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NEARBY 1,050 passengers rescued from FinMin, NITI Aayog guidelines stranded train near Mumbai ignored in airport privatisation Adani gained as curb on numbers, experience norm set aside Pakistan using deceit NDRF, Army, Navy engage in 10­hour rescue after flood waters inundate tracks over Kashmir: Modi JAGRITI CHANDRA NEW DELHI Special correspondent Secretary and Union Minis­ NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Mumbai ter of State for Home Affairs Modi termed the victory in A coordinated operation of Nityanand Rai. A Finance Ministry recom­ the Kargil war a “symbol of the NDRF, the Army and the NDRF teams were the first mendation not to award the India’s might, determination and capability”. Speaking at Navy on Saturday rescued to reach the site with six in­ same player more than two the commemoration of over a thousand passengers flatable boats at 9.43 a.m. airports, out of a total of six the 20th anniversary of the stranded on the Mumbai­ They were joined by the to be privatised by the war in New Delhi , Mr. Modi Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Ex­ Western Naval Command Centre, was among some of said that “wars are fought not press near Badlapur, follow­ with three diving units, a Sea the key suggestions by governments but by the ing heavy overnight rains King helicopter with divers brushed aside by the go­ whole country”. that inundated large swathes on board and several auto­ vernment panel for public NEWS Ī PAGE 10 of the Mumbai Metropolitan inflatable crafts. The first se­ private partnerships — the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Region (MMR). ven passengers were evac­ PPP Appraisal Committee The train that left Mumbai uated at 10.05 a.m. By 2.00 (PPPAC) — effectively lead­ Nagaland forms panel to frame RIIN modalities on Friday night could not p.m., all the passengers were ing to Adani Enterprises Li­ KOHIMA proceed beyond Vangani in evacuated and brought to mited emerging as the win­ The Nagaland government on Thane district, around 65 the Sahyadri Mangal Karaya­ ning bidder for all airports. Saturday set up a commission km from Mumbai, as the Ul­ lay in Badlapur. Following the Union Ca­ to frame the modalities of has river near Badlapur binet’s in­principle appro­ creating the Register of burst its banks, leading to Special train val in November last to priv­ Indigenous Inhabitants of water­logging on the tracks. A special train from Kalyan atise six airports owned by project cost upfront for bidder for all six airports. Nagaland, officials said. The departed at 6.10 p.m. carry­ the Airports Authority of each of the airports, to bet­ On July 3, the Union Cabi­ RIIN, a register of all the SOS sent ing the evacuated passen­ India (AAI), the PPPAC met ter determine the financial net gave its nod for leasing indigenous inhabitants of the The first SOS on the train gers through the Manmad on December 11 to recom­ capability of interested three of these airports, State, is required to prevent was sent out at 5.25 a.m. A line to Kolhapur, railway offi­ mend the proposal for final players. while a decision on the re­ issuance of indigenous coordinated response was cials said. “We received un­ approval. maining three is awaited. inhabitant certificates to initiated by the Maharashtra precedented rainfall in a SPECIAL An email each to Sub­ ineligible persons, they added. government. short period. Our first objec­ Key suggestions hash Chandra Garg — who NORTH & EAST Ī PAGE 7 In the 10­hour rescue op­ tive was to reach the train The panel dismissed key Three days later, on De­ was then Secretary, Eco­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD eration, seven Navy units, and ensure that passengers suggestions made by the Fi­ cember 14, the AAI floated a nomic Affairs, and also two helicopters of the Indian do not de­board in panic. nance Ministry’s Depart­ tender for operation, man­ headed the PPPAC — as well Air Force, and four Army co­ This was a first­of­its­kind ment of Economic Affairs agement and development as Secretary of the Ministry lumns retrieved 1,050 pas­ evacuation undertaken on (DEA) and the NITI Aayog in the PPP mode for the of Civil Aviation P.S. Kharo­ sengers, including nine preg­ this scale in Maharashtra,” to improve criteria for se­ Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jai­ la, with specific questions nant women, from the 20 said Sunil Udasi, Chief Public lecting bidders. These in­ pur, Guwahati, Thiruvanan­ on the final decision, re­ marooned coaches. The op­ Relation officer, Central cluded the requirement of thapuram and Mangaluru mained unanswered till the eration was monitored by Railway. prior experience in opera­ airports. In February, the time of going to print. A train marooned: This screen grab from a video footage the Western Naval Com­ tion and management as AAI declared Adani Enter­ MAGAZINE Ī 32 PAGES (TABLOID) taken by the IAF shows the Mahalaxmi Express stranded mand, the Army, the Air LACK OF INFO LEFT PASSENGERS well as providing the total prises Limited the highest CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGES 4 & 6 between Badlapur and Vangani on Saturday. * AFP Force, Maharashtra’s Chief ON THE EDGE Ī PAGE 9 FIR against Deve Gowda says JD(S) GST on EVs, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC VHP leader for chargers No pass hate speech will sit in Opposition cut to 5% ‘May back govt. on pro­people issues’ Special Correspondent TCA Sharad Raghavan Ghaziabad Staff Reporter NEW DELHI Taking suo motu cogni­ Bengaluru To encourage adoption of sance of a video where Vish­ A day after a section of Jana­ electric vehicles, the wa Hindu Parishad leader ta Dal (Secular) leaders Goods and Services Tax Prachi Arya was heard ap­ asked former Chief Minister (GST) Council on Saturday pealing to Hindus to boycott H.D. Kumaraswamy to ex­ decided to reduce the tax articles made by Muslims tend support to the BJP go­ rate on electrical vehicles for Hindu festivals, Baghpat vernment, party national (EV) from 12% to 5% and on police on Saturday regis­ president H.D. Deve Gowda chargers from 18% to 5% tered an FIR against her for said it would only play “a from August 1, 2019. hate speech. constructive role as a re­ H.D. Deve Gowda It also exempted the hir­ The VHP leader’s speech gional party, sitting in the ing of electric buses by lo­ was in response to Samaj­ Opposition.” wamy called these reports cal authorities from the wadi Party legislator Nahid Late on Friday night, “speculations.” GST. “The 36th GST Coun­ Hasan’s appeal to Muslims former Minister and senior Mr. Deve Gowda sought cil Meeting was held here to “boycott shopkeepers party leader G.T. Deve Gow­ to downplay the former Mi­ today via videoconference who sympathise with the da said a section of the nister’s statements. “It is his under the chairmanship of BJP”. Ms. Prachi went on to MLAs, at a meeting of the le­ personal opinion which he Union Finance and Corpo­ add that in trying to win gislature party, favoured is free to express,” he said. rate Affairs Minister Nirma­ everybody’s “ vishwas” supporting the BJP govern­ He said that while a deci­ la Sitharaman,” an official (confidence), Hindus were ment, stirring up a hornet’s sion on the alliance with the release said. Minister of suffering. She also de­ nest. The party president, Congress would be taken la­ State for Finance Anurag scribed madrasas as “terror however, said the JD(S) ter, the need of the hour was Thakur and Revenue Se­ factories”. SP Shailesh Pan­ might support the govern­ to strengthen the party at cretary Ajay Bhushan Pan­ dey confirmed that a case ment only on “pro­people the grassroots. dey attended the meeting. has been registered under issues” like the passage of Stuck in the valley: Trucks stranded near Sonmarg in J&K after the Srinagar­Leh highway was closed on Saturday following Sections 153, 153A, 505(2) the Finance Bill. BJP LIKELY TO SPURN CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 landslips on the Zojila Pass. * NISSAR AHMAD and 188 of the IPC. In a tweet, Mr. Kumaras­ OVERTURES Ī PAGE 8 DECISION HAILED Ī PAGE 13 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Surge in troops sparks panic in Kashmir U.P. judge transferred for ordering Governor makes parting 10,000 more personnel to be deployed; move attributed to Amarnath Yatra constable to disrobe in court shot at Mamata Vijaita Singh PRESS TRUST OF INDIA New Delhi JeM commander Drew judge’s ire for not letting his car pass on court premises Kolkata As panic gripped Jammu and killed in Shopian Outgoing West Bengal Go­ Kashmir over the additional Omar Rashid Ghurelal was tary retirement. He also re­ vernor Keshari Nath Tri­ LUCKNOW <> deployment of 10,000 Two militants, including allegedly forced by portedly broke down. pathi on Saturday said Chief troops, a senior official said Jaish­e­Mohammad’s top The Allahabad High Court on Minister Mamata Banerjee’s the judge to take off the movement was neces­ commander Munna Lahori, Saturday transferred a judge Police action “appeasement policy” is ad­ his shirt, belt and sary as the security forces were killed in a joint in Agra in western Uttar Pra­ Director General of Police versely affecting the social deployed in the Kashmir Val­ operation of the Army, the desh to Mahoba in Bundelk­ cap and made to O.P. Singh took the issue “ve­ harmony of the State. ley were “stretched” in se­ police and the CRPF in hand after he allegedly or­ stand in court for ry seriously” and raised it at “Her policy of appease­ curing the Amarnath Yatra Shopian on Saturday. The dered a police constable to almost an hour the appropriate level, U.P. ment has the effect of adver­ route. other militant is Hizbul disrobe his khaki uniform in Police said in a tweet. sely affecting societal har­ K. Vijay Kumar, adviser to Mujahideen’s Mir Zeenat Ul court as punishment for not most an hour on Friday. The “We stand by the dignity mony... I think she should the Governor, told The Hin- Islam. A soldier died while giving passage to his car. policeman was reportedly of each and every policeman look at every citizen equal­ du, “Infusion of reinforce­ foiling an infiltration bid in Additional Chief Judicial being punished for not let­ and appeal to all the sections ly,” said Mr. Tripathi, who ments is a calibrated res­ Securing pilgrims: Around 32,000 security men have been north Kashmir. Ī page 10 Magistrate, Agra, Santosh ting the judge’s vehicle pass of society to respect the ho­ has had several run­ins with ponse after a joint deployed for securing the Amarnath Yatra. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Kumar Yadav was trans­ on the court premises earlier nour of uniformed forces,” the CM during his five­year assessment of security forc­ ferred as full­time secretary in the day despite the latter the police said. tenure. “Discrimination is es, especially as a substantial the Amarnath Yatra is going Amarnath shrine and on last year. The State is now of the district legal services honking repeatedly. The Later, after the judge was apparent. Her statements number had been deployed on,” another official said. their way back. under President’s Rule. Be­ authority in Mahoba, HC re­ constable was driving a pol­ transferred, U.P. Police show the discrimination,” on Yatra­related security.” Around 32,000 personnel The official said that sides the police and the Ar­ gistrar general Mayank Ku­ ice van carrying accused to thanked the DGP in another added the 84­year­old. of the Central Armed Police though there was a high my, 50,000 personnel of the mar Jain said in an order. be presented before court. tweet for “standing by the The ruling Trinamool ‘For effective planning’ Forces are deployed for se­ threat perception around Central forces have been de­ The constable driver of Humiliated by the inci­ honour of the lowest rung of Congress hit back, saying it “There is no need to panic; curing the Yatra that con­ the Yatra, especially after the ployed in the Valley to assist Agra police, identified as dent which took place in a ju­ the police force and for keep­ was an “attempt to score extra personnel are being cludes on August 15. The se­ car­borne attack on a CRPF in security operations and Ghurelal, was allegedly venile court in Malpura, ing the morale of the force brownie points”. deployed so we could plan curity detail also involves bus in Pulwama earlier this other law and order duties. forced by the judge to take Agra, the constable then intact”. Mr. Tripathi's successor security operations effec­ escorting the pilgrims from year, the deployment was off his shirt, belt and cap and wrote to the district police No statement was issued Jagdeep Dhankar will take tively. Our hands were full as their base camps to the more or less similar to that of CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 made to stand in court for al­ chief and applied for volun­ by the judge in question. oath as Governor on July 30. 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DELHI Timings Sunday, July 28 Draw up action plan for revamping RISE 05:40 SET 19:15 Govt. draws flak after NGT bans RISE 01:45 SET 15:41 Monday, July 29 existing mechanisms: NGT to MoEF RISE 05:41 SET 19:15 RISE 02:33 SET 16:43 stone crushers in Mahendragarh Tuesday, July 30 To ensure effective monitoring of environmental clearances RISE 05:42 SET 19:14 Staff Reporter may be done through SEIAA ters, 351 polluted river RISE 03:28 SET 17:45 Swaraj India hits out at authorities, alleges ‘nexus between officials and owners’ NEW DELHI [State Environment Impact stretches and 102 non­attain­ Vikas Vasudeva We hope that now Following a plea that ques­ Assessment Authority]. It is ment cities, apart from other CHANDIGARH <> the State tioned the effectiveness of necessary to have an action serious issues.” Hitting out at the BJP govern­ government and the current monitoring mechan­ plan providing for revamp­ The directions came after ment over illegally operating local administration isms for compliance of envi­ ing the existing mechanism submissions made by the En­ stone crushers in Mahendra­ ronmental clearances grant­ by providing 100% monitor­ vironment Ministry pertain­ will respect the garh district of Haryana, the ed to various projects, the ing of category “A” projects ing to third­party monitoring Swaraj India party on Satur­ order and spirit of National Green Tribunal through the mechanism of mechanisms. day said it has exposed the the NGT and take (NGT) has directed the Union regional offices of the Earlier, the green panel “nexus between government strict action against Environment Ministry to MoEF&CC and the CPCB had directed the Ministry to officials and those involved erring officials and draw up an action plan for [Central Pollution Control “evolve an appropriate” me­ in running illegal crushers in others “revamping the existing Board],” the Bench chanism to ensure effective the State”. mechanisms”. observed. monitoring of the environ­ Y ogendra Yadav The National Green Tribu­ The NGT ordered immediate closure of all illegal, pollution- S waraj India president A Bench headed by NGT mental clearances granted. nal had on July 24 ordered causing stone crushers in the Haryana district. * FILE PHOTO Chairperson Justice Adarsh Serious challenges Following allegations that immediate closure of all ille­ clear as to how blatant viola­ Kumar Goel said, “...with re­ Directing authorities to fur­ there was “flagrant violation gal, pollution­causing stone and relatable to the cost of Country Planning, Haryana tion of air quality norms is gard to category “A” pro­ nish the action plan within of conditions of environmen­ crushers in the district. restoration” so that the ille­ State Pollution Control being allowed for permitting jects, the data validation has one month, the Bench ob­ tal clearance and adequate “The NGT order exposes gal activity is not profitable. Board; and the Divisional operation of stone crusher to be the primary concern of served, “The need for 100% monitoring was not taking the collusion of owners of il­ The order came on a peti­ Forest Officer, pointed out in units... The report does not the MoEF&CC [Ministry of monitoring of category “A” place,” the tribunal in Octob­ legal crushers and the go­ tion by Mahender Singh and its order that two reports clarify as to how many stone Environment, Forests and projects is necessary in view er last year had observed vernment machinery. We Tejpal Yadav, who com­ submitted earlier were filed crushers, if any, are legiti­ Climate Change] and ought of serious challenges of envi­ that “compliance of condi­ hope that now the State go­ plained that the location of without “application of mate and do not conflict not be outsourced.” ronment faced by the coun­ tions of EC must be moni­ vernment and the local ad­ the illegal stone crushers mind and were rejected”. with the environment. It ap­ “For category “B” pro­ try in the form of there being tored on a periodical basis, ministration will respect the was close to plantation, re­ The third report, too, was pears that the State adminis­ jects, such data validation 100 polluted industrial clus­ at least once a quarter”. order and spirit of the NGT served forest and education­ found “inadequate to deal tration has not cared to fully and take strict action against al institution. Besides, the with the matter”, said the verify the compliance of en­ erring officials and others,” area is overexploited in NGT. vironment norms while per­ said Swaraj India president terms of groundwater, re­ mitting continuation of the Water wastage: Centre, NGT seeks Yogendra Yadav. sulting in scarcity of water Blatant violation stone crushers, even after even for drinking purpose, “The report shows the State proceedings before this tri­ report from I N BRIEF Prosecution, penalty the petition stated. administration in poor light. bunal,” the NGT observed. DJB told to submit report The NGT also directed the The NGT, which had There is no explanation as to The order added that the SDMC over Deputy Commissioner of sought factual and action­ta­ how potable water has conti­ Haryana Chief Secretary Authorities failed to take steps: petition Mahendragarh to ensure im­ ken report from a joint com­ nued to be drawn without may look into the conduct of desilting mediate initiation of action mittee, comprising repre­ any restriction by the State the officers who gave the ear­ Staff Reporter Around 600 by way of prosecution and sentatives of the Deputy administration even though lier reports for “withholding NEW DELHI <> Staff Reporter million people NEW DELHI recovery of compensation Commissioner, Mahendra­ the area is critical in terms of the information” which has The National Green Tribu­ are facing acute which must be “deterrent garh; District Town and groundwater... It is also not now been revealed. nal (NGT) has sought a re­ water crisis in Following a plea seeking ex­ port from the Centre and ecution of a 2016 order the country. M inister inaugurates the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) ov­ passed by the National Digi Seva Kendra CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC er a petition seeking direc­ Millions of litres Green Tribunal that had di­ NEW DELHI tions for remedial measures of fresh potable rected authorities to desilt Power Minister Satyendar Jain Walk in the rain to prevent wastage of water water are being a drain on the Mehrauli­Ba­ on Saturday inaugurated the from overflowing overhead wasted in the darpur Road, the green pa­ Digi Seva Kendra (DSK) at tanks in residential and absence of nel has sought a status re­ Paschim Vihar here which commercial areas. appropriate port from the South Delhi seeks to provide seamless A Bench headed by NGT regulations or Municipal Corporation. ‘single window digital Chairperson Justice Adarsh A Bench headed by NGT services’ to lakhs of the action plans Kumar Goel directed the Mi­ NGT Bench Chairperson Justice Adarsh Capital's residents. Modelled nistry of Jal Shakti and the Kumar Goel directed the on the lines of Passport Seva DJB to furnish a factual and civic body to furnish the ac­ Kendras, the Kendra provides action­taken report to the water has “assumed alarm­ tion­taken report within digital experience even at physical locations and is also the tribunal within one ing proportions,” the peti­ one month after the peti­ replete with Door Step month. tion stated, “The demand tioner association alleged Service (DSS) for senior from water is expected to that authorities had failed citizens, differently abled and Remedial measures grow from 40 billion cubic to execute the 2016 order the medically ill. Four more The directions came when metres currently to around that was passed by the tri­ DSKs are in the pipeline that the green panel was hearing 220 billion cubic metres in bunal to prevent waterlog­ will take its count to 11. a plea moved by Ghaziabad 2025...[the situation] is wor­ ging. “According to the ap­ councillor Rajendra Tyagi sening by the day and needs plicant, desilting is not and others, who alleged to be arrested for the future being done nor the drain is that remedial measures generations.” being cleared. Before pro­ ‘Pass percentage were not being taken by ceeding further in the mat­ in govt. schools authorities to prevent was­ Punishable offence ter, we require a factual tage of water from the over­ The Bench observed, “The and status report to be fur­ has gone up’ head tanks. applicant accordingly seeks nished by the SDMC,” the directions to the Ministry of Bench observed. Staff Reporter Facing crisis Jal Shakti and Ministry of The directions came New Delhi Noting the allegations made Environment, Forests and when the green panel was The pass percentage of go­ in the plea, the Bench ob­ Climate Change to take hearing a plea moved by vernment school students served, “Around 600 mil­ measures under [relevant the Shri Shri Thakur Ram studying in Class 12 has lion people are facing acute sections] and to all States Chandra Dev Association reached 96.5% while that water crisis in the country. and Union Territories to that had sought directions of Class 10 students has Millions of litres of fresh make wastage or misuse of to the government and civ­ crossed 80%, the Delhi go­ potable water are being water through overflowing ic bodies to “undertake reg­ vernment said here on Sa­ A man caught in the rain on Saturday. Showers across the Capital brought respite from both heat and humidity. The maximum wasted in the absence of ap­ tanks or otherwise, a pun­ ular cleaning and desilting turday. It credited special and minimum temperatures were recorded at 32.5°C and 25.4°C respectively, both two notches below normal. Cloudy skies propriate regulations or ac­ ishable offence.” of the drains abutting the classes at such schools for with light to moderate rain and thundershowers have been forecast for Sunday. * R.V. MOORTHY tion plans.” The green tribunal post­ temple complex to avoid “saving” as many as CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Stating that wastage of ed the matter for August 28. waterlogging in future”. 20,000 students from re­ peating an academic year. The pass percentage of Delhi government schools ‘Waive registration fee for had now gone up by 9.7% In Gurugram’s underbelly, addiction is just a shop away points in Class 10 and 2.3% points in Class 12 after fac­ women property owners’ Migrant workers’ children take to inhaling correction pen diluters, available despite ban on sale to minors toring the compartment results as well. Ashok Kumar migrant workers, settled in The number could arrested for buying the sto­ BJP for swift regularisation of colonies GURUGRAM <> “For us, every child mat­ and around Jharsa village, in­ even run into len iron rods. On another oc­ ters. I am proud of our Staff Reporter Shiv was barely nine when dulging in substance abuse thousands across casion, he damaged the win­ teachers who conducted New Delhi the layout plans of unauth­ he took to substance abuse. abound. Abusive parents, the Millennium City dow air conditioner in a special classes for students orised colonies. His father, a rickshaw­puller, penury, broken families and house as he was frustrated with the ever­ during summer vacation BJP State chief Manoj Tiwari, He accused the Delhi go­ would return home drunk al­ a neglected childhood have over his inability to arrange and ensured that students in a letter to Chief Minister vernment of “putting hin­ most on a daily basis and pushed them into addiction growing population money for the dose. He was placed in compartment Arvind Kejriwal here on Sa­ drance” in the regularisa­ beat up his mother. Too at a tender age. The easy of migrant workers. again detained and let off not only take the exam but turday, demanded the waiv­ tion of unauthorised young to protest, he ran availability of the diluter — The substance is with a warning. also pass it,” Deputy CM er of 4% registration fee for colonies adding that the Na­ away from home a couple of openly sold by a couple of easily available and Sometimes, Rakesh even Manish Sisodia, who also women seeking to own rendra Modi­led govern­ times to escape the trauma. shopkeepers in Patel Nagar — costs less, which steals money from his own holds the education port­ homes at unauthorised colo­ ment had, in 2014, started “But every time I ran away, has made matters worse. makes it popular house or a neighbour’s if folio, said. nies in the Capital. the process of regularisation my mother would stop eat­ drinking and inhalation can among these there isn’t enough work at a Arguing that the move of 1,797 illegal colonies of ing. I promised her that I A common sight be harmful and dangerous to children vegetable market nearby for would “empower” them in Delhi. would never run away again Amit Garg, who runs a health” and direction on money for his dose. He has DELHI TODAY Amit Garg addition to ensuring their Mr. Tiwari claimed that but started inhaling a diluter school for underprivileged “not to be sold to those be­ IIM alumnus also been caught harassing Talk: Rosalind Wilson Memorial Lec- social security, the MP cited the UD Ministry had written for correction pen to numb children at Prempuri near low 18 years”, it is sold open­ girls and being reprimanded ture 2019: “Judging the Judges: the example of Jharkhand letters “again and again” in my senses so that I could for­ Jharsa village, says that chil­ ly at two shops in Patel Na­ completely lose their senses for it. Need for Transparency and Account- ability” by Justice Ajit P. Shah. Chair: government which is charg­ this regard, but when the get the pain and suffering,” dren inhaling the diluter and gar. Though having an MRP after inhaling it and behave Mr. Garg says addiction is Soli J. Sorabjee, Life Trustee, IIC, at ing a nominal fee of ₹1 for AAP government “did not says Shiv, going to turn 16 lazing around in nearby of ₹25, it is sold at ₹90 like zombies,” says Mr. Garg, pushing these children into C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India In- ternational Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m. the purpose. “...the Jhark­ show its interest” in the reg­ this year. parks is a common sight. apiece. “Earlier, it was sold who has been working with crime and antisocial activity. Talk: Ambarish Dave will recite hand government is charg­ ularisation of colonies, the Rakesh, the youngest of There are around a at ₹35 per piece. But after Shiv and Rakesh to help Many of these children have verses from the Srimad Bhagavad ing only ₹1 as registration fee Ministry formed a panel un­ four siblings, was 10 years hundred such children aged three shops in Sadar Bazar them quit. now grown up and taken to Gita, selected by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi at Ramana Kendra, Lodhi from women since June der the chairmanship of the old when his friends intro­ between 8­16 who are given were raided and the demand alcohol and drug abuse. He Road, 5 p.m. 2017, and properties have L­G for recommending mea­ duced him to chemical to substance abuse within a soared, it is being sold at a Arranging money believes even a little effort on Dance: A solo Kathak recital by Dh- been registered in the name sures to be taken in this re­ abuse. Five years later, he radius of a few kilometres at higher price,” says Rakesh. These addicts mostly sca­ the part of the administra­ riti Swaroop, a disciple of Padmashri Dr. Shovana Narayan at Triveni Aud- of about 1.25 lakh women,” gard. “This committee sub­ has turned into a complete Jharsa, Prempuri and Patel Mr. Garg says he com­ venge junk from the garbage tion in taking action against itorium, Triveni Kala Sangam, 205 Mr. Tiwari said. mitted its report within addict. His father, an autor­ Nagar, says Mr. Garg, an IIM plained to the local police and sell it to the scrap deal­ the diluter suppliers can Tansen Marg, 6:30 p.m. three months and as a re­ ickshaw driver, came here alumnus. about this on a couple of oc­ ers in Jharsa to arrange mo­ make a huge difference. Exhibition: “+ - Iconic Forces”, a ‘Overcome hindrances’ sult, the process of regulari­ from Bihar in search of a job “The number could even casions, but no action has ney for their daily dose. So­ Gurugram Drugs Control solo painting show by Suman Sen Gupta. The exhibition portrays the Demanding that the process sation has started...it is un­ a decade ago. run into thousands across been initiated. metimes, they also do odd Officer Amandeep Chauhan co-existence of duality throughout of regularisation of such co­ fortunate that the Delhi “He left my mother for the Millennium City with the “If the supply of the sub­ jobs or even commit thefts. said that the diluter was not a human history at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m.. – lonies be expedited, Mr. Ti­ government in place of another woman. Earlier, he ever­growing population of stance is curtailed, it can Shiv recalls how he was banned item, but the police 7 p.m. wari said that the Delhi go­ cooperating in this process, would visit us every few migrant workers. The sub­ help prevent many more once caught on the closed­ could book the shopkeepers Theatre: “Gudamba”, a monologue vernment needed to tried to put hindrance. Now, weeks. But now it has been stance is easily available and children from falling prey to circuit television camera for selling it to those below 18 Urdu presentation will be delivered as part of the ongoing Urdu Drama overcome “hindrances be­ when these colonies are be­ more than a year since he costs less, which makes it it. It can also help addicts stealing iron rods at an un­ years of age. “It is beyond the festival organised by the Ghalib Insti- ing put by the bureaucrats” ing regularised, the AAP go­ came,” says Rakesh. It was popular among these chil­ quit. Also, its overdose has der­construction site in Sec­ purview of the Drugs Control tute, at Ghalib Auditorium, Aiwan-e- in this regard and also de­ vernment is trying to take only three days ago when he dren,” says Mr. Garg. grave consequences — a mi­ tor 31 and detained by the department to act in this Ghalib Marg, 6:30 p.m. (Mail your listings for this column at manded that civic bodies be the credit which is com­ had last inhaled the diluter. Despite a clear warning on nor boy lost both his eyes be­ police. case, but the police can cer­ [email protected]) “given funds” for preparing pletely wrong,” he alleged. Such stories of children of the product that “misuse by cause of it. The children The scrap dealer was also tainly intervene,” he said.

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Woman stabbed to death in Jangpura: brother wants accused hanged

SAURABH TRIVEDI New Delhi “I don’t care about his [accused] religion...I want him to be hanged,” said Nirdosh, brother of the woman who was stabbed to death in Jang­ pura on Friday evening. Preeti Mathur, 21, was stabbed six times with a knife by Mohammad Munsair in Bhogal, the police said. Fifty­three­year­old Giri Lal, who got injured while trying to rescue the woman, said the at­ tacker was brandishing the knife to keep the lo­ cals away. “I hit him with a plastic rod but he kept stabbing the woman. Then he attacked me but by that time, she had collapsed. I then caught him after which the other shopkeepers started beating him,” said Mr. Lal. Arvind Tiwari, a salesman, said he saw a man talking to the victim when suddenly he attacked her with a knife. She started running but he held her and attacked her again. “She kept asking for help but the accused was so brutal that no one stepped forward,” said Mr. Tiwari. Deputy Com­ missioner of Police (South­East) Chinmoy Biswal said the accused and the victim used to stay in the same locality in Sarai Kale Khan and had known each other. But due to some reason, the woman had stopped talking to Munsair, he ad­ ded. “We did not get any complaint regarding stalking or misbehavior against the accused. He is undergoing treatment after being beaten by the locals,” said Mr. Biswal. Preeti’s brother said Munsair had misbehaved with her after which he was asked by the lan­ dlord to vacate the house. Munsair had then shifted to a new house in the same locality. “My sister was pursuing BA. I never thought that I will not have her around in rakhi,” said Nirdosh. Munsair, an unemployed man, earlier worked at Safdarjung Hospital as a sweeper. A video of the incident is doing the rounds.

‘Couple found dead inside IIT-D campus fought often’

STAFF REPORTER New Delhi Following the case where three of a family were found dead inside their flat in IIT­Delhi campus on Friday, the police on Saturday said they did not recover any note from the spot. DCP (South­West) Devendra Arya said a PCR call was received at 11 p.m. on Friday stating that a woman was unable to reach her daughter, who lives with her in­laws in IIT­Delhi campus, over the phone. A team reached the spot and found the flat to be locked from inside. “They broke open the main door and found a man, his wife, and his mother hanging in separate rooms ,” said Mr. Arya. The man worked at the institution. During investigation, it was found that the cou­ ple used to fight often. The woman’s mother had registered a complaint of domestic violence against her son­in­law on July 7. Suicide prevention helpline: Sanjivini, Socie- ty for Mental Health, Telephone: 011-4076 9002, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. -7.30 p.m.

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AIIMS doctors wear badges to Minister opens OPD, labs Patparganj gets fourth mohalla clinic protest against at Safdarjung Hospital Four more to come up in the area by November, says Deputy Chief Minister NMC Bill Staff Reporter ished because of the petty We have a dream for Delhi — past 4.5 years, what did we New Delhi politics of the BJP, which we if you fall ill anywhere in the get in return? What we get in Press Trust of India Geriatric OPD for elderly to be open every Sunday starting today Deputy Chief Minister Man­ have now built here. We city, an MBBS doctor should return is the smile on the fac­ New Delhi ish Sisodia on Saturday in­ have plans for more. Soon, be available within 1 km to es of satisfied patients.” Resident doctors and stu­ Special Correspondent Sunday starting from today augurated a mohalla clinic in Patparganj will have eight treat you. Whichever area The Deputy Chief Minister dents at AIIMS here wore NEW DELHI [July 28] in the main OPD Patparganj, the Assembly mohalla clinics,” Mr. Sisodia you live in, whether you told the officials, who would black badges to work on Sa­ “Health has been positioned complex and specialties in­ constituency from which he said. have money in your pocket be running the clinic, that turday in a symbolic prot­ as one of the top agenda of cluding, medicine, general has been elected as an MLA. or not, you will have a doctor doctors are known for their est against the National the government and today’s surgery, ENT, ophthalmolo­ This is the fourth mohalla ‘Doctor within 1 km’ to treat you,” said Mr. Siso­ “pleasant behaviour” with Medical Commission development reflects that gy, and orthopedics will be clinic in the constituency “The government is working dia. patients and requested them (NMC) Bill which, they al­ the Prime Minister is com­ provided. and four more are expected on the health and education He added, “Sometimes to carry on the tradition. leged, was “anti­poor”. mitted to fundamentally The OPD timings will be to come up by November. of its citizens in a manner one thinks that instead of Mohalla clinic is a flagship Doctors and medical transform the country and from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. “One clinic had to be demol­ never done before in India. working very hard for the project of the government. students across the coun­ give quality health services and registration timings will try have been opposing the to the people,” said Union be 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Pa­ Bill, which was introduced Minister of Health and Fami­ tients would be asked to in Lok Sabha on July 22 by ly Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Union Health Minister come on the day of the OPD Health and Family Welfare Saturday. Harsh Vardhan. of the respective unit for fol­ Minister Harsh Vardhan. low­up visits. The resident doctors of Facilities include Dr. Vardhan said everyone’s The dispensary will issue AIIMS were seen wearing He was speaking at the in­ aim should be to see that no medicines from 9.30 a.m. to black badges in ICUs, auguration of a host of facili­ patient is turned back or re­ 1.00 p.m. The required labo­ emergency block, wards ties at Safdarjung Hospital, ferred to any other emergen­ ratory and radiological in­ and operation theatres on including a geriatric Sunday cy facility. “Let us aspire to vestigations will be done Saturday. OPD, 3T MRI facility, biplane build our capacities and through emergency services Protests were being or­ cardiac catheterization labo­ strengths such that we are of New Emergency Block ganised in various parts of ratory and ESWL­Lab. able to attend to each emer­ (NEB) as already being done the country against the Bill While interacting with the gency patient”, he said. for emergency patients, said on the call of the Indian staff, paramedics, and doc­ The geriatric OPD for the a release issued by the Medical Association. tors at the emergency block, elderly will be open every Health Ministry. Two kanwariyas die in Man acquitted in robbery case separate incidents as complainant turns hostile Nirnimesh Kumar scooty and ₹1.5 lakh cash at New Delhi the instance of the investi­ Six persons are undergoing treatment A Delhi court has acquitted gating officer. The accused an accused in a robbery had chased him before rob­ Staff Reporter Hospital, the police said. case as the complainant re­ bing him, the complainant New DELHI “We have arrested the of­ fused to identify him in the said. “He had identified the Two men, who were going fending driver, Ajay Shankar trial. accused at the behest of the for dak kanwar, died on Sa­ [41], under relevant sections He told in his deposition probe officer who had turday in two separate inci­ of the IPC,” an officer said. that he had identified the ac­ shown the photograph of dents, the police said. In the other incident, a cused in the Test Identifica­ the accused before the TIP In the first incident, a 24­ 36­year­old man was elec­ tion Parade(TIP) as the per­ proceedings,’’ the complai­ year­old man died while trocuted in south­east Del­ son who had robbed his nant said in his evidence. three others were injured af­ hi’s Jaitpur, the police said. ter a truck rammed another Vijender Karana from Sau­ in west Delhi, they said. The rabh Vihar died while three police said they received in­ persons were injured — formation about the acci­ Shushil Chaudhary (24), Ra­ dent near Sagarpur bus jan (22) and Jitender (27). stand at 2.41 a.m. An officer said they re­ “Investigation stated that ceived information at 2.35 a few persons were going for a.m. on Saturday. After dak kanwar in a truck from reaching the spot, it was Bindapur. They had stopped found that Karana along to cover the vehicle with with 20­25 others, was going canvas when it started to to Haridwar for dak kanwar, pour. The truck was parked they said. on the roadside near Sagar­ They were going there in pur bus stand when another a tempo having column truck rammed it. One died speakers. When they while three others were in­ reached Jaitput, the speak­ jured,” an officer said. ers came in contact with The injured — Vijay Tha­ high tension wire, following kur, truck driver, Ankit (27) which the four persons were and Abhishek (27) both from injured. Karana was de­ Sagarpur are undergoing clared brought dead, the treatment, they said. Mohit police said, adding he is sur­ from Delhi Cantt died during vived by wife and two chil­ treatment in Safdarjung dren.

CISF launches encyclopaedia to strengthen security services

Portal includes videos, case studies

SAURABH TRIVEDI New Delhi The Central Industrial Se­ curity Force launched an online encyclopaedia — Se­ curitypedia — which incor­ porates a wide gamut of se­ curity­related practices across the globe, said a CISF spokesperson on Saturday. The CISF has established a technical lab at National The newly launched portal Industrial Security Acade­ of the CISF. my (NISA) in Hyderabad to * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT maintain and update techni­ cal knowledge about the lat­ sues. It has been developed est innovations in the field as a repository of knowledge safety and security that can and contains extensive in­ be used in places like air­ formation on technical ports and government offic­ learning, CISF manuals, es, he added. case studies, technical com­ The technical lab has a pendium, etc,” said the offi­ dedicated research and de­ cial. There is also a feature velopment wing manned by in Securitypedia — CISF a team of officers with a Tube — where officials can technical background, who find all videos relevant to maintain a constant inter­ CISF. To streamline the face with various academic monitoring of field units on and research institutions a day­to­day basis, they have and other professional developed an innovative agencies, said a CISF official. dashboard that provides “Depending upon the real­time data collection. outreach and feedback, the The technical research Securitypedia will be made and development lab of accessible to other paramili­ CISF has been actively en­ tary forces,” he said, adding gaged with national­level re­ that moving ahead with dig­ search institutions such as ital India, there was a need the National Remote Sens­ to empower the personnel ing Centre (NRSC) to lever­ by making technical know­ age the technological solu­ ledge available to them at tions they can offer. the click of a button. To achieve the objective, CISF has been assisting the Officials can blog National Center of Excel­ “It is not just a static website lence in Technology for In­ containing data archives but ternal Security (NCETIS) at a platform where CISF offi­ IIT­Mumbai in the evalua­ cials can contribute by writ­ tion of products, said the ing blogs on professional is­ spokesperson. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Man sends ‘talaqnama’ to wife on stamp paper ‘Self-help groups to be INDORE 85% of food adulteration cases A 34­year­old woman approached police after her linked to nutrition plans’ husband sent a “talaqnama” on a ₹100 stamp paper in Says Rajasthan Minister Mamta Bhupesh Indore in Madhya Pradesh, an in Bhind pending since 2011 official said on Saturday. The Mohammed Iqbal cently told the Assembly woman resides in Chandan Jaipur that SHGs would be encour­ Nagar. “My husband sent me a An inter-State racket involving spurious milk was recently busted in the M.P. district Self­help groups (SHGs) will aged to join nutrition pro­ ₹100 stamp paper containing Sidharth Yadav ‘talaq­e­bain’, which State Controller of the be connected to supplemen­ grammes and basic health­ Bhopal according to him frees me FDA department Ravindra tary nutrition programmes care schemes in rural areas. from the marriage. I refuse to Almost 85% of food adulter­ Singh admitted the high at Anganwadi centres in Ra­ Ms. Bhupesh said the ACB accept this one­sided ation cases, primarily relat­ pendency rate was a con­ jasthan this year. will file a charge­sheet divorce,” said Reshma Sheikh. ing to milk and dairy pro­ cern. “We have apprised the The State government in­ against guilty officials and ducts, registered in Bhind Chief Secretary of the rate tends to dispel apprehen­ that disciplinary action has district of Madhya Pradesh and plan to fast track the sion among SHGs after the already been taken against are pending in courts since process. We have also di­ Anti­Corruption Bureau’s them. She added that the 2011. An inter­State racket rected District Collectors to recent investigation into al­ SHGs will be fully protected involving adulteration of dispose of cases on a priori­ leged irregularities in the and had no reason to worry milk and dairy products was ty basis,” he said. distribution of food at some about their functioning. recently busted in the dis­ Meanwhile, the FDA de­ Anganwadi centres in Na­ “New SHGs will be trict, as per an RTI reply. partment recently seized gaur district. formed in Makrana in Na­ There have been convic­ 5,200 litres of adulterated Minister of State for Wo­ gaur district to streamline tions in only eight of the 55 On July 19, authorities seized over 700 kg of milk products milk being transported by a men and Child Develop­ distribution of food,” said cases registered between Ja­ during raids in Bhind and Morena districts. * FILE PHOTO tanker to Kanpur from Por­ ment Mamta Bhupesh re­ the Minister. nuary 22, 2011, and Septem­ sa, Morena district. Chemi­ ber 4, 2017, in the district. inspectors, were arrested. not bringing the accused to cals and skimmed milk The last conviction was in Following this, the go­ book must be held accoun­ powder worth ₹30 lakh 2016, according to an RTI vernment cracked down on table for the proliferation of were also seized in a raid at Political vendetta in ED reply to a query raised by units manufacturing spu­ such rackets in the State. a milk godown in the dis­ activist Ajay Dubey. rious milk and the State Pu­ What is the point of the NSA trict. A show­cause notice questioning, says Hooda blic Health and Family Wel­ Act when the pendency rate was issued to the Food Safe­ Raid on units fare Minister Tulsiram is so high?” ty Officer of the district for press trust of india The senior Congress lead­ On July 19, the State Food Silawat said that the Nation­ Forty­two cases in Bhind negligence. chandigarh er was questioned for the se­ and Drug Administration al Security (NSA) Act, 1980, district relate to adultera­ From Pipalyamira, four Former Haryana chief minis­ cond consecutive day by the (FDA) Department and a would be invoked against tion of milk and dairy pro­ samples were taken from a ter Bhupinder Singh Hooda ED on Friday. He was grilled Special Task Force raided those involved in the illegal ducts. Thirty­seven cases of paneer factory and 255 kg of on Saturday alleged “politi­ under the Prevention of Mo­ units manufacturing syn­ activity. adulteration are being inves­ condensed milk and 250 kg cal vendetta” in his question­ ney Laundering Act, official thetic milk and dairy pro­ “It was unreasonable to tigated, including one in of ghee were seized from ing by the Enforcement Di­ sources said. ducts in Bhind and Morena invoke the NSA Act against which the Madhya Pradesh Unhel, Ujjain district. In the rectorate in connection with “It is political vendetta,” districts. Around 10,000 adulterators when there government is the accused past few days, 233 samples a money laundering case re­ said Mr. Hooda. The plot in litres of synthetic milk, 500 were so many cases pend­ party. The RTI reply stated of milk and dairy products lated to the allotment of a Panchkula, registered at no kg of mawa and 200 kg of ing,” said Mr. Dubey, ad­ that there were no regis­ from across the State have plot in Panchkula to the As­ C­17 in Sector­6, was at­ paneer were seized. Around ding: “Those who are stall­ tered cases of spurious been sent to the State Food sociated Journals Limited in tached by the ED in Decem­ 60 persons, including food ing litigation and thereby drugs in the district. Laboratory for testing. an “illegal” manner. ber last year. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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The Nagaland government nyak as members. Justice election in West Tripura on Saturday * PTI on Saturday constituted a (Retd.) Zelre Angami will commission to frame the function as the advisor to 0 modalities of creating the the Commission. The Home DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to 67% votes cast in verify and make appropriate enquiries to Register of Indigenous In­ Commissioner and the Com­ satisfy themselves about the veracity of an advertisement before responding to habitants of Nagaland, offi­ missioner Nagaland will be any published in this newspaper. THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & cials said. ex­officio members of the Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch Tripura rural election for the authenticity of any advertisement The RIIN, a register of all panel. or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s products and/or services. In no event can the indigenous inhabitants The Nagaland govern­ the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- BJP has won 85% seats unopposed ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in of the State, is required to ment began the process of any manner whatsoever for any claims Neiphiu Rio * FILE PHOTO and/or damages for advertisements in prevent issuance of indige­ preparing the RIIN on July Press Trust of India allowing them to exercise this newspaper. nous inhabitant certificates 10. Agartala their franchise, a charge de­ to ineligible persons, they commission would recom­ An estimated 67.16% votes nied by the ruling party. added. mend the eligibility criteria Genuine citizens were cast till 3 p.m. on Sa­ A notification on setting to be an indigenous inhabi­ The RIIN would provide pro­ turday in the three­tier pan­ Ballot papers used up of the panel to develop tant, the documents to be tection to genuine citizens chayat election in Tripura, “Since ballot papers were the modalities was issued on acceptable as proof for being who are permanent settlers which passed off peacefully, used, it would take some Saturday, after the adminis­ an indigenous inhabitant, of Nagaland and non­Nagas an election department offi­ more time to get the final tration held meetings with the manner in which the ex­ will not be harassed during cial said. percentage,” State Election tribal bodies, civil societies ercise is to be carried out preparation of the list of in­ Polls were held in only Commissioner G.K. Rao and non­Naga communities and any other issue relating digenous citizens, Chief Mi­ 15% of the total seats as 85% said. He said the BJP has of the State. to implementation of the nister Neiphiu Rio had said. seats have already been won won 5,652 seats of the total It was decided that the RIIN. According to a June 29 go­ unopposed by the ruling 6,646 seats unopposed. policies and modalities of The panel would submit vernment notification, the BJP. Additional Inspector preparing the RIIN would be its report within three RIIN will help identify the ci­ The Opposition — the General of Police (Law and framed and made public be­ months. tizens who settled in Naga­ Congress and the CPI(M) — order) Subrata Chakraborty fore the actual enumeration The Commission would land prior to December 1, accused the BJP workers of said no major incident of begins. be headed by retired Chief 1963, the day it became a intimidating their voters violence was reported from The notification said the Secretary Banuo Z. Jamir as full­fledged State. since Friday night and not any part of the State. Amarinder scraps Fazilka Bangladeshi couple held for DC’s order on dress code living in India on fake papers The officer had consideration of all relevant aspects of the issue,” said issued order on the spokesperson. Man arrested for ‘helping’ them get forged documents ‘request’ by ‘Not feasible’ Special Correspondent Documents 120B and Section 14 of The employees’ union Ghaziabad <> The Chief Minister said im­ include birth Foreigners Act and 12(1)B of SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT position of a dress code in a The Bulandshahr police on certificates, The Passports Act, 1967.” CHANDIGARH government office did not, Saturday arrested three peo­ Aadhaar cards, Describing them as “poor Punjab Chief Minister Ama­ on the face of it, appear to ple, including an alleged illegal economic migrants”, PAN card, bank rinder Singh on Saturday be a feasible option. Other Bangladeshi couple, from Mr. Mishra said that during scrapped the orders of the ways could be explored to Khurja town of the district. passbooks and interrogation Nishi revealed Fazilka Deputy Commis­ ensure office decorum, he According to the police, the passport of the that they came from Bangla­ sioner imposing a dress said, adding that the State couple has been living in In­ wife desh in search of a job. code on employees. government did not have dia for a long time on forged Raghvendra Mishra “Nishi is from Krishnapur any dress code in place for documents. They have a K hurja CO village of district Naogaon in ‘Casual dress unkempt’ its employees and hence, it five­month­old daughter as Aadhaar cards, PAN card Bangladesh while Mishti is DC Manpreet Singh Chhat­ was not reasonable to ex­ well. and bank passbooks of two from Jhinadoh village of the wal had reportedly issued pect employees in one dis­ Khurja CO Raghvendra nationalised banks and pass­ same district. We have reco­ the orders on a written re­ trict office to follow any Mishra said that the case port of the wife. A photoco­ vered Nishi’s Bangladeshi quest by the employees’ un­ such code. came to light as part of the py of Nishi’s passport was al­ birth certificate as well. ion which had sought a for­ As per the DC’s orders, drive initiated by the admi­ so recovered. Nishi told us They approached Robin for mal dress code as they male employees would have nistration to check unveri­ that his original passport forging basic documents like found the casual dress been required, with effect fied workers in the pottery was submitted at the Kolkata birth certificate and rent ‘unkempt’. from July 29, 2019, to ab­ industry. “On the informa­ airport. We are checking it agreement. On the basis of An official spokesperson stain from wearing T­shirts tion given by local intelli­ with the Kolkata police,” Mr. these papers, they got the said the Chief Minister has and female employees gence, we conducted a raid Mishra said. passports and opened bank directed the DC to forward would have been required in Mohalla Baradari where He added that Tej Krishna accounts.” the union request to the to mandatorily wear dupat- we found that Akash alias Pratap Singh alias Robin, Interestingly, for their State government for furth­ tas. Nishi and his wife Mishti who helped them in getting marriage, the couple visited er action, as deemed neces­ Any violation of the dress were living after assuming fake documents, has also Bangladesh in December sary. code would have invited ac­ fake identities through been arrested. “They have 2017 and returned in Janu­ “Any decision on the mat­ tion, according to the or­ forged documents. 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DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF BJP likely to spurn overtures Revive passion for reading from section of JD(S) leaders among youth, say readers Suggestions aplenty at The Hindu’s Open House in Kochi Sri Lanka PM, wife offer Karnataka Chief Minister has ruled out making any deal with the party Special Correspondent prayers at Kasaragod Kochi KASARAGOD K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj Bengaluru It was an evening well spent Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil A section of Janata Dal (S) le­ for about 40 readers of The Wickremesinghe and wife Hindu Maitree Wickremesinghe gislators have expressed , with some coming in reached Kasaragod on a their inclination to support from as far away as Kannur, private visit and offered the Bharatiya Janata Party to participate in the first Ker­ prayers at the (BJP) government in Karna­ ala Open House with the Kumaramangalam temple at taka from outside, but this Readers’ Editor A.S. Pan­ Bela, near Kumbla, here on has only ruffled feathers in neerselvan, on Saturday. Saturday. Reports quoting the saffron party, particular­ The Open House, in the temple priest said Mr. ly Chief Minister B.S. presence of the editor Su­ Wickremesinghe and wife Yediyurappa. resh Nambath, saw readers The Hindu prayed for the prosperity of Party sources said the demand that take Face­to­face: One of the participants posing a question at their nation and welfare of Chief Minister has ruled out the initiative to re­ignite the the Open House conducted by The Hindu in Kochi on their family. making any deal with the JD passion for reading, espe­ Saturday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Orthodox faction enters (S) and has communicated cially among the millennials church following SC order this to the party’s Central who depend mostly on on­ Hindu. "Sadly, most among produced by humans and ALAPPUZHA leadership. Mr. Yediyurappa line portals for news and today’s young generation do driven by deadlines. The Members of the Orthodox and former Chief Minister other reading. not have the passion to Open House was organised faction of the Malankara H.D. Kumaraswamy share an The readers also offered read.” to recognise the viewpoints Church on Saturday entered uncomfortable history. The Accolades again: Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa gets a rousing reception from supporters on a suggestions to improve the Davis Vithayathil sought of readers.”

