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104-02, 120th Street, S. Richmond Hill, NY 11419 www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 NEW YORK ‘Investors are certainly looking forward to making large amount of investments in India’: Arun Jaitley

India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley visited the trading floor of New York Stock Exchange, India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley met with business and industry leaders at a meet after ringing the closing bell, June 17 organized by FICCI in New York, June 17. contd from page 1 investment is concerned, it went up by 39% tricolor was displayed on various TV screens. Ambuja Neotia Group chairman and almost by the day we are getting India's Ambassador to the US Arun Kumar Harshavardhan Neotia, Apollo Tyres buzz about India. There is a lot of sense of proposals both through the direct route and Singh and India's Consul General in New Chairman Onkar Kanwar, Bharti Enterprises satisfaction with regard to how the reform also through FIPB (Foreign Investment York Dnyaneshwar Mulay also accompanied vice chairman and managing director Rajan process has phased out in the last one year. Promotion Board) route. For example last him. Bharti Mittal and Bharat Hotels chairperson And therefore investors are certainly looking year we got about 350 requests to the FIPB Jaitley, who began his 10-day trip to the US and managing director Jyotsna Suri. forward at India in order to make a large itself", he added. on Wednesday, June 17, was accompanied by Earlier in the day, Jaitley attended a amount of investments in India", Mr. Jaitley Earlier the minister rang the closing bell at a high-level business delegation from India luncheon meeting with executives of top US told reporters after visiting the New York the New York Stock Exchange at 4 pm and that included HSBC India chairman Naina companies organized by the industry Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 17. also visited the trading floor of the world's Lal Kidwai, JK Paper vice chairman and chamber FICCI. Later, in the evening, he "Last year also, as far as foreign direct largest stock exchange where the Indian managing director Harsh Pati Singhania, attended a civic reception in his honor. Avella/ Brennan Bill establishing non-profit incorporation for Yoga camp organized Hindu, Sikh and Islamic groups passes both Houses ALBANY, NY (TIP): State Senator Tony Avella and International Assembly Member James Brennan announced, June 17, that their bill to provide a means of nonprofit Day incorporation for organized groups affiliated with the of Yoga Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic faiths for legal and tax purposes. Currently, the religious corporations law explicitly names and lays out organization regulations for over 20 religious groups, but does not explicitly recognize groups of the Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic faiths. Senator Avella's legislation, carried in the Assembly by Assembly Member James Brennan, would correct this inconsistency. The bill would explicitly allow each of these groups to have the same rights to incorporation as enjoyed by others under the current New York State Religious Corporations law. Senator Avella stated, "Currently, the law specifically lays out religious aspects and titles of clergy for over 20 different religious groups, but does not include groups of Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic faiths. My bill would seeks to correct this inequity, and ensure that every religious faith At the camp. L to R: Yoga Instructor Anita Rana, District Democratic leader Uma Sengupta, has access to the same rights as any other religious group. I Prerna Reddy, Director, Queens Museum, Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay and Malini Shah am proud to announce that this bill has now passed both houses - it is high time that the Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims NEW YORK (TIP): Indian Business chose this site as hundreds of people Miller,Councilman Paul Vallone, of New York are fully recognized in our law," said Senator Association organized a free Yoga practicing Yoga overlooking the globe Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay, Tony Avella. event at the Queens Museum. It was a symbolize the global yoga movement as District Democratic leader Mrs. Uma "Under the current New York State Religious prelude to mark the International Yoga initiated by PM Modi to unite the world Sengupta . Corporations Law, more than 20 religiously affiliated Day. ". Three different yoga styles were groups enjoy certain rights to incorporation. In passing this Manu Kapoor, founder Indian The opening ceremony was attended practiced by Dileep Guruji, Mrs. Anita bill, Assembly Bill no. 8122, I am pleased to say that these Business Association, NY said: "We by Assemblyman Mike Rana, and Chinmay Patankar. incorporation rights will be expanded to encompass groups affiliated with the Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic faiths." said Assemblymember Jim Brennan, Chair of the New York Lookout for news, views and reviews, State Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions. log on to www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com NEW YORK FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 3 India Association of Long Island honors 6 outstanding Indian Americans at Annual Gala

Town of Hempstead Town Clerk Nasrin Ahmad presents a citation to IALI India Association of Long Island family President Satnam Singh Parhar LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): India Wealth Management of Prandara Group Sharanjit Singh Thind were at hand to do the Singh Thind and The Indian Panorama Mr. Association of Long Island (IALI), one of the Morgan Stanley; Bobby Singh Sidana, honors. Indrajit S Saluja. oldest and largest Organizations serving the Hotelier / Owner Swan Club Roslyn; well- The generous donors for India Center, the The Entertainment program was Indian community of Long Island known political activist Chairman Sapient IALI home, were also recognized on the organized by Cultural Chair Ms. Jaya celebrated, June 14, its 36th Annual Award Party Bobby K. Kalotee, IALI's Community occasion. They included, among others, Bahadkar. It included beautiful and Fund-Raising Gala at Huntington Hilton Projects Chair Aruna Saxena and principal Elizabeth and Dr. Dev Chitkara; Dr. Parveen performances by Shradhanjali Indian Arts in Melville, NY amidst a good mix of attorney at Banad Law Offices Dev Chopra and Mrs. Usha P. Chopra; Suman and Academy, a mix of classical, semi-classical dignitaries, business and community Viswanath. Gobind Munjal; Dalgit and Satnam S Parhar; and nautanki choreographed by Guru leaders, media, patrons and friends. Dr. Manoj Mohapatra , Deputy Consul Maninder and Mohinder Singh Miglani; and Srimathi Jamuna Mitcham, brilliantly IALI President Satnam S Parhar gave the General of India in New York, Nassau Sampurna and Dr. Yawantraj P Jain. performed by Preya Patel, Gia Mitcham, welcome address and appealed for donations County Business and Economic Director Mr Parhar also gave a special recognition Prerna Chaudhary, Tarang Jain and Pragati for IALI's "India Center". At hand to greet representing County Executive, Kamlesh plaque to IALI Vaisakhi Chair Mr. Ajay Chaudhary. The NYC Bhangra Group and welcome all invited guests was IALI's Mehta, Nassau County 15th District Batra and Ms. Pinki Jaggi for raising more performed a lively medley. Executive Council. A Souvenir Journal Assemblyman Michael Montesano, Senior than $20,000 from the IALI Vaisakhi Cruise : The organizers thanked the main created by journal chair Ms. Beena Kothari Councilman Town of Hempstead Anthony "Cruise for a Noble Cause". All the money Sponsors HAB Bank, Indus American Bank, was officially launched. Santino, Suffolk County 10th District raised by Mr. Ajay Batra and his team will be and the Media partners IVS TV, ITV, TV On the occasion six persons were honored Assemblyman Chad Lupinacci, Nassau used for the IALI India Center. Asia, The Indian Panorama, South Asian for their contribution to community. They County Legislator Laura Curran, Town Mr. Parhar also recognized two leading Insider, South Asian Times and Hum included Dr. Ramanathan Raju, President / Clerk of Hempstead Nasrin Ahmad and News Papers CEOs for their contribution Hindustani. Simi Arora emceed. IALI CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals Human Rights Commission Chairman Zahid towards the community. Those two CEOs Secretary Rekha Valliappan proposed a vote Corporation; Kamesh Nagarajan, Senior VP Syed and Human Rights Commissioner were South Asian Insider Mr. Sharan Jit of thanks. Friends of Good Health Hindus commend Champion awards given away Pope's plea for environmental protection in 1st Encyclical

NEW UORK (TIP): Hindus have commended His Holiness Pope Francis for his call to respect and protect environment in his 192-page first Encyclical "Laudato Si (Praise Be): on the Care of our Common Home" released on June 18 in Vatican City. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement from Nevada (USA) , on June 18, said that it was our moral and spiritual duty to protect the environment and God-given natural world. Rajan Zed hoped that this Encyclical helped shape the public policy and change in the behavior of the people. Honorees with Friends of Good Health Chairman Bobby Kumar and community leaders Other religious leaders should also come forward to HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): Friends Town of Hempstead Supervisor Hempstead Town Supervisor. support the cause of environment, he added. for Good Health and Bobby Kumar Kate Murray , John Venditto Town Bollywood star Neetu Singh was Quoting ancient scriptures, Zed noted: We may believe honored a couple of politicians of Oyster Bay Supervisor, Anthony also honored with an award. in different religions, yet we share the same home-our with Champion awards. The Santino Senior Councilman, Town The event was attended by many Earth. We must learn to happily progress or miserably recipients of Champions for people of Hempstead and candidate for community leaders, businessmen, perish together. For man can live individually but can in the government included Nassau Town of Hempstead Supervisor, professionals as well as the only survive collectively. County Executive Ed Mangano, and Judi Bosworth, North media. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 ADVERTISEMENT THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 5 www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 NEW YORK AT&T fined $100 million for misleading customers GOPIO holds 26th Annual about 'unlimited' data plans NEW YORK (TIP): General Meeting The FCC said that it is fining AT&T $100 NEW YORK (TIP): The Global held an elaborate commemorative million for misleading Organization of People of Indian dinner at the Marriott La Guardia with mobile customers about Origin (GOPIO International) held its special guest Hon Grace Meng, US its "unlimited" data 26th annual general meeting and Congresswoman who assisted in plans. commemorative dinner from June 5- recognition of GOPIO's newest life AT&T (T, Tech30) 6, 2015 in New York with delegates members, events patrons and subjected its unlimited representing several countries sponsors, and special data plan customers to worldwide. commendation for deserving significantly slower One June 5, a special welcome supporters. These included Deo speeds after they used dinner for all delegates was Gosine (Trinidad & Tobago), more than 3 GB of 3G held at the World's Fair Marina Darshan Singh Bagga (New data or 5 GB of 4G data in Flushing, New York. The York), Ishwar Ramlutchman in a single billing cycle. following day on June 6 at Plaza (South Africa), Gafson, DDL & AT&T then failed to Hotel La Guardia, GOPIO held a Dem Bank (Guyana), Chantex adequately notify its customers that their speeds would comprehensive conference (Australia), Uttar Pradesh NRI be throttled after they crossed a certain data threshold, session on "Women of the Indian Ministry (India), Travel Span, the FCC said. Diaspora", a timely GOPIO global IAGCC, India Abroad and several "Consumers deserve to get what they pay for," said FCC initiative by GOPIO Women's Council others. Special proclamation from NYS Chairman Tom Wheeler in a statement. "Broadband to focus on this very important issue in Assemblyman David Weprin was providers must be upfront and transparent about the the Indian Diaspora. It was coordinated presented, and NYS Senator Tony services they provide. The FCC will not stand idly by by Rita Abraham (South Africa), chair Avella issued a special resolution while consumers are deceived by misleading marketing of GOPIO Women's Council and co- Velmurugan, Executive Vice Chairman recognizing GOPIO and its community materials and insufficient disclosure." chaired by Rekha Gupta (New York) co- of Industrial Guidance Bureau of service globally. AT&T stopped offering unlimited data plans to new chair of GOPIO Women's Council. Tamil Nadu, country/regional reports customers in 2009, but some customers have been Speakers represented several countries were made by several delegates GOPIO is a non-partisan, non-sectarian grandfathered into the old plans. In 2011, AT&T and special guest was Hon. Melinda representing several regions and global organization with chapters in instituted a "maximum bit rate" policy, capping speeds at Katz, borough president of Queens, countries. The AGM included reports several countries, actively promoting the about a half megabit per second for heavy data users New York. by chairman, president, treasurer and interests of people of Indian origin (compared to around 15 Mbps to 20 Mbps for typical 4G After its Executive Council Meeting, modifications to by-laws to improve worldwide by monitoring and addressing current critical issues of concern, and by download speeds, the same as a home broadband GOPIO held its 26th Annual General GOPIO's operational and organizational enhancing cooperation and connection). Meeting (AGM) at the same venue. processes. communication between groups of The cap only goes into effect after an unlimited plan Following a presentation by Hon M. On the evening of June 6, GOPIO Indians living in various countries. customer hits the threshold, and it lasts only until the end of a billing cycle. Last month, AT&T tweaked its policy to throttle speeds only when the network was "congested," though it didn't specify how it measures that. Cars to be kept out of But the FCC said that AT&T's unlimited customers had been subjected to slower speeds for an average of 12 days -- nearly half a billing cycle. The FCC noted that throttled large parts of Central Park customers would have trouble connecting to mapping services or streaming video over AT&T's network. AT&T says it will fight the fine. "We will vigorously dispute the FCC's assertions," said and Prospect Park Emily Edmonds, spokeswoman for AT&T. "The FCC has specifically identified this practice as a legitimate and reasonable way to manage network resources for the NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill certain morning and afternoon rush benefit of all customers, and has known for years that all de Blasio announced on Thursday, hours on weekdays. Drivers cherish of the major carriers use it. We have been fully June 18, that he will close large parts the meandering shortcuts to and from transparent with our customers, providing notice in of New York City's two most Midtown, but many bicyclists and multiple ways and going well beyond the FCC's celebrated parks to car traffic on pedestrians say those are the very disclosure requirements." weekdays. hours they are trying to use the The closings in Central Park and roadways for exercise or travel. 4 hurt when gun goes Prospect Park, which pedestrian The four roads that cut horizontally advocates have been seeking for across Central Park will remain open off at New York's decades, will banish cars from sections to traffic. of the verdant thoroughfares that The western side of Prospect Park wind along the edges of both parks. will be closed to cars on weekdays, and Waldorf Astoria Mr. de Blasio, speaking at a news the eastern side will be closed except NEW YORK (TIP): A police source said that a wedding conference in Prospect Park, where he for a two-hour period from 7 a.m. to 9 guest's gun went off accidentally at New York's swanky said his children played little league, a.m. on weekdays. Waldorf Astoria Hotel and four people suffered minor called the restrictions a step toward Cars are already banned from both injuries from debris. "returning our parks to the people." parks on weekends. The incident happened last week in the Park Avenue "We're creating safe zones for kids to Paul Steely White, the executive hotel's lobby. play in, for bikers, for joggers, for director of Transportation A police official with knowledge of the investigation everyone to know that they will be Alternatives, which has been agitating added that the wedding guest's gun discharged and the safer and they can enjoy the park in for car-free park drives since 1979, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced June 18, bullet hit the floor. He spoke on condition of anonymity peace," he said. welcomed the city's "giant leap" "returning our parks to the people." because the investigation was ongoing. He said that four The mayor's office said the changes Beginning July 6, cyclists in Prospect forward, even as he promised to keep people were hit by either shrapnel from the bullet or were made only after traffic studies Park will no longer have to share some fighting for a full ban. pieces of the floor. The shooter was placed under arrest. showed they would not exacerbate roadways with cars. "Today's historic decision will allow A fire department spokesman said that the four victims travel times or congestion in Midtown more New Yorkers and visitors to the were taken to hospitals with minor injuries. Manhattan, near Central Park, or in Prospect Park, on July 6. city to experience two of the nation's The Waldorf Astoria is one of New York's best-known Brooklyn neighborhoods near Cars will be banned on park drives most famous urban refuges in the way hotels. It's where the US president stays during the United Prospect Park. The change in Central north of 72nd Street in Central Park, that the parks' creators intended," he Nations general assembly. Park will take effect on June 29, and in which are now open to traffic during said in a statement. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 7 www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 EDITORIAL COMMENT AS I SEE IT Prof I.S.Saluja An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India Let us Why I will not waive my gas subsidy By Sumith S. Rao Celebrate Yoga "Sir, I am just an ordinary citizen of India who dutifully pays his rime Minister of India , Narendra Modi is Income tax, Service Tax, Value known to be deeply steeped in the Hindu Added Tax, Wealth Tax, Corporation Ptradition. Imbibing pristine Hindu values early Tax, Automobile Registration Tax on in his life through his association with Rashtriya and Property Tax which goes up to Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) , Modi well understands the nearly 50 percent of our hard earned significance of traditional values and the importance money while you enjoy the benefits of of culture. these taxes and live a privileged life Ever since he came in to politics, and more because every citizen of India pays particularly, on the national political scene, India has for your privileges." witnessed a clear inclination on the part of the government to promote the tradition and values of the Respected Sir, age old Hindu culture. Modi's concern is pretty obvious You have asked the rich and affluent the way changes are sought to be brought about in the people of India to waive off their share domain of education and culture. of subsidy on gas cylinders used by Moving on to Yoga, a distinct mark of Hindu way of them in their homes and help in nation life from olden times, Yoga has always been placed on a building. high pedestal and considered to have a formative and I, for one would definitely prescribe curative power. In the words of one of the earliest and to your view and gladly do so. In return, the greatest practitioners of Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar, "Yoga I would like all of you esteemed means union - the union of body with consciousness, gentlemen and ladies who run our great and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the country to also reciprocate our way of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day generous offer. life, and endows skill in the performance of one's If only, every corporator, MLA, MP, actions". and Minister could also waive off his Yoga is health giving- an aspect of Yoga which is the gas subsidy, we the people of India most popular one. And it is this aspect which more or would be very proud of you and salute less gets emphasized and proves attractive to people. you. Thus, on the suggestion of Prime Minister of India, You would be setting an example to during his address to the UN General Assembly in the citizens of India. Most of you have When will you be a proud Indian and bothered about these trivial issues. October, 2014 , 177 member nations of the United declared incomes running into a few pay for all these facilities availed by When shall you pay the full cost of a Nations adopted unanimously a resolution to observe crores while contesting the elections. you? You get admitted to luxury meal without passing on the bill to your June 21 as International Day of Yoga. When will the day come when you hospitals for even a headache and countrymen? It is heartening to know that an old science of India will think of our poor brethren and especially when a probe is launched Sir, I am just an ordinary citizen of has received such overwhelming support among the waive off all the perks that you enjoy against you for any misdemeanor. Even India who dutifully pays his Income tax, nations of the world who are now all set to celebrate the because of your position. there, you get the best beds and Service Tax, Value Added Tax, Wealth day this coming Sunday. When will you stop voting facilities free of charge. Tax, Corporation Tax, Automobile On the purely material side, Yoga holds promise of a unanimously for a pay hike for Pray, tell me, Sir "When will you pay Registration Tax and Property Tax multi-billion dollar business. A Yogi Harbhajan not only yourselves, while bitterly fighting for these privileges?" which goes up to nearly 50 percent of created a large following in the US but also made a lot against all other issues in Parliament? You travel in air conditioned railway our hard earned money while you enjoy of money through Yoga. One can expect great job When will we see you act as coaches and fly first class in planes the benefits of these taxes and live a opportunities for thousands of yoga instructors and responsible citizens and fight over even when you are not on official duty. privileged life because every citizen of gurus who would reach over to distant parts of the issues rather than take party based It is us, the citizens of India who pay India pays for your privileges. world, and like Yogi Harbhajan, create their own decisions? the fare for you. The day all of you forego and waive empires. One can expect these people to bring to India a Let me tell you, dear Sir, the Everyone, who is anybody, stakes his all the unnecessary perquisites lot of foreign exchange. Yoga then would be a sound Chancellor of a super power like claim to fame by clamoring for "Z Class" bestowed upon you by laws enacted by business proposition and Prime Minister Modi Germany Ms. Angela Merkel rides on a security when the actual risk you would be a proud one in our understands business well, as he himself has claimed. public train to work, whereas in our assessment for that person is zero. We, nation's history. Let us celebrate, them, with all enthusiasm and zeal, country everyone from the Prime the people of India pay a fortune for The day, you gentlemen who have the first International Day of Yoga, this coming Sunday, Minister, to the Members of your security. been elected to power by the people to June 21, 2015. Parliament, even down to the Zilla Alas, what a travesty of our times! govern our nation become responsible Panchayat President is allocated a car That you who should be protecting the citizens of INDIA will be a milestone in which is paid for from the coffers of our nation are being protected by the our history. That day, all of us will country which is filled generously by common man at his cost. definitely waive off our gas subsidy. the tax payers money. There are people in India who cannot Yours sincerely, You incur thousands of rupees worth even afford one meal a day and do not An honest and dutiful citizen. of telephone bills, electricity bills, free even have the strength to complain (Sumith S. Rao is a well known accommodation in luxury bungalows, about it. Sadly, while you enjoy a cup of Mangalore based businessman and a avail free travel on public coffee bought at a princely sum of former President of the District Small transportation, go on foreign jaunts on Rupees One or a full meal at Rupees Scale Industries Association.) flimsy excuses and we the people of Twelve at the Parliament canteen in air (Source: Mangalore Today News India pay for it. conditioned comfort and cannot be Network)

