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MISSING LINKS: Ma Jixiang stands outside his room at the Baishi Town Central Elderly Home in Hunan Province, China. 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The unsolved mystery of Jixiang’s disappearance Although Ma Jixiang’s story still contains unanswered questions, the mix-up shines a light on the invisibility of China's mentally disabled and the reality that despite the controls put in place by the establishment, citizens regularly manage to slip through the cracks. By Jonathan Kaiman

obody doubted the matchmakers, but the women’s dead man’s identity. He families would refuse him. He was had been disfi gured in too short, his family too poor. the crash, but the white The rejections made him taciturn hair, the short stature and withdrawn, and gradually, he N— it all pointed to Ma Jixiang, who vanished into himself. He began had gone missing in 2009. Still, yelling at other villagers in long, offi cials required a DNA test, and its incoherent tirades. He stopped results quelled any doubts. working and began wandering the His brother wept at the news. He village for hours at a stretch. Most had the body cremated and built a heartbreaking to Chen, he ignored lavish tomb in the mountains. He her dinner invitations, preferring put the tragedy behind him. No to cook and eat alone. He stopped more waiting anxiously, no more calling her “sister”. haunting dreams. As the decades passed, Jianjun And then, late last year, Ma and Chen had two sons, both of Jixiang came home. whom found work in Jinan, the Now 58, he is still unable — or capital of eastern China’s Shandong unwilling — to account for his province, a long train ride to the six-year absence, but his family east. Jixiang had no children; he believes he was kidnapped by remained in the village. human traffi ckers, sold to an illegal In late 2009, he went for a brick factory and released when he walk and didn’t come home. was too old and frail to work. Jianjun went looking for him, but And although his story still discovered no leads. The following contains unanswered questions day, he went to the police. — who died in that collision? — “The police never showed any the mix-up shines a light on the willingness to fi nd him,” Chen said. invisibility of China’s mentally Desperate, Jianjun and Chen posted disabled and the reality that missing-person fl iers around the despite being ruled by one of the area, but nobody came forward. world’s most control-obsessed Jixiang began appearing in governments, citizens regularly Chen’s dreams. In one, he suddenly manage to slip through the cracks. came home carrying bundles of The Ma brothers, Jixiang and fi rewood. “I also dreamed that he Jianjun, had lived separately in was taking a bus to go away,” she Xinlong village, a remote sprawl of said. “My husband called for him rice paddies and tile farmhouses to come back. But he never looked in the mountainous southeastern back. He just got on the bus and province of Hunan. In summer, the left.” heat was crushing. Then in February 2012, the Jixiang had no friends. A mental village mayor called. There had disability, never diagnosed or been a car crash late at night on treated, made him erratic. Before a windy provincial highway in a he vanished, he spent his days nearby city, Hengyang, according to wandering the village’s paths, a police report obtained by the news shouting nonsense at other website NetEase. Authorities said villagers. But Jixiang wasn’t always a man from Xiangtan named Yang disabled, said Chen Xiaofen, his Zhiguang was responsible. He drove 70-year-old sister-in-law. a minibus. No other details have As a young man, he was been made public. extraordinarily diligent, she said. Chen and Jianjun were in Jinan He often woke at sunrise to plant visiting their children, so they rice and never complained about sent Jianjun’s older brother and the village’s many hardships — the a neighbour to identify the body. backbreaking labour, the occasional The subsequent DNA test was shortages of food. performed by a lab in Hunan. It Chen said he began showing found striking similarities between signs of mental illness in the spring the DNA of the dead man and of 1982, after failing repeatedly Jianjun, and concluded that it could MENTALLY UNSTABLE: Ma Jixiang had no friends. A mental disability, never diagnosed or treated, made him erratic. to fi nd a wife. He would go on not “exclude the possibility” that Before he vanished, he spent his days wandering the village’s paths, shouting nonsense at other villagers. blind dates, set up by village they were brothers. Wednesday, August 3, 2016 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

Chen Xiaofen, Ma’s 70 year-old sister-in-law, at her spartan home in Xinlong Village.

