field. The last four wickets fall politicians than men?’ sidering you can't see any- in a fashion in which the ball (May 11), seems irrele- one) (wait, maybe it's be- is not considered. The tenth cause the guy in the white batsman hits the ball twice. vant. Politicians are coat who invariably appears Hence five wickets down in a politicians, irrespective in toothpaste commercials ball! Hats off to the bowler!! of their sex. History later can see you), and was —Gaurav Menghani, has shown that women getting bored with my afflic- menghani_gh@indiatimes. in the field of politics tion. So I asked my beautiful com are not any different ambulatory other to get me a Male-Tale-Dept: from men. Emergency few books from home — This Endgame about what was, after all, declared specifying in detail their names, authors and, in one was common to BADE, during Indira Gandhi’s case, even its Library of Con- DATE, DARE, GORE, RODE, regime. gress Catalogue number. But PORE, MANE, PAGE, SANE, —A. Jacob Sahayam, she who thinks I'm some MORE, HIRE, TALE and Karigiri (Tamil Nadu) kind of horribly twisted ogre HOLE was a sitter! Besides who eats riddles instead of the four traits mentioned, the Forget US children for breakfast brought fifth which is common to all me back something from 40 is that they are all Maharash- It’s time Indian politi- years ago. So bless her heart trian surnames. But just 13 cians realised that the as you rapidly solve this gen- words in this category is an United States can never tly lifted puzzle from 1963. underestimation (if you relax be an ally.India fea- Imagine that in an ordi- the constraint that it has to tures on the American nary square-shaped room, be a verb or a noun). KALE, agenda only when one we hammer a nail into each DOLE, LELE, NENE, REGE, of its diplomats is on of the four walls and then FENE, KATE, MATE, . . . the an official visit to the one nail into the ceiling and list goes on! subcontinent. one into the floor. We have —Aniket Joshi, Ann Arbor, with us pieces of strings in Now, we have Brajesh MI, USA Mishra talking about two colours—say blue and As-Goode-As-It-Got-Dept: an Indo-US-Israeli axis red. Now connect every nail I quote from the book with every other nail using a Mathematics on Vacation by to fight terror. Why new piece of string each Joseph Madachy; page 176: should a non-violent time. The pieces of string will “As a testament to the country like India sub- form triangles, one angle of lengths that some number scribe to America’s enthusiasts will go I will men- Mt Etna volcano provides a picturesque backdrop during the fifth stage of the Tour of Italy cycling race from Messina to Catania, Italy. QUESTION: Which is cowboy approach to MINDSPORT tion one more large number: the world’s oldest active volcano? combat terror? 9^9^9^9 ------. Neverthe- What is the cause of auto combus- sible due to the surface tension. Since Park Pobedy, the Moscow city’s 166th Countries such as the Mukul Sharma less with a knowledge of the OPEN SPACE tion in human beings? spherical shape (i.e. round shape) has metro station opened on May 6, 2003, US and Israel have no elementary properties of How do tubeless tyres work? Auto combustion, known as Sponta- the least surface area as compared to is the world’s deepest underground regard for the other numbers and a simple desk opinion and they have which will be at the nails. The Tubeless tyres are similar to tube- neous Human Combustion (SHC), oc- any other shape thus, the soap film station at 97 metres. It has the world’s calculator, the last ten digits in the process turned problem is, can we do this type tyres where the function of a curs when a person bursts into tends to become circular in shape. longest escalator at 125 metres. It took without making one triangle of this fantastically huge into terrorists them- tube is done by non-permeable inner flames and is incinerated. The first 16 years to build. The station is the in which all the pieces of number have been calculated — Yojita Pai, Mumbai selves. Why can’t Indi- surface of the tyre itself. Non-perme- reliable historic evidence of SHC last stop on the dark blue Arbatsko- string forming the three sides —namely, 1,045,865,289.” I What is the significance of the an politicians and ability is achieved by halobutyl com- appears to be from 1763 when French- Pokrovskaya line, four kilometres are the same colour? Either confess neither my math number ‘007’ with reference to diplomats instead con- pound in the inner layer of the tyre. man Jonas Dupont published a James Bond? from Kievskaya metro station. way, yes or no, can you give friends nor myself could centrate on mending solve this problem and we Halobutyl rubber is impermeable. collection of cases entitled ‘De Incen- — M.K. Kurpe, Surat the answer without dipping James Bond is a secret agent with the fences with our into Mersenne primes, re- are eager for a method to do Structurally, the rim-holding area ditis Corporis Humani Spontaneis’. Her Majesty’s Secret Service known neighbours such as punit palindromes and stuff this. Hope you throw it open (called the bead) will have an extra Initially, it was felt if a person as MI6, which deals with countering ANY ANSWERS? China and Pakistan? used for making mystic pen- to brainy readers. compound with a definite profile so explodes, it was a visitation of god external threats to Britain’s national —Firdaus Mantri, tagrams of yore, but using — Malcolm F Goode, mal- that the air is flush against the rim. and therefore some form of divine How does a mud pot keep water cool security. The number 7 is his serial via e-mail only methods beginning colmgoode@ rediffmail.com Hence, it must have definite a bead punishment. even in summer? without math? number.The ‘00’, or double-oh prefix, ENDGAME profile, otherwise it will provide an However, so far, no scientifically — Ravi Kumar P., recd via email DEAR MS, indicates that he is among the elite Home And Away You have three baskets with escape route for the contained air. accepted theory can account for SHC. Who created the bikini? Why is it World-Cup-Mishap-Dept: group of agents which has a licence each containing exactly four — Shriharsha Bhat, Baroda In 1700s, the popular belief was that called so? Chief Minister Rabri How could you have peo- to kill enemies. We have seen other balls, each of which is of the it was caused by excessive drinking — Hussain Kathawala, recd via email Devi reportedly walked ple sending in such foolish If chess is a test of brain power, why ‘00’ agents too — ‘009’ in ‘Octopussy’, same size. Each ball is either of alcohol. Another theory suggests What is the Ig Nobel prize? out of a seminar in Endgames again and again? are there separate competitions for ‘006’ in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, ‘003’ red, black, white or purple men and women? that certain people can build up which Bihar was de- Anyway, in the cricket puzzle in ‘A View to Kill’, etc. — Subhkaran Choradia, Varanasi and there is one of each There are no separate competitions enough static electric charge and What’s a ‘dead cat bounce’ in scribed as the most team B loses like this: The — Raghav Upadhyay, Ahmedabad first ball is bowled and the colour in each basket. If you for men. Competitions in which men some sort of atomic chain reaction corporate jargon? backward state of In- were blindfolded while each What is the origin of the word ‘taxi’? first batsman gets caught. take part are also open to women. could generate tremendous internal — Dipti Ranjan Gantayat, dia. The Yadavs have basket was shaken so that The second is bowled and When we say GM Sasikiran is a na- heat leading to SHC. In the late 19th century, the word Bhubaneswar since pointed out that the second batsman is bow- the balls were randomly dis- ‘taximeter’ was used for a device the Punjab owes its tributed, and then took one tional champion, he is champion of — S.P.S. Jain, Mumbai What is the maximum height to led. The third is bowled and both men and women. However, there Why are bubbles always round in used in a hired carriage, indicating which a helicopter can fly? prosperity to the mi- the third is out LBW. The ball from each basket, what the fare and distance travelled. grant Bihari labourers chance is there that you are separate competitions for women shape? — Shakti Raj Ghorpade, Gwalior fourth ball and the fourth is Taximeter was borrowed from who toil in its field. In- stu-mped. The fifth ball is would have exactly two red only. This concept was not clear even The film of the soap bubble actually Why are goose bumps called so? French ‘taxemetre’, where taxe stead of making such bowled and the fifth batsman balls? to the All India Chess Federation consists of two very thin membranes — Simran Singh, recd via email is run out. Now, five