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BRIEFLY Intolerant Padma Vibhushan India is a true friend, T.N.’s new jallikattu law faces Indian was never Trump tells Modi WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: The celebrated: Pranab for Pawar, Joshi U.S considered India “a true friend and partner in addressing SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT challenges around the world,” President Donald Trump told challenge in Supreme Court NEW DELHI: Pointing to the divi- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sions in the country’s polity, during a call on Tuesday Petitioners term President Pranab Mukherjee afternoon. said on Wednesday that our ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 amendment a tradition had always celeb- rated the “argumentative” India, UAE fail to clinch fraud on the Indian, not the “intolerant” investment pact Constitution Indian. NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday In his customary address sealed 14 agreements, including KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL on the eve of Republic Day, JACOB KOSHY a comprehensive strategic the President said a wise and partnership, with the United discerning mind was essen- Arab Emirates (UAE). The NEW DELHI: The Supreme tial for democracy to flour- summit-level talks, however, fell Court on Wednesday agreed ish. A healthy democracy short of clinching an investment to hear a plea by the Animal called for conformity to the agreement for India. Welfare Board of India, “values of tolerance, pa- Compassion Unlimited Plus tience and respect for oth- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Vasudev was awarded the ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 Action and animal rights act- ers.” He said over 66 per cent Padma Vibhushan. Maruti net profit ivists to stay the Prevention of the country’s total elector- NEW DELHI: Nationalist Con- Late Madhya Pradesh zooms 47.5% of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil ate of 834 million had voted gress Party (NCP) leader Chief Minister Sunder Lal Nadu Amendment) Bill, 2017 in the 2014 Lok Sabha elec- Sharad Pawar, former Patwa was given the Padma NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki’s net passed by the State tions of 2014. But disruptions Speaker of the Lok Sabha Vibhushan posthumously. profit rose 47.5% in the third Assembly. were crowding out debates P.A. Sangma and senior BJP This year the President of quarter ended December 2016, The challenge termed the in legislatures, he lamented. leader Murli Manohar Joshi India has approved confer- as it sold more cars in the amendment a “fraud” on the were on Wednesday con- ment of Padma Awards to 89 higher segment and due to Constitution and a violation Temporary slowdown ferred the Padma Vibhushan, persons comprising seven lower sales promotion and of a 2014 Supreme Court The President conceded the second highest civilian Padma Vibhushans, seven marketing expense. judgment, which had de- ticipating or watching the The development comes a The Animal Welfare that November’s notebandi honour in the country. Padma Bhushans and 75 ½ BUSINESS | PAGE 15 clared jallikattu as an “inher- event. A battery of lawyers day after Attorney-General Board of India (AWBI), may have led to a temporary A senior government oi- Padma Shri awards; 19 ently cruel” event practised led by senior advocates Ab- Mukul Rohatgi informed the which is the main petitioner slowdown of economic cial said that this year more awardees are women. Superseded Lt-Generals on bulls. hishek Manu Singhvi and Supreme Court that the gov- in the 2016 challenge against activity. However, as more than 15 unsung persons were get service awards It described jallikattu as an Anand Grover appeared for ernment would file an inter- the earlier January 7 central transactions became cash- chosen for the awards and Yesudas honoured “extremely violent” event the various applicants before locutory application seeking notification, contended in its less, there would be more special emphasis was laid on Legendary singer K.J. Ye- NEW DELHI: The two Lieutenant where untrained persons a Bench led by Justice Dipak the withdrawal of the Janu- 14-page application, filed on Generals who were superseded transparency. The economy recognition to people who sudas was accorded the either volunteer or are “co- Misra. ary 7, 2016 central notifica- January 24, 2017 through ad- by Gen Bipin Rawat as the Army had been doing well despite rendered selfless service at second highest civilian hon- erced” into taming or fight- Justice Misra told the law- tion allowing jallikattu in the vocate Anjali Sharma, that Chief were awarded challenging global condi- the grassroots. our. Not many famous film ing terrified bulls agitated by yers that the court will take wake of the amendment the Tamil Nadu amendment distinguished service medals on tions, notching up a growth personalities featured in the the organisers and the up their case probably on passed by the State. The to the Prevention of Cruelty Award for Cho the eve of the Republic Day this of 7.2% in the first half of list. crowd. Monday when he would sit judgment on the constitu- to Animals Act, 1960 was ul- year. 2016-17. Journalist and political The challenge said every in combination with Justice tionality of the central noti- tra vires of the 1960 Act and satirist Cho Ramaswamy, ½ PAGE 9 NATION | year many individuals get Rohinton F. Nariman. Both fication was reserved in the Constitution. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 who died last year, was con- ½ MUSICIANS STRIKE IT METROPLUS seriously injured or are judges form the Jallikattu December 2016 after lengthy ½ SIMULTANEOUS POLLS ferred the Padma Bhushan RICH; STATECRAFT IS PART 4 Pages killed by the bulls while par- Bench of the apex court. hearings. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 MOOTED | PAGE 12 while spiritual guru Jaggi OF CALCULATION | PAGE 9 Outrage at Katiyar’s comment on Priyanka Kejriwal gets threat email Army Major among six killed OMAR RASHID ernment subscribes to such a view,” Mr. Naidu told women STAFF REPORTER LUCKNOW: BJP Rajya Sabha journalists at the Indian Wo- as avalanche hits Kashmir member from Uttar Pradesh men's Press Corp in the na- NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minis- Vinay Katiyar triggered tional capital. ter Arvind Kejriwal has re- PEERZADA ASHIQ Four persons of a local meteorological depart- massive outrage on Wednes- Ms. Vadra’s husband, en- ceived an email where an un- family died after an ment’s forecast. day with his alleged sexist re- trepreneur Rober Vadra also known sender has claimed SRINAGAR: Six people, includ- “People should avoid mark targeted at Priyanka expressed his “shock” at Mr. that four persons were plan- ing an Army Major, were avalanche buried their movement in snow-bound Gandhi Vadra, saying that his Katiyar’s statement terming ning to assassinate him on killed on Wednesday after house on Tuesday hilly and sloppy area for the avalanches hit the Kashmir next 72 hours. The weather party had “prettier female it “misogynist and atro- Republic Day. The police and night at Budgam star campaigners” than her. cious.” the Delhi Government con- Valley. Over 150 people were spell is likely to disturb air Ms. Vadra shot back, say- Vinay Katiyar Priyanka Vadra firmed the receipt of the moved to safety because of and road traic in the State,” ing the remarks “exposes the Sharad’s gafe email. looming avalanches. family died after an ava- said an oicial spokesman. BJP’s mindset towards” wo- sought Mr. Katiyar’s view on heavily criticised. Senior JD(U) leader A Srinagar-based Army lanche buried their house on The police have initiated a The Hindu Connectivity afected men in the country. the impact it would have on “Disparaging & atrocious Sharad Yadav also kicked up probe but the sender had not spokesman told Tuesday night at Budgam in “Ha ha ha. He’s right... they the Congress’s prospects, he remarks of Vinay Katiyar on a row with his remark that been identified till late on that a soldier died after an Gurez. The bodies were re- Both the Srinagar airport do! And if that’s all he sees in said: “It won’t make a difer- Priyankaji reflect the petty “the honour of a vote is Wednesday evening. The avalanche struck an installa- covered by security agen- and the Srinagar-Jammu my colleagues who are such ence...there are some many and insulting culture of BJP greater than that of a daugh- email mentioned four names tion near the tourist resort of cies. highway failed to allow any strong, brave and beautiful other prettier women who that commodifies women. ter.” “The importance of the and phone numbers. Sonamarg in Ganderbal, 100 The deceased were identi- kind of traic. women that have battled are star campaigners. Some To adjudge India's women vote has to be told to every- A government spokesper- km from Srinagar, in the fied as Mehraj-ud-Din Lone, A police spokesman said through all sorts of hardships of them are heroines... some by physical features and not one, everywhere. The hon- son said the Chief Minister morning. 55, wife Azizi, 50, son Irfan, around 150 people were to get where they are, then he artists... there are many oth- by their capacity, capability, our of the vote is greater than received the assassination The area is under more 22, and daughter Gulshan, 19. moved to safer locations in makes me laugh even more,” ers more beautiful.” Interest- strength & sacrifice proves that of a daughter. If a daugh- threat on his oicial e-mail than six feet of snow. Another person, Abdul parts of Bandipora in the Ms. Vadra said in a statement ingly, he himself is missing the lowly BJP mentality,” ter’s honour is comprom- following which Police Com- Sources identified the de- Gani Ganie, died in Kralpora wake of avalanche threats. released by her party. from the BJP’s list of star Congress spokesperson ised, the honour of a village, a missioner Alok Verma was ceased as Major Amit Sagar village, Kupwara, when the “Two pregnant women Ms. Vadra was on Tuesday campaigners. Randeep Surjewala said. locality gets sullied. But, informed by the Delhi of 115 Battalion, associated roof, where he was shoving stranded in their homes in named as one of the star Union minister Venkaiah when the honour of the vote government. with the High Altitude War- of snow, caved in. Two fam- Shalkot and Judinambal campaigners for the Con- Drive on social media Naidu said the party did not is compromised...sold...the Sources in the Delhi gov- fare School. Around nine sol- ily members remained areas were also rescued,” gress for the first phase of the The Congress condemned subscribe to Mr. Katiyar’s honour of the entire region, ernment said the threat was diers were trapped in the trapped for over 40 minutes. said the police. Over half a Assembly elections in Uttar his views and launched a views. "I regret they have state and the nation gets sul- sent to Mr Kejriwal on Tues- avalanche. A fresh spell started on dozen houses were damaged Pradesh. drive against it on social me- made such a statement, lied,” he said in Patna on day and repeated on In the nearby district of Tuesday and is “likely to con- in Baramulla, Srinagar and When a television channel dia, where the BJP leader was neither the party or the gov- Tuesday. Wednesday. Bandipora, four persons of a tinue till Thursday as per Budgam districts. India on Transparency list for Tipu’s armoury to be relocated to complete rail track work failing to curb big corruption High-tech rolling method will move the neglected structure in Srirangapatna to a new location

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT policy brutality showed that ture. The demonetisation M.T. SHIVA KUMAR marking the structure another site. Hydraulic not only was the economy process is the latest indicator when this correspondent cranes and other advanced NEW DELHI: A major interna- growing but so was inequal- of the lack of transparency in SRIRANGAPATNA: Tipu Sultan’s visited the site earlier this equipment are to be used. tional index of corruption ity. the system, where even the historical armoury at week. Shifting of the armoury and transparency has placed India’s current ranking, Reserve Bank of India is not Srirangapatna is all set for More than 70% of the structure, which is India on the watch list for its putting it in the high corrup- able to spell out the exact de- relocation to another site, major works have been necessary for the inability to curb mega cor- tion zone, has drawn critical tails of the operation,” Mr. to pave way for the completed and completion of the ruption scandals and petty observations from transpar- Dey said. completion of the strengthening of the Bengaluru-Mysuru track- bribery. ency campaigners. Nikhil Bengaluru-Mysuru rail structure with lime mortar doubling work, has missed The annual index of Dey of People’s Campaign Inequality disastrous track doubling work. will begin on February 20. several deadlines for the Transparency International for Right to Information said “Growth with inequality is The armoury, a The entire shifting process last five years. It bisects the issued on Wednesday for the government of Prime disastrous on its own. But in neglected square-shaped will be completed by alignment of the second 2016 placed India with Brazil Minister Narendra Modi had the case of India, such a structure about 12 metres March. Mr. Ravichandran, track. Thus, the work to and China in the 40th posi- not done enough on the issue growth also legitimises cor- wide and ten metres tall, Deputy Chief Engineer, relocate the armoury at a tion. India’s condition of Lokpal and whistleblower ruption,” he warned. was used to store arms and South-Western Railways, cost of Rs. 13.66 crore has showed growth with in- protection. South Asia had performed ammunition by Tipu Tipu Sultan’s armoury at Srirangapatna getting ready to be said the structure remains been awarded to PSL-Wolfe equality, it said. poorly. Bangladesh at 27th during the Anglo-Mysore relocated to another location. — PHOTO: B. MAHADEVA sturdy. Private Limited, a joint “India’s ongoing poor per- ‘Lot of scams’ and Nepal at 29th positions wars. venture company. formance with a score of 40 “A lot of scams in the pre- were slotted in the highly The excavation around structure shifted out. member team from the Sophisticated method The shifting would help reiterates the state’s inability vious government were un- corrupt section. the 18th-century heritage The entire piece, United States. The armoury will be the railways introduce to efectively deal with petty earthed with the help of the Pakistan, at 32, also came structure in Srirangapatna weighing around 900 to relocated using the Unified high-speed trains on the corruption and large-scale right to information that the in the red zone. Afghanistan has been completed, and 1,000 tonnes, was inspected March deadline Jacking System. Jacks, iron track, apart from running corruption scandals,” said government itself allowed. ranked 15th was in the hundreds of truck loads of by oicials from the Technical experts and a poles and other tools are additional trains from Transparency International. But the present government “highly corrupt” list with soil from the site and railways, Archaeological large number of workers inserted underneath the Mysuru to other places in The impact of corruption has done nothing to boost South Sudan, North Korea across the half-buried Survey of India and a two- were at work analysing and structure to lift and roll it to the country via Bengaluru. on poverty, illiteracy and the anti-corruption struc- and Libya.

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DELHI Jan 26, Thu Jan 27, Fri Jan 28, Sat RISE 07 12 SET 17 56 RISE 07 12 SET 17 57 RISE 07 11 SET 17 57 RISE 05 38 SET 16 33 RISE 06 25 SET 17 28 RISE 07 11 SET 18 24 One baby dead, 4 ill Boy loses eye to stray pellet Light up dark spots, says HC after antibiotic dose STAFF REPORTER the incident happened when shooting. He mishit one and a STAFF REPORTER following the December 16 that the proposal was stuck Ishant went to meet his class- stray pellet hit my son’s left gang-rape of a woman in a over the issue of sharing of Hospital sets up committee to probe lapse, if any NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old boy mate Harsh in east Rohtash eye,” said Ishant's father San- NEW DELHI: The Delhi High moving bus. Delhi govern- the camera feed. lost an eye allegedly after get- Nahar. “As Ishant and Harsh jay Sharma, a grocer. Court on Wednesday ment's standing counsel Amicus Meera Bhatia said STAFF REPORTER leftover dose of the antibiotic ting hit by a pellet from an air were engaged in conversa- A surgery was conducted stressed the need to identify Anuj Aggarwal said the pro- CCTV cameras should be a is supposed to be discarded, gun shot by his school senior tion, they noticed Akash (19), on Ishant at AIIMS. Accord- and light up all dark spots in posal to install CCTV cam- priority as additional police NEW DELHI: Four infants fell ill but in these cases probably in Shahdara on January 19. a Class XII student from their ing to Ishant's family, doctors the Capital. A Bench headed eras had not yet been ap- recruitment will take time. and one died on Monday al- the leftover part was admin- The injury has ruled him out school, playing with his air said the infection might by Justice B.D. Ahmed also proved by the Centre on the On Wednesday, DCW legedly after they were ad- istered with the next dose of the Class X board examin- gun on the ground floor. The spread to the other eye. called for installation of grounds it was “gender neut- chief Swati Maliwal asked for ministered antibiotics at which may have led to this re- ation scheduled next month. boys requested him not to Ms. Prasad said a case has CCTV cameras in the city. ral” and not “gender sensit- some Delhi ministers to be LNJP Hospital. action,” Dr. Passey said. He, According to DCP play with the gun as it could been registered at the Shah- The court was hearing a ive” or women specific. The included in the special task The hospital refused to at- however, denied the death of (Shahadra) Nupur Prasad, hurt someone but he kept dra police station. case it had taken up suo motu Centre, however, clarified force for women safety. tribute the death to the ad- a baby due to the reaction. verse reaction of the medi- cine, but it set up a committee Report on Monday under the nursing superin- “The panel set up to probe tendent to probe a lapse, if the death will submit its re- there was any, during the ad- port on Monday,” said Dr. ministration of the drug. Passey. Dr. J.C. Passey, the medical Sources said that Dr. Pas- superintendent of LNJP Hos- sey was called to the Health pital, said the preliminary in- Department where he briefed quiry suggests the antibiot- the secretary of Health Min- ics, which are available in dry ister Satyendar Jain about the powered form, were mixed incident. Doctors said one of with normal saline before be- the four babies is still on vent- ing injected in small doses. ilator, while the condition of “As per the protocol, the the other three is stable. DELHI TODAY Art: Recent works of artist Ram Ku- Thoughts & Colours” - Solo painting mar at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-40 De- show by Sarbdeep Jaswal at Conven- fence Colony, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. tion Centre Foyer, India Habitat Paintings: Solo show of paintings Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. by Gopi Gajwani at Shridharani Gal- Exhibition: ‘Ether is all that is’ by G. lery, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205, R. Iranna at Gallery Espace, 16 Com- Tansen Marg, Mandi House, 11 a.m. – munity Centre, New Friends Colony, 7 p.m. 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Exhibition: "Celebration" - solo Paintings: Solo show of paintings show of artworks by Sohan Qadri at by H R Hiranandani at Gallery, Indira Kumar Gallery, 56, Sunder Nagar Gandhi National Centre for the Arts , Market, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. 11, Mansingh Road, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Mail your listings for this column Paintings: “Blended: A Fusion of at [email protected]

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STAFF REPORTER Kejriwal says facilities NEW DELHI: Chief Minister provided in its Arvind Kejriwal on Wednes- govt schools are not day called his government’s available anywhere work in the health and edu- cation sector ‘revolutionary’, else in the world and said that the Centre and other States should adopt the wal said that the government initiative as ‘model for devel- has constructed around opment’. 10,000 rooms to decongest Speaking at the Republic classrooms and also sent Day function organised by teachers and principals of the Delhi government at the government schools to IIMs Chhatrasal stadium, Mr and other countries for better Kejriwal said: “When our training. government was formed in Delhi, we focused on educa- ‘Unmatched facilities’ tion and health, and brought Mr. Kejriwal claimed that about a revolution. In the STRONG WORDS: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal speaking at the Republic Day function at the the facilities the Delhi gov- first budget, we doubled the Chhatrasal stadium on Wednesday. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA ernment is providing in its education budget and in- schools are not available in creased health funds by 45%. schools across the globe. Some people criticise the The CM accused private government for spending a schools of having turned edu- lot of money on health and cation into a ‘business’, but education, but I don’t con- added that some private sider it an expenditure, it is schools are doing good work an investment.” and shaping the future of stu- dents in a ‘good way’. ‘Country’s progress’ “We strongly criticise Hackers held for duping Asserting that if the those schools that are making people are educated and education a business. The healthy, the country will pro- government is committed to gress swiftly, Mr. Kejriwal take action against them. In voucher firm of ₨ 92 lakh said: “It is good that there are previous governments, nice private schools and hos- people had vested interests in SHUBHOMOY SIKDAR It was engineering dropout hacking requirements and pitals, but giving quality edu- private schools, but in the Nehra who stumbled upon run the compatible software cation and healthcare is also said that they will set up several things “yet to do”. back and gave a new party, the AAP government, no Minis- NEW DELHI: They ate expensive the fact that PayU, a payment was a whopping 256 GB RAM. the responsibility of the 1,000 mohalla clinics and 122 In a veiled attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a ter has any vested interest in food, bought top-of-the-line gateway, had a vulnerability However the sophistica- government.” poly clinics across the city to BJP and Congress, the CM chance. these schools. Our only in- clothes from popular brands, and could be tested for “data tion they showed in their Giving details about the provide quality health facilit- said that the people of Delhi Lauding his deputy Manish terest is to provide quality stayed in posh hotels and tampering”, said the police. hacking skills to avoid detec- Delhi government’s plans in ies to the people. Mr. Kejri- uprooted the ‘established’ Sisodia for his work in the education to the children of criss-crossed the country Nehra exploited this to tion came undone as they the health sector, the CM wal, however, said there are political parties two years education sector, Mr. Kejri- Delhi,” Mr. Kejriwal said. aboard expensive flights — all change the parameters of the were showing of their luxuri- for a premium of a few payment processing page, in- ous lifestyle on Facebook and pennies. cluding the price. other social media platforms. At the receiving end of this They even ofered expensive No improvements can be seen by common man, claims BJP merrymaking by three teen- Targeting vulnerabilities laptops and mobile phones at agers was an online firm that “Nehra studied the website cheap prices to their friends STAFF REPORTER Party had promised 500 new in Class IX? This speaks of or 30,000 additional hospital ofered payment vouchers for and soon realised that it was on the social media site. They schools with a special focus the standard of education in beds. e-commerce sites such as allowing a change in paramet- hired high-end luxury cars, NEW DELHI: Leader of the Op- on secondary and senior Delhi government schools,” “Despite heavy budget al- MakeMyTrip, Flipkart, ers at the processing page. He splurged on their girlfriends position in the Delhi As- secondary schools but, even the LoP said, adding that locations, hardly any appre- Amazon, Domino’s Pizza, then targeted a website and stayed in five-star hotels. sembly Vijender Gupta on after two years, not a single nearly 30,000 posts of teach- ciable progress has been Myntra and Shoppers Stop gyftr.com from where one can Wednesday alleged that the new school had been added. ers were lying vacant. made in making two super among others. The voucher obtain vouchers. Nehra and Hard to track “revolutionary improve- “Only one building has speciality hospitals opera- firm has incurred losses of his friends would first opt for On December 30 last year ments” across various sec- been constructed at Khi- ‘AAP has miserably failed’ tional. As a result, hundreds around ₨ 1 crore so far. purchasing an e-voucher the representatives of tors alluded to by Chief Min- chripur. This was initiated Mr. Gupta added that the of patients are dying every from the website. Using gyftr.com approached the ister Arvind Kejriwal in his by the previous government AAP government had year for want of specialised ‘Digital shoplifting’ credit or debit cards obtained Hauz Khas police saying they Republic Day address were and the Kejriwal govern- “miserably failed” in the treatment. The CATS Am- Now the alleged hackers on fake documents, the hack- had been duped of vouchers “nowhere to be seen by the ment has no role in it as such. health sector as it had not bulances are in disarray. Not are under the police net for ers would enter the card de- worth ₨ 92 lakh, but the police common man”. Can the government deny made any progress towards a single advanced ambu- Leader of the Opposition in “digitally shoplifting vouch- tails and make the payment faced a tough time tracking Mr. Gupta said that the the fact that more than one the opening of the promised lance has been added,” Mr. the Delhi Assembly Vijender ers” ofered by these e-com- using the PayU payment gate- the hackers. The police first manifesto of the Aam Aadmi lakh students failed this year 900 primary health centres Gupta said. Gupta. FILE PHOTO merce companies by rigging way,” said Deputy Commis- identified buyers of certain their websites at the payment sioner of Police (South) Ish- iphones and ipads that were gateway stage, a modus op- war Singh. initially delivered to the ac- erandi the police claim has cused. The IP addresses of DMRC to patch hitherto been unheard of in Hi-tech operation these devices were tracked, the Capital. Apart from the know-how, leading police to the Face- up sagging The youths, led by the al- they had also procured com- book profile of Nehra. leged mastermind, Sunny puting devices to suit their re- He was finally traced to a Bhikaji flyover Nehra, had allegedly under- quirement. Picture this, the five-star hotel in Gurgaon gone extensive training in standard running memory of where he had been staying STAFF REPORTER hacking and had tied up with most latest smartphones is and he told the police about professional hackers in India, 3GB while the laptop the men his friends who were also NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Netherlands and Indonesia. were allegedly using for their arrested. Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday said that it will ‘rehabilitate’ the Bhikaji Cama flyover that had re- cently ‘sagged’. “The rehabilitation work AAP seeks CBI inquiry into of the flyover will be initiated by the DMRC as soon as all the necessary clearances and ‘mega pension scam’ permissions are received,” a DMRC spokesperson said. STAFF REPORTER hush up the mega scam, even after trifurcation,” “For carrying out the which was exposed by the the Minister said. work, a road area of 3.5 metre NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Chief Auditor of Mr. Mishra said that in breadth and 20 metre length Party (AAP) on Municipal Accounts,” said the current financial year on the carriageway of the fly- Wednesday sought a CBI Mr. Mishra. 2016-17, the Delhi over towards Dhaula Kuan inquiry into the alleged The Minister promised government has so far will be taken over by the pension scam by the BJP- that after the municipal released ₨1,102 crore to the Delhi Metro,” he said, adding led municipal polls, the AAP will probe north corporation and that “two lanes for traic corporations. all acts of corruption and ₨609 crore to the east movement will still be avail- mismanagement in the corporation under non- able on the flyover”. ‘₨2,000 crore scam’ corporations “which have planned head, which is “Adequate traic marshals In a press conference, ruined the basic sanitation primarily for payment of will be deputed to guide the AAP Minister Kapil and hygiene conditions of salaries. “If this pension traic. The work is expected Mishra said that a ₨2,000 Delhi. It is an extremely scam had been prevented, to be completed by the end of crore ‘mega pension scam’ serious issue that poor all three corporations February,” the spokesperson is being run in the civic sanitation workers are would have comfortably said, adding that the slip road bodies, which has been politically and paid the salaries to all their below the flyover will be going on for almost two economically exploited”. employees from Group A available for traic but a por- decades. “A scam went on to D for a complete year, tion of the road may be barri- “It is a matter of extreme unchecked for nearly two without having to look caded for machinery move- shame that the BJP-ruled decades in the erstwhile here and there,” Mr. ment from time to time as corporations are trying to unified MCD and later on Mishra said. per requirement. HC moved to cancel Sajjan Kumar’s bail

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NEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots moved the Delhi High Court on Wednesday seeking cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case of killing three Sikhs during the agitation. The SIT has challenged the December 21, 2016 order of the trial court granting anticipatory bail to Kumar. “Where is the illegality in the trial court’s order? Thirty-two have passed and now you [SIT] are seeking to in- terrogate him [Kumar] in the matter. Prior to November 2016 there was no complaint against him by the present complainant. Suddenly, the complain- ant has grievances against him [Ku- mar],” Justice S. P. Garg observed. Earlier, Kumar was acquitted by a Delhi court in one of the riot cases in which five Sikhs were killed in Raj Nagar.

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Fee hike: schools to move SC again Sisodia inaugurates model school Girl found dead inside pit TAFF EPORTER S R one of the “model appointing an estate Victim had gone missing on January 5; police suspect sexual assault STAFF REPORTER schools” being developed manager for the upkeep of NEW DELHI: A day after the by the government so that the school. It will be his ASHOK KUMAR awaited to ascertain the NEW DELHI: With the Supreme Delhi High Court asked the infrastructure can responsibility to maintain cause of death. The police Court dismissing an appeal the State government to match that of a private all school facilities, and GURUGRAM: Two days after a said it was fourth such case of a committee of private un- improve the school. the School Management 10-year-old girl was found over the past two months in aided schools that chal- infrastructure of their Committee of every dead in a water tank in which the body of a minor lenged a High Court order own schools instead of Schools to be revamped school can hire and Saraswati Kunj here, the girl was found at an isolated asking them to take the gov- trying to control private Mr. Sisodia said plans terminate the estate body of a five-year-old girl spot. Sexual assault is sus- ernment’s approval before schools, Education were afoot to revamp manager as and when was found in a pit inside a pected in all the cases. hiking fees, schools are plan- Minister Manish Sisodia 1,000 more schools across needed.” park near Rajiv Chowk here ning to move the apex court inaugurated a revamped the city in the next two on Thursday. Killer on the prowl? again. Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalay years. He charted the Students encouraged The girl had gone to Peer Commissioner of Police S. K. Bhattacharya, Chair- on Rouse Avenue. diiculties faced during The Minister told Baba Dargah along with her Sandeep Khirwar said it was person, Action Committee of The school, which is renovation as students that they must grandmother and twin sister possible that the same per- Private Schools, said it was equipped with six smart construction has to be treat the school like their on the evening of January 5 son was behind all the cases. premature to comment on classrooms, a state-of- done after school hours. home and that they must when she went missing. “The four cases bear striking the content of the possible the-art air-conditioned Speaking about the study hard. “She went to a public toilet similarities in the manner petition but that they were auditorium, a gym, new maintenance of the “Buildings do not make nearby to relieve herself. the girls went missing and working on it. labs, and resource school, Mr. Sisodia said, schools, it is the students When she did not return, I later found dead. While one A Bench headed by Chief facilities, took a year to be “It is for the first time that and teachers that do,” he tried to find her. But she of the girls had gone missing Justice J. S. Khehar had said revamped. The school is the government is said. could not be located,” said from outside Sai Dham schools erected on land al- the girl’s grandmother. Temple in Sector 49, another lotted to them by the DDA Later, her father carried had gone missing from Sadar had to take permission from out a search in the area, but Bazar in December last,” said the government before hik- to no avail. The next day, a the oicer. ing fees. case of kidnapping was re- gistered at the Civil Lines po- lice station. The search for the girl ended on Wednesday afternoon, when a traic po- liceman deployed at Rajiv Chowk went to relieve him- self and spotted the body in the pit. He then informed the police. was decomposed and the ing suspicion of rape. The The police said the body girl’s brief was missing, caus- post-mortem report was NOIDA/DELHI 8 | SOUTH THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 Kerala to have HC stays I-T proceedings A.P. braces for T.N.-style stir all-women Police set to tackle jallikattu-type rallies pressing for Special Category Status police battalion against Chidambaram