St. Mary’s Church at two fell out when the latter visit to his native village Bookanakere, in Mandya district on Saturday.* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT readability of the paper and more representation from Responding to demands Kattachira, near Kayamkulam, did not hand over power to to keep up with the times Kerala in the Letters to the that the e­paper and a few based on a Supreme Court the BJP in the earlier coali­ when news is available at Editor column. “Everything other offerings from The order. It had remained closed tion government of 2007. Siddaramaiah says rebel MLAs one's fingertips. Foremost about the daily, from the Hindu stable be made availa­ for the past several months “The differences are irrecon­ among them were Anna Kat­ quality of newsprint to con­ ble free of cost, he delved in­ following clashes between cilable,” said a close asso­ tampally and Chithra S. Nair, tent, is outstanding,” said to the expenses involved in the Orthodox and Jacobite ciate of Mr. Yediyurappa. students from St. Teresa's Santhosh Krishnan. Mini Pri­ garnering credible news. factions over the ownership called him after 3 disqualifications College here. “There are op­ ya, assistant professor from “Newsprint too is expen­ of the church. Officials said Sets off speculation Special Correspondent Home Minister M.B. Patil have created a flutter in the tions aplenty to get live and SH College, Thevara, high­ sive,” he said. they executed the Supreme On Friday, a section of JD(S) Bengaluru/Vijayapura told the media in rebel group. Some of the quick news. The Hindu's on­ lighted how many like her Mr. Nambath said the Court order allowing the Ahead of Karnataka Chief Vijayapura. However, he members immediately line edition offers news in Orthodox faction the legal leaders wanted to join hands relied considerably on the Readers’ Mail column would depth. It must become more mandate to administer the with the BJP, and this was Minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s refused to identify the clarified that they were not daily to garner data for be shortly restored, with res­ church. It was opened amid confirmed by former Minis­ floor test, two senior MLAs. Confirming the worried about any action lively and friendlier to the research. ponses from government of­ tight security. ter G.T. Deve Gowda. This is Congress leaders on claim, Mr. Siddaramaiah against them, including youth,” they said. ficials concerned. not the first time some JD(S) Saturday claimed that some said in Bengaluru, “It is disqualification. Nirmala Venketeshwaran, In response “We try to be representa­ Man held on charge of leaders have tried to work MLAs from the rebel camp true, some of them called Janata Dal (S) rebel a retired school principal, Mr. Panneerselvan spoke of tive of all regions in Letters killing girlfriend out an agreement with the had tried contacting me. They called me after legislator H. Vishwanath spoke of how the academic the efforts that The Hindu to the Editor column. Read­ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM BJP. Days before the trust Congress Legislature Party the Speaker announced the rubbished the claim. “It is standard and communica­ takes to understand and cor­ ers can write about areas of A man who allegedly killed vote in the Assembly, the (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah. disqualification of three false. They are trying to tion skills of students had rect the errors that creep in­ their interest in Open Page his 30­year­old girlfriend and then Tourism Minister, S.R. “Two MLAs from the MLAs. They are worried create confusion, that improved tremendously af­ to the daily. “Errors can hap­ and get paid as well,” he buried her body in the Mahesh, a former BJP leader rebel camp called up about disqualification now.” something will happen on ter they began reading The pen, since newspapers are said. backyard of his under­ now with the JD(S), met BJP Siddaramaiah recently. But These claims, made by Monday. But we are construction house has been State in­charge P. Muralidhar he ignored their calls and Congress leaders ahead of intelligent enough to know arrested. Acting on a tip­off, Rao and K.S. Eshwarappa at did not answer,” former Mr. Yediyurappa’s floor test, better,” he said. the police arrested Akhil from the Kumara Krupa Guest DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the Thiruvananthapuram ‘No room for intolerance in Kerala’ House, setting off specula­ International Airport. tion. unit. A senior BJP leader said rebels. It is also a question of the remaining 13 rebel MLAs According to the police, Akhil “Yediyurappa lodged a that having a truck with the our credibility,” he said. till the end of the tenure of Staff Reporter State will provide all security rance even in the field of ci­ and Rakhi were in a THIRUVANANTHAPURAM relationship for over six years. strong protest with the party JD(S) makes no sense at pre­ this Assembly. and the right atmosphere for nema. Let these forces keep Trouble started when she high command after the sent. “We have fought the Action against Speaker? “It will not be appropriate Coming down hard on “forc­ them to continue to pursue in mind that such threats came to know that he was meeting,” a source said. But party tooth and nail over the Meanwhile, the BJP strate­ for the Speaker to take a call es of intolerance” for their their art independently and will not work in Kerala,” the getting married to another what has also upset the State past one year and have just gists are considering moving on the fate of the 13 rebel attacks on filmmaker Adoor fearlessly. Chief Minister said. woman. Akhil and his brother BJP leaders is that JD(S) ne­ toppled their government. a no­confidence motion MLAs after the winning side Gopalakrishnan and other “For the past few years, Earlier, Mr. Vijayan visit­ Rahul allegedly strangulated gotiators are reaching out to Three of their MLAs have re­ against Speaker K.R. Ramesh moves a no­confidence mo­ independent­minded ar­ fascist forces have been try­ ed Mr. Gopalakrishnan at his her. Rahul was arrested the Central leadership di­ signed and are all set to join Kumar on Monday. The par­ tion against him,” a BJP stra­ tists, Kerala Chief Minister ing to spread the poison of home to express solidarity earlier on Saturday. PTI rectly, bypassing the State us. The party cannot let go of ty fears he might disqualify tegist said. Pinarayi Vijayan said the communalism and intole­ with the filmmaker. Errant police officers to be Junior college CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Reforms help students ‘rag’ Back to its glory more devotees booked for electoral fraud seniors in A.P. to have darshan G. Anand The attesting officer has Thiruvananthapuram to authenticate the voters’ Special Correspondent Special correspondent Gazetted officers who facili­ identity. He has to certify ANANTAPUR Tirumala tated the surrogate filing of that the elector signed the Junior students of the Go­ The menace of lobbying postal ballots issued to pol­ declaration and marked the vernment Polytechnic Col­ and black marketing of VIP ice officers posted outside ballot paper in his presence. lege at Hindupur allegedly darshan tickets at the hill their constituencies on Lok Officers said returning of­ resorted to ragging senior temple of Lord Venkates­ Sabha poll duty by falsely at­ ficers in Kerala had issued students leading to a stan­ wara has been checked to a testing the requisite applica­ 39,338 postal ballots. The doff on Saturday, and pol­ large extent at least for the tion (Form 13A) are likely to Crime Branch has to peruse ice officers had to inter­ time being, thanks to the be charged with committing the returned ballots to de­ vene and bring the reforms introduced by the electoral fraud, according to tect foul play. Investigators situation under control. temple administration. senior law enforcement of­ would verify whether the Principal G. Sayanaraya­ The major fallout of the ficers. elector and the attesting of­ na told The Hindu that five reforms is that the ‘ele­ The Crime Branch is ficer were present together senior students had alleg­ ment’ of discrimination, probing the postal voter at the time of casting the edly resorted to ragging which caused heartburn fraud that had ensnared the postal ballot. last week and were given between the VIPs before Kerala Police Association The Crime Branch would warning and a written as­ the abolition of L1, L2 and and the Police Department question officers who had surance of good conduct L3 system, is absent . in a raging political contro­ attested a “suspiciously was taken jointly from the Another visible vantage is versy on the eve of elec­ high” number of Form 13 A. parents and senior stu­ that about one hour of dar­ tions. The agency has re­ It would also track the bulk dents. They were told in shan time is saved enabling quested District Collectors movement of postal ballots front of junior students not the TTD clear more than to turn in the Form 13A de­ to expose organised electo­ to rag them and the penal­ 5,000 devotees additional­ claration submitted by the ral fraud, if any. A prelimin­ ties that they could attract. ly every day. elector to the attesting offic­ ary probe had found com­ “This seems to have embol­ The protocol privileges er. The signed declaration pelling evidence that at least dened the juniors and they are now strictly confined to testifies to the identity of the three members of the police began behaving in a harsh those VIPs arriving in per­ voter and details the serial constabulary had attempted manner with the seniors, Tourist attraction: With heavy rainfall in the Sharavati Catchment area, Jog falls in Shivamogga, Karnataka, has attracted large son, and rest are treated as number of the postal ballot to amass postal ballots from which led to the dispute,” number of visitors this month. * VAIDYA one category without any paper issued to him. “like­minded” colleagues. Mr. Satyanarayana added. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC discrimination. KIA may help fix BBMP’s plastic problem A.P. waits in hope as Almatti brims City’s airport needs 50 tonnes of the material for laying roads to second terminal Irrigation engineers hope for a calibrated release to avoid a flood downstream

Chitra V. Ramani kiosks across the city where G. Venkataramana Rao rayanapur reservoir, which Bengaluru citizens could drop off plas­ Vijayawada is immediately downstream The Kempegowda Interna­ tic items. “BIAL is yet to fi­ With the monsoon finally Almatti, is also nearly full. tional Airport (KIA) may nalise the locations of these turning active, particularly While its full capacity is hold the key to the Bruhat kiosks. Once finalised, we on the west coast, the reser­ 37.64 tmcft, there is already Bengaluru Mahanagara Pa­ will look into the feasibility voirs on the Krishna, which 30.69 tmcft water in it. like’s (BBMP) problem of and provide the statutory ap­ have been empty for a while, plenty. The civic body is sit­ provals needed,” they said. are slowly getting filled. Dismal scenario in A.P. ting on 11,753.50 kg of Almatti, the first sizeable However, the water position banned plastic items that it ‘Nascent stage’ reservoir on the Krishna, lo­ in the two reservoirs on the had seized during raids on However, a BIAL spokesper­ cated in north Karnataka’s Krishna downstream in And­ shops, street vendors, trad­ son said the proposal was Vijaypur district, has almost hra Pradesh continues to be ers and even citizens, but still in the nascent stage. reached full capacity of dismal. lacks the storage space. In “Research and development 129.72 tmc ft, according to While 184.56 tmcft is re­ what could be a fortuitous A view of the Kempegowda International Airport * FILE PHOTO is underway. We are keen on the Irrigation Department Almatti, the first sizeable reservoir on the Krishna, has almost quired to fill the Srisailam re­ turn of events, however, the using plastic. The back­end data. reached full capacity of 129.72 tmc ft. * FILE PHOTO servoir, another 185.42 tmcft mountain of confiscated sustainability mission. It has to send the low grade plastic work is likely to be complet­ Inflows into the reservoir is needed to fill Nagarjunasa­ plastic may be just what proposed to use plastic to lay that is in the various process­ ed in six to eight weeks,” said steadily increased from ties are likely to release wa­ be forced to release a huge gar. KIA’s operator, the Bengalu­ the roads leading to and re­ ing plants, dry waste collec­ the spokesperson. 17,000 cusecs on July 3 to a ter given the healthy storage amount of water down­ While the capacity of all ru International Airport Ltd. lated to the second terminal. tion centres (DWCCs) and For now, the plastic that peak of 1.14 lakh cusecs on situation. stream, leading to a spate, the reservoirs in the State is (BIAL), needs. BBMP officials, on condi­ the banned plastic items that has been seized is being July 14. Thereafter, the in­ Currently, there is a flood the engineers warn. 982.35 tmcft, there is only With the construction of tion of anonymity, told The have been seized,” the offi­ stored either in the ward of­ flow fell to 7,662 cusecs on cushion of just 6 tmcft in the During the corresponding 208.35 tmcft water (21.21%) the second terminal under Hindu that they had received cials stated. fices or range offices of the July 24 only to rise again to dam with water level at 125.5 period the previous year, in them as on date. There way at the airport, BIAL has a proposal from BIAL. “We According to the BBMP of­ Medical Officers of Health. In 22,593 cusecs on Saturday. tmc ft. If there is a sudden there was only 114.56 tmcft was 365.96 tmcft (37.25%) in been looking at using alter­ were told that they require ficials, BIAL is also mulling some wards, they have been According to State irriga­ flood from the upper reach­ water. the reservoirs on the corres­ nate materials that meet its 50 tonnes of plastic. We plan the feasibility of opening sent to the DWCCs. tion engineers, dam authori­ es, the dam authorities will The relatively smaller Na­ ponding date last year.

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IN BRIEF 1 2 Centre to launch Deep Ocean Mission in October

Assam flood toll hits 81, Polymetallic nodules will help meet energy requirement water re­enters Sonitpur Jacob Koshy GUWAHATI NEW DELHI The toll in Assam floods touched 81 on Saturday with A five­year, ₹8,000­crore the death of one more person plan to explore the deepest in Barpeta district, as water recesses of the ocean has fi­ re­entered Sonitpur district, nally got the green signal 4 3 bordering Arunachal Pradesh, from the government. an official report said. The The ‘Deep Ocean Mission situation in the other 17 (DOM)’ to be led by the Un­ flood­affected districts ion Earth Sciences Ministry remained unchanged. A total will commence from Octob­ of 1,716 villages in 56 er 31, Madhavan Rajeevan, revenue circles of the state Secretary, said at a public are inundated. PTI function. India has been allotted a site of 75,000 sq. km.for “We finally have the in­ exploitation of polymetallic nodules. * FILE PHOTO Gujarat Assembly clocks principle approval to go longest day ahead with the mission. Now three people on board. Central Indian Ocean Basin AHMEDABAD The 14th Gujarat Legislative expenditure plans will be “The mission proposes to (CIOB) by the UN Interna­ Assembly has broken its 1993 drawn and circulated for ex­ explore the deep ocean simi­ tional Sea Bed Authority for record of the longest sitting ecuting programmes and we lar to the space exploration exploitation of polymetallic on a single day — 12 hours hope to launch by October started by ISRO about 35 nodules (PMN). and nine minutes. Assembly 31,” he said. years ago,” a report explain­ These are rocks scattered speaker Rajendra Trivedi The big rescue: 1) NDRF personnel carrying inflatable boats to rescue stranded passengers of the Mahalaxmi Express, 70 km Among the key delivera­ ing the objectives of the pro­ on the seabed containing termed it historic and there from Mumbai on Saturday; 2) Rescuers on their way to the train; 3) Passengers being brought back; 4) A group of passengers bles are an offshore desali­ gramme notes. iron, manganese, nickel and was celebration in the House. walking to safety after reaching a higher ground. * AFP, AP & SANDEEP RASAL nation plant that will work A major thrust of the mis­ cobalt. Being able to lay According to the press CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC with tidal energy and deve­ sion will be looking for me­ hands on even 10% of that release issued by the loping a submersible vehicle tals and minerals. reserve can meet the energy speaker’s office, Friday’s that can go to a depth of at India has been allotted a requirement for the next 100 proceedings commenced at least 6,000 metres with site of 75,000 sq. km. in the years. 10 am and concluded at around 12:09 am on Saturday. As train stopped, lack of info Lt. Gen. Paramjit Singh to Students stage be new DGMO of Army Tigress found dead NEW DELHI sit-in protests Lt Gen Paramjit Singh will be kept passengers on the edge the next Director General of near Bandipur in Manipur Military Operations (DGMO) of the Indian Army, official People feared that the water would enter the coaches before help came in sources said on Saturday. Lt Suspected to be run over by a vehicle a correspondent IMPHAL Gen Singh, currently serving Press Trust of India not know if help is on its Mumbai Special Correspondent as General Officer Stranded holidaymakers way, the despair just increas­ MYSURU crossing the road outside As a part of the continuing Commanding of the Army’s As the skies opened up in es manifold,” recalled a the park boundary. agitation in the wake of the Nagrota­based XVI Corps, will Vangani in Thane on Friday, rescued from resort in Shahad passenger. A tigress was found dead Director of the Bandipur death of a female student take over as the new DGMO little did over a thousand The train was marooned close to the highway leading Tiger Reserve and Conserva­ who was found “hanging” on October 15, succeeding Lt passengers on the Mumbai­ A correspondent Saturday. Heavy rainfall for almost 17 hours, with the to Bandipur tiger reserve tor of Forests T. Balachan­ in a hostel in Imphal on Ju­ Mumbai Gen Anil Chauhan. PTI Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Ex­ marooned the tourists passengers, including nine near Maguvinahalli in the dra, said nearly 250 vehicles ly 18, men and women press expect that the next 12 The concerted efforts of who had come to spend pregnant women, fearing early hours of Saturday, in line up after 9 p.m. at the staged sit­in at several plac­ 5 arrested, red sanders hours would be the stuff of a teams from the NDRF, Air the weekend at River that the water would enter what is suspected to be a checkpost and wait for the es. Police say that there logs seized in A.P. cinematic thriller. Force, Army, and police Winds resort. Officials said the coaches before help case of hit­and­run acci­ gate to be reopened at 6 was no untoward incident. NELLORE The train that left Mumbai helped rescue overnight rain led to came in. dent. a.m. Students’ organisations The Somasila police on late in the evening, became holidaymakers stranded at waterlogging in the village Coach B­1 had its own Though there is a ban on As per the National Tiger are demanding arrest of Saturday seized red sanders marooned near Vangani ear­ a resort in Shahad village and the water level rose up share of drama where Resh­ night traffic through Bandi­ Conservation Authority the principal Mrs Landho­ logs weighing 127.7 kg and ly on Saturday. As the train in Thane district on to seven feet at the resort. ma Kamble was in an ad­ pur from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m, (NTCA) , this is the fourth ni and other senior officials worth ₹4.02 lakh, and lost power and lights went DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD vanced stage of pregnancy. there are no restrictions on tiger death in Bandipur this of Standard Robarth vehicles used to smuggle out in the coaches, helpless­ to drained batteries or lack had no clue what was going Her co­passengers soothed vehicle movement outside year. Karnataka has lost 11 School, Imphal for police them with the arrest of five ness among the stranded of signal connectivity. around. That helplessness her nerves and kept her spi­ the national park. It is sus­ tigers so far this year, of interrogation. The student persons at Gudigunta village. passengers was underlined “When the train got ma­ was the most agonising part rits up. Ms Kamble was res­ pected that the tigress, aged which four are from Nagara­ Babysana Ningthoujam The A.P. police said legal by lack of communication rooned, all we could see was of this ordeal. When you cued by a team of the local around 4 to 5 years, died hole, and one each from was a resident of the girl proceedings would be launched to seize the assets from all quarters, as cell water all around. But our know you are in life­threa­ police and nurses from a around 1 a.m. after it was Bhadra, Virajpet and HD hostel of this private of the accused. phones also went dead due fear kept rising because we tening trouble but you do nearby government hospital. run over by a vehicle while Kote forest divisions. school.

Weather Watch Five arrested Cooperatives for Fourth body Seven naxals killed in Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday for assault in found in Madhya Pradesh sustainable mining: NGT Odisha mine encounter in Bastar Body asks small mine owners to unite 3 persons among the dead are women Sidharth Yadav Press Trust of India Bhopal SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ing a cooperative can help Bhubaneshwar Press Trust of India Task Force (STF) of Chhattis­ The police have arrested five GUWAHATI them go for an alternative The death toll in the coal RAIPUR garh police was carrying out persons on the charge of The chairman of the com­ method of mining that is mine accident in Odisha’s Seven naxals, including an anti­naxal operation in thrashing three persons, in­ mittee of the National Green likely to be more expensive Angul district rose to four three women, were killed in the forests along the inter­ cluding two local Congress Tribunal (NGT) for rat­hole than rat­hole mining,” Jus­ on Saturday with the recov­ an encounter with security State border, he said. leaders, near Betul in Mad­ mining in Meghalaya has ad­ tice Katakey told The Hindu. ery of one more body, offi­ forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bas­ The team was advancing hya Pradesh on Thursday vised small coal mine own­ The NGT had also advised cials said. tar district on Saturday, pol­ through the forest of Tiriya, night on suspicion of being ers in the State to form the state to explore alterna­ The Mahanadi Coalfields ice have said. around 400 km from the child­lifters. cooperatives to shift to tive way of mining that fac­ Limited (MCL) suspended a The gunbattle took place capital Raipur, when the Armed with lathis, 20 vil­ scientific and sustainable tors in safety measures, en­ senior manager for his al­ around 4 p.m. in the forest gunbattle broke out, he lagers of Nawal Singhana at­ mining. vironmental clearance and leged negligence that led to near Tiriya village under Na­ said. tacked the trio after stopping But B.P. Katakey, a retired restoring the areas mined. the accident. garnar police station area Bodies of the seven ultras their vehicle, said Betul SP judge heading the commit­ Rat­hole mining is fast, in­ The mine workers were bordering Odisha, Deputy were later recovered from Karthikeyan K. “The villagers tee, pointed out that he volves minimum machin­ killed in a dump slide at the Inspector General of Police the spot, he said. mistook them for child­lifters made the suggestion in his ery, but is hazardous for Bharatpur opencast mine (Anti­Naxal Operations) Further details were and started attacking them. individual capacity. “A miners. in the Talcher coalfields on Sundarraj P. told PTI. A joint awaited as the patrolling Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) But, when they realised they proper mining plan is need­ There have been many fa­ Tuesday. squad of the District Re­ team was yet to return to its Forecast for Sunday: Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely over Goa, were local leaders, they ran ed for scientific coal extrac­ tal accidents across the The victim was identi­ serve Guard and Special camp, the DIG said. Gujarat, central Maharashtra east Rajasthan,west Madhya Pra­ away,” he said. tion. The mines in Megha­ State’s coal belt. fied as Ramesh Das, a se­ desh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, coastal Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Marathawada, Saurashtra, Odisha, The police suspect a viral laya are privately or One such was the death curity guard, Nine injured Jharkhand and West Bengal video of a female child­lifter community­owned, and it of 17 miners in a flooded workers were rescued im­ city rain max min city rain max min at the Itarsi railway station, may not be possible for mine at Khloo Ryngksan in mediately after the acci­ Agartala...... 3.8....33.5....26.0 Kozhikode...... 1.2....31.6....24.2 90 km from Betul, to be the small mine owners to have East Jaintia Hills district in dent had occurred and are Ahmedabad...... 0.2....34.5....27.7 Kurnool ...... 17.6....28.9....23.6 trigger. specific mining plans. Form­ December 2018. undergoing treatment. Aizawl...... 2.0....28.7....22.2 Lucknow...... 36.0....33.3....25.8 Allahabad...... 16.2....32.7....25.9 Madurai...... 2.9....38.6...... — Betul Congress general se­ Bengaluru ...... —....26.6....20.4 Mangaluru ...... 15.5....26.0....22.5 cretary Dharmendra Shukla, Bhopal ...... 18.8....27.1....23.8 Mumbai ...... 219.2....30.9....24.0 party leader Dharmu Singh Bhubaneswar.... 13.6....27.6....24.0 Mysuru ...... —....23.9....19.9 Chandigarh ...... 27.3....31.8....25.6 New Delhi ...... 11.2....32.5....25.4 Lanjiwar and tribal leader Chennai ...... 26.4....33.6....24.3 Patna ...... 6.4....33.6....26.6 Lalit Baraskar suffered minor Coimbatore ...... —....32.0....23.4 Port Blair...... 4.4....30.7....23.1 Dehradun...... 31.9....30.6....23.3 Puducherry ...... 2.6....35.4....23.1 injuries. The police regis­ Gangtok...... 56.0....21.2....17.5 Pune...... 78.0....24.1....21.0 tered a case under Sections Goa...... 46.0....30.5....25.5 Raipur ...... 6.4....27.2....24.4 147 [Punishment for rioting] Guwahati ...... 1.0....34.2....26.4 Ranchi...... 5.6....31.5....23.2 Hubballi...... —....24.0....21.0 Shillong...... 8.3....24.4....17.3 and 323 [Punishment for vo­ Hyderabad ...... 4.3....29.0....22.4 Shimla...... 60.6....20.8....17.0 luntarily causing hurt] of the Imphal ...... 56.8....27.9....21.1 Srinagar...... —....24.7....17.7 Indian Penal Code. Five per­ Jaipur ...... 84.0....27.4....25.1 Thiruvananthapuram...... —....30.2....23.7 Kochi ...... —....29.6....24.4 Tiruchi...... 9.3....39.0....24.4 sons are yet to be arrested. Kohima ...... 17.4....26.4....16.8 Vijayawada ...... 42.8....30.1....24.2 Kolkata ...... 1.5....32.4....26.4 Visakhapatnam ...... 6.8....33.0....25.2 Awareness sessions (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) To arrest the growing trend Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday of attacks on suspicion of be­ CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE * ing child­lifters, the Betul Ahmedabad..... 106 .50 ...— ... 64 .....— .... In observation made at Bengaluru ...... 6 .32 .46 ... 93 .....— ....* 4.00 p.m., Jodhpur, police have begun organising Chennai ...... 11 .24 .39 ... 82 .....— ....* Rajasthan recorded an Jansamvad programmes with Delhi ...... 8 .21 101 ... 32 ...50 ....* overall air quality index * (AQI) score of 272 residents of five villages at a Hyderabad ...... — ..— .51 ... 19 ...33 .... indicating a hazardous Kolkata...... 4 .42 ...7 ... 59 ...56 ....* level of pollution. In time. “We tell them to use Lucknow...... 4 .25 .49 ... 60 .....— ....* contrast, Guwahati, Assam the dial­100 facility in case Mumbai ...... 12 .22 103 .....— ...54 ....* recorded a healthy AQI Pune...... 68 ...8 .67 ... 16 ...16 ....* score of 22 they are suspicious of Visakhapatnam .17 .47 .41 ... 28 ...48 ....* anyone and not take the law

Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) into their own hands. Now, SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, we have started getting more making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air calls,” said Mr. Karthikeyan. particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues and monuments. Responding to a call, a NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by dial­100 vehicle visits the reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. spot to ascertain whether the CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause person in question is a child­ dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. lifter or not. The Shahpur PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, police station received 10­15 nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature calls relating to child­lifters death in people with heart or lung disease everyday, the highest in Be­ tul district, he added.

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DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Activists plan people’s struggle against RTI Bill FinMin, NITI Aayog Apart from seeking help from political leaders, they propose to meet the President and urge him not to sign it guidelines ignored Priscilla Jebaraj the move will compromise fale case, the Prime Minis­ bodies, which cannot be gi­ Sandeep Phukan the autonomy of the Com­ ter’s degree, the RBI’s list of ven the same status as the New Delhi The DEA and NITI Aayog’s comply with RfP norms. missions and weaken the large defaulters, non­per­ Election Commission, a Con­ detailed notes of the propo­ Dropping O&M expe­ In the wake of the Congress­ transparency law. forming assets of banks, in­ stitutional body. sal on the six airports were rience as a pre­requisite led Opposition’s failure to RTI activists are in touch dustrial corruption, demo­ Some RTI activists hope to circulated among the parti­ raises questions about the prevent the amendments to with political leaders, includ­ netisation impact, and the meet President Ram Nath cipating ministries ahead of jurisdiction of EGoS. Head­ the Right to Information Bill ing Congress Parliamentary truth of employment and Kovind in a last­ditch bid to the PPPAC meeting. ed by the CEO of NITI in Parliament, RTI activists Party chairperson Sonia economic data. persuade him against signing In its note, the DEA noted Aayog, it was constituted by have charted a plan of action Gandhi, to rally support, “We also plan to launch a the Bill into law by remind­ unequivocally, “the six air­ the Union Cabinet to take looking to the Supreme sources told The Hindu. new mass campaign to have ing him of his own role in the port projects are highly cap­ decisions “on any issue fall­ Court, the Rashtrapati Bha­ RTI acknowledged as a Con­ original passage of the RTI ital intensive projects, ing beyond the scope of van and the public arena. ‘Helping the corrupt’ stitutional right, and the In­ Act in 2004. Mr. Kovind had hence it is suggested to in­ PPPAC”. However, accord­ They hope to launch a In a tweet on Saturday even­ formation Commissions re­ then been a Rajya Sabha MP corporate the clause that no ing to PPP guidelines, O&M mass RTI campaign targeting ing, outgoing Congress presi­ cognised as Constitutional and a member of the Parlia­ more than two Airports will standards fall under the the government’s vulnerabil­ dent Rahul Gandhi accused Many fears: Youth Congress activists protest near Parliament bodies. So far, the Mazdoor mentary Standing Commit­ be awarded to the same bid­ purview of PPPAC. ities, from corruption in de­ the Centre of assisting in cor­ on Saturday against the new RTI Bill. * SANDEEP SAXENA Kisan Shakti Sangathan and tee which finalised the Bill. der duly factoring the high fence spending to the Prime ruption by amending the the Suchna Evum Rozgar Ad­ A legal challenge is also financial risk and perfor­ Question of cost Minister’s educational quali­ Act. “Government is diluting ment’s original roots as a (NCPRI). “In the first stage, hikar Abhiyan are mobilising being considered. The Su­ mance issues. Awarding The DEA was also scathing fications and the state of the RTI in order to help the cor­ mass people’s struggle. “Ulti­ we plan to organise mass RTI people for a new grassroots preme Court has previously them to different companies in its criticism over a “criti­ economy. rupt steal from India. mately, the way to keep the filings on high­profile issues campaign. The NCPRI will held that the Right to Infor­ would also facilitate yard­ cal” detail such as the “total The amendments passed Strange that the normally vo­ issue in the spotlight is to that the government cannot take a decision after a meet­ mation was a fundamental stick competition.” project cost” missing from by Parliament will give the ciferous anti­corruption have more people file more ignore. So there will be five ing in August,” said Mr. Dey, right under Article 19(1)(a) of To buttress its point, the the RfP document. Centre the power to set the crowd has suddenly disap­ RTI petitions. We must exer­ questions on 10 different top­ associated with the leader­ the Constitution. “A statuto­ DEA cited that though GMR “It is not advisable to salaries and tenures of mem­ peared. #GovtMurdersRTI,” cise the right repeatedly in ics,” said Nikhil Dey, also a ship of all the organisations. ry amendment that makes was the only qualified bid­ keep the project cost open bers of the State and Central he tweeted. order to safeguard it,” said founder at NCPRI. The government has justi­ the right illusory is subject to der for Delhi and Mumbai, ended and it is essentially Information Commissions, Activists want to take the Anjali Bhardwaj, co­conven­ Some of the issues that fied the amendments on the judicial review,” tweeted both the airports were not required to frame the eligi­ the final appellate bodies un­ battle against the amend­ er of the National Campaign could be pursued include de­ grounds that the Information constitutional lawyer Gau­ given to the same company. bility criteria in terms of der the RTI Act. Critics fear ments back to the RTI move­ for the Right to Information fence expenditure, the Ra­ Commissions are statutory tam Bhatia. However, the PPPAC re­ technical capacity, financial ferred to a decision taken by capacity and O&M expe­ the Empowered Group of rience and other financial Secretaries (EGoS) that “no covenants such as bid secur­ Jaish bomb restriction needs to be ity, performance security Pakistan using deceit over Kashmir: Modi placed on the number of air­ etc, which are always in per­ expert killed ports to be bid for or to be centage terms of the esti­ awarded to a single entity,” mate Total Project Cost.” in Shopian On Kargil war anniversary, he says those defeated are using pseudo-war and encouraging terror according to the Record of The DEA rejected the Mi­ Discussion of 85th PPPAC, a nistry of Civil Aviation’s (Mo­ Special correspondent Special Correspondent case for the modernisation copy of which is with The CA)explanation that it was Srinagar NEW DELHI of the defence forces. Hindu. not possible to calculate the Two militants, including Prime Minister Narendra “Today, the wars have In a separate note, the NI­ total project cost for the en­ Jaish­e­Mohammad’s (JeM) Modi termed the victory in reached space. Wars are TI Aayog highlighted the tire period of 50 years of top commander and bomb the Kargil war a “symbol of fought even in cyberworld need to have players with lease, on the ground that expert, were killed in a India’s might, determination today. So, modernisation of prior Operation and Man­ these were brownfield air­ joint operation of the Ar­ and capability”. defence forces is not only a agement (O&M) experience. ports and all the required my, the police and the At the commemoration of necessity but also our priori­ It referred to the Model Re­ data should be available. Ne­ CRPF, in south Kashmir’s the 20th anniversary of the ty. Modernisation should be quest for Qualification (RfQ) vertheless the PPPAC went Shopian early on Saturday. war in New Delhi, Mr. Modi the identity of our defence that requires an applicant along with MoCA. Meanwhile, a solider said the soldiers fought for forces,” he said. without O&M experience to The DEA had also raised died as the Army foiled an the whole country and that He said his government either tie­up with an entity concerns over the criteria of infiltration bid in north “wars are fought not by go­ had taken many steps for the or engage qualified person­ per passenger fee (PPF) for Kashmir. vernments but by the whole welfare of the armed forces nel with the requisite determining the winning The slain militants were country. Kargil victory still including the implementa­ experience. bid and said the current PPF identified as JeM’s Munna inspires the whole country”. tion of the One rank, one On this issue, too, the should be set as a reserve Lahori, a Pakistani, and “When India got indepen­ pension scheme, a long­ PPPAC quoted the EGoS de­ price. Hizbul Mujahideen’s Mir dence in 1947, it wasn’t just Memorial day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a programme to mark Kargil Vijay Divas in standing demand, and to cision — “prior airport expe­ However, according to Zeenat Ul Islam, from Sho­ for one community, caste or New Delhi on Saturday. Ministers Rajnath Singh and Shripad Naik are seen. * PTI/PIB raise the amount given as rience may neither be made AAI’s reply dated April 8 to pian’s Turkawanghon area. people speaking one lan­ scholarships to the children a pre­requisite for bidding an RTI plea filed by Sobhan Lahori is believed to be the guage; it was for the whole had said, “ yeh dil maange had always used deceit over challenging the whole of of those killed in operations. nor a post­bid requirement. P.V. of the Airports Authori­ group’s top commander country. Similarly, the sol­ more”, his heart wasn’t ask­ the issue of Kashmir in 1948, mankind. Those defeated in “The question of national This will enlarge the compe­ ty Employees’ Union, “No and bomb expert. “He was diers who fought in Kargil ing for himself, not for a reli­ 1965 and 1971, and in 1999 war are using pseudo­war to security will not be ad­ tition for brownfield air­ study was conducted to as­ involved in planning and fought for the whole coun­ gion, a language or a caste that deceit was yet again de­ fulfil their political objectives dressed either under fear or ports which are already certain the existing Per Pas­ executing series of terror try,” he said. “When Param but for the whole Bharat, for feated. “The nature of war and encourage terrorism,” influence of anyone, nor functional.” senger Fee.” The plea was attacks, especially the IED Vir Chakra awardee, son of Maa Bharati,” he added. has changed. Today, human­ he said, again referring to Pa­ shortages. It will be ad­ This decision, again, was filed after the completion of blast at Arihal area of Pul­ Himachal Pradesh, J&K Ri­ He launched a frontal at­ ity and the world are victims kistan. dressed keeping our priori­ a departure from the earlier the bidding process and wama,” said the police. fles Captain Vikram Batra tack on Pakistan saying it of pseudo­war. Terrorism is Mr. Modi made a strong ties in mind,” he said. norm. During the first phase AAI’s response shows that it of privatisation, Delhi, had no parameter to judge Mumbai, Bengaluru and whether the PPF quoted by Acquitted J&K Hyderabad airports each the winning bidder was bet­ Qureshi case: ED gets had to find a foreign player ter than what it was drawing Debate and not disrupt, with O&M experience to at the existing airports. man gets a custody of businessman Naidu tells House of Elders warm welcome 10,000 more troops Babu held for links with accused Special Correspondent Says Rajya Sabha members have a special responsibility Srinagar Special Correspondent against Mr. Qureshi and Abdul Gani Goni, 50, one to be deployed in J&K NEW DELHI others. Special Correspondent placed by disorder, disrup­ of the four acquitted in the The Enforcement Directo­ New Delhi tion and delay in legislation, Samleti bomb blast case, According to the Ministry of rate (ED) on Saturday got CBI tussle A day after 17 political par­ he said. was received by hundreds Home Affairs (MHA), from five days’ custody of Hydera­ However, in October last ties jointly wrote to Vice­Pre­ of locals at his native place the years 2016 to 18, 1,278 bad­based businessman Sa­ year, the CBI, led by Alok sident and Rajya Sabha People’s mandate Bhaderwah in J&K’s Che­ operations were conducted na Satish Babu from a spe­ Verma then, registered a Chairman M. Venkaiah Nai­ In a word of caution for the nab Valley on Saturday. by security forces, in which cial court in connection case of alleged corruption du complaining about “hur­ Opposition, Mr. Naidu said Mr. Goni, arrested in 599 terrorists were killed. with the Moin Qureshi case. and extortion against Mr. ried legislation” that were the mandate of the people 1994 and proved innocent From the beginning of The case pertains to Asthana and his subordi­ being rushed through with­ should be respected. At the after serving 23 years in this year till July 16, 126 ter­ charges that Mr. Qureshi, a nates based on Mr. Babu’s out due parliamentary pro­ same time, the Opposition jail, walked into a swarmof rorists were killed in various meat exporter, received mo­ complaint. cedures, Mr. Naidu said on parties did have the right locals despite the wet operations in the Kashmir ney from several people in Mr. Babu alleged that he Saturday that the ruling and and responsibility of getting weather. Mr. Goni, a resi­ Valley. During these opera­ exchange of favours from in­ had paid more than ₹3 crore Opposition parties needed <> Some members tear governments to deliver on dent of Mohalla Passri, was tions, 75 security personnel fluential public servants. to get relief in the case. On to function as “joint stake­ official papers and the promises made by them taken in a procession to the were also killed, and they in­ The agency had summoned the other hand, Mr. Asthana holders” and not look at throw them at the during the polls, he said. graveyard where his father cluded the 40 CRPF person­ Mr. Babu for questioning on accused Mr. Verma of cor­ each other as “enemies or Chair. This does not Though Mr. Naidu is yet to is buried. The father died Friday, after which he was rupt practices. The matter adversaries”. reply to the Opposition’s let­ while Goni was lodged in nel killed in the February 14 speak well of the Pulwama terror attack. forces. The MHA order arrested. reached the Central Vigi­ “Members of Rajya Sabha ter, his office, according to Jodhpur jail. “I feel sorry functioning of our In an unprecedented comes after National Securi­ The ED is probing the lance Commission (CVC) have a special responsibility officials, is collecting data to for providing no help in move, on July 25, the MHA ty Advisor Ajit Doval re­ purchase of shares worth which initiated an inquiry cast on them of leading by democracy negate the Opposition’s your old age. They did not ordered deployment of ad­ turned from the State this ₹50 lakh of a company, al­ into the charges and coun­ example being the members Venkaiah Naidu claim of “little parliamen­ even let me see your body,” Rajya Sabha chairman ditional 100 companies of week. legedly linked to Mr. Qu­ ter­charges. Later on Octob­ of the House of Elders,” Mr. tary scrutiny” of Bills. “Dur­ he said at the graveyard. the CAPFs “in order to The last time such de­ reshi, by Mr. Babu. It is sus­ er 23, the CVC divested Alok Naidu said on Saturday. mentary democracy,” the ing the last two years of Mr. Mr. Goni said he was strengthen the counter­in­ ployment was made on Fe­ pected that the amount was Verma and Rakesh Asthana “During this session, Vice­President said in a Naidu’s chairmanship, 10 picked up from the Samta surgency grid and for main­ bruary 23, three days before paid as bribe to settle a case. of their powers and the is­ some members in their wis­ speech at a “Democracy Bills were first introduced in Express while on the way taining the law and order sit­ the Balakot air strike in Pa­ The Central Bureau of In­ sue went to the Supreme dom have preferred to tear Awards” function of the the Rajya Sabha (till the last home from Visakhapat­ uation in J&K”. kistan. vestigation’s special probe Court, which reinstated Mr. official papers and throw Maharashtra State Election session) and of them, eight nam after attending a ses­ A senior government offi­ The official refused to team, under the then Spe­ Verma. A day later, Mr. Ver­ them at the Chair on some Commission in Mumbai. were referred to the stand­ sion of preaching. cial said troops were being comment if the deployment cial Director Rakesh Astha­ ma was stripped off his res­ occasions. Such conduct Democracy was all about ing committee concerned,” a Earlier, three other s airlifted to the Valley. “Forc­ was related to fovernment's na, had earlier recommend­ ponsibilities as the CBI chief does not speak well of the debate, discussion and deci­ senior official in the Rajya from the Kashmir Valley es are being moved through move to remove Article 35A ed his arrest in its own case on CVC’s recommendation. functioning of our parlia­ sion and should not be re­ Sabha secretariat said. were acquitted in the case. commercial aircraft and we from the State. The provi­ are also taking the help of sion lets the J&K legislature the Indian Air Force,” said decide the “permanent resi­ an official. dents” of the State, prohi­ IAF gets first After the ongoing deploy­ bits a non­J&K resident from Pentagon nod for military sales to India, Pak. ment, the Valley will see a buying property in the State set of Apache deployment of nearly 1.2 and ensures job reservation For Indian C-17 However, the notification (HA/DR) assistance in the re­ lakh personnel of Central for its residents. helicopters of the potential sale means gion. India will have no diffi­ spares, monitoring the sale has been concluded. culty absorbing this support Special Correspondent F-16s in Pakistan “Implementation of this pro­ into its armed forces,” an of­ NEW DELHI posed sale will require the ficial statement from the GST on EVs, chargers The first four Apache Asian News International assignment of one U.S. Go­ DSCA said. AH­64E attack helicopters Washington vernment representative The possible sale will for the Indian Air Force The U.S. State Department and 23 contractor represen­ strengthen the U.S.­India reduced to 5% (IAF) arrived at Hindan Air on Friday decided to ap­ tatives to India,” the agency strategic relationship. “(It Force Station on Saturday, prove a possible Foreign Mil­ said. Boeing’s C­17 is a mas­ will also) improve the mobil­ The meeting was originally 30 from the earlier July 31. ahead of schedule. itary Sale (FMS) to India of sive, long­haul military tran­ ity capabilities of a major de­ scheduled for Thursday but The last date for furnish­ “An additional four the C­17 aircraft’s follow­on sport aircraft. fensive partner, which conti­ was postponed as Ms. Sitha­ ing the statement contain­ Apaches will arrive in the support at an estimated cost The DSCA also notified nues to be an important raman was busy with her ing the details of the self­as­ coming week, and the of $670 million, according to Congress of its decision to The C-17 aircraft has been of immense help during rescue and force for political stability, Parliament duties. The sessed tax in Form CMP­08 eight will then move to the the Defence Security Coop­ approve military sales worth relief operations across the country. * PRASHANT NAKWE peace, and economic pro­ Council has also extended for the quarter April 2019 to Pathankot Air Force Sta­ eration Agency (DSCA). $125 million that would re­ gress in the Indo­Pacific and the deadline for the filing of June, 2019 by taxpayers un­ tion for their formal induc­ The agency delivered the sult in the monitoring of the The money will be used to support to maintain its oper­ South Asia region,” the DSCA the intimation for availing of der the Composition tion by the IAF in Septem­ required certification notify­ F­16 fighter jets of Pakistan. pay 60 U.S. contractors, a di­ ational readiness and ability added. the Composition Scheme, in Scheme has been extended ber,” aircraft manufacturer ing the U.S. Congress of this The FMS sale means Pa­ plomatic source said. to provide Humanitarian As­ (With Press Trust Form CMP­02 to September to August 31 from July 31. Boeing said in a statement. possible sale on July 26. kistan will be paying for it. “India needs follow­on sistance and Disaster Relief of India inputs) CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Houston calling with big diaspora event for PM 3 military logistics Modi’s U.S. visit in September follows impasse in trade talks and rocky bilateral ties over Trump’s Kashmir statements pacts on the anvil

