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JAGAN REDDY COMPLAINS AGAINST JUSTICE NVRAMANA CENTRAL BANK AFFIDAVITINSC SUNDAY RBIopposes loan STORY InrarelettertoCJI,AndhraCMlists PAGE 6 moratorium allegationsagainstSC’sJudgeNo.2 extension: Will hit CM refers to Amaravati landdeal; lastmonth, Justice Ramanasaid judges become victims of gossip credit discipline PICTURE High Courtincluding the roster it wasdeclared the sitefor the Lastmonth, Justice Ramana, SREENIVASJANYALA of afew HonourableJudges”. newcapital of the state. speakingatthe launchofabook ABHI HYDERABAD,OCTOBER10 The Chief Minister’s eight- Dated October 6, the letter by former Supreme Courtjudge Says will affect small borrowers, urges BAAKI HAI pageletterrefers to Justice wasreleasedtothe media in Justice RBanumathi, said: “As IN AN unprecedented move, Ramana’s alleged “proximity” to Hyderabad Saturdayevening by judges areself-restrainedfrom courttoliftstayondeclaringNPAs Thepowers-that-be AndhraPradesh Chief Minister TDP leader and former Chief Ajeya Kallam, Principal Advisor speaking out in their ownde- have longeyed the film YSJagan Mohan Reddy has writ- MinisterNChandrababu Naidu, to the AndhraPradesh Chief fence, they arenow being con- industry, butisthere a tentoChief Justice of India SA and an Anti-CorruptionBureau Minister. struedassofttargets forcriti- ANANTHAKRISHNANG plot twist under BJP? Bobde,alleging that Justice NV investigation into“questionable The Indian Express reached cism. This issue is further NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Behind the scenes of a Ramana –nextinline to be the transactions of land” involving AndhraCMJagan Mohan out to the SecretaryGeneral of complicated by the proliferation CJI -- “has been influencing the twodaughters of Justice Ramana Reddy;Justice NVRamana the Supreme Courtfor com- of social media and technology, THE RESERVEBank of India has Covid-battered, sittings of the (AndhraPradesh) and others in Amaravati, before ment, but therewas no response. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 told the Supreme Courtthat con- nervous industry tinuation of the loan morato- RBIworry:its rium period beyond the six months already granted mayaf- mandateand fect overall credit discipline, and bankingsystem small borrowers will eventually TwofirmsofBSY’s feel the pinch. The central bank has also RBI HAS arguedagainst urgedthe apexcourttoliftits in- extending the loan mora- grandsonget Rs 5cr terim order staying declaration of torium beyond six accountsasnon-performing as- months, and has also sets (NPAs), saying this will have asked the Supreme Court “hugeimplications forthe bank- to liftthe stay imposed fromseven Kolkata ingsystem, apartfromunder- on declaring accountsas mining” its“regulatorymandate”. NPAs beyond August31. In afresh affidavit filedinthe The RBI is of the viewthis shell companies Supreme Court, whichishearing will have hugeimplica- aplea on the question of charg- tions forthe banking sys- ing interestoninterestfor loan temand also undermine Pvt channel allegedquid proquo for repaymentsduring the morato- itsregulatorymandate. rium period, the RBIsaid “a long Bengaluru housing project;Karnataka moratoriumexceeding six months canalso impact credit Amore“durable solution”, CM’s grandson says ‘workingloans’ behaviour of borrowers and in- the RBI said, is providedbythe creasethe risksofdelinquencies Resolution Framework for post resumption of scheduled Covid-19related Stress, an- JOHNSONTA payments. It mayresult in vitiat- nouncedbyitonAugust6, BENGALURU,OCTOBER10 ing the overall credit discipline which“enables the lenders to whichwill have adebilitating im- implement aresolution plan in TWOCOMPANIESinwhichChief pact on the processofcredit cre- respect of personal loans as well Minister BSYediyurappa’s ation in the economy. It will be as other exposuresaffected due grandson Shashidhar Mardi be- IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER the small borrowers whichmay to Covid-19, subject to the pre- came adirector afterthe BJP end up bearing the brunt of the scribed conditions, without as- came to powerinKarnataka in Chirag Paswan performedthe lastrites of his father,Ram Vilas Paswan, in Patna on Saturday. Bihar Chief MinisterNitish impact as their accesstoformal setclassification downgrade. July2019receivedRs 5crore from Kumar and Union MinisterRaviShankar Prasad were among those who attendedthe cremation. PTI REPORT,PAGE4 lendingchannels is criticallyde- The framework,inter alia, sevenKolkatashell companies pendent on the credit culture”. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 between Marchand July2020. The chain of transactions fig- ureindocumentsfiledwith the EXPRESS NETWORK Record DU Registrar of Companies (RoC) As Covid fuels personal vehicle use, petrol that were scrutinisedbyThe The firms sharecommon Sunday Express,and details of addresses:301E, BBGanguly cut-offs: 100% bank accountsofthe twofirms Street,and 277, BBGanguly GEHLOT: MAY demand in September higher than 2019 were telecastbyaprivateTV Street in Kolkata. Partha Paul CONVENE HOUSE for three channelthatwas takenoff air by SESSION TO DISCUSS September 2019.Fuel consump- the stategovernmentfor eight FARM LAWS PAGE 3 ENSECONOMICBUREAU REVVING UP tion in India collapsedafter the courses in LSR days,but is nowonair again. Express, Mardi termedthe money NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 government announcedana- Lastmonth,PowerTVhad al- as “working loansfor aproject” ■Petrol and ■ Diesel demand in 7,160 tionwide lockdown on March 25 leged in aseries of reports that forwhich“all documentation” INDIA’S PETROL consumption thousand metric tonnes for to combat the spread of the SUKRITABARUAH Feb, March, August, September 5,651 5,489 the moneywas partofaquid pro has been provided. He deniedthe My ISOLATION grew forthe firsttime since 4,849 novelcoronavirus. Demand ini- &ARANYASHANKAR quofor thepromise of obtaining allegationslevelledbythe TV FebruaryinSeptember,with tiallyrecovered steadilyfollow- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 government clearance forRCCL, channel, saying theyweremade Aweeklywindowintolivesof diesel demand also recovering 2,511 2,1562,3812,450 ing the lifting of the restrictions aprivate firm, to construct a with “ill intentions” and abid to India’snewsmakers,impactof monthonmonth, according to but stalledafter June,when state DELHI UNIVERSITYset anew ad- Rs 660-croregovernment hous- “tarnish the family”. Mardi, 30, is thepandemiconthem datareleasedbythegovernment’s and local government beganim- mission cut-offrecordwith its ing project in Bengaluru. the son of Yediyurappa’sdaugh- Petroleum Planning and Analysis posing local-level lockdowns. firstlistSaturdayafter the Lady ▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▲ ▼ ▼ ▼ The project, whichwas terPadmavathi VY. PAGE 7 Cell.The petrol consumption last 11.25% -16.37% -7.53% 3.29% 6.28% -24.24% -20.73% -5.96% Experts said preference for Shri RamCollegefor Women de- awardedtoRCCL in April2019 RCCL director Chandrakant month, at 2,450thousand metric personal means of transportto cidedona100%cut-offfor three ▲▼ Ascomparedtocorrespondingmonthin2019 when the Congress-JD(S) coali- Ramalingam did notrespondto ‘Children arehome,Iget tonnes (TMT), wasevenhigher avoidinfectionseems to be be- courses, and 30 courses across tion wasinpowerinKarnataka, requests forcomment. However, to spendtime with them’ thanforthecorrespondingperiod hind the petrol sales rising to pre- colleges had cut-offs over99%. is awaiting the final work order. he filedapolice complaint last SACHIN PILOT in 2019 (2,372 TMT). sumption rose to 5,489TMT,as pared to August, it wasstill6% Covidlevels. “Petrolisonlyused Lastyear,the highestcut-off Speaking to The Sunday CONTINUEDONPAGE2 However, whilediesel con- muchas13.2%higher as com- down as compared to CONTINUEDONPAGE2 across all colleges was99% for admission to the BA (Honours) Political Science programme in HinduCollege.This time, the CitingLAC,USslams China, says Ambulance driver whoferried200 bodies highestcut-offhas reached100% in LSRfor admission to three courses —BA(Honours)Political we turned other cheek too long of Covid patientssince Marchdiesofvirus Science, BA (Honours) Psychology and BA (Honours) aggression”atthe Indian border 48-year-oldambulancedriver Economics. Lastyear,the college SHUBHAJITROY and US SecretaryofState Michael ASHNABUTANI succumbed to the disease at had a98% cut-offfor Economics, NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 RPompeohas said that China has NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Hindu RaoHospital. 98%for Political Science and amassed60,000troops on India's Employedwith the Shaheed 98.75% forPsychology. IN WHATsetsthe tone forUS northern border. FOROVER six months,Aarif Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal, that pro- LSRCollegeprincipal Suman Deputy SecretaryofState Biegun’s visit is expected to Khan sleptinanambulance vides free emergency services in Sharma saidthatinthe history StephenBiegun’s visittoIndia setthe stagefor the Indo-US 2+2 parking lot28kmfromhis home NCR, Khan would oftenpitchin of the college, the cut-offhad from Monday, twotop US ad- meeting between External in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur, with moneyfor thelastrites if a nevertouched100%inevenone ministration officials have Affairs MinisterSJaishankarand staying in touchwith his wife familywas in need, or help with subject, letalone three. “This has slammedBeijing, invokingits on- Defence MinisterRajnath Singh and four children on the phone. the ritualsifadeceased’s near CONTINUEDONPAGE2 goingstandoffwith India. US on the Indian sideand Pompeo Khan wasoncall 24X7,ferrying ones were notaround, his col- National Security Advisor Robert SJaishankar with Michael and US Defence SecretaryMark patients of Covid-19 as well as leagues say. O’Brien has flagged Communist RPompeoinTokyo. PTI file TEsper later this month. carrying itsvictims to their last Khan (secondfromleft) wasoncall24X7. Express "He ensured everyone got a RELATEDREPORTS PartyofChina’s (CCP) “territorial CONTINUEDONPAGE2 rites. On Saturdaymorning, the CONTINUEDONPAGE2 PAGE 4 Back-stories and chitti tales: Indian Americans on the campaigntrail

PAGE1 communications director for PresidentLyndon BJohnson ANCHOR Congresswoman Jan signedthe 1965 Immigration Schakowsky.“My grandfather Act, allowing Indians with tech- wasprobablythe onlyperson like nical degrees to enterthe coun- him in aroom, and whenI try, Singhsays sheisnow seeing KARISHMAMEHROTRA movedtoDC, Iwas oftenthe only moreIndian Americans choose SANFRANCISCO,OCTOBER10 RACE FOR Indian American in mostofmy careers in government and pol- jobs. That has slowly changed.” itics rather than pursuingthe THE YEAR was1949. Introducing THEWHITE The 33-year-old has held sev- moretraditional engineering Jawaharlal Nehru to aNew York HOUSE Sampat Shivangi (left) and eral political posts,all with the and medical degrees. gathering, JJSingh,president of Sabrina Singh Amit Jani with JoeBiden Gautham Raghavan Shalabh Kumar (right) Democrats—regional commu- Though Indian Americans the India League forAmerica, a nications director forHillary makeuponly1per cent of the private organisation that worked Singhas'The One-ManLobby' for Clinton’s presidential campaign, US population, theymakeupat to “further Indian causes” in the India in the US,underlined, it was forthe 4,000 Indians in the US worksasthe firstIndian leastadozen other Indian from her grandfather's days of a spokeswoman of the Demo- least2per cent of the roughly US, had called him the “rainbow, no mean feat either.Singh and his then to gain citizenship. American press secretaryfor Americans working at Ground “one-manlobby”. cratic National Committee, and 600officials on the campaign reaching from EasttoWest”. organisationwere“largely re- Some sevendecades later Kamala Harris, the Indian-origin Zeroofthe 2020 elections, “He walkedtheveryhalls that national spokesperson forboth roster of Democratic presiden- This wasnoHowdy! rallyin sponsible forthe mostsignificant and the community now700- Democratic vice-presidential Sabrina is partofageneration Ihaveworkedin,” Singh told The Senator CoryBooker and Mayor tial candidateJoe Biden and his scale or ambition, yet, as a1951 period of Indian activity in the US” times stronger,asSingh's candidate, it'sinvastlydifferent that is flexing unprecedented Sunday Express,referring to her MikeBloomberg’s campaigns. running mate Harris. issue of The NewYorker,featuring until then, providing alegal route grandaughter Sabrina Singh circumstances. Alongwith at political muscle, farremoved early days whenshe worked as Half acenturyafter US CONTINUEDONPAGE2

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RBI tions while designing the resolu- chippedin. He wasaman who reallyembodies what the Biden tion plans”. genuinelycared forothers.” campaign is about,” he said in an permitsextensionof themorato- It said the circular of In rare letter to CJI, Andhra CM lists April 2020 speech. “If youcome rium by amaximum of two September 7, 2020 (notifying the DU cut-offs to our headquarters in years”. recommendations) provides for happenedfor the firsttime. The Philadelphia, you’ll see alot of Earlier,the Union Finance “separatethresholds for26sec- allegationsagainst SC’s Judge No. 2 cut-offs foradmissions arede- people justlikemefromthe Ministry, in itsaffidavit, had told tors including power, real estate cidedbythe collegebasedon South Asian community... My the courtthat the government andconstruction.Evenunderthe analysis of the profile and data of dad wasinvolvedincommunity had decided to waiveintereston powersector,separatethresholds wherein judges arebecoming The Chief Minister alleged On September 15,the High electronic, print or social me- applicants. In addition, several organising in Indian politics and interestinrespect of MSMEs and have been prescribedforgenera- victims of juicy gossip and slan- that investigationsintoland Courtrestrainedthe media dia, to foistthe office of afor- other local factors like limited that’s partofthe reason Igot into other personal loans up to Rs 2 tion, transmission and distribu- derous social-media posts.” dealings by former state from reporting details of the mer AdvocateGeneral and also number of seatsavailable in dif- politics here.” croreduringthesix-monthmora- tions sectors. Similarly,separate In his letter,the Chief AdvocateGeneral FIR filedbythe Anti- with respect to the other al- ferent courses and pastexperi- However, it's thisbackstory torium period. thresholds have been prescribed Ministerhas mentioned“in- DammalapatiSrinivaswere Corruption Bureauagainstthe leged accusedpersons,’’ said ence aretaken into account. that found the 30-year-old in a The RBI said “continuation of forresidentialand commercial stances of howmatters impor- stayedbythe High Court former AdvocateGeneral re- the order by Chief Justice JK Accordingly,for this year,100% bind. Soon afterBiden named temporarymoratorium” beyond real estate sectors”. tant to Telugu Desam Party though an FIR wasregistered garding land purchase in Maheshwari. cut-offhas been fixedfor some Jani head of Muslim American the six month period already al- “Sectorssuchaspowerand have been allocated to afew againsthim by the Anti- Amaravati. The Chief Minister’s letter courses in the firstlist,” shesaid. Outreach, severalprogressive lowed“would notevenbeinthe real estate were already stressed Honourable Judges”, and has Corruption Bureau. “By wayofinterim relief, it refers to thisorder of the High Asked if anyDUcollegehad groupsand civilrightsorganisa- interest of borrowers. It maynot even before the pandemic on ac- detailedthis in an annexure. “The complaint of cheating is directed that no coercive Court: “While the Supreme ever declared a100%cut-offin tions demandedhis removalfor besufficientinaddressingdeeper countof variousfactorspertainto The letter states “eversince and crime investigation is steps shall be takeninfurther- Courthas been steadfastinen- three subjects, DU Dean his open support of Prime cash flowproblems of the bor- sector-specific problems,” the the YSRCongress Partygained stayed on the ground that the ance to (the FIR) whichhas suring no prior-restraint on (Admissions) Shobha Bagai said, MinisterNarendraModiand rowers and in fact exacerbatethe centralbanksaid,addingthat“the powerinMay 2019 and or- moneyinvolvedinthe trans- been registeredafter filing of publication by media, agag or- "Not thatIam awareof." over his latefather’s role as for- repaymentpressuresforthebor- travails of the real sector cannot dered enquiryintoall the deals action is repaidbythe accused. this writ petition againstany of der on the media is passed.” She said the reason forsky- mer president of the Overseas rowers”. be solvedthroughbanking regu- made by the regime of N Everyjudicial precedent and the accused.The enquiry, in- He has urgedthe CJI to rocketingcut-offs washighscores FriendsofBJP.Biden has report- “Therefore,amoredurableso- lations. The banking regulations Chandrababu Naidu from June elementaryprinciple of ju- vestigationisalso stayed.Itis “consider initiating suchsteps intheschoolboardexaminations. edly replacedJani as his Muslim lution wasneededtorebalance of RBI cannotsubstitute the ad- 2014 to May2019, Justice NV risprudence is violated by such further directed that the news as maybeconsidered fitand "DU cut-off is basedonthe input outreachcoordinator while re- thedebtburdenof viableborrow- dressal of structural problems of Ramana startedinfluencing orders, with aviewtoprotect in regard to (the FIR, details proper,toensurethat the State of the school boards. If theyare taining him in his AAPI post. Jani ers,bothbusinesses as well as in- the real sector”. the course of administration of the interests of TDP members,’’ withheld as per courtorder) ... judiciary’s neutrality is main- giving suchhigh marks, we have refusedtocomment forthis dividuals, relative to their cash “In anycase, projectsunder justice in the state”. the CM stated in his letter. shall notbemade public in any tained”. no other option but to raise the story. flowgenerationabilities. It was implementation whichare af- cut-offs.It'shigh time that we Sonal Shah, who served as with this consideration in mind fecteddue to the fallout of Covid- startlookingatoureducationsys- policy director forMayor Pete that the ReserveBank has an- 19 canberestructured under an Belgravia'sAxisBankaccountbe- all,my partnerownsthemajority US slams China to hospital. temand the waywehavebeen Buttigieg's run in the 2020 elec- nouncedthe Resolution already existing framework. This tweenMay14,2020,andJune 26, stakeinthecompanies.Iholdonly Pompeo and Esper,asper Khan’ssonAadil,22,saidthey evaluating ourstudents. In NEP,a tion and is nowamember of one Framework forCovid-19related extant framework allows forex- 2020.Subsequently, asecond 12 per cent. In Belgravia, Idonot plan,are likelytofly downto India hadseenhimonlyduringhisbrief commonentrance test is pro- of Biden's task forces, too, has Stress (“ResolutionFramework”) tensionof timelineforcompletion trancheof Rs3.41crore wastrans- have anyshare.Myassociateisthe foran“in-person” meeting with visitshome since March 21."He posedevenfor university admis- been at the receiving end of pro- on August6,2020,” it said. of the projectsby2years in case ferred from Belgravia to VSS owner.Thereisnolink between their Indian counterparts and came over to pickupthings, like sions,soIhopeit'simplemented," gressives' ireoverher pastasso- OnSeptember3,theSupreme of non-infraprojects,including EstatesonJuly6,2020. me and agovernment project. I meetPrime MinisterNarendra clothes...Iusedtogocheckonhim she said. ciation withthe VHP's US wing. Courthad directed that accounts realestate projects,andby 4years Three of the Kolkatacompa- amaprivate individual.Theyhave ModionOctober 26-27, sources sometimes. He neverbothered Apartfromthe three 100% Severalother lead officials whichhavenot been declared as forinfrastructureprojectswith- nies —Remac Distributors, got aloan to work on aproject. told The SundayExpress. aboutCovid,hejustwantedto do cut-offs,LSR Collegehas cut-offs readilyembrace their ethnic NPAs as of August31shouldnot outdowngradingtoNPA,” it said. GannayakCommodities and The TV channel has linked unre- The twosides arekeen to his job well," said Aadil, the above 99%for 10 other pro- identity.Atavirtual Asian be declared so until further or- The government, the RBIaffi- Rajgharana Sales—are located at lated stufftodefame us.” wrap up the ministerial meeting youngerofKhan's sons, adding grammes, including four BA American outreach event, ders. davitstated,toohadtakenseveral 301E, BBGangulyStreet, Room He further said: “Belgravia is before the November 3US thatthe lasttime Khan came Programme combinations. It is Biden’s Chief Financial Officer The RBI urgedthe courtto measures to address some of the No 4, Kolkata, WB 700012,asper notrelated to the family. Iwas in- Presidential polls, as aconsolida- home, he wasalready sick. seekingatleast99.75% forBCom Saloni Multani said, “I cannottell “immediately”liftthis“acrossthe sectoral problems, including cre- RoCrecords. The other four — ducted as a director around six tion exercise of the pastfour Khan's other son, Asif, said, "I (Honours) and BSc (Honours) youthe expression on my fa- boardstay” because if this is not ation of aSpecial Windowfor Strategic Vincom, Navtech months agobut Idonot have any years’ efforts. didn't even gettosay goodbye... Statistics. ther’s face to seesomeone who done“it shall have hugeimplica- Completion of Affordable and Creation, Sakambari Merchants shares.Itisa12-13year oldcom- Earlier this week in Utah, Howwill we survive?” AfterLSR College, Hindu lookslikehim on the ticket.” tionsfor the banking system, Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH and Jagadamba Commosales — pany. They were active till 2013. O'BriensaidChinahasattempted Khan, who earnedRs16,000 Collegehas the highestnumber At thesame event, Biden’s apartfromundermining”its“reg- Investment Fund) to provide pri- arelocatedat277,BBGanguly Theydid notwant to startanew to "seize" control of the Line of amonth, wasthe sole earning of 99%andabove cut-offs withsix Digital Chief of StaffMedha Raj, ulatorymandate”. ority debt financing forthe com- Street,Kolkata, WB 700012. companysotheyrevived ActualControl(LAC)withIndiaby member of the family. Aadil said courses.Ithas set99.5% for whose ancestryisfromTamil TheRBIsaidit“hastakenabal- pletionof stalledhousingprojects. The firstaddress is locatedin- Belgravia. It is true that it wasin- force, and stressedthat the time his brother and he did odd jobs Political Science and 99.33% for Nadu, drew on the fact that her ancedview, taking intoaccount “Therecommendationswere side acongestedmarketincen- active foralmostfiveyears.” has cometoacceptthat meredi- onceinawhile,but work hadpe- Physics. grandmother’sname has theinterestofthedepositors,bor- broadlyaccepted by the Reserve tral Kolkata. “Thereweresome Respondingto aspecificques- alogue and agreementswill not teredout lately. Acrossmostsought-aftercol- “Kamala” in it.“Hearing chitti rowers,real sector entities and Bankandaccordingly,theReserve companies that operated from tion on the money, he said: “It is persuadeBeijing. "These have been extraordi- leges,a99% and above has be- (aunt) notjustfrommyfamily banks.Financialstabilityandeco- Bank issuedthe circulardated one of theshops afew years ago. all genuine loans with TDS paid Incidentally, itwasO’Brien,ac- narytimes, and even though he come the standard cut-offfor ad- but from thetelevision screen” nomicgrowthofthe country September 7, 2020 notifying the But thoseshops have shut along and paperwork done. Allcompa- cording to Bob Woodward’s lat- wasadriver, Khan oftenhelped missiontothe BA (Honours) washer moving moment, she were also kept in mind while ar- same,” it stated. time ago,”said RajeevShaw, a nies have these types of transac- estbook,whohadwarnedTrump withthelastritestoo.WohMuslim PoliticalScience programme — said. rivingatitspolicydecisionsby the worker in an optical store. tions.” about the Covid-19pandemic in thapar Hinduon ke bhi daah-san- 100% in LSR, 99.5%inHindu Other Indian Americans Reserve Bank”. BSY grandson At the otheraddress,about Officialssaidthetenderforthe aJanuary28meeting saying the skaar karaata tha (Hewas a College, and 99% in Miranda working with the Democratic It pointed out that as per the month againstPowerTVfor air- 100metresaway, therewas no housing project —tobuild one- virus“willbethebiggestnational Muslimbut he helpedout even House,RamjasCollege,KiroriMal campaign include assistant cam- Resolution proposal, onlythose ingpurportedsting recordings of signof thefourcompanies.“Ihave and three-bedroom flats —was security threat youface in your withcremations of Hindus)... He Collegeand Jesus and Mary paign managerShreeya borroweraccounts, whichwere conversationssuggesting corrup- beenhereforaverylongtimeand floatedinOctober2017 underthe presidency”. wasverydedicatedtohis work," College. Panigrahi; Biden’s speechwriter classifiedasstandard, but notin tionintheclearancesforthehous- Ihavenever heardthe names of then Congress government. The O’Brien, who has been in said Jitender Singh Shunty,the Lastyear,thesecollegeshadto VinayReddy;former US Surgeon default formorethan30days ingproject by the Bangalore thesecompanies,”saidDevender bid by RCCL wasapproved in a touchwith NSAAjit Dovalsince founder of the ShaheedBhagat dealwiththeissueof ‘over-admis- General and Biden-Harris task withanylendinginstitutionason Development Authority (BDA). Jain, who runs aplywood shop boardmeeting of the BDAon the China tensionbegan, said SinghSewa Dal,addingthatKhan sions’ -- morestudentsclearing forcemember VivekMurthy; March 1, 2020,shallbeeligiblefor Thechannelhadalsoallegedthat there. December 21,2017. The project early thisweek: "CCP's (Chinese worked 12-14hours aday,re- thecut-offthantheavailableseats and formercivil rightschiefat resolution. It mayinter alia in- Yediyurappa'ssonBYVijayendra, According to the VSSEstates remainedinlimbo afterthe CommunistParty) territorial ag- sponding to calls even as lateas3 -- in Political Science, which the US Department of Justice and clude reschedulingofpayments, 45, and astate government offi- accountstatement,theRs5crore Congressgovernmentfellin2018 gression is also apparent on its am. emergedasthemostpopularpro- task forcemember VanitaGupta. conversionof anyinterestaccrued cial had demanded Rs 17 crore depositedbetweenMarch 13 and and aJD(S)-Congress coalition IndianborderwhereChinahasat- Khan wasalso around when grammeinhumanitiesandsocial The onlyIndian American on or to be accruedintoanother from RCCL. July6byBelgraviawastransferred wasformedinJune 2018. temptedtoseize controlofthe Shuntyandhisfamilytestedpos- sciences. Biden’s transitionteam, which creditfacility,or, grantingof mora- Following the complaint, po- on July 27,2020,toanother ac- Aheadofthe LokSabha polls Line of Actual Control by force”. itivefor the virus. So, whenKhan Severalcolleges also have a lays the groundworkfor apoten- torium, basedonassessment of lice raidedPower TV's premises count--of apartnershipfirmVSS in 2019,the coalition issued alet- "The time has come to accept got infectedandtookaturnforthe 99% and above cut-offfor the tialBiden administration, is income streams of the borrower in the city on September 28 and WorksLLPwhereMardi'spartner tertoRCCL on April 22 that year, that dialogueand agreements worse,hetriedtoreturnthekind- BCom (Honours) programme: GauthamRaghavan, former chief fortwo years. thechannelwasoff airtillOctober SanjaySreeisadirector along approving the projectand seek- will notpersuade or compel ness. However, thedeterioration 99.75% in LSRCollege, 99.5% in of stafffor Congresswoman TheRBIdidnotagreewiththe 7. with arepresentativeofarealty ingasecurity deposit of Rs 33.31 China to change. There's nothing wassudden. "Aarif did nothave Shri RamCollegeofCommerce, PramilaJayapal. Jayapal wasat contention thataccountswhich The RoCdocumentsshow firm PRRamakrishnan. crore.Afterthepolls,onJune24,a to be gainedfromlooking the anyotherhealth conditions but 99.25% in HinduCollege, 99.25% the centreofaUS Congressreso- were standardbut overdue be- that Rs 5crore wastransferred VSSEstatesPvtLtdwasstarted formal agreement wassignedby other wayorturning the other he washavingtroublebreathing in Hansraj Collegeand 99%in lution againstthe removalof yond30days asonMarch1,2020 throughsevenKolkatacompanies in November 2019 with Mardi RCCL and the BDAfor the con- cheek.We've been doing that for forthe last fewdays," he said. Ramjas College. Kashmir’s special statehood. shouldalsobeconsideredeligible to Belgravia Enterprises Pvt Ltd and aUK-basedpartnerSanjay structionoftheproject.Asperthe toolong,”hesaid. Anand Kumar,32, afellow Upward movementincut-off Besides Ramagiri, amongthe fortheResolutionastheytoomay and VSSEstates Pvt Ltd, where Sree as itsdirectors. It is yettofile agreement,workwas to start He addedthatReliance had driverwiththeSewa Dalwhoalso percentages this year wasex- Indian Americans who were un- have been impacted on account Mardi is adirector. The Kolkata details of its2019-20 revenue from June 24,2019and conclude prohibited theuse of Huawei’s stays in the parking lotfor fear of pected,especiallybecause of a til recently associatedwith the of Covid-19. companies sharecommon ad- withtheRoC.AnRoCfilingby VSS by December 23, 2021. equipment, as an exampleofthe carrying the virushome, said sharp increase in the number of party'selectionrun is Chicago “Thisisaclassicfallacyof com- dressesasperfilingswiththeRoC EstatesPvt Ltd includes acopyof InJuly, shortlyaftertheagree- internationalcommunity’spush- whenhejoinedayear ago, "Aarif studentswho had scored above businessman Shalabh “Shalli” positionwhichpresumesthatthe butTheSundayExpressvisitedthe itsbank statement forthe period ment wassigned, the coalition backagainstBeijing. wasveryhelpful.Hetreated me 95%intheCBSEClassXIIboardex- Kumar.Kumar,co-founder of the accountspaying on time can be locations to find that none of betweenMay25-27, 2020,which government collapsedand the Meanwhile, Pompeo, who likeabrotherand guidedme." aminationsthroughthemodified Republican Hindu Coalition and equated with accountspaying them were operating from there. reflectsabalanceofRs1.59crore BJPheadedbyYediyurappacame earlier this week metJaishankar Conversations betweenthem of- assessment scheme usedbythe onceamajorfundraiser for withaconsiderable delay. An ac- The rent agreementssubmitted in the account. to power. The Congressparty in in Tokyofor the Quad meeting, tenrevolvedaround howmuch board. The modified scheme had Trump, has since cooledoff. countwhichwas impacted by by VSSEstatesandBelgraviabear The RoCfiling of the bank ac- Karnatakahasallegedthatawork alsohit out at Beijing forits "bad theymissedtheirfamilies,Kumar been adoptedsince students had Another well-known face is pandemicaswellashadapre-ex- thesameBengaluruaddressason countdetailsforMay 2020forVSS order to startthe projectwas de- behaviour"."TheIndians aresee- said. notcompletedtheir examina- Sampat Shivangi, memberof istingfinancialhasadifferentrisk June 15,2020. Estateswhenseeninconjunction layedbythe BJP as favours were ing 60,000 Chinese soldierson Foundedin1995,the Sewa tions, interruptedbythe lock- Trump’s CoalitionAdvisory profileascomparedto anaccount Accordingto bankstatements with the bankstatementsre- soughtby thoselinkedto thegov- their northern border,Pompeo Dal provides free and accessible down in March. Boardand aformer Karnataka withoutpre-existingstressandto of Belgravia’s Axis Bank account, leasedbyPower TVforthe seven ernment. saidinaTVinterviewafterhisre- emergency servicestothe needy The last timeDU's cut-off University student union presi- treat both borrowers on equal thefirmreceivedRs5.35crore be- Kolkatacompanies, Belgravia —WITHSANTANU turn from Tokyo. intheCapitalandaround,includ- touchedthe 100% markwas five dent. “The Emergency hap- footing would be gross suspen- tweenMarch 2020andJune2020 Enterprises, VSSEstates andVSS CHOWDHURYINKOLKATA “For decades, the West al- ing ambulances and blooddona- years ago. In 2015,Collegeof pened. Iwas being watched,” he sionofeconomic sensibilities,” it from the sevenKolkatacompa- Works, shows the movement of lowedthe Chinese Communist tion,andKhanhadbeenworking Vocational Studies and says,talking of his journeyfrom said. nies.This money, records show, the Rs 5crore from March to July Petrol demand Partytowalk all over us. Thepre- with them from almostthe start. Indraprastha Collegefor Women Karnataka to the US, wherehe Some petitionershad sought wassubsequentlytransferredto 2020 through the firms linked to fortransportationsoithas seen a viousadministrationbentaknee, Shunty said notjusthospitals hadsought100%foradmissionto got afellowship at Johns Hopkins directionsto RBIto announcesec- the Axis Bank accountofVSS Shashidhar Mardi. sharp recovery,withpeople in- toooften allowedChina to steal butalsoRWAsandpolicestations the Computer Science course. University.“Icamewitha tor-specific reliefs. Estates. Apartofthese transfers Alongwith Mardi, Sree is also creasingly opting forpersonal ourintellectualpropertiesandthe turn to them. Khan wasone of Since then, cut-offs have been Nehruvian, socialistic mind. Responding to this, the RBI areevidentinRoC filings: adirector in Belgravia, whichisa mobility,butdieselisalsousedfor millionsofjobsthat camealong their 12 employees. Lastmonth, high, but no college haddeclared That’s whyall Indiansare said “suchprayers deliberately ■First,Rs1.95crorewastrans- general enterprise firm. Mardi agricultural and industrial pur- with it,” he said. Guru TegBahadur Hospital had a100%cut-offfor anysubject. Democrats. That’s howwewere obfuscatethefactthatResolution ferred from Remac Distributors wasinducted as adirector on poses besides transportation, Inanotherinterview, Pompeo written an appreciationletter raised.” Ultimatelysettlinginthe Framework givescomplete dis- PvtLtd,SakambariMerchantsPvt August29, 2019,shortlyafter whichhaveseenlowerconsump- said: "Look, theyhavestacked thanking the organisationfor Indian Americans segregated southern stateof cretionto lendinginstitutionsand Ltdand Strategic Vincom Private Yediyurappa became CM. In RoC tion,” said AbhijitBora, analystat 60,000 soldiers againstthe transporting over 300bodies President Donald Trump’s Mississippi, he switched politi- borrowers to arrive at resolution Ltd through NEFT and RTGS be- filingsupto March2019, thefirm Sharekhan, BNP Paribas. Indians in the north.” from the hospital of Covid pa- campaign team toohas at least cal parties and went on to receive plans whichare tailored to the tweenMarch 13,2020andMarch reportedzerorevenueandlosses Boraalso notedthatthe de- tients, and helping in their last one listedIndian American — severalappointmentsonthe specific requirementsofthe sec- 20, 2020 to Belgravia. of Rs 38,458. mand fordiesel usuallyfalls dur- Ambulance driver rites, including in cases where KavyaRamagiri, Deputy boardofkey medical bodies. torsubject to the prudential Subsequently, Rs 1.5crore was Mardisaid:“They areworking ingthe monsoon everyyear,and farewellbuthisownfamilycould- familymembersdid notturn up. Executive Director of Strategic Also closetothe President’s boundaries specifiedtherein”. transferredfromBelgraviato VSS loans foraproject. We have pro- that the recovery to 93% of pre- n't give him that. Theysaw his EastDelhiDistrict Magistrate Coalitions, who graduated from family is fashion designer It pointed out thatthe MV Estates’ Axis Bank account. videdall documentation forit.” Covid levels was, in fact, “phe- bodyfromafarforafewminutes," ArunKumar Mishraalsowrote a Baylor Universityin2019and in- Mrinalini Kumar,co-chair of Kamath Committee recom- ■ Then,Rs3.40 crorewas On the Kolkatacompanies with nomenal” giventhe economic said Jitender Kumar,adding that letternotingtheircontributionin ternedataconservative IndianVoices forTrump, whoof- mended“sector specific thresh- transferredfromSakambari common addresses, he said: scenario.Executivesatoilmarket- Khan wouldhaveferriedclose to thepandemic. Washington DC think tank. tenappears in the media relay- olds to the mandatory financial Merchantsand four other com- “These arerelated to eachother. ingcompanieshave saidthatthey 200bodies since March. Giving an example of Khan’s Among those in the blue cor- ingher storyofbuildingabusi- parameters, whichare morelib- panies, Jagdamba Commosales Also,Ido notknowmuchabout expect the diesel demand to re- On October 3, Khan fell sick dedication, Shunty said, "On ner is Amit Jani, head of Asian nessbysimply“running into eralthannormallendingfinancial PvtLtd, GannayakCommodities, that.” turn to pre-Covid levels by and got aCovid-19testdone, September 30, ahospital refused American and Pacific Islander RalphLauren” in New York. benchmarks,thatneedto becon- NavtechCreation Pvt Ltdand Askedabouttheallegationsof November-December. whichcame positive.Hedied to release aperson’s bodyashis (AAPI) Outreachfor the Biden- FULLREPORTSON sideredinthe financialprojec- RagharanaSales Pvt Ltd,to corruption, Mardi said: “Firstof within aday of getting admitted familycouldn’tfoot thebill...Khan Harris campaign team. “My story www.indianexpress.com

