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JUNE, 2012 INDIA INTERNATIONAL PAGE 3 INDIA NRO, NRE or FCNR Term Deposits INTERNATIONAL Volume 11, Number 6 JUNE, 2012 Which One to Pick? PUBLISHER & EDITOR he rupee has been in slide NRE account allows an NRI to deducted at source at 30%. In case Assess currency risk mode for some time now and maintain a savings as well as term of a Double Taxation Avoidance Currently, the rupee-dollar Tin order to arrest that fall, the deposit account while FCNR is only Agreement (DTAA) between India relationship is extremely volatile. In Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has a term deposit. Perhaps this, and and other countries, this TDS (tax such times, currency risk is an been taking several steps to attract the fact that NRE accounts are deducted at source) rate would be important consideration while dollars into the country. rupee accounts, makes it lower. making investments in India. One slew of changes were operationally convenient for For instance, the DTAA between Let us consider an example to introduced in December 2011 when investors to opt for the NRE term India and the US lays down a TDS understand this. You invested $ the central bank deregulated deposit. rate of 15% on interest from 20,000 in a rupee deposit when the interest rates on Non Resident Another issue is that not many deposits in India. These deposits rupee was at 53. Let us say that at Ordinary (NRO) savings accounts investors may be aware of the may also be taxed in the country of maturity, after 1 year, the rupee and Non Resident External (NRE) FCNR deposit since for the longest your residence. touches 55. Here are your gains: term deposits. time, interest rates were barely The US, for instance, taxes global Principal: $20,000 or Rs As a next step, last month, the RBI around 1%.” income of its residents and citizens. 10,60,000; Interest @8%: Rs also freed up interest rates on the But today, given the volatile However, if tax has been deducted 84,800; Maturity: Rs 11,44,800 or $ Prakash N. Sinha Foreign Currency Non Resident relationship between the rupee and at source in India, the investor will 20815; Gain in dollars: $ 815 or 4% (FCNR) Account. The result: a the dollar, FCNR deposits, with get a credit in the US for taxes paid Thus, if the rupee slips to 55 at Published by significant spike in interest rates on deregulated interest rates, might in India. the end of one year, your 8% all these accounts. provide a currency hedge to Interest on the NRE account and interest rate would translate into a India International Inc. For NRIs, this is great news. investors. FCNR account are tax free in India. net 4% gain after currency Business & Editorial office: They now have a choice of 3 However, countries like the US, adjustment. If the rupee were to slip 1801 East 12th Street attractively-priced term deposit How to choose: Over the years, which levy tax on global income of further, say to 56, your net gains Suite 1721 accounts in India: NRO, NRE and the RBI has made repatriation fairly its residents and citizens, will tax this would further drop to 2%. FCNR. The table gives you a liberal. While you can freely income. Instead, had you invested in a Cleveland, Ohio 44114 snapshot of the features of the repatriate NRE and FCNR So, while interest on NRE and dollar deposit, your gains would Phone: 216-781-4055 three types of term deposit balances, NRO account balances FCNR accounts maybe tax free in have been 4%, irrespective of E-Mail: [email protected] accounts. are repatriable up to US$ 1 million India, a US resident or citizen would currency movement. Data from the RBI suggests that per financial year. So this feature have to add this interest to his total Conversely though, if the rupee FCNR balances have always may not be an important income in the US tax return and pay appreciates, say to 51, then your net Why lagged behind balances in the NRE consideration for most. What would taxes thereon. gains from the rupee deposit would India International ? accounts. As of Feb 2012, while be important though are tax and For NRIs in tax free zones like the be 12%. India International is a secular FCNR balance was at $15.54 currency risk. Gulf region, the NRE and FCNR The outlook for the rupee remains and independent newspaper — a billion, the same in NRE accounts option would work best. For uncertain as it is reeling under the newspaper that doesn’t belong to was $29.94 billion. Check tax impact residents of the US, the choice impact of a widening capital account any religious, political, social, cul- Certified Financial Planner Interest on the NRO account is would depend on the tax slab deficit, a slowing economy, fears tural group or society, a newspa- Gaurav Mashruwala says, “The taxable and for NRIs, tax is applicable in the US. about policy reforms and per that’s truly independent. uncertainty about taxation of foreign investors. It aims to create a better under- Features NRO Term Deposit NRE Term Deposit FCNR Term Deposit standing between Asian-Indian In such a scenario, the choice of deposit would depend on the risk Americans, other ethnic groups, Source of NRO savings account NRE savings account Foreign funds (cheque or wire (local rupee earnings) (foreign funds or certain from overseas bank account or profile of the investor. and the mainstream American so- Funds ciety. We believe that mutual un- repatriable rupee funds) currency or travelers cheque) Virat Diwanji, Executive Vice derstanding fosters friendship, President and Head of Branch harmony and peace. On USD deposits: 3%-4% Banking, Kotak Mahindra Bank, America is a beautiful mosaic of Interest depending on term On Euro advices, “In the current scenario, many cultures and faiths. Asian- Rate 7-9% depending on 7-9% depending on deposits: 3%-4.5% depending on FCNR dollar deposits would suit Indian Americans are all proud amount, term and bank amount, term and bank term On GBP deposits: 4%-5% more to an investor who is Americans and believe in Ameri- depending on term completely risk averse and looking can values — freedom, equality, at investing in India with an at least tolerance, and respect for each Principal and interest will Principal and interest three- year horizon. other. Amid all its diversity in be credited to the NRO credited to NRE savings Principal and interest can be However, NRE deposits at current America, there is a unique unity savings account. Balance account and can be freely freely repatriated. attractive rates may prove to be a Repatriability that we aim to uphold and pre- in NRO savings account repatriated. better option if one is willing to take serve. can be repatriated up to the currency risk since the rate India International supports USD 1 million per financial differential between an NRE deposit basic human values and upholds year. and FCNR is about 500 basis points the dignity of all human beings – for 3 year tenure and even higher values that are above religion and Interest is taxable. Tax is Interest is tax free in India. Interest is tax free in India. for lower tenures.” politics. We believes in universal Tax deducted at source at However, it would be taxed However, it would be taxed in your Mashruwala adds, “If you are brotherhood ! Impact 30%. in your country of country of residence depending certain that you will repatriate the India International seeks to pro- residence depending on on tax rules applicable there. maturity proceeds, then it is best to mote close friendly relations be- tax rules applicable there. invest in the FCNR as you protect tween the United States and India, yourself against currency risk. the two largest democracies. Currency risk exists. If Currency risk exists. If No currency risk as you invest in Conversely, if you are certain that Currency India International also seeks to rupee depreciates further rupee depreciates further foreign currency and withdraw in your investment will remain in India, Risk help preserve and promote the at time of maturity and at time of maturity and the same currency. NRE would be a better choice.” precious Asian-Indian culture, repatriation, you will lose. repatriation, you will lose. –Deepa Venkatraghvan (TNN) heritage and values. And it seeks to uphold the pride and prestige Reserve Bank of India Reaches Out to NRIs to Lift Rupee of Asian-Indian Americans, as well MUMBAI: Buffetted by a sliding on non-resident Indians’ deposits to the so-called FCNR (B) deposits, bonds and loans worth trillions of as others’. – Publisher Indian rupee and surging dollar make it attractive for those who where the bank bears the currency dollars. demand for imports, the Reserve earn less than 2% in most parts of risk since it will repay the depositors But these higher returns may still India International is published Bank of India recently eased some the Western world. in US dollars. not lure NRIs in droves since monthly from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. curbs to attract dollars from NRIs Aiming to attract long-term With the benchmark London Inter- It is distributed free in Greater transaction costs, convenience and money, the cap on three- to five- Bank Offered Rates, or Libor, at Cleveland and surrounding areas. and scrapped the interest rate tax rates play a role. year deposits has been raised to 3 1.05% for 12 months, NRIs could Yearly subscription is $10 for home ceiling on exporters’ foreign “It will help improve the sentiment delivery. currency credit. But the measures, percentage points above earn 3.05% in US dollars on their at least in the near term,” said Copyright 2012 India International aimed at taking the steam off the international benchmark rates from deposits up to three years. For Parthasarthy Mukherjee, president, Inc. Reproduction of any article, currency, may only provide 1.25 percentage points. For less longer maturities, it could go up to treasury and international business report or photograph without Editor’s temporary relief, analysts say. than three years, it will be 2 4.05%. Libor is the rate at which operations, Axis Bank. “And banks written permission is prohibited. The central bank raised the cap percentage points, raised from 1.25 banks in London intend to lend to will be able to lend more freely now.” on interest rates offered by banks percentage points. 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Divorce Clause state of Bihar has migrant workers. foreign—is again out of Punjab, known as the emerged as the fastest Among the top five the reckoning for the top grain bowl of India for growing state for the states, Bihar is followed by five slots, expanding 9.1% many years, Andhra in India’s Law second year running, Delhi and Puducherry. during the last financial Pradesh and Karnataka, clocking a whopping Mineral-rich Chhattisgarh year, according to data both Information NEW DELHI: Bowing to pressure from women’s 13.1% growth in 2011-12. and Goa complete the top submitted to the Planning Technology (IT) hubs, activists, the government of India has made some Not just that, on the five growth listings, Commission on June 1. and Uttar Pradesh, the crucial amendments to divorce laws, giving women half back of four years of according to data Among the more country’s most populous a share in the husband’s residential property double-digit growth, its available from the ministry industrialized states, only state, clocked growth irrespective of whether it was acquired before or during economy is now bigger of statistics. Tamil Nadu was ahead of that was lower than the marriage. The amendment was cleared by the Union than that of Punjab—until Gujarat—a favored Gujarat with 9.4% growth India’s GDP growth of Cabinet on May 17, 2012. recently the preferred destination for investors, (estimated at 2004-05 6.5% in 2011-12. (TNN) The wife’s share in other assets owned by her husband - movable and immoveable property - has been left to the discretion of the judge. Another amendment cleared by the Cabinet allows Childless Couples Seek Caste-Based Sperms for the six-month cooling period, required for divorce MUMBAI: Dr. Aniruddh “Even among Muslims, happens abroad, where, says filed under mutual consent, to