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Saluting the Republic Soon, you can see how the Harappans looked
Experts recreating faces of five skeletal remains; results will be out in 2 months
Ashok Kumar The archaeologist, who
GURUGRAM along with his 25member
Have you ever wondered team — comprising experts
Priyanka may begin U.P. how the people from the from different fields — had
innings with Kumbh dip Harappan civilisation, more excavated the site from
NEW DELHI
than 8,000 years ago, 201216, said they had dug
Notwithstanding charges of
looked? Were they any diffe up cemeteries in a targeted
the Congress and its
rent from modern day hu excavation to find about 40
president Rahul Gandhi
pursuing “soft Hindutva”,
mans in appearance or did human remains.
Priyanka Vadra Gandhi is they look the same? Inter
likely to begin her formal estingly, it may not be long SUNDAY SPECIAL
political career with a dip at before one can have the
the Sangam at the Kumbh answer to these questions. However, most of the re
Mela on February 4. Buried past: A few skeletal remains were dug up at mains were found to be un
NEWS A PAGE 10 Koreans roped in Rakhigarhi in Haryana . SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
* fit for facial recreation.
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD A team led by Prof. Vasant “We needed complete
Two militants, one Woman power: A women’s contingent of Assam Rifles marching on the Rajpath in New Delhi Shinde, ViceChancellor, excavation of a Harappan creating the faces of five ske skeletal remains in a good
intruder killed in J&K during the 70th Republic Day parade on Saturday. SANDEEP SAXENA (REPORTS ON PAGES 2 & 11) *
Deccan College PostGrad site at Haryana’s Rakhigarhi letal remains and the results condition,” he said. “And we
SRINAGAR uate and Research Institute, village in Hisar, in collabora would be available within were lucky to find five —
Two JaisheMuhammad Deemed University, Pune, is tion with South Korean the next two months, soon three males and two fe
Trump ends shutdown
(JeM) militants and one on the brink of recreating scientists. after the publication of the males,” he added.
intruder were killed in Jammu the faces of a few skeletal re Dr. Shinde told The Hin- paper in a journal after its
and Kashmir on Saturday, as a mains, dug up during the du that his team was re review by experts. CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10
separatistbacked shutdown
and heightened security
disrupted life in the Valley on
Republic Day.
Backs down from demand for money to build border wall
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DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Associated Press ED rearrests lawyer accused in Can resolve
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Submitting to mounting
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AgustaWestland chopper case dispute within
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Bill to reopen the govern Khaitan in twoday custody on money laundering charge 24 hours: Yogi
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A page 14 fore federal agencies go rate on Saturday got two Seeking his sevenday ter Yogi Adityanath has
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Being Standing alone in the tam Khaitan, a key accused court that Mr Khaitan had on the Ram temple issue is
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Non-Fiction Trump said he would sign helicopter deal case, a day the investigation. The de unable to give an early ver
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after he was arrested for his Gautam Khaitan fence counsel opposed the dict, the Supreme Court
shuttered agencies until Fe The administration standoff. suspected role in launder request terming the arrest should “hand it over to us”
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bruary 15 and try again to asked federal department ing of black money ranging offence,” he added. illegal, stating that the and the dispute will be re
Framed persuade lawmakers to fi heads to reopen offices in a ‘Not a concession’ from ₹500 crore to ₹1,000 According to the agency, probe was linked to the solved within 24 hours.
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Despatches The deal he reached with ner.” cession,” Mr. Trump said in “It is a fresh case of mo day after the IncomeTax The court granted two days’ win more seats in Uttar
A page 6 congressional leaders con Mr. Trump’s retreat a tweet, fending off critics ney laundering instituted Department came across custody. Pradesh in the coming Lok
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wall but ends the longest partial shutdown as intensi fighting. “It was taking care Tax Department’s probe un the funds allegedly involv Zambian connection in 2014. “We appeal to the
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Open Page First the Senate and then and another missed pay were getting badly hurt by Money (Undisclosed Fo laundered through foreign that the accused had links earliest, to the satisfaction
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SECTION 2 A 10 PAGES animously approved the sands of federal workers derstanding that in 21 days, and Imposition of Tax Act,” The Directorate suspects Zambia. the Chief Minister.
MAGAZINE A 8 PAGES deal. Late Friday, Mr. brought new urgency to ef if no deal is done, it’s off to said an official. “Money that undisclosed funds of
CLASSIFIEDS A PAGES 4 & 6 Trump signed it into law. forts to resolve the the races!” laundering is a continuing some influential families CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10 DETAILS ON A PAGE 10
AAP, JJP in Lok Sabha tieup talks for Haryana U.P. govt. to
commemorate
Kejriwal’s party already supporting JJP leader Digvijay Chautala in Jind bypoll Kasganj death
Damini Nath mours of a potential alliance
NEW DELHI with the Congress. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
The Aam Aadmi Party is in Kasganj (U.P.)
talks with the recently Mutual praise The Uttar Pradesh govern

formed Jannayak Janta Par In Jind, Mr. Kejriwal lauded ment will build a square in
ty, a breakaway of the Indian JJP leader and Hisar MP memory of a man who was
National Lok Dal, for a po Dushyant Chautala — the killed last year during a ral
tential alliance in Haryana brother of Mr. Digvijay Chau ly on Republic Day in the
for the upcoming Lok Sabha tala and grandson of INLD State’s Kasganj town.
elections, AAP sources said. leader Om Prakash Chautala Minister of State for
The party is already sup — for being “selfless” and giv Housing and Urban Plan
porting the JJP in the January ing up the INLD “flag, elec ning, Vocational Education
28 byelection to the Jind tion symbol and might” after and Skill Development Su
seat in the Haryana Assemb a “family dispute”. The Hisar resh Pasi issued directions
ly, with AAP national con MP in turn praised the work to the district administra
vener and Delhi Chief Minis done by the AAP govern tion in this regard on
ter Arvind Kejriwal even ment in Delhi. Saturday.
addressing a rally in the con AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal with JJP leaders The JJP was formed in De Chandan Gupta (22) had
stituency on Saturday in sup Digvijay Singh Chautala (left) and Dushyant Chautala at a rally cember last year after Mr. died of gunshot wounds
port of JJP leader Digvijay in Jind on Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY: TWITTER
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Dushyant Chautala and Mr. following stonepelting by
Singh Chautala who is con Digvijay Chautala were ex a mob during a motorcycle
testing as an Independent ers, as well as a JJP source, On January 18, AAP leader pelled from the INLD. Their rally taken out to celebrate
candidate. said a seatsharing arrange Gopal Rai had announced at father, Ajay Chautala, the Republic Day.
Senior AAP leaders said ment is being discussed but a press conference in the son of O.P. Chautala, had His killing had led to
the party is in the process of the division of seats has not Capital that the party would been at loggerheads with his communal violence in the
discussing a tieup for the 10 been finalised. AAP had con contest all Lok Sabha seats in brother Abhay Singh Chauta western U.P. town. At least
Lok Sabha seats in Haryana tested all 10 seats in the 2014 Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, la and was also expelled three shops, two buses and
with the JJP. The AAP lead Lok Sabha elections. in an attempt to quash ru from the party. a car were torched.
FIRs filed against Assamese singer over Bharat Ratna remark
After audio clip of Zubeen Garg, a citizenship Bill detractor, making ‘derogatory’ comments goes viral
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT awards were announced. officer in charge of the Lanka dio clip has not been veri
GUWAHATI “By defaming the Bharat police station, said the FIR fied, neither has the singer
Two police complaints were Ratna, he [Mr. Garg] has also was registered on Saturday issued any clarification.
lodged against popular Assa insulted Bhupen Hazarika, morning under several sec Mr. Garg has been one of
mese singer Zubeen Garg on the voice and pride of As tions of the Indian Penal the strongest critics of the
Saturday for allegedly mak sam,” Satya Ranjan Borah, Code and the Information contentious Citizenship
ing derogatory remarks State vicepresident of the Technology Act. (Amendment) Bill, 2016. He
about Bharat Ratna, India’s BJP’s Kisan Morcha, wrote had composed a song to
highest civilian award. on Facebook. The legendary No clarification yet protest its passage in the Up
In an audio clip, Mr. Garg Assamese singer’s name fi Zubeen Garg * PTI Guwahati resident Biswajit per House of Parliament.
purportedly used abusive gured as a posthumous reci Nath lodged a similar com Earlier this month, Mr.
words while referring to the pient of Bharat Ratna in the trict. “I have no issues plaint at the Dispur police Garg wrote an open letter to
award. The clip began doing Friday list. Mr. Bora filed the against him, but his unac station seeking action Chief Minister Sarbananda
the rounds on social media complaint against Mr. Garg ceptable behaviour will im against the singer for “hate Sonowal asking him to take a
on Friday night, after the at the Lanka police station in pact the youth negatively,” speech”. stand against the Centre that
Bharat Ratna and Padma central Assam’s Hojai dis he said. Srimanta Sarma, the The authenticity of the au is pushing the Bill.
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IN BRIEF
Gandhithemed parade by States,
Ministries steals the show
Army veterans, all nonagenarians, honoured at the event
Sisodia inaugurates Sidharth Ravi with the freedom fighter, nonviolence.
works in Burari colonies New Delhi such as Tamil Nadu’s dis The Railways float fo
NEW DELHI
The winter sun warmed the play that recalled Gandhi’s cused on the story of Gand
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on crowds gathered at Rajpath visit to Madurai where he hi being kicked out of a
Saturday inaugurated to watch the 70th Republic first started wearing a train in South Africa when
development works in 11 Day Parade on Saturday. loincloth. it was under apartheid.
unauthorised colonies in Helicopters whizzed Andaman and Nicobar Is Coincidently, the chief
north Delhi’s Burari. Roads through the sky, showering lands float highlighted his guest on Saturday was
and drains will be flower petals over the influence on prisoners at South African President Cy
constructed in these colonies crowd to mark the start of the Cellular Jail there. ril Ramaphosa.
at a cost of ₹98.32 crore. The the parade that was filled The Parade also wit
event was attended by Delhi with typical pageantry. Independence struggle nessed veterans from the
Irrigation and Flood Control The crowd started taking Others recalled major Indian National Army, all
Minister Satyendar Jain and pictures as various regi events of the Independence nonagenarians, honoured
local MLA Sanjiv Jha. PTI ments marched in seamless struggle — Jallianwala Bagh as they drove past, seated
coordination, cavalry bri massacre by Punjab, the atop open jeeps.
Mandoli jail gets gades hoofed past and Quit India movement by
111-ft national flag marching bands played Maharashtra and Gandhi’s Children awarded
NEW DELHI
their tune. fast to end communal vio About 26 children were gi
Mandoli jail got a 111foot
Commemorating the lence by West Bengal. ven bravery awards.
Tricolour, the highest in east
and northeast Delhi, on the
150th birth anniversary of The festivities were
Republic Day on Saturday. Mahatma Gandhi, all floats Non-violence message capped off with highspeed
Director General (Prisons) Daredevils perform at Rajpath during the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on Saturday. * SANDEEP SAXENA presented by various States On the other hand, Sikkim, flypasts by multiple airforce
Ajay Kashyap hoisted the and government Ministries, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, squadrons and the slow rise
22 in total, were themed Goa made broader connec of tri coloured helium bal
Over 20,000 officers ensure
national flag which, according
to an official, is visible from around him. tions drawing on different loons released by the In
over 5 km. Supplementary While some highlighted aspects of his principles dian Meteorological De
installation of three sets of individual connections such as cleanliness and partment.
110watt LED lights has also
been done. PTI
peaceful RDay celebrations Delhi tableau back after a year’s break
Cops from other States roped in; facial recognition technology makes debut
Mahatma Gandhi spent more than 700 days of his life here
Staff Reporter
New Delhi <
> There were 25
Additional DCP Staff Reporter
Over 2,000 security officers and DCPrank New Delhi
were deployed for peaceful officers present at After a year’s gap, the Delhi
Republic Day celebrations at the event. Around tableau made a comeback at
Rajpath on Saturday, the pol the Republic Day Parade in
12,000 officers
ice said. Rajpath on Saturday.
were deployed for
Senior officers from other To Mahatma Gandhi’s
security...staff from
City likely to States were also roped in for
security, said an officer. PCR, special
150th birth anniversary, a
whitecoloured Delhi ta
security and traffic
get sewer “There were 25 Additional
Deputy Commissioner of police officers
bleau highlighted his stay at
the Birla House.
cleaning Police and Deputy Commis
sioner of Police rank officers
An illuminated Rashtrapati Bhavan on Republic Day in New
Delhi on Saturday. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
*
were added
Senior Delhi Police officer
The middle part of the ta
bleau highlighted Gandhi
machines present at the event. Around
12,000 officers were de to this, 30 cameras were in ers in addition to antidrone Elaborate traffic arrange
holding his daily prayer
meeting — attended by peo
ployed for security and law stalled with facial recogni guns, machine guns and oth ments were also made for ple from all sections of socie
Damini Nath and order. Staff from Police tion software as a part of an er air defence weapons. the Republic Day and areas ty —, the Delhi government
New Delhi Control Room, Special Se titerror preparedness. including India Gate, Rafi said in a statement.
Before the end of the curity and Traffic personnel “We had given the feed of ‘Visible policing’ Marg, Janpath, Man Singh It added that he had
month, the Delhi Jal Board were added. In total, there known terrorists and desper All the 15 Delhi districts had Road, Tilak Marg, Bahadur stayed there between 1915 The Delhi tableaux rolling down Rajpath during the RDay
is likely to induct 50 new were about 20,00022,000 ate criminals. If they were security in place with checks Shah Zafar Marg remained and 1948 and visited the city Parade on Saturday to mark the 150 birth anniversary
sewer cleaning machines as officers deployed,” the offic present, the camera would in the market, deployment #70929
closed for public till the Pa nearly 80 times, staying of Mahatma Gandhi. SANDEEP SAXENA
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a part of its effort to elimi er said. spot them and alert us,” the of sniffer dogs at strategic rade was over. more than 700 days of his
nate manual scavenging. Police said 120 CCTV cam officer said. places, and increased num Commuters were advised life here. schools, which highlighted was not there in 20142016
The practice has claimed eras were set up in Rajpath The police had also identi ber of pickets adding to in advance on social media In 2017, the Delhi govern various steps interventions had made a comeback in
several lives in the past few to keep a check on any suspi fied 160 highrise buildings, “more visible policing”, the to plan their journey ment put up a tableau on the made in the education sec 2018. However, it was again
years. cious movement. In addition which were covered by offic officer said. accordingly. theme of government tor. The Delhi tableau which not presented in 2018.
Delhi Social Welfare Mi
nister Rajendra Pal Gautam
said 50 of the machines
were likely to be rolled out
by Januaryend while the re
Aqua Line metro receives mixed response on debut ₹50,000cr highway projects
maining 150 of the total 200
in the pipeline are likely to
be procured by Marchend.
Officegoers and students find it impressive but costly; several commuters complain of glitches to decongest Delhi: Gadkari
Mr. Gautam said those Staff Reporter
engaged in manual scaveng Noida
Press Trust of India
New Delhi
<
> Delhi is facing the
problem of air and
ing would be trained and as The NoidaGreater Noida me
water pollution.
sisted with financing for tro link has received a bag of The government will take
sewer cleaning machines. mixed responses after it start up ₹50,000crore projects
There are frequent
A Delhi government offi ed passenger operations on to decongest Delhi that is traffic jams. We
cial added that the ma Saturday. battling with the twin pro will start work on
chines could be demon Majority of the people said blem of air and water pollu ₹50,000crore
strated on January 30 — on the metro will develop a new tion, said Union Minister Ni highway projects
the occasion of the anniver market but it comes with a lot tin Gadkari on Saturday. to decongest it
sary of Mahatma Gandhi’s of glitches. Though the office Road Transport and Nitin Gadkari
assassination. goers and students found the Highways Minister Gadkari Union Minister
At a Board meeting in Fe metro travel impressive, they was addressing an event

bruary 2018, the DJB had said it was costly. here after laying the founda been sought from PM Na
approved the procurement “It [the fare] is higher than The total ridership on the Aqua Line metro on day one stood tion stone for a ₹2,820 rendra Modi for this. The
of the 200 tailormade sew the regular bus ride between at 11,625, said NMRC executive director P. D. Upadhyay. PTI *
crore highway corridor pro Minister announced that
er cleaning machines. Greater Noida and Botanical ject that will link Akshard the work on DelhiMeerut
On Sunday, a worker Garden, especially when the courage the realty sector. We muters,” said Shantinath of ham to the Eastern Expressway will be com
died while cleaning a drain Blue Line service is yet to expect more demand from Logix group. Peripheral Expressway pleted by March, and April
in north Delhi’s Wazirabad. start,” said Shaily, a student. Sector 150,” said Ace group junction on Baghpat Road. onwards, people can reach
While manual scavenging Most of the commuters chairman and managing di Smart card requirements Meerut from Delhi in 40 mi
was banned by the Prohibi said they would prefer the rector Ajay Chaudhary. “You cannot get an Aqua Line Signal-free corridor nutes instead of the current
tion of Employment as Ma bus as it would save both time “Greater Noida was found smart card if you do not pro The highspeed signalfree threeandahalf hours.
nual Scavengers and Their and money. The stakeholders ed in 1991, but it has had less duce a voter ID or a driving li 31.3km corridor is expect Listing various projects
Rehabilitation Act, 2013, in believe that the metro link population since inception. cense. Many like me, who ed to contribute to decon for Delhi, the Minister also
cidents like the one in Wazi will play a crucial role in new This metro will definitely in want the smart card, were gestion and a considerable said a new ring road — Ur
rabad have continued. Last sectors. “NoidaGreater Noi crease the population in disappointed as the customer reduction in pollution levels ban Extension Road — will
September, five workers da metro link will benefit pe Greater Noida,” he added. service representatives said in DelhiNCR. be constructed at a cost of
died while cleaning a septic ople living in newly deve “Noida is already having a we need either of the two “Delhi is facing the pro ₹4,000 crore.
tank at a residential colony loped Sectors like 150, 137, worldclass infrastructure. cards,” said Shubham, a stu blem of air and water pollu He said that the pollution
in Moti Nagar. 144, 135. The link will also en The line will help many com dent. tion. There are frequent level has reduced signifi
traffic jams. We have taken a cantly in Delhi after several
decision to start work on projects including the East
On Republic Day, 23 police officers get medals for exemplary service ₹50,000crore highway

projects to decongest it,”
Mr. Gadkari said.
ern Peripheral Expressway.
Mr. Gadkari was accom
panied by Minister of State
He said the foundation for Road Transport and
Two of them were awarded President’s Police Medal for distinguished service; four officers bagged medals for gallantry stone for Dwarka Express Highways Mansukh Manda
way, to be built at a cost of viya and Minister of State
Staff Reporter rious service. Among those Kumar Tyagi and Jai Shree ₹10,000 crore, will be laid for External Affairs V. K.
New Delhi who were awarded are — Ad Gosain, SubInspectors next week and time has Singh.
On Republic Day (Saturday), ditional Commissioner of Kaushal Kumari and Mahesh
23 Delhi Police officers, in Police (Crime) A.K. Singla — Singh, Assistant SubInspec
cluding six women, have who had served as DCP tors Satender Singh and Raj
been conferred Police Medal (Election Cell) — and Deputy bir Singh, Head Constables
for their exemplary service. Commissioner of Police Virender Singh, Prem
Special Commissioner of (Crime) Joy Tirkey, who has Chand, Jagannivasan R, Poo
Police Nuzhat Hassan and been involved in the investi nam Verma and Promila.
Additional Commissioner of gation of cases like the CBSE Inspector Atul Kumar Ver
Police R.A. Sanjeev have paper leak and the myste ma who was awarded the
been awarded President’s rious Burari deaths. Police Medal had cracked
Police Medals for distin Others who were awarded several important cases in
guished service. Four police Police Medals for merito cluding, Dhaula Kuan Rape
personnel were awarded Pol rious service are Additional Case of 2010, murder of TV
ice Medals for gallantry. CP Raj Kumar Singh, DCP Journalist Soumya Vishwa
Geeta Rani Verma, Assistant nath, murder of IT executive
Meritorious service Commissioner of Police Mo Jigisha Ghosh and the recent Union Minister Nitin Gadkari at the foundation stonelaying
Seventeen personnel bagged hammad Iqbal, Inspectors murder of an RTI activist in ceremony of a ₹2,820crore highway corridor project in New
the Police Medals for merito Atul Kumar Verma, Ravinder Taimur Nagar. Delhi on Saturday. PTI
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THE HINDU
DELHI
CITY 3
Arms supplier
held in Capital
Minor boy stabbed to death
Staff Reporter Victim slapped accused’s friend; one sustains injury
NEW DELHI
A 19yearold man was ar Hemani Bhandari Moti Nagar and was released to intervene, Deepak
rested on Wednesday for NEW DELHI last month. An argument en stabbed him as well. “The
allegedly supplying fi A 17yearold boy was sued around 2 p.m. on Fri accused [Deepak] also sus
rearms in the city, the pol stabbed to death and his day, after which Shanu tained minor injuries in the
ice said on Saturday. friend sustained serious in slapped one of Deepak’s leg,” the officer said, adding
DCP (SouthEast) Chin juries when the two were at friends fourfive times,” the that he fled the spot after the
moy Biswal said the ac tacked allegedly by a 20 officer said. incident.
cused has been identified yearold in central Delhi’s The friend then went and Shanu and Shivam were
as Kasif alias Nisar who Patel Nagar on Friday, the met Deepak. He told Deepak then rushed to Acharya
hails from Meerut. “Sagar, police said. The 17yearold that Shanu had slapped him Shree Bhikshu Hospital
a member of Sunder Bhati had slapped the accused’s for no reason. Deepak decid where Shanu was declared
gang, was arrested on Mon friend, they said. ed to take a revenge and brought dead. “Shivam’s
day for shooting at a trans A senior officer privy to went to speak to Shanu. condition was serious and
gender. During interroga the probe said that the ac “Deepak went to meet Sha he was shifted to Ram Mano
tion he said he had cused, identified as Deepak, nu, who was with his 16 har Lohia Hospital where he
purchased the weapon a Class XII dropout and a re yearold friend Shivam is currently undergoing
used in the crime from Ka sident of Prem Nagar, has (name changed), around 8 treatment,” the officer said,
sif,” Mr. Biswal said. Kasif been arrested. p.m.. Deepak slapped Shanu adding that Shivam is out of
was arrested from Niza The officer said that on after and a fight ensued bet danger now.
muddin bus terminus. Friday afternoon, 17yearold ween the two,” the officer al Based on Shivam’s com
Kasif has told the police Shanu (name changed) had so said. plaint, the police have regis
that he used to procure pis an altercation with Deepak’s The accused then pulled tered a case under Section
tols for ₹25,000₹30,000 friend over supremacy in out a knife and stabbed Sha 302 (punishment for mur
from one Sadan alias Pistol the area. “Shanu was appre nu five times in his chest, der) and 307 (attempt to
and sell it for ₹40,000 hended for his alleged invol stomach and thigh, the pol murder) of the Indian Penal
₹50,000 vement in a murder case in ice said. When Shivam tried Code.
Five of family acquitted in Court acquits man in

dowry harassment case 2016 molestation case
Woman’s appeal dismissed by court ‘Witnesses gave contradictory evidence’
Nirnimesh Kumar in lieu of a car. She gave spec nirnimesh Kumar
New Delhi ific dates on which she was New Delhi
A Delhi court has acquitted beaten up. She also said that A Delhi court has acquitted
five persons of a family, in on December 25, 2003, they a man in a molestation case,
cluding the husband and the tried to burn her. stating that prosecution wit
motherinlaw of a woman, The victim moved an ap nesses gave contradictory
in a case of alleged dowry ha peal against a Metropolitan evidence before the court.
rassment, stating that the Magistrate court order ac The complainant alleged
victim had made no com quitting all the accused on that the accused had held
plaints about her harass the ground that no demand her hand and tried to out
ment at their hands before was made by the accused in rage her modesty in Novem
lodging an FIR against them presence of any eyewitness. ber 2016 in southeast Del against the conviction and
in 2006. Additional Sessions Judge hi’s Jaitpur. sentence before the court of
The victim’s fatherinlaw Sanjeev Kumar Malhotra The accused, in his de Additional Sessions Judge
was also an accused, but he said “Complainant/appellant fence, argued that the vic Neera Bharihoke.
passed away during the trial has admitted that prior to tim had falsely implicated “Perusal of the order re
and hence the trial was abat June 7, 2006, she had never him to recover money veals the contradictions bet
ed against him. made any complaint to any which he owed to her hus ween the testimonies of the
The couple got married authority or police nor did band for purchasing grocer prosecution witnesses and
on April 29, 2003. The wo she avail treatment from any ies from his shop. thus prosecution failed to
man in her complaint at hospital. The trial court The trial court had sen prove its case. Hence, the
Nand Nagri police station al rightly held that prosecution tenced the accused to one present appeal is allowed
leged that her husband and has not been able to prove year imprisonment in the and the appellant is acquit
inlaws had subjected her to the charge under 498 A/34 case. ted,” the judge stated in his #70929
cruelty demanding ₹3.5 lakh IPC against respondents.” He had come in an appeal order.
Court quashes acquittal of sub-postmaster

He was charged with misappropriating investors’ money worth ₹2.49 lakh
Nirnimesh Kumar The judge passed the order tures on the withdrawal slips. port was not exhibited and
New Delhi on an appeal by the Superin No question regarding her has not been considered
A court here has set aside a tendent of Post Offices, South deposition appears to have while deciding the matter,’’
judgment acquitting a sub Division, New Delhi, against a been put to the accused,” the the judge also said.
postmaster working at south Metropolitan Magistrate judge said. “In view of above discus
Delhi’s Talimabad post office court judgment. “Prosecution witness Shiv sion, the appeal is allowed.
in a case of alleged misappro A packer at the post office Nandan was another victim. The impugned judgment dat
priation of ₹2.49 lakh invest was also an accused in the His original passbook was on ed 12.12.2017 acquitting ac
ed in various schemes and case, but the trial was abated record, but it was not exhibit cused/respondent Dambar
making false entries into the against him as he died ed when he was being exa Singh is set aside and the
investors’ passbooks in 2006. midway. mined. The passbook had matter is remanded to trial
Quashing the acquittal “Prosecution witness Jyoti been returned by the FSL, court for fresh decision. The
judgment, Special Judge Ra Verma was one of the depos Shimla, with the other origi complainant is given liberty
jesh Kumar Singh remanded itors whose amount had been nal documents. If he had to move an application for re
the case to the trial court for embezzled. In her complaint, been examined before re call of the required witnesses
a fresh decision, observing she made specific allegations ceipt of the opinion and the to exhibit/prove the docu
that the trial was not con against the subpostmaster. documents, he should have ments already on record,”
ducted in a proper manner. She also denied her signa been recalled. The FSL re the Judge ordered.
Junior Momo vendor set free in murder case
engineer dies Court declares his fiveyear incarceration as sentence
in accident Nirnimesh Kumar Section 304 Part II (culpable imprisonment for the pe
New Delhi homicide not amounting to riod already undergone by
Staff Reporter A Delhi court has set free a murder). him,” the judge said.
Greater Noida man declaring his fiveyear Both Regan and victim The court held that the
A 26yearold junior engi incarceration during the Arun Thapa were drunk at case showed the accused
neer at National Thermal trial as his quantum of sen the time of the incident. had no intention to kill the
Power Corporation (NTPC) tence in a case in which the The incident took place victim as it took place all of a
plant in Dadri was killed on accused, a momo vendor, late on December 29, 2013. sudden.
spot after his car rammed a had stabbed a person to “The convict was in the “However, when he
parked truck near the death over snide remarks business of selling momos stabbed the victim in the
NTPC campus in Greater passed by the convict and belongs to lower strata chest, it can safely be said
Noida’s Jarcha on Saturday, against the victim’s former of society. He was in custody that he had the knowledge
the police said. girlfriend. since December 30, 2013. that he was doing an act
They said that the acci Additional Sessions Judge Considering these facts, I which was likely to cause
dent occurred around 1.30 O.P. Saini held accused Re am inclined to take a lenient death,” the court further
a.m. while he was return gan Pradhan guilty under view and sentence him to said.
ing home in Agra from
work.
The deceased has been
identified as Rahul Goyal
(26). He had been working
at the NTPC for the last
three years.
“A passerby informed
us about the incident
around 1.40 a.m. A police
team was sent to the spot.
The truck driver has not
been found. It took us al
most four hours to recover
the body from the car. It
was then sent for an autop
sy,” said Prabhat Kumar
Dixit, SHO at Jarcha.
Mr. Dixit also said that a
case has been registered
against the unidentified
truck driver based on the
complaint of the decea
sed’s family.
CM
YK
6 EAST DELHI

THE HINDU
Need cordial relations with Bangladesh: Tripura Governor
‘For development of transport routes that will benefit entire northeastern region’
BJD slams Rahul, says alliance
Agartala
Tripura Governor Kaptan
Singh Solanki on Saturday
after unfurling the Trico
lour, Mr. Solanki said a new
waterway is being set up
between Bangladesh and
na rivers.
“The State government
has taken various steps to
make Tripura a model State
Mr. Solanki also congratu
lated the people, NGOs, reli
gious institutions and media
for being committed to pro
only with people of Odisha
stressed on the need for cor Tripura to make the State a and a corruptionfree State. tecting peace and harmony. Congress chief had alleged that State CM is being ‘remotecontrolled by the PM’
dial relations with the neigh trade hub. With all hopes, I believe the “Our state is geographi
bouring Bangladesh for de future of the State is very cally small but it is very rich Press Trust of India Reacting strongly, Mr. Pa highest contributor of rice to
velopment of transport New river port bright. We should work to in terms of natural beauty Bhubaneswar tra said: “The people of Od the Public Distribution Sys
routes that would benefit The government is setting gether and help each other and resources. The incum Hitting back at Congress pre isha have not forgotten the tem (PDS), Mr. Patra added.
the State as well as the en up a new river port at So so the State will develop fas bent government has alrea sident Rahul Gandhi for al golden rule of the Congress In the case of infant mor
tire northeastern region. namura subdivision of Sipa ter,” said the Governor. dy taken a lot of initiative to leging that Chief Minister Na when the growth rate of the tality rate (IMR), the scena
Addressing the 70th Re hijala district so that ships He added that the biggest develop the state as a major veen Patnaik was State was restricted to 3%.” rio in Odisha now is better
public Day function at the can carry goods to Bangla IT centre in the Northeast tourist spot,” said the “remotecontrolled” by “From there, under the then the national average, he
Assam Rifles Ground here desh via Gomati and Megh would be set up in the State. Governor. Prime Minister Narendra BJD rule, the growth rate has said, adding that during the
Modi, the Biju Janata Dal on reached 10%, which is high Congress rule, the State’s
Saturday said its alliance was er than the national aver IMR was the worst in the
only with the people of age,” he added. country.
Odisha. Rahul Gandhi He said that the BJD was
Spokesperson of the rul ‘Rice-surplus State’ demanding a minimum sup
ing BJD Sasmit Patra said the had alleged that as Mr. Pat Under the Congress rule, Od port price (MSP) of ₹2,930
party had maintained equi naik had supported PM Mo isha was dependent on rice for paddy, which was unani
distance from both the BJP di’s demonetisation, GST from other States but the BJD mously resolved in the Vid
and the Congress. and other bills, there was an government has ensured han Sabha in 2017.
“Our alliance is only with understanding between the that the State not only “Unfortunately the Con
the people of Odisha for BJD and the BJP. reached selfsufficiency in gress only spoke of ₹2,500 as
their development and pro He further claimed that rice production in 2007, but MSP in 2018 as if they are do
gress,” Mr. Patra said. the Odisha Chief Minister also became a ricesurplus ing some charity and now it
Speaking at a public meet was being “remotecon State in 2011, he said. is talking of ₹2,600 in 2019,”
ing on Friday, Rahul Gandhi trolled” by the PM. Now, the State is the third Mr. Patra said.
‘KALIA unique model for agri growth’ Mixed response

to boycott call
Naveen says 6 lakh jobs created after investment of ₹4 lakh crore in Northeast
Staff Reporter SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
BHUBANESWAR GUWAHATI
Odisha Governor Ganeshi The call to boycott Repu
Lal hoisted the national flag blic Day celebrations by
at the Statelevel Republic some civil society and ex
Day celebrations here on Sa tremist groups, primarily
turday, while Chief Minister to protest the Centre’s
Naveen Patnaik gave an ad move to enact the Citizen
dress from the historic Bara ship (Amendment) Bill,
bati Stadium in Cuttack. 2016, evoked mixed res
The Statelevel celebra ponse on Saturday.
tions saw a parade by police Mizoram Governor
personnel and students of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik greets children at the Kummanam Rajasekharan
various schools and colleges. Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Saturday. BISWARANJAN ROUT *
addressed a nearempty
Tableaux showcasing im Assam Rifles ground in Ai
plementation of various wel “Make in Odisha has given “The newly launched KA zawl though Ministers,
fare schemes and achieve a boost to investors’ confi LIA, a farm development in MLAs, senior administra
ments of industrial units dence. Six lakh new jobs centive scheme, has proved tive, police and paramili
rolled their way down Ma have been generated follow to be a unique model for tary force officers attended
hatma Gandhi Marg. ing grounding of investment agriculture development in the function.
As many as 54 contingents to the tune of ₹4,20,000 the country. This is not my The celebration was
and cultural troupes partici crore. Successful organisa word, agriculture experts muted in Nagaland and Ma
pated in the parade. tion of 18 Men’s World Cup have recognised it. As many nipur, where unidentified
Security personnel had has helped increase respect as 12 lakh farmers have got miscreants detonated a
#70929
been put on high alert in the of the State in the world are assistance under the scheme lowintensity bomb in
city since Friday. na,” said Mr. Patnaik. till Friday,” he said. which no one was injured.
THE HINDU
DELHI
NORTH 7
M.P. assures 100 days’ work to EWS youths

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Reminder for the Republic

Registration for Yuva Swabhiman Yojana to begin from Feb. 10
Bhopal
‘Will take action against
The Madhya Pradesh govern
ment on Saturday an
guilty in loan fraud’
nounced the launch of a
scheme to ensure 100 days Anup Dutta Development
of employment every year to Bhopal Department has issued a
the youths from the econom Reports of fake farm circular to Divisional
ically weaker sections (EWS) loans and irregularities Commissioners and
in urban areas. in allocation of funds to District Collectors stating
Chief Minister Kamal Nath beneficiaries under the that any irregularities
made the announcement Jai Kisan Crop Loan will come under the
during his Republic Day ad Waiver Scheme, ambit of “serious crime”.
dress at Chhindwara. announced on January 15 The directive has
by newly elected Chief come in the wake of
Skill development Minister Kamal Nath, complaints of fake loans
“We are going to implement M.P. Chief Minister Kamal Nath during the 70th Republic Day have prompted the being sanctioned in the
a new scheme — Yuva Swab celebrations in Chhindwara on Saturday. PTI * authorities to initiate name of farmers and
himan Yojana, which would legal action against depriving genuine
provide temporary employ The Chief Minister said Scheduled Tribe MPs and officials allegedly beneficiaries of their
ment and develop skills. Re that the government has also MLAs. involved in the fraud. share of loan waiver
gistration for this scheme changed its industrial policy The work of ST welfare “The State under the scheme. In
would begin from February to create opportunities for would be conducted on the government has taken one such case, Shivlal
10,” he said. the State’s youth. recommendations of this note of fake loan cases Kataria of Agar Malwa
Mr. Nath said that 100 “We have introduced a committee. with utmost seriousness. district claimed the list of
days’ employment would be clause under the policy for The implementation of Stringent legal action will beneficiaries showed a
provided every year to the the industries that they the scheme for opening be taken against culprits loan waiver of ₹13 against
EWS youths. would get the State govern ‘gaushalas’ would begin by who have prepared fake his name instead of
“During their employ ment incentives only if they Februaryend, he said. cases to register crop ₹24,000 he was entitled
ment, youths would be hire 70% staff from Madhya Mr. Nath added that his loan amount in their to. The beneficiary list,
trained in skills of their Pradesh,” he said. government would arrange names,” Mr. Nath said. issued by the authorities,
choice, so that they can take Mr. Nath also announced funds from international The State Farmer was displayed at the
benefits of the available job that the government would agencies for infrastructure Welfare and Agriculture gram panchayat.
opportunities,” he added. constitute a committee of development in the State.
Navjot Kaur Sidhu seeks Cong. Campaigning for Ramgarh poll ends
ticket from Chandigarh seat Press Trust of India
Alwar
Campaigning for Assembly elec

Election to the Ramgarh seat
will take place on January 28. It
could not be held along with the
tion in the Ramgarh constituency other 199 constituencies on De
P.K. Bansal, Manish Tewari also among the contenders of Alwar district ended on Satur cember 7 due to the death of BSP
day, an official said. candidate Laxman Singh. The BSP
Press Trust of India (for Chandigarh),” Ms. Sidhu said on “The campaigning ended at 5 has fielded former Union Minister
Chandigarh Saturday. p.m. As many as 20 candidates, in Natwar Singh’s son Jagat Singh, a
Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu’s “I want the children to get good edu cluding two women, are in the fray former MLA, while Congress can
wife and former MLA Navjot Kaur Sid cation and also get work here so that for the Assembly poll which will be didate Shafia Zubair and BJP’s
hu has staked claim to the Congress they do not have to leave the country,” held on 278 booths,” Returning Of Sukhwant Singh are among the Balloons with a message against female foeticide and to promote education for girls being
ticket from Chandigarh in the upcom she added. ficer Pankaj Sharma said. other candidates. released in Chandigarh on Saturday. AKHILESH KUMAR *
ing Lok Sabha election. On Mr. Bansal and Mr. Tewari also
With Ms. Sidhu throwing her hat in vying for the seat, she said, “It is for the
the ring, the number of contenders for party to decide (on giving ticket). If Pa
the Congress ticket from the Union wan Bansal gets it, I will be the first
Territory has reached three. Former person to help him out.”
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal However, Mr. Bansal, who had been
and exUnion Minister Manish Tewari fourtime MP from the UT, exuded
are also vying for the ticket from confidence that the party high com
Chandigarh. mand would repose faith in him and
Presently, BJP MP Kirron Kher re give him the ticket. “Everybody has the
presents the UT. right to apply for a ticket from anywh
Ms. Sidhu, former MLA from Amrit ere. But it is the party high command
sar (East) and former Chief Parliamen which finally decides. I am pretty sure
tary Secretary, submitted her applica that because of my work in Chandi
tion to Chandigarh Territorial garh, being well versed with the affairs
Congress Committee president Pra of the city and the rapport I have with
deep Chhabra on Friday. the people here, the party will certain
“Checking brain drain and getting ly repose faith in me and give me the
jobs for youths here will be my agenda ticket again from here,” he said.
Minor girl found unconscious, injured

Press Trust of India aged to flee. She said the two again
Etah (U.P.) caught her and made her drink alcohol
A 16yearold girl was found uncon at gunpoint, after which she fainted.
scious with injuries on her face at a The youngsters then dumped her in
farm here on Saturday, police said. the fields, from where she was even
Additional Superintendent of Police tually found.
Sanjay Kumar said, “On January 23, the The police said the girl’s face
girl had a fight with her mother, and seemed to be burnt with some chemi
went to Firozabad with a youth at the cal. Mr. Kumar said, “There has been
behest of an acquaintance.” no complaint by the girl’s family, but
According to the girl, the youngsters we have started searching for the cul
allegedly tried to sell her, but she man prits.”
3 killed in bike-car collision

SITAPUR
At least three persons,
including a minor, died when a
motorcycle collided with a car
here, the police said on
Saturday. Jaskaran, Vikas and a
third person were on the bike
which collided with the car
while trying to overtake a
truck, the police said. Jaskaran
and Vikas died on the spot, he
added. The car carrying Amit
Awasthi, his wife and two
children overturned, injuring
all four. Mr. Awasthi’s son
Nitesh succumbed to his
injuries in the hospital. PTI
8 SOUTH DELHI

THE HINDU
IN BRIEF
Two women die after eating temple offering
11 others in hospital; initial probe does not point to poisoning, say Karnataka police
Special Correspondent respond to treatment and
Bengaluru died on Saturday.
Two women died and 11 oth Seven people, including
ers, including two children, three women and a priest,
Hartals lower Kerala’s
image, says Governor have been hospitalised after have been brought in for
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
they allegedly consumed a questioning by the police.
Kerala Governor P. sweetmeat that had been dis “The priests informed us
Sathasivam on Saturday tributed as prasada (offer that the prasada of kesari Courtesy call: Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy
called for a united approach ing) at a temple in Chintama bath had not been prepared meeting Anand Singh, MLA, who was injured during a brawl
towards rebuilding the State ni town in Chickballapur on the temple premises, but with another legislator Ganesh. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
*
after last year’s floods. He district on Friday night. was brought by some devo

also cautioned against violent
protests and frequent hartals
derailing the efforts and
lowering the State’s image.
The victims have been
identified as Kavitha, 31, and
Saraswathamma, 56.
This is the second inci Food scare: The entrance to the Ganga Bhavani temple in Karnataka’s Chickballapur district.
tees,” the police officer said.
“Samples have been sent
to the Forensic Science Lab
oratory in Bengaluru.
JD(S) too faces
CID arrest fugitive in
A.P. ponzi scam
VIJAYAWADA
dent in a little over a month
where temple offerings have
proved fatal.
In December 2018, 17 peo
said the police, who suspect
that the prasada had been
prepared using “expired in
temple in Chintamani town
had held a puja on Friday
night.
7, and Charini, 5, husband
Gangadhar V., his father Ven
kataramappa, and other vil
Though we suspect that the
kesari bath was prepared us
ing ingredients that were
spoilt, we will wait for the
discontentment
The CID sleuths, who are
investigating the Akshaya
ple died after they consumed gredients”. “There was a huge gather lagers. FSL report and postmor But has not threatened Karnataka govt.
Gold case, have arrested its prasada that had been delib Six of the victims were ing of over 1,000 devotees,” tem,” he said.
director Kukatla Srinivas. He erately poisoned in Chama members of one family who said a senior police officer. ‘Not prepared in temple’ Reacting to the incident, MURALIDHARA KHAJANE “Nobody knows the in
was wanted in as many as 30 rajnagar district. had consumed the offering Kavitha, who attended the Soon after they began vomit Karntaka Chief Minister H.D. Bengaluru tention and strategies of the
cases and had been on the “Our initial investigation after one of them brought it festival, brought home the ing and were rushed to priv Kumaraswamy said there At a time when the Bharati senior party leaders. They
run for the last few years. He into Friday’s incident, ho home after a visit to the prasada, which was later ate hospitals in Chintamani was a need to set guidelines ya Janata Party is allegedly are now convincing the
was remanded in judicial wever, does not point to the temple. consumed by her family, in and Kolar. to ensure such incidents are continuing its efforts to des cadre by promising to fill
custody till February 4. use of poison or pesticide,” The Ganga Bhavani Devi cluding her children Ganavi, The two women did not not repeated. tabilise the coalition govern posts after the budget ses
ment in Karnataka by cash sion,” said a senior leader
ing in on the dissent in the on condition of anonymity.
Expolice chief slams Congress, discontent is Some believe that the JD
Winning battle with a wounded knee award for Narayanan

brewing in the Janata Dal
(Secular) too because of the
delay in filling two vacant
(S)’s strategy is to keep the
posts vacant in case of an ex
igency, if rebel Congress
posts in the Cabinet and in leaders need to be accom
Former Chennai Mayor Subramanian will run his 100th marathon today naming chairpersons to modated to save the govern
Indo-Asian News Service Boards and Corporations. ment from falling apart.
B. Kolappan Thiruvananthapuram However, unlike in the Once the Lok Sabha elec
CHENNAI cluding in Britain (London), A day after the government Congress camp, this has re tions are declared, it will not
When an accident in 2004 Australia, Austria, Italy, announced Padma Bhushan mained under the surface be possible to fill the posts,
left his right knee shattered Norway, Athens, Philip for former ISRO scientist S. and not threatened the said a leader.
into six pieces, doctors who pines and Singapore. In In Nambi Narayanan, T.P. Sen government. Some of the leaders are
treated him advised against dia I have run in 18 States,” kumar, former Kerala police also upset with the decision
brisk walking and sitting Mr. Subramanian said. chief, who was tipped to Many postponements of the party to nominate
crosslegged. But a deter He entered the Indian probe spy charges involving According to sources in the former bureaucrat Thippes
mined former Chennai book of records after com Mr. Narayanan, slammed party, leaders and legisla wamy, who is close to party
Mayor M. Subramanian, pleting 25 events and the the decision, saying the tors were earlier assured of supremo H.D. Deve Gowda
popularly known as ‘Maa Asia book of records after award came at a time when filling their quota in the Ca and Public Works Minister
su’, has proved his doctors the 29th event. He was con a Supreme Court committee Nambi Narayanan binet and making appoint H.D. Revanna to the Upper
wrong. ferred an honorary docto was looking into ISRO case. ments after Sankranti, but House over “party loyal
A regular participant at rate for having completed “If this is the yardstick for any ISRO scientist who is the BJP’s constant efforts to ists”.
marathons now, Mr. Subra 50th marathon and a Gol a Padma award, then people still working there about his destabilise the coalition go Some were already upset
manian will be running his Sheer grit: A file photo of M. Subramanian, centre, den disc award. like Govinda Chami, Amee contributions,” said Mr. vernment had forced the with the choice of H.M. Ra
100th event on Sunday. participating in the ‘Auroville Marathon’ race. S.S. KUMAR * Mr. Subramanian said he rul Islam [both accused in Senkumar. party to put the plan on mesh Gowda to head the
“Since I am a diabetic, I would run 10 km every al the killing of two women] Mr. Narayanan said what hold. Now, the Chief Minis youth wing of the party.
decided to run regularly to lotus pose),” said Mr. Subra among the youth. Today he ternate day and constantly and Mariam Rasheeda [an Mr. Senkumar said was im ter is also busy preparing for However, president of the
keep my sugar levels under manian, who started run has three lakh followers. suffered from muscle accused along with Mr. Na material and irrelevant. the budget. State unit A.H. Vishwanath
control. Gradually I over ning in 2014. He also creat cramps and pains. “Lose of rayanan in the ISRO spy “What he has said is proba Earlier, shoonya masa discounted the discontent
came difficulties and physi ed a Facebook account to Across the globe body fluid often leads to case], would get a Padma bly because he wants to mis (regarded as “inauspicious ment factor and argued that
cal discomfort. I can even highlight his achievements “I have participated in ma cramps. But still I manage to award next year,” he said. lead the Supreme Court. I time” by some) and Belagavi reasons for postponement
perform padmasana (the and create awareness rathons in 10 countries in keep my spirits up,” he said. #70929
“Mr. Narayanan is a be do not know if he has an sessions were reasons for were “genuine” and the
low average scientist... ask agenda,” he said. the delay. leaders understand it.
THE HINDU
DELHI
NATION 9
IN BRIEF
45 days after mishap, second Electoral bonds are a
body detected in Meghalaya mine damp squib: Chawla
Modi to visit Madurai Located at a distance of 280 feet from where the first body was detected Former CEC says scheme has served as camouflage method
today, BJP upbeat Rahul Karmakar
CHENNAI
Special Correspondent
Guwahati JAIPUR
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s visit to Madurai in An underwater robot en The electoral bond scheme
Tamil Nadu on Sunday has gaged by the Navy has de introduced by the govern
shifted the public’s focus to tected a second body inside ment in 201718, which saw
the BJP as the election a rathole tunnel of the flood the ruling BJP getting the
season looms. He will lay the ed 355feet coal mine in highest funding, had turned
foundation for an AIIMS in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills out to be a “damp squib and
the city. BJP State president district, where 15 miners [a] huge disappointment”
Tamilisai Soundararajan said were trapped on December because of its failure to ad
the rally would be a “great 13. dress the issue of black mo
show of our strength”. The second body was de ney paid to political parties,
tected on Saturday by an un former Chief Election Com
6 children hurt as stunt
derwater remotely operated missioner Navin Chawla said
goes wrong on R-Day
vehicle (ROV), equipped here on Saturday. It had
PALANPUR
Six children and a woman
with an electronic eye and emerged as a “greater meth
constable riding a stunt mechanical arms, at a dis od of camouflage”, he said. Straight talk: N. Ram, Chairman, The Hindu Publishing Group,
motorcycle were injured tance of 280 feet from where Mr. Chawla, who oversaw in conversation with former CEC Navin Chawla at the Jaipur
when the two-wheeler the first body was detected. the 2009 Lok Sabha elec Literature Festival on Saturday. ROHIT JAIN PARAS
*
skidded during the Republic “The body was detected tions, was in conversation
by the Navy around 3 a.m.,” with N. Ram, Chairman, The Nari Shakti is Oxford ‘India should encourage
Day parade organised in
district’s Deputy Commis it since December 14. extracted on Thursday. of the ratholes,” the officer Hindu Publishing Group, Hindi word of 2018 Taliban to shun violence’
Gujarat’s Palanpur. The bike
JAIPUR JAIPUR
skidded and hit the children sioner Federick M. Dopth In the 45 days since disas The body was identified said. during the release of his
Oxford dictionaries on India should be clear about its
who were part of the said, after the local authori ter struck when the miners from two amulets around his Mr. Ali and four others, in book, Every Vote Counts:
Saturday declared Nari role in Afghanistan and do
audience. PTI ties handed over the body of hit the walls of an adjoining neck. He was given the amu cluding the sirdar (mine The Story of India’s Elec-
Shakti as the Hindi word for whatever it can to encourage
the first victim — identified as waterfilled abandoned lets for “divine protection” man manager) and the kha- tions, at the Jaipur Literature the year 2018. The that the Taliban shun violent
Navy rescues sailors who Amir Hussain (35) — to his mine, the search and rescue before he left his village Nij tamaster (recordkeeper) Festival.
went missing from sea announcement was made extremism and become
widow and uncle at district personnel detected 26 later damugaon three months had clambered up the wires during a session at the mainstream, former National
MUMBAI
headquarters Khliehriat. al rathole tunnels branching ago. of a pump to escape the wa ‘Sea of black money’ Jaipur Literature Festival at Security Adviser Shivshankar
Five officers of the Coast
The mine at Khloo Ryngk out of the man shaft of the An officer of one of the ter that flooded the shaft. Mr. “There is a sea of black mo the Diggi Palace here. Menon said at the Jaipur
Guard and an Army jawan
san, or Ksan, is about 40 km mine “like veins of a leaf”. rescue agencies said locating Ali had told The Hindu that ney [for political parties] ir According to the Oxford Literature Festival. He said the
were rescued by the Navy
after their sail boat went
from Khliehriat. the maze of ratholes and the he had checked with the respective of demonetisa dictionaries, the word has threat of extremism emanating
missing in gusty winds. The Though the Navy and priv Two amulets bodies became faster after khatamaster and found tion and irrespective of been derived from Sanskrit from Afghanistan was
team was practising sailing as ate agencies with sophisti Hussain’s body was detected they contacted Saheb Ali, there were 17 men down the which party is in power,” Mr. and is used today to exaggerated in India. “I have
part of the ongoing Coast cated waterdraining pumps more than a week ago from one of the five survivors of mine that day, not 15 as offi Chawla remarked when symbolise women “taking never known a terrorist from
Guard Week celebrations. The and underwater detection “rathole 26” lying 210ft in the mishap, at his village in cially acknowledged. asked about the source of charge of their lives“. Afghanistan in the last 40
Navy dispatched its Sea King devices started working at side a rathole from a depth western Assam’s Chirang They were mining illegally money spent during elec Oxford had named Aadhaar years. This is actually Pakistani
42C helicopter, which located Ksan from December 30, the of 160ft of the vertical shaft. district. since the National Green Tri tions. Making cash contribu as its Hindi word for the year terrorism and let us not make
the survivors and winched National Disaster Response The body had fallen from the “He provided us diagrams bunal had banned rathole tions of less than ₹20,000 in 2017. PTI any mistake about that.” PTI
them up and returned at 11 Force and the State Disaster grip of the ROV to the bot of the mine as well as a fair coal mining since April 17, multiples was not accounted
p.m. on Friday. Response Force have been at tom of the shaft, but was it idea of the depth and length 2014. for, while the Election Com
mission was making the re tions. “During my tenure, I liament was on the way to
commendation to change tried to understand various becoming the House of the
SC to hear plea against changes to pension scheme the law for 22 years without

any result, he said.
Mr. Chawla’s book has
fault lines of money and
muscle power and fake and
paid news... It is remarkable
rich and powerful, without
actually representing the
voice of the people. When
Special Correspondent Officers Association, which ing to the pension scheme Two months later, the Cen presented an account of the that the winners and losers Mr. Ram cited the Centre for
NEW DELHI represents 19,118 people on maximum salary; and to tral Board of Trustees of the daunting task of conducting have accepted the [election] Media Studies’ estimates of
The Supreme Court has post working in central public deny the benefit of opting for EPFO decided to comply the largest electoral exercise results equally,” he said. ₹1,50,000 crore spent on all
ed for hearing on February sector organisations. Most of the scheme to retired em with the order and allow in the world, challenges be The former CEC, who elections between 2010 and
28 a petition filed by retirees the latter group are mem ployees if they missed the members to get the benefit fore the poll panel, main authored a biography of 2014, half of which came
and members of the Em bers of EPS 95. cutoff date. of pension on a higher sal taining credibility, holding Mother Teresa, said every from unaccounted money,
ployees Pension Scheme ary. However, on May 31, free and fair elections and vote counted in a democra Mr. Chawla said this was a
(EPS), 1995, against the go ‘Not a bounty’ Not informed 2017, EPFO issued a circular enforcing the model code of cy, which had also formed “worrisome aspect” of elec
vernment and the Em “It is settled law that pension The amendment and cutoff claiming that EPS 95 mem conduct. Mr. Ram observed the theme for his book, and toral expenditure.
ployees Provident Fund Or is not a bounty payment to tember 1, 2014. It also re date were not given suffi #70929
bers from “exempt” compa that Indian elections were cited the instance of the On being asked about the
ganisation (EPFO), which which an employee is entit duced the pensionable cient publicity to allow em nies were excluded from the considered “one of the won 2008 Rajasthan Assembly credibility of electronic vot
administers the scheme. led to as a matter of right as salary considerably by ave ployees to opt for pension on benefits of the SC’s 2016 or ders of the world”, partly be election when Congress ing machines, Mr. Chawla
The petitioners claim that retiral benefit for services raging 60 months salary in higher salary if they wished, der. These are companies cause of the sheer numbers leader C.P. Joshi — presently said the EVMs could not be
a 2014 amendment and a rendered by him. It is a social stead of 12 months to deter says the petition, adding which are exempt from of the electorate in the the State’s Speaker — had linked to computers to make
2017 circular exclude thou security provided for him to mine the last drawn salary that, “It is in these circum maintaining a provident country. lost by a single vote in Nathd their hacking possible.
sands from receiving their lead a dignified life,” the peti amount. stances that the majority of fund with EPFO, but not ex Mr. Chawla said though wara constituency. “We “These machines have
rightful benefits under EPS tioners have argued. According to the petition, the employees remained ig empt from participation in the Election Commission’s have tried to reach every last gone through a long judicial
95. The petitions represent EPFO’s August 28, 2014 the effect of this amendment norant of the options availa the pension scheme. structure had been built voter even in times of distur journey... Cases were filed in
the members of the National amendment had raised the is to exclude all new em ble to them for the better With confusion prevail brickbybrick over 70 years, bances,” he said. several High Courts. Until
Confederation of Retirees, wage ceiling amount for the ployees who joined after ment of their life after ing, another slew of petitions the 10th CEC, T.N. Seshan, the Supreme Court takes a fi
that is about 42,555 former scheme to ₹15,000 and September 2014 from joining retirement.” landed in the courts. Cur had given teeth to the body ‘House of the rich’ nal view on this, we must
employees from the private amended the option for con the pension scheme alto In an October 2016 order, rently, at least 27 cases on va and brought so much inde Mr. Chawla said the statuto keep our faith in them. The
and public sector who are tribution on higher salary for gether; to exclude serving the Supreme Court had rious aspects of EPS 95 are pendence to it that it did not ry limit for election expens same machines have given
members of EPS 95, and the existing employees, intro employees from benefiting struck down the cutoff date pending in the Supreme consult the executive while es was invariably exceeded different results in different
National Confederation of ducing a cutoff date of Sep from the option of contribut clause in the amendment. Court. setting the dates for elec and wondered if India’s Par polls,” the former CEC said.
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Patients urge adoption of rights charter