RAJULAPUDI SRINIVAS Chief Minister N. Chandrab- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SURESHKUMAR granddaughter. abu Naidu, Cabinet Minis- All along, the family had VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pra- ters, Members of Parliament THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Ker- CHENNAI: The Madras High been claiming tax exemption desh police are getting ready and other public represent- ala Cabinet on Wednesday Court on Wednesday stayed for the income generated to foil attempts by the Op- atives and bureaucrats are at- decided to establish an all- proceedings initiated by the from the estate showing it as position to hold “jallikattu- tending the Republic Day women’s police battalion, Income Tax Department agricultural income. The I-T type” rallies on Republic celebrations at the IGMC with its headquarters either against former Union Minis- department, on March 31, Day, demanding Special Cat- Stadium here on Thursday, in the State capital or Kan- ter P. Chidambaram, his wife 2016, issued individual no- egory Status. Rallies are pro- elaborate bandobust ar- nur. Another decision on and senior advocate Nalini tices to the family members posed to be held in Vi- rangements have been made, special recruitment to the Chidambaram, son Karti and instructing them to file fresh sakhapatnam, Vijayawada Mr. Rao said. armed police under the daughter-in-law Srinidhi. returns for the assessment and Tirupati. All Opposition sports quota will benefit 74 Passing an interim order, year 2009-2010. parties — the YSRC, the Section 144 clamped sportspersons who have Justice Rajiv Shakdher said, The family filed replies Congress, the CPI (M) and Police have imposed Sec- made notable achievements “Pending adjudication of the and fresh returns. However, the CPI — besides actor TAKING NO CHANCES: Police personnel gather to review security tion 144 in Vijayawada to pre- in various sports and games. writ petitions, further pro- the department again issued Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena arrangements. — PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT vent any untoward incident The women’s battalion ceedings pursuant to the de- demand notices directing have come together to parti- and to ensure peace during will have the posts of one mand notice are stayed,” and P. Chidambaram them to pay taxes of over ₨6 cipate in the rallies. All lead- (MHA) for Republic Day, we desh police have made fool- the celebrations. . commandant, 20 women po- posted the plea to March 16. lakh each. Assailing the de- ers, including the Leader of cannot allow any protests, proof security arrangements They have arranged pick- lice havildars, 380 women The issue pertains to de- fee estate was inherited by mand notices, the family ap- the Opposition Y.S. Jagan- even if an organisation or as- at airports, railway and bus ets on all highways leading to police constables, five mand notices issued by the Mr. Chidambaram from his proached the court seeking mohan Reddy, will attend the sociation makes a request for stations. “An alert has been the city. Snifer dog teams drivers, 10 technical wing department seeking Mr. grandfather Raja Annamalai to quash the proceedings. rallies. conducting meetings,” Dir- sounded and security have been pressed into ser- employees, one armourer Chidambaram and his family Chettiar in 1956. During the hearing on ector-General of Police N. tightened at Gannavaram, vice. “A vigil has been moun- sub-inspector, 20 camp fol- to file fresh returns in con- Wednesday, the petitioners ‘No permission’ Sambasiva Rao clarified. Visakhapatnam, Renigunta ted in and around the city. Of- lowers, one administrative nection with the income Agricultural income claimed that the depart- “No permission has been Intelligence oicials have and Madhurapudi airports in ficials will monitor the assistant, one junior superin- generated from a 200-acre The estate has been di- ment’s action in reassessing accorded to any congrega- issued alerts over possible Andhra Pradesh,” said a po- situation through drones tendent, one cashier/store cofee estate held by the fam- vided into five units of 40 the income for 2009-2010, tion in the State. In view of terror attacks during Repub- lice oicer. connected to the Command accountant, eight clerks, two ily in Coorg. acres each, in the name of after six years, was illegal the alert issued by the Union lic Day celebrations across As VIPs, including Gov- and Control Centre,” the po- typists and an oice According to the Congress Mr. Chidambaram, his wife, and arbitrary, and was inten- Ministry of Home Afairs the country. The Andhra Pra- ernor E.S.L. Narasimhan, lice said. attendant. leader and his family, the cof- son, daughter-in-law, and ded to defame the family. Fears expressed over thousands BSY, Eshwarappa summoned to Delhi Sangolli Rayanna being held at Kudalas- indulging in such activities. of ‘fake lawyers’ in Kerala angama in Bagalkot district While Mr. Yeddyurappa Brigade convention on Thursday despite seri- wants the activities related at Kudalasangama K.S. SUDHI ‘They can sneak into sities. They got enrolled us- ous opposition from Mr. to organising Dalits and ing provisional certificates. today Yeddyurappa. backward classes to be KOCHI: Amid growing con- the judiciary, become Those lawyers were in the Addressing a press con- taken up within the party cerns over the possibility of law secretaries, process of filing applications SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ference on the eve of the forum, Mr. Eshwarappa has ‘fake’ lawyers practising in and obtaining the original convention, Mr. Yeddy- been maintaining that such courtrooms, legal experts government pleaders, certificates, he said. BENGALURU: With diferences urappa warned party lead- an apolitical forum like the fear such a situation could law officers...’ Sebastian Paul, a lawyer in the Bharatiya Janata ers against attending the brigade would help widen undermine the dispensation and social commentator, ap- Party State unit reaching a event and reiterated that the support base of the of justice and lead to an un- courts was very low, he said. prehended that the “fakes” flash point, the party Cent- there was no relationship party. precedented legal crisis. Mr. Anilkumar, however, would undermine the found- ral leadership has between the party and the The Hindu had reported conceded that apprehen- ations of judicial system and summoned the warring B.S. Yeddyurappa and K.S. Eshwarappa brigade. Main focus on Tuesday that only 20,000 sions were raised about a few upset the deliverance of leaders — State president It is learnt that the party Sources in the party feel lawyers, out of the 50,000 en- lawyers by some bar associ- justice. B.S. Yeddyurappa and ing has been scheduled a tional organising general State unit has decided to that the issue — of some of rolled in Kerala, had submit- ations. “They could sneak entry senior leader K.S. Esh- day after the January 26 secretary Ram Lal, joint keep a watch on the leaders the party old-timers ex- ted their law degree certific- The bogus ones could be even into the judiciary. Some warappa — to New Delhi on convention of the Sangolli general secretary in-charge who will attend the pressing dissatisfaction ates to the Bar Council of identified through vetting. might become law secretar- January 27 for a conciliat- Rayanna Brigade, being of southern States B.L. San- convention. over the style of function- Kerala (BCK) for vetting. Cases could be booked ies, government pleaders, ory meeting. mentored by Mr. Esh- tosh, and national general ing of Mr. Yeddyurappa — K.N. Anilkumar, former against such persons for law oicers, and commis- According to sources, the warappa to organise back- secretary in charge of Signature campaign may also come up for dis- chairman of the enrolment cheating, impersonation and sions appointed by courts. meeting has been convened ward classes and Dalits, Karnataka, P. Murlidhar At the same time, Mr. cussion at the New Delhi committee of the BCK, said criminal conspiracy, he said. The legal advice ofered by by party national president much against the wishes of Rao, have also been invited Yeddyurappa has asked his meeting though its main fo- most of the lawyers who D. Zaibo, the secretary of these persons could afect Amit Shah. Mr. Yeddyurappa. for the meeting. supporters, who had taken cus is on resolving the dif- skipped the verification the Kottayam Bar Associ- the deliverance and quality Meanwhile, Mr. Esh- up a signature campaign ferences between Mr. Esh- might have quit active legal ation, said most members of of justice. The presence of Brigade’s convention Ram Lal also invited warappa is gearing up for seeking action against Mr. warappa and Mr. practice. the association did not ob- even one such person in the Interestingly, the meet- It is learnt that party na- the brigade’s convention Eshwarappa, to desist from Yeddyurappa. In Kerala, the possibility of tain their original degree legal system would erode the fake lawyers practising in certificates from the univer- public trust,” he said.

Police withdraw from Kapu leader’s house

B.V.S. BHASKAR

KIRLAMPUDI (EAST GODAVARI): The police on Wednesday withdrew from the house of Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham, who was placed under house arrest on Tuesday. The police also let of his followers at diferent places in East and West Godavari districts. The police made it clear that they would not hesit- ate to resort to such an ac- tion if Mr. Padmanabham planned to take out ‘satyagraha yatra’ again without permission. The Kapu leader had planned to take out the yatra on Wednesday from Ravulapalem, demanding that Kapus be included in the list of Backward Classes. The police foiled Mr. Padmanabham’s attempt and placed him under house arrest. Leaders of the Kapu JAC too were de- tained in Amalapuram and Rajamahendravaram, and Gopalapuram in West Go- davari district. In all, 3,000 policemen were brought from various districts. Police pickets had been set up to avoid untoward incidents. Addressing the media on Tuesday night, Mr. Pad- manabham alleged that the A.P. government was sup- pressing the fundamental right of the Kapus. NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 NATION 9

Musicians, singers strike it rich Statecraft is part of Padma award calculations ‘Doctor Dadi’, ‘Ambulance Dada’, ‘Sethu Bandhu’ and ‘Nightingale of Halakki’ are among winners of Padma awards NISTULA HEBBAR rashtra where his ally, Shiv Sena, can SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Nonagenarian Bhakti Yadav, one of the pioneers in bringing only be described — if one wants to popularly known as ‘Doctor medical relief to accident vic- NEW DELHI: This year’s list of Padma be charitable — as a “frenemy.” Mr. NEW DELHI: Musicians and singers Dadi’ from Indore, and captain tims on national highways. awardees has many unsung heroes Modi is signalling to the Shiv Sena were given preference this year of the Indian cricket team of Girish Bharadwaj, 66-year- that the Indian state has recognised, that he needs to see it cut line. with Grammy-winning musi- blind Shekhar Naik were among old social worker from but statecraft is definitely a part of P.A. Sangma’s case is simpler. His cian Vishwa Mohan Bhatt being the unsung heroes who were Karnataka, also known as ‘Sethu the calculation in the list of politi- son, Conrad Sangma, heads the Na- named for Padma Bhushan named for Padma Shri. Gold (bridge) Bandhu’, has to his cians honoured. tional People’s Party (NPP), which while singer Kailash Kher and medallist at Rio Paralympics credit building of more than 100 Leader of the Nationalist Congress the former Lok Sabha Speaker Anuradha Paudwal wwere Mariyappan Thangavelu also low-cost and eco-friendly sus- Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar and P.A. launched after he broke away from named for Padma Shri. figured in the list. pension bridges connecting re- Sangma, his former comrade-in- the NCP. The NPP is part of the Continuing his good year in Ms. Yadav, 91, is the first wo- mote villages across India. He arms in the rebellion against Con- North Eastern Democratic Alliance cricket, Indian cricket captain man from Indore to hold an has also been selected for gress president Sonia Gandhi over (NEDA) ailiated to the NDA. The Viral Kohli was awarded the MBBS degree. She has been Padma Shri. her foreign origin, have been awar- acknowledgement of Sangma’s con- Padma Shri. Other sportsper- treating patients free of cost for Karimul Haque (52), a tea ded Padma Vibhushan. Mr. Sangma tribution to Indian public life is part sons awarded include Olympian the past 68 years and has helped garden worker afectionately will get the award posthumously. of the BJP’s look-east policy in do- Sakshi Mallik, gymnast Deepa deliver thousands of babies. called ‘Ambulance Dada’, and In his long and storied career in In- mestic politics. Karmakar, Vikas Gowda for dis- Karnataka’s Sukri who hails from West Bengal’s dian politics, Mr. Pawar has friends Finally, senior BJP leader Murli cus throw and P.R. Sreejesh for Bommagowda, known as Jalpaiguri, was awarded for con- across party lines, as witnessed dur- Manohar Joshi’s inclusion in the list hockey. ‘Nightingale of Halakki’, has verting his bike into an ambu- ing his 75th birthday celebrations in comes two years after his contem- Among NRIs to be awarded been named for Padma Shri for lance ofering 24x7 service. 2015. From Prime Minister Narendra porary and fellow Margdarshak this year were pioneering AIDS performing tribal folk music for Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt at a performance. — FILE PHOTO: RANJEET KUMAR Another person in the Padma Modi to Congress president Sonia Mandal member L.K. Advani was researcher Dr. Suniti Solomon, 58 years. Shri list was ‘Swacchhta Doot’ Gandhi, all shades of the ideological similarly rewarded. With the elec- surbahar artist Imrat Khan and School dropout Jitendra Hari- ning the only magazine for wo- as Chetla Ramaiah or ‘The Tree from Pune’s Dehu village, Dr. spectrum had made it to the function. tions under way in Uttar Pradesh, the Anuradha Koirala from Nepal pal, popular as ‘Rangabati ki men in the northeast since 1970. Man’ from Telangana has been Mapuskar (88), who dedicated His place on the list of Padma BJP wants to ensure that a crucial for social work. Awaz’, figures in the Padma Shri ‘Granny with a sword’, 76- selected for Padma Shri. Ra- his life to making his village awardees points to the balancing act Brahmin vote doesn’t feel slighted in Among journalists, film critic list for his contribution to year-old Meenaakshi Amma maiah is a common man who ‘open defecation free’ from as Mr. Modi wants to maintain in Maha- any form. Bhavna Somaiya got the Padma Odisha’s most popular recorded from Kerala, who began her has dedicated his life to making early as the 1960s. Balbir Singh Shri, while “Vishwaveena” song ‘Rangabati’ and being a top martial art classes at the age of India green by planting over one Seechewal, 51, from Punjab was maestro Vishwa Mohan Bhat exponent of Kosli-Sambalpuri seven, has been chosen for crore trees. ‘Highway Messiah’ honoured for resurrecting a 160- was conferred the Padma music. Ela Ahmad, 81, from As- Padma Shri. Dr. Subroto Das has been hon- km-long river, Kali Bein, in the Bhushan. sam has been selected for run- Daripalli Ramaiah, 68, known oured with Padma Shri. He is State by mobilising locals. Generals superseded by Rawat get Distinguished Service medals SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Gallantry awards forces personnel and others on the eve of the 68th Republic Day NEW DELHI: The two Lieutenant for Army personnel Celebrations,” the Defence Min- Generals who were superseded who took part istry said in a statement on by General Bipin Rawat as Army in surgical strikes Wednesday. Chief were awarded Distin- These include two Kirti guished Service medals while last year Chakras, 12 Shaurya Chakras, 94 several Army personnel who Sena Medals (Gallantry), two took part in surgical strikes government’s surprise decision Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry), across the Line of Control (LoC) in December last year. The four Vayu Sena Medals (Gal- last year were awarded gallantry Army’s 4 and 9 Para Special lantry), 29 PVSM, five Uttam awards on the eve of Republic Forces (SF) which had carried Yudh Seva Medals (UYSM), 51 Day this year. out the surgical strikes in Ati Vishisht Seva Medals Eastern Army Commander Lt. September last year received a (AVSM), 14 YSM, 40 Sena Medals Gen. Praveen Bakshi and South- major share of the gallantry (Devotion to Duty), eight Nao ern Army Commander Lt. Gen. awards. Five of the 10 Shaurya Sena Medals (Devotion to Duty), P.M. Hariz are senior to Gen. Chakras awarded to the Army 14 Vayu Sena Medals (Devotion Rawat but were overlooked in the went to the Para SF. In addition, to Duty), and 123 Vishisht Seva appointment of Army Chief. the Commanding Oicers of the Medals. They were given the Param two Para units were given Yudh Kirti Chakra was awarded to Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), the Seva Medal (YSM). Major Rohit Suri of 4 Para SF and highest award for distinguished L/Hav Prem Bahadur Resmi service. 398 decorations Magar from Gorkha Regiment Both the oicers had decided “The President has approved posthumously. L/Hav Magar was to continue in service and serve award of 398 Gallantry and other ‘killed in action’ while fighting in- under their junior following the defence decorations to armed filtrators near the LoC. Salman exempted from personal appearance in poaching case JODHPUR: A Jodhpur court on cused Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, court allowed it,” said De- Wednesday exempted Sal- Neelam, and Sonali Bendre fence Counsel K.K. Vyas. man Khan and other co-ac- for recording their state- The court has now listed cused from making a per- ments in a case filed against the matter for January 27. He sonal appearance in the them for the alleged poach- said police had expressed in- alleged blackbuck poaching ing of two blackbucks at ability to provide adequate case and posted the matter to Kankani village in 1998. security to the actors in the January 27. “We moved a joint applica- court on account of the pres- Chief Judicial Magistrate tion on behalf of all accused ence of the Chief Minister (District) Dalpat Singh Ra- seeking exemption from ap- and the Governor in the city jpurohit had summoned Sal- pearance in the court for for Republic Day celebra- man and four other co-ac- today [Wednesday] and the tions. — PTI CM YK NOIDA/DELHI 10 | EDITORIAL THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 Heed this 67-year-old tryst Our Republic and the Prime Minister were both born in 1950. An open letter, on Republic Day, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about India’s deepest oath

India you are Prime Minister of, to do things come from the conviction,‘I am the Alpha THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 that will be hailed as exceptional, unpreced- and the Omega, the Indus and the Ganga’ of GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI ented, unparalleled. You want India to reach, India. That, Mr. Prime Minister, is an unin- go beyond, Mars, an Indian land on the moon. sured journey into Great Unknowns on a gil- You want to send more Indian missiles hiss- ded ratha with mini-supremacists scram- Donations and ing into the light blue skies than your prede- bling atop it. Dear Prime Minister cessors did, more Indian submarines to A political leader may, for all his egotism, Warmest greetings to you on Republic Day. plumb noiselessly into the deep blue sea than be highly knowledgeable about certain disclosures You were born the same year as our Repub- your predecessors would have dreamt of. things on his home ground. Much more so lic was. So, as the Republic turns 67, you do There is, at one level, something quite nat- than, for instance, his oicers. No diplomat f you want to know how political parties raise too. Twinned, by birth, to the Constitution, ural and admirable about a Prime Minister could have matched Jawaharlal Nehru’s un- funds in the country, you will only get a part of you have with it another bond. As Prime Min- being ambitious for his or her country, to derstanding of international afairs. No of- the answer. The known donors and sources of ister of India you have taken an oath, in the think big, bigger, biggest for his or her people. ficer, ICS, IAS, IPS, could have matched Pa- contributions to national and regional parties name of God, to ‘bear true faith and allegi- Except when a nation’s leader believes in per- tel’s knowledge of political psychology, Chief I ance to the Constitution of India’. And from sonal supremacism. Minister Pant’s understanding of rural polit- account for less than a third of their total income. An analysis by the Association for Democratic Re- that great position, you have called it India’s Sardar Patel was not such a supremacist. ics, Chief Minister Namboodiripad’s sense of holy book. You are therefore, a Constitution- He was a supreme realist. rural and urban economics, Chief Minister forms shows that 69% of funds and contributions person twice over, by birth and by oath. ILLUSTRATION: SURENDRA Kamaraj’s mastery of Tamil Nadu’s complex received by political parties from 2004-05 to 2014- Two and a half years after taking that oath, Isolated power politics. But there are areas where others, ex- 05 came from unknown sources. There cannot be a on this anniversary day, how do you see your- While supremacists love their own very perts, oicers and NGOs, know better, re- better case than this statistic for demanding greater self in that bond? An impression prevails that you particular crowds and those crowds love member more than a politician. As, for in- transparency in political funding. Going by income You could, of course, say, “Ask the people of want to be seen as India, that them, they are, as persons, very lonely. And stance, in fiscal planning, foreign relations, tax returns and statements submitted to the Elec- India, they will tell you if I have or have not criticism of you therefore amounts loneliness finds two friends: secrecy and ar- defence strategy, science and environment tion Commission, six national and 51 recognised re- been true to it.” If I were to do that, I know, to criticism of India, tantamount bitrariness. A mist of trail-less circumstances policy and, above all, in ‘real-life’ issues like gional parties together had an income of ₨11,367.34 there would be a torrent of appreciation for surrounds a supremacist’s decisions. And unoicial ‘oicial’ extortions, job insecurity, crore during this period, but only ₨1,835.63 crore you. Not just the appreciation of your ad- to treason these decisions come to be taken impulsively, health non-coverage, the absence of insur- came from named donors, while other declared mirers but appreciation from objective ob- whimsically. Sometimes they can be in- ance and pension cover. The deference by servers as well. hoarders, corrupt. And terrorism, as we now spired, but on most occasions they create non-expertise to experience becomes a sources such as sale of assets, bank interest, mem- No one can deny the fact that between 2014 know it, was absent during that period. But more problems than they solve and can also leader. bership fee and sale of publications accounted for and 2017 your appeal has grown. It has grown was Indira Gandhi true to her oath? You were cause havoc. Isolated power is isolated from ₨1,698.73 crore. This means a total income of for three reasons. First, you have been seen as 25 years old at the time, Mr. Prime Minister. the advantages of consultation, from the be- The way forward ₨7,832.98 crore came from unknown sources. De- decisive, a ‘doer’. Second, you are perceived You will remember how when she reneged nefit of an equal colleagueship. It is isolated, You advise us to do with less and less of tails submitted by the Congress held that 83% of its as having ‘taken on’ corruption. Third, you on the Constitution, betrayed her oath, she therefore, from the great bonus of republican cash. Are you teaching us how to do with less income came from unknown sources and the BJP are regarded as being tough, tougher than all was thrown out of power — lock, stock and partnership. So fond does he become of the and less of water? Let ATMs run out of said it raised 65% of its funds as anonymous contri- your predecessors, on terror. There is a barrel. dulcet tones of his own voice, that his audit- money, use cards, you tell us, use digi-dhan. butions. The reason for these startling numbers is fourth image that must also be placed on the Indira was not India. No Prime Minister ory powers atrophy. Even when he seems to What about when our lakes go dry? Can we that under the present income tax law, parties need table, though it is not exactly complimentary. can be India. India alone is India. be listening to others, the personal suprem- live with digi-jal? You are not warning the You are believed to be clever, hushiar. And An impression prevails that you want to be acist is, in fact, listening to his own voice re- country of the known and unknown horrors not disclose the names of those donating up to your ‘at midnight tonight’ announcement on seen as India, that criticism of you therefore acting to what he is hearing. He is his own of climate change, the power and fuel crises ₨20,000. To enjoy income tax exemption, they need demonetisation has been seen as hushiari- amounts to criticism of India, tantamount to singer, his own song and his own listener. that await us, the pandemics, air-borne, wa- to maintain records only of those who donate sums .“Good for the country, no?” people said treason. Questioning demonetisation be- The self-centrism of an elected leader is, in ter-borne and vector-borne, that are whirling above this. This provision efectively gives parties while queueing up the next morning in front comes, in one flowing sequence, validating democratic terms, an irony. In republican overhead. You are telling us to be swachh but the required cover to pass of sizeable donations as of ATMs. black money, going soft on terror and ques- terms, an anomaly. It scarred the period 1975- what of that behemoth source of aswach- small contributions from anonymous donors. tioning your judgment — all anti-national. 1977. It must not, in the same or modified hata, our plastic lobby? You are teaching us Political parties in the legislature make far- The important question An immaculacy surrounds you, an assump- form, in de jure fact or in de facto spirit, be re- the merits of yoga, but you are not disabling reaching decisions, and their donors could have a But does being all those three — decisive, tion of infallibility imbues your pronounce- admitted into our polity, our political culture. the fountainheads of ill-being in our gutka bearing on policy. In 2013, the Central Information hard on corruption, tough on terror — trans- ments. And hence an aura of unquestionabil- There are signs of it wanting to. lobby, tobacco lobby. The control over our Commission ruled that political parties were late into ‘bearing true faith and allegiance to ity. Abolishing the Union Planning Commis- land commons, mines, forests by mafiosi, the Constitution’? Today, on Republic Day, it No one who is accountable to Parliament, sion, replacing independent heads of middlemen and mega ‘developers’ continues covered under the Right to Information Act. It was is important that we reflect on that question. which represents all the people of India, can autonomous academic institutions by per- unchallenged. pointed out that they got tax exemptions, land allot- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a decis- be a dictator or even a supremacist in the sons of known bias, the stalling of judges’ ap- And then, there is Kashmir. The team ments and free airtime on state-owned media, in ef- ive woman. Between 1975 and 1977 she was sense in which the word is normally used for pointments, the superseding of generals in which, led by Yashwant Sinha and catalysed fect benefiting significantly from the exchequer. even more decisive than her usual decisive one who wants to establish the superiority of Army promotions, of diplomats and bureau- by Wajahat Habibullah, went to the Valley The order, however, is yet to be accepted by parties. self. Having declared a national emergency, a particular ethnicity, class or culture. But, crats in other elevations, the dangling in the has made searingly honest findings, vital re- Bringing them under the ambit of the RTI Act is she came down with an iron hand on people Mr. Prime Minister, you are a supremacist for air of the Lokpal, the undermining of the RTI commendations. Heed, Mr. Prime Minister, definitely a step in the right direction. It would she portrayed as criminals, black-marketers, your vision of India. You want your India, the Act, blacklisting NGOs, demonetisation, all their clear voice. Had Jayaprakash Narayan’s mean the list of donors, regardless of size of contri- warnings and guidance been heeded in the bution, is open to public scrutiny. For this, parties CARTOONSCAPE 1960s, Kashmir would have been spared the would have to maintain records of small donors as agonies it is going through today. The Consti- tution has not intended that part of our coun- well. State funding, perhaps partial, of elections is try for ceaseless bloodletting. History is giv- another solution to reduce the dependency on con- ing us another chance for a bold new tributions, though the financial implications of this initiative that makes the most beautiful part needs careful consideration. A more practical of our nation its most peaceful. mechanism is to have a regulatory authority to re- I said at the start that your appeal has ceive authentic reports on political funding, scru- grown. So has, in typical Indian contrariness, tinise them and put them in the public domain. your dis-appeal. Those who believe in the Transparency in funding is essential to ensuring core values of our Constitution, though they clean, democratic governance. are not bound to it by birth or oath, are deeply disturbed, dismayed, by the growing intoler- ance of dissent and the misrepresentation of criticism as anti-national. You may have seen, at Girnar, Ashoka’s Towards clarity famous Edict VI which says “I am never com- pletely satisfied with my work of wakeful- ness or despatch of business.” Remember, on Brexit please, Asoka’s admission and his remorse he condition the U.K.’s highest court has which he called, in Magadhi Prakrit, stipulated for London to trigger Article anusaya. Your own exquisite language, Gu- jarati, has another sublime word for it, 50 of the European Union treaty removes anutaapa. Atonement and compassion do Tany shred of doubt about the legislature not betoken weakness, they betoken nobility being bypassed in giving formal shape to the Brexit which is a leader’s sign. vote last June. The crux of the majority opinion is With pride in our Republic, and faith in its that there needs to be parliamentary endorsement ability to reclaim hope from despair, in the form of primary legislation, not merely a Your fellow citizen. ministerial decision or action, for the activation of Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a former administrator, diplomat the exit provision. In arriving at this position, the and governor. justices relied on the reasoning that Britain’s do- mestic laws would be significantly and substan- tially altered as a consequence of the impending LETTERS TO THE EDITOR termination of its membership of the EU. The stance of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservat- Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. ive government, which appealed an earlier ruling, was that once the people had spoken their mind in Jallikattu protests delegation across the State to at Marina beach, I do not remember GDP depends on consumer must be thought of. the June vote on whether to remain in or leave the explain the intricacies of the legal any celebrity having gone all out to spending, the contribution of senior Gagan Pratap Singh, EU, the executive could exercise the royal prerogat- It is unfortunate that the inept procedures involved in passing the support jallikattu. The media should citizens to such spending can’t be Noida, Uttar Pradesh ive on matters of foreign policy. The opposition, on handling of an unprecedented mass ordinance. stop encouraging these celebrities ignored. However, the living the other hand, had emphasised the propriety of a movement which was led by the A. Jainulabdeen, and giving them a chance to increase standards of senior citizens have The Klebisella bacteria fits into a youth of Tamil Nadu led to chaos Chennai their “TRP ratings” by playing with fallen over the years due to declining wider group of bacteria with an apt parliamentary consultation process before taking (Editorial – “The end of a protest”, emotions. Both the Central and State income. Factors such as inflation, acronym ‘ESKAPE’ owing to their the country out of the EU, in the same way that its Jan. 25). Whatever be the It has become fashionable for governments are on the right track high cost of utilities and services, ability to avoid the efects of the entry to the European Economic Community in provocation, the police had no celebrities and the political and should be allowed to do the rest inordinate taxation and mounting antibiotics used against them. The 1973 was duly authorised by legislation. Ahead of moral, ethical or legal right to Opposition to condemn the police without any interference and medical expenses have taken a heavy acronym stands for the names of the the vote last year, the Leave campaign had alleged a unleash violence on the common and demand action whenever the “helpful advice”. toll on their limited savings. India bacterial group members. The serious erosion of national sovereignty within the man and terrorise and humiliate police are forced to use force to quell V. Subramanian, ranks even lower than neighbouring emergence of a superbug in India is bloc on account of the process of law-making initi- women and children from the lower violence unleashed by antisocial Thane, Maharashtra Sri Lanka in providing free universal not in the realm of fiction any more. ated in Brussels, unmindful of scrutiny by a directly strata of society (”Residents accuse elements. Actor Kamal Haasan’s health care to its citizens. Access to These infections are increasingly elected parliament across the bloc. It therefore police of setting fire to fish market”, criticism and Leader of the The “Nuts & Bolts” explainer (Tamil basic health care in India is being acquired in hospitals. Of Jan.25). One hopes that a judicial Opposition and DMK working Nadu editions, Jan.24) was crisp and guaranteed only to government concern too is the use of antibiotics seems only proper that members of Parliament are inquiry will provide answers to president M.K. Stalin’s demand that informative and cleared many of our servants. The BJP, which is as feed supplements in poultry and taken into confidence while the government sets some questions. Was this a sinister the Police Commissioner be doubts. I wish it had been compiled aggressive in promoting the animal farms across nations. The out to give efect to the popular verdict in what was, attempt to derail a peaceful and transferred (both Jan.25) are much earlier and given publicity. interests of the industry to give a feed industry urgently needs after all, a legally non-binding referendum. committed movement? Finally, there unreasonable. Perhaps it could have helped ensure push to reforms, must also create a regulation. Another area of key In the U.K. there is little political appetite re- are lessons for every one — political Apart from many sufering injuries, a that the protests ended on a peaceful credible savings scheme for India’s concern is to stop the practice of maining to attempt a reversal of the June vote, evid- parties of every hue, democratic number of policemen were also note. ageing population. dispensing antibiotics over the ent from the opposition’s intent to press amend- organisations which fight for their wounded by stone-pelters. Buses R. Balakrishnan, Kangayam R. Narasimhan, counter if we wish to escape an ments rather than challenge the Brexit legislation rights, and the general public. The were damaged and some police Chennai Chennai antibiotic apocalypse. that has now become imperative. Thus, as Ms. success of any agitation depends on, stations vandalised. Suburban H.N. Ramakrishna, May's March deadline to kick-start Article 50 ap- among other things, the timing — transportation was also suspended. I Bengaluru the right time to start and the right was accompanying a sick patient to a Social security for elders Superbug nightmare proaches, there is more clarity over the shape of the time to end. speciality hospital in Chennai but Note ban must not come in the way A wave of unchecked superbugs U.K.’s withdrawal from the bloc. British and A liberal heart? Vazhithunairaman Ponnuraj, had to return as most roads were of providing social security to senior overwhelming the Indian health- European businesses may see London’s move to Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu closed to traic. I hope that those citizens (’Business’ page – “Note-ban care system becoming a reality can Creative diplomacy is also the term leave the single market as unpalatable, but the near- who criticise the police think about to cramp FM on budget concessions’, be blamed on the high population critics use when nations do not have term future is far less uncertain. Ms. May, in her Footage on social media cannot be the immense inconvenience caused Jan.24). While the UPA was in density and lax medical standards a solution to a crisis. It also leaves landmark speech last week, was quite explicit that “doctored” as it shows the scale of to lakhs of people. power, Finance Minister P. (’Weekend Being’ page – “Will the the reader wondering what steps a national controls over immigration from the EU the atrocities unleashed by the Arulur N. Balasubramanian, Chidambaram did well to introduce superbug scare hit home? Jan.22). government can take without and independence from the jurisdiction of the police on the protesters, particularly Chennai the post oice Senior Citizen Most hospitals, especially behaving like a big brother and, at European Court of Justice were redlines for her women and the old. The claim by Savings Scheme. But the NDA government-run, don’t administer a the same time, not being a pushover some top police oicials in Chennai Now that the situation is getting dilutes the eicacy of this most complete course of antibiotics. (“The nowhere people next door”, government. It remains to be seen how London and that antisocial elements infiltrated back to normal and jallikattu could enabling saving scheme by aligning Patients also terminate a course Jan.23). India, with its long history of the EU strive to strike the best possible bargain in the gathering is hard to believe as resume, celebrities should avoid it with market interest rates! Elders when it suits them. Antibiotics fed to accepting all who seek refuge, needs the months ahead to promote their mutual in- the police were setting automobiles talking about the subject make up more than 7% of India’s animals also exacerbate the to be assertive when it comes to terests. For, as Ms. May has emphasised time and alight and smashing motorcycles. indefinitely. A loose comment here population, yet the government goes situation. Guidelines need to be human rights violations in again, the U.K. is leaving the European Union, not Finally, the Tamil Nadu government and a statement there could whip up overboard in distributing tax issued to stave of this threat. A neighbouring countries. Europe. ought to have reached out to the feelings and we would be back to largesse to India Inc. in every comprehensive and consistent Disha Bangard, protesters by sending a high-level square one. Before the protest began budget. Since 60% of the country’s policy, from doctor to community, New Delhi

