YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to grab your chance and send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Thursday, May 9, 2019 Ramadan 4, 1440 AH Doha today 270 - 370 Relatable rich Melinda Gates reveals marital struggles in hope of empowering all women. P4-5 COVER STORY SHOWBIZ BACK PAGE New fi lms in newcomers’ kitty A non-Muslim Indian expatriate even before debut. appreciates the spirit of Ramadan. Page 11 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, May 9, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.28am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.54am Zuhr (noon) 11.32am Asr (afternoon) 3pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.10pm Isha (night) 7.40pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Student of the Year 2 Shroff and introducing - Tara and Ananya. Friendship, Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 DIRECTION: Punit Malhotra sportsmanship, love, companionship - it’s all in for The Local Directory 180 CAST: Tiger Shroff , Tara Sutaria, Ananya Panday Student of the Year. A college student faces down school International Calls Enquires 150 SYNOPSIS: The biggest franchise of Bollywood returns bullies while competing in track and fi eld. 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Directed by Vamsi Paidipally, Maharshi CAST: Mahesh Babu, Pooja Hegde, Allari Naresh features Mahesh Babu and Pooja Hegde in central roles. SYNOPSIS: Rishi, a millionaire businessman, returns to THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo Qu “The te expectations of life The Mall Cinema (1): Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Maharshi (Telugu) 2:15pm; (1): Maharshi (Telugu) 2:15pm; depend upon diligence; the Maharshi (Telugu) 8:15pm; Maharshi (Telugu) 8:15pm; mechanic that would perfect his 100 (Tamil) 11:15pm. Setters (Hindi) 3pm; Uyare Student Of The Year 2 (Hindi) work must fi rst sharpen his The Mall Cinema (2): (Malayalam) 8:30pm; 11:30pm. tools.” Avengers: Endgame (2D) Avengers: Endgame (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — Confucius 2:15pm; Student Of The Year 11pm. (2): Avengers: Endgame 2 (Hindi) 8:15pm; Maharshi Landmark Cinema (2): (2D) 2:15pm; Long Shot (2D) (Telugu) 11pm. Maharshi (Telugu) 2:15pm; 8:30pm; Maharshi (Telugu) The Mall Cinema (3): Maharshi (Telugu) 8:15pm; 11pm. Pegasus: Pony With A Broken Student Of The Year 2 (Hindi) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Community Editor Wing (2D) 3pm; Avengers: 11:30pm. (3): 100 (Tamil) 2:15pm; Kamran Rehmat Endgame (2D) 8:30pm; Landmark Cinema (3): 100 Breaking And Exiting (2D) e-mail: [email protected] Student Of The Year 2 (Hindi) (Tamil) 2:15pm; Student Of 8:15pm; Stray (2D) 9:45pm; Telephone: 44466405 11:30pm. The Year 2 (Hindi) 8:15pm; Primal Rage: The Legend of Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): Maharshi (Telugu) 11pm. Konga (2D) 11:30pm. Thursday, May 9, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Artistic Gymnastic Classes Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb more information, contact registration@ WHEN: Ongoing atelierqatar.com TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm The olympic sport using horizontal bar, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the children from age 4 till 16. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a Career Guidance holistic performing arts institution and a one WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al stop solution for adults as well as children Sadd looking to explore their talents in various WHEN: Sunday – Thursday art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, TIME: 6pm – 8pm Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, Career guidance for course, country, music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and EVENTS Summer Camp for Special Needs college and entrance for students of Grade craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, Needs administered for stream preference, career harmonium, public speaking. India to Qatar – Symbiosis of Cultures WHEN: June 30 – August 1 test, branch preference, personality, Additional services include dance WHERE: FBQ Museum TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm multiple intelligence and learning styles education, choreograph music videos and WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 During this time, all therapists and and productivity. For more information, dance cover albums, choreograph dance Under the context of cultural exchange, teachers will be working together, running 55448835. musical projects, corporate workshops and FBQ Museum brings together the treasures individual, peer and group sessions within events, choreograph events for schools, of the museum owned collection in order to classes. The children will continue learning colleges, alumni meets and corporate promote mutual understanding, recognition age-appropriate concepts, work on social and choreography events. For details, call and appreciation between Qatar and India. skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, 33897609. Composed of fi ve main topics, including music, and fun activities such as water play. community, trade, arts, food and incense, the exhibition takes one on a journey to explore PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME! : A the rich and diverse Indian cultures, the long Parent-Child Workshop historic links between Qatar and India, and WHERE: Inspire Training Academy, cultural similarities between Qatar and India. C-Ring Road WHEN: May 18 TIME: 3:30pm – 7pm Leather Crafting Workshop Right Track presents ‘PLEASE WHERE: The Dromedary Club, Doha, UNDERSTAND ME!’ - a unique parent-child Qatar workshop aimed at helping you create a WHEN: Tomorrow deeper bond with your child by understand TIME: 8:30pm – 10:30pm his/her motivators and stressors, preferred Every week, Leather Crafting Workshop learning styles and multiple intelligences. is conducted, to learn diff erent aspects of Early bird registration closes on May 15. leather crafting followed by a hands-on (Includes Iftar boxes for fasting participants). Dance and Instrument Classes practical session where you’ll work with the For further details, contact 55448835 WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times leather crafts team to make your own item Building and take it home with you. The workshop is Ballet Lessons WHEN: Wednesday – Monday open to both men and women and is priced at WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Learn the movements of dance styles in QR100 per person. WHEN: Ongoing Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical TIME: 4pm – 8pm instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard For more info e-mail at registration@ for adults as well kids and move in the world atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. of music. For details, contact 66523871/ 31326749. After School Activities WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing Music and arts activities for students taking place after they fi nish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours. Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday TIME: 6pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, May 9, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “How do you work with your husband?” Philanthropist Melinda Gates opens up on life with her illustrious husband Bill, women’s empowerment and the fight for equality By Nicole Brodeur n a building tucked into tony Carillon Point, voices are low and candles are lit. The bathroom is equipped for whatever could go wrong: a Istain, a stray hair, something stuck in your teeth. There is sleek wood, white walls and lots of glass, behind which staff ers — men and women, but mostly women — look up from their screens and smile. This is Pivotal Ventures, an “investment and incubation company” created by philanthropist Melinda Gates to attack the issues she has found most vexing. Paid leave for working families. Mental-health support. Closing the gender gap in tech. Providing venture capital to women-founded businesses. But it is also a place where Melinda can establish herself more fully, separate from her fame, her family and the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she established with her husband, the Microsoft co-founder, in 2000. Melinda, 54, calls this “my house.” She had just emerged from a pocket door in the back of a meeting room that was more like a living room, fi lled with white-leather couches and family photos, a few awards and a fi re going. Just outside the door, a table was stacked with copies of her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. The book — which Melinda has been promoting with, among other things, an onstage chat with Oprah Melinda has lived and studied for two caught fi re that she saw “this window, this Winfrey and a sold-out, May 9 appearance at I believe when decades. opening in time” to talk about the greatest McCaw Hall — is a “roundup” of the things The book’s title comes from the space frustrations in women’s lives: Labour she has learned in 20 years of travelling for you lift up launches Melinda watched growing up inequality, family planning, child care, the foundation.