Doha-Based Indian Author Reflects on Life and Death and Says Material Things Alone Cannot Bring You Joy and Happiness. P4-5

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Doha-based Indian author reflects on life and death and says material things alone cannot bring you joy and happiness. P4-5

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Yoga Class Hobby Classes WHERE: Lululemon, Mall of Qatar WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art WHEN: Every Saturday Centre TIME: 8:30am – 9:30am WHEN:Saturday – Friday Join the complimentary in-store yoga Mamangam is an art and performance classes. No registration or mat is required. centre started with a vision of spreading The class runs on fi rst come fi rst served basis. our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across diff erent countries for children and adults. Summer camp at Mamangam has become the children’s favourite centre for learning art and craft, drawing, and learning spoken English. The kids also enjoy Bollywood dance, contemporary and hip hop music. To develop health consciousness, we teach them kids yoga, karate etc. Mamangam has also come up with chess and robotics in the regular batches in an attempt to give a better learning experience. The fi rst batch of the summer camp began on June 26 continuing until July 25 from Sundays to Thursdays. The second batch will commence on July 28 ending on August 25. Registrations are open to kids between 5 to 16 years. For those who wish to register for more Ballet Lessons details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839.

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Need to have a checklist in life’ – Shaji Madathil, Indian author

I have a new perception of life after writing the book. I have prepared a check list for myself and everyday I look ‘at the list. I gave away all the royalty of my Malayalam book to a cancer patient society in India. Whatever royalty I will get from my English book, I will give it all to an old-age home in Kerala

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who meets sudden death and repents over what he By Mudassir Raja could not do during his lifetime. Inspired by a real life incident, Shaji Madathil, who has been in Qatar since 1999, authored the novel ’ e all know that life is an opportunity highlighting the importance of being alive and being that we only get once. We need to regretful after death. SUNDAY utilise this opportunity to the best The author, who ﬁ rst wrote the book in his native of our ability and reach out to the Malayalam language, spoke at length about his helpless and needy people. When we experience, the book and the lessons he has learnt in die,W we should have no regrets. an interview. This is the crux of an English language-novel Born and brought up in Kerala, Shaji has a son. CONVERSATION written by an Indian expatriate based in Doha. The He has been working with Qatar Airways for the novel The Soul of Truth narrates the story of a man last 20 years. “I have largely been inﬂ uenced by M V Sunday, August 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

BOOK LAUNCH: The Soul of Truth was released on July 12, 2019 at Bharat Tourist Home (BTH), Ernakulam. In the photo, from left, Dr M Sugathanm, famous clinical psychologist; Asha Devi, actor, social worker; Prof M K Sanu, eminent writer; C Radha Krishnan, eminent writer; Kunjikannan Vanimel, writer; and P R Vijayan, Secretary Royal Puarjani are seen during the book launch.

Devan, my paternal uncle and a the larger audience after the is that you have to do a lot of good I live a simple life. Material well-known writer and artist in Malayalam book received a good things when you are alive. You have things do not bring happiness. I “The moral of India.“When I was in my college, response from the readers. “The to help the needy and take care of believe that creative people need the story is that I used to write a lot of articles and story revolved around a young your old parents. Only then, you to become role models for the short stories. I was also fascinated protagonist who dies in a foreign can go very peacefully. society. We need to practise what you have to do with paintings. My paintings used country – Bahrain – and his body The transience of life has also we preach. We need to make the to be published on the cover page is transported to Kerala, India. The led Shaji to start charity work maximum use of this one life.” a lot of good of our college magazine. Since I soul of Uthaman, the protagonist, and help others. “I have a new Shaji said that being in Qatar things when you moved to Qatar, I stopped writing spends 41 days with his body and perception of life after writing the really helped him in writing the and painting.” his loved ones. The soul, already book. I have prepared a check list novel. “Living in Qatar helped me are alive. You A colleague and close friend of burdened with cares worth a full for myself and everyday I look at understand the life of an expatriate. Shaji died of heart attack in the life, painful to sift through – is less the list. I gave away all the royalty I also had suffi cient time to research have to help the offi ce in 2011. The sudden death more or more less? of my Malayalam book to a cancer and write the book. actually pushed Shaji to think “Uthaman’s soul is pulled in all patient society in India. I have “I have also resumed my painting needy and take deeply about life and hereafter. directions by the love, the grief started contributing towards our works and planning to organise a care of your old “The sudden death of my and the unrequited longings of the society. Whatever royalty I will get solo exhibition in Kerala.” colleague compelled me to start living, as in these fi nal days they from my English book, I will give it As far his future plans are parents. Only thinking about the value of my hold him down to an earth that all to an old-age home in Kerala. concerned, the author has already life. I thought my colleague who is no longer his. The evergreen “For the last 20 years, I have started writing a book on the topic then, you can go came to the Gulf to have a better memories of his childhood, youth, been in the same old car that of reincarnation. “It will take life for himself and his family but and adulthood unfold each night, I purchased from one of my time to fi nish this project in three very peacefully” what would happen to them after taking Uthaman along well-loved colleagues who later left the offi ce to four years. I have to do a lot of his death and how many things my paths of life: man and nature, and I am keeping it as his memory. work.” friends could not do because of his friends and foes, victories and sudden death. I repeatedly visited disappointments. Each night the the mortuary where the dead body memories pull him in a deadly hug, was kept for about seven days bringing on a medley of emotions, before it was fl own back to India. each night also taking the sting out He was a very good guy. We used to of them: an uneasy peacemaking share everything with each other. and none more than those of Ruby, I thought what his soul would his innocent love, lost, yet never be feeling as he had left many forgotten, not in life, not in death.” unfi nished tasks.” Through the wonderful story, The thoughts sparked Shaji Shaji has tried to convey the to write a novel about how dead message that the people need to people feel when they die suddenly take care of their lives. They need and leave behind many unfulfi lled to pay attention to what they desires and tasks. “My idea wanted to do. “In the story, the was to write the story from the soul stays in the world for 41 days. perspective of a departed soul. I On the last day, Uthaman is very started studying and researching upset as the Almighty takes the about the concept of soul in soul away in another world. The diff erent religions and believes. I story shows that more or less we visited diff erent countries as well. I are just puppets in God’s hands.” also started observing more keenly The author, however, believes the life and struggle of expatriates that all the regrets and sadness in diff erent Gulf countries.” felt by a soul after the death is Shaji started writing the fault of the same person. “We his novel in Malayalam are given a chance. When we are language in 2015. The name alive, we do not care about life. of the novel is Pathirappattile We all make mistakes in our daily Thennilappakshikal. The book life. We have got everything free received LIMCA award for the fi rst like air and water in the life. We, 3D cover in Indian Fiction History however, do not take care of such in 2016-2017. important things. Our life span is This year he got his book very small. We can leave this world translated into English for any time. The moral of the story ARTIST: Madathil says he has resumed painting works again and plans to organise a solo exhibition in Kerala. 6 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY

Star International Awards 2019 to be held in Doha

The most anticipated music awards of Nepal, Star International Awards 2019, are all set to be finalists of Miss Nepal 2007 pageant and has been popular for her acting in music videos and held in Doha tomorrow. The awards feature twenty categories, including best national song, ramp appearances. She made her acting debut in a Nepali film First Love. She then acted in Mero best modern song, best music video, best composer, best musician, and best model and actress Love Story and Highway in 2011. among others. Prakash Saput is a Nepali with popular songs like Bola Maya and Galbandi to his credit. Similarly, The ceremony will feature a live performance by Ananda Karki, Prakash Saput, Sitaram Pokheral, Anand Karki, is a popular name in Nepali music industry and is known for his songs Baimani, A Tanaswor Gautam and Silasma Hamaln Nepali singers, and a performance by Reecha Sharma, Mayalu lai and Chot Sahi. Nepali actress. Reecha Sharma is a Nepali actress, model and VJ. She was one of the ten semi- – Text by Usha Wagle Gautam

Reecha Sharma Prakash Saput Ananda Karki

Oryx Rotana launches exquisite Eid offers

Oryx Rotana, the five-star luxury business hotel in Doha, pool pass, which can be used during the next visit. has recently launched exquisite off ers to celebrate Eid To stimulate healthy living during the Eid period, al-Adha, starting today till the 14th of August, stated a Oryx Rotana is off ering a special discount of 50% on press release. The off ers include Eid lunch buff et, the Eid memberships at the Bodylines Fitness and Wellness Club staycation off er and special rates for Bodylines Fitness and for its two months and 6 months packages. Wellness Club memberships. Moreover, the hotel off ers exquisite services and packages On the first day of Eid, hotel guests and visitors can enjoy on wedding venues from Arabic to International and Asian sumptuous Eid lunch buff et at ‘Choices’ restaurant which themes. The professional team at the hotel is ready to meet will include a wide selection of cold and hot appetisers, all the requirements of newlyweds to make their wedding a oriental and international main courses, live cooking memorable night of a lifetime with the utmost attention to stations, and desserts corner, starting from 12:30pm- every detail. 4:00pm. Prices start from QR189 per adult inclusive of soft Commenting on launching the Eid al-Adha off ers, Ghassan drinks with special discounts for kids. Dalal, General Manager of Oryx Rotana, said,” We are For leisure aficionados, the Eid staycation off ers at Oryx delighted to celebrate Eid al-Adha together by off ering the Rotana Doha will provide everyone with ultimate relaxation highest levels of luxury service to our valued guests in a and quality time with families. In addition to breakfast and festive atmosphere they will never forget.” lunch buff et for two, guests can avail 50% discount on “Eid al-Adha is the perfect opportunity to showcase the massage, complimentary usage for the Bodylines Fitness authentic Qatari hospitality with our special off ers that are and Wellness Club facility and hotel’s amenities. To spice up designed to share everyone’s happiness at Oryx Rotana,” the off ers, guests will be given a free voucher for a one-day he added.

Former Doha resident passes away

Hyder Khan Velamparambil, 86, former resident of Doha, passed away in the Southern Indian state of Kerala on August 8. He came to Qatar in 1974 and was employed as financial controller at Salam Studio and Stores at Al Sadd Street and Salam Group at West Bay. He came to Qatar after taking eight years leave from his government job as superintendent of First Class Judicial Magistrate court. After returning from Qatar to India, he kept himself engaged in agricultural activities. His wife passed away six years ago. He is survived by three sons, Hyderkhan SalimRaj, Hyderkhan Shajahan and Mohamed Hashim, and one daughter Noorjahan. Sunday, August 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Mercure Hotel Eid offerings

