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SITE: Since it was built by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service in 1998, 90,000 emergency responders have come to Disaster City to climb over mangled steel and through derailed chemical trains.

COVER On the edge STORY Disaster City in the US sees storm warnings every day. P4-5

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People should be judged on ability, NBA player to coach basketball not how they look: Lizzo. enthusiasts in Qatar for 3 days. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.16am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.49am Zuhr (noon) 11.39am Asr (afternoon) 3.03pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.30pm Isha (night) 8pm

Hanna’s Homecoming men into the marsh, where they died. Since no-one wants USEFUL NUMBERS DIRECTION: Esther Bialas to befriend the daughter of a witch, Hanna is glad when she CAST: Valerie Stoll, Milena Tscharntke, Godehard Giese meets the city girl Eva. She seems to have found a friend but SYNOPSIS: After three years at boarding school, Hanna something isn’t right. Strange accidents occur and there is no returns to her childhood village during the holidays. The explanation. villagers believe her mother was a witch, who lured three THEATRE: Royal Plaza

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Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 Toy Story 4 reunion as Woody’s slight detour leads him to his long-lost DIRECTION: Josh Cooley friend Bo Peep. As Woody and Bo discuss the old days, they CAST: Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hanks soon start to realise that they’re worlds apart when it comes to SYNOPSIS: Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the what they want from life as a toy. gang embark on a road trip with Bonnie and a new toy named Forky. The adventurous journey turns into an unexpected THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “It is one The Mall Cinema (1): Thamasha (1): Toy Story 4 (2D) 2:30pm; Toy of the blessings of old (Malayalam) 2pm; Baaji (Urdu) Story 4 (2D) 4:15pm; Article 15 4:30pm; Anna (2D) 7pm; Article (Hindi) 6pm; Kabir Singh (Hindi) friends that you can aff ord to 15 (Hindi) 9pm; Thottappan 8:30pm; Annabelle Comes Home be stupid with them.” (Malayalam) 11:30pm. (2D) 4:45pm; Aladdin (2D) 7pm; (2D) 11:30pm. The Mall Cinema (2): Unda (Malayalam) 9:15pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — Ralph Waldo Emerson Sindhubaadh (Tamil) 2:30pm; Sindhubaadh (Tamil) 11:30pm. (2): Sindhubaadh (Tamil) Aladdin (2D) 5pm; Annabelle Landmark Cinema (2): Toy 3pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) 5:30pm; Comes Home (2D) 7:15pm; Story 4 (2D) 3pm; Toy Story Annabelle Comes Home Annabelle Comes Home (2D) 4 (2D) 5pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) (2D) 7:30pm; Men In Black 9:30pm; Sindhubaadh (Tamil) 6:45pm; Kabir Singh (Hindi) International (2D) 9:30pm; 11:30pm. 8:30pm; Article 15 (Hindi) Article 15 (Hindi) 11:30pm. The Mall Cinema (3): Toy Story 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace 4 (2D) 2:30pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) Landmark Cinema (3): Kabir (3): Thamasha (Malayalam) Community Editor 4:30pm; Yesterday (2D) 6:30pm; Singh (Hindi) 2pm; Men In Black 2:15pm; Kabir Singh (Hindi) Kamran Rehmat Kabir Singh (Hindi) 8:30pm; International (2D) 5pm; Men In 4:30pm; Men In Black e-mail: [email protected] Annabelle Comes Home (2D) Black International (2D) 7pm; International (2D) 7:30pm; Telephone: 44466405 11:30pm. Article 15 (Hindi) 9pm; Annabelle Hanna’s Homecoming (2D) Landmark Cinema (1): Unda Comes Home (2D) 11:30pm. 9:30pm; Unda (Malayalam) Fax: 44350474 (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Aladdin Royal Plaza Cinema Palace 11:15pm. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY

Ballet Lessons After School Activities WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm Music and arts activities for students For more info e-mail at registration@ taking place after they fi nish their day in atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours.

Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a holistic performing arts institution and a one stop solution for adults as well as children looking to explore their talents in various art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and craft, karate, yoga, percussion (Chenda, Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, harmonium, public speaking. Additional services include dance education, choreograph music videos and dance cover albums, choreograph dance musical projects, corporate workshops and events, choreograph events for schools, colleges, alumni meets and corporate and choreography events. For details, call 33897609.

EVENTS TIME: 9am – 7pm The exhibition presents Husain’s pluralist Film Club approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of WHERE: Qatar National Library being, articulated through the myths, symbols Summer Camp for Special Needs WHEN: July 4 and narratives of the world’s religions and WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special TIME: 5:30pm onwards philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun Needs Ever wondered how movies look from bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a WHEN: Ongoing till August 1 the other side of the camera? Join our Film personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm Club and learn how to watch fi lms with a During this time, all therapists and fi lmmaker’s perspective. Summer Entertainment City teachers will be working together, running WHERE: DECC individual, peer and group sessions within WHEN: Ongoing till July 13 classes. The children will continue learning TIME: 1pm – 11pm age-appropriate concepts, work on social The biggest indoor VR and Gaming skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, zone,over 50+ new activities and 45 food music, and fun activities such as water play. options along with 114 retail shops, for the whole family under one roof. Entry fee QR15 Career Guidance per head. WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Arabic Calligraphy Workshop Sadd WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday India to Qatar – Symbiosis of WHEN: Sunday – Thursday TIME: 6pm Cultures TIME: 6pm – 8pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. WHERE: FBQ Museum Career guidance for course, country, Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 college and entrance for students of Grade handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Under the context of cultural exchange, IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Arts Atelier. FBQ Museum brings together the treasures administered for stream preference, career The lessons will take place every Saturday, of the museum owned collection in test, branch preference, personality, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For Learn how to make frames order to promote mutual understanding, multiple intelligence and learning styles more information, contact registration@ WHERE: Qatar National Library recognition and appreciation between and productivity. For more information, atelierqatar.com WHEN: Tomorrow Qatar and India. Composed of five main 55448835. TIME: 4:30pm onwards topics, including community, trade, arts, Get creative and design your own frame food and incense, the exhibition takes Artistic Gymnastic Classes for your special photograph or artwork. This one on a journey to explore the rich and WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb workshop is for girls only. diverse Indian cultures, the long historic WHEN: Ongoing links between Qatar and India, and cultural TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm similarities between Qatar and India. The olympic sport using horizontal bar, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the children from age 4 till 16.

Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Learn the movements of dance styles in MF Husain: The Horses Of The Sun Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Exhibition instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern for adults as well kids and move in the world Art of music. For details, contact 66523871/ WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 31326749.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Breathless in Disaster City More than a thousand tornadoes have roared across the Midwest, South and Southwest in a year that also has seen costly hailstorms, extreme winds and catastrophic flooding, writes David Montgomery

DISASTER: A concrete beam sits atop a school bus in Disaster City, College Station, Texas. The more than 1,200 tornadoes recorded as of June 23 aren’t the most ever (there were 1,817 in 2004), but this year’s total has easily surpassed the average range of 979 for a season.

winds and catastrophic fl ooding. t’s a scene of utter devastation. “Folks just didn’t catch a breather,” said Smashed automobiles, derailed Bill Bunting, chief of forecast operations train cars and piles of rubble are at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric scattered across an apocalyptic Administration’s Storm Prediction Center landscape. Hard-hatted responders in Norman, Okla. The more than 1,200 Icling to nylon ropes alongside a gutted high- tornadoes recorded as of June 23 aren’t the rise. In the distance, an industrial fi re sends most ever (there were 1,817 in 2004), but fl ames and smoke into an otherwise bright this year’s total has easily surpassed the Folks just blue sky. average range of 979 for a season. Stretching across 52 acres just west of the didn’t catch Texas A&M University campus, Disaster As forecasters eye the skies with the a breather City clearly deserves its name. onset of hurricane season, the Texas facility The mock municipality began taking is a place “where you can exchange best shape in the aftermath of the Oklahoma practices and lessons learned so the next City bombing in 1995. Now, it is part of generation of fi rst responders … can benefi t — Bill Bunting, Texas A&M’s nearly 300-acre Emergency from the knowledge that has been captured Services Training Institute, which attracts by (those) who learned the lessons the hard chief of fi refi ghters and other fi rst responders from way — from experience,” Bunting said. around the globe. W Craig Fugate, who headed FEMA forecast A brutal surge of violent weather during the Obama administration, said has swept much of America this year, “extreme events require a higher level and operations underscoring the importance of training more expert training” and that the surge centres such as this one. More than a in violent weather illustrates “the need to ‘ thousand tornadoes have roared across the train for these events and make sure the fi rst Midwest, South and Southwest in a year responders have the skills that are required.” ’ that also has seen costly hailstorms, extreme Last year, more than 116,000 responders Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY trained at the institute, coached by instructors who have confronted some of the nation’s most horrifi c moments, from the wake of 9/11 to Hurricanes Harvey and Katrina. The institute operates as part of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, also known as TEEX. TEEX is the national training contractor for FEMA’s 28 urban search and rescue teams. It is also home base for one of the FEMA teams — Texas A&M Task Force 1, which has already been deployed seven times this year. Texas A&M began building its reputation as a training ground for fi rst responders in 1929 — long before the term “fi rst responder” came into use — when the Texas legislature established a fi refi ghter training programme here in College Station. Under the extension service, the 297-acre training institute encompasses Disaster City, the Brayton Fire Training Field and the Emergency Operations Training Center, which has classrooms and a computer-assisted command post for directing disaster exercises. While Disaster City resembles a stricken community, Brayton Field presents an array of industrial- scale challenges for fi refi ghters, TRAINING: Instructor Richard Wier, left, advises New Jersey Transit Police Off icer Juan Guallpa as he works to secure a dangling 1,200-pound concrete slab in including an imperilled chemical Disaster City, a training site for first responders at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. complex, a ship deck and engine room, a mock airplane and a leaking chemical storage tank. an “adrenalin rush” and a “big email. “We knew we needed to be either train here in College Station backgrounds. The training institute employs confi dence booster.” prepared.” or use a curriculum that the Since its creation in 1997, the a workforce of more than 200 to Training can run anywhere from The training institute’s 2018 extension centre developed. task force has been deployed at construct the props at Brayton Field one day to 16 weeks. Students operating budget was $44 million, The centre is also part of least 180 times. Its missions have and Disaster City. typically stay in area hotels or mostly from training fees plus $2.3 the Department of Homeland included nine major hurricanes and Disaster City is set up like a motels since there is no on-site million from the state. Director Security’s National Domestic emotionally wrenching searches at typical mid-sized community housing. Robert Moore acknowledged Preparedness Consortium. ground zero after the 9/11 attacks. to give responders diverse G. Kemble Bennett, the extension that fi rst responder training is a The congressionally mandated The force’s leaders recently challenges. It includes a strip mall, service director during the 1990s, “competitive industry.” consortium, which includes six invited reporters into a cavernous a government building, an offi ce said he came up with the idea for “We try to get students from all other training centres, was formed warehouse that included stacks complex, a single-family residence Disaster City after the Oklahoma over the world to come here to our in 1998 to help communities and of swift-water rescue boats, and a theatre. City bombing spotlighted the need facility,” he said. “The more students regions prepare for catastrophes, command vehicles and a huge cache Volunteers or mannequins to give Texas an aggressive fi rst we bring in, the more revenue we including acts of terrorism. of equipment. are typically hidden within the responder training program and a can generate and the more props No-one understands the “You want to do the most good smashed autos, train cars and top-fl ight urban search and rescue we can build, the more buildings or importance of precision training for the most amount of people in buildings so fi rst responders, team. classrooms we can build.” more than members of the Texas the least amount of time,” said including dogs, can practice search “The OKC bombing got our All 5,800 members of FEMA’s A&M task force, composed of 80 its director, Jeff Saunders, “so and rescue operations. attention,” Bennett said in an 28 urban search and rescue teams volunteers from a diverse range of everything we do is geared toward One jarring scene features a that.” concrete beam sitting atop a bright Christy Bormann, the canine yellow school bus and a crushed training coordinator for extension SUV. The mangled high-rise is centre, is also a task force volunteer missing a wall and displays twisted who makes every deployment with steel rods protruding through Gunny, her gregarious 7-year-old broken concrete. A collapsed indoor German short-haired pointer. parking garage is full of crumpled In a practice drill, Gunny charges automobiles. toward a parked truck in response Suspended from a nylon rope, to Bormann’s search command, New Jersey Transit Police Offi cer barking enthusiastically after Juan Guallpa tries to secure a fi nding a “survivor” (a task force dangling 1,200-pound piece member) hiding underneath. of concrete — nicknamed “the Hearing the sound of that bark widow-maker” — as instructor when the search dog fi nds a real-life Robert Wier, a retired Fort Worth survivor is “an incredibly powerful fi refi ghter, stands nearby off ering moment,” Bormann said. instructions. Despite the obvious perils, those “This has always been what I who choose a career based on wanted to do,” Guallpa, 32, explains defying danger seem bonded by after descending from the rope both the excitement of the job and a exercise. passion for helping others. Many of the responders “It’s a camaraderie, a undergoing training at Disaster City brotherhood, a family, and you’re are seasoned veterans who display doing something that is great,” said athletic physiques and a dauntless Alex Mandy, a training manager outlook for the task at hand. at the Texas A&M site and former Standing 6 feet tall and weighing Harris County fi refi ghter. “Every 210 pounds, Lt Dennis Wells, person that you get to go help, it’s another trainee from the New the worst day of their lives. And you Jersey Transit Police, describes SEARCH: Canines and a search and rescue task force member at Disaster City in College Station train to save people can make it better.” the rope-hanging exercises as from rubble piles. — Stateline.org/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY

