Community Community The Punjab Four and Music Group One Group P6organises a P16 organises musical event the second edition of ‘Sham Suhani Biryani Festival at Al Night’ at Bidda Park, scheduled Wakrah. to run till March 2.
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COVER The teenage brain STORY A UCSD psychiatrist investigates whether social media aff ects the adolescent brain in the same way as cannabis. P4-5
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A charismatically acted, Biopics work because of content: engaging underdog fable. Darshan Kumaar. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT
PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.42am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.58am Zuhr (noon) 11.47am Asr (afternoon) 3.06pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.37pm Isha (night) 7.07pm Total Dhamaal about to be divorced, Lallan and Jhingur, fi re offi cers turned DIRECTION: Madhu C Narayanan off enders, and two weird siblings Aditya and Manav. All of USEFUL NUMBERS CAST: Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi them refuse Guddu’s off er to distribute the money and the SYNOPSIS: And the madness and the craziness of the race to reach the booty fi rst begins. Finally after many ups and biggest franchise of laughter continues. Total Dhamaal is a downs all reach the designated place. But it’s not as easy as mad adventure comedy about money. Guddu, a small time it seems. Is there any truth about the hidden booty? Or all of crook gets double-crossed by his own colleague, Pintu, after them are being fooled? After a day full of life changing, near they have managed to get their hands on an illegal booty. death experiences, will the adventure ever end or another one Guddu and his sidekick Johnny manage to trace his colleague begin? Find out how the story concludes and if they are able to Emergency 999 but only after Pintu has given the information of the booty get the booty or not. Worldwide Emergency Number 112 to 3 other groups i.e. Avinash and Bindu, a bickering couple THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444
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Gully Boy SYNOPSIS: The fi lm is about a educated so that he could have a white DIRECTION: Zoya Akhtar 22-year-old boy Murad from a ghetto collar job. Meanwhile, Murad realises CAST: Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, in Mumbai, India. The son of a driver, his calling to be a rapper. Kalki Koechlin his parents worked hard to get him THEATRES: The Mall, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “A man’s The Mall Cinema (1): 7:15pm; Take Point (2D) 9pm; character may be Lonappante Mammod1sa Total Dhamaal (Hindi) 11:15pm. (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Total Royal Plaza Cinema Palace learned from the adjectives Dhamaal (Hindi) 5pm; Escape (1): Sonchiriya (Hindi) 2:15pm; which he habitually Room (2D) 7:15pm; Luka Chuppi 11:30pm. Alone/Together (Tagalog) 5pm; (Hindi) 9:15pm; Gully Boy (Hindi) Landmark Cinema (1): Luka Chuppi (Hindi) 7pm; Alone/ uses in conversation.” 11:30pm. Lonappante Mammod1sa Together (Tagalog) 9:30pm; Luka — Mark Twain The Mall Cinema (2): Kikoriki (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Toys (2D) Chuppi (Hindi) 11:30pm. Deja Vu (2D) 2pm; Toys (2D) 5pm; Alone/Together (Tagalog) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace 3:45pm; Alone/Together 7pm; Alone/Together (Tagalog) (2): L.K.G. (Tamil) 2:15pm; Total (Tagalog) 5:30pm; Alone/ 9pm; Kodathi Samaksham Balan Dhamaal (Hindi) 4:45pm; Escape Together (Tagalog) 7:30pm; Vakkeel (Malayalam) 11:15pm. Room (2D) 7pm; Sonchiriya A Madea Family Funeral (2D) Landmark Cinema (2): L.K.G. (Hindi) 9pm; Lonappante 9:30pm; Sonchiriya (Hindi) (Tamil) 2pm; Sonchiriya (Hindi) Mammod1sa (Malayalam) Community Editor 11:30pm. 4:15pm; Luka Chuppi (Hindi) 11:30pm. Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): Luka 6:45pm; Luka Chuppi (Hindi) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace e-mail: [email protected] Chuppi (Hindi) 2:15pm; L.K.G. 9pm; Sonchiriya (Hindi) 11:30pm. (3): Toys (2D) 2:30pm; Gully Telephone: 44466405 (Tamil) 4:30pm; Alita: The Battle Landmark Cinema (3): Gully Boy (Hindi) 4:30pm; Bigger (2D) Angel (2D) 7pm; Take Point Boy (Hindi) 2:15pm; Total Dhamaal 7:15pm; Bad Parents (2D) 9:15pm; Fax: 44350474 (2D) 9:15pm; Escape Room (2D) (Hindi) 5pm; Escape Room (2D) Boo! (2D) 11:15pm. Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY
Music maestro A R Rahman is going to Music and arts activities for students be performing on the 22nd of March at the taking place after they finish their day in Khalifa Stadium. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Syria Matters Exhibition Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and Where: Museum of Islamic Art 10 years old after school hours. When: Ongoing till April 30 Time: 9am – 7pm Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha presents a major exhibition, co-curated by MIA Director Dr Julia Gonnella and Rania Abdellatif, as part of the MIA ten-year anniversary celebrations.
