The Word Edition 6 Page 1_Layout 1 3/6/2018 10:49 AM Page 1 Volume No 18 Issue No 6 March 2, 2018 LAB JOURNAL OF THE ASIAN COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM Anti-Sanskrit The pressures of Railways facing protest at IIT looking beautiful “bankruptcy” Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 A MAN OF MANY SIDES Karti arrested by CBI, Kanchi Acharya dies at 82 PURNASNEHA S. his popularity as a mediator for Cong calls it ‘persecution’ peace increased among the PRAJANAMA DAS reign investors and (ii) generated Chennai: The 69th pontiff of the Muslim community. more than Rs 305 crores Foreign Kanchi Sankara Mutt, After September 2004, Chennai: The Central Bureau of Direct Investment in INX Media Sankaracharya Jayendra Sankaracharya’s life took a Investigation has arrested Karti (P) Limited against the approved Saraswathi, passed away on controversial twist and his image Chidambaram, son of former foreign inflow of Rs 4.62 cro - February 28 at a private hospital in faded among many of the mutt’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram, res…….” Kanchipuram, following a cardiac devotees who were shocked to and presented him at the Patiala A year later, in May 2008, the arrest. believe his involvement in the House Court in New Delhi. FIPB issued a letter to INX Media Although praised by his murder of the mutt’s functionary The court ordered that he be held demanding clarification on both is - followers for his social outreach Sankaraman, who had turned into in CBI custody for five days. sues. and bringing contemporary ideas a whistleblower. Karti was arrested on Wednesday The CBI alleged that owing to into the Mutt, his legacy is seen KANCHI ACHARYA The Acharya also faced sexual in Chennai and taken to New Delhi Karti’s influence, the officers and tainted due to his mediation in the 1935-2018 harassment charges filed by writer in connection with the INX Media officials of the Board not only ig - Ayodhya issue and his alleged Anuradha Ramanan and assault bribery case. nored the violations on the part of involvement in the Sankaraman but also in other southern states. charges in the auditor The CBI claimed that Karti tra - Karti Chidambaram arrested by CBI; remanded to five-day INX Media but also advised the murder case in which he was He also transformed the Radhakrishnan case. Public velled too often and that made his custody | THE STATESMAN group to apply for fresh FIPB ap - acquitted subsequently. spirituality-focused mutt into a prosecutor K Duraiswamy said interrogations difficult. CBI sources provals. The same proposal was Prime Minister Narendra Modi, social service-oriented and all- that “the seer is the most have said they wanted to grill Karti bruary 28. multiple vernacular entertainment later approved by the then Finance in his tribute mentioned that the inclusive one. undeserving criminal deserving no and his chartered accountant at the The CBI had registered an FIR channels. The agency alleged that Minister. seer was at the forefront of But unlike his predecessors who special treatment” and that the same time to check for discrepan - against him nine months ago and INX Media violated rules and ente - The CBI alleged that Karti was innumerable community service focused only on spirituality and court should respect the institution cies in their statements and confront the then INX Media Director In - red into a criminal conspiracy with paid for his “services” by INX initiatives and he was “deeply religion, Jayendra Saraswathi, and its seat but not individuals.’’ them with the claims made by the drani Mukerjea and then INX News Karti Chidambaram, whose father Media, with invoices in the name of anguished by the passing away of wasn’t a low profile Acharya. Nine years later, he was others. Director Peter Mukerjea. Karti’s was then Union Finance Minister, Advantage Strategic Consulting Pvt the Acharya.” His interest in politics and his acquitted but his image remained Defense attorney Abhishek Manu chartered accountant, S Baskarara - to avoid any serious disciplinary ac - Limited (ASCPL) amounting to Rs Political analyst Sumanth comments on various issues dented. “The ugliness of the whole Singhvi claimed that these argu - man, was arrested from a Delhi tion. 10 lakh. The CBI also alleged that Raman said on Twitter “Jayendra sparked controversy. episode tarnished his legacy. This ments were baseless and could not hotel on February 16. invoices for Rs 3.5 crore were also Saraswathi leaves a mixed legacy. In 2002, the seer who had great also brought to light the politics be reason for his arrest. The CBI sought Karti’s custody Strong evidence to raised by INX Media in the name of His focus on starting educational political connections, promised within the mutt, which followers According to NDTV, Singhvi based on the statements made by confirm cheating - Sr other companies, where Karti had institutions for poor students and that a negotiated settlement could like me refused to digest initially,” called