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Alienated and resentful, the STORY Kashmir unrest youth and women of the Valley ON page are a ticking timebomb 30 India’s New Face Ugly Fraud In Fairness Meet the court on In a country not comfortable with its own the Mexican border genes, fairness creams sell a lie Where illegal immigrants are shown

(Special Report) First things first, in creams market themselves in India even no quarter - and which Trump might black and white and all the greys. The if attitudinal changes will take longer. science is as dubious as the sociology. Depending on the verdict, the industry use as model for rest of country The Indian market is flooded with fairness could still find grey areas to work around products. If all of them had made the the law. But from an uncontrolled run, it has at least come to a pass (NY Times) New Delhi — On where a willingness to question a recent evening I was watching their claims—and the collective the video of a news feature a Hindi inferiority complex it panders language television network broad- to—is visible. Bollywood actor cast about Yogi Adityanath, who Abhay Deol unleashed a was elected chief minister of refreshing send-up of his India’s most populous state, Uttar colleagues just last week for Pradesh, last month. The frame endorsing fairness products. But shows a man with a shaved head the legal story began in 2013, cloaked in saffron, the color of when young Paras decided to (News Agencies) One by one, the Mexican Hindu monasticism, sitting on a promised effect, we’d have become a take on the Rs 10,000-crore personal care men stood in the jury box, shackles rattling as saffron-backed armchair. A country of Icelanders close to realising giant, Emami Ltd. A two-and-a-half-year they fidgeted slightly and pleaded guilty to cross- voiceover described the scene: again that old pop notion of the North Pole court battle awaited him, but he was firm ing the U.S. border illegally. They had come for “Whoever comes before him sits having been in India. “The truth should on seeing it through. better jobs, many to earn more money to help at his feet, but he makes sure ev- be out,” says Paras Jain, a •Delhi law Paras was goaded into this by his raise their children, their defense lawyer told a ery supplicant goes away satis- student, who is on the verge of securing brother Nikhil’s experience with a product federal magistrate in a quiet west Texas court- fied; he does not discriminate.” a verdict that could forever change the called Fair and Handsome. The fairness room about 3 miles north of the Mexican border. (Contd on page 22) way personal care products and fairness cream, (Contd on page 21) The magistrate (Contd on page 21) Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 COMMUNITY 2 Republican Jack Martins Announces United is rated as run for Nassau County Executive the WORST large By S Thind- (Garden City, Martins stressed the impor- County and the last thing Mineola." Long Island) On the steps of tance of making Nassau we need is another career Laura Curran, in response airline in the US Mineola Village Hall, former County more affordable for politician like Jack Martins to report of Budget Surplus in Mineola Mayor Nassau County , and State said " George Senator Jack Maragos must re- Martins today ally think taxpayers announced his are dumb. If he bor- candidacy for rowed $100 to pay Nassau a $20 bill, he'd ex- County Execu- pect us to believe tive. "For the LAURA CURRAN he earned an $80 first hundred DEMOCRATIC 'surplus.' And that's years of its ex- CANDIDATE what he's doing istence, now. Borrowed (News Agencies) United Airlines has Nassau County was the middle class families and re- who stood silently by, until money -- which taxpayers will been rated as the worst among its peers nation's preeminent suburb turning local control of the it was politically convenient be paying back for years -- is for customer satisfaction even before the and a magnet for investment, county's finances. not to, as Ed Mangano sold not 'a surplus.' We need to fix scandal over a doctor who was dragged growth and prosperity," said "One hundred and eighty- out taxpayers. As a foot the mess in Mineola, and that Martins. "Unfortunately, nine days ago, I called for a soldier of the corrupt Albany starts with telling taxpayers off a plane. Those responding to an Nassau County's second cen- change in leadership in establishment, Jack Martins the truth." American Customer Satisfaction Index tury has been marred by high Nassau County,” Martins did nothing as crooked politi- Nassau Comptroller (ACSI) study ranked United lower than taxes, corruption and fiscal in- said. "Today, that change cians stole taxpayer money George Maragos, is cam- all large airlines in the survey, which ana- stability." begins and we turn the page and stifled ethics reform at paigning for county execu- lyzed data from across all sectors. Surrounded by dozens of to begin a new chapter in every turn. We need whole- tive as a Democrat, after Last month, Dr David Dao was vio- supporters including Mayors Nassau County's history." sale change in Nassau changing party affiliation lently dragged from his seat on a United from across Nassau County, In another development; County and Jack Martins is from Republican to Demo- flight after the airline oversubscribed the Martins articulated his vision Laura Curran, Democratic just more of the same. That's crat sometime back. As- plane, but the survey was conducted to restore the public's trust County Executive Candi- why I'm running for County semblyman Charles Lavine, before the unsavory incident. and re-imagine county govern- date said in a Press Re- Executive - to bring a fresh a Democrat from Glen Cove, The airline industry found itself in the ment. Through fiscal respon- lease, "There is a culture of start to Nassau County and is also running for Nassau bottom third of all businesses, in line with sibility and accountability, corruption in Nassau clean up the mess in County executive. hospitals and private utilities and just above health insurers. Gift Of Life USA Annual Fund Raiser Gala Held Despite the worldwide condemning of Dr Dao's treatment by both the airline and the police, ACSI director David VanAmburg said customers are unlikely to be swayed by a business' brand im- age and tend to rely on their personal experience to form opinions. 'Flying is just not a terribly comfort- able experience,' he told CBS. He added that consumers often feel 'as long as you can make it affordable, I will suffer through the rest of it knowing that I'll get to where I want to go quickly'. Of the legacy airlines, United is ranked bottom with a score of 70 points, up two points on last year's score of 68. On the other end of the scale, Ameri- can Airlines was top of the pile among its peers with a score of 76. The problems encountered by flyers, which would be among the reasons to mark an airline down, included delays, cancellations and fees. Almost four out of 10 economy class passengers said they paid a fee this year Left to Right (Back) - Paresh Parekh, Eric Kumar, Lal Kwatra, H.K. Shah, Kamlesh Parekh, Dr. Harshad to check in their luggage, while a third of Bhatt, Bakul Matalia, Mom Speaker Kimberly Gilgeours, Harshil Parekh business class travelers filed a complaint Left to Right (Front) Mr. Swaminathan, Pam Kwatra, Flora Parekh, Malti Shah, Manjari Bhatt, Dr. Hetal with the company they flew with, mak- Gor,Madhu Parekh, Neela Pandya, Rupal Sehgal ing them by far the most likely to (Agencies) Gift Of Life USA Leonard’s Palazzo, on April run. sources available and need grumble. Inc., a 501 (c) (3) Non-profit or- 23, 2017. The organization A kick start of the event, under the same umbrella to Seat comfort, or lack thereof, is the ganization, for health and edu- aims at supporting the spe- celebrating month of autism, raise the awareness of it’s most common reason for complaints, cation benefits for specially- cially-abled, creating aware- included attendees, key sup- vision, mission and goals. behind the selection of drinks, food, mov- abled, founded by President ness - health and education porters and leaders from the Founders, Paresh & Flora ies and music offered. Flora Parekh & Chairman and encouraging talent of South Asian & American Parekh, presented a de- JetBlue scored as the top-rated air- Paresh Parekh, launched the specially-abled followed community. Hosted by tailed overview of the inspi- line, based on interviews with more than the organization with a Grand by specially-abled services Harshil Parekh, the event ration, mission and vision of 180,000 customer Gala Dinner Night at and much more in the long brought together the re- the organization. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 COMMUNITY 3 H-1B Visa Interview, Other Processes To Be Reviewed The H-1B visa allows US firms to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialised fields.

(Agencies) Washington: Days ness-to-business ties remain new requirements on visas, I'd important to remember that Indian companies and profes- after Finance Minister Arun strong," State Department Act- have to check and see if that's this is always a part of how our sionals were making to the US Jaitley raised the issue of tight- ing Spokesman Mark Toner told been updated," he said, add- consular bureau works and our economy. He had also raised ening of the H-1B visa regime reporters at his daily news con- ing that under the current gov- consular officers work over- the issue with US Commerce with his American counterpart ference. He was responding to ernment, the US has been seas, and our embassies and Secretary Wilbur Ross earlier. Steven Mnuchin, a Trump ad- questions on the ongoing re- looking at ways to strengthen missions work overseas, and US President Donald Trump ministration official has said view of H-1B visas by the US the processes like visa inter- that is we're always reviewing had signed an executive order that the US has been looking administration and its impact view and admission processes. the processes that are in place earlier this month for tighten- at ways to strengthen the pro- on the Indian IT companies, Mr Toner said that this had to issue these visas and find- ing the rules of the H-1B visa cesses like visa interview and who are heavily dependent on been the case from the begin- ing ways to strengthen them, programme to stop its 'abuse', a admission processes. The of- it. "We greatly value Indian ning of the Trump administra- because we want to ensure the decision that would impact India's ficial also said that the new ad- companies' continued invest- tion and certainly with respect security of the American $150 billion IT industry. The Indian ministration greatly values in- ment in the US economy, to immigration and with refugee people." During his US visit, Mr IT industry had expressed serious vestments by Indian compa- which also, of course, supports flows. "Those processes are Jaitley had on Saturday raised concerns over this as these visas nies and wants to see bilateral thousands of US jobs," Mr ongoing," he said. On being the H-1B visa issue with Trea- were mainly used by domestic business ties remain strong. Toner said. asked about the visa review sury Secretary Mr Mnuchin IT professionals for short-term "We want to see US-India busi- "With respect to any process, Mr Toner said, "It's and highlighted the contribution work in America. India-born doctor, wife charged in US genital mutilation probe 5 Indians jailed for fraud in Singapore of minor females performed by (Insider Bureau) Singapore Singapore dollars ($50,400). Nagarwala. While they allowed their : Five Indian nationals were Each man also had to fork clinic to be used by Nagarwala to per- jailed here on Monday for out 51,952.71 Singapore form the procedures, Farida assisted making fraudulent Goods dollars ($37,405) as a Nagarwala during the female genital and Services Tax (GST) re- penalty. The court heard mutilation procedures. Fakhruddin fund claims amounting to that the men loitered in told federal agents this month that he 167,253 Singapore dollars and around jewellery has known Nagarwala and she occa- (US $120,422) between shops in Little India to sionally saw patients at his clinic even January 2015 and May last obtain invoices and though she was not employed there. year, a media report said. jewellery tags from cus- He said Nagarwala only saw the pa- Kothandaraman Gnanam tomers such as tients at BMC when the clinic was (29), Karunanidhi Rajesh Singapore permanent closed and that Farida used to be (32), Ramaiyan Karthikeyan residents and work pass present in the examining room while (44) and Waithiyalingam holders, who are not en- Nagarwala treated the minor girls. The Karunanidhi (61) were each titled to GST refunds. investigation revealed that several minor jailed for three years and Then they would buy the (Insider Bureau) New York : An India- cal procedure on minor girls at Burhani girls informed forensic personnel that three months.Their accom- invoices from the custom- born doctor and his wife have been Medical Clinic (BMC) in Michigan that Nagarwala had performed procedures on plice, Karunanithi Saravanan ers but no mention was arrested and charged with helping was owned and operated by their genitals and one minor girl said Farida (37) was jailed for three made on the amount they another Indian-origin doctor perform Fakhruddin.Fakhruddin’s wife was had been present when Nagarwala did years and two months, the paid for each invoice. genital mutilations, a procedure that employed at BMC as an officer man- the FGM procedures. According to the Strait Times reported. The Tourists visiting Singapore is criminalised in the US, on minor ager. The complaint against the Attars complaint, some of the minor victims men were also fined between can claim GST refunds on girls.Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and his said that the couple arranged and as- travelled interstate to have the proce- 14,000 Singapore dollars goods they bought when wife, Farida Attar, 50, both from Michi- sisted in the female genital mutilation dure performed. ($10,080) and 70,000 they leave the country. gan state, were charged with conspir- ing to perform female genital mutila- tions (FGM) on minor girls out of 38 Indians Detained In United Kingdom For Visa Breach In Factory Raids Fakhruddin Attar’s medical clinic in (Insider Bureau) London - outstayed their visas, seven job seekers of employment op- tion about illegal immigration to Livonia. The Attars were arrested on Britain's immigration officials had entered the country illegally portunities, said assistant di- contact us, she said. Friday. have detained 38 Indians, in- and one was working in breach rector Alison Spowage, from Immigration officials were The charges come a week cluding nine women, for over- of their visa conditions, Leices- East Midlands Immigration En- accompanied by Leicestershire after Indian-origin doctor Jumana staying their visas or working ter Mercury reported. forcement. Police and HM Revenue and Nagarwala, 44, of Michigan, was illegally after conducting raids The officials took 19 people "The penalties for busi- Customs (HMRC) officers dur- charged with performing FGM on mi- in two clothing factories in the into detention pending their re- nesses that do not play by the ing the raids. nor girls. Nagarwala, Fakhruddin and city of Leicester. The UK Home moval from the UK, while re- rules are rightly severe. This The two firms could face Farida are believed to be the first Office Immigration Enforcement maining 20 were ordered to re- operation, one of the largest- fines of up to 20,000 pounds for people charged under federal US law, team raided MK Clothing Ltd port regularly to the Home Of- scale my team has conducted, each illegal worker if it is proven which criminalises FGM. According and Fashion Times UK Ltd in fice while their cases are dealt sends a clear message that we they did not take steps to es- to an online physician directory, the city in the East Midlands with. have the resources to tackle im- tablish their employees' legal Fakhruddin graduated from the region of England last week "Using illegal labour is not migration abuse.All of our op- status. This translates up to Baroda Medical College in Gujarat, and held 38 Indians and one victimless. It cheats the tax- erations are intelligence-led and 240,000 pounds for MK Cloth- India in 1988. The charges say that Afghan man. payer, undercuts honest busi- I would encourage people with ing Ltd and 180,000 pounds for Nagarwala used to perform the medi- Of those detained, 31 had nesses and denies legitimate detailed and specific informa- Fashion Times UK Ltd. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 OP-ED 4 Silence on vigilantism is not an option

