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VOL 6 ISSUE 47 ● DALLAS ● NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 06, 2018 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news PM Modi Reaches Argentina for G20 New Year Special Edition Summit, to Hold 2 Key Trilateral Meets Articles and advertisements are BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (TIP): invited for the New Year Special PM Narendra Modi arrives in Argentina Prime Minister Narendra Modi will edition by December 15, 2018. for G 20 Summit.Met UN Secretary participate in two important trilateral General Antonio Guterres, and Saudi Please email to meetings with world leaders in Buenos Aires, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [email protected]. the Argentina capital, during which they Al Saud (Twitter pic) would discuss major global challenges and For any question, please call developments. 646-247-9458. Prime Minister Modi, who reached Buenos Aires to attend the G-20 summit, will Visit www.theindianpanorama.news participate in the first-ever trilateral meeting between Japan, America and India and the 2nd Russia, India China (RIC) trilateral, Democrats overwhelmingly which is taking place after an interval of 12 years, on Friday.US President Donald Trump back Nancy Pelosi as next will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and then the two leaders will House Speaker despite meet jointly with Prime Minister Modi. challenge to her leadership contd on Page 20

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nancy Pelosi won Pakistan PM Imran Khan performs Ground support from a majority of Democrats on Wednesday, November breaking Ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor; 28, to be House speaker, marking an important milestone in her quest to says ready for talks with PM Modi lead the House when her party takes majority KARTARPUR/ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan Prime Nancy Pelosi speaks to control of the chamber Minister Imran Khan performed the groundbreaking ceremony reporters on November 28 in January. for Kartarpur Corridor, November 28. India's Union Minister The Democratic for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal and caucus vote in favor of Pelosi, who served as the first Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhualso joined in the woman speaker from 2007 to 2011, brings her a step closer ceremonial groundbreaking. Pakistan Prime Minister said he to the gavel that many expect her to regain. But becoming was ready to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Madame Speaker might not be easy. contd on Page 20 Modi while conceding that it was not in the interest of his country to allow terror activities from its territory. Khan's remarks came a day after External Affairs Minister 'Individual 1': Trump emerges Sushma Swaraj categorically ruled out the possibility of holding talks with Pakistan unless it stops cross-border terror as a central subject of Mueller activities. "It is not in our interest to allow use of Pakistan's territory for terror outside," Khan, who is celebrating 100 days probe: Washington Post of his government, said during an interaction with a group of Indian journalists here. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, India's Union Minister for WASHINGTON (TIP): A Khan said the people in Pakistan want peace with India and Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Punjab Washington Post November he will be happy to meet Modi and talk to him on any issue. "I am Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu during the ground-breaking ceremony 29 late afternoon report by ready for talks on any issue. There can't be a military solution for Kartarpur corridor in Kartarpur on November 28, 2018. Carol D. Leonnig and Josh for Kashmir," he said, adding that "nothing is impossible". "The Photo / Courtesy PTI Dawsey claims that Trump mindset of people here has changed," Khan said, a day after he Gurdaspur district. Pakistan is projecting the corridor as a has emerged as a central laid the foundation stone for the Kartarpur corridor that will goodwill gesture. "The India I know - majority must be subject of Mueller probe. " connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur - the final resting appreciating it, Khan said, adding that the gesture for peace In two major developments place of Guru Nanak Dev - with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in cannot be one-sided. contd on Page 20 this week, President Trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major President Trump subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code (Official portrait) name: "Individual 1", the NEW YORK- DALLAS report says. The report which is the most updated account of the ongoing probe says that the "new evidence from two separate fronts of special counsel Robert S. 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All of these emotions surface when By Harbans Lal, something deeply traumatic is PhD., D.Litt. (Hons) done to us or to those with whom we share a connection. Yet the Sikh Ardaas (prayer) is always for Sarbat Da Bhalaa. Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Goodwill to all people. Khalsa Michaud negatively, and we choose to see the Divine in every heart - then it follows quite naturally what the Guru says. That "enemy and friends he teachings of the Sikh Gurus can have become the same to me." often be misunderstood. When we get In other words, it does not matter whether a Thurt, anger and pain are the emotions person is an enemy or a friend. My mind that inform us we are hurt. These feelings act responds with the same emotional equanimity as messengers, carrying vital information. to both. Ignoring these emotions has the effect of Accessing this state of consciousness is a blocking our ability to respond to the tall order, no doubt. How can we cultivate the situation. This inability to feel our feelings habit of not speaking negatively about others? and react to the information in an Rather than just biting our tongue, how do we advantageous way causes us to live our lives PrathhamaeShhoddeeParaaeeNindhaa || Man Pragaas Gur Thae Math Lee || genuinely come to the state of not having in a state of emotional immobility. First, I gave up slandering others. That person who obtains understanding anything negative to say? But the Sikh Gurus offer us a method to feel ¿∞« ◊¬∆ √Ì ÓÈ ’∆ «⁄ßÁ≈® through the Guru's vision, his/her mind I think this Shabad by Guru Naanak Dev ji the emotions and process them within a Outhar Gee Sabh Man Kee Chindhaa || becomes illumined. gives us a clue. It illustrates the point by spiritual framework where the emotions can All the anxiety of my mind was dispelled. ’‘∞ È≈È’ Â≈’∆ ͱ∆ ͬ∆®4®27®40® quoting an event detailed in the ancient Hindu move and be transformed. We can ÒØÌ∞ÓØ‘∞√Ì∞’∆ÈØÁ±«® KahuNaanakThaa Kee Pooree Pee history. acknowledge uncomfortable emotions within LobhMohuSabhKeenoDhoor || ||4||27||40|| ÍzÌ≈Â∆ Ó‘Ò≈ 1 Á÷‰∆® SGGS, p. 1344 ourselves, such as anger, shame or grief; and Greed and attachment were banished - says Nanak, that person is totally fulfilled. PrabhaatheeMehalaa 1 Dhakhanee || then shift our consciousness to a vaster entirely. ||4||27||40|| Prabhaatee, First Mehl, Dakhnee: perspective. From that broader framework, ÍÓ ÏÀ√È ØÍzÌ Í∂«÷ ‘‹±«®1® This Shabad, hymn, is so very rich. Yet the ◊ØÂÓ∞ÂÍ≈¡«‘«Ò¡≈«¬√Âz∆«Â√∞Á∂«÷«¬ßÁz∞Ò∞Ì≈«¬¡≈® the emotions release and resolve into peace. Param BaisanoPrabhPaekhHajoor ||1|| one facet that struck us the deepest is the first Gotham ThapaaAhiliaaEisathree This This creates emotional health and maturity. I see God ever-present, close at hand; I have line about slandering others. The Guru DhaekhEindhraLubhaaeiaa || become a great devotee. ||1|| instructs that when we stop slandering others, Ahalyaa was the wife of Gautam, the seer. Anger, grief, pain - these ¡À√Ø «Â¡≈◊∆ «ÚÒ≈ ’Ø«¬® the mind leaves behind anxiety, greed and Seeing her, Indra was enticed. emotions surface naturally AisoThiaageeViralaaKoe || attachment. It is fascinating to us to learn √‘√√∆«⁄‘ÈÌ◊‘±¬∂Â≈Ó«ÈͤØÂ≈«¬¡≈®1® when we experience some Such a renunciate is very rare. that peace begins with our own decision to SehasSareerChihanBhagHooeaeThaa Man kind of injury or trauma. Does ‘« ‘« È≈Ó ∞‹ÍÀ ‹È∞ √Ø«¬®1®‘≈¿∞® stop speaking or thinking negatively about Pashhothaaeiaa ||1|| Har Har Naam Japai Jan Soe ||1|| Rehaao other people. That by not slandering them, the When he received a thousand marks of Sarbat Da Bhalaa mean to not || anxiety in our minds disappears. disgrace on his body, then he felt regret in his have those feelings? Do we Such a humble servant chants the Name of mind. ||1|| pretend they don't exist or the Divine, Har, Har. ||1||Pause and Reflect|| Accepting what is given. Not ’ج∆‹≈«‰È̱ÒÀÌ≈¬∆® stuff them away to maintain ¡‘ßÏ∞«Ë’≈¤Ø«‚¡≈√ß◊∞® speaking pointlessly with ill KoeeJaan N BhoolaiBhaaee || AhanbudhhKaaShhoddiaa Sang || will. The wealth of Khimaa O Siblings of Destiny, rarely anyone appearances? I have forsaken my egotistical intellect. knowingly makes mistakes. ’≈Ó’zØË’≈¿∞«¡≈ß◊∞® develops and with it we can √Ø Ì±ÒÀ «‹√∞¡≈«ÍÌ∞ Ò≈¬∂ ϱfiÀ «‹√À Ï∞fi≈¬∆®1®‘≈¿∞® The teachings of the Sikh Gurus provide a KaamKrodhhKaaOuthariaa Rang || burn away our anger and So Bhoolai Jis Aap Bhulaaeae Boojhai sophisticated system to acknowledge and The hue of sensual desire and anger has anxiety. Here - Khimaa is Jisai Bujhaaee ||1|| Rehaao || process our emotions within a spiritual vanished. translated as "tolerance." But He alone is mistaken, whom the Divine framework that leads to emotional freedom È≈Ó«Ë¡≈¬∂‘«‘«‘∂® Herself makes so. He alone understands, and maturity. This framework does not deny Naam Dhhiaaeae Har HarHarae || the context of it implies a whom the Divine causes to understand. the heavy emotions. Rather, it encourages us I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the compassionate, surrendered ||1||Pause and Reflect|| to find a place within ourselves where these Divine, Har, Har. tolerance that creates a sense «Â«È‘∆⁄ß«Á«ÍzÊÓ∆Í«Â≈‹À’≈◊«Á’∆ÓÈÍ≈¬∆® challenging feelings can move through us. We √≈Ë‹È≈’À√ß«◊«È√Â∂®2® of forgiveness, and a Thin HareeChandhPrithhamee Path discover the capacity to let go of animosity.To SaadhhJanaa Kai Sang Nisatharae ||2|| RaajaiKaagadhKeem N Paaee || maintain compassion for ourselves and for In the Company of the Holy, I am willingness to engage others Harichand, the king, and ruler of his land others. And in the most egregious of emancipated. ||2|| with a fully open heart. did not appreciate the value of his pre- circumstances, to experience Nirbhao, ÏÀ∆Ó∆‘ج∂√ßÓ≈È® ordained destiny. Nirvair - a state of divinely consciousness BaireeMeethHoeaeSanmaan || When we experience trauma, fear or pain, ¡¿∞◊‰∞‹≈‰ÀÂÍ∞ßÈ’∂«’¿∞«’¿∞È∂÷≈«√«Ï’≈¬∆®2® beyond both fear and vengeance. Enemy and friends have become the same to the instinct to lash out, to blame someone, AouganJaanai Th PunnKarae Kio This capacity to stay compassionately me. shame someone, rage against someone, speak KioNaekhaasBikaaee ||2|| engaged even with those who have done harm √ÏÓ«‘ͱÈÌ◊Ú≈È® negatively about someone is a very normal If he had known that it was a mistake, he to us is called, in Gurmukhi, Khimaa????. SarabMehiPooranBhagavaan || way of life. Yet in this Shabad, the Guru would not have made such a show of giving in Khimaa «÷Ó≈ sometimes gets translated as The Perfect Divine is permeating all. suggests that speaking negatively about charity,and he would not have been sold in the forgiveness. But when we look to the roots of ÍzÌ ’∆ ¡≈«◊ ¡≈ Ó≈«È √∞÷∞ Í≈«¬¡≈® others keeps the mind in a state of dis-ease. market. ||2|| what forgiveness means; and we look at the Prabh Kee AagiaaMaanSukhPaaeiaa || And that making a choice to not think or say ’¿∞ ¡„≈¬∆ ËÂ∆ Ó≈∫◊∆ Ï≈ÚÈ ±«Í Ï‘≈ÈÀ® spiritual framework the Sikh Gurus taught - Accepting the Will of the Divine, I have anything negative brings the mind to ease. Karo Adtaaee Dhharathee Maangee khimaa «÷Ó≈ is quite unique and the English found peace. When we curb our predisposition to speak Baavan Roop Behaanai || term "forgiveness" does not quite do it justice. ◊∞«ͱÀ‘«È≈Ó∞«ÁzÛ≈«¬¡≈®3® negatively, it gives the ability for our sight to The Divine took the form of a dwarf and It is worth exploring what this difference Gur Poorai Har Naam Dhrirraaeiaa ||3|| soften and widen. To "see the Perfect One asked for some land. looks like. The Perfect Guru has implanted the Name permeating all." If we choose to not speak «’¿∞ Í«¬¡≈ «Ò‹≈«¬ «’ ¿∞¤Ò∆ ¡À‹∂Ï «Ò±Í ∞ͤ≈ÈÀ®3® Before discussing khimaa «÷Ó≈, first let us of the Divine within me. ||3|| Kio PaeiaalJaae Kio Shhaleeai Jae Bal reference the teaching that it is possible to ’««’Í≈«‹√∞≈÷À¡≈«Í® Goodwill to all. It is a noble RoopPashhaanai ||3|| view both friend and enemy as equivalent to Kar KirapaaJisRaakhaiAap || sentiment. But is it realistic to If Bal the king had recognized Him, he one another. What does that mean? That person, whom the Divine, in His have goodwill towards every would not have been deceived and sent to the Guru Arjan Dev ji describes the formula in Mercy, saves underworld. ||3|| the following shabad: √ج∆Ì◊Â∞‹ÍÀÈ≈Ó‹≈Í® single person, especially in ≈‹≈‹ÈÓ∂‹≈Á∂ÓÂ∫∆Ï«‹«Ï¡≈«√ÍÛ∑∑≈«¬¡≈® ÌÀ¿∞Ó‘Ò≈ 5® SoeeBhagathJapai Naam Jaap || the face of social illnesses RaajaaJanamaejaaDhaeMathanaeeBarajBi BhairoMehalaa 5 || That devotee recites and goes deeper into such as racism, sexual aasParrhaaeiaa || Bhairao, Fifth Mehl: the Naam. violence, religious hatred or ÍzÊÓ∂¤Ø‚∆Í≈¬∆«ÈßÁ≈® Ó«È Íz◊≈√∞ ◊∞ Â∂ Ó«Â Ò¬∆® physical persecution? CONTD ON PAGE 20 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 SOUTH ASIA 3 Indian-origin accountant Indian-origin woman jailed for along with 5 others jailed drunken behavior on flight to UK for visa scam in UK LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin LONDON (TIP):An Indian-origin woman drinks. accountant along with five other fraudsters, has been jailed for six months in the UK for "She continued to ask cabin crew for a who ran a fake Bangladeshi visa scam and drunken behavior on a flight which caused a drink and they continued to refuse her, and falsely claimed nearly 13 million pounds in passenger to have a seizure. she was issued with an Air Navigation Order," tax repayments have been sentenced to a Kiran Jagdev, an executive assistant based Prosecutor Joey Kwong told the court. total of 31 years in jail by a UK court. in the city of Leicester, had attempted to After she was moved for kicking seats, Jalpa Trivedi, 41, was found guilty for blame the crew of Jet2 airline for supplying causing a passenger to have a seizure, an off- facilitating the accounting side of the fraud her with alcohol during her flight from duty police officer on the same flight offered and was jailed for three years. Tenerife in Spain back to the UK in January to sit next to her to assist cabin crew but she London-based Bangladeshi origin law this year. Judge Philip Head "rejected" her began making "vulgar" comments to him. student Abul Kalam Muhammad Rezaul excuse and decided to impose what he She was arrested by police on landing and Karim was the ringleader in the organized described as a "deterrent sentence" during a proceeded to direct abusive remarks at airport crime group. hearing at Leicester Crown Court this week. immigration authorities. The air rage The 42-year-old man set up 79 bogus The court was told that during a bumpy incident came days after Jagdev, was companies and created fake documentation landing, the 41-year-old had started convicted of assault in Tenerife and handed used by Bangladeshi nationals in fraudulent screaming, "we are all going to die", causing down a suspended sentence, which involves a visa applications, Southwark Crown Court in further distress to passengers. deferred jail term reliant on good behavior. London was told during a trial that ended last "The effect you had on other passengers "There isn't any excuse. We can't put the week. must have been dreadful," the judge said. Kiran Jagdevhas been jailed for six months in blame on anyone other than herself and she The fraudsters also used the companies to the UK for drunken behavior on a flight which "As the pilot was unable to put the craft accepts that," her defense lawyer, Harbinder fraudulently reclaim tax repayments from caused a passenger to have a seizure down on the approach, that triggered a Lally, told the court. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) over a six- further foul-mouthed tirade where you before boarding the four-hour flight to East The judge concluded: "You are the author of year period, with 1,72,000 pounds being paid shouted, 'we're all going to die' for about 10 Midlands Airport. She then proceeded to your own and other people's misfortune. out and potentially could have amounted to minutes," he said. drink a further four to six glasses of wine on "This demands a deterrent sentence so as much as 13-million pounds if the fraud had According to the prosecutors, Jagdev had the plane, using her own supply from her people who travel by air and get drunk will not been undetected. consumed between six and eight beers even handbag when the crew refused her more know there are consequences." An investigation into their wrongdoing was the "longest ever undertaken" by the UK's Immigration Enforcement's Criminal Indian American Community Indian fugitives abroad : 28 fugitive and Financial Investigation (CFI) team. Judge Martin Griffith said: "The purpose was to fool the Home Office into granting gives a warm reception to economic offenders are living outside India, visas and it worked. Eighteen people were granted visas based on false figures. Of India's New Consul General according to External Affairs Ministry those, three were allowed to become ATLANTA (TIP): naturalized British citizens, and two given Around 70 Indian indefinite leave to remain." American All five fraudsters were found guilty of organizations came conspiracy to defraud by making false together to extend a applications under the Tier-1 visa category hearty welcome to between December 31, 2008 and February 27, the new Consul 2013. General at the Indian Karim was sentenced to ten-and-a-half Consulate in Atlanta. years, his brother-in-law Enamul Karim, 34, Dr. Swati Vijay was sentenced to nine years and four months Kulkarni is a career and Kazi Borkot Ullah, 39, was sentenced to diplomat who holds five years and 10 months behind bars. M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of All three were absent in court after Medicine and absconding in July and arrest warrants have Bachelor of Surgery) been issued for their arrest. degree from the Ullah's lawyer told the court he had "no prestigious idea where he is, in this country, Bangladesh Dr. Swati Vijay Kulkarni is the new Government Medical or anywhere else". Consul General at Indian Consulate College, Nagpur in The Trio of Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya and Lalit Modi Mohammed Tamij Uddin, 47, was jailed for in Atlanta India. She joined the two years and six months respectively. Indian Foreign NEW YORK(TIP): The Central Bureau of Investigation and the Prosecutor Julian Christopher told the Service in 1995. Enforcement Directorate are pursuing legal actions to bring back 28 Indians, court their offending was on an "industrial Prior to her appointment as Consul General, including six women, who have been charged for financial irregularities and scale". Consulate General of India, Atlanta, she served as criminal offences, and are believed to be living abroad since 2015. As part of the immigration scam, the five Regional Passport Officer, Mumbai, Maharashtra Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Gen. (Retd.) V.K. Singh defendants charged some clients on (2014-2018), Consul General in CGI Cape Town- submitted the names of such persons to Lok Sabha on July 25, 2018. Replying temporary visas wanting to remain in the UK South Africa (2012-2014), Deputy Head of Mission in to a question posed by Prof. K.V. Thomas, Mr. Singh said: "efforts are being a minimum of 700 pounds in cash for their Muscat, Oman (2008-2012). made for securing the presence of these accused in the country by way of fraudulent immigration services. Dr. Kulkarni's previous overseas assignments issuance of LOC (Look out circular), RCN (Red Corner Notice) and The fraud was uncovered in 2011 when the were First Secretary in High Commission of India, Extradition requests." UK Home Office identified a suspicious London (2005-2008), where she successfully worked While the CBI is pursuing the cases pertaining to 23 fugitives, the ED is pattern in a series of points-based as a nodal officer for preventing discrimination for handling 13 cases. Eight persons - Vijay Mallya, Mehul Choksi, Nirav Modi, applications for Tier 1 general and Indian Medical Graduates after the implementation Jatin Mehta, Ashish Jobanputra, Chetan JayantilalSandesara, Nitin entrepreneur visas. of new UK Immigration rules; First Secretary in JayantilalSandesara, and DiptibenChetankumarSandesara - figure in both Both routes had a significant financial the High Commission of India, Port Louis, lists. requirement, with applicants earning points Mauritius (2001-2003); and as a Third Secretary To a similar question posed in the Rajya Sabha on March 23, 2018, Mr. Singh based either on previous earnings or by (Language Trainee) in Embassy of India, Spain said 23 fugitives are yet to be extradited since 2014. As of March 2018, India demonstrating they had access to a minimum (1997-1998). has signed extradition treaties with 48 countries including the USA, UAE, of 50,000 pounds to invest in UK business. At Headquarters, Dr. Kulkarni worked as an France, Germany, the U.K, and Hong Kong. In addition, extradition The gang claimed their clients were Additional Private Secretary to the External Affairs arrangements have been signed with Croatia, Italy, and Sweden. employees as part of their tax and Minister and later deputed as Regional Passport List of fugitive economic offenders living abroad. immigration fraud - creating fake pay Officer, Pune, Maharashtra (1998-2001) and as Under slipsand providing false information on Secretary looking after Austria, Cyprus, Greece, PushpeshBaid, Ashish Jobanputra, Vijay Mallya, Sunny Kalra, Sanjay hundreds of applications to ensure eligibility Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein & Holy See, Kalra, Sudhir Kumar Kalra, Aarti Kalra, Varsha Kalra, Jatin Mehta, Umesh for a Tier 1 visa. Malta, Portugal, Ireland and Spain (2003-2005). Parekh, Kamlesh Parekh, Nilesh Parekh, Eklavya Garg, Vinay Mittal, They transferred money into clients' bank Dr. Kulkarni is married to Mr. Vijay Jayant Chetan Jayantilal Sandesara, Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, Diptiben Chetan accounts to make them appear well-paid Kulkarni who is a Merchant Mariner by profession kumar Sandesara, Nirav Modi, Neeshal Modi, Mehul Choksi, Sabya Seth, employees. The money was paid back to the and has two daughters. Rajiv Goyal, Alka Goyal, Lalit Modi, Ritesh Jain, Hitesh Narendrabhai Patel, fraudsters the following month and, between Her interests include study of developmental Mayuriben Patel, Priti Ashish Jobanputra. 2008 and 2013, millions were laundered issues, swimming, and tennis. (SOURCE: THE HINDU) through the bank accounts as a result. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 US FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 Former Trump lawyer Cohen pleads guilty to Trump cancels meeting with lying to Congress Putin due to Ukraine crisis

WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Donald Trump on Thursday , November 29, suddenly cancelled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled for this week's G 20 industrialized nations summit in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine crisis. "Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to scheduled meeting in Argentina with President Donald Trump (File Photo ) President Vladimir Putin. I look forward to a NEW YORK (TIP): President Donald meaningful Summit again as soon as this Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael situation is resolved!" Trump tweeted after Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday,November departing for the G20 summit. 29, to making false statements to the Trump's tweet was a sudden turnaround. Congress regarding a Trump Organization Roughly an hour earlier, he had told reporters real estate project in Moscow, putting fresh he would probably meet with Putin at the pressure on the President. Mr. Cohen entered summit and said it was "a very good time to the guilty plea in federal court in Manhattan have the meeting." to one count of making false statements to the But Trump had also said he would get a President Trump and President Vladimir Putin File photo Congress in an investigation by lawmakers final report during the flight to Argentina on years. The administration of former Since then, the United States has into whether Mr. Trump's campaign worked the tension in the region after Russia seized President Barack Obama imposed sanctions investigated Russia's possible interference in with Russia to sway the election. Ukrainian vessels near Crimea on Sunday. on Russia for its annexation of Crimea from the 2016 presidential election that Trump Mr. Cohen said in court that in 2017, he Differences over Ukraine, as well as Ukraine in 2014. That in part brought ties won. Russia has denied meddling and Trump submitted a written statement to the Moscow's role in the civil war in Syria, have between Washington and Moscow to their has repeatedly said there was no collusion. Congress saying all efforts relating to the real been an irritant in US-Russian relations for lowest point since the end of the Cold War. (Agencies) estate project in Moscow had ceased by January 2016. Mr. Cohen said that in fact these efforts continued until June 2016. Saudi Arabia, US take significant step toward closing $15 billion Mr. Cohen also said that in the statement to Congress, he claimed to have had limited deal for Lockheed Martin's THAAD missile defense system contact with Mr. Trump concerning the project, when in fact it had been "more WASHINGTON (TIP): Saudi Arabia will In recent weeks the Trump administration end of the year. extensive." Mr. Cohen also said he falsely told buy Lockheed Martin's $15 billion missile and the US defenseindustry worked to save The State Department spokesman said the the Congress he never took any steps toward defense system, a US Department of State the few actual deals in the much-touted $110 deal, first reported by CNBC, supports the travelling to Russia, when in fact he had spokesman said on Wednesday, November 28, billion arms package for Saudi Arabia amid "long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the discussed travelling there, although he never after aggressive lobbying by the rising concerns about the role of the Gulf region in the face of the growing did. In August, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to administration to close the deal that included kingdom's leadership in the death of ballistic missile threat from the Iranian campaign finance violations, tax evasion and a personal call between President Donald journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent regime and Iran-backed extremist groups." bank fraud in a case brought by federal Trump and Saudi King Salman, according to a Saudi critic. Defying the White House, the Senate voted prosecutors in New York. Reuters report. The THAAD deal had been under on Wednesday to advance a resolution to end Thursday's guilty plea may signal Mr. The State Department said the Saudis and discussion since December 2016 and is now US military support for the Saudi-led Cohen is hoping for a lighter sentence on the US officials signed the letters of offer and completed, the spokesperson said. coalition in Yemen's civil war, setting the charges in exchange for continuing to acceptance documents on Monday, November Trump and King Salman discussed in a late stage for a possible final vote on the measure cooperate with Special Counsel Robert 26, , formalizing terms for Saudi's purchase of September phone call the THAAD missile within days. Mueller's Russia investigation. "I made these 44 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense defense system deal, a Saudi official told Congressional approval for the THAAD misstatements to be consistent with (THAAD) launchers, missiles and related Reuters in October. The official said at that missile defense system sale was given in 2017. individual 1's political messaging and out of equipment. time that the deal could well be closed by the (Agencies) loyalty to individual 1," Mr. Cohen said in court. He previously identified individual one as Mr. Trump. TRIBUTE Mr. Mueller, who took over the Russia investigation from the FBI in May 2017, has brought criminal charges against a series of Manmohan Singh Luthra, Who Built Nanak Drive former Trump aides and associates, including his former campaign chairman and former national security adviser, as well in the Heart of America, Passed Away at Age 82 as Russian individuals and entities. Mr. Cohen has previously said he was Mr. BY HARBANS LAL, PH.D., towards the successful holding of the Sikh Club of New Kensington and Rotary D. LIT (HONS) Trump's "fixer" and would "take a bullet" for Youth Camps at Racoon Creek State Park. He International from 1974 until 2005. He served the President. His plea may turn up the heat n 1979, Dr. Manmohan Singh Luthra, a and Sardar Sohan Singh Chaudhary as the district chairman of Rotary's on Mr. Trump, who has provided written gold medalist of Medical College Patiala, procured the campsite and stood by the "Concern for the Aging" committee. As answers to questions posed in the Ibought land and successfully struggled Camp organizers for particular needs, that District Governor for Rotary International investigation. Mr. Trump has sought to with city authorities for permission to included the medical resources. These were (1990-1991), he promoted the Paul Harris distance himself from Mr. Cohen despite develop Nanak Drive in the State of the first Sikh Youth Camps in North Fellowship scholarship programs by their long association. Mr. Cohen testified in Pennsylvania, USA. It was the first America. soliciting donations and becoming a major August that Mr. Trump had directed him to residential street named after Guru Nanak As a community physician, Dr. Luthra was donor himself. Being a physician, he was commit a crime by arranging payments to in the United States. He and his family felt honored by Citizen's General Hospital for 22 devoted to Rotary International's polio silence two women who alleged before the blessed to live there and invite American years of devoted service. At Citizen's eradication program and worked with 2016 election that they had affairs with Mr. home buyers to choose Nanak Drive for their General and Allegheny Valley Hospital he Rotary clubs in India to promote polio Trump. Adult-film star Stormy Daniels was home address. founded the department for vaccination. In 2005, in the aftermath of given $130,000 and former Playboy model Manmohan Singh Luthra was born on Gastroenterology and Endoscopy and served Katrina, he volunteered with other Karen McDougal was paid $150,000. September 8,1936 in the village of Mandi as the hospital's representative to the Rotarians and Habitat for Humanity to build Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in August to eight Bahauldin, Pakistan. He was the firstborn Pennsylvania Medical Society. Manmohan houses in Biloxi, Mississippi. criminal charges including tax evasion, bank child of Sardar Gopal Singh Luthra and worked with many elderly patients and Manmohan understood what his Sikh fraud and campaign finance violations. Sardarni Lakshmi Kaur Luthra. would often make for house calls, a service faith required of its adherents i.e., public Mr. Trump in October said that Mr. Manmohan was especially devoted to the rarely seen in America. service of humanitarian causes. He served Cohen's testimony was "totally false" and he causes of the Sikh community. He became In 1987 Dr. Luthra was honored by the the United Way of Western Westmoreland minimizedMr. Cohen's role working for him, the founding trustees of the Tri State Sikh State Senate of Pennsylvania USA for his County as its Chairman. He served on the describing him as "a PR person who did small Cultural Society towards building the Sikh service as a physician, administrator, and board of the University of Pennsylvania, legal work." Mr. Cohen left the courthouse Gurdwara of Pittsburgh. volunteer. New Kensington campus, and as the director without speaking to reporters. (Agencies) From 1977-1984, Manmohan helped Manmohan was a leader in the Rotary of the New Kensington YMCA. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 SOUTH ASIA 5 Lankan Navy sinks Sri Lanka parliament set to cut Tamil Nadu fishermen’s ministers’ salaries, travel expenses boat, arrests four Rameswaram (TIP): The Sri Lankan Navy COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s parliament allegedly sunk a boat belonging to fishermen on November 30 was set to pass a motion hailing from Rameswaram, while they were cutting ministers’ salaries and travel fishing near Katchateevu and arrested four of expenses, but it was unclear how the move them, the police said on Nov 29. would impact the disputed government of The naval personnel chased the fishermen Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa whose away and allegedly rammed their vessel into ministers boycotted the vote. the fishermen’s late Wednesday night and The South Asian island has been locked in took four of them away to the island nation, political gridlock for over a month since they said. President Maithripala Sirisena replaced The personnel damaged the fishing nets former Prime Minister Ranil and took away the GPS equipment, police Wickremesinghe with Rajapaksa, who was added. (PTI) then twice sacked by parliament but has refused to resign. Attack on UK security Foreign countries have yet to recognise the new government. group compound in Rajapaksa loyalists boycotted a vote on Thursday to cut the Prime Minister’s budget, Kabul, 10 dead which passed 123 to none in the 225-member parliament, arguing the motion was invalid Kabul (TIP): At least 10 people were killed due to ongoing legal reviews of the and 19 were wounded in an attack on a president’s actions. to law.” the vote, declaring it illegal and calling into compound of the British security group G4S “Secretaries to any and all ministries have Friday’s session began at 0500 GMT and question the impartiality of the speaker. in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, a no authority to approve any payment…for the discussion of the motion was under way. “The motion today presented is illegal and health ministry spokesman said. An interior salaries…of Ministers, State Ministers, But one senior civil servant from a we have mentioned it to the speaker too. We ministry official said an unknown number of Deputy Ministers and their personal staff and government ministry, speaking to Reuters on will not attend such illegal motions,” Anura gunmen had entered the compound after a are also prohibited from defraying expenses condition of anonymity, said it was unclear Priyadharshana Yapa, a minister in car bomb exploded near the facility and were incurred in foreign travel, internal air travel how the motion would have practical impact Rajapaksa’s disputed government, told battling security forces. including use of helicopters,” an order paper because there were questions over whether reporters before the proceedings started. The explosion came only hours after detailing a motion for Friday’s session read. due process had been followed. Rajapaksa presided over a government Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told a UN- “Any person taking any action in violation In a repeat of Thursday’s actions, victory over Tamil rebels in 2009, ending a sponsored conference in Geneva of plans to of this resolution will be dealt with according Rajapaksa loyalists said they would not attend bloody 26-year civil war. (AP) seek a peace agreement with the Taliban. As efforts to open peace talks with the Taliban have picked up following the appointment of US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, there has been no China Sends Stern Message to slackening in the violence which kills thousands of people in Afghanistan every year. Pakistan With Map Depicting PoK Three US service members were killed close to the central city of Ghazni on Tuesday and at least 30 Afghan civilians were killed in a US air strike overnight, officials and local as Part of India For First Time residents said. (Reuters) NEW DELHI / ISLAMABAD / BEIJING China’s militaries on December 10. Observers, At Site of Rohingya (TIP): : China’s state-run CGTN Television however, warned that this one-off deviation excluded Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK) from from the norm should not be seen as a change Massacre, Burmese Pakistan’s map for the first time ever while it in China’s official policy, the TOI said. reported on last Friday’s terror attack on its Excluding PoK from Pakistan on the map Villagers Wary of Press consulate in Karachi. could also have implications for the China- As it is highly unlikely that a state-run Pakistan Economic-Corridor (CPEC), against INN DIN, RAKHINE STATE, television would ever defy Beijing, sources which New Delhi has often voiced strong MYANMAR (TIP): Kyaw Soe Moe, the head said that it was a move by China to signal to reservations as it passes through PoK and man of Inn Din village in northern Rakhine Pakistan its strong displeasure to Pakistan for violates India’s sovereignty. state best known as the site of a massacre of its failure to protect its citizens. The CPEC is the most important 10 Muslim men and boys by their Buddhist It is not known if this was a deliberate connectivity link under China’s Belt and Road neighbors and the Burmese military, isn’t move by China, but according to the Times of considering policy changes in the domestic Initiative (BRI). China had invested heavily in much inclined to speak with the press. India, the CGTN uses fixed templates for maps and international spheres, and excluding PoK infrastructure projects in PoK. That “incident” is all the press wants to and production staff are not allowed to tinker from Pakistan was another such move to Officially released maps in China have discuss Kyaw Soe Moe implied, who refers to with them. So the decision to use a different gauge Pakistani response. Islamabad has not never before shown PoK as part of India. Rohingya as “Kalar”, which is a usual way of map to report on the consulate attack must yet reacted to the broadcast. Maps are a sensitive issue in China and hence describing all Muslims by most Myanmar have come from higher authorities. The timing of the move also assumes books or magazines showing maps that differ people. “I was not even here. I arrived here Beijing often uses state-run media as test significance as it comes just two weeks ahead from Beijing’s official view are often blocked. only after the incident. I became the village balloons to consider reactions before of the joint drill to be conducted by India and (Times of India) head something like 10 months ago, so I did not have any knowledge [of it].” “Recently, a media group came down here, Track-laying begins on new rail route to Tibet and they asked me about that incident. But when I asked them, ‘Did you know about the GONGGAR COUNTY (TIP): Work on the impossible. The new rail artery on top of the mountains that lie between the two cities, death of U Maung Nein (who was one of the new rail line to Tibet – one of the most existing Qinghai-Tibet Railway will link with an elevation difference of more than villagers allegedly killed by Muslims and it difficult in the world to build because of the Lhasa to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan 3,000 meters. Purpose-built trains with was kind of the spark which led to the killing altitude and terrain – is proceeding as province some three kilometers lower in pressurized pure oxygen outlets throughout of 10 Muslims)? Do you know Hindu villagers engineers and laborers brave the cold and altitude in a basin east of the Tibetan Plateau. the passenger compartments will ply the were killed?’ Those media groups did not race against time. Beijing has earmarked the new project, as route to the alpine region at a speed of 100 even know about those incidents. Even if Track-laying has already started on the well as future lines to connect Lhasa with km/h. Chinese engineers face many they didn’t know about the death of U Maung Yarlung Zangbo River bridge on the Lhasa- Kunming and Ürümqi, the capitals of Yunnan challenges, ranging from permafrost and Nein, they should know about the killing of Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet province and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous sandstorms to mountain forests, but they can Hindus.” Four Reuters reporters revealed Railway in Tibet’s Gonggar County. Workers Region respectively, in a bid to open up an draw on their experience from building the details of the September 2, 2017 attack earlier and engineers with the state-owned China economic backwater and cement its control of impressive 2,000-kilometer Qinghai-Tibet this year. Tied together, the Rohingya, Railway Construction Corp are braving the the region with better connectivity. railway, which was opened in 2006. Because of members of the Muslim minority, watched cold and racing against time to finish all the A fully electrified heavy rail link, the its elevation and difficult terrain, Tibet was their neighbors dig a grave before eight were work on the section before the snow and the Sichuan-Tibet Railway will have to cut the last provincial-level region to gain a rail shot by Myanmar troops, according to the Himalayan cold currents make their job through the swamps, rugged gorges and system. (Asia Times) Reuters report. (VOANEWS) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 INDIA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