Upon hearing the news, Jianjun Jixiang. He had acquired a terrible society groups. declined interview requests. nodding politely in greeting. broke into tears, Chen said. She had limp — perhaps he’d been beaten, Human traffi ckers often target Wang Chunguang, director of the Yet he was unable to respond to never seen him cry. He hired a local she thought — but it was clearly her mentally disabled people in Hengyang County Rescue Station, questions; he glanced around the artisan to build a lavish concrete brother-in-law. “It’s not possible,” China, he said, especially in the confi rmed that the organisation room uncomfortably and spoke in tomb in the mountains, with thick she thought. She felt as though countryside. They’re easy prey, rescued Jixiang and “processed his short, indecipherable bursts. “Aside concrete monoliths and high golden he had come back from the dead. he said. They can do “heavy but case according to the law,” but said from having lunch and sleeping, eaves. He had the body cremated and Jixiang looked at her. “Sister,” he simple” work as well as anyone, and that it would be “inconvenient” to he just wanders around,” said Ma buried the ashes within the tomb. His said. Chen and Jianjun believe that yet “they’re lacking in capabilities provide further details. While Chen Guangquan, the home’s director. sadness slowly faded into relief. Jixiang must have been kidnapped. to rebel, and to escape.” still lives in Xinlong, Jianjun now He said Jixiang generally keeps to Then, late last year, the His sudden disappearance, his long “These cases are only the tip of resides in Jinan with his children, himself and that his leg has healed. Hengyang County Rescue Station, absence and his injury comported the iceberg,” he said. “Because in a common practice in China. He He added that the government a temporary shelter for the county’s with news reports they’d seen the end, there’s no well-established could not be reached for comment provides $50 monthly subsidies to lost and homeless, gained custody about illegal brick factories — support system (in China) for about his brother. keep residents fed and sheltered. of another man who fi t Jixiang’s secretive institutions that prey on mentally disabled people. That’s Jixiang now lives in the Baishi They spend their days eating, description. He had white hair and the mentally disabled. the real issue — because a lot of the Town Central Elderly Home, a low- watching TV and playing cards. was short. He could recall little “The cases are extremely disabled people, they’re physically lying white building surrounding a Their lives are calm and simple. about his past, but he knew he came common,” said the director of a capable of doing work, and they grassy courtyard a few miles from “The government takes good care of from Xinlong. Beijing-based disability rights have the willingness to work. Yet Xinlong. He has a small room, these people,” he said. — Los Angeles Two days later, Chen walked advocacy group, who requested there’s no way to match them with furnished with only a bed, a dresser Times/TNS outside her home and found a car anonymity as his organisation has proper jobs.” and a television. (Yingzhi Yang in The Times’ idling on the patio. Out stepped the been under intense government The lab that conducted the On a scorching day in late June, Beijing bureau contributed to this Xinlong village party secretary and pressure amid a crackdown on civil DNA test and the Hengyang police he off ered cigarettes to two guests, report.) 6 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY Karnataka Sangha Qatar participates in Navikotsava 2016

arnataka Sangha Qatar (KSQ) took part in Navikotsava 2016, the world Kannada convention held recently in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The two-day convention attracted 38 Kannada Associations from across the globe and highlighted the rich cultural heritage of Karnataka. KSQ President HK Madhu led the cultural team for the event. The team presented two power-packed skits, Tughlaq and Bhaktha Prahlada, Kimpressing the large audience.

MOTORING No. 31 Toyota Prius apr GT wins round 4 of 2016 AUTOBACS SUPER GT300 series

he No. 31 Toyota Prius apr stop the for safety reasons. The GT made it a memorable race was offi cially ended with six outing with a fi rst place laps remaining. According to the fi nish in Round 4 of the regulation, the fi nal fi nishing order 2016 AUTOBACS SUPER was decided by the running order TGT (GT300 class). Driven by Koki on the lap prior to the red fl ag. With Saga and Yuichi Nakayama, the No. this, the No. 31 Toyota Prius apr GT 31 car had its fi rst win of the season got its fi rst win of the season. Round in a competitive race. 5 of the 2016 championship now The No. 25 VivaC 86 MC driven takes place in Fuji on August 6-7, by Takeshi Tsuchiya and Takamitsu 2016. Matsui took second place to make According to Takayuki it two podium fi nishes for Toyota. Yoshitsugu, Chief Representative, The race took place recently at Middle East and North Africa the Sportsland SUGO in Miyagi Representative Offi ce, Toyota Motor prefecture, Japan. Corporation, “In the competitive At the start of the race, the No. environment of motorsports, the 25 VivaC 86 MC (Takeshi Tsuchiya) No. 31 Toyota Prius apr GT Toyota was in pole position with the No. Prius showed its versatility and 31 Toyota Prius apr GT (Koki Saga) racing credentials with a superb in third place. The No. 25 VivaC win followed by the No. 25 VivaC 86 MC maintained its lead till the 86 MC Toyota 86. I would like to 25th lap where it lost its lead. The congratulate the teams for their Toyota cars bided their time during excellent performance.” the rest of the race till the 61st He added: “Toyota places a lot lap, when Nakayama in car No. 31 of emphasis on participation in took advantage of an opportunity motorsports for the insights it and managed to get into the lead. generates while testing the cars After that, the leading car No. 31 in such demanding conditions. continued to maintain a gap of three This in turn helps to develop ever seconds over car No. 25 now in better cars for our customers. We second place. sincerely appreciate the support of In lap 71 however, there was a car our customers for our motorsports crash and the red fl ag came out to activities.” The No. 31 Toyota Prius apr GT during the race. Wednesday, August 3, 2016 GULF TIMES 7 OFFBEAT COMMUNITY

