Anna Burns, First Northern Irish Writer to Win the Man Booker Prize for Her Third Novel Milkman, on Her Life and Times

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “It’s nice to feel I’m solvent” — Anna Burns, Man Booker prize winner

the manuscript to her agent, it was Milkman, a novel ostensibly By Lisa Allardice turned down by several publishers. about the trauma of growing up What an end to the story. during the Troubles in 1970s “I was thinking that when I got Belfast, unexpectedly beat he author was in terrible back to the hotel last night,” the American heavyweight Richard pain and couldn’t aff ord 56-year-old author says when we Powers’ eco-epic The Overstory As a writer, I think to feed herself when she meet. In good Booker tradition, and Esi Edugyan’s exuberant slave wrote her novel Milkman. she has only had a couple of survival story, Washington Black, it is absolutely Winning the Man Booker hours’ sleep. “When I look back to the prize. It is actually set in an prizeT is clearly a life-changing event, to 2014 — with this horrendous unnamed city, in an unknown era fascinating to but never more so than in the case pain, wondering: ‘Will I even fi nish (references to Kate Bush, Sigourney explore that whole of surprise success, Anna Burns, Milkman?’ And then Booker winner? Weaver and Freddie Mercury give us who became the fi rst Northern Irish The extremes … It feels wonderful, a clue), the characters known only theme of borders writer to win the £50,000 award for it feels dreamlike. Did that really in terms of their relationships to her third novel, Milkman. happen?” others. and barriers and Go back four years and Burns She is still in a lot of pain (the “Although it is recognisable as was unable to write for excruciating result of a surgical injury), and this skewed form of Belfast, it’s not the dreaded other back pain, living peripatetically the interview is conducted with really Belfast in the 70s. I would around England, house-sitting her perched on a low table or, like to think it could be seen as any when possible, struggling to periodically, standing up. “I still sort of totalitarian, closed society make ends meet and using food can’t get back to writing,” she says, existing in similarly oppressive banks (which she thanks in the “but let’s not talk about that today. conditions,” Burns explains. “I see acknowledgements of the book). It’s nice to feel I’m solvent. That’s a it as a fi ction about an entire society ‘ When she was fi nally able to send huge, huge gift.” living under extreme pressure, ’ Thursday, October 25, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY with longterm violence seen as the to do that. I couldn’t have done it norm.” living there.” She went to London to Her novel is, in many ways, an study Russian but never fi nished her attempt to show how abnormal this degree for personal reasons: “things normality was, the lack of names I had to deal with”, she says, “so that giving it an almost dystopian, got in the way”. (She is extremely futuristic quality. Many readers, reticent about her private life.) She especially younger ones not so started reading everything she could familiar with recent Irish history, about Northern Ireland and its have found parallels with Margaret history. Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. But it was almost by accident All three of her novels — Milkman, that she came to writing, what she Little Constructions (2007) and No calls the “ripeness of the moment”. Bones, which was shortlisted for An artist friend invited her on a the then Orange prize in 2002 — trip to buy materials in Hampstead, have drawn on her background in north London. She discovered a confl ict-ridden Belfast, exploring sketchpad in a sale bin. “I thought: the psychological fallout of living ‘It’s £1. I’ll just buy it because it in such “a hair-trigger society”. looks beautiful.’” She kept it by her But Milkman, she feels, is the most bed with a pen, and “it just sort of political, the most explicitly about sat there. And then one day I woke the Troubles. She says people ask up and wrote down my dream. And her: “Are you still writing about then I wrote something about that Ireland? You have to let go, you have day.” Before long, she had fi lled up to move on. that fi rst pad, then “got another one, “I think: ‘How do I move on?’ got another one”. The Troubles is such an enormous, She cites Julia Cameron’s much- immense occurrence in my life, loved The Artist’s Way and Writing and in other people’s lives, that it Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, demands to be written about. Why saying their message really spoke to should I apologise for it? It is a very her: “Just turn up. Be free and easy rich, complex society in which to in your writing. Don’t bring your place a fi ction.” reason to it too much. Just have a go Burns belongs to the school of and see what comes out.” And her novelists for whom characters just fate was sealed when another friend “come and tell me their stories, asked if she would go to a creative in their voices”. She is not very writing class with her because she comfortable talking about her was too scared to go on her own. She writing. Now that the book is loved it. fi nished and the characters have Burns’s meandering, stream-of- gone, she says: “You just get me. consciousness style makes reading I’m sure they’d give you a great her an immersive, sometimes interview, but you’ve got me.” maddening, experience. Critics The novel started with her teenage have run the length of the shelf narrator, 18-year-old “middle of Irish writers from Beckett to sister”, who has a “deviant” habit of Swift in their comparisons, with walking while reading, something the novel recalling the shagginess she shares with the author. “I’d go of Tristram Shandy and the grim into a shop or a cafe or a pub and humour of Flann O’Brien. Her someone would say: ‘Oh, you’re favourite previous Booker winner that girl who walks and reads.’ I is JG Farrell’s Troubles. She says used to think: ‘This is something she is fl attered but unconvinced by to comment on?’ I wanted to write being slotted into “the whole Irish about why would people comment tradition thing”. A bit like Brexit and on that.” In the novel, middle sister #MeToo, Beckett appeared in her life asks longest friend: “Are you saying Anna Burns belongs to the school of novelists for after the book was already written. it’s okay to go around with Semtex whom characters just “come and tell me their stories, She read him only a month ago: but not okay for me to read Jane Eyre “I read Murphy. It was absolutely in public?” “Semtex isn’t unusual. in their voices”. She is not very comfortable talking wonderful and heartbreaking. I was It’s to be expected,” longest friend reeling after reading it.” replies. about her writing. Now that the book is finished and the One reviewer praised the Her subject, she has said, is characters have gone, she says: “You just get me. I’m sure “ferocious levity” of her prose, “absolutely and essentially” about a description she likes. When I “how power is used, both in a they’d give you a great interview, but you’ve got me” suggest that levity isn’t something personal and in a societal sense”. often associated with the Troubles, Dealing as it does with oppression, she corrects me. Humour can brutality, identity, surveillance and Like all her characters, the the dreaded other.” to my aunt’s quiet house. I liked that be “a way of coping”, she says. resistance, Milkman might be set 40 milkman just “came to her”, she In the year that the Republic of mix,” she says. They were a bookish “That sounds very cliched and years ago, but in many ways couldn’t says, “he just drove up in his car”. Ireland voted to reform the abortion family, but “it was very private. You stereotypical, but I do think that is be more timely — something that She never writes to make a point or laws, in Northern Ireland abortion wouldn’t say: ‘What’s that you’re so.” was surely not lost on the Booker explore an issue. “So I write it and and same-sex marriage are still reading?’; that would be a terrible What next? Her fi rst priority is judges. Despite being written four then I see — oh yes, this is sexual illegal. Is the novel a comment on insult.” There was a high currency to try to sort out her health. She is years ago, it uncannily pre-empts abuse, this is sexual scandal, this is the inherent conservatism of her on library cards, which were always desperate to get back to a book she the #MeToo movement in the a book about rumours, gossip, the native country? “I am writing about being taken so someone could started before Milkman, her “real predatory fi gure of the eponymous power of gossip, the power of history a repressive, closed, insular society. borrow extra books. third book”; she can “feel it calling” milkman, a creepy 41-year-old, and also the power of fabricated Whether it is Northern Ireland or But, like middle sister with her to her. She hasn’t been back to white-van driving, possible history, when rumours become the not, that is the sort of society I’m head buried in her book, Burns Northern Ireland since 2003, but republican terrorist, whose stalking history.” writing about,” she says. It is a did her best to avoid the political she has a feeling she might be going of middle sister is a metaphor for And then, of course, there is place where “we have to keep it all situation around her. “There was back soon. living under constant scrutiny. “I Brexit. On the day of the prize, together, even if we are falling apart the disconnection of thoughts and “I would never have imagined that don’t know whose milkman he was,” talks reached another impasse over inside”. feelings,” she says. “I think that was I would even write, let alone win our narrator tells us. “He wasn’t Theresa May’s border backstop Burns grew up as one of seven my way of coping. I didn’t want to the Booker,” she says. If she could our milkman. I don’t think he was promise. Once again, the question siblings in a working-class, Catholic know, basically. I wasn’t alone in go back and talk to that 18-year-old anybody’s … There was no milk of Irish borders is never out of the family. As was common among large that. Lots of people didn’t want to “walking while reading” younger about him. He didn’t ever deliver news. She voted to remain and was families living in tiny homes known know.” self, she would like to warn her milk.” Burns is particularly good on “heartbroken” at the result. But as “kitchen houses”, she explains, It was only when she left that she away from taking certain paths, the slipperiness and shame of sexual “As a writer, I think it is absolutely she lived with her unmarried aunt was able to assimilate her experience but mostly she would tell her: intimidation: “He didn’t seem rude, fascinating to explore that whole over the road. “I had the rowdiness and began to feel an “urgency to “Something fantastic is coming your so I couldn’t be rude.” theme of borders and barriers and of home and then I could withdraw know. I had to get away in order way.” — The Guardian 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY Ramona J Smith conducts educational workshop