Suhasini Haidar address the summit, which with a meeting of U.S. Trade NEW DELHI he has not accepted as yet. Representative Robert Light­ Talks on with Australia, Japan, Russia Improving India­U.S. trade However, he will attend a hizer and Commerce Minis­ ties, combating climate special event to commemo­ ter Piyush Goyal expected Dinakar Peri <> Agreements with change and addressing his rate the closing of the 150th ahead of Mr. Modi’s visit. NEW DELHI Australia, Japan and biggest Indian­American birth anniversary celebra­ In Houston, the business India is looking to conclude Russia are in diaspora event will be on tions of Mahatma Gandhi, of­ community, led by the Indo­ three Military Logistics Sup­ advanced stages Prime Minister Narendra ficials said. American Chamber of Com­ port Agreements (MLSA) by and are likely to be Modi’s diary during his U.S. merce of Greater Houston, the year­end, which will concluded by the visit in September. Investment pitch hopes the event will pave the further enhance the opera­ year-end. According to officials in­ Mr. Modi will address the an­ way for more business with tional reach of the military Senior defence official volved in planning the visit, nual Bloomberg Global Busi­ India. in the region. India has al­ Mr. Modi, who last visited ness Forum in New York on “The entire community ready signed such agree­ expected to be signed dur­ the U.S. in June 2017, will tra­ September 25. He is expect­ has rallied behind this histor­ ments with a few countries ing the meeting between vel to New York and Hous­ ed to make a pitch for invest­ ic event and are enthused to beginning with the U.S. The Prime Minister Narendra ton, Texas, during the trip ment in India, even as he will make it unparalleled,” said Navy has been the biggest Modi and President Vladi­ from September 22 to 26. face questions on India­U.S. Swapan Dhairyawan, cham­ beneficiary of them. mir Putin in September on trade negotiations which ber president, who had facil­ “Agreements with Austra­ the sidelines of the Eastern Meet with Trump? have hit an impasse. In par­ itated a visit to Delhi for the lia, Japan and Russia are in Economic Forum in Vladi­ A trip to Washington is not ticular, U.S. IT companies Houston Mayor and a trade advanced stages and are vostok in Russia. Last on the cards at present, the matters. The Houston visit head, Vijay Chauthaiwale, tember 24. A day before that, have been upset by new In­ delegation, and invited U.S. likely to be concluded by the month, a delegation led by sources said, indicating that on September 22 is billed as told The Hindu that Texas UN Secretary­General Anto­ dian regulations on data lo­ Ambassador to India Ken­ year­end,” a senior defence Additional Secretary Jiwesh Mr. Modi could meet Presi­ the biggest diaspora event to had one of the biggest dias­ nio Guterres will host the Cli­ calisation and e­commerce neth Juster to deliver an ad­ official told The Hindu. The Nandan visited Russia for fi­ dent Donald Trump on the be addressed by Mr. Modi in pora populations and there­ mate Action summit. Earlier rules. dress in Houston last year. MLSA with Japan is called nalising the agreement, the sidelines of the United Na­ the U.S. thus far, with organ­ fore merited Mr. Modi’s visit. this week, Luis Alfonso de A diluted version of the “We hope [Mr. Modi’s] vi­ the Acquisition and Cross­ Defence Ministry said in its tions General Assembly. isers expecting a crowd of In 2015 and 2016, Mr. Modi Alba, United Nations Special data protection Bill, which is sit will lead to a direct flight Servicing Agreement (ACSA) monthly report. Moscow After their meeting in Osa­ 50,000 at the NRG Stadium, addressed similar events in Envoy on Climate Change, due to be presented in Par­ to Delhi,” said Houston­ and with Russia, the Agree­ had sent a draft agreement ka, bilateral ties have been a statement issued by the New York and San Jose, with met Environment and For­ liament next week, may as­ based Jagdip Ahluwalia, ment on Reciprocal Logis­ early last year and the MoD rocked by Mr. Trump’s com­ Texas­India Forum said on crowds between 16,000 and ests Minister Prakash Javade­ suage some of those con­ pointing to the potential for tics Support (ARLS). sent it to the Integrated De­ ments that Mr. Modi sought Saturday. 18,000 at each. kar in New Delhi to discuss cerns. Texas­India ties in energy, The agreements with fence Staff and the three ser­ his mediation on Kashmir. Confirming the Houston In New York, the Prime India’s role in battling cli­ However, issues on tariffs petrochemicals, chemicals, Australia and Russia will be vices for their comments in They are expected to meet event, which will be called Minister is planning to ad­ mate change. and U.S. counter­measures medical technology, aeros­ broadly on the lines of the July. at the G7 summit in France “Howdy, Modi”, the BJP’s fo­ dress the UN General As­ According to the sources, and complaints at the WTO pace and the space indus­ U.S. one, while the one with Australia had submitted a on August 24 to smooth out reign affairs department sembly beginning on Sep­ Mr. Alba invited Mr. Modi to are still to be ironed out, tries. Japan is a broader defence draft MLSA soon after India cooperation agreement in­ signed the LEMOA, but New cluding logistics, a second Delhi said at that time it IN BRIEF CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC official said. would take up more logis­ JD(U) to tics pacts after the first one Colours of freedom Port access was operationalised. In oppose triple India signed the Logistics March, before the bilateral Exchange Memorandum of naval exercise AUSINDEX, talaq Bill Understanding (LEMOA) Australian diplomatic sourc­ with the U.S. in August 2016 es made a strong pitch for a PRESS TRUST OF INDIA after decade­long negotia­ pact saying the argument New Delhi tions. Since then, it has con­ for one is “compelling”. AU­ In a setback to the govern­ cluded several such agree­ SINDEX saw participation of CRPF marks 81st Raising day, Shah extends wishes ment’s efforts to pass the ments with France, Oman, the largest Australian naval NEW DELHI triple talaq Bill in the Rajya the Philippines and Singa­ contingent to India with Home Minister Amit Shah Sabha, the Janata Dal(U), a pore and gained access to 1,000 personnel and assets. extended his wishes to the National Democratic Al­ the Sabang port in India and Japan are mov­ Central Reserve Police Force liance partner, on Saturday Indonesia. ing fast on finalising the AC­ (CRPF) on the occasion of its said it would oppose the Logistics agreements are SA. A statement during the 81st Raising day on Saturday, draft legislation in the Up­ administrative arrange­ visit of Mr. Modi to Japan in and said the country was per House. ments facilitating access to October said the two lead­ extremely proud of their Party spokesperson K.C. military facilities for ex­ ers welcomed the joint exer­ valour and courage. India’s Tyagi slammed the Bill, change of fuel and provi­ cise between each of the largest paramilitary force’s which criminalises instant sions on mutual agreement, three services and “the commitment and dedication divorce by Muslim men simplifying logistical sup­ commencement of negotia­ in serving different terrains is with a jail term of up to port and increasing opera­ tions on the ACSA, which exceptional, he added. PTI three years, and said it was tional turnaround of the will enhance the strategic of an “imposing nature” military away from India. depth of bilateral security LJP seeks strict action and would “definitely The ARLS with Russia is and defence cooperation”. against Azam Khan create a lack of trust in NEW DELHI society”. The Lok Janshakti Party said “We believe that ours is on Saturday that the Lok Students painting on the Tilak Marg foot overbridge in New Delhi on Saturday as part of a beautification drive of railway walls in a nation based on a deli­ Sabha should have acted the run­up to Independence Day. * R.V. MOORTHY cate balance in respect of against Samajwadi Party MP CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC laws and governing princi­ Azam Khan by now for his ples for different religious sexist remarks against Deputy and ethnic groups. We Speaker Rama Devi. The BJP ally demanded that the must not impose any view Speaker take strict action without obtaining substan­ Agusta accused gets protection from arrest tive consultations,” Mr. against him if he did not apologise. His remarks Tyagi said. “cannot be condoned and are The JD(U) does believe extremely condemnable”, LJP Judge asks Ratul Puri to join the investigation and cooperate in it in reforms, but these MP Veena Devi said in a party should be brought after in­ statement. PTI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tion (anticipatory bail appli­ Special Public Prosecutor of rested by the probe agency depth consultations with New Delhi cation) on 29.07.2019 when the Directorate N.K. Matta when he came out of the di­ various religious and eth­ Priyanka slams U.P. govt. A Delhi court on Saturday the complete record will be asked the reasons that had rectorate’s office for lunch nic groups, he said. over farmer suicides granted interim protection presented, and till then the created the sudden appre­ after being interrogated by The Bill may be tabled in NEW DELHI from arrest to Ratul Puri, ne­ applicant will not be arrest­ hension in the mind of the them on July 26. the Rajya Sabha on Mon­ Congress general secretary phew of Madhya Pradesh ed in this case by the Enfor­ accused as he had been join­ Mr. Puri was informed by day, sources said. The Lok Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Chief Minister Kamal Nath, cement Directorate.” ing the probe since someone that the directorate Sabha passed it on July 25 Saturday hit out at the BJP in a money­laundering case However, the accused February. officials had visited his house and if the Rajya Sabha pass­ government in Uttar Pradesh connected with the ₹3,600­ would join the investigation When Mr. Matta sought and office and told persons es it, it will become law, re­ over issues being faced by crore AgustaWestland VVIP and cooperate in it, the time to file a reply to the ap­ available there that they placing an ordinance farmers and questioned the helicopter deal. judge said. Later, Mr. Puri plication, counsel for the ac­ were going to arrest him, the which had enacted a simi­ efficacy of farm and loan Granting the protection joined the investigation at 5 cused sought interim protec­ application alleged, adding lar provision through an waiver schemes. She cited a till July 29 when his anticipa­ p.m. at the Directorate’s tion till his plea for bail was that the apprehension was executive decree. media report which said that tory bail application would office. taken up for hearing by Spe­ also triggered by recent pol­ The JD(U), led by Bihar five farmers have committed suicide in as many days in be taken up for hearing, Spe­ Earlier in the day, the ac­ cial Judge Arvind Kumar itical developments in Mad­ CM Nitish Kumar, did not Bundelkhand’s Banda. cial Judge Inder Jeet Singh cused, through his counsel who is seized of the case. hya Pradesh where two BJP vote in the Bill’s support in “Farmers grow crop, don’t get said: “In order to reconcile Vijay Aggarwal, filed an ap­ The judge allowed his plea MLAs voted in favour of the the Lok Sabha and staged a the price for it. Famine the circumstances, but with­ plication for anticipatory and granted protection. Congress government on a walkout. It made little dif­ occurs, compensation is not out any observation on the bail, submitting that he ap­ In the bail application, the Bill. ference though, as the BJP given,” Priyanka Gandhi said merits of the case, it is ap­ prehended arrest. accused said he came to But Mr. Matta dismissed enjoys a strong majority in in a tweet in Hindi. PTI propriate to list this applica­ Opposing the application, know that he would be ar­ the allegations as false. the House on its own. Not intimidated by CBI summons: Derek O’Brien Summoned in connection with the Saradha scam Special Correspondent Kolkata Derek O’Brien, Trinamool leader and Rajya Sabha member, said here on Saturday that he was not intimi­ dated by the Central Bureau of Inves­ tigation (CBI) summons to him and will meet the officers of the agency after the Parliament session ends on August 7. “In February too, I had agreed to appear before the CBI after the ses­ sion of Parliament, but the CBI chose Derek O'Brien not to call me. This time too, I am ready to meet them,” he said in a The CBI summoned him in con­ statement. nection with the multi­crore Saradha Mr. O’Brien said that after Febru­ scam. ary, he had not received any intima­ The matter relates to proceeds tion from the CBI. “Now, during this from the sale of paintings of Chief Mi­ Parliament session, I was served a nister Mamata Banerjee, which were notice asking to appear before the allegedly pumped into Jaago Bangla, CBI on August 1. I have sent a letter which is the mouthpiece of the Tri­ stating that I would meet [them] af­ namool. ter this Parliament session is over on Mr. O’Brien is the publisher of the August 7,” he said. Bengali publication.

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DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE Ditch backstop or face no-deal exit, Johnson tells EU British PM urges Europe to renegotiate the Zarif hosts Oman Minister withdrawal amid Gulf tensions TEHRAN agreement Iran’s top diplomat Reuters Mohammad Javad Zarif MANCHESTER hosted his Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi in Tehran on British Prime Minister Boris Saturday, his office said, amid Johnson cautioned the EU on mounting tensions in the Saturday that the “anti­de­ region between Tehran and mocratic” Irish backstop Washington. The talks must be ditched if they were centred on the “latest to strike a Brexit divorce regional and international deal. issues”, the Foreign Ministry Mr. Johnson, since taking said in a brief statement. AFP office on Wednesday, has re­ peatedly said that if the EU France to proceed with continues to refuse to rene­ tax on U.S. tech firms gotiate the Withdrawal PARIS Agreement agreed by his Finance Minister Bruno Le predecessor Theresa May, Maire said on Saturday that then he will take Britain out France would proceed with taxing revenues of big on October 31 without a deal. technology firms and urged the U.S. not to bring trade Biggest demand tariffs into the debate on how His biggest demand is that to fairly raise levies on digital the most hotly­contested ele­ services. He was responding ment of the Brexit divorce to U.S. President Donald agreement, the Irish border Trump's threat to tax French backstop, be struck out of wines. Reuters the Withdrawal Agreement, a demand that has angered Bahrain executes 2 Shia citizens on terror charges Ireland and perturbed other EU capitals. DUBAI Bahrain executed two Shia “If we get rid of the back­ citizens by firing squad on stop, whole and entire, then Saturday on terror charges, we are making a lot of pro­ officials said, despite appeals gress,” Mr. Johnson said, for clemency from when asked if it was only the international human rights Irish border backstop that he groups. The convicts were wanted changed. put to death along with a Speaking before a Ste­ diate improvements to bus vote when Parliament re­ “My friends, I do not want stop is an insurance policy government is not going to then we can make progress, I third death row prisoner phenson’s Rocket, a 19th services. turns in September. a no­deal Brexit, that is not designed to prevent the re­ be disengaged or aloof or think.” found guilty of murder. AFP century steam locomotive, That message, aimed at European leaders are pre­ where we’re aiming, but we turn of border controls along waiting for them to come to The Withdrawal Agree­ in the northern England city what Mr. Johnson called “left pared to talk with Britain’s have to face the fact that at the 500­km land border bet­ us: we are going to try to ment that Ms. May struck in 3 police officials killed of Manchester, Mr. Johnson behind” towns, is seen as the new leader over Brexit but the moment we’re being ween Ireland and Britain's solve this problem and we November with the EU says in Taliban attack dedicated most of his speech early stages of an election have so far insisted they will told, as we have been told for province of Northern Ireland are going to do it in a spirit of the U.K. will remain in a cus­ GHAZNI to improving public services, campaign, even though Bri­ not reopen the Withdrawal the last three year ‘rien ne va that were ended by the 1998 friendship and cooperation,” toms union “unless and un­ At least three police officers transport and the Internet tain is not due a parliamen­ Agreement. Many EU diplo­ plus’ — ‘the deal is fixed’ — Good Friday peace Mr. Johnson said. til” alternative arrangements were killed and a dozen more and driving up economic tary election until 2022 and mats think the U.K. will hold and can’t be changed. I agreement. are found to avoid a hard wounded on Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber drove growth. Mr. Johnson is adamant he a snap election soon. doubt that,” he said. Irish Prime Minister Leo ‘Anti-democratic’ border. a U.S.­made armoured “Our post­industrial will not hold one before Nevertheless, investors Varadkar said the question of “But we can’t do it as long as Many British lawmakers vehicle into a compound in towns have a proud, great Brexit. Face the fact fear a no­deal exit would the unification of Ireland and that anti­democratic back­ oppose the prospect of being eastern Afghanistan, officials heritage but an even greater His Conservative Party Mr. Johnson, who discussed send shock waves through Northern Ireland would in­ stop, that backstop that bound to EU rules and cus­ said. The attack targeted the future. Their best years lie does not have a majority in Brexit with U.S. President global markets and hurt the evitably arise if Britain leaves seeks to divide our country, toms duties that would pre­ police headquarters in ahead of them,” he said, an­ Parliament, is divided over Donald Trump on Friday, world’s economy. the EU without a divorce divide the U.K., remains in vent Britain doing its own Ghazni’s Ab Band district, nouncing new long­term rail how to deliver Brexit and un­ brushed aside those Ireland is crucial to any deal on October 31. place,” he said. trade deals and leave it over­ said a spokesman. AFP links and promising imme­ der threat of a no­confidence concerns. Brexit solution. The back­ “The approach of the U.K. “We need to get it out and seen by EU judges. Trump hits out at black Hong Kong activists clash with police Govt. can use Pentagon lawmaker from Baltimore Rocks, bottles thrown as the Chinese territory sees protests against gang attack funds to build wall: Court

Reuters group of activists with small Cummings had criticised border officials Hong Kong Ruling gives President’s plan a boost metal bats, metal and woo­ Reuters Police fired volleys of tear den poles and slingshots Agence France-Presse with rights and environ­ Washington gas and protesters hurled moving against the tide. Washington mental groups and border President Donald Trump hit bricks during clashes in a ru­ Last Sunday, about 100 The U.S. Supreme Court on communities are backing out at a prominent African­ ral Hong Kong town on Sa­ white­shirted men stormed Friday ruled in favour of lawsuits that claim the American critic on Satur­ turday as several thousand the Yuen Long mass­transit President Donald Trump, al­ emergency declaration vio­ day, calling him a “brutal activists gathered to protest station, hours after protes­ lowing him to proceed with lates the Constitution. bully” who should concen­ an attack by suspected triad ters marched through cen­ plans to divert billions of A federal judge on the trate on cleaning up his ”dis­ gang members at a train sta­ tral Hong Kong and defaced dollars in Pentagon funds Ninth Circuit Court of Ap­ gusting, rat and rodent in­ Elijah Cummings. * AFP tion last weekend. China’s Liaison Office — the towards construction of his peals had issued a tempor­ fested” Baltimore district Activists pushed ahead main symbol of Beijing’s border wall with Mexico. ary injunction against using rather than criticising the ed to Trump on Twitter. with the march in Yuen authority over the former “Wow! Big VICTORY on Defense Department funds work of immigration officers “Mr. President, I go home Long, scene of the attack by British colony. the Wall,” Mr. Trump tweet­ for wall construction. on the Mexican border. to my district daily. Each club­wielding men, in spite The men attacked black­ ed in reaction to the ruling . On Friday, the Supreme Mr. Trump’s target in a se­ morning, I wake up, and I go of a refusal by police to allow Rallying against police: A demonstration in the district of clad protesters returning “Big WIN for Border Securi­ Court overturned the lower ries of early morning tweets and fight for my neighbors. the protest on safety Yuen Long in Hong Kong on Saturday. * AFP from Hong Kong island, ty and the Rule of Law!” court decision with a 5­4 rul­ was Representative Elijah It is my constitutional duty grounds. passers­by, journalists and Mr. Trump declared a na­ ing, writing that the govern­ Cummings, the Democratic to conduct oversight of the Rocks and bottles were kend’s attack, responded Nam Pin Wai (village) could lawmakers with pipes and tional emergency earlier ment had “made a sufficient Chairman of the House of Executive Branch. But, it is thrown by protesters, who with tear gas as they pushed be a target,” said Kenneth, clubs, leaving 45 people in­ this year in a bid to bypass showing at this stage” that Representatives Oversight my moral duty to fight for built barricades out of street activists into retreat as it 27, retreating from one of the jured. Some of the men later Congress and obtain fund­ the groups did not have the Committee, who has called my constituents,” he said. furniture and umbrellas, grew dark. front lines. fled to Nam Pin Wai, a tradi­ ing for his signature project, standing to challenge the al­ Mr. Trump a racist and Baltimore Mayor Bernard creating multiple stand­offs. “Many people want to go Amid the retreat, which tional walled village. after the stand­off led to the location of funds, freeing up sharply criticised his immi­ Young called Mr. Trump’s Police, widely criticised but some will stay. There is saw several hundred protes­ On Sunday, a car was longest government shut­ the money for the Presi­ gration policies. rhetoric ”hurtful and for failing to better protect still a lot of anger. I’m not ters leave the area, Reuters dented and its windows down in U.S. history. But dent’s use while litigation Mr. Cummings respond­ dangerous.” the public from last wee­ sure which way it will go. witnesses saw a hardcore smashed near the village. about 20 U.S. States along proceeds. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Afghan govt. to hold talks U.S., Guatemala sign asylum deal Russia: 800 SUDOKU detained over with Taliban in August Central American migrants could be sent back to Guatemala poll protest Oslo likely to be the venue, say officials Agence France-Presse Washington Reuters Agence France-Presse place, but diplomatic sourc­ President Donald Trump an­ Moscow Kabul es said the talks were sche­ nounced on Friday that a Russian police arrested Direct talks between the Af­ duled to begin in Oslo on “landmark” asylum agree­ more than 800 people in ghan government and the August 7. The sources said ment has been reached with Moscow on Saturday in Taliban could begin in Nor­ the international communi­ Guatemala, as the United one of the biggest crack­ way within the next two ty and the Afghan govern­ States ratchets up pressure downs of recent times weeks, officials and sources ment were still awaiting on its southern neighbours against an increasingly de­ said on Saturday, marking a word from the Taliban. to stem the flow of migrants fiant Opposition decrying potentially crucial step in ef­ The apparent develop­ towards its border. President Vladimir Putin’s forts to end the war. ment comes after Taliban The White House said tight grip on power. The Taliban has so far re­ negotiators sat with Afghan Guatemala would now be The detentions came be­ fused to speak to the govern­ representatives at a so­ considered a “safe third fore and after a protest to ment of President Ashraf called intra­Afghan dialogue country,” meaning that U.S.­ demand that Opposition Ghani, which it sees as illeg­ brokered by Germany in Do­ bound migrants who enter President Donald Trump, acting Homeland Security Secretary members be allowed to run itimate, except for at a re­ ha this month. Guatemala would be re­ Kevin McAleenan, seated right, and Guatemalan Interior in a local election. Authori­

cent summit where Ghani Taliban spokesman Zabi­ quired to seek asylum there Minister Enrique Degenhart in Washington on Friday. * AP ties had declared it illegal officials attended in a “per­ hullah Mujahid said any instead. Mr. Trump said the and sought to block partici­ sonal capacity”. new talks would only begin deal will “provide safety to ter, Enrique Degenhart, and movable back to Guatemala pation, but several thou­ Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku “We are preparing for di­ after a deal has been forged legitimate asylum seekers U.S. Acting Homeland Secur­ if they want to seek asylum,” sand people turned up. rect talks,” said Abdul Salam with the U.S., and he reiter­ and stop asylum fraud” in ity Secretary Kevin McAlee­ he noted. The deal is expect­ Chants of “Russia with­ Rahimi, the State Minister ated the insurgents’ long­ the region. nan, would apply to Salvado­ ed to be up and running in out Putin” and “Putin re­ for Peace Affairs, noting that held position that they The asylum agreement ran or Honduran migrants August, Mr. McAleenan said. sign” echoed through cen­ the government would be would “not talk to the Kabul with Guatemala comes days passing through Guatemala It was not immediately tral Moscow as guardsmen represented by a 15­member administration as a after Mr. Trump threatened towards the United States. clear how the agreement beat back protesters with delegation. “We are working government”. tough retaliation against the Their asylum claims signed on Friday would jibe batons and detained peo­ with all sides and hope that Mr. Rahimi said the next small Central American should now be filed in Gua­ with a provision of Guatema­ ple. Jailed Opposition lead­ in the next two weeks the delegation would include country if it did not sign on temala, Mr. McAleenan said. la’s Constitutional Court, er Alexei Navalny had first meeting will take place some of those who went to to an asylum deal. If Central American mi­ which recently blocked the called for Saturday’s prot­ in a European country.” Doha, as well as religious Friday’s agreement, grants instead “make a jour­ idea of a deal making Guate­ est to persuade officials to He did not specify where scholars, women and other signed in the Oval Office by ney all the way to the U.S. mala a “safe third country” allow candidates to run in a the summit might take members of civil society. Guatemala’s Interior Minis­ border, they would be re­ for asylum requests. September 8 vote.

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Govt.’s help SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT grew 21% year­on­year to vances grew 18%, driven by a owners and tenants’ Mumbai Special Correspondent ₹6,110 crore. 22% growth in retail loans. MUMBAI ICICI Bank reported a Asset quality improved The corporate loan book ‘Fair in terms of deposits, agreements’ The Society of Indian Auto­ ₹1,908.03­crore net profit for with gross non­performing grew 13%. mobile Manufacturers the April­June quarter com­ assets falling by almost Mr. Batra declined to give Lalatendu Mishra (SIAM) has said the govern­ pared with a ₹119.55­crore ₹8,000 crore in a year to any guidance on loan growth MUMBAI ment’s vision of increasing loss during the same period ₹45,763 crore as at June end and said there was a slow­ The Model Tenancy Act, electric mobility in the of the previous year as addi­ and the ratio came down to down in economic activity. 2019 drafted by the Union country has been acknow­ tions to bad loans fell, lower­ 6.49% from 8.81%. “From an economic point Ministry for Housing and Ur­ ledged by the GST Council ing provision requirement. Net NPA ratio decreased of view, there is clearly a ban Development, is expect­ through its decision to Net interest income (NII) from 4.19% on June 30, 2018 slowdown. We have seen ed to benefit both owners slash tax on EVs (electric increased 27% year­on­year to 1.77% at June 30 this year slowdown in transactions and tenants, thus releasing vehicles). to ₹7,737 crore while net in­ — the lowest in the last 14 and auto sales. However, the lot of housing stock for ren­ “Over [time], this will terest margin rose 3.61% quarters. Net NPAs de­ services sector continues to tal purpose. help popularise EVs, ” Ra­ compared with 3.19% in the creased 51% to ₹11,857 crore. do well and we are seeing “There is a huge trust def­ jan Wadhera, president, same period of the previous As a result, provisions fell some improvement in capac­ icit prevalent between ho­ SIAM said. year. Net interest margin was to ₹3,496 crore in Q1­2020 ity utilisation in the public meowners and tenants, lancing the interests of both He said since the auto­ 3.72% during the fourth compared with ₹5,971 crore sector,” he added. creating a huge demand and land owners and tenants.” motive industry is current­ quarter of 2018­19. with about 25 basis points in ating profit and reduction in a year earlier. The bank had Deposit growth was 21% supply gap when it comes to However, he said there ly going through a difficult Q4­2019,” the bank said. credit cost resulted in a net a provision coverage ratio of year­on­year, driven by a the home rental market,” could be some challenges in time, the government must Interest on I­T refund Non­interest income, ex­ profit of ₹1,908.03 crore,” 74%. 34% growth in term deposits. said Amarendra Sahu, co­ implementation. intervene to stimulate de­ “The impact of interest on cluding treasury income, said Sandeep Batra, execu­ “We continue to focus on The share of CASA deposits founder & CEO, Nestaway “The cap on the security mand so that the industry income tax refund and inter­ stood at ₹3,247 crore com­ tive director (designate), ICI­ reaching a consolidated re­ to total deposits fell to 45.2% Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a deposit can become a pain­ can turn around. est collection from non­per­ pared with ₹3,085 crore CI Bank. turn on asset of 15% by quar­ as on June 30, 2019 com­ service provider in the point for many landlords — Rahil Ansari, head, Audi forming loans on net interest while fee income grew 10% Core operating profit (pro­ ter ended June 2020,” he pared with 49.6% as on space. “The Model Tenancy in cities like Bengaluru, a 10­ India, said, “Measures sup­ margin was about 17 basis to ₹3,039 crore. fit before provisions and tax, added. March 31, 2019 and 50.5% on Act, 2019, offers a balance month security deposit porting the overall indus­ points in Q1­2020 compared “The growth in core oper­ excluding treasury income) The total domestic ad­ June 30 last year. between the rights and be­ (with some scope for nego­ tryare required. All players nefits, for both owners and tiation) was the accepted are struggling with declin­ tenants; and identifies the norm. ing sales, leading to pro­ OYO Hotels to role of property managers,” “Also, if a tenant defaults duction cuts and may lead ‘Review legal set­up to tackle corporate failures’ he added. or causes significant dam­ to job losses, too. The draft He said when the compa­ age to a property, a two­ notification on hiking re­ expand T.N. ny started in 2015, about month security deposit may gistration for ICE (internal Worst­case scenario ends up driving the law for entire society, says Sundaresan 20% of its owner base was not cover the expenses the combustion engine) vehi­ footprint reluctant to give their house property owner incurs in re­ cles is detrimental to the Special Correspondent we are trying to solve are on rent fearing eviction pairs,” he said. overall development. We Chennai and the solutions for them, Special Correspondent risks. Mr. Puri said while the go­ need support, not The legal framework needs a and invite public comments CHENNAI For the past four years, vernment lays down the penalties.” relook when it comes to and then come up with a law Budget hospitality firm he said, Nestaway had been basic policies, the exact Tarun Mehta, co­foun­ tackling corporate gover­ based on the feedback?” Mr. OYO Hotels & Homes will working to reduce the trust rules will likely change with­ der & CEO, Ather Energy, nance and failure issues, se­ Sundaresan asked. be offering its services in deficit. in each State since land is a said, “The reduction of nior lawyers Somasekhar six tier­II cities of Tamil Na­ “We support the Model State subject. GST rates from 12% to 5% Sundaresan and Arvind Da­ Differentiation needed du to strengthen its Tenancy Act 2019 and be­ reduces the upfront cost of tar said. Also speaking at the event, foothold. lieve it will help both home­ States’ call buying a vehicle by ₹8000­ “If there is a governance Mr. Datar said there should OYO, which gets maxi­ owners and tenants with the “Like we saw in the highly ₹10,000. Compounded by failure which has led to a bu­ be differentiation between mum bookings from Chen­ right pricing of rental lopsided roll­out of RERA, the tax rebates offered in siness failure, do we have a corporate failures due to nai and Coimbatore, is homes, appropriate securi­ the Model Tenancy Act, the Union Budget, today legal framework that actual­ frauds and those that were poised to enter Tirunelveli, ty deposits, and the nature 2019 may lose its real pur­ electric vehicles are an af­ ly deals with it? Sadly, the genuine failures. Salem, Velankanni, Kan­ and tenure of rental agree­ pose if States do not follow fordable upgrade from ex­ answer is no,” Mr. Sundare­ Arvind Datar, left, with Somasekhar Sundaresan at a He pointed out that some­ cheepuram, Yelagiri and ments, in a positive way,” he the basic guidelines and di­ isting ICE options.” san said, speaking on the discussion on corporate failures. * K.V. SRINIVASAN times regulation becomes Tiruchendur. added. lute them,” he added. Sohinder Gill, director topic “Corporate failures — the reason for business fai­ “Supported by OYO’s Commenting on the Act, According to Mr. Puri, general, Society of Manu­ where does the buck stop?” case­specific solutions and of the issues that arose from lure, giving the instance of operational and technolog­ Anuj Puri, chairman, Ana­ while the capping of the se­ facturers of Electric Vehi­ organised by the Palkhivala the worst case ends up driv­ the fallout of the Satyam sugar and real estate sectors ical capabilities followed rock Property Consultants, curity deposit amount to a cles (SMEV) said the move Foundation. ing the law for the entire so­ scam. that have been stuck with by great customer and as­ said, “At first look, the draft maximum of two months would “reduce the gap bet­ Mr. Sundaresan also said ciety, including the largely He said that the approach different regulations like set­owner feedback, we are policies seem to favour both may benefit tenants, the ween EVs and IC Engine that the system is still grap­ compliant segments of socie­ seemed to be ‘show me a State government rules, In­ expanding our presence tenants and landlords. In all heavy penalty that will now vehicles. The EV industry pling with how to deal with ty,” he said. problem, I will write a law.’ solvency and Bankruptcy across the State,” said Adi­ fairness, it aims to regulate be imposed for non­vacancy now awaits corresponding real examples when they Mr. Sundaresan pointed “Before writing the laws, Code and Real Estate Regula­ tya Ghosh, CEO, OYO India the rental housing market of the residential unit would reduction of 18% GST on come up. “And, when an ex­ out how the Companies Act should we not ask the ques­ tion and Development Act and south Asia, in a by a more market­oriented act as a deterrent and pro­ spare batteries,” he said ample comes up, we get into 2013 was framed entirely out tion as to what the problems (RERA). statement. approach by carefully ba­ tect the interest of owners.

INTERVIEW | AASHISH SOMAIYAA Task force to study coffee ‘Worst is behind us, it’s fine sector issues

Special Correspondent to invest in debt funds now’ COIMBATORE The Union Government is ‘Problem isolated to 1­2 issuers, industry has handled it’ expected to soon set up a task force that will engage with various stakeholders Ashish Rukhaiyar <> At least one quarter vestors should not act on looks uncertain in their portfolio looking at Nif­ in the coffee sector, exa­ mine the issues faced by it There is a lot of uncertainty terms of flows but ty because you may not be and make suitable recom­ among investors in terms of after that, things owning Nifty. Everyone has market outlook and earn­ been preoccupied with the mendations to the Union will pick up in a big ings, which is affecting the elections. In the back­ Commerce Minister. fund flows that may remain way ground, the U.S. policy has According to Jeffry Re­ subdued for few months, changed, the RBI policy has bello, chairman of the cof­ says Aashish Somaiyaa , What are the learnings for changed, corporate results fee committee of the Unit­ MD and CEO, Motilal Oswal the mutual fund industry are at least better than what ed Planters’ Association of Asset Management Compa­ from these instances? they were in the last couple Southern India, the indus­ ny. Also, the recent happen­ ■ First is the customer pro­ of years, oil prices are not at try representatives held ings in the debt fund seg­ file and the product struc­ $90. Change in U.S. policy detailed discussions with ment carry important ture. If you have to take risk, gives a lot of legroom to our Commerce Minister Piyush learnings for the mutual then maybe put it in an AIF policymakers. Plus, there is Goyal recently on the is­ fund industry. Excerpts: (Alternative Investment a decisive mandate. sues faced by the sector. Funds) structure and go to This included the need Debt funds have been in the the right client. Second, we In that case, do you think for better research, permit­ news for quite some time, should not try to maximise this is a good time to look at ting growers to add value, mostly for the wrong yield in a low­yield environ­ passive investments? bringing down the percen­ reasons. Do you think ment. Thirdly, communica­ ■ Why is it getting attention tage of chicory permitted investors should look at tion and expectation setting. now? It is because of the last to be mixed with coffee investing in debt funds? Is one year return of the mar­ and schemes of the Coffee the worst over? What is your take on the kets when the Nifty has been Board. ■ I personally feel there are equity market? positive but most funds are two aspects to it. First is ■ The Nifty may be around struggling. whether you should invest 11,300 but it feels like Passive funds will take off Indigo Paints in a debt fund now. I think 10,000. There is a conun­ due to the youngsters today the problem has been isolat­ drum. If you ask investors if who are going digital and to ramp up ed to one or two issuers, and they want to invest in equi­ DIY (do­it­yourself). It will at the same time the indus­ ties they will say ‘no’, be­ also take off due to the re­ capacity try has handled it. So, by all cause they feel that while turns­versus­cost debate at a means, one should consider Nifty may be trading near time when the awareness of Lalatendu Mishra MUMBAI investing in debt funds. Let all­time highs, there is un­ cost is going up. Also, when us not paint the entire thing certainty around EPS (earn­ fee­based advisory services Indigo Paints Pvt. Ltd., In­ in a particular fashion. ings per share) growth. are going up, the adviser dia’s fifth­largest decora­ Also, some issuers are Then, if you ask about would look for an underly­ tive paints company, is working towards resolving their portfolios, they will say ing product that is cheaper. planning to ramp up ca­ the situation. There may be it has underperformed Nifty. Another factor is that pacity by investing ₹40­₹50 panic now, but I think in the Small­ and mid­cap inves­ when you are looking to in­ crore every year for five next 3­6 months, we will find tors have all lost money. In­ vest for 20 or 30 years, years as demand for its ourselves in a better place which fund manager would range of paints is picking because some of these you trust? up across the country, ac­ things are getting resolved cording to a top company and maybe, the worst is be­ Flows into equity funds are executive. hind us. at a multi­month low. In this “We have been growing As to retail investments, I context, how do you see SIP at a rate of 45% year­on­ think the issue is not about flows going ahead? year as against industry whether to invest, but more ■ There will be uncertainty growth of 12­13%,” said He­ about where to invest. Peo­ for the next two­three mant Jalan, managing di­ ple think these funds should months. People would like rector, Indigo Paints Pvt. give us better returns than to see some improvement, Ltd. all the small savings pro­ some positive news flow, “We are confident of ducts and the banks but some traction. So, at maintaining our 45% to the perception about risk least one quarter looks 50% growth for the next is completely different. uncertain in terms of five years. For that, we No one should think that flows but post that, need to invest ₹40­₹50 this product is totally things will pick up in crore every year at all our risk­free. a big way. three plants,” he added. 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New Delhi and Karachi (then the capital of Pakistan) in What are the historical reasons why April, 1953. The only exceptions to this dismal record third party mediation is avoided by were the 1960 World Bank guaranteed Indus Water the government? Will the status quo Treaty, and a territorial agreement on the Rann of Kutch, mediated successfully by the British government in 1965. on India’s Kashmir policy remain? Soviet Premier Kosygin also moderated between Prime Suhasini Haidar Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan to broker the 1965 Tashkent peace agreement, The story so far: On Monday, U.S. President Donald but the treaty has always been marked by suspicion and Trump claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had doubts, tainted by Shastri’s sudden death at Tashkent. sought mediation in Kashmir when they met during the G­20 summit in Osaka. In Parliament, External Affairs What about the U.S.? The giant scale of the shift needed to BS­VI can be gauged Minister S. Jaishankar categorically said that Mr. Modi did A particularly bitter episode for India came from

from the production base. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO not request Mr. Trump to “mediate or arbitrate” on the mediation attempts by the U.S. and the U.K. after the 1962 Kashmir issue. He said India remains committed to Sino­Indian war. The U.S. had provided India with planes discussing all issues with Pakistan bilaterally. and military hardware worth about $60 million during Cleaner air, higher costs? the war, and the price, said American officials, was that What is the backstory on the U.S. offer of India should agree to mediated talks with Pakistan on What will the move to Bharat Stage mediation? Kashmir. In 1993, the new administration of U.S. President Bill Says Ashoka University Professor Rudra Chaudhuri Clinton decided to wade into the Kashmir issue, (author of Forged in Crisis: India and the United States VI mass emission standards for Milestone: indicating repeatedly that it wished to mediate between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistan since 1947, and also the director of Carnegie India), “The various classes of motor vehicles by India and Pakistan. At the UN General Assembly in President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in Shimla in 1972. * THE HINDU mediation was accepted because Nehru was in shock April 2020 entail? September, Mr. Clinton referred to resolving “civil wars PHOTO ARCHIVES after the defeat to China, and the U.S. made it clear that from Angola to the Caucasus to Kashmir,” and a month conventional and non­conventional military prowess, any further military assistance was contingent on India’s G. Ananthakrishnan later, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robin Raphel India has seen no significant gain from bringing a third­ cooperation on Kashmir talks.” questioned the validity of Kashmir’s ‘Instrument of party into its 70­year­old conflict with Pakistan. On November 21, 1962, the day the war ended, a team The story so far: The Union Government, through an Accession’ during a press briefing. At a recent event, the of 24 American negotiators headed to India, led by U.S. order dated September 16, 2016, mandated Bharat Stage Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Civil When did the UN try to mediate? Assistant Secretary of State Averell Harriman. They VI (BS­VI) mass emission standards for various classes of Aviation (and Minister of State, Commerce and Industry), The early attempts at mediation by the UN were made worked, along with U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth motor vehicles throughout the country from April 1, Hardeep Puri, recounted how India issued a strong after India took its complaint against Pakistan’s forced Galbraith and British High Commissioner Paul Gore­ 2020, leapfrogging BS­V. While this will lead to better air protest. Mr. Puri was then the Joint Secretary (Americas), occupation of parts of Kashmir (PoK) to the UN Security Booth to bring India to the table for six rounds of talks quality in the short term, it also means higher vehicle and made the call to an official in Washington with a Council on January 1, 1948. The UN then set up the between Foreign Minister Swaran Singh and Pakistan prices and costs. For the automobile industry, this has carefully but strongly worded message cleared by Prime United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Eventually, however meant accelerated development of all related Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao. Mr. Puri said, “We read the (UNCIP) which proposed mediating a resolution along a as India regained its confidence, the talks floundered, technologies and components and big investments. riot act to the U.S. administration that time, and three­point action plan: Pakistani demilitarisation of the and ended in 1963 after Nehru made it clear that India succeeded remarkably in drawing a red line on the issue Kashmir region, followed would never give up the Kashmir Valley. What makes BS­VI fuels cleaner? [of mediation].” The U.S. State by Indian reduction in As per Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for In fact, until Mr. Trump dropped a bombshell during military presence, and a Will India remain opposed to mediation? upgraded fuels, (IS: 2796 – petrol and IS: 1460 – diesel), his joint press appearance with Pakistan Prime Minister department seemed to proposed final resolution After winning the war with Pakistan that saw the creation sulphur content is reduced to 10 mg/kg max in BS­VI Imran Khan on Monday, where he claimed that Mr. Modi backtrack from Mr. by an impartial U.N. of Bangladesh, India, in 1972, negotiated the Simla from 50 mg/kg under BS­IV. This key reduction in had asked him to “mediate or arbitrate” on Kashmir, no Trump’s allegation by administered plebiscite to Agreement, which did away with any idea of future sulphur makes it possible to equip vehicles with better U.S. leader has publicly crossed that line in 25 years. saying that Kashmir “determine the wishes of mediation between the two countries. According to the catalytic converters that capture pollutants. Responding to a swift and angry denial from the Ministry remains a “bilateral the Kashmiri people”. Agreement signed on July 2, 1972 by Indira Gandhi and by BS­VI confers several benefits, the most important of of External Affairs, the U.S. State Department seemed to issue”, but The deal never got off the then President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the two countries which is limits set on Particle Number (PN) for engines, a backtrack from the allegation by saying that Kashmir ground as Pakistan never “resolved to settle their differences by peaceful means reference to direct injection engines that emit more remains a “bilateral issue”, but maintained that the U.S. maintained that the agreed to demilitarise, through bilateral negotiations or by any other peaceful particulates but are more efficient and release less “stands ready to assist” any India­Pakistan talks. United States “stands and India under Prime means mutually agreed upon between them”. carbon dioxide. Also, there are lower limits for ready to assist” any Minister Jawaharlal Nehru In February 1999, the Lahore declaration signed by hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in diesel Why does India refrain from taking help? India­Pakistan talks made it clear that a Nawaz Sharif and Atal Behari Vajpayee also affirmed the engines and lower Particulate Matter limits for both India’s firm position against mediation on Kashmir or any plebiscite would never be bilateral nature of issues and their resolution. Thus, even petrol and diesel engines. other issue stems from several reasons, most notably a accepted. Where the when Mr. Trump spoke this week, India’s response, in historical suspicion, since the 1950s and 1960s, as UNCIP was successful was Parliament, was to invoke the Shimla Agreement and the What impact will it have on consumers? mediated talks by the United Nations and World Bank, in mediating a ceasefire in 1949, and negotiating the Lahore Declaration saying that they “provide the basis to Prices are the biggest impact factor both for commercial the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia have geographical location of the cease­fire line which would resolve all issues between India and Pakistan bilaterally”. and passenger vehicles under the BS­VI regime, with one been unsuccessful in resolving the issues between India be monitored by the United Nations Military Observer These bilateral efforts are at an end at present, and little industry research estimate putting the increase at up to and Pakistan. At best, the attempts have worked for Group In India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP). Individual U.N. has moved since the last negotiations on Kashmir in ₹20,000 for petrol cars, ₹65,000 to ₹90,000 for diesel diffusing tensions, or calling off hostilities at the Line of representatives continued to visit both sides from 1949 to 2003­2008, when Indian and Pakistani negotiators cars, going up to ₹2.25 lakh for heavy commercial Control and the International Border, but not in terms of 1953 but failed to improve the atmosphere for a discussed the four­step formula. vehicles. Even two wheelers, requiring fuel injection their rival claims over Jammu and Kashmir. Another resolution, or to convince either side to demilitarise the India has maintained its opposition to third­party technology, will witness a price spike of ₹3,000 to reason is that India sees itself as a regional leader, and two sides of the LoC. The first United Nations mediation, however, and despite offers from several ₹6,000. However, these estimates are made a year ahead does not require any assistance in sorting out its issues Representative for India and Pakistan (UNRIP) appointed leaders including South African President Nelson of the actual roll­out of BS­VI fuel nationwide, and the with other regional countries. In addition, the to mediate the dispute was Sir Owen Dixon, an Australian Mandela, UN Chief António Guterres, and more recently, auto industry may opt to widespread belief is that mediation favours the weaker jurist, who was followed by Frank Graham, an American the Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, has said, absorb some costs and party by levelling the playing field, and with its stronger diplomat, who gave up after his proposal was rejected by “thanks, but no thanks”. In the run­up to BS­VI, pass on the rest to the sales growth of consumer. In terms of fuel, vehicles has witnessed the oil marketing sector has said the retail price What is zero budget natural farming? a slump due to increase for BS­VI fuel several factors, could be anything from a Will this form of chemical-free agriculture increase farmers’ incomes? Where are the pitfalls? including economic few paise per litre to ₹2. conditions, weak rural The giant scale of the Priscilla Jebaraj demand and the shift needed to BS­VI can advocates claim more than 30 lakh practitioners overall. be gauged from the The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The original pioneer was Karnataka, where the ZBNF was impending shift to production base: the thrust zero budget farming into the spotlight in the first adopted as a movement by a State farmers’ association, higher standards Society of Indian Budget speech of the 17th Lok Sabha earlier this month, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha. Large­scale training Automobile Manufacturers calling for a “back to the basics” approach. She said, “We camps were organised to educate farmers in the method. (SIAM) says the industry need to replicate this innovative model through which in According to a survey carried out in those early years, produced 30,915,420 vehicles ranging from two­ a few States, farmers are already being trained in this ZBNF farmers all owned small plots of land, had some wheelers to commercial vehicles in the year ended April practice. Steps such as this can help in doubling our access to irrigation and owned at least one cow of their 2019, with an annual growth of 6.26%. farmers’ income in time for our 75th year of own. Maruti Suzuki, India’s biggest carmaker, for example, Independence.” Several States, including Andhra Pradesh In June 2018, Andhra Pradesh rolled out an ambitious had to transition 16 models and 50 applications with and Himachal Pradesh, have been aggressively driving a plan to become India’s first State to practise 100% natural tests across 60 lakh km. It decided to remove diesel shift towards this model. farming by 2024. It aims to phase out chemical farming models under the BS­VI category. Mahindra & Mahindra over 80 lakh hectares of land, converting the State’s 60 invested about ₹1,000 crore and several­fold investments What is it and how did it come about? lakh farmers to ZBNF methods. were made by its suppliers. Zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) is a method of Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Karnataka But Mahindra, Tata and several other companies said chemical­free agriculture drawing from traditional Indian and Uttarakhand have also invited Mr. Palekar to train they would go ahead with diesel line­ups. Hyundai India practices. A cotton field in Andhra Pradesh. (Below) Subhash their farmers. which exports almost all its models does not face issues It was originally promoted by Maharashtrian Palekar * AP AND S. MAHINSHA with migration and the company is said to be fully ready agriculturist and Padma Shri recipient Subhash Palekar, Sikkim, which has Is the budgetary support enough? for BS­VI. Some new manufacturers such as Kia are who developed it in the mid­1990s as an alternative to the seen some decline in Despite the ZBNF buzz caused by the Budget speech, the entering the market with BS­VI vehicles. Green Revolution’s methods driven by chemical fertilizers Finance Minister did not actually announce any new In the run­up to BS­VI, however, sales growth of and pesticides and intensive irrigation. He argued that the yields following a funding to promote it. Last year, the Centre revised the vehicles has witnessed a slump due to a combination of rising cost of these external inputs was a leading cause of conversion to organic norms for the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana­ factors, including economic conditions, weak rural indebtedness and suicide among farmers, while the farming, is used as a Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied demand and the impending shift to higher standards. impact of chemicals on the environment and on long­ cautionary tale on sector Rejuvenation (RKVY­RAFTAAR), a flagship Green As per June 2019 sales data released by SIAM, term fertility was devastating. Without the need to spend totally abandoning Revolution scheme with an allocation of ₹3,745 crore this automobile companies sold 16.28% fewer passenger money on these inputs — or take loans to buy them — the chemical fertilizers year, and the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana, which vehicles compared to June 2018. There was a 23.39% cost of production could be reduced and farming made has an allocation of ₹325 crore and is meant to promote drop in the sale of commercial vehicles in the same into a “zero budget” exercise, breaking the debt cycle for organic farming and soil health. Under the revised period. Two­wheeler sales dipped by 11.70%. many small farmers. bears an average debt of ₹1 lakh. In order to achieve the guidelines, both Centrally­sponsored schemes now allow Instead of commercially produced chemical inputs, the Central government’s promise to double farmers income States to use their funds to promote the ZBNF, vedic What about the BS­IV vehicles already ZBNF promotes the application of jeevamrutha — a by 2022, one aspect being considered is natural farming farming, natural farming, cow farming and a host of other manufactured? mixture of fresh desi cow dung and aged desi cow urine, methods such as the ZBNF which reduce farmers’ traditional methods. Since there is no bar on the operation of existing vehicles jaggery, pulse flour, water and soil — on farmland. This is dependence on loans to purchase inputs they cannot Andhra Pradesh says it has utilised ₹249 crore from beyond the cut­off date for BS­VI, that is, April 1, 2020, a fermented microbial culture that adds nutrients to the afford. Meanwhile, inter­cropping allows for increased these schemes to promote the ZBNF over a two­and­a­half the inventory of personal and commercial vehicles will soil, and acts as a catalytic agent to promote the activity returns. year period. The State estimates it will need ₹17,000 crore continue to be sold. This is significant for the commercial of microorganisms and earthworms in the soil. About 200 The Economic Survey has also highlighted the to convert all of its 60 lakh farmers to the ZBNF over the sector, which involves higher investments. After the litres of jeevamrutha should be sprayed twice a month ecological advantages. next 10 years. deadline, however, all new vehicles sold must comply per acre of land; after three years, the system is supposed However, this is only a fraction of the spending on with BS­VI. to become self­sustaining. Only one cow is needed for 30 Is it effective? Central government subsidies for fertilizers, pesticides A spike in sales of BS­IV vehicles is expected closer to acres of land, according to Mr. Palekar, with the caveat A limited 2017 study in Andhra Pradesh claimed a sharp and mass irrigation that has driven the Green Revolution the festival season, when buyer sentiment turns positive, that it must be a local Indian breed — not an imported decline in input costs and improvement in yields. model. and the industry prepares to liquidate its stock of soon­ Jersey or Holstein. However, reports also suggest that many farmers, to­be obsolete vehicles. The outlook is unclear for heavy A similar mixture, called bijamrita, is used to treat including in Mr. Palekar’s native Maharashtra, have What lies ahead? commercial vehicles due to recent changes that enable seeds, while concoctions using neem leaves and pulp, reverted to conventional farming after seeing their ZBNF NITI Aayog has been among the foremost promoters of higher freight loading, and depressed demand for tobacco and green chillis are prepared for insect and pest returns drop after a few years, in turn raising doubts Mr. Palekar and the ZBNF method. However, its experts expansion. management. about the method’s efficacy in increasing farmers’ have also warned that multi­location studies are needed The availability of higher financing through banks The ZBNF method also promotes soil aeration, minimal incomes. to scientifically validate the long­term impact and viability after the move to recapitalise them, and higher liquidity watering, intercropping, bunds and topsoil mulching and ZBNF critics, including some experts within the Central of the model before it can be scaled up and promoted in non­banking financial companies could also influence discourages intensive irrigation and deep ploughing. Mr. policy and planning think tank NITI Aayog, note that country­wide. sales. Palekar is against vermicomposting, which is the India needed the Green Revolution in order to become The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is studying mainstay of typical organic farming, as it introduces the self­sufficient and ensure food security. They warn against the ZBNF methods practised by basmati and wheat What will the shift mean? the most common composting worm, the European red a wholesale move away from that model without farmers in Modipuram (Uttar Pradesh), Ludhiana As of January 1 this year, there were 57,468 retail fuel wiggler (Eisenia fetida) to Indian soils. He claims these sufficient proof that yields will not be affected. Sikkim, (Punjab), Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) and Kurukshetra outlets of the oil marketing companies across the worms absorb toxic metals and poison groundwater and which has seen some decline in yields following a (Haryana), evaluating the impact on productivity, country. Although BS­VI fuel was introduced in the soil. conversion to organic farming, is used as a cautionary economics and soil health including soil organic carbon national capital last year, and extended to some tale regarding the pitfalls of abandoning chemical and soil fertility. contiguous districts in neighbouring States, the release Why does it matter? fertilizers. If found to be successful, an enabling institutional of the higher grade fuel in all the pumps in the country According to National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data, mechanism could be set up to promote the technology, has to be simultaneous. The auto industry wants it done almost 70% of agricultural households spend more than Which are the States with big plans? NITI Aayog vice­chairman Rajiv Kumar has said. The by February. The cost of upgrading refineries to produce they earn and more than half of all farmers are in debt. In According to the Economic Survey, more than 1.6 lakh Andhra Pradesh experience is also being monitored the higher­quality fuel is estimated at between ₹25,000 States such as Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, levels of farmers are practising the ZBNF in almost 1,000 villages closely to judge the need for further public funding crore and ₹30,000 crore. indebtedness are around 90%, where each household using some form of state support, although the method’s support.