to take its own course’. The film can enter the public ished to a concentration oppression is tantamount to law is, however, brushed domain. camp. Reflecting on his own acquiescence. aside as a slight inconve- Deepa Mehta could not silence in the face of social There is a need to speak nience, as mercenaries at- shoot her film on widows in suffering, he authored a fa- out, because vigilantism tack the most vulnerable in the ashrams of Varanasi. mous Holocaust poem: has now spilled over from our society, the Dalits and And now Sanjay Leela First they came for the So- the domain of the creative When was the last time religious reformers, and na- Muslims. This viciousness Bhansali, known more for cialists, and I did not speak arts to regulate the daily the Hindu community asked tional leaders asking crucial and this savagery is the new his lavish presentations than out — Because I was not a lives of people. Nowhere is itself the question ‘who are questions of Indian society normal. And we watch in serious cinema, has been Socialist. / Then they came this more visible than in we’? The last of the interro- since the beginning of the silence! put on notice by the activist for the Trade Unionists, and Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar gators of Hindu society was, nineteenth century. This Vigilantism takes vi- group Rajput Karni Sena. I did not speak out — Be- Pradesh. The Hindu Yuva arguably, Dr. B.R. was the beginning of the In- cious shapes. In 2011 M.F. Bollywood producers, direc- cause I was not a Trade Vahini, founded by him to Ambedkar. He catapulted to dian Renaissance, and Husain died in loneliness tors and actors have for long Unionist. / Then they came enforce his writ on his home the forefront of the political these questions escalated and in exile, separated from genuflected before the lead- for the Jews, and I did not turf, now rules the State and agenda the many oppres- till the middle of the twenti- his beloved country and its ership of the Shiv Sena and speak out — Because I was polices relationships. The sions, discriminations, and eth century. But no more. mythologies, to which he Maharashtra Navnirman not a Jew. / Then they came group stalks courting exclusions of Hinduism, and Today, Hindu society is paid poetic homage on can- Sena to ensure that their for me — and there was no couples, forces closure of thus compelled at least pub- complicit in massive crimes vas. Some years before his films could be released. The one left to speak for me. slaughterhouses, and lic intellectuals to investi- perpetrated against Dalits, death, London-based vigi- process has reached its Michael R. Burch, a poet, sparks off communal riots. gate tradition and reflect on Muslims, and women, be- lantes ransacked an exhi- natural culmination point, editor and publisher of Ho- A few days ago, its mem- the malaise of the commu- cause it is silent in the face bition in Asia House that and now self-appointed cen- locaust poetry, has bers broke into a home in nity. After him no one has of atrocities practised by showcased some of sors force film-makers to authored a new version of Meerut and barged into the really looked within the col- vigilantes who single- Hussain’s paintings, and follow ‘this’ and not ‘that’ this poem for contemporary bedroom of a couple. lective self, reflected, and handedly define what they damaged priceless pieces script. America. ‘They’, he writes, Can we afford to be si- considered. consider ‘morality’, and who of art. In India, the works of The need to speak out came for the Muslims, then lent? Our basic right to pri- This is a great tragedy, punish people merely on the gifted artist were not al- For readers of newspa- the homosexuals, and then vacy is at stake. Also at because unless a society suspicion that they violate lowed to be exhibited, war- pers these are stories of the feminists, and I did not stake is our status as ma- asks fundamental ques- codes of Hinduism. Backed rants were prepared for his vigilantes wreaking their per- speak out because I be- ture citizens who possess the tions of itself, it is doomed by powerful political patrons arrest by the police, and verse notions of correctness longed to none of these capacity to decide what kind to complacency and stag- and a compliant police Hussain had to leave the on culture, art, and society. groups. He ends on a som- of life we want to lead, who to nation, or simply doomed. force, vigilantes are legisla- country of his birth. We live But we cannot afford to be bre note: “Now when will they be friends with, who to love, and Disdaining the stimulating tors, prosecutors, juries and in an age when anyone, silent. Martin Niemöller, the come for me, because I was what kind of food should be on intellectual exercise of ex- executioners rolled into one. with no understanding, let well-known German too busy and too apathetic, to our dinner table. Abjuring si- amining the collective self, Reports in our daily news- alone appreciation, of aes- Lutheran pastor and theolo- defend my sisters and broth- lence, we have to ask basic we have swept the failings paper bring stories of hor- thetics, metaphors, and al- gian, initially supported the ers?” Sages tell us that si- questions about our own so- of our society under the rific violence perpetrated by legories, can rule which Nazis, subsequently op- lence is a virtue, but silence ciety, and about our role as metaphorical carpet. Lulled vigilantes masquerading as painting, which book, which posed them, and was ban- when confronted by social fellow citizens. into complacency by mean- the keeper of the keys to the ingless assertions — ‘say Hindu kingdom. This abnor- with pride we are Hindu’, or mality in our political life has AIADMK Could Split Into 4 Factions; What To Expect a ‘New India’, or a ‘sanitised become a normal way of OPS faction) successfully ing displayed anywhere as India’, or a ‘digital India’ — doing politics. We should moving a no-confidence the Election Commission few people ask why we still realise that democracy has motion against the EPS has frozen the symbol practise caste discrimina- been subverted, the rule of government in the Tamil pending a determination as tion, why we continue to be law has become redundant, Nadu assembly. That this to whether the EPS or OPS disgracefully hostile to reli- and that our representatives has not already happened faction (or neither) is en- gious minorities, or why we are responsible for this se- is the surprise; that it will titled to it. Local body elec- are indifferent to the plight rious deviation in political life. inevitably happen is the tions in Tamil Nadu are very of our own people. But we are silent. certainty. When, is the much more a political affair In a democratic political Rising vigilantism question? than a matter of local gov- community, citizens owe In early April, cow vigi- The general expectation is ernance because the prin- obligations of justice to their lantes attacked 15 Muslim that the denouement will cipal Dravidian parties as- The Amma soap opera con- when she was out of sorts fellow citizens. If the basic men in the district of Alwar come in the wake of the oft- siduously cultivate strong tinues. For a while, I or out of the good books of rights of an individual or a because they were trans- postponed local body elec- roots stretching through thought I had gone wrong the judiciary. community are systemati- porting cows. One person tions that the courts have well-manned, disciplined in thinking the Edappadi OPS has with him less cally violated, there should died in the appalling vio- ordered the EPS govern- cadres into every village, Palaniswami (EPS) govern- than a dozen of Amma's be pain, there should be lence, others were ment to hold before the end indeed even every hamlet of ment could not last and that MLAs elected last May, empathy and outrage, and hospitalised. The Rajasthan of July. While such elec- the state. The outcome of the end must come later if under a year ago. An over- a determination to do some- Home Minister, Gulab Singh tions ought to be about is- the local body elections will not sooner. Now, it would whelming majority, running thing about the fundamen- Kataria, defended vigilantes sues of local self-govern- thus gauge the electoral seem the end is likely to some 122 MLAs, are tal infringement of what is on the plea that cow smug- ment, the focus, in the sur- mood in the state far more sooner than later. And even with EPS - principally be- owed to human beings: dig- gling is banned in Rajasthan. charged political climate of accurately than any TV- if that does not happen, cause they do not want to nity and respect. But we Apart from the fact that the Tamil Nadu today, will be channel commissioned Amma's party stands irre- forego the remaining four follow our own star; indiffer- victims possessed govern- on ascertaining how an poll.All of Tamil Nadu's vocably discredited in the lip-smacking remunerative ent to the deplorable lack of ment documents allowing Amma party without Amma municipal and metropolitan public eye in consequence years in power. But it will solidarity in our community. them to transport cows, the will fare; indeed, as at the corporations, the district of the continuing shenani- take the defection of only This is our tragedy, a Minister’s words trivialise time of writing, the local panchayats and intermedi- gans that pit EPS against about eight of these 122 double tragedy, because we the system of justice. If body elections might well ate panchayats, and town OPS (O Panneerselvam), MLAs to open the door to are the inheritors of a rich people break a law, they take place without Amma's panchayats, will be up for Amma's repeated choice the DMK and its allies in history of public intellectu- should be hauled up before symbol of "two leaves" be- grabs (Contd on page 20) als, philosophers, social and a court of justice for ‘the law for acting Chief Minister the Opposition (plus the Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 EDITORIAL 5 Ethics is the answer France’s Voters Keep Hope for Europe Alive Back in February, President Trump spoke at a conservative convention about a friend named Jim, a “very, very substantial guy” who “loves the City of Lights” WWee needneed liberationliberation theologists,theologists, likelike AmbedkarAmbedkar andand but does not go there any more because “Paris is no longer Paris.” Maybe Jim Gandhi,Gandhi, whowho cancan helphelp peoplepeople discarddiscard thethe worstworst fea-fea- should consider coming back. turestures ofof theirtheir inheritedinherited religiousreligious cultureculture andand replacereplace And Mr. Trump himself, who coldly tweeted two days before the first round of France’s presidential election that the latest terrorist attack would have “a big themthem withwith ethicalethical interpretationsinterpretations effect” on the vote and told The Associated Press it would help Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, should also consider visiting France. He needs to With fiery orange hidden under a newfound tricolour, Narendra Modi’s rise to get to know it better. power saw a mushrooming of the RSS and affiliates like the ABVP. Pseudo “nation- On Sunday, Paris still being Paris, Ms. Le Pen did not even reach 5 percent alism” invaded every campus. The state-induced suicide of Rohith Vemula triggered of the vote in the City of Lights. Campaigning on a nationalist, anti-globalization, a broad Dalit-Left unity against the hegemonic designs of the RSS/ABVP. But de- anti-immigration platform, she made it into the second round with 21.3 percent spite initial success, the unity was short-lived. The fault lay as much with the Left (of of the vote nationwide, according to official final results that reported her achiev- all shades) for being unable to overhaul its internal dynamics, as with Dalit groups ing a better showing in rural and small-town France than in the cities. that fell prey to red-baiting and exclusivist identity politics. She was outpaced, though, by Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old political On one side were traditional Marxists, brought up to believe that caste would upstart who won 24 percent of the vote despite having never held elected office; automatically wither away once the economic base became socialist. On the other his movement, En Marche! — Onward! — has existed for less than a year. He were Dalits who understandably did not trust largely upper caste-led formations. scored best in the cities, where urban, educated voters embraced his pro-Eu- Sadly, the idea that individuals are indelibly marked by birth gained currency. rope, open-borders, progressive agenda. Identity politics is a double-edged weapon. As long as identifiable groups are To New Yorkers and Londoners, this strong territorial divide may look famil- oppressed, the oppressed unite according to identity. “Black is beautiful” was a iar. There are undeniable echoes of the Brexit-Trump 2016 electoral insurrection necessary movement for Afro-Americans in the US, just as pride in Dalit or Buddhist in this first round. France is not immune to the powerful populist wave that has identity is necessary in India. The trouble begins when this turns into an exclusivist engulfed Western democracies over the past few years, starting with Hungary movement. Malcolm X went through a black Muslim phase when he described all and Poland. Here, anger over inequality and unemployment, resentment over white people as “devils”. But in his later years, he completely rejected this for a globalization and immigration, and discontent with a political system that has much more inclusive critique of injustice and inequality. That is when the American run its course contributed to a notable statistic: Of the 11 candidates who com- “deep state” killed him. Similarly, while a broad section of Dalits are inclusive and peted on Sunday, eight were either critical of the European Union or squarely understand the distinction Ambedkar made between the ideology of Brahminism and against it. Together they attracted 49.6 percent of the vote — almost half the individuals who happen to be born “upper” caste, there is a tiny section that sees electorate. Yet the French vote has confirmed a trend apparent in recent elec- birth as all-defining. The fact that Western post-modernists encourage identity poli- tions in two other European Union member states, Austria and the Netherlands: tics in preference to class analysis has given separatist politics international accep- Across the Channel from Britain, the dikes are holding. In all three countries, tance. anti-populist forces managed to put forward a candidate or a platform offering an The Left and Dalits should have been natural allies. People like Comrade Govind alternative innovative enough to counter the anger. In Austria, it was an ecologist Pansare, Kanhaiya Kumar and Jignesh Mevani have represented this unity and HCU, presidential candidate. In the Dutch parliamentary election, it was two small, JNU and many Indian campuses saw its amazing potential. Into this mix, I would firmly pro-European parties. In France, it was a young man who portrayed his add progressive Gandhians — a Narendra Dabholkar, a Medha Patkar, who adhere lack of political experience as an asset and promised to transform the discred- to non-violence but always fight for the oppressed. ited system.Let’s face it: Old Europe is looking more resilient than the Anglo- Both Gandhi and Ambedkar recognised that this country was so steeped in reli- Saxon world. In the end, in France, neither Donald Trump nor Vladimir Putin — gion that atheism or pure rationality would not reach the masses. Each in his own who ostentatiously welcomed Ms. Le Pen at the Kremlin a month before the way became a liberation theologist. Unlike Ambedkar, Gandhi did not choose his election — had a decisive influence on the election. Nor did the Islamic State. religion but inherited it. But to this, he applied post-Enlightenment ethical values that What mattered was Europe. This remains the major issue, superseding all oth- were essentially modern. When he began manual scavenging, he destroyed the very ers because so much depends on it now. basis of the pollution/purity dichotomy at the heart of the caste system. Theoreti- cally, for a long time, he infamously clung to the concept of Varnashrama Dharma, but in actual deed, he destroyed it the day he took up manual scavenging, a job reserved for so-called “untouchables”. As time went on, Gandhi became ever more radical. He clearly learned from Ambedkar as well as from his own intuition. Later in life, he refused to attend any marriage that was not an inter-caste marriage. He fashioned out of his inherited ISSN No. 1554 06X Hinduism something entirely new. Only the idiom remained, not the original Sanatan Chairman: Karam Singh Thind (Honorary) Dharma. Whether his reluctance to discard the idiom stemmed from a desire to speak to the Indian masses in a language they could easily follow, or from his own Editor in Chief: Sharanjit Singh Thind belief system, is debatable. What is unmistakable is that Gandhi’s ethical code Editor (Political Affairs-India) : Aruna Singh bears little resemblance to the hierarchical, vengeful structure of traditional Hindu- President : Bhupinder K. Thind Special Correspondent : ism. Unlike Gandhi, Ambedkar clearly saw how oppressive the religion of his birth Chief Photographer : Vijay Shah Gagandeep Singh (INDIA) was, being a direct victim. So, he searched for its best alternative. 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All our book First Food: Culture of sustainable diet should be a health and for the environment. economic security of farmers this changed with Taste, which discusses the non-brainer, I was told. In fact, the average American in our world. Indian farmers mechanisation. By 2000, live- link between biodiversity, nu- I differed. As an Indian (I consumption of meat is 1.5 practise agro-silvo-pastoral- stock was primarily kept for trition and livelihoods, I was underline Indian) environmen- times the average protein re- ism, that is, they use the land milk. This is why the males of asked a question. "Why do talist, I would not advocate veg- quirement. for crops and trees as well as cows and buffaloes have dras- you not, as an environmental- etarianism for the following rea- It should not surprise us for livestock. This is their real tically reduced in each live- ist espousing the cause of tra- sons. One, India is a secular that the bulk of the 95 mil- insurance system, not the stock census. Males are now ditional and local diets that are nation and the culture of eat- lion tonnes of beef produced banks. Livestock is also not roughly 28 per cent of the to- sustainable, condemn meat ing food differs between com- in the world comes from kept by large meat busi- tal cattle population. Their eating? After all, meat produc- munities, regions and reli- cattle in Latin America, Eu- nesses. but by big, small, main purpose is breeding. tion is bad for climate-agricul- gions. This idea of India is non- rope and North America - all marginal and landless farmers. But cows and buffaloes give ture contributes roughly 15 per negotiable for me as it reflects produced with extremely It works because the animals milk for seven-eight years of their cent of all greenhouse gas our richness and our reality. high environmental impacts. have a productive purpose: 15-20 years of life. Farmers use emissions and half of this Two, meat is an important Meat production in the de- first, they give milk and ma- this productive phase for the birth comes from meat production. source of protein for a large veloping world is very differ- nure and then, meat and of calves and for milk sale. Main- It also has a huge footprint in number of people, hence criti- ent, says this assessment leather. Take that away and taining animals is not cheap. My terms of land and water con- cal for their nutritional security. by the International Live- you will take away the base of colleagues have calculated that sumption since an estimated Thirdly, and this is what stock Research Institute, economic security of millions in if the animals are fed properly and 30 per cent of the world's land distinguishes my Indian posi- the Commonwealth Scien- the country, greatly impoverish- looked after well, it costs about not covered with ice is used to tion from the global, meat-eat- tific and Industrial Research ing them. Rs. 70,000 per animal per year. grow food, not for humans but ing is not the key issue, it is Organization and the Inter- Let's get the facts straight. In This is why farmers need op- for livestock. A 2014 University the amount that is consumed national Institute for Applied the past, cattle were kept for tions to take care of the ani- of Oxford study on British di- and the manner in which it is System Analysis. Here, live- draught purposes. In the 1980s, mals not producing milk. Or ets found that meat-rich diets produced. A recent global as- stock subsists largely on the late N S Ramaswamy, the they will have no options but - defined as eating more than sessment, for instance, finds grasses and crop residue. country's (only) expert on animal to leave the animal stray, to 100g of meat per day per per- that Americans on an average But the most important rea- energy, had calculated that the eat the plastic cities throw son - emitted about 7.2 kg of eat 122 kg per year per per- son I, as an Indian environmen- installed capacity of 90 million away and die. CO2 per day as compared to son and Indians 3-5 kg per talist, would not support ac- work animals was equal to the (Contd on page 20) China's Newest Aircraft Carrier Should Worry India Mihir Sharma, ment of Prime Minister edly won't have its aviation first emphasized asymmetric showy, and bolster national Bloomberg Narendra Modi has talked a complex in place, or even weaponry such as ballistic pride; diesel submarines The launch of China's sec- great deal about revitalizing anti-aircraft missiles. The missiles and submarines, a re- don't, or at least not to the ond aircraft carrier, ex- the Indian military; it's Navy has puzzlingly refused flection of the Soviets' suc- same degree. A more ratio- pected as soon as this opened the defense sector to buy India's indigenous cessful Cold War strategy. nal strategy for India -- and week, will be an important up to greater foreign invest- light fighter, the Tejas, say- Only now -- as its interests and its peers in Asia and the and depressing moment for ment and is building a much- ing it's too heavy. Mean- capabilities have grown -- is it Pacific Rim who fear China's India. The "Type 001A" -- closer relationship with the while, the MiG-29s being pouring resources into devel- growing military might -- likely to be named the U.S. military, largely with used instead are enor- oping carrier groups. would ensure that India's "Shandong" -- will give China China in mind. But spending mously troubled, according By contrast, India's carrier- submarine fleet and its anti- an edge for the first time in has lagged. Worse, succes- to India's government audi- first strategy has drained the submarine armaments are the carrier race with its sive governments simply tor; more than 60 percent of Navy of resources and left it capable enough on their own Asian rival, a literal two-to- don't seem to have thought their engines were withdrawn with just 13 conventional sub- to deter attempts to control one advantage. After decom- through where best to direct from service or rejected in marines in service. Eleven of the Indian Ocean, while missioning the INS Viraat those scarce resources. just four years. The Vikrant those are more than a quarter- closer ties with other navies earlier this year, the Indian For its part, the Indian Navy will only be properly com- century old. The two new fill in the gaps. Navy is down to a single has gone all-in on a strategy bat-ready by 2023 -- eight ones, amazingly, were com- That would require a carrier, INS Vikramaditya. that emphasizes carrier years behind schedule. missioned and sent out to clear-eyed appraisal of Worse, the Shandong has battle groups. The idea is No one would expect India wander the deep sea without India's defense and eco- been built at China's own that India must dominate the to match China's defense their main armament, torpe- nomic capabilities and re- giant shipyard at Dalian; ocean that bears its name spending head-to-head. does. Nor has India tried to quirements -- a problem Vikramaditya is merely a and needs carriers in order China's economy is four counter China's numerical when India doesn't have an repurposed 1980s-era Rus- to project power well beyond times the size of India's; not superiority -- 70 to 15 -- outline of its strategy on the sian carrier formerly known its shores. As a result, it surprisingly, its defense bud- in terms of submarines lines of American or Chinese as the Admiral Gorshkov. wasted far too much time get is at least three times with specialized anti-sub- white papers, nor even a full- Even more telling than the and treasure on the Admiral larger. But the People's Re- marine weaponry, includ- time defense minister. The raw numbers is what China's Gorshkov, which arrived from public faces a parallel dilemma ing helicopters. The Indian Navy is fortunately starting progress says about India's Russia six years late and at when confronting the U.S., fleet has less than 30 su- to train more closely with ability to provide security in three times the cost that whose military budget is about perannuated medium- the U.S. and other partners its own backyard. Chinese had initially been promised. three times as big as China's. sized anti-sub helicop- such as Japan, which naval strategists have open Its efforts to develop a China has approached this dis- ters, the first of which was should increase its effective- designs on the Indian homegrown carrier have parity with a much clearer bought in 1971. ness. But until it thinks Ocean: According to one, been even more misbegot- strategy in mind, as well as a India's problem isn't ulti- harder about where its "China needs two carrier ten. The Navy plans to far more rational evaluation of mately a shortage of money should go, it's going strike groups in the West name, commission and float its relative strength. Rather money; it's a lack of fore- to have a tricky time keep- Pacific Ocean and two in the the INS Vikrant next year. At than focusing on matching thought and political cour- ing China out of its back- Indian Ocean." The govern- that point, the ship report- America's carrier fleet, China age. Carriers are big and yard. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 OPINION 7 For Indians, America under Trump is a land of vanished opportunity Generations of Indians have explosive news in India. A coun- tutions, and 15 percent of gradu- at a bar in Kansas by a man who people are coming back and can admired the United States for al- try once viewed as the Promised ate programs, according to a sur- witnesses said had shouted eth- work here,” she added. As stu- most everything. But many are Land now seems for many to be vey of 250 U.S. universities by the nic slurs and told them they did dents of Mumbai’s colleges re- infuriated and unnerved by what dangerously inhospitable.Further American Association of Colle- not belong in the United States. viewed dog-eared question pa- they see as a wave of racist vio- alienating Indians, especially giate Registrars and Admissions Since then, several more at- pers with friends on the sidewalk, lence under President Donald among their highly educated Officers. The number of applica- tacks on Indian immigrants have after finishing their exams, they Trump, souring the United States’ class, is the Trump tions for H1-B visas also fell to been closely covered by the In- returned again and again to as- allure. administration’s reassessment of 199,000, a nearly 20 percent de- dian news media. While officials tonishment that someone like The reaction is not just anger H1-B visas given mostly for infor- cline, according to data kept by have not linked all to anti-immi- Trump could be elected. and anxiety. Now, young Indians mation technology jobs. More U.S. Citizenship and Immigration grant bigotry, the belief that Indi- “I was like, ‘Wow, how did you who have aspired to study, live than 85,000 are granted a year, Services. ans are under attack in the United elect somebody like him,’” said and work in the United States are the majority to Indians. “America Like many others, Indians States seems cemented in the Shantanu Sivan, 20, who studies looking elsewhere. “We don’t was the land of great opportunity,” were offended by Trump’s prom- minds of many. About 3.2 million mass media at Wilson College. know what might happen to us Sanket Bafna, 21, said as he ises to block the Mexico border people of Indian descent live in “I think I lost hope in the people while walking on the street there,” emerged one afternoon last week with a wall and bar people from the United States, slightly more of America.” said Kanika Arora, a 20-year-old from an exam at K.C. College, six predominantly Muslim coun- than 1 percent of the population, Ananya Gupta, 21, who stud- student in Mumbai who is recon- where he is studying financial tries. Some took solace that In- a Pew Research Center report ies financial management at K.C. sidering her plan to study in the management. “It’s not the same dia was not targeted. But they found. Most hold green cards and College, laced his disappointment United States. “They might just land.” soon saw that anti-immigrant rage H1-B visas, and are far more af- with contempt. “That just shows think that we’re terrorists.” Re- This year, undergraduate ap- in the United States did not dis- fluent and educated than the av- where they stand intellectually, cent attacks on people of Indian plications from India fell at 26 criminate. In February, two Indian erage American. Indian-Ameri- electing a person of Trump’s na- descent in the United States are percent of U.S. educational insti- immigrants were shot, one fatally, cans play an outsize role in Sili- ture as a president,” he said. con Valley, where some, includ- When asked if he had an opinion ing Google Inc.’s chief executive, on the United States under Zombies of Voodoo Economics Sundar Pichai, have founded or Trump, Gupta, standing across run some of the most successful the street from his college, among so much so that revenues will companies. other students at a beverage actually rise — as “voodoo But success stories like stand, replied “Who doesn’t?” economic policy.” Yet it soon Pichai’s no longer inspire the jeal- “Of course as a child, I used became the official doctrine of the ousy they once did in India.Arora, to dream about going to America, Republican Party, and still is. leaving H.R. College of Com- the land of opportunity. But today,” That shows an impressive level merce and Economics, where he said, “I wouldn’t want to go of commitment. But what makes she had finished an exam, said there.” this commitment even more her parents had reservations Not everyone is so negative impressive is that it’s a doctrine about sending her brother to the about the United States under that has been tested again and United States, where he had been Trump. Devanshu Jain, 21, said again — and has failed every planning to enroll in college this he still planned to study and work time. year. Arora said she, like her there. “There’s racism in India, Yes, the U.S. economy brother, “did aspire to work and too,” he said. “Who doesn’t want rebounded quickly from the study in America, but I’m recon- to work for Goldman Sachs in slump of 1979-82. But was that sidering.” New York City, right?” But he said the result of the Reagan tax cuts, The biggest reason, she said, some friends were “so shaken up or was it, as most economists was the violence directed against about what’s happening” that they think, the result of interest rate Indians. “Every day, there’s a new have transferred from American cuts by the Federal Reserve? Bill According to many reports, where the administration headline about an Indian or Asian universities to Canadian institu- Clinton provided a clear test, by Donald Trump is getting frantic outsourced its policy to Paul getting killed,” she said. Now, tions in recent months. At raising taxes on the rich. as his administration nears the Ryan, who produced exactly the Arora said, she and others in In- Mumbai’s Todi Mills, an old mill Republicans predicted disaster, 100-day mark. It’s an arbitrary kind of plan you might have dia are looking more favorably on area converted in recent years but instead the economy line in the sand, but one he expected: take insurance away Europe for study and work, de- into restaurants, bars and office boomed, creating more jobs than himself touted in many pre- from millions, make it worse for spite the upheaval over Britain’s space for young entrepreneurs, under Reagan. Then George W. inauguration boasts. And it will the rest, and use the money to planned exit from the European Trump’s America is also viewed Bush cut taxes again, with the be an occasion for numerous cut taxes on the wealthy. Union. “Comparatively, it’s con- with trepidation. “People are re- usual suspects predicting a articles detailing how little of Populism! sidered safer,” she said. In the ally thinking America’s going “Bush boom”; what we actually substance he has actually And now we’re seeing it on end, Trump’s policies may ben- downhill,” said Shikha Mittal, 33, got was lackluster growth accomplished. taxes. Mr. Trump has promised efit their home country by cutting founder of Be.artsy, a nine-per- followed by a severe financial Yet many of these reports will, to unveil a “massive” tax cut plan off the brain drain, Arora and other son firm specializing in using art crisis. Barack Obama reversed I suspect, miss half the story. It’s next week. This announcement Indians said. “All the intelligent for marketing. many of the important to note just how little apparently came as a surprise Bush tax cuts the tweeter-in-chief has managed to his own Treasury officials, who and added new to achieve; but we also need to obviously don’t have a plan taxes to pay focus on what, exactly, it is that ready. Still, one thing is clear: for Obamacare he hasn’t achieved.For Mr. Whatever the details, Trumptax — and oversaw Trump sold himself to voters as will be a big exercise in fantasy a far better unorthodox as well as effective. economics. jobs record, at He was going to be a different How do we know this? Last least in the kind of president, a consummate week Stephen Mnuchin, the private sector, deal-maker who would transcend Treasury secretary, told a than his the usual ideological divide. His financial industry audience that predecessor. supporters should therefore be “the plan will pay for itself with So history dismayed, not just by his failure growth.” And we all know what offers not a to actually close any deals, but that means. shred of by the fact that he evidently has Back in 1980 George H. W. support for no new ideas to offer, just the Bush famously described supply- faith in the same old snake oil the right has side economics — the claim that (Contd on been peddling for decades. cutting taxes on rich people will page 20) We saw that on Trumpcare, conjure up an economic miracle, Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 US & WORLD 8 The Spending Bill Was Supposed to Be Easy. Then Trump Intervened. major drama, with a Friday spoke on condition of of experience among his with a short-term spending night deadline before much anonymity. staff in working with Capitol bill. “Donald Trump threw of the government shuts Suddenly, a spending Hill to get things done. His a monkey wrench with the down. bill that was meant to be a lack of early engagement wall,” said Senator Chuck Congressional mere legislative grace note on the health care bill Schumer of New York, the appropriators, always to much larger health care helped lead to its demise, Democratic leader. “We happy to spend money and tax policy bills has and his early efforts at a tax believe that the together, seemed on a become the centerpiece of bill were disorganized — he Republican leaders glide path to do so, until Mr. another down-to-the-wire announced he had one should tell Donald Trump Trump intervened, insisting battle. even though critical staff that we can do this at a on using the bill to get a “The Wall is a very members and later time.” down payment on a wall at important tool in stopping congressional leaders knew On Monday, as the Mexican border that drugs from pouring into our nothing of it. Those senators returned to even many Republicans country and poisoning our stumbles and his current Washington from a two- are leery of and that he has youth (and many others)!” flirtation with a government week recess to confirm long insisted would be paid Mr. Trump said Monday on shutdown demonstrate a Sonny Perdue for for by Mexico. He Twitter. continued pattern of playing secretary of agriculture, appeared to soften his What Trump’s Budget to his base rather than Republican congressional (News Agencies) Republicans and demand late Monday, Could Mean for the Affected governing. Democrats — leaders were negotiating WASHINGTON — To be Democrats as proxies for saying he would settle for Agencies MARCH 16, 2017 whose votes will be needed with White House officials, clear, it isn’t that hard to broader policy fights. But additional funds for border The president’s habit of to pass any spending bill who have been pressing for keep the government’s with Republicans fully in security — potentially tossing hornets into — and plenty of wall funding and a lights on. Fights over short- control of Washington, including at least part of the Republican policy picnics Republicans have no mechanism to take some term spending bills have President Trump has wall, according to a senior has hampered his agenda interest in building a wall, funding from the Affordable long been used by turned a sure thing into a administration official who and demonstrated the lack certainly not in paying for it Care Act. North Korea nuclear US submarine arrives in White House calls Senate to briefing South Korea as tensions rise