Ramona J Smith, Toastmasters World Champion of Public women. Ramona also mentioned key elements of a winning Speaking 2018, recently conducted an educational workshop speech. ‘Ringside with Ramona’ at Marriott. She motivated members Rajeswar Sundaresan, Director of District 116P, opened of Toastmasters of District 116P with her life story, the journey the event. In his opening address, he mentioned that the to the championship, invaluable lessons to excel as better event is a welcoming gift for the new district. “We deserve communicator and tips to be a winner in speaking contests. a gift because Qatar is amongst world toppers including The event was sponsored by Aptech Qatar. No 1 in club retention and No 2 for clubs with twenty plus As World Champion, she sees her primary role to service members. “It’s an occasion to pause and look back at others and to instil hope in them. Ramona J Smith, said, “Be the journey so far, a moment to look ahead to the climb yourself, be exactly who you are, and be confident about and express gratitude to those who made a difference,” your abilities.” Rajeswar said. Ramona’s winning speech was played as a prelude at the Manoj Megchiani was guest of honour. Megchiani workshop. The key message of the speech was strength introduced Toastmasters to Qatar 22 years ago that during adversity. “When you are in the ring of life, you will transformed lives of many over the years. He expressed face some challenges. You are going to get hit; you will happiness over the growth of Toastmasters movement be punched, you will be bruised. Even though you fall and in Qatar from a small group of 25 to more than 1600 stumble, all you have to do is find whatever strength lies members now. Manoj appreciated transparency, truth and within you or outside you from family, friends, faith, your emotional connect Smith brought out in her presentation. mentors to help pull you back up,” says Ramona. The event was co-ordinated by Venkateshan K and Leslie Smith said that in Toastmasters world, this year is all about Mathew along with a team of District officers.