be waived off by the judge North-East may differ from Malpani, an infertility expert couples want to know Dr Malpani, couples have the other regions, “we have to only if both husband and wife agree. In the original bill, in Mumbai, often invokes whether the donor is Sunni or option of going through a isolate donors based on the period could be waived off if even one of the parties playwright George Bernard Shiite,” he says. “However, whole “shopping catalogue” these considerations”, he sought it: another feature that was opposed by women’s Shaw’s conversation with going by Indian Council of with details of various sperm says. groups. French actress Sarah Medical Research donors. In India, however, the While in a majority of The amendments are part of the Marriage Bernhardt when inundated guidelines, we reveal only the donor remains anonymous. cases, it is the gynecologists (Amendment) Bill that seeks to amend the Hindu with elitist requests from religion of the donor, not the All that couples are told is who contact sperm banks couples seeking sperm caste.” that it is “a young, healthy and Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954. and request for semen donors. “Just think Patil, who dismisses fertile physical match”. Yet, samples based on the The bill seeks to introduce irretrievable breakdown of Monsieur... a child with my requests about caste as they persist. “They want to marriage as a condition for divorce through mutual client’s height, skin and hair looks and your brains!” “byproducts of the Indian match the primary color preferences, some consent. Bernhardt is said to have told mindset”, happily obliged characteristics such as high-flying couples, This is the first time that a woman’s share in marital Shaw. To which he had varying queries about height, skin and color with especially NRIs, visit the property has been made part of the marriage legislation. famously quipped, “But educational and professional their husband. Mostly, they sperm bank personally in So far, the wife’s right to property was recognized but Madam, what if he is born backgrounds, extra-curricular want someone who is taller their desperation. alimony and compensation were decided by the courts. with my looks and your preferences and linguistic and a shade fairer than their Infertility specialist Dr Arun “The amendment will give a woman right to 50% of brains?” skills until a woman perched husband,” says Malpani, who Patil, partner at Medilabs, a In India, it’s well known that on stilettos tick-tocked into points out that this may be a the residential property owned by her husband even if leading sperm bank, says couples shopping for sperm his clinic with a bizarre “very consumeristic” that around ten per cent of it is acquired before the marriage. This will ensure that demand both looks and request a few months ago. “A approach. the woman is not left without a roof over her head in his clients, who come from a brains. What isn’t so well Page 3 personality walked in While most couples are higher socio-economic case divorce is given through mutual consent. However, known, despite being fairly with a strange chart in her concerned about medical strata, are curious about the division of other property, money, assets will be decided commonplace, is a more hand. There was a list of history of the donor (Patil’s donor’s background. Among by the courts,’’ sources said. outrageous request: caste- Bollwyood actors such as clinic produces the medical these are people who ask for However, some of the activists remained unhappy with based sperm. Three years John Abraham and Emraan history of three generations of “the name of the college the the bill, saying it remained biased against women ago, Dr Saurav Kumar, a Hashmi and each of them the donor’s family), skin color donor went to” and tend to despite the changes the Union Cabinet cleared on May Patna gynecologist, created was graded as A+, A, B+ and is another priority. “Certain favor prestigious institutions a furore when he told a so on. She asked my staff if communities prefer a fair- 17. Former Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat said this such as IIT and IIM. newspaper that childless there were donors in these skinned donor,” says Dr Pai, Some leave their photo- legislation would “compromise the future rights of couples insisted on knowing graded categories and adding that couples want women in a marriage’’. graph at the sperm bank so the caste of sperm donors. insisted that she was ready them to find the closest skin, that the doctor can find the Karat, along with parliamentarians and others, had But while one may be to pay anything. We told her hair and eye color match. closest match. met law minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday to press tempted to assume that caste that we could not accept such During his fellowship in a In 2008, when Dilip Patil home the point that restricting a woman’s share only to biases are entrenched only in demands; this was not a clinic semen bank in Australia tried to popularize the residential property would be unfair. states like Bihar, the city’s for designer babies,” says around ten years ago, he had concept of sperm donation in They argued that the woman’s right to property was infertility experts insist Patil, who was on the medical observed that they would India through an awareness established under law and she should have an equal otherwise. research team for the recent bear the race of the donor in booth at IIT’s annual Mood Dilip Patil, founding film on sperm donation called mind as the physical right to all property acquired during marriage. “There Indigo festival, it was, he president of Trivector, an Vicky Donor. characteristics could differ says, “an anti-climax”. “The has been some change but it is not enough. This is a infertility solutions firm, says Perhaps the designer baby depending on this. Similarly, very poor substitute and should not be passed in the students were so shy that there is a definite preference syndrome is inspired in elite in India, where the physical they changed