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JAGAN REDDY COMPLAINS AGAINST JUSTICE NVRAMANA CENTRAL BANK AFFIDAVIT IN SC SUNDAY RBIopposes loan STORY InrarelettertoCJI,AndhraCMlists PAGE 8 moratorium allegationsagainstSC’sJudgeNo.2 extension:Will hit CM refers to Judgedaughters’ land deal; last month, Justice Ramana said Judges victims of gossip creditdiscipline PICTURE High Courtincluding the roster it wasdeclared the sitefor the Lastmonth, Justice Ramana, SREENIVASJANYALA of afew Honourable Judges”. newcapital of the state. speakingatthe launchofabook ABHI HYDERABAD,OCTOBER10 The Chief Minister’s eight- Dated October 6, theletter by former Supreme Courtjudge Says will affect small borrowers, urges BAAKI HAI pageletterrefers to Justice wasreleasedtothe media in Justice RBanumathi, said: “As IN AN unprecedented move, Ramana’s alleged “proximity” to Hyderabad Saturday evening by judges areself-restrainedfrom courttoliftstayondeclaringNPAs Thepowers-that-be AndhraPradesh Chief Minister TDP leader and former Chief Ajeya Kallam, Principal Advisor speaking out in their ownde- have long eyed the film YSJagan Mohan Reddy haswrit- MinisterNChandrababu Naidu, to theAndhraPradesh Chief fence,theyare nowbeing con- industry, butisthere a tentoChiefJustice of India SA and an Anti-Corruption Bureau Minister. struedassofttargets forcriti- ANANTHAKRISHNANG plot twist under BJP? Bobde, alleging that Justice NV investigation into“questionable The SundayExpress reached cism. This issue is further NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Behind the scenes of a Ramana —nextinline to be the transactions of land”involving AndhraCMJagan Mohan out to the SecretaryGeneral of complicated by the proliferation CJI —“has been influencing the twodaughters of Justice Ramana Reddy;Justice NVRamana the Supreme Courtfor com- of social media and technology, THE RESERVEBank of India has Covid-battered, sittings of the (AndhraPradesh) and others in Amaravati, before ment, but therewas no response. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 told the Supreme Courtthat con- nervous industry tinuation of the loan morato- RBIworry:its rium period beyond the six months already granted mayaf- mandateand fect overall credit discipline, and bankingsystem small borrowers will eventually Two firms of BSY’s feel the pinch. The central bank has also RBI HAS arguedagainst urgedthe apexcourttoliftits in- extending the loan mora- grandson get Rs 5cr terim order staying declaration of torium beyond six accountsasnon-performing as- months, and has also sets (NPAs), saying this will have asked the Supreme Court “hugeimplications forthe bank- to liftthe stay imposed from seven Kolkata ing system, apartfromunder- on declaring accountsas mining” its“regulatorymandate”. NPAs beyond August31. In afresh affidavit filedinthe The RBI is of the viewthis shell companies Supreme Court, whichishearing will have hugeimplica- aplea on the question of charg- tions forthe banking sys- ing interestoninterestfor loan temand also undermine Pvt channel allegedquid proquo for repaymentsduringthe morato- itsregulatorymandate. rium period, the RBIsaid “a long Bengaluru housing project;Karnataka moratorium exceeding six months canalso impact credit Amore“durable solution”, CM’s grandson says ‘working loans’ behaviour of borrowers and in- the RBI said, is providedbythe crease the risksofdelinquencies Resolution Framework for postresumption of scheduled Covid-19related Stress, an- JOHNSONTA payments. It mayresultinvitiat- nouncedbyitonAugust6, BENGALURU,OCTOBER10 ing the overall credit discipline which“enables the lenders to whichwill have adebilitating im- implement aresolution plan in TWOCOMPANIESinwhichChief pact on the processofcreditcre- respect of personal loans as well Minister BSYediyurappa’s ation in the economy. It will be as other exposuresaffected due grandson Shashidhar Mardi be- IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER the small borrowers whichmay to Covid-19, subject to the pre- came adirector afterthe BJP endupbearing the brunt of the scribed conditions, without as- came to powerinKarnataka in Chirag Paswan performedthe lastrites of his father,Ram Vilas Paswan, in Patna on Saturday. Bihar Chief MinisterNitish impact as their accesstoformal setclassification downgrade. July2019receivedRs5crore from Kumar and Union MinisterRaviShankar Prasad were among those who attendedthe cremation. PTI REPORT,PAGE5 lendingchannelsiscriticallyde- The framework,inter alia, sevenKolkatashell companies pendent on the credit culture”. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 between Marchand July2020. The chainoftransactions fig- ureindocumentsfiledwith the UTTAR PRADESH UP approves Registrar of Companies (RoC) As Covid fuels personal vehicle use, petrol that were scrutinisedbyThe The firms sharecommon HATHRAS 5% quota for Sunday Express,and details of addresses:301E, BBGanguly bank accountsofthe twofirms Street,and 277, BBGanguly WOMAN’S DEATH: demand in September higherthan 2019 ex-servicemen were telecastbyaprivate TV Street in Kolkata. Partha Paul NOTIFICATION FOR channelthatwas takenoff airby CBI TO TAKE OVER September 2019.Fuelconsump- in ‘Group-B’ jobs the stategovernment foreight PROBE PAGE 4 ENSECONOMICBUREAU REVVING UP tion in India collapsedafter the days,but is nowonair again. Express, Mardi termedthe money NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 government announcedana- Lastmonth,Power TVhad al- as “working loansfor aproject” ■Petrol and ■ Diesel demand in 7,160 tionwide lockdown on March 25 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE leged in aseriesofreportsthat forwhich“all documentation” INDIA’S PETROL consumption thousand metric tonnes for to combat the spread of the LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 Feb, March, August, September 5,651 5,489 the moneywas part of aquidpro has been provided. He deniedthe My ISOLATION grew forthe firsttime since 4,849 novelcoronavirus. Demand ini- quofor the promise of obtaining allegationslevelledbythe TV FebruaryinSeptember,with tiallyrecoveredsteadilyfollow- THE UTTAR Pradesh govern- government clearance forRCCL, channel, saying theyweremade Aweeklywindowintolivesof diesel demand also recovering 2,511 2,1562,3812,450 ing the lifting of the restrictions ment on Saturdayapproved five aprivate firm, to constructa with “ill intentions” and abid to India’snewsmakers,impactof monthonmonth, according to but stalledafter June, when state per cent horizontal reservation Rs 660-croregovernmenthous- “tarnish the family”. Mardi, 30, is thepandemiconthem datareleasedbythegovernment’s and local government beganim- forretired military personnel in ingproject in Bengaluru. theson of Yediyurappa’sdaugh- Petroleum Planning and Analysis posing local-level lockdowns. “Group-B” stateadministration ▲ ▼ ▼ ▲ ▲ ▼ ▼ ▼ The project, whichwas terPadmavathi VY. PAGE 9 Cell. The petrol consumption last 11.25% -16.37% -7.53% 3.29% 6.28% -24.24% -20.73% -5.96% Experts said preference for jobs. awardedtoRCCL in April2019 RCCL director Chandrakant month, at 2,450 thousand metric personal means of transportto Chief MinisterYogi ▲▼ Ascomparedtocorrespondingmonthin2019 when the Congress-JD(S) coali- Ramalingam did notrespondto ‘Children are home,Iget tonnes (TMT), wasevenhigher avoidinfection seems to be be- Adityanath said the move was tion wasinpower in Karnataka, requests forcomment. However, to spend timewith them’ thanforthecorrespondingperiod hind the petrol sales rising to pre- intendedtoraise the morale of is awaiting the final work order. he filedapolice complaint last SACHIN PILOT in 2019 (2,372TMT). sumption rose to 5,489 TMT,as pared to August, it wasstill 6% Covidlevels.“Petrol is onlyused militarypersonnel and their SpeakingtoThe Sunday CONTINUEDONPAGE2 However, while dieselcon- muchas13.2% higher as com- down as compared to CONTINUEDONPAGE2 families. The state Cabinetap- proved an amendment to the Uttar Pradesh Public Service (Reservation forPhysically CitingLAC,USslams China, says Ambulance driver who ferried 200 bodies Handicapped, Dependentsof Freedom Fighters and Ex- Servicemen) Act, 1993, to pro- we turned other cheek toolong of Covid patients since March dies of virus vide the reservation to ex-ser- vicemen. aggression”atthe Indian border 48-year-oldambulance driver Aspokesperson said the gov- SHUBHAJITROY and US SecretaryofState Michael ASHNABUTANI succumbed to the disease at ernmentdecidedtoincrease the NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 RPompeo has said that China has NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Hindu RaoHospital. sum paid to families of military amassed60,000troops on India's Employedwith the Shaheed personnel who die in the line of IN WHATsetsthe tone forUS northern border. FOROVER six months, Aarif Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal,that pro- duty from Rs 25 lakhtoRs50 Deputy SecretaryofState Biegun’s visit is expected to Khan sleptinanambulance vides free emergency services in lakh.The stateCabinetalsode- Stephen Biegun’s visittoIndia setthe stagefor the Indo-US 2+2 parking lot28kmfromhis home NCR, Khan would oftenpitchin cidedtogivegovernment jobs to from Monday, twotop US ad- meeting between External in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur, with moneyfor thelastrites if a the dependentsofpersonnel ministration officials have Affairs MinisterSJaishankar and staying in touchwith his wife familywas in need,orhelp with from UP killedinaction after slammedBeijing, invokingits on- Defence MinisterRajnath Singh and four children on the phone. the ritualsifadeceased’s near April 1, 2017. goingstandoffwithIndia. US on the Indian side and Pompeo Khan wasoncall 24X7,ferrying ones were notaround, his col- The government also an- National Security Advisor Robert SJaishankar with Michael and US Defence SecretaryMark patientsofCovid-19 as well as leagues say. nouncedits plan to implement O’Brien has flagged Communist RPompeoinTokyo. PTI file TEsper later this month. carrying itsvictims to theirlast Khan (secondfromleft) wasoncall 24X7. Express "He ensured everyone got a the Light Rail Transit (LRT) PartyofChina’s (CCP)“territorial CONTINUEDONPAGE2 rites. On Saturdaymorning, the CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Back-stories and chitti tales: Indian Americans on the campaigntrail

PAGE1 communications director for President Lyndon BJohnson ANCHOR Congresswoman Jan signedthe 1965 Immigration Schakowsky.“My grandfather Act, allowing Indians with tech- wasprobablythe onlyperson like nical degrees to enter the coun- him in aroom, and when I try, Singhsays she is nowseeing KARISHMAMEHROTRA movedtoDC, Iwas oftenthe only moreIndian Americans choose SANFRANCISCO,OCTOBER10 RACE FOR Indian American in mostofmy careers in government and pol- jobs. That has slowly changed.” itics rather than pursuingthe THE YEAR was1949. Introducing THEWHITE The 33-year-old has held sev- moretraditional engineering Jawaharlal Nehru to aNew York HOUSE Sampat Shivangi (left) and eral political posts,all with the and medical degrees. gathering, JJSingh, president of Sabrina Singh Amit Jani with JoeBiden Gautham Raghavan Shalabh Kumar (right) Democrats—regional commu- Though Indian Americans the India League forAmerica, a nications director forHillary makeuponly1per cent of the private organisation that worked Singhas'TheOne-ManLobby' for Clinton’s presidential campaign, US population, theymakeupat to “further Indian causes” in the India in the US, underlined, it was forthe 4,000 Indians in the US worksasthe firstIndian leastadozen other Indian from her grandfather's days of a spokeswoman of the Demo- least2per cent of the roughly US, had calledhim the “rainbow, no mean feat either.Singh and his then to gain citizenship. American press secretaryfor Americansworking at Ground “one-manlobby”. cratic National Committee, and 600officials on the campaign reaching from EasttoWest”. organisationwere“largely re- Some sevendecades later Kamala Harris, the Indian-origin Zeroofthe 2020 elections, “He walkedtheveryhalls that national spokesperson forboth roster of Democratic presiden- This wasnoHowdy! rallyin sponsible forthe mostsignificant and the community now700- Democratic vice-presidential Sabrina is partofageneration Ihaveworkedin,” Singh told The Senator CoryBooker and Mayor tial candidateJoe Biden and his scale or ambition, yet, as a1951 period of Indian activity in the US” times stronger,asSingh's candidate, it'sinvastlydifferent that is flexing unprecedented Sunday Express,referring to her MikeBloomberg’s campaigns. running mate Harris. issue of The NewYorker,featuring untilthen, providingalegal route grandaughter Sabrina Singh circumstances. Alongwith at political muscle, farremoved earlydayswhen sheworkedas Half acenturyafter US CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Lucknow WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 2 THE SECOND PAGE THE SUNDAYEXPRESS,OCTOBER11,2020 FROMPAGEONE