FBQ Museum to organise ‘Russian Festival’

Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museum) is all set to organise ‘Russian Festival’ featuring an art and photography exhibition, displaying the works of young and established Russian and foreign artists, as part of intercultural exchange. The festival is to take place on October 26 and 27. Russian Ark, a film by by Aleksandr Sokurov about the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, will be played non-stop during museum hours and festival. The event will feature variety of performances by Russian dance groups including, ‘Renaissance’ and ‘Arabesque of Qatar’. Sonja Park, pianist, and Nina Ivanova, Russian performer from ICM, will also perform at the event. ‘Teens Club’ and the ‘Kamerton’ choirs are part of the event for instrumental and folk songs. The opening ceremony will commence at 5pm tomorrow (October 26) . This festival is sponsored by the International Centre for Music and Gazprom, in collaboration with the embassy of the Russian Federation, the Organisation of Russian Compatriots in Qatar, and supported by Qatar Museums for the Qatar Russia 2018 Year of Culture. Thursday, October 25, 2018 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Biographies to look for this season

Chernow’s door stopper of a New York Times, calling this first anatomy to the theatre,” wrote well-told, about his journey to By Moira Macdonald biography (close to 1,000 pages of full biography of Hemingway in Gates. “Isaacson does the best job making the trip of a lifetime.’ text) examines the life of the 18th 15 years “authoritative; Dearborn I’ve seen of pulling together the president of the United States, skillfully covers an enormous different strands of Leonardo’s Five-Carat Soul by James eed a nice thick Ulysses S Grant. The NYT called it range of rich material.” life and explaining what made him McBride biography for these “vast and panoramic in ways that so exceptional.” The National Book Award darker days? Here history buffs will love.” Leonardo da Vinci by Walter winner published his first are four new- Isaacson Endurance: My Year in Space, collection of short stories in in-paperback Ernest Hemingway: A This best-selling, acclaimed a Lifetime of Discovery by Scott 2017. “Full of humour, down- biographies,N plus an out-of-this- Biography by Mary V Dearborn biography, from the author of Kelly home vernacular and slightly world memoir and a delicious “A perceptive and tough- Steve Jobs and Einstein, was Kelly, an astronaut who once twisted nostalgia,” wrote Seattle collection of short fiction. minded biographer, who has featured on Bill Gates’ summer held the American record for total Times reviewer Tyrone Beason, written about other fabled icons reading list. “Although today number of days spent in space McBride’s stories “go down like Grant by Ron Chernow of masculinity, Henry Miller, he’s best known as a painter, (520), wrote a memoir that Seattle warm milk sneakily spiked with Named one of the 10 best books Norman Mailer, Dearborn has now Leonardo had an absurdly wide Times reviewer Melissa Davis a shot of whiskey.” – The Seattle of 2017 by The New York Times, tackled the big one,” wrote The range of interests, from human described as a ‘rollicking tale, Times/TNS

Iceland arrives to InterContinental Doha

InterContinental Doha, together with the Icelandic Group, is all set to bring a host of fresh seafood and specialities all the way from Iceland to Doha on November 2 and 3. According to the press release, Icelandic Chefs from the National Team of Chefs in Iceland, together with InterContinental Doha’s Executive Chefs, will prepare and showcase fresh natural products from Iceland during lunch and dinner time at InterContinental Doha’s Coral, all-day dining restaurant. The prelude to this promotion, Dr Karl Georg Sigurbjörnsson and Magnús Jónatansson, natives of Iceland, together with Abdel Halim Elsalmi, a Qatar citizen, have been working together on a project ‘Lifriki’ in Qatar, which focuses on the environment and education on a global scale. “Because of Lifriki, I have been to Iceland several times and have experienced their food and culture first-hand. This led me to the idea of bringing these fresh, natural, and world-class products to Qatar. By bridging InterContinental Doha and the Icelandic team, together, we will make that happen,” said Abdel, General Manager of Kansas Projects based in Qatar. Abdel Halim Elsalmi, Dr Karl Georg Sigurbjörnsson Magnús Jónatansson have partnered with the largest food producer in Iceland, Kaupfélag Skagfirðinga (The KS Company), to establish a company in Qatar and promote Scandinavian food products under the name of Scandinavia Finest. The founders of Scandinavia Finest hope that those attending will experience the pure taste of nature from the Icelandic produce. After the promotion The Scandinavia Finest will seek to make contact with distributors for the company’s products. 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY FASH W Doha Fashion Show def Maqdeem, Yasmin Mansoor and WAAD Designs showcased their collections for the Spring