‘Lack of effective regulation of private medical sector makes it an urgent need’
Special Correspondent violations faced by them es ments up to 30th September,
NEW DELHI pecially in private hospitals. 2018. Although nearly 4
The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan The consultation was or months have elapsed since
( JSA), a national platform ganised by SATHI, Pune and this declaration of intent,
working on health and Sama Resource Group for there seems to have been no
healthcare services, urged Women and Health,with par further progress on finalisa
the Ministry of Health to im ticipation from several pa tion and adoption of the
mediately implement the tients’ rights groups and charter,” the group noted.
Charter of Patients’ Rights health activists from across
and ensure the inclusion of India including states of Reference framework
the entire range of patients’ Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, The charter will act as a refe
rights without any dilution. Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Ha rence framework for the Un
“The adoption of the char ryana, Rajasthan and Delhi. ion and State governments to
ter is urgent to ensure that A key issue discussed was give complete protection to
the many violations of pa The charter will act as a the Charter of Patient’s patients, while they set up
tients’ rights are immediate reference framework for the Rights which has been deve operational mechanisms to
ly addressed to stop loss of Union and State governments. loped by National Human make these rights functional
health and even lives,” the Rights Commission. and enforceable by law.
umbrella group said in a up by JSA to demand this as “In August 2018, the Mi “This is especially impor
statement. an electoral issue.” nistry of Health and Family tant and an urgent need...
“If the charter is not A national consultation Welfare announced its plans because India lacks effective
adopted before the Lok Sab was held earlier this week to implement this Charter, regulation of the private
ha elections, then a large where they deliberated on which was placed in the pu medical sector,” the group
scale campaign will be taken patients’ experiences and blic domain for inviting com noted in its release.
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‘Can settle Ayodhya dispute in 24 hours’ Pak. team
to inspect
Soon, you can see how If SC is unable to give an early verdict, it should hand over the case to us, says U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath Chenab basin
the Harappans looked Indo Asian News Service pute soon. On September
<
> Ifresolved,
temple issue is not of gain or loss in elec Press Trust of India
New Delhi 30, 2010, the Allahabad High talaq ban tions but the faith of country new Delhi
The skeletal remains were largest sites of the Harappan Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Court Division Bench gave its is implemented, men. Mr. Adityanath assert A Pakistani delegation will
CT scanned and the data fed civilisation and the major Yogi Adityanath has said pe verdict not on the issue of di ed that the Congress was at visit the Chenab river basin
politics of
into a programme deve objectives behind the exca ople’s “patience” on the vision of land but upheld the the root of this problem. in Jammu and Kashmir for
appeasement... will
loped by the Korean scien vation there, according to Ram temple issue is “fast view that the Babri structure “If Ayodhya dispute is re inspection from January 28
tists to fill them “layer by Dr. Shinde, were to trace its running out”, and if unable was built by demolishing a end forever solved, triple talaq ban is im to 31, as mandated under
layer with blood and flesh to beginnings and to study its to give an early verdict, the Hindu temple or memorial. plemented, politics of ap the Indus Water Treaty,
show as to how the Harap gradual evolution from Supreme Court should The Archaeological Survey not brought in an ordinance, peasement... will end sources said.
pan people looked like”, 6000 BCE to 2500 BCE, be “hand it over to us” and the of India, on the High Court’s Mr. Adityanath said the mat forever.” Pakistan’s Indus Com
said Dr. Shinde, explaining sides protecting it from en dispute will be resolved orders, carried out excava ter was sub judice. missioner Syed Moham
the forensic facial recon croachment by the locals within 24 hours. tions and in its report admit “Parliament cannot dis ‘Proved Nehru wrong’ mad Mehar Ali Shah will ar
struction technique. He ad since the village is settled ex He said the Bharatiya Jana ted that the Babri structure cuss matters that are sub jud On Priyanka Gandhi’s entry rive in India along with his
ded that the tentative results actly on top of it. ta Party (BJP) would win was built by demolishing a ice. We are leaving it to the in politics, he said: “Con two advisers, sources said.
were already available. “We “Another aim was to find more seats in Uttar Pradesh Hindu temple or a memo court. Had the court given gress has again proved that “Under the 1960 treaty
can, therefore, soon answer out who the Harappan peo in the coming Lok Sabha rial,” he said. institutions may lose peo justice based on the 1994 affi for them the family is the between India and Pakis
questions on physical simi ple were. There was a lot of election than it did in 2014. “By adding the title dis ple’s trust,” he said. davit filed by the then Cen party. ” tan, both commissioners
larities between the modern debate whether they had Asked by India TV wheth pute unnecessarily, the “I want to say that the tral government, a good On Rahul Gandhi visiting are mandated to inspect
day population and the Ha come from West or were lo er he would resolve the Ayodhya dispute is being court should give its verdict message could have gone to temples, Mr. Adityanath sites and works on both
rappan people,” he added. cals. We wanted DNA for Ayodhya issue through nego prolonged. We appeal to the soon, and if it is unable to do the country. It would have said: “This is a victory for sides of the Indus basin in a
While the technique in it this and started excavation tiations or by wielding the Supreme Court to give us jus so, it should hand over the is been a nice example. But our ideology. Rahul has now block of five years,” a se
self is not new, with forensic at burial sites,” said Dr. stick, Mr. Adityanath smiled tice at the earliest, to the sa sue to us. We will resolve the this unnecessary delay is realised that if he has to live nior official said.
scientists having helped in Shinde. and said: “First, let the court tisfaction of millions of peo Ram Janmabhoomi dispute causing a situation where pe in Hindustan, he will have to This tour will be fol
vestigators probe crimes by However, the findings hand over the issue to us.” ple, so that it can become a within 24 hours. We won’t ople’s patience is fast run show his janeu and tilak in lowed by a visit of the In
recreating faces using this from excavation have now “I will still appeal to the symbol of people’s faith. But take 25 hours,” he said. ning out.” public... Rahul has proved dian Indus Commissioner
technology, it will be the largely substantiated that court to dispose of the dis if there is unnecessary delay, Asked why the Centre had He said the question was that Nehru was wrong.” to Pakistan.
first instance when it will be the Harappans were locals,
used in India for the ancient said Dr. Shinde, explaining
2 militants, intruder killed in J&K J&K Guv. revokes zero

population. The technique that the excavation hinted at
has also been used to re the gradual evolution of the
create faces for the inhabi Harappans proving that
tants of Egyptian and the
Mesopotamian civilizations,
they were locals. “The
structural activity, pottery, stamp duty for women
but never for the Harappan jewellery and other crafts Republic Day peaceful amid security clampdown, shutdown call by separatists
population. seem to have evolved gra Order issued by Mehbooba in 2018
Dr. Shinde also shared dually. They did not imme Peerzada Ashiq
that the analyses of the DNA diately start with town and Srinagar Peerzada Ashiq ing the maximum to society.
collected from the skeletal villages but started with cir Two JaisheMuhammad Srinagar “This incentive will encour
remains was at an advanced cular structures to evolve to ( JeM) militants and one in Jammu and Kashmir Gover age families to register their
stage and the findings would rectangular ones and then truder were killed in Jammu nor Satya Pal Malik has re properties in the name of
be published soon. He rub arranged them in a pattern and Kashmir on Saturday, as voked the widely welcomed their sisters, daughters,
bished reports that the find in the third stage before set a separatistbacked shut move of the previous go wives and mothers,” she
ings were being delayed due ting up cities in the fourth down and heightened secur vernment to impose zero had said.
to political pressure, con stage. It substantiates the ity disrupted life in the Val stamp duty on the purchase The move was widely
tending that DNA analysis hypothesis that they were ley on the Republic Day. of property, including land, hailed by the civil society in
was a lengthy process. Be locals and did not come The police said the two by women of the State. J&K and women rights
sides, he added, the sam from outside, contrary to JeM operatives were killed in Citing the powers con groups.
ples was very small and the the view held by some scho an encounter in Pampore’s ferred by Clause (a) of Sec
signatures were very weak. lars,” said Dr. Shinde. Khamoh area on the out tion 9 of the Stamp Act Svt. ‘Undemocratic decision’
“Whatever little we have in He said that Harappans, skirts of Srinagar. They were 1977, the fresh order read: On Saturday, Ms. Mufti
terms of DNA data, that credited with several pre tracked following a tipoff “The government has been termed the Governor’s or
needs to be properly auth sent day traditions such as and killed in a brief encoun satisfied that revoking the der “undemocratic”.
enticated, scientifically ana the folded hands greeting or ter in the morning, the pol previous order is in public “The decision taken by
lysed and interpreted before namaste, chicken tandoor, ice said. “Arms and ammuni interest.” an elected government in
it is made public,” contend use of the bindi and yoga, al tion were also recovered,” In May last year, the State the State cannot be
ed the professor. so seemed to have started officials said. Jawans waiting near the site of gunfight at Khamoh near Srinagar on Saturday. *
NISSAR AHMAD Cabinet, headed by then scrapped by the present dis
Rakhigarhi is one of the the marriage system. A BSF spokesman said an Chief Minister Mehbooba pensation. There has to be a
intruder, who paid no heed body,” said the BSF wires to stop vehicular In Jammu, Governor Satya Mufti, had issued the order limit to how far the Gover
to warnings from BSF per spokesman. movement in many parts of Pal Malik hoisted the Trico to impose zero stamp duty nor’s administration can go.
ED rearrests lawyer sonnel on the International

Border, was shot dead when
he moved into India in Jam
Internet suspended
Amid heightened security,
#70929
the city and suspended mo
bile Internet for the day.
Train services also remained
lour at the Sports Stadium of
the University of Jammu.
The Adviser to Governor,
in a bid to empower women
in J&K. Before that, the
stamp duty was 7%.
It needs to draw a line for its
actions,” she said.
She claimed the asset ow
accused in chopper case mu’s Samba area around
1.30 p.m. on Saturday.
the events marking the Re
public Day passed off peace
suspended. Following a shut
down call issued by the Joint
Khurshid Ahmad Ganai,
took salute at the main func
Ms. Mufti had claimed
that women in J&K owned
nership in the State is large
ly dominated by men and
“Pakistan Rangers have fully in the State. Security Resistance Leadership ( JRL) tion in Srinagar and unfurled bare minimum immovable only 23% women in the
One of the family members sheet alleging that he was been asked to take back the forces erected concertina markets remained shut. the Tricolour. assets even after contribut State have land ownership.
had allegedly received €2.5 part of one of the channels,
lakh from IDS Tunisia, a involving middlemen Carlo
Pakistani troops fire at Priyanka likely to begin U.P. Rahul, Sonia

company said to be asso Gerosa and Guido Haschke,
ciated with Mr. Khaitan. through which bribe mo
They also believe that the nies were routed.
arrive in Goa
lawyer was instrumental in The agency had alleged
villages, posts along LoC
the setting up of a trust or
commercial entity for a
Banda family member in
that Mr. Khaitan was known
to Mr. Gerosa, Mr. Haschke
and the Tyagi brothers, cou Ceasefire violations continue
innings with Kumbh dip on private visit
Seychelles, for acquiring a sins of former Air Chief Mar Special Correspondent
property in Kenya, as shal S.P. Tyagi, who were al Press Trust of India the exchange of fire conti Panaji
alleged. so named as accused in the Jammu nued till 12.30 p.m. There Rahul to accompany sister on February 4 visit to Prayagraj Congress president Rahul
The ED had first arrested AgustaWestland case. Pakistani troops violated was no report of any casual Gandhi and his mother and
Mr. Khaitan in September For routing the funds, he ceasefire by targeting for ty on the Indian side in the Indo-Asian News Service casion of “Mauni Amava former party chief Sonia
2014 in connection with the allegedly incorporated sev ward posts and villages Pakistani firing. New Delhi sya”, considered auspicious, Gandhi arrived in Goa on
VVIP chopper deal case. eral business entities in dif along the Line of Control Since the beginning of the Notwithstanding charges of and the day of the “second Saturday on a threeday
It later filed a charge ferent countries. (LoC) in Poonch district of New Year, Pakistani troops the Congress and its presi Shahi Snan”. February 10, private visit, police sources
Jammu and Kashmir on Sa have been regularly violat dent Rahul Gandhi pursuing Basant Panchami, is also be said. They would stay at a
Shivpal to contest LS turday, promoting “strong

and effective retaliation” by
the Indian army, a defence
ing the ceasefire.
On January 15, Assistant
Commandant Vinay Prasad
“soft Hindutva”, Priyanka
Vadra Gandhi is likely to be
gin her formal political ca
ing considered for the holy
dip.
fivestar resort in south
Goa, sources said.
Congress spokesperson
poll from Firozabad spokesman said.

The unprovoked small
of BSF was killed when he
was hit by Pakistani sniper
reer with a dip at the San
gam at the Kumbh Mela on
Siblings together
This is perhaps the first time
Sunil Kawthankar, when
contacted, said they were
arms firing and mortar from across the Internation February 4. the two Gandhis will take a not expected to meet party
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ple of Firozabad want me to shelling from across the bor al Border, while an Army Ms. Gandhi, who will take dip at the Sangam, where functionaries during their
Etawah (U.P.) contest the Lok Sabha elec der started in Mankote area porter lost his life along the charge as the party general the Ganga and the Yamuna stay as it was a private visit.
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Par tions from there and so I will of Mendhar sector around LoC in Rajouri on January 11. secretary for Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi meet with the mythical Sa Mr. Gandhi is expected
ty (Lohia) chief Shivpal Ya contest from Firozabad,” Mr. 10 a.m., the spokesman The year 2018 witnessed East that day, will be accom raswati. to meet party workers in
dav announced on Saturday Yadav said, and asserted said. He said Indian army re the highest number of 2,936 panied by Mr. Gandhi. that day. According to in In 2001, then Congress the State over the next few
that he will contest the Lok that the government at the taliated strongly and effec ceasefire violations by Pakis The siblings are sche formed sources, the Gandhis president Sonia Gandhi at weeks in the runup to the
Sabha elections from Firoza Centre could only be formed tively to silence the Pakista tani troops in the last 15 duled to hold a joint press have zeroed in on February tended the Kumbh Mela and Lok Sabha election.
bad constituency.“The peo with support from PSP(L). ni guns. A police official said years. conference in Lucknow later 4 for the holy dip on the oc took a holy dip. (Inputs from IANS)
INTERVIEW | K.C. VENUGOPAL
‘Under Rahul Gandhi, everybody will get his own place in the Congress’
The new Congress general secretary says the party will be a mixture of experienced and new faces, and the organisation has many stalwarts
Sobhana K. Nair secretary Sitaram Yechury
said the Congress would <
> Our major task is to
strengthen the party
will decide what to do about
them after consulting the
liance was formed primarily
at the Congress’s initiative. In
Newly appointed Congress general secretary (organisation)
stand to lose ‘secular votes’ at the grassroots. It State leadership. the past seven months, we
and Kerala MP K.C. Venugopal speaks about his new job
for opposing the entry of has been the main have successfully run a go
profile, Sabarimala and Karnataka politics.
women to the Sabarimala thrust of Rahul Has the Congress been vernment. There have been
temple even after the
Gandhi successful in implementing a few problems here and
You are one of the youngest port. I can’t do anything Supreme Court order. its agenda and policies there, which even singlepar
leaders to be appointed alone. There are a lot of stal strong attempt last week to under the alliance ty governments will have.
general secretary warts in the Congress and I ■ I don’t think so. Mr. Yechu destabilise our government, government?
(organisation) in the history will work with them. ry is a senior politician, but I but none from the Congress Can we expect a Cabinet
of the Congress. How don’t think his assessment is was swayed. They just could ■ A coalition government reshuffle in Karnataka soon?
challenging will it be to Many claim that with your correct. As per my under not garner enough numbers has its own limitations. The
handle this charge, appointment, Congress standing of the situation in and they never will. Congress and the JD(S) have ■ Some of our Ministers have
especially with senior president Rahul Gandhi has Kerala, we are in a strong po been fighting each other for volunteered to resign. So far,
leaders around? finally done away with the sition and we will get a res Will there be any action many years now. You have to we have not taken any deci
old brass. Your comments. pectable tally of seats in the against those legislators understand, in regions sion.
■ Every job is a challenge. 2019 Lok Sabha election. As who might have been in where they are strong, like
My other assignment as the ■ This is a totally baseless far as our stand is con touch with the BJP in Mysuru, it is not the BJP, but How prepared is the
general secretary in charge claim. He has said many a cerned, it is nothing new. Karnataka? the Congress which is on the Congress to face the Lok
of Karnataka has been equal time that the Congress under Even under the UDF [United secretary in charge of ■ From day one of the H.D. second rung. It is only natu Sabha election?
ly tough, but I did manage to him will be a mixture of ex Democratic Front] govern Karnataka, where the Kumaraswamy government, ■ We had called a meeting of ral that there will be a few
deliver what was expected of perienced and new faces. ment led by Oommen Chan political situation continues the BJP has resorted to des the Congress Legislature Par difficulties. But for the larger ■ We have already started
me with the support of all Everybody will get his own dy, we had taken this posi to be volatile. Are you perate measures, like offer ty, and the three people who interest of the country and to our work. Our major task is
the senior leaders from the place in the Congress. tion. confident that the Congress ing money and incentives to did not turn up were served ensure that the BJP does not to strengthen the party at the
State. In my new profile too, I JD(S) government will the MLAs to torpedo the go showcause notice. The re steal the mandate, we decid grassroots. It has been the
would need everyone’s sup Recently CPI(M) general You will continue as general complete the full term? vernment. It made another plies came on Friday... We ed to go together. The al main thrust of Mr. Gandhi.
CM A ND-NDE
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India show 24 years after Mandela,

Ramaphosa graces fete
South African President attends Republic Day parade
New Delhi
South African President Cy
ril Ramaphosa on Saturday
joined a select group of
world leaders, including Nel
son Mandela, to have graced
India’s Republic Day celebra
tions .
Mr. Ramaphosa, as the
chief guest at the 70th Repu
blic Day celebrations,
watched the colourful pa
rade at the majestic Rajpath Evening chat: Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Ram Nath
along with President Ram Kovind at the ‘At Home’ on Republic Day. R.V. MOORTHY *
Nath Kovind, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and a host of spouse Tshepo Motsepe and the celebration. In 2017,
other leaders. a delegation of Ministers and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
senior officials, Mr. Rama Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed
Proud legacy phosa attended the 90mi Al Nahyan was the chief
Best foot forward: (clockwise from top left) The He became the second presi nute event at Rajpath, show guest, while then French
Navy’s contingent; a C17 Globemaster flanked dent from South Africa to casing India’s military President Francois Hollande
by two Su30MKI aircraft of the Air Force; the grace the Republic Day cele might, cultural diversity and graced the occasion the year
BSF’s camel team; and schoolchildren from brations as chief guest after various facets of Mahatma before.
Delhi and Kolkata at the Republic Day Parade in Nelson Mandela attended Gandhi’s life. In 2015, then U.S. presi
New Delhi on Saturday. SANDEEP SAXENA *
the event 24 years ago. Last year, leaders of all 10 dent Barack Obama watched
Accompanied by his ASEAN countries attended the parade.
South Africans moved
by tableau on Gandhiji
Men, machines and glorious diversity Mauritius PM
gets a rare
The parade celebrated four nonagenarian INA veterans, military prowess and cultural heritage honour
It showed Pietermaritzburg incident Dinakar Peri
NEW DELHI Navy highlights Indo-Asian News Service
Mumbai

New Delhi
In a recognition of the role of
the Indian National Army
rescue efforts In an unprecedented ges
ture, India on Saturday ac
A group of Indianorigin (INA), led by Subhas Chan corded the status of “spe
South African nationals dra Bose, in India’s history, Press Trust of India cial guests” to Mauritius
who attended the Republic four of its veterans featured New Delhi Prime Minister P.K. Jug
Day parade here on Satur in the parade during the Relief and rescue nauth and his wife, Kobita,
day were moved by the Rail 70th Republic Day celebra operations by the defence at the Republic Day cele
ways’ tableau on the theme tions on Saturday. forces during the Kerala brations here, official
of the transformation of An allwoman contingent floods were part of the sources said.
Mohandas Karamchand of the Assam Rifles made its Indian Navy tableau that The couple witnessed
Gandhi into Mahatma. debut. So did the Army’s rolled down the Rajpath the unfurling of the nation
Yashika Singh from the newly inducted K9 Vajra and during the 70th Republic al flag by Maharashtra Go
KwaZuluNatal Province Stark reminder: The M777 howitzers in the mili Day parade. The Navy’s vernor C.V. Rao, inspection
said the Pietermaritzburg Railways’ tableau on the tary display. An Indian Air assistance was highlighted of the ceremonial parade
train incident depicted in racist attack on Gandhiji. Force An32 aircraft powered with a float showing a and other events that were
the tableau “Mohan to Ma * SANDEEP SAXENA by biodiesel flew in the Dhruv helicopter rescuing held at the State function
hatma” touched many emo flypast. people from a rooftop. in Shivaji Park.
tional chords. A steamen media sector, said a group INA veterans Parmanand, #70929
The Navy’s combat An official said usually
gine train was depicted of Indianorigin journalists Lalti Ram, Hira Singh and potential was also India hosted a foreign head
with the first carriage signi had come from different Bhagmal, all aged above 90, showcased on the float. of state or government or
fying the 1893 incident at parts of South Africa to cov rode in open jeeps. Also for Fire power: The new K9 VajraT howitzer rolling down the Rajpath. * SANDEEP SAXENA CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
royalty as chief guest at the
Pietermaritzburg, when er President Cyril Rama the first time was a marching Republic Day function in
Gandhi, a young barrister, phosa’s state visit. contingent of the Gurkha Bri South Korea and the M777 ul mediumrange SAM and an scaleddown models of indi diers postIndependence, is New Delhi.
was thrown off it in a racist Asked if they were tra gade, comprising all seven tralight howitzer from the Arjun armoured recovery genous weapon systems. scheduled to be inaugurated
outrage. velling with the President, Gurkha regiments, led by U.S. are the Army’s new artil and repair vehicle. in a few months. Special guests
Johannesburgbased Fakir Captain Abhaysheraz Singh lery inductions after three The Navy contingent of Amar Jawan Jyoti However, this time, the
Connection with India Hassen said, “No, this has Sandhu. decades. 144 sailors was led by Lt. Cdr. The parade began with HAL-made Rudra Mauritius PM was in India
“I am a fourthgeneration been done separately.” President Ram Nath Ko The parade also featured Ambika Sudhakarn and the Prime Minister Narendra The parade concluded with a for the Pravasi Bharatiya
South African of Indianori Durbanbased Salma Pa vind, the Supreme Comman the T90 Bhishma main bat Navy tableau was titled “In Modi paying homage to the flypast, which saw several Divas and later on an offi
gin, and I love my country, tel, who works for a radio der of the armed forces, re tle tank, infantry combat dian Navy — combat ready fallen soldiers by laying a fighter and transport aircraft cial trip to Mumbai where
but we feel a sense of deep channel, echoed Ms. viewed the display of India’s vehicle BMPII, surface mine force for national security”. wreath at the Amar Jawan and helicopters fly in forma he had a series of pro
connection with India too. Singh’s sentiments. military prowess and cultu clearing system, transporta The IAF contingent com Jyoti (AJJ) at India Gate. tion. Among them were grammes to attend.
And, Gandhi and Mandela “South Africa is our ral diversity on Rajpath. The ble satellite terminal and prising 144 air warriors led This may be the last Repu three An32 medium tran “The Government of In
provide strong links. So, home. But we feel a connec chief guest was South Afri Akash surfacetoair missile by Flight Lieutenant Shri blic Day parade where sport aircraft in a ‘Vic’ for dia suggested they should
this tableau really moved tion with India. And, we are can President Matamela Cy (SAM) system. kant Sharma was followed by wreath laying is done at the mation, the lead one po be invited as ‘special
us,” she said. very delighted to partici ril Ramaphosa. The Defence Research a tableau titled “Indian Air India Gate as the National wered by a 10% blend of guests’ at the function
Ms. Singh, who lives in pate in the Republic Day of The K9 Vajra tracked self and Development Organisa Force — encouraging indige War Memorial, which ho biodiesel with aviation tur here,” an official request
Estcourt and works in the India,” she said. propelled artillery gun from tion (DRDO) displayed the nisation” showcasing several nours the sacrifice of sol bine fuel. ing anonymity said.
IN BRIEF
Modi becomes an instant gallery favourite
Staff Reporter President Ram Nath Kovind, to enthusiastic crowds, as
New Delhi
Mr. Modi made his way to members of the Special Pro
For the third year running, the galleries. tection Group and the his ca
Prime Minister Narendra valcade followed. In some
Modi broke security proto Enthusiastic crowd sections, chants of “Modi
col and greeted crowds at Spectators leaped out of Modi” rose as Mr. Modi,
Gita Mehta declines the Rajpath at the end of the their seats, rushing to the sporting an orange turban,
to accept Padma Shri Republic Day parade, the barricades for a chance to approached the gallery. On
BHUBANESWAR
last of his term. get close to Mr. Modi, as he the past three Independence
Eminent writer Gita Mehta,
After seeing off the chief moved towards the Rashtra Days, the Prime Minister
who is Odisha Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik’s older sister, Crowd hit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to spectators guest, South African Presi pati Bhavan. broke security protocol and
on Saturday declined to at the Republic Day function. AFP * dent Cyril Ramaphosa, and The Prime Minister waved mixed with children.
accept the Padma Shri award,
saying its timing could be
“misconstrued” in an election
year. “I am deeply honoured
that the Government of India
should think me worthy of a
Sweets melt border tensions Live up to
Constitution
Padma Shri but with great
regret I feel I must decline as
Attari ideals: Pranab
there is a general election On the occasion of Republic
looming and the timing of Day, the Border Security Press Trust of India
the award might be Force (BSF) offered sweets to New Delhi
misconstrued, causing
its Pakistani counterpart on A day after his name was
embarrassment both to the
the International Border announced for the Bharat
Government and myself,
here on Saturday. Ratna, former President
which I would much regret,”
Ms. Mehta said in a
BSF Commandant Mu Pranab Mukherjee on Sa
statement from New York. PTI kund Kumar Jha gave the turday called upon coun
sweets to Pakistani Border trymen to strive to protect
Unlike in 2018, Rahul Wing Commander Usman and preserve the founda
gets front row seat Khalid at the zero line on the tional ethics of justice, li
NEW DELHI AttariWagah border. Per Goodwill gesture: BSF Commandant Mukund Kumar Jha berty, equality and frater
After a row over his seating sonnel of the BSF and the Pa offering sweets to Pakistani Commander Usman Khalid. * PTI nity as enshrined in the
arrangement at the Republic kistan Rangers hugged and Constitution.
Day celebrations last year, shook hands, besides ex when both nations celebrat voking “strong and effective Greeting fellow citizens
Congress president Rahul changing pleasantries, offi ed their Independence Days. retaliation” by the Indian Ar on Republic Day, he urged
Gandhi was seen sitting in the cials said. my, a Defence spokesman them to strengthen their
front row along with Union
The personnel also Bitter note said. “No exchange of sweets resolve to live up to the
Minister Nitin Gadkari on
clicked photographs with However, there was no ex at Chakan Da Bagh in view of ideals of the Constitution.
Saturday. The two were seen
each other, they said. change of sweets at the Cha the ongoing tense situation,” “As the Indian Republic
chatting with each other,
while viewing the parade.
The tradition of offering kan Da Bagh crossing point a source said. He said the In turns 70 years old, I wish
Leader of the Opposition in sweets was suspended on Ja along the LoC at Poonch. Pa dian Army retaliated strong each & every citizen in In
the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi nuary 26, 2018 due to kistani troops on Saturday ly. Meanwhile, BSF person dia and abroad a very Hap
Azad was seated in the heightened tension along violated ceasefire by target nel exchanged sweets with py Republic Day. The foun
second row behind Mr. the International Border and ing forward posts and villag their Bangladeshi counter dation of this great
Gandhi, unlike last year when the Line of Control in view of es along the Line of Control parts in Fulbari, at the Indo democratic republic was
both of them were made to ceasefire violations. It was (LoC) in Poonch district of Bangladesh border near Sili laid down by our founding
sit in the sixth row. PTI reinstated in August 2018 Jammu and Kashmir, pro guri in West Bengal. fathers,” he tweeted.
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12 WHO WHAT WHY WHEN WHERE ● ● ● ●
DELHI THE HINDU
After spending over 13 years as a Delhi tively in the combined seniority of High authored or coauthored over 3,100 ver in the National Capital Region. The own on the official website.
WHO
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Q High Court judge, Justice Sanjiv Khanna
has joined a select group of distin
Court judges. “The decision of 10th Ja
nuary, 2019, will lead to humiliation and
dicts.
Though known for his acumen in tax
Bench directed the city police to abide
by the timeline set by it for installing the What are his credentials?
guished people to practise at the Su demoralization of such judges and also ation law, Justice Khanna passed several cameras in police stations. The Bench Justice Khanna was born on May 14,
preme Court. Justice Khanna, son of the of several other deserving senior judges decisions which were of public interest. has also been pushing for filling vacant 1960, and completed his schooling in
Sanjiv Khanna, late Justice D.R. Khanna, termed his ele

vation as “a big surprise” in his farewell
and Chief Justices of High Courts,” the
BCI said, asking the Collegium to recall
He was heading a Bench that was mon
itoring the installation of CCTV cameras
posts in the forensic science laborato
ries (FSLs) to ensure quick clearance of
Delhi. After graduation, he studied law
at Delhi University and was enrolled as
speech at the High Court. He believes its decision. The retired Delhi High backlog of samples for testing, especial an advocate with the Bar Council of Del
surprise that judges should be “keepers of law”
and should not create laws.
Court judge, Kailash Gambhir, too
wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind,
ly in criminal cases. Last March, Justice
Khanna headed a Bench that quashed a
hi in 1983. As an advocate, he handled
several cases of medical negligence un
saying the Collegium’s decision cast as notification issued by the President, dis der the Consumer Protection Act and
promotion Why the controversy?
A controversy erupted when the Su
persions on the “intellect, merit and in
tegrity” of the 32 senior judges, includ
qualifying 20 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs
for holding office of profit as Parliamen
company law cases. On June 24, 2005,
he was elevated as an Additional Judge
preme Court Collegium, comprising its ing many Chief Justices of the High tary Secretaries. The Bench held that of the Delhi High Court and became a
top five judges, decided to drop its De Courts. Justice Khanna, 58, was sworn the opinion tendered by the Election permanent judge on February 20,
cember 12, 2018 proposal to recom in on January 18. He is on course to be Commission of India to the President to 2006. In his farewell speech, Justice
mend Delhi High Court Chief Justice Ra coming the Chief Justice of India after disqualify the legislators was “vitiated Khanna recalled that his appointment
jendra Menon and Rajasthan High Court the retirement of Justice D.Y. Chandra and bad in law” as it had failed to hear as an Additional Judge was delayed sev
Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog, and chud in November 2024. If this hap out the MLAs. The verdict led to the eral times, but said he had “no regrets.”
instead elevate Karnataka High Court pens, he will helm the post till he reinstatement of all 20 MLAs. Justice He also underscored three issues plagu
Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and reaches 65, the retirement age of Khanna is among the judges who have ing the judiciary: delays in the disposal
Justice Khanna as judges of the court. Supreme Court judges. declared assets on their own while of cases; high cost of litigation; and the
The Bar Council of India termed the de he was a judge of the High Court. “impression” among the public that to
cision “unjust and improper,” since Jus His landmark cases? Currently, 29 of the 38 Delhi win cases falsehood is needed.
tice Maheshwari and Justice Khanna During his tenure at the Delhi High Court judges have de
stood at serial number 21 and 33 respec High Court, Justice Khanna clared their assets on their SOIBAM ROCKY SINGH
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What is it? Zearalenone is a fungal icologist at the IITR and an author of the evidence for its carcinogenicity. In zea suggest its illeffects: in one, when oes ralenone people could be consuming.
WHAT
Pp q
Q toxin infesting cereals
such as wheat, maize and barley. It at
study, told The Hindu. ralenone’s case, there is no strong evi
dence of toxicity in humans so far,
trogensensitive breast cancer cells
were exposed to the chemical in a lab,
They found that average daily consump
tion through wheat and rice was 0.27
tacks crops while they are growing, but How did it Fungal toxins are though several research groups are in they proliferated. In 2014, a Tunisian and 0.3 mcg/kg of body weight — higher
can also develop when cereals are come about? commonly found in vestigating, says Dr. Siriguri. As a result, casecontrol study found a correlation than the EU limit of 0.25 mcg/kg. In
The lowdown stored without being dried fully. While

numerous studies document this toxin
food, and can be a
public health concern, says Vasanthi Si
the IARC classifies it as a Group 3 carci
nogen, which means evidence is not suf
between a zearalenone metabolite in
urine and breastcancer risk in women.
highly contaminated samples, exposure
could be as high as 16.9 times the EU
in cereals across the world, no data ex riguri, a researcher at Hyderabad’s Na ficient for an evaluation yet. But other studies did not find similar limit.
on zearalenone isted for India until now. This month, a
Journal of Food Science study detected
tional Institute of Nutrition, who was
not involved in the study. India regu Why does it Zearalenone be
links. In the Journal of Food Science stu
dy, Dr. Das and colleagues also looked at What next? Dr. Siriguri says
zearalenone in wheat, rice, corn and lates the levels of some of these, includ matter? haves like oestrogen, National Sample Survey Office data on more data are needed
in cereals oats from markets in Uttar Pradesh. The
study, by researchers from Lucknow’s
ing aflatoxin, deoxynivalenol, ergot and
patulin. The first three infest cereals,
the female sex hor
mone, and could cause endocrine dis
Indian diets to calculate how much zea from cereals in other States, and from
other storage conditions, before India
Indian Institute of Toxicology Research while patulin is found in apples. Each of turbances in humans. Its nasty effects in decides to set limits. Since zearalenone
(IITR), found the substance in 70 of the these toxins has been associated with animals, such as pigs, are documented. favours cool climates, such contamina
117 samples tested. The Food Safety and disease outbreaks. For example, in When fed with mouldy corn, pigs deve tion could be limited to a few States. Al
Standards Authority of India does not 1974, a hepatitis outbreak in Rajasthan lop inflamed vaginas, infertility and oth so, strong epidemiological data linking
impose maximum limits for zearale and Gujarat, which made 398 people er symptoms. This is why countries like human zearalenone levels with diseases
none, though the European Union (EU) sick and killed 106, was linked to aflatox Brazil regulate zearalenone levels in ani such as breast cancer are important.
does. Twentyfour of the U.P. samples in in wheat. Meanwhile, chronic aflatox mal feed. In humans, the data are fuz The paper is an excellent starting point,
exceeded the EU regulatory limits of in consumption has been shown to zier. It is probably dangerous to humans since nothing was known about the
100200 mcg/kg of cereals. Based on cause liver cancer. Given this, the Inter too, but to be certain, we need to know chemical in India so far. It is time to
this, the authors say India should set li national Agency for Research on Cancer how much humans consume, how it is build upon it.
mits on zearalenone in cereals. “It is de (IARC) classifies aflatoxin as a Group 1 metabolised, and how exposure is cor
finitely a worry,” Mukul Das, a food tox carcinogen, meaning there is enough related with disease. Some experiments PRIYANKA PULLA
sight and parliamentarians only in “hostile environment” that has come members said they would choose a no creasingly questionable whether the EU
WHY
Pp q
Q agreement on what they don’t want
rather than what they should do, leav
under much scrutiny in the past year ov
er the wrongful treatment of Common
deal exit if offered a choice between
that, Ms. May’s original withdrawal deal
would be willing to offer Britain an ex
tension (effectively delaying Brexit) that
ing with no deal is now the default sce wealth migrants who arrived in Britain and remaining in the EU. Many of them might be necessary to avert a nodeal.
nario and a very real possibility. up to the early 1970s. She has been ada don’t want Ms. May to take nodeal off The EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit, Mi
Britain is at Is May responsible?

mant Britain must cut net migration to
the tens of thousands from the 100s of
the table, with one prominent commen
tator suggesting that to do would be like
chel Barnier, this week warned that
simply opposing nodeal in the House of
■ Innumerable factors have contributed thousands and has therefore made end walking into a car showroom and insist Commons would not stop it from hap
risk of crashing to this precarious situation. There has
been Theresa May’s intransigence and #70929
ing free movement with the EU a red
line for her, rendering solutions such as
ing one would not walk out without buy
ing a car.
pening unless a majority agreed on an
alternative agreement. The next signifi
unwillingness to explore any idea custom union membership demanded cant moment comes on Tuesday when
out of EU beyond those she set out last year, in
volving a common rule book and free
by other politicians a nonstarter. What happened in Parliament?
■ Others bear their share of responsibil
MPs will vote on Ms. May’s ‘Plan B’
which she outlined after her withdrawal
What happened? trade zone with the EU, through an end What about repercussions? ity too, not least Parliament which, deal failed to get through Parliament
■ At 11 p.m., in 61 days, Britain is set to to the free movement of people that is a ■ There’s also a sizeable contingent of when it allowed her to trigger Article 50 earlier this month. Amendments have
leave the European Union and could do central tenet of the EU. While “hard” the Conservative parliamentary party to leave the EU, didn’t put any con been tabled but hopes that one calling
so without a deal, effectively rendering Brexiteers have contributed to her re that is not convinced crashing out is straint on the nature of the deal she for a second referendum could succeed
all laws governing its interaction with solve — she does not want to be the Con such a big deal. The likes of Boris John could negotiate it. That’s left Ms. May have evaporated. Labour continues to
the union (on trade, travel, pretty much servative Prime Minister responsible for son regularly point to the supposed and her team free to play a game of refuse to back a second referendum, in
anything) no longer applicable. Disrup a massive split in her party — much of “evidence” like the preparedness of the chicken: essentially threatening it either sisting a general election is the way
tion to medical and food supplies and the stubbornness comes from within Mayor of Calais (the French port) to in her way or a nodeal at all. Labour and ahead. So even though a majority of
travel aside, this would — even by the her, and in particular from her obses sist scare tactics are being deployed, other Opposition parties are persistent parliamentarians may agree that a no
government’s own analysis — be eco sion with curbing immigration. She and polling shows there’s enough sup ly seeking a commitment from her to deal Brexit is a terrible idea, it may not
nomically disastrous for Britain, with a spent six years as Home Secretary — be port for their perspective within the take nodeal off the table, but the move be enough to stop it from happening.
growth loss of up to 10.7% over a 15year fore taking over as Prime Minister in wider party membership. In a recent comes rather too late to be effective.
period. However, with no solution in 2016 — and was the architect of the poll, 57% of the Conservative Party That’s partly because its looking in VIDYA RAM
Tip of the iceberg: Climate change is

WHEN
Pp q
Q causing Greenland’s massive icesheets
to melt much faster than previously
thought. According to research
published on Monday in the Proceedings
21, of the National Academy of Sciences,
the ice loss in 2012 — more than 400
billion tonnes — reached nearly four
January 2019 times the rate in 2003. Michael Bevis,

the study’s lead author and a professor
of geodynamics at Ohio State University,
said, “The only thing we can do is adapt
and mitigate further global warming —
it’s too late for there to be no effect,”
adding “we are watching the icesheet hit
a tipping point.” . A CNN report said the
findings could have dire implications for
the planet’s low lying islands and
coastal cities. The world is “losing the
race” against climate change, United
Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned
in a speech at Davos, demanding bolder
action from governments to arrest
catastrophic warming. Picture shows an
iceberg floating in a fjord near the town
of Tasiilaq, Greenland. REUTERS *
job, the incident has left people asking — Have the laws been implemented? ing made to enter drains and septic Gautam said mechanical cleaning of
WHERE
Pp q
Q why are workers still being forced to
clean drains and sewers manually?
Under the Prohibition of Employment
as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabil
tanks to clean.
While issuing notice to the Delhi go
drains would help end the use of ma
nual scavengers to a great extent. The
itation Act, 2013, the State governments vernment in the Wazirabad case, the Delhi Jal Board was in the process of
What does the law say? are supposed to have a Statelevel mon National Human Rights Commission on procuring 200 sewer cleaning machines
Sanitation The Prohibition of Employment as Ma
nual Scavengers and their Rehabilita
itoring committee as well as districtle
vel vigilance committees. Though it is
January 21 pulled up the authorities.
“Despite legal provisions as well as the
by March, he said.
But, he added, he was still worried
tion Act, 2013, notified on September supposed to meet once in six months, Supreme Court guidelines safeguarding about septic tanks and drains in Delhi’s
deaths continue 18, 2013, terms manual scavenging a
“dehumanising practice” and aims to
the Delhi State Monitoring Committee,
headed by the Chief Minister, held its
the interest of sewerage cleaners, pre
cious lives have been lost owing to the
slums and unauthorised colonies,
where the narrow lanes would prevent
end the practice and the use of insani first meeting ever on September 24, apparent lack of supervision and lacka the vehicles from entering.
in Delhi tary latrines. The Act states that “no
person, local authority or agency” can
2018.
After the meeting, Social Welfare Mi
daisical attitude of the authorities,” the
NHRC observed.
He pointed out that the government
was looking for technological solutions
construct an insanitary latrine and di nister Rajendra Pal Gautam, who is also to the problem, besides planning to
rectly or indirectly employ a manual a member of the committee, admitted What is the government doing? train manual scavengers to get other
scavenger. It prohibits any person, local in a statement that manual scavenging According to Delhi government officials, jobs.
A 37yearold sanitation worker, hired authority or agency from employing had not stopped, as evident from the private contractors or residents’ welfare A team of experts from the Indian In
by a private contractor, Krishan, lost his anyone for “hazardous cleaning of a death of five workers cleaning a tank associations continue to hire labourers stitute of TechnologyDelhi, the Netaji
life on January 20 after he entered a sewer or septic tank,” the maximum last September at Moti Nagar. He added to clean drains and septic tanks as they Subhas Institute of Technology and the
drain in North Delhi’s Wazirabad area, punishment for which has been set at a that the implementation of the Act had find it cheaper and more convenient Delhi Technological University, as well
attempting to unclog it with his bare twoyear jail term and ₹2 lakh in fine. not been effective. While the govern than renting machines, which are not as officers of the three municipal corpo
hands, and without any safety gear. Besides the Act, the Delhi government ment issued orders to district magis readily available. In the Wazirabad case, rations of Delhi and the Delhi Jal Board,
While the Delhi police registered a case came up with the Delhi Water Board trates and other officers to ramp up the the police said the contractors had were expected to meet this month to
against the contractor and Chief Minis Septage Management Regulations, implementation of the law, including hired Krishan and other workers for discuss the solutions, he said.
ter Arvind Kejriwal promised the de 2018, to regulate the handling of sewage the identification and rehabilitation of ₹400 a day each.
ceased worker’s family ₹10 lakh and a and make it safer for workers. manual scavengers, people are still be Speaking to The Hindu this week, Mr. DAMINI NATH
CM A ND-NDE
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THE HINDU
DELHI
COLUMNWIDTH 13
The fickleness of political headgear and the persistence of memory
Today, digitally tweaked propaganda can also be un-tweaked pretty quickly
his comrades standing around him. ter part of the 19th century and refined move or distort something in a digital
Four years later, Clementis falls out of and used over the decades for the skilful photo at the click of a mouse or epen.
favour; he is arrested on trumpedup doctoring of all sorts of images from ae Today it doesn’t take that much skill to
charges of treason and hanged. The rial reconnaissance photos to pictures splice together extraneous sounds on to
propaganda department immediately of Playboy models. Photographs inter a bit of news footage and send an inno
airbrushes Clementis out of the official cepted at source were one thing, mov cent university student into a sedition
history and out of all the photographs as ing pictures yet another, but if it was court case. A false rumour that would
Ruchir Joshi well. In the photograph from 1948, text and photos in news reports that you have taken months to spread in 1979,
is a writer, filmmaker and columnist there is a gap next to Gottwald where wanted to bury or alter, then you had a thus defeating the purpose of the
you can see the palace wall. As Kundera far more difficult, almost impossible spreading, can now be blasted out in se
In his great novel, The Book of Laughter pithily puts it: “All that remains of Cle task — there was no way you could track conds via social media across vast
and Forgetting, Milan Kundera lays out mentis is the cap on Gottwald’s head”. down every copy of a paper or a journal swathes of demography.
SANDEEP SAXENA
the theme quite early: “The struggle of and destroy or alter it. All you could do At the same time, what is tweaked
man against power is the struggle of me Erasures and retrievals was narrow down the area in which the digitally can also be untweaked pretty
mory against forgetting”. This line Every time I see a lineup of politicians pesky, undesirable article with its incon quickly — a working man squatting on
comes right after the brilliant first image standing on a stage at a political rally, venient photos could be seen or distri the floor in his shirt and shorts can have
with which the book opens. After the hands linked, arms aloft, or standing so buted. Equally, if you were on the other the visage of a politician removed from
Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia fol lemnly in strict pecking order watching cians’ heads playing a game of musical and memories. Physical structures, side, wanting to disseminate a banned his shoulders and his own face restored
lowing the Second World War, a puppet a Republic Day marchpast, I wonder pagris, but the questions always re once they are gone are gone, whether it image or text, then you were confined to him. Spaceage buses and trains can
Communist government is installed in which ones and how many of them will main: how long will this bag of hubris is the statues at Bamiyan, the pillars of to the means of physical copying and be rescued from pictures of nonexis
Prague. In February 1948, the leader of be airbrushed out of history. I also won remain the chief? When and how will Palmyra or the Hall of Nations at the distribution. This, for instance, led to tent smart cities in India and returned
this government, Klement Gottwald, ad der who will wield the airbrush — she or he be forced by history to depart? Pragati Maidan in Delhi. However, in the great body of samizdat — under to Taiwan and South Korea from where
dresses a crowd from the balcony of a whether it will be one of the other cha The next question, obviously, is how terms of narratives and memory, the in ground magazines and books that be they were stolen.
palace. It is snowing and Gottwald is ba racters standing on the stage or some will this person be remembered, forgot teresting thing is that the instruments gan to seep out of Communistcon And in the converse of what hap
reheaded. Among the comradesidek Machiavellian operator standing out of ten and remembered again? and processes of erasure and retrieval trolled central and eastern Europe in pened to Clementis, a man like Jawahar
icks standing next to Gottwald is a man sight in the wings. When, I often won The flip side of the struggle of memo have changed radically and unimagina the 1960s. Through these the world lal Nehru can emerge through several
called Clementis who takes off his fur der, will one of the chamchas reach out, ry against power and its selective era bly since Kundera wrote that brilliant came to know about the realities behind layers of the cement and paint of lies
cap and solicitously sets it on his lead take the plumed pagri off the main sa sures is the fact that history is written, book in 1979. the Iron Curtain regimes and the dis and grin at the figures occupying the
er’s head. The Communist Party propa heb’s head and install it on his own far more often than not, by the victors; For instance, at the time Kundera was sent that was active against those rulers. dais, his sharp eyes noting the floor
ganda department puts out thousands scalp? And who after that? Sometimes the party that wins gets to capture and writing his novel, the actual tool of the shifting under their feet and their head
of copies of a photograph showing Gott in my mind the pagris play a game of destroy not only the physical setups of airbrush had been around for nearly a The suction of history’s flypast gear being sucked off by the jets of histo
wald in a fur cap addressing the crowd, musical heads, or perhaps it’s politi the vanquished but also their stories century, invented in America in the lat Today, of course, it is far easier to re ry flying past.
The municipal model is broken Marie Kondo’s bookshelf