PAQ bids farewell to outgoing Pakistan Defence Attache

Pakistan Association – Qatar (PAQ) recently organised a farewell event for Commodore Irfan Taj, Business Forum and Pakistan Welfare Forum; and Tajammul Aftab Cheema, Chief Patron of PAQ, Defence Attaché at the Embassy of Pakistan, at Golden Tulip Hotel. The event was attended by spoke on the occasion. The speakers acknowledged the contributions of Commodore Irfan Taj for notable personalities of Pakistani community. Hafiz Junaid Sial, Community Welfare Attaché at the the Pakistani expatriate community living in Qatar. Commodore Irfan Taj was also felicitated on the Embassy of Pakistan, was a special guest on the occasion. occasion. The event was compered by Syed Faheem, Chairman of PAQ, and supported by Shahid Rafiq, Speaking on the occasion, Commodore Irfan Taj thanked the Pakistani community for organising Vice Chairman of PAQ. The event kicked off with the recitation of the Holy Qur’an by Usama the event. He acknowledged the eff orts of Pakistani expats living in Qatar and their contribution Muhammad, President of PAQ. for the betterment and progress of Pakistan. The foundation of Business Entrepreneur Pakistan Notable community leaders including Furqan Paracha from Mesaieed Community; Rana Anwar Ali and Qatar (BEPAQ) was also laid on the occasion. The forum will provide opportunities to small from Al Khor Community; Javed Iqbal from Pakistan Engineering Forum; Ch Ajmal, from Pakistan businesses to explore new business dimensions and ideas.

BPS organises an educational trip to NMOQ

Birla Public School (BPS) recently organised an educational trip for the students of Senior Section spaces that host educational and cultural activities such as workshops, competitions, and lessons to the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ). The students got an insight into the story of Qatar with on arts education, and other activities. The photographs, models, plans, texts, films, oral histories, a combination of architectural space, music, poetry, oral histories, evocative aromas, archaeological and archival materials to chart Doha’s transition from organic growth to more modern times were and heritage objects, commissioned artworks and monumentally-scaled art films. also observed during the trip. Along with an off icial guide, the students were accompanied by The students got to know about the wide range of activities that the museum off ers, including Rakesh Verma and Mohammed, faculty members at BPS.

ISC marks International Day of Yoga

Indian Sports Centre Yoga across the country. (ISC), an apex body of The event kicked off with the Embassy of India, in the preview of the video association with Indian message by Narendra Society of Dukhan, recently Modi, Prime Minister of marked 5th International India, highlighting the Day of Yoga at Dukhan importance of yoga, Recreation Club. Large which was followed by number of residents the demonstration of of Dukhan took part in artistic yoga by the female the event. Nilangshu instructors of Yoga In Dey, President of ISC, Doha. The practice session, welcomed the gathering. based on common yoga Mallikarjun, President of protocol, was conducted Indian Society of Dukhan, by Nisha Agrawal, Arti and applauded ISC for their Mamta Soni. Samir Moosa initiative in promoting compered the programme. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY

TNG hosts its first graduation ceremony

The Next Generation (TNG) School recently hosted Examinations. As part of her farewell speech, Fatima its first graduation ceremony to mark the success Rizwan, Head Girl for the academic year 2018-2019, and achievements of the graduating students of said, “From the first day, I had teachers who took Grades XI-XII – the class of 2019. a chance on me and encouraged me to explore Dr Hamda Hassan al-Sulaiti, Secretary General at my strengths. Our teachers didn’t only teach us to Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture score well in their subjects but score the highest in and Science, was the chief guest at the event. being a good human being.” Speaking on the occasion, Dr Hamda motivated Hassan Mehmood, Head Boy, added, “Today, we the students and appreciated the eff orts of TNG are all are wondering how our lives are going to as an educational institute. She shared Qatar’s turn out for us. It is okay to wonder but it is equally Vision of 2030 and emphasised on the importance important to take action because our future is not of education for personal development. She something that is going to happen on its own. We expressed that she wants to see these graduates as have to create it, it seems hard but I know and I a part of Qatar’s workforce, working to help Qatar believe that we are all going to make it because, we grow. are The Next Generation!” Speaking on the occasion, Ailia Rizvi, Principal of Hafiz Junaid Amir Sial, Community Welfare Attaché TNG, said, “Continue to read, study hard and may at the Embassy of Pakistan, and Nimrod Garry your education allow you to touch hearts and be D’silva, Accounts Relationship Manager at British the voice of those who are vulnerable, give you Council, were the guests of honour. the courage to question stale assumptions and Speaking on the occasion, Hafiz Junaid said, “You empower you to create a better world.” should be a compassionate person and you are To recognise the graduates’ accomplishments, assured successful winnings.” Nimrod Garry D’silva several awards were also announced on the remarked that these young students have the occasion. The Valedictorian Awards for Commerce potential to change the world as we know it; from and Science Stream was presented to Mariam Riyaz finding a cure to incurable diseases to solving Bakali and Minahil Maqsood, respectively. Mahnoor problems that are just now emerging. Imran bagged the Overall Top Achiever Award for Shagufta Bakali, CEO of TNG, advised the class of achieving the highest number of A*’s in IGCSEs. 2019 to remain modest, kind, and hardworking. She Academic Excellence Awards were also given further added, “You have so much to off er to the to students who scored A*’s in their IGSCE world. Go forth and take your place!” Shagufta Bakali, CEO of TNG, presenting a memento to Dr Hamda Hassan al-Sulaiti.

The Graduating Class of 2019.