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rime Minister Modi has surprised his by Modi. He invited the Chinese President to own people and, no doubt, external make a state visit to India in September 2014, Pobservers, by his foreign policy during which unprecedented personal activism since he took office. In his year in gestures were made to him in an informal power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 setting in Ahmedabad on Modi's birthday. if the forthcoming visits to China, Mongolia This imaginative courting was marred by the and South Korea are included- inviting some serious border incident in Ladakh coinciding criticism that these peregrinations have with Xi's visit- one more case of China meant less attention devoted to domestic reaching out to India and simultaneously affairs. This is misplaced criticism because staging a provocation so that India remains today, with the change in the nature of unsure about China's intentions and finds it diplomacy, the heads of governments play a difficult to make a clear choice about what critical role in external affairs. Frequent policy to pursue, and in the process has to personal contacts at the highest political level accept faits accomplish that are to China's have now become the norm, leaders often are advantage. on first name terms and difficult knots are Unlike the timidity of the previous untied by exertions at their level, sometimes government to treat such incidents as acne on in an unorthodox manner. Modi, even if the beautiful face of India-China relations, seemingly inexperienced in the foreign policy Modi raised the border issue frontally with XI domain, has had to, therefore, wade into the at their joint press conference, expressing deep waters of diplomacy as soon as he took notable impact in local political and popular as that is contingent on Pakistan's willingness "our serious concern over repeated incidents over because his position has demanded this. thinking about India as a well-wisher. His to facilitate access to this landlocked country. along the border". His call for resuming the But no one was prepared for a Modi with a extempore address to the Nepalese At the Kathmandu SAARC summit in stalled process of clarifying the Line of natural flair for diplomacy, to which he has parliament was a tour de force. He handled November 2014, Modi encouraged neighbours Actual Control (LAC) and mention of "India's brought a surprising degree of imagination sensitive issues during his visit with finesse to benefit from opportunities provided by concerns relating to China's visa policy and and self-assurance. From the start, he seemed and played the cultural and religious card India's growth, promised a special funding Trans Border Rivers" while standing to have a clear idea of where the interests of dextrously. External Affairs Minister Sushma vehicle overseen by India to finance alongside Xi Jinping at the joint press his country lay and the initiatives needed to Swaraj visited Bangladesh in June 2014. A infrastructure projects in the region and conference indicated a refreshing change advance them. very notable development is the approval of announced India's readiness to develop a from the past in terms of a more open All Indian Prime Ministers on taking over the Land Boundary Agreement with satellite specifically for the region by 2016. He expression of India's concerns. With regard to give priority to ties with neighbouring Bangladesh approved by the Indian warned at the Kathmandu summit that Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic countries. The belief is that either India has parliament in May 2015. Modi visited regional integration will proceed with all or Corridor that China has been pushing hard, neglected its neighbours or has been Myanmar in November 2014 to take part in without some, which suggested that if Modi was cautious. Why we accepted to insensitive and overbearing, leading to their the East Asia summit and for bilateral Pakistan did not cooperate, others could go discuss such a proposal in a working group in alienation and consequent opportunities for discussions with this strategically placed ahead without it, though under the SAARC the first place is a puzzle. Engagement with external powers to intervene at the cost of neighbour whose honeymoon with China is charter this is not possible and other China ought not to mean that we let it set the India's interests. Modi too began by reaching waning. countries may not support a strategy of agenda when the downsides to us of what it out to the neighbours, but in a manner not SAARC figures prominently in Modi's isolating Pakistan. seeks are clear. Equally importantly, he did anticipated. He invited all the SAARC leaders foreign policy vision. He invited all SAARC Modi seems to admire China's economic not back another pet proposal of Xi: the to his swearing-in, with the intention no leaders to his swearing-in ceremony, which achievements, which would not be surprising Maritime Silk Road, which is a repackaged doubt to signal that his elevation to power was unprecedented. It is true that SAARC is given China's spectacular rise. His several version of the notorious "string of pearls" would usher in a new era of South Asian one of the least integrated regions visits to China as Gujarat Chief Minister no strategy, as the joint statement omitted any relations, that the clear victory in elections of economically speaking, which means that the doubt gave him familiarity with the country mention of it. Since then China is pushing its a supposedly nationalist party did not denote potential of the region remains unexploited. and take its pulse. His view that economic One Belt One Road (OBOR) proposal which a more muscular policy towards neighbours This also means that external actors find it cooperation is the key driver in relations seeks to tie Asian and Eurasian economies to and that, on the contrary, India intended to easier to intrude into the loose equations in between countries and that all countries give China, create opportunities for Chinese work together with them to move the whole the subcontinent. While in terms of more importance to economic growth and companies to bag major projects in this region forward towards peace and prosperity. aspirations for the region, Modi is right in prosperity for their peoples than creating region financed by the Asian Infrastructure This gesture had most meaning for India- imagining a more tightly textured SAARC, conditions of conflict evidently guides his Investment Bank (AIIB) that China has Pakistan relations, and Nawaz Sharif's India's capacity to do this is limited in the thinking towards China. He was quick to floated. This ambitious concept is intended to decision to attend the swearing-in was face of Pakistani recalcitrance. A court China after assuming power, with establish China's hegemony in Asia and "rewarded" with the announcement of FS strengthened SAARC means a stronger reinforcement of economic ties as the outflank India strategically. level talks between the two countries. Indian role in it, which is anathema to a primary objective. The huge financial On a more positive side, during Xi's visit, Continuing the emphasis on the Pakistan that is obsessed with countering resources at China's disposal, its expertise in the two sides agreed to further consolidate neighbourhood, he chose Bhutan as the first Indian "hegemony" in South Asia. Pakistan infrastructure building, its need for external their Strategic and Cooperative Partnership, country to visit in June 2014. This made sense will be reduced to its true importance if it markets for off-loading the excess capacity it recognised that their developments goals are as Bhutan is the only neighbour that has not ceases to confront India, which is why it will has built in certain sectors has made interlinked and agreed to make this played an external card against us or continue its confrontational policies. it also cooperation with China a theoretically win- developmental partnership a core component politically resisted building ties of mutual means that Afghanistan will not be win situation. The Chinese Foreign Minister of this partnership. benefit. His August 2014 visit to Nepal made a adequately integrated into SAARC structures was the first foreign dignitary to be received To be continued in the next issue

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PESHAWAR (TIP): Militants blew up Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative a primary school for boys early this journalist Seymour Hersh has already termed the official morning in Pakistan's volatile Bajaur US account of the raid and Osama's killing as "a fairytale". Agency bordering Afghanistan. The BBC report by Jane Corbin, who has investigated al- No casualty was reported as no one Qaida and Osama for nearly two decades, claims there was was inside the building when the a conspiracy at the highest levels of the US and Pakistani explosion took place. government to assassinate him. Citing Hersh, who spoke The militants planted explosives in to Corbin about his article published in the London the government school building in Review of Books last month, the report says the ISI was Mamoond Tehsil and blew it up razing holding Osama prisoner for nearly six years in the it to the ground, officials said. garrison town of Abbottabad and just handed him over to Bajaur Agency is considered to be the Americans in a staged raid. the spiritual homeland of the Tehreek- e-Taliban Pakistan's top leadership. 4 moderate tremors About 116 schools have been destroyed by militants in Bajaur jolt Nepal Agency since 2005, but a large number KATHMANDU (TIP): Four moderate earthquakes with of schools have been reconstructed The vehicle of a local was also targeted with an improvised magnitudes between 4 and 5.2 jolted Nepal early on June with the help of military and other administration official, who went to explosive device (IED), the officials 17, taking the total number of aftershocks to 320 after the donor organisations, the officials said. investigate the bombing of the school, said. devastating earthquake struck the country on April 25. The first aftershock of 4.4 magnitude was recorded at 5.58 am (local time) with epicenter at Ramkot, 7 kilometers west of the capital Kathmandu. Bangladesh upholds death The aftershock was strong enough to get people out of their houses. A 5.2 magnitude tremor recorded at 6.14 am (local time) with epicenter at Sindhupalckowk district was shortly followed by another aftershock of magnitude 4 sentence of top Islamist with epicenter in the same area. The fourth tremor of 5.1 magnitude was recorded at 8 am (local time) with DHAKA (TIP): A top Bangladesh epicenter at Sindhupalchowk-Tibet border area. Islamist leader could be executed within Nepal is still recovering from two major quakes and months after the Supreme Court on June several aftershocks that have killed 8,800 people and left a 17 upheld his death sentence for war trail of destruction. crimes during the country's 1971 battle for independence against Pakistan. Malaysian oil tanker goes Chief Justice SK Sinha dismissed Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid's appeal missing with 22 crew members against hanging for one count of KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): A Malaysian tanker carrying murder, while commuting his death nearly 7.5 million litres of petrol has gone missing with 22 sentence for torture and a charge of crew members on board in the waters off southern Johor "extermination" of intellectuals in the state's east coast. Officials said the MT Orkim Harmony war. was sailing from Malacca to Kuantan when it disappeared "Souls of the war martyrs can finally on Thursday. now rest in peace after today's verdict," Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) prosecutor Mokhlesur Rahman Badal operation director (southern region) Ibrahim Mohamed told AFP outside the court. said the fuel that weighed some 6,000 tonnes was worth Security was tight ahead of Tuesday's reviewed by the same court or he is The court's ruling is a blow to the around 15 million ringit. The tanker had on board 22 crew ruling, with heavily armed police and granted clemency by the president. beleaguered opposition, thousands of members - 16 Malaysians, five Indonesians and a Myanmar border guards surrounding the court in But the court has swiftly dismissed whose leaders and supporters have been national. The search area now covered 20,000 sq km from Dhaka and patrolling nearby streets. previous reviews of two other senior detained as part of the Hasina Tanjung Penawar in Kota Tinggi to Mersing as well as the The 67-year-old is one of about a dozen Jamaat officials on death row, leading to government's crackdown in recent maritime territories of Singapore and Indonesia, the leaders of Bangladesh's largest Islamist their execution, the latest in April this months. official said. party, Jamaat-e-Islami, a key opposition year. The government has been attempting Prime Minister Najib Razak expressed his concern for group, convicted by a controversial war Those leaders also declined to seek to end an opposition campaign to force Orkim Harmony and its crew. "I am distressed by the news crimes tribunal set up by the secular clemency from the president, saying Hasina to resign and call fresh elections. of a missing Malaysian-owned tanker. I pray for the safety government in 2010. they did not recognise Hasina's The campaign has left scores dead of the 22-strong crew of which 16 are Malaysians. My The convictions have triggered the government. mainly in fire bomb attacks by thoughts are with their families. The Government will country's deadliest violence since When it became clear that Pakistan opposition activists. deploy our resources to locate it," he said. Earlier, in his independence with some 500 people was losing the war, dozens of The trials have divided the country Twitter account, Najib said the tanker was 'hijacked'. killed, mainly in clashes between intellectuals were abducted from their with the opposition and Jamaat protesters and police. homes and murdered in December 1971 branding them a sham aimed at Keen to work with Tamil Jamaat was expected to call a strike to in the most gruesome chapter of the eliminating their leaders rather than protest Tuesday's ruling, but widespread conflict. meting out justice. Secularists have diaspora for reconciliation, says violence by its activists was unlikely Their bodies were found blindfolded demanded the execution of all those following a recent crackdown against with their hands tied and dumped in a accused. Sri Lanka foreign minister the opposition by Prime Minister Sheikh marsh on the outskirts of the capital. Mujahid was a senior minister from COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka is keen to engage all Hasina's government. Defence lawyers have said Mujahid's 2001-2006 in a previous government led diaspora groups including Tamils in reconciliation efforts, Mujahid was found guilty in 2013 of name was not in the list of Al Badr by then prime minister Khaleda Zia. He foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera has said stressing leading Al Badr, a notorious pro- commanders or activists that was was an influential leader in the the new government does not want the country to return Pakistani militia that carried out published by the post-independence opposition alliance until his arrest in to another bloody conflict. killings of top Bangladeshi writers, government. 2011. Responding to opposition criticism of the recent talks journalists and professors towards the "We'll seek a review of the Supreme International rights groups, legal held in London with the diaspora, Samaraweera said the end of the nine-month war. Court judgement," defence lawyer experts and the opposition have government considered it is a vital need to engage with Prosecutors said Mujahid, Jamaat's Shishir Manir told AFP, adding they criticised the tribunal, saying its diaspora groups, especially those who hold extremist general secretary, now faces the gallows would make the appeal as soon as they procedures fall short of international views. within months unless his case is get the full copy of the verdict. standards. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 11

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The by a KFC customer in California has amendment, which was passed by a voice vote, requires gone viral, after he claimed he found a a twice-yearly report from the Director of National rat in his meal at the fast-food Intelligence on the possibilities for growing national restaurant. security cooperation between the US, India, and Israel. Former Child Development and "While the US already has robust national security Education student Devorise Dixon partnerships with both India and Israel, there are shared an image online of what many areas where opportunities exist to develop and appeared to be a rodent, complete with further grow these critical relationships," said Joseph a long tail, rotund belly, and pointy Crowley, a Democratic lawmaker from New York, who face. piloted the amendment. "This amendment Dixon warned his Facebook friends demonstrates the commitment of Congress to ensuring not to eat at KFC, and claimed that the that our national security strategies include expanding manager had apologised and said it was our cooperation with India and Israel, two of our most a rat. important friends in their respective regions." "It's time for a lawyer," he wrote, The move, an overt expression of what has largely adding: "Be safe don't eat fast food!!!" been under the radar so far, was clearly linked to the Describing the moment he began Modi's upcoming visit to Israel, something the eating what he believes was a rat, he lawmakers did not make a secret of. wrote on Facebook: "As I bit into it I in a statement on social media that no evidence to support this allegation. "With PM Modi's upcoming visit to Israel — a first noticed that it was very hard and Dixon has not responded to their We have extended the opportunity to for an Indian PM — we should seize on the opportunity rubbery which made me look at it. attempts to contact him. have an independent lab evaluate the to expand trilateral cooperation even further," said "As I looked down at it I noticed that The fast food giant said in a product at our own expense, but the Eliot Engel, another lawmaker from New York, which it was was in a shape of a rat with a statement seen by Yahoo News: "KFC customer refuses to provide the product is home to large Jewish and Indian populations. "This tail," he said. has made various attempts to contact in question." measure would make sure our intelligence community Dixon also shared a video of the 'rat' this customer, but he is refusing to talk KFC bosses told the Mirror that an is taking a hard look at areas of potential collaboration in an attempt to prove the original to us directly or through an attorney. investigation found no evidence to so that we can continue to build on this important photo wasn't tampered with. "Our chicken tenders often vary in support this claim, however they did partnership." However, KFC are skeptical and said size and shape, and we currently have not confirm what the food was made of. 6 killed in California balcony collapse during a party BERKELEY, CALIF (TIP): A 21st-birthday many people from Ireland here." party thrown by a group of visiting Irish "It's student-friendly, it's warm and it's a college students turned tragic early June 15 lot cheaper than San Francisco," she said. when the fifth-floor balcony they were Berkeley Police Chief Michael Neeham crammed onto collapsed with a sharp crack, said the response to the noise complaint had spilling them about 50 feet onto the been given a lower priority after police pavement. Six people were killed and seven received a call of shots fired elsewhere. seriously injured. Police arrived to find the metal-rail Police and fire and building officials were balcony had fallen off the side of the working to figure out why the small balcony building and landed on the fourth-floor broke loose from the side of the stucco balcony beneath it. The pavement was apartment house a couple of blocks from the strewn with rubble and the red plastic cups campus of the University of California, that are standard at practically every college Berkeley. But one structural engineer said it party. may have been overloaded if, as city officials Investigators will probably look at such said, it was holding 13 people. things as whether the balcony was built to High school student Jason Biswas' family code, whether it was overloaded and whether nearby was awakened by the noise. rain or other weather weakened it, said "They thought there was an earthquake, Francisco calling it a "national tragedy." 100,000 college students to this country every Kevin Moore, a San Francisco-based but then we looked out the window and saw Police had gotten a complaint about a loud year, many of them landing jobs at resorts, engineer and chairman of the structural seven or eight people on the ground," the 16- party in the apartment about an hour before summer camps and other attractions. The standards committee of the Structural year-old said. "There were piles of blood the accident but had not yet arrived when San Francisco Bay area is especially popular Engineers Association of California. everywhere." the balcony gave way just after 12:30 a.m., with Irish students, about 700 of whom are Berkeley officials said the building code Five of the dead were 21-year-olds from spokesman Byron White said. working and playing in the region this would have required the balcony to hold at Ireland who were in the country on so-called "I just heard a bang and a lot of shouting," summer, according to Ireland's Consul least 60 pounds per square foot. Its exact J-1 visas that enable young people to work said Dan Sullivan, a 21-year-old student from General Philip Grant. Many work at dimensions were not released, but Grace and travel in the U.S. over the summer, while Ireland who was asleep in the five-story Fisherman's Wharf and other tourist sites. Kang, a structural engineer and the sixth victim was from California, building. Mark Neville, another Irish student Sinead Loftus, 21, who attends Trinity spokeswoman for Pacific Earthquake authorities said. in the building, said: "I walked out and I saw College Dublin and is living this summer in Engineering Research Center at Berkeley, The news brought an outpouring of grief rubble on the street and a bunch of Irish a different apartment in Berkeley, said said it looked to her to be 4 by 6 feet, or 24 in Ireland from the prime minister on down, students crying." Berkeley is "the Irish hub." In fact, she said, square feet. That would mean it was with the country's consul general in San The U.S. government's J-1 program brings "I've heard people complain there are too supposed to hold at least 1,440 pounds. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com US FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 13 Facing backlash, US Muslims counter with new advertising campaign