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CINEMA Marching with a clear message Women and invisible work The global resonance of the Women’s March on Washington sent out the signal that the silent The Aamir Khan film Dangal, majority will register its resistance against rising intolerance and prejudice now the highest grossing Indian film ever, is already much celeb- rated as a progressive women's ANU NISSIM film. Yet, the film throws up VIDYA RAM PANDEY MANNATHUKKAREN many interesting questions around women’s empower- ment, which obviously cannot be resolved in the context of a commercial film. A critical scene in the film is Mahavir Phogat instructing his wife that the It’s unlikely that anyone, including daughters will not do chulha-chowka (household work) any more, but will Teresa Shook, a grandmother from henceforth devote time to wrestling. Hawaii, could have foreseen what would However, the pertinent question is that in the real world, outside the film, happen when, following Donald who is going to do the work that the girls are liberated from? Trump’s election in November, she cre- Can we consider household work — cooking, cleaning, fetching water over ated a “women’s march” event to express long distances, caring for children, the sick and the elderly — or what is her dismay and protest everything that called as unpaid care work performed by women/girls, as an optional ser- the then U.S. President-elect stood for. vice? And which could be forsaken at will, without having an alternative in Her idea quickly took on a life of its own. place? Can we have women’s liberation without questioning the fundamental di- A march for many causes vision of labour that drives patriarchy — women primarily burdened with Just over two months later, over half a unpaid care work, and confined to the home and the hearth, the private million people — women and men— sphere? marched on Washington DC on Sat- Can we break the public/private binary by women competing in a man’s urday, the day after Mr. Trump’s inaugur- world as a man, by following the rules set ation, with other marches taking place by men, in a world made for men? And across other U.S. States. Support for it can we break the man-woman binary not The question is, in extended well beyond those marching — by making it irrelevant, but by simply the real world, outside those on the march spoke of the arrange- bringing a few women on board to the Dangal, who is going to ments that people back home made to male side of the division of labour? help it easier for protesters to attend. FAR FROM OVER: “While the marches brought together issues beyond women, the fact that this was the focus was undoubtedly a The threat is that in the guise of break- do the work that girls While it was pegged as a Women’s draw: women’s rights remain a major political issue even across the western world.” Picture shows a Women’s March in ing the public/private binary, the resist- are liberated from? March, right from the start organisers Ottawa, Canada. — PHOTO: REUTERS ance against a male-dominated world is made it clear that it was meant to be coopted by women being ofered a slice of the pie. In this process, what is about far more: “The rhetoric of the past Brexit was a bolt out of the opposition to intolerance and prejudice main a major political issue even across problematic is not women losing “feminine” traits of long hair, or the female election cycle has insulted, demonized — was clear from the outset, while being the western world. In 2015, the Women’s body participating in a “masculine” sport (for these are constructed binar- and threatened many of us — immig- blue rather than a signal of part of a global movement is likely to Equality Party was formed in the U.K., ies), but the erasure of female labour, and contribution to sustaining human rants of all statuses, Muslims and those the rise of nationalism. It took have spurred participants on. putting at the heart of it a battle for equal life. of diverse religious faiths, people who the U.S. election to jolt many The timing is significant too: when the pay but taking on other issues such as af- identify as LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bi- Brexit referendum result emerged, it was fordable childcare and girls’ education. Not accounted for sexual, queer, intersex, asexual), native out of that reverie a bolt out of the blue for many, rather The party has raised concerns about the This labour is looked down upon in the world, and is not part of national people, black and brown people, people than a signal of the rise of nationalism impact that Brexit — and withdrawal of accounting or Gross Domestic Product. But ironically, it is what sustains the with disabilities, survivors of sexual as- whole host of issues. Placards seen and the right. It took the U.S. election to EU rights that provide certain guaran- economy. In material terms, women’s unpaid care work is huge. It is estim- sault — and our communities are hurt- across the world ranged from those tak- jolt many out of that reverie. Since then, tees to women — could have on women’s ated that women perform 75% of the world’s unpaid care work. In India, wo- ing and scared,” reads the mission state- ing on Mr. Trump’s stand on abortion the challenge posed to many countries rights in the country. British Prime Min- men perform 10 to 12 times the unpaid care work of men. ment of the march’s organisers who and his comments on sexual assault, and by the far right has been all too apparent. ister Theresa May has also faced criti- It is because women cannot give up unpaid care work that their access to called on the participants to send a “bold other women’s rights, to those support- While Marine Le Pen is still likely to be cism for her purported unwillingness to paid work is severely limited, leading to a vicious cycle. Even when they find message” on President Trump’s first day ing Black Lives Matter, and others at- knocked out in the second round of the raise the subject of sexism with the new paid work, it does not necessarily liberate women for often they are now in oice. tacking Islamophobia. Still others took French presidential elections, she is do- U.S. President at their meeting sched- saddled with both paid and unpaid work, leading to what is called as “double While the scale and breadth of the on the Trump administration’s approach ing uncomfortably well for those op- uled for later this week. burden”. But it is well-established that women’s employment outside the marches across the U.S. are striking, to climate change, and endorsed fact- posed to her anti-Islam, nationalist home is absolutely crucial to women’s well-being. what made the day even more remark- based scientific methodology, while oth- world view, while the German Alternat- Looking ahead It is often overlooked that in the developing world, women constitute able was the way it extended across the ers simply called, in one way or another, ive für Deutschland is polling at around Perhaps the biggest test for the Wo- nearly half of the agricultural labour force — 60% in Asia and Africa. Despite globe. Organisers of the D.C. march es- for an end to the rising intolerance that 12% — well above its levels at the last na- men’s March will be going forward: this, women own less than 20% of the world’s agricultural land. Women and timate that a total of 673 marches was being seen across the world. In Lon- tional elections, and a significant shift in many movements, such as the global girls also constitute 60% of the world’s chronically hungry. happened globally from Mexico City to don some of the signs drew parallels a country where far-right politics had ‘Occupy movement’ that was born in the The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) es- Lima, Stockholm to Bucharest, and Kolk- between the campaign to leave the long been a no-go area because of the wake of the global financial crisis, have timates that if women farmers had the same resources as men, it would have ata to Bangkok. In London, around European Union and Mr. Trump’s country’s history. struggled to keep up their original mo- led to 150 million fewer hungry people. 1,00,000 people are thought to have victory. Even more worryingly, the right has mentum. Women’s March organisers are Women need to access all arenas, including sport. Participating in sport, joined the march, including the city’s La- shown signs of uniting — while many clearly keenly aware of the need to keep especially in gender iniquitous societies, is liberating for women. Further, it bour mayor Sadiq Khan. Over 4.8 million Behind the rousing response across the world expressed their glee fol- up the pace and in the U.S. have already overturns established gender norms, particularly when women enter people participated globally, they say. The success of the movement caught lowing Mr. Trump’s victory, last week- launched their next initiative, encour- hitherto male-dominated sports. But it is also not a straightforward story of The scale of the protests caught many many by surprise — in the U.K., within end a meeting of the far right in Europe aging people to write in to legislators women’s liberation. As sports researchers in Western cultures tell us, women of guard, with Mr. Trump somewhat re- social media groups set up to support the took place in the German city of and spread the message of opposition to are faced with the female/athlete paradox: even when they become athletes, versing a more aggressive initial tweet move to remain in the European Union, Koblenz, where Ms. Le Pen spoke of 2017 intolerance, as part of a “10 actions in 100 they are forced to conform to dominant notions of femininity. This is because questioning the legitimacy of the move- many debated why the march had attrac- being the “year of the patriots”. days” campaign. A similar move has the larger society is still sufused with patriarchal values, and sport, while lib- ment, by saying that “peaceful protests ted numbers that had surpassed pro- In that context, the willingness of been launched in the U.K. erating for women, still operates within this larger culture. are a hallmark of our democracy”. Other European demonstrations that had taken people to seize an opportunity to ex- Whatever happens, one thing is clear attempts to smear the march as a single- place in the immediate aftermath of the press their dismay — even beyond the after Saturday: those who stand against For an anchor issue movement, alienating men — in- Brexit referendum, and wondered what shores of the U.S. — is hardly surprising. intolerance and hate are capable of mak- That is why women’s liberation has to be based on concrete material cluding by populist British television lessons could be learnt for their move- And while the marches certainly ing a stand in an organised, inclusive, ar- foundations. It is women’s unpaid care work which makes work and sport host Piers Morgan — failed to catch on, ment. There are of course a number of brought together issues beyond women, ticulate and non-violent way. outside the home possible. Even when some women break out of the private as men and women who took part made reasons for this: the broad nature of the the fact that this was the focus was un- sphere and enter the public sphere, the unpaid care work falls upon lowly- it clear that they had come to vocalise a march’s aims — a general expression of doubtedly a draw: women’s rights re- [email protected] paid women domestic help from the most marginalised backgrounds, and poor immigrant women in developed countries. Women’s empowerment is not merely about women becoming wrestlers or fighter pilots, which are, of course, important symbolic gestures. But for real equality, it is imperative that women’s care work be given its due material Russia then, China now recognition. It would also mean a thorough reordering of gender norms, not by a few women entering the men’s turf, but by men entering women’s turf, The Obama administration’s foreign policy and Donald Trump’s call for its recalibration are both and taking on “feminine” unpaid care work, which is what will allow women to secure paid employment. inspired by the same desire to prevent any new challenge to American supremacy Ironically, despite economic and educational growth, female participation in the labour force of India fell to 24% in 2011, from 31% in 2004. India is 11th from the bottom in the world in women’s labour-force participation rates. Containing Russia made ica’s defence industry and prominence For the real equality for women, along with the Mahavir Phogats, we need P.S. RAGHAVAN to its defence establishment. This ex- the likes of Arunachalam Muruganantham, the man who revolutionised wo- geopolitical sense for the U.S. plains the strong opposition to a “reset” men’s health by inventing cheap sanitary napkins. in the 2000s, but less so after with Russia from the Pentagon, armed 2008, as China sought an forces and those in Congress and else- Anu Pandey and Nissim Mannathukkaren teach at Saint Mary’s and Dalhousie universities in where with close links to the defence in- Canada respectively. E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]. In recent weeks, we have been watching equal place at the high table dustry. Corporate America benefits an extraordinary spectacle in the coun- hugely from economic links with China try often described as the world’s cent of the Cold War era, except that and is reluctant to rock this boat. greatest democracy. Barely weeks before more sophisticated tools of public dip- The President’s ability to secure a do- demitting oice, President Barack lomacy, soft power and social media are mestic consensus for this new strategic FROM THE ARCHIVES Obama introduced new sanctions deployed. One should of course recog- direction will, therefore, be severely against Russia and ordered expulsion of nise that every narrative has a counter- tested. Departmental turf battles and its diplomats from the U.S. A Congres- narrative, and the truth probably lies Congressional intrigues are major mine- sional hearing was hastily arranged on somewhere in between. fields. The Pentagon’s opposition to the alleged Russian hacking operations. For example, the hysteria over alleged September 2016 John Kerry-Sergey Lav- dated January 26, 1967 Then came the “leaks” that Russia had Russian hacking ignores the fact that of- rov deal on Syria — which was blessed compiled damaging personal informa- fensive and defensive cyber weaponry is by President Obama — is a recent ex- President’s call for all public questions required to be tion to potentially blackmail Donald deployed by intelligence agencies of ample. U.S. administrations have per- all-India outlook decided on “principles of justice Trump, the then U.S. President-elect. every major power — against friends haps lost more policy battles to such and equity and not as a result of Their origin and authenticity remain in and adversaries alike. In recent years, the “friendly fire” than to “enemy action”. The President, Dr. S. pressure politics and such other doubt. In a country proud of its tradi- leaders of Germany, France and Brazil Radhakrishnan, to-day [January methods of blackmail.” tional freedom of views and expression, have reacted indignantly to reports of Regional interests 25, New Delhi] deplored the lack Police tear-gas we heard demands for action against U.S. hacking into their communications. Regional interests have also to be ad- of development of an all-India students in Madurai Russian media agencies for misleading Essentially, Mr. Trump is asking the U.S. dressed. In West Asia, sectarian tensions outlook in the country and Americans about the true nature of their strategic community not to succumb to have to be defused and regional ambi- warned that if every group wished Police fired tear-gas shells democracy! its own propaganda. tions tempered. Nimble diplomacy to have its way by insisting on its to-day [January 25, Madurai] to It was a strange manifestation of an would be required to carry along those own solution of small disputes, disperse an unlawful procession outgoing administration proactively mo- IN THE LAYERS: “Geopolitical wisdom China, the new threat European countries which benefit from the Government would be by students as it was approaching bilising public opinion against a foreign Containing Russia, dividing Europe the present policy. Countries in China’s weakened. Broadcasting to the the American College. Police have suggests that one way for a superpower policy stance on which the President- to maintain its supremacy is to ally with and reconfiguring West Asia made em- immediate and extended neighbour- nation and to Indian nationals promulgated an order under elect fought (and won) the elections. inent geopolitical sense (from an Amer- hood need assurance that a U.S.-China abroad on the eve of the Republic Section 30 of the City Police Act. lesser powers to retard the rise of a This pushback has continued even after powerful challenger.” Picture shows ican “neocon” perspective) in the 2000s, stand-of will not prejudice their eco- Day, the President called for It was feared breach of peace the presidential inauguration. but less so after 2008, as China adopted nomic and security interests. subordination of petty might be caused by students Matryoshka dolls, at St. Petersburg, depicting Barack Obama and Donald an increasingly aggressive military pos- The hallmark of a great power is its considerations and minor taking out the processions and The logic for demonising Russia Trump. — PHOTO: AFP ture and openly sought an equal place ability to harness its internal strengths, interests to the larger national organising the meetings they had The irony is that the Obama adminis- with the U.S. at the superpower high reconcile domestic pressures and struc- good. He warned the nation that programmed to pay homage to the tration’s foreign policy and Mr. Trump’s was squarely blamed for the downing of table. In its simplest form, therefore, the ture external relationships to expand its the “prospect of a revolution” was memory of the students who had call for its recalibration are both inspired a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet over Trump Doctrine is to focus American global influence. Social polarisation, “inescapable”, if unruly lost their lives this day two years by the same U.S. neoconservative ideo- Ukraine in the summer of 2014, ignoring political and economic energies on economic decay and political divisions behaviour, fasts and violence in ago during the anti-Hindi logy. Its core motivation is to prevent any its denials and protestations that it was countering the rise of China. were domestic problems revealed in the the country did not end. He said agitation. new challenge to American supremacy. excluded from the international invest- Geopolitical wisdom suggests that recent U.S. presidential elections. Ex- In the 1990s and 2000s, this meant sup- igation which it had demanded. The one way for a superpower to maintain its ternally, the U.S. confronts a dilemma in pressing Russian resurgence, restraining story of a Russian economy on its knees supremacy is to ally with lesser powers Afghanistan, carnage in West Asia, a Europe’s ambitions and weakening the has been sustained in the face of the In- to retard the rise of a powerful chal- fractured Europe, a sullen Russia and a CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS Russia-Europe axis. The expansion of ternational Monetary Fund’s increas- lenger. From a U.S. perspective, this is a truculent China, on which the U.S. ap- the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ingly upbeat assessment of economic re- potential role for Russia and Europe (as proach is increasingly being seen as >>The last paragraph of the Perspective page (Jan.25, 2017) article headlined (NATO), the Iraq war and promoting covery in that country. Western agencies well as India, Japan and others), if the weak-kneed. President Trump promises “Flirting with chauvinism” read : “If that unfortunate outcome should materi- democratic movements in Georgia and acknowledge that President Vladimir cards are played correctly. In the short a unique style and a systemic shake-up to alise, it would be a series backslide ... under the old guard.” It should have been Ukraine furthered this objective. Putin enjoys the support of over 80% of and medium term, this gives space for address these challenges. Whether or serious backslide. The narrative of an expansionist Rus- the adult Russian population, but attrib- these additional “poles” to grow, not he succeeds, the fact remains that sia provided the moral justification for ute it to their indoctrination by the state- strengthen and cooperate with each America’s responses to these domestic >>A ‘Business’ page headline (Jan.25, 2017) erroneously said: “Charge on di- these initiatives. Hence, Russia’s “annex- run media. This is as much an insult to other. and external challenges over the next gital payments above ₨50,000 mooted.”It should have been cash payments. ation” of Crimea is condemned without the intelligence of the Russian people as This reorientation of U.S. policy decade or so will determine how long it reference to the background of NATO the charge of Russian agencies’ manipu- threatens entrenched interests. The can remain the undisputed global The Readers’ Editor’s oice can be contacted by missile defence deployments in Europe lation of American attitudes insults the strengthening of NATO, European mis- superpower. Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to and Russia’s fears of NATO advancing to intelligence of Americans. sile deployments and conflicts across Friday); E-mail: [email protected] its vulnerable Black Sea coast. Russia These are propaganda wars reminis- Asia have provided business to Amer- P.S. Raghavan is a former diplomat.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 12 | NEWS THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 FROM PAGE ONE Airlines may soon T.N. jallikattu law faces India a true friend, says Trump On the phone, he and Modi say U.S., India stand united in fight against terror share security staf challenge in SC SOMESH JHA anonymity. “Airlines may have difer- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT after he assumed oice on When contacted, AWBI Court, without addressing NEW DELHI: Friday. Canadian Prime Min- The Civil Aviation ent security apparatus at Chairman (Acting) told the legal basis of the judg- WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: The ister Justin Trudeau, Mex- Ministry has proposed al- various airports depending The Hindu that the organ- ment (Animal Welfare U.S. considered India “a true ican President Pena Nieto, lowing airlines to share upon their operations. So, isation would not be chal- Board of India versus A. friend and partner in ad- Prime Minister Benjamin trained staf for various se- airlines can get into an ar- lenging the Tamil Nadu Nagaraja in 2014)”, which dressing challenges around Netanyahu of Israel and curity-related roles at rangement with another air- amendment. banned the bull-taming the world”, President Donald Egyptian President Abdel airports. line with a good security “I don’t know about event. It said the amend- Trump told Prime Minister Fattah el-Sisi were the first Now, airlines can only de- structure at that airport. other organisations but ment was a response to the Narendra Modi, during a call four. On November 9, Mr. ploy their own whole-time This is known as ‘buddy sys- AWBI won't be filing any widespread protests across on Tuesday afternoon. Modi was the fifth world employees for such duties. tem’ where airlines can help petition. We also don't in- Tamil Nadu for ‘lifting the “The two discussed op- leader to speak to Mr. Trump They would have gone each other in providing se- tend to in the future,” said ban’ imposed by the Naga- portunities to strengthen the after he won the election. through proper training, due curity services on a payment S.S. Negi, who is also Spe- raja judgment, and an in- partnership between the U.S. selection procedure and cer- basis. It has worked bril- cial Secretary (Forest) in terim order passed by the and India in broad areas such Russian ties tification in accordance with liantly in the aviation sector the Union Environment apex court on January 12, as the economy and de- Mr. Trump spoke to Mr. the national civil aviation se- in other countries since dec- Ministry. The AWBI is an 2016 staying the January 7 fence,” a statement from the Modi before he spoke to Rus- curity programme. This will ades,” Mark D Martin, autonomous body ailiated notification. White House said. Narendra Modi Donald Trump sian President Vladimir change soon if the airlines Founder and CEO of Martin to the Union Environment It contended that the Each leader invited the Putin or Chinese Premier Xi get the nod to enter into con- Consulting said. He said air- Ministry and advises the Tamil Nadu Governor pro- other to visit his country. Mr. United States and India visit. In 2009, Prime Minister Jinping. The White House tract with other domestic lines spend ₨12 lakh-15 lakh government on properly mulgated the jallikattu or- Trump looked forward to stand shoulder to shoulder in Manmohan Singh was the said on Monday that the Rus- airlines “for security ser- per month on an average on implementing the 1960 Act. dinance and rules showing hosting Mr. Modi later this the global fight against ter- first leader hosted by Presid- sian Ambassador in Wash- vices” at airports, according security services at a single However, Ms. Sharma re- “scant respect” to the Naga- year, the White House said. rorism,” the White House ent Barack Obama. Oicials ington and National Security to the proposed amend- airport. sponded that she received raja judgment, followed by “President Trump and I said. in New Delhi said that in the Adviser Michael Flynn ments in the Aircraft (Secur- Airline security staf are the authorisation from the the passing of the amend- agreed to work closely in the The conversation and the normal course, Mr. Modi and spoke twice over setting up a ity) Rules, 2011. required to search aircraft legal sub-committee of the ment on January 23, 2017 by coming days to further invitations exchanged have Mr. Trump would be expec- call between the leaders, “All airlines have to deploy before boarding of passen- AWBI to move the Su- the Assembly. “Under Sec- strengthen our bilateral ties,” increased speculation that ted to meet first at the G-20 while the Foreign Ministry their own staf even at small gers or before taking it to the preme Court. tion 38 of the Prevention of Mr. Modi tweeted. the two leaders may meet in summit in Hamburg, Ger- said in Moscow that it was airports where the flight fre- restricted area. They are also “Authorisation was re- Cruelty Act, 1960 only the the next few months, earlier many in early July, and then being discussed. quency is very less. This is a expected to maintain sur- ceived by me yesterday Centre is vested with the Convergence of ideas than expected. possibly on the sidelines of On China, there has been huge cost burden on us. A veillance from the check- [Tuesday] from the AWBI, power to frame rules, and “They also discussed se- Later this week, the Amer- the U.N. General Assembly, no word from the White common security pool will point to the departure area. to do any required filing in hence the rules framed un- curity in the region of South ican President is hosting which Mr. Modi could attend House, which ruled out a help us reduce costs by util- When aircraft are non-oper- W.P. 23 of 2016, which is the der Section 3(2) [allowing and Central Asia. President British Prime Minister this year. telephone conversation with ising trained staf from other ational, they have to keep writ petition we had filed jallikattu] of the Tamil Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May in Washington Mr. Modi is the fifth world Ms. May before her arrival airlines,” said a senior airline cabin doors closed and se- last year challenging the Nadu Act are in fact invalid Modi resolved that the but that is not a full state leader Mr. Trump spoke to on Thursday. executive, on condition of cure aerobridges and stairs. Central Government noti- and therefore inapplic- fication permitting able,” the application jallikattu in violation of the contended. 2014 A. Nagaraja judgment The application conten- of the Supreme Court. ded that the new rules are Enhance withdrawal limit President for simultaneous Please note, this was issued “very similar” to the Tamil after the legal sub-commit- Nadu Regulation of tee of the Board comprising Jallikattu Act, 2009, which the Chairperson Mr. Negi, was struck down by the SC. for candidates: EC to RBI Lok Sabha, Assembly polls Vice-Chairperson Dr. It referred to SC’s judg- Chinny Krishna, Ms. ments in the Dr. D.C. Wad- DEVESH K.PANDEY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Committee on Law, which Norma Alvarez, Mr. Doulat hwa and Others versus recommended simultaneous Jain, and Mr. N.G. Jay- State of Bihar of 1987 and C. NEW DELHI: The Election Com- NEW DELHI: President Pranab elections in December 2015, asimha, apart from me, had Gajapati Narayan Deo mission on Wednesday re- Mukherjee said on Wednes- and to the Union Law Min- exchanged mails consent- versus State of Orissa to quested the RBI to enhance day that simultaneous elec- istry. Funds in excess of ing to the filing by me,” Ms. contend that the State can- the cash withdrawal limit for tions to the Lok Sabha and ₨9,000 crore would be re- Sharma, also an AWBI not overturn the rule of law candidates in the five poll- the State assemblies could quired to meet the member, informed by e- through concealed actions. bound States from ₨24,000 to substantially reduce incon- expenditure. mail. “A binding judgment ₨2 lakh a week, till the declar- venience in poll manage- The AWBI application (Nagaraja judgment) can- ation of results on March 11. ment and expenditure. Hails EC, people submitted that the amend- not be rendered inefective “We are apprised of the Speaking at the 7th Na- Pointing out that over 66% ment was “nothing but a by enactment of legislation problems being faced by the tional Voters’ Day event, the of the total electorate of 834 surreptitious method of that substantially overrules candidates due to imposition MORE CASH: The EC has requested RBI to raise candidates’ President said the reform Pranab Mukherjee million had voted in the 2014 circumventing the law laid the intended efect of the of limits on withdrawal of withdrawal limit to ₨ 2 lakh a week. —PHOTO: C. VENKATACHALAPATHY was possible if the Election Lok Sabha elections, the down by the Supreme judgment,” it contended. cash from banks,” the Com- Commission (EC) took the ing the need for simultan- President congratulated the mission said. As per its direc- the statutory limit of ex- ded in rural areas where initiative and the political eous elections and had called EC and the voters on the suc- tion, each candidate has to penditure of ₨28 lakh in Pun- banking facilities are not parties arrived at a con- for a political consensus. cessful conduct of such a open a separate bank ac- jab, Uttarakhand and Uttar available or negligible. sensus to make necessary Chief Election Commis- huge exercise. Intolerant Indian was count. All receipts and pay- Pradesh, and ₨20 lakh in Ma- Therefore, it is requested amendments to the sioner Nasim Zaidi had on “The Election Commis- ments during the election nipur and Goa, the EC said in that the withdrawal limits for Constitution. Tuesday said that holding sion should be an independ- never celebrated: Pranab process have to be routed its letter to the RBI. candidates, as certified by Consensus needed simultaneous polls would re- ent and competent institu- through that account. The Commission said that the Returning Oicer of a “I do believe that if polit- quire amendments to the tion. Over the years, it has The entire election pro- even considering that part particular constituency, may ical parties agree on this is- Constitution and additional proved to be so and is appre- Inclusive innovation, ac- poverty line. Our people in cess lasts only three to four expenditure would be in- be enhanced to ₨2 lakh per sue, with the help of the Elec- resources like more elec- ciated all over the world.” cording to the President, villages must be provided weeks and therefore, the curred through cheque, week. This enhanced limit tion Commission it may be tronic voting machines. He was confident that the had to become a way of life better amenities and op- total amount that can cur- petty and recurring ex- may be valid only till the date possible,” he said. The EC had already given Election Commission would for Indians and education portunities that would af- rently be withdrawn would penses were generally met in of declaration of results on Prime Minister Narendra its view on the issue to the continue to improvise and had to keep pace with tech- ford them a decent quality be only ₨96,000 as against cash. “The issue is compoun- March 11,” said the EC. Modi has also been advocat- Parliamentary Standing evolve. nology. “In the race of life. India had to work between man and machine, harder to ensure the safety the winner will have to be and security of its women job generation. The velo- and children.” Minorities under city of technology adoption The President said ter- will call for a workforce rorism had to be dealt with India, UAE sign strategic partnership pact threat in India: that is willing to learn and firmly and decisively while KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE adapt,” he said. ensuring “we work harder” Hizbul, LeT “Indians had to work to ensure the well-being of NEW DELHI: India on Wednes- harder because the war on our soldiers and security day sealed 14 agreements, in- PEERZADA ASHIQ poverty was not yet over, personnel who protected cluding a comprehensive given that a fifth of the pop- us from internal and ex- strategic partnership, with SRINAGAR: Militant outfits ulation remained below the ternal threats. the United Arab Emirates Hizbul Mujahideen and (UAE). Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on The summit-level talks, Wednesday alleged that however, fell short of clinch- minorities were “under ‘Hand’ will help ‘cycle’, ing a major investment threat” in India and sought agreement for India, though the attention of the world the visiting Crown Prince powers. says Akhilesh Sheikh Mohammed bin Za- “India is inflicting brutalit- yed Al Nahyan said the UAE ies against minorities. Since OMAR RASHID had started his campaign by would further intensify ties 1947, thousands of Muslims addressing two rallies in with India. have been butchered and not LUCKNOW: “When you hold the Sultanpur. The Agreement on Com- a single culprit was booked handle well, imagine how prehensive Strategic Part- or punished,” alleged fast the cycle will run,” Uttar False promise nership came four days after Hizbul’s PoK-based supremo Pradesh Chief Minister In his speeches, Mr. Yadav both sides held the first ever Syed Salahuddin, as he called Akhilesh Yadav on Wednes- criticised the Narendra Modi strategic dialogue. Soon after for a complete shutdown in day used this imagery to government for “misleading” his arrival in Delhi on Tues- Jammu and Kashmir on Re- pitch the winning prospects people with false promises. day, the Crown Prince had public Day. of the alliance between his “Many people misled us in described the strategic MOMENTOUS BONHOMIE: The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, being received by Salahuddin accused the Samajwadi Party and Con- 2014. We have seen the sum- agreement as a testimony to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday. — PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA United Nations and the U.S. gress in the State Assembly mer, the winter, the mon- the age-old ties between the of bias. “The world powers elections. His reference was soon, the fog and days of in- two sides. transport, cybersecurity, However, there was signed between their invest- who will be the chief guest at intervene only when their in- to the hand, the Congress convenience standing in “I believe that the UAE, shipping and transport were ment fund and NIIF (Na- the Republic Day celebra- terests are at stake. They symbol. queues. But where are the with its unique development also signed. no agreement on a tional Infrastructure Invest- tions, visited the Lodhi wasted no time in resolving Addressing three small achhe din, tell us? What have experience and Islamic and massive investment ment Fund) that we have Garden where he planted a issues like East Timor, Scot- public meetings in Lakhim- they given us,” Mr. Yadav Arab background, and India, Talks still on in the infrastructure created on our side which is sapling as a symbol of friend- land and South Sudan, but re- pur Kheri, on the Indo-Nepal asked. His speech was laced with its inimitable and suc- Prime Minister Narendra at an advanced stage of dis- ship with India. “UAE con- main mute spectators on border, Mr. Yadav sought with several references to the cessful development experi- Modi urged the UAE to part- sector of India cussions,” Secretary in siders its relationship with Kashmir,” said Salahuddin. votes in the name of develop- inconveniences faced by ence and its unique model of ner India in stabilising South charge of economic relations India a priority and views In- The Hizbul chief asked ment and social welfare, but common people due to de- coexistence, can work to- Asia and fight security chal- they expected the agreement in the MEA, Amar Sinha, had dia as a linchpin of stability Pakistan “to extend military also reminded people of the monetisation and he was gether to push for peace and lenges. He welcomed greater to be finalised during the announced on Tuesday. and security in the Asian support to accomplish its national relevance of the quick to remind the audience stability in Asia and the investment from the country talks. “UAE also has the However, an oicial continent,” Sheih bin Zayed long-cherished goal.” state elections. that his government was the Middle East. This makes me for India’s infrastructure sec- largest sovereign wealth source said talks were still said on a social media plat- In a statement, LeT chief “This is not just a state only one to provide relief to even more optimistic about tor. However, a major agree- fund that we are looking for on. “We hope to conclude the form. The Gulf state will also Mehmood Shah appealed to election. This is an election the families of those who the future of our relation- ment on engaging the investments. There is an deal at an early date,” he told showcase its growing milit- the people to observe Janu- for the country. In the coming died while standing in ship,” Sheikh bin Zayed said massive investment fund of agreement that they will in- The Hindu. Sources said the ary clout at the Republic Day ary 26 as “black day” as In- days, this election will give queues outside banks and in his oicial statement. the UAE for India’s infra- vest nearly $75 billion in In- UAE needed more time to parade, where a marching dia’s claims of being a repub- force and direction to the ATMs. Apart from the strategic structure sector remained dia over the next couple of study the documents on the contingent of its armed lic had fallen flat after country,” Mr. Yadav said. “We did good work and partnership, agreements on unattained. MEA oicials years. During the visit we are structure and management forces will participate in a Hindutva forces made life Though the SP and Con- showed what development defence industries, maritime had stated on Tuesday that hoping that an MoU will be of NIIF. Sheikh bin Zayed, show of solidarity with India. hell for the minorities. gress have not yet revealed is, while other parties created their plans for a joint cam- a situation where people had paign, Mr. Yadav’s rally in to stand in lines for their own Lakhimpur Kheri was an in- money,” Mr. Yadav said. dication in that direction. Among the achievements OROP: Veterans call of fast unto death Congress leaders Prem of his government, Mr. Yadav Prakash, who is the party’s counted the launch of the 102 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ms. Sudesh Goyat, Hav. condition worsened, doctors Minister Manohar Parrikar candidate form Bareilly, and and 108 ambulance services Major Singh and Hav. Mo- advised that she must be kept had refused their requests Ramji Seth, shared the dais (the former for pregnant wo- NEW DELHI: Three members of hinder Singh with the Indian on an oral diet. for a meeting. A group of vet- with him and were promin- men), UP 100 emergency po- the ex-servicemen fraternity, Ex-Servicemen Movement In view of that, the veter- erans had rejected the ver- ently mentioned in Mr. Ya- lice helpline, Lucknow-Agra on Wednesday, called of (IESM) had been on a fast ans collectively appealed to sion implemented by the dav’s address at Dhauraha, Expressway and other wel- their “fast unto death” at unto death since January 15. her to end the fast, which she government stating that it where the SP’s Yashpal fare schemes for the poor, Jantar Mantar demanding On Sunday, Ms. Goyat was accepted on Wednesday deviated from the accepted Chaudhary is contesting. children and women. the “full” implementation of admitted to the Army’s Re- afternoon. definition of OROP. Mr. Yadav also addressed He also sought to counter the one rank, one pension search & Referral (RR) Hos- Maj. Gen. Satbir Singh, Defence sources said Mr. meetings in Nighasan and criticism that his govern- (OROP) scheme. However, pital after her health Chairman of IESM, said that Parrikar was busy with the Kasta constituencies in ment had failed in maintain- they said that their protest deteriorated. they would continue their election campaign and the Lakhimpur. On Tuesday, he ing law and order. would continue. Veterans said that as her agitation. He said Defence Republic Day celebrations.