FOR BETTER TIES WITH INDIA, ROW OVER PIC WITH ‘KHALISTANI SEPARATIST’ PAKISTAN NEEDS TO BE A SECULAR STATE: ARMY CHIEF Many photos taken, don’t

PUNE (TIP): Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said in Pune on Friday that Pakistan know who is Chawla or needs to be a secular state to have better ties with India, reports ANI. “Pakistan has made its state Cheema among them: Sidhu an Islamic State. If they have to stay together with India, then AMRITSAR (TIP): Punjab minister they have to develop as a secular Navjot Singh Sidhu Thursday played state. If they’re willing to down his appearance in a photograph become secular like us, then they with a “pro-Khalistan” leader in seem to have an opportunity.” Rawat said at a function to Pakistan even as the opposition Akali review the passing out parade of 135th course of the Dal asked if India remained his priority. National Defence Academy in Pune. He came under a sharp attack from The observation comes amid Pakistan expressing an Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir inclination for greater engagement, most of which came in Singh Badal after a picture from the the wake of the two nations deciding to build a corridor for groundbreaking ceremony in Pakistan Sikh pilgrims from India to visit the Kartarpur shrine in for the Kartarpur corridor showed him Pakistan. with “separatist” Gopal Singh Chawla. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan acknowledged on Chawla, who is the general secretary Thursday it was not in the country’s interest to allow its soil of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak to be used for terrorism and said he was prepared to talk to Committee (PSGPC) and is known to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at “any time”. speak for “Khalistan”, had shared the purported picture on his Facebook page. Sidhu returned home Thursday after EX-SECRETARY HC GUPTA attending the groundbreaking ceremony Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has thanked his friend for a visa-free corridor which will allow Prime Minister Imran Kan from the entire Sikh Community over Kartarpur corridor. HELD GUILTY OF CORRUPTION Sikh pilgrims access from Gurdaspur’s Dera Baba Nanak to the shrine in Gopal Singh Chawla was also seen party in Pakistan by making Sidhu the IN COAL SCAM CASE Kartarpur, where Guru Nanak Dev shaking hands with Pakistan Army head of the its unit in Pakistan’s Punjab. spent his final years. chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the However, Congress MLA Raj Kumar NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi The minister said he had posed with Kartarpur ceremony. Verka defended Sidhu. court on Friday held coal ex- several people and it was difficult to “There was a link between Gopal “I feel Sukhbir Badal, the Badal secretary HC Gupta guilty of distinguish them. Chawla and a terrorist attack that took family and the BJP are suffering from corruption and criminal “They showered so much love there. place in Amritsar which is his (Sidhu’s) Sidhu phobia. I think they chant Sidhu’s conspiracy in a coal scam case Every day ten thousands pictures were constituency,” SAD president Sukhbir name more than Baba Nanak Dev’s,” he relating to allotment of coal clicked, and among them who was Singh Badal said Thursday, referring to said. blocks in West Bengal. Chawla or Cheema I do not know,” he the grenade blast at Nirankari Bhavan Verka said Shiromani Gurdwara Besides Gupta, Special CBI told reporters in Attari on his return. which killed three people earlier this Prabandhak Committee chief Gobind Judge Bharat Parashar also Sidhu had received flak for attending month. Singh Longowal too had clicked a convicted private firm Vikash the ceremony in his “personal” capacity, “If he shakes hands with him or does picture with Chawla at the same event, Metals and Power Limited, one even after being advised against it by something with him, then Sidhu has to despite knowing his antecedents. serving and one retired public Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder answer in order to make clear whether “Sidhu does not even know about servant—ex-joint secretary in Ministry of Coal (MoC) KS Singh. the country or something else is his Chawla,” Verka claimed. Kropha and the then director (CA-I) in MoC, KC Samria—in He said the hopes of 12 crore followers priority,” he added. Verka asked whether Badal would the case. The court also convicted the firm’s managing of Guru Nanak Dev had turned into Badal said Sidhu should know that now seek Longowal’s resignation as director Vikash Patni and its authorised signatory Anand reality with the “historic decision” by Pakistan is involved in sending drugs to SGPC chief. Mallick in the case. India and Pakistan to build the corridor. Punjab. “It is General Bajwa who is Meanwhile, former Delhi Sikh The case pertains to the alleged irregularities in “The thaw has begun and the ice is behind killing our youth with whom he Gurdwara Management Committee allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal melting,” he said at the press briefing, shakes hands,” he said, Badal said, chief Paramjit Singh Sarna, who also blocks in West Bengal to VMPL. In September 2012, the CBI where he appeared with Saurabh apparently referring to an earlier row attended the Kartarpur event, claimed had registered an FIR in the case. Madan, the organiser of a Dussehra over the Pakistan army chief hugging that Sidhu had avoided Chawla several All five convicted persons were taken in custody by the event in Amritsar where about 60 people the Punjab politician. times. court which fixed December 3 for arguments on the were mowed down by a train last month. Taking a swipe at Congress president, “But he managed to get a picture quantum of punishment. The convicts may get a maximum “I returned after connecting hearts in the SAD chief said Rahul Gandhi has a clicked with him,” Sarna said in Attari. seven-year jail term. Source: PTI the two Punjabs,” Sidhu said. “very good opportunity” to expand his Source: PTI Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram spar over GDP revision

MUMBAI (TIP): Finance minister Arun Jaitley on moved to a new way of calculating GDP,showed the compound Thursday sprang to the defence of revised data showing annual growth rate in GDP at market prices (2011-12 series) economic growth under the National Democratic Alliance under the Narendra Modi government was 7.3% between 2014- (NDA) government had outpaced the rate of expansion 15 and 2017-18, higher than the 6.7% and 6.4% in the two terms during the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) of the UPA under Manmohan Singh. “ Obviously, when the regime after his predecessor P Chidambaram slammed the new (GDP) series is in place, it has to be used as a basis for new numbers as “a joke, bad joke and worse than a bad joke.” backward revision. So what was revised from the year 2011-12 Meanwhile, Chidambaram’s challenge to NITI Aayog’s onwards is now being revised from 2004-05. vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar to debate the amended data, Consequently, the same basis which improved the growth which was released at a press conference on Wednesday by estimate in the last two years of the UPA Government the federal policy think tank and the Central Statistics Office, somewhat downgraded it in the earlier years. Those who took was accepted by the latter. after the new series in 2015 now consider the new series to be “Data based on facts and on the best global practices is a “hatchet job” and a “bad joke”. What humours some when rejected by the (Congress) Party because it takes away the last data shows an upward trend depresses them if it moves in the of its surviving arguments (that) “my GDP growth was reverse direction,” Jaitley wrote. He defended the CSO, higher than yours,” Jaitley wrote in a Facebook blog titled 2012-13, and 2013-14, growth was revised upwards, from 4.7% saying it had always functioned objectively and maintained ‘When The Data Speaks.’ to an eventual 5.5% and from 5% to 6.4%, respectively. an arms-length distance from the finance ministry.”No one in Jaitley noted that Chidambaram had in 2015 welcomed Chidambaram said then that the new data establishes the India has ever imputed motives to the CSO. The sooner the changes effected in the way growth in gross domestic fact that UPA had succeeded in reviving the economy before Congress Party realises that its policy paralysis pushed India product, or the value of economic output, is calculated. it bowed out of power in 2014. into the Fragile 5, the better it will be for the Party and its For the last two years of the Congress-led UPA regime, in Data released on Wednesday, almost four years after India leadership.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 INDIA 7

ISRO LAUNCHES PSLV-C43 HC upholds conviction of WITH COUNTRY'S HYSIS, 30 FOREIGN SATELLITES 70 in 1984 riots case SRIHARIKOTA (TIP): Indian rocket Polar Satellite NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi High Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted Court on Wednesday upheld the off successfully from conviction of 70 of the 89 persons Sriharikota on Thursday with awarded a five-year jail term by a trial the country's Hyper Spectral court for rioting, burning houses and Imaging Satellite (HysIS) -- an violating curfew in East Delhi’s earth observation satellite -- Trilokpuri area during the 1984 anti- and 30 other foreign satellites. Sikh riots. The PSLV-CA (Core Alone) Sixteen of the remaining 19 persons version (without its usual died during pendency of appeals against strap-on motors), standing 44.4 the trial court’s August 27, 1996, verdict. metres tall and weighing about The appeals of the remaining three were 230 tonne, took off at 9.58 a.m. dismissed after they absconded. Justice from the first launch pad in RK Gauba asked the convicts to Sriharikota, spewing thick surrender forthwith to serve their orange flame. remaining prison terms. The PSLV rocket -- a four stage launch vehicle with The court noted that the anti-Sikh alternating solid and liquid stages/engines -- had the 380 kg riots were a “dark chapter” in the HysIS and 30 others together weighing 261.5 kg as its history of independent India. “The luggage. police force and the civil administration the police did not promptly register the for further action... The large-scale According to the Indian Space Research Organisation did not take timely or effective action to crimes and collect evidence and the rioting, mob violence, arson, plunder, (ISRO), the entire mission will be completed in about 112 prevent the riotous conditions from other agencies, including the genocide and looting has been duly minutes after the rocket's lift off. spiralling out of hand. The criminal law prosecution and the trial court, “failed proved and established... the judgment Sixteen minutes into the flight, the rocket's fourth process began but hesitatingly and to rise to the occasion”. of the trial court must be upheld.” stage/engine will be switched off. belatedly. Justice Gauba noted that 95 bodies Dismissing the appeals of the convicts Just over 17 minutes into the flight, the PSLV rocket will “The fact that these cases have were recovered after the rioting, 22 of and cancelling their bail bonds, the place the HysIS satellite with a mission life span of five continued to linger on in courts at the which remained unidentified and it was court noted that after each communal years in 636 km polar sun synchronous orbit. stage of trial or appeals is itself an likely that no prosecution was initiated riot, there were allegations of political After that the rocket will be brought to a lower altitude of indicator of the reality that the response against anyone in respect of these influences being the root cause and 503 km from 642 km. of the law has been tardy,ineffective and deaths. “This court directs the therefore, there could be a need to The primary goal of HysIS is to study the earth's surface highly unsatisfactory.” Commissioner of Police, Delhi, to have “inject” a “sense of neutrality” in the in visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared regions of In its 79-page verdict, the court said the material and evidence re-examined investigative and prosecution process. the electromagnetic spectrum. It will also be used for strategic purposes. The co-passengers of HysIS include one micro and 29 nano satellites from eight different countries. All these Mocking his Italian lineage, BJP coins new satellites will be placed in a 504 km orbit. While 23 satellites are from the US, the rest are from Australia, Canada, Columbia, Finland, Malaysia, the ‘gotra’ for Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Netherlands and Spain. These satellites have been commercially contracted for LUCKNOW (TIP): The BJP coined a Nehru were Kaul Brahmins and launch through Antrix Corporation Limited, the new ‘gotra’ for Congress president residents of Kashmir. Kaul Brahmins in commercial arm of ISRO. Source: IANS Rahul Gandhi, mocking his Italian Kashmir have Dattatreya gotra. It was in lineage through his mother and party 1716 that his ancestor Pt Raj Kaul shifted VHP to hold pledge-taking leader Sonia Gandhi. to Delhi and lived in a house near a canal UP Bharatiya Janata Party chief (naher in Kashmiri). People started programs across country for Mahendra Nath Pandey called it “gotra calling them Nehru - those who live by Itlus”. This is the latest remark in the the nahar (canal). Later on they dropped construction of Ram Temple row over Gandhi’s gotra. Kaul and started using Nehru as the A priest at Pushkar lake in Rajasthan surname. LUCKNOW (TIP): Keen to maintain the momentum built recently said Gandhi gave out his gotra What was the religion of Rahul during the recent Dharam Sabha in Ayodhya, the Vishwa during a ritual as “Dattatreya”, who are Gandhi's grandfather, Feroze Gandhi? Hindu Parishad (VHP) now plans to hold programmes Kashmiri Brahmins. Several BJP supporters targeted Feroze Jehangir Ghandy, husband of across the country during which people would take oath to Some BJP leaders challenged the Rahul Gandhi to ask, "How can Rahul Indira Gandhi and grandfather of Rahul build a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya. “claim”, reminding that Gandhi’s Gandhi be from the Dattatreya gotra Gandhi was born on September 12, 1912, The week-long programme is likely to begin on Gita paternal grandfather was a Parsi, not a when his grandfather was not a Hindu? in a Parsi family in Tehmulji Nariman Jayanti on December 18 and will continue for a week. Hindu with a ‘gotra’. Pandey said that In Hindu tradition, one inherits his hospital in Mumbai. As per the “In days to come, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad would be Gandhi has “no gotra”, going by the gotra from his father." biography written by Swedish journalist holding pledge-taking programmes at various places in the traditional male lineage. What is gotra? Bertil Falk, 'Feroze - The Forgotten country.The pledge will be taken for construction of a grand “And if we take his gotra going by his Gandhi', his father was Jehangir Ram Temple in Ayodhya. This will begin on Gita Jayanti mother, it should be gotra Itlus,” he said. According to renowned historian AL Faredoon Ghandy, a marine engineer and will continue for almost a week. Apart from this we are Congress president Rahul Gandhi's Basham, the word gotra originates from from Bharuch, Gujarat. He was a holding Dharam Sabhas on a smaller scale in various parts gotra has taken centrestage in the cow-shed and first appeared in Atharva religious man from the Parsi of the country,” Secretary (organisation) of VHP’s Awadh political discourse amid assembly Veda. In his book 'The Wonder That Was community. Feroze's mother was praant (region) Bholendra told PTI on Thursday. elections in five states. India', Basham wrote, "All Brahmins Rattimai Commissariat from Surat, He said till December 18, smaller-scale Dharam Sabhas It all started when Rahul Gandhi went were believed to have descended from Gujarat. Feroze was her last and fifth would be held at the district level. to pray at the famous Pushkar temple in one of the rishis, or legendary seers, child. When he was just few months old, VHP spokesperson in Ayodhya, Sharad Sharma, said, “A Rajasthan during his campaigning on after whom the gotras were named." his aunt, Rattimai's sister Shirin similar programme is scheduled to be held in Delhi on Monday. The priest who performed the According to Basham, marriages within Commissariat adopted her. Shirin, who December 9 in which over 5 lakh people are likely to turn up. rituals, said, "Rahul Gandhi said that his the same gotra are forbidden because was a doctor and lived in Allahabad, did Then on January 31 and February 1, we are going to gotra is Dattatreya. Dattatreya are Kauls people from same gotra are considered not marry but brought up Feroze like organise a Dharam Sansad in Prayagraj in which more than and Kauls are Kashmiri Brahmins." to have descended from same ancestors. her son. 5,000 seers from across the country are likely to participate. Soon after this revelation, BJP leaders According to Sociologist Chandan According to historian Ramchandra Seers from southern states and north-eastern states have and supporters began to take potshots at Kumar Sharma, of Tezpur Central Guha's account in his book 'India After been specifically invited.” The Dharam Sansad will the Congress president questioning his University, the gotra system is Gandhi', Feroze changed the spelling of deliberate on various issues, including the Ram Temple, cow gotra. traditionally "Brahminical and follows his surname from Ghandy to Gandhi and the Ganga. “Social harmony will be another issue on Union minister Giriraj Singh tweeted patriarchal system". "So one gets his after joining the Independence which detailed discussions will be held,” Sharma said. a clipping from the Bollywood film 'Jolly gotra from his father and not mother." movement as he was inspired by “Through the Dharam Sabha, we were able to send a LLB', where a Muslim faking as a How Nehrus got there surname Mahatma Gandhi. However, many message that the Hindu society wants a grand Ram Temple Brahmin priest is caught lying when people believe that he was somehow in Ayodhya,” Sharma said, adding that roadmap for the next asked about his gotra. Thousands of and what is their gotra? related to Mahatma Gandhi, which is not course of action would be finalised during 2019 Kumbh in people shared and reacted to this tweet. The ancestors of Pandit Moti Lal true. Prayagraj. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