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SET ON FIRE OVER LAND DISPUTE TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE Gehlot:MayconveneHouse Rajasthanpriest 222 CASES: RECOVERED:59,88,822 DAYSSINCE 69,79,423 DEATHS:1,07,416 PANDEMIC cremated aftergovt BEGAN TESTS: 8,57,98,698 | DOUBLING RATE: 66.62** sessiontodiscussfarmlaws breaks familyimpasse EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE JAIPUR,OCTOBER10 pensation of Rs 10 lakh,” Meena EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE told reporters in Karauli on RAJASTHAN CHIEF Minister JAIPUR,OCTOBER10 Saturday. KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING AshokGehlotsaidonSaturday Regardingthe actiontaken in TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* TIME** that his government could con- BABU LALVaishnav,the priest the case and itsinvestigation, vene asession of the Assembly who diedofinjuries on Thursday Karauli Additional ■ Maharashtra 15,06,018 12,134 0.88% 81.90 soon to discuss thethree new afterhewas allegedly setonfire SuperintendentofPolice, ■ Andhra 7,44,864 5,145 0.75% 95.70 farm laws recentlypassedin over aland disputeinKarauli dis- Prakash Chand, said, “So far, we Parliament and examine the trict, wascremated on Saturday have arrestedone person —main ■ Tamil Nadu 6,46,128 5,185 0.85% 84.53 types ofamendments that afterauthorities spoketofamily accusedKailashMeena —and ■ Delhi 3,03,693 2,860 0.88% 82.03 could be made to them under membersand local residents have detainedanother person, ■ Kerala 2,68,100 9,250 3.31% 21.77 the rightsprovidedtothe states who had earlier refused to cre- whoisbeing interrogated. The by theConstitution. matethe body unless the govern- funeral took place todayevening *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7days**Calculated over 7-day growth “Wewould liketoconvene ment fulfilled their demands. (Saturday) afteranagreement CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT the Assemblyand hold adiscus- The Opposition BJP is citing wasreachedwith the familyand sion. The laws whichhavebeen the crimeasthe latestincident in the administration. We have de- 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTEDTODAY passed, receivedthe approval of what the party calls adeteriorat- puted separate teams to arrest 1.56 8.32 73,272 the President. We wouldliketo ing lawand order situation in the the remaining accusedand the NOW: NOW: RECOVEREDTODAY: examine what type of amend- Rajasthan Chief MinisterAshok Gehlotand stateCongress president Govind Singh Dotasraat state. family has been providedpolice 1.54 8.13 82,753 mentswecan make under the the Kisan Sammelan organisedagainstthe newfarm laws in Jaipur on Saturday. Rohit Jain Paras On Friday, BJPRajya Sabha MP protection.” Deaths as aratioof Positivesagainst Becoming sick vs rightsprovided by the Kirodi Lal Meena andthe party's BJP national secretaryAlka positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more Constitution to thestates,”said MP from Karauli-Dholpur, Manoj Gurjar,who is apartofthe three- indicator of progress (in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days GehlotonSaturday while ongoing Covid-19pandemic, emergency? Farmers arethe SupportPrice(MSP).“Contract Rajoria, were among the saffron member committeethat went to in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak speaking at the state-levelKisan the centre, as well as stategov- stakeholders here. Agriculture farming...As if we arelivingin partyleaders whojoinedthe meetVaishnav's family, hit out at DataasonOctober9,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbersinclude datafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive Sammelanorganisedbythe ernmentsare battling with ase- is astate subject andhere, laws those developedcountries familymembers in adharna in ChiefMinisterAshok Gehlotsay- Congress in Jaipur againstthe vere shortage of funds. arebeing brought by theCentral wherefarmershave500-1,000 Buknavillage. Athree-member ing he wasalso thestate's Home newfarm laws. “Modiji (PrimeMinister government withoutconsulta- acres of land, therethe farmers committee of the party also met Ministerand should resign if he is He addedthat the session NarendraModi) has the Reserve tion,”saidGehlot. themselvesare liketraders. the family on Saturday. unabletocontrolthe lawand or- 2,123 new Covid-19 cases; 15 maybeconvenedsoon and that Bank of India and the right to Addingthat the Centrehad Contract farmingcan function The impasse over the de- der situation. his government wouldnot print currencies. Stategovern- notsentthe bills to aselect there. Here86per cent farmers mands of the familycontinued Meanwhile, Governor Kalraj more deaths in Rajasthan leave anythinglacking in terms mentsdon't have this. The in- committee of the Parliament have land less than 5acres,” said throughout Saturday before au- MishraonSaturdayspokeover of the welfareoffarmers. come of stategovernments has despitedemands from the Gehlot. thorities were able to negotiate thephoneto Gehlot regardingthe ing to abulletin by the Health de- The CM addedthat Congress come down to fortyper cent,” Opposition, Gehlot said the The Chief Ministersaid an agreement with Vaishnav's lawand order situation in the PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA partment. president Sonia Gandhi is also said Gehlot. Centrealso did notheedtoeven farmers don'trealise howthe familymembers. state —includingthe Karauli in- JAIPUR,OCTOBER10 In Jaipur,334 people have in favour of the session and has He asked whythe newlaws demands foradivisionofvotes newfarmlawswill gradually af- “If we sitwith thebody for cident. dieddue to Covid-19infection so asked state governments to ex- were introducedamid the pan- in the RajyaSabha. fect their incomes and that it moredays,then it will be said Astatement from the Raj RAJASTHAN RECORDED 2,123 far, followedby154 in Jodhpur, aminewhatcan be doneinthis demic. “What wasthe need to Hitting outatseveral re- will take severalyears forthe that politicsisbeing done over a BhawansaidMishraexpressedhis newCovid-19cases taking the 122inBikaner, 117inAjmer,107 regard. bring these threeblack laws forms, Gehlot saidthe newlaws public to understand the dead body.Therefore, it has been concernsoverrecentincidents,to infection tallyto1,56,908 on in Kota,85inBharatpur,70in Gehlot addedthat amid the during this time? What wasthe don't supportMinimum newlaws. decidedtocremate the body.A whichGehlotsaid the govern- Saturday, while 15 morefatali- Pali, 49in Nagaur,54inUdaipur, child from the aggrievedfamily ment has takencognizance and ties pushedthe state's death toll 46 in Alwar,41inSikar,30in will be providedajob on con- theguiltywon'tbespared.Action to 1,636, the Health department Barmer and 26 in Dholpur and SPIKED TRP‘SCAM’ tractual basis, ahouse will be will betakenafter proper investi- said. 25 in Rajsamand, it said. built(forthe family) and the gov- gation,GehlottoldMishra,accord- The total number of active The fresh cases reportedon ernment will paythem acom- ing to the statement. cases in the state nowstandsat Saturday include 365inJaipur, Spiked TRP ‘scam’:Mumbaipolice 21,354,and so far1,32,903 Covid- 349inJodhpur,300 in Bikaner, 19 patientshavebeen dis- 204inAlwar,98inBhilwaraand Rahul attacks Centrefor providing chargedafter recovery,accord- 94,the bulletin said. summons Republic Media CEO, 5others non-bulletproof vehicles to soldiers