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THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CAPSULE IIT Madras: Breath humidity Predicting pollution levels sensors for wearable electronics using oceans’ memory Patterns like El Nino can help predict weather conditions It detects ethanol, acetone in oral breath of alcoholics, diabetics, respectively and pollution, nearly a season in advance

Origin of photosynthesis R. Prasad Aswathi Pacha Imperial College London researchers, studying A nanofibre sensor capable Researchers from China and the U.S. have Heliobacterium modesticaldum of sensing minute variations been successful in predicting air pollution – an ancient bacterium – have in relative humidity levels in levels in northern Indian States. The model found structures in it that the exhaled breath has been they have developed shows 75% accuracy in suggest photosynthesis may fabricated by a team led by T. predicting pollution levels, and the predic­ have evolved a billion years Pradeep from the Depart­ tion can be done even a season in advance. earlier than is presently believed, and oxygenic ment of Chemistry at the In­ The model takes into account certain climat­ photosynthesis need not have dian Institute of Technology ic patterns related to the ocean which have a evolved from anoxygenic (IIT) Madras. The highly sen­ regulatory effect on the wintertime air pol­ photosynthesis. sitive sensors can be inte­ lution over northern India. Studying these grated into wearable elec­ patterns can help predict pollution levels. Winter haze: The ocean data serves as a tronics and might have India has been emerging as one of the memory to foretell how the weather applications in assessing hu­ world’s most polluted countries, with par­ conditions and pollution will play out. man metabolism and calorie ticulate matter PM 2.5 levels spiking more * FILE PHOTO burn rates. than 999 microgram per cubic metre in The sensor can also detect parts of Delhi last year. tic Oscillation data for autumn. Climatic data traces of ethanol and ace­ Studying a combination of El Nino, An­ from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric tone, two major compo­ tarctic Oscillation and the anomalies in sea Administration, U.S for the period 2003­ nents present in the oral Portable: The nanofibre sensor can be easily integrated to the base of wearables such as surface temperature during autumn (Sep­ 2018 and the aerosol optical depth observed Love hormone breath of alcoholics and dia­ common place masks, say (from right) Pradeep, Pillalamarri Srikrishnarka and Sathvik Ajay. tember­November), can help forecast the by various satellites were also used.

Oxytocin is believed to betics, respectively. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT pollution conditions in winter “It will help identify if the weather condi­ regulate maternal behaviour. (December­February). tions will be favourable or unfavourable for Now, a study in PLOS ONE Quick response time rishnarka from IIT Madras, ethanol and acetone in the ings. This process also The statistical model developed by the pollution, helping the government frame a finds a group of cells activated The sensors have very quick the other first author of the breath, the resistance of the makes it easier, quicker and team can also help the government in ad­ more stringent pollution control plan if by oxytocin present in one response time of about one paper. sensor increases and con­ relatively more eco­friendly justing policies and strategies for pollution needed,” explains Dr. Meng Gao, assistant area in female mice but not in second and can detect a The nanofibre mat is fabri­ ductivity reduces. Hence, than other commercial pro­ control before winter comes, the paper pu­ professor at the Hong Kong Baptist Universi­ the same area in males. range of relative humidity cated by electrospinning po­ there is a dip in the current cesses,” says Prof. Pradeep. blished in Science Advances adds. ty, China. He is the first author of the study. Activation of the receptors from 0­95%. The sensor was ly(vinylidene fluoride) and measured from the baseline. The nanofibre mat obtained It is known that the aerosol over an area is The Antarctic Oscillation does not act di­ correlates with estrogen found to have high stability. reduced graphene oxide. “The reduction in conductiv­ is very thin and offers modulated by meteorological conditions rectly to influence Indian climate but affects presence, implying the cells can induce maternal “Even after exposing the Coating the mat with polya­ ity is because of the absence breathability. In order to in­ and circulation patterns. Stagnant weather the Indian Ocean Meridional Dipole which behaviour. The finding has sensor to ambient condi­ niline turns the mat into a of moisture — the hydrogen tegrate sensors like this into conditions such as low wind speeds and des­ in turn plays a role in our climatic potential for treating tions for a week, we still sensor. bond between the sensor wearable electronics to mon­ cending air can favour rapid aerosol forma­ conditions. postpartum depression. found the response time to The moisture in the and analyte [ethanol and itor breath, resistance­free tion and accumulation. Understanding He added that there have been several be about one second and breath reduces the resis­ acetone] is less likely to air flow is the key. these climatic factors which influence the studies in China connecting extreme pollu­ could match the breathing tance of the sensing material form,” says Srikrishnarka. wintertime haze pollution can help foresee tion with East Asia winter monsoon, Arctic rates quite effectively,” says thereby allowing more cur­ “Polyaniline is the major Portable sensor the future ventilation conditions too. sea ice loss, the El Nino–Southern Oscilla­ Sathvik Ajay Iyengar who rent to flow. So when a fixed contributor of current con­ To make the sensor truly Also, the ocean data serves as a memory tion, and Pacific sea surface temperature was a short­term student voltage (1­2 volts) is applied duction, and reduced gra­ portable, the researchers are and large­scale climate patterns like El Nino anomalies. The predictions from these stu­ with Prof. Pradeep’s team to the sensor, there is more phene oxide complements using the popular Arduino can tell what the weather conditions and dies have helped the government makethe and is one of the first authors current that is detected it. The combination of polya­ prototyping platform cou­ pollution will be, nearly a season in advance needed reforms, especially in its industrial of a paper published in the when the sensor comes in niline coating and reduced pled with Bluetooth module The team constructed a computer model sector, helping bring down pollution levels journal ACS Applied Elec- contact with moisture in the graphene oxide allows high­ for collecting data wirelessly. which incorporates the El Nino and Antarc­ in the country. Fountain of youth tronic Materials. breath. er current conduction,” says “We initially tested the Senescent cells are the The breath rate was mea­ “In the presence of hu­ Srikrishnarka. “In the ab­ sensor performance using opposite of stem cells: they sured for one­two hours midity, 100­1000 times more sence of reduced graphene an Arduino Uno and we ob­ can never divide again. New prior to and after exercise. current can be detected us­ oxide, polyaniline can still served a good response. We research finds that ageing, The heart rate is higher soon ing our sensor compared conduct current but at a sig­ intend to team up with other Bees use complex memory senescent cells stop producing nucleotides, the building block after exercise and this is re­ with other sensors,” says nificantly lower level. The re­ departments to recognise of DNA. When young cells flected in higher breath rate. Iyengar. “So when the cur­ duced graphene oxide alone patterns by using machine were prevented from “We intend collecting breath rent measured is in nanoam­ does not help conduct learning and to develop mo­ for communication producing nucleotides, the rate over a period of few pere range when other sen­ current.” bile­friendly apps to monitor cells became senescent. The days to establish the rela­ sors are used, we were able “The coating of the mat health,” says Prof. Pradeep. Waggle run correlates with distance from food site to hive findings have potential to help tionship between heart and to measure it at microam­ with polyaniline occurs in The team plans to take the with ageing and related breath rate and metabo­ pere range using our sensor.” water and so can be scaled­ work forward via startup in­ I.T. Ilavenil ry of both distances when they update the diseases. lism,” says Pillalamarri Srik­ When there are traces of up to get large­scale coat­ itiatives. dance information,” says Dr. Brockmann. Bees use waggle dance to communicate with It was also noticed that the memory pro­ their nest mates the flight distance and di­ cesses of bees responded differently de­ rection to foraging sites. Now, a research pending on whether the foraging distance team led by Axel Brockmann at the National was extended or shortened from the original Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Ben­ distance of 300 metres. When the feeder Reversible superglue inspired by snail epiphragm galuru, has studied how bees use complex was shifted from the original distance of 300 memory to generate dance duration to com­ metres to 200 metres and back to 300 Snails secrete a mucous film which dries to forms a glassy structure that fixes them to the substrate municate a change in foraging distance. metres, the bees were able to update the Bees are known to waggle dance near the feeder distance following each shift and Shubashree Desikan Similarly, the hydrogel group is like a solid that in author of the paper, was entrance of the hives. The duration of the communicate the distance correctly developed by the group har­ its hydrated state is soft, wet cleaning out some old sam­ waggle run of a dancing bee correlates with through waggle dance. A hydrogel­based adhesive dens from its wet state with and squishy. “In this state it ples from his desk that were the distance between the food site and the In contrast, when the feeder was shifted that combines strength and a modulus of 100 pascals to is able to flow into and fill thin films of patterned PHE­ hive. For instance, as the distance to the fo­ from the original distance (300 metres) to reversibility has been deve­ a dry state value of 2.3 giga­ micro­ and nanoscale sur­ MA on slides he had pre­ raging site increases, the duration of waggle 400 metres the bees were able to commun­ loped by a collaboration of pascals. face grooves aand pores, fol­ pared for another project. increases too. icate the longer foraging distance. But when researchers based in the “The ability to go from lowing which it can be dried The idea was born when he The team used the honey bee species Apis brought back to the original distance of 300 U.S. and Korea. This combi­ being as soft as Jello to being to lock itself in place,” ex­ found that the slides were mellifera for the study. “Most of the research metres, it continued to exhibit the waggle nation is not easily found in 1,000 times stiffer when plains Jolly in an email to stuck together and he could on the brain and behaviour of bees around duration for 400m. adhesives. The group has dried, that is, hard as a bot­ The Hindu. not separate them even with the world is done with the help of A. mellif- “The foraging site at 400 metres was new drawn inspiration from tle cap, and to do so without great effort. era and therefore we could put our results to the bees unlike the one at 200 metres snails in developing this ad­ shrinking significantly in the Strong adhesive The group has filed for into the context of all the research done pre­ which the bees visited earlier during the hesive. process, is what makes our PHEMA, which stands for patents for the technology. viously,” says Dr. Brockmann. training process. Therefore, when the feed­ adhesive special and poly(2­hydroxyethyl metha­ Further, while the adhesive er was first shifted to a novel site [400 Snail mucous strong,” says Jason Chris­ crylate), has a remarkable shows strength and reversi­ Memory formation metres] and then back to the original site When snails are startled or topher Jolly, a PhD student adhesive strength. Accord­ bility, it is still limited to use To understand in detail memory formation [300 metres], honey bees did not update the encounter discomfort, they in the School of Engineering ing to the researchers, a 1 x 1 in relatively dry environ­ in bees for waggle dance, the researchers waggle duration after the second shift. This shrink into their shells. They and Applied Science, Un­ cm square sample of the ad­ ments, as its switching me­ trained a group of honey bees to forage food is likely due to new memory interfering with secrete a mucous film iversity of Pennsylvania, hesive can hold an object chanism relies on water. “It kept 300 metres away from the hive. When the recall of an older one,” says Arumoy around the opening of their and an author of the paper weighing 91 kg. To compare is limited to applications the food source was shifted to 400 metres, Chatterjee, a PhD student at the institute. He shell, which on drying forms Firm grip: To demonstrate published in Proceedings of this to a commonly used re­ that don’t require very fast most of the bees took multiple trips to the is the first author of the paper published in a glassy structure that both this, we used two 2­square­ the National Academy of versible adhesive, a strong 1 switching,” says Jolly. new foraging site to update their dance. Till Journal of Experimental Biology. seals them in and fixes them centimetre pieces of the Sciences. cm square of Velcro can sup­ “Our plan is to tweak the such time the bees formed the new memory, “Previously, there was no easy way to dis­ strongly to the object they adhesive to suspend me (85 port a weight of 12.2 kg. chemistry so as to not be they displayed an intermediate dance dura­ sociate the waggle dance activity of honey are sitting on. This structure kg) in the air, says Jolly. Soft hydrogel “To demonstrate this, we water­based but to use or­ tion indicating distances in between the new bee foragers from their foraging activity. Our formed by the dry mucous is * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Unlike commercially availa­ used two 2 square centi­ ganic solvents. We are also and old foraging locations. experiments now provide us with the means called an epiphragm. ble wood glues (such as Fev­ metre pieces of the adhesive working on engineering “One must assume that the bees, when ar­ to dissociate them, an essential first step to­ The strength of this epi­ snail is resting on. When it icol) or superglues that are to suspend myself (85 kg) in more adhesives of this class riving at the new feeder site, know the dis­ wards understanding the mechanisms un­ phragm stems from the fact dries to a glassy state, it ac­ liquids when applied and the air,” says Jolly. that can be switched on with tance between the feeder and the hive. If derlying the conversion of flight information that before it dries it pene­ quires a stiffness that is ma­ solidify to perform the ad­ The group ran into PHE­ different stimuli such as not, they will not be able to find the way to waggle dance information”, adds co­auth­ trates into the microscopic ny orders of magnitude hesive role, the PHEMA ad­ MA rather serendipitously light, heat or electrical puls­ back. The occurrence of intermediate dance or Ebi George, another PhD student at the crevices on the surface the higher than its wet state. hesive developed by the when Gaoxiang Wu, co­first es,” he adds. durations indicates that the bees use memo­ institute. IISER Mohali finds that zebrafish use landmarks for navigation The presence of colourful landmarks, visible even in turbid conditions, plays an important role in improving foraging success

R. Prasad termining success in foraging able of using familiar visual behaviour,” Dr. Jain stresses. dalities is compromised in mimicked coastal water and food. The results of the study landmarks to find food loca­ “But what is unique is that some species they are capa­ high turbidity mimicked an Low to extremely turbid wa­ were published in the jour­ tions even when vision is within one month of acclima­ ble of switching over to estuary mouth. ter conditions are quite com­ nal Biology Letters. compromised,” says Dr. Jai tisation they seem to deal another. But in the case of ze­ mon in areas that humans in­ “This is the first study to with it. The foraging ability brafish we found they conti­ Acclimatisation habit. Under such Colourful landmarks show the ability of zebrafish improves drastically. It high­ nue to use visual sensory to The researchers found that conditions, it is a challenge In addition to acclimatisa­ to use any landmark for navi­ lights the importance of locate food,” Dr. Jain says. one month of acclimatisation for fish to forage food as they tion, the presence of colour­ gation,” she says. The study acclimatisation.” For the study, the re­ was sufficient for fishes to rely on vision to navigate and ful landmarks that are visible highlights the important role If zebrafish do indeed searchers collected 160 ze­ forage food even when the find food. Now, in a study even in extremely turbid of behavioural plasticity and learn to cope with turbidity brafish from a clear stream turbidity was high. carried out using zebrafish, conditions plays an impor­ spatial learning to cope with and find food in a matter of near Kolkata. The fishes kept Even during training, the researchers at the Indian In­ tant role in improving forag­ altered sensory environ­ one month, should the effect in tanks were fed fish pellets researchers did find that ze­ stitute of Science Education ing success. The study could ments, which in this case is of turbidity on zebrafish mat­ and Artemia (genus of aquat­ brafish in turbid water did and Research (IISER) Mohali conclusively show that ze­ increased turbidity of the ter at all? “Just because they ic crustaceans). They were learn to use colourful stones have found hard evidence to brafish use visual cues to na­ water they live in. are able to cope with turbidi­ trained for two weeks to na­ as proxy for food locations. support how turbidity nega­ Smart fish: The zebrafish used visual cues and landmarks to vigate to foraging sites espe­ ty in a month does not mean vigate and locate food. After During the tests, even in tively affects foraging effi­ navigate to foraging sites. * NAKUL RAJ cially when turbidity is high Effect of turbidity that chronic exposure to tur­ training fish to find food, 75 highly turbid conditions, the ciency and how they learn to and visibility is low. “Here we demonstrate the bid water is not going to af­ fishes were split into three ability to locate food was su­ cope with it. The study was of Biological Sciences at IIS­ posed by reduced visibility. “The cornerstone of the detrimental effect of turbidi­ fect them. The resilience to groups and the different perior when there land­ done in collaboration with ER Mohali found that with The study found that accli­ study is the visual learning ty on zebrafish with respect survive in turbid water has groups were acclimatised for marks. Their ability to locate IISER Kolkata. acclimatisation to turbidity matisation to the immediate capability of zebrafish. We to foraging. Turbidity is like­ not been studied,” she a month in clear, low turbid food was compromised The team led by Dr. Manja­ conditions zebrafish did visual environment does found the wild freshwater ze­ ly to increase the metabolic warns. and high turbid conditions. when the landmarks were ri Jain from the Department overcome the challenges play an important role in de­ brafish (Danio rerio) are cap­ cost associated with foraging “If one of the sensory mo­ The low turbid condition not present.

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if anyway my contribution amounts to nothing? No, I do need to wrestle Life as one big with the breadboard and ar­ range those resistors and wires to the best of my abili­ ty. If I look back, those elec­ tronics laboratory sessions were important. We expe­ BREADBOARD rienced the whole gamut of emotions — of elation and de­ jection, ear and futility (often Outcomes hardly matter; just do it as diligently as possible on the same day). The tapes­ try of emotions made our Shankar Gopalkrishnan presence of the professor We impatiently waited un­ lives richer. Without them, who looked out for the slight­ til the professor was at the ta­ our lives would have he electronics laborato­ est error to give you an ear­ ble to evaluate our artwork. been boring and hol­ ry sessions at the engi­ ful! It was often an exercise It was our crowning glory low. The diligence, the Tneering college were in futility, and there were moment. The professor’s ex­ teamwork, the com­ eventful. A motley set of days when the experiments pression was inscrutable — mon goal and the equipment lay scattered on completely failed despite he looked at the waveform shared emotion... eve­ the table — a breadboard, a your best efforts. Still, you with interest and then rything was essential display screen, a clump of soldiered on. looked at each of us with ILLUSTRATION: J.A. PREMKUMAR and helped us wires and colourful beads If you managed to get the equal interest. He carefully emerge stronger comprising resistors, transis­ desired output waveform removed one of the resistors handful. Like dead pieces pleasant. The professor Often we wonder about breadboard at all. So too and wiser. In the tors and capacitors. The ob­ and successfully completed from the breadboard, reach­ outside a chessboard, there asked for the lab record­ our contribution to this with life. The cosmic laws process, we had a lot jective was simple: to follow the lab work, it was deemed ing out for it between the was a now a growing heap of books and scrawled, “repeat world, our role in the will take care of the future on of fun. So too with life. I am a set of instructions, create a miracle. wild undergrowth of wires. deadwood piling up outside the experiment” in red scheme of things and how it their own. In front of these placed today in a particular an electronic circuit on the “Watch, my dears; the wave­ the breadboard. “My dears, across the entire page. He will shape the future. As the mighty laws of time, space role, to wire up some circuit breadboard and read the re­ The miracle form output is still intact!” your waveform is still intact!” was evidently angry. years roll by, these larger­ and causation, my puny exis­ on some breadboard. sultant output waveform on One afternoon, a miracle did Our response was muted. We knew something was The above incident is ac­ than­life questions nag us. tence and contribution The outcome just does not the display screen. The happen. The display screen “Yes, sir,” we mumbled. In wrong. Soon, the professor tually several decades old. To We worry that if by a quirk of amounts to nothing. Hence, I matter. I only have to be busy breadboard had tiny holes suddenly sprang to life, and such a complicated circuitry, plunged his entire fist into this day, I am baffled how the fate, we move on today, need not worry about the fu­ in the process of wiring the into which you inserted the registered this most beautiful there could be some scope the breadboard and exh­ waveform output could be so would we have done enough ture. The future will unfold breadboard as diligently as I resistors and capacitors and waveform. It was a sight to for redundancy, where the umed whatever came in his precise especially when the for the future, for the family, on its own, regardless of me. can. That alone is my lot. connected them up with behold — a rainbow of sorts loss of a body part need not grasp and exclaimed, “My breadboard was emptied for society so that they are This attitude frees me from Ours is not to question why. wires. for our thirsty eyes! affect the overall health, or dears, your waveform has out. There are plausible ex­ better off, just that little bit, unnecessarily carrying a Ours is but to do and die! It would be unnerving es­ We were a team of three so we thought. still not changed!” Eventual­ planations, no doubt, of the because we lived. But there load that I need not! Therefore, we keep doing, pecially if you were doing it and had struggled through What happened from this ly, in a manic rage, he had circuit being ‘shorted’ or the are no easy answers. If that is the case, do I like the busybee... with a for the first time. You had to the entire afternoon putting point on was nothing short of emptied the entire bread­ display wires possibly con­ It is here that the bread­ need to struggle with the heart for any fate. Still contend with multiple chal­ the pieces of the circuit to­ dramatic. The professor did board of all its components. nected back­to­back. I do not board and the waveform breadboard at all? Do I need achieving, still pursuing, we lenges — instructions that gether until the breadboard quick work: he removed a ca­ The waveform still smiled know. However, I do know come to our rescue. The wa­ to wire those elaborate con­ learn to labour and to wait! were unclear, the pressure of resembled a wild jungle... pacitor here, a resistor there back at us, unaffected. The this incident has taught some veform did not require the nections? Can I simply eject time and the overbearing with wires hanging all over! and uprooted wires by the rest of the afternoon was not valuable lessons for life. elaborate circuitry on the out of the whole framework [email protected] The striking tales the rain tells All in a day’s work for this doctor The universal truths and some age­old lessons of water management Two patients, the same kind of effort put in; one survives, the other dies

C.N. Pillai Ganga Devi did descend in Pingali Gopal impossible amount those the form of heavy rains or days. Members of the local ain, or the lack of it, is cloudbursts and the waters he one­hour­old blue doctors’ body and the police very much on our were contained by the baby was brought in at later added to the already Rminds today. Though mountain. T5 a.m. with rapid cramped room. about 70% of the surface of But even that did not solve breathing. A quick examina­ Shouting matches bet­ the earth is covered with wa­ the king’s problem. Water in tion and an X­ray established ween some of our more vo­ ter in the form of oceans, life the mountain is not water in a diaphragmatic hernia — a cal doctors and angry mem­ on the land depends on pre­ the plains where the ancient defect in the muscle separat­ bers of the crowd ensued. cipitation as rain and snow. ashes were waiting to be ing the abdomen from the The original attendants of The occurrence of precipi­ quenched, and that location chest. This allowed loops of the patient were completely tation is subject to the vagar­ was far away. Poor Bhagi­ bowel and other abdominal missing from the scene of ac­ ies of nature, leading to un­ ratha went back to his tapa- organs to enter the chest, tion now. After four hours, a expected droughts and sya and persuaded Siva to re­ compressing the lungs and deal was finalised on the in­ floods. Man, over the ages, lease the waters in measured the heart. The only course tervention of some local pol­ has adopted various strate­ quantities via rivulets and fi­ open was surgery. iticians and the police. The gies to propitiate nature and ILLUSTRATION: SATWIK GADE nally into the mighty Ganga, As the paediatric and neo­ ILLUSTRATION: SREEJITH R. KUMAR hospital and the pharmacy the gods to ensure adequate which flowed down the natal surgeon in the hospital, are to waive the dues and rainfall. The ancients were and omission. (I am using doomed to perdition without plains till it reached the I gave the attendants a rough started and the child under­ by recovered and was ready pay some extra money for aware of the importance of modern terminology here salvation due to their own grounds where the rituals estimate of the cost, includ­ went surgery the next day. for discharge. The father funeral expenses on ‘human­ trees and mountains in en­ for what I think Krishna karma. Rituals had to be per­ were performed. ing the possible variances in The surgical findings were came to my room and spoke, itarian’ grounds. There was a suring rainfall and conserv­ meant by ascribing it to kar- formed with holy waters The purpose of reciting the event of complications very similar, and the child with tears in his eyes, threat to me and the hospital ing water. I recount two sto­ ma.) from heaven to put their this well­known story is only arising. I added that in case went on ventilatory support. “Thank you so much for sav­ from a mob. Amid slogans on ries from Indian mythology He further said they were souls to rest. to emphasise the impor­ they are not happy to stay in On the third day, the con­ ing the child. You are but loudspeakers, journalists to illustrate the point. living in the foothills of the Bhagiratha was deter­ tance of mountains and trees that hospital, we would dition of both babies started God to us.” Suddenly, he taking photographs, and cu­ Bhagavatha Puranam con­ Govardhan mountain and mined to cajole Ganga Devi to regulate floods and in wa­ transfer the child to the go­ deteriorating, the cause be­ bent down along with his rious onlookers, the body of tains chapters on Govardhan the mountain and the trees herself from the heavens to ter management, to use a vernment facility — and told ing sepsis. For the next few aged mother to touch my the child left the hospital. puja practised in Gokulam were responsible for bring­ come down to earth, and to modern term. Disturbing the the father to communicate days, it was a see­saw bet­ feet. I recoiled in shock. The I sat helplessly and burnt during Krishna’s childhood. ing forth rain. We neglect the this end, he performed rigo­ ecosystem of the catchment his decision to the nurse. ween life and death for father pleaded: he was ex­ with impotent anger. The fa­ This was an agrarian com­ mountain and the trees at rous tapasya. His arduous ef­ areas, be they the hills or the The consent came after a them, amid our efforts. The tremely poor and had taken mily had lost the child, but a munity whose livelihood was our own risk and Indra had plains, can have disastrous few hours. The child was money from a loan shark. He doctor had just lost some farming and cattle­rearing, no role to play in this. <> The ancients were consequences all around the born after years of marriage. <> Thank you so built up his case slowly and faith. When a doctor hardens and timely rain was impor­ So he suggested they per­ aware of the region. The devastating flood The father asked me to do much for saving finally managed to take a a little bit, what are the con­ tant. Every year, they would form a puja for the moun­ importance of trees that inundated Uttarakhand my best; and sought a dis­ the child. You are whopping quarter off the sequences for the medical conduct a puja or yagam to tain. An environmental acti­ and mountains in and the neighbouring Hima­ count on the bill as he had li­ but God to us bill, and I approved it. profession and society? Two propitiate Lord Indra who vist today could not have ensuring rainfall layan States in 2013 was attri­ mited means. I promised to That evening, the second patients, the same kind of ef­ was believed to be the one expressed it better. He was buted to the wanton destruc­ do my best with the medical babies would improve, raise child died. The only person fort put in; one survives and who controlled rain. so persuasive that the people forts finally bore fruit and tion of the mountains in efforts and the bill too if eve­ hopes, and then sink a bit. I outside the NICU was an old makes me god and the other Once when Krishna was of Gokulam followed his ad­ Ganga Devi agreed to come various ways by people for rything went well. The child spent two consecutive nights lady to whom we declared dies making me a devil. about seven years old, prep­ vice. The subsequent events down to the earth. short­term gains. had a smooth surgery and in the neo­natal intensive the death. She said the atten­ Triumph and disaster arations were afoot for the are well­known. Krishna’s But the fall of the waters In the present­day con­ went on elective ventilation. care unit (NICU) over endless dants would come the next stalks everyone, and it is well annual Indra puja. Krishna suggestion should be inter­ would result in a deluge and text, experts in this field are I saw another patient just cups of tea. On the seventh day. That day, two tractors worth remembering the questioned the elders of the preted as a call to protect the entire earth could be aware of these matters. as I was coming out of the day, the first baby started to filled with people landed at words of Lord Krishna: I am community on the puja. and conserve nature. washed away unless means While a spate of quick­fix theatre, and as it happened, improve; unfortunately, the the hospital gate demanding indifferent to triumph today, When told about its purpose, were in place to contain the measures are being underta­ it was an exactly similar case. condition of the second pro­ to see me. My chamber was but still to handle disaster si­ he could not accept it. He ar­ Bhagiratha’s task floods. Lord Siva agreed to ken, it is good to remember I groaned. The same bit of gressively deteriorated. The flooded with at least 20 peo­ milarly. In their own ways, gued that rain was a natural Let me now go fast backward receive and hold the waters that such measures can only counselling went into the attendants of the second ba­ ple, smelling strongly of both the families managed a phenomenon and Indra, if at to another era and another when they descend, in his be of limited use, and long­ discussions with the family by stopped buying medi­ country liquor. And then huge discount! I, god and de­ all involved in it, could act scenario. King Bhagiratha tresses. Here Siva symboli­ term measures should be im­ attendants. The father was cines, and we had to supply came abuse, allegations of vil rolled into one, went only according to the rules of ruled his country in the cally stands for the Hima­ plemented on an ongoing absent in the proceedings. them from our stock. The negligence, exploitation, and home, had dinner, and slept nature. Scanty rainfall, if it foothills of the Himalayas. He layan mountains and his basis. The attendants said he was number of attendants start­ demands for compensation. fitfully to see another day. happened, was the result of was a troubled person. The tresses for the trees, vegeta­ working in Mumbai and was ed dwindling at a slow rate. A figure of one lakh rupees our own acts of commission souls of his forefathers were tion, hills, valleys and lakes. [email protected] on his way. The treatment Five days later, the first ba­ started floating around, an [email protected] How nature sorts us

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Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse London Alex missing the squad is the Sydney biggest shock particularly af­ Uncapped fast bowler Jofra Alex Carey’s omission from ter his batting during the Archer has been included in the Ashes sqaud was met World Cup and being the se­ England's 14­man squad an­ with disbelief on Saturday cond best gloveman.” nounced on Saturday for by former Australian greats Spin king Warne was also next week's Ashes opener Mark Waugh and Shane stunned at Carey’s omission. against Australia, with all­ Warne, while Mark Taylor “Very surprised/disap­ rounder Ben Stokes re­ap­ said he was surprised Joe pointed that Carey didn’t pointed vice­captain. Burns and Kurtis Patterson make the Aussie squad,” he The pair enjoyed starring had missed out. said on Instagram in posting roles in England's World Cup Australia named a 17­man what he believes will be Aus­ final win over New Zealand at squad for the five­Test series tralia’s team for the opening Lord's on July 14, with all­ against England on Friday, Test at Edgbaston. rounder Stokes ensuring En­ with opener Cameron Ban­ Warne has Bancroft open­ gland drew level with the croft recalled alongside ing with Warner and Wade Black Caps total in regulation Steve Smith and David War­ coming in at number six, play before Archer bowled ner following their bans for a while opting for fast bowler the decisive Super Over that ball­tampering scandal in James Pattinson instead of sealed victory. South Africa last year. Mitchell Starc alongside Josh Matthew Wade also made Hazlewood, Pat Cummins Quick strides the grade, having not played and Nathan Lyon. Archer, 24, who qualified to a Test for nearly two years, Former Australia captain play for England only earlier following recent outstand­ Taylor said opener Burns this year, could now make his ing form with the bat. and middle­order batsman Test debut when the first of a He can act as back­up Patterson missing out was five­match series starts at wicketkeeper to captain Tim tough to take given both Edgbaston on August 1. Paine, as could Bancroft, made centuries in Austra­ He carried a side strain which meant the fast­im­ lia’s last Test, against Sri through the World Cup but proving Carey, who starred Lanka. reported fit after a brief holi­ for Australia at the recent “I was disappointed Kur­ day in his native Barbados, World Cup, was controver­ tis Patterson didn’t make the returning to action for Sussex sially overlooked. squad. You can’t help but on Friday, where he took two “Got to be kidding re Alex feel a little bit sorry for both for 21 in a tied Twenty20 Where he belongs: Jofra Archer’s exploits in the World Cup and his First Class returns have earned him an Ashes call­up.* REUTERS Carey,” 128­Test veteran him and (Joe) Burns,” Taylor Blast match against Surrey. Waugh tweeted. “For me said. Since making his senior against Ireland that England Moeen Ali was retained as pelling reasons to do so here. open for the final team selec­ managing director of En­ debut in 2016, Archer has ta­ eventually won by 143 runs at the lone specialist spinner. Several bowlers are recover­ tion,” the former England gland men's cricket Ashley ken 131 wickets in 28 First Lord's on Friday. Veteran England's top­order frail­ ing from injuries or niggles. batsman added. Giles and ECB chief executive Class matches at an average spearhead James Anderson ties, however, were exposed In addition, some bowlers Tom Harrison.” of 23.44. also returned to the squad af­ during a first innings where it who played in the World Cup It’s official Australia holds the Ashes, Stokes was restored to his ter missing the match with a only managed 85. are being closely monitored Meanwhile, an England and but England has not lost a position as Joe Root's deputy side injury. Opening batsman Rory to assess their preparation Wales Cricket Board state­ Test series at home since after being stripped of the But, while 10 of the 11 Burns, despite twice being for Test­match cricket. ment said Stokes' return to a 2001. vice­captaincy following a players who defeated Ireland dismissed in the match for “The wider circumstances leadership position has been late night brawl in September were included, there was no six, remained in the squad — a successful home World cleared by several senior The squad for the first Test:Joe Root (Capt.), Moeen Ali, James 2017. He was subsequently place for left­arm spinner even though he now averages Cup campaign followed so officials. Anderson, Jofra Archer, Jonny cleared of a charge of affray Jack Leach following his Man­ just 22.28 from seven Tests. quickly by a home Ashes se­ “Colin Graves, chairman Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Rory last year, with Jos Buttler act­ of­the­Match heroics that saw England selector Ed Smith ries — are unprecedented. It of the ECB, has approved the Burns, Jos Buttler (wk), Sam ing as vice­captain. the nightwatchman make a said: “Though it is unusual to feels sensible to select an ex­ reappointment of Ben Stokes Curran, Joe Denly, Jason Roy, Tough luck! Alex Carey missing in the Australian squad for Buttler and Stokes were career­best 92 in England's select a squad of 14 for a panded squad and leave a as Test vice­captain following Ben Stokes, Olly Stone and the Ashes series is the biggest shock, according to Mark rested from a see­saw Test second innings. home Test, there are com­ number of bowling options the recommendation from Chris Woakes. Waugh. * RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES Lord’s pitch substandard: Root Nadeem spins India-A to victory ANI London The left­arm spinner returns a five­for; Siraj picks up three After winning the one­off Test against Ireland, skipper Press Trust of India chipped in for the visitors third wicket, but the collapse Joe Root labelled the Lord’s North Sound (Antigua) during the chase. began with the fall of the wicket “substandard”, say­ Left­arm spinner Shahbaz skipper at 159 for four. ing the match did not offer a Nadeem took a five­wicket Saha shines The batsmen struggled to fair contest between bat and haul for the second time in India­A, which resumed the cope up with the guile and ball. the match to set up a six­ day at 299 for eight in the accuracy of Nadeem, who “I don’t like saying this but wicket win for India­A over first innings, went on to has been knocking on the the wicket was substandard West Indies­A in the first make 312 in 104.3 overs with doors of the Indian Test for a Test match. I thought it ‘Test’ on Saturday. wicketkeeper Wriddhiman team with consistent perfor­ wasn’t... not even close to a Nadeem’s five for 47 in 21 Saha (66) the last man to get mances in domestic cricket fair contest between bat and overs helped India­A bowl out, marking a successful re­ over the years. ball throughout the whole out the hosts for 180 in their turn with both bat and The Jharkhand spinner game,” ESPNcricinfo quoted second innings after they gloves following a long injury had also taken five wickets in Root as saying. were comfortably placed at lay­off. the first innings, taking his “We weren’t at our best by 159 for three on day three of West Indies­A, which con­ match tally to 10 for 109. any stretch. We managed the four­day game on Friday. ceded an 84­run first­innings The scores: West Indies­A 228 certain periods very well. We Pacer Mohammad Siraj ran lead, was steady in the se­ & 180 in 77 overs (Brooks 53; were put under pressure by through the lower­order cond essay after the loss of Nadeem five for 47, Siraj three Ireland,” Root said. with a three­wicket burst. openers Montcin Hodge (36) for 38) lost to India­A 312 (Dube 71, Saha 66; Cummins “But we found a way to Chasing 97 for victory, In­ and Jeremy Solozano (11) at four for 40) & 97 for four in 30 win a game. First innings, dia­A was 29 for one at close 51 for two. overs. last innings, when you are before sealing the contest on DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD getting scores like that, that the final morning despite Beginning of collapse DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD tells a story in itself when the some hiccups along the way. Captain Shamarh Brooks B Second ‘Test: July 31 to Joe... going to the root of the problem. scores are as low as that,” he On the ball: Shahbaz Nadeem’s 10­wicket match haul has put Abhimanyu Easwaran (27) (53) and Roston Chase (32) Aug. 3, Port of Spain * JULIAN FINNEY/GETTY IMAGES added. India­A in a winning position. * FILE PHOTO and Hanuma Vihari (28) shared a 79­run stand for the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD U Mumba begins home leg with easy win Challengers cruise against Mavericks Two all­outs seal Puneri Paltan’s fate; Abhishek top scores for the winner Archana and Amalraj provide the dramatics for the Goan side PKL UTT

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Two all­outs inflicted by U Young Archana Kamath pro­ Mumba sealed Puneri Pal­ duced a scintillating exhibi­ tan’s fate in the opening tion of speed and power to game of the Mumbai leg of annihilate Manika Batra and ProKabaddi League set the pace for Goa Challen­ Season­7. gers’ emphatic 11­4 triumph U Mumba walked away a over RP­SG Mavericks, Kol­ comfortable winner at 33­23 kata, in the Ultimate Table in front of roaring fans at the Tennis League here on NSCI indoor stadium. Saturday. Catchers called the shots in the first half, raiders came Domination into their own after the Goa dominated every indivi­ break. Abhishek Singh (five dual encounter. A. Amalraj Momentous: Archana Kamath was too good for Manika Batra. Right: A. Amalraj pulled off a big raid points) top­scored for won both his matches, with upset over World No. 53 Benedikt Duda. * COURTESY UTT the winner. Surjeet Singh the conquest of World No. (six points) played his heart 53 Benedikt Duda being the Fast exchanges, inter­ Duda and Manika. Again, it hand drive went out. out for the losing side. icing on the cake. spersed with long rallies was the inconsistency of Ma­ This miss resulted in Fazel Atrachali and Sur­ Catchers on the mat: U Mumba defence wall of Fazel Atrachali and Surinder Singh prepare to The finishing touches brought out the best in Ar­ nika’s returns that made the Amalraj producing his best jeet, defensive specialists in trap Puneri Paltan's Sushant Sail. * COURTESY PKL were provided by World No. chana and she stayed in decisive difference. in dominating the decider. U Mumba and Paltan respec­ 8 Cheng I­Ching who control. The results: Goa Challengers bt tively, were named captains Fazel produced a Super Surjeet produced a Super the second in three appea­ stopped World No. 25 Matil­ Archana enjoyed leads of Upset RP­SG Mavericks, Kolkata 11­4 and it reflected in the catch­ Tackle to push U Mumba in­ Tackle to keep Paltan in the rances so far in the league af­ da Ekholm in three games. 7­4, 10­4 in the first two Amalraj went on to cause (Archana Kamath bt Manika Ba­ ing department. to the lead at 5­4, at the other fray. ter a win and a loss in the If Mavericks were games before racing away the other big upset. Ranked tra 11­9, 11­7, 11­3; Alvaro Ro­ Atrachali ended with four end Surjeet failed to keep Rival raiders Arjun Des­ first leg. straightaway put on the de­ with the final seven points in a distant 122, Amalraj was bles bt Sanil Shetty 10­11, 11­4, raid points, while Surjeet Abhishek in check at 9­9. wal and Abhishek gave the fensive, Archana’s unrelent­ the third to leave Manika quick to respond to any chal­ 11­5; A. Amalraj & Cheng I­ Earlier, the Mumbai leg Ching bt Benedikt Duda & Ma­ pulled off two Super Tackles. Abhishek was the first fron­ home fans plenty to cheer kicked off with India cricket ing attacks on Manika had stranded. lenge thrown at him by Du­ nika 8­11, 11­4, 11­9; Amalraj bt Manjeet and Sanket Sa­ tline raider to scamper back about. Two all­outs were the captain Virat Kohli render­ everything to do with it. This After Spaniard Alvaro Ro­ da and captured the first Duda 11­7, 10­11, 11­4; Cheng I­ want displayed craft for Pal­ with a raid point. highpoints. ing the Natonal Anthem. clash between the country’s bles, ranked 56th, overcame game. Ching bt Matilda Ekholm 11­8, tan, while Sandeep Narwal The home team kept its U Mumba started the The result: top­ranked player and the a slow start to tame Sanil In the second, Duda was 9­11, 11­5). and Surinder were decisive nose ahead (11­9) at the home leg with a dominant U Mumba 33 bt Puneri Pal­ National champion lived up Shetty 2­1, Amalraj and lucky to win the ‘golden Sunday’s fixture: Chennai Lions in the back for the hosts. break. win over their State rivals, tan 23. to the billing. Ching got the measure of point’ when Amalraj’s fore­ v Puneri Paltan (7 p.m.).

