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GAME OF THRONESWith China poised to take over the United States as the world'sbiggest economy in the near future, it's becoming increasingly obviousthat the economic landscape of the world is going undergo a massiveoverhaul. Take a look at the game changers.

CITY’S THREE-WHEELEDTERROR UNLEASHEDThe growing ‘auto mafia’ near theJubilee Hills Checkpost is provingto be a nuisance for the pas-sengers and taxi drivers alike.

SPOTTED ONTHE RUNWAY We look at new and

mismatched prints that wereseen on the international

runways for SpringSummer 2012 season.

FB VALUE SET ABOVE $85 BN Facebook moved closer toward its hotlyanticipated share offering on Thursday,

setting a price range that values thesocial network below some expectationsbut does establish it as one of the

most valuable tech firms. P20&21

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WATER BOARD FLOGS ITS LAND

REPORT ON PG 6

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With thegovernment andsome private partiesdefaulting on bill payments,the HMWS&SB is forced totake some desperate measures.

With thegovernment andsome private partiesdefaulting on bill payments,the HMWS&SB is forced totake some desperate measures.

SRINIVAS SETTY

Big Cinemas, Ameerpet: 30581470; Cinemax, Banjara Hills: 44565555; Cine Planet , Kompally: 61606060; INOX, Banjara Hills: 44767777;Prasads, Tank Bund Rd: 23448888; PVR, Punjagutta: 8800900009; Talkie Town, Miyapur: 40214175; Tivoli, Secunderabad: 27844973CINEMAS

shops are being held at three differ-ent places in the City — BanjaraHills, Madhapur and Saifabad.Where: Vidyaranya School,

The Terrace,The Actor’s Studio

When: May 14 onwards,Monday-Friday

Contact: 83411 20303

Shifting terrainAn abstract painting exhibition byPandurang Deoghare, is being heldat Iconart Gallery. The exhibition ison till May 5.Where: Iconart Gallery,

Banjara Hills, Rd No12When: Ongoing,

11.30 am onwardsContact: 98499 68797

Scrabble workshopIf those long words leave you con-fused but you still have the inclina-tion to excel at scrabble. Head toSaptaparni for a scrabble workshopfor kids in the age group of 8-14. Where:Saptaparni,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 12

When: Ongoing,10am-12pm,

Contact: (040) 6666 7707

Mother’s Day lunchMay 8 is Mother’s Day. Make theday special for your mother andyour family with the Mother’s Dayspecial brunch.Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills,

Rd No 1When: May 8

The Berlin wallGoethe Zentrum Hyderabad inassociation with DEFA StiftungBerlin and Documentary Circle ofHyderabad presents The Berlin Wall— Memories and Legacies fromMay 4-May 6.Where: Goethe ZentrumWhen: May 4-May 6,

4pm onwards Contact: (040) 2335 0443

European film festivalA European Film Festival organisedby A delegation of the EuropeanUnion and the embassies of the EUMember States in India from May10 to May 20 is being held atAlliance Francaise.Where: Alliance Francaise,

Banjara Hills,Rd No3

When: April 10 onwards, 6pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2355 4483

Chess workshopAlways wanted to beat your bestfriend at a more intelligent gamesuch as chess. Head to Saptaparnifor a chess workshop by Ganeshand Ravi. The workshop is open forkids in the age group of four andabove.Where:Saptaparni,


When: Ongoing,4pm onwards

Contact: (040) 6666 7707

Play timeThe Hindi Play Dooth , produced bySifar Theatre Group, directed byJuniad and written by Sumeet isgoing to be staged at Lamakaan onMay 6.Where: Lamakaan,


When: May 6, 7pm onwards

Contact: 96427 31329

Solo painting exhibitionRamakanth’s Solo PaintingExhibition which deals with theloneliness of the long distance run-ner is being held at Muse ArtGallery, Hyderabad Marriott. Theexhibition features works whichinclude oil - on - canvas, acrylicsand mixed media paintings.Where: Hyderabad Marriott,

Tank BundWhen: Ongoing,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 2752 2999

Theatre workshopSamahaara is hosting special fourweek summer acting workshops.The workshops will be held for aduration of four weeks. The work-

Contact: (040) 6666 1070

Nature and womenA painting exhibition byKumaraswamy B is being held atBeyond Coffee. The paintingdepicts women with other naturalforms such as butterflies.Where: Beyond Coffee, Jubilee

Hills, Rd No 36When: OngoingContact: (040) 2354 5359

Workshop for kidsThe Literature, Intellectual andCultural Hub (LICH) and OxfordBookstore is hosting a workshopfor kids called Enrich which dealswith mathematics and science.Where: Oxford Bookstore,

The Park, SomajigudaWhen: May 1 onwardsContact: 92461 12461

Cricket frenzyMocha and Mocha Express is host-ing IPL specials with live screeningof the match and various pizzaspaying ode to the IPL teams andtheir spirits.Where: Mocha — Banjara Hills

Mocha Express — InorbitMall

When: Ongoing, 4pm onwards

Contact: (040) 23350144

Food and cricketGreat food and a great game ofcricket makes for great news. Headto News Cafe to catch the IPLmatches live and exclusive along

LUNAR LANDING

with some great IPL special food.Where: News Cafe,

Inorbit Mall,Madhapur

When: Ongoing,8pm onwards

Contact: (040) 4010 1236

IPL melaWho said IPL should be only aboutcricket. Ella Hotel, Gachibowli ishosting an IPL special mela.Where: Mocha — Banjara Hills

Mocha Express — InorbitMall

When: Ongoing, 4pm onwards

Contact: (040) 6628 8488

Artistic strokesA painting exhibition titledTwinkle is being held at Inspire ArtGallery. The exhibition features art-work by R Usha Vinod and B UshaKumar. Where: Inspire Art Gallery,

HydergudaWhen: Ongoing,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 3062 8447

Painting exhibitionAn exhibition of paintings by LaluShaw is being held at Shrishti ArtGallery. The exhibition is on till April10.Where: Shrishti Art Gallery,

Jubilee Hills,Rd No 15

When: Ongoing,11am onwards

Contact: (040) 2354 0023

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Proving arms of the laware long enough, theGandhinagar policehave, after over a year,

nabbed a man who was accusedof putting to torch a bike thatbelongs to his love-rival.

P Mahinder alias Raju hasbeen held on charge of burningthe bike on March 22 last year,and since Raju managed to keephimself away from the policeeye, until the other day hebumped into sub-inspector PShiva Prasad said.

Raju had fallen in love with agirl, Laxmi (20). But he realisedto his chagrin later that he mustcontent with a rival, R Raghuwho was also wooing Laxmi.

The girl, it is said, had noqualms going with her twolovers who competed with eachother. In the race, Raju wasfalling behind.

After Raju caught the duored-handed, he decided to dosomething about it. And, that

was to destroy the vehicle thatRaghu used to.

To spite his rival, Rajuallegedly burned Raghu’s bike. It

is the bike that is giving themfreedom, Raju thought. Once itis gone, the two will be ground-ed, he assumed.

Raju, 24, is a native ofPallagutta village, StationGhanpur Mandal of Warangaldistrict, he has worked as cookin a hotel and lived in SabarmatiNagar of Musheerabad.

Laxmi studied upto interme-diate and she belongs to a poorfamily. Her father Ellaiah worksas a labourer and they are resid-ing at lower Tankbund near NTRstadium. Due to her poverty shestopped her studies and is work-ing in a beauty parlour in lowerTankbund near BandaMaissama temple.

A twist to the story is thatRaghu happens to be the brotherof the parlour owner. This gavehim an edge over Raju, it waslater learnt during interrogation.

Raghu, 25, has done hisMaster of ComputerApplications and is now search-ing for a job. Laxmi and Raghudeveloped intimacy workingtogether in the parlour.

It has now been discoveredthat Raju was not traceablebecause after he burnt the bikeof Raghu, the family fearedreprisal. So, Raju’s father PAchaiah who is the head chef ina hotel decided to move toStation Ghanpur.

CRIMEPostnoon [email protected]

This morning, Radha Rani,47,a resident of Himayat Nagarwas walking to a temple in

Basheerbagh area with her hus-band Venkataih when two bike-borne men whizzed past them andin a jiffy relieved her of a 7 tolasgold chain.

This happened right in front ofthe police commissioners head-quarters, a high-security area. Assoon as Radha realised what hadhappened, the snatchers spedaway. The husband and wife raisedan alarm. But nobody came out ofthe police headquarters whereaspassersby gathered and enquiredas to what had happened.

If the cops from the commis-sionerate had immediatelychased the bikers, there was hopeof catching them, said the victimlater.

When everything was over, theNarayanguda police team reachedthe spot and booked a case ofsnatching. In the shock, the couplehad failed to take a note of thelicense number of the bike.

But the trouble, say witnessesis that in the area, many vehiclesply without the statutory numberplate .

Woman robbedin front of police

In blatant and dangerous flouting of safety laws, massive drilling and blastingof rocks is taking place right on Road No 36. This picture shows rock-drilling ona roadside plot abutting Speaker N Manohar’s residence. GHMC city plannerMoinuddin told Postnoon that he has no knowledge of it. SRINIVAS SETTY

RULES BLOWN TO BITS

Bike falls prey to love story FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY


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Hussain Sagar, with itsnatural beauty, is ahotspot for the citizensto unwind. Quite natu-

rally, a plethora of food and bev-erage restaurants have spawnedin this area, with their ultimateselling point being the locationoverlooking the lake.

However, the grim reality ofthe situation is that many of thesejoints are not operating legally inthe area. Some hotels and enter-tainment parks have gone to theextent of dumping their sewageinto the lake, disregarding envi-ronmental rules and the alreadycontaminated condition of thelake. Sewage treatment plants orSTP’s, which are mandatory forany recreational park or eatery isabsent.

Leased to the Tourism Boardby the Pollution Control Boardof Andhra Pradesh, the one kilo-meter stretch is filled with eater-ies. The opposite end of the lakealso harbours a multi-specialityhospital and other restaurants.Law demands that any commer-cial establishment present onthe lake bank should have con-sent for establishment(estab-lishment (CFE) and consent foroperation (CFO) issued by thepollution control board.