(News Agencies)In an North Korean crisis Vinson, is expected to unusual move, the entire For his part, Mr Trump arrive off the peninsula US Senate is being called said North Korea’s within days, despite to the White House for a “continued belligerence” conflicting messages last briefing on North Korea. was destabilising the week on its exact (News Agencies)A US submarine has It is expected to take part in military Washington has become Korean peninsula. White whereabouts. Mr Trump arrived in South Korea, amid worries of exercises with the Carl Vinson warship increasingly concerned at House officials regularly go has also told United Nations another North Korean missile or nuclear group dispatched by the US in a show of North Korean missile and to Congress to brief on Security Council test. force. nuclear tests and threats to national security matters, ambassadors, meeting at The missile-armed USS Michigan is The warships were briefly at the centre its neighbours and the US. but it is unusual for the the White House, that the set to join an incoming group of warships of some confusion when they did not The briefing, involving whole Senate to go to the UN must be ready to 100 senators as well as White House. Alongside Mr impose new sanctions on led by aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. immediately head to the Korean Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Gen Mattis will North Korea. The US is North Korea is celebrating its army's peninsula, but US Navy officials said it is Tillerson and Defence be National Intelligence pursuing a multi-pronged 85th founding anniversary on Tuesday. now proceeding to the region as Secretary James Mattis, is Director Dan Coats and Gen strategy to make its point It has previously marked similar ordered.Pyongyang has reacted angrily, being held on Wednesday. Joseph Dunford, chairman on North Korea, the BBC’s occasions with missile tests. threatening to sink the aircraft carrier and China, North Korea’s main of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gary O’Donoghue in Tensions have risen on the Korean to launch a "super-mighty pre-emptive ally, has called for restraint Questioned by reporters Washington says. First it peninsula in recent weeks as the US and strike" against what it calls US from all sides. at his regular briefing, White wants the UN to tighten North Korea exchange heated rhetoric. aggression. China’s call came in a House Press Secretary sanctions even further, and Meanwhile in an unusual event, the US President Donald Trump said phone conversation Sean Spicer referred further to ensure those in place are entire US Senate has been asked to earlier this month in a TV interview he was between President Xi inquiries to the Senate properly enforced. attend a briefing on North Korea on sending an "armada" and that the US had Jinping and President majority leader, Mitch Secondly, it is attempting to Wednesday at the White House. submarines which are "very powerful, far Donald Trump on Sunday. McConnell. Aides, quoted put fresh pressure on China Mr Xi urged all parties to by Reuters, say the House to rein in its communist The USS Michigan is a nuclear- more powerful than the aircraft carrier". “maintain restraint and avoid of Representatives is neighbour. The third aspect powered submarine carrying 154 China has repeatedly urged for calm, actions that would increase seeking a similar briefing on is the sending of an aircraft Tomahawk cruise missiles and 60 special with President Xi Jinping speaking to Mr tensions”, according to the North Korea. Washington carrier to the Korean operations troops and mini-subs, Trump on Tuesday urging all parties to Chinese foreign ministry. says a flotilla, led by the peninsula - making clear reported the South Korean newspaper "maintain restraint and avoid actions that Why Beijing should lead on aircraft carrier USS Carl military action is an option. Chosun Ilbo. would increase tensions". Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 US & WORLD 9 In Paris, Wine, Brie and ... Silicon ?