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WORLD SWIMMING party­goers plummeting ov­ er 5m onto people below. A doping controversy fol­ Agence France-Presse lowed when it was revealed Gwangju (South Korea) Jack had failed a drug test. American superstar Caeleb American great Katie Le­ Dressel produced more fire­ decky won her fourth suc­ works on Saturday as he cessive 800m freestyle gold romped to a hat­trick of after being pushed to the li­ golds, taking his tally to six mit by European champion on a dark day when a fatal Simona Quadarella. nightclub accident shook the The results: Men: 50m frees­ The Ferrari rides again: Mick Schumacher wore a helmet that paid tribute to his father’s career as he drove the car which carried swimming World True grit: Katie Ledecky displayed a champion’s heart to tyle: 1. Caeleb Dressel (USA)

Michael to 13 victories and the drivers’ title in 2004. * AFP championships. win her fourth successive 800m freestyle gold. * AFP 21.04s, 2. Bruno Fratus (Bra) Day seven also threw up 21.45, 3. Kristian Gkolomeev further doping controversy free, Dressel exploded from 49.66 — the second­quickest (Gre) 21.45. 100m butterfly: 1. Caeleb Dressel (USA) 49.66, 2. with Australian officials an­ the blocks and never looked swim ever, a night after shat­ Andrei Minakov (Rus) 50.83, 3. nouncing freestyle relay Hamilton takes his 87th pole back, clocking a champion­ tering Michael Phelps’s 10­ Chad le Clos (RSA) 51.16. world­record holder Shayna ship best 21.04s, clear of Bra­ year­old world record. Dres­ Women: 50m butterfly: 1. Sa- Jack had tested positive for a zilian Bruno Fratus and sel gave the USA relay quar­ rah Sjostrom (Swe) 25.02, 2. Double disaster for Ferrari — Leclerc begins 10th; Vettel forced to sit out banned substance, explain­ Greek Kristian Gkolomeev, tet the lead it would keep, Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Ned) ing her mysterious no­show who tied for silver in 21.45. Simon Manuel bringing the 25.35, 3. Farida Osman (EGY) GERMAN GP problem and will start at the appointed, especially with pit­lane in front of a big in South Korea. Dressel, who scooped se­ Americans home in a world 25.47. 200m backstroke: 1. Re- back of the grid for his home the pace in Q3. Ferrari had crowd at the Hockenheim But Dressel helped refo­ ven gold medals at the 2017 record of 3:19.40. gan Smith (USA) 2:03.69, 2. race. been very quick here... so circuit. Now a Formula Two cus attention on the pool as Worlds in Budapest, let out a Kaylee McKeown (Aus) Agence France-Presse Kimi Raikkonen was fifth we’re in a good place.” driver, Schumacher wore a he retained his 50m frees­ roar of delight but had very Shock news 2:06.26, 3. Kylie Masse (Can) Hockenheim for Alfa Romeo ahead of Ro­ On an overcast and much helmet that paid tribute to tyle and 100m butterfly little time to savour the mo­ Dressel’s heroics came after 2:06.62. 800m freestyle: 1. Katie Ledecky (USA) 8:13.58, 2. Lewis Hamilton secured a main Grosjean of Haas, Car­ cooler day after heavy over­ his father’s career as he world titles in style, before ment. The 22­year­old was the shock news that two lo­ Simona Quadarella (Ita) gift­wrapped record­extend­ los Sainz of McLaren, Sergio night rain, the Williams team drove the car that carried his leading the American mixed back for the 100m butterfly cals died and eight athletes 8:14.99, 3. Ariarne Titmus (Aus) ing 87th pole position of his Perez of Racing Point and Ni­ were first on track for Q1, in father to 13 victories and the 4x100m freestyle team to a final and after a long, hard were injured after an indoor 8:15.70 career on Saturday when he co Hulkenberg of Renault. front of an enthusiastic drivers’ title in 2004. new world record. stare down lane four, he got balcony at a Gwangju night­ Mixed 4x100m freestyle: 1. made the most of a double “Congratulations Lewis — crowd boosted by Verstap­ “I just wanted to go out Bouncing on his toes like a it done again. club collapsed in the early USA 3:19.40, 2. Australia disaster for Ferrari in quali­ you never stop amazing us,” pen’s ‘orange army’ and ma­ and I just wanted to drive,” prizefighter before the 50m The American touched in hours on Saturday, sending 3:19.97, 3. France 3:22.11. fying at the German Grand said Mercedes team chief To­ ny local supporters for Vettel he said. “Obviously, having Prix. to Wolff as the Briton drove in Ferrari red. to wait, even in front of the The defending five­time his slow­down lap. “Thanks, pit exit, was more like tor­ world champion, who had Toto,” he replied. “A great Luckless Vettel ture. I never lost a smile. It Bernal poised to clinch title struggled for pace and con­ job guys — I don’t know how Leclerc was soon on top for was always on my face. Even sistency in his Mercedes in we did that.” the ‘scarlet scuderia’ ahead when I was locking up, I was practice, improved to clock a of Verstappen, but it was bad smiling! It was really cool.” Will become the youngest winner since Faber in 1909 best lap in one minute and Cause for celebration news again for the luckless Starting grid (provisional): 11.767 and outpace Max Ver­ Hamilton’s lap was the only Vettel. After sitting in his car, down the kilometres on the Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), TOUR DE FRANCE stappen of Red Bull by 0.346 way up as holder and team­ one in the 1:11’s all weekend stranded under repair in the Max Verstappen (Red Bull). seconds. at the Hockenheimring, Ferrari garage, he climbed mate Geraint Thomas ended Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes), AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Hamilton’s Mercedes out, condemned to start the day in second overall. “I where he last took pole in Pierre Gasly (Red Bull). Kimi Val Thorens (France) team­mate Valtteri Bottas 2008, and gave his team a from the back of the grid. Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Ro- still have to get to Paris but was third ahead of Pierre perfect cause for celebration main Grosjean (Haas). Carlos Egan Bernal all but clinched it’s incredible,” said 22­year­ Gasly in the second Red Bull on the anniversary of 125 Mick takes father’s car Sainz Jr. (McLaren), Sergio Pe- victory in the Tour de old Bernal who will become while Charles Leclerc, who years of motorsport and out for a spin rez (Racing Point). Nico Hul- France, defending his over­ the Tour’s youngest winner had been fastest for Ferrari their 200th Formula One Mick Schumacher complet­ kenberg (Renault), Charles Le- night lead in the penultimate since Francois Faber in 1909. in final practice, failed to run race start. ed an emotional three­lap clerc (Ferrari). stage which left him only “I’m a little calmer now. I in the Q3 top­10 shootout Verstappen said: “We demonstration run in his Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Ro- needing to cross the finish kept thinking one less, one due to a fuel systems pro­ could have been closer, but father Michael’s champion­ meo), Kevin Magnussen (Haas). line on Sunday’s twilight pa­ less to go each time as we blem with his car. went a bit wide and bot­ ship­winning Ferrari F2004 Daniel Ricciardo (Renault), Da- rade into Paris to become the came up the mountain. niil Kvyat (Toro Rosso); Lance The Moneqasque will tomed out and I lost the rear car on Saturday before first Colombian winner and When we got to the finish Stroll (Racing Point), Lando the youngest. start 10th, 10 places ahead of end, but this is a good qualifying. Norris (McLaren). Alexander Al- and Geraint held out his his luckless Ferrari team­ result.” The 20­year­old son of the bon (Toro Rosso), George Rus- The champion­in­waiting hand I realised I was going to mate Sebastian Vettel who Bottas said: “I think the seven­time world champion sell (Williams). Robert Kubica said he was so nervous on win the Tour de France.” was unable to take part in weather is going to play a big said it felt like “torture” as he (Williams), Sebastian Vettel Nearly there: Wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, the climb to Val Thorens in The stage was won by 2014 qualifying due to a turbo part tomorrow. I’m a bit dis­ waited to emerge from the (Ferrari). Bernal climbs toward Val Thorens during the 20th stage. * AP the Alps that he counted champion Vincenzo Nibali. Bhakti crowned champion World junior Desert God well tuned squash teams BENGALURU: Desert God, who MARILLINGAIAH MEMORIAL 54.5. Vantika finishes second after splitting the point with Mrudul has been well tuned, is expected 3 TROPHY (1,200m), rated 45 to 1. KVASIR, 2. ANGELS KISS, announced to score in the Tetrasoft Inc. Ban­ 65, 3­30: 1. Noahs Ark (11) Zervan 3. WINGS OF DESIRE 7; Harshita Guddnati (AP) 7.5 bt galore St. Leger (2,800m), the 60, 2. War Hero (7) R. Manish ALLIED FORCES PLATE NATL. CHESS P. Bala Kannamma 7; Mary Ann chief event of the races to be held 59.5, 3. Life Awaits (10) Rayan 59, (1,100m), rated 15 to 35, 4­y­o Chennai: A total of 11 Indian here on Sunday ( July 28). 4. Side Winder (14) Chetan G 59, 6 Gomes (PSPB) 7 drew with V. & over, 5­00: 1. Florencia (7) A. Varshini 7; S. Meenakshi (AI) 7.5 players will take part in the False rails (width about 7m from 5. Miniver Rose (2) Vaibhav 58.5, Merchant 60, 2. Princeazeem (1) Special Correspondent 1,600m to the winning post) will 6. China One (6) Irvan 57.5, 7. All­ T.S. Jodha 58.5, 3. Princess Holly KARAIKUDI bt Michelle Catherina 6.5. World junior men's and be in position. settogo (5) A. Merchant 57, 8. Fair (4) K. Raghu 56.5, 4. Nawabzaadi Sakshi Chitlange (Mah) 7.5 bt women's individual cham­ MANITOU PLATE Warning (1) Antony 57, 9. Super (1,400m), (3) Sai Kiran 56, 5. Hafnium (6) Defending champion Bhakti L. Jyothsna 6.5; Rutuja Bakshi pionship (July 30 to August maiden 3­y­o only, (Terms), 2­ Success (13) T.S. Jodha 56, 10. 1 Arshad 55.5, 6. She’s Superb (11) Kulkarni of Air India played (Mah) 6.5 drew with Soumya 30 p.m.: 1. Cavaliere (3) Antony Treasure Delight (3) Suraj 55.5, 11. S. Shareef 55.5, 7. Fantastic App 4) followed by the World 56, 2. Jai Vikram (6) A. Ramu 56, Constantinople (4) Trevor 54.5, (9) Zervan 55, 8. Santorini Secret out a draw against Pratyusha Swaminathan (PSPB) 6.5; V. junior women's team 12. Teodoro (12) S. Shareef 54.5, 3. My Vision (4) Arshad 56, 4. Sil­ (12) Khurshad Alam 55, 9. Queen Bodda of Andhra Pradesh in Toshali (AP) 6 lost to S. Vijaya- championship (August 5 to ver Eclipse (2) Md. Asif Khan 56, 13. Harley Quinn (9) Md. Asif Isabella (10) Nazerul 54.5, 10. Khan 53.5 and 14. Siyouni (8) M. the 11th and final round to lakshmi (AI) 7; Sanskriti Goyal 9), both to be held in Kuala 5. Tenno Sho (1) Trevor 56, 6. Ad­ Happy Dancing (8) M. Kumar (UP) 6 lost to Swati Ghate (LIC) ela (7) R. Shelar 54.5, 7. Aqaba (5) Prabhakaran 53. 53.5, 11. Simone (5) Rayan 51.5 emerge champion of the 46th Lumpur, Malaysia. 1. TREASURE DELIGHT, 7; Isha Sharma (Kar) 7 bt Srishti Indrajeet Singh 54.5 and 8. Le­ 2. WAR HERO, 3. MINIVER ROSE and 12. So Quick (2) Darshan 51. National women’s chess The junior women's gendary Princess (8) Sandesh 1. FANTASTIC APP, Pandey (Mah) 6. championship at Chettinad team comprises Sanya 54.5. TETRASOFT INC. BANGALORE 2. NAWABZAADI, 3. HAFNIUM Nityata Jain (MP) 7 bt Nand- 1. TENNO SHO, ST. LEGER (2,800m), 4­y­o & SMART CHIEFTAN CUP Public School on Saturday. Vats, Yoshna Singh, Aish­ 2. LEGENDARY PRINCESS, 4 (Div. II), hini Saripalli (Goa) 6; Dhyana over, (Terms), 4­00: 1. Desert God (1,200m), rated 30 to 50, 4­y­o The final round was just a warya Khubchandani and 3. CAVALIERE (4) Sandesh 58.5, 2. Reunion (3) 7 Patel (Guj) 6.5 drew with Bha- & over, 5­30: 1. Interesting (9) formality as she was already Ananya Dabke. They will LIVELY EMPREY PLATE Yash 58.5, 3. Salazaar (2) Suraj Chetan G 60, 2. Beond Reach (2) gyashree Thipsay (Mah) 6.5. 2 (1,200m), rated 00 to 20, 3­ 58.5, 4. My Opinion (1) A. Imran M. Naveen 59.5, 3. Panama (1) Ar­ assured of the title after hav­ The top three: Divya, Bhakti and Vantika. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Final standings (top 20): 1. be joined by Amira Singh 00: 1. Darahasini (1) John 60, 2. 57, 5. Point To Prove (6) Zervan 57 shad 59.5, 4. Amazonite (4) S. ing beaten K. Priyanka the and Megha Bhatia for the and 6. Roberta (5) Trevor 55.5. Bhakti Kulkarni (10); 2-3. Vanti- Zafrina (2) S. Shareef 60, 3. De­ 1. DESERT GOD, 2. SALAZAAR Shareef 58.5, 5. Decisive (11) A. other day. But Bhakti was eag­ cond after splitting the point trophies and cash prizes. ka Agrawal and Divya Desh- individual competitions bonair (9) A. Imran 59.5, 4. Imran 58.5, 6. Pink Smile (7) Ir­ with Mrudul Dehankar of SMART CHIEFTAN CUP (Div. I), er to sign off with a win. Both Important results (11th and fi­ mukh (8.5); 4-7: Pratyusha that precedes it. Bellerophon (4) A. Ramu 58.5, 5. van 58.5, 7. Armin (6) Antony 58, Maharashtra. Show Girl (10) Vinod Shinde 58, 5 (1,200m), rated 30 to 50, 4­y­o 8. Depth Charge (3) R. Pradeep had their chances of winning, nal round, TN unless speci­ Bodda, Mrudul Dehankar, Srija The team event is held 6. Smile Of Courage (3) M. Naveen & over, 4­30: 1. Call Me Maybe (8) 57.5, 9. Helenka (10) Zervan 57, but were content with a draw Divya Deshmukh was equal fied): Bhakti Kulkarni (AI) 10 Seshadri and Nisha Mohota (8); once in two years. 58, 7. Have A Nice Day (12) Noor­ Sai Kiran 60, 2. Tarini (3) Yash 60, 10. Halfsies (5) A. Merchant 56.5, drew with Pratyusha Bodda 8-11. P.V. Nandhidhaa, S. Mee- nabi 57.5, 8. Majestic Rajkumari 3. Wings Of Desire (10) Zervan 60, and 11. Red Galileo (8) Sai Kiran after 62 moves. With a final on points as she drubbed P.V. The boys who will be (AP) 8; Mrudul Dehankar (Mah) nakshi, Harshita Guddanti and (7) Md. Asif Khan 57, 9. Arrogance 4. Secretsuperstar (4) R. Manish 55.5. tally of 10 points, Bhakti not Nandhidhaa of Tamil Nadu. taking part in the junior 1. ARMIN, 2. HELENKA, 8 drew with Vantika Agrawal Sakshi Chitlange (7.5); 12-20. K. (11) Yash 56.5, 10. Gin Daisy (5) 58.5, 5. Kvasir (2) Srinath 58, 6. only went home having lifted men's individual cham­ Dhebe 55.5, 11. Country’s Pearl (6) Alberetta (1) S. Shareef 57.5, 7. An­ 3. AMAZONITE But Vantika, with a better tie­ (Del) 8.5; P.V. Nandhidhaa 7.5 Priyanka, S. Vijayalakshmi, Ni- R. Shelar 52 and 12. High Tide (13) other Rainbow (9) Md. Asif Khan Day’s best: TENNO SHO the title, but also became rich­ break score, pocketed ₹3 lakh pionship are Tushar Sha­ TREASURE DELIGHT- lost to Divya Deshmukh (Mah) tyata Jain, Mary Ann Gomes, V. A. Merchant 52, 13. Astron (­) (­) 51 57.5, 8. Varcasva (6) Trevor 57.5, Double: er by ₹4 lakh. and Divya ₹2 lakh. The Dis­ 8.5; Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 7 Varshini, P. Bala Kannamma, hani, Veer Chotrani, Ar­ and 14. Scorching (8) Arshad 50.5. 9. Angels Kiss (7) Antony 57, 10. DESERT GOD 1. DARAHASINI, 2. DEBONAIR, 3. Emidio (5) Vaibhav 57 and 11. Ro­ Jkt: 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; Tr (i): 2, 3 and Vantika Agrawal of Delhi, trict Collector of Sivaganga J. lost to Srija Seshadri 8; Nisha Aarthie Ramaswamy, Swati naav Sareen, Rahul Bhaita HIGH TIDE mantic Helen (11) A. Merchant 4; (ii): 5, 6 and 7. with 8.5 points, finished se­ Jayakanthan gave away the Mohota (PSPB) 8 bt K. Priyanka Ghate and Isha Sharma (7). and Yash Fadte. Spirit of London wins ‘The way we play is completely different now’ BENGALURU: Spirit of London Sachdeva. Trainer: Neil Darashah. (Sandesh up), won the Elusive ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL CUP Pimpernel Cup, the main event of ‘I hope the boys come injury­free and we’ll put up a good fight, says Chhetri (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 5­y­o the races on Saturday. The winner 4 SPIRIT OF LONDON is owned by Mr. Dilip R. Ranka & over: (Sandesh) 1, Reczai (Suraj) 2, good group. The only thing is nament starts.” happen. So it’s just 10­15 days two tough games — Oman at jured and also because he and trained by B. Prithviraj. FOOTBALL Tokyo Rose (Chetan G) 3 and Ca­ I just hope we get some train­ He added: “I heard that of our preparation and the home and Qatar away. I hope (Stimac) was trying new AUREOLE TIME PLATE sey (Antony) 4. Not run: Morrane ing matches before the tour­ the Super Cup is not going to tournament starts. We have the boys come injury­free things. His philosophy and 1 (1,100m), rated 15 to 35: AINE Gabriella. 1­1/2, Nose and 1­1/2. 1m Shyam Vasudevan (Srinath) 1, Sun Power (A. Ramu) 26.81s. ₹22 (w), 13, 14 and 30 (p), Udaipur and we’ll put up a good what he wants is quite clear. 2, Genuine Star (Suraj) 3 and SHP: 30, THP: 56, FP: 60, Q: 33, fight.” Chhetri spoke to the He’s very knowledgeable and Areca Angel (Rajesh K) 4. 1­1/2, 2­ Trinella: 324 and 269, Exacta: Indian football team captain 1/4 and 5­1/2. 1m 08.32s. ₹17 (w), 4,096 and 2,743. Favourite: Spirit media during his visit to the is somebody who really 12, 13 and 12 (p), SHP: 33, THP: 45, Of London. Owner: Mr. Dilip R. Sunil Chhetri said he hoped Zinc Football Academy here wants to change things. All FP: 76, Q: 58, Trinella: 95 and 25, Ranka. Trainer: B. Prithviraj. the side would get enough on Saturday. the boys love him, so I think Exacta: 762 and 713. Favourite: SHA TIN PLATE (1,600m), Aine. Owners: Mr. Rajan Aggar­ preparatory matches ahead The Indian team has been we all want to rally with him 5 rated 00 to 20, 4­y­o & over: of its 2022 FIFA World Cup wal & Mr. Gautam Aggarwal. DREAMS UNITED (Irvan) 1, undergoing a period of tran­ and give our best,” he said. Trainer: Pradeep Annaiah. Phoenix Reached (T.S. Jodha) 2, Asian Qualifiers campaign. sition since coach Igor Sti­ “The way we build­up is ASTRONOMIC PLATE (1,400m), Silent Ruler (R. Manish) 3 and The Indian team, drawn mac’s arrival in May. The different. He wants us to 2 rated 15 to 35, 4­y­o & over: Shaktiman (John) 4. 6, 2­1/2 and COLONEL HARTY (Rajesh K) 1, 1/2. 1m 39.95s. ₹30 (w), 15, 13 and alongside 2022 FIFA World Croatian has inculcated a build from behind, he wants Sharp Response (Zervan) 2, Stars 16 (p), SHP: 38, THP: 51, FP: 107, Cup host Qatar, Oman, Af­ more refreshing build­up us to pass the ball and you've In His Eyes (R. Manjunath) 3 and Q: 66, Trinella: 270 and 219, Ex­ ghanistan, and Bangladesh based, passing­oriented seen it. The likes of Sahal Raw Gold (Chetan G) 4. 5­3/4, 7­ acta: 1,184 and 575. Favourite: 3/4 and 1/2. 1m 26.97s. ₹20 (w), 13, Dreams United. Owners: Mr. in Group E, will begin its game, and has tried multiple (Abdul Samad), Udanta 18 and 24 (p), SHP: 60, THP: 52, Naresh Kumar Pawar & Mr. P. chase for a FIFA World Cup combinations on the pitch. (Singh) and Anirudh (Thapa) FP: 162, Q: 75, Trinella: 1,505 and Ranga Raju. Trainer: Sharat berth when it hosts Oman in However, the team hasn’t en­ are flourishing under him. I 598, Exacta: 5,607 and 1,730. Fa­ Kumar. the second round of Asian joyed great success and was like this kind of game be­ vourite: Colonel Harty. Owner: DIVINE LIGHT PLATE Qualifiers on September 5. Mr. S.N. Harish. Trainer: Naray­ 6 (1,200m), maiden 3­y­o only, ousted from the King’s Cup cause in my club (Bengaluru ana Gowda. (Terms): SCHAFENBERG (Trevor) and the Intercontinental FC) also we play like this. The BARALOY PLATE (1,600m), 1, Magic Stream (Zerven) 2, Rorito Like the word Cup. Chhetri, though, is Spanish players play the 3 rated 15 to 35: ELECTRA (Sandesh) 3 and Star Sapphire (Chetan G) 1, Radiant Treasure (Mark) 4. Not run: Flamboyant. 3, When asked about the “inter­ unperturbed. same,” he added. (Arshad) 2, Smile Of Joy (Srinath) 1 and Nk. 1m 13.79s. ₹17 (w), 11, 17 esting group” by this repor­ When asked if he perso­ 3 and Fotogenic (Vaibhav) 4. Not and 17 (p), SHP: 42, THP: 37, FP: ter, Chhetri quipped: “I like Completely different nally advocated this style of run: Armenia. 1­3/4, 2 and 2­3/4. 95, Q: 58, Trinella: 180 and 59, Ex­ 1m 39.61s. ₹23 (w), 12, 12 and 11 acta: 1,691 and 1,153. Favourite: the word interesting, man. “The way we play is com­ football, he said: “I don't (p), SHP: 32, THP: 42, FP: 77, Q: Schafenberg. Owner: Mr. Prithiv Thank God. People use the pletely different now. You’ve know, man. I'll play in any 51, Trinella: 108 and 42, Exacta: Sivaji Dorai. Trainer: S. Attaollahi. word easy sometimes! It is seen it in the last two tourna­ way. I just want to win. You 1,285 and 794. Favourite: Electra. Jackpot: ₹1,514 (351 tkts.); Runner­ Owners: M/s. Blazing Saddles (PF) up: 338 (674 tkts.); Treble (i): 150 interesting and I’m really Showing the way: India captain Sunil Chhetri teaches a trick or two to the trainees at the ments. We didn’t do well be­ tell me a way to win and I’ll rep by. Mr. Niraj Tyagi & Mr. Vikas (75 tkts.); (ii): 259 (123 tkts.). looking forward to it. 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TV PICKS Divij & Erlich pair Badminton: Japan Open, Momota rallies to beat Sai Praneeth Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), 8 a.m. goes down fighting Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh : 2nd ODI, Sony Six (SD & HD), The Indian squanders early lead to go down to the top seed yet again 2.30 p.m. INDIANS ABROAD semifinals by Vladyslav Or­ TNPL: Star Sports 3, 3 p.m. & JAPAN OPEN Praneeth, who had been lov of Ukrane who conceded 7.15 p.m. in great touch in the tourna­ Sports Bureau only four games. Tennis: Hamburg Open final, IANS ment so far, tried to up the Atlanta The results: Sony ESPN (SD & HD), 3.30 Tokyo ante and earned some points $777,385 ATP, Atlanta: Dou­ p.m. Divij Sharan and Jonathan but ultimately lost the game Formula One : German GP, India’s campaign at the on­ Erlich of Israel put up a bles (quarterfinals): Bob Bryan Star Sports Select 2 (SD & in 23 minutes. strong fight against top & Mike Bryan (US) bt Jonathan going Japan Open came to an Erlich (Isr) & Divij Sharan 6-4, HD), 6.35 p.m. end as B. Sai Praneeth lost seeded Bryan twins, Bob England Women vs Aus­ Overtuns deficit 6-7(4), [10-7]. his men’s singles semifinal and Mike, who won 6­4, 6­7 tralia Women : 2nd T20I, In the second game, the top­ $25,000 ITF men, Nonthaburi, Sony ESPN (SD & HD), 6.30 clash to World no. 1 Kento (4), [10­7] in the doubles Thailand: Semifinals: Vladys- seeded Japanese didn’t led p.m. Momota at the $750,000 quarterfinals of the $777,385 lav Orlov (Ukr) bt Manish Su- Ultimate Table Tennis: Star tournament on Saturday. Praneeth take a long lead ATP tennis tournament reshkumar 6-2, 6-2. Sports 1 & Star Sports Select Praneeth lost 21­18, 21­12 to from the start and over­ here. Doubles (final): Sanchai Rati- 1 (SD & HD), 7.10 p.m. Momota in a match that last­ turned a 6­9 deficit to make it The quarterfinal entry watana & Sonchat Ratiwatana PKL: Star Sports 2 (SD & HD), ed for 45 minutes. 12­9 with the help of six fetched 45 ATP points and bt Timur Khabibulin (Kaz) & Ar- 7.15 p.m. & 8.30 p.m. straight points. $6,240 for Divij and partner. jun Kadhe 4-6, 6-2, [10-4]. Great start From there on, the World In ITF men’s Futures in $15,000 ITF Tabarka, Tunisia: IN BRIEF The unseeded Indian started No.1 raced to a seven­point Thailand, Arjun Kadhe and Doubles (semifinals): Men: off the match on a great note lead and eventually won the Timur Khabibulin of Ka­ Mousa Alkotop (Jor) & Alexan- der Boborykin (Rus) bt Anirudh as he took an initial 3­1 lead match 21­12 in 22 minutes to zakhstan lost 10­4 in the make it to his second consec­ Chandrasekar & PC Vignesh 6- in the first few minutes. super tie­break to the expe­ 7(2), 6-3, [10-6]. Women: Eli- However, Momota came utive final. rienced Ratiwatana twins, zabeth Danailova (Bul) & Chel- back with a great fight and The result: (semifinal): Sanchai and Sonchat. In sin­ sea Vanhoutte (Bel) bt Sowja- took an 11­8 lead at the mid­ Men: Kento Momota (Jpn) bt B. gles, Manish Sureshkumar’s nya Bavisetti & Sravya Shivani

game break. Sai Praneeth 21-18, 21-12. Well played! Kento Momota of Japan is congratulated by B. Sai Praneeth. * AFP fine run was halted in the Chilakalapudi 6-4, 1-6, [10-7].

Bale close to Jiangsu Suning move PARIS Lanning makes highest individual Vishnu, Chirag dazzle on day one Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale is on the verge of Syed Muzammil unstoppable in the Gixxer Cup signing a £1million-a-week score ever in women’s T20Is deal with Chinese Super League outfit Jiangsu Suning, MOTORSPORTS reports on Friday claimed. Her 133 n.o. sees Australia coast to victory over England Special Correspondent The 30-year-old Welshman ANI Coimbatore has already been told by Real Melbourne coach Zinedine Zidane that Chennai’s Vishnu Prasad and he does not form part of his Skipper Meg Lanning’s un­ young Chirag Ghorpade future plans. Spanish daily beaten 133, the highest indi­ stole the show on the open­ Marca claimed that Bale will vidual score ever in a wo­ ing day, winning in contrast­ earn €22 million per season men’s T20 International, ing styles in the first round of in China. However, later helped Australia defeat En­ the 22nd JK Tyre FMSCI Na­ reports by Sky Sports gland by 93 runs in the first tional racing championship suggested the player’s of the three­match series on here on Saturday. representatives were Friday. The revamped opening negotiating a mind-boggling Chasing 227, England got round saw 27 young guns £1million-a-week contract off to a horrendous start as it line up for the first time to before the Chinese transfer lost its first four wickets with have a shot at the Novice window shuts on Wednesday. AFP just 22 on the board. Da­ Cup. And, Bengaluru’s Chi­ nielle Wyatt (0), Amy Jones rag (Momentum Motor­ (0), Tammy Beaumont (8), sports) clinched the pole at Play and Heather Knight (3) all the start of the day and went failed to put up substantial on to win the first race. abandoned scores. The 14­year­old timed Natalie Sciver and Laura 13:37.912s to beat the aggres­ Special Correspondent Winfield put up a brief part­ Into the record books: Meg Lanning sent the England bowlers sive field by 0.338s, leaving Exhibiting his skills: Seasoned racer Vishnu Prasad, who won Race 1 in the LGB Formula 4 GURUGRAM nership of 36, but their re­ on a leather hunt, hitting 17 fours and seven sixes. * HENRY his teammate Aaroh Ravin­ category, negotiates a curve. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Play was washed out by sistance was cut short as BROWNE/ GETTY IMAGES dra and Mohamed Ryan rain in the ₹100,000 AITA Sciver (28) was sent back by (MSport) fighting for the oth­ and Ashwin (Dark Don take him for the top two po­ Motorsports); 2. Aaroh Ravin- men’s ranking tennis tour­ Sophie Molineux. victory by 93 runs. Schutt said she tried to hit the final er two places on the Racing). sitions. dra (Momentum Motorsports); nament here on Saturday. Katherine Brunt came was the leading wicket­taker delivery of the innings for a podium. Syed Muzammil Ali was 3. Mohamed Ryan (MSport). Faisal Qamar was lead­ out to bat next and she, as she scalped three En­ 12. “I tried to hit it for 12,” He exhibited speed and Ashwin shot into the lead, the other lad from Bengalu­ Race 2: 1. Chirag; 2. Aaroh; 3. Parikshit Dardhalli (DTS Racing) ing 6­4, 2­2 against Ahutosh along with Winfield, added gland batters. Cricket.com.au quoted Lan­ skill to wrest the second race going past MSport’s Sohil ru who was unstoppable in JK Tyre Suzuki Gixxer Cup: Tiwari when the semifinal 39 runs. However, Winfield Earlier, Lanning’s unde­ ning as saying. as well. Shah who began on pole at the Gixxer Cup. He topped Race 1: 1. Syed Muzammil Ali; 2. was abandoned owing to (33) was dismissed in the feated knock of 133 off just However, all eyes were on the first opportunity. He “I was just really pleased the practice rounds, grabbed Tanay Gaikwad; 3. Amul rain on Friday. The match 15th over by Megan Schutt. 63 balls with 17 boundaries and proud of the group that the Formula LGB4 which hung on to it all the way to the pole in the qualifiers and Angadi. will continue on Sunday. With Winfield’s dismissal, and seven sixes propelled we were able to win at such had seven national cham­ the final lap but the safety later finished on top in the Formula LGB4: Race 1: 1. Vish- Australia to a record total of Fardeen Qamar has al­ England could not do anyth­ a ground, The Fortress. pions in the fray. It was a car that had come out a cou­ race. nu Prasad (MSport); 2. Rohit ready reached the final ing substantial with the bat 226 for three in 20. three­way fight between ple of laps earlier hurt his The results (provisional): Khanna (Dark Don Racing); 3. from the top half of the as it was restricted to 133 for After the game, the des­ “To come here and play Vishnu (MSport), Rohit flow as Vishnu and Rohit JK Tyre Novice Cup: Race 1: 1. Ashwin Datta (Dark Don Rac- draw. nine, handing Australia a tructive Lanning laughingly so well was great,” she said. Khanna (Dark Don Racing) stepped up the heat to over­ Chirag Ghorpade (Momentum ing). ‘Opportunity to raise Atletico humbles Real Indians grab eight medals Reuters Real with a third in the 19th New Jersey minute. Ashish Kumar bags his first international gold Commonwealth TT’s profile’ Diego Costa scored four Saul Niguez capitalised BOXING Ashish (75kg) was in im­ In 81kg, Brijesh Yadav gave goals as Real Madrid was on more slack defending peccable form and out­ his all but was edged 1­4 by embarrassed 7­3 by rival At­ First priority is to regularise the championship: Vivek Kohli from Real to thread through Press Trust of India punched Korea’s Kim Jinjae Thailand’s Anawat Thongkra­ letico Madrid in the final to Costa who fired in the New Delhi 5­0 for the biggest medal of tok amidst some vociferous match of the United States fourth with just 28 minutes CTTF Asian Championships silver his career, just two months support for the home tour on Friday. on the clock. medallist Ashish Kumar on after claiming a silver in the supporters. RAKESH RAO Real fielded a strong side Costa capped a disastrous India Open. NEW DELHI once again, with new sign­ Saturday bagged his first in­ Earlier, Strandja Cup silver half for Real in stoppage Strandja Cup gold medal­ ings Eden Hazard and Luka ternational gold, even as In­ medallist Manju Rani (48kg) Last week, Indians accom­ time, winning a penalty be­ list Nikhat, who pocketed a Jovic starting up front and dian boxers finished their failed to breach the barrier of plished an unsurpassable fore converting from the bronze from the Asian Cham­ Gareth Bale again on the campaign with a rich haul of Thailand’s former World feat of sweeping all seven spot. pionships as well as the India bench, but was 5­0 down at eight medals at Thailand Championships bronze me­ gold medals at stake in the Open, faced a tough oppo­ the end of a shambolic first Felix again fed Costa six Open International boxing dallist Chuthamat Raksat and Commonwealth table tennis nent in Asian Games gold half. minutes into the second half tournament in Bangkok. had to be content with the championship in Cuttack. medallist Chang Yuan. Atletico fielded a host of before Nacho pulled one India finished with a gold, bronze. Concurrently, in a signifi­ new arrivals, including club­ back for Real near the four silver and three bronze. The Chinese proved too Ashish (69kg) and Bhagya­ cant development in Bhuv­ record signing Joao Felix, hour­mark. On the final day, the In­ strong for Nikhat as the Tele­ bati Kachari (75kg) are the neswar, India claimed the who immediately caught The Costa onslaught end­ dians who won silver were gana pugilist was handed a others who brought bronze post of chairman and secre­ Real cold on the counter be­ ed abruptly, with he and former world junior cham­ 5­0 blow. for India. tary­general of the Common­ fore playing Costa in for his Real’s Dani Carvajal both pion Nikhat Zareen (51kg), In 56kg, reigning India wealth Table Tennis Federa­ opening goal in the first red­carded for fighting, ad­ Asian Championships silver Open champion Chatchai De­ While Ashish succumbed tion (CTTF) for the first time. minute. ding further drama to an in­ medallist Deepak (49kg), cha Butdee of Thailand conti­ to a 1­4 defeat to Thailand’s These Indian triumphs Felix got among the goals credible friendly. GeeBee Boxing silver medal­ nued his fine form to inflict a former Asian Games cham­ were not unexpected. The himself seven minutes later Vitolo added a seventh list Mohammed Hussamud­ 5­0 defeat on Hussamuddin pion Wuttichai Masuk, Ka­ New roles, new goals! Vivek Kohli, right, and M.P. Singh after players capitalised on the before Angel Correa, an ear­ for Atletico, before Karim din (56kg), and India Open while Uzbekistan’s Mirzakh­ chari was outplayed 0­5 by being elected chairman and secretary-general, respectively, lack of quality opposition ly substitute for the injured Benzema and Javi Hernan­ silver medallist Brijesh Yadav medov Nodirjon proved a tall China’s Rio Olympic bronze of the CTTF. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT while for the two elected re­ Alvaro Morata, shocked dez scored late for Real. (81kg). order for Deepak in 49kg. medallist Li Qian. presentatives — chairman Vi­ vek Kohli and secretary M.P. er in table tennis. gland, Nigeria etc. Soon, we Singh — the election arith­ plan to introduce competi­ metic was never a concern. Spreading the sport tions for cadet, sub­juniors, Windies tour: As it turned out, M.P. In his new role, Kohli has set juniors, youth and veterans. Will provide the athlete’s perspective: Narang Singh was elected unop­ his eyes on spreading the “Constant activities bring MyTeam11 is posed and Kohli won 22­6. sport to all 71 Common­ visibility to all stakeholders. Rijiju forms high­level panel to oversee Olympic preparations Though the margin of wealth nations. Revenue from affiliation and title sponsor V.V. subrahmanyam Kohli’s victory was a reflec­ “At present, we have only entry fees, sponsorships, Federation of India presi­ tion among all stakehol­ HYDERABAD tion on the support he en­ 45 affiliated members, of etc., will give us a buffer to Special Correspondent dent Adille Sumariwalla, ders,” he said. joyed, England’s Alan Ran­ which around 38 are active. get started. New Delhi London Olympics bronze Boxing Federation of India “And, for the 2024 Paris some proved a reluctant Once we reach out to all the Thereafter, in due course, medallist and ace shooter president Ajay Singh as Olympics, the focus will be MyTeam11, a fantasy sports outgoing­incumbent as he nations, CTTF will have we plan to hold competitions Gagan Narang is one of only members and Talent Olym­ on charting out a road map, platform, will be the title vacated the chair after 26 more members than the Afri­ for schools, universities, mil­ two Olympians (besides ten­ pic Podium Scheme CEO continuous review and sug­ sponsor of India’s upcom­ years. can TT Federation, Asian TT itary, railways, etc., from nis great Leander Paes) on Cdr. Rajesh Rajagopalan as gesting corrective measures, ing tour of West Indies. “This change provides In­ Union and the European TT Commonwealth nations. the high­level committee ap­ convenor. ensuring coordination dia with an opportunity to Union, all of whom have 50­ “We will hire profession­ The tour will be called pointed by Union Sports Mi­ among stakeholders,” Gagan raise the profile of Common­ plus member­nations,” said als to run the day­to­day af­ ‘MyTeam11 International nistry Kiren Rijiju to oversee, Objective said. “I will draw from my ex­ Kohli. Series’. support, coordinate and “The objective of the com­ perience of four Olympics to wealth table tennis,” Kohli fairs of the CTTF. I see that Gagan Narang. * FILE PHOTO told The Hindu on his return Elaborating his plans, the CTTF holds the potential The tour commences on strategise preparations of In­ mittee is to ensure the per­ provide inputs,” the star to the Capital. Kohli declared, “When we to be the biggest sporting bo­ August 3, when the first of dian athletes for the 2020 formance of Indian athletes port to potential and quali­ shooter said. Kohli, 50, is actively at­ hold events, we gain visibili­ dy in the sport after the In­ three T20Is between the and 2024 Olympics. is optimised at the Olympics fied athletes, facilitating “Leander and I being the tached to the sport since ty. So far, even the Common­ ternational Table Tennis two sides is scheduled in The Committee, chaired and other multi­disciplinary smooth logistical arrange­ only Olympians on the pa­ turning up for Uttar Pradesh wealth championship is not Federation (ITTF). We will Florida and will see a total by Rijiju, comprises Sports events,” says Gagan in a chat ments for participation, en­ nel, we can give bring the as a junior. At present, he is held regularly. So, my first surely borrow ideas from the of three T20s and ODIs Secretary Radheyshyam Ju­ with The Hindu. suring seamless acclimatisa­ athlete’s perspective, given the co­chairman of Stag In­ priority is to regularise the ITTF to help the cause of each as well as two Test laniya, IOA president Narin­ “For the Tokyo Games tion and hospitable that we have ourselves gone ternational, a well­known championship and invite the Commonwealth nations at matches in a five­week pe­ der Batra, IOA secretary­gen­ next year, the task includes environment for the contin­ through the process,” he equipment and apparel­mak­ best from Singapore, En­ all levels,” concluded Kohli. riod in the West Indies. eral Rajeev Mehta, Athletics advising and ensuring sup­ gent in Tokyo and coordina­ said. 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DELHI THE HINDU 20 LIFE SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF When Santa takes a summer break WHO recommends use of innovative HIV drug A group of people who live every day like it’s Christmas get together for an annual cruise ‘Dolutegravir safe for pregnant women’ Aaron Reiss green. Mrs. Claus Debbie and Santa John renewed their Special Correspondent During the Christmas sea­ vows for their 45 th anniver­ NEW DELHI Giant dinosaur bone son, Santa may circle the sary in North Pole, an Alas­ Based on new evidence as­ found in France globe in a flying sleigh, but kan city that is known for sessing benefits and risks, PARIS during the summer, he vaca­ year­round Christmas­ the World Health Organisa­ The thigh bone of a giant tions on a cruise ship. themed decorations. tion (WHO) has recom­ dinosaur was found this week In May this year, 77 Mr. Of course, being Santa mended the use of the HIV by French palaeontologists at and Mrs. Clauses embarked year­round isn’t always easy. drug dolutegravir (DTG) as an excavation site in southwestern France where on a seven­day, Alaska­ You can never be naughty. the preferred first­line and Dolutegravir pills remains of some of the bound voyage aboard the “You’ve always got to be second­line treatment for all largest animals that ever Royal Princess. This was the aware of the children around populations, including preg­ th lived have been dug up since 11 annual Santa Cruise, an you, and be ready to act as nant women and those of has fewer side effects than 2010. The animal probably event conceived by Santa Santa at the drop of a hat, childbearing potential. alternative drugs. It also has weighed 40 tonnes. REUTERS Tim Connaghan, a 50­year even in July,” Santa Dave According to a release, in­ a high genetic barrier to de­ veteran of the red suit, as a Starr said. “If someone cuts itial studies had highlighted veloping drug resistance, chance for professional San­ you off on the expressway, a possible link between DTG which is important, given tas to gather, schmooze, and you have to wave back with and neural tube defects the rising trend of resis­ stay sharp during the five fingers, not one,” Santa (birth defects of the brain tance. off­season. Jerry Owens said. “You can’t and spinal cord ) in infants In 2019, 12 of the 18 coun­ The men on this cruise are say anything slanted or par­ born to women using the tries surveyed by WHO re­ “real bearded Santas”, as op­ ticularly political, because drug at the time of ported pre­treatment drug posed to “designer bearded” you are Santa. You don’t conception. resistance levels exceeding Underwater glaciers or “skin chin” Santas. They have those views. All you do “But new data from two the recommended thresh­ melting at rapid pace introduce themselves as is make toys.” large clinical trials compar­ old of 10%. NEW YORK “Santa Steven” or “Santa And yet, for the fully com­ ing the efficacy and safety of All the above findings in­ Underwater melting of Bill”, the same way another mitted, the sacrifice is worth DTG and efavirenz (EFV) in formed the decision to up­ glaciers is occurring much professional might introduce it. “The wide­eyed wonder Africa have now expanded date the 2019 guidelines, faster than was predicted, a themselves as “Doctor Ja­ Time to cheer: (Clockwise from left) Santas on their way to the Royal Princess; relaxing on the you see in a little one’s eyes,” the evidence base. The risks WHO noted. study published in Science cobs” or “Professor Bryant”. ship; Christmas­themed cash for use on board and a cap for vacation wear.* NY TIMES/CHRIS MAGGIO Mrs. Claus Mary Shannon of neural tube defects are In 2019, 82 low­ and mid­ said. Scientists used a new “I had read some stories said, “or the smile that significantly lower than dle­income countries re­ approach to directly measure of people — like real estate Aboard the ship, Santa placement (to prevent law­ historic St. Nicholas. For the spreads across a child’s face what the initial studies may ported to be transitioning to submarine melt, which could agents or doctors — having Tim organises lectures and suits), and beard­bleaching, cruise­goers, Santa is a way suggests you and that child have suggested,’’ the release DTG­based HIV treatment . improve projections of sea training conferences on workshops covering logisti­ as well as more philosophi­ of life. are sharing a special secret said. The new recommendations level changes. IANS ships, and I said, ‘Why not cal topics like the proper cra­ cal topics, such as how to be Santa Marcel painted his that the adults don’t know, It noted that DTG is more aim at helping more nations Santa?’” Santa Tim said. dling of a baby, correct hand true to the teachings of the fishing boat in bright red and and that is priceless.” NY TIMES effective, easier to take and improve their HIV policies. Vanishing wildlife: 22 species Selfie museum clicks in Budapest

A$AP Rocky fans join in have gone extinct in India Pink palm trees and a banana swing a hit with visitors who love social media protest against Sweden Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON lounge on giant macaroons. Budapest U.S. fans of rapper A$AP Ministry lists habitat degradation as one of the causes “We play with shapes and Rocky have issued a call to A new so­called ‘selfie mu­ colours, and try to push peo­ Shiv Sahay Singh arms, including meatball Among mammals, the seum’ in Budapest that lets ple’s borders and let their Kolkata moratoriums and an end to cheetah ( Acionyx jubatus) visitors pose by pink palm creativity bloom,” Ms. Gan­ binges at Ikea, in protest at Four species of fauna and 18 and the Sumatran rhinoce­ trees and frolic in multi­co­ gel said. Sweden’s move to put him on species of flora have gone ex­ ros (Dicerorhinus sumatren- loured sprinkle baths has Word about the new mu­ trial for assault. Several fans tinct in India in the past few sisi) are considered extinct proved to be a hit with so­ seum has spread fast, unsur­ on Twitter sought a boycott centuries, according to wil­ in India. cial­media savvy locals and prisingly, on platforms like on Swedish products. AFP dlife survey organisations. The pink­headed duck tourists alike. Instagram and Snapchat. The data was tabled ear­ (Rhodonessa caryophylla- With almost 30,000 visi­ “They’re typical teenag­ lier this month in the Lok Cheetahs once lived in the ceai) is feared extinct since tors since it opened last De­ ers, They like Instagram and Sabha by the Ministry of En­ Indian sub­continent. 1950 and the Himalayan cember, the the 400­square­ photos,” said Oli, an Israeli vironment, Forest and Cli­ quail ( Ophrysia supercili- metre large “Selfie Mu­ tourist, while her young mate Change. plants — four non­flowering lios) was last reported in seum”, billed as the first of daughters threw exaggerat­ A.A. Mao, Director of the and 14 flowering — have gone 1876. its kind in Europe, is already Picture perfect: Visitors taking pictures in the pink room of ed poses behind her. “These Botanical Survey of India extinct. The notable among Kailash Chandra, Director one of the Hungarian capi­ the Selfie Museum in Budapest. * AFP are the times we are living in, (BSI) said India is home to them are Lastreopsis wattii , of ZSI, said that the four ani­ tal’s most popular what can you do,” she 11.5% of all flora in the world. a fern in Manipur discovered mals can be found in other attractions. gel, who co­founded the mu­ ing with the quirky props,” laughed. Swarms of grasshoppers According to the Interna­ by George Watt in 1882 and parts of the world. India has invade Las Vegas Strip Its creators say their idea, seum with her partner Ba­ said 33­year­old Ms. Gangel. Panka Major, an 18­year­ tional Union for Conserva­ three species from the genus about 6.49% of all the fauna LOS ANGELES inspired by a similar venue lazs Koltai. “There are more and more old Hungarian student, said Massive swarms of tion Of Nature, a new study Ophiorrhiza (Ophiorrhiza species in the world, he said. in the U.S., is targeted at the Visitors entering the first places on the Internet where she was an avid user of social grasshoppers descended on has shown that since 1750, brunonis , Ophiorrhiza cau- Factors like “competition, younger generation looking of 11 exhibition rooms are you can share photos, we’re media but lamented that the Las Vegas Strip this week, more than double the num­ date and Ophiorrhiza radi- predation, natural selection, for an edge to their status up­ met with palm trees growing living in this type of world “nowadays everyone checks startling tourists and ber of plants have disap­ can ), all discovered from and human induced factors dates or profile pictures. Ho­ from the walls and pink­co­ now, whether we like it or their phones every minute”. residents as the insects pass peared from the wild than peninsular India. Corypha like hunting, habitat degra­ wever, recently a pair of pen­ loured surroundings. “Here not,” she said. “It’s a natural thing but al­ through town on their birds, mammals and amphi­ taliera Roxb, a palm species dation” are some of the im­ sioners also popped in to top you can stand out from the The 11 interactive installa­ so bad, as you do not live in northbound migration. Even bians combined. discovered in Myanmar and portant reasons that have up their photos for an an­ crowd, perhaps by finding a tions at the museum include the moment, and instead street pavements were As per information given the Bengal region by William led to these extinctions, the nual calendar they present crazy new perspective like a ride on banana swings, a reach for a phone to record covered with the insects. AFP by the BSI, 18 species of Roxburgh is also extinct. Ministry said. to each other, said Lilla Gan­ an aerial photo, or by play­ climb on a unicorn, or a it,” she said.