their lanes name of a pro-woman legislation,’’ Karat said. for Brahim donors in Mumbai. sperm shoppers by what features of people from the while passing by the stall,” he says. Patil, whose real-life anecdotes about convincing people to donate sperm Facebook Face-offs Trigger Divorce Cases Across India made it to Vicky Donor, says that he used references MUMBAI: Facebook CEO In Mumbai, a young couple in face-offs in family courts playing games on the site is and ‘spending time on about sperm donation in Mark Zuckerberg has not stood in front of a family court across India too. no doubt eating into couples’ Facebook’ is replacing ancient mythology, props and marked his relationship judge last week. Their “Facebook is fast becoming together-time or intimacy. ‘spending time online money (Rs 500 per sample) status as “married”. His wife complaint against each other a reason why many More pertinently, if someone watching porn’ as grounds to convert donors. Priscilla Chan has. He has was that the other was marriages are faltering,” said wants to have an affair or flirt, for cruelty,’’ said Deshmukh. The success of the film, no picture of them as newly- always glued to Facebook. celebrity divorce lawyer then FB is an easy place to Neela Gokhale, a divorce says Patil, has vindicated weds on his page, she does. The judge reprimanded them, Mrinalini Deshmukh. do it. advocate, recounts that in Mumbai’s community of It’s fine for the couple after then counselled them. As divorce petitions get People also use the ‘friend Pune, a woman found her sperm donors. One the billionaire-founder of the They finally admitted that peppered with the mention of finder’ to re-unite with school husband “obsessed with FB indication is in the increasing world’s most popular social they still did like each other, Facebook and printouts of or college friends and some and ‘adding’ women friends. number of walk-in donations. networking site tied the knot resolved to not “unfriend” and web pages, the reason is not really unite. One couple She has filed for divorce”. “We had a 43-year-old father about a couple of weeks to give their marriage another merely because couples opted for mutual consent Facebook posts and who was keen to donate his ago, but in a small town in shot. spend more hours divorce when her husband pictures are being used as sperm. We told him he was Tamil Nadu, a similar Some marriages may get individually on the site, found his former love on FB,” evidence in courts. too old to be a donor,” says “failure” by a man to update saved, but Facebook, which Deshmukh said. “Spending the lawyer explained. Facebook actually throws Patil, “so he sent his son the his “basic info” on Facebook a recent survey in UK blamed more time, especially at night Facebook posts, photos up proof of infidelity through next day.” (Mansi Choksi & is being cited by his wife as for nearly a third of all before bedtime, with friends are now court evidence: pictures posted on friends’ Sharmila Ganesan Ram, grounds for cruelty. divorces, is leading to a rise on Facebook or merely “There are now FB widows (Continued on Page 15) TNN) PAGE 10 INDIA INTERNATIONAL JUNE, 2012 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ News from Cleveland and Across USA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Visitors at the India International booth at the Cleveland Asian Festival May 19. The festival’s diversity also featured Indian dances, music and food. Indian-American Girl Wins Indian-American Teenagers National Spelling Bee contest Sweep This Year’s National OXON HILL, Maryland: he saw on billboards and she Arvind Mahankali of Bayside Snigdha Nandipati, a 14- would spell them. Hills, New York. At 12, the Geographic Bee year-old Indian-American In the run-up to the bee, seventh-grader was the from San Diego spelled Nandipanti studied 6 to 10 youngest of the nine finalists. Washington: Indian- scholarship, lifetime Nagvekar won by “guetapens,” a French- hours a day on weekdays and He has one more year of American students have membership in the correctly answering as derived word that means 10-12 hours on weekends, a eligibility remaining, and he swept the prestigious National Geographic “Regensburg”. ambush, snare or trap, to win regimen that she’ll need to pledged to return. National Geographic Society and a trip for two “It was a guess, a 50-50 maintain to get through “I got eliminated both times the 85th Scripps National Bee, bagging the top four to the Galapagos on an chance. It just happened Spelling Bee on May 31 night. medical school, her father by German words,” positions of this year’s expedition aboard the to be a good guess” She beat out eight other said. Mahankali said. “I know what finalists in the nerve-wracking “She says this is harder I have to study.” tough national National Geographic Nagvekar said after the competition. than being a neurosurgeon, Nandipati’s prize haul competition, where US Endeavour. competition. A coin collector and maybe,” said her mother, includes $30,000 in cash, a President Barack Obama Second prize winner, President Barack Sherlock Holmes fan, Madhavi. trophy, a $2,500 savings played a quizmaster. Jain received $15,000 Obama asked one Nandipati aspires to become Stuti Mishra of West bond, a $5,000 scholarship, Rahul Nagvekar (14) college scholarship. question this year via a physician or neurosurgeon. Melbourne, Florida, finished $2,600 in reference works from Texas bagged the Thirteen-year-old video, quizzing the young She also plays violin and is second after misspelling from the Encyclopedia first position, by beating seventh-grader contenders on their “schwarmerei”, which means Britannica and an online fluent in Telugu. 