After a lengthy life spreading graff iti across Germany, artist Tasso says there’s no way he will retire his spray cans — even at the age of 50. Tasso: The German sprayer who helped turn graff iti into an art form

and internationally,” says Maxi calling himself an artist. By Claudia Drescher Kretzschmar. He began making his living from The Leipzig gallery owner, who graffi ti in the mid-1990s, when he specializes in graffi ti — also known started taking on commissions. is hair is thinning and as street art and urban art — says it is He now takes on around 30 fl ecked with grey. His the art of the digital age. commissions a year. “If I’m honest, belly is beginning to The exchange between artists and the fi nancial security was and is really show a little beneath a the distribution of pictures has been important to me,” admits Tasso. His brown T-shirt sporting strengthened by social media, he glass is “more than half full,” he adds. theH slogan “Life begins.” says. And he doesn’t feel old, even But when Jens Mueller, a German Marco Schwalbe, of the Munich- among his graffi ti artist colleagues graffi ti artist known as Tasso, picks based Stroke art fair, the fi rst and where even those ten years younger up a spray can and sets to work on a only German fair focusing on urban than him are generally regarded as canvas none of it matters. art, also believes graffi ti has great ancient. “I can live from my pictures,” says potential as a future market. He is however beginning to have Tasso, who recently celebrated his He estimates that around 500,000 problems with his shoulder “after 25 50th birthday. “I never dreamed of euros (550,000 dollars) worth of years with a spray can” in his hand. that 25 years ago.” graffi ti is sold as art in Germany each “I do ask myself every now and In the early 1980s, Tasso, from the year. then what will happen when I can’t state of Saxony in Germany’s former “But this market is growing, and paint any more,” he says thoughtfully. communist east, used to steal paint contemporary art will also open up,” His Plan B would be writing books, to spray the names of his favourite Tasso’s spray cans. he says. he says. He doesn’t have any other bands on the walls of his hometown, Urban art is still largely ignored by ideas as yet. Meerane. fi rst graffi ti,” he says. towards portraying gangsters with Germany’s more classical art scene. For his birthday he gave himself When the Iron Curtain came down Graffi ti soon became his mission guns, Mueller painted “kitsch” But in a few years people won’t be the best present, by printing a limited in 1989, a world of opportunity was in life, though he also trained as a landscapes and scenes that looked able to tell the diff erence between edition book taking stock of his work opened up to him. butcher and worked on building almost like photos. urban art and other contemporary and telling of his travels around the With the so-called welcome sites. He experimented to fi nd the artworks, says Schwalbe, pointing world. money that the West German As he reached his mid 20s and his perfect skin tones for his subjects. to the United States, where “new Only 500 copies of the book government gave to East Germans friends began settling down, Tasso His breakthrough came at the contemporary art” has long been part Am Ende fehlt doch immer was who came across the border he preferred to head into the night with Meeting of Styles, an international of the scene. (Something’s always missing in bought a black Edding marker pen 15-year-olds and some spray paint. graffi ti art festival which began in Tasso and his crew, the artists the end) are available, with the fi rst and later borrowed money from his Far away from the big city and the the German city of Wiesbaden and group Ma’Claim, are some of 100 also including a piece of canvas grandmother to buy a box of spray urban scene, he began to develop his now holds events all over the world. Germany’s top graffi ti artists and are from an artwork that Tasso painted paints. own style. ”Tasso undoubtedly still belongs internationally recognised, he adds. especially to go with the book and “My goal [was to create] Meerane’s While other graffi ti artists tended to the absolute elite — nationally But Tasso has only recently begun then cut up. —DPA 8 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY OFFB Sound, camera, action: U weave verve and violen

Dauda Bisaso, the man responsible for creating the filming equipment, sets up his homemade camera rig at Wakaliwood studios in Kampala.

BRIEFING: Wakaliwood actors listen as Isaac Nabwana, the head of Wakaliwood stu

just improvise most of the time. cameras. Special effects techniques It is impossible to make a budget, are used to combining images of because we have no money,” the scrap-metal helicopter, for Nabwana says. example, with visual elements The 43-year-old director, who generated by animation software. has more than 40 films to his More than 300 fans from Alan Hofmanis, an American volunteer with the Wakaliwood film studios, in Wakaliga, Kampala. credit, also wears the hats of actor, countries including France, cameraman and editor. Germany, Belgium, the they have attracted a global cult Despite the difficult production Netherlands, Canada, Russia and By Henry Wasswa and Sinikka Tarvainen following and earned Nabwana the conditions, a 2010 film, Who Killed India have visited Nabwana at his nickname of Uganda’s Tarantino. Captain Alex, attracted more than makeshift studio. Wakaliwood makes movies at a half a million viewers on YouTube, Dozens of the visitors ended up n the Ugandan capital dressed as soldiers or gangsters. cost ranging from almost nothing most of them outside Uganda. acting in his films, in which white Kampala, a pot-holed Nabwana’s company, Ramon to 200 dollars. Machine guns are The story of a captain sent men nearly always get killed. dirt road weaves through Productions — known as made using old motorcycle engines to track down the Tiger Mafia “The visitors said they wanted a cluster of shacks along Wakaliwood — in the low-income and bullets are carved from wood. — showing lots of machine- to die,” says Nabwana, who thanks a stinking stream until a neighbourhood of Wakaliga, is the The amateur actors do not get gun fire, kung fu fights and such actors by giving them “death Ihelicopter made from scrap metal east African country’s answer to paid, but peddle the movies door- helicopters bombing Kampala — certificates.” A semi-dark rehearsal emerges into view. Hollywood. to-door and to shops, keeping half is “more entertaining than what room has a wall filled with “Welcome to Wakaliwood,” Functioning on minimal budgets, of the earnings of about 1 dollar per we have in America,” one viewer signatures in white, red and blue of movie director Isaac Nabwana says, it churns out movies so packed DVD. commented. more than 50 visitors who “died.” stepping out of a group of actors with action, humour and verve that “We do not make budgets. We The movies are shot with video Visitors to Wakaliwood have Wednesday, August 3, 2016 GULF TIMES 9 BEAT COMMUNITY Ugandan action movies nce out of tiny budgets

Wakaliwood actors Bulyahika Ronald left, with yellow jacket, and Apollo Asiimwe act out a fight scene as the film crew (centre) shoot at the Wakaliwood movie studios in Kampala.