Mercure Hotel, located next to the Msheireb Main Metro Station is all set to welcome guests during the Eid al-Adha holidays, said a press release. Chef Mahdi and his team have made elaborate preparations to put up a lavish buff et lunch during the three days of Eid. Vishal, Assistant F&B Manager at Mercure, and his team will receive the guests with a welcome drink and besides soup, salads and starters, the main course will include special dishes like lamb ouzi with oriental rice, arabic mix grill, chicken tajine, chicken biryani, beef stroganoff , grilled fish with lemon butter sauce and with 2 live stations for pasta as well as crêpes. To end the buff et will have Arabic desserts like Umm Ali, Basbousa, Baklawa and much more. Guests will also be served soft drinks and Tea/Coff ee. Besides this, guests who want to spend time at the pool can also book a room at the various Eid stay packages available either with buff et breakfast or on half board basis with the special Eid lunch buff et. BOOK REVIEW A mom discovers her inner journalist

confessional chapters, think reality By Carolyn Kellogg TV contestants speaking directly to the camera. It provides insight into the private lives of people who may orgeous, polished make only one appearance in the Maddie Schwartz is the narrative; everyone has secrets. perfect 1960s wife and And this crowd is diverse, mother, until she blows providing a window into the up her life in Lady in the shifting power relationships, in LakeG, the new stand-alone mystery neighbourhoods and politics, from Laura Lippman. Maddie, 37, between a white establishment and ditches her upper-class family, the Jewish and African American moves to downtown Baltimore communities in Baltimore in and sets her sights on becoming a the 1960s. We hear from a local newspaper reporter. television host and a waitress, No one else, absolutely no one, from the pious wife of an African thinks this is a good idea. She’s too American entrepreneur and a young old, has no experience and, most Jewish woman trying to get out importantly, isn’t supposed to from under her mother’s thumb. upset the social order. The most frequent voice is Cleo, But Maddie is driven to make the victim, the Lady in the Lake. her own path. “She wanted to We eavesdrop as she addresses matter. She wanted the world to Maddie, who can’t hear her, urging be diff erent because she had been her to better understand the born. Being Seth’s mother wasn’t mystery she is trying to unravel. enough.” In her role as a novice reporter, Apart from an absolute faith in Maddie crosses lines between herself, she has something going cultures and communities, for her: encountering two dead sometimes without a clue. She bodies. The fi rst is that of a missing marches into an African American 11-year-old girl whose corpse she night club where she is not fi nds. The second is a young African welcome without an escort, and American club hostess, fi shed from takes her time leaving. And she’s a fountain and dubbed the Lady in having a love aff air with Ferdie, an the Lake, who haunts Maddie in African American police offi cer. these pages. Their relationship is conducted Maddie’s intersection with entirely in private. Maddie is swept both cases, sometimes clumsy, away by its physicality. From sometimes clever, gets her in the beyond, Cleo observes, “Choosing side door of the evening newspaper. the men you sleep with based on Lippman, a former reporter whose your own pleasure is what makes a father was also a newspaper writer, woman really rich.” deftly evokes the personalities and This may be due to weaknesses power dynamics of a mid-century on Maddie’s part; she’s not a newsroom. perfect person. She is headstrong She even takes us inside the and self-centred and, as one man heads of some of the colourful notes, she is “pushing forty” with newspaper characters. The “nothing to look forward to.” That’s unambitious cop reporter has a exactly what makes Maddie a hidden reason for his choices; riveting character; she’s revelling the beloved, folksy columnist has in her own unexpected power, secrets of his own. to make choices, delight in her In a bold move, there are almost boyfriend and launch a new career, two dozen voices in the book, often writing and solving mysteries. addressing the reader in short, – Newsday/TNS 8 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY FASH Stetsons, tears and polka dots: how t Vogue, Marie Claire, Love and more have unleashed their annual blockbusters. Which has the best cover star, the weirdest wellness trend and the most leopard print? asks Leah Harper and Ellie Violet Bramley