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POLLDIARY AAP on a strong wicket, but needs a skipper Loyalty is but a mirage IMPHAL: Almost all BJP ticket aspirants in Manipur who have missed the bus have announced that In Punjab, the party has made much headway, but by not projecting a chief ministerial candidate, its prospects may diminish they will contest as Independents or contest as candidates of other parties. Each of the valley constituencies had an average five aspirants for VIKAS VASUDEVA steer the party. Possibly, Mr. Mohammed Khalid, Pro- the BJP ticket. At local meetings, they used to aver Kejriwal realised it; hence he fessor of Political Science at that if they lost out in the CHANDIGARH: As the campaign has been himself leading the Panjab University, told The race, they would for the Punjab Assembly party’s campaign in Punjab Hindu. wholeheartedly support elections gains momentum, from the front, and has de- “That Mr. Kejriwal is lead- the official candidate. the absence of a State-level cided not to announce a chief ing the campaign has helped But that was not to be. mass leader is hurting the ministerial candidate,” Mr. the party consolidate its pos- Chongtham Bijoy, BJP electoral prospects of the Kumar said. ition but I doubt if in a State spokesperson, said, “One Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). “For want of a like Punjab — ticket is issued in each The party has emerged as local face, Mr. Kejri- which was crafted constituency. Those with a strong contender in the wal seems to be the after the Punjabi wafer-thin party loyalty Malwa region, which ac- best bet for the Suba movement have left us and it is not surprising.” The counts for 69 of the 117 As- party.” However, in — in absence of an disappointed lot have vowed to defeat the BJP sembly seats in the State, a State like Punjab, established State- candidates. — A Correspondent political analysts told The where ‘identity level mass leader, politics’ has deep the AAP will be INFOCUS roots, the Opposi- able to form a gov- tion parties — the ernment. Having Rahul to hold second public meet in Goa Congress and the said that, I believe PANAJI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will Hindu. “The AAP wave has Akalis — have taken this as the party is likely to win a address a public meeting at Mapusa town in north certainly gained momentum an opportunity to garner few seats,” he added. Goa on January 30, ahead of the in the Malwa region of late, public support by evoking Mr. Khalid points out that Assembly polls. “Rahul Gandhi following aggressive cam- emotions around the ‘Punj- though the AAP emerged as will address a public meeting in paigning, but the absence of abi identity’ by targeting Mr. a key challenger after win- Mapusa on January 30. Congress a State-level mass leader in Kejriwal as an “outsider”. ning four Lok Sabha seats out party is all set to win on the the party is something that The Akali Dal and the of 13 in Punjab during the majority seats in the state,” could hurt their prospects in Congress have been consist- 2014 elections, it received a party’s General Secretary Digvijay grabbing power,” said ently accusing the Delhi setback after two of its MPs Singh told reporters here. Polling Ashutosh Kumar, Professor Chief Minister and the AAP’s — Dharamvira Gandhi and in the coastal State will be held on of Political Science at Panjab national convener, Arvind Harinder Singh Khalsa — February 4. This would be Mr. Gandhi’s second University. Kejriwal, of being raised their voice against Mr. public meeting in Goa in the run-up to the BEST BET: AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow for the anti-Punjabi. Kejriwal’s style of working, Assembly polls, the first one being addressed in Major challenge Punjab Assembly elections in Jalandhar on Friday.— PHOTO: PTI following which both MPs Fatorda earlier last month. — PTI For the AAP, finding a Is it enough? were suspended from the leader with a mass appeal Phoolka are among the top kash Singh Badal of the Shir- the AAP, had Delhi Chief “The momentum since the primary membership of the across the State has proved local leaders but, as Mr. Ku- omani Akali Dal and Con- Minister Arvind Kejriwal 2014 Lok Sabha elections has party on grounds of indiscip- JD(U) not to contest U.P. polls to be among the biggest chal- mar says, the party does not gress leader Amarinder been its chief ministerial face certainly toned down, and line. lenges the party faces in the have a local “mass leader” Singh. for Punjab. not having an established a “Episodes like this have PATNA: The Janata Dal(U) announced here on State. Sangrur MP Bhagwant who can pose a challenge to In fact, a CVoter survey “The AAP has been lack- State-level leader could only not done any good for the Wednesday it would not contest the Uttar Pradesh Mann and senior leader H.S. heavyweights such as Par- last April predicted a win for ing a State-wide ‘face’ to work to their disadvantage,” party,” he said. Assembly polls or support any party. “To protect the constituency of secular forces and to combat communal forces, we have taken the decision not to contest the Assembly elections in U.P.,” K.C. Tyagi, principal general secretary of the party, said. Mr. Tyagi, along with other senior JD(U) leaders Statehood champion R.C.P. Singh and Rajiv Ranjan Sabbatical is a month in campaign oice Singh, alias Lalan Singh, was addressing presspersons at the loses the plot Many professionals have taken time off for electioneering for the AAP in Goa party’s headquarters here. In the 2012 U.P. Assembly elections, the Uttarakhand Kranti elections, again from PRAKASH KAMAT JD(U) contested 219 seats, but Dal has not made a Didihat. could not win even one. Most of its mark in the electoral Among its founding fath- PANAJI: From where does the candidates lost their deposits. ers, Indramani Badoni and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) When prodded further, Mr. Tyagi arena since 2000 Bipin Tripathi are no more. get its campaigners in Goa? said, “Despite our consistent Mr. Airy is now 65. Nearly 300 volunteers from effort, unfortunately, no Bihar-like KAVITA UPADHYAY The party boycotted the across the country and broad political coalition emerged 1996 elections on the eight to 10 NRI youngsters in U.P.; so we decided to stay away DEHRADUN: Attaining state- grounds that it would con- have arrived in the State from the U.P. poll.” However, his hood for Uttarakhand was its test the polls only when its taking a break from work party colleague and Bihar Minister single biggest goal when it demand for statehood for Ut- or business for of Water Resources, Rajiv Ranjan was formed in 1979, but the tarakhand was met. Calling electioneering for the Singh, said, “We will pray from here in Patna that Uttarakhand Kranti Dal this the party’s “biggest mis- February 4 election. the secular forces would win the poll there in U.P.” failed to become a political take”, UKD leader Suresh As they fan out across Asked if JD(U) president and Bihar Chief Minister force once the State came Dalakoti, who is the party’s constituencies without Nitish Kumar would go to U.P. for campaigning, if into being in 2000. candidate from Kaladhungi, much ado, people turn he gets an invitation from Samajwadi Party chief The State’s biggest re- said, “At that time [In- inquisitive. In the past Akhilesh Yadav, Mr. Singh said, “No, Nitish Kumar gional party has never been dramani] Badoniji said that elections, the voters here will not go there.” — Special Correspondent able to win enough the UKD wouldn’t had only seen party cadres seats in the As- contest any polls and paid workers out in the sembly, its relev- till statehood was campaign field. ance being reduced achieved. Many “Volunteers are sent to Goan singer quits as poll icon to helping either the party workers and diferent constituencies PANAJI: Popular pop singer from Goa, BJP or the Congress leaders who were according to requirement, Hema Sardesai, on Wednesday attain the required driven by political based on language and resigned as the special icon for the number to form the ambition then comfort level as per the ALL ABOARD: Elvis Gomes, chief ministerial candidate of the Aam Aadmi Party in Goa, and 2017 State Legislative Assembly government. joined the Con- demands of our observers Panaji candidate Valmiki Naik, on a Jhaadu Yatra in Panaji. — PHOTO: ATISH POMBURFEKAR election. The party won gress and the BJP.” and requirements of local Social activist Aires Rodrigues, in a four seats in the 2002 As- Mr. Airy, however, said, candidates,” Rahul distributing pamphlets, Navindu Shiraj, says. He Minister, Mickky Pacheco. complaint before the Chief Electoral sembly polls. In 2007, its “Politically it was a wrong Mahambres, AAP hoisting banners, setting flew in on a month-long Mr. Rosario says that Officer, had accused the Awara Bhawre singer of strength was reduced to decision, but it did send a treasurer, Goa, says. the stage for public mission to “work to ensure most of the volunteers campaigning for Defence Minister Manohar three, and all the three MLAs message.” There are volunteers meetings or be of help to that elements like Babush handle their own travel, Parrikar in the previous elections. He has also cited extended support to the BJP In 1994, when the Ut- from Maharashtra, senior leaders in the back [Atanacio Monserrate, while the party has a post by Sardesai on social networking site government. In 2012, the tarakhand andolan was at its Karnataka and room. Volunteers from former State Education provided party oices, praising Mr. Parrikar. State Chief Electoral Officer party got only one seat: the peak and the UKD was emer- northeastern India. Some more than 10 States are Minister, who is out on bail some rooms and houses of Kunal said they have received the resignation of lone MLA, Pritam Singh Pan- ging as a powerful regional of them help out with here,” Mr. Rosario says in a case of rape of a minor local volunteers for their Sardesai, which is under consideration. war, became a part of the party, the BJP and the Con- door-to-door canvassing. pointing out that for the and is an accused in the stay. “These volunteers “In her resignation, Sardesai has clarified that she Progressive Democratic gress approached it with a Many accompany the local volunteers, this is a attack on the city police have come on their own. is not a member of any political party and had met Front, which helped the Con- wish to contribute to the party’s chief ministerial new experience. headquarters and other They eat from a common Mr. Parrikar to discuss Goan issues,” he said. — PTI gress form the government. struggle for statehood and candidate, Elvis Gomes, on cases] do not get elected kitchen, most of them The party formally the Uttarakhand Sanyukt his Jhaadu Yatra across From big cities from Panaji”. share the same living space entered electoral politics in Sangharsh Samiti was the State. Most of them He says most of the “We have a mix of such with senior party leaders. 1980 when Jaswant Singh formed. “Through the form- handle logistics and volunteers have come from businessmen and To be frank, they put us to AAP scores a point with football fans Bist won the Ranikhet seat ation of the samiti, though behind-the-scenes work, the AAP’s Mumbai and professionals working shame by their simplicity, PANAJI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday during the Uttar Pradesh As- the andolan attained mo- Ashley Do Rosario, Bangalore units. A group abroad who have taken dedication and released its sports manifesto for Goa, sembly elections that year. In mentum, the UKD started journalist-turned AAP from Manipur and time of and come to work commitment,” Oscar vowing to develop world-class the 1985 elections, Kashi getting weaker,” Mr Airy said media coordinator, says. Nagaland has been with a mission,” says a Rebello, party facilities to make the State a ‘football Singh Airy of the party won In the upcoming elections, “The best thing about our working for quite some retired health oicer, spokesperson and senior capital’. Releasing the manifesto, the Didihat seat. While the the party will be fielding can- volunteers from outside is time. “Some of us have Marian Godinho, AAP’s leader, says. “They have AAP media coordinator Ashley do party won no seats in the didates in 50 seats and sup- that nobody has any ego. come from Dubai, Canada candidate in the Nuvem taught us that you don’t Rosario said the party would set up a 1989 and 1991 elections, Mr. porting the Left parties and Nobody hesitates to carry and other places,” a U.S.- constituency, where he is require big money to be a State-level sports university and Airy was the only party the Uttarakhand Parivartan out mundane jobs such as based sales consultant, pitted against a former candidate in the election.” launch a mission to groom young member to win in the 1993 Party in the remaining 20. girls and boys into Olympic medal prospects. The manifesto promises to double the State’s sports budget from under 1% to at least 2% of the total outlay. The AAP also promises ATM before EVM Now, Kejriwal tries to catalyse the Goan football landscape and increase the State’s presence in the under 17/20/23 national football chaste Punjabi teams. — Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Reaching out to that no one else had, so that ILLUSTRATIONS: SATHEESH VELLINEZHI Punjabis in their own lan- they dare not repeat it again guage, Delhi Chief Minister ... disrespect of any religious Arvind Kejriwal has vowed book won’t be tolerated,” Mr. TONGUE IN CHEEK not to spare those involved in Kejriwal says. the alleged desecration of Surendra the Guru Granth Sahib at Audiovisual blitz Bargari village in Faridkot in Last week, the first such 2015. audio was released by the In an audio message is- AAP as part of a planned au- sued by the Aam Aadmi dio and video onslaught, fea- Party across social media turing Mr. Kejriwal, in the platforms, Mr. Kejriwal last leg of the campaigning speaks chaste Punjabi. The before the State goes to the message is being dissemin- polls on February 4. ated through an IVRS (inter- “We plan to reach out to active voice response sys- each and every voter of Pun- tem) on mobile phones. jab,” a party member said. Starting of with the sa- In that message, Mr. Kejri- lutation Sat Sri Akal, Mr. wal reiterated his promise to Kejriwal says: “One year ago put Punjab Minister Bikram Sri Guru Granth Sahib was Singh Majithia in prison, al- disrespected at Bargari. leging his involvement in People who were behind it “drug trade”. have not been caught yet. In Punjab, the AAP is in- VILLAGE VIGNETTES: Not the polling booth. At Badal, home village of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, people After Jhaadu Wali party volved in a triangular contest queue in front of a bank for cash. The note ban has had an impact on their livelihood, but the Chief Minister cannot be [party with the broom sym- against the incumbent SAD- No, not the one in dark glasses. The one resting blamed for it, they say. — PHOTO: KAMAL NARANG bol, AAP] comes to power, BJP combine and the Con- on his shoulder is the candidate. we will punish them in a way gress. — PTI CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 14 | WORLD THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 Trump calls for ‘voter fraud’ probe China backs regional trade Depending on investigation results, ‘we will strengthen’ election procedures, says U.S. President pacts after U.S. exits TPP ATUL ANEJA RCEP is an inclusive member economies have VARGHESE K. GEORGE million to Hillary Clinton. also agreed on a vision and a Mr. Trump is the fifth Presid- BEIJING: China is hoping to gal- proposal. The U.S. plan for this arrangement. WASHINGTON: U.S. President ent in the history of the vanise two regional trade can also join as a In the Asia-Pacific, the Donald Trump said on Wed- country to not to win the proposals — the Regional partner in the future, U.S.’s exit has triggered dif- nesday he would order an in- popular vote. “In addition to Comprehensive Economic ferent responses — from vestigation into “voter winning the Electoral Col- Partnership (RCEP) and the says Beijing calls to re-focus on the RCEP fraud”, calling into question lege in a landslide, I won the Free-Trade Agreement of the to revive the TPP with China the integrity of the Novem- popular vote if you deduct Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) — fol- agreement. Besides, six as its new member. ber election that he won. On the millions of people who lowing the formal exit of the other nations — India, Tuesday, the White House voted illegally,” he tweeted in U.S. from the Trans Pacific China, Japan, South Korea, Political will had said the President be- November as it became clear Partnership (TPP). Australia and New Zealand Reuters quoted New Zeal- lieved people illegally voted, that Ms. Clinton had beaten On Monday, President — are part of the and Prime Minister Bill Eng- and cited dubious studies in him in the popular vote. Donald Trump signed an ex- arrangement. lish as saying the U.S. was support of the claim. ecutive order, withdrawing “The RCEP is an inclusive ceding influence to China Adding fuel to the fire set Pew study the U.S. from the 12-nation proposal. The U.S., if it and the region’s focus could of by the White House press Mr. Spicer said there have trade deal, widely seen in wants, can also join as a part- switch to alternative trade secretary, Mr. Trump been studies that supported China as a Washington-led ner in the future,” Prof. Wang deals. “We’ve got this RCEP tweeted from his personal the President’s claim. “I attempt to contain its rise. said. On Tuesday, Chinese agreement with Southeast account: “I will be asking for think there have been stud- “The TPP, in any case, was Foreign Ministry spokesper- Asia, which up until now has a major investigation into ies; there was one that came an unrealistic initiative as it son Hua Chunying pointed been on a bit of a slow burn, VOTER FRAUD, including out of Pew in 2008 that excluded China. After all, out that Beijing will back fur- but we might find the polit- those registered to vote in showed 14% of people who China is the biggest trading ther negotiations on RCEP, ical will for that to pick up if two states, those who are il- have voted were not citizens. partner with 128 countries, ” which have already made TPP isn’t going to proceed.” legal and even those re- There are other studies that said Wang Yiwei, Professor substantial progress and On the contrary, Aus- gistered to vote who are dead were presented to him.” STANDING UP: People in Mexico City protesting next to a fake wall in the run-up to the in the School International should be completed at an tralia’s Prime Minister Mal- (and many for a long time). The 2012 Pew study inauguration of President Donald Trump last week. — PHOTO: AFP Relations at Renmin Univer- early date. colm Turnbull highlighted Depending on results, we looked at issues of inaccur- sity, in a conversation with that, “Losing the United will strengthen up voting ate voter registrations be- issued executive orders to The Hindu. Diferent responses States from the TPP is a big procedures.” cause of people shifting advance construction of the Instead of the TPP, Prof. Ms. Hua also advocated loss; there is no question The President has said he places or death, and did not Keystone XL and Dakota Ac- President to authorise Wang backed the RCEP, that the formation of the about that”. He added: “But lost the popular vote only be- report any voter fraud, its cess pipelines, pitting hard- which has the 10 countries of Asia-Pacific free-trade zone we are not about to walk cause of fraudulent voting by lead author said on twitter. working Americans against the Association of South East should be further advanced, away... certainly there is po- “millions”. Republican He had said it earlier that his our climate and the protec- construction of wall Asian Nations as the core of as leaders of Asia-Pacific tential for China to join the politicians have consistently study was being misinter- tion of tribal lands,” Demo- the proposed free trade Economic Cooperation TPP.” kept the allegation of preted by Mr. Trump. “I'm cratic Senator Elizabeth JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS review of “whether to reinstate the massive fraudulent voting aware of no Pew report, in- Warren said. DAVID E. SANGER programme of interrogation of alive for years without any cluding the ones I wrote “The Obama Administra- high-value alien terrorists to be proof, but this is probably the when I was there, which sup- tion rejected the Keystone WASHINGTON: President Donald operated outside the United Kim’s days are numbered: Defector first time that a President port any findings of voter XL Pipeline in part because Trump on Wednesday was to order States, and whether such a lent the weight of his oice fraud,” David Becker it would undermine our abil- the construction of a Mexican program should include the use of SEOUL: The North Korean re- said he had begun to waver as behind it. Many Republican- tweeted, tagging the press ity to continue leading the border wall — the first in a series detention facilities operated by the gime is on an inexorable de- his diplomatic role granted administered States have im- secretary on Tuesday. Schol- world in combating climate of actions this week to crack down CIA.” But one section of the draft cline towards collapse, with him access to outside in- posed tough documentation ars have questioned the vera- change. And just last week, on immigrants and bolster national would require that “no person in its people increasingly disil- formation. His disillusion- requirements that make vot- city of another study that the U.S. Army Corps of En- security, including slashing the the custody of the United States lusioned but its nuclear am- ment turned to despair after ing disproportionately dii- claimed voter fraud. gineers took steps to prepare number of refugees who can shall at any time be subjected to bitions undimmed, a top de- Mr. Kim, who inherited cult for African Americans As the White House state- a new environmental impact resettle in the United States and torture, or cruel, inhuman or fector said on Wednesday. power from his late father and other minorities in re- ment grew into a contro- statement for the Dakota blocking Syrians and others from degrading treatment or “I’m sure and I can say that Kim Jong-Il five years ago, cent years. versy, it left little scope for pipeline with full public in- “terror-prone” nations from punishment, as described by U.S. Kim Jong-Un’s days are began ruthlessly purging of- “The President does be- any debate on the barrage of put and analysis. The impact entering, at least temporarily. or international law.” numbered,” said Thae Yong- ficials, he added. lieve that, I think he’s stated executive decisions that Mr. of these pipelines on our en- The orders are among an array “Big day planned on NATIONAL Ho, who fled his post as Pyongyang carried out that before, and stated his Trump continued to make on vironment, and on the com- of national security directives Mr. SECURITY tomorrow,” Mr. Trump North Korea’s Deputy Am- two nuclear tests and a series concern of voter fraud and Tuesday. Among other de- munities they cut through, Trump is considering issuing in the wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. bassador to Britain in Au- of missile launches in 2016 people voting illegally dur- cisions, Mr. Trump set the did not change when Presid- coming days, according to people “Among many other things, we will gust. In his first press confer- Thae Yong-Ho, former North and Mr. Thae said Mr. Kim ing the campaign and contin- ball moving to restart the ent Obama left oice. Presid- who have seen the orders. They build the wall!” Mr. Trump will sign ence for foreign Korean Deputy Ambassador was planning to “complete” ues to maintain that belief construction on Keystone ent Trump’s announcement include reviewing whether to the executive order for the wall correspondents, held under to the U.K. — PHOTO: REUTERS its atomic development by based on studies and evid- XL and Dakota Access oil today moves us in the wrong resume the once-secret “black during an appearance at the tight security, Mr. Thae said the end of this year to take ence people have brought to pipelines, projects that direction for our environ- site” detention programme; keep Department of Homeland Security he was sure that more of his Jong-Un, he said, adding: advantage of leadership him,” press secretary Sean former President Barack ment and our economy,” she open the prison at Guantanamo on Wednesday, as Mexico’s Foreign fellow countrymen would “The traditional structures transitions in South Korea Spicer said on Tuesday. Obama had stopped, owing said. Bay; and designate the Muslim Minister, Luis Videgaray, arrives in follow suit since North of North Korean systems are and the U.S. “The only way to Mr. Trump won the pres- to increasing environmental The Republicans, how- Brotherhood a terrorist Washington to prepare for the visit Korea was “on a downward crumbling.” resolve the issue of North’s idency by winning the Elect- concerns and people’s ever, cheered the President organisation. this month of President Enrique path”. Mr. Thae is among the nuclear threats is the elimin- oral College vote while los- protests. for going ahead with the pro- According to a draft, the order Peña Nieto. — New York Times The elite were “turning highest-ranking defectors ation of Kim Jong-Un’s re- ing the popular vote by three “President Trump today jects. on detention policies would start a News Service their backs” on leader Kim from the North for years. He gime,” he said. — AFP Kuwait hangs Head of ancient order quits in prince, six other prisoners spat with Pope over condom row KUWAIT: Kuwait hanged a VATICAN CITY: The Vatican said ouster of the order’s grand prince in the ruling Al-Sabah on Wednesday that it was chancellor, Albrecht von family on Wednesday for taking over the embattled Boeselager, over revelations premeditated murder, state Knights of Malta lay Catholic that the Knights’ charity news agency KUNA repor- order in an extraordinary branch had distributed con- ted, in what appeared to be display of papal power after doms under his watch. the first execution of a mem- the Knights’ grand master The spat unfolded against ber of the royal family in the publicly defied Pope Francis the backdrop of Francis’ in- Gulf state. Sheikh Faisal Ab- in a bitter dispute over con- creasing clashes with more dullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah doms. The move marks the conservative elements in the was hanged at Kuwait’s cent- intervention of one sover- church, especially those for ral prison alongside six other eign state — the Holy See — whom sexual ethics and doc- prisoners, including a wo- into the governance of an- trinal orthodoxy are para- man convicted of killing other, the Sovereign Military mount. Church teaching for- dozens of people at her hus- Order of Malta, an ancient bids artificial contraception. band’s wedding to second aristocratic order that runs a Robert Matthew Festing, Mr. Boeselager has said he wife. vast charity operation Grand Master of the stopped the programmes Al-Sabah’s crime was “pre- around the globe. Sovereign Military Order when he learned of them. meditated murder and pos- The Vatican said Matthew The order’s leadership has of Malta. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS session of a firearm and am- Festing (67) ofered to resign said the scandal was grave, munition without a license”, as grand master on Tuesday temporarily to the order’s that Mr. Boeselager had hid- KUNA said. He was sen- during an audience with the No. 2 “pending the appoint- den the revelations of the tenced to death in 2010 for Pope, and that Francis had ment of the papal delegate”. programs, and called it “dis- killing his nephew, another accepted it on Wednesday. Mr. Festing had refused to graceful” that he had refused prince, according to Kuwaiti The statement said the or- cooperate with a papal com- an order to obey Mr. Festing newspapers. — Reuters der’s governance would shift mission investigating his and resign. — AP War survivors who turned counsellors MEERA SRINIVASAN working with war widows. She took it up. As the war in- BATTICALOA: When tensified, her son was abduc- Thangamanikkam ted and, her son-in law went Saradadevi, Vellathambi Jun- missing in the final years. aida and Jayadeepa Padmasri “He returned, but had lost sat on a panel listening to one leg in a shelling. There hundreds of people in Battic- was no respite, it was one aloa speak of their missing problem after another.” The relatives, of land occupied by same family was victimised the military and of their wan- repeatedly. ing patience, they could in- This time, the three wo- stantly relate to them. men were seated on the other This was not merely be- HEALING PROCESS: (From left) -Thangamanikkam Saradadevi, side of the table. Brainstorm- cause the three women were Vellathambi Junaida and Jayadeepa Padmasri, part of a task ing in advance, they decided trained as counsellors but force counselling war victims. — PHOTO: MEERA SRINIVASAN to try and make the process also because they were fel- more sensitive and humane. low survivors of Sri Lanka’s task force that counselled some of whom would be very Though they were inves- brutal war and familiar with war-afected people on the cold and indiferent to us. ted in the process, the three all that it took away and left reconciliation mechanisms They were usually Sinhalese women don’t view the exer- behind. that the government has and we were never sure if cise without scepticism. In a Ms. Deepa, as Jayadeepa proposed. what we said was properly sense, it was “just another prefers being called, has been translated to them,” recalled commission”, they said. searching for her husband Govt.-appointed panel Ms. Deepa, who has ap- “If the government was who went missing in May Earlier this month, a gov- peared before panels, sub- serious about it, why did it 2009, barely two years after ernment-appointed Con- mitting details about her outsource the process to civil their wedding. sultation Task Force (CTF), missing husband. society and later abandon A decade after Ms. comprising activists and aca- “Whenever I met a woman us?” Ms. Deepa asked. “There Saradadevi’s husband was demicians, released a report of my age, I would feel her was no ownership from the shot dead by the Army, her based on such public hear- pain immediately,” Ms. government, locals saw it as son was conscripted by the ings across Sri Lanka. Saradadevi (56) said. After an NGO programme.” LTTE. This is not the first such her husband was killed in the Pointing to the perceived Ms. Junaida saw the LTTE exercise. Families of victims 1990s, she packed and sold futility of the consultations, go after her relatives, as they have testified to diferent, peanuts for a living. In the Ms. Deepa said: “At the end of did after many Muslim famil- government-appointed and habit of reading anything she the day, people afected by a ies in the North and the East. other commissions in the could lay her hands on, she war have a natural tendency The three women, now past. However, there has spotted a note in a newspaper for peace and non-recur- part of diferent community been no action or follow-up while wrapping peanuts. It rence. They say just let us be, organisations in Batticaloa, on any. “The government was an advertisement calling without further confusing us were part of a zonal-level would send a team of people, for women interested in with these new processes.” CM YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 BUSINESS 15 Demonetisation had an impact but the SENSEX GOLD RUPEE BRENT OIL auto industry is recovering from it 25-01-2017 27,708 25-01-2017 29,550 25-01-2017 68.07 25-01-2017 55.05 333 175 0.08 0.63 Vinod Dasari, MD & CEO, Ashok Leyland 24-01-2017 27,375 points 24-01-2017 29,725 ₨/10gms 24-01-2017 68.15 ₨/$ 24-01-2017 55.68 $/bbl