We need to urgently rethink the way our cities are run Is it time to invert her mantra on what to keep and give away?
stance, the Atal Mission for Rejuvena
tion and Urban Transformation (AM
RUT) funds infrastructure projects,
but with one year left for the pro
gramme to meet its target, it has com
pleted just 20% of the projects utilising
only 3% of the allocated funds. Since
K. MURALI KUMAR
R. Srinivasan AMRUT was launched in 2015, Bihar Mini Kapoor
VARUN B. KRISHNAN
and Assam have not managed to finish is Ideas Editor, The Hindu
is Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine
even a single project!
Tourists visiting Delhi don’t visit Gha Now that Marie Kondo’s strange ways
zipur. They have no reason to. Ghazi A wretched experience of organising our possessions have
pur’s ‘attractions’ consist of abattoirs, struction and road dust. India’s system of civic administration, caught the public imagination again,
dairy farms, a wholesale fruit and ve Cut to Mumbai. The city’s bus ser with a permanent bureaucracy and a thanks to the Netflix series, it’s hear
getable yard, and a flower market — vices, arguably India’s finest, are just changing set of political representa tening that there is finally outrage over quire into our reading selves and fi book, bought second hand from the
and Delhi’s largest landfill, currently limping back to normalcy after a crip tives, is broken. Politically, civic repre her bookselection techniques. In her gure out how much of what we have pavement bookshops at Delhi’s Con
occupying 29 acres. The rubbish pling strike by workers of the Brihan sentation is merely seen as a stepping terrifyingly popular book, The Life read informs who we are? It is impossi naught Place, went. But I remember
mountain is just eight metres shorter mumbai Electric Supply and Tran stone to the real stuff. And the munici Changing Magic of Tidying Up, some ble to hold a book in my hand, deter the monsoon rain outside my office
than another famous Delhi attraction, sport (BEST) over low wages and pal administration is subordinate to #70929
years ago, she had sought to solve ev mine whether it gives me “a thrill of when I read it, the hush inside as our
the Qutub Minar. It was declared increasingly long duty hours. The esti the State and Central public services. ery book hoarder’s dilemma on what pleasure”, and then decide whether to fortnightly magazine had just gone to
“oversaturated” in 2002 but 17 years mated loss due to the strike was more The system is riddled with corruption, to keep and what to discard: dump all keep it or not. It is easier to know press, how my colleague was reread
later, 2,500 tonnes of solid waste con than ₹20 crore. the functioning is opaque, and there is your books on the floor, consider each when a book does spark this “thrill of ing Jack London’s The Call of the Wild
tinue to be dumped there every day. virtually no public scrutiny or book, sense “whether or not it gives pleasure”, but in that case do we keep at the other end of the copydesk, and
A state of crisis accountability. you a thrill of pleasure when you touch or give? I am, for instance, forever how I had been forced to ask difficult
Exploding megacities One could go on, but the short point is For the urban poor, who depend it”. If it does, keep it. If not, get rid of it. looking for copies of Banana Yoshimo questions about the human capacity
Cut to Chennai, the city where I live this: India’s exploding megacities are most on civic services, the experience to’s Kitchen. It’s a novel that possessed for evil as well as goodness. I do have If
and work. According to Metrowater of in a state of crisis. Officially, about a is wretched. Municipal schools pro Looking at our shelves me when I read it, and it still does in This Is a Man in my possession — I ha
ficials, the four lakes that supply water third of India’s population is urban but duce functional illiterates, the health Some, like novelist Deborah Levy, see multiple joyful ways, but it is not one ven’t read it yet, but to see it sitting
to the city have a storage level that is most contemporary estimates put the services barely function, and “planned the bemused reaction to Kondo’s de that I would necessarily list in my all there is to be reminded of The
just 10% of their capacity. The water figure at closer to half. But the com development” is hostage to the real es cluttering mantra as a validation of the time favourites or influences. But each Drowned and the Saved. Should I ac
will run out in a month, according to a bined expenditure of all urban local tate lobby. As for quality of life, all you powerful hold of the physical book in time I do find a copy, I give it away to tually hold it in my hand, as the feel
report in this paper. With nearly 10 bodies in India, according to NITI need to do is to take a deep breath in the digital age. And this reaction does bring another reader to the book, only ings of joy or its absence, whatever
long, hot months to go before the next Aayog, is just 1% of the GDP. Worse, any of the cities to find out how poor it not come from a feeling of possessive to again hunt for another copy to keep, they may entail, are about another
rainy season, Chennai is set to handily these city administrations generate on is. After all, India holds the world re ness or acquisitiveness, of not wanting ever so fleetingly, on the shelf. book? Should I keep it or not?
beat its 2017 record, when it suffered ly 44% of their finances from their own cord for housing the maximum num to lighten one’s bookshelves. In an arti However, what about the books that
its worst drought in 140 years. revenue sources like property taxes ber of the most polluted cities in the cle in The Guardian, Levy writes about we read or possess that alter our inter The art of giving
Cut to Bengaluru, India’s IT capital. and user charges. The bulk of munici world! how she has “emptied my shelves of nal selves so much that we sometimes In any case, if folks gave away books
Almost two years ago, the city woke up pal expenditure (over 60%) goes to The municipal model is broken. In many books I have carried around wish they had not, but know it is im that brought them no “thrill of plea
to news that Bellandur lake, the largest wards paying wages and salaries. dia needs to radically rethink the mo with me for decades”, but it is a deeper portant to have been unsettled? Levy sure” — and let’s assume Kondo means
in the city, was in flames yet again, its Lord Ripon first specified the roles, del if its cities are not to become dysto engagement with the books that has writes about Italian chemist Primo Le that feeling to be more capacious to in
potent mix of domestic and industrial responsibilities, and financial powers pian wastelands. Maybe doing away determined what she has owned and vi’s If This Is a Man, his memoir of be clude not just shallow joy, but also va
waste fuelling the fire. In 2015, the lake of local bodies in 1882, but it was the with guaranteed employment in mun what she now does not. ing transported and living in a Nazi rious appraisals of being constructive
had frothed up in white foam, a few 74th Constitution Amendment of 1992 icipal service, and having various civic But I wonder if our instinct to recoil concentration camp, on her booksh ly reshaped or informed — how is it
days before catching fire. The foam that specifically created a threetier service chiefs run directly for office, as from such decluttering recommenda elf. It does not make her “happy”, but: that we find such treasures in second
was photographed as it spilled onto system of selfgovernment in India, as is the case in the U.S., might be a start. tions is, in fact, not just about the “When I think about what it must have hand stalls? There is the filter of selec
the streets. It was reportedly so corro signing 18 critical functions, including It also needs to figure out a sustainable books in our possession, and how we taken for Levi to relive his time in tion by the retailer, and possible com
sive that it cracked windshields. That’s health care and education, to civic financial model for city governments — arrange them on shelves and stack Auschwitz, to go back there every day pulsion of the seller on account of fi
not all. According to a study by urba bodies. levying marketrelated charges for them up on the floor. Has Kondo hit a as he revised and edited If This Is a nancial need, lack of storage space,
nemissions.info and researchers from All of them have failed to deliver. A things like water, road usage and park deeper anxiety about holding on to the Man, I understand that it was a great etc. But surely there’s more to it than
the Centre for Study of Science, Tech crippling shortage of money is only ing is a start. Above all, it needs a more books we have read, and not necessa sacrifice, as well as a historical necessi that. Hope resides between the pages
nology and Policy, air pollution in the part of the reason. Even where money aware citizenry, with a greater say in rily possessed? And in doing so, has ty.” I don’t have Levi’s The Drowned that a secondhand book, a physical
city is set to go up by 74% by 2030, led is available, they have been unable to deciding how exactly its tax monies she actually done a favour by nudging and the Saved on my bookshelf — I copy that benefited its previous owner,
primarily by vehicle exhaust, con absorb it and execute plans. For in should be spent. us to think deeper about how to in don’t even recall where my copy of the will always find yet more readers.
Separated by a common language

Across India, our public discourse waddles between two extremes, as seen in Sabarimala
rences”, as Freud said, that animates arated by a common language — on ac in English is a simple descriptor, while
the furies of their discontents. count of frequent misunderstandings in the Greek context, the original blends
and power politics playing between the “fact and appraisals”. A nuanced and
Different vocabularies two. Indian philosophers have known contextsensitive word in Greek is ren
There is, however, one critical dimen for long that even speaking the same vo dered into a context independent, ad
sion along which the two sides differ: cabulary within the same language jectival gloss in English.
language. Despite both sides speaking doesn’t preclude one from coming face
Keerthik Sasidharan Malayalam, the vocabularies they de to face with contradictions when we Between two extremes
is a writer and lives in New York City ploy to describe the situation, and thus think about how language, meaning The consequence of such inorganic
implicitly the moral cosmologies in and context interact. Prasastapada, a cross pollination is that fullness of
Over the past few months, Kerala has which they situate themselves, are philosophical commentator from the meanings under which the original was
seen more than its share of public prot starkly different. Their words bring to 6th century, invented a “new semantic deployed is at best an etiolated one in
ests: from outright violence to peaceful full view a slow social rift that, arguably, category” called ‘paribhashiki’ to avoid the receiving language.
expressions of solidarity. People have has been decades in the making. The re contradictions between extant theories This, of course, is not Kerala’s pro
H. VIBHU
mobilised to reawaken Hindu con ligiously inspired protesters make ap of meanings versus Nyaya philosophies. blem alone but a postcolonial one.
sciousness on the one end and to pro peals to aacharam (ritual), aitihyam (le Even the same word used in a diffe Across India, our public discourse wad
tect women’s rights on the other. From gend), pavitratha (sanctity), rent sociohistorical context — particu dles between two extremes. We have
afar, seeing these protests, one might samrakshnam (preservation), and pa larly, when translated from one culture neither the organised will to invest re
conclude that there exists an implaca rampara (tradition) — words which de that have no use for an immemorial past the present: as a repository of the past to another — reveals how wobbly any newed introspective energies to under
ble and nearly unresolvable set of diffe scribe a world ordered by concepts or an intergenerational transmission or as a springboard for the future. They languagecontingent ethical framework stand the vocabularies we grant so
rences between the people on both whose legitimacy comes from them be chain, but rather are brim with the speak the same language, see the same can be. In the great moral philosopher much power over our mental lives sole
sides. Yet watching these participants ing transmitted from one generation to energies of the present and which pro world around them, but describe it dif Alasdair MacIntyre’s classic, A Short ly on account of them being patrimonial
up close, what is striking is how remar another. It is the timetestedness of mise to improve the future, through an ferently. History of Ethics, he talks about a word legacies, nor do we have the willingness
kably identical they are in their every specific practices that imbues their vo application of reason. Where one side like ‘agathos’ which, in a Homeric to recognise the borrowed nature of our
day lives. Whether in their private com cabulary with a righteousness. believes in the evocative prowess of sto Context matters world, referred to qualities one must progressive vocabularies that speak lit
mitments and public cynicisms, or their In contrast, the public expressions of ries from the past to sustain them The schisms imposed by the usage of possess to perform one’s role in a hie tle to the selfdescriptions of our fellow
aesthetics and admirations, the two nonreligiously inspired protests speak through life, the other side relies on the different sets of vocabularies within a rarchical society. So, a king who rules citizens. Thus, we let little understood
sides of this prolonged Sabarimala in terms of niyamam (law), adhikaram ories of social ordering to ostensibly im same linguistic society is, however, not judiciously — even if through violence — words run our lives. We have entrusted
struggle are nearly indistinguishable (rights), purushaadhipathyam (patriar prove their future. Both sides derive new in human or Indian history. George is said to be blessed by ‘agathos’. This these sounds with continent sized res
from one another to an outsider. In a chy), viplavam (revolution), and navod their ethical vocabularies from different Bernard Shaw famously described word is often translated as ‘good’ into ponsibilities to shoulder the urgencies
way, it is the “narcissism of small diffe hanam (reformation) — vocabularies models of how we ought to think about America and Britain as two nations sep English, even if what we mean by ‘good’ we intuit but struggle to describe.
CM A ND-NDE
YK
14 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DELHI

THE HINDU
CAPSULE
Diabetic drug improves the Drugloaded microparticles
to manage Parkinson’s
efficacy of two TB drugs IIT Delhi team used twocompartment microparticles
The drugs disrupt biofilm formation by bacteria, thereby rendering them vulnerable Aswathi Pacha
Parkinson’s disease,
Lifegiving collision R. Prasad which affects the central
New research published in nervous system of the bo
Science Advances shows that A protein essential for the for dy currently does not
Earth must have received its mation of biofilm by TBcaus have an effective cure.
supply of carbon, nitrogen and ing bacteria (Mycobacterium The dopamine (neuro
other essential volatile tuberculosis) has been finally transmitter chemical)
elements from a collision with identified by a multiinstitu deficiency caused by the
a large planet more than 4.4 tional team from Delhi’s Jamia disease can, however, be
million years ago. This collision Hamdard, National Institute of overcome by providing
is believed to have created the drugs which are capable
Pathology and Indian Institute
Moon itself. of crossing the blood–
of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Bio
film formed by TB bacteria brain barrier.
acts as a physical barrier to But most of the time
drugs thereby protecting the only 1% of the drug (levo
microorganisms. The re dopa) reaches the brain
searchers also found two FDA after being orally taken.
approved drugs used for treat Using dual drugs (levodo
ing diabetes and suppressing pa with carbidopa) have
the immune responses were increased the fraction of
able to disrupt biofilm forma drug reaching the brain,
Reversal of memory loss tion by the bacteria. When the Isoniazid drug at 50% of the standard dosage was sufficient to kill TB bacteria. * G. KRISHNASWAMY but low halflife has
New Alzheimer’s Disease existing drugs were used along posed challenges. Also, The microparticles can deliver the required dose in a
research aims to reverse the with firstline antiTB drugs, Biofilms and Microbiomes. Dr. tion. “There was reduced bio so increased the effectiveness continuous intake of levo sustained manner and reduce the pill burden and side
memory loss that manifests as the dosage required to kill the Kumar is currently at the De film formation by recombinant of antiTB drugs in killing TB dopa has in some cases effects for elderly patients, says Sampa Saha (sitting)
the disease progresses. The bacteria was drastically re partment of Microbiology at M. smegmatis in the presence bacteria. In the presence of an caused serious side ef
research published in Brain duced by over 50%. To vali Tripura Central University. of the drugs and gallium nano tiTB drugs and the FDAap fects such as LID (Levo blished in Journal of Ma- vel via blood to the
was conducted on mice with date the promising results ob Since drug development particles,” Dr. Alam says. proved drugs, the susceptibili dopainduced dyskine terial Sciences. Ashok blood–brain barrier. Now,
familial genetic mutations for tained in the lab, the team has typically takes 10–15 years, the The suppression of Ppib ty of TB bacteria was higher. sia). completed his M.Tech de carbidopa acts as a help
the disease. It identified gree from the Depart ing hand and allows leve
already initiated trials on researchers turned to drug re protein activity and inhibition Isoniazid drug at 50% of the
epigenetic reasons for memory Bioavailability ment of Materials Science dopa to cross the crucial
mice. purposing using FDAap of biofilm formation was more standard dosage was sufficient
loss and could temporarily With a long list of pro and Engineering (DSME) barrier, reach the target
proved drugs that can poten when higher dosages of the to kill TB bacteria. And 25% of
reverse memory loss .
Protein folding tially bind to the PpiB protein drugs and gallium nanoparti the standard dosage of etham blems staring at Parkin (formerly Centre for Po zone in the brain and ef
The protein (peptidylprolyl and prevent biofilm formation cles were used. “Though the butol killed TB bacteria. “Re son's disease manage lymer Science and Engi fectively manage the do
isomeraseB or PpiB) belongs by TB bacteria. Based on in sil antidiabetic drug (acarbose) duced dosage would mean less ment, now researchers neering), IIT Delhi. Disc pamine deficiency.
to a class of cyclophilins that ico analysis, researchers found showed higher binding, there toxicity. And we presume that from Indian Institute of shaped bicompartmental Also, more than 80% of
facilitates protein folding. In two drugs — acarbose and cy was increased biofilm forma it can also shorten the dura Technology, Delhi have particles made of mu the drug was released
other bacteria, the cyclophilin closporineA — showed high tion when lower concentra tion of treatment, which can tasted success. coadhesive polymers can within five hours in the
class of proteins is known to be binding capacity with the PpiB tion was used. Further studies be ascertained only through They have fabricated also prolong the gastric simulated gastric fluid,
involved in protein folding and protein. So the two drugs can are needed to ascertain the trials,” says Prof. Hasnain. discshaped microparti residence time which which is highly beneficial
biofilm formation. But its role possibly inhibit PpiB protein correct acarbose concentra Another significant finding cles, merely 15 micro helps in providing sus from a pharmacological
in biofilm formation by TB and thereby prevent biofilm tion for inhibiting biofilm for is that the drugbinding sites metres in size, made up tained release of dual point of view.
Escape from black holes bacteria was not known so far. formation and make the bacte mation,” says Dr. Kumar. within PpiB are the same in of two compartments for drugs in the gastrointesti “Usually a person
Though the black hole’s Since biosafety level 3 lab is ria vulnerable to antiTB many pathogenic bacteria that carrying dual drugs with nal tract. takes multiple pills a day
gravity makes it impossible to required to work with TB bac drugs. Gallium nanoparticles Testing on TB bacteria form biofilm. out having drug–drug to efficiently manage the
escape from it once an object teria, the researchers initially were also tested to study the Based on the positive results “Since PpiB is an essential interactions. Efficiency tested symptoms of Parkinson's
has crossed its event horizon, used the nonpathogenic M. ability of nanoparticles to bind using M. smegmatis, the re protein, it can be targeted to The particles are made The drug release efficien disease. This can be re
there are plasma jets that have smegmatis to understand the and inhibit the protein and searchers then tested the abili inhibit biofilm formation entirely of biodegradable cy of the microparticles placed by just one pill as
been observed to leave at role of TB bacteria protein prevent biofilm production. ty of the drugs to inhibit bio across bacterial species. And and biocompatible po were tested using diffe these microparticles can
enormous velocity. A recent lymers. “The polymers rent medium. Two drugs, deliver the required dose
PpiB in biofilm formation. The “We validated the binding film formation by TBcausing as the drugbinding sites with
study published in Physical used are also FDAap levodopa and carbidopa in a sustained manner
researchers inserted the PpiB property through in vitro stu bacteria (Mycobacterium tu in Ppib is conserved across
Review Letters analyses how
gene of TB bacteria into M. dies. Both the drugs as well as berculosis). “Both cyclospo pathogenic bacteria, the pro proved and are currently (4: 1 ratio), were incorpo and reduce the pill bur
this happens. This research can
smegmatis and tested its abili gallium nanoparticles were rineA and gallium nanoparti tein can be targeted for dis in use as drug carriers. rated inside the micro den and sideeffects for
be used to image black holes.
ty to form biofilm. able to bind very well with the cles significantly reduced rupting biofilm production We tuned them according particles, one inside each elderly patients who are
“M. smegmatis bacteria purified form of PpiB protein,” biofilm formation by TB bacte across human diseasecausing to our need. We made compartment and stu more likely to forget their
generally produce less of bio says Anwar Alam from the Ku ria. But acarbose had relatively microbial species,” Prof. Has discshaped particles as died. doses and face end of
film in response to stress. But suma School of Biological lesser effect,” says Seyed E. nain says. they have a superior abil The researchers simu dose ‘wearingoff ’ symp
when we added the PpiB gene Sciences at IIT Delhi and Hasnain from the Jamia Ham
#70929
“One of the repurposed ity to attach to the intesti lated an environment si toms”, explains Dr. Sam
into M. smegmatis, the biofilm another first author of the pap dard Institute of Molecular drugs can be possibly used to nal lining, thereby in milar to our digestive sys pa Saha, Assistant Profes
production was 1.5fold high er. Recombinant M. smegma- Medicine and corresponding target latent mycobacterium,” creasing the tem and found that major sor, DMSE, IIT, Delhi
er,” says Ashutosh Kumar from tis expressing TB bacteria PpiB author of the paper. He is cur says Dr Nasreen Ehtesham bioavailability of the release of the drugs took corresponding author of
JHInstitute of Molecular Medi protein were cultured in the rently on deputation at the Ku from the ICMRNational Insti drug, crucial for oral drug place in the stomach and the paper. “We are cur
cine, Jamia Hamdard, New presence of FDAapproved suma School of Biological tute of Pathology and another delivery system” says Mr. intestine. The drugs get rently carrying out ani
Sharp Neanderthals Delhi and first author of a pap drugs and gallium nanoparti Sciences, IIT Delhi corresponding author of the Ashok Parthipan, first absorbed in the small in mal trials and the results
A new study in Scientific er published in the journal npj cles to check for biofilm forma The FDA approved drugs al paper. author of the paper pu testine area and then tra look promising.”
Reports reveals that
Neanderthals possessed
CMBBharat project: listening to
weapons that could kill from a
distance. The study examines
300,000yearold Schoningen
spears, showing they could hit
faintest murmurs of early universe
targets at even 20 metres.
Previously it was believed the
Neanderthals could hunt from
short range only.
The proposal has been presented and is being considered by ISRO
Shubashree Desikan
A threeweek long pro

gramme entitled, ‘Cosmolo
gy – The next decade’, which A bull elephant crossing a fence near a road in Hassan. * RAJKUMAR
consisted of a school to train
Protect plantations and
early career researchers and
Warming Arctic
a workshop for active re
The Canadian Arctic might be
searchers in the field of cos
experiencing its warmest
mology came to a close on
summer in the last 115,000
years. Retreating glaciers are
revealing landscapes that have
25 January. The workshop
was held at ICTSTIFR, Ben
galuru. In the workshop,
forests to minimise conflict
been icecovered for about
40,000 years, a study finds. project CMBBharat, a pro Elephants intensively use the acacia and eucalyptus
ject to listen to the faintest
Published in Nature
Communications, the study murmurs of the universe CMBBharat was a highlight of the workshop that also saw discussions on the Xray telescope plantations in the area
used radiocarbon dating to was mooted. CMB expands eROSITA, to be launched in June 2019. Aathira Perinchery
estimate the age of plants in into Cosmic Microwave
the region. Background. The scientific Bharat, outlined the scope ryons in the observable un unique opportunity for In Acacia and eucalyptus plan tracked daily elephant preferred monoculture re
space project CMBBharat and plan of the project thus: iverse, he said. The problem dia to take the lead on prized tations are notorious for the movement (using direct ob fuges (of acacia, teak and eu
has been presented as a pro “CMBBharat is a proposal of knowing the hierarchy of quests in fundamental ecological problems they servation and indirect signs calyptus) and forest frag
posal to ISRO and is being for comprehensive next gen masses of the different spe science in a field that has cause. Yet, in southwest Kar such as dung). With this, ments, and avoided other
ODD & END considered by it, said Tarun eration Cosmic Microwave cies of neutrino is a very proved to be a spectacular nataka, these monocultures they mapped the intensity of habitats including coffee and
Moons of moons Souradeep, from IUCAA, Background (CMB) mission deep one and being hotly success, while simultaneous have become crucial ele use of each village by ele human habitations. But dur
Pune. This was one highlight in international collabora pursued by many countries. ly gaining valuable expertise phant habitats and need to phants. This revealed that ing the night, they used cof
Can small submoons
of the workshop which also tion with major Indian con The “legacy,” he said, was to in cuttingedge technology be protected along with nat the large mammals were fee plantations and agricul
orbit large moons that
orbit planets? This saw discussions on the Xray tribution. It proposes ‘near improve probe of cosmologi for space capability through ural forest patches to mini present across the land tural fields the most.
seemingly innocuous telescope eROSITA which is ultimate’ survey polarisation cal model by a factor of over global cooperation,” he mise human–elephant con scape during the first year. Seasons too played a role:
question has been to be launched in June 2019. that would exhaust the pri 10 million, and to generate added. flict, suggests a study However, the team found a while elephants used forests
considered by “Schools of long duration, mordial information in this rich galactic and extragalac published in Tropical Con- high concentration of ele and coffee plantations more
astronomers to get where there could be de ‘goldmine’ for cosmology.” tic astrophysics datasets. The workshop servation Science. phant presence in the north during the dry season, they
nontrivial answers. Their tailed courses, taught by the When asked about the ti The workshop was a unique ern part of the region in the frequented agricultural
research published in leaders in the field of cos Scientific promise meline he had in mind for gathering of cosmologists Hassan , Madikeri second year. According to fields in the wet season.
Monthly Notices of the
mology are rare in our coun The scientific promise of the this project, he said that it from across the world, and In Karnataka’s Hassan and them, the logging of trees in Across the years, while
Royal Astronomical Society
reveals details about the try. The last such effort was project was threefold ac was too early to make any participants could attend in Madikeri — a landscape con abandoned coffee estates in the elephants’ use of mono
physical parameters of in 2008... Many of those stu cording to Dr Souradeep. definitive statements and vited talks by eminent cos sisting of plantations (teak, the central zone, and the in culture refuges and coffee
moons that can support dents are now back as cos The “ultrahighgoal” accord that a more mature study mologists and experimental coffee, acacia and eucalyp stallation of barriers around increased, their use of forest
smaller submoons that mology faculty in India and ing to him was that the pro had to be carried out. “Typi physicists from across the tus), paddy fields and small, these estates, clustered ele fragments drastically de
stably orbit them. Their abroad,” says Subhabrata ject would reveal the first cally, ambitious space mis world, such as Lyman Page fragmented forest patches — phant presence in the north. creased (from 15% to 2%).
study shows that only Majumdar, who is with the clear signature of quantum sions of this magnitude take (2018 Breakthrough Prize, human–elephant conflict is This increased human–ele According to Krishnan, in
those large moons having Tata Institute of Fundamen gravity and ultrahighener over a decade [to] launch. 2015 Gruber Prize), Rashid high. Reacting to this, auth phant conflict here, revealed areas where natural forests
a wide orbit around a
tal Research, Mumbai gyphysics in the very early We would like to be observ Sunyaev (2003 Gruber orities removed 22 ele an analysis of crop damage have been wiped out, mono
planet can host sub
moons. If the moon was (TIFR). “We hope this school universe. He clarified that ing for 46 years and the Prize, 2017 State Prize of phants from the area in incidents and human cultures — which serve as re
smaller or had an orbit will create the muchneeded this referred to quantum time to final release of all da Russia for Science and Tech 2014. However, elephants casualties. fugia for elephants and help
that was close to the leaders for Indian cosmolo gravitational waves, which ta and release could extend nology), J. Richard 'Dick' from habitats nearby colo them move between habi
planet, tidal forces that gy in the coming decades,” are different from what LIGO to [about] 5 years,” he said in Bond (2008 Gruber Prize, nized the area again. With Habitat types tats — could help minimize
act on the sub—moon he added, in an email. The detectors had observed that an email to The Hindu. 2018 Gruber Prize as a team conflict rising, scientists at The team also mapped ele human–elephant conflict
from both the moon and programme was organized were classical in nature. The member, Officer in the Or the Nature Conservation phant distribution across and promote coexistence
the planet would by Subhabrata Majumdar, “high” goals lay in neutrino Comprehensive mission der of Canada) and others. Foundation including Vinod different habitat types (such between people and
destabilise its orbit. They
Rishi Khatri from TIFR, physics where we could dis “There are no active propo This programme was a deca Krishnan studied how the as reserved forests, agricul elephants.
also found four moons
within our solar system
Mumbai and Aseem Paran cover more about the neutri sals for a comprehensive dal followup of a previous 6 elephants — now approxi tural fields and monocul “Such refugia play a cru
that were capable of jape from IUCAA, Pune. no species, their total mass next generation CMB space weeks long ICTS programme mately 30 in number — used tures of acacia and eucalyp cial role in keeping conflict
hosting submoons. Tarun Souradeep, who is and mass hierarchy; map all mission at this time. CMB “Cosmology with CMB and 205 villages here between tus) to study habitat use. levels low,” said Krishnan,
the lead proposer of CMB dark matter and most ba Bharat mission presents an LSS” held in 2008. 2015 and 2017. They first During the day, elephants the lead author of the study.
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Scaling back on sugar
Study shows children with fatty liver disease can benefit from cutting soft drinks, fruit juices and foods with added sugars
Anahad O’Connor Hispanic, a group that has a partic ple, and they were allowed to eat Dr. Joel E. Lavine, an expert who
ularly high prevalence of fatty liver as much as they wanted. But the was not involved in the study, says
O
verweight children with fat disease, with an average of bet goal was to get their added sugar it was cleverly done and demon
ty liver disease sharply re ween 21% and 25% liver fat, more intake to less than 3% of their daily strated “some important points
duced the amount of fat than four times the normal limit. calories — less than the 5% to 10% about what a major constituent of
and inflammation in their livers by The researchers then randomly limit for adults and children re diet contributes to this problem in
cutting soft drinks, fruit juices and assigned the children to one of two commended by the World Health terms of liver fat and inflammation
foods with added sugars from their diet groups for eight weeks. Organisation. and cell injury.” He says the ubiqui
diets, a rigorous new study has One group limited added su After eight weeks, the lowsugar ty of unhealthy foods makes such a
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found. gars, and the second group of chil group had gotten their added su diet difficult to follow, but that as a
“Individuals with tattoos were more likely to be smokers The new research, published in dren, which served as the control, gar intake down to just 1% of their general rule, doctors should advise
and diagnosed with mental health issues.” — International JAMA on Tuesday, suggests that remained on their usual diets. daily calories, compared to 9% in patients and their families to check
Journal of Dermatology limiting sugary foods and drinks They were not given any special in the control group. They also had a food labels for added sugars and to
may be a promising lifestyle strate structions to avoid or lower sugar. remarkable change in their liver avoid or eliminate juices.
gy to help alleviate a devastating To make the diet easier and health. They had a 31% reduction The members of the lowsugar
AROUND THE WORLD condition linked to the obesity cri more practical for the children in in liver fat, on average, compared group lost about three pounds dur
sis that is spreading rapidly in nufacturers commonly add to hea the limitedsugar group to follow, to no change in the control group. ing the study, which may have con
Virus-based therapy adults and children. An estimated vily processed foods and which are the researchers asked their fami They also had a 40% drop in their tributed to their improvements in
to target eye cancer 80 million to 100 million Ameri different than the sugars that occur lies to follow it as well. They tai levels of alanine aminotransferase, liver health. But Dr. Jeffrey B.
A cancerkilling, virusbased therapy cans have nonalcoholic fatty liver naturally in foods like fruit. Added lored the diet to the needs of each or ALT, a liver enzyme that rises Schwimmer, an author of the stu
developed in Spain has shown some disease, which causes the liver to sugars are typically high in fruc household by examining the foods when liver cells are damaged or dy, says it was unlikely to account
promise against retinoblastoma (which swell with dangerous levels of fat. tose, which can ramp up the pro they consumed in a typical week inflamed. for the large changes.
is a tumour of the retina that affects Roughly seven million of those are duction of new fat when it is meta and then swapping in lower sugar “The children on the low sugar
Getty Images/iStockphoto mainly children) in mouse models and adolescents and teenagers. bolised by the liver. alternatives. If a family routinely Medical opinion diet did lose a few pounds on aver
a pilot clinical trial. Although further “The current standard of care is ate yoghurts, sauces, salad dress Says Dr. Vos, “As a practising hepa age, but that amount of weight loss
work is needed, the therapy lays the groundwork for new Disease implications very similar to what we would re ings and breads that contained ad tologist, I see children weekly with has never been associated with
treatment options for the cancer, which is currently treated Fatty liver disease typically has few commend for any child that is ded sugar, for example, then the fatty liver, and I would love to see this degree of improvement,” says
with disfiguring surgery. Researchers estimate that symptoms, and many people who overweight,” says Dr. Miriam Vos, researchers provided them with this kind of improvement in my pa Dr. Schwimmer, a professor of pae
retinoblastoma causes 8,000 cases worldwide each year, a have it do not know it. But fatty liv an author of the new study and an versions of those foods that did not tients.” “The exciting part was not diatrics at the University of Califor
figure that represents 11% of all cancers in children under the er disease raises the risk of deve assistant professor of paediatrics have sugar added to them. only did the fat go down, but their nia, San Diego, and the director of
age of one. Most cases result from inactivation of the gene RB1, loping Type 2 diabetes and heart at the Emory University School of Fruit juices, soft drinks and oth liver enzymes also improved. That the Fatty Liver Clinic at Rady Chil
which normally plays a critical role as a tumour suppressor. disease, and it can progress to a Medicine, U.S. “Unfortunately, er sweet drinks were forbidden. suggests that they also got a reduc dren’s Hospital in San Diego. He
Chemotherapy is the standardofcare for retinoblastoma, but
more severe condition called non that general recommendation They were replaced with unswee tion in inflammation.” and his coauthors are doing fol
intensive rounds of such drugs can damage the retina and cause
alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, hasn’t improved the disease as tened iced teas, milk, water and The new study was funded in lowup analyses to find out more
longterm vision problems. In some cases, surgery is needed to
which is a leading cause of liver much as we would like, and there other nonsugary beverages. Dieti part by the Nutrition Science In about what accounted for the liver
remove the eye entirely, an invasive procedure called
enucleation, that results in loss of vision. The alternative
cancer, cirrhosis and liver are no large randomised trials tians prepared and delivered itiative, a nonprofit research changes.
treatment, called VCN01, harnesses a virus that infects and transplants. looking at which diet is the best meals to the families twice a week, group that was cofounded by the “This is a step, it’s not the final
kills cancer cells harbouring a dysfunctional RB1 pathway. The Current guidelines call for chil one for fatty liver.” which helped them stick to their science and health journalist Gary word,” Dr. Schwimmer says. “But
study appears in Science Translational Medicine. dren who have fatty liver disease to programmes. Taubes, a proponent of lowcarb based on this, we would envision
exercise and eat a healthy diet Data from the study Ultimately, the lowsugar diet diets. The National Institutes of studies that look at whether this
though they do not specify particu For the new study, Dr. Vos and her was not terribly restrictive. It was Health, the University of Califor therapy can actually treat the dis
Gum infections bacteria
lar foods. But some experts alrea colleagues recruited 40 children, not lowcarb, nor was it limited in nia, San Diego, Children’s Health ease well enough to prevent cir
linked to Alzheimer’s dy counsel their fatty liver patients about 13 years old on average, who calories. The children could eat care of Atlanta and Emory Univer rhosis, endstage liver disease and
disease to avoid added sugars, which ma had fatty liver disease. Most were fruit, starches and pasta, for exam sity also provided funding. liver cancer.” NY TIMES
An enzyme secreted from the bacterial
pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
which is known to cause gum infections
in humans, may also contribute to
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to
Getty Images/iStockphoto What’s inside? Closing the gap
scientists in the U.S. who analysed brain tissues from AD
patients. This problematic enzyme (known as gingipains) can be
here have been impres
blocked in the brain with orally bioavailable smallmolecule
inhibitors, the scientists went on to show in mice. The results Tsive gains made in life
expectancy in India in re
suggest that treatment with a potent gingipain inhibitor can
reduce P. gingivalis infection in the brain, which may potentially cent years, but as people
slow the neurodegeneration that characterises the brains of AD are ageing, older adults are
patients. P. gingivalis is a bacterial pathogen responsible for subject to a higher risk of
Nandita Saikia
chronic periodontitis, a gum infection that can lead to tooth physical impairment. An
loss. important question to be
considered is about the quality of life if people are go
A camera to peer inside ing to live with a disability or physical impairment, es
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pecially after retirement. This underscores the impor
tance of understanding the future course of disability
A team of researchers in the U.S. has
in India.
developed a new tool that images
blood flow through blood capillaries.
Interestingly, disability research has not gained mo
Called spectral contrast optical mentum in the country. A challenge for systematic re
search is the lack of appropriate data. Despite census
Getty Images/iStockphoto coherence tomography angiography
(SCOCTA), the 3Dimaging technique es and surveys collecting information, there is hardly
can detect subtle changes in capillary organisation for early any consensus on the real burden of disability.
diagnosis of disease. More than 40 billion capillaries, which are
tiny, hairlike blood vessels, are tasked with carrying oxygen Varied data sets
and nutrients to the far reaches of the human body. But despite Two major sources of data, namely Census and the Na
their sheer number and monumental importance to basic Diaper alert: A French public health watchdog has warned about the risks of several chemicals found in disposable nappies, tional Sample Survey Office (NSSO) collect information
functions and metabolism, not much is known about their inner leading the French government to demand that manufacturers withdraw them from their products. The investigation, by on “reported disability” but give different estimates
workings. The achievement is part of increasing technological the Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), came after a report in January 2017, around disability conditions. Census 2001 data record
advances that allow smaller and smaller blood vessels to be published in the French consumer magazine, 60 Millions de Consommateurs (60 Million Consumers), sounded the alarm ed 21.91 million people (2.13% of the population), while
imaged and provide more comprehensive, functional about chemicals in diapers. However, ANSES stressed that there was no medical study which had proved health problems the NSSO 2002 estimate was 18.5 million people (1.8%
information. The technology allows the measurement of blood caused by disposable diapers. The chemicals identified in the study (described as the first of its kind ) include two artificial of the population). Census 2011 had an estimate of 26.8
flow, oxygenation and metabolic rate. The paper was published perfumes as well as other complex aromatic products that are refined from oil, and potentially dangerous dioxins. The million (2.21% of the total population). Both data sets
last week in the journal Light: Science and Applications. magazine had reported that toxic chemicals had been found in the majority of the 12 brands — many of which are marketed
also notably vary in terms of the composition of those
globally. One chemical was glyphosate which is used in weedkiller and is feared to be cancerous. The French government
disabled. The major weakness in both systems is that
called a meeting of nappy manufacturers and gave them 15 days to come up with a plan to withdraw the products identified
Understanding muscle by the watchdog. ANSES scientists tested 23 types of nappies in reallife conditions. Gerard Lasfargues, Deputy Director,
neither of them adhere to the World Health Organisa
memory ANSES, said, “We calculated the amount (of chemicals) absorbed, calculated according to the time a nappy is worn, the tion’s (and internationally accepted) definition of dis
The old adage, “use it or lose it”, tells number of nappies worn by babies, up to 36 months, and then compared the results with toxicology standards.” The tests ability which includes in the definition, limitations in
us: if you stop using your muscles, included products marketed as being “environmentally friendly”. — AFP GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO *
performing daily activities such as walking, dressing
they’ll shrink. Until recently, scientists CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
and using a toilet.
thought this meant that nuclei — the Therefore, they not only underestimate the burden
cell control centres that build and Getty Images/iStockphoto of disability, but also reveal unconventional patterns in
maintain muscle fibres — are also lost to disability by gender and region. For instance, it is an
sloth. Modern laboratory techniques now allow us to see that
nuclei gained during training persist even when muscle cells
shrink due to disuse or start to break down. These residual
Swept under the office carpet established phenomenon that women experience a
higher level of disability than men, yet Census data
present a different picture.
‘myonuclei’ allow more and faster growth when muscles are
retrained, suggesting that we can “bank” muscle growth
Fair employment and work conditions are hardly seen as health determinants A newer study finds that 17.91% of males and 26.21%
of females aged 60 and above, experience some form
potential in our teens to prevent frailty in old age. It also Bindu Shajan Perappadan ic transition and climate lated stress and health ef of disability. This adds up to 9 million elderly men and
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suggests that athletes who cheat and grow their muscles with change.’’ fects from different chemi 14 million elderly women. This is far higher than the

steroids may go undetected. The findings, by researchers in the n the wide range of causes Reducing occupational cals, complement the more
U.S., appear in Frontiers in Physiology. I that can lead to poor
health and disease, the
risks would have the great
est effect in reducing non
traditional risks.”
The ILO Commission’s
estimate in Census 2011, which showed that only 5% of
the elderly population suffers from a disability. Our re
cent research shows that in India, there has been an in
More dairy in MedDiet? workplace, as a spate of re communicable diseases report is the culmination of creasing feminisation of disability conditions, in abso
‘Yes please!’ cent studies suggest, is an (NCDs). Some 51 million out a 15month study by a 27 lute and relative terms; elderly women spend more
A dairyenhanced Mediterranean diet underreported but signifi population due to pursuing of 73 million DisabilityAd member group of experts years of life in a disabled condition than Indian men
will significantly increase health cant factor. an occupation amounts to justed Life Years (DALY) on business and labour, do. The prevalence rate is much higher among wi
outcomes for those at risk of For example, an adverse 2.7%. A large part of the caused by occupational think tanks, academia, go dowed women, and the poor and the illiterate elderly.
cardiovascular disease, and it’s even work environment can population is directly affect risks are NCDs. vernment and nongovern In addition, people with diabetes have a higher chance
Getty Images/iStockphoto more effective than a lowfat diet, says cause respiratory infec ed by occupational risks, mental organisations. It has of being disabled.
a study in Australia. Cardiovascular tions, vector and parasitic with around 62% of the ‘Address health threats’ recommended establishing This high and disproportionate burden of disability
disease takes the lives of 17.9 million people every year, diseases, heart ailments, population above 15 years Dr. Maria Neira, WHO Di a Universal Labour Guaran among the elderly, across poorer socioeconomic
representing 31% of all global deaths. Lowfat diets are often stroke, mental, behavioural being economically active. rector, Public Health, Envi tee that includes a set of groups, is worrisome, especially when public spaces
recommended as suitable food plans for those seeking to and neurological disorders, Low and middleincome ronmental and Social Deter basic working conditions, or facilities have not been equipped as yet to accom
reduce their risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Similarly, becoming overweight and countries are dispropor minants of Health, says: such as an adequate living modate them. There is a great need to expand barrier
the Mediterranean diet, or MedDiet, has been shown to deliver getting skin diseases, tionally affected by occupa “Much more death and dis wage, limits on hours of free facilities and institutional support to people who
significant health benefits. A typical MedDiet includes extra among other medical tional death and disease,” ability can be prevented work, and safe and healthy suffer from disabilities.
virgin olive oil, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, emergencies. WHO adds in a 2018 study, through addressing major workplaces.
wholegrain breads, pastas and cereals, moderate consumption “Preventing diseases health threats at the work The report will be sub What needs to be done
of fish and red wine, and low consumption of red meat, sweet
Right to health through a healthier and saf place, such as stress, long mitted at the Centenary ses Will India be able to minimise the burden of disability
and processed foods. It also includes 12 servings of dairy foods
Stress alone, at work, can er workplace”. working hours and shift, se sion of the International La by promoting healthy ageing? This can be achieved by
(700820mg calcium). The new study says more dairy is better.
manifest itself in the form of Fair employment and de dentary work, climate sen bour Conference in June promoting healthy life styles, with an emphasis on the
The findings appear in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
extreme fatigue, heart pal cent work conditions are sitive diseases and work 2019. The changing nature need for a balanced diet, and physical activity, and the
pitation, excessive sleeping, powerful determinants of place air pollution.” of jobs will also lead to new imposition of high taxes on tobacco or alcohol pro
DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE insomnia, gastrointestinal health and can prevent at Special challenges to oc kinds of workplace health ducts. Such measures can postpone the onset age of
problems, diarrhoea, con least 1.2 million deaths ev cupational health include problems, but if managed chronic diseases such as diabetes, and thereby old age
What is Minimalist Machine Learning? stipation and, dermatologi ery year. the large share of informal well can be remedied. disability.
Mathematicians at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence cal disorders, says the Another report, “Work workers and the increasing The ILO says, “Artificial While measures to ban or discourage the sale of
Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), U.S., have World Health Organisation for a Brighter Future”, impacts of an ageing work intelligence, automation junk foods in public places are welcome steps, their
developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at (WHO), which asserts that which was published last force. Occupational risks and robotics will lead to job strict implementation without providing an alternative
experimental imaging data. Rather than relying on the tens or working people have the week by the International are inordinately large in losses, as skills become ob is not sustainable in the long run.
hundreds of thousands of images used by typical machine right to health and access to Labour Organisation’s (ILO) specific countries, and in solete. However, these This is where the government’s role is crucial. More
learning methods, this new approach “learns” much more health care as close as pos Global Commission on the certain occupations such as same technological advanc research on the current and future burden of disability
quickly and requires far fewer images. The technique is formally
sible to where they live and Future of Work says: “there mining, construction and es, along with the greening in India is needed. Census of India should consider
called the “MixedScale Dense Convolution Neural Network
work. is an urgent need to look at agriculture, and mainly af of economies, will also modifying the definition of disability in the upcoming
(MSD)”. It requires far fewer parameters than traditional
methods, converges quickly, and has the ability to “learn” from According to WHO, certain fundamental fect lower socioeconomic create millions of jobs, if Census 2021.
a remarkably small training set. Their approach is already being “When accounting for change in the way we work groups. However, notes the new opportunities are
used to extract biological structure from cell images, and is death and disability, the in the new wave of globali WHO report, “new” occu seized.” Nandita Saikia is at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and the
poised to provide a major new computational tool to analyse fraction of the global dis sation, rapid technological pational and workrelated International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
data across a wide range of research areas. ease burden in the general development, demograph diseases, “such as workre [email protected]
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THE HINDU
Point blank range BOOKSHELF
A grandson sifts through Gandhi’s words and explains that by remaining a satyagrahi till his last breath, he transcended death
AnanyaVajpeyi in February 1933, writing from Ye
ravda jail: “Many people have
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owadays it has become asked me why I have used the
fashionable to criticise Ma name ‘Harijans’ for people whom ■ Democracy on the Road:
hatma Gandhi. We are we commit the sin of regarding as A 25-Year Journey
prone to see India’s failures as his untouchables. Years ago a Kathia through India
failures, and viceversa. The fai wari Antyaja had written to me Ruchir Sharma
lure of social equality, the failure that names like antyaja, achhut, Penguin/ Allen Lane
of communal amity, the failure of asprishya hurt his community. I ₹699
secular inclusiveness, the failure could appreciate their feelings. A global investor and writer
of ecological ethics, the failure of ...Narsinh Mehta in one of his bha- offers a portrait of how India
gender justice, the failure of non jans had referred to the antyajas as and its democracy work,
violent democracy — it would ap ■ The Oxford India Gandhi: ‘Harijans’. ...‘Harijan’ means a de drawn from his two decades
pear that every value Gandhi es Essential Writings votee of God, a beloved of God. It on the road chasing election
poused so fervently has failed to Compiled and edited by is God’s promise that He is the Pro campaigns. He and fellow
take root in our polity. Surely this Gopalkrishna Gandhi tector of the oppressed, an ocean writers talk to farmers,
Oxford University Press shopkeepers and CEOs from
is somehow to be construed as his of compassion, the strength of the
₹1,495 Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu, and
fault; we suspect it to be the result weak, the Refuge of the helpless,
interview leaders from
of a shortfall in the strength of his the Support of the lame, and the Narendra Modi to Rahul
beliefs. For a figure whose biography Eye of the blind. One may there Gandhi.
coincides with the history of In fore expect Him to bestow espe
Timeless wisdom dian nationalism — indeed, the cial grace on the oppressed.
But Gandhi was nothing if not ‘a protagonist par excellence of our Looked at from this point of view...
man of deep conviction’ and ‘a modernity — Gandhi’s story is od ‘Harijan’ is appropriate in every
man of intense passions’, writes dly reminiscent of the timeless way for the antyaja brethren.”
his youngest grandchild, Gopalk wisdom of India’s epics as well as
rishna Gandhi. He sifts through of its medieval bhakti poetry. From oppression to dignity
hundreds of thousands of words Gopalkrishna Gandhi charac Voice of reason: Gandhi’s story is oddly reminiscent of the timeless wisdom of India’s epics. *
AP Postcolonial India has discarded
uttered or written by his famous terises his language — correctly, I Gandhi’s ‘Harijan’ in favour of Am
grandfather, in a life that stretched think — as bani, the ‘voice’ of a of knowledge and liberation that and solitary seeker in search of a fight Ambedkar literally to his own bedkar’s ‘Dalit’. But rather than in
from his birth in October 1869 to saintpoet, a distillation of acute are as much personal as they are higher freedom. He wrongs many death over the matter of untouch vite derision, Gandhi’s nomencla ■ Business & Politics
his assassination in January 1948. moral insight into unadorned, political, poetic as they are people along the way — from his ability, are difficult to read. They ture has to be read historically as a in India
This in itself is a painstaking pareddown, direct expression. It historical. black comrades in South Africa, to test our faith in the Mahatma. But necessary step in the arduous Edited by Christophe
task of reading, selection and com changes one’s perception of the the many women who join his ash they also demonstrate that at no journey from oppression to digni Jaffrelot & Others
pilation that took several years of world and once received, can nev Work in progress ram; from his own wife Kasturi point was he motivated by the ty — when the final goal of social OUP
immersion and empathy — a la er be forgotten. But the editor, meticulous as he is, and son Harilal, to his critics in the hunger for power, or proceeding justice and true equality still ₹750
bour of love. To me, Gandhi’s character too, sounds a note of caution: “How ea Congress and the Muslim League out of a crude sense of upper caste eludes us. Gandhi’s assassins Over the last few decades,
Even a casual perusal of this is akin to a lake, a carit-manas, like sily one can miss the essential on the eve of independence and superiority. No matter how irre proved that by remaining steadfast politics in India has moved
amazing book of close to 900 pag the one Tulasidas wrote for Rama, while in search of the great!” partition. He is and remains to the vocably he alienated Babasaheb, in the truth, a satyagrahi to his last steadily in a probusiness
es will give the judgmental reader into which one must dive again For Gandhi is very far from per very last, a work in progress. Gandhi genuinely lived by Narsinh breath, Gandhi transcended his direction, which has
pause: the blame for India’s pro and again to experience the pro fect. He evolves — from a callow Gandhi’s most unfortunate en Mehta’s words: Vaishnavjan to te- own death. important implications for
blems cannot be laid at the door of fundity of the human condition. It youth to a suffering sage, the very counter, perhaps, was with Dr. nekahiye je pirparaijane re, true As Gopalkrishna’s late older both government and
the “great soul”, Gandhi. At every is no accident that the socalled conscience of his people; from a B.R. Ambedkar. piety lies in being able to feel brother Ramchandra Gandhi, the citizens. In this volume,
moment of his extraordinary life, father of the modern Indian na tactical politician to a surgeon of His letters, diary entries and ar another’s pain as though it were philosopher, said: Bullets did not scholars of Indian politics
he was, evidently, engaged in the tion and the author of Hind Swaraj the soul; from a leader of mass ticles from September and Octob one’s own. stop Mahatma Gandhi; rather, he offer an analytical synthesis
of the issue. They look at the
pursuit of the truth, satya. also reminds us of older traditions movements to a frail, persecuted er 1932, when he seemed ready to He invokes Narsinh Mehta again stopped bullets in their track.
nature of business power and
its impact on labour, land and
urban governance.
Passive resistance All sides of a story

