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Fortunately, on TV also whatever the award for Ye Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai rudiment in his thoughts and is ready work I did turned out to be a success as a team. He says, "Look styling to accept changes both in his business so now I don’t feel worried about doesn’t matter once your unit says we and life. He respects his customers a getting work. I get work. I have faced are a team in true sense of the word.” lot and keeps in mind their choices. a lot of struggle in my theatre days and Ye Rishta has got 102 awards till now Do you share any similarities with so I understand how to value my work. and has a loyal audience and now spni your character? Who is the ustaad of comedy? opular TV actors tell you the traditional off of Ye Risthe Hai Pyar Ke is also a Yes. Just like my character I am Kishore Kumar, Mehmood and Pfood they used to eat on Holi. talking point and generating good also a man of values and can’t Johnny Lever. They did and do Jasmin Bhasin: For me, Holi word of mouth.” We wish Rajan Shahi compromise on them. I can’t do comedy effortlessly. Nowadays, if you celebration is incomplete without gujiya. I and Director’s Kut all the very best for anything just for the sake of mock someone people will laugh on remember my mom used to make gujiya at producing heart touching shows. impressing people and creating a it but I think this not the true essence home for me on Holi. That is the traditional good image for myself. I am very real of comedy. I believe in doing food that we have on the festival and I love and a very straight-forward person. situational comedy and these people and miss those gujiyas. Nothing can match The difference in me and my character were masters at it. They never made the taste of my mother’s cooked gujiyas. is that I am not businessman. I can’t jokes on people that is why still Tinaa Dattaa: My mom makes ras sit at one place. I want to be in the field people enjoy watching their work. malai for us every year on Holi and I love and be creative. They are very expressive. And also the it. Without eating her ras malai, my holi is How difficult was it for you to evergreen Charlie Chaplin. If someone incomplete. I myself have tried to make it explore the genre of comedy? can make you cry or laugh without many times but the taste of ras malai made It is difficult to get into the skin uttering a word then no one can match by my mom is unbeatable. I can never match of the character — be it comic or him ever. up. intense or serious. You can’t say ki yeh There is a lot of competition in the Adaa Khan: My neighbour was a Ssharad Malhotra: As I am a Punjabi toh maine aaram se kar liya. Jis din industry. Does that affect senior Bengali and she used to make these yummy and for me, Holi without lassi is incomplete. actor yeh bolney lag jayega ki arey ye artists like you? ras malais every year on Holi. I remember Every year, we have lassi made at my place. toh mere liye kafee asaan thha that The scenario has changed in the on every Holi, she used to get ras malai for From childhood, till now, I have never shows arrogance and overconfidence. comedy genre. There are a lot of us and it used to taste delicious. I do eat Ras missed having lassi on Holi. So, I am sure It means you don’t want to grow as an formats that have come up. It is a malai at times but the ras malai which she I will have lassi this year as well. actor. never ending process. An actor or a used to make had a different taste. I used Shashank Vyas: Kachori is something Whenever I am given a character comedian will never be out of place. to love it, I miss eating it. which my mom makes on Holi. I love eating to play I try to understand his Everyone has a USP and they know Arjun Bijlani: As a kid, I remember kachori with achaar. My mom makes situation — mental and emotional. what they are good at or what they playing Holi with all my neighbours and on yummy kachori’s every year on Holi. So if Then I try to get hold on his lack in themselves. As far as I am the occasion of Holi, my dad used to make I am not shooting and I am in my background, family, body-language, concerned, I know that I am not good this yummy chana masala for all of us. So, hometown on the occasion of Holi, I accent, education and understand his at doing mimicry so I will never do it. while playing I used to come in between, definitely have kachori and achaar made by struggle story if any. I feel if someone Not am I comfortable in with under munch it and go back to play. my mom. has faced struggles in his life and then the belt kind of comedy so I won’t get rose to name and fame, he will always into it. I always love doing situational be grounded and jinkey paas baap- comedy rather and that is my forte. (    ) dada ka paisa hota hai unmey thoda Was there a moment when you arrogance dikhta hai. After observing thought of quitting? the smallest events of a character’s life Yes, definitely. There were two umbai’s nine-year-old and Super Guru Tushar Shetty On hearing this Tushar then I proceed towards the story. I projects where I thought of leaving MTejas Varma along with performed on Shakti and instantly bowed down to him believe in doing my homework and them because for me the work super guru Tushar Shetty have Govinda’s popular song Pak for his kind gesture. Tushar was keep experimenting. If you will not environment matters a lot. If I am not been mesmerising the viewers Chik Pak from their superhit elated by the compliment. research and experiment with your comfortable working in the week on week with their movie Raja Babu. Both actors characters then all your performances environment I do feel like quitting but powerful performances. were more than amazed and will become monotonous and I feel I have learnt ki aap jo bhi kaam lo Though, this is the first time for actually went speechless on that is the end of an actor. I don’t want ussey pura karo, beech mein mat choro Tushar as a guru, he has been seeing them dressed up like to repeat myself and that is what kyunki show aap se nahi apney naseeb highly appreciated by the super Nandu and Raja Babu. makes all the difference in one’s se chal raha hai. I always put aside judges for his choreography. Expressing his views performance. those feelings and remember how This time around he has Tushar’s choreography and Was it difficult for you to make a much efforts I have put into it and managed to impress Shakti performance Shakti Kapoor place for yourself in the industry? walking away is not the solution. 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The supporters dates are Samarendra Mishra Mohammed Muquim ncumbent MP Dr Prasanna “None but Patasani can of Das also staged a dharna in for Balangir and Saptagiri Ulka (Barabati-Cuttack), Ratnakar IPatsani still looks to be a match the waxing popularity front of the party office on Subash Chouhan’s supporters party office opposing ticket to Jayram Pangi as mark of protest. for Koraput seat. Behera (Cuttack Sadar), frontrunner in the BJD for the and the preparedness of Saturday but later withdrew it staged protest against BJP candidate Madhabananda The protestors raised ques- The candidates named Ganeswar Behera Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Sarangi in the ensuing election after being pacified by senior Padampur MLA Pradip Mallick for Basudevpur tion on the State BJP’s leadership for Assembly seats include (Kendrapada), Devendra seat in view of voluntarily- fray,” opined they. party leaders. Purohit and Union Petroleum Assembly constituency over distribution of ticket Ripunath Seth (Bijepur), Sharma (Ali), Anshuman retired bureaucrat Aparajita Tea stall vendors, auto- The party activists oppos- Minister Dharmendra demanding candidature for terming it as ‘injustice’ to six Saroj Mohapatra (Bhatli), Mohanty (Rajanagar), Sarangi fielded by the BJP, rickshaw pullers and common ing the candidature of Dola Pradhan in Bargarh after Dinabandhu Pati. aspirants in Laxmipur Assembly Mahendra Nayak Chiranjib Biswal according to some political people are also of the view that Gobind Nayak and Alekh Jena Suresh Pujari was nominated The tension also gripped seat. (Jharsuguda), Dr Prafulla (Jagatsinghpur), Biswa observers. the Baba with his magic wand for Rajanagar Assembly con- to contest the Lok Sabha polls the BJP party office at Laxmipur They alleged that Pradhan Majhi (Talsara), Amita Biswal Bhushan Das (Kakatpur), While many names of the in hand can give a tough fight stituencies respectively also from Bargarh. in Koraput district where the along with Pangi gave ticket to (Sundargarh), Prasant Sethy Umakant Baral (Brahmagiri), BJD are doing rounds for the to the BJP nominee, Sarangi. held a demonstration before Resentment also brewed party workers ransacked the former BJD leader Kumud, who (Raghunathpali), Muktikant Prasad Harichandan prestigious LS seat, five-time Otherwise, the bureaucrat with the party headquarters and among BJP workers over dis- office after Kumud Saunta got joined the party two months Biswal (Rourkela), Shovaram (Satyabadi), Rasmirekha MP Patasani, in view of his the winsome personality might shouted slogans against the tribution of tickets in Bhadrak the party ticket. They burnt the ago. They threatened mass res- Pradhan (Kuchinda), Bala Mohapatra (Ekamra- popularity and experience, have a cakewalk to the victory party leaders. district. effigies of Dharmendra Pradhan ignation if the party does not Krishna Rohidass (Rengali), Bhubaneswar), Suresh Kumar could be the last hope for the post. Similarly, BJP leader Irate workers locked up the and Koraput BJP president withdraw its decision. Ashwini Kumar Routray (Jatni), Subhashree Guru(Sambalpur), Assaf Ali Panda (Ranpur), Bhokali Khan (Redhakhole), Uma Setty (Khalikote), Sangram Shankar Sahoo (Deogarh), Mohanty (Surada), Prafulla +,  -./ " #    Jaydev Jena (Anandpur), Panda (Digapahandi), K Bidyadhar Dehury Surya Rao (Paralakhemundi),    .    (Keonjhar), Jadumani Barik Appalswamy Kadarka  * .    five Lok Sabha and 22 candidates are Suresh Pujari for The Assembly candidates Bhawanipatna- Pradeep Mohana-Prashant Mallik, (Champua), Sudam Charan (Rayagada), Kailash Chandra (P     Assembly seats in Odisha for Bargarh, Nitesh Ganga Deb for are: Bhatli-Irasis Acharya, Nayak, Dasapalla- Purna Gunpur-Shisir Gomang, Naik (Karanjia), Sudarshan Kulesika (Laxmipur) and the upcoming elections. Sambalpur and Jayaram Pangi Deogarh- Subash Panigrahi, Chandra Nayak, Rayagada-Basant Ulaka and Das (Jaleswar), Manojmanjari Chandrasekhar Majhi While party’s national for Koraput seat. Biramaharajapur- Raghunath Kabisuryanagar- Ranjan Polai, Jeypore- Goutam Samantray. Debi (Nilagiri), Bandita (Kotpad).  )* )0 spokesperson Sambit Patra has With Patro’s name figured Jagadala, Sonepur-Ashok Chhatrapur- Prashant Kar, With this, the BJP has so Parida (Korei), Nabin Nanda With the second list, the been chosen for Puri LS seat, in the list, all speculations Pujari, Balingir- Ananta Das, Aska- Debraj Mohanty, far announced candidates for (Dhenkanal), Subrat Garnik Congress has so far he BJP on Friday night State president Basant Kumar over fielding of Prime Minister Nuapada-Homesingh Majhi, Sorada- Nilamani Bisoi, a total of 119 Assembly seats (Pallahara), Suresh Chandra announced candidates for 90 Tannounced its second list Panda would fight from Narendra Modi from the Puri Jharigam- Parshuram Majhi, Berhampur- Kanhu Pati, and 15 Parliamentary con- Behera (Talcher), Biplab Jena Assembly seats and eight with names of candidates for Kalahandi seat. Other three seat have come to an end. Dabugaon- Padman Nayak, Digapahandi- Pinky Pradhan, stituencies. (Angul), Sasmita Behera Parliamentary seats. ,( ?C9  +     #+,          )* )0 BJD and the BJP, BJD which was shown at a Press  