SACRAMENTO (TIP): In California's Mohammad as a supporter of women's capital city of Sacramento this month, stark rights and religious tolerance. black billboards loomed over highways and "Kindness is a mark of faith," a billboard faded commercial strips, offering solace to in Elizabeth, New Jersey, reads. In Miami, the troubled: "Looking for the answers in another offers, "Muhammad believed in life?" one asked. "Discover Muhammad." peace, social justice, women's rights." With messages that are part religious Sharing that view of Mohammad is more invitation to explore the Muslim faith and important to ICNA than proselytizing, Syed part public relations, the billboards anchor said, though newcomers who want to a national campaign to showcase Islam as a convert would be welcomed. religion of love and tolerance, aimed at Muslims make up 0.9 percent of the US Muslims and non-Muslims alike. population, but the number is expected to But the campaign by the mainstream double by 2050, driven by immigration, high Islamic Circle of North America, which is birth rates and a young population, the Pew sponsoring billboards in other cities to Research Center says. publicize the Muslim prophet's message, The first wave of signs, including those in could also spark a backlash amid a spike in Sacramento and Los Angeles, came down anti-Islamic sentiment marked by protests, last week. New ones will be posted in San advertising campaigns and sometimes Francisco, Dallas and other cities in coming vandalism and violence. weeks. Despite tensions, the billboards have "We thought a proper approach would be not been defaced, and negative responses to actually educate the larger public about have been few, said Imam Khalid Griggs, his personality, which exemplifies love and vice president of ICNA and leader of a brotherhood," said Waqas Syed, ICNA mosque in North Carolina. Deputy Secretary General. especially in the US heartland, have sought two years ago invited Americans to see Last week, a group that fears radical The billboard campaign is not the first to draw Americans into their fold with similarities between Christianity and Islam, Islam will grow in the United States erected high-profile bid by a Muslim group to messages promoting Jesus as the Messiah, which views Jesus as a prophet but not as billboards around St. Louis showing cartoon bolster Islam's image in America, tarnished he said. the son of God as Christians do. A campaign drawings of Mohammad, meant to flout the by militant attacks. But it is the largest such Organizers said they launched the by another US Muslim group tried to show religion's ban on depicting his image. In effort by ICNA, the group most closely program as a response to a deadly Paris non-violent interpretations of jihad, such as February, a Washington, D.C. mosque was identified with billboard campaigns in attack by Islamist militants on the French a holy struggle to lead a moral life. vandalized twice in one week. recent years, and it includes some billboards satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Both campaigns prompted angry In Elizabeth, New Jersey, where one ICNA that are clearly evangelical. January over its anti-Muslim cartoons, responses, and in the case of the "My Jihad" billboard went up, Tyler Coltelli, a 23-year- "Under the circumstances, it's a pretty aiming their message in part at other campaign, an opposing group put up signs old Catholic, said the sign made him bold move," said Todd Green, a professor Muslims to say that violence is not an and billboards linking Islam with violence. uncomfortable: "You should be able to who studies Islamophobia, or fear of Islam, appropriate response to provocation. Message of peace, women's rights practice your own faith, but I don't at Luther College in Iowa. "When you're a By coincidence, the first billboards went necessarily agree with trying to convert minority religion, you face a lot of pressure up days after two US Muslim gunmen were The latest campaign, paid for by local people from the streets." from the majority population not to killed in May as they tried to attack a Texas ICNA chapters, will eventually include But Bodia Wardany, a parishioner at the proselytize." exhibit of cartoons depicting Mohammad, about 100 billboards from Philadelphia to Salam Islamic Center in Sacramento said: "I By asking Americans to discover and shortly before heavily armed anti-Islam Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami. think it's a great idea, considering all the Mohammad, the campaign is similar in protesters demonstrated outside a Phoenix Some signs, like those in Sacramento, are misperceptions about the faith and the some ways to efforts by evangelical mosque. clearly invitations to explore the Muslim terrorist, fanatical groups misrepresenting Christians whose roadside billboards, A previous billboard campaign by ICNA faith while others aim to portray the faith itself." $9BN-MAN DONALD TRUMP JOINS US Senate votes to ban torture WHITE HOUSE RUN WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate voted on June 15 to ban torture during interrogations, a measure aimed at WASHINGTON (TIP): "In America, meandered from the threat from China ending brutal techniques that were used on terror suspects anybody can be president. That's one of to job creation in the US to the Iraq War. following the 9/11 attacks of 2001. the risks you take," joked American He said his Republican opponents, The measure passed overwhelmingly, 78 votes to 21, with politician Adlai Stevenson, sometimes including Jeb Bush, don't have a clue all members of the Democratic caucus and 32 Republicans described as the greatest president US about running the country (although in support. They included Republican co-sponsor John never had. most of his opponents have been McCain, who was tortured in Vietnam, where he was a An already packed field of White governors and senators), while prisoner of war for more than five years after he was shot House aspirants got even more crowded suggesting his wealth, and the way he down over Hanoi in 1967. "This amendment provides on Tuesday with real estate mogul had gotten rich (by beating China all greater assurances that never again will the United States Donald Trump, a perennial presidential the time), made him fit to lead the follow that dark path of sacrificing our values for our hopeful, announcing that he too would country. "Our country is in serious short-term security needs," said McCain, who has pushed run for President in 2016. trouble. We don't have victories for years to end the practice.The ban passed in the form of Trump will run as a Republican, anymore," said the man who is called an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act becoming the 12th aspirant shooting for The Donald and is lately better known for 2016, which is under debate in Congress. The Senate the party nomination, although his as Reality Show host. and House would both have to pass the broader bill for the political affiliation is incidental. He Trump is polling about last in the torture ban to head to President Barack Obama's desk for represents wealth, extravaganza, and GOP presidential hopefuls list but that his signature, but that is a question mark. outsized hairdo and promises of was before he formally declared his The White House last month said Obama threatened to turning America into manna. He has candidature. His $9 billion fortune veto the defense bill because it short-changes key toyed with and threatened to run for could help bump him up to within the administration priorities. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who president so often in the past, going "So, ladies and gentlemen, I am top 10, which will allow him to come on led a years-long investigation on the use of torture and back to 1987, that no one would take officially running for president of the stage for a debate among Republicans. released a startling report late last year describing the him seriously. But on Tuesday, he took US, and we are going to make our From then on, all bets are off in a Central Intelligence Agency's use of brutal techniques the plunge from his lavish Trump country great again," he told a country that after all elected a freshman such as "waterboarding" and rectal feeding, also co- Tower in New York's Fifth Avenue. gathering in a rambling speech that African-American Senator as President. sponsored the torture measure. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 INDIA

HOME MINISTRY BRINGS IN TIGHTER NORMS FOR NO REASON TO FEAR AN NGOS TO TRACK FOREIGN EMERGENCY UNDER MODI FUNDS NEW DELHI (TIP): Non-governmental GOVT, SAYS ADVANI organisations will soon have to start furnishing details of foreign funds received and utilised by them NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP patriarch L K reporters. for 'civil rights advocacy', a new category created by Advani's statement that "forces that can "It is obvious whom he is talking the home ministry to ascertain whether NGOs are crush democracy are stronger" made in about, whose government is there, who using funds specifically for issues such as human the context of the Emergency imposed is the Prime Minister. He knows it. But rights, democratic rights, natural resources and by the Indira Gandhi government in he is a statesman-like leader of BJP. He religious discrimination. 1975, created a buzz in political circles did not want to name the Prime In addition to this, every NGO in the country will on June 18, with many interpreting it in Minister. But whoever reads the have to put out details on its website within a week of the present day context and suspecting it interview, would understand he is getting foreign contribution of any value while banks as a barb directed at the Narendra Modi talking about Modi," Vadakkan said. will have to report all such receipts to the government government. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar within 48 hours of the transfer from abroad. While both BJP and RSS dismissed said he agreed with Advani who These requirements are part of the proposals under the "interpretation", opposition parties expressed fear over return of an exercise initiated by the Prime Minister's Office to from Congress to Aam Aadmi Party Emergency in the country by saying tighten monitoring of NGOs. A fortnight after ETfirst sought to play up the issue saying they that "forces that can crush democracy reported on June 4 the planned move on PMO's shared the BJP veteran's concern. the political leadership is not mature. I have become stronger". His colleague instructions to amend the Foreign Contribution "Advani ji is correct in saying that don't have faith because of its JD(U)leader K C Tyagi, who was also (Regulation) Rules (FCRR), 2011, the home ministry emergency can't be ruled out. Is Delhi weaknesses. I don't have the confidence imprisoned with Advani during has put in public domain the proposed changes to their first experiment?" Delhi chief that it (Emergency) cannot happen Emergency, said "I agree with Advaniji these rules following the Intelligence Bureau's inputs minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted. The again." that circumstances like Emergency and to it to "improve oversight and increase transparency" AAP government and the Centre are Commenting on Advani's remarks, context are still alive and the reasons in the working of the NGO sector in India. right now locked in a power struggle RSS leader M G Vaidya said he did not that lead to Emergency are not finished As per existing norms, NGOs are required to inform with neither side willing to blink. see it as a message to the Modi yet." the government through their annual returns under Advani said he had spoken "precisely government. "I don't feel anything like SP leader Naresh Aggarwal 55 heads of 'purposes' for which foreign aid has been about the Emergency in the interview, that. He (Advani) is quite senior in age remarked that if Advani has expressed received and utilised by them. There was a 56th and there is absolutely no reason to and experience. So he can talk to Modi. a worry then it was for the government 'purpose', 'of activities other' than the 55 purposes. interpret it in the present day context, as He is part of BJP's Margdarshak to consider it seriously as a veteran The home ministry has created a new category of there is no reference to it. I have spoken Mandal. I don't think he has an intention member of their party has expressed a such 'purposes', Civil Rights Advocacy, increasing the only about Emergency." of sending a message to Modi through concern like this. total number of purposes to 84. "At the present point of time, the an interview." CPI MP D Raja shared the concerns Under the new category, NGOs will have to specify forces that can crush democracy, BJP spokesperson M J Akbar also said expressed by Advani saying the Modi whether they received any funds and utilised them for notwithstanding the constitutional and it was not aimed at individuals but at government was undermining purposes such as "human rights, caste/religious legal safeguards, are stronger," Advani institutions. "I think Advanji was Parliament and other institutions. discrimination, tribal/indigenous people's rights, said in a newspaper interview that referring to institutions rather than to Reacting to Advani's remarks, he democratic rights, public accountability, issues appeared on June 18. individuals and he was talking wanted to know as to whom the senior regarding natural resources, climate change, cyber In the years since the Emergency in completely in the context of the days of BJP leader had in mind when he talked security, internet freedom, criminal justice system, 1975-77, he said, "I don't think anything Emergency. I respect his views, but I about the possibility of imposition of communication strategy etc". has been done that gives the assurance personally don't see Emergency, any Emergency. "He should come out The ministry has created yet another category, that civil liberties will not be suspended chance of any Emergency being re- openly if he was serious about the 'Research', under which NGOs will have to specify or destroyed again. Not at all." imposed in the country. I think that age issue he was raising. At least during spending of foreign funds on research, seminars, "Of course, no one can do it easily... is over, Indian democracy is too strong, the time the late Indira Gandhi conferences, publications and lectures. "The effort is But that it cannot happen again... I will much stronger now," he said. imposed Emergency she had blamed to ascertain specifically for what a NGO is getting not say that. It could be that However, Congress spokesperson the opposition. Now fears are being foreign funds and what is it being spent on rather fundamental liberties are curtailed Tom Vadakkan latched on to Advani's raised from within," he said. Raja than leaving it uncertain," a senior home ministry again," the former deputy PM, now a remarks saying the "jury is out" from accused the government of official said. member of BJP's Margdarshak Mandal the ruling party itself and he was undermining Parliament by re- The government has a provision to act against an said. Advani was incarcerated during indeed hinting at "Emergency-like" promulgating the land ordinance for a NGO if any false information or concealment of the Emergency along with a number of situation under Modi's rule. "Today the third time even when a House material facts comes to light. The ministry had other opposition stalwarts of his time. jury is out. Advaniji is vocal. What he committee was going into a bill on the earlier suspended Greenpeace India's foreign funding Advani said, "Today, I do not say that had to say, he has said," he told subject. saying the NGO derailed the Mahan coal project and would indulge next in "protest-creation" to target eight other plants, potentially impacting 40,000 mw of AMID LALITGATE ROW, RAJE CANCELS ANANDPUR power generation. hat also reflects in another proposed change in SAHIB AVOIDS MEETING AMIT SHAH FCCR rules in the form which has to be filled up JAIPUR (TIP): Amid raging Lalitgate scheduled to share the dais with BJP continue in office after helping the online for registration or renewal of licence for row, Rajasthan chief minister chief Amit Shah and Union home former IPL chairman who is facing NGOs. The government has introduced a new Vasundhara Raje on June 19 cancelled minister Rajnath Singh at the function money laundering and other charges. declaration that NGOs must make that the foreign aid her visit to Punjab where she would in Anandpur Sahib celebrating 350 years However, Rajasthan health minister received by them will not be used for any activities have come face-to-face with BJP of the key Sikh shrine. Significance was Rajendra Rathore rejected demands for "detrimental to national interest, likely to affect president Amit Shah for the first time being attached to the meeting as none of Raje's resignation, saying the entire public interest, or likely to prejudicially affect the since the damaging revelations. the BJP central leaders or the national BJP and party MLAs were with security, scientific, strategic or economic interest of "Due to back pain, the chief minister's government have come to her defence her. the state", leaving it to the discretion of the state to doctor has advised her to take rest so since the issue came out in public. "The entire BJP be it at the Centre or determine a violation. she has cancelled her visit to Punjab Raje had spoken to Shah over phone the state are with her. She has been NGOs will have to also submit details of any social today," Raje's press advisor said. on Wednesday to explain her position. leading us and will continue to do so. media account on Facebook or Twitter that it is Raje, who is embroiled in a Congress has been demanding her The entire legislature party is standing operating, an apparent effort to keep tabs on social controversy over allegedly favouring immediate resignation along with that of strongly with her. Our leadership is media campaigns. tainted IPL chief Lalit Modi's external affairs minister Sushma standing by her. The question of her immigration plea in London, was Swaraj, saying they have no right to resignation does not arise," he had said. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com INDIA FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 15 SC GRANTS BAIL TO SUBRATA ROY, BUT NO RELEASE Day after Vaghela, CBI WITHOUT PAYING RS 10,000 CR NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme court on June 19 granted bail registers preliminary to jailed Sahara group chief Subrata Roy but said he would be released from Tihar Jail only after the group paid up Rs 10,000 crore, half in cash and half through bank guarantee. The SC said on the day Roy meets the condition he would be enquiry against Himachal released and from then and in the next 18 months, he has to pay up the rest of the amount, which is around Rs 20,000 crore more. The Rs 20,000 crore amount has to be paid in 9 equal CM in assets case instalments and one instalment every two months. If he failed to pay three instalments, not necessarily NEW DELHI (TIP): A day after it consecutive, Roy would be taken back into custody, the court filed an FIR against former Union warned. Textiles Minister Shankarsinh The SC also said in the event of Roy's release, he would deposit Vaghela, the CBI June 18 registered a his passport and cannot go out of India without prior permission preliminary enquiry (PE) against of court. former Union Steel Minister The court also asked him to report to Tilak Marg police station Virbhadra Singh and his family in New Delhi every fortnight. members to probe his “unexplained The SC extended communication and conference facility to Roy income of Rs 6.1 crore.” in Tihar jail for another eight weeks. The CBI’s PE has been registered against Singh — who is presently the Days after Indian cross border chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, his wife Pratibha, son Vikramaditya, strike, Myanmar shifts militant daughter Aparajita, LIC agent Anand Chauhan and others. camps near ‘fenced’ border According to a CBI source, “The Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh. PE has been registered against Singh and the others to enquire, and daughter, showing the same as vendetta politics” “It is merely a from a disproportionate assets agricultural income,” the source witch-hunting by the NDA perspective, into his unexplained said. government at the behest of former income of approximately Rs 6.1 Sources also claimed that in 2012, Himachal CM Prem Kumar crore amassed during the period Singh filed revised Income Tax Dhumal. I have already submitted 2009 to 2011, during which he was Returns (ITRs) for assessment Income Tax details to authorities the Union Steel Minister.”“It was years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12, concerned,” Singh said. But alleged that Virbhadra Singh, while revising his income from Rs 7.35 sources said the revised income serving as the Steel Minister, had lakh to Rs 2.21 crore, Rs 15 lakh to that Singh has shown to be from invested his ill-gotten income Rs 2.8 crore and Rs 25 lakh to Rs agricultural sources, is through LIC agent Anand Chauhan 1.55 crore respectively in the disproportionate to the income that NEW DELHI (TIP): Days after special forces of the Indian Army by obtaining LIC policies in his revised ITRs. But Singh was quick could have been generated from his carried out cross-border strikes on three insurgent camps located name, and in the names of wife, son to term the CBI action as “BJP’s agricultural assets. in Myanmar, the neighbouring country has shifted six camps manned by various insurgent groups to Chin province, where the border between the two nations is heavily guarded, said a senior government official. The camps — which belong to various Deities at Jagannath temple in insurgent groups like Indian PLA, UNLF, KYKL, MNRF — were reportedly located in and around Tamu area in northern Myanmar, near the borders of Nagaland and Manipur. “The camps have been relocated to the Chin province, which is Puri replaced after 19 years in near the Mizoram border. The chances of insurgent groups crossing over to India from Mizoram side is unlikely as the border here is properly fenced and guarded, unlike the border with elaborate ceremony Nagaland and Manipur,” said the official. “We have been informed by authorities in Myanmar that they have shifted the camps to the PURI (TIP): The four deities in the Nabakalebara process started on “It was an emotional moment for Chin province as part of their commitment to help India fight the 12th century Jagannath temple in Puri March 29 with the servitor starting us,” said Jagannath Swain Mohapatra, insurgent groups,” said a senior government official. were replaced earlier this week with their journey for the search of neem one of the four servitors who new ones after 19 years with four trees from which the idols were transferred the Brahmapadartha(soul) Modi wishes Rahul Gandhi on temple servitors infusing life into carved. This time, the neem trees were from the old idol to the new. “It was a them, marking the end of the two and found in Jagatsinghpur and Khurda very difficult task to do as we had to his birthday, Rahul says thanks half month old process of districts. bid goodbye to the old idols.” NEW DELHI (TIP): From Bollywood actors to world leaders, Nabakalebara festival. Four Badagrahis (body protector- Mohapatra did the ritual for Lord Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes it a point to wish them on “The events since last night is most cum-servitors) transferred soul from Jagannath. During the transfer of the their birthdays on Twitter. significant part of the Nabakalebara, the old idols into the new idols of Lord soul, eyes and hands of the servitors Today, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi added to that list. during which the soul of the Lord was Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Goddess were covered with cloth-bands so that The PM wished Rahul on the latter’s 45th birthday today, praying transferred,” said chief servitor of the Subhadra and Lord Sudarshan made they can’t touch and see the for his ‘good health and long life.’ temple, Gajapati Maharaj Dibyasingh from neem wood this afternoon after Brahmapadarthas at the time of their In the general elections last year, both leaders had squared off Dev, who participated in some parts of an elaborate ritual that started last transfer. The old idols were buried in in a bitter contest that saw vicious attacks against each other. ritual last night inside the temple. The night. Though it was supposed to Koilibaikuntha (also known as the Unlike previous birthdays, Rahul is set to celebrate the special Nabakalebara (re-embodiment) of the happen at night under cover of graveyard of the deities) area of the day in India. On previous occasions, he has always travelled fours deities, replacing the old idols darkness, the process was inordinately temple premises. Like post-death abroad to celebrate his birthday. This year is clearly different. with new ones – is an elaborate delayed as the carved idols could not rituals in Hindu households, the Rahul, who has battled a string of defeats for his party starting process in which they relinquish their be made ready before midnight. Since servitors who took part in last night’s with the massive loss in the parliamentary elections last year, had old bodies and assume a new one. last night the temple was shut for event, would get tonsured after 10 days set out on a sabbatical earlier this year. After two months, he came The Nabakalebara is observed in a everyone except 100-odd servitors who and mourn the death of old idols. “It’s back rejuvenated, setting out on padyatras in rural hamlets and gap of 12 to 19 years. The last time took part in the process till the gates unparallelled anywhere in the world,” cornering the government in Parliament. Nabakalebara happened in 1996. The opened at 5.20 pm. said the Gajapati Maharaj. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 FEATURE

