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œND‰‰†‰KœND‰‰†‰œND‰‰†‰MœND‰‰†‰C 2 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, August 3, 2003 DELHI Lutyen’s city will lose its sheen To chat on SMS send 'cchat' <your question> to 8888 "It is the employer's responsibility to protect The new Master Plan has been proposed by you". — VEENU KAKKAR, Programme Associate, CREA people who have no idea about town plan- PEOPLE ning. The proposed high rise buildings will Q. I am working in an Q. What is sexual harassment?- ruin the city’s beauty and put pressure on the MNC and my boss is Shiv scarce infrastructure. The Master Plan acting fresh with me. A: Any unwelcome sexually POWER should have been drafted by professionals I don't know what to determined behaviour such as and not politicians. do and whom should physical contact and advances, Question of the week Indrajit Singh (via email) I ask for help. Please help me.- sexually coloured remarks, Ruchi demand or request for sexual ● Whether the city’s character will change A: Try finding out about the favours showing pornography Will the new Master Plan will depend on how seriously and effectively sexual harassment at workplace and any other unwelcome improve or ruin Delhi’s the Plan is implemented. But the question is: policy in your office, law physical, verbal or non verbal character? How? Are there enough funds to see it through. mandates a complaints conduct of sexual nature. Also, will it be able to prevent the unautho- committee in each office, that Q. Can I sue the harasser too? rised construction and encroachment, which has half women members, head If I have to sue, what can a court It will ruin Delhi’s charac- will be triggered in its wake. of the committee is a woman and do for me?-Shiv ter because the guideline Nidhi Sapra, Ghaziabad an NGO representative as the A: You don't even need to go has condoned all illegal Ruin Change is the law of third party to safeguard your to the court and spend your construction that has taken interest. energies and money, each work nature and we should place in the city so far. This Improve Q. Is there a difference between place should have a committee 60% means, all illegal colonies not be afraid of af- harassment by a supervisor and of their own to prevent and will now be regularised. fecting a change be- a co-worker?-Ruchi punish the harasser. It is the The decision to allow changes in landuse in 40% cause of past fail- A: No not really, only the nature employer's responsibility to residential, commercial and industrial zones ures. As an optimists, of harassment might vary but protect you. will encourage the builder mafia and they I have reasons to be- co-workers are involved in For complete chat log on to will exploit the situation. The most impor- lieve that the new Plan should improve Del- harassment a lot of times. http://chat.indiatimes.com tant worry is that controlling fire would be a hi’s character. The need of the hour is to ac- difficult task. A tangle of shops would stran- cept ground realities. Of course, city man- gulate residential areas, forget parking even agers will have to be very careful while de- walking space will be scarce. living there. will ruin the character of the city and the tailing the new guidelines. Sanjeev Chugh, Faridabad • Sanjay Kaante Gupta nets • Hungama: Simply hilarious Mitali Sahay, Laxmi Nagar Col Onkar Chopra, Janakpuri capital will not be Lutyen’s or Ghalib’s Delhi sizzling Sameera The best part of Priyadarshan’s Certainly, the proposed Master Plan will Undoubtedly the proposed Plan will change The Master Plan 2021 spells doom for Delhi. anymore. My advice: If we don’t want water Sameera Reddy, curently the Hungama is that the cast doesn’t improve the city’s character. It has raised hottest property in Bollywood, has get into histrionics to get you into the character of Delhi. Lutyen’s beautiful The people who drafted it have not taken into and power riots in the future, throw the plan hopes about redeveloping the old areas like been signed on by director of hysterics. There’s no slapstick, so city has already become a sprawling, account the views of those who will be lead- into the dustbin and think afresh. Ashok Gupta, Bali-Nagar, Chandni Chowk, Sadar Bazar which are in a Kaante, Sanjay Gupta. Reddy plays that the audience go bananas unplanned, metropolis, courtesy politicians, ing an active life in 2021. Vertical expansion state of disrepair. The existing plan is faulty the role of a married woman who without the banana peels. land-mafias and encroachers. The Plan will and not in touch with ground reality.The new has extramarital affairs with four To listen, log on to bring further devastation to the environment Though