Pakistani expatriate brings out a book on Qatar’s blockade in Urdu

An active and noted member of the taken by diff erent countries in Arab vibrant Pakistani expatriate community world, Africa, Asia and Europe. The has brought out a book on the mediation eff orts made by Kuwait are ongoing unjust blockade of Qatar. The also an integral part of the book. book titled Qatar Ki Nakabandi (The Siddique penned a book Together Siege of Qatar) is actually an Urdu for Excellence in 2009 that discusses translation of original book in Arabic contributions of successful Pakistani named Hassar Qatar. expatriates towards the progress of The book is originally published by Al Qatar. It entails history of 70 years of Jazeera Centre for Studies. The book is the role of his community in Qatar. translated by Nadeem Mahir, an Indian Speaking about the book, Siddiqui said, expatriate and Urdu poet. “This is the age of connectivity and The book discusses about the Gulf media. Qatar is home to thousands crisis that started on June 5, 2017 when of Urdu speaking people. They will four countries – Saudi Arabia, UAE, get a chance to learn about the Egypt and Bahrain – put the unjust unjust blockade by getting first-hand blockade of Qatar. It sheds light on knowledge. Further, it will be help for RUNNERS-UP: Athelya Rojlin Yohance Athelston Masil, a student of Grade-VI the eff ects of the blockade on Gulf the media persons and intellectuals at Shantiniketan Indian School, recently bagged first runners up position in Cooperation Council. both in Pakistan and India where Urdu speed hop race in ISC Skipping Rope Championship, organised by Indian The book further analyses the stances is a major language.” Culture Centre. 8 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY BOOK REVIEW A snapshot of LA’s streetwear culture This Is Not a T-Shirt by Bobby Hundreds serves as a shout-out to the myriad mentors who’ve contributed to the success of the Hundreds streetwear brand co-founded by Kim and Ben Shenassafar, writes Adam Tschorn

he title of Bobby cranking out tees for $5 a pop and Hundreds’ book This is fl ipping them for $35. On the spiritual Not a T-Shirt is straight- level, however, the T-shirt is eff ective up transparent: It’s not a because it’s about messaging. To this T-shirt. It’s less obvious day, that’s my primary rule when it atT the outset, but not for long, that comes to designing T-shirts: have it’s also not a traditional memoir, something to say.” The fi rst order brand history or “how-we-turned-a shipped to a bricks-and-mortar couple-hundred bucks-into-global- retailer, a dozen shirts to Fred Segal streetwear-label” success story Santa Monica in summer 2003, either, though those are all in the mix. had thehundreds.com web address Hundreds’ real name is Bobby printed on the clear vinyl bags Kim, and his fast-paced book is an holding each shirt. “I wanted the LA-centric roller-coaster ride; part customers to understand that they streetwear explainer, part window weren’t just buying a T-shirt,” he into growing up Asian American recounts. “The clothes unlocked a in 1980s Riverside, Calif. The book story. There was an entire universe also serves as a shout-out to the attached to each T-shirt that I was myriad mentors who’ve contributed blogging about on the site.” to the success of the Hundreds That, in essence, is the gist of the streetwear brand co-founded by book. For the Hundreds, the T-shirt Kim and Ben Shenassafar (aka Ben was never just a cotton garment with Hundreds) in 2003, and occasionally a good profi t margin. It was also a a score-settling stick poked at the billboard, a megaphone, a business haters they’ve met along the way. card, an art portfolio, a community- At turns poignant and laugh-out- builder, a rallying cry. It signifi ed a loud funny, it’s sprinkled liberally meaningful connection with like- with both business aphorisms and minded souls. observational humour. Imbuing a T-shirt with that kind Fans of the brand will no doubt of meaning, especially in an era when enjoy T-Shirt for its origin-story arc; anyone with two bars on a cellphone recounting details both big (how the can custom print a T-shirt with a founders met at Loyola Law School) few swipes, probably comes off as and small (how the bricks-and- quaint. But Kim weaves so much of mortar store off Fairfax Avenue was his personal history into the tendrils funded by a particularly popular of the story that when he gets around paisley hoodie). Kim also recalls to making the case, it makes sense. standing outside their trade-show It’s made all the more believable, of booths where journalists and buyers course, because the Hundreds is still would try to understand their brand. around and thriving today. They would ask, “Are you hip-hop Kim is open that the Hundreds or action sports?,’” Kim writes. success story has not been a straight “Translation: ‘Are you for black kids line. By including the low points or white kids?’ Ben and I would look (consuming a dusty can of Spam at each other. He, of Iranian descent. after two days of not eating) along Me, a Korean American kid who grew with the highs (buying a DeLorean) up thinking I was Latino. ‘Neither,’ and earnestly recounting some of the We’d respond.” harder decisions, like closing retail But Kim’s colourful turns of POTENTIAL: Given Kim’s skill as a storyteller it wouldn’t be surprising if the memoir eventually becomes a screenplay stores or having to decide whether phrase “I’m the most gregarious for a prospective film. or not to sell into mall stores (he cites misanthrope you’ll ever meet, like the fi ght he had with co-founder Larry David on Molly,” he writes at also a frozen-in-amber snapshot of compartmentalising young men’s fashion, sought a fl ag to brandish. Shenassafar over the latter as among one point; elsewhere in the book, brand-building, blogging and living fashion into skate and urban.“Skaters ‘Streetwear’ fi t just right.” the most bruising he can recall), he he describes the nascent brand as in the pre-social media era. became disenfranchised by organised For Kim, an aspiring artist rolling provides valuable business guidance “a ghetto-rigged, two-bit science “Defi ning streetwear is like fencing action sports and wanted something into Los Angeles in the social media beyond the quotable quotes. project, a friends wires short of a mirage,” Kim writes (in the chapter more grounded, rootsy and pre-history of 2001, just as the Like the humble graphic-print a potato battery” and the book’s appropriately titled Streetwear: fashionable to wear,” he says. “The subculture was getting ready to streetwear T-shirt upon which the nonlinear, tension-building structure A Brief History), “the tighter you burgeoning retro sneaker culture move mainstream, the graphic-print Hundreds is built, This Is Not a make it enjoyable even if you’re not crop in, the less focused the picture needed to be dressed from the ankles T-shirt represented a way to share his T-Shirt is more than just one thing, familiar with the brand. becomes.” Instead, he explains, up. All of these factors converged artwork with the world. it’s many things. And, given Kim’s While This Is Not a T-shirt is a in great detail, how the Hundreds on an industry, a movement, that “Streetwear, as a medium, is skill as a storyteller, we wouldn’t be near-encyclopedic deep dive into the came to crawl out of the primordial required a catchphrase. Moreover, established on the graphic T-shirt,” surprised if it eventually became one world of streetwear by one of the OG ooze of trade shows and stores this new customer, young, mostly he writes. “For one, the profi t more thing too: a screenplay. – Los movers and shakers of LA’s scene, it’s of the mid-2000s that had been male and preoccupied with margins are unbeatable when you’re Angeles Times/TNS Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 GARDENING COMMUNITY Indoor plants that move out for the summer Look beyond garden centre standards to these flowering, fragrant plants that love a holiday in the sun, writes James Wong