ather's day is a festival inaugurated in the early 20th century to honor fathers Fand forefathers. This festival is celebrated in many countries all across the world to express gratitude for fathers. This festival is celebrated by gifting cards, FATHER’S DAY bouquets, artificial flowers, quotations, show pieces and other thoughtful gifts to their dear dad. Father's Day is celebrated on third Sunday in the month of June. The idea of Father's day celebration was first given in 1909 by Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, a loving daughter from Spokane USA. Sonora, who was very much attached to her father Mr William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran. She felt that if there is a day to honor mother then there should also be a day to honor father. Sonora struggled relentlessly to make the idea a reality. Finally, in 1972, President Richard Nixon made Father's Day a national observance. Today, Father's Day is celebrated in several countries across the globe. Though the date and manner of celebration differ, every where people take opportunity of the day to honor their father and express love for them. History of Father's Day

History of Father's Day Festival as seen today is not even a hundred years old. Thanks to the hard work and struggle of Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Washington that just as we have set aside Mother's Day to honor mothers we have a day to acknowledge the important role played by the father. However, some scholars opine that Father's granted. Celebration of Father's Day makes person in the family. For daughters, fathers diverting to a wrong path and guide them on Day history is much older than we actually them ponder for a while on the important are the first men they adore and fall in love a road to success and virtue. For many of us believe it to be. They say that the custom of role their father play in their life. This helps with. While for sons their fathers are the fathers have always been there to solve our honoring dad's on a special day is over 4,000 them appreciate the selfless care and strongest person they know and someone innumerous mathematics and science years old. protection provided by their father and hence they aspire to emulate. Even for the problems and explain the same formula Earliest History of Father's Day they come emotionally closer to their dad. grownups fathers are someone whom they hundredth time or better still until it is Children must therefore take full look up to for the most experienced and understood by us. Fathers would never ever Scholars believe that the origin of Father's opportunity of the day and express their honest advice that is always in the best of give a smallest of hint to let us know how Day is not a latest phenomenon, as many gratitude for fathers with all their heart. The our interest. For this great figure in our life hard they work to take care of our needs and believe it to be. Rather they claim that the best way to do so is to do small things that that we know as father - it becomes our fulfill even the most whimsical of demands... tradition of Father's Day can be traced in the daddy appreciates and by saying “I love you, utmost duty to pay our humblest tribute on For all their adorable scolding and ruins of Babylon. They have recorded that a Papa” with a gift of beautiful flower. the occasion of Father's Day. affectionate punishments we all owe a big young boy called Elmesu carved a Father's Tribute to Father Say Thanks to Dad thanks to our Dads. Day message on a card made out of clay Apologize to Dad nearly 4,000 years ago. Elmesu wished his "Honor your father and mother.” This is Children blessed with a loving Babylonian father good health and a long life. the first of the Ten Commandments that ends father should consider themselves Father's Day also brings with it the Though there is no record of what happened with a promise. And this is the promise: If fortunate. For, they have someone wonderful opportunity to apologize for all to Elmesu and his father but the tradition of you honor your father and to take care of their needs and our rude and insensitive behavior. We as celebrating Father's Day remained in several mother, "you will live a long interests. Someone to stop them children often take the love and affection of countries all over the world. life, full of blessing.” And when they are our parents for granted and treat them with Importance now a word to you fathers. outright contempt. We need to apologize. We Don't make your children must feel great to have the presence of loving Father's Day festival is considered angry by the way you father in our lives and do not disrespect the extremely important as it help acknowledge treat them. Rather, bring blessing of God on us. On Father's Day we the contribution of fathers to individual them up with the must says “Sorry” to our Dad and seek their families and to societies as large. Besides discipline and forgiveness for our wrong behavior. observance of Father's Day provide children instruction approved by an opportunity to express love and respect the Lord. Ephesians Celebrate the day for their fathers. The sentiment goes a long Chapter 6 verses 2 - 4. way in strengthening father-child Fathers are the We must make all efforts to celebrate relationship and consequently in the biggest source of Father's Day with our Dad. Children staying emotional development of a child. strength for a away from father must especially strive to Significance child. The spend the day with father and show gratitude innocent eyes of for all their support and love. We must Father's Day festival give us the a child perceive pamper father by spending the day in a opportunity to express thanks to our Daddy father as the manner he likes most. It could be going out for all their unconditional love and affection. all-powerful, for a picnic or indulging him with a gourmet Observance of Father's Day makes fathers most meal. We can also express love with feel that their contributions are knowledge, thoughtful gifts accompanied by a bouquet acknowledged in the society and also by their truly of his favorite flowers. The idea is to show children. They feel proud of themselves ! affectionate our affection and tell Daddy how much he Besides by celebrating Father's Day, children and the is loved and appreciated not just on come closer to their father. For, most often most Father's Day but every single day of our children take love of their parents for important lives. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com FEATURE FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 17 HIGHER REACHES OF YOGA

ou are healthy, fairly happy, and well- settled in life. Yet, there is a vague Yvacuum, a nagging feeling that there should be more to life. This amorphous condition ails many, often unbeknown even to them, but is known in psychiatry and psychology, more so in the past few decades The hierarchy of needs in the model of human development postulated by Abraham Maslow, when at least one of the streams of an American psychologist. The peak in this pyramid almost converges with the higher states psychology started looking beyond mental of consciousness as described in mystic traditions. illness at enhancing life and happiness, if not Actualization as postulated by Maslow and exist. imbuing life with meaning. Self-Realization as in spirituality, with the Mystics and munis would rather say that That stream is known as Humanistic former having to do with higher levels of it is Immanent God that permeates Psychology-Transpersonal Psychology, which fulfillment at the personality level, while still everything. As Pope Francis wrote this week goes beyond the established Freudian and in relation to worldliness. Self-Realization has in his encyclical (a controversial document behaviorist schools. The most well known of to do with that knowing of pure because it calls upon the human world to the third school has been Abraham Maslow consciousness (or many other such terms), combat climate change to save the earth), (1908-1970), an American psychologist who which is beyond, transcendent, or "The universe unfolds in God, who fills it introduced a model of developmental transpersonal. Maslow, too, in his later years, completely.Hence, there is a mystical psychology that has become well known not expanded his model to include the higher meaning to be found in a leaf, in a mountain only in the field of psychology, but also in levels of human experience. trail, in a dewdrop, in a poor person's face." management and other human sciences. It But the bliss and beatitude that we see and The Pope quotes a ninth century mystical describes five developmental stages, which sense in depictions of a Buddha, Mahavir, Muslim poet Ali-al-Khawas to bridge the gap are based on what Maslow calls human needs. Nanak, Jesus or Krishna seem many times between the creatures of the world and the Thus, his model is known as Maslow's more. That is because they have attained interior experience of God: "The initiate will hierarchy of needs and depicted as a enlightenment (often shown in pictures as a capture what is being said when the wind pyramid. halo) where they are able to sustain the bliss, blows, the trees sway, water flows, flies buzz, At the base of this pyramid is the transcendence, the pure consciousness doors creak, birds sing, or in the sound of Physiological Needs, including food, water, alongside other three states of consciousness. strings or flutes, the sighs of the sick, the air, and sleep. And then on to Safety Needs Guru Nanak described it as 'naam khumari groans of the afflicted." By Parveen Chopra Social Needs and Esteem Needs. At the peak Nanka chadi rahe din raat'. Most of us, caught as we are in our daily is the need for Self-Actualization. In between A still higher state of consciousness is struggles, transient desires, grasping at this (The author is the founder of India's first Esteem and Self-Actualization needs, Maslow when pure consciousness experienced within and that, have no time and inclination to take also later acknowledged the needs for is also witnessed as the stuff of which the road not taken - not in these times of ever- spiritual magazine, Life Positive, and a aesthetics and knowledge. everything in the universe - animate and present distractions of text messages and teacher of meditation. He is currently Point to be noted is that what the most inanimate- is made of. I am That, Thou art YouTube videos and many forms of instant based in New York and working as enlightened, modern psychology is asserting That, All This is That - declare the three Veda gratification. But the untrodden path managing editor of The South Asian lately has been addressed eons ago by the mahavakyas, containing the highest promises untold riches, and sublime yogic sciences of India. Here we are, of knowledge uttered so simply yet profoundly. experience beyond the reach of our ordinary Times. He can be reached at course, talking about authentic yoga, which Science and spirituality are converging again mind and intellect. The mystic streams of parveen.chopra @gmail.com) while possibly including body work or asana- because Quantum Theory too has reached the major world religions offer the wherewithal pranayama as a foundation, is actually about point where the source of all matter and to guide the seeker on the odyssey and encountering, examining, exploring, energy is described as a vacuum, a shining examples in the many prophets and This is the final article in run up to the integrating and transcending the many nothingness that contains all the possibilities men of God who scaled the higher reaches of International Yoga Day on June 21. For levels, currents and crosscurrents of mind of everything that has ever existed or could yoga and lived to tell the world. earlier articles, please visit and consciousness. www.theindianpanorama.com Most of us routinely experience three states of consciousness, namely, sleep, waking and dreaming states. In meditation, even a novice has flashes of a fourth state, when you subjectively feel you had blanked out, but coming out it did not feel like sleep. Brain wave pattern using the electro- encephalogram will confirm that you were not sleeping, you were alert yet in a deep state of rest. In yoga they call the state Samadhi. It is better understood as pure consciousness - you are conscious, not of anything outside or inside, but of consciousness itself. It is like the snake eating its own tail. Beyond time and space, samadhi is transcendence of our mundane experience. Perhaps the craving for this transcendence goads so many to experiment with drugs, in particular psychedelics. There is also bliss. It is, however, important to note that there is a great difference between the terms Self- www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 FEATURE Everything you always wanted to know about Yoga Indus Valley Civilization has proven itself to cater to both material and spiritual uplift of humanity. A number of seals and fossil remains of Indus Valley Civilization with Yogic motifs and figures performing Yoga s?dhana suggest the presence of Yoga in ancient India. utilize the mind; Bhakti Yoga where we utilize the emotion and Kriya Yoga where we utilize the energy.Each system of Yoga we practice falls within the gamut of one or more of these categories. Every individual is a unique combination of these four factors. Only a guru (teacher) can advocate the appropriate combination of the four practices and literature. Yoga has spread all over the world by the teachings of eminent Yoga masters from ancient times to the present date. Today,everybody has conviction about Yoga practices towards the prevention of disease, maintenance and promotion of health. Millions and "In essence, Yoga is a process of creating millions of people across the globe have benefited by the practice a body and mind that are stepping- of Yoga and the practice of Yoga is blossoming and growing more vibrant with each passing day. Yoga in the White House. US First Lady Michelle Obama has stones, not hurdles, to an exuberant and promoted Yoga in the White House fulfilling life." Traditional schools of Yoga The different philosophies, traditions, lineages and guru- lukewarm water if you feel weak. shishya paramparas of Yoga led to the emergence of different ● Bladder and bowels should be empty before starting Yogic What is Yoga? traditional schools. These include Jn?na Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, practices. Yoga is essentially a spiritual discipline based on an extremely Karma Yoga, Patanjala Yoga, Kund? a? lini Yoga, Ha?ha Yoga, ● A mattress, Yoga mat, durrie or folded blanket should be subtle science which focuses on bringing harmony between Dhyana Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Laya Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jain Yoga, used for the practice. mind and body.It is an art and science for healthy living. The Bouddha Yoga etc. Each school has its own approach and ● Light and comfortable cotton clothes are preferred to word "Yoga" is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj meaning "to practices that lead to the ultimate aim and objectives of Yoga. facilitate easy movement of the body. join", "to yoke" or "to unite". According to Yogic scriptures, the The widely practiced Yoga sadhanas are: Yama, Niyama, ● Yoga should not be performed in state of exhaustion, practice of Yoga leads to the union of individual consciousness ?sana, Pr?n?y?ma, Praty?hara, Dh?rana, Dhy?na, Sam?dhi, illness, in a hurry or in acute stress conditions. with universal consciousness. According to modern scientists, Bandhas and Mudras, Shatkarmas, Yukt?h?ra, Mantra-japa, ● In case of chronic disease/ pain/ cardiac problems, a everything in the universe is just a manifestation of the same Yukta-karma etc. Yamas are restraints and Niyamas are physician or a Yoga therapist should be consulted prior to quantum firmament. One who experiences this oneness of observances. These are considered to be pre-requisites for performing Yogic practices. existence is said to be "in Yoga" and is termed as a yogi who has further Yogic practices. ?sanas, capable of bringing about ● Yoga experts should be consulted before doing Yogic attained a state of freedom, referred to as mukti, nirv?na, stability of body and mind, "kuryat-tadasanam- sthairyam", practices during pregnancy and menstruation. kaivalya or moksha. involve adopting various psycho-physical body patterns and "Yoga" also refers to an inner science comprising of a variety DURING THE PRACTICE giving one an ability to maintain a body position (a stable of methods through which human beings can achieve union ● awareness of one's structural existence) for a considerable Practice sessions should start with a prayer or invocation between the body and mind to attain self-realization. The aim of length of time. as it creates a conducive environment to relax the mind. Yoga practice (sadhana) is to overcome all kinds of sufferings ● Pranayama consists of developing awareness of one's Yogic practices shall be performed slowly,in a relaxed that lead to a sense of freedom in every walk of life with holistic breathing followed by willful regulation of respiration as the manner, with awareness of the body and breath. health, happiness and harmony. ● functional or vital basis of one's existence. It helps in developin Breathing should be always through the nostrils unless Brief history and development of Yoga awareness of one's mind and helps to establish control over the instructed otherwise. ● Do not hold body tightly,or jerk the body at any point of The science of Yoga has its origin thousands of years ago, mind. In the initial stages, this is done by developing awareness time. long before the first religion or belief systems were born. of the "flow of in-breath and out-breath" (sv?sa-prasv?sa) ● Perform the practices according to your own capacity.·It According to Yogic lore, Shiva has seen as the first yogi or through nostrils, mouth and other body openings, its internal takes some time to get good results, so persistent and ?diyogi and the first guru or ?diguru. Several thousand years and external pathways and destinations. Later, this phenomenon regular practice is very essential. ago, on the banks of lake Kantisarovar in the Himalayas, ?diyogi is modified, through regulated, controlled and monitored ● There are contra-indications/ limitations for each Yoga poured his profound knowledge into the legendary saptarishis or inhalation (sv?sa) leading to the awareness of the body space practice and such contra-indications should always be kept "seven sages". These sages carried this powerful Yogic science to getting filled (puraka), the space(s) remaining in a filled state in mind. different parts of the world including Asia, the Middle East, (kumbhaka) and it getting emptied (rechaka) during regulated, ● Yoga session should end with meditation/ deep silence / northern Africa and South America. Interestingly,modern controlled and monitored exhalation (prasv?sa). Praty?hara ?h?nti pa?ha. scholars have noted and marveled at the close parallels found indicates dissociation of one's consciousness (withdrawal) from between ancient cultures across the globe. However, it was in the sense organs which connect with the external objects. AFTER THE PRACTICE India that the Yogic system found its fullest expression. Agastya, Dh?rana indicates broad based field of attention (inside the body Bath may be taken only after 20-30 minutes of practice. the saptarishi who traveled across the Indian subcontinent, and mind) which is usually understood as concentration. ● Food may be consumed only after 20-30 minutes of crafted this culture around a core Yogic way of life. Dhy?na (meditation) is contemplation (focused attention practice. Yoga is widely considered as an "immortal cultural outcome" inside the body and mind) and Sam?dhi (integration). of the Indus Saraswati Valley Civilization - dating back to 2700 Bandhas and Mudras are practices associated with FOOD FOR THOUGHT BC - and has proven itself to cater to both material and spiritual Pr?n?y?ma. They are viewed as the higher yogic practices that A few dietary guidelines can ensure that the body and mind uplift of humanity.A number of seals and fossil remains of mainly adopt certain physical gestures along with control over are flexible and well-prepared for practice. A vegetarian diet is Indus Saraswati Valley Civilization with Yogic motifs and figures respiration. This further facilitates control over mind and paves usually recommended, and for a person over 30 years, two meals performing Yoga sadhana suggest the presence of Yoga in way for higher Yogic attainment. However, practice of dhy?na, a day should suffice, except in cases of illness or very high ancient India. The seals and idols of mother Goddess are which moves one towards self-realization and leads one to physical activity or labor. suggestive of Tantra Yoga. The presence of Yoga is also available transcendence, is considered the essence of Yoga S?dhana. HOW YOGA CAN HELP in folk traditions, Vedic and Upanishadic heritage, Buddhist and ?a?karmas are detoxification procedures that are clinical in Yoga is essentially a path to liberation from all bondage. Jain traditions, Darshanas, epics of Mahabharata including nature and help to remove the toxins accumulated in the body. However, medical research in recent years has uncovered many Bhagawadgita and Ramayana, theistic traditions of Shaivas, Yukt?h?ra advocates appropriate food and food habits for healthy physical and mental benefits that Yoga offers, corroborating the Vaishnavas and Tantric traditions. Though Yoga was being living. experiences of millions of practitioners. A small sampling of practiced in the pre-Vedic period, the great sage Maharishi General Guidelines for Yoga Practice research shows that: Patanjali systematized and codified the then existing Yogic A Yoga practitioner should follow the guiding principles given ● Yoga is beneficial for physical fitness, musculoskeletal practices, its meaning and its related knowledge through below while performing Yogic practices: functioning and cardio-vascular health. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. ● It is beneficial in the management of diabetes, respiratory After Patanjali, many sages and Yoga masters contributed BEFORE THE PRACTICE disorders, hypertension, hypotension and many lifestyle greatly for the preservation and development of the field ● Sauca means cleanliness - an important prerequisite for related disorders. through well documented Yogic practice. It includes cleanliness of surroundings, ● Yoga helps to reduce depression, fatigue, anxiety disorders Fundamentals of Yoga body and mind. and stress. ● Yogic practice should be performed in a calm and quiet Yoga works on the level of one's body,mind, emotion and ● Yoga regulates menopausal symptoms. atmosphere with a relaxed body and mind. energy.This has given rise to four broad classifications of Yoga: ● In essence, Yoga is a process of creating a body and mind ● Yogic practice should be done on an empty stomach or Karma Yoga where we utilize the body; Jn?na Yoga where we that are stepping-stones, not hurdles, to an exuberant and light stomach. Consume small amount of honey in fulfilling life. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com FEATURE FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 19 Modern Masters of YOGA Starting with Swami Vivekandanda, Sri Aurobindo, and Paramahansa Yogananda down to the ones in our time like Swami Muktananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - though exponents of the Yoga-Vedanta tradition, they would be categorized as spiritual masters. Here we compile thumbnail sketches of modern yoga masters.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. He has been credited with established him as an authority on Hatha and Raja yoga. He is considered "The popularizing yoga, first in India and then around the world, Vishnudevananda was a tireless peace activist who rode in Father of Modern Yoga. with his headquarters in Pune. His use of yoga aids like several "peace flights" over places of conflict, including the Certainly, one of the most ropes and blocks during asana practice was innovative. Berlin Wall prior to German reunification. influential yoga teachers of Iyengar was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991, the Padma Yogi Bhajan (1929 - 2004) the 20th century and is Bhushan in 2002 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2014. In 2004, credited with the revival of Iyengar was named one of the 100 most influential people in Harbhajan Singh Khalsa hatha yoga. the world by Time magazine. (later Yoga Bhajan) was born While under the patronage Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (1915- 2009) in 1929 into a Sikh family in of the Maharaja of Mysore, Gujranwala district, in what Krishnamacharya traveled Gurubhai of BKS Iyengar, he developed the popular style of is now Pakistan's province of around India giving lectures yoga referred to as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga, Punjab. He was a spiritual and demonstrations to which has been popular in the West. In 1948, Jois established leader and entrepreneur who promote yoga, including such feats as stopping his heartbeat. the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore. In his book introduced Kundalini Yoga to He is widely considered as the architect of vinyasa, in the "Yoga Mala" he recommends staying 5-8 breaths in a posture, the United States. He was the sense of combining breathing with movement. Underlying all or, staying for as long as possible in a posture. Breathing spiritual director of the 3HO of Krishnamacharya's teachings was the principle "Teach instructions given are to do rechaka and puraka (exhale and (Healthy, Happy, Holy what is appropriate for an individual." inhale) as much as possible. Organization) Foundation, Some of Krishnamacharya's students include many of Sivananda Saraswati (1887 - 1963) with over 300 centers in 35 yoga's most renowned teachers: his son T.K.V.Desikachar countries. Under his (born 1938), Indra Devi (1899-2002), K. Pattabhi Jois (1915- Swami Sivananda was a influence, tens of thousands turned to Sikh way of life. He 2009), and brother-in-law B. K. S. Iyengar (1918-2014). Hindu spiritual teacher and passed away in Espanola, New Mexico. B.K.S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) a proponent of Yoga and Satyananda Saraswati/Bihar School of Yoga (1923 - Vedanta. Born Kuppuswami 2009) in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, he studied He was a sannyasin, yoga teacher and guru in both his medicine and served in native India and the West. He was a student of Sivananda British Malaya as a Saraswati, and founded the Bihar School of Yoga in 1964 in physician for several years Munger, Bihar. He wrote over 80 books, including Asana before taking up Pranayama Mudra Bandha. In 1988 he handed over the active monasticism. He lived most work of his ashram and organization to his spiritual part of his life in Rishikesh. successor, Niranjanananda Saraswati, and left Munger. He was the founder of the Bikram Choudhury (1946 - ) Divine Life Society, and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta and a variety of subjects. Some of his main disciples went on to start worldwide yoga movements. Vishnudevananda Saraswati (1927 - 1993)

