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VOL 14 ISSUE 5 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● JAN 31 - FEB 06, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Trump Impeachment coming to an end: No new witnesses or evidence India’s 71st Republic Day WASHINGTON (TIP): The Senate Celebrated across USA with voted January 31 evening to block consideration of new witnesses and evidence Full Fervor and Enthusiasm in the impeachment trial, all but securing NEW YORK (TIP): The 71st Republic President Trump's Day of India was celebrated at the acquittal, says a Times Embassy of India, Washington D.C. report. The motion failed 49 to 51, with Senators Susan with great enthusiasm. Over 500 Collins and Mitt Romney joining all 47 Democrats. members of the Indian diaspora from Leaders from both parties settled on a schedule for the the Greater Washington region took remainder of the trial, with a plan to bring it to a close on part in the celebration. Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the House managers and Mr. Charged'Affaires Ambassador Amit Trump's lawyers made their final pleas, debating for several Kumar paid floral tributes to the statue hours whether to consider hearing from witnesses. of Mahatma Gandhi at the Mahatma The Senate will return at 11 a.m. Eastern on Monday for a Gandhi Park in front of the Embassy. few hours of closing arguments, and senators will have a Thereafter, Cd'A Ambassador unfurled chance to give floor speeches on Tuesday. The final vote, on the National Flag followed by singing of whether to remove Mr. Trump from office, will take place at 4 the National Anthem. He also addressed p.m. on Wednesday. the gathering and read out the address However, Trump's acquittal is a foregone conclusion, given of the President of India delivered on the arithmetic of votes in the Senate. It is thumbs up for the eve of the Republic Day. In Washington DC Charge d'Affaires Ambassador Amit Kumar paying Republicans and Trump. floral tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Mahatma Gandhi contd on page 3 Park in front of the Embassy Indian American Arvind Thousands Fill Streets of America Four Indian Americans Krishna named new during India's Republic Day among 141 Padma Awardees CEO of IBM to succeed Celebration to Protest CAA and NRC Ginni Rometty

IBM named Arvind Krishna its new CEO to succeed Ginni Rometty who takes over as executive chairman Dr Jagdish N. Sheth: Padma Bhushan ; Romesh T. Wadhwani, Prof S.P. Kothari and Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik: Padma Shri NEW YORK (TIP): In a reshuffle at IBM, Krishna will become the new CEO NEW DELHI /NEW YORK (TIP): The Government of India to replace Rometty, who will become made the announcement for Padma awards- the three highest executive chairmanand Red Hat CEO civilian awards in India this Republic day.While seven citizens Jim Whitehurst will become IBM Protesters in Washington hold placards saying "we will see" were awarded Padma Vibhushan award, sixteen received the president. Padma Bhushan and a hundred and eighteen citizens were IBM on Thursday, January 30 said bestowed the Padma Shri. Amongst them, three Indian- that Arvind Krishna, currently the NEW YORK (TIP): In one of the largest protests ever by Americans, namely, Romesh T. Wadhwani, Prof S.P. Kothari company's senior vice president for Indian diaspora in the USA, thousands of Indian Americans and Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik were listed for the Padma cloud and cognitive software, will take joined protest rallies to raise their voices against the Shri award while one Indian-American, Dr Jagdish N. Sheth over as CEO, while James Whitehurst, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that discriminates against became a Padma Bhushan recipient. They are among a group currently senior vice president of IBM Muslims in the grant of citizenship and the National Register of of 141 awardees. Dr. Jagdish Shethis the Charles H. Kellstadt and CEO of Red Hat, will move up to Citizens (NRC) in 30 cities across America on India's Republic Chair in Marketing at Emory University. Prior to coming to become president of IBM. Day.Children, women and men turned up at the protest Emory University,Dr. Jagdish Sheth was the Robert E. Brooker contd on page 30 locations in Washington DC, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, contd on page 30 contd on page 12 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

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This was followed by singing of patriotic songs by the students of Gandharva School of Music, Richmond. Republic Day was celebrated on January 26 at the Permanent Mission of India in New York where the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin unfurled the Indian national flag. Excerpts from President's address to the nation on the eve of the Republic Day were read out by Ambassador Akbaruddin who in his address praised the work of the PMI staff and spoke of the challenging task ahead for them. The gathering, mostly the staff of the PMI, and some guests, were accorded a reception. The Consulate General of India, New York celebrated the 71st Republic Day of India on Sunday,January 26, 2020 Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, Permanent Representative of In New York Consul GeneralSandeep Chakravorty reading out the address of the President of India in the Consulate premises with full fervor and India to the United Nations addresses the gathering at Permanent Mission of India, Jan 26 Photo / Jay Mandal-on assignment enthusiasm. Despite cold weather, a large number of Photo / Mohammed Jaffer-SnapsIndia members of Indian diaspora and friends of India numbering 250 attended the event. As is customary,a Flag Hoisting Ceremony was held in the morning in the Consulate Ball Room. Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty unfurled the national flag and the national anthem was sung. Consul General conveyed his greetings to the gathering and read out the address of the President of India. In his speech, President Ram Nath Kovind hailed the Indian diaspora for enhancing India's image before the world community."Another source of pride for our country has been our diaspora. During my visits abroad, I have observed that Indians have not only brought prosperity to their adopted lands, they have also enhanced India's image before the world community.Many of them have made great contributions in a wide variety of endeavors", he said. In Chicago, Consul General Sudhakar Dalela welcomed about 250 members of the Indian community and friends of India Patriotic songs and poems were sung by artists of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. Mr. Niranjan Bharathi of SBI community and friends of India attended recited patriotic poetry and children presented a short the 71st Republic Day celebrations with patriotic dance. great enthusiasm. Consul General In the evening, Consul General hosted a reception Sudhakar Dalela hoisted tricolor and read which was attended by members of the Diplomatic Corps. out Rashtrapatiji's address to the Nation. More than 125 people were present for the reception. Live Indian Consulate in Atlanta organized an performances by Mr. Ted Moreno (Sitarist) and Mr. Todd evening function which commenced from Miller (Tabla player) enthralled the guests. 6PM at Sandy Springs City Hall. The event In Chicago, nearly 250 members of the Indian was graced by political dignitaries and members of local State Congress, Mayors, Consul Generals, local Commissioners, Presidents of Indian Committee Organizations and friends of India, members from Media etc. About 500+ strong attended the reception. The hall was decorated with banners of Incredible India and the two projectors showed Republic Day Parade before the program started. Consul General Dr. Swati V. Kulkarni addressed the gathering. The speech included highlights of President's speech, pertinent details of India-US relations In Houston Consul General Aseem R Mahajan addressing the gathering. including the work done by the Consulate during the last year. The speech was followed by four cultural performances depicting the rich diversity of India. In San Francisco CG Sanjay Panda hoisted the National flag in front of a large gathering of Indian community and read the address of Hon'ble President of India to the Nation. The Consulate General of India, Houston, also celebrated the 71st Republic Day of India with full fervor and enthusiasm. Consul General Aseem R Mahajan addressed the gathering. In San Francisco CG Sanjay Panda hoisted the National flag in front of a large gathering of In Atlanta Consul General Dr. Swati V. Kulkarni welcomed the Indian community dignitaries THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

India's Gita Sabharwal Appointed UN Resident Three Indian Americans Awarded Coordinator in Thailand by UN 2020 Churchill Scholarships Secretary-General NEW YORK (TIP): Three Indian Ms. Sabharwal American students are among 15 brings 25 years students who have won the Churchill of experience in Scholarship 2020. They are MIT Senior development, Mehtaab Sawhney, a senior from peacebuilding, governance and Commack, New York, Duke University social policy senior Azim Dharani, and Vinay across five Ayyappan - a Johns Hopkins senior Asian countries majoring in biomedical engineering. Awarded by the Winston Churchill NEW YORK (TIP):United Nations Foundation of the United States, the Secretary-General António Guterres scholarship supports science, has appointed Gita Sabharwal of India mathematics, and engineering students as the United Nations Resident from the United States as they complete a Coordinator in Thailand, with the host master's degree program at Cambridge. Government's approval. The scholarship is valued at about Mehtaab Sawhney, Azim Dharani, and Vinay Ayyappanare among 15 students who have won the Ms. Sabharwal brings 25 years of $60,000 and includes living and travel Churchill Scholarship 2020 experience in development, stipends as well as tuition for the peacebuilding, governance and social program, which ranges in length from Team Selection Test as a grader and three professors in the School of policy across five Asian countries. She nine months to one year. Students are reviewer. Medicine: Kristine Glunde,radiology most recently served the United selected based on their academic Dharani, a senior Angier B. Duke and cancer imaging professor; Anthony Nations in Sri Lanka as the achievements, extracurricular interests, scholar from Lewisville, Texas, is Leung, oncology professor; and Ishan Peacebuilding and Development and dedication to research. completing a major in chemistry and Barman, associate professor of oncology, Advisor for nearly seven years. Mehtaab Sawhney will graduate this minors in computational biology and radiology, and radiological science. Prior to joining the United Nations, February with a BS in mathematics and classical archaeology. He is the 22nd Ayyappan, who received a Goldwater she was The Asia Foundation's Deputy a minor in computer science. At Duke undergraduate to receive this Scholarship in 2019 and is a two-time Country Representative for Maldives Cambridge, he will undertake Part III of honor. At Duke, most of Dharani's recipient of the Astronaut Scholarship. and Sri Lanka and has held positions the Mathematics Tripos master's degree research focused on developing metal- Working in the lab of Cambridge as the Poverty and Policy Advisor for before returning to the U.S. to enroll in a binding, prostate cancer-targeting drugs radiologist Ferdia Gallagher, Ayyappan the United Kingdom's Department for mathematics PhD program. He aspires with Professor Katherine Franz. Outside will perform human trials of International Development (DFID) in to become a professor of mathematics of Duke, he has pursued computational hyperpolarized magnetic resonance India and Vietnam. specializing in combinatorics. chemistry research at the Sloan- imaging-a cancer imaging technique She holds a master's degree in Sawhney completed his first year of Kettering Cancer Center and the D.E. developed by Gallagher that is 10,000 Development Management from the undergraduate studies at the University Shaw Research institute.Dharani is a times as sensitive as traditional imaging University of Wales, UK and is the of Pennsylvania and then transferred to Goldwater Scholar and a member of Phi methods. Ayyappan's interest in author of numerous policy papers on MIT. At MIT, he has contributed to more Beta Kappa and has received the researching cancer progression dates South and South-East Asia. than a dozen published or submitted American Association for Cancer back to high school, when a close friend academic papers, a rare feat for an Research Undergraduate Fellowship. He and teacher were both diagnosed with Indian American John undergraduate student. Sawhney is a teaching assistant for introductory the disease. In addition to his work in the Kapoor Sentenced to continued to work on math problems in chemistry and serves as the co-president classroom, Ayyappan serves as the the Math Olympiad, International for the Undergraduate Research Society, president of the Johns Hopkins chapter 66 Months in Prison Science and Engineering Fair, and then for which he develops programs to help of Engineering World Health and In May 2019, eventually the Putnam Mathematical underclassmen get involved with volunteers at the Johns Hopkins Kapoor was Competition (where he was an honorable research. Children's Center, where he spearheaded convicted by a mention in both 2016 and 2018). He Vinay Ayyappan a Johns Hopkins a project to help patients keep up with federal jury of volunteers his time with the U.S. senior majoring in biomedical racketeering schoolwork through the help of Johns conspiracy along Mathematical Olympiad and the U.S. engineering is a research assistant for Hopkins undergraduates. with four other Insys executives Indian American Indian American Shivani Indian American BOSTON (TIP): The founder of Charged with Murder of Patel Sentenced in Neurologist Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was sentenced Jan 23 in federal court in Three Teen Boys Connection with Sentenced to 24 Boston for orchestrating a scheme to RIVERSIDE (TIP): On Jan. 23, 2020, Embezzling Over $3 Million Months in Prison bribe practitioners to prescribe the Riverside County District Attorney's Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain Office charged a Corona area man of BOSTON (TIP): The former executive NEW ORLEANS, (TIP): U.S. medication, often when medically Indian origin with three counts of assistant of a Waltham-based technology Attorney Peter G. Strasser unnecessary. murder and three counts of attempted company was sentenced Jan 28 in connection announced that Anil Prasad, M.D., John Kapoor, 76, of Phoenix, Ariz., murder in the weekend crash that killed with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that age 63, a resident of Covington, was sentenced by U.S. District Court three 16-year-old boys and injured three netted over $3 million. Shivani Patel, 38, of Louisiana was sentenced on Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 66 other teens. Vineyard Haven, was sentenced by U.S. January 28, 2020 by U.S. District months in prison, three years of According to findings, Anurag District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to four Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 24 supervised release, and ordered to pay Chandra, had intentionally driven his years in prison, five years of supervised months' imprisonment followed by forfeiture and restitution to be vehicle into the car after he got irritated release, and ordered to pay restitution of (3) three years of supervised release, determined at a later date. The with the teens playing 'ding-dong $3,819,366 and forfeiture of $3,076,369. In with the condition that the first 12 government recommended a sentence ditched' on his door. He is facing three October 2019, Patel pleaded guilty to one months of supervised release be of 15 years in prison. In May 2019, murder charged and three attempted count each of bank fraud, money laundering served on home confinement in Kapoor was convicted by a federal jury murder charges, said Riverside County and filing false tax returns. As an executive connection with his guilty plea to of racketeering conspiracy along with District Attorney's Office said. Along assistant to the chief financial officer, Patel's conspiracy to unlawfully distribute four other Insys executives. "Out of with the attempted murder and murder duties included retrieving incoming mail controlled substances and pure greed, Insys executives, from charges, the DA's Office has filed a containing customer checks made payable to conspiracy to commit health care John Kapoor on down, bribed doctors special circumstance allegation of her employer, recording the checks into the fraud. In addition, Prasad, agreed to to prescribe this powerful and highly multiple murders. payment system and depositing the checks pay $1,657,461.15 in restitution to the addictive narcotic to people who did (Read full story on into her employer's bank account. Medicare and Medicaid programs. not need it. (Read full story www.theindianpanorama.news) (Read full story on (Read full story on on www.theindianpanorama.news) www.theindianpanorama.news) www.theindianpanorama.news) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 5 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 NY/NJ/CT FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 JOYOUS CELEBRATION OF 71ST INDIA REPUBLIC DAY ANNIVERSARY IN NEW YORK

The Indian Panorama Editor Prof. Indrajit S Saluja called A spirited Salute to India upon the present NY City Council Member government of India to Barry Gordenchik praised ensure that the provisions of Secretary General of IOC India and Indian Americans the Indian Constitution were Harbachan Singhextended a for their contribution to applied in a just and fair word of welcome America manner.

New York City Council Member Donovan Richards Jr who addressed the gathering is seen with IOC members with NY State Senator John Liu and NY City Council Member Barry Gordenchik IOC members

NEW YORK (TIP): India Republic Day patriotism. Everyone remained standing contribution by the Indian Americans to happily noted that India's soft power Celebration by the Indian Overseas as Harbachan Singhnext read the the economic, social and legal components attributes, like Yoga, Indian cinema, Congress, USA began with an elegant Preamble to the Constitution of India with of USA, speaker after speakeralso praised music and cuisine were unparalleled and setting and color at the Sohna Punjab the Indian diaspora guests repeatingafter the great efforts of the Indian diaspora in it generated tremendous goodwill and Restaurant on January 26, 2020 where a him while some stood in attention with a maintaining the culture and customs of support for India. large gathering of leaders of various salute. General Secretary Rajinder theirhomeland thereby enriching the Other leaders who addressed the local communities as well as several Dichpally loudly hailed "Bharat Mata ki mosaic composition and zest of the gathering included, Satish Sharma, elected political officials had joined the Jai" giving vibrance to the meeting. American people. Tejinder Singh Gill, Leela Maret, Amir Indian diaspora, to wish "Happy Republic Luminaries included, New York State Prof. Indrajit Saluja believed that the Rasheed, Jose George, Devendra Vora. Dr. Day" to one another and enjoy the Senator John C. Liu , New York City present government must ensure that the Jayeshkumar Patel, Gujrat Chapter splendid evening.Special appreciations Council Member Barry Grodenchik, New provisions of the Indian Constitution President sent in sweets for the occasion were expressed to Dr.Sam Pitroda ji, Mr. York City Council Member Donovan were applied in a just and fair manner. for the guests, but he was unable to attend Himanshu Vyas ji. Mr. Anura Mathai ji, Richards Jr., Democratic Leader Richard The local community leader fromthe due to death in thefamily. Sophia Sharma, Mr. George Abraham ji and Mr. Mohinder David, and several other community Nepalese group, Mr. Somnath Ghimire, General Secretary IOC, USA emceed the Singh Gilzian ji. leaders who had joined the celebration. the Guyanese American leader Albert meeting and Malini Shah, Vice-President Harbachan Singh, Secretary-General of They unanimously praised the joint Baldeo, the African American Leader and gave a vote of thanks and then opened the IOC, USA spear-headed the event with a efforts of the two largest Democracies in Pastor Emmanuel Asse, the former door to a sumptuous dinner that was rendering of the Indian National Anthem the world, India and the US, for Secretary of local DC 37 Trade Union, awaiting all the invitees. It was a truly sungby Amir Rashid in which all the collaborating and upholding the Ahmed Shakir, all spoke highly of their befitting tribute for the Republic Day of audience participated solemnly with a principles of Democracy, cordial and bustling inter-relationship Indiawhich was enjoyed by all. deep sense of conviction, love and Appreciating the significant with the Indian community. It was (Press Release)

who sacrificed their lives in order to gain Town of Hempstead celebrates India's Republic Day the freedom for India with Flag ceremonies, parades and public HEMPSTEAD, NY (TIP): India's celebrations. Chair, Indu Jaiswal of Republic Day is celebrated as the Indian American Forum, and Board of Anniversary of the Constitution of India Trustee, Mohinder Taneja and their team which came into effect by replacing the along with the Indian community in Long Government of India Act as the Island organized India's 71st Republic Flag governing document of India and the Day on January 24th, 2020 at Town of hoisting transition of India from the British Rule Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, to a Republic on 26th January, 1950. New York. Town officials and several Indians all over the world proudly Indian community leaders and members salute their Tricolor Flag, sing their gathered to show solidarity, strength, National Anthem and patriotic songs to diversity and National pride. (Read full Donald X. Clavin Jr., Hempstead Town Supervisor pay tribute to all the freedom fighters story on www.theindianpanorama.news) appreciated the contribution of Indian Americans THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 MISCELLANY 7 Eminent Ophthalmologist VK Raju Underscores Importance of Prevention of Childhood Blindness, at the Centennial Celebrations of Rotary Club of Calcutta