Panel defers France’s PSA to BSE IPO subscribed decision on Maruti profit zooms 47.5% re-enter India car more than 51 times Apple’s plans market with Birla SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: European auto ma- Since it is an offer on demand for premium cars jor PSA Group announced a MUMBAI: The initial public of- for sale by existing NEW DELHI: An inter-minis- partnership with the C.K. fer (IPO) of BSE, which shareholders, BSE terial panel took up the pro- Birla group to re-enter the closed for subscription on posal of U.S. technology ma- Sales of recently introduced models including that of Vitara Brezza surged Indian market and ear- January 25, has been sub- would not receive jor Apple to start full-fledged marked an initial investment scribed 51.15 times with all any issue proceeds manufacturing operations in SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT sales of cars, two-wheelers of €100 million (about ₨700 categories of investors show- India but did not take a final and commercial vehicles crore) to set up a vehicle and ing strong interest in the first forthcoming initial public of- call on the matter, oicial NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki, the shrinking 18.7% in December powertrain manufacturing such public issue by a stock fer (IPO) of the exchange. sources said. country’s largest car maker, — the steepest such drop in Tamil Nadu. exchange in India. According to the red her- The high-level panel, in- reported a 47.5% jump in since December 2000. The tie-up entails two According to data avail- ring prospectus of the ex- cluding oicials from the De- third-quarter profit after it joint-venture agreements able on National Stock Ex- change, Singapore Exchange, partments of Industrial sold more cars in the higher- Industrywide sales between the companies of change’s website, bids were which currently owns 4.67% Policy & Promotion, Com- end segment and benefitted Domestic car sales fell the two groups. received for a total of 55.23 stake in BSE, will be com- merce, Revenue, Electronics from lower sales promotion 8.14% industrywide, the “As part of the first agree- crore shares as against 1.08 pletely exiting from the In- and Information Techno- and marketing expenses. most since April 2014, while ment, the PSA Group will crore shares on ofer for pub- dian bourse. Quantum (M) logy, and Environment & Net profit for the three sales of utility vehicles rose hold a majority stake in the lic in the price band of ₨805 and Atticus Mauritius will Forests, heard out the com- months ended December 29%. joint-venture company being to ₨806. also sell their entire stake in pany’s demands including 2016 rose to ₨1,744.5 crore However, industry body set-up with HMFCL The ofer size is about the bourse, while many other tax and duty concessions to from ₨1,183 crore in the same SIAM termed the dip as a (Hindustan Motor Finance ₨1,244 crore at the upper end entities would partly dilute help it go ahead with its period last year. Maruti sold “temporary phenomenon” Corporation Ltd) for the as- of the price band. Since it is their holdings. ‘Make In India’ plans, ac- 387,251 vehicles during the and said it expected to see a sembly and distribution of an ofer for sale by existing Both, Quantum (M) and cording to the sources. quarter, of which exports ac- THORNY ISSUES: Profit was offset by higher commodity prices reversal in fortunes in the PSA passenger cars in India,” shareholders of the ex- Atticus Mauritius have 3.7% “They (Apple) are seeking counted for 30,748 units. and adverse forex movement. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS next two or three months. a joint statement said. change, BSE would not re- stake each in BSE, as per the certain duty exemptions and Sales rose 3.5%. In December, Maruti Su- Under a second agree- ceive any proceeds of the IPO document. Among the other concessions,” an oi- Maruti’s total income from crease in commodity prices not impacted by demonet- zuki had posted a 1% decline ment, a 50:50 JV is being set issue. top 10 shareholders of BSE, cial said. “The concerned de- operations rose 13.1% to and adverse foreign ex- isation,” he said. in total sales to 1,17,908 units. up between the PSA Group, According to the IPO pro- only Deutsche Borse – it has partments will consider ₨19,173.1 crore, from ₨16,957.6 change movement during The company’s domestic (which makes the Peugeot spectus filed by BSE, more 4.75% stake – has decided those demands.” crore in the year-earlier the quarter. Nexa efect sales dropped 4.4% to and the Citroen automobile than 300 entities — individu- against diluting its holding in period. For the nine-month period Mr. Majeed said that the 1,06,414 units. While sales of brands) and AVTEC Ltd for als, brokerages, institutional the exchange. “Increase in share of the from April to December, company’s strategy of using mini segment cars, includ- manufacture and supply of investors, exchanges — are company’s higher segment Maruti sold a total of Nexa as a channel for distri- ing, Alto and WagonR, de- powertrains. “The manufac- selling their shares as part of Domestic investors Centre yet to models, lower sales promo- 1,154,164 vehicles, a growth bution of premium cars had clined by 15.3%, those of the turing sites for both vehicle the BSE IPO. Interestingly, domestic in- tion and marketing expense, of 8%. Of this, exports stood also paid of. “Nexa has compact segment compris- assembly and powertrains stitutional investors like decide on digital cost reduction eforts and at 92,291 units. Net profit helped them push sales of ing Swift, Estilo, Ritz, Dzire will be based in Tamil Nadu,” Top shareholders State Bank of India and Life higher non-operating in- rose 44.8% for the period to their premium vehicles, and Baleno shrank 8.6%. the statement added. Singapore Exchange, Insurance Corporation of In- payments report come contributed to in- ₨5,628.7 crore. which they were not able to Sales of mid-sized sedan The initial capacity will be along with some of the other dia (LIC) have chosen not to crease in profits,” the Guru- “Their recent models have sell earlier,” he said. Ciaz increased by 30.6%, about 1 lakh vehicles a year, top shareholders like Atticus sell any shares as part of the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT gram-based firm said in a done well,” said Abdul Ma- Automobile demand was while utility vehicles, includ- with incremental investment Mauritius, Caldwell India public issue. While State statement. jeed, Partner at PwC. “Since hit hard in the wake of the ing Gypsy, Grand Vitara, Er- to support a progressive Holdings Inc, Acacia Banyan Bank of India has a stake of NEW DELHI: The Finance Min- It, however, added that this these models have a high withdrawal of high-value tiga, S-Cross and Vitara ramp-up of the long-term Partners and GKFF Ventures 4.75% stake in BSE, LIC owns istry is yet to take a final view was partially ofset by the in- waiting period, they were currency notes, with total Brezza surged 75.3%. project, it added. — PTI plan to sell their shares in the 4.68%. on the suggestions made by a panel of Chief Ministers on encouraging digital pay- ments, which include a re- commendation to levy a Tata Motors unveils Wipro to step up hiring in handling charge on cash transactions over ₨50,000. electric, hybrid buses “The committee has sub- the U.S., add more centres mitted an Interim Report to the Government. LALATENDU MISHRA this bus is for inter-city com- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The media has reported mute and may be commer- various aspects of the recom- PUNE: Tata Motors, India’s cially introduced in India in mendations made by the biggest heavy commercial the next decade depending BENGALURU: Wipro, India’s Committee, including the re- vehicle manufacturer, has on the availability of the fuel. third-largest software ser- commendation relating to lined up aggressive plans to Combining hydrogen gas vices exporter, is planning to supply high quality emission- and oxygen, the Fuel Cell increase hiring in the U.S. levy of Banking Cash Trans- CUTTING DEBT: Vedanta will use the proceeds to buy action Tax on transactions of free buses powered by altern- produces electricity to power and invest in innovation outstanding bonds and other debt. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS ₨50,000 and above. It is in- ate fuels and other mobility the electric motor of the bus. centres amid a growing fear formed that the Government solutions to key cities and Since the by-products are of protectionism under the has not yet taken any final planned Smart Cities in the only water and heat this bus new U.S. President Donald view on the recommenda- Vedanta issues $1 billion country. has zero tail pipe emission. Trump. tions of the Committee,” ac- The company on January Last week, President cording to an oicial bonds to refinance debt 25 unveiled its electric and LNG fuel Trump gave a rallying cry of statement. hybrid buses which would be Tata Motors also show- “buy American, hire Amer- SLIDING PROFIT: The firm’s consolidated net profit fell 5.8% to SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the balance sheet and create supplied to its customers in cased its 12 meters long bus ican” in his inaugural address ₨2,114.8 crore for the third quarter. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS value for all stakeholders. 2017-18. that would use Liquefied to the American people, MUMBAI: Anil Agarwal-led We are pleased with the While the electric buses Natural Gas (LNG) as fuel spreading anti-outsourcing no clarity around the ‘Aford- mobility regimes should be SEBI bars Mallya Vedanta Resources Plc. has strong demand these bonds introduced in the length of 9 and an 18 meters long ‘Articu- sentiment among India’s able Care Act’ or Obamacare. fair across the industry and priced an ofering of bonds received, with support from meters and 12 meters are lated’ bus that has capacity to $150 billion information President Trump recently is- equitably applicable to all from the market for the aggregate principal all major markets.” priced in the range ₨1.6 crore carry more number of pas- technology industry. sued an executive order to the players,” he said. amount of $1 billion. The Vedanta has received and to ₨2 crore, the hybrid bus has sengers at one go with its ad- “We continue to focus on take measures that would en- NEW DELHI: Market regulator 6.375% bonds, due for matur- accepted for purchase ap- been priced at ₨2 crore. ditional coach. localisation. We intend to able the repeal and replace- Fall in net profit SEBI has barred business- ity in 2022, will help to refin- proximately $370.8 million of Tata Motors has bagged or- Ravindra Pisharody, Exec- continue hiring locally and ment of Obamacare. The Bengaluru-based firm man Vijay Mallya and six ance part of its 2018 and 2019 the 2018 bonds and $425 mil- ders from Mumbai Metropol- utive Director, Commercial invest in delivery and innov- “Typically clients tend not on Wednesday said its con- others from the securities maturities and extend its av- lion of the 2019 bonds (ex- itan Region Development Vehicles, Tata Motors said: ation centres in the U.S.,” to spend money till they solidated net profit fell 5.8% market in a case related to al- erage debt maturity. cluding $227,000 of the 2018 Authority (MMRDA) to sup- “We want to send across the said Abidali Z. Neemuch- know exactly what is going to to ₨2,114.8 crore for the leged diversions of funds The company intends to bonds and $200,000 of the ply 25 Hybrid buses and these message that we are a full wala, Chief Executive Oicer (happen); that is where we quarter ended December 31, from United Spirits Ltd. use the net proceeds from 2019 bonds that remain sub- will be delivered starting the range passenger transport and Member of the Board, see certain headwind and 2016.However, revenues rose Besides, Mr. Mallya and this ofering primarily to ject to the guaranteed deliv- first quarter of 2017-18, top player. Wipro. slowdown in client decision- 6.2% to ₨13,764.5 crore. former United Spirits’ oi- fund its ofer to purchase for ery procedures), said the company oicials said. “We want to take a lead in making,” said Mr. Neemuch- Revenue for the IT ser- cial Ashok Capoor have been cash any and all of its out- company statement. The company is yet to re- this segment. ‘Focus on savings’ wala. Regarding issues vices segment stood at restrained from “holding po- standing $750 million 9.5% Vedanta received strong ceive any order for the elec- “With our new range of Mr. Neemuchwala said around H1B visa, a non-im- $1902.8 million, a sequential sition as directors or key ma- bonds due 2018 and $ 1.2 bil- investor interest for the tric buses. buses, we will continue to that in 2016 the focus had migrant visa that allows U.S. decrease of 0.7% and a 3.5% nagerial persons of any listed lion 6% bonds due 2019. The tenders and these bonds, the Besides, the company also play an active role in mass been on cost-savings on the employers to temporarily rise year-on-year. For the company.” company also plans to use statement said. This is the showcased a Fuel Cell bus public transportation, with a “run side.” He said that the employ foreign workers in March 2017 quarter, Wipro In an order, SEBI re- the proceeds to repay its largest single-tranche G3 which is the futuristic tech- commitment towards strik- investments in the “change speciality occupations, Mr. expected revenues from IT strained Mr. Mallya and six other existing debt, it said in high-yield bond issuance nology in the mobility space. ing the right balance between side” had not picked up at the Neemuchwala said that services business to be in the others from the market and a statement. from Asia ex-Japan since The hydrogen powered sustainable growth and prof- same pace as expected, per- Wipro had positioned itself range of $1,922 million to from “buying, selling or oth- Commenting on the deal, 2015. The bonds are being Fuel Cell bus has been de- itability. haps due to caution in the comfortably in a business $1,941 million. erwise dealing in securities CEO Tom Albanese said: sold in a private ofering to veloped in partnership with “Our focus is on building context of U.S. elections and model where a lower num- Wipro also announced the in any manner whatsoever, “This transaction is in line qualified institutional buy- the Indian Space Research alternative transport fuels Brexit. ber of visas are required. acquisition of Brazilian IT either directly or indirectly” with our financial strategy to ers. The ofering is expected Organisation (ISRO). Cur- and infrastructure for smart He said that in the health- “At the same time, we be- services provider In- till further directions. — PTI extend maturities, optimise to close on January 30, 2017. rently at a prototype stage, cities of tomorrow.” care business, there had been lieve any of the employee foSERVER for $8.7 million.

Exchange Rates Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit IDFC Bank net profit falls 21% India to fill strategic reserve facility except yen at 4 p.m on January 25 TT TT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ber 31, 2016 to ₨373.48 crore Currencies Buying Selling due to a decrease in provi- U.S. Dollar 67.87 68.19 at Mangaluru with oil from UAE MUMBAI/CHENNAI: Euro 72.96 73.30 IDFC Bank, sioning for bad loans. Pound Sterling 85.35 85.75 which started banking oper- The bank had posted a net NEW DELHI: India signed a deal cussed ways to advance their Jap Yen (100 Units) 59.76 60.04 ations in October 2015, re- profit of ₨48.48 crore during with the United Arab Emir- energy ties through specific Chinese Yuan 9.86 9.91 ported a 21% decline in net the third quarter of 2015-16. ates that allows the Gulf na- projects, including long- Swiss Franc 67.96 68.29 profit to ₨191 crore for the Total income increased from tion to fill half of an under- term supply contracts and Singapore Dollar 47.81 48.04 quarter ended December 31 ₨4,444.58 crore to ₨4,557.25 ground crude oil storage joint ventures in energy, Mr. Australian Dollar 51.26 51.50 as provisions went up from crore, said Mahesh Kumar facility at Mangaluru that is Modi said. Canadian Dollar 51.67 51.91 ₨22 crore to ₨232 crore. Jain, Indian Bank Managing part of New Delhi’s strategic India, in 2014, began talks Swedish Kroner 7.69 7.73 Provisions increased due Director and CEO. reserve system. to lease part of its strategic Danish Kroner 9.81 9.86 to a sharp rise in gross non- During the period under New Delhi announced a storage to ADNOC. Under New Zealand Dollar 49.23 49.46 performing assets which review, the bank’s gross non- series of pacts with the UAE those discussions, India was Hongkong Dollar 8.75 8.79 went from 3.1% to 7% of from 2.3% to 2.42% while net performing assets increased ranging from defence, trade, to have first rights to the Malaysian Ringgit 15.29 15.39 gross advances. Gross NPAs NPA rose from 0.96% to to 7.69% from 5.61% amount- maritime cooperation to en- stored crude in case of an Kuwaiti Dinar 221.58 224.09 were at ₨3,587 crore as on 1.07%. However, provisions ing to ₨9,675.10 crore. Net ergy after a meeting between emergency, while ADNOC UAE Dirham 18.48 18.57 end-December. Net NPA ra- declined from ₨235 crore — non-performing assets in- Prime Minister Narendra would be able to move car- Bahraini Dinar 179.98 180.92 tio increased from 1% to recorded during the third creased from ₨3,881 crore to Modi and Abu Dhabi’s goes to meet any shift in Qatari Riyal 18.69 18.70 2.6%. quarter of the previous fin- ₨5,798.34 crore. The bank had Crown Prince Sheikh Mo- demand. Saudi Riyal 18.15 18.15 The bank’s net interest in- ancial year — to ₨192 crore. reduced its provision cover- Omani Riyal 176.29 177.21 hamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. SECURING SUPPLIES: India is hedging against energy security India has already filled the come went up by 32% to ₨535 Meanwhile, public sector age ratio from ₨718 crore to Source:Indian Bank risks by building emergency storage. — BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT other half of the Mangaluru crore during the period un- Indian Overseas Bank cut ₨540 crore. Capital adequacy Underground caverns storage in Karnataka state der review while non-in- down its loss in the third ratio of the bank as per Basel UAE’s Abu Dhabi National crude, or about 10 days of its UAE in 2015, the two coun- with six million barrels of Ir- terest income increased by quarter to ₨554.44 as com- III norms stood at 13.89%. Oil Co. (ADNOC) will store average daily oil demand in tries announced a $75 billion anian oil. Bullion Rates 60% to ₨320 crore. pared with ₨1,425 crore re- CASA deposits grew by about six million barrels of 2016. joint infrastructure fund that India, the world’s third- Another private sector ported during the same 33.47% to ₨69,003 crore, oil at Mangaluru, taking up “This will...help to ensure would invest in India’s infra- biggest oil consumer, has January 25 rates in rupees with previous rates in brackets lender, Kotak Mahindra period of the previous year. while retail advances im- about half of the site’s capa- India’s energy security and structure development. UAE also filled a Vizag storage Bank reported a 39% in- In absolute terms, its gross proved from 49.52%. The city, said Sunjay Sudhir, joint enable us to meet the na- is India’s fifth biggest oil site in southern Andhra Pra- Chennai crease in net profit to ₨880 NPA came down marginally bank would now focus on in- Bar Silver (1 kg) 41,435 (41,955) secretary for international tion’s growing demand for supplier. desh with 7.55 million barrels Retail (1 g) 44.30 (44.90) crore. Its net interest income on a sequential basis from creasing retail lending. Dur- cooperation at the Indian oil energy,” said Indian oil min- The crude supplies will of Iraqi oil and has invited 24 ct gold (10 g) 29,510 (29,740) (NII) rose 16% to ₨2,050 ₨34,724 crore (21.77%) to ing the demonetisation ministry. ister Dharmendra Pradhan. begin in the last quarter of bids from suppliers to fill an 22 ct gold (1 g) 2,803 (2,825) crore while net interest mar- ₨34,502 crore (22.42%). period, the bank handled 1.48 India, hedging against en- As one of the fastest grow- this year, Mr. Sudhir told Re- 18.3 million-barrel facility at Delhi gin for the third quarter was crore deposit transactions ergy security risks as it im- ing economies in the world, uters. “We are talking to Padur in Karnataka. Silver 41,500 (41,840) 4.49%, climbing from 4.34% Indian Bank net rises and 3.73 crore withdrawal ports most of its oil needs, is India needs massive invest- them (ADNOC) for two, The crown prince will be Standard Gold 29,550 (29,725) in the same period of the pre- Indian Bank’s standalone transactions involving an building emergency storage ments in some key sectors, three grades and most likely the guest of honour at India’s Sovereign 24,300 (24,300) vious year. net profit rose 670.4% for the outlay of ₨35,042 crore and in underground caverns to particularly infrastructure. it will be Murban.” Republic Day parade on Its gross NPA went up third quarter ended Decem- ₨19,742 crore respectively. hold 36.87 million barrels of During Modi’s visit to the The two sides had dis- January 26. — Reuters CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 16 | BUSINESS THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017

FDA comments Exide profit rises, Johnson Lifts targets 20% share on quality system says replacement Company may enter the public infrastructure space to meet its 2020 goals at Natco unit sales encouraging

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT K.T. JAGANNATHAN set up a manufacturing unit at Nagpur to overcome capa- HYDERABAD: Natco Pharma’s KOLKATA: Exide Industries’ CHENNAI: Johnson Lifts Private city and market constraints, formulation facility at Ko- third-quarter net profit rose Ltd., a 53-year-old closely- he said. To a question, he said thur, near Hyderabad, has re- 9.3% to ₨151.5 crore on the held elevator company, has Johnson made a foray into ceived six observations, in- back of a ₨211 crore increase set its eyes on garnering a the escalator space in 2009 cluding one on the quality CHALLENGING TIMES: ALL continues to be focused on profitable in revenue to ₨1,949.6 crore. market share of 20% by 2020. by setting up a facility at Or- system after a recent inspec- growth, CFO Gopal Mahadevan said. — FILE PHOTO For the nine-month period The company holds an agadam. “Today, we have a tion by the U.S. Food and ended December 31, 2016, net 18% market share in the market share of 36% in escal- Drug Administration profit stood at ₨528.9 crore ₨10,000-crore Indian elev- ators,” he said. (USFDA). Ashok Leyland Q3 net on a net turnover of ₨6,389.8 ator space. In its observations, the crore, compared with ₨449.3 In an interaction with The High-speed foray regulator said “the respons- crore on a turnover of Hindu, Yohan K. John, a dir- Responding to a query, he ibilities and procedures ap- profit increases 15.5% ₨5,745.3 crore in the same ector and part of the pro- said Johnson Lifts had plicable to the quality con- period of the previous year. moter family, indicated that entered into a joint venture trol unit are not fully SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT units from 23,176 units in the Other income rose from it could be a tough target. EYEING GROWTH: V. Jagannathan (left), Executive Director, with Toshiba to gain a pres- followed. The written stabil- comparable year-earlier ₨19 crore to ₨35 crore in the Yet, he was confident that Johnson Lifts and Yohan K. John, Director. — FILE PHOTO ence in the high-speed elev- ity testing programme is not CHENNAI: Ashok Leyland Ltd. period. last quarter due to dividends Johnson Lifts would be able ator space. “Since we did not followed.” reported a 15.5% rise in Vinod K. Dasari, Ashok from subsidiaries, company to hit its 2020 market share gear-less motors) and focus what with key policy initiat- have technology for high- third-quarter standalone Leyland’s Managing Dir- sources said. target. on local manufacturing with ives such as the real estate speed elevators, we entered ‘Correctable, procedural’ net profit (adjusted for ector and CEO, said: “Q3 has Exide’s managing director Fielding a range of ques- the right product-and-deliv- and GST bills crossing Par- into a joint venture with Natco Pharma said the six mark-to-market foreign been quite challenging for and chief executive oicer, tions, he said the company ery mix had all helped the liamentary hurdles. Toshiba by picking up 49%.” observations, received after currency losses) to ₨249 the industry, primarily due Gautam Chatterjee said in a could explore opportunities company secure a privileged According to Mr. Jagan- Mr. Jagannathan is also the the inspection – conducted crore. to the steep increase in ma- press statement that while in public infrastructure place inspite of heavy pres- nathan, the company repor- Director of the joint venture between January 16 and 24 – “Last year, the company terial costs. growth in replacement sales space. He also hinted that ence of multinational firms ted a turnover of ₨1,200 crore called Toshiba Johnson Elev- were, however, “correctable reported net profit of “Demonetisation had an of automotive and motor- Johnson Lifts could look at in the Indian market, he said. in 2015-16. The revenue ators (India) Private Ltd. and procedural”. The com- ₨215.42 crore (before adjust- impact but the industry is cycle batteries continued to smart elevators, going At 55,000 units a year, the stream from the services Quizzed specifically on pany believes that the obser- ing ₨1.71 crore towards recovering from it. Despite be ‘encouraging’, demand in forward. Indian elevator market is a business fetched 200 crore, the challenges faced by the vations are minor in nature, mark-to-market foreign these challenges, we have the OEM segment, particu- Mr. John is the third-gen- distant second to China he added. It had a headcount company going forward, he Natco Pharma said in a re- currency losses),” said chief maintained healthy operat- larly for the motorcycles eration member of the family which boasts of 600,000 of 6,000, he said. Starting said the availability of proper lease. “The observations are financial oicer Gopal Ma- ing margins. Pre-buy in business, had been ‘ex- which founded Johnson Lifts units a year. from a small production unit human resources could yet related to complaint and in- hadevan. “This year, the fourth quarter owing to BS- tremely’ sluggish during the in 1968. at Vyasarpadi, it moved to a prove a big constraint. cident investigations, stabil- mark-to-market loss was IV implementation in FY18 third quarter. V. Jagannathan, Executive ‘Quicker urbanisation’ facility at Ambattur in 1988. In this context, he said ity backlog and procedural ₨63 crore. If we add the along with our recent intro- Both the UPS (uninter- Director, said the company Asserting that urbanisa- Both these units were still Johnson was focussing on SOPs. losses, then our net profit is ductions in the ICV seg- ruptible power supply) and had held a dominant place in tion was bound to happen at making some components, providing training across all “The company will up by 15%.” ment are expected to have a solar battery divisions had the elevator space since an increased pace, Mr. Jagan- he said. In 1995-96, Johnson its facilities in the country provide due justifications In the three months positive impact on our shown improvement in 2009. A combination of nathan, nevertheless, admit- Lifts set up a state-of-the-art and also working with edu- and corrective action plan ended December 31, 2016, volumes in the current growth in the quarter under factors ranging from cus- ted that the post-demonet- production centre at Poo- cational institutions to ofer within the next 15 working revenue increased by 8% to quarter.” review. tomer-centric initiatives isation slump in real estate namallee near here. The lib- a course in ‘lift technology’. days,” the drugmaker said. ₨4,723 crore, while exports “Prevailing challenges in The company said that (such as introduction of en- sphere had hit the elevator eralisation in the early ’90s, To a question, he said the The Kothur unit had also rose by 11% to 2,942 units. the market notwithstand- technology upgradation and ergy-saving products) to business too. However, he he said, provided the com- company had been cash- received a Establishment In- Sales volume in medium ing, we continue to be fo- cost control remained im- ecology-friendly approach was optimistic that things pany access to technology comfortable and debt-free all spection Report (EIR) from and heavy commercial cused on profitable portant parts of Exide’s (such as introduction of would turn around sooner and information. In 2003, it these years. the U.S. FDA last August. vehicles increased to 25,285 growth,” the CFO said. strategy to improve profits. NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017 SPORT 17 Telecast schedule Ready to fire Unbelievable Australia vs Pakistan: 5th ODI, STAR Sports 2 & HD 2, 8.50 a.m.; I think I’m ready to go the distance. I don’t shy away from I can’t believe this. This is crazy. The only thing I can Australian Open: Sony Six & Sony Six HD, 2 p.m. & 5.30 a.m. (Friday); that. I’m confident enough to say that as I feel good say is God is good. 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BCCI searches for Kohli backs representative at Chahal, Rasool ICC meet G. VISWANATH SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT your potential. That is some- thing we want to do as a side.” PUNE: While conveying to the NEW DELHI: Looking at the sea- Reflecting on the combina- son ahead, there is very little BCCI on Tuesday (Jan. 24) to tion that has a blend of youth propose three names from for India in this three-match and experience, Kohli said, Twenty20I series against Eng- which one would be chosen by “We’ve got in quite a few the Supreme Court to attend land. Since there’s more at youngsters now who we want stake for certain individuals, the ICC meetings in Dubai in to groom with (alongside) the the first week of February, the skipper Virat Kohli expects In- senior guys in the team. Even- dia to benefit from those who apex court said: “The names tually, the idea is to give them that will be given should not have proved their worth in the confidence from hereon and Indian Premier League. be disqualified under the prin- then maybe push them to the cipal judgment or any of the “We definitely want to play ODIs.” orders of this Court.” more expressive cricket, play Kohli chose his Royal Chal- more positively than in the The Supreme Court’s order lengers Bangalore teammates has blocked the chance of a past and not worry about the Yuzvendra Chahal and Parvez result much. In this format, handful of people who are Rasool for special mention. well-versed with the way the you need to go out there and “These two guys are smart, show your true potential. ICC conducts its afairs or has pretty consistent and the areas at least attended ICC “Somewhere in the interna- that they are bowling are meetings. ALL FOR A GOOD RUN: The Indians will strive to regroup after the reverse in the final one-dayer, and begin the T20I series on a winning note. — PHOTO: PTI tional stage, there is a bit of pretty good. Chahal, obvi- BCCI joint secretary Amit- hesitation, that extra bit of ously, everyone has seen his abh Chaudhary, performing pressure that comes with play- performances. Rasool is pretty the duties of the BCCI secret- ing for the country. This confident and can bowl with ary as per the order of the Su- format allows you to get rid of the new ball against some of preme Court, looked at the op- England looks a more settled team that, express yourself and the the attacking batsmen of the tion of convening a meeting in skills you have to the best of world. Mumbai on Thursday to con- CRICKET / No clear favourite in a series that will Chance for many young and seasoned Indian players to prove themselves sider the Supreme Court order to suggest three names, but he RAKESH RAO more hopeful. England’s line- very diferent look from the fers a window of opportunities pears a batting paradise. Shiv could not issue notice for the up looks more settled than In- one that played the one-day- to many young and seasoned Kumar, the curator of the ‘Prefer to chase targets’ same because of lack of time. KANPUR: Having bucked the dia’s. It has the batsmen to do ers. Kohli will have to get the campaigners. Mandeep, Green Park Stadium for over a A former BCCI functionary trend at Kolkata by tasting vic- the job in this format while the combination right in a team Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, decade and a half, put his seal SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT more diicult,” said Morgan revealed that a conference call tory, England has reasons to be bowlers are capable pulling of that has quite a few experi- late-inclusions Mishra, Rasool of approval by saying, “I think, on the eve of the first T20 was conducted at 8 p.m. on optimistic about its chances a surprise or two. enced campaigners. and Chahal, apart from a fit- even a score of 200 be could be KANPUR: Eoin Morgan needs no match. Wednesday in order to find on the eve of the three-match It remains to be seen again Ashish Nehra. chased on this surface.” Compared to the Indian reminding the importance of out the full members’ choices Twenty20 series beginning whether Kohli opts to open Expect a tall-scoring game Talking about gaining con- openers, the counterparts chasing a target in limited- and also to apprise them of the here on Thursday. with K.L. Rahul. With the ex- Pant may have to wait but spare a thought for the fidence and momentum, Mor- from England have given a bet- over cricket. So, should Eng- preferences of the influential Having lost four Tests and perience of Yuvraj Singh and First-timer Rishabh Pant hapless bowlers. gan said, “I think confidence is ter account of themselves in land get lucky with the coin on former and present two ODIs, on the trot, before M.S. Dhoni available, Kohli may have to wait for his turn. a big word in T20 cricket. At the ODI series. Its batting has The teams(from): India: Virat Thursday afternoon here at oicer-bearers. the last four deliveries from could be tempted to go at the This young, exciting wicket- the moment, the guys are feel- depth and most bowlers are no Kohli (capt), K.L. Rahul, Mandeep the Green Park Stadium, India It was revealed to this news- Ben Stokes in Kolkata helped bunny with the bat. top of the order. Indeed, this keeper-batsman could get a Singh, Yuvraj Singh, M.S. Dhoni, ing lot more confident than will be asked to bat first. they maybe were after game paper that a cricket adminis- re-introduce the much- With R. Ashwin and Royal Challengers Bangalore chance should India take a Suresh Raina, Rishabh Pant, Hardik trator from Chennai called “It sits really nicely with two (of the ODI series). Hav- needed self-belief, England is Ravindra Jadeja rested, Eng- pair could prove quite a winning lead in the series. Pandya, Amit Mishra, Parvez Rasool, some full member represent- batting teams, having to chase. ing had a win under our belt, looking to leave the Indian land batsmen can be expected handful. Overall, there is no dearth of Yuzvendra Chahal, Manish Pandey, atives to be ready for the con- The level of skills batsmen we’re looking forward to the shores on a winning note. to come harder at the new spin Should Kohli continue to motivation for several players Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar ference call and that some have shown, the improvement series in what could poten- Indeed, the diference options — Amit Mishra, bat lower, Rahul and Mandeep to do well in the series. and Ashish Nehra. were already in the city to con- dealing with levels of risk and tially be very exciting.” between the teams looked Yuzvendra Chahal or Parvez Singh could form the opening Though there is no T20 event England: Eoin Morgan (capt), sider the Supreme Court or- finding boundaries means bat- more in Tests and much less in Rasool. pair. Rahul will be eager to end in the near future, the Indian Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Sam Billings, Morgan confirmed that der. By virtue of performing ting units, or teams in general, ODIs. In the shortest format, his poor run of scores, follow- Premier League auction is Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Joe David Willey would miss the the duties of secretary, Amit- are quite comfortable know- there is not much to choose Very diferent look ing a dismal ODI-series, and round the corner. A good Root, Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Liam opener due to a shoulder in- abh Chaudhary has the right to ing what their target is. between these teams. That’s For Virat Kohli, taking the show that his T20 century showing in three games could Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Jake Ball, jury but Joe Root was fit to attend the ICC Chief Execut- why there is no clear favourite. field as the India’s T20 captain against West Indies last year well raise the worth of many of Tylam Mills, Chris Jordan and David “The unease of posting a play. “David flew in yesterday, ives Meeting. The other oice- There are a few reasons that for the first time is obviously was no flash in the pan. these names. Willey. score, or knowing what a good missed practice and he won’t bearer who is eligible is BCCI make Eoin Morgan’s men special. This team wears a Interestingly, the series of- As expected, the pitch ap- Match starts at 4.30 p.m. score, is becoming more and be fit for selection.” treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry. An acknowledgement of Kohli’s Hard work pays, FOOTBALL says Mariyappan U-17 team complains against coach VIJAY LOKAPALLY ations of fans and the efort to reach out to them through his CHENNAI: Paralympic gold AYON SENGUPTA meet the boys to understand in 2016. irat Kohli won his place in team is the driving force for medallist Thangavelu Mar- their grievances and find a Adam, however, in an inter- iyappan, elated over the ndia under-17 coach, Nicolai solution. view to Sportstar in October Vthe side during a phase of Kohli. Adam, is facing a revolt from transition for Indian cricket. Padma Shri honour, said it was I The Federation might seek had blamed the Asian Football The fans are ravenous and his players. The junior India Clinching a permanent slot a message to the youth that direction from the Sports Au- Confederation’s “second cut- he is ever obliging with his boys, who had a terrible outing was a process that he secured hard work pays. thority of India, which has fin- of rule to avoid age cheating”, compelling batsmanship. In at the Granatkin Memorial with the conviction of a cham- “I am very happy. My coach ancially supported the prepar- which led to the exclusion of times when class appears to be Cup in Moscow, have ap- pion athlete who knows his (Satyanarayana) informed me ations of the under-17 team. five players from the under-16 dying out, he brings a rare art proached the All India Football destination. about the government select- The AIFF may also consider championship, as one of the to the middle, the art of flexib- ing me for the Padma award. I Federation, terming Nicolai He showcases the progress appointing an observer to major reasons for his team’s ility where he is willing to don thank my mother, coach, gov- “too strict and overbearing”. Indian cricket has made from oversee the work of the coach poor performance. new roles for the comfort of ernment and all others for my There are also reports of the time he broke into the team and the team. “The appoint- The under-17 FIFA World his mates. achievements,” said the 21- physical abuse of players. ment of the coach and tech- Cup will give host India its first and the stage when he took There are complaints Nothing is premeditated in year-old high jumper, who fin- nical staf is the prerogative of taste of appearing in a FIFA over the mantle of captaincy, a against the coach and espe- his performance at the crease ished on top of the podium the executive committee. The competition. job he now performs in all cially his deputy, Etibar because he needs little time to with an efort of 1.89m in the AIFF can always call for an ex- The AIFF, banking on the formats of the game. Nizami Ibrahimov, that they produce the desired stroke. In T-42 event. — PTI ecutive committee or emer- event to give a kickstart to In- Kohli reflects the energy of manhandle and verbally abuse modern cricket, he is the only gency committee meet and dia’s still dormant football re- India’s youth. He is strikingly the players. expressive when sighting his batsman who creates excite- discuss the termination,” a volution, has invested gener- ment and joy with his bat be- The under-17 boys, return- senior AIFF oicial said. ously on the team, and is goals, and can be ruthless and Hari, Adhiban ing from Moscow, met AIFF explosive when executing the cause dourness is not part of When contacted, Sports hoping for it to make a mark at his cricket grooming and also president, Praful Patel, in New Minister Vijay Goel told the biennial FIFA event. task. At the crease, he is a mas- defend and draw Delhi while on transit to Goa. ter at work and nothing deters because he owns a stunningly Sportstar, “I have not heard The coaching staf has un- Considering the seriousness him. wide repertoire of strokes. anything so far from the AIFF, earthed talents from across the WIJK AAN ZEE: P. Hari Krishna of the allegations, the presid- but every federation is duty- For Kohli, the year gone by country and the AIFF on its The Padma Shri honour re- fought back twice from in- ent had asked for an immediate bound to inform the Ministry was a season of achievements. part has organised long expos- cognises Kohli’s resilience resignation from the coach. about such things. If we don’t He matured as a cricketer and ferior positions against Rus- ure trips to Europe, North when competing on the However, Adam did not ob- get a report from the AIFF in a gave ample demonstration of sia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi America and West Asia to give biggest stage. A welcome addi- lige. Instead, he flew with the day or two, I will personally growing into a leader with an and eventually forced a draw the team a competitive edge. tion to his growing stature as team to Goa. The AIFF, caught ask for the files and look into enviable assurance he brings after 79 moves in the ninth The replacement of the the finest global ambassador in a bind, is mulling its next the matter.” to his job. RECOGNITION: Dipa Karmakar, Sakshi Malik, Deepa Malik and round of the Tata Steel Mas- coach, eight months ahead of of the game in this era. He is course of action. Adam, handpicked by the the big event, will surely jeop- He understands the expect- the chosen one! Virat Kohli. — FILE PHOTO: PTI ters chess tournament here on Tuesday. Some media reports had said AIFF, following suggestions ardise India’s chances of mak- Like Hari, compatriot B. that the coach had been from the German FA, was ing an impression at the world Adhiban sat behind the black sacked, but the AIFF has oi- already under pressure follow- meet. However, given the pieces and was precariously cially denied it. There are talks ing his team’s dismal perform- nature of the allegation, Sreejesh dedicates Dipa and Sakshi — placed but fought gallantly to that former senior National ances in the AFC U-16 Champi- Adam’s position seems captain Baichung Bhutia will onships and BRICS Cup in Goa untenable. escape unscathed in 92 moves against China’s in- Padma award to team inspiring generations form youngster Wei Yi. BADMINTON UTHRA GANESAN for the team work,” was his of- a series of dramatic fightbacks The results (ninth round): Ian Y.B. SARANGI ficial reaction to the award. in Rio to claim the women’s Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 3.5) drew with NEW DELHI: P.R. Sreejesh had no Over the past few years, the KOLKATA: Sakshi Malik, who 58kg bronze medal. P. Hari Krishna (4.5); Wei Yi (Chn, 5.5) Starting trouble for Srikanth drew with B. Adhiban (5); Wesley So idea he had been nominated, lanky custodian from made the country proud by be- Twenty-four-year-old Sak- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT leave alone he had been awar- Kizhakkambalam village in coming the first Indian woman shi, who always remained (USA, 6) drew with Levon Aronian ded the Padma Shri on Wed- Ernakulam, Kerala, has con- wrestler to clinch a medal in away from the limelight des- (Arm, 5); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 5.5) LUCKNOW: K. Srikanth faced un- nesday morning. sistently ranked among the the Rio Olympics, and Dipa pite her podium finishes, fi- bt Loek van Wely (Ned, 1.5); Dmitry expected resistance from Currently concentrating on best goalkeepers in the world. Karmakar, who was the first nally did justice to her Andreikin (Rus, 4) drew with Pavel El- little-known Lakhanee Sarang the Hockey India League with It is a role that earns few bou- Indian gymnast to qualify for prowess on the mat and stood janov (Ukr, 5.5); Anish Giri (Ned, 4.5) and dropped the opening the Uttar Pradesh Wizards quets but a lot of brickbats. the Olympics and finish a alongside shuttler P.V. Sindhu, drew with Richard Rapport (Hun, game in the first round of franchise, the India captain How diicult it is for goalkeep- creditable fourth in her pet who secured the women’s 3.5); Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, 4) $120,000 Syed Modi Interna- and goalkeeper laughed it of ers to break through the ranks event vault, are perhaps the singles silver, with a medal drew with Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 5). tional Open badminton tour- before the news was oicially can be gauged from the fact most deserving candidates to around her neck in Rio. — Sports Bureau nament here on Wednesday. confirmed. that Sreejesh is only the have been chosen for the pres- Much before ladies top seed “Is it so? I don’t think it’s second hockey goalkeeper to tigious Padma Shri award this Icon P.V. Sindhu raced away to the possible, you are joking,” he be considered for the honour, year. Sakshi and Dipa were Dipa, the 23-year-old icon of second round in just 21 said before switching the topic after the legendary Shankar among the few sportspersons gymnastics belonging to Dravid declines minutes after breezing past to the HIL. Laxman in 1967. who stole the heart of the na- Agartala, had a similar jour- Anura Prabhudesai 21-9, 21-11, CLOSE CALL: K. Srikanth faced unexpected resistance from In a way, it was not surpris- The recognition comes on tion in the Rio Games even as ney. Dipa, coached by mentor hony. doctorate Srikanth took time to get his Lakhanee Sarang in the first round. — PHOTO: RAJEEV BHATT ing that the 28-year old was the back of India’s recent suc- India, which had bagged six Bisweshwar Nandi, did com- act right. unconcerned about individual cess under his charge — win- medals in the 2012 London mendably well by making the BENGALURU: Former India cap- Sarang who trailed early on, But the decider brought out dav bt 16-Pratul Joshi 18-21, 21-16, recognition. Since he made his ning the Asian Champions Olympics, gave a dismal per- cut for the Olympics by scor- tain Rahul Dravid has declined stayed ahead until 12-9 to raise another surge from Sarang 21-16; 12-Emil Holst (Den) bt Chirag national team debut in 2006 at Trophy 2016, silver at the formance to settle for a silver ing 14.8333 in vault in the Bangalore University’s honor- visions of stretching Srikanth. who led 5-1 and 9-5. But Srik- Sen 21-13, 21-19; 8-Sameer Verma bt the South Asian Games in Champions Trophy 2016, and bronze in 2016. Olympic Test event. ary doctorate, saying he would The defending champion anth bounced right back to K. Ajay Kumar 21-13, 21-14; First Colombo, Sreejesh has bronze at the Hockey World Hailing from Haryana’s Ro- The pint-sized girl gave a try and earn it by doing aca- battled right back to lead 14-13 come out stronger. round: Srikanth bt Lakhanee Sarang worked hard to make sure he is League Finals 2015, winning htak, Sakshi, a Commonwealth courageous performance to demic research in sports. but Sarang was not intimid- Important results (prefix de- 15-21, 21-7, 21-14. always part of the team, never the Asian Games 2014 and Games silver medallist in 2014 score a high 15.066 in the vault The honorary doctorate ated. He reeled of seven notes seeding): Men, second Women, first round: 1-P.V. a lone-warrior. leading India at the Rio and an Asian championship final. She might have missed was to be conferred on Dravid straight points to reach game- round: 3-K. Srikanth bt Zulhelmi Sindhu bt Anura Prabhudesai 21-9, “I would like to dedicate this Olympics. bronze medallist in 2015, got a out on a medal by a wafer-thin at the university’s 52nd annual point after Srikanth’s despera- Zulkiffli (Mal) 21-5, 21-12; 9-B. Sai 21-11; 5-Dinar Dyah Ayustine (Ina) bt award to my team. We have That it is not a desperately chance to compete in the margin of 0.15 points and taken convocation on Friday. tion led to too many unforced Praneeth bt Ashish Sharma 21-15, 21- Riya Mukherjee 21-18, 21-14; 4-Fitri- grown from strength to sought-after honour makes it Olympic qualifier because of the fourth place, but she won B. Thimme Gowda, Vice- errors. Srikanth saved one 10; 11-Sourabh Varma bt Shubham ani Fitriani (Ina) bt Rasika Raje 14-21, strength and have enjoyed sweeter. Indian hockey has the disciplinary action against billions of hearts with her fab- Chancellor, BU, told The game point and surrendered Prajapati 21-15, 21-10; 7-Zulfadli 21-12, 21-7; 6-Hana Ramadini (Ina) bt success as well as lifted each shown signs of revival and, star wrestler Geeta Phogat. ulous showing. Hindu: “He is a graduate of our the opening game. Zulkiffli (Mal) bt Sarath Dunna 21-8, Preethi Konadam 21-9, 21-6; 8- other from heart-breaking de- more importantly, the consist- Sakshi grabbed the oppor- The heroics of the two girls university and he conveyed In the second game leads of 21-11; 15-Harsheel Dani bt Aryamann Ksenia Polikarpova bt Riya Pillai 21- feats. My recognition could ency needed to break into and tunity by qualifying for the should inspire a generation of this message with all humil- 12-3 and 19-6 reflected his re- Tandon 21-12, 21-17; 6-H.S. Prannoy 12, 21-11; 3-Beatriz Corrales (Esp) bt not have been possible if not stay among the top. Olympics and then displaying Indian athletes. ity.” — Staf Reporter solve to make amends. bt Bodhit Joshi 21-16, 21-8; Ansal Ya- Reshma Karthik 21-17, 21-13.