balls (Submitted by F F Corinth, officials during the ‘70s because of between which a layer of water is meant tariff and metre meant meter. sweeping statements, have been bowled and five Dubai, UAE) which Rohini Khadilkar had to go sandwiched. This film (including In the early 20th century, hired car- You ask. Or you answer. Mark the envelopes the first couple of Bi- wickets are down. Thus the through mental trauma. The matter riages/ automobiles were colloquial- ‘Open Space’ and address your answers and har should wonder both the membranes and the layer of questions to: bowler has to get five wick- Snailmail: D-268 Sushant Lok-I, became clear once FIDE, the world water) behaves as an elastic skin un- ly known as ‘taxi’. about why Bihar resi- ets in one ball. It can only be Gurgaon, Haryana 122001 Open Space, Sunday Times of India, chess body,explained its viewpoint (as der tension. This tension is called — Ravi Gupta, Hyderabad II Floor, S&B Towers, 40/1, M.G. Road, dents choose to migrate possible if the sixth batsman Email: mindsport@mantraon- stated above). surface tension. This soap film has a How deep is the world’s deepest Bangalore — 560 001 to other states. is out hit-wicket, the seventh line.com — V.D. Pandit, Mumbai tendency to become as small as pos- underground station? email: [email protected] — A. Seshan, Mumbai handles the ball, the eighth Website: www.mindsport.org
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The Sunday Times of India, New Delhi, May 18, 2003 Henry stays put Eddie backs Alonso Limping Lindsay Arsenal’s French striker Thierry Henry F1 stalwart Eddie Irvine’s stuck his neck out Lindsay Davenport’s preparations for the has signed a new contract keeping again. He’s pipped Renault driver Fernando French Open suffered a setback when a him with the club till 2007. The Alonso (in pic) to oust speedy Schumi from hamstring injury forced her to pull out of 25-year-old asserted: “I will stay at the world champion slot. “Alonso is mega, next week’s Spanish Open. She’ll now Arsenal as long as they want to keep and he is the new Schumacher,” Irvine’s stay at home and miss crucial clay court me.” Talk about loyalty gone on record to say match practice Tiger Woods falters in the Deutsche Bank SAP Open golf BRIEFLY AFP Challenging task ahead of WI Pires fires Arsenal AP Kingston: West Indies captain Bri- an Lara won the toss and chose to Waugh defends to FA Cup title field in the opening One-day cricket International against Australia at Cardiff: Robert Pires scored But Arsenal should have Sabina Park here on Saturday. players’ behaviour the only goal of the 122nd FA been three goals ahead by The West Indians, looking to car- Sydney: Steve Waugh has defended Cup final as defending cham- then, Henry going close at ry on the momentum from their his- his players’ behaviour during their pion Arsenal beat Southamp- least three times and Saints toric three-wicket victory over the Test series in West Indies and strong- ton 1-0 on Saturday to be- defenders twice clearing off Australians in the fourth Antigua ly hinted he wants to continue as come the first team for 21 the line. The final was the first Test, named three ODI debutants, Australia’s captain in the longer ver- years to win the trophy two in the competition’s long his- seasons in a row.The French- tory to be played “indoors,” of- THE TEMPERAMENTAL STAR: German At the end of 30 overs Australia sion of the game. international Stefan Effenberg (R) were comfortably placed at 144 Waugh told reporters on his ar- man struck seven minutes ficials deciding to close the stands next to Ahmad al-Sulaity, a for 3 with Darrel Lehmann and rival home on Saturday that while his before half time as injury-hit Millennium Stadium roof be- member of the Qatari Soccer Federa- Andrew Symonds unbeaten on 37 players had stepped out of line on a Arsenal, who lost their Pre- cause of heavy rain. tion, as he shows off his new shirt of and 6 respectively. Ricky Ponting couple of occasions, their conduct mier League title to Man- Arsenal should have gone the al-Arab club in Doha on Friday. was the last man out for 59. had generally been good and there chester United, gained the ahead after 24 seconds when was no animosity between the teams. consolation of winning soc- Fredrik Ljungberg put Hen- Devon Smith, Omari Banks and Australia won the four-match Test se- cer’s oldest cup competition ry clear down the right. India clubbed with Dymnamo Kiev: Carlton Baugh. ries 3-1 and the Ricky Ponting-led for the ninth time in its The Gunners, who ham- India have been placed with Dynamo Kiev Ricky Ponting’s World Cup cham- One-day side play the first of seven record 16th final. mered Southampton 6-1 10 (Russia), Preston Club and Country Antrim pions, who are putting on the line in the U-18 Milk Cup to be held in North- internationals later on Saturday. Veteran England goalkeep- days ago, went ahead seven their 17-match unbeaten run, have ern Ireland from July 18-25. The teams “The heat of the moment got to a er David Seaman, captain of minutes before half time. rested fast bowler Jason Gillespie have been divided into 6 groups of 4 few players (but) from a playing point the team in the absence of in- Ray Parlour played the ball from the opening match of the seven- teams each. The U-18 camp for the Indian of view it was probably the friend- jured Patrick Vieira, ensured inside to Henry who slipped match series. Brett Lee will be shar- juniors begin in Margoa from May 20 in liest series I’ve been involved with,” Arsenal’s victory when he it neatly out to Bergkamp. ing the new ball with Mcgrath. AFP\ which over seventy boys will be training Waugh said. “On and off the field the fisted a shot from Brett The Dutchman fed the ball to under Stephen Constantine. TNN guys had a lot of interaction, talked Ormerod over the top seven Ljungberg whose shot was Dalmiya to meet selectors: Cricket The shotmakers with each other a great deal and minutes from the end and blocked but rebounded to the board president Jagmohan Dalmiya will West Indies: Chris Gayle, Devon Smith, helped each other with cricket.” Ashley Cole cleared a header unmarked Pires. He needed have a session with the national selectors, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara (cap- Waugh was told by Australian crick- from James Beattie off the just one touch before firing when they meet here on May 24 to finalise tain), Marlon Samuels, Ricardo Powell, et boss James Sutherland to haul his line in the fifth minute of in- home for his 16th goal of the the India ‘A’ squad for the forthcoming Omari Banks, Carlton Baugh, Vasbert players into line after a heated on- jury time. season. AP tour of England. The BCCI has already in- Drakes, Corey Collymore, Mervyn Dillon. field row between fast bowler Glenn timated the quintet of selectors about the David Bernard (12th man). McGrath and West Indies batsman session with Dalmiya, which will precede Ramnaresh Sarwan in the fourth and Australia: Matthew Hayden, Adam the choice of the squad for the 75-day final Test. McGrath later apologised Injury-hit England turn Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting (captain), Darren tour in June. PTI for his actions and Waugh said he Lehmann, Andrew Symonds, Michael Envoys of Spain, Argentina win: Bevan, Ian Harvey, Brad Hogg, Andrew hoped people would not judge the Spanish envoy Don Rafael Conde and Ar- tour on that one incident “I’m not to their own McGrath Bichel, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Jim THE LEADER: West Indies captain Brian Lara (R) practices with gentine envoy Briotos jointly lifted the first Maher (12th man). Umpires: Billy Doc- making excuses for it but it does hap- Ambassadors Golf Cup Kashmir 2003 the team prior to the first One-day International against pen, that’s the reality of the situa- London: Three uncapped tion can easily go between trove (WIS) David Shepherd (ENG). now and Thursday. It was played at the picturesque Royal Springs Australia at Sabina Park in Kingston on Friday. tion,” Waugh said. Agencies players figure in the 13-man Golf course in Srinagar on Saturday. In the England squad announced prudent we keep him in the non-diplomat section, the team compris- on Saturday for the first Test squad and hopefully he will ing Najamus Saqib and Lennort Johanas- against Zimbabwe starting be able to take his place on son won the first prize. The individual Skippers urge their batsmen to deliver on Thursday at Lord’s. Thursday.” Missing from the prize was grabbed by Vinod Wazir. PTI The newcomers are Lan- list was pace-bowler Andy AFP Caddick who has damaged Dambulla (Sri Lanka): Rival secutive matches to clinch the ti- cashire’s James Anderson, Seeds have it easy: Top seeds kept ligaments in his right foot. their reputation intact, moving