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Besides, no action is being Those hoardings are not      ,   P  Questioning whether the taken by the CEO over the being removed despite repeat-  *.  model code is different for the BJP’s fake intelligence report ed complaints.  )* )0 lthough the name of can- 2 /2 )      Adidate for Anandpur  (  ven as all the political par- Assembly (SC) constituency is Eties claim to field more ter-in-law of the constituency,” going to be declared very soon women candidates for the said Pinky. by the BJD but there is no end    ensuing elections, interesting- With Pinky Pradhan, a to the public resentment "R ly Pinky Pradhan was found to total of 10 women have been against the sitting MLA be the lone woman named in named in the two lists of 119 Mayadhar Jena of the BJD.  +    the BJP’s second list of 22 Assembly candidates  )0 0* This has come to light Assembly candidates. announced so far by the saffron some days back recently when Pinky, an actor-turned party. he BJP workers of Bargarh a group of people from  )* )0 politician, would be contesting The other nine women Tand supporters of MP aspi- Anandpur constituency had polls from the Digapahandi candidates are Radharani rant Subash Chauhan protest- gone to Naveen Niwas to ocial activist and ‘Save constituency against senior Panda ( Brajarajnagar), Kusum ed the choice of Suresh Pujari express their displeasure with SOTM Movement’ leader BJD leader Surjya Narayan Tete (Sundargarh), Babita for Bargarh LS seat. the present MLA. Deepak Kumar Barik has Patro and Congress’ Prafulla Mallick (Binjharpur), Ritarani They burnt Union Their argument was that offered his candidature to Panda. Bagarti (Khariar), Archana Minister Dharmendra the public rapport of sitting the BJD for the Choudwar- “The ticket is not given to Pradhan (G Udayagiri), Pravati Pradhan’s photo on Saturday at MLA has dwindled while on Cuttack Assembly con- me, rather I will be represent- Parida (Nimapara), Surama Padmapur expressing their dis- the other hand, he has been stituency. ing Prime Minister Narendra Padhy (Ranpur), Irani Roy satisfaction over the selection keeping more contact with the Barik, who had fought as Modi in Digapahandi. I will (Nayagarh) and Bharati Behera of various nominees for MLA contractors and supporters of an Independent candidate contest the polls as the daugh- (Khalikote). seats of Bargarh district. other party. Whenever com- from the seat in the 2009 elec- They alleged that there is mon people approach him for tions and emerged second a conspiracy to defeat Pujari in any problem, they find him with 25, 718 votes, has sub- Bargarh. absent in the locality. mitted his bio-data to BJD !) P   *  ! They said Chauhan is a Under the circumstances, if supremo Naveen Patnaik. great organizer and has been he is once again given the Having been in politics Choudwar Municipality.   * 0* their leaders came in a grand and State president Basant working for the party organi- chance, the BJD might face since his student days as pres- Twelve out of 19 councillors rally from Nuapatna of Tigiria  )* )0 Panda. zation work in Bargarh since defeat. They demanded for a ident of the Paradip College were elected as independent PCC general secretary block and reached at the Rishabh said he joined long. new face preferably a woman- Union, he has always played candidates in 2008. Oand aspirant for Athagarh meeting place at Athagarh ishabh Nanda, son of BJD the saffron party after being The selection of nominee candidate keeping in view the a vital role in forming Similarly, five indepen- Assembly seat Uma Ballav old Bus Stand where they RRajya Sabha member and driven by ideals of Prime in the Bhatli Assembly con- candidates of both BJP and Students’ Unions in the dent candidates were elected Rath organised a grand Yuba lashed out at ruling BJD and spokesperson Prashanta Minister Narendra Modi and stituency was also protested by Congress. Choudwar College for 13 under his leadership in 2013. Garjan Samabesh here on local MLA Ranendra Pratap Nanda, joined the BJP here developmental works done the BJP workers. times. In his profile submitted to Thursday. Swain for corruption and lack on Thursday. by his Government. # *  He has also been spear- the BJD supremo, Barik Cuttack Lok Sabha ticket of growth in the locality. 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Pramad Padhy, a  *     Minister Duryodhan Majhi Panda, Majhi stated that Lal on Saturday paid tributes to ing as Youth Empowerment Diwas', Deputy Commissioner senior BJD leader of the dis- joined the BJD on Saturday. despite repeated requests to Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Day," Capt Amarinder tweet- Chander Gaind accompanied trict, said, “The general elec- The tribal leader joined the party leadership to contest Sukhdev on their death ed. people to the martyrs' memo- tions are different from the  2 3    4 the BJD in the presence of from the Khariar Assembly anniversary observed as Manohar Lal in his tweet rial in a special train. The DC Panchayat election. Due to the party supremo Naveen seat, his plea fell on deaf ears. 'Shaheed Diwas' (Martyr's wrote, "Homage to the fearless interacted with the people, influence of the BJP led   0 0* transfer of one case from Patnaik. It may be mentioned that Day). and revolutionary freedom listened to their grievances and Chhattisgarh Government Howrah railway police. The five-time MLA ended Mahi had quit the BJD in 2014 "My tributes to Shaheed-e- fighters — Bhagat Singh, directed officials concerned to then, the BJP performed well in team of Railway Police According to the details avail- his stint with the BJP after the after he was denied a ticket to Azam and Shaheed Sukhdev & Rajguru & Sukhdev who sac- resolve their problems in a the Panchayats adjacent to the AForce (RPF) nabbed three- able in the FIR, one Gaurav party fielded former BJP MLA contest the polls. Rajguru on their Shaheed rificed their lives for the time-bound manner. Chhattisgarh border. inter-State looters and recov- Kumar, a businessman of But now the situation is ered a whopping amount of Rs Kolkata along with two of his different in Chhattisgarh. So 2.23 crore from them on Friday. employees had boarded a train this time, the BJD will perform The accused were identi- No. 12906 from Howrah at well in the bordering areas.” fied as Ranjan Sribastav (58), a about 10.50 pm on March 2 0()!-1-),2 0(230(4.     ( native of Ranchi and Sanjay along with two big size trolley Gupta (42) and Sunil Gupta bags. /''  (39), both native of Patna, Kumar’s staffs had noticed %/ .% . major issue in Punjab. kids, know who is responsible As per my assessment, Bihar. They were forwarded to at Jharsuguda that one of their Employees are holding protests, for that. They did everything Your alliance with AAP Harsimrat (Badal) would not SDJM Court at Jhrasuguda on bags was missing, which RANJIT SINGH BRAHM- there are no jobs. deliberately...They committed seems to not working out also contest from Bathinda. She will    Saturday. reportedly contained about Rs PURA, the SAD (Taksali) pres- sins...and now, they should be because of Sri Anandpur Sahib contest from Ferozepur. It is Sources said their modus 3.14 lakh cash and some ident, and Khadoor Sahib MP, What about panthic issues punished for this. Even children parliamentary seat even though because they fear...they have     operandi was they followed cloths."The accused and cash was once a friend of the Akalis, as other political parties are are against the Badal family, they you have been offered Bathinda fear because people are against passengers carrying valuables were handed over to us on but now has turned into a bit- seeking votes on Kartarpur know that they did a wrong constituency by them. the Badals’ and their Akali Dal. including cash from Howrah Friday and after completion of ter foe. After fighting and win- Sahib corridor, and other thing...In 2017 Punjab assembly Bir Devinder Singh is the Their position is not good as  7/ 0 and committed the crime formalities, they have been ning battles for them, such issues? election, SAD faced a sharam- suitable choice for Anandpur people are against them. But, between Howrah and forwarded to court at Brahmpura is attacking his com- Gurudwara Kartarpur naak haar (shameful defeat)...At Sahib and he would contest from they have to contest the elec- he Koraput district admin- Jharsguda. Jharsuguda on Saturday, since rades for whom he once trained Sahib is a religious place...lead- that time too, people espressed there only. He is well-educated tions. Tistration on Saturday The Government Railway the case has been registered his guns. Leading the Badals-led ers and political parties should their anger by not voting for and has a strong position among clamped prohibitory orders Police meanwhile is investi- there," said SP, GRP, Rourkela, Akali Dal’s breakaway faction — not use it for political gains. SAD. And this time too, SAD all in Anandpur Sahib...And in You have decided not to under Section 144 of CrPC fol- gating the case as the looters are Ajay Pratap Swain. "We are fur- Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali), Opening of Kartarpur Sahib would meet the same fate. case alliance would not work out, contest elections this time lowing a group clash between suspected to be involved in a ther investigating the case, as Brahmpura has decided against corridor was a long pending we will work out on which seats despite being sitting MP? two villages under Sadar police number of passenger loot cases. we suspect the arrested persons contesting 2019 LS elections demand of the Sikhs, not only Initially you were part of we would field our candidates, When we formed the party, station in the district on Friday. Sources said a case was reg- are part of a gang that has been and working for the party, while in Punjab but all over the Punjab Democratic Alliance and contest elections separately I had stated that this is the new Sources said four platoons istered with the Jharsuguda involved in train passengers’ making it clear that he would world. The corridor should (PDA), and then started talks as we all are separate parties. party and we need to work for it. of BSF personnel and three pla- GRP on March 20, following loot incidents," Swain added. again enter the electoral ring if open, and all should have open with Aam Aadmi Party Because if we contest the polls, toons of Odisha police have needed be. A veteran, sitting access to the Gurudwara sahib. (AAP). Now Sukhpal Khaira After fielding Bir who will work for the party and been deployed in the area to Khadoor Sahib MP, believed that But politics on this should be has urged you to reconsider Devinder Singh from Sri strengthen it, take the new party prevent any untoward inci- the people of the state would not avoided. Everyone knows that returning in PDA. What you Anandpur Sahib and former forward! We had taken this vow dent. $ P   forgive the Badals and the SAD no political party did it. It is a have to say? Army chief General JJ Singh at Sri Darbar Sahib while launch- Besides, Koraput SP KV for their paap (sins) and they decision taken by the These young politicians, from Khadoor Sahib, can we ing the party that we — that is I, Singh, SDPO Sagarika Nath would face sharamnaak haar Governments of two countries. (Sukhpal) Khaira saab, and Bains expect more big faces as SAD Dr Saab (Dr Rattan Singh and four IICs have also been ,- .  (shameful defeat) in May 19 No doubt, (Navjot Singh) Sidhu (Simarjeet Singh Bains)...They Taksali candidates? Ajnala), and Sewa Singh engaged in the locality. A flag elections in Punjab. Excerpts and other leaders made efforts don’t have any experience of life. There is still two months for Sekhwan, and senior leaders — march was also conducted in from the interview: but there should be no politics. Their way of dealing with oth- the elections. We are in talks with would not contest the polls. In the sensitive area to defuse the 
   lier won Best film award in ers, their way of functioning and some parties, other than AAP, for case we would not have avowed tension. ‘Human Rights Short Film What, according to you, You parted ways with the working style, I feel they are alliance. It may be possible that that, we would contest the elec- On Friday, a clash broke  )   Festival’ Bangladesh, com- would be the main issues dur- SAD, and blamed the Badals proudy (read arrogant). They we would field our candidates on tions. out between two groups of peting among 738 films from ing this election? for their failure to act in 2015 have started considering them- some of the seats. We will see I had contested the previous Dhepaguda and Kundariguda  )* )0 82 countries. Unemployment is a major sacrilege cases and the relat- selves as the chief minister, and how to go about it. We still have polls and won from a big margin. villages over past enmity while It was declared finalist at issue across the nation. India’s ed firing incidents wherein would do this or that...There is time...will decide in a week or so! It is not as if I have some appre- they had gone to a nearby canal ity-based Abhishek 16th Frames Film Festival farmers are also suffering due two persons died. Is the issue still three years to go for the next hensions or to take bath after celebrating CSwain’s silent short film held in Navi Mumbai to Government’s apathetic atti- still relevant? election. They should go slow What is your strategy fear from contesting polls...I will Holi. “Life Drop” has been selected and also selected at tude. Then drugs menace is a Everybody in Punjab, even and work sincerely. against the Badals? work or the party. Several persons from both to be screened at Global India Velcom Smart Film, Russia. the groups were injured due to International Film Festival. This is Swain’s thirrd stone pelting during the clash. The film was screened on short film which was pro- ;