mixed landuse The Plan in its present plan is in tune with people’s need. different men. http://talkradio.indiatimes.com and basic necessities like water, power, is not a bad idea, it format will spell ruin Kriti Popli, Kamla Nagar sewage etc will be scarce. The city should be needs to be properly for Delhiites. For so Being the National capital, Delhi needs to be left to the town planners and not politicians. regulated and con- long our colonies were developed properly. As of now, many Delhi- L K Chaterjee, Paschim Vihar trolled. If there are peaceful places. All that ities are unemployed and don’t have proper It will result in further congestion and no checks and balances, will change under the housing, the new plan seems to take care of chaos. The provisions allowing shops in resi- Delhi’s built up new Plan. When com- all that. Growth of industrial and commer- dential premises will wreck havoc with the environment will dete- mercial activities and cial areas will provide job opportunities. The urban architecture and character of Delhi. riorate further under then industrial units drive to build high residential structures will Taller buildings would eventually mean the proposed Plan. The increase in start coming up in residential areas, provide more places to live in. greater pressure on civic amenities. Raising population density is a more serious the chaos will increase. Living in the Shreya Chakraborty, Mayur Vihar the height of existing buildings, which don’t issue and given the limited infra- city will become a nightmare for the The proposed Plan will definitely improve have a strong foundation will spell disaster. structure of the metro, it will create average Delhiite. The only way out is Delhi’s character. At the moment, Delhi is Regularising unauthorised colonies would problems. to develop the NCR so that the pressure like an unplanned city with scattered resi- prove counter productive. Regularisation Vikram Lall, architect and on the city is reduced. dential colonies. With high rise flats more of unauthorised construction in 16 lakh urban planner Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister houses will be available at a low cost. DDA flats will endanger the lives of people P R Kumar,Connaught Place gle mania. There’s the Aftab, CINEMA OF THE WEEK Rimi, Akshaye triangle with its sub-plots of lusty tenants Oops (drama) ★★★ and stingy dads. And then, Cast: Vikas Sethi, Kiran there’s a Shakti Kapoor story Janjani, Mita Vashisht and a Rajpal Yadav aside too. Direction: Deepak Tijori Don’t try to figure out how Showing at: Chanakya they are connected. Just take t’s brand new. It’s mint your individual pick from the fresh. And it’s absolutely untidy collage and have a few different. Yes, Deepak Ti- moments of fun. We’d recom- I mend the Paresh Rawal and jori’s directorial debut isn’t exactly what you expected it the Rajpal Yadav Hungama. to be: A sleazeball show The rest is dispensable. where skin outshone story. Teen Deewarein (drama) Instead, it gives you what a ★★★ 1/2 lot of recent experimental Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, films have failed to deliver: A Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla twist-and-turn story told in a Direction: Nagesh Kukunoor viewer-friendly style. Which Showing at: PVR Gurgaon means, you have the provoca- oday, they are all try- tive theme — the adventures ing crossover cinema. of a pair of male strippers in T Some years ago, there mindblowing Mumbai — his one’s like Hungama (comedy) ★★ 1/2 was just Nagesh Kukunoor Dance away disease handed out in a cinematic Cast: Akshaye Khanna, overchewed chewing who broke into Bambaiya By Niti Panta ens the circulation. language that is young, ur- Rimmi Sen, Paresh Rawal T gum. Begins fresh, cinema with Hyderabad TIMES NEWS NETWORK Acclaimed Kuchipudi bane and metro-centric. Direction: Priyadarshan ends up limp. Simply because Blues. dancer Raja Reddy sees Showing at: Delite New Delhi: Therapists The film is essentially a it’s been stretched to a point Kukunoor continues to fol- dance as a manifestation of and dancers are prescrib- tale of friendship between where the flavour has disap- f you still remember Hera low his private muse with the divine. He says dance peared. Sad, because the film Teen Deewarein too. And ing treatment in yet anoth- two quintessential Bombay Pheri, you’re going to end compensates for yoga — actually has some breezy act- once again, its not an unin- er imperative medium of Boys who are members of a up disappointed with for it involves such rigor- ing by the lead pair. I spired muse. Set in a prison, dance therapy — one dance troupe. One is rich and Hungama.

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