he oozing allure and grandeur of W Doha Fashion Show kicked- off lambently with three local Qatari designers illustratingT their latest collections and awe-impelling fashion ruffl es plodded over for months, at W Doha Hotel & Residences. Notable personalities of Qatar and glitterati in the real sense of the word attended the event to witness the aesthetic yet eff ortless shaped wearable collections, as contemporary cuts met the traditional silhouettes. The debut fashion show unfurled the traditional and sober designs by Maqdeem al-Naama and Aisha al-Naama, Founders of Maqdeem, Yasmin Mansoor and WAAD Designs. What’s trending for Spring/ Sumer 2019? Detailing and couture silhouettes! All three designers showcased their collections for the Spring/ Summer 2019 season. Many of their pieces can be found online via their respective websites and all three Thursday, October 25, 2018 GULF TIMES 9 HION COMMUNITY fines local fashion trends g/Summer 2019 Season. What’s next? Detailing and couture silhouettes! By Mudassir Raja

designers from time to time showcase is inspired by our love for travel and of the idea and collections. We their designs at pop-stores around of course our Qatari heritage, and we did not study fashion but we love the country, which enable residents hope that women who would wear fashion, aesthetics, creative process to purchase on the spot. our pieces, would be able to resonate and designing. It is part of our lives. Most of the dress designs carried with our story.” The idea of creating something new a fusion of tradition and modern The designer added, “We have a and diff erent for people has always trends. Candy pink, earthly beige, ready to wear label. We showcased attracted us to a whole new level. block contours, black and plethora of 10 diff erent designs, a full ready to My sister always had the passion to ruffl es in organza and net took over as wear collection, ranging from dresses draw and select fabrics, and translate models sashayed down the runway. to tops, skirts and trousers. The something from a vision to reality. Maqdeem, famous for their abayas, collection is modest wear. It is a mix That is how this brand came together. stayed true to their heritage but and match. It is soft and delicate. You This is our biggest collection to date. also to their love of travelling and can wear it for an occasion or you can We have been having a great response exploration of diff erent cultures, wear it casually.” and we plan to have more shows in which was apparent in all their She said, “The collection is near future in Doha.” pieces. Where Yasmin Mansour’s inspired by our environment, from Commenting on the fashion show, innovative designs and futuristic the desert, the sea, and the sky. You Wassim Daaje, General Manager of garments are luxurious, yet wearable will see these elements of nature W Doha, said, “Our intention at the at the same time, WAAD Designs, in our collection and in the tones. W Doha is to support the local arts went on for a separate approach They are blue, batch and all the soft scene and local designers in Qatar. featuring a mix of unique abayas and colours. We have emphasised a lot on Doha has always been a welcoming capes. the modest wear because this is one city for fashion and encouraging local Talking to Community, Aisha al- of our main directions. We want to be artists to develop their talent and Naama said, “We’re really proud for able to give women an opportunity to aspirations. At the W Doha, we want being a part of this event that brought dress beautifully in modest wears.” to provide a platform for much- local designers together under one She further said, “This is our needed collaboration, support and roof. It has given us a podium to share ﬁ rst ever fashion show. We have inspiration that ambitious designers our story and journey with the local established our self a brand. We and young businesses need to learn community who are also passionate started our brand three years ago. My and thrive. Fashion is a frontier, it about fashion. Our latest collection sister and I are the actual pioneers should have no borders.” 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Thursday, October 25, 2018 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Beauty benefits of turmeric

eyond its spectrum helps in destroying the acne improves facial blood circulation of lemon and the anti-oxidant burning sensation of soles and heals of providing health causing bacteria, while also and prevents acne. properties of turmeric make it a cracked soles. For smooth heels, benefi ts, ever wondered removing excess oil from the powerful boosting combination. add a few drops of turmeric oil in 2 what miracles turmeric skin. Application of paste of Lighten skin: Turmeric is table spoons of coconut or castor powder can do as a turmeric, sariva (hemidesmus popularly used to successfully Cracked heels: Possessing great oil and apply it over cracked heels Bbeauty regime? indicus), manjistha chandan (ruba lighten the skin. A lightening healing properties, turmeric can be every night. This yellow spice has benefi ts cordifolia), yashtimadhu (liquorice) face mask can be made by mixing used to soften heels. Application beyond one’s imagination, feel and neem over the face for half an turmeric with lemon juice. The of aloe vera pulp with a pinch of Abhijit Narayanan, Senior experts. hour clears blocked skin pores, natural skin-bleaching properties turmeric over the heels soothes Medical Offi cer, Dhathri Ayurveda Vrunda Lotlikar, Ayurveda Hospital, Kayamkulam also lists expert, Birla Ayurveda lists some some benefi ts: beauty benefi ts of turmeric: Reduces stretch marks: Apply De-pigmentation: Application a paste of turmeric powder with of turmeric with honey and lemon khadir and triphala, mixed with on the face for 20 minutes clears almond oil three to four times a blemishes and reduces hyper- week before bathing. This helps in pigmentation. A paste of turmeric reducing stretch marks, reduces powder, triphala and chandana laxity of skin and tones the skin. mixed with rose water acts as a natural defoliator and removes Prevents wrinkles: Turmeric hyper-pigmentation marks from prevents reduction in skin the body. Apply this paste thrice elasticity caused due to chronic a week before bathing. For de- UVB exposure. It helps in healing tanning, boil coconut oil with two and also slows the ageing process, rhizomes of turmeric powder. Daily keeping the skin supple and application of this restores natural diminishing wrinkles. Apply a glow of the skin. paste of turmeric powder mixed with yogurt. Rinse with water Cures acne: Due to its anti- thoroughly after 20 minutes. bacterial properties, turmeric Use this mask thrice a week for is very eff ective in treatment one month to notice an evident and prevention of acne. It enhancement in your skin. — IANS