 $!!($   When the situation went out of Saturday at the National Film duced by Chitta Ranjan control, police reached the Achieve of India, Pune. Nanda. spot and opened blank fire to This film shows ‘A child Chandigarh: Every Financial resentatives, the CEO apprised continuously working on Election Commission of India. large proportion of buyers, disperse the mob. dies in every 30 sec- activity of any candidates that the Election Commission assigned tasks", he said. The Punjab CEO said who purchases goods through Besides, vehicular traffic on ond due to lack of should be gauged minutely to of India has framed rules to Raju said the election Banks should ensure that there e-commerce companies. National Highway-26 was dis- unsafe water in rural provide level playing field to all conduct fair, transparent and expenditure limit for the per- is no difficulty in opening an If a candidate or concerned rupted for over two hours due areas.’ candidates, Punjab Chief peaceful elections besides giv- son interested to contest the account as per Election person purchases large number to the clash. It was shot in trib- Electoral Officer S. Karuna ing all candidates and parties elections has been fixed Rs.70 Commission instructions and of goods through online pay- al areas of Bonda hills, Raju on Saturday instructed level playing field. "As per the lac by the Election Commission every financial activities of ment, he / she should also be 
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Lohia always believed that on Saturday said its national senting to his grandson Prajwal “schizophrenic” and alleged Singh, Sardar Patel, Dr socialist ideologue Ram the parties formed on socialist Hitting out at the Congress, dynastic politics was inimical to president and former Prime Revanna. that the party tries to co-opt Ambedkar and Dr Lohia and Manohar Lohia to hit out at ideology. Modi said whenever Lohia democracy. He would have been Minister HD Deve Gowda will Amid doubts about icons like Mahatma Gandhi, on the other hand they follow socialist parties by dubbing as Modi claimed Lohia would spoke, the Congress "trembled flabbergasted to see his 'follow- contest the Lok Sabha poll Gowda contesting the polls, BR Ambedkar and Ram "reprehensible" be "proud" of the NDA with fear". He said Lohia had ers' think about their own fam- from Tumkur. as he had earlier indicated Manohar Lohia but follows their efforts to Government led by the BJP for once claimed that during the ilies first instead of the nation," The 85-year-old JD(S) he would not, there was people who these leaders form a grand following his ideas. Congress regime neither agri- he wrote. patriarch had earlier expressed speculation that he may disagreed with. alliance with "Dr Lohia's thoughts inspire culture and industry nor the Modi alleged that these par- doubts about contesting the contest from Bangalore The remarks by the SP the Congress. us. He wrote about modernising Army improved. ties are "experts at grabbing polls, saying he was thinking North. Though there was chief came in response to He said Lohia agriculture and empowering "These words can accurate- power, looting as much as pos- about his “usefulness” in the pressure within JD(S) for Prime Minister Narendra would be "hor- farmers, which the NDA ly describe even subsequent sible and exploiting others. Poor national capital. their party supremo to Modi's blog in which he dubbed people who these leaders rified" as most of these parties Government is effectively doing Congress regimes, where farm- people, tribals, Dalits, OBCs “Former PM and JD(S) contest from Bangalore North, the efforts of regional parties to opposed and disagreed with." claim to be his followers. through efforts such as PM ers were harassed, industry was and women are not safe in their national president HD Deve it was apprehensive about form a grand alliance with the In a blog to mark the 109th In a blog to mark the 109th Kisan Samman Nidhi, Krishi discouraged (except if they rule because these parties give a Gowda will contest from Congress' complete support Congress as "reprehensible", birth anniversary of Lohia, birth anniversary of Lohia, Modi Sinchai Yojana, e-Nam, Soil belonged to friends and relatives free run to criminals and anti- Tumkur Parliamentary con- there as most party's MLAs saying socialist ideologue Ram Modi alleged, "Today those alleged, "Today those parties Health Cards and more," he said of Congress leaders) and nation- social elements."He said people stituency as JD(S)-Congress there are considered close to Manohar Lohia would be "hor- parties that falsely claim to be that falsely claim to be Dr. in the blog shared on Twitter. al security was ignored," the PM should realise as as to how can combined candidate,” JD(S) Gowda's bete noire rified" as most of these parties Dr Lohia's followers are des- Lohia's followers are desperate to Referring to gender inequal- wrote. Noting that anti- those who betrayed Lohia be spokesperson Ramesh Babu Siddaramaiah. claim to be his followers. perate to form an opportunis- form an opportunistic 'maha- ity, the Prime Minister said Congressism was Lohia's "heart expected to serve the nation. said in a statement. It was feared that the Accusing the BJP of prac- tic 'maha-milawat' or adulter- milawat' or adulteration alliances nothing pained Lohia more than and soul", Modi said, "Today they are betraying Gowda will file his nomi- MLAs may seek to take tising double standards, Yadav ation alliances with the same with the same Congress (which the caste hierarchy and inequal- "Unfortunately, today Lohia the principles of Dr Lohia, nation on March 25, he said, revenge for the former Chief wrote on Twitter, "I wonder Congress (which Lohia Lohia opposed). It is both iron- ity between women and men. would be horrified at the polit- tomorrow they will also betray adding that JD(S) and Minister's defeat from which principles are being spo- opposed). It is both ironical and ical and reprehensible." "But neck deep in vote bank ical developments taking place." the people of India," Modi Congress leaders will be pre- Chamundeshwari in the 2018 ken of. The BJP seems to be reprehensible." The Samajwadi Party, Janata politics, it was parties that dis- "Those parties that claim alleged. sent on the occasion. Assembly polls. & %*&   ,'
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Isha Khan Chowdhury who is Aghadi (BVA) and Yuva Launching a blistering AChief Minister Ashok the caller that he should speak Congress president Rahul “On two sides of the political contesting in place of his cousin Swabhimani Paksha (YSP) will attack against the ruling BJP, Chavan on Saturday dismissed to Mukul Wasik, who was Gandhi on Saturday attacked spectrum are: Congress which sister and sitting MP Mausam +   . .)# fight one seat each. Chavan said: “We have formed speculation about his impend- “calling the shots” in the selec- both Narendra Modi and is fighting for the unity of the Benazir Noor who is contest- Addressing a joint news Mahaghatbandhan by involv- ing resignation as the tion of candidates for the state. Mamata Banerjee with match- country and the BJP-RSS which ing on a Trinamool Congress fter weeks of close-door conference with NCP’s State ing political parties represent- Maharashtra Pradesh Congress "But Mukul Wasnik is no one ing ferocity, calling the former want to drive a wedge between ticket. Aconfabulations, the president Jayant Patil and for- ing all sections of the society Committee president, after an in front of you," the caller said. ‘a vendor of lies’ and the latter castes and communities.” Attacking Noor for betray- Congress and NCP on Saturday mer Deputy Chief Minister Ajit including farmers, labourers, audio tape in which he is At one stage, Chavan is ‘an autocrat of sorts’ who does Piercing the Prime ing the people as “you elected formalised the seat-sharing Pawar, Maharashtra Pradesh women, Dalits, minorities, heard telling a party worker heard saying: “I have also “whatever she likes.” Minister with the Chowkidar her on Congress ticket but she arrangement for the Congress Committee (MPCC) youth and oppressed sections. that ‘No one is listening to me. informed the party. Nobody is Incidentally, Gandhi’s spike Gandhi said Modi is a switched over to the TMC “Mahaghatbandhan” con- president Ashok Chavan said: The NDA Government is I am planning to resign" went listening to me. I am planning attack comes weeks after person who not only “tells lies under pressure from that party,” stituents in Maharashtra, with “There are in all 56 political par- indulging in “Jumle baji”. T h e r e viral in the State. to resign”. Congress leader in Lok Sabha throughout the day,” but also Gandhi said the people will the two main parties, deciding ties in Maharashtra’s is a lot of unhappiness among An audio tape of a con- A former Chief Minister of and his senior party colleague “functions as a chowkidar take account of their betrayers. to contest 24 and 20 seats Mahaghatbandhan. Leaders of common people in the state. versation between Chavan and Maharashtra, Chavan was Mallikarjun Kharge joined (watchman) of the rich people.” Noor however said she had respectively and leave the all political parties are present The BJP-Sena Government has a party activist from questioned about the audio Banerjee along with 21 other The common people like turned coat inspired by the remaining four seats to small- here”. wreaked havoc in the State. It Chandrapur, who identified tape in circulation at a news national leaders in a the unemployed, farmer work- good works done by Mamata er parties. Apart from the Congress, has failed to deliver on all himself as one Rajurkar, in conference called to announce Mahagathbandhan (grand ers do not need chowkidars, he Banerjee. Under the seat-sharing NCP and three other con- fronts. Our intention to throw which the former expressed the formalisation of the seat- alliance) rally in Kolkata. The said insisting only “the rich Taking on Banerjee for arrangement hammered stituents, the other major con- out Governments at the Centre desire from his post as the State sharing arrangement among rally was held on February 19 people like Anil Ambani” need giving Bengal an autocratic among the constituents of stituents in the Opposition’s and in the State. Congress chief went viral on the “Mahaghatbandhan” con- from where all the leaders them. Attacking Modi for Government Gandhi said, “it is “Mahaghatbandhan”, the umbrella coalition include: the Chavan charged that the Saturday. stituents in the State. vouched for a united India “defending the corrupt and a one-man show going on in Congress will contest 24 seats People’s Republic Party Amit Shah-led party was prac- In the mobile conversa- Though he indirectly and united Opposition to fight fugitives” like Mehul Chowksi, Bengal. The person who runs out of the total 48 Lok Sabha (Kavade), RPI tising “Saam, dham, Dhand, tion, the caller voiced resent- admitted that the tape was gen- down a “communal BJP.” Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya this Government never takes seats in the State, while the (Democratic),Swabhimani Bhed” politics and said that ment over the nomination of uine one, Chavan said that a Mendacity is the hallmark who have defrauded the banks anyone’s suggestions. She does NCP will field candidates in 20 Republican Paksha, Bhim Sena, many smaller parties were suf- Vinayak Bangade as a private conversation had no of the Prime Minister, Gandhi of thousands of crores of rupees whatever she likes,” adding the constituencies. Of the remain- United Republican Paksha, fering because of the ques- Congress candidate for the relevance in politics. He clar- said in North Malda from Gandhi said the Prime Minister present Government was “not ing four seats, the smaller par- Maharashtra Muslim Sangh, tionable politics indulged in by Chandrapur Lok Sabha seat ified that he had no plans to where he commenced his elec- had “taken the common man’s better than the one run by the ties — Raju Shetti-led All India Vimukta Bhatkya the principal ruling party. and said that the party cadres quit as the MPCC chief. toral campaign in Bengal. 30,000 crore to fill the pock- previous Left Front.” '##    " 

