DLD‰‹‰†‰KDLD‰‹‰†‰DLD‰‹‰†‰MDLD‰‹‰†‰C Diaz’s history Gulel casting coup: THE TIMES OF INDIA is no mystery Bebo and Bipasha Tuesday, September 16, 2003 to John Rutter are friends again... Barber styles hair with candle Here’s a new cut only need a 5-me- Page 5 Page 8 — right hair,right tre-long wick and now. Aqueel Kira- a comb to style ha- tpuri, a barber in ir. Scissors create Lokhandwala, us- a mess with hair es a candle inste- all over,” says Aq- ad of scissors to ueel, who takes trim the hair of about an hour per customers. hair-cutting job. Aqueel burns hair with a Aqueel’s salon is reported- candle flame, while contin- ly popular with Bollywood uing a family tradition. “I and TV stars. Hair hair! OF INDIA MANOJ KESHARWANI IT S BABY S MONTH Living upto its name, September delivers a record number of babies in Delhi ALLEN O’BRIEN for all of December. Says head of the departm- Times News Network ent of gynaecology and obstetrics at Sri Ganga Ram Hospital SK Bhandari, who was in the oonam Sethi, a stay-at-home mom to Aaka- news for delivering Priyanka Gandhi’s daught- P sh (eight), is expecting her second child. er, ‘‘In my experience, the highest number of Coochie-coo? Me too, says Amita Talwar, a wo- deliveries takes place in September, which is rking woman and mom to Irani (nine) and Pri- ‘Bhadrapad’ according to the Hindu calendar. tam (three). Meanwhile, the big We have around 45 deliveries ea- boss of an ad agency is fuming, ch September as compared to an what with three of his staffers average of 25 for the other mon- proceeding on maternity leave. ths of the year.’’ Hey wait, it seems like half the September is the chosen mon- women in Delhi are expecting! th. In case you wondered what So, is there a particular mon- the reason could be, here it is. th of the year when the delivery ‘‘Conception is normally highe- of babies hits boom time? ‘‘Of st in winter. In the Indian cont- course,’’ says Sanjeev Kumar, a ext, this translates into the peri- doctor at Safdarjung Hospital, od between November and Febr- ‘‘Although it is not an easy task uary. Taking December-end as for gynaecologists to pinpoint the starting point and counting the peak period for delivery of nine months from thereon, Sep- babies, the time between the end tember becomes the month with of July to the end of September the highest number of deliveri- is when the maximum number es,’’ informs Malvika Sabharw- of babies are born.’’ al, a gynaecologist at Jeevan Ma- If the hectic activity along the la Hospital. Adds psychotherap- corridors of hospitals BABY BOOM ist Deepak Raheja, ‘‘In and nursing homes in November, people rema- the Capital is any indica- DELHI’S SEPTEMBER BABIES in indoors. This increas- tion, September is the Hospital Monthly avg Till Sep 14 es the stimulation of he- month when maternity at and hormones, maki- wards are abuzz with ob- ■ AIIMS 900 704 ng couples lovey-dovey.’’ stetric activity. A case in ■ LNJP 700 652 As for the stork, ther- point is that of Wadia ■ Safdarjung 700 607 e’s no time to pause and Nursing Home, which ponder. It’s baby-delivery THREE’S COMPANY! Delhi Times captures the bonding of a picture-perfect family as pop star Shael, who rocked charts & hearts with Hasna Kamaal, has already registered ■ Apollo 50 40 season in September, re- gets into the groove for a new album with wife Apsara and daughter Sohanaa (To send this photograph to a friend, log on to www.timescity.com/delhi/) 116 deliveries as on Sep- ■ Gangaram 25 22 member? tember 14 as against 80 [email protected] When drunk mouse THE REALITY OF FAKE DRUGS: DEATH IN A PILL meets dancing frog ARUN KUMAR DAS alk powder, saw dust, salt, li- ck in 1940 and is outdated,’’ out a joint action plan along with Times News Network quid jaggery...practically an- LETHAL DOSE says Wakankar, ‘‘What’s wo- the pharmaceutical industry, state APARNA GUPTA not impossible that a drunk ything goes into the making rse, since faking drugs is not governments and the Centre,’’ says Times News Network mouse turns into a ‘dancing ook before you pop that pill... of spurious drugs. Worse st- DRUGS FAKED FREQUENTLY a cognizable offence, those drug controller of India Aswini Ku- frog’ at the sight of the techni- there is a distinct possibility ill, these substances don’t ● Novomox ● Crocin arrested are able to seek bail mar. ‘‘What adds to the problem are ast night, after encounteri- cian. Inspired by the cartoon L that it is spurious. Here are show up prominently in cli- ● Ciprofloxacin ● Cofnil and resume business in no the 40,000 quacks in the Capital. It is the facts. One in every four drugs so- L ng the ‘hooker’, the syste- One Froggy Evening, ‘dancing nical tests’’ Spurious is seri- ● Augmentin ● Cofdex time. Also, the entry barrie- through these quacks that spurious ms department in an organis- frog’ refers to a problem which ld in Delhi is believed to be spurious. ous. And, certainly not what rs for the industry are low — drugs make an entry into the mark- ● ● ation was busy doing the ‘rain occurs on a computer,but does According to the WHO, 35 per cent of the doctor ordered. ‘‘Fake dr- Sporidex Cetzine anybody can set up a phar- et,’’ says Delhi Medical Association dance’. Nothing scandalising not show up when someone the world’s spurious drugs are prod- ugs are a serious threat to ● Fortum ● Omez ma unit anywhere.’’ president Anil Bansal. though, we’re ju- else is watching! uced in India. At present, the fake- human lives and the credibi- ● Practin ● Terramycin And thanks to fakes being Officially-speaking, all’s well on st talking shop Talking of frogs, drugs market in India is estimated lity of the pharma indust- ● Proxyvon ● Becosule strikingly similar to the ori- the enforcement front. ‘‘Our enforc- in geek-speak beware of the ‘leap to be worth Rs 4,000 crore —about 20 ry,’’ says Anupam Sibal, dir- ginals, even official labs so- ement agencies are being strength- ● Ampoxicin ● Combutol aka computer li- frog attack’, which is per cent of the total drugs market. ector, Apollo Hospital. metimes fail to notice the di- ened to do the needful,’’ maintains ngo. For those the use of user ID In Delhi alone, fake drugs account According to the law, tho- ● Norfloxacin ● Ciprolet-DS fference. Last month, part of Delhi health minister AK Walia. not logged on, in and password infor- for a Rs 400-crore market. se caught manufacturing or ● Ranitdine ● Althrocin a drug consignment meant The official assurances notwiths- the world of virtual mation illicitly ‘‘The most-common fakes include selling spurious drugs are ● Paracetamol ● Roxid for a dispensary run by a ci- tanding, the fact is that the fake-dr- space, ‘hooker’ is a obtained from anti-virals, antibiotics and life-savi- booked under Section 420 of vic body in Delhi turned out ug market is growing by the day — virus and ‘rain da- one host to com- ng drugs. Now, even lifestyle drugs the IPC and for violation of COMPOSITION OF FAKE DRUGS to be fake — unfortunately, with fatal consequences for millions nce’ refers to any promise anoth- such as health tonics; fairness lotio- the Indian Drug Control Act, not all fakers are caught. of patients who consume these dru- ● ● action taken to cor- er host. ns; and pills for body-building are the Copyright Act and the Chalk powder Salt ‘‘The existing laws are li- gs believing that it is a lifeline. Yes, rect a hardware ‘‘Last Sunday, being faked,’’ informs Indian Drug Intellectual Property Protec- ● Saw dust ● Liquid jaggery kely to be amended to make it’s high time con men get a taste of problem with the my boss threw a Manufacturers Association executi- tion Act. ‘‘The Drugs and Co- ● Talcum powder ● Sugar punishment more stringent. their own medicine. expectation that ‘dead-tree version’ ve director Gajanan Wakankar,‘‘Ch- smetics Act was framed ba- NEELABH As of now, we are working [email protected] nothing will be ac- —a paper version of complished! an online document ‘‘Similarly, to —at me for doing a ‘wave a dead chick- rabbit job (read: a en’ means that, al- NEELABH programme which do- What price a film song? though nothing es little real wo- concrete has re- GEEK SPEAK rk but creates NIKITA DOVAL complete. We had 40 dancers, 30 models and a sulted from a pa- Times News Network 500-plus crowd on all days of shooting. This ap- ■ Rain dance: Any action one or more cop- rticular exerci- ies of itself, like art, there was a production crew of 550 people. se, the bosses taken to correct a hardware breeding rabbi- icture this. A single song in a movie runs However, a bulk of the budget was spent on co- are satisfied th- problem with the expecta- ts,’’ informs Viv- P up a bill of Rs 1.10 crore. Bollywood’s bloc- nstructing the tavern,’’ says Doshi. at an appropri- tion that nothing will be ac- ek Gupta, a sof- kbusters spell big bucks all ri- While Doshi reasons that, ate degree of eff- complished tware engineer. ght, but these bucks seem to MOVIE MOOLAH since item numbers are a ort has been ex- ■ Wave a dead chicken: Yeh dil maa- be getting bigger by the day. dime a dozen in today’s films, pended,’’ enligh- The bosses are satisfied nge more? A sli- The latest case in point is of- his song needed to be differ- tens Dinesh Ty- that an appropriate degree ght disturbance fered by the song Marhabba ent, the film’s director Milan agi, a computer of effort has been expend- when the progr- Marhabba in Deewar: Let’s Luthria stresses on the au- Bring Our Heroes Home.