E n v i r o n m e n t a lengineer of the PCB,D Krupanand said, “Jalavihar and Ohri’shave been issuednotices for not oper-ating an STP in theirestablishment. Thematter is yet to beresolved as the case islodged in theSupreme Court.These establishmentsdo not possess a consent foroperation and despite severalnotices to which they have notresponded to, they have a freehand in running their business-es.”

It is surprising that many ofthese restaurants’ businessesthrive despite their location onthe edge of a stinking lake. There

is no concern forhealth and safety.Manager of theWaterfront restaurantsays, “Being a closedrestaurant, we onlyoffer a view of the lake.There is no stink orsmell seeping into ourrestaurant. Also, weare very regular in pay-ing the GHMC to col-lect and treat our

sewage and garbage.”Eat Street which offers a

panoramic view of the lake issupposedly one of the besteateries in Hyderabad. Even thegeneral public seems to have noqualms about eating next to astinking swamp of toxins, asmany people seem to wave awayany health concern.

Rahul Rao, a regular at EatStreet says, “I barely spend morethan half an hour here. The foodis good and the view of the lakeis great, which is more than sat-isfactory for me. Besides, eatinghere is relatively lighter on mypocket as compared to the otherposh areas in the City.”

Last year, a multi-specialityhospital was charged for notoperating an STP to treat theirown sewage. After serious effortsby the PCB and the HMDA, thehospital now possesses a fullyworking sewage treatment plant.

However, the thriving eater-ies have found cover with thejudiciary that has allegedlyignored their case. When con-tacted regarding this issue, thegeneral manager of Jalaviharrefused to comment.

Hussainsagar

NEWS BRIEFSConfusion regardingEamcet counsellingThere was confusion among the

Inter students who are writingimprovements and supplementaryexams in physics. The students do notknow if they would be called for coun-selling by the Eamcet authorities or ifthey would get the ranks like regularstudents. Minister for educationParthsarathy clarified that the interexam was his responsibility and therest of the process would be dealt bythe Higher education department.

350cr sanctioned forGodavari phase 1

Give tickets only toparty leaders: Gandra

As part of execution of the firstphase of Godavari drinking water

supply scheme for the city, theMunicipal Administration and UrbanDevelopment department has sanc-tioned `350 crores to the HMWS&SBfor laying ring mains from the masterbalancing reservoir of the Godavari tothe existing distribution reservoirs atLingampally, Alwal and Sainikpuri videGOMs number 188. The water thusdrawn will be supplied through theexisting distribution net work.

Government Chief Whip GandraVenkataramana Reddy has

demanded that the party high com-mand give party ticket to a party lead-er only.He said that it was not accept-able to the party leaders if the partygives ticket to Sammarao, a TDP leaderjoining the ruling party. He allegedthat TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naiduhad met union home minister PChidambaram only to obstruct the for-mation of a separate Telangana state.

A tale of food and feculence

Jalavihar and Ohri’shave been issuednotices for not operating an STP intheir establishment.The matter is yet tobe resolved as thecase is in the SC.

Senior Environ mental Engineer,PCB, D Krupanand

SAI RAM REDDY

Hussain Sagar's banks support scores of eateries which are popular amongHyderabadis. But are the reeking premises of the lake an ideal eating spot?

Surprise inspectionheld by at Miralam

Adhar Sinha, managing director ofHMWS&SB, along with D Sunder

Rami Reddy, director (technical),HMWS&SB, made a surprise inspectionof Miralam filter beds, section office,filling station, and reviewed the work-ing of filters and found that the filtra-tion has been improved after laying ofanthracite coal. The Managing Directoralso reviewed the summer action planof O&M Din I.


U Srinivas [email protected]

AP’s former CMChandrababu Naidu hastroubles galore. Thethinning party leader

ranks is not the only worry butkeeping the flock itself is becom-ing a gigantic task with YSRC andTRS chipping away at the partyship in unison.

Senior leaders likeUmmareddy Venkateshwarlu,Mysoora Reddy, VallabhaneniVamsi looking for alternatives hasdemoralised the party and Naiduhas to plug the leak quickly in thelight of the imminent by-elec-tions to 18 Assembly seats, sayparty observers. Samma Rao join-ing the Congress on Wednesdayto contest from Parkala hasshocked the party.

The exodus just before the by-polls has tarnished the party’simage, so much so that manyareas are bereft of leaders willingto take up the political challenge.

What’s more, Ummareddyopenly accusing ChandrababuNaidu for his authoritarian ways

has worsened the situation.Meanwhile, the list of TDP lead-ers hitch-hiking the YSRC band-wagon is growing. Besides,Vallabhaneni Vamsi, Mohan fromVijayawada, Kodali Nani, a fol-lower of Junior NTR, T SrinivasYadav from Secunderabad,

Kommi Lakhsmaiah Naidu fromAtmakoor are also said to be intouch with the YSRC. GaddebabuRao, another heavy weight hasalready joined the YSRC.

But why this exodus? Somesenior leaders in the party saythat the leaders who were inac-

tive were trying to look at YSRCwhich was lapping them up tocreate hype before the bypolls.Lure of money is another reasonrumoured in the circles.

Mysoora Reddy a formerCongress man was expecting arepeat of Rajyasabha member-ship with TDP. It was given toDevendar Goud from Hyderabad.Devendar returned to TDP aftermaking rounds with his ownTelangana party and the PRP.

But the TDP leadership forclear reasons, does not put up aworried face. Senior TDP leaderVarla Ramaiah said that the exo-dus will not make any differenceto the TDP and that the peoplewho joined Congress and YSRCwere dead wood.

While this is going on, theChandrababu Naidu is promisingnine-hour free power supply tofarmers. Babu also reiterated thepromises of free rice, healthschemes, pensions and othersops to the people.

The leaders and the cadrewho are out of power since manyyears have become financiallyweak and are in no mood tospend the money as they don’tbelieve that TDP has a brightfuture.

A senior leader since NTR’stime said party royalty hasbecome a fable and is no longervalid. “People want power andmoney at the earliest possibleand the exodus was a result ofthis attitude,” he pointed out.

At a time when ChandrababuNaidu is sweating it out on thestreets to secure victory for theparty, the party candidates aresaid to be very reluctant to contest.

More than 10 seats were filledby the candidates after Babu gavethem a pep talk. It is learnt thatBabu assured them he would takecare of everything including theexpenditure for the bypolls. Inthe earlier contest, the TDP haspumped in money for the candi-dates but could not win any ofthe seats. Babu has to make a lotof efforts to see that they contestall the seats in this by-elections.

In the face of this exodus,even the family feud is not both-ering Naidu. Party leaders are notworried at actor-relativeBalakrishna’s entry into the partyor Junior NTR’s displeasure withNaidu. The most difficult thing isthe loss of credibility of the partyat the grassroots, party leaderssay in private.

Postnoon [email protected]

Deputy chief minister andminister for HigherEducation Damodar

Rajanarsimha has said that stepswould be initiated to improvethe quality of Engineering stud-ies in the State. He also assuredthe students who are appearingfor Eamcet that the governmentwill take all steps to protect theinterests of the students. Headded that only 15 per cent ofthe students coming out of theEngineering colleges wereemployable and there was everyneed to improve the quality ofeducation in these colleges.

Talking to Postnoon,Rajanarsimha agreed that therewas no need for increasing thenumber of colleges in the Stateas they are already aplenty. It isthe quality of colleges that needimproving and not the number.He reminded that the All IndiaCouncil of Technical Education(AICTE) has permitted closure of40 Engineering colleges in thestate. The managements wereforced to close down as no onecame forward to run them andthe admissions were also verypoor.

The minister said that 56institutes have applied for clo-sure and about 40 of them wereslated for closure by the AICTE.

Coming to this year’s contro-versy on the improvement examand Eamcet counseling for interstudents the minister said thatthe interest and the future of thestudents will be the first priorityand that the physics exam forthe second year was conductedearly due to the same reason.

Popular educationist ChukkaRamaiah said that the decreasein the number of studentsenrolling in engineering hasresulted in the closure of the col-

leges. Out of the three lakh seatsoffered by more than 700 engi-neering colleges in the State,more than one lakh seatsremained vacant for the academ-ic year 2011-12. This year there isevery chance that about 1.5 lakhseats may remain vacant.

Convenor of EamcetRamana Rao said that they willsee to it that students will begiven all the priority to get seatsin the State so that they will notopt for other states. Nearly 256colleges reported less than 100admissions, indicating a sharpdecline in demand for engineer-ing courses.

The unions of engineeringcolleges from rural areas met theChief Minister N Kiran KumarReddy, urging him to write to theAICTE that no permission begiven to any new colleges toestablish in the State.

The government has writtena letter to the HRD ministry notto accord permission to any newcolleges in the state. The AICTEhas also decided that no permis-sion will be given to new collegesto open from next year and newstreams or seats will be addedhere in the State.

POLITICS

Fall in Engineering enrolment promptsqualitative improvement

Congress MLA and WhipJayprakash Reddy is one ofthe visitors who comes to

the Chief Minister’s camp officeand the State secretariat on adaily basis. He makes it a point totalk to the camping media afterevery visit.

The other day after meetingthe officials of the CMO,Jayprakash told Postnoon that thevested interests are spreading liesabout him that he had amassedcrores. But he has more liabilitiesthan assets.

Interestingly, the man whosays he has no money to spendlavishly, admits he is planning tolaunch a television channel soon.Does he realise how much moneya television channel guzzles?Where will he get it from? “Frompublic,” was the answer. Butwhen pointed out there arealready too many channels andsome of them without viewer-ship, he said, “My channel will bedifferent. I will keep enoughmoney as buffer and see that thesalaries are paid on time and thefund must take care of itself.”

He says his attempt was tobring truth to the public. “Don’twe all want to?” asked somemedia persons but he had van-ished by then.