into the captains Marvan Atapattu of Sri Sussex pace bowler James tle. Anderson made his case second round without any hiccups in the Lanka and Pakistan’s Rashid Kirtley and the Yorkshire all- “The match against Sri Lanka for inclusion at the World Adyar Times Millennium FIDE rated Open Latif have challenged their bats- rounder Anthony McGrath. is a crucial one,” Latif said. Cup where he totalled 14 Chess on the opening day on Saturday. men to produce runs when the Andrew Flintoff has been “Managing to repeat our first- wickets in 23 One-day inter- Top seed International Master R B second round of the limited- named in the squad but there round win will instil confidence nationals. Graveney said Mc- Ramesh scored a neat win over young overs tri-series starts on Sunday. after our loss to New Zealand. are concerns about his fit- Arvind Subramaniam. In another en- ness as the all-rounder is car- Grath would share the role of “My batsmen must start valu- “A win on Sunday could spur counter, IM Sundar Rajan Kidambi outwit- rying a shoulder problem. fifth bowler with Mark ing their wickets, they need to us to the second One-day title in ted Asha Meera in 25 moves. PTI England’s chairman of selec- Butcher. quickly fight a way out of the bat- two months.” Latif said the con- England squad: Nasser Hussain (Essex, tors, David Graveney, told ting slump,” Atapattu said as his ditions in Dambulla had dictated capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Mark BETTING METER BBC Radio Five Live: “It is a team prepared to defend its five- the low scores, but batsmen must Butcher (Surrey), Andrew Flintoff (Lan- TENNIS bit of an odd injury Andrew cashire), Ashley Giles (Warwickshire), year winning record of limited- not shed their positive outlook. French Open overs series at home. has got. He took a blow to his Stephen Harmison (Durham), Mathew Hog- “Our bowling has been clinching gard (Yorkshire), Robert Key (Kent), James J. Ferrero 3/1 To protect their unbeaten se- right shoulder while batting, us victories, and now it’s time for Kirtley (Sussex), Anthony McGrath (York), A. Agassi 6/1 ries record here since July 1998, which has affected the nerves C. Moya 6/1 the batsmen to prove their met- Alec Stewart (Surrey), M Trescothick (Som- Sri Lanka need to avenge their in his shoulder. This condi- erset), Michael Vaughan (Yorkshire). AFP (as per ladbrokes.com) tle,” he added. “This is a test that 79-run series opener loss to Pak- istan when the teams meet again. should steel our young batsmen LIVE ON TV One’s got to accept that Sri for future challenges.” Latif ignored a painful groin Star Sports: 1715 hrs: Formula One -- Lanka’s batting is going though a strain, sustained during Pak- Srinath pendulum: 2003 World Championship. terrible lean patch,” said Atapat- istan’s first match, to play in the 2000 hrs: WI vs Australia (2nd ODI). tu. “This has gone far too long, but we’ve worked hard on our second game. The skipper said ESPN: 0000 hrs (Monday): Spanish Foot- batting and hope to reverse the the five-day break had helped him Has he or hasn’t he? ball League: 2002/03. trend — it’s time now for the recuperate for the next round. batsmen to deliver.” Sri Lanka, Pakistan and New London: Javagal Srinath cricket after a break, the Atapattu said his batsmen are Zealand all start the second has decided paper said. capable of dominating at Rangiri round with a win and a loss to retire The medium pacer has ICC vows to change Stadium, where the swinging apiece, but the bonus point sys- from first- had a distinguished inter- and bouncing ball has given tem puts New Zealand atop the class crick- national career which Bangladesh’s future bowlers the ascendancy. The standings with seven points, et, a lead- fetched him 236 wickets in fresh and lively pitch, with ex- with Pakistan on six and Sri Lan- ing British 67 Tests, figures second Dhaka: The International Cricket Council cessive moisture during the ka on five. newspaper only to the legendary (ICC) has vowed to reverse Bangladesh’s morning session, has turned the Each win is worth five points reported on Kapil Dev among Indian cricketing fortunes after repeated defeats in matches into a virtual lottery as and bonus points are awarded if Saturday but there was no seamers. Test and other matches, an official said here the winner achieves a run-rate confirmation from the The 33-year-old Srinath, on Saturday. “I honestly tried to point out spe- 1.25 times that of the opposition, player. who also played in 229 One- cific areas where the ICC could render sup- but the losing team retains the Srinath, who is in UK as day internationals (315 port to make Bangladesh more competitive as a bowling coach-cum play- point by not conceding it. wickets at 28.08), had suc- quickly as possible,” Andrew Eade, ICC’s Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardena (R) bats as wicketkeeper er for English county side The bonus point that slipped cessful stints with English Global Development Manager, said before Romesh Kaluwitharana looks on during a practice session at Durham, could not be con- county sides as well. Play- out of Sri Lanka’s grasp boosted leaving Dhaka at the end of a two-day visit. Rangiri Dambulla Stadium on Saturday. tacted for confirmation of ing for Gloucestershire in “The ICC wants to bring about significant New Zealand’s tally, but Atapattu the toss plays a crucial role. Pakistan overhauled their the report in Daily Tele- 1995, Srinath took 87 cham- changes in terms of result-oriented progress said he wasn’t unduly perturbed. Batsmen have struggled in the team after the World Cup in graph which gave no pionship wickets at 19.09. in Bangladesh’s cricket within a short span of “Our first priority was to get back conditions, but Latif says that it South Africa, where the 1992 source for it. Srinath signed up last time,” he added. Eade said the ICC would help into the winning mode, the bonus Srinath, who had a won- gives his young lineup the per- World Cup champions were oust- summer with Leicester- whittle down lists for a chief executive officer point was secondary,” Atapattu derful World Cup in South fect learning environment. “So ed in the first round. Eight veter- shire where he grabbed a of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and a said. “We’re out to prove that Sri Africa in February-March what if the conditions are tailor- an players were dropped and a hat-trick against Surrey high-profile coach for the under-19 team as Lanka have not forgotten winning returning a haul of 16 and topped the bowling av- made for pace bowlers, the bats- new-look team was fielded in last well. AFP at home.” The two leading teams wickets at 23.06, may con- erages with 30 victims in men must learn to handle such month’s four-nation Sharjah after the second round advance to tinue to play limited-overs five games. PTI adversities,” he said. Cup, where they won four con- INDIANS ABROAD a one-off final on May 23. AP Sehwag ultimately Selection woes: When will the best talent be picked at the right time gets off to a good start By Karnam Malleswari There’s a little twist in everybody’s life. Olympic bronze medallist Karnam too feels He knows exactly where I am going wrong and what I need to do; one look I can never forget that moment. It was that luck played a key role in her journey from an unknown little-town girl to a London: Keen to make up for his string of and I know what he wants me to do the month of Sep- poor scores in four successive innings in his champion. Thirteen years after that little twist, she’s wondering if that’s the only way too. This bonding doesn’t exist, and is tember. The year debut county season, explosive India batsman to produce winners in the country not encouraged, in our system. If I was 2000. And the Virender Sehwag struck a quickfire 20-ball 32 two coaches (Raibakon from Russia the folds of mediocrity. hadn’t been spotted by those coaches venue: Darling Har- before rain stalled what could have been an- and S.L. Salwan) in charge of the pro- INDIAN SPORT I strongly believe that the govern- that day I too would never have at- bour, Sydney. Well, other of his blitzkriegs. ceedings noticed me. They were ment should look inwards, into rural if you haven’t yet tained my full potential. Roped in by England county side Leicester- rather impressed with my body struc- areas, if it really wants winners. guessed it, I am re- SLEEPING As told to Indraneel Das shire, Sehwag finally seemed to have found ture and they asked me if I was inter- We only have accidents of success. his bearings, unleashing some fine-looking ferring to my ested in lifting. I just nodded my head. GIANT A few individuals who rise above Karnam Malleswari became a world strokes in the four-day match against Surrey bronze medal victo- I promptly took