ere’s am insight to Funnest food: It’s not so much a look at the current youth culture September’s best the food as the packaging – the co- obsession with all things cowboy. issues and what they founder of food-sharing app Olio Key styling tip: If you don’t have to off er: Tessa Clarke fl ags Mimica Touch as have a big hat on, you’re doing it one of her favourite innovations: wrong. H a gelatine-based package that Celebrity quote: Actor Honor Vogue feels smooth if your food is fresh Swinton Byrne on who she would On the cover: Meghan Markle’s and bumpy if it’s a bit past it. Best like to play her in an adaptation 15 Forces for Change: Greta before dates – and unnecessary of her life: “Do they have to be an Thunberg, the actor Gemma Chan, food waste – be gone! actor? I want to say an animal. Like New Zealand’s prime minister Spot count: The Michelin an otter, or something.” Jacinda Ardern, the actor and leg- starred chef Elizabeth Haigh Soundbite: “This is a little boy warmer devotee Jane Fonda, Salma admits to livening up her chef’s from Wigan who has been going to Hayek, actor Laverne Cox, body whites with polka dots, and there’s the Elvis festival since 2013 … This image activist and actor Jameela an actual cheetah on page 215, is the last time I saw him and he Jamil, the Royal Ballet’s Francesca but Meghan’s issue of Vogue feels, was dressed as Freddie Mercury – Hayward, the writer Sinead Burke, relatively speaking, quite free of he’s a little fed up with Elvis so he actor and Michelle Obama mentee 2019’s ubiquitous leopard prints started a new act.” Yara Shahidi, author Chimamanda and polka dots. Cheap trick: Akech wears a pair Ngozi Adichie, boxer Ramla Ali, as of tie-dyed leather undies well – well as models Christy Turlington Vanity Fair easily replicated on cotton ones Burns, Adwoa Aboah and Adut On the cover: Kristen Stewart from M&S. Akech. Oh, and, you! There’s a in a pink Chanel jacket and white Scene-stealer: Rodeo champion square given over to what’s kindly ruffl e blouse. Kanesha Jackson, “a member of being called a mirror in which Weight: 340g the Texan family jumping historic you are invited to see yourself: Your autumn-winter look: barriers in professional rodeo” in a “Because you, too, are part of this Mostly just your PJs. Tops under white stetson, white shirt with bolo collective.” blazers, tulle over granny pants tie, white jeans and red cowboy Weight: 1kg – crop top is key. The cold never boots. But she is clear it’s not just Your autumn-winter look: bothered you anyway. a “look”: “You can tell from a mile Workwear, but not as you might Key styling tip: Get dressed up away a person who rides horses and know it. Forget boilersuits and to wash up, see actor Bill Skarsgård, (someone) who’s just trying to look baggy jackets, in Meghan’s Vogue, standing at the sink in an oh-so- the part … We don’t dress to be workwear means business. Think shiny silver suit. seen, we dress to our dress code.” tailored suits, shirts with a twist, Celebrity quote: “I would Weirdest wellness trend: No structural bags that nod to but choose to come back as an exotic wellness, just Elvis. stay fi rmly on the right side of translucent marine organism Funniest food: Whatever briefcases and knee-high boots. writhing around orgiastically” – a cookout entails, it sounds If you are after a promotion by Rick Owens. delicious. Christmas, style with a luxe Soundbite: “Haute crying is Spot count: As far as Dazed is carabiner, 2019’s answer to the now a fi xture. Read it and weep.” concerned, chaps are the new spots lanyard. Cheap trick: Falke socks. So and fringing’s the new leopard Key styling tip: Structured nice you won’t need to bother with print. silhouettes are here to pick up shoes. the hard work left behind after Scene-stealer: Mrs Prada, Marie Claire a summer of too-hot-to-e-mail photographed by Baz Luhrmann, On the cover: Laura Harrier in fl oaty dresses. That OOO couldn’t wearing a feather cape. sequinned Louis Vuitton. stay on forever. Weirdest wellness trend: Weight: 320g Celebrity quote: Fighting talk Playing Sims. The actor Thomasin Your autumn-winter look: from the supermodel and former McKenzie says it’s been “a portal 70s Parisian. Tweed suits, pale blue milkshake parlour waitress Saff ron back into [her] own world” while eyeshadow and knee-high boots. Vadher: “If someone ordered a fi lming Edgar Wright’s Last Night Oddly, no cigarettes. medium, I’d always make it large, in Soho. Key styling tip: “Alice bands so I could have what was left”. Funniest food: Tiny glasses are all the rage – add ballsy earrings Soundbite: “I am a beach. I of what appears to be … milk? As and everything below will go literally don’t care.” – from Matt seen in a shoot of up-and-coming unnoticed”. Haig’s poem, A Note From the actors. Celebrity quote: “We went to Beach. Spot count: A whole page of the an aerial yoga class this Saturday Cheap trick: Take a tip from leopard variety, from Sacai shorts and it was genuinely one of the this season’s ‘chunky eyelashes’ to Burberry trainers, as well as a worst things I have ever done in my and channel that unintentionally top worn by Booksmart’s Kaitlyn life.” Aisling Bea on hanging out clumpy mascara look you couldn’t Dever, photographed alongside with Eleanor Tomlinson. avoid as a hapless teen. Zombieland’s Zoey Deutch in a Cheap trick: Matt lipstick. Scene-stealer: It’s a toss-up leopard print bucket hat. “When the mouth is matt, the face between Dr Jane Goodall’s padded just seems more radiant by default,” Patagonia jacket and Charles Jeff rey Dazed according to Givenchy make-up Loverboy’s Barbie. On the cover: The model Adut ambassador Neil Young. Weirdest wellness trend: Akech or country-trap artist Lil Scene-stealer: Retro pics of Inhaling and exhaling is the key to Nas X. Doris Day in a look back at her life. well-being. That, and a £4,000, Weight: 680g Weirdest wellness trend: seven-night stay at an Indonesian Your autumn-winter look: Get A pulsed electromagnetic fi eld resort which off ers breathing your cowboy boots out and plaid (PEMF): “A whole-body system workshops. shirt on; Dazed heads west to take will re-energise the membranes Sunday, August 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 HION COMMUNITY the September style issues weigh up