Born in Calcutta and having a yoga empire in America, Bikram Choudhury has a yoga style name after him. Bikram "Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution Yoga is a system of yoga that he synthesized from traditional of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, hatha yoga techniques and popularized beginning in the from bodily health to self - realization." early 1970s. All Bikram Yoga Beginning Series classes run for "Yoga means union-the union of mind with consciousness, 90 minutes and consist of the same series of 26 postures, and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the way of including two breathing exercises. Bikram Yoga is ideally maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows practiced in a room heated to 40 °C (104 °F) with a humidity of skill in the performance of ones' actions." 40%. All official Bikram classes are taught by Bikram- "The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is certified teachers. transformative. It does not change the way we see thing; it Bikram Choudhury made claims starting 2012 that the transforms the person who sees." postures of his yoga practice, were under copyright and that "Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of they could not be taught or presented by anyone whom he had the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of not authorized. But the United States Copyright Office issued life." a clarification that yoga postures could not be copyrighted in Iyengar was the founder of the style of yoga known as He was a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the way claimed by Bikram. "Iyengar Yoga" and was considered one of the foremost yoga the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and In another controversy, at least five women were suing teachers in the world. He was the author of many books on Ashrams. He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Bikram Choudhury with allegations including sexual yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light Training Course, one of the first yoga teacher training harassment and sexual assault. on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and programs in the West. His books The Complete Illustrated (This page is sponsored by Indian American Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Book of Yoga (1959) and Meditation and Mantras (1978) Intellectuals Forum, New York ) www.theindianpanorama.com 20 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 ADVERTISEMENT THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 21 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 TRAVEL UP, UP AND AWAY: LESSER EXPLORED TREKS

f you are looking for an adventurous getaway, now would be an ideal time for Iit. This time around, trek through the lesser travelled areas of the Himalayas, and experience the magic of clear skies, colourful landscapes, and uninterrupted views of the lofty peaks. Take your pick. Solang Valley

Located near Manali, at an altitude of about 2,560 m, Solang Valley offers a beautiful view of the snowclad Himayan range. A trek from Manali to Solang (16 km) is one of the best ways to reach the place. The trek will take you through paths with picturesque surroundings and deodar forests. Moreover, you won't just find snow- capped mountains to gaze at; the trail is laden with apple orchards, a few old villages, and abundant lush green environs. Once at Solang, you can try out activities such as paragliding, zorbing, horse-riding, etc. Naggar

A trek from Naggar, a quaint settlement in the Kullu district, to the village of Malana, takes about three days. Going through the Chanderkhani Pass is a part of the Naggar trek. It's a great opportunity not just to marvel at the beauty of nature, but also to experience the selfless hospitality of the rural folk living in these mountainous areas. On your trail, you will come across villages like Rumsu and pastures like Shillu Pathar that are ideal to camp for the night. The descent to the village of Malana is steep. Therefore, it is important to be careful while trekking. Chalal

Chalal is a small village situated very close to the small town of Kasol. It is located on the banks of the Parvati River and provides a much-needed break from the hustle and bustle of Kasol. This is a short trek, but it nevertheless proves to be an enthralling experience. The road to Chalal is scenic; the path runs along the river, which has huge boulders where one can relax in the middle of the trek. For anyone taking a trek to Rasol or higher, it is a good idea to stop by Chahal to rest or stalk up on supplies. Sandakphu

Sandakphu, a part of the Singalila Ridge, Sandakphu is a long one, and it is easier for walking. The trail towards Roopkund is the highest peak of West Bengal. With an advisable to carry enough supplies to last Kalipokhri is beautiful and you see an Situated at an altitude of 4,463 m, this is a altitude of 3,636 m, the summit is a surreal through the journey. The distances between abundance of exotic, colourful birds. By moderately challenging trek. The Roopkund, experience, and is a must-see for people one pit stop and the next are quite long. the end of the day, you reach the small or Skeleton, Lake, (several human skeletons who love adventure treks. It is one of the Once you start your trek from Black Lake of Kalipokhri - the sacred lake were found at the site in 1942) is one of the few places that offers trekkers a majestic Manebhanjan, which is about an hour's that never freezes, with Buddhist prayer sites that attracts adventure lovers. The view of four of the tallest mountains in the drive from Darjeeling, it takes nearly four flags hanging over it. You can camp at challenging terrain is accompanied by world - Mount Everest, Kanchenjunga, hours to reach Chitre. The trail is quiet Kalipokhri and head out to Sandakphu the picturesque sights of snow-capped Lhotse and Makalu - spread across India, steep, with a mixture of rocky, gravel-filled next morning, which is a relatively easier mountains and the Bedni Bugyal Nepal, Bhutan and further. The trek to paths, as well as levelled land, which are trek of about 6 km. grasslands. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 WORLD Secret police detentions of activists on the rise in Egypt