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'/< scored for Venezuela at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, while Lautaro Martinez replied for Argentina. 3     Messi hadn't played an international since the 4- 3 loss to France in the round of 16 at the World Cup in Russia. 3 0# "He played a good game" Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said. "The chances we created were thanks to aheem Sterling showed that he is him." coming of age on the international Messi showed his usual deft skills and his long-range Rstage as his hat-trick saw England shot in the 38th minute was headed for the top corner start their Euro 2020 qualifying cam- until Venezuela goalkeeper Wuilker Farinez Aray tipped paign by hammering the Czech the ball over the crossbar. Republic 5-0, while Antoine Griezmann Messi helped set up Argentina's 58th-minute goal inspired France to a battering of with a pass to Giovani Lo Celso, who eventually fed Moldova. Martinez inside the area. Manchester City attacker Sterling Venezuela had opened the scoring in the fifth had scored just two goals in his first 45 0       minute when Rondon ran on to a long pass into the caps, but he now has five in his last three     0     penalty area and sent a right-footed shot beyond goal- international appearances following   P    #?#?@    keeper Franco Armani. Friday's treble, which helped England A  $   . Murillo made it 2-0 just before halftime by curl- storm to the top of Group A ahead of ing the ball away from Armani just inside the far post. Monday's trip to Montenegro, who Venezuela's fast counterattacks were a nightmare drew 1-1 at Bulgaria. for Argentina throughout and Martinez sealed victo- Sterling opened the scoring in the has looked like that all week in training. break and Kylian Mbappe completed the a goalless draw in Lisbon. ry by converting a 75th-minute penalty. 24th minute when he tapped home I'm pleased for him, it is a special night rout with three minutes left, before The draw was the first time Santos' "It's satisfying to earn a victory against a team like Jadon Sancho's cross, and struck twice for him," coach Gareth Southgate said. Vladimir Ambros claimed a late con- side have failed to score at home in 19 Argentina," Venezuela coach Rafael Dudamel said. more in the second half to put the result "I think he's really matured as a per- solation for Moldova. matches and leaves them second in the Dudamel surprisingly offered his resignation after beyond doubt after Harry Kane fired son and a footballer. He's hungry for Griezmann would have had two group behind Luxembourg, who beat the match. He told a news conference he was not happy home his 21st England goal from the goals and hitting things instinctively more assists had Giroud and Paul Lithuania 2-1. about the political use of a visit by a government offi- penalty spot. without thinking too much." Pogba been more clinical in front of William Carvalho had a fine head- cial before Friday's game in Madrid, and said his future "It was a beautiful team performance goal, but France's display was easily er ruled out for offside in the 16th would be decided in talks with federation officials in and I was happy to help the team get the + 7%  enough for the three points and top spot minute and Ronaldo, Pepe and Andre the coming days. win," Sterling said. France also got off to a perfect start in the group ahead of Iceland and Silva all went close to opening the scor- The last time Argentina played at the Metropolitano Sterling has 24 goals for club and after an older head in Antoine Turkey, 2-0 winners against Albania and ing, but Ukraine stopper Andriy Pyatov it lost 6-1 to Spain in a World Cup warmup in 2018. country this term and his impressive (  ,      < Griezmann spurred the world champi- Andorra respectively. was on fine form to deny them. Argentina will play another friendly on Tuesday form is a fry cry from the dark days   0      ons on to a comfortable 4-1 victory at "We played a very consummate first In the end the away side could have against Morocco in Tangier. Scaloni said he hadn't when he was vilified as England crashed Moldova. half in terms of control and attacking snatched the three points through decided whether Messi would play in that game. out of Euro 2016. Griezmann opened the scoring organisation. The second half was less Junior Moraes, only for the debutant to Argentina has not won a trophy since the 1993 "I'm just being confident in myself, debut. with his 27th France goal in the fulfilling due to substitutions," said fluff a golden chance to grab a shock Copa America. It lost the last two finals of the tour- I'm trying to get in areas and take shots, The 18-year-old who has 24th minute of their Group H coach Didier Deschamps. win. nament to Chile, in 2015 and 2016. It also lost the 2014 not to worry about anything," he added. shone in the Bundesliga for encounter before crossing for "We've opened our campaign well "We didn't play as we wanted to. We World Cup final to Germany. England carried the momentum Borussia Dortmund, gave Raphael Varane to double the and the second game comes around started slowly, not pressing the way we The Copa America will be held in Brazil in June. from a run to the World Cup semi-finals England fans further cause for scores three minutes later. quickly. In three days we have do it wanted," said Manchester City mid- Venezuela on Monday plays a Catalunya team that and qualification for the last four of the excitement, with his potential adding to Olivier Giroud equalled David again." fielder Bernardo Silva. is expected to include former Spain players Gerard Pique Nations League into the Euro qualifiers that of Sterling and Kane coming into Trezeguet as Les Bleus' third highest Cristiano Ronaldo drew a blank on "The second half we tried to create and Xavi Hernandez. and blooded young hopeful Sancho, their prime. scorer of all time with his 34th inter- his return to international football after chances to go after the game but unfor- who impressed on his full England "I thought Raheem was electric. He national goal nine minutes before the nine months away, as Ukraine battled to tunately we didn't score." ..       3  ; L% 3 .0# ionel Messi will miss Argentina's friendly Lagainst Morocco next week after picking up chance of winning. % + /  3 *07* a groin injury in the shock 3-1 defeat to It initially looked easy for South Venezuela. Africa, who scored 180 for three 3  '("& aron Finch's fine century drove Australia Barcelona star Messi started the fixture fol- after being sent in, with Reeza &  / +% Ato a convincing eight-wicket win over a lowing a self-imposed eight-month exile in Hendricks hitting a fluent 65 and 
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No wonder addition to posing and photographing) is by Ied from the hills of Shimla to the plains of consciousness: “Delhi heat” (Dilli ki garmi), then, that across the country, temporary wearing something warm and woolen. There Delhi, the inherent perplexity of this and simi- “Shimla chill” (Shimla ki thand). Consequently, amusement parks under the rubric of ‘Winter is a joke amongst Himalayan folks that peo- lar statements being temporality itself assumes a different tenor for Wonderlands’ routinely spring during the sea- ple from the plains, even while visiting the uttered by the Capital’s people habituated to varying vistas and weath- son, and snow — even if artificially created — hills in the thick of summer, automatically residents comes with a ers, the lengthiness of summer holidays in gets excitedly sought after by one and all. don layers of woolens, because for them, it is charm of its own, for plains finding an equivalent counterpart in the Snow is the silent cousin of sonorous rain. enough that they are in the hills. But there is winteriness remains in protracted winter breaks of hills and moun- Extravagantly celebrated in culture, from ritu- another joke to do with the woolens amongst the blood and the tains for school children. als to poetry and cinema, rains in India dictate the Himalayan folk regarding themselves. mind. In fact, if there is One key reason for the ‘automatic’ link a season of their own (the monsoon), the land Once, when someone from the upper reaches something that has qui- that people draw between Shimla (and many after all bearing an overwhelmingly hot, tropi- of the Kullu valley (other versions say etly yet most effica- other hill stations) and winters is the shape  *+*## 0 cal topography. Unlike many European Lahaul-Spiti) was visiting Delhi during a hot ciously helped me and that the season takes as a result of natural nations whose de rigueur damp atmospheres summer, a perplexed local enquired: “Don’t my family during the topography and architecture. 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On similar country, it isn’t uncommon to witness a spell of of water for various forms, because water by + . 0 is not always easy to make sense of this inher- lines, I too have occasionally wondered why snow well into March, a period that otherwise itself is transparent and shapeless. Snow bears ently contradictory hue, and I still remember do we drape a snowman in a woolen cap and coincides with the youthful ‘warmth’ of spring testimony to countless visual profiles as  0 R * my childhood classes where drawing snow a woolen scarf when he himself is made of and Holi. Just as seasons behave differently in evinced by the intricate lure of geometrical 0#- * invariably posed a difficulty, so that we usually snow? 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rban lifestyle can be a bane as much for the treatment of infertility by the doc- as a boon. The diseases and health tors wherein the cells could be stimulat- Udisorders that one becomes prone ed in vitro to develop various numbers of to in cities appear to become more wide- specialised cells including male and female spread due to the rapid industrialisation gametes, given their potential use in of the country. Human health is a result reproductive medicine. Primordial germ of the contact of genetic, nutritional, cells (PGCs) are some of the first cells to socio-cultural, economic factors and phys- be developed when an egg cell is fertilised ical infrastructure. All these factors are by a sperm. While some cells remain inside influenced by the environment they are eventually developing into the fetus, other embedded in and by changes in this envi- cells on the outside become the placenta. ronment. Most of the inner cells become stem cells, Around the country, lifestyle disorders capable of turning into any kind of spe- like diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular cialised cell, and a small number of them diseases are already affecting the health and become PGCs, carrying the genetic infor- well-being of thousands of people every- mation that will one day be passed down day. Stem cell therapies carry an immense as sperm or egg. Researchers have been potential in treating the incurable and irre- able to create these PGCs. However, they versible lifestyle diseases like diabetes, heart are yet to determine whether a PGC can disease, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, be turned into a sperm or egg cell. bringing this therapy at the centre stage of medical evolution. However, there are cer-   tain other lifestyle disorders that are tak- As people grow old, a large number of cells he concepts of ‘digital skills’ and the necessary skills to accelerate innova- knowledge-exchange and collaboration ing a toll on the human health like hair fall, in their bodies get replaced and with age, ‘digital competencies’ have bro- tion and drive economic growth?” This amongst students in different locations. ageing, blindness and infertility (vitiligo is their body’s ability to reproduce new cells ken through the confines of the creates a gap between what is needed and 0 *#+00 also quite prominent these days). Here decreases immensely. Body fat is the rich- information technology (IT) what is available. The sharp rise in ;; 0 .