Sundaram, distribution head In his letter,Sundaram said he Supreme Court, Irequestyou to NewDelhi: CongressleaderRahul justice,”hesaidinatweet inHindi. Day after birthday SAGARRAJPUT GhanshyamSingh, twoadvertis- is currentlynot in Mumbai and notproceedany further with the Gandhi on Saturday attacked the The video shows aconversa- MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 ing agencies and the accountants would be available in Mumbai investigations so farasRepublic governmentoverprovision of tionbetweensoldiersobjectingto of BoxCinemasandFaktMarathi. onlyafter October14-15. TV and itsemployees arecon- non-bullet proof vehiclesfor sol- beingtransportedinanon-bullet- celebrations, BJP MUMBAIPOLICEcrimebranchon However, only theadvertising The letter further read, “I wish cerned. We will join the investi- diers, while spendingRs8,400 proof vehicle, while their seniors Saturdayissuedsummons to six agencies executives,SamBalsara, to bring to your notice that awrit gations subject to the orders of croretoprocureaircraftforPrime were using bulletproof vehicles. morepeople,including the Chief head of Madison,and Shashi petitionunder Article 32 has the Supreme Court.” Minister NarendraModi. Theyalso complainedthatby Executive Officerand twoChief Sinha, CEO of IPG Media Brands, been filedbeforethe Hon’ble Singh,meanwhile,wasissued “Is this justice?” he asked on doing so, their liveswerebeing MP’s officesealed Operating Officers of Republic arrivedatthepoliceheadquarters Supreme CourtofIndia asecond summons on Saturday Twitteralong with avideo of a compromisedand that authori- MediaNetworkaswellastheCEO in responsetothe summons,and (Provisional application number asking himtoappearbeforepo- purportedconversationbetween ties were playing with their and thoseinattendance at the cele- of Hansa Research Group and an- were present therefor morethan 7848/2020) in relationtothe liceonSunday. soldiersbeingtransportedinnon- their families' lives. Gandhi had EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE bration by Friday.” other employeeofthe company, eight hours. above referred matter and we The investigatingteam ledby bulletproof vehicles. earlierattackedModiovertheac- BHUBANESWAR,OCTOBER10 Odisha Home Minister to appearbefore themonSunday Republic’s Sundaram and have requestedfor an early hear- assistant policeinspector Sachin “Our jawans arebeingsentin quisitionof VVIPaircraftandwon- Dibyashankar Mishraalso wrote in the ongoing investigationinto Singh wrotetoMumbai police ing and it is likelytobelistedby Vaze has asked Balsaraand Sinha non-bulletproof trucks to get deredhowmuchcouldhavebeen THE OFFICE of Bhubaneswar MP alettertoUnion minister Rai, ap- an alleged‘fake TRP scam’. stating that theyare out of next week.Given that the matter to provide adetailedhistory of martyredandaRs8,400croreair- bought forsoldiers stationed at AparajitaSarangiwas sealed on prising him of Sarangi’s birthday OnFriday, aday afterthearrest Mumbai. The accountant of Fakt is to be listedsoon before the their clientsforthelasttwo years. craftisbrought forthe PM! Is this the Siachen-Ladakh border. PTI Fridayfor violating Covid-19 celebrations. of four persons,the policehad Marathi also claimedheisaresi- norms afteravideo emergedof “I would nothavebrought summoned RepublicMedia’s dent of Indore and asked fortime the BJP leadercelebrating her this to your notice had this been Chief Financial Officer S to appearbeforethem. October 8birthdaywith nearly the firstoccasion wherethe Government of India 100womeninattendance. Honourable MP has blatantly Department of Atomic Energy The Odisha Home Minister violatedCovid guidelines. has also written to Union Despite repeatedadvisories, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mysore MinisterofState forHome warnings and booking in at INVITATION FOR (Committal) EXPRESSION OF Nityananda Rai, apprising him of least threecases against Sarangi’s violating Covid-19 Honourable MP [Sarangi] forvi- INTEREST FROM PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS FOR norms. olation of Covid guidelines, PRELIMINARY PRE-QUALIFICATION Athree-member thereisnoimprovement in be- Bhubaneswar Municipal haviour.Suchirresponsiblebe- Chief Engineer(SMF), BARC, Mysore, on behalf of President of Corporation (BMC) and police haviour on the partofapeople’s India invites Expression of Interest(EOI) from reputed, qualified, personnel sealedSarangi’s office, representative will demotivate experienced and financially sound bidders for the following. located in thecity’sPalaspalli the COVID warriors and is an in- area, for15days. sulttoall thosewho have lost Ref No. BARC/SMFC/CHK/WS/EOI/01 Deputy Zonal Commissioner their lives,” Mishrahad said in Name of the Work Operation of BARC workshop &supply Rabi NarayanJethy,who ledthe the letter. of components at SMF, Challakere, team said, “The building is being Afterher office wassealed, Karnataka for five years. This involves sealedfor 15 days as therewas a Sarangi, at apress conference, procurement of raw material, large gathering andmanypeo- accused the ruling BJD in the ple were notseen wearing stateof“vindictivepolitics”. She manufacturing &inspection of specified masksormaintaining social dis- also displayedphotosand videos components, further, packaging & tancing during the celebration. of BJD MLAs and MPs violating Office of the Member Secretary, delivering them to BARC SMF Site Stores; Since the basic guidelines were Covid-19norms. “Time and Rajasthan Medicare Relief Society also, managing the Workshop Facility for notfollowed, the buildingisbe- againministers and MPs from Sir Padampat Mother &Child Health Institute, J.L.N. Marg, Jaipur SMF at Ullarthi project site, Challakere, ing sealed. All those who were the BJDviolatenorms toobut No...... /Store/SPMCHI/RMRS/2020/7282-85 Jaipurdated 7.10.2020 Chitradurga District, Karnataka. present will be tested forCovid- suchanaction has neverbeen E-TENDER NOTICE 19 and thebuilding will be sani- takenagainstthem.This is vin- Approximate Estimated Rs. 30 Crore (Rupees Thirty Crores only) Tenders are invited rate contract for supply of Drugs &Medicines and other item for Cost tised. We have asked foralistof dictive politics," Sarangi said. BPL, JSSY,BSBY &other free category patientsonthe basis of maximum discount on retial price Tender Document will be available on the net. The tender notice and Period of Completion 60 Months (Sixty Months) other details can be downloadedfrom the website http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in. Work Description The work involves deployment of No separate hardcopy will be given from this office. requisite manpower to our Workshop at Bidding Schedule 1. Estimated Cost Rs. 1.50 Crore (Rupees one crore fifty SMF, BARC, Chitradurga; procurement lacs only) of raw material, use it for manufacturing 2. Tender Fees Rs. 400.00 (Rupees Four Hundred only) 3. RISL Processing Fees Rs. 1000.00 (Rupees One Thousand &inspection of specified components; only) supply the finished &packed components 4. Earnest Money Rs. 1.50 Lacs (Rupees one Lacs fifty to SMF, BARC Stores, Chitradurga for five thousand only) 5. Publishing in newspaper Date &Time 09.10.2020 years on monthly basis; also, managing 6. Publishing in e-Tender Dated &Time 09.10.2020 up to 2.00 PM the Workshop Facility at SMF Site, 7. Document download start date &Time 09.10.2020 from 2.00 PM Challakere for five years duration. 8. Document Download end time &date 28.10.2020 till 4.00 PM 9. Bid submission start date &Time 09.10.2020 from 2.00 PM EOI processing fee Rs. 5900 (non-refundable) in the form 10. 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Seeking removal of Teary-eyed, thousands bid Paswan farewell DU STUDENT KILLED OVER WOMAN Patna'sSKPuri.Manyofthemex- funeral. ‘Wantedtocrack ‘dictatorial’, Tripura SANTOSHSINGH pressedsolidarity with Chirag Chiragreachedoutto allsenior PATNA,OCTOBER10 Paswan, the lateleader's son and leaders with foldedhands. LJPchief.“Rajtilakkikaro taiyari,ab On the sidelines, manysup- CM, some BJP CARRYINGAnewspaperwith a aagayiChiragkibaari(preparefor porters discussedhow Paswan IAS, took tuition pictureofformerUnionminister coronation;Chirag'sturn has hadbeenthegreatestDalitleader andLokJanshaktiPartypatriarch, come),” the slogan went. sinceJagjivanRam;somealsosaid MLAscamp in Delhi lateRam Vilas Paswan, Shivji It took nearly three hours for the lateleader could have ex- to buybooks’: His Paswan, 70,who hadcome from theproceedingsto becompleted, pandedhis reachbeyondthe Muzaffarpur district, asked sev- and the crowddid notappear to Paswancommunity.Mostpeople, eralpolicemento allowhimalast Armypersonnel paytribute thin onebit during the time. however, were unanimous on LIZMATHEW glimpse of “myleader”. Turned as avehicle carrying the In ashowoffamilysolidarity, Paswan being the voice of Dalits family recalls NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 away eachtime, giventhe secu- body of former Union Chirag and three cousins, includ- in Biharinthe same manner as Biplab rity bandobast, the septuagenar- ministerRam Vilas Paswan ing party MP from Samastipur LaluPrasadgave voiceto theOther AT LEASTseven BJP Tripura Kumar Deb ian startedsobbing. Afew police arrivesfor thefuneral. PTI Prince Raj, jointlyoffered fire to BackwardClasses (OBCs) and the JIGNASASINHA MLAs arecamping in the na- personnel took note and made the funeralpyre. Chirag fell down ExtremelyBackwardClasses NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 tional capital to meetthe party’s him sit afew yardsfromthe fu- aftermaking afew circles of the (EBCs). national leadership and demand neralpyre. the Ganga, and the constituency funeralpyreand regainedcon- Earlierintheday, BJPMPfrom AFEW days before he waskilled, the removalofChief Minister He said theyhavetold the Thiswasnot aone-offsceneat thatsentPaswanto theLokSabha sciousness afterawhile. His Patliputra,RamKripalYadav, paid 18-year-oldDelhi University stu- Biplab Kumar Deb, calling him leadershipthat Deb mustbere- Janardhan Ghat in Digha, beside eighttimessince1977.Thecrowd mother Reena Paswan broke homage to Paswan at his SK Puri dent Rahul Rajput rushedhome dictatorial, inexperiencedand placediftheBJPwantstocontinue JPSetuovertheGanganearPatna, took everypossiblevantageposi- downseveraltimes,asChiragand residence and calledthe late withhis 21-year-old friend, who unpopular. in powerinthe statefor thelong as thousands of people, teary- tion to catch aglimpse of the pro- his cousins consoledher. leader his“elder brother,who al- hadmetwithaminoraccident.At LedbySudip RoyBarman, the term.“What is happening in eyed and eager to getalast ceedings,intermittentlyshouting Paswan wascremated with ways blessedme, irrespective of his modesthouse in Northwest Rahul’s family. Amit Mehra MLAsclaimto have thesupportof Tripuraistotal dictatorship. The glimpse of their belovedleader, sloganssuchas“Gunjedhartiaas- full statehonours. BiharChief some politicaldifferences”. Delhi’sAdarsh Nagar, Rajput’s atleasttwo moreamongtheBJP’s Chief Ministerdoes nottrust any assembledfor the cremation. man, RamVilas Paswan (from MinisterNitish Kumar,Deputy RLSP leader Upendra mother quicklyput abandaidon 36 legislators in theHouse of 60 of his MLAs,hehimself holds Paswan had diedataDelhi earth to sky,thereisonlyone CM Sushil Kumar Modi,Union Kushwahasaid,“Paswan-jialways thewoman’shand.“Aftersheleft, fusedtotalk.OnThursday, the (eightIPFTMLAsalsosupportthe charge of morethan twodozen hospitalonThursday. sound–ofRam Vilas Paswan)”. minister and Lok Sabha MP from spokeabout taking up the cause Itoldhim to concentrateonhis woman wasmoved to ashelter Deb government). departments. From rickshaw Hundredsofpeoplehadcome Thousands had gathered at Patna Sahib Ravi ShankarPrasad, of the poor...it washis mantra.” studies.Ididn’t have aproblem home. ApartfromBarman,theMLAs pullerto vegetable/fishvendorsto from Samastipur, Khagaria and Digha ghat even beforethe body and Leader of Opposition Some political workers also withtherelationshipbutIthought At Rajput’s home, hisfather in Delhi reportedlyinclude industrialists,everyoneinthe Muzaffarpur districts, and many wasbroughtinamassiveproces- Tejashwi Prasad Yadavwere came from UttarPradesh and he wasfar tooyoung forit,” said Sanjeev (42) showedhis son’s SushantaChoudhary, Ashish stateresentshim.” had walked from Hajipur,across sionfromthePaswanresidenceat among toppolitical leadersatthe Jharkhand to bid him farewell. Rajput'smother Renuka (38). booksmeant forpreparation of Saha, Ashish Das, DiwaChandra Choudhary reiterated that On Wednesday, thewoman's civil services exams. Rankhal, Burb Mohan Tripura, theyhavenocomplaintsagainst twobrothers —Mohd. Rajand The mat wherethe children Parimal Deb Barma and Ram the BJP or itsleadership at the ManwarHussain —and their sat in frontofRajput layempty, PrasadPal.“Birendra KishoreDeb Centre.“We arecommittedto the MHA to states: FIRs must in crimes threeminorfriendsallegedly beat and acolourful hand-drawn BurnamandBiplabGhosharealso BJP ideology and loyaltoPM up Rajput on the road over the posterofhis“FreeFlyingCoaching with us,” Choudharyclaimed, NarendraModi,” he said. friendship theyshared.Lateat Centre- Class XI-XII….Special addingthatthetwo couldn’tbein ChoudharyandBarmanwere againstwomen,probe in two months night,Rajput diedinahospital of Classes-English” waskeptontop Delhi as theyhad Covid. amongthesevenformerCongress aruptured spleen. of the books. “Hewas taking tu- Leaderscloseto Debaswellas leaderswhojoinedtheBJPin2017. On Saturday,six policemen itionsto fundthebooksheneeded BJP leaders in Tripurasaid there Sources close to Deb pointed out maysuitablyissueinstructionsto distributed SAEC kitsamong guardedthelocality.Thewoman’s to preparefor IAS. We were so wasnodangertothestategovern- that Barman had been removed DEEPTIMANTIWARY The advisorycomes all concernedtoensurestrict states forbetterinvestigation of brothers have been arrested and proud of our son,” said Sanjeev,a ment. “The government is very as ministerafter the Lok Sabha NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 amid criticism forthe compliance with the provisions sexual crimes through forensic the juvenilesapprehended. taxi driver. safeand Ican assureyou that electionswhensomeleadershad in the law... It is alsorequestedto evidence, underlinedthe use of VijayantaArya, DCP (Northwest), Rajput’syoungersister, whois sevenoreight MLAs cannottop- alleged that he had worked IN Afresh advisorytostates UP government over its monitor the cases on ITSSO thesekits. confirmedthatthewoman’sfam- in classXI, is at their aunt’s home. plethe government,” TripuraBJP againstthe BJP’s interests. Saturday, the MinistryofHome handling of the alleged (InvestigationTrackingSystemfor "The DirectorateofForensic ilyopposedher friendship with It wasduring thelockdown that president Manik Saha told The However, manyparty leaders Affairs hasasked them to take rape and murder of a Sexual Offences) to ensurethat ScienceServices(DFSS)underthe Rajput. Rajput startedtaking English tu- SundayExpress.Onthe griev- said Barman, brought to the BJP strict action in cases of crimes suitablefollow-upactionistaken MHA has issuedguidelinesfor Rajput’s mother said, “I didn’t itionsofyounger children,after ancesof theMLAs,hesaid:“Ihave by national secretarySunil againstwomen and adhere 19-year-old in a forthe chargesheetofthe guilty collection,preservation &trans- have aproblemwithherreligion... the doors of the Freedom English notheardtheir complaints… In Deodhar,was notentirelywith- strictlytoguidelinesfor dealing Hathras village in atimely mannerasrequired in portation of forensic evidence in In our colony, Hindus and Academywereshut. the BJP,wedonot discuss suchis- out supportinthe stateunit. with suchcases, including thelaw." sexual assault cases for Muslims live together.Ihad a Barring thefewtimes that the sues outside the party.” Choudharywarnedthatatthis mandatoryregistrationofFIRs Reiteratingtheguidelinesand InvestigationOfficersandMedical problem that theyweretoo womancame to hishouse, Rajput Asource closetothe CM said rate,theCommunistscouldreturn and completing probes in two has,overthe years, takensteps to laiddownnormsforinvestigation Officers. In order to facilitatethe young. Iwanted him to concen- mostlymet her at teastalls near RamPrasadPal,anRSSleader,was to power. “BiplabDebispreparing monthsincasesof sexualassault. strengthen legislativeprovisions of sexual offences,the MHA has StatePolice,BureauofPolice trateonhis studies.” their colony. On thenightofthe notlikelytogowith the MLAs. theground…If theBJPleadership This advisoryhas been issued to dealwithincidentsofsexualof- askedstatesformandatoryregis- Research and Development Itwasatacoachingcentretwo incident, afterRajput's uncles BJPsourcessaidgeneralsecre- iskeento keepTripurawiththem, at atime when the UP govern- fencesagainstwomen,said: trationofFIRs, actionagainstoffi- (BPR&D) has issuedSexual years agothat the twobecame managed to pull him out of the tary (Organisation) BLSantosh theyshouldreplace Deb with ment has drawncriticism forits "However, even with stringent cers whorefuse to registerFIRs in Assault Evidence Collection friends. “Weknowtheyhave spot, theyrushedhim home. hadmetBarmanandconveyedto someone else. He does nothave handling of the alleged rape and provisions in lawand severalca- cases of rape and certain other (SAEC) Kits to everyState/UT.Itis known eachother foryears. She Since therewerenovisible in- him that achange at the topwas theexperienceto rule,northepo- murder of a19-year-old in a pacity-buildingmeasuresunder- crimesagainstwomen, to treat necessarytouse these SAEC kits would sometimes come home juries on his body, thefamilydid- unlikely, and that theparty does- liticalacumen.Heismost inexpe- Hathras villageand the events taken, anyfailureofpolice to ad- the dying declaration of avictim in everycaseofsexual assaultre- too...during the lockdown. That’s n’t take him to the hospital imme- n’tmakesuchdecisionsunlessini- riencedand feels insecure about thereafter. heretothese mandatory asamatterof fact,collectionof ev- ported… BPR&D and LNJN whythe night he wasbeing diately. When he started tiated by the PM.Deb is believed everyone.” TheAllahabadHighCourthas requirementsmay notaugurwell idence forforensicexamination National Institute of Criminology thrashed, she wasthere, and I vomiting and complainedof to have the confidence of Modi. Choudharysaid the BJP lead- askedUPofficialsto appearbefore forthedeliveryof criminaljustice anduseof sexualassaultevidence andForensicScience(NICFS)have recognisedher.She has recently breathlessness, he wasrushedto The rebelMLAshavesought ership couldconduct asurvey on it Monday,brief it on the statusof in the country, especiallyincon- collection(SAEC)kit, completion been regularly conducting come home too. She triedtostop alocal clinicand later brought an audience with BJP president J the CM’s popularity to confirm the investigationand explain the textof womensafety. Such lapses, of investigation in sexual assault Training and Training of Trainers themen whowerebeatinghim... backhome. Around 11 pm again, PNaddaandHomeMinisterAmit this. “I am sure98of100 people sequenceof eventsthat ledtothe if noticed,needtobeinvestigated cases in twomonths,use of the (ToT)programmes on procedure Thensherantowardsmeandtold Rajput complainedofuneasi- Shah. “Wewill also seek ameet- willsay he should be removed.” cremationofthe victim’s body intoand stringentaction taken National Database on Sexual forcollection, preservation and me theywereher brothers,” ness.”Hefell on thefloor and told ing with the Prime Minister. The One of the issues theMLAs and the family’scomplaint about immediately against the con- Offenders foridentifying and handlingofforensicevidence for claimedRajuNagar,the boy’sun- ushis stomachisaching. We took PM cannotbekeptinthe darkon have raisedisthe lack of ahealth themannerinwhichitwasdone. cernedofficersresponsibleforthe tracking repeat sexual offenders Police/Prosecutors and Medical cle. OnSaturday, whenTheIndian himtoBJRMhospital, wherehe what’s happening in Tripura,” minister in the statedespite Initsadvisory, theMHA,while same." among others. Officersrespectively,"theadvisory Express went to the woman’s diedlater around midnight,” said Choudharysaid. Covid-19. maintainingthatthegovernment "ItisrequestedthatStates/UTs The Ministry, whichrecently stated. house, her family members re- his father Sanjeev. YOURWEEKAHEAD BRIDGE SUNDAY CROSSWORD 2290 If it’s your You areSouth,declarerin 4H. Birthday ARIES(Mar 21 -Apr 20) LIBRA (Sep 24 -Oct 23) QUICKCLUES As Mars,approaches This is oftenone of NORTH WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH ACROSS afresh region of your the mostdemanding 7. Banish(5) ♠ 742 1S Pass Pass dbl chart, it forms an periods of the year ❤1098 2S Pass Pass 3H 8. Musical instrument (9) 10.Steal (6) SundayOctober 11 intriguing at home, notbecause ♦ AQ32 Pass 4H Pass Pass 11.Commune (8) Thereissomuchtobesaid forminding relationship with that you’re facing great difficulties but ♣B64 Pass 12.Red,grey,animal (8) your ownbusiness at the moment. Yetcan unrestrainedplanet Jupiter.You on account of the fact that your 13.Examination (4) must thereforeexpectabattleof planetary cycles gather in the SOUTH 15.EastIndian language(7) youreally keep to yourself?The answer is wills,perhapsoversome issue of sameregion of your chart. ♠ 5632 17.Affected with horrorordisgust ’no’, and that’s whyyou’d better think principle or other. It’satimeto Youwill soon decide that (7) before youspeak. exaggerateand claim morethan major improvementsare ❤A10 20. German count (4) your due. longoverdue. ♦ AQ10 22. Supreme master; D-Day MondayOctober 12 ♣A932 operation (8) It’s alivelymoment, you’ll be struggling to TAURUS (Apr21-May21) SCORPIO (Oct 24 -Nov 23) 25. 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Shakefirm support(4) upsetting,but, on theplus side,at Mostastrologers recognise your Yes–usetheknowledgethatWesthasthemissinghighcardstoembolden patterns. However, you’ll need to take it (6) research ?(9) 24.Slam down cheap wine leastyou nowknowwho your open-mindedtoleranceasone of youintotakingthediamondfinesse.LeadtotheDQandcashtheDAtodis- slowly. your greatestqualitiesand, now card aspade. The remaining trumps can then be drawn and the contract 23. Architect Saarinen (4) 28. Re-writing Yeatsuptothe (5) friends are. You’vealso achieveda that Venus is taking up afresh made. 24.Partofthe United Kingdom moment(2,3) ThursdayOctober 15 much better sense of your own (5) Down Solutions to 2289 potential and limits. You’ll challenge to your sign, harmony In summary: Enemy bidding give clues to where the missing points lie. An CRYPTIC CLUES 1. Strikeanumber with debtsas This is atime to do what you’retold. You thereforefind it much easier to and co-operation mustbe openingbidderwillhaveatleast11HCP.Assumetherearefewerthan6HCP ACROSS extortionate mustdevote as muchtime as necessaryto followyour instinctsinthe future. your watchwords. inahandthatpassed anopening one-of-a-suit bidfrompartner. 7. Zebraisjumping nobs in Africa (9) QUICKCLUESAcross: 7Pediment,9 (5) 2. Moreruggedrig Grace erected! Eerier,10Jack,11Authorises,12 sortingoutdomesticproblems,forthat’sthe CAPRICORN (Dec 24 -Jan 20) You areSouth.Declarerin4H CANCER (June 22 -July23) 8. Sentryhas to abusea (8) Stowed,14Reprieve,15Tirade,16 waytoreassert control and protect your The week’s events Spoils,19Molasses,21Nelson,23 An important and barrier (5-4) 3. Bath country?(7) interests.Anhonestapproachwill earn will soon NORTH SOUTH Colourfast,24Defy,25Trains, thoroughlyhelpful 10.City in Maharashtraled astray by 4. 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TOPOFTHE QUESTIONS STILL LINGER ABOUT PRESIDENT’S HEALTH WORLD Pak Opp parties Debatecancelled,Trumpreturnsto come out openly campaigningwithWhiteHouseevent against military Accuse it of rigging2018polls;Army Govt’stop infectious diseaseexpertFauci labels WhiteHouse event twoweeks agoa‘superspreader’ chief says actions guidedbyConstitution Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, head of the the militaryhospital wherehe He said of the Barrett event, “I of rigged elections as baseless. advisorycommittee ZEKEMILLER,JONATHAN receivedexperimental treat- wasnot surprisedtosee asuper- PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA AfterSharif, PPP chairman LEMIRE&JILLCOLVIN mentsfor thecoronavirus. spreader event giventhe circum- KARACHI,ISLAMABAD, BilawalBhuttoZardari on Friday WASHINGTON,OCTOBER10 Twoweeks afterhis Rose stances.” That means “crowded, OCTOBER10 accusedthe militaryofrigging THE NETHERLANDS Garden event that has been la- congregatesetting, notwearing the 2018 elections. Returnlooted LOOKINGTOshove his cam- belledbythe government’s top masks. It is notsurprising to see FORTHE firsttime, Pakistan’s Bilawalwarnedthatanyinter- paign backontrack,USPresident infectious-disease expert Dr an outbreak,” he said. twomajor Opposition parties ference in the coming legislative arttoformer Donald Trumpand his team laid AnthonyFauci as a“super- Trumpisnow making the have come out openlyagainst assemblyelections in Gilgit- out an aggressive return to polit- spreader” forthe virus, Trumpis rounds of friendlyconservative the country’s powerful military, Baltistanwouldlead to astrong colonies,panel ical activities, including abig planning to convene another media, calling in to FoxNews accusing it of rigging the 2018 reaction from hisparty,including tellsgovernment WhiteHouse event on Saturday large crowdoutside the White hostSean Hannity on Thursday elections that brought Imran asiege of Islamabadandasit-inin and arallyinFlorida on Monday, House on Saturdayfor what his night and spending twohours Khan’s PakistanTehreek-e- the city.“Suchthings were never THE NETHERLANDS a week after his hospitalisation Trump’s newplans forreturning to campaigning involveabig administration calls “a peaceful live on air with radiohostRush Insaaf party to power. witnessedevenindictatorshipsof should return lootedart to foravirus that has killed more WhiteHouse event Saturdayand aFlorida rallyMonday. Reuters protestfor law&order.” More Limbaugh on Fridayinwhat his In the past, political leaders General Zia and Gen Musharraf,” itsformer colonies: That’s than 210,000 Americans. thantwo dozenpeople linked to campaign billedas a“radiorally.” have onlyindirectlypointed to Bilawalwas quoted as saying by the official recommenda- As questions linger about his the WhiteHouse have con- Holding courtonhis reelec- the involvement of the military the Dawn newspaper. tion of an advisorycom- health —and rivalJoe Biden steps Trump’s Covid-19diagnosis. tracted Covid-19since the presi- tion battle, his fight againstthe establishment in the country’s “I wonder howyou deploy a mittee to the Dutchgov- uphisowncampaigning—Trump Trumpsaid the Commission dent’s Sept26event announcing coronavirus and revivednegoti- political affairs, but this is the soldier inside and another out- ernment. Afterayearof plannedtoleave the Washington on Presidential Debates waspro- JudgeAmy ConeyBarrett as his ations with Democratstopassan firsttime that the leadersofthe side the polling station. That was research, including inter- areaforthefirsttime sincehewas tecting Biden from having to take nominee to the Supreme Court. economic stimulus bill, Trump twomainOpposition parties — so strange. Even if you(military views with people in for- hospitalized. He is also increasing on the President in person. But Trumpwill address the wasmaking adirect appeal to his the PakistanPeoplesParty (PPP) establishment) have done some- merDutchcoloniessuchas hisradioandTVappearanceswith Biden’s team said the one de- Saturday group, expectedto beat base of loyalsupporters, whom and the PakistanMuslim League thing wrong or not, youwould Indonesia, Suriname and conservative interviewers,hoping manding protection wasTrump. RACE FOR leastseveralhundredsupporters, he needs to turnout to the polls Nawaz(PML-N) —haveopenly be blamedeither way. This severalCaribbean islands, to makeupfor losttime with just “It’s shameful that Donald from the WhiteHouse balcony. in droves. He following with a criticisedthe military. should nothappen,”hesaid. thecommitteereleasedits over three weeksuntil Election Trumpduckedthe only debate THE WHITE Trump’s Mondayrallyin tapedappearance on Tucker Formerprime ministerand PakistanArmychief General reportinAmsterdam on Dayand millions already voting. in whichthe voters gettoask the Sanford, Florida, wasoriginally Carlson’sFox News.Inthat inter- PML-N supremo NawazSharif, Qamar JavedBajwa said on Wednesday. Humanrights However, next Thursday’s questions —but it’s no surprise,” HOUSE scheduledtobeheld on October view, Trumpwas askedifhewas whoisinLondon since Saturdaysaid that all the mili- activistLilian Gonçalves- town hall-style Trump-Biden said Biden spokesperson 2, theday afterhetestedpositive. retested forCovid-19.“Ihave November lastyearand facing tary’s actions were guided by the Ho Kang You, wholed the debate wasofficiallycancelled, Andrew Bates. “Everyone knows time as Vice President Biden.” Announcementofthe new been retested,and Ihaven’t even anumber of corruptioncases, Constitution and were in the committee, said that the afew days afterTrumpbacked that Donald Trumplikes to bully The Presidenthas notbeen event came as Fauci cautioned found out numbers or anything firedthe firstsalvo at the inau- “national interest”. Addressinga government should ac- away when the sponsoring com- reporters, but obviouslyhedoes- seeninpublic —other than in the WhiteHouse again to avoid yet. But I’vebeenretested, and I gural meeting of the Pakistan passing out parade of cadets at knowledge theinjusticesof mission switcheditfromface- n’t have the gutstoanswerfor WhiteHouse-producedvideos large-scalegatherings of people knowI’m at eitherthe bottom of DemocraticMovement, an al- thePakistanMilitaryAcademy colonialism andbewilling to-face to virtual following his recordtovoters at thesame —since his return days agofrom withoutmasks. the scale or free,” he said. AP liance formedbyOpposition (PMA) Kakul, Gen Bajwasaid the to return objectswithout parties lastmonth to oustPrime Armywould continue to support conditions. NYT Minister Khan. the government and “defend our Queen’s honours Sharif allegedthatthemilitary democratic values to the hilt”. riggedthe 2018 elections to bring On September 20, the leaders list: Indian-origin Prime Minister Khan to power. of 11 major Opposition parties HONGKONG He said interfering in politics formedthe PakistanDemocratic 9arrestedover tycoon brothers, in uniformamountstotreason Movement (PDM) to launcha under the country’s Constitution. three-phasedanti-government protesters’ prof, ‘Skipping His allegations sparkedanan- movement under an “action gryresponsefromKhan, who plan” starting with countrywide escapebyboat Sikh’ get nods said Sharif was“playing avery publicmeetings, protestdemon- THE HONGKong police KyrgyzstanPresident dangerous game” by humiliating strations and rallies before a“de- said on Saturdaythat they SooronbaiJeenbekov the militaryand intelligenceserv- cisive long march”towards had arrested nine people ADITIKHANNA ices. Hedismissedthe allegations Islamabad in January2021. PTI accusedofhelping a LONDON,OCTOBER10 group of protesters, who Kyrgyzstan bans were later interceptedby APAIR of Indian-originbillionaire the mainland Chinese au- rallies, imposes brothers, aleading Oxford Minutes afterceasefire thorities, flee the city in curfew in bid University academic andaseptu- Augustbyspeedboat.The agenarian fundraiser fondlyre- takes effect, Armenia & arrestsseemedintended ferredto astheSkippingSikh,lead to send amessagetoany- to end turmoil the “mostethnicallydiverse” one who might consider Queen’s BirthdayHonoursListre- Azerbaijan accuse each helping other antigovern- VLADIMIRISACHENKOV leased on Saturday. ment protesters escape MOSCOW,OCTOBER10 Zuber and Mohsin Issa, who HongKong,whereanxi- recentlyhit the headlines with other of breaking it etyabout Beijing’s tight- AUTHORITIESINKyrgyzstanon their multi-million-pound ac- At the militaryparade in Pyongyang, NorthKorea, on Saturday. Reuters ening grip has intensified Saturdayarrestedaformerpresi- quisition of the UK’s supermar- since it imposedasweep- dent,bannedralliesandimposed ketchain Asda, have both been ing national security law acurfewinthe CentralAsian na- honoured with CBEs forservices NAILIABAGIROVA& on the Chinese territory tion’s capital, seeking to enda North Korea unveils ‘monster’ to business and charity. NVARDHOVHANNISYAN in June. NYT week of turmoil sparkedbyadis- Thebrothers from Blackburn, BAKU,YEREVAN,OCTOBER10 puted parliamentaryelection. whoseparentsmoved to the UK RUSSIA The declaration of the 9amto from Gujarat in the 1970s, own AZERBAIJAN AND Armeniaac- 5pmcurfew in Bishkek followed new ICBM at military parade the EuroGarages chain of petrol cusedeachother of swiftlyvio- Copscrackdown President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s stations as partoftheir EG Group lating the terms of aceasefirein decree on Fridayannouncing a business. Theyare joinedby Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday,