UP govt were standard but overdue be- and got aCovid-19testdone, reallyembodies what the Biden yond30days asonMarch 1, 2020 whichcame positive.Hedied campaignisabout,”hesaid in an projectinGorakhpur. “The shouldalsobeconsideredeligible In rare letter to CJI, Andhra CM lists within aday of getting admitted April 2020 speech. “If youcome DetailedProjectReport(DPR)has fortheResolutionastheytoomay to hospital. to our headquarters in alsobeenapprovedandadecision have been impacted on account Khan’ssonAadil,22,saidthey Philadelphia, you’ll see alot of regarding this wastaken at the of Covid-19. allegationsagainst SC’s Judge No. 2 hadseenhimonlyduringhisbrief people justlikemefromthe stateCabinet meeting chaired by “Thisisaclassicfallacyof com- visits home since March21. "He SouthAsiancommunity...Mydad Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath,” positionwhichpresumesthatthe came over to pickupthings, like wasinvolvedincommunity or- saidaspokesman.TheLRTwillbe accountspaying on time can be wherein judges arebecoming The Chief Ministeralleged On September 15,the High electronic, print or social me- clothes...Iusedtogocheck onhim ganising in Indian politics and 27.84-km long with 27 stations equated withaccountspaying victims of juicy gossip and slan- that investigationsintoland Courtrestrainedthe media dia, to foistthe office of afor- sometimes. He neverbothered that’s partofthe reasonIgot into and twoelevatedcorridors.Itis with aconsiderable delay. An ac- derous social-media posts.” dealings by former state from reporting details of the mer AdvocateGeneral and also aboutCovid,hejustwantedto do politics here.” expectedtocostRs4,672 crore, count whichwas impacted by In his letter,the Chief AdvocateGeneral FIR filedbythe Anti- with respect to the other al- his job well,"said Aadil, the However, it's this backstory and willbecommissionedin pandemicaswellashadapre-ex- Ministerhas mentioned“in- DammalapatiSrinivaswere Corruption Bureauagainstthe leged accusedpersons,’’ said younger of Khan'ssons, adding that found the 30-year-old in a 2024. istingfinancialhasadifferentrisk stances of howmatters impor- stayed by the High Court former AdvocateGeneral re- the order by ChiefJustice JK that the lasttime Khancame bind.SoonafterBidennamedJani To improvethe ease of doing profileascomparedto anaccount tant to Telugu Desam Party though an FIR wasregistered garding land purchase in Maheshwari. home,hewas already sick. head of Muslim American business,theCabinet announced withoutpre-existingstressandto have been allocated to afew againsthim by the Anti- Amaravati. The Chief Minister’s letter Khan's other son,Asif, said, "I Outreach, severalprogressive the decentralisation of the deci- treat both borrowers on equal Honourable Judges”, and has Corruption Bureau. “By wayofinterim relief, it refers to this order of the High didn't even gettosay goodbye... groups and civil rights organisa- sion-making process in matters footing would be gross suspen- detailedthis in an annexure. “The complaint of cheating is directed that no coercive Court: “While the Supreme Howwill we survive?” tionsdemanded his removalfor related to settingupdistilleries sion of economic sensibilities,”it The letter states “eversince and crime investigation is steps shall be takeninfurther- Courthas been steadfastinen- Khan, who earnedRs16,000 his open supportofPrime and captive distilleries, and pro- said. the YSRCongress Partygained stayed on the ground that the ance to (the FIR) whichhas suring no prior-restraint on amonth, wasthe sole earning MinisterNarendraModiandover duction of liquor.“Under this, Some petitioners had sought powerinMay 2019 and or- moneyinvolvedinthe trans- been registeredafter filing of publication by media, agag or- member of the family. Aadil said his latefather’s role as former some of thedecisionpowers in directionsto RBIto announcesec- dered enquiryintoall the deals action is repaidbythe accused. this writ petition againstany of der on the media is passed.” his brother and he did odd jobs presidentof theOverseasFriends this regard have been decen- tor-specific reliefs. made by theregime of N Everyjudicial precedent and the accused. The enquiry, in- He has urgedthe CJI to once in awhile, but work had pe- of BJP.Biden has reportedlyre- tralisedtoDeputy Excise Respondingtothis, the RBI Chandrababu Naidu from June elementaryprinciple of ju- vestigationisalso stayed.Itis “consider initiating suchsteps teredout lately. placedJani as his Muslimout- Commissioner levelfromthe said “suchprayers deliberately 2014 to May2019, Justice NV risprudence is violated by such further directed that the news as maybeconsidered fitand "These have been extraordi- reachcoordinatorwhileretaining Commissioner of Excise to avoid obfuscatethefactthatResolution Ramana startedinfluencing orders, with aviewtoprotect in regard to (the FIR, details proper,toensurethat the State narytimes, and even though he him in his AAPI post. Jani refused delayinthe process. To formalise Framework givescomplete dis- the course of administration of the interests of TDP members,’’ withheld as per courtorder) ... judiciary’s neutrality is main- wasadriver, Khan oftenhelped to comment forthis story. it, the amendmentinUP cretionto lendinginstitutionsand justice in the state”. the CM stated in hisletter. shall notbemade public in any tained”. withthelastritestoo.WohMuslim SonalShah, who served as DistilleriesRules has been ap- borrowers to arrive at resolution thapar Hinduon ke bhi daah-san- policydirector forMayor Pete proved by the Cabinet,” the gov- plans whichare tailored to the skaar karaatatha (He wasa Buttigieg'srun in the 2020 elec- ernment said in astatement. specificrequirementsofthe sec- Yediyurappa'ssonBYVijayendra, worker in an opticalstore. pany. Theywereactivetill2013. Modi on October 26-27, sources Muslim but he helpedout even tion and is nowamember of one torsubjecttothe prudential 45, and astate government offi- At the other address, about Theydid notwant to startanew told The SundayExpress. with cremations of Hindus)... He of Biden's task forces, too, has RBI boundaries specified therein”. cial had demandedRs17crore 100metresaway, therewas no companysotheyrevived The twosides arekeento wasverydedicated to his work," been at the receiving end of pro- permitsextensionof themorato- It pointedout that the MV from RCCL. signof thefourcompanies.“Ihave Belgravia. It is truethatitwas in- wrap up the ministerial meeting said Jitender Singh Shunty,the gressives'ireoverherpast associ- rium by amaximum of two Kamath Committee recom- Following the complaint, po- beenhere foraverylongtimeand active foralmostfiveyears.” before the November 3US founder of the ShaheedBhagat ation with the VHP'sUSwing. years”. mended“sector specific thresh- lice raidedPower TV's premises Ihavenever heardthe names of Respondingto aspecificques- Presidential polls, as aconsolida- SinghSewa Dal,addingthatKhan Severalother lead officials Earlier,the Union Finance olds to the mandatoryfinancial in the cityonSeptember 28 and thesecompanies,”saidDevender tion on the money, he said:“It is tion exercise of the pastfour worked 12-14hours aday,re- readilyembracetheirethniciden- Ministry, in itsaffidavit, hadtold parameters, whichare morelib- thechannelwasoff airtillOctober Jain, who runs aplywood shop all genuine loans with TDS paid years’ efforts. sponding to calls even as late as 3 tity.Atavirtual Asian American the courtthat the government eralthannormallendingfinancial 7. TheRoC documentsshowthat there. andpaperwork done. Allcompa- Earlier this week in Utah, am. outreachevent, Biden’sChief had decidedtowaive interest on benchmarks,thatneedtobecon- Rs 5crore wastransferred According to the VSSEstates nies have thesetypes of transac- O'BriensaidChinahasattempted Khan wasalso around when FinancialOfficerSaloni Multani interestinrespectofMSMEs and sidered in thefinancialprojec- throughsevenKolkatacompanies accountstatement,theRs5crore tions.”Officialssaidthetenderfor to "seize"controlofthe Line of Shuntyandhisfamilytestedpos- said,“Icannottellyoutheexpres- other personal loans up to Rs 2 tions while designing the resolu- to Belgravia Enterprises Pvt Ltd depositedbetweenMarch 13 and the housing project—to build ActualControl(LAC)withIndiaby itivefor the virus. So,when Khan sion on my father’sface to see croreduringthesix-monthmora- tion plans”. and VSSEstates Pvt Ltd, where July6byBelgraviawastransferred one- and three-bedroom flats— force, and stressedthat the time got infectedandtookaturnforthe someone who lookslikehim on torium period. It said the circular of Mardi is adirector.The Kolkata on July27, 2020,toanother ac- wasfloatedinOctober 2017 un- has come to acceptthatmeredi- worse,hetriedtoreturnthekind- the ticket.” The RBI said “continuation of September 7, 2020(notifying the companies sharecommon ad- count--of apartnershipfirmVSS der the then Congressgovern- alogue and agreements will not ness. However, the deterioration At thesame event, Biden’s temporarymoratorium” beyond recommendations) provides for dressesasperfilingswiththeRoC WorksLLPwhereMardi'spartner ment. The bid by RCCL wasap- persuade Beijing. wassudden."Aarif did nothave Digital Chief of StaffMedha Raj, the six month period already al- “separatethresholds for26sec- butTheSundayExpressvisitedthe SanjaySreeisadirector along proved in aboardmeeting of the Incidentally, itwasO’Brien,ac- anyotherhealthconditionsbut whose ancestryisfromTamil lowed“would notevenbeinthe tors including power, real estate locations to find thatnone of witharepresentative of arealty BDAonDecember 21,2017. The cordingtoBob Woodward’s lat- he washaving trouble breathing Nadu,drew on the fact thather interest of borrowers. It maynot andconstruction.Evenunderthe them were operating from there. firm PRRamakrishnan. project remainedinlimbo after estbook,whohadwarnedTrump forthe lastfew days," he said. grandmother’s name has besufficientinaddressingdeeper powersector,separatethresholds The rent agreementssubmitted VSSEstatesPvtLtdwasstarted the Congress government fell in about the Covid-19pandemic in Anand Kumar,32, afellow “Kamala” in it.“Hearing chitti cash flowproblems of the bor- have been prescribedforgenera- by VSSEstatesandBelgraviabear in November 2019 withMardi 2018 and aJD(S)-Congress coali- aJanuary28meeting saying the driverwiththeSewa Dalwhoalso (aunt)notjustfrommyfamilybut rowers and in fact exacerbatethe tion, transmission and distribu- thesameBengaluruaddressason and aUK-basedpartner Sanjay tion wasformedinJune 2018. virus“willbethebiggestnational staysinthe parking lotfor fear of from the television screen” was repaymentpressuresforthebor- tions sectors.Similarly, separate June 15,2020. Sree as itsdirectors. It is yettofile Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls security threat youface in your carrying the virushome, said her moving moment, she said. rowers”. thresholds have been prescribed Accordingto bankstatements details of its2019-20 revenue in 2019,the coalition issuedalet- presidency”.O’Brien,who has when he joinedayear ago, "Aarif OtherIndian Americans “Therefore,amoredurableso- forresidentialand commercial of Belgravia’sAxis Bank account, withtheRoC.AnRoCfilingbyVSS tertoRCCL on April22thatyear, beenintouchwithNSAAjitDoval wasveryhelpful. He treated me working with the Democratic lution wasneededtorebalance real estate sectors”. thefirmreceivedRs5.35crore be- EstatesPvt Ltdincludes acopyof approving the project and seek- since the China tension began, likeabrother and guidedme." campaign include assistant cam- thedebtburdenof viableborrow- “Sectorssuchaspower and tweenMarch 2020andJune2020 itsbankstatement forthe period ing asecurity deposit of Rs 33.31 said early thisweek: "CCP's Conversations betweenthem of- paign manager Shreeya ers,bothbusinesses as well as in- real estate were already stressed from the sevenKolkatacompa- betweenMay 25-27, 2020,which crore.Afterthepolls,onJune24,a (Chinese CommunistParty) ter- tenrevolvedaround howmuch Panigrahi; Biden’s speechwriter dividuals, relative to their cash even before thepandemic on ac- nies.This money, records show, reflectsabalance of Rs 1.59 crore formal agreementwas signedby ritorial aggression is also appar- theymissedtheirfamilies,Kumar VinayReddy;formerUSSurgeon flowgenerationabilities. It was countof variousfactorspertainto wassubsequentlytransferredto in the account. RCCL and the BDAfor the con- ent on itsIndianborder where said. Foundedin1995, the Sewa General and Biden-Harris task with this consideration in mind sector-specific problems,” the the Axis Bank account of VSS The RoCfiling of thebank ac- structionof theproject.Asperthe Chinahasattemptedto seizecon- Dal provides free and accessible forcememberVivekMurthy; and that the ReserveBank hasan- centralbanksaid,addingthat“the Estates. Apartofthese transfers countdetailsforMay 2020forVSS agreement, work wastostart trol of the Line of Actual Control emergency servicestothe needy former civil rightschief at the US nouncedthe Resolution travails of the real sector cannot areevidentinRoC filings: Estateswhenseeninconjunction from June 24,2019and conclude by force”."The time has come to intheCapitalandaround,includ- Department of Justice andtask Framework forCovid-19related be solvedthroughbanking regu- ■First,Rs1.95crorewastrans- withthe bank statementsre- by December23, 2021. acceptthat dialogue and agree- ing ambulances and blood dona- forcemember VanitaGupta. Stress (“Resolution Framework”) lations. The banking regulations ferred from Remac Distributors leasedbyPower TVforthe seven InJuly, shortlyaftertheagree- mentswill notpersuade or com- tion,andKhanhadbeenworking The onlyIndian Americanon on August6,2020,” it said. of RBI cannotsubstitutethe ad- PvtLtd,SakambariMerchantsPvt Kolkatacompanies, Belgravia ment wassigned, the coalition pelChinato change.There'snoth- with them from almost the start. Biden’s transition team, which OnSeptember3,theSupreme dressal of structural problemsof Ltd and StrategicVincom Private Enterprises, VSSEstates and VSS government collapsed and the ingtobegainedfromlooking the Shunty said notjusthospitals lays the groundwork forapoten- Courthad directed that accounts the real sector”. Ltd through NEFT and RTGS be- Works, shows the movement of BJPheadedbyYediyurappacame other wayorturning the other butalsoRWAsandpolicestations tialBiden administration, is whichhavenot been declaredas “In anycase, projectsunder tweenMarch 13,2020andMarch the Rs 5crore from March to July to power. The Congress party in cheek.We'vebeen doingthat for turn to them. Khan wasone of GauthamRaghavan,formerchief NPAs as of August31should not implementation whichare af- 20, 2020 to Belgravia. 2020 through the firms linked to Karnatakahasallegedthatawork toolong,” he said. their 12 employees. Lastmonth, of stafffor Congresswoman be declared so until further or- fecteddue to the fallout of Covid- Subsequently, Rs 1.5crore was ShashidharMardi. order to startthe project wasde- He addedthatReliancehad Guru TegBahadurHospital had PramilaJayapal.Jayapalwasatthe ders. 19 can be restructured under an transferredfromBelgraviato VSS Along withMardi, Sree is also layedbythe BJP as favours were prohibited the use of Huawei’s writtenanappreciation letter centreofaUSCongressresolution The RBI urgedthe courtto already existing framework.This Estates’ Axis Bankaccount. adirector in Belgravia, whichisa soughtby thoselinkedto thegov- equipment, as an exampleofthe thanking the organisationfor againstthe removalofKashmir’s “immediately”liftthis“acrossthe extant framework allowsfor ex- ■ Then, Rs 3.40 crorewas general enterprise firm. Mardi ernment. internationalcommunity’spush- transporting over 300bodies specialstatehood. boardstay” because if this is not tensionof timelineforcompletion transferredfromSakambari wasinducted as adirectoron —WITHSANTANU backagainstBeijing. from the hospital of Covid pa- Besides Ramagiri, amongthe done“it shall have hugeimplica- of the projectsby2years in case Merchantsand four othercom- August29, 2019,shortlyafter CHOWDHURYINKOLKATA Meanwhile, Pompeo, who tients, and helping in their last Indian Americans who were un- tionsfor thebanking system, of non-infraprojects,including panies, Jagdamba Commosales Yediyurappa became CM. In RoC earlier this week metJaishankar rites,includingincaseswhere til recentlyassociated with the apartfromundermining”its“reg- realestate projects,andby 4years Pvt Ltd, GannayakCommodities, filingsuptoMarch 2019,the firm Petrol demand in Tokyofor the Quad meeting, familymembers did notturn up. party's election run is Chicago ulatorymandate”. forinfrastructureprojectswith- NavtechCreation Pvt Ltd and reportedzerorevenueandlosses fortransportation so it has seen a also hit out at Beijing forits "bad EastDelhi District Magistrate businessmanShalabh“Shalli” TheRBIsaidit“hastakenabal- outdowngrading to NPA,”itsaid. Ragharana Sales Pvt Ltd, to of Rs 38,458. sharp recovery,with people in- behaviour"."TheIndians aresee- Arun Kumar Mishraalso wrotea Kumar.Kumar, co-founderofthe ancedview, taking into account The government, the RBIaffi- Belgravia'sAxisBankaccountbe- Mardisaid:“Theyare working creasingly opting forpersonal ing 60,000Chinese soldiers on letternotingtheircontributionin Republican Hindu Coalition and theinterestofthedepositors,bor- davitstated,toohadtakenseveral tweenMay14,2020,andJune26, loans foraproject. We have pro- mobility,butdieselisalsousedfor their northern border,Pompeo thepandemic. onceamajor fundraiser for rowers,real sector entities and measures to addresssome of the 2020.Subsequently, asecond videdall documentation forit.” agricultural and industrial pur- saidinaTVinterview afterhisre- Giving an example of Khan’s Trump, has since cooledoff. banks.Financialstabilityandeco- sectoral problems, including cre- trancheof Rs3.41crore wastrans- On the Kolkatacompanies with poses besides transportation, turn from Tokyo. dedication,Shunty said, "On Another well-known face is nomic growth of the country ation of aSpecial Windowfor ferred from Belgravia to VSS common addresses, he said: whichhaveseenlowerconsump- “For decades, the West al- September 30, ahospital refused Sampat Shivangi, member of were also kept in mind while ar- Completion of Affordable and EstatesonJuly6,2020. “These arerelatedtoeachother. tion,” said AbhijitBora, analystat lowedthe Chinese Communist to release aperson’s body as his Trump’sCoalitionAdvisoryBoard rivingatitspolicydecisionsby the Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH Three of the Kolkatacompa- Also,Ido notknowmuchabout Sharekhan, BNPParibas. Partytowalk all over us. The pre- familycouldn’tfoot thebill...Khan and aformer Karnataka Reserve Bank”. Investment Fund) to provide pri- nies —Remac Distributors, that.” Boraalso notedthat the de- viousadministrationbentaknee, chippedin. He wasaman who University studentunion presi- It pointed outthatasper the ority debt financingfor the com- GannayakCommodities and Askedabouttheallegationsof mand fordiesel usually fallsdur- toooften allowedChina to steal genuinelycared forothers.” dent.“TheEmergencyhappened. Resolution proposal, onlythose pletionof stalledhousingprojects. Rajgharana Sales—arelocated at corruption,Mardi said: “Firstof ing the monsoon everyyear,and ourintellectualpropertiesandthe Iwas being watched,” he says, borroweraccounts, whichwere “Therecommendationswere 301E, BBGangulyStreet, Room all,my partnerownsthemajority thatthe recovery to 93%ofpre- millions of jobs that came along Indian Americans talking of his journeyfrom classified as standard, butnot in broadlyaccepted by the Reserve No 4, Kolkata, WB 700012,asper stakeinthecompanies.Iholdonly Covid levels was, in fact, “phe- with it,”hesaid. President DonaldTrump’s Karnatakato theUS,where hegot default formorethan30days Bankandaccordingly, theReserve RoCrecords. The other four — 12 percent. In Belgravia, Idonot nomenal” giventhe economic Inanotherinterview, Pompeo campaign team toohas at least afellowship at Johns Hopkins withanylendinginstitutionason Bank issuedthe circulardated Strategic Vincom, Navtech have anyshare.Myassociateisthe scenario.Executivesatoilmarket- said:"Look, theyhavestacked one listedIndian American— University.“Icame with a March 1, 2020,shallbeeligiblefor September 7, 2020 notifying the Creation, Sakambari Merchants owner. Thereisnolink between ingcompanieshave saidthatthey 60,000 soldiers againstthe KavyaRamagiri, Deputy Nehruvian,socialisticmind.That’s resolution. It mayinter alia in- same,” it stated. and Jagadamba Commosales — me and agovernment project. I expect the diesel demand to re- Indiansinthe north.” Executive Director of Strategic whyall Indians areDemocrats. clude reschedulingofpayments, arelocatedat277,BBGanguly amaprivate individual.Theyhave turn to pre-Covid levels by Coalitions, who graduated from That’s howwewereraised.” conversionof anyinterestaccrued BSY grandson Street,Kolkata, WB 700012. got aloan to work on aproject. November-December. Ambulance driver Baylor University in 2019 and in- Ultimatelysettling in the segre- or to be accruedintoanother month againstPowerTVfor air- The firstaddress is locatedin- The TV channel has linked unre- farewellbuthisownfamilycould- ternedataconservative gatedsouthernstate of creditfacility,or, grantingofmora- ingpurportedsting recordings of side acongestedmarketincen- latedstufftodefame us.” US slams China n't give him that.Theysaw his Washington DC think tank. Mississippi, he switchedpolitical torium, basedonassessment of conversationssuggesting corrup- tral Kolkata. “Thereweresome He further said: “Belgravia is Pompeo and Esper,asper bodyfromafarforafew minutes," Among thoseinthe blue cor- parties and went on to receive income streams of the borrower tionintheclearancesforthehous- companies that operated from notrelated to the family. Iwas in- plan,are likelytofly downto India said JitenderKumar,addingthat nerisAmit Jani, head of Asian severalappointmentsonthe fortwo years. ingproject by the Bangalore one of theshops afew years ago. ducted as adirector around six foran“in-person” meeting with Khanwouldhaveferriedclose to American and Pacific Islander boardofkey medicalbodies. TheRBIdidnotagreewiththe Development Authority (BDA). But thoseshopshaveshut along months agobut Idonot have any their Indian counterparts and 200bodies since March. (AAPI) Outreachfor theBiden- Also close to the President’s contention thataccountswhich Thechannelhadalsoallegedthat time ago,” said RajeevShaw, a shares.Itisa12-13year oldcom- meetPrime MinisterNarendra On October 3, Khan fell sick Harriscampaignteam.“Mystory familyisfashion designer RecordDelhiUniversity cut-offs: DU student killedover friendship with woman, 100%for three courses in LSR his family recalls: ‘Wanted to crack IAS’ knowtheyhaveknown each Centre- Class XI-XII….Special touched100%inevenonesubject, and the waywehavebeen evalu- clearingthecut-offthantheavail- JIGNASASINHA other foryears. She would some- Classes-English”waskeptontop SUKRITABARUAH letalonethree.“Thishas ating our students. In NEP,acom- able seatsincollege--inPolitical NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 timescomehome too... during the of the books.“He wastakingtu- &ARANYASHANKAR happenedfor the firsttime. The mon entrance test is proposed Science, whichemergedasthe lockdown. That’swhy the night itions to fund the bookshe NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 cut-offsfor admissions arede- evenforuniversityadmissions,so mostpopular programme in hu- AFEW days before he waskilled, Rahul he wasbeingthrashed, shewas neededtoprepare forIAS. We cidedbythe collegebasedon Ihopeit'simplemented,"shesaid. manities and social sciences. 18-year-old Delhi University stu- Rajpuwas 21 there, and Irecognisedher.She were so proud of our son,” said DELHI UNIVERSITYsetanew ad- analysis of the profile and dataof Apartfromthethree100%cut- Severalcolleges also have a dentRahul Rajput rushedhome years old. has recentlycome home too. She Sanjeev, ataxi driver. missioncut-offrecordwithitsfirst applicants. In addition, several offs,LSRCollegehascut-offs above 99% and above cut-off forthe with his 21-year-old friend, who Express triedtostopthe men who were Rajput’syounger sister, whois listSaturdayafter theLady Shri otherlocalfactors likelimited 99%fortenotherprogrammes,in- BCom (Honours) programme: had metwith aminoraccident. At beatinghim... Then sheran to- in class XI, is at their aunt’s home. RamCollegefor Women decided number of seatsavailable in the cludingfourBA Programmecom- 99.75% in LSRCollege,99.5% in his modesthouse in Northwest wardsmeand told me theywere It wasduring the lockdown that ona100%cut-offforthreecourses, collegeindifferent courses and binations. It is seeking at least Shri RamCollege of Commerce, Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar, Rajput’s guardedthe locality.The herbrothers,” claimedRajuNagar, Rajput startedtaking English tu- and30coursesacrosscollegeshad pastexperiencearetakeninto ac- 99.75% forBCom (Honours) and 99.25% in Hindu College, 99.25% mother quicklyput abandaid on woman’s brothers have been ar- the boy's uncle. itions of younger children, after cut-offs over 99%. count. Accordingly, forthis year, BSc (Honours) Statistics. in Hansraj Collegeand 99% in the woman’s hand. "Aftershe left, rested and the juveniles appre- On Saturday, when The Indian thedoors of the Freedom English Lastyear,the highestcut-off 100% cut-offhas been fixedfor AfterLSR College, Hindu Ramjas College. Itold him to concentrateonhis hended. VijayantaArya, DCP Express went to thewoman’s Academywereshut. acrossallcollegeswas99%forad- some courses in the firstlist,” she College hasthehighest numberof Upward movement in cut-off studies. Ididn’t have aproblem (Northwest), confirmedthat the house,her familymembers re- Barringthe fewtimesthatthe mission to the BA (Honours) said. 99% and above cut-offswithsix percentages this year wasex- with the relationship but I woman’s familyopposedher fusedtotalk.OnThursday, the woman came to hishouse, Rajput PoliticalScience programmein Asked if anyDUcollegehad courses. It has set99.5%for pected,especiallybecause of a thought he wasfar tooyoung for friendship with Rajput. woman wasmovedtoashelter mostlymet her at teastalls near HinduCollege.Thistime,thehigh- ever declared a100%cut-offin Political Science and 99.33% for sharp increase in the number of it," said Rajput's mother Renuka Rajput’s mother said, “I didn’t home. “She is an adult and didn’t their colony. “I knewtheywere estcut-offhas reached100%in three subjects, DU Dean Physics.Across mostsought-after studentswho had scored above (38). have aproblem with her religion... want to stay in her house... We friends but Ididn't knowhow se- LSRforadmissionto threecourses (Admissions)Shobha Bagai said, colleges, a99% and above has be- 95%intheCBSEClassXIIboardex- On Wednesday, the woman's In our colony, Hindus and didn’t question her decision and rious it wastill Igot acall from the —BA(Honours)Political Science, "Not that Iamaware of." come the standardcut-offfor ad- aminationsthroughthemodified twobrothers —Mohd. Rajand Muslims live together.Ihad a movedher to ashelter home,” woman recently. Shesaid they BA (Honours) Psychology and BA She said the reason forsky- missiontothe BA (Honours) assessment scheme usedbythe ManwarHussain —and their problem that theyweretoo said asenior police officer. wantedto getmarried. Iaskedher (Honours) Economics. Lastyear, rocketingcut-offs washighscores Political Science programme — board. The modifiedscheme had three minor friendsallegedly beat young. Iwanted himtoconcen- At Rajput’s home, his father to stay away from my son... Idid- thecollegehad a98% cut-offfor intheschoolboardexaminations. 100% in LSR, 99.5% in Hindu been adoptedsince studentshad up Rajput on theroad over the trateonhis studies.” Sanjeev(42) showedhis son’s n't saythis because Ihad aprob- Economics, 98%for Political "DU cut-off is basedonthe input College, and 99% in Miranda notcompletedtheir examina- friendshiptheyshared.Lateat It wasatacoaching centretwo booksmeant forpreparationof lem with the religion, but because Science and 98.75% for of the school boards. If theyare House,RamjasCollege,KiroriMal tions, interruptedbystart of the night, Rajput diedinahospital of years agothatthe twobecame civil services exams. theyshouldn't be thinking about Psychology. giving suchhigh marks,wehave Collegeand Jesus and Mary nationwide lockdowninMarch. aruptured spleen.Police have friends. Both wanted to improve Themat wherethe children getting marriedatthis age,” said LSRCollege principalSuman no other option but to raise the College.Lastyear,thesecolleges The lasttime DU's cut-off uppeddeployment in the area to their English languageskills, and satinfront of Rajputlay empty, Rajput's mother Renuka. Sharma said that in the history of cut-offs.It'shightimethatwe start hadto dealwiththeissueof ‘over- touchedthe 100per cent mark keep tempers in check. Freedom English Academy and acolourful hand-drawn FULLREPORTON the college, the cut-offhad never looking at our education system admissions’ -- morestudents wasfiveyears ago. On Saturday, six policemen nearbywas the answer.“We posterofhis“FreeFlying Coaching www.indianexpress.com

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ACTIVE CASES DROP TO 40,210 MAHOBA TRADER’S DEATH CM asks officials to DivisionandpartitioninDNA Police: Cop suspended improve recovery for failure to arrest rate in Lucknow ofOpposition,saysAdityanath suspendedSPand SHO thing and divide on the basis of dieddue to the infection in east- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE caste,faith, place and religion. It ern UP between1974and 2017, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE STATECOUNT LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 is in their temperament;apart but no one raisedvoice forthe LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 TOTAL CASES of their DNA.” victims then. Since 2017,the BJP SLAMMINGTHE Opposition He said,“Theyfirstdivided governmentunder him has re- APOLICE inspector has been sus- WITH 3,099 newcoronavirus 433712 without namingany party,Chief the country, then they damaged solvedto“root out encephalitis”, pendedfor his“failure” to trace cases in the past24hours, Uttar MinisterYogi Adityanath on the social structureonthe basis he said. and arrest suspended SP Mani Pradesh's tallyonSaturday INCREASE DEATHS Saturdaywarnedpeople of the of caste.Whenevertheyare in The Chief Ministeralso an- Lal Patidar and suspendedSHO reached4,33,712 while thetoll 3099 6353 statetobeaware of “divisive el- powertheydonot careabout nouncedthatthe medicalcol- Kabrai DevendraShuklabooked attributed to the virus rose to 387149RECOVERED ements” in the statewho have anyone other than their own legeofDeoria will startfull- in connection with the deathof 6,353 with 60 fatalities. “division, partition and discrim- family.For them,their family is fledged functioningfromthe Mahoba businessman Indra As manyas3,87,149ofthe to- 11725989 SAMPLES ination in their DNA”. Chief MinisterYogi the country, thewhole society; next academicsession,and a Kant Tripathi. talpatientshavebeen declared TESTED TILL OCT 9 He alsosaid the Samajwadi Adityanath nothing else matters (tothese permanent solution will be Police had lastmonth IndraKant Tripathi diedon recovered. Aftertaking intoac- Partyand the Bahujan Samaj parties)…. When theyare out of found forthe constituency's droppedthe murder charge September 13. count the recoveries and deaths, from Kanpur Nagar. Lucknow Party, between them, were in power, theytry everytrickin drainageproblem. againstall accusedand arrested active cases have droppedto also recordedthe highestnum- powerinthe statefor 15 the book to divide people Adityanath lashedout at op- twolocal businessmen Suresh 40,210. beroffresh deaths at eight. It was years but leftonlycorruption Assemblysegments, is going to and conspire.” position parties for“selling out” Soni and Brahm Dutt Tiwari un- departmental action had been Additional Chief Secretary followedbyfour deatheachin and anarchyinthe name of the bypolls on November 3. Six Adityanath urgedparty sugar mills one afteranother, der abetment to suicide charge. takenagainst55police person- (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad Gorakhpur,Varanasi, Meerut achievement. of these seatswerewon by the workers to disseminatethe mes- which, he said, has disbalanced Police arealso looking for nel in the district. In addition, six- said CM Yogi Adityanath had ex- and Hardoi. Addressing avirtual meeting BJP in 2017 elections, and one sageofdevelopmentbrought in the sugar economyofthe region, constableArun Kumar Yadav teen other policemen, including pressedsatisfaction overtesting In terms of district-wise toll, of BJPoffice-bearers from booth, by SP. under Prime MinisterNarendra whichwas once considered the whose allegedrole came to light twoinspectors DevendraShukla capacityand directed it to be in- Lucknowand Kanpur Nagar division and sector levels in Without naming the Modi and said, “The BJP's graph state's sugar bowl. during an SIT investigation. andRajuSingh, were transferred creasedfurther. have recordedmorethan 700 Deoria Assemblyconstituency, Congress,SPorBSP,Adityanath is steadilyheadingnorthward, StateBJP presidentSwatantra “Wehavesuspendedthe sta- on Friday, he said. As per sources, The CM directed the author- Covid related deathsat772 and Adityanath said thatsome peo- asked thosepresent at the meet- whichhas upsetthe applecart of DevSingh, who wasalso pres- tion house officer (SHO) of the twowerepostedinthe dis- itiestoimprove the recovery rate 701deaths. Prayagraj,Varanasi, ple onlythink about their family ing to guardagainst“their” ne- the Opposition.” ent, exhortedparty workers to Panwadi police station, inspec- trict foralong time and were al- in Lucknow—the worst-hit dis- Gorakhpur and Meerut have when in power, and afterelec- farious designs. He said, “There Claiming that his govern- work on the development torAshok Singh, fornegligence legedly involvedinillegal acts. trict in the state. seen morethan 200deaths. toraldefeat tryeverything pos- aresome people who have divi- ment worked alot againstthe model and said the party's suc- in duty and incompetence,”said According to SIT,Tripathi, Lucknowrecordedthe high- Setting anew record, the sibleto“divide people and con- sion and partition in their DNA. encephalitis disease in UP, cess lies in itsefforts toward the district SP Arun Kumar who suppliedmining explosives, estnumber of fresh cases at 317, stateonFridaytested1,76,514 spire”. Theydonot likeanythingwhole Adityanath said that 50,000chil- development changes brought Srivastava. wasfoundwounded in his car followedby161 from Prayagraj, samples, crossing the 1.17 crore Deoria, along with six other –theywant to cut down every- dren, mostlyfrompoor families, in by thegovernment. IG Chitrakoot(Range) KSatya with bulletinjuries, ruling out 154eachfromGhaziabad and mark. Narayan told TheSundayExpress the allegation that he wasshot Varanasi, 153fromMeerut, 151 Lucknow, whichhas re- that the team underSingh was by assailants on September 8. He from Gorakhpur,146 from ported57,386positive cases, has DOUBLE MURDERCASE formedinthe lastweek of later succumbed to his injuries.A Gautam BuddhaNagar and103 arecovery rate of 89.73per cent, September. daybeforethe incident,hehad 25 years on, six of family sentenced to life in jail He said on the basis of the SIT accusedPatidar of extortion and investigation in the death case, feared athreat to his life. in Maudha on January17, 1995. repaired in Maudha at ame- PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA Amar Singh, driverof He also informedthat Amir chanic's shop, when Raziuddin, HAMIRPUR,OCTOBER10 adeputy SP,and Pappu, Mohammad had lodged acom- Saeeduddin, Raisuddin, plaint of murder andattempt to Qutubuddin, Kalandar, ACOURT has sentencedsix an auto-rickshaw murder againstninemembers Sharifuddin, Naseemuddin, members of afamilytolifeim- driver, were killed of afamily. However, three of Alimuddin and Naim Ahmed prisonmentand also imposed them -- Raziuddin, Saeeduddin alias Buddhu startedfiring at fine on them in connection with in firing in 1995 and Naim Ahmed aliasBuddhu him indiscriminately,"hesaid. the murder of twopeople 25 diedduring the course of “In the firing, Amar Singh, years ago, an official said on Kalandar,Sharifuddin, the trial. who wasgetting his jeep re- Saturday. Naseemuddin and Alimuddin to He said firing took place be- paired in the neighbouring shop District governmentadvo- lifeimprisonment and imposed tween twosides due to profes- and Pappu,anauto-rickshaw cate Ashok Kumar Shukla said afine of Rs 26,000 on eachof sional rivalryand those who died driver, diedafter being hit by bul- Sanitisation work underway at agovernment school in Special Judge(dacoity) Anil them forthe murder of Amar were notlinked to either side. lets,while AmirMohammad, his LucknowonSaturday. Vishal Srivastav Kumar Shukla on Fridaysen- Singh (driverofadeputy SP) and “On January17, 1995;Amir son Jamluddin and Devi Singh tencedRaisuddin, Qutubuddin, Pappu, an auto-rickshawdriver Mohammad wasgetting his jeep were injured,” he said.