## Digital competency: With automation again, Stem Cell Therapy acts as a regen- est source of adult stem cells in the industry in recent years. They demand for data-driven capabilities, such  0  */ and artificial intelligence poised to replace erative medicine to promote the reparative human body. They carry the incredible haveT become highly relevant yardsticks as analytics and digital marketing, is cre- resource-heavy and repetitive tasks with- reaction of dysfunctional or injured tissue. capacity to not only divide to form more against which organisations across indus- ating a severe skill gap in the labour mar-  #  in organisations, schools can help their Let’s scan through the battle between stem stem cells, but also to differentiate into spe- tries measure the most-valued resource: ket. It is estimated that over half of the students improve future employability by cells and the following lifestyle disorders cialised cells to regenerate dying or dam- Their human capital. All eyes are on the businesses worldwide are being affected );# ;0 . preparing them for the human-machine and problems: aged tissues. Stem cell treatments help in upcoming generation of workers — by digital talent shortage, according to a # 0# +/ partnership from today. The provision of reloading the supply of stem cells, allow- known as the most digitally adept gener- report by Capgemini and LinkedIn. The student access to digital learning tools and   ing the body to repair and rejuvenate with ation yet — to see how they can apply crit- threat of labour shortage is becoming very # # + )0# # robotics/AI labs can have far-reaching Hair loss is a frustrating and embarrass- younger looking skin. By inserting these ical thinking skills and technology knowl- real for local Indian organisations. * *+* impacts in terms of shaping the next gen- ing experience for every man and woman stem cells combined with some fat tissue edge to achieve new levels of human Whilst the Government is placing an eration of digital workforce. with increasing age. Voluminous hair is into the areas of the face with wrinkles, the progress in the highly technologically urgent focus on implementing training *#0  * + / associated with vitality and youth. No won- face is softly altered without letting it lose advanced workplace of tomorrow. programmes and skills-building initiatives C0#  Innovation: It is important to help young der, people are always on the lookout for its distinctiveness. The new workplace expectations — notably with the launch of Skills India curious minds understand that technol- some solution that truly works and does- poses an important challenge to India’s — these measures only alleviate but do not C  #  ogy is not only a means to better produc- n’t simply belt out false promises that  education sector to prioritise skills build- address the root of the problem: The lack tivity — it also holds the key to creating numerous advertisements offer. Finally, For people who are blind, the thought of ing as the nation (ranked 80th) contin- of continuous exposure to technology and new values and breaking down boundaries there is good news for them! The key to retaining their eyesight seems like an ues to trail behind other economies in the digital through the education journey. to ensure that students today who will be of what is possible. Entrepreneur boot- bringing back those lost strands lies in stem impossible dream. The tables have finally latest Global Talent Competitive Index. As Digital literacy should instead be tomorrow’s workforce can navigate and camps and innovation competitions are an cells wherein they are turned into hair fol- turned, made possible by a few scientists. a result, being prepared for the future developed from an early age, through the thrive in a fast-moving economic climate. excellent way to encourage out-of-the-box licle cells and transplanted onto denuded Macular degeneration is a leading cause of workforce weighs heavily on the minds introduction of innovative ways of think- Our children are off to a promising thinking and applications of technology parts of the scalp or body. Compared to the vision loss in older adults and when it of parents and students.There is then no ing and digital learning tools in classrooms, start as they continue to benefit from an amongst students. Amidst calls for urgent invasive method of hair replacement strikes, it affects the area of the eye that is choice but for educational institutes to with the aim to foster young digital-first increasingly digital upbringing that helps actions to develop a future-ready work- surgery, researchers have genetically mod- important to see fine details. Through stem combine frontier technologies with skill- mindsets and develop the critical skills shape their technology experiences and force capable of powering new levels of ified adult human skin cells to form an cell therapy, stem cells are injected into the based teaching and learning in the class- needed for the process of lifelong learning expectations from an early age. Schools and innovation, the words of the renowned epithelial stemcell. This cell is one of the rear of the eye in order to replace the dam- rooms, to equip upcoming generations of and constant reinvention. In this aspect, educators need to rise to the technology- developmental psychologist Jean Piaget are building blocks for functioning hair folli- aged photoreceptors, which are small but workers with the necessary proficiencies the education system holds the key to nur- driven characteristics of students to pro- more relevant than ever: “The principal cles and produces structurally recognisable crucial cells found in the retina. These pho- for tomorrow’s digital economy. turing competent future workforces. vide them with the right digital tools and goal of education is to create individu- hair shafts. toreceptors are sensitive to light and are vital channels to develop the necessary skills for als who are capable of doing new to a person’s ability to see things.           the 21st century workplace. things, not simply of repeating what    Lifestyle disorders are witnessing a            We recognise the necessity of such other generations have done”. By having Infertility problems have been a major steady increase day by day and they can Business leaders are turning to the edu- Digital is quickly becoming the founda- skills and all our teachers as well as cam- a clear grasp of new workplace require- source of concern for Indian couples late- have debilitating effects on the human cation sector for digital talents who have tion to everything we do in today’s infor- puses are equipped with training, facilities ments and applying a digital-first ly due to changes in lifestyle, stress and the body, its functions and appearance. innovative thinking as they find them- mation age. This includes educating and systems to inculcate these skills to our approach to its skills-based education, recent trend of late marriages contribut- However, the advent of clinical research- selves caught in an increasingly technol- young minds, who will in a few short students. These skills include: India can take strong steps in the right ing to this occurrence. While poor sperm es on stem cell therapies with one’s own ogy-driven and disruptive economic. years determine India’s economic growth direction to equipping our children with count plays a major role in male infertil- stem cells has raised a ray of hope in the Unfortunately, traditionally the education and place on the global stage. It is then Collaboration: Mimicking the rising the necessary skills to thrive in tomor- ity, female infertility is an outcome of constant effort to reverse the effects of these system was designed to produce acade- crucial to enrich every level of education trend of workforce mobility, schools can row. health disorders like polycystic ovarian dis- disorders. This is good news as it can open mic excellence rather than to answer the with 21st century knowledge and its appli- explore the use of virtual technology and 1 .   , order or PCOD. 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One danger- Heart is a worthy and timely ous consequence of this is that intervention at a time when it completely frees ‘us’, who are most public protests are being tolerant, from all responsibility deemed anti-national, and when for the actions of ‘them’ who independent administrative engage in bigotry. This inability institutions are slowly being to make ourselves accountable stripped of their autonomy. for perpetuating the very struc- Mander’s book is a scathing tures we claim to be fighting indictment of the ruling party in against cannot but be a band- power, who he sees as culprits as aid solution. The book shies well as catalysts behind the con- away from engaging in a temporary climate of communal nuanced understanding of the hate, and minority discrimina- legacy of Partition on the citi- tion within the country. He dubs zenry of India despite mention- this phenomenon ‘command ing it in its title. I also felt that bigotry’ which has emboldened Mander could have spent a little ordinary and less powerful more time in exploring the eco- everyday hate-mongers to exer- nomic conditions that may have cise their worst instincts in pub- led to the radicalisation of so lic without fear of Governmental many people in Hindutva ideol- censure. The narrative begins in ogy. Finally, the book takes for the Gulberg Society during 2002 granted the reader’s knowledge Gujarat riots where the callous- of the workings of the RSS, and ness of the Gujarat Model its ideological influence in BJP. towards the rights of its Muslim This limits its readership to minority, even in the face of people who already agree with their persecution and death, was Mander in their perception of first put on display. Mander the organisation. Perhaps that carefully details the apathy of was intended by the author, but police forces even as Lok Sabha failed to do the absolute mini- in deepening religious divide for Heart we are made to confront a in true journalistic style. His I do believe that this book could MP Ehsan Jafri made repeated mum to maintain refugee their own short-term political jarring reality where this desola- academic rigour ensures that have made a case for newer phone calls to local police sta- camps, or ensure communal rec- gains is discussed and thorough- tion of Kashmir has come to these individual events and converts to Hindutva ideology tions as well as people in the onciliation or social integration. ly criticised in the text. He pro- haunt the minorities of the rest issues don’t sit in vacuum but to reconsider their affiliations uppermost echelons of the State Divided into 12 chapters, the poses that these circumstances of the country too. It lifts the are linked to larger social pat- in light of the information pre- Government, allegedly including book takes care to focus on vari- have reduced minority groups to curtain on the ugly side of terns of social and political sented here. the then Chief Minister ous interrelated issues like second class citizenship within aggressive, masculinist Hindutva complacency. The above critique notwith- Narendra Modi, to no avail. The increased public lynching of their own country. He terms this fascism that has taken large One of the primary weak- standing, this book serves as a next Chapter, “The Ethics of minorities, cow vigilantism, perpetual feeling insecurity and parts of the country in its grip. nesses of the book, in my opin- poignant archive of the times Collective Vengeance” takes a love-jihad politics, religious their manufactured outsider-sta- Mander’s book is part journalis- ion, is Mander’s ‘all was well’ we live in. 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933    year campaign to drive ISIS from the declared dead, for now. strength as President Donald Trump with United States against the ISIS establishment of peace and sta- recalcitrant nation state. Still, in 100 