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

Have you been reviewing your family history lately, Aries? Of special It’s time to elevate your sense of self, Taurus. You’re just as good Today your intellectual and expressive abilities should receive interest is your cultural background. What educational, social, and as anyone else, so why don’t you believe it? The problem is that a boost from the planets. It’s an excellent time to organise your religious environment were you born into? What are its values? In you’re very sensitive about having an ego. Even though you know thoughts about presenting a project to a possible collaborator, the end, do you feel a strong aff inity with them now or are those everyone does, you punish yourself for its existence! This is a noble engage in trade, or write. In terms of your private life, it’s also a good views diff erent from the ones you hold? These are interesting idea, but it doesn’t do you any good. You’ll never be perfect and time to examine the latest events, certain aspects of which are still avenues of thought for you today. neither will anyone else. What are you worrying about? partially misunderstood. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Overall, the forecast for today is fairly good. The aspects seem to Have you felt somewhat lost for the past few days? The fog may You may have been feeling somewhat disillusioned. Perhaps you favour figuring out the meaning of all that’s transpired over the past lift today and enable you to situate yourself at last. You’re probably lost sight of your goals or misplaced your faith in yourself. You’ll feel several weeks. It’s an opportunity for you to take a leisurely look at eager to settle a question that has nagged at you and interfered some relief beginning today. This is an opportunity to end what has the distance you’ve covered moving toward your goals. Since it’s an with your judgment. However, you should be patient, especially if it been a somewhat apathetic and moody phase and begin a new one auspicious day for social activities, why not get together with friends has to do with emotional matters. Try to understand, but don’t take that’s based on work and meditation. As you can imagine, this new and discuss the latest events with them? immediate action. You’ll be more objective beginning tomorrow. phase will be much more fulfilling! LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

You might be tempted to settle certain matters by radical means. Today will be fairly calm in terms of outside events, but your You have a lot of thinking to do about your professional goals, The visionary part of you means you’re painfully aware of the world’s inner world is likely to be in a rush of activity. Today you wish you Sagittarius. You’ll go over the elements to see if there isn’t some way wrongs. You see no reason not to take action to correct them. But could find the solution to your heartaches as well as your career to approach things diff erently. Are there new paths you could try or the forces in play are so powerful that you can’t expect to institute a predicaments. You’d like to achieve some supreme understanding of ways to improve things? Your mind will go a thousand miles a minute new order in one day. If you have an emotional question to resolve, it the events that took place over the past month. First you must force today. Those who spend time with you may be totally exhausted by would be better to wait a few days before making a decision. your brain to slow down. Haste makes waste, as you know! the end of the day because of all the questions you ask! CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

You just can’t do everything at once, Capricorn. How do you expect This is a good moment to adapt your logic and reason to reality, It’s going to be a little diff icult talking to you today, Pisces. You, who to reduce your stress and recuperate while at the same time Aquarius. If you don’t, you’re going to run into some intellectual can be easily influenced by others, will be listening to and criticising continue to be a superstar performer in every area of your life? Don’t problems. Everyone knows that you find new ideas plentiful, but everything that people say. Nothing emotional or vague is going to pressure yourself to perform today. If you do, you’re likely to deplete unless you have plans to be a novelist, link your thinking to reality. get into your head. It’s as if you’ve installed an extremely fine filter your reserves even further. Take it easy, rest, and relax! You’ve The “pie in the sky” thinking that you engage in isn’t particularly that lets in only what you allow. You’re going to appear to be a real earned this little break. useful to the rest of us living here in the real world. expert. Don’t show off too much! 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES

Wordsearch Adam

House and Home Pooch Cafe

ATTIC DEN NURSERY BALCONY DINING ROOM PANTRY BATHROOM GUESTROOM POOL BEDROOM KITCHEN PORCH CELLAR LANDING STAIRS CLOSET LARDER STUDIO CONSERVATORY LOBBY STUDY CORRIDOR LOFT YARD CUPBOARD LOUNGE

Codeword Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once. Squares with the same number in have the same letter in. Work out which number represents which letter.