Ballet Lessons Hobby Classes WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art EVENTS Mehaseel Festival WHEN: Ongoing Centre WHERE: Katara Cultural Village TIME: 4pm – 8pm WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHEN: Ongoing For more info e-mail at registration@ Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb Mehaseel Souq will be open every atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. a holistic performing arts institution and WHEN: Today Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 31st of a one stop solution for adults as well as TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm March. It is a perfect market to get amazing children looking to explore their talents The olympic sport using horizontal bar, local fresh produce. in various art forms. We offer classes in rings and floor exercises on mats for the contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop and children from age 4 till 16. Indian classical dance forms, along with classes for music, art and crafts, karate and Baladna Cultural Festival yoga. Additional services include dance WHERE: Baladna Park education and choreography. For details, WHEN: Ongoing till tomorrow call 33897609. Baladna Park will embark you on a delicious and rich journey this time of year, Dance and Instrument Classes through the Baladna Culture Festival. The WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf festivities will take place each Friday and Times Building Saturday of the month of February and will WHEN: Wednesday – Monday include food, dance shows, entertainment Learn the movements of dance styles and cultural handicrafts from across the in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the world. For further information 44246000. Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, WHERE: Losail Circuit Keyboard for adults as well kids and move WHEN: Ongoing in the world of music. For details, contact TIME: 5pm 66523871/ 31326749. Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association Grand Prix of Qatar 2019 with Qatar Sports For All Federation, WHERE: Losail International Circuit invites all cyclists, runners and walkers WHEN: March 8 – 10 to train under the floodlights of Losail TIME: 1pm – 9pm International Circuit every Wednesdays. The opening race will be held under the floodlights. Tickets can be purchased on- line.
MIA Park Bazaar 2019 WHERE: Museum Of Islamic Art WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 12pm – 8pm MIA Bazaar will be having a vibrant mix of 350 stalls. MIA Park Bazaar is a modern version of the old souq tradition. The stalls are going to offer a wide range of gastronomies from all over the world. You can also browse and grab handcrafted Arabic Calligraphy Workshop artefacts, accessories, canvases, fashion A R Rahman Concert WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday wears, designer ornaments. WHERE: Khalifa Stadium TIME: 6pm WHEN: March 22 Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. TIME: 6pm – 11pm Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact [email protected]
After School Activities WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing
Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Are teens getting high on social media?
BEHAVIOURAL PATTERN: Psychiatrists don’t recognise excessive social media use as addictive behaviour yet, according to Dr Kara Bagot, a child psychiatrist and assistant professor in residency at the University of California San Diego. By Peter Rowe There are studies already that show video games, computer games, his is a teen’s brain on marijuana. social media and increased tech This is a teen’s brain use associated with poor outcomes on social media. See any diff erence? in physical health, mental health TIn a ground-breaking study, a UCSD psychiatrist is investigating and risk-taking. We have to have whether social media aff ects the adolescent brain in the same more conversations about how to way as cannabis. Establishing a responsibly use social media link could change how medical professionals view teens’ ‘ — Dr Kara Bagot ’ engagement with Instagram, Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY
In a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, 95% of teens said they had a smart phone, the device most often used to access social media. 89% said they were online “almost constantly” or “several times a day”
launched in 2015 with experts from more than 20 research institutions, including UC San Diego. When ABCD began, Sandra Brown, UCSD’s vice chancellor for research, predicted that it could “lead to novel approaches to education as well as new types of interventions for common problems emerging during adolescence.” The “novel approach” Bagot plans to use: scanning teens’ brains Snapchat and other social media said. “We communicate in other Research Center survey, 95 percent you are not hanging out with your as they view images of marijuana, platforms. ways that are more real and more of teens said they had a smart peers you tend to use drugs less.” pot paraphernalia and their own “Psychiatrists don’t recognize meaningful.” phone, the device most often used Yet studies also link social media Instagram posts. Researchers excessive social media use as Bagot insists she has no bias to access social media. Moreover, use to depression, insomnia and will alter the latter, adding or addictive behaviour,” said Dr Kara against social media, but she 89 percent said they were online negative body images. And while subtracting “likes,” to inspire Bagot, a child psychiatrist and is concerned about electronic “almost constantly” or “several postponing some rites of passage positive or negative emotions. assistant professor in residency at media’s eff ects on children. The times a day.” (learning to drive, say) may benefi t Looking at images captured by the University of California San mother of two sons, ages 5 and Evidence shows that social society (and other drivers), Bagot a functional MRI, Bagot’s team Diego. “If it shows similar changes almost 3, she limits what and when media usage off ers some benefi ts. wonders whether this is healthy. will see if images of marijuana and in the activation of the brain’s they can watch when it comes to While roughly six in 10 teens “Kids are increasingly engaging Instagram posts light up the same reward circuitry, then we can videos and television. have experienced cyberbullying, with each other online,” she said, portion of the brain. develop a treatment model.” “Now,” she said, “my 5-year- eight in 10 insist that social media “but they are engaging less with While the 60 adolescent subjects Other researchers have looked old knows. He doesn’t even ask makes them feel more connected real life.” will be evenly divided into four at how social media, for better or about watching ‘Paw Patrol’ on a to friends. FOUR GROUPS groups – heavy marijuana users, worse, aff ects teens. But Bagot’s weekday. It just doesn’t happen.” Researchers have noticed that, Bagot’s study is a small part light marijuana users, heavy social study is the fi rst to compare social Hers is a rare stance, Bagot at the same that social media use of the massive, $300 million media users and light social media media to cannabis. acknowledges: “I had to drag my among adolescents