DLD‰‰†‰KDLD‰‰†‰DLD‰‰†‰MDLD‰‰†‰C Sonny side up: Peace finds a THE TIMES OF INDIA Damian is the voice: Yehi hai Thursday, April 3, 2003 love of Liz’s life Delhi’s choice Page 7 Page 3 TO D AY S LUCKY 83 You and me Sachin ne maara 86 822 Two little ducks Kitty mirza 838 Your Dambola Ticket available in Delhi Times on 30th March, 2003 Numbers already announced : OF INDIA 72, 77, 20, 52, 63, 34, 46, 59, 65,12, 76, 31, 68, 13, 7, 19 MANOJ KESHARWANI MEDIANET Lighten the load: The CBSE school of thought With parents and schools having their own points of view, the CBSE’s proposal might take some time to find disposal JYOTI SHARMA work since parents insist At the same ti- in how much kids are grasping.’’ Times News Network on this,’’ maintains me, Lata Vaidyan- So, before heavy bags, endless cram- Meenakshi Arora, athan, principal of ming and doing the rounds of tuition ighten the load, says the new sc- a teacher at DPS Modern School centres are deleted from a child’s me- hool of thought. With school- Gurgaon, ‘‘In (Barakhamba Ro- mory bank, some serious thinking is L bags getting bigger and bigger fact, the initial po- ad), has a few sug- needed on the part of all concerned. by the day and classwork leading to licy of our school gestions: ‘‘The CB- Or so feel educationists. homework, only to be followed by mo- was not to assign SE has come up Meanwhile, irrespective of wheth- re classwork, the Central Board of Se- homework. Sub- with good counsel er the CBI’s suggestions are impleme- condary Education (CBSE) has come sequently,we had and we would li- nted or not, students are elated with up with a few suggestions: no school- to bow to the pr- ke to impleme- the apex body’s idea. ‘‘No homework, bags till class II; no homework; and no essure exerted nt its suggestio- no exams... have I already reached he- exams till class V. by parents and ns to lessen the aven?’’ asks Greenfields student Aas- Schoolkids, of course, have every start giving writt- load on studen- tha Mehta. reason to be happy with these plans. en homework as or- ts. But prior to th- Classwork, homework... classwork, But that’s one side of the story.Schools al homework failed to is, there should be homework. With tests at school and and parents in the Capital seem to ha- satisfy them.’’ NEELABH proper communic- great expectations at home in betwe- ve taken it upon themselves to spoil Manisha Hakim, who- ation between par- en, being a school student would app- the party. While a number of schools se eight-year-old son is ents and teachers. ear to be anything but child’s play. in the city don’t favour the CBSE’s sug- a student at Modern Parents must unde- But, as we all know, there’s many a sl- gestions, there are those which insist School, provides a rstand that no writt- ip between a proposal and its disposal. that it is parents who make them assi- case in point. ‘‘Hom- REVISED SCRIPT en homework doesn’t In this context, there are probably qu- gn homework in the first place. ework is necessary as it keeps kids bu- mean that nothing is being done at ite a few pages to flip through before ‘‘We are aware of the CBSE directi- sy. I don’t want my child to waste his school. Also, another system of evalu- all’s well with this tale. ves, but still continue to assign home- time once he returns home.’’ ation should be put in place to ascerta- [email protected] Mandira homes DT spoofs earn acclaim Times News Network man releasing a peace dove in on puppy love READER FEEDBACK with a huge fireball provid- elhi Times has done it ing the backdrop. ROSHNI OLIVERA breathe.’’ And literally get her Dagain — tickled the Scoops in the pullout Times News Network house in order. After all, Man- funny bone of the reader also included fictionalised dira has never been away from and struck the right chord items about Australian cri- andira Bedi is back home her home ‘Rama’ ((Ra for Raj on April 1. Our front page cket stars flunking drug te- M after a two-month World and Ma for Mandira) for such a on All-Fool’s Day has elicit- sts and forfeiting the World Cup schedule. And guess who long period. And now that she ed a slew of messages fr- Cup to India; and pollution she missed most? Sardar Rugi- has returned to home, sweet om readers over the phone levels in the Capital dropp- nder Singh Bedi. When she re- home, there are plenty of chor- and by e-mail. ing to near-zero levels. ached home, Mandira couldn’t es to complete. ‘‘I have to take While we are enthused by The Musharraf blurb co- stop hugging Ruginder.She left charge of my home now,’’ mai- the appreciation of our read- mes at a time when relatio- him only when another love of ntains Mandira, ‘‘It’s been so ers, we would also like to ns between the nuclear riv- hers, Buster Upadhyay Kaush- long since I cooked. I’ll make make mention of the resp- als have touched a new low al, nudged her for attention. Le- some Pepper Chicken for Raj.’’ onse our effort has elicited with travel links severed st your imagination run wild, This apart, she wants to spe- from the foreign media. A re- between them since last Ruginder and Buster are her nd time ‘‘just wander,sit on the port in the Associated Press two pet dogs! little bench in the garden, be on Tuesday, for instance. January and no governme- ‘‘I really missed my babies; I with the plants.’’ And, also cat- The AP report, titled Ne- nt-level talks since Mush- couldn’t wait to get back,’’ lau- ch up with a few new movies. wspaper: Jab at Bush, Sad- arraf visited India in 2001. ghs Mandira, for whom the pa- ‘‘Raj and I are movie buffs and dam on April Fool’s Day, ‘‘Musharraf is scheduled st few weeks have been hectic like going to the theatre.’’ reads: to attend a large luncheon and a tad controversial, with Life has changed for Mandi- hosted by Indian President her name hitting the headlines ra... and it has changed for the News Flash: President George W Bush and Iraqi Kalam at Ashoka Hotel,’’ re- for her cloth- better.‘‘People ad the phony snippet. ‘‘Ac- es, faux pas have started President Saddam Hussein CLUB CLASS! Delhi Times tees off with Mohammed Azharuddin & Sangeeta Bijlani as they RETURN TICKET give historic hug marking the end of the war! cording to sources, the PM is keen to host a more get into the swing of things with Shaw Wallace executive director Komal Chhabria Wazir Another flash: Pakistan’s President to visit intimate dinner for Musharraf and his wife.’’ (left) at the recently held Royal Challenge Indian Open 2003, held on the greens of the New Delhi and meet Indian PM after ban on air While we have no intention of blowing our Delhi Golf Club (To send this photograph to a friend, log on to www.timescity.com/delhi/) travel between hostile neighbours lifted. own trumpet, Delhi Times has proved that its en- If only. deavour to entertain on April 1 has become the The Times of India used April Fool’s Day to take talk of not only the town, but the world at large. jabs at Bush, Indian PM Atal Behari Vajpayee and But then, that’s what makes the newspaper in Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf. your hands the world’s No 1. War clips airline wings The phony picture of Bush and Saddam showed a [email protected] ARUN KUMAR DAS war broke out in Iraq, there has been a signif- Times News Network icant drop in passenger load for flights com- muting to and from the Gulf, including the In- he US-led war on Iraq might be taking dia-Kuwait sector. T place thousands of miles away from In- ‘‘The ongoing war in Iraq has affected the dia, but the home truth is that the aviation and population of leisure travellers from the US tourism sectors have been hit hard. With war- and the UK. Moreover, the recent SARS scare heads and worry taking wing in India’s im- has multiplied the woes of airlines, what with mediate neighbourhood, business travellers steering both inbound and out- clear of South Asia,’’ main- bound traffic has been ad- tains Subhash Goyal, the versely affected. And to chairman of the ASSOC- compound matters, the my- HAM expert committee on sterious form of pneumo- aviation and tourism. Adds nia, now christened as SA- Travel Agents Association Mandira Bedi is back and glad to be reunited RS (severe acute respirato- of India (northern region) ry syndrome), has succeed- chairman Rajji Rai, ‘‘There with her husband Raj Kaushal and pet dogs ed in clipping the wings of has been a spate of cancel- airlines. lations of confirmed tick- and also that she was respons- looking at me differently. Ev- ‘‘It is definitely a gloomy ets for destinations such as ible for drawing women to the erybody seems to know me and scenario,’’ says Union civil Singapore, Hong Kong and World Cup. people are so friendly. Oh, but aviation minister Shahna- China. Most of these pas- Yes, Mandira is enjoying her when they ask me why I didn’t waz Hussain, ‘‘After all,wh- sengers are business trav- moment of glory...but what ne- get the World Cup back home, I ile we had to contend with ellers and MNC officials.’’ xt? ‘‘That is the big question,’’ have no answer!’’ only the war factor till not NEELABH For the Indian tourism she admits.