13-year-old Vansh Jain Mahadevan, who took the knowledge of recent A semifinalist last year, excessive, unbridled language course. from Wisconsin at the third place, got $10,000 events. Obama asked Nandipati became the fifth enthusiasm. The week began with 278 consecutive Indian- While many spellers spellers, including the finals of the annual college scholarship, while which Asian capital city on American winner and 10th pretend to write words with youngest in the history of the competition held May 24, 14-year-old eighth-grader the Han River hosted a in the last 14 years, a run their fingers, the 14-year-old competition, 6-year-old Lori 2012. Both are class Ranga, who bagged the gathering of world leaders that began in 1999 when Mishra had an unusual Anne Madison of Lake eighth students. fourth place, took $1,000, in March for a Nuclear Nupur Lala won and was routine, she mimed typing Ridge, Virginia. The third and fourth an official release said. Security Summit. The later featured in the them on a keyboard. The field was cut to 50 positions went to Varun The winning question answer to which was documentary Nandipanti and Mishra semifinalists after a computer Mahadevan from San was: “Name the Bavarian “Seoul”. frequently high-fived each test and two preliminary “Spellbound.” Francisco and Raghav city located on the Danube Obama said that Her father, Krishna Rao, other after spelling words rounds, and Lori Anne was Ranga from Arizona River that was the studying geography is said Snigdha first showed an correctly during the marathon two misspelled words away interest in spelling as early as competition. from a semifinal berth. The respectively. legislative seat of the Holy “about more than just age 4. As she rode in the car, Coming in third for the tiny, blue-eyed prodigy said Nagvekar has won a Roman Empire from 1663 memorizing places on a he would call out the words second consecutive year was she’d be back next year. $25,000 college to 1806?”, which map”.
CHENNAI: The sharp depreciation of the rupee Rupee’s Fall Hits Indian Students Abroad has spooked the parents of students studying abroad. education, are from the borrow books and even get it quite difficult but now I think Subramanian, whose son Agents say this increase in With the rupee on May 18 middle or upper middle class hand-medowns. So even it’s the best move I made.” studies in Germany. expenses is unlikely to result plunged to a new low of families. Now, they find though the tuition fee may not Overseas education agents With the currency fall in students dropping out, but 54.89 vs U.S. dollar, many themselves forced into a pinch, living expenses will. said that though universities singeing pockets, students could drive many to take up of them are an anxious lot. hand-to-mouth existence. Some parents who paid the give a waiver for upfront are now looking for free part-time jobs. “Most Most parents preferred to Increasing their allowance by fee at one go were relieved. payment of fees, most lunches. “My friends, who countries allow students to pay the term fees in even $50 is becoming more K R Maalathi, mother of parents (70%) prefer to pay don’t have a kitchen in their work a certain number of installments and now are difficult,” said Chandrika Pavithra, a student of the it in two to three installments. house, head to the ISKCON hours during the weekdays literally paying the price for Sagar, mother of Praveen, London School of “With the rupee temple for a free meal, and full time during the it. They said they did not see who is pursuing an MS in Economics, said, “I couldn’t depreciating by more than because a simple breakfast holidays. The local it coming and were Thayer School of afford the collateral security 20% since January, the costs around 10 pounds. population doesn’t want to wondering how they would Engineering in the US. the banks asked for giving my difference between last Sometimes the academic work in the weekends, so manage as they still had to In Praveen’s case, an daughter an educational term’s fee and this term’s has pressure doesn’t allow us many Indian students take pay for the living expenses educational loan covers his loan. So I paid her fees run into five digits. I did not time to make even a simple advantage of this facility,” even if they took care of the entire tuition fee unlike in myself. I made the decision take this into consideration sandwich at home,” said said Naveen Chopra of The fees. “Most students, who India. 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PAGE 12 INDIA INTERNATIONAL JUNE, 2012 Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing. –Mark Twain
Too Much is Too Much Riddle Get Better Soon A fellow was very much in love with a beautiful A retired man who Corner girl. volunteers to entertain One day she told him patients in nursing homes that the next day was and hospitals went to one her birthday. He told her local hospital in Brooklyn he would send her a and took his portable bouquet of roses... one keyboard along. He told for each year of her life. some jokes and sang That evening he called some funny songs at the local florist and patients’ bedsides. ordered 21 roses with All desirable things in life are either illegal, When he finished he instructions that they be said, in farewell, “I hope Compiled by delivered first thing the banned, expensive or married to someone else! you get better.” Aditi Sinha next morning. One elderly gentleman As the florist was replied, “I hope you get Hi folks: preparing the order, he heaven. You will be heaven in a Toyota Ferrari! You’re set better, too.” Remember last decided that since the judged on your past station wagon.” forever! Why so down?” month’s riddles? young man was such a deeds, and will have your The angel finally looked Sam looked up, ever so Rabbit Care I didn’t mean to slowly opened his mouth, good customer, he would transport chosen at our hero, Sam, and make a fool of you. put an extra dozen roses accordingly.” said- “You, Sam, have set and said, “I just saw my A woman bought my sons Just wanted to give in the bouquet. The angel looked at the a fine example. You did wife go by on a a pet rabbit after they The fellow never did first guy, Dave, and said- not have sex until after skateboard.” promised they would take you a break...from find out what made the “You, Dave, were a bad marriage, and you never care of it. As expected, using your brain ! young girl so angry with man in life. You cheated cheated on your wife. For Peer pressure she ended up with the Here are this months him. on your wife four times! this, you will forever responsibility. riddles...the easy For this, you will drive travel through heaven in A reporter interviewed a Exasperated, one ones. Transportation in around Heaven in an old a Ferrari.” 