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Azamgarh:A16-year-old (Loan Code No.00002900),(Haldwani- Uttar Pvt Plot No 51, Part Of Khasra No 43 Min 20-02-2020 for Rs.238881/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 mentallyunstable boy Pradesh) Bhola ShankarYadav (Borrower Vankhandinath Colony Phase 2Village Fulsungi, TwoLakh ThirtyEight Thousand Eight Name) /Bebi Yadav (Co-Borrower) Rudrapur,Udhamsinghnagar-263153 Hundred EightyOne Only.) wasapprehendedfor al- (Loan Code No.00001295),(Allahabad-Uttar Part of Arazi No.115, Mauza Kazipur,Pargana 20-02-2020 for Rs.843831/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 legedly battering to death Pradesh) Awadh Narayan Tiwari (Borrower Arail Tehsil Karchana, Near Ford School &College Eight Lakh FourtyThree Thousand an elderly couple witha Name) /Seema Devi (Co-Borrower) Allahabad Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 211008 Eight Hundred ThirtyOne Only.) (Loan Code No.00006224),(Lucknow- H. No.450/187/1 On Plot No 51 &52AKhasra 20-02-2020 for Rs.7282107/- (Rupees 06-Oct-20 stone in Garholi village Uttar Pradesh) M/S. Zaidi Agrotech No.319, Ramganj, Hata Mirza Ali Khan, SeventyTwo Lakh EightyTwo Thousand here, police said on Private Limited (Borrower Name) /Syed husainabad Lucknow Lucknow Uttar Pradesh One Hundred Seven Only.) Saturday. According to Mohammad Mehdi Zaidi (Co-Borrower) 226003 (Loan Code No.00002292),(Varanasi- PlotNo.91a Khasra No.189, 190&191 Ka Minjumla 19-12-2019 for Rs.2190572/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 police, the incident took Uttar Pradesh) Garima Shukla (Borrower Vill Faizullaganj Ward Near Jurba Mandir Twenty One Lakh Ninety Thousand place on Fridaynight Name) /Anuj Shukla (Co-Borrower) Lucknow Lucknow Uttar Pradesh -226020 Five Hundred SeventyTwo Only.) (Loan Code No. 00042680),(Lucknow - HOnPart Of Plot No 216/1, ,Plot Of Gata No 19-12-2019 for Rs.2270463/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 when Shrinath Maurya Lalbagh -Uttar Pradesh) Dinesh Kumar 114Vill Matiao, Mahona, Bkt, Lucknow Uttar TwentyTwo Lakh Seventy Thousand (70) and hiswifeMaina (Borrower Name) /Kavita (Co-Borrower) Pradesh -226021 Four Hundred SixtyThree Only.) Devi (65) were sleeping (Loan Code No.00002254),(Kanpur-Uttar Part Of Pvt Plot No.89 At Arazi No.1011 19-12-2019 for Rs.1008492/- 06-Oct-20 Pradesh) Dinesh Kumar Shriwastav (Borrower Meharwan Singh Ka PurwaKanpur Kanpur (Rupees TenLakh Eight Thousand in the verandah of their Name) /Kavita Srivastava (Co-Borrower) Urban Uttar Pradesh -208027 Four Hundred NinetyTwo Only.) house. Children playing (Loan Code No.00042873),(Lucknow - Plot No. 442 Part Of Khasra No.901 Village 19-12-2019 for Rs.1827929/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 in the vicinity of the cou- Lalbagh-Uttar Pradesh) Krishna Kumar Singh Uttardhauna Pargna &Tehsil Distt Lucknow EighteenLakh Twenty Seven Thousand (Borrower Name) /Beena Singh(Co-Borrower) Lucknow Lucknow Uttar Pradesh -226020 Nine Hundred Twentynine Only.) ple's house raisedan (Loan Code No.00000157),(Bareilly- Uttar Plot On Part Of Khet No 120, Kanjadaspur, 19-12-2019 for Rs.1240894/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 alarm afterseeing the Pradesh) Ram Avtar (Borrower Name) / Bareilly Bareilly Uttar Pradesh -243001 Twelve Lakh Forty Thousand Eight bodies, theysaid. PTI Santoshi (Co-Borrower) Hundred Ninety Four Only.) (Loan Code No.00000324),(Bareilly- Uttar Part Of Plot No.a-26 Bake Sherpur Bannuwal 19-12-2019 for Rs.2020082/- (Rupees 06-Oct-20 Pradesh) Nitin Mukash Mathur (Borrower Nagar Bareilly Bareilly Uttar Pradesh -243001 Twenty Lakh Twenty Thousand Name) /Pratiksha Mathur (Co-Borrower) Eighty TwoOnly.) Over20 (Loan Code No.00043369),(Lucknow - House With Land, only BeingPortion Of Khasra 19-12-2019 for Rs.1722549/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 Lalbagh-Uttar Pradesh) Naimullha N No-31 Constructed On APlot Of Rahimabad, Seventeen Lakh TwentyTwo Thousand attacktrader, (Borrower Name) /Mohammad Arif Khan ward-raja Bijli Pasi Lucknow Lucknow Uttar Five Hundred FourtyNine Only.) (Co-Borrower) Pradesh -226005 (Loan Code No.00003553),(Kanpur- Uttar Plot No.S/S-186,Phase-7, Block Ews Scheme 19-12-2019 for Rs.775891/- (Rupees 06-Oct-20 lootRs6lakh Pradesh) Naresh Tulsi (Borrower Name) / Gangapur Machharia, Kanpur Kanpur Urban Seven Lakh SeventyFive Thousand Ashu Naresh (Co-Borrower) Uttar Pradesh -208001 Eight Hundred NinetyOne Only.) Bulandshahr:Over20 (Loan Code No.00000594),(Bareilly- Uttar Part Of Khasra No.393 Sanniya Dhan Singh 20-02-2020 for Rs.848873/- (Rupees 07-Oct-20 people, including afor- Pradesh) Rameswar Dayal (Borrower Bareilly Bareilly Uttar Pradesh 243001 Eight Lakh FourtyEight Thousand Name) /Kamla Devi (Co-Borrower) Eight Hundred SeventyThree Only.) mer villagehead, al- (Loan Code No.00002139),(Haldwani- Pvt Plot No. 95, Part Of Khasra No 678 &684 20-02-2020 for Rs.630093/- (Rupees 05-Oct-20 legedly attacked atrader Uttar Pradesh)Ikbal Singh (Borrower (old Khasra No 259, 371) Village Kargaina, Six Lakh Thirty Thousand Ninety and lootedRs6lakh from Name) /Jogender Kaur (Co-Borrower) Bareilly,Bareilly-243001 Three Only.) (Loan Code No.00002065),(Kanpur-Uttar Plot No. 83 &76Part Of Arazi No. 322 Mauja 20-02-2020 for Rs.964530/- (Rupees 06-Oct-20 him in Bulandshahr dis- Pradesh)Manoj Kumar Singh Rathour (Borrower Pipouri, Kanpur,Kanpur Urban-208027 Nine Lakh Sixty Four Thousand Five trict, police said on Name)/Meenakshi Devi (Co-Borrower) Hundred Thirty Only.) Saturday. The incident (Loan Code No.00003330),(Kanpur- Uttar Plot No. 451, Mini Lig, Block 1347 Scheme 20-02-2020 for Rs.2163939/- (Rupees 06-Oct-20 Pradesh) Neeraj Kumar Verma (Borrower Arra, Bingawan Kanpur Nagar Kanpur Urban TwentyOne Lakh SixtyThree Thousand took place in Aurangabad Name) /Geeta Savita (Co-Borrower) Uttar Pradesh 208001 Nine Hundred ThirtyNine Only.) area on Fridayevening, Date :11.10.2020 (Authorised officer) theysaid. PTI Place :Uttar Pradesh Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited

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Woman marries HATHRAS WOMAN’S DEATH against family's MHA: FIRsmust wishes; husband’s father killed in casesofcrimes Copssay‘activist’atteenager’shome, Bulandshahr: A65-year-oldre- tired government employeewas against women shot dead outside his houseal- MPdoctorsayswenttoassistfamily legedly by four familymembers of his daughter-in-lawin Bulandshahr district,policesaid DEEPTIMANTIWARY The MHA advisoryalso tightsecurity. anydocuments, from the post- on Saturday.The incident took NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 asksstatestocomplete IRAMSIDDIQUE The doctor addedthat she mortemreporttothe forensic place on Fridayand twopolice- probes in twomonths BHOPAL,OCTOBER10 firstnoticed policeinterestwhen findings. Ibegan speaking to the men postedinthe area have IN Afresh advisorytostates she wasleaving on October 6, authorities," she says,adding been suspended, theysaid. The Saturday,the MinistryofHome in cases of sexual A40-YEAR-OLD Jabapur-based with twovans following her. that the officials were notcom- victim, identifiedasNetrapal Affairs has asked them to take assault and strictlyto doctor came forwardtosay “Theyasked what Ihad been do- fortable with her questions. She Singh, wasaformer employeeof strict action in cases of crimes guidelines fordealing Saturdaythat therewas no se- ing and took pictures of me and said she also gave the familya the irrigation department, police againstwomen and adhere crecy regarding her movements my documents. Ilostmycoolas cheque. said. The familymembers of the strictly to guidelines fordealing with suchcases aftermedia landedupather Iwas notdoingany crime,” she The doctor said that while woman, who got marriedto withsuchcases, including doorstep, following reports that said. she had initiallybooked areturn Singh'sson, Vipin, lastmonth mandatoryregistration of FIRs the Uttar Pradesh government The doctor said she had ticket forOctober 5, she stayed were opposedtothe marriage. and completing probes in two Reiterating the guidelines and waslookingintothe presence of gone to Hathras movedbythe backonthe family's insistence. Vipinhad earlier told police that monthsincases of sexualassault. laid down norms forinvestigation awoman at the home of the teenager's plight, hoping to ex- She said she livedwith them for hiswife'sfamilymembers may This advisoryhas been issued of sexual offences, the MHA has Dalit teenager who diedfollow- tend moral and financial sup- twodays,and when questioned attackhim or his family. PTI at atime when theUPgovern- asked states formandatory reg- ing assaultand allegedgangrape port, and that she had a10- by officials, gave them her ment has drawncriticismfor its istrationof FIRs, actionagainstof- in Hathras recently. year-old son she had leftat Aadhaarcarddetails andmobile handling of the alleged rape and ficers who refuse to registerFIRs In the evening, Inspector home. She said she feared the number. murder of a19-year-old in a in cases of rape and certain other General, AligarhRange,Piyush Hathrasfamily's fate might end The UP Police's handling of Hathrasvillage and the events crimesagainstwomen, to treat Mordia clarifiedthat theydidn't Police keep vigil at Ludhiana’sChauraBazar afterDalit up likethe Unnao rape victim's the Hathras case, including IE matrimonials thereafter. the dying declaration of avictim have anyplanstoquestion the organisations calledfor aPunjab bandhtoprotest the whose whole familywas claims that aforensicreport The Allahabad HighCourthas as amatteroffact, collection of woman. Hathras woman’s death. GurmeetSingh targeted. showedthe woman wasnot asked UP officialstoappear be- evidencefor forensic examina- He added, "When Ihad gone “AfterIsaw howwomen re- raped, itshurriedcremation of fore it Monday, brief it on the sta- tion and use of sexual assault ev- to the victim's house, the porters were voicing the family's her body in the middleofthe tus of the investigation and ex- idencecollection (SAEC)kit,com- woman waspresent. The vic- wasnot rapedand that theybeat Forensics Department of the concern, Igot thecouragetogo night, itsbarricadingofher vil- plain the sequence of eventsthat pletion of investigation in sexual tim's sister-in-lawtold us she her,leading to her death. city's Netaji Subhas Chandra thereand contribute, whatever lage, and itsallegations that the ledtothe cremation of the vic- assault cases in twomonths, use wastheirrelative and had come “Therewerealot of people Bose Medical College, told The little Icould," she said, adding, protests over herdeath were tim’s body and the family’s com- of the National Database on from Jabalpur.The woman who came to our home. We did- SundayExpress everyone from "Thereisnorule to stop an ordi- partofaconspiracy, hasbeen plaintabout themanner in which Sexual Offendersfor identifying claimedtobeasocial worker." n'tinviteanyonefromJabalpur... policeofficials to the administra- naryperson from wanting to under the spotlight. it wasdone. and tracking repeatsexual of- Additional Director General, We don'tknowwhichwoman tion were awareofher identity help someone else." The Allahabad High Court, In itsadvisory, the MHA, fenders among others. Lawand Order,Prashant Kumar came. At our house, onlyour rel- whenshe wasatHathras,and The doctor said she boarded thathad takensuo motu cog- while maintaining that the gov- The Ministry, which recently refusedtospeak on the matter. ativesare staying,” the family that she had furnishedher de- atrain from Jabalpur to Agra on nizance of the matter,istohold ernmenthas, over the years, distributedSAEC kitsamong Amember of the teenager's member said. tails when asked. October 3, and reachedthe ahearing on it on Monday. takensteps to strengthenleg- states forbetterinvestigationof familysaid theyweretired of the The Jabalpur doctor,who said The woman's villagein woman's home the next day. “I --WITHIMPUTSFROM islative provisions to deal with sexual crimes through forensic allegations, including that she she earlier worked in the Hathras districthas been under realisedthe familydid nothave ENSLUCKNOW,DELHI HINDU incidents of sexualoffences evidence, underlinedthe use of againstwomen, said: "However, these kits. Hindu Parents seeking even with stringent provisions "The DirectorateofForensic Notification for Not an isolated AttractiveSlim US Permanent in lawand severalcapacity- Science Services (DFSS)under the Will move court to question Resident Girl 35-40 Years for building measuresundertaken, MHA has issued guidelines for CBI to take over incident: Dalit US born Son 42, Lawyer, anyfailure of police to adhereto collection, preservation &trans- Issueless Divorcee ,East investigation women outfit Coast. Biodata Photo: these mandatoryrequirements portation of forensic evidence in journalist, three others: ED [email protected] maynot augurwell forthe deliv- sexual assault cases for 0080063180-1 eryofcriminal justice in the Investigation Officers and NewDelhi: The Central govern- at Delhiprotest country,especiallyincontextof Medical Officers. In ordertofacil- ment has issuedanotification for women safety. Suchlapses, if no- itatethe StatePolice, Bureauof the CBI to take over probeinto EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ticed, need to be investigated Police Research and the alleged gang-rape and death LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 ANANYATIWARI intoand stringent action taken Development (BPR&D)has is- of a19-year-old woman in NEW DELHI,OCTOBER 10 immediatelyagainstthe con- suedSexual Assault Evidence Hathras, officials said on THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate cerned officers responsible for Collection (SAEC) Kitstoevery Saturday. (ED) has decidedtoapproacha DEMANDING THAT the UP and the same." State/UT.Itisnecessarytouse The notification has been Mathuracourtseeking permis- Central governmentstakestrin- "It is requestedthat States/UTs these SAEC kitsinevery case of markedtoasuitablebranchof sion to question aDelhi-based gent action againstaccusedin maysuitablyissueinstructions to sexual assault reported… BPR&D the premier agency,and probe journalistand three others ar- the Hathras case and imple- all concerned to ensurestrict and LNJN National Instituteof teams will be dispatchedtothe rested foranalleged conspiracy ment the Scheduled Caste and compliance with the provisions Criminology and Forensic Science crimescene along with forensic behindtheir visittoHathras ScheduledTribe(Prevention of in the law... It is also requestedto (NICFS) have been regularly con- experts immediatelyafter the whereaDalit woman wasas- Atrocities) Act, 1989, the All monitor the cases on ITSSO ductingTraining and Training of registration of an FIR, theysaid. saulted and allegedlygangraped India Dalit Mahila Adhikar (InvestigationTracking System Trainers (ToT)programmes on The Dalit woman had diedof on September 14. Manch(AIDMAM), whichisaf- GUPTA/ AGGARWAL forSexual Offences)toensure procedurefor collection, preser- grievous injuries at aDelhi hos- It is conducting apreliminary Siddique Kappan(withcap), secretaryofthe Kerala Unionof filiated with the National Match for Aggarwal Girl, Mangal that suitable follow-up action is vation and handling of forensic pital on September 29, afort- inquiryintothe allegation that WorkingJournalists, and three otherswho were held with Campaign on Dalit Human Gotra,12.01.1993, 12:27 AM, 5’- takenfor thechargesheetofthe evidence forPolice/Prosecutors night aftershe wasallegedly fundswere transferredforaweb- him were produced before acourtinMathura, Wednesday. PTI Rights, markedaprotest at Dr 4’’, Chandigarh,MBA, IITMadras, guilty in atimely mannerasre- and Medical Officers respec- rapedather villagebyfour up- site, ‘Justicefor Hatras victim’, al- Ambedkar BhawanonRani Working as Buisness Analystin quired in thelaw." tively," the advisorystated. per caste men. legedly created to incitepeople Jhansi road Saturday. Accenture,Gurgaon, Package Besides the alleged gang- and disturb lawand order in officer. Activities (Prevention)Act,the Abhirami Jotheeswaran (41), Rs.14.50 lac. PreferredMBA boy, non Manglik, having good rape case, the Uttar Pradesh gov- Hathras. Mathurapolice had arrested stringent anti-terror law, and director of AIDMAM, said,“The Service,preferred Gurgaon, ernment has sought aprobe by “During the preliminaryin- journalistSiddique Kappan, sec- other IPC sections. Hathras case is notanisolated Bangalore and Delhi NCR- the Central Bureauofquiry, we studieddocumentsof retary of theKeralaUnion of Meanwhile, Mathurapolice’s incident. As per the National 8360602899 0020411935-1 Investigation(CBI) into the FIR Mathura police related to the WorkingJournalist,CampusFront crimebranch,whichisinvestigat- Crime Records Bureaudataof relatedtothe alleged criminal Hathras case and decidedtoini- of India office-bearers Atiq-ur- ing the “conspiracy” case, 2019,10Dalit women areraped KHATRIS/ARORAS conspiracy to spread caste con- tiallyquestion allfour accused— RahmanandMasoodAhmed,and recordedthestatementof thefour daily, and crimesagainst them flict, instigatingviolence, inci- who arepresently in judicialcus- driverAlamfromatollplaza in accusedinMathurajail on Friday. have riseninthe past few Match for good looking well dentsofviciouspropaganda by tody.Wewouldmovethe court Mathuralastweek. Theyclaimed that pamphlets re- years.” educated girl from high status sections of media and political next week to seek permission to The four men have been coveredfromthe men were to be Jotheeswaran,who used to business family,29january 92, 5:14pm, Chandigarh, 5’-1”, no interests,theysaid. PTI question them,”said asenior ED booked under the Unlawful usedtoincite people. be asoftwareengineer in broker please: 93162-43229 Chennai, said,“My grandfather 0020411956-1 wasasub-inspector in avillage UNNAO calledMambalapattu.They Rape cases dropped usedtostayinthe main area of Nephew held for ‘attacking the village. When he retired,the dominantcastesput immense 42% in 4years: Govt pressureonthem to move back woman, rape bid in truck’ to theDalit hamlet,awayfrom there. Theytolerated him when NAME CHANGE to Agra.She hassaidthatthe EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Five persons have been he had powerand discrimi- I, KantaYadav S/oShri Jagardev EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE nephewdrove the vehicle. His LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 sentencedtodeath and nated againsthim afterhis re- YadavResidentofVill- Chhitauna, LUCKNOW,OCTOBER 10 friend wassitting in the rear part tirement.Theyeventually had Post-Kerakat,Distt- Jaunpur, of the truckbut later came to the THE UTTAR Pradesh government another 193convicted to leave thevillageand shift to State-U.P., Pin- 222142, declare that in my son Subash Chand’s A35-YEAR-OLD woman wasat- front portion and startedharass- on Saturdayclaimedthat rape forlifefor crimes Chennai.”Caste discrimination ServiceRecordwrongly tacked allegedly by her nephew ing and molesting her, shehas al- cases in the statedroppedby againstwomen under also exists in the cities, said the mentioned my name Kamta and his friend while theyat- leged. 42.24 percenttill Septemberthis members. RaisedinDelhi, Prasad whether my correct name temptedtorape her in amoving “She also alleged that they year comparedto the correspon- itsstint, claimedthe Kanika (26),adocumentation is Kanta Yadav. 0060076959-1 truckinUnnao,police said on triedtorape her and when she ding periodin2016while inci- UP government officer at AIDMAM, said, “My fa- I, hereby declarethat my DOB Saturday. The accuseddropped resisted, the twobeat her up and dentsofwomen being kidnapped ther worksasaplumber. Istud- 09.01.2004 andname Kuldeep is her offonthe expressway later, the nephewalso bit her on the fell by 39 per centinthe samepe- iedinaDelhi government incorrectly mentioned as in police said.The allegedincident face and alsotriedtokill her by riod. government had claimedto school and graduated from Lady armyservice recordofmy brother whichshould be read happened when the three were attempting to strangle her with The government further recordthe highest convictionrate Shri RamCollegefor Womenin and written as DOB 09.01.2002 travelling from LucknowtoAgra abelt.She waslater droppedoff claimedthat crimes against in cases of crimesagainstwomen political science. Despite living Name Kuldeep Yadavasper around 3pmonFriday. Both ac- on the highway.The woman has women droppedby27.32 per and cybercrime in the country. in thecity, people Imeetjudge high school certificate. cused,intheir early 20s,werear- abitemarkonher face. She has cent till September this year “State capital Lucknowisone me alot and see me onlyasaby- Kuldeep YadavVill- Meerganj rested withinanhour of the al- undergone amedical test and againstthe same periodinthe of eight districtsinthe country product of the reservation sys- MajareSonari Post-Sonari Distt-Amethi. 0060076963-1 leged crime, police said. the reportisawaited.” previous year. wherethe Nirbhaya Fund has tem.” Asenior police officer said, Acase wasregisteredunder Claimingtostrictly pursue been establishedtoensuresecu- The Dalit woman had died I, Mamta YadavSpouse of “The nephewhad bought some IPC sections354 (assault or crim- cases of crimes againstwomen, rity of women and girls,” the of grievous injuries at aDelhi Subash Chand, Resident of Vill- Chhitauna, Post- Kerakat, land in Agra and had asked his inal forcetowoman with intent the government in apress state- statement claimed. hospitalonSeptember 29,a Distt-Jaunpur, State- U.P. Pin- aunt to accompanyhim thereas to outrageher modesty), 324 ment said that five persons were The statement listedvarious fortnight aftershe wasallegedly 222142, have changed my name she is educated and could help (voluntarilycausinghurtbydan- sentencedtodeath and another steps —suchasanti-Romio rapedather village by four up- from MamtaYadavtoMamta with the paperwork.Inher com- gerous weapons or means) and 193wereconvictedforlifeunder squads, UP-112 Indiamobileapp, per caste men. Devi vide Affidavit dated plaint, she has alleged that the 307(attempttomurder). The theYogi Adityanath administra- night security coverscheme, The Uttar Pradesh police 09.10.2020beforeCollectorate Court,Lucknow, U.P. nephew came to her residence twoaccusedweresenttojailaf- tion. Earlierbasedonthe National women helpdesksand pink have come under attackoverits on Thursdaynight and asked her terbeing producedinalocal Crime Records Bureau(NCRB) booths —tocreatesafer environ- handling of the case and hur- 0060076959-3 to accompanyhim and afriend court, police said. datafor 2018,the Uttar Pradesh ment forwomen. riedcremation of the body. FLATE FOR SALE 30 acres/60acres landwith 2lakh sqft industry shed is on Ad·f¹fûþ³fd³fQZVffÕX¹f, CXØfSX ´fiQZVf Constable sacked for seeking bribe from gangrape accused Sale at dindori industrial area, ÕXøfeIYfg¸´fÕXZ¢Àf, (VffÕXe¸ffSX MXfUSX) dU·fcd°f J¯OX, Nashik. 22kms international ¦fû¸f°fe³f¦fSX,ÕXJ³fDYÜ same police station. Superintendent Moradabad on August16lastyear. moneyinreturn, said apolice officer. cargo.airport. Infrastrucre ´f{faIY-ÀMXûSX-310-2020/2532/2020dQ³ffaIY- 05 A¢MXc¶fSX, 2020 suitable for anynew type of EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE of Police, Moradabad, Prabhakar Constable Nitesh Kumar allegedly The then SSP of Moradabad or- ³feÕXf¸fe Àfc¨f³ff Industry or Warehousing. LUCKNOW,OCTOBER10 Chaudharysaid the dismissal wason called up the accusedand reportedly dered an inquiryagainstNitesh ÀfUÊ Àff²ffS¯fIûÀfcd¨f°fdI¹ff þf°ffW`dIAd·f¹fûþ³fd³fQZVffÕ¹f CØfS ´fiQZVfÕJ³fD ¸fZa d³fÀ´fi¹fûª¹fÀff¸f¦fie EUa´fbSf³fZ AJ¶ffS Lucrativeoffer. Call the basis of an inquiryreport. demandedmoneytoget aclosurere- Kumar. 9545554089. 0050170100-1 Ie ³feÕf¸fe dQ³ffaI 13.10.2020 Iû Àf¸f¹f A´fSf³W 2-00 ¶fþZ Ad·f¹fûþ³f d³fQZVffÕ¹f, VffÕe¸ffS MfUS,dU·fcd°f J¯O, ¦fû¸f°fe³f¦fS,ÕJ³fD ¸fZa Ieþf¹fZ¦feÜ ³feÕf¸fe Ied°fd±f ÀfZ ´fcUÊ dI Àfe ·fe If¹fÊ dQUÀf ¸fZa Àf¸¶fd³²f°f Àff¸f¦fie Ifd³fSeÃf¯f dI ¹ff þf AUPPOLICE constable wassus- In Maythis year,Nitesh port filedinthe case. An audio clipof As perpolice records, afterinves- ÀfI °ff W`ÜAfSdÃf°f ¸fc»¹f ÀfZ D´fS Ad²fI °f¸f ¶fûÕeÕ¦ff³fZ UfÕZIZ´fÃf ¸fZa C´fSûö Àff¸f¦fie Iû´fiQf³f dI ¹fZ þf³fZ IeÀfaÀ°fbd°f Ie pendedfromserviceafter aprobe Kumar wastransferredand posted the purportedconversation had then tigationinthe gangrape case, the po- SITUATION VACANT þf¹fZ¦feÜ Ad²fI °f¸f ¶fûÕeÕ¦ff³fZ UfÕZB¨LbI ½¹fdö Iû³feÕf¸fe Ie¶fûÕeAd³°f¸f Wû°fZ We ¸fc»¹f Ie25 ´fid°fVf°f ²f³fSfdVf A³fÊZÀM found him guilty of demanding with ReservePolice Lines in surfacedonsocial media, police lice gave clean chit to one of the ac- Mnc expanding, lookingfor ¸f³fe IZ ø´f¸fZa °f°I fÕ þ¸ff ISf³fe Wû¦feÜ Àf¸¶fd³²f°f ½¹fdö Iû³feÕf¸fe Àf¸ffd~ IZ EI Àf~fW IZ A³QS ³feÕf¸fe IeÀff¸f¦fie moneyfromaccusedpersonsto“set- Moradabad. sources said. cusedafter it wasfoundthat he was ambitious people to work in IûIf¹ffÊÕ¹f ´fdSÀfS ÀfZ CNf³ff Ad³fUf¹fÊ Wû¦ff A³¹f±ff A³fÊZÀM ¸f³fe þ¶°f IS Õe þf¹fZ¦feÜ tle” agangrape case registered As per police records, on the basis Later,the accusedwerearrested wrongly namedinthe FIR. wellnessindustry.Training WXÀ°ff./- againstthematapolicestationin of awoman's complaint, acasewas andduringquestioning theyclaimed The police, however, filed provided. Good earning (¨f³Qi ´fiIYfVf ¨fü²fSXe) Moradabad lastyear. registeredagainstthree personson that Nitesh Kumar had told them chargesheetagainstthe other twoac- watsapp for details9616227463 UPID-155821 Date-09.10.2020 ´fi0 Àfa¹fböY d³fQZVfIYAd·f¹fûþ³f(¸fbq) www.upgov.nic.in Nitesh Kumar, 26,a2019batch chargesofgangrape and criminal in- that he would ensurethat theywere cusedonchargesofcriminal intimi- 0050170004-1 CX0´fi0, ÕXJ³fDYÜ constable, wasthen postedatthe timidation at the police station in letoff in thecaseand demanded dation and gangrape. Lucknow WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM

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forcoronation; Chirag's turn has On the sidelines, manysup- SANTOSHSINGH come),” the sloganwent. porters discussed howPaswan campinDelhi, PATNA,OCTOBER10 It took nearly threehours for had been the greatestDalit leader the proceedings to be com- sinceJagjivanRam; some also CARRYING Anewspaper witha pleted, and the crowddid notap- said the lateleadercould have ex- pictureofformerUnionminis- pear to thin one bit during the panded his reachbeyondthe seekremoval terand Lok Janshakti Partypatri- time. Paswan community.Mostpeo- arch,lateRam Vilas Paswan, In ashowoffamilysolidarity, ple, however, were unanimous Shivji Paswan, 70,who had come Chirag and three cousins, includ- on Paswan being the voice of from Muzaffarpur district, asked ing party MP from Samastipur DalitsinBihar in the sameman- ofTripuraCM severalpolicemen to allowhim a Prince Raj, jointlyoffered fire to ner as Lalu Prasad gave voice to lastglimpse of “myleader”. thefuneral pyre.Chirag fell down the Other BackwardClasses Turnedawayeachtime, given aftermaking afew circles of the (OBCs) and the Extremely the security bandobast, the sep- funeral pyre and regainedcon- Backward Classes(EBCs). LIZMATHEW tuagenarianstarted sobbing. A sciousness afterawhile.His Earlier in the day, BJP MP NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 fewpolice personnel took note mother ReenaPaswanbroke from Patliputra, RamKripal and made him sit afew yards down severaltimes, as Chirag Yadav, paid homage to Paswan AT LEASTseven BJP TripuraMLAs Biplab from the funeral pyre. Armypersonnel paytributeasavehicle carryingthe body of and his cousins consoledher. at his SK Puri residence and arecampinginthenationalcapital Kumar Deb This wasnot aone-offscene former Union ministerRam Vilas Paswan arrivesat Paswan wascremated with calledthe lateleader his “elder to meet the party’s national lead- at Janardhan GhatinDigha,be- JanardhanGhat, near Patna, forthe funeral; Chirag Paswan full statehonours. Bihar Chief brother,who always blessedme, ershipanddemandtheremovalof side JP Setu over the Ganganear (right) with his mother before the cremation. PTI MinisterNitish Kumar,Deputy irrespective of some politicaldif- Chief MinisterBiplab Kumar Deb, audience with BJP president JP Patna, as thousands of people, CM Sushil Kumar Modi, Union ferences”. calling him dictatorial, inexperi- Nadda and Home MinisterAmit teary-eyed and eager to getalast minister and Lok Sabha MP from RLSP leader Upendra encedand unpopular. Shah.“Wewillalsoseekameeting glimpse of their belovedleader, manyhad walked from Hajipur, termittentlyshouting slogans wasbrought in amassive proces- Patna Sahib Ravi Shankar Prasad, Kushwaha said,“Paswan-ji al- LedbySudip RoyBarman, the with the PM. The PM cannotbe assembledfor thecremation. across the Ganga, and the con- suchas“Gunje dharti aasman, sionfromthe Paswan residence and Leader of Opposition ways spokeabout taking up the MLAsclaimto have thesupportof kept inthedarkonwhat’shappen- Paswan had died at aDelhi stituency that sent Paswan to the RamVilasPaswan (fromearth to at Patna's SK Puri. Manyofthem Tejashwi Prasad Yadavwere cause of the poor...it washis atleasttwo moreamongtheBJP’s ing in Tripura,” Choudhary said. hospital on Thursday. Lok Sabha eight times since 1977. sky,thereisonlyone sound –of expressedsolidaritywithChirag among toppoliticalleaders at mantra.” 36 legislators in the House of 60 Hesaidtheyhavetoldthelead- Hundredsofpeople had The crowdtook everypossible RamVilas Paswan)”. Paswan, the late leader's son and the funeral. Some political workers also (eightIPFTMLAsalsosupportthe ershipthatDebmustbereplacedif come from Samastipur,Khagaria vantageposition to catcha Thousands had gathered at LJP chief. “Rajtilak ki karotaiyari, Chiragreachedout to all sen- came from Uttar Pradesh and Deb government). theBJPwantstocontinueinpower and Muzaffarpurdistricts, and glimpse of the proceedings, in- Digha ghat even before the body ab aa gayi Chirag ki baari (prepare ior leaderswith foldedhands. Jharkhand to bid him farewell. ApartfromBarman,theMLAs inthestateforthelongterm.“What in Delhi reportedlyinclude is happening in Tripuraistotal dic- SushantaChoudhary, Ashish tatorship. The Chief Ministerdoes Nadda to Saha, Ashish Das, DiwaChandra nottrustany of his MLAs, he him- Scientists: Water Rankhal, Burb Mohan Tripura, selfholdscharge of morethan two address public Parimal Deb Barma and Ram dozendepartments. From rick- PrasadPal.“Birendra Kishore Deb shawpuller to vegetable/fish ven- meeting in extraction from air BurnamandBiplabGhosharealso dors to industrialists,everyonein with us,” Choudharyclaimed, the stateresentshim.” Gaya today addingthatthetwocouldn’tbein Choudhary reiterated that not implausible, Delhi as theyhad Covid. theyhavenocomplaintsagainst NewDelhi: BJP president JP Leaderscloseto Debaswellas the BJP or itsleadership at the Nadda will address an election BJP leaders in Tripurasaid there Centre.“We arecommittedto the rallyinGayaonSundayinwhat already takingplace wasnodangertothestategovern- BJP ideology,,” he said. will be the firstpublic meeting ment. “The government is very ChoudharyandBarmanwere by aseniorleader of the safeand Ican assureyou that amongthesevenformerCongress party ahead of the Bihar callyanetwork of membranes sevenoreight MLAs cannottop- leaderswhojoinedtheBJPin2017. Assemblypolls. AMITABHSINHA thatairhasto passthrough,itcon- plethe government,” TripuraBJP Sources close to Debpointed out BJP PUNE,OCTOBER10 denses,and the wateriscollected presidentManikSahasaid.Onthe that Barman had been removed spokesperson by drip. grievancesof theMLAs,hesaid:“I as ministerafter the Lok Sabha Sanjay PRIME MINISTER Narendra “Theairneedsto passatahigh have notheardtheircomplaints… electionswhensomeleadershad Mayukh said Modi’s suggestion to aDanish rate,andthewindturbinecanaid In the BJP,wedonot discuss such alleged that he hadworked Nadda will be wind energy companytoexplore thatprocess....Thesethingsareal- issues outside the party.” againstthe BJP’s interests. on aday-long thepossibilityof extractingwater ready being tried. We have to Asource closetothe CM said However, manyparty leaders DECISION trip to the and oxygen from air by using makethe processesmoreeffi- RamPrasadPal,anRSSleader,was saidBarman, brought to theBJP 2020 state, wherehe wind turbines were ideas that cient,” he said. notlikelytogowith the MLAs. by national secretarySunil BIHAR will also visit were notjustscientificallysound In fact, the Hyderabad-based BJPsourcessaidgeneralsecre- Deodhar,was notentirelywith- the famous BIHAR POLLS ON TABLE butarealreadyunderimplemen- Indian InstituteofChemical tary (Organisation) BLSantosh out supportinthe stateunit. Hanuman Mandir in Patna and tation at variousplaces, scientists Technology (IICT)has developed hadmetBarmanandconveyedto Choudharywarnedthatatthis the JP Niwas, whereJayaprakash Prime MinisterNarendraModi, BJP president JPNaddaand Home Minister Amit Shah have said. atechnology withprivate-sector him thatachangeatthe topwas rate,theCommunistscouldreturn Narayanlived,beforeaddressing during the BJP’s Central Election Committee meeting to discussthe listofcandidates for Extraction of waterfromair is companycalledMaithriAquatech unlikely, andthat the party does- to power. “Biplab Deb is preparing the public meeting in Gaya. Biharpolls, in NewDelhi. Theparty has already named29candidates. Thiswas the second already being done in several for‘atmospheric watergenera- n’tmakesuchdecisionsunlessini- the ground… If the BJP leadership Nadda will later speak at a meetingchaired by Nadda to finalise nomineesfor the Biharpolls. Union ministerRajnath places,including in India, using tion’ that has been deployedat tiated by the PM.Deb is believed is keen to keep Tripurawith them, meeting of party leaders and Singh wasalso present at the meeting. PTI different technologies, although severalplaces. This technology to have the confidence of Modi. theyshould replace Deb with workers at Patna. notwindmills. does notinvolve wind turbines. TherebelMLAshavesoughtan someone else.” PTI ButSandeepVerma,Secretary, “Wind turbines arejustan- ScienceandEngineeringResearch othertechnology alternativethat Board,saidwindturbineshave the can be explored,isalready being 4militants killed Woman who first challenged rightdesignset-upforharvesting explored.But otherwise, thereis TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE waterfrommoisture-laden air, no scientific implausibility in try- in 2gunfights in andeventhisideawasbeingtried ing to extract wateroroxygen CASES: RECOVERED:59,88,822 instant triple talaq in SC joins BJP out at severalplaces. The chal- from air,”IICTdirector Dr S 222 Kashmir: Police lenge, he said, is to convert the Chandrasekhar said. “Atavery DAYSSINCE 69,79,423 DEATHS:1,07,416 notjoin the party at the time. ideas intoimplementation. simplelevel,wheredoyougetrain PANDEMIC BEGAN TESTS: 8,57,98,698 | DOUBLING RATE: 66.62** LALMANIVERMA Asked what prompted her “Parameterssuchasdesignin- from? The technology we have EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE DEHRADUN,OCTOBER10 move now, shesaid,“Thegovern- novation,performanceoptimiza- developedprovides extremely SRINAGAR,OCTOBER10 mentattheCentrehasdonegreat tion,andrighttemperaturegradi- clean waterfromair.Itisalmost SHAYARA BANO, the firstpeti- work forMuslimwomenby mak- ents, can help extract waterfrom completelydistilledwater. Itdoes- FOUR MILITANTS, including at tioner in the case challenging in- ing alaw againstthe malpractice airthroughapassive,energy-effi- n’t have anysalt or minerals,soit leastone Pakistani national, were stant triple talaq in Supreme of triple talaq. The NDAgovern- cient process,”hesaid in aseries doesn’thave thetasteweare used killed in twoseparate gunfights Court,joinedtheBJPinDehradun ment is doing various other work tweets. to.Itrequiresalittlebitof process- with security forces in south on Saturdayinthe presence of forsocialandeconomicelevation Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, ing. But it is being done. Kashmir over a24-hour period. Uttarakhand party president of minorities.Butoppositionpar- Department of Science and “And notjustinIndia, but in KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING Police said one of the slain mili- BansiDharBhagatandotherstate ties mislead Muslims and create Technology,said separating oxy- manyother parts of the world.” TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* TIME** tantswas theoperational head of unit office-bearers. afear psychosis about the BJP genfromair is alsoastandard in- “Of course,”hesaid,“waterwe ■ Maharashtra 15,06,018 12,134 0.88% 81.90 the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). While the party has notde- through false propaganda.” dustrialprocess,andseveralcom- generatefromair is likelytobea ■ Andhra 7,44,864 5,145 0.75% 95.70 The firstencounter took place cidedany role forher yet, Bano Shayara Bano wasthe Bano had receivedatalaq- panies engaged in separation of little more expensive than water in Kulgam district. LateonFriday, said she wantstostart political original petitioner in the nama (divorce) by postwhile she gasesroutinelydothis.“Some that is availablenormally. Idonot ■ Tamil Nadu 6,46,128 5,185 0.85% 84.53 ajoint team of forces cordoned work fortheBJPfromBihar,which case. Twitter/UttarakhandBJP wasstaying with her parents in membranes areusedfor separa- have theexactestimates,but it is ■ Delhi 3,03,693 2,860 0.88% 82.03 offChingam villageinthe district is going to the polls later this Kashipur,Uttarakhand. In her pe- tion.Some moleculeswould go notexorbitant.” ■ Kerala 2,68,100 9,250 3.31% 21.77 afterinputsabout the presence month. tition before thetop court, Bano through, otherswould not. That’s Sharma said even thehigher of militants. As the joint team BhagatsaidBanowillpublicise will followwhatever political had argued thata“Muslim hus- howyou can separateoxygenas costs wouldbeacceptableinloca- *Compounded Daily Growth Rate overlast 7days**Calculated over7-day growth were zeroing in on thetarget, BJP's ideologies and will have a work theparty assigns me.” band’s right to ask fordivorce by well,” he said. tions wherewater is notreadily CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT militantsopenedfire. “veryimportant role”, especially Bano said she would also like utteringtalaqthreetimesinarow In this process, wind turbines available.“Thereare water-scarce Twomilitantswerekilledin among minority community. to contestthe Uttarkhand elec- iscompletely unilateral,unguided, could be usedmainlyasasource places wherethese technologies 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTED TODAY the retaliatoryfire. Policehave Bano told The Sunday Express: tions—scheduledin2022—ifof- absolute andhas no rationale. It of clean energy, Sharma said. arerelevantevennow. Thehigher 1.56 8.32 73,272 identifiedthe killed militantsas “I would liketostart work from feredachance. cannotbeidentifiedwith Muslim “Butintheextractionof water, costs aremuchmoreacceptable NOW: NOW: RECOVERED TODAY: Tariq Ahmad Mir of Zangalpora there(Bihar)if thepartysendsme BJP statevice-president culture and is notpart of Muslim wind turbinescan have an addi- at certain places compared to 1.54 8.13 82,753 Divsar Kulgam and SameerBhai forcanvassingthere. Iwill tell the DevendraBhasin said, “It washer law. So it is notpartofreligionand tional role,” he said. “The down- otherlocations,” he said. Deathsasaratio of Positives against Becoming sick vs alias Usman, aPakistani national. peopleaboutBJP'sideologiesthat firstday intheparty.Thepartywill hencenotpartoftherightto prac- streamof awindturbineisthrow- ShekharMande,directorgen- positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more Police said the killedmilitants inspiredmeto jointheparty.Iwill decide some role forher in the tice or propagatereligion and de- ing alot of air,soitworks likea eral, CSIR, said current technolo- indicator of progress (in %); indicatorof recoveries for 14 days were associatedwith theJaish- speakabouttheBJPgovernment's comingdays.” servesnoprotection.” compressor, or apump. Andfor gies obviouslyneedimprove- in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak e-Mohammad (JeM) and were work fortheminorities,especially Abusinessmanagementgrad- ShehadmovedtheSCin2016 extractingwater,the kindofsys- ment,and that effort needs to be DataasonOctober9,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbersinclude datafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive “partofgroupsresponsibleforcar- forMuslims women and other uate, Banohad metUttarakhand seekingabanonpracticessuchas temsthatareused,itisagainbasi- focused. rying out terroristattacks”. deprivedsections of the society.I BJPleadersin2018 aswell,butdid talaq-e-biddat and nikah halala. Posters near Chineseembassy in DelhionTaiwan Muslims most happy National Day trigger Beijing-Taipeiwar of words in India, says Bhagwat VIVEKDESHPANDE vidual or anymovetrying to cre- Chinas" or "One-China, one loving people. But it lookslike NAGPUR,OCTOBER10 Mohan SHUBHAJITROY ate“twoChinas” or “One China, ED Someback Taiwan", whichviolates this communist #China is hopingto Bhagwat NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 one Taiwan” whichviolates looking position.” march intothe subcontinent by RASHTRIYASwayamsevakSangh India's One-China policy. PLAIN E furtherEast Taiwan Foreignministry’s imposing censorship. #Taiwan’s (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has ● AS POSTERS on Taiwan National The government, or the EX Twitter handle put out apost Indian friends will have onere- saidthatMuslimsaremosthappy India wascreated,given thekind Daycame up near the Chinese Indian mission in Taipei, did not quoting Taiwan Foreign minister ply: GET LOST!JW.” in India despitefollowing areli- of atmospherethat existedthen, embassy in Chanakyapuri, the issue anystatement on the issue. INDIA FOLLOWSaOne- JosephWu: “Hats offtofriends In responsetoquestions on gion thatis“notfromhere”. Hindustancould well have said diplomatic enclave in the na- India follows aOne-China policy. China policy, andthere from around the worldthis year, the Chinese embassy’s note to Bhagwat’s remarks came ‘now, thereisPakistanfor tional capital, lateFriday,Taiwan Reacting to the develop- has notbeen anydepar- India in particular,for celebrat- Indian media, Ministryof whilehewasspeakingto pro-RSS Muslims and Hindu writ willrun and China had aface-off once ment,Taiwan’smission in turefromthe position so ing Taiwan National Day. With External Affairs spokesperson publication Vivek.When asked here’. But our Constitutiondidn’t again on Saturday. India stated:“TECC (Taipei far. But tension with China your support, Taiwan will defi- Anurag Srivastava had said on howMuslims and Christians saythis... This is our nature.” Taiwan’s mission in New Economicand Cultural Centre –the latestbeingthe on- nitelybemoreresilient in meet- ThursdaythatIndia has afree couldbebrought in tune with Askedif therewouldbe anag- Delhi said that it is “deeplygrate- in India) is deeplygrateful to going one alongthe LACin ing challenges, especiallythose media that reports on issues as “our thinkinglooking to theideal itation in the futurefor Kashiand ful to manyIndian friends” for manyIndian friends fortheir Ladakh –has prompted "GetLost" types. JW” it sees fit. of Ramtemple”, the RSS chief Mathuratemples, Bhagwat said, their vibrant support on its109th vibrant supportonthe 109th The posters were issuedby manyinthe strategic This wasareference to Wu's Earlier,inits email the replied: “Whichcountry’s “Wedon’t knowbecause we are National Day, and that Taiwan NationalDay of the ROC Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal community to advocate tweetonWednesday, postedby Chinese embassyhad sent a“re- Muslims arehappiest? India’s notthe ones to agitate. We didn’t looksforward to working closely Taiwan. Taiwan looksforward Singh Bagga. Express stronger ties with Taiwan. the Taiwan Foreign Ministry, in minder" that “thereisonlyone Muslims.Isthereany othercoun- startthe Ramjanmabhoomiagi- with India to harness challenges to working closelywithIndia whichhehad reacted sharplyto China in the world, and the trywhere areligion notoriginat- tation... We got attachedtoitin posedbythe pandemic. to harness the challenges the Chinese embassy’s state- Government of thePeople’s ing therehas remainedinpower some specific situation... Idon’t The Chinese embassy re- posedbythe pandemic and to Chinese embassy spokesper- the Indian government.China ment to theIndian media: “India Republic of China is the sole le- and is still there? ... Despitea have anyideawhatHindusociety spondedsharply, saying that enhance our cooperation on son Ji Rong said, “One-China pol- firmlyopposes anyindividual or is the largest democracy on Earth gitimategovernment represent- bloody history,Muslims arestill will do. All Ican sayisthatwewill Beijing firmlyopposes anyindi- globalsupply chains.” icy is along-standing position of anymovetrying to create"two with avibrant press &freedom- ing the whole of China”. here,Christians arehere. When notstart the agitation.” Lucknow WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 6 CALENDAR THESUNDAYEXPRESS,OCTOBER11,2020