AS I SEE IT GUEST COMMENT Having Messed Up Economy, Imran Khan's Team Modi Wants RBI Bail-Out overtures: Can India's central bank has often been made the Kartarpur scapegoat when the economy has slowed By Aunindyo down. Successive governments have wanted corridor be a Chakravarty “ the RBI to stimulate the economy through easy harbinger for hen Viral Acharya, RBI's outspoken Deputy Governor, batted for RBI's money policies. We all know what easy credit flows improved ties? Windependence, he made one PR mistake that only a technocrat would: he during the UPA years did to India's government akistan Prime Minister Imran warned that governments that do not respect Khan would have set the pigeons central bank independence "incur the wrath banks. Now, it seems, the Modi government also Paflutter at South Block by his of financial markets". This made the RBI's offer for talks with PM Modi. More critics ask the question - is our central bank crucial for India's stance of "terror and working for the people of India - especially the wants to take this easy route.", says the author. talks cannot go together", Imran 6.7 crore small businesses which employ over conceded that it was not in Pakistan's 11 crore people - or just the affluent 2% who its de-facto chief economist, S Gurumurthy - has about 9.6 lakh crores in reserves. interests to allow the use of its territory invest in the markets? Why is the RBI, which an ardent defender of demonetization - Raghuram Rajan, former RBI chief, had for terror activities in other countries. is loath to accept government control, so admitted in a recent speech that "(it is the claimed this level is necessary for the central "The mindset of the people has unquestioning when it comes to accepting the MSME sector which was hit by both bank to manage money supply,balance India's changed," he tried to convince skeptical diktats of international finance? demonetization as well as GST. It is this sector foreign currency needs and ring-fence itself Indian journalists. The ball is now in Such questions have great political which has been robbed of credit." in case of an economic crisis. India's court after it treated Pakistan's resonance, especially at a time when India's Arvind Subramanian, the former Chief earlier quest to utilizethe Kartarpur micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs) Economic Advisor, however, repeatedly corridor with suspicion as it sought a are finding it very tough to get loans. No argued that RBI's reserves are far higher than reset by glossing over past terror strikes wonder, RBI's biggest critic, S Gurumurthy - that of other countries. If the RBI were to in India that were incubated on its soil. the political appointee on its board - has bring down its reserves as a percentage of its Imran Khan's call for amity and détente publicly blamed the regulator's tough balance sheet to a number closer to the sounds more sincere with a reference to prudential norms for the slowdown in global mean, it would be able to give back India's bugbear - cross-border MSME credit. 3.5-4 lakh crores to its sole share-holder terrorism. RBI's own data shows that bank - the government of India. That would But there were adverse signals both lending to MSME sector has dropped be a one-time windfall, equal to about from the presence of separatists at the from 4.2% of GDP in 2013-14 to just 15% of the total expenditure ceremony and the Sikhs for Justice 2.8% of GDP in 2017-18. Small estimated in the budget for 2018-19. (SFJ) announcing plans for a pro- businesses have had to turn to Non- It is 55-65% of the fiscal deficit. It Khalistan convention in Pakistan. Such Banking Financial Companies can fund this year's MGNREGA 7-8 provocations, even if of figurative (NBFCs) for funds. Since the IL&FS time over. It can fund 11-12 National importance, feed into the apprehensions crisis, even that has dried out, Health Missions and 20 Swachh of the Indian security establishment, because NBFCs themselves aren't Bharat Missions. It can generously rendering them reluctant partners in a being able to raise funds. recapitalize India's banks, without peace initiative. While Imran has tried In an election year, this can be them having to raise funds from the hard to cast Pakistan in global eyes as a disastrous for the BJP,which has been markets. harbinger of peace, his admission about steadfastly supported by small But the trouble is that most of RBI's terror launch pads in Pakistan goes entrepreneurs. In many cases, they form reserves are actually accounting entries only a small distance to address the the backbone of the party's local units. The caused by the revaluation of its foreign angst of substantial political Modi government needs to quickly address currency assets and gold reserves. As the constituency here that perceives their problems. rupee value of foreign currency assets and Pakistan as an exporter of terror. After November 19 marathon 9-hour board gold has gone up, the RBI has had to add to its The unanimity among all the major meet, the RBI has capitulated on that key foreign currency reserves to deal with players in Pakistan on improving ties political issue - recasting loans to small another 2008-type global financial crisis. The with India, as Imran claims, should be businesses. Loans given to MSMEs up to 25 Having engendered the crisis, the RBI's actual usable reserves - its contingency reflected in bringing to book the crores can now be restructured which means government now wants the RBI to solve it. Its reserves - are just 2.3 lakh crore, an amount masterminds of the Mumbai, Uri and MSMEs will find it easier to get loans again. great resolve to clean India's NPA-ridden that has grown just 5% in the past five years. Pathankot attacks, the actual cause for But why do small businesses need their loans banking system has been put on the Therefore, the RBI has very little to give to the the strain. The Sikh community's to be restructured? GDP data tells us that backburner now that elections are just a few government without creating a potentially happiness over the development of the India is the fastest-growing economy in the months away. Admittedly, MSMEs account for unstable situation for itself. corridor cannot escape the overarching world. Shouldn't such high-growth have made less than 8% of the 10.3 lakh crores of NPAs, India's central bank has often been made the political context. The ease of passage of it easy for entrepreneurs to earn high profits but as of June 2018, over 15% of loans given to scapegoat when the economy has slowed pilgrims to the shrine will always be an and pay back their loans on time? Clearly, MSMEs by public sector banks had gone bad. down. Successive governments have wanted adjunct of the state of play in bilateral whatever our headline growth numbers might Easing norms could lead to a new MSME- the RBI to stimulate the economy through easy ties. Imran is playing for the long haul be saying, things aren't good on the ground. driven NPA crisis. money policies. We all know what easy credit as is apparent from his readiness to wait What caused this? Most observers agree it The Modi government knows giving relief flows during the UPA years did to India's for reciprocation till the general was because of the twin blows of to small businesses will not be enough - it has government banks. Now, it seems, the Modi elections here are over. Besides demonetization and GST. The Modi regime's to boost public spending to improve farm government also wants to take this easy route. bringing spiritual solace and fulfilment claims that millions of small businesses have incomes, write off farmer loans and generate (The author was Senior Managing Editor of to lakhs of Sikhs, the corridor can well got substantial Mudra loans has also been rural jobs. That will be tough, given its fiscal NDTV's Hindi and Business news be a new path to peace. questioned by pundits and critics. The deficit target. And that is why the government channels. He now anchors Simple government, of course, has denied this. But is eyeing RBI's reserves. India's central bank (Tribune, India) Samachar on NDTV India.) THE INDIAN PANORAMA PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. 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en years ago on November 26, Pakistan carried out one of the most heinous of Tterror attacks perpetrated anywhere in the world. The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, named after the date in 2008 when the attack By M.K. Narayanan took place, is in some respects comparable to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the U.S. Comparisons with the Madrid train bombings in 2004 and the London bombings in 2005 are, however, misplaced. India, and Mumbai city, are no strangers to terror. In 1993, over 250 people were killed in Mumbai in a series of coordinated bomb explosions attributed to Dawood Ibrahim, reportedly as reprisal for the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In July 2006, bomb explosions in a number of suburban trains in Notwithstanding Mumbai killed over 200 people and injured several more. The most audacious terror increased vigil and attack till the 26/11 Mumbai terror incident was the attack on the Indian Parliament in streamlining of the 2001 by the Pakistan-based terror outfits, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e- Mohammed (JeM). The attacks, one of the worst in the history of India, saw Indian political parties come together in a rare gesture, with the entire country and indeed the world shocked at the audacity of a counter-terrorism Terrorism is hardly a post-modern handful of young men who kept the world's largest democracy hostage for more than 72 hours. phenomenon. Several of the terror attacks in In the wake of the terror attack, several steps were initiated to streamline the security set-up. apparatus, the ground the 21st century, however, reflect a paradigmatic change in the tactics of (File photo of Hotel Taj in Mumbai) reality is that newer asymmetric warfare, and the practice of violence. Today's attacks carried out in training in swimming and sailing - all under Shah's computer, and possibly had far more methodologies, newer different corners of the world by al-Qaeda and the watchful eyes of Pakistani instructors details of the operation than were actually its affiliates, the Islamic State, al-Shabaab, from the Special Forces. An even more shared with Indian intelligence. concepts more daringly and similar terror outfits, are very different unusual feature of the Mumbai attacks was Streamlining security from those witnessed in the previous century. the involvement of two U.S./Canadian The tactics employed may vary, but the nationals of Pakistani origin, David Headley In the wake of the terror attack, several executed, and more objective is common, viz. achieving mass (who at the time was a LeT operative) and steps were initiated to streamline the security casualties and widespread destruction. Tahawwur Hussain Rana. The 10 attackers set-up. Coastal security was given high deeply laid plans of The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was one of came via the sea from Karachi in a small boat, priority, and it is with the Navy/Coast a kind, and not a mere variant of previous hijacked an Indian fishing trawler en route, Guard/marine police. A specialized agency to terrorist groups have instances of terrorist violence. It was the and reached Colaba in a rubber dinghy on deal with terrorist offences, the National rarest of rare cases, where one state's November 26 evening. Investigation Agency,was set up and has been made the world a less resources, viz. Pakistan's, were employed to Horror over four days functioning from January 2009. The National carry out a series of terror attacks in a major Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) has been Indian city. It was a case of 'war by other The targets were carefully chosen after constituted to create an appropriate database safe place. The actual means', in which the authorities in Pakistan, having been reconnoitered previously by of security related information. Four new the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, Headley for maximum impact, viz. the Taj and operational hubs for the NSG have been number of terror attacks the Pakistani armed forces, were involved. It Oberoi Hotels, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj created to ensure rapid response to terror is difficult to recall any recorded instance in Terminus, the Jewish center at Nariman attacks. The Multi Agency Centre, which may have declined in modern times where a state and its various House, and the Leopold Cafe, since these functions under the Intelligence Bureau, was agencies were directly involved in carrying places were frequented by Europeans, Indians further strengthened and its activities recent years, but this out a terror attack of this nature. As is now and Jews. The Mumbai terror attack went on expanded. The Navy constituted a Joint known, the Mumbai terror attack was not for nearly four days, from the evening of Operations Centre to keep vigil over India's does not mean that the based on a sudden impulse or whim. Several November 26 to the morning of November 29. extended coastline. years of planning and preparation had Seldom has a terrorist incident lasted this Notwithstanding increased vigil and preceded the attack, even as the Pakistani length of time, since the Munich Olympics streamlining of the counter-terrorism situation is better than President, Pervez Musharraf, was talking massacre in 1972. apparatus, the ground reality is that newer peace with then Indian Prime Minister, From an Indian standpoint, it was perhaps methodologies, newer concepts more daringly what existed a decade Manmohan Singh. for the first time that an operation of this executed, and more deeply laid plans of The degree of involvement of the Pakistani nature involved Rapid Action Force terrorist groups have made the world a less ago. Terrorism remains a deep state in the planning and preparation of personnel, Marine Commandos (MARCOS), safe place. The actual number of terror the attack is evident from many aspects that the National Security Guard (NSG) and the attacks may have declined in recent years, but major threat, and with have come to light subsequently. Seldom has Mumbai Police. this does not mean that the situation is better any terrorist group then, or for that matter It was inevitable that there should be a than what existed a decade ago. Terrorism even now, used such highly sophisticated, great deal of recrimination in the wake of remains a major threat, and with modern modern refinements, state-of-the-art communications, including terror attack. The principal charge was that refinements, new terrorist methodologies and Voice over Internet Protocol. Planning for the the security establishment had failed to terrorism mutating into a global franchise, new terrorist attack involved the use of a third country anticipate an attack of this nature and was the threat potential has become greater. address. Handlers in Pakistan were given not adequately prepared to deal with the One new variant is the concept of 'enabled methodologies and unfettered freedom to provide instructions to situation. In retrospect, it has to be recognized terror' or 'remote controlled terror', viz. the terrorists during the entire four-day siege. that the Mumbai terror attack was an violence conceived and guided by a controller terrorism mutating into a The choice of the sea route aimed at deception unprecedented exercise in violence, involving thousands of miles away. Today the 'lone wolf' and avoiding detection, was again dictated by not merely a well-trained terrorist group, but is, more often than not, part of a remote- global franchise, the official agencies. also backed by the resources of a state, viz. controlled initiative, with a controller The involvement of the Pakistani Special Pakistan. Till then, the Pakistani state was choosing the target, the nature of the attack Forces in preparing the 10-member fidayeen only known to harbor terrorist groups like the and even the weaponry to be used. Internet- threat potential has group was confirmed by one of the LeT and the JeM, and use terror as an enabled terrorism and resort to remote conspirators, Abu Hamza, arrested instrumentality to create problems for India. plotting is thus the new threat. Operating become greater. subsequent to the 26/11 terror attack. The Secrecy was the very essence of this behind a wall of anonymity, random terror is training regimen dictated by the Pakistani operation. Plans were limited to a mere likely to become the new terror imperative. Special Forces involved psychological handful of persons. In the LeT hierarchy,apart There are no ready-made answers to this new indoctrination by highlighting atrocities on from Hafiz Sayeed, only a few like Zakiur threat. Vigilance is important, but remaining Muslims in India and other parts of the globe, Rehman Lakhvi, its chief military commander, ahead of the curve is even more vital. including Chechnya and Palestine; basic and Sajid Mir and Zarar Shah, its communications (The author is a former National advanced combat training; commando chief, were privy to the operational plans. U.S. Security Adviser and a former training; training in weapons and explosives; intelligence is said to have penetrated Zarar Governor of West Bengal) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 LITERATURE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

A segment of audience Jashn-e-Rekhta in North America: Sanjiv Saraf announces at the 44th Annual Mushaira of the Aligarh Alumni Association, Washington DC

BY ZAFAR IQBAL, PH.D. serving Urdu language and literature through including the United States. mushaira as host-poets to listen to the is a language that Rekhta.org that has digitized copies of more The Aligarh Alumni Association, overseas guest poets. This year's invited poets binds people of the than 30,000 books of Urdu writers and poets Washington DC started the tradition of were Dr. Salman Akhtar, Mr. Khushbir Singh UrduSubcontinent on its website. The Rekhta organization holds holding Mushaira more than four decades ago Shaad, Dr. Sabiha Saba, Dr. Nikhat Iftekhar, encompassing all religions and culture", said a 3-days annual Jashn-e-Rekhta in Delhi that and it is the oldest South-Asian cultural event Mr. Rehman Faris, Ms. Qania Ada Mr. Saud Sanjiv Saraf addressing the 44th Annual brings 30-40,000 people of all ages to the in Washington. Starting with a humble Usmani, Mr. HashmatSohail, Bina Goindi, Dr. Mushaira organized by the Aligarh Alumni program. Saraf, who learned Urdu because of beginning, it has achieved an international RaziRaziuddin, and Dr. A. Abdullah. Association (AAA), Washington DC on 11th his passion for the language, was very hopeful reputation. Almost all renowned and stalwart Welcoming the audience, Association's November 2018 in Silver Spring, Maryland. about the future of the language as the poets from the Subcontinent have participated President Dr. Rafat Husain briefly apprised Mr. Saraf, who is the founder of Rekhta.org, majority of the audiences coming to his in this annual event. Every year 5-6 poets from the gathering about the activities of the was the Chief Guest at the Washington AAA's Jashn-e-Rekhta are young between the ages of India, Pakistan, and other countries are Association. He mentioned that the annual event that attracts hundreds of Urdu 18-25 years and they represent all sections of invited for their participation. The time Association had been in the forefront of lovers from the Metro Washington area and the society. Addressing the audience at the constraints allow only a few local poets from organizing high-quality literary and cultural neighboring states every year. The Mushaira, he said that the Rekhta Foundation USA and Canada to recite their poetry, and a activities for the last 40+ years. His speech Association honored him with an award for was working out the details of holding similar big number of established poets such as was followed by a rendition of Aligarh his innovative approach and dedication to programs in the various parts of the world, Professor Satyapal Anand, come to the University Tarana, Yeh Mera Chaman Hai,

