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C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K DIALogueg C M C M Y K Y K SAIF REBORN DIWALI DAZZLERS MARRAKECH MAGIC AUTUMN SONATA Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 1 WxT chaapa Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 1 WxT chaapa 11/02/2018 10:38:19 Process CyanMagentaYellowBlack C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K C M C M Y K Y K Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 2 WxT chaapa Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 2 WxT chaapa 11/02/2018 10:38:19 Process CyanMagentaYellowBlack C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K C M C M Y K Y K Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 3 WxT chaapa Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 3 WxT chaapa 11/02/2018 10:38:19 Process CyanMagentaYellowBlack 04_CM_MESSAGE(1).qxd 2/13/1950 7:25 PM Page 4 C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K EDITOR’S LETTER POLLUTER POLLUTES, WE PAY! ust as temperatures start falling and the muggy summer heat abates, another weather-related adversity engulfs large parts of North India, especially the National Capital Region of Delhi. Pollution spikes to incredible heights making living conditions, including the air we breathe, seriously contaminated. Delhi residents are advised not to go out for morning walks or undertake exercises during the day as the Air Quality Index routinely hovers between Very Poor and Severe. Usually, matters improve after Diwali if it rains on occasion but there is no guarantee of that. In other words, the early winters in North India bring untold atmospheric misery. That is a pity for the winter months are traditionally regarded as the most pleasant and enjoyable period of the year. Clear blue skies, the sun’s lukewarm rays, late mornings perfect for long walks or outdoor exercises, evenings just right to enjoy some beverages on the lawns and a delicious crop of new vegetables provide a zest to nutritious cuisine too. But if the air is polluted, mornings are slate-grey and evenings abuzz with mosquitoes, much of the fun goes out of winter time. Delhi has been battling haze and smog for a long while now. But C M with every passing year, the inhospitable conditions seem to set in earlier and earlier. C M Y K Once upon a time we were dependent on plentiful monsoon rains for a bountiful harvest. Nowadays, Y K we are also dependent on autumn and winter rains to drive away the dust and pollution, largely caused by the burning of stubble in the fields after the post-monsoon harvest. Although this has been a traditional farm practice, the cumulative impact of stubble burning and staggeringly high vehicular pollution makes much of North India’s plains a veritable gas chamber. Successive Governments have tried to dissuade farmers from burning rice stubble, but they say that the left-over ash contains useful chemicals that helps prepare the ground better. Also the alternatives are neither easy nor cost-effective. It costs roughly `7,000 per acre for renting a machine that uproots the stubborn stubble from its roots. With agriculture becoming steadily less lucrative, farmers are loathe to incur this expense for the social good and want the Government to subsidise it. While the authorities do have a subsidy scheme, apparently the dole is not enough to stop stubble burning altogether. So we are back to the mercies of nature to rid ourselves of this man-made pollution spike every winter. A sustained campaign to educate farmers, along with significant measures to cut vehicular pollution, are probably the only way to cap the frightening effects of air pollution. In the short run, there seems no escape from breathing problems, especially for children and the aged, with particularly harmful effects on those suffering from asthma. One can only hope that post-Diwali, the air clears and we get to enjoy the glory days of winter at least during the New Year. Have an enjoyable Diwali folks. CHANDAN MITRA, Editor-in-Chief [The DIALogue and The Pioneer Group] The DIALogue | SEPTEMBER 2018 Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 4 WxT chaapa Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 4 WxT chaapa 11/02/2018 10:38:19 Process CyanMagentaYellowBlack DMIC ADS.qxd 3/20/2018 5:23 PM Page 2 C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K C M C M Y K Y K Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 5 WxT chaapa Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 5 WxT chaapa 11/02/2018 10:38:19 Process CyanMagentaYellowBlack 06_CONTENTS(1).qxd 2/13/1950 7:25 PM Page 6 C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K 6 contents [email protected] / issue 13 / november 2018 MARATHON 18 Two wheels that move the