Whip JP’swisdomfloors media

Sl No Year Colleges No of seats

1. 2003 – 2004 225 65,9602. 2004 – 2005 238 82,2253. 2005 – 2006 262 92,6004. 2006 – 2007 282 98,7934. 2007 – 2008 337 1,18,9935. 2008 – 2009 530 1,74,7426. 2009 – 2010 656 2,26,0007. 2010 – 2011 705 2,52,000

No takers for the burgeoning colleges

Increasing the number of engineering colleges in the State is no longer an option

No tears over deserters, says TDP


ICONIC CITYTaramati Baradari, Ibrahimbagh

Hyderabad as a Cityhas a lot to offer interms of heritage

and sights. We takea look at the various

places that makethis City so special

Ancient romancesare always a sub-ject of interest and

intrigue. No wonderTaramati Baradari is sopopular, as it was builtas a tribute to the king’sfavourite courtesan.

Located inIbrahimbagh, the struc-ture is actually a caravanstation where duringolden days travellerswould stop to rest. Andhere courtesans wouldentertain them. Amongthe courtesans, Taramatihad caught the attentionof King Abdullah QutbShah. Many stories arefloated around about

Taramati, but one saysthat when she used tosing to the travellers, hervoice would carry to thepalace and the king wasdrawn to it.

Today TaramatiBaradari is managed bythe tourism department.The huge pavilion wasbuilt using techniquesthat modern architectssay was much ahead ofits times. It includes a500 capacity theatre, anarena that can house1,600 people and also abanquet hall. Thetourism department hasalso opened a multi-cui-sine restaurant here.

Aishwarya Yerra

Inkeshaf [email protected]

The Hyderabad MetroWater Supply andSewerage Board(HMWS&SB) is facing a

drought of a different kind. Witha majority of the biggies and thegovernment not paying their reg-ular bills, the Board is now forcedto mortgage its property toimplement the Godavari drink-ing water project which benefitsHyderabad.

The supplier of drinkingwater to over 7.5 million resi-dents of Hyderabad, RangaReddy and Medak districts, thewater board recently thrown upits hands saying, “Save us.” Thewater board currently has a lia-bility of `580 crore, which it isunable to repay. “The State gov-ernment had promised us bud-getary allocations to pay thisloan. We are solely depending onit,” said M Satyanarayana, direc-tor (projects), HMWS&SB.

Left with little option, theHMWS&SB has mortgaged itsproperties to avail a loan of`2,000 crore from Hudco(Housing and UrbanDevelopment Corporation). Theloan is being taken to completethe prestigious `3,375 croreGodavari Drinking Water SupplyProject by the end of 2013, whichis envisaged to supply 172 MGDto the residents of Hyderabad.Satyanarayana told Postnoonthat the financier major wouldrelease `1,000 crore in the next15 days as the formalities ofmortgage had been completed.

Satyanarayana said it (loan)was for setting up a permanentinfrastructure and therefore it is

an asset. But the board officialsgrimace when asked how manycustomers are paying and howmany shirking. Of the total of 8lakh customers on its list, only3.7 lakh regularly pay their

monthly bills. The remainingsimply allow the arrears tomount. As many of them are gov-ernment offices and influentialprivate players, the board can’tcrack the whip. The huge gap

between income and expendi-ture forced the board to revisewater tariff in December lastyear.

Properties worth `2300crore to be mortgagedThe water board has prepared alist of over 100 of its propertiesearlier following a request byHudco to avail the loan. Out ofthem Hudco has selected 30prime properties for the purposeof mortgage. The board had esti-mated the total value of theseproperties as `2,300 crores. Itmay be emphasised here that theboard was forced to mortgage itsproperties following budgetaryallocation of `400 crore by theState. The question many ask ishow will the Board, which is lefthigh and dry and unable to meetits daily needs, pay back suchmassive loans?

Chief Minister N Kiran KumarReddy on Thursday

reviewed the political situationin Nellore district with the dis-trict Congress leaders in view ofby-elections.

Reddy held a meeting withthe Nellore district Congressleaders in the camp office anddiscussed the political situationin Nellore Parliament con-stituency and UdayagiriAssembly segment. He dis-cussed the strategy to be adopt-ed in both the constituenciesand ensure victory of the partycandidates. The district leadersexplained the political equa-tions prevailing in the two con-stituencies and made some sug-gestions to be adopted in theby-elections.

Hearing the suggestions ofthe district leaders patiently, theCM opined that all leadersshould work together and spareno efforts to ensure the victoryof the party candidates.

Finance minister AnamRamanarayana Reddy,Maheedhar Reddy, MLA AnamVivekananda Reddy, Congresscandidate of Nellore TSubbarami Reddy were present.

All India Muslim MinorityOrganisation has demand-

ed that the Union governmentprovide 10 per cent reservationto economically backwardMuslim people in educationand employment sectors.

Organisation presidentSyed Muktar Hussain lamentedthat though committees analyt-ically studied living conditionsof Muslim people and submit-ted reports to the Centre in2007, the government failed toimplement their recommenda-tions. Besides, the 15-pointprogramme by PM ManmohanSingh is yet to be implemented.He demanded that the Stategovernment ensure fee reim-bursement and scholarships toMuslim students on par withBC students in the State.

The Telangana SecularFront president Farooqdemanded that the State gov-ernment grant `30 lakh forprinting and preserving rareoriental manuscripts inDiaratul Marif-ul-Osmania. Healso wanted the government torecruit surveyors and linemento expedite second survey ofWakf lands and ensure its com-pletion in two months.

Water board pawns its landCM reviewsNelloresituation

AIMMOdemands 10 percent quota forpoor Muslims

Total cost of the project: `3,375 crQuantity of water tobe sourced: 172 MGDAmount spent so far byState and Water Board: `1,200 croreBudgetary Allocation bythe State (2012-13): `400 crore

Some of the prime propertiesmortgaged by the board1. Amberpet Sewerage

Treatment Plant 2. Nagole STP Center 3. Land acquired for Godavari

Drinking Water Supply Project 4. Asif nagar and Miralam

Filter beds

Some of the governmentdefaulters GHMC: `49.4 croresSurround GramPanchayats: `41.52 crores Rural Water SupplyDepartment: `29.74 croresSurroundingMunicipalities: `23.84 croresMilitary EngineeringServices: `7.13 croresPolice Department: `5.78 croresRajiv Gruha KalpaCorporation: `4.46

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Who hasn’t experienced hagglingwith autorickshaw drivers overthe tampered metres, their

boorish attitude, or in desperate times,begged them? Come to the auto-standnear Jubilee Hills check post, and youwill realize that autorickshaw drivers areat a whole new level of rudeness here —they are no less than a mafia.

For starters, they don’t let any sharedtaxis stop and board passengers as thisaffects their ‘business’. If a taxi driver iscaught doing so, he is beaten up, the carwindows are damaged and the tyres arepunctured — all this right under the traf-fic police’s nose, who ironically, stand justa few metres ahead at the crossroads.

Although haggling with the autodrivers isn’t new, the drivers make surethat the passenger is forced to go onlywith them and the passengers arecharged exorbitant rates. If another autocomes along, he is shooed away withthreats and abuses. In turn, the passen-ger has to either walk a considerable dis-tance to hire another auto or give in tothe demands.

Although there is a bus bay where aboard reads ‘other vehicles not allowed’,autorickshaw drivers wear a callous atti-tude and park their vehicles here. Thisnot only blocks the bus but also theincoming traffic. In fact, a little ahead,there is a separate parking assigned forauto where a signboard reads ‘Only 6’.However, at any given time there are noless than 12 autos parked.

With no sense of hygiene, drivers

relieve themselves on the footpath,which now emits a foul stench. The rick-shaw drivers are well established here,much to the dismay of passengers.

“I feel scared coming here becausemost of the time the auto drivers are foul-mouthed even to women. They makesure they get their way. Every day, I haveto pay at least `30 extra over the metre toreach my home in Marredpally. Since noother mode of vehicle is allowed to stophere, they have a monopoly. Many of mycolleagues have started using busesinstead as not only are they more eco-nomical, but one can avoid the unneces-sary arguments,” said Lakshmi D, anemployee of a company located close tothe auto-stand.

“I have witnessed the helpless taxidrivers being beaten up by the autodrivers. This happens almost every dayespecially after dark. They get into anargument as soon a taxi even comesclose. What is surprising is that there is

nobody to stop this madness,” said VParthav, a passenger.

However, when we confronted theparked autorickshaw drivers here, theydid not deny shooing away taxi drivers,but acted to be innocent to the hooligan-ism they have been accused of. “A sharedtaxi driver takes `20 to drop passengersto Secunderabad or Uppal. We chargeonly `10 to go till Punjagutta. They aretaking away our passengers. We only askthe taxis to move ahead,” said ZahidKhan, an autorickshaw driver. “We neverbeat anybody up. We only stop the taxisfrom picking up passengers here. All alle-gations are baseless,” said anotherautorickshaw driver, Mohammed Imran.

The traffic police seem oblivious tothe glaring and increasing issue of theauto mafia. The deputy commissioner ofpolice (traffic), Rama Krishna, said thathe wasn’t aware of this. “I will have tolook into this. If we find that this is hap-pening, we will take action,” he said.

City’s three-wheeled terror

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Apart from the geographicproximity, the Kannadigasshare with Telugus many

things, of which common script isthe most important. Telugu script isderived from Old Kannada.

With this is an a modern rela-tionship that cements the ties ofpeople from the two states — infor-mation technology. Bangalore andHyderabad are cyber cities and thatmake the two cities witnessing a fairexchange of youth trained in IT.

There are more than one lakhfamilies residing in Hyderabad sincecenturies. “Hyderabad is so muchlike Delhi and Mumbai, yet so differ-ent. This has a lot to do with thewarm and accommodative nature ofpeople here. Thanks to the growing

IT sector many software engineersfrom Karnataka have made this Citytheir home,” observed ManoramaDevi, member of KarnatakaSikshana Samithi and a resident ofHyderabad for 40 years.

The Kannadiga youth are mostlyinto the IT industry but manyKannadigas who came to the Cityduring the Nizam’s rule are into thefood industry.

In addition to the communityassociations there are marriageassociations in the City. “TheSamyukta Karnataka Sangh helps usfind a suitable match in our owncommunity. We strongly believe inmarrying within our community. Weoften gather in any of the associa-tion or community halls for bhajansand other religious ceremonies andfestivities which also provides anopportunity to interact with ourcommunity and is also a meetingpoint for Kannadigas to find a suit-able partner,” adds Manorama.