my parents’ ap- themselves and their surroundings to champion in 1995 in the 54kg with a at the Oval on Friday. In the 20 minutes of ry in the Olympics. My life changed proval. I was at the national camp ented boys and girls who can’t find a win a few medals. You sink in oblivion world record in clean and jerk play that was possible in overcast conditions completely after that. even without participating in a dis- way out of this hellhole. if you don’t become at least a state (113.5kg). Besides an Olympic bronze on the third day, Sehwag, resuming at his Ten years before that momentous trict competition. Luck? Destiny? You I would like to stress that an champion. Why do we continue with and an Asian silver,she has won many overnight 14, had no problems in seeing the victory, I wasn’t even thinking about it as a sport, forget about winning a can call it anything. Olympic medal is not an accident of these obsolete, and quite often whim- world and Asian titles. She had started ball hurtling out of the gloom and his first fate. It also doesn’t come with just one sical, selection systems? her career in the backyard of her house scoring shot was an immaculately-timed coveted Olympic medal. Let me ex- I was soon competing in the junior plain. I was just a little girl who casu- nationals at Udaipur. What the coach- or two years of hard work. Many peo- Why can’t we have a system where in a small township (Amadalavalasa) straight driven four off Martin Bicknell. ple spend lifetimes in its pursuit. It re- talent, ability and passion are the only near Vizag in Andhra Pradesh. She of- Bicknell’s next ball was struck powerfully ally started doing some lifting. That es didn’t know at that time, of course, was, of course, because of my sister, quires top-class coaching, scientific criteria? Why should we restrict the ten looks back at her life with awe and through the covers and after four overs the was that I had loads of determination, Karnam Narasamma, a national training methods, right diet and even selection trials to only 100 or 200? surprise. score had reached 32 for two with all the runs great concentration and a burning de- weightlifter. good selection procedures. Quality is important; but that will She would probably have reached being scored by Sehwag. Just then rain inter- sire to win too. It was a roller-coaster It also helped that my father was in If we really want to win medals on come only we increase the quantity the pinnacle a little earlier, or more vened and Leicestershire will now have the ride after that. the Railway Police: we were always on the world stage, we have to revamp the and the range. gracefully, if the selection system in the fourth and final day left to knock up 328 runs the move. In November 1989, we had Today, as I sit down in the confines entire system. There’s an abundance In addition, it is very important to country was better; if the best talent is with eight wickets in hand, weather permit- gone to Visakhapatnam to Bangalore of my hostel here in Patiala I often of talent at the grassroot level; it is have a strong bonding with the coach culled out when it is ready to be ting. Sehwag, who had made just two runs in to watch our sister compete in the se- venture into the chaotic hellhole important to not only identify it but to succeed at the highest level. This is moulded. the first innings, will have to build up on his lection trials for the national camp. called Indian sport. I know that I was also to nurture it properly. especially true in individual sports. Readers are invited to write in their start if he is to help his side save the match. Do we have the system? Unfortu- Leicestershire: 200 and 32 for two (Sehwag not out 32). Surrey: That was the beginning of my fasci- lucky to get the right break at the Quite often, when I’m not feeling too thoughts and solutions to timessport@in- 560 for eight declared (Mark Ramprakash 152, Ian Salisbury 101 nating journey. right time. But what about others? I nately no. Many champions are lost confident or my rhythm is missing I diatimes.com. Or even fax them at not out, A Brown 73, A Stewart 71). PTI I was just standing there when the am sure there are scores of highly tal- simply in the fight for survival, or in just need to look at my coach. 23323346 or 23324173.
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By Bobilli Vijay Kumar West Indies may have at least cut off the runs. and Dinesh Chopra Former fast bowler and na- THE FUTURE IS HERE scripted the greatest tional selector Joel Garner Opening problems: Chris Gayle (left-hander, opener from Jamaica): Loves to or the first four days of chase in the history of too believes that they still play his strokes. On his day a match-winner. Is a useful spinner and sharp field- the final Test, the West have a long way to go. ‘‘What er too. Here to stay. Indian supporters Test cricket. But it F hurts me most is the fact that Devon Smith (Grenada) and Wavell Hinds (Jamaica) are could do only one thing: was more like David runs are being pinched off belligerent left-handed openers. A little caution would make snatch and break broom- slaying Goliath by ac- our bowling fairly easily,’’ he them ideal foil for Gayle. West Indies need to find a partner sticks that their Australian THE GREAT says. ‘‘The guys don’t have for him quickly if they want to be serious contenders. Dar- counterparts had brought cident. They still have the pace to intimidate the ren Ganga, a number three batsman, is also a studious along to make sweeping a long way to go be- batsmen. They don’t even opener. Needs to add some strokes to his armoury. Likely to statements. fore they can catch up have the skill to think him be groomed as future captain too. On the last day, however, out,’’ he adds. Brian Lara (captain, middle-order): Is the most charismatic batsman of our everything changed. Young with the Australians, Hall, however, feels that times. Can be inspirational when the going is good. Bats particularly well with Omari Banks scored a fight- or a couple of other things are changing. ‘‘There captain’s cap on head. Is, however, proving to be prone to unknown diseases ing 47 to snatch a thrilling, al- are some world class boys in in recent times. If around for another five years can surely trigger the revival most impossible, victory.The Test nations. Times the pipeline,’’ he says. ‘‘We with this bunch. fans drank gallons of rum News Network does will blood them soon. We jus Ramnaresh Sarwan (right-hand middle-order): The fu- punch again. But this time a spot check wanted to give the current lot ture of West Indies cricket. His precise footwork and at- they did it to celebrate; not to a decent run,’’ he adds. ‘‘The tacking style gives confidence to team-members. Needs to vent out their anger or drown MIRAGE control his pull shots to convert those 60s and 70s into big only problem is that they will in their sorrow.Just like they hundreds. Has already become the most reliable batsman berate around the world until West Indies were ruthless- only by bowlers. You can’t come to him. always be compared with the used to when cricket was in the team. they rediscover that spon- ly annihilated in the first win Test matches without Vasbert Drakes, Pedro likes of Holding, Marshall, king. taneity. three Tests. Lara, Sarwan, picking 20 wickets.’’ Collins are all honest triers, Shivnaraine Chanderpaul (left-hand middle-order): An unorthodox to the Garner and Roberts.’’ core leftie. Doesn’t believe in looking up the coaching manual. But soft hands, Brian Lara’s boys, on the Agrees Desmond Haynes. Chanderpaul and Gayle His main worry is that the kind we have been used to Until they find bowlers to crafty defections and crisp drives give him lot of runs. Highly dependable and other hand, did something ‘‘We need at least two more sparkled at different times; there aren’t any top-class seeing in Indian cricket. As match them, the West Indi- will surely stay on top for some more time. even more fantastic: they good fast bowlers. And one but as a team, they just could- bowlers on the horizon. ‘‘If a irony would have it, their ans will have to keep looking Omari Banka (off-spinner): A rare gun in the Caribbean armoury. With an el- gathered near the edge of the more reliable opening bats- n’t stop the Aussie jugger- team is allowed to score 400- best hope now seems to be for the broomsticks. egant, high-arm action he has proved that spin is not completely dead in the pitch, hand in hand, and man.’’ Lloyd too feels that the naut. Even on slow,low pitch- plus scores regularly, then the spinner, Banks. The kneeled down in unison to land of pace. Took wickets and scored runs under immense pressure to show core is not yet ready.