onlong-running ED stateofemergency in the city un- HYONHEESHIN Yadvinder SinghMalhi, Professor raising questions about how Buildings destroyed by anti-govtprotest til Oct 21.Healsoorderedthe mil- &JOSHSMITH Looking of Ecosystem Scienceatthe meaningful thetruce, brokered shellinginStepanakert, the itarytodeploytroops to thecap- SEOUL,OCTOBER10 separatistregion of Nagorno- POLICEINRussia’sFarEast E inward University of Oxford, whore- by Russia, would turn out to be. ● brokeupalong-running ital to enforce themeasure. EXPLAIN ceivesaCBE (Commander of the The ceasefire, clinchedafter Karabakh. AP anti-Kremlin protestwith Convoys of militarytrucks NORTH KOREA unveiledprevi- MostExcellent Order of the marathon talksinMoscow ad- forceSaturday, detaining were seen drivingintothe city. ouslyunseen intercontinental NORTH KOREAN leaders have British Empire) forhis services to vocatedbyPresident Vladimir 25 people according to lo- Jeenbekov has facedcalls to ballistic missiles at an unprece- long celebrated their military ecosystem science. Malhi had Putin, wasmeant to halt fight- territory. Both sides have consis- calauthorities,inresponse step down from thousands of dented predawnmilitaryparade What appears to be anew capability,especiallythe nu- been appointed Trusteeofthe ing to allowethnic Armenian tentlydeniedeachothers’asser- to whattheycalledanille- protesters who stormedgovern- on Saturdaythat showcasedthe intercontinental ballistic clear arsenal, as asource of Natural History Museum in forces in Nagorno-Karabakh tions about militaryactivity. galattempt to erectprotest ment buildings anight afterpro- country’s long-rangeweapons missile seen at theparade. AP their legitimacyand power. London earlier this year. and Azeri forces to swap prison- In astatement whichsug- tentsinacentral square. government parties reportedly forthe firsttime in twoyears. This year’s showcase of power- The listincludesnumerous ersand wardead. gested the ceasefirewas not Thedemonstrations,inthe sweptparliamentaryseatsin Analysts said the missile, ful newweapons comes aftera British Indians including Rajinder But within minutes of the completelydeadhowever, Azeri cityofKhabarovsk, have Sunday’s vote.The demonstra- whichwas shownonatrans- peared to be anew submarine- difficult time forNorth Singh Harzall. The 74-year-old truce taking effect from midday, PresidentIlham Aliyev saidthe been goingonfor the last tors also freedformer President portervehiclewith 11 axles, launchedballistic missile. Koreans, with widespread “Skipping Sikh” receivedanMBE both sides accusedeachother of warring parties were nowen- three months against Almazbek Atambayev, who was would be one of the largest road- Ahead of the parade, which flooding and Covid-enforced (Member of the Order of the breaking it. gagedintrying to find apolitical PresidentVladimirPutin’s sentenced to 11 years in prison mobile intercontinentalballistic washeldtomarkthe 75th an- border closures worseningthe BritishEmpire)forhisinspirational The Armenian defence min- settlement. handling of aregional po- in June on chargesofcorruption missiles(ICBMs) in the worldif niversaryofthefoundingof itsrul- country’s economic crisis, healthand fitness videos during istryaccusedAzerbaijan of The Moscowceasefiretalks liticalcrisis.Videoshowed and abuse of office that he and it becomes operational. ing Workers’ Party, officials in leading to severe food short- lockdown.Harzall,whohasraised shelling asettlement inside were the firstdiplomatic contact police hauling protesters hissupporters described as apo- “Thismissileisamonster,”said South Koreasaid Kim Jong Un ages. Apartfrombeing ames- nearly £14,000 forthe National Armenia, while ethnic Armenian between the twosince fighting away and dismantling litical vendettabyJeenbekov. MelissaHanham,deputydirector mayusetheeventto unveilanew sagetothe rest of the world, HealthService, is joinedbyLavina forces in Karabakh allegedthat over the enclave erupted on Sept tentsasawoman Atambayevwas arrested of the Open Nuclear Network. strategic weapon. Asenior US of- Kim hopes this displayofmili- Mehta,whoalsoreceivedanMBE Azeri forces had launched anew 27,killinghundredsofpeople.The screamed“What country again on Saturdayoncharges of Also displayedwerethe ficialcalledthedisplayoftheICBM tary might will alsoshowhis forservices to health and fitness offensive five minutes afterthe enclave is internationally-recog- do youlivein?” REUTERS organizing riots,the State Hwasong-15, whichisthe disappointingandurgedthegov- people that the regime re- duringCovid-19forherencourag- truce took hold. nisedaspartofAzerbaijanbut is Security Committee said in a longest-rangemissileevertested ernmenttonegotiatetoachieve mains powerful and adept. ingpeopleto stay active duringthe Azerbaijan said enemyforces populated and governedbyeth- statement. AP by NorthKorea, andwhat ap- denuclearisation. REUTERS lockdown. PTI in Karabakh were shelling Azeri nic Armenians. REUTERS

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NOCTOBER 2, Karan Johar announcedonTwitter that he and some other O filmmakers were plan- ning to make “content about the valour,values and cultureof India” to mark 75 years of Independence, tagging and thanking Prime Minister NarendraModi forhis “guidance”. Justdays earlier,Joharhad made an- Annushorribilis other announcement on Twitter,after one of his employees wasarrestedaspartof an offshootinvestigationarising out of the IF 2019 WASBollywood’s best inflating Sushant SinghRajput deathcase. year,with collections in excessof He declared he had neverconsumed Rs 4,000crore, and the liberating drugs, and that he did notknowthe ar- digital space, this year will go rested person. He also threatenedlegal ac- down as itsworst. If thepandemic- tion against“slanderous” statements. inducedlockdown deliveredthe The employeeisnow one of 20 held — firstgut punch, the tentaclesofthe four areout on bail,including Rajput’s Sushant Singh Rajput deathinves- friend Rhea Chakraborty —aspartofthe tigation have hoveredonsome of Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) probeinto itsbig names. With threecentral “the citadel of drugs in Bollywood”. agenciespartofthe probe, the Johar’s October 2nd tweetwas hash- message, manyfear,isclear. tagged #ChangeWithin, aslogan that first startedcirculating within the film indus- trylastyear,when the government kicked the mid-’90s, Balasaheb's elder son offthe 150th birth anniversaryof Bindhumadhavhad turnedfilm producer. Mahatma Gandhi. LastOctober,itap- Daughter-in-lawSmita Thackeray served peared at the end of avideo on Gandhi by as president of the Indian Motion Picture Rajkumar Hirani (whose Munnabhai se- Producers’ Association from 2001 to 2003. ries wasinspired by the Mahatma). The The Sena’s ties with Bollywood, how- slogan wasalsothe theme of ameetingof ever,havebeen transactional rather than Bollywood’s crème de la crème —includ- ideological. So Bal Thackeray could attack ing Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Shabana Azmi and AKHangal forwanting Kangana Ranaut and Sonam Kapoor — better relations with Pakistan, but never with the PM in Delhi in the thirdweek of said awordagainstSanjayDutt, namedin October 2019,wheretheythankedthe the 1993 Mumbai blasts.Dilip Kumar chance to participatein“nation building”. himself went on to become great friends Ayear later,Bollywood is battered by with Balasaheb, till theyfellout again, over Covid-19, with work at almostacomplete the Nishan-e-Pakistanhonour to the thes- standstill. But the Rajputcasehangsover pian. Shah Rukh’s My Name is Khan faced it as alargershadow. protests afterhespokeabout including This is notthe firsttime the film indus- Pakistani cricketers in the IPL, while tryhas dealt with blunt instruments of the Salman Khan’s TigerZinda Hai came un- government —frombans during the der itsspotlight forleaving very few Emergency to theCensors, and from screens forMarathi releases. Income Tax to Customs. However, it is the Says Raut:“Balasaheb hadverygood firsttime that it finds itself the target of relationships with all...Rajesh Khanna, multiple agencies —the CBI, Enforcement DevAnand, Amitabh Bachchan.” In one Directorate,and NCB—atthe same time. famous case, anoted yesteryear actor And the firsttime publicsentimentsare be- asked him to help afterhis daughter ing whippedupagainstsomeof their most starteddating amarriedmusician. popularstars, by TVchannels to politicians. In the Rajput case too, the Sena has It mayalso be the firsttime that said thereisnofoul play,and accusedthe Bollywood itself is so sharplydivided, on BJP of politicising his death. largely“pro-government” and “anti-gov- ernment” lines. One of the moreoutspo- ■ ■ ■ kenones in the latter corner,Anurag Kashyap, is facing sexual assault charges, The BJP doesn’tshy away from any with the alleged victim on Wednesday suchpolitical aspirations when it comes to gettinganaudience with Union Minister Bollywood. The Modi reign has coincided of Statefor Home GKishan Reddy. with movies uncannilyalignedwith its Insiders talk of asense of siege, aques- politics — PM NarendraModi starring tion hanging in the air:“Who’s next?” Oberoi (on October 10,the producer an- “It’s an attackonall fronts. Then you nouncedhewould re-release the film knowthatanything, the CensorBoard, when theatres open next week); The everything, is going to work towards Tashkent Files by Agnihotri on Lal Bahadur pushingyou down,” says afilmmaker Bollywoodhas spent the better partofthis year lookingoverits shouldersasthe Shastri’s death; The Accidental Prime with severalhitsunder his belt. “Weall Minister showing Manmohan Singh in a have slip-ups, especiallywhen making Sushant Singh Rajputprobe advances,and expands. The powers-that-behavelongeyed poor light;and Uri: The Surgical Strike. films. Crores go through banks... some ac- 2017 sawAkshayKumar’s Toilet: Ek Prem counting mistake.That’s whatthey’lluse.” the tinseltown, but is thereaplottwistunder BJP?NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN &ALAKA SAHANI Katha, dedicatedtoSwachhBharat. At that meetingwith the PM almost go behindthe scenesofaCovid-battered,nervousindustry In the social media tirade in the wake of exactlyayear ago, an actorsaid aboutthe Rajput’s death, one object of insinuations #ChangeWithin initiative.“Asardikhega has been ShivSenaheirapparentAaditya aapko, eik saal, do saal mein (You will see Thackeray,and his B-townfriendships. An the impact, in one or twoyears)”.Noone youdon’t take sides, youare safehas been ring to “long-standing political, cultural One suchmeeting took place in ultimately. “The industry has been very unnervedAadityaput out astatement that knewthen it would turn out likethis. broken. “That pretense that we arefriends and ideological associations” with veteran September 2017,three months before the secular in general. The workforce, musi- he had no connection with the Rajput case. with all... all those who claimedtheyare names.“The demand foraCBI probewas Ardh Kumbh in Varanasi. An organisation cians, artistes, is an assortment of all kinds TheSena seestheentireepisode,inclu- ■ ■ ■ apolitical arebeing targeted... Theyallow made by Rajput’s father.When the drug calledthe Naimisharanya Foundation or- of talentfromvarious backgrounds.Even ding the BJP’s questioning of the Mumbai themselvestobeusedall around. That mal- angle wasunearthed, the NCBhad to step ganisedanevent forthe RSS attendedby though making the cut is difficult, it is a Police investigation intoRajput’s death, as But,few want to articulatethe con- leability hasledus to whereweare today.” in. Allegations regarding Rajput’s bank ac- senior Sangh leader BhaiyyajiJoshi, Uttar place forequal opportunities.” an attempt to destabilise itsgovernment, cerns openly. Withthe tremors from the Another filmmaker fumes that big countsled to the ED probing the matter... Pradesh ChiefMinisterYogi Adityanath, Veteranactor ShabanaAzmi questions and tarnish the Thackeray name. Rajput case being felt from Bihar to Delhi names are“justwaitingfor an opportu- Whywould the BJP use asad incident like then MaharashtraCMDevendraFadnavis thenepotismcharge levelledatBollywood “MaybeifMaharashtrahad continued to Mumbai, fewerwanttogoonrecord. nity,‘to proveourselvesmoreloyal to the the death of an actor to seek votes?” and film industrynames suchasSubhash following Rajput’sdeath —the firstone, as to be with the BJP,this would nothave Afilmmaker,who says he “dodged” in- king’, getaCBFC or NSD posting”. The BJP’s cultural mentor,the RSS, ad- Ghai, Madhur Bhandarkar,Sonu Nigam, shepointsout,followedbymurder,money- happenedthe wayithas.Itwould have vitations forthat meeting with Modi as mitsithas an “interest” in Bollywood. Kailash Kher and Himesh Reshammiya. It laundering, and nowdrug allegations. been done moreslowly, likeearlier, well as forafunction in Mumbai to meet ■ ■ ■ “Whatever the industrymakes, they wasbilledasanexchangeofideas on “Shah Rukh, Ranveer Singh, Vidya Balan, pullingthem in, entertaining them, alit- Amit Shah ,pointsto“so,somanylayers” makefor the people of India, and the RSS Indianness, a“Sanskritik Kumbh”. Padukone, Anushka Sharma, Nawazuddin tle bit of pressure,” says the filmmaker. to what is going on. “It’s happening as part Aflashbackto2014.The Modi govern- is interestedinwhateverisbeing done for Siddiqui,RajkummarRao,Khurrana...have of discrediting Maharashtra, attemptsto ment’s firstappointmentstofilm bodies the peopleofIndia. But we do nothave ■ ■ ■ norootsintheindustrybutare amongstour ■ ■ ■ bring down the ShivSena-Congress-NCP were both controversial—GajendraChau- anyintention to control it,” says Pramod mostsuccessfulstars,”she tells The Sunday coalition, forthe Bihar polls, and to dis- han, the YudhisthiraofMahabharat TVse- Bapat, the RSS in-charge of mediarela- But thereisalso confidence in the in- Express. As forthe drugs charge,Azmisays, With Johar’s tweetasignal to those tract youfromother crises in the country.” ries, wasmade director of the FTII, while tions in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa. dustrythat a“takeover of Bollywood” by “Drugaddicts? Film stars have neverbeen outside as well as within that Bollywood The filmmaker says it’s also happen- PahlajNihalani, with among otherfilms Bapatadds, “Vidyaaur kala (knowl- anyone party is impossible —itismade as physicallyfit as theyare today.” has no stomachfor afight, the criticism ing “becauseafive-year programmeof Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi behind him, edge and the arts)are meant to open the up of justtoo manymoving parts forany- ShivSena MP Sanjay Raut,who had a that the industry’s biggestare notthe bold- trying to rein in Bollywoodhas notshown wasappointed Censor Boardhead. As mind. No one can control it.” However, he one to hope to bring everyone to heel. social media altercation withRanaut(one esthas got louder.However,afilmmaker muchresults”. “There’snostrongerplat- both choices ranintouproar,did the Modi says,“It is our expectation, and of the peo- Says the filmmaker who duckedthe of the mostvocal proponents of thenepo- defends: “Right now, howdoes anyone form in this countrythan mainstream cin- government realise the lackoftop ple, thatifyou aregoing out intothe world Modi invitations: “It’s notevenreallyan tism claims), dismisses talk of anyparty speak? There’s awitchhunt on... The other ema... And this has been the rule book of Bollywood names by itsside? as an Indian film, it should carry the fra- industry. It’s justabunchofindividuals capturing the industry. “Bollywood does thing is,what used to give citizensacer- the rightwing down the ages.” The situationhas notchanged much, grance of Indian values.” He insists that making films wheretheycan. Producers, notbelong to anyparty.Some actors be- tain courage, that whateverhappens, the Bollywood wastaken abackbythe at- despitesome recognisable names like while the Sanghsupports suchfilms, it directors and actors areonly5%, 95%com- come candidatesofaparty... go with the media will protect us, whereisittoday? tention the Modi government lavishedon Kangana Ranaut, and the twoViveks could notensurethese aremade. prise techniciansand workers.” party of thePrime Minister. During the The media is part of the lynchmob.” them in end-2018,2019. Thefirstsuch (Oberoi and Agnihotri, whobothmake Thereisnocommunal agenda to this, As forcommunal dog whistles, those Emergency,SanjayGandhi attempted to The filmmaker points to an “open let- meeting wasinDecember 2018 in morenewsoff-screen than on)attaching says Bapat.“This is absent in our wayof “justwon’t work”. “Salman, Shah Rukh take over Bollywood but failed,” he says. ter” by the Producers’Guild of Indiaon Mumbai, with Modi, and AkshayKumar, themselvestothe government’s coat-tails. thinking. An actor’s religion doesnot and Aamir have genuine fans, and it’s not September 4, decrying the “relentless at- AjayDevgn, Johar,Siddharth RoyKapur, AkshayKumar has lent his name to many speak about his relationship with India.” on the basis of religion,” he says. ■ ■ ■ tacks” on the film industry.“It wasavery RonnieScrewvala and Prasoon Joshi in at- of Modi’s projects, and the PM gave arare Bopatalso acknowledges informal in- Rashid Kidwai, journalistand author important statement, averywell-worded tendance. Theybrought up concernssuch interviewtohim ahead of the 2019 polls. teractions with the industry. “Wemeet of Neta Abhineta —Bollywood Star Powerin However, if thereisany party that is statement. Did anybody reportit?” as the highestGST slab on ticketprices. “Fact of the matter is, youcannotman- people, speaktothem, theyalso meetus.” IndianPolitics, says it is talent that counts quiteentrenchedinthe industry, it is the Azmi also says Bollywood is being Then, in January2019, Johar along with ufacturesuperstars and youcannotman- ShivSena. Bal Thackeray’s association usedtodistract from the real crises facing small-time producer Mahaveer Jain flew ufacturehits. Or Modi’s biopic (in 2019, with it beganbeforehefoundedthe party, the country. “Like Urmila Matondkar said, aset of young B-townAlisters in achar- with Oberoi in the lead) would have been through father ‘Prabodhankar’ Thackeray, if the industryisasawfulasisbeing pro- teredplane to meet Modi in Delhi. This the highestgrossing film... Theyneedthe who worked briefly as apublicist with jected,why did the PM ask it to make films time the discussion wason“nation-build- stars, the big directors,” afilmmakersays. Homi Wadia’s film companyinthe 1940s. on Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology?” ing”.Ranveer Singh, whose wifeDeepika According to thisfilmmaker,the His brother Shreekant is amusic director. The filmmaker pointsout thateven Padukone is among those questionedby “armtwisting” is notjusttoget the big In 1968,when the party mounted its stars likeAamirand Shah Rukh were tar- the NCB, capturedthat famous selfie of the names over to their side, but alsoto ensure earliest‘Marathi manoos’ campaign, it tar- getedafter they spokeupabout intoler- PM surroundedbybeamingstars. It was acertain kind of cinema. He pointstothe getedTamilfilmsaswell as Hindimovies ance. “WhyisAamir choosing to keep four months before theelection, and spree of recent films with the villain a shotinthe south. One of the early targets quiet? He knows that if speaks, nobody’s Johar’s Instagram postofthe same selfie Muslim invader.The latestpush is to cor- wasDilip Kumar’s Aadmi. Butitprovedto going to be standing by him.Few people gushedpraise forthe PM, and at being in- ner the “liberal voices” that remain. “They be the startofasymbiotic relationship. tweeting in supportmakes no difference.” vitedtocontribute to anational project. arenot falling in line with the BJP/RSS nar- Until then, sayinsiders, film produc- Mehtasays social media has had are- Thefilmmaker says whenthe Modi in- rative.Sothis is the firstdirect onslaught... ers had to look up to mafia ganglords such ductive effect. “If Sushant’s death had vitecame, people were scared to sayno, They’redoing it intelligently, because as Karim Lalatosortout problemsarising been debated with greater nuance, politi- but points out that going did nothelp. “A (thosetargeted) can’tsay publicly, ‘Guys, from large amountsofmoneypassing cians could nothaveusedittodivertus lotofthe people being hit nowwereapart it’s justajoint’. Bharatiyasanskriti mein toh hands —especiallyatthat time of licence from other issues. But we arenot opento of thatselfie... Youcan’t pickupthe phone nahin ho sakta hai (This doesn’t happen at raj. The ShivSena made it moreorganised, nuance... The government has realisedwe and tell Modiji,Iwas in the selfie, whyis leastinso-calledIndian tradition).” to the extent that itsmen could paralyse want ayes or no. We don’t want amaybe.” my wife being targeted.” ashooting if their demands were notmet. However, Azmi believes, none of this Among the vocal ones is Hansal ■ ■ ■ In 1970,the party formed awing called dims Bollywood shinefor the hundreds Mehta, whose criticallyacclaimedfilms the Chitrapat Shakha, to ensurethat headedtoitwith stars in their eyes. “Not include Shahid, on the lawyer of the Though the ‘Justice forSushant Singh’ Marathi films got propertheatres forex- achance. The fact is we have neverwit- Mumbai riotsaccused who waskilled. He posters arepartofits Bihar campaign, the hibition.Italso stated adistribution arm nessedthe inflowoftalent we see today... attributes the fear to thefilm industry’s BJP distances itself from the drug and forMarathifilms. Thesedays,ithas sev- people from small towns, theatre.” instinctof“self-preservation”. “Wedon’t other chargesbeing thrownatthe film in- eral unions in the film industry, and has One of them,what nowseems along, ownanything. We make afilmand it’s dustry. “TheBJP has no aim to rule (Top) The selfie takenbyRanveer Singhand tweetedbyKaran Johar in Jan 2019; over the years built arelationship with the long time ago, wasRajput. gone. Thereisanoverarching insecurity.” Bollywood,”saysMaharashtra BJPgeneral (above)Chakraborty before her arrest and Padukone at the NCBoffice. Express industrybosses as well —production INPUTSBYZEESHANSHAIKH,VISHWAS However, Mehtaadds, the belief that if secretaryShrikant Bharatiya, while refer- houses, financiers, directors and stars. 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AYOUNGgirldiedonSeptember 29, were in Uttar Pradesh. Manycases of systemic gaps forwhichweall need to ■ TheUPgovernment sought aCBI 2020, at Safdarjung Hospital, New rape areregisteredascrimes, investi- work together”. inquiryintending to replacethe SIT.At Delhi. In her statementgiven on gatedand tried. Givenaconviction rate of the sametime,diabolicallyand venge- India’s September 22 to amagistrate, the girl about28per cent, manyaccusedare con- ■ The Principal, Jawaharlal Nehru fully, the UP PoliceregisteredFIRs had saidshe wasassaulted and raped victed.Thereisabuzz forafew days af- Medical College, admittedthat the hos- against“unknown persons” forconspir- on September 14,and named four men terthe crime, but it soon dies down. pital did notconduct aforensicexami- acy,instigating caste conflict and sedi- illiberal PCHIDAMBARAM belonging to her village in district Some cases become ‘events’;the Hathras nation because, “as she and her mother tion. Recently, ajournalistwas arrested Website:pchidambaram.in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.Whenshe died, case is one forgood reasons. didn’t sayanything aboutsexualassault, and charged. Twitter@Pchidambaram_IN the police hurriedlytook the body to the we didn’t examineher”. village and cremated it at about 2.30 am democracy on September 30. PANDEMIC INFECTS ■ The district magistrate(Collector) WHY INJUSTICE The girlbelonged to apoor Dalit fam- ALL along with the SP took the decisionto PREVA ILS THE MOST disturbingdevelopment of ily. Relativesofthe four men who were cremate the body in thenight without the pastsix years has been that the na- arrested described the family as neechi The Hathras case is an example the familypresent. The SP said, “I have In astate wherethe administration is tureofIndian democracy has been de- kaum (lowlife) “whom theywon’t touch whereeveryone from the SHO of been told it is notunusual to conduct last tightlycontrolledbythe Chief Minister, liberatelychangedfromliberal to illib- with abarge pole”.Thereare thousands Chandpa Police Station to the district su- rites during the night in this belt.....The Shri Adityanath, is it possible that each eral. The worldhas noticedand this ugly of such Hathras villages in India. These perintendent of police (SP) to the point is that thereisnoHindu way.” of the above actions (with the exception changeisregularly discussedinthe villageshaveafew Dalit families; the Principal,Jawaharlal Nehru Medical of the SHO’s) wasnot within the knowl- western media. But, mostIndians have Dalits ownlittle or no land, usuallylive Collegeand Hospital, Aligarhtothe dis- ■ The DM wascaptured on video edge of the CM at that time or soon notbecause the changehas happened in asegregatedhabitation, do low-status trict magistrate(DM) to the ranking po- telling the familythatthe media will be thereafter? insidiously. and low-paid jobs, and aredependent on lice officer in charge of lawand order gone in aday or twobut “onlywewill be The assault wasonSeptember 14; It continuestohappen insidiously. Everyinjustice owesits the other dominantcaste groups. The (ADGP) to the chief ministerofthe state herewith you”. The brother of the vic- the firststatement of the CM wason So, when news firstcameofthe teenage origin to the sense of victim’s father owns twobuffaloes and (CM) seems to have been infected by a tim said the DM also asked the familyif September 30 afterhehad constituted girlfromrural Hathras dying ahorrible two bighas of land,and worksasapart- virus called Impunity.Itisasifapan- theywould getcompensation if the girl an SIT.Meanwhile, the keyplayers death, and of her body being burnedin impunitythat is entrenched time sanitation worker in aneighbour- demic has sweptacross the officialdom had diedout of coronavirus. continued to strut on the stageas thedead of night withoutlastrites or the in the system: my poweris ing school. in UP.Consider the wordsand actions of thoughnothing untowardhad presence of her family, it caused wide- my sword; my epaulette Emboldenedbygreat social reform- thekey players: ■ The ADGP(Law&Order)of thestate occurred. spread shame and horror. ers likeMahatma Phule, ‘Periyar’ EV assertedthat the victim had notbeen Everyinjustice owes itsorigin to the By lastweek the storyhad changed. above my breast pocket(IAS, Ramasamy, Babasaheb Ambedkar and ■ The SHO sawthe condition of the rapedbecause, accordingtothe forensic senseofimpunity that is entrenchedin The same famous TVanchors who wept IPS, Dr) is my shield; my others, Dalits have politicallyorganised victim, heardher mother and brother, report, therewerenotraces of semenand the system: my powerismysword; my forher theweekbeforebegan to raise caste folk will fight forme; themselvesinafew states;but their sta- registeredacase of assault and attempt the tears on the vagina were old and had epauletteabove my breastpocket(IAS, questions about whether she had been my government and the tus is onlyslightlybetter. to murder,and referred the victim to a healed. (He should read Section 375, IPC, IPS, Dr)ismyshield; my caste folk will rapedatall. Shesaid shewas and that hospital in Aligarh, but did not askfor a and the lawonthe subject.) fight forme; my government and the rul- should be evidence enoughwhen (if?) ruling partywill not admit medical examination. He did noteven ing party will notadmit anylapse or heralleged rapists arebrought to trial. anylapseorcomplicity, and ARAMPANT CRIME suspect sexualassault. ■ The officialdom of Uttar Pradesh complicity,and so on. Governmentstol- But, already her tragic storyhas been so on. Governments tolerate Rape is awidelyprevalent crime in lockeddownthe village,imposedaban eratethe sense of impunity as long as of- forgottenasthe Uttar Pradesh govern- the sense of impunityaslong India.Accordingtodatamaintainedby ■ The SP explained the failuretocon- under Section 144ofthe CrPC on the ficialdom does notdefy the writ of the ment spins afantastical tale about ji- the NCRB, therewere32,033 incidents duct amedicalexamination within72 roads to district Hathras, and barredthe government. hadistconspiracies and an ‘international as officialdom does not defy of rape againstwomen (excluding hours,asrequired under the instruc- entryofthe media and political repre- Nowyou knowwhy injusticepre- plot’ to malign the fair imageofour most the writ of the government POCSO cases) in 2019,ofwhich3,065 tions, with the words“Thereare some sentatives. vails: impunity triumphs over justice. populous state. Yogi Adityanath who has so farnot expressedone word of sympathyfor the dead girlorher familyappeared on na- tional television to confirm this suppos- then GujaratCM, had made it clearthat he History edly malevolent plot. Did yousee the had no role in Singh’s expulsionfromthe Thefirst polls, firstrift, faces of the people who went to Hathras, inside party.One surmisefor Raje’ssurprisingin- he said, theywerethe same faces we TRACK transigence,eventhough Singh wasanold HEADLINE sawinthose protests againstthe friend, wasthat she wanted her son ANKITADWIVEDIJOHRI firstrush: Bihar,1952 Citizenship(Amendment) Act(CAA). COOMIKAPOOR DushyantappointedministerattheCentre These people aredetermined to spread if the BJP won. She sawSingh as competi- [email protected] hatred between communities and tion to her son. Another speculationisthat castes because they do notwant Uttar asoothsayer hadpredictedthe 2014 elec- Pradesh to benefitfromthe ‘progress tionwouldthrow upahungParliamentand AS BIHAR preparesfor polls in the midstof and development’ that he claims he has DANGEROUS LIAISONS Raje couldemerge as adarkhorse forlead- apandemic, the rules of the game, from brought.Itdid nottakelong forthose‘in- ership givenher good equations with campaigningtovoting,arebeingrewritten, dependent’ TV channels who have be- CHIRAGPASWANisnot so mucharebel as Naveen Patnaik and Chandrababu Naidu. with the stateexpectedto setthe template comevehicles of government propa- apawninthe BJP’s two-faced poll strategy Singh wasseenasapotentialrival. forfuturepolls.Nearly 70 yearsago,when ganda to startspreading what they in Bihar.Paswan, fighting forafewmore the firstLok Sabhaand Vidhan Sabha elec- called‘the truth about Hathras’. tickets, neverdreamt that the BJP would tions took place in independent India in In the fogofconspiracies, money permittheLJPto contest over100seats.The WRONG TARGET 1951-52, asimilarpolitical resetwas in the laundering and jihadists,what has been firsthint of theBJP’sambitions to be senior TheSPandfourpoliceofficershandling worksacrossIndia, including Bihar. forgottenalready is the brutal wayin partyinthealliancewithNitishKumarwas theHathrascasehave beensuspendedand Politicians belting outparty promises whichthe teenager from the Hathras vil- at avirtual conference afortnight back if the fall-out continues the next casualty settocatchy tunes,bigleaderscampaigning lagedied. Asimilar game of smokeand whengeneral secretaryBhupendra Yadav couldbeUPDGPHiteshAwasthi.Butthere’s on cycles,women travellingin‘veiled’ bul- mirrors wasusedtocrush dissident observedthattheBJPinvariably playedsec- another Awasthi whose role warrants lockcarts to reachthe polling stations, and voices that rose againstthat discrimina- ondfiddleinBihar.InPatna,duringseatdis- scrutiny. The all-powerfulUP’s Additional boothswithballotboxesindifferentcolours tory amendment to the citizenship law cussions,Yadavand DevendraFadnavis Chief Secretary(Home), Awanish Kumar and markedwith party symbols to help a in the early months of this year.Muslims were upsetafter the JD(U)’s Lalan Singh re- Awasthi,whoseordersarefollowedblindly. largely unlettered populationspottheir ShriKrishna Sinha (left), Bihar’s firstCM, and Anugrah Sinha, the firstDyCM. GoI across India protested outofreal fear markedbluntlythat if the BJP wasdissatis- DuringAwasthi’stenureoflittleoverayear, candidate—the 1952 Bihar election, held that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act fied,itcouldcontest onitsown.TheBJPbe- theUPpolicehasbeenregularly inthenews, in the afterglowofIndia’sIndependence, wasgoing to be followedbyaNational lievesNitish’s popularity has plummeted whetheritisthefollow-upof therapecases wasboth“euphoric” and “challenging”. issue in Bihar 1952”. Among the manychallenges then, says RegisterofCitizens. It does notmatter if afterthe migrant crisis,unlikeNarendra in Shahjahanpur and Unnao or Vikas “The 1952 polls setsome ground rules. “In theyears afterIndependence, ledby Tiwari, wastoget the women to vote. their fears were right or wrong, what Modi’s.However, itstillneedsNitish’sback- Dubey’s gang gunning down eight police- Peoplewere unsure aboutcampaigning,is- farm labourers and the OBC community, “Women in Bihar those days didn’t write mattersisthat theyspokeindissident ward caste vote, justasthe JD(U) relies on men.Thepolicesubsequently“eliminated” sues...The Congress party washugelypop- demandforabolition of thezamindarisys- their surnames. That made it very hardto voices and this is something that cannot theBJP’sforward caste support.Theperilsof Dubey andhismen.No onehasquestioned ular because of the freedom struggle. They tempeaked.The Bhumihar zamindars identify them at polling stations,” he says. be allowedinanilliberal democracy. being toocleverbyhalf is that Nitish, asea- Awasthi(IAS)asto whyaDubeygangmem- startedtheir campaign by launching slo- supportedit but the Rajput-Kayastha lobby But, he recalls, “When the dayfor vot- In Uttar Pradesh,the protests were soneddefector,could jumptothe RJD. berwas at the wedding of his daughterlast gans around itselection symbol, apair of opposedit. This ledtofriction among ingarrived,womenwouldmaketheirway crushedunder Yogi’s jackbootand in Nitishcompelledthe BJP to announce his November.Awasthi’swifeisawell-known bullocks,” says former IPS officer and ex- Krishna Sinha, who wasfromthe to thepollingboothsinbullockcarts,singing Delhi when riots happenedbetween name as the CM candidate, but he cannot singer who tweets regularly in favour of Congress MP Nikhil Kumar.The 79-year- Bhumihar community,Anugrah Sinha, a songsalltheway...Theelectionswere likea Hindus and Muslims (for thefirst time forcethe LJP nottocarry posters of the late Modi. AfterHathras, some in the UP police old’s grandfather Dr Anugrah Narayan Rajput,and RajendraPrasad, aKayastha. festival.Iwasaround10-11yearsoldthen.” in decades), theywereblamedonaji- RamVilas Paswan with Modi. The BJP de- arebecomingresentful over being fre- Sinhawas the firstdeputy CM of Bihar,and AfterRajendraPrasadmovedontoassume Whileinthelateryearsboothcapturing hadistplotbythe Popular Front of India niesthatitsmembersarestrategicallyshift- quentlymade scapegoatsbythe IAS inner hisfatherSNSinhawasthestate’s19thCM. the President’s office, the riftcontinued, and violence became common, in 1952, (PFI). This PFI is indeedaghastlygroup ing to Paswan’s party in some seats. circle. He was, however, removedfromthe “The atmospherewas euphoric. India with the party being dividedintotwo fac- says Singh of TISS Patna, “the firstCEC of violentjihadists,but who allowed it postofAdditional ChiefSecretaryof wasfree.Peoplefromeverysectionof soci- tions. Once, AbdulKalamAzadhadtocome SukumarSendidagoodjob”.“Bihar’sliter- to become so powerful? InformationDepartmentearlierthismonth. etywerewith the Congress. Jawaharlal down from Delhi to sortissues,” says Prof acyratewas abysmal (13.4%)and so, likein Itsalleged involvement in riots in TRAGIC DEATHS Nehru wasanationalhero,”says Congress PushpendraKumar Singh of the Tata the rest of the country, the EC put up ballot Delhi andBengaluru is believable, but RamVilas Paswan’s death adds one leader Shakeel Ahmad whose father,the InstituteofSocial Sciences, Patna. boxesindifferent colours to help people what could it have to do with Hathras? moretothe listofministers in Modi’s JINNAH SET TREND lateShakoor Ahmad,had wonfrom TheonlychallengetotheCongresscame identify their candidate. The pollingagent, The ‘international conspiracy’ against Cabinetwho have passedaway. Gopinath Pakistan’s lackofdemocratic tradition Khajauliseatin1952.“Partitionhadscarred fromtheSocialistParty(SP),aCongressfac- usuallyalocal who kneweveryone, could Yogi Aditynathistoo ludicroustodis- Munde waskilledinanaccident within a is blamedonarmy. But it wasMuhammad Indian Muslims,but the Congress partyre- tionthatbrokeawayinthe1930sunderthe challengesomebody if he thought he was cuss. What is worthdiscussing is the weekof takingofficein2014.MoSAnilDave Ali Jinnah who firstplanted seeds forthe assuredthem.InBihar,100percentof them leadershipofstalwartssuchasJayaprakash an imposter.The presiding officer took afi- growing paranoia aboutsupposedinter- diedofaheartattackin2017. Arun Jaitley, authoritarianrule.Insteadof strengthening were with Nehru,” he says. Narayan and RamManohar Lohia. nal call.The ballotpaper also had to be national interference in India’s internal SushmaSwarajand Manohar Parrikar constitutionalism in the newnation, he in- While the Congress wasconfident of a “Theyspokefor thepeasants. They foldedinaparticular waytobecounted.” affairs. Notsince IndiraGandhi spotted passedawaylastyear,althoughParrikarhad sistedonbeing governor-general,acere- victory, within the party’s stateunit there spokeout againstthe Tatas. While they Polling forthe state’s 330Assembly the ‘foreign hand’ in everything from resignedhis ministerial post. Lastmonth, monialpost. He then passedamendments wasaclash between itstwo stalwarts. were notthe sole voice of the OBCsor seatstookplaceonMarch 26,1952,andthe famine and floods to povertyand poli- MoS SureshAngadi wasavictimofCovid. to control the executive.Heperpetuated a “Shri Babu (ShriKrishnaSinha) was Dalits, theyhad their support. In Sahpur, voter turnout was42.6%.With 239seats, tics has therebeen so muchparanoia in vice-regal system whichgavegovernor- known as Bihar Kesari and my grandfather from wheremyfather Ramanand Tiwari theCongresswonthepollsandShriKrishna the air.ManyNGOs andhuman rights generalandprovincialgovernorsveto pow- wascalledBihar Vibhuti. Youcannotcall wonin1952onanSPticket, manyDalits SinhabecameCM.TheSocialistPartycame bodies have hadtopacktheir bags in NOTHING PERSONAL ers on manyissues, to the detrimentofthe them rivals, buttheywerebothverybig voted forhim,” recalls senior RJD leader adistant second with23seats. (Source ECI) India and leave or suspend their activi- Oneof thefirsttocallonJaswantSingh’s parliamentarysystem.Interestingly,except mass leaders,” says Kumar. Alongwith Shivanand Tiwari, 77. Recallingthetimesthen,theCongress’s ties because ‘foreign funding’ is treated familyafterhisdeathwasVasundharaRaje. in Sindh,all Pakistani governorswere RajendraPrasad, India’s firstpresident, the ButBiharhadn’tyetdiscoveredcaste as Ahmad says,“There wasalot of respect as criminal. Curiously, theformer Rajasthan chief min- Englishmenandsowere chiefsofthearmy, three men were regarded among the ar- an election tool, says Kumar.“When JP and among leaders foreachother.One of the Allthesethingspoint to India’s tran- isterwas believedtoberesponsible for navy and air force, as wasJinnah’s financial chitectsofmodernBihar. Lohiasaid‘backward’intheirspeeches,they storiesfromthattimeishow, despitebeing sition from aliberal democracy to an il- Singh beingdenied the BJP ticketfromthe adviser.ThisunexploredfacetoftheQuaid- The position of the three leadersand meantthepooracrossallcastes.Sometime theCM, Shri Babu gave Anugrah Sinha the liberal one, but who is going to makethis BarmerLokSabhaseatandleftnostoneun- e-Azam is broughtout in Pakistani scholar their communitiesonthe abolition of the in the 1960s, backwardcame to be associ- responsibilityofselecting the Cabinet. an issue? On the national stagethe only turnedtoensurehis defeat in 2014.Modi, IshtiaqAhmed’srecentbiographyofJinnah. zamindarisystemwas“thebiggestelection ated withcertain castesinBihar,” he says. Thesethingsdon’thappen now.” opposition party is the Congress and its leader,Rahul Gandhi,confines himself to personal attacks on the Prime My ISOLATION Minister.Lastweek,hecalled him acow- ardinatrulyoffensivetone, absurdly AWEEKLY WINDOW INTO LIVES OF INDIA’S NEWSMAKERS AND THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON THEM claiming thatiftherewereaCongress government, ‘China would have been thrown out in 15 minutes’.Narendra ‘Children arehome,Iget to spend moretime with them’ Modi’s China policy has been adisaster, but it needs to be analysed without schoolyard name-calling. What precautions areyou taking? Credited with working at the frame. Ihavebeentryingto restrictdailyin- ousdistrictsthrough Zoom and Facebook. This is true alsoofthe reforms in Iwear my mask allthe time andfre- grassroots to return theCongress to teractions but it is challenging. It’s notasubstitutefor meeting peoplebut, agricultural policy,but hereagain our quentlywash and sanitise my hands. I in some ways,ithelps in interactions. main opposition leader has simply also sanitise things that Iuse suchasmo- powerinRajasthan, Sachin Pilot, Have youhad to stayawayfromfamily? made those old chargesabout how bile phones, keypads etc. Itry to ensure 43, remainsone of the party’stallest Actually, Iget to seethemmorenow be- Howdoyou keep your mind offthe Modi’s reforms will help onlyhis ‘hand- social distancing, although it’s notalways leadersinthe state,and one of its cause Iamtravelling less. Since schools are pandemic? ful of richfriends’. Rahul is rightwhen possible. most recognisable faces outside. closed,Iget to spendmoretime with my Slowly the situationischanging into he says that the media has been bullied children. something that we mustlearntolivewith, intosubmission. But,why add recklessly Have yougot tested forCovid-19? Since apublic rebellion sawhim atleasttillthevaccinesare out... It’snotthat that if the press had real freedom, Modi’s Yes. stripped offhis post of deputychief Do youtakeany specific precautions Iactively do thingstokeepmymind off government would fall in days. minister and PCC chief, Pilotis while youtravel? Covid.It’s all aroundand youcan’tavoid it. The mostimportant issue of allisthis What kind of gloves, mask do youuse? Apartfromthe mask,Ialso use aface We alsohave to remindourselvestobecare- frightening transition from liberal to il- Iuse the N95 as well as handmade back at work in the state,amongthe shield occasionallywhen Ianticipatethat ful...For example,the number of times we liberal democracy and it is unfortunate masks manufactured by women living in people.Hesayshehas been careful therewill be alot of peoplearound me. washedour hands in March-April was that the Congress party has said almost rural parts of the state. in the pandemic but “when you muchmore. It has come down now. We nothing about it. have to take apicture,social Howmuchtime do youspend in front mustkeep our guardup. If dissidence continues to be delib- At work,what precautions do youtake? of ascreen? eratelyconfusedwith sedition. If every Imaintain distance, tryand ensure that distancing goes foratoss” Thesedays,alot.Whetheritisparty-re- What is the firstthing youwant to do dissident is arrested under harsh pre- peoplearoundmealsosanitisetheirhands. latedwork orothermatters,Iregularly hold when the pandemic is past? ventive detentionlaws. If poetsand Butwhenpeoplewantto take photographs videomeetings.Onmy birthday, Iappealed Iwould love to greetpeople by shaking writers aretreated as traitors, it will not withyou,socialdistancingcango foratoss. INTERVIEWBYDEEP MUKHERJEE to everyone to notcome to Jaipurand in- hands...Iwanttotravel, watchamovie, get be long before illiberalism becomes Forpictures youhavetobeinthe same Illustration: Suvajit Dey stead Iinteractedwithpeopleacrossvari- out of the city. normal.