of all 70 trillion cells in the body Spot count: Who needs eye- through changes in their electrical catching spots when you have this potential”. season’s answer to the mille-feuille Funniest food: Jon Snow cakes look: organza a la Koizumi. and Dothraki trifl e at a Game of Thrones afternoon tea in Ireland. Red Spot count: Six: leopard print On the cover: Helen McCrory dresses from Kate Spade and Yolke, wearing Polo Ralph Lauren and a skirt from Ganni and two tops, Escada (unless you’re a subscriber, both Louis Vuitton. Plus a polka dot in which case she’s wearing skirt from Topshop. Roksanda). Weight: 420g Love Your autumn-winter look: On the cover: There’s a choice Casual commuter meets 70s of nine: Gigi Hadid, Lizzo, Juliette activist. Wide-leg trousers, berets, Lewis, Hailey Bieber, Felicity Jones, high necklines and centre partings. Mariah Carey, Rami Malek, Tracee Key styling tip: “This season’s Ellis Ross and Luka Sabbat. layering is the perfect excuse to Weight: Just shy of a whopping double up with two lightweight 2kg. coats to fi ght the chill.” Your autumn-winter look: Celebrity quote: “When I left “There appears to be a new and [teaching] after eight years to go fi erce independence in what people and tell jokes in a restaurant, I want to do and how they want to do know a lot of my mum’s friends it,” says Katie Grand in her editor’s went: ‘What is Romesh doing?’” – letter, which sounds like your look Romesh Ranganathan on becoming for next season is whatever you a comedian. want it to be. But if it involves Soundbite: “I rocked up to tailoring, tulle and a sailor hat, a la a party in too-tight jeans, an Richard Quinn, then all the better. unfl attering waistcoat and a fl at Key styling tip: Make like cap, drowning in enough jewellery cover star Gigi Hadid and give your to weigh down the sturdiest pirate”. ponytail a touch of the prim with a Cheap trick: Cinch in last ribbon, in readiness for the return season’s oversized blazers and of Blair Waldorf. cardies for an updated look. “Belts Celebrity quote: Mariah Carey: are your new necessary accessory!” “Darling, there’s always a wealth of Scene-stealer: A recipe for material in me, because of what we studland bay lobster and thrice- go through on a daily basis. I don’t cooked chips, photographed on the count years any more. I don’t know prettiest of plates. what they are. Why would you?” Weirdest wellness trend: A Soundbite: “The universe is my tie between two zeitgeisty skincare favourite artist.” ingredients: snow mushrooms and Cheap trick: Carnations appear pineapple water. above Tokyo costume designer Funnest food: Cherry bakewell Tomo Koizumi’s head like antlers, almond butter – limited edition in an interview hailing his “big, from Pip & Nut. frilly, fantastical dresses” as the Spot count: One polka-dot top talk of New York fashion week. from Kitri and that’s your lot. Given they were also the fl oral of – The Guardian choice for Virgil Abloh recently, it seems the bad third date botanical is now a good way to signal fashion prowess. Scene-stealer: The 20s. Love predicts that the shift from 2019 to 2020 will likely be seismic. Far from being something to fl ap about, however, Grand thinks the 2020s will be “provocative, unpredictable, maybe a bit precarious, but obviously a lot of fun.” Here’s hoping. Weirdest wellness trend: Love prescribes Lizzo, on stage at Glastonbury: wielding “love (and her message of self-love) not so much as a device to eke out sadness and melancholy from our black and broken hearts, but to motivate and to arouse, to promote healing and spread undiluted, unbridled joy … Less a breath of fresh air than a raging reckless tornado of positive vibes.” Sign us up. Funniest food: Gigi Hadid’s morning eggs: “creamy-cheesy scrambled or sunny side-up with za’atar. Always some kind of bread on the side. Sometimes turkey bacon.” Plus, whoever gave the model in a leather Louis Vuitton cap a jam sandwich deserves a raise. 10 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY TRAVEL European cities struggling to keep up with boom in bus travel Nowadays, tourists can travel from one side of Europe to the other by bus at little cost. The industry is expanding, but many cities lack the infrastructure to welcome the growing number of passengers – even in popular destinations like Copenhagen, writes Steff en Trumpf

CYCLE PATH: Copenhagen’s main long-distance bus stop is right next to a busy cycle path.

he ﬁ rst thing tourists In some areas, local authorities Hanover, Frankfurt and Stuttgart hear when they arrive in and bus companies work together have built new bus terminals; Copenhagen by bus is a smoothly. But especially in Dresden and Bremen have promised chorus of bicycle bells. medium-sized cities, buses are to do so; and Berlin’s station is in Not a typical Danish often forced to park at the side of progress. “But there is more work welcome,T but the symptom of badly the road or use regular bus stops to do in medium-sized and large designed traffi c infrastructure: the to let passengers get on and off . cities,” claims Mangiapia. Many PROBLEMS: Cologne is an especially problematic case for the leading bus stop is right next to a busy cycle And sometimes the stops are in the terminals have no disabled access, German bus company Flixbus. Long-distance buses are not allowed to stop in path. middle of nowhere. although talks with the responsible the city centre. “It’s not very smart,” says a Cologne is an especially offi cials are under way, he says. woman waiting for a bus to Jutland, problematic case for the leading Although Flixbus buses are and Saale. In Copenhagen, Flixbus have to keep order at the existing in the west of Denmark. Something German bus company Flixbus. allowed to use existing bus stations, is in talks with the city authorities stop, and show passengers to their needs to be done quickly, she says, Long-distance buses are not they are under the auspices of the to establish a decent station at buses. because a new law has just been allowed to stop in the city local authorities. Bus operators the important travel junction. A Bremen could be a potential passed to allow even more long- centre. Instead, they must head usually go for central stops where potential location could be near model for the Scandinavians: A distance buses to pass through for the airport, or Refrath and passengers can change to urban Dybbolsbro station – only 700 new terminal complex including a Denmark. Leverkusen – completely diff erent public transport. metres from where buses are hotel and parking lot will be built Another Copenhagen resident municipalities outside Cologne. Waiting areas with a roof and currently stopping. near the central station of the concurs: “It’s always a push and The metropolis on the Rhine toilets are also attractive to the “It is completely in our Hanseatic city. shove until you’re on the bus. But thus has three stations, but none operators. To promote their interest to get a bus terminal in Construction of the new central once you’re in, it’s relaxed.” actually in the city. construction, the Association Copenhagen, because the situation hub for long-distance bus travel The lack of infrastructure and Other German cities fare better, of German Bus Companies each with the cycle path is not ideal,” is set to start in the second half of appropriate bus terminals is not according to Flixbus. Especially in year selects a Mobility Hub of the says the Flixbus spokesperson for 2020. Until then, buses will have to just an issue in Copenhagen. Other terms of bus stops, some progress Year to reward cities with the best Denmark, Lotte Rystedt. If all goes stop at a main road near the station European cities are also struggling has been made, says company infrastructure. This year, the title according to plan, it could be ready — just like in Copenhagen. to deal with the bus travel boom. spokesperson Martin Mangiapia. went to Hamburg, Jena, Oldenburg by 2023. Until then, employees will – DPA Sunday, August 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 INFOGRAPHIC COMMUNITY 12 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