Poets on stage: Dr. Salman Akhtar, Dr. Nikhat Iftikhar, Dr. A. Abdullah, Mr. Rahman Faris, Mr. Saud Usmani, and Mr. Khushbir Singh Shaad (Faris reciting) COND ON PAGE 11 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 LITERATURE 11

COND FROM PAGE 10 Tu bhi hai khoob ae razzaq-e-do jahaN Deta pate kahaN ke ha aur rahta hai kahaN which written by a well-known Aligarian, MajazLakhnawi. More than 400 Urdu lovers Mard ke jism meiN haiN laakh rageiN hahi jazboN ka taana baana hai that included diverse sections of the Indo-Pak community came to this event. Aur sirf biwi hi janti hai yeh kaunsi rag ko kab In recognition of his innovative approach dabana hai and dedication to popularizing Urdu, the RaziRaziuddin is an academic research Association gave an award to Mr. Sanjiv Saraf. scientist by profession and has a passion for The Association also recognizes people with a poetry. Life-long Service Award for their dedicated Shaher junooN meiN jane kitne majnuN aashiq services to the Association. This year's award aye gaye went to Dr. Aftab Ansari. Jaan ki baazi dene vale daar par par hum hi A number of dignitaries, including Mr. paye gaye Imran Arshad, Counsellor (CA), Embassy of Pakistan, Washington DC, presidents and BEENA GOINDI members of the literary and academic MiTTi ka ek zarra tha sakit paDa hua associations such as The University of Teri nazar ne us ko sitara bana duya Karachi Alumni Association, The Association of Indian Muslims in America, Halqa-e-Arba- Bahut tabdiliyan hoti hain insanoN ki basti meiN e-Zauq, the Hyderabad Association of Washington Metropolitan Area, The Global Parinda koee dekha hai jo apna ghar badalta Organization of People of Indian Origin hai (GOPIO) Metro-Washington, The Hindi SAUD USMANI Nuzaira Azam interviewing Mr. Sanjiv Saraf Association, and The Center for Pluralism in Yeh dukh pahle kabhi jheyla nahiN tha Washington, DC. In his congratulatory note, Akela tha magar tanha nahiN tha Mr. Tariq Husain a senior executive of the World Bank, appreciated the masterful Hava se meri gahri dosti thi organization and conduct of the Mushaira. MeiN jab tak shaakh se Toota nahiN tha Mr. Saud Zafar, a regular patron of the Mushaira for over 30 years expressing his Nazim-e-Mushaira A. Abdullah, who is view said that the event was very good and statistician by training, but the passion for well organized. All the poets presented Urdu literature turned him into a poet and his exceptionally well poetry, especially Mr. poetry reflects observations of his Salman Akhtar, Rehman Faris, and surroundings. A portion of his recent nazm, NikhatIftikahr were very impressive. Dr. Tea Bag, is as follows: Navin C. Shah, a noted oncologist and InsaanoN ki asli rangat, unki aadat aur unke community leader was ecstatic listening to kirdaar ki the wonderful poetry and the excellent Khushboo se hum vaaqif tab hote haiN organization of the event. The mushaira was presided over by Mr. Jab voh vaqt ke khaulte paani meiN aa jaeN Khushbir Singh Shaad and skillfully Sadr-e-Mushaira Khushbir Singh Shaad, moderated by Dr. A. Abdullah, whose golden who mastered his poetry in Lucknow, touch has been a key factor in making the eloquently expressed his views on self-respect ambiance and effect of these mushairas that is far more basic for survival even in very memorable. "Forty plus years of untiring difficult times than positions of power. efforts by our Association and support of the Khushbir Singh Shaadbeing interviewed for Panjabi TV Vaqt ke rahte koee madava kar sakta tha community this Mushaira the embodiment of Koee to sitam akhir hum ne bhikiya ho gaa. QANIA ADA: Zakhm abhi nasoor tha, bhar sakta tha common heritage of all Urdu lovers in this Sirf shikwoN se kahani nahiN poori ho gi Mujhe zindagi samajh lo tumheiN muft mil area. It has become a reference for the gaee hooN Phir se vahi khamoshi hai neend ki Apne har zulm ki ginti bhi zaroori ho gi introduction of Washington in the Urdu BaDe imtihan diye haiN main chita meiN DeevaroN se kitni baateiN kar sakta tha world. Preservation of the prestige of this Voh ek ghar ki jahaN umr kaTni thi hameiN jalmari hooN Ab andheroN meiN khaufzada baiThe haiN Mushaira is the responsibility of everyone," Lagi hai umr vahi ek ghar banana meiN Bringing in another viewpoint about trials he added. and tribulation of life, Rahman Farris Kiya khud hi chiraghoN ko bujha baiThe haiN Kuchh saleeqe bunyiadi dosti meiN kaafi haiN This year, the organizers made a new expressed them in his poetry. Bus yahi soch ke taskeen si ho jaati hai beginning by organizing the event in the early Char paanch log zindagi meiN kaafi haiN Ishq TooTa to istikhara kiya Aur kuchh log bhi duniya se khafa baiThe haiN afternoon of Sunday, instead of the usual Nikhat Iftikhar's scintillating poetry evenings. This was appreciated especially by echoed the sentiments of the current #MeToo Aur phir ishq hi dobaara kiya Samandar yeh teri khamoshiyaN kuchh aur kahti haiN the seasoned Mushaira-lovers who have been movement when she challenged the mindsets MaiN to mahfil se uThne wala tha Magar ssahil pe TooTi kashtiyan kuchh aur kahti religiously coming to it for decades. of powerful men who look at women Phir kisi aankhne ishaar akiya Glimpses of the poetry recited at the primarily from a sensual angle and who think haiN Jab khizan aye to patte na samar bachta hai Mushaira. that they have the God-given right to make Hamari aankhoN ne manzar kuchh aur dekha tha Khali jholi liyae veeran shajar bachta hai Salman Akhtar, who has heritage of Urdu decisions about women in most situations. Magar akhbaar ki yeh surkhiyan kuchh aur kahti poetry for several generation and an Standard satirical and hilarious poetry is Hairat to yeh hai kijis se maiN kuchh mangti haiN internationally-acknowledged poet in his own very difficult to write and HashmatSohail has nahiN Hum ahl-e-shaher ki khwahishki mil jul ke raheN right and a practicing psychiatrist, impressed mastered this art. Who kah raha hai aur koee dur talash kar the audience with his poetry. Lekina meer-e-shaer ki dilchapiaN kuchh aur Paise jo mile faqeer koek dam jo is qadar Rah-e-vafa meiN hosh-o-khirad eik azaab hai kahti haiN DoosroN ki baton kuchh to sachraha ho gaa To bola voha asman ki janib sir uTha kar Sar baar-e-dosh koee paththar talash kar

Poets and volunteers Photos / Courtesy Dr. Rafat Husain and Mr. Afzal Usmani THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 ANUSHKA, VIRAT PLAN AUSTRALIA VACATION FOR FIRST WEDDING ANNIV

nushka Sharma and Virat Kohli are about to reach a special milestone in Atheir relationship. The actor and cricketer celebrate their first wedding anniversary on December 11, and in the latest romantic gesture from the much talked-about couple, the two are planning to KATRINA, SALMAN escape to Australia for their special day. While Virat will be in playing in Australia GEAR UP FOR DELHI in December, Anushka will take time out from promoting her upcoming film, Zero, as SCHEDULE OF BHARAT she wants to spend quality time with her husband and is going out of her way to ollywood diva Katrina Kaif and Salman make their first wedding anniversary Khan are all geared up for the Delhi special. Bschedule of Ali Abbas Zafar directorial A DNA report quotes a friend of the Bharat. The actor wrapped up the Abu Dhabi couple as saying, “Anushka had planned shoot of the movie in October. Raising this trip months ago and the Zero team was temperatures, the 35-year-old shared a photo on aware that she would be taking a few days her Instagram handle, striking a pose with her off in December to celebrate this special hair-stylist as she got decked up to shoot for the moment. The Indian cricket team will play film in Delhi. against Australia and Anushka will join She wrote, “Delhi 4, Bharat.” The Bollywood hubby Virat for some days. She will fly back diva looked absolutely stunning with soft curls post the celebrations. Their hectic work and subtle make-up. Salman Khan’s pictures schedules can only permit them this time of from the sets of the film in Delhi were shared by togetherness.” his stylist Ashley Rebello. She captioned one of The friend added, “Shah Rukh Khan has the pictures, “Oho this @atulreellife has put up planned an extensive promotional the pic before me #photo by me. campaign with Anushka and she has given #bharat_thefilm , love this lookwithe the reel till the end of November to finish all the life production sweat shirt.” activities. Their story is the film’s plot Bharat’ is director Ali Zafar’s third driver, so plans have been made accordingly collaboration with Salman Khan, after the 2016 by the superstar. After the Sui Dhaaga: recent times. London by enjoying lots of food and film ‘Sultan’ and 2017’s ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’. Made In India star returns, she will dive Anushka and Virat are never shy about outings with their friends and posted a In the film, Bollywood’s Bhaijaan will be seen headlong into the hectic promotions of Zero their love for each other on social media, flurry of photos on social media. The sporting five different looks spanning over 60 for the entire month.” giving us plenty of opportunities to fawn snapshots offer fans some inside looks at years, including a crucial part which will Virat and Anushka tied the knot in an over their relationship. In fact, the Anushka and Virat’s vacation and it looked showcase the actor in his late 20s, looking much intimate wedding following traditional anniversary vacation, won’t be the couple’s like a total blast. leaner and younger. Hindu customs in Italy. Given that almost first romantic getaway together. Anushka Anushka is currently busy with the Katrina Kaif was roped into the movies after no one had a clue about the secret nuptials and Virat treated themselves to a fun-filled promotions for Zero, where she will be seen Priyanka Chopra decided to walk out of the held in the picturesque region of Tuscany,it vacation in July, when the actor joined her sharing screen space with her Jab Tak Hai film. The film also stars Tabu and Disha Patani is safe to say that this one was amongst the husband for Team India’s tour of England, Jaan co-stars, Shah Rukh Khan and in pivotal roles and is slated to hit the big most well-planned celebrity weddings of where the two decided to let loose in Katrina Kaif. screens on June 5, 2019. Source: ANI

riyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are set to tie the knot twice on December 2, just like Pher friends Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas wedding: Ranveer Singh who tied the knot in Konkani and Sikh wedding ceremonies in Italy. The grand wedding celebrations at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur will begin on November 29 Two ceremonies on December 2 and will culminate on December 2, post which the couple will also throw a lavish reception in from where they will reach the Umaid Bhawan Delhi for their family members. According to a Palace in a chopper. The newlyweds will leave report in DNA, the mehendi and sangeet Jodhpur in a chopper on December 3 and the ceremony will be held on November 29 at the families will also fly to Delhi the same day. As Umaid Bhawan and will be a fun affair. Earlier per the report, a grand reception will be held at it was reported that while Nick will perform a the Taj Palace Hotel in Delhi the next day. The medley of his songs, Priyanka will be couple and their families will then return to performing a few of her hit dance numbers. The Mumbai where a grand reception is expected to report also suggests that the couple will also take place for the film fraternity in the second recreate their first date at the event. week of December. The pre-wedding ceremonies will continue Priyanka, who recently took out time amid with a haldi ceremony on November 30. A her wedding preparations for a live-athon at cocktail party has also been organised for the Facebook’s Mumbai office on Tuesday, two families, relatives and friends before the big November 27, will take off to Sikkim on day. The report suggests that the lovebirds will December 6 along with her mother Madhu take their wedding vows in a Christian Chopra. The two will attend the press ceremony which will then be followed by a conference of their regional production Hindu ceremony in the later part of the day.The Pahuna. The guests for the bit fat Indian couple who have reportedly chosen colour wedding have already arrived in India to coordinated wedding ensembles will change witness it. Nick’s brother Joe Jonas along with their attire for the Hindu wedding. fiancé and Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner A source has claimed that the family will fly had landed in India on Monday and partied hard from Mumbai to Jodhpur in a chartered flight with the couple in Mumbai. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 HOLLYWOOD 13 KATHERINE HEIGL THRILLED TO BE 40

ctress Katherine Heigl says she is thrilled about turning A40. Heigl celebrated her 40th birthday on November 24 and commemorated the occasion with an introspective social media post. The actress shared photographs from her birthday soiree. Standing in front of huge silvery balloons of the number 40, she grinned as she posed in a sweater and jeans, reports dailymail.co.uk. “Well… I am officially 40 years old. I know you are going to think I’m full of it but the truth is… I’m pretty damn thrilled to be 40,” she began her post. A candlelit room provided a RACHEL MCADAMS festive backdrop for the former Grey’s Anatomy star’s bash. “For one thing, OPENS UP ABOUT as my mother always says ‘Getting older is better than the alternative’. WELCOMING FIRST BABY Too true mother, too true,” she wrote. “For another thing, 40 feels to ctor Rachel McAdams has opened up me like a certain kind of freedom. about her pregnancy, which she had Freedom from all the self doubt, Aearlier kept as a secret. The 40-year-old, insecurities, self loathing, in an interview with The Sunday Times, uncertainties and anxieties of my 20s confirmed that she welcomed a baby boy with and 30s.” Heigl further said on boyfriend Jamie Linden in April. Instagram: “Not to say I don’t still 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened to have those moments but I just feel like me, hands down,' the Oscar nominee revealed, 40 makes me older and wiser. Steadier as reported by People magazine. '[People say] in my convictions. your life is not your own anymore, but I had 39 More certain of my strengths. years of me, I was sick of me, I was so happy to More forgiving of my faults. “I’ve put the focus on some other person.' spent the last five years of my 30s McAdams, who was 39 when she gave birth doing the work to evolve my mind and seven months ago, said she didn't want to have spirit. To move my heart towards a children before 'it was the right time,' and that more profound and loving expression she is happy she 'waited a long time' to embrace of my best self. I’ve read, studied, motherhood. explored and practiced ways to 'The Notebook' star further said her new role expand my understanding of myself as a mother has been one of the most enjoyable and the world around me. “I’ve experiences of her life. 'I'm having more fun clarified my deepest desires and being a mum than I've ever had,' the 'Doctor found that all I really crave is well Strange' actor explained. 'Everything about it is being. For myself and those I love.” interesting and exciting and inspiring to me. Source: IANS Even the tough days ' there's something delightful about them.' Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner KRISTEN STEWART TO STAR IN spend Thanksgiving with kids