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Natasha Palha Aditya shocks advances Pujara looking ahead with hope third seed Ewe CAIRO: Natasha Palha beat NEW DELHI: Aditya Khanna de- eighth seed Dana Kremer of CRICKET / The champion batsman is enjoying a fairytale run this First Class season feated third seed Patrik Ewe of Germany 7-5, 6-2 in the first Britain 6-3, 6-4 in the men’s round of the $15,000 ITF wo- AMOL KARHADKAR with then chief selector portunities he has received in over-35 age group in the pre- men’s tennis tournament in Sandeep Patil starting a de- ODIs. quarterfinals of the ITF here on Wednesday. MUMBAI: Pujara batting kar bate over his ability to rotate grade-4 seniors’ tennis tourna- In another lively match, raha tha toh koi tension ki the strike. Test specialist tag ment here on Wednesday. Rishika Sunkara recovered baat hi nahi thi (There was Some players would have However, he feels the ‘Test Top seed and champion in from being down 2-4 in the de- nothing to worry about since wilted under such pressure. specialist’ tag is a mere per- the last tournament in cider to beat Akilah James of Pujara was at the other end). But the team stood behind Pu- ception and hopes to change it Gwalior, former National the US 1-6, 6-1, 7-6(5) in a battle Wriddhiman Saha made jara and the champion bats- in the coming months. champion Vinod Sridhar of wits that lasted two hours this comment after marking man is on the verge of estab- “Time will come. I just will blanked Praful Arjeria to set and 28 minutes. his return to First Class lishing the new high for a have to keep playing other up a quarterfinal clash with In the men’s event in Sharm cricket with a match-winning batsman in an Indian First formats and keep scoring runs Avinash Kunwar. El Sheikh, qualifier Aryan double hundred. Class season. and probably I will have to Runner-up in the World Goveas found top seed Aldin For the umpteenth time When asked about his wait for my opportunity,” he Championship, top seed Setkic too hot to handle. over the last decade, Chetesh- fairytale run in 2016-17 — with said. “I am improving, playing Mayur Vasant Manek sailed At the Rafael Nadal Tennis war Pujara held on to one end the batsman having more shots and playing with a into the quarterfinals and will Academy in Manacor, Mal- and enjoyed being in the back- plundered 1,522 runs, includ- higher strike rate. So, prob- play Rakesh Kohli, who fought lorca, Adil Kalyanpur retired drop with his batting partner ing six hundreds, Pujara pre- ably, that’s just the tag, a per- past B.N. Negi in three sets. early in the third set of the first hogging all the limelight. ferred to look ahead. ception that will change in The results (pre-quarterfi- qualifying round. He had won However, Saha was no ex- “I batted well against New time.” nals): Over-35: Vinod Sridhar bt an ATP point with a wild card ception to any of his prede- Zealand and England, and in Praful Arjeria 6-0, 6-0; Avinash Kun- last week at the same venue. cessors who value Pujara’s the Duleep Trophy and all the ț Pujara (1522) is in pursuit war bt Ankur Khetrapal 6-1, 6-2; Dilip He will be joining the Indian contribution at the other end. First Class games I have of Chandu Borde’s record for Mohanty bt Mukesh Kumar 6-1, 6-0; Davis Cup squad soon for a At the start of the domestic played, I did well,” Pujara said the most First Class runs in Swarandeep Singh Dhodi bt Anshul training stint in Pune, before season, Pujara wasn’t in the after leading Rest of India to an Indian season (1604, Bagai 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Navot Singh Kinra the tie against New Zealand. best of form. The lead-up to the Irani Cup title, scoring 86 1964-65). bt Shaik Ahammad 6-1, 6-4; Aditya The results: $15,000 Chal- the Duleep Trophy in and an unbeaten 116. Khanna bt Patrik Ewe (GBr) 6-3, 6-4; lenger: Manacor: Qualifying: First September had been far from “Moving into 2017, we have ț The Saurashtra batsman Pradeep Sharma bt Manish Aggarwal round: Stefano Reitano (Ita) bt Adil ideal. got a few domestic T20s lined 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Nishant Goel w/o Hi- PROLIFIC: The bowlers have found Cheteshwar Pujara difficult to dislodge. — FILE PHOTO had come close in the 2012- Kalyanpur 3-6, 7-5, 2-0 (retired). Last year started on a sur- up before we play a one-of 13 season with 1585 runs. manshu Shankar. $15,000 Challenger, Sharm El prising note, with no IPL fran- Test against Bangladesh. I am Mumbai in January) and got a five Tests, one against ging task for us.” Over-45: Alok Bhatnagar bt San- Sheikh: First round: Aldin Setkic chise — including the one looking forward to that. Def- hundred and two fifties. I am Bangladesh and four against Pujara — along with open- ț He has five Tests (one jay Chauhan 6-0, 6-0; Chandra (Bih) bt Aryan Goveas 6-1, 6-2; from his hometown Rajkot — initely I want to make a mark very confident that I can play Australia which will be cru- ing batsman M. Vijay — is on against Bangladesh, four Bhushan bt Hatinder Panwar 6-1, 6-0; Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (Esp) bt bidding for him in the players’ in that particular format. well in other formats of the cial for the Indian team. We the verge of being typecast as against Australia) to bridge Vinay Mohan bt Satya Prakash 6-2, Sagar Ahuja 6-1, 6-1. auction. Then came Pujara’s “I have done well in the DY game. have been playing good a Test specialist, having failed the gap of 82 runs. 6-2; Ashutosh Avinash Pednekar bt $15,000 ITF women, Cairo: exclusion from the eleven, Patil T20 tournament (in “Moving ahead, we have cricket and it will be a challen- to capitalise on the limited op- Ajay Gosain 6-4, 6-4; Vijay Kumar First round: Rishika Sunkara bt Aki- w/o Kuldeep Singh; Vinod Seth bt lah James (USA) 1-6, 6-1, 7-6(5); Ajay Arora 6-1, 6-1; Rajan Beri bt Natasha Palha bt Dana Kremer (Ger) Avinash Chandra Rastogi 6-1, 6-3; 7-5, 6-2. — Sports Bureau Tharanga Gurdarshan Singh Ramana bt Sameer Shetty satisfied with Lehmann calls for Garg 6-3, 6-0. replaces Mathews Over-55: Mayur Vasant Manek bt Pietersen’s sacking Babaulal Agarwal 6-0, 6-0; Rakesh Dev Javia enters preparations for Test: Manoj as ODI skipper Kohli bt B.N. Negi 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Pawan Jain bt Harsh Kumar Sharma 6-1, 6-1; quarterfinals V.V. S UBRAHMANYAM the way things are moving. a detailed discussion with COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Wed- from BBL S. Nelord bt Koji Izawa (Jpn) 6-0, 6-2; Though there were no specific HCA curator Y.L. nesday named batsman Upul Sharad Tak bt Naresh Vij 6-1, 6-0; INDORE: Dev Javia defeated HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad suggestions from him, he as- Chandrasekhar about the Tharanga as captain in place of SYDNEY: Australia National Ajeet Bhardwaj bt Sarvendra Kunwar fourth seed Sacchitt Sharma Cricket Association reiterated sured that the BCCI would re- pitch preparations. the injured Angelo Mathews coach Darren Lehmann has 6-1, 6-2; Puneet Kumar Gupta bt 6-4, 6-2 in the boys’ pre- its preparedness to host the In- spect the elected body and ex- Manoj revealed that the re- for the ODI series against blasted Kevin Pietersen's per- Naresh Khatri 6-0, 6-0; A.J.S. Chhat- quarterfinals of the ITF dia-Bangladesh Test at the tend full cooperation for lease of funds from the BCCI South Africa starting this formance in the Twenty20 Big wal bt Naresh Watvani 6-0, 6-2. — grade-5 junior tennis tourna- Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here conducting the Test,” HCA was not discussed. weekend. Bash League, saying he should Special Correspondent ment at the Indore Tennis from February 9 to Ratnakar secretary John Manoj told The “I repeat that it is no more an The left-hander’s appoint- be dumped, after his Mel- Club Complex on Wednesday. Shetty, BCCI General Man- Hindu. issue since we have already ment was announced in a bourne Stars team lost in the In the quarterfinals, Dev ager (Game Development), There was no oicial brief- signed an agreement for in- statement from Sri Lanka semifinals. Aussie bowler will play Karan Srivastava, who inspected the venue on ing from the BCCI oicial after stadia rights which should Cricket. The controversial former who endured a three-setter to Wednesday. his visit, which included an in- take care of the expenditure Sri Lanka will play five ODIs England batsman was out for Mennie sufers down Mann Shah. “Shetty was satisfied with spection of all the facilities and for the Test,” he said. against South Africa, begin- five as Perth Scorchers fast Calvin Golmei continued ning in Port Elizabeth on Sat- bowler Mitchell Johnson put ‘brain bleed’ with his fighting performance urday. on a scintillating display in the and knocked out second- CHESS Mathews has flown home match on Tuesday. SYDNEY: Australian paceman seeded Megh Bhargav Patel in after twisting his ankle in Sri The Western Australia side Darren Lehmann. — PHOTO: AFP Joe Mennie sufered a “minor three sets and set up a last- Lanka’s victory in the second won by seven wickets to take brain bleed” and fractured eight clash against Drona Adam Tukhaev is champion T20 in Johannesburg on Scorchers into a home final McGuire hit back at Lehmann skull after a ball hit his head Walia. Sunday, a match in which he this weekend, while Pietersen on radio on Wednesday, say- during training, Cricket Aus- The results: Boys, pre- CHENNAI: Ukraine Grandmaster Malakhatko (Belgium) and IM played a starring role as the departed the field during the ing: “KP is not the highest paid tralia (CA) said on quarterfinals: Rishabh Sharda bt Adam Tukhaev (8.5) with a S. Nitin (India) with eight tourists levelled the series. innings with a hamstring player at the Stars for a start, Wednesday. Atharva Sharma 6-1, 6-3; Shashank quick draw on the top board points apiece. Sunday’s victory was a boon injury. he has delivered is spades. Theertha bt Dharmil Shah 7-6(4), 6-3; against GM Czebe Attila Rajendra Kumar, Tamil for Sri Lanka after it sufered a “Time for Stars to move KP “The last three Big Bash Mennie was bowling at a Dev Javia bt Sacchitt Sharma 6-4, (Hun) emerged champion, Nadu Secretary for Youth 3-0 Test series whitewash on, spent so much money on leagues, KP is second only to nets session with his 6-2; Karan Srivastava bt Mann Shah after the 10th and final round, Welfare and Sports Develop- against South Africa. him and didn't win. Don't want (Brisbane Heat's) Chris Lynn Twenty20 Big Bash League 2-6, 7-5, 6-2; Kevin Patel bt Kunj Ko- in the ninth Chennai Open ment, gave away the prizes. Fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep to listen to his excuses any- for runs scored. He has team Sydney Sixers in Bris- tak 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-0; Dipin Wadhwa bt Grandmasters chess tourna- Final placings: and opener Dhanuskha more,” Lehmann tweeted after brought in that many people,” bane on Monday when a ball Siddharth Thakran 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; ment for the N. Mahalingam 1. Adam Tukhaev (Ukr) 8.5; 2-5 Gunathilaka also returned the match. he said on commercial radio struck the side of his head. Drona Walia bt Arnold Inigo Antony Trophy here on Wednesday. David Alberto (Ita), Czebe Attila home this week with injuries. Pietersen, 36, did not re- station Triple M. CA chief medical oicer Prabhakar 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Calvin Gol- Tukhaev took home ₨2 lakh. (Hun), Vadim Malakhatko (Bel), S. They were replaced by un- spond to Lehmann's remarks, “The last two years which John Orchard said Mennie was mei bt Megh Bhargav Patel 2-6, 6-3, The second spot was shared Nitin 8; 6-10 Vitaliy Bernadskiy (Ukr), capped players Sandun instead tweeting that he was team has had the biggest initially discharged from hos- 6-2. by top seed GM David Alberto Adam Horvath (Hun), Vitaly Sivuk Weerakkody, Lahiru Madush- “Gutted with this eve! Sorry crowds in the history of the pital that night but follow-up Doubles, quarterfinals: Kaivalya (Italy), GM Czebe Attila (Ukr), Sahaj Grover, Andrei Deviatkin anka and Chaturanga de Silva. @StarsBBL fans!” Twenty20 Big Bash. He is a scans the next day revealed his Vamanrao Kalamse & Kunj bt Karan & Adam Tukhaev. (Hungary), GM Vadim (Rus) 7.5. — Sports Bureau — AFP Stars president Eddie crowd favourite.” — AFP injuries were worse than first Siddharth 4-6, 6-0, 12-10; Rithvik thought. Choudary Bollipalli & Shashank bt “Joe was reviewed by a Vansh Bhagtani & Issa Shanan Al Har- Cricket Australia doctor on rasi (Qat) 6-4, 6-4; Calvin & Rishabh Tuesday and had some scans bt Gunjan Jadhav & Sacchitt Sharma Captain Morgan and Tororosso may fight out the finish performed that revealed a 7-6(4), 6-1; Megh Bhargav Patel & small fracture and associated Atharva Sharma bt Ishan Sethi & BENGALURU: Captain Morgan and Suraj Narredu 57, 2. Aafrikaan (5) 53.5. Singh 57, 8. Zodiac (10) Suraj GALORE DERBY (2,400m), 4-y-o, Grey Hound (8) Rayan Ahmed 56. Tororosso may fight out the finish of Irvan Singh 53, 3. Don Dela Vega (1) 1. Fair Game, 2. Indian Brahmos, Narredu 57, 9. Bonfire (2) I. Chisty (Terms), 4-30: 1. Amber Crown (7) 1. Erdemir, 2. Lightning Attack, minor brain bleed,” Orchard Jaishvin Sidana 6-3, 6-4. the B.N. Gudiyappa Bangalore Derby Arshad Alam 53, 4. Kambaku (9) S. 3. Aguante 56, 10. Gabino (4) Cedric Segeon 56, Ashok Kumar 57, 2. Battalion (6) 3. Sterling Role said in a statement. Girls, pre-quarterfinals: Vaidehi (2,400m), the stellar attraction of the John 53, 5. Lawrence Of Arabia (10) 11. Mystic Music (1) P.P. Dhebe 54.5, Suraj Narredu 57, 3. Bold March (1) The medic described the in- Chaudhari bt Janvi Patel 7-5, 6-1; Vin- races to be held here on Thursday A. Sandesh 53, 6. Lycurgus (7) P.P. 4 BANGALORE RACE 12. Torch Bearer (7) R. Marshall P.S. Chouhan 57, 4. Captain Morgan 9 (Jan. 26). There will be no false rails. Dhebe 53, 7. Rum Runner (4) P. Tre- 54.5. (10) P. Trevor 57, 5. Fabulous (8) S. VIJAYANAGAR CUP (Div. jury as serious but said Mennie eetha Mummadi bt Lasya Patnaik 6-1, COURSE 154TH YEAR COM- II), (1,200m), rated 30 to 50, 5-y-o & vor 53, 8. Sun Blazer (8) P. S. MEMORATION TROPHY 1. Mystic Music, 2. Zodiac, 3. John 57, 6. Magistero (2) Srinath 57, was “feeling well”. 6-3; Tanisha Kashyap bt Riddhi 1 M.E.G.CUP (Div. II), (1,400m), Chouhan 53, 9. Astrid (6) I. Chisty 7. Sporting Pleasure (4) I. Chisty 57, over, 5-50: 1. Topaz (8) Srinath 60, 2. (1,600m), 4-y-o & over, (Terms), 2- Jersey Wonder Manta Ray (2) P. Trevor 58.5, 3. Ramesh Sharma 6-0, 6-3; Salsa Aher rated 15 to 35, 1.15 p.m.: 1. Peppa (10) 51.5, 10. Chemical Romance (3) 45: 1. Bold Command (5) Srinath 60, 8. Tororosso (5) Neeraj 57, 9. Ad- “We believe that this is a A. Velu 60, 2. Helios (8) Rayan Neeraj 51.5. 6 miral One (3) A. Imran Khan 55.5, Youre Ashwashakthi (7) S. Shiva bt Sharannya Gaware 6-1, 7-6(0); 2. Acclaimed (6) P. Trevor 58.5, 3. VIDHANA SOUDHA CUP Kumar 58.5, 4. Zubaida (1) Neeraj stable injury and will not re- Ahmed 59.5, 3. Ira (4) Rajesh Babu 1. Apache Sunrise, 2. Rum Run- Arrogant Approach (3) S. John 58.5, (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 3-55: 1. Fire 10. Proserpine (9) A. Sandesh 55.5. Shivani Manjanna bt Sravya Shivani 59.5, 4. Mystical Shadow (9) S. Shiva 57, 5. Cherie Amour (6) Arshad quire surgery,” he said. ner, 3. Kambaku 4. Auriga (2) Suraj Narredu 58, 5. Glow (12) A. Imran Khan 60, 2. Cap- 1. Captain Morgan, 2. Tor- Alam 56.5, 6. Good Fruit (3) B. 6-3, 6-1; Shivani Ingle bt Pratyusha Kumar 59.5, 5. Regency Girl (7) Blazing Touch (1) Akshay Kumar italize (8) Adarsh 58.5, 3. James orosso, 3. Battalion “As a precautionary meas- Jagadeesh 59.5, 6. Call Me Maybe (2) Nayak 56, 7. All Thats Nice (4) Rachapudi 6-1, 6-3; Shrivalli Rashmi- 3 VIJAYANAGAR CUP (Div. 55.5, 6. Mickey Mouse (4) Arshad Bond (6) Irvan Singh 57.5, 4. Sans Mukesh Kumar 55.5, 8. Breaking ure, Joe has been admitted to A. Imran Khan 59, 7. Happy Dancing Alam 55.5. Escale (10) P. Trevor 57, 5. Wings Of 8 kaa bt Bhakti Parwani 6-1, 6-0; Sara I), (1,200m), rated 30 to 50, 5-y-o & M.E.G.CUP (Div. I), (1,400m), Away (5) Nazerul Alam 55, 9. Celes- hospital for observation and (11) M. Kumar 58.5, 8. Ravishing over, 2-15: 1. Aguante (11) Srinath 1. Bold Command, 2. Mickey Fortune (4) S. Shiva Kumar 57, 6. rated 15 to 35, 5-10: 1. Erdemir (5) Yadav bt Rashmika Rajan 6-3, 6-1. Snow (5) R. Marshall 58.5, 9. tial Storm (9) Jagadeesh 55, 10. New 60, 2. Fair Game (3) Cedric Segeon Mouse Lightning Strikes (5) Srinath 56.5, 7. Srinath 60, 2. Kasauli (2) P.P. Dhebe Era (12) Raja Rao 55, 11. Croziet (11) will continue to be assessed by Doubles, quarterfinals: Vaidehi Valentine Babe (3) Cedric Segeon 60, 3. Stellar Ambition (6) Darshan Odyssey (2) Ramesh Kumar 56.5, 8. 60, 3. Jack Of Hearts (7) A. Imran a neurosurgeon to determine 58.5, 10. Divino (6) M. Prabhakaran M. Prabhakaran 54, 12. Hurrah (10) & Shivani bt Prathyusha & Rashmika 60, 4. Bazinga (5) Rajesh Babu 59.5, 5 INDIAN REPUBLIC Lunar Storm (3) Suraj Narredu 56, Khan 59, 4. Lightning Attack (10) P. Irvan Singh 53.5. the best course of action.” 58, 11. Incitatus (12) A. Ramu 58, 12. 5. Alvarez (4) Mukesh Kumar 59, 6. TROPHY (1,800m), rated 60 & 9. Masters Glory (9) Jagadeesh 56, Trevor 57.5, 5. A Word To Remem- 6-3, 6-4; Salsa & Aesha Patel bt Shar- Ninon (1) Mark 56.5. I Smile (10) M. Naveen 58.5, 7. At- above, 3-20: 1. Quaker Ridge (6) S. 10. Dagobert (7) Rayan Ahmed 55.5, ber (4) Sunil Samson 57, 6. 1. Topaz, 2. Manta Ray, 3. Mennie was released from anya Shetty & Malvika Shukla 6-1, 1. Call Me Maybe, 2. Ravishing lantis (8) R. Manish 58, 8. China John 60, 2. Toroloco (9) Neeraj 60, 11. Iron Will (11) I. Chisty 54.5, 12. Kanthaka (9) I. Chisty 57, 7. Secret Zubaida hospital later and was cleared 6-1; Annika Kannan & Shivani bt Snow, 3. Valentine Babe One (12) Jagadeesh 58, 9. J Gatsby 3. Jersey Wonder (5) P. Trevor 59.5, Cape Cross (1) Arshad Alam 54. Prayer (11) Praveen Shinde 57, 8. Day’s best: Apache Sunrise to fly out from Brisbane with Panya Bhalla & Shrivalli 6-2, 6-2; (1) Nazerul Alam 58, 10. Rare And 4. Ambitious Reward (12) Arshad 1. Fire Glow, 2. Lightning Sterling Role (6) P.S. Chouhan 57, 9. his team on Thursday, the 2 MYSORE RACE CLUB Bold (2) Vinod Shinde 57.5, 11. Dia- Alam 58.5, 5. Speed Hawk (8) Strikes, 3. Cape Cross Coraggio (1) S. John 56.5, 10. 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Bolt loses relay Jorgic and gold as Carter Nadal rolls over Raonic to reach semifinals Minnie Soo tests positive given top billing Lucic-Baroni shocks Pliskova and sets up a last-four clash with Serena; Sania-Dodig duo in semifinals A. JOSEPH ANTONY MELBOURNE: A resurgent Rafael counter her opponent’s court Nadal beat Milos Raonic to speed and aggressive striking. INDORE: Darko Jorgic of Slove- reach his first Grand Slam semi- nia in the boys and Wai Yam final in three years at the Aus- Exciting contest Minnie Soo of Hong Kong tralian Open on Wednesday, as In mixed doubles, Sania among girls have been given Serena Williams eyed a final Mirza and Ivan Dodig held their pride of place in the $36,000 with her sister Venus. nerve and saved two match International Table Tennis Nadal hasn’t contested a ma- points against Rohan Bopanna Federation (ITTF) World Ju- jor semifinal since he won the and Gabriela Dabrowski before nior Circuit 2016 Finals that last of his 14 Grand Slam titles at pulling of a 6-4, 3-6, 12-10 win in get underway at the Abhay Carter and Bolt. — PHOTO: AFP the 2014 French Open, but he the quarterfinals. Prashal indoor stadium here never looked like losing to Bopanna and Canadian Dab- on Thursday. Raonic, the Canadian World rowski were left to rue their The seedings have been LAUSANNE: Usain Bolt lost one No. 3. missed chances in the 67- made based on the 2016 year- of his nine Olympic gold Spain’s Nadal yelled in de- minute match. ending ITTF under-18 world medals on Wednesday when light as he completed a 6-4, 7-6 The results: Men’s singles: rankings. the IOC stripped Jamaica of its (7), 6-4 win which set up a semi- Quarterfinals: 15-Grigor Dimitrov Representing 15 countries, 4x100m relay win at the 2008 final with Grigor Dimitrov. (Bul) bt 11-David Goffin (Bel) 6-3, 6-2, 16 boys and as many girls, each Beijing Games after Nesta “Even though I had a great ca- 6-4; 9- Rafael Nadal (Esp) bt 3-Milos of whom has competed on at Carter tested positive for reer, I had a lot of tough mo- Raonic (Can) 6-4, 7-6(7), 6-4. least two continents, will slug doping. ments,” said Nadal, who Women’s singles: Quarterfi- it out in singles. The decision, which follows struggled with injury last year nals: Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Cro) bt 5- Divided into four groups, the retesting of hundreds of and failed to reach any of the Karolina Pliskova (Cze) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; the top two will advance to the samples from the Beijing Grand Slam quarterfinals. 2-Serena Williams (USA) bt 9-Jo- knockout quarterfinals. event, means that Bolt, as hanna Konta (GBr) 6-2, 6-3. The three-day champion- Carter’s teammate, loses one Dimitrov through Doubles: Semifinals: 12-Andrea ship is a golden opportunity of the three gold medals he Nadal has a 7-1 head-to-head Hlavackova (Cze) & Shuai Peng (Chn) for paddlers to make the po- won there. record against Dimitrov, the bt 1-Caroline Garcia (Fra) & Kristina dium in the absence of the This also meant the loss of Bulgarian 15th seed dubbed Mladenovic (Fra) 7-6(4), 6-2; 2-Beth- Chinese. one of Bolt’s ‘triple triples’ — ‘Baby Fed’ for his Federer-like anie Mattek-Sands (USA) & Lucie Sa- The billing for the boys top he won gold in the 100m, 200 playing style who earlier beat farova (Cze) bt Eri Hozumi (JPN) & trio of Darko Jorgic, Yukiya and 4x100m at Beijing and Belgium’s Miyu Kato (Jpn) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Uda and Koyo Kanamitsu went on to repeat the feat in David Goin Junior girls: Third round: Zeel should turn out true to their London 2012 and Rio 2016. 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Desai (Ind) bt Olga Danilovic (Srb) 3-5 current form. The IOC said in a statement For Di- (retired). — AFP Although ranked fifth that a re-analysis of Carter’s mitrov, who among women here, Japan’s 2008 samples “resulted in a will play in his Yuko Kato should spring more positive test for the prohibited second semi- than a surprise, with four titles substance methylhexaneam- final at a Major, it was the 10th Zeel capable of playing better, says coach in France, Sweden, Slovenia ine.” victory in a row after his trophy and Portugal and bronze in It added that “Carter is dis- run in Brisbane this month. KAMESH SRINIVASAN first round. “We are spending more Spain and the Czech Republic qualified from the men’s Federer will play fellow behind her. 4x100m relay event and must time warming up and cooling down. I Swiss Stan Wawrinka in NEW DELHI: Coach Todd Clark was Drawn in the top two return his medal while the feel the key to recovery aspect is the Thursday’s first semifinal. waiting for Zeel Desai to find her best groups, the going may be team members are likewise mental one. Zeel is feeling relaxed and The women’s competition game before she made a fortuitous tough for India’s Manav disqualified and must hand fresh. also has a retro feel after Serena entry into the girls’ quarterfinals of the Thakkar and Ronit Bhanja. back their medals.” — AFP “She was fortunate with the sched- Williams beat Britain’s Johanna Australian Open on Wednesday. ule as she had a day’s rest between Thakkar faces top gun Jorgic Konta 6-2, 6-3 to set up a semi- The 17-year-old Zeel, whose rank each of her matches,” said coach Clark. in the second round. final with an emotional Mirjana had slipped from a career-best 32 to 45 The coach appreciated the manner On the distaf side, it should Four women in Lucic-Baroni — 19 years after after she lost a grade-2 final to Mahak in which Zeel had tackled the local girl be relatively easier for they last met as teenage Jain in the Capital recently, was trailing in the first round. Archana Girish Kamath and S. ICC umpires panel prodigies. 3-5 when fifth-seeded Olga Danilovic Selena Deepthi. While Serena is now eyeing “Zeel had played only at 70 per cent fell backwards and hurt her hamstring. in her first two rounds. The occasion of Sponsors of the three-day DUBAI: The ICC has named four an Open-era-record 23rd Grand meet include Dena Bank, Jio women in a strong field of nine Slam title and a return to World “It was unfortunate as both the girls playing her first match was tough. were playing well and the contest had “Getting used to not only the court Digital, 11Even Sports, MP Dir- umpires to oiciate in next No. 1, the Croatian is into her ectorate of Sports and Youth all the marks of being a great match” Zeel Desai. — FILE PHOTO conditions and opponent, but also the month’s ICC Women’s World first major semifinal since 1999 Welfare, while equipment Cup Qualifiers 2017. after her career was derailed by said Clark, when contacted in Australian crowds cheering for her op- Melbourne. support comes from Joola, Seasoned Kathleen Cross of personal trauma. “Winning the right points at the right ponent,” recalled Clark. time will make all the difference. Butterfly and Stag. New Zealand leads the group Unseeded Lucic-Baroni In the quarterfinals, Zeel will be up The coach felt that Zeel’s best qual- The seedings (top five): of women umpireswho all wept freely and gasped, “This against Elena Rybakina of Russia who “ I know Zeel will be up for the chal- ity was being a “tough competitor”, Boys: 1. Darko Jorgic (Slo); 2. have international experi- has truly made my life,” after had beaten second-seeded Taylor John- lenge,” said Clark, who has been dili- who gives her best from the first point Yukiya Uda (Jpn); 3. Koyo Kanamitsu enceand are being groomed she upset Czech World No. 5 son of the US with ease. gently training Zeel in Ahmedabad. till the last. (Jpn); 4. Tobias Hippler (Ger); 5. Alex- for the future by the ICC. The Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. “We have a game plan that can be Zeel had settled into her groove “In today’s match, Zeel started strik- andru Manole (Rou). others are Sue Redfern of Eng- There was little disappoint- effective if executed well. Rybakina is a when she beat Jule Niemeier of Ger- ing the ball well. Girls: 1. Wai Yam Minnie Soo land, Claire Polosak of Aus- ment from Konta despite her big ball striker and plays aggressively. I many 6-4, 6-2 in the second round after “She is now more comfortable with (HKG); 2. Tze Wing Mak (HKG); 3. tralia and Jacqueline Williams steamrollering by Serena, who am confident that Zeel can make life having fought past local girl Kaitlin the conditions and is growing in confid- Kana Takeuchi (Jpn); 4. Andreea of the West Indies. — PTI was able to raise her game to tough for her tomorrow. Staines of Australia 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in the ence,” the coach observed. Dragoman (Rou); 5. Yuko Kato (Jpn).