CAIRO (TIP): The knock on the door came when a visitor spotted her at a women's just before midnight, a group of plainclothes prison near Cairo. On Thursday, she was police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma el- brought for questioning before State Security Sayed, an activist with one of Egypt's secular prosecutors, who usually deal with terrorism opposition groups, come with them. Her cases, the first official acknowledgement of father pleaded to accompany her, but they her detention. took her away, alone. Lawyers say Islamists were frequently the For the next four days, el-Sayed was kept in targets of secret detentions over the past two a cell in the security agency headquarters in years, and now the practice is increasingly her home town of Alexandria — off official being used against more secular activists. records, essentially disappeared into Egypt's One activist group, Freedom for the Brave, labyrinth of detention facilities. She was has documented more than 160 cases since interrogated without a lawyer and denied the April. Of those, 66 have resurfaced. injections she needed after recent surgery. The Egyptian Coordination of Rights and "They tried to extract information from Freedoms, a group of lawyers tracking me," she said — about fellow activists in the missing suspected Brotherhood members, opposition group April 6, about the group's has recorded more than 210 cases as of May; call for a protest against the high cost of one person has been missing since 2013. living, about any coordination with the But the whereabouts of most remains necessary when state security or intelligence The London-based Human Rights Monitor Muslim Brotherhood. unknown. Activists and lawyers fear they are agencies are pursuing terror cells that recorded 31 cases of disappearance in May "I gave them nothing," she said. abused during interrogation. threaten national security. Both officials alone, in addition to 13 others from the two Egyptian security agencies are At least one of the missing turned up dead. spoke on condition of anonymity because previous months. The group reported the increasingly detaining activists and students Islam Ateto was taken by security agents in they were not permitted to speak to the cases to the U.N Working Group on Enforced in secret, snatching them from homes or the May as he left a classroom at a Cairo media. The government has repeatedly Disappearance, which usually follows up on street and holding them without official university, according to student unions. Soon touted its "war on terrorism" — a reference such reports. record of their arrest, as their families after, police announced that Ateto was killed to its battle against Islamic militants The National Human Rights Council, scramble to find them, activists and lawyers in a gunbattle with security forces in the carrying out stepped-up attacks and to a whose members are appointed by the state, say. desert, alleging he was wanted for the crackdown on Islamists following the has submitted 71 reported cases of missing Activists have tracked more than 160 such assassination of a police officer. military's July 2013 ouster of Islamist people to the Interior Ministry and suspected disappearances in police custody Government officials, including Prime President Mohammed Morsi. With the prosecutors' office, said council member during the past two months — a sign of the Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, have repeatedly clampdown, many activists have gone into Nasser Amin. "In Egypt, there are plenty of renewed unchecked power of security denied there are any extra-legal detainees in hiding, complicating efforts to determine cases of illegal detention," a crime agencies. It is a return to past practices Egypt, saying those in custody are held either who has been detained. punishable by up to seven years in prison, under autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, on a prosecutor's order or were arrested When grilled by the father of a missing he said. The council is working to when detainees were held, sometimes for during the act of a crime. With the recent woman on a private television station last determine if any missing cases reach the years, without trial under notorious spike in reports of missing detainees, week, Interior Ministry spokesman Abu Bakr level of "enforced disappearance," a crime emergency laws in effect for decades and government officials have largely ignored Abdel-Karim insisted that if she had been against humanity under international law lifted after his 2011 ouster. calls for an explanation. Repeated requests by arrested, "legal procedures must have been that involves a long period of El-Sayed was lucky. After four days, police The Associated Press to the spokesman for followed." The woman, Esraa el-Taweel, a 23- disappearance, proof of an active filed a record of her arrest and released her the Interior Ministry received no response. A year old freelance photojournalist, was government role and an exhaustive on bail. She has been charged with senior security official dismissed allegations reported by her family to have been snatched investigation to find the missing person. membership in April 6, a leading force in the of disappearances and questioned how it on June 1 from a street in downtown Cairo, Amin said the United Nations has anti-Mubarak uprising that is now banned. could be proven that security agents took along with two male friends. Later, inmates designated 13 cases of people missing since Other missing activists have reappeared days anyone away. got word to relatives that they had seen the the turmoil in 2011 as likely enforced or even weeks later when police finally filed However, another official said secret two friends in a prison. disappearances and has sought an arrest reports. interrogations and detention were sometimes El-Taweel finally surfaced Wednesday, explanation from the Egyptian government. Beijing orders behavioural training for spoilt brats SHEDDING LIGHT ON BEIJING (TIP): More than 70 children of Chinese billionaires attended behavioural training classes after ROSSELLINI-SONALI DASGUPTA AFFAIR President Xi Jinping called for a 'positive image' of the young rich, as many of them came under flack for vulgar ixty years ago this month, an turbulent months in the course of an other fish to fry. He therefore suggested display of their wealth and luxurious lifestyles. affair between the great Italian extended conversation in a cafe located the name of his friend Jean Herman, a With an average age of 27, the so-called fuerdai or Sfilm director, Roberto Rossellini, right across the Montparnasse railway dropout from the French Institute of second generation of the nouveau riche, were taught then married to Ingrid Bergman, and a station - a conversation that Higher Cinematographic Institute and a traditional Chinese culture, social responsibility and young Bengali woman, Sonali Dasgupta, subsequently figured in my book on lecturer in French literature at the business knowledge at a training school in east China's wife of the filmmaker Harisadhan Rossellini's passage to India. The film Wilson College in Mumbai, as his Fujian province, state-run Beijing Youth Daily reported on Dasgupta, made headlines in the yellow director, hailed for his 'neo-realist' films replacement. June 16. The children of emerging rich class riding on the press in India and in Britain and made in Italy in the wake of the Herman had married a fellow student crest of the economic reforms of the Communist country America. The coverage was a potpourri %Second World War, had arrived in at the Institute, Lila, an Indian, done have landed in numerous scandals in the social media in of innuendo, xenophobia, envy and Mumbai in December 1956 at the the French sub-titles of Satyajit Ray's recent times displaying their wealth and fame. outright fabrication. invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru to Pather Panchali and published articles While two rich youth riding costly sports cars survived One individual who witnessed the produce a series of documentaries as on cinema in the Illustrated Weekly of a "fast and furious" crash in Beijing, another displayed the scandal from its genesis to its well as a feature-length film in four India. This periodical, then a highly- new expensive Apple watches strapped to the legs of his denouement - a young Frenchman episodes that would showcase the valued brand of the Times of India dog on the social media with a provocative question "do called Jean Herman, later renowned as country a decade after it won its Group, also carried the photographs he you have them". a prolific and much acclaimed novelist, independence from British rule. had shot during his travels across India. The rich kids routinely display their sports cars, private filmmaker and screen-play writer under Rossellini has first asked Francois No sooner had Rossellini offered him jets, luxury goods and lavish homes all with captions the name Jean Vautrin -passed away at Truffaut, then an enfant terrible among the post of assistant director than he revealing the kids' nonchalant attitude to money in their his home in village near Bordeaux in French film critics who went on to resigned from his lecturer's job to social media pages. According to a latest survey, China's south-west France on Tuesday. become one of the leading lights of the follow, as he told me, in the foot-steps of milliners club has crossed a million with about a dozen I was privileged to get his account of French New Wave Cinema, to work as the new Messiah. The two walked the billionaires. what had transpired during those his assistant in India. But Truffaut had streets in Mumbai from dawn to dusk. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com WORLD FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 23 South Korea's MERS Islamic State says shot down Iraqi fighter plane BAGHDAD (TIP): Islamic State said on June 18 it had deaths reach 23 shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (TIP): South It was not immediately possible to independently Korea said on June 18 that 23 people confirm the claim made on one of Islamic State's Twitter have died and more than 6,700 are accounts. A member of an anti-Islamic State Sunni force isolated at homes and medical facilities called Sahwa (Awakening) said an Iraqi fighter jet, a as officials continue their efforts to put Russian-made Su-25, was seen in flames as it crashed the MERS outbreak under control. after being shot down north of Ramadi. More than 160 have been diagnosed Iraq's government relies on a U.S.-led coalition and with Middle East respiratory syndrome Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in its fight against nearly a month after the outbreak Islamic State, which holds a third of the country as well originated from a 68-year-old man who as parts of neighbouring Syria. had traveled to the Middle East, The Islamic State Twitter site said the fighter jet had according to Seoul's Health Ministry. been shot down as it conducted a raid on areas north of Officials say that the outbreak has Ramadi, the provincial capital of Sunni heartland already peaked and could be defused by Anbar. the end of the month. But the continued Islamic State militants seized Ramadi last month and discovery of new cases among people the city is a focal point of efforts to slow the group's who managed to slip through the advances in Iraq, a major oil producer and OPEC quarantine measures has casted doubts Samsung Medical Center, which was people before their conditions were member on such optimism and raised questions belatedly shut down over the weekend confirmed. The sheer size of the about the government's ability to after it continued to be the main source exposure at the hospital suggests there Pope slams nations which control the situation. of the infections. is a possibility the country could see Critics, including Seoul Mayor Park Dozens of patients, medical staff and another large wave of infections, Won-soon, have blamed government visitors have been infected with the according to Jacob Lee from the 'close the door' to migrants officials for accelerating the spread of MERS virus at the hospital, one of the infectious disease department at VATICAN CITY (TIP): Pope Francis said today that the MERS virus by failing to enforce country's biggest, and they are believed Seoul's Kangnam Sacred Heart those who "close the door" to refugees seeking a safe tight control measures at Seoul's to have contacted hundreds of other Hospital. haven in Europe should ask God's forgiveness, as tensions rose in the EU over the migrant crisis. A day after European interior ministers failed to agree on how to stem the flow of boat migrants across Deadline looms for legal status the Mediterranean or house the thousands of new arrivals, Francis demanded greater respect for "our brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their own in Dominican Republic lands". "I encourage those who bring them aid and hope that SANTO DOMINGO (TIP): People the international community will act in a united and waited anxiously in long lines efficient fashion to prevent the causes of forced throughout the Dominican Republic on migration," he said. June 17, eager to submit applications "And I invite everyone to ask God's pardon for those for legal residency before a midnight people and institutions who close the door to those who deadline and avoid possible deportation. are seeking a family, who are seeking to be protected," he Many had been waiting since the said. night before, clutching documents they Italy has threatened a backlash if other EU states hoped would be sufficient to establish refuse to share the burden of asylum seekers, but even their legal status and allow them to stay so ministers took no decision to carry out proposals by in a country that, for some at least, is the European Commission for quotas to redistribute the only home they have ever known. 40,000 refugees. Nearly all are from Haiti or of Haitian European leaders swore action after an estimated 800 descent. migrants died in a shipwreck in April, the worst disaster "I have nothing in Haiti," said yet in the Mediterranean in a year in which a total of Jaquenol Martinez, a sugar cane 1,800 people have died trying to cross from Africa and worker waiting to submit his delayed by legal challenges, began last that will allow them to remain while the Middle East on flimsy boats. application under a program to register June. Non-citizens must show they have their cases are evaluated. Authorities In one of the largest pledges of assistance so far, migrant workers that began a year ago. been in the country since before have said they don't plan mass France said today it would create an additional 10,500 Martinez said he has been in the October 2011 to qualify for legal deportations, but the migration agency housing places for migrants. Dominican Republic since he came over residency. has prepared about a dozen buses and More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in Europe with his parents as an 8-year-old in 1963. The law is aimed at regulating the set up repatriation centers. "There is a this year, 60,000 through Italy alone, according to the Under the "regularization" program, he historic flow of migrants from lot of uncertainty and worry," said EU's border agency Frontex. should qualify for legal residency, but impoverished Haiti to the relatively Joseph Cherubin, director of an the Haitian government has yet to wealthier Dominican Republic. The organization called the Sociocultural Briton pops the question provide him with a birth certificate to government pushed it forward last year Movement of Haitian Workers. establish his identity. Others said they amid international criticism of a Human rights groups say they fear had similar difficulties getting Supreme Court decision that concluded that migration agency officials and the via crossword identification from the Haitian that people born in the country to non- military will deport people arbitrarily if LONDON (TIP): It's a case of two down: the aisle. A Embassy or have been unable to get citizens did not qualify for citizenship they look Haitian or speak Spanish crossword-loving lawyer hid a marriage proposal in documents from employers in the under the Constitution, rendering with a Creole accent as has been done The Times newspaper's daily puzzle. Matthew Dick Dominican Republic, where many work thousands effectively stateless. The in the past. Associated Press journalists thought of the cryptic way of popping the question to under informal arrangements in government said they will be granted along the border said about 12 people girlfriend Delyth Hughes, and persuaded the construction, agriculture or as citizenship under a separate program. were deported Wednesday, some newspaper to agree. gardeners and maids. The interior ministry has said there claiming they had been in the country Tuesday's Times crossword opened with one across: "On my own, I haven't been able to are about 5,00,000 people who could before October 2011. "Pretty Welsh girl widely thought not to be all there." resolve anything," said Delinua Jean- qualify for residency under the The Haitian government has also The answer: Delyth. Other clues included "'Will you Francois, who said he had been program. So far, about 2,50,000 have cleared a field near the border-crossing marry me,' say, that's forward also rude." The answer harvesting sugar cane in the country registered, but officials said only about point of Malpasse to provide assistance was proposal. Dick showed Hughes the crossword at since 1984. The immigration 10,000 have produced sufficient to people who have been deported. That breakfast, with some key words underlined, then registration program, which was documentation. Those who have area was deserted on June 17 except for "reached into my pocket to reveal the ring". supposed to start in 2004 but was registered have temporary documents some guards and construction crews. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 WOMEN

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Research has also shown that herbs and spices have hysical activity decreases the potential to boost metabolism, promote satiety (read: substantially over time in contentment), aid weight management and improve the Ppatients with chronic overall quality of a diet. obstructive pulmonary disease So spruce up your daily cooking with a dash of spice and (COPD), a progressive disease that attain your desired weight loss. Dr. Shilpa Mittal, makes it hard to breathe, at all levels Nutritionist, Diet Consultant and Founder of Nutrilife of severity, a new research has Health Management, Mumbai shares a list of 20 best weight found. loss herbs and spices which are easily available and aid This decline in physical activity is weight loss. accompanied by a worsening of lung 1) Cinnamon is one of the best weight loss herbs because function and health status, and it helps to stabilise blood sugar level, keeps you full for sustained physical inactivity is a longer time, decreases hunger pangs and metabolises associated with progression of both fats at a faster rate. exercise intolerance and muscle 2) Ginger is a very good body cleanser. Ginger helps to depletion, the study noted. remove the food logged in the digestive system and "Physical inactivity is associated thus prevents fat storage and weight gain. with morbidity and mortality in 3) Cardamom helps boost your metabolism and improve COPD," said lead author Benjamin your body's ability to burn fat. Waschki from the Pulmonary 4) Turmeric spice has several weight-loss properties. It Research Institute at LungenClinic helps to reduce the formation of fat tissues, thus in Grosshansdorf, Germany. lowering total body fat and prevents weight gain. "In our prospective cohort study, Respiratory and Critical Care increase in airflow obstruction. 5) Acai Berry. Studies show that the juice from the acai we evaluated the longitudinal Medicine. "Treatment guidelines call for berry or the dried powder of acai berry, can improve association between changes in Independent of the severity of regular physical activity for COPD the ability to lose weight effectively. They help to physical activity and disease COPD at baseline, steps per day, patients at all levels of severity, and prevent the fat build-up in the body and have progression in 137 patients with total daily energy expenditure, and our study clearly supports this enormous COPD and 26 patients with chronic daily physical activity level (PAL) recommendation," Waschki said. 6) Nettle leaf is highly nutritive and is loaded with bronchitis," Waschki noted. decreased. "Regular exercise will improve antioxidant vitamins like vitamin C and vitamin A. The findings were published This decline in PAL was their health and quality of life," They aid in purifying blood and burns fat. online in the American Journal of significantly associated with an Waschki noted. 7) Guarana has diuretic properties. It helps in losing weight. It also aids in stimulating the nervous system and thus helps you to avoid emotional eating due to stress or tension. ENDOMETRIOSIS UPS 8) Cayenne pepper includes a compound called as capsaicin which helps to burn fat and suppresses your hunger cravings. According to a research done by Prudue University - cayenne is effective in weight loss, MISCARRIAGE RISK because it increases body's metabolism activity which causes the body to burn more calories. relatively common than the controls. 9) Cumin helps to improve your digestive process and condition associated with The study involving over This risk was 76 percent higher production of energy. Cumin seeds also helps to boost Aabdominal pain, heavy 14,000 women in Britain for miscarriage and nearly three- your immune system. periods, and infertility may looked at the risk posed times higher for ectopic pregnancy. 10) Ginseng helps to boost energy levels and speeds up increase risk of miscarriage by The findings should now be metabolism rate. over 75 percent, a new research has by endometriosis - a taken into account when found. condition in which cells counselling women with The study involving over 14,000 from the lining of the endometriosis about their family women in Britain looked at the risk plans and care during pregnancy, posed by endometriosis - a uterus (endometrium) the researchers noted. condition in which cells from the are found elsewhere in Suggesting a possible lining of the uterus (endometrium) the pelvic area explanation for the risk, Saraswat are found elsewhere in the pelvic said that endometriosis is area. associated with increased "These results indicate that endometriosis were cross-linked to inflammation in the pelvis, and endometriosis pre-disposes women their maternity records to evaluate structural and functional changes to an increased risk of early pregnancy outcomes. in the lining of the uterus. pregnancy loss and later pregnancy A total of 14,655 women were "We believe such changes in the complications," said the study's included in the analysis, with their pelvic and uterine environment first author Lucky Saraswat, medical records followed-up for a could influence implantation and consultant gynaecologist from the maximum of 30 years between 1981 development of placenta, pre- Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Britain. and 2010. disposing them to adverse The study was a nationwide After adjustments for age and pregnancy outcomes," she said. cohort study using discharge data previous pregnancy, results showed Details of the study are from all state hospitals in Scotland. that women with endometriosis scheduled to be reported this week Records of women with and had a significantly higher risk of at ESHRE 205, held in Lisbon, without a confirmed diagnosis of early pregnancy complications Portugal from June 14-17. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 26 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 SCIENCE & TECH ISRO'S 'GAGAN' TO PROVIDE NAVIGATIONAL METHANE ON MARS SUPPORT TO RAILWAYS ROCKS SUGGESTS POSSIBILITY OF LIFE

NEW YORK (TIP): In a clue to possibility of life below the surface of Mars today, an international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites. AHMEDABAD (TIP): Isro has said it will provide For the study, the researchers navigational support to the country's railways through examined samples from six meteorites 'Gagan' (GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation) system. of volcanic rock that originated on "Isro will provide satellite-generated information to the Mars. All six samples also contained railways through space technology-based tools that will methane, which was measured by provide safety at unmanned level crossings," Isro crushing the rocks and running the chairman A S Kiran Kumar told reporters here yesterday emerging gas through a mass in reply to a question on how will Isro help the railways in spectrometer. using the navigational support system. The discovery hints at the possibility "There are host of requirements for using Gagan in that methane could be used as a food railways. We are providing some solutions," Kumar said. source by rudimentary forms of life Gagan is an indigenous navigational guide system beneath the Martian surface. On Earth, developed by Isro on the lines of GPS system of the US. microbes do this in a range of Elaborating on it, Kumar said that at some places the environments. railway tracks are under stress. If water accumulation "Our findings will likely be used by happens, then based on digital elevation model data, other astrobiologists in models and host of information which they generate, can be given. experiments aimed at understanding University of Aberdeen in Britain, in the research. "There is specific information provided for aligning the whether life could survive below the collaboration with the Scottish Recent and forthcoming missions railway tracks, particularly in mountainous regions, and surface of Mars today," said study co- Universities Environmental Research by NASA and the European Space also identifying tracks which are most stable when you are author Sean McMahon from Yale Centre, the University of Glasgow, Agency are looking at this. However, going through tunnels. In all these things, space University in the US. Brock University in Ontario, and the it is so far unclear where the technology is useful," he said. "Even if Martian methane does not University of Western Ontario. methane comes from, and even "We are trying to provide space technology-based tools directly feed microbes, it may signal "One of the most exciting whether it is really there, Parnell for enabling them to deal with unmanned level crossings," the presence of a warm, wet, developments in the exploration of said. he said. chemically reactive environment Mars has been the suggestion of "However, our research provides a Gagan was jointly developed by the Isro and Airports where life could thrive," McMahon methane in the Martian atmosphere," strong indication that rocks on Mars Authority of India (AAI) with a view to assist aircraft in said. The discovery was part of a said University of Aberdeen contain a large reservoir of accurate landing. joint research project led by the professor John Parnell, who directed methane," Parnell pointed out. The Gagan signal is being broadcast through two Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites - GSAT8 and GSAT10. With the use of Gagan software system, a train would know the location of any unmanned level crossing and AMSTERDAM TO GET soon a a warning signal can be given. As soon as the warning signal will be given, the train's hooter will automatically start when it comes near an unmanned crossing. 3D-PRINTED BRIDGE

World’s thinnest bulb LONDON (TIP): Will you dare to cross a deep canal on a "printed" created from graphene bridge? You may get a chance to try WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have created the that soon. world's thinnest light bulb using graphene, an atomically A 3D printing company based in thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a Amsterdam has developed a filament. revolutionary robotic 3D printer that Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research can 'draw' structures in the air. The scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia University developers are now planning to build a School of Engineering, a team of scientists from bridge over a canal in the city, CNET Columbia, Seoul National University, and Korea Research reported. Institute of Standards and Science said that they have "We research and develop ground- demonstrated — for the first time — an on-chip visible breaking, cost-effective robotic light source using graphene as a filament. technology with which we can 3D print They attached small strips of graphene to metal beautiful, functional objects in almost electrodes, suspended the strips above the substrate, and any form," wrote the firm MX3D on the passed a current through the filaments to cause them to project web page. heat up."We've created what is essentially the world's "Printing an intricate, ornate metal thinnest light bulb," said Hone, Wang Fon-Jen professor of bridge for a special location to show with a welder to be able to "draw" fast- multiple lines, the printer will be able mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering. what our robots and software, setting metal structures. to create a strong, complex structure "This new type of 'broadband' light emitter can be engineers, craftsmen and designers In this technique, small increments that spans the canal - printing its own integrated into chips and will pave the way towards the can do." The bridge will be designed by of molten metal are welded to the supports along the way so that it can realisation of atomically thin, flexible, and transparent artist and designer Joris Laarman, existing structure, creating lines of operate autonomously. The displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical who helped develop the robotic 3D steel and the same is used to print the construction of the bridge is scheduled communications," said Hone. printer that combined the MX3D-Resin bridge out of steel. By printing to begin in September this year. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com BIZ AND FINANCE FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 27