has risen, teens Adolescent Brain Cognitive users – none will be intoxicated “There are studies already that husband into that.” are delaying getting their drivers’ Development (ABCD) initiative, while undergoing brain scans. show video games, computer In the US, it would be virtually licenses. Rates of underage use of which will track nearly 12,000 “We drug test them before they games, social media and increased impossible to create a social alcohol, cigarettes and illicit drugs children across a decade. The go in,” Bagot said. “We want them tech use associated with poor media-free bubble around are all falling. largest study ever conducted on to go in completely sober.” outcomes in physical health, adolescents. In a 2018 Pew “The thinking is,” Bagot said, “if the minds of teenagers, it was Subjects, 14- to 18-years-old, mental health and risk-taking,” are still being recruited and none she said. “We have to have more have yet undergone a brain scan. conversations about how to Bagot’s experiment is funded responsibly use social media.” through the spring, so she plans to RARE STANCE fi nish by the end of the school year. Bagot was a high school junior in Education on social media, the Los Angeles when AOL introduced professor said, should continue Instant Messenger, an early texting even further. system. She was not an avid user. “We have to teach kids to As an undergraduate at Johns be good stewards of their own Hopkins, a medical student at the information,” Bagot said, citing University of Illinois at Chicago instances where old Instagram and then a resident at Yale, she or Facebook posts of reckless paid scant attention to online or risque behaviour have led to platforms. rescinded job off ers. “They don’t That pattern continues. The last understand that they are leaving a time she posted to her Facebook digital footprint.” page, George W Bush was in And those footprints sometimes the White House. She’s never track mud on other people. Often, Tweeted, although her Twitter objectionable posts include more account contains messages from than one person. others, with several applauding “At some point,” Bagot said, her December 2018 appearance on “you are responsible for your 60 Minutes, discussing adolescent friends’ information as well.” brains and social media. Acting responsibly, though, can “I have too much going on be diffi cult if you are high – on in my real life to worry about cannabis or social media. other people’s lives or some – The San Diego Union-Tribune/ representation of my life,” she IANS 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY PMG organises musical night
The Punjab Music Group (PMG) recently organised a musical night ‘Sham Suhani Night’ at Decon Bajawa. The event was attended by notable personalities, including Bilal, Manager at Descon Company Compound Wakrah. The event was managed by Nazakat Ali Khan, Chief Organiser of Engineering Qatar LLC; Amin Motiwala, and Shiraz Ali Khan, Amer Butt, Atiq Rasheed and Shoukat PMG. The event featured a live performance by Ahmad Nawaz, a well-known Pakistani Radio and Ali Naz, PMg Off icials. The event was anchored by Mohinnder Jalandary and Bushra Eman. The TV singer, along with local singers, including Waqas Amjad, Mohinnder Jalandary and Javeed event was sponsored by Descon Engineering Qatar LLC.
DPS-MIS receives ECO-Schools Programme Award 2018-2019
Doha Bank recently presented the ECO-Schools Programme Award 2018-2019 to DPS-Modern Bank, said that he was extremely pleased by another successful year of the ECO-Schools Indian School (DPS-MIS) for successfully completing the ECO-Schools Programme projects. Programme, part of Doha Bank’s ongoing efforts and commitment towards developing and Ivonne A Baki, Ambassador of Ecuador, felicitated and presented the award. implementing green initiatives that spread awareness about environmental conservation and DPS-MIS bagged the blue star award in waste water management category for their project protection. ‘DPS-MIS water management’. Speaking on the occasion, Dr R Seetharaman, CEO of Doha Asna Nafees, Principal of DPS-MIS, proposed a vote of thanks.
IWA celebrates Qatar National Sport Day
Indian Women Association (IWA) recently organised sports day for its members to mark Qatar National Sport Day celebrations at Al Wakrah Public Park. The event featured a march past, dance for Zumba, workout in the Fitness Challenge corner, relay race and lemon and spoon race. Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Dr Saif al-Hajri inaugurates ‘SIS Green School Project’
Shantiniketan Indian School (SIS) recently launched ‘SIS Green School Project’ on Qatar National The management committee of SIS, under the leadership of K C Abdul Latheef, contributed Environment Day. The project was inaugurated by Dr Saif al-Hajri, CEO of G4S Qatar WLL. neem plants. Dr Subhash Nair, Principal of SIS, welcomed the gathering. He appreciated Speaking on the occasion, Dr Saif al-Hajri, appreciated the eff orts of the school in aligning the appreciated the efforts of the parents, students and teachers in creating a garden that schools vision with Qatar National Vision 2030. He advised the students to develop values that attract a large number of birds which has made the campus more beautiful and healthy. could make them future leaders in Qatar and in their own country. He praised the eff orts of the Pratishta Bisht, a student of Grade V, highlighted the importance of having a greener school for creating an enthusiastic, healthy and green environment protecting nature at its best. environment.
IIQS-Qatar organises second Continuing Professional Development event
Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors - Qatar Chapter (IIQS-Qatar), associated to Indian Business world. quality, time and cost which are the key objectives of a construction project. The second and Professionals Council (IBPC) under the aegis of embassy of India in Qatar, recently conducted lecture provided insights on the Quality Based Selection for Value Engineering principles, with its second Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event at Lulua Hall of Radisson Blu Hotel. practical examples on how this technique can help in making informed decisions by using Quality The event was attended by over 50 members and guests. Based Selection. Subrato Mukherjee, Executive Manager at Qatar Design Consortium, delivered lectures on various Sudheer Edamana, Vice President of IIQS-Qatar, welcomed the gathering. Speaking on the topics, including Modular Construction - application, advantages and limitations and Quality Based occasion, Rajesh V C, Division D Director of Toast Masters Qatar, encouraged the IIQS members to Selection (QBS) for Value Engineering. The first lecture comprehensively covered various aspects join and revive the IIQS-Qatar Toast Masters Club. Anshul Gupta, President of IIQS-Qatar, proposed of Modular Construction techniques being implemented in the construction industry all over the a vote of thanks.
DMIS receives award for Eco-Club project
Doha Modern Indian School (DMIS) recently students and teachers of Eco Club received the bagged an award for its Eco-Club project ‘Go Green award from Ivonne A Baki, Ambassador of Equador, and Save Nature’. Principal of DMIS along with the R Seetharaman, Group CEO of Doha Bank.