(News Agencies)PARIS interactive. After being ups, according to experts percent, a sign of what — Imagine having a friend tested in French for here on entrepreneurship. experts call the dual labor who really knows the City months, Citron earlier in "Given the situation market, where insiders are of Lights and who always April began bantering and with Brexit, given the protected and "outsiders" – literally, 24 hours a day, suggesting places in situation in the U.S. with – young people, foreigners seven days a week – has English, too. Donald Trump, we see a lot or the uneducated – face time to chat. With its social-media of entrepreneurs re- greater obstacles finding entrepreneurship, say good, the regulations are Louisa Mesnard, a dependent, millennial- evaluating the go-to long-term and well-paid experts. good and the people Franco-Irish 25-year-old targeting and highly places," says Roxanne work. When finished, "The main asset in a starting those operations in businesswoman is making scalable profile, Citron Varza, an American who is Station F will be a 366,000- start-up company is France are really good sure it's not just a dream. seems to come from a Silicon Valley veteran and square-foot space that will people, and there is real operators," he says, Together with her team, she Silicon Valley. But it is the director of Station F. help incubate up to 1,000 entrepreneurial drive in conceding that funding is created Citron, a actually being developed in With its 35-hour start-ups, have room for France in these last still an issue. Still, more Facebook ChatBot that France, a place that workweek, lifelong 3,000 desks, house more years," says Etienne work remains to foster a makes its business Mesnard says is one of employment contracts and than 10 international start- Krieger, a director of the start-up culture in France. knowing every hidden jewel the best places on the heavy social taxes, France up programs and an onsite entrepreneurship program The country ranks No. 29 in Paris: the café in globe to start a business. was once perceived as "fab lab," a workshop at HEC Paris, one of the on the World Bank's Montmartre where the This summer Citron and decidedly business where prototypes of new top business schools in annual "Ease of doing fictional Amélie Poulain its team will move to Station unfriendly. The country has products can be built. France and a partner in the business" ranking, well worked as a server, the hole F, an ambitious project weathered the financial Setting the conditions incubator. France is fertile behind competitors such in-the-wall bar with the being billed as the world's crisis, but its for Station F are a changing ground for entrepreneurs, as the U.S. (8), the U.K. working phonograph and biggest incubator. The unemployment rate of work culture, an increase says Patrick Riley, an (7) and slightly behind the old-fashioned space also is emblematic nearly 10 percent is one of in investment, tax American venture capitalist Germany (17). The Global cocktails, or the lunch of a larger cultural shift the worst in Western directives supporting and the head of the Global Entrepreneurship and place on the Left Bank that taking place in France. The Europe and is a major research and development, Accelerator Network, a Development Institute, has both good Wi-Fi and a land of the three-hour lunch issue in this spring's a good – and relatively global network of which compiles a Global fireplace. is poised to become the presidential elections. inexpensive – supply of top- investment accelerators Entrepreneurship Index, n top of knowing all European hub of the Youth unemployment in notch engineers and, that has been responsible ranks France at 13, still those things, Citron is frenzied-paced, hyper- France is even worse, above all, a powerful for more than $4 billion of behind the U.S., the UK unfailingly polite, witty and capitalistic world of start- hovering just below 24 nascent culture of funding. "The laws are and Germany. The Emptiness of trump’s “Buy American Executive order” (News Agencies)When States” without setting any finished product. It’s not intellectual work—the Donald Trump unveiled his measurable definition of possible, or even engineering, industrial latest executive order, “maximize.” This is advisable, to insure that an design, marketing, and titled “Buy American and followed by a confusing entire production chain will distribution—that goes Hire American,” he made timeline—in sixty days, occur in one country. So a into creating, only the barest effort to the Secretary of Commerce politician who wants to manufacturing, and selling conceal the fact that the will lead a team, advised by increase the percentage of products. Our Chinese- announcement was nearly the Secretary of State and American-made content in made iPhones and apparel entirely one of theatrics others, that will issue the products that are sold return much higher profit and not of substance. He guidance. Then, within a here needs to dig deeper. margins to American held his talk in Kenosha, hundred and fifty days, the How will the U.S.-made designers than to Chinese Wisconsin, at Snap-on heads of agencies will content of a good be manufacturers. Many firms Tools, a firm that buys explain what they are defined? Will it be by now run their design, Chinese and hires doing in keeping with that weight, by dollar value, by marketing, and engineering foreigners, each year— people’s list of urgent Chinese, Argentinian, guidance. Sometime in labor hours involved? Each work in the U.S. and move most of them computer concerns. Yes, there have Brazilian, and Swedish. mid-September, we will (or metric would have different the manufacturing abroad. professionals of one sort or been rough times in the Seventy per cent of Snap- we won’t) hear what the findings. A car’s bulk, for This makes perfect another—are permitted to past, when basic on’s sales are in the U.S., hundreds of agencies in the example, is primarily made economic sense, but it work in the U.S. computer-programming but many of its plants are federal government are up of steel, aluminum, and adds to the core challenge The question of H-1B work was outsourced to in other countries. There doing to meet a confusing glass produced by huge of the U.S. economy: there visas has rhetorical India, Ireland, and Eastern is nothing wrong with mandate, with no obvious machines with not much are increasing importance far beyond its Europe, and Americans Snap-on putting its targets, that will (or won’t) labor. However, some of the opportunities for people actual economic with those skills lost factories overseas, it just mean that more Americans smaller, fussier bits are with the kinds of education relevance. The work. But, on balance, makes it an odd place to have jobs. made by hand in the U.S. and skill that lead to new unemployment rate for it is a great time to have hold a Buy American Snap-on Tools is Gas tanks, for example, ideas, but there are computer and a computer-science announcement. It’s actually a good example of because of strict diminished opportunities mathematical occupations background. Many reminiscent of President why Buy American is a emissions laws, are for those who turn those is, currently, 2.1 per cent. American businesses Trump’s celebration of fairly meaningless phrase. surprisingly complex and ideas into physical This is what economists are in the process of jobs at a Boeing plant It is no easy feat to find a require a lot of engineering products.Trump consider full employment, transferring their data to while the company was product manufactured and manual assembly and focussed on two types of meaning that pretty much the cloud and embracing laying off workers. entirely of material from the are often made in the U.S. jobs in his executive order: everyone who wants a job mobile applications, and The executive order U.S., produced by people A gas tank might be U.S. manufacturing jobs has a job or is in a brief we are in the very early itself is even more in the U.S., using tools relatively cheap and light, and computer hiatus between positions. stages of the “Internet of puzzling. It’s not clear made in the U.S. In this but for American workers professionals. It was an The number of jobs in Things,” and all these what, if anything, it will sense, the executive order it’s worth a lot more than odd pairing, but both fell, those fields is growing developments require change. The order states recognizes that no blanket many tons of steel. Very in his logic, under the broad fast—by about twelve per lots of computing that “it shall be the policy order to buy only American quickly, any discussion of umbrella of increasing work cent a year—and the expertise. According to of the executive branch to will work. The products we the U.S.-made content of for Americans. The order number of qualified workers the Bureau of Labor maximize, consistent with buy are made of raw any product will turn to the calls for a review of is not growing enough to Statistics, ten thousand law . . . the use of goods, materials transformed into value of intellectual versus America’s H-1B visa catch up. In short, the computer professionals products, and materials intermediate goods that are physical content. The U.S. program, under which plight of computer start a new job every produced in the United then assembled into a does very well in the eighty-five thousand professionals is on few working day. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 ADVERTISEMENT 10 Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 ADVERTISEMENT 11 Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 SOUTH ASIA 12 A strategic encirclement India’s political and security establishment needs a strategy in light of China’s naval expansion. (Agencies) China’s China Sea (SCS), thereby from Xinjiang to the Paki- state-owned Global Times leapfrogging the mental stani port of Gwadar via newspaper reported last and physical barrier posed Gilgit-Baltistan. De- month that the People’s to the PLAN by the “first scribed by Foreign Secre- Liberation Army Navy’s island chain”. India is en- tary S. Jaishankar as vio- (PLAN’s) second aircraft circled by a growing ring lative of “…Indian sover- carrier, referred to as “Type of Chinese power and in- eignty because it runs 001A” is nearing comple- fluence. To the north, gar- through Pakistan-occu- tion and that another car- risons, airfields and mis- pied Kashmir”, CPEC eight diesel submarines to and withholding coop- strategists, asymmetry is rier, dubbed “Type 002”, is sile sites linked by mod- forms the bedrock of Pakistan and two to eration on the “Belt and inherent in such relations; also under construction. ern road-rail networks un- China’s South Asia strat- Bangladesh provides con- Road” initiative. Before they bluntly advise that The Type 002 represents derpin China’s dominant egy, with a commitment of clusive evidence of India’s the recent re-naming of rather than obsessing with not only a much bigger posture on the Tibetan over $50 billion. “strategic encirclement”. Indian towns by Beijing, futile dreams of parity, In- class of ship but will in- plateau. Ominously, the Further west, China India’s decision-mak- the demand for Tawang dia must reconcile itself to corporate modern design Xining-Lhasa rail link is has set up its first over- ers are, almost cer- was explained away as a subaltern status vis-à-vis and operational features, progressing towards seas military base at tainly, receiving diver- a “bargaining ploy”, and China. including a catapult and Nepal, where China has Djibouti on the Bab el- gent counsel about the India was advised to find In a novel explanation early-warning aircraft. A made significant political Mandeb. To our south, Dragon’s actions and a modus vivendi to of China’s conduct, Ameri- senior Chinese official was inroads. To our east, China has built a new intent. China’s left-lean- somehow befriend can scholar John Garver quoted as saying: “China China’s Yunan province harbour in Hambantota ing sympathisers scoff China. has termed it an “autistic needs two carrier strike will gain access to the and modernised Colombo at the “encirclement” Even as we dismiss state”. The analogy refers groups in the Western Pa- Bay of Bengal via rail, high- port for Sri Lanka. All three thesis and maintain that these inducements to ap- to an individual whose de- cific and two in the Indian way and pipeline, linking ports could provide bases China neither wants war, peasement, we must note lusions and fantasies pre- Ocean. So we need at it to the deep-water port or sanctuaries to PLAN nor seeks further territo- the many serious dichoto- vent him from compre- least five to six aircraft being built by China at ships and submarines de- rial gains, but only eco- mies that distort our per- hending the motivations carriers.” Other manifesta- Kyaukpyu in Myanmar. ployed in the Indian nomic engagement and ception of this Asian he- and emotions of others tions of China’s unfolding A parallel endeavour on Ocean. There is already tangible proof of friend- gemon. While China due to this neurological grand strategy abound. It India’s western flank, news that the PLAN in- ship, which India has looms large in India’s se- disorder. For example, has built runways and for- dubbed the China-Paki- tends to deploy its ex- consistently failed to curity perspectives, the there is firm conviction in tified seven artificial is- stan Economic Corridor panded marine corps to provide by playing the former does not regard In- China that the root causes lands created in the (CPEC), will create ac- Djibouti and Gwadar. The Dalai Lama card, dia as a threat — or even of the 1962 conflict were Spratly group in the South cess to the Arabian Sea recent Chinese sale of cosying up to the US a competitor. For Chinese India’s “forward policy” and its putative ambition to seize Tibet. Three decades of mistrust There is also evidence of Chinese schizophrenia. While dismissing India as Pragmatic approach and sustained border diplo- a weak and effete state, ideologues also vilify it as macy could help Delhi remove apprehensions in Sri an ambitious and expan- sionist power, waiting to Lanka about economic cooperation with India avenge its 1962 military defeat. Most irksome to As Delhi and Colombo ment to delve into those partnership with India. them is India’s “propri- intensify their high-level po- difficult decades, but Modi That these ideas pro- Asian pattern — the Most recent reports on a etary” attitude towards the litical engagement, new op- was dealt an impossible vide a neat fit between politicisation of economic potential Indo-Lankan part- Indian Ocean and its portunities for elevating the hand on India’s Sri Lanka India’s massive consump- projects. Our neighbours in nership for the development growing maritime relations partnership are coloured by account. A strong political tion of hydrocarbons and East Asia, for example, of Trincomalee present it with the US, Japan and enduring suspicions in Sri mandate in the 2014 elec- Sri Lanka’s location atop have learnt to separate po- as part of Colombo’s bal- Australia. While China’s self-perception has al- Lanka. The country’s prime tions and a pragmatic ap- the Indian Ocean sea lines litical differences from mu- ancing act between Delhi ways been that of a be- minister, Ranil proach to foreign policy, of communication is hardly tually beneficial economic and Beijing. Since Sri nign and benevolent great Wickremesinghe, is travel- however, gave Modi some in doubt. Yet, the resis- engagement. China and Lanka has given port power (“Middle Kingdom”), ling to India this week and room to push for a restruc- tance in Sri Lanka to eco- Taiwan don’t even projects in Colombo and in another example of Prime Minister Narendra turing of ties with Sri Lanka. nomic cooperation with In- recognise each other’s po- Hambantota to China, the Freudian self-deception, Modi will head to Sri Lanka India’s new possibilities dia remains entrenched. litical legitimacy, but that story goes, it is now trying the Chinese simulta- next month to join the spe- have been highlighted by Protesting the has not stopped them from to compensate an unhappy neously nurture a deep- cial international celebra- media reports from Sri modernisation of the productive commercial co- India with infrastructure seated “victim mentality” tions of the Buddha Jayanti Lanka, that Trincomalee oil tank farms, operation. projects elsewhere in the as a relic of China’s sub- in Colombo. Wickremesinghe is bring- the workers of the Ceylon But, in the Subconti- emerald island. That China jugation and humiliation For Modi, it will be the ing proposals for the devel- Petroleum Corporation nent, we have overloaded is a major economic part- by foreign powers during second visit to Sri Lanka in opment of the Trincomalee have announced a strike even the simplest trans- ner for Colombo and other the 19th century. And yet, a strong streak of realism barely two years and it re- area as a regional hydrocar- this week. Deep political border economic questions regional capitals can’t be a has ensured that China’s flects his determination to bon hub in the Bay of Ben- reservations in Sri Lanka, with ideological arguments surprise. After all, China is post-Civil War leadership overcome the unfortunate gal and the eastern Indian in fact, held up the imple- and conspiracy theories. A now the world’s second retained a crystal clear vi- legacy of three difficult de- Ocean. These proposals mentation of a 2003 agree- new factor has now begun largest economy. Beijing sion of their aims: Hege- cades that saw a cruel civil include the construction of ment with India on the de- to animate the default has encouraged its compa- mony in Asia, acquisi- war, India’s failed interven- a new LNG terminal and the velopment of tank farms. negative discourse in South nies to embark on a “go tion of nuclear weapons tion and the accumulated renewal of the Second The twists and turns in Asia — the idea of an all- out” strategy and has infra- and the incorporation of distrust of Delhi in Co- World War-era oil tank this story are part of a fa- encompassing Sino-Indian structure projects underway Tibet into the People’s lombo. This is not the mo- farms in Trincomalee in miliar but unfortunate South rivalry for regional influence. all across the world. Republic. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 INDIA-CURRENT AFFAIRS 13 25 CRPF personnel killed in Maoist encounter in Chhattisgarh, PM Modi calls attack ‘cowardly’ (Agencies) Suspected area in the Maoist hotbed Maoists. We are entering tion, then almost 300 Maoist militants killed 25 of Bastar, is the worst in their core through this road,” Naxals attacked us. We paramilitary personnel and seven years. In 2010, said DM Awasthi, special also fired and killed many,” injured six in rebels killed 75 CRPF director general of police news agency ANI quoted Chhattisgarh’s south troopers in the same re- (anti-Maoist operations). CRPF constable Sher Sukma region on Monday, gion. Survivors of the attack Mohammed as saying. curity forces were once fre- former Prime Minister police said, in an ambush Monday’s victims were said about 300 militants The security personnel quent, and the government Manmohan Singh once possibly to thwart a crucial part of a 99-strong team waylaid them, firing with were evacuated by air force says the success of recent called India’s biggest inter- road link the government providing security to work- rifles from hilltops. Senior choppers and a rescue security operations against nal security challenge. The believes would break the ers building the road. police officers said the se- team. The deceased were them have frustrated the rebels say they are fighting back of the insurgent “Security forces will curity party was having from the 74th battalion of the rebels. Still, Monday’s at- for the rights of tribal people group. The midday attack, move with ease in the area lunch when they were CRPF and included an in- tack demonstrated the vul- and landless farmers, and which occurred between after this road is built and attacked.“First Naxals sent spector-rank officer. Fatal nerability of the government want to overthrow the gov- the Burkapal-Chintagufa this is troubling the villagers to trace our loca- attacks by Maoists on se- forces in an insurgency that ernment to establish a more egalitarian society.Sources in the In- Delhi govt orders probe into 'leak' of LG's order on AAP ad spending dian Air Force said they (Agencies) New Delhi : The behind the leak and examine the said. other than police, law and order, received a request to airlift Delhi government has ordered an call details of relevant staff mem- Lt Governor Anil Baijal had last services) directly to the Lt Gov- victims at around 3pm, and inquiry, including examining call bers and visitors' register. month directed the Chief Secre- ernor bypassing respective min- dispatched two Mi-17 heli- details of suspected staff, who "Chief Secretary will conduct tary to recover Rs 97 crore from isters and quote the law under copters. “Immediately ca- might have "leaked" copies of Lt an inquiry to ascertain as to how AAP that was allegedly "splurged" which the files were sent and the sualties were air-lifted to Governor's order on recovery of Rs the copies of file notings in which by the Delhi government on ad- reason for bypassing the Raipur and shifted to hos- 97 crore from the AAP for ads the LG had directed recovery of vertisements in violation of the ministers.Last year on the direc- pital. One of the casualty spendings. Rs 97 crore from Aam Aadmi Supreme Court guidelines. tion of the Supreme Court, the succumbed to injuries in It has also ordered examining Party (AAP) were leaked to the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Information and Broadcasting flight on the way,” a spokes- of the call details of suspected media. had said that the LG's order will Ministry had formed a three- person said, adding that staff who might have "leaked" the "If needed, call details of rel- be challenged in the court. Apart member committee, headed by several choppers were sub- copies of the same. evant staff members and visitors' from this, the Delhi Cabinet had former Chief Election Commis- sequently sent for the The Delhi Cabinet had last register etc may be examined to also directed the Chief Secretary sioner B B Tandon, to address evacuations. Prime Minis- month directed Chief Secretary M find out the source of the leak," to present a complete list of all issues related to content regu- ter Narendra Modi con- M Kutty to find out the source the Cabinet order accessed by PTI the files sent by him (on subjects lation in government advertising. demned the attack in posts on his Twitter profile. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 INDIA-CURRENT AFFAIRS 14 Subrata Roy in trouble: SC order in Sahara case a stern message for other corporate crooks (Agencies) Yesterday, 17 April, It is significant to note that the careful attempt to launder black follow it up with transferring case to send a stern message 2017 would go down as a water- Court has repeatedly used the money of the rich and famous the same to the Sebi-Sahara to other crooks. Already, Vijay shed day in the annals of India’s word contemnor to describe using gullible village folks as fund with a view to repaying Mallya must be shaking in his judiciary. The three-member Sahara promoter Subrata Roy cat’s paw. It expected Roy to the so-called bondholders. In boots in his London hideout. The bench of the Supreme Court and his misdemeanours. Indeed spill the beans through means all likelihood the true owners two cases are not on all fours walked its talk, and ordered the a person who has the gall to look that bore resemblance to cus- are not likely to surface for but both have cheated the na- official liquidator of the Bombay askance at the highest court of todial torture without actually the fear of courting ignominy tion in their own distinct ways. If High Court to auction Sahara’s the land and seeks indefinite subjecting him to one because nor are all of them benami money-laundering and hiding Aamby valley township project. parole merits no sympathy.The in Delhi’s Tihar jail he has been holders living persons, with black money is a crime, the The purpose of the article is not SC knows that acceptance of enjoying all the creature com- ghosts pitching in for many of crime committed by Mallya is to repeat the facts leading up to deposits aggregating to some Rs forts and more. But the threat the real owners. Indeed, the to blithely use banking sys- the stern order to auction the 24,000 crore by two Sahara of incarceration can dispirit SC would be enacting its own tem and listing to finance his property worth Rs 34,000 crore group companies Sahara India anyone especially free-birds. version of the benami law and luxurious life style and vault- which in addition is a symbol of Real Estate Corporation One suspects that the 17 confiscating for the govern- ing ambition with repayment lavish opulence rivalling for par- (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing April, 2017 order is just the ment huge amounts of money figuring only tangentially in his allel attention of those who eyed Investment Corp Ltd (SHICL) prelude to events that are go- from the Sahara group, long sus- scheme of things. Hiding be- Dubai’s Palm Grove project that were conveniently converted ing to unfold. Once the Aamby pected of being money launderer hind corporate veil is no longer raised on sea that was dried up into bonds in defiance of listing Valley property is disposed to the nation. a ready escape route for crooks, first. norms was a calculated and off, the Court would logically And SC is using the Sahara certainly not if what the SC is doing Barely out of teens, girls are the new face of protestsin Sahara in isKashmir any indicator. The Kashmir Valley has woken up to fresh violence sparked by the killing of whom people describe as innocent civilians by the secu- rity forces. The anger has been fanned by several video clips which purportedly show human rights abuse by security forces, including the use of a Kashmiri man as a human shield.

(Agencies) They are nel. A young girl seen kick- bodies. We have seen taken to the streets in 2012 young, most of them in ing an armoured police ve- many of our brothers and after the Delhi gang rape their school or college uni- hicle has drawn particular sisters defaced by pellets. and murder of a paramedic aggression”.“These things one of the worst summers forms. Some of them wear attention for the anger it At the most we will also student on a moving bus. happen everywhere. Stu- in 2016 when more than 90 burkhas while many of represents – she is said to die,” said Neelofar Jabeen The protesting girls had bro- dents come out in all parts people lost their lives dur- them have their heads and have reacted in the manner (name changed on re- ken through police barri- of India to protest. Some ing violent street protests faces covered. Their school after a college girl was in- quest), a 21-year-old arts cades and clashed with where they come out for following the killing of Hizbul bags slung on their backs, jured on April 21 in student of Women’s Col- security forces seeking students’ rights and some- Mujahideen leader Burhan now they also have stones Srinagar’s Old City. lege in Srinagar.Protests safety for women and pun- where they come out for Wani in July. Hundreds of in their hands. “Why should we fear? by women and girls, even ishment to the accused in ‘azadi’. The aggression is people, many of them chil- Young girls barely out of Things can’t get worse at the verge of violence, is the case that had numbed same. And women have dren, lost their eyesight to their teens have become than what has already hap- not new to India. the country. A police official been protesting in Kashmir pellet guns fired by govern- the new face of protests in pened in Kashmir. We have Thousands of students, in Kashmir described the even before,” the official ment forces, attracting in- Kashmir, adding a new di- seen dead and mutilated most of them girls, had new trend as “teenage said. Kashmir witnessed ternational outrage. mension to the story of a valley wracked by years of violence and brutal retalia- Bihar adopts GST; CM Nitish Kumar calls it 'a historic moment' tion government forces. This April, the valley has (Agencies) PATNA: Both the Kumar speaking in the state Leader of opposition in leg- and with ruling JD(U), RJD, woken up to fresh violence Houses of Bihar Legislature Legislative Council described islative council Sushil Kumar Congress and even opposi- sparked by the killing of on Monday unanimously the passing of GST by all the Modi, who had headed a min- tion BJP and its NDA partners whom people describe as adopted the Goods and Ser- parties together as "a his- isterial committee on GST in support of GST bill, it was innocent civilians by secu- vices Tax (GST) bill along toric moment."Expressing during NDA rule in Bihar, ex- adopted through voice vote. rity forces. The anger has with the Bihar taxation thanks to all the members, pressed happiness over Commercial Tax minister been fanned by several (Amendment) Bill, becoming Kumar said Bihar has been in adoption of GST related bills Bijendra Prasad Yadav had video clips which purport- the second state after favour of GST from the begin- with the help of all the par- moved the Bihar Goods and edly show human rights Telangana+ to pave the way ning. ties. Service Bill, 2017 and the abuse by security forces, for roll out of the GST from "Even after change of gov- He expressed thanks to Bihar Taxation (Amendment) including the use of a July 1. ernment, Bihar continued with chief minister Nitish Kumar bill, 2017. While all the major par- Kashmiri man as a human Bihar legislative assembly its support to GST," Kumar, for standing in favour of GST ties were in favour of GST, JD(U), shield. as well as Legislative Coun- who is heading the Grand Al- from the beginning. "On his BJP and Congress tried to score The anger has spilled cil adopted the Bills related liance government of JD(U), advise, I had accepted chair- over each other in taking credit in out on to the streets and to GST with one voice. RJD and Congress, said. manship of GST as finance state Legislative Assembly over young women are leading Bihar became the second He said the budget ses- minister of the state during it. Sushil Modi praised Nitish the charge. state after Telangana to ratify sion of the two Houses were NDA rule," the senior BJP Kumar for continuously being in Dozens of pictures have GST which needs nod of the prorogued on March 31 in an- leader said. support of GST even when BJP gone viral on social media states after its clearance in ticipation of passing of GST In the legislative assem- was opposed to it when he was -- of groups of girls and Parliament. in Parliament and its coming bly, bills related to GST were heading a NDA ministry in women pelting stones on Chief minister Nitish to the state for the same. taken up in pre-lunch session Bihar. police and CRPF person- Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 SPECIAL FEATURE 15 Is the US immigration court system broken ? Since 2002, funding for immigration enforcement has quadrupled, from US$4.5 bn to $20.1 bn in 2016