CRICKET ‘Why are they protecting some and punishing me?’

STAN RAYAN KCA but I haven’t got a reply to “Every Indian has the right my mail yet.” to know about the 13 names in KOCHI: Fast bowler S. Sreesanth The BCCI had suspended the envelope with the Supreme is still waiting for the Board of him in 2013 over spot-fixing Court. If the players who are Control for Cricket in India’s charges in the IPL but despite a accused are being protected, response to his letter asking for Delhi court clearing him in why are they not protecting an NOC (no objection certific- 2015, the Indian cricket board me,” he asked. ate) to play in the Scotland continues to stick to its stand. “I’m not fighting to know Cricket League. “The BCCI has still not given who the 13 are, seriously, be- “I haven’t got a reply from me a letter stating that I have cause I really don’t want the the BCCI. Everybody is making been banned for life,” said S. Sreesanth. things that happened to me to a big fuss, saying that the BCCI Sreesanth. “Now things have happen to them just because has denied me the NOC. But I changed in the BCCI (after the was not allowed to earn his they are accused. But my ques- haven’t got a reply yet to my recent Supreme Court order livelihood. tion is, why two diferent laws mail,” the two-time World Cup based on the Lodha Committee “People who are guilty are for two diferent people. winner told The Hindu on report) so I’m waiting till the playing international cricket,” “I just want a chance to earn Wednesday. 29th of this month.” he said referring to the 13 my livelihood, I earn my bread “I have been sending letters names, including many crick- and butter from cricket and for the NOC for the last one- The guilty still playing eters who were accused of I’ve got two kids. I’ve been and-a-half months but I haven’t Sreesanth felt that people match-fixing and betting, waiting and waiting and now got a reply from the BCCI. who were guilty were playing which were lying in a sealed it’s almost four years, why They might have replied to the international cricket while he cover with the Supreme Court. don’t they understand.” Follow us on www.facebook.com/thehindumetroplus www.twitter.com/thmetroplus metroplus.thehindu.com Delhi Thursday, January 26, 2017

FASHION MUSIC TABLE FOR TWO DESIGNER AMIT AGGARWAL ON HOW DALER MEHNDI ON JITISH KALLAT REFLECTS HE HAS GIVEN OLD, TIMELESS COMPOSING TRACKS WITH A ON THE AESTHETICS AND PATOLAS A NEW LEASE OF LIFE P2 SPIRITUAL THEME P3 POLITICS OF HIS ART P4

Admit two ANUJ KUMAR where in the world, the fish get bigger and so do the num- even decades after bers of soldiers and instances The Rani of Jhansi Queens of courage of their brave behaviour. Be- Regiment (RJR) was cause Captain Lakshmi was Sformed in Singapore the spokesperson for the by Subhas Chandra Bose, the Ranis, the whole INA, actu- tales of young recruits from ally, she did mention num- traditional Indian families In “Women At War”, Vera Hildebrand retraces the tumultuous journey of the bers that were bigger than the have all but forgotten. Now, actual number of Ranis. noted historian Vera Hilder- first all-female infantry fighting unit in military history But I do not think that the brand has uncovered new role of the RJR has been evidence through in-depth praised nearly enough. Their interviews with surviving courage deserve our admira- Ranis and archival research. tion and respect. Music “Frisky Pints” The result is “Women At War: You have critically ex- Subhas Chandra Bose and the amined Subhas Chandra The Piano Jazz Club Enjoy foot tapping music Rani of Jhansi Regiment” Bose's role in putting wo- celebrates the midweek with a rocking (HarperCollins), which opens men on the war front and with a exciting live performance by the Delhi a new window to these cour- his own struggles with rela- performance by Anuvrat based rock band who ageous soldiers who spent tionships. Are the two Choudhary. present energetic two years in the jungles of interlinked? Date: January 26 compositions. Burma to realise their com- Only so far that Bose like Time: 9 p.m. Date: January 27 mander’s vision. With a doc- most if not all great men or Venue: B 6, Commercial Time: 9 p.m. torate in Indian history and women was complicated, and Complex, Safdarjung Venue: The Orb, Radisson culture from Georgetown he had conflicting ideas and Enclave opposite Deer Blu Plaza Delhi, NH-8, New University, Washington, DC, purposes. I think he was right Park, New Delhi Delhi. Hildebrand has managed to in creating the RJR, he separate facts from myth. She Bose did not want showed women the respect admits as an outsider she had and equality that women all to learn a lot that native Indi- Indians to stay in over the world are demand- Theatre ans learn in school and from the villages and ing. Equal rights and equal just growing up in India. “As weave, he wanted a responsibility. Asmita Theatre will an outsider it is important You have compared presents “Moteram Ka and not entirely easy to learn modern society Bose's and Gandhi's per- Satyagrah” a Hindi play to chose from the various Vera Hildebrand spective on women's role in based on Munshi political or cultural perspect- freedom struggle. Whose Premchand's story directed ive your informant may come, SHOWING THE WAY Captain Lakshmi Sahgal with Subhas Chandra Bose; Vera presenting the point of view do you find by Arvind Gaur with music newspapers, history books, book to Mommata Mehta, one of the Ranis more pragmatic and pro- composed by Dr.Sangeeta political pamphlets and vet- gressive? Gaur. ,, eran women soldiers.” For mentioned and found it years as a Rani had been the not just the two years they worked at the rubber estates Gandhi wanted girls to be Date: January 26 women’s history, she says, astounding that the first regi- greatest time of their lives. spent as soldiers. or in the tin mines of Malaya. educated to be mothers and Time: 7 p.m. trustworthy information ment of combat trained wo- The Ranis did not begin at Was it is a progressive These families and their wives, Bose wanted girls and Venue: Shri Ram Centre for about most aspects of life as a men in the world would be one end and delivered a story. step which was not well daughters were not educated women to be responsible and Performing Arts, 4, Safdar woman in India was not avail- Indian. I wanted to know They talked about what inter- thought out? In the history and most said that they joined equal citizens in free India, a Hashmi Marg, Mandi House able before the 1970s. “Bose, more and that led me to inter- ested them most and of women's role in warfare, because they had heard the modern India. Bose was def- Nehru and Gandhi all de- view the surviving Ranis. answered what I asked them. where does RJR stand? would get food as a Rani. initely both respectful of wo- plored the way women had Then writing the book fol- There are only few gaps, be- There is very little history Some of them were also men, more pragmatic and been treated but did not re- lowed because only few cause after many hours I of women in warfare and the happy to escape the role as a way more progressive. Bose Performance port from a woman's point of people even in India had learned a lot and was able to RJR has a special place, be- women working in those very did not want Indians to stay The India Habitat Centre view. I have tried to learn heard of the Rani of Jhansi combine all the information cause these women were in- hard jobs, with estate man- in the villages and weave, he will hold a performance by about Indian culture, history Regiment and I thought that given by each Rani to know cluded in a regular army, as agers who were sexual pred- wanted a modern society. Laura Pyrrö, Finnish opera and literature since I came to every Indian girl ought to who the young woman was infantry soldiers and they ators. They welcomed the How do you see his tilt singer whose repertoire India first in 2001, and I will know about these brave wo- before she joined, who her were trained and deployed for respect and freedom they got towards the Japanese includes Western classical probably continue to be sur- men who came before her. family was, how she saw her combat. Such unit still does when they joined the RJR. forces which were as im- music, musicals, cabaret prised and delighted with You have tried to separ- time in the RJR and what she not exist elsewhere. Women The other major group was perialist and inhuman as music in the style of early new information for many ate history from myth. did after the war and what she in combat is a recent thing Indian nationalist families the British rulers? 20th Century, chanson and years to come.” How many Ranis did you thought about the impact and then the females are in living in the diasporas in I believe that Bose was un- 1920's style jazz music. Edited excerpts: meet and did the conversa- that her service had had on the same battalion as the men Malaya, Singapore and happy in many different ways Date: January 27 What was your motiva- tions form a cogent story? Indian society. I did not hear not in a separate women’s Burma. These parents had about the concessions he was Time: 7 p.m. tion to delve into this sub- I met more Ranis than the exaggerated stories or myths. regiment. taught their daughters that forced to make to Japan, but Venue: Stein Auditorium, ject? 22 RJR veterans who agreed Some stories of the same Except for a couple of the they were Indian and that In- if he wanted to take advant- Lodhi Road, I came to India and saw to extensive interviews. But events differed a bit, but that women who did not want to dia should be liberated; the age of the window of oppor- New Delhi that Indian women were not the ones I did not get permis- is what happens when people be known, the Ranis all their girls either heard Bose's tunity he was granted by the as emboldened in their rela- sion to quote with name also remember what happened 65 lives thought that it had been speeches and were inspired WWII, (my enemy’s enemy is tionships with their husbands gave very interesting inform- or 70 years ago. Actually it a great experience and wished or their parents urged them my friend) that was his only as are Danish women. When I ation, especially because was amazing how little differ- that the timing of their de- to join. chance. “Mnmlism” began to read a little of the their view of the experience ence there was. ployment had been more fa- Do you think the role of Does RJR have a contem- history of Indian women I was so different from the oth- Tell us about the chal- vourable so they could have Rani of Jhansi Regiment is porary relevance in Indian The IHC will is holding a saw Rani of Jhansi Regiment ers who all thought the two lenges in research and fought shoulder to shoulder sometimes overstated? society where women are group photography show in what new ground that this with their brothers, as they Can we hold Captain Lak- still struggling to find their which the participating book breaks said. They were still idealists shmi Swaminathan Sahgal space under the sun? photographers are Ronny This work reveals newly in their late eighties and responsible for it? Yes, there are important Sen, Ravi Dhingra, discovered archival research nineties. Until I found the docu- lessons to be learned for both Tribhuvan Deo, to which no one else has had What kind of families al- ments in British Library, boy and girls. It is my hope Radhakrishna Rao and access, that is the British In- lowed their women to be London, accurate numbers that Indian children will see Vikram Singh. telligence reports on part of combat duties? have not been available. At that women are strong, wo- Date: On till January 27 everything that occurred in What were their motiva- one point Bose himself wrote men can participate, women Time: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. the INA and I focus on the tions? to the camp commander in should/must take action to Venue: Visual Arts Gallery, Ranis. Also, I am the first his- The families of the Ranis Singapore and asked how shape the world the way we Lodhi Road, New Delhi torian to spend many hours came from two very different many Ranis there were in that want it to be. Perhaps it will with all of the surviving veter- groups: Most Ranis came camp. And as is the nature of take more time, but it will ans and ask about their lives, from Tamil families who people telling stories any- come. .

‘norm.’ When I think of the Vijayendra word ‘patriot’, I recoil from Notes of the trendy imagery of a jawan Prasad fighting at our borders, or the pride of our nuclear strength, Writer and director or the forced respect we grant My concept of freedom is patriotism our national anthem. to able to say something All these things make my freely without offending sense of patriotism feel others. This is definitely diminished, squeezed, subjective to a person’s idea. berated. I refuse to let others’ If a person says, ‘I am gay’ On Republic Day, personalities from smallness rob me of what I and if someone is offended by feel. it, then it is ridiculous. You different fields speak about their Patriotism to me is not an don’t have a right to hurt imposed sense of undying others or intrude into others’ concept of freedom and what evokes loyalty. To me, patriotism is a lives. the patriotic spirit in them feeling of respect, regard and I have always held the song responsibility to the place I ‘Vande Maataram’ in high NEERAJA MURTHY belong to. I belong to India. A boundaries of my ability to be regard. I like ‘Jana Gana country that one can never expressive. Thus the Mana’ too but Vande The word ‘patriotism’ evokes really come to know languages of visual arts and Maataram is a notch higher. a myriad emotions. With The completely.... in one lifetime! the converging point of the It addresses the mother and Supreme Court’s order to I refuse to be reduced to a real and unreal world of the mother is nature. theatres to play the national myopic view of a few arts and literature sets me I have been a ‘feminist’ in anthem sparked a debate on chauvinistic new-fangled free. that way. I have always the subject. FLYING HIGH Children waving the Indian flag PHOTO PTI custodians of our History pops up at every believed in treating women On Republic Day, we ask ‘patriotism.’ nook and cranny of the with great respect. well-known people from dif- truly free. The other place that To belong to India, is to be contemporary world seeking ferent fields about their idea We might have got our evoked similar sentiments responsible to India. And, answer to where, how and of freedom and what evokes freedom from the British, but was Jallianwallah Bagh. I that to me is patriotism. And why. I am a trained artist, a the patriotic spirit in them. we have to get freedom from have also witnessed the as my father taught me what woman, born in India but the patriarchal,misogynistic Wagah Border ceremonies his father taught him, you belonging in ‘La La Land’, not Preeti Shenoy motherhood and marriage mindset that threatens to twice. The first time I saw it, must give back to society, willing to let go of Writer are not yardsticks of drown us. my spirits lifted. But the especially when society has artisans,weavers, food Only when a woman can achievements but merely When I visited Andaman, second time, it was a terrible given you plenty. growers; not willing to walk on the streets, unafraid; choices that a woman makes; saw the tiny cells where Veer experience with jostling undermine their knowledge. only when there are zero only when there is adequate Savarkar and others were crowds. Koeli Mukherjee And, sujalang sufalang cases of female infanticide; drinking water, access to lodged in, saw the gallows, Artist malayaja sheetalang sashya only when a girl child in rural basic affordable healthcare, the punishment meted out to Sanjna Kapoor My concept of freedom shyamalang vande India is welcomed with as and eradication of hunger these freedom fighters, I felt Theatre personality odd one out; an alien to what comes from my own mataram... keeps me inspired much joy as a boy; only when will I consider my country moved. Today, I clearly feel the seems to be the current experiences in pushing the

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City scan wearable again. MADHUR TANKHA There is nothing like a new handwoven sari but I feel old New touch to saris! broken saris are more soulful t was an unexpected with the memories of the per- meeting with an enter- son it belongs to. In our col- prising yet economic- lection we try to preserve Ially backward woman Designer Amit Aggarwal explains how he has given old, these old saris and the at the Delhi School for the memories attached to it.” Blind that acted as a catalyst timeless Patolas a new lease of life Using silk Chanderi with for his new collection. For nylon meshes, poplins, Amit Aggarwal, who fre- tapestry and faux leather quently visits the institution braids was a challenge. for visually impaired persons, “Silk Chanderi being a this fruitful interaction with sensitive fabric can be tricky this woman hailing from the to use with recycled waste. Waghri community of Gu- Such materials are meticu- jarat – who in order to earn lously put together with Avant garde her livelihood was selling nylon meshes, faux metal backdrop quilt, patch work art made sheets and leather braids. from discarded saris – These being contrasting ma- International Balloon Art broadened his view of fash- terials bring the visual curios- Festival featuring 30 feet ion. ity and structure in the tri-colored hot air Naturally, Amit has now collection.” installation made of started using old discarded In some outfits there are saris, which once had been some elements of fabrics and balloons kick started at A painting of Shah Rukh Khan created by Anjanna pride of wearers, in struc- embroideries which are seen Select Citywalk recently. Kutthiala International Balloon Artist tured tops, jackets. “Every on garments worn by women Fiona Fischer, whose year Trishala runs a stall at from the hills. speciality is in decorating Diwali mela at Delhi School “There has not been direct large shopping malls to for the Blind and we have references from clothing of amaze customers with her been meeting over the years. mountain people but we are design and creativity, has She informed me about wo- using elements and reflec- SRK as artistic come up with the men in Gujarat who have tions inspired by their over- installation. “ Since my been exchanging their old sized garments. Lakme Salon work was on balloons, I saris for aluminium utensils. will be playing up textures thought why not a hot air So I have given old Patola and styles with clever use of oeuvre balloon?” said Fischer. saris a new identity.” castaway materials for hair.” This goes with his vision of For the record, this de- design ethics. “I am not using signer understands the signi- The actor has now inspired Anjanna expensive party wear saris ficance of feel of hands and is but tattered rejected ones. I game for putting his creativ- Kutthiala to come up with an artistic converted them into textiles ity, experience and sense of impression on canvas and then used them in a new aesthetics into a collection avatar on garments. These which visually impaired per- SHALINI SINGH Council India Vivek Man- are single Ikat saris and not sons can make out what he sukhani and film critic and double Ikat ones worn by the has created in terms of tex- An artistic retrospective on columnist Shubhra Gupta royal families of Gujarat,” OLD FABRIC NEW TREATMENT Models wearing garments created byAmit Aggarwal tures, embroidery and design. Shah Rukh Khan titled “The was followed by a fashion says the designer, who is “It is a great idea to develop Star of the Millennium” was show where ladies from dif- presenting them in Seamless, Tarun Tahiliani himself, who of wisdom come from a of course, Indian sari curtains something for visually im- hosted by Anjanna Kutthiala ferent walks of life allured the his collection at Lakme Fash- had hand picked him after he novice on fashion or artisans are paired kids but I would look in association with Rosy audience with their elegance. ion Week on February 1. excelled at NIFT, Amit still of varied hues. “Learning and “Utilising new modern forward to making something Ahluwalia at Taj Vivanta re- The panellists while remin- Wedding for all Explaining the methodo- has hunger for acquisition of imbibing new crafts in our techniques to give these old in a collaboration with them. cently. iscing their experience with logy of giving his own touch to knowledge whether it is work as designers is only im- handwoven textiles a new life That can be really interesting The conceptualised after- the superstar Narayan Seva Sansthan ripped old saris procured learning new craft or method- portant to preserve the coun- is vital to protecting our her- thing to do.” noon event saw the coming were of the opinion that the solemnised a mass wedding from the Western State, Amit ologies in designs. And he try’s tradition. I also explore itage and also to make them together of art, fashion, superstar’s humility, honesty ceremony for the specially- says, “In the hope to increase does not mind if these words different art and crafts for the beauty and glamour to celeb- and innocence have shaped abled poor couple at their lifeline, discarded love of it,” says Amit, who is rate the success and stardom his personality and made him Janmashtami Park in Patola saris were restored by sourcing old torn saris from of the actor who hails from different. They laid stress on Punjabi Bagh recently. using innovative industrial Trishala. Delhi. Anjanna’s art work in his philanthropic activities Fifty one physically treatment and responsible With people parting away which she had painted her ad- which he never boasted. challenged and poor design ethics. This is how I old saris, instead of pre- miration for the star was also The ramp witnessed ladies couples were united in this was able to fortify them and serving them as heirloom, put on display. The afternoon walking and dancing to the path-breaking event that arrange them as a new entity. Amit feels it is high time that celebrated the flamboyance beats of SRK’s songs. De- was organised as a sign of Restoration was also done by new innovations and modern of Indian cinema and Shah signer Rosy Ahluwalia cre- solidarity towards the using modern industrial elements are incorporated in Rukh Khan’s contribution to ated the apparel and community. Altars were treatments like bonding, traditional saris. the primary the industry. Aashmeen Munjaal’s Star installed at the marriage pleating and weaving with economic motto is ‘waste not, Asked what made Shah Academy did the hair and site with priests from man-made yarns to secure want not’. Recycling not only Rukh Khan her muse, An- make-up. Vrindavan getting rituals them as a new identity. These extends to various organic janna said she wanted to solemnised. Families of the un-stitched pieces of cloths These un-stitched materials but also to textiles, know the man behind the brides and grooms were have been re-aligned as new fabrics and garments. These star, the way he cared for his treated with warmth as the pieces of cloths have modern structured silhou- are re-utilized to save on wife and his respect for wo- marriages were ettes. We have juxtaposed been re-aligned as money. The fact is that saris, men was something that she commenced with pomp and these saris as textiles with re- new modern though extremely popular, had not seen in any other star. gaiety. Necessary cycled plastic strips.” tend to be expensive, espe- A panel discussion with household items were also structured cially in their formal or party distinguished panellists like distributed among Welcoming knowledge silhouettes wear avatars, which is why Kathak Guru Shovana prospective brides and when they became unfash- Narayan, actor Abhinav grooms. Despite learning tricks of ionable or old, they were con- Chaturvedi, Sandeep Mar- the trade from fashion guru ,, verted into curtains. Today, wah, Director of Arts, British