104-year-old man. evening she said, “How Heaven beat-up Dodge.” A short time later, Jon “And what do you think many times do you think 1. In this teaser your The angel next looked and Dave pulled up in is the best thing about that rabbit would have job is to try and And it came to pass that at the second guy, Jon, their cars next to Sam’s being 104?” the reporter died if I hadn’t looked discover a shorter an angel came up to three and said- “You were not Ferrari. There he is, asked. after it?” word within the given newly-dead men and as sinful, but you still sitting on the bonnet, his “No peer pressure,” he “Once,” her 12-year- word that relates to the said, “You are all to be cheated on your wife head in his hands, crying. replied. old son replied. theme. The word must allocated a method for twice. For this, you will “What’s wrong, Sam?” be an extension of the transportation around forever travel around they asked. “You got the ‘theme’ word. The letters of the hidden word are NOT jumbled. y wife and I have Adopting an Adorable Four-Year-Old Example: thought about Theme: Madoption for a few They held an adoption fair saying ‘thank you’ – kicking NIGHT______years and we finally decided and we went to check out the LIFE CAN BE SO FUNNY ! back dirt in my face. S neaky=(NIGHT that the time was right. dogs. Within an hour or so, She actually thinks she’s SKY) So with help from a local we were heading home with Melvin Durai is a covering up her mess with organization, we recently our new dog. They had asked the dirt, but if it was Manitoba-based writer Theme: DAY ______welcomed a 4-year-old into us to fill a form and called one and humorist, author of acceptable to do that, you can bet I’d be walking 1. Jacob = ? (DAY our family. She’s so cute and of our references, but it still the humorous novel loving — you’ll be amazed amazed me how easy it was around with a big bag of ______) how many compliments to adopt a dog. “Bala Takes the Plunge.” sand — and my neighbor’s 2. Clapboard = ? (DAY we’ve received — and we Had we tried to adopt a kid, A native of India, he kids would be building ______) wouldn’t change a thing the process would have taken grew up in Zambia and castles on their lawn. 3. Champagne = ? about her, except perhaps months — and that’s just to has lived in North If you have a dog, you can’t (DAY ______) her habit of barking at the get the “Official Certificate of America since the early be overly concerned about 4. Orange = ? (DAY hygiene. The other day, my mailman. Intention to Adopt and Raise 1980s. ______) And even that isn’t so bad. a Baby Goat.” wife took Legacy for a walk She barks at him only on Trust me, adopting dogs is Read his humor blog at http://www.Nshima.com near a river and spotted a those days he puts bills in much easier than adopting Write to him at [email protected] fish rotting in the sun. And 2. Ryan and Craig our mailbox. And she usually goats. My wife wants to raise what does a dog do when were identical twins waits until I’m done barking goats (and other animals), The Humor of Melvin Durai she sees a rotting fish? Yes, born in Seattle in at him. but we’d have to move she rolled around on it. I 1961. Ryan was born She’s a black Labrador outside the city to do so. That’s the good thing about particularly smart dog and don’t blame her. before Craig, but Retriever-Rottweiler mix and Having dogs and cats in the having a dog. Nobody’s going have managed to train it to After all, it’s not every day according to their birth her name is Legacy. She city is fine, but the moment to want to eat your dog, not use your toilet. (A squat toilet that a dog gets to wear certificates, Craig was came with that name, but I the neighbors hear a “baaaa” even that Korean couple is ideal for this. After your dog perfume. Not just any old older than Ryan. How think it’s appropriate that she or “maaaa” from your yard, a has been there for a few perfume, but “Scent of Fish.” down the street. (Most Asians come? has the same name as our city official will be at your do not eat dog, never mind minutes, you can turn to your The male dog at the end old car (Subaru Legacy), door, saying “naaaa.” that the Beijing Bookstore spouse and say, “Oh, look — of our street went absolutely because just like that car, He’ll want to take your goat keeps running out of copies he didn’t do squat.”) crazy when Legacy walked 3. What is this? she’s parked in one spot away and no amount of of “Canine Casserole and Most dogs are like hot dog past his fence. I could tell, most of the day. And pleading will make him Other Delicious Dishes.”) vendors — they prefer to do from his expression, what he Sticker sometimes we need to jump change his mind, because Another good thing about their business outdoors. I was thinking: “Come to me, Bum her to get her going. not only have you violated the having a dog is all the have to clean up after Legacy my love. You smell so We adopted her from an city’s rules, it’s also been a exercise you’ll get. You need a couple of times a day. I delectable. I could lick you Sticker Sticker organization that rescues long time since he had goat to walk your dog a few times don’t mind it too much, but all over.” Bum Bum stray dogs from up north. stew. a day, unless you have a she has a strange way of Sticker Sticker Sticker If you enjoyed this piece, you’ll love Melvin’s humorous novel “Bala Takes the Plunge,” Bum Bum Bum available in North America through Amazon.com and McNallyRobinson.com (Anwers on page 14)
JUNE, 2012 INDIA INTERNATIONAL PAGE 13 Answers to India Quiz 1. Over three thousand years old and the capital of modern India? Answer: Delhi New Delhi was originally built as capital by the British with a population projection of 70,000. By June 2002, that precise area housed just over eight million residents!