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ALDRIN GLENN TITOV GAGARIN SCOTT CONRAD POPOV BORMAN LEONOV ANDERS GORDON WHITE GIBSON SHEPARD COOPER RIDE CARR LOVELL BEAN IRWIN YOUNG

Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Sunday, August 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Useless ornament to hang on 2 Stuck with tot holding ventilator (9) present (7) 8 American female — one 3 Admiral’s second vessel is employed as director? (5) obscure (4) 9 Boat almost left with 4 Dark times — but things have awkward load (7) altered (6) 10 Crooked — right in an odd 5 Heather goes on lake in way (4) intimate garb (8) 11 Puddings brought back 6 Wood mostly for police (4) under pressure (8) 7 Buried oil started flowing 13 Instrument for tinker (6) (4,2,4) 14 Ribs to order in a restaurant 8 Modest just the same (10) (6) 12 Jumbo — the plane that’s 17 Ships used for a short cut? seen all over (8) (8) 15 Wakefield players in college 19 Take the plunge in a (7) disreputable place (4) 16 Girl taking care of Spanish 21 Say why former partner’s not leader (6) attractive (7) 18 Children’s game is extremely 22 A few historians taking part pretty (1-3) in a game (5) 20 Bird that is small and pale 23 Neat story confused lawyers (4) (9)

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Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE Social support helps students to exercise more: study

aking exercise a behavioural confi dence which stress outlet may involves visualisation of future help students attain performance and external sources recommended of confi dence like an encouraging amounts of mentor. physicalM activity and to maintain According to the survey, that routine, students need social respondents indicated that support from family and friends, sustaining the weekly 150 minutes said researchers including one of an of exercise would require the Indian origin. support of family and friends, as “Accessing internal and external well as an emotional shift, in which sources of inspiration and resilience students would use exercise as an is an eff ective and sustainable outlet for stressors. model for positive change,” said Respondents also said that Vinayak K Nahar, Assistant social changes like making friends Professor at the University of who also exercise regularly would Mississippi. improve their ability to persist. “Physicians who want to “Nearly half of all adults in encourage their patients to get more the US do not engage in the physical activity should suggest recommended 150 minutes of the techniques from this study,” he physical activity per week. This added. basic lack of exercise is tied to For the study published in The myriad health problems, so it is Journal of the American Osteopathic the recommended 150 minutes per disadvantages, like being tired exercise would benefi t them, important to address it early,” said Association, researchers surveyed week. Participants were asked to and not having enough time for students were asked what they study lead author Manoj Sharma, 135 college students, assessing weigh pros, like improved energy academics or leisure. needed to get started. The single Professor at the Jackson State their willingness to exercise for and health, against perceived Once convinced that more most signifi cant factor was University. – IANS

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

You may have a feeling that if you don’t have something positive to Don’t skimp when it comes to taking care of your physical health, Keeping things in balance may be more trouble than it’s worth, say, you shouldn’t say anything. This idea could keep you tongue-tied Taurus. In an eff ort to save money, you may not bother getting dental Gemini, so don’t force the issue. Sometimes it’s necessary for our today, Aries. If you’re frustrated, angry, or hurt, address the issue openly. checkups, or you could opt for the least expensive doctor in the book. personal growth to let the pendulum swing all the way to one side. Don’t feel like you have to be the one who cheers up everyone else. Let Nothing is more important than your health. Treat your body with the The more you can let go and accept that everything isn’t going to someone else have a turn for a change. You’re only harming yourself by honour and respect it deserves. You may have no trouble doing for always be peaceful and harmonious, the better able you will be to pretending that everything is OK when it isn’t. others what you know you should be doing for yourself. deal with the sudden emotional turmoil that is bound to arise. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

This is one day when you feel on the edge of either an emotional Just because everyone else is walking on eggshells doesn’t mean Your tremendous sensitivity in a certain situation could be causing breakdown or a triumphant epiphany, Cancer. To ensure a positive you need to, Leo. Your upbeat spirit will be more welcome than usual you to jump to conclusions that are keeping you from seeing the outcome, don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a degree of due to the drama around you. Be careful of falling into the role that truth, Virgo. Your tendency is to assume things before you have all intensity to the day that’s likely to make everyone feel they’re wound you know others want you to play. It’s easy to take on the role that’s the facts. You may assume the worst, making you more stressed up like a spring. One careless move could set off disaster. Do what in front of you, but this doesn’t always help the situation. Read from about the situation than you need to be. Don’t worry about things you can to ease the tension rather than add to it. your own script, not someone else’s. you don’t know to be true. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