ormer star couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are SAME-SEX COUPLE COMEDY FILM? moving forward as committed parents, says a source. FThe actors have children Violet, 12, Seraphina, 9, and risten Stewart is in talks to join Samuel, 6. the cast of same-sex couple "Jen and Ben continue to work together to make their Kcomedy 'Happiest Season'. parenting as seamless as possible," the source told people.com. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "They really like to do things as a family, be it outings, scripted by Mary Holland, the TriStar church, cooking or watching movies. They have both had some Pictures' film will be directed by Clea ups and downs this year and they seem to be in a good place," DuVall. Temple Hill Entertainment's the source added. Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner, and Affleck and Garner, who first announced their split in June Jaclyn Huntling will be handling the 2015, spent Thanksgiving last week with their children. production. "Jen, Ben and the kids were in Montana for Thanksgiving," Stewart's past credits include a source said. Twilight, Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria, Still Alice, American Ultra, Equals, and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. The 28-year-old has a couple of other exciting projects lined up, including the upcoming 'Charlie's Angels' reboot, where Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska will portray the three Angels working for the mysterious Charlie, and Benedict Andrews directorial 'Against All Enemies'. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 WORLD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 Another Canadian diplomat falls In China, your car could be mysteriously ill in Cuba CUBA (TIP): Canada says it is talking to the government considering all options regarding its embassy in Cuba after another diplomat SHANGHAI (TIP): When Shan Junhua was found to have fallen mysteriously ill. bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it A senior Canadian government official was a fast, beautiful car. What he didn’t know said Thursday that the latest diplomat is that Tesla constantly sends information affected first reported symptoms in the about the precise location of his car to the early part of the summer. Testing then Chinese government. confirmed it. Canadian has confirmed 13 Tesla is not alone. China has called upon all cases of mysterious health problems since electric vehicle manufacturers in China to early 2017. Twenty-five American embassy make the same kind of reports — potentially workers in Cuba have also been affected, adding to the rich kit of surveillance tools suffering a range of symptoms and available to the Chinese government as diagnoses including mild traumatic brain President Xi Jinping steps up the use of injury, also known as concussion. technology to track Chinese citizens. The official said in briefing for “I didn’t know this,” said Shan. “Tesla journalists on Thursday that senior could have it, but why do they transmit it to officials will visit next Cuba week and the government? Because this is about consider all options to ensure staff are privacy.” protected. More than 200 manufacturers, including Canada ordered the families of Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, diplomatic staff in Cuba to return home General Motors, Nissan, Mitsubishi and U.S.- last April. (AP) listed electric vehicle start-up NIO, transmit and to prevent fraud in subsidy programs. leadership of Xi Jinping, China has position information and dozens of other data But other countries that are major markets unleashed a war on dissent, marshalling big Brazil backs out of points to government-backed monitoring for electronic vehicles — the United States, data and artificial intelligence to create a centers, The Associated Press has found. Japan, across Europe — do not collect this more perfect kind of policing, capable of hosting 2019 climate Generally, it happens without car owners’ kind of real-time data. predicting and eliminating perceived threats knowledge. And critics say the information collected in to the stability of the ruling Communist change meeting The automakers say they are merely China is beyond what is needed to meet the Party. complying with local laws, which apply only country’s stated goals. It could be used not There is also concern about the precedent Rio De Janeiro (TIP): Brazil this week to alternative energy vehicles. Chinese only to undermine foreign carmakers’ these rules set for sharing data from next- pulled out of hosting next year’s United officials say the data is used for analytics to competitive position, but also for surveillance generation connected cars, which may soon Nations global summit meeting on climate improve public safety, facilitate industrial — particularly in China, where there are few transmit even more personal information. change, the latest signal that Latin development and infrastructure planning, protections on personal privacy. Under the (AP) America’s largest nation no longer aspires to be an influential player in efforts to mitigate the effects of a warming planet. The decision leaves the UN scrambling to find a new venue for the conference, Ukraine’s President Petro which was scheduled to take place next November. It comes about a month before the inauguration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to empower Poroshenko: Putin wants my commercial ventures in the Amazon and other Brazilian biomes while weakening enforcement of environmental laws. Bolsonaro’s incoming foreign minister, whole country Ernesto Araújo, a career diplomat, has called the movement to reduce global BERLIN (TIP) : Ukraine President Petro warming a plot by “Marxists” to stifle the Poroshenko accused Russia’s Prime Minister economic growth of capitalist Vladimir Putin of seeking to annex his entire democracies while lifting China. country and called in interviews with Brazil in 2009 set ambitious goals to German media for Chancellor Angela Merkel reduce the emission of greenhouse gases to come to Kiev’s aid in the crisis. Russia and took drastic steps to rein in seized three Ukrainian navy ships and their deforestation in the Amazon. Those crews on Sunday near the Crimean initiatives were met with international peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, acclaim and positioned Brazil as one of the over what it said was their illegal entry into most consequential and engaged nations Russian waters – a charge Ukraine strongly in the effort to reduce climate change. refutes. (NYT) In interviews with Germany’s Bild newspaper and the Funke newspaper group Russia to deploy new on Thursday, Poroshenko rejected Russia’s charge that the vessels’ entry into the Azov missiles to Crimea as Sea – a body of water shared by Ukraine and Russia on which the Ukrainian ports of Ukraine tensions rise Mariupol and Berdyansk sit – was a provocation. MOSCOW'S (TIP): Russia said on Nov “Don’t believe Putin’s lies,” he told Bild, 28 it would send more of its advanced S-400 Germany’s biggest-selling paper, comparing Mariupol and Berdyansk sit – was a Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.” surface-to-air missile systems to Crimea Russia’s protestations of innocence in the provocation. Germany regards the pipeline, which is and a Reuters reporter saw a Russian affair to Moscow’s 2014 denial that it had “Don’t believe Putin’s lies,” he told Bild, being built by Russian state-owned energy warship deploying nearby as tensions soldiers in Crimea even as they moved to Germany’s biggest-selling paper, comparing company Gazprom, as a private investment. with Ukraine rose over Moscow’s seizure annex it. Russia’s protestations of innocence in the But Merkel recently acknowledged its of Ukrainian navy ships. Russia has “Putin wants the old Russian empire affair to Moscow’s 2014 denial that it had “political dimensions” and said Ukraine steadily poured new military hardware back,” he said. “Crimea, Donbass, the whole soldiers in Crimea even as they moved to must continue to be a conduit for Russian gas into Crimea since it annexed it from country. As Russian Tsar, as he sees himself, annex it. sold to western Europe. Ukraine in 2014, turning it into what his empire can’t function without Ukraine. “Putin wants the old Russian empire German officials said on Wednesday that Kremlin-backed media have called a He sees us as his colony.” back,” he said. “Crimea, Donbass, the whole their position on the pipeline remained fortress. Moscow’s announcement about In interviews with Germany’s Bild country. As Russian Tsar, as he sees himself, unchanged and that talk of tighter sanctions new missiles follows its seizure of three newspaper and the Funke newspaper group his empire can’t function without Ukraine. against Moscow, demanded by the United Ukrainian naval vessels and their crews on Thursday, Poroshenko rejected Russia’s He sees us as his colony.” States and many European politicians, was on Sunday over what it said was their charge that the vessels’ entry into the Azov “We need a strong, resolute and clear “premature”. illegal entry into Russian waters, Sea – a body of water shared by Ukraine and reaction to Russia’s aggressive behaviour,” he Poroshenko also called for the stationing of something Ukraine denies. (Reuters) Russia on which the Ukrainian ports of told Funke. “That also means stopping the NATO vessels in the Sea of Azov. (Reuters) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 TRAVEL 15

amallapuram, 50km south of Chennai, was the major seaport of Mthe ancient Pallava kingdom based at Kanchipuram. A wander round the town’s magnificent, World Heritage–listed temples and carvings inflames the imagination, MAHABALIPURAM especially at sunset. In addition to ancient archaeological wonders, salty air and coastal beauty, there’s also the traveller hub of Othavadai and Othavadai Cross Sts, where restaurants serve pasta, pizza and pancakes, and shops sell Tibetan trinkets. The town's buzzing, growing surf scene is another attraction. ‘Mahabs’, as most call it, is less than two hours by bus from Chennai, and many travellers make a beeline straight here. It's small and laid-back, and sights can be explored on foot or by bicycle. Five Rathas Huddled together at the southern end of Mamallapuram, the Five Rathas were, astonishingly, all carved from single large rocks. Each of these fine 7th-century temples was dedicated to a Hindu god and is now named after one or more of the Pandavas, the five hero-brothers of the epic Mahabharata, or their common wife, Draupadi. The rathas were hidden in the sand until excavated by the British 200 years ago. Ratha is Sanskrit for 'chariot', and may refer to the temples' form or to their function as vehicles for the gods. It's thought they didn't originally serve as places of worship, but as architectural models. The first ratha on the left after you enter is the Draupadi Ratha, in the form of a stylised South Indian hut. It's dedicated to the demon- fighting goddess Durga, who looks out from (Shiva's vehicle) statues frame the temple inside, standing on a lotus, and is depicted on courtyard. A boulder-carved Durga sits on the outside walls. Female guardians flank the her lion-vehicle's knee on the temple's south entrance; a huge sculpted lion, Durga's side. mount, stands outside. Next, on the same plinth, is the 'chariot' of Trimurti Cave Temple the most important Pandava, the Arjuna At the northern end of the Mamallapuram Ratha, dedicated to Shiva. Its pilasters, Hill compound, the Trimurti Cave Temple miniature roof shrines, and small octagonal depicts the Hindu 'trinity' amid guardian dome make it a precursor of many later figures: Brahma (left), Shiva (centre) and South Indian temples. A huge Nandi stands Vishnu (right). A fine carving of elephants behind. Shiva (leaning on Nandi, south side) adorns the back side of the rock. and other gods are depicted on the temple's outer walls. Lion Throne The barrel-roofed Bhima Ratha was never A beautifully carved throne or seat in the completed, as evidenced by the missing shape of a lion, a little west (uphill) from the north-side colonnade; inside is a shrine to Raya Gopura on Mamallapuram Hill. Vishnu. The Dharmaraja Ratha, tallest of the temples, is similar to the Arjuna Ratha but Krishna's Butterball one storey higher, with lion pillars. The carvings on its outer walls mostly represent You can't miss this enormous boulder (and gods, including the androgynous favourite photo spot), balancing precariously Ardhanarishvara (half Shiva, half Parvati) on Mamallapuram Hill, right opposite the on the east side. King Narasimhavarman I compound's northernmost entrance. appears at the west end of the south side. The Nakula-Sahadeva Ratha (named after Arjuna’s Penance two twin Pandavas) stands aside from the The crowning masterpiece of other four and is dedicated to Indra. The life- Mamallapuram’s stonework, this giant size stone elephant beside it is one of India's relief carving is one of India's greatest most perfectly sculpted elephants. ancient artworks. Inscribed on two huge, Approaching from the gate to the north you adjacent boulders, the Penance bursts with see its back end first, hence its nickname scenes of Hindu myth and everyday South Gajaprishthakara (elephant’s backside). Indian life. In the centre, nagas (snake- beings) descend a once water-filled cleft, Shore Temple representing the Ganges. To the left Arjuna Standing like a magnificent fist of rock-cut (hero of the Mahabharata) performs self- elegance overlooking the sea, surrounded by mortification (fasting on one leg), so that gardens and ruined courts, the two-towered the four-armed Shiva will grant him his Shore Temple symbolises the heights of most powerful weapon, the god-slaying Pallava architecture and the maritime Pasupata. ambitions of the Pallava kings. Its small size Some scholars believe the carving belies its excellent proportion and the actually shows the sage Bagiratha, who supreme quality of the carvings, many now did severe penance to obtain Shiva's help eroded into vaguely Impressionist in bringing the Ganges to earth. Shiva is embellishments. Built under attended by dwarves, and celestial beings Narasimhavarman II in the 8th century, it's fly across the carving's upper sections. the earliest significant free-standing stone Below Arjuna/Bagiratha is a temple to temple in Tamil Nadu. Vishnu (mythical ancestor of the Pallava a crowd of mice. Krishna lifting Govardhana Hill to protect The two towers rise above shrines to Shiva kings), with sages, deer and a lion. The South along the road from Arjuna's cows and villagers from a storm sent by and their original linga captured the sunrise many wonderfully carved animals include Penance are the unfinished Panch Indra; an unfinished relief carving of and sunset. Between the Shiva shrines is one a herd of elephants and – humour amid the Pandava Mandapa cave temple; the similar size to Arjuna's Penance; and the to Vishnu, shown sleeping. Rows of Nandi holy – a cat mimicking Arjuna's penance to Krishna Mandapa, which famously depicts empty Dharmaraja Cave Temple. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 WOMEN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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ll men please take note! If you want at an Italian buffet over the course of two to lose weight, check whether you weeks. Aare binging on food, especially They recorded the number of pizza slices when dining with a woman as you try to and how many bowls of salad each diner impress upon her! According to an ate. The gender of each diner's eating interesting research, how much you eat partner or partners was also noted. Men may have more to do with the gender of who dined with at least one woman ate 93 your dining companions than your percent more pizza and 86 percent more appetite. salad than men who dined with only other The researchers from Cornell University men. found that men will eat significantly more The quantity that women ate didn't differ food in the company of women than they when eating with other women or with will with other men. men. When they ate with men, many "The findings suggest that men tend to women indicated feeling that they overate overeat to show off. You can also see this and were rushed through their meal. tendency in eating competitions which The study was conducted by Kniffin, almost always have mostly male Ozge Sigirci, former visiting scholar at the participants," explained lead author Kevin Cornell University Food and Brand Lab Kniffin.To reach this conclusion, and Brian Wansink, professor and director researchers observed 105 adults lunching of the Food and Brand Lab. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 HEALTH & FITNESS 17 Global warming ORANGE JUICE, LEAFY increasing death, GREENS MAY LOWER disease risk limate change is putting an increasing proportion of the global population at risk of heat-related death and Cdiseases, and causing significant loss of work hours in vulnerable areas like India, sub-Saharan Africa, and South MEMORY LOSS RISK IN MEN America, according to a study published in The Lancet ccording to a recent study, eating journal. leafy greens, red vegetable, berry The rising vulnerability to the heat-related risks of Afruits and drinking orange juice climate change is mirrored by increased exposure to higher may be linked with a lower risk of temperatures. memory loss in men over time. Despite a mean global temperature increase of 0.3 degrees The study was published in the Celsius between 1986 and 2017, the average temperature Journal of Neurology. It looked at 27,842 increase people were exposed was more than double this (0.8 men with an average age of 51 who were degrees Celsius). all health professionals. Participants With the pace of climate change outweighing the urgency filled out questionnaires about how of the response, the report provides cause for concern. many servings of fruits, vegetables and However, researchers also note promising trends in key other foods they had each day at the areas for health, including the phase-out of coal, the beginning of the study and then every deployment of healthier, cleaner modes of transport, and four years for 20 years. health system adaptation. “One of the most important factors in Present day changes in heat waves and labour capacity this study is that we were able to provide early warning of the compounded and overwhelming research and track such a large group of impact on public health that is expected if temperatures men over a 20-year period of time, continue to rise," said Hilary Graham from The University of allowing for very telling results. Our York in UK. studies provide further evidence dietary "Trends in the impacts of climate change, exposures and choices can be important to maintain vulnerabilities show unacceptably high risk for health now your brain health,” said study author and in the future," said Graham. Changzheng Yuan, ScD, of Harvard T.H. "The lack of progress in reducing emissions and building Chan School of Public Health in Boston. five groups based on their fruit and men who drank orange juice every day adaptive capacity threatens lives and health systems and Participants also took subjective tests vegetable consumption. For vegetables, developed poor cognitive function, must be addressed to avoid disruption to core public health of their thinking and memory skills at the highest group ate about six servings compared to 8.4% of men who drank infrastructure and overwhelming health services," she said. least four years before the end of the per day, compared to about two servings orange juice less than once a month. "Despite delays, some sectors are embarking on a low- study, when they were an average age of for the lowest group. For fruits, the top The men who ate the most fruit each carbon transition, which is a promising sign. It is clear that 73. The test is designed to detect changes group ate about three servings per day, day were less likely to develop poor the nature and scale of the response to climate change will be that people can notice in how well they compared to half a serving for the thinking skills, but that association was the determining factor in shaping the health of nations for are remembering things before those bottom group. weakened after researchers adjusted for centuries to come," said Graham. changes would be detected by objective The men who consumed the most other dietary factors that could affect The annual report tracks 41 indicators across five areas: cognitive tests. Changes in memory vegetables were 34% less likely to the results, such as consumption of climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; reported by the participants would be develop poor thinking skills than the vegetables, fruit juice, refined grains, adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation considered precursors to mild cognitive men who consumed the least amount of legumes and dairy products. actions and health co-benefits; finance and economics; and impairment. The questions included: vegetables. A total of 6.6% of men in the The researchers also found that public and political engagement. “Do you have more trouble than usual top group developed poor cognitive people who ate larger amounts of fruits The indicators include weather-related disasters, food remembering a short list of items, such function, compared to 7.9% of men in and vegetables 20 years earlier were less security, clean fuel use, meat consumption, air pollution and as a shopping list?” and “Do you have the bottom group. The men who drank likely to develop thinking and memory the number of scientific research articles about climate and more trouble than usual following a orange juice every day were 47% less problems, whether or not they kept health. As a result of increasing temperatures caused by group conversation or a plot in a TV likely to develop poor thinking skills eating larger amounts of fruits and climate change, vulnerable populations (adults over 65 years program due to your memory?” than the men who drank less than one vegetables about six years before the old, people living in cities, and people with cardiovascular The participants were divided into serving per month. A total of 6.9% of memory test. Source: ANI diseases, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases) are exposed to heat stress, increasing their risk of WOMEN WHO UNDERGO SURGICAL MENOPAUSE cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease. Source: PTI LIKELY TO HAVE INSOMNIA, SAYS STUDY