HONOUR: Syed Shoukath Ali, Principal of Ideal Indian School (IIS), recently received AKS 100 Eff ective Principal Award 2019 at a ceremony held in New Delhi India. The management of the school along with the students of IIS congratulated the principal on his achievement. 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY District 116 P organises third District Executive Committee Meeting
District 116 P recently organised on ‘How to start a new club’. Rajeswar third District Executive Committee imparted training on ‘Team dynamics.’ Meeting at Oryx Rotana. Sundaresan He explained the importance of Rajeswar, District Director, appreciated having a formal team charter and the members for the exceptionally reviewing it periodically. He elaborated successful first half of the term. on the stages of group development, George Thomas, past International including forming, storming, norming, Director of the District, was the performing and transforming and how parliamentarian of the meeting. to measure transitions and required Kumaran CS and Christopher Almeda actions from team leaders. were appointed as District Public Kumaran CS talked about preparations Relations Officers on the occasion. for the first-ever Annual Conference District officers, including Girish Jain, of District 116 Qatar, scheduled to be Riana Pinto, Sudhir Gujar, Rajesh held from May 3-4. The meeting was V C, Abdulla Hamdhan and Raja G attended by notable personalities, presented reports on the activities, including Morag Mathieson, Region 11 plan, and progress of Distrcit 116P International Director from Germany; related to their respective areas. and Tay, World Champion of Public Raghavan Menon, Programme Quality Speaking 2016 from Singapore. Director, conducted a brainstorming Speaking on the occasion, Rajeswar session ‘Brain Writing’. He circulated said, “The fruits of labour might not tabulated forms to write the challenges come early, but they come at the right faced and passed on amongst peers time. Nothing is done before it is time. It to suggest solutions. Thayalan, Club is important to stay focused and keep Growth Director, conducted a session working towards goals.”
BFIS marks Annual Day celebrations
Bright Future International School (BFIS) recently marked its Annual Day celebrations. The event operation of students and teachers from diff erent and diverse cultures. Sajid Mansoor, Principal of featured various themes, including human values, 21st century skills, patriotism, teamwork, BFIS, appreciated the eff orts of the school management and teachers to strengthen the unique humanity and others. value and skill based education system followed in BFIS. Junaid Sial, Community Welfare Attaché at the Embassy of Pakistan, was the chief guest on the Ali Zulqarnain, Senior Vice Principal at BFIS, highlighted the academic achievements and occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Junaid Sial appreciated the eff orts of the school management announced the awards for high achievers in the last academic session. The chief guest felicitated in ensuring value based education reflecting progressive co-existence and constructive co- the outstanding achievers. Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 COMMUNITY
High school students participate in QMEP
Thirty-four students recently participated in Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s Qatar Medical Explorer and seminars, confirming their interest in science and medicine, and interacting with existing Programme (QMEP) to explore the possibilities off ered by a career in medicine. The students students and faculty. It off ers a comprehensive and accurate impression of what it is really like to went attended lectures on various subjects, including biology, chemistry, human anatomy, study at WCM-Q, helping the students decide if the prospect of a career in medicine is something pharmacology and physiology among others. They were also given an insight to the world- that will inspire, challenge and fulfil them.” class facilities available at Qatar. Students also participated in self-development workshops and The Excellence Award was also presented to the student on the course who demonstrated admission sessions. excellence, leadership, and motivation through the entirety of the programme. This year’s award The aim of the programme was to help students learn more about the admissions requirements, was presented to Laila Lubbad, a student of DeBakey High School for Health Professions at Qatar. including how to write an eff ective personal statement and how to undertake college interviews, Dr Rachid Bendriss, Assistant Dean of Student Recruitment, Outreach and Foundation which provided an insight about the holistic admission process at WCM-Q. Programmes, said, “We were extremely encouraged by the sheer energy, intelligence and curiosity The certificates of participation were given to the students. Speaking on the occasion, Noha Saleh, of this year’s cohort of students. We hope and sincerely believe a great many of them will apply to Director of Student Recruitment And Outreach at WCM-Q, said, “QMEP is designed to give high join WCM-Q and eventually become highly accomplished doctors serving their communities.” schools students the chance to come and participate in sessions at WCM-Q, attending lectures Khalid Fawzi al-Ajji, a student of Qatar Academy, also addressed the gathering.
Banana Island Resort Doha’s Q Lounge launches its new exquisite menu
Banana Island Resort Doha is launching a new Vindaloo and Butter Chicken. Guests looking for menu at ‘Q Lounge and Restaurant’, where international flavours will find a selection of dishes, the resort’s guests and visitors will indulge in a including club sandwiches, salads, wagyu beef distinctive selection of Indian and international burger, panini, asian beef and pasta assortment. dishes, said a press release. On this occasion, Andreas Haugg, Executive Tastefully curated by Q Lounge’s talented chefs, Assistant Manager of Food and Beverage, said, the new menu off ers a wide ranging variety of “We are always keen on off ering diversity in starters, soups, delectable main course options our services, which aims to provide maximum with diff erent types of meat, chicken, fish and comfort for the guests and visitors of Banana vegetables to choose from and an unbeatable Island Resort Doha, which is reflected in the sweets and deserts counter. innovation and development we always adapt at Open from 12 noon till 11.30pm, Indian cuisine all our facilities”. Sealine Beach, a Murwab Resort, lovers will discover a mouth-watering collection “We want to provide our guests the opportunity including Tawa Paneer Khurchan, Mushroom to enjoy the most delicious cuisine rich in flavours bags Murwab Hotel Group HACCP Malai, Baingan Bharta, Ghee Roast Lamb, Prawn that meet their expectations”, he added. Star of the Year 2018 title