 territories it once held has left entire presses ahead with his planned US are present, which are somewhere bility in the conflict ravaged the Trump Administration, the US towns and neighborhoods in ruins, in What is the cost of liberation? withdrawal from Syria. The American pitted against the Bashar-Al-Assad nation. According to the 2012 Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,     both war-torn Syria and Iraq. If the The grueling four-year air and commander overseeing the fight regime of Damascus. Global Leadership Report, 29 per opined that the longer term     long-standing grievances of Sunni ground campaign against ISIS has against ISIS, General Joseph Votel, has Once upon a time Syria used cent of the Syrians approve of the pedestal of Bashar-Al-Assad Muslims in both countries continue killed or wounded tens of thousands warned that the group is far from to be a progressive and modernist American leadership, with 41 per would be decided by the local     to fester, the extremists could rise of people, driven hundreds of thou- being defeated, saying its leaders population centre, but, with the cent disapproving and 31 per Syrian populace and on several 3    again. sands from their homes and left a have dispersed and gone under- internecine entry of Iran into cent people expressing indeci- occasions the US President has swath of destruction stretching from ground. Lebanon through Syria and sion about the American leader- supported idea of “safe zones” in 
  What has ended exactly? the suburbs of Damascus to central “What we are seeing now is not Hezbollah, the regional scenario ship in Syria. Syria which Syria finds unac- What is over is the ISIS’ physical Iraq. the surrender of ISIS as an organisa- has become tricky going beyond The scenario of diplomatic ceptable and beyond the pallor of @    “caliphate,” after the Syrian The major cities ISIS once held — tion but a calculated decision to pre- the pale of the quintessential BOP exchanges was never so bad realism.     Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led Mosul, Raqqa, Fallujah and Ramadi serve the safety of their families and ( balance of power) system in the between the doughty Damascus Also, in the aftermath of the group supported by the United States, — have all seen major devastation. preservation of their capabilities,” he larger international system and the and Washington as in the first Douma chemical attacks, the   declared on March 23 the capture of The group put up fierce resistance said earlier this month, adding that West Asian region. Now, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, Trump regime with Paris initiat- ((  the last tiny patch of territory con- nearly everywhere, using civilians as the insurgents are “waiting for the Syrian nation has turned into a President Bush Sr was part of the ed missile attacks on the Syrian trolled by the militants, in the east- human shields and launching waves right time to resurge.” region, facing one of the worst American-led coalition to coun- denomination, thus, paving the  ern Syrian village of Baghouz. of car bomb and suicide attacks. As The withdrawal of American humanitarian disasters whose teract the dictatorial act of way for a confrontation between That domain once stretched over it slowly retreated, it left behind forces from eastern Syria would open sinews now reach out to Europe Saddam Hussein, and later in the the US and its allies on side of the large parts of Syria and Iraq, which booby traps and explosives that in the door for major turmoil as various as part of a larger migration decade of the nineties, the fencing ring and Iran and Russia the group conquered in a blitz in the many areas have yet to be cleared. actors — including the Syrian gov- across the European mountains Americans successes in bringing being on the antagonist side of the summer of 2014, capturing towns and The US-led coalition dropped ernment, allied with Russia and Iran and icy lands. Hafiz Al Assad of Syria to medi- fighting ring. cities, including Mosul, Iraq’s second- tens of thousands of bombs over Syria — race to fill the vacuum. The US, too, gets embroiled in ate with the state of Israel with the Very accurate Tom Hawk largest. and Iraq to help its allies on the ISIS was all but defeated once this regional fracas. The larger objective of peace in West missiles have been deftly utilised The fighters bulldozed berms ground advance, sometimes pulver- before, when US forces withdrew December 2018 decision of Asia. By the time in the aftermath from USS Philippine Sea and along the border and proclaimed a izing entire city blocks. Syrian from Iraq in 2011; experts warn it President Trump to withdraw the of the September 11 attacks, Syria USS Ariegh Burke at the ISIS tar- contiguous caliphate stretching across Government forces backed by Russian could stage another devastating last contingent of 2,000 soldiers participated in the US-led Global gets in Raqqa. Thus, Syria is akin a third of both countries. At its air power battled ISIS in some areas, comeback. has been a part of his larger War on Terror (GWOT) in order to a rogue nation state tumbling height, the territory was the size of as did Iraq’s state-sanctioned militias, And ISIS has established affiliates “sequestration and isolationist to support the American striving on with Iraq and others, in the Britain, stretching from near the with help from Iran. across Asia and Africa, and contin- streak” in the context of the US in West Asia. contemporary US understanding northern Syrian town of Aleppo to The death toll from the campaign ues to be active in places like foreign policy. The US we perceive In fact, the Syrians were the of the conflict, thus, ushering in the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, remains uncounted. In a report Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt’s Sinai today is much different from the first state to intimate the a twilight zone scenario. As a Baghdad, and home to 8 million peo- released last year, the coalition con- Peninsula, Yemen and the Philippines. times of President Bush where-in Americans about a terror attack result in 2014, the nations of the ple. firmed the deaths of 1,139 civilians in the superpower nowadays intends on the US Fifth fleet in line with order of Bahrain, Qatar, United ()()A-=- The extremists governed under a airstrikes conducted between August Future of detained fighters and to withdraw from global respon- the USS Cole bombing in 1998. Arab Emirates along with the harsh and violent interpretation of 2014 and November 2018. Rights their families sibilities, including that of conflict Despite, the Syrian-American American F-22 Raptor Stealth Islam. They massacred those who groups say the number is much Another major concern is jihadis resolution and related recon- cooperation in the context of the Fighters were unleashed on the resisted their rule and beheaded higher. finding their way back to Europe. struction efforts in destroyed GWOT, Syria has always remained Syrian air space. hostages, including Western jour- An Associated Press investigation Around 1,000 foreign fighters are cur- principalities. on the American list of terror Harking back to American nalists and foreign aid workers, in found at least 9,000 civilians died in rently being held in Kurdish-run pris- The power vacuum left by the sponsoring safe havens, since the history, the American intervention gruesome videos circulated online. the assault to retake Mosul alone. In ons in northern Syria. Their wives — American withdrawal from a US enumeration of the same in in Cuban war and the incidents in Alleged adulterers were stoned to Raqqa, the US-backed campaign many of them from Western coun- post-Saddam Iraq led to the 1979. The US is of the opinion that Philippines have served as initia- death, those believed to be gay were killed hundreds of civilians and tries — and their children are in spawning of a Phoenix like Islamic the Damascus regime supports tor elements in the rise of arch of the American nation. thrown from the tops of buildings, caused destruction on a massive camps in northern Syria. State (ISIS). In a way, if the terror and separatist actors in American power according to Thus, America has always and children were made to watch the scale. Syria is still mired in civil war, Syrian Kurdish authorities are Bashar-Al-Assad regime does not Israel and the Palestinian territo- Howard K Beale in 1956 work been on a kind of Oregon trail atrocities as part of their brainwash- and Iraq estimates it will need $100 calling on countries to take back their survive, which appears highly ries, which place the West Asian titled as, “Theodore Roosevelt which includes incursions of the ing. The group captured thousands of billion to rebuild. Local leaders in nationals, saying they cannot afford unlikely then a strong and capac- peace and stodgy stolidity at a and the Rise of America to World military genre inside states hob- women from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, Mosul say they need that much for to keep shouldering the burden. ities-laden nation-state actor such grave risk. Power.” bled with humanitarian disasters forcing them into sexual slavery. their city alone. No one has offered Trump has weighed in, calling on as the US will be required to set As an adjunct, the US President Theodore Roosevelt as a consequence of political vio- ISIS also carried out the more to foot the bill, and hard-hit areas Britain, France, Germany and other the unstable stables in order in Embassy was attacked in 2006 for at the turn of the century had gone lence, terrorism and attendant mundane actions of a state — col- remain empty, even years later. European allies to repatriate their Syria. which the Syrian Government on to contend that the United mayhem. Regulating the interna- lecting taxes, printing school text- nationals and put them on trial. The American interventionist placed the blame on the American States ought to have warships tional system has somehow been books, minting its own currency What’s next “The US does not want to watch streak has been on view in places policy in Iraq. These little flies in equal in number to the aspirations a lynchpin of the US foreign pol- and restoring public infrastructure. It The official declaration of victo- as these ISIS fighters permeate which have faced humanitarian the ointment tended to sour the and the popular will of the great icy to rescue the challenged and was an experiment in statehood that ry is of mostly symbolic value. Europe, which is where they are catastrophes. Syria is one such relations between the twin nations American people. The niceties of turmoiled nations their popula- not even al-Qaida ever tried on a sig- Thousands of ISIS militants have dis- expected to go,” he tweeted in instance, wherein, the NATO ally, which were partially at different riding a horse, dining with the tions. nificant scale. persed and gone to ground, and US February. Turkey too has reservations about footings, since the last 30-40 odd elites and deliberating on world From its de facto capital of Raqqa, defense officials have warned that IS But few countries are willing to the Washington’s policy of taking years. So no supine surprises here politics and literature happen to be (The writer teaches in northern Syria, its leaders plotted could stage a comeback in Syria bring back people they view as a secu- the help of the Syrian Kurd groups over the growing of thaws between the enumerated characteristics of International Relations at Indian spectacular attacks abroad, including within a year if military and coun- rity threat, posing a dilemma for the and the attendant militia, in order Damascus and Washington! a true blue American gentleman, Institute of Public Administration, the 2015 Paris attacks that killed 130 terterrorism pressure is eased. 