The growing ‘auto mafia’ near the Jubilee Hills Checkpost is proving to bea nuisance for the passengers and taxi drivers alike

‘IT’ binds City Kannadigas and Telugus

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The Lok SattaParty has decided

to join hands withLeft parties sincethere is no point inreplacing one tradi-tional party withanother since all ofthem are steeped incorruption and losttheir capacity toaddress people’sproblems, said LokSatta Party WorkingPresident DVVS.Varma in a mediastatement. AGENCY

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The US TransportationDepartment has slapped a$80,000 fine on Air India forfailing to post customer ser-vice and tarmac delay con-tingency plans on its websiteand adequately inform pas-sengers about its optionalfees. This is the first penaltyassessed for a violation ofthe Department's new air-line consumer rules thattook effect last August.From August 2011, foreigncarriers operating to the USwith at least one aircraft of30 or more seats have beenrequired to adopt contingen-cy plans for lengthy tarmacdelays as well as customerservice plans, and to postthese plans on their web-sites.

Embattled carrier Qantassaid on Friday it will delaythe delivery of two A380superjumbos as part of a fur-ther $410 million in spendingcuts as it works to turn itsbusiness around. TheAustralian airline hadalready announced Aus$500million in cuts in February,which included job losses forcabin crew and pilots as wellas in catering, engineeringand ground operations.Qantas has also beenreviewing its maintenanceoperations to identify howto keep costs down, whichcould see more jobs go.Chief executive Alan Joycesaid the latest savings wouldcome from delaying thedelivery of two AirbusA380s.

Iwas waiting for Srikanth tocome back to me. I knew thathe was convinced aboutinvesting in stocks. He had

the risk appetite and the ability totake the risk of investing instocks. But, he did not know howto pick or select stocks. And thatis what brings him to my roomtoday.

Srikanth: Prof. Nicky, I havebeen reading the financial news-papers, listening to experts on TV,talking to my friends and familyand going through stock pricecharts. I am not able to under-stand which stock I should putmy money in. Moreover, you hadonce told me about not puttingall my money in one basket. Howdo I select which sectors andwhich stocks to put my moneyin? Can't you do it for me?

Prof. Nicky: No. I will not do itfor you. I am an academician. Nota financial advisor. But there arepeople who can do it for you.

Srikanth: Really? Who? Arethey expensive?

Prof. Nicky: Yes, I am not jok-ing. You can invest your money ina Mutual Fund. Mutual Funds aremanaged by fund managers whohave expertise in stock pickingand analysing the companies

based on their performance. Infact, in India, close to `6,00,000crores is being managed by themutual fund industry.

Srikanth: That is a mind bog-gling figure! How do they func-tion? Are they expensive?

Prof. Nicky: The MutualFunds take money from manyinvestors and the fund managerinvests the pooled amount in thestock markets (or the other mar-kets like debt, money market,commodities). The cumulativereturns from these investment,are passed on to the investors,after deducting the expenses ofrunning the fund. Hence theexpenses of running the fund and

the salary of the fund manager isshared by many investors.

Srikanth: Seems like a lot ofpower is given to the fund man-ager. What if he is not good at hisjob?

Prof. Nicky: Hmmm...thefund managers are governed bystrict guidelines on fund objec-tives, sector weights, risk andother stock selection criteria likeliquidity, size and so on. Also,most of the funds hire qualified,experienced professionals astheir portfolio managers. A littlebit of personal bias is bound to bethere and you should be preparedto take that risk. The informationabout the performance of a fund

is easily available. There are fundmanagers who are more consis-tent in giving better returns. Youcan chose the fund on the basis ofwho manages it, apart from thelooking at the risks and returns.

Srikanth: How is the returnon a Mutual Fund calculated?Since the fund invests in manystocks, how do we know thereturn on the fund?

Prof. Nicky: Good Question. Iam glad you are thinking. In thecase of mutual funds, instead ofPrices, we have the Net AssetValues (NAVs). The NAV is the netasset of the fund (total assetsminus liabilities) divided by thetotal number of outstandingunits. Just like shares of a compa-ny, you have units of a mutualfund. The value of a unit isreferred to as the NAV. You cancalculate the return by taking thedifference in NAVs on the date ofinvestment and the date of sell-ing the units divided by the NAVon the date of investment.

Srikanth: So it works just likeshares?

Prof. Nicky: Exactly like it.And you get the benefits of anexpert investing your money foryou, you save time, you have abetter diversified portfolio, andyou may even invest in a tax sav-ing scheme if you want.

The author is a seniorresearcher at Centre for

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NEW YORK: Facebook moved closer toward its hotly antici-pated share offering on Thursday, setting a price range that val-ues the social network below some expectations but establishesit as one of the most valuable tech firms. An updated regulatoryfiling called for shares to be priced between $28 and $35, whichwould value the irm between $70 billion and $87.5 billion. AFP

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Sheikh Qayoom

SRINAGAR: With zebra cross-ings, road dividers and fencesbeing painted, even during adownpour, Srinagar is beingspruced up as top offices reopenhere after six months of function-ing in winter capital Jammu. Butresidents are asking if all this isreally necessary in the face ofmore pressing needs.

Under a two-century-old tra-dition of the erstwhile DograMaharajas, the seat of governanceshifts between Jammu andKashmir’s twin capitals of Srinagarand Jammu every six months —known as the Darbar Move.

“The logic behind shifting theseat of governance lock, stock andbarrel between Srinagar and Jam -mu was that the Dogra Maharajasand their courtiers did not like thebitter winter cold of the valley,”said a college teacher here who did

not want to be named.“Our democratic ‘maharajas’

are no less than their predeces-sors. The tradition must contin-ue. After all, except for the minis-

ters and senior bureaucrats, allothers living in the valley are chil-dren of a lesser god in Kashmir,”the teacher said sarcastically.

Commenting on the tradition

of shifting the seat of governancebetween the two capitals, ChiefMinister Omar Abdullah also saidin one of his tweets recently thatthe tradition of the six-monthly

Darbar Move is outdated and yethe was not sure if he could everchange it.

“Do I think the ‘Durbar Move’is a waste of money? Yes I do. Isthere an alternative? I haven’tseen a viable alternative suggest-ed,” Omar posted on his tweet.

The problem with the officialfacelift going on in the city thesedays is that it is happening in thebackdrop of messy traffic man-agement, an even messier urbandrainage system and the growinghorror of stray dogs that havebeen biting a hundred locals a dayin this city of 1.3 million souls.

It is clear that the priorities ofthe state administration aresomewhere misplaced. “Insteadof wasting precious paint duringrain and thunder, the stateauthorities should focus on thetraffic chaos in the city,” Faro oqAhmad, 28, who works in the PressEnclave area of the city told IANS.

Imran Khan

PATNA: Caste and religiousprejudices in Bihar’s villages areaffecting the central govern-ment’s education and healthschemes — such as anganwadis— for impoverished families,says a report by the Institute ofHuman Development.

The report, a copy of which isavailable with IANS, cites caseswhere upper caste children werenot allowed to go to anganwadicentres in Dalit or lower castehamlets and vice versa.Anganwadis are governmentsponsored child and mothercare centres at the grassroots.

Also, anganwadi centres in

Muslim hamlets see no childrenfrom upper caste and Dalit fam-ilies, says the report.

Anganwadi centres are partof the Ministry of Women andChild Development’s flagshipIntegrated Child DevelopmentScheme. The deeply-ingrainedbiases are depriving hundreds ofchildren from education, mid-day meals and vaccination, saysthe report.

The report was preparedafter an on-the-spot survey of 14villages of nine districts in Biharby a team of researchers fromthe New Delhi-based institute.

The report says in Amrahi vil-lage of Rajpur block in Rohtasdistrict, upper caste children did

not go to the centre in a lowercaste hamlet. This led to manychildren not getting vaccinatedagainst serious diseases.

Vaccination could not takeplace either in the Dalit Paswanhamlets or the Brahmin ham-lets because the Brahminsrefused send their children toPaswan hamlets nor allowPaswan children into theirarea, says the report.

In Madhubani district’sMahisan village, children frombackward caste Yadav andextremely backward castesKahtve and Musahar did notattend anganwadi centres in aMuslim hamlet.

Similarly, in Jitwarpur inAraria district, tribal Santhalchildren did not attend centres

in a Brahmin hamlet since onlythe Brahmin were given foodthere, the report says.

In Dewan Parsa village ofGopalganj district, Paswan chil-dren were summoned onlywhen there was an inspection,though the headcount was keptthe same throughout the year.

Similarly, the caste ofAccredited Social HealthActivists (ASHA) also face preju-dices in their work. It was foundthat they received cooperationor no cooperation dependingupon their caste.

ASHAs are an integral part ofthe rural health care systemrelated to deprived sections ofsociety.

Madhulika Sonkar

NEW DELHI: The PlanningCommission’s proposal to mergethe two-decade-old Aids controldepartment with the flagshipNational Rural Health Mission(NRHM) has caused a stir in thehealth ministry, with some offi-cials even saying it could reversethe gains made by India in bring-ing down HIV infections.

Concerns have been raisedover the efficacy and outreach ofthe National AIDS ControlOrganisation’s (NACO) HIV-Aidsrelated facilities if deliveredthrough NRHM.

India has a population of over2.5 million HIV positive people,the third largest globally. Over thelast decade, the new HIV infec-tions annually have come downby 50 per cent.

“The Planning Commission’sproposal on NRHM convergenceis still under consideration. Weneed to take stock of the prepara-tions for this integration wherethere are multiple issuesinvolved, with the fear of goingwrong on sensitive Aids controlprogrammes,” a senior healthministry official told IANS oncondition of anonymity.

NACO, an autonomous bodyunder the Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare, was set up to com-bat Aids — allocating funds to vol-untary organisations and stateAids control societies, structurepolicies for targeted interven-tions, disease-surveillance andimplementation of programmes.Post-merger, select NACO serviceswould be available through thepublic health infrastructure ofNRHM. The NRHM was launchedto provide accessible healthcare inrural and remote areas.