Sealine Beach, a Murwab Resort, has been the Star of the Year 2018 Award by Katara named as Murwab Hotel Group HACCP Hospitality.” Star of the Year 2018 by Katara Hospitality He added, “I would like to express my during the award ceremony held in sincere appreciation to Katara Hospitality, Sheraton Hotel Doha, stated a press management, partners and employees for release. Commenting on the achievement, their constant, unwavering commitment Nawaf Ali al-Obaidly, General Manager of and persistence of service excellence and Sealine Beach, a Murwab Resort, said, “It’s special gratitude to Anant H Shirodker, a very special award for us. Although we Hygiene Supervisor at Sealine Beach, a have won four other prestigious awards Murwab Resort.” as well, but this award is very special to us Nawaf Ali al-Obaidly emphasised on as it is a recognition by Katara Hospitality the importance of hazard analysis and for the distinguished eff orts we have put critical control points, as it is a systematic through-out last year to bring Sealine preventive approach to food safety from beach resort, a Murwab Resort, to winning biological, chemical, and physical hazard. 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Walking tourism now one of the most popular ways to experience destinations
Walking tourism also allows By Mia Taylor travellers to better engage with local populations, nature and culture while meeting the growing hether it’s tied demand for outdoor activities in to the penchant general, continues the UNWTO for experiencing report. destinations like Walking tourism can be a local or the developed anywhere as part of Wincreasing popularity of sustainable a sustainable tourism agenda travel, the reality is that walking and requires a relatively small tourism is now one of the most investment, yet provides high social popular ways to experience a and economic returns for residents destination. and tourists alike if properly A newly released report from developed and managed. the World Tourism Organization Creating partnerships and (UNWTO) provides examples of soliciting the support of local walking tourism that can serve as stakeholders when developing practical references for destinations walking tourism off erings is also that want to develop such off erings. critical, according to the UNWTO According to the report report, as residents and tourists end “increasing consumer demand up sharing common goods. for experiencing a destination in “This might give ground for an authentic way and the growing potential confl icts,” adds the report. popularity of active tourism make “Therefore, access to training and walking tourism more and more inclusion of the local population relevant beyond walking activities, in the tourism value chain is showcasing a destination as a whole needed in order to seize new including its local culture and business opportunities for regional nature.” development.” – TravelPulse/ TNS
ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20
Step out of your routine, Aries. Do this every so often to increase Are you satisfied with your current career, Taurus? If not, start by Don’t fear any changes that lie ahead, Gemini. Even if you think your knowledge and expand your horizons. The planetary aspects making a plan. There are specific steps that you can follow to take you don’t adjust well, you have more adaptability than you realise. favour this. Walking to a diff erent beat can give you far more than the greatest advantage of the available opportunities. Consider Without change, life would become stagnant. It wouldn’t be long you imagine. Try something you’ve never considered before. Go to a visiting career-related websites or ask a career counsellor for advice. before you became dissatisfied and bored with the same old new place. Change your desk around to gain a new perspective. See Don’t settle for less than you deserve. See what you can find, and thing. Try to see change as an adventure and a gateway to greater what you can discover about yourself and the world. move toward a more fulfilling future. happiness and fulfilment. Trust your versatility. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22
Make your dreams a tool for gaining insight, Cancer. In the past, Follow your instincts, Leo. Even if you have a tendency to listen Feed your mind new knowledge, Virgo. Visit a bookstore or read some rulers believed that their dreams held great insights and they more to reason, put it aside today. While your ears hear words, your some interesting information on the web. If you have more time, visit employed people to interpret them. Whether you think dreams are intuition can hear what’s between the words and unsaid, providing the library or find out about some courses that might be perfect for mystical insights or random brainwaves, there is much to be gained. you with a bigger picture than whatever is presented. If everything you. There’s knowledge to be had everywhere you look, provided Recurring dreams hold significance. They can point to something sounds right but feels wrong, you’d be better off trusting your you’re open to receiving it. People are often the best resource. Ask that you need to take care of. Consider exploring this area. feelings. Act with careful consideration and caution. someone to explain something, if that’s what you need. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21
Try to see nightmares as safe ways to understand feelings, Libra. Are you living your dreams, Scorpio? Are you still in touch with Check out advancing your career or education today, Sagittarius. No one likes to experience them, and we’d sooner forget them once them? The energy from today’s planetary aspects can lend strength The energy can favor expansion and growth. When was the last awake, but the best way to ensure they don’t return is to understand and encouragement to this part of your life. Seize the opportunity to time you learned a new skill? It doesn’t have to be work related. If them. What’s frightening you? Why do you feel insecure? Consider take hold of the things that you want most of all. Ask yourself what flower arranging, skydiving, or massage therapy is something that these questions and look for answers. Fear, pain, and anxiety are the you want people to say about you after you’re gone. Get back on appeals to you, go for it. Never stop looking for ways to expand your most common ingredients of a real cold-sweat nightmare. track to a fulfilled life by taking steps toward your desires. knowledge. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20
Do you recognise your intuition as a valuable asset, Capricorn? Use your creativity to make things happen today, Aquarius. Find some new ways to expand your horizons, Pisces. The web has Some people do and some don’t. Which group are you in? It’s easier Remember that creativity doesn’t always take the form of a finished an infinite amount of information to explore, and your community to trust in concrete, factual reality than in things you can’t see or product. Use it to come up with innovative ways to approach a task, and local colleges off er many courses from which to choose. Think touch. But your intuition can serve you more than you may realise. project, or problem. Trust in your ability to discover such possibilities. about what you’d enjoy learning. Perhaps a new skill for your job That gut feeling you experience can guide you with caution and You’re an intelligent and creative person. Combine the two to make an or a crafts class that shows you how to make things. Whether self- alert you to danger. Put more trust in it and see. unbeatable tool for finding solutions to almost anything. defence or Italian strikes your fancy, it’s out there. Find it. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES
Wordsearch Adam
Pooch Cafe
Flying
BOAT FISH OFFICER BOMB FORTRESS PICKET BUTTRESS FOX SAUCER CARPET JIB SQUAD CIRCUS LEMUR SQUIRREL DOCTOR LIZARD START DUTCHMAN MARE WING
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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Sudoku
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. Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY
Super Cryptic Clues Colouring
ACROSS DOWN 1. Opposed sister’s 1. Get stuffed again (6) involvement with a man (8) 2. Bird having small relation to 5. Did without extravagant the family (6) drapes (6) 3. Plug a person making an 9. Type of poem that in days arrest (7) gone by got spoken (8) 4. Painted in Holland (4) 10. Presses into the military (6) 6. Gunman on the way to see 12. Give credit to the little the Scottish mayor (7) rascals in curls (6) 7. The police force is not to get 13. Letting students in around involved in disturbances (8) part of the stately home (8) 8. Planned to catch Leo, for 15. Now it’s time for grammar one, in the act (8) (7,5) 11. Mistake in construction 18. One does away with lots – it’s beneath the car roof (7) Answers criminal! (4,8) 14. Crossing to the right back in 23. The verge of a leaderless a team (7) Wordsearch Codeword attack (8) 16. Like Clinton, a man who’s a 24. Scrape off a bread-roll (6) boy at heart (8) 26. The bells of Shoreditch I’m 17. The fantastic Houdini (8) especially interested in (6) 19. Regret climbing under a load 27. Throw out Jack, the winger of rubber (7) (8) 20. After turning amber, drive 28. Not a railway official (6) on and get a ban (7) 29. I’m having a drink with a 21. One enjoys hurting one in businessman (8) the heavyweight division (6) 22. Person about to become a church officer (6) 25. Stop giving support (4)
Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 1 Poor devil 6 Medoc DOWN: 1 Plait 2 Ourselves 3 9 Arrow 10 Unnatural 11 The Dawn attack 4 Vaulted 5 Long last lap 12 Lena 14 Riveted 15 ago 6 Mite 7 Dirge 8 Collapses Onerous 17 Insects 19 Dithers 13 See the joke 14 Reinstate 20 Sack 22 Cold reason 25 16 Overstate 18 Slogans 19 Abominate 26 Orate 27 Endow Dungeon 21 Crowd 23 Needy 28 Sincerely. 24 View. 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY REVIEWS A charismatically acted, engaging underdog fable
played by Pugh, she’s a tough, Surrounded by former models and By Michael Phillips continually underestimated dancers turned highly decorative striver, with the eye of the tiger wrestlers, working-class, Paige and a heart of gold. feels shunned by all that blonde. he more globally Merchant takes the sports Fighting with My Family charts famous the celebrity, biopic cliches just seriously her ascendancy in the ring, while the tougher audiences enough. His adaptation, inspired keeping tabs on her family in tend to be on a biopic. by the (credited) 2012 British Norwich. Unless it’s Bohemian documentary The Wrestlers: Some of the writing’s fresh RhapsodyT, because, you know. All Fighting with My Family, and spiky, as when one of Paige’s those hits. streamlines events so that the American cohorts gushes over A different sort of hit-making plot stays close to the sister/ her accent (You sound like a and punishment-taking sets the brother dynamics. The Britain Nazi in a movie!). Other parts tone in Fighting with My Family, we see here is one of gray skies, are more expedient and frankly based on a true story. It’s not a council houses and pints at the hokey. Any five minutes of the story, or a milieu, I knew anything pub, consumed prior to the next 2012 documentary on the Knights about going in. In other words, available brawl. shows you that the real people this nothing much held me back The Knight family makes a movie’s based on are more rough- from enjoying writer-director living in the wrestling game, edged, and pungently compelling, Stephen Merchant’s engaging, fully into the theatrics but than their comfortably scruffy charismatically acted underdog serious about the skill required. movie counterparts. Still, it all fable. Saraya aka Paige gets her shot feels true enough for the movies, Best known as a performer, through tryouts with the WWE’s if you know what I mean. Merchant has a serious knack developmental league. Brother A little research points to the for casting. He snagged Nick Zak doesn’t make the cut and project’s chosen parameters. A Frost and Lena Headey as the returns to Norwich, where he WWE Studios co-production, heads of a scrappy, resourceful trains kids (including a blind Merchant’s film elides the various Norwich, England, wrestling clan. wrestler-to-be) in the ring. Paige, controversies and setbacks its The excellent young actor Jack unencumbered by relationships or protagonist has endured in recent Lowden (‘71, Dunkirk) captures domestic concerns, is stuck with years, notably a tape hacking, the essence of thwarted ambition only her loneliness. and a 2018 ring injury that forced as son Zak. In Florida, sunny to a ridiculous her retirement from wrestling. And in the lead, the superb degree by Norwich standards, Dwayne Johnson, an executive play The Rock?) and cheerfully, angels or thugs, though two of Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) Paige finds herself comically producer on the project, plays amusingly fake. The whole film the main characters have known takes on the World Wrestling and dramatically at odds with himself in Fighting with My is like that: an entertaining gloss prison time, and a third looks as Entertainment, Inc., star known her surroundings. Vince Vaughn Family, the guardian angel and on the truth. Pugh quietly invests though he may be heading there as Paige. Offstage she’s Saraya- plays the tough but secretly pop-up mentor for Paige, in a every moment with a strong himself. They’re entertainers and Jade Bevis, now 26. On screen empathetic trainer, part drill way that seems both authentic current of feeling, as do Frost and entrepreneurs. And they’re lively in Fighting with My Family, as sergeant, part cheerleader. (who the hell else is going to Headey. These people are neither company. – Chicago Tribune/TNS About emotional bond between humans, dragons