‘‘I would es that weren’t really suitable there’s something seriously youngster showed courage that he’s also here to stay. Hope the selectors agree too. kiss their beloved ground. It add a world class spinner and for the pace of Lee, Gillespie wrong with the bowling,’’ and the fire to fight back Mervyn Dillon (right-arm fast medium): Has always been was a touching innovation of a wicket-keeper who can and McGrath. Can these adds Roberts. even when everything the Great Indian Huddle. seen as the successor to Walsh. His smooth high-arm ac- score at least 40 runs to this highly talented batsmen There was a sliver of hope seems lost. All put tion is a handful. Probably lacks deception or raw pace to They are, of course, not like- list.’’ spark the kind of revolution with the arrival of Jermain together, however, ly to do that routine after become a genuine Carib speedster. Time is running out on ‘‘The victory posed more that the pace quartet had Lawson. He is quick, he is ag- they just don’t him. West Indies urgently need replacements. every wicket, or after every questions as far as I am con- done all those years back? gressive and he knows how to seem to know victory. But it at least sent a Pedro Collins (left-arm fast medium): Has bowled alongside genuine pace- cerned,’’ says board presi- ‘‘I don’t think the batsmen take wickets; the only prob- how to take men like Ambrose and Walsh in his early career. Lacks stamina of a fast bowler much-awaited signal to the dent Wes Hall. ‘‘If a team can are gonna see the West Indies lem is that he has already wickets, or rest of the world: We are not but has enough swing to trouble right-handers. Must work on fitness or pace chase 418 in the fourth in- through in the future,’’ says been drafted into the list of to survive at the international level. yet finished, maan. We still nings of a fourth Test, why Andy Roberts, the one fast chuckers. Merv Dillon too love our cricket. Jermaine Lawson (right-arm fast): A hat-trick in the third Test, followed by a couldn’t they score in the ear- bowler who could mesmerise had appeared to have come of seven-wicket haul in the final Test made people sit up. Has breathed new life The first question that sur- lier Tests too,’’ he asks. and kill you with a smile on age just a few months back; faced after their historic into the dying pace factory of the Islands. Only problem might well be his action. his face. ‘‘It has to be done now it looks like age has If that is cleared and he doesn’t get burnt out, might become the WI’s spearhead. chase, inevitably, was the same old one: Will this trig- Marlon Samuels (middle-order): A classy right-hander whose electric start ger the revival of West Indi- to his Test career prompted comparisons with Viv Richards. When Samuels first played against Australia in 2000-01, he was only 19 and had not even an cricket? Will they quickly played for his native Jamaica. Has fine technique, plays strokes on both sides regain the grand road to vic- and can be the big one. tory, and onwards to su- Ricardo Powell (middle-order): One of the best clean hit- premacy? Have they found ters in contemporary cricket. Punishes bowlers with brute the nucleus for the team of power. Great fielder too. A little consistency might give him the future? and the team a lot more depth in the middle order. ‘‘I don’t think so,’’ says Compiled by C. Shekhar Luthra Clive Lloyd, the architect of the Invincible Machine of the 80s. ‘‘I think the current players lack cricketing acu- One win can’t spark men more than anything else,’’ he adds. ‘‘I really won- der if they talk enough about a revival: Sarwan the game among them- selves.’’ By Dinesh Chopra No and yes. No because I The sad part is that a lot couldn’t stay till the end. And has changed in the West Indies’ young middle-or- whenever a wicket fell or Caribbean Islands in the last der batsman Ramnaresh Sar- somebody played and missed couple of decades. The most wan loves the drama in Hindi I’d be really nervous. So much significant one, however, is movies. The climax of so, I didn’t see the game till we that all the joy has gone out of Shahrukh Khan-starrer Dil- needed about 60-70 runs to their cricket: during the wale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge win. It was satisfying in reigns of Lloyd and still fascinates him. He was terms of getting a hundred Richards, and much before witness to some real-life dra- against a well-rounded attack. that too, they always seemed ma too when Vasbert Drakes I’d credit both Shivnarine to be enjoying themselves on square cut Stuart MacGill for Chanderpaul and Brian Lara the field; today,they are striv- a world record win in the An- for my performance. Me and ing to compete. tigua Test. “Unbelievable,” he Shiv had zeroed in on small The cocky camaraderie says, as he shares his thoughts targets eg: chasing 25 runs, 40 and liveliness has simply on the victory with TNN. runs and 80 runs at a time lat- vanished from their game. Where’d you rate this win er. People ask me if I was in- The calypso will not rever- Ajit Ninan in the final Test? timidated. No. I’ve been in Nothing can beat the feel- tight spots before, specially here’s something in our most gold plated but now and ing. It’s been more than 72 playing junior grade for Tblood that probably then the buck stops at the hours since we won the Test Guyana. That helped. makes us very good chasers. How India had done it at Port-of-Spain Gavaskar-Vishvanath stand but the feeling hasn’t sunk How did the altercation with And we are not talking just that raised 159 runs. Says for- in. I know it was a dead game Glenn McGrath affect you? about those ‘chases’ around running in their veins did it Gavaskar’s opening part- mer West Indian captain for the series but am glad we It’s all part of the game. If I trees that we pay to see on a last week in Antigua. DOWN MEMORY LANE ner Anshuman Gaekwad is- Clive Lloyd: “We weren’t fought on even terms. And could provoke one of the best n’t shy to admit that the chasing a record total against 70 mm screen. At least in “The West Indian win is 1975-76. Kirmani may be took the sheen off our cocky about the declaration bowlers I must be doing fine. chances of an Indian win Australia is a once in a life- cricket we have some paral- fine, even great, considering right but the West Indian ef- achievement,” says Kirmani. and knew if anyone could be The incident raised my lels. One Sunil Gavaskar, his then were not very realistic. time thing. These are the mo- it came against a better at- fort fought its way to the top a threat it had to be either game. I was desperate to bro-in-law Gundappa Vish- One of the chief architects “Not until Sunny and Vishy ments that pep you up when tack but I’d be interested in with ease. Just the effort to Gavaskar or Vishvanath and prove a point and when Mc- vanath, and batting brave- of that win, Vishvanath, came together. But we (the you are low. seeing what happens when keep the likes of McGrath, Grath congratulated me on says: “Me and Sunny scored batsmen) talked amongst as luck would have it, they Can this win can work as a heart Mohinder Amarnath the series is at stake or at the effort I was satisfied. I Gillespie and Lee at bay can runs at a fair rate. Their at- were both in for a great day catalyst for West Indies cricket? did it in Port-of-Spain more ourselves and just decided to wanted to win it for my peo- least there’s a chance to make one pale. tack wasn’t that big a deal then.” But deep down Lloyd No, not really. There are a than two decades ago when stick around in the middle ple and for Carl Hooper. they chased a record 403 to equalise. I’m sure their ap- But the Carribean boys but then playing in fourth in- and spend as much time as must be a contented West In- few things to learn from this How realistic were the win against the West Indies. proach would have been dif- went a step ahead, saw eye-to- nings is never easy and on a possible. I think that was the dian seeing that the record game but to think that the tide Two others Shivnarine Chan- ferent then,’’ says former In- eye and won. “We too fought slow turning track. Our job trick. In the end, Brijesh has been erased by his fellow will change immediately is a chances when you went into derpaul and Ramnaresh Sar- dia wicket-keeper Syed Kir- on equal terms. May be the was made easy by Jimmy Patel played a very good hand countrymen. But then, we long call. We have a few guys the fourth day’s play? wan, albeit West Indians, but mani, who was part of that media and the TV wasn’t as Amarnath who ground their too.” won’t let him forget the Indi- who look solid but we need to Not very high. Players with a lot of Indian blood victorious Indian team in active as it is today and that attack by his strong vigil.” Patel’s 49 not out was al- an connection in that. — DC work together as a team. It’s were down and dejected but (this victory) so much an Brian Lara’s pep talk got us adrenalin thing but that alone going. He reminded us of the can’t win you matches. At 5-0 loss to the Aussies when Schumi’s late charge gives him pole least, we know that we can do we were there last and how it. Omari Banks playing a cru- we should remove that scar. TOI cial knock was unbelievable. As we had nothing to lose Spielberg: Five-time world Personally, it must’ve been champion Michael Schu- from there, we decided to give satisfying scoring hundred. macher cut it fine as he it a shot. claimed his third consecutive pole in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix at the A1-Ring on A1-Ring is lucky for me Saturday. By Giancarlo Fisichella in Austria it could be a trade- Returning to the track don’t think there are many off against good strategy. It is where 12 months ago he and Iexperiences that compare a shame that the A1-Ring is go- his Ferrari team courted con- with the rollercoaster ride of ing to be dropped from calen- troversy for using team or- Formula One. The different dar as I had some good results ders Schumacher set the qualifying format this year, there. The past few weeks pace again but only just to plus the weather during the have been quite eventful in beat Finn Kimi Raikkonen first three races, played a sig- my racing career. I collected by 0.039 secs. Colombian Juan nificant part in shaking-up my first GP winners trophy Pablo Montoya took third. AFP grid positions, but just when in Brazil. (Copyright Atlas F1/ Gameplan) you think you have found a little luck, it can disappear as quickly again. Therefore, not finishing the San Marino and Spanish Grand Prix was tough for me and my team, because I know everyone at Jordan and Cosworth are put- ting in a tremendous effort. This is what I will be aiming at the Austrian GP! I remain confident for the next race and you can be sure I will be going for more points Brazilian Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello sits in his car in Spielberg racetrack pits during the at the Austrian GP. A good second free practice session on the eve of the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix. grid position is important, but
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SPORT SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 19 India run into defending champs in opener IAAF vouches for Lewis Clean sweep Madrid: World track and positive,” according to min- field’s anti-doping chief de- utes of the IAAF Council New Delhi: India will begin their final, they can take heart from the India will play arch-rivals Pakistan termined in 1988 that drug meeting in Seoul, South Ko- campaign in the 25th edition of the fact that their best showing came in on August 23, while their matches samples provided by eight rea, on Sept. 18-19, 1988. Champions Trophy hockey tourna- 1982 at Amsterdam, the venue of this against last year’s runners-up Ger- American athletes at the The document supports ment with a match against defending year’s edition, when they finished many, Australia and Argentina will Olympic trials that year the IAAF’s statement last champions Holland on August 16 at be held on August 17, 19 and 20 re- should not be treated as posi- month that the USOC was by Argentina Amsterdam. CHAMPIONS TROPHY spectively. In the last edition at tives, according to IAAF right in clearing Carl Lewis India, who are yet to win the presti- Cologne, India won two of their five records. and other athletes of doping gious title in their nine appearances third, ahead of Pakistan, Germany league matches — against Australia in the game’s premier event so far,fin- and erstwhile USSR. and Pakistan, held Holland 3-3 and Arne Ljungqvist, head of violations. According to doc- ished fourth in the last edition at The premier six-nation event, lost to Germany and South Korea. the sport’s anti-doping com- uments released the USOC’s Cologne in Germany. which will conclude on August 24, In the play-off match, India lost to mission, found that the US former director for drug con- Though the Indians have never also features Australia, Argentina, Pakistan 3-4 to finish at the fourth Olympic Committee “had trol, US athletes tested posi- wrongly announced that tive for drugs more than 100 qualified for the Champions Trophy Germany,and Pakistan. place. PTI eight athletes had been found times from 1988-2000. AP
Agustine Calleri Gaston Gaudio
Guillermo Coria David Nalbandian Hamburg (Germany): Four gium, 6-1 6-1. Argentines swept into the The last Argentine to win semifinals of the Hamburg in Hamburg was Guillermo Masters on Friday to make Vilas in 1978. tennis history. The eighth-seeded Nalban- Never before had four play- dian is the highest-ranked ers from Argentina ever player left in the field. reached the semifinals at one Gonzalez, the 15th-seeded tournament. It was also the Chilean, upset top-ranked first time four countrymen Lleyton Hewitt a day earlier. will play the semifinals of a He seemed headed for anoth- Masters Series, the nine tour- er upset with is powerful naments that rank just below ground strokes well into the the Grand Slams. third set. But Nalbandian David Nalbandian led the started playing better and Argentines charge when he won the last five games, hit- rallied from a 1-4 deficit in the ting a crosscourt forehand third set to beat Fernando winner on his first match Gonzalez 5-7 6-3 6-4. point.Nalbandian became the Guillermo Coria was the first Argentine to reach the second to play and needed Wimbledon final, where he less than hour to sweep past lost to Hewitt last year. He Mark Philippoussis 6-2 6-0. was also a quarterfinalist at Then came Agustin Calleri, the Australian Open earlier who beat Wayne Ferreira 7-5 this year. 6-2, and Gaston Gaudio com- The Hamburg is a major pleted the sweep by knocking warmup for the French Open, off Olivier Rochus of Bel- which starts May 26. Agencies Tiger wilts in Germany Alveslohe: Tiger Woods’ fad- spite another birdie at the ing hopes of winning conti- 10th, he stood at just six-un- nental Europe’s top tourna- der through 14 holes, still well ment for the third straight short of the leaders who were year all but vanished when he just starting their third failed to mount a charge in rounds. Saturday’s third round. The With conditions near per- World No 1 started the day fect for low-scoring, Woods four-under-par in The looked resigned to playing a Deutsche Bank-SAP Open, supporting role in one of only nine strokes adrift of pace- two tournaments he will play setter Padraig Harrington of in the buildup to the defence Ireland and was badly in need of his US Open title at of a Tiger-like assault on the Olympic Fields, Chicago next Gut Kaden course month, the one Major he still But after birdies at the owns. fourth and the sixth set abuzz Best early round of the day the huge crowds following came from Englishman An- him, a morale-sapping bogey- thony Wall who blitzed eight five at the seventh. Woods birdies on the way to a tour- reached the turn in 35 and de- nament-best 64. AP SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE AP
Former Argentina star Gabriela Sabatini with Germany's former star Boris Becker during an exhibition match against Michael Stich and entertainer Otto Waalkes at theHamburg Masters on Friday. FOOTBALL Mark Webber (Jaguar), 1:09.891. 9. Fer- Copa Libertadores Second phase: nando Alonso (Renault), 1:09.923. 10. Paysandu 2 Boca Juniors 4 (Agg 3-4). Giancarlo Fisichella (Jordan), 1:10.018. French Ligue 2: Nancy 0 Beauvais 2, TENNIS Amiens 1 Metz 0, Caen 2 Creteil 2, WTA Tour Italia Masters, Rome, Italy Chateauroux 2 Wasquehal 2, Clermont Quarter-finals: (4) Amelie Mauresmo Foot 1 St Etienne 0, Grenoble 0 Le Mans (Fra) bt (5) Jennifer Capriati (USA) 6-3 7- 0, Gueugnon 1 Istres 1, Laval 2 Niort 1, 6 (12-10), (1) Serena Williams (USA) bt Reims 0 Toulouse 1, Valenc 1 Lorient 1 Conchita Martinez (Spa) 7-5 6-2, (13) Ai FORMULA ONE Sugiyama (Jpn) bt Tina Pisnik (Slo) 6-1 Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg 6-3, (2) Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt (8) A. Times and positions after second Myskina (Rus) 6-2 6-2 qualifying: 1. Rubens Barrichello (Fer- ATP Tennis Masters Series, Hamburg, rari), 01:09.241 hrs. 2. Juan Pablo Mon- Germany Quarter-finals: (8) David Nal- toya (Williams), 1:09.301. 3. Michael bandian (Arg) bt (15) Fernando Gonzalez Schumacher (Ferrari), 1:09.331. 4. Ralf (Chi) 5-7 6-3 6-4, (12) Guillermo Coria Schumacher (Williams), 1:09.418. 5. (Arg) bt Mark Philippoussis (Aus) 6-2 6- Jarno Trulli (Renault), 1:09.704. 6. 0,Agustin Calleri (Arg) bt Wayne Ferreira Jacques Villeneuve (BAR), 1:09.708. 7. (Rsa) 7-5 6-2, Gaston Gaudio (Arg) bt Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren), 1:09.870. 8. Olivier Rochus (Bel) 6-1 6-1.