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Sudoku

Bound And Gagged

Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Thursday, October 25, 2018 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Was behind - but got 1. A party when they give you a ahead (9) posting? (4-3) 8. Pop’s trained the 2. Having money must be wonderful rambling rose, though (7) he’s against it (7) 3. Employ a number in tree-raising (5) 9. Kids who keep pinching 4. Showy and flamboyant - and fast each other? (7) (7) 10. Is a back number and 5. She turns on a switch (4) silly (7) 6. On paper, it’s declined (4) 13. Do better than the other 7. The Indian’s taken through the paint removers? (8) plant (7) 14. A few lines, or less, of 11. Having got the money, go for the music (4) guard (6) 16. Not agreeing there’s 12. The thing one bumped into decline in the disease standing up (4) (7,3) 15. A time since - back in Roman days, 20. He left home, having lost it was worn (4) my Mary to a foreigner 17. Put onto a case - not as an expert (4) (3) Answers 22. Give one a hand with the 18. Ring everybody up about her (4) wood (4) 19. Lay, less bothered by pain (6) Wordsearch Codeword 24. But not if it’s shut up in 21. Try to find out when Kit lost it (3) the bank? (5,5) 22. In which underclothes are kept? (7) 28. Agreeing with the 23. Open, which gives you a shock (4) German doctor it’s for a 25. Made the party a success (7) door (4) 26. Hangs about to see I get the rest 29. Doesn’t do it to music (8) tidied up (7) 31. Guards, or fenders (7) 27. Ensure that one is supported, but 34. Taking the three, again, don’t allow one to work (7) with me in the ship (7) 30. Right by the sea I arrange to build 35. Give back the balance, (5) having deducted a 32. Say when, squire! (4) thousand more (7) 33. Prophet who grants interviews? (4) 36. Made up and in a different outfit (9)

Yesterday’s Solutions

Across: 3 Putting out; 8 Appeal; Down: 1 Appraise; 2 Settle; 3 9 Owed; 10 Pretty fair; 11 Ban; Playing; 4 Treat; 5 Ivor; 6 Old 13 Line; 14 Diamond; 15 Gone; boots; 7 Turned in; 12 Pair; 14 17 Debar; 20 Resin; 22 Ends; Deed; 16 Over; 17 Designer; 18 24 Shorter; 25 Post; 27 Gin; 28 Browning; 19 Rite; 21 Instance; Withdrawal; 29 Idle; 30 Evince; 23 Saddled; 25 Placid; 26 Stair; 31 Registered. 28 Went. 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY REVIEWS The Guilty is gripping, involving drama

played with an impact that gradually without coming out and saying it, By Kenneth Turan overpowers you by top Danish actor and he helps her along by asking a Jakob Cedergren. series of yes or no questions about Asger, it’s clear almost her situation. f the setting of The Guilty immediately, is not business as usual What he discovers is that Iben is in couldn’t be simpler, its as a dispatcher. When people call in a car being driven by her ex-husband immaculate execution by fi rst- for help, he is as likely as not to give and being taken somewhere very time director Gustav Möller them a sarcastic hard time for getting much against her will. couldn’t be more gripping and drunk or being in the red-light Alive to all the grim possibilities involving.I district in the fi rst place as he is to a kidnapping presents, the moralist A disturbing Danish psychological send help. in Asger tries to piece together what thriller and a real-time police drama Cedergren has given Asger a is going on, bending heaven and that’s equal parts provocative stern, rigid visage, presenting him earth to do the right thing for this and emotional, The Guilty wrings physically as well as verbally as an endangered woman. complex drama out of its minimalist uncompromising moralist with a It can’t be over-emphasised physical trappings. sense of mission, someone who has how carefully screenwriters Möller Like 2014’s Tom Hardy vehicle no doubt he knows right from wrong. and Albertsen have constructed Locke, The Guilty is a single-location That doesn’t mean, however, that this story, doling out information fi lm that consists almost entirely of he can’t be disturbed or unsettled, as sparingly, on a need-to-know basis, a series of telephone conversations he is by a call on his personal mobile letting their plot purposefully unroll that get increasingly complex and from a journalist who asks him if he like a ball of twine. unexpected. has any comments on his court date As that is happening, The Guilty A precise, sure-handed fi lmmaker, the following day. is ratcheting up both the level Möller not only believes that “the What becomes clear is what we of tension and our worry for the strongest images in fi lm, the ones could have guessed: dispatcher is people involved as the nature of the that stay with you the longest, they not Asger’s regular beat. He has been unexpected kinds of jeopardy they are the ones you don’t see,” he has the temporarily assigned there pending are involved in gradually becomes skill to convince us as well. the outcome of that legal proceeding, clearer. Helping in this is the superior Working with co-writer Emil the cause of which we gradually learn nature of the performances, starting Nygaard Albertsen, Möller has set more about. with star Cedergren, who brings his fi lm in the police emergency All this is merely the setup for the startling nuance and expression to services control room of a large city main event. The phone rings again the tight close-ups that dominate — unnamed, though presumably and on the line is no disoriented the fi lm. Copenhagen. drunk but someone whose situation But The Guilty wouldn’t succeed The fi rst sounds we hear, not will change the nature of Asger’s as well as it did without the complex surprisingly, are ringing phones. night, maybe even of his life. editing of Carla Luff e and the The fi rst image we see in Jasper The caller is Iben (Jessica Dinnage), involved voices of those who engage Spanning’s taut cinematography a woman who sounds like she is Asger on the phone, starting with is the close-up of an ear with a talking to her young daughter. costar Dinnage but including Johan telephone earpiece fi rmly in place. Asgar quickly catches on that Iben Olsen and Omar Shargawi in key One dispatcher on duty this is talking to him in a kind of code, supporting roles. – Los Angeles evening is offi cer Asger Holm, trying to convey that she is in trouble Times/TNS Authoritative look at Keaton in The Great Buster: A Celebration