ALL SEASONED: Gardenia will continue to give you joy indoors into the depths of winter. All have a long flowering t’s that time of year when be enjoyed up close, as they tend season and white flowers, so will fit into most planting schemes, and are powerfully fragrant to boot. garden centres fi rst start to be small, slow-growing plants. fi lling up with tray after If you are buying a new one, tray of bedding plants, gently tease apart the three or four ramping up for a season of plants that have been crowded in Plant limes for Isummer growing. Despite often a small pot to give a fuller, lusher fragrance and fl avour being considered terribly out of appearance for retail. Most often horticultural fashion, planting when people fi nd them hard to Citrus trees are without a doubt tropical or subtropical species grow, it is due to the competition among the most popular of all such as fuchsias, begonias and between over-densely planted ornamental plants worldwide pelargoniums outdoors for the specimens, and nothing the – and with good reason. They warmer months is an eff ective unwitting home-grower is doing are the ultimate horticultural way of providing a full season of at all. Defi nitely worth a second multitaskers, off ering beautiful interest that extends far beyond try if you have failed before! fl owers on a patio outdoors what many temperate plants, If it is larger statement shrubs in summer and glossy-leaved with their comparatively short you are after, try Arabian jasmine evergreen houseplants when fl owering season, can ever hope to (Jasminum sambac). If you think brought in for the winter. Of provide. you hate the smell of jasmine, course, there’s attractive, tasty However, it is a shame that perceiving it as overtly sweet and fruit, too – and that’s before we so few of us venture beyond cloying, please do not be put off . even talk about the uplifting scent traditional favourites, for any Arabian jasmine is a diff erent of their blossoms. cool-weather-tolerant indoor species to the more familiar garden However, there is always one species can be treated in the form (J offi cinale), exchanging small caveat: the vast majority SHARP: Key limes have bracingly sharp juice and a floral fragrance. same way. With the extra light intense sweetness for a cleaner, of citrus plants I see in garden and humidity, many houseplants brighter, more refreshing note. centres are oranges, lemons and aurantiifolia) will be nothing short with the brightest, fresh lime positively revel in a summer They love the full sun of a summer the occasional clementine or of a culinary revelation. With its fl avour, a single plant will provide holiday outdoors, plus you’ll save patio outdoors and a bright mandarin – the same fruit that thinner, more highly aromatic more than you can eat all year yourself a couple of quid in the conservatory in the winter. Keep are incredibly easy and cheap to rind, paired with bracingly sharp round. Considering how eye- process by getting a two-in-one vigorous new growth frequently buy in the shops. This is a shame juice that comes with an explosion wateringly expensive these are to option. And, as these plants can pinched back to promote fl ower considering that the cost of of zesty, almost fl oral fragrance, buy in the shops, how hard they then be brought indoors when the formation and also to make plants the plants easily outweighs any there is just no comparison. It is are to fi nd and how quickly they fi rst autumn frosts are expected, more compact. harvest you’d ever get. If only we this lime that gives really authentic lose their fl avour once harvested, they can be a more sustainable Finally, there’s stephanotis, an picked some of the rarer varieties Latin American food its refreshing when it comes to bang for your choice than buying a new batch of exotic climber from Madagascar (there are at least 100), we could notes and, perhaps unsurprisingly, buck, there is no contest. bedding every year. with bunches of trumpet-shaped get some wonderfully unusually is the essential ingredient for Finally, I implore you to give the The best multifunctional plants fl owers. You’ll fi nd this trained on fl avoured fruit that is essentially Florida Key lime pie. Key lime pie super-trendy Japanese ingredient, will thrive outdoors all summer hoops in garden centres, but that unbuyable in the shops – all for the made without Key limes is simply yuzu (Citrus x junos) a go. The and then continue to give you joy is not how they are grown. The same price and level of care as one not worthy of the name. round, yellow fruit look like indoors into the depths of winter. beautifully long, single strands of of their more common cousins. On the subject of limes, if you oversized mandarins, betraying All have a long fl owering season vine are wrapped over metal hoops So if you are toying with the idea only have space for one citrus I part of their ancestry. With all and white fl owers, so will fi t into for transport and retail display, of giving citrus a go, here are my would go for the kaffi r lime, Citrus the fruity fragrance of the former, most planting schemes, and are but lose much of their wild top three unusual plants for great hystrix. While it produces tasty combined with the wild vigour of powerfully fragrant to boot. Rapunzel look this way. Carefully fl avour. fruit whose zest is a staple of many their other ancestor, the Ichang Probably my favourite scent unwind their coiled stem from the For those only familiar with the southeast Asian dishes, it off ers a lemon of China, they are probably of all is the gardenia (Gardenia hoop and plant them in sheltered Persian lime, Citrus x latifolia, second and much more generous the hardiest fruiting citrus that jasminoides); I fi nd the fragrance spot. They look incredible which dominates supermarket harvest of tasty leaves, too. Used can be grown in the UK. – The from its double white fl owers cascading from hanging baskets shelves, Key limes (Citrus x just like you do bay leaves, but Guardian incredibly uplifting. I sit mine in down fences or walls. a bowl on a patio table so they can – The Guardian 10 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY PHOTO ESSAY

Watch out for the sun when fishing Apart from off ering people a chance to relax enthusiasts is at the northeast coast of Qatar. and connect with family and friends during Common species of fi sh found in and around a fi shing trip, such activities are also exciting Qatar include King Mackerel, Barracuda, Queen because Qatar waters off er exciting fi shing for Fish, Kobia, Sheri and Snapper among others. the novice and professional angler alike. With the beginning of summers in Qatar, There are many places, including beaches, be careful of the sun when planning your next where you can go fi shing in Qatar, and an fi shing venture. The hot summer weather exciting and varied number of species can be conditions have a reputation for adversely caught here easily. Studies suggest that more aff ecting the activities of Qatar’s fi shermen. than 150 species of fi sh can be found at Qatar’s — Text by Azmat Haroon @azmatharoon, coastline. photos by Mohamed Samad Imran M Perhaps the most popular fi shing spot among @imran_ismarbaan Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Be prepared for seasonal changes