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Shelf life Bhai Samund Singh – there SHAILAJA KHANNA are many, he says. He absorbs a lot of elements musically aler Mehdi is strad- Pitch perfect from all kinds of music – he dling two worlds used to sing English songs at with ease – that of birthday parties, heard the Dpop music and ghazals of Ghulam Ali as early playback singing and that of as 1975 when he was scarcely the Sufi, singing to uplift one- Daler Mehndi on his evolution from a popular to a spiritual singer known, heard many bhajans, self. Since his hit track “Bolo absorbed the music of Bihar Ta Ra Ra” in 1994, he has and Bengal where he lived as a ruled in the first world, in young boy. “Everything fact, it can be safely said he shapes, what you become,” he created the genre Bhangra muses. pop which largely eased out It’s also important to be Western music in the discos disciplined – his wife Taran all over India and even Asian- says, he was a teetotaller. On a clubs in the UK. lighter note he laughs, and Girl power But since the last 8-10 says, “In some areas of discip- years, alongside the popular line I falter. When I was Drag Teen songs, he has been composing young, I had to get up early to tracks with a spiritual theme, sing in Gurudwaras. Once I ‘Khelegi toh Going by when life’s a drag, using lyrics of saints like prayed to God, that don’t you gotta drag it up, Jeffery Guru Gobind Singh, Baba make me have to get up early. Khilegi’ seeks to Self’s book revolves around Bulleh Shah, and Baba Farid And his plea was answered.” use football as a JT who with all odds to create powerful rhythm Thereafter, it so happened against him is not going to dominated melodies that ap- that he was given assign- tool to break give up to capture the Miss peal. He now sings at festivals ments to sing in the evening! Drag Teen title in New York associated with spiritual mu- Getting up early is still a huge gender City. In the process he sic and classical music like effort for him, he admits stereotypes meets many feisty foes he the recently held The Scared sheepishly. He recounts an does not give up as his Pushkar and earlier at the incident in Maharashtra a few future is on line. Published Vasant Utsav in Pune. The years back when he was told On occasion of the National by Push, an imprint of titles of some of his recent he had to be ready to perform Girl Child Day, Nurturing Ex- Scholastic the price is not tracks – “Soul to Supreme” at Ulhasnagar at 4 am, and cellence in Sports Trust along mentioned. (or Ruh Raab tak) for “Allah how it was really difficult. “Ab with National Yuva Cooper- Hu”, or “Namo Namo” with aadat nahi rahi, 25-30 saalon ative Society launched the insertion of a stanza of the se” he says. ‘Khelegi toh Khilegi’, a pan- sacred Japji Sahib, “Mere As early as 1998-1999, India football based pro- Ram”, and even “Holi Daler was signed up by Cola gramme for girls aged Kheleungi Keh Keh Bismil- Cola, to endorse the drink, between ten and 15 years, at lah” all reveal his overpower- and tour 32 states in a whirl- Thyagaraj Stadium recently. ing obsession with his Maker. wind tour of concerts. It The first event held amid Speaking of this re-inven- could have led to compla- fanfare saw the participation tion of himself as an artist, REINVENTING SELF Daler Mehndi cency as a singer, but Daler of a number of enthusiastic Daler says, “I have always says he has always felt the girls from across Delhi and been spiritually inclined from mast Qalandar”, “Kinna sona hands to you in appeal) essentially in Hindu termino- sensory pleasures.” need to raise the bar, try National Capital Region. The childhood (he is the son of a tenu Rab ne banaya”, “Chaap I ask him who he consider a logy), he sang “Namo Namo. Rap music is not new – we something that has not been programme was flagged off by Sikh Gurbani singer), and this tilak mose naina milaayeke.” true Sufi singer. “Ustad Nus- The audience loved it and in- have had a tradition since the done before. He surprised Dharmendra Pradhan, Minis- thread was perceptible in the “No efforts are made to in- rat Fateh Ali Khan was a true sisted he sing it again seven music of Radha Krishna, he many when he sang “Tu ter of Petroleum and Natural lyrics of even my pop songs clude new kalaams”. Sufi – I am a huge fan. God times, and they sang along! points out. He elaborates, in Rubaru Hai” for Vishal Gas, who was the chief guest. like “Kardi Rab Rab”. But the The opening words of his knows how many births one One fan said, ‘putta nahin the Dasam Granth of Guru Bhardwaj in Maqbool in ‘Khelegi toh Khilegi’ seeks Sufi numbers that are sung “Allah Hu” are poignant – would have to take to achieve matlab kee hai, lekin lag raha Gobind Singh, the metre has 2003. The industry woke up to create interest in football nowadays are to my mind Sufi “aakh nam hui, main hoon his expertise. His control over hai, Rab di gal hai’ (I don’t elements of rap – but there is to his versatility. “I never among girls across the coun- in name – they don’t embody bismil, har pal yahan, nai rhythm and its play (rhythm know what you are saying but the constraint of words that wanted to continue to do try. the spirit. They are sung with mushkil”. (my eyes are moist, di “vand”- interplay) is amaz- it seems like it’s something should be meaningful, and what was working and what The basic idea behind the a commercial goal of appeal in I surrender to You, every ing. “There are many great connected with God).” the constraint of rhythm. was popular – I always programme is to empower The Three Wise mind. That’s wrong. True Sufi minute there’s a new prob- classical singers, but what he Analysing why he was now “Not like rap of today which is wanted to move on to some- the girl child, improve self- Monkeys music is for Him, not to lem). He admitted problems had was unique.” singing more about higher totally free flowing with no thing else. None of the tunes I esteem and develop leader- please your audience. do make you recall your He recalls the connect Nus- matters, Daler says, “I was rules!” Taalim (training) is sang were ever repeated and ship skills. This fun and racy novel by Whatever you sing in praise Maker more. rat’s Sufi numbers had with unhappy with the way the necessary to create music all were totally original.” Starting from Delhi, the Jeet Gian is about three should be in praise only to the His lyrics are powerful dir- his audience. “He was in Is- youth was being misguided.” properly, Daler declares. He After the success of title initiative will be held in 15 friends, Amar, Akbar and Almighty – “tu hi tu hai” (You, ect and simple –“Mere Allah, lamabad around 2008 and he As a star with influence, he talks about his training under tracks of Mirzya and Dangal, cities across India in the first Anthony who have no clue and only You). You should meri aankh bhar aati hai, had just created “Namo feels it’s his duty to try to his singer father, and later Daler adds he is planning year. Apart from identifying whatsoever about their not bring in words of aashiqui besabab mujh ko diye jaata Namo”. Without really think- bring their minds to some- Ustad Raahat Ali Khan of something completely novel talented girls, ‘Khelegi toh indecisive careers and (love) to please the listeners. hai dene waala, haath uth tee ing it through, after all, his thing more substantial. “Spir- Gorakhpur from the Patiala in 2017. “And I am looking Khilegi’ will also train them indefinite struggles till they According to him, the cur- nahi meri, jholi bhar jaati audience was primarily itual music can divert the gharana. He admits he also forward to the release of with the objective of making are drawn into trouble of rent Sufi music is confined to hai”. (O Allah, my eyes fill Muslim, and would not relate youth; it should not only be listens to a lot of classical mu- Bahubali 2 in which I have them represent India in big hiding crores of rupees of just a few known popular over, you give me everything to the words Namo Namo about what brands you are sic – Ustads Nazakat Ali, Sala- sung the title track in four sporting events like the black money in secret numbers like “Damadam without my even raising my (means hail the Maker, but wearing, entertainment, and mat Ali, Bade Ghulam Ali, languages.” World Cup and the Olympics. offshore companies. Will their mistake cost them their careers or will it change their fortunes forever? Priced at Rs.299 it ever, remains the 108 is published by Frog Books. The art of nothingness A hearty harvest feast varieties of saag (greens) that are essential for the Sankranti lunch. The greens, cooked in different ways, are A solo exhibition eaten with boiled rice and Celebrating ghee, and are supposed to of Sohan Qadri’s Nature’s bounty cleanse and strengthen your works brings back system. is a common Savouries from the memories of West theme around the Unlike the North and East, the celebrated country this time the West neither lights a fire, artist nor bathes in the ice-cold wa- of year and the ters of holy rivers, but celeb- SHILPA RAINA rates the festival by flying myriad unique kites in the lukewarm rays of “It just happened one day food traditions in the winter sun. Celebrated as that I was thinking and it each region Uttarayan, the festival is struck my mind ‘where is marked by colourful kites Sohan Qadri?’ As the works makes against the azure skies of Gu- Invincible of other artists of his time the feasting jarat. Scientifically, this activ- Arjuna like S. H. Raza were present REFLECTING THROUGH ART A work on display; (below) ity helps rid the body of everywhere and were being Sohan Qadri special infections and helps pile on talked about, it seemed to me Vitamin D for months to In this creative re- come; socially, it helps one imagining of the story of that we had forgotten the perhaps, was the reason he abstract representations of legacy of this celebrated has been being viewed as a yin and yang. ANUBHUTI KRISHNA connect with the community. Arjuna, author Debashis No connect in Gujarat can be Chatterjee mines the artist who had achieved so “reclusive artists” by many. “None of the modern mas- FEAST IN STYLE A traditional Lohri celebration around a much name and fame in his “Some of the artists of that ters have ever mastered a It is that time of the year bonfire; (below) a lady with trays of Assamese pitha completed without food, and Mahabharata and discovers again: Christmas has come food remains an equally sig- nine precious lessons that time. And, it was at this par- time were great socialites thought with so much con- PHOTOS: AKHILESH KUMAR AND RITU RAJ KONWAR ticular moment I decided to and were good in the art of sistency as Sohan in his lan- and gone, the long-awaited nificant part of Uttarayan. will enable any one to holidays have ended, New of pudding made with sugar- rannaghar, or the kitchen, in While things like jalebi, become heroes in their lives. put together a show to celeb- self-marketing and promo- guage of expression,” points rate his vast and rich tion. But, he wasn’t like out Sunit. Year is already here; and the cane juice and rice called anticipation of pitha, a chikki, chavanu (various sa- Whether it is gaining herculean list of resolutions raskheer. Bengali version of the crepe. voury mixtures), dhokla, and masteryh over life, oeuvre,” reveals Sunit Ku- them. His art reflected what There are 50 works on dis- mar, the director of Kumar he imbibed and believed in. play, several of them already on your wall is making you Unlike Punjab, the celebra- The crepe, or pitha, made khichdi are popular, the day harnessing will power, or even more forlorn every tion of Sankranti in Uttar with rice flour, and filled with truly belongs to undhiyu prioritising action choices, Gallery. He wasn’t a recluse, but he spotted a red dot, implying So with a single-minded was never a part of any cir- that they have been sold, on passing day. And if any kind Pradesh is more sober and coconut, date palm jaggery, puri. Made with green beans, these life lessons can truly of a diet was on your list, you religious. It also marks the and sometimes, reduced new baby potatoes, sweet put one on the hero-path. focus, Sunit sifted through cus either,” says Sunit. the day of the opening is an his personal collection and Citing an instance, Sunit affirmation of the confidence can forget about it with the beginning of the auspicious milk, is a delicacy unpar- potatoes, yam and eggplant, The Westland publication is coming winter festivals that month of Magh, and is celeb- alleled in its texture and fla- with fried fenugreek dump- priced at Rs.175. approached private collect- recalls, “I had met him sev- art aficionados have in his ors to put together a large eral times at his studio in works. The resplendent use India has been celebrating rated with a dip in the holy vour. The main meal, here lings added to the mushy body of works that repres- Copenhagen. We have of bold colours like blues, long before Christmas and Ganges early in the morning. too, is often khichdi, although mixture, undhiyu is prepared ents Qadri’s preoccupation broken bread together. So, I mauves and reds lend a med- New Year. The ritual is followed by not the strong black lentil in a gorgeous mix of local with tantric art and states of know him as a puritan-In- itative energy to the Pongal, Bihu, Lohri, donating generous portions version of the North, but a spices and sesame oil, and deep meditation. Highlight- dian who came across as a artworks. Khichdi, Makar Sankranti, of black lentils and rice, along softer, smoother mix of ve- cooked in a clay oven or an ing the artist’s deeper en- typical Punjabi boy. He also Sunit knew the artist for the names are many but the with sesame and jaggery, to getables, lentils and rice earthen pot. The cooking gagement with spirituality is used to meditate and run a close to 40 years and taking a significance is one — to thank the poor and needy. If you served with various kinds of process is a treat to watch, the ongoing exhibition, “Cel- centre for yoga…and all this leaf out of their personal mo- the universe for a bountiful happen to be in the heart of pan-fried vegetables like aloo and eating it is a celebration ebration: Paintings by Sohan reflected through his works. ments, the gallerist fondly harvest. Like all harvest fest- U.P., you cannot escape the bhaja, begun bhaja, and ucche in itself. Qadri from 1970-2010” in If one looks closely, there is a recollects how in 2002 in ivals around the world, this strong scent of black lentil bhaja. (potato, brinjal and We can, perhaps, hold the Capital. tremendous amount of Indi- New York, Qadri himself one is centred around food khichdi wafting through the bitter gourd fries). The crisp- undhiyu responsible for the “This is the first time after anness in his art, and most of chose a particular moment too. If you were busy indul- lanes and bylanes of its dusty ness of these bhajas comple- failure of all New Year resol- his death in 2011 that a large his works are about nothing- to explain the thought be- ging in varieties of pongal and towns. Such is the import- ments the softness of the utions of dieting. If undhiyu body of works, covering ness or ‘shunya’.” hind his abstracts. payasam, it’s time to figure ance of the dish in this part, khichdi perfectly. rules the roost in Gujarat, nearly four decades of his Qadri was born as Sohan “We were in New York and out what the rest of the coun- that the festival is also called Much like Bengal, Assam puran poli is the flavour of practice are being shown in a Singh in Punjab, India in there was a power break- try’s been feasting on at the Khichdi among locals. also celebrates the festival the season in Maharashtra. solo show,” says Sunit. Talk- 1932, and was initiated at the down. Everything had come same time. Revelry for rice in the with rice. A typical Bihu eve Made with wheat flour, len- Dragon On Our ing about the exhibits, he age of 14 in yoga, tantra, to a standstill. People were Snacks and sweets up East is celebrated around a big tils, jaggery and cardamom, adds, “The major important dance and music by Guru on streets and it was being North Poush Parbon happens to bonfire called meji, with the puran poli is Maharashtra’s Doorstep works include oil impastos Bhikham Giri of Phagwara. touted as the doomsday. We In Punjab, the festival is be one of the most celebrated whole community munching version of the pitha. Eaten on canvas from 1970s and These spiritual beginnings had to reach 73rd street and it celebrated on the eve of days in Bengal. It is that time on various kinds of rice frit- with a generous dose of ghee, Far from being the strong 80s to his later works of the left such a lasting impression was already dark, so we had Makar Sankranti as Lohri. of the year when the whole ters, also called pitha — til this delicate amalgamation of Asian power of its 90s and the new millennium on his mind that he never to find our way through the Friends and families gather family gathers around the pitha, narikel pitha, ghila textures and flavours is sup- perception, India could find that was done using ink dyes painted anything else, but darkness. This was the time together, light bonfires and pitha — made with sesame, posed to nurture both body itself extremely vulnerable and incision on paper.” when millions of people celebrate with music and coconut, jaggery, and rice and mind. And then there is to the hostility of its Interestingly, the exhibi- were walking in the darkness dance while snacking on gaj- flour. This is followed by a tilgul, another version of ga- powerful neighbours. In this tion also coincides with the and he just said ‘this mo- jak, chikki, peanuts, and pop- lavish feast of lentils, fish, jak or rewari. Made with ses- book, Pravin Sawhney and 85th birth anniversary of the ment just describes my art of corn — all local seasonal duck, various other varieties ame seeds and jaggery, the Ghazala Wahab analyse the artist who spent the major nothingness, of shunya. harvests. The meals, which of meat like pork, chicken tiny yet fortifying laddoos geopolitics of the region part of his life abroad, mainly Right now, the meaning of are laboriously cooked and mutton, along with labra, prepare you for the season and the military strategies in Copenhagen for almost 30 life is just limited to shunya’. through the day by the older a mishmash of mixed veget- and provide your body with of India, Pakistan and China years. His trips to India were This is what I have been women of the house, typically ables in local spices, a mash strength and vitality. to tell why India is in this occasional, and he was never representing through my consist of sarson ka saag and made of roasted sweet Wherever your compass precarious position and part of any coterie. In fact, art.” makki ki roti, accompanied potato, and rice. The meal is may face, the season of har- how it can transform itself. Sunit points out, that unlike (On till February 5 at by white butter and gur, or washed down with some vest festivals will have you Priced at Rs.799 it is many artists of that era he Kumar Gallery, Sunder jaggery, and are often fin- more pitha. The most inter- indulging in a unique local published by Aleph. was not “outgoing”, and this, Nagar, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.) ished with a generous helping esting part of the food, how- festivity every January.

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ANUJ KUMAR or entering a rock concert. is often confused with ideo- These images do come from logy and it leads to censorship alking to Jitish Kal- the absurdities of human fol- from powers that be. “Art lat is akin to analys- Decoding Kallat lies and yet when you scale functions within the tensions ing his works. Like them down you get a God’s of all of this. It could be in the Tunravelling an eye view of this constellation social fabric or your own onion, every layer holds a of human follies. In some body. You can’t compute it meaning that leads us to the Jitish Kallat reflects on the aesthetics and politics of his art ways looking at a cluster of until you allow your body to truth of the space that we in- human action from above experience some level of hun- habit. In Delhi for his solo ex- help you reflect on the ab- ger in yourself.” hibition “Here After Here”, surdity of the world through On visual arts spreading which is showcasing the cel- your experience.” wings, Kallat feels it can’t be ebrated artist’s vast oeuvre Kallat insists that his art seen on a mass scale except spanning 25 years in diverse works assume different Kochi where half a million mediums at the National Gal- meanings with different con- people turn for the Biennale. lery of Modern Art, we invite stitutions of anger and viol- “NGMA also gets lots of audi- Kallat to the India Habitat ence in the viewer. Once ence. But these are some Centre where his first solo ex- artist Jogen Chawdhury re- pockets. Going to art gallery hibition was held in the city in minded him of a Bengali and museum should become 1997. Seated on a red sofa in poem which says in absolute part of school curriculum, The All American Diner, the hunger moon does look like central to education. We have Mumbai-based artist is well roti. “It is fundamental not been taught to think of placed to make sense of the autonomy of art work that al- the world through art. We art world. “I think the role of lows it to change its meaning think of the world through an artist is just to make art. to shift shape in different en- language which is user Trying to find images that vironment.” Autosaurus, a friendly. You have a potential have meaning. Firstly for skeletal structure that re- way of looking at world himself and then something sembles the carcass of a water through image which you that travels beyond him. Of- tanker, is made up of what can’t articulate but it is an ten my art works are like self seems like the bones of a pre- articulate form unto itself. addressed envelops. At the historic animal. It seems like Whether a kid goes on to end of the day, one is address- the remains of a vehicle after make art or not, the honing of ing one self but one still goes a riot but Kallat says, “In that faculty is very import- out and puts it in a mailbox. It Sydney, it was seen from the ant.” goes and circles the world be- prism of water crises.” Kallat loves to play with fore it reaches home.” Be it To Kallat, the question of nature and scale. It reflects on seeing moon as a piece of roti many of these works is not his studies of wind and more or making artworks out of the about social commentary. “At recently rain where he be- speeches of Mahatma Gandhi the fundamental level, it is comes an “interloper” in the and Swami Vivekananda, the about self reflection. And, of conversation between differ- social consciousness in Kal- course, self reflection is a ent elements of nature com- lat’s work is esoteric and ac- political act. You could see it pletely subduing the artistic cessible at the same time. in the ‘Covering Letter’. It is process. He is valuing an im- It is not a conscious thing, currently been shown at the pulse over an idea. “An idea is avers Kallat. “You look at Museum of Philadelphia. The when you know while im- something for a little longer descending mist has ascend- pulse is when you intuit and it begins to change mean- ing words in it. As the letters something.” ing. So for me, if I look at a leave, you realise the author As a kid, Kallat recalls, roti, it could be a gateway to of these words is Gandhi and drawing was one obsessive think about where does this MAKING SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE Jitish Kallat at India Habitat Centre’s The All American Diner PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA the intended recipient was activity he indulged in. “I roti come from. In a work Hitler. The letter was written didn’t know where it was go- called Sightings, a collection watching universe and seeing done in a doctor’s radiology consciousness of a viewer doors open so that the smell tice” to the relatively lesser five weeks before the Second ing until I went to the Sir JJ of seven photos, each one a roti becomes moon,” re- lab.” Again, the point, Kallat goes through a subtle change. would leave.” It must be hard discussed “Anger at the Speed World War. As you walk School of Arts,” before di- looks like a distant galaxy. It flects Kallat even as he orders says, is the food becomes The first thing one has to con- to resist the temptation? of Fright”, Kallat works have through the letter, you are oc- gressing to Souza’s dramatic is only when you move that chicken Caesar salad and wa- body just like how insides of cede is that one also lives an “They were to be thrown. The political undertones as well. cupying a corridor of human quote: “I have been an artist what looks like distant galax- termelon juice keeping in food become an image to con- ordinary life. It is from the smell felt very inviting but the In the latter, you see a young possibility, a correspondence before I was born. I was born ies begins to flip in colour and mind the colour coordina- stitute an art work and col- absolute ordinariness that good thing was everyone in boy throwing stones. “These where the greatest proponent making murals on my moth- what looks like star field be- tion. lectively the art work points extraordinary takes shape. the staff had lunch and I also Lilliputian figures are caught of peace is reaching out to the er’s womb.” gins to appear like the skin of Food features in many of to a distant galaxy which is Wisdom lies in the most basic had lunch so there was not in an act of assault. So there is most brutal perpetrator of vi- However, Kallat has always a fruit. When a banana peal his works and assumes where the food actually and banal. Sitting at a doctor’s necessarily a desire to con- physical contact but every olence, cohabiting the planet been too grounded to indulge ages, it begins to develop galactic significance. Like in comes from. Suddenly, you radiology lab might spur the sume them. And since it had contact is an act of pain inflic- at the same moment of time. in melodrama. Throughout black blemishes but when it the Forensic Trail of the realise that the watermelon thought that my morning gone through a certain radio- ted on another body. That For a moment, your body is in the interview, he keeps es- flips the yellow of banana Grand Banquet, we see a large juice is red because it absorbs dosa is me now. What would if active process, it was also not happens in one wing of corridor of extreme human chewing opportunities to ex- looks like dark blue and the video projection which seems all other colours of the spec- it had been on the bed of that advisable to consume them,” NGMA. In another wing, possibility. That is the place aggerate. He arrived early and black dots look white and like a journey through a large trum. Kallat’s works make doctor’s laboratory. What Kallat jokes with a straight there is Circadian Rhythm. It to ask yourself exactly what even when he had an eu- eventually the passage of cosmic field. It is only when you get rid of the hallucina- would it look like.” It took face. “Wish I could make all also has Lilliputian figures. Gandhi is asking: ‘what you phoric acceptance of his work time on the skin of a fruit be- you look a little longer you tions of every day life even as him to a new medium where those vadas that appear in my Here every touch has the can do to save the world from in the Capital, Kallat com- comes a journey through realise that every element in they cast a spell of their own. the doctor allowed Kallat to works. I am a bad cook,” he touch of probe. Every time going to a savage state.’” ments on the media’s sense of space and the fruit almost be- that cosmos is an X-ray of But one still wants to know come for a whole week confesses. you touch another body you For Kallat art and activism balance as he still remembers comes a photograph of where food. “So what is coming at the process which Kallat says between 2 and 4 p.m during create a border with that act are two different things. “An a newspaper blurb which de- it comes from which we all you is actually an X -ray of a is “seamless and ceaseless”. lunch hours, “I would arrive Political canvas of probe. It is about the frisk- activist makes a placard with clared: “In 35 years, Delhi has know is nothing but photo- vada. And what comes “The idea is not to deliver one there with my samosa and va- ing that actually happens an intent. I discover the idea not seen such art. I was 23 synthesised star light. So through like nebulae are ac- message but to have material das for x-raying and then for From the well-docu- when somebody is crossing a of the art I am making while I and the writer was about 30 watching a fruit becomes tually exposures of sprouts situations within which the one one hour they kept the mented trilogy of “Public No- border, be it a national border am making it.” These days art years old....”

Meals that heal Green tea: one and a half Heat olive oil in a pan and cook the cups onion till soft and translucent. Add Pumpkin purée: 1 garlic, cumin, nutmeg, cinnamon and Fusion is the way forward GREEN cup coriander and mix for a minute. Add Ripe avocado, vegetable broth, green tea, pumpkin TEA PUMPKIN mashed: 1 and avocado and cook for 20 minutes. SOUP Balsamic vinegar: Transfer mixture to a blender and Indian Accent 1 tsp make a purée. And, cook for another 15 serves traditional Ingredients Sea salt and freshly minutes, add balsamic vinegar, sea salt Olive oil: 2 tbsp Nutmeg powder: half tsp ground pepper: to taste and pepper. food with a Onion, chopped: 1 large Cinnamon powder: Half Plain yoghurt: three- Remove from heat, serve warm with Garlic cloves, chopped: tsp fourth cup a dollop of Greek yoghurt and a modern twist three Coriander powder: Fresh rosemary, finely sprinkle of fresh rosemary. that is healthy, Cumin powder: quarter quarter tsp chopped: 2 tbsp Recipe, courtesy: Chef Dominic wholesome and tsp Vegetable broth: 2 cups Method Sequeira, The United Sports Bar & Grill flavourful

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On wintry January days, Three cheers for the Forces where nights are exception- ally cold with chilly winds blowing, there is nothing bet- ter than digging into sarson ka saag, khichri and vada, al- Hotels and restaurants have made elaborate arrangements to make the beit with a modern twist. I Republic Day special discovered this the other day when I was invited for a food Joining the people in salut- able for guests till January review at Hotel Indian Ac- BLENDING EAST WITH THE WEST Sarson ka saag with Italian cheese; (below) lamb shank cent. ing the brave soldiers of the 30. Rather than place all give unusual aroma to com- ravelled by Chef Mehrotra in was not too spicy for the nation, eateries in and Aanch will go desi to make dishes on one’s plate making mon and light Indian dishes. an eatery in San Francisco palette, spices were blended around Delhi too have made RD a special day. It is offering it look clumsy, I was served And saw that dishes were and it endeared him no end. for two consecutive days. It special arrangements to cel- some lip smacking delicacies in Western style of plated done in a way that they blen- Caramelised onion with jag- was paired with bajre ki ki- ebrate 68th historic day with newly launched Tricol- food, which is increasingly ded seamlessly with Glenfid- gery was served with the chri which is healthy and when India became a repub- our lunch buffet, the “Patri- becoming a popular feature dich. The single malt scotch dish. It was okay but was not comfort food. lic. Besides curating special otic Feast” for just Rs. 499. in high end eateries in Indian –which is matured for years the right choice for gur. On how spices play a role dishes many are offering spe- You can enjoy your meal in a cities. Each dish covered with at the distillery – was the Modern take in his scheme of things, cial discounts for the armed complete Tricolour decor- flat bottomed plate was accompaniment. Winter peas vada, puffed Mehrotra said: “India is a forces and their family as a ated ambience along with placed on the table. Glenfid- “Normally, it is easier to rice and bacon bhel was the land of spices; it has no pre- gesture of gratitude to the many delicacies like trio dich’s array of whiskies – pair food with wine. Pairing next. I am not a big fan of dominant spice here. We use armed forces who have al- mania mocktail, tirang-e- some 12, 18 and 21 years old dishes with whisky is difficult vada but enjoyed its crispi- spice blend which gives per- ways placed country above paneer/tirange murgh tikka, which would have done any but not impossible. My kind ness and hot peas stuffed in- fect combination to our everything else. trilicious pasta (veg and non- connoisseur proud – came of food revolves around the side it were indeed comfort dishes. Every community has Taj Palace invites to savour veg) and flagship muse in alongside. Only after an in- season. To complement food given the biting cold its spices like chat masala, the best of Tricolour delic- dessert among others. terregnum of 10-15 minutes whisky, I chose winter food weather outside. Minuscule garam masala or Kashmiri acies at their Capital Kitchen At Mahipalpur Radisson was the next dish served so of North India. I gave mod- pieces of bacon, with its ware masala. So I judiciously where the buffet represent Blu Plaza as a tribute to that one could savour the fla- ern twist by replacing tradi- smokiness, gave flavour to use them.” fare from North, East, West Armed forces, the eatery will vour, texture of the dish and tional ingredients with the bhel. The meat had come The event unambiguously and South of India, making it SALUTE TO BRAVERY Fare offered on the occasion of present a treat of succulent enjoy the fruitiness of the imported variety of food to all the way from Chile and all emphasised that our good old a complete culinary tour. En- Republic Day kababs. scotch. give the dishes an interna- cuts had flown in straight khichri, which we have all joy the live counters with At Vivanta by Taj - Gur- The highlight of the menu tional flavour,” says Mehro- from European and South eaten ad nauseum at home, street food from every part of all veterans, active duty mil- Imly meanwhile will celeb- gaon, delight your tastebuds that was meticulously cre- tra. American nations. has the capacity to stand the country, be it appam, itary personnel, and their im- rate with flag hoisting fol- with varied Indian flavours at ated by chef Manish Mehro- Excellent replacement Spicy tricks against the taste of scotch on dosa, chaat, kababs or live mediate family members. lowed by a felicitation Latitude. Immerse in the tra was that he gave the right The first dish was burrata, The much fancied lamb the rocks. So it was not extra breads. The whole ambience The offer can be availed pan ceremony over an exciting culinary diversity of regional balance to presentation as sarson ka saag, sweet corn shank was succulent and was spicy and the meat compli- would be a tribute to the India till January 27 on culinary feast with the Indian flavours as they unfurl well as preparation. He intro- papdi, which was a unique done with great care. It re- mented khichdi, which had Republic Day as the staff showing valid ID proof. Armed forces families. themselves through the India duced imported edibles to combination. Earthiness of quired two days of patience millets and was again a good would be dressed in attires Keeping in tune with the Moreover, Tricolour themed inspired buffet curated by sarson ka saag accompanied and perseverance to prepare replacement for biryani. representing various regions occasion Chatter House has dishes like paneer tikka, idli Executive Chef Subrata Deb- with Italian cheese gave this this dish, which had all the Blending of the East and of India. The thematic bar curated a few Republic Day and momos all republic way nath specially for the occa- one a distinct taste. However, spices. Chef Mehrotra and the West was apparent in the would serve regional bever- themed dishes and drinks at to name a few has been spe- sion. There will be kesari the ubiquitous white butter – his team saw to it that they selection of the sweet dishes. ages like kahwa, south Indian their outlets in Nehru Place cially curated by Chef Aman shahi murgh, raan-e-josh, za- a must topping on sarson ka did not go over the top. So Daulat ki chaat with baked filter coffee, lassi, aam panna, and Khan Market. Indulge Puri. frani subz pulao and more. saag – was missing. Burrata, large chunks of meat were figs had familiar as well as Jal jeera, Darjeeling tea and yourself in the feeling of pat- The Barbeque Nation out- Sinful traditional desserts which was slightly heavy prepared in a slow fire to unfamiliar flavours. And how many more. riotism while munching onto lets will make the day special like the Tricoloured barfi and even though the creaminess make it tender and retain all could one resist cheeni ki roti Keventers one of Delhi’s specially crafted Republic by serving different veget- chhena asarfiya end the meal of the buttery cheese was ex- the taste. The dish was made with toasted marshmallows. known brands in recognition Day cheesecake, Indian arian and non-vegetarian on the perfect note. Defence cellent, more than made up in Rajasthani style and natur- Both sweet dishes were per- of service and sacrifices of Lover mock-tail, Republic main courses from across the personnel (those in service for the dairy product. ally spices were there. To fectly made to end the din- the nation’s military will be a special biryani. nation in order to emphasis and retired) can avail a 50% This cheese was first un- make sure that lamb shank ner. complimentary milkshake to The chatpata stopover the unity. This will be avail- discount. On till January 28

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