Dr. VK Raju making a presentation at the centennial celebrations of Rotary Club of Calcutta honored Dr. Raju at their centennial celebrations . L to R:Club President Rotary Club of Calcutta, January 1, 2020. Purnendu Roy Choudhury, Dr. VK Raju, and Centenary Chair Saumen Ray KOLKATA / NEW YORK (TIP): Calcutta and Priyamvada- Aravind Eye performed over 3 million vision international service. A partial list of (TIP): "Childhood blindness is one of the Hospital in Kolkata will collaborate to do screenings in rural areas of over 30 awards include Doctor Nathan Davis tragedies in the world. 70% of childhood this service even if the parents cannot countries. Through the Eye Foundation International award of Excellence in blindness can be prevented or treated afford. of America, over 350,000 sight-saving Medicine by American Medical with today's available technology and The Rotary Club of Calcutta honored surgeries have been performed at no Association Foundation, Lifetime resources", West Virginia based eminent Dr. VK Raju for his passionate cost. Over 700 medical professionals, Achievement Award from WV State ophthalmologist Dr. VK Raju said at the commitment to prevention of avoidable including many residents and Medical Association, the President's Centennial celebrations of Rotary Club childhood blindness and for his ophthalmologists, have been trained to Lifetime Achievement Award from of Calcutta, the oldest Rotary Club in enormous work across the world. identify and treat eye diseases. President Barack Obama, Mahatma West Bengal, January 2020. About Dr. VK Raju Dr. Raju remains highly involved as Gandhi Pravasi Samman award for Dr. Raju was invited as keynote the Founder and President of the Eye Achievement in Medicine, House of speaker to speak on avoidable childhood Dr. VK Raju received his medical Foundation of America to this day, Lords, London. He also received the blindness. "80% of our learning is degree from Andhra University, India returning to India every few months to Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement through vision. Screening the children and Residency and Fellowship in UK. He participate in educational programs, Award from West Virginia University.He for vision problems is essential", he said. is a fellow of the Royal College of vision screening camps, and surgeries. was also inducted into Medical Missions "3.5 million premature babies are born Surgeons and a Fellow of the American His insatiable drive to improve the Hall of Fame by University of Toledo each year in India. More and more of college of Surgeons. lives of others has also resulted in the and Medscape placed him among the best these babies are surviving because of V.K.Raju, MD, FRCS, FACS is a clinical recent culmination of another lifelong doctors in America. neonatal care. They must be screened for professor of ophthalmology at West goal. The construction of another eye For over 40 years, Dr. Raju has Retinopathy of Prematurity to prevent Virginia University, WV, USA and hospital is underway with wings devoted dedicated himself to eliminating blindness. This is one of the most cost- practicing ophthalmologist at Regional to specialties including ocular oncology, avoidable blindness in children and effective health interventions," said Dr. Eye in Morgantown, WV, USA. In 1977, pediatric ophthalmology, and the adults through outreach programs, Raju. work began on what is now known as the retinopathy of prematurity, a disease surgeries, and educational efforts. V. K. The Eye Foundation of America which Eye Foundation of America. With Dr. effecting premature babies. Raju has published over 100 scientific Dr. Raju founded and is heading now Raju's guidance, the Eye Foundation of Dr. VK Raju has received awards from articles, 17 book chapters, and 2 books. has gifted a retinal camera to screen America's work has grown. To date, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Still, he will tell you, "My work is only these babies. The Rotary Club of Eye Foundation of America has four times for his teaching, research and beginning." Anjani Kumar assumes charge as India’s Ambassador to Mali

BAMAKO / NEW YORK (TIP): India's capacities in the Divisions dealing with ambassador designate to Mali Anjani Policy, Planning & Research, India's Kumar Sahay presented the letter of relations with Bangladesh, Myanmar and credentials to H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Boubacar Sri Lanka, Administrative and Personnel Keïta, President of the Republic of Mali at Matters and in the office of Minister of the credentials ceremony held January 17 State for External Affairs. , 2020 at the Presidential Palace in Bamako He graduated in History from Shivaji Before being assigned as ambassador to College followed by a Masters' degree in Mali, Ambassador Sahay was posted at Sociology from Delhi School of the Permanent Mission of India to the Economics, University of Delhi. He also United Nations in New York. has a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism Ambassador Sahay joined the Indian from Ranchi University. Foreign Service (IFS) in 2003. Making short documentaries on people, As a career diplomat, he has served at places, nature and culture is his hobby.He the Indian Embassies in Madrid, Mexico is also interested in music, sports and City, Caracas and at the Permanent travelling. He speaks Hindi, English and Mission of India to the United Nations in Spanish. New York. He is married to Mrs. Indumati Dwivedi At the Ministry of External Affairs in Ambassador designate Anjani Kumar Sahay presented letter of credentials to H.E. Mr. Ibrahim and they have two daughters, Meshika Boubacar Keïta, President of the Republic of Mali at the credentials ceremony held January 17 , New Delhi, he has worked in various 2020 at the Presidential Palace in Bamako and Avila. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 AS I SEE IT

By Upneet Lalli The challenges of de-radicalization individuals are placed in environments that lead to There are links between extremism, social being receptive to extremism. The drivers can be exclusion and radicalization. Sociological either intrinsic or extrinsic. Commitment is interventions to prevent or counter extremist constantly calibrated and re-calibrated. behaviors are needed. The success of Kerala and Be it the left wing extremism, right wing, North- Maharashtra program of de-radicalizing indicates how community-based programs may work in East insurgency, Kashmir militancy or the separatist vulnerable states. Let us not forget that disaffected Khalistan movement, the perceptions of injustice youth with no real job prospects and limited futures play an important role in pushing someone to are vulnerable. extremism and the radicalisation process. Many hen terrorism became too difficult to individuals who join radical groups do so because predict, the focus turned to radicalisation, a they have the feeling that they have not received the Wterm introduced after 9/11 to describe "what treatment they deserve. In order to better deal with goes on before the bomb goes off". Since 2002, eight of feelings of relative deprivation and injustice, experts the nine regions in the world experienced an increase suggest empowering individuals by helping to Feelings of relative deprivation and injustice can evoke radical thoughts. in terrorism. The November 2008 terrorist attacks in increase their perceptions of efficacy and self- Mumbai perpetrated by the Lashkar-e-Taiba, wherein esteem, and fostering the creation of a strong self- a prison, I found that there was existential angst that 166 people were killed, revealed how deadly violence identity. had pushed the person towards radicalisation. In can be unleashed by a few individuals. De-radicalisation is a process in which people prison, opportunity for reflection and finding new It has been seen that rigid, dogmatic convictions, reject the ideology they once embraced. This is a step meaning in life, by being redirected towards more along with condemnation beliefs, lead to a path of further than disengagement, characterized by a positive goals, such a meaningful job or education, destroying the other. Last year, when the fidayeen change in behavior (leaving the radical group, can take place. The longing to reestablish good suicide attack on a convoy of the CRPF in Pulwama stopping violence) without giving up. Individual relationships with family members, and to start own took place, it revealed how a youth with a history of disengagement and de-radicalisation programs family can work to pull away from radicalisation. minor grievances can be indoctrinated. Prisons have cannot be looked at in isolation. It has been argued by The European Union approach focuses on been found to be fertile grounds for radicalisation. Daniel Koehler, Director of the German Institute on supporting families in preventing radicalisation and Imprisonment may increase a prisoner's Radicalisation and De-radicalisation Studies, that in de-radicalisation. Many parents and teachers are susceptibility to new and radicalizing ideas or when an individual has a "cognitive opening" and an uncertain of how to deal with signs of radicalisation. beliefs; referred to as a cognitive opening. environment that supports personal reflection, then Educating and equipping them becomes essential to The threat from radicalisation remains de-radicalisation can be initiated. Detained former recognize vulnerable individuals who are at risk or underestimated and understudied in India. There is Tamil Tigers underwent a de-radicalisation are in the early stages of radicalisation. Focus should also no official Indian policy on radicalisation and de- programme in Sri Lanka that addressed the be to train and educate professionals, and to radicalisation. Statements about opening up of de- educational, vocational, spiritual, recreational, stimulate disengagement and de-radicalisation. radicalisation camps, as a solution to the psychosocial, and socio-cultural/familial aspects of At the primary level, the government needs to radicalisation problems have been made recently.The an individual's life when transitioning back into reinvest in educational institutions. The aim should focus is yet to turn to understanding about the society. The most developed programs at the prison be to decrease prejudice, stereotyping and philosophy of radicalisation, its precursors, process level have been in Saudi Arabia and Singapore. discrimination and to increase knowledge about nodes and the potential of de-radicalisation. Yemen is the best example how not to do it since the democracy. Collective sports and citizen programs Radicalisation is a process with multiple government showed little interest in after-care. based on exchanges have been found helpful. reinforcing pathways of developing extremist beliefs, Former extremists often ended up being the victims Prof Theo Gavrielides recently led a three-year emotions, and behaviors. People become increasingly of police harassment. The focus should be on reform study in the UK. More than 3,000 young people and motivated to use violent means against members of and rehabilitation of individuals. professionals in schools, youth prisons, universities, an out-group or symbolic targets to achieve Looking for one's own identity forms a part of migrant centers, and online were interviewed. The behavioral change and political goals. Radicalisation every normal development process from child to research found that when young people were develops gradually over time and may occur at adulthood. Studies have pointed out that many encouraged to develop a talent or pastime, the individual, group or mass public levels. It also individuals enter extremist groups during radicalisation process was successfully challenged. involves changes in attitudes, beliefs, behavior, adolescence. Not only is there more thrill-seeking, There are links between extremism, social ideals, goals, ideology,and willingness, which become but also increased efforts to maximize short-term exclusion and radicalisation. Sociological extreme. Those extreme aspects are related to pleasures. Peer pressure and unfamiliar situations interventions to prevent or counter extremist political, social, religious, ideological, economic or can make adolescents less capable of logical behaviors are needed. The success of Kerala and societal issues. reasoning than adults. Internet remains an active Maharashtra programs of de-radicalizing indicates Research in this critical area continues to shed new vector for violent radicalisation. how community-based programs may work in light. Different models have been suggested, and it is At the primary level, what are the chances of vulnerable states. Let us not forget that disaffected clear that feelings of discrimination can evoke parents identifying the personality changes? Angry, youth with no real job prospects and limited futures radical thoughts and actions. The New York Police alienated youth can be easily ideologically driven. are vulnerable. The war on terror is to be countered Department Study of 2007 has explained various Radicalisation leads in adopting a (new) identity or more in the human mind, and requires different stages of the process of radicalisation-pre- self-image. Personal growth is also an important push skills and tactics. radicalisation, self-identification, indoctrination and factor. (The author is Deputy Director, Institute of Correctional jihadization stages. The first stage occurs when While interviewing one such radicalized person in Administration) COMMENT Thruway Authority Must Withdraw the Prof I.S.Saluja Unreasonable , Unjust and Usurious "Violation Fee" he state Thruway Authority proposed the first toll increases Authority of NY/NJ is a worrisome to impose for late payment of tolls. bills. Next, the Governor may Tfor the newly opened Gov. Mario issue. At present, a violation fee of Secondly,the penalties should have been reconsider the whole issue of "Violation M. Cuomo Bridge, with the cost growing $100.00 is imposed for a delay in a e reasonable, not the way these are that fee" and decide afresh on a reasonable from $4.75 to $5.75 by 2022 for E-Z Pass payment, regardless of the amount of a toll of $1.25 invites a "violation fee" of and just penalty as in the case of users. The news has been well received, toll. It is ridiculous to be imposing $100.00. violations in other departments, without anybody feeling unhappy over $100.00 "violation fee" on a toll bill of On behalf of the people who have including DMV. the increase. The Thruway Authority $1.25. been hit hard by the unreasonable and We very strongly feel the present has given ample notice to users of the Many did not get to know what the unjust "violation fee", we urge Governor "Violation Fee" structure is painful, Bridge. "violation fee" is. Public is largely Cuomo to order discontinuation of the unreasonable, unjust and usurious, and While nobody will mind this increase, unaware of the fee. In the first place, imposition of the present "Violation fee needs to be demolished with one stroke the present structure of" violations fee " the Thruway Authority should have ". Also, Governor is requested to waive of Governor Cuomo's pen. being imposed by Bridges and Tunnels first publicized any penalty it proposed the "Violation fee" imposed on all toll THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 PERSPECTIVE 9 Had Gandhi lived longer, he would've made it count

action, he would have devoted himself to the following main, but broadly interconnected, issues. He would have concerned himself with the trauma By Amitabha that followed Partition which even he could not avert. Gandhi's healing touch would have been crucial in Bhattacharya settling the millions of refugees and simultaneously addressing the question of Hindu-Muslim amity, the Gandhi would have concerned himself with the proper resolution of which at that point of time would trauma that followed Partition. His healing have perhaps avoided the latter-day conflicts within the touch would have been crucial in settling the country and without. Being incapable of hatred, Gandhi alone had the moral authority and stature to negotiate millions of refugees and addressing the key this vexed problem at a time when the passions were raw. question of Hindu-Muslim amity, the proper He would have perhaps worked steadfastly to resolution of which at that time would have reforming Hinduism from within, as Swami Vivekananda and others had sought to do earlier. Pre- perhaps avoided the latter-day conflicts in the Pragmatist: Gandhi would have allowed the government to be country. Independence, he waged a relentless battle against the run by Nehru, Patel, Azad and Ambedkar as long as it ran as evil of untouchability. Regarding it as a greatest blot on per the Constitution's letter and spirit. n a letter to his friend Acharya Satish Chandra Hinduism which "has sinned in giving sanction to Mukherjee, Gandhi wrote, "May you attain the full untouchability," he had once said, "If it is proved to me not receive any attention would be simplistic, but Ispan of 125 years, which I may not attain for lack of that this is an essential part of Hinduism, I for one would relative neglect there was, mainly because there was no equanimity prescribed for it in the Gita... I am trying declare myself an open rebel against Hinduism itself." constituency developed in our electoral democracy to hard to reach that state." While untouchability has been abolished by law, it may demand such universal services. Had Gandhi lived, he That was not to be. An assassin's bullets cut short his still take time for it to be erased entirely from the psyche would have created a national consensus on this score. holy life, a few months after India attained of many an individual. I would love to guess, based on The establishment of IITs, large public sector independence. He was in good health and fully active. It Gandhi's belief that pure Hinduism brooks no inequality, undertakings for core sectors, multi-purpose projects on can be reasonably assumed that he would have lived a that he would have started working against oppressive major rivers and national-level scientific laboratories decade or even more. If that were so, it would be an casteism, widely prevalent even today, the brunt of was crucial, as Nehru envisioned. Gandhi would have interesting mind game to guess what he would have which is borne by a very large segment of our ensured at least equal priority accorded to meeting basic engaged himself with and how that would have impacted population. He once said, "I do not believe in caste in the health and education needs for all citizens. A drastic the course of our national regeneration. modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on reduction of poverty, the attainment of a much higher Gandhi (1869-1948) in all likelihood would have been progress." Gandhi alone could have made a decisive level of human development indicators and containment awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948, as Rajinder Singh impress in this direction. of unsustainable migration from rural to urban areas in his book on the subject has discussed. Though that Local self-government associated with decentralized would have been a reality if the bottom-up approach of would have made hardly any difference to Gandhi; he planning would have been the cornerstone of our planning had been practiced from the early fifties. would have perhaps used the money for constructive development model. In our anxiety for centralized As Gandhi's "harmonious vision was directed towards activities dear to his heart. 'The Disobedient Indian', as planning - which was indeed necessary at that phase of a true revolution of values", as Jahanbegloo reminds us, noted political philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo writes in our development - the ideas of panchayati raj were he would have committed to gender justice and a book of this name, discussing the Gandhian largely neglected. Even decades after constitutional protection of the environment. "If non-violence is the philosophy of resistance, would have encouraged those amendments, progress in this front has been painfully law of our being, the future is with the women." He "struggling for democratic swaraj to increase peace and slow. Issues of poor health and sanitation, low levels of would have also been critical of the powerful state nonviolence in the public realm." literacy, high infant mortality, degradation of seeking to undermine dissent, as he believed, Being a pragmatist par excellence, he would have environment, and subordination of women, especially in "Discontent is a very useful thing. As long as a man is allowed the government to be run by Nehru, Patel, Azad, villages, could have been much better addressed through contended with his present lot, so long is it difficult to Ambedkar and others - with his role being largely local self-governance. This has largely been an area of persuade him to come out of it. Therefore, it is that every confined to dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Gandhi darkness which Gandhi would have illuminated. reform must be preceded by discontent." We may well knew their mind and of the way the Constitution was He would have fought relentlessly for universal remember it, as long as we know such discontent is for shaping up. As long as the government ran as per its primary education and basic health for all, demanding sustained public good and not accompanied with letter and spirit, Gandhi wouldn't have perhaps much higher budgetary allocations for these sectors. To violence. interfered much. It can be surmised that, being a man of impute that in the first few Plan periods these sectors did (The author is a former bureaucrat)