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TOPOFTHE QUESTIONS STILL LINGER ABOUT PRESIDENT’S HEALTH WORLD Pak Oppparties Debatecancelled,Trumpreturnsto come out openly campaigningwithWhiteHouseevent against military Accuse it of rigging2018polls; Army Govt’stop infectious disease expertFauci labels WhiteHouse event twoweeksago a‘superspreader’ chief says actions guidedbyConstitution Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, head of the the militaryhospital wherehe He said of the Barrett event, “I of rigged elections as baseless. advisorycommittee ZEKEMILLER,JONATHAN receivedexperimental treat- wasnot surprisedtosee asuper- PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA AfterSharif, PPP chairman LEMIRE&JILLCOLVIN mentsfor thecoronavirus. spreader event giventhe circum- KARACHI,ISLAMABAD, BilawalBhuttoZardari on Friday WASHINGTON,OCTOBER10 Twoweeksafter his Rose stances.” That means “crowded, OCTOBER10 accusedthe militaryofrigging THE NETHERLANDS Garden event that has been la- congregate setting, notwearing the 2018 elections. Returnlooted LOOKINGTOshove hiscam- belledbythe government’s top masks. It is notsurprising to see FORTHE firsttime, Pakistan’s Bilawalwarnedthatanyinter- paign backontrack,USPresident infectious-disease expert Dr an outbreak,” he said. twomajor Opposition parties ference in the coming legislative arttoformer Donald Trumpand his team laid AnthonyFauci as a“super- Trumpisnow making the have come out openlyagainst assemblyelections in Gilgit- out an aggressivereturntopolit- spreader” forthe virus, Trumpis rounds of friendlyconservative the country’s powerful military, Baltistanwould lead to astrong colonies,panel ical activities, including abig planning to convene another media, callingintoFox News accusing it of rigging the 2018 reaction from hisparty,including tellsgovernment WhiteHouse event on Saturday large crowdoutside the White hostSean Hannity on Thursday elections that brought Imran asiegeofIslamabadandasit-inin and arally in Florida on Monday, House on Saturdayfor what his night and spending twohours Khan’s PakistanTehreek-e- the city.“Suchthings were never THE NETHERLANDS aweek afterhis hospitalisation Trump’s newplans forreturning to campaigninginvolve abig administration calls “a peaceful live on airwithradio host Rush Insaaf party to power. witnessedevenindictatorshipsof should return lootedart to foravirus that has killed more White House event Saturdayand aFlorida rallyMonday. Reuters protestfor law&order.” More Limbaugh on Fridayinwhat his In the past, political leaders General Ziaand Gen Musharraf,” itsformer colonies: That’s than 210,000 Americans. thantwo dozenpeople linked to campaign billedas a“radio rally.” have only indirectlypointedto Bilawalwas quoted as saying by the official recommenda- As questions linger about his the WhiteHousehavecon- Holding courtonhis reelec- the involvement of the military the Dawn newspaper. tion of an advisory com- health —and rivalJoe Biden steps Trump’s Covid-19diagnosis. tracted Covid-19since the presi- tion battle, his fight againstthe establishment in the country’s “I wonder howyou deploy a mittee to theDutchgov- uphisowncampaigning—Trump Trumpsaid the Commission dent’s Sept26event announcing coronavirus and revivednegoti- political affairs, but this is the soldier inside and another out- ernment. Afterayear of plannedtoleave the Washington on Presidential Debates waspro- JudgeAmy ConeyBarrett as his ations with Democratstopass an firsttime that the leadersofthe side the polling station. That was research,including inter- areaforthefirsttimesincehewas tecting Biden from having to take nominee to the SupremeCourt. economic stimulus bill, Trump twomain Opposition parties — so strange. Even if you(military views with people in for- hospitalized.Heisalso increasing on the President in person. But Trumpwill address the wasmaking adirect appeal to his the PakistanPeoples Party(PPP) establishment) have done some- merDutchcoloniessuchas hisradioandTVappearanceswith Biden’s team said the one de- Saturday group,expectedto beat base of loyalsupporters, whom and the PakistanMuslim League thing wrongornot,you would Indonesia, Suriname and conservative interviewers,hoping manding protection wasTrump. RACE FOR leastseveralhundredsupporters, he needs to turn out to the polls Nawaz(PML-N) —haveopenly be blamedeither way. This severalCaribbean islands, to make up forlosttime with just “It’s shameful that Donald from theWhite House balcony. in droves. He following with a criticisedthe military. should nothappen,” he said. thecommitteereleasedits over three weeksuntil Election Trumpduckedthe only debate THE WHITE Trump’s Mondayrally in tapedappearance on Tucker Formerprime ministerand PakistanArmychief General reportinAmsterdam on Dayand millions already voting. in whichthe voters gettoask the Sanford, Florida,was originally Carlson’sFox News.Inthatinter- PML-N supremo NawazSharif, Qamar JavedBajwa said on Wednesday. Humanrights However, next Thursday’s questions —but it’s no surprise,” HOUSE scheduledtobeheld on October view, Trumpwas asked if he was who is in London since Saturdaysaid that allthe mili- activistLilian Gonçalves- town hall-style Trump-Biden said Biden spokesperson 2, theday afterhetestedpositive. retested forCovid-19.“Ihave November lastyear andfacing tary’s actions were guidedbythe Ho Kang You, wholed the debate wasofficially cancelled, Andrew Bates. “Everyone knows time as Vice President Biden.” Announcementofthe new been retested,and Ihaven’t even anumber of corruption cases, Constitution and were in the committee, said that the afew days afterTrumpbacked that Donald Trumplikes to bully The Presidenthas notbeen event came as Fauci cautioned found out numbers or anything firedthe firstsalvo at theinau- “national interest”. Addressinga government should ac- away when the sponsoring com- reporters, but obviouslyhedoes- seeninpublic —otherthan in the WhiteHouse again to avoid yet. But I’vebeen retested,and I gural meeting of the Pakistan passing out parade of cadets at knowledge theinjusticesof mission switcheditfromface- n’t have thegutstoanswer for WhiteHouse-producedvideos large-scale gatheringsofpeople knowI’m at either the bottom of DemocraticMovement, an al- the PakistanMilitaryAcademy colonialism andbewilling to-face to virtual following his recordtovoters at the same —since his return days agofrom withoutmasks. the scale or free,” he said. AP liance formedbyOpposition (PMA) Kakul, Gen Bajwasaid the to return objectswithout parties lastmonth to oust Prime Armywould continue to support conditions. NYT Minister Khan. thegovernment and “defend our Queen’s honours Sharif allegedthatthemilitary democratic values to thehilt”. riggedthe2018elections to bring On September 20, the leaders list: Indian-origin Prime Minister Khan to power. of 11 majorOpposition parties HONGKONG He said interfering in politics formedthe PakistanDemocratic 9arrestedover tycoon brothers, in uniformamounts to treason Movement (PDM) to launcha under the country’s Constitution. three-phasedanti-government protesters’ prof, ‘Skipping His allegations sparkedanan- movement under an “action gryresponsefromKhan, who plan” starting with countrywide escapebyboat Sikh’ get nods said Sharif was“playing avery publicmeetings,protestdemon- THE HONGKong police KyrgyzstanPresident dangerous game” by humiliating strations and rallies before a“de- said on Saturdaythat they SooronbaiJeenbekov the militaryand intelligenceserv- cisive long march”towards had arrested nine people ADITIKHANNA ices. Hedismissedthe allegations Islamabad in January2021. PTI accusedofhelping a LONDON,OCTOBER10 group of protesters, who Kyrgyzstan bans were laterinterceptedby APAIRof Indian-originbillionaire the mainland Chinese au- rallies, imposes brothers, aleading Oxford Minutes after ceasefire thorities, flee the city in curfew in bid Universityacademic andaseptu- Augustbyspeedboat.The agenarian fundraiserfondlyre- takes effect, Armenia & arrestsseemedintended ferredto astheSkippingSikh, lead to send amessagetoany- to end turmoil the “mostethnicallydiverse” one who might consider Queen’s BirthdayHonoursListre- Azerbaijanaccuse each helping other antigovern- VLADIMIRISACHENKOV leasedonSaturday. ment protesters escape MOSCOW,OCTOBER10 Zuber and Mohsin Issa, who Hong Kong,where anxi- recentlyhit the headlines with otherofbreakingit etyabout Beijing’s tight- AUTHORITIESINKyrgyzstanon their multi-million-pound ac- At the militaryparade in Pyongyang, NorthKorea, on Saturday. 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NOCTOBER 2, Karan Johar announcedonTwitter that he and some other filmmakers were plan- O ning to make“content about the valour,values and cultureof India” to mark75yearsofIndependence, tagging and thanking Prime Minister NarendraModi forhis “guidance”. Justdaysearlier,Joharhad made an- Annushorribilis other announcement on Twitter,after one of his employees wasarrestedaspartof an offshootinvestigation arising out of the IF 2019 WASBollywood’s best inflating Sushant SinghRajput deathcase. year,with collections in excess of He declared he had neverconsumed Rs 4,000crore, and the liberating drugs, and that he did notknowthe ar- digitalspace, this year will go rested person. He also threatenedlegal ac- down as itsworst. If the pandemic- tion against“slanderous” statements. inducedlockdown deliveredthe The employeeisnow one of 20 held— firstgut punch, the tentacles of the four areout on bail,includingRajput’s Sushant Singh Rajputdeath inves- friend Rhea Chakraborty —aspartofthe tigation have hoveredonsome of Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) probeinto itsbig names. With three central “the citadel of drugs in Bollywood”. agencies partofthe probe, the Johar’s October 2nd tweetwas hash- message, manyfear,isclear. tagged #ChangeWithin, aslogan that first startedcirculating within the film indus- trylastyear,when the government kicked the mid-’90s, Balasaheb's elder son offthe 150th birth anniversaryof Bindhumadhavhad turnedfilm producer. Mahatma Gandhi. LastOctober,itap- Daughter-in-lawSmita Thackerayserved peared at the end of avideo on Gandhi by as president of the Indian Motion Picture Rajkumar Hirani (whose Munnabhai se- Producers’ Association from 2001 to 2003. ries wasinspired by the Mahatma). The The Sena’s ties with Bollywood, how- slogan wasalso the theme of ameetingof ever,havebeen transactional rather than Bollywood’s crème de la crème —includ- ideological. So Bal Thackeray could attack ing Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Shabana Azmi and AKHangal forwanting Kangana Ranaut and Sonam Kapoor — better relations with Pakistan, but never with the PM in Delhi in the thirdweek of said awordagainstSanjayDutt, namedin October 2019,wheretheythanked the the 1993 Mumbai blasts.Dilip Kumar chance to participatein“nation building”. himself went on to become great friends Ayear later,Bollywood is battered by with Balasaheb, till theyfell out again, over Covid-19, with work at almost acomplete the Nishan-e-Pakistanhonour to the thes- standstill. But the Rajput case hangsover pian. Shah Rukh’s My Name is Khan faced it as alargershadow. protestsafter he spokeabout including This is notthe firsttime the film indus- Pakistani cricketers in the IPL, while tryhas dealt with blunt instruments of the Salman Khan’s TigerZinda Hai came un- government —frombans during the der itsspotlight forleaving very few Emergency to theCensors, and from screens forMarathi releases. Income TaxtoCustoms. However, it is the Says Raut:“Balasaheb had very good firsttime that it finds itself the target of relationships with all...RajeshKhanna, multiple agencies —the CBI, Enforcement DevAnand, AmitabhBachchan.” In one Directorate,and NCB—at the same time. famous case, anotedyesteryear actor And the firsttime public sentimentsare be- asked him to helpafter his daughter ingwhippedupagainstsomeof theirmost starteddating amarriedmusician. popular stars, by TVchannels to politicians. In the Rajput case too, the Sena has It mayalso be the firsttime that said thereisnofoul play,and accusedthe Bollywood itself is so sharplydivided, on BJP of politicising his death. largely“pro-government” and “anti-gov- ernment” lines. One of the moreoutspo- ■ ■ ■ kenones in the latter corner,Anurag Kashyap, is facing sexual assault charges, The BJP doesn’tshy away from any with the alleged victim on Wednesday suchpolitical aspirations when it comes to getting an audience with Union Minister Bollywood. The Modi reign has coincided of Statefor Home GKishan Reddy. with movies uncannilyalignedwith its Insiders talk of asense of siege, aques- politics — PM NarendraModi starring tion hanging in the air:“Who’s next?” Oberoi (on October 10,the producer an- “It’s an attackonall fronts. Then you nouncedhewould re-release the film knowthat anything, the CensorBoard, when theatres open next week); The everything, is going to work towards Tashkent Files by Agnihotri on Lal Bahadur pushingyou down,” says afilmmaker Bollywood has spent the better part of this year looking over itsshouldersasthe Shastri’s death; The Accidental Prime with severalhitsunder his belt. “Weall Minister showing Manmohan Singh in a have slip-ups, especiallywhen making Sushant SinghRajput probeadvances,and expands. The powers-that-behavelong eyed poor light;and Uri: The Surgical Strike. films. Crores go through banks... some ac- 2017 sawAkshayKumar’s Toilet: Ek Prem counting mistake.That’s what they’ll use.” the tinseltown, but is thereaplottwistunder BJP? NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN &ALAKA SAHANI Katha, dedicatedtoSwachhBharat. At that meeting with the PM almost go behindthe scenesofaCovid-battered,nervousindustry In the social mediatirade in the wake of exactlyayear ago, an actorsaid aboutthe Rajput’s death, one object of insinuations #ChangeWithin initiative.“Asardikhega has been ShivSenaheirapparentAaditya aapko, eik saal, do saal mein (You will see Thackeray,and his B-townfriendships. An theimpact, in one or twoyears)”. No one youdon’t take sides, youare safehas been ring to “long-standing political, cultural One suchmeeting took place in ultimately. “The industryhas been very unnervedAadityaput out astatement that knewthen it would turn out likethis. broken. “That pretense that we arefriends and ideological associations” with veteran September 2017,three months before the secular in general. The workforce, musi- he had no connection with the Rajput case. with all... all those who claimedtheyare names.“The demand foraCBI probewas Ardh Kumbh in Varanasi. An organisation cians, artistes, is an assortment of all kinds TheSena seesthe entire episode, inclu- ■ ■ ■ apolitical arebeing targeted... Theyallow made by Rajput’s father.When the drug calledthe Naimisharanya Foundation or- of talent from various backgrounds.Even ding the BJP’s questioning of the Mumbai themselvestobeusedall around. That mal- angle wasunearthed, the NCBhad to step ganisedanevent forthe RSS attendedby though making the cut is difficult, it is a Police investigation intoRajput’s death, as But,few want to articulate the con- leability has ledustowhereweare today.” in. Allegations regarding Rajput’s bank ac- senior Sangh leader BhaiyyajiJoshi, Uttar place forequal opportunities.” an attempt to destabilise itsgovernment, cerns openly. With the tremors from the Another filmmaker fumes that big countsled to theEDprobing the matter... Pradesh ChiefMinisterYogiAdityanath, Veteranactor ShabanaAzmi questions and tarnish the Thackeray name. Rajput case being felt from Bihar to Delhi names are“justwaiting foranopportu- Whywould the BJP use asad incident like then MaharashtraCMDevendraFadnavis thenepotismcharge levelledatBollywood “MaybeifMaharashtrahad continued to Mumbai, fewerwant to go on record. nity,‘to proveourselvesmoreloyal to the the death of an actor to seek votes?” and film industrynames suchasSubhash following Rajput’s death—the firstone, as to be with the BJP,thiswould nothave Afilmmaker,who says he “dodged”in- king’, getaCBFC or NSD posting”. The BJP’s cultural mentor,the RSS, ad- Ghai, Madhur Bhandarkar,Sonu Nigam, shepointsout,followedbymurder, money- happened the wayithas.Itwould have vitations forthat meeting with Modi as mitsithas an “interest” in Bollywood. Kailash Kher and Himesh Reshammiya. It laundering, and nowdrug allegations. been done moreslowly, like earlier, well as forafunction in Mumbai to meet ■ ■ ■ “Whatever the industrymakes, they wasbilledasanexchangeofideason “Shah Rukh, Ranveer Singh, Vidya Balan, pullingthem in, entertaining them, alit- Amit Shah ,pointsto“so, so manylayers” makefor thepeople of India, and the RSS Indianness, a“Sanskritik Kumbh”. Padukone, Anushka Sharma, Nawazuddin tle bit of pressure,” says the filmmaker. to what is going on. “It’s happening as part Aflashbackto2014.The Modi govern- is interestedinwhateverisbeing done for Siddiqui,RajkummarRao,Khurrana...have of discrediting Maharashtra, attemptsto ment’s firstappointments to film bodies the peopleofIndia. But we do nothave ■ ■ ■ norootsintheindustrybutareamongstour ■ ■ ■ bring down the ShivSena-Congress-NCP were both controversial —Gajendra Chau- anyintention to control it,” says Pramod mostsuccessfulstars,”she tells The Sunday coalition, forthe Bihar polls, and to dis- han, the YudhisthiraofMahabharat TVse- Bapat, the RSS in-charge of media rela- But thereisalso confidence in the in- Express. As forthe drugs charge,Azmi says, With Johar’s tweetasignal to those tract youfromother crises in the country.” ries, wasmade director of the FTII, while tions in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa. dustrythat a“takeover of Bollywood” by “Drug addicts? Film stars have neverbeen outside as well as withinthat Bollywood The filmmaker says it’s also happen- PahlajNihalani, with among other films Bapatadds, “Vidyaaur kala (knowl- anyone party is impossible —itismade as physicallyfit as they aretoday.” has no stomachfor afight, thecriticism ing “because afive-year programme of Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi behind him, edge andthe arts)are meant to open the up of just toomanymoving parts forany- ShivSena MP SanjayRaut, who had a that the industry’s biggestare notthe bold- trying to rein in Bollywood has notshown wasappointed Censor Boardhead. As mind. No onecan control it.” However, he one to hope to bringeveryone to heel. social media altercation withRanaut (one esthas got louder.However, afilmmaker muchresults”.“There’s no stronger plat- both choices ranintouproar,did the Modi says,“It is ourexpectation, andofthe peo- Says the filmmaker who duckedthe of themostvocal proponents of thenepo- defends: “Right now, howdoesanyone form in this countrythan mainstream cin- government realise the lackoftop ple, that if youare going out intothe world Modi invitations: “It’s notevenreallyan tism claims), dismisses talk of anyparty speak? There’s awitchhunt on... The other ema... And this has been the rule book of Bollywood names by itsside? as an Indian film, it should carry the fra- industry. It’s just abunchofindividuals capturing the industry. “Bollywood does thing is, what usedtogivecitizensacer- the rightwing down the ages.” The situation hasnot changed much, grance of Indian values.” He insiststhat making films wheretheycan. Producers, notbelong to anyparty.Some actors be- tain courage,that whatever happens, the Bollywood wastaken abackbythe at- despitesome recognisable names like while the Sangh supports such films, it directors and actors areonly5%, 95%com- come candidates of aparty... go with the media will protect us, whereisittoday? tention the Modi government lavishedon Kangana Ranaut, and the twoViveks could notensurethese aremade. prise technicians and workers.” party of thePrime Minister. During the Themedia is part of thelynch mob.” them in end-2018,2019. The firstsuch (Oberoi and Agnihotri, who both make Thereisnocommunal agenda to this, As forcommunal dog whistles, those Emergency,SanjayGandhi attemptedto The filmmaker pointstoan“open let- meeting wasinDecember 2018 in morenews off-screen than on) attaching says Bapat. “Thisisabsent in our wayof “justwon’twork”.“Salman, Shah Rukh take over Bollywood but failed,” he says. ter” by the Producers’ Guild of India on Mumbai, with Modi, and AkshayKumar, themselvestothe government’s coat-tails. thinking. An actor’s religion doesnot and Aamir have genuine fans, and it’s not September 4, decrying the “relentless at- AjayDevgn, Johar,Siddharth RoyKapur, AkshayKumarhas lent his name to many speak about his relationship with India.” on the basis of religion,” he says. ■ ■ ■ tacks” on the film industry. “It wasavery Ronnie Screwvala and Prasoon Joshi in at- of Modi’s projects,and the PM gave arare Bopat also acknowledgesinformal in- Rashid Kidwai, journalistand author important statement, averywell-worded tendance. Theybrought up concernssuch interviewtohim ahead of the 2019 polls. teractions with the industry. “Wemeet of Neta Abhineta —BollywoodStarPower in However, if thereisany party that is statement. Did anybody reportit?” as the highestGST slab on ticket prices. “Fact of the matter is, youcannotman- people, speaktothem, theyalso meetus.” IndianPolitics, says it is talent that counts quiteentrenchedinthe industry, it is the Azmi also says Bollywood is being Then, in January2019, Johar along with ufacturesuperstars and youcannotman- ShivSena. Bal Thackeray’s association usedtodistract from the real crises facing small-time producerMahaveer Jain flew ufacturehits. Or Modi’s biopic (in 2019, with it beganbeforehefoundedthe party, the country. “LikeUrmilaMatondkar said, aset of young B-townAlisters in achar- with Oberoi in the lead) would have been through father ‘Prabodhankar’ Thackeray, if the industryisasawful as is being pro- teredplane to meetModi in Delhi. This the highestgrossing film... Theyneedthe who worked briefly as apublicistwith jected,why did the PM ask it to makefilms time the discussion wason“nation-build- stars, the big directors,” afilmmaker says. Homi Wadia’s film companyinthe 1940s. on Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology?” ing”.Ranveer Singh, whosewifeDeepika According to this filmmaker,the His brother Shreekant is amusic director. Thefilmmakerpointsout thateven Padukone is amongthose questionedby “armtwisting” is notjusttoget the big In 1968,when the party mounted its stars likeAamirand Shah Rukh were tar- the NCB, capturedthat famous selfie of the namesover to theirside, butalso to ensure earliest‘Marathi manoos’ campaign,ittar- getedafter theyspokeupabout intoler- PM surroundedbybeaming stars. It was acertain kind of cinema. He pointstothe getedTamil films as well as Hindi movies ance. “WhyisAamir choosing to keep four months before theelection, and spree of recent films with the villain a shotinthe south. One of the early targets quiet? He knows that if speaks, nobody’s Johar’s Instagram postofthe same selfie Muslim invader.The latestpush is to cor- wasDilip Kumar’s Aadmi. Butitprovedto going to be standing by him. Fewpeople gushedpraise forthe PM,and at being in- ner the “liberal voices” that remain. “They be the startofasymbiotic relationship. tweeting in supportmakes no difference.” vitedtocontributetoanational project. arenot falling in line with the BJP/RSS nar- Until then, sayinsiders, film produc- Mehtasays social media has had are- Thefilmmaker says whenthe Modi in- rative.Sothis is the firstdirect onslaught... ers had to look up to mafia ganglords such ductive effect. “If Sushant’s death had vitecame, people were scaredtosay no, They’redoing it intelligently, because as Karim Lala to sort outproblemsarising been debated with greater nuance, politi- but pointsout that going did nothelp. “A (those targeted)can’t saypublicly, ‘Guys, from large amountsofmoneypassing cians could nothaveusedittodivert us lotofthe people beinghit nowwereapart it’s justajoint’. Bharatiyasanskritimein toh hands —especiallyatthat time of licence from other issues. But we arenot open to of thatselfie... Youcan’t pickupthe phone nahinhosakta hai (This doesn’t happen at raj. The ShivSena made it moreorganised, nuance... The government has realisedwe and tell Modiji,Iwasinthe selfie, whyis leastinso-calledIndian tradition).” to the extent that itsmen could paralyse want ayes or no. We don’t want amaybe.” my wife being targeted.” ashooting if their demands were notmet. However, Azmi believes, none of this Among the vocal ones is Hansal ■ ■ ■ In 1970,the party formedawing called dims Bollywood shinefor the hundreds Mehta, whose criticallyacclaimedfilms the Chitrapat Shakha, to ensurethat headedtoitwith stars in their eyes. “Not include Shahid, on the lawyer of the Though the ‘Justice forSushant Singh’ Marathi films got propertheatres forex- achance.The fact is we have neverwit- Mumbai riots accused who waskilled. He posters arepartofits Bihar campaign, the hibition. It also stated adistribution arm nessedthe inflowoftalent we seetoday... attributes the fear to thefilmindustry’s BJP distances itself from the drug and forMarathi films. These days,ithas sev- people from small towns, theatre.” instinctof“self-preservation”. “Wedon’t other chargesbeingthrownatthe film in- eral unions in the film industry, and has One of them, what nowseems along, ownanything.Wemakeafilmand it’s dustry. “The BJPhas no aim to rule (Top) The selfie takenbyRanveer Singhand tweetedbyKaran Johar in Jan 2019; over the years built arelationship with the long time ago, wasRajput. gone. Thereisanoverarchinginsecurity.” Bollywood,” says Maharashtra BJP general (above)Chakraborty before her arrest and Padukone at the NCBoffice. Express industrybosses as well —production INPUTSBYZEESHANSHAIKH,VISHWAS However, Mehta adds, the belief that if secretaryShrikant Bharatiya, while refer- houses, financiers, directors and stars. 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Across Fifth THEAISLE COLUMN TAVLEENSINGH Impunity,thynameisUttarPradesh Twitter@tavleen_singh