soul 40 FESTIVAL Beyond tradition 42 Lights to guide you home 44 Circle of life 48 The light route TRAVEL 54 A hotpot called Marrakech C M C M Y K Y K CELEBRITY 70 RETREAT The experimentalist: Back to basics 26 Saif Ali Khan 78 FASHION THIS ISSUE Bringing worlds together EDITORIAL SALES & MARKETING Editor-in-Charge Rinku Ghosh Vice President MUMBAI OFFICE Jetender Rawat 9810404096 General Manager Assistant Editor Saimi Sattar Editor-in-Chief Devendra Adhikari CHANDAN MITRA Senior Feature Writer General Managers KOLKATA OFFICE Kumar Gurudutta Jha, EDITORIAL BOARD Asmita Sarkar Vice President Suzanna Roy Tapan Ghosh & Sweety Verma Vice-Chairman & Feature Writer Ankita Saxena CHENNAI OFFICE Joint Managing Director Assistant General Manager Chief Designers Senior Managers Amit Goel Kripa Arvind Anand Singh Rawat Sofiqul Islam, Madhukar Saxena Chief Executive Officer & Satish Jakhmola & Divyesh Kothari HYDERABAD OFFICE Abhishek Saxena V Sunil Kumar Production Manager 09818600128 Media Coordinator Syed Nawab Raza Managers Bharat Singh Sajwan, Neelu Sharma Staff Photographer Prabhakar Pathak & General Manager (Circulation) Pankaj Kumar Barun Choudhary Rajeev Gautam Printed and published by Chandan Mitra for and on behalf of CMYK Printech Ltd, printed at JK Offset Graphics (P) Ltd, B-278, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-1, New Delhi-110020 and published at No. 6, Behind Gulab Bhawan, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. 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But the reason the Douglas MORPHED INTO THE C-47 SKYTRAIN, aircraft became popular and not the Boeing is because NOT ONLY BECAME A WAR HERO BUT Boeing was a part-owner of United Airlines and refused ALSO USHERED IN COMMERCIAL AIR to sell any Boeing 247s to rival airlines in the short-term, TRAVEL AS WE KNOW IT TODAY so Trans World Airlines approached aircraft designer Donald Douglas to create a plane for him. This led to the DC-1 and that was followed up by the DC-2, but the aim n a largely metric world, it is puzzling that other than of one airline in particular was to lead to the huge in China and the erstwhile Soviet Union, aviation success that followed. uses nautical miles to denote speed and feet to There was a problem with the DC-2, that is the plane denote height to this day. One major reason for that was quite narrow, being just 66 inches across at its is the dominance of the American aircraft industry, widest, less than the height of an average man. particularly in the aftermath of World War II. As the This did not suit American Airlines which waned its world gradually rebuilt itself from the ruins of war, transport to be wider, so as to be able to fit in sleeper one aircraft in particular fuelled the civil aviation bunks side-by-side. While Douglas himself was Iindustry. That aircraft was the Douglas DC-3 and its unconvinced of a market, when the airline promised to military twin, the C-47 Skytrain. buy 20 of the proposed ‘Douglas Sleeper Transport’ The Douglas DC-3 was born when one of today’s (DST) aircraft, development began on a wider cabin. The giants made a huge misstep. In the early 1930s, Boeing resultant cabin was 92-inches wide or 7½ feet wide had created the first modern airliner as we know it, an easily allowing for 14-16 side-by-side sleeper bunks or all-metal, low-wing cantilever aircraft that would form the 21 seats in a three abreast configuration. Just for basis for a majority of commercial aircraft going forward. comparison, the width of a modern Boeing 777 cabin is The DIALogue | NOVEMBER 2018 Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 8 WxT chaapa Pioneer_Dialogue_Inner_945 Single page.job 8 WxT chaapa 11/02/2018 10:38:19 Process CyanMagentaYellowBlack 09_AD_HEALTH[ENGLISH].qxd 2/13/1950 7:25 PM Page 9 C M C M PREPS PREPS Y K Y K SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA ANUPRIYA PATEL ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY Hon’ble Union Minister Minister of State for Health Minister of State for Health Health and Family Welfare and Family Welfare and Family Welfare National Health Portal Gateway to Authentic Health Information www.nhp.gov.in VACCINES PROVIDED DRA UNDER IN DH UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION N A PROGRAMME O N C M I u BCG C M Y K U Y K S u OPV S S u HEPATITIS B VACCINE I H u PENTAVALENT VACCINE u ROTAVIRUS VACCINE M u PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE (PCV) u IPV u MEASLES/ MEASLES-RUBELLA (MR) VACCINE u JE VACCINE u DPT BOOSTER u TT GET DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT VACCINES AVAILABLE IN UNIVERSAL IMMUNISATION PROGRAMME (UIP) u Mobile application NHP Indradhanush Immunisation Give your child a disease free future # FullyimmuniseEveryChild NHP Toll Free No.