the case bizarre and added Bhaskararaman and Indrani Muk - CBI officer sustainable interests. his outreach programs for be achieved in the Babri Masjid- said Dhandu, a local priest who that the agency was attempting to herjea, who is now in jail in con - Describing the Karti’s arrest as connecting with society were path Ram temple dispute among both was a devotee of Sankaracharya. ‘prejudice the court with half-baked nection with the murder of her The CBI’s FIR says, “INX Media “political persecution” of his father breaking for the mutt. The the Hindu and the Muslim After the demise, the Kanchi Mutt facts’. daughter Sheena Bora. (P) Limited deliberately and in vio - and his family, the Congress has ac - Sankararaman case though communities. has turned towards the 70th However, a senior CBI officer The case according to the CBI is lation of the conditions of the ap - cused the CBI of being “a captive indelibly marred his latter years.” He met members of the All successor Vijayendra. “The jury is told The Times of India. "We have that on March 15, 2007 INX Media proval (i) made a downstream puppet” of the Modi government The 82-year-old Acharya is India Muslim Personal Law Board out on whether Vijayendra has the strong evidence to confirm his role had applied for clearance from the investment to the extent of 26% in carrying out political vendetta credited with the extension of the (AIMPLB) and suggested that political acumen his predecessor in a cheating case." Foreign Investment Promotion the capital of INX News (P) Limi - against opponents. Mutt’s philanthropic activities they furnish a no-objection had, to navigate his way through Karti was taken into custody mi - Board (FIPB) to operate and broad - ted without the specific approval of P Chidambaram would also be beyond the Brahmin community statement for the construction of a the intersection of religion and nutes after his flight from London cast a bunch of channels including a FIPB which included indirect fo - questioned in connection with the in the areas of education and Ram temple. Though his formula dirty politics,” wrote T. S. Sudhir landed at the Chennai airport on Fe - Hindi entertainment channel, and reign investment by the same fo - case, press reports indicated. health, not just within Tamil Nadu wasn’t taken into consideration, in Firspost. Reserved categories Cabbies take on Uber, Ola score lowest in Class 10 NITHIN KUMAR Cabs collects 21 per cent of a PURNIMA S DAS driver’s earnings as CHENNAI: Three thousand commission. Chennai: Class 10 students’ in cab drivers in the city have “Our initiative will only Tamil Nadu belonging to joined hands to launch a new collect seven per cent as Scheduled Castes (SC) and App based cab service to commission along with five per Scheduled Tribes (ST) constitute challenge Uber and Ola Cabs. cent GST,” said Muthu Kumar. more than 50 per cent of students The Ottunar Thozhargal Another feature promised by who need improvement, reveals Sangam, associated with the the drivers was the removal of the National Achievement Survey, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, hidden charges imposed on the 2017. supports the drivers’ initiative passengers. According to Selva The survey done by the Natio- and the app is set to launch this Raj, a former driver for Uber, nal Council of Educational Re- send my girl to a corporation will also leave even if the class month. the private cabs imposed many Protestors outside Tambaram Railway Station | N A RAYANAN search and Training (NCERT) school nearby. She works really ends at 3:30 p.m.” Approximately, 1700 drivers hidden charges for delays showed that the average scores of hard but still scores poorly in the In this case, teachers spend no are set to operate within the city because of heavy traffic, night students from SC and ST catego- examinations. I do not know what time with students beyond class limits and the rest would be rides, waiting and even bad ries, was between 230 and 241 out exactly is wrong.” hours. assigned suburbs and the weather. The organisers of the Disabled protest of 300. Andrew Sesuraj, assistant pro- “The school is the most impor- outskirts. new app have promised to They were tested in five sub- fessor, Loyola College said, “The tant institution for the child’s over Muthu Kumar, a former charge only for the distance jects – English, Mathematics, children from disadvantaged all development,” he said. driver for Uber, said “We travelled. “We have approached at railway station Science, Social Science and Mo- groups go to government and cor- Above all, the overall perfor- drivers have to pay a heavy BSNL for an easy-to-remember NARAYANAN V authorities at Tambaram railway dern Indian Language and these porate schools.” mance of Class 10 students in the commission and the passengers number and we have planned to station of demanding money from students belonging to reserved ca- “There is no doubt that the tea- State was also significantly lower face an unexplained price surge.