AYOUNG girldiedonSeptember 29, were in Uttar Pradesh. Manycases of systemic gaps forwhichweall need to ■ TheUPgovernment soughtaCBI 2020, at Safdarjung Hospital, New rape areregisteredascrimes, investi- work together”. inquiryintending to replacethe SIT.At Delhi. In her statement givenon gatedand tried. Givenaconviction rate of the sametime,diabolically andvenge- India’s September 22 to amagistrate, the girl about28per cent, manyaccusedare con- ■ The Principal, Jawaharlal Nehru fully, the UP PoliceregisteredFIRs had saidshe wasassaulted and raped victed.Thereisabuzz forafew days af- Medical College, admittedthat the hos- against“unknown persons” forconspir- on September 14,and namedfour men terthe crime, but it soon dies down. pital did notconduct aforensicexami- acy,instigating caste conflict and sedi- illiberal PCHIDAMBARAM belonging to her village in district Some cases become ‘events’;the Hathras nation because, “as she and her mother tion.Recently, ajournalistwas arrested Website:pchidambaram.in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.Whenshe died, case is one forgoodreasons. didn’t sayanything about sexual assault, and charged. Twitter@Pchidambaram_IN the police hurriedlytook the body to the we didn’t examineher”. democracy village and cremated it at about 2.30 am on September 30. PANDEMIC INFECTS ■ The district magistrate(Collector) WHY INJUSTICE The girlbelonged to apoor Dalit fam- ALL along with the SP took the decisionto PREVA ILS THE MOST disturbing development of ily. Relativesofthe four men who were cremate the body in thenightwithout the pastsix years has been that the na- arrested described the family as neechi The Hathras case is an example thefamily present. TheSPsaid, “I have In astate wherethe administration is tureofIndian democracy has been de- kaum (lowlife) “whom theywon’t touch whereeveryone from the SHO of been told it is notunusual to conduct last tightlycontrolledbythe Chief Minister, liberatelychangedfromliberal to illib- with abarge pole”.Thereare thousands Chandpa Police Station to thedistrict su- rites during the night in this belt.....The Shri Adityanath, is it possible that each eral. The worldhas noticedand this ugly of such Hathras villages in India. These perintendent of police (SP) to the point is that thereisnoHindu way.” of the above actions (with the exception changeisregularly discussedinthe villageshaveafew Dalit families; the Principal,Jawaharlal Nehru Medical of the SHO’s) wasnot within the knowl- western media. But, mostIndians have Dalits ownlittle or no land, usuallylive Collegeand Hospital, Aligarhtothe dis- ■ The DM wascaptured on video edge of the CM at that time or soon notbecause the changehas happened in asegregatedhabitation, do low-status trict magistrate(DM) to the ranking po- telling the familythatthe media will be thereafter? insidiously. and low-paid jobs, and aredependent on lice officer in charge of lawand order gone in aday or twobut “onlywewill be The assault wasonSeptember 14; It continuestohappeninsidiously. Everyinjustice owesits the other dominantcaste groups. The (ADGP) to thechief ministerofthe state herewith you”. The brother of the vic- the firststatement of the CM wason So, when news firstcameofthe teenage victim’s father owns twobuffaloes and (CM) seems to have been infected by a tim said the DM also asked thefamilyif September 30 afterhehad constituted girlfromrural Hathras dying ahorrible origin to the sense of two bighas of land,and worksasapart- virus called Impunity.Itisasifapan- theywould getcompensation if the girl an SIT.Meanwhile, the keyplayers death, and of her body being burnedin impunitythat is entrenched time sanitation worker in aneighbour- demic has sweptacross the officialdom had diedout of coronavirus. continued to strut on the stageas thedead of night withoutlastrites or the in the system: my poweris ing school. in UP.Consider the wordsand actions of thoughnothing untowardhad presence of her family, it caused wide- my sword; my epaulette Emboldenedbygreat social reform- thekey players: ■ The ADGP(Law&Order)of thestate occurred. spread shame and horror. ers like Mahatma Phule, ‘Periyar’EV assertedthat the victim had notbeen Everyinjustice owes itsorigin to the By lastweek the storyhad changed. above my breastpocket(IAS, Ramasamy, Babasaheb Ambedkar and ■ The SHO sawthe condition of the rapedbecause, accordingtothe forensic senseofimpunity that is entrenchedin The same famous TVanchors who wept IPS, Dr) is my shield; my others, Dalits have politicallyorganised victim, heardher mother and brother, report, therewerenotraces of semenand the system: my powerismysword; my forher theweekbeforebegan to raise caste folk will fight forme; themselvesinafewstates; but their sta- registeredacase of assault and attempt the tears on the vagina were old and had epauletteabove my breastpocket(IAS, questions about whether she had been my government and the tus is onlyslightlybetter. to murder,and referred the victim to a healed. (He should read Section 375, IPC, IPS, Dr)ismyshield; my caste folk will rapedatall. Shesaid shewas and that hospital in Aligarh, but did not ask fora and the lawonthe subject.) fight forme; my government and the rul- should be evidence enoughwhen (if?) ruling partywill not admit medical examination. He did noteven ing party will notadmit anylapse or heralleged rapists arebrought to trial. anylapseorcomplicity, and ARAMPANT CRIME suspect sexualassault. ■ The officialdom of Uttar Pradesh complicity,and so on. Governmentstol- But, already her tragic storyhas been so on.Governments tolerate Rape is awidelyprevalent crime in lockeddownthe village,imposedaban eratethe sense of impunity as long as of- forgottenasthe Uttar Pradesh govern- the sense of impunityaslong India.According to datamaintainedby ■ The SP explained the failuretocon- under Section 144ofthe CrPC on the ficialdom does notdefy the writ of the ment spins afantastical tale about ji- the NCRB, therewere32,033 incidents duct amedicalexamination within72 roads to district Hathras, and barredthe government. hadistconspiracies and an ‘international as officialdom does not defy of rape againstwomen (excluding hours,asrequiredunder theinstruc- entryofthe media and political repre- Nowyou know whyinjustice pre- plot’ to malign the fair imageofour most the writ of the government POCSOcases) in 2019,ofwhich3,065 tions, with the words“Thereare some sentatives. vails: impunity triumphs over justice. populous state. Yogi Adityanath who hassofar not expressedone word of sympathyfor the dead girlorher familyappeared on na- tional television to confirm this suppos- then Gujarat CM, had made it clearthat he History edly malevolent plot. Did yousee the had no role in Singh’s expulsion from the Thefirst polls, firstrift, faces of the people who went to Hathras, inside party.One surmisefor Raje’ssurprisingin- he said, theywerethe same faces we TRACK transigence,eventhough Singh wasanold HEADLINE sawinthose protests againstthe friend, wasthat she wanted her son ANKITADWIVEDIJOHRI firstrush: Bihar,1952 Citizenship(Amendment) Act(CAA). COOMIKAPOOR DushyantappointedministerattheCentre These people aredetermined to spread if the BJP won. She sawSingh as competi- [email protected] hatred between communities and tion to her son. Another speculation is that castes because they do notwant Uttar asoothsayerhad predicted the 2014 elec- Pradesh to benefitfromthe ‘progress tionwouldthrow upahungParliamentand AS BIHAR preparesfor polls in the midstof and development’ that he claims he has DANGEROUS LIAISONS Raje couldemerge as adarkhorse forlead- apandemic, the rules of the game, from brought.Itdid nottakelong forthose‘in- ership givenher good equations with campaigningtovoting,arebeingrewritten, dependent’ TV channels who have be- CHIRAGPASWANisnot so mucharebel as Naveen Patnaik and Chandrababu Naidu. with the stateexpectedto setthe template comevehicles of government propa- apawninthe BJP’s two-faced poll strategy Singh wasseenasapotentialrival. forfuturepolls.Nearly70yearsago,when ganda to startspreading what they in Bihar.Paswan, fighting forafewmore the firstLok Sabhaand Vidhan Sabha elec- called‘the truth about Hathras’. tickets, neverdreamt that the BJP would tions took place in independent India in In the fogofconspiracies, money permittheLJPto contestover100seats.The WRONG TARGET 1951-52, asimilarpolitical resetwas in the laundering and jihadists,what has been firsthint of theBJP’s ambitions to be senior TheSPandfourpoliceofficershandling worksacrossIndia, including Bihar. forgottenalready is the brutal wayin partyinthealliancewithNitishKumarwas theHathrascasehavebeensuspendedand Politicians belting outparty promises whichthe teenager from the Hathras vil- at avirtual conference afortnight back if the fall-out continues the next casualty settocatchy tunes,bigleaderscampaigning lagedied. Asimilar game of smokeand whengeneral secretaryBhupendra Yadav couldbeUPDGPHiteshAwasthi.Butthere’s on cycles,women travellingin‘veiled’ bul- mirrors wasusedtocrush dissident observedthattheBJPinvariablyplayedsec- another Awasthi whose role warrants lockcarts to reachthe polling stations, and voices that rose againstthat discrimina- ondfiddleinBihar.InPatna,duringseatdis- scrutiny. The all-powerful UP’s Additional boothswithballotboxesindifferentcolours tory amendment to the citizenship law cussions, Yadavand DevendraFadnavis Chief Secretary(Home), Awanish Kumar and markedwith party symbols to help a in the early months of this year.Muslims were upsetafter the JD(U)’s Lalan Singh re- Awasthi,whoseordersarefollowedblindly. largely unlettered populationspottheir ShriKrishna Sinha (left), Bihar’s firstCM, and AnugrahSinha, the firstDyCM. GoI across India protested outofreal fear markedbluntlythat if the BJP wasdissatis- DuringAwasthi’stenureoflittleoverayear, candidate —the 1952 Bihar election, held that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act fied,itcouldcontest onitsown.TheBJPbe- theUPpolicehasbeenregularly inthenews, in the afterglowofIndia’sIndependence, wasgoing to be followedbyaNational lievesNitish’s popularity has plummeted whetheritisthefollow-upof therapecases wasboth“euphoric” and “challenging”. issue in Bihar 1952”. Among the manychallenges then, says RegisterofCitizens. It does notmatter if afterthe migrant crisis,unlikeNarendra in Shahjahanpur and Unnao or Vikas “The 1952 polls setsome ground rules. “IntheyearsafterIndependence, ledby Tiwari, wastoget thewomen to vote. their fears were right or wrong, what Modi’s.However, itstillneedsNitish’sback- Dubey’s gang gunning down eight police- Peoplewere unsure aboutcampaigning,is- farm labourers and the OBC community, “Women in Bihar those days didn’t write mattersisthat theyspokeindissident ward caste vote, justasthe JD(U) relies on men.Thepolicesubsequently“eliminated” sues...The Congress party washugelypop- demandforabolitionof thezamindari sys- their surnames. That made it very hardto voices and this is something that cannot theBJP’sforwardcaste support.Theperilsof Dubey andhismen.No onehasquestioned ular because of the freedom struggle. They tempeaked.The Bhumihar zamindars identify them at polling stations,” he says. be allowedinanilliberal democracy. being toocleverbyhalf is that Nitish, asea- Awasthi(IAS)asto whyaDubeygangmem- startedtheir campaign by launching slo- supportedit but the Rajput-Kayastha lobby But, he recalls, “When the dayfor vot- In Uttar Pradesh,the protests were soneddefector,could jumptothe RJD. berwas at the wedding of his daughter last gans around itselection symbol, apair of opposedit. This ledtofriction among ingarrived,womenwouldmaketheirway crushed under Yogi’s jackbootand in Nitish compelledthe BJP to announce his November.Awasthi’swifeisawell-known bullocks,” says former IPS officer and ex- Krishna Sinha, who wasfromthe to thepollingboothsinbullockcarts,singing Delhi when riots happenedbetween name as the CM candidate, but he cannot singer who tweets regularly in favour of Congress MP Nikhil Kumar.The 79-year- Bhumihar community,Anugrah Sinha, a songsalltheway...Theelectionswerelikea Hindus and Muslims (for thefirsttime forcethe LJP nottocarry posters of the late Modi. AfterHathras, some in the UP police old’s grandfather Dr Anugrah Narayan Rajput,and RajendraPrasad, aKayastha. festival.Iwasaround10-11yearsoldthen.” in decades), theywereblamedonaji- RamVilasPaswanwithModi.The BJP de- arebecomingresentfuloverbeing fre- Sinhawas the firstdeputy CM of Bihar, and AfterRajendraPrasadmovedon to assume Whileinthelateryearsboothcapturing hadistplotbythe Popular Front of India niesthatitsmembersarestrategicallyshift- quentlymade scapegoatsbythe IAS inner hisfatherSNSinhawasthestate’s19thCM. the President’s office, the riftcontinued, and violence became common, in 1952, (PFI). This PFI is indeedaghastlygroup ing to Paswan’s party in some seats. circle. He was, however, removedfromthe “The atmospherewas euphoric. India with the party being dividedintotwo fac- says Singh of TISS Patna, “the firstCEC of violent jihadists,but who allowed it postofAdditional ChiefSecretaryof wasfree.Peoplefromeverysectionof soci- tions. Once, AbdulKalam Azad had to come SukumarSendidagoodjob”.“Bihar’sliter- to become so powerful? InformationDepartmentearlierthismonth. etywerewith the Congress. Jawaharlal down from Delhi to sortissues,” says Prof acyratewas abysmal (13.4%)and so, likein Itsalleged involvement in riots in TRAGIC DEATHS Nehru wasanationalhero,”says Congress PushpendraKumar Singh of the Tata the rest of the country, theECput up ballot Delhi andBengaluru is believable, but RamVilas Paswan’s death adds one leader Shakeel Ahmad whose father,the InstituteofSocial Sciences, Patna. boxesindifferent colours to help people what could it have to do with Hathras? moretothe listofministers in Modi’s JINNAH SET TREND lateShakoor Ahmad, had wonfrom TheonlychallengetotheCongresscame identify their candidate. The pollingagent, The ‘international conspiracy’against Cabinetwho have passedaway. Gopinath Pakistan’s lackofdemocratic tradition Khajauliseatin1952.“Partitionhadscarred fromtheSocialistParty(SP),aCongressfac- usuallyalocal who kneweveryone, could Yogi Aditynathistoo ludicrous to dis- Munde waskilledinanaccident within a is blamedonarmy. But it wasMuhammad IndianMuslims,but the Congress partyre- tionthatbrokeawayinthe1930sunderthe challengesomebody if he thoughthewas cuss. What is worthdiscussing is the weekof takingofficein2014.MoSAnilDave Ali Jinnah who firstplanted seeds forthe assuredthem.InBihar,100percentof them leadershipofstalwartssuchasJayaprakash an imposter.The presiding officer took afi- growing paranoia about supposedinter- diedofaheartattackin2017. Arun Jaitley, authoritarianrule.Insteadof strengthening were with Nehru,” he says. Narayan and RamManohar Lohia. nal call.The ballot paper also had to be national interference in India’s internal Sushma Swaraj and Manohar Parrikar constitutionalism in the newnation, he in- While the Congress wasconfident of a “Theyspokefor thepeasants. They foldedinaparticular waytobecounted.” affairs. Notsince IndiraGandhi spotted passedawaylastyear,althoughParrikarhad sistedonbeinggovernor-general, acere- victory, within the party’sstate unit there spokeout againstthe Tatas. While they Polling forthe state’s 330Assembly the ‘foreign hand’ in everything from resignedhis ministerial post. Lastmonth, monial post. He then passedamendments wasaclash between itstwo stalwarts. were notthe sole voice of the OBCsor seatstookplaceonMarch 26,1952,andthe famine and floods to povertyand poli- MoS SureshAngadi wasavictimofCovid. to control the executive.Heperpetuated a “Shri Babu (ShriKrishnaSinha) was Dalits, theyhad their support. In Sahpur, voterturnoutwas 42.6%.With 239seats, tics has therebeen so muchparanoia in vice-regal system whichgavegovernor- known as Bihar Kesari and my grandfather from wheremyfather Ramanand Tiwari theCongresswonthepollsandShriKrishna the air.ManyNGOs andhuman rights generalandprovincialgovernorsveto pow- wascalledBihar Vibhuti. Youcannotcall wonin1952onanSPticket, manyDalits SinhabecameCM.TheSocialistPartycame bodies have hadtopacktheir bags in NOTHING PERSONAL ers on manyissues, to thedetriment of the them rivals, buttheywerebothverybig voted forhim,” recalls senior RJD leader adistant second with23seats. (Source ECI) India and leave or suspend their activi- Oneof thefirsttocallonJaswantSingh’s parliamentarysystem.Interestingly,except mass leaders,” says Kumar. Alongwith Shivanand Tiwari, 77. Recallingthetimesthen,theCongress’s ties because ‘foreign funding’ is treated familyafterhisdeathwasVasundharaRaje. in Sindh, all Pakistani governorswere RajendraPrasad, India’s firstpresident, the ButBiharhadn’tyetdiscoveredcaste as Ahmad says,“There wasalot of respect as criminal. Curiously, theformer Rajasthan chief min- Englishmenandsowere chiefsofthearmy, three men were regarded among the ar- an election tool, says Kumar.“When JP and among leaders foreachother.One of the Allthesethingspoint to India’s tran- isterwas believedtoberesponsible for navy and air force, as wasJinnah’s financial chitectsofmodernBihar. Lohiasaid‘backward’intheirspeeches,they storiesfromthattimeishow, despitebeing sition from aliberal democracy to an il- Singh beingdenied theBJP ticket from the adviser.ThisunexploredfacetoftheQuaid- The position of the three leadersand meantthepooracrossallcastes.Sometime theCM, Shri Babu gave Anugrah Sinha the liberal one, but who is going to makethis BarmerLokSabhaseatandleftnostoneun- e-Azam is broughtout in Pakistani scholar their communitiesonthe abolition of the in the 1960s, backwardcame to be associ- responsibilityofselecting the Cabinet. an issue? On the national stagethe only turnedtoensurehis defeat in 2014.Modi, IshtiaqAhmed’srecentbiographyofJinnah. zamindarisystemwas“thebiggestelection ated withcertain castesinBihar,” he says. Thesethingsdon’thappen now.” opposition party is the Congress and its leader,Rahul Gandhi,confineshimself to personal attacks on the Prime My ISOLATION Minister.Lastweek,hecalled himacow- ardinatrulyoffensivetone,absurdly AWEEKLY WINDOW INTO LIVES OF INDIA’S NEWSMAKERS AND THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON THEM claiming thatiftherewereaCongress government, ‘China would have been thrown out in 15 minutes’.Narendra ‘Children arehome,Iget to spend moretime with them’ Modi’s China policy has been adisaster, but it needs to be analysed without schoolyard name-calling. What precautions areyou taking? Credited withworking at the frame. Ihavebeentryingto restrictdailyin- ousdistrictsthrough Zoom and Facebook. This is true alsoofthe reforms in Iwear my mask allthe time andfre- grassroots to return the Congressto teractions but it is challenging. It’s notasubstitutefor meeting peoplebut, agricultural policy,but hereagain our quentlywash and sanitise my hands. I in some ways,ithelps in interactions. main opposition leader has simply also sanitise things that Iuse suchasmo- powerinRajasthan, Sachin Pilot, Have youhad to stayawayfromfamily? made those old chargesabout how bile phones, keypads etc. Itry to ensure 43, remainsone of the party’stallest Actually, Iget to seethemmorenow be- Howdoyou keep your mind offthe Modi’s reforms will help onlyhis ‘hand- social distancing, although it’s notalways leadersinthe state,and one of its cause Iamtravelling less. Since schools are pandemic? ful of rich friends’. Rahul is rightwhen possible. most recognisable faces outside. closed,Iget to spendmoretime with my Slowly thesituation is changing into he says that the media has been bullied children. something that we mustlearntolivewith, intosubmission. But,why add recklessly Have yougot tested forCovid-19? Since apublic rebellion sawhim atleasttillthevaccinesare out... It’snotthat that if the press had real freedom, Modi’s Yes. stripped offhis post of deputychief Do youtakeany specific precautions Iactively do thingstokeepmymind off government would fall in days. minister and PCC chief, Pilotis while youtravel? Covid.It’s all aroundand youcan’tavoid it. The mostimportant issue of allisthis What kind of gloves, mask do youuse? Apartfromthe mask,Ialso use aface We alsohave to remindourselvestobecare- frightening transition from liberal to il- Iuse the N95 as well as handmade back at work in the state,amongthe shield occasionallywhen Ianticipatethat ful...For example,the number of times we liberal democracy and it is unfortunate masks manufacturedbywomen living in people.Hesayshehas been careful therewill be alot of peoplearound me. washedour hands in March-April was that the Congress party has said almost rural parts of the state. in the pandemic but “when you muchmore. It has come down now. We nothing about it. have to take apicture,social Howmuchtime do youspend in front mustkeep our guardup. If dissidence continues to be delib- At work,what precautions do youtake? of ascreen? eratelyconfusedwith sedition. If every Imaintain distance, tryand ensure that distancing goes foratoss” Thesedays,alot.Whetheritisparty-re- What is the firstthing youwant to do dissident is arrested under harsh pre- peoplearoundmealsosanitisetheirhands. latedwork orothermatters,Iregularly hold when the pandemic is past? ventive detentionlaws. If poets and Butwhenpeoplewantto take photographs videomeetings.Onmy birthday, Iappealed Iwould love to greetpeople by shaking writers aretreated as traitors, it will not withyou,socialdistancingcango foratoss. INTERVIEWBYDEEP MUKHERJEE to everyone to notcome to Jaipur and in- hands...Iwanttotravel, watchamovie, get be long before illiberalism becomes Forpictures youhavetobeinthe same Illustration: Suvajit Dey stead Iinteractedwithpeopleacrossvari- out of the city. normal.