On the challenges facing AIDS prevention workers in India
A historian explains how Gandhi finessed the principle of ahimsa that
Elizabeth Kuruvilla The other challenge came
could be followed by anyone, young or old, man or woman from sex workers themselves.
n 2002, when the Bill and Me Insisting on clients using con
K.R.A. Narasiah I linda Gates Foundation an
nounced its HIV prevention pro
doms could deprive them of
their meagre earnings and ex ■ Insider/ Outsider:
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eing a member of the subal gramme in India with a grant of pose them to violence; in a daily Belonging and

tern studies group that formu $100 million, the Health Minis struggle for survival, the risk of Unbelonging in North-
lated a new narrative of the try accused it of being alarmist. HIV was intangible. East India
history of India and South Asia, Da Yet, according to Naco’s esti Avahan funded NGOs across Edited by Preeti Gill
& Samrat
vid Hardiman sets the tone of the mate at the time, 4.8 million In ■ A Stranger Truth: Lessons in States with high HIV prevalence
Love, Leadership and Courage Amaryllis
book in the introduction itself. He dians were HIV positive. The — Maharashtra, Andhra Pra
from India’s Sex Workers ₹399
follows Mary King’s idea of using number of AIDS orphans, at desh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Ashok Alexander The National Register of
nonviolent as a word without hyph more than 2 million, was the lar Manipur and Nagaland. Where
Juggernaut Citizens in Assam and an
enation, giving it a more positive gest in the world. A health crisis ₹699 the work involved sex workers,
meaning. Building his theory in five of epidemic proportions was be the issue was to get these dis amendment to the
Citizenship Act have
chapters, Hardiman engages with ing predicted. Yet, by 2009, persed people together.
reopened old divides
Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘constructive there were concrete signs of re sex work and their victimisation Alexander recounts the com between religious and
method actively designed to create versal, and today India’s HIV by the police, society, family and plexity through the experience linguistic communities which
alternative institutions to those of positive population is estimated clients turned out to be a large of Ashodaya in Mysuru, which have a history of conflict.
imperial rulers.’ to have come down to 2.1 hindrance in the HIV pro mobilised the sex worker com Academics and activists try to
million. gramme. munity into running the pro explain the complex mosaic
Widening the base This book by Ashok Alexan In India, only about 7% of sex gramme. They had to first build of multiple ethnicities,
In ‘Building A Nationalist Base in der, in charge of the Gates’ Ava work takes place from brothels; trust by providing them what languages, religions and
Rural India’, a chapter that stands han programme, gives a sense of mostly, it is practised from they needed most: security, and tribes that is the Northeast
out in the book, Hardiman explains Free for all: Gandhi presents a slate and a book to a boy at a school for the challenges facing those homes and in the streets, these not just from physical violence and why some people are
refugee children at Jayag, Noakhali, in West Bengal. THE HINDU PHOTO ARCHIVES considered ‘outsiders’.
how the idea of passive resistance *
working to contain the spread of sex workers forming an “invisi and police harassment. Crucial
took root. This brought the free HIV. The first part is a collection ble majority” of those who had was a safe place to meet, and a
dom struggle to the subaltern level of impressions, largely from to be reached out to. clinic of their own they could vi
and it was no more the fight of the
educated middle class against the
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myth that Gandhian
field trips he took to map and
understand the risk groups. The
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successful intervention in the
sit without being stigmatised. It
was a successful experiment
rulers alone. nonviolence succeeded in vulnerable included injectable 1990s to create awareness about that still continues.
Gandhi exhorted the educated India because the colonial drug users, transgender per HIV prevention and stop unpro HIV prevention clearly re
and wealthy to become champions state observed the law, and sons, the group of MSM and tected sex work was difficult to quires a multifaceted approach,
of the peasantry and that was his that if faced with a ruthless truck drivers, but mostly the replicate here; “large, wellregu and Alexander’s book recognis
biggest success as it mobilised the regime the results would have sizeable population of female lated, legal brothels are a boon es, above all, the contribution of
masses against the British. Hardi been different sex workers. for HIV prevention,” Alexander sex workers in one of India’s big
man compares the movement led The unorganised nature of finds out. gest public health success. ■ We are Displaced
by Ashwini Kumar Dutta in Bengal Malala Yousafzai
to the Punjab movement where ur ■ The Nonviolent Struggle for Hachette India
Indian Freedom, 1905-19 ₹399
Ancient footprints
ban nationalists managed to make Hardiman demolishes the myth
common cause with the peasantry David Hardiman that Gandhian nonviolence suc After her Nobel Peace Prize,
in an agitation in 1907 that was Penguin/ Viking ceeded in India because the colo Yousafzai has spoken out on
₹699 many things like migration,
successful. nial state observed the law, and that
displacement, war and
Hardiman points out that if
‘ahimsa’ was the original word Pal) triumvirate’s assertive national
if faced with a ruthless regime the
results would have been different.
Understanding the past with new stories drawn from old histories border conflicts. Even now
when she closes her eyes, she
thought by Gandhi, it indeed had ist movement gained support — He argues that even under colonial Zac O’Yeah nence of female beauty by a can see the beautiful Swat
different meanings at different Hardiman traces the Swadeshi rule, the masses were not protected Buddhist nun known as Amrapa Valley where she grew up but
times. In fact, according to Hardi movement from its origins and ex from atrocities committed by white ot since A.L. Basham’s The li (one of the earliest Indian wo
man, the boundaries between ‘him
sa’ and ‘ahimsa’ were always a mat
plains how Bengal took the lead in
taking it forward. In Maharashtra,
planters and local elites. People
lived in constant fear of these sub
N Wonder That Was India from
1954, which I read at university
men whose voice is on record)
and interprets what these may
hasn't been able to go back
to after the Taliban attack.
She has visited many refugee
ter of debate and they shifted Tilak invoked Shivaji as a national ordinate groups. But under Gandhi towards the end of the last mil tell us about the past. camps and shares the stories.
according to time. hero to lead the antiimperial move this fear was overcome, and partic lennium, have I come across Among the most thoughtpro
However, initially, according to ment in a more practical way ap ularly his leadership in Champaran such a stimulatingly lateral effort voking essays is the one dealing
him, ‘ahimsa’ was hardly deemed pealing to the masses. and Kheda proved an inspiration at historical analysis as Nayanjot with the question of identity. In
to have any applicability to a popu However, the British crushed the for persons from all classes. Lahiri’s Time Pieces. ■ Time Pieces: A Whistle-Stop it, Lahiri sheds light on how the
lar protest or accepted as an effec Bengal movement and Tilak was ex Compared to Basham’s door Tour of Ancient India ancients viewed themselves in
tive political tool. But Gandhi iled, but other forms of resistance The massacre stopper tome of 575 pages, Lahi Nayanjot Lahiri terms of individual personality
pushed through with the idea be cropped up. Hardiman devotes a chapter to ri’s ‘whistlestop tour’ is devised Hachette and their position within assort
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cause he believed in it, and while ‘State Terror’, caused by the Row for our times of low attention ed social contexts. In our mod
on a tour to Madras, proclaimed Lessons from South Africa latt Act, and with a surgeon’s preci spans, yet it remains utterly en ern era when identity has been
truth and ‘ahimsa’ as his main guid Gandhi led a campaign in South sion discusses it in detail along with grossing, illuminating the basics benefits both a casual reader reduced to the banality of Face
ing principles in life. In Gandhi’s Africa and seeing its success, both Gandhi’s call for satyagraha. The of Indian ancient history in ten looking for something to peruse book likes, and the popularity of ■ From Possession to
words: “If we are unmanly today, moderates and extremists in India Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April thematic essays based on such on a train journey from Kanya our tweets, it’s incredibly rele Freedom: The Journey of
we are so, not because we do not celebrated it. 13, 1919 deeply moved Gandhi. He fundamentals of human exis kumari to Kashmir, as well as vant to try and understand how Nili-Nilakeci
know how to strike, but because we Hardiman elaborates the South and other leaders had raised their tence as travel, food, hygiene, hobby experts like me who are the ancestors came to gradually R. Umamaheswari
fear to die.” African movement in the second voices against the repressive Row art, and love. keen to know the latest trends in define themselves as different Zubaan
chapter to show how in contrast to latt Act. General Dyer’s action at Jal In these, Lahiri lucidly exa scholarship, making this paper from others, and by what ₹695
Spirited protests an armed struggle, Gandhi proved lianwala saw an outpouring of prot mines aspects of life and culture back a perfect travel companion means. The essay on the afterlife The Tamil text, Nilakeci,
Hardiman dwells on the idea of pas that passive resistance could be ap ests from both the elite and from the days when the subcon to anybody who’d like to explore of historical events and how dated around the 5th century
sive resistance to the British when plied by anyone, young or old, man ordinary people. tinent was first populated to the the country’s rich heritage. they are creatively or reductive CE — there is no clarity on the
in 1905 Lord Curzon initiated the di or woman. Gandhi’s soul force had In conclusion, Hardiman says, early medieval era, stopping at Lahiri takes up concrete ex ly reinterpreted is also an eye time — is an unusual literary
vision of Bengal that was rejected its strength and one of the secretar Gandhi had seen that mass mobili about 1000CE, which is an ambi amples, like a 3rd century BCE opener. As the author says, creation. It retrieves a violent
by the educated middle class, ies to Transvaal colonial secretary sation was a force with great poten tious time span of 1.5 million love graffiti in a cave in Chhattis ‘Working much like individual pey (female possessing spirit)
of Palanayur, transforming
which put up spirited protests. J.C. Smuts told Gandhi, “You desire tial and this led to the subsequent years. garh — ‘the first surviving mes memory, new stories drawn
her into a Jaina philosopher.
Rabindranath Tagore declared victory by selfsuffering alone and launch of the noncooperation We learn how civilisation sage in India immortalizing the from old histories use fragments The writer places the story
October 16, the day of the proposed never transgress your selfimposed movement against the British with evolved from the arrival of those bond between the lover and be to refashion the past. That is, among other texts and
partition, as one of mourning. The limits of courtesy and chivalry. And out losing the nonviolent approach. first humans with their stone loved’ — and the even more an perhaps, why ancient India does traditions, giving us a peek
Lal Bal Pal (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gan that is what reduces us to sheer This is a book every university tools to the golden age of San cient lines of a 5th century BCE not seem to be dead and gone.’ into Tamil Jaina literary
gadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra helplessness.” should have in its library. skrit wisdom in a manner that song lyric about the imperma I’ve rarely read wiser words. history.
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DELHI
SPORT 17
Clinical India crushes New Zealand, takes a 2-0 lead

Kuldeep and Chahal have the hosts in a spin after a collective batting effort sees the visitors post a huge total
INDIA IN NZ SCOREBOARD NEW ZEALAND VS INDIA, SECOND ODI
Press Trust of India India: Rohit Sharma c de Grand- Henry Nicholls c Shami b
Mount Maunganui homme b Ferguson 87 (96b, Kuldeep 28 (38b, 2x4), Colin de
9x4, 3x6), Shikhar Dhawan c Grandhomme c Rayudu b
Wrist spinners Kuldeep Ya Latham b Boult 66 (67b, 9x4), Kuldeep 3 (8b), Doug Bracewell
dav and Yuzvendra Chahal Virat Kohli c Sodhi b Boult 43 c Dhawan b Bhuvneshwar 57
continued to torment the (45b, 5x4), Ambati Rayudu c & b (46b, 5x4, 3x6), Ish Sodhi b
New Zealand batsmen after a Ferguson 47 (49b, 3x4, 1x6), Kuldeep 0 (1b), Lockie Ferguson
M.S. Dhoni (not out) 48 (33b, c Shankar b Chahal 12 (20b, 1x4),
collective batting effort,
5x4, 1x6), Kedar Jadhav (not out) Trent Boult (not out) 10 (4b, 1x4,
guiding India to an emphatic 22 (10b, 3x4, 1x6); Extras (lb-1, 1x6); Extras (w-2): 2; Total (in
90run win in the second w-10): 11; Total (for four wickets 40.2 overs): 234.
ODI here on Saturday. in 50 overs): 324. Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Guptill), 2-
India now leads the five Fall of wickets: 1-154 (Dhawan), 51 (Williamson), 3-84 (Munro),
match series 20. 2-172 (Rohit), 3-236 (Kohli), 4- 4-100 (Taylor), 5-136 (Latham),
Opting to bat, India piled 271 (Rayudu). 6-146 (de Grandhomme), 7-166
up a mammoth 324 for four, New Zealand bowling: Trent (Nicholls), 8-166 (Sodhi), 9-224
riding on Rohit Sharma (87) Boult 10-1-61-2, Doug Bracewell (Bracewell).
and Shikhar Dhawan (66). 10-0-59-0, Lockie Ferguson 10- India bowling: Bhuvneshwar Ku-
There were significant con 0-81-2, Ish Sodhi 10-0-43-0, mar 7-1-42-2, Mohammed Shami
Colin de Grandhomme 8-0- 6-0-43-1, Vijay Shankar 2-0-
tributions from skipper Virat
62-0, Colin Munro 2-0-17-0. 17-0, Yuzvendra Chahal 9.2-0-
Kohli (43), Ambati Rayudu
New Zealand: Martin Guptill c 52-2, Kedar Jadhav 6-0-35-1,
(47) and Mahendra Singh
Chahal b Bhuvneshwar 15 (16b, Kuldeep Yadav 10-0-45-4.
Dhoni (48 not out). 2x4), Colin Munro lbw b Chahal Toss: India.
Kedar Jadhav contributed 31 (41b, 3x4, 1x6), Kane William-
a quickfire 22 not out off just son b Shami 20 (11b, 1x4, 2x6), Man-of-the-Match: Rohit
10 balls, as he and Dhoni ad Ross Taylor st Dhoni b Jadhav 22 Sharma.
ded 53 in the final 4.2 overs (25b, 2x4), Tom Latham lbw b India won by 90 runs, leads
for the unconquered fifth Kuldeep 34 (32b, 3x4, 1x6), series 2-0.
wicket.
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Zealand bowlers were hit all
No resistance O The third ODI will be held over the park.
The visiting bowlers then at Mount Maunganui on Rohit fell short by 13 runs
shot out New Zealand for 234 January 28 (Monday) when he failed to keep a pull
in 40.2 overs, its batsmen of Kuldeep claimed the wick skipper Kane Williamson CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC shot down off a slower one
fering very little resistance ets of Henry Nicholls and Ish (20) and senior pro Ross Tay from paceman Lockie Fergu
Zealand but India managed a
save Doug Bracewell, who Sodhi in the 31st over, polish lor (22), by the 18th over son. Kohli and Rayudu did
tall total of 324.
topscored with 57. ing off the Kiwi innings in a when it touched the 100run not give any respite to the Ki
Kuldeep (four for 45 in 10 burst of three overs. mark. Rohit and Dhawan gave In wis as they added 64 for the
overs) and Chahal (two for 52 Chasing a stiff target of Earlier, Rohit missed out dia a flying start with a 154 third wicket from 9.4 overs
in 9.2 overs) shared the bulk 325, New Zealand lost its top on a chance to hit his first run opening stand from 25.2 before Dhoni and Jadhav ad
of the spoils. four batsmen, including oneday hundred in New overs during which the New ded 86 in the final 10 overs.
Kedar Jadhav happy there is ‘healthy competition’
Press Trust of India Shankar. Jadhav, is also very in the second ODI against his experience and the pow have, 90% of the time we will
Mount Maunaganui much in contention for a per New Zealand. er in his game and it helps get a good start,” Jadhav said.
Kedar Jadhav is happy that manent place in the playing Jadhav said that everyone players like us to just work He was all praise for Shik
there is a “healthy competi XI during the World Cup. is trying to put their best foot around him and he takes har Dhawan and Rohit Shar
tion” in the Indian team for “It is a good thing for any forward and grab that spot in most of the strike and scores ma, who had another
the allrounder’s slot which is team that more guys are the squad. most of the runs.” hundredplus opening
up for grabs going into the competing for one spot. So Jadhav said M.S. Dhoni Jadhav said that 324 was a partnership.
2019 World Cup in England. every time any guy gets an shoulders bulk of the respon parscore on this track after Wrist spinners Kuldeep
With Hardik Pandya back opportunity, he will know sibility when it comes to the openers provided a good Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal
in the mix after the CoA lifted that he needs to perform,” scoring runs during the mid start. have now accounted for 12
his suspension, the Baroda #70929
said Jadhav, who scored 22 dle and final overs. “We wanted to bat first out of the 20 New Zealand
Solid opening: Rohit Sharma’s nine fours and three sixes, combined with the century-plus stand allrounder will be compet off 10 balls and also took a “It helps when Mahi bhai and it started well. With the wickets after the first two
with Shikhar Dhawan, laid the foundation for India’s win. AP * ing with Tamil Nadu’s Vijay wicket in India’s 90run win is there till the last ball. All kind of toporder batting we games.
Osaka overcomes nerves and a gritty Kvitova

Clinches maiden Australian Open crown and second consecutive Slam, takes over as the World No. 1
yearold Japanese youngster between two of the game’s The Japanese star broke court with a towel draped ov
fell to one knee in celebra biggest hitters proved accu again to take control as Kvito er her head. Osaka regained
tion, head bowed, as Mel rate as the pair went toeto va’s error rate climbed, her cool and clipped a clean
bourne Park erupted in toe in the first set. bringing up three champion backhand winner to take a
thunderous cheers. The Czech mixed up her ship points. But the Czech break point in the third game
A rattled Osaka almost game with drop shots and saved all of them, forcing of the decider, going on to
blew her title hopes with one changes of pace but blew see off a Kvitova break op
Agence France-Presse hand on the trophy when three break chances in a portunity, her mental de
Melbourne she failed to convert three crunch sixth game in the first mons put to bed.
championship points lead set. Kvitova would not surren
Japan’s Naomi Osaka said she ing 53 in the second set. Kvitova saved two set der, saving three break
was “in a state of shock” af points to force a tiebreak points before again forcing
ter holding her nerve to bat Never-say-die but Osaka ran away with it Osaka to serve it out, but the
tle past Petra Kvitova to win 72, taking the first set the Japanese champion man
The neversaydie Kvitova
the Australian Open in a Czech had conceded in the aged it on the second at
forced a deciding set before
threeset thriller that also de entire tournament. tempt for a famous victory.
Osaka finally edged ahead
livered her the World No. 1 Kvitova regrouped and Osaka to serve for the title.
with a decisive break early in
ranking on Saturday.
the third. kept her hopes alive with the
first break of the match, go
Nerves took hold as Osaka
conceded a break to make it
THE RESULTS
The fourth seed tri For Kvitova, it was her first
umphed 76(2), 57, 64 in a Grand Slam decider since a ing up 20 in the second. 55, smashing a ball into the Final: Women: Singles: 4-Nao-
two hour 27 minute epic over burglar slashed her racquet Osaka was frustrated but ground and putting her mi Osaka (Jpn) bt 8-Petra Kvi-
the Czech eighth seed to hand in a 2016 knife attack. did not panic, going back on hands over her ears. tova (Cze) 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-4.
claim backtoback Grand “It’s crazy. I can hardly be level terms in the next game The Czech broke again to Mixed doubles: 3-Barbora
Slams and become the first lieve that I just played in a after benefiting from a Kvito seize momentum with her Krejcikova (Cze) & Rajeev Ram
Asian, man or woman, to Grand Slam final again.” va double fault and poorly fourth straight game, claim (USA) bt Astra Sharma & John-
hold the top spot. The 21 Predictions of a slugfest hit drop shot. ing the set as Osaka left the Patrick Smith (Aus) 7-6(3), 6-1.
All set for the meeting of the giants
Agence France-Presse gap on Roger Federer’s 20 at and no pair have pushed one
Melbourne the top of the alltime list another harder or further.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael and Djokovic’s 15th would Their only previous final
Nadal will renew the “great give him sole ownership of in Australia, in 2012, deve
est rivalry” in modern tennis third place ahead of Pete loped into a recordbreaking
when they meet in a mouth Sampras. five hours and 53 minutes
watering 107th Australian “These are the kind of slugfest.
Open final on Sunday. matches that you live for: fi “Nadal has historically
The top two players in the nals of Slams, playing the throughout my life and ca
world have 31 Grand Slam greatest rivals at their best,” reer been the greatest rival
titles between them and said Djokovic after disman that I ever played against, on
each can claim another slice tling Lucas Pouille 60, 62, all the surfaces,” Djokovic
of history with victory. 62 in a lopsided 83 minutes said.
Djokovic, 31, will lift a re in Friday's semifinal. “I had some disappoint
cord seventh Norman “What more can you ask ing moments where I lost to
Brookes Trophy with a win for? This is where you want him. I think I’ve lost to him
while Nadal, 32, will become to be.” nine times so far in the
the first man in the Open Era It will be the 53rd meeting Grand Slams. I lost some
to win all four Grand Slams between the two giants of tough matches. I won also
twice if he adds to his 2009 the games and their eighth some great matches.
Melbourne Park crown. in the final of a Grand Slam. “Those kind of encoun
Numero uno: With the Australian Open triumph, Naomi Osaka took over the top spot from Nadal’s 18th Grand Slam No two men have met ters have also made me the
Simona Halep. MARK KOLBE/GETTY IMAGES
* title would see him close the more often in the Open Era, player I am today.”
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18 SPORT DELHI

THE HINDU
Shreyas comes up with another defiant knock Shreyas has taken a
Adds 61 with Mithun for the unbroken ninth wicket stand; Karnataka takes a healthy lead of 276 step forward: Karun
46, playing some sparkling ping finish looks on the Feels Karnataka is well-placed
RANJI SEMIFINAL drives through cover, until cards.
Shreedutta Chidananda he was bowled by a beauty The scores: to push for victory
Bengaluru from Jadeja. Karnataka — 1st innings: 275.
Shreyas Gopal stood defiant The leftarm spinner, who Saurashtra — 1st innings: Har Special Correspondent in both innings is
ly tall as Karnataka stalled now has 50 wickets for the vik Desai c Pandey b More 16, Bengaluru amazing. Getting fifty
Snell Patel c Sharath b Shreyas
Saurashtra’s charge on the season, got the ball to pitch There is at times doubt over here in the second
85, Vishvaraj Jadeja c Sharath b
third day of their engrossing on middle stump, break More 5, Cheteshwar Pujara c
over what Shreyas innings is like getting a
Ranji Trophy clash. sharply, and hit the top of and b Mithun 45, Sheldon Jack Gopal’s primary skill is — hundred.”
Jaydev Unadkat and Dhar off. son c Sharath b More 46, Arpit his batting or his legspin
mendrasinh Jadeja had Pandey perished at the Vasavada c Nair b More 30, Pre — but Karnataka will not Temperament
spearheaded Saurashtra’s same bowler’s hands for 26, rak Mankad c Sharath b More 0, care. To his team, he is Karun hailed Shreyas’s
bowling effort at the M. Chin trapped legbefore by a ball Kamlesh Makwana c Sharath b simply, and temperament. “He has
naswamy Stadium on Satur that came in with the arm as More 1, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja emphatically, an all always been level
day, with the home side re he stretched forward in c Sharath b Mithun 3, Jaydev rounder. headed. He is someone
duced to 129 for six in the defence. Unadkat lbw b Mithun 0, Che Shreyas now has 524 who knows his strengths
tan Sakariya (not out) 1; Extras
second innings. runs and 32 wickets to and he knows where he
(b1, lb3): 4; Total (in 71 overs):
But Shreyas, Karnataka’s Unadkat’s 200 his name this season; on can get runs and he will
236.
topscorer in Sharath Srinivas and R. Vi Fall of wickets: 143, 263, 3 Saturday he scored a not go away from that.
the first dig, nay Kumar were claimed by 137, 4178, 5223, 6223, 7227, potentially game “He has got some
resisted yet Unadkat in a superb post 8230, 9230. changing halfcentury, crucial runs when we
again, mak lunch spell. The Saurashtra Karnataka bowling: Vinay 154 digging Karnataka out of have been in difficult
ing an un captain, who got to 200 Ran 320, Mithun 196463, More trouble and leading it to situations when the team
beaten 61. ji Trophy wickets on the day, 181606, Siddharth 3090, a position of strength in has needed it the most.
He and Abhi dispatched both batsmen Gowtham 110500, Shreyas its Ranji Trophy He has taken a step
manyu Mith with balls that swung back in 50351. semifinal clash against forward,” he said.
un were in late. Karnataka — 2nd innings: R. Sa Saurashtra. And this Karnataka was well
marth b Unadkat 5, Mayank
volved in an unbroken after having topscored placed to push for
Agarwal b Jadeja 46, K.V. Sidd
partnership of 61 as their Gripping finish harth b Mankad 8, Karun Nair
with 87 in the first victory, Karun felt. “We
side recovered to 237 for Shreyas, though, would not lbw b Mankad 15, Manish Pan innings. are in a good position,”
eight at stumps. be beaten. He handled the dey lbw b Jadeja 26, Shreyas he said.
Karnataka’s lead is now a spinners with ease early on, Gopal (batting) 61, Sharath Sri The best
healthy 276; with batting ex Standing tall: Shreyas Gopal, who was Karnataka’s topscorer in the first dig, came up with yet launching both Jadeja and nivas lbw b Unadkat 7, R. Vinay “I have been playing Credit to bowlers
pected to get tougher, Man another valuable innings. SUDHAKARA JAIN
* Kamlesh Makwana over the Kumar b Unadkat 12, K. Gow with him from my “The wicket is going to
ish Pandey’s men will believe ropes as a good Republic Day tham b Jadeja 11, A. Mithun schooldays; this is the get tougher and tougher.
they are ahead in the nit More claimed the other Unadkat. K.V. Siddharth and Mayank Agarwal survived crowd cheered. (batting) 35; Extras (b5, lb4, best I have seen him Our bowlers were
contest. wicket, as the visiting side Karun Nair fell to Prerak an excellent appeal for leg Once Mithun joined him, nb1, w1): 11; Total (for eight bat,” said Karun Nair, brilliant in the first
wkts. in 78 overs): 237.
lost three for nine in 4.3 ov Mankad’s seemingly innocu before early in his innings however, Shreyas batted after the third day’s play innings. We did not bat
Fall of wickets: 110, 226, 3
More takes six ers. ous mediumpace. Mankad and then on 11 was put down with great maturity, avoiding here. well in the first innings,
52, 489, 5108, 6129, 7155,
It was a productive day out Karnataka’s advantage of bowled off a few paces and at first slip by Arpit Vasava risks and ensuring his partn 8176. “He has taken so credit goes to the
for Mithun, who in the morn 39 runs had barely swelled generated no great pace, but da; young Chetan Sakariya er did the same. Saurashtra bowling: Unadkat responsibility and has bowlers, but we have to
ing was key to wiping Sau before R. Samarth was sent his stumptostump line and was the bowler to suffer on They got through to 153353, Sakariya 110380, also played according to come back tomorrow
rashtra’s tail out. He struck back, bowled through the extravagant inswing ac both occasions. stumps unscathed; with two Mankad 100272, Jadeja 273 the situation. To get fifty and do it again.”
twice in two balls, while Ro gate by an inducker from counted for both batsmen. Agarwal went on to make days left in the game, a grip 773, Makwana 151510.
RACING
The Invader claims feature event
Indian Pharaoh appears to have an edge ;BENGALURU: Nityanand’s ward
The Invader piloted by P. Trevor
won the The Catalyst Properties
HYDERABAD: The Golconda Bangalore Derby, the stellar at
rated 42 to 62 (Cat. II), 110: 1. Dur Sai Kumar 53 and 14. Clarisa (3) Ulysses (4) Zervan 57, 12. Wave traction of the races here on Sat
Derby Stakes (2,400m), the third ango (11) Robbie Downey 60, 2. Akshay Kumar 52. Rider (2) Akshay Kumar 57 and 13.
classic of the season to be run this urday ( Jan 26). The winner is the
King Maker (1) A. Sandesh 59.5, 3. 1. BE SURE, Supernormal () () 57. property of Mr. A Mauniraja and
afternoon ( Jan. 27), wears an That's My Magic (8) Md. Ismail 2. ASHWA BAHULA, 1. INDIAN PHARAOH,
open look. Mr. Nanda Kumar N.
59.5, 4. Ace Ace Ace (5) Akshay 3. SCOOBY DOOBY DOO. 2. WAVE RIDER,
Though the field has reduced to Kumar 58.5, 5. Exclusive Striker The Invader, who was racing
3. BIG BRAVE.
11, after the withdrawal of two
runners.
(7) Deepak Singh 57.5, 6. Lockhart
(2) P. Trevor 56.5, 7. Royal Hero 6 BHAGMATI CUP (1,600m), 4
yo & over, rated 26 to 46 (Cat.
III), 250: 1. Alta Vita (3) Kiran 9 ARMAGNAC PLATE (1,400m),
5yo & over, rated 26 to 46
second last till the final bend,
made his move on the wide out
side, came flying and breezed
The Bangalore challenger Indian (4) A.A. Vikrant 56, 8. Valee Tiger
(9) Deep Shanker 55.5, 9. Satin Naidu 60, 2. Buttonwood (6) Ak (Cat. III), 440: 1. Big Flash (5) Ro passed Isn’t She Lovely near
Pharaoh, who has improved a lot
Symphony (3) Suraj Narredu 54.5, shay Kumar 60, 3. London Bridge hit Kumar 60, 2. Charlie Brown 150m and won comfortably, giv
since his close second to Psychic
10. Solo Winner (10) Nakhat Singh (11) Suraj Narredu 58, 4. His Excel (13) Koushik 60, 3. Humaaghar (6) ing his owners, trainer and the
Force in the South India Derby,
#70929
54.5, 11. On My Way (6) Rafique lency (10) A. Sandesh 57.5, 5. City Deepak Singh 60, 4. Top Con jockey a classic double.
appears to have an edge.
Sk. 54 and 12. Wings Of Eagles (12) Of Akira (8) Afroz Khan 56, 6. Lim tender (4) P. Trevor 60, 5. Vijay's THE RESULTS
1 ROCKY PLATE (1,200m), 4yo

& over, rated 26 to 46 (Cat. II),
1210 p.m.: 1. Palsy Walsy (8) Rohit
B.R. Kumar 54.
1. DURANGO,
ousine (2) Deepak Singh 55, 7.
Ashwa Arjun (4) Gaurav Singh
54.5, 8. Nathu la (5) P. Trevor 53.5,
Empress (2) Kuldeep Singh 60, 6.
Haven Can Wait (14) Afroz Khan
59. 7. Carnival Express (3) C.
1 TOTALIZATOR CUP (Div. II),
(1,200m), rated 15 to 35: SAN-
2. ACE ACE ACE, TAMARIJA FESTA (Neeraj) 1, Dux
Kumar 60, 2. Running Fire (6) 9. Royal Avenger (9) C. Umesh 53, Umesh 58.5, 8. Market Leader (11)
3. KING MAKER. ton (Darshan) 2, Songkran (Tre
Kiran Naidu 60, 3. Shimmers (9) 10. Yogastha (1) B.R. Kumar 53 Abhay Singh 58, 9. Golden Hope vor) 3 and Regal Force (Sai Kiran)
P. Trevor 59.5, 4. Vashishta (10)
Deep Shanker 58.5, 5. Wilow Glen
(2) C. Umesh 57, 6. Striker (1) B.R.
4 MOTHER'S BOY PLATE
(1,100m), 4yo & over, rated
42 to 62 (Cat. II), 140: 1. Lightning
and 11. Nazariya (7) Tanwar 52.
1. BUTTONWOOD,
(1) A.A. Vikrant 56, 10. Top Sprint
(8) B.R. Kumar 55, 11. One Heart
4. Not run: Legend Is Back. 1/2,
Nk and Nk. 1m 14.97s. ₹31 (w), 15,
Chairman and Mangaging Director of Catalyst Properties Anjan Rangaraj (second left)
presenting The Catalyst Properties Bangalore Derby trophy to the winning owners A Muniraja
2. LONDON BRIDGE, (ex: Telangana Queen) (9) Gad 28 and 22 (p), SHP: 89, THP: 54,
Kumar 56.5, 7. Farmville (4) Tan Fin (1) R.S. Jodha 60, 2. La Mer (4) 3. HIS EXCELLENCY. dam 54.5, 12. Escobar (10) R.S. and Nanada Kumar N. Also seen Chairmen of BTC Harimohan Naidu (right). V SREENIVASA MURTHY *
Akshay Kumar 59, 3. Dunkirk (10) FP: 324, Q: 213, Trinella: 1,873 and
war 56, 8. Southern Meteor (7) Jodha 53.5, 13. Freedom Fire (12) 589, Exacta: 8,671 and 3,716. Fa
Gaurav Singh 56, 9. Yogya (11) Sai
Kumar 55.5, 10. Handsome Duo
Suraj Narredu 58.5, 4. Royal
Green (13) Gaurav Singh 58, 5.
Classy Guy (9) Nakhat Singh 57.5,
7 SECRETARIAT CUP (1,400m),
(Cat. I), 4yo & over (Terms),
325: 1. Chase Your Dreams (8) A.
G. Naresh 53 and 14. Invasion (7)
Md. Ismail 52.5.
vourite: Santamarija Festa. Own
ers: Mr. S.M. Ruia & Mr. Kersi H. 4 MYSORE RACE CLUB TROPHY
(1,200m), maiden 3yo only,
PRODIGAL (Akshay K) 1, Armin
(Robbie Downey) 2, Candle
AEISIR (P.S. Chouhan) 1, Silver
Dew (A. Imran) 2, Poseidon (Dar
(3) Ashhad Asbar 53 and 11. Hon 1. CHARLIE BROWN, (Terms): INDIAN EMPRESS (Ak lightqueen (P.S. Chouhan) 3 and shan) 3 and Castaway (Trevor) 4.
6. Nayadeep (6) Ashhad Asbar Imran Khan 57.5, 2. Exclusive Vachha. Trainer: S. Attaollahi.
ourable Guest (5) G. Naresh 51.5. 2. TOP CONTENDER, shay K) 1, Invicta (I. Chisty) 2, Kimera (Srinath) 4. Not run: Naw Not run: Areca Legend. 2, 11/4
57.5, 7. Excellent Hope (3) Robbie Wind (2) Sai Kumar 56.5, 3. Pros
1. SHIMMERS,
2. RUNNING FIRE, Downey 57, 8. Trump Girl (12) pero (10) Ashhad Asbar 53, 4.
Starlight (1) G. Naresh 53, 5. Mer
3. FREEDOM FIRE.
2 SADDLE UP CUP (1,200m),
rated 00 to 20: PERFECT-
Southern Ruler (A. Imran) 3 and
Chantelle (Zervan) 4. Hd, Lnk and
abzaadi. 11/4, 11/2 and 1. 1m
13.47s. ₹ 57 (w), 15, 14 and 21 (p),
and Nose. 1m 13.07s. ₹74 (w), 18,
25 and 46 (p), SHP: 74, THP: 78,
3. VASHISHTA. Koushik 56.5, 9. Max (5) Kuldeep
Singh 56, 10. Shiloh (9) Kiran itocracy (6) Koushik 52.5, 6. 1 0 PRINCE PRADEEP PLATE
(1,400m), 4yo & over, rated
GOLDENERA (K. Nazil) 1, Bold
Runner (Ajay K) 2, Kruger Park (S.
53/4. 1m 13.70s. ₹76 (w), 22, 16
and 27 (p), SHP: 39, THP: 69, FP:
SHP: 30, THP: 42, FP: 286, Q: 87,
Trinella: 1,139 and 588, Exacta:
FP: 2,611, Q: 1,178, Trinella: 10,046
and 17,221, Exacta: 57,195 and
2 ALLEZ VITE PLATE (1,200m),
(Cat. II), maiden 3yo only
(Terms), 1240: 1. Ashwa Yashobali
Naidu 56, 11. Top Man (ex: Buddy
Brothers () () 55.5, 12. Guiding
Highly Acclaimed (4) Surya
Prakash 52, 7. Mr. Baahubali (11)
Gaddam 51.5, 8. Phenomenal
upto 30 (Cat. III), 510: 1. Royal
Style (12) Akshay Kumar 60, 2. Ul
Shareef ) 3 and Country’s Pearl
(Irvan) 4. 51/2, Lnk and 3/4. 1m
742, Q: 265, Trinella: 4,855 and
1,561, Exacta: 1,73,236 (carried
1,752 and 426. Favourite: Kimera.
Owners: Mr. K. Kamesh & Mr. S.
24,512. Favourite: Castaway. Own
ers: Mr. Rajan Aggarwal, Mr.
Force (7) N. Rawal 54.5, 13. Nata timate Risk (11) C. Umesh 60, 3. 14.79s. ₹55 (w), 20, 19 and 22 (p),
(10) Md. Ismail 55, 2. Born Greek Cruise (7) Tanwar 51.5, 9. That's over). Favourite: Speaking Of Ramasubramaniam. Trainer: Gautam Aggarwal & Mrs. Geeta
sha (11) C. Umesh 54 and 14. Vallee Hopscotch (4) N. Rawal 59.5, 4. SHP: 69, THP: 52, FP: 927, Q: 570,
(2) Ashhad Asbar 55, 3. Brave Sy My Class (9) Md. Ismail 51.5, 10. Stars. Owner: Mr. Lakshminaray Prasanna Kumar. Aggarwal. Trainer: Pradeep
Bloomer (2) A.A. Vikrant 54. Dippy Dip (8) Deepak Singh 59, 5. Trinella: 3,607 and 1,766, Exacta:
era (13) Rafique Sk. 55, 4. Star Western Wind (5) B.R. Kumar 51.5 ana G. Trainer: Prasanna Kumar. Annaiah.
Racer (6) G. Naresh 55, 5. Tre
1. EXCELLENT HOPE,
and 11. Without Makeup (3) Kunal
Symbol Of Star's (13) P. Trevor
58.5, 6. Vallee Ikon (6) Md. Ismail
85,640 and 36,703. Favourite:
Dallas. Owner: Mr. P.S. So
5 T.B. HANUMANTHARAJ ME- 7 CATALYST PROPERTIES BAN-
GALORE DERBY (2,400m), 4
9
2. LA MER, T.B.HANUMANTHARAJ ME-
mendous Desire (12) B.R. Kumar 3. ROYAL GREEN. Bunde 50. 58.5, 7. Delphina (3) Ashhad As makanthan. Trainer: Sharat MORIAL TROPHY (Div. I), yo only, (Terms): THE INVADER MORIAL TROPHY (Div. II),
55, 6. Turf Choice (1) Deepak 1. PHENOMENAL CRUISE, bar 58, 8. Golden Xanthus (14) Kumar. (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 5yo & (Total Gallery Dajolie) Trevor 1, (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, 5yo &
Singh 55, 7. Angel Tesoro (9) A.A.
Vikrant 53.5, 8. Flamboyant Lady 5 TELANGANA CUP (1,400m), 5
yo & over, rated 58 to 78 (Cat.
II), 210: 1. Scooby Dooby Doo (10)
2. PROSPERO,
3. MERITOCRACY.
Kunal Bunde 58, 9. Run Runner
Run (10) Afroz Khan 58, 10.
3 KEMPE GOWDA CUP (1,600m),
rated 60 & above: COURAGE
over: OPTIMISTICAPPROACH (Sai
Kiran) 1, Reczai (K. Nazil) 2, Emi
Isn’t She Lovely (Excellent Art In
The Spotlight) David Allan 2, New
over: SPIRIT OF LONDON (P.S.
Chouhan) 1, Call Me Maybe (I.
(4) Akshay Kumar 53.5, 9. Paso Semira (7) Rafique Sk. 58, 11. Sisco dio (P.S. Chouhan) 3 and Touch Moon (Dean’s Kitten Atmo Chisty) 2, Bluejack (T.S. Jodha) 3
Robles (3) C. Umesh 53.5, 10. Re
member Forever (14) Sai Kumar
Srinath 60, 2. Be Sure (5) Nakhat
Singh 59, 3. Dancing Leaf (9) C.
Umesh 59, 4. Southern Promise
8 GOLCONDA DERBY STAKES
(2,400m), 4yo only (Terms),
400:1. Arrowfield (3) P. Trevor 57,
(9) Deep Shanker 56, 12. Kohinoor
Legend (2) G. Naresh 54, 13. Turf
(Robbie Downey) 1, Star Cracker
(Arshad) 2, Pinyada (T.S. Jodha) 3
and Super Smart (Neeraj) 4. 13/4,
Of Class (Akshay K) 4. 21/4, 1/2
and 1. 1m 26.16s. ₹30 (w), 15, 28
sphere) Arshad 3 and Eaglein
thesky (Footstepsinthesand
and Ninon (Arshad) 4. 1/2, 1/2 and
Shd. 1m 27.51s. ₹22 (w), 13, 20 and
53.5, 11. Royal Girl (8) Tanwar Emperor (5) Sai Kumar 54 and 14. and 49 (p), SHP: 82, THP: 94, FP: Trumbaka) Akshay K 4. 23/4, 5 25 (p), SHP: 43, THP: 62, FP: 81,
53.5, 12. Shivalik Valley (7) (12) Suraj Narredu 58, 5. Ashwa 2. Big Brave (9) A. Imran Khan 57, 1/2 and 13/4. 1m 38.90s. ₹20 (w),
Angels Bay (1) R.S. Jodha 53. 394, Q: 270, Trinella: 7,961 and and Nk. 2m 33.86s. ₹45 (w), 17, 20 Q: 49, Trinella: 398 and 280, Ex
Kuldeep Singh 53.5, 13. Top Saga Bahula (8) David Allan 55, 6. Celtic 3. Bradfield College (5) Neeraj 57, 14 and 23 (p), SHP: 41, THP: 56,
1. DELPHINA, 7,677, Exacta: 3,41,948 and and 78 (p), SHP: 50, THP: 175, FP: acta: 2,116 and 804. Favourite:
(5) Zervan 53.5 and 14. Versallies Queen (13) N. Rawal 54, 7. Indian 4. Egyptian Prince (11) A. Sandesh FP: 111, Q: 75, Trinella: 1,026 and
2. ANGELS BAY, 1,46,549. Favourite: Optimisticap 138, Q: 51, Trinella: 5,654 and Spirit Of London. Owner: Mr.
(11) Suraj Narredu 53.5. Dreams (7) Kuldeep Singh 54, 8. 57, 5. Golden Hind (6) Leigh 505, Exacta: 3,272 and 1,074. Fa
proach. Owners: Mr. Nitin Him 1,786, Exacta: 2,40,418. Favourite: Dilip R. Ranka. Trainer: B.
On The Fire (6) Zervan 54, 9. Plat Roche 57, 6. Indian Pharaoh (1) 3. TURF EMPEROR. vourite: Courage. Owners:
1. VERSALLIES,
Day's best: SHIMMERS matmal Jain & Mr. Jatin Laxmik Isn’t She Lovely. Owners: Mr. A. Prithviraj.
inum (4) Surya Prakash 54, 10. David Allan 57, 7. Mark My Word Vinayaka Breeders Pvt Ltd rep by.
2. FLAMBOYANT LADY,
Double: BE SURE — BUTTONWOOD ant Trivedi. Trainer: Praveen Muniraja & Mr. Nanda Kumar N.
King Of Pop (14) C.P. Bopanna (8) Nakhst Singh 57, 8. Mystic Mr. D. Pritam Basapa & Rajagiri Jackpot: ₹13,338 (79 tkts); Runner
3. SHIVALIK VALLEY. Jesu. Trainer: G. Nityanand.
53.5. 11. Sea Castle (1) Kiran Naidu Flame (10) Srinath 57, 9. Rikki Jkt (i): 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5; (ii): 6, 7, 8, 9 & Rubber & Produce Co. Ltd rep by. up: ₹3,395 (133 tkts); Treble (i):
3 SHARVAN KUMAR MEMORIAL

CUP (1,800m), 4yo & over,
53.5, 12. Southern Crown (2) Md.
Ismail 53, 13. Symbol Of Gold (11)
Tikki Tavi (7) Robbie Downey 57,
10. Treasure Delight () () 57, 11,
10; Tr (i): 2, 3 & 4; (ii): 5, 6 & 7; (iii):
8, 9 & 10; Tla: all races.
Mr & Mrs. Dilip Thomas. Trainer:
Arjun Mangalorkar. 6 TOTALIZATOR CUP (Div. I),
(1,200m), rated 15 to 35: 8 INDIAN REPUBLIC TROPHY
(1,200m), rated 45 to 65:
₹475 (47 tkts); (ii): ₹2,607 (12 tkts);
(iii): ₹ 937 (53 tkts).
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Australia routs Sri Lanka in first Test Vidit misses Sevilla on the rampage
SUDOKU
opportunity
Cummins leads the way with a brilliant bowling display Dortmund, too, in punishing mood
Sports Bureau
WIJK AAN ZEE nine points clear at the top
LANKA IN AUS Vidit Gujarati missed a fine
EURO LEAGUES of the table.
Agence France-Presse chance to join Viswanath Reuters Yevhen Konoplyanka
Brisbane an Anand and two others Seville scored one of the goals of
Australia thrashed a disap in the joint third place after Sevilla roared back to life the season as Schalke drew
pointing Sri Lanka by an in letting Hungary’s Richard from a slump in La Liga by 22 at Hertha Berlin on Fri
nings and 40 runs in the first Rapport off the hook in the thrashing Levante 50 at day.
daynight Test in Brisbane 12th and penultimate home on Saturday, scoring The results:
on Saturday. round of the Tata Steel all its goals in the second La Liga: Sevilla 5 (Ben Yedder
Led by a brilliant display Masters chess tournament half for a first win in five 48, Silva 60, Vazquez 71, Sara
of fast bowling from Pat here on Sunday. league games. bia 80pen, Promes 90) bt Le
Cummins, the Australians As a result, Vidit moved Pablo Machin’s side had vante 0.
dominated a Sri Lankan out to 6.5 points and stayed been boosted by a 20 victo Bundesliga: Borussia Dort
fit that never came to terms ry over Barcelona in a Copa mund 5 (Hakimi 24, Reus 60,
halfapoint behind Anand
Goetze 62, Guerreiro 67, Witsel
with the pace and bounce of Rich haul: Pat Cummins took a careerbest six for 23 in the and Ding Liren, who drew del Rey quarterfinal, first leg
90) bt Hanover 1 (Bakalorz
the Gabba wicket. second innings, and 10 for the match. AFP *
in 40 moves of Guico on Wednesday but could
86); Borussia Monchenglad
It made 144 in the first in Piano. not break down Levante un bach 2 (Wendt 78, Herrmann
nings and just 139 in the se SCOREBOARD AUSTRALIA VS SRI LANKA, FIRST TEST The results (12th round): til French forward Wissam 90+3) bt Augsburg 0; Freiburg
cond in reply to Australia’s Ding Liren (Chn, 7) drew with Ben Yedder fired into the 2 (Hoeler 42, Niederlechner
first innings total of 323. Sri Lanka — 1st innings: 144. lb14, nb1): 24; Total (in 50.5 Viswanathan Anand (7); Vidit bottom corner from a tight 77) lost to Hoffenheim 4 (Joe
Cummins took a career Australia — 1st innings: 323. overs): 139. Gujarati (6.5) drew with Ri angle in the 48th minute. linton 19, Kramaric 59, 72, De
Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku best six for 23 in the second chard Rapport (Hun, 5.5); Levante, which had been mirbay 85); Mainz 2 (Brosinski
Sri Lanka — 2nd innings: D. Kar Fall of wickets: 117, 217, 319,
innings and 10 for the match unaratne c Paine b Cummins 3, Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 7.5) v hammered 62 by Sevilla 12pen, Quaison 73) bt Nurem
435, 569, 679, 7109, 8110,
to lead the Australians to a L. Thirimanne c Paine b Cum JanKrzysztof Duda (Pol, 5). earlier in the season, almost berg 1 (Margreitter 43); Wolfs
9139.
win inside three days. mins 32, D. Chandimal c Patter Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 6) levelled a few minutes later burg 0 lost to Bayer Leverku
Australia bowling: Mitchell drew with Anish Giri (Ned, 8); sen 3 (Havertz 45pen, Volland
He was wellsupported by son b Cummins 0, K. Mendis c when a shot from Enis Bard
Starc 140570, Jhye Richard Samuel Shankland (USA, 5.5) 62, Brandt 88).
debutant Jhye Richardson, Burns b Cummins 1, R. Silva c hi took a wild deflection and
son 135192, Nathan Lyon bt Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus,
Burns b Cummins 3, D. de Silva Serie A: Sassuolo 3 (Locatelli 9,
who took two for 19 to go 8.53171, Pat Cummins 7). bounced off the post. Babacar 45+4pen, Matri 87)
b Richardson 14, N. Dickwella c
with the three for 26 he 158236. Bundesliga leader Borus
Harris b Richardson 24, D. Per Jorden van Foreest (Ned, bt Cagliari 0.
claimed in the first innings. era c Patterson b Cummins 9, S. Man-of-the-Match: Pat 4.5) drew with Shakhriyar Ma sia Dortmund scored three Friday: Bundesliga: Hertha
Sri Lanka never looked Lakmal st. Paine b Lyon 24, D. Cummins. medyarov (Aze, 4.5); Vladimir times in seven minutes to Berlin 2 (Grujic 39, Ibisevic
like making Australia bat a Chameera (not out) 5, L. Ku Australia won by an innings Fedoseev (Rus, 4.5) v Vladi demolish lowly Hanover 96 45+4) drew with Schalke 2
second time. maru (absent hurt); Extras (b9, and 40 runs. mir Kramnik (Rus, 3.5). 51 on Saturday and move (Konoplyanka 17, Uth 44).
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Greg cared for Indian Vinita claims title