2. This mega-metropolis in the east of the country and home of Mother Teresa for many years. It was first city in India with an underground railway system. Answer: Kolkata Eden Gardens (a cricket ground) has a capacity of over 100,000 people.
3. What financial capital, known formerly as Bombay, is the centre of India’s film industry? Answer: Mumbai Bombay was given to King Charles II of England by the Portuguese as part of a dowry when he married Catherine.
4. What is the home of the Taj Mahal and former capital of India? Answer: Agra The capital moved from Agra to Delhi in 1634.
5. What is the main seaport of the state of Goa and centre of the former Portuguese colony? Answer: Vasco-da-Gama Vasco de Gama was the Portuguese seafarer who set out on Answer to Picture Quiz: ANSWERS Facebook a voyage around the Cape of Good (Continued from Page 10) Hope in 1497. Hawa Mahal, Jaipur to RIDDLES pages, said Arthi P S, a Chennai- based divorce lawyer, who believes 6. What is the capital of Madhya that distraction in a marriage is Pradesh and the site of an awa Mahal (Palace of Hawa Mahal is in the rear side of endemic, it is just that the mode has ecological disaster in 1984? winds) is situated in the the main building, the front portion changed for most with Facebook. Answer: Bhopal heart of Jaipur city in of the building having no entry at H In Chennai, a woman dragged her The Bhopal gas leak resulted in India’s Rajastahn state. It is a five all, unlike conventional buildings. husband to court after she found a thousands of deaths. storey structure and was built The Hawa Mahal is made of red picture of him in a “compromising” Poet-King Sawai Pratap Singh in and pink sandstone, beautifully position with another girl on the 7. What city is situated in the outlined with white borders and 1799. page of a friend of her friend. “It was northeast of the country in the state The most sensational motif’s painted with quick lime. a recent picture,” she claimed, citing of West Bengal and is surrounded monument in the city of Jaipur, the This five storey building of it as evidence. He is denying the by tea plantations on all sides? palace overlooks one of Jaipur’s unusual architecture designed by charges in court. Answer: Darjeeling main streets and was originally Lal Chand Usta, is a stunning Senior lawyer Sunil Mittal from constructed to offer women of the example of Rajput artistry made Delhi said: “Photographs posted by 8. Situated in the north in the state court a view of the activities taking of red and pink sandstone, friends or even husbands and wives of Gujarat, it is one of the major place in the bazaar and the beautifully outlined with white are finding their way into divorce industrial cities of India and the site 1. surrounding streets behind stone- borders and motif’s painted with battles in a big way.” of major rioting at the end of quick lime. Its facade from the A. Jacob = JOB (DAY Families frown at “inappropriate February 2002? carved screens. status updates, comments and Answer: Ahmedabad The site offers superb views of road side makes Hawa Mahal look JOB) photographs”, said veteran family Mahatma Gandhi was born in the the city, including the many old more like a delicate screen than B. Clapboard = LABOR court lawyer Tara Hegde. state of Gujarat. palaces and houses which were a palace. (DAY LABOR) painted ocher-pink for the 1853 This five-story, pyramid-shaped “People tell the court one thing, but post the truth online. Facebook 9. Once named Madras, what city visit of Prince Albert. structure has tier after tier of 953 C. Champagne = CAMP exposes a person for what he or she is situated on the east coast and is This five-storey, pyramid- small casements, each with tiny (DAY CAMP) really is,” Hegde said. the capital of Tamil Nadu? shaped structure is made up of lattice worked (Jali) pink windows, D. Orange = ONE (DAY A lawyer said Facebook has Answer: Chennai small casements, each with tiny small balconies and arched roofs opened avenues to help reinforce Chennai is a major airline hub and with hanging cornices, exquisitely ONE) windows and arched roofs, suspicions. In Mumbai, a woman, one of the world’s fastest growing beautifully modeled and carved. modeled and carved. newly married, refused to cities. These screened windows serve It is particularly striking when 2. Ryan and Craig were consummate her marriage. Her the dual purpose of guarding the viewed early in the morning, lit husband was patient, said advocate 10. Capital of Andhra Pradesh and born in the fall on the day women of the palace, and providing with the golden light of sunrise. Hegde, till he stumbled on to her FB one of the largest cities in India. that the clocks are set back efficient air-circulation in the Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the profile page — it had pictures of her There is a sizable city in Pakistan building, the reason why it is called ruler of Rajasthan of the one hour. Ryan was born with many male friends. Now, he of the same name. What is it? the Hawa Mahal (Hawa meaning air Kachwaha clan, was the original has filed for annulment with Answer: Hyderabad at 1:45am. Craig was born in Hindi). planner and builder who built the Fcabook pictures as evidence. Hyderabad is one of the largest 30 minutes later. Since the There is a total lack of Jaipur city