OZ FIRMS TO INVEST US $100 MILLION HYDEL POWER PUSHES

VADODARA (TIP): Australian firms will invest US $100 million in Vadodara region between Surat and Ahmedabad. This investment will generate close to 10,000 jobs. This was NTPC INTO GLOBAL claimed by New South Wales (NSW) Labour Party secretary Hassan Kureshi here on Wednesday. "The investments will be made in five sectors including pharmaceutical, chemical, electrical, tourism and BIG LEAGUE education," he said. Kureshi said the proposals are in their final stage and are awaiting the final nod from the central NEW DELHI (TIP): State-run NTPC government. has switched on an 800 MW hydel plant A three-member delegation including members of NSW to join a select group of global peers parliament - leader of opposition in NSW parliament Luke who span the entire fuel chain — coal, Foley and Labour upper house and NSW parliament gas, hydro power and renewables — for member Daniel Mookey - along with Kureshi met chief generating greener electricity. minister Anandiben Patel on Tuesday. Last week, the country's largest Projects based on nine proposals have been identified as fossil fuel-based generation utility the starting point of an improved trade relation, Kureshi quietly switched on the last of the four said during his visit to the city. 200 MW units of its first hydel project "During the Vibrant Gujarat summit of 2014, as many as in Bilaspur district of Himachal 383 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed Pradesh, roughly 145 km before the between the two countries. We are hoping to put 43 MoUs in tourist destination of Manali. effect, of which these nine will be the first to go on the The development marks fulfillment floors," Kureshi said. of a vision, the seeds of which were "Gujarat and New South Wales can be sister states. sown by then chairman C P Jain Vadodara region is an ideal point to start because of the during early parts of the 2000-2002 student base and it already has an industrial set-up which period. The hydel foray is part of has been explored enough globally," he added. NTPC's diversification plan to widen The NSW delegation also announced the setting up of fuel base. mechanisms are in place," Jain had electricity,the project is expected to special skill development and training centers in the "The country's abundant natural said. Those words sound almost enhance the life of Bhakra reservoir region. Kureshi said, "The centers will focus on producing water resources provide the cheapest prophetic today, given the situation considerably by trapping the sediments globally accepted skilled labour. available fuel. We need to tap its being faced by gas-fired power stations of Sutlej in Koldam. But the going has They will be based on the Industrial Training Institutes potential... The hydel capacity would as the high cost of imported fuel have not been easy.The project encountered that India has." also help NTPC improve operational put them beyond the reach of several challenges during its "The plans include a Narmada museum near Sardar flexibility and optimize use of its consumers in the absence of cheaper construction due to geological surprises Sarovar Dam along with a state-of-art water treatment generation infrastructure in domestic fuel. and environmental obstacles. But laboratory.Multiple spots along Narmada will be developed accordance with demand, saving The Koldam project on Sutlej will present chairman Arup Roy Choudhury to offer water sports. The pilgrim sites on the Reva belt on resources. All these will be crucial for provide peaking capacity to the northern held his team steady on course and Chandod-Karnali belt will also be developed," he said. corporate health once power sector grid and annually generate 3,054 GWh NTPC finally managed to start filling up Indian companies are also planning to approach the reforms are completed and market electricity at 90% capacity.Besides cheap the reservoir in December 2013. Australian government with export proposals including pharmaceutical and chemical products. Federation of Gujarat Industries will be the nodal point GREEK PM TEARS INTO LENDERS AS Honda recalls 1.39 in these deals. EURO ZONE PREPARES FOR ‘GREXIT’ million cars with India reaches for the Sun, passenger-side ATHENS (TIP): Prime Minister Alexis Lew that Athens aimed to bridge the raises solar capacity target Tsipras accused Greece's creditors of differences with creditors. Takata air bags trying to "humiliate" Greeks with more But with senior German lawmakers five times to 100,00 mw cuts as he defied a growing drumbeat of now openly discussing the once-taboo DETROIT (TIP): Honda Motor NEW DELHI (TIP): It's official now. The government is warnings that Europe was preparing for prospect of a "Grexit" from the single Co Ltd said it will recall 1.39 reaching for the Sun by raising the target for adding solar his country to leave the euro. currency area, his fiery words suggested million Accord and Civic model power capacity five times to 100,000 mw by 2022. The The unrepentant address to confrontation rather than reconciliation. sedans with potentially faulty Cabinet's panel on economic affairs on June 16 put its lawmakers after the collapse of talks "I'm certain future historians will front passenger-side air bags stamp on the grand plan that is estimated to cost Rs 600,000 with European and IMF lenders at the recognize that little Greece, with its little made by Japan's Takata Corp. lakh crore. weekend was the clearest sign yet that power, is today fighting a battle beyond This will bring to about 2.3 The Cabinet's economic committee also approved a plan the leftist leader has no intention of its capacity not just on its own behalf million the number of Accord to set up 2,000 mw grid-connected solar capacity this year making a last-minute U-turn and but on behalf of the people of Europe," and Civic sedans with Takata's with viability gap funding under Phase-II of the Jawaharlal accepting austerity cuts needed to he said in a televised speech to front passenger-side air bags that Nehru National Solar Mission. unlock frozen aid and avoid a debt legislators in his Syriza party, drawing have been recalled, the So is India poised to emerge as a solar powerhouse? default within two weeks. loud applause. automaker said. Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad would believe so. Financial markets, for months Tsipras charged that the lenders were Models affected by the Monday "This is a giant step and India will become the biggest indifferent to wrangling over releasing politically motivated in demanding announcement include 2001 to producer of solar power in the world," he told reporters billions of euros of aid for Greece, pension cuts and tax hikes that hurt the 2005 Civic sedans and 2003 to 2007 after the Cabinet's meeting. reacted with mounting alarm. poor, and their aim was to "humiliate not Accord sedans sold in the United But one would have to watch out for China and Japan, European stock markets hit their only the Greek government - this would States. apart from the US, before India can rightfully stake its lowest level since February and the risk be the least important - but humiliate an The Accord and Civic model claim to the numero uno position in this regard. premium on bonds of other vulnerable entire people". sedans in this latest recall have The Centre would provide Rs.15,050 crore as capital euro zone states leapt in one of the European Commission President Jean- already been recalled previously subsidy."The ministry of new and renewable energy sharpest episodes of contagion since the Claude Juncker reacted angrily, accusing for front driver-side air bags, a intends to achieve the target of 100,000 mw with three height of Europe's debt crisis the Greek prime minister of misleading Honda spokesman said. schemes of 19,200 mw... Apart from this, projects with in 2012. the public and insisting that he had The total number of Honda investment of about Rs 90,000 crore would be developed The White House warned that made clear that he was personally vehicles recalled, however, did using bundling mechanism with thermal power," a agreement was needed to avoid shaking against hiking taxes on power and not increase from about 6.3 government statement said. financial markets further and Tsipras pharmaceuticals. "And the prime million as a result of Monday's assured U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack minister knows that," he said. announcement. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 28 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 ASTROLOGY

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Contact BEJAN DARUWALLA: E-mail : [email protected] Phone: +919825470377 PREDICTIONSPREDICTIONS FOR FOR THE THE MONTH MONTH OFOF MAY,JUNE, 2015 2015

Aries: Leo: TAURUS Sagittarius: Aries Ganesha says this is a strong situation. You You come to grips with life, with the(April 20 to May 20) You are moving ahead in many "From the land of mist and snow" you are both practical and idealistic. You are From Taureansituation Tendulkar that holds a big Hopyou -by step the - jumpscruff to ofSatyajit Ray anddirections. Isreali Prime You Minister are a Benjaminmaze of pullsNetanyahu and will glimmer and glow. Simply put, it torn by several compulsions. This is one of is the groundits neck covered and shakesby the earthy you like sign a Taurus. wet boy. Obstinate, I immenselypressures. capable, You practical, are in fondthe midst of comforts of people means despite hardships you will and all the good things of life the Taurean has a finely tuned artistic and culinary side to his rigid nature. the most idealistic times in your life and you must add here, like I always do, that I am and yet may feel cut off from others and triumph and be happy. The mighty Taurus says I possess. He is happy with money. Surprisingly enough he is very God fearing, honest and hard are filled withHanuman, sympathy signifying for others. Saturn, You will want clear working.mere Quite human a bull. and these are just lonely too. You are not alone but you are to reach outthe and way help for you.the whole Worry world. not, be You bold, generalizations. You must recognize the certainly lonely. There may be new love communicate brilliantly, circulate may work with the sick and disadvantaged fact that Yoursome emotional aspects ofand your imaginative life need affairs. Anconvolutions old relationship (twist and may complexity), break up freely, converse happily, secure in the nature favors kindness, charity, make it quite a tangled tale. You will in some institutionalknowledge thatsetting you or will spend be victorious. time to be questioned and worked on. Take now. Do not dwell on it. Move on, focus, benevolence. Blessings of gurus will both sting and sing, expenses with a religious group or some guru. the bull by the horns and work on concentrate your energy and don't scatter balance your depression, mood mount, taking care of others, Taurus: changingswings. the situation. Make whatever it. Therenursing, is travel fulfilling and many numerous new social, Taurus changes are appropriate. This is a time expensescharitable too. obligations, safeguarding You are moving"One touch ahead to at her a furious hand / pace.one word in of testing. Capricorn:your own health and that of your Many thingsher areear," on is your just plate.what Ganesha There are ordered partner, will lead to genuine for you. The astro reason is that the Virgo: spirituality. May is a mixed grill of practical issues and your newfound idealism Virgo There is beauty and joy in your life. You Sun is in your own sign, Western trips and ties. For sure. to deal with.Astrology. During Why?this time, In your you sensitivity may also You are onMultiple firmer events ground. happen You with are spend onCapricorn goodies without watching your begin to takeand ansympathy interest is in your philosophy spirituality and and wading throughsurprising the velocity maze ofand your suddenness. mind pocket. You could be out on the first ball religion assalvation. you want Friends, to know partying, how you hosting, fit into and findingThe fulfillment. rune, Isa, showing You are standstill, making in or even hitThe wicket Taoist masterson a wide. say It"stand is a silly like a the vortex and whirlpool of life, is the universalentertaining order. You is spendthe dominant time on tone of new beginnings. You are ready to take on way to getpine out. and You walk could like theeven wind". score It a self May. A boon will be given to you, and your best bet, materially, means a brand new you. Fan out to abstractions and how they relate to your life. more responsibility and hard work. You goal or miss a penalty when it could have you will do plenty of good to others. psychologically, spiritually. The people and places. Your neighbors, You are lookingGains andat new gaiety insights and goodness into your are life the look hardmantra at the is,successful "I will to do conclusion THY will". ofThe been the anddecider. your communicative I know. This is skills the will that will make3G's. it much more meaningful. projects onhome hand. and Youthe outsideexamine world, your pull you nature ofdecide life and your existence. quota of happiness. You go Yes, There are also expansions. mistakes inand different realize directions. that no oneThe elselast 10but where it wetakes all haveyou andour stipulatedoften not share.where days are pointers to the real you are to blame. There is also stability you wantTrips to be. and Ask ties Ganesha will be contributory for Gemini: Gemini direction, spiritual and material, of factor. Contacts lead to bliss. Love at home and there is joy in the family. guidance. your life. Have faith. and be loved. Expenses mount. You live largerYou will than beseech life. Ganesha Shiva and feels the that West Libra: Aquarius: you overextendWind, yourself."Destroyer You and may Preserver; push too hear, O hear!" Both will hear you and help Libra Aquarius hard and reallyyou. Tremendous hurt yourself and in awesome the bargain. There is a flurry of activity. There is You are forging ahead on all cylinders You feel thatpressures anything of workyou do and will home. work Leos out are travel, new"The associations, light that never many was friends on land and and makingRemember headway "yeh in - all HOW your - vah" the all right. Youcapable take ofrisks living and with gamble it. May away.I 4 full and encounterssea" can that be yours, take your as the breath Sun (light) undertakings.god of Youthe Oldare Testament, succeeding as in this don't meanMoon, to say makes that you you are balance rank unlucky.work and away. Thereand mayNeptune be a (mysticism) roll in the makehay and a unravelingcan all be thea month webs for that pilgrimage, have home till you are blue and red in the mighty fine formation. Journeys, glimpses of God, looking after the All I am saying is that there may not be your indiscretion could cost you dearly. imprisoned you. This can be a very face. Parents, boss and in - laws pitch ceremonies, rites of passage, rituals, unfortunate and the troubled in stability andin with direction a vengeance. in what you are doing. There is aancestor lot of experimentationworship, research awaitin your you imaginativespirit. period Technology and you and can humanity use it will This is not an especially lucky or lucky life now.with There open will arms. be many Give themexperiences a hug. positivelyfind and a marriagewell. You in are your more mind, in blood, influence. All it does is make you confused. now and Timeyou have to move to go in everywith thewhich flow. way. touch withheart. reality I am andbursting yet allow at the your seam Anticipate a few obstacles, hurdles. You live inCancer a bubble of illusion. You spend Ganesha is an ally and will support you imaginationeven to as soar. I predict You this. are Expensesboth rational and Nothing in life is ever perfect. ill - health are part of the game. too much and make erratic and sometimes wholeheartedly. But take care not to and intuitive and this is, most certainly, a "Singing with open mouths their Nothing in life is perfect. unwise decisions.strong melodious songs" is applicable overextend yourself and take on new great way to be. equally to you dear Cancerians. All projects.Scorpio You could develop health Cancer: your talent and open artistry and Pisces: issues. creativity will swish and soar. Children Walking on the wild side is not the Pisces The Moon and your mind is wandering like right side or the spiritual side. Keep You are on the go with new ventures and give joy and delight. Friends and well - Scorpio: There is "a green bough (branch) in your poise, sense of values and ideas. the Gangeswishers estuaries. will spring It is going to your everywhere help. Love adventures.your There heart andwill the be moresinging than birds the will A journey, a message, a contact, a and formingand rivulets laughter wherever will flow therefreely. is soft There is emotion and new love. You usual expensessurely come." as you Good could for also you! be contract spurs you powerfully. Mars, ground. Sometimes, particular event spend tender moments in the arms of planningEntertainment, a holiday with amusement, family and children your main planet, Western Astrology and brainchildren, music, dance, triggers off this period of soul - searching. your beloved.gives Remember,impetus and Igalvanizes am using you; the friends. Health is good too and there is Leo drama, a round of good cheer should Or it could be just the workings of an idle singular besthere to with channelize great deliberation. it in prayers, happiness all around. You have nothing please you. Let yourself go. In the God allows U - turns and you U - turn meditation, love, sex. Let the mind. There could be problems in your You have a tendency to sow your wild to complainrelease, about. is your Your true peer spirituality. group towards tantra, mantra, devotion, joint temporal lead to the spiritual. Got it? business orfinance, professional loans, funds,life. You collaboration. may feel A oats. Go for it, but watch your step. You rallies aroundNeptune you in asyour you sign, rise Western steadily in weak and mixinsecure of the and spiritual people and may material. take help out with charities and give yourself your career.Astrology, There give could pep be and new push. love Extend too advantageHealth of your and apparent accidents, weakness. are a possibility. You freely to Sagittariusmissions. No one understands and you spendyour boundaries. quality time in the arms of look aroundBut, for I do answers go wrong, and so,seek not out to godworry. you now. You are a strange bundle of amora! GaneshaShri Ganesha! is by your side making Confusion, complications, contacts, men or gurus. There may be some solace in contradictions. You are both ecstatic and your sojourn in this planet as them but the final answers have to come out mournful. Even you do not know where comfortable as possible. You are filled of your core. to hide. with optimism and hope.

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othing can happen without the of those results coming to us. Suppose you Supreme One willing it. None can plant a mango seed. You are afraid rodents Ncircumvent His plans. If everything may dig up the seed. So you put a stone over happens only because God wills it, then why the seed. Then you wonder why despite must we make an effort to do anything? This watering it, the seed has failed to sprout. is a question that we often ask ourselves. Then someone comes along, who notices the The Mahabharata answers this through stone and flings it away. And a few days Bhishma, said Goda Venkateswara Sastrigal, later, the seed sprouts. Now if you argue in a discourse. Human effort and God’s will that you were unlucky in not getting the are both necessary for a person to see any seed to sprout, whereas the other person has result. The results of our past karma are been lucky, then the argument is obviously kept in safe custody by Surya, until the time flawed. So we must not only act to reap is ripe for us to get those results. When the benefits of past acts, but act in the proper results should come to us, they will. But for way. If we do the right things, then God’s those results to come to us, again we must will ensures that we get the results. make an effort. Without our effort, we cannot get the results that are in waiting for This page is sponsored by us. ARISH SAHANI Yudishtra was destined to win in the war New York Life Insurance against the Kauravas. That victory was a Agent result of his past deeds. But in order to reap Serving Since 1972 the effects of his past deeds, he had to go Call For Insurance and fight the Kauravas. If he had not fought Quotes them, he would not have got the results, Sahanis, Arish, which were waiting for him. So constant Shiv, Priya striving is needed, even to get the benefits of 718 271 0453 past good acts of ours. [email protected] Sometimes we may have some good (Page also available at results awaiting us, but we may www.theindianpanorama.com) unknowingly put some hurdles in the path www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 30 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 BOLLYWOOD

MOVIE REVIEW Hamari Adhuri KAREENA DOES NOT Kahani WANT TO RUIN HER BODY WITH TATTOOS

areena Kapoor Khan has probably not heard of the Kphrase, 'never say never'. But as of now, the Begum of Pataudi has decided she will not get a tattoo ever. She baulks good-naturedly at those who show off their tattoos and says. "I'm not keen on tattoos. I don't want to ruin my body with them.'' Ask her why she got her husband Saif Ali Khan to ink her name across his forearm and she says, "It was his personal choice. It is his way of proving he loves me and is committed to me for life. I couldn't have stopped him from doing what he did.'' Kareena admits though that she does stop to admire tattoos on her friends and colleagues. "I even pay people compliments on their fab tattoos,'' she smiles, "However, I'm not in favour of getting one for myself.''