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Hill of soap Born free suds claims Pakistani policeman channels victim life stories into gritty novels Associated Press Mexico City Books explore crime and violence in Karachi A towering hill of soap suds floating atop a heavily pol­ Agence France-Presse “It’s less a thing of making luted stream in Mexico has Karachi a sketch of Saulat Mirza,” ex­ apparently claimed its first His father was assassinated plains Mr. Hamid, calling the victim. A man who stopped by a notorious Karachi hit­ character a “sketch of a par­ to take a selfie fell into the man, while his police partn­ ticular type of young man... quivering mass and disap­ er was murdered by the Tali­ who kind of in the last 30 peared. ban. years or so essentially gave Authorities in the cen­ Personal tragedy haunts their lives away to these ide­ tral state of Puebla are still the hard­boiled novels that ologies thinking they were looking for the man who are turning top cop Omar Omar Shahid Hamid doing the right thing.” fell into a mound of suds Shahid Hamid into one of “What he has written is about 20 feet high. Pakistan’s most popular En­ At times, the reality has fiction but it’s very close to The local civil defence glish­language authors. hit dangerously and heart­ reality,” says Faheem Siddi­ office launched a search on For nearly two decades breakingly close to home. qui, Karachi bureau chief for Monday, using fire hoses to Mr. Hamid has worn a badge Mr. Hamid did the bulk of Geo News. “As a crime re­ compact the suds and a in Karachi. Now a deputy in­ his writing while he was on porter, I know what had large fan to try to blow a spector general, he is also sabbatical after being ad­ happened in the city. It took path into the mass. fast becoming one of Pakis­ vised to leave Karachi and a great deal of courage to It took almost a whole tan’s most recognisable wri­ take a break from policing in write about these events.” day just to locate his car. ters, publishing four books 2011 when he was threa­ Writing, Mr. Hamid ex­ Authorities say excess in quick succession since tened by extremist groups. plains, is a release. detergents from homes 2013. “I had a lot of frustrations that drain into streams His work has even nabbed Personal loss about things that had hap­ feeding the Valsequillo re­ the attention of major Weeks after the release of his pened in my career until servoir caused the suds to Pop of colour: Participants of the Christopher Street Day gay pride parade walk through the streets of Berlin on Saturday. * AFP streaming outlets on the first novel The Prisoner, his that point,” says Mr. Hamid. accumulate. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC hunt for new original mate­ mentor and police partner “I felt a need to vent about rial from South Asia, includ­ Chaudhry Aslam — the inspi­ them.” ing Netflix, which has alrea­ ration for one of the book’s Though he often takes dy seen major success with protagonists — was killed in a aim at Karachi’s dangerous similar material in TV series Taliban­claimed suicide and powerful, he has re­ Kidnapped triathlete talks her way to freedom such as Sacred Games, blast. ceived little blowback, he about Mumbai’s corrupt In his third novel, The says. But he says his latest 27-year-old was by a car on Tuesday and suffocate her. However, she underworld. Party Worker, Mr. Hamid novel The Fix released in broke her arm while falling managed to placate the man Mr. Hamid said the secret portrays the rise of a brutal June may ruffle more feath­ abducted while to the ground near Graz in by complimenting him on to his success is his unflinch­ hitman who killed at the ers, as he explores corrup­ on a bike ride southeastern Austria, press the many orchids growing in ing accounts of political cor­ behest of a fictional political tion in cricket. reports said. his home. ruption, contract killers, party ruling the city with an “For a nation of cricket fa­ Agence France-Presse The driver then knocked Though he was initially Vienna and crooked cops alongside iron fist. natics and conspiracy theo­ her out with a piece of wood “filled with hate”, the man nuanced portraits of Kara­ For Karachi insiders, the rists, it’s strangely been an An Austrian triathlete kid­ and took her to his isolated suddenly became “nice to chi’s divided character mirrors the life of area that has never really napped while riding her bike home. “When I regained me” and confided that gar­ neighbourhoods. feared hitman Saulat Mirza, been explored,” he explains. talked her way to freedom by consciousness, I was naked dening was his passion be­ “Books like mine who served as the feared en­ Mr. Hamid remains hope­ complimenting her captor’s and tied up in an armchair in fore opening up about his wouldn’t work if I pulled forcer for the once­powerful ful for his beloved home orchids, a police source said an old house,” Birli told the troubled childhood, she punches,” he says. “It’s that Muttahida Qaumi Movement town. “It may not be eve­ on Saturday. Kronen Zeitung newspaper. said. Finally, he agreed to let grittiness, that uncompro­ (MQM) party, and whose list ryone’s cup of tea,” he Professional triathlete The man forced her to her. Police arrested the man mising reality that I think a of victims include Mr. Ha­ shrugs, “But as a city, it will Nathalie Birli during a practice session. * INSTAGRAM Nathalie Birli, 27, was struck drink alcohol and tried to on Wednesday. lot of readers enjoy.” mid’s own father, Shahid. keep going.” CM A ND-NDE YK DELHI

Sunday, July 28, 2019

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Destination moon India’s Dear Prime Minister Filmmaker Aparna Trumped up U.S. President Chandrayaan­2 took off smoothly in its Sen and historian Ramachandra Guha Donald Trump said he was second attempt, a week after the were among 49 personalities who wrote willing to mediate on Kashmir, scheduled launch was aborted for a to the PM calling for more action against Prime Brexiteer Boris Johnson and that PM Modi had asked him technical fault. The craft is expected to lynching. “You have criticised such became Prime Minister of the to do so at last month’s G20 reach the moon on September 6, where lynchings in Parliament, but that is not U.K., succeeding Theresa May, summit. This triggered a its rover will search for water and collect enough... We strongly feel they should be after winning a Conservative diplomatic furore, with India data on the moon’s surface composition. declared non­bailable,” they wrote. Party leadership contest in furiously denying the request. which he defeated Jeremy Hunt. Both countries’ records Johnson, a leading Brexiteer, reportedly show that there was vowed to “get Brexit done” and no meeting where the issue take the U.K. out of the EU by could have been raised. the October 31 deadline.

In good books Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, both Booker Prize winners, are back No confidence’d Karnataka’s on the long list this year. The list Congress­JD(S) coalition of 13 has Rushdie’s latest novel, government collapsed after a Quichotte, and Atwood’s The 105­99 loss in the floor test Testaments, a sequel to The following the defection of 15 Handmaid’s Tale. The winners She’s home As Prime Minister MLAs. Chief Minister H.D. will be announced on October 14. Boris Johnson announced his Kumaraswamy resigned, and as cabinet, Priti Patel became this edition went to press, the Britain’s first Indian­origin Home BJP’s B.S. Yeddyurappa was set Secretary. Patel, 47, a leading to form the new government. Brexit campaigner, was forced to resign as International Development Secretary in 2017 after she failed to disclose Bill bombshells Two meetings with Israeli officials to controversial amendments the Foreign Office. were tabled. Both houses passed the Protection of Hakuna matata Disney’s The Lion King opened Human Rights with a whopping $191.8 million in the U.S., the (Amendment) Bill amid highest opening in July ever. Reviews were criticism that it would let somewhat more tepid, with one critic saying the governments cherry­pick photorealistic remake made him wish for the days chairs of the National of hand­drawn animation. In India, the film Human Rights Commission. earned a reported ₹69 crore in the first The RTI Amendment Bill, five days. criticised for compromising Medal maker The gold, silver the independence of and bronze medals for the Tokyo Information Olympics have been designed by Commissioners, cleared the Junishi Kawanishi, and were Lok Sabha on Monday and unveiled exactly one year before was passed in the Rajya the opening ceremony. The Sabha amid high drama on medals feature the Tokyo Thursday. Olympic emblem on one side and Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, on the other.

Rain deaths Flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains in Forest footage A video eastern India, released by an indigenous Bangladesh and Nepal media group seemed to resulted in more than show a member of the Red alert 300 deaths over the uncontacted and threatened Amid the ongoing European past weeks, including at Awa tribe in the Amazon heatwave, temperatures in the least 102 people in Bihar forest. In the footage, a man French city of Bordeaux hit 41.2 and 69 in Assam. briefly sniffs a machete °C, breaking its 2003 record of Millions were displaced. before he realises he’s being 40.7 °C. With temperatures set Rainfall in the north­ watched and flees into the to reach further highs across east is expected to forest. Activists hoped this Europe next week, several reduce in intensity as would highlight the threats countries including France and the monsoon moves to this tribe from loggers. Spain issued warnings. to central India. THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 60 MINUTES 3

ILLUSTRATION: R. RAJESH English poem ‘Collaboration’ from Lie of Dawns, which is an altogether different poem, although somehow springing from the same experience. Influences of poems I have read in English have contributed significantly to ‘Collaboration,’ whereas ‘Amba Gachha’ has come out of my own mind and experiences. WITH JAYANTA MAHAPATRA CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Descriptions of small-town Odisha, say, Cuttack or Sambalpur, in your poems as well as in your Odia autobiography The first Indian­ Pahini Rati (The Night is Yet to English poet to get End; Bijayinee Publications, 2013) are populated with trees, the Sahitya Akademi creepers, birds and other aspects of nature. What has been your award and now the relationship with ‘urban nature’? first Indian­English ■ Look at this house. In its yard I have planted bamboos. Many of the older poet to be made a mango and pear trees are now gone, felled by successive cyclones, but Fellow of the many still stand and their leaves often enter this house and make a mess. Akademi, he is a When it rains, I open my doors and literary giant windows. I want the thunder and the lightning to come in. I also want the of our times dust to come in. I do not mind the dust of Cuttack. I do not mind the way of life of Cuttack. I feel really bad when I see everything changing so fast. All the trees in the city are gone. ‘I want It has a couple of rivers on its two sides; 60­70 years ago, you had water just beside the banks. Now the rivers have very little water. And that itself the thunder brings a pang to my heart. I can’t live like this. It is as if I am now living in a totally different environment. and lightning Your poetry is suffused with rain, both as a climatic event, but also as metaphor. Increasingly we live in times when rain is decreasing to come in’ in intensity. How do you relate to this shift? ■ Rain is tied to my inner longings; the inner longing that is always there and which my years of writing poetry have SAILEN ROUTRAY so awarded; I am now also the first intimate with the land; I could not not been able to subdue or take care of. poet writing in English to become a have lived elsewhere, nor could I have Rain is a metaphor, a correlation, for f you want to reach Jayanta Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi. written poetry anywhere else. the life that I lead inside. Mahapatra, it is enough to mark the epistle to ‘Jayanta Mahapatra, Your poetic voice is an ambiguous In your English poems, the In Paahini Raati , we get lyrical ICuttack’ for it to find him. You one. In several of your poems, the sentences are intricately crafted. descriptions of the dark in small- don’t need any better testimony to the authorial voice and the narrative But the Odia poems are simple. town Odisha. How do you relate reputation this grand old man of voice are not always in Also, sometimes you have ‘paired’ to darkness? Indian literature enjoys, built on the consonance. It is not a distraction poems in both languages, that are ■ Darkness is a part of our world, a foundation of more than half a though; in fact, it produces a not translations of each other, part of life. When I was a child, our century’s prodigious creative output. startling intimacy. How is this but seem related to the same house was located at the edge of the In May this year, Mahapatra was achieved? experience. neighbourhood. It was surrounded by ■ A postgraduate made a Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi. ■ I would not be able to talk about ■ I do not know Odia very well. huge deodar trees. We had no in physics from In 2018, the Akademi published what you have pointed out. You see, I Writing in both English and Odia has electricity then. And the clamour of Patna Jayanta Mahapatra: A Reader. Last have always tended to go back to those been a complementary exercise for fruit bats and the wind howling University, year also saw the release of his 744­ images which have built my life. And me. I have explored my innermost through the leaves of the deodars, Bihar page Collected Poems. He hasn’t been these have always come from the thoughts in English, which I have not these brought unknown fears to me. I ■ Taught physics in very good health, but agreed to an place I have lived in. When I was a been able to do in Odia, at least not still remember the shadows from the at several interview with the same rare grace boy, a child of five or six, my father deliberately. I want to be understood kerosene lamps that I used in my little government that shines through his poetry. had taken me to Puri, and I still more generally by everyone when I room to study by. All this instilled in colleges in Excerpts: remember being at Narendra Tank — write in Odia. Many years after I began me a certain fear that I took a long Odisha, retiring there were very, very old turtles there writing in English, I started composing time to overcome. When I started in 1986 The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship — with people shouting, “ekade, poems in my own tongue, because I writing poems, the Bombay poets had is perhaps the highest literary ekade” (“this side, this side”). These wanted to be closer to my brothers, to a big, big hold on Indian poetry in ■ Has written 20 honour ever bestowed upon an images have made my life; it is the my own people, to my neighbours. English; they had created their own books of poems English poet in India... land that has made me, and in turn For example, the Odia poem lingo. The twist of language, the in English and ■ When a poet, a writer, keeps doing shaped my poetry. So, yes, I am ‘Aamba Gachha’ (‘The Mango Tree’) inherent mystery that emerges in a seven in Odia his work seriously, awards will come from the collection Baayaa Rajaa has poem to provide different meanings to ■ Has won many his way. I have thought of awards as A come directly from flesh and blood; it readers — it was totally absent in that awards, little flowers that fade the next I am intimate with the land; I is more intimate. It has come straight tradition. But mystery has always including a morning. But what is strange is that could not have lived elsewhere, from the Jayanta Mahapatra who lives, fascinated me. Padma Shri when I was given the Sahitya Akademi who was there with his father — the ...... that he returned Award almost 40 years ago, in 1981, I nor could I have written poetry father and son who planted the tree — The writer is an author and researcher in 2015 was the first Indian English poet to be anywhere else and that intimacy is not there in the based in Bhubaneswar. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 4 DESPATCHES Sunday, July 28, 2019

SAO PAULO DHAKA The ‘lungs of the planet’ A minority rights activist are under attack in the eye of the storm

Caught through the lens A Bangladeshi minority of a shaking camera rights activist found a hidden in the bushes, a rare opportunity to meet bronze­bodied man is calmly looking President Donald Trump at the White at his spear, probably planning a hunt House, but those moments of fame in the forest. Suddenly, as he and his turned into colossal outrage back hunting partner become aware of home. At the meeting, Priya Saha, a being watched, they turn nervous and director of Dhaka­based SHAREE that quickly jump behind the trees and works with the marginalised and vanish. disadvantaged communities, alleged The men belong to the Awa people, that 37 million people of minority one of more than 100 uncontacted groups have “disappeared” from tribes in the Brazilian rainforest. Bangladesh, without mentioning time Having lost many of their people to references. encroaching loggers and murderous c In a video, Ms. Saha was seen c machines, the tribe is fighting for its The Amazon rainforest in Brazil urging President Trump at a meeting Activist Priya Saha’s comment, in survival. “We hope this film will bring on July 17 to help Hindus, Buddhists lost 739 sq km in just 31 days, a meeting with Donald Trump, a positive outcome and has an and Christians in Bangladesh. She also international repercussion with a which is equivalent to two alleged that her land was grabbed by on the persecution of minorities focus on protecting a people, a forest, football fields every minute, Muslim fundamentalists. Legions of in Bangladesh has triggered a nation, a land and a story,” says Flay according to govt. data her critics came down on her on social outrage in the country Guajajara, an indigenous filmmaker networks for her “unpatriotic” and who shot the video while traversing Space Research Institute (INPE), “treasonous” comments. account for 9.7% of the total the woods near his village in the deforestation in the tropical rainforest Ms. Saha’s Dhaka home became a population, compared to 29.7% during Amazon last August. soared more than 88% in June site, however briefly, for simmering the 1947 Partition, Ms. Saha said in the Mr. Guajajara’s video, released last compared with the same month a year protests. Lawyers threatened her with new video. That means many people week, is now part of a documentary ago. The rainforest lost 739 sq km in legal action, vowing to throw her into have gradually left Bangladesh, she that captures the fear, isolation and just 31 days, which is equivalent to two jail. Apparently embarrassed by her said. resistance of many Amazonian tribes football fields every minute, according comments, Hindu leaders shunned “All I meant is that the number of living in the world’s biggest and to the INPE data. her in a swift change of mind. A minority people has gradually richest ecosystem for thousands of But the alarming figures failed to minority lobbying group, the Hindu declined. I didn’t mean to comment years. “We were not allowed to shoot have any impact on Mr. Bolsonaro, Buddhist Christian Unity Council, on the government. I just mentioned but we know the importance of using who has called his own government’s expelled her as an organising what happened in my village,” she said this Awa image. If we don’t show it to satellite monitoring data “a lie”. The secretary for “breach of discipline”. referring to Pirojpur, a district in the world, they will end up being President has also snubbed the The first official reaction came southern Bangladesh. “There were 40 murdered by the loggers. There is a European governments, which have from the Foreign Ministry on July 20. families in my village in 2004. That need to show that they exist and their been pressuring Brazil to protect the “It appears that there was an ulterior number is now 13.” life is at risk,” says Mr. Guajajara, forests. “You have to understand that motive behind Ms. Saha’s absolutely Taqbir Huda, a research specialist whose film is being screened at an the Amazon is Brazil’s, not yours,” Mr. false and concocted stories that were at Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services ongoing film festival in Sao Paulo. Bolsonaro said last week, while talking targeted to malign Bangladesh,” the Trust, said: “It is absurd to report With armed loggers and miners on to a group of foreign journalists. Ministry said. “Bangladesh is a beacon about minority oppression to the very their trail, the Awa are at such a risk of But Mr. Bolsonaro and most of religious freedom and communal man who has come to epitomise being hunted, says the filmmaker, that western firms and investors, harmony, where people of all faiths racism and anti­minority bigotry in his they teach their children not to cry — particularly in the resource sector, are have been living in peace for ages.” own country. Furthermore, some may and reveal their location. “They live in on the same page when it comes to Next came two influential argue that asking to be ‘saved’ in this constant fear. They are now hiding exploiting the Amazon for mining and Ministers. Home Minister context only works to feed into the deeper in the forest to save money. “It could be a good time to be Asaduzzaman Khan insisted that Ms. ‘white saviour complex’, which has themselves.” a mining investor in Brazil,” Anna Saha must prove the allegations or historically proven to be hazardous for Prusa, a former U.S. State Department face stern action. Road Transport the subcontinent.” Unprecedented attack official who now researches Brazil at Minister Obaidul Quader signalled that After Ms. Saha came up with self­ It’s not just the Awa, the entire world the Wilson Center, said recently, Ms. Saha would be sued for sedition. defence, Prof. Barkat said she had needs the Amazon, the world’s largest talking about business opportunities Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son never worked with him, and accused rainforest, to survive and fight global in the country. “Bolsonaro has said and ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed her of making “misleading and warming. pretty publicly he would like fewer hit out at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka unprincipled” comments. For his Called the “lungs of the planet” for restrictions...” for choosing her as part of a part, Prof. Barkat said some 10.13 its role in sucking carbon dioxide out Mr. Bolsonaro’s policies are music delegation to Washington. But million Hindus went missing over five of the atmosphere and adding fresh to the ears of mining investors who government functionaries dialled decades — from 1964 to 2013 — and Ms. oxygen to it, this green cover which hope to make millions by destroying down their rhetoric after Ms. Hasina Saha did not mention the 50­year spreads over several South American the Amazon. But the indigenous stepped in and disapproved of any period. countries — 60% of it in Brazil — is people, who will undoubtedly bear hasty action against Ms. Saha. “While Hindus are in fact leaving crucial for sustaining the human the brunt of this development, are Bangladesh in huge numbers, civilisation. also getting ready to fight for their Shrinking population portraying it as ‘disappearance’ might But with Brazil’s President Jair turf. In the immediate aftermath, Ms. Saha be disingenuous since that is quite Bolsonaro slashing environmental Several Guajajaras, a tribe the was conspicuously silent. Then on July different from migration, even if regulations and opening the region for filmmaker Flay belongs to, have 22, her rights organisation posted a caused by persecution,” said Mr. farming and mining, the country’s formed a group called the “Guardians video in which she defended herself Huda. There is an astonishing portion of rainforest faces an of the Forest”, which tries to defend with some data, basing her assertion difference between Ms. Saha’s claim unprecedented attack on its flora, territories threatened by encroachers. on a study by Abul Barkat, an and the calculation by Mr. Barkat, but fauna and tribes. In just six months of A few dozen of them are trying to economist and a professor at Dhaka both crystallise one pattern — the the Bolsonaro presidency, protect the Awa. As his film is shown University. She said she was gradual, quiet departure of Hindus the deforestation rate has in the country’s biggest city, Mr. Flay familiar with the findings from Bangladesh. The unsavoury spiked up dangerously. hopes to get a few more “Guardians” as she had worked with subject that Bangladeshis often prefer According to data released who can help them in “saving a Prof. Barkat. to sweep under the carpet has now by Brazil’s National people, a history – and a planet”. The Hindus now opened emotionally­charged debates.

Shobhan Saxena is a journalist based in Sao Paulo. Arun Devnath is a journalist based in Dhaka. THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 DESPATCHES 5

LAHORE SHENYANG A visit seeking to reset Brushing the rust off Pakistan­U.S. relations China’s northeast

It was a much­awaited China’s rust belt in the meeting. Ties between northeast, known for Pakistan and the U.S. polluting and sluggish have strained since Donald Trump heavy industry, is yearning for a became the President and the U.S. revival. withheld some aid to Pakistan. But the Local officials in Liaoning — a meeting between Prime Minister coastal province with a natural Imran Khan and President Trump outreach to Japan, the Korean went smoothly, in which the leaders Peninsula and Russia — are in a rush to discussed a host of issues from the position their province as a key driver Afghan peace process to the Kashmir of growth in northeast Asia. They issue. Mr. Khan later thanked anticipate that the province will be on “President Trump for his warm & the frontline to engage North Korea, gracious hospitality, his where stirrings of change are already c understanding of Pakistan’s point of turning heads. c view & his wonderful way of putting The Pakistan government says For the local elite, well­attuned to Authorities in Liaoning province, our entire delegation at ease”. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit the barrage of instructions and signals known for sluggish heavy The Prime Minister’s visit has to Washington has set off a emitting from Beijing, the game is to industry, are trying to rebuild “begun the journey of restoring journey to restore the country’s leapfrog the old economy into a new Pakistan’s dignity, pride and respect, one based on the industry 4.0 model. the region’s economy based on dignity, pride and respect which will serve as the foundation for That means establishing factories run Big Data and robot-run factories further positive developments and by robots feeding on big data progress to come,” Federal Minister Siege: Extremism, Society and the delivered by the state­of­the­art 5G its coastal advantage, local authorities for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi, State, said the goals of the trip were to network. are looking for massive foreign who was with Mr. Khan during his U.S. lift the relationship from the low of But provincial planners are aware investment, especially from South visit, told The Hindu. 2018, to establish a personal that the new smart economy requires Korea and Japan, to boost export­led Sherry Rehman, parliamentary relationship between Mr. Khan and massive funding in digital growth. However, the trade and leader of the Pakistan People’s Party Mr. Trump, and to provide Pakistan infrastructure. techno­war launched against China by (PPP) in the Senate and a former with a publicity boost. In this regard, In Shenyang, the capital of the Trump administration of the U.S. Ambassador to the U.S., said she the visit was a success, at least for the Liaoning, where elegant Russian and could drag down the northeast’s would not pass judgment on a single moment. “On issues such as changing Japanese buildings are a reminder of soaring hi­tech dreams. meeting, given the volatility in U.S.­ Washington’s perception of Pakistan the eventful history of the early 20th On the shop floor of Siasun — a Pakistan ties. “But by Trumpian and building the kind of relationship century, the hardware for the new Shenyang­based giant that makes all standards, where his White House that Mr. Khan wants between the two economy is being pillared into place. kinds of robots — it would be lives in the constant transactional countries, it will take a great deal “In Shenyang, we have already surprising if the management is present, this was a good set of more time and effort.” established the Big Data unfazed about possible supply meetings. It’s the outcome that will In the view of Andleeb Abbas, Comprehensive Pilot Area. More than restrictions, which could include judge if it’s a sustainable reset or not,” Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign 200 enterprises have marked their semiconductor chips, from the U.S. Ms. Rehman told The Hindu. Affairs, this was “a historic visit”. presence there. Besides, a Future City, But at the company headquarters, Talking to The Hindu, Ms. Abbas said: focussing on robotics as well as a where shiny blue service robots greet Afghan factor “The U.S. President has acknowledged software park area, has already taken visitors, Wang Yupeng, vice­president Analysts are of the view that Pakistan’s fight against terrorism, root,” says Liu Zhuangye, director of of the mobile robot division, says the Islamabad and Washington have been Pakistan’s sacrifice and Pakistan’s very the Shenyang people’s government impact of the U.S. trade restrictions trying to reset ties for quite some time. important role in peace efforts in information office. A massive 5G roll­ would be minimal as 80% of the The U.S. is now in advanced stages of Afghanistan.” out is also expected later this year. inputs for making the bots are talks with the Taliban, seeking a peace She noted that President Trump homegrown. deal to end the war in Afghanistan. It praised Prime Minister Khan, saying Coastal development plan Well aware that the western needs Pakistan’s support for any he is a great leader, a great athlete. In order to break from its rust belt markets may be losing some of their sustainable peace deal to take effect. “The fact that the Prime Minister met shackles, national and local planners shine, local planners are already The visit by Prime Minister Khan Nancy Pelosi [House Speaker] and have taken the cue from the stunning focussing on opening up to other was part of a series of events planned Mike Pompeo [Secretary of State], and rise of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and economies — South Korea, Japan, to build confidence, said journalist the Army chief met Pentagon officials Shanghai — coastal eastern cities that Russia, and countries in Southeast Arifa Noor. “The Afghanistan peace meant that now Pakistan and the U.S. leveraged their harbours and Asia, Central Europe and Africa — as process has provided an opportunity are working on a win­win situation hinterland to marshal the rise of world the demand centres of the future. to Islamabad.” It was not a visit that with mutual benefits.” class manufacturing a few decades At the headquarters of the was expected to be followed by any “President Trump’s offer to ago. “We also have a coastal privately­owned Yuanda group, which major announcement and hence, the mediate as a peacekeeper between development plan as part of our makes a range of products from focus was on how the two leaders India and Pakistan to solve the strategy to revive the economy,” says escalators to curtain walls and new would interact with each other, Ms. Kashmir problem is also Shen Shiyunng, deputy head of the energy products, Freeman Chou, a Noor said. “By this standard, the visit unprecedented because one, it makes industry and information department company executive, says the group has gone well for it appeared that the the Kashmir issue an international and of Liaoning province. had been engaged for developing two leaders got along nicely. The global issue recognised by all. Two, it For the coastlines of the adjoining Terminal 3 at New Delhi’s Indira informal exchange in front of the also shows how keen the big powers Bohai and Yellow Sea to propel Gandhi International airport. Pictures cameras in the Oval Office inspired are to have peace and stability in the northeast China’s revival, the role of of commuters at the Lucknow Metro hope for the coming days. However, region and appreciate the Prime the Dalian and Yingkou ports will be station, climbing escalators built the process to rebuild and repair ties Minister’s role in bringing peace to the crucial. The Yingkou port has been under the BLT brand of the company, continues and as the White House region. So I think it was a very very designated to serve Shenyang and its are on display at the main exhibition readout suggests, a lot will depend on successful visit,” Ms. Abbas said. hinterland. hall of the enterprise. the expectations of Washington and She added the visit had redefined Dalian is a mature deep water port, “In China, there has been a real what it expects Islamabad to the U.S.­Pakistan relationship, and it favoured by foreign powers estate slowdown, prompting us to deliver, especially with had also explained to Washington the since the Boxer War that export our products to emerging regards to Afghanistan.” Pakistan Prime Minister’s vision for took place at the turn of economies and developing countries,” Madiha Afzal, author bringing peace, prosperity and the 20th century. says Wang Feng, the regional head of of Pakistan Under security to the subcontinent. In order to leverage the company’s elevator division.

Mehmal Sarfraz is a journalist based in Lahore. Atul Aneja is The Hindu’s Beijing correspondent. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 6 COVER STORY Sunday, July 28, 2019

ECOLOGY CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Deluged by development The animal corridors leading to the Karbi Anglong hills — where Kaziranga’s animals would take refuge during the monsoon each year — are now blocked by quarries and hotels. We need to act fast if we want to save one of the country’s most famous wildlife parks

RAHUL KARMAKAR Range Officer Pankaj Bora and other natural refuge for all animals when the over 15­16 years has virtually blocked forest officials who had been trying to park floods each monsoon. some of the corridors, preventing amida Khatun, 42, has never guide the animal back to the forest. Unfortunately, commercial activities animals from moving higher into the visited Kaziranga National They were angry that the foresters on or close to the animal corridors, hills. This makes them vulnerable to Park (KNP), although it is had let the tiger lie all day inside scrap especially along the 60 km stretch poachers too,” says environment Hsome 900 metres behind dealer Rafiqul Islam’s house. “They between Jakhalabandha and Bokakhat activist Rohit Choudhury, whose her house in Harmoti, Assam. Her should have tranquillised the animal towns (on the western and eastern petition in the Supreme Court led to a populous village adjoins the Bagori and taken it away instead of ends of KNP), have forced the animals ban on stone mining this April. range of the wildlife preserve, best endangering our lives,” says Khatun’s to take unconventional monsoon known as the address of the greater 24­year­old son Hafizuddin Sheikh. migration paths over the years. Within Follow the floods one­horned rhino. The villagers were in no mood to the park, 144 artificial highlands were This year, when forest officials On the evening of July 18, Khatun understand that tranquillising was not created for the animals, but they cover followed a few animals, including froze when she found a tiger by her a good idea for an animal that was only 50 acres. rhinos and elephants, they found home. So did the tiger. The tiger was probably hungry and tired after “Stone quarrying in Karbi Anglong them foraging around the abandoned some 10 ft away from Khatun, having swum through a flood. “We stone quarries; they also found tiger between her and a tube­well in the think the tiger slipped into the hills of pug marks there, underlining the backyard to which she was headed to Karbi Anglong district in the dead of importance of leaving animal wash her plates. She clanged the steel night when there was less traffic on corridors alone. plates to chase the animal away, and the highway,” says Bora. While wildlife activists are the tiger disappeared into the bushes. A 750 sq. km. stretch of hills encouraged by the fact that wildlife is The people of Harmoti are used to in Karbi Anglong, south of NH 37, returning to the areas around the the odd deer taking refuge in their which runs along the southern quarries, they point out that the village during the annual floods in periphery of KNP, has been the bigger picture is far from heartening. Kaziranga. But a tiger has never “Floods are necessary for Kaziranga crossed their path in more than four even though they kill scores of animals decades. Nor has a rhino or elephant. every year. The park won’t survive What happened after Khatun’s without the floods — they replenish encounter was also unprecedented: the wetlands and grasslands that the angry villagers almost lynched Bagori region’s flagship species, the rhino, is

In the middle A forest camp surrounded by floodwaters inside Kaziranga. RITU RAJ KONWAR

Cover photo A one-horned rhino looks for dry land at Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon district. RITU RAJ KONWAR THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 7

dependent on,” says N.K. Vasu, former c Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. Local people say the circle “The water, most importantly, helps offices have been bending drain out aquatic weeds that would otherwise choke the water bodies.” So rules to let investors usurp clearly it’s not the flooding that’s the land to expand hotels and problem. The biggest problem, as other tourism-related activities Vasu says, is the “construction and increasing human presence along and around the highway.” of some of its tributaries by stone There are, for instance, scores of mining in the hills. “Quarrying affects dhabas, restaurants and guesthouses the water quality, impacting wildlife on a 10 km stretch between the Bagori habitats in and around Kaziranga,” range office and the Burapahar range says a report by the Divisional Forest office. Many of these, allegedly Officer of Eastern Assam wildlife without permits, came up after KNP division, which was sent to the was declared a tiger reserve in 2007. national park director last June. The scrap dealer’s shack, where the Much of Kaziranga’s existence, tiger rested on July 18, was one such since it was made a ‘Proposed Reserve structure. Local people say the area Forest’ in June 1905, has depended on also has an illegal cement block­ the cooperation of people who live making unit in Najan near Harmoti, along its periphery. Over the years, whose effluents flow into the Gelubeel villagers have tipped off park officials water body. The walls built around about poachers, and also volunteered these structures also hinder animal to rescue animals during floods. They movement. have also taken rare attacks by wild animals in their stride; a few years ago Bending rules a wild buffalo that had escaped the “These structures are beyond our flooded park injured a person in jurisdiction. Ideally, the civil Silimkhowa village on the foothills of administration should intervene,” said Karbi Anglong. a KNP official, speaking anonymously. Which is why forest officials were On the move While officials of Golaghat and taken aback by the anger in Harmoti (Top to bottom) Nagaon districts, which Kaziranga this time. They attribute it to the Wild buffaloes straddles on the southern bank of the anxiety among people living along wade through Brahmaputra, claim that no land has Kaziranga’s periphery that they might water inside been bought in the vicinity of the park lose lands and livelihoods if a 10­km Kaziranga for more than a decade, local people Eco­Sensitive Zone (ESZ) is National Park; say that the circle offices have been demarcated around the park, which the carcass of a bending rules to let investors usurp would ban several activities. one-horned rhino land to expand hotels and other ESZs are envisaged as ‘transition floats in flood tourism­related activities. Dhabas, for zones’ for wildlife moving from areas waters; and the example, have virtually turned into of high to low protection. In March lucky ones that truck terminals, this year, a Central Empowered managed to reach River Diffolu, Kaziranga’s lifeline, high ground. has suffered because of contamination ĪCONTINUED ON PAGE 8 AFP, RITU RAJ KONWAR, PTI DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 8 COVER STORY Sunday, July 28, 2019

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Poaching in the Gulf of California is endangering both the totoaba, a CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, demarcated Forest officials believe these fears prized fish, and the vaquita, the in 2007, covers 1,080 sq. km.” have been fuelled by commercial world’s smallest whale. Scientists, Committee submitted to the Supreme Sivakumar says the ESZ need not be 10 stakeholders. “The ESZ protects investigators and the Mexican navy Court a recommendation for an ESZ km all around the park. “It can vary villagers and agricultural lands and take on drug cartels and the Chinese around Kaziranga as “some kind of from zero to 10 km, depending on the prescribes a ban on new commercial mafia in this documentary. shock absorber for the protected level of sensitivity. There are stretches and industrial activities. We believe areas”. The next month, the Supreme on the highway that animals do not the hospitality lobby is behind this Court asked the Assam government to use. We have no issues with misinformation campaign,” says a respond to the recommendation. commercial activities there. But areas senior forest official. “We are not opposed to the ESZ, along the nine animal corridors and but it cannot be 10 km everywhere about 50 dandis (paths) have to be Communication gap around the park,” says Jitu Sarma protected.” The Kuthari­Bagmari Eco­ Rajkhowa, president of Greater On June 27, at a meeting headed by Development Committee is one of Kaziranga Human Resource Assam Chief Secretary Alok Kumar, many such formed by the KNP Development and Environment following the Supreme Court’s authorities to involve villagers in Protection Committee. “Yes, we need direction of April, a suggestion was conservation efforts. Its president environment protection, but we made about a possible relaxation of Jayanta Rajkhowa points to a cannot let the people suffer. Villages the ESZ width where necessary: “in communication gap between foresters have always existed 50­100 metres areas of conflict the zero kilometre and the people. “Most people here are from KNP’s boundary. It will be a great (boundary of KNP) limitation should poor and subsist on agriculture. They injustice if they are shifted. Kaziranga be delineated and a minimum of don’t know what the changing status sustains more than 5 lakh people.” . 300/400 metres should be spared of Kaziranga from reserved forest to where there may be already existent national park to World Heritage site Shrinking spaces public utilities/interest, government and tiger reserve entails in terms of Deben Konwar of Jakhalabandha talks installations, building, etc,” the conservation.” of the sacrifices made by local people minutes of the meeting stated. To address misconceptions, a for Kaziranga. “We were from Assam forest Minister Parimal meeting was held recently between Gotonga, a revenue village that was Suklabaidya says “We are yet to take a Sivakumar and the people of The Great Hack inundated by the Brahmaputra in call on how wide the ESZ will be. The Silimkhowa village, some 5 km south KARIM AMER & JEHANE NOUJAIM, 1969. We then moved to Kawoimari, people will be taken into confidence to of the highway, facilitated by Pranab 113 MIN which was acquired after Kaziranga work out a formula that suits both Bora of the World Wide Fund for became a national park in 1974. We humans and animals.” Nature­India. Facebook users’ data was harvested moved again. Now we may be As Jonah Sing Engti of Silimkhowa and sold to political campaigns in the displaced again if an ESZ is explains, “Unlike commercial Cambridge Analytica scandal. This established. Why should Kaziranga c establishments along the highway, our Netflix documentary primarily keep expanding and our space keep houses have traditionally been spaced follows whistleblower Brittany Kaiser Park officials know that shrinking,” he asks. apart, so animals can pass through and academic David Carroll. Kaziranga needs tourists. But But KNP director P. Sivakumar between them during floods. But the points out that Kaziranga is not there are plans now to contain stone quarries not only came in their expanding. “People usually talk about them within Kohora, the most way, they have dried up five streams its core area, which is 430 sq. km., but popular halt, which is away from and damaged farmlands downstream. the national park is 898 sq.km, and the animal corridors We are ensuring these quarries don’t come up again.” Park officials know that Kaziranga needs tourists. But there are plans now to contain them within the centrally­located Kohora, the most popular halt for tourists, which is away from the animal corridors. Plans Long walk are also afoot to develop Bokakhat and Inside the Secret World Wild elephants Jakhalabandha towns as tourist hubs. of Incels cross a highway A three­lane elevated highway in three BBC THREE, 50 MIN to get to the stretches, totalling 35 km, has also elevated been proposed to free up the nine Incels are a subculture of sexually areas in animal corridors between the park frustrated men who blame women Kaziranga; and the hills. for their troubles. One, Elliot Rodger, and (top) “The world recognises Kaziranga 22, killed six fellow students in 2014. wildlife perched as one of the best conservation stories Three incels tell their personal stories on the ridges of a century. But if we don’t act fast, in this BBC documentary. inside the Park. we might lose the park in less than 100 AFP, PTI years,” warns a range officer. THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 FOCUS 9

Next, the consolidation process begins. The work is placed under a massive periscope­like contraption fixed to the ceiling, a suction unit to suck away vapours of chemicals like acetone. Tears are repaired, a base layer applied, and then the retouching or inpainting begins. “That is the part I love,” says Prabhakar, showing me the specialised microscopes and visors A used for the job. The centre On one of the tables is stacked a has preserved bunch of palm manuscripts. Ickpac about 20,000 has been declared a manuscript manuscripts conservation centre, and is headed by Bhanu Prakash T.V. He estimates that so far, from the centre has preserved about the 11th- 20,000 manuscripts so far, from the century 11th century Dhavala manuscripts that Dhavala contain the teachings of Jainism to manuscripts India’s only existing copy of Kautilya’s Arthashastra, housed in the Oriental that contain Research Institute in Mysuru. Jain teachings to India’s only Monkey king existing copy The team that pores over damaged of Kautilya’s manuscripts also conserves massive Arthashastra heritage structures such as the Mucukunda panels at the Tyagarajaswamy temple in Tiruvarur. The documentation, cleaning, consolidation and reintegration that began in 2008 took over two years to complete. “The painted panels depict the story of Mucukunda Chakravarthi, Transformed The Velankanni altar before the ‘monkey­faced’ Chola king who is (top) and after conservation; (left and said to have brought the idol of below) ongoing conservation work. ICKPAC Tyagaraja to earth. Dating back to the 1660s or 1670s, to the late Nayaka or FORENSIC ARTS anniversary celebration, which early Maratha period, the paintings CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC included a four­day exhibition called are among the finest to have survived Simhavalokana where 14 restored from the period,” says Madhu Rani, works were displayed, just concluded. former centre director. Mani remembers being subsumed The doctors of Gilded splendour by the project. A particularly stubborn Senior conservator Nalini B. patch was giving them a lot of trouble. Prabhakar takes out a painting from Then one evening, as she sat staring at under a sheaf of white paper on a the walls, she noticed a beehive. “That table. It is a magnificently gilded was a eureka moment,” she laughs. A Russian icon of St. Nicholas. “All I can beehive must have been smoked out, say is that this painting was acquired and the beeswax dripping down had paintings in 1890,” she says. Ickpac is reluctant created a film. A wax solvent was to name artists or collectors. “It was applied and the patch disappeared. highly damaged, but after Ickpac has also intervened at the Hidden away in a modest basement, Intach’s conservation, it looks good.” Shrine Basilica in Velankanni. It has Paintings are scattered around the conserved paintings and murals at art conservation centre in Bengaluru turns 25 room in various stages of Chennai’s Senate House, at Thanjavur conservation. There is a Bacchus and Maratha Palace, Ramalinga Vilasam in Ariadne painting that’s over a 100 Ramanathapuram, and Nalknad JAYANTHI MADHUKAR years old. There’s a large painting of Palace in Coorg. The team jokes about an old woman from Kerala from the how they had to get over the fear of ast the large granite steps Raja Ravi Varma school. “That heights to complete these projects. where students hang out painting has come from a very remote Prabhakar has been up 30­40 feet between classes, past the corner of Kerala,” says Prabhakar. high, Mani about 50 feet. “Today, we Pgalleries, and across the little “One regular client brings his have harnesses and metal scaffolding. open courtyard, I make my way to a paintings to us all the way from the Earlier it was just you and the long room tucked away in the U.S.” casuarina scaffolding,” says Mani. basement of Chitrakala Parishath, Conservation is like forensic art, Interestingly, Rani talks of how Bengaluru’s premier art institution. says Mani. The materials used, the more than actual conservation they This is the Intach Chitrakala Parishath anatomy of the surface, the age of the end up “having to undo wrong Art Conservation Centre (Ickpac), the painting — these are all deciphered interventions.” Now, Intach is only centre in South India where art using technology. It is easier to conducting workshops and awareness conservation happens. And for all its estimate the age of a European programmes to sensitise people to anonymous digs, Ickpac is about to painting because there is ample these issues. Things are, however, celebrate 25 years of a rather famous documentation. “The Indian context changing for the better. As Rani says, existence. is harder because ancient art was “There have been international In this basement, paintings, art mostly religious and anonymous, like collaborations. Institutions are coming objects and old manuscripts are the Chola bronzes, and used forward to support research, a lot of painstakingly restored by a team of 10 “Nowadays, we’ve stopped using the traditional material and methodology. young people are being trained. The specialists who jokingly call term ‘restoration’; it is a misnomer. It “This can make our work difficult,” future looks bright.” themselves ‘the doctors of painting’. implies taking it back to the original. says Mani...... “We examine paintings for We prefer ‘conservation’ where the The artwork is first examined in The freelance writer believes symptoms,” says Mrinalini Mani, focus is on the health of the artwork natural light and then through that everything has a story centre coordinator, sitting behind her and on slowing down the ageing transmitted light (shone from the waiting to be told. desk at one end of the long room. process,” says Mani. The centre’s silver back), and finally under UV light. 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Animated film Bombay Rose will open Critics’ Week at the Venice International Film Festival this August

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t was 1992 that redefined Bombay and also changed the course of Gitanjali Rao’s life. For Rao — now Ian animator, filmmaker and actor, then an 18­year­old student at the Sir J.J. School of Art — the megapolis had always been the centre of the universe, and a place where everybody lived happily with each other. “For a lot of people in my arts college, Bombay was a muse, a lover, something that inspired us to be artistic,” she recollects. The demolition of Babri Masjid, the riots, the divisiveness and hatred brought politics right to the centre of their world of arts. “You had a Riyas Komu, a Bose Krishnamachari writhing in pain as artists, seeing the city burning,” she says. Over the years, she has found A Mumbai becoming less safe for The film women, migrants and minorities, while growing more violent and brings three aggressive. But then there’s also the characters city’s wonderful duality: there is still a together. One reserve of love, a huge survival instinct is a Kashmiri that towers above all. “The infamous man, another cutthroatedness and survival instinct a flower girl that make you selfish also render you very vulnerable,” says Rao. from Madhya Bombay Rose, her maiden Pradesh. The animated feature film, will open the third is an old Venice Critics Week at the Venice Film Anglo-Indian Festival in end­August. It’s about woman showing that side of the city to the THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 CULTURE 11

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objects, there is a tendency to think of When ‘lifeless’ objects it as detached, coolly dispassionate. move — and heighten But sometimes, inanimate things can heighten the humanity of a scene. the humanity of Consider another doomsday film of the late 1950s: On the Beach, set in a a scene future where nuclear fallout is shutting down life on Earth and only a few n a luxury ship’s dining room — survivors are left in the Southern grand, opulent, but for the Hemisphere. (The story unfolds mostly moment deserted — a strange in Australia.) Then comes what might Migrant city (Above and facing page) Stills from Bombay Rose; waltz begins. An unattended be a ray of hope: indecipherable SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT I (bottom) Gitanjali Rao. serving trolley is moving about on its Morse code is picked up from the wheels, going back and forth, Pacific Coast. Naval officers travel to sometimes bumping into furniture. the U.S. to investigate… and find that world — and also to people who were Mumbai’s physical spaces and With its large hemispherical metallic the signals were created by a vagrant born and have grown up in new architecture are a special force in the “head”, the trolley looks like a Coca­Cola bottle knocking against the prototype of the restless little droid Mumbai, who wouldn’t know the film. “The city and the people are not A R2­D2 from Star Wars. But there are no Bombay of old. separate at all. Through animation I As the ship starts to tilt and “It was extremely tolerant, bring spaces and people almost into cute beeping sounds, just an eerie scenes of carnage unfold, our versatile and a truly migrant city like each other, offset by spaces that they silence. New York; built by people from might have left to come to Bombay,” Because this is happening on RMS R2-D2 is lurching frenetically all outside, for people from outside,” she she says.The film spans Juhu, Bandra Titanic, and the movie is the 1958 A over the room. It looks more says. So is it a love letter to Bombay, as and Mahim. Rao, a Borivli girl now Night to Remember, generally regarded human than before someone has described it? “It is not a living in Malad, has been in love with as the best of the feature films made love letter to the city. It is a love letter Bandra for the longest time. “To me about the famous tragedy, or at least telegraph machine. Mankind’s about the city to the rest of the world,” Bandra is very interesting because it is the one that presents the most achievements — our technological she tells us, as we sip on kahwa. where the town comes to meet the authentic depiction of what happened, advances, our ability to communicate suburbs. You see a lot of Bandra as it unfettered by fictionalised narratives. in complex ways — lie neatly exposed, A rose is a rose must have been in the 1950s, and what Through much of its running time, in much the same way that the iceberg The film brings three characters it is now,” she says. A Night to Remember is a restrained put an end to the hubris that “God together. One is a Kashmiri man, film about British stoicism in crisis — himself could not sink the Titanic.” another a flower girl from Madhya Merge with reality it’s only in the final half­hour that we Pradesh who sells gajras in Juhu Mandu, as a dream space, an see people screaming and panicking, Comedy of remarriage woven from flowers bought at Dadar inspiration for where the flower girl throwing themselves into the water, But if the scenes mentioned above flower market. comes from, is offset against the reality fighting for lifeboat space. But for me, suggest hopelessness, objects can also The third is an old Anglo­Indian of Bombay in the film. The some of the most chilling scenes are be used funnily and reassuringly. I can woman, a character characters don’t reject this the ones involving the lonesome think of no better example than the inspired by Cuckoo, the reality. They merge into trolley, which makes very brief final sequence of the great 1937 dancing queen of it, try to make the appearances at various points in the screwball comedy The Awful Truth, an Hindi cinema in most of it. “Which film. early version of what Stanley Cavell the 40s and the is what migrants Shortly after the iceberg collision, called the Hollywood “comedy of 50s, who was do,” says Rao. we see it for the first time. It moves remarriage”. forgotten in Mumbai only a few inches, but this is still Jerry (Cary Grant) and Lucy (Irene her later also inspires ominous: after all, in an earlier scene, Dunne) have separated, but it is years. A rose the film’s a passenger had placed a pencil obvious to anyone watching that they forms the music. The upright on his plate and impressed his are still in love. Misadventures, essential link soundtrack co­diners with the fact that it stayed pratfalls and games of one­upmanship between the uses archival still — so serene was the Titanic’s build to a climax where — on the very three; it’s the music from the progress through the water. night that their divorce is to come purveyor of 50s, not just through — they are staying in adjoining love. Indian but Lifelike lurch rooms in a cabin, both clearly Rao’s love for Pakistani and Later, with the evacuation underway, awkward and yearning to be together. flowers vies with her Spanish too. There is as a group of steerage passengers Two moving objects punctuate this love for cats; she has one original song encroach on the lavish dining room – sequence: a cheeky door that refuses eight cats moving in and out composed by Swanand and stand transfixed, murmuring to shut properly, giving them an of her flat. Her family has been in Kirkire, which is the inner voice of the “First Class!” – it is the sudden excuse to stay up and chat; and a fancy Mumbai for two generations and she flower girl who doesn’t talk too much movement of the trolley that shakes clock with a tiny male and female feels strongly about the migration but sings in her mind. And then there them out of their stupor and reminds figurine coming out of adjacent niches issue. “I was born here, I am of this is Lorna Cordeiro’s ‘Red Rose’ to tie it them that they must hurry. And later each time the quarter­hour is struck. caste, this belongs to me and the rest all up. still, as the ship starts to tilt and scenes I won’t reveal what happens to this are unwelcome — the moment you After five independently produced of carnage unfold, our R2­D2 is clock at the end, except to say that the start getting these feelings [from animated shorts — Blue, Orange, lurching frenetically all over the room. last shot — which allows the film a way someone belonging to the city], you Printed Rainbow, Chai and True Love It looks more human than before. round the censorship restrictions of know you are a migrant.”. Story — that have been to over 150 film We think of emotional moments in the era — is witty, perfectly executed, The essential dichotomy of festivals, Rao is getting ready to take films as being centred around people, and might cause the first­time viewer Mumbai again comes into play here. Mumbai to Venice through her first or at least living beings: sentient faces, to gasp in delight. Once again, an “This city has been welcoming to feature film. And to many other voices, even animal sounds will do. inanimate object has provided an migrants, yet the politics keeps festivals after that, she hopes. Her When a scene focuses on lifeless achingly human touch. pushing them out, doesn’t give them immediate concern, however, is about voting rights, neither here nor in the who will feed her eight cats while she Jai Arjun Singh is a Delhi-based writer and film critic who finds it easier place they come from,” says Rao. is away. to concentrate on specific scenes than entire films as he grows older. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 12 CULTURE Sunday, July 28, 2019

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works. That all the collaborators were An interesting exhibition in Bengaluru that allows paintings Bengaluru­based made their to converse with recipes and potted plants responses also uniquely space­ specific.