Viking leader, and Toothless, the of fl ame-based mass destruction. By Michael Phillips inky-black dragon who has been There are also several lyric interludes his friend, protector and fetching of fl ight, and an extended goo- machine since the fi rst Dragon movie goo-eyed sequence of adorable ou never know which in 2010. dragon courtship. I like the wordless trilogy will, in fact, The key word in Dragon 3 is sequences, though they’re slightly call it quits after “bustle.” The town of Berk, where attenuated. The comic relief among round three. After that dragons (formerly hunted by the Hiccup’s peers could use a little viciously sentimental Vikings) and humans coexist comic relief, but verbal wit never was andY ruthlessly prolonged farewell peaceably, has become dangerously this franchise’s strong suit. in Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 3, for overcrowded. There’s a new enemy Its strong suit is just as valuable, example, you might assume that afoot: the dragon slayer Grimmel. though. Despite a routine middle goodbye means goodbye. But the There’s a new quest: Hiccup and his section, Dragon 3 starts and ends movie made a billion plus change reluctant cohorts set out to fi nd the with a strong, simple emotional worldwide, which means “goodbye” hidden world where the dragons can bond between humans and dragons. is really “why would we leave?” And live on their own, away from deadly The way screenwriter DeBlois Toy Story 4 comes out this summer. human intervention. imagines this Viking universe, the So who’s to say if How to Train As before, the voice work excels. name of the game is animal rescue, Your Dragon: The Hidden World Jay Baruchel’s Hiccup, America and the thrill of open-air dragon will be the last of its ilk? I’m torn. I Ferrera’s Astrid (they’re a full- gliding. The hidden-world portion kind of hope it isn’t the last, since on couple now, picking up a year of the fi nale resembles Avatar, for the three DreamWorks Animation after the second movie’s timeline) better or worse. The boy-and-his- Dragon moves, in the aggregate, have and Kristen Wiig’s amusingly dragon love story resembles a million done their job in style. The future’s aggravating Ruff nut lead a busy previous stories more typically not ours to see, as the song says, but ensemble. F. Murray Abraham’s involving a dog, or a horse. a few years from now I’d be happy to vaguely Lugosi-esque intonations From the beginning, the animators revisit this franchise. Which is more as Grimmel may be slightly at got something very, very right than I can say for Ice Age. odds with the Max Von Sydow-ish with Toothless, who works with an Then again: I kind of hope this is visualisation of the antagonist, but artifi cial tail just as his human friend goodbye. Though not quite up to its whatever. works with a prosthetic hand. He’s predecessors, writer-director Dean With crack cinematographer adorable, yes, of course. But, he’s DeBlois lands the sequel very nicely, Roger Deakins continuing his role not conventionally fl awless, and on a warm and gratifying resolution as visual adviser, Dragon 3 pours he’s all the better for that. – Chicago to the tale of Hiccup, the improbable on the lavishly imagined scenes Tribune/TNS Thursday, February 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Biopics work because of content: Darshan Kumaar
CRIME THRILLER: Mom is a 2017 Indian crime thriller film directed by Ravi Udaywar. Sridevi’s Mom to release in China
Late Sridevi’s fi lm Mom will release in China on March 22. Zee Studios International released the fi lm in 40 regions including Poland, Russia, UAE, UK, US and Singapore. Now, they are taking the fi lm to China, read a statement. “The legacy of an actor of her stature lives on in the work she has left behind for us. And Mom is the perfect example of this. The fi lm has received an overwhelming response from every region it has released in. We are proud to be taking this heart- touching fi lm to yet another market, spreading her gift farther and wider,” said Vibha Chopra, Head – Zee Studios International (Film Marketing, Distribution and Acquisition). In the movie, directed by Ravi Udyawar, Sridevi played a mother who sets out to avenge her step-daughter, essayed by Pakistani actress Sajal Ali. The actress won the Best Actress National Award honour posthumously for her role as a vengeful mother. “Mom is a fi lm that has connected with both, mothers and audiences, from every region. This is Sridevi’s last fi lm and our aim is to tell this beautiful story and showcase her most remembered last fi lm to as many people as possible,” Boney Kapoor said. Five years after her English Vinglish, Sridevi gave a power- packed performance in Ravi Udyawar’s Mom in 2017. She was seen in a small role in Zero last year. The actress passed away on February 24 last year.
Sleeping with the Enemy remake in works PASSIONATE: Darshan Kumaar plays a journalist in the upcoming biopic PM Narendra Modi.
Hollywood star Julia Roberts’ classic movie Sleeping with the ollywood has seen a surge Airlift faced opposition from certain hardly matters if you dream to become Enemy is set to be remade. of politically themed sections, Darshan said, “Politics scientist, doctor, actor or Prime The 1991 thriller stars the actress as a desperate woman fi lms, be it Raajneeti, is an integral part of life, whether Minister.” who fakes her own death to escape her abusive husband. Indu Sarkar, Thackeray or people are conscious or not. The PM Narendra Modi, a fi lm by Now, 28 years later, studio offi cials at Fox Searchlight Pictures the upcoming movie on Mahabharata is the greatest example Omung Kumar also stars Vivek are working on a modern version of the same story, reports BPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s life. of that. The audience accepts a fi lm if Oberoi, Waheeda Rahman, Boman aceshowbiz.com. Actor Darshan Kumaar, who plays a the content is good.” Irani and Barkha Bisht Sengupta. Rising moviemaker Nia DaCosta has been tapped to write journalist in PM Narendra Modi, says Veteran actor Anupam Kher’s latest Darshan has earlier worked under and direct the project, which will be developed by The Iron Lady if the fi lm industry can make biopics release The Accidental Prime Minister, the baton of Omung in fi lms like Mary producer Damian Jones, as part of his new Fox deal, according to on sports stars, then why not on based on former Indian prime Kom and Sarbjit, both based on real Deadline.com. politicians as well. minister Manmohan Singh’s years life stories. Further details about the movie revamp are yet to be According to reports, the latest in power, was termed a “propaganda Darshan faced a lot of challenges announced. to join the bandwagon is a biopic on fi lm”. while preparing for his role as a DaCosta made her feature fi lm directorial debut with last Road and Transport Minister Nitin On being asked if that’s fair and also journalist in PM Narendra Modi. year’s Little Woods, a drama starring Tessa Thompson and Lily Gadkari. would he like his fi lm PM Narendra “While working on a biopic, the James as estranged sisters who are driven to extremes. On the biopics boom on politics Modi be looked at with the same greatest challenge for any actor is The original Sleeping with the Enemy release, which also or politicians, Darshan told IANS, prism, Darshan said: “Not at all. to play and do justice to a real-life featured actors Patrick Bergin and Kevin Anderson, was a hit for “Audience wants something new, This movie refl ects the strength of character in a limited time. The fi lmmaker Joseph Ruben. something close to real life. Thus determination and hope. greatest challenge was to learn and biopics are working superbly.” “It shows if you believe in yourself, depict before camera the way a As movies like Indu Sarkar, work hard and have the passion to journalist speaks and behaves,” he Raajneeti, Thackeray, Manto and pursue a dream, you will achieve it. It said. – IANS