— are reduced by piracy, which Nabwana says is a “big problem.” In the case of one of Wakaliwood’s most successful productions — The Evil Spirit of Ntwetwe, about a village awash with spirits — the company earned almost nothing because of piracy, the director explains. “Piracy ... kills the value of films. Police can arrest a man who stole an egg and leave a pirate of a film worth millions,” Nabwana says. The director is now hoping that his growing fame will help him HIGH ON ACTION: Dauda Bisaso demonstrates the use of a fake lethal weapon raise funds for a modern studio he has crafted out of scrap metal and other everyday objects at Wakaliwood with training facilities for actors studios in Kampala as a mother and son walk calmly by. and editors. udios, briefs them ahead of shooting a scene in his latest movie. While most Ugandan films are love or family dramas, Nabwana included Alan Hofmanis, a Coming from a modest markets his as the first action programme director for the Lake background, Nabwana worked as a movies made in the country. Placid Film Festival in the United brickmaker after finishing school. “The government has not States, who saw Who Killed He later saved enough money supported the movie industry” Captain Alex in December 2011. to study computer maintenance, which had long been neglected, “I loved the movie. Two weeks learned to edit films online and noted Philip Luswata, a cinema later, I came here,” he says. borrowed a camera in the hope of expert at Makerere University. Hofmanis made several visits realising his lifelong dream. Luswata sees Nabwana as “aping until he ended up staying to join “Since childhood, I have admired Hollywood. He knows what his forces with Nabwana, in whose film stars. My older brother told fans want.” movies he acts and whom he helps me about kung fu, Bud Spencer Nabwana, meanwhile, is busy to raise funds on the Internet. and Rambo. I was inspired and enlisting visitors to act in his next A fund-raising campaign determined to be in movies.” movie, Wakaliwood Against the last year netted 13,000 dollars, Nabwana’s team now comprises Rest of the World: No One Escapes allowing the film crew to acquire about 30 actors, craftsmen and Wakaliwood. equipment such as muzzle flashes technicians. It will feature foreign for guns and detonation materials “Whoever comes here to act mercenaries coming to rescue a for fake bomb blasts. is trained here, because we do foreigner who has disappeared in “Wakaliwood is not in a very not have film-training schools in Wakaliwood. But they soon find good shape, but I want to assist it Uganda,” the director says. they have tempted fate when they Isaac Nabwana, head of Wakaliwood film productions, in an improvised to get to some other, higher level,” His earnings — often amounting perish in fierce gun battles against helicopter used as a prop for action movies at his film studios in Wakaliga, Hofmanis says. to a few hundred dollars per film Ugandans. —DPA Kampala. 10 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Wednesday, August 3, 2016 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Brain foods: Eating for academic success hat do the foods your children in the US traditionally have more protein than salmon to get more omega-3 essential fats, hormones that help reduce stress and promote eat have to do with the grades other meals, so eating last night's leftovers in which play an integral role in promoting cellular better sleep. they bring home? Surprisingly, the morning is a fun brain-boosting breakfast health and brain development. more than many people think. option. © Brandpoint Research shows that certain Mighty nuts and seeds Wvitamins and nutrients support brain health and Incredible carbohydrates These nutritional powerhouses provide development. That means the snacks, meals Some examples of healthy complex generous amounts of calories, fats, complex and supplements your child consumes can give carbohydrates to incorporate into your child's carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals them an academic edge, in the classroom and diet are brown rice, quinoa and oats. These and fi bre. Kids can enjoy making their own in life. types of carbs elevate levels of serotonin in healthy seed-nut snack mixes, then package in Lauren Zimet, director of the Early Insights the brain, which has a calming eff ect. Need baggies or small containers. Also, try swapping Healthy Foundations Program and a mother bread? Look for organic options so you can feel traditional peanut butter for other nut butters herself, understands how food can empower the confi dent your child is consuming the nutrients like almond or cashew for a healthier take on body and brain. Here are Zimet's top picks for they need and not the additional chemicals that PB&J. brain foods that can help support your child's are commonly found in conventional breads learning and development. and grains. Vivacious veggies and fruit Real, whole foods like fresh fruits and Powerful proteins Fantastic fats vegetables support brain health while calming Protein for breakfast and lunch will not Did you know the brain is about 60 percent the nervous system during times of stress. only curb hunger pangs throughout the school fat? That means when your kids eat healthy fats, Blueberries, raspberries and strawberries day, but will also help sustain mental energy it can support brain function. Pack snacks with are full of antioxidants and vitamin C, which and level moods. Kid-friendly protein ideas nuts, seeds and avocado. When cooking, replace research shows helps regulate cortisol, a include eggs, organic chicken/turkey/beef, unhealthy hydrogenated oils with healthier hormone responsible for stress. And don't non-GMO nitrate-free turkey bacon, and options such as extra-virgin olive oil or coconut forget bananas! Not only are they full of beans. Have leftovers from last night? Dinners oil. Eat more meals with cold-water fi sh like potassium, but they also help the body produce