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Democracy, also, is not necessar- much empirical research. ily the voice of the majority. Many peo- Politics as an institution has a long ple do not vote, and those who do may history. Many things have influenced not see their candidates win. politics over the years. Similarly, the Society has a history spanning mil- media has undergone changes and lions of years, and the media, especially entered various phases. Political institu- the mass media, is a little over a century tions have taken centuries to be what old. Yet it is ironical that the media, they are today. The media as an institu- over the years, has accumulated tion has progressed in a much shorter immense power to influence society in period, as said earlier. Thanks to the more ways than one. The media’s power ingenuity of the human mind, coupled comes from its capacity to influence with science and technology, the media public opinion. Media critics believe has acquired such a formidable position that it is not a knowledge-based profes- and influence from being a watchdog sion, but depends on events and hap- that it questions institutions and prac- penings interpreted from both the sup- tices that are as old as the human civili- ply side of information — through sation itself. While the news media has press releases, backgrounders, press historically been viewed as aggressive conferences, events, etc — and the and overenthusiastic for the latest and demand side of information, from the hottest information, its watchdog func- perspective of reporters who interpret tion in a democratic society posits that events and information according to people know what their Governments their understanding and mental capa- and public-funded institutions are bility. The media, therefore, can be seen doing. The media has the power to hold as a social institution, which is not and the Government and public-funded cannot be very different from the institutions accountable, forcing them nature of the society it exists in. to explain actions and decisions, all of The relationship between the which affect the people they represent. media and society is symbiotic. In fact, The assumption is that the press any debate on the mass media and speaks for the people, thus the freedom society oscillates between two of speech and freedom of the press Acts extremes, depending on who is saying lar. Critics have often called this the culture and values of society and to be at work, curtailing and undermin- are widely prevalent in some democra- it. Some swear by the media’s unbri- ‘Americanisation’ of elections. There groups are ‘constructed, stored and ing its role. These, according to Childs, cies. The need for freedom of the media dled power, while others feel that the may not have been many scholarly visibly expressed’. include the tremendous growth in exec- is to ensure that it articulates the voice media does not affect lives at all. research studies on the Indian elections A primary key to fame and celebri- utive power, the growing complexity of the people and their concerns by Whatever may be the cliché in these with a theoretical construct in the past, ty status: First, it was people from the and speed of social change, the emer- bringing them in the public domain. views, there is no gainsaying the fact but the current crop of scholars — from entertainment industry, then gence of pressure groups and higher The argument supports that the news that the media has become part of the not only India but also the West — has sportspersons, and now even corporate stakes among political parties, the mass media must question the Government, everyday life of an average person, evinced great interest in the Indian honchos, who have acquired celebrity media and other channels. thereby contributing in making democ- who makes sense of the world around elections, and one does find references status in the media. The power of the Representative bodies are becoming racy function. Therefore, it is impor- him/her through media stimuli. in contemporary literature on the sub- media, however, is not intrinsic but less representative, and elections, tant to understand that the freedom In this chapter, an effort has been ject. The later chapters have cited a acquired. This power comes from the though they indicate the preferred can- of speech and expression is in the made to provide a theoretical construct number of such studies. British com- people, as consumers and audiences of didates, often give only a slight indica- interest of the public, and such legis- to the interrelation of democracy, the munication theorist Denis McQuail news and various other programmes. tion of public attitude. A section of ana- lation does not only protect the func- media and its impact on elections. The ascribes four important attributes to the The political institutions that are lysts feels that the decision of the voters tions of the press, but also lets it func- last century or so has seen the develop- mass media that lend it significance. accountable to the people in a democ- is more often shaped by the mass media tion without fear or favour. Today, in ment of many theories and models A power source: The media is the racy through periodic elections obvi- stimuli around election time. Excessive the era of globalisation, this role has around the subject, which have also primary means of transmission and ously face the worst of a vocal and visibility of certain candidates in com- undergone a sea change. It is often been tested in many elections in the source of information in society. 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Over the years, elections in other Government organisations and the cor- Harwood L Childs, author of An sented have the capability to swing pub- growing criticism against the media democracies, especially in the develop- porate sector, because of various regula- Introduction to Public Opinion, in his lic opinion in favour of or against a for projecting unabashed violence. ing world, have copied campaign styles tions, are often in the media glare. thesis on the subject, strongly advocates candidate, which may have nothing to         and media usage from their Western A definition of social reality: The the preserving of public opinion, do with the ‘real’ choice of the elec-        < counterparts, again the US in particu- media is a forum where the changing because many forces in his view seem torate, as it should have been. To what ! !   <0 <#C& P$  ? Q

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The con- He said: “I will tell you, I’m sur- issue, and actually the issue on )0C#  0- " because the EU treats us very, versation took place at the prised at how badly it’s all gone the border of Ireland is one of the / - O0 very unfairly. It’ll probably work Conservative Political Action from the standpoint of a negotia- most complex points.” out. Otherwise, we’re going to do Conference [Cpac] in Washington tion. But I gave the prime minis- Trump said an extension +-#   *. something that’s good for the DC, a gathering of right-leaning ter my ideas on how to negotiate seemed inevitable but he would )  0 United States.” politicians where both men gave it, and I think you would have like to see Brexit “work out”. He Varadkar told Trump: “I speeches. Moreover, the US been successful. 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You * O be coming at some point during Johnson, who quit as Foreign apart right now.” Trump has know, we’re talking to them about *#  *0 the year. It’s just a great place.” He secretary over Theresa May’s previously said his advice on trade, and we can do a very big tweeted, “My Administration proposed Brexit deal, to chal- how to secure Brexit may have trade deal with the UK. But it’s  *0 looks forward to negotiating a lenge the Prime Minister to lead been “too brutal” for May. very sad to see what’s happening  0 M large scale Trade Deal with the the country. Bannon, who ran Addressing the question of a there, and there was no reason.” UK. The potential is unlimited!” Trump’s successful campaign to second referendum the president Trump recalled how he had K + 0 . Earlier, Trump had warned become President in 2016, said indicated it should not happen predicted the 2016 referendum that Britain “may not be able to that Trump’s policies were based because it was “very unfair”. He result. He said: “It wasn’t that I trade with the US” because of on “pure Thatcherism”. Bannon said: “I don’t think another vote was a supporter. I predicted that Theresa May’s Brexit deal in had also said: “What we are try- would be possible because it it was going to happen. I was comments that could torpedo her ing to do is get a piece of action would be very unfair to the peo- right and people laughed when I hopes of winning Parliament’s for the little guy. ple that won, that say ‘What do predicted it. “I can tell you it’s a backing. He said the agreement 11
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   '(+'(+ 339.+339.+ hree Michael Jackson fan groups are suing his alleged victims in TFrance for “sullying his memo- ry” by taking part in the Leaving Neverland documentary, the fans’ lawyer told Agence France-Presse. The 3*0!23(*I3*0!23(*I Michael Jackson Community — which claims to be the “official fan club forum” — and the MJ Street and On The Line groups accuse Wade Robson and James Safechuck of “lynching” Jackson.The case, which will be heard   !.R! O by a court in Orléans in northern France in July, follows reports that Robson and Safechuck in Leaving !! $+ #7 -  Jackson’s children were also consider- Neverland had sullied the memory of ing taking legal action against the the singer, who died in 2009. men, who say that Jackson sexually Jackson’s image had been affected y earliest recollection see today is an optimistic celebration . R O+  / market, which represents £249 billion abused them when they were children. by the allegations as well as “the whole of my personal style of a spectrum of identities. of untapped spending power. Lawyer Emmanuel Ludot, who community of his fans”, the lawyer was far from compli- This may be true with regard to the #;#)/*# Recently, the Cornish-lifestyle brand has previously successfully sued said. Leaving Neverland was first mentary; instead, it models we’re seeing in front of the )#+# /  )80 Seasalt (as worn by the Duchess of Jackson’s doctor for causing distress to broadcast in the US on HBO earlier started with retorts of camera. Take for instance Halima Sussex) launched its first adaptive his fans by giving him the drugs that this month and has since broken M“Well, you’re going to look very silly!” Aden, Charli Howard, or Adut Akech, 0 0# #8# clothing line, Easy On. The collection, killed him, said the groups “want to streaming records in Britain. And indeed I did: Utterly silly. But who are all redefining traditional ;) /U*# only available online, includes discreet discredit the accusations of pae- The film has outraged some of still I threw aside the pristine twin-set supermodel stereotypes. But these additions to existing signature styles dophilia” against Jackson. Jackson’s fans, who have waged an neatly laid out for my sister’s party in faces are the harbingers of change that 0# , ..02555 such as magnetic fastenings on their Ludot said the “indignity of the often vicious social media campaign favour of a garish pyjama top, conceal the endemic lack of represen- * ; 0#  * popular Beachcombing Coat, loops on extremely grave accusations” made by against his accusers. Dalmatian-print leggings, stuck-on tation in the wider fashion industry. sleeve cuffs to make pulling them on earrings and a conservative flourish Diversity doesn’t begin and end with 0+/.##. and off hassle-free, and soft elasticat- of patent Mary Janes, an outfit I who we see in front of the camera, we . ++###0 ed waistbands which are pinch-free   
 