easonal changes brings along scalp, oil massage is a must. But also, do not allergies, infections, frizzy hair, use the oil much otherwise you will end up germs and more. Take care of your doing over shampooing which will damage body from head to toe, suggest your hair. experts. The gloomy and humid weather SDermatologist Nivedita Dadu, Founder, conditions in monsoon can be a tad Chairman from Dr Nivedita Dadu’s uncomfortable for expectant mothers. Be Dermatology Clinic, said: “No matter which extra cautious with your diet and lifestyle as season, you ought to drink loads of water. risk of infections can be high in this weather, Drinking water throughout the day will keep says Anubha Singh, Gynaecologist and IVF your body feeling healthy and your skin Expert from Shantah IVF Centre. looking fresh. Also try consuming fruits and — Wear very comfortable and light vegetables with high-water content. Staying clothes which can easily suck your sweat. hydrated will also help to prevent any Do wear comfortable fl at slippers or shoes headaches or infections which you might whichever you prefer. normally have during monsoon.” — Avoid eating pre-cut fruits or veggies as Cleansing is a must for skin: In order to it can attract bacteria. Don›t eat street food. keep your face dirt-free, wipe off the excess There are high chances of contamination. oil or dirt before going to bed with a good — Humidity during monsoon can be cleanser. You can also apply good quality a reason for dehydration. One should cleansing milk. consume lots of fl uids. You may opt for Sunscreen: If you think that you don’t coconut water, lemonade, fresh fruit juices, need sunscreen in monsoon, you are wrong. vegetable juices, soups and sorbets. Also do Even on rainy days, you need to be protected not drink packaged juices, sodas, carbonated from harmful UV rays. beverages or street-side juices. Your hair tends to become frizzy in — Remember to drink water before you monsoon. It’s important to wash your hair at become thirsty. least thrice a week and to use a conditioner — Pregnant women should consume as it moisturises your locks and minimises water-based foods as it helps to hydrate and frizz. Using a hair mask once or twice a week repair damaged skin. can also help to keep your hair smooth and — Listen to your body. If you are feeling healthy. exhausted, take a nap and sleep early. Sleep Oil massage is a great option any time. is important for anyone›s mental health and To reinvigorate and moisturise your dry it also supports a healthy pregnancy. – IANS

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

It would be fair to say that you love being recognised, Aries. Today You have a dynamic personality, Taurus. With today’s celestial Today you could learn a lot from other people who are similar to you, will enable you to show off your leadership skills. You will organise energy, you should try to avoid expending your energy on pointless Gemini. They have the ability to get involved easily and go straight the day. You will accept your responsibilities and your smarts will conversations. Try to be a little more pragmatic. Consider any to the heart of any problem. The world is in constant flux. You have help you welcome the day’s challenges. But stay humble and keep possible compromises very carefully. If you stand strong, you will to question yourself if you want to attain your objectives. Try to be your actions simple, especially after intense emotions. reach your objectives much more quickly. open-minded, adapt to the situation, and act before it’s too late.

CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

The stars will compel you to clarify your position within the You’ve always wanted to change the world, and you’d like to share You have the tendency to plan everything, Virgo. You need to feel collective, Cancer. You have a lot of power when you’re part of a your dreams with your friends, Leo. But today you don’t have in charge of things. Today you should try to listen to others around group, but you’re sometimes clumsy about communication. You enough enthusiasm to fulfil these dreams. You will question your you. Let yourself go for a while, even though you aren’t used to it. can’t always succeed. The planets’ positions will have a beneficial personal strategies. You shouldn’t try to convince others all the time. Furthermore, you need to develop your personality. You can do this impact, and you will tend to put your life under the microscope. Your friends appreciate you just the way you are. by opening up to others.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

You’re attracted to eccentric individuals with very strong Today will destabilise you, Scorpio. You’re trying to rebuild your life You have a tendency to get very involved in your projects, personalities. But realise that behind this attraction lies a very strong on new foundations. Perhaps should you try to change your point Sagittarius. Today the stars will compel you to clarify your situation. need for freedom, Libra. In your life, freedom is more fantasy than of view. Also, you need to preserve your perception, because it will It’s already clear that you aren’t afraid to work long hours to ensure reality. The time has come for you to do some soul searching. Try not allow you to adapt to all situations. You need to be fully alert and that your projects end in success. But your entourage will probably to hide from the realities of your life. prepared at all times. Try not to become discouraged. have diff iculties keeping up with you. You’re too full of energy.

CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Today the stars advise you to get back into the swing of things, There’s a certain quality in your personal relationships that This period is full of diff iculties and you will tend to question yourself, Capricorn. You will forget your past frame of mind and be able to motivates you in life, Aquarius. This is one of the reasons why your especially today. You will start thinking about your personality. Your prepare for a new adventure. Your vitality will be as strong as it has emotions play an important role in the scheme of things. You’re ego risks bruising, and you will have the greatest diff iculty turning ever been. You will probably meet someone who has a beneficial guided by your emotions. Today you will be in the best disposition to your intention into real action. Your sensitivity prevents you from influence in the days to come. meet a lot of people who will give new impetus to your life. materialising your ideas. 12 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

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Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Rock plant’s last seen by 1 Attempt to carry one pound aquatic creature (6) in hat (6) 4 Merchant who distributes the 2 Team leader in league, as cards? (6) agreed (7) 8 One small boy in the Scillies, 3 Relieved when a seed is for example (5) transplanted (5) 9 Small change for Old Bill? (7) 5 A fast train, say (7) 10 Seeing less impressive 6 Yorkshire city is first to be performance (7) heard (5) 11 Follow girl after men lost 7 More impetuous, having a lead (5) piece of bacon (6) 12 Cook missed tea cup (9) 9 Janitor, a conscientious type 17 Paradoxical odds? (5) (9) 19 Material for nails a tinker 13 Learner in sad state getting ordered? (7) tight (7) 21 One may have provided food 14 Selected portion of former for pet before? Right! (7) publication (7) 22 Tremble when given a 15 Parisian thanks leader of flavoured milk drink (5) army in old kingdom (6) 23 Bugs making a sound we 16 Really it’s in a legal can hear (6) document, though it could be 24 Joined in duet with denied (6) variations (6) 18 Dined in college, by the sound of it (5) 20 A piece from Salieri sent up (5) Answers