in 1727. The Bandra family court right now cities in India with an area of 650 ornamentation on the inner face Clocks were set back at is struggling to figure out where to square kilometers (250 sq mi) However, it was his grandson of the building. The chambers are even send summons to a “wife” who having a population of 6.8 million. Sawai Pratap Singh, son of 2am, Craig’s official time of plain and more mass of pillars and a man says he married after The metropolitan area has 7.7 Maharaja Sawai Madhosingh I, birth was 1:15am. passages leading to the top meeting on the Facebook. million residents, making it the who built the Hawa Mahal in 1799 storey. According to a celebrity divorce fourth most populous city and the as a continuation of the Royal City lawyer, Facebook is fast becoming sixth most populous urban Famous for it’s Beehive like Palace. 3. A Bumper Sticker structure, the entrance to the Lit. A bum per sticker a reason why many marriages are agglomeration in India. faltering. 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If Therefore an individual would not guarantee reen- the U.S. government or the should carefully consider try to the United States, it www.imwong.com individual’s own whether an immigrant visa would greatly facilitate it. Indian Diplomat’s Daughter Files Lawsuit US Supports Visas to Against New York City; Seeks $1.5 Million Qualified Indians WASHINGTON: As India New York: An Indian counts, in the US District Kelly make NYPD even this occurred, despite her teachers was not charged announced plans to take the diplomat’s daughter, who was Court Southern District of better,” Mr Batra said in an actual innocence as this was criminally nor arrested like issue of “discriminatory” jailed for a day on suspicion New York May 7. The suit emailed statement to PTI. a case of mistaken identity,” Ms Biswas was. increase in US visa fees to of sending obscene emails to seeks at least $500,000 in The case had garnered Mr Batra said. “The defendants the World Trade Organisation her teacher, has filed a compensatory and a million significant media attention It states that Ms Biswas individually and collectively (WTO), Washington assured lawsuit against the city of dollars in punitive damages, and India had conveyed its was discriminated against wrongly, falsely and it continued to fully support New York and her school in addition to other relief. concern to the US authorities and falsely accused of unlawfully accused Krittika of the admission of qualified authorities seeking USD 1.5 The lawsuit is against 11 over Ms Biswas’s arrest and sending offensive e-mails crimes and bad acts... Indians. million in damages for her parties including the city of treatment. India’s then- because of her ethnicity. caused (her) detention and The US and India “did have wrongful imprisonment and New York, the city’s ambassador Meera Shankar The school and police arrest while Krittika was a good and thorough suspension from school. Department of Education and had said the case had been authorities “selected Krittika actually innocent,” the lawsuit discussion” on the visa Krittika Biswas, 18, the some of its officials, the taken up “very seriously” with for false arrest and detention, said, adding that Ms Biswas issues in the context of daughter of Vice-Consul in principal and teacher the US government. malicious prosecution, was “emotionally Secretary of State Hillary the Consulate General of concerned of Ms Biswas’s The lawsuit details the suspension and disciplinary traumatized” by her Clinton’s recent visit to India, India in New York Debashish school and New York City circumstances that led to Ms treatment due to her race and suspension from school and State department Biswas, was detained and police commissioner Biswas being handcuffed and ethnicity as an Indian of suffered physical injury due spokesperson Victoria arrested in February last year Raymond Kelly. her forced imprisonment for South east Asian descent,” it to her arrest. Nuland told reporters last on the grounds that she had “Hopefully, this lawsuit will approximately 28 hours “for said. month. sent “offensive and sexually aid all 1.1 million students in nothing.” Ms Biswas was suspended According to the lawsuit, a As Clinton said it publicly threatening” emails to her New York City schools to Ms Biswas was “forced to from her school and has police officer had threatened “Indians are the greatest teachers in Queens’s John avoid false criminal charges be processed through the since returned to India, where Ms Biswas that if she did not beneficiaries in the world of Browne High School. and illegal suspension by criminal justice system, and she is pursuing her college confess, she would “not both our L-1 visa program Ms. Biswas’s lawyer Ravi NYC Department of spent over 24 hours in jail studies. graduate from high school” and our H-1B visa program,” Batra filed the 118-page Education when they are without being allowed to meet The lawsuit said the student and would end up “in jail with she said when asked about lawsuit, which has 10 federal actually innocent, while her parents or visited by who was actually responsible prostitutes and people with India’s reported move. counts and 16 New York state helping commissioner Ray senior Indian diplomats. 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