You may feel like you’re doomed if you do and doomed if you don’t, You may find yourself bursting into tears for no apparent reason Unexpected emotions are going to come out of nowhere and cause Libra. You may feel very opinionated about a certain issue, but you today, Scorpio. Seek comfort in sitting by a body of water where you havoc, Sagittarius. Be prepared to deal with the expected. The key know that expressing yourself is likely to cause someone else to can let your emotions flow. Tension builds as the storm draws near. is not to overreact. The calmer and more stable you can stay, the feel threatened or upset. But if you keep these thoughts to yourself, Once it has passed, however, there is calm as the sunshine pierces better off you’ll be. Dealing with the situation in a reactive outburst you’re going to feel resentful and perhaps even used. You’re better the clouds. This time of peace and serenity may seem far off , but it’s will only turn the scene into an explosive rage. Count to ten or sit by off expressing yourself honestly. closer than you think. yourself for a while before you deal with the problem. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

You may want more freedom in a certain situation, Capricorn. You may need to use charm and wit to ease a tense situation, Your emotions are active, Pisces, and could be popping up in Perhaps it’s your emotions that you want to distance yourself from, Aquarius. Gridlock could be making you feel uncomfortable. Your powerful outbursts. There’s momentum building within that you or it feels like someone is smothering you. On the one hand, you solution to the problem is to put on a happy face and divert attention shouldn’t ignore or suppress. Perhaps you feel that what you have to long for company and intimacy to fill an inner void. On the other, you from the diff iculty by telling some jokes. Realise that this technique say isn’t appropriate for the situation. More than likely, it will do more resent having to be so needy. Make sure you’re whole before you will delay having to face a particular situation for a while, but it harm than good to ignore these feelings rather than get them out, sink too deeply into a relationship. certainly won’t keep you from ever having to deal with it. even when it seems disruptive to do so. Sunday, August 11, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Every woman is strong in her own way: Scodelario

CHANGE: Longtime Disney animation veteran Andrew Millstein has been named co-president of Blue Sky. Disney shuffles animation and Blue Sky studio ranks after Fox acquisition

Walt Disney Co. is shuffl ing the ranks of its animation business andewly n acquired Ice Age producer Blue Sky Studios, after the company’s purchase of 21st Century Fox. Longtime Disney animation veteran Andrew Millstein has been named co- president of Blue Sky, which became part of Disney after the Fox deal closed, the Burbank-based company said recently. Millstein will serve alongside co- president Robert Baird. Millstein replaces Andrea Miloro, who recently left the company. Millstein, a 22-year Disney veteran, was previously president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He will be replaced by creative executive Clark Spencer, who will report to Walt Disney Studios co-chairmen Alan Horn and Alan Bergman. Spencer will work alongside Jennifer Lee, the Frozen co-director who replaced John Lasseter as chief creative offi cer of Walt Disney Animation Studios last year. Additionally, Pixar Animation Studios president Jim Morris has been given a supervisory role at Blue Sky, expanding his duties at the company, Disney said. “We are incredibly proud of the strength and depth of leadership in our animation studios, and Andrew, Clark, and Jim are all exemplars of that,” said Horn and Bergman in a statement. Blue Sky is rebuilding its slate under Disney ownership, where it joins animation powerhouses Walt Disney and Pixar animation studios. The unit is best known for computer animated fi lms, including the tropical bird cartoon Rio and the long-running Ice Age series. Blue Sky’s most recent fi lm was the 2017 eff ort Ferdinand, about a friendly bull, which did modest business at the box offi ce and earned a best animated feature Oscar nomination. Baird will continue to drive the creative direction of the studio, reporting to Horn and Bergman, while Millstein will oversee day-to-day operations, Disney said. Spencer has spent nearly 30 years at Disney, winning the best animated POWERFUL: Kaya Scodelario says she isn’t interested in playing female characters that are just one thing, feature Oscar as producer of Zootopia. He also produced Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph because they don’t exist. Breaks the Internet, Bolt and Lilo & Stitch. – Los Angeles Times/TNS By Sugandha Rawal “For me, it is important (to essay When Sonakshi knocked Akshay off his chair a strong character) because it is Akshay Kumar is known as he Maze Runner star realistic. That is the world I know. Bollywoods ‘Khiladi, but it was Kaya Scodelario Dabbang star Sonakshi Sinha who feels every woman is Every woman I know is strong in managed to knock him off his chair. powerful, damaged and her own way” Sonakshi made everyone’s jaws a million other things, drop during a media interaction andT that is what she wants to for their forthcoming fi lm Mission reflect in her work. The actress says she isn’t The horror thriller, directed by Alexandre Aja, Mangal when she knocked him over interested in playing female characters that are will open in India on August 23. from his chair. It turned out to be a just one thing, because they don’t exist. The movie will be distributed in India by prank by Akshay and Sonakshi. “For me, it is important (to essay a strong Viacom18 Motion Pictures. It is written by The actress shared the moment character) because it is realistic. That is the Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen, on Instagram Stories. world I know. Every woman I know is strong in and produced by Craig Flores, Sam Raimi and In the video, Akshay is seen her own way,” Scodelario said in an exclusive sit- Alexandre Aja. sitting beside her and talking to a down interview. Scodelario says shooting for Crawl was hard. journalist about Mission Mangal. He “Every woman is damaged, ferocious, powerful “It was the most physical job that I have ever then moves a bit to adjust his chair STARS: Akshay Kumar, left, and Sonakshi and a million other things. They aren’t just one done. I have started to connect with now because and pushes it slightly backwards. It Sinha. thing. I have never been interested in playing I forgot how hard it was. I would come home is then when Sonakshi gives a slight female characters that are just one thing, purely every day with bruises and cuts. But it was very nudge to Akshay’s chest, making him topple off his chair! because they don’t exist,” added the actress. important for me to add that to it. As everyone gasped, Sonakshi said: “If people irritate me, that’s what I do”. Since her breakout role in British teen drama “That was the big conversation between me In the next video shared by Sonakshi, her co-star Taapsee Pannu explained Skins, Scodelario has portrayed different women and the producers during the shoot. They were that it was a prank. She said: “He (Akshay) planned it. Let me tell you how character dipped in hues of various shades of worried about me not wearing shoes and I really it would have happened. He would have asked her to do this. That’s why it’s womanhood – be it The Maze Runner, Pirates fought to not wear shoes because I knew as a getting recorded, too. (He planned it) Just to scare you guys.” of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales or woman if you are in flip flops in the mud, the Sonakshi had fun pulling it off as she wrote: “You should have seen their Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. first thing you do is just take them off...Because faces,” followed by three laughing emojis. She will, once again, bring a strong woman it is not going to work and I wanted that for the Mission Mangal recreates the event about the Indian Space Research in spotlight with her role as a high-achieving character,” she said. Organisation’s (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of November 2013. The swimmer Haley Keller in Crawl. And she had to face the consequences of her fi lm also stars Vidya Balan, Nithya Menen and Kirti Kulhari, and is slated to hit The film will narrate the struggle of Haley decision. the screens on August 15. – IANS as she tries to save herself and her father “It did mean that I had blisters and cuts (Barry Pepper) from alligators amidst a Florida everywhere. But I was excited to get to the hurricane. physical side of it,” said the 27-year-old. – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Sunday, August 11, 2019 COMMUNITY Expect the unexpected at Blue Man’s first show in Qatar