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The make [them] feel confident”. for post-lunch entertainment. solution is simple, and urgent: We   0  #+ However, when I point out their In this moment, fashion became must address this disconnect between ) 0 0# designs are exclusively shown on about more than clothes for me. It was the diversity of the models on the cat- able-bodied models, they state the an act of defiance, self-assertion and a walk and those packed into the front #)+) # photography is “a blank canvas” but declaration of who I was — which cer- row — the editors, buyers, and ulti- would take in my feedback. But this tainly wasn’t going to be imposed by mately, the voices of power. exposes the long-standing myth that anyone but myself. In the years follow- However, one minority group is grammed walking cane. As a former disability isn’t marketable. More than ing, this sense that style is intimately severely under-represented. Although muse for luxury brands like Stella ever, consumers want to align them- connected to our identity has strength- 20 per cent of people have disabilities, McCartney and Chanel, this image selves with brands that have a posi- ened. Although I’ve had a muscle this demographic is largely non-exis- was a powerful symbol of how fashion tive, inclusive ethos. weakness disability since birth, in tent in the fashion sphere, with only a enables disability to transcend the Seasalt follows in the footsteps of recent years, additional illness, such as handful of designers, such as Teatum stigma that surrounds it. Her presence other forward-thinking brands, such severe pneumonia, has significantly Jones and the late Alexander was also a glaring reminder that peo- as Marks & Spencer and Tommy impacted my mobility, stamina and the McQueen, recognising fashion’s poten- ple with disabilities are often unseen Hilfiger, which have already released physical strength of my voice. As a tial to challenge our perception of dis- on platforms like the red carpet, the adaptive clothing lines. Their designs fashion journalist with a disability, I ability. McQueen’s legacy is defined by epitome of spectacle and visibility. So featured everything from adjustable our months after it first appeared invasion of spectral beasts who cause recognise how style can empower peo- his ability to subvert prescriptive ideas although it represented a victory for hem-lengths to accommodate pros- on Netflix, footage of a real-life a person’s worst fears to materialise, ple to express themselves regardless of of beauty; his spring/summer 1999 disability representation, primarily it thetic limbs and soft Velcro fastenings, Frail disaster will be removed leading them to kill themselves. ability, race, age, gender or size. show featuring the Paralympian Aimee was an intimation of how far there is to sleep-suits specifically tailored for from the movie Bird Box, the post- But in a statement to TheWrap In recent years, the concept of Mullins in a pair of handcrafted pros- to go before it’s accepted as the norm. babies with hip dysplasia. With a new apocalyptic thriller starring Sandra recently, Netflix confirmed that both “diversity” has come into focus in the thetic legs is a defining example of how In a later interview with Vanity Fair, report revealing the adaptive clothing Bullock. The stock footage used con- it and the makers of Bird Box have fashion industry, catapulted from the McQueen’s work deconstructed social Blair laments the lack of stylish cloth- market could reach $288.7 billion cerns a 2013 tragedy in the Québec decided to replace the clip. They also abyss to assume centrestage in fashion taboos regarding disabled bodies. ing available to disabled individuals. globally this year, they are right to be town of Lac-Mégantic when an unat- apologised, saying: “We’re sorry for campaigns, glossy magazine covers Historical prejudices have made dis- She wants designers to focus on expanding their offerings. tended train carrying crude oil rolled any pain caused to the Lac-Mégantic and post-catwalk commentary. In fact, ability synonymous with victimhood improving adaptive fashion, which is The fashion industry’s fascination down an incline, came off the tracks community.” In response, Quebec’s we’ve just witnessed a record year in or failure, and consequently it is often designed to meet the needs of those with diversity not only fulfils an ethical and exploded, killing 47 people. Minister of Culture and terms of inclusion in fashion. hidden from public view. with disabilities and chronic condi- responsibility, but it’s incredibly lucra- Earlier this year, the streaming Communications, Nathalie Roy, Diversity has become not only a buzz- Actress Selma Blair’s first appear- tions: “It can still be chic. You should- tive. While I’ve always believed fashion giant said it would not remove the praised the decision, saying it shows word but also a measure of a brand’s ance on the red carpet following her n’t have to sacrifice style.” can foster an inclusive spirit, finally the clip, which in Bird Box is used to illus- that “by uniting and pooling our relevance in an intensely competitive multiple sclerosis diagnosis last year At last designers are beginning to industry is poised to reflect this. trate mass deaths in the wake of an efforts, everything is possible”. digital marketplace. The fashion we saw her pose defiantly with a mono- acknowledge the disabled consumer 11 A,,%#$ (

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One wheel and both times the results were more or red when pedestrians should halt. For unicorn costume and wielding from Frankfurt to Paris and Battalion Chief Stephan Gollan tells the was played the throbbing techno of less the same. He said the experiment now, the pilot program is limited to a a crowbar tried to rob a con- demanded that the driver slow Miami Herald the man “freaked out and Vril’s “UV” and another Yello’s dark would now focus on hip hop. “The idea single intersection in central Tel venience store Saturday down. Federal police said the didn’t know what to do.” He says fire- ambient piece “Monolith”. is now to take 5 or 10 cheeses and put Aviv, but the municipality says morning in the Baldwin ICE train operated by fighter Jeff Kurus put on a sterile glove, Soundwaves at low, medium and hip hop on them and then compare.” it will expand the zombie community. Officers arrived Germany’s Deutsche Bahn reached in and grabbed the iguana. He high frequencies were played for three ! " lights if they prove effective. just after the High’s store stopped near Frankfurt after took it outside and released it into the others while one wheel was left in peace. Similar systems have opening time of 5 am to the incident Sunday morning. wild. Gollan says the department “is the “The most obvious differences were /"#O7/%!  + P3/ already been used in respond to the robbery call. The 30-year-old man from end-all-be-all” when it comes to unique observed in strength of flavor, smell and %/! @/! " . Australia, Singapore and Police say the suspect had Heideberg, who wasn’t identi- calls. The department tweeted pictures taste,” Bern University of Arts el Aviv has taken a small step the Netherlands. So far, fled in a silver car. They fied, was arrested and faces an of the iguana, adding “can you imagine researchers said in reporting the find- Ttoward protecting the lives of smartphone-addicted located what appeared to be investigation into dangerous lifting the toilet lid and finding this?” ings of a culinary jury which did blind “smartphone zombies.” The residents seem to be the same car after it had interference in rail traffic,  tasting. “The hip hop sample topped the municipality has installed special welcoming the lights. wrecked. No other cars were among other things. list of all cheese exposed to music in LED sidewalk lights at a busy “It’s something involved in the wreck. Police say passengers said  /! ! 3/& terms of fruitiness...(it) was the strongest crosswalk to alert distracted amazing,” said Tel Aviv Police say two people the man took a fire extinguisher  "  "  $ of these in terms of smell and taste.” pedestrians staring at their resident Shai Levi. “As involved in the crash were off the wall, smashed a glass xposing cheese to round-the-clock Benjamin Luzuy, a Swiss TV chief phones when they can walk and someone who is addict- taken to a hospital, and detec- door separating the cab from the Emusic could give it more flavor and and jury member, told Reuters TV: when they should stop. Tomer ed to his phone and is tives are working to determine passenger compartment, and told hip hop might be better than Mozart, “The differences were very clear, in Dror, head of the traffic manage- all day long with his what their involvement was in the shocked driver the train was Swiss researchers said on Thursday. term of texture, taste, the appearance, ment division at the Tel Aviv- head glued on the the robbery. No charges were going much too fast and he had Nine wheels of Emmental cheese there was really something very differ- Yafo Municipality, said the screen, I think that it immediately filed. Police didn’t to save the passengers. No pas- weighing 10 kilos each were placed in ent.” The experiment, instead of using “zombie traffic lights” aim to can without any hesita- say if money or merchandise sengers were hurt but the train separate wooden crates last September loudspeakers, used mini transmitters to minimize accidents between tion, reduce the num- was taken in the robbery. was taken out of service. to test the impact of music on flavor conduct the energy of the music into vehicles and inattentive pedes- ber of accidents.”   and aroma. The cheese was exposed 24 the cheese. “All the energy is directly trians at crosswalks. “We can- 
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" the non-physical plane and in non- mate knowledge respectively. According to Kautilya, Balarama pastoral associate and sister to meet Republic”. Overdependence on these thinking devices physical bodies, as Vrindavana is also While their resort Vrindavana had his special devotees with shaven the requirement of the devotional aspi- is subjecting the brain muscles to a kind of disuse atro- looked upon as representing the inner itself represents the region of highest head independent of Krishna. rations of the people who looked for- phy, which may lead to the same fate that strikes the   consciousness of every individual. spiritual delight and the field of spiri- According to Kautilya, Krishna’s broth- ward to the impress of Shakti in the other bodily muscles making them flaccid. This in all Hence, the whole Vrindavana lila tual growth and devotional love as its er Balrama was later identified with Krishna Cult. Next, the chief of pas- likelihood is going to affect the human mind and its     of Krishna is held symbolic along with lord Nanda himself is spiritual bliss such a deity whose worship was in toral associates associated with Krishna thinking ability in the long run. Some glimpses can his partners, who are also assigned incarnate. The Puranas, in the same vogue during Kautilya’s times on the seems to be the cowherdess Radha. already be found with amnesia and ability to retain and with spiritual overtones. Since, his regard, also dictate us that we must analogy of Krishna’s later identification These two types of Gopis, associated recall information declining. There are people who do Vrindavana lila on the whole repre- not treat Krishna’s Vrindavana lilas with God Vishnu. Similarly, as an with Krishna in later stage of his not even remember their mobile numbers. Even simple sents Krishna’s playful activities during with his pastoral associates as having incarnation of Sheeshnaga, Krishna’s saga, represent two variant distinct calculations need to be carried out with the help of which he behaves the way he likes. occurred at one place or time but elder brother Balrama might have been traditions of Krishnabhakti with mechanical devices. Such a data-induced dependence For, at Vrindavana, his encounters rather treat them as recurrent modal- identified with some tribal god of the main focus on the Rasa-dance. syndrome is not far off that will render the mind dys- with Putana, cart, Trina varta, ity with the purpose of conveying Nagas and because of which the Radha and other Gopis are also con- functional and blunt the thinking process. But it seems Aghasura, Bakasura, Dhenuk, Keshi inspiration and guidance to devotees Kaliya-Naga’s episode was introduced sidered to be the outcome of the that in the cacophony of differing noises, no one is and Kaliya, fighting with whom, of every type having either of these in the Krishna saga to propagate the prevalent poetic tradition of love ready to believe that minds, if not used, can well Krishna had not to exert his strength feelings towards Krishna such as ideal that Shri Krishna had also won sentiment during the 16th century. become a vestige like the appendix. but in place he just toys with them for affection of parents; of friends; or of over the prevailing tribal cult of the 1  -          %%    achieving his victory. This very well loved and beloved etc. Krishna at Nagas who are held to rule over the          92   9 D9  ! $ * . ($ hy am I making such a state- an article. The same is true of all the $
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