Space for music Emmart talks of how certain individuals have an amazing ability to engage with just one thing and in the process open up the world in many other ways. Jayadev’s engagement with literature and poetry or Veeraraghavan’s relationship with music are such examples. “Avinash could bring music into the space in a way that would make sense,” she says. Landscape designer Michael Little had already, a few years ago, worked on the garden that surrounds the house. “Before choosing the plants, I wanted to understand both the artists’ works and the gallery space. I saw the books, I listened to the music, I sat on the lovely chairs and benches. I then did some sketches to find a point of resonance or syncopation between room, space, art and the plants,” he says, describing his artistic process. Little points out the various factors Layered Krishnaraj Chonat’s Juice, acrylic on canvas; and (facing page) Sudarshan Shetty’s No Title, acrylic letters, LED on wooden frame. that influenced his selection of plants, and describes planting design as “a PRIYANKA SACHETI Kumar Emmart, founder of house is, therefore, as much a combination of common sense and Galleryske. A long­time patron and participant in this exhibition as the intuition.” In the case of arranging ntering the spare whitewashed collector of arts, Emmart says putting artworks and the other plants for an art exhibition, he talks of interiors of Galleryske, the together the exhibition contributed complementary components. keeping in mind environment first work you encounter is an equally towards her own redefinition A colonial house dating back to conditions, particularly light intensity. Eiridescent fabric­kumkum of what it means to be a gallerist. 1870 was converted into this art “Here the challenge was very low layered Sheela Gowda hanging above a gallery, and so the home’s physical light... and there were a narrow range skyline of potted grasses. The room on Food, books, music dimensions and heritage details add of plants that would work,” he says. your right flickers in aqua, pistachio, The art that resides in the fabric of another layer to the multifaceted For Sudarshan Shetty’s work, Little rose, lavender and cobalt blue, everyday life is increasingly becoming exhibition. “We have been able to uses Horsetail plants, which are displaying a movingly rendered a subject of contemplation and trace all the owners except the first relatives of the Giant Horsetail forests recipe­prose piece by Archana engagement for artists. In this one,” says Emmart, pointing out how that covered the earth 400 million Pidathala that you contemplate from a exhibition, layers of ordinary, the house is a sum of all of the people years ago. Inside the room illuminated

A Phantom Hands bench. In a back everyday life and works of art are in who lived here. In some ways, the letters spell out ‘When we travel, we room, a Krishnaraj Chonat painting in dialogue with one another, just as one exhibition therefore is a reclaiming of forget who we are’. “On a geological As you travel mauve and cobalt depicting a root­ might find in any home. Emmart was the house as it once was, with its scale, how much we have forgotten,” from one wrapped tree communes with plants, particularly preoccupied with the idea wealth of experiences. Little says, of the relationship between space to mounds of red soil, a copy of Richard of a house and all that it encompasses: Featuring the works of Dia Mehta the horsetails and this particular another in the Powers’ The Overstory, and a Dia the spaces and objects in it, the art Bhupal, Krishnaraj Chonat, Sheela work. gallery, you Mehta Bhupal miniature of quiet hung there, the food cooked and its Gowda, Prabhavathi Meppayil, and Speaking of why she chose to landscapes. attendant smells, the books and Sudarshan Shetty, the gallery then contribute hand­written recipes to realise that ‘Reclaiming the House’ is an music, and the conversations invited five collaborators to respond to accompany the art works, Pidathala there is a interesting and unusual convergence conducted there. It is thus that the each work. Arjun Jayadev selected a says, “Over the past few years, food small of ideas and layers, where art and the house becomes a receptacle of book that would relate to each of the has become my most natural and ecosystem or quotidian is juxtaposed intimately on accumulated memory and experience. five artists; Pidathala wrote a piece of intimate form of expression.” When Five environment an island of Bengaluru heritage. The As you travel from one space to text that’s also a recipe reflecting on Galleryske asked the author of Morsels of Love, for each diverse strands of experience another in the gallery, you realise that each work; Michael Little curated a which was based on complement the centrality of the art there is a small ecosystem or plant display; Phantom Hands and her grandmother’s cookbook, to artwork to experience. “The show is a gesture environment for each artwork to exist Avinash Veeraraghavan chose respond to the artworks, she says she exist on towards including non­visual art on its own. “After all, houses aren’t furniture and music pieces, used the voice she was most its own voices into the space,” says Sunitha curated,” Emmart points out. The respectively, as their responses to the expressive in, resulting in food and

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A cinematic imagination Regionalism and identity

An exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, is From the 1960s to the 1980s, the Madras Art showcasing photographs from early Indian Movement, spearheaded by the likes of K.C.S. cinema, shot by German cinematographer Josef Paniker and S. Dhanapal, engaged creatively Wirsching between the 1920s and 60s. On with indigenous traditions. A show that focuses show until August 4, the collection includes on this core group of artists is on at Mumbai’s publicity images and behind-the-scenes photos. Kala Ghoda Gallery until October 12. THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 CULTURE 13

STAGE WHISPERS While Motley has dabbled in a lot CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC of Hindustani and Urdu work lately, a lot of their earlier work was English. Besides Godot, their production of Dear Liar by Jerome Motley turns 40 Kilty has been running forever. Directed by the late Pandit Satyadev Dubey, it depicts, through their Four decades of Naseeruddin Shah’s theatre letters, the relationship between George Bernard Shaw and the group is ample reason to pop the bubbly actress, Mrs. Campbell. Another of Motley’s earliest English plays was A Romance for Ruby by Aruna Thosar Dixit, a PR officer at IIT Mumbai. It was directed by the senior Shah, and had Ratna Pathak Shah, Mahabanoo Mody­ Kotwal, and Sagar Arya, who was the second Godot boy, on the stage. recipes. “Sunitha gave me the freedom to choose the form. I could have used Favourite performance images or photographs but we exist in Motley and I are turning 40 in the a world where we are already too same year. And I’ve watched almost exposed to visual imagery.” everything Motley has produced, but I think my favourite remains their Tribute to grandmom adaptation of The Caine Mutiny She used pages taken from her Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. A grandmother’s notebook, where the taut naval courtroom drama which recipes were written out by hand with Running forever A scene from Dear Liar. R. SHIVAJI RAO featured, in my favourite pen and ink. “I attribute my whole performances, Naseeruddin Shah as journey in food to my grandmother s I write this, Motley (better it with every visit. I believe it is a play the eccentric Captain Queeg and my and try to pay a tribute to her and the known as Naseeruddin that ages well, particularly if you’re father Akash Khurana as defence gift of her generosity in some way in Shah’s theatre group) is ageing well too. I’ve had the privilege attorney Barney Greenwald. everything I do — hence the Acelebrating its 40th birthday of being part of this production. I was around 11 when I first saw it, notebook,” she says. with a two­week festival at Prithvi There is a small part of a character and I distinctly remember some of Pidalatha found the concept a great Theatre in Mumbai. I complete 40 simply called The Boy. Because the sequences even today. I was way for the viewer to make years in December, and I assure you getting taller is a natural process for blown away. I saw the 1954 film later, connections. “So much is left unsaid it’s a very long time. most, that part had the shortest shelf and remember thinking I preferred and is left to the viewer and her The festival has some old life for actors. I believe I was the Naseeruddin Shah to Humphrey imagination to connect the dots.” The favourites, plus some newer hits third actor to play the role. There Bogart. Motley did revive the show interesting thing about an exhibition based on stories by Ismat Chughtai have been seven or eight in total. My later with a new cast, but I was too of this kind is that it reinforces the and Saadat Hasan Manto. All the biased in favour of the original cast. multiplicity of human beings; the fact Shahs — Naseeruddin, Ratna Pathak, A Coincidentally, the first play of that they each respond to the world Heeba, Imaad, and Vivaan — are I was blown away. I saw the Aadyam’s fifth season reminded me participating, along with the (pun of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. from the lens of their own interests 1954 film later, and and past and understanding. Setting not intended, or maybe it is) motley Nadir Khan directed A Few Good these facets next to and against each crew of performers that have remember thinking I Men, by Aaron Sorkin, also a naval other in shared spaces helps create contributed to the group over the preferred Naseeruddin Shah courtroom drama, which opened multiple entry points for the viewer last decade. There is also a ‘fringe’ to Humphrey Bogart last weekend. A super slick show, and multiple communication points Mixed matter section, where new work is being with terrific production values, I for the artist. Sheela Gowda’s tried out, storytelling, poetry, play memories of this experience are suppose its biggest challenge was ...... No Title, kumkum, readings, shorter pieces etc. vague, primarily because it was over being constantly compared to Rob The writer is a poet and tree lover cowdung, cloth on three decades ago. I do look rather Reiner’s film starring Jack Nicholson, based in Bengaluru. paper board. Bold choice cute in the photos though. Tom Cruise and Demi Moore . Those One fringe production was ‘Godot ki are the shoes Rajit Kapur, Neil Dastaan’, which had Benjamin Gilani A new meaning Bhoopalam and Ira Dubey had to fill. and Naseeruddin Shah sharing During this freewheeling talk, If the response I saw is anything stories of their production of Samuel ‘Naseer Uncle’ and ‘Ben Taya’ shared to go by, I think the production held Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting for a story of how the play was once its own rather well. I’m directing the Godot. This was the first play performed in a Methodist church in next play from Aadyam this season, a produced by Motley, and the bold place of the Sunday sermon. They stage version of The Kite Runner. We choice has stood the test of time. As talked of how it was a special have a much­loved book and a they kept saying, they have never experience, and how the play took critically acclaimed film that we will pretended to understand it on another meaning altogether in be constantly compared to. I should completely, but have that hallowed space. I remember probably wind up this article and go discovered more about being a part of this show too. rehearse.

Akarsh Khurana, theatre producer and director, is often broke. To cope, he writes and directs films and web series and occasionally acts, albeit reluctantly.

The art of Banksy Buddha, the golden legend

The world’s largest touring collection of street The Guimet Museum of Asian Arts in Paris is artist Banksy’s works will be on show in Sydney hosting an exhibition on the spread of Buddhism from September 13. More than 80 works, including in Asia, as illustrated by 159 works of art — sculptures and screen-prints, are featured. The iconographic representations of the Buddha in exhibition is curated by Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s paintings, sculptures, architecture — from former manager and photographer. different time periods and countries. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 14 FIELD NOTES Sunday, July 28, 2019

Point-blank Chandro Tomar, 87, at her home in Johri village in Uttar Pradesh; (bottom) young shooters at a training session; and (facing page) 82-year-old Prakashi Tomar. R.V. MOORTHY

FIRE POWER neighbours mocking her and CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC demanding that she stop. She refused. Meanwhile, her sister­in­law Prakashi entered shooting in a similar way, persuaded by her daughter Seema Tomar, who went on to win the Johri’s shooting stars silver medal in the ISSF World Shotgun Cup 2010 in Dorset. Over the years, as Chandro and Prakashi won They are making a movie on the lives of these two octogenarian women medals, often going up to the pre­ national tournament stage in the shooters, but the village is still loath to let go of patriarchy veterans segment, their fame as women who had broken barriers of HEMANI BHANDARI age, patriarchy and tradition grew. More importantly, their success and signboard with the words Rajpal Singh’s shooting range fostered ‘Shooter Dadi’ welcomes a culture of shooting that has now those who enter Johri village produced some of India’s finest Ain Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat shooters and turned all of Baghpat district. After all, Johri’s claim to fame into fertile medal­hunting ground. this past decade has been a pair of intrepid sharpshooters, sisters­in­law Shooting out of sight Chandro Tomar and Prakashi Tomar, The two dadis continue to encourage now octogenarians, whose unusual girls and women to take up shooting and rule­breaking journey to fame has and other sports. “Ladki bachao, ladki been documented several times. padhao aur ladki khilao,” the two say. Johri and the two women are back “I used to go door to door asking in the spotlight, with a movie being people to send their daughters to the made around their lives. The dadis shooting range and the men would quit shooting some years ago, and refuse. Sometimes, the women would now stroll around their farms and play agree and send their daughters in with their grandchildren. secret,” recalls Chandro. I reach Johri, some three hours At the Johri shooting range, from Delhi, on a rainy morning. I am law in the upcoming film. dikhaati hun kaise karte hain” (let me though, there are only some 20 girls. directed to a vast haveli with a neem It all began in 1998 when a show you how it’s done), and shot a Girls and boys have a brick tied to tree in its courtyard. Chandro emerges makeshift shooting range was opened bullseye. “The coach asked me to do it their wrists for strength and in a full­sleeved white shirt and blue in Johri by Rajpal Singh, former again, and that’s how the journey concentration. Manvi, 15, a Class X ghagra, a pale pink dupatta covering shooting coach, who founded the began. No one in the family knew we student, is a national­level shooter. her head. She has the air of having Johri Rifle Association. Village were going to the range; I used to lie She pays ₹500 a month to use the interacted with the media for decades. youngsters flocked to the range to that I was going to the fields.” range for three hours, six days a week, After the initial greetings, she goes learn shooting, and among them was Till that moment, life for Chandro after school. She was brought here by back inside to change into “better Chandro’s granddaughter Shefali had revolved around veils, children, her mother who used to clean the clothes” for the photo shoot, and then Tomar, now an international trap cattle and the farm. Married when she floors of the shooting range. “If my poses like a pro, victory sign and all. shooter. “It wasn’t considered safe for was 15, her life was strictly monitored. parents don’t get me married then I A corner of the house is filled with girls to go alone anywhere, so I went “So when I got a chance, I didn’t want want to become an international level medals. The green walls have photos with her,” smiles Chandro. to let go,” she says. Her secret was shooter,” says Manvi. of her with celebrities, the latest being Chandro recalls how Shefali was found out only when a photograph Dolly Jatav, all of 11, is the star and with actors Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi initially nervous, till one day Chandro was published in a local newspaper. It poster girl of the academy. Dolly used Pednekar, who will play the sisters­in­ walked up to her and said, “Main led to a storm, with family and to once work with her parents in a THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 FIELD NOTES 15

brick kiln. She won a silver medal in the U.P. State Shooting Championship SERENDIPITIES in air pistol shooting, and dreams of CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC representing India globally one day. “Mummy kehti hai dekhengey (mother says, we’ll see),” she says. But even now, more than half the Cleaved into two trainees at the range are boys. Hari Om Tomar, 17, is from a village nearby. He has shot nationally. “The In our times, nowhere are binaries more visible than in the stories told infrastructure is good and affordable,” he says. by modern nation-states about how to think of identities Students come to Johri from nearby villages and some from as far away as Loni in Ghaziabad. Those who don’t pursue shooting as a sport, get jobs as security guards or join the security forces. Rajpal wants the dadis to visit his range often and attract more girls to the sport. He wants to ultimately hand over the shooting range to Nita Ambani, he says, showing me a picture of her visiting the range. He is waiting for the day “at least 50 girls sign up.”

Women don’t talk Despite the famous dadis, though, this might not happen overnight. A few metres from Chandro’s house lives Pawan Kumar. He doesn’t want his wife named, and we watch as she ISTOCK IMAGES/ GETTY walks about doing chores, sari firmly covering her head. She hasn’t studied very so often, when I hear a Zoroastrian religion, which reduced empire was always distant and and doesn’t step out of the house discussion veer to the topic the world into spheres of light and inaccessible to most. One could only unless “asked to”. The men of the of freedom, I think of my arts non­light, the Ahura Mazdas against hope to get close to power, but never family do all the talking because the Eand crafts teacher, Mehr the Ahrimans. The original Platonists become power itself. Thus, women are “not allowed to”. Contractor. I was eight or nine years in Greece similarly divided the world individual identities were often “The dadis have brought fame and when I joined her class. What struck into perfect archetypes and context specific, with the end goal development to the village,” says Kapil me most about her was that she, in imperfect manifestations. The being proximity to power. In turn, Tomar, 25, a farmer. “But women their her 60s, was unlike most women I Islamic world view was of believers political identities were multi­layered age or even younger women don’t knew. She sometimes drove a car, a and non­believers. and political inequality an car itself was a rarity in my In our times, nowhere are unremarkable fact. One always knew A childhood, a woman driving even binaries more visible than in the one’s place in an empire. Chandro used to train girls from Haryana, more so; she hopped on the back of stories told by modern nation­states Punjab, and Bihar, using household chores scooters to hitch a ride home. To my about how to think of identities. Citizenship and identity for muscle strengthening eight­year­old mind, she embodied Indians versus Pakistanis, Americans In contrast, the modern nation­state freedom. Freedom from what, I vs Russians, Arabs vs Persians, and reverts to a more binary approach to indulge in all this.” Sitting next to him couldn’t say then. so on. Institutions, contracts, civic identity where it privileges one is Sher Singh, 30, who works in Delhi. Nearly three decades later, what identity above all others: He says Johri girls are not allowed to strikes me as remarkable was the A membership in a group or, presently, step out after sunset or wear jeans or world view that divided the world A grammar of difference is citizenship in a nation­state. The flip use social media. They are mostly neatly into twos. Those who were enshrined in ways that we side to this elevation of one identity free and those who weren’t. Those over all else is that it has also married off after high school. can no longer speak about the Surely all that’s changing now, who ate ice cream and those who theoretically allowed for since there are more women shooters didn’t. Those who liked cricket, world except in this language egalitarianism among citizens as the from the village? “Change kya aana those who didn’t. This willingness to of cleaved alternatives foundational conceit of its self­image. hai? Jo chal raha hai sahi hai. (What construct binaries came without any Thus, within the last hundred change? Whatever is going on is fine),” prodding or training. As if the default norms, culture — all have accreted years, we have seen two visions of says Singh. Ironically, Chandro never mechanism in human brains involves around such dualities. A grammar of identities in a political society: to pushed her own daughters­in­law into conceptualising the world into difference is enshrined in ways that pick and choose from a portfolio of the sport. “They weren’t interested,” simple either­or’s. This instinctive we can no longer speak about the individual identities in an she says. schemata becomes all the more vivid world except in this language of inegalitarian society versus She used to train girls from Sirsa in in our times as one watches political cleaved alternatives. maintaining a singular identity in an Haryana, Patiala in Punjab, and even vocabularies in complex egalitarian society. All this may have from Bihar, using household chores democracies find newer and virulent Different loyalties been merely of theoretical interest in for muscle strengthening. She would expressions of us­vs­them. Countries Adherents of this world view speak the past for most of us. But with ask them to hold a jug of water to like the U.S. that had seemingly of nationalism in its present avatar as climate refugees, economic migrants, learn stillness, clean floors with found ways to sidestep such binaries a permanent fact of human history. internally displaced peoples on the broom and mop, or wring clothes and all the accompanying awkward Yet, none­too­long ago, this was rise, the very language we use to dry to strengthen fingers. So why questions have returned to it. often not the case. describe ourselves will come under hasn’t she trained any Scholars who study ‘empires’ as strain. Who belongs, who is an women in Johri yet? Exclusive spheres political entities — from the longest outsider, how should we treat them “No one has ever Perhaps unsurprisingly, across lived Ottoman empire to the global — questions with no easy answers. asked,” she says. human history, this has been the project of the British empire — tell us As traditional states double down In many ways, revolution norm. Binaries allowed us to think of that individuals who lived under on these ideas, we’ll find almost all and reality continue hand in the world as comprising distinct, these vast conglomerates carried a our social and moral institutions hand in Johri. In the star mutually exclusive spheres, the sum portfolio of different loyalties. One coming under stress, as we see fellow shooter’s household, it’s of which exhaust our cognitive could very well be a Greek, an humans enclosed behind barbed still Dolly who wakes at 5 universes. Among the Orthodox Christian, a resident of wire, unshaven, unclean, awaiting a a.m. to bathe, pray and oldest of such efforts was Istanbul, and a speaker of Turkish. piece of paper that will one day set exercise before she tends crystallised in the Political power in a 19th century them free. to the cattle and takes care of her four siblings. Only Keerthik Sasidharan is a writer and lives in New York City. then can she go shooting. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 16 FRAMED Sunday, July 28, 2019 17

LOCOMOTIVE CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC As old as the hills

With a 14-year World Heritage tag, the 111-year-old Nilgiri Mountain Railway is the grande dame of toy trains

TEXT BY SOFIA JULIET R. AND IMAGES BY M. SATHYAMOORTHY First stop The train on its way to Kallar station, the first stop after Mettupalayam. Between Mettupalayam and Coonoor, the line uses a rack-and-pinion system to help it along the steep gradient. y first ride on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) was as an eight­year­old with my cousins. I remember how we screamed — partly in Mexcitement, partly in fear — each time the ‘toy train’ went through the 16 tunnels it crosses from Mettupalayam to Ooty. We held our breath when it chugged over bridges (there are 258 of them), awed by the vista of mountains and valleys, tea estates and waterfalls that lay below. On July 15, NMR celebrated the 14th anniversary of its induction as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Now, along with the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and the Kalka­Shimla Railway, NMR is also part of the heritage ‘Mountain Railways of India’. NMR has more than a few distinctions. On its 46 km journey, the little blue train climbs from 325 m to 2,240 m, negotiating along the way the steepest gradient of any railway line in South Asia. It does this with its rack and pinion system — it is the only rack railway in India — where cog wheels mesh with a toothed rack rail to ease the climb. It is also India’s only train that uses a Swiss X­class coal engine, one of the world’s oldest engines. When this railway was completed in 1908, the last stop was the hill town of Coonoor. The line was later extended to Ooty (Udhagamandalam). It now passes through 13 stations: Mettupalayam, Kallar (now closed for passengers), Adderley, Hillgrove, Runnymede, Katteri, Coonoor, Wellington, Aravankadu, Ketti, Lovedale, Fernhill and Ooty. The train leaves Mettupalayam at 7.10 each morning, Tunnel vision There are 16 tunnels on the route. The first tunnel is after Kallar. From here, the vistas the switches from a steam to a diesel engine at Coonoor station, route is known for begin to unfold. and chugs into Ooty at noon. Crossing bridges After Kallar station comes Bridge No. 25, the longest in the section at 126 metres. There are 258 bridges from Mettupalayam to Udhagamandalam.

Changing gears At Coonoor station, where the main loco shed is situated, the Letting off steam It takes two to three hours to completely empty the engine’s Ahead of the curve The train snakes its way to Coonoor. Breather At Runnymede station, passengers stop to take in the beauty of the hills. steam engine is changed and a diesel loco takes over. Check-up After decoupling at Coonoor, the engine is given a thorough check. boiler of steam. 18 Literary Review

wrote furiously from the 1860s well into the 90s. A rash of leading authors of the day, including Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling, also dipped their toes in the genre. Sci­fi, even in its more cerebral forays, has always been an extension of man, well, an extension of manhood. The perspective, the conundrums, the intergalactic crises have all been reflections or exaggerated extrapolations of society as it was at the time of writing. Gender is either redundant, or used as narrative upholstery. Published five years before the 19th Amendment which granted voting rights to women in the U.S., Gilman’s Herland punched way above its weight. Not only as feminist literature that dared to exist, but also as sci­fi that brought a fresh perspective to the increasingly weird and wonderful visions of an otherworld. Gilman brilliantly caricatures the response of the contemporary man by stereotyping him in three of the lead characters. One idolises womankind. One is a pragmatist, a man of balance nonetheless trapped by generations of conditioning. And the third, the spearhead of the expedition, is the alpha male of the late 19th and early 20th century — unsurprisingly similar to his 21st century counterpart. He finds it improbable that women could overcome or behave in a manner other than what he knows to be their nature, their biological limitations, their allure. The details of how Herland functions as an all­woman country, told from the viewpoint of the trio, are incomplete and narrow. Despite a scientific and/ or exploratory disposition, what else could the male gaze be capable of, Gilman seems to GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK ask. THE LEAD CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Unadulterated utopia Another aspect that sets Herland apart is that it is an unadulterated utopia. There is no hidden rot to be uncovered, no sudden scandal or Imagine a country crime. The arrival of the three men, though of huge significance, does not throw the everyday out of whack. The women of Herland do away with even the biological necessity of the male and with it, the need for sex. In other that needs no saving words, they do not need men, and they do not need saving from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s sci­fi novel, Herland, created a template that no one has anything. Herland captured the tough since adapted — of a women’s utopia that’s neither fragile nor threatened optimism of the First Wave of Feminism. And it is fascinating that the Third Wave was championed (not ANAND VENKATESWARAN published in 1915, about an ideal powering the First Wave of Feminism exclusively, of course) by a chilling society composed entirely of women — the fight for voting and equal dystopia viscerally conjured by A e seem to be discovering who have done away with the need to contract and property rights — that Atwood in The Handmaid’s Tale. The The Handmaid’s Tale Published in women­centred sci­fi with have men in their lives — first search for identity beyond that of In some ways, the web series on The Handmaid’s Tale in reverse, Adam’s rib. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, is a black mirror of Herland. In both 1915, five Handmaid’s Tale. And yet apparently. her devastating short story, is a blow­ worlds, motherhood is the raison years before W Herland Atwood is not the first writer to have is so masterfully written by­blow account of a woman’s post­ d’etre for the woman. However, while women were imagined the possibilities. One of her that it can hold its own in any age of partum slide into insanity, but it’s also the Gilman brand of motherhood fuels granted most remarkable literary predecessors sci­fi — nascent to golden to post­ a rebellion against a medical system greater individual pursuits towards a voting rights would be the American author modern. However, it assumes that was frustratingly patronising of common good, Atwood’s women are in the U.S., Charlotte Perkins Gilman, born this particular resonance when you women’s psychological illnesses. ‘vessels,’ no more. month 159 years ago. Although we examine the social and literary context Both authors make their work all Herland remember Gilman mostly for her it stems from. Fighting the male gaze the more effective by placing their punched haunting short story, ‘The Yellow Through the late 19th and early And as far as sci­fi of that time goes, worlds within reach. Herland offers way above Wallpaper’, she had blazed a trail for 20th centuries, Gilman’s fierce fiction the bar was set by the definitive works solutions for mankind’s ills in greater its weight women’s sci­fi with her novel, Herland, was part of the tectonic forces of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, who social cooperation, equal education DELHI THE HINDU Magazine The Unlikely Adventures of Superior: The Return of Sunday, July 28, 2019 19 the Shergill Sisters Race Science is not about combines levity and the ‘return’ but a thorough seriousness with panache p22 history of race science p24

and equal treatment for children of Why is it that even if things start both sexes. And Atwood says we’re on well, even if a story begins in a utopia, REPRISE our way to The Handmaid’s Tale, we it all goes sideways? Let’s face it — CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC just need to continue to do nothing. utopias are boring. There is no If we stepped back from the struggle, there is nothing to overcome, feminist point of view and looked at no victory at the end of a journey. A If This Is a Man utopias and dystopias — and not just in world which has resolved all conflict print — with a slightly unfocused eye, and is engaged in nurturing harmony there are some fun patterns hiding in must either be child­like, thumb­sized plain sight. (Gulliver’s Travels) or populated by by Primo Levi milksops (every civilisation that begs GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK Power corrupts starships or superheroes to save it). First, let’s rattle off some dystopias off At the same time, highly developed the cuff: Nineteen Eighty Four, Brave civilisations — from the dynasties of New World, Brazil, V for Vendetta. Or Jupiter Ascending to Asimov’s empire post­apocalyptic worlds like the — must crumble into chaos and Resident Evil series, Mad Max: Fury conflict. And red­blooded stories Road, The Hunger Games, Divergence, demand guns and glory and good The Maze Runner, and so many more. old­fashioned capitalist, patriarchal All these stories carry a enterprise. Unless, of common denominator. course, we’re talking about Either a malevolent force Herland. radiates outward and consumes all, or crushes Simply better the rights of ‘other’ people. One realises that Gilman The individual loses all opened up a template which agency. The force controls no one has since adapted. the dominant class as much She wrote of a utopia that as it subjugates the was affected, but not underclass. disturbed, by contact with Both destruction and the new. One that was in no the sudden voiding of rights way innocent or gullible. It are symptoms. The cause, was not powerless against at the risk of spoiling every attack. dystopian story ever, is this It countered barbarism SUDIPTA DATTA language lacks words to express this — a toxic concentration of and violence with c offence, the demolition of a man. In his is the centenary year of a moment, with almost prophetic power. intelligence, strength, As we read Power in the hands of patience and pragmatism. Italian writer Primo Levi — he intuition, the reality was revealed to one person or a very And at no point did it lose its the story of Twould have been 100 years us: we had reached the bottom. It is specific demographic or humanity. It was not a more Herland, it old on July 31. A survivor of not possible to sink lower than this; entity. It could be an advanced people. It was reads us too. Auschwitz, Levi fell to his death in no human condition is more omnipotent state, a mad simply better. Three kinds 1987, from the landing of his third­ miserable than this, nor could it king, a power­hungry The feminist ideologies in of men went storey apartment in Turin. He wrote conceivably be so. Nothing belongs several books on the Holocaust, to us anymore; they have taken away corporate, or an AI that Herland — particularly the in and did attained sentience. A linking of female identity so keeping the devastating memory our clothes, our shoes, even our pathogen wipes out completely with what they alive. hair; if we speak, they will not listen humanity in Oryx and motherhood — might not did. What Levi, who trained as a chemist, to us, and if they listen, they will not Crake; the corporate that have aged particularly well, kind of man was sent to Auschwitz on February understand.” did it had absolute control but the space­time Gilman are you and 21, 1944, “a name without Soon the name was taken away significance for us at that time…” He for a number. Levi was assigned over the distribution occupied, and the caveats what would system. The Republic of she built in (motherhood is spent 20 months there, and was one Häftling (prisoner) 174517, a tattoo on you do? Gilead in The Handmaid’s the honour, but it is also a of the three, out of the 125 Jews sent the left arm to be carried till he dies. Tale chokes its world in a vice­like grip choice), more than exonerate her. from Fossoli, to make the journey The clinical detail he provides is to because it holds the reins of the Best of all, as we read the story, it home when the camp was liberated. “furnish documentation for a quiet military, economy, mobility and reads us too. Three kinds of men went After some years lapsed, Levi sat study of certain aspects of the media. in and did what they did. What kind of down to write about the experience human mind,” and how one is And the fixes to this are all typically man are you and what would you do? in If This Is a Man, first published in capable of behaving with another. ‘clean slate’ protocols, where the For the male reader, it is not an easy Italian in 1947. “You who live safe/ In For Levi, “precisely because the status quo needs to be reduced to ash question. your warm houses… Consider if this Lager was a great machine to reduce for the future to rise like a phoenix. In us all, there are elements of the is a man/ Who works in the mud/ us to beasts, we must not become The galactic empires — of Isaac brash patriarch who was exiled, the Who does not know peace/ Who beasts.” Asimov’s Foundation series or of hopeless romantic who discarded his fights for a scrap of bread/ Who dies He endured the pain to “tell the George Lucas’ Star Wars — crumble. own identity for a place among them, because of a yes or a no.” story, to bear witness,” remaining They must, so that a new order can and the balanced pragmatist who a alive so that he wouldn’t “begin to rise. And fall again to warrant another Herlander decided to accompany on Demolition of man die.” Asked once why there is no trilogy. Utopias rarely fare better. the journey back home. The trio was The inmates were first taken to a expression of hate for the Germans not ready for Herland. work camp, where they were “shaved and if he had forgiven them — the Guns & glory The legend was weighed down by and sheared” and forced into shower Afterword of the English edition has Geek alert. See Star Trek — The Next the considerable exposition that 20th rooms to be disinfected before being a host of questions, answered by Generation; Season 1, Episode 8, titled century men needed to get their taken to Auschwitz. “Then for the Levi — he said: “My personal ‘Justice’. The Starship Enterprise bearings. If a trio were plucked out first time we became aware that our temperament is not inclined to hatred.” disembarks on a utopian (yawn) world, from among us today, 104 years after A where everyone is fit and fetchingly the book was written, and sent to If his first memoir was about the polygamous. A young crew member Herland, it is difficult to say if we Nothing belongs to us “descent into hell,” years later he inadvertently breaks a greenhouse would be ready for it either. Until we anymore; they have taken wrote another book, The Truce, boundary line and, according to local are, we will continue to wallow in away our clothes, our shoes, which describes the journey to a law, is sentenced to humane lethal memories of dystopic futures and even our hair; if we speak, celebration of life around him. But injection. How Captain Picard resolves failed utopias. that’s another story. they will not listen to us, and ...... the dilemma, and also wields ...... diplomacy against a celestial entity The former journalist works as a if they listen, they will not The writer looks back at one classic that oversees the planet, forms the rest consultant in fintech and understand each fortnight. of the plot. crypto-economics. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 20 Literary Review Sunday, July 28, 2019

TIME TRAVEL ILLUSTRATION: KANNAN SUNDAR a.m. to 12­30 or 1 p.m. and every one is CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC thronged with passengers... Engines puffing and whistling, passengers running in and out, guards shutting doors, faint hum of voices, all combined to create a grandeur of busy life which must be seen to be realised.” Others like Sivanath Sastri found the railways to be traffickers of easy virtue and eccentric outcasts. “At ten thirty in the night I came to King’s Cross from Waterloo Station by bus... As the night grew everyone around appeared drunk. Even the booking clerk at the station was in a particularly jocular mood. He asked me with a smile, ‘Are you alone?’ A woman came up enquiring, ‘Are you coming my way, dear?’ Getting no reply, she realised that this was not the right place to look for business. Another lady had drunk so much that she had lost her ability to move. The workers on the station were similarly out of their senses. When the tram came at twelve in the night I found that almost no passenger could stand up properly,” wrote Sastri disapprovingly.

Roaring giant A few years later, in 1888, M.K. Gandhi would spend his 19th birthday, alone, at a Victorian room in Richmond, haunted by memories of his home and by reports of the Whitechapel murders by Jack the Ripper, while the melancholy engines of the London Underground trains trundled past the rows of Tudor houses behind him. He later moved to West Kensington to live as a paying guest with a widow and her two daughters, in a four­storey house Tagore in the Tube that stood in a row past which “roared London’s District Line Trains.” Besides his long solitary walks, the The story of how the book that brought India its first Nobel went missing is a Tube led Gandhi to numerous explorations, the most notable being thrilling adventure set in the London Underground that of a vegetarian restaurant off Farringdon Street. Here, armed with a copy of Henry Salt’s A Plea for ARUP K. CHATTERJEE perambulations in the city, taking space became the London Vegetarianism and Other Essays, them faithfully to famous landmarks: Underground network. Gandhi devoured his “first hearty ince the 1830s, well­to­do the British Museum, Parliament meal” since his arrival in London. With Indians had been travelling to House, Westminster Abbey, Crystal Puffing and whistling that serendipitous find, the Mahatma England, for diplomacy, Palace, Madame Tussauds and so on. The visitors were awed by the would go on to wage a minor dietary Sentrepreneurship, leisure, and For early travellers, London also underground stations. St. Pancras and revolution in the heart of Albion education. From Raja Rammohun Roy meant a throbbing commercial Victoria, with their gigantic façades before being called to the Bar. to Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia to metropolis. Krishnabhabini Das, an and gothic interiors, inspired much In 1912, Rabindranath Tagore Dwarkanath Tagore and Keshub early woman traveller, described the admiration. T.N. Mukharji (or visited London for the second time. He Chandra Sen, to a panoply of law London of 1885 as a “mammoth Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, the had gone there first in 1878, but wasn’t students and civil service aspirants — theatre of shops”: a city highlighted by famous writer of ghost stories) was very impressed. This time, he wanted they all headed to the capital of the blazing advertisements for everything appointed as supervisor by the to show the English translation of his British Empire with burning curiosity. from textiles to teas to carbolic smoke Government of India to the Colonial book Gitanjali to the English painter However, Indian travelogues from the balls to curry powder. And although and Indian Exhibition in London in and art critic, William Rothenstein, city really took flight only after the the advertisers promoted their wares 1886, and he returned, captivated by hoping he could urge William Butler London Underground came of age. in magazines and newspapers such as the city’s railway system, which to him Yeats to write an introduction. Inaugurated at Paddington in 1863, The Illustrated London News, The Pall was “one of the wonders of the world.” Tagore’s son and daughter­in­law, and what is today the London Tube was an Mall Gazette, The Times, and later, The “The trains ran every three probably Soumendra Deb Burman elegant companion in most Indian Strand, soon their most preferred minutes,” wrote Mukharji, “from 7­30 from the Tripura royal family,

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c The case was found and WORD COUNTS CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC returned safely to Tagore, uncannily enough, by the office of ‘lost property’ at the Baker Street station Where cities accompanied Tagore on this journey. In mid­June, Tagore and his party breathe travelled from Dover to London, from where they were to take the Tube to Rothenstein’s Hampstead residence Great parks surpass the following day. On the way, they the ambitions of discovered that the attaché case in which Tagore had been carrying the their designers manuscript had disappeared. After several anxious hours, the poet asked here is likely no better way his son, Rathindranath, to inquire with to get the measure of a city the London Tube authorities. than to wander around its The case was found and returned parks, at least for those of us GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK safely to Tagore, uncannily enough, by T given to people­watching. And yet, sounds of Xochimilco, he felt he had common spaces within the urban the office of ‘lost property’ at the it’s odd that we mostly get to know missed out on something: “I had grid as New York City has with High Baker Street station. Sherlock Holmes, of a city’s green and common spaces experienced alone, as an outsider, Line, the redeveloped public park the most famous fictional tenant of the only in the passing in travelogues what would ideally have been a on a discarded elevated railway line/ neighbourhood, had just solved ‘The and novels. In a volume she edited shared experience.” yard. The rail line facilitated Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ and was in 2013, City Parks: Public Places, Some time later, after moving to deliveries in the meatpacking and in probability involved at this point in Private Thoughts, Catie Marron Mexico City, Lida went back with a industrial districts of Manhattan, till ‘The Adventure of the Dying Detective.’ wrote: “…I’ve been fortunate to visit friend he had made in town, and got it was abandoned in the 1980s. For But he almost certainly had no hand in a number of the world’s most an insider’s tour, including to the the New York­based writer André the retrieval of Tagore’s case. vibrant and revered cities, and I “creepy” Island of the Dolls, where Aciman, to appreciate that Happy accident noticed after a while that I always decades ago a man started hanging transformation is also to meditate on gravitated to the nearest park. I dolls from the trees to ward off a lost time: “It is time that confers Tagore did meet Rothenstein, but only started to look for books about my spirit. Lida concludes by saying he meaning to the High Line; time is the next day. Needless to say, he favourite parks and wondered why had not, at the time or writing, been the film we bring to everything we carried the manuscript this time, there were so few.” to Venice for fear of being wish to see when we hope to which was later read and reviewed by There are still too few, and it’s confronted with “a grand decaying amplify what our eyes are seeing.” Yeats, who also wrote the famous interesting to return to City Parks to centre of Europe”, as opposed to the Even as it has attracted glitzy real introduction. In November that year, a deepen one’s own appreciation of “vibrancy” evident in Xochimilco. estate development around, and is a limited edition of an anthology of 103 the local park. Some essays stand Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif magnet for city­dwellers, High Line poems by Tagore was published by the out. finds resonance of Cairo’s current is aware of the city’s and its own London India Society. Gitanjali was and past rhythms — “Cairo, past. Writes Aciman: “High Line… is published in March next year by Shared experience historians say, was built around a a park that loves itself, its past, and Macmillan. By the time Tagore was Some spaces demand garden, and was always full of its city. It has all the untamed, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature companionship, and invite a pleasure parks and amusement dishevelled growth you expect to in November 1913, he was a global contrast with places not yet visited. grounds” — in the city’s al­Azhar find on any abandoned railway phenomenon. David Lida, an American writer, Park, where there’s room for track.” Those tracks are key — they The greatest conceit of Western asked a fellow traveller on his flight everyone. were removed, cleaned and restored technology and civilisation, the to Mexico City for recommendations Writing in the afterglow of the to the High Line, so that: “The park railways, had inadvertently left its on the sights around town, and at Arab Spring, Soueif says as she spies remembers its unshod days of footprints on the book of Eastern the end of a long list the impromptu guards around checking on couples: abandonment. But it isn’t held spiritual wisdom that would comfort a guide said he should not leave “We’re in transition, we say to each hostage to them. And in this whole generation of Europeans during without going to Xochimilco, other, from dictatorship to compromise lies art.” the turbulent years of the Great War. comparing it with the canals of democracy, from oppression to But in the end, it’s the people In 1932, Tagore wrote to Rothenstein Venice. Xochimilco is one of the 16 freedom. We’ll get there. In an ideal who validate a park’s existence. As that he had found a place in the boroughs of the Mexican capital, but world there would be no guards, no former U.S. President Bill Clinton history of English literature by virtue the reference was to the network of walls, no entrance fee. But in an concludes his piece on Dumbarton of “an accident”, a happy accident if canals in certain parts. ideal world, there would be at least Oaks in Washington, D.C., ever there was one. Lida went there on a Sunday, twenty parks like Azhar dotted over “Something surprising lurks around In 2004, Tagore’s Nobel medal was when all of Mexico City seemed to Cairo, a park for each million of the each corner — someone with a stolen. With neither Sherlock Holmes be about, and he observed entire city’s inhabitants.” fascinating story who came from far nor the Baker Street station office families playing out their away to visit; or every once in a being anywhere at hand to intervene, weekend routines. But Art in nature while, a young man or woman, it has been missing ever since...... as he navigated Perhaps no other city has shown resting on a bench, peacefully through the food and better how to develop green, absorbed in a book.” The writer is founding editor of Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing, and Associate Mini Kapoor is a Delhi-based journalist. Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University.

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The annual Big Bad Wolf discounted bookfair is Judith Kerr passed away on May 22 just after back. It will be held in Bangkok from August 9 completing a book called The Curse of the to 19. There will be more than three million School Rabbit. The book and its audiobook books on sale, on 50-90% discounts. In addition adaptation are out now. It’s about a boy called to books in English, this year’s event will also Tommy who has to look after the school rabbit feature books in Thai. and is soon convinced that the rabbit is cursed. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 22 Literary Review Sunday, July 28, 2019

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Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam Elias Khoury, trs Humphrey Davies Archipelago $20 • Exiled in New York, Palestinian ex­pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with a father figure from his childhood changes everything. As he investigates what happened in 1948 in Lydda, his birth city, he gathers tragic stories about his people.

Knife Jo Nesbo Penguin Random House ₹599 • In this new Harry Hole mystery, the detective is in the dumps: his girlfriend has left him, he’s working on cold cases and the notorious criminal, Svein Finne, whom Hole had put behind bars, is out. Harry is responsible for the many years Finne spent in prison, but now he’s free and ready to pick up where he left off.