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COMPENSATIONISSUE TO TAKE CENTRE STAGEATGST COUNCIL MEET TOMORROW India’s Covid vaccinestrials: Newideatobreakdeadlock:Borrowing Contenders &racetothe finishline With various Covid-19vaccine candidates getting closer to conductinglatestage human trials, and some newerentrants intoIndia’s vaccine race, The SundayExpress takes policyneednotbeuniformforallstates stockofeachcandidateand howclose we aretothe finish line PRABHA RAGHAVAN COMPANY:SERUM ditureinthe wake of the exacer- States suchasBihar have al- INSTITUTEOFINDIA AANCHALMAGAZINE bationofeconomic slowdown ready statedthatthose states Candidate: Covishield NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 due to Covid-19pandemic,espe- whichhavemade theirchoice (developedbyUniversityof ciallycommitted expenditurein among the twoborrowing op- OxfordandAstraZeneca) ASTHECentreandthestateslook theformof salariesandpensions, tions proposedbythe Centre, Type of vaccine: Non- to resolve the deadlockoverthe there’sareluctanceto putthesup- those shouldnot be made to suf- replicatingviralvector compensation shortfall issue un- port in vote. The concern is that fer. Opposing states suchasWest (chimpanzeeadenovirus) der the Goods and Services Tax despiteborrowingforcompensa- Bengal, Kerala, Chhattisgarhand Number of volunteers: (GST) regime, the upcoming tion,thestatesmaystillfallbehind Punjabhavevoicedtheirconcerns 1,600 meeting of GSTCouncil on in meeting their expenditurere- about their dissent notbeing Status of trial: Currentlyin Commuters at abus stop in KolkataonSaturday. AP Mondayislikelytosee arangeof quirements,whichcouldhave takennoteofinthe Council, and phase3 factorsinfluencingafinaldecision repercussionsonthepoliticalcap- Centre pushing forthe majority onthecontentiousissueof resort- ital base as astate goes in forelec- view. The opposing states have TRIALSITES companyreviseitsproposaland ResearchCentre-NorthGoa ing to borrowings to tide overthe tionsincoming years. also notruledout avote or alegal NewDelhi: AllIndiaInstitute conductphase2/3humantrials. Tamil Nadu: SRMHospital shortfall. While there’sadivided Avotingontheissue,however, routetochallengetheoptions,but ofMedicalSciences andResearchCentre- houseoverputting the issueto isbeingseenby someasamethod theywill firstexhaust all other Rajasthan: AllIndiaInstituteof COMPANY:BHARAT Kancheepuram vote, with non-BJP-ruledstates Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharamanafter the 42nd GST to quicklyresolve the compensa- possibleoptionswithintheambit MedicalSciences-Jodhpur BIOTECH likelytopush foritevenasthe Councilmeeting, in New Delhi, lastMonday. PTI file tionstalematebetweenthestates of the Council. Maharashtra: BJMedical Candidate: Covaxin COMPANY:ZYDUSCADILA Centreisexpected to oppose any andtheCentre.“Oneadvantageof The GSTCouncil will on CollegeandSassoonGeneral Type of vaccine: Wholevirion Candidate: ZyCov-D move towardsgongforavote,un- voting couldbethatitbreaksthe Mondaydiscussthesingleagenda Hospital-Pune,amongothers inactivatedvaccine Typeofvaccine: PlasmidDNA derscoring that theissue of bor- pendently. Thiswould be outside sonsbeingconsidered,apartfrom deadlock.Evenif astate hastaken item of compensation, in ameet- AndhraPradesh: Andhra Number of volunteers: Number of volunteers: rowings areoutside the jurisdic- the ambit of Article 279A of the the non-jurisdiction of Council ahardstand, since adecision will ingwhichwillnotbecountedasa MedicalCollege- 1,125 1,048 tion of Council. Thereisalso an Constitution (provision forGST over borrowing,includethe mat- emerge outof voting,itcanstrate- fresh meeting but as acontinua- Visakhapatnam Status of trial: Phase2 Status of trial:Phase2ongoing. emerging viewahead of the Council and itsmandate) since tertakingapoliticalhue.That’sbe- gically resign to the decision.The tion of the 42nd meeting held a Tamil Nadu: Instituteof ongoing.Theexpertcommittee meetingthat anypolicy decision borrowings aregoverned by cause some states areofthe view Councilwilltake thefinaldecision week earlier on October 5. CommunityMedicine-Chennai, lookingintotheapplicationhas TRIALSITES takenbyindividual statesonthis Article293(provisionforstate bor- that voting on the issuewill get nowandtherewillbemanyother TheCentre hadinAugust pro- SriRamchandraInstituteof directedthefirmtosubmit Maharashtra: VIMSHospital- issue of borrowingsneednot be rowings),”aseniorgovernmentof- termedasastate’s politicalaffir- factors that will guide the deci- posedtwo options to states:bor- HigherEducationandResearch safetyandimmunogenicitydata Nagpur uniform forall states across the ficial involved in the exercise said. mation on the issue, adecision sion,” the senior government of- rowRs97,000 crore(on account -Chennai fromthesecondphaseofthis Gujarat: BAPSPramukh country, unlikeotherGST-related Though moststatesacknowl- whichwill have alasting impact ficialsaid. of GSTimplementation) from a Uttar Pradesh: ICMR- trial“forconsideration”. SwamiHospital-Surat,GCS decisions. edge the urgent requirement for onstatefinancesoverthenextfew Also,there’sscepticismabout specialwindowfacilitatedbythe RegionalMedicalResearch MedicalCollege,Hospitaland “Thereneednot be auniform pending compensation funds to years. This is especiallyso, given the timelinessofother proposed RBIorthecomplete shortfallof Rs Centre-Gorakhpur TRIALSITES(FORONGOING ResearchCentre-Ahmedabad, policy forthis borrowing, unlike plan their expenditureplans for that thecompensation cess setto options of adisputeresolution 2.35lakhcrore (includingRs1.38 Karnataka: JSSAcademyof PHASE2TRIALS) amongothers GST-related issues whereunifor- thesecondhalf of thefiscal,many beextendedbeyondthefive-year mechanism or apanel of minis- lakh croredue to Covid) from the HigherEducationandResearch Bihar: AllIndiaInstituteof Karnataka: JeevanRekha mity across the countryisre- states, including some of the BJP- transitionperiodendingJune ters, whichare onlyexpected to market.The amountsunder the -Mysore MedicalSciences-Patna Hospital-Belgaum quired.Soonestate’sopinionneed ruledones, arealsolearnt to have 2022 foratleast3-4 years. elongatetheprocessof resolution, twooptions have sincebeen re- Chandigarh: PostGraduate New Delhi: AllIndiaInstituteof Rajasthan: MaharajaAgrasen notbeimposedontheother,every expressedreluctance to partici- At atime when states are twoseniorstategovernmentoffi- visedtoRs1.10lakh croreand InstitueofMedicalEducation MedicalSciences SuperspecialityHospital-Jaipur statecan take thedecision inde- pate inavoteontheissue.Therea- strugglingto managetheirexpen- cials said. Rs 1.8lakhcrore,respectively. andResearch-Chandigarh Maharashtra: Gillukar Uttar Pradesh: Prakhar Bihar: RajendraMemorial MultispecialtyHospital-Nagpur Hospital-Kanpur,RanaHospital ResearchInstituteofMedical Odisha: InstituteofMedical -Gorakhpur BRIEFLY Sciences-Patna SciencesandSUMHospital- ‘Consumer confidence at all-time low in Jajapur COMPANY:BIOLOGICALE COMPANY:DRREDDY’S Karnataka: JeevanRekha CANDIDATE: RBDVaccine ‘Worstisover, Candidate: SputnikV Hospital-Belgaum (jointlydevelopedwiththe recoveryfaster Sept, set to improve in next 12 months’ (developedbytheGamaleya AndhraPradesh: KingGeorge BaylorCollegeofMedicine) ResearchInstitute) Hospital-Visakhapatnam Typeofvaccine: thanexpected’ Type of vaccine: Non- Telangana: Nizam’sInstitute Recombinantproteinvaccine otherRBIsurvey saidhouseholds’ previousquarter. Respondentsin- replicatingviralvector(human ofMedicalSciences- Status of trial: They’ve NewDelhi: HDFC Ltd vice ENSECONOMICBUREAU INDEXFALLSTO medianinflationexpectationsre- dicated frail sentimentsonem- adenovirus) Hyderabad requestedpermissionto chairmanand CEO Keki MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 49.9INSEPTEMBER mainedelevatedfor both three ployment and external demand Status of trial: Companyhas Haryana: PGIMS-Rohtak conductphase1/2trialsin MistryonSaturdaysaidthe months and oneyear ahead peri- conditions. “Overall financial sit- soughtpermissiontoconduct Uttar Pradesh: Prakhar approximately400participants “worstisbehind us”and the CONSUMERCONFIDENCEre- ods. Their perception of current uation wasassessedtohaveim- phase3trialsinIndia.Theexpert Hospital-Kanpur,RanaHospital around4-5sites.Theexpert ■ The consumer economicrecoveryhasbeen mainedatanall-time lowlevel in inflationandexpectationforinfla- proved.Respondentsmaintained committeestudyingitsrequest andTraumaCentre-Gorakhpur committeehasrecommended confidence index faster than expected. He, September with the general eco- tion over the next three months negative sentimentsonselling hasrecommendedthatthe Goa: RedkarHospitaland somechanges. declinedto49.9 in however, said that interest nomic situation worsening dur- were,however, ashade lower pricesand profit margins in Q2 of September as against rateshavebottomedout. ingthemonth,accordingto asur- thanthatinthepreviousroundof 2020-21,thoughpessimismmod- 53.8inJuly. veybythe ReserveBank of India. thesurvey. Morehouseholdsex- erated,” it said. However, thesituationissettoim- pect general inflation to increase According to anothersurvey Govttofacilitate prove in the next 12 months, the over the threemonths andone- on the economic growth, real renewalofforeign surveysaid. The survey wasconducted year ahead periods, but the share gross domesticproduct (GDP) is RIL- Future Retail deal runs into The consumerconfidencein- duringAugust29–September10, of respondentsexpectinghigher likelytocontractby 9.1percentin drivinglicence dexdeclinedto49.9inSeptember, 2020 in 13 majorcities. food inflation over the next quar- 2020- 21 but it is expected to re- as against53.8inJuly. However, Perceptions and expectations on terdeclined in comparison with covernextyear,when it is ex- legal trouble: What are the issues? NewDelhi: The government the indexhas improved from general economic situation, em- that in July2020. pected to grow by 8.2 per cent. on Saturdaysaid it will initi- 105.4to 115.9onaone-yearahead ployment scenario, overall price TheRBI’ssurveyonthemanu- “Real private finalconsump- by the group to cutdownonthe abledittoexercise the option of atestepstofacilitaterenewal expectationsbasis,indicatingare- situation and ownincome and facturingsectorsays expectations tion expenditure (PFCE)isas- AASHISHARYAN same. Beforethe Augustsale to acquiring all or partofFuture of International Driving covery in the consumer confi- spending were obtainedfrom forthe thirdquarterof2020-21 sessedtocontractby 11.0percent NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Reliance,Biyanihadbeenwooing Coupon’s promoter, Future PermitforcitizenswhoseIDP dence leveloverthe next 12 5,364households across these showfurther improvementsin during 2020-21, followedbyan severalbusiness groups to sell Retail’s shareholding in the com- has expired while theyare months. cities, it said. production, capacity utilisation expansion of 8.5 per cent in the KISHOREBIYANI-LEDFuture shares in severalcompanies of pany, within 3-10years of the abroad. Adraft notification According to the RBI’scon- “Morerespondentsreported and orderbooks.“Going forward, next year.Real gross fixedcapital Retail’sRs24,713 croredealto sell FutureGroup inanattempt to cut agreement. has been issuedbythe Road sumerconfidencesurvey,thecur- curtailmentinbothoverallandes- respondentspolledsome recov- formation (GFCF) is projectedto itsretail, wholesale, logistics and down on the debt,but had not AfterFuture’sagreementwith Transportand Highways rentsituationindex(CSI)recorded sentialspending during the past eryinexternal demand situation recordalarge decline of 21.0 per warehousing unitstoMukesh seen muchsuccess. Reliance, Amazon said that the Ministryinthis regard. PTI itsthirdsuccessive all-timelow, as one year,when compared with and job landscape.Overall finan- cent in 2020-21. It is expected to Ambani’s Reliance Retail and dealwasaviolationof anon-com- therespondentsperceivedfurther thelastsurvey round.Consumers cialsituationandavailabilityof fi- grow by 10.0 per cent in 2021-22, Fashion Style, has run intolegal WhyisAmazon objecting to pete clauseandaright-of-first-re- worsening in general economic expect improvementsingeneral nance portrayed optimism,” the the RBIsurvey said. troublewith Amazon, which the Future-Reliance deal? fusal pact it had signedwith the Malaysia situationand employment sce- economicsituation,employment survey said. The survey said forecasters claimsits“contractualrights”have Lastyear, Biyani’sFutureRetail FutureGroup. The deal also re- Airlinesin nario during the lastone year. conditions and income scenario Meanwhile, manufacturing have assignedhighestprobability been violated. had signedanother quired FutureGroup to inform Householdswere,however, more during the coming year,” it said. companies assessedupturn in to real GDP growth lying below(- deal with global e- Amazonbeforeentering intoany direstraits confident forthe year ahead: The Discretionaryspending,however, production, capacity utilisation )9.0percentin2020-21. For2021- What is the Future- commercegiant saleagreementwiththirdparties. futureexpectations index(FEI) is expected to remain lowinthe and order booksduring the sec- 22, highestprobability has been Reliance deal? Amazon.Aspartofthe On itspart, the FutureGroup Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia improved forthe second succes- near future,the RBI survey said. ond quarterof2020-21fromthe assignedtoGDP growth lying in InAugustthisyear, deal, Amazon had ac- has said that it hadnot sold any Airlines willhavetoshut sive survey round,thesurvey said. On the inflation outlook,an- unprecedentedcontractioninthe thewiderangeof7.0-8.4percent. FutureGroup entered quired 49 per cent stakeinthe company,and was downif itslessorsdecidenot intoanagreement stakeinFuture merelyselling itsassets,and had to back itslatestrestructur- withReliance Retail, a Coupons,thepromoter thereforenot violated anyterms ing plan, the chief executive subsidiaryofthe umbrella firm of FutureRetailinadeal of the contract. of the airline’s parent group Vedanta delisting offer fails, sharestobereturned Reliance IndustriesLtd (RIL) worthnearly Rs 2,000crore. wasquotedassaying. group, to sell itsretail, wholesale, As apartofthe deal, while What happens now? 266per cent premium over the Regulations,” Vedantasaid in a offeris125.47crore shares,which logistics andwarehousing to the FutureRetail would be able to Both Amazon and Biyani’s ENSECONOMICBUREAU floor price of Rs 87.25 per share. stockexchangefiling. islessthantheminimumnumber latter. place itsproductsonAmazon’s FutureGrouphave shownthewill- SouthSudan MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 “Inconnectionwiththeafore- “All equity shares tenderedin of offershares required to be ac- As partofthe deal, Future online market place, thetwo had ingnesstoopt foraarbitration to tochange said delisting offer, we have been thedelistingofferwillbereturned ceptedbythe acquirers in order Retail will sell itssupermarket alsoagreedthattheFutureRetails be decidedinaninternational ar- THE MEGAdelisting offerofAnil informedbyVedantaResources to the respectivepublic share- forthe delisting offertobesuc- chain Big Bazaar,premium food productswould alsobeapartof bitrationcentre.Whilereportssay currency Agarwal-controlledVedantaLtd Ltd and itsindirect subsidiaries holders in accordance with cessful,”the companysaid. supplyunit Foodhall and fashion Amazon’s newplan, whichin- thatthetwocompaniescouldset- has failedand the companyhas namely, VedantaHoldings Regulation 19(2)(a)ofthe Accordingly, the acquirers and clothes supermartBrand tendedtodeliverproductsinse- tle on going to the Singapore Juba: SouthSudan has agr- decidedtoreturnthesharesto the Mauritius Ltd and Vedanta DelistingRegulations,” it said. will notacquireany equity shares Factory’sretail as well as whole- lect cities within twohours of a InternationalArbitrationCentre,it eedtochangethe country’s shareholders. Holdings MauritiusIILtd (collec- Shares can be delistedonlywhen tendered by the shareholders in sale unitstoReliance Retail. The customer ordering them. Future is yettobefinalised.Asthe two currencyinorderto improve What upsetthe Vedantaplan tively to be referred as acquirers) the promotergetsatleast90per the offerand the equity shares of Futuregroupwasunderimmense Retailshasmorethan1,500stores companiesopttogoforarbitration, the economy, agovernment isthedecisionby LIC,whichholds that the delisting offerisdeemed cent of the stake. “The total num- the companywill continue to re- pressure from itslenders, ledby panIndia. it remains unclear it the Future- spokesman said. REUTERS 6.37percentinVedanta,to submit to have failedinterms of berofOffer Shares validlyten- main listedonthe stockex- StateBank of India, to manageits The deal had also given Reliance deal maygothrough in all itsshares at aprice of Rs 320, a Regulation 19(1) of the Delisting dered by the shareholders in the changes, it said. debt, and the deal is seenasabid Amazona‘call’ option,whichen- the event of this legal tussle. With no subscriber churn, Forexreserves Pelosi, Mnuchin fail to reach Covid stimulus deal hit recordhigh BhartiAirtel, Vi unlikely to said. mark. Republican President REUTERS It wasthe thirdstraight dayof Donald Trump, who initially of $545.6 billion WASHINGTON,OCTOBER10 talksbetween Pelosi and withdrew from the negotiations matchJio post-paid offers Mnuchin this week.Optimism this week onlytoregain interest does notsuggest anysubscriber US HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi over apossible agreement lifted inforging abipartisan accord,said ENSECONOMICBUREAU churninthe post-paid segment ENSECONOMICBUREAU and TreasurySecretarySteven US stockprices and setthe stage he wasopen to alargerdeal.”I NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 withrivalsbundlingfreesubscrip- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Mnuchin failedonFriday to reach forthe second straight weekly would liketosee abigger stimu- tion of OTTs like Netflix intotheir agreement on aCOVID-19stim- market gain on Wall Street. lus package, frankly, than either BHARTIAIRTELandVodafoneIdea plans.Therewassomespeculation THECOUNTRY’Sforeignexchange ulus package, while the top But SenateMajority Leader the Democrats or theRepublicans (Vi)mightbefacingtoughcompe- of atariffwar with Reliance Jio reserves rose by $3.618 billion to SenateRepublican voiceddoubt MitchMcConnell, the top areoffering,” he saidinaninter- tition from Reliance Jio, but they whenitcame out withahost of reachalife-time high of $545.638 thatCongress would act before Republican in Congress, said he viewwith conservative radiotalk areunlikelytoreworktheir post- post-paidplansonSeptember22. billionintheweekendedOctober the Nov. 3election. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left)and Treasury Secretary doubted lawmakers would pass showhostRush Limbaugh. paid tariff plansanytime soon by Jio,whichearlierhadonlyone 2, 2020, the ReserveBank of India Mnuchin floated anew $1.8 Steven Mnuchin. The latter floated anew $1.8 tn proposal. File apackagebeforethe election, In an MSNBC interview, Pelosi either lowering rates, offering post-paidplan (Rs 199per (RBI) datashowed. trillion proposal in a30-minute thoughhe has notdirectlypartic- emphasized the needfor aidfor moredata,orbundlingthemwith month), unveiledplans starting In the previousweek ended Fridayafternoonphone conver- ipated in the talks.”The proxim- stateand local governments to free subscription of OTTs like from Rs 399 and going up to Rs September 25, the reserves had sation, according to the White said on Twitter. tion wantedto keep spending be- ity to the election and the differ- help paysalaries forpolice, Netflix to matchoffers by Jio. 1,499. All plans come bundled declinedby$3.017 billion to House. But Pelosi aide Drew The newWhiteHouse pack- low$2trillion but waseager to ences of opinion overwhat is healthcare workersandother first Thereare validreasonsforthe withNetflix(mobile-only,single- $542.021billion. During the re- Hamill said the offerlackeda agewas higher than an earlier enact afresh round of direct pay- neededatthis particular juncture responders.That has proven to be operators to have adoptedsucha deviceplan), Amazon Prime, portingweek,theincreaseinforex broad plan to contain the pan- $1.6 trillion Mnuchin offerand mentstoAmericanindividualsas arepretty vast,” McConnell tolda amajor dividing line throughout stance,apartfromavoidinganun- Disney-Hotstar, and Jio kitty wasonaccountofrise in for- demic. Talkswill continue, he closer to the $2.2 trillion that the well as aid to small businesses news conference in his home monthsof negotiations. The pan- necessary tariffwar that mayad- TV/Saavn/Cinema. The post-paid eigncurrencyassets,amajorcom- said.”Weare still awaiting lan- Democratic-controlledHouse of and airlines.”Wewant to think stateofKentucky. demic has infected at least7.6 versely impact theirrealisations. marketiswortharoundRs22,000 ponentof theoverallreserves.FCA guagefromthe administration as Representativespassedlastweek. that the Speaker is operating in SenateRepublicans have million people in the United Datarelatingto post-paidusers croreinrevenueterms,asperesti- increasedby$3.104billion to negotiations on the overall fund- WhiteHouse spokeswoman good faith and we canhavesome warnedthat theymight notsup- States and killedmorethan of Bharti Airteland Vodafone Idea mates by Jefferies. FE $503.046 billion. WITHPTI ing amount continue,” Hamill AlyssaFarahsaid theadministra- progress in the near future,” Farah portapackagenearthe $2 trillion 212,000.