Facelift for Srinagar makes residents fume

Caste prejudices hitanganwadis: Report

Ministry wary of clubbingAids dept with NRHM

We need to take stockof the preparations forthis integration wherethere are multiple is -sues involv ed, with thefear of going wrongon sensitive Aids control programmes

Health ministry official

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201211India unveiled India‑View

NEW DELHI: The SupremeCourt was on Thursday toldthat framing guidelines was alegislative activity and doingso by the court would amountto judicial over-reach. Thecourt concluded the hearingon the framing of guidelineson reporting of sub-judicecases and reserved its verdict.

Senior counsel FaliNariman told the constitutionbench of Chief Justice SHKapadia, Justice DK Jain,Justice SS Nijjar, JusticeRanjana Prakash Desai andJustice JS Khehar that thecourt could at best go for nor-mative guidelines instead ofmandatory guidelines asthese would infringe upon theessential freedom of press.

The court was told thatframing of guidelines wouldnot only amount to judicialover-reach but also open the

flood gates and add to prob-lems instead of easing them.

As Nariman, appearing forSahara India Real Estate Corp,and senior counsel SoliSorabjee, an amicus curiae,opposed the framing of anyguidelines, Chief JusticeKapadia asked if the courtcould not frame any guide-lines to regulate media report-ing in sub-judice matters.

The chief justice askedwhat could be the objection ifthere were principles avail-able in other judgments andthe same were spelt out bythem. They could be calledguidelines, regulations orprinciples.

When Justice Jain wantedto know if the apex courtcould not frame the guide-lines then which institutioncould do so Nariman told thecourt that "you can't do that".

The constitution benchwas hearing an application bythe Sahara on its grievanceagainst a news channelreporting its proposal made tothe stock market regulator,Securities and ExchangeBoard of India (SEBI), onsecuring the money it hadraised from the market.

The court said that it wouldframe guidelines for reportingof sub-judice matters.

The constitution bench onMarch 27, commenced thehearing on the application ofSahara. Concluding the argu-ments on the 17th hearing inthe matter, amicus curiae KKVenugopal told the court thatthere should be a bar on jour-nalists entering a court andreporting its proceedingswithout being accredited.

The accreditation of theapex court reporters shouldbe made subject to adherenceto the guidelines. He said thatsuch an arrangement wouldbe in the interest of theadministration of justice, aswell as parties and witnessesin the court. He told the courtthat these guidelines wouldalso be in the interest ofmedia.

As Venugopal sought tomake accreditation subject toadherence of guidelines, thecourt asked him what aboutthe reporting of proceedings intrial court. At this amicus curi-ae said that subordinate courtscould frame their own rules forcoverage of proceedings. IANS

LONDON: A global workers’association has blamed poortraining, dangerous workingpractices and inadequate regu-lation for the deadly ferry acci-dent in Assam. Seventy-onebodies were recovered so farand around 180 more are miss-ing and believed to be dead.

Nick Bramley, chair of theinland navigation section ofInternational TransportWorkers Federation (ITF), saidin a statement: "This disaster issadly only the latest in a longseries of ferry tragedies in Asiaand Africa."

"Everything points to poortraining, dangerous workingpractices, inadequate regula-tion and near non-existentenforcement as being the rootcauses for this and similar loss-

es of life," he said in a statementon Thursday.

"We urge the establishmentof modern standards of training

and certification for crew mem-bers, of effective safety stan-dards for vessels and theircrews and of competent

enforcement regimes bothnationally and internationally,"he added.

On Thursday, eight morebodies were fished out from theriver, taking the number of bod-ies recovered to 71 in Monday'sferry disaster in Assam's Dhubridistrict.

The ferry, which was carry-ing more than 350 passengers,was hit by a storm nearMadattari ghat under Fakirganjpolice station in Dhubri districtand capsized. Only 80 peoplecould be rescued by the localpeople.

The search operation isbeing jointly carried out by theNational Disaster Rescue Force(NDRF), the Border SecurityForce and the Army.

IANS

NATION AT A GLANCEMukherjee dismissesfront runner reportMANILA: Finance minister PranabMukherjee today dismissed as speculationreports that he has emerged as a front run-ner in the race for presidential election. "Itis speculative. I don't want to comment onit," he told reporters on way to Manilawhere he will be attending the 45th AnnualMeeting of Asian Development Bank'sBoard of Governors.

8 women pickpocketsheld from Delhi MetroNEW DELHI: Eight women pickpocketswere arrested from Kashmere Gate metrostation in north Delhi on Thursday, said theCentral Industrial Security Force (CISF),which guards the Delhi Metro. According toCISF, the arrest came following a complaintfrom one of the woman passengers at thestation. The arrested women were all in theage group of 20 to 25 years.

4 get life sentence forkidnapping boyINDORE: A local court here todayawarded life imprisonment to four personsfor kidnapping a child in March 2008.Special Judge SK Singh also imposed a fineof Rs1,000 on the accused Aamir Hussain,Aadil, Lakhan Malviya and Mithun. Theywere accused of kidnapping Salman (9)from Juni Indore area on March 18, 2008.

Maoist arrested bySpecial Task ForceKOLKATA: A hardcore Maoist, who sup-plied arms to other extremists, has beenarrested by the Special Task Force of KolkataPolice, sources said today. Ajay Chanda,known as Jhulan in Maoist circles, wascaught from Esplanade bus stand a fewdays ago, after which a city court remandedhim to police custody for 14 days.

Akshay Kumar (L), and JohnAbraham, arrive for the worldpremiere of their movie Housefull 2in Singapore, on Thursday. AP/PTI

PUNE: A security guard of theUniversity of Pune was shot deadby an unidentified youth in thecampus on Thursday, sendingshockwaves among the studentcommunity here, police saidtoday (Friday).

The incident occurred around8 p.m., when the 56-year-oldsecurity guard, PrahladJogdandkar, caught a young cou-ple allegedly in a compromisingposition in an isolated spot onthe 410-acre lush green universi-ty campus.

He ordered them to pay apenalty of Rs.500 as per the newrules implemented by the univer-sity to check trespassing andshady activities on the campus.

The youth quietly paid up andleft with his girlfriend on hismotorcycle, said an officer at theChaturshringi police station.

However, the youth returnedagain after half an hour anddemanded Rs.100 back from thesecurity guard since he had nomoney to fill up petrol in hismotorcycle.

When Jogdandkar refused torefund the money, there was anargument and a scuffle, andanother security guard rushedthere.

Suddenly, the youth whippedout a revolver and fired tworounds at Jogdandkar, and disap-peared from the spot.

Jogdandkar was rushed to theSassoon Hospital where he waslater declared dead on admis-sion, police said.

As part of the overall securityoverhauling in the city, inJanuary, following a police direc-tive, the university administra-tion had beefed up security onthe sprawling campus. IANS

SC questioned onlegislative activity

Pune varsityguard shotdead

‘Poor regulation caused accident’

Church alleges riggingof panchayat pollsPANAJI: Goa Church has warned that itwould appeal the people to boycott theforthcoming panchayat election if the stategovernment did not cancel the "rigged"process. Council for Social Justice andPeace, a wing of Goa Church, has writtento Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, sayingthat there was growing unrest amongst thepeople about the process being adopted.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201212Around the World Beyond Borders

JAKARTA: Jakarta’s carpoolinglaws were meant to ease trafficjams. Instead, they have spawnedan industry of professional hitch-hikers who help drivers complywith highway rules — for a fee.

Hundreds of men, womenand children line the main arter-ies of the Indonesian capital everyweekday, offering to ride in pri-vate vehicles during rush hours,when cars are obliged to carry atleast three passengers on keystretches.

The “jockeys” -— as they areknown — do not stick out theirthumbs like typical hitchhikersaround the world. Here, one fin-ger signifies a jockey workingsolo, while two offers a pair, usu-ally a mother with a child in towor a baby in a batik sling.

In a country where millionsare struggling to climb out ofpoverty and into an expandingmiddle class the jockeys — whocharge about a dollar a ride —have turned their services into acareer.

Jimmy, 22, has jockeyingdown to a fine art. In the hodge-podge of roadside competitorswaiting for a ride, he stands outwith his silver-rimmed spectaclesand blue chequered shirt tuckedneatly into a pair of blacktrousers.

“Chauffeurs in BMWs and

Mercedes cars often pick me upbecause I can pass off as theiremployer’s friend or relative.Motorists don’t want to get caughtby police so jockeys have to helpthem minimise the risk,” saidJimmy, who like manyIndonesians goes by one name.

Cars picking up jockeys can

face fines of up to one millionrupiah ($109). But in a countrywhere official corruption is rife, a200,000 rupiah bribe is usuallyenough to get off the hook.

“Generally, nobody wants toget stuck in a jam with someonewith smelly armpits. For myefforts, I ask for an extra 5,000

rupiah (54 cents) and I usually getit,” Jimmy said.

He makes around five trips aday and pockets about $7.50 daily— a good sum in a country whereabout half of the 240 million pop-ulation lives on less than $2 a day.

But not all jockeys are as savvyor fortunate as Jimmy. Manyfemale jockeys are often sexuallyharassed in private vehicles, andpolice regularly lock up riders insqualid cells. By law, they can bejailed for up to 12 months.

Nuraini, 39, has worked as ajockey for the past three years tosupplement her husband’s mea-gre income as a motorcycle-taxidriver.

“One time when I was stillpregnant a driver asked if I want-ed some fun. It was very uncom-fortable so I quickly got out of thecar,” she said, carrying a baby inone arm and holding an eight-year-old daughter by the hand.

Nuraini rises at dawn to makethe hour-long journey from hervillage in the suburbs to the cityfor the morning rush hour,returns home to cook for her fouryoung children and is back on thestreets to work the evening.

“It’s exhausting. The weathercan change from sweltering hot toterribly stormy. Some days, I earnnothing, even if I wait for hours,”she said.

The jockeys know they areviolating the law and could befined or detained for severalweeks if caught. But for the mostpart police turn a blind eye to thehundreds on the streets each day.

“I don’t have a family. I neverwent to school. If I don’t do this,how will I eat?” asked PraspardiPutra Wibisono, a 16-year-oldwho was arrested last year anddetained for two months.

Herlina, 36, has been arrestedtwice and was detained for sixweeks in 2006.

“My time in prison was terri-ble. Eighteen of us were crammedin a stuffy cell full of mosquitoes.We slept on thin bamboo matsand the toilet stank,” she said.