They are in the form of wooden logs reaction as we approached the subject of compliment except with a nod and as a A Happy nailed to hold the stones firmly and cleaning the washrooms, the office and man of very few words, he largely plastic sheets to prevent scratches.The maintaining the 80000 sft warehouse. I communicated in mono syllables. Pravin constant movement of trucks and hardly expected him to accomplish all needed no compliments or motivation. Impression forklifts provided additional challenges the above but if he could manage some He motivated others and believed in in our ability to maintain the level of portions of his duties, it would be challenging his limits hygiene we desired. commendable. Once I had called him to my office, I still recollect the first day when He seemed unperturbed and his complimented him for the excellent work Pravin walked into our office on a expression hardly changed. This of and attempted to tip him with a $50 bill. colleagues recommendation and he course, reinforced my confidence that he He simply shrugged and proudly refused. could barely speak Hindi let alone would probably last for a week or so. His reaction" Kyu ?", meaning "why?" English. That week, I hardly got a chance to and I was not sure how to handle that. By Devraj Aiyar At 60+ his age not exactly working to interact with Pravin as he would report His heart full of pride, his expression his advantage, his trait and demeanor to the warehouse supervisor but would hardly changed as he turned around and s we look around us, we find folks none of which suggested that he would occasionally catch a glimpse of him walked away. amidst us who are simply be able to do even a reasonable job of pushing the small cart to accumulate and I tucked the $50 bill back into my Aamazing and unique. maintaining such a large space. More so transport the debris into dumpsters.It wallet Pravin Chandra still works at our In 2019, I had the fortune to meet a few considering the mess at the warehouse, was the middle of winter and he would office. Most days, as I park outside the but let me share my experience with one and the amount of debris we collect in be dressed in a flimsy Tshirt chewing on office, I catch a glimpse of Pravin person Pravin Chandra, who works at the form of wood, sawdust and plastic his tobacco.Upon asking, he came with pushing the handcart ahead of him our office as a cleaner. every single day. "the work keeps me warm" chewing on his tobacco. I make a feeble We are in the Stone business and It was perhaps, sheer desperation to Lo and behold, this man transformed attempt to catch his eye but he hardly import different kinds of natural stones find someone on that particular day as our warehouse within a fortnight. ever acknowledges me, all focus on the such a granite, marble and various types we had to fire the last person at that job Since the inception of the Company, task ahead of him. I mutter a silent good of artificially made engineered stones. and the mess was piling up, that we went we had never arrived at this level of morning. The stones are susceptible to ahead and Pravin became part of our hygiene. I couldn't believe my eyes one Pravin Chandra was busy and that breakages and hence a large amount of Company. day,when I walked into the warehouse as department of our Company was in able packing materials is used to bind and I still recollect the first day as I took every nook and corner was devoid of hands. hold them together in containers. him around and curiously watched his dust. He would barely acknowledge any THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 SOUTH ASIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

FLASH FLOODS KILL NINE IN INDONESIA Pakistan govt dismisses reports of MEDAN (TIP): Flash floods and landslides have killed at least nine four-fold pay hike for Imran Khan people and forced thousands into temporary shelters on Indonesia's KARACHI (TIP): The cash-strapped Sumatra island, the local disaster Pakistan government has dismissed as agency said January 30. "baseless" reports of Prime Minister Torrential rain in North Sumatra Imran Khan getting a near-four-fold hike this week sparked the disaster, with in salary, according to media reports. most victims drowning or hit by logs The clarification was issued after swept away in the current, the agency news reports claimed the prime added. minister's gross salary would be "We suspect (two victims) were increased from Rs 2,01,574 to around Rs killed after getting hit by logs," said 8,00,000. Safaruddin Ananda Nasution, head of "At a time when the prime minister Central Tapanuli's disaster mitigation was carrying out a campaign to slash the agency. government's expenditures, the Rampant illegal logging in the area propagation of such a baseless and may have contributed to the disaster concocted news report was by loosening the soil and making it unfortunate," the Prime Minister's susceptible to landslides, he added. Office spokesperson was quoted as Several thousand residents have fled saying by Dawn News. to shelters. — AFP Khan recently said he could not manage his household expenses from Nepal sets record for his official salary, the report said. highest altitude "We have reduced the expenses of the Prime Minister House by 40 per cent. I Khan said his trip was sponsored by In August 2018, Pakistan approached fashion show live in my own home, pay my own two businessmen. the International Monetary Fund for a KATHMANDU (TIP): : Nepal has expenses. My (official) salary is not According to The News, Khan earned bailout package after the Khan set an all new Guinness World Record enough to cover the expenses of my own Rs 1,96,979 after deductions, as per his government took over. for the highest altitude fashion show household," Khan said. February 2019 pay slip. The IMF formally approved the USD 6 event ever held. The Mount Everest He has also claimed that his foreign The Pakistan government has been billion loan to Pakistan in July 2019, Fashion Runway, organised by RB visits have cost the exchequer 10 times implementing austerity measures to citing "significant" economic challenges. Diamonds and KASA Style in support less than his predecessors. improve the country's finances. In July Pakistan has so far received billions in of Nepal Tourism Board, was held at Khan said his visit to Switzerland last year, Pakistan registered a currency financial aid packages from friendly 5340 metres elevation at Kala Patthar, earlier in the month for the World reserve of less than USD 8 billion— countries like China, Saudi Arabia and near the Everest base camp on Economic Forum was the "cheapest" by enough to cover only 1.7 months of the UAE during the current fiscal year. January 26. The event was part of the a Pakistani state leader. imports. — PTI Visit Nepal Year 2020 campaign of the Nepal Tourism Board. Models from Two Rohingya women various parts of the world participated 5 mountaineers to attempt winter in the show. PTI killed as Myanmar army 11die in factory fire Everest climb shells village YANGON (TIP): Two women, one LAHORE (TIP): At least 11 people, KATHMANDU (TIP): Three Spanish depend on the weather. Until today pregnant, were killed and seven other including two women and minors, mountaineers and two Germans are (Sunday), whether in the Everest region people injured after Myanmar troops were killed in a fire caused by an embarking on a daring mission to climb is good,” said Sherpa. He said that in shelled a Rohingya village on February explosion of a gas cylinder at a Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, winter the days are shorter and the 1, according to a lawmaker and a perfume factory in Shahdara area of in winter—a feat that has not been done nights longer and cold, making climbing villager, two days after the UN’s highest Lahore on January 28. since 1993. harder. Everest witnesses some of the court ordered the country to protect the Two others were critically injured in Alex Txikon, Oscar Cardo, Jonatan strongest winds at this time of the year, minority. the incident. The fire that engulfed the GarcÃ-a headed to Everest Base Camp with temperatures regularly reaching - Maung Kyaw Zan, a national member whole building caused its roof to on Sunday, ready to start their climb 36 degrees Celsius. It can drop as low as - of Parliament for Buthidaung township collapse and damaged the structure next week, the director of Outware 60 C. Winter climbing permits last until in northern Rakhine state, said shells located adjacent to it. PTI Treks & Expeditions, Pemba Sherpa, the end of February. fired from a nearby battalion hit Kin told Efe news. “The team of Sherpa, also Besides the Spanish trio, German Taung village in the middle of the night. Shah Rukh’s Pak known as Icefall doctor, has opened the climbers Jost Kobusch and Hug Daniel Government troops have been battling cousin dies route up to Camp I (6,000 m) that passes are also tackling the slopes of Everest, ethnic rebels in the state for more than a through the Khumbu Icefall,” he said. Rabin Neupane, the director of Satori year. Peshawar (TIP): Noor Jehan, a The trio has already climbed Mt Ama Adventures, told Efe. "There was no fighting, they just shot cousin of Bollywood superstar Shah Dablam (6,812 m) as part of The pair has moved down to Base artillery to a village without a battle," he Rukh Khan, passed away in Peshawar, acclimatisation training. Camp at 5,380 m after reaching Camp II told Reuters by phone, adding it was the a media report on January 28 quoted a The Khumbu Icefall, located between (6,400 m) as part of their acclimatization, second time this year that civilians had family member as saying. Everest Base Camp and Camp I, is the Neupane said. been killed. Jehan’s younger brother, Mansoor most treacherous section of the route, The Germans are not using climbing The military denied responsibility, Ahmed, confirmed the news of her where giant slabs of ice loom and aids, such as ropes and ladders, and are blaming the rebels who they said death to Geo News, saying she had sometimes break off. also without supplemental oxygen. attacked a bridge in the early hours of been fighting cancer for some time. “As the Spanish have completed their “They have not announced the date to the morning. Jehan, a paternal cousin of the acclimatization on Mt Ama Dablam, they climb, but are waiting the right time More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims leading Indian film actor, resided in will not begin their climb as soon as they that’s good weather window,” said were forced to flee northern Rakhine Mohallah Shah Wali Qataal area close reach the Everest Base Camp,” said Neupane. The last winter ascent, state in 2017 after a military crackdown to Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazaar. Sherpa. “They will not use supplemental according to Nepal’s Tourism that the U.N has said was executed with Mian Zulfiqar, a former town council oxygen.” It will be the trio’s third Department records, was completed by genocidal intent. member and Jehan’s neighbour, also attempt at the challenge after failed Japan’s Shinsuke Ezuka on December More recently,the region was plunged confirmed her death, the report said attempts in 2016 and 2017. 20, 1993. Krzysztof Wielicki of Poland into further chaos by fresh fighting without giving her age. — PTI In 2017, the climbers reached Camp IV first climbed Everest in the dead of between the military and the Arakan (8,000 m), but had to return due to the winter on February 17, 1980. The peak Army, a rebel group that recruits from weather. sees the highest number of climbers the mostly Buddhist majority in the “Their luck this year, obviously, will during the spring. — IANS state. Reuters THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 11 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 US FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 Thousands Fill Streets of America during India's Republic Day Celebration to Protest CAA and NRC the Indian American Muslim Council, Hindus for Human Rights, Equity Labs, Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha of New York, Black Lives Matter and the Jewish Voice for Peace. Washington, Houston, San Francisco and Chicago witnessed the similar protests. Over several hundred people assembled outside the Indian Consulates and chanted slogans against CAA.The largest gathering of anti-CAA protestors was reported from Chicago where Indian Americans gathered in large numbers and formed several mile-long human chains. In Washington DC, more than 500 Indian Americans marched from a park near the White House to the Gandhi Statue in front of the Indian Embassy. A large group protested CAA and NCR in front of the Indian Consulate in New York Protesters at Harvard University Across the protest locations, protesters waved hundreds of Indian national flags CONTD FROM PAGE 1 Muslim majority countries of Pakistan, widespread protests in the USA as well. and sang patriotic Indian songs, San Francisco, Houston, Indianapolis, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Protesters In New York people from all age groups, including India's national anthem and Minnesota, Detroit, Wichita, Bay Area, called it violative of the secular Indian backgrounds, castes, and religions saare jahan se achchha, the iconic song and Seattle. Citizenship Amendment Act constitution as it excludes Muslims. CAA gathered in front of Indian Consulate on penned by poet Iqbal. In several places, (CAA) would be providing a path to coupled with a plan to implement a Jan 26 during the Republic Day protesters publicly read out the Preamble Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, nationwide counting of citizenship celebration. The New York protest was to the Indian constitution and raised Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian (National Register of Citizens or NRC) by part of nationwide protests and marches banners against Prime Minister Modi, religious minorities from the neighboring Modi government has triggered organized by the recently formed Home Minister Amit Shah, the ruling Coalition to Stop Genocide - a broad Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its coalition of Indian Americans and US- ideological parent, the Rashtriya based civil rights organizations such as Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

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Trump's Advisory Commission on AsianAmericans and Pacific Islanders at the White House in celebration of the Lunar New Year. KeyAdministration officials speaking at the event included co-chairs of the White House Initiativeon Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders U. S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao andU.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia also gaveremarks. This is VP Pence (4th from left) is with cabinet members and the new commissioners. Prem Parameswaran is 8th from the left. the first time that there were three Cabinet members present for the work of thisInitiative and saw not only the lowest unemployment in grateful for the opportunity tomark this swearing-inof the Commissioners with Commissioners to further the 50 years, but also thelowest important holiday and its traditions." the Vice President. advancement of opportunities for Asian unemployment ever for Asian The members of the President's In addition, the special new postage PacificAmericans." Americans. I wish all an even more Advisory Commission on Asian stamp commemorating the Year of the U. S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross prosperous year tocome." Americans and Pacific Islanderswho took Golden Rat wasunveiled by Chairman of said, "It was my pleasure to participate in Chairman of the President's Advisory their oath of office at the event include: the U. S. Postal Service Board of today's LunarNew Year celebration with Commission Dr. Paul Hsu said, "There ● Dr. Paul S. Hsu of Florida Governors Robert M. "Mike" Duncanat a everyone involved in the newly re- are so many thingswe can and should do ● Congresswoman Amata C. special stamp dedication ceremony. established White House Initiativeon for our community to bring the Radewagen of American Samoa Vice President of the United States Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. opportunities and prosperities to ● Rev. Herman Martir of Texas Mike Pence said, "This year we've got a We look forward to working with all of AsianAmericans and Pacific Islanders, ● Governor Eddie Calvo of Guam lot to celebrate. I'mproud to report that you inbuilding a prosperous future for helping them to realize achieving the ● Ms. Doris Flores Brooks of Guam under the leadership of President Donald everyone in this wonderful community." American Dream ispossible for ● Ms. Grace Y. 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(Press Release) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 INDIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 AIR INDIA PLANE WITH 324 INDIANS EVACUATED FROM India to grow 6-6.5% next WUHAN LANDS IN DELHI NEW DELHI (TIP): Air India’s jumbo B747 plane, year: Economic Survey evacuating 324 Indian nationals from the novel coronavirus-hit Wuhan in China, landed here on Deepak Dwivedi Saturday morning, officials said. The plane reached Delhi around 7.30 am, they said. NEW DELHI (TIP): India's There were five doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia economic growth is expected to (RML) Hospital and one paramedical staff on board, "strongly rebound" to 6-6.5 per cent said an Air India spokesperson. in 2020-21 from 5 per cent estimated The evacuees from Wuhan comprised three minors, in the current fiscal, the Economic 211 students and 110 working professionals, the Survey said on Friday, adding that spokesperson said. the government with a strong The Army has set up a quarantine facility in mandate has the capacity to Manesar near Delhi to keep those evacuated from expedite reforms. China’s Hubei province. The Economic Survey 2019-20 Officials said they would be monitored for any signs tabled in Parliament said there are of infection for two weeks by a qualified team of tentative signs of bottoming out of doctors and staff members. slowdown in manufacturing “With 324 passengers, special flight has taken off for activity and global trade, which will India from Wuhan. It may reach Delhi at 7.30 am,” have a positive impact on growth in said the Air India spokesperson at 1.19 am on the next fiscal. Saturday. The government's thrust on The flight had departed from Delhi airport at 1.17 affordable housing, Make in India, Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian. pm on Friday to evacuate Indian nationals from reduction in corporate tax rate, and China, where more than 250 people - none of them improvement in ease of doing On a net assessment of both the rebound of industrial activity, Indian - have died due to novel coronavirus. business, besides others factors, downside/upside risks, it said steady improvement in On Friday evening, the Air India spokesperson had will help in boosting economic "India’s GDP growth is expected to manufacturing, growth in stated that another special flight might take off from growth, it said. grow in the range of 6 to 6.5 per cent merchandise exports, higher build- Delhi airport on Saturday to evacuate Indians from However, it has also cautioned in 2020-21." up of foreign exchange reserves and Wuhan. that continued global trade On 2019-20 GDP, it said the positive growth rate of GST revenue The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak problems, escalation in US-Iran estimate of 5 per cent growth collection. in China has risen to 259 with total confirmed cases geopolitical tensions, and weak suggests an uptick in expansion in The document also emphasised surging to 11,791 amid stepped-up efforts by a number economic recovery in advanced the second half of 2019-20. that merger of public sector banks of countries to evacuate their nationals from Hubei economies are the downside risk The survey also stresses that may increase the financial strength province, the epicentre of the virus, officials said on which have the potential to drag deceleration in GDP growth can be of the merged entities, lower the Saturday. down the growth. understood within the framework of risk aversion and result in lowering "On a net assessment, it appears a slowing cycle of growth. The of lending rates. Jamia shooting: Delhi court that the upside risks should prevail, financial sector has acted as a drag Further, as the implementation of particularly when the government, on the real sector. GST further settles down, the sends gunman to 14-day with a strong mandate, has the The survey said that the uptick in increased unification of the capacity to deliver expeditiously on second half of 2019-20 would be domestic market may reduce protective custody reforms. mainly due to 10 positive factors like business costs and facilitate fresh "GDP growth of India should picking up of Nifty India investment. NEW DELHI (TIP): The 17-year-old youth who strongly rebound in 2020-21 and Consumption Index for the first time Reforms in land and labour fired at students of the Jamia Millia Islamia more so on a low statistical base of 5 this year, an upbeat secondary market may further reduce business university during an anti-Citizenship Amendment per cent growth in 2019-20," said the market, higher FDI flows, build-up costs, said the survey, presented a Act (CAA) protest on Thursday, was sent to 14-day survey tabled by Finance Minister of demand pressure, positive day before Sitharaman's Union protective custody by a Delhi court on Friday. Nirmala Sitharaman. outlook for rural consumption, Budget 2020-21. The youth was earlier produced before the Juvenile Justice Board, PTI reported. Delhi Police sources told NDTV the shooter showed 4 DELHI GANG RAPE CONVICTS PREZ CALLS CAA HISTORIC, "no remorse for his actions", that he had been influenced by social media, TV coverage and GET A REPRIEVE, JUDGE DRAWS OPPN PROTESTS WhatsApp videos, and he wanted to create panic at Shaheen Bagh. "He did not know how to get to CANCELS DEATH WARRANT NEW DELHI (TIP): Hailing the new citizenship Shaheen Bagh. An auto driver dropped him off at law as “historic” and a fulfilment of Mahatma Jamia and told him he could not go to Shaheen Bagh NEW DELHI (TIP): Just 12 hours before the four Gandhi’s wish, President Ram Nath Kovind today as the road is shut. He told him to walk it," a police men who raped a 23-year-old in 2012 were to be led to deprecated violence in the name of protests, saying it officer told NDTV. the gallows at Tihar, a Delhi court on Friday stayed weakened the society and nation, remarks that came On Thursday, protesters and police personnel faced the black warrant for their execution. This was the amid protests against the contentious law. off near the university after the youth fired a pistol at second time that their execution was put off by the The President’s glowing reference to the a group of anti-CAA protesters, injuring a student judge. This time, the judge did not issue a fresh Citizenship (Amendment) Act in his address to a joint before walking away while waving the firearm over warrant for their execution. sitting of Parliament drew protests from Opposition his head shouting "yeh lo aazadi". Several hours earlier, Judge Dharmender Rana had members, many of whom wore black bands, with heard the lawyer of the convicts seek cancellation of some shouting “shame shame”, while BJP MPs the death warrants since the four were yet to exhaust thumped benches in support. The President said the their legal options. One mercy petition is still government enacted the CAA in tune with the wishes pending before the President. of Mahatma Gandhi who had said that Hindus and A little after 5 pm, the judge emerged from his Sikhs who did not wish to live in Pakistan could come chambers to deliver his one-line verdict. “Execution to India. Order Stayed Till Further Orders,” he said. Delivering his 70-minute address in Hindi which In the written order that was made available later, marks the start of the Parliament’s Budget session, the judge ruled that seeking redressal of one’s Kovind pointed out that mutual discussions and grievances through procedures established by law is debates strengthen democracy. “Any kind of violence the hallmark of any civilized society. in the name of protests weakens the society and the “The courts of this country cannot afford to nation,” he said. Condemning the religious adversely discriminate any convict, including death persecution of minorities in Pakistan, he urged upon row convict, in pursuit of his legal remedies, by the global community to take a note of it. turning a Nelson’s eye towards him” the judge He said doing away with Articles 370 and 35(A) had underscored. paved the way for speedy development of Jammu and The convict’s lawyer had cited the prison manual Kashmir and Ladakh. Elections were held for about which says that in a case where more than one person 4,400 panchayats and 300 Block Development has been handed over the death penalty, the Councils, while 24,000 houses were constructed under execution cannot take place unless all the convicts the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in Jammu and have exhausted their legal options. Kashmir, he said. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 WORLD 15