number of immigration de- are seeking asylum protec- crease in the number of gration court. tention beds. In compari- tion, lawful permanent resi- Central American women Asylum officers are sent to son, the fiscal 2018 budget dents rendered potentially and children seeking asy- detention centers to con- requests $80 million to add removable due to a crimi- lum. Many families without duct credible fear inter- (Agencies) In the US today, sources for immigration 75 new immigration judges. nal conviction and undocu- authorization are sent to views. Approximately 85 to a single immigration case courts have increased by As a law professor, I have mented immigrants who detention centers to be held 90 percent of families inter- takes an average of 677 much less – 74 per cent. devoted my career to rep- may be allowed to stay in while they undergo expe- viewed are granted the right days simply to get to the President ’s budget for fis- resenting asylum seekers the US dited removal. to present their case in im- initial scheduling hearing. cal 2018 and request for and studying our nation’s In 2015, the TRAC Immi- The expedited removal pro- migration court. There are more than half a supplemental funds for fis- immigration courts. I wit- gration Project out of Syra- cess was created to by- Asking asylum seekers to million cases in the sys- cal 2017 indicate he will ness the daily effects of the cuse University estimated pass the immigration court present their cases before tem, and just over 300 continue this trend of fund- immigration court backlog that full resolution of cases system and allow for the both asylum officers and judges working on them. ing immigration enforce- on the lives of in the backlog would take swift removal of undocu- judges is repetitive and The Trump administration’s ment but not adequately immigrants.The US has 57 from 2 to 6 ½ years. Asy- mented immigrants. How- time consuming. It would push to aggressively en- funding immigration courts. immigration courts nation- lum applicants who are ever, if those immigrants be more efficient to ei- force immigration laws will His budget requests would wide. The judges in these seeking US protection from say they’re afraid to return ther allow asylum officers make this backlog worse. add to the more than $40 courts preside over cases persecution in their home home, the Department of to grant asylum after a Since 2002, funding for im- billion that the Department in which an individual is in countries may wait five or Homeland Security must credible fear interview migration enforcement has of Homeland Security will the US and the US govern- more years simply for an give them a “credible fear when they see a strong more than quadrupled, from receive this year. It would ment alleges that they interview to assess their interview” to determine if case, or simply bypass US$4.5 billion to $20.1 bil- include $4.1 billion to start may be removable. This in- claim. they are eligible for asylum. this step and allow all asy- lion in 2016. During the building a border wall and cludes immigrants who The backlog has arisen These individuals can then lum seekers to present same time period, re- $2.65 billion to increase the have recently arrived and largely because of an in- take their cases to immi- their cases in court. All those little, glowing screens are destroying our eyes combination of the light possible these days rule: Every 20 minutes, emitted from the to avoid so much stare at something 20 screens of screen time, there feet away for 20 sec- smartphones, tablets, are ways to protect onds. laptops, consoles and our eyes, Sanchez- -Use night mode set- monitors, the intensity of Ramos says. tings on mobile sites/ the light, the time expo- Among them are: screens. Twitter’s Night sure (more than eight -Reduce light and Mode paired with iPhone hours a day), and the dis- glare from screens Night Shift is a game tance between the eyes using screen protec- changer. and the screen are cre- tors, wearing yellow- -Make sure your eyes ating the ‘perfect storm’ tinted computer stay moist — dry eyes for our eyes,” she said. glasses, and dimming are an indicator that your (Agencies) The digital voted each day to staring UV light, but the copi- “These factors are de- the brightness. eyes are suffering. world is ruining our eyes. at computers, tablets, ous hours we spend stroying different struc- -Keep your distance — - Step away. “The best Given all the time we and phones. staring at them has tures of the eye, in sit approximately 20-28 preventive measure spend connected to Most of the offending some experts worried. some cases in an ir- inches from your com- would be to avoid the electronic devices these screens are backlit “All data indicate reversible way.” puter monitor. use of screens,” days, scientists recom- with LED light, which screens are indeed af- While it may be im- - Follow the 20-20-20 Sanchez-Ramos says. mend caution when it as it turns out, is far fecting our eyes,” says comes to the hours de- easier on the eyes than Dr. Celia Sanchez- Ramos, a professor at the Department of Op- tometry and Vision at the Complutense Uni- versity of Madrid. And when people experi- ence red eyes, itchiness, and eyestrain after long hours looking at screens, Sanchez-Ramos says to pay attention: these are defense mechanisms signaling potential retina damage.“All evidence, from in-vitro to animal tests, indicates that the Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 ADVERTISEMENT 16 Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 ADVERTISEMENT 17 Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 SPECIAL REPORT 18 Trump’s H-1B tweaks to Aussie visa India’s middle class must reinvent itself, again The great Indian middle class must now reconcile to the fact that ‘globalisation as we know it’ is dead. The global workplace has delivered a blow to the job seeker from India.

This has been an uneasy week class acquired a new story based orously and ambitiously sought for the “great Indian middle class” on market-led growth, jobs for the educational prospects in Ameri- — especially for those who think asking in the private sector, the can universities. Interest in clear- visas for foreign skilled workers, 8.9% drop in 2016, recording a that history is full of lessons and fresh youthful economic energies ing the SAT and TOFEL easily while 85% of the H-1B visas is- contraction for the second irony. When the Soviet Union dis- unleashed by digital technologies surpassed the previous middle sued in the information technol- straight year. solved in the winter of 1991, a and, above all, the rise and rise class enthusiasm for the UPSC, ogy sector in the US goes to In- The great Indian middle class pronounced ideological shock of aspirational thinking. Children more popularly called the IAS dians. must now reconcile to the fact wave ripped through India’s then were not only expected to be fi- exam.From the early 2000s, for Earlier, the UK, where about that ‘globalisation as we know it’ incipient middle class. Their as- nancially better off than their many, getting a loan, admitting 60% of visas for foreign skilled is dead. It needs a fresh and sured world of the mixed parent’s generation but the out- oneself into an American univer- workers are held by Indians, has hopeful script for its growth story. economy, the pre-eminence of look was going to be global rather sity and then taking up a job in also tightened its entry rules by But while it reworks its ideas government jobs, the command- than local.In all these changes, the US was a neat hop,skip and raising the salary thresholds for about the neo-liberal moment, ing heights of the public sector the United States and American- jump formula for landing the cov- employing outsiders. It had al- there is one house fire that needs and the boring world of ism acquired the full force of a eted Green Card. From about ready begun the process of mak- to be immediately doused - Doordarshan news began to powerful winning imagination. The 65,000 in 1995, the number of ing it impossible for Indian stu- higher education. Many students wobble. US, for the Indian middle class, Indians leaving for the US had dents to exceed their stay will be returning from universities But after a few years of social beckoned not simply as a place gone past 100,000 by 2014, through jobs. Singapore, another abroad with unpayable loans and and psychological disorientation, to go to, but became the desired riding primarily on the H-1B visa popular destination for the up- many will be unable to find the there was a surging return. By the future itself. More so, the man- programme. Americanism acted wardly mobile Indian middle quality within India that they so late 1990s, the Indian middle ner in which Indian students vig- as a psychological and ideologi- class, has ordered its companies critically desire to create new fu- cal frontier for the Indian middle to advertise any vacancy for two tures. class – providing a mix of hope, weeks before seeking employ- It is no secret that higher edu- opportunity, aspiration and the ment passes for jobseekers from cation in India is in a mess and idea of a better future.But last overseas.While shrinking job the private sector is in no way week, globalisation was dealt an prospects in the advanced West anywhere close to closing the unceremonious set of legal have been making headlines, few gap between expectation, edu- twists. While Brexit and Trump have paid attention to what is cation and employment. If the had already raised anxieties, the happening in the oil-producing recent tumult in Panjab Univer- final blow was delivered with the Gulf region that has been a pre- sity over a steep hike in fees executive decision to tweak the ferred destination for many un- is any indication, the rising H-1B rules. This was, as if on skilled or semi-skilled Indian costs of education and the cue, followed by the Australians workers from relatively lower eco- lack of jobs to cover loans is scrapping the 457 visa nomic strata. Jobs for Indians in potentially the most dangerous programme and New Zealand’s the Gulf region fell sharply by 33% political challenge that stares at decision to institute the “Kiwi first” in 2016. For many Indians, the this government and the ruling po- programme. Indians account for petrodollar dream is fast drying litical class. We will be ignoring nearly a third of the visa holders up. Remittances, according to it, if we choose to, at our own under Australia’s 457 category of World Bank estimates, saw an peril. Defence canteens remove Ramdev's Patanjali amla juice after adverse lab report The Ministry of Defence's canteen it to be 'unfit for consumption'. Soon after Maggi noodles. it strengthen its foothold in the Indian stores department (CSD) has suspended the report was declared, the CSD asked According to a report by PTI, CSD has consumer market. However, Patanjali the sale of Patanjali Ayurved's amla juice all its depots to make debit notes for their immediately suspended the sale of the Ayurved has not reacted yet to the news. existing stock so that the particular batch of the item and sent a This is the second time when Patanjali product can be returned. The show cause notice to the company to is facing such adverse situation. Last year Department has 34 depots lo- examine the deviations and explain about in December, a local court in Haridwar cated across India. them. They said "further action" will be slapped Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved's five "The batch was tested at taken on receipt of reply from the firm. production units with a fine of Rs 11 lakh the Central Food Lab in The CSD had sent samples of Amla Juice for "misbranding and putting up mislead- Kolkata and was declared un- having index no. 85417 and batch No. ing advertisements" of their products. fit for consumption. Patanjali GH1502 to the laboratory in Kolkata, they Patanjali Ayurved was found guilty of mis- has withdrawn amla juice from said. The Patanjali Ayurveda said its amla branding as the products being shown all army canteens," The ET juice is an ayurvedic medicine and test by the company as produced at its own quoted two officials as saying. on it should be conducted as per the units were in fact manufactured some- However, the detailed findings norms of the AYUSH ministry. The firm where else. A case had been filed in the of the report are yet to be said norms prescribed by the countrys court against the company in 2012 by after receiving an adverse state-labora- known. food regulator--Food Safety and Stan- the District Food Safety Department af- tory test report on the product, the Eco- Incidentally, this is the same lab that dards Authority of India-- were not appli- ter samples of mustard oil, salt, pineapple nomic Times reported. found almost two years ago lead levels cable to the juice. The latest develop- jam, besan and honey produced by The move came after the product was above permissible limits, and the pres- ment could hurt the Patanjali's image as Patanjali had failed quality tests at tested at the central food lab that found ence of MSG in the samples of Nestle its Amla juice was the product that helped Rudrapur laboratory. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 SPECIAL REPORT 19 India is fifth largest military spender with outlay of $55.9 bn: SIPRI