Surmounts Straub’s challenge
‘Historic 2018 raised my hopes’
I was not sure if I would get it this time: Sharath Kamal
cricket, says Gloster SHOOTING
yanka Sadangi (627.7) mis
sed the final in air rifle, but
former worldrecord holder
New Delhi
The pathbreaking twin me
run at the games.
He now stands at a career
high 30 in the latest world
‘Kirsten, team benefited from the fruits of the coach’s vision’ Sports Bureau
Munich
Heena Sidhu had consistent dals at the Jakarta Asian rankings and broke Kamlesh
fare in women’s air pistol, as Games made his case stron Mehta’s record of most na
PLAINSPEAK World University champion she won the bronze and ger for the prestigious Pad tional titles by winning his
Vinita Bhardwaj was in irre placed fourth in two ma Shri award, feels paddler ninth crown earlier this
S. Dinakar sistible form as she topped a matches. Sharath Kamal, who finally month.
Chennai strong field in winning the In men’s air pistol, world got lucky after finding his “It feels great to get this
John Gloster’s four years gold in women’s air rifle in record holder Shahzar Riz nomination being rejected recognition, especially when
with the Indian cricket team the H&N Cup international vi, who had won a gold and on two previous occasions. you look at others who have
— from 2005 to 2008 — were shooting championship a silver in World Cups last The 36yearold, who had been named for Padma Shri.
busy, eventful, and fulfilling. here in Germany. year, shot 576 and placed criticised the application After two failed attempts, I
The experienced physio Vinita shot 251.0 in the fi 28th. process, said that the Padma Sharath. * JIGNESH MISTRY was not sure if I would get it
was under coaches John nal and beat the qualifica The results: Women’s air rifle: honour is supremely special. this time but considering the
Wright, Greg Chappell, Ravi tion topper Isabella Straub 1. Vinita Bhardwaj 251.0 rath this time, considering year we have had, anything
Shastri and Gary Kirsten. of Germany by 0.8 point for (630.1); 2. Isabella Straub (Ger) ‘Right up there’ how phenomenal 2018 was. was possible.
“I’ve been through various the gold. Vinita had quali 250.2 (632.6); 3. Alison Weisz “It is my first civilian award, He guided the men’s team to “Also, the entire applica
phases in the Indian cricket fied in the second place with (US) 228.9 (629.8); 14. Anjum so it has to be right up there. a historic bronze at the Asiad tion has become online and
team,” he told The Hindu on an impressive 630.1, while Moudgil 627.8; 23. Shriyanka I was out with friends when with a shock win over Japan, that has made the process
Saturday. Isabella had shot 1.5 point Sadangi 627.4. the news broke last night. ending a 60year wait for a more transparent.
And Gloster has seen sev more. Women’s air pistol: 1. Olena My phone ran out of battery medal in table tennis. “The fact that an athlete
eral Indian captains — Sourav World Championship sil Kostevych (Ukr) 242.0 (586); and it has been madness ev Sharath and rising star has to apply for it still re
Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil ver medallist Anjum Moud 2. Vitalina Batsarashkina (Rus) ery since I got back home,” Manika Batra then clinched mains but I don’t know if
240.6 (579); 3. Heena Sidhu
Kumble and M.S. Dhoni — gil shot 627.8 for the 14th Sharath said. a surprise bronze in mixed you can do it any other way,”
220.0 (579); 8. P. Shri Nivetha
from close quarters. Balanced view: John Gloster has high praise for spot, while Shriyanka Sa 115.4 (579). It was tough to ignore Sha doubles to cap off a dream said Sharath.
The South Australian, Greg Chappell but, at the same time, says he could have dangi had 627.4 for the 23rd
Women’s air pistol2: 1. Olena
now married to an Indian pi handled the media better. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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place. Kostevych (Ukr) 242.5 (584);
lot and settled in Mumbai,
shed light on Chappell’s tu
multuous stint.
He said, “Greg could have
handled the media better.
World Cup.”
Talking about Virat Kohli,
Consistent fare
In the second match, Vinita
2. Vitalina Batsarashkina (Rus)
240.4 (578); 3. Heidi Diethelm
(Sui) 220.9 (578); 4. Heena
It’s just pure happiness: Chhetri
But he left his imprint in In Gloster said, “He is not just a Bhardwaj (627.4) and Shri Sidhu 200.1 (579).
Eye for talent dian cricket.” great batsman but deserves Says the award will motivate him to work harder
Gloster said, “Greg had a fan Talking about Indian cap credit for making fitness a
tastic eye for talent, had a tains, Gloster felt Ganguly nonnegotiable issue. Press Trust of India
longterm vision for Indian brought aggression to the In “I personally think the Yo NEW DELHI <
> Iextra
am loving that
pressure
cricket. He saw a transition dian team. Dravid, he said, Yo Test is suited more to T20 Indian skipper Sunil Chhetri
phase coming and had guys was “both sensitive and and possibly ODI cricket and on Saturday said being in the
which has come
like Dhoni, Suresh Raina and tough as skipper, which is a a 2km time trial may be a bet elite list of former football with this Padma Shri
others ready. He cared for In rare combination.” ter option for Tests, but the ers to be honoured with the announcement
dian cricket.” Gloster was the India phy more important thing is the Padma award makes him a “I am aware of the aura all
Gloster added, “In fact, I sio when the ‘Monkeygate’ messaging about fitness. bit “nervous” and brings of them possess. It was my
would say that Kirsten and Sydney Test of 2008 hap “Kohli has put fitness in “extra pressure” to strive for dad who had educated me
the Indian team benefited pened. How was the dressing the forefront and everyone excellence. about their exploits much
from the fruits of Greg’s vi room like after the incident? knows about the conse Chhetri, the second high before I became a profes
sion, in the 2011 World Cup.” “There was a lot of confusion quence of failing the test,” he est goalgetter (among cur sional. Being in the same
Then where did it go about who said what. Kum said. rent players) in internation club as them is a feeling
wrong for Greg, first with ble was the captain and he Gloster, however, said the als after Cristiano Ronaldo, Sunil Chhetri. * AP which I can’t express, it can
Sourav Ganguly and then handled the situation calm communication to the media was among the nine sport make you nervous,” Chhetri
with a bunch of senior ly; he bought time.” around the fitness issues in spersons to be honoured being. I feel I need to set a said.
cricketers following the dis the Indian team, if im with the Padma Shri award. better example to others. On “It is also a reminder to
astrous 2007 ODI World Shrewd captain proved, would complete the “At the moment, it’s just that perspective, I am loving me on what I need to do, all
Cup? Gloster, now with Rajasthan circle of progress. “That’s pure happiness. It hasn’t that extra pressure which in my effort to improve ev
Gloster answered, “Per Royals, was with Dhoni one area. Within the group sunk in as yet. I need some has come with this Padma ery minute as a footballer.”
haps, Sourav expected more when India triumphed in there could be communica time to feel it. I need some Shri announcement.” Chhetri said it will motiv
help from Greg when things World T20 in South Africa, tion but outside it? I don’t time to understand what the Chhetri is the sixth foot ate him to work harder.
were not working for him as 2007. Gloster felt Dhoni was know who is in charge of it.” recognition actually means,” baller after the late Gostho “As a player, I need to
a batsman. Then, probably, a “shrewd, smart captain The erudite Gloster is con said Chhetri. Paul, late Sailen Manna, P.K. keep working hard. There’s
Greg was not happy with the who thought on his feet.” He vinced about one thing “Every person has flaws, Banerjee, Chuni Goswami no alternative to that.
team he got in the 2007 said, “That was a momen though — fitness has lent a so do I. I understand it and and Bhaichung Bhutia to be “No award can make you
World Cup and things start tumshifting victory coming cutting edge and consistency Making a mark: Vinita who won the gold in women’s
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strive to be a better version honoured with the presti a better player unless you
ed going downhill.” soon after a nightmarish ODI to Indian cricket. air rifle. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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of myself — a better human gious award. strive to be one,” he said.
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New Zealand Women vs In
dia Women: Second ODI:
Saina sets up final with Marin Jason Holder slams a record
Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), 6.30
a.m.
NBA: Sony Ten 1 (SD & HD),
6.30 a.m.
The Indian fights back to down sixth seed Bingjiao unbeaten double century
Ranji Trophy: Karnataka vs INDONESIA MASTERS
Saurashtra, Star Sports 2 (SD Dowrich helps himself to a ton
& HD), 9.30 a.m. Press Trust of India
Australian Open: Sony Ten 2 JAKARTA Agence-France Presse blecentury by captain Jason partnership of 295 with
& Six (SD & HD), 2 p.m. Saina Nehwal made her first Bridgetown Holder and a calm, support Dowrich, who was on 116
PWL: Sony Six (SD & HD), 7 final of the season with a England, chasing a mam ing century from Shane when the second innings de
p.m. combative victory over Chi moth target of 628, had Dowrich. claration came in the final
na’s He Bingjiao at the made 134 for two in the se Building on an already session.
$350,000 Indonesia Masters cond innings against West considerable first innings
Ankita a step badminton tournament here Indies at lunch on the fourth lead of 212 after Holder
on Saturday. day of their first Test at Ken chose not to enforce the fol
closer to The 28yearold Indian, sington Oval on Saturday. lowon on the second even
who was the runnerup here Earlier on Friday, West In ing, the skipper himself led
WTA event; last year, notched up a 1821, dies had declared its second the way with a commanding
2112, 2118 win over sixth innings on 415 for six after a 202 not out, dominating an
Kamran loses seed Bingjiao, a World cham magnificent unbeaten dou unbroken seventhwicket
pionship bronze medallist.
Sports Bureau
Hua Hin (Thailand)
Eighth seed Saina will SCOREBOARD WEST INDIES VS ENGLAND, FIRST TEST
now face Spain’s threetime
World and reigning Olympic West Indies — 1st innings: 289. 4580, Curran 171691, Mo
Ankita Raina blanked Kwan England — 1st innings: 77. een 203783, Stokes 253
champion Carolina Marin,
Yau Ng of Hong Kong 60, West Indies — 2nd innings: K. 812, A. Rashid 90610, Root
who put it across China’s Going strong: Saina Nehwal made her first final of the season. *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
60 to reach the second and Brathwaite lbw b Moeen 24, J. 100370, Jennings
third seed Chen Yufei 1721,
final qualifying round of the Campbell c Jennings b Stokes 4.10290.
2111, 2321, in the summit smash left the Chinese 1818. She then unleashed a After the interval, Bing
$250,000 WTA tennis tour 33, S. Hope c Jennings b Stokes England — 2nd innings: R.
clash of the World Tour Sup stranded as the Indian led smash to grab a crucial 1918 jiao took four straight points
nament here on Saturday. 3, D. Bravo c Stokes b Moeen 1, Burns b Chase 84, K. Jennings c
er 500 event. 86. She then went into the advantage, before holding before Saina engaged her riv Holder b Joseph 14, J. Bairstow
In the final round, Ankita R. Chase c Stokes b Moeen 0, S.
break with a 117 advantage. two game points. The Chi al in rallies to make it 147. A Hetmyer c Buttler b Curran 31, (batting) 29; Extras (b4, nb1,
will play fifth seed Conny
Better court coverage Saina continued her good nese sealed it when Saina beautiful cross court net re S. Dowrich (not out) 116, J. w2): 7; Total (for two wkts. in
Perrin of Switzerland.
In their first ever meeting in run after the break to lead went wide. turn helped the Indian swell Holder (not out) 202; Extras 43.5 overs, at lunch): 134.
Karman Kaur Thandi,
international circuit, Saina 1611 but twice hit the net to In the second game, Saina the lead to 179. She then (b1, lb1, nb3): 5; Total (in Fall of wickets: 185, 2134.
however, went down fight
showed better court cover allow Bingjiao narrow down pulled away to 63 after an produced two roaring cross 103.1 overs in six wkts. decl.) West Indies bowling: Roach 12
ing 36, 57 to Chloe Paquet
age and unleashed some tell the equation to 1516. A bril initial duel. Easy mistakes court smashes to inch closer 415. 3480, Gabriel 92230,
of France.
ing smashes to trouble the liant crosscourt smash and started creeping in Bing to the game point, which she Fall of wickets: 152, 260, 3 Holder 84170, Chase 3.50
Other result: $25,000 WTA,
21yearold lefthander. Sai a superb drop helped the jiao’s game as she found the grabbed once the Chinese 61, 461, 561, 6120. 151, Joseph 103261, Camp
Hua Hin, Thailand: First quali
fying round: Chloe Paquet na lagged 20 initially but Chinese keep the deficit to a net often and sent the shut went wide. England bowling: Anderson 18 bell 1010.
(Fra) bt Karman Kaur Thandi clawed back to 55 with a point till 1718. tle long and wide to allow Saina eventually took the
63, 75; Ankita Raina bt Kwan couple of smashes. Bingjiao won a video re Saina enter the break with a match to the decider with a
Yau Ng (Hkg) 60, 60. Another powerful straight ferral on a line call to make it huge 113 lead. cross court slice.
Dhanker edges Rana Stijn Pel bags a double
Y.B. Sarangi rallying to beat Nitin Rathi margin to win the men’s Special Correspondent advantage. The Dutch
GREATER NOIDA 92 in the men’s 57kg class 65kg battle and put Royals KOLKATA player took over from the
Amit Dhanker pipped Par and give Hammers the lead. ahead. Topseeded Stijn Pel of the second set and won 12
veen Rana 42 in the decid Olympian Cynthia Vescan World junior champion Netherlands completed a straight games to wrap up
ing nailbiting men’s 74kg overcame a strong challenge Anastasia Nichita of Moldova grand double as he made a both the sets 60, 60.
bout as Punjab Royals de from the burly Kiran to se thrashed Bulgarian Mimi spectacular comeback Fourthseeded Mai Na
feated Haryana Hammers cure a 43 victory in wo Hritsova 130 to make it 22. against China’s Hanwen Li path Nirundorn of Thailand
43 in the Pro Wrestling men’s 76kg. The results: Punjab Royals bt to win the boys’ singles title, had to work hard against
League at the Gautam Budd Bajrang got the better of Haryana Hammers 43 here in the DKS ITF Junior unseeded Alexandra Eala of
ha University indoor hall Rajneesh in a quality bout. (M57kg: Nitin Rathi lost to Ravi tennis on Saturday. the Philippines before over
here on Saturday. Bajrang scored two points in Kumar 29; W76kg: Cynthia Pel, who had in partner coming the latter in the de
Dhanker snatched two just 30 seconds before a slip Vescan bt Kiran 43; M65kg: ship with compatriot Guy cider and win the girls’ sin
points in the closing mo up in a leg attack allowed Bajrang Punia bt Rajneesh Dalal Ouden, won the doubles tit
62; W57kg: Mimi Hristova lost
gles crown.
ments to spread joy in the Rajneesh to counterattack le on Friday, annexed the The results (finals):
to Anastasia Nichita bt 013;
Royals camp. and level scores in the se M86kg: Dato Magarishvili bt singles crown downing the Boys: Stijn Pel (Ned) bt Han
World under23 cham cond round. Ali Shabanov 74; W53kg: Anju Chinese opponent in style. wen Li (Chn) 36, 60, 60.
pionships silver medallist However, Bajrang res lost to Seema 28; M74kg: Pel lost the first set 36 #70929
Girls: Mai Napatt Nirundorn
Ravi Kumar continued his tored his lead through a ta Amit Dhanker bt Parveen Rana making a few errors that al (Tha) bt Alexandra Eala (Phi) Terrific innings: West Indies captain Jason Holder plundered the England attack at will by
unbeaten impressive run, kedown and widened the 42). lowed Hanwen Li the initial 26, 63, 62. hitting eight sixes on way to his unbeaten 202. AP *
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IN BRIEF
Alwar’s government schools make a turnaround with model project
With 2 civil society groups joining hands to upgrade facilities and teaching, children from Meo and Dalit communities are back in classrooms
Mohammed Iqbal The project has helped blocks to send their children students and village elders become proficient in basic
ALWAR improve infrastructure and to the government schools. in the betterment of the edu counting and arithmetic and
China to step up stimulus Battling declining enrolment attract students from margi “The Meo Muslim, Dalit and cation system, and in streng spelling words.
in slowdown fight and rising number of dro nalised sections to these OBC children were either at thening the school develop Payal Verma, a Class X
BEIJING
pouts two years ago, the Go schools. tending private schools or ment and management student from the Ramgarh
China will take steps to spur
vernment Girls’ Senior Se As a result, the school, not going to school at all,” he committees. school, who was elected
growth amid a trade war with
the U.S., but there is limited
condary School in remote which started in a small said. They also focussed on head of Baal Sansad for the
room for aggressive stimulus Ramgarh tehsil of Alwar dis building two decades ago, The lack of basic facilities sanitation and hygiene in current academic session,
in an economy laden with trict in Rajasthan has record has a robust infrastructure in the school buildings and schools, and improving in cited instances of students’
massive debts and a property ed a remarkable 98% pass today. high dropout rates, coupled frastructure. Laboratory role in the school manage
market prone to creditdriven result in Class XII this year. Viceprincipal Hemlata with the indifference of local equipment and books in the ment. She said she had
spikes, policy insiders said. As an added bonus, five of its Manaktala points out that communities, had created local language, Mewati were asked for separate laborato
The deepening economic students were given laptops the better amenities, includ presented to the schools. ries for physics and chemis
slowdown has fanned market for getting distinctions. ing furniture, toilets and Bright makeover: Cycles of students at the Government Girls’ SUNDAY SPECIAL try.
expectations of a big The turnaround in the large classrooms and the Senior Secondary School in Ramgarh. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT *
With existing resources AMIED associate Ikram
spending binge, especially if Ramgarh school, one of the multimedia KYaan facility an environment in which the Rajwati Yadav, a teacher in Khan pointed out that the av
the tariff war escalates. 25 government schools in have boosted the confidence joined hands to establish Metso group from Finland private schools had emerged Dadar’s Government Secon erage results of schools in
BUSINESS ABROAD A PAGE 8 two blocks of the district, of the girls. ‘smart classes’ in the govern has pitched in with financial as an alternative, despite dary School, said the Build the project area had in
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was possible, thanks to a ment schools in Ramgarh assistance. their low quality of teaching. ing as Learning Aid (BaLA) creased to 87.33% for the Se
Shipping rates go down model school project under ‘Smart classes’ and Umren blocks and pro AMIED executive director As part of the project, concept in the project had condary Board examination
in a sign of slowdown taken by two civil society The Alwar Mewat Institute of vide basic facilities in their Noor Mohammed told The AMIED activists fanned out utilised the existing infras and 89.86% for the senior se
SINGAPORE groups with the financial as Education and Development buildings, apart from pro Hindu that the project was to the 25 schools during the tructure elements as learn condary exam. Besides, 32
Freight rates for drybulk and sistance from a Finnish (AMIED) and Plan India, a grammes to enhance capaci aimed at encouraging fami last two years and guided ing resources and helped the girls have qualified for the
container ships, carriers of agency. child rights organisation, ty among the teachers. The lies in the Meodominated the teachers, the staff, the primary section’s students State’s Gargi Award.
most of the world’s raw
materials and finished goods,
have plunged over the last six
months in the latest sign the
India, Australia to ink
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global economy is slowing
significantly. The Baltic Dry
Index, measure of ship
Power point
transport costs for materials
fresh extradition pact
like iron ore and coal, has
fallen 47% since mid2018.
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Taliban leader likely
to join talks with U.S. Revamped agreement to be more crimespecific
KABUL/PESHAWAR
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Vijaita Singh
New Delhi
the Taliban’s new political
leader, is expected to join India is all set to sign a re
meetings with U.S. officials vamped extradition treaty
in Qatar imminently, Taliban #70929
with Australia that would en
sources said, as the latest able both countries to ex
round of talks to find ways change information on
to end the 17year Afghan spies, terrorism and human
war entered a sixth day. traffickers.
WORLD A PAGE 3 A senior government offi
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cial told The Hindu that a
IRCTC starts epayment team is all set to visit Austra
for food in trains lia to finalise the pact.
NEW DELHI India and Australia signed
The Indian Railway Catering an extradition treaty in
and Tourism Corporation 2008, but it came into force which is an agreement for two persons from Australia.
(IRCTC) has introduced only in 2011. Under this trea exchange of terrorist screen In 2015, Wulf Ingo Werner,
electronic payment for food
ty, both countries decided to ing information between the an Australian, was extradit
items sold on trains, through
recognise extraditable of Terrorist Screening Centre ed to India for child sex
the use of Point of Sale
fences which are punishable (TSC) of the U.S. and a select abuse cases in Goa. In 2014,
machines. Also, the paper bill
is generated immediately
by an imprisonment of at ed Indian security agency. Jaskaran Kalsi, an Indian,
after the payment is made. least one year or severe The TSC has the database of was extradited to India for
NEWS A PAGE 2
Growing with the sun: Farmers working in front of newly installed solar panels to power water pumps in Cooch Behar district of penalty. 11,000 terror suspects and murdering a Burundi nation
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD West Bengal on Saturday. Solar pumps are at work in remote areas where electricity is out of reach for farmers. RITU RAJ KONWAR * “The extradition treaty U.S. authorities, while pitch al in Jalandhar.
signed with Australia earlier ing for the agreement, had According to the website
was general in nature. This told India in 2016 that “in of the Ministry of External
AI Boeing with ED/CBI officials may head for West Indies one will be more crime spec
ific. It will focus on narcot
ics, human trafficking, spies
the past one year two dozen
people with terrorist links
were arrested in Canada and
Affairs, India can make an
extradition request to any
country. “While India’s trea
and terrorism,” the official Australia with the help of ty partners have treaty obli
Indo-Asian News Service the West Indies to bring and Barbuda citizenship re the principal targets of this have similar citizenship by said. HSPD6 as both countries gations to consider India’s
NEW DELHI these persons back. cently. These islands provide exercise, but it is not clear investment programmes. The official said that Aus are signatories to it.” requests, in the absence of a
Top government sources Availing themselves of the visafree travel to 132 coun whether Modi lives on one of Dominica and St Lucia give tralia has been keen on seek “The decision to become treaty, it is a matter for the
have confirmed that India is controversial paid citizen tries. these islands. Choksi may be citizenship and a valid pass ing information on terror a signatory to a blanket data foreign country to consider,
moving ahead to bring back ship programme offered by picked up in the Caribbean, port for just $100,000, suspects arrested here and base like the HSPD6 is still in accordance with its dom
highvalue economic offen many of the islands in the Ca A popular option while Modi may be seques chump change for ultra rich the revamped pact will pave not finalised but is out of estic laws and procedures,
ders from the West Indies. ribbean, diamond trader Me Citizenship through invest tered on the return route Indians on the run. If your the way for sharing similar question for now. We are whether the country can
A longrange Air India hul Choksi and Winsome ment has become popular from Europe where he is re spouse needs a similar pass information. signing individual pacts with agree to India’s extradition
Boeing aircraft has been Diamonds promoter Jatin among Indian economic of portedly hiding. Lack of ex port, it is $165,000 in St Lu countries like Australia who request on the basis of an as
commissioned to handle this Mehta have taken citizenship fenders. tradition treaties has made cia and $175,000 in Domini ‘Specific requests’ are part of the database. We surance of reciprocity,” the
mission. Officials of the Cen in these parts. Mehta be Sources in the investigat these islands a safe haven for ca. It may be recalled that India will share information on MEA says. India has extradi
tral Bureau of Investigation came a citizen of St Kitts and ing agencies also revealed India’s uber rich. Meanwhile, Grenada gives had refused to sign the Ho terror suspects on specific tion treaties with 43 coun
(CBI) and the Enforcement Nevis some years ago, while that Choksi and absconding Other countries like Gre you similar passports for meland Security Presiden requests,” said the official. tries and extradition arran
Directorate (ED) will fly to Choksi has taken Antigua businessman Nirav Modi are nada, St Lucia and Dominica $200,000. tial Directive (HSPD6), India has extradited only gements with 10 countries.
India questions rush to declare
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climate change a security issue Strumming the strings of peace in Colombo

Amjad Ali Khan performs with his sons Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash
Envoy to UN points to the pitfalls in the approach
Meera Srinivasan by his sons, followed by a couple of pieces — raags
Indo-Asian News Service the UN Charter by redefining which global governance COLOMBO solo segment featuring the Lalitha Gauri and Desh — the
UNITED NATIONS other issues, even as it strug mechanisms are best suited “With all due respect to senior artiste, and artistes offered a treat of
India has questioned the gles to fulfil its primary func to tackle these phenomena” language, language creates culminating in a majestic popular numbers, including
rush at the UN to declare cli tions. and India favoured a cau barriers, while music finale by the trio — Rabindranath Tagore’s Ekla
mate change an internation tious approach. connects the world,” said accompanied by Satyajit Chalo Re and Mahatma
al security issue, potentially An inclusive framework The Council was discuss Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Talwalkar and Shubh Gandhi’s favourite bhajans
giving the Security Council Taking aim at the composi ing the impact of climatere Ali Khan, who enthralled a Maharaj on the tabla. Vaishnava Janato and
the right to take action on it, tion of the Council that does lated disasters on interna huge crowd at Colombo’s Raghupati Raghava
and pointed to the pitfalls in not reflect the contempor tional peace and security iconic Bandaranaike ‘A link’ Rajaram.
the approach. ary world, Mr. Akbaruddin after the UnderSecretary Memorial International “Music does not belong to Making a rare appearance
A “mere decision of the asked: “Can the needs of cli General for Political and Conference Hall on Friday. any religion — it is like air, Chords of accord: The concert was organised by the Indian together, former Presidents
Council” to take over enfor mate justice be served by Peacebuilding Affairs, Ro Performing for the first water, fire…but we all need High Commission in Sri Lanka on the eve of the Republic Day. and rivals Chandrika
cement of climate change shifting climate lawmaking semary DiCarlo, said the time in Sri Lanka, the music in our lives. In our Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
action will disrupt the Paris from the inclusive UN Fra trends of heat waves, hea veteran classical musician, country we say music structure. The complexity of he explained, and Mahinda Rajapaksa,
Agreement and multilateral mework Convention of Cli vier rains, higher sea levels flanked by his sons Amaan connects you to God. Music the Sarod is hardly apparent demonstrating the along with Speaker Karu
efforts to find solutions, In mate Change (UNFCCC) to and severe damage to agri Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali has connected the world,” when the master strummed difference between the Jayasuriya, were special
dia’s Permanent Representa decisionmaking by a struc culture “represent a security Bangash, presented ‘Strings Mr. Khan said during the its strings with his right rather rough and blaring guests.
tive Syed Akbaruddin told turally unrepresentative in risk for the entire world.” of peace’ — a concert concert, just before hand, at once sliding his tone when he played with The artistes ended the
the Security Council on Fri stitution with an exclusion “The relationship between organised by the Indian performing a Tarana — a fingers on the left hand his fingertips, and the show, playing the national
day. ary approach decided in climaterelated risks and High Commission in Sri composition whose lyrics along its fretless board. “I smooth, wellrounded anthems of the two
India has been wary of the secretive deliberations.” conflict is complex and often Lanka on the eve of the comprised just rhythmic have to file my nails on stage contrast, as he used his countries, with Sri Lankan
Council’s mission creep as it He said the main point of intersects with political, so Republic Day. The show syllables, no words. In a — it’s not a thing of beauty, I finger nails. artiste Lahiru Gimhana
tries to extend its reach contention “is about what cial, economic and demo featured three segments — delightful prelude, he sang a need to do that to ensure Limiting the conventional Komangoda accompanying
beyond what is allocated in manner, which aspects and graphic factors,” she said. beginning with a duet piece few lines to demonstrate its the sound I produce is fine,” Hindustani classical fare to a them on the keyboard.
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THE HINDU
IN BRIEF IRCTC starts
epayment for
food in trains
Asian News International
New Delhi
The Indian Railway Cater

Train 18 to have higher
ing and Tourism Corpora
fares than Shatabdi
NEW DELHI
tion (IRCTC) has intro
With all the safety duced electronic payment
clearances, trials and tests in mode for food items sold
place, the railways is all set on trains, through the use
to launch the indigenously- of Point of Sale (POS)
built Train 18 with fares that machines.
are likely to be around 40 to Also, the paper bill is
50% higher than the generated immediately af
Shatabdi Express, officials ter the payment is made by
said. The first train is slated the customers as a record
to run between New Delhi of the purchase. It would
and Varanasi. IANS check overcharging and
the complaints regarding
7 arrested for assaulting Safe ground: Sarus cranes searching for food in the wetland of Hargaon in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh. They feed on harmful insects, thereby controlling pests. *
SANJAY KUMAR the same, said an IRCTC
woman, cutting her hair official.
DAHOD
The Sarus crane takes flight with people’s help
He informed that about
Seven persons were arrested
here in Gujarat on Saturday
2,000 POS machines have
for allegedly assaulting, been deployed in Mail and
abusing and chopping off the Express trains and soon
hair of a woman a few days the rest of the trains would
ago, the police said. “The Its population in Uttar Pradesh has steadily grown since 2013, as wetlands thrive and farmers, fisherfolk nurture their nests also be covered.
woman, married with two Instructions have been
children, reportedly ran away Omar Rashid only resident breeding off. But he also gives credit to vation project, says the pop taining it. “It is a result of in efforts have resulted in the given that in one rake there
to Ahmedabad with her lover. Lucknow crane, as per the Wildlife general public awareness ulation of the bird has also volvement of farmers and Sarus population increasing should be at least eight ma
She was brought back to the Its numbers pushed to the Trust of India (WTI), a lead and efforts of locals, includ gone up in parts of east U.P., fisherfolk in the protection of in six of the WTI districts ov chines, he said.
village and beaten up,” a edge by habitat degradation ing nature conservation or ing schoolchildren, who where they have identified Sarus nests in wetlands as er the last couple of years,”
police official said. PTI and human callousness, the ganisation that works with share the fields with these 30 water bodies as impor well as rice paddies. In this said Mr. Sinha. ‘Curbs overcharging’
world’s tallest flying bird the State wildlife magnificent birds, for their tant Sarus wetland sites. area, a significant number of However, the threats still An inspection drive will al
50 youths to ‘auction now seems to be getting a department. “positive role” in Since 2013, when the Sa Sarus cranes use rice pad exist in the form of not just so be launched on all the
themselves’ for water new lease of life in Uttar Pra The International Union conservation. majwadi Party government dies for nesting and breed wetland destruction but also Mail and Express trains
HATHRAS
desh, where it enjoys the sta for Conservation of Nature Anand Srivastava, deputy was in power, the Sarus ing. So, it could be one of the electrocution due to power from January 26 to Febru
Fifty youths in Nagla Maya
tus of official State bird. (IUCN) has marked it as ‘vul chief wildlife warden, also Crane Conservation Project direct reasons,” said Mr. transmission lines in agricul ary 15 to ensure the availa
village in Uttar Pradesh’s
The population of the Sa nerable’ in its list of threa stresses the role of local pop has been running across 10 Sinha. tural areas and poisoning. bility and working of POS
Hathras district have, in a
desperate measure, proposed
rus crane, a bird distinguish tened species. ulation in conservation. The districts of Purvanchal by WTI has been working in As per the IUCN 2016 sta machines.
to “auction themselves” to able by its red upper neck department “motivates” lo WTI in collaboration with Ta Bahraich, Shravasti, Balram tus, the Sarus crane popula “This system is indeed a
raise money to get drinking and white collar, has climbed Crucial role cals to take care of Sarus, he ta Trusts and the U.P. Forest pur, Siddharthnagar, Kushi tion is suspected to have de very good system as nobo
water for their village. to 15,938 as per the 2018 cen The Sarus habitat is outside said. Department. Working nagar, Maharajganj, Shahja creased globally, owing to dy will overcharge the pas
Residents of Nagla Maya sus (summer). This is a jump protected areas, in natural In U.P., Sarus crane in through local volunteers hanpur, Faizabad, Barabanki the loss and degradation of sengers and we have to pay
claim they have met various of 5.2% from 2017, when wetlands with low water mainly found in southwest (called Sarus Mitra or and Sant Kabir Nagar. wetlands, as a result of drain the amount that is generat
officials and raised the issue there were 15,138 Sarus depth, marshy and fallow and central regions, in Main Friends of the Sarus), Tata age and conversion to agri ed electronically,” said Ne
of acute water scarcity in the cranes across U.P., as per the areas and agricultural fields. puri, Etawah, Aligarh, Etah, Trust partner NGOs working Threat from dogs culture, ingestion of pesti ha Singh, who was travell
village, but to no avail. ANI State Forest and Wildlife They play a vital role in eco Lakhimpur Kheri Sitapur in the area, and Sarus The focus has been on in cides, and the hunting of ing in Kashi Vishwanath
department. logical balance by controll Shahjahanpur Barabanki Protection Com volving farmers in the pro adults and collection of eggs Express from Delhi to Vara
Three members of family If official data is to be re ing the population of harm and Hardoi mittees, the tection of Sarus nests, as and chicks for trade, food, nasi on Friday.
killed in wall collapse
lied upon, the figure has ful insects and have depredation by stray dogs medicinal purposes and to “Sometimes, they used
BASTI
been constantly increasing significant cultural impor and egg stealing are com help limit damage to crops. to charge extra for water
Three members of a family,
including an infant, died and
owing to conservation efforts tance, while also being mon threats in the fields. Mr. Sinha said that while bottle saying it is for cool
as many were injured on in recent years; in 2013, only sociable. Sarus is omni The results have been in general, wetlands are un ing. Now that will stop,”
Friday after a wall of their 12,000 Sarus cranes were re vorous, feeding on fish “good”, as per Mr. Sinha; der tremendous pressure she said.
house collapsed on them due corded while in 2015, the and insects, as well as in the last five years, over across U.P., rice paddies pro “These days people
to rain here in Uttar Pradesh, number increased to 13,332 roots and plants. strategy 650 nests have been protect vide a suboptimal habitat to usually avoid carrying
the police said. The incident and further to 14,389 in 2016. Sanjay Srivastava, conser has been to ed by involving locals, with a the Sarus despite the threats change. This is a very good
occurred at Banpur village in Towering at 152156 cm, vator of forests (wildlife) districts. involve local hatching success of around from human beings. Change system as now we can pay
Lalganj area. The deceased over 5 feet on average, the U.P., said the figures of Sarus However, communities in 90%. “Most of these districts in the cropping pattern from for food by using credit
were identified as Sarus (Grus antigone) is not population show that the Samir Sinha, monitoring and were not considered impor paddy to sugarcane is also a card or debit card, said Raj
Chandranhan, 40, Pramila, 38 only the tallest flying bird in conservation efforts made by leader of WTI’s Sa #70929
protecting the bird tant for Sarus (conservation) reason for low Sarus count in Pratap Singh, another tra
and six-month-old Satish. PTI the world, it is also India’s his department were paying rus Crane Conser and the wetlands sus due to less numbers. But, the such areas, he said. veller.
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Spain, France, Germany ask Taliban leader Abdul Baradar
to join talks with U.S. in Qatar
Maduro to hold fresh elections Negotiations with special envoy Khalilzad enter sixth day
Asia Bibi’s lawyer to
EU nations warn that they will recognise Guaidó as President if polls are not held Reuters Baradar will be faced with
Kabul/Peshawar easing U.S. fears over the Ta
return to Pakistan Agence France-Presse cements are the most expli The Taliban’s new political liban’s refusal to cut ties with
ISLAMABAD
Saiful Malook, the lawyer of
Madrid cit yet from EU countries as leader is expected to join alQaeda — the issue at the
Asia Bibi, has decided to Spain, France and Germany the 28member bloc strug meetings with U.S. officials core of Friday’s walkout.
return to the country as the put Venezuelan leader Nico gles to draft a joint statement in Qatar imminently, Taliban One of the key U.S. de
Supreme Court decides on lás Maduro on notice ahead with regards to its position sources said on Saturday as mands is a guarantees from
January 29 whether to allow of an UN Security Council on the crisis in Venezuela. the latest round of talks en the Taliban that Afghanistan
an appeal against her meeting on Saturday, saying For his part, U.S. Secretary tered a sixth day. would not be used as future
acquittal. Mr. Malook went to they would recognise Oppo of State Mike Pompeo will on The peace talks are conti base for terrorist attacks.
the Netherlands last year due sition leader Juan Guaidó as urge UN Security Council nuing despite Taliban repre “The Taliban has assured
to “security concerns” when President unless he calls members to recognise Mr. sentatives staging a brief U.S. special envoy the U.S. that they will op
violence broke out soon after elections within eight days. Guaidó as interim president, walkout on Friday over diffe Zalmay Khalilzad. *
AP pose any attempt by militant
Ms. Bibi’s acquittal. PTI The ultimatum comes as the State Department said. rences with U.S. special groups to use Afghanistan to
international pressure Spain had wanted the EU peace envoy Zalmay Khalil Afghanistan, was arrested in stage terrorist attacks on
300 missing after dam mounts on the Maduro re to take a tough line on Mr. zad. Two senior Taliban offi 2010 by a team from Pakis America or its allies,” a se
collapse in Brazil gime to agree to a new vote, New leader: Opposition leader Juan Guaidó is cheered by Maduro by calling for imme cials said momentum was tan and U.S. intelligence nior Taliban leader said, ad
BRUMADINHO
after the United States, Cana supporters in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday. NYT * diate elections, failing which building following Thurs agencies. A cofounder of ding that U.S. wants the Tali
Hopes were fading on da and major South Ameri it wanted the bloc as a whole day’s appointment of Mullah the movement, he was a ban to snap ties with Islamic
Saturday that rescuers would
can players recognised Mr. Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan man Martina Fietz. to recognise Mr. Guaidó. But Abdul Ghani Baradar as the close friend of the reclusive State and al Qaeda.
find more survivors from at
Guaidó, who proclaimed President” so that he himself Mr. Guaidó quickly wel countries like Austria, political leader. Mr. Baradar, former Taliban leader, Mul “We are willing to de
least 300 missing after a dam
himself acting President of can call such polls, Spanish comed the support from the Greece and Portugal are released from a prison in Pa lah Omar. His appointment nounce links with Islamic
collapse at a mine in
southeast Brazil, with nine
Venezuela during massive Prime Minister Pedro Sán European powerhouses. much more reluctant. kistan last October, is ex marks a new push to bring State but we refuse to dis
bodies so far recovered. By street rallies this week. chez said. French President “There continues to be pro Greece’s ruling party Syri pected to fly to Qatar to join Taliban out of the political connect ties with alQaeda
early Saturday, the official Emmanuel Macron followed gress in the European Union za has publicly backed Mr. the session. and diplomatic shadows, because they accept Taliban
death toll had risen to nine, Maduro given 8 days suit in a tweet, saying that for the recognition and full Maduro, with party secre with several other officials supremo Sheikh Haibatullah
local firefighters said, who “If within eight days there “the Venezuelan people support of our legitimate tary Panos Skourletis voicing Arrested in 2010 being appointed to oversee Akhundzada as their leader
also doubled the number of are no fair, free and transpa must be able to freely decide and constitutional struggle,” “full support and solidarity” Mr. Baradar, who earlier led education, mining and too,” the leader said, speak
people presumed missing to rent elections called in Vene on their future,” as did Ger he tweeted. to what to he called “the le the insurgent group’s mili health issues. ing on the condition of ano
nearly 300 people. AFP zuela, Spain will recognise man government spokeswo The coordinated announ gal President”. tary operations in southern When he joins talks, Mr. nymity.
Zimbabwe govt. pledges to probe Dutch envoy British paper apologises to ‘Brexit could be pushed
to return to
abuse claims against security forces Pakistan
Melania for ‘false’ reportage back by a few weeks’
Telegraph also agrees to pay damages Leadsom hopeful of getting deal passed
12 people had died nationwide in violent protests last week Agence France-Presse
The Hague Associated Press Reuters weeks or something then
Agence France-Presse and towns with widespread with the police and also as The Dutch Ambassador to London London that would be feasible,” An
Harare rioting and looting before sured that they would be Pakistan is to return to Isla Britain’s Telegraph new The date Britain leaves the drea Leadsom told the BBC.
Zimbabwe’s government has soldiers and police brutally treated with “sensitivity”, mabad next month after re spaper has apologised and European Union (EU) could
pledged to “thoroughly” in put down the protests at the but many Zimbabweans fear ceiving a death threat last paid damages to U.S. First be pushed back by a couple Extending Article 50?
vestigate allegations of cost of at least 12 lives, ac retribution and find report year, reportedly from Isla Lady Melania Trump after of weeks to give time for le Responding to the idea that
abuse and rape levelled cording to NGOs. ing such cases daunting. mists angry over antiIslam publishing an article it says gislation to be approved by this would mean extending
against its security forces Hundreds of people were In a separate statement, tweets by farright politi contains many false state lawmakers, the leader of the twoyear Article 50 ne
during a brutal crackdown injured. “The government Home Affairs Minister Cain cian Geert Wilders, Dutch ments. Britain’s lower house of Par gotiation period, Ms. Lead
to quell last week’s antigo wishes to assure the public Mathema acknowledged re media said on Saturday. The newspaper said on liament said, the most se som, who is the organiser of
vernment protests. that all allegations of mis ports of “alleged rape, sex Ardi StoiosBraken “will Saturday that it apologises nior figure to make such a government business in the
Nationwide demonstra conduct against any of our ual abuse and assaults”. fly back to Islamabad in “unreservedly” to Ms. suggestion. Britain is due to lower house of Parliament,
tions erupted last week after security services will be tho “We take these rape alle early February,” the daily Trump and her family for U.S. First Lady Melania leave the EU on March 29. told the BBC: “It doesn’t ne
President Emmerson Mnan roughly investigated and gations very seriously and tabloid Algemeen Dagblad any embarrassment caused Trump. AP *
Parliament will now vote cessarily mean that. I think
gagwa announced on Janu that the law will be allowed investigations will be insti reported. She received by the content of a cover on a series of amendments we would want to think
ary 12 that fuel prices were to take its course,” Justice tuted immediately once word last October “that a story published on January ported that her career as a on Tuesday. carefully about it. But as
being more than doubled. Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi complainants file reports letter [which spoke of a 19 in the newspaper’s week model was unsuccessful be “We can get the legisla things stand I do feel that we
Furious demonstrators took said on Friday. He said com with the police,” Mr. Mathe specific threat] had arrived #70929
ly magazine supplement. fore she met Donald Trump. tion through and I think we can get, with the support of
to the streets in several cities plaints should be lodged ma said. at the Embassy.” The Telegraph said it fal It also retracted the state do, in spite of everything, both Houses — the House of
sely characterised Ms. ment that Ms. Trump’s fath have a very strong relation Commons and the House of
Trump’s father’s personali er, mother and sister had re ship with our EU friends Lords — with goodwill and a
ty, falsely reported the rea located to New York in 2005 and neighbours and I am ab determination we can still
sons she left an architecture to live in buildings owned by solutely certain that if we get the legislation through
programme, and falsely re Mr. Trump. needed a couple of extra in good time.”
‘Saudi Arabia
could be
testing ballistic
missiles’
Associated Press
Dubai
A military base deep inside
Saudi Arabia appears to be
testing and possibly manu
facturing ballistic missiles,
experts and satellite imag
es suggest, evidence of the
type of weapons it has long
criticised its archrival Iran
of possessing.
Further raising the
stakes for any such pro
gramme are comments by
Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman, who said last
year the kingdom wouldn’t
hesitate to develop nuclear
weapons if Iran does.
The images, first report
ed by The Washington
Post, focus on a military
base near the town of al
Dawadmi, some 230 km
west of Riyadh. Jane’s De-
fence Weekly first identified
the base in 2013, suggest
ing that its two launch pads
appear oriented to target
Israel and Iran with ballis
tic missiles the kingdom
bought from China.
Satellite images
The November satellite im
ages show what appear to
be structures big enough to
build and fuel ballistic mis
siles. An apparent rocket
engine test stand can be
seen in a corner of the base
— the type on which a rock
et is positioned on its side
and testfired in place.
Such testing is key for
countries attempting to
manufacture working mis
siles, experts say.
Chinese military sup
port to the kingdom would
not come as a surprise.
China has sold armed
drones to Saudi Arabia and
other nations in the region,
even as the U.S. blocks
sales of its own to allies ov
er proliferation concerns.
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Deep down: An abandoned hand pump at Atal Ayub Nagar, one of the areas most affected by the
Bhopal tragedy. The leaked gas has contaminated groundwater, but residents here used to consume
it till water supply started from the Narmada. According to reports, groundwater within a radius of
shut
3.5 km of the factory has been contaminated. Governments don’t see the miserable
lives led by children of survivors of the
Bhopal gas tragedy, which seems to
have a life of it own
Text and images by Rohit Jain
It’s five past midnight on a cold December night.
You wake up coughing, with eyes and throat scorch
ing. Dimly you hear the panicked shouting of peo
ple, “run, run”. Gas is seeping through the makesh
ift doors and windows. You rush with your family
from your home into the dark street. People and
animals are dying on the streets; already bodies lie
scattered on the road where halfblind people are
stumbling over them to escape the lethal fumes. On
the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984,
approximately 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate, one
of the most toxic gasses, leaked from the factory in
Bhopal owned by the U.S. chemical giant Union Car
bide Corporation (Union Carbide India was taken
over by Dow Chemical, which recently merged with
Dupont to create DowDupont).
Now, 34 years after the tragedy, the second and
third generation of the survivors are battling a spec
trum of disabilities on a scale not seen anywhere
else in India. Cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy,
Down’s syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity
On a short fuse: Rajni Panti, 21, a resident of one of the areas affected by the toxic gas leak in disorder, blindness, learning difficulties and gross
Bhopal, is always angry, earning the wrath of her neighbours who sometimes fight with her. motor delay are rampant. Many of the young adults
Multiple disabilities have made this child of Bhopal gas leak survivors shy and irritable. have multiple conditions. Many are immobile,
needing help to wash, eat and even defecate.
Research studies indicate higher rates of congen
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exposed to the gas and contaminated water. Sixteen
studies by government and nongovernmental
agencies show that the soil and groundwater in and
around the abandoned factory is contaminated
with toxic chemicals, even persistent organic pollu
tants and heavy metals.
In these years, the number of affected communi
ties increased to 42 from the 12 initially. The
groundwater contains toxic levels of chlorinated
solvents. Six years ago, responding to relentless ef
forts from activists, the Supreme Court ordered the
city to install pipes to supply clean water from the
Narmada. But the pipes coming into some houses
run right through sewers, and on rainy days, filth
and faeces mingle with the clean water. Each mon
soon may be carrying this toxic plume farther.
Rohit Jain is an independent New Delhi-based
documentary photographer. Reporting for this
piece was facilitated by a grant from the Pulitzer
Center on Crisis Reporting.
Living victims: Vikas Yadav, 19, and Aman Yadav, 17, brothers, have muscular Shaky lives: Suraj Malam, 21, who has cerebral palsy, struggles to stand on his feet after losing his sister’s grip as she runs from him.
dystrophy and are being cared for by their mother at their home. Affected by toxic
waste which seeped into the groundwater, they lead painful lives.
Father-daughter dynamics: Aaliya, 14, who is mentally challenged and has muscular dystrophy, being carried Poison everywhere: Kausar, 16, along with her mother Haseena, stands next to one of the solar evaporation Brothers in distress: Umar Khan, 24, with his parents shows photos of his older brother Shared fate: Hassan Khan, 23, and Nawab Khan, 20, brothers with cerebral palsy, struggle to cross a railway line on their way home. They were
by her father from the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre for Children. Aaliya’s mother, who was affected by the ponds Union Carbide left behind in Bhopal. Kausar has low IQ and used to attend a special school until last year. Azhar who died last year. Azhar had muscular dystrophy as does Umar. Umar fears he affected by the toxic waste which seeped into the groundwater.
gas, died eight years ago. “Why don’t you keep her in a special institution,” her father is often asked. “No one The toxic waste from the factory site piped into three such huge ponds were leaking into the soil and will meet Azhar’s fate soon.
else takes care of her as I can. She can’t live without me,” he replies. groundwater.
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Trump’s Bangladesh Prince Philip’s Gathering The far-right’s