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20 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 SPORT
GRAFFITI No more torture: The IOC has vowed to rebuild the Iraq Na- tional Olympic Committee. But the IOC executive board, meeting AFP in Madrid this weekend, assured that those members involved in the torture of athletes, will not be involved. AFP
Kimi Raikkonen steers his car on the Spielberg racetrack on Saturday during the second free practice session on the eve of the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix. For the English palate: of orange and chocolate) re- play Vladikavkaz on Sunday. Baked beans will be waiting quested. The device containing 1.5kg for England’s soccer players of TNT explosive was dis- Roofed-up final: Satur- when they visit South Africa covered in the upper part of day’s FA Cup final between next week, but their hotel the north stand at the stadi- Arsenal and Southampton cannot provide the breakfast um in the south Russian city was the first played under- cereal and cakes they asked of Vladikavkaz, capital of the cover after the Football As- for, the Johannesburg-based Caucasus republic of north- sociation decided to pull the Saturday Star reported. The ern Ossetia. The bomb was roof over the Millennium Sta- team, who will play a friendly defused and an immediate dium in Cardiff because of against South Africa’s inquiry was launched. bad weather. After a night of Bafana Bafana in Durban on heavy rain and more falling in Thursday, will be staying at the hours before the match, On a shaky chair: The the Beverley Hills hotel at the FA decided a closed roof pressure on Aston Villa’s oc- Umhlanga. A spokesman for was the best way to protect togenarian chairman Doug the hotel told the newspaper the pitch. Fans started gath- Ellis intensified on Saturday that the English Football As- ering outside the stadium with a call for him to step sociation had asked that only from 7 am and some touts down coming from a former fish familiar to English were offering tickets for team captain. Dennis Mor- palates be served. The hotel about 1,000 pounds. timer, who led Villa to Euro- is stocking up on baked pean Cup glory, is upset at beans and tomato sauce for Bomb at stadium: Army the cirmustances surround- the footballers, the newspa- officers with sniffer dogs ing the departure this week per said, but was not able to found a bomb at a football of manager Graham Taylor, provide the mini-Weetabix stadium on Saturday where and says under no circum- (cereal) and Jaffa cakes Russian first division leaders stances should Ellis select (sponge biscuits with layers CSKA Moscow are due to Taylor’s successor. Name and Fame ready for glory TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Name And Fame is in fine shape and should annex the Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Cup (gr III), the main event of the Bangalore races scheduled for Sunday. Selections: Mount Everest Plate (div.II): 1,400m: 2.00pm: Acquaintance 1, Demanding 2, Astor 3. Aureole Plate: 1,100m: 2.30pm: Surprise Gift 1,Accolade 2, Zimmermann 3. Malenahalli Plate: 1,400m: 3.00pm: Zhanna 1, Nice And No- ble 2, Hoorpari 3. Heir Apparent Salver: 1,200m: 3.30pm: Samyuktaa 1, Baracud- da 2, Calescent 3. Jayachamaraja Wadi- yar Cup (Gr III): 1,400m: 4.00pm: Name And Fame 1, Brunswick 2,Taipan 3. R Kho- dayar Memorial Plate (div.I): 1,200m: 4.30pm: Fly For Fame 1, Red Mamma 2, Private Emotions 3. Mount Everest Plate (div.I): 1,400m: 5.00pm: Smart Supreme 1, Rubik 2, Actuary 3. Kinigal Stud Plate: 1,200m: 5.30pm: Southern Goddess 1, Hero Worship 2, La Reine 3. R Khodayar Plate (div.II): 1,200m: 6.00pm: So Supreme 1, Baira 2, Red Zeppelin 3.
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SPORT SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 21 India meet Holland IAAF records back USOC on Lewis case in Champions Madrid: World track and field’s anti-doping Athletic Federation’s statement last month Clean sweep by Argentina chief determined in 1988 that drug samples that the USOC was right in clearing Carl Trophy opener provided by eight American athletes at the Lewis and other athletes of doping viola- Hamburg (Germany): Four Argen- MAY THE BEST MAN WIN Olympic trials that year should not be treat- tions. tines swept into the semifinals of the ed as positives, according to IAAF records. According to documents released to media AFP AFP New Delhi: India will begin their Hamburg Masters on Friday to make campaign in the 25th edition of Arne Ljungqvist, head of the sport’s anti- outlets by Dr Wade Exum, the USOC’s former tennis history. the Champions Trophy hockey doping commission, found that the US director for drug control, US athletes tested Never before had four players from tournament with a match against Olympic Committee “had wrongly an- positive for drugs more than 100 times from Argentina ever reached the semifinals nounced that eight athletes had been found 1988-2000. Only a handful were barred from defending champions Holland on at one tournament. It was also the positive,” according to minutes of the IAAF competing; 19 went on to win medals. AP August 16 at Amsterdam. first time four countrymen will play Council meeting in Seoul, India, who are yet to win the the semifinals of a Masters Series, the South Korea, on Sept. 18-19, prestigious title in their nine ap- nine tournaments that rank just be- 1988. pearances in the game’s premier low the Grand Slams. The document supports the event so far, finished fourth in the David Nalbandian led the Argen- International Association of last edition at Cologne in Ger- tines charge when he rallied from a 1- many. 4 deficit in the third set to beat Fer- Though the Indians have never nando Gonzalez 5-7 6-3 6-4. qualified for the Champions Tro- Guillermo Coria was the second to phy final, they can take heart from play and needed less than hour to Gaston Gaudio David Nalbandian the fact that their best showing sweep past Mark Philippoussis 6-2 6-0. AFP AFP came in 1982 at Amsterdam, the Then came Agustin Calleri, who beat venue of this year’s edition, when Wayne Ferreira 7-5 6-2, and Gaston they finished third, ahead of Pak- Gaudio completed the sweep by istan, Germany and erstwhile knocking off Olivier Rochus of Bel- USSR. gium, 6-1 6-1. The premier six-nation event, The last Argentine to win in Ham- which will conclude on August 24, burg was Guillermo Vilas in 1978. also features Australia, Argenti- The eighth-seeded Nalbandian is na, Germany,and Pakistan. the highest-ranked player left in the India will play arch-rivals Pak- field. Gonzalez, the 15th-seeded Chilean, istan on August 23, while their upset top-ranked Lleyton Hewitt a day matches against last year’s run- earlier. He seemed headed for another ners-up Germany, Australia and upset with is powerful ground strokes Argentina will be held on August 17, 19 and 20 respectively. well into the third set. Agustin Calleri Guillermo Coria But Nalbandian started playing bet- In the last edition at Cologne, In- The big-serving Australian stuck seeded veteran Conchita Martinez. ter and won the last five games, hit- dia won two of their five league with his serve-and- volley game, mak- A comfortable 7-5, 6-2 victory over ting a crosscourt forehand winner on matches — against Australia and ing Coria’s job even easier. the 31-year-old former Wimbledon his first match point. Pakistan, held Holland 3-3 and lost “It went faster that I thought,” said champion on Friday took Williams to Germany and South Korea. Nalbandian became the first Ar- Coria, who was named after Vilas. into the last four where she will gentine to reach the Wimbledon final, In the play-off match, India lost “He served and volleyed and I could meet French fourth seed Amelie to Pakistan 3-4 to finish at the where he lost to Hewitt last year. He dictate the match from the baseline. Mauresmo. was also a quarterfinalist at the Aus- fourth place. PTI “I played an incredible match. I am Belgian second seed Kim Clijsters tralian Open earlier this year. getting better with every match and I will meet Japanese 13th seed and “I played a very good match, but it hope to be 10 out of 10 in Paris,” he doubles partner Ai Sugiyama in oth- was very difficult to come back from said. er semifinal at the Foro Italico. 