In February, India hiked its The SIPRI report also said nal the end of a trend of highest increase, with allocation for defence in military spending in North decreases in spending, spending rising by 11%. 2017-18 by 6% to Rs 2.74 America saw its first an- which resulted from the “The growth in spending by lakh crore, including Rs nual increase since 2010, economic crisis and the many countries in Central India was at fifth place on China, the second largest 86,488 crore for while spending in Western withdrawal of US troops Europe can be partly attrib- the list of the world’s high- spender, increased by 5.4% modernisation. However, Europe grew for the second from Afghanistan and Iraq,” uted to the perception of est spenders on defence in to $215 billion, a “much experts said the modest consecutive year. the report said. US spend- Russia posing a greater 2016 as global military ex- lower rate of growth than in increase could hurt the Global military expenditure ing last year remained 20% threat,” said Siemon penditure rose for a second previous years”, the report military’s modernisation rose for a second consecu- lower than its peak in 2010. Wezeman, senior re- consecutive year to $1,686 said. plans, crucial to keeping up tive year to a total of $1686 “Despite continuing legal searcher with the SIPRI billion, according to a new Russia hiked its spending with China’s expanding billion, marking the first restraints on the overall US AMEX programme.There report. by 5.9% to $69.2 billion, might. consecutive annual in- budget, increases in mili- were also large falls in mili- New Delhi’s military expen- making it the third largest India’s military spending crease since 2011, when tary spending were agreed tary spending by many oil- diture grew by 8.5% last spender. Saudi Arabia was has averaged an annual in- spending reached a peak of upon by Congress,” said exporting countries. “Fall- year to $55.9 billion, ac- the third largest spender in crease of 10% during the $1,699 billion.The report Aude Fleurant, director of ing oil revenue and associ- cording to the Stockholm 2015 but dropped to fourth past three years, much to said spending continued to the SIPRI Arms and Military ated economic problems International Peace Re- position in 2016 as its the disappointment of the grow in Asia and Oceania, Expenditure (AMEX) attached to the oil-price search Institute’s annual spending fell by 30% to military that is struggling to Central and Eastern Eu- programme. Military expen- shock has forced many oil- report on defence spend- $63.7 billion despite its in- scale up its capabilities. rope and North Africa. By diture in Western Europe exporting countries to re- ing. volvement in regional con- The armed forces are cur- contrast, spending fell in rose by 2.6% in 2016 and duce military spending,” The United States remained flicts. rently negotiating several Central America and the experts said this was said Nan Tian, a researcher at the top of the list, with Total global military expen- big-ticket deals for Rafale Caribbean, the Middle linked to growing threat with SIPRI. “For example, its military spending grow- diture in 2016 rose by 0.4% fighter jets, Apache, Chi- East, South America and perceptions. There were between 2015 and 2016, ing by 1.7% between 2015 over 2015 in real terms, nook and Kamov helicop- sub-Saharan Africa. “The spending increases in all Saudi Arabia had the big- and 2016 to $611 billion. according to the new fig- ters and the M-777 light- growth in US military ex- but three countries in the gest absolute decrease in Military expenditure by ures from SIPRI. weight howitzers. penditure in 2016 may sig- region. Italy recorded the spending of $25.8 billion.” Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion. competitors and capital- whatever cost — a trait that where Mr. Kalanick mixes leaked online. (Mr. Kalanick ized on legal loopholes and has now plunged Uber into with celebrities like Jay Z now has a private driver.) gray areas to gain a busi- its most sustained set of and businessmen including The damage has been Travis Kalanick, the pink socks, Mr. Cook was ness advantage. In the pro- crises since its founding in President Trump’s chief extensive. Uber’s detrac- chief executive of Uber, vis- prepared. “So, I’ve heard cess, Mr. Kalanick has 2009. economic adviser, Gary D. tors have started a grass- ited Apple’s headquarters you’ve been breaking some helped create a new trans- “Travis’s biggest Cohn. But it has alienated roots campaign with the in early 2015 to meet with of our rules,” Mr. Cook said portation industry, with strength is that he will run some Uber executives, hashtag #deleteUber. Ex- Timothy D. Cook, who runs in his calm, Southern tone. Uber spreading to more through a wall to accom- employees and advisers. ecutives have streamed the iPhone maker. It was a Stop the trickery, Mr. Cook than 70 countries and gain- plish his goals,” said Mark Mr. Kalanick, with salt-and- out. Some Uber investors session that Mr. Kalanick then demanded, or Uber’s ing a valuation of nearly $70 Cuban, the Dallas Maver- pepper hair, a fast-paced have openly criticized the was dreading. app would be kicked out of billion, and its business icks owner and billionaire walk and an iPhone practi- company. For months, Mr. Apple’s App Store. continues to grow.But the investor who has mentored cally embedded in his Mr. Kalanick’s leader- Kalanick had pulled a fast For Mr. Kalanick, the previously unreported en- Mr. Kalanick. “Travis’s big- hand, is described by ship is at a precarious one on Apple by directing moment was fraught with counter with Mr. Cook gest weakness is that he friends as more at ease with point. While Uber is fi- his employees to help cam- tension. If Uber’s app was showed how Mr. Kalanick will run through a wall to data and numbers (some nanced by a who’s who ouflage the ride-hailing app yanked from the App Store, was also responsible for accomplish his goals. consider him a math sa- of investors including from Apple’s engineers. it would lose access to mil- risk-taking that pushed That’s the best way to de- vant) than with people. Goldman Sachs and The reason? So Apple lions of iPhone customers Uber beyond the pale, scribe him.”A blindness to Uber is grappling with Saudi Arabia’s Public In- would not find out that Uber — essentially destroying sometimes to the very boundaries is not uncom- the fallout. For the last few vestment Fund, Mr. had been secretly identify- the ride-hailing company’s brink of implosion. mon for Silicon Valley en- months, the company has Kalanick controls the ing and tagging iPhones business. So Mr. Kalanick Crossing that line was trepreneurs. But in Mr. been reeling from allega- majority of the even after its app had been acceded. not a one-off for Mr. Kalanick, that led to a pat- tions of a machismo-fueled company’s voting shares deleted and the devices n a quest to build Uber Kalanick. According to in- tern of repeatedly going too workplace where managers with a small handful of erased — a fraud detection into the world’s dominant terviews with more than 50 far at Uber, including the routinely overstepped ver- other close friends, and maneuver that violated ride-hailing entity, Mr. current and former Uber duplicity with Apple, sabo- bally, physically and some- has stacked Uber’s board Apple’s privacy guidelines. Kalanick has openly disre- employees, investors and taging competitors and al- times sexually with em- of directors with many But Apple was onto the garded many rules and others with whom the ex- lowing the company to use ployees. Mr. Kalanick com- who are invested in his deception, and when Mr. norms, backing down only ecutive had personal rela- a secret tool called Greyball pounded that image by en- success. Yet board mem- Kalanick arrived at the when caught or cornered. tionships, Mr. Kalanick, 40, to trick some law enforce- gaging in a shouting match bers have concluded that midafternoon meeting He has flouted transporta- is driven to the point that ment agencies. with an Uber driver in Feb- he must change his man- sporting his favorite pair of tion and safety regulations, he must win at whatever he That quality also ex- ruary, an incident recorded agement style, and are bright red sneakers and hot- bucked against entrenched puts his mind to and at tended to his personal life, by the driver and then pressuring him to do so. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 CONTD. 20 AIADMK Could Split Into 4 Factions; What To Expect (but it will take a little while to keep a second-line leader- defect. Were that to happen, having saved his name and repu- Amma's death. Her being kept longer to figure out what has ship from growing. Now that she neither all the Queen's horses tation by cancelling the completely isolated from every- happened at the gram is no more, it is the very ab- nor all the Queen's men would election).The final quietus was one other than Sasikala and her panchayat level because those sence of any line of succession be able to put Humpty-Dumpty delivered when the Election doctors in her last 75 days, and elections are held without party that is causing all the confusion. together again. The time, there- Commission linked Rs. 1.5 the unseemly haste with which symbols but with fierce compe- Sasikala believed the growing fore, had come for the Queen to crore found in an intermediary's she was buried, are regarded tition at the grassroots between restiveness in her ranks could put a surrogate regent in her hotel room in New Delhi to a plot among her impassioned core the major political parties). be quelled by anointing herself place. She chose a thoroughly to bribe its members into giving supporters as circumstantial evi- Hence, little doubt will remain General Secretary (the highest reliable close relative, TTV a favourable verdict on Dinakaran dence that her death was "un- about which way the wind is position in the AIADMK) and Dinakaran, not only promoting and restoring the "two leaves" natural". Among her voters, it is blowing once the local body re- then appointing OPS as her him as her Man on the Spot, but symbol to the Sasikala/EPS widely believed that Jayalalithaa sults are out. Indeed, there is figure-head Chief Minister, also fielding him as her candi- wing of the erstwhile AIADMK. was poisoned - and a wild little doubt even now that the much in the manner Amma date in the prestigious RK Nagar Even EPS and his cohort came rumour circulates that Sasikala DMK-led alliance will be in the had repeatedly done. But ap- seat lying vacant as a result of out against Dinakaran and was complicit in this assassi- clear lead, more than enough to parently after someone (in the demise of the incumbent, J agreed that he and Sasikala nation. What feeds this other- persuade eight EPS MLAs to saffron?) persuaded her that Jayalalithaa. Dinakaran's elec- should be "distanced" from the wise unbelievable rumour is jump ship. Indeed, there may the courts would look more tion from Amma's own constitu- party. Feelers were sent out to Jayalalithaa herself having re- well be a Gadarene rush from benevolently on a Chief Min- ency, she conjectured, would OPS to return home (ghar moved Sasikala from her Poes the AIADMK end of the Dravidian ister than a mere General give him a political legitimacy he wapsi); yet, hard-core differ- Garden residence when doctors spectrum to the DMK end be- Secretary, she sowed the has certainly not earned in ences remain not only unre- informed her some years ago cause most AIADMK MLAs are seeds of her own destruction by AIADMK circles. His credentials solved, but also aggravated. that toxic substances in her first-timers owing to Amma's replacing OPS with herself. Not for the job were seen by the faith- OPS insists on his precondition blood stream were causing deliberate policy of keeping her only were the courts not ful as being anchored principally that Sasikala and Dinakran be her to feel unwell. Since flock in the fold by denying tick- amused, the worm turned and in his sure knowledge of where sacked from the party. insisting Sasikala was wholly and ets to experienced hands and she found herself fighting a the loot lay. From the party's that her "election" as Election solely in charge of her diet, believing that MLAs are and rearguard action from behind Alladin's cave, the treasures Commission was not in accord suspicion grew in should be lambs pretending to bars. That rearguard action con- were brought out till the with the AIADMK constitution. Jayalalithaa's mediaeval mind be sheep. A huge share of the sisted principally of putting EPS Dhritarashtra-like eyes of the EPS baulks at actually expel- that the dreaded deed must current crop of AIADMK MLAs in charge while quarantining all Election Commission were ling Amma's closest friend and be the doing of Sasikala. can barely yet believe that they her MLAs except the few that forced open when the going rate companion. Summarily, Sasikala was have been plucked from obscu- flew the cuckoo's nest. rose to Rs. 4,000 a vote! (Dr. That becomes the main sent packing from Poes Gar- rity - before being returned, of EPS won his vote of confi- Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, the stumbling block in EPS accept- den, and ordered to take with course, to that same obscurity dence handsomely but re- famed philosopher and second ing OPS' second precondition for her the "Mannargudi Mafia" (the once they had served Amma's mained under siege because all Rashtrapati, must be im- merger talks to commence, clan named after her home town purpose. it would take for the reprieve to mensely grateful in Paradise to namely, OPS' demand for a that she was shamelessly pro- It was a deliberate strategy end was for eight of his camp to the Election Commission for probe into the circumstances of moting). Why India Should Meet the court on the Mexican border Not Be Vegetarian Zombies of Voodoo Economics Collis White, warned border illegally. Still, Trump administra- This is why I would not pro-growth effects of tax cuts. Oh, and let’s not forget that a guilty plea would Doing so wouldn't be tion officials have made support a ban on meat or recent experiences at the state level. Sam Brownback, mean jail time and they cheap. Immigration cases clear they plan to press governor of Kansas, slashed taxes in what he called a couldn't return to the United already account for more ahead. Attorney General leather. By doing this, we “real live experiment” in conservative fiscal policy. But States legally for years. than half of federal prosecu- Jeff Sessions and Home- are literally taking away half the growth he promised never came, while a fiscal crisis Speaking in Spanish, tions. land Security Secretary the potential income the did. At the same time, Jerry Brown’s California raised each of the 15 men said Trump is seeking hun- John Kelly made the point livestock owner pos- taxes, leading to proclamations from the right that the they understood and took dreds of million dollars more as they've been touring the sesses. It is stealing from state was committing “economic suicide”; in fact, the their chances. They faced for more jail cells, prosecu- border in recent weeks, the poor, nothing less. Just state has experienced impressive employment and up to six months in jail, but tors and marshals to trans- saying that those who en- imagine if the government economic growth. most were sentenced to port prisoners. It's unclear ter the United States ille- entered our homes and In other words, supply-side economics is a classic just a few days. if Congress will give him the gally will be arrested, pros- took away half our assets example of a zombie doctrine: a view that should have The men had the mis- money. ecuted and deported. or made them valueless. been killed by the evidence long ago, but just keeps fortune of landing in Civil libertarians object Earlier this month, the What would we say? Ban- shambling along, eating politicians’ brains. Why, then, America's toughest court- to the prosecutions, saying Justice Department re- ning meat is cruel does it persist? Because it offers a rationale for lower house when it comes to those arrested are rushed leased a memo calling on taxes on the wealthy — and as Upton Sinclair noted dealing with people who through the legal system prosecutors to appoint bor- demonetisation. But I do long ago, it’s difficult to get a man to understand cross the border illegally. without having a chance to der security coordinators in also understand that reli- something when his salary depends on his not In other jurisdictions, exercise their rights. every judicial district. gious sentiments are understanding it. Still, Donald Trump was supposed to authorities routinely skip And a previous attempt 'This is a new era. strong. These demand that be different. Guess what: he isn’t. To be fair, it’s not the criminal charges and to expand the Del Rio ap- This is the Trump era,' cattle (not buffalo) should clear whether Mr. Trump really believes in right-wing simply order quick depor- proach had mixed results. Sessions said during a not be killed. In this case, economic orthodoxy. He may just be looking for tations. But for the last de- Prosecutions spiked at the visit to the border in the answer is to buy back something, anything, he can call a win — and it’s a lot cade, just about everyone end of the Bush adminis- Nogales, Arizona, this each cow from the farmer, easier to come up with a tax reform plan if you don’t try arrested near Del Rio gets tration and during the first month. In White's Del Rio build large gaushalas that to make things add up, if you just assume that extra prosecuted. few years of the Obama courtroom each case of can take care of them; and growth and the revenue it brings will materialize out of That tough approach is administration, but later someone charged with find ways of dealing with thin air. We might also note that a man who insists that a model President Donald declined. crossing the border ille- the remains so that even he won the popular vote he lost, who insists that crime Trump hopes to replicate Part of the decline is gally was handled in un- is at a record high when it’s at a record low, doesn’t as part of his sweeping likely because of the drop der a minute. Only one after death, no product is need a fancy doctrine to claim that his budget adds up plans to stop illegal immi- in arrests at the border. But was sentenced to more sold or used. The answer when it doesn’t. Still, the fact is that the Trump agenda gration, the cornerstone of limited resources, including than a few days - a man is not militant vegetarian- so far is absolutely indistinguishable from what one might his campaign. He wants to jail space to house people who had been deported in ism. The answer is defi- have expected from, say, Ted Cruz. It’s just voodoo with prosecute many more and prosecutors to try 2013 was sentenced to 120 nitely not vandalism and vio- extra bad math. Was that what his supporters expected? people caught crossing the cases, were also issues. days in prison. lence. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 CONTD. 21 School told me on Monday morn- youths today and the Indian State grown up in times of crack- ing. should worry now before it gets downs, torture and illegal deten- Kashmir unrest The anger, frustration and out of hand. tion. My generation would look for sense of loss is building up and Most of the boys and girls you ways to run when an army vehicle it is much dangerous than the see on television screens these would approach, but today's gen- (Agencies) It is frightening. It because it's not convenient? armed militancy. If this agitation days were born much after the eration runs after these vehicles is uncomfortable for policymakers Why hasn't Pakistan been survives a few more days in insurgency broke out. They have and throw stones at them. in Delhi who feed themselves on blamed for "funding" these Srinagar and the forces that have only seen guns, violence, funer- So when even their own, sup- half-truths. It is a dangerous real- "agitational terrorists"? shown extreme restraint so far als, militants and forces in their posedly "freedom-loving" student ity for 'nationalists'. But it is a fact It is not that the students decide that enough is enough, life. Their social media feeds are unions call to return to their class- that no one denies: Kashmir is have not protested previously. It mark my words, Kashmir is go- full of political brutalisation. As for rooms, they defy it. Even a shout sitting on a powder-keg. is not important how many col- ing to see another uprising and what normal life means, they by Kashmir’s most popular sepa- The flare-up in Pulwama and leges and universities are part of this time, it will be bigger and led know nothing about it. ratist leader like Geelani has not the continuing student protests this student uprising that is build- by students themselves, leader- No amount of 'Khelo India', brought them back to class. On could well become the ing slowly and steadily. What is less and more chaotic than we no 'Tourism versus Terrorism' Geelani's call, even mainstream matchstick needed to set the important is why students are on have seen previously. binary, no 'your role model ver- political leaders used to shut Valley aflame, again. One the streets in the first place. In- The new generation of sus mine' worries them. They their shops. But this is another watches with bewilderment and cidents like the one at Degree Kashmiris are brutal and blunt in are against the status quo. generation of Kashmiris, a gen- awe when girl students, barely out College Pulwama have occurred their utterances; they hate politi- They want their leaders to de- eration that likes playing the gui- of their teens, hit the streets, raise in the past too. Why has the re- cal correctness. They are not liver. If they fail them, they tar, but songs of defiance and slogans of freedom, throw stones action been so violent this time afraid of dying: The fear of death don’t shy away from writing or freedom. They will play the and out of sheer frustration, kick around? is long gone. Today, death is a criticising even a tall leader like santoor and even a run-down tra- bulletproof vehicles to vent their "We had a reason to fight the wish in the Valley. It tragically Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and ditional rabab, and the songs are anger at police and paramilitary Indian State for 100 years, but brings you fame and gives an- that too openly on social me- anything but pro-India. forces on the streets — the face now the country has provided us other reason for future genera- dia platforms. Like the genera- We are losing this generation of bad times in Kashmir these with enough suffering to hate it tions to never forget what India tion born just before the insur- rapidly to disillusionment and days. for thousands of years," Akib has done. The sense of fearful- gency erupted, they are not hatred. We must act before it's In seven years of chronicling Nisar, a Class XII student in SP ness has gone from most of the shy or cowardly. They have too late. street protests of Kashmir, I have seen on countless occasions middle-aged women as part of the Ugly Fraud In Fairness protests, but very rarely witnessed incidents in which they threw which Nikhil believed would “I was keen on seeing how a judge a paisa other than the cost of The science, however, is stones. But never before have I eventually make his skin tone would look at this. So I pleaded litigation of two years. The court sketchy. “There is not much study seen or heard, except for the de- ligh•ter with diligent use, hadn’t before the district consumer court then asked Emami to deposit the possible anyway in the West made a whit of a difference in that Emami had duped my brother Rs 15 lakh in the state-run because you can’t test their cade I spent outside the Valley, years. For a looks-conscious with its product,” Paras said. consumer welfare fund. It also efficacy on people who are young teenage girls as equal young adult, this naturally was Things got interesting when asked Emami to withdraw all ads naturally fair. So, whatever study members of the protesting groups cause for a great deal of Emami joined the case and with the “fairness” hook. Emami, you have to do, you have to do on who throw stones at forces, frustration. But Paras, who had claimed there was scientific which has gone into appeal at the Asian skin types,” says Dr Monika march on the streets and raise just been initiated into the world evidence to demonstrate its next level of consumer courts, did Agarwal, who teaches slogans with equal pitch. It is a of torts and the Consumer product worked. It submitted tests not respond to Outlook’s e-mail pharmacology at New Delhi’s spectacle. Protection Act, saw more than a from private labs and individual query. Maulana Azad Medical College. The sense of alienation and random failure. For him, this was experts. But the verdict by the Black Science? Agarwal and her colleague resentment among both young a “seriously unfair trade •practice”. north Delhi district consumer court All this while, scientific Vandana Roy conducted a men and women is too deep. The How is it, he muttered to himself, in 2015, not surprisingly, was evidence has been in plenty short landmark clinical study to test the protests might subside in few that cosmetic companies get damning. “It uses the word supply on whether fairness efficacy of fairness products. Their days but the scars are too deep away with “lies, damn lies”. ‘gorapan’ in advertisement No. 1, creams work at all—and if so, results were published in the The budding lawyer decided to which means ‘fair complexion’,” how. Globally, few studies have peer-reviewed Indian Journal of to heal so soon. On Monday step into the courts even before the court ruled. “This is in direct been carried out to discern if Clinical Practice in 2012. Its morning, before hundreds of stu- he was a graduate. Since it didn’t contrast with the defence taken cosmetic non-prescription objective was to ass•ess the dents hit the streets and pro-free- require a lawyer to initiate a plea by the OP (opposing party, i.e products can have an impact on composition, pharmacological dom cries pierced the cool air in in a consumer court, Paras did Emami Ltd) wherein it has claimed skin tone. Not a very satisfactory basis of various constituents, cost Srinagar, the Kashmir Police had the honours himself and sued that the use of the product situation from a consumer rights and scientific evidence for claims done a spectacular job of keep- Emami Ltd for selling a product improves the health and quality of point of view because, as market made for the efficacy of three ing them at bay and confined (Fair and Handsome) that just skin by providing protection and research firm Euromonitor commonly used fairness creams. within the four walls of the SP wouldn’t do what it promised to. nourishment to the facial and neck International says, the potential For reasons of objectiv•ity, the Higher Secondary and College. “The first thing that came to my skin which are more exposed to market is still very large as brands weren’t disclosed. The But then the slogans soon mind is…this is unfair, this is the vag•aries of nature: sunlight, “products still have only a limited •total number of individual filled Lal Chowk, the city centre, cheating. Fairness creams don’t dust, wind, etc.” penetration”. constituents was 54; of these, 14 and the thuds of exploding tear- work,” he says. What’s worse, Then came the operative part A May 2016 report by were common in all three creams, Emami Ltd claimed the product of the damning verdict. “We are Euromonitor, titled ‘Beauty and while seven more were common gas canisters created panic. The had a ‘technology’—which they therefore of the considered Personal Care in India’, says in two creams. The study recorded streets of Lal Chowk turned into called “American peptide”—that opinion that the advertisements demand is being driven by factors 22 pharmacological actions. a battleground within minutes. ensured it settled deep into the publis•hed by the OP as referred such as “rising disposable About 85 per cent of the Those boys and men who throw skin and made a person fair in four to above make a incomes, increasing product ingredients in fairness creams are stones and participate in protests weeks flat. misrepresentation to the public at penetration, the growth of modern sunscreens, moisturisers, skin on a regular basis must have been The product he had taken on large about the effectiveness of the retailers, increasing awareness of softeners and emollients or watching in awe the way these had created for itself a big brand product to change the complexion beauty and personal care opacifying agents. It is the teenage girls were giving a tough cachet. In a now-withdrawn ad for of the skin from dark to wheatish products, the rising aspirations of opacifying agents in a fairness time to the police. Fair and Handsome, Bollywood or wheatish to fair.” consumers, and strong economic cream that make users appear So are we missing something star Shahrukh Khan is seen The consumer forum ordered growth”. As a result, it states, the instantly brighter. Only 15 per cent here? How come we reached the talking about how he toiled to Emami to pay damages of Rs 15 industry’s constant value growth of the constituents directly point of absolute lawlessness to- make it big as a movie star. He lakh, besides Rs 10,000 towards over the forecast period is affected melanin synthesis—and then tosses a tube of Fair and legal costs. Since the company’s expected to be higher than during on a temporary basis at that. This day? Are these protests just an Handsome to a dark-looking man, lawyer had argued that the case the review period. Firms such as means their chemical activity has outburst of anger or is there some- suggesting it would help him get may have been brought with an L’Oreal, Unilever, Lakme, some short-term potential to thing deep here that we are fail- ahead in life. In real life, thousands eye on lucrative compensation Maybellene, Emami and Nivea suppress melanin, the pigment ing to observe? Or don't want to, of Nikhils would have fallen for it. money, Paras said he did not want control a majority of the sales pie. that makes people appear dark. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 CONTD 22