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COMPENSATION ISSUE TO TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT GST COUNCIL MEET TOMORROW India’s Covid vaccinestrials: Newideatobreakdeadlock:Borrowing Contenders &race to the finishline With various Covid-19vaccine candidates getting closer to conducting latestage human trials, and some newerentrants intoIndia’s vaccine race, The SundayExpress takes policyneednotbeuniformforallstates stockofeachcandidateand howclose we aretothe finish line PRABHA RAGHAVAN COMPANY:SERUM ditureinthe wake of the exacer- States suchasBihar have al- INSTITUTEOFINDIA AANCHALMAGAZINE bationofeconomic slowdown readystatedthat those states, Candidate: Covishield NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 due to Covid-19 pandemic,espe- whichhavemade theirchoice (developedbyUniversityof ciallycommitted expenditure in among the twoborrowing op- OxfordandAstraZeneca) ASTHECentreandthestateslook theformof salariesandpensions, tionsproposedbythe Centre, Type of vaccine: Non- to resolve the deadlockoverthe there’sareluctanceto putthesup- should notbemade to suffer. replicatingviralvector compensation shortfall issue un- port in vote. The concern is that OpposingstatessuchasWest (chimpanzeeadenovirus) der the Goodsand Services Tax despiteborrowingforcompensa- Bengal, Kerala, Chhattisgarhand Number of volunteers: (GST) regime, the upcoming tion,thestatesmaystillfallbehind Punjabhavevoicedtheirconcerns 1,600 meeting of GSTCouncil on in meeting their expenditurere- about their dissent notbeing Status of trial: Currentlyin Commuters at abus stop in KolkataonSaturday. AP Mondayislikelytosee arangeof quirements, whichcouldhave takennote of in theCouncil, and phase3 factorsinfluencingafinaldecision repercussionsonthepoliticalcap- Centre pushing forthe majority onthecontentiousissueof resort- ital base as astate goes in forelec- view. Theopposing states have TRIALSITES companyreviseitsproposaland ResearchCentre-NorthGoa ing to borrowings to tide over the tionsincoming years. also notruledout avote or alegal NewDelhi: AllIndiaInstitute conductphase2/3humantrials. Tamil Nadu: SRMHospital shortfall. While there’s adivided Avotingontheissue,however, routetochallengetheoptions,but ofMedicalSciences andResearchCentre- houseoverputting the issueto isbeingseenbysomeasamethod theywill firstexhaustall other Rajasthan: AllIndiaInstituteof COMPANY:BHARAT Kancheepuram vote, with non-BJP-ruledstates Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharamanafter the 42nd GST to quicklyresolve the compensa- possibleoptionswithintheambit MedicalSciences-Jodhpur BIOTECH likelytopushfor it even as the Councilmeeting, in New Delhi, lastMonday. PTI file tionstalematebetweenthestates of the Council. Maharashtra: BJMedical Candidate: Covaxin COMPANY:ZYDUSCADILA Centreisexpected to oppose any andtheCentre.“Oneadvantageof The GSTCouncil will on CollegeandSassoonGeneral Type of vaccine: Wholevirion Candidate: ZyCov-D move towardsgoingforavote,un- voting couldbethat it breaksthe Mondaydiscussthesingleagenda Hospital-Pune,amongothers inactivatedvaccine Type of vaccine: PlasmidDNA derscoringthatthe issue of bor- pendently. This would be outside sonsbeingconsidered,apartfrom deadlock.Evenif astate hastaken item of compensation, in ameet- AndhraPradesh: Andhra Number of volunteers: Number of volunteers: rowings areoutside the jurisdic- the ambit of Article 279A of the the non-jurisdiction of Council ahardstand, sinceadecision will ingwhichwillnotbecountedasa MedicalCollege- 1,125 1,048 tion of Council. Thereisalso an Constitution (provision forGST over borrowing,includethe mat- emerge outof voting,itcanstrate- fresh meeting but as acontinua- Visakhapatnam Status of trial: Phase2 Status of trial:Phase2ongoing. emerging viewahead of the Council and itsmandate) since tertakingapoliticalhue.That’sbe- gically resign to the decision.The tion of the 42nd meeting held a Tamil Nadu: Instituteof ongoing.Theexpertcommittee meetingthat anypolicy decision borrowings aregovernedby cause some states areofthe view Councilwilltake thefinaldecision week earlier on October 5. CommunityMedicine-Chennai, lookingintotheapplicationhas TRIALSITES takenbyindividual states on this Article293(provisionforstate bor- that voting on the issuewillget nowandtherewillbemanyother TheCentre hadinAugustpro- SriRamchandraInstituteof directedthefirmtosubmit Maharashtra: VIMSHospital- issue of borrowingsneednot be rowings),”aseniorgovernmentof- termedasastate’s politicalaffir- factors that will guide the deci- posedtwo options to states: bor- HigherEducationandResearch safetyandimmunogenicitydata Nagpur uniform forall states across the ficial involved in the exercise said. mation on the issue, adecision sion,” the senior government of- rowRs97,000 crore(on account -Chennai fromthesecondphaseofthis Gujarat: BAPSPramukh country, unlikeotherGST-related Though moststatesacknowl- whichwill have alasting impact ficialsaid. of GSTimplementation) from a Uttar Pradesh: ICMR- trial“forconsideration”. SwamiHospital-Surat,GCS decisions. edge the urgent requirement for onstatefinancesoverthenextfew Also,there’sscepticism about specialwindowfacilitatedbythe RegionalMedicalResearch MedicalCollege,Hospitaland “Thereneednot be auniform pending compensation funds to years. This is especiallyso, given the timelinessofother proposed RBIorthecomplete shortfallof Rs Centre-Gorakhpur TRIALSITES(FORONGOING ResearchCentre-Ahmedabad, policy forthis borrowing, unlike plan their expenditureplans for that the compensation cess is set options of adisputeresolution 2.35lakhcrore (including Rs 1.38 Karnataka: JSSAcademyof PHASE2TRIALS) amongothers GST-related issueswhereunifor- thesecondhalf of thefiscal,many to be extendedbeyondthe five- mechanism or apanel of minis- lakh croredue to Covid) from the HigherEducationandResearch Bihar: AllIndiaInstituteof Karnataka: JeevanRekha mity across the countryisre- states, including some of the BJP- yeartransitionperiodendingJune ters, whichare onlyexpected to market.The amountsunder the -Mysore MedicalSciences-Patna Hospital-Belgaum quired.Soonestate’sopinionneed ruledones,are also learnttohave 2022 foratleast3-4 years. elongatetheprocessof resolution, twooptions have sincebeenre- Chandigarh: PostGraduate NewDelhi: AllIndiaInstituteof Rajasthan: MaharajaAgrasen notbeimposedontheother,every expressedreluctance to partici- At atime when states are twoseniorstate governmentoffi- visedtoRs1.10lakhcrore and InstitueofMedicalEducation MedicalSciences SuperspecialityHospital-Jaipur statecan take thedecision inde- pate inavote ontheissue.Therea- strugglingto managetheirexpen- cialssaid. Rs 1.8lakh crore, respectively. andResearch-Chandigarh Maharashtra: Gillukar Uttar Pradesh: Prakhar Bihar: RajendraMemorial MultispecialtyHospital-Nagpur Hospital-Kanpur,RanaHospital ResearchInstituteofMedical Odisha: InstituteofMedical -Gorakhpur BRIEFLY Sciences-Patna SciencesandSUMHospital- ‘Consumer confidence at all-time low in Jajapur COMPANY:BIOLOGICALE COMPANY:DRREDDY’S Karnataka: JeevanRekha Candidate: RBDVaccine ‘Worstisover, Candidate: SputnikV Hospital-Belgaum (jointlydevelopedwiththe recoveryfaster Sept, set to improve in next 12 months’ (developedbytheGamaleya AndhraPradesh: KingGeorge BaylorCollegeofMedicine) ResearchInstitute) Hospital-Visakhapatnam Type of vaccine: thanexpected’ Type of vaccine: Non- Telangana: Nizam’sInstitute Recombinantproteinvaccine otherRBIsurvey saidhouseholds’ previousquarter. Respondentsin- replicatingviralvector(human ofMedicalSciences- Status of trial: They’ve NewDelhi: HDFC Ltd vice ENSECONOMICBUREAU INDEXFALLSTO medianinflationexpectationsre- dicated frail sentimentsonem- adenovirus) Hyderabad requestedpermissionto chairman and CEO Keki MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 49.9INSEPTEMBER mainedelevatedfor both three ployment and external demand Status of trial: Companyhas Haryana: PGIMS-Rohtak conductphase1/2trialsin MistryonSaturdaysaid the months and oneyear ahead peri- conditions. “Overall financial sit- soughtpermissiontoconduct Uttar Pradesh: Prakhar approximately400participants “worst is behind us” and the CONSUMERCONFIDENCE re- ods. Their perception of current uation wasassessedtohaveim- phase3trialsinIndia.Theexpert Hospital-Kanpur,RanaHospital around4-5sites.Theexpert ■ The consumer economicrecoveryhasbeen mainedatanall-time lowlevel in inflationandexpectationforinfla- proved.Respondentsmaintained committeestudyingitsrequest andTraumaCentre-Gorakhpur committeehasrecommended confidence index faster than expected.He, September with the general eco- tion over the next three months negative sentimentsonselling hasrecommendedthatthe Goa: RedkarHospitaland somechanges. declinedto49.9 in however, saidthat interest nomic situation worsening dur- were,however,ashade lower pricesand profit margins in Q2 of September as against rateshavebottomedout. ingthemonth,accordingto asur- thanthatinthepreviousroundof 2020-21,thoughpessimismmod- 53.8inJuly. veybythe ReserveBank of India. thesurvey.Morehouseholds ex- erated,” it said. However, thesituationissettoim- pectgeneral inflation to increase According to another survey Govttofacilitate proveinthe next 12 months, the over the three months and one- on the economic growth, real renewalofforeign survey said. The survey wasconducted year ahead periods, but the share gross domesticproduct (GDP)is RIL-Future Retail deal runs into The consumerconfidencein- duringAugust29–September10, of respondentsexpecting higher likelytocontractby 9.1percentin drivinglicence dexdeclinedto49.9inSeptember, 2020 in 13 majorcities. food inflation over the next quar- 2020- 21 butitisexpected to re- as against53.8inJuly. However, Perceptions and expectations on terdeclined in comparison with covernextyear,when it is ex- legal trouble: What are the issues? NewDelhi: The government the indexhas improved from general economicsituation, em- that in July2020. pected to grow by 8.2 per cent. on Saturdaysaid it will initi- 105.4to 115.9onaone-yearahead ployment scenario, overall price TheRBI’ssurveyonthemanu- “Real private final consump- by thegroup to cut down on the abledittoexercise the option of atestepstofacilitaterenewal expectationsbasis,indicatingare- situation and ownincome and facturingsectorsays expectations tion expenditure (PFCE)isas- AASHISHARYAN same. Beforethe Augustsale to acquiring all or partofFuture of International Driving covery in theconsumer confi- spending were obtainedfrom forthe thirdquarterof2020-21 sessedtocontractby11.0percent NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Reliance,Biyanihadbeenwooing Coupon’s promoter, Future PermitforcitizenswhoseIDP dence leveloverthe next 12 5,364households across these showfurther improvements in during 2020-21, followedbyan severalbusiness groups to sell Retail’s shareholding in the com- has expired while theyare months. cities, it said. production, capacity utilisation expansion of 8.5 per cent in the KISHOREBIYANI-LED Future shares in severalcompanies of pany, within 3-10yearsofthe abroad. Adraft notification According to the RBI’scon- “Morerespondents reported and order books.“Goingforward, next year.Real gross fixedcapital Retail’sRs24,713 croredealto sell FutureGroupinanattempt to cut agreement. has been issuedbythe Road sumerconfidencesurvey, thecur- curtailmentinbothoverallandes- respondents polledsome recov- formation (GFCF) is projectedto its retail, wholesale, logistics and down on the debt,but had not AfterFuture’sagreementwith Transportand Highways rentsituationindex(CSI)recorded sentialspending during the past eryinexternal demand situation recordalarge decline of 21.0 per warehousing unitstoMukesh seen muchsuccess. Reliance, Amazon said that the Ministryinthis regard. PTI itsthirdsuccessive all-timelow, as one year,when compared with and job landscape. Overall finan- cent in 2020-21.Itisexpected to Ambani’s Reliance Retail and dealwasaviolationof anon-com- therespondentsperceivedfurther thelastsurvey round.Consumers cialsituationandavailabilityof fi- grow by 10.0 per centin2021-22, Fashion Style, has run intolegal WhyisAmazonobjecting to pete clauseandaright-of-first-re- worsening in general economic expect improvementsingeneral nance portrayed optimism,” the the RBI survey said. troublewith Amazon, which the Future-Reliance deal? fusal pact it had signedwith the Malaysia situationand employment sce- economicsituation,employment survey said. The survey said forecasters claimsits“contractualrights”have Lastyear,Biyani’sFuture Retail FutureGroup. The deal also re- Airlinesin nario during the lastone year. conditions and income scenario Meanwhile, manufacturing have assignedhighestprobability been violated. had signedanother quired FutureGroup to inform Householdswere,however,more during the coming year,” it said. companies assessedupturn in to real GDP growth lying below(- deal with global e- Amazonbeforeentering into any direstraits confident forthe year ahead: The Discretionaryspending,however, production, capacity utilisation )9.0percentin2020-21.For2021- What is the Future- commercegiant saleagreementwiththirdparties. futureexpectations index(FEI) is expected to remain lowinthe and order books duringthe sec- 22, highestprobability has been Reliance deal? Amazon.Aspartofthe On itspart, the FutureGroup Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia improved forthe second succes- near future,the RBI survey said. ond quarterof2020-21fromthe assignedtoGDP growth lying in InAugustthisyear, deal, Amazonhad ac- has said that it had notsold any Airlines will have to shut sive survey round,thesurvey said. On the inflation outlook,an- unprecedentedcontractioninthe thewiderangeof7.0-8.4percent. FutureGroup entered quired 49 per cent stakeinthe company,and was downif itslessorsdecidenot intoanagreement stakeinFuture merelysellingits assets,and had to back itslatestrestructur- withReliance Retail, a Coupons,thepromoter thereforenot violated anyterms ing plan, the chief executive subsidiaryofthe umbrella firm of FutureRetail in adeal of the contract. of the airline’s parent group Vedanta delistingoffer fails, shares to be returned Reliance IndustriesLtd (RIL) worthnearly Rs 2,000crore. wasquotedassaying. group, to sellits retail, wholesale, As apartofthe deal, while What happens now? 266per centpremium over the Regulations,” Vedantasaid in a offeris125.47crore shares,which logistics andwarehousing to the FutureRetailwould be able to Both Amazon andBiyani’s ENSECONOMICBUREAU floor price of Rs 87.25 per share. stockexchange filing. islessthantheminimumnumber latter. place itsproductsonAmazon’s FutureGrouphave shownthewill- SouthSudan MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 “Inconnectionwiththeafore- “All equity sharestenderedin of offershares required to be ac- As partofthe deal, Future online market place, the twohad ingness to optfor an arbitration to tochange said delisting offer, we have been thedelistingofferwillbereturned ceptedbythe acquirers in order Retail will sell itssupermarket alsoagreedthattheFutureRetails be decidedinaninternational ar- THE MEGAdelisting offerofAnil informedbyVedantaResources to the respectivepublic share- forthe delisting offertobesuc- chain Big Bazaar,premium food productswould also be apartof bitrationcentre.Whilereportssay currency Agarwal-controlledVedantaLtd Ltd and itsindirect subsidiaries holders in accordance with cessful,”the companysaid. supplyunit Foodhall and fashion Amazon’s newplan, whichin- thatthetwo companiescouldset- has failedand the companyhas namely, VedantaHoldings Regulation 19(2)(a)ofthe Accordingly, the acquirers and clothes supermartBrand tendedtodeliverproductsinse- tle on going to the Singapore Juba: SouthSudan has agr- decidedtoreturnthesharesto the Mauritius Ltd and Vedanta Delisting Regulations,” it said. will notacquireany equity shares Factory’sretail as well as whole- lect cities within twohours of a InternationalArbitrationCentre,it eedtochangethe country’s shareholders. Holdings MauritiusIILtd (collec- Shares can bedelistedonlywhen tendered by the shareholders in sale unitstoReliance Retail. The customer ordering them. Future is yettobefinalised. As the two currencyinorderto improve What upsetthe Vedantaplan tively to be referred as acquirers) thepromotergets at least90per the offerand the equity shares of Futuregroupwasunderimmense Retailshasmorethan1,500stores companiesopttogoforarbitration, the economy, agovernment isthedecisionby LIC,whichholds that the delisting offerisdeemed cent of thestake. “The total num- thecompanywill continue to re- pressure from itslenders,led by panIndia. it remains unclear it the Future- spokesmansaid. REUTERS 6.37percentinVedanta,to submit to have failedinterms of berofOffer Shares validlyten- main listedonthe stockex- StateBank of India, to manageits The deal had also given Reliance deal maygothrough in all itsshares at aprice of Rs 320, a Regulation 19(1) of the Delisting dered by the shareholders in the changes, it said. debt, and the deal is seenasabid Amazona‘call’ option,whichen- the event of this legal tussle. With no subscriber churn, Forex reserves Pelosi, Mnuchin failtoreach Covid stimulus deal Bharti Airtel, Vi unlikely to hit record high said. mark. Republican President REUTERS It wasthe thirdstraightdayof Donald Trump, who initially of $545.6 billion WASHINGTON,OCTOBER10 talksbetween Pelosi and withdrew from the negotiations match Jio post-paidoffers Mnuchin this week.Optimism this week onlytoregain interest does notsuggestany subscriber US HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi over apossible agreement lifted inforgingabipartisanaccord, said ENSECONOMICBUREAU churninthe post-paid segment ENSECONOMICBUREAU and TreasurySecretarySteven US stockprices and setthe stage he wasopen to alargerdeal.”I NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 withrivalsbundlingfreesubscrip- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER10 Mnuchin failedonFridaytoreach forthe second straight weekly would liketosee abigger stimu- tion of OTTs likeNetflix intotheir agreement on aCOVID-19stim- market gain on Wall Street. lus package, frankly, than either BHARTIAIRTELandVodafoneIdea plans.Therewassomespeculation THECOUNTRY’Sforeignexchange ulus package, while the top But SenateMajority Leader the Democrats or theRepublicans (Vi)mightbefacingtoughcompe- of atariffwar with Reliance Jio reserves rose by $3.618 billion to SenateRepublican voiceddoubt MitchMcConnell, the top areoffering,” he said in an inter- tition from Reliance Jio, but they whenitcame out withahostof reachalife-time high of $545.638 thatCongress would act before Republican in Congress, said he viewwith conservative radiotalk areunlikelytoreworktheir post- post-paidplansonSeptember22. billionintheweekendedOctober the Nov. 3election. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left)and Treasury Secretary doubted lawmakerswould pass showhostRushLimbaugh. paid tariffplans anytime soon by Jio,whichearlierhadonlyone 2, 2020,the ReserveBank of India Mnuchin floated anew $1.8 Steven Mnuchin. The latter floated anew $1.8 tn proposal. File apackagebeforethe election, In an MSNBC interview, Pelosi either lowering rates, offering post-paid plan (Rs 199per (RBI) datashowed. trillion proposal in a30-minute thoughhe has notdirectlypartic- emphasized the needfor aid for moredata,orbundlingthemwith month), unveiledplans starting In the previousweekended Fridayafternoon phone conver- ipated in thetalks.”The proxim- stateand local governments to free subscription of OTTs like from Rs 399 and going up to Rs September 25, the reserves had sation, according to the White said on Twitter. tion wantedto keep spending be- ity to the election and the differ- help paysalaries forpolice, Netflix to matchoffers by Jio. 1,499. All plans come bundled declinedby$3.017 billion to House. But Pelosi aide Drew The newWhiteHouse pack- low$2trillionbut waseager to ences of opinion overwhat is healthcare workersand other first Thereare validreasonsforthe withNetflix(mobile-only,single- $542.021billion. During the re- Hamill said the offerlackeda agewas higher than an earlier enact afresh round of direct pay- neededatthis particularjuncture responders.Thathas proven to be operators to have adoptedsucha deviceplan), Amazon Prime, portingweek,theincreaseinforex broad plan to contain the pan- $1.6 trillion Mnuchin offerand mentstoAmericanindividualsas areprettyvast,” McConnelltolda amajor dividing line throughout stance,apartfromavoidinganun- Disney-Hotstar, and Jio kitty wasonaccountofrise in for- demic. Talkswill continue, he closer to the $2.2 trillion that the well as aid to smallbusinesses news conference in his home months of negotiations. Thepan- necessary tariffwar that mayad- TV/Saavn/Cinema. The post-paid eigncurrencyassets,amajorcom- said.”Weare still awaiting lan- Democratic-controlledHouse of and airlines.”Wewanttothink stateofKentucky. demic has infected at least7.6 versely impact theirrealisations. marketiswortharoundRs22,000 ponentof theoverallreserves.FCA guagefromthe administration as Representativespassedlastweek. that the Speaker is operating in SenateRepublicans have million people in the United Datarelatingto post-paidusers croreinrevenueterms,asperesti- increasedby$3.104billion to negotiations on the overall fund- WhiteHouse spokeswoman good faith and we can have some warnedthat theymight notsup- States and killedmorethan of BhartiAirteland Vodafone Idea mates by Jefferies. FE $503.046 billion. WITHPTI ing amount continue,” Hamill AlyssaFarahsaidtheadministra- progressin thenearfuture,” Farah portapackagenear the $2 trillion 212,000. Lucknow OCTOBER11, 2020 | WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM | PAGE 11 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE

SPOTLIGHT BOOKS AHard ActtoFollow ● Manbeena Sandhu on her biographyofMa Anand Sheelaand aride into the Orange world Theincredible journey of BarryJohn, aman ● Before Midnight’s Children: Extract from Coventry, England,who became amentor from economist Devaki Jain’s candid to generations of Indiantheatre professionals eye memoir The BrassNotebook

JUMPING THROUGH LOOPS Once the realm of socially awkward nerds, coding is now being pitchedas anew interactive playground for children.But is it really the must-have life skill of the future?

Amrita Dutta

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

OCTOBER 11, 2020 SPOTLIGHT 12 AHard ActtoFollow DOWN IN How a young man from Yo rkshire ended up as a mentor for generations of theatre professionals. JUNGLELAND The incredible journey of Barry John

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

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EXPRESS EDITORS The First RECOMMEND Darkness, Surrender Revealed The riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution Theessential Louise Glück readinglist—four Malini Bhattacharjee works by this year’sNobel Laureate forLiterature HE STORYofIndian politics is one of continuities morethan ruptures —contrarytothe popular imagination, bolsteredbyargumentsbyseveral AFTER ITScontroversial selection of Peter Tmainstream political analysts that the period e r 20 N el r Handk fo the 19 ob Prize fo since 2014 has pavedthe wayfor anew regime that has Literature, theSwedishAcademyreturned jeopardiseddemocracy and tarnishedthe “idea of India”. on course this year with a Laureate who Singh’s book,whichnarratesthe storyofthe passageof met with all-round approval: Louise the FirstAmendment to the Indian Constitution by the Glück’smasteryatlayingbaretheinnerlife Jawaharlal Nehru government in June 1951,provides an of the individual has long been acknowl- important interruption to this narrative. edged. Here's a list of four collections that The book drawsattention to the enormous impact of give a glimpse of Glück’s poetic genius: this legislation on the fundamental rightsofthe citizen. Some of the major modifications introducedincludedin- The House on creasedrestrictionsonthe freedom of speechand expres- Marshland (1975) sion in the name of “public order”, the “interests of these- curity of the state” and “relations with foreign states”. The PHOTOS:HARPERCOLLINS Glück’s second book of poetry, which Actalso enabledcaste-basedreservations by restricting came sevenyears afterher debut volume, Article 15 from applying to government provisions forthe Firstborn,isconsidered to be theone that advancement of backwardclasses; it circumscribed the announcedthe arrivalofapowerful new right to property and validated zamindari abolition by al- voice in American poetry. Oneofthe po- lowing the statetoacquireproperty without paying equi- The CodeofOrange emsin the collection, Gretel In Darkness,in table compensation and ensuring that anylaw providing particular,drew bothcensureand acclaim forsuchacquisition could notbedeemedvoidevenifitvi- forits exploration of the theme of familial olated the right to property.The final nail in the coffinwas and culturaltrauma, told from the per- the introduction of the Ninth Schedule, wherelawscould ManbeenaSandhu on her biographyofMaAnand Sheela, spective of Gretel, one of the protagonists be parkedtomakethem immune to judicial challenge from the Grimm Brothers’s fairytale. even if theyviolated the fundamental rights. Singh foregrounds the discussion by drawing atten- why she chosetowrite on Osho’s flamboyant former secretaryand Wild Iris (1992) tion to the political climateofthe years soon after Time and mortality yoke this collection of Independence and the “build- catchingaride into the Orange world 54 poems that won up” to the passageofthe Glückthe Pulitzer Prize amendment. Thereisade- in 1993. Written in tailedanalysis of howthe gov- Devyani Onial place and time.Mawas (or, rather, still is) head three segments, Wild ernment’s imposition of poli- over heels in love with Bhagwan. So muchso, Irisspeaksinthe voices cies relating to press thatat timesher emotion in thepastmay have of the flowers, the gar- censorship,enabling caste- HE WAS16when she accompa- colouredthe reality to appear different than dener and an omnis- basedreservations in educa- niedher father to meetgodman what it actuallywas. It happens to all of us. But cientgodfigure. In each tional institutions and re-dis- Rajneesh in Baroda, the beginning in her case, she mayhavegoneastepfurther, segment, Glückcreates tribution of land were of acomplex relationship thaten- or maybe100steps further,than an ordinary acyclical world, much challenged by the affected Sdured untilshe fledhis ashram in human being in pursuing her love and her goal likethe seasons, seeking answers to spir- stakeholders in courts.Inall theUSin1985. From setting up acommune of upholding the entity of the ashram. itual and intellectual questions. cases relating to press censor- in awild outpost of Oregon andunsettling a SIXTEENSTORMY Averno (2006) DAYS:THESTORY ship, mostnotably Brij conservative local communityalong the way, Besides Wild Wild Country,thereisalso OFTHEFIRST Bhushan vState of Delhi (1950) the flamboyant Ma AnandSheela (born Ma Sheela’s memoir, Don't Kill Him! The While announcing the Prize, the Swedish AMENDMENTTO and Romesh Thappar vThe Sheela AmbalalPatel) waspersonal secretary Story of My LifeWithBhagwan Rajneesh Academytook particular note of Glück’s THECONSTITUTION StateofMadras (1950), the ju- to Osho, as Rajneeshlater came to be called, (2012). What made youfeel the needfor a Averno,acollection in whichshe reworks OFINDIA diciarystruckdownstatutes andthe face of the movement till her falling biographyonher? ancient Greek and Roman mythologies to whichimposedrestrictions on out with him,whichended in a39-month Even afterreadinghermemoirandwatch- explorethemes of old age, grief, and, of BY TRIPURDAMAN free speech. In Champakam prisonspellfor aseries of charges, including ing the series, Iwas notsatisfied. Justlikeme, course, her forte—familial relationships SINGH Dorairajan vState of Madras immigration fraud, wiretapping and poison- Ifelt therewould bemanywho had questions. andthedissolutionof emotional bonds.In Penguin Random (1951), the Madras High Court, ing.Inthis interview, Manbeena Sandhu InNothingto Lose,Ihaveansweredthoseques- Averno,Glücktakes up the storyof House and, later,the Supreme Court speakson what ledher to document the story tions,filledinthe vibrant colours, theintricate Persephone, daughter of Zeus, king of gods, 288 pages; `599 declared theGovernment of an unconventional lifeand the innerworld details, followedthe timelines and have cov- and Demeter, goddess of earth, who was Orderproviding caste-based of acontroversial cult.Excerpts: ered the gaps, as muchaspossible. Through abductedby Hades,the ruler of the under- reservations to be unconstitutional. this book,the reader will walk through the world. Even thoughthe poettellsthe story With elections looming ahead and mostofhis new Your biographyofMaAnand Sheela Orangeworld,along with Ma Sheela. He will from various perspectives,she insists it schemes being thwartedbythe courts,Nehru wascon- comesafter having followedthe Osho POWER POINTS be able to peep intoher heartand her mind; “should be read /asanargument between vincedthat the legal process of testing legislation against movementfor twodecades. When did (Top) Sandhu (in white) with Ma Anand Sheela; Osho and Ma Sheela and hear the conversations and witness the themother and thelover”. The 18 poems in the Constitution wasdelaying his party’s social reform youknowthat youwanted to write actions that took place behind closeddoors. the collection arethematicallylinked and agenda. He introducedthe FirstAmendment Bill to the on her? form arichtapestryofvoicesoffiguresthat Parliament on May12. Aftertwo weeksofstormydiscus- As soon as Iwas introducedtoOsho’s What wasyour firstmeetinglike? Howdoyou assess herfeelings for recur in the Greek myth. sions, it waspassedonJune 2. work,Igot introduced to Sheelaaswell. Not Ifirstmet Ma Sheela in May2019in Osho now? Thereare fascinating accountsofthe parliamentaryde- throughthe Guru’sbooksortalks, but through Switzerland. Prior to meeting her, Ihad, over She still has photographs of him at her Faithful and Virtuous bates that ragedbetween Nehru and stalwarts likeSP his sannyasins. In my opinion,MaSheela and the phone,expressedmydesiretowriteher home.Sheexplains her39-monthprisonterm Night (2014) Mookerji, HN Kunzru and Hussain Imam that the author Rajneesh areinseparable. Ihaven’t heardone story. But shewas notconvinced justbya as simplyher guru dakshina.She is still dearly eloquentlydescribes as the “firstbattle of Indian liberal- storyofRajneesh without the mention of voice at the other end of the line and wanted in love withher Bhagwan.Hispictures hangin In her essay‘Disruption, Hesitation, ism”. These highlighthow despiteprotestsbypublic lumi- Sheela. As Igot seepedintothe movement, in- to see me in person. Ifirstsaw her at the air- the livingroom of her carehome and her bed- Silence’ (1994, Proofsand Theories), Glück naries, including incumbent governors, jurists andeven formation aboutSheela startedpouring from port. IstayedinSwitzerland forabout10 room is full of images of Bhagwan and Sheela writes: “I do notthinkthatmoreinfor- senior Congress members, the governmentremained un- all directions. Afew of Guru’s disciples loved days,and, during those days,Ispent six to in love.One gets thrownbackintime as one mation always makes aricher poem.Iam deterred.The final chapterdwells on the aftermath of the her,afew despisedher but none could ignore eight hours eachday in her company. Before steps in her bedroom. Suddenly, Bhagwan, attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to sug- amendment,the mostimportant being that it setaprece- her.She seemedintriguing. Right offthe bat, I meeting Ma Sheela, Iwas alittle intimidated Sheela and the Orangeworld come alive. gestion,toeloquent, deliberatesilence. dent foramending the Constitution to either overturn ju- knewthat Iwantedto meether,knowher and by the personality thatIhad seen and heard The unsaid, forme, exerts great power: dicial pronouncementsortosuit governmentagenda. writeabout her.Eventhough the information of. She wasverydifferent from what I, and From running asprawling commune to oftenIwish an entire The book makes it evident that the FirstAmendment of her whereaboutswas noteasy to access,the theworld, perceivesher to be —she wassoft NOTHINGTO running carehomes in Switzerland at poem could be made providedthe DNAofaHobbesian stateinpostcolonial desiretocapture her life storykeptgetting and full of emotion. LOSE:THE age70, it’s been along journey. in this vocabulary.” India and laid the foundation of the Nehruvian state. It stronger overthe years. AUTHORISED Her lifeisverydifferent now, it is purelya Among her remark- BIOGRAPHYOF also lays barethe schisms within the Congress party,the Howopen wasshe with sharing the MAANAND lifeofservicededicated to thoseinneed. But able experimentswith pressureappliedonthe president’s office to bend to the It wasChapman andMaclainWay’s unsavouryepisodes of her lifewith you? SHEELA she still is the queenofher kingdom. She has form, Faithfuland will of the government, and the ways in whichthe judici- Netflixdocumentary Wild Wild Country The unsavouryepisodes were rather in- astaff of over 30 people who areconstantlyat Virtuous Night is also arywas subordinated by the executive.Mostimportantly, (2018) thatdreweveryone’s attention to teresting to talk about. She could sense my BY MANBEENA her beck and call and anumber of chauffeurs notable forthe power the storyalso blurs the dichotomies that political analysts Ma Sheela. She was, in manyways,the hesitationand would rather cometomyres- SANDHU to drive her and her patientsaround. of suggestion that slip into: the liberal Nehruvian vision of India versus the anti-heroofthe series. When youmet her cuebyansweringmostopenlyand candidly. HarperCollins hangs heavy over the RSS’s authoritarian one, between progressive andreac- last year,how muchofthat tough-talk- She is very bold that way. India In interviews from thoseheady Oregon collection.Asshe writesinAfterword,a tionarypolitics. It leavesuswondering whythis storywas ing, controversy-courting woman did 332 pages days,she is supremelydismissive and de- poemfromthe collection, “Reading what nevertold before;isitamerecoincidence or apartofa yousee? Did she ever express remorse about some `599 liberately provocative.What wasthe most Ihavejust written, Inow believe/ Istopped deliberatepolitical project? The book maintains adigni- Other than catching aglimpse or twoof of the things that she wasaccusedof? provocative thingshe said to you? precipitously,sothatmystory seems to fied restraint in answering this question. that old time ‘Sheela’ in her sharp eyes, brisk Ma Sheelamaintainsthat she has dedi- Honestly, nothing! Ihad once jokingly have been/ slightlydistorted,ending, as it gait and quickwit,Icouldn’t see muchof catedher lifetoBhagwan(Osho) andshe asked her to say‘tough titties’for me and she did,not abruptly/ but in akind of artificial MaliniBhattacharjeeisassistantprofessor,AzimPremji that controversy-courting woman that the served him the best wayshe possiblycould. laughedand said, ‘Oh Manbeena, those kinds mistofthe sort/sprayed ontostagestoallow University,Bengaluru worldknows heras. Time doesn’t stand still, Yes, therewas insurmountable pressurethat of wordsare onlyfor thoseshrewdjournalists fordifficult setchanges”. Thebookwon the it movesonand with time we evolve and she wasreeling under and she made her who deserveevery bit of it and who needto National Book Awardfor Poetry in the US change; so has Ma Sheela. judgementsaccording to the demands of be setstraight, notfor aperson likeyou.’ the sameyear.