through an audition process. In addition to By Mudassir Raja the stage theatre show, the group has had multiple national and global tours, appeared on various TV programmes as both characters t goes beyond saying that Summer and performers. The group has also released in Qatar campaign has lived up to multiple studio albums, contributed to its hype and expectations. A host a number of fi lm scores, performed with of entertainment and edutainment orchestras around the US and appeared in ad activities have been carried out campaigns. Ithroughout this summer. The group actually grew out of a Spearheaded by Qatar National Tourism collaboration between three close friends Council and collaborated by diff erent namely, Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil companies and organisations, the Summer in Stanton, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Qatar campaign has so far put forth multiple Its fi rst public appearance was a celebration music, comedy, and stage shows besides of the end of the 1980s. The three men wore having entertainment activities for children blue masks and led a street procession that and families at diff erent shopping malls. included the burning of a Rambo doll and a The latest attraction from the campaign piece of the Berlin Wall. MTV’s Kurt Loder, is going to be a fascinating stage show by the who covered the event, drew attention to Blue Man Group, a wildly popular theatrical the strange Blue Men – and what began phenomenon. The group will be visiting as creative disturbances on the streets of Doha for the fi rst time as part of their latest the city became a series of small shows In 1999, the group released Audio, 2004 DVD release. The tour featured Tracy world tour. Expect the unexpected, as Blue at downtown clubs, and eventually a full their fi rst studio recording. Although it Bonham and Venus Hum as supporting acts. Man group takes the audience on a one-of- performance at the Astor Place Theatre in contained some of the music from their Announced in 2009, the group began a-kind journey featuring new music, fresh 1991. In July 2017, the group was bought by stage productions, it was chiefl y a collection performing for the fi rst time at sea on stories, custom instruments and spectacular Cirque du Soleil, who announced that they of full-length instrumentals featuring new Norwegian Cruise Line’s ship Epic. From July graphics. would expand the concept. instruments. 2010 to March 2015, Epic alternated 7-Day The award-winning extravaganza will take There are a number of diff erent themes In 2002, the group participated in Moby’s Eastern and Western Caribbean sailings from place at Al Mayassa Theatre of Qatar National found in various Blue Man performances Area2 tour, giving a more rock-oriented Miami with nightly Blue Man Group shows. Convention Centre from August 14 to August that included; science and technology, performance than in the theatrical shows. During a national tour in 2010, the group 17. information overload and information Songs developed during this tour appeared on visited various cities in the United States, Formed in 1987, Blue Man Group is a pollution, innocence, self-conscious and 2003’s album The Complex. Canada and Latin America. The tour included performance art company that is known naïve imitation of cultural norms. Unlike Audio, The Complex, featured a elements from their then-current theatrical worldwide for its various stage productions Blue Men always appear as a group of variety of vocalists and guests including performances, and new elements created for which typically incorporate many diff erent three. This is because not only are Blue Men Tracy Bonham, Dave Matthews, Gavin the tour. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, categories of music and art, both popular and viewed as outsiders to the rest of the world, Rossdale and Venus Hum. The record the group gave a special performance with obscure. The group has continuing theatrical but three is the smallest group possible spawned its own 2003 tour, How to Be Dave Matthews at the Astor Place Theatre in productions in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Las when endeavouring to create a community. a Megastar, the fi rst headlined by Blue New York City, collaborating on the song Sing Vegas, New York City, and Orlando. Many of the Blue Man skits involve one of Man Group. The tour deconstructed the Along. For their 25th anniversary, the group A typical Blue Man production employs the three Blue Men performing in a manner traditional rock concert experience into its took a global tour kicked off in Singapore in 7–9 full-time Blue Men who are selected inconsistent with the other two. often cliched parts and was chronicled in a March 2016.