In Egypt, 12-year-old COV TOLL HITS 213, WHO girl dies after genital mutilation DECLARES EMERGENCY CAIRO (TIP): A 12-year-old girl died this week in southern Egypt after her BEIJING (TIP): The death toll in parents brought her to a doctor who China’s coronavirus epidemic spiked to performed female genital mutilation, a 213 and total infections reached 9,692, the criminal practice that remains government said on Friday as the World widespread in the region, according to Health Organisation (WHO) declared the a judicial statement. outbreak that has spread to more than a The girl’s death in the province of dozen countries, including India, as a Assiut prompted Egypt’s public global health emergency. The death toll prosecutor to order the arrests of her rose to 213, mostly of elderly people, after parents and the physician who 43 new deaths all but one in Hubei, the performed the procedure, also known epicentre of the outbreak, China's as female circumcision, said the national health authorities said, adding statement released late January 29 by that 1,982 new cases had been confirmed, the prosecutor’s office. bringing the total to 9,692. “Judges are lenient when it comes to About 20 countries, including India, cases entailing violence against the UK, US, South Korea, Japan and women.” — AP France, have reported confirmed cases of the virus in travellers coming from Russian strikes kill 10 China. The WHO, which held an civilians in Syria’s Idlib emergency meeting in Geneva on Thursday, on declared the outbreak a ARIHA (SYRIA) (TIP): Russian air global health emergency, a rarely used strikes near a bakery and a medical designation that could lead to improved Nations should not overreact: China clinic in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region international co-ordination in tackling killed 10 civilians on Thursday as the disease. “Our greatest concern is the China has said all countries should behave in a ‘responsible’ manner government forces kept up a ground potential for the virus to spread to and avoid overreaction that may result in more negative spillover offensive. countries with weaker health systems," effects. “China is decisively working to control the deadly outbreak of The government and its allies have WHO chief Tedros Adhanom upped their deadly bombardment of Ghebreyesus said as he announced the the novel coronavirus,” Chinese ambassador Chen Xu told reporters in the last major rebel bastion, slowly virus as a Public Health Emergency of Geneva on Friday, insisting there was no need for countries impose chipping away at it from the south. International Concern. — PTI “excessive measures” like border closures. Agencies Rebel-held territory has shrunk to just over half of Idlib province, along with slivers of neighbouring Aleppo and Latakia, following a series of government gains. — AFP Britain cuts loose from EU German nurse accused PM Johnson hails dawn of new era for country of poisoning babies BRUSSELS (TIP): The EU's three chiefs hailed Britain's departure from with morphine the bloc on Friday as "a new dawn for FRANKFURT AM MAIN (TIP): A Europe", warning London would not nurse in Germany has been arrested keep the benefits of membership when it on suspicion of poisoning five leaves. premature babies with morphine, Charles Michel, Ursula von der Leyen police said on January 30, adding that and David Sassoli — the presidents of the infants had survived. the EU Council, European Commission The woman was taken into custody and European Parliament, respectively on Wednesday after investigators — used an open letter published in found a syringe containing breast milk European newspapers to say they would and traces of morphine in her locker do "everything in their power" to make at Ulm university hospital in southern the new relationship with Britain a Germany. success. The babies, who were between one The three EU leaders made clear they day and one month old and staying in would not roll over easily or allow the same hospital room, all suddenly Britain to "have its cake and eat it", developed breathing problems “at insisting Britain could not have full almost the same time” in the early access to the EU market unless it agrees hours of December 20, Ulm police chief to follow European labour, taxation and leaves the EU, it can start negotiating Bernhard Weber said. environmental rules. "How close that Joy, sadness alike trade deals with other countries “Only because of the immediate partnership will be depends on decisions TRUMP AND CHINA: Johnson action taken by the staff could the five The UK left the European Union on that are still to be taken," they wrote. granted Huawei a limited role in lives be saved,” he told a press Friday in a major blow to 70 years of “This is the moment when the dawn Britain’s 5G mobile network on Tuesday, conference. efforts to forge European unity from the breaks and the curtain goes up on a new frustrating a global attempt by the Doctors do not expect the infants to ruins of two world wars. Britons either act. It is a moment of real national Trump-led US to exclude the Chinese suffer any lasting harm. side of the Brexit divide expressed renewal and change," Downing Street telecoms giant from the West's next- The young nurse taken into custody either sadness or delight.For said in a read-out of Prime Minister generation communications. It is has yet to be formally charged but proponents, Brexit is "independence Boris Johnson's address to the nation. — unclear what impact the decision will faces five counts of attempted Agencies day" — an escape from what they cast have on relations with the US — UK's manslaughter, Ulm prosecutor What’s next for uk? as a doomed German-dominated closest ally Christof Lehr said at the same press project that is failing its 500 million ECONOMY: Some businesses are conference. She denies poisoning the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a people. "I voted to leave," said Mark reporting a post-election "Boris bounce" babies, he added. Hospital staff bulging to-do list for what he has cast as Campbell, a 52-year-old writer. "Let's recovery, and finance minister Sajid initially suspected the infants had a “new dawn” for the country. Below are hope it's a success. I mean, also, 50 Javid says he is hopeful UK’s economic caught an infection, “but this could be the biggest issues he has to deal with: years is nothing." "It's a very sad day," growth can bounce back to its pre- ruled out after urine tests”, police TRADE: As soon as the UK formally said Roger Olsen, an engineer. Reuters financial crisis levels of nearly 3% a year. chief Weber said. AFP THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 MALANG: DISHA PATANI & ADITYA ROY KAPUR STARRER GRANTED ‘A’ CERTIFICATE ditya Roy Kapur and Disha Patani starrer Malang happens to be one of Athe most talked about movies which is going to be released this year. The movie has been making a lot of headlines ever since its inception. The release of its trailer has further piqued the interest of the audiences. Now as per the latest media reports, the action thriller has been granted an A certificate by the CBFC. AKSHAY KUMAR’S However, this did not move forward without certain verbal cuts! ‘BELL BOTTOM’ GETS According to the same reports, the makers of Malang have been asked to remove certain scenes from the movie NEW RELEASE DATE where there has been a use of drug – related kshay is one of the busiest actors terms like ‘ecstasy,’ ‘pot,’ and ‘joint.’ The in Bollywood. He announced that board did not have any issue with the ABell Bottom will now release on intimate scenes though which have been April 2, 2021. He joked that there were filmed between Disha and Aditya. Other enough memes about his films clashing at than that, the makers have also been the box office with each other. directed to anti – drug tickers along with Meanwhile, Akshay has now confirmed rhyming messages in few scenes from the two films in 2021 already. Bell Bottom is movie. said to be set in the '80s and will be "a As per the reports, a particular scene roller-coaster spy ride". Actress Mrunal involving a religious symbol also fell under Thakur is expected to play the lead the board’s radar and has been instructed to opposite Akshay in Bell Bottom. be chopped off from the movie. The makers Another poster of Bell Bottom was also have been instructed to add a disclaimer unveiled as the film's new release date during the filming which will contain a was announced. In the hues of sepia, the message that the characters of Malang do Akshay can be seen donning a coffee not support any kind of violence or brown blazer and matching trousers atrocities against women. Talking about the along with dark shades and big movie, it also features Kunal Kemmu and moustache in the vintage looking poster Anil Kapoor in pivotal roles. Malang has of Bell Bottom. As he poses in front of a been directed by Mohit Suri and is slated to red vintage car, a flight is seen taking off be released on February 7, 2020. behind him amid grim and dark clouds. SUNNY LEONE SAYS SHE HAS NO EGO, WILL ‘SERVE CHAI’ ON HER SETS IF NECESSARY roducing movies is a natural progression for many actors Pin the film industry, and Sunny Leone is set to step into that phase of her career. The 38-year-old actor is turning a producer, and will soon begin shooting of her film. "I'm right in the middle of a project which will go on floors this year. I'm ALAYA F WAS REJECTED excited. It doesn't have a social message. It is a fiction; a SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE psychological thriller," shares Sunny. JAWAANI JAANEMAN She further adds, "In Bollywood, unless you're a Salman, Aamir or ne more star kid is entering the entertainment Shah Rukh (Khan) or one of those industry and as usual, the expectations are sky- people making these huge films, a Ohigh. We are talking about Pooja Bedi's daughter lot of films have to fit into a certain and Kabir Bedi's granddaughter Alaya F, who is gearing budget. If the budget is under my up for her Bollywood debut with Saif Ali Khan and control and the story is also under Tabu starrer, Jawaani Jaaneman, which is set to hit my control, then I can never say that screens this Friday.The promo and songs have received it was the producer or the director's a positive feedback from the audience and we are fault. I want to test that theory on expecting the film to take a decent start at the box office. my own." need to go and we have the right Besides her production, Sunny is Looking at the promo, we believe Alaya has the spark The actor along with her people in place. I have no ego. If I also looking at her various acting and we are hoping she will impress us with her acting husband, Daniel Weber, is closely have to go and serve chai to projects, this year. "There is one skills. In a recent interview with Filmfare, the 22-year- working on the project. She says somebody on my films' sets, I would action project, one drama and there old actress revealed that despite being a star kid, she that the finance is being handled by do it. For me, everyone is equal, is also one father-daughter story. So was never approached for a film and got rejected them. until they show me that they are not there is a variety of work coming several times. "I got rejected several times, then, was "We usually do see a turn of a nice person. The production and my way both in films and web lucky enough to bag this film. I'm glad that I got profit. That's extremely exciting the shooting of the film will be projects and you can enter different rejected and grateful my debut is happening with Saif because we know exactly where we interesting," she says. spaces you want," she says. Sir and Tabu ma'am." THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 HOLLYWOOD 17 A YEAR ON, MILEY CYRUS AND LIAM HEMSWORTH FINALIZE THEIR DIVORCE