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

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WITH THE poise of aveteran and the shotsof achampion, 19-year-oldIga Swiatek picked stake in Sunday’s final, JimmyButler (right) scored 35 the perfect place forher firsttour-leveltitle: points, grabbed 12 rebounds, the FrenchOpen. had 11 assists. USATODAY Sports Unseededand ranked merely54th, more than meetsthe eye Swiatek grabbed thelastsix games to beat SofiaKenin6-4,6-1inthefinalatRolandGarros on Saturday, becoming the firstPolish tennis playertowin aGrand Slam singles trophy. SHAHIDJUDGE Butler pours When she smackedone lastforehand winner MUMBAI,OCTOBER10 to thecornerto endthings,Swiatekplacedher cold water on right hand over her mouth then crouched, OVER THE years,promotional television ad- shaking herhead. vertisements forthe FrenchOpen have had "It's crazy.Two years ago, Iwon ajunior asimilartheme.There’d be the face of a Lakers’ party GrandSlam,andrightnow I'mhere.Itfeelslike weeping Martina Hingis, frustrated images such ashort time," Swiatek said, her voice of Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, and even a THE BANNERs were ready to be un- cracking. "I'm just overwhelmed." forlorn expression from the stoic and great furled,confetti wasonthe vergeof Hardtobelieve?Maybe.Thiswas,afterall, PeteSampras. being showered, the Larry O’Brien only her seventh majortournament; she'd The caption would suggest: forall their championshiptrophywas shown neverbeen pastthe fourth round. achievementsand success,it’sonlythe before the game –the NBAwas gear- But the wayshe playedthese twoweeks crownatRoland Garrosthat eludedthem. ing up foraLakers celebration. But made this outcome less of asurprise. And then the picturewould switchtothat JimmyButlerproducedaseason- Swiatek is the firstwoman to triumph in of Rafael Nadal,beaming as he holds aloft saving performance forMiami Heat, Paris withoutceding aset sinceJustine Henin his firstCoupe des Mousquetaires, then the who stunnedLakers 111-108 in in 2007.She lostonly28gamesacross seven second, then third… and finallythe 12th. AgainstNovak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal Game 5ofthe 2020 NBAFinals at matches,too. On Sunday, that unbreakable Spanish leads by 17-7 on clayand by 6-1 at DisneyWorld, Orlando. Sheisthe firstteen to win the women'sti- wall on the Parisian redbrickdustwill be Roland Garros. AP tleatthe FrenchOpen sinceIva Majoliin1997. gunning forhis 13th French Open title, To be likeKobe AndSwiatekdiditwithvictoriesoversuchop- againsthis biggestrival, WorldNo1Novak The Lakers came out in their spe- ponentsas2018championSimonaHalepand Djokovic. cial commemorative Black Mamba 2019 runner-up Marketa Vondrousova,both It will be the 56th match-up between the The Serb, ayear youngerthan 34- jerseys –ajerseyinwhichtheywere by scoresof6-1,6-2. toptwo seeds —the mostplayedtie in the year-old Nadal, has 17 Majortitles undefeated in the NBApostseason. So it made sense that Swiatek would be history of the sport. The 16th time theyface AnthonyDavis waswearing Kobe’s abletoget pastKenin,a21-year-oldAmerican eachother at aGrand Slam, andthe ninth to his name. Nadal has 19,and shoes. LeBron James was17of18 who wastrying to claim her second major ti- time in aMajor final (theysharea4-4 Swiss maestroRoger Federer, whenitcame to closing out agame to tle of 2020 afterwinning the Australian Open record). This is also the thirdtime the face- end aplayoff series. The messagewas in February. offfor the title at the FrenchOpen. now39, is currentlyon20. loud and clear –this wasthe night LA "Agreattournament.Agreatmatch,"Kenin IgaSwiatek,19, is the firstteentowin thewomen's title at the FrenchOpen But this match, forall that has transpired were goingtowin the title forKobe told Swiatek during the trophyceremony. since IvaMajoli in 1997. Reuters in this curtailedyear,will be about much Bryant. Kenin was16-1 in Grand Slam matches until morethan justdeciding who wins the 2020 Slam when winning elsewherehas been a But the league is littered with Saturday. But she dealt withaleg issue in the FrenchOpen title. Thereishistory at stake, toughtask. players forwhom Bryant wasnoth- second setand showed frustration by kicking and the resultcouldhaveasignificant bear- He’s wonthe RolandGarrostitle with- ing shortofagod. The mostKobe-es- herred-white-and-blueracket afterlostpoints. ingonthe ‘GreatestofAll Time’ debate. out dropping aset threetimes –tying him queplayerinthis serieshas notbeen And thentherewas this:She ranintothe When all is said and done, and the Big 3 with BjornBorgand American RichardSears aLaker.Instead,ithas been Jimmy composedSwiatek,who onlyrecentlycom- Her top-spin, anew high hang up their racquets,Djokovic might well (who playedinthe 1880s) forthe mostnum- Butler,whose tireless effort wasan pletedher high school studies, listens to be the one holding the all-time recordfor berofSlams without losing aset. embodiment of what Bryant stood for. “Welcometo theJungle”by Guns N'Rosesbe- the mostnumber of Grand Slam titles in the On Sundayhehas the chance to break Butlerplayedfor 47 minutes and 22 fore walkingoncourt,travelswithasportspsy- for women’stennis men’s game. that record.But he’ll have to beat oneofonly secondsout of apossible48. In an chologistand meditates duringchangeovers, The Serb, ayear younger than 34-year- twoplayers who have ever defeated himat elimination game, he scored 35 breathing slowly with her eyes closed. ON SATURDAy,Iga Swiatek became the hand. The net-clearance on her ground- old Nadal, has 17 Major titles to his name. the French Open –the other being Robin points, grabbed 12 rebounds, had 11 "I wasjustmentally consistent,:Swiatek ninth first-time women's singles cham- strokesishigh and the ball flies fewfeet Nadal has 19,and Swiss maestroRoger Soderling. assists and five steals in his second said. ?I felt liketodaywas reallystressful for pion in thelast14Grand Slams. Against over the netbut still drops in because to Federer,now 39, is currentlyon20. triple-double of these NBAFinals. me, so it waskind of hard.? This weekend is Sophie Kenin in the FrenchOpen final, the spin. Agemay be on Djokovic’s side in this era Chasing the Swiss the culminationofanunusualtwo weeks, to Swiatek showedwhatshe has shown of tennis whereanew guardoftalented Awin forNadal will tie him with Whydid the Lakers lose? saythe least. throughout the tournament:pureclay- Direction players has startedtoconstantlypush the Federer’s recordof20Slams. Djokovic will Lebron James(40 points, 13 re- The tournament waspostponedform courttennis.At19, sheisthe youngest The heavy topspin means the ball unshakable veteranchampions. go up to 18 if he wins. But should the Serb bounds, 7assists)and AnthonyDavis May-June to September-October because of winneratRoland Garrossince Rafael jumps upon hittingthe clay, even with But the 33-year-old also has agame win, he will remove that oneasterisk from (28 points, 12 rebounds, 3steals, 3 thecoronaviruspandemic;therecentlyrising Nadal in 2005. And she has borroweda heavier balls and colder conditionsdur- suited forall surfaces. Adefensivebase- his career that hasbeensomething even blocks)wereacombined68points number of COVID-19 cases in France ledthe couple of pages from her favouritetennis ing this year's FrenchOpen. And higher liner –byfar the best retrieverinthe game Federer hasn’t managed to do:beat Nadal from 24/36 shooting. The rest of the governmentto limitthenumberof spectators player's playbook,namely bounce means the ball is usually -who has become muchmoreaggressive in the final of the FrenchOpen. Lakers were amiserly 14/46 on all allowedonthe grounds to 1,000 each day. tons of topspinand alethal out of that ideal waist-high in his approachoverthe years, Djokovic It will also makehim the onlyplayerin shots.It’s easy to blame DannyGreen Some topwomen, including 2019 champion forehand. striking zone forgroundstrokes. can decimateopponentsonhard, grass the Open Eratohavewon allfourGrand formissing awide-open three in the AshBartyandthree-timemajorchampNaomi Kenin —who at 5'7 is twoinches and claycourts. Slams at least twice. lastseconds of the game. But Lakers’ Osaka didn'tenter the event;23-timeSlam Topspin shorterthan Swiatek —was He’s won11hardcourtGrand Slams So far, in this pandemic-hit season, entiresupporting castfalteredaround winner Serena Williams withdrew before the The averageRPM (revo- forced to either step intothe ball (eight at the Australian Open and three at Djokovic has a36-1 win-loss record. And their twogiantsatsome inexcusable second round withaninjury. lutions per minute) Swiatek to catch it on the rise, or hang the US Open), five titlesatWimbledonand he’s arguablythe onlyperson who can top-

EXPLAINED E● momentsofthe game. The temperature wasinthe mid-50s (low putsonher winners is in the backtohit it while it dropped. the 2016 FrenchOpen. With suchprofi- pleNadal offhis Parisian perch.But that teens Celsius), with aslightbreeze, and the mid-2400s, on par with ciency,therewon’tbeany surprise to see won’t be easy,and Djokovic knows that. Robinson comes good hundredsoffans scattered in CourtPhilippe men's semifinalistDiegoSchwartzman. Rallies him rake in multiple Slams in asingle cal- “I hopefullywill be abletoplaymybest In aloaded2018NBA Draft, Chatrier were mostlysubdued?other thana She has averaged the highesttopspin win- Swiatek uses the heavy-topspin endar year forthe next fewseasons, which tennis, becausethat's what's going to be DuncanRobinson went undrafted. group that would shout out Swiatek'sfirst ners on the women's side at close to strokestoexploit angles and createawk- will push him aheadofNadal and Federer. neededinorder to have ashotatthe trophy,” Twoyearslater he is in the middleof name,stretching it out overseveral seconds 3200rpm. On Saturday,her peak RPM ward trajectories, making her opponents he said afterhis semi-final win over Stefanos an NBAFinals series. Robinson eachtimetosoundlike?Eeeeeeeeeee-gah.? crossedintothe Nadal territoryat3453; run from side-to-side. And the longerthe Djokovic on aroll Tsitsipas. droppedseven three-pointers on the At thechangeoverafter the thirdgame of Kenin's best effort was2064. rallies go,the moreeffectivethe tactic is. The Serb recentlysurpassedNadal for “But look,Iam in position to be close to Lakers in a26-point performance, to the second set, Kenin wasvisited by atrainer the mostnumber of ATPMasters 1000titles, the trophy. I'm in the lastmatchofthe tour- be theable supporting casttoJimmy and went offthe courtfor amedicaltimeout, Grip Forehand winning his 36th at Rome twoweeksbefore nament, playing againstthe biggestrival, the Butler.The startofthis series sawhim then returned withher leftthigh wrapped. The whippy motion works, butalot of It's an aggressive mix of speedand the FrenchOpen.He’s also closinginon biggestobstacle and challengethat youcan struggletoget hisact together,but Keninsaidafter herfourth-roundmatch Swiatek's topspin is generated from the spin. Swiatek can drive and curlthe spin- Federer’s recordof310 weeksasthe World have.This is whatitcomes down to.” Butler and Adebayo operatinginthe Mondaythat she had slippedand maybe grip. She uses the extreme Western fore- ning forehand down the line or cross- No 1–Djokovic is currentlyon288. Beforetherewas aRonaldo-Messi, there paint hasallowedthe shooterand his pulledsomething during practice the daybe- hand grip, placingher palm under the rac- courtwithease. And the speedonher av- Nadal meanwhile has been virtuallyun- wasthe Nadal-Federer rivalry. Djokovic quickrelease to flourish over the past fore.While Keninwas gone,Swiatek triedto quet whichallows her to brush up and erageforehand this tournament was conquerableatthe FrenchOpen.Twelve of joinedthe mix afew years later,but wascon- twogames. In amust-win Game 5, stay warmby pullingonawhitejacketandhit- over the ball, causing it to spin forward 118kph, higherthanthe women's average his19titleshavecomeonthe Parisian clay, sidered,and perhaps still considered by Robinsonwas 8-15 from the field and tingsomeserves,earningapplausefromspec- rapidly. Themotion creates greater top- of 111.Toput that in perspective, the av- and he’s neverlostinthe final at Roland some sections of fans, as the third-wheel. 7-13fromthree-point range. tators. When playresumed,Swiatek needed spin with hugepower.And Swiatek's eragespeedonthe men's side has been Garros. In the 13 years on tour that he’swon But if he wins on Sunday, he’ll be in the SHASHANKNAIR only12moreminutes to wrap up thevictory, game is built around that topspin fore- 122kph. GAURAVBHATT aMajor,seven seasons have seenhim win driver’s seat, poisedtoend alldebates about finishing witha25-10edgeinwinners. justthe FrenchOpen. It’s been his go-to who is the greatestofall time. Kings crumble as Narine Kohli’sbrillianceexposes predictableCSK wins athriller for Kolkata Kohli’sability to makelateadjustments thatwasnot to beasheholedoutto long-offin SYNOPSIS stoodout.Therewasanunusualbitof premed- the sameover. Butbythe time he strode into Kohli’s masterly knock, which itation thatmadeDwayne Bravobowlwider. themiddle,thematchhadalreadyslippedout Narine who concededjusttwo runs. included atributetoAB, rattles But Kohli draggedhis body wider to getinline of CSK’s grip. PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA Needing 20 runs in the lasttwo overs, lethargic and confused CSK withthe ball,crouchedand swivelled, to get Yetagain, Chennai loststeam in the mid- ABUDHABI,OCTOBER10 KXIP losttwo wicketsinthe space of three the stroke squarer of the wicketkeeper. dle overs. Agreed thatthe surfacewas two- balls, includingthat of Rahul, in the penulti- Apartfromthatstroke,theknockwaschar- paced and Bangalore’s bowlers probed nig- SUNIL NARINE AND Prasidh Krishna dis- mateoverbowledbypacer Prasidh Krishna. acteristic Kohli, in whichhemade T20batting gardly lines, but their batsmen were equally playedice-cool temperamentatthe death as KXIP needed14runsfromthe lastover SANDIPG look grosslyuncomplicated andrisk-free. For culpableoflethargy, unabletobreaktheshack- KolkataKnight Riders pulledoff astunning and six of the final delivery to take thematch OCTOBER11 the quality of stroke-play,and itsintrinsic or- les in the midst of adot-ball onslaught. two-run victoryoveraself destructiveKings to SuperOverbut Glenn Maxwell couldonly thodoxy,itcould pass offasahigh-calibre ODI From the sixth to the12th over,theyeked XI Punjab in an IPL game on Saturday. scoreaboundary forKXIPtolosethe match THE SEASON seems to be drifting away from innings.Thegameof greatsisframe-workedto out onlythree boundaries, managing just37 Dinesh Karthik's side pulledoff yetan- by tworuns. Chennai Super Kings. Theywould put it down suit everyformat. runs in the span. That’s passable if theyhad a other Houdini Actafter they were seemingly Earlier,Rahul and Agarwal, the toptwo to profligacy in the death overs and stutter in Untiltheveryend,thetempoof themaster- high-scoring powerplay,but Chennai had down and out when KXIP opening pair KL run gettersinthis IPL, avoidedtaking undue the firsthalf of their owninnings. Or justthe piece wasODI-ish,asKohli would tigerishly managedjust 26runsinthefirstsixovers.The Rahul (74) and Mayank Agawal (56) had put risk while gettingthe odd boundaries to keep reality that ViratKohliblewthem over with run the singles and twos, jam the occasional RCBskipperVirat Kohli consumedjust lackofintensitywas appalling. on 115runsin14.2 overs while chasing 165. the asking rate under control. Theywere47 amasterly unbeaten 90, that setupa37-run boundaryand ensurethatthe run rate in- 52 balls to reachhis unbeaten 90. PTI Leavingitlateisaformulathathasworked It looked likeitwould be onlyamatter of fornoloss afterpowerplaywith Pat victory. creasedincrementally. forthem in the past,but withDhoni aforce on time when KXIP would wrap up the match Cummins bowling three of the firstsix overs. Whenthedeathoversringedin,hespelled the wane and the newgenerationrefusing to and snap their four-matchlosing streak. Rahul wasdroppedbyAndre Russelloff Kohli pays AB tribute doomforthebowlers.HepillagedSamCurran balls. At onestage, especially in the 11th over comeof age,thetemplate seemsoutdated.Age But in the end, KXIP made amess towards the bowling of Prasidh Krishna in the second It took the 47th delivery he encountered forabrace of sixes in the 18th over,whichcost whenBangalorelostDevdutt Padikkal and de hascaughtupwiththem,literallyandsymbol- the end of their run chase to suffertheir sixth over when he wasontwo.Russellhurthim- on the day, and the firstball of the20thover, 24 runs. Thesecond of the sixes wasapiece of Villiers in the space of five deliveries, even 150 ically. defeat from sevenmatches and fifthonthe self while fielding afterafew overs but re- forVirat Kohlito attempt somethingblatantly improvisationalgenius.Thedeliverywasslid- seemedadistantscore.ButKohliensuredthey BRIEF SCORES: RoyalChallengers trot while KKRnotched up their fourth win turned in the 11th over onlytoleave the field T20-ish.Hescoopedaboundaryoverfine-leg, ingaway withtheangle,butKohlimadeacou- setatargetof170.Thescoopwasjustthecherry Bangalore169/4(Kohli90*,Padikkal33,Thakur in sixmatches. KXIP will nowneedamath- again in the 13th over. andinthe process endedupwithhis backon pleof stridesdownthetrackandwristeditover on topofthe cake. 2-40) beat Chennai Super Kings 132for 8 ematical miracle to qualify. BRIEF SCORES: Kolkata KnightRiders the ground. He flashedasheepish smile to- square-leg. (Rayudu40, Jagadeesan 33,Morris 3-19, The Mohali-basedoutfit needed22from 164for 6(Karthik 58, Gill 57,Arshdeep 1-25, wardsthe RoyalChallengers Bangaloredug- Theartofpacinganinningscouldnothave Lethargicand confused Sundar 2-16) by 37 runs. the final three overs but the matchturnedon Bishnoi1-25) beat Kings XI Punjab (Rahul 74, out, his eyes perhaps searching forABde beenmoreexceptional—theRCBskipperwas Athunderousflatsixoverlong-ontriggered SRH vs Rajasthan 3:30pm itshead in the 18th over.Nicholas Pooran (16) Agarwal56, Krishna 3-29, Narine 2-28) by Villiers, who is moreaccustomedtounfurling 34 off30balls at one stage, and endedupon anticipationof MSDhonirollingbacktheyears Mumbai vs Delhi 7:30pm giftedhis wicketinthe over bowled by tworuns thisstroke.Itmighthave beenhistributetoAB. 90from52balls,thusscoring56off thelast22 and lifting CSK from the brink of adefeat. But On Star Sports and Hotstar

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