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 Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Ramadan 24, 1440 AH Doha today: 300 - 430 COVER Coming clean STORY Howard Stern talks about life, death, Donald Trump — and why he can’t stand his old narcissism. P4-5 SHOWBIZ BACK PAGE Playing living legend poses Uganda Muslim relishes unique challenges: Ranveer. fi rst Ramadan in Qatar. Page 11 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, May 29, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.15am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.45am Zuhr (noon) 11.33am Asr (afternoon) 2.57pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.20pm Isha (night) 7.50pm USEFUL NUMBERS Chandigarh Amritsar Chandigarh ends up spending the day with him. His constant chatter DIRECTION: Karan R Guliani exasperates her, but they share a curious chemistry CAST: Sargun Mehta, Gippy Grewal nevertheless. SYNOPSIS: A girl from Chandigarh comes to Amritsar with the intention of rejecting a prospective groom and THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 De De Pyaar De from his family and his ex-wife when he falls in love with a DIRECTION: Akiv Ali 26-year-old woman. CAST: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Rakul Preet Singh SYNOPSIS: A 50-year-old single father faces disapproval THEATRE: Landmark ote Unquo u te Q “It takes a The Mall Cinema (1): Royal Plaza Cinema great deal of bravery to Chandigarh Amritsar Palace (1): Aladdin (2D) stand up to our enemies, but Chandigarh (Punjabi) 3pm; Muklawa (Punjabi) 3pm; 2:30pm; Aladdin (2D) just as much to stand up to our Aladdin (2D) 9pm; Neeya 2 De De Pyaar De (Hindi) 8:30pm; Aladdin (2D) 11pm. friends.” (Tamil) 11:15pm. 9pm; Ishq (Malayalam) Royal Plaza Cinema — J. K Rowling The Mall Cinema (2): 11:30pm. Palace (2): Lisaa (Tamil) Aladdin (2D) 2:30pm; Landmark Cinema (2): 3pm; Aladdin (2D) 9:15pm; Aladdin (2D) 8:30pm; Aladdin (2D) 2:30pm; Muklawa (Punjabi) Aladdin (2D) 11pm. Aladdin (2D) 8:30pm; 11:30pm. The Mall Cinema (3): Aladdin (2D) 11pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Community Editor Sita (Telugu) 2:15pm; Ishq Landmark Cinema (3): Palace (3): Ishq Kamran Rehmat (Malayalam) 8:30pm; Lisaa (Tamil) 3pm; Aladdin (Malayalam) 2:30pm; e-mail: [email protected] Avengers: Endgame (2D) (2D) 9:15pm; Chandigarh Discarnate (2D) 9pm; Telephone: 44466405 11pm. Amritsar Chandigarh Avengers: Endgame (2D) Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): (Punjabi) 11:30pm. 11pm. Wednesday, May 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Summer Camp for Special Needs Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special years old after school hours. Needs WHEN: June 30 – August 1 Hobby Classes TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art During this time, all therapists and Centre teachers will be working together, running WHEN:Wednesday – Monday individual, peer and group sessions within Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a classes. The children will continue learning holistic performing arts institution and a one age-appropriate concepts, work on social stop solution for adults as well as children skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, looking to explore their talents in various music, and fun activities such as water play. art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, Artistic Gymnastic Classes music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, WHEN: Ongoing Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm harmonium, public speaking. The olympic sport using horizontal bar, Additional services include dance rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the education, choreograph music videos and children from age 4 till 16. dance cover albums, choreograph dance musical projects, corporate workshops and events, choreograph events for schools, colleges, alumni meets and corporate and choreography events. For details, call 33897609. EVENTS cultural similarities between Qatar and India. Ballet Lessons MF Hussain: The Horses Of The Sun WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Exhibition WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern TIME: 4pm – 8pm Art For more info e-mail at registration@ WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. TIME: 9am – 7pm The exhibition presents Hussain’s pluralist approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of Career Guidance being, articulated through the myths, symbols WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al and narratives of the world’s religions and Sadd philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun WHEN: Sunday – Thursday bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a TIME: 6pm – 8pm personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. Career guidance for course, country, college and entrance for students of Grade Arabic Calligraphy Workshop Katara Drive Thru Festival IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday WHERE: Katara— the Cultural Village administered for stream preference, career TIME: 6pm WHEN: Ongoing till June 10 test, branch preference, personality, Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. TIME: 6pm – 4am multiple intelligence and learning styles Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic Join us at Katara— the Cultural Village and and productivity. For more information, handwriting and calligraphy at Music and enjoy the diverse cuisines at your car step! 55448835. Arts Atelier. From fi rst day of Ramadan until Eid holidays The lessons will take place every Saturday, starting from 5pm till 2am. Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact registration@ India to Qatar – Symbiosis of Cultures atelierqatar.com WHERE: FBQ Museum WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 Sunset Desert Safari with Iftar Under the context of cultural exchange, WHERE: Sealine Beach FBQ Museum brings together the treasures WHEN: Ongoing of the museum owned collection in order to TIME: 2pm – 10pm promote mutual understanding, recognition Enjoy a day out in the relaxing singing sand and appreciation between Qatar and India. dunes of Mesaieed along with a thrilling dune Composed of fi ve main topics, including bashing experience. This 8-hour getaway community, trade, arts, food and incense, the takes you all the way to the breath-taking exhibition takes one on a journey to explore inland sea beach aka Khor Al Adaid to watch the rich and diverse Indian cultures, the long the Sunset. Break your fast with lavish Iftar at historic links between Qatar and India, and the resort. Only for QR280 per person. Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building After School Activities WHEN: Wednesday – Monday WHERE: Atelier Learn the movements of dance styles in WHEN: Ongoing Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Music and arts activities for students instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard taking place after they fi nish their day in for adults as well kids and move in the world school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- of music. For details, contact 66523871/ hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, May 29, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Here to stay The most successful and influential radio personality of his generation and arguably in the history of the medium, Howard Stern has been talking into microphones for most of his life, which in now in its 65th year. He shows no signs of shutting up, writes Rick Kogan I don’t know why I touch base with my audience. I guess that it’s because I’m honest, brutally honest. I appeal to the cynic in all of us ‘ —Howard Stern oward Stern speaks, my own curiosity and allow my Trump is so prominent because, as The book was born a couple of which Stern wrote of his intimate which comes as no guests to be heard.” Stern says, “Donald is one of the best years ago when S&S’s Jonathan Karp habits; skewered those he considered surprise to the millions The next day, he would be talking radio guests ever. Why? Because he presented Stern with a bound copy of phonies (Oprah and Johnny Carson of people who listen to with correspondent Tracy Smith on says whatever pops into his head.” a fi nished book, saying, “We want a among them); praised those he him, and last weekend CBS News Sunday Morning, telling That’s not exactly news. But vastly book of your best interviews and we admires (Bob Hope, Richard Hhe was speaking to me, saying, her, “Donald Trump asked me to more interesting, entertaining, took the liberty of putting it together. Simmons, Sylvester Stallone and “Twenty years ago I had so much endorse him but I couldn’t.” self-revelatory, shocking, honest, … You don’t have to do a thing.” Dick Cavett); chronicled his career, more energy and my narcissism was The day after, he said to his close provocative, surprising and Stern was fl attered but soon family life and world view. so strong that I really enjoyed talking friend George Stephanopoulos on sometimes sad is what comes out realised that “what was collected At the time, he told me that writing about myself.