pursuit of election under never-ending list storms around attack on
a Space Force new scrutiny of transgressions China’s economy human rights
Earlier this month, the U.S. The dust was about to settle With the turmoil around Chinese President Xi Jinping The farright Freedom Par
Department of Defense re with the election fever dissi Brexit, the country is deeply has delivered a tough back ty, which is part of the Aus
leased its 2019 Missile De pating in Bangladesh. The divided. However, over the tothetrenches call to his trian government, triggered
fense Review. In it are refe political scene was slowly re past couple of weeks, there comrades in the Communist a new controversy when
rences to China and Russia developing turning to an atmosphere of relative calm. is one person on whom some agreement has Party of China (CPC) to weed out the “grey rhi party leader and Interior Minister Herbert
antisatellite capabilities. Then came a damning report from the Tran emerged: Prince Philip, 97, the Duke of Edin nos” and “black swans” that dare to under Kickl recently attacked the European Conven
This U.S. concern — that Russia and China sparency International Bangladesh (TIB) that burgh and husband to Queen Elizabeth. mine the economy of China and confidence of tion on Human Rights. Freedom Party is
are getting ahead in the mastery of space — uncovered “serious wrongdoings” during the A photograph of the controversial Prince, its people in its political system. known for its controversial views on migra
has shown up elsewhere too, most noticeably December 30 election. driving without a seat belt on the Queen’s San By referring to “grey rhinos”, the President tion, Islam and policing, among other issues.
with U.S. President Donald Trump’s pursuit of The list of irregularities in 47 out of 50 con dringham Estate in Norfolk, England, last was asking the CPC to eliminate highly proba Mr. Kickl, who used to write the speeches of
a “Space Force”. “When it comes to defending stituencies surveyed by the TIB includes bal weekend — just two days after he had been in a ble events that can rock the markets, resulting rightwing politician Jörg Haider, also created
America, it is not enough to merely have an lot stuffing in the hours to the election day, car crash involving two women and a small in massive financial outflows, haemorrhaging the “At home instead of Islam” slogan (‘Da
American presence in space, we must have fake votes and obstruction of voters. baby — triggered outrage online and offline as business confidence in the economy. The ham statt Islam’) of the Freedom Party and
American dominance in space... I am hereby The TIB also said security forces on the well as a wider debate. Even the usually pro 2008 financial crisis was a blaring “grey rhi used to be one of the main organisers of the
directing the Department of Defense and Pen scene silently stood by when these irregulari Royal family Daily Mail was scathing. “It’s no” global event. rightwing ‘Defenders of Europe’ conference
tagon to immediately begin the process neces ties took place. “Lawenforcement agencies, a time the Queen gave her rude, stubborn, in Conversely, Mr. Xi’s spotlight on “black that took place in 2016 and in 2018 in Austria.
sary to establish a Space Force as the sixth section of administrative officials and election sensitive, arrogant and dangerous Duke of Ha swans” was a call on cadres to nail hardto Recently, Mr. Kickl called for harsher mea
branch of the armed forces,” Mr. Trump said authorities were seen playing biased roles in zard his driving marching orders,” declared its predict events that can range from terror sures against refugees in an interview with
in June. the election,” Iftekharuzzaman, executive di highprofile, rightwing columnist Piers Mor strikes to Brexit, which can also attack mar ORF, Austria’s public television broadcaster.
Over the last few years, the talk of a Space rector of TIB, who uses one name, said in a gan in a piece that described the Prince as the kets, resulting in extreme financial “The law has to follow politics, politics
Force has generated some excitement, some statement on January 15. “rudest human being” he had ever met. consequences. doesn’t have to follow the law,” he said.
scepticism and a dose of drama, with Netflix Information Minister Hasan Mahmud swift The police’s response further deepened pu On January 21, when Mr. Xi spoke at the In this context, the Interior Minister, who
commissioning a series, Space Force. ly dismissed the report as fictitious, imaginary blic indignation as Norfolk police said they Party School of the CPC Central Committee, wants to deport refugees rather quickly, de
This isn’t the first time America has sought and deliberate. Mr. Mahmud said the report had provided the Prince simply with “suitable his remarks pointed to gathering storms scribed the European Convention on Human
martial capabilities in space. In 1983, Presi reeks of propaganda by the Bangladesh Na words of advice” after the image of him with around China, with the trade war and the Rights as consisting of “strange, legal con
dent Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood ac tionalist Party (BNP) and its ally, JamaateIsla out a seat belt emerged. Less than 24 hours af seeming consensus across party lines in the structs” that are “partly many many years
tor, outlined the U.S.’ Strategic Defense Initia mi. The Election Commission also brushed ter the crash, it emerged that a replacement U.S. to curb China’s rise as the subtext. Mr. Xi’s old”. He added that these laws prevent the
tive, which reversed three decades of a aside the TIB’s findings. “It’s a predetermined Land Rover had been delivered to the Prince, blunt speech echoed his similar remarks last Austrian government from doing “what is
strategy based on a nuclear deterrence and and imaginary report,” Election Commission who — according to U.K. press reports — had month, warning that China may encounter necessary”.
Mutually Assured Destruction. Reagan or er Rafiqul Islam said. told the police that he had been momentarily
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“unimaginable terrifying tidal waves and hor Unsurprisingly, Mr. Kickl’s comments pro
dered the development of spacebased defen Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has a record dazzled by the sun. Adding to the furore was rifying storms” in the years ahead. voked outrage. “The European Convention on
sive weaponry that could take down ballistic of solid achievements for her two consecutive the apparent nonchalant way in which the sit The audience, who heard his rallying call Human Rights has been ranked in the Consti
missiles from the Soviet Union and other ad terms. Per capita income has grown by 150%, uation had been dealt with by Palace authori with rapt attention, included senior provincial tution of Austria for 59 years. Challenging this
and the proportion of people living in extreme and ministerial officials, as well as army gener
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> President Trump has ordered to
establish a Space Force as the sixth
poverty has fallen from 19% to 9%. “All the
greater the pity that her achievements have
<
> The Duke of Edinburgh, who was
recently involved in a car crash,
als — all decision makers who had been sum
moned to a special “study session” of the CPC.
<
> Austrian Interior Minister and
farright Freedom Party leader
branch of the armed forces but the been offset by a precipitous slide toward auth has a notorious reputation for Mr. Xi’s major focus has been on improving Herbert Kickl’s attack on
idea lacks support among the oritarianism,” The New York Times wrote in making offensive remarks. material conditions, especially by creating op European Convention on Human
Democrats who have a majority in an editorial on January 14. “Ms. Hasina’s every However, many in U.K. media have portunities for young people to find employ Rights has triggered widespread
the House of Representatives achievement will now be tainted by her auth dismissed them as mere quips ment as the foundation of social stability. criticism in the country
oritarian methods and repressive measures;
versaries. His programme was called ‘Star her critics, driven into exile or underground, ties who insisted that messages “of support” Political education would be a termination of the basic consensus
Wars’ by critics, while those who supported it will become only more strident, and her fo had been sent to the two women in the mini The President was emphatic in exhorting the of the Second Republic,” said Austrian Presi
say the initiative helped end the Cold War. reign supporters more wary,” it wrote. van that had been hit. A family liaison officer 86 million strong CPC machine to adopt con dent Alexander Van der Bellen on Twitter
Then on January 22, a report published by had told them that the “Queen and the Duke crete measures that would generate a move without mentioning the name of his Interior
Dominance over space Reuters put the election under new scrutiny. of Edinburgh would like to be remembered to ment for massfinancing micro, small and me Minister.
Reagan’s idea did not take off, partly due to The report cited a top official of an observer you. That’s not an apology. Or even a well diumsized firms, helping guarantee jobs for According to Karl Weber, a veteran jurist
technological constraints, but America has group that monitored the election and one of wish,” one of the women, whose wrist was the youth. Besides, he urged the cadres to go who is focussing on constitutional law at the
been itching to assert its dominance over its foreign volunteers as saying that they re broken in the crash, told The Daily Mirror. the extra mile to provision to the people social University of Innsbruck, Mr. Kickl spread
space. In 2002, the U.S., under President Ge gretted participating in the process. Both cast security, medical and health care, food secur “dangerous nonsense”. “What the Interior Mi
orge W. Bush, withdrew from the AntiBallistic doubt on the credibility of the vote. Moham Back in the spotlight ity as well as workplace safety. nister is saying is not compatible with a state
Missile Treaty, saying deterrence cannot be mad Abdus Salam, the president of the SAARC The controversy has brought the Prince, who But the President was also clear that for en of law. If a student writes in an exam that the
based “solely on the threat of retaliation”. Human Rights Foundation, was quoted as say officially retired from public life in 2017, firmly suring legitimacy, a fresh focus was required law has to follow politics, he or she would not
Again, in 2008 and 2014, attempts by Rus back into the public spotlight. Born in Corfu in pass,” Mr. Weber said in an interview with
sia and China to introduce a treatybased ban
on weapons were not supported by the U.S. In
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> A new report says activists from
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s
1921 as Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark,
he moved to Britain and served in the Royal
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> President Xi Jinping urges the
party to be vigilant about potential
Austrian daily Der Standard.
Several jurists have also criticised Mr.
2007, China had shot down its own weather Awami League stuffed ballot Navy during the Second World War, marrying threats to the Chinese economy Kickl’s “unbearable” and “unworthy” com
satellite Fengyun1C, 865 km above the earth. boxes the night before the general the thenPrincess Elizabeth in 1947. and asks cadre to work towards ments. Others called for his dismissal. Aus
Fears had grown in the U.S. that Russia and election and intimidated voters While acknowledged for some of the pro ensuring food security, health care tria’s two main Opposition parties, the Social
China were quietly developing antisatellite while security officials stood by grammes he set up, he has a notorious reputa and workplace security Democrats and the liberal NEOS, said they
machinery and that American satellite sys tion for making offensive remarks. In 1999, he would introduce a motion of noconfidence
tems — used to guide aircraft, ships, make Bat ing that he now believed there should be a was forced to apologise after pointing to an on political and ideological education. In re against the Minister. Reportedly, Mr. Kickl al
tle Damage Assessments, provide GPS in war fresh vote after hearing accounts from voters old, messy fuse box at an Edinburgh factory marks that echoed Mao Zedong, Mr. Xi was ready talked to Chancellor Sebastian Kurz re
zones and collect intelligence — were at stake. and officials presiding over polling booths that and remarking that it looked like it had been unambiguous in calling for a robust reinforce garding the issue. “It is clear that the Constitu
Fast forward to 2017 when some from both activists from Ms. Hasina’s Awami League “put in by an Indian.” More than a decade ear ment of “ideological and political education tion, the basic principles of the European
sides of the aisle in Congress supported the stuffed ballot boxes the night before the poll lier, during a visit to China in 1986, he had told among the young.” That, he said, would ena Union and basic and human rights are valid
idea of a greater U.S. presence in space, while and intimidated voters. British students that they could become “slit ble the next generation to have “full confi and that they are grounded in the government
others showed ambivalence or resistance. In tyeyed” if they stayed in the country any lon dence in the path, theory, system and culture programme,” Mr. Kurz said in a statement.
2017, Mike Rogers (Republican) and Tim ‘False story’ ger. In 2009, looking at the name badge of of socialism with Chinese characteristics”. The talk between him and the Interior Minis
Cooper (Democrat) proposed a Space Corps A Canadian observer, Tanya Foster, who was Atul Patel, a prominent businessman, who Some analysts are of the view that Mr. Xi ter has been described as “clarifying”.
that would be part of the Air Force. brought in by the foundation, has also said she was attending an event for British Indians at and others of his generation are hypersensi At the same time, leading politicians of the
This idea didn’t pass muster with Defense now wishes she had not been involved. The Buckingham Palace, he remarked that tive that China’s generationnext maybe lured Freedom Party, including ViceChancellor
Secretary Jim Mattis, who argued against de foundation later issued a statement denounc “there’s a lot of your family in tonight”. While into a traumatic cycle similar to the one that HeinzChristian Strache, supported Mr. Kickl’s
signated Space Crops because of the extra ad ing the Reuters story. It said the news agency many have condemned such remarks, others led to the Tiananmen Square incident, whose views and criticised the “bashing in media”
ministrative burden it would carry. Pentagon distorted what Mr. Salam said in the interview. within the British media have often dismissed 30th anniversary falls later this year. against him.
officials were of the view that the Air Force “I have been defamed by the publication of them as quips. However, during his address, Mr. Xi also
was enough to protect military satellites. the false story and I’m embarrassed,” he said “Philip has long been given a free pass on conveyed to the CPC that exceptional and Authoritarian state
Last summer, Mr. Trump approved a con on the foundation’s website. Reuters later bad behaviour. In part this is because he tar proactive steps were required for ensuring a “I never expected to face such a debate in a
gressional Bill that asked the Department of said: “We stand by our reporting on the views gets minorities, in part this is because there is balance between domestic stability and re place like Austria. These are the first steps to
Defense to prepare a spacewar fighting poli expressed by the election monitors.” a notion that amends need to be made to his form at a time of “unpredictable international wards a fascist and authoritarian state, and
cy, an idea that may not go very far with a new Ms. Hasina’s political foes ratcheted up masculine ego for the fact that he has come se developments”. “We must keep our high alert history taught us that this has already hap
Congress, according to Marina Koren, writing their rhetoric over the election based on these cond to his wife in rank,” says Priyamvada Go about any ‘black swan’ incident, and also take pened in this country,” said Taseer Moham
in The Atlantic. reports. BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a pal, an academic at Cambridge University, steps to prevent any ‘grey rhino’ (threats),” he mad, a 24yearold a refugee who lives in Inns
Representative Adam Smith, the Democrat media briefing on January 17 the government who points to the role that dramas such as the said . bruck. He believes that it is dangerous that a
who chairs the Armed Forces Committee of and the Election Commission were hit hard by popular television series The Crown have Mr. Xi strongly messaged that in the current person like Mr. Kickl controls the whole police
the House, does not support Mr. Trump’s idea the TIB report. “They have received a big blow played in perpetuating this sympathetic per circumstances, it was indispensable to force in the country. His Ministry is also res
of a Space Force. Mr. Smith had said in a state from the TIB report. The Ministers and the EC spective. “I think that this time, precisely be achieve selfreliance in fostering innovation ponsible for many decisions that affect people
ment in November the idea was too expensive are now struggling to hide their faces as the cause it doesn’t involve insults to ethnic or and development of advanced technology — a like Mr. Mohammad.
and not the right way to advance U.S. national TIB has exposed vote frauds,” Mr. Rizvi said. sexual minorities or women, there’s a much veiled response to the threat radiating from “Since this government came to power, our
security, especially with competing funding The criticism of the election will probably clearer sense of double standards at work. Ho Washington targeting China’s hitech Made in situation is worsening day by day. They hate
requirements for defence and domestic prior go away with time, but it came as a huge con wever, I don’t think it will last. Media culture China 2025 project. Besides, he called upon us, and they don’t even try to hide it. When
ities. trast to the celebrations in the victors’ camp. in Britain, for one thing, is extremely subser the Party to establish an ironfisted “security Mr. Kickl talks about refugees, I notice that he
For now, it looks like the only Space Force It similarly dismayed the friends of the ruling vient to the monarchy and there is rarely any system” that would safeguard his signature doesn’t consider us as humans,” said Sahel
Mr. Trump will see is the one on Netflix. party, who also face unsavoury questions. meaningful criticism of the Royals.” Belt and Road Initiative. Khan, 27, a refugee from Afghanistan.
SRIRAM LAKSHMAN works for The Hindu and is Arun Devnath is a journalist based in Dhaka, Vidya Ram works for The Hindu and is based Atul Aneja works for The Hindu and is based in Emran Feroz is a freelance journalist based in
based in Washington D.C. Bangladesh in London Beijing Stuttgart, Germany
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BUSINESS 7
IN BRIEF
IT attaches CCD founder’s stake in Mindtree Lupin’s unit in M.P. gets
6 USFDA observations
Action over potential tax demand bars ‘transfer or charge’ of 74.9 lakh shares controlled by Siddhartha
Relates to conditions at the facility
Press Trust of India (10.63% stake). Another enti made any specific comments
New Delhi ty, Coffee Day Trading Ltd. on the issue so far. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
The Income Tax (IT) Depart holds over 1.05 crore shares During the Q3 earnings NEW DELHI
ment has attached a portion (6.45% holding). Mindtree’s call recently, the manage Drug firm Lupin on Satur
of shares held by V.G. Sidd promoters, which include ment skirted questions on day said the U.S. health reg
hartha and Coffee Day Enter Subroto Bagchi, Krishnaku the speculation, saying it re ulator has issued six obser
Bharti Infratel to get prises Ltd. in information mar Natarajan, N.S. Parthasa mained committed to deli vations after the inspection
₹2,900 cr. in settlement technology (IT) firm Mind rathy, and Rostow Ravanan, vering growth for the compa of a unit of its Pithampur fa
NEW DELHI tree over a potential tax de together hold roughly 13% ny. “This is something that is cility in Madhya Pradesh.
Telecom infrastructure firm mand, a development that stake in the company. not in our control. Sharehol The inspection of Pitham
Bharti Infratel said it will get could impact the potential ders make their own deci pur Unit2 was carried out
around ₹2,900 crore from stake sale by the Cafe Coffee ‘Talks are on’ sions on when they want to by the United States Food
four telecom operators, Day (CCD) founder in the As per reports, Mr. Siddhar buy, how much they want to and Drug administration
including Vodafone Idea, in
Bengalurubased company. tha is in advanced talks with buy, when they want to sell, (USFDA) between January 14
settlement charges for their
Mr. Siddhartha, who owns L&T Infotech (LTI) and priv etc. It is outside our purview and January 25, 2019, Lupin
exit from cell sites before the
about 21% stake in Mindtree, Stakes at stake: The order would be applicable for six months ate equity firm KKR to sell his in that sense,” Mr. Ravanan, said in a statement.
expiry of contract period.
is said to be in advanced dis from January 25, 2019, Mindtree said. VIJAY SONEJI *
stake in the midsized IT ser who is also the CEO and ma “The inspection at Pith
The total settlement is
estimated to be around cussions with various entities vices company. Also, there naging director, had said. ampur Unit2 (Indore) The company says it is
₹3,600 crore after including to sell his shares in the IT ment on...shareholders of Siddhartha. The order would has been speculation that Mr. Ravanan had further closed with six observa confident of addressing the
share from Indus Towers in company. the company — Coffee Day be applicable for six months such a sale by Mr. Siddhartha said: “We can make sure that tions,” it added. observations. REUTERS*
the cash component. PTI In a BSE filing on Saturday, Enterprises Ltd. and V.G. from the date of the order i.e. could trigger a hostile takeov things go right at Mindtree, The company, however,
Mindtree said that the IT de Siddhartha.” January 25, 2019, it said. er at the company, even as we take care of people, cus did not provide any details The U.S. health regulator
NBCC bags ₹228crore partment in Bengaluru had It added that the attach At the end of December the founders are said to be tomers and continue to deliv about the nature of the ob issues observations by
WHOSEARO order issued a “provisional attach ment also “prohibited for 2018 quarter, Mr. Siddhartha making allout efforts to er industryleading growth, servations. means of an FDA Form 483
NEW DELHI ment u/s 281B of Income Tax transfer or charge” of 22.2 held 54.69 lakh shares (3.3% counter any such so the stake sale is not so The company is confi notifying the company’s
Stateowned NBCC has or prohibitory orders Act, lakh equity shares of Coffee stake) in Mindtree, while Cof developments. mething that we have a view dent of addressing the ob management of objectiona
bagged a ₹228crore order 1961 for tax demand likely to Day Enterprises Ltd., and fee Day Enterprises Ltd. had Both Mr. Siddhartha and on or would like to make a servations satisfactorily, Lu ble conditions at the facility
to redevelop World Health be raised by the IT Depart 52.7 lakh shares held by Mr. more than 1.74 crore shares Mindtree’s founders have not comment.” pin said. inspected.
Organisation (WHO)SEARO
building in the national
capital. In a regulatory filing,
NBCC said the “WHOSEARO
office in New Delhi acts as
Pallavaa Group to Aircel wants
more time for
CocaCola expands juice portfolio
the regional office for the
organisation in SouthEast
Asia and provides leadership
expand capacity fresh bids Launches Minute Maid Colour to cater to people of Tamil Nadu
on health matters,
articulates evidence based Mulls entering textile processing
policy options, provides
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Special Correspondent to a region.”
technical support to
M. Soundariya Preetha capacities and investing in MUMBAI CHENNAI The launch of Minute
countries in the region and
COIMBATORE textile processing, the in The resolution profession Minute Maid Colour is a Maid Colour, he asserted,
monitors health trends.” pti Textile producer Pallavaa vestments (equity and debt) al of Aircel sought exclud juicebased sparkling bever was step in the “transforma
Group plans to invest ₹500 will also go into scaling up ing the 127 days it lost in age. It is made with black tional journey towards be
Suzlon commissions crore in the next five years its wind and solar energy fighting and winning a case grape juice. The product, coming a beverage company
wind project for HAL to expand capacity and en generation. The group’s an against the government CocoCola claims, is the out with local roots.”
NEW DELHI ter into textile processing. nual turnover of ₹2,200 and Bharti Airtel so that it come of an extensive re He also hinted at CocaCo
Renewable energy solution According to Durai Palan crore is expected to rise to could seek fresh bids for search on specific palate of la launching more products
provider Suzlon Energy isamy, the group’s executive ₹4,000 crore when the ca the remaining assets of the Tamils who have a propensi in the coming months to ap
announced commissioning of director, the group signed a pacity is expanded. crippled company. ty for grapeflavoured peal to the taste buds of peo
its second 8.4 MW wind
memorandum of under “We see growth in syn The IBCmandated 270 beverages. ple in other regions of the
power project for Hindustan
standing (MoU) with the Ta thetics, especially blends, in days for a resolution is al The beverage is priced at country. Reiterating that
Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL). The
mil Nadu Government at the the Indian and global mar ready over for the bank ₹25 for 250 ml and comes in Colourful choice: Srideep Kesavan, directorjuices, Coca Cola ‘consumer is the king’, he
8.4 MW project in Bagalkot in
recently held Global Inves kets,” he said. rupt company. PET bottles. India and South West Asia and T. Krishnakumar. BIJOY GHOSH *
said that ‘CocoCola would
Karnataka was inaugurated
by R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL. tors’ Meet. “India is a growing eco It may be noted that on strive to offer a variety of
With this project, HAL’s total nomy and when the per January 12, 2019, the Su Hyper local product vision to develop the Indian nute Maid Colour, he said, choice to suit his/her palate.’
wind energy capacity Synthetics, blends capita consumption of tex preme Court had directed According to T. Krishnaku business of the company was the consequence of Co Under the Minute Maid
delivered by Suzlon stands at The company, with focus on tile increases, the demand Bharti Airtel to pay ₹453 mar, president of CocoCola around four pillars — core coCola’s conscious decision brand, CocaCola has pulpy
14 MW and caters to 46.6% synthetics and blends, has for synthetic textiles will in crore immediately to Air India and South West Asia, product, hyper local pro to “follow a hyperlocal stra orange, nimbu fresh, guava,
of HAL’s energy consumption spinning, weaving, and knit crease. “We see potential in cel. The court had also Minute Maid Colour is the duct, economy impacting tegy and introduce localised mango, mixed fruit, pulpy
of its Bengalurubased ting facilities in Erode. Apart the domestic market. So, we asked DoT to pay ₹298 first big product offering as product and brands that beverages that suit the con mosambi, litchi and anar
divisions. pti from increasing the existing plan to expand,” he said. crore to the operator. #70929
part of the already laid out could be taken global. Mi sumer preferences specific juices, among others.
‘Exporting 300 mn kg tea critical for small, large growers’ Emami acquires German
Strict quality, chemical and pesticide residue standards important for boosting shipments: Tea Board
Indrani Dutta and deputy chairman, Tea would enable India to in
personal care brand Creme 21
KOLKATA Board, concurred that strict crease orthodox tea exports
Achieving a mediumterm compliance of quality, chem to destinations like China, FMCG company now eyes economies of scale
export level of 300 million ical and pesticide residue le Russia,Iran and Iraq which
kg is critical to the suste vel standards were impor were big markets for these Special Correspondent Emami expects to take this
nance of the organised seg tant for boosting exports. type of teas. Orthodox teas KOLKATA brand on an aggressive
ment and the small tea grow Mr. Ray also stressed on the are created by a different ma FMCG company Emami Li growth trajectory. The ac
ers, the tea industry has said, importance of increased co nufacturing and processing mited announced the acqui quisition is being funded
adding that government sup operation between the large method (against the conven sition of German personal from internal accruals.
port, in the form of en estate players and the small tional CTC teas), which pave care brand, Creme 21. The Harsha V. Agarwal, direc
hanced incentives for va tea growers who now com way for a more flavourful brand is now available in tor, Emami Limited, said, “
rious schemes, was crucial prised a formidable chunk brew. However, the cost of west Asia and other markets. ...Creme 21 has a strong busi
This support was sought (about 48%) of the India tea production, too, is higher. In a regulatory filing, ness fit as it operates in Ema
by the industry during a re industry. Tea Board officials said that Emami said the brand had mi’s focus markets and cho
cent interactive session or He wanted the small tea provisional figures show In been acquired at less than sen categories… With this
ganised by the Tea Board of High standards: There is a need for greater awareness on segment to develop greater dia produced 90.6 million kg 1.5 times of its sales. This ac acquisition, the company
Harsha V. Agarwal
India to explore ways and quality, says Arun Kumar Ray. ARUNANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY
* awareness on quality com of this variety of tea and ex quisition is in line with its will be able to enjoy econo
means to enhance tea ex pliance and large industry, to ported 62.1 million kg bet strategy for growth through many and other countries. mies of scale due to addi
ports under the new Agri Ex plus stock of about 75 million kg. Domestic consumption emphasise on exports of or ween April and October inorganic route. The products are manufac tional business base.”
port Policy, 2018. kg was being generated an was 1,000 million kg, leaving thodox and organic teas. 2018. The brand was acquired tured by a third party in Ger Antje Willems Stickel,
Pointing out that Indian nually. This may not be ab a surplus of 90 million kg. Industry sought a hike in by Ms. Antje J Willems Stick many under assetlean mo promoter of Creme 21, ad
tea exports usually hovered sorbed by domestic con Commerce Ministry offi Export incentive scheme the subsidy rate provided by el in 2003. More than 80% of del, according to a ded “..with Emami’s
around the 230millionkg sumption. In 2017, India cials present at the meeting – Industry, on its part, wanted the Tea Board to bridge the the brand’s business is con statement. a press release strength in Middle East and
mark, industry was con produced 1,322 million kg of Praveen Bonigala, Joint Se enhanced MEIS rate (mer cost gap between CTC and tributed by MENA ((Middle said. With current sales of other global markets, we are
cerned that in face of in tea, imported 20 million kg cretary (Plantations) and chandise exports incentive orthodox teas. It also wanted East and North Africa) re more than €8 million and confident that Emami would
creased production, a sur with exports of 252 million Arun Kumar Ray, chairman scheme) which, they said, easier freight rates. gion and the balance by Ger gross margin of over 50%, add lot of value to Creme 21.”
Chalet Hotels’ ₹1,641crore Consolidate main firms, 14 arms into single ‘GDP growth

may slow to
IPO to open on January 29 financial entity, say Videocon lenders, RPs 6.6% in H1’
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Firm to use ₹720 cr.ore from proceeds to repay part of debt ‘Stakeholders will benefit as consolidation will maximise value of assets’ MUMBAI
The Indian economy is

Special Correspondent The company has a debt of Press Trust of India have the jurisdiction to or likely to lose steam and
MUMBAI ₹2,500 crore. Proceeds of Mumbai der such a consolidation may grow at 6.6% in the
The intial public offering the primary issue worth In a first since the bankrupt which can only be done by first half of 2019 from 7.4%
(IPO) of Chalet Hotels Ltd., ₹720 crore would be used to cy law was enacted, the len Parliament. a year ago, on account of
the hospitality business of K. retire a part of the debt, com ders and resolution profes To this, the lawyers for the global slowdown and the
Raheja Corp.,will open on Ja pany officials said. sionals (RPs) for Videocon lenders said the NCLT had uncertainty about the out
nuary 29 and close on Janu For FY18, the company re Industries and Videocon Te been given the powers to ex come of the forthcoming
ary 31. The issue is aimed at ported net profit of ₹31 crore lecommunications ap periment to resolve issues. general elections, a report
raising up to ₹1,641 crore. on a sales turnover of ₹929 proached the NCLT seeking Moreover, they said, the has cautioned.
The IPO consists of a prim crore. Neel C. Raheja, group a direction to consolidate all expressions of interest had “We expect the slow
ary issue of ₹950 crore and president, K. Raheja Corp the 14 group subsidiaries un been floated separately for down to worsen in the first
an offerforsale of up to and nonexecutive director, der one financial entity. all the 14 Videocon Group half of 2019 to around 6.2%
24,685,000 equity shares Neel C. Raheja Chalet Hotels said, “We have The RPs urged a single Single thread: All the entities had common lenders and were companies but there had (from a peak of 8.2% in Q2
amounting to approximately emerged as a leading hospi bench of the Mumbai Na engaged in common businesses. been no response so far. of 2018) before staging a re
₹691 crore. The selling share Bids can be made for a mi tality player in India due to tional Company Law Tribu “That is why RPs of all covery to 7.2% in the fourth
holders include Ravi C. Ra nimum lot of 53 equity efficient management of pro nal (NCLT), M.K. Shrawat, to partial and substandard— company, objected to this subsidiaries, in a meeting, quarter of 2019,” Japanese
heja; Neel C. Raheja; K. Ra shares and in multiples of 53 perties and buying of land at direct a consolidation which and that various courts have saying it was a publicly trad decided to appeal for conso brokerage Nomura said.
heja Corp; Palm Shelter equity shares thereafter. much cheaper rates than would recognise all the com allowed such measures. ed entity and would do bet lidation thinking bundling “The factors that will af
Estate Development and Ivo Chalet Hotels is the own others. And the journey will panies as a single entity say Seeking a procedural con ter if the resolution plan is them together may get better fect growth in 2019 are glo
ry Properties and Hotels. er, developer and asset man continue.” ing all these entities had solidation for the Videocon carried out independently. response,” they argued. bal slowdown, which will
ager of five star deluxe ho Sanjay Sethi, managing di common lenders and were Group and its over a dozen Trend Electronics manufac The bench had reserved impact exports, manufac
Price band tels, including the rector and CEO, Chalet Ho engaged in common subsidiaries, the RPs and the tures settop boxes for Vide the order and did not com turing, and the overall in
The price band has been Renaissance Convention tels said, “We are currently businesses. lenders said if accepted, it ocon D2H. municate when it would pro vestment climate; tight fi
fixed at ₹275 to ₹280 per Centre, Powai, JW Marriott developing three hotels, in The RPs also cited global would maximise the value of nounce its view. The Video nancial conditions and
equity share. At the lower at Sahar, Mumbai, Marriott cluding a W hotel in Mumbai precedents in this regard assets and all stakeholders ‘No jurisdiction’ con Group is among the 40 election uncertainty,”
band, the issue would raise Bengaluru Whitefield, The and are looking for acquisi saying there were four kinds would benefit from it. Echoing a similar view, large defaulters identified by Nomura India economist
₹1,629 crore and at the upper Westin Hyderabad, and Four tions to ramp up capacity of consolidations globally — However, the lawyer of another entity called KAIL the Reserve Bank first for in Aurodeep Nandi told re
band ₹1,641 crore. Points by Sheraton, Vashi. rapidly.” procedural, consequential, Trend Electronics, a group said the tribunal does not solvency proceedings. porters here.
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8 BUSINESS ABROAD
DELHI THE HINDU
IN BRIEF
The automation agenda China to step up economic
hidden by the Davos elite stimulus in slowdown fight
Growth weakened to a 28year low of 6.6% in 2018
Many honchos want machines to replace humans as soon as possible
Reuters
BEIJING
Malaysia to junk $20 bn Kevin Roose backoffice processing jobs
rail project with China
DAVOS, Switzerland without layoffs, by training China will take steps to spur
KUALA LUMPUR
They’ll never admit it in pu employees to work elsewh growth amid a trade war
Malaysia’s economics blic, but many of your bosses ere in the company. In a let with the United States, but
minister Mohamed Azmin want machines to replace ter to shareholders last year, there is limited room for ag
Ali said the country will you as soon as possible. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief gressive stimulus in an eco
cancel its $20 billion East I know this because, for executive, said that more nomy already laden with
Coast Rail Link project with the past week, I’ve been than 16,000 Amazon ware massive debts and a proper
contractor China mingling with corporate ex house workers had received ty market prone to credit
Communications ecutives at the World Eco training in highdemand driven spikes, policy insid
Construction Co. Ltd. He nomic Forum’s (WEF) an fields like nursing and air ers said.
said at that the project’s nual meeting in Davos. And craft mechanics, with the China’s deepening eco Setting sights lower: Beijing plans to lower its growth target
cost was too great, and I’ve noticed that their answ company covering 95% of nomic slowdown has fanned to 6-6.5% this year from about 6.6% in 2018. REUTERS *
Malaysia would welcome ers to questions about auto their expenses. market expectations of a big

investment from China on a mation depend very much But these programmes spending binge, especially if stock market crash, a slide in pressure, but it’s too early to
case by case basis. Reuters on who is listening. Whither humans: The headquarters of Foxconn that plans to may be the exception that the bruising tariff war with the yuan and sharp capital talk about serious pro
In public, many execu automate much of its workforce, in Milwaukee. NYT *
proves the rule. There are Washington escalates, inten outflows — that further blems,” said a second policy
tives wring their hands over plenty of stories of success sifying pressure on Chinese pushed up debt levels and insider.
the negative consequences said Mohit Joshi, the presi The figure is expected to ful reskilling but there is lit jobs and threatening social inflated home prices.
that artificial intelligence dent of Infosys, a technology climb to 72% by next year. tle evidence that it works at stability. Authorities have taken a Debt risk
and automation could have and consulting firm that The corporate elite’s AI scale. A report by the World Such a move, plans for raft of progrowth measures The current slowdown was
for workers. They take part helps other businesses auto obsession has been lucrative Economic Forum this month which have repeatedly been in the past year, in the form caused by China’s deleverag
in panel discussions about mate their operations. “Ear for firms that specialise in estimated that of the 1.37 denied by China’s top lead of cuts to the levels of cash ing drive in early 2016,
building “humancentred lier, they had incremental, 5 “robotic process automa million workers who are pro ers, would come at a price, banks must hold as reserves which focused on State firms
AI” for the “Fourth Indus to 10% goals in reducing tion,” or RPA. Infosys report jected to be fully displaced however — similar moves in to spur lending, tax cuts, and local governments be
trial Revolution” — Davos their work force. Now ed a 33% increase in yearov by automation in the next the past have quickly juiced and efforts to accelerate in fore broadening to the finan
speak for the corporate they’re saying, ‘Why can’t eryear revenue in its digital decade, only one in four can growth rates but also buried frastructure spending. cial sector a year later. A
Toyota Motor aims to adoption of machine learn we do it with 1% of the peo division. IBM’s “cognitive so be profitably reskilled by the world’s No.2 economy Still, growth in the world’s crackdown on shadow lend
boost China sales by 8% ing and other advanced tech ple we have?’” lutions” unit, which uses AI privatesector programs. under a mountain of debt. secondlargest economy ing pushed up borrowing
BEIJING nology — and talk about the Few American executives to help businesses increase The rest, presumably, will “The room for a strong sti weakened to a 28year low of costs and made it harder for
Toyota Motor Corp. aims to need to provide a safety net will admit wanting to get rid efficiency, has become the need to fend for themselves mulus is not big, and there 6.6% in 2018, and is expect small firms to get funds.
raise vehicle sales in China by for people who lose their of human workers, a taboo company’s secondlargest di or rely on government are very big risks, because ed to slow further to 6.3% As the trade war increases
8% to 1.6 million this year, it jobs as a result of in today’s age of inequality. vision, posting $5.5 billion in assistance. that will rely on a flood of this year. headwinds, Beijing’s policy
said.Toyota Motor Corp. sold automation. So they’ve come up with a revenue last quarter. The in Automating work is a cash and increased leverage Sources have told Reuters focus has been shifted to
1.47 million vehicles in China But in private settings, in long list of buzzwords and vestment bank, UBS, pro choice, of course, one made in the economy,” said a poli that Beijing was planning to supporting growth from
last year, up 14.3% from cluding meetings with the euphemisms to disguise jects that the AI industry harder by the demands of cy insider. lower its growth target to 6 reining in debt risks, alth
2017. The forecast comes at a leaders of the many consult their intent. Workers aren’t could be worth as much as shareholders, but it is still a During the 200809 glo 6.5% this year from around ough top leaders remain
time when automakers in ing and technology firms being replaced by machines, $180 billion by next year. choice. bal financial crisis, Beijing 6.6% in 2018. worried about longterm sys
China in general are bracing whose popup storefronts they’re being “released” And even if some degree rolled out a 4 trillion yuan Some Chinese factories temic risks that could derail
for a tough year after line the Davos Promenade, from onerous, repetitive Reskilling workers of unemployment caused by ($591 billion) spending pack have felt the pinch from the country’s economic as
weakness in sales emerged these executives tell a diffe tasks. Companies aren’t lay One common argument automation is inevitable, age to fight a downturn that higher U.S. tariffs, but there cent. President Xi Jinping
last year. Reuters
rent story: They are racing to ing off workers, they’re “un made by executives is that these executives can choose cost 20 million jobs in a mat are few signs of a sharp rise said China must be on guard
automate their own work dergoing digital workers whose jobs are elim how the gains from automa ters of months, quickly re in unemployment due to a against “black swan” risks,
forces to stay ahead of the transformation.” inated by automation can be tion and AI are distributed, viving growth but also more resilient services sec meaning unforeseen events
competition, with little re A 2017 survey by Deloitte “reskilled” to perform other and whether to give the ex prompting a credit explo tor and a shrinking pool of that have extreme conse
gard for the impact on work found that 53% of companies jobs in an organisation. They cess profits they reap as a re sion. The obsession of Chi workers as a result of the quences, while fending off
ers. had already started to use offer examples like Accen sult to workers, or hoard it na’s leaders with stability led country’s demographic socalled “grey rhino”
“People are looking to machines to perform tasks ture, which claimed in 2017 for themselves and their sha to policy easing in 2012 and changes. “We should be vigi events — obvious threats that
achieve very big numbers,” previously done by humans. to have replaced 17,000 reholders. NY TIMES 2015 —a year marked by a lant about employment go ignored.
Shipping rates slump in latest

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‘3,400 Subaru staff not Waiting to fire up
paid for overtime work’
TOKYO
Subaru Corp. said it did not
pay overtime wages over a
sign of economic slowdown #70929
two-year period to some

3,400 employees who Baltic Dry Index has fallen by 47% since mid2018
under-reported their hours, a
revelation that surfaced in an the declines being seen late
Reuters
internal probe following the SINGAPORE ly have been very rare,” he
suicide of an overworked
Freight rates for drybulk said.
employee. The automaker
and container ships, carriers The Baltic index has lost a
said outstanding wages,
totalling $7.08 million, were
of most of the world’s raw quarter of its value since the
paid retroactively to 3,421 materials and finished start of the year, and dry
workers last March. Reuters goods, have plunged over bulk is not the only shipping
the last six months in the lat market under pressure.
est sign the global economy
is slowing significantly. Container rates slump
The Baltic Dry Index, The Harpex Shipping Index,
measure of ship transport which tracks container
costs for materials like iron rates, has dropped by 30%
ore and coal, has fallen by weigh on sentiment in com since June 2018.
47% since mid2018, when a modity markets,” ANZ bank As a measure of the de
trade dispute between the said in a note on Friday. mand for shipping manufac
United States and China re This was after U.S. Com tured goods from producers
sulted in the world’s two big merce Secretary Wilbur to consumers, container
gest economies slapping im Ross said on Thursday the rates are also seen as a lead
Hyundai Motor to cut port tariffs on each other’s United States and China ing economic indicator.
China jobs as sales fall goods. were “miles and miles” from Their slump underscores
SEOUL/BEIJING
Drybulk commodities are resolving their issues. weakening manufacturing
Hyundai Motor said its
taken as a leading economic “The global economy and data from Asia, Europe and
Chinese JV is accepting
indicator, because they are drybulk shipping market North America. “Slowing
voluntary retirements and
used in core industrial sec are showing us very real global economic growth, the
reviewing “optimisation
plans” at its factories
tors like steelmaking and signs of distress,” said Jeffrey unresolved U.S.China trade
following a slump in car power generation, and ana Landsberg, managing direc conflict, the U.S. govern
sales.China saw auto sales lysts say the recent declines tor of commodity consultan ment shutdown, and Brexit
contract in 2018 as pressure in activity point to a serious cy Commodore Research. drama are all sources of un
from a crippling trade war economic slowdown. “While drybulk rates of certainty dragging at senti
with the U.S. and the phasing “Signs that the U.S. and ten face at least some pres ment,” said Hussein Sayed, Fuelling shortage: Motorists wait for hours to buy fuel in Monterrey. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the
out of tax cuts on smaller cars China remain well apart in sure during the early stages chief market strategist at fu shortages were triggered by the decision to temporarily close some of Pemex’s pipelines to curb fuel theft that cost $3 billion
pummelled business. Reuters trade talks continued to of a year, the magnitude of tures brokerage FXTM. in 2017. An explosion in central Mexico killed 94 people after hundreds converged at an illegal fuel-line tap to gather fuel. AFP *
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Guns and corsets: firearms industry strikes gold marketing to women
Gun sales have declined since peaking in 2016 with firms like Remington going through bankruptcy reorganisation last year, but women’s share of the market has been growing
Reuters market has been growing. will limit gun rights. is dressed for a night on the cess to information and pro
LAS VEGAS Women have led the town or Monday morning at ducts and now has 400 chap
Entrepreneur and fashion change, both as consumers Corsets and yoga pants the office. ters across the United States.
designer Anna Taylor is try and as entrepreneurs in the Ms. Taylor created her own Men’s holsters have tradi Ms. Lightfoot said gun
ing to bring back the corset — world of accessories, forcing company, Dene Adams, in tionally been designed makers such as Glock Inc,
not to revive Victorian linge gunmakers to follow their 2013 upon growing frustrat around the belt, but because Sturm Ruger & Company Inc.
rie but to give women a place lead. ed over the lack of holsters women wear a variety of out and Walther have since deve
to carry their handguns. Retailers estimate women for women. She sewed a neo fits they need options in the loped more sophisticated
“I don’t know that the cor accounted for 23% of the $44 prene mouse pad into one of bra, waist, belly, underarm, products and design
set’s ever been out of fash billion retail market for fi her corsets for her first pro thigh, ankle and purse. That changes.
ion, but it’s never been so rearms and accessories in totype, and now has a line also means women need to While the U.S. gun rights
useful,” Ms. Taylor said in 2016, up 7 percentage points up of 13 holsters for Dene practice their draw from debate rages, women see
Las Vegas at this year’s SHOT from 2010, according to data Adams. Sales reached multiple angles. their weapons as empower
Show, the largest trade show from the National Shooting $2,50,000 in 2014 and grew Firearms companies once ing. At a time when the #Me
for the firearms industry. Sports Foundation, which to $1 million in 2018, she engaged in what is derisively Too movement has raised
After overlooking the wo runs the Shooting, Hunting said. called “pink it and shrink it,” awareness of sexual assault,
men’s market for years, the and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Among the hot items this offering traditional guns in firearms are “the great equal
firearms industry now sees Show. year are yoga pants with feminine colours and pro iser,” said Dianna Muller, a
women as the drivers of U.S. firearms sales peaked enough support in the waist moting smaller guns to fit a retired police officer from
growth. Gun sales have de at 15.7 million in 2016, ac band to carry the weight of a woman’s hand, which is not Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is
clined since peaking in 2016, cording to NSSF data. Sales gun. Ms. Taylor also pulled necessarily a solution as now a fulltime professional
with companies like Reming fell to 14 million in 2017 and up the hem of her skirt, lighter guns have more shooter.
ton Outdoor Company Inc. are on pace to dip again in showing off her compression recoil. “Growing up, my genera
going through bankruptcy 2018. The trend reflects polit shorts with a builtin thigh Carrie Lightfoot created tion of women have been
Hitting the target: Anna Taylor, founder-CEO, Dene Adams, displays a concealed carry holster reorganisation last year, but ics, with sales driven by fears holster that allows a woman the WellArmed Woman in told we can do anything that
for women at the SHOT (Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade) Show in Las Vegas, U.S. REUTERS *
the women’s share of the that a Democratic president to pack a piece whether she 2012 to give women easier ac we want,” she said.

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ILLUSTRATION:
J.A. PREMKUMAR
mately, we are all treading curiosity or admiration, sud

the path which leads to the denly he didn’t seem to be so
Buddha.” talkative anymore.
For a moment, I was ren As he dropped me off at
dered speechless. His under my place, I asked him where
standing of a religion that he I could reach him. Quickly,
did not even follow was im he pulled out a paper and
mense. In a world plagued by scribbled something on it.
superficiality, how many pe Abbas Hashmi, it read, fol
ople arm themselves with lowed by his address and
The connecting thread such knowledge?

Most of the remaining part
of my trip was loaded with
conversations. As it turns
out, the driver had deve
phone number. The next day
I purchased a copy of the Bi
ble and sent it to him. He
gave me a ring that very
evening and thanked me pro
Unexpected yet valuable lessons from a journey across boundaries and religious beliefs, capturing the essence of India loped a keen interest in reli fusely for the gift. But the
gion since childhood. Over truth was that it was he who
Akil Bakhshi preserved by the govern our journey, he started tell voice was relegated to being all three of its branches — Ma reflect the colours of the the years he had picked up a had given me the gift of un
ment. A number of Buddhist ing me stories about how just background noise. Be hayana, Theravada and Vaj Buddha’s aura. They stand couple of sacred books be derstanding.
I
n the summer of 2018, countries, whether rich or he’d driven to Nepal on mul fore long, we had crossed ov rayana — varied. However, for peace, compassion, longing to different faiths. It had taken me a trip to
while posted in the clamo poor, had built monasteries tiple occasions and how tho er to the Nepal side. there was a set of multico strength and wisdom.” He’d read the Bhagvad Gita, Nepal to understand the
rous city of Gorakhpur, I around the shrine in a bid to roughly he knew the length Lumbini was more incred loured flags that graced al “Are you a Buddhist?” I the Koran, translations of the strength and power of the
decided to take a day off and claim the religious space. En and breadth of that country. ible than I’d thought it would most all the monasteries, ir asked impulsively. “Aren’t we Tripitaka and bits and parts beautiful thread that binds
visit Nepal. Accessible ticed by the promise of se His narrative kept me be. The massive compound respective of the sect they all, sir?” he replied with a of the Avesta, too. the country. Maybe this was
through the road crossing at renity, I booked a cab with hooked for a little while, but I of the shrine was divided in belonged to. This left me smile. “The Buddha stands He had picked up all these what the oftrepeated ‘secu
Sonauli, it was barely an out a second thought. soon lost interest and began to an eastern wing and a confused. The driver, sens for enlightenment. And that books from stalls at railway larism’ was truly all about: a
hour’s drive from the city. The driver arrived 15 mi to enjoy the beauty around western wing, separated by ing my ignorance, spoke up. enlightenment can come on stations, which had but rath Muslim driver, ferrying a
My destination was Lum nutes before the designated me instead. He continued to an artificial pond. “These flags are like a con ly through happiness. In one er crude copies of the actual Hindu passenger to a Budd
bini, the birthplace of the time. He was a tall and talk incessantly, but with an From my limited under necting string, sir,” he said, way or the other, aren’t we texts. He hadn’t yet been able hist shrine. Maybe this was
Buddha. I had heard many plump fellow, who appeared open window on one hand standing of the religion, I’d “They unite all forms of all striving for happiness? to lay his hands on the Bible the true essence of India.
tales about how wonderfully to be a little too talkative for and a view of the Himalayan gathered that the beliefs and Buddhism into one. It is said Some find it in their jobs, but he wanted to read it
the sacred place had been his own good. As we began foothills on the other, his consequently the symbols of that the colours of these flags others in their families. Ulti soon. Whether it was out of [email protected]
The banality of India Hamletian propensities

Surya Pratap Singh lantes”, we are facing a simi
lar situation. We see people
A wife to a man, truly Aditya Mukherjee laughter in between. I have
this habit since college days.
How to embrace the fact of retirement and help with some home-making
W C
hen Hannah Arendt taking the law into their ertain kinds of human Obviously, when my wife
witnessed the trial hands with the justification behaviour can be as suddenly catches me in the
Habeeb Ahamed residue stuck to the inside. weird as they are inex act, she gets furious and non
of Adolf Eichmann, ready. It becomes painful
She assumed from where plicable. While such behaviour plussed; embarrassed to even
the Nazi General, in Jerusa when the culprits are ho
L
ife is a succession of her poor husband had assumes a whiff of romantic remind me that what I am do
lem, she was taken aback. Re noured by a few for their pol
events and retire tried his hand at making acceptability in the realm of ing doesn’t behove a mature
porting for The New Yorker, itical benefits.
ment is one such. himself breakfast. literature, when it manifests it man entrusted with the job of
she went to Jerusalem for the The murder of a police in
Here’s a little secret: fore Possibly, she thought self in real life, observers tend running a family and earning a
trials, and also to see things in spector in Bulandshahr while
most, there is no such her husband was sweet to form a different opinion. living. Everytime I am remind
a postWar scenario. However, trying to perform his duty, or
thing as retirement any enough in not bothering When we talk of Hamlet’s ed of my infantile digressions
she was taken aback to hear the lynching of a Google engi
more! Concluding your her to do it for him. She soliloquies we conjure up the from the normal rhythm of
what Eichmann had to say. He neer in Karnataka, put for
fulltime career doesn’t took the coffee cup, image of a lonely, deso life, I decide, like an
had no remorse for whatever ward examples of the sheer
mean being “put out to #70929
cleaned and placed it on late, wronged cha obedient child, not

crimes he had committed. He banality with which crimes
pasture”. On the contrary, the rack. Whereas, she racter inveighing to repeat this act
did not feel anything because are being committed without
it’s an opportunity to begin scraped erratically the skil against the injus again — only to
he was doing it in the sheer any remorse.
a new and exciting phase let to clean it up and con tices of a world promptly for
fashion of bureaucracy. It A Minister from Uttar Pra
of life. It means paying at templating optimistically out of joint. get it after a
compelled Hannah’s thoughts desh said people were crying
tention to all aspects of life, about the freedom and into the kitchen domain. that her husband is trying Talking to him couple of days.
to cross the limits of preexist over the death of one inspec
including leisure activities, lack of stress, and some As in many families, the to render a helping hand self and blowing One day
ing “normal” and come up tor when more than 20 cows
creative pursuits, physical times I felt the loss of per kitchen is seen as the wife’s and failing miserably, and off steam be while returning
with the thought of a new nor had been killed. I want to ask
and mental wellbeing. sonal identity and prestige, domain, which she runs in the process leaving her comes his cathar home after a
mal, or the “banality of evil”. him how can he justify the
Who among us does not a sense of just drifting with an iron mitt. It was with more to do. This has tic moment as we pi gruelling day in of
Banality means unoriginal death of one man who was in
yearn for the day when we along aimlessly, feeling held sacred to my wife’s left guilt somewhere deep ty his existential angst. fice, I broke into anoth
of the truest sense; a sense his uniform and performing
will finally quit our job and useless and unproductive. own management. down that I am adding to But this writer who displays er soliloquy about the growing
that is normal enough to lack his duty? Would he react the
begin a new life in retire I had no epiphanies, Since this is a great place her discomfort instead of similar attributes of Hamlet is load of office work and my re
even slightest interest and be same if it was his family mem
ment? Unleashed from a whatsoever. I did not have to be of service to my wife gratifying. happily married with a col peated inability to leave home
comes boring. She wrote ber who faced the wreath of
monotonous life. Obvious any worldshaking ideas, and keep me engaged, I In spite of all this, she legegoing daughter. My ten in time. I thought I would have
about how the crimes the mob?
ly there are many, after except to spend a good started learning the field of had a smile on her face. dency to talk to myself in a it out with my boss. All this
committed against Our social values have
years of working and deal of time in the house. play. I started familiarising One: she must have felt at room or in the balcony, also in was happening while I was de
humanity in Ger taught us that violence
scrimping, will finally pay myself with the various least I cared enough to try. volving facial expressions and boarding the Metro, unmind
many were noth in all its forms must
off when we begin our se Time at home kitchen items and where Two: she is the type of wo contortions and involuntary ful of some curious gazes that
ing unusual for be condemned. Ho
cond act, free to live each It does not connote a clois they are. In the process, I man who didn’t mind pick flailing movement of arms, had already fastened on me.
the Nazi soldiers. wever, it seems we
day as we choose to. tered existence in a gated rearranged the kitchen ing up after her man. As a leave both my wife and By the time I got conscious of
When she talks are now trying to jus
In fact, on my retire retirement or resort com utensils and the spice rack matter of fact, it was sort of daughter gasp in amazement my silliness, the cat was out of
about the banality tify violence in all its
ment, I felt liberated from munity. As a part of mov to make it better. Though it a pleasant feeling to know and incredulity. But make no the bag. My Hamletian streak
of evil, she refers to forms for the sake of pol
all pressures. No more ing forward, it is a good irritated my wife, she nev that she cares for me. After mistake; I am neither going had again made me a laughing
how evil has found its itical gains. Whether it is the
morning commute, no idea to embrace the idea er bothered to change. all, she is my wife and I am through any existential des stock.
place in a world where people case of mob lynchings, or the
more idiotic bosses, no and spend time at home. If Perhaps she knew how her husband. pair nor harbouring any My wife suggested I consult
not only do wrong but even murder of a scribe. None of
more stressful deadlines! I am put out to pasture — to pick her battles to fight. It is her right as a wo thoughts of revenge on anybo a psychiatrist, which sugges
try to justify that without rea the major political parties
Officially off the clock and let me explore the pasture. Nagging me about cleaning man. It was like a privilege. dy. I am also not a genius or an tion I politely declined. I told
lising the gravity of their sins. seem to remain an exception
the world was the oyster! I Having heard my wife tell up the mess was not one of It didn’t bother her in rear intellectual, ones who are gen her talking to myself makes me
The case of the Gujarat to this.
didn’t care what time I my children several times them. Besides, a little piece ranging the mess I create. erally believed to indulge in feel lighter and happy.
riots where even swords were End of the day, it is not very
went to bed or woke up be that she ought to have been of her smiled every time In fact it made her smile in such behaviour. Blame it all on My daughter, who has been
used to slay members of a mi difficult to conclude that Han
cause to me every day was born an octopus — even she saw the things laid out side a little when she came my erratic mood swings that enjoying my funny and logic
nority community, or the nah Arendt was not wrong af
a holiday and every night eight arms would not have all over the place. behind me anticipating a oscillate between ecstasy and defying activities for the past
1984 antiSikh riots that shook ter all in saying that moderni
Saturday night. Incipiently, been enough to deal with One morning, scooping mess and to sort it out. Per irascibility. Such behaviour at few years, still can’t fathom
the country, or the interview ty has given rise to the
a few days were great. day to day toil and strive, I up the coffee cup that was haps, it was her way of say times is also triggered by mo why she doesn’t see other peo
of the youngest culprit of the banality of evil. It remains
Completely stressfree, but thought I can assist my turned over on the table, ing, “I love you”. And life ments of epiphany or teenage ple do what her father often is
Nirbhaya case, show the ba true even in a society like In
it did not last long. wife in kitchen to start she made her way to the moves on. memories when I start recall found doing. But I continue to
nality of evil in our society. In dia that has had deep cultural
Slowly, the joy eroded. with. Prior to this I had sink. There was a plate and ing goofups or incidents of remain a comic relief for her.
the latest form of “cow protec roots since time immemorial.
At times I used to be happy never taken my usefulness a small skillet that had egg [email protected]
school and college life by talk
tion groups”, or as these are
often quoted “the cow vigi [email protected] ing to myself, breaking into [email protected]
The place for a woman: is the jury still out?