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E-mail: findings showed that women in the surgical menopause were found to be Source: IANS [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 SCIENCE & TECH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 CHINESE RESEARCHER CLAIMS FIRST GENE-EDITED BABIES Chinese researcher claims that he allowing or forbidding such science. helped make the world’s first Some scientists were astounded to hear Agenetically edited babies — twin of the claim and strongly condemned it. girls born this month whose DNA he said It’s “unconscionable ... an experiment he altered with a powerful new tool on human beings that is not morally or capable of rewriting the very blueprint of ethically defensible,” said Dr. Kiran life. Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania If true, it would be a profound leap of gene editing expert and editor of a SCIENTISTS REGROW HAIR science and ethics. genetics journal. A U.S. scientist said he took part in the “This is far too premature,” said Dr. ON WOUNDED SKIN work in China, but this kind of gene Eric Topol, who heads the Scripps esearchers have regrown hair strands on damaged editing is banned in the United States He Jiankui Research Translational Institute in skin by stirring crosstalk among skin cells that form because the DNA changes can pass to California. “We’re dealing with the Rthe roots of hair. future generations and it risks harming be identified or interviewed, and he operating instructions of a human being. The findings by researchers at the New York University other genes. would not say where they live or where It’s a big deal.” (NYU) School of Medicine in the US better explain why hair Many mainstream scientists think it’s the work was done. However, one famed geneticist, does not normally grow on wounded skin. too unsafe to try,and some denounced the There is no independent confirmation Harvard University’s George Church, The study, published in the journal Nature Chinese report as human of He’s claim, and it has not been defended attempting gene editing for HIV, Communications, may help in the search for better drugs to experimentation. published in a journal, where it would be which he called “a major and growing restore hair growth. The researcher, He Jiankui of vetted by other experts. He revealed it public health threat.” It examined the effect of distinct signalling pathways in Shenzhen, said he altered embryos for Monday in Hong Kong to one of the “I think this is justifiable,” Church said damaged skin of laboratory mice. seven couples during fertility treatments, organizers of an international conference of that goal. Experiments focused on cells called fibroblasts that secrete with one pregnancy resulting thus far. He on gene editing that is set to begin In recent years scientists have collagen, the structural protein most responsible for said his goal was not to cure or prevent an Tuesday, and earlier in exclusive discovered a relatively easy way to edit maintaining the shape and strength of skin and hair. inherited disease, but to try to bestow a interviews with The Associated Press. genes, the strands of DNA that govern the Researchers activated the sonic hedgehog signalling trait that few people naturally have — an “I feel a strong responsibility that it’s body.The tool, called CRISPR-cas9, makes pathway used by cells to communicate with each other. ability to resist possible future infection not just to make a first, but also make it an it possible to operate on DNA to supply a The pathway is known to be very active during the early with HIV,the AIDS virus. example,” He told the AP. “Society will needed gene or disable one that’s causing stages of human growth in the womb, when hair follicles are He said the parents involved declined to decide what to do next” in terms of problems. Source: AP formed, but is otherwise stalled in wounded skin in healthy adults. Researchers said this possibly explains why hair follicles Robot With 'Human-Like Face' Smiles, Encourages People To Interact fail to grow in skin replaced after injury or surgery. "Our results show that stimulating fibroblasts through the urhat tilts his or her head, smiles, The robot has been used in Frankfurt sonic hedgehog pathway can trigger hair growth not exudes empathy and warmth, and airport as a multi-lingual concierge, previously seen in wound healing," said Mayumi Ito, an Fencourages us to open up. helping travellers find their way,but also associate professor at NYU. The robot, a three-dimensional bust for customer services training - Regrowing hair on damaged skin is an unmet need in with a projection of a human-like face, simulating irate shoppers for example. medicine, Ito said, because of the disfigurement suffered by aims to build on our new-found ease Science and technology firm Merck thousands from trauma, burns, and other injuries. talking to voice assistants like Siri and and Furhat Robotics on Wednesday However, her more immediate goal, she said, is to signal Alexa, by persuading us to interact with unveiled a robot in Stockholm which mature skin to revert back to its embryonic state so that it it as if it were a person, picking up on will ask people about their health and can grow new hair follicles, not just on wounded skin, but our cues to strike up a rapport. lifestyle and screen them for risk of also on people who have gone bald from ageing. Yet precisely because it isn't human, diabetes, alcoholism and Ito said scientists have until now assumed that, as part of and is therefore free from bias, the robot hypothyroidism. If necessary, the robot the healing process, scarring and collagen buildup in can spur people to engage more honestly, will advise them to go for a blood test or damaged skin were behind its inability to regrow hair. its creator says, making it useful in with a human," said Samer Al to a doctor. Source: PTI situations such as screening for health Moubayed, chief executive of Furhat "Every robot needs a different risks where people often lie. Robotics. personality depending on the job it's "We've seen research that shows that That's because a robot's personality going to do," said Moubayed. in certain situations people are more can mirror the personality of the person Furhat can be male or female, old or comfortable opening up and talking interacting with it and because people young, wisecracking or serious. about difficult issues with a robot than don't feel judged, he added. Source: Reuters Gaana revamps app with AI-based features, voice search, and more

NEW METHOD USES aana has revamped its music every day. Using machine learning and streaming app for Android and AI, the app will show songs based on SUNLIGHT TO PURIFY WATER GiOS users. The new features will what the user has listened to and not. cientists have developed a simple process that can be available through the latest software Voice search remove persistent pollutants in water using mere update of Gaana. Ssunlight under the most basic conditions. The updated app comes with AI and Gaana has added voice search to its The researchers from Martin Luther University Halle- machine learning-based features to offer app with the latest update. Users can Wittenberg (MLU) in Germany rely on electrons moving personalised content to users. Gaana has simply tap on the voice search option to freely in water, called hydrated electrons, to degrade also revamped the interface of the app, start using the feature. Gaana lets users dissolved pollutants. and added voice search. voice search using keywords like the "These electrons are extremely reactive and can be used for Smarter search name of the song, singer, movie, lyrics, a plethora of reactions. They break down even the most Gaana has made it easier for users to moods and occasions. recalcitrant pollutants," said Martin Goez, a professor at search songs on the app. It will now show Playlists’. Here, users will be able to Refreshed UI MLU. For this to work, however, the electrons have to be suggestions of songs based on the user’s browse through playlists made with released from the molecular compounds in which they are listening history. Gaana has updated the songs based on their listening Gaana has revamped the user usually tightly bound. Until now, generating those electrons app with machine-learning based search preference. The app will also curate interface (UI) of the app with more focus has required complex and expensive high-power lasers. feature. songs for playlists from different genres. on imagery. The new UI is said to be Researchers introduced a new approach which only Personalised playlists New content more user-friendly with an improved required a green light-emitting diode as the sole energy player experience. Gaana has also added source. Vitamin C and traces of a metal complex as the With the new update, Gaana app will In addition to curating playlists, lyrics in the music player which can be catalyst were used to bring about the desired reaction. now show ‘Made for you Mixes and Gaana app will also show fresh content viewed in full-screen mode. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 BIZ & FINANCE 19 Microsoft surpasses Apple to becomes world’s most valuable company icrosoft Corp. surpassed Apple Inc. to become the world’s most Mvaluable publicly traded INDIA EYES BIGGER SHARE company. All it took was a $300 billion rout. IN GLOBAL TRADE AMID After briefly claiming the top spot on Monday, Microsoft shares rose 0.6 US-CHINA TENSIONS percent Tuesday, pushing the company’s market value to $828.1 billion at the ndia will focus on boosting its exports to the US and other close. That exceeded by more than $1 global markets as Chinese shipments become billion the value of Apple, which has Iunattractive amid a trade war between the world’s biggest tumbled this month on concern about economies, the country’s trade minister said. iPhone unit sales. New Delhi is focusing on a handful of items including The last time Microsoft’s market automotive parts, chemicals, electrical equipment, among capitalization was bigger than Apple others, after the US and China slapped reciprocal duties on was in 2010, according to data compiled each other’s goods, minister Suresh Prabhu said in an by Bloomberg. interview. India’s share in global merchandise exports is at A recent stock market swoon has 1.7% compared to China’s 12.8%. taken a toll on nearly all technology “The ongoing trade tensions between the US and China companies. But investors have punished releasing its own phones led to Windows operating system, Microsoft may have positive impact,” Prabhu said in a written reply to consumer-focused companies like Apple expensive writedowns. This was offered it as a subscription service over questions. “The long term strategy is to focus on enhancing and Amazon.com Inc. more than firms particularly galling for the Redmond, the internet and on other companies’ manufacturing capabilities with focus not only on the United that mostly cater to businesses, like Washington-based company because it devices -- including Apple’s. It also States but also keeping in view the demands in other Microsoft. It’s down 6.3 percent since the once kept Apple afloat with a cash stopped making smartphone hardware, markets, as well.” start of October, while Apple has lost 23 infusion in the 1990s. while boosting the quality of its tablet With President Donald Trump expected to go ahead with percent. The rise of cloud computing changed and PC designs. Microsoft is now second another round of tariffs on $200 billion of imports from Starting more than a decade ago, Microsoft’s fortunes about five years behind Amazon Web Services in the China in January, India looks to gain from opportunities Microsoft fell behind Apple as ago. Under Chief Executive Officer cloud. That’s insulated Microsoft’s stock from the dispute. Southeast Asia, a region that’s mastered computing shifted from desktop Satya Nadella, the company invested from worries about declining consumer export competitiveness, is already seeing a boom in foreign machines to mobile devices like heavily in data centers and other spending on devices and increased direct investment as the trade war prompts companies to iPhones, making Microsoft’s PC infrastructure to run applications and regulation of digital advertising shift production to the region. dominance less relevant. store data for corporate customers. businesses like Facebook Inc. and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has been Attempts to regain its footing by And instead of trying to tie Office Alphabet Inc.’s Google. exploring ways to close the gap between exports and imports acquiring Nokia’s handset business and work productivity software to its Source: Bloomberg which reached $17.1 billion in October. The government has imposed some import curbs to ease pressure on the current- account deficit, a key vulnerability for the economy and one of the reasons why the rupee has lost more than 11 percent ADANI GROUP TO against the dollar this year. Rupee rises 21 paise to The rising tensions could derail established trade orders SELF-FINANCE like the World Trade Organization and will hurt smaller nations, Prabhu said. AUSTRALIAN COAL 3-month high of 69.64 “This is not a welcome development for sustaining a free MINE PROJECT and fair trade,” he said. Source: Bloomberg against US dollar Arun Jaitley to present interim MELBOURNE (TIP): Indian energy giant Adani today said it will self-finance its budget on February 1 controversial coal mine in Australia and MUMBAI (TIP): Rising for the major works on the “scaled back” project will fourth straight day, the rupee climbed NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will start “imminently” after eight years of court 21 paise to a three-month high of 69.64 present the interim Budget for 2019-20 fiscal on February 1, challenges from environmental activists and against the US dollar in early trade on 2019. delayed approvals. Friday, amid weakness in the The Finance Ministry Wednesday said “the work for Adani Mining CEO Lucas Dow said the greenback against some currencies preparation of interim Budget 2019-20 has already Carmichael mine in Queensland would overseas and a higher opening of commenced and is now gaining momentum”. initially begin on a small scale and “ramp up” domestic equities. It has already sought inputs from different central to a capacity of 27.5 million tonnes a year — Forex traders said increased selling ministries for the budget speech, which would be the last less than half the size of the approved project. of the American currency by budget of the current BJP-led NDA government before the “We have finance and we are ready to start,” exporters and banks and sustained 2019 general polls. Dow said. “Adani Mining’s Carmichael mine foreign fund inflows also supported Last month, the ministry began the budgetary exercise for and rail project will be 100% financed through the domestic currency. 2019-20. During the process, meetings were held with the the Adani Group’s resources,” he said. At the interbank forex market, the ministries of steel, power, and housing and urban “We will now begin developing a smaller rupee opened higher at 69.68 and rose crore, while DIIs purchased share to development, among others, to finalise revised expenditure open-cut mine comparable to many other further to quote at 69.64, showing a the tune of Rs 973.31 crore on for the current fiscal and projections for the next financial Queensland coal mines and will ramp up rise of 21 paise over its previous close. Thursday, provisional data showed. year. The ministry will impose quarantine from December 3, production over time.” “Preparatory works On Thursday the rupee had vaulted The benchmark BSE Sensex gained which will bar the entry of media persons into the North at the mine site are imminent,” he said in a 77 paise to a three-month high of 69.85 over 150 points and the NSE Nifty Block, the seat of the country’s Finance Ministry,till the date statement said. per US dollar. began the December derivatives of presentation of the interim Budget by the finance “We have already invested 3.3 billion dollar The local unit also gathered series by hitting the 10,900 mark in minister in Parliament on February 1, 2019, it said. in Adani’s Australian businesses, which is a momentum following easing crude oil early trade on Friday on positive cues This will be the sixth consecutive Budget to be presented clear demonstration of our capacity to deliver prices, which slipped below the USD from other Asian bourses ahead of by Jaitley. As per practice, a vote-on-account or approval for a financing solution for the revised scope of 60 per dollar mark as investors fretted the two-day G20 Summit. essential government spending for a limited period is taken the mine and rail project,” he said. over a supply glut. The 30-share index rose 175.75 in an election year and a full-fledged budget is presented by “The project stacks up both Globally, Brent crude, the points, or 0.49 per cent, to trade at the new government. environmentally and financially,” Dow said. international benchmark, was 36,346.16. In similar movement, the The Narendra Modi-led government scrapped the colonial- The Indian energy giant has battled the trading 0.42 per cent up at USD 59.76 NSE Nifty breached the 10,900 mark, era tradition of presenting the budget at the end of February. opposition to any expansion of the Abbot per barrel. and was trading 50.45 points, or 0.46 With the preponement of budget, ministries are now Point port, saying it will cut into the Great Meanwhile, on net basis, foreign per cent, higher at 10,909.15. allocated their budgeted funds from the start of the financial Barrier Reef World Heritage Area funds bought shares worth Rs 823.47 Source: PTI year beginning April. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 contd from Page 1 has had some of the most phenomenal accomplishments of fruition. That was kind of the end of it." any speaker to serve in the House," the Maryland Democrat Alan Dershowitz, a Trump ally and constitutional lawyer, PM Modi Reaches Argentina... said. "Then at a time when she has led us to have one of the said Cohen's confessions don't suggest Trump committed any The trilateral meeting between Trump, Abe and PM Modi is greatest number of women that we've ever had, I would say to crime but could suggest that Trump wasn't telling the public taking place in the backdrop of China engaged in hotly them, 'what do you want?'" (Source: Agencies) the whole truth about the Moscow deal. contested territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and with "This is politically damaging, but I'm not sure how legally Japan in the East China Sea. Both the areas are said to be rich Pakistan PM Imran Khan... damaging it is," Dershowitz said. "This is all about in minerals, oil and other natural resources. questionable political behavior. It's a good reason for people China claims almost all of the South China Sea. Vietnam, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said at the ground- voting against Trump. But I don't see a crime yet." the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have breaking ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor on Wednesday, But Tim O'Brien, a Trump biographer and frequent critic, overlapping claims in the waterway, which includes vital sea November 28, that peace was possible between the two said the developments pose significant new challenges for the lanes through which about USD 3 trillion in global trade passes neighbors. president. "This is part of the fact pattern that gets to the heart each year. Ms. Badal was in tears as she recalled that "lakhs and of whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign The US has been conducting regular patrols in the South crores" of Indian Sikhs who had asked for making the and the Kremlin during the campaign," O'Brien said. "I think China Sea to assert freedom of navigation in the area where Kartarpur shrine accessible to them. She asked Pakistan to the unforgiving grinding force of the U.S. justice system, Beijing has built up and militarized many of the islands and run a rail service linking other major Sikh shrines. which he has tried to undermine since he became president, is reefs it controls in the region. "If the Berlin wall can fall, hate between India and Pakistan encircling him. I don't think we know where he will land. But During the RIC meeting, Prime Minister Modi, Chinese can be ended," Ms. Badal said. he is certainly mired in something that he is ill-equipped, President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who received the most legally and personally, to handle." will meet. applause, said it was unfair for pilgrims to have been Some legal experts argued Mueller appears to be drawing a Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Saudi Arabia prevented from visiting Kartarpur. Asked about Mr. Khan's picture of a candidate who was beholden to the Kremlin. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the speech calling for India and Pakistan to seek resolutions to Emails released in the Cohen plea show Trump seeking a G20 summit in Buenos Aires, November 29, and they discussed their problems, Mr. Puri said that it was necessary to be financial endorsement from the Russian government on a ways to further boost economic, cultural and energy ties. realistic. "I am happy when something is grounded in positive private project while Russian President Vladi-mir Putin was The two sides also held discussions on enhancing hope. But at the same time you have to anchor this in reality, offering to say flattering things about Trump. investment in technology, renewable energy and food security. taking past experience." "It creates the potential for Trump to feel an obligation to "Had a fruitful interaction with Crown Prince Mohammed All three Indian leaders accompanied by Indian High pay back President Putin, or Russia in general that .?.?. do not bin Salman Al Saud. We discussed multiple aspects of India- Commissioner Ajay Bisaria paid their respects at the put the best interests of American forward." Kopp said. "You Saudi Arabia relations and ways to further boost economic, Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara on Wednesday after the function are creating a potential vulnerability for a future leader of cultural and energy ties," the Prime Minister wrote on Twitter. and were briefed on the Pakistani government's plans to America." Trump privately stewed as he followed news "Deepening strategic ties. PM @narendramodi met with refurbish the complex around the shrine and build facilities coverage of Cohen's plea early Thursday morning, a White Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al along the way for people moving in the corridor. According to House official said. A Justice official called the White House Saud on sidelines of #G20Argentina. Discussed enhancing officials, the corridor will be "visa-free" and approximately a Counsel's Office on Wednesday evening to let personnel know Saudi investment in technology, infrastructure, petroleum, nominal ?50 would be charged to allow Indians to travel to the that Cohen would be pleading guilty in a case the following day, renewable energy, food security, fintech &defense sectors," shrine from next November. (With inputs from PTI) according to one person with direct knowledge of the notice. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar They were not told the details, however, which they learned tweeted. 'Individual 1': Trump emerges... about shortly before Cohen's plea Thursday morning. "In recent years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been a Read full story on www.theindianpanorama.news valuable partner. The relationship has expanded beyond the On Thursday, Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Indian community to issues related to the economy,energy and Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress when he insisted contd from page 2 security. All issues of bilateral and regional interest will be that Trump was not pursuing plans to build a Trump Tower in discussed," PMO sources said. Moscow after January 2016, casting Trump's repeated claims The Concept of Khimaa and... Later, the Prime Minister met UN Secretary General that he had no business interests in Russia in a new light. A Antonio Guterres. 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Elijah Cummings pleaded with Democratic holdouts to Post) mistakes. reconsider Pelosi's bid and seemed bewildered with the more "The president, as far as he knows, he remembers there was È≈È’√«⁄È≈«Ó«È√Â≈≈’Ø◊∞Í√≈«Á¡ÿ∞ÒÀ®8®4® than 30 members who voted against her. such a proposal for a hotel," Giuliani said. "He talked it over NaanakSach Naam Nisathaaraa Ko Gur ParasaadhAghulai "Here we are, a woman who has given her blood sweat and with Cohen as Cohen said. There was a nonbinding letter of ||8||4|| tears, who has sacrificed over and over and over again, who intent that was sent. As far as he knows it never came to Read full story on www.theindianpanorama.news THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 SPIRITUALITY 21 THE MEANING AND CONCEPT OF MANTRA antras are an important aspect of Pronunciation is of utmost importance in the Hinduism. They are used in ritual use of mantras. Without right pronunciation Mand spiritual practices to express and intonation, the deity in the mantra may devotion, establish communication or fulfill not respond. Equally important is the desires, and in many respects serve the same intention for which a mantra is used, since the purpose as prayers and supplications. Chants use of mantras for any purpose produces and incantations have been used since the karmic consequences and influences the earliest times by various ancient cultures to destiny of its user. invoke or appease gods, ancestors and spirits Why mantras are used or to cast spells. Mantras in Vedic tradition Mantras are used both for positive and destructive purposes. The following are some In ancient India, mantras formed a vital of the most important purposes, for which part of Vedic religion. It is possible that the mantras are used in Hinduism. Indus people also might have used similar To communicate with gods and express practices to invoke their gods. Vedic mantras devotion are derived mainly from the Vedas, which are To invoke gods and seek their help or primarily books of mantras, which go by counsel different names such as the Riks, Samans and To propitiate fierce gods who are Yajus. They were chanted or sung or used in displeased or angry and avoid their formulae in elaborate Vedic, sacrificial wrath. ceremonies. To seek divine protection against evil Mantras have traditionally been used in forces and enemies both ritual and spiritual practices and worldly To cleanse the mind and body for activities for various ends. They still occupy liberation or self-transformation an important place in Hinduism as the To stabilize the mind in the manifestations of divine speech and contemplation of God expression of gods and heavenly knowledge. To consecrate a place of worship before In Hindu ritual practice and prayers, mantras starting a sacrificial ritual or ceremony are used to communicate with gods and To install the images of gods in a temple invoke their power to achieve certain ends. or during domestic worship. Mantras constitute the heart of Hindu themselves, as they did in the minds of the to remember complex philosophical concepts To fulfill worldly desires and achieve sacrificial ceremonies, which cannot be Vedic seers. Each divine mantra (man + tra) is or religious ideas. There is also a lot of peace and prosperity in life performed without the intervention of an expression of the pure mind, or a mind secrecy associated with the mantra tradition. To attract opposite sex and enchant experienced priests. On such occasions, the suffused with the brilliance of the Self. The Because of their potency or specific effects, them or repel rival lovers and mantras are usually chanted aloud by one or purer the mind is, the greater will be the effect some mantras cannot be revealed to all or discourage competition more priests while others may join them in of a mantra. Since mantras manifest on their revealed to qualified people only.For example, To overcome death, diseases adversity, chorus or when required. One may also own in the minds of pure devotes, they are traditionally the Upanishads are considered bad karma, or unfavorable silently chant them to maintain secrecy or for also considered eternal, not man-made secret knowledge and taught only in person by circumstances convenience. The Vedas suggest that the (apauruseya) and only heard (sruti) as in case a teacher to qualified students. A student or To help the departing souls who are on efficacy of prayers and mantras increase of the mantras from the Vedas. disciple is also expected to keep secret any their way to liberation or rebirth manifold when they are silently chanted in In traditional usage, a mantra is a sacred initiation mantra given to him by his teacher To cast spells, charm, delude or destroy mental worship rather than when they are utterance, word, phrase, syllable, sentence or or spiritual master. opponents uttered aloud. prayer containing one or more of the five Each mantra will have a seer (rishi) who To control or enchant animals, wild Hindus also have the tradition of writing divine powers of God namely creation, composed it, a rhythm or meter (Chhanda) beasts, serpents, etc. mantras (usually the name of a god) on paper preservation, concealment, destruction and which determines its sound, and a deity To restrain the mind and enter deep as an offering to God or to express love and revelation. A mantra may have a specific (devata) who presides over it and manifests sleep or higher states of consciousness devotion to a particular deity. The practice meaning or not. However, most mantras and when the mantra is correctly pronounced. It To earn divine grace or the grace of a usually consists of writing the name of a even single syllables (bijaksharas) which are also contains a seed syllable (bija) which guru deity or a specific mantra for a certain used in Hinduism have either a literal imparts to it manifesting power (Shakti) and a To gain siddhis or spiritual powers number of times, which is usually ten million meaning or a symbolic or hidden meaning or support (kilakam) which makes it strong or (siddhis) times. Once the goal is reached, devotees both. stable until it delivers the intended result. To express profound spiritual and carry the papers or the notebooks in which Of all the mantras, Aum is considered the Because of these hidden components and philosophical truths they have written the name and leave them as source (mula) mantra. It is the highest and the their divine aspects, many rules are To validate truths with verbal testimony an offering at the temples or sacred places of purest and Brahman himself in word form associated with the chanting of the mantras. (sabda pramana) the deity. (Sabda Brahma). It is also known as mantra The attitude and the personal purity of the To achieve success in sports, duels, The meaning of mantra Purusha (God as mantra) Pranava (life person who utters them also matter. debates and battles supporting mantra) and Taraka (secret), Literally speaking, in Sanskrit “mantra” having potency to divinize and purify all other PAGE SPONSORED BY means to consult, seek advice or help, think or verbal expressions and word forms. Hence, it deliberate. The source of the mantras is God. is customarily used as a prefix to all other ARISH K. SAHANI In the human body it is the breath in the mantras to infuse them divine power and speech which gives each mantra a verbal purity. Serving Since 1972 form, awakens its hidden power and sends it Beliefs associated with mantras Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs across the space as sound vibrations to its desired destination. Mantras are thus divine Mantras are used as sacred sounds or Arish K Sahani (Father) vehicles which carry the thoughts and prayers utterances. Since they are taken from the of devotees to the heaven and help them sacred texts, they are considered auspicious Shiv Sahani (Son) establish communication with gods. and God in word form. As stated before, they Thus, in the religious parlance, mantras are are endowed with one or more of the five Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) primarily meant to communicate with gods, divine powers of God. Hence, they been consult them or seek their advice and help. An extensively used to in the pursuit of the four 7 1 8 - 2 7 1 - 1 9 0 6 associative or derivative word is mantri, chief aims of human life namely dharma [email protected] which means a minister who gives counsel or (religious duty), artha (wealth), kama (sexual advice to a ruler or a head priest (pradhan desire) and moksha (liberation). “If Hindus don’t maintain Hinduism, who shall save it?” mantri). As the products of the mind, mantras They have also been used in the study and are also associated with intelligence or mental recitation of scriptures and contemplation. “If India’s own children don't cling to their faith, who shall guard it?” brilliance. In a pure mind, mantras manifest Many mantras are still used as mental hooks “Indians alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 SPORTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 India begin World Cup with 5-0 win over South Africa