Bogdanovich has interviewed all minor risk taker himself — says, “he either By Kenneth Turan kinds of folks on their Keaton opinions has no fear or is crazy.” and memories, from likely suspects like The Great Buster briskly takes his Limelight costar Norman Lloyd to us through the stations of Keaton’s eeing is believing with Buster unexpected individuals like Herzog and eventful life and career, mostly going the Keaton, a movie guru who even Quentin Tarantino. expected chronological route with one continues to inspire awe more The best thing, not surprisingly, about key exception. Keaton famously began than half a century after his this celebration is the chance it off ers to working with his vaudevillian parents as a death. delight in clips of the great man’s work, 4K tiny tot, becoming the essential element of SA silent fi lm comic actor and director digitally restored by Cohen Film Classics. a Three Keatons act that involved so much almost without peer whose best work Those who know Keaton only by his rough physical comedy that it’s amazing feels remarkably modern, Keaton bridges Great Stone Face reputation will be Buster survived intact. a cultural continuum from vaudeville to surprised at how expressive his characters A chance New York City meeting with Samuel Beckett, with unexpected stops are: They may not have smiled, but they fellow vaudevillian turned fi lmmaker Fatty like Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a conveyed everything else. Arbuckle led to an invitation to watch how Wild Bikini along the way. “Buster Keaton And Keaton’s legendary gags were movies were made. It was love at fi rst sight is the essence of movies,” says director and hardly haphazard slapstick. for Keaton, and a clip from his fi rst screen fan Werner Herzog, and it is hard to argue Meticulously worked out, they were appearance, in the 1917 short The Butcher the point. miracles of exact timing that depended Boy, shows that his gifts were apparent Herzog is one of the fi lm notables on formidable body control and Keaton’s from the get-go. appearing in The Great Buster: A scientifi c mind. Between 1920 and 1923, Keaton wrote, Celebration, an amusing and authoritative Most famous of these, and featured directed and starred in 19 two-reel shorts, documentary directed by Peter prominently here, is the scene in and the best ones — like the manic One Bogdanovich that both satisfi es the true Steamboat Bill, Jr. where the entire front Week and The Playhouse, where Keaton believer and off ers the agnostic a place to of a two-story house falls over and misses plays all the roles — were brilliant. – begin. Keaton by inches. As Mel Brooks — no Los Angeles Times/TNS Thursday, October 25, 2018 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY Surekha Sikr carries no ‘desire to retire’ IMPRESSED: Guillermo del Toro says the character of Pinocchio has had a deep personal connection to him. By Sugandha Rawal Guillermo del Toro to direct Pinocchio for Netflix he has been a part of the Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro industry for the past 40 years, will write, direct and produce a new adaptation of entertaining people through Pinocchio for Netflix. different avatars that she The Mexico-born filmmaker has acted as a has brought alive on screen. creative consultant and executive producer over the ActressS Surekha Sikri, who is being years on movies such as Megamind, Puss in Boots loved for her portrayal as a nagging and Rise of the Guardians and as a producer on Book grandma in Badhaai Ho, has no plan to of Life, but he has never helmed one. slow down, and says she has no desire to The story of Pinocchio will be told as a stop- retire either. motion musical and set during the rise of fascism in “Retirement? Hello, I don’t even Italy under Mussolini, reports hollywoodreporter. know that word. What does it mean,” com. Surekha, 73, asked with a chuckle while “No art form has influenced my life and my work speaking on the phone from Mumbai. more than animation and no single character in “That’s a very old-fashioned English history has had as deep of a personal connection to concept ... That you do something and me as Pinocchio,” del Toro said in a statement. then you retire – and mostly it applies “In our story, Pinocchio is an innocent soul to government servants. Fortunately, with an uncaring father who gets lost in a world I am a freelancer and I don’t have any he cannot comprehend. He embarks on an wish or desire to retire. I can just go extraordinary journey that leaves him with a deep on and on,” added the veteran, who is understanding of his father and the real world. basking in the appreciation coming I’ve wanted to make this movie for as long as I can from all quarters for her mother-in-law remember.” avatar in Badhaai Ho. Patrick McHale is co-writing the script with del Surekha made her debut in 1978 with Toro. Mark Gustafson will co-direct. – IANS political drama Kissa Kursi Ka, and created a name for herself by working in Skarsgard did The Little films, theatre and television. Drummer Girl due to Kidman She is credited for projects like Tamas, Mammo, Sarfarosh, Zubeidaa, Actor Alexander Jo Bole So Nihaal and Humko Deewana Skarsgard says his Kar Gaye. Big Little Lies co- For the small screen audience, star Nicole Kidman Surekha is still know as Dadisa from persuaded him to do the show Balika Vadhu. She has also The Little Drummer featured in Saat Phere – Saloni Ka Safar, Girl. Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani, Pardes Mein VETERAN: Surekha Sikri has been a part of the industry for the past 40 years. He will be seen Hai Mera Dil and Just Mohabbat. as Becker in the Looking back at the time when she spy thriller, which entered the industry and comparing it “I often say that I should have been born is spearheaded by with the present for female stars, she 40-50 years later, looking at the scene prolifi c South Korean said: “Things are more out in the open. fi lmmaker Park Chan- People are ready to accept and talk right now. But anyway, there are many wook. about it. Earlier, it was all pretty-pretty In an interview and ‘follow the formula’ if we talked roles for people like me” with Radio Times, about Bollywood. Skarsgard said that “On TV, I had a fairly decent share could never think of having a full movie woman gets pregnant again since they it was Kidman who EXCITED: Alexander in the older times. It has become more with older characters like Amitabh have grown-up children already. It is a persuaded him to Skarsgard is excited to work regressive now. But in the film industry, Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor in 102 Not matter of shame for most people. It is a accept the part, as she with South Korean filmmaker things are now looking up.” Out. They were the main characters of very false kind of shame because, after had previously worked Park Chan-wook. The National Film Award-winning the film. all, love is there all the time.” with the director on actress says there are days when she “I think there are far more chances for The actress feels there is a “whole his Stoker English-language debut, reports dailymail. ponders about how things would have people like me who belong to a certain heap of interesting directors and a co.uk. “I was dying to work with Park – I loved the turned out if she entered the industry at category, image wise.” whole heap of interesting script- Oldboy trilogy and The Handmaiden. I was shooting present. Here, she praised director Amit writers” in present-day Bollywood. Big Little Lies when I read the script and Nicole said, “I often say that I should have been Ravindernath for taking an unusual “They are tackling all kinds of ‘Don’t even think about it – you have to do this. He’s born 40-50 years later, looking at the subject with Badhaai Ho – a film about subjects and I think it is a very exciting amazing amazing amazing’. And the fact that it was scene right now. But anyway, there a man whose mother becomes pregnant. time for any actor to be in the industry a John le Carré story, and a character like Becker... I are many roles for people like me,” she It also features Ayushmann Khurrana, right now,” she added. couldn’t have been more excited.” added. Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao and Sanya After Badhaai Ho, Surekha has several Based on Carre’s similarly titled novel, the plot, set Does she think there are interesting Malhotra. projects lined up. in 1979, sees actress Charlie (Florence Pugh), meet roles being written for senior actors? “The subject is considered to be “There are a couple of projects in Becker (Skarsgard) while on holiday in Greece. – IANS “I am sure there will be good roles. a taboo... ‘Log kya kahenge’ (what the pipeline but I would rather not talk The whole thing has changed and you will people say) when a middle-aged about it right now.” –IANS 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, October 25, 2018 COMMUNITY IIS celebrates UN Day