iley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have finalized Mtheir divorce 13 months after they tied the knot. The former couple were officially declared single on Tuesday, according to new legal documents obtained by PEOPLE. THE BATMAN There were no “community property assets or liabilities” created during their marriage and neither Hemsworth or BEGINS FILMING Cyrus is seeking spousal support, according to the court papers. att Reeves' The Batman has The documents cited “irreconcilable differences” as the started production. The DC reason for the split. Msuperhero movie is a reboot of Attorneys for both Cyrus, 27, and Hemsworth, 30, did not the Batman franchise and is expected to immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. bear no connection to Ben Affleck's The former couple is believed to have come to a settlement Batman. last month. A source told PEOPLE in December that Cyrus We do not know the specifics, but the was “relieved that she and Liam reached an agreement film will be a standalone movie, not when it comes to the divorce,” adding “She just wants to related to anything in the rest of the DC move on.” film universe. It will likely not be an Cyrus and Hemsworth got married in December 2018 with origin movie. Reeves has said that the The Hunger Games star filing for divorce just months later film will focus on Batman’s detective in August. skills, something which has not been Since the split, both Cyrus and Hemsworth have both explored in detail yet. moved on. “I really like Matt Reeves and his set A source previously told PEOPLE that Cyrus’ new up. I mean it’s an interesting direction. relationship with Cody Simpson is going “great,” adding, It’s something from the comics which “They had a wonderful Christmas day with her family.They hasn’t been really explored yet,” are also talking about an Australia trip next year. Miley Pattinson told Variety last month. seems very happy.” The film has accumulated an Over the weekend, Hemsworth and his new girlfriend adding that they were “getting serious.” impressive cast of characters. Apart Gabriella Brooks were seen grabbing a bite to eat in Malibu, Cyrus and Hemsworth, who met in 2009 on the set of from Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, it California. The sighting comes after the pair were spotted Nicholas Sparks’ romantic drama The Last Song, had a stars Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul packing on the PDA during a trip to Hemsworth’s home rocky, on-again, off-again relationship for years before he Dano as Riddler, Andy Serkis as Alfred country Australia. proposed in 2012. Pennyworth, Colin Farrell as Penguin “Liam and Gabriella have spent a lot of time in Australia The two ended their engagement and broke up a year later, and Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon. together,” a source previously told PEOPLE of the duo, before reconciling in 2015. Pamela Anderson marries JESSICA SIMPSON TO RELEASE FIRST for the fifth time NEW MUSIC IN NEARLY A DECADE ormer Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has tied the knot for a Ffifth time, to hairdresser-turned- Hollywood mogul Jon Peters. The actor and animal rights activist wed Batman producer Peters on Monday, more than three decades after the pair first dated. "They were married yesterday in a private ceremony in Malibu. They love each other very much," a source connected to the couple told AFP. Penning a lovestruck statement in the form of a poem after the nuptials, Anderson dubbed Peters "the original 'bad boy' of Hollywood." "No one compares -- I love him deeply like family," Anderson wrote to The books icon back to the screen in 2006's Hollywood Reporter. Canadian-born Superman Returns. He was co-chairman ew Jessica Simpson music is on beautiful and hopefully inspiring to Anderson, 52, has previously been of Columbia Pictures for a stint in the the way! While promoting her people." married to rockers Tommy Lee and Kid 1990s. Nupcoming memoir, Open Book, "I’ve never felt more inspired," Rock. She twice wed professional poker Peters told THR: "There are beautiful the 39-year-old singer revealed that, in Simpson adds. "There is power in the player Rick Salomon. girls everywhere. I could have my pick, conjunction with the book's release, truth." The upcoming songs will mark More recently she dated French soccer but -- for 35 years -- I've only wanted she'll also drop six new songs that tell Simpson's first foray into music since star Adil Rami, with whom she lived in Pamela." Peters reportedly first met her story. The songs will be included on 2010, when she released Happy France. Peters, 74, a former hair stylist, Anderson at the Playboy Mansion in the the memoir's audio book, which Christmas. rose to Hollywood prominence after a 1980s, and proposed to her shortly after. Simpson narrated herself. During a 2015 interview with Today, high-profile romance with Barbra But until recently the pair had grown "It’s been a long hard deep emotional Simpson teased that she would Streisand, going on to produce her 1976 apart -- when asked about their journey, one that I’ve come through the "absolutely" return to music someday. version of A Star Is Born. relationship in an interview with THR in other side with pure happiness and "That's how I started, and that's one of He subsequently oversaw the Tim 2017, Peters said: "You'll have to do your fulfillment and acceptance of myself," my biggest passions in the world," she Burton Batman films in the 1980s and research. I can't even remember she tells People. "I’ve used my pain and said at the time. "I love to use my voice." 1990s, and brought another DC comic anymore." turned it into something that can be Open Book will hit shelves Feb. 4. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 THEATER 19 Cinematters/JCC host NY Social Justice Film Festival on MLK Weekend By Mabel Pais "TOGETHER WITH OUR COMMUNITY, THE MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO CONNECT, GROW, AND LEARN WITHIN AN EVER-CHANGING JEWISH LANDSCAPE." - JCC MISSION STATEMENT "THE MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN IMAGINES JEWISH LIFE THAT IS DIVERSE AND ENGAGES MEANINGFULLY WITH ITS VALUES, CULTURE, AND IDEAS IN EVERYDAY LIVES." -JCC, VISION STATEMENT "WE BELIEVE IN ACCESSIBILITY." "WE STRIVE TO Steve Harmon in Opening Night 'All Rise.' CREATE AN INCLUSIVE AND ACCOMMODATING ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND ABILITIES WITH 'Slay the Dragon,' Dirs. Barak Goodman and Chris OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH AND CONNECTION." - Durrance, 101 min|Documentary, Sat, Jan 18, 7:30 pm @ A JCC CORE VALUE JCC The First 'Cinematters: NY Social Justice' Film Festival A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative Harriet Tubman in Closing Night 'Harriet to honor MLK weekend was held January 16-20 primarily launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our at the Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center democracy. Slay the Dragon follows everyday people as (JCC), Manhattan. they fight to make their votes matter. Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival presented Thirst for Justice, Dir. Leana Hosea, East Coast impactful films to engage the community toward a more Premiere, 70 min | Documentary, Sun, Jan 19, 2 pm democratic, inclusive, and just society. The festival @ JCC explored various themes of social inequality, injustice, In the face of official denial and repression, and responsibility. Through films, special events, and extraordinary citizens fight for clean water. Can they conversations, the Festival aims to inspire participants to succeed? reflect and take action and to create a community of civic- 'We Are the Radical Monarchs,' Dir. Linda minded individuals eager to make a collective change. In Goldstein Knowlton, 97 min |Documentary, Sat, Jan the spirit of Dr. King's legacy, our ultimate goal is to 18, 2 pm @ JCC promote social action that leads to positive change in our The Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color society and beyond. at the front lines of social justice in Oakland, was started Anti-Gerrymandering Leader, Katie at Town Hall, in 'Slay The Dragon.' Photos / Courtesy JCC/CAVU PR The following is the list of films shown each day - by two fierce queer women of color. We follow them as they face the challenge to grow the organization, before Shabbat Shabbang, at the JCC, is held approximately Opening Night | 'All Rise,' followed by the Opening and after the 2016 election. once a month on Saturday nights. Night Reception, Thu, Jan 16, 7 pm @ JCC. Dir. Anthony 'The All-Americans,' Dir. Billy McMillin, 98 min | R&R refers to Rest and Relaxation, an exercise and Mandler; Writers: Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, Janece Documentary, Sun, Jan 19, 4:30 pm @ JCC rejuvenation practice was held on Saturday 2-5 p.m. This Shaffer; 98 min | Narrative Every year, in the nation's largest Latino immigrant was free and open to all. You don't need to be a member. "Monster" is what the prosecutor calls 17-year-old community, a game between the country's fiercest high Suitable for adults and children, this day included films honors student and aspiring filmmaker Steve Harmon, school football rivals draws over 25,000 spectators. The All- and artists, storytelling, the Peace of Heart Choir, social charged with felony murder.But is Steve really a monster? Americans follows four players struggling to find their justice text study, art, yoga, musical performances, Adapted from the best-selling novel 'Monster' by Walter place in today's America, as they prepare to play in the discussions, panels, open play,and more. Dean Myers. East LA Classic. At other times at the JCC, R&R is held every Saturday,2- 'Always in Season,' Dir. Jacqueline Olive, 90 min | True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality, 5 p.m. throughout the winter (November to March), every Documentary,Fri, Jan 17, 12:30pm and Sun, Jan 19, 4:30pm Dir. Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt + Teddy year. Claudia Lacy moves from paralyzing grief to leading Kunhardt, 101 min | Documentary,Mon, Jan 20, 2 pm Cinematters Social Justice Fair, Sun, Jan 19, 12 - 5 pm the fight for justice for her son, Lennon. Lennon's case, @ JCC, Mon, Jan 20, 4:30 pm @ BEDFORD This was an opportunity to speak face-to-face with and the suspicions surrounding it, intersect with stories Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice representatives from community organizations doing of other communities committed to breaking the silence Initiative, advocates on behalf of the condemned, seeking powerful social justice work across a wide variety of of their own recent histories and leading the way to to eradicate racial discrimination. We follow his struggle issues including climate change, housing justice, justice. to create greater fairness and see how racial injustice immigrant and refugee rights, and more! Participants at 'American Muslim,' Dir. Adam Zucker, 82 min | emerged, evolved, and continues to threaten the country. the Festival were invited to plug in, get connected, and Documentary,Fri, Jan 17, 7 pm @ JCC, Fri, Jan 17, 3pm @ Closing Night | Harriet, Dir. Kasi Lemmons, take action. IFP Writers: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons, 125 MLK Morning of Advocacy and Service: Documentary In the initial 18-month battle over the Muslim ban, five min | Narrative Storytelling with 'Great Big Story,' - Age range: Adults, Muslim-Americans in New York City confront the Age of Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic Sun, Jan 19 Trump. American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the tale of Harriet For the past four years, 'Great Big Story' (GBS) has Film and Shabbat Shabbang 7pm. Film was followed by Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into tackled stories from every corner of the world, while Q&A. one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, offering a platform for voices lacking representation. With 'Changing the Game,' Dir. Michael Barnett, 95 min and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the a focus on inspiring viewers through people, places, food | Documentary, Sat, Jan 18, 5 pm @ JCC course of history.Mon, Jan 20, 5 pm @ JCC and cultures that bring us together, 'Great Big Story' This dynamic documentary takes us into the lives of Pre-film Closing Night Reception 4 pm @ JCC brings a fresh and unique approach to short form. three transgender high school athletes-all at different Special Events Documentary storytelling: Executive Producer Sadie Bass stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique and Supervising Producer Samantha Stamler paths experiencing both success and fierce resistance in Special Events, some free, some paid, were held demonstrated the insightful lesson examining how GBS the world of sports. alongside the film screenings each day. uncovers stories while cutting through the crowded 'Praying With My Legs,' Dir. Steve Brand, US | 27 Shabbat Shabbang, Friday, January 17 night media landscape. min, Sat, Jan 18, 4 pm @ JCC Shabbat Shabbang refers to the Sabbath (Saturday), a From Intention to Action: A Morning of Advocacy Praying with My Legs explores the life, thought and day of rest when certain Jewish rituals are practiced. + Service, MLK Day, Jan 20, 11 am-2 pm transformative impact of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Shabbang is a community celebration dinner on the On MLK Day,a morning of learning, reflection, service, Heschel: scholar, mystic, devout Jew, fervent advocate for Sabbath. This was held on Friday and Saturday nights and action to honor Dr. King's legacy was held. social justice and one of the most powerful voices of the during the Festival. There was a charge to participate. Participation in workshops on how to take action on religious left in the 20th Century. This screening, The JCC dinners, at other times, include films, panels, immigrant rights, environmental justice, racial equity, presenting a 27-minute excerpt of the work-in-progress, and music that inspires social action-taking the spiritual and more; or participation in hands-on service projects, features Heschel's social justice activism and highlights practice of breaking bread together and using the shared including cooking a meal for the B'nai Jeshurun/The his bond with Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for time to explore social justice, history,current and political Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew Homeless Shelter was civil rights and in their mutual opposition to the war in happenings, and other matters of interest to Jewish and encouraged. Vietnam. NYC audiences. contd on Page 30 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 All set for fierce battle in Delhi NEW DELHI (TIP): The fight for Delhi Assembly Election 2020 is getting fiercer with BJP fielding state Yuva Morcha President Sunil Yadav from the New Delhi constituency against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. BJP, which is trying desperately to dethrone Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this time, has SAD TO SUPPORT BJP IN announced the list of 10 candidates so far, while AAP's has already DELHI ASSEMBLY POLLS announced the list of all its NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP and its oldest ally, candidates for the Delhi Assembly Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), seemed to have made up polls. Congress, on the other hand, on Wednesday. BJP president J.P. Nadda went over to has released a list of 61 candidates, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal’s residence here for fielding Romesh Sabharwal against what was a patch-up meeting after the two parties fell Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. out over the seat-sharing for the Delhi Assembly The Congress ruled the mega city election. for three consecutive terms from Addressing a press conference with Badal, Nadda 1998 to 2013. It is for the first time said: “One of the oldest constituents of the BJP-led that it'll go in the Delhi assembly NDA, the SAD has always been at the forefront of polls in alliance with another party, serving society. A strong coalition between the BJP Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). From and the SAD will remain intact.” He also thanked the BJP,prominent among those who've SAD for deciding to support the BJP in Delhi, though got tickets are Delhi BJP its sitting MLA Manjinder Sirsa had been denied spokesperson Tajinderpal Singh ticket. The SAD had supported the Citizenship Bagga from Hari Nagar and BJP's (Amendment) Act in Parliament, but has consistently Purvanchal Morcha president been stating — both in the House and outside — that Manish Singh from Delhi the Muslims should be added to the list of Cantonment. In an unusual twist, communities under the Act. BJP's age-old ally, Shiromani Akali When talks broke down between the BJP and the Dal (SAD), is not contesting along SAD over seat-sharing, Sirsa alleged that this was with the saffron party this time. one of the reasons for the pact being broken. Instead, the BJP has roped in JD (U) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). Backing for CAA The Delhi Assembly election 2020 At the press conference, Badal, however, clarified: will be held on February 8 and the “We never broke our alliance with the BJP. We were results will be announced on just considering the possibility of contesting February 11. It will be a three- separately. We have supported the CAA from the cornered contest this time between The Model Code of Conduct has There are 58 general category seats, beginning and have consistently raised the issue of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), come into effect in Delhi after Chief 12 for SC and none for STs in Delhi persecuted Sikhs in Pakistan and Afghanistan with the BJP and the Congress. Present Election Commissioner Sunil Arora's assembly. According to the chief the NDA government.” Delhi chief minister Arvind announcement on Monday. He also electoral officer (CEO) Delhi Ranbir The SAD had been given three seats in Delhi in the Kejriwal-led AAP saw a thumping said that 90,000 policemen will be Singh, there are a total of 1,46,92,136 last three elections, but was kept out of the alliance win in 2015 Assembly elections with deployed for the smooth conducting (1.46 crore) voters in Delhi this time, with the Janata Dal (United) getting two the party bagging 67 seats, leaving of Delhi election. There are 13,750 comprising 80.55 lakh males and 66.35 seats and the Lok Janshakti Party one. just three (seats) for the BJP. polling stations in Delhi. lakh females.

‘Kejriwal Ka Guarantee Card’ BJP OFFERS CHEAP Is Congress in sleep mode? promises pollution-free city FLOUR, 2-WHEELERS s star campaigners of AAP and BJP are am Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener making headlines and churning controversies Arvind Kejriwal launched the "Kejriwal Ka he Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised Ain an all out attempt to woo voters, the third AGuarantee Card", a 10-point shorter election bicycles and electric scooters to disadvantaged major participant in the poll race is missing in action. manifesto of the party. Tgirls who stay in school and make it to college, The rival leaders are firing salvos clocking overtime The card promises to make Delhi “pollution-free” wheat flour (instead of grain) at Rs2 per kg to but the question that many are asking is, where is the and has fixed an aim to reduce air pollution by three families from the economically weaker section Congress party? times. It also promises to introduce “mohalla (EWS), a new Yamuna riverfront, and insurance and Its manifesto is still at the printers, the campaign in marshals” for women’s safety. health check-ups for cows, in its poll manifesto cold storage and the party in sleep mode. The card also promises 11,000 buses and to increase released on Friday. Better late than early? Metro train lines to over 500 km. The BJP also promised a comprehensive strategy Knowing that it is facing two highly charged up “This is my guarantee to people of Delhi for the to combat air, noise and water pollution in “mission opponents, what is the Congress waiting for? next five years. The manifesto will be launched later mode”. From installing air purifies at traffic Well, the man in the thick of things, PC Chacko does and it will have more things specific for students, junctions to setting up charging stations for electric not agree that the Congress has been slow.He, instead, teachers among others. This will be for everyone,” he vehicles, the party listed measures which it said it feels that the BJP is overdoing it. said. “Opposition is saying many of our schemes will will take to tackle air pollution, which has emerged "The candidate offices are in order and committees be only till March 31, so this is our guarantee that as an annual health crisis in the winter months. are in place, we will roll out our star campaigners these schemes will continue for the next five years,” The Sankalp Patra (vision document) was silent on from 1st February to 6th of February.That is when the he added. “24 hour electricity will continue. 200 units the subsidies in electricity and water bills currently election campaign will be at its peak. We are on time. of free electricity will continue,” he said. given by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which In fact, the BJP is desperate and overdoing it while is seeking to stay in power in the national capital. [Delhi Chief Minister Arvind] Kejriwal is a marketing Releasing the party’s manifesto for the February 8 guru. He is just marketing lies," Chacko told India Delhi elections, Union road transport and highways Today TV. He is the Delhi in-charge of the Congress. minister Nitin Gadkari said that air and water Wonder where the star campaigners are! pollution were two main concerns in the city. Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to The party’s 48-page vision document promised address two rallies. Former Congress president Rahul Rs10,000 crore investment in infrastructure, 10,000 Gandhi and Congress general secretary Priyanka new buses, the creation of nine boards and Gandhi Vadra would be participating in roadshows commissions for the effective implementation of covering almost seven to ten constituencies a day. projects and welfare schemes for infrastructure This is the second time when Priyanka Gandhi will development in unauthorised colonies and campaign in Delhi. She had campaigned for late urbanised villages, and welfare schemes for traders Sheila Dikshit during 2019 Lok Sabha election calling and women. herself 'Dilli ki ladki' (the girl from Delhi). THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 21 Will Modi magic beat Kejriwal’s governance?