Rajeev Khandelwal praises spectacular background of Shimla mountains – this is one fresh content on digital platforms series that will get the audience hooked,” Rajeev said in a statement. Actor Rajeev Khandelwal says fresh content on digital “Web series and digital platforms are coming up with platforms is giving actors a chance to test their mettle. fresh content that helps us to test our mettle as actors to Rajeev will soon be seen playing a doctor in a VOOT the fullest. I am happy to be a part of VOOT family and for Original series. The shoot will happen amidst the hills the experience to unfold,” he added. in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The web series will be Aahana says it is wonderful to be a part of “human produced by Bodhi Tree Productions and Aahana Kumra stories that go untold”. will be paired opposite Rajeev. The shooting for the yet- “It’s the most challenging role that I’ve played in my untitled web series will start from March first week. career and it’s layered with multiple shades of the human BOOK: Sleeping with the Enemy was based on the 1987 book of “I am excited for this role as it gives me a chance to mind. I’m all set to tell her story and assure my audiences the same name by author Nancy Price. explore the different facets of a complicated character. with yet another power packed performance,” she added. As a doctor caught in the middle of a thriller in the – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 28, 2019 COMMUNITY Unique biryani tastes available at Al Bidda Park Four and One Group organises the second edition of Biryani Festival
PARTICIPANT: Mohammad Jasim al-Abdulla, owner of Bel5ms. DIVERSE: There are food stalls set up by well-known restaurants, off ering their specialities of biryani and other cuisine at the festival that will continue till March 2.
enterprises to have franchises outside Qatar. By Mudassir Raja “We are seeing a new trend of food-related The event industry in Qatar is now beginning to take a new shape when we are closer to festivals in Qatar. We make sure that 2022. We can see the private sector getting t is perfect time to dine out in Doha. more active in creating new ideas. There is During the spring evenings, people everyone enjoys Indian spices mixed with an entertainment world. There is a night usually want to go out for dinner with market. New concepts are coming up every friends and family. In Doha, if you Qatari fl avours. It is an international and now and then, which is good for the industry. want to enjoy an evening out with It creates healthy competition.” Istreet food environment, the ongoing Biryani local festival at the same time” Mohammad Jasim al-Abdulla, a young Festival at Al Bidda Park is the right place to Qatari businessman who runs the restaurant be. With the passage of time, it has evolved to For this edition, we have pushed everybody Bel 5ms, said, “I participated last year. This The second edition of the festival is be a kind of Qatari national dish. Of course, to come up with new menus and create new year we have brought a new dish called bigger and more attractive. It continues to there are majboos and other dishes but still ideas. In total, seven tenants are coming up biryani burger. We also off er cheese fried pull crowds of people like anything. More biryani is one of the prime dishes here. So we with new menu, launching it at the festival.” chicken balls. We are looking forward to interestingly, more and more families with wanted to highlight it and engage people in Sharing about other attractions available promoting this new brand in the market. children are seen at the park alongside come up with creative ideas to elevate it, not at the festival site, he said, “We have We are launching new fl avours at the Corniche, where cool evening breeze mixes only being a day to day dish but also being entertainment facilities for kids. We also festival. The price to set up the stall is very aroma of diff erent dishes with melodious more of inclusive dish or being more of a have live stage performances and activities aff ordable. They have marketed the festival Arab and South Asian music. high end cuisine.” for diff erent communities. very well.” There are food stalls set up by well-known Sharing his experience about the last “Four and One Group is an event Kajol Himraj, who was attending the restaurants, off ering their specialties of year’s festival, he said, “Last year, it was management company. We organised festival with her family said, “It is great biryani and other cuisine at the festival that amazing. We had almost 2,500 to 3,000 around nine festivals last year. We are to have such festivals. It allows people to will continue till March 2. A recent visit people coming to the festival every day. It has concentrating more on concept festivals. come and have something to do in Qatar. to the festival by Community showed that increased this time. Of course, in the fi rst few We will be doing only three festivals in 2019. The ambience is nice and the food is really many restaurants have introduced diff erent days, the turnout was not that spectacular. We are specialised in what we are doing. great. It is very close to West Bay and very and unique biryani recipes. The festival is But, it picked up its pace in the last few days. We can support the local entrepreneurs and convenient for everybody to come here.” organised by Four and One Group. Talking to Community, Fernando Deguama, representative of the Four and One Group, said, “We started the festival last year in February. We had 35 tenants coming up with their initial biryani ideas. A burger biryani was launched at our festival last year. We had the fi rst biryani mixed with Italian food. This year, we see it has increased from 35 to 51 tenants. Lots of people are coming with new ideas, new tandoors and new techniques. We have some famous chefs here, including Aisha al-Tamimi. They all are coming up with new menus at the festival this year. We are seeing a new trend of food- related festivals in Qatar. We make sure that everyone enjoys Indian spices mixed with Qatari fl avours. It is an international and local festival at the same time. “The core idea of having this festival is to let the people enjoy diff erent recipes of TWIST: The festival off ers authentic biryani with a twist of flavours and biryani. Biryani, originally, came from Asia. various combinations. THE GRILL: Live BBQ off ered at Biryani Festival.