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

Today’s Moon in Leo is an ongoing New Moon from yesterday and If you’re not sure about something, ask questions today and be With motivator Mars in your one on one relationship zone, now is in your fifth house of romance, self–fulfillment and creativity makes inquisitive bulls. There is nothing worse than feeling as if you are the perfect time for you to face up to all of those issues with others this a very special day indeed for you. falling behind your peers. that you may have swept under the table recently and really do need a second look.

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

Let bygones be bygones today as much as possible. Forgive, forget Your New Moon is still very active Leos and will be for the next Don’t let a simple discussion today become a heated debate Virgos. and move on. Life is way too short to hold grudges and be pissed off 2 weeks. In your second house of physical appearance and It’s really the last thing you need and with a New Moon and Venus after all. personality, it’s the perfect time for you to do something for yourself alongside the Sun lingering in your past karma zone, you might bite — especially with Venus in your sign through Saturday. off more than you can chew.

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

Sometimes there is nothing much you can do but simply listen to With Mars the motivator moving out of your sign today and setting Unless you really feel the need to do so, try to avoid getting caught other people and what they have to say, nod, agree or disagree and up his action shop in your second house of money and self–worth, up in someone else’s drama today Sags. As much as you love to help go on your merry way... it’s a great time for you to stop spending your hard earned cash and (and hear all the drama), there’s nothing much you can really do. start saving instead.

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

Avoid crowds today and too much noise and kafuff le goats. Mars the If you aren’t 100% positive about something you know is kind of Everything is a matter of perspective and how you see things Pisces. planet of passion and energy moves into your twelfth house of past a big deal, now is the time for you to really rethink things through You often see things through rose coloured glasses — glass half karma and self–renewal today through mid–September. Time to slow before pushing the button on GO. full — while others see things through dirty, grey lenses — glass half your roll. empty. 12 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY PUZZLES/CARTOONS

Wordsearch Adam

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CARACAL LYNX CATAMOUNT OCELOT CHEETAH OUNCE CIVET PANTHER COUGAR PUMA JAGUAR SERVAL LEOPARD WILDCAT LION 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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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. Wednesday, August 3, 2016 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Quick Clues Colouring

ACROSS DOWN 1. Cook (4) 1. Flourish (8) 3. Reduction in price (8) 2. Prestige (5) 9. Belly (7) 4. Neglect (6) 10. Tropical bird (5) 5. Indemnity (12) 11. Rude (12) 6. Ill-mannered (7) 13. Sealed envelope (6) 7. Urban area (4) 15. Respiratory disorder (6) 8. Made poor (12) 17. Devious hints (12) 12. Singing style (8) 20. Coarse (5) 14. Perplex (7) 21. Fetched (7) 16. Headdress (6) 22. Going too fast (8) 18. Musical instrument (5) 23. Open (4) 19. Weapons (4) Cryptic Clues

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ACROSS DOWN 1. Fool to take part in physical 1. Appointment on hand for fruit education? (4) producer (4,4) 3. I perform afterwards for the hero- 2. Produce a palindrome or shut worshipper (8) up? (3,2) 4. Uninteresting study of a poet (6) 9. To correspond completely (7) 5. Opportunity to show respect for 10. Not fit to paint, perhaps (5) government mendacity? (5-2-5) Yesterday’s Solutions 11. They stop the sheets slipping off 6. Characteristic alternative of (12) disloyal person (7) QUICK CRYPTIC 13. From which one learns to stake a 7. Tire out with ceremonial act (4) smaller amount (6) 8. He supervises building or Across: 6 Anguish; 7 Waken; 9 Barge; 10 Across: 6 Abridge; 7 Cache; 9 Dukes; 10 15. Draw in with art pen, perhaps (6) wrecks, folk decide (5,2,5) Propose; 12 Preliminary; 14 Possibility; 18 Pundits; 12 Sagittarius; 14 Considerate; 18 17. Extensible base on which the 12. Literary addition sometimes Feather; 19 Pearl; 21 Storm; 22 Deprive. Patriot; 19 Proof; 21 Screw; 22 Wedding. artist works? (7-5) removed in theatre (8) Down: 1 Sneak; 2 Vulgar; 3 Use; 4 Happen; 5 Down: 1 About; 2 Cinema; 3 Egg; 4 Gander; 5 20. Change of note by right singer 14. Unusual variety of garnets (7) Censure; 8 Grumble; 11 Blubber; 13 Poverty; 15 Shotgun; 8 Austere; 11 Windsor; 13 Romance; 15 (5) 16. Harmony of workers' association about start of strike (6) Satire; 16 Theory; 17 Grave; 20 Bet. Surrey; 16 Tirade; 17 Point; 20 Gem. 21. Stayed and paid (7) 18. Hector starts the hockey match 22. Urgent work in the laundry (8) (5) 23. Big cat with connections, say (4) 19. Halt the return of vessels (4) 14 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY CINEMA Indian cinema is still a slave to stars