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JUMPING THROUGH LOOPS Once therealm of socially awkward nerds,coding is now being pitched as anew interactive playground for children. But is it really the must-have lifeskill of the future?

Amrita Dutta

HE DIGITAL native that she is, eight-year-old Hirranya Rajani,withher experienceof building an app and multiple skirmishes with peskybugs, T takesnotime to break it down. “Coding is like, say, your friend comes home and asksfor aglass of water. Youare busy.She doesn’t knowyour house, and you have to tell her howtogoabout it, step by step. Tell her wherethe glass of wateriskept, which waytoturn till she gets there...Coding is like that,communicatingwith your computer and telling it whattodo, and howtodoit,”she says. In 2015,the BBC micro:bit, atiny, pocket- Foroverayear,Hirranyahas been learn- sizeprogrammablecomputer wasdistributed ing the elementsofthe languageonthe ed- free to thousands of schoolchildren in the UK tech coding platform, WhiteHat Jr,that helps in the hopeof eventually solvingthe shortage herdojustthat. To her,loops, conditional state- of skilledtechworkers in the UK. On the mi- mentsand variables arenot bitsofanarcane crobit.orgwebsite, children use attractive in- languagebut apartofanewtoolkit.Hirranya’s terfaces likedrag-and-dropblocks to write motherKavitaRajani,an electronics engineer code.“It is averyvisual wayofcoding. Once who introducedhertocodingbeforeenrolling youcode in blocks,you can go to another tab herinWhiteHat Jr,believes hertraining is a andsee thecorrespondingJava Script/Python “necessity of the time”. “She definitelysees it code,” says Choudhury. as acareer.This way, she is becoming someone Likethe Hour of Code, anon-profit cam- useful forthe industry,”she says. paigntodrawmoreAmerican studentsinto ILLUSTRATION:SUVAJITDEY Once the dimly-lit realm of sociallyawk- computer science, the BBC’s campaign was ward nerdshappytospend hours in front of aimedatimmersinganewgenerationinto computers, coding is being pitchedasanew the shallow endoftechnology,hoping they estaccompaniesthese proposals…[they] ●●● Theynudged studentstowards owning their interactive playground forchildren as young learn nottobeafraid of thewater,evenifthey lament the needtooutsource coding ...and imagination the old-fashionedway,creating as six. But it’s notall play. The sights, in fact, do notbecome swimmers. The effortsbuilt importsoftwareengineers from India ...But ‘Learningtocode,onceyou fantastic characters on pen and paper —which areset onwork,which, even if faraway, is pre- on the work of researchers at the MIT Media these technical jobs represent less than three wasthen usedtocreatestories on Scratch. The dicted to be disruptedbyautomation and ar- Lab, who in 2007 had developedScratch,an per cent of the workforce,” he argued. know the basics, is very capacityto close theloop,from ideato execu- tificial intelligence (AI). “Coding will become appthat teaches children (8-16) howtocode. Choudhury, too, remains sceptical about tion, is the magic of coding, says Srivastava. an essential languagefor all children, and not Bitsofcode arerepresented by colourful coding as amagic tool. “My personal opinion easy. If you push achildinto Both warn against pushingchildren intoarace. justthose who do computer science,” says blocks that have to be snappedinplace on a is it is quiteoverhyped. Learning acomputer “Ifyour child is notinterested, shewilldefi- AnandPrakash, co-founder of Vedantu,aned- screen likeajigsawpuzzle.“Children canstart language, once youknowthe basics, is very it, it can triggeraphobia,’ nitelyget by,” says Srivastava. tech startupwhich startedliveone-on-one by simply tinkeringwiththe bricks,snapping easy.Ifachild is pushedintoittoo early, it Manyeducators fear that ed-techcoding coding classes forchildren in Maythis year. them together in different sequences and might trigger afear,muchlikethe phobia of says MonojitChoudhury of startups arereplicating the frenzy of India’s The barrage of shinyads that followuson combinations to seewhat happens. Thereis math,” he says.What he would recommend, infamous IIT-JEE coaching factories. “Coding our screens makefar moreimmodestclaims none of theobscuresyntax or punctuation of instead, is nudging children towardsahabit Microsoft Research Lab is notthe answer to lifeand willnot makeyou —from sharpening left-brain skills to switch- traditional programminglanguages,” wrote of “computationalthinking”.“It’saboutbeing ●●● aSteve Jobs. When tech giants fuel suchun- ing on achild’s creativity or turning her into Mitchel Resnickand his team in a2009paper, attentive to howthings happen, howtothink realisticexpectations, it is farmoredangerous Bill Gates. The leader of the packisKaran Scratch:Programmingfor All. stepwise. It’s actuallyall around us —evenin than institutes who can influence 500people Bajaj’s WhiteHat Jr,whichwas foundedin Sureenough, in afew weeksafter getting howyou bakeacake,” says Choudhury. computational thinking to solve tasksasvar- at most,” says Abhishek Gupta,co-founder of 2018 andsoldinAugusttoed-techgiant BYJU’s his hands on amicro:bit, Medhajit waslearn- Now, what could baking acakehavetodo iedasimagining yourself as atour guide and NavGurukul, ahigher-educationalternative in a$300milliondeal. Bajaj, whocongratu- ing on his own, toggling between the website withalgorithms?Writing arecipe, saypro- devisingaHyderabaditinerary, analysingthe thatrunsone-year-long coding bootcamps in lates himself on “creatingacategory”, says, andthedevice,tocreateeasygames andlight grammers,involves breakingdown ataskinto problem of gender inequality in sports news Bengaluru and Pune forstudentsfrommar- “Kidswho code early startthinking of them- sensors. “Children find it interesting because small steps, arranging them intothe right se- reporting, and creating apidgin language. “We ginalisedcommunities. selvesaspeople who can create. In the future, it is tangible, almost likeyou arebuilding quence or algorithm (think of what would don’t want them all of them to become com- The tradeoffs arenot insignificant. “All youcan either be acreator or aconsumer of apps,” says Choudhury. happen if youwhisked butter and flour,and puter engineers,” says Loganathan. child psychologists sayweshould reduce technology.Ifyou areacreator,you areset for Forall the evangelism of catchingthem addedsugar later) so that others can followit screentime forchildren. That blocks,Legoand apowerfullife,” says Bajaj. Aboutfour million young— Apple CEO TimCook is on record to reachthesame result.“Codinghasnotcome ■ ■ ■ puzzles remain thebestway to develop a children triedout the classes on WhiteHat Jr, asking that coding be made compulsoryin down from Mars.Itinvolvesbasic logic and child’scognitive powers hasbeen provedover and1.2lakh currentlylearncoding onthe plat- American public schools —thereexists a reasoning, all of whichiscovered in aregular Themachines arecoming, we have been and over again,” says Gupta. form. “65 per cent of our studentsare outside strong critique of the approachinthe West.In CATCH THEM scientificcurriculum,”says Arvind Gupta, ed- told. Jobs of todaywill disappear in the future. The unknowability of the futureispre- India’s top15cities,”says Bajaj. The classes are 2017,LarryCuban, professoremeritusof edu- YOUNG ucator and inventor known to advocatethat Howwill the children cope? “By being profi- ciselywhat should stop parentsfromforcing notcheap (48classes costRs35,000in abegin- cation at StanfordUniversity,calledsuchat- Hirranya Rajani, 8, children learn by working with their hands. cient at multiple things and knowing howto children intonarrowskills. Choudhury of ner’s module.) “Unlikeinother co-curricular tempts anew “vocationalism”,whichnarrows Coding, sayexperts,isanarrowerform of cross boundaries. Adesigner has to be atech- MicrosoftResearch lab pointstoGPT-3,alan- has completed things, aspirational parentssee aclearpath- the purpose of education intocreating new skill, embeddedinalarger, immensely more nologistand vice-versa,” says Madhumita guagegenerator developedinaSan Francisco waytothe futureincoding,” says Prakash. The workers forachanging economyrather than 112-plus coding exciting domainofthought.“Programming is Nandi Srivastava, an arteducator andanMFA artificial intelligence research lab, whichre- National Education Policy,too, recommends well-roundedhumans or responsible citizens. classes on justmechanics,” says ProfessorRamesh in design and technology from Parsons School cently“wrote”an opedfor TheGuardian. GPT- introducing coding in school, though onlyto “The strong smell of Silicon Valleyself-inter- WhiteHat Jr Loganathan of the International Instituteof of Design, NewYork. The vaccine forthe dis- 3can createanything thatis akin to alanguage, older children (Class VI and above). Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad. ruption of the futurecannotcome onlyfrom including code. “Howtowrite aconditional OneofIndia’s premierinstitutes of com- learning aprogramming language. “The ap- statement, howtowritealoop will be doable ■ ■ ■ puter science,IIITstartedasummerworkshop proachistomakeittrans-disciplinaryand not by AI eventually,”says Choudhury. But AI will forchildren in ClassesVII-Xon “computational tech-heavy.The ‘why’ that wasmissing from struggle with what humans can do: “Decide If coding is thenew literacy,why would thinking” in 2014.“We were certain we didn’t an older pedagogy is also missing now,”says what needs to be done. Design asystemand younot want your child to read and write? But want anythingto do with programming.As it Shilpa Sharma, science teacher at Ascent determine if it is scalable,” he adds. Monojit Choudhury,principal researcher at is,ourstudents aretoo focussedon mathsand International School, Mumbai. In ameeting with various stakeholders MicrosoftResearch Lab, India, wasreluctant engineering in their school years,” says Justaschildrenlearn to readandwritebet- held lastyear,Choudhurywas askedif school to initiatehis son Medhajit, 9, intoprogram- Loganathan. Aghastatasystem that was“cre- terwhen theyconnect it to their lifeexperi- curriculums shouldchangetotackle the chal- ming. “As parents, we wanted him to be ating zombies and exam-takingmachines”, encesand see it as away of self-expression, lengeofAI. “My answer wasthat we don’t drawntonature, birdsandinsects. Buthe was Loganathan and hiscolleagues wantedto prod that “why” might fall intoplace when it be- knowwhether it is AI or biotechnology or very curious aboutdigital devices,” says the studentstowards “a problem-solvingap- comes away to tell their ownstories.Acouple quantum computing that will be important Bengaluru-basedscientist. Medhajit’spersist- proachthatcanbeusedinthe analysis of aso- of months ago, Sharma and Srivastava de- in 15 years. Our best betisnot to focus on one ence, however, ledChoudhurytoagree to cial problem or music or economics.” signedaworkshop in whichchildren created technology.When youare preparing forafu- teachhis son the basics of Python. “I washop- In itsfifth edition lastyear,the workshop art, stories and games to express some of the turenooneknows about, youshould prepare ing he would give it up if we did it the hard wasrolledout as apilotinaNavodaya tumult of livingthrough apandemic. “Coding foreverything. Makethe children flexible, way,”hesays.But Medhajit’sgrasp wasquick, Vidyalaya in Gopanpally, Hyderabad, to in- is writing aset of instructions to realise acre- teachthem to take on challenges, solve prob- his interestunflagging, and Choudhuryended clude amorediversecommunityof students. ative vision. First, youneedtobeable to have lems and adapttonew technologies. Often, up buying him amicro:bit. Eighty studentsofClass VIII usedelementsof that vision and imagination,” says Srivastava. this is notananswer manyare happywith.”