1-4 down in the third set. I had to give Ferreira, a 31-year-old veteran on Clijsters defeated Russian eighth everything. The difference was noth- the tour, upset Kuerten in the third ing, one or two points,” Nalbandian seed Anastasia Myskin a 6-2, 6-2, round. But he ran out of gas against while Sugiyama ousted unseeded said. the steady Calleri, who broke Fer- Slovenian Tina Pisnik 6-1, 6-3. The US$2.4 million Hamburg clay- reira’s serve when the South African court event is a major warmup for the served for the first set. Ferreira never Williams said she was impressed French Open, which starts May 26. recovered. with the form of Mauresmo, who But none of the top stars reached Former Argentina star Gabriela stands between her and a place in a the last eight in Hamburg. Defending Sabatini celebrated her 33rd birthday second consecutive Rome final. champion Roger Federer and three- by watching her compatriots in ac- “Amelie is definitely here to win time French Open winner Gustavo tion. She also entertained the crowd and hopefully I’ll get in her way,” said Kuerten also lost on Thursday. earlier by taking part in a doubles the 21-year-old American, winner of Philippoussis was unable to match match involving Boris Becker, 22 WTA Tour titles. his performance in ousting Federer Michael Stich and a German comic. Mauresmo defeated American fifth and looked frustrated by Coria’s ac- No sweat for Serena and Cli- seed Jennifer Capriati 6-3, 7-6 (12/10) curate passing shots from the base- jsters: World number one and de- to clinch her place in the semis. line. fending champion Serena Williams Sugiyama became the first Japan- “I was just mentally drained,” cruised into the semifinals of the clay ese player ever to reach the last four Philippoussis said. court Rome Masters after beating un- after brushing aside Pisnik. Agencies Woods wilts in Germany Alveslohe: Tiger Woods’ fading hopes of winning DEUTSCHE OPEN continental Europe’s top tournament for low-scoring, Woods looked resigned the third straight to playing a supporting role in one of year all but vanished only two tournaments he will play in when he failed to the buildup to the defence of his US mount a charge in Open title at Olympic Fields, Chica- Saturday’s third go next month, the one Major he still round. The World No 1 started the owns. day four-under-par in The Deutsche Best early round of the day came Bank-SAP Open, nine strokes adrift from Englishman Anthony Wall of pace-setter Padraig Harrington of who did what Woods was supposed Ireland and was badly in need of a to do by blitzing eight birdies on the Tiger-like assault on the Gut Kaden way to a tournament-best 64. That course north of Hamburg. left him at 11-under for the tourna- But after birdies at the fourth and ment. Harrington, playing in the the sixth set abuzz the huge crowds same group as Woods in the first two following him, a morale-sapping bo- rounds Thursday and Friday,shot 65 gey-five at the seventh took the wind and 66 to lead by three at the halfway out of his sails. stage on 13-under from South Woods reached the turn in 35 and Africa’s Retief Goosen. despite another birdie at the 10th, he Four players were grouped a stood at just six-under through 14 stroke further back on nine under - holes, still well short of the leaders Peter O’Malley of Australia, Robert who were just starting their third Karlsson of Sweden, Graeme Mc- rounds. Dowell of Northern Ireland and An- With conditions near perfect for drew Coltart of Scotland.AP SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE AP
Former Argentina star Gabriela Sabatini with Ger- many's former star Boris Becker during an exhibi- tion match against Michael Stich and entertainer Otto Waalkes at theHamburg Masters on Friday. FOOTBALL par 70):130 Vijay Singh (Fij) 65 65 Copa Libertadores Second 131 Tim Petrovic 65 66 132 Jeff phase: Paysandu 2 Boca Juniors 4 Sluman 63 69, Kevin Sutherland 64 (Agg 3-4). 68, Scott Verplank 69 63, Robert French Ligue 2: Nancy 0 Beauvais Gamez 66 66 134 Luke Donald 2, Amiens 1 Metz 0, Caen 2 Creteil (Gbr) 69 65, Briny Baird 65 69, 2, Chateauroux 2 Wasquehal 2, Cameron Beckman 66 68, Robert Clermont Foot 1 St Etienne 0, Allenby (Aus) 67 67, Brad Faxon 67 Grenoble 0 Le Mans 0, Gueugnon 1 67, Jim Furyk 64 70, J.P. Hayes 66 Istres 1, Laval 2 Niort 1, Reims 0 68, Lee Janzen 68 66, Jerry Kelly Toulouse 1, Valence 1 Lorient 1 65 69 135 Peter Lonard (Aus) 68 67, Hidemichi Tanaka (Jpn) 66 69, FORMULA ONE Robert Damron 69 66, Chris DiMar- Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg co 70 65, Dudley Hart 68 67, Per- Times and positions after second Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 66 69, Mark qualifying: 1. Rubens Barrichello Walker 65 70 (Ferrari), 01:09.241 hrs. 2. Juan TENNIS Pablo Montoya (Williams), WTA Tour Italia Masters, Rome, 1:09.301. 3. Michael Schumacher Italy Quarter-finals: (4) Amelie (Ferrari), 1:09.331. 4. Ralf Schu- macher (Williams), 1:09.418. 5. Mauresmo (Fra) bt (5) Jennifer Jarno Trulli (Renault), 1:09.704. 6. Capriati (USA) 6-3 7-6 (12-10), (1) Jacques Villeneuve (BAR), Serena Williams (USA) bt Conchita 1:09.708. 7. Kimi Raikkonen Martinez (Spa) 7-5 6-2, (13) Ai (McLaren), 1:09.870. 8. Mark Web- Sugiyama (Jpn) bt Tina Pisnik (Slo) ber (Jaguar), 1:09.891. 9. Fernando 6-1 6-3, (2) Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt (8) Alonso (Renault), 1:09.923. 10. Gi- A. Myskina (Rus) 6-2 6-2 ancarlo Fisichella (Jordan), ATP Tennis Masters Series, Ham- 1:10.018. burg, Germany Quarter-finals: (8) David Nalbandian (Arg) bt (15) Fer- GOLF nando Gonzalez (Chi) 5-7 6-3 6-4, Collated second round scores (12) Guillermo Coria (Arg) bt Mark and totals at the EDS Byron Nel- Philippoussis (Aus) 6-2 6-0,Agustin son Championship at TPC at Four Calleri (Arg) bt Wayne Ferreira (Rsa) Seasons Resort, Las Colinas, Irv- 7-5 6-2, Gaston Gaudio (Arg) bt ing, Texas (USA unless stated, Olivier Rochus (Bel) 6-1 6-1.
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22 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, May 18, 2003 SPORT
GRAFFITI No more torture: The IOC has vowed to rebuild the Iraq Na- tional Olympic Committee. But the IOC executive board, meeting AFP in Madrid this weekend, assured that those members involved in the torture of athletes, will not be involved. AFP
Kimi Raikkonen steers his car on the Spielberg racetrack on Saturday during the second free practice session on the eve of the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix. For the English palate: of orange and chocolate) re- play Vladikavkaz on Sunday. Baked beans will be waiting quested. The device containing 1.5kg for England’s soccer players of TNT explosive was dis- Roofed-up final: Satur- when they visit South Africa covered in the upper part of day’s FA Cup final between next week, but their hotel the north stand at the stadi- Arsenal and Southampton cannot provide the breakfast um in the south Russian city was the first played under- cereal and cakes they asked of Vladikavkaz, capital of the cover after the Football As- for, the Johannesburg-based Caucasus republic of north- sociation decided to pull the Saturday Star reported. The ern Ossetia. The bomb was roof over the Millennium Sta- team, who will play a friendly defused and an immediate dium in Cardiff because of against South Africa’s inquiry was launched. bad weather. After a night of Bafana Bafana in Durban on heavy rain and more falling in Thursday, will be staying at the hours before the match, On a shaky chair: The the Beverley Hills hotel at the FA decided a closed roof pressure on Aston Villa’s oc- Umhlanga. A spokesman for was the best way to protect togenarian chairman Doug the hotel told the newspaper the pitch. Fans started gath- Ellis intensified on Saturday that the English Football As- ering outside the stadium with a call for him to step sociation had asked that only from 7 am and some touts down coming from a former fish familiar to English were offering tickets for team captain. Dennis Mor- palates be served. The hotel about 1,000 pounds. timer, who led Villa to Euro- is stocking up on baked pean Cup glory, is upset at beans and tomato sauce for Bomb at stadium: Army the cirmustances surround- the footballers, the newspa- officers with sniffer dogs ing the departure this week per said, but was not able to found a bomb at a football of manager Graham Taylor, provide the mini-Weetabix stadium on Saturday where and says under no circum- (cereal) and Jaffa cakes Russian first division leaders stances should Ellis select (sponge biscuits with layers CSKA Moscow are due to Taylor’s successor. ‘Use golf to prop tourism’
Srinagar: Jammu and Kash- mir chief minister Mufti Mo- hammad Sayeed on Saturday said golf could be used as an instrument for promotion of tourism in the trouble-torn state which has been show- ing significant improvement in the ground situation. “I have asked the state tourism ministry to evolve a three-day golf-cum-holiday package for people from cor- porate sector of other states,” Sayeed said at the concluding ceremony of the Ambassadors’ Golf Cup Kashmir-2003. Under the new package, Sayeed said, tourists can fly to Srinagar on Friday morn- ing, have four sessions of golf up to Sunday afternoon and then fly back. PTI
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