September 10 on the island of Lido, off mainland Venice. Court, a Marathi feature, won the Lion of the Future Award and the Orizzonti Prize for Best Movie at Venice in 2014. Since then, the fi lm has gone on to clinch as many as 32 international awards. Tamhane was recently selected for the Rolex Mentor-Protégé Arts Initiative under the mentorship of Mexican helmer, Alfonso Cuarón. Cuaron’s slate has a bewitching variety that spreads from Yu Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too, about two teenage boys’ sexual romp with an older woman on a road trip), Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (with Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke and Robert De Niro), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Gravity (with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock that opened the Festival in 2013). Tamhane’s Court examines India’s legal system through the trial of an ageing folk singer in a Mumbai sessions court. In an important way, the movie is a searing critique of all that is wrong with the country’s judicial process — but narrated with exemplary subtlety. The Orizzonti jury will be headed by the celebrated French auteur, Robert Guediguian VALID: Naseeruddin Shah’s criticism of Rajesh Khanna and his work was both valid and in spirit of India’s healthy democratic norms. (The Snows of Kilimanjaro, My Sweet Pepper Land with Iranian beauty Golshifteh of India’s most talented actors, Naseeruddin with wonderful finesse. Why was Warsi Farahani). The other members of the panel By Gautaman Bhaskaran Shah (whose presence made so many movies taken off the sequel? The producer, Fox, if I will be American fi lm critic and historian Jim so extraordinarily meaningful) and Rajesh am right, was looking for an actor with star Hoberman, Egyptian actress Nelly Karim Khanna (perhaps the country’s fi rst superstar, value, and these days, Akshay Kumar fits (who won the Best Actress Award at the Cairo tar spats are not exactly new who died in 2012). the bill to the T. International Film Festival in 2004 for My in India, which has even seen In an interview to , Shah Soulmate by Khaled Youssef), Italian actress celebrated auteurs getting into lamented the mediocrity which had seeped India’s Chaitanya Tamhane on Venice Valentina Lodovini, Korean star and director slanging matches. into Hindi cinema. He said the decline began jury Moon So-ri, Spanish movie critic and scholar The mid-1960s saw the famous in the 1970s, courtesy the late Rajesh Khanna It is not very often that a film director José Maria Prado. S“rivalry” between two of India’s leading — a superstar by industry standards, but a gets fame and accolade with his very first Orizzonti is the most important sidebar lights in cinema, Satyajit Ray and Mrinal poor actor at best. movie. India’s Chaitanya Tamhane is one, at Venice that screens the works of new Sen. Ray — credited with brilliant fi lms like Khanna’s daughter, Twinkle (now married whose debut feature, Court, premiered directors in an attempt to explore emerging Pather Panchali and Charulata — and Sen — to star, Akshay Kumar), lambasted at the Venice Film Festival in 2014, and trends in cinema. There are 18 full-length also renowned for cinematic excellence in Shah saying that it was unfair to criticise a was later sent up as the country’s official features here that will be part of the Orizzonti movies like Bhuvan Shome (which was one man who was dead, and who cannot respond. entry for the Oscars. That it did not even competition. One fi lm will play out of of the pictures that heralded the New Indian Unfortunately, Twinkle was wrong. India is make it to the finals — the short list of competition, and there are several shorts — Cinema in 1969), Mrigaya and Kharij — a healthy democracy where men and women five — is another question. But Tamhane both in competition and outside. clashed in the columns of Calcutta’s leading have the right to be critical of one another’s is now shining bright, all over again, after dailies like The Statesman. Newspapers were views and work. Come on, we pick on even being picked for the Orizzonti jury of the (Gautaman Bhaskaran has covered the the only platform available those days — Nehru and Gandhiji, and both have been long upcoming Venice Film Festival, which Venice Film Festival for over 15 years and will when Twitter and Facebook were not even in gone. will roll on August 31. The event runs till be back on the Lido this year.) the remotest corner of anybody’s mind. And, I think Shah was bang right when One of the clashes pertained to Sen’s he said that Khanna was a poor performer. Aakash Kusum, but later, Ray’s son, Sandip, Not just this, he brought into Indian cinema called these a “healthy competition” not the craze called super stardom that belittled rivalry. In 2013, Sandip quipped: “You cannot writers and directors, while placing actors on perform in a vacuum. Only when you have a high pedestal. Khanna often got the kind of stiff competition do you have the urge to kudos which he certainly did not deserve. He excel. Mrinal Sen’s and Ritwik Ghatak’s was not actor, for I saw the same guy with the presence naturally urged my father to same hair style in fi lm after fi lm. Sometimes, outshine himself. I am sure that my father’s even in the same costume, the Guru Kurta, presence had a similar eff ect on them as well.” for instance. He seldom got into the skin of a Away from such professional tiff s, if I character. He was the same Rajesh Khanna in may say so, Ray and Sen were good friends every production. keeping tabs on each other’s ideas, thinking It is unfortunate that Khanna was largely processes, techniques and styles. “My father responsible in heralding an era that gave and I would run into Mrinalbabu all the time undue prominence to actors — rather than to during our post-production work. We would directors or writers. Bollywood — especially mostly be in diff erent editing rooms at NT 1. — became star, not auteur, driven. So many of Often I would fi nd my father and Mrinalbabu us watched such engaging works like Anand, engaged in stimulating conversations. I would Aradhana, Amar Prem, Safar and so on soak in every bit of it,” Sandip reminisced, because Mr Khanna was starring in them — adding that he himself had remained one of and, sadly, not because they were exemplary Sen’s biggest fans to this day. pieces of work — well written, well directed Today, stars and directors lash at each other and with good production values. through the social media. Recently, we saw a This star phenomenon still prevails. We huge confl ict between two Bollywood actors, are waiting to see Rustom because Akshay Hrithik Roshan and , that Kumar (Twinkle’s husband) plays the lead degenerated into an awfully unpleasant war in it. We scrambled to watch Kabali, for the of words. There have been similar squabbles hero of all heroes, Rajinikanth, was essaying among other fi lm personalities. Sometimes, the title role. We are now told that Kumar they are out in the open, in public domain. has replaced a good actor like Arshad Warsi ACCOLADE: Chaitanya Tamhane has been picked for the Orizzonti jury of the upcoming Venice The latest “tiff ” seems to be between one in Jolly LLB 2. Warsi carried the first part Film Festival. Wednesday, August 3, 2016 GULF TIMES 15 HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY

Dwayne Johnson’s comedy series renewed for new season Actor Dwayne Johnson’s bones. Now that you know there’s comedy HBO series Ballers has gonna be a Season 3... You’ll been renewed for a third season. be watching this season with a Johnson broke the news via his diff erent eye. Enjoy and have fun Instagram, reports variety.com. with it and above all else.” He posted: “BREAKING: Baller The series explores the alert. After just two episodes into relationship between football star our Season 2 of Ballers, @HBO has turned fi nancial manager Spencer ordered season 3! Congratulations Strasmore (played by Johnson) and to our hard working cast, crew, his clients. Ballers fi nished out its producers and our show’s creator fi rst season as the network’s most- Stephen Levinson. “Thank you to watched comedy in six years, once our home network HBO (Plepler, viewership from all airings and Bloys & brilliant team) for the streaming were tallied. commitment and long term vision According to HBO, 8.8mn of our show. To all our Ballers people watched each episode Fans out there - Thank You!” within seven days. The season one He added: “Millions of you tune fi nale garnered 1.43mn viewers in every week to join us on this in Nielsen’s live-plus-same- crazy journey of chasin’ greatness day count. The second season and dealin’ with life’s pain ... of the comedy series delves into and the greatest compliment we the murky world of NFL and the always hear from you is that we’re myriad of emotions, drama and real and authentic. subterfuge that goes on in the “Means the world considering underbelly of the most innocuous how close this character is to my of sports. — IANS

CLARION CALL: Jessica Alba Jessica Alba calls for end to gun violence

t the Teen Choice of them to introduce themselves, violence are teens,” she added. Awards, actress reports mirror.co.uk. After each of the teens spoke Jessica Alba gave a “(They) share an unlikely bond out with their name and their passionate tribute to that is hard to comprehend,” story, Alba said: “Tonight we stand those aff ected by gun Alba told the crowd. “They are together with these teens.” Aviolence. The 35-year-old star the brothers, sisters, daughters, “United in a call for peace and invited a group of teenagers who and family members of recent an end to this violence. Now more had lost their family members to victims of gun violence. I’m than ever we need to stop, feel, and ON A HIGH: Dwayne Johnson gun violence onto the stage — along talking about Aurora, Baton Rouge, ask, ‘What’s going on?’” she added. with the son of Alton Sterling, a Dallas, Minneapolis, Orlando, San R&B singer Ne-Yo later joined the 37-year-old black man, who was Bernardino, Newtown. It keeps tribute, as he took to the stage and shot several times in Baton Rouge happening and it has to stop. Many sang Marvin Gaye’s What’s going Damon to take break by the police — and asked each one of those impacted by these acts of on. — IANS from acting next year