There is some way to go before the issue is thrashed out isn’t for girls,” and goes on to More on the Web
“That is your responsibility, thehindu.com/opinion/open-page
Mini Krishnan nate enough to secure a un might have noticed is that not mine, because…”
iversity education in the other things being equal, it is One of the theories for Hail the supermarket trolley
Y
ou can’t because… I 1940s and 50s laid the field nearly always a man who is misogyny is that a human These shining, steely carts take the load
can because... that their confident descen promoted by another man male’s first experience of off our shoulders during shopping
How often do Indian dants walk in today. Even the into a position of higher res both pleasure (food and ANANTHAKRISHNA BHAT
girls hear these words bet daughters of a gardener or ponsibility. comfort) and discipline
ween the ages of five and 15? security guard can be certain Indeed, it is quite likely he come from his mother, and A tale of three cities
“I can’t make the tea because of higher education if they would be supported by a wo this pattern of reward and
I’m a boy.” “You can’t stay can clear the entrance tests. man colleague who is actual punishment given or with The lessons of life from parents, from
late for theatre rehearsals be From hesitating to say yes, ly more competent than he is held sets up a certain deep three lived experiences across India
cause you are a girl.” 40 years ago, to a daughter but who thinks it wiser to resentment of womankind as VASUDA RAVICHANDRAN
Growing up in a patriar who wanted to go from Sa play a subservient role in or a whole and is, when carried
chal society in which tradi lem to Delhi to study, today’s der to keep her job. Women into adulthood, expressed as On the road to a PhD
tion is rarely questioned, on families do not question do a lot of shadow work. Prime Minister, and one wo tle boys and men who are dislike, mistrust and a strong In the bucket list of a doctoral scholar,
ly equal opportunities whether or not they should Consider the pillars of so man as chairperson of the trained to suppress their sof desire to subdue and control some of the items are pretty daunting
education helped women to support the granddaught ciety: education, law and re University Grants Commis ter sides and encouraged to women. SHAVETA MENON
break out of the medieval no er’s plans to study in Europe. ligion. What role do women sion. Has a woman ever been be unemotional. (“Don’t be a How often have we seen
tions about their frailty and Even so, stereotypes per play at the very top of any of the Chief Justice of India? sissy. Only girls like dancing women struggling with hea
inherent inferiority. sist, and with it now, a har these institutions? They were And despite the muchtrum and dressing up.”) vy bags while a husband or
About half century ago, dening of male bonding all designed by men to keep peted equality before God Most fatally for the spe son walks ahead of her un Contributions to this page may be emailed to [email protected] to a
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THE HINDU
IN BRIEF
Facebook move to unify chat apps Krill head south towards
may make them porous: report Antarctica as waters warm
CEO promises endtoend encryption but researchers say privacy is a concern ‘The climate is becoming unhealthy for them to reproduce’
French composer Michel
Legrand dies aged 86
PARIS
Indo-Asian News Service fault endtoend encryption. It added: “We’re working on Reuters tarctica peaked in the early
Michel Legrand, French
San Francisco So if the goal is to allow making more of our messag OSLO 1980s at more than 500,000
composer and threetime WhatsApp’s endtoend en crossapp traffic, and it’s not ing products endtoend Krill are shifting south to tonnes caught a year, domi
Oscar winner, has died aged cryption — the hallmark of required to be encrypted, encrypted.” wards Antarctica as the nated by the Soviet Union,
86. Mr. Legrand first won an users’ privacy — may be chal then what happens? There “There is a lot of discus oceans warm, disrupting and had dropped to 237,000
Academy Award in 1969 for lenged if Facebook inte are a whole range of out sion and debate as we begin stocks that are eaten by pen tonnes caught in 2017, ac
the song The Windmills of grates the popular mobile comes here,” Matthew the long process of figuring guins and whales and caught cording to the Commission
Your Mind. He followed that messaging platform with the Green, a cryptographer at out all the details of how this by industrial trawlers, said a for the Conservation of An
with Oscars for his music for lesssecure Instagram and the Johns Hopkins Universi will work,” a spokesperson study. Waters in the southwest tarctic Marine Living
Summer of '42 in 1972 and for Messenger, a report in tech ty, was quoted as saying. said. Main populations of the Atlantic have warmed 1 Resources.
Yentl in 1984. AFP nology website The Wired senger offers the feature if “I’m cautiously optimistic shrimplike crustaceans, degree Celsius
said on Saturday. you turn on “Secret Conver Internal con flict it’s a good thing,” said form which grow to 6.5 cm long ‘Warning bell’
According to the report, sations”. WhatsApp cofounder and er Facebook Chief Security and form vast swarms, have wards the coast of Antarcti “It’s a wellmanaged fishery
to universally preserve end “Instagram does not cur CEO Jan Koum quit Face Officer Alex Stamos, who moved about 440 km south ca, the scientists said. but this is a warning bell
toend encryption poses a rently offer any form of end book last year over diffe now teaches at Stanford Un in the past 90 years, re The British Antarctic Sur about the future manage
whole additional set of criti toend encryption for its rence of opinion with CEO iversity. “My fear was that searchers wrote in the jour vey (BAS) reckons krill are ment,” Mr. Atkinson said.
cal challenges for Facebook. chats,” the report said, not Mark Zuckerberg when it they were going to drop end nal Nature Climate Change. among the most abundant “The industry is doing
The New York Times report ing that Facebook will need came to data privacy and toend encryption.” “It’s often predicted that creatures on Earth with an everything possible” to en
ed on Friday that Facebook to find a way to help users encryption. However, the technology species will move towards estimated total of 780 tril sure a longterm sustainable
Veterinarians fix puppy planned to integrate chats easily understand and con In a statement, Facebook does not always conceal me the poles as the climate lion, excluding larvae and fishery, Javier Arata, execu
paws pointing upwards within WhatsApp, Messen trol endtoend encryption has said it wanted to “build tadata, sparking concern warms. It’s already happen eggs. Krill are food for tive officer of the Association
STILLWATER ger and Instagram. as the ecosystem becomes the best messaging expe among some researchers ing with krill,” colead auth whales, seals, penguins and of Responsible Krill harvest
A puppy born with his front WhatsApp chats are cur more porous. riences we can; and people that the data might be or Angus Atkinson, at the other predators. ing companies (ARK), said.
paws facing up instead of rently endtoend encrypted “The big problem I see is want messaging to be fast, shared between the services. Plymouth Marine Laborato The study, based on catch ARK members include Ak
down and unable to walk is by default. Facebook Mes that only WhatsApp has de simple, reliable and private.” (With inputs from Reuters) ry in England, said. data from 19262016, also er Biomarine in Norway,
recovering after surgery. The “The climate is becoming said the average krill was get South Korea’s Insung, China
10weekold dog, named increasingly unhealthy for ting bigger, apparently be National Fisheries Corpora
Milo, suffered from
Goa forum to focus on education
krill to reproduce,” he said. cause young krill were less tion and Pesca Chile.
congenital elbow dislocation. Almost 200 nations pro likely to survive. Krill can From 2019, for instance,
Doctors inserted pins in Milo’s
mised in 2015 under the Pa live for about 6 years in wa krill companies have agreed
elbows to realign the joints
ris climate agreement to li ters around the frozen to ban all fishing near pen
and help the dog eventually
Special Correspondent series that previously high The annual event, found India’s education sector and mit greenhouse gas continent. guin colonies, Mr. Arata
learn to walk. AP
Panaji lighted issues around India’s ed by philanthropist Surina set it on the path of excel emissions. “Our analysis reveals a said.
Leading experts in the field position in a globalised Narula, will be partnering lence. species facing increasing dif Krill is caught to make
of education and policymak world, health and gender with international universi The forum also features Source of food ficulty in replenishing itself fishmeal or oil that is sold as
ers will gather in Goa for the equality, will focus on educa ties this year. an event called Daring De Waters in the southwest At and maintaining high num a human health
return of the Difficult Dia tion this year, from January Difficult Dialogues 2019 bates, which brings together lantic, home to most krill, bers at the northern edge of supplement.
logues forum, an annual 31 to February 2 at the Inter will focus on issues such as students from across the have warmed 1 degree Celsi the Southern Ocean,” co The Soviet Union used to
conference tackling vital is national Centre Goa and Goa the need to increase public country, and will be moder us over the past 90 years, lead author Simeon Hill at can krill as food but Mr. Ara
sues facing South Asia. University in Dona Paula spending on education, and ated by actor and columnist and krill are concentrating BAS said in a statement. ta said “it doesn’t have much
The fourth edition in the near here. what can be done to improve Pooja Bedi this year. into a narrowing band to Krill fisheries around An flavour”.
Pak. declares sugarcane
juice ‘national drink’
In Hungary’s cafe, robots serve fun
ISLAMABAD
Pakistan government has Michelin boosts
declared sugarcane juice as
the “national drink” of the female chefs
country after a poll on
Twitter. In the poll, 7,616
people participated. Of them,
They offer food and drink, tell jokes, dance with kids or just hang out in 2019 guide
81% voted for sugarcane
Reuters ment of a cafe, said Tibor Csiz Agence France-Presse
juice, ousting orange and
BUDAPEST
carrot juices. PTI madia, owner of the cafe. Paris
The robots at the Enjoy Budapest From online reviews, custom An unprecedented number

Cafe can do it all — they can serve ers appear to be charmed by of restaurants run by female
up food and drink, tell jokes, Pepper’s antics and were forgiv chefs won plaudits in the
dance with the kids or just hang ing of the laborious service style
#70929
new French edition of the
out for a chat with customers. of her ‘waiter’ colleagues. Michelin food guide, as the
The cafe, opened by IT com guardians of haute cuisine
pany ESzoftverfejleszt in the ‘Hiring doubled’ sought to address a glaring
Hungarian capital, is staffed by a The robot waiters follow fixed Despite fears that increasing au gender imbalance.
Roman cemetery whole team of robots that aim to paths to deliver food and drink to tomation and artificial intelli Eleven femaleled restau
uncovered in Lisbon help familiarise the public with customers. REUTERS*
gence will take away employ rants have been added to the
LISBON the technological revolution in ment from humans, Enjoy 2019 guide to the best food
Portuguese archaeologists automation and artificial ment, such as Pepper, a “recep Budapest Cafe’s robots aren’t in France.
digging near one of Lisbon’s intelligence. tionist” robot that can hold a putting anyone out of a job yet. The 2018 French guide
most iconic restaurants, the The robot waiters follow fixed conversation and also dance “We actually employ twice as had only two female chefs
Solar dos Presuntos, have paths to deliver food and drink with customers. many people as before, because featured, both in partner
discovered a Roman cemetery orders to customers, who are Developed by Japanese com to operate 16 to 20 robots from 9 ship with male colleagues. A
holding 2,000yearold asked to keep out of the robots’ pany Softbank, Pepper needed a.m. to 9 p.m. we need to have IT year earlier, only one wo
skeletons and various ancient way. to be modified to be able to hear specialists in the background,” man was among the 70
artefacts. REUTERS Others serve up entertain customers in the noisy environ said Mr. Csizmadia. additions.
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starting next month, promises gone. Remote is gone. But or genetics, we’re like pizza:
a bigger, better, bolder show at least wife is there Tony Joseph
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Ashok Nath Dey Special Arrangement
Four times over

Nithya Karthik had a
twoyearold daughter
when she lost her
husband at 30. She
married an Army officer
with twin sons who had
also been widowed.
The family now has
four sets of
grandparents and four
extended families
Across
generations
Krishna Rao lives
with his wife
Sushmita, 13 years
COVER STORY
older, in her
COVER STORY
JUST LIKE
ancestral home in
Kolkata. With them
are Sushmita’s Multiple
daughter from her
first marriage, generations,
Sreemoyee Piu
same-sex couples,
FAMILY
Kundu, and
Sreemoyee’s foster
daughter, aged 9
many sets of
in-laws: the Indian
family is evolving
with the times
Special Arrangement
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The family that prays together The house they built Dinesh Krishnan
Ekant Singh and Tushar Mistry are from Mumbai, live across two cities, and are business and life partners. Gradually, the parents Jyotsna Gokhale is one of 12 people who live together across three generations in four flats in
have begun to accept the couple. Today, they do pujas as a couple in Mistry’s parental home in a village in Gujarat an apartment building in New Delhi
BY SUNALINI MATHEW individual choices, and social realities: dren from their previous marriages nion), says Patel who has facilitated 145 tations and adjustments, she says. As
single children, divorce, double in and between the couple, have four sets weddings in the over50 category. His sumptions for instance that a man of
S
omeone asked me who wears comes, sexual freedom. of inlaws and former inlaws — all of oldest client was 82 years old, and 12 28 necessarily wants to get married
the pants in your house. I said This change is inevitable, says Neeru whom are welcome at their home in couples he introduced opted to live and wants to marry a woman;expecta
we all do,” laughs Delhibased Kanwar Chaudhuri, Delhibased clini Guwahati. Karthik lost her first hus together. tions that a woman will leave her job
knitwear designer Jyotsna cal psychologist. The concept of ‘fami band when she was 30 and her daught “Yes, there is still stigma around wo once a child is born; and adjustments
Gokhale. ly’ has always been fluid, even in tradi er was two. Her present husband had men remarrying, and I have seen some like the ones women must make to
Gokhale is one of 12 people from Not just India tional setups, but today “the new lost his wife and had oneyearold cases where relationships have failed, meet the spouse’s family demands.
across three generations who live in generation is seeing much more of the twins. Wherever they have lived — and others where the daughterinlaw Communication, says Prof. Sriram, is
four houses of an apartment building
reconstructed to accommodate the en
A record number of
Americans today
live in multigenerational
world; they’re exposed to Western
norms of individualism and autono
they have lived in several parts of the
country as her husband is in the Army
hasn’t accepted the new motherin
law,” says Patel. But there have also
key. “Within families we should be able
to sit and talk about everything, in
tire family. She is divorced, and lives my,” says Chaudhuri. Everyone needs — Karthik says she often had people been instances when daughtersinlaw cluding sexuality.”
households, part of a
with her son and partner in one house; both individual identity and affiliation. make disparaging remarks about her have come with their mothersinlaw
broader trend toward
in the other three houses live her pa “Earlier, we submerged ourselves family, whether at parentteacher to find partners for them, he says. “As ‘Karmic’ ties
more shared living. In
rents, two sisters and their families. completely in the group; now the meetings or at social gatherings. you grow older, the caste, creed, and Families aren’t likely to be immediate
2016, a record 64
Gokhale has a cordial relationship with sense of the ‘I’ is developing,” she says. region divides begin to blur.” ly won over or created anew, but they
million people, or 20%
her exhusband while her former A family could now be the quasifa Navigating society Retired seniors, with both the time may come around eventually. Kolkata
of the U.S. population,
motherinlaw visits each time she mily of the TV serial Friends, where a “I wish people were more openmind and money to travel, read and relax, based N. Krishna Rao lives with his
lived with multiple
does popups of the knitwear she sells. group of people cohabit and share ed. It’s okay to have had a broken rela no longer see the care of grandchil wife, Sushmita Kundu, who is 13 years
generations under one
When Mumbaibased architect their lives and belong to each other in tionship or a failed marriage,” says Kar dren as their duty. “They value their older, in her ancestral home. Living in
roof.
Tushar Mistry decided to come out as a fundamental way, but have no single thik. But her unconventional family own freedom, and so in some ways are the same space is their daughter, the
Meanwhile, 78.6
gay, he somehow did not feel the need figure of authority. has taught her how to navigate societal slightly detached,” says Chaudhuri. writer Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, and
million adults, or about
to tell his parents outright, or give his Gokhale would relate to this arran scepticism. “So for instance, you may There’s also respect. The mother of an their nineyearold granddaughter.
32% of the U.S. adult
relationship a name. “They under gement. The absence of an authority fi break news selectively, first to your adult who has come out of the closet Rao, who came to Kolkata in the 1980s,
population, were part of
stood,” he says. Today, his parents, gure helps her make choices and be friends, then to your siblings, then to may privately be anguished, but may was a paying guest with Sushmita’s pa
a shared household in
from a small town in Gujarat, invite his candid about her relationships with your parents. You choose how the in not express it aloud, says Chaudhuri. rents, but was gradually embraced by
2017, reflecting another
partner Ekant Singh to perform a puja her partner, her exhusband, her son, formation is filtered, you tell your Earlier, older adults felt entitled; today, them as one of their own. The couple
increasingly common
usually done only by a heterosexual, her parents and siblings. It is a level of mother, so she can relay it to your that’s changing. soon married, then a big step, because
living arrangement.
married couple. The family pujari in honesty impossible in a highly patriar father.” Sujatha Sriram, dean, School of Hu Sushmita was divorced and older than
A shared household is
itially refused to conduct the ritual chal household where a single per And increasingly, age is no bar to man Ecology at Tata Institute of Social Krishna. Sreemoyee, who was 12, in
a household with at
with the two of them, but later he son’s views often prevail. Neither her starting over. “Pyar karna sabka haq Sciences, Mumbai, who works on mar itially resented the relationship, but la
least one adult who is
came around. “When he realised how I brothersinlaw nor her own partner hai (everyone has the right to love).” riage and family concepts, feels the ter grew to love him, and today shares
not the household head,
care for the family much like a bahu had a problem moving into homes says Natubhai Patel, 69, a retired go change is no revolution and that it is a warm relationship with the man she
the spouse or unmarried
would, he blessed us together,” says built by the women of the family. It was vernment officer. He lives in a socalled still marginal. The problems around calls her “karmic father”.
partner of the head, or
Singh, an interior designer, who works a practical move. traditional joint family with his wife, reimagining families conjoin around Before the wedding, “My dad sought
an 18 to 24yearold
with his partner. It’s not about educa “We meet as a family twice or three sons, their wives and children. In three main areas: assumptions, expec my permission, then gave me space to
student. (Most
tion or bigcity living, but about being times every week. We have a What 2001, after the devastating Bhuj earth take a decision,” she says.
multigenerational
open, he says. “Tushar’s parents are sApp group, and invariably someone quake, when over 20,000 people died, Some of the changing perceptions
households are also
very accepting of the fact that society says it’s time for all of us to meet. And if he began to think of those who had lost are thanks to popular culture, movies,
shared households.)
has changed. His father once told his someone can’t make it, we’re not their spouses. The next year he started movie stars. When you see Sonam Ka
mother, ‘We have lived our lives the Source: Pew Research, fussed. We’re flexible,” says Gokhale. A the Anubandh Foundation, a remar poor and her siblings interact with
I wish people were
way we wanted to, now it’s their time
to live theirs the way they want to’.”
2018 large family has its advantages, of
course. Shopping is shared, as is caring
riage bureau that divides its candidates
into ‘below 50’ and ‘over 50’. He has
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boundary of what is possible.
for elders, and the children grow up to some 5,000 of the former, and 10,000 It’s okay to have had Says Karthik, laughing: “I was the
Embracing choices gether. “It is a safety net,” says Gok of the latter. Through his large samme- youngest of three sisters and always
The Indian family is changing. There’s hale. lans or meetings in cities across India, a broken said I wouldn’t marry as I didn’t want
no ‘ideal family’ defined by children or Nithya Karthik, a doctor, lives in a people get together and explore possi relationship or a inlaws or children. But today, here I
lineage. It comes in different shapes ‘blended family’. She and her husband bilities of remarriage. am with two marriages, four sets of in
and sizes. And it has grown to embrace were both married before, have chil Everyone needs a hamsafar (compa failed marriage laws, and three children!”
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BY MANU S. PILLAI the Aryans are described as those who

60 MINUTES: WITH TONY JOSEPH are anyavrata, of strange rites). Destroy
T
hings are often not what they with your power the evil spirits (for af
seem.” So proposes the first line ter all they are anindra, without Indra,
in Tony Joseph’s Early Indians:
The Story of Our Ancestors and
Where We Came From. He would know,
‘We are like pizza. and shishnadevas or phallus worship
pers). Destroy with your flames the ido
laters (for the Rig Veda venerates no
for a glance at the Amazon.in page that idols). Burn to nothingness the murder
Early Indians were

advertises his book is a lesson in how ous scoundrels.” What is interesting, ho
impressions can be manufactured even wever, is that by the time we arrive at
when they fly in the face of reality. the later Vedas, such as the Yajur and
Of the 48 reviews posted on the e Atharva Vedas, not only is idol worship
commerce site, none of the dozenodd normal, but even the phallus has be
negative ones is from a verified buyer. come sacred.
just the base’

And the assorted complaints range from In other words, the Aryans came and
Joseph’s alleged evangelical zeal to ac at first did not like what they saw. But
cusing him of plotting civil war. “Not over the succeeding centuries, they
worth a single penny,” declares Amit, merged with the Harappans, not only
while Ankur claims the author is in introducing their culture into India, but
spired by Lord “macullay”. absorbing Harappan ideas into their
A user called Dharma, meanwhile, own customs and imagination. (A little
makes a valorous attempt at nuance: bit like later Islamic dynasties, one
“Traces of central Asia dna (sic) found might mischievously add.)
in few (sic) genetic samples in India in
no way proves Vedas originated outside Harappans weren’t Aryans
of India or brought to India by outsiders Our conversation meanders into several
(sic).” It is merely, insists another apo other subjects: the Saraswati river, the
plectic user, “propaganda of leftist (sic) links between Old Elamite and Dravi
to disintegrate... and demean ancient dian languages, and the disintegration
Indian society.” of Harappan culture. Indeed, the Harap
pans were already in decline when the
Where were the Vedas written
When I meet Joseph in New Delhi, I de
Multiple cultures, synthesised over thousands Central Asian immigrants began to
knock at their doors. But on the diffe
cide to inflict these comments on him, of years into the fascinating civilisational rence between the Aryans and the Ha
in a slightly less hysterical tone. “Are rappans, Joseph is firm, armed not only
you even hinting that the Vedas originat universe we now call Hinduism: that’s the point with genetics but history. It is telling, he
ed outside India,” I ask, trying to mine points out, that the “Vedas are of little
the political before we get to the histor the writer makes in his book use in deciphering the Harappan script,
ical. “No,” he answers, between sips of just as the imagery of the Harappan
filter coffee. Parts of the Rig Veda may seals has little connection with the
have been composed in the far reaches world of the Vedas.”
of the subcontinent, but the bulk of the Where the Vedic texts elevate the
Vedic corpus was created in this land. horse to divine levels, the horse is con
“Is your argument that Hinduism is a fo spicuous in its absence from Harappan
reign religion?” I demand, trying to play seals. But for all that, Harappan culture
devil’s advocate while chewing on a merged with the Aryans, even as it tra
chicken sandwich. “No,” again, is Jo L Long innings as a journalist with velled south and married itself to the
seph’s sage response. Hinduism was various mainstream publications. world of the early Indians who lived
born from the interaction of migrants Last held position: Editor of there (thus creating ‘Dravidian’ cul
from beyond this land with the faith(s) BusinessWorld magazine ture). The house with the central cour
already here, which in turn were nour L Launched several specialised weekly tyard, the sacredness of the peepal tree,
ished by multiple outside influences sections as Associate Editor at the lingam, the toilet lota, and even the
from the ages before. “The Vedas and Potpourri The Harappans were themselves a mix of the early Indians and Iranian immigrants: Tony Joseph. Special Arrangement Business Standard tale of the thirsty crow that put pebbles
Hinduism,” he reiterates, “are Indian.” in a jug — these are all bequests from our
L Features Editor with The Economic
What he does, however, argue firmly cause it would open up a space for con For decades, we have advocate, I press him on the Out of In Harappan ancestors.
— which is just as likely to provoke the
unthinking minds that make up Internet
spiracy theories and angry speculation
instead of an engagement with facts.
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> been hearing about the
dia Theory (OIT) — the idea that the
Aryans were Indians who fanned out in
Times between 1988 and 1991,
responsible for a major overhaul
“In the end, whether it is culture or
genetics,” Joseph concludes, “we are
in the style and content of
mobs — is that India is not a single Still, I persuade him to give me his Out of India Theory. to other parts of Asia and Europe. Jo
the newspaper
like the pizza. The early Indians were
source culture. The Vedas, in simpler views. “Nobody,” he finally explains, seph laughs: he calls proponents of OIT the base. The Harappans, born from a
language for the Amits and Ankurs of “has any argument with the coming of But why is there not a not theorists but “denialists” of evi marriage with Iranian immigrants, be
Amazon, are Indian, but they are not the first Out of Africa humans to the single peer-reviewed dence. “For decades,” he argues, “we came the sauce on the pizza. Then came
the only or the earliest fount of Indian subcontinent 65,000 years ago. Nobody have been hearing about OIT. But why is firms the trend: the R1a “Aryan gene” is the cheese and all the toppings: the
culture. India is, on the contrary, a con has any issues with the East Asian origin research paper on it? it all noise? Why is there not a single absent and so is any evidence of a genetic Aryans, the TibetoBurmese, and the
fluence of ideas and practices, synthe of the Mundas. It is only when we speak peerreviewed research paper on OIT? link to Central Asians. In other words, if AustroAsiatic language speakers. And it
sised over thousands of years into that of the migration from the Central Asian populations outside Africa are descend Yes, there are blogs and websites, but R1a did not exist in a 4,500yearold Ha is together that they have created what
fascinating civilisational and religious Steppes — of the so called ‘Aryans’ — that ed from a single Out of Africa migra there is no academic case made out co rappan but exists here today, somewhere we today define as Indian culture, and
universe which we now call Hinduism. there is this sensitivity. And this comes tion), there was between 7000 BCE and #70929
gently to support the denialists.” in the middle someone new entered In Indian identity.”
from believing that everything Hindu, 3000 BCE the coming of Iranian agricul dia. “It is simpler to speak of haplo It is a fascinating picture, even if an
We are the world everything Indian, must be Vedic and turalists. Where some believe that the The antiquity anxiety groups, which concern a small part of the unorthodox analogy. But while the sto
And, in what is the principal point of the Aryan.” In other words, acknowledging Harappans were Aryans, genetics offers OIT, to Joseph, comes from an anxiety ancestry we carry,” says Joseph, “but ry of the pizza that is Indian history and
book, we Indians ourselves are not chil an Aryan migration into India would something different. As Joseph says, to place the Aryans in India before even if you look at the complete genome our place on it may fascinate many,
dren of a single source. As has long been puncture political ideologies built “The Harappans were themselves a mix anyone else. What genetics shows, ho data, the argument holds true.” there will be others who do not accept
suspected, and as science is confirming, around notions of who belongs here of the early Indians with the Iranian im wever, is the opposite. “About 17.5% of This is not necessarily surprising. this, no matter what the evidence; some
Indians today — like Indians thousands of and who does not. And this is precisely migrants — it was their union, over cen Indian males today carry the R1a haplo There is archaeological evidence that to whom India is not a pizza with multi
years ago — are descendants of people the kind of puncturing that would hurt. turies, that created the Indus Valley ci group, which is also found in Europe the Harappans were phallus worship ple ingredients, but a pristine, imagined
whose roots do not always lie in our sub What Joseph explains in Early In- vilisation. You can say there were four and Central Asia,” he points out. “In an pers; those who prayed to the lingam. ideal, where everything is one, and
continent. We are all Indians, but we are dians, then, is that Indian history is significant migrations: the first Homo cient DNA evidence from 3200 BCE, this The Rig Veda, the oldest in the Vedic nothing was ever born of difference.
also all made up of genetic influences marked by several major influxes of pe Sapiens; the Iranian agriculturalists; the signature and this affinity to Central corpus, lambasts such people. In one
that emerged in lands deemed foreign. ople. Leaving out archaic humans (who East Asian influx of AustroAsiatic lan Asians is absent, but by 1200 BCE, you verse, Indra defeats a city of phallus The writer won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva
The only theme Joseph avoids is de went extinct long ago but have left mate guage speakers; and, around the same find it.” While the final report is not out, worshippers, elsewhere invoking Agni Puraskar for The Ivory Throne (2015). His
tailing the full political implications of rial traces), and besides our African an time, the ‘Aryans’.” DNA extracted from a 4,500yearold (fire) to: “Destroy with your heat the latest book is Rebel Sultans: The Deccan
the latest findings. It is just as well, be cestors who first populated this land (all Since I have decided to play devil’s skeleton in Rakhigarhi, Haryana, con workers of magic (the Dasyu enemies of from Khilji to Shivaji.
Power of knowing Carl Malamud to citizens is a democratic principle, a tremendous amount of time coming up

(bottom) is determined to make access rule of law.” with a convincing story for myself and
to knowledge a fundamental right. It is hard not to get caught up in his others as to why it’s the right thing to do.”
Getty Images/ iStock & Joi Ito/ Flickr.com enthusiasm as he describes the enor
mous multiplier effect that access to go Breakers of rules
vernment information tends to have. “If India’s most famous rulebreaker, M.K.
Malamud has been associated with it’s not available, nobody knows it’s Gandhi, defied Britain’s salt tax to assert
the Internet since its infancy. He spent there and nobody cares about it. But Indians’ right to govern themselves. In
most of the 80s writing reference books once it becomes available, citizens start his quest to establish access to know
about computer networks. While many to use it and entire industries start to get ledge as a fundamental human right,
of his peers went on to establish tech built on top of it.” Malamud sees standards as his salt. “My
businesses and become billionaires, Ma Malamud is no pirate though. While job is to confront authority and that’s
lamud has spent the last 30 years put his work probably does violate the letter exactly what Gandhi did. It’s what Mar
ting government databases online, one of the law, he stresses that he “spends a tin Luther King did as well. He broke the
at a time. “Dotcom CEOs are a dime a law by sitting at lunch counters, but
dozen,” he says. “Running an NGO that with the specific aim of changing the
My job is to confront
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> authority and that’s
takes on governments is something not law, and not simply because he wanted
a lot of people know how to do.” to make sure kids had lunch.”
Unfortunately, the odds seem to be
BIS rules online exactly what Gandhi stacked against him. The Internet that
Although the Public.Resource.Org ar Malamud cut his teeth on was a truly
chive currently hosts a varied selection
did. It’s what Martin egalitarian network whose very archi
of documents, nothing gets Malamud Luther King did as well tecture prioritised freedom and open
quite as excited as the collection of pu access. Today’s digital world, controlled
blic standards from across the world. and monitored by governments and
These standards, which in India are pro giant tech firms, is a stark contrast. Ma
duced by the Bureau of Indian Stan lamud appears to be somewhat of an
PROFILE dards (BIS), specify norms that affect anachronism against this backdrop.
the daily lives of citizens in many ways. While he soldiers on on his lonely quest
From the design of crashsafe motorcy to liberate public knowledge, today’s
He’s been a rebel without pause cle helmets to earthquakeproofing

measures for buildings to tests for the
purity of atta and ghee, standards de
fine acceptable minimums everywhere.
brightest young minds are engaged in
building technologies designed to hoov
er up everincreasing amounts of priv
ate data.
Though all of these documents have Outnumbered and outgunned he may
Malamud’s crime? Making public information accessible to the public been created using public funds, the go be, but Malamud is optimistic. “I want to
vernment agencies and private contrac let young hackers know that you can do
BY VISVAK but you can outrun the elephant.” Mala blishers have overreached. They are tors that publish them routinely charge more with technology than simply come
mud, dressed in business formals ahead taking property that is not theirs and citizens exorbitant fees for the privilege up with an app that’ll make you money.
O
n his Twitter bio, Carl Mala of what promises to be a typically hot guarding it.” of accessing them. BIS, for instance, You could actually make your world a
mud describes himself as a ci and humid Mumbai day, has the aura of charges ₹14,000 for a copy of the Na better place.”
vil servant. In real life, he someone who never stops running. One-man army tional Building Code of India.
seems to spend a lot of time When I meet him at a hotel in Mum The digital archives maintained by his “One of the things I always look for is The freelance journalist is
coming up with new ways to get in trou bai’s Cuffe Parade, Malamud was in the oneman NGO, Public.Resource.Org, a government or a private party over based in Goa.
ble with civil servants worldwide. Over middle of a whirlwind tour of India. currently contains close to 10 million reaching. If a standards body puts the Twitter: @visvak
the last three years, he has been in Apart from a scheduled appearance at files. From complete collections of the standards online for reading, even if
volved in six different court cases across Delhi High Court, he has public and laws of several American States to the they prohibit commercial access, I
three continents. His crime? Making pu private engagements lined up with acti National Building Code of India, Mala wouldn’t have done this,” he rea
blic information accessible to the vists, academics, bureaucrats, tech mud has liberated a dizzying array of go sons. “But when they say nobody
public. workers and students across the coun vernment documents from their pay can put these files on the Internet
At the 19th International World Wide try. He is here to spread the word about walled prisons across the world. He has by any means and the price is a
Web Conference in 2010, Malamud ar his mission and to recruit potential painstakingly digitised and improved thousand dollars, then we have a
ticulated his ‘10 Rules for Radicals’. collaborators. many of them with better formatting problem.”
Among them was the commandment “Information must be free,” says Ma and accessibility features, and made Malamud and his lawyers use a
“run really fast” because, “as a small lamud. “I really believe that information them available online for anyone to ac simple argument: “That the edicts
player, the elephant can step on you, has become colonised. That the pu cess for free. of government should be available
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DELHI
REPORTING 3
FIELD NOTES
Interpreter of a malady
In one of Jharkhand’s poorest districts, a village health worker
is the only one watching over TB patients
BY ANUMEHA YADAV
O
n the outskirts of Tarwadih vil
lage in Jharkhand’s Latehar
district, a path winds through
paddy fields and leads to
Bhuiantola, a hamlet where Bhuian Da
lit families live. That month, four resi
dents of Bhuiantola hamlet were being
treated for tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial
infection that mostly affects the lungs.
Radha Devi, the village sahiya or fron
tline health worker, an Accredited So
cial Health Activist (ASHA), was walking
down the village path and hollered out
to Ramavtar Ram, a farmer in his 50s,
who was working in the fields. “Nine
number medicine course is over for
you,” she said. “You will now be on CP.”
Ram had contracted TB six months ago
and looked emaciated from the
infection.
To cover the after-taste
Stepping in >
< of drugs, she even buys
Devi, who has been supervising Ram’s
treatment for the past six months, is not patients packets of
a trained doctor or nurse. She has stu namkeen, Devi said,
died only till Class IV and is one of the
over 1,325 health activists appointed un
showing me a small
der the National Health Mission’s com packet of snacks
munity health programme in Latehar. “I
am not fully literate, but I recognise
medicines through a number or an al
phabet in the drug’s name,” Devi said, ter nine months of treatment, Bhuian
explaining how she had memorised 13 now had enough strength to walk and
long and complicated names of TB had taken the cattle out to graze. But his
drugs. family was anxious: one of the medi
TB can be fully cured with a six cines had impaired his hearing.
month antibiotics course. But India ac ‘Mohan called me and sahiya in 2007, she too worked in brick The medicine can also make patients
counts for a fifth of TBrelated deaths
worldwide. In Jharkhand alone, nearly
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> said he feared he was
kilns. The contractors offer ₹10,000 to
₹12,000 as an ‘advance’, but there are
depressed, paralysed, or completely
deaf. “Sadly, I have seen Mohan go
40 people die of the disease every day. going to go mad,’ said no regular wages. “At the kiln sites, through all these stages this year,” said
The government has recognised that pe away from towns, there are no health fa Devi.
ople in remote tribal districts, with poor Devi. ‘I felt he was like cilities,” said Devi. “Besides, many peo When he started to display these
access to nutrition and medicine, are a my son; I was worried’ ple do not complete the treatment sideeffects, Devi went to Itki a second
priority group. course. Some don’t like the taste of the time to act as his counsellor. “Mohan
Jharkhand’s Adivasi villages lack criti medicines, others worry about the called me and said he feared he was go
cal healthcare infrastructure. Rajabau sideeffects.” ing to go mad,” she said. “I felt he was
Yole, a World Health Organization TB five years, including the post of TB med In Tarwadih, Devi met Bartu Oraon, Critical gaps (Clockwise from above) Villagers in Latehar line up to cast votes; like my son; I was worried.” The govern
consultant working in Jharkhand, said ical officer. who has had a relapse. Then she coun students cross a makeshift bamboo bridge on their way to school; Radha Devi ment staff did not pay her anything but
that although every community health It is here that health workers like Rad selled Neetu Devi, a young farm worker (centre) with a patient’s family. Manob chowdhury Bhuian later reimbursed her the ₹400
centre is supposed to have an Xray ma ha Devi step in to fill a critical gap. and patient, who had recently delivered she had spent on travel.
chine and a courier service to transport a baby boy. Devi advised her to cover of drugs, she even buys them packets of year treatment with highly toxic drugs. As a sahiya, Devi is supposed to get
sputum samples for testing, these are Deadly smoke her mouth while breastfeeding to pre #70929
namkeen, she said, showing me a small This deadly strain can be passed to oth ₹100 as ‘incentive’ for each TB case she
missing in most districts. Latehar families are especially vulnera vent the infection from spreading to her packet of snacks she was carrying for a ers through close contact via air dro reports. She has heard that the govern
Then there is also the major shortfall ble to TB because of their work. When baby. patient. plets in much the same way as regular ment has promised to double the incen
of doctors. Raksh Dayal, Jharkhand’s the season’s paddy harvesting is done, Among the more serious patients, TB. tive and the honorarium this year. But
State TB officer, said the State has only they migrate for work to the brick kilns Teaching precautions Mohan Bhuian, also a brick kiln worker, nothing has happened yet. “I have not
2,200 doctors (of 3,400 posts) and only in Benaras in Uttar Pradesh and Auran Devi has been trained by the TB hospital developed multidrug resistant tubercu Always there been paid anything for more than a
half the required contractual health gabad in Maharashtra. Here they are ex in Latehar. “I ask patients to take pre losis, a more deadly form of the disease “The sahiya has been coming home to year,” said Devi. But she was soon up
staff for the treatment programme. In posed to smoke that damages lungs and cautions, to use ash to cover their spit, that develops when a patient gets in give him medicines every day,” said Sita, again, ready to see a new patient.
Latehar, one of the poorest Adivasi re reduces immunity to many infections, or cough only into a gamchha and boil it complete or inadequate treatment. This Bhuian’s wife. Devi travelled twice with
gions in Jharkhand, 13 of 23 posts in the particularly TB. in water to prevent the infection from makes the most powerful TB drugs inef her husband to Itki, 110 km away, where The writer received the REACH fellowship
district TB hospital have been vacant for In fact, before Devi was chosen as the spreading.” And to cover the aftertaste fective, and it needs a protracted two the government runs a sanatorium. Af on TB.
Rare craft (Clockwise from extreme

left) Ghanshyam and his wife
sharpen a sword; intricately carved
sheathed daggers; the swordsmith
Heeralal; and a carved sword handle.
Bindu Gopal Rao
past the quality of the iron used was su
perlative, which is not the case today.
We shape the swords by hand just like
sculptors,” he says.
For Heeralal, the sword means eve
rything. “It’s like my soul,” he says. “I
don’t worry whether I make money or
not. I value it far too much to let it go.”
Magical powers
During Navratri, in Heeralal’s village
Ameth, swords are placed before an idol
of the goddess Durga and worshipped.
They are believed to gain magical pow
ers. “The swords are then viewed en
tirely differently, as spiritually charged
ritual objects,” says Singh. After the
nine days of festivities, the sword is ta
ken out on a procession, as villagers
dance with swords while some of them
strike themselves with it by way of ask
ing for forgiveness for past sins.
Traditional conservation techniques
are part of the ‘Arm and Armours’ pro
FOCUS ject at the City Palace, and Shriji Arvind
Singh Mewar of Udaipur is overseeing
The last swordsmith

on the blade’s surface. Swordsmiths al the effort. Singh and her team are work
so use chapadi, a mixture of river sand ing on cleaning, conserving and restor
and lac melted together, to fix the han ing as well as documenting the weapons
dles on the sword blades. The swords in the armoury here. They are also
then go into an oven or batti and are merging traditional smithing with ad
At 90, Heeralal may just be the only quenched with sesame oil. In earlier vanced nano materials to restore and re
times, the swords would only be tem pair old swords. “Carbon fibres and car
surviving artisan of a centuries-old craft pered on moonless nights when the bon nanotubes have been used as the
blade would gleam true. reinforced materials and pure lac is
BY BINDU GOPAL RAO during battle. Vandana Singh, Centre Heeralal’s son Ghanshyam speaks of used as a matrix material. These are
for Art Conservation & Research Ex how his grandfather worked with the nontoxic and biodegradable,” says
T
here’s a din in the air and before perts, New Delhi, has worked with the royals, polishing and maintaining their Singh.
me is a riot of colours. I am in community for over seven years. She swords. “He used to say the sword must However, as with most things tra
Udaipur’s City Palace that is says: “These craftsmen inherited their be polished with traditional tools and ditional, the challenge is the lack of
hosting its 4th World Living skill down the generations. The craft it not machines so that the temper is demand. Sikligars now use their
Heritage festival, where, despite all the self was a closely guarded secret and maintained. It also helped that in the skills to make scissors.
brouhaha, I am drawn to an old man not documented anywhere. I spoke to But Singh and her team have be
polishing a sword with what appears to many families and found that only one gun to document the dying art by in
be a wooden wheel held in place by a ro person, Heeralal, continues to practise The Arm and Armour terviewing the remaining sword
tating stand. This is Heeralal, 90, per
haps the last surviving sikligar, or tradi
the craft in the traditional way.”
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> project merges smiths and organising live
demonstrations to rekindle interest
tional swordsmith. Like my soul traditional smithing in the art form. The sikligars might
Sikligars from Rajasthan polish, fur The craftsmen use rudimentary tools to yet get another innings.
bish and make swords as well as restore polish the blades of the sword — emery with advanced nano
and sharpen old ones. Some 400500 stone, ash, horse shoe, ferni (a blade materials to restore The freelance writer and photographer
years ago they were a nomadic com sharpening machine) and deer horns from Bengaluru seeks offbeat
munity and part of the king’s entourage for buffing as they don’t leave scratches old swords experiences through travel.
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SPOTLIGHT Visual treat (Clockwise from left)