NEW DELHI (TIP): Who will win the 86 per cent of the total respondents said Delhi Assembly election 2020? Will Arvind they are either fully satisfied (53 per cent) Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) or somewhat satisfied (33 per cent) with retain power on its claim of work on Kejriwal. This satisfaction level not only electricity,health, schools, and water, etc.? comes from the Arvind Kejriwal's Or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will personal popularity as the chief minister turn the table in the name of 'Modi, but also comes from the benefits of the Mandir and persecuted Hindu minorities different welfare schemes like free water in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and charge, low price of electricity, Pakistan'? implementation of Mohalla Clinic and This we will get to know on February 11. improvement in school infrastructure, etc. The Election Commission of India (ECI) However, the fight for the Delhi has announced the schedule for the 11th Assembly election 2020 is not very easy for Delhi Assembly Election. 1.46 crore voters the AAP if we look the declining vote of Delhi will cast their votes on February share of the party after the 2015 Assembly 8 to decide who will govern the national election. capital. Will the AAP retain power? Can The vote share of the AAP has been the BJP end its dry-run in Delhi after 21 declining since the 2015 Assembly years? What is the role of the Congress election. Just two years back in the 2017 party in this Assembly election? MCD election, the AAP lost 28 per cent votes after getting a huge mandate in 2015. DECISIVE NATURE OF DELHI And this decline continued in the recent VOTERS Lok Sabha election 2019, when the AAP's vote share further declined to 18 per cent. This needs a careful reading of the On the other hand, the BJP gained s Delhi voters' mood, as elections in Delhi at massive vote share in 2019 Lok Sabha from different levels produce different its past performance in the Delhi outcomes. Since the inception of the AAP Assembly and MCD election which helps in Delhi election 2013, the electoral fight them not only to win all seven became triangular.However,the choices of parliamentary seats but also to get a lead Delhi voters mostly very decisive when it in 65 assembly segments. comes to choose their government except In the meantime, the performance of 2013 polls- be it Assembly, Lok Sabha or the Congress was not spectacular in these MCD. three elections. However, the party's What is significant is that since the performance directly impacts the emergence of the AAP in Delhi, the performance of the AAP. Congress party has became a distant third In these three elections, the Congress' party in the state which ran Delhi vote share has been increasing and it continuously 15 years between 1998 and mainly comes at the expense of the AAP. 2013. Except the BJP in Delhi which got more Second, that the AAP gained against the than 30 per cent of votes in each election Congress mostly as the BJP's vote share since 1990s, the base vote of the AAP and has been continuously stagnant between Congress has been fluctuating from 32 and 36 per cent in last three Assembly election to election. If the BJP holds its elections. The minimum for the BJP in cadre vote and the Congress get the Delhi Assembly was 32 per cent votes in substantial share of votes then the 2015. outcome of the Delhi Assembly election The third takeaway is that small parties 2020 would be very interesting. and independents have been getting less attraction of voters in Delhi. In the last THE 2020 BATTLE IN DELHI few elections, Assembly or Lok Sabha, the To make the Delhi election triangular, aggregate vote share of three major the Congress either needs to maintain its parties - AAP,BJP and Congress - has been vote share of Lok Sabha 2019 (23 per cent) more than 95 per cent of votes. or improve from there. However, it seems At the same point, who Delhi gives the unlikely due to two reasons - first, due to mandate, they give 'chhappad phad ke'. In lack of a credible face (leader) and weak the last Assembly election, the AAP won organisation of Congress in Delhi when it 67 out of 70 seats, the BJP managed to win comes to chose the state government and only 3 seats and the Congress was not able second, due to the decisive nature of Delhi to open its account. voters as they always go with the leading However, in the last Lok Sabha election party. One of the significant points is that 2019, the BJP was leading in 65 out of 70 after the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP Assembly segments while the Congress was not be able to maintain its was leading in only 5 Assembly segments performance in the state Assembly and the AAP was not leading in even a elections. In the recent Assembly elections single Assembly segment. in Haryana and Jharkhand, the BJP lost Even in terms of vote share, it is totally around 20 per cent of votes from the 2019 surprising how Delhi's voters behave very Lok Sabha election, within a span of a few decisively and one sided in different months. Also, since Gujarat election 2017, elections. The AAP had 54 per cent of the BJP has not been able to get the votes in Delhi Assembly election in 2015 majority in a single state. This shows the but the vote share reduced to 18 per cent in BJP's weakness to perform in the state the 2019 Lok Sabha election. On the other Assembly. hand, the BJP's vote share in 2019 Lok In the name of Modi, the party has been Sabha jumped 25 per cent from the 2015 able to maintain its base vote around one- Assembly election. third in the state Assembly but when you have to fight against another strong state KEJRIWAL AND HIS CHALLENGE leader like Kejriwal, the party needs to The vote swing of Delhi voters makes gain an additional 5 to 10 per cent of votes Delhi election interesting till the last from its base vote to win the election. Will moment. As one of the recent survey on Modi, the Ram Mandir verdict and Delhi governance done by the prestigious implementation of the CAA (as the BJP institution Lokniti-CSDS suggested a very campaigns on these three issues) get high level of satisfaction with the additional votes for the party in this performance of the Arvind Kejriwal election to defeat the AAP? Only time will government in the state. tell. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 WOMEN FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 HOUSE PLANTS THAT PURIFY AIR ouse plants aren't just a natural, decorative accessory and Hchoosing the right one could be the difference between cleaner air or not, at home. In the late eighties a study by NASA discovered that house plants are a great option for absorbing harmful toxins in the air. Not only is is a natural way, it's also inexpensive and will provide a decorative element to you home too. One big thing to be aware of when searching for the perfect plant for your home, are your beloved pets. Many house plants although great for your environment, are toxic to cats and Swiss Cheese Plant Parlour Palm dogs - so best to bear this in mind. Dragon Tree To make the air fresher in your space, these are the best house plants to invest in now. Monstera Deliciosa (Swiss Cheese Plant) The Monstera Deliciosa or Swiss cheese plat as it is commonly known is a plant you might have seen whilst trawling Pinterest for bedroom decor inspo. Not only does the Monstera plant have a unique and trendy appearance that will brighten any home, it's also one of the most effective house plant you can buy to reduce air pollution. Parlour Palm Of all of the house plants to buy, the Chinese Evergreen Spider Plant Boston Fern Chamaedorea Elegans Palm is one of the most sought after plants today, the first Add beautiful foliage to a room with benefits, ranging from skin care must- purifying the air - ridding your space of being its super elegant and relaxed minimal effort, perfect. haves to treating burns and eliminating harmful toxins such as formaldehyde, looking palms. Among all of the pollutants found in formaldehyde and benzene found in xylene, benzene and many more. This plant is the gift that keeps on the average household, this plant is many varnishes and detergents. If you have trouble sleeping, the giving, as your leaves bloom more, this especially good at fighting against Chlorophytum Variegatum (Spider Plant) clever succulent releases oxygen at leads to a lot of oxygen production, trichloroethylene and xylene. night, helping you to drift off easier which we can never say is a bad thing. Chinese Evergreen The Spider plant is an east to grow and and stay asleep for longer. Variegated English Ivy maintain plant that is perfect for green- Boston Fern The Chinese Evergreen plant requires fingered novices. English Ivy has green and white a little bit more attention that most The relatively small plant works If you're an allergy sufferer, the marbled leaves, with interesting twisted house plants, if you don't mind the extra tirelessly to remove toxins from the air, Boston Fern is a house plant you'll want growing tendancies. It'll add a botanical upkeep it's a winner. including carbon monoxide and xylene. to seriously consider. accent to your home and is fairly low for The tropical plant is great for Good news for pet lovers, the Spider Not only does it have an eccentric and mainenance. removing most common pollutants from plant is one of the few house plants that tantalising look that will brighten any This particular plant is especially good the air - benzene, carbon monoxide, isn't toxic to animals. home, it's also great at removing toxins at combating mould in the home, as well formaldehyde and trichloroethylene to Mother in Law's Tongue from the air, whilst improving humidity as reducing airborne faecal particles - name just a few. by helping to naturally restore making it the perfect plant to keep in Unfortunately, the plant is extremely The snake plant has a strong, yet moisture to the air. This will help you your bathroom. toxic to dogs and won't be suitable for stylish appearance that will make a save money on an expensive Dracaena Marginata (Dragon Tree) furry friend loving households. welcome accent to any home. humidifying machine too. Other health Aloe Vera (Syn Aloe Barbadensis) Also known as Mother in Law's benefits are said to support those who If you're going for subtle decoration in Tongue, the decorative plant has been suffer from dry skin, noses or throats the home a Dracaena is an ideal option. Aloe Vera is known for i's many named as one of the top picks for the most. Husbands cause more stress for wives than kids CHAMPAGNE TRIFLE Ingredients he constant demands of parenting can put a real strain on mums and dads - but a study has found Chocolate Cake - 200 Thusbands cause a higher level of stress in their gms (readymade) wives than their offspring. Strawberries - 1/2 cup, A survey of 7,000 mums by Today found on average chopped Champagne - they rate their levels of stress at a worryingly high 8.5 3/4 cup (or Sparkling out of 10. And 46 per cent say their husbands add more water for a non- stress to their day-to-day lives than the children they alcoholic version) care for. Water - 1/4 cup Eggs - Many mums complained that they view their other 2 Sugar - 50 gms Corn half as 'big kids' rather than equal partners, giving Flour - 1 1/2 tsp them yet another not-so-little terror to keep an eye on. Vanilla Extract - 1/2 Mums also believed that the stress they experience is tsp very different to 'dad stress', leading to an inability to Method see eye-to-eye as a parenting team which only, again, increases levels of stress. Cut the cake into small pieces, Combine the champagne, Three quarters feel the majority of parenting and water, eggs, sugar, corn flour and vanilla extract in a bowl. household tasks falls largely on them, and mums stress Hal Runkel, a therapist and author, said the 'problem Whisk well. Heat a pan of water over medium flame. Place most about not having enough time in the day to is not men, it's marriage', arguing even good marriages the bowl over the water, but ensure the bowl does not touch complete everything that needs to be done. are stressful by nature. the water. Whisk well until thick and remove from flame. One in five also admit a daily source of stress is being He believes 'marriage is a more difficult relationship Allow it to cool. Add some of the cake and stawberries to a left to feel like they don't feel like they get enough than parenting' and combining the two is a recipe for champagne glass (or any serving bowl). Top up with the support or help from their spouse. stress. champagne custard and keep it in the fridge if required. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 HEALTH 23 CORONAVIRUS: MYTHS ABOUT THE VIRUS BUSTED s the coronavirus outbreak spreads, authorities are Arushing to dispel myths about the disease spreading online. 2019-nCoV emerged in southern China in December, but in the last few weeks has spread to other countries and begun killing people. Having started in a country with little media freedom and a history of covering up the spread of infectious diseases - such as the closely-related LUNGS MAY HAVE NEAR SARS virus from 2002/3 - it's not surprising people have rushed to fill ‘MAGICAL’ POWER TO REPAIR the perceived information gap with half-truths and false information. DAMAGE IF YOU STOP Here's what's true and what isn't. The virus jumped to SMOKING, SAY SCIENTISTS humans via bat soup ungs have the near 'magical' ability to repair damage caused by tobacco as long as you give up Genetic testing has suggested the Lsmoking, according to scientists. virus, like SARS, jumped from Lung cell mutations caused by smoking which can humans from bats (perhaps via NSW health or any entity relating to have also claimed the Gates eerily lead to cancer were originally thought to be snakes, according to one study). us. Further, there is no such entity predicted 65 million deaths by permanent. A video that did the rounds online as the 'Department of Diseasology coronavirus just three months ago. But findings published in the journal Nature last week supposedly showing a Parramatta'. NSW Health would The truth is a simulation run by the revealed some cells are able to escape the damage woman eating bat soup in outbreak like to assure the community that Johns Hopkins Center for Health caused by the chemicals in tobacco and can then epicentre Wuhan, despite the the locations mentioned in this post Security and the Gates Foundation repair the lungs. outbreak, was held up as proof. pose no risk to visitors, and there in October suggested it was possible "We were totally unprepared for the finding," Dr Critics noted at the time there was have been no 'positive readings' at an outbreak could kill that many Peter Campbell, from the Sanger Institute, told BBC nothing to suggest the video was train stations." people, "but we explicitly stated that News. legit, particularly as the woman was None of items mentioned in the it was not a prediction", John "There is a population of cells that, kind of, wearing summer clothing at a time post have been recalled by the NSW Hopkins said. magically replenish the lining of the airways", he when Wuhan was experiencing Food Authority either. "Instead, the exercise served to added, "One of the remarkable things was patients near-zero winter temperatures. highlight preparedness and who had quit, even after 40 years of smoking, had It's since emerged the video was The virus was created in a response challenges that would regeneration of cells that were totally unscathed by shot four years ago in Palau. lab and patented in 2015 likely arise in a very severe the exposure to tobacco." "It was turned over by some pandemic... Although our tabletop accounts sponging of the heat and Some conspiracy theorists have exercise included a mock novel ‘Magically replenish’ fanning out malicious panic," travel put a Stephen King spin on the coronavirus, the inputs we used for The regeneration was even seen in smokers who had writer Wang Mengyun - the woman virus' origin story. They claim, modeling the potential impact of smoked a pack a day for 40 years before giving up the in the clip - wrote in a blog post. much like in the horror author's that fictional virus are not similar habit. While it's believed the virus made epic novel The Stand, 2019-nCoV to [2019-nCoV]." Chemicals found in tobacco damage lung cells by the leap from animals to humans in was engineered in a lab. One, who mutating the DNA, gradually turning them from a food market in Wuhan, it's not yet also claims you can cure virus by Unorthodox cures healthy to cancerous. clear exactly where it happened, or drinking a bleach solution (more on A bleach solution known to Dr Kate Gowers, one of the researchers who is based how. It took several years to trace that below), suggested a UK fraudsters as 'Miracle Mineral at University College London, referred to these as the origin of the SARS virus to a research institute funded by the Bill Solution' has been touted as a cure "mini time bombs" which were "waiting for the next remote cave. and Melinda Gates Foundation is for 2019-nCoV. Jordan Sather - the hit that causes them to progress to cancer." behind it. Their motive? Money of guy above who claimed the virus However, scientists found in 5 out of 6 ex-smokers, 20 You can get the virus from course, as nations rush to buy the was patented in 2015, and also a to 50 per cent of the cells had a low level of mutation eating noodles, fortune inevitable vaccine, which they believer in the bizarre debunked which was similar to the profile of non-smokers of the cookies and Red Bull claim will only spread the disease QAnon conspiracy mega-theory - same age range. further. told followers to use it. These almost normal cells had longer versions of A social media post claiming the The UK-based facility singled out, "I'm going to have to get home, DNA structures called telomeres, which can suggest virus can be caught by eating food Pirbright, decried the and MMS the whole state," he said they have not undergone many divisions. from China, or popular with "misinformation" in a post on its in a video. "MMS the whole sh*** And so researchers have speculated these healthy Chinese communities, prompted site. It said not only does it have out of everything." cells may have come from previously dormant stem Australian health authorities to nothing to do with studying human As did another QAnon account cells but it remains unclear. issue a rebuttal. coronavirus strains, the patent cited known as @chiefpolice2, who has Around 47,000 people are diagnosed with lung The badly-spelled post claimed by the conspiracy theorists was in nearly 18,000 followers on Twitter. cancer every year in the UK, according to NHS the disease was "starting to spread relation to a vaccine it is working on "PROTECT YOURSELF. Get the figures. in the greater Sydney region" and to "prevent respiratory diseases in 20-20-20 spray," he told followers, products such as rice, Mi Goreng birds and other animals", and was calling the virus part of an "evil noodles, ice tea, Red Bull, onion not funded by the Gates Foundation. depopulation agenda" that will PAGE SPONSORED BY rings and wagyu beef were infected Fact-checking site Snopes says only escalate when the vaccine is with "corona's virus". the confusion - assuming it's not released. DR. SATISH AND GITANJLI ANAND The post cited the fake 'The deliberate misinformation - appears Sather pointed to a 2005 study Bureau of Diseasology Parramatta', to stem from the word 'coronavirus', which showed the SARS virus DR. SATISH ANAND claiming air tests showed the virus which has become synonymous could be killed by the key Former Chairman, Board of was circulating at train stations. with the current outbreak despite ingredient found in MMS, chlorine Trustees, AAPI National A spokesperson for NSW Health - being a family with many members dioxide - but failed to mention that E-Mail: which definitely exists - said - SARS was one, for example. study only looked at its effects [email protected] nothing in the post was true. "Social media users sharing what outside the body, not inside it. "NSW Health has been made they believe to be patents for the Coronavirus is also not the same as aware of a social media post that is new virus, a member of the SARS. GITANJLI ANAND being widely circulated warning coronavirus family, are in fact Genesis Church, the scammers Former President, India people to not consume certain foods sharing separate patents for avian behind the 20-20-20 spray, claim it Association of Long Island or visit certain locations in Sydney," infectious bronchitis virus and can cure not just coronavirus, but (IALI) a spokesperson told AFP. SARS," Snopes said. also cancer, arthritis, diabetes and E-mail: "This post has not originated from Fake news sites like InfoWars autism. [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 SCIENCE & TECH FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 SCIENTISTS CREATE ROBOTS THAT ‘SWEAT’ LIKE HUMANS TO STOP OVERHEATING obots have been created by scientists that 'sweat' like Rhumans during demanding tasks to stop them overheating. Robotic technology is advancing every day and machines are being given more demanding tasks that generate more heat as a by product. This heat could cause the robot to malfunction if it doesn't cool down, which prompted researchers from Cornell University to look at how NEST THERMOSTATS WILL humans get cool. They developed a technique that WARN OF PROBLEMS WITH allows machines to 'sweat' off cooling liquid stored around the Traditional cooling components bottom layer with an internal YOUR AC OR FURNACE component responsible for moving take up valuable space inside channel for water flow and a top ou might not have to wait until your home is and controlling the system. electronics and add a lot of weight, layer dotted with micropores. frigid to find out that there's a problem with It is still an early prototype with a according to Thomas J Wallin from At low temperatures below 86 Yyour furnace. Google has started testing a Nest number of problems including the Facebook reality lab. degrees Fahrenheit, the pores thermostat feature that sends email alerts when the sweating process causing the robot 'Additionally these components remained closed. device detects unusual patterns in your HVAC system. to struggle to move. are conventionally made from rigid When the temperature rises, the If it's taking an oddly long time to warm up your The team, which includes a materials that are incompatible top layer expands, dilating the pores house, you might get a notice well before there's a full- scientist from Facebook's reality with fully soft robots. and allowing pressurised fluid from fledged breakdown. lab, are hopeful it will eventually be 'So to realise the numerous the bottom layer to 'sweat' out of the People in a handful of cities (Atlanta, Boston, a more reliable alternative to bulky advantages of soft robots, we pores. Denver, Las Vegas and San Diego) will also get help cooling systems in use today. wanted to explore a thermo In testing the sweating actuators contacting professionals through Handy, so you might Traditional actuators, the regulatory strategy that was cooled off about six times faster not have trouble booking a service appointment. component responsible for moving compatible with soft polymeric than their non-sweating HVAC warnings aren't completely new. Users have and controlling a mechanism or materials.' counterparts when exposed to wind received alerts for more immediate problems. system, are rigid and include fans They created finger-like fluidic from a fan. However, Google is now focusing on symptoms that and radiators. actuators that are made of However, it will be a while before may take a long time for humans to spot. In a sense, it's This limits robots and hydrogels, a type of material that they start appearing in mainstream offering a peek at a future where your smart home mechanisms to bulky, solid objects, can hold a large amount of water technology,as the team haven't been does more to anticipate problems and help fix them which goes against a trend to create and act as heat reservoirs. able to find a way to replenish water before it's too late. more fluid and soft forms of robots. Each of these fingers feature a lost during operation. How to use your Fitbit to monitor your blood oxygen levels