Actor Matt Damon, who is Kanye West was ‘depressed’ over Glastonbury performance promoting his latest fi lm Jason Bourne, is planning to take a break Rapper Kanye West says his signed by R Kelly,” he added. from the industry following a hectic headline performance at the West said that he usually doesn’t year. Glastonbury Festival in 2015 put him get “nervous”. “I don’t usually He wants to take a year off from in a “depressed state”. West said it get nervous. I prepare, I get fully acting, reports aceshowbiz.com. was an humbling experience when prepared. When that music messed “I took a bunch of roles in a row. he forgot his lyrics and got the music up in the beginning, it tapped into my I have done four straight movies in wrong, reports mirror.co.uk. nerves and when you are nervous or a row and I have one more to go,” “It was incredible. I started off vulnerable, something special and Damon said on the Today show. the show and I completely messed something diff erent can happen,” he The father of four mentioned up the music. And me, as you can added. how he “dragged” his family “all imagine by this phone call, I am a bit The Gold digger rapper also over the world” for his movie of a perfectionist,” West told BBC outlined why he wants to run for US shoots. Radio One. “So it really put me into president, an ambition he announced “They are really good sports. a slightly depressed state, and it put on stage at the MTV Video Music They are great travellers. But I’m me back in the position of when I was Awards last year. “We are numb, we excited to fi nish out this year of in high school and I got fi red from my are numb to 500 kids getting killed in work and take a year off and be job, or when I played my music for R Chicago a year,” he said. at their behest for once,” he said. Kelly and he told me he was going to “We are numb to the fact that it Jason Bourne is expected to debut sign me, and then three months later was seven police shootings in the high on box offi ce this weekend. He I didn’t have any money, I couldn’t beginning of July ... We are numb to will next release The Great Wall, aff ord a haircut, I couldn’t take my places on the earth that we don’t live, which was recently criticised for girlfriend to the movies and I’m still like our life is okay but it’s okay for “Hollywood white-washing”. His in my momma’s bedroom, working other people’s lives to not be okay,” other fi lm, Downsizing, is still in CONFESSION: Kanye West on beats, and I was that close to being West added. — IANS BREATHER: Matt Damon production. — IANS 16 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 3, 2016 COMMUNITY

HANDS ON: Students will gain the skills needed in the production of HD film, from concept to shooting, and will act as crew on each other’s films.

Most recently, Hamilton- Brooksbank wrote and directed Longing for Image Nation Abu Dhabi’s Arab Film Studio Short Film Competition, for which DFI film workshop she garnered a coveted award. Hamilton-Brooksbank’s knowledge, drive and passion are some of the greatest assets of Handheld Stories, an educational and media-arts collaborative that provides media- creation tools and training for calls on youngsters communities worldwide. An award-winning educator writing and editing. Each student in media production, Guy will participate actively in exercises Brooksbank’s career began decades Camera Kids: Make Your Own Short Film will cover essential to achieving in-depth ago in public television in the USA. knowledge of fi lm production, as More recently, he taught media well as a commitment to cinematic production and fi lmmaking at artistic, technical and practical considerations of language,” explains DFI, “Students Dubai Men’s College, where he was have a working schedule balancing awarded the Nikai Award, which is the close study of selected fi lms presented to one faculty member making documentaries. By Anand Holla as well as production of their own each semester (from more than 17 work. Course materials include campuses across the UAE) who fi lms and texts, which will inform consistently demonstrates great n an intensive two-week says DFI about the lab that is in both fi lm, from concept to shooting, frequent and extensive class aptitude, creativity, innovation lab, teenagers of Qatar can English and Arabic. and will act as crew on each other’s discussions. and dedication to their students. now absorb a well-rounded The number of participants will fi lms,” says DFI. While investigating the social and Brooksbank’s students went on introduction to the diff erent be 20, the applicants should be Instruction includes discussions political context of cinematic works, to win numerous national and elements of photography, fi lm between 13 and 17 years of age, and on how to shoot a short fi lm; pre- these discussions will ultimately international awards and now form andI fi lmmaking so as to help them the price of admission is QR1,500. production preparations; sync result in intimate dialogue about the heart of the media industry in make their fi rst one-minute short Those interested can send an e-mail shooting, HD-video procedures each student’s work.” Dubai. fi lms. to youth@dohafi lminstitute.com and sound recording; operation of The mentors for this lab are The importance of participation From August 7 to 21, the Doha before August 7. HD camera technology; lighting Allegra Hamilton-Brooksbank and in this class cannot be overstated, Film Institute (DFI) has organised “This course off ers a non- and grip equipment; planning Guy Brooksbank. says DFI. “Students should be a workshop Camera Kids: Make thematic approach to helping your fi lm; casting; visualisation A graduate of Harvard University, prepared for every class and should Your Own Short Film. “During the participants through their strategies; analysing dailies; and Allegra Hamilton-Brooksbank always have their materials with classroom period, sessions take fi lm projects. It covers the post-production. spent several years in Los Angeles as them for presentation, discussion place six days a week; on Saturdays artistic, technical and practical By the end of the course, students a script doctor and writer, working and in-class workshops, and should from 9am to 1pm, and Sunday considerations of making a short will have shot, evaluated and edited with many industry luminaries be prepared to contribute ideas or through Thursday from 9am to 1pm. sound fi lm (documentary). In the all footage and will also screen it for including Samuel L Jackson and ask questions in every class. They During pre-production and fi lming, fi rst weeks, students will develop the class. John Travolta, while working should have both the self-discipline participants may be asked to make ideas for a three- to fi ve-minute “As an integral part of the alongside Christopher Keane, the and the determination necessary for time outside these hours, including project. Students will gain the skills course, several workshops are held author of numerous best-selling successful creative explorations and on weekdays during the daytime,” needed in the production of HD addressing optics, lighting, sound, how-to books on screenwriting. fi lm production.”