“So, why am I still doing thisrisky job? Simple, I need to live.”

The carpooling rule, intro-duced in 1992, has done little toease the traffic snarl in Jakarta,which has a population of around10 million.

During the week, millionsmore from the capital’s outskirtsjoin the rat race, meaning eightmillion cars ply Jakarta’s streetsevery day, and at least 1,000 newvehicles are added daily to thegrind.

Analysts warn that the citycould become totally gridlockedby 2014 if major infrastructurechanges are not made. AFP

Nuraeni, a ‘3in1’ (one car with three passengers) traffic jockey,gestures as she offers her and her son to commuters in Jakarta.

NO ALTERATIONS NEEDED

Julia Bluhm, a 14-year-old as p iring ballerinafrom Maine, delivered a petition with nearly15,000 names to Seven teen Magazine’s editor-

in-chief, Ann Shoket, on Wednesday.The petition’s demand: Give Girls Images of

Real Girls. (As of now, the petition has be ensigned by over 30,000 people.)

Bluhm said, “A lot of my friends are happy intheir skin, but I know people who aren’t comfort-able and wished they looked differently,” accord-ing to the Guardian. She added, “There are pic-tures all over the media that show photoshoppedgirls that have no flaws and they are perfect.”

The petition reads, “Girls want to be accepted,appreciated, and liked. And when they don’t fit thecriteria, some girls try to “fix” themselves. This canlead to eating disorders, dieting, depression, andlow self esteem.”

It continues, “For the sake of all the strugglinggirls all over America, who read Seventeen andthink these fake images are what they should be,I’m stepping up,” and ends with a challenge thrownto Seventeen Magazine, to print one unaltered,“real,” photo spread every month.

A statement from the magazine said, “We’reproud of Julia for being so passionate about an issue– it’s exactly the kind of attitude we encourage in ourreaders – so we invited her to our office to meet witheditor in chief Ann Shoket this morning. They had agreat discussion, and we believe that Julia leftunderstanding that Seventeen celebrates girls forbeing their authentic selves, and that’s how we pre-sent them,”.

Bluhm said she started the petition aimed at the

teen magazine because, “A lot of girls readSeventeen magazine. They do a lot to make girls feelgood about themselves, stuff like Body Peace. So Ithought if they are already doing it, they might liketo do more. There have been stories about howmuch photoshopped images can hurt girls with lowself-esteem and eating disorders,”. GLOBALPOST

The big switchScientist finds people who can“switch” between genitals

Human sexuality, it appears,has never been more

complex.Not to mention elusive.A scientist has studied a

group of men and women whoreport that their sexual identitycan switch involuntarily to thatof the opposite sex and backagain, Scientific Americanreports.

For some people, the switchcan occur several times a day.Most of them however, report thefrequency is more like once aweek. The “switch” is accompa-nied by the sensation of phan-tom breasts or genitalia of thenon-biological sex.

The study, MedicalHypotheses, “Alternating genderincongruity: A new neuropsychi-atric syndrome providing insightinto the dynamic plasticity ofbrain-sex,” was published byLaura Case, a graduate student ofrenowned neuroscientistVilayanur S Ramachandran.

It is based on research with32 respondents (11 anatomically

female) from an online bigenderforum that hosts about 600members.

Scientific American listed thefollowing fascinating quotesfrom research subjects:

“I still have the same valuesand beliefs, but a change in gen-der is really a change in the filterthrough which I interact with theworld and through which it inter-acts with me.

“If I’m in male mode and I seesomeone crying, I’ll think morealong the lines of ‘Man up… whileif I’m in girl mode I’ll think morelong the lines of ‘Oh sweety!’

“I sometimes wake up think-ing I have a penis,” says onefemale respondent, “or that Ihave no breasts... I usually end upin tears and I can’t get out of bedbecause once I get up I’ll knowfor sure it’s not really true and it’sjust my mind playing tricks onme, so I just lie there and cry. It’sstrange though because I nor-mally don’t even want to have apenis.”

GLOBALPOST

A 14-year-old, petitions Seventeen to publish unaltered photos

AFP/BAY ISMOYO

Professionals at breaking rules

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201213Around the World Beyond Borders

GLOBE AT A GLANCEFlasher Belarus priestlikely to be defrockedMOSCOW: The Belarussian orthodoxchurch may defrock a 60-year-old priest,who was detained for allegedly demon-strating his genitals to passengers at arailway station. The priest was allegedlyinvolved in the act of exhibitionism at theBaranovichi-Polesskiye railway station. Thereport said that it turned out later that thepriest was also drunk and it was not thefirst time he was detained for such acts.

West Africa bloc issueswarning to coup leaders DAKAR: West African presidents havethreatened tougher action against coupleaders in Mali and Guinea-Bissau whohave resisted efforts to fully restore civilianrule. Guinea-Bissau’s ruling military junta,hit with EU sanctions on Thursday, hasrefused to quit power. In Mali, junior offi-cers who toppled the government inMarch are still imposing their authority

3 journalists slain inMexico’s Veracruz stateMEXICO: Three men who had workedas news photographers were found slainand dumped together in plastic bags by acanal in the eastern Mexico state ofVeracruz, less than a week after the killingin the same state of a reporter for aninvestigative newsmagazine, officials andcolleagues said. Press advocates called forimmediate government action.

Pakistan suicide attackkills 16 people

A Rapier air defence system isdeployed as part of securitymeasures prior to the Olympicperiod in London on Thursday. AFP

Nicaraguan President DanielOrtega stands with US ambassadorPhyllis Powers during hercredentials presentation. AFP

KHAR: A suicide attack targeting policekilled at least 16 people, including fivepolicemen, in Pakistan’s northwestern trib-al belt along the Afghan border on Friday,officials said. The target of the attack wastribal police in Khar, the main town ofBajaur tribal district, where Taliban linkedto Al-Qaeda are active, officials told AFP.

A TV grab shows the site of a blast in Makhachkala on Friday. Two blasts near a police postlate on May 3 killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20 in Dagestan, part ofRussia’s restive Caucasus region, the interior ministry said. AFP

DANCE OF DEATH

LONDON: Adolf Hitler had a“messiah complex” andbecame increasingly obsessedwith the perceived Jewish“enemy within” as World WarII turned against Germany,according to a secret 1942assessment unveiled onFriday.

The British intelligencereport, which lay apparentlyunread from the war until itsrecent rediscovery, found thatthe Nazi dictator turned to“Jew-phobia” as the likelihoodof defeat increased.

The wartime analysis, nowmade public by the Universityof Cambridge, was commis-

sioned by social scientistMark Abrams and written byhis colleague JosephMacCurdy, a Cambridge aca-demic.

“At the time that it waswritten, the tide was startingto turn against Germany,” said

Cambridge historian ScottAnthony, who led researchinto Abrams which resulted inthe paper being unearthed.

“In response, Hitler beganto turn his attentions to theGerman home front. Thisdocument shows that Britishintelligence sensed this hap-pening. MacCurdy recog-nised that, faced with exter-nal failure, the Nazi leaderwas focusing on a perceived‘enemy within’ instead —namely the Jews. “An earlierreport found three such ten-dencies, termed “shaman-ism”, “epilepsy” and “para-noia”. AFP

NEW YORK: The editors of all19 editions of Vogue around theworld pledged Thursday to useonly healthy models no youngerthan 16 on their editorial pages inan attempt to shift fashion’sapproach to body image.

Anna Wintour, editor ofVogue’s flagship US edition, andEmmanuelle Alt of Paris Vogue,which touched off a furor in 2010with a photo spread featuring a10-year-old girl, are among theeditors who agreed to the pact.

“Vogue believes that goodhealth is beautiful,” saidJonathan Newhouse, chairman ofConde Nast International and ascion of the New York publishingfamily that privately owns theworld’s most influential fashiontitle.

The editors said that in a six-point pact to appear in theirrespective June issues, theywould pledge not to knowinglywork with models under the ageof 16 or with those “who appearto have an eating disorder.”

The editors will also instructmodeling agencies not to sendthem underage models, requirecasting directors to check mod-els’ ID prior to photo shoots andencourage “healthy backstageworking conditions,” includingfood options.

Fashion designers, mean-while, will be encouraged —though not obliged — to “consid-er the consequences of unrealis-tically small sample (dress)sizes... which encourages the useof extremely thin models.” “Wewill be ambassadors for the mes-sage of healthy body image,” theeditors’ pact concludes. AFP

BEIJING: Blind Chineseactivist Chen Guangcheng toldAFP Friday he was in “greatdanger”, and urged the Chinesegovernment to respect commit-ments it made about his safetywhen he left the US embassy.

“I am in great danger.... Ihope the government willrespect the commitments toguarantee my rights agreed tobetween China and the UnitedStates,” he told AFP in a tele-phone interview.

Chen said he never raised arequest for political asylumwith the US government, butexpressed worries that securitypersonnel at his Beijing hospi-tal were preventing US embassyofficials from meeting him.

“They don’t let the (US)embassy staff come in. I thinkthere are some big problems,”

Chen said. “I haven’t seen themsince the day before yesterday(Wednesday).”

Chen fled his home in theeastern province of Shandong

on April 22, and later recorded avideo appeal to Premier WenJiabao in which he said he andhis family had been subjectedto repeated abuses at the hands

of local authorities. He soughtrefuge at the US embassy, buton Wednesday US officialsannounced he had left theembassy for a hospital toreceive treatment and bereunited with his family.

US officials said Chinaagreed to guarantee the safetyof the activist and allow him toattend university.

Since entering the hospital,one Chinese official has visitedhim and discussed his situa-tion, Chen said. “It was an offi-cial from the petition bureau(handling complaints from thegeneral public). It is not usefulto talk about this. My situationis very, very critical,” he said.Chen further expressed con-cerns over police beatings ofsupporters who had come to tryto visit him at the hospital. AFP

I am in great danger: Chen

Vogue slapsban on U-16models

Paranoid Hitler had ‘messiahcomplex’: Secret UK analysis

BEIJING: Chinese police havedetained supporters of ChenGuangcheng at the hospitalwhere the blind activist is beingtreated, and have beaten two ofthem, the backers and their rela-tives said on Friday. Crowds offriends and well-wishers havegathered outside the hospitalwhere Chen is being treated foran injury sustained during hisflight from house arrest lastmonth. The wife of one, rightslawyer Jiang Tianyong, said he

was detained at the hospital byChinese police who beat him andwarned him against supportingChen, before releasing him.