arlier this month, Fitbit quietly in mind that the feature is still in its roll- rolled out blood oxygen out stages, so if you don’t see it yet, keep Emonitoring to five of its devices: wearing your Fitbit to sleep and the Versa, Versa 2, Versa Lite, Ionic, and checking back. Charge 3. (Interestingly, this is a feature If you do not see your sleep tracking that Apple said its Apple Watch is information on your app’s home screen capable of doing, but which has yet to be at all: released for that device.) Scroll to the bottom of your Today tab Why is this important? Because your and click the black Discover button. blood oxygen levels indicate how well Tap “Health & Fitness Stats” and select oxygen is distributed throughout your “Sleep” to manually open the section. body,which is important for making sure your organs are functioning properly. Making sense of the data Monitoring your oxygen levels is The Estimated Oxygen Variation is helpful during both exercise (to see how presented as a chart that tells you how your body adjusts during an intense HIIT much variation occurred in the hours workout or a long hike, for example) and you were asleep. This is how your body sleep (when it could help with early is distributing oxygen in your detection of underlying health issues). bloodstream. You’ll notice Fitbit is So far, Fitbit has only made blood oxygen choosing to generalize the data monitoring available under the sleep presented by indicating whether there portion of its app, and presents the data is a big or small variation in your blood at a generalized level, so don’t expect to this main page, that means an update is Set it and forget it oxygen level. (There are many reasons see exact, hour-by-hour levels of oxygen available. If you don’t see one, it is After the update, you don’t need to do for this, one big one being that Fitbit in your bloodstream. likely that the app is already up to date, much else to enable blood oxygen does not want this data to be used for Here’s how you can access it. or hasn’t received it over the air just monitoring. Simply wear your Fitbit to medical diagnoses.) yet. sleep. The data should be available to you If you notice consistent, big Make sure app is up to date To update, make sure that your Fitbit under the Sleep section of your Fitbit variations in your sleep, talk to a If you own one of the five Fitbit device is paired, is located close to your app when you wake up. medical professional to get further devices that received this feature, make phone, and has enough battery to run To view it, open the mobile app and testing done. Underlying causes could sure your app is updated with the most the update. Ideally, you should leave look at your daily summary.Sleep should be anything from depression, high blood recent software version. To check: your Fitbit on its charging dock, as be one of the categories of data tracked pressure, sleep apnea, or just a very Open up the Fitbit mobile app and tap updates can take anywhere from a few while you’re wearing the Fitbit. If you tiring week — so before you freak out on the upper left corner of your avatar. minutes to an hour depending on the scroll down past the hours tracked and about seeing those big variations, Select the Fitbit device you want to last time you updated the device and on sleep stages, you should see a section monitor your levels for a few weeks update. If there is an Update icon on your internet connection speeds. called Estimated Oxygen Variation. Keep before talking to your doctor. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 BIZ & FINANCE 25 Global markets come down with coronavirus MUMBAI/HONG KONG (TIP): A glimmer of hope for recovery in global growth this year after the US and China reached a temporary truce in their trade war seems likely to be derailed as the deadly STARBUCKS’ RESULTS TOP coronavirus quickly spread to 19 countries and now threatens to ESTIMATES BUT escalate further. Investors around the world CORONAVIRUS SLOWS SALES rushed to dump equities and flocked to safer havens, fearing that the t was a happy holiday at Starbucks, but the coronavirus could slow down global company’s sales momentum could start to slow due growth. Ito the coronavirus outbreak in China. The outbreak that began in the Starbucks said it had intended to raise its full-year central Chinese city of Wuhan has earnings guidance Tuesday, but uncertainty about killed 107 people in China and China put that on pause. Starbucks said it has already infected more than 4,500 globally. closed more than half of its stores in China due to The World Health Organization coronavirus. called the outbreak an emergency China’s 4,292 Starbucks stores brought in 10% of the for China, but stopped short of company’s revenue during the October-December designating it a global emergency. According to analysts, investors consumption and tourism. The city period, so the closure will affect earnings, the “The Wuhan coronavirus poses in India have reacted to the of 11 million has been locked down company said. But it’s not yet clear how much of an a significant downside risk to the concerns related to coronavirus as in a bid to stem the spread of the impact there will be. Starbucks had expected full-year near-term Asia-Pacific economic well as worries about fiscal virus, leaving roads empty and revenue growth in the 6% to 8% range and same-store outlook in 2020 if the epidemic slippages. millions of people isolated and idle. sales growth of 3% to 4%. continues to escalate in coming “Though Indian markets have Economists are still running the “We remain optimistic and committed to the long weeks,” Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific declined in tandem with global numbers on how that will hurt term growth potential in China,” Starbucks President chief economist at IHS Markit, peers, Union budget will steer economic growth. Many are and CEO Kevin Johnson said in a conference call wrote in a recent report to clients. equities ahead. Any unfavourable benchmarking the spread and Tuesday with analysts. “The extent and duration of this announcement in the budget may severity of the coronavirus against Starbucks shares fell 1.6% to $87.20 in extended negative shock to regional deter sentiment and result in some the SARS (Severe Acute trading following the earnings report. economic growth will depend on sell-off,” said an analyst on Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in how quickly the Wuhan virus condition of anonymity. early 2003. AHEAD OF TRUMP’S FEB VISIT, epidemic can be brought under Companies including Honda During the SARS crisis, close to control.” Motor Co. Ltd and Nissan Motor Co. 800 people in 17 countries died of ‘LIMITED’ INDIA-US TRADE The MSCI World index, which Ltd are evacuating workers from the previously unknown captures large and mid-cap the affected area, while theme park respiratory illness that originated DEAL ON THE CARDS representation across 23 operators, movie theatres, retailers in southern China. developed markets, has fallen and restaurant chains are During SARS, Asia-Pacific NEW DELHI (TIP): After months of hard 1.3% in the past 10 days. The sell- suspending or curtailing operations airlines lost 39 billion revenue negotiations, India and the US have moved closer to off has been sharper in the MSCI to protect workers. passenger kilometres or around 8% a trade deal that will include New Delhi’s Emerging Markets index, which While it is too early to assess the of annual traffic in 2003, according commitment to extend greater market access in shed 3.57%, while India’s full impact on China, where to the International Air Transport medical devices and agriculture. But an agreement benchmark Sensex lost nearly 2% national holidays have been Association (IATA). Global cost on Washington’s demand for a sharp cut in or during the period. On Tuesday,the extended and the central city of from SARS was estimated at $33 abolition of import duties on seven ICT products, Sensex fell 0.46% to 40,966.86 Wuhan has been locked down, it is billion, or 0.1% of world GDP in including mobile phones worth over Rs 10,000, is points. clear the virus is hurting 2003. still elusive, a source told FE. So a ‘limited deal’ could be signed during US President Donald Trump’s expected visit to India in February, just three months after New Delhi pulled out of the Reliance launching new road project Beijing-dominated RCEP trade pact. While the quantum of incentives involved in the deal is unclear, it could cover products with total to counter plastics pushback in India annual bilateral trade of around $10 billion. A limited deal was supposed to be signed during NEW DELHI (TIP): Reliance Industries, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US in largest petchem player, is launching a project to use September last year but a lack of consensus plastics in road construction, amid growing concerns stalled it. over pollution in the country of 1.3 billion whose major cities are often plagued with smog and litter. Airbus faces record USD 4 billion India, which uses about 14 million tonnes of plastic annually,lacks an organized system for management of fine after bribery probe plastic waste, leading to widespread littering. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urging India to end irbus faces a record $4 billion fine and lower 2019 consumption of single-use plastics by 2022. profits after unveiling a preliminary deal with But Indians should focus on fighting pollution, not AFrench, British and U.S. authorities following a plastics, executives at Reliance, whose chairman is the petrochemicals business, said at a company crippling three-year probe into allegations of bribery Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, said during a petchem plant in the western state of Maharashtra. and corruption over jetliner sales. launch event on Tuesday. Shah was coy on details, saying Reliance had yet to The deal, believed by anti-corruption experts to be The company will seek to work with India’s highway work out the financial fine print in what he stressed the largest ever in a bribery case, ends an almost four- authority and individual states to potentially supply a would be a philanthropic endeavour. year crisis that led to a sweeping management overhaul plastics-infused mix to make some of the thousands of Reliance’s announcement comes as campaigners and delayed plans to redeploy the plane giant’s cash kilometers of roads Modi wants to build to upgrade such as Greta Thunberg ramp up pressure on surplus. If approved by courts, the deal is expected to India’s creaking infrastructure. businesses to help tackle climate change. allow Airbus to avoid criminal charges that risked Light plastics, the type used as carry bags or snack “It is happening internationally and now has started banning the company from public contracts in the wrappers, are typically not viable to recycle and so end percolating to India too, though it’s at a very early United States and European Union – a massive setback up in landfills, street corners or oceans. Reliance wants stage,” said Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at the Center for for one of Europe’s top defence and space firms. to shred these plastics and mix them with bitumen, a Research on Energy and Clean Air. The European planemaker has been investigated by formula the conglomerate says is cheaper and longer- “Corporates and industries are a big source of all French and British authorities for suspected lasting. kinds of pollution in India, so much more serious corruption over jet sales dating back over a decade. It “(This) can be a game-changing project both for our thoughts, policies and actions are required from them,” has also faced U.S. investigations over suspected environment and our roads,” Vipul Shah, the COO of he added. violations of export controls. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 26 CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

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araswati Puja is celebrated on Basant Panchami or Vasant SPanchami that marks the beginning of the spring season. Basant means spring and Panchami means "the fifth day", so Vasant Panchami literally SARASWATI PUJA means the fifth day of the spring season. The day is also celebrated as Saraswati Puja and the goddess of wisdom and knowledge, Saraswati, is worshipped on this day. Popular in Bengal, Odisha and North Indian states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Basant Panchami and Saraswati Puja day is an auspicious one. According to drikpanchang.com, Vasant Panchami Muhurat is 10:45 am to 12:34 pm. The Panchami Tithi Begins at 10:45 am on January 29 and Panchami Tithi Ends at 1:19 pm on January 30, 2020. On Saraswati Puja, women get ready in bright yellow sarees and men wear traditional kurtas and offer flowers and prasad to the goddess. On this day, children worship Goddess Saraswati, who is the deity of music, culture and learning. The Saraswati Puja is also referred as "no study day" for them. Students place their books, pens and musical instruments beside the idol for the entire day om Saraswati Puja to seek Goddess' blessings. On Basant Panchami, devotees worship Goddess Saraswati to get enlighten with knowledge and get rid of lethargy. Rituals & Tradition The festival is celebrated with great pomp and show in all parts of India. On this auspicious day, the Hindus get up early in the morning and worship the Sun God after taking bath, if possible, in Panchami, the primary festival of this the sacred river Ganges. Then they clad season. It is one of the most colorful and themselves in yellow, as it signifies wonderful festivals of this effervescent spirituality and prosperity. The color nation. The festival brings in a number yellow also signifies the color of the of colors in the form of colorful attires. ripened spring crop. Festive sweets are Being the color of spring, yellow gets prepared at home using saffron, as it into vogue as it also denotes prosperity, helps in deriving the color yellow. The happiness, intellect and energy. goddess is dressed in yellow and the Flying kites is a sport much popular in deity is worshipped by the worshippers India. In a clear and pleasant weather, who are dressed in yellow too. Later, you will see plenty of kites in the sky. swings are tied to the trees and women Being a part of Vasant Panchami, kite have fun singing traditional folk songs to flying competitions take place during greet the beautiful season of spring. this festival. Fighter kites were designed After these rituals, sweets are in India and Pakistan for decades. distributed among the loved ones. The Ferozepur, a small town in Punjab, is traditional sweet which goes along with famous for this sport and a number of the spirit of the festival is 'Kesar Halwa' children including both girls and boys and 'Sweet Rice' which are prepared with purchase kites and fly them. Popular saffron to add yellow color to the among adults too, they get on to their preparation. building's terrace along with the Schools and other teaching children, play songs at high volume and institutions organize cultural programs dance with the rhythm while flying kites. on this day, including the worshipping of The event of kite flying is filled with a goddess Saraswati. Along with these lot of enthusiasm and thrill. Both skilled rituals, another important part of this and unskilled participants bring in their festival is introducing children to the fancy colorful kites and the joy they world of knowledge, hence marking a receive when they cut their opponent's beginning to their learning phase. Floral kite is a sight to cherish. With pomp and PAGE SPONSORED BY designs are made in front porch of show the kites are flown and interesting houses to signify the arrival of spring. kite fights take place thereafter. Children ARISH K. SAHANI Colorful kites are arranged by children learn to fly kites from their elders, who and the sky gets filled with numerous themselves like flying them a lot. Kite Serving Since 1972 kites on this auspicious day. fighting being the main attraction, Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs people from around the world come to Kite Festival this place to experience the fun involved Arish K Sahani (Father) The festival of Vasant Panchami is with this colorful festival. The kites are celebrated to welcome the season of flown with the help of a string called Shiv Sahani (Son) spring, a season when the earth 'Manjha'. There are a number of such replenishes itself. Spring also denotes competitions which are organized Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) pleasant weather, during which calm during the festival. The competition is wind whistles in your ear and caresses always there to rule the sky and one has 7 1 8 - 2 7 1 - 1 9 0 6 your face with its light cool touch. It is to keep his kite flying till the end to be [email protected] the season when the weather is neither the winner. There are judges too, some of hot nor cold, when the wind has a cooling whom decides which the most beautiful “If Hindus don’t maintain Hinduism, who shall save it?” effect but not the kind to chill your kite is while others decide which is the bones. This kind of weather reminds you biggest. The festival brings with it colors “If India’s own children don't cling to their faith, who shall guard it?” of a number of things including Basant in form of greenery and colorful kites. “Indians alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA 28 ASTROLOGY FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Bejan Daruwalla is world's most famous astrologertoday. He appears regularly on world wide TV shows. Bejan who has been a professor in English, hasauthored a number of books on astrology. India'sPrime Minister Narendra Modi , on March 29, 2012,lunched one of Bejan's books, '2012- End of theWorld? Bejan contributes to a number of journals andnewspapers in many parts of the world which includeBerkley Communications Bejan Daruwalla is available for astrological (London) Times of India(Delhi, Mumbai, consultations. He can be reached at Kolkata, Chennai) and The IndianPanorama ( [email protected] and on phone New York and Texas). Bejan's predictionshave mostly been correct and 011-91-8141234275 people the world overrely on his predictions. www.bejandaruwalla.com

The Indian Panorama brings you Weekly and Birthday Horoscope from the World's most trusted astrologer Bejan Daruwalla. Latest correct prediction: Modi's historic victory Weekly Horoscope February 3 - February 9, 2020 ARIES: Ganesha says you need the support of LEO: The situation could get even worse as SAGITTARIUS: You could be sullen and everyone to make true progress. You will seek youngsters these days have access to several moody but this is all a part of the package of out new pursuits like occult and psychic modes of communication and have many life. You can't have it your way all the time. phenomena, spirits and witches, necromancy influences acting on them. However, I must add There will be quiet moments of bonding away and magic, to name a few. You are aiming for an that these are mere generalisations. I do not from the madding crowd. Ganesha is with you. escape from stress and are seeking a balance have your personal horoscope and so cannot be This is an energetic and pleasant influence and between the material and spiritual worlds. A lot specific. Plus, please also remember that you may be inclined to sit back and bask in it. of time and energy is spent in funds, though I have been accurate on several But this is a very significant period because you investments, raising capital, loans, selling and occasions, I can also be wrong. can reach out to people and taste new areas of buying. Ganesha wishes you well. VIRGO: The focus now is on relationships life. TAURUS: There has been so much happening because they will be the key to your happiness CAPRICORN: Your creative potential is in your life the past period that you desperately and progress. You will have to compromise to enormous, your drives are very strong, and you need a break. You look for a quieter phase in resolve differences at work and at play. Please can very easily accomplish a great deal. You are your life which ushers a period of introspection. remember that the stress should be on full of self-confidence and believe that you can You may take a second and hard look at teamwork and co-operation both at home and do wonders. Usually this is also a time when you alternative medicine, healing, social work and the workplace. You need to look at innovations enjoy good health and a feeling of well-being. other such diversions. You are not naturally at work and at home as well as come up with You will be charged to join the gym or will take inclined to social work and philanthropy but new strategies for cohesion and harmony. to the outdoors in a big way. this can be a much - needed change. LIBRA: You look for more freedom in AQUARIUS: You could be hiking, cycling, GEMINI: You have been on a huge ego trip whatever you do. This can be a very critical running or just walking depending on where and have been boastful and arrogant, but now a line particularly for those in their late you stay and how much time you have at your sense of completion is on the cards. You come twenties. You want to break out of all the disposal. Since you will be overconfident and full circle. Ganesha approves. You are learning structures imposed on you. You seek will overestimate your energies, do not take valuable lessons. You continue with your work independence and are serious about foolish risks. It hurts no one to be a little slow but there are many domestic demands. There establishing your presence in the world. You and cautious. Circumstances always play a huge could be problems in your marriage and trouble break away from old groups and branch out on role in such predictions. There is also new with teenaged children. your own. romance and it all depends on what you want to CANCER: You like to be the boss at home and SCORPIO: You make significant changes in do with it. Ganesha wishes you well. your commands obeyed but there could be a your life which could include liberating PISCES: You look seriously and hard at new revolt brewing. You will be put in your place and yourself from an existing relationship and money-making ventures. This is an excellent not listened to at all, and when this comes from looking for another one that will suit you time for all financial matters and you plunge family, from your own flesh and blood, it will be better. For the seniors though there will be into it. You will feel like making your very difficult to take. You will have to stability and progress. There will be challenges surroundings appear more elegant, and you manoeuvre the situation with delicacy. If you thrown at you and you will have to wade may spend quite a lot of money too. Expenses are not careful, there may be repercussions like through murky waters. There could even be soar but along with this concern with material children running away from home and an moments of sadness and despair and you may acquisition, there are also some very real elopement. seem distraught at time. possibilities for inner growth.