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Dipanita Nath by John Hodgson, one of the pioneers of the- RanjitLal atreeducation in UK, whom he metasastu- dent of drama, English literatureand artatthe Ranjit Lalisanauthor, N1968, 22-year-old Barry John from now-closedBretton Hall CollegeinYorkshire. environmentalist and central England’s Black Country, an “He would neveranswer our questions but bird watcher area cloaked in sootand smokefrom say, ‘Justfind out’. Whatisimportantisthe factories and mines, arrivedinIndia homework youdotobring out acharacter Iandbegantocreatetheatrethatwould whoisnot you. This is difficult to explain to free the minds of children. “People were not people who cannotimagine anything other usedtotheideathatchildren have voicesand than atraditional approach,” says John. opinions. Iwas working from my heart, rather This would also become John’s approach When than my head, in fighting forthe right of chil- when he worked with children in India.For drento maketheir ownchoices insteadof be- instance, at NSD, wherehetaught from 1977 ing told what to do, when to do or howtodo,” to 1980,studentswould beworking on scenes he says overphonefrom Dharamshala, where through the day, saying their lines or arrang- Fear Stalks he has been living in retirement since 2015. ing the lightsbut John would give no instruc- John has turnedseveral generations of tions. “Barry could getyou thinking and let teenagersintotheatre practitionersand his youarriveatsolutions on your own. The first We nurse phobias about many once-unorthodox methods have been playIdid with him was Toba TekSingh.He adoptedbythe TheatreinEducation pro- would give us afreehand and wait forusto creatures, but who should really gramme at the National School of Drama arrive at the playwith our ownideas instead (NSD) in Delhi. In August, he washonoured of making it easy forus,” says RoystenAbel, be afraid of whom? withthe Lifetime Achievement Awardatthe among the pathbreaking directors of India, 15th MahindraExcellence in TheatreAwards. who joinedNSD as astudent in 1980. hen facedwith danger,every living crea- “The entirespace preparedus, though we did What brought John to India wasanews- tureresponds in twoways,onlyone of notrealiseitatthe time,tolook at lifediffer- paper advertisement looking forinstructors whichcan be used at atime —fight or Wflight. Usually, when the threat is smaller ently. It made us understand thatifyou have to train teachers. It had been put out by the an idea or apassion you governmentsofKerala, and weaker,the creaturewill fight and vanquish it. At shouldpursue it because Tamil Nadu, Karnataka times, the threat is on apar with it and the animal has to that is what givesyou hap- and AndhraPradesh, who decide whether it’s worth getting injured in a“do-or-die” piness,” says Vidyun had pooledtheir resources fight, or to simplyretreat and live to fight (a weaker en- Singh, choreographer and to createaprojecttoim- emy) another day. Sometimes, of course, tempers short- director,programmes, provethe quality of circuit and afight to the death commences: usuallyno India Habitat Centrein English languageteaching one comes offaclear winner.The loser maylose itslife Delhi at apaneldiscussion in 1968.John,who was and the winner limpaway, ready to be takenonbyan- during the online META teaching at acollege in a other challenger,whichitis, now, in no condition to do. awards ceremony. coal-mining villagein Severalyears ago, Iwitnessedacatfight on my porch. Theatreisruledby Yorkshire, whereneither Afteryowling hideouslyateachother,their tails lashing strict hierarchies, with the teachers norstudents un- likelariats, the catsflung themselvesonone another in a director usuallyatthe top. derstood his styleofteach- flurry of clawsand teeth. One had itsfacelooking likea John preferredtolet chil- ing, jumpedatthe chance. cheese grater had been usedonit, the other had itsbelly dren and young adultscre- “I am very consciousthat gouged viciously. No amount of stamping one’s feet (they ateplays on their own my lifeisthe work of were virtuallyatmyfeet) had anyeffect. Eventually, one without instructions from chance. Youcannotplan to slunk away underthe carand the other retreated,both ●●● him.This had interesting end up on the otherside of still yowling hideously. results, likewhenabike the worldtodotheatre. It We humans arenostrangers to these responses. It is, roareddown thehallowed Theatre is ruled by wasinsane but Ihavezero indeed, prudent to be wary of big wild animals suchas halls of Delhi University’s regrets,” he says. tigers, elephantsand rhinos. But experts saythat our first St Stephen’sCollegeaspart strict hierarchies. The firstcouple of response when confronted by them —toturn tail and flee of the 1972 student pro- years in India —when he —isabsolutelythe wrong thing to do because it triggers duction of TheDisorderly John preferredtolet wasteaching English in the chase response in the animals. And, one wayoran- Women (1969), which children andyoung Coimbatore, Mysuru and other,theywill catchyou. So, stand up and waveyour John had been invited to Bengaluru —brought him arms and yell at the bear that has justreared up roaring direct. Afew of the per- adults create plays on in contact with folk theatre and wait until the rhino is almostupon youbeforedodg- formers from this play, in- and local groups. “The ingtoone side andnever turn your backonabig cat. cluding television pro- their ownwithout rootsoftheatreinIndiaare Some claim that theywerebornwith afear of snakes. ducer Siddhartha Basu, in the folk forms of the ru- I’m notsurethis is the case, because children who arenot joinedhim the next year to instructionsfrom him ralareas. It concerns me told that snakes can be dangerous will cheerfullyhandle form the TheatreAction that this form is languish- them. Our response to snakes is usually(and sadly) to go Group (TAG). Theydis- ●●● ing, if notdying duringthe on the offensive:tofetch astickand beat them to death mantledWilliam pandemic,”hesays. and find out later whether theywerevenomous or not. Shakespeare’s Macbeth andgaveitanoccult In 1970,John came to Delhi to join Yatrik, We nursephobias of hundredsofthings: spiders, interpretation,with chanting and movements. agroup that includedformidable performers “This wasadeparturefromwhat wasbeing suchasJoy Michael. At thetime, the city was done at that time. We were experimenting active in experimental Hindi and English lan- with form, improvising, thinkingand learn- guage productions and welcomedJohn’spio- ing about the voice and body that went be- neeringtechnique.Hewas soon teaching yond speech in away that wasnew,” said Basu drama at Jesus and MaryCollege, and direct- during the panel discussion. ing student productions at St Stephen’s, Hindu Born in 1946 in Coventry, John beganper- College, Miranda House and Lady Shri Ram forming early.Heenjoyedschool,wherehe College, among others. Ebrahim Alkazi, the vi- TEACHING LIFE that “audiencecouldfeelas cold as thekids do don’t rush intoacting in theatre,” he says. sang in achoir, learnt to playmusical instru- sionarydirector of NSD, calledhim to conduct (Clockwise from top) during the winter days whentheyhaveto John bowedout of theatrewhen he turned mentsand acted in plays.His parentshad no aworkshop with the studentsand BV Karanth, sleep outside”. 70.Dharamshala is his home now, where, in a Barry John; stills interestinartand neverattendedasingle per- who succeededAlkaziasdirector,NSD, made Today, an older generation knows John as house overlooking the hills, he sitsathis desk formance, he says.Fromthe ageof13, he him amemberofthe faculty in 1977.Along from Suno Re Kissa alegendarydirector andteacher of theatrebut everyday and writes afew pages of his auto- worked multiplejobs, including delivering the way, John learnedHindi. AfterMiraNair’s and Ali Baba and the forthe newcrop, he is the man behind the biography. The bulk of it will chartthe evolu- newspapers. “I neverasked my parentsfor film Salaam Bombay! (1988), forwhichhehe 40 Thieves by the Barry John Acting Studio in Mumbai, which tion of children’s theatreinIndia sincethe RANJITLAL pocketmoneybut bought all my clothes and held workshops forthe actors, he directed a Theatre Action primes hopefuls forBollywood. “What most 1970s. “Theysay of Socrates, what did he ITSYBITSY TERROR paid forall my expenses to learn to be inde- group of children from theNew Delhirailway Group (TAG); John actors want is to join films or TV.Toget to do teach? Nothing. He justasked questions. We Our fear of creepy crawlies is usually irrational pendent and to qualify to do what Iwanted station in aplaybasedontheir lives, titled in 1980 aplaytakes time.You have to laythe founda- needtostoplecturing our young people and with my life,”hesays. JeevankiGadi.The playwas staged at Triveni tion forchildren to have confidence and ac- allow themto think so that they canworkout John’s approachtotheatrewas influenced KalaSangam on afoggy December evening so quireperformance skills to some level. You abetterworld,” he says. cockroaches, scorpions, bees, wasps and other tiny creepy-crawlies. Some of these arefor good reason —for example, allergy to beestings —but mostare irrational. While Iwonderwhy people arescared of spiders, Icannot toleratecentipedes in the shower. Firstresponse: flight, peace in theregion. And, then, the internetre- followedbyfull-on attackwith atoiletbrush. These guys spondedinexpected patterns. can bite, but theywon’t kill youbyalong shot. Double-tap to Kill The same jokes came forward. The same We have causedmorefear than we have experienced. polarisedconversations were rehearsed. The True, we areafraid of large wild animals, but theyare hatecomplexofthe internetwas reanimated moreafraid of us, because we aretheir mostdangerous Howsocialmedia erasesinformationbyoverproducing to repeatlies, discredit witnesses, intimidate enemy. Mostflee on our appearance, and with good rea- voices, and dismiss the pain of the woman son. We leveltheir forests, setfiretovastswathes of habi- it anddepleting it of all intensity who firstdiedabiological deathand then tat, spray poisons on the fields theylivein. Field biologists wasmade to die again, repeatedly, in judicial wanting to study wild animals have to spend years just out worrying about whereitisstored, who processes and social media narrations. trying to win their trustbeforetheycan begin useful stores it, who accesses it, and what happens People shouted and sworeateachother. work.Eveninprotected areas, animals areprick-eared DIGITAL when —without our knowledge,consent, and Newspaper headlinesthat looked likethey and nervous when we showup, melting away intothe agency —that information livesuptoits at- had notchangedsince the lastdecade were forest the moment we step outofour vehicles. Whydo tribute: It is always available to anybody who paradedagain. Old information, whichisso youthink it’s so difficult to seetigers in national parks? NATIVE wantsit. However, that way, the storyofBig tired that it has retired,was repackaged as We reallyare the harbingers of terror:ananimal in Data, surveillance, and the big bad GAFA newnews. distress is convincedthat we’reabout to kill it and strug- (Google, Apple, Facebook,Amazon) lies. The digital space is essentiallyaspace of gles maniacallywhen we trytohelp it. Leopards trapped Today, Iamstill grapplingwith what hap- erasurebydead information. It seems to be a in wells will spit and snarland fight viciouslyevery inchof pens,inthe ageofincessant dataretrievaland particular condition of the digital space that the waywhen they’rerescued. Even orphanedcubs turn NishantShah algorithmic datamining,toinformation that GETTYIMAGES it takesupspecific information patterns and intospitfires when we take them in our arms and pacify ●●● exists,but can no longer be retrieved.What mines them fordetails, stores all the different and bottle-feedthem. In his classic book, ThePeregrine Nishant Shah is a happenstoinformation thatleavestracesin parameters, creates overwhelming streams (1967), JA Bakerchillingly spellsout the fear we instill in professor of newmedia our memories, markson our bodies, scars on Thedigital space is essentiallyaspaceof of circulation,makes archives of ever-grow- animals: “Nopain, no death, is moreterribletoawild and theco-founder of ourrelationships, and creases on our social ingintensity,and then makesthat informa- creaturethan itsfear of man… Apoisonedcrow, gaping TheCentrefor Internet fabric, but can no longer be accessed? Iam erasurebydeadinformation tion dead.Not death by silenceordestruction, and helplesslyfloundering in the grass, bright yellow &Society,Bengaluru noteventalking about information that was but merelybyoverproducing it,givingitex- foam bubbling from itsthroat, will dash itself up again ●●● neverproduced —the negative space of the traordinaryvisibility,depleting all intensity, and again on to the descending wall of air,ifyou tryto plateoffoodthat wasnot made intoan stoppedworking, and has justbeen declared and then, flattening it as an individual case catchit. Arabbit, inflatedand foul with myxomatosis WHATDOyou dowithdead information?Not Instagram picture, the half-written status dead onarrivalbypeople who call themselves rather thanthe symptomofalargerproblem. will…feel the vibration of your footstep and will look for information that is no longer valid. Notinfor- messagethat wasnever postedonFacebook, professional geniuses.Thoughthatis astoryof Ironically, the machine builtforpattern recog- youwith bulging, sightless eyes…We arethe killers. We mation that is no longer relevant. Notinfor- the tweetthat wasalmost scribbledinyour obsolescence and loss and, perhaps, thankful nition refuses to identify the patterns of gen- stink of death. We carry it with us. It sticks to us likefrost. mationthat has fallenoutof fashion.Butinfor- mindbut nevermade it to the keyboard. erasurewith time, that also needs to be told. dered information being erasedand dimin- We cannottear it away.” mation thathasbecometrulyand profoundly Therein lies the tale of reticence, human dis- The question remains because, once again, ishedbythe same actors surprisingusby We stink of death: notdeath brought about by our dead —scrambledinanirreversibleglitch,cor- cretion, and the fierce struggle to keep things my digitaltimeline explodes with the indigna- doing the same things eachtime. need to survive,but needless death from trophyhunting ruptonfickle storagedevices, residing in for- private,personal and, perhaps,precious. tion, political mudslinging, performative ac- By the time this writing is out, the atten- and mindless butchery, drivengreed and nothing else. matsthat nobody reads, written in machine No,the question at hand is information tion, and non-performing justice system, as tion of the news cycle will have shifted, and Very fewanimals kill beyond their immediateneeds –a languagesthatare long sinceforgotten. What that exists,can beseen in an index, is available we bear fruitless witness to another national the worldwill have movedon. The informa- herdofdeer will relax and graze when it knows the tiger do youdowith information that is inaccessi- in itsphysical storage, but is no longer read- reportfrom#Hathras on ayoung Dalit tion about the #Hathras case will be another passing by has just fed, and is notinterestedinthem. ble, illegible, and notintelligible? able. Likealibrarybook thateverybody knows woman allegedly gang-raped, abused,and information stream that is archived.The in- We reallybetterbecareful because natureisstriking These might sound likethought-experi- exists,and when yougotothe shelves, you killed, and her body reducedtoanicon, an im- ternetwillnot connect it to theumpteen cases back. The enemyisinvisible, proliferating crazilyand can ment questions in an agewhereweare ledto canseeit, but cannotretrieve it. And Iask this, age, afactoid, upon whichpolitical wars and thatwehavedigitallydramatisedoverthelast kill awfullyindays.Sneeze and youfreeze with terror,and believe thateverything hasan infinitebackup notbecauseIhavesuddenlydiscoveredthat Twitter drama arebeing staged.Inall the tur- decades. We willallbesurprisedagain, when there’s nowheretoflee. Quitesimply, we’regetting adose and that storageisunlimited.The notion that the novelIhad written at the ageof21, and moil, #FakeNews emergedasatrend, this oldinformation will surface again, when an- of our ownmedicine. “informationwill always beavailable” has led whichwas going to makemefamous, is now time, with the government and itsapparatus other body,markedbygender,sexuality,and us to produce an endless amount of datawith- backeduponahard-drive that has long since claiming aconspiracy theorytodestabilise caste,will resurface on ahashtag.

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EXPRESS EDITORS The First RECOMMEND Darkness, Surrender Revealed The riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution Theessential Louise Glück readinglist—four Malini Bhattacharjee works by this year’sNobel Laureate forLiterature HE STORYofIndian politics is one of continuities morethan ruptures —contrarytothe popular imagination, bolsteredbyargumentsbyseveral AFTER ITScontroversial selection of Peter Tmainstream political analysts that the period Handke for the 2019 Nobel Prize for since 2014 has pavedthe wayfor anew regime that has Literature, theSwedishAcademy returned jeopardiseddemocracy and tarnishedthe “idea of India”. on course this year with a Laureate who Singh’s book,whichnarratesthe storyofthe passageof met with all-round approval: Louise the FirstAmendment to the Indian Constitution by the Glück’smasteryatlayingbaretheinnerlife Jawaharlal Nehru government in June 1951,provides an of the individual has long been acknowl- important interruption to this narrative. edged. Here's a list of four collections that The book drawsattention to the enormous impact of give a glimpse of Glück’s poetic genius: this legislation on the fundamental rightsofthe citizen. Some of the major modifications introducedincludedin- The House on creasedrestrictions on the freedom of speechand expres- Marshland (1975) sion in the name of “public order”, the “interests of these- curity of the state” and “relations with foreign states”. The PHOTOS:HARPERCOLLINS Glück’s second book of poetry, which Actalso enabledcaste-basedreservations by restricting came sevenyears afterher debut volume, Article 15 from applying to government provisions forthe Firstborn,isconsidered to be the one that advancement of backwardclasses; it circumscribed the announcedthe arrivalofapowerful new right to property and validated zamindari abolition by al- voice in American poetry. Oneofthe po- lowing the statetoacquireproperty without paying equi- The CodeofOrange emsin the collection, Gretel In Darkness,in table compensation and ensuring that anylaw providing particular,drew bothcensureandacclaim forsuchacquisition could notbedeemedvoid even if it vi- forits exploration of the theme of familial olated the right to property.The final nail in the coffinwas and culturaltrauma, told from the per- the introduction of the Ninth Schedule, wherelawscould ManbeenaSandhu on her biographyofMaAnand Sheela, spective of Gretel, one of the protagonists be parkedtomakethem immune to judicial challenge from the Grimm Brothers’s fairytale. even if theyviolated the fundamental rights. Singh foregrounds the discussion by drawing atten- why she chosetowrite on Osho’s flamboyant former secretaryand Wild Iris (1992) tion to the political climateofthe years soon after Time and mortality yoke this collection of Independence and the “build- catchingaride into the Orange world 54 poems that won up” to the passageofthe Glückthe Pulitzer Prize amendment. Thereisade- in 1993. Written in tailedanalysis of howthe gov- Devyani Onial place and time.Mawas (or, rather,stillis) head three segments, Wild ernment’s imposition of poli- over heels in love with Bhagwan. So muchso, Irisspeaksinthe voices cies relating to press that at times her emotion inthepastmay have of the flowers, the gar- censorship, enabling caste- HE WAS16when she accompa- colouredthe reality to appear different than dener and an omnis- basedreservations in educa- niedher father to meetgodman what it actuallywas. It happens to allof us.But cientgodfigure. In each tional institutions and re-dis- Rajneesh in Baroda, the beginning in her case, she mayhavegoneastepfurther, segment, Glückcreates tribution of land were of acomplex relationship thaten- or maybe100steps further,than an ordinary acyclical world, much challenged by the affected Sdured untilshe fledhis ashram in human being in pursuing her love and her goal likethe seasons, seeking answers to spir- stakeholdersincourts.Inall theUSin1985. From setting up acommune of upholding the entity of the ashram. itual and intellectual questions. cases relating to press censor- in awild outpost of Oregon andunsettling a SIXTEENSTORMY Averno (2006) DAYS:THESTORY ship, mostnotably Brij conservative local communityalong the way, Besides Wild Wild Country,thereisalso OFTHEFIRST Bhushan vState of Delhi (1950) the flamboyant Ma AnandSheela (born Ma Sheela’s memoir, Don't Kill Him! The While announcing the Prize, the Swedish AMENDMENTTO and Romesh Thappar vThe Sheela AmbalalPatel) waspersonal secretary Story of My LifeWithBhagwan Rajneesh Academytook particular note of Glück’s THECONSTITUTION StateofMadras (1950), the ju- to Osho, as Rajneeshlater came to be called, (2012). What made youfeel theneedfor a Averno,acollection in whichshe reworks OFINDIA diciarystruckdownstatutes and the face of the movement till her falling biographyonher? ancient Greek and Roman mythologies to whichimposedrestrictions on out with him,whichended in a39-month Even afterreadinghermemoirand watch- explorethemes of old age, grief, and, of BY TRIPURDAMAN free speech. In Champakam prison spell foraseries of charges, including ing the series, Iwas notsatisfied. Justlikeme, course, her forte—familial relationships SINGH Dorairajan vState of Madras immigration fraud, wiretapping and poison- Ifelt therewould bemanywho had questions. andthedissolutionof emotionalbonds.In Penguin Random (1951), the Madras High Court, ing. In this interview, Manbeena Sandhu InNothing to Lose,Ihaveansweredthoseques- Averno,Glücktakes up the storyof House and, later,the Supreme Court speaksonwhat ledher to document the story tions,filledin thevibrant colours, theintricate Persephone, daughter of Zeus, king of gods, 288 pages; `599 declared the Government of an unconventional lifeand the innerworld details, followedthe timelines and have cov- and Demeter, goddess of earth, who was Orderprovidingcaste-based of acontroversial cult.Excerpts: ered the gaps, as muchaspossible. Through abductedby Hades,the ruler of the under- reservations to be unconstitutional. this book,the reader will walk through the world. Even thoughthe poettellsthe story With elections looming ahead and mostofhis new Your biographyofMaAnand Sheela Orangeworld,along with Ma Sheela. He will from various perspectives,she insists it schemes being thwartedbythe courts,Nehru wascon- comes afterhaving followedthe Osho POWER POINTS be able to peep intoher heartand her mind; “should be read /asanargument between vincedthat the legal process of testing legislation against movementfor twodecades. When did (Top) Sandhu (in white) with Ma Anand Sheela; Osho and Ma Sheela and hear the conversations and witness the themother and thelover”. The 18 poems in the Constitution wasdelaying his party’s social reform youknowthat youwanted to write actions that took place behind closeddoors. the collection arethematicallylinked and agenda. He introducedthe FirstAmendment Bill to the on her? form arichtapestryofvoicesoffiguresthat Parliament on May12. Aftertwo weeksofstormydiscus- As soon as Iwas introducedtoOsho’s What wasyour firstmeetinglike? Howdoyou assess herfeelings for recur in the Greek myth. sions, it waspassedonJune 2. work,Igot introducedtoSheela as well. Not Ifirstmet Ma Sheela in May2019in Osho now? Thereare fascinating accounts of the parliamentaryde- throughtheGuru’s booksortalks,but through Switzerland. Prior to meeting her, Ihad, over She still has photographs of him at her Faithful and Virtuous bates that ragedbetween Nehru and stalwarts likeSP his sannyasins. In my opinion, Ma Sheela and the phone,expressedmydesire to writeher home.Sheexplains her39-monthprisonterm Night (2014) Mookerji, HN Kunzru and Hussain Imam that the author Rajneesh areinseparable. Ihaven’t heardone story. But shewas notconvinced justbya as simplyher guru dakshina.She is still dearly eloquentlydescribes as the “firstbattle of Indian liberal- storyofRajneesh without the mention of voice at the other end of the line and wanted in love withher Bhagwan. Hispictures hangin In her essay‘Disruption, Hesitation, ism”. These highlighthow despiteprotestsbypublic lumi- Sheela. As Igot seepedintothe movement, in- to see me in person. Ifirstsaw her at the air- the livingroom of her carehome and her bed- Silence’ (1994, Proofs and Theories), Glück naries, including incumbent governors, jurists and even formation aboutSheela startedpouring from port. IstayedinSwitzerland forabout10 room is full of images of Bhagwan and Sheela writes: “I do notthinkthatmoreinfor- senior Congress members, the governmentremained un- all directions. Afew of Guru’s disciples loved days,and, during those days,Ispent six to in love.One gets thrownbackintime as one mation always makes aricher poem.Iam deterred.The final chapterdwells on the aftermath of the her,afew despisedher but none could ignore eight hours eachday in her company. Before steps in her bedroom. Suddenly, Bhagwan, attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to sug- amendment,the mostimportant being that it setaprece- her.She seemedintriguing. Right offthe bat, I meeting Ma Sheela, Iwas alittle intimidated Sheela and the Orangeworld come alive. gestion, to eloquent, deliberatesilence. dent foramending the Constitution to either overturn ju- knewthat Iwantedto meether,knowher and by the personality that Ihad seen and heard The unsaid, forme, exerts great power: dicial pronouncementsortosuit governmentagenda. writeabout her.Eventhough the information of. She wasverydifferent from what I, and From running asprawling commune to oftenIwish an entire The book makes it evident that the FirstAmendment of her whereaboutswas noteasy to access,the theworld, perceivesher to be —she wassoft NOTHINGTO running carehomes in Switzerland at poem could be made providedthe DNAofaHobbesian stateinpostcolonial desiretocapture her life storykeptgetting and full of emotion. LOSE:THE age70, it’s been along journey. in this vocabulary.” India and laid the foundation of the Nehruvian state. It stronger overthe years. AUTHORISED Her lifeisverydifferent now, it is purelya Among her remark- BIOGRAPHYOF also lays barethe schisms within the Congress party,the Howopen wasshe with sharing the MAANAND lifeofservicededicated to thoseinneed. But able experimentswith pressureappliedonthe president’s office to bend to the It wasChapman and MaclainWay’s unsavouryepisodes of her lifewith you? SHEELA she still is the queenofher kingdom. She has form, Faithfuland will of the government, and the ways in whichthe judici- Netflixdocumentary Wild Wild Country The unsavouryepisodes were rather in- astaff of over 30 people who areconstantlyat Virtuous Night is also arywas subordinated by the executive.Mostimportantly, (2018)thatdreweveryone’s attention to teresting to talk about. She could sense my BY MANBEENA her beck and call and anumber of chauffeurs notable forthe power the storyalso blurs the dichotomies that political analysts Ma Sheela. She was, in manyways,the hesitationand would rather cometomyres- SANDHU to drive her and her patientsaround. of suggestion that slip into: the liberal Nehruvian vision of India versus the anti-heroofthe series. When youmet her cuebyansweringmostopenlyand candidly. HarperCollins hangs heavy over the RSS’s authoritarian one, between progressive and reac- last year,how muchofthat tough-talk- She is very bold that way. India In interviews from those heady Oregon collection.Asshe writesinAfterword,a tionarypolitics. It leavesuswondering whythis storywas ing, controversy-courting woman did 332 pages days,she is supremelydismissive and de- poemfromthe collection, “Reading what nevertold before;isitamerecoincidence or apartofa yousee? Did she ever express remorse about some `599 liberately provocative.What wasthe most Ihavejust written, Inow believe/ Istopped deliberatepolitical project? The book maintains adigni- Other than catching aglimpse or twoof of the things that she wasaccusedof? provocative thingshe said to you? precipitously,sothatmystory seems to fied restraint in answering this question. that old time ‘Sheela’ in her sharp eyes, brisk Ma Sheelamaintains that she has dedi- Honestly, nothing!Ihad once jokingly have been/slightly distorted,ending, as it gait and quickwit,Icouldn’t see muchof catedher lifetoBhagwan(Osho) andshe askedher to say‘tough titties’for me and she did,not abruptly/ but in akind of artificial MaliniBhattacharjeeisassistantprofessor,AzimPremji that controversy-courting woman that the served him the best wayshe possiblycould. laughedand said, ‘Oh Manbeena, those kinds mist of thesort/ sprayed ontostagestoallow University,Bengaluru worldknows heras. Time doesn’t stand still, Yes, therewas insurmountable pressurethat of wordsare onlyfor thoseshrewdjournalists fordifficult setchanges”. Thebook wonthe it movesonand with time we evolve and she wasreeling under and she made her who deserveevery bit of it and who needto National Book Awardfor Poetry in the US change; so has Ma Sheela. judgementsaccording to the demands of be setstraight, notfor aperson likeyou.’ the sameyear.