Wordsearch Codeword Yesterday’s Solutions 14 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY POPSPOT People should be judged on ability, not how they look: Lizzo

arger than life is the perfect was our own. That’s what we did and he left description of American singer everything on the fi nished track, he didn’t cut and rapper Lizzo. She is a plus size anything. That whole experience was when I lady with a personality to match felt like I transcended from being a vocalist to and a determination to prove that an artiste.” sizeL doesn’t matter when it comes to musical 2015 saw Lizzo self-release her second talent. album, Big Grrrl Small World. It attracted “I want to put women who look like me into critical acclaim but there was no chart the mainstream,” said the lady born Melissa placing for the album or either of the two Viviane Jeff erson. “I want that visibility and tracks released as singles. fairness where people are judged on their Even so, Lizzo was becoming far better ability rather than how they look.” known through her concerts and television The young Lizzo was inspired by Missy appearances. A deal with Atlantic Records Elliott. saw the 2016 release of her major label debut “She was enormously important for me. EP, Coconut Oil. This reached number 44 on Missy defi nitely didn’t fi t the industry norm Billboard’s Top R&B / Hip Hop Albums chart. for a pop star. Music is such an image- “Everything really started to build for me. obsessed business in so many ways. Yet there I toured with great artistes like Haim and was a woman who was much bigger than the Florence and The Machine. I also did much standard profi le for a female singer yet she more television. My rise was slow but steady. was having so many massive hits. “People who worked with me were all so “I hope the success I have can inspire positive but maybe my appearance held me other talented young girls who don’t fi t the back. I didn’t look like a pop star so I was stereotype look. Not just me but also my placed at the back of the shelf. But when backing dancers. They are actually called The people did fi nd me, I’d hear them saying Big Grrrls. They are all over size 16 but put on things like Lizzo was their favourite new a world-class show of high-energy dancing. artiste.” I want everyone to look at them and think Her major label debut album was long- who cares about their size, they’re just great delayed. It might have been released in 2017, dancers.” certainly in 2018 but only saw the light of day Now 31, Lizzo formed her fi rst rap group, this past April. Cornrow Clique, when she was 14. “That was my fault. I worked on the album “Cornrow Clique was made up of my for three years and it changed so many times. best friends. We all wore diff erent coloured But I’ve ended up with something which is so cornrows and all had our own verses because ON THE PEAK: Lizzo’s major label debut album Cuz I Love You peaked at number six on the musical and so me.” we were inspired by how Crime Mob Billboard 200. In many ways, delaying the album has performed their songs.” proved to be a blessing. The Lizzo bandwagon Lizzo’s confi dence in her own ability was my voice and refi ned myself. things didn’t quite work out as Lizzo might has kept rolling through concerts, television boosted by a Cornrow Clique member. “I was performing with Lizzo and The have hoped. appearances and her ever growing social “She was the meanest girl in our crew and Larva Ink but also formed an all-female hip “I was doing pretty well and even media following. The album surely had to would often make fun of me. So when she hop group called The Chalice. My band- performed on The Late Show with David be a hit and it was. Cuz I Love You peaked at said I always performed the best verses, I mates were Sophia Eris and Claire De Lune, Letterman. But I didn’t get the kind of number six on the Billboard 200. realised I did have the talent to try for a career two other girls who were making a name for national success that I could have expected Her most successful single, Truth Hurts, in music.” themselves on the Minneapolis music scene.” from the Time feature. Not that anyone else reached number 14 on the Hot 100. She Although born in Detroit, Michigan, Their debut single, Push It, proved highly did. None of the other 13 artistes had any surprised some fans by playing the fl ute Lizzo’s family moved to Houston, Texas, successful in Minnesota. It was the same great success in 2014.” during her performance of the song at the when she was ten. But it was a move back story for their 2012 debut EP, We Are The Despite this, an event in 2014 brought Black Entertainment Television Awards show. up north to Minneapolis, Minnesota, which Chalice. But each member had their own Lizzo a memory she will cherish forever. “A lot of people thought the story about me really kick-started Lizzo’s career. agenda in addition to the group commitment. “Prince wanted The Chalice to feature on being a fl ute player was made up by the record “After Cornrow Clique, I’d been in For Lizzo, this was her 2013 debut solo album, Boy Trouble, a track on his Plectrumelectrum company. But I’ve actually been playing the several rap and R&B groups around Houston Lizzobangers. album. Sophia and I performed raps and were fl ute since I was 12. I played in marching but didn’t seem to be getting anywhere. “It was released on a Minneapolis label and credited as featured artistes. Claire didn’t get bands back in Houston until I graduated from Then a friend asked me to join his band did really well locally. I did a US and UK tour the credit but she was on the track singing college where I majored in classical fl ute in Minneapolis. He said I could stay at his with Har Mar Superstar which increased my backing vocals. performance. family’s house. This sounded a whole lot fan base and won the ‘Picked to Click’ award “Working with Prince was a very surreal “Some people still thought it wasn’t really better than where I was living, so I accepted for the best new artiste in the Minneapolis / experience which I don’t think I’ll ever get me playing when I played fl ute during my the invitation. St. Paul area.” over. Now that he’s passed away, it’s kind of concerts. I thought it was time to prove I “That move proved to be the making of me. She was also named among Time immortalised in my mind like a fable or fairy was playing by doing it on the awards show. Within a year, I’d grown and developed so magazine’s 14 music artistes to watch in 2014. tale. Everyone has to know that I don’t make up much as an artist. I learned how to clean up The big time seemed to be beckoning but “Prince told us to treat the song like it stories and what you see is what you get.”

the same vault. It makes no sense. music history has gone.” “People want to say I made it “There were many more songs on because of this or that. But the fact is my masters which had never been Cardi B I made it because I worked hard.” in brief released. I always had the peace of Sadly, there is also a negative mind from knowing I could come It’s diff icult to keep Cardi B out side to the news about Cardi. A New back, listen to them and maybe of the news. She recently became York court has indicted her on 12 Sheryl Crow overstated, Sheryl has learned the mine them for basement tapes or the first female rapper to be named counts arising from an incident last master tapes of her big hit albums, out-takes. I grieve that this has now Songwriter of the Year at the year when Cardi and two associates Sheryl Crow is the latest artiste to Tuesday Night Music Club and The gone. American Society of Composers, allegedly attacked a pair of female express her dismay and disbelief in Globe Sessions, were among those “Even more so though, I grieve Authors and Publishers Rhythm & bartenders at the Angels club in the fallout from the New York Times lost in the blaze. that important music by artistes Soul Music Awards. Manhattan. Ten of the charges are article about a devastating fire at “I can’t understand how anything such as Buddy Holly, Billie Holiday A grateful Cardi expressed her misdemeanours but she faces two Universal Studios in California which can be stored in a vault that doesn’t and Duke Ellington has been thanks to ASCAP and described the felonies of attempted assault with was covered up for 11 years. have sprinklers,” Sheryl remarked. “I destroyed. It’s not just the music. award as a great honour for her. But intent to cause serious injury. Although Universal executives also can’t understand how duplicates It’s the dialogue between the music. she also used her acceptance speech Cardi has entered a plea of not dispute the story and insist the of the tapes could be made for safety It’s the takes that didn’t make it. It’s to rebuff all those who suggest her guilty. If convicted though, she could extent of the losses has been and then these safeties are stored in the versions we’ll never hear. All this success is undeserved. be looking at up to four years in jail. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Tanmay Bhat battling clinical depression