Works by Cop Shiva, Chan HyoBae WHO’S COMING
and 3rd Space Lab Collective. Aishwarya Arumbakkam, India
Still life
Special arrangement
Angela Grauerholz, Canada
Anna Fox, U.K.
Amshu Chukki, India
Archana Hande, India
Armin Linke, Germany
through the
Arpan Mukherjee, India
Arun Vijai Mathavan, India
Atul Bhalla, India
Balaji Maheshwar, India
Camp, India
looking glass
Catherine Leutenegger, Switzerland
Chan Hyo Bae, South Korea
Cop Shiva, India
D. Ravinder Reddy, India
Dayanita Singh, India
Desire Machine Collective, India
5, 10, 100 times bigger than last time, Gauri Gill, India
Indu Antony, India
the Chennai Photo Biennale opens Jason Shulman, U.K.
good in. There’s none.” J.H. Thakker, India
next month With its rapid success since its Kader Attia, France
launch in 2012, the KochiMuziris Bien Karthik Subramanian, India
nale in particular — now counted Kowshik Vasudevan, India
among the world’s big art events — has Liz Fernando, Germany
been an inspiration. The difference, of Manit Sriwanichpoom, Thailand
course, is the focus on photography, Manjunath Kamath, India
but there are several South and South Munem Wasif, Bangladesh
east Asian precedents to cite in that re Naeem Mohaiemen, Bangladesh
gard: Nepal’s Photo Kathmandu, Singa Nalini Malani, India
pore’s International Photography Nandini Valli Muthiah, India
Festival, the Kuala Lumpur Photogra National Institute of Design,
phy Festival in Malaysia, Bangladesh’s Gandhinagar, India
Chobi Mela. The last is “a name in the
National Institute of Fashion Technology,
art world,” Schippert points out. India
Chennai, India
has nothing similar, but smaller festiv
Navjot Altaf, India
als have been starting up, like Egaro in
Offset PitaraAnshika Varma, India
Agartala. There’s collaboration going
P. Sainath, India
on as well; curated photos from the Del
hi Photo Festival were shown at CPB’s Putu Sayoga, Indonesia
first edition. Rabih Mroue, Lebanon
Ram Rahman, India
Future photo capital? Raqs Media Collective, India
Hosting the Biennale in the city’s herit Rashid Rana, Pakistan
age venues could be a boon for conser Shadi Ghadirian, Iran
BY ROHAN MANOJ from 13 countries, with exhibitions in vation, by bringing attention back to Sheba Chhachhi And Sonia Jabbar, India
various venues across the city, includ these beautiful but forgotten spaces Srishti School of Art, Design and
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hat do we see through a ing heritage sites. There will be semi and thus extending their useful lives, Technology, India
glass darkly? Mere reflec nars, workshops, talks and perfor says Kapoor. The Senate House is one Susanta Mandal, India
tions, or a façade hiding mances. Much of the work is already in example, largely inaccessible, sealed Tejal Shah, India
an eldritch realm that lies print, but many are being created spec off with red tape and bureaucratic leth Tracey Moffatt, Australia
just beyond our ken, populated by de ifically for the event — something that’s argy. It’s hoped that making use of such Vijay Jodha, India
mons plotting to invade the material enabled by the biennale format, with sites will encourage owners of other Vivan Sundaram, India
world and devour all mankind? The an residencies and artist grants. But what heritage buildings to come forward and
cient Chinese believed the latter, dub really marks out Year 2 as a huge step open up their properties.
bing these creatures the ‘fauna of mir up from the more modest first edition — When asked where they see CPB in
rors’ — and this concept has been a product of “enthusiasm” — is a quan 10 years’ time, the team displays ample WHERE TO GO
adopted as the title for the second edi tum leap in quality, according to co ambition; Gupta wants to put Chennai Offbeat venues will be a big plus
tion of the Chennai Photo Biennale founders Varun Gupta and Helmut on the map as the “photo capital of In for CPB. “I wanted to keep the
(CPB). “It’s not a theme as such,” says Schippert and founding trustees Shuchi dia” and the home for photography the feeling of these venues,” says
artistic director Pushpamala N., who Kapoor and Gayatri Nair. For this they CPB will feature area, conceptual photography, alth country lacks at present. More prosai
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> works by more than
Pushpamala. So instead of using
views it in broader terms, “as a meta credit Pushpamala’s curation as well as ough a number of documentary pho cally, they’d like to see Chennai as a only flat surfaces, she has taken
phor for photography itself, a mirror their brainstorming after the first event. tographers and political activists are al place on people’s calendars, somewh the sculptural installation route,
portal that creates another world.” A Overall, the difference in scale is “10x,” 100 artists from 13 #70929
so represented. And she has selected ere to go, like Venice, like Kochi, a place and some large works will jut out
parallel world that is “familiar yet asserts one. “Let’s keep it at 5x,” cau specific works to be arranged themati where all the best, the most critical and from the floor.
strange, perhaps friendly and intimate, tions another. “100x,” exclaims a third. countries, and will cally, rather than by artists per se. the most socially relevant gather every There will also be videos playing
sometimes mysterious and hostile — also have Why Chennai, a city steeped in cine two years. And, as a consequence, on monitors. Venues include
but always magical.” Chennai calling ma and the classical arts, but with no bring other benefits to the city, such as
Pushpamala, former sculptor and now workshops, talks great tradition of still photography? increased footfalls and business.
fabulous heritage buildings like
Madras University’s Senate House,
Quantum leap performance photographer, brings a and performances The answers come in a cascade. With the foundation also working
Egmore Museum, and Madras
The Biennale, an international festival unique perspective to the curation. Her ‘Why not Chennai?’ ‘Because we’re with the photography community to
Literary Society; quirky local spots
of photography cofounded and coor background being in the art world, the here.’ ‘Because it’s our city.’ ‘Because host regular events such as workshops
such as railway stations and
ganised by the CPB Foundation and the Biennale has more than a tinge of the there’s a void in contemporary art to be and talks through the year, in addition
Elliot’s Beach; plus regular
Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, art show about it, with several installa filled here.’ Chennai is “very fastgrow to the Biennale, another 10year goal is
galleries.
Chennai, will be open to the public tions, videos, projections and so on — ing, like so many metropolises,” says to build a museum in Chennai, with a
from February 22 to March 24, and will but all to do with photography, the still Schippert, but “tell me one single con focus on archiving the photography of
feature works by more than 100 artists image. And there is a focus on her own temporary art event that Chennai is South India.
SCANNER FRAMED
Auction for Kerala
‘Art Rises for
Kerala’, the first
live art auction in
Kerala, had all its
Standing in solitary splendour
lots sold out on What happens to passionate private collections once their patrons are gone?
January 21 at the
Grand Hyatt in Together with the impressive Relia collection of
Kochi. Proceeds portraits and rare pieces like Ravi Varma’s ‘Sita
from the auction amounting to ₹3.2 Gayatri Sinha Bhoomipravesh’, the collection straddles some
is an art critic and curator who, while
crore will be donated to the preoccupied with her art website masterpieces from the colonial period to the
Government of Kerala Chief www.criticalcollective.in, is also present day. These three private collections —
contemplating a book
Minister’s Distress Relief Fund. The and there would be others in the city — are
auction was conducted by Saffronart poised in a limbo of sorts. Supported entirely by
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and the Kochi Biennale Foundation. he banks of the Sabarmati encased in im their patrons, they have closed or very limited
Anish Kapoor’s ‘Untitled’ (picture) penetrable cement seem to hold a les access. They exist outside state support, and
sold for ₹1.3 crore. son for the cultural life of Ahmedabad. there’s no readymade template for such passion
Once accessible from the steps of Sabar ate collections to weather the passage of time.
India Heritage Walk Festival mati ashram, the rambling riverfront, home to
small communities and even the popular circus, No longer sleepy
Sahapedia, an was messy, vibrant and dynamic, much like the In contrast, another institution has seen an ex
online city. That is now consigned to memory and pho traordinary revival. Visitors to Navajivan over
encyclopaedia of to archives. The concrete bank seems to serve as the last few years might remember the Gandhi
Indian arts and a metaphor for another kind of ossification, in archive and the repository of his writings and his
culture, is the city’s art resources. early printing presses as a sleepy institution. In
collaborating the last two years, a team of photographers — Vi
with UNESCO to Textile tour de force vek Desai, Himanshu Panchal and Mitul Kajaria
host the second Ahmedabad, unlike Mumbai or Kolkata, other ci — have helped transform it into an active hub,
edition of ‘India Heritage Walk ties with a mercantile past, continues to be a city lending the archive a contemporary buzz.
Festival’, a monthlong, multicity of privately held museums. While the Tatas, the Navajivan now has a printing lab, one of the
event introducing people to the Readymoneys and the Gurusaday Dutt collec finest in Ahmedabad, that works mainly with
tangible and intangible heritage of tions passed into government hands, Ahmeda Revived The pichwais on grand display in Amit Ambalal’s private collection. Anuj Ambalal young photographers. It has Café Karma, a pop
their cities. The second edition will bad has largely held on to the phenomenon of ular eatery, a shop with khadi and handicrafts,
cover 37 cities across India. It will be the patroncollector. Inaugurated by Nehru in Patan, Gujarat, to settle in Burhanpur. The Jain and, what is perhaps its most significant achieve
A team of three
held from February 128. 1949, the The Calico Museum of Textiles, housed
in the former Sarabhai residence, remains a gem
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> photographers has jeweller migrants built a temple dedicated to
goddess Padmavati, using skilled woodcarvers
ment, the Satya Gallery, which offers free space
primarily for photographers to share their work.
Banksy on display
of collecting endeavour. transformed the Navajivan from Patan. With time, the old temple deterio In the shrinking institutional space for photogra
The Banksy The profound attention to the textile wealth of rated and was dismantled, and a couple of years phy, Navajivan is helping build audiences and in
painting, ‘Love is India make this museum a oneofitskind repos archive into an active hub ago, brought from Burhanpur to Ahmedabad. terest in the medium, even as Gandhian thought
in the Bin’, that itory. Gautam and Gira Sarabhai’s initiative, ho Based on photographs of the original, master hovers gently in the background.
recently wever, needs more contemporary and informa craftsman Prabhudas Mistry reconstructed this Ahmedabad, the locus of ‘the Gujarat model
auctioned to a tive ways of sharing — a more informed guided Nathdwara as a distinct subschool, he initiated compact architectural jewel in the sprawling of development’, is perhaps an accurate exam
European tour, for instance. The museum as repository of from the 70s an extraordinary collection of Ambalal lawns, where it now houses 30 extraor ple of the state of the country’s cultural institu
collector at knowledge rather than a dazzling rushed tour, Nathdwara Pichhwais. While the largescale, ear dinary Pichhwais of Krishna as Shrinathji in the tions. As long as there’s a dedicated patron, the
Sotheby’s, will which is what it is at present, would perhaps be ly Pichhwais of the Sarabhai collection point to Nathdwara style. collection flourishes, but once it is overly settled
go on public closer to the spirit of its founders. one phase of the aesthetic of haveli painting, the or deprived of fresh finds, it starts to ossify.
display for the first time in Two other private museums are more recent Ambalal collection is dynamic, tracing from the All at home The L.D. Museum of Indology, with its ex
February at Museum Frieder Burda and modest in scale but nevertheless speak elo mid18th century painted fragment to the diffuse The third significant collection, born of an en traordinary treasures including the N.C. Mehta
in BadenBaden, Germany. A panel quently of the city’s private collections. Amit ‘iconic’ images of Narottam Narayan and Ghasi during relation between printer Anil Relia and Jain medieval paintings, and even the Sarabhai
discussion will try to make the Ambalal, author of Krishna as Shrinathji and ori ram that combined photography and painting. M.F. Husain, is on display at the Relia residence, Calico Museum, are instances of once vibrant
context and intentions of Banksy’s ginally the inheritor of a textile fortune, is both Remarkably, Ambalal has recently transport Amrat. It has Husain’s rich and vigorous oeuvre centres that need more energy and better viewer
work comprehensible. The display collector and artist, who has given a decisive ed a late medieval temple from Burhanpur in in spontaneous sketches, a mobile scenography interface. The state can be a distant patron but
will focus closely on the picture turn to the readings of art production in the Guj Madhya Pradesh to his home. According to his for the film Gaja Gamini (2000), a family por not a disinterested one, or else important repos
itself, the new global icon. aratRajasthan region. son Anuj Ambalal, during the 16th century, the trait, even a glass mural for the swimming pool, itories might petrify for want of funds and muse
Recognising the Krishna haveli painting of Sultan of Burhanpur had invited jewellers from and paintings from different Husain narratives. ological expertise.
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DELHI
ART & CULTURE 5

Highlights (From far left) Stills

from Bhonsle, Delhi Crime Story,
Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Jaa
Riya Hoon and Binnu Ka Sapna.
Kashmir,who struggles to get the death
certificate of her missing husband from
the government, also plays in the same
section at IFFR.
The Indian highlight at IFFR, howev
er, is the international premiere of Rid
ham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep And
The Sacred Mountain. It competes with
20 films from over the world in the
Bright Future Competition section, and
is a rare film set in the mountains of Hi
machal Pradesh in the midst of the Gad
di community of shepherds.
What lies beyond

A graduate of the National Institute of
Design and a resident of Goa, Janve has
been a regular visitor to the mountains,
BIG SCREEN and the idea of the film came from one
of his treks there. Set around an elderly
Cops and shepherds
BY NAMRATA JOSHI shepherd who goes looking for the pilot
of a crashed plane, The Gold-Laden
I
n Delhi Crime Story, Shefali Shah Sheep… is a fascinating mix of mytholo
plays the lead role of a cop investi gy, mysticism, folklore and ethnogra
gating the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case. phy. “What lies beyond the misty moun
Shah tells me about the sensitivity, tain,” is the underlying question.
honesty and responsibility with which Shot with local resources and facili
she had to approach the reallife charac ties, the film has a cast of nonprofes
ter in this sevenepisode, independent A bunch of gritty Indian movies are all set for the winter film festival circuit sional actors, the local Gaddi communi
TV series by IndoCanadian filmmaker ty itself filling in for various roles; five of
Richie Mehta. “I couldn’t mess with the they do” is a question he wants to leave torial debut Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le It’s about the “decay of his soul” after them came for the premiere at the
facts or goof up with the material and the viewers with. Jaa Riya Hoon (Taking the Horse to Eat his wife’s death, being unemployed, Mumbai Film Festival. The lead role is
had to approach the situation, incident The show’s ensemble cast includes Jalebis), an experimental take on Old and about the ravages of Alzheimer’s played by Arjun Pant. “He can’t read or
and people with respect.” Adil Hussain, Denzil Smith, Rasika Du Delhi’s syncretic migrant culture. and Parkinson’s; it’s also about Makhija write but is an encyclopedia on moun
Mehta, she says, invested much time gal, Rajesh Tailang and Yashaswini Devashish Makhija’s Bhonsle, which coming to terms with “not being there tain culture,” says Janve.
to research the facts, and kept it gritty Dayama, and it will be the first Indian plays in the Voices segment of the Inter for his father”. If Delhi Crime Story raises questions
and real. Shah felt more like a collabora series to have its world premiere at Sun national Film Festival of Rotterdam Praveen Morchhale’s Widow of Si- about the mind of a criminal, Kanu
tor than just an actor. “He told me that it dance Film Festival in the Indie Episod (IFFR) also deals with migrant politics. lence, about a Muslim ‘halfwidow’ in Behl’s Binnu Ka Sapna tries to under
had been written by a man and he need ic section on January 29. Mehta hopes But the story of depression and decay in stand the roots of anger. It will premiere
Themes of
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> feminism, gender
ed a woman’s voice in it.” that the series “affects someone”, who the life of a retired 60yearold cop at the ClermontFerrand International
The brutality and unbearable horror can, in turn, “effect change in this age of (played by Manoj Bajpayee) is a very Short Film Festival 2019, the world’s lar
of the Nirbhaya case shook people, not apathy”. “personal film,” says Makhija. It gest dedicated to shorts. Of 78 films,
just in India but the world over. Delhi emerged from his relationship with his and sexual identity Binnu Ka Sapna is the only Indian one
Crime Story is based on actual events Debuts and sophomores father, “a failed businessman,” who competing this year.
and case files of the Delhi Police investi As the winter film festivals roll on, a worked in a sari shop in Kolkata and was
go hand in hand in Behl says an individual has a public
gation and has been narrated from the bunch of Indian films are set to travel in ousted one day after 57 years of service. Bulbul Can Sing and a private life, as well as a secret one
perspective of the cops. ternationally. Besides the biggies — Zoya that they don’t reveal to anyone. He
“It hit all of us in our gut,” says Shah. Akhtar’s Gully Boy at Berlinale and Ri tries “to dive into the head,” “under
But “I couldn’t react as Shefali but as the tesh Batra’s Photograph that features stand the vortex” so to speak. He admits
cop in charge of the investigation, who both at Sundance and Berlinale — there that “it was a thin line to walk. We were
had hunted down the rapists in 72 are debuts and sophomore outings, not trying to justify his [violent] act.”
I couldn’t react as
hours,” she says.
Mehta met the cops, researched and <
> Shefali but as the cop young and veterans alike.
In Rima Das’s Bulbul Can Sing, which
The voiceover, the use of still frames,
the slideshow of images — all bring alive
went through reams of material. “Noth premiered at the Toronto International the theme, the condition, the suffoca
ing has been fabricated out of nothing,”
in charge of the Film Festival last year, themes of femi tion and anxiety in Binnu’s mind. “His
Mehta tells us on a call from London. investigation who had nism, gender and sexual identity go vision is myopic. He has blinkers on,
The material available was so vast that hand in hand. It won the Golden Gate constantly seeing through the same
he calls Delhi Crime Story an eighthour
hunted down the way award in the India Gold section at lens,” says Behl. The still frames were
independent film that has been serial rapists in 72 hours the Mumbai Film Festival, and now fea used to universalise his story. Binnu’s
ised into seven episodes. tures at Berlinale. Prantik Basu’s 27mi #70929
warped mind harks back to the past. It
The series looks at law and order and nute Rang Mahal will premiere in the is like a cup of tea, a strong metaphor in
justice and at how, not just punishment, Shorts section at Berlinale. the film. Much as his anger is against the
but something greater is needed while Meanwhile, at Sundance, the New world around him, like the recurring
dealing with such heinous crimes. Frontier section showcases acclaimed cup of tea, the anger is also an inheri
“Why do they [criminals] think the way theatre person Anamika Haksar’s direc tance he can’t break away from.
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two generations before him, even as
W
a child. That nostalgia tripping has ith an Aamir Khan woman loses her daughter and sive face of Ranjit Singh “Kuki” Gill
persisted for a lifetime Productions film, one husband in a brutal terror attack, to look deep into his eyes as he
expects carefully or one the world witnessed in real makes no attempt to sugarcoat the
T
he Mousetrap, not to be confused chestrated publicity, time. It is also about the perpetra story of how he and his compa
with the longrunning Agatha the actor giving out strategic media tors of these gruesome deeds: a triots shot and killed Lalit and Gi
Christie whodunit that was re interviews, a series of appearances man radicalised by the pogrom in tanjali Maken, about his life in pri
cently staged in Mumbai, is the with the look he is assuming for the Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassi son, his extradition and attempts
name given by Hamlet to the ‘play within film, and so on. Not unnaturally: a nation; a semiliterate sharecrop to win release.
the play’ performed in the eponymous superstar carries the weight of a ping farmer brainwashed by lan We get as close to Samundar
Shakespearean drama. film and potential box office re dlords into thinking the nun’s Singh, the farmer, as we do to Sis
“The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll turns. For Rubaru Roshni, though, social activism is a threat; faceless ter Selmi Paul, sister of Sister Rani
catch the conscience of the king,” he Khan only put out a video asking terrorists. Maria. We spend time with Kia
says, in allusion to the murder of his fath fans to watch it, and said nothing Scherr and her memories of Alan
er by his brother Claudius, now king of of substance about the film. Close-up view and Naomi, but there is also foot
Denmark and married to Hamlet’s moth But by the time you read this, if The camera gets in close, telling age of a halfintears Ajmal Kasab
er, Gertrude. The play within, actually the nonpublicity has worked, a their stories in their own words. telling the police about his parents
called The Murder of Gonzago, depicts a substantial chunk of India’s televi Close enough to Avantika Maken having sold him into militancy, to
murder executed in much the same fash sion audience will already be talk Tanwar, whose father was a target wrench you away, if only for a mo
ion as Hamlet’s father’s. As it unfolds, ing about the film. It will have of Sikh revenge, to see what seems ment, from the verdict in your
guilt and perhaps contrition are writ skipped theatres altogether and like brash selfassurance dissolve head about the horrors of 26/11.
large on Claudius’ face, and he rushes launched across Star TV’s net as a selfconfessed daddy’s girl re At times, one feels almost like an
from the room. work, with dubs in six languages intruder, as composures crumble,
In Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014), In disguise Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om features variations on the ‘mousetrap’ theme. (with English subtitles), beamed si taut smiles waver, twist and reveal
Ajmal Kasab, half
Shahid Kapur and a bevy of backup dan
cers perform the implicating ballad, ‘Bis and Helen, is a saga of betrayal and mur trap’; so Karz’s evergreen ballad by Lax
multaneously across the country,
and on Hotstar. <
> in tears, tells the
naked grief, but we are held,
forced to witness the humanity, to
mil Bismil’, using elements of the Kash der, with even a Helen lookalike, Madhu mikant Pyarelal, ‘Ek hasina thi’, per For those of you who missed it, not turn our gaze. At others, the in
what’s the hullabaloo about?
police about his tensity dials back to characterre
miri folk form, the bhand pather, even as mati, roped in for the cabaret reenact formed to expose Simi Garewal’s
the entire saga shifts to Kashmir from ment. Pagla Kahin Ka is one of those 60s complicity, was a dramatic invention that The documentary, at one level, parents having vealing interludes — the meticulous
Denmark. But in some of the earliest confections that were idiosyncratically would have done Hamlet proud. Farah is about grief and devastating loss: tying of a colourcoordinated tur
a young child loses both parents to
sold him into ban, a bare altar, calloused hands
adaptations — the silent film Khoon-e-Na- original and wholly unoriginal, all at the Khan’s homage Om Shanti Om (2007)
hak (1928), Sohrab Modi’s Khoon ka same time. and Satish Kaushik’s remake Karzzzz a political assassination; a nun with militancy pulling up shoots.
Khoon (1935) and Kishore Sahu’s Hamlet Then there are Karz and its clones, (2008) both feature impressively mount Khan is the voiceover bridging
(1954) — the ‘mousetrap’ is a play, and not which feature pivotal song sequences in ed ‘items’, all using riffs from the Karz the conversations, while debutant
a song. which a murdered man, reborn as anoth signature tune lifted from George Ben director Svati Chakravarty Bhatkal
Sahu’s film owed a huge debt to the de er, reenacts the killing (usually at the son’s ‘We as love’. is also invisible but core to the
finitive Laurence Olivier version from hands of his paramour) in a songand Variations to a theme can be found in film’s veracity: its subjects speak to
1948, with only the gravediggers afforded dance gala. The 1980 original directed by Karz’s Southern remakes. In the Telugu her, not to the eye of the camera.
a rousing comic number. Subhash Ghai was loosely based on The film, Aatmabalam (1985), the ‘mouse More than her filmmaking skills —
Modi’s version was essentially a re Reincarnation of Peter Proud, which fea trap’ takes place at a college function, which are evident — what shines
cording of the play being staged in a stu tured several déjà vu moments, but none and the victim’s surviving family mem through is her feel for story, her
dio against huge painted backdrops of that could qualify as a bonafide ‘mouse bers participate in the mêlée. In Enakkul empathy, her ability to probe
realistic Victorian settings. Regrettably, Oruvan (1984), the Tamil remake, there is beyond the surface, to step back
no trace remains of the original print. Of no incriminating song, and the central from the easy slope of bathos.
course, there are Hindi films in which a murder is not committed by a vengeful The narrative, then, is not about
Karz and its clones
<
> feature pivotal song
similar trope is used that might not have fiancée, but she is framed for it. the atrocities that started the sto
been directly received from Shakes Of course, in countless Indian films, ries. It is about finding — despite
peare. the ‘song within the film’ is a dramatic the shattering of lives, despite the
sequences in which a device rife with metaphors and allusions, pain that nurtures bloodlust and
Saga of betrayal murdered man, reborn rather than a natural part of the narrative dreams of revenge — that it is possi
For instance, in Pagla Kahin Ka (1970), as in Hollywood musicals. A case in point ble to forgive, and through forgive
the song ‘Suno zindagi gaati hai’, per
as another, re-enacts being Don (1978), where almost every Difficult stories Poster of Rubaru Roshni. ness, find salvation and peace.
formed at the wedding of Prem Chopra his killing song is a ‘mousetrap’ in disguise.
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6 ENVIRONMENT
RED EARTH
Dining with the demoiselle

How a migratory crane has turned a remote Rajasthani village into a tourist hub
Like royalty
Demoiselle
cranes at Tal
Chappar
(left
extreme),
and a huge
flock at
Khichan
village. Wiki
Commons
BY UDDIPANA KALITA cending flocks. Ram Chand, tells me: Tour operators from Jodhpur and Jaisal started feeding a few dozen cranes. Ra The population not damaged. Happily, some of the ma
“They are like our guests. We must feed mer routinely bring in tourists who are tanlal Maloo was conferred the Salim Ali <
> increase is a jor threats to the cranes have been re
T
he straight road out of Jodhpur them every time they visit.” willing to travel the distance just to see Nature Conservation Award in 2009 by solved. High tension electricity wires
cuts through Rajasthan’s arid I head to the Khichan water reservoir the cranes. On a typical winter Sunday, the Bombay Natural History Society for conservation success, once killed several cranes but Sundar
land dotted with kikar and ba where the noise gets deafening. A sea of you would have at least 10 cars coming his work in conserving the cranes. Ma says that “with local lobbying and a
bul trees. Three hours later, ash grey plumes transforms the desert into Khichan with tourists. loo passed away in 2011. Over the next but artificially feeding court verdict, the lines have moved un
Google Maps tells me I have reached my landscape. When they fly, their huge At a grocery shop I meet little Cham years the numbers increased and some has drawn criticism derground.” Then there were feral dogs
destination, and the cacophony con wings whooshing, the birds look pale pa. She is all of five, but tells me the winters have had 20,000 birds visiting. who hunted the cranes, but the feeding
firms it. I am in Khichan village where blue and the black pattern on their un cranes have migrated from Turkey. She area has now been fenced off so that
small brick homes and havelis dot jowar derbelly looks like they’re wearing watches the birds with me, deftly peer Habitat loss flocking in some areas,” says K.S. Gopi dogs can’t enter.
and bajra fields. The loud trumpeting black ties. There must be some 500 ing through my binoculars. Demoiselle cranes are found in 47 coun Sundar, scientist, Cranes and Wetlands With the growing numbers of tou
comes from winter visitors to the village cranes at the reservoir, preening their There haven’t always been so many tries around the world, and although Programme, Nature Conservation rists, a delicate balance will have to be
— thousands of demoiselle cranes that feathers, drinking water from a small demoiselles at Khichan. It all started 70 they are not endangered, they face Foundation. Research says that while struck in Khichan: as big a draw as they
have migrated from eastern and central pond, looking towards the afternoon years ago when one Khichan resident threats from habitat loss. They feed on artificial feeding may be good to rapidly are, the birds also need to be left undis
Asia. sun. plants, insects, grains and small mam bolster crane populations, it is not a turbed while they feed at the ponds and
And in Khichan, these birds are treat mals. This village is ideal habitat, with good longterm conservation measure. wetlands and food provisioning
ed like royalty. On every day of their Proud ambassadors Many locals have built its matrix of wetlands, cultivated lands, grounds. The cranes, meanwhile, have
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> viewing platforms on
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stay between September and March, re The local community members are ponds and food provisioning grounds. Feeding on crops learnt remarkably well to coexist with

sidents feed them at the bird granary or proud ambassadors of the cranes, al Although the crane’s population in The birds also take a toll on the crops. villagers, tourists and domestic animals
pakshi chugga ghar that they have creat ways eager to take birdwatchers around their terrace, a great crease is seen as a conservation success, “Cranes feeding on crops is not always in this arid landscape.
ed. Here, every morning, residents — the village. Many have built viewing the idea of artificially feeding these wild welcome,” Sundar points out. This will
many from the Jain community — platforms on their terraces, a great van vantage for birds has drawn criticism too. “Provid have to be monitored so that the posi When not working in the forest, the writer
spread out sackfuls of grain for the des tage for visitors to watch the birds from. birdwatchers ing food artificially can cause unnatural tive attitude of the area’s inhabitants is loves to cook from YouTube recipes.
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE FLASHPOINT
Plastic, the spiny-tailed lizard

Orange speckled head, blue tinted tail — these lizards of Rajasthan are a colourful lot
Baked brown An Indian spinytailed
lizard. Madhuri Ramesh
Janaki Lenin
is not a conservationista but
many creatures share her home species, to get a government job. Myste
for reasons she is yet to discover rious were the ways of the administra
tion, but being in its employ was one of Back from oblivion
M
adhuri Ramesh observed the the few careers available in that part of Despite what its name may imply,
lizard through binoculars. the country. Lethe nicetella was never forgotten,
Its dark round head had By the time the shepherd reached the merely lost. The Small Woodbrown
emerged from the burrow hide, the place that had a moment ear butterfly — very small, with a
and surveyed the sunlit world for dan lier been crawling with lizards was de wingspan of no more than 55 mm —
ger. Nothing in the open arid land raised serted. After milking a nanny goat, the has been rediscovered in Sikkim a
good 120 years after it was first
an alarm, not even the little hide made herder made cardamom tea while chat
found and classified in 1887. The
of shrubbery that concealed the re ting with Khan in Marwari. The goats entomologist who made the original
searcher and her assistant, Musa Khan. grazed on the low plants covering the discovery, Lionel de Nicéville, did not
She named the reptile ‘Plastic’, after the ground, and the lizards resumed nib present photographic evidence or report the exact location, and it was never
bits of debris embedded in the ground bling, at ease among the mammals. Alth spotted and conclusively identified in the interim years. This time, however, a
around his lair. ough these visits disrupted her observa team from Sikkim University’s zoology department has nailed down the
Minutes later, he crawled out of his tions, she welcomed such opportunities elusive creature with photos and captured specimens.
cubbyhole, revealing his footlong flat, to quiz the men about the grasslands and
Plastic pounced on the female lizards too, not letting
hefty body and stubby legs. Other li
zards surfaced until the entire colony lay <
> them eat in peace. “He’s such a badmaash. We should where they had seen sandas.
Outback Conquistadors
sprawled out in the open on that searing Ready to fight Down under, where the flora are
hot April morning. If the reptiles have
give him a good beating,” Khan said After the man left, Ramesh returned to rugged and the fauna downright
pride, it must rest on the dense rows of work. With his tail curled up like the terrifying — but these are fast losing
ground in the face of an external
spines covering the full length of their al habits fascinated Ramesh. For a own as if tied to it by an imaginary “handle of a teacup”, Plastic swaggered
threat. Research recently published
tails, which gives them their name — the hundred years, no one had investigated string. Several hatchlings tried to jam around looking to pick a fight. If a rival in Pacific Conservation Biology has
Indian spinytailed lizards. the species. Studying it isn’t for anyone themselves at the same time into a cou or youngster wasn’t quick on its feet, he revealed that the greatest threat to
Heat had transformed Plastic’s co who wilts like a flower in the infernal ple of narrow entrances, leaving their puffed himself up and charged. The dis Australia’s native plants and animals
lours from slate grey to beige. Orange desert summer. mothers out in the open. Startled, Ra play was enough to send the other lizard is neither climate change, nor land
speckles adorned his head, and blue co mesh looked around for the danger. Dis scurrying out of his way. The females clearing, nor energy production, but
lour tinged the spikes of his tail. “Even li Heat junkie torted by rising heat waves, the vision of didn’t escape his attention. He pounced invasive species. The article
zards are colourful in Rajasthan,” Ra “I like hot weather,” Ramesh had con a shepherd and his flock of goats shim on them not letting them eat in peace. identified 1,257 native species as being threatened by some 207 invasive
plants, 57 animals and three pathogens. Largely thanks to imports like foxes
mesh said. fessed to Ravi Sankaran, a bird ecologist mered like a mirage in the distance. Watching these antics, Khan comment
and feral cats, the country has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the
Baked to his preferred operating tem who was then researching floricans and ed, “He’s such a badmaash. We should world.
perature, Plastic waddled to a patch of bustards in the area. Who better to study Missing nothing give him a good beating.”
the last remaining greenery and tore off the lizards than a selfprofessed heat “Gossip and shepherds travel far in the Besides Plastic, the hatchlings captiv
leaves from herbs. junkie! desert,” says Ramesh. ated Ramesh. Inflating themselves until Plastic entente
That dawn, she and Khan had trekked Every herder within a 40kilometre they resembled animated balloons, they
A heroic cause deserves a heroic
Dietary preference three kilometres, when the temperature radius felt compelled to call on her, con leapt on each other and rolled. The fe name, and thus was born the
Unlike any other lizard in the subconti was 40oC, carrying their gear and a hea vinced she was bored and dying for hu rocity of their wrestling kicked up dust Alliance to End Plastic Waste. More
nent, spinytailed lizards are vegetar vy jerrycan of water. Before slipping into man company. She failed to persuade in the colony and amusement inside the than 25 companies — some produce
ians, an unusual dietary specialisation in the hide, they scoured the interior for them that she found the reptiles’ social hide. Until the arrival of the monsoon, consumer goods and plastic, while
a desert with scant rainfall and sparse any sawscaled vipers seeking refuge in life as enthralling as a soap opera. the young would live under their moth others are waste management and
plant life. Vulnerable to starvation in its cool shade. Once ensconced, they The curious residents didn’t know er’s protection in her burrow. recycling firms — including the likes
drought years, they make do with lo wouldn’t be able to move lest they what to make of a woman who spent all At sunset, Plastic and the other sandas of Procter & Gamble, Shell, BASF
and ExxonMobil, have joined hands
custs. Otherwise, they don’t give the in scared the lizards into their boltholes. her time with lizards. She had intro retreated underground, plugging the en
in an effort to reduce plastic waste
sects a second glance. Unlike other her All they’d have to eat through the day duced herself as a doctoral student. trance of their burrows with mud to de and improve recycling. They’ve agreed to contribute a collective $1 billion
bivores, the spiny tailed lizards lack the would be dry rotis with a spicy pickle. Word spread and villagers lined up to ter night prowlers. Ramesh and Khan over the next five years in areas such research and development of recycling
teeth to chew their greens. And unlike Ramesh watched Plastic swallow consult this newly arrived “physician”. gathered up their stuff and trudged back technology, and cleaning up rivers. The response has been mixed, with
other lizards that lead independent soli mouthfuls of leaves before he and the Khan extricated her from the situation to the village in the fading light. They’d Greenpeace global plastics leader Graham Forbes quoted as saying this was a
tary lives, these social creatures live in others made a run for it. They didn’t by explaining that she had to prove she return the next day for another episode “desperate attempt to maintain the status quo.”
colonies. This combination of exception make for the nearest burrow but to their could herd the sanda, as they called the of the sanda soap opera.
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DELHI
STORYBOARD 7
The Barbary cardsharps Notes from

Lansdowne
Lyrical accounts and black-and-white memories aside, Marrakech preys on tourists, brutally
BY NITIN CHAUDHARY
BY ZAC O’YEAH
T
his winter was not the same as
M
arrakech. Hearing the destination the previous one; I realised this
announced on the airport PA at as drops of sweat settled on my
Amsterdam gets my cerebral ci forehead while I drove through
nema going: Hitchcock’s The Man the bright sun. Numerous traffic conges
Who Knew Too Much, set around the ancient tions on NH 119 added to the frustration
Jamaa elFna square, the Kate Winslet starrer of this traveller seeking solace.
Hideous Kinky; the romcom Sex and the City Lansdowne, a distant hill town nestled
2, which though supposedly set in Abu Dhabi in the Lower Himalayas, is a well heard
was filmed in Marrakech. of, but little travelled to township. Home
I am also seeing in my mind’s eye celebrity to an army cantonment, Lansdowne has
photographer Sir Cecil Beaton’s images of mixed links with history: dating from as
the Rolling Stones lounging around Es Saadi’s late as the Raj era when it nested a unit of
hotel pool while composing their psychedel the British army. The links to the past
ic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. My were never severed: Garhwal Rifles’ can
spiritual soundtrack also includes the 1969 tonment carried forward the baton from
number ‘Marrakesh Express’ by Crosby, Stills the immediate history.
and Nash, composed by Graham Nash after a
train ride from Tangier to Marrakech. But my Metalled roads
favourite is a rare Beatles demo with John Lansdowne is located in Uttarakhand, in
Lennon singing ‘On the Road to Marrakech’ the northeast of Delhi, and at a distance
to a tune which he later repurposed as ‘Jea of approximately 275 km from it. Uttarak
lous Guy’. hand offers numerous choices to travell
I step off the aeroplane at Marrakech’s styl ers. But the spirit is often damped by a
ish if small airport, where passengers are badly congested road network. Hima
made to walk across the tarmac as the sun chal, on the other hand, offers equally
sets in the vast surrounding semidesert, picturesque getaways but with metalled
shining on the snowcapped Atlas peaks on roads and controlled fast moving traffic.
the horizon. Our choice to discover Lansdowne was
After an hour of painfully slow immigra partially inspired by the lack of informa
tion, I’m finally on the rickety airport bus to tion on the subject.
Jamaa elFna. The vibe of Marrakech is fo
cused around this touristy hotspot, booby Wanderlust Street food and night life at Jamaa el-Fna square, Marrakech. Getty images/ istock
trapped with pesky shopkeepers who won’t
let customers leave until they buy something. try feels — how should I put it — unsound, as if themselves from the locals, staying in riad
When I don’t buy, they call
When I don’t buy, they call me ‘bad tourist’. I
escape into a quieter bazaar, squeezing past
Disneyland has given a makeover to an Arab
town. Sure, its moneymaking traditions date <
> me ‘bad tourist’. I escape
hotels run by expats, which would put the
tourist economy in an even trickier position.
overloaded donkey carts straight out of the back a thousand years to a time when its me Already in the time of the Stones, their
Middle Ages and peddlers of decapitated dina was erected as an entrepôt for Saharan into a quieter bazaar, homeawayfromhome hotel became a Mar
goat heads and live fowl, but the way ahead is trade routes. Within the walls of the Jamaa el squeezing past overloaded rakechawayfromMarrakech, as they
blocked. ‘Hollywood film shoot,’ I’m told by a Fna, any number of fondouks — caravanse walked about bedecked in Berber jewellery
bouncer type. rais — dot the souks. Here traders once donkey carts straight out and chic Moroccan robes without ever enter
lodged and stored goods, but most now func of the Middle Ages ing the hustle of a souk. Lennon mostly par
Getting fooled tion as souvenir stalls. tied in a riad owned by J. Paul Getty Jr., where
Fake guides inform me that a museum I am Marlon Brando also lived for a time and
looking for is indefinitely shut, which invaria Gone too soon es are scattered in his Marrakech garden, de which was subsequently owned by French
bly turns out to be not true, but they can Brooding at the café keeps me at a safe dis cided to stop designing black clothes after actor Alain Delon, who eventually sold it to
show me a better museum, that is, another tance from the toothpulling quacks and the buying a house here, and from then on used pop philosopher BernardHenri Lévy, who
souvenir shop. I’m lost in tourism purgatory, wily cardsharps and toddler pickpockets vivid Moroccan colours in his couture. lives there now.
where all roads lead to Jamaa elFna, whose who demand cigarettes in order not to loot
name aptly means ‘assembly of the dead’. me. It puts me in mind of what George Orwell Double edge Free? Not really
Unescoapproved street entertainers here in wrote about Marrakech in the late 1930s: “So It sets me thinking of the double edge to tou To my surprise, though, on my fifth and last
vite me to enjoy their performance, only to mebody noticed that I was lighting a ciga rism: while developing Marrakech into a re day at Jamaa elFna, its vibe grew on me. The
demand 200 dirhams (about ₹1,500) the mo rette. Instantly, from the dark holes all sort for dollar tourists keeps the city alive, it ecstatic drumming and hypnotic base
ment I pull out my camera. An aggressive round, there was a frenzied rush … all cla also turns it into the opposite of a resort — the grooves combined with greasy smoke from a wiki commons
snakecharmer threatens to tie his reptile mouring for a cigarette. Even a blind man so unnecessarily rough bullying to squeeze ex hundred food stalls grilling away as if there’s
around my neck if I don’t pay up. mewhere at the back of one of the booths tra dirhams out of visitors results in tourists #70929
no tomorrow somehow brainwashed me into
The square’s innumerable food stalls are heard a rumour of cigarettes and came craw opting to mill around in guided herds from enjoying myself. Home to an army
remarkably popular despite making me pay
much more than I would for a better meal at
ling out, groping in the air with his hand. In
about a minute I had used up the whole
sight to sight and then hide in opulent hotels.
All riads, traditional ‘inwardlooking’ cour
I also discovered that once the 200dir
ham photo penalties are taken care of, the
<
> cantonment, the place
the nearest restaurant. But taxis ask for five packet.” tyard homes, seem to have been bought up musicians invite you to sit with them as they has mixed links with
times the meter, so I simply cave in and sit Except for Orwell, I’d generally come by rich Europeans after the king relaxed the play. ‘No charge. You already paid. Enjoy for
down at the rundown Le Grand Balcon du across lyrical descriptions of the city — espe foreigninvestment rules, which, while re free.’ So there’s something that’s free in Mar history: dating from the
Café Glacier, furnished with plastic chairs cially from the ’60s, when Marrakech was the sulting in the restoration of many a decaying rakech after all: the rubbing in of the fact that Raj era when it nested a
and overpriced mint tea. southern hub of swinging London, “disco building, hurts native hoteliers (used to rip one has been cheated.
vered” by hippies who made it into a Saharan ping off tourists, which is what happened at unit of the British army
Trapped in time version of Goa. This led to artists, designers, both the hotels I stayed at) and also alters the The author is fascinated with places where
I usually find something to love wherever I authors and other creatives relocating here. demographics of the old town. tourists don’t go, especially if there’s something
go, but Marrakech’s predatory tourism indus Yves Saint Laurent, for example, whose ash Tourists might end up entirely isolating to eat that he hasn’t tried before. The road to Lansdowne passes
through Meerut, Bijnor and Kotdwar,
from where the climb starts. At 600
metres altitude, Lansdowne has a rea
With warmth Harissa, a meat sonably pleasant climate. Seven hours af
and rice dish, is cooked only ter embarking on this journey, we en
during winters. And (below) a tered the quiet town with an entrance
basket of water chestnuts. designed to accommodate various army
Nissar Ahmad & Reuters
halls and messes. The quaint town lay
further ahead with its entrance defined
by a small market.
Peanuts and tea

sun till all their water evaporates. They are There are few options for staying and we
then packed up for the winter months. chose the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam’s
“Our mothers and grandmothers had mas (GMVN) reasonably priced guesthouse.
tered the art of making delicious foods from Soon after checking in, we started disco
these sundried ingredients,” says Zahid G. vering the old world market and
Muhammad, author of the book Srinagar: My searched for local wine; to our disap
City, My Dreamland. “The dishes were time pointment, none was made there.
tested. There were ducks and mallards pre We searched for food. The market was
pared with handh (dried dandelion), shred small and as subtle as any other small
ded or minced meat with dried quince, eggs town market, with shops selling things of
with tomatoes.” Handh or dried dandelion is daily need, peanuts and tea, and trin
cooked with chicken and meat. kets. The interest soon faded away and
we headed back to our hotel room for a
Garlands of greens quiet dinner.
Until recently, come autumn and you would Early next morning, I dreamt of my re
see practically every home in the Valley with latives, dozens gathered near my bed,
garlands of vegetables hanging from the sun shouting at me to get my ways right. The
facing windows. The custom is still preva pandemonium grew till I could take it no
Comfort food for cold weather

lent, but perhaps not as much as before. Red longer and woke up with a start. I rushed
chilli and dried turnip garlands are vivid out of my room to actually find a group of
from a distance. people waiting to occupy the room we
Some of these were also essential to Sufi were in.
Urs, the days of remembrance of the saints.
During the Urs of the Mughalera saint, Haz Quick escape
When it’s freezing in Kashmir it’s time for sundried veggies and harissa rat Sheikh Dawood from Batamaloo, for in Soon, we gathered our stuff, checked out
stance, many people abstain from meat and of our room, and headed to the town
BY PEERZADA ASHIQ “I start stocking up on sundried vegetables only eat sundried turnips. According to le market for morning tea. The locals had
from the villages by the end of autumn. Be gend, during Dawood’s times, it was sun spread their wares and smoked in the
K
ashmir was heavily snowed in again fore the 90s, even households in Srinagar dried turnips that helped the land come crisp mountain air.
this month. Layers of snow covered would sell their sundried vegetables to who through a famine. After tea, we decided to take a walk to
rooftops, lawns, orchards and lesalers here; it was like a cottage industry. And then there’s that famous breakfast Bullar lake, a manmade one situated
roads. People were left house Over time, the practice of sundrying vegeta meat dish that keeps the Valley’s citizens some 200 metres away. On our way, we
bound, and the Valley itself was cut off from bles at home has died down. But people still tough enough to fend off the cold. Made only discovered an open air tennis court in a
the rest of the country for a few days. stock here to buy them from us every win during the three months of winter, the high state of neglect atop a small hill. A step
Winters alter people’s everyday routines, ter,” says the 78yearold Nazeer Ahmad, a calorie harissa is served in shops with special higher was a football court, in a slightly
and this is especially true of food habits. Win shopkeeper at Zaina Kadal. seating arrangements. A huge copper vessel better condition.
ter is the time when the narrow but welllit is kept underground with a fire beneath it. Bullar lake, a waterfilled small crater,
Gaad Kocha or Fish Lane in Srinagar’s histor Unique winter cuisine The diners squat on raised wooden platforms was speckled with beautiful ducks, black
ic Zaina Kadal area sees an unusual buzz as it Every year, the Valley gets landlocked for at and gather around for a cosy binge with and white, that sunny morning. Clean
gears up for its coldweather friends. It’s least three months, beginning December. friends and family. and well maintained, the lake offered
been famous as the capital of sundried veget This is the time a unique coldweather cui Harissa came from Central Asia many cen boating and a pleasant spot to enjoy the
ables for centuries now, and as the tempera sine comes into its own. turies ago, and is served piping hot with local winter sun, or to play a game of football
ture plunges, Gaad Kocha revs up. Dishes made of sundried tomatoes and bread. Most of the old city shops that sell the in the small playground nearby.
bottle gourd, dried aubergines, lentils, tur Come autumn and you dish have to take advance orders because it is
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After a tranquil time, we had our fill.
Stacked in huge sacks nips, radish leaves and dandelion greens, in much demand. This was the quiet, solitary getaway that
The strong smells of local spices and dried quince and spinach come into their own in “It is prepared overnight. The copper ves we were looking for.
vegetables hit you as soon as you come close. the subzero temperatures. home with garlands of sel is filled with rice and meat, which is first
They are all stacked in huge sacks and put out The process is simple: the vegetables are pulverised, and then stirred the whole night The adrenaline rush-seeking travel writer
on the shopfronts. The market looks as if it peeled and chopped, salt is applied as pre vegetables hanging from through,” says Haji Ali Muhammad, a shop lives in Malmö, Sweden.
were stuck in a time warp. servative, then they are put out in the bright the sun-facing windows owner in the old city.
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Easy like Sunday morning LETTER FROM A CONCERNED READER
Life is remote control
Money often costs too much: Ralph Waldo Emerson Respected Madam/ Sir, Pookal DVD after so many years.” I
said, “Kamalam, of course, we will
H
BY BERTY ASHLEY vel, which were set up to provide ello, this is Mathrubooth watch this moment itself; I will never
banking facilities in certain geo am. What is the news in forget this film from 1991, the same
The Hindu? Any difference year we purchased mattress that has
1 On January 27, 1921, The Imperial
Bank of India came into existence.
It was the amalgamation of the Bank
graphical areas. They were esta
blished under the provisions of an
Ordinance passed in September 1975
in 2019 or same thing you
are doing again and again? Madam/
never been changed.”
of Calcutta (1806) and the Banks of and the RRB Act 1976 to provide suffi Sir, all this happy new year and all big One for TV, one for DVD
Bombay and Madras (1840). The cient banking and credit facility fraud. Just to spoil the peace of mind We sat down. I put DVD inside DVD
three Presidency Banks were at the mainly for agriculture. What is the of simple people like you and me. player. And then I pressed remote
helm of Indian banking till the amal full form of RRB and what is the com (Maybe you are not simple. I don’t control button. Nothing. What non
gamation. With the establishment of mon name for these banks? know.) sense. I pressed again. Nothing. I
the RBI, the Imperial bank could be Olden days and all normal people pressed and pressed. Nothing what
doing same things every day without soever. Stupid remote control.
come a purely commercial bank. In
1955 it became what it is known as
now. What did the Imperial Bank
9 This is a public sector bank based
in Bengaluru. It was established
by a group of farmers led by A.B.
fail. Wake up mornings. Take bath.
Have breakfast. Take scooter. Go to
Madam/ Sir, till two weeks back
whether any problem was there?
become? Shetty on October 23, 1931. That day office. Suffer. Come back. Have din Never. One remote for TV. One re
marked the end of Durga Puja and ner. Read newspaper. Go to sleep. mote for DVD player. One remote for
Wake up at 2 a.m. Change mosquito home theatre.
2 The word ‘bank’ comes from the
Latin word ‘banco’ which means
‘bench’. In the 15th century in the Ve
was celebrated to remember goddess
Durga’s victory over demon Mahish
asura. Consequently, what is the
coil. Go to
sleep. Wake up
getty images/ istock One more re
mote is there
netian Republic, moneychangers name of the bank? at 3 a.m. be but nobody
and usurers would put coins and bu cause coil is knows what it is
making too too for. Full and full
siness papers on the bench to start
the transaction. When a moneylen
der became insolvent, they would
10 Emmanuel Nwude is the form
er Director of ‘Union Bank of
X’, X being his native country. In
much smell for
Mrs. Mathru
happy situation.
And then what
break the bench they worked from to 1995, he led a scam where he sold a bootham. Stu happened? Son
signify that they were no longer in new airport in the nation’s capital to pid woman if happened. I
business. The Italian word for ‘bro one of Brazil’s biggest banks Banco mosquito coil have mentioned
ken’ is ‘rotto’. What modern day Lonely money Wells Fargo Bank ATM in sunny Albuquerque. The bank’s ATM Noroeste. He scammed $191 million smells like Cut before my son
word owes its origin to this practice? is also in one of the world’s coldest places. Where is it? getty images/ istock in cash and $51 million in the form of icura means who is working
outstanding interest. The scam was how mosquito from home eve
will go? Wake up at 4 a.m. because ryday like Pablo Escobar. At least, Es
3 In medieval Europe, the Roman
Popes were strictly forbidden to
lend money at interest. To cash in on
for all. It has a new goal to lower the
number of people who make less
than $1.90 a day to three per cent by
to first focus on the obvious and con
duct tests that may confirm the most
likely ____, rather than trying to find a
discovered only three years later and
Emmanuel was taken into custody in
2004. Which country is he from
kumbh mela of mosquitoes dancing
kuchipudi on belly. Secretly put coil
cobar went on plane to foreign coun
tries sometimes.
the financial difficulties of faith was 2030. What bank is this which is pre relatively uncommon condition. which unfortunately has an associa under bed. Go to sleep. Wake up at 6 This fellow is saying, “My god, ap
considered a terrible sin. So in 1179, cisely what its name implies? Which profession does this law speak tion with scams? a.m. because mattress is burning. pa, this is the year 2019 and you are
Pope Alexander III declared money to? Take bath. Have breakfast. Go to of still using one dozen remotes like
fice. Suffer. Etc. etc. Jambavan period? I will get universal
lenders hardened sinners and for
bade them from communion. Unlike
Christianity, this community does
5 Wells Fargo Bank operates the on
ly ATM in this place and has been
dispensing American dollars since 7 This bank could be compared
with Kubera — the lord of wealth.
A molecular biologist from Madurai, our
quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and
is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee Change mattress secretly
remote.” Next day, all remotes gone.
Instead one new universal remote
not forbid the believers to engage in 1998. It takes Wells Fargo 10 months So it was decided that statues of is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. Simple lifestyle. Just make sure to came. Then we had one week inten
usury, so the vast majority of the me to prepare a person to service its Yaksha and Yakshini could be put up @bertyashley change mattress secretly every three sive tuition for using.
dieval ‘bankers’ were from this com ATM, and the employee sent must at its entrance and assume the duty four years without telling Kamalam. “Kamalam,” I said, “remote is not
munity. Which community is this undergo a psychological evaluation of guarding the bank’s treasure. In She is still thinking we are sleeping working. Your son has destroyed my
that has been stigmatised in popular in case they are stranded when the modern context, the figures 10. Nigeria on KurlOn king size model from life yet again.”
culture due to this? flights are cancelled for the season. could also be given the allegorical in Vijayadashami) 1991. I remember because we saw su She said, “I am going to make
Where is this lonely but vital ATM? terpretations of symbolising industry
9. Vijaya Bank (It was formed on the day of perhit film Irumbu Pookal matinee lunch, you please solve this problem
8. Regional Rural Banks or Gramin banks
and afterwards went to, I think, Sai fast. I have to return DVD in the even
4 Started over 70 years ago, this
was initially called ‘The Interna
tional Bank for Reconstruction and 6 Willie Sutton, the famous Ameri
can bank robber once when
and agriculture, subject matters with
which the bank was concerned. In
front of which vital institution would
7. The Reserve Bank of India
6. Doctor. The missing word is ‘diagnosis’.
5. Antarctica
Venkateswara Bed House in T. Nagar.
But these days who will allow
ing.” I called my son.
“Hello Mandashiromani Mathru
Development’. Originally the organi asked ‘Why do you rob banks?’ re you see these two sculptures by Shri
4. World Bank same thing every day? Nobody. If you bootham, stupid remote is not work
cliché
sation worked to improve conditions plied, ‘Because that’s where the mo Ram Kinkar Baij? 3. Jews — Hence the Jewish Moneylender don’t change every two weeks means ing. Where is the old remote?”
in countries devastated by World War ney is’. This gives rise to Sutton’s law 2. Bankrupt you are oldfashioned. Madam/ Sir, He said, “Appa, it is inside one
you also be very careful in your of cardboard box under the bed.”
II, but this quickly evolved into ef in another field where it states that
8 RRBs are Indian Government 1. State Bank of India
forts to end global poverty once and when making a ____, it is worthwhile banks operating at a regional le
Answers
fice. U.S.return MBA fellows will “Which bed?” “Appa, it is under your
come in suitboot and say many bed. Just underneath the hole from
things. Stop newspaper, this is 2019. mosquito coil fire.” “What fire what
Start website immediately. Then you nonsense you are talking, who is this,
will start website. Then accountant sorry wrong number, I will report to
GOREN BRIDGE A-N-A-T-O-M-I-Z-E #70929
will come and say, hello congratula cyber police.”
tions, I have done calculations and Madam/ Sir, unfortunately gap
revenue for last quarter is ₹17 and 50 between bed and floor is too small
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news is that from tomorrow free time
for everybody because everybody
for my hand due to large bone struc
ture. Mrs. Mathrubootham can easily
do but why to put atom bomb inside
termination. volcano.
Anyway Irumbu Pookal story is So movie DVD is gone. Remote is
NorthSouth ● The first Toric Capitole was what I want to tell in this letter. Three gone. But at least wife is there.
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