Artist and rights defender LiuYi told AFP that police grabbedhim outside the hospital onThursday, beat him over the headwith a bottle and took him intocustody for interrogation.

Another supporter, DuYanling, said he was questionedafter he left the hospital andwarned against speaking out .

China police detain, beat Chen supporters

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201214Fair, free and forthrightComment

Control damage soonThe controversy surrounding the armytrucks has now been dragging on for along time. There has been on development

in the case even afterall this time.Everyone, includingthe big players, isbusy at the blamegame. The army of acountry is supposedto protect the entirecountry. It is the wall

that is standing in the way of the enemy.But with these loopholes in the systems inthe functioning of our army showingthrough, it is obvious that there are cracksdeveloping in the wall. This is very disheart-ening to see and something should bedone quickly to minimise damage.

Riya MahapatraSainikpuri

Save our lakesThe basic problem is not with the way thethings are planned out. It is with the waythese things are implemented in our city.Every time a new government comes topower, a new plan is drafted to save ouronce-beautiful Hussain Sagar Lake, so theprevious plan ends up being a flop. Themain reason, I can see for this, is corruptionin the system because of which the plansaren't being delivered successfully. Theresults are there to see and we are and willalways be at the receiving end. If the offi-cials are listening, please wake up and saveour lakes, not just the Hussain Sagar.

BhramhajiPadma Rao Nagar

Congrats airport staffThis is to appreciate the efforts of thesecurity personnel at the RGI airport. The

incident of the manbeing arrested whilecarrying illegal bulletsmakes me feel happybecause the securitywas never that goodat the Begumpet air-port. I shudder tothink of the conse-

quences of a lethargic security control. Buthere, the case looks to be different. Thesecurity at the Shamshabad airport is thebest and I love the way the forces workthere. Job well done folks!

Jyotsna MudduruAlwal

Stem trouble nowI had first kept to myself and then nearlyforgotten an unfortunate incident thathappened to me when I happened to comepast the Hussain Sagar Lake one lateevening. Hooligans have a field time whileauthorities turn a blind eye, only Godknow for what. If something is not donesoon to curb this menace, a big nasty inci-dent is lurking around the corner.

JyothsnaSomajiguda

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PRANAB SUITED FOR PRESIDENT’S POST,but Congress stands to lose

The political drama over the presidential election is getting better by the day — and attimes more riveting than the saas-bahu soaps. While parties are rallying to supportCongress veteran and Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee as the UPA candi-

date, Pranabda has responded that he is not in the race and the build-up is a creation ofmedia. While Mukherjee has all the experience and skills required to become the first citizen,his role change will cause the Congress more damage than what it stands to gain from mak-ing him the president. Throughout the UPA rule, the party has turned to him whenever a crisis

comes up. Mukherjee's statesmanship has steered the government safely through severalpolitical tempests, some from the Opposition and the others from the UPA allies. More thananything, a party loyalist would serve the government interests better than an independent,towering luminary like APJ Abdul Kalam. The presidential election is a matter of prestige for

the government, but it remains to be seen if it will let go off its evergreen ace to save its face.

WHY WE LOVE...Student visas

The student visa is a thing of untoldmagic. Now that China has statedthat blind dissident Chen

Guangcheng can apply to study in theUS “just like anyone else”. Not onlycan Guangcheng head to American andstudy some absolutely pointless sub-ject, but he can imbibe some of theFree Market Capitalism that has soenthralled revolutionaries over theages. Having trouble at home? Applyfor that visa... now!

Indian-produced television shows stink.You know it, I know it, and even the pro-ducers of Indian TV shows know it. Wantto know why they stink? Because Indiansaren’t smart enough to watch ‘intelli-

gent’ or ‘sophisticated’ television shows, sothere’s no reason for producers to make them.Or so Indian producers would have youbelieve. How do I know this? Because I haveasked, repeatedly, and across several years,many many Indian producers this question.The conversation goes something like this:

Me: “You make such beautifully produced,beautifully written commercials in India, sowhy can’t you make beautifully produced,beautifully written TV shows in India?”

Typical Producer: “The Indian audienceisn’t _____________________ (fill in the blankwith “intelligent enough” or “educatedenough” or “sophisticated enough”) to watchquality television.”

Back in the nineteen-seventies and eight-ies, when the United States was producingsuch nonsensical junk-television as “Dallas,”“Knots Landing,” “Falcon Crest” and “BeverlyHill, 90210” I heard the exact same argumentsfrom American producers. They believed —really believed — that if they put on qualityprogramming, the American masses whowatched “Dallas” would turn off the televisionand never turn it back on.

Then came the nineties. Maybe “Seinfeld”or “Law and Order” was the catalyst, butwhatever it was, it started a bonanza ofsophisticated, intelligent shows that werechallenging and beautifully written and pro-duced. Shows like “The Sopranos,” “WestWing,” “Six Feet Under,” “Sex and the City,”“X-Files” and many others that were frequent-ly of better quality and more entertainingthan feature films. And you know what hap-pened when these intelligent, challengingshows hit the airwaves? Did television ratingsdrop off a cliff? Did the world end?

Nope! What happened was the ratingswent through the roof. The “masses” that useto watch “Dallas” tuned-in, and so did the

“sophisticated” audience that had shunned“Beverly Hills, 90210” like it was diseased. Andsimply put, American television went througha renaissance.

The same thing needs to happen now, inIndia, and fast. Why fast? Because the ever-expanding audience of relatively rich (and,from an advertising perspective, desirable)urban Indians is getting increasingly hookedon American television. And if they get reallyhooked, there’s no reason to think they willever turn back to Indian television content,even if it does become high quality. And thatwould be a shame. It would signal the slowdeath of the Indian television industry, andwith it, the cessation of an opportunity toexplore — in-depth and in a way only a TVseries can — India society and governmentand family life. So, with that said, here are mysuggestions for some terrific (and I think,non-existent) TV shows that Indian producersshould jump on:

“PMO” — a witty, insightful, biting andcompletely fictional drama about the innerworkings of India’s government at the highestlevels. Get a front-row seat as the powers-that-be battle terrorism, domestic riots,industrial corruption, and a relentless press

always looking for ‘breaking news’, while allthe while battling corruption allegations tar-geted at them. Okay, I admit, it sounds a bitlike “West Wing,” but why can’t we have auniquely Indian version, at the same level ofquality?”

“Fourth Rock” — a sit-com, following a 30-something female producer of a terribleIndian soap opera. Every day, she has to dealwith the egos, the tantrums and the pain ofproducing a really terrible show that shedoesn’t believe in and that drives her crazy. Allright, it’s a bit like “Third Rock,” but way bet-ter, no?

“The Sharmalas” — an inside look at asmart, urban family whose patriarch just hap-pens to run the Bombay mob. Yes, yes, soundsa bit like “Sopranos,” but from an India slant,it’d be fascinating.

Or, here’s a better idea. How about sometruly original fare, uniquely Indian, fromIndian producers that challenges and startsrespecting the intelligence of the Indian TVaudience.

Now that would truly be entertaining.

A foreigner’s observations on living, working, surviving and thriving in India.

Listen, you’re smarterthan they think

The AnonymousAlien

Pani Da Rang– Vicky Donor

Jannatein Kahan

– Jannat 2Sang Hoon Tere

– Jannat 2Jhallah Wallah

– IshaqzaadeRab ka Shukrana (Reprise)

– Jannat 2Aafaton ke parindey

– IshaqzaadeNaina re

– Dangerous IshqRum & Whisky

– Vicky DonorPareshaan

– IshaqzaadeTu hi rab tu hi dua

– Dangerous Ishq

1. Somebody that I used toknow (feat.Kimbra)

– Gotye2. Call me maybe

– Carly Rae Jepsen3. We are young (featJanelle Monae)

– Fun4. Boyfriend

– Justin Bieber5. Man’s, man’s man’s world(The Voice Performance)

– Juliet Simms6. What makes you beauti-ful

– One Direction 7. Wild Ones (feat Sia)

– Flo Rida 8. Glad you came

– The Wanted9. Shake it Out

– Glee Cast10. Drive By

– Train

Somebody that I used toknow

– Gotye featuring KimbraWe are young

– Fun featuring Janelle Monae Payphone

– Maroon 5 ft Wiz KhalifaGlad you came

– The WantedCall me maybe

– Carly Rae JepsenWild Ones

– Flo Rida ft SiaBoyfriend

– Justin BieberStarships

– Nicki MinajWhat makes you beautiful

– One Direction(Stronger)

– Kelly Clarkson

Bollywood Top 10 iTUNES Top 10 Billboard Top 10

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201215Rhythm NationThey create tunes sometimes on impulse and sometimes by instinct. And they are soon to enthrall the jazz lovers in the city. Meet Drift

Indira [email protected]

John Coltrane, the famousAmerican jazz saxophonistonce said, “You can play ashoestring if you're sincere.”

And it is this belief that madeReuben Narain, Pranai Gurungand Sahil Warsi come together –for the love of Bebop, a style ofJazz, and the quest to make lifemore musical. Originally chris-tened Ghost Dance Orchestra byReuben, the name later becameDrift, an inspiration he got whilereading Mark Twain. Pranay,moved from Darjeeling to Delhi10 years ago, before joining theband, while Sahil is one of theyoungest double bassists in thecountry.

Speaking about Bebop,Reuben, the first of the bandmembers says, “Bebop is a genrewithin jazz – it is a response topopular jazz, where musicianscomposed tunes for themselves,or for other musicians. It ismeant to tease the listener.”Drift’s music can be defined asone in which chords are moreexpansive, less direct, and morespacey – a trait typical of theBebop. Interestingly, Reubenwrote pop songs before ventur-ing into Bebop. He says, “I had asinger, and we were togethercreating pop songs. But slowly, Irealized that I needed morespace and more freedom, and Ifound myself moving to Jazz.”The band’s latest song A FeathersFlight was composed in just sixminutes. Talking about it,Reuben says, “It is sort of a bal-lad song played on instrumentalguitar that gives you an ‘airy’feeling – a feeling of being sus-

pended.” Drift has slowly gained repu-

tation across the country andoutside. Recalls Reuben, “Weperformed a gig in Nepal in 2010and also went trekking in thecountryside, and did bungeejumping. It was an experiencewe remember fondly to this day.Also, for the first time after 15

years, there was a music fest inGulmarg in Kashmir where wewent to perform — it was freez-ing cold, but an altogether dif-ferent experience that we cannever forget.