Ideal Indian School (IIS) documentary on human recently celebrated the 73rd rights. Anniversary of the United R Shreyes welcomed the Nations with the theme of gathering and Anas proposed ‘stand with refugees’. The a vote of thanks. A special event was organised by assembly was arranged for the Department of Soecial Grade III students. A placard Sciences IIS, highlighting the presentation ‘The United need for world peace and the Nations – A Great Hope role of UN in achieving it. for A Peaceful World’ was The celebrations kicked off exhibited by the students with the UN Anthem. A mock of Grade- IV, which briefly UNSC session was conducted explained the importance of where five permanent and UN Day. The students also ten non-permanent members gave an explanation about a discussed the Libyan crises few agencies including WHO, at length. The event also Unicef, Unesco, FAO and IMF included a presentation run by the United Nations on refugee crises and a Organisations.

MES swim squad qualifies for CBSE National Swimming Meet

The boys swimming squad of MES Indian School recently bagged 20 medals in Qatar Cluster and 1 bronze medal; Master Aman Selvaraj, 4 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze; Master Arun Muhil, 1 gold, 1 CBSE Interschool Swimming Competition, conducted in DPS Modern Indian School. MES team has silver and 1 bronze; Master Ricardo Roycewin, 1 gold and 1 bronze medal; and Mukesh Jeevanand, 1 qualified to take part in the CBSE National Swimming Meet to be held at Ranchi Jharkhand, India gold and 2 bronze medals. on November 22. Kunheedu A P and Akbar Ali K T were the coaches of the team. Hameeda Kadar, Principal of MES, In the U-19 Boys Category, the winners, included Master Nidal Ahmed Sheikh, won 4 gold, 1 silver congratulated the winners.