gave them Gur (jaggery) and their feed.” sufficient evidence to connect them to Photo essays of Mr. Adityanath and his the assassination. A year after his re-Ethics is the answer India’s New Face calves were published by numerous lease from jail, Mr. Nath told a newspa- newspapers. per that if his party attained power, “it Neither am I blind to Gandhi’s Until he became chief minister of Uttar paradoxes, like his life-long demonisation Pradesh, Mr. Adityanath, 45, was prima- Mr. Adityanath rose to power because would deprive the Muslims of the right to of his association with the Gorakhnath vote for five to 10 years of sexuality. His insistence on chastity puts rily known as a firebrand Hindu leader him in the same irrational, patriarchal boat who had created a volunteer force, the sect, a 1,000-year-old Hindu sect with Mr. Adityanth, the Uttar Pradesh chief its headquarters in Gorakhpur. Mr. minister and the new poster boy of Hindu as the priests, monks and nuns of many Hindu Yuva Vahini, or Vehicle for Hindu world religions. And yet, by introducing the Youth, a group repeatedly accused of Adityanath is the current head of the sect. nationalism, has inherited this worldview. In 1998, when Mr. Adityanath was 26, he These exclusionary ideas sit well with charkha as a weapon of non-violent stoking and participating in religious vio- resistance, Gandhi brought thousands of lence. The best chronicled of such inci- was designated as the religious and po- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led litical successor to Mahant Avaidyanath, the B.J.P. campaign in the Uttar Pradesh women into the mainstream of the Indian dents took place in 2007 in Gorakhpur, freedom movement. Mr. Adityanath’s hometown, in eastern the previous head of the sect. Mr. elections. The campaign combined a Avaidynath joined the Bharatiya Janata pitch that promised economic develop- Can Gandhi’s Sarva Dharma Uttar Pradesh. After the death of a Hindu Samabhava (all religions are equal) take youth in clashes between Hindus and Party and was elected to the Indian Par- ment with a divisive message that tar- liament three times as its candidate from geted the Muslim minority. Muslims con- the place of Ambedkar’s constitutionally Muslims on the day of the Shia festival guaranteed democratic rights? I think not. of Moharram, Mr. Adityanath publicly Gorakhpur from 1989 to 1998. He had stitute 20 percent of the state’s popula- already been elected to the Parliament tion. Mr. Modi’s party did not field a single We need the Constitution much more than addressed his men: “In times to come, if we need holy books. And yet, as many in one Hindu is killed, we won’t go to the once in the 1970s from another Hindu Muslim candidate; it won 313 of the 403 party. Mr. Adityanath succeeded him to seats in the state legislature. our country are still hooked to holy books police. Instead we will make sure we will and unholy pretenders, we need liberation kill 10 Muslims.” He was arrested and the Indian Parliament in 1998 and became Most Indian analysts saw the divi- head of the sect after Mr. Avaidyanath’s siveness of the campaign as a ploy theologists who can help people discard kept in custody for 15 days after his men the worst features of their inherited religious destroyed a roadside Sufi shrine and vio- death in 2014. to win the elections so that Mr. Modi The Gorakhnath sect’s overt involve- could get on with the job of gover- culture and replace them with ethical, non- lated prohibitory orders. exclusivist interpretations. Waiting for Some rather craven sections of the ment with the politics of the Hindu right nance with a strengthened mandate. began in 1935 when Digvijai Nath, an or- But the selection of Mr. Adityanath is everyone to become rationalists may take Indian press have been at work to build centuries. Ethics is the answer. Small a softer public persona for Mr. Adityanath phan who had been brought to the sect a reminder of the willful blindness on at age 8, came to lead it. In 1939, Mr. the part of the Indian commentariat wonder that Ambedkar and Gandhi, each since he assumed office. A report in one in turn arrived at individual definitions of of India’s largest-selling English lan- Nath joined the Hindu Mahasabha, a to the essential nature of Mr. Modi’s body formed in 1909 to safeguard the party.The choice had much to do with ahimsa. guage newspapers spoke of his pets: the Egalitarian humanists at heart, their calves Gauri, Ganga, Narmada and interest of “all Hindus.” Initially, its lead- the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ership included senior members of the or National Volunteers Association affinities are greater than their differences. Yamuna, and the dog Raja. The paper Take the act of “satyagraha”, a term coined described how Mr. Adityanath’s pets have Congress, but this changed when Vir (R.S.S.), the parent body of the Savarkar, an early-20th-century Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party. The R.S.S., by Gandhi. Ambedkar used this very term become restive in his absence as they and form of struggle to launch his Mahad await a move to his official residence. A radical thinker, took over. After the as- which was founded in 1925, is unam- sassination of Mohandas Gandhi, Digvijai biguous about its aim of transforming Satyagraha to claim drinking water rights. journalist working for a major television There are many other examples of network, who claims to specialize in re- Nath, along with Mr. Savarkar, was ar- India into a Hindu nation, where rested for a speech he had given three India’s non-Hindu minorities would common ideas and action. I was pleasantly porting conflict, tweeted Mr. Adityanath’s shocked to read what Ambedkar had to visit to his cowshed: “Several calves ran days before calling for Mr. Gandhi’s mur- have a secondary status. der. They were let off on grounds of in- say in 1932 immediately after concluding to Yogi Adityanath as he reached and the now-infamous Poona Pact (where the idea of separate electorates for Dalits was abandoned in favour of reserved seats for North Korea on a bun Dalits). The popular theory is that Ambedkar was blackmailed by Gandhi’s fast-unto- death into accepting a bitter compromise. What the legendary Koryo Burger tells us But Ambedkar’s tone in 1932 after signing the pact was totally different. He had high about the isolated nation, and ourselves praise for Gandhi and stated that the On Air Koryo, North West’s fascination with the “Mahatma” (yes, contrary to popular belief, Korea’s state airline, flight Koryo Burger says less about Ambedkar used the term “Mahatma” at this attendants are known to serve the Koryo Burger than it does point) offered a much better deal for Dalits one thing, and one thing only: about the West? in terms of reserved seats than Ambedkar a burger as mysterious as the himself had asked or hoped for. There is secretive country itself. The burger is “huge” in no denying that Ambedkar did get The burger is always served terms of public fascination, said disgusted with the Congress in later years. cold, and always on a paper Simon Cockerell, general my God, it’s a burger!’ — Since the Communist How much of the blame for the failures of doily. Inside the bun is a piece manager of the Beijing-based that’d be an absurd reaction on country’s public food the Congress is attributable to Gandhi is of unidentified meat, a slice of travel company Koryo Tours. any other airline. But on Air distribution system collapsed questionable. We know that Gandhi’s writ processed cheese, a dash of “It’s something that people are Koryo, it’s a normal thing to in the mid-1990s, its citizens did not work in shredded cabbage or a lonely absolutely blown away by. And do.” — with the state’s tacit preventing Partition or the bloodshed lettuce leaf, and a dollop of it’s a piece of meat between The meat, Cockerell added, approval — have turned to the that preceded and followed it, and that sweet, brown sauce.The two buns.” (Koryo refers to an is chicken. If true, that would gray market to survive. Gandhi did not attend the flag hoisting on “Koryo Burger” features in old Korean dynasty; the two settle years of speculation on Supermarkets have Independence Day. He was busy fighting countless Instagram feeds and companies are unrelated). the Internet that until now had proliferated — as have the communal inferno in the countryside. online reviews, not many of never managed to end in a restaurants. Some sell Gandhi had a lot of obscurantist ideas them complimentary. It has “I think it’s just the verdict.(A man who picked up Western meals. to start with, but, as time went by, he kept “gained cult status among incongruity of having a burger the phone at Air Koryo’s “If you have a growing evolving. In the end, I see him as a great passengers,” the British on a quote-unquote Beijing office confirmed that capitalist economy, somebody humanist who died for his belief in non- tabloid Daily Mail remarked in ‘communist’ plane,” added the airline “normally” serves is buying jets and diamonds, violence and universality. He was also an 2015. Many wonder: Why a Cockerell, who has visited burgers. He could not confirm and somebody is eating a nice inventive anti-imperialist (though much burger, of all things? What’s North Korea 161 times in the the type of meat). protein-rich meal every day,” earlier, he had supported the British Empire) with the doily? What exactly past 15 years. “But what else From 1994 to 1998, North said Andrei Lankov, a North and an organic naturalist that today’s is that meat? would they serve? You can’t Korea was ravaged by famine. Korea expert at Kookmin consumerist, globally warmed world “The Air Koryo burger was give everyone a bibimbap (a Hundreds of thousands of University in Seoul. “Of course desperately needs. the worst example of soft Korean mixed rice dish), and people starved to death, they are not buying diamonds Throughout his life, Ambedkar fought power I’ve ever tasted,” said serving kimchi on a plane according to best estimates. constantly, and a protein-rich for reason and justice without resorting to Alec Ash, a writer in Beijing would be horrifying.“I think it’s People ate bark and leaves to meal is still beyond the means violence. Today, his followers, like the who sampled the burger on a just that North Korea, to survive. Although malnutrition of most people — even if the Ambedkar Students Association, are flight to North Korea last tourists, is so inherently remains common in North diet of the masses is improving leading the resistance against religious and year.But there’s another side sinister and funny at the same Korea, starvation is now rare. fast.” caste hatred. to the phenomenon. What if the time,” he continued. “That ‘Oh, Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 HEALTH 23 Now, desi doodh is the new health fad conscious and the lactose-intol- a former Wall Street programmer, cows, he realised the benefits erant who say it is easy to di- realized the difficulties of sourc- of the milk. "Regrettably, many gest. ing A2 milk because of a lactose- desi varieties of cow are already In fact, it's already got takers intolerant newborn. He went on close to extinction," says abroad. A Sydney-based com- to form the Coimbatore-based Ahluwalia. While most dairy pany , a2 Milk Company , has Kongu Goshala to preserve Tamil owners deny any problems re- found an international following Nadu's Kangeyam and lated to consumption of A1 milk, in New Zealand and China and Tiruchengodu breeds. He also they do admit that local cows is expanding to the United runs a mobile app Kongu Maddu, are much more in tune with States. Back home, Amul has where people can place orders India's climate conditions, and responded to the new interest in for A2 milk. Gurgaonbased therefore remain healthier. "Desi A2. It recently launched a pre- Back2basics breeds Gir cows cows are heat-tolerant and tick- mium desi cow milk product in for A2 milk which it supplies to tolerant, and they have good Ahmedabad and plans to add households in Delhi, Noida and immune systems, so we hope the Surat market next. However, Gurgaon. When retired market to have more of our European Amul managing director R S researcher Titoo Ahluwalia first cows cross-breed with them." (Agencies) The best reason to in the market is A1, from cross- Sodhi admits that the market is started keeping cows at his farm says Aniket Thorat of save the desi cow has nothing bred or foreign cows. Though niche. "When you want to sell it in Nandgaon, a coastal village Bhagyalaxmi Farms in Pune to do with bovine politics. It is research is not conclusive, at a premium price, the market near Mumbai, he was more in- which prides itself on keeping its milk. Desi doodh, or A2 milk from some studies have shown that is very small. But gradually, terested in generating dung for Holstein-Freisian cows in a con- indigenous cows, is becoming A1 can trigger inflammation in awareness is growing." his organic vegetables and en- trolled space of wellness -that the latest health fad, with small the body, potentially leading to A small but growing band of suring his children grew up includes playing Indian and west- dairies and big brands like Amul ailments like diabetes and heart dairy farmers is also catering to around "these gentle, giving ani- ern classical music to them and entering the market. disease. A2, on the other hand, this new market. V Shivakumar, mals". When he read up on desi following organic processes. Much of the cow milk available has found favour with the health- This ignored Is your social drinking hurting your liver? (Agencies) "First the move is the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the quickest way to man." Liver is the second larg- est human organ. It re- moves toxins in your get abs: Harvard body, controls choles- terol levels, fight infec- tions, aids digestion doctors among other key func- tions. Sadly, liver diseases don't show plantation is alcoholic cirrhosis. (Agencies) In the geting your abdominal thighs, work. If it gets any signs or symptoms until it reaches - In India alcoholic liver disease occurs a dreams of a glamour muscles will not give the over-stressed or too an advanced stage. decade early compared to west. body and a washboard desired strong core. tight, it may yank your Dr Amrish Sahney, Associate Consult- - Women had greater susceptibility to tummy, many of us are "Sit-ups or crunches spine, leading to pain ant, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, ALD at any given level of intake. doing nothing less than strengthen just a few and discomfort in the BL Kapur Super Specialty Hospital writes What is the spectrum of alcohol related 100 crunches a day. If muscle groups. Through lower back. 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Only tar- in your back to your duration of your plank. jaundice. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 COMMUNITY 24 350th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Celebrated At The Indian Consulate

Sikh community leaders with Consul General Riva Ganguly Das and the guest speaker Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh

Prof. Indrajit S Saluja, President of Indo-US Founda- A young Sikh boy presented a bouquet on behalf of the A young girl in Sikh traditional dress presented a bouquet on tion introduced the program community to Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Singh behalf of the community to Consul General Riva Ganguly Das and the Consul General cated to the First Sikh Guru. S Saluja said Ambassador Consul General spoke apprecia- Das, in just over a year, had bly of the great contribution of taken significant steps to the Sikh community in India and streamline working at the Con- abroad and said she was de- sulate, with the result that the lighted to host the 350 th birth image of the Consulate was re- anniversary celebration of Guru furbished. The consular services Gobind Singh at the Consulate. improved. She added that she Prof. Saluja attributed looked forward to many such the rising approval rating of the events being organized to focus consular services to the efforts on Sikhs. Ambassador Das made by the Consul General A view of the chose to heap her praise on who has been traveling exten- audience Prof. Indrajit S Saluja, President sively in all 10 States under her of Indo-US Foundation for orga- jurisdiction and reaching out to nizing the event. Welcoming people, under the “Consulate at New York (Insider Bureau) : The characterized Guru Gobind traditions of the Sikhs from her the guest speaker, Dr. Nikky your doorstep” program. Another Indian American community and Singh who created Khalsa as visits to gurdwaras and from her Guninder Kaur Singh, the en- significant step she had taken their friends from the main- the savior of the people against readings on Sikhism. Consul dowed Crawford Professor of was to reach out to administra- stream came together, on April the tyranny of the rulers of the General Das, who is a Bengali, Religious Studies at Colby Col- tion and politicians which helped 8, to celebrate the 350 th birth time. said Guru Rabiindra Nath lege, Waterville, Maine, the not only in strengthening of re- anniversary of the Tenth Master She recalled that as a Tagore, one of the greatest writ- Consul General said Dr. Singh lations between the administra- of the Sikhs, Shri Guru Gobind young girl in Delhi she would of- ers who was the first Indian to was a great scholar and an au- tion and the Indian Community Singh. It was for the first time ten visit with her parents be honored with a Nobel Prize, thority on religions and that but also in strengthening of re- that the birthday of a Sikh Mas- Gurdwara Bangla Sahib and the greatest name among it was a momentous occasion lations between the US and In- ter was celebrated at the Indian Gurdwara Sisganj Sahib and lis- Bengali writers, and one of the to have her at the Consulate dia. Dr. Nikky Guninder Kaur Consulate in New York. Wel- ten to Gurbani which she found greatest sons of India, was in- to speak about the great Sikh Singh spoke at length about the coming the gathering, the Con- extremely soothing. She said fluenced by Guru Nanak and Guru. Earlier, welcoming the personality and philosophy of sul General Riva Ganguly Das she learnt about the wonderful wrote a couple of poems dedi- Consul General Prof. Indrajit Guru Gobind Singh and took questions. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 BUSINESS 25 Sequoia Capital invests $20 million in Awfis, a shared workspace start-up Shared workplace start-up Awfis Space Solutions will use Sequoia Capital’s $20 million investment to fund its expansion plans