What Mina Did Geeta Menon Rupa ₹295 GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK • This novel shuttles between Bengaluru and the U.S. Alternating between flashbacks COMEDY CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC and the present day, it narrates the story of Mina and her best friend, Neelu. Their friendship hits rock bottom when Mina is unable to reciprocate the support Neelu had given her They’ve got a ticket to ride when Mina’s life had been shattered by a murder. A racy novel that combines the seriousness of Greek drama with

The Stationery Shop the frivolity of a contemporary soap opera Marjan Kamali Gallery Books $27 INDIRA CHANDRASEKHAR before she departs for Delhi, that her the walls that the three have built • Roya is an idealistic teenager wayward son is in love with a woman between themselves? Will it bring living in Tehran in 1953. Amidst n this novel about three sisters closer to her age than his. Raunchy them closer? Will it help ground them the political upheaval of the who are directed by their dying Jezmeen (with a ‘z’!), the reality­ in their heritage as their mother had time, she finds a literary oasis in mother to undertake a pilgrimage disaster­TV­show host, is floundering hoped it would? kindly Mr. Fakhri’s Itogether to find themselves and because her career is threatened when They stumble from Delhi, with its neighbourhood bookshop. She each other, Balli Kaur Jaswal reveals she is caught on camera in an strange yet familiar landscapes, to also finds love there, with a herself to be a master storyteller. incredible disaster of her own making. Amritsar, with its promise of peace little manipulation by Mr. From the moment the tale begins, we Sensitive Shirina, in a marriage that and absolution in the Golden Temple Fakhri. Then fate intervenes in are drawn into the lives of the she has arranged for herself, because, tank. It’s the height of summer and the form of a coup d’etat that protagonists — the British­born in addition to giving her a charming the temperature touches 45 degrees. forever changes their country. Punjabi sisters and their soon­dead husband, it holds out the Despite the physical mother, whose last wish thrusts the safety of tradition, is finding discomfort, the sisters find three together. They converge in out that the life she has tied themselves reliving their Love Story of a Commando Delhi, and from then on starts a herself to is all about shared childhood memories. Swapnil Pandey rollercoaster ride of those crazy, control. They are nostalgic but they Westland ludicrous incidents that an Indian also look back with the ₹250 from abroad often has to face in her Promise of peace wisdom of hindsight. • Riya is a millennial who falls home country. We laugh in Each sister has a terrible There are questions to be in love with a Black Cat recognition, and sometimes grimace secret that she cannot share asked: How did their mother commando with the NSG, at the coarseness of the blatant stare. with the others, each sister recover after the sudden Captain Virat. They meet under The women go from one adventure presents a façade that she death of their father? How the burning dome of the Taj to another, each ending in a believes is important for The Unlikely did they manage through the Palace hotel, and later, amidst tantalising teaser about the complex maintaining the family Adventures of years of penury that violence and gunfire in Kashmir. backstory of one of the sisters. In each dynamic. Each sister is the Shergill followed? Their childhood As they find themselves behind episode, we travel inwards, as Jaswal burdened with the guilt of Sisters joys, quarrels, tensions — it the enemy lines in PoK, unfolds the emotional chaos of each their mother’s death, which Balli Kaur Jaswal all trickles back into their can Virat snatch Riya away sister. is rooted in past secrets. Will HarperCollins India psyche. The memories from death? Responsible Rajni discovers, just the journey create chinks in ₹499 sometimes result in a gentler THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 Literary Review 23

GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK understanding of one another, but that POETRY does not always last as old frustrations CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC return, and exasperation at the choices each has made rises to the surface. How will Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina A sprig of forgive and care for each other again? It will take a momentous denouement to do that and to reveal the many truths they have buried. jasmine

Injustices of patriarchy The story is fast­paced, engaging and Poems that are comic, yet addresses dark issues. Jaswal uses humour to highlight the focussed on loss patriarchal assumptions the sisters but are also about fight. She is adept at this — her previous novel, Erotic Stories for being fully alive Punjabi Widows, while hilarious, had also underlined ugly social realities. KEKI N. DARUWALLA meeting Ulysses after 20 years, or of a longing for water from old stepwells. It c disappeared person, she is thinking of is a short stab in a fine imagistic poem. Despite the physical discomfort, the he title of K. Srilata’s latest herself and her mother. Another poet would have done the sisters find themselves reliving their book, a bit long, tells us that it In ‘Nestle’ she moves from obvious, gone to the lynching at the shared childhood memories. They is focussed on absences, so to elevators to falling through cracks/ of end. The stepwells and the cool, speak. She has every reason, being locked out/ of being locked in/ shadowed water become a metaphor are nostalgic but they also look back T of course. Her introduction tells us and just the awful, permanent fright of for sanity and longing. with the wisdom of hindsight that she has been raised by a single being/ the weight of the self in resistance In lines like each morning I sweep (divorced) mother. The absence of a to the world. Here she has touched the spores/ of a new silence, the poet It is tempting to simplify Jaswal’s father obviously tells. The first poem, upon the existential and raised it to a emerges. In ‘One False Step’ she does novels as those revealing the clash ‘It is 1966’, starts in a sort of limbo higher level. take a false step, talking of a cliff­edge, between the traditional and the where dream and memory The poem ‘Not in the followed by the earth is a landmine. modern, between East and West, but meet. Picture’ starts with an Doesn’t the unreality of it, a landmine the issues she addresses run deeper. I am not born. Adoption Agency file. We at a cliff­edge, strike poets? Metaphors Jaswal hits out at the injustices of My father knocks at the know what to expect. Later, a need to be based on some sort of patriarchy and the fact that she does door of a house professional photographer is reality, even if a poetic one. this through humour does not take I have never seen. hired to take pictures of the Srilata, a professor at IIT Madras, away from the seriousness of the There at the door stands wedding. When the album is teaches creative writing among other problem. my mother, slender produced, the mother is things. A self­assured poet, she is not The happily­ever­after ending with a sprig of jasmine in her nowhere to be seen. desperate to make a splash. This, her its neat closure left me faintly hair. Some of her poems fifth volume of poetry, is not merely dissatisfied. But this is just a tiny She sees her mother later, indulge in pleasant focussed on loss, but fully alive to the The irritant in an otherwise superb novel. the edge of her sari already a whimsies like ‘What the times. Unmistakable The Unlikely Adventures combines the grieving afterthought. In the end Tamil Poet Says About Srilata has got into the habit of Presence of seriousness of Greek drama with the she sees her mother looking at the Herself in her Bio.’ But on leaning on poems by others. I counted Absent Humans frivolity of the contemporary soap crumble of her years. Women’s the whole the landscape is four poems modelled after Nâzım K. Srilata opera. Its faith in the power of human poetry is always more poignant bleak. Hikmet, Agha Shahid Ali, Wendell Paperwall relationship to build bridges makes it a and intimate. Veering away is an Berry, Daniel Bosch, and three others. ₹300 heartwarming read. Srilata has changed. In her essential talent, moving She is a fine poet with a distinct voice ...... previous volume, Writing Octopus, she from a complex of images to the home of her own and we would like to hear The scientist, fiction-writer, editor and talked of others — the leopard­ prowl of where the poem is headed. ‘Gujarat her ab initio. founder of Out of Print, is the author, your thoughts. But here, whether she 2002’ talks of burning heat and news ...... most recently, of Polymorphism. is talking of Sita or of Penelope of another lynching and moves to The writer is a poet and novelist.

CHILDREN’S TALES drink water: “One should sit facing the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Kaaba and take water in three slow sips and conclude it with a prayer to Allah.” A.M. FARUQUI The book also includes some stark eschatology, with scary flames Let there be light illustrating the fate of “he who disobeys”. The prose is unexceptional. A certain traditional style of storytelling A collection of tales from the Quran and the can be detected in the narration, but the diction may not always be simple Hadiths made accessible for children enough for children. For example, from the tale ‘Time for ROHAN MANOJ given the title ‘Paradise Goodbyes’: “Extend your right Lost’. The prophet hand, so that I might swear his book is a collection of tales Muhammad’s life, teachings, allegiance to you,” and from the Quran and the battles and other incidents “Thereafter, we were made Hadiths, presented as very from early Islam supply responsible for many things, Tshort, simple stories, each most of the remaining and I do not know how I would accompanied by an illustration and stories. fare with respect to them. aimed at children. They are strictly The tales have a didactic When I die, no mourner should religious in nature and origin; there’s bent and not all of them are do so over my bier. When you nothing from, say, folklore. Many of the stories per se — a number of bury me, throw the earth over stories, from that of the creation of the sections simply describe 365 Tales from me and tarry over my tomb…” world to the tales of the prophets — right conduct and right Islam This kind of writing, with including of Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa practice according to Islam, Ziya Us Salam its slightly archaic words, does (Moses) and Isa ( Jesus) — who preceded sometimes supported by some Om Books suit the religious origin of the Muhammad, may also be familiar to teaching of the prophet. For International stories, but it might have been non­Muslims. example, one section ₹595 a good idea to simplify it for Indeed, the tale of Satan’s fall is describes the proper way to children. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 24 Literary Review Sunday, July 28, 2019

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The Diary of Manu Gandhi Tridip Suhrud Oxford University Press Prejudice ₹750 • The two volumes is a record of Manu Gandhi’s life and times with M.K. Gandhi between 1943 within and 1948. Authenticated by Gandhi himself, the meticulous entries in the diary throw light on Gandhi’s life as a prisoner science and his endeavour to establish the possibility of collective non­violence. Angela Saini argues that the need to One Giant Leap classify human beings Charles Fishman Simon & Schuster India into groups ₹699 • From the halls of MIT, where is a problematic digital pioneer Charles Draper created the two computers impulse that hasn’t aboard Apollo 11, to the gone away, even factories where hundreds of women weaved computer among scientists GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK programs with copper wire, Fishman captures the sweeping achievement of these ordinary JACOB KOSHY the end of ‘race science’, but some has led to communities that are Americans in the 20th century researchers continued to investigate disproportionately prominent in to go to the moon. he world is afflicted by a rash on these lines. certain sport such as wrestling or of majoritarianism. This has Closer to the present, Saini archery, Saini is again “surprised” that contributed to the emergence examines the controversy surrounding it comes from a “well­regarded” Young Castro: The Making of a Tof the alt­right, or more widely projects such as the Human Genome geneticist. “...It demonstrated that Revolutionary in many countries, a frantic search Diversity Project (HGDP) that was more than half a century of research Jonathan M. Hansen among the majority for evidence that conceived in 1991 and aimed to collect into human variation hasn’t Simon & Schuster India gives them a greater claim over their DNA from indigenous populations eliminated prejudice within science.” ₹799 countries than besieging foreigners. from around the world and explore This is akin to reasoning that anybody • An American historian who In this backdrop science writer global genetic diversity. Even though it studying nuclear physics secretly gained access to the Castro Angela Saini’s book Superior has a was led by anthropologists and aspires to build a bomb. archives in Havana and spoke startling subhead: The Return of Race researchers, who were ‘anti­racist’ While Saini gives ample space and to people close to him writes a Science. The book’s jacket asserts “…as and meant to dispel notions perspective to those with portrait of the early years of the ethnic and religious nationalism rises of superiority and inferiority, views she doesn’t agree with, Cuban leader showing why he around the world, race science is it somehow — according to she elides what motivates bulk embraced communism and how experiencing a revival, fuelled by the Saini — ended up packaging of contemporary geneticists he led his country in revolution. misuse of data by politically motivated old ideas about race into interested in variation today, groups…” newer bottles. The need to which is disease. That’s an astounding claim. Has the classify human beings into She ignores work that is disenchantment with globalisation groups is a problematic looking at gene frequencies in Religious Tolerance: A History afflicted scientists, scientific impulse that has never gone India’s endogamous Arvind Sharma institutions — and their sponsors — in away, she argues. Even in communities to understand HarperCollins that they are now exhuming pseudo­ some scientists. what role single genes and ₹899 science? And giving breath to ideas of She cites the racism of clusters of them may play in • Can religious tolerance be the superiority of certain races? James Watson, Nobel Superior: The the inheritance of uncommon placed on a firmer footing by However, it turns out that the book Laureate and co­discoverer of Return of diseases and sensitivity to finding grounds for it within isn’t about the ‘return’ but a the double­helical structure Race Science certain drugs. Warfarin, an the faiths? Sharma addresses scrupulously reported history of race of DNA, who has frequently Angela Saini anticoagulant, is used in this question by examining science and its connections to spoken of the intellectual HarperCollins patients who are at increased Judaism, Christianity, Islam, contemporary research into the inferiority of black people ₹599 risk of developing blood clots Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, genetic history of populations. and “Indians being servile and studies in India show that Sikhism, Confucianism, Daoism and Chinese being left genetically certain genotypes have reduced and Shinto, whose followers Nazi experiments conformist by their society.” If people benefits from the drug. together cover over two­thirds Saini begins with colonialism and how as accomplished and knowledgeable These were insights gleaned from of the globe. in its quest for legitimising slavery and reason thus, what hope is there for the studying prevalence in subjugating natives, it invented a rest, she implicitly suggests. consanguineous communities but it’s hierarchy of man where the white Race is a social construct and has no one’s argument that a community, Reel India: Cinema off the European was at the apex of human always been exploited by dominant or a caste, is necessarily vulnerable to Beaten Track development and the African the power groups and therefore cannot be specific diseases. Namrata Joshi lowest. useful as a biological category and it Across the world, millions of Hachette India Phrenology, Charles Darwin’s perplexes Saini why avowedly ‘anti­ patients afflicted by rare diseases ₹599 theory of evolution, the application of racist’ scientists today would want to struggle due to lack of medicine and • A film critic travels through statistics to the study of human pursue the frequencies of certain research­attention to genetic disorders interiors of India chronicling the populations, eugenics, Josef Mengele genes in particular population groups, because there isn’t enough work done. nation’s obsession with the and his gruesome experiments in Nazi unless they had unconscious ‘racist’ Disease and cure have primarily movies. Joshi traces the lives of concentration camps on twins and tendencies. focussed on developing one­size­fits­ superstars like Amitabh genetic inheritance, are mentioned in all (read Western European) drugs and Bachchan that began in small this narrative arc. Intellectual racism? cures. towns; and provides us an With the end of World War II, the In interviews with Indian geneticists Superior is a necessary, compelling insight into how films affect formation of the United Nations and who observe that India’s traditional and informed read but no, there aren’t people far removed from the the universal declaration of human fixation with caste groups and evil scientists trying to dig up a silver screen. rights, one thought that it would mean strictures prohibiting intermarriage supremacist past. THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 Literary Review 25

ECONOMY CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Balancing a relationship A veteran traces India’s roller-coaster ties with the International Monetary Fund

KANDASWAMI SUBRAMANIAN and even began to contribute to its capital resources. olicymakers in developing He writes about the devaluation of countries, especially those the rupee in 1966 which led to under threat of an economic antipathy towards IMF programmes Pcrisis, face a painful dilemma: that were in conflict with our “to reach or not to reach the IMF.” If socialistic policies. Srinivas they reach the IMF, they are politically documents the balance of payments damned; if they don’t, they are crisis of 1981 and the borrowing from economically ruined. the IMF that followed. The author The trouble with IMF assistance is provides details of the discussions in that it is subject to rigid conditions the IMF’s Executive Board and how under the rubric of the Washington the U.S. abstained. He notes that the Consensus (WC). Developing countries conditions imposed were in line with have viewed it as anti­poor, anti­ the strategies adopted by us under the welfare and pro­capitalist. Though the Author speak The IMF’s relations with member countries find a mention. GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK Sixth Five Year Plan. The significance IMF did not soften its stance for years, of the 1981 programme was that India, it had to subsequently bow to changes primacy of the WC. The IMF felt the Srinivas holds a rosy view of our which had agreed to draw $5 billion in global developments. Reacting to heat and reviewed lending policies. relations with the IMF, especially the over a three­year period, foreclosed the harsh conditions, developing The book under review is on impact economists and senior officials the loan. The IMF had objected to our countries began to move away from India’s relations with the IMF from had on its thinking. This enthusiasm is extending credit to the Soviet Union the IMF and seek assistance from 1991­2016. A long chapter offers views misplaced. Some Indian economists which was a non­member. Srinivas alternative sources like bank credit or of former senior colleagues such as working with the IMF may have does not mention this fact. The 1991 China. By 2008, this trend threatened finance secretaries, RBI governors, influenced its policies, but India, as a balance of payments crisis was India’s Relations the relevance of the IMF with the etc. on topical issues and about their long time borrower, could not dine at handled better; by then there was a with the drying up of loan disbursements. It stint in the IMF. Another chapter the high table. It was in later years convergence of views between International created an embarrassing budgetary describes the author’s years in the with the growing strength of the negotiators from our side and the IMF. Monetary Fund crisis and the IMF had to sell a part of IMF; these accounts are interesting South, China’s rise and the emergence On the whole this book will be of V. Srinivas its gold reserves to finance its budget. but do not add value to the core of G­20 as a group that our voices were value to students to understand the Vij Books India By then, the Beijing Consensus theme of the book and how the ties heard and respected. By then, we had IMF, its working and relations with ₹995 sponsored by China challenged the evolved. also ceased to borrow from the IMF member countries.

TRAVEL CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Notes from a small island A fresh perspective on Sri Lanka, warts and all, laced with humour and empathy

K.C. VIJAYA KUMAR for peace that binds the Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims together. Andrew ri Lanka springs a multitude of himself is of mixed ancestry with both stereotypes — beaches, tea the Sinhalese and Tamil strain gardens, civil war and the word coursing through his veins. S‘serendipity’, which was He has a chuckle even if the inspired by the island’s ancient name trishaw crashes and leaves him with Serendip. But there is much more to five stitches or when angry dogs this neighbouring island split by the pursue him. But Andrew can be Palk Strait, and its layers can be caustic when he gazes at the rulers: “I peeled during a sojourn to Colombo am not sure why politicians feel they and beyond. must continually remind the public But if you would rather read, then that they exist.” There is anger too delve into Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons when foreigners get a touch of Trouble, Samanth Subramanian’s patronising or when his countrymen This Divided Island, Shehan dump garbage. Yet what lingers is Karunatilaka’s Chinaman, Unesco site Ancient rock fortress Sigiriya in Central Sri Lanka. GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK Andrew’s love for Sri Lanka, warts and Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s Refuge or all: “I had more invitations to home­ Ashok Ferrey’s novels seasoned with humour with shades of Bill Bryson. rippling laughter, elevates this 244­ cooked meals all around the island black humour. You get a sense of a Recently, Andrew, who works for page tome. than I could accept. This generosity, I small nation that has an all­embracing ESPN­Cricinfo, scripted a mind­ “The smiles in Sri Lanka are as felt, I had begun to reconcile with the culture despite subterranean fissures. boggling 1,493 words on one single wide as the horizon,” Andrew writes island’s many great follies.” To this great body of above­mentioned ball bowled by Angelo Mathews and as he backpacks his way past the Past the 100­page mark, the editing work, please add Andrew Fidel against the West Indies during a World coast, through the hills, peeps into wanes, an extra word stays, another Upon a Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle. Cup game in England. He started that forests, gobbles rice and curry and reference goes missing but these are Sleepless Isle It is a splendid book where the piece with this line: “Gather round, gulps the odd glass of arrack besides minor quibbles. If a book’s primary Andrew Fidel author dwells upon his country, kiddos. Let me tell you a story about conversing with a wide array of goals are about broadening Fernando exhibits awe and exasperation, and Sri Lankan cricket.” The same easy people, he opens our eyes to the perspective and luring a smile, both Picador India often slips into self­deprecatory style, with pithy observations and beguiling mix of history and a desire boxes surely get ticked. ₹599 DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 26 BOOKEND Sunday, July 28, 2019

NOSHTALGIA CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Remembrance

of teatimes All afternoon we would lounge about in the cool confines of closed doors and drawn curtains, waiting for what KP would offer past when the clock struck four

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SHEILA KUMAR called him for some reason) was a bound copies of Woman & Home and KP and his assistant (a procession of culinary whiz who raised the bar on study the recipes for scones, crumpets young cheerful boys who’d stay a few t is a truth universally sambar, mezhukkupuratti (stir­fry), and mince pies with rapt years and then move on seeking acknowledged that young persons ishtew (stew) or chakka pradhaman concentration. One or two brave souls fresher pastures but always return to forced to spend an entire hot and (jackfruit payasam) to impossibly high would sneak into the pantry, pull the visit) would have taken down the fine Ihumid month in their ‘native levels. Once you’d had KP’s food, all stoppers off the giant stone baranis china teacups and saucers from the place’ will be forever restless, forever other Malabar dishes were sternly and sample the hottest mango pickle giant sideboard that ran the length of hungry. judged and invariably found wanting. ever. Yet others would sit by the the dining room and poured out the Back in the 80s, it was no different window alcoves and hold long spirited tea. The fine china was for the adults, for our large brood of siblings and Between lunch and tea discussions — in stage whispers — on of course, we got our tea in glass cousins when we landed up in Tea­time, though, was in a league all of whether the ari nellika (star tumblers. Palakkad for our summer holidays. its own. Everything was that much gooseberry) they had eaten platefuls of The days were spent endlessly more delectable because of our with chilli powder was the reason their Wonderfully caramelised prowling about the sprawling grounds enforced imprisonment within the tummies were cramping now. A few But it was not the liquid we were there of Amma’s, my grandmother’s, house, cool confines of closed doors and would stretch out on the many divans for. From the smoky interior of a then­ dislodging many a sleeping snake in drawn curtains between lunch and tea. and discuss what KP would offer when gasless kitchen, where the musical the stacked­stone compound wall, The elders would doze off, the house the clock struck four. It was always all sounds of an iron pipe aimed at the going for long walks on noodle­thin slowly filling with the far­from­ about food. chulha could be heard, would emerge paths set among paddy fields, playing mellifluous sounds of snoring. Some of And when the clock struck the the palaharam (snacks) that cricket on a sandy patch nearby, us would pull down Amma’s 1950s’ hour, we’d troop to the dining room. accompanied the tea. The standard sneaking ciggies by the pond overhung was two cooked snacks and one by a lush weeping willow at the far end crunchy one each evening, but the

A of the house, and suchlike. range was mind­boggling. And then, there was the food. We’d Topping the list was banana fritters, From the gorge on everything the wildly the oil glistening lightly atop the smoky overgrown orchard had to offer: wonderfully caramelised sides of the confines of a gooseberries, mango, jackfruit, chikoo, golden nendrapazham bananas. then-gasless the cashew fruit and nuts, badam, Another spin on the fruit was the kitchen would coconut. We’d munch on salted pazham nurriki, banana pieces boiled tapioca chips all day long, sneering at in their skins. In yet another variation, emerge the its poorer cousin, the kaaya KP would score a deep cut down the palaharam. varuthathu, banana chips, both to be length of a ripe nendrapazham, grill it The standard found in giant Mason jars kept, over hot coals, drizzle ghee over it, was two strangely, inside a bedroom cupboard. and dust it with granulated sugar. cooked However, tea­time was the highlight Served hot, the flavours of the smoked of the holidays. Of course, all pazham, ghee and sugar made for an snacks and mealtimes at Brindaban, Amma’s ambrosial mix. one crunchy house, were veritable feasts, given that Then there was ele ada, jaggery and one each her head cook/ major­domo/ family grated coconut wrapped in rice flour evening retainer Kesavan Nair (or KP as we and steamed in a banana leaf; or THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 27

sukhiyan filled with a delicious mix of mung bean (cherupayar), coconut and America that served as veritable nom de plume, a jaggery On days when KP didn’t feel harbingers of this sub­ tag we’re told, is not just an particularly inspired, we’d get bondas culture. artist’s signature and mark of or vadas, the uzhunnu or the parrippu Notes from At first frowned upon, territory, but also an allusion versions where the peppercorns, green slowly, street art came to be to their style. chillis and fried onions exploded in a respected for what it is — art! In the case of Bozko, that sensory rush inside our mouths. Or In fact, graffiti is so well­ style is something that there were plates of beaten rice, aval, Sofia accepted in Sofia that the borders on hallucinogenic lightly tossed in ghee and gur. There tram stop under the National with otherworldly characters was neyyappam, made from rice flour RAUL DIAS Ever the thrifty traveller, Palace of Culture (NDK) is harbouring hidden social mixed with jaggery, roasted coconut one of the first things I did officially called ‘NDK Graffiti’, messages. For instance, bits and powdered cardamom. There ere’s an honest after checking into my hotel thanks to the abundant, painted below a peeling was also unniappam, where the filling observation. Sofia was to sign up for a free ever­evolving graffiti than can Chupa Chups lollipop was mashed banana, jaggery and Hisn’t a beautiful graffiti and street art tour of be found around the place. advertisement, his roasted coconut bits. KP’s kozhukatta city. The modest the city. Run by a bunch of Pinocchio­like figure from a range spanned the regular kozhukatta, sized capital of the Eastern passionate art students and Artist’s signature project series titled Urban the upma (rava) kozhukatta and the European country of experienced street artists Municipally sanctioned street Creatures seems to reference ellu (sesame seed) kozhukatta. Bulgaria will never be up who double up as guides, the art in particular also started the untruths the advertising The crunchy­munchies were not there with the top five ‘must­ two­hour­long walking tour is to be used as a means to industry perpetrates with its made by KP, yet were truly sublime. visit’ destinations in one’s their way of helping visitors deter artists from committing ever­growing beak­nose. The Brindaban was one road away from lifetime. Nor will it ever be discover Sofia and its random acts of vandalism. A interpretations are limitless. one of Palakkad’s famed agraharams, bestowed with those silly, colourful history. few years ago, Theatre on the With a diametrically from where Amma would regularly rather patronising monikers And speaking of history, I Street — an art project by opposite style from Bozko, order in fried snacks, especially when of ‘Paris of the East’, ‘Venice was told by my guide, Stella, Bulgarian NGO, aptly named Nasimo, another local we were around. The women would of the South’, and so on. But that it is thanks to Bulgaria’s Transformers — saw 30 Bulgarian muralist, does come home with large stainless steel what it does have in socialist past that the street artists, over 10 days, dreamy, largely figurative containers full of murukkus, abundance is character. art sub­culture and era of the transform 51 pavement­side works that draw a lot of kuzhalappam, thattai (the Mallu Everywhere you look there’s true­blue graffiti artist has electrical boxes into graffiti inspiration from classical art version of Karnataka’s nipattu), oxymoronic grittiness emerged. The drab, Soviet­ art along Sofia’s theatre­ and convey a sense of cheeda, muthusaram, manoharam; coupled with breathless style apartment blocks with infested Rakovski Street. escapism from reality. savouries as well as sweets, and all vibrance. And probably one their plain, grey exteriors At one of our stops, a car Behind the old Turkish made with rice flour. of the greatest contributors provided the city’s 21st park on the city’s arterial thermal bath house, we My father’s family would visit often, to this is Sofia’s bounty of century street artists with a Knyaginya Maria Luiza stopped by two of his pieces from Kerala’s deep south. Tea­times street art and graffiti in all range of ideal surfaces for Boulevard, a little north of a few metres away from each would then turn even more their candy­coloured large scale mural art. It was the busy Serdika metro other. Both sublime. But the interesting, with the appearance of brilliance and in­your­face also the sudden invasion of station, we come upon a one that caught my attention southern snacks like kappa and insouciance. satellite television and the rather evocative mural by a the most was a photorealistic chamanthi, achappam (rose cookies), emerging hip­hop local graffiti legend who goes mural depicting an and the to­die­for chakka varatti, a scene of 90s by the name, Bozko. A embracing couple with cupid jackfruit spread that carried within it superimposed on to them. the taste of heaven. The fading rays of the

All good things come to an end, of A evening sun bouncing off the course. Amma passed away, KP passed glass panels of the adjacent away, and as for us, we grew up. Those Graffiti is so building and casting fluid­like GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK wondrous tea­times at Brindaban well-accepted in rippled effects on the wall, passed into gilded memory. Over the Sofia that the made the piece even more years, many of us have tried our hand magical than it was. tram stop under ...... at making the snacks we used to enjoy the National at Amma’s table. Only, it isn’t KP The Mumbai-based writer making them, so they never really Palace of Culture and restaurant reviewer is taste as good. (NDK) is officially passionate about food, travel ...... called ‘NDK and luxury, not necessarily in The writer is a manuscript editor and Graffiti’ that order. novelist based in Bengaluru.

SUNDAY RECIPE

Ellu kozhukatta

INGREDIENTS (MAKES 12) add grated jaggery and When cooked, the kozhukattas Rice flour – 1 large cup coconut and heat on stove till take on a shine. Boiling water – 1 to 1 ½ cup jaggery has melted. Add ghee 5. Serve hot or cold, it’s Salt – a pinch and cardamom powder to the delicious either way. Sesame oil – 1 tsp (Coconut oil mix, roll into small overpowers other flavours) balls and keep aside. White or black dry-roasted 3. Roll the dough into sesame seeds – 1/2 cup medium-sized balls Grated jaggery – 1/2 cup and flatten them Grated coconut – 2 tbsp with your palm. Cardamom powder – a pinch Don’t make them Ghee – 1 tbsp too thin or else they will crack METHOD while steaming. 1. Boil the water adding salt Place the filling and and oil. Add the boiling water close up the ball. little by little to the rice flour 4. Steam cook the and make into a smooth but kozhukatta in an idli not sticky dough. cooker for about 8-10 2. Grind the roasted sesame, minutes or till done. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 28 BOOKEND Sunday, July 28, 2019

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OFF-CENTRE others. He said, “You’ll outgrow all the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC books you want to buy now.” Neither my sister nor I believed him. We thought we would read Enid Blyton for the rest of our lives. But this proscription made us into surreptitious book buyers. We saved When I was a our money, we sneaked the books into the house, we hid them among our clothes, we gloated over them... and I sometimes wonder whether my father did not intend exactly that to happen. Today, I give the children of my friends young book buyer and cousins books and I see their faces fall almost immediately. I have books, they seem to say, Mom gets me books, We saved our money, we sneaked the books into the house, we hid them Dad gets me books, everyone gets me books, everyone wants me to read among our clothes, we gloated over them... books, I want video games and data and chocolate. It’s enough to make you want to forget about their JERRY PINTO their libraries, by the yard, in the right volumes of the supplementary Nights. birthdays entirely. shade of leather, as a backdrop to the The books were bound in faux leather, By and large, though my father was was looking at a glossy magazine drinking and the snoozing that they they were embossed in gold (for the right about the books we bought as which is about interior design, I planned to do in their man caves.’ Nights) and silver (for the children. Most didn’t survive; all the A think. And I turned a page and I felt ashamed of myself. Perhaps Supplementaries) and I bought them Blytons are gone as are the Alistair New books Ithere was one of those magnificent the young people who had set up at a small circulating library in Dadar MacLeans and the Jack Higginses. The were out of rooms which featured a library. There house together had actually had the for a total of ₹700. My sister and I Gerald Durrells are still around, so are was a shelf of Penguins, all their good fortune of loving a series of chipped in for them and we had to the Wodehouses as is the first book my our reach. We spines orange and white, orange and Penguin books, not impossible surely, take a small loan too. Then we had to sister ever bought new: an Agatha could only white, orange and white, a and had managed to acquire the right smuggle them into the house because Christie. buy what syncopation of colour. It was perfect. editions. I have never been able to do we were under­age. As young book buyers, new books washed up on Immediately, I felt envy surging up that. My books come from a variety of were out of our reach. We could only the streets of inside me and with it the spiteful sources and have made their way into Forget the birthdays buy what washed up on the streets of the city and feeling: ‘You can’t possibly love books. this house on the immediate need for My father had a rule. He did not think the city and we went looking faithfully. This looks like clickbait, like a shelf set them. I have only ever had one set of children should be allowed to buy We once joined a circulating library we went up so as to be admired rather than for show books, an Arabian Nights books. He thought they should get simply to get a copy of These Old looking reading. This is not very different from translated by Richard Burton, 11 them out of circulating libraries and Shades by Georgette Heyer which did faithfully the way British gentlemen designed volumes of the nights and seven read them and return them and get not seem to exist anywhere else in the THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 BOOKEND 29

city. And since we had managed to get hold of Devil’s Cub, this was an PASSING BITE CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC imperative. That meant we were not CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC really interested in editions. In fact, we quite disliked editions. There was a time when some American editions of Wodehouse came to Bombay with quite different titles. We were delighted Is Hindi going the only to go home and find we had been swindled. Brinkley Manor turned out to be Right Ho, Jeeves but by then we were faithful buyers and were allowed to return the next day and take other German way? books. The books therefore look like books, they don’t look like an army. Between 1925 and 1945, the German language had become the vehicle For a while, Arabian Nights did look a little like that but I soon grew for the most odious ideas of racism and genocide embarrassed by them because I had not managed to read them. They are GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK very tedious, if you want the truth. grew up during the second and Many of the stories start and then third decades of Independence encircle others. A young man sets out in Calcutta which was — with and he meets with misfortune and he IBombay — one of the two most comes to a village where there are multilingual cities in the country. three barbers and the first barber tells Calcutta may have been the home of Bangla but, as a non­Bengali kid, I A had no sense that you could not get by without knowing ‘Bungali’, as we All the Blytons are gone as are the Alistair non­Bong speakers called it. My MacLeans and the Jack Higginses. The Gerald mother taught Gujarati in a college Durrells are still around, so are the Wodehouses and my father was a well­known Gujarati writer, so there was a lot of him about how he went to a certain value put on the language in our city where he met three seamstresses house and among my parents’ and the first seamstress tells her story... Gujarati friends. all very fine and good but as soon as Speaking mostly Gujarati at the first seamstress has told her story, home, I nevertheless picked up lots you’re back with the second seamstress of Bangla just outside the home, as existence, my quite adequate Indian Awadhi, Braj, Bhojpuri, Maithili, and and then the third and you think, ‘Okay one also picked up what one thought English too often raised eyebrows. other connected languages. Why now’ but no, you’re back with the of as Hindi between home, street Now, as an ‘Indian writer writing in should this triple­minority Hindi rule young man and the three barbers and and school. For me, English came a English’, I once again find myself over all the others? it’s the turn of the second barber and limping fourth after the primary trio having to defend ‘my’ language and he meets three djinns and so on... I of tongues, until, that is, I discovered justify my use of it. Why do I write in Political misuse could never keep track and when the narrative pleasures contained English? Because it is a fully paid­up There is also a fourth anger and you’ve returned to the original young within Enid Blyton and P.G. member of the group of Indian worry to be added to the first three, man who set out and met with Wodehouse and British comics about languages and has been for over a and it has to do with the damage a misfortune, you couldn’t give a toss. World War II. Despite not being from century, that’s why. language suffers when it is put to The Wedding Guest got away lightly, a Westernised background, my So, when the HRD Minister has political misuse by an ideology or a you’d think. English zoomed well past the other the temerity to demand that all regime. After World War II, not just There are times when a new edition languages. communication be made to him in Germany and Germans but the comes out. Someone brings out all the Hindi, I feel a double or even a triple German language itself was old Wodehouses in a new ‘look’ and I Target of derision anger. One, why should someone be ostracised for a while. It didn’t wonder if I should. Then I look at my It was only later I realised that the making official communications in matter that this was the beautiful prizes and each one tells me of how I Hindi I spoke wasn’t really Hindi but Hindi when their mother tongue tongue of Goethe and Rilke, of great walked home and saved the bus money the typical Calcutta dialect of Bihari­ might be Telugu, Odia, Kutchi or Jewish writers such as Heine and for that one or how I read that one on Marwari flecked with Bangla Khasi? Kafka. The fact that between 1925 constructions, or what I now think of and 1945 the German language had the train home, laughing aloud all the A way and I think: these books have as Biharwari. Similarly, it was my become the vehicle for the most decorated my heart. involvement with a Bengali girl in my Why do I write in English? odious ideas of racism and genocide ...... early 20s that brought home the fact Because it is a fully paid-up meant that internationally German The author tries to think and write and that my so­called Bengali fluency member of the group of Indian was labelled as ‘harsh’, ‘guttural’ and was anything but, that I’d been ‘ugly’, as a language meant solely for translate in the cacophony of Mumbai. languages and has been for managing in the kind of pidgin­argot evil military command and to exact half­Bungla that a lot of non­Bengalis over a century, that’s why the mass massacre of innocents. CORRIE BARKLIMORE/ FLICKR.COM deployed, sometimes for their entire There is a real danger that this lives in the city. Two, my chosen Indian language might happen to Hindi or to certain In my early years, it was Gujarati is English, which has the advantage sectors of it in a few years, when it is that was the minority language of being understood across so many seen as having been the vehicle for under siege from Bangla and Hindi, linguistic barriers in our country; it is the worst regressive religious with the usual jokes about “shu chhe, now spoken and understood by majoritarianism, as the alibi saaru chhe, danda le ke maaru chhe”. more people than ever before; why language for lies and political In the boarding school in Rajasthan, shouldn’t English continue to be the lynchings, as the language via which to which I shifted after Class VIII, it main language linking North and our republic was brought to ruin. was the Bangla us Calcuttans South, East and West? Third, Hindi is Just as we have to resist the supposedly spoke that was the target but one important language of this imposition of Hindi across India, of derision, as also the Biharwari country and the official, ersatz­ resist the entwining of poisonous Hindi I spoke. In college in the U.S., Sanskritised Hindi so loved by the language and poisonous ideas that a not only were all my BJP­RSS is a minority language even certain kind of Hindi currently non­English languages in the cluster of Hindi­Hindustani­ represents, so must we try and rendered irrelevant to Urdu, not to mention the larger minimise and undo the deep harm the point of non­ family that includes Punjabi, Sindhi, that is being inflicted on Hindi itself.

Ruchir Joshi is a writer, filmmaker and columnist. DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 30 BOOKEND Sunday, July 28, 2019

BROWN PAPERBAG BY SAILESH GOPALAN FOXTROT BY BILL AMEND

F MINUS BY TONY CARRILLO

GREEN HUMOUR BY ROHAN CHAKRAVARTY THE HINDU Magazine DELHI Sunday, July 28, 2019 BOOKEND 31

GOREN BRIDGE THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD NO. 3058 Don’t hold up East-West vulnerable, South deals

BOB JONES

lead the middle card from declarer would have his ninth three low cards. East would trick in clubs. not have played the eight That was not possible without the queen, jack, and when East showed out on a 10. Declarer decided East club to the king. East, likely had a six­card spade suit however, discarded a spade, and a hold­up play would be so it was now safe to throw pointless, so he won the East in with a spade and force opening lead with his ace. him to lead from his king of The queen of hearts was diamonds in the end. Note ducked, but East won the that this line of play would not country, not respecting others (5,5) heart continuation with the have been possible if South Across 1 HS2’s plans: official reports describe 6 Make horizontal axis the reverse of what ace and led the queen of had “held up” in spades. It detailed electric transportation (6,6) you’d expect (5) spades to declarer’s king. was important for South to 10 Disney tune the French singer’s getting 7 ‘Good to enter into unrestrained nudism’: South crossed to dummy with win the first two rounds of to at last (3,2,2) big name in psychoanalysis (7) the ace of clubs and cashed spades, retaining the small 11 Hanover king, egregious lunatic after 8 Somehow, seaport usable for vessels used the two high hearts. He spade in his hand. losing America (6,1) only for fun (8-5) outh played low from discarded two diamonds as It would not have helped 12 Get on... get on... about... about... (5) 9 Pershing felt a worry, creating machines dummy on the opening East parted with a low East to discard another 13 Final half of bowling, champ’s losing of war (7,6) seven of spades lead, diamond. South was hoping diamond, as then a diamond heart a lot (4,4) 14 Become a success, capable of Sovertaken by East with that West started with three to the ace would have assured 15 Rashly, he sued aunt for recompense (4,2,2,2) the eight. South asked and clubs. A club could then be the contract no matter who carelessness (5,5) 17 Enormous jerk about to commit sin with found out that his opponents conceded to West and held the king. 16 Vain and regularly indulged (4) one female (8) 18 Dutch speciality that’s made round? (4) 19 American cinema, oddly uninspiring (7) 20 To be summarily dismissed, you might 21 One caught in childhood game wearing do this at the butcher’s counter (3,3,4) quaint socks (7) BAKER STREET 22 A polenta stew requiring next to 23 Behold! First half of pulpit address no effort (2,1,5) delivers one that’s been left behind (5) 24 Sun god’s receiving thanks from 25 Element derived from quartz in worshipper (5) compounds (4) 26 Original impetus for feminist campaign (5,2) 27 Actually, half-missing dearly departed Solution No. 3057 balloon (7) 28 Atmospheric processes produced by automobiles overtaking bishop on bike (6,6) Down 2 Spoke, and mumbled, without mumbling at first (7) 3 Um... I’d like to have a look at that (3,2,3) 4 Also, knight removed from chessboard (4) 5 Taking last two slices, bistro guest ate in DELHI THE HINDU Magazine 32 BACK PAGE Sunday, July 28, 2019

QUIZ LETTER FROM A CONCERNED READER Easy like Sunday morning Too much tension All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds Respected Madam/Sir, What is your son’s name, also Joseph. I said whether ladies in n decades and decades of your family are giving delivery in BERTY ASHLEY microscopic bacterium survive that dedicated service to public hospital or Xerox shop? But it is makes it so special? sector bank, madam/ sir, can the culture. Born on July 28, 1635, Robert Hooke you tell me how many times So what happened today? 1was a scientific inquirer who was the Thiomargarita namibiensis is a I Mr. Mathrubootham has broken Suddenly I got one phone call curator at the Royal Society. In 1665, he coccoid Proteobacterium, found in 6 any official rules and regulations from Mrs. M. She has gone to see published Micrographia which contained the ocean sediments of the continental or basic decency and ethics and brother family in Nagercoil. She observations he had made using shelf of Namibia. They contain morals of society? said old man emergency danger! I telescopes and microscopes. In it, he microscopi sulphur particles that scatter Thousand times? Never. said oh my god what happened in coined a term describing a biological light. Unlike other bacteria which are Five hundred times? Your Nagercoil. She said health organism. A term he used because of the usually 1.1 µm to 1.5 µm wide, this one is father is breaking rules 500 times. insurance has expired, I totally apparent resemblance to the rooms a staggering 0.75 mm (750 µm ). Due to Hundred times? How dare forgot. Please renew immediately. monks had in a monastery. What term is this, what makes T.namibiensis special? you? I said Kamalam what nonsense this that refers to the basic structural, Zero times? Whether you have tension you are giving me? functional and biological unit of all living Bacteria are single­celled organisms, heard of realistic Imagine if I got heart attack and organisms? but that doesn’t mean they lack the 7 expectation or not? esteemed Hindu newspaper is ability to coordinate and work together. This is India, not publishing two­page cover story Bacteria are made up of only one of Myxococcus xanthus travel in a some Belgium­type about Mathrubootham. Can the entities that Hooke discovered. wandering swarm that scientists refer to 2 country where total you imagine humiliation They have been on the planet for more as a “____”. On finding a victim, the population is 43 and when people are reading than 3.5 billion years, making them the swarm release antibiotics to paralyse it inside that 32 are that Mr. Mathrubootham oldest known life­form on earth. The and then release digestive enzymes to policeman. got heart attack during human body has around 39 trillion break it down. What is the term, which 10­15 times? phone call for health bacteria at any given time; all helping us refers to an animal that travels in groups Absolutely correct. insurance form? live normal lives. One of the most led by an alpha male when hunting? In whole life, She said all the important parts of our body is a 10­15 times forms are in the drawer descendant of bacteria engulfed by maximum, I have inside purple alamaari. larger micro­organisms billions of years broken rules or Please submit ago. What is this entity usually referred done illegal immediately without fail. So I to as ‘the powerhouse’? shortcuts and all. did all the work and madam/ Sometimes sir, I noticed one very big Yersinia pestis was first isolated by customer will come problem. Paper is needing Alexandre Yersin and he gave it the 3 to bank and signature of Mrs. name ‘pestis’ as a reference to the Latin signature is not Mathrubootham. I called ‘pestilentia’ from which we get another matching. But her and said, Kamalam, word in English that refers to a particular face is matching signature is needed, we epidemic. Y.pestis causes that particular because I have seen same will send after you return epidemic and has been reported to have face since Jambuvan to Chennai. been the cause of the highest number of These bacteria cause black blisters Heavy duty This period. Please take the She said whether you human deaths in history. During the 14th and is spread by contact with the American thrash 8 money. are Queen Elizabeth of century, the bacteria was responsible for bacterium’s spores. Although the metal band gets Sometimes cashier will honesty? Just put one sign the death of at least one­third of the bacteria have killed thousands of people its name from a GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK say, manager, customer is for me and give off papers. population of Europe. Thanks to modern and animals, only recently has it kindled bacterial saying she has dropped Madam/ sir, full tension medicine the epidemic is now under major interest after some countries infection. passbook in the water and now is going through my body. How control. Which disease does the bacteria developed it as a bioweapon. The STEFAN BRENDING requesting replacement passbook can I forge wife signature? What if cause and what word shares its origin bacteria also lends its name to the only for free. For 25 minutes I am computer is finding out with it? band from the East Coast of the U.S. in telling her, nothing free, please automatically? What if it becomes the ‘Big Four’ of thrash metal bands. pay fees. Now she is saying she police case? What if Hindu Superbugs are resistant to antibiotics What is the name? will not leave without passbook newspaper is doing two­page and a huge threat to medicine. One 4 even if you call Prime Minister. cover story about criminal mechanism which contributes to Acidithiobacillus bacteria are usually Mathrubootham of Anna Nagar? antibiotic resistance involves an enzyme found in mines and live off sulphur, 9 Rats since 1972 One hour I took tension in called NDM­1. NDM­1 was first observed iron and pyrite. They are responsible for Then I will tell cashier, Mr. Joseph living room. One hour in balcony. in a Swedish man who fell sick after the characteristic sparkle in caves. They Joseph, have you seen inside Two hours I saw Guns of Navarone visiting the capital of a country. M­1 digest these metals and excrete a liquid stationery cupboard? Same family DVD for calming. Then I did one stands for metallo­beta­lactamase­1. 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referenced in a 2011 cult Bollywood film does Acidithiobacillus excrete that your 10. Compass Court, they will say cupboard is fellow in the counter looked at

starring Imran Khan, the title of which chemistry teacher would have sternly acid now family property of rat, please form for five minutes, then said,

refers to the after­effects of NDM­1. What asked you to stay away from in school? 9. Sulphuric vacate the building without fail. thank you uncle, all okay.

does ND stand for and what was the 8. Anthrax Do you know what rat family is I said, thambi, please check all

movie? Magnetospirillum magneticum are 7. Wolf pack eating for breakfast? Cheque signatures? He said uncle,

bacterium that collect iron, and 10 needed book. Lunch? Passbook. Dinner? signature and all just one lollu

Deinococcus radiodurans is a make magnetite nanocrystals that are microscope not Customer feedback form. You jollu jujubi, who will give us

bacterium that can survive cold, arranged in a straight line. This leads to 5 naked eye; please give replacement passbook money to give someone else

dehydration, vacuum, and acid. It gets the bacteria being naturally aligned by seen with the quietly without other customer insurance? Uncle, whether you

its name from its extraordinary ability to the action of Earth. The bacterium then 6. It can be seeing. have any experience in financial

withstand extremely high doses (up to follows this line up and down without 5. Radioactivity Madam/ sir, you are thinking sector?

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that is extremely fatal to human beings was. What device which humans only 4. New Delhi; in Joseph Joseph name. No. He is see Guns of Navarone one more

even in small doses. Its amazing ability is learnt to use in 200 BC have these pestilence from Kottayam. First time we met time.

thanks to an incredible DNA repair bacteria been emulating for millions of 3. Plague; I asked him, what is your name,

mechanism it possesses. What can this years, earning them this nickname? ...... 2. Mitochondria he said Joseph. What is your Yours in unnecessary tension,

A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is 1. Cell father’s name, he said Joseph. J. Mathrubootham

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