omedian Tanmay Bhat, who rose to fame with comedy collective AIB, says he has been suffering with clinical depression. CHe was suspended last October FIT AGAIN: Daniel Craig has resumed shooting after following complaints of not acting undergoing a surgery for an injury to his ankle ligaments. against harassment allegations made regarding his colleague Utsav Craig back in action on Bond 25 sets Chakraborty. Bhat on Sunday took to Instagram Hollywood star Daniel Craig has returned to the and uploaded a series of videos, sets of Bond 25 and resumed shooting for the fi lm after sharing how the subsequent events undergoing a surgery for an injury to his ankle ligaments. after his suspension have created a Craig underwent surgery after falling during fi lming toll on his mental health. in Jamaica in May. He underwent a minor ankle surgery. He said: “After everything that The fi lm continued production during Craig’s two-week happened in October, I’m mentally rehabilitation, and is set for an April 2020 release. checked out. I feel almost paralysed Now, Craig is also back in action and has resumed and unable to participate socially, shooting. The update was shared on Sunday on the offi cial online or even offline. I think a big James Bond Twitter account. part of my self-worth growing up as “Daniel Craig, director Cary Fukunaga and the Bond someone who looked like me became 25 crew were out in the sunshine today shooting across a my work. For most of my adult life number of London locations, including Whitehall, where I worked at a company that I was Daniel fi lmed a scene with a classic Aston Martin V8, fi rst trying to build. seen in a Bond fi lm in The Living Daylights,” the post read. “And having to watch the letting A video from the shot was also posted on the account, the office go, all the people who which shows Craig driving the car and stepping out of it worked with us, having to say good for a scene. bye to that took a toll on me mentally Bond 25 is the 25th instalment of the franchise. It also and physically which finally came to SPOTLIGHT: Tanmay Bhat was suspended last October following complaints of not stars Rami Malek, Ana De Armas, Lashana Lynch, David a headway around the end of the last acting against harassment allegations made regarding one of his colleagues. Dencik, Billy Magnussen, Dali Benssalah, Lea Seydoux, year and doctors told me that I am Jeff rey Wright, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Naomie suffering from clinical depression and It’s been a few months since the a depressed comedian and that’s an Harris and Ralph Fiennes. – IANS told me to consider doing something doctor told me to start medication. oxymoron. about it.” I honestly sometimes get super “But at some point I just got to get Last month, AIB issued a statement worried that this state of paralysis is up and start fixing this stuff. I owed and announced that Bhat would no permanent. I sometimes feel I might you guys a thank you. That’s all for longer be their CEO. never get back to being who I was or now,” he added. Sharing what’s he up to now, Bhat operating to my potential.” After opening up his battle with said: “A lot of you have been asking He also thanked people for depression, many artistes came out in fair questions – why don’t you move supporting him. support of him. on, why don’t you rebuild, all fair “It’s nice to know there are still Singer-composer Vishal Dadlani advice but for some reason, I have people out there who are rooting for commented: “No rush, no pressure, just watched something that I have us and me. I am still clueless about take all the time you need to figure it worked for last part of my adult life any answers to questions like when out, but know that there is a world of come crashing down. I have just been will I be back and doing what. I don’t love for you out there.” staring at the rubble going ‘what know. Comedian Kenny Sebastian wrote: now?’ I’m still feeling extremely paralysed “You have gone through so much and “I don’t think I’ve been strong to even put out this message because come out wiser and stronger, this will enough to be able to pick myself. in my head no one wants to work with be no different.” – IANS

EXCITED: Henry Cavill is very excited to play a character as fantastic as Sherlock Holmes. Action has been my lifeline: Akshay

Cavill joins Enola Holmes as Bollywood’s ‘khiladi’ Akshay Kumar on Monday gave Sherlock Holmes fans a behind the scenes glimpse of the high-octane and “unadulterated” action to expect from Rohit Shetty’s Actor Henry Cavill is excited to essay the role of Sooryavanshi. Sherlock Holmes opposite Stranger Things star Millie “From the day acting became my destiny, action has been Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes. my lifeline. Pure, unadulterated action in Sooryavanshi “Very excited to play a character as fantastic as will tell you’ll why it still fi res up my core,” Akshay tweeted Sherlock Holmes and very fortunate to be working with yesterday. Millie Bobby Brown,” Cavill posted on his Instagram. This post was accompanied by a video in which Akshay “Millie, I will see you back in London soon sis,” he features in car and bike chases as well as a death-defying added. stunt in which he is seen hanging from a helicopter, while Bobby Brown commented: “Yes, you will Sherlock...I Shetty directs him. HIGH-OCTANE: Akshay Kumar gave fans a behind the scenes can’t wait to work with you big bro.” Sooryavanshi is the fourth fi lm of Shetty’s cop drama glimpse of the high-octane and “unadulterated” action. It is being reported that Enola Holmes is based on the universe in which Akshay is essaying the role of Veer Nancy Springer book series The Enola Holmes Mysteries. Suryavanshi, a character that was introduced as an anti- advanced to March 27, 2020, to avoid a clash with Salman It follows the life of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ terrorist squad offi cer in the Ranveer Singh-starrer 2018 lm fi Khan’s Inshallah at the box offi ce. younger sister Enola. Simmba. The change in the release date did not go down well with a Helena Bonham Carter is also said to be on board to Filmmaker Karan Johar, who is producing the fi lm, section of social media users. play Enola’s mother in the project, which will be helmed tweeted: “Behind the scenes of India’s very own cinematic Taking a dig at it in his own way, Shetty wrote on by Harry Bradbeer. – IANS universe. Oh... and trust me, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Instagram on Monday: “Kab aa rahe hain yeh important nahi That’s what happens when Rohit Shetty and Akshay Kumar hai... Kaise aa rahe hain woh dekho (It’s not important when get together.” we are coming, see how we are coming). Akshay Kumar in Just last month, the release date of Sooryavanshi was and as Sooryavanshi. Raw, real and rugged.” – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY NBA player to coach basketball enthusiasts in Qatar for 3 days

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