CAST: Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajkummar Rao DIRECTION: Mohit Suri GENRE: Romance DURATION: 2 hours 11 minutes STORY: Vasudha's (Vidya Balan) husband, Hari (Rajkummar Rao) disappears, leaving her holding their baby alone for almost five years. But she gets a chance at love again when she meets the hotel tycoon, Aarav VIDYA BALAN REACHES OUT TO (Emraan Hashmi) who falls for her hook, line and sinker. WOMEN THROUGH POWER LINE REVIEW: So a seeped-in-tradition, middle-class florist Vasudha is married off to a boorish tourist taxi-driver, Hari by her priest father. The father is a two-faced man; ctress Vidya Balan has a pujari outside and a 'wife-beater' at home. Despite a visited Uttar Pradesh word of caution from her mother, Vasudha, who is AGovernment's 'Women brain-washed to believe that pati is indeed Power Line' centre to prompt women parmeshwar(husband is God); continues putting up a to come out and speak for world of make-believe for her young son Saanjh. An themselves. arrangement of white Lilys in Aarav's suite plays cupid Balan, 37, is on the post-release between the Vasudha and Richie Rich. He literally promotional spree for her latest follows the fragrance and finds that besides the scent, movie Hamari Adhuri Kahani along even the florist has a heady effect! with Mahesh Bhatt, who has penned Since Hari, the husband is in no hurry to return, the story of the film. Aarav offers Vasudha a job and eventually his hand. Bhatt, 66 took to twitter to share Tempted by the sunshine, she gives in. But before she Balan's picture attending a call at can bask in the glory of Aarav's love, her husband, who the 'Women Power Line'. is falsely accused of being a 'terrorist', comes home to "Vidya Balan joins hands with our raise hell. Torn between husband and paramour; women in UP to amplify its msg - Vasudha walks the tight rope of emotions. As does the Chupi Todo - Khul ke Bolo!" he audience, whose patience is wearing thin. The plot wrote. offers the viewer a whirlwind tour of scenic locations. In the film, Balan dons the role of But to what avail? Emraan's back-story lacks depth. Vasudha, who faces abuse by her While middle-class values are to be lauded; the writing husband but still cannot gather the of HAK comes unstuck. A long-suffering women like courage to walk out of the marriage. Vasudha, who finally walks away wastes too many years Hamari Adhuri Kahani, directed in finding her identity. by Mohit Suri, also stars Emraan At a time when we are celebrating a thinking Piku, a Hashmi and Rajkumar Rao in lead rebellious Tanu and her spirited twin Datto; why do we roles. The film was made tax free in need women characters who whimper? HAK's moments the state prior to the release last come from its lead cast who pitch in their best for the Friday. most part. The music is a soothing balm. Suri should know that even cinema Goliaths cannot rise above the written word. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com HOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 31

MOVIE REVIEW NATALIE PORTMAN WANTS Jurassic World FEMALE DIRECTOR FOR GINSBURG BIOPIC

ctress Natalie Portman is in negotiations to play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader AGinsburg in an upcoming biopic and wants a female director on board. The 34-year-old actress has an objection to the gender disparity among working Hollywood directors. Ginsburg revealed the project's progress was delayed because Portman had been holding out for a female director, said The Hollywood Reporter. "Natalie Portman came to talk to me about the film landing a female director, and we had a very good conversation," Ginsburg, 82, said. "And one thing, interesting, that she insisted on, it held up the project for a while, she said, 'I want the director to be a woman. There are not enough women in this industry. There are many talented out there.' And now they do have a woman director." the Justice added.

SOFIA VERGARA CELEBRATES FIRST CAST: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Judy Greer ANNIVERSARY WITH FIANCE DIRECTION: Colin Trevorrow GENRE: Action DURATION: 2 hours 4 minutes odern Family actress Sofia Vergara celebrated STORY: A little over two decades after what occurred at Mher first anniversary of the old Jurassic Park, the action now takes place on an being together with her fiance Joe island off the coast of Costa Rica that is home to a Manganiello. massive and carefully monitored dinosaur theme park. A The 42-year-old actress took to group of brilliant scientists have created a hybrid Instagram on Sunday to mark the dinosaur called Indominus Rex as the star attraction of couple's first anniversary by the facility. Their new 'creation' so to speak, goes on a sharing a photograph, reports rampage and threatens the lives of everyone in Jurassic aceshowbiz.com. World. In the image, Vergara is seen REVIEW: Jurassic World evokes the same sense of donning a yellow printed dress excitement and awe that we saw in the very first Jurassic while Manganiello sported a Park movie and builds on it, giving the creatures we see printed black shirt, and they are on screen a palpable sense of realism, that's completely caught in a romantic moment. compelling. Two brothers, Gray (Simpkins) and Zach Vergara is seen with her hands (Robinson) are left in the care of their aunt Claire on her fiance's shoulder, while the (Howard) by their emotional mom (Greer) in Jurassic Magic Mike XXL actor has his World for a day of fun in that prehistoric paradise. hands on her waist. The park owner, Simon Masrani (Khan, who nails it) "Happy 1st Anniversary love of has big ideas for the future of Jurassic World, thanks to my life!!! Never been so the crowd-pulling power (they hope!) of the Indominus happy!!#lucky @joemanganiello," Rex, and he is supported in his plans by marketing whiz she wrote. Claire. However, Owen (Pratt) who has raised four Earlier, Vergara revealed that velociraptors, doesn't really like the way Claire treats the her wedding to Manganiello dinosaurs like numbers on a spreadsheet rather than would happen soon. living creatures. His approach is hands-on, rather than Vergara and Manganiello, who the others who monitor things from a safe distance. Claire got engaged on Christmas Day in and Owen's chemistry however, is apparent from the first 2014, celebrated their engagement frame that they share. with family and friends at Soho Owen, an ex Marine, also doesn't see eye to eye with House in West Hollywood in early Hoskins (D'Onofrio), an arrogant defence contractor who May. At that time, Arnold would rather train the dinosaurs with implanted gadgetry Schwarzenegger raised a toast to to be potential weapons of war, replacing human soldiers. the couple. Later on though, it is only Owen and Claire, with a little help from some friendly dinosaurs, who can save the day. Although the film is safely formulaic, it is executed with finesse. The effects are superb, the action is supersized and ultimately, if there is just one word that can describe this movie, that word would be 'awesome'. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 32 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 TURN PAGE

contd from Page 1 In an interview to the Indian Express ahead of the 40th anniversary of the All set for Emergency, during which he had been jailed, Advani had said that "forces that International Day... can crush democracy" (in the country) Mukerji said 256 cities in 192 counties, were stronger and that there were "not including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and enough safeguards in India in 2015" to Malaysia will be celebrating the first prevent an Emergency-like situation. annual day of Yoga. "Advani ji is correct in saying that It is estimated that "two billion (people) Emergency can't be ruled out. Is Delhi will have participated by the end of June their first experiment," Delhi Chief 21 in commemorating the yoga day," Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted. Mukerji added. Besides Kejriwal, Advani found another He said Swaraj will reach New York on supporter in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Saturday and will preside over the two- Kumar of the Janata Dal-United, who told hour commemoration next day at the media persons in Patna, that the BJP world body to be attended by hundreds, veteran was "right to a large extent". including school children from India and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad the UN International School. tweeted: "Already there is undeclared He added that Swaraj will be emergency as authoritarian & Hitlerian (good days)" promise had fallen flat. "So, union minister from Rajasthan also representing India as the country which tendencies prevailing in country since unable to solve all these problems, there sought the resignation of Vasundhara had initiated the idea of having an May14." "Advani Ji proved that our may come a situation, when to stifle Raje and asked the RSS to clarify its annual international yoga day. concerns regarding anti-democratic democracy, these people may resort to stand on her, noting it had spoken for Swaraj, along with the UN Chief and elements & activities being sponsored & emergency," he told media persons in Sushma Swaraj but was silent on the the UNGA President, would then head to promoted by union government are Kolkata. BJP spokesperson M.J. Akbar state chief minister. "We request BJP Times Square where an estimated 30,000 correct." said that Advani may have been referring president Amit Shah to sack her people would perform Yoga and where the Congress spokesperson Tom Vadakkan to institutions rather than individuals. immediately," he added. UN celebrations would also be broadcast said it is not only his party which is Internal emergency was imposed on the The external affairs minister as well live on the giant screens. questioning the government "but even country by then Prime Minister Indira as the Rajasthan chief minister are Swaraj is also expected to attend a senior BJP leadership is raising Gandhi on June 25-26, 1975 and lasted 19 facing flak for their association with lecture and demonstration of Yoga at the questions on the efficacy of the months. former IPL chief Lalit Modi, who is Hindu Temple Society of North American government", while his colleague Sanjay The Congress on Thursday also wanted by the Enforcement Directorate and at an event at Lincoln Centre Jha, tweeted: "A totalitarian system is demanded a "decisive" reply from Prime for alleged financial impropriety in the featuring Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. gradually overwhelming India; Advani Minister Modi on the Lalit Modi money-spinning IPL, and currently Ji's warnings confirm our worst controversy while clarifying that it was living in London. In Hyderabad, Minister apprehensions." not mulling any legal recourse against of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh BJP bleeds: Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh also the government as of now. "The silence of defended his senior cabinet colleague tweeted that Advani's interview is first the prime minister is deafening. He must saying that matters were being blown out Lalitgate and... "indictment of Modi's politics" and that tell the people of India about his views," of proportion. "What is happening is, Minister Sushma Swaraj and also Advani indicated "democracy is not safe, Congress leader C.P. Joshi told the media, many things are being blown out of allegedly Rajasthan Chief Minister emergency is not far, under Modi's also asking him to clarify whether proportion. Lot of noise is being made. Vasundara Raje, other opposition parties leadership"." Sushma Swaraj decided to give the go- For example, it was said that because like AAP, the JD-U, the RJD and the CPI- Slamming the NDA government at the ahead for travel documents for Lalit Modi Sushma-ji's daughter is Lalit Modi's M also attacked the party on Advani's centre over a host of issues, veteran as an individual minister or on behalf of lawyer, so something is fishy.... remarks, terming them a veiled swipe at Communist Party of India-Marxist leader the entire government. "He (the prime Chidambaram's wife is a lawyer in Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP Biman Bose too expressed apprehension minister) should give a quick reply. He Sardha scam. Should he come under however denied it. that an emergency may be proclaimed to should put forward his views in a scanner for that? I leave this question to stifle democracy as Modi's "aachhe din decisive manner," he said. The former you," he told reporters.

Lookout for news, views and reviews, log on to theindianpanorama.com The Indian Panorama New York and Texas editions are available on website THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com SPORTS FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 33 Indians still haven’t Roger Federer stays on track for forgiven me for Sachin eighth Halle title

HALLE (GERMANY) (TIP): Roger Federer kept his wicket in WC: McGrath chances of an eighth title at Halle on track when he overpowered Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-3, 7-5 on NEW DELHI (TIP): Reliving one of Wednesday to breeze into the quarter-finals. his most cherished cricketing The 33-year-old, 17-time Grand Slam winner was rivalries during his 14-year-old career, pushed to three sets in the previous round by German former Australian speedster Glenn hope Philipp Kohlschreiber but had fewer problems with McGrath said that the Indian fans still Gulbis. haven't forgiven him for getting iconic He will now meet Germany's Florian Mayer who Sachin Tendulkar out in the 2003 defeated American Steve Johnson 6-3, 7-6 (7/4). World Cup final. Federer has reached the final of the last nine editions Chasing a mammoth 360 for a win of the grasscourt Wimbledon tune-up, winning seven. in Johannesburg, India crashed to 234 all out with McGrath drawing first Leander Paes records win blood after getting Tendulkar caught and bowled for 4 in the very first over on his 42nd birthday of the innings. The 45-year-old player LONDON (TIP): Leander Paes on June 17 celebrated feels the heartbroken Indians still his 42nd birthday by reaching the quarterfinals of the haven't forgotten the dismissal. ATP Aegon Championships with Canadian partner "I had some great battles with Daniel Nestor at the Queen's Club. Sachin. In fact, the Indians still The third seeded Indo-Canadian pair fought off the haven't forgiven me for getting him challenge of unseeded Viktor Troicki and Roberta out in the 2003 World Cup final," the bowler. wickets in 124 matches, takes credit for Bautista Agut 7-6 (3), 3-6, 10-7 in the opening round of the McGrath said in an interaction with a Tendulkar was given out LBW for a creating some space for the bowlers, Euro 1,696,645 grass court tournament. cricket website as brand ambassador naught when a short ball from especially on the celebration front. It took Paes and Nestor an hour and 21-minutes match of Hardys Wine. McGrath didn't bounce and hit him on "When a batsman scores a fifty or a to douse the challenge of their unseeded rivals. They "Sachin hit me for a four in the first the shoulder while he was ducking hundred he raises his bat to the crowd next face the Spanish pair of Marc Lopez and multiple over and the next ball, I dug it in short during the Adelaide Test in 1999. but when a bowler bags 5 or 10 wickets singles Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal. and he served up an easy caught and "I read what he feels about in his he has nothing to do. Now we fast The two pairs broke each other once before Paes and bowled to me," he added. book. Sachin is a small guy and I bowlers back in 2001, before the Nestor sealed the opening set via tie-breaker. In the Talking about another famous disagree with him because the ball Ashes, decided to raise the ball if a second set they could convert none of the six chances dismissal that also features in was on the way down and I could see bowler picks up a fifer. And they got and dropped serve one time which was enough Tendulkar's autobiography 'Playing It even the bails," said McGrath. fortunately I got five wickets in Lord's for Troicki and Roberta Bautista Agut to draw parity in My Way', McGrath disagrees with the In a game dominated by batsmen and I raised the ball to the crowd. I the match. Little Masters account of an LBW since it's inception by the British, feel nice now when fast bowlers do However, Paes and Nestor used all their experience to decision, which was given in favour of McGrath, who has bagged 563 Test that," said McGrath. prevail in the Match tie-breaker. Colombia stun Brazil at Copa America SANTIAGO (TIP): Colombia minutes but wastefully shot wide bounced back to stun Brazil 1-0 at after being teed up by Teo the Copa America on Wednesday, Gutierrez's deft backheel. avenging their bruising defeat to Brazil might have grabbed a the South American giants in last barely deserved equaliser just year's World Cup quarterfinals. before half-time though when Dani A first-half goal by Inter Milan Alves skipped clear down the right defender Jeison Murillo settled a and curled a cross into Neymar frenetic Group C encounter in whose diving header was saved by Santiago which leaves Colombia David Ospina. firmly in contention for a place in It got worse for Neymar the quarterfinals. however, who was booked for Three teams -- Brazil, Colombia handling the rebound from and Venezuela -- now have three Ospina's save. It means Brazil will points in Group C. be without their most potent A bad night for Brazil was attacker for their tie with compounded when skipper Venezuela. Neymar picked up his second Brazil went for broke in the caution of the tournament, which second half, bringing on Liverpool rules him out of the crucial final attacking midfielder Philippe group game against Venezuela on Coutinho for Fred, and Sunday. immediately looked more Victory was sweet for Colombia, threatening as a result. who were subjected to rough-house But they squandered a golden tactics from Brazil last year during chance to equalise on 58 minutes the World Cup in a 2-1 quarterfinal when Bundesliga-based striker exit. throughout, dropping back in hardly any shots on goal. breakthrough came. Roberto Firmino missed an open A pulsating opening 45 minutes numbers and frustrating Colombia slowly began to get the Cuadrado's teasing free-kick goal. saw Colombia gradually get on top Colombia's attack. better of their opponents however, from the right flank dropped into The ball ended up with Firmino after a frantic start dominated by Colombia also gave no quarter, and soon started to threaten. the area and when Brazil failed to after Ospina made a hash of a defence. with defensive midfielder Carlos A Sanchez shot deflected just clear, Murillo was on hand to rifle clearance. But with an open goal Brazil, who brought in Thiago Sanchez breaking up Brazil's wide of Brazilian defender in a low shot past Jefferson. begging, Firmino -- reportedly a Silva at center-back in place of attacks in midfield and restricting Miranda just after the half-hour Chelsea star Cuadrado might summer transfer target for David Luiz, defended in depth the five-time world champions to mark and then on 36 minutes the have doubled Colombia's lead on 43 Liverpool -- blazed over the bar. www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 34 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 US Study sees success in training women to prevent rape White man guns down 9 MIAMI (TIP): A programme that teaches university-age women how to avoid rape has shown some success in reducing the numbers of women in Canada who are sexually assaulted, according to a study. at black church in US Previous research has suggested that as many as one in four young women are raped or are victims of attempted rape WASHINGTON (TIP): A young white while attending college. gunman opened fire in a historically The findings published in the New England Journal of black church in South Carolina on June Medicine are based on a group of nearly 900 women at three 17 night killing nine African-Americans Canadian universities. in what was said to be hate crime, one of The first-year students were randomly assigned to either the worst in US history.The gunman, still look at brochures on avoiding campus rape or to complete the at large at the time of writing, reportedly training course. spared one woman so that she could ''go During four separate three-hour sessions, the women learn and tell the world what happened.'' "information, skills and practices to assess risk from It was little after 9pm on June 17 when acquaintances, to overcome emotional barriers in the group of African-Americans acknowledging danger and to engage in effective verbal and congregated at the 150-year-old Emanuel physical self-defense," the study said. African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Instructors also helped students "explore their own sexual church for their weekly Bible studies. The values, desires, boundaries and rights," according to the gunman, who was described as wearing a study. gray hoodie, blue jeans, and Timberland The programme, known as the Enhanced Assess boots, is said to have come into the church adding, ''While we do not yet know all of American, backed him, saying, ''The only Acknowledge Act Sexual Assault Resistance Program, has and sat down with the group before the details, we do know that we'll never reason someone could walk into a church been in development for over a decade by Charlene Senn of opening fire and fleeing. understand what motivates anyone to and shoot people praying is out of hate. It the University of Windsor. Police teams with sniffer dogs arrived enter one of our places of worship and is the most dastardly act that one could One year after completing the training, 23 women in the quickly on the scene and cordoned off the take the life of another.'' possibly imagine.'' EAAA programme reported having been raped, compared to area before putting the whole city,which But city authorities appeared certain it The shooting came just days ahead of 42 in the group that browsed brochures on rape prevention. witnessed massive protests following a is a hate crime. two big back-to-back political rallies in Researchers found 46 per cent fewer rapes and 63 per cent white cop-killing-a black man case some ''I do believe this is a hate crime,'' the city,first by Republican Presidential fewer attempted rapes in the group that followed the training weeks ago, into a lockdown. Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said candidate Jeb Bush (which has now been programme. There are concerns about further at a news conference, without explaining cancelled) and followed by one by "We found that the one-year risk of completed rape was violence from the fugitive gunman and the basis for his conclusion. ''This is a Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton, significantly lower for the women in the EAAA resistance possible retaliatory attacks in a state that tragedy that no community should have who tweeted her condolences but did not group than in the control group," said Senn. has a deep history of racism, but yet has to experience. It is senseless, say anything about the rally. "What this means in practical terms is that enrolling 22 successfully elected an Indian-American, unfathomable...we are going to do Police initially apprehended a young women in the EAAA resistance programme would prevent Nikki Haley (nee Nimrata Randhawa) as everything in our power to find this white photographer who happened to be one additional rape from occurring." the governor. Haley condoled the tragedy, individual, to lock him up, to make sure in the vicinity because he matched the The programme is the first developed in North America to saying, ''Michael, Rena, Nalin, and I are he does not hurt anyone else...'' description of the gunman. But he only show some success against preventing rape beyond a few praying for victims and families touched Mayor Joe Riley,who like Mullen is happened to be interviewing strangers for months, said Senn. by tonight's senseless tragedy'' and also white in a city that is 25% African- a project he was detailing on Facebook. THE INDIAN PANORAMA www.theindianpanorama.com ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 35 www.theindianpanorama.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA 36 FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 ADVERTISEMENT