Harpreet Kaur Lamba BHUBANESWAR: India came up with a strong performance against South Africa in the two teams’ Pool C opener of the 2018 FIH Men’s Hockey tournament at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on November 28. World No. 5 India walloped their 15th-ranked opponents 5-0 in what was an inspired performance. There was a lot of debate when Hockey India had announced the 18-member team for the World Cup at home. In the absence of S.V.Sunil, recently-retired Sardar Singh and penalty corner specialist Rupinder Pal Singh, the team appeared thin on experience. In youngsters Sumit, Nilakanta Sharma, Simranjeet Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Hardik Singh — all of whom have experience of less than 100 matches combined between them — India had made a bold move. Fresh legs were chosen ahead of established stars but if one expected a nervy show from the youngsters on the day, they were in for a surprise. Playing in front of packed galleries with close to 15,000 screaming fans — who applauded every good move and were punishing when things took a wrong turn — Manpreet Singh’s young guns stood out when it came to holding their own on the Mandeep Singh celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal in the10th minute. big stage. Right from opening their account in the ninth minute when Mandeep Singh found the net till the final hooter, break, South Africa came back stronger and had their Rupinder Pal and Sunil, but with far bigger battles ahead it the youngsters played with calm heads. There were no frills or moments in the third quarter, but goalkeeper Sreejesh P.R., would be interesting to see how coach Harendra Singh big stage nerves — it was just plain, clean hockey, something Birendra Lakra, Amit Rohidas and Surender Kumar were marshals his troops. that coach Harendra advocates time and again. alert. That South Africa were slow on counters and failed to Half chances would have to pounced on and the midfield If Simranjeet sparkled with two goals and a man of the find men supporting up front worked in India’s favour. would have to play a greater role to keep the structure compact match award, Lalit Upadhyay played the role of a senior pro and moving agains teams like Belgium and Canada. with elan. Seasoned campaigner Akashdeep Singh was lethal, Penalty corner woes Belgium, who defeated Canada 2-1 in the other Pool C match, cutting and piercing through the South African defence and India managed to score off two of the five penalty corners are known to shut out teams in the midfield. Nor will they was very effective as a link-man. Dilpreet and Mandeep were earned against South Africa, but none of them were direct provide India with so many chances. With a water-tight able foils as India pumped in five goals. conversions. India had picked up three drag-drag-flickers in defence, Belgium do not allow many gaps. India will have to There were missed chances too which might have gone Varun Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh and Amit Rohidas but the come up with different plans against the Olympic silver unnoticed in the big victory but with two crucial matches fact that the trio failed to get going against the 15th-ranked medallists on December 2 if they are to top the group and make coming up next, India know they cannot afford to let it easy. South Africa is a cause of worry. a direct entry into the quarter-finals. At a time when international matches — and often titles — Well coordinated defense are decided by how good a team performs in the drag-flick Result The Indian defence was hardly tested in the first two department, India will have to get going in this area. India: 5 (Mandeep Singh 10th minute, Akashdeep Singh 12th, quarters. India pushed South Africa to the wall making good It was deemed as a bold move by the Indian selectors when Simranjeet Singh 43rd, 46th, Lalit Upadhyay 45th) bt South use of the flanks and creating space in the midfield. After the they opted for young blood ahead of established names like Africa 0. Olympics champs Argentina down gritty Spain in a thriller

BHUBANESWAR (TIP): Day 2 surpassed the through the goalkeeper’s pads and back out off the opening day in the number of goals scored, all backboard even before Quico Cortez could join his thanks to a thrilling high-scoring encounter between legs. two teams known for their tight defending. The Spain equalised in the 35th minute through Vicenc second day’s first encounter was expected to be a low- Ruiz, but Peillat put Argentina ahead 11 minutes scoring match, with both Argentina and Spain from the end. If anyone doubted Argentina’s place known for playing a defensive, counter-attacking among the pre-tournament favourites at the start of game. But the possibility of a goalless draw went out the match, the end showed why the gritty South of the question within three minutes, when Spain Americans, who have developed a habit for winning, struck a surprising blow. Enrique Gonzalez, the best are the reigning Olympics champions. player of the 2016 Junior World Cup, finished a quick New Zealand survived a late fightback from move after an interception in the Argentine half. France, who were guilty of wasting their chances, to Argentina’s plan of easing into their World Cup start their campaign with a 2-1 win. New Zealand got opener with a few minutes of warming up was the opener in the 16th minute through Kane Russell. quickly dashed. Spain’s aggressive start shook them. They held on to their lead despite France being more They hit back instantly, Agustin Mazzilli equalising dominant. New Zealand rubbed salt into France’s within a minute. It was scary to see the ease and wounds with another goal late into match. Stephen swiftness with which Argentina changed gear. Jenness finished off a counterattack in the 56th They fell back again in the 14th minute to a Josep minute. Romeu strike, but that was the last time they trailed. “We had the ball and the occasion but we failed to Argentina scored two in the next minute, Mazzilli convert the chances,” said France captain Cictor getting the equaliser again, and Gonzalo Peillat Charlet, who gave France hope with a goal in the scoring the first of his two drag-flicking goals. The penultimate minute. world’s deadliest drag-flicker’s strike went in Source: The Tribune THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 ASTROLOGY 23

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Bejan Daruwalla is world's most famous astrologertoday. He appears regularly on world wide TV shows. Bejan who has been a professor in English, hasauthored a number of books on astrology. India'sPrime Minister Narendra Modi , on March 29, 2012,lunched one of Bejan's books, '2012- End of theWorld? Bejan contributes to a number of journals andnewspapers in many parts of the world which includeBerkley Communications Bejan Daruwalla is available for astrological (London) Times of India(Delhi, Mumbai, consultations. He can be reached at Kolkata, Chennai) and The IndianPanorama ( [email protected] and on phone New York and Texas). Bejan's predictionshave mostly been correct and 011-91-8141234275 people the world overrely on his predictions. www.bejandaruwalla.com WEEKLY HOROSCOPE DECEMBER 03 - DECEMBER 09, 2018 Aries: Leo: Sagittarius: Ganesha says these are high - voltage times There is a windfall in this phase. This is also A time when you will re - think your priorities, spent with relatives and friends. You are your birth period and you can use the waxing and two strong concerns - achievements at busy untangling the stands of your complex phase of the moon to advantage. The trends work, and pleasurable times with family - domestic scene. There are also new love and are propitious. There are intense and powerful emerge as equally balanced. You experience a a windfall. By mid period, there could be experiences that teach you about the inner sense of satisfaction in both and what could be problems with the spouse, children, in-laws workings of your life. The transformative better? It's what most people strive for. You or friends. You feel that you are out of energies in this phase are powerful. By mid - continue to be more restrained, more low - key balance. But the period ends well. There are period, you are stable, happy, joyous, positive, in all your activities. Funds and finances are love, passion, hard work and money.You sign determined, persevering and adventurous. low - key, but are approaching a point of either new deals, and new vistas open. clearer investment or shared use so that there Virgo: is a sense of achievement. Taurus: An about - turn seems to come over you in this Capricorn: You look for anything that can break routine phase. Your mood is one of rashness, or and monotony. You seek out the offbeat certainly a keenness to take calculated risks, in A period of daring, courage and escape. There may be solo journeys as you an attempt to brighten future prospects. This determination. You are willing, even eager, to are on a soul-finding mission. By mid - will apply almost equally to matters that affect take risks, chance your arm and your heart. period, there is powerful intensity. You mow your pocket and your heart. Perhaps you need You are willing to lay down your heart for your down the opposition. You sight money, to think seriously and pray for inspiration to sweetheart to trample over, if it gets you what excitement and passion. Those in creative make the right choices. It's not a time for you want, but it just may not. A lot of hurt fields do exceedingly well. There are money bluster and bravado. You are convinced that comes from such attitudes; they also go and honey, rewards and awards, accolades you (and by extension your family) want a unappreciated for the most part. This and applause. There could also be soul- better lifestyle and so embark seriously on realization will come,and it mellows you, so stirring love. shifting to a better house / locality. that you will be less demanding and more reasonable in your approach to both work and Gemini: Libra: relationships. There are stability and progress. You gain Ganesha sends you a time in which you will Aquarius: peer group applause. The self-employed will bend every sinew to get things just right. Ideas see massive expansion and the employed will flood in and preoccupy your mind greatly, Courage came to you last period, and the have promotions and pay hikes. Mid - period mainly regarding new ventures / deals. You testing times comes now. A fraught and hectic onwards is a golden period. There could be enjoy challenges at work, too, and are period that keeps you on your toes. The extensive travel and new profitable extremely realistic in the stance you take if / reasons are: a) sky - high expenses and outflow associations. You have the Midas touch. This when problems arise. Not bad going at all, of money; b) extra assignments, perhaps even is a fantastic period for those in the media. applauds Ganesha. Your thinking has put you a stint of moonlighting to cope with expenses; You ride the crest of a wave. Success is yours dead - center on the right track! It will reflect in short, extra work, c) putting yourself out on on a platter. most strongly in those aspects of life where a limb in your efforts to help someone else equality of partners is desirable - both love / whom you have sympathy for. Risks and Cancer: marriage and business. Also, in striving to chances need to be weighed carefully. balance income and expenditure. Watch out for ego drives and accidents. Pisces: There could be altercations. Relationships Scorpio: run into trouble. By the middle of the period, A sense of ease and relaxation comes to you you are powered. You move with a new zeal. You're energized, enthusiastic, forward - in this phase; you are far less keyed - up, There could be unwarranted hostility if you looking. In this phase, your plans may go into much more laid - back than before. It could be reach in an unconsidered manner. Your ego top gear. A marvelous boost to your creativity because the theme of the new monthly trend drives are very powerful, and you will brook as I've just said. You also derive strength and is family, and family matters. This is partly no opposition. There are expenses, emotions support as well as inspiration from close because of your own sympathetic handling and a lot of bluster and chest-thumping. This friends, family and your spouse / partner. of matters that pertain to your property, can be an intensely amorous time. You want Closeness, bonding, "good vibes", and house and home, ancestral property / wealth to give and receive love. therefore, meaningful achievements all come / assets shared with other members / to you. You are open to new ideas, new relatives / kin. approaches. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018