the assassination of Gandhi, the givenhim an appointment, iron- EXCERPT assassins had been in hisdrawing ically forJanuary29, 1948 —the room, angrywith him forrestrict- daybeforehewas assassinated, ing the activities of the Rashtriya January30. The Before SwayamsevakSangh or RSS, and My father recalls howGandhi also fornot including itsparty asked himtostayonafter the membersinhis cabinet. They had meeting, and pointing to afew abusedGandhiandamongstoth- people who were agitating out- ers, my father,for supporting the side his chamber,said: ‘You see Midnight’s Children Muslimsand made death threats thosepoor people standing there? againstGandhi and my father. Theyare from Bannu. Theyhave My father’stermasthe dewan come all the waytosee me.One In acandid memoir,aneconomist combines the of Gwalior endedwith theinte- THEBRASS of them wasquite angrywith me gration of the States intothe NOTEBOOK:A today. He told me, “Gandhiji,you personal and the political to give avivid account of Republic of India. AChamber of MEMOIR shoulddie.” Isaid Iwill notdie un- Princes had been formed, man- BY DEVAKI JAIN til my innervoice says Ishould. anation stepping into Independence dated with thetaskofforging an Speaking Tiger And do youknow, Sreenivasan, COURTESY: SPEAKINGTIGER agreement with the princes to 232 pages what he said?’ Gandhijiraisedhis Devaki Jain we threw ourselvesintothe work of anew CIRCLE OF LIFE wasliving in the city of Gwalior in north India, join theRepublic.He wasengaged `599 hand in acharacteristic gesture and free India. Iwould saythat we experi- Devaki Jain with her wheremyfather wasthe dewan of the as the member secretaryofthis and said, ‘He said “My inner voice encedanIndia whichwestillfantasize about, Gwalior State—the chief minister, in today’s chamber.That task wasalso done, says youshould die.”’ husbandLakshmi ILIKE to call myself and those of us who were and whichalso shaped ourpoliticspro- parlance. We,his family, were somewhat so he wasgetting ready to return to Mysore Thus, the very next daywhen my father young adultsinIndia in the 1950s, the before foundly. Iwould go furtherand suggestthat Jain at their Jorbagh screenedfromthe turmoil, the agonies as well State. He wascommended forhaving done heardthat Gandhi wasshotdead, he wasdev- midnight’s children. UnlikeSalman Rushdie’s we gotdeeplyattachedtosomeideas,ideolo- residence in 1976 as celebrationsthat were going on,especially the job successfully. astated.His conversationwithGandhi onthat protagonists who were bornatthe verymid- gies and aspirations that were born of that in NewDelhi. But likeanew arrow, the assas- Gandhi had heardfromSardar Vallabhbhai evening wasfullofportent andlefthim and night hour of August15, 1947,the moment experience that we arenot able to shed, even sinationofMahatma Gandhi piercedthrough Patel, then the home minister, that my father all of us,his family, notonlydeeplyshocked, that India wasdeclaredfree from British rule, today, in our eighties. our household. had done well withthat task and perhaps but politicised. Iwas born in 1933 and wasateenager at the Iwas 14 years old when India declared As my father has written in his memoir, Of wantedto commend him foranother govern- time of Independence, and ayoung adult as Independence on the 15th of August, 1947.I the Raj, Maharajas andMe,afewdays priorto mentposting. So he had sentfor my father and ReproducedwithpermissionfromSpeakingTiger

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Teenaged Polish star wins FrenchOpen withoutconcedingaset,breaksmultiple records on waytoher maiden Slam

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WITH THE poise of aveteran and the shots of achampion,19-year-oldIga Swiatekpicked stake in Sunday’s final, JimmyButler (right) scored 35 the perfect place forher firsttour-leveltitle: points, grabbed 12 rebounds, the FrenchOpen. had 11 assists. USATODAY Sports Unseededand ranked merely54th, more than meetsthe eye Swiatek grabbed the lastsix games to beat SofiaKenin6-4,6-1inthefinalatRolandGarros on Saturday, becoming the first Polish tennis playertowin aGrand Slam singles trophy. SHAHIDJUDGE Butler pours When she smackedone lastforehand winner MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 to thecornerto endthings,Swiatekplacedher cold water on right hand over her mouth then crouched, OVER THE years,promotional television ad- shakingher head. vertisementsfor the FrenchOpen have had "It's crazy.Two years ago, Iwon ajunior asimilartheme.There’d be the face of a Lakers’ party GrandSlam,andrightnowI'mhere.Itfeelslike weeping Martina Hingis, frustrated images such ashort time," Swiatek said, her voice of Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg,and even a THE BANNERs were ready to be un- cracking. "I'm just overwhelmed." forlorn expression from the stoic and great furled,confetti wasonthe vergeof Hardtobelieve?Maybe.Thiswas,afterall, Pete Sampras. being showered, the Larry O’Brien only herseventh major tournament; she'd The caption would suggest: for all their championshiptrophywas shown neverbeen pastthe fourth round. achievementsand success,it’sonlythe before the game –the NBAwas gear- But the wayshe playedthese twoweeks crownatRoland Garrosthat eludedthem. ing up foraLakers celebration. But made this outcome less of asurprise. Andthenthe picturewouldswitchtothat JimmyButler producedaseason- Swiatek is the firstwomantotriumph in of Rafael Nadal,beamingasheholds aloft saving performance forMiami Heat, Paris withoutceding aset since Justine Henin his firstCoupe des Mousquetaires, then the who stunnedLakers 111-108 in in 2007.She lostonly28gamesacross seven second, then third… and finallythe 12th. AgainstNovak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal Game 5ofthe 2020 NBAFinals at matches,too. On Sunday, that unbreakable Spanish leads by 17-7 on clayand by 6-1at DisneyWorld, Orlando. Sheisthe firstteen to win the women'sti- wall on the Parisian redbrickdustwillbe Roland Garros. AP tleatthe FrenchOpensinceIva Majoliin1997. gunning forhis 13th French Open title, To be likeKobe AndSwiatekdiditwithvictoriesoversuchop- againsthis biggestrival, WorldNo1Novak The Lakers came out in their spe- ponentsas2018championSimonaHalepand Djokovic. cial commemorative BlackMamba 2019 runner-up Marketa Vondrousova,both It will be the 56th match-up between the The Serb, ayearyoungerthan 34- jerseys –ajerseyinwhichtheywere by scores of 6-1,6-2. toptwo seeds —the mostplayedtie in the year-old Nadal, has 17 Majortitles undefeated in the NBApostseason. So it made sense that Swiatek would be history of the sport. The 16th time theyface AnthonyDavis waswearing Kobe’s abletoget pastKenin,a21-year-old American eachotherataGrandSlam, andthe ninth to his name. Nadal has 19,and shoes. LeBron James was17of18 whowas trying to claimher secondmajor ti- time in aMajor final (theysharea4-4 Swiss maestroRoger Federer, whenitcame to closing out agame to tleof2020after winningthe Australian Open record). This is also the thirdtime the face- end aplayoff series. The messagewas in February. offfor the title at the FrenchOpen. now39, is currentlyon20. loud and clear –this wasthe night LA "Agreattournament.Agreatmatch,"Kenin IgaSwiatek,19, is the firstteen to win the women's title at the FrenchOpen But this match, forall that has transpired were goingtowin thetitle forKobe told Swiatek during the trophyceremony. since IvaMajoli in 1997. Reuters in this curtailedyear,will be about much Bryant. Kenin was16-1 in Grand Slam matchesuntil morethan justdeciding who wins the 2020 Slam when winning elsewhere hasbeen a But the league is littered with Saturday. But she dealt with aleg issue in the FrenchOpen title. Thereishistory at stake, toughtask. players forwhom Bryant wasnoth- second setand showed frustrationbykicking and the resultcouldhaveasignificant bear- He’s wonthe Roland Garrostitle with- ing shortofagod. The mostKobe-es- herred-white-and-blueracket afterlostpoints. ing on the ‘GreatestofAll Time’ debate. out dropping aset three times –tying him queplayerinthis serieshas notbeen And thentherewas this: Sheran intothe When all is said and done, and the Big 3 with Bjorn Borgand American RichardSears aLaker.Instead,ithas been Jimmy composedSwiatek,who onlyrecentlycom- Hertop-spin, anew high hang up their racquets,Djokovic might well (who playedinthe 1880s) forthe mostnum- Butler,whose tireless effort wasan pletedher highschool studies, listens to be the one holding the all-timerecordfor berofSlams without losing aset. embodimentofwhat Bryant stood for. “Welcometo theJungle”by GunsN'Rosesbe- the mostnumber of Grand Slam titles in the On Sundayhehas the chance to break Butlerplayedfor 47 minutes and 22 fore walkingoncourt,travelswithasportspsy- forwomen’s tennis men’s game. that record.But he’ll have to beat oneofonly secondsout of apossible48. In an chologistand meditatesduring changeovers, The Serb, ayear younger than 34-year- twoplayers who have ever defeated him at elimination game, he scored 35 breathing slowlywithher eyes closed. ON SATURDAy,Iga Swiatek became the hand. The net-clearance on her ground- old Nadal, has 17 Major titles to his name. the French Open –the other being Robin points, grabbed 12 rebounds, had 11 "I wasjustmentally consistent,: Swiatek ninth first-time women's singles cham- strokesishigh and the ball flies fewfeet Nadal has 19,and Swiss maestroRoger Soderling. assists and five steals in hissecond said. ?I felt liketodaywas reallystressfulfor pion in thelast14Grand Slams. Against over the netbut still drops in because to Federer,now 39, is currentlyon20. triple-double of these NBAFinals. me, so it waskind of hard.? This weekend is Sophie Kenin in the FrenchOpen final, the spin. Agemay be on Djokovic’s side in this era Chasing the Swiss the culminationofanunusualtwo weeks, to Swiatek showedwhatshe has shown of tennis whereanewguardoftalented Awin forNadal will tie him with Whydid the Lakers lose? saythe least. throughout the tournament:pureclay- Direction players has startedtoconstantly push the Federer’s recordof20Slams. Djokovic will LebronJames(40 points, 13 re- The tournament waspostponedform courttennis.At19, she is the youngest The heavy topspin means the ball unshakable veteranchampions. go up to 18 if he wins. But should theSerb bounds, 7assists)and AnthonyDavis May-June to September-October because of winneratRoland Garrossince Rafael jumps upon hittingthe clay, even with But the 33-year-old also has agame win, he will remove that oneasterisk from (28 points, 12 rebounds, 3steals, 3 thecoronaviruspandemic;therecentlyrising Nadal in 2005. And she has borroweda heavier balls and colder conditionsdur- suited forall surfaces. Adefensivebase- his career that hasbeen somethingeven blocks)wereacombined68points number of COVID-19 cases in France ledthe couple of pages from her favouritetennis ing this year's FrenchOpen. And higher liner –byfar the best retriever in thegame Federer hasn’t managed to do:beatNadal from 24/36 shooting. The rest of the governmentto limitthenumberof spectators player's playbook,namely bounce means the ball is usually -who has become muchmoreaggressive in the final of the FrenchOpen. Lakers were amiserly 14/46 on all allowedonthe groundsto1,000 eachday. tons of topspinand alethal out of that ideal waist-high in his approachoverthe years, Djokovic It will also makehim the onlyplayerin shots. It’s easy to blame Danny Green Some topwomen, including2019champion forehand. ED striking zone forgroundstrokes. can decimateopponentsonhard, grass the Open Eratohavewon all four Grand formissing awide-open three in the AshBartyandthree-timemajorchampNaomi Kenin —who at 5'7 is twoinches and claycourts. Slams at leasttwice. lastseconds of thegame. But Lakers’ Osaka didn'tenter the event;23-time Slam Topspin shorterthan Swiatek —was He’s won11hardcourtGrand Slams So far, in this pandemic-hit season, entiresupporting castfaltered around winner Serena Williams withdrew before the The averageRPM (revo- forced to either step intothe ball (eight at the Australian Openand three at Djokovic has a36-1 win-loss record. And their twogiantsatsome inexcusable second round withaninjury. lutions per minute) Swiatek to catchitonthe rise, or hang the US Open), five titlesatWimbledon and he’s arguablythe onlyperson who can top-

EXPLAIN E● momentsofthe game. The temperaturewas in the mid-50s (low putsonher winners is in the backtohit it while it dropped. the 2016 FrenchOpen. With suchprofi- pleNadal offhis Parisian perch.But that teens Celsius), with aslightbreeze, and the mid-2400s, on par with ciency,therewon’t be anysurprise to see won’t be easy,and Djokovic knows that. Robinson comes good hundredsoffansscattered in CourtPhilippe men's semifinalistDiegoSchwartzman. Rallies him rake in multiple Slams in asingle cal- “I hopefullywill be abletoplaymybest In aloaded2018NBA Draft, Chatrier were mostlysubdued?otherthana She has averaged the highesttopspin win- Swiatek uses the heavy-topspin endar year forthe next fewseasons, which tennis, becausethat's what's going to be DuncanRobinson went undrafted. group that would shout out Swiatek'sfirst ners on the women's side at close to strokestoexploitangles and createawk- will push him aheadofNadal and Federer. neededinorder to have ashotatthe trophy,” Twoyearslater he is in the middle of name,stretchingitout overseveral seconds 3200rpm. On Saturday,her peak RPM ward trajectories, making her opponents he said afterhis semi-final win over Stefanos an NBAFinalsseries. Robinson eachtimetosoundlike?Eeeeeeeeeee-gah.? crossedintothe Nadal territoryat3453; run from side-to-side. And the longer the Djokovic on aroll Tsitsipas. droppedseven three-pointers on the At the changeoverafter thethirdgameof Kenin's best effort was2064. rallies go,the moreeffectivethe tactic is. The Serb recentlysurpassedNadalfor “But look,Iam in position to be close to Lakers in a26-point performance, to the second set, Keninwas visited by atrainer the mostnumber of ATPMasters 1000titles, the trophy. I'm in the lastmatchofthe tour- be the able supporting casttoJimmy and went offthe courtfor amedical timeout, Grip Forehand winning his 36th at Rome twoweeksbefore nament, playing againstthe biggestrival, the Butler.The startofthis series sawhim then returned withher leftthigh wrapped. The whippymotionworks,but alot of It's an aggressive mixofspeedand the FrenchOpen.He’s also closinginon biggestobstacle and challengethat youcan struggletoget his acttogether,but Keninsaidafter her fourth-roundmatch Swiatek's topspin is generated from the spin. Swiatek can drive and curl the spin- Federer’s recordof310 weeksasthe World have.This is whatitcomes down to.” Butler and Adebayo operatinginthe Mondaythat she had slipped and maybe grip. She uses the extreme Western fore- ning forehanddownthe line or cross- No 1–Djokovic is currentlyon288. Beforetherewas aRonaldo-Messi, there paint hasallowedthe shooterand his pulledsomething during practice the daybe- hand grip, placing her palm underthe rac- courtwithease. And the speedonher av- Nadal meanwhile has been virtuallyun- wasthe Nadal-Federer rivalry. Djokovic quickrelease to flourish over the past fore.While Kenin wasgone,Swiatektried to quet whichallows hertobrush up and erageforehand this tournament was conquerableatthe FrenchOpen.Twelveof joinedthe mix afew years later,but wascon- twogames. In amust-win Game 5, stay warmby pullingonawhitejacketandhit- over the ball, causing it to spin forward 118kph, higherthanthe women's average his19titleshavecomeonthe Parisian clay, sidered,and perhaps still considered by Robinson was8-15fromthe field and tingsomeserves,earningapplausefromspec- rapidly. Themotioncreates greater top- of 111.Toput that in perspective, the av- and he’s neverlostinthe final at Roland some sections of fans, as the third-wheel. 7-13fromthree-point range. tators. When playresumed, Swiatek needed spin with hugepower. And Swiatek's eragespeedonthe men'sside has been Garros. In the 13 years on tour that he’swon But if he wins on Sunday, he’ll be in the SHASHANKNAIR only12moreminutes to wrap up thevictory, game is built around that topspin fore- 122kph. GAURAVBHATT aMajor,seven seasons have seen himwin driver’s seat, poisedtoend alldebates about finishing with a25-10edgeinwinners. justthe FrenchOpen. It’s been his go-to who is the greatestofall time. Kings crumble as Narine Kohli’sbrillianceexposes predictable CSK wins athriller for Kolkata Kohli’sability to make lateadjustments thatwasnot to beasheholedoutto long-offin SYNOPSIS stoodout.Therewasanunusualbitof premed- the sameover. Butbythe time he strode into Kohli’s masterly knock, which itation thatmadeDwayneBravo bowl wider. themiddle,thematchhadalreadyslippedout Narine who concededjusttwo runs. includedatributetoAB, rattles But Kohli draggedhisbody wider to getinline of CSK’s grip. PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA Needing 20 runs in the lasttwo overs, lethargic and confusedCSK with the ball, crouched and swivelled, to get Yetagain, Chennai loststeam in the mid- ABUDHABI,OCTOBER10 KXIP losttwo wicketsinthe space of three the stroke squarer of the wicketkeeper. dle overs. Agreed thatthe surfacewas two- balls, including that of Rahul, in the penulti- Apartfromthatstroke,theknockwaschar- pacedand Bangalore’s bowlers probed nig- SUNIL NARINE AND Prasidh Krishna dis- mateoverbowledbypacer Prasidh Krishna. acteristic Kohli,inwhichhemadeT20 batting gardly lines, but their batsmen were equally playedice-cool temperamentatthe deathas KXIP needed14runs from thelastover SANDIPG look grosslyuncomplicated and risk-free. For culpableoflethargy, unableto breaktheshack- KolkataKnight Riders pulledoff astunning and six of the final delivery to take thematch OCTOBER11 the quality of stroke-play,and itsintrinsicor- les in the midst of adot-ball onslaught. two-run victoryoveraself destructiveKings to Super Over but Glenn Maxwell could only thodoxy,itcould pass offasahigh-calibre ODI From the sixth to the12th over,theyeked XI PunjabinanIPL game on Saturday. scoreaboundary forKXIP to losethe match THE SEASON seems to be drifting away from innings.Thegameof greatsisframe-workedto out onlythree boundaries, managing just37 Dinesh Karthik's side pulledoff yetan- by tworuns. Chennai Super Kings. Theywouldput it down suit everyformat. runs in thespan. That’s passable if theyhad a other Houdini Actafter they were seemingly Earlier, Rahul and Agarwal, the toptwo to profligacy in the death overs and stutter in Untiltheveryend,thetempoof themaster- high-scoring powerplay,but Chennai had down and out when KXIP opening pair KL run getters in this IPL, avoidedtaking undue thefirsthalf of their owninnings. Or justthe piece wasODI-ish,asKohliwould tigerishly managedjust26runsinthefirstsixovers.The Rahul (74) and Mayank Agawal (56) had put risk while getting the odd boundaries to keep reality that ViratKohliblewthem over with run the singles and twos, jam the occasional RCBskipperVirat Kohli consumed just lackofintensitywas appalling. on 115runsin14.2 overs while chasing 165. the asking rate under control. Theywere47 amasterly unbeaten 90, that setupa37-run boundaryand ensurethatthe run rate in- 52 balls to reachhis unbeaten 90. PTI Leavingitlateisaformulathathasworked It looked likeitwouldbeonlyamatter of fornoloss afterpowerplaywith Pat victory. creasedincrementally. forthem in the past,but withDhoniaforce on time when KXIP would wrap up thematch Cummins bowling three of the firstsix overs. Whenthedeathoversringedin,hespelled thewane andthe newgeneration refusing to and snap their four-matchlosing streak. Rahul wasdroppedbyAndre Russelloff Kohli pays AB tribute doomforthebowlers.HepillagedSamCurran balls. At onestage,especiallyinthe 11th over comeof age,thetemplate seemsoutdated.Age But in the end, KXIP made amess towards the bowling of Prasidh Krishna in the second It took the 47th delivery he encountered forabrace of sixes in the 18th over,whichcost when BangalorelostDevdutt Padikkal and de hascaughtupwiththem,literallyandsymbol- the end of their run chase to suffertheir sixth over when he wasontwo.Russell hurthim- on the day, and the firstball of the 20th over, 24 runs.The second of the sixes wasapiece of Villiers in the space of five deliveries, even 150 ically. defeat from sevenmatches and fifthonthe self while fielding afterafew overs but re- forVirat Kohli to attempt somethingblatantly improvisationalgenius.Thedeliverywasslid- seemedadistantscore.ButKohliensuredthey BRIEF SCORES: RoyalChallengers trot whileKKR notcheduptheir fourth win turned in the11th over onlytoleave thefield T20-ish.Hescoopedaboundaryoverfine-leg, ingaway withtheangle,butKohlimadeacou- setatargetof170.Thescoopwasjustthecherry Bangalore169/4(Kohli90*,Padikkal33,Thakur in six matches. KXIP will nowneedamath- again in the 13th over. andinthe process endedupwithhis back on pleof stridesdownthetrackandwristeditover on topofthe cake. 2-40) beat Chennai Super Kings 132for 8 ematical miracle to qualify. BRIEF SCORES: Kolkata Knight Riders the ground. He flashedasheepish smile to- square-leg. (Rayudu 40, Jagadeesan 33,Morris 3-19, The Mohali-basedoutfit needed22from 164for 6(Karthik 58, Gill 57,Arshdeep 1-25, wardsthe RoyalChallengers Bangaloredug- Theartofpacinganinningscouldnothave Lethargicand confused Sundar 2-16) by 37 runs. the final three overs but the matchturnedon Bishnoi1-25) beat Kings XI Punjab (Rahul 74, out, his eyes perhaps searching forABde beenmoreexceptional—theRCBskipperwas Athunderousflatsixoverlong-ontriggered SRH vs Rajasthan 3:30pm itshead in the 18th over.Nicholas Pooran (16) Agarwal56, Krishna 3-29, Narine 2-28) by Villiers, who is moreaccustomedtounfurling 34 off30balls at one stage, and endedupon anticipationof MSDhonirollingbacktheyears Mumbai vs Delhi 7:30pm giftedhis wicketinthe over bowled by tworuns thisstroke.Itmighthave beenhistributetoAB. 90from52balls,thusscoring56offthelast22 and lifting CSK from thebrink of adefeat. But On Star Sports andHotstar

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