Birthday Horoscope February 3 - February 9, 2020

FEB 3:Ganesha says there's a powerful FEB 5:Tensions, whether domestically or there seem to be areas of discord and accent on communication. A message concerning a relationship that turns disagreement, but complacent attitudes are delivered will be heard. You're moved to confrontational, may well get out of hand. in for an awakening. action by another's words. There can be a Damage control can be achieved with a bit of FEB 8:Despite good intentions, you might not forethought. meeting of minds, though that entails some be able to come up with a workable plan for struggle. FEB 6:Commitments involving others fall the weekend. You might not see any light at through and leave you scrambling if you don't the end of the tunnel until tomorrow. FEB 4:There's friction in relationships, to be have a backup plan. Likewise, results FEB 9:Today's emphasis on home and family sure, and obstacles must be faced head-on. concerning home projects are not what you isn't without its problems. Too high To do that, however, everyone will have to be expected. expectations concerning others will only add made to feel at ease so that buried feelings FEB 7: You'll likely find others to be fair, to the general sense of disappointment. can surface and be aired. reasonable, and equitable, even if initially Focus on what works. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020 TRAVEL 29 VRINDAVAN: LORD KRISHNA’S CHILDHOOD ABODE

ne of the oldest cities on the banks of Yamuna, Vrindavan is Oconsidered to be one of the most important places of pilgrimage for the devotees of Krishna. It is said that Lord Krishna had spent his childhood in Vrindavan. The name of the city has been derived from Vrinda (meaning basil) and van (meaning grove) which perhaps refer to the two small groves at Nidhivan and Seva Kunj. Since Vrindavan is considered to be a sacred place, a large number of people come here to abandon their worldly life. The city of Vrindavan hosts hundreds of Lord Krishna and Radha temples scattered throughout, the most famous ones being Banke Bihari temple, ISKCON temple. The vibrant surroundings perfectly depict the playful and benevolent nature of Lord Krishna. Located along the waters of River Yamuna, the numerous temples set amidst the thick woods and lush greenery of Vrindavan are the major attractions here. Also known as Vrindavan, this city derives its name from the groves of Brinda and Vana posture of the Krishna idol within the meaning forest. main chamber, an idol with a history. This idol is supposed to have been made Places to See in Vrindavan according to the image of Lord Krishna Govind Dev temple that Swami Haridas saw in a dream. The temple is one of the most thronged sites The Govind Dev Temple in Vrindavan, in town and during the Jhulan Utsav, the built in the 16th century by Raja Man temple administration brings out many Singh is an excellent example of gold and silver swings for the jhulan medieval Indian architecture. The rituals with a lot of pomp. building of this temple is closely Madan Mohan Temple associated with the famous Vaishnavite preacher and poet, Rupa Goswami. It is The Madan Mohan Temple is one of an astonishingly beautiful seven storey the oldest temples in the town of temple dedicated to Govind Dev, another Vrindavan and it sees many pilgrims name for Lord Krishna. The temple has visiting all through the year. It is a site an imposing facade, looking like a that is closely linked to the life of Sri European cathedral because of the Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, one of the most pillars and colonnades. It is made of red important personalities within the sandstone and is currently in a state of Vaishnavite thought. Situated near the considerable decay, with the main puja Kali Ghat, the Madan Mohan Temple is related activities having shifted to a said to have been built by one Kapur Ram smaller temple behind the main Das from Multan on the advice of structure. Sanatan Goswami, a saint and follower of Krishna Balaram Temple (ISKCON) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The original idol of Madan Mohan had been shifted to The Krishna Balaram Temple was Karoli, Rajasthan, under the rule of the established in 1975 under the aegis of Mughal king, Aurangzeb and now a ISKCON, an international Krishna replica of the original image is Consciousness religious group. The worshipped at the temple. Krishna Balaram Temple is one of the Shahji Temple most beautiful temple complexes in the city of Vrindavan and is seen as the The Shahji Temple, built in the mid- spiritual and religious center of the nineteenth century by the two brothers worldwide Hare Krishna movement. It from Oudh, Shah Kundan Lal and Shah has three temples within the complex, Phundan Lal, is another important and one belonging to Sri Gaura Nitai, one to prominent temple in the town of Lord Krishna and Balaram and the third Vrindavan. The temple is dedicated to to Sri Radha and her milkmaids, Vishaka the deity Sri Thakur Radha Raman Ji and Lalita. The temple is alive through and receives a steady flow of pilgrims all the year with its many celebrations across the year. One of the main commemorating every aspect and step of attractions of this temple is one of the Lord Krishna's life. richly carved verandahs, which has the Bankey Bihari Temple portraits of the two founders and their families beautifully carved into the floor of the more unusual temples of temple sees a great influx of tourists The Bankey Bihari Temple of - an unusual characteristic of a Hindu Vrindavan because of its South Indian during the Brahmotsav in spring, where Vrindavan is one of the most auspicious temple. The temple also has many rich style architecture with an impressive devotees pull the ropes of the chariot of temples in the town, established in the carvings over the walls and ceilings gopuram. The deity in the temple is the god. The annual Jalvihar festival is Mughal times by Swami Haridas, the inside. called Sri Ranganatha and is represented also another main attraction of the guru of Tansen, the famed court singer Rangaji Temple as sleeping on the Shesh Nag. The Rangaji Temple, when devotees from all of the Mughal emperor Akbar. The imposing Dhwajastambha within the over the country participate in the ritual temple earns its name from the bent Built in 1851, the Rangaji Temple is one temple premises is very famous. The bathing of the idol. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 30 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

CONTD FROM PAGE 1 Co-Chair of the Board of Governors Asia School of Indian American Arvind Krishna... Four Indian Americans among... Business, Kuala Lumpur, faculty director of the MIT- The executive changes, as well as the addition of India Program, and editor of the academic publication Krishna and Whitehurst to IBM's board of directors, Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern Journal of Accounting & Economics. In 2008, he served are effective April 6. Rometty, in a prepared statement, California and the Walter H. Stellner Distinguished as global head of equity research for Barclays Global called Krishna the right CEO for IBM's next era. Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois. He Investors, where he was responsible for research "Through his multiple experiences running was also on the faculty of Columbia University and supporting the firm's active equity strategies and for businesses in IBM, Arvind has built an outstanding MIT. managing a team of approximately 50 PhDs based track record of bold transformations and proven Also known as "Jag," Dr. Sheth has published more around the world. business results, and is an authentic, values-driven than 350 research papers and books in various areas of Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik, is emeritus professor at leader. He is well-positioned to lead IBM and its clients marketing, including consumer behavior, multivariate the Department of Economics at the University of into the cloud and cognitive era," she said in her methods, competitive strategy, relationship marketing California, a research associate for the Oxford Poverty statement. Rometty also praised Whitehurst as a and more recently, marketing for emerging markets. & Human Development Initiative, and a fellow of the seasoned leader who positioned Red has the leading Dr. Sheth is an American Psychological Association Human Development and Capability Association. open source enterprise IT software solutions and Fellow and past President of the Association for Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik services provider. "[He] has been quickly expanding the Consumer Research (ACR). He is also a Fellow of the is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and reach and benefit of that technology to an even wider American Marketing Association and the Academy of Welfare. Pattanaik received his degree in economics audience as part of IBM," she said in her statement. Marketing Science. Among his past and present from Utkal University,Odisha, India. He then went on to Rometty in 2012 became IBM's chairman, president, accolades, Dr. Sheth was the recipient of the Viktor study for his master's and doctorate, both in economics, and CEO, and in the last seven-plus years led IBM to Mataja Medal from the Austrian Research Society in at the prestigious Delhi School of Economics acquire 65 companies, including its $34-billion Vienna (1977) and the 1989 Outstanding Marketing University of Delhi.Pattanaik studied under, the Nobel acquisition of Red Hat, and develop strong cloud and AI Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Prize winning economist, Amartya Sen and his capabilities. Science. In 1991 and again in 1999, Dr. Sheth was also "leadership role" in the study of social choice theory However, she also presided over a time of financial recognized as the "Marketing Educator of the Year" by has been acknowledged by Sen. difficulties for IBM. The company's annual revenue Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI). Romesh T. Wadhwani founded the Symphony peaked in 2011 at just shy of $107 billion. However, the Dr. Sheth is the recipient of all top four academic Technology Group in 2002, which now a revenue of $2.5 revenue decline has been moderating, and IBM in the awards bestowed by the American Marketing billion annually. Earlier, Dr. Wadhwani founded Aspect fourth fiscal quarter of 2019 broke a five-quarter streak Association (AMA). These include the PD Converse Development, Inc., where he was chairman and CEO in revenue declines with revenue of $ 21.8 billion, up 0.1 Award for Marketing Theory (1998), Charles Coolidge until 1999 when the company was purchased by i2 percent over fourth fiscal quarter 2018. (Agencies) Parlin Award for Marketing Research (2004), the Technologies. For nearly a decade, he grew Aspect CONTD FROM PAGE 19 Richard D. Irwin/McGraw Hill Marketing Educator Development into a leader in business-to-business e- Award (2004) and the William L. Wilkie "Marketing for a commerce, culminating in the merger of Aspect with Cinematters/JCC host NY... Better World" Award (2014). In 1996, he was elected to be supply chain software company, i2 Technologies. This MLK Morning of Advocacy and Service: Story Pirates the Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing was one of the largest enterprise software mergers. Volunteering 'Story Pirates' still remembers the Science. Subsequent honors include the Outstanding Following the merger with i2, Dr. Wadhwani served as electrifying rush of receiving a supportive, handwritten Leadership Award by the AMA Foundation in 2002 and vice chairman of i2 and a member of the i2 Board of note from a teacher when they were kids. 'Story Love' is the Global Innovation Award and Marion Creekmore Directors. For the 10 years prior to founding Aspect, Dr. their way of showing students that they have read their Award, both from Emory University. Over the last 3 Wadhwani was founder, chairman, and CEO of Cimflex stories and care about what they have to say. Each year, decades, Dr. Sheth has received more than 30 awards as Teknowledge Corporation, a company specializing in 'Story Pirates' helps tens of thousands of children write a a thought leader in marketing, consumer behavior and products and systems for computer-integrated complete, original story. emerging markets. manufacturing. In the decade prior to that, he was Through the 'Story Love' program, positive, Prof S.P. Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of founder, chairman, and CEO of a company specializing personalized feedback for each and every story created in Accounting and Finance at the MIT Sloan School of in information systems for energy management. In the writing workshops are provided and the public is Management. Previously, he served as global head of addition, he has been a director on the boards of several welcomed to these events. Kids stories were read and equity research for Barclays Global Investors (BGI), companies and organizations. Last year, Wadhwani attendees were invited to write personal notes, one note, responsible for research supporting BGI's active equity ranked at number 261 of the Forbes list of 400 richest or stay the entire hour! strategies, from 2008-09. The actively managed equity Americans and at number 667 in Forbes list MLK Morning of Advocacy and Service: portfolio had in excess of $100 billion in assets, and the billionaires. Wadhwani moved from Karachi to India Community Cooks research team was comprised of approximately 50 PhDs during India's partition with his family at young age. This MLK Day, volunteers helped prepare a delicious based in San Francisco, London, and Sydney. He received a bachelor's degree from the Indian meal for the B'nai Jeshurun/Church of St. Paul and St. Earlier, Kothari was Head of the Department of Institute of Technology, Bomba y, and master's and Ph. Andrew Homeless Shelter. Jewish values and ideas Economics, Finance, and Accounting at the MIT Sloan D degrees in electrical engineering from Carnegie connected to hunger and homelessness were discussed. School of Management. This department included Mellon University. He established the Wadhwani MLK Morning of Advocacy and Service: approximately 75 professors and lecturers and an Foundation for economic development in emerging Environmental Activist Workshop administrative staff. economies, with an initial focus on India. In 2012, he Three established environmental advocacy Kothari's highly cited research focuses on financial inaugurated a new research center at the National organizations: Food & Water Watch, New York reporting and valuation, asset allocation, explaining Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru, Communities for Change, and Sunrise Movement taught the diversity in international accounting practices, use named after his late mother, Shanta Wadhwani. the basics of community organizing, using their work of employee stock options for compensating executives Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of with the 'Green New Deal' as a case study.This interactive and accounting for stock options, evaluating the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, workshop emphasized the skills necessary to mobilize on investment performance, and corporate uses of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. the causes that matter most to each participant! derivatives for hedging and speculation. The American The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of Activism Café Accounting Association (AAA) honored his work with activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science the 2014 Notable Contributions to Accounting and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, This was a morning of drop-in activities and action. Literature Award. For the past 17 years, Kothari has literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. Buttons sharing participants perspective on issues that served as an editor of the Journal of Accounting & 'Padma Vibhushan' is awarded for exceptional and matter to them, registering them to vote, buying and Economics, a world-renowned academic research distinguished service; 'Padma Bhushan' for donating to purchasing books for incarcerated adults, and journal in accounting. He is an expert on economic distinguished service of high order and 'Padma Shri' writing postcards to elected officials were some of the policy issues in India and has written numerous for distinguished service in any field. The awards are activities. Endless coffee was included. opinion-page editorials in The Economic Times. announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. To learn more about the JCC Manhattan's New York Mr. Kothari has spent nearly two decades at MIT, both For complete list of Padma awardees, visit to website Social Justice Film Festival, visit as a professor and as an administrator. He has also been www.theindianpanorama.news https://jccmanhattan.org/arts-film/film/cinematters THE INDIAN PANORAMA PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja Mohammad Shahzad, Zia Khan , Nisha Rani CHANDIGARH: Manjit Sidhu E-mail [email protected]; Phone: 646-247-9458 VICE PRESIDENT: Chitagam Saluja Vaaho Photographers, Vijay Shah -Photo Journalist. LUDHIANA: A.S. 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WELLINGTON (TIP): Virat Kohli inflicted more Super Overs misery on New Zealand as he helped India to a second successive victory in sudden death to win the fourth T20I. New Zealand have lost four limited-overs matches in Super Overs in the last six months, including the ODI World Cup final against England last year and the NEERAJ CHOPRA previous T20I match against India in Hamilton. QUALIFIES FOR Needing 14 to win the match after Tim Seifert (8) and Colin Munro (5) OLYMPICS WITH gave New Zealand a total of 13/1 in the Super Over, KL Rahul hit the THROWS OF 87.86M first ball from Tim Southee for six and the next for four before he was POTCHEFSTROOM (TIP): Star javelin thrower caught by Scott Kuggeleijn at deep Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics midwicket. Kohli then bunted two with a throw of 87.86m at the Athletics Central North runs down the ground and hit East meeting, returning to action after recovering Southee for four to take India to 16/1 from an elbow injury, here. and a 4-0 lead in the series. The 22-year-old Indian, who missed the entire 2019 season due to the injury, breached the Olympic Chase gone awry qualification mark of 85m with his effort during the The hosts had appeared to be international event on Tuesday. cruising to victory in the regulation “I’m happy with the result as I went in to the 20 overs on 159/3 and needing seven competition with mindset to warm-up for the season. runs from the final six balls bowled Once I did well with the first three throws (all being by Shardul Thakur. But they lost above 80m), I decided to push a bit harder in the four wickets in the over to finish on fourth attempt,” said Neeraj, the Asian Games and 165/7. run that would have given New today’s match owing to a shoulder Commonwealth Games gold medallist. Seifert had put New Zealand in a Zealand the win. injury. Pacer Tim Southee led the Another Indian in fray, Rohit Yadav threw 77.61m. position to win the game as he Opener Colin Munro had earlier Black Caps in his absence. Neeraj had missed the IAAF World combined with Ross Taylor (24) in scored 64 but threw his wicket Championships, the Diamond League and the Asian a 62-run partnership that was away after some lazy running led Pandey power Championships while recovering from the injury. broken in the final over. Seifert him being run out from a direct hit India had scored 165/8 in their 20 His last major international competition was the was then run out for 57, while by Kohli after he took a relay throw overs, with Manish Pandey 2018 Jakarta Asian Games where he won gold with a Daryl Mitchell was caught and from the outfield from Thakur. superbly marshalling the tail and national record of 88.06m. Mitchell Santner run out on the New Zealand captain Kane scoring his third half-century in The Indian had undergone a surgery in May 2019 to final ball attempting the second Williamson was ruled out of T20Is, finishing on 50 not out. treat the injury. He was expected to compete at the National Championship late last year but the AFI didn’t give him clearance, allowing him more time to Indian hockey superstar Rani Rampal bags heal. Djokovic powers past Federer ‘World Games Athlete of the Year’ award into Australian Open final LAUSANNE (TIP): India November. Apart from that she was MELBOURNE (TIP): Novak Djokovic shattered women's hockey captain Rani the player of the tournament in the the hopes of ailing rival Roger Federer Thursday to Rampal on Thursday won the 2019 FIH Women's Series Finals in sweep into a record eighth Australian Open final and World Games Athlete of the Year Hiroshima, among other highlights move closer to his 17th Grand Slam crown. award. The prize, which is voted for of 2019 for her and the team. In the 50th instalment of one of sport's greatest by the public, is given for International Hockey Federation rivalries, the Serb shrugged off a tentative start to outstanding performance, along (FIH) CEO Thierry Weil said: "On reinforce his recent dominance, showing no mercy to with social commitment and fair behalf of FIH and the global hockey the Swiss maestro in a 7-6 (7/1), 6-4, 6-3 win. behaviour. community, I would like to extend He will play either fifth seed Dominic Thiem or "It is my privilege and honour to our warmest congratulations to seventh-ranked German Alexander Zverev in win this award," said Rani. "The Rani for having been voted The Sunday's final, but it will take a monumental effort to award goes to my team and my World Games Athlete of the Year prize another title from the 32-year-old. country.It is always nice when your 2019. This is an acknowledgement of Of the seven Melbourne finals Djokovic has made, country recognises your effort. It is her outstanding performances - he has won them all. even better when the international together with her teammates - of If any extra motivation was needed, winning on sports community recognises it. her dedication to hockey and of her Sunday will see the Serb reclaim the number one Thank you so much to everyone who leadership. This prestigious Award ranking after Rafael Nadal was sent packing in the voted for me. 2019 was a great year is also a great recognition for last eight. for our team because we qualified hockey globally." for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. He added: "We are working hard As a team we want to make 2020 a for and look forward to having great year!" Hockey 5s as a demonstration sport The 25-year-old Rani has been at The World Games 2021." part of the Indian women's hockey There were initially 25 nominees, team since she was 15 years old and male and female, which were has made 240 appearances for the reduced to 10 in the final round of national team thus far. Rani played public voting. Among her rivals to an integral role in the team's the title were karate star Stanislav successful qualification for the 2020 Horuna of Ukraine, Canadian Tokyo Olympics, playing a key role powerlifting champion Rhaea Stinn in midfield and scoring what turned second leg of their Olympic and Janja Garnbret, a sport out to be the winning goal in the qualifier against the US in climbing star from Slovenia. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 32 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020