(Agencies) New Delhi: Awfis Currently, the biggest entities in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mint re- Space Solutions, a start-up that the segment are 91springboard ported in January. provides shared workspaces, has (present in NCR, Hyderabad, Awfis, which opened its first fa- raised $20 million from Sequoia Mumbai and Bengaluru), Y cility in Delhi in 2015, is a joint have fewer big facilities. “We have vate cabin starts at Rs13,000; Capital India to fund its expan- Combinator-incubated Innov8 venture between Amit Ramani, identified a sweet spot of 350-400 besides clients have the option sion plans. Awfis, which operates (Delhi, Chandigarh and the founder and managing direc- seats per centre, where our unit of booking an entire cabin or 21 workplaces across the Na- Bengaluru) and InstaOffice tor of real estate design consult- economics works and this kind meeting room. Awfis takes a tional Capital Region (NCR), (Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Delhi), ing firm Nelson India, and The of scale gives us the best-suited property on lease typically for a Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, besides smaller region-only firms Three Sisters: Institutional Office, setting for a community-based five-nine year period and invests Pune and Kolkata, will use the like CoWork India (Bengaluru), a family-run investment firm man- environment,” Ramani said. in its renovation and refurbish- funds to expand to more than 100 AltF Coworking (Delhi and aged by Yes Bank founder Rana Awfis co-working centres are typi- ment. It has also deployed what centres in two years, the firm Gurgaon) and Blume Ventures- Kapoor’s daughters. cally of the size of 15,000-20,000 it calls a ‘managed aggregation said. It plans to raise the total backed BHIVE (Bengaluru). Both parties had invested $11 sq. ft. and offer facilities like high- model’ wherein the property seat count in its centres to 35,000 WeWork, a leading shared million in Awfis in April 2015. speed internet, video owner offers its property to Awfis from about 7,500 now. workspace provider with a pres- Awfis has since expanded its conferencing and printing and for no upfront cost and takes a Sequoia’s investment displays ence in 15 countries, has also footprint to six of the eight metros have cafeterias. The space is higher share of the revenue. the growing investor interest in entered the subcontinent. in India, with a facility in Chennai rented out on a per-seat per- Ramani said that over 50% of its the area of shared offices, which The New York-based firm will open expected to come up in three month basis. One seat is priced facilities are on the latter model and has seen a number of branded its first centre in Bengaluru this months, CEO Ramani said. at Rs3,500-5,500 under the flexi expects to sign up at least 70-80% co-working facilities mushroom in year and has leased a 16-storey He said the focus is to place plan (where the seat position is of the new properties on this model. metropolitan cities in the past few building, representing almost smaller co-working centres in the not defined) and Rs8,500-10,000 He claims that Awfis spaces see years. 190,000 sq. ft area, in Mumbai’s vicinity of the user rather than to for a fixed seat. A seat in a pri- about 90% occupancy. With Jio, Mukesh Ambani Bets AlibabaAlibaba launcheslaunches programprogram toto helphelp 11 On 'Winner Takes All' Effect millionmillion U.S.U.S. businessesbusinesses sellsell toto ChinaChina (Agencies) SAN FRANCISCO — When Jack Ma, executive chairman of Chinese mega- company Alibaba, met with President Trump in January, he made a promise – the online sales platform would give 1 million U.S. small busi- nesses entrée to the Chinese market. On Tuesday, Ma will announce he’s launching a program to make good on that promise. Alibaba plans (Agencies) India's most valuable business is earning money hand a conference in Detroit on over fist from oil. Yet what's exciting investors about Reliance In- June 20 and 21 to teach U.S. dustries Ltd. are its telecoms losses. businesses how to sell to the Those should go some way toward creating the Indian equivalent of company’s 443 million customers in China. wards that, the company hopes to invite as Verizon Communications Inc., the largest U.S. wireless carrier. Or The two largest small business markets many as 2,000 U.S. small business owners, at least that's what the stock's 38 percent jump this year in dollar in the world are the United States and China, and entrepreneurs, and farmers to Detroit, focus- terms is all about. “connecting them seems like a good idea – good ing on products it believes Chinese consum- Over the past 12 months, Reliance's refinery on India's western for the United States and good for China,” Alibaba ers want. The aim is three-fold. First, Alibaba coast has garnered $11 from each barrel of crude oil, beating the President Michael Evans told USA TODAY. needs to educate attendees about the busi- Singapore refining benchmark by an impressive $5 a barrel. With While Americans are familiar with the ness opportunity that China represents. neither domestic gas production nor overseas shale output doing idea that most of their consumer goods come Next it plans to tell them how the much, Chairman Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, is betting on from China, China does import some con- nuts and bolts work of selling to China is his almost-completed investments in refining and petrochemicals sumer goods from the United States. Alibaba done, everything from finding a partner to shore up earnings and cash flow.The strategy is working, but it's sees an opportunity to greatly increase those. company in China to the logistics of ship- a mere footnote compared with Ambani's more daring gamble on Currently, the site has 7,000 U.S. ping, to dealing with foreign exchange. Reliance Jio, the recently launched telecoms unit that's already businesses, mostly large companies and big- Finally it will play matchmaker, introduc- supplying more than 1 billion gigabytes of data a month, almost as name brands. Over the next five years, ing Americans to small Chinese busi- much as all U.S. networks put together. Alibaba hopes to increase that to more than nesses that maintain digital storefronts on While a haul of 100 million users over 170 days isn't to be scoffed 1 million, with the vast majority made up of Alibaba's Tmall site. “We’re going to be at, it's thanks to a free trial that only recently turned into a paid-for small businesses. When Ma met with then very involved in the end-to-end process, (though attractively priced) introductory offer. The steady-state av- president-elect Trump, he said the plan would establishing the connection and the facili- erage revenue per user is still the big unknown. create 1 million U.S. jobs. As a first step to- tating it,” said Evans. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 AUTO 26

(Agencies) SINCE its arrival, the Audi 5 series — the standard ( A5) and sport ( S5) coupés and con- vertibles — has presented some of the most subtle and elegant shapes on the road. It is a popular choice among technically- inclined, design- conscious driv- ers who value understatement almost as much as they value performance. Not too big and not too small, the A5 and S5 were conceived with the driver at the top of the mind.The cars fit like gloves and feel as much at home on twisting hill roads as they do on the highways. It was only a matter of time before Audi pro- vided an even more powerful model for the 5- series sporting set. First came the RS 5 coupé, and then the Cabriolet. Both 2014 RS 5 models replace the 3- litre, supercharged 333 hp V- 6 of the S5 with a 4.2- litre, 32- valve aluminium V- 8 that develops 450 hp at 8,250 rpm and 430 Nm of torque from 4,000 to 6,000 rpm. The coupé’s base price is $ 69,600; the Cabriolet’s is $ 77,900. The RS 5’ s mesh grille, flared fenders, and oval exhaust tips are the design elements that subtly distinguish it from the A5 and S5. The Misanored- pearl Cabriolet that Audi pro- vided for a testdrive had optional 20- inch, five- spoke aluminium wheels, plus other trim and navigation upgrades that raised its price to just under $ 90,000. The interior offers few thrills — a notable exception being the available 505- watt Bang & Olufsen sound system — but no design faux pas. The 12- way power sport seats, which are also avail- able on the S models, can be a welcome feature on long road trips. They certainly were on the test- drive, which covered the route from Los Angeles to central California’s Monterey Peninsula in the US, and back after a visit to the annual classic- car fest at and around Pebble Beach. With the black- fabric roof down during the drive home along the highway, wind buffeting was minimal. With the top up and the car at speed, the cabin was dead quiet. The engine — which is mated to Audi’s superb S tronic 7- speed dual- clutch transmission and delivers power through Audi’s Quattro all- wheel drive — provides the RS 5 with plenty of speed. The car accelerates from zero to 100 kmph in 4.9 seconds on its way to 280 kmph. The V- 8 revs like a banshee, and in sport mode the RS 5 sheds its diplomatic personality and demon- strates an alpha aggression that is more befitting of a single- purpose automobile. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 LIFE STYLE 27 A passion for survival How reproducing sexually makes us much more resistant to infections (Agencies) Birds do it, bees do komodo dragons and starfish, are or violent clashes of antlers may it, and of course, humans. But many and varied. While it may spring to mind. It is already exactly why we all have sex has be less fun, from a human known that sex allows genes to been one of the mysteries of perspective, it removes the need mix, allowing populations to science. Now researchers for finding a partner, as well as quickly evolve and adapt to believe they have found the the potentially awkward business changing environment. However, the Scottish Borders. In the and find a male, who themselves answer. Reproducing sexually of courtship, wooing and falling for sex to beat cloning as a laboratory, sexual and clonally have to invest in traits such as makes us much more resistant in love. reproduction strategy, there must produced offspring were harvested fighting and dancing. ‘So, why to infection as we are better able And among humans or be ‘large-scale benefits’ that from the wild waterfleas and are we not surrounded by clonal to adapt to the threat of a animals, sexual displays make a difference to the next exposed to a bacterial infection organisms? ‘By comparing changing environment. designed to entice a partner can generation. But the theory has that afflicts waterfleas under clonal and sexual daughters On the face of it the be elaborate. In humans they been difficult to test as most controlled laboratory conditions. from the same mothers, we found advantages of reproducing by may involve driving flashy cars or organisms are either wholly The sexually produced sexually produced offspring get cloning oneself, as practiced by wearing revealing clothing. In the sexual or clonal so cannot be offspring were more than twice less sick than offspring that were some animals species such as animal world, flamboyant feathers compared easily. as resistant to the infection as produced from cloning. To settle the question, their cloned offspring.Dr Stuart ‘The ever-present need researchers from the University Auld of the university’s Faculty to evade disease can explain why of Stirling studied the waterflea, of Natural Sciences, said: ‘One sex persists in the natural world an organism that can produce of the oldest questions in in spite of the costs. Cloned offspring both sexually, and evolutionary biology is, why does organisms are genetically through cloning. They found that sex exist when it uses up so identical to their mothers which the waterfleas born from sexual much time and energy? ‘Sex means any parasite, or bacterial reproduction were twice as explains the presence of the infection, that can infect the resistant to infections as those peacock’s tail, the stag’s antlers mother can infect the offspring. that were born clonally. While and the male bird of paradise’s ‘The best explanation we have for some animal and plant species elaborate dance. ‘But if a female why sex evolved is it allows can reproduce without sex, such of any of these species produced resistance to disease. It evolved as starfish and bananas, sex is offspring on her own, without sex, to help future generations fight still the dominant mode of her offspring should come to infection. The paper ‘Sex as a reproduction in the natural world. dominate, because cloning can strategy against rapidly evolving The researchers studied more double a population with every parasites’ is published in the than 6,000 waterfleas that had new generation whereas with Royal Society journal been collected from the wild in mating, females have to go out ‘Proceedings B’. ‘He took four or five bites at a time BEFORE chewing'

(Agencies) Sometimes it’s the Poor eating habits were one of the Styrofoam Smoothie King cup, fills it with ‘I took a gal I knew from high school simplest of things that ruin what was most common issues, with one woman water, and hands it to me,’ she wrote. out on a date when I happened to be in an otherwise enjoyable first date. saying her date’s restaurant manner was ‘This cup had obviously been around her neck of the woods at one point,’ one Whether it’s irritating eating habits, a complete deal breaker. the block a few times, because it had man wrote. drunken confessions or unexpected ‘Date was going great, nice guy, really those teeth indentions [sic] everywhere ‘When it was finally time to order, she differences in opinion, it doesn’t take sweet, very smart,’ she wrote on Reddit, on the brim of the cup. tells me she had already ordered for much to completely destroy a first before detailing the moment the date ‘I ask,”Do you not have cups?”. His herself so I ordered a chicken sandwich. impression. spiralled out of control. response,”...that is a cup.” He also only ‘When the food arrives I discover she Now, a number of singles have taken ‘When he ate he took like 4 or 5 bites owned one knife, did not have any tables had ordered 80 wings - and she to social media to share their own at a time before chewing. He filled his face or chairs to sit at, and did not own any proceeded to eat JUST THE SKIN off the experiences and the simple yet as full as legally possible. His cheeks plates. He ate out of the skillet, I ate my wings, leaving the meat behind, and memorable things their dates did to would bulge out and he could barely keep food on the box it came on.’ downed 5 beers in the process.’ ruin the evening. his lips shut. In some cases, the date was only ‘You could see all ruined when it came time to pay. the food mashed up and ‘He made reservations at one of the grinding around through most expensive restaurants in our city. his little mouth hole. I When I sheepishly offered to split it, he knew in that moment says, “oh, you didn’t think I was going to that I hated him.’ pick this all up right? I don’t have that Another woman kind of money”,’ a woman wrote. described her horror ‘I don’t care about how much money when she realised her you have bro, but if we’re splitting it, I 30-year-old date had no get to have a say in where we are going. cups at home. I was in college and could barely afford ‘He invited me over my half. I never answered him again after to his place for dinner. that.’ He filled us each a Other stories involved dates passing plastic cup with of out drunk, declaring their love, being too some kind of grape forward, constantly interrupting and wine. I asked for a texting the entire way through dinner. glass of water, and he Men also shared some of the things grabs a large women did to ruin their first dates. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 TRAVEL 28

UNTOUCHED and undiscovered — this is Manipur’s unique attraction. And it was to this little corner of para- dise that we were headed. Lying in an oval valley encompassed by the most exotic blue- green hills, we were continuously greeted by the most magnificent vistas: cascading rapids, meandering rivulets and lush green grass that showcased a carpet of flowers. Lying to the south of Nagaland, Manipur shares an inter- national boundary with Myanmar on its west and south. “ The Manipuris claim to have invented Polo,” my daughter told me as we sped through the countryside on our way to Loktak

Lake that is about an hour’s drive from casting his net in the water, the focal point got its name — the dancing deer! On our colours of all descriptions and incessant Imphal. Indeed, the sturdy little ponies of my canvas. drive back we noticed that orchids chatter. We went to have a look at the we had seen being ridden by the locals Sadly, I had to be content with seemed to grow everywhere — in the soil, war cemeteries. Managed by the Com- who were playing Sagol Kangjei was my camera. We had some refreshment on trees and on shrubs. In fact, the Cen- monwealth War Graves Commission, ample testament to this fact. “ Sagol in a cafeteria in the middle of the lake tral Orchidarium, which covers an area of stone markers, bronze plaques and stone means horse and Kangjei hockey stick,” before we headed onwards, but not be- about 200 acres, showcases over 110 rare tablets record the sacrifice of the men informed my husband. “ This indigenous fore we had covered ourselves with mos- varieties of orchids. who died during World War II. If you’re sport was popular from the time the first quito repellent! Situated on the fringes of One morning we set off to see anything like me, a museum freak, do Meitei King ruled Manipur between 33 the Loktak Lake is the Keibul Lamjao the Shree Govindajee temple, said to be go to the Manipur State Museum; here AD and 153 AD. In fact, polo was first National Park. And since we had an In- a historic Vaishnavite centre. Adjoining you can get an overview of the state’s played in England as a modified form of ner Line Permit, we decided to pay this the Royal Palace of Manipur’s former ma- rich tribal heritage and see the portraits this traditional Manipuri sport,” he added. habitat of the endangered dancing deer a harajas, this is a simple, elegant struc- of Manipur’s former rulers. And try and W E were now almost at Loktak Lake visit. The only ‘ floating’ National Park in ture with twin golden domes, a paved visit Red Hill — a hillock about 16 km — a saucer- shaped fresh water body the world, Keibul Lamjao shelters a whole courtyard and a raised large congrega- from Imphal — where a fierce battle took that forms a rare ecosystem and is like host of wildlife from the Hoolock Gibbon tion hall. place between the British and the Japa- a miniature inland sea. There was a to the Clouded Leopard. No trip to Manipur is complete nese forces during World War II. As for gentle breeze blowing, tiny islands of The park is perfectly placed: sur- without a visit to Khwairamband Bazar shopping — well no visit is complete with- grassy vegetation ‘ floated’ on the water rounded by marsh land, hills and of — a unique all- women’s market replete out a souvenir or two! And as looms seem and a long, slender canoe bobbed about course the lake itself. We spotted the with the hustle and bustle of Indian mar- to form an integral part of most Manipuri gently. If I were a painter I would have brow- antlered ‘ sangai’ deer that is a ket places. With vegetable and grocery homes, I picked up a rather intricately- captured the sheer beauty of the sur- much- loved creature in Manipuri folklore stalls on one side and handloom stalls woven shawl and some interesting weed roundings, making the lone fisherman and dance tradition, in fact that’s how it on the other, the market was alive with mats! Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 BOX OFFICE 29 Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 BOX OFFICE 30 Aamir attends award function after 16 years, felicitated by RSS chief Bhagwat Aamir Khan has not attended award functions for past 16 years. How- ever, he could not refuse singer Lata Mangeshkar when she invited him for Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards where he was also honoured with Vishesh Puraskar for his outstanding work in Dangal.

have written my films. I am Dinanath Vishesh Puraskar award for his editorial work here because of the direc- for her achievements in while Kaushiki Chakraborty tors and writers for the won- Hindi cinema. for her endeavour in the field derful work they’ve done. I Other awardees in- of music. thank all of them.” Director cluded Kishore Deshpande, ‘Mohan Wagh Award’ for Nitesh Tiwari, who was also presented with Anadmayee best drama was presented present at the event, Puraskar for his work in to Sunil Barve for Amar thanked the audience for social service, Vishwanath Photo Studio – Subak making the film a huge hit. Karad, Founder, Sanstha. Kapil Dev was given the Vishwashanti Kendra, pre- On the professional award for his outstanding sented with Samarpit front, Aamir Khan will soon contribution to the Indian Jeevan Puraskar, Vijaya be seen in Secret Super- cricket. Rajadhyaksha, conferred star and is also prepping up Legendary actress with Vagvilasini Puraskar for for ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ that Vyjayanthimala Bali was her work in literature. Uday also stars Amitabh honoured with Master Nirgudkar received an Bachchan. Bollywood star Aamir sion, Bhagwat, who was Deenanath Mangeshkar Khan broke his record of not the chief guest at the event, Trust and entire being part of any awards said the award winners are Mangeshkar family,” he functions when he attended a source of inspiration and said.The event also com- the Master Dinananth their good work in respec- memorated Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards cer- tive fields will help in nation Mangeshkar’s 75th death emony in Mumbai on Mon- building. anniversary. day. He received a special Aamir reportedly at- The PK star last at- award given to the city’s tended the Master tended an award show 16 eminent personalities in Dinanath Mangeshkar years ago at the Academy various fields from RSS Awards after singer Lata Awards when Lagaan was chief Mohan Bhagwat. Mangeshkar invited him. nominated in the Best Film Aamir was selected for This is a huge honour for category. the recognition for the suc- me, director Nitesh Tiwari After receiving the cess of his film Dangal, one and the entire team of award, Aamir said, “Today of the biggest hits of 2016. Dangal. I am very thankful wherever I am, the credit Speaking on the occa- to Lata Mangeshkar and goes to all the writers who Baahubali 2 will make film- CBFC needs to come makers look like TV serial di- rectors: Ram Gopal Varma to consensus: Sonakshi Sinha After the Central Board of Film Certifica- tion (CBFC) demanded that “Noor” makers edit a reference to veteran journalist Barkha Dutt in the film, its leading lady Sonakshi Sinha says the Ace filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma on Tuesday censor body needs to said SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus Baahubali 2: The have a uniform approach Conclusion will make most filmmakers feel like ama- towards movies. In teurs. “I have a strong feeling Rajamouli’s Baahubali “Noor”, Sonakshi plays media: “The censor board they censor or what they You’re Killing Me!” by 2 will make rest of all filmmakers in the country feel like amateur TV serial directors,” Varma tweeted.The sec- a journalist who idolises really needs to come to uncensor, so I think they Saba Imtiaz. The novel ond part in the Baahubali franchise is slated for release Barkha Dutt, but the a consensus within them- first need to come to a con- centres around a 20-year- on Friday. The movie will finally shed the light on CBFC has asked the selves on what is right in sensus.” Directed by Sunhil old reporter Ayesha Khan, why Kattappa killed Baahubali, the question that has makers to edit the sur- one film… Is not right in Sippy, the crime thriller living in Karachi, and her plagued film-goers for the last two years.The film name Dutt. When asked another film.” “There is comedy is an adaptation of misadventures and finding stars Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah Bhatia, about it, Sonakshi told no consistency in what Pakistani novel “Karachi, a nice lover. Anushka Shetty, Ramya Krishnan and Sathyaraj. Meanwhile Varma is busy wrapping up Sarkar 3. Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 SHIOW BIIZ 31 Wednesday 26 April to 2 May , 2017 ADVERTISEMENT 32