Reuben strongly believes

that it is very important for anindividual to know the jazz formof music very well, beforeattempting to teach, or to per-form. He opines that the musicmust not only have been played,but more importantly, impro-vised. On their upcoming gig inHyderabad he shares his excite-ment, “We did perform in a few

private events in Hyderabad, butthis is the first time we are per-forming to the public. And weare very excited to see what theresponse will be like.

Well, we are sure about thismuch. When Drift comes toHyderabad, there will be manymore additions to the jazz loverslist in the city.

The Drift When: May 4, 2012Where: Aqua, Park

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201218Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

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Typically associated with the old and frail, arthritis can affect youngsters as well. Sothe next time you hear those creaking joints, don’t ignore them

It’s one of those ailments that youwouldn’t commonly associate with theyoung. It supposedly strikes the ageingand can often leave them in severe

pain. But what if we told you that arthritiscan affect the young as well? Hard tobelieve? But there are several incidents ofyoungsters being affected by arthritis — beit juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, goutarthritis or arthritis that has been induceddue to an injury to the cartilage betweenthe joints.

Contrary to popular belief, rheumatoidarthritis is frequently seen in youngstersbelow the age of 16. This sort of arthritis isusually called Idiopathic arthritis and isquite different from how it is normally seenin adults. “Arthritis can occur in childrenbetween the ages of 2 and 10. The reasonshowever, are not always clear. It couldaffect children with absolutely no familyhistory of arthritis. In some cases, juvenilearthritis could set in after a particularlystressful event in a child’s life,” says Dr NSomasekhar Reddy, consultant orthopaedicsurgeon at Apollo Hospital.

“In certain cases, the onset of arthritiscan be secondary to an accident. Thiscould be termed as post traumatic arthritis.For instance, when an individual sustainsan injury it could rupture the cartilage thatis present in the joint. If this is left untreat-ed, it could lead to further wear and tearand progress to arthritis. Considering obe-sity is on the rise these days, several young-sters may find that their joints wear andtear much more easily, another leadingcause of arthritis,” says Dr K RaghuveerReddy, shoulder and knee surgeon at SaiInstitute of Sports Injury and Arthroscopy.

Children with juvenile arthritis mayexperience swelling and pain may in hips,neck and jaw. Symptoms like nodules ontheir elbows, a rash, a fever, swollen glands,tiredness and weight loss. “There are sever-al sub types of arthritis. While in some, thepatient’s condition improves by the timehe/she reaches teens, in others there maynot be any improvement and couldbecome more severe. In extreme cases, itcould lead to the patient becoming crip-pled,” says Dr Somasekhar.

“Strict physiotherapy and medicationearly on is the only way to help reduce theseverity of arthritis. This helps postponejoint deformities. Also it has been noticedthat children with arthritis might have astunted growth. In case of an injury to thejoint it is essential to treat it aggressively toprevent arthritis,” explains Dr Somasekhar.

“Treatments like marrow stimulation,where we puncture the marrow so it healsitself and cartilage transplant also work inhelping treat arthritis. For big defects wecan also recommend cartilage cell culture,where we grow new cartilage in a culturedish and then transplant it into the affect-ed areas,” says Dr Raghuveer.

Ranjani [email protected]

It could catch you youngWASHINGTON: Consuming exces-sive amounts of beta-carotene, anantioxidant that imparts colour tocarrots, sweet potatoes and certaingreens, could be hazardous for health,says a study.

Scientists at Ohio State Universityhave found that certain moleculesthat derive from beta-carotene havean opposite effect in the body — theyactually block some actions of vita-min A, which is critical to humanvision, bone and skin health,metabolism and immune function.

Because these molecules derivefrom beta-carotene, researchers pre-dict that a large amount of this antiox-idant is accompanied by a largeramount of these anti-vitamin-Amolecules as well, the Journal ofBiological Chemistry reported.

“We determined that these com-pounds are in foods, they’re presentunder normal circumstances, andthey’re pretty routinely found in bloodin humans, and therefore they mayrepresent a dark side of beta-carotene,” said Earl Harrison, who ledthe study.

“These materials definitely haveanti-vitamin-A properties, and theycould basically disrupt or at leastaffect the whole body metabolismand action of vitamin A. But we haveto study them further to know forsure,” Harrison was quoted as sayingin a university statement.

The findings also might explainwhy, in a decades-old clinical trial,more people who were heavily sup-plemented with beta-carotene endedup with lung cancer than did researchparticipants who took no beta-carotene at all. The trial was endedearly because of that unexpected out-come.

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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201219Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Last week we spoke aboutmodern life stress andhow it affects the body. Asrecommended, it is a

good idea to start your exerciseroutine with simple warm upand breathing exercises. Nowthat you are well versed withthat, let us move on to a newset of exercises that will helptone your body. This workoutcan be done at anytime orat any place without theneed for any specialequipment.

Working out in a gym isalways recommended becauseworking out in the presence ofother people with the same goalsis indeed very motivating. Thevariety of equipment and quali-fied trainers will certainly do youa world of good. But, if you arenot ready to do this, you shouldnot force yourself and use it as anexcuse to stop working out.Keeping yourself fit is of utmostimportance. Lack of time is avery flimsy reason.

Here are a few exercises thatwill not only help you build yourconfidence, but also get you inshape. This will motivate you totake your fitness a notch higher.

Please do consult a physicianbefore starting any kind of exer-cise regime. Do not forget tokeep a strict vigil on your foodintake as well. Remember thatdiet and exercise always go handin hand.

The following exercises com-bined with the previous week’sworkout will help you get a fullbody workout.

Push upsn Place your toes and hands on

the floor, making sure yourback and arms are straight.Keep your hands slightlymore than shoulder widthapart and tighten yourabdominal muscles.

n Inhale as you lower yourselfto the floor, stopping as yourelbows reach a 90 degreebend. Keep your body fromtouching the floor.

n Exhale and push yourselfaway from the floor. Don’tlock your elbows, and don’tbend your back.

n Do about 6 to 10 repitions.

Modified push upn Place your hands and knees

on the floor. Keep your glutesand abs tight. Make sure yourback is in line with your headand neck. Keep your feet lift-ed off the floor.

n Inhale as you lower yourselfto the floor, stopping as yourelbows reach a 90-degreebend. Keep your body fromtouching the floor.

n Exhale and push yourselfaway from the floor. Do not

lock your elbows, and don’tbend your back

n Do about 6 to 10 repititions.

The plank abdominalexerciseThe basic plank exercise, alsocalled a hover, is the startingplace if you want to improveyour core strength and stability.Here’s how to do it right.n Begin in the plank position

with your forearms and toeson the floor.

n Keep your torso straight andrigid and your body in astraight line from ears to toeswith no sagging or bending.

n Your head is relaxed and youshould be looking at the floor.

n Hold this position for 10 sec-onds to start.

n Over time work up to 30, 45or 60 seconds.

The squatSquats are some of the best lowerbody exercises you can do. Why?One reason is that squats aremulti-joint exercises which targetall the muscles of the hips, glutesand thighs. This version, whichrequires no weights or equip-ment (other than a chair) is greatfor beginners, for anyone withknee problems or for those whoare overweight and need a bitmore support. It’s also great foranyone wanting to add morefunctionality into their livesbecause it mimics the move-ments we do each time we sitdown or stand up.n Place a chair just behind you

and stand in front of it withfeet about hip or shoulderwidth apart.

n Contract the abs and keep

them tight as you bend theknees and slowly squattowards the chair.

n Keep the knees behind thetoes as you sit down on thechair for a few seconds.

n Contract the glutes and hamstrings to lift up out ofthe chair and begin extendingthe legs.

n Fully extend the legs untilyou’re back to standing position.

n Repeat this for 1-3 sets of 10-16 repetitions.

n To progress, squat downuntil you’re just hoveringover the chair, but not sittingall the way down.

n Always keep the knees in linewith the toes!Now that you are armed with

a warm up, breathing and a fewmore exercises, continue practic-ing these. Next week I’ll be backwith something interesting.

(The writer is a fitness expertand director of 360 Degrees

Fitness, Hyderabad)

Tone your body, dbq=fkql=pe^mb

Kuldep [email protected]

You know that moment whensomeone asks if you’re doingengineering or medicine and

you politely inform them that you’rean Arts student? There’s a blank, con-fused stare you receive as they try tocomprehend what could possibly bewrong with a bright kid like you —were you just bad at studies, weredisinterested or simply have a men-tal disorder. What an Ouch momentit is!

I face something similar. I am inmy early 20s, am single and accord-ing to most people fat (I could beslimmer, but I’m NOT fat).Everytime I meet somebody it’s ahuge Ouch moment for me as I ammet with statements like ‘Beta this isyour age to look fit and healthy’, ‘Ohno no you need to cut down onsweets’, ‘You were so good looking.What happened now?’ and so onand so forth. It’s painful to be at thereceiving end of all the free advicefrom ‘well meaning’ near and dearones.

As much as I’d like to pretendlike I don’t care, after a point of timeit just starts to get to you. Besides,being in journalism, which is proba-bly a more respectable form of PR,looking good does help. So after awhole lot of convincing myself that Icould do with looking a wee bit bet-ter, I decided to hit the gym and losesome of those unwanted kilos.

And Voila! There’s some more‘well meaning’ advice coming myway. ‘Not the gym, it’s not a goodidea’, ‘Try aerobics instead’, ‘Whydon’t you try Hot Yoga or Power Yoga’,to my grandmother’s ‘Just come fordaily walks with me beta,’ I had atough choice. But I’d made up mymind to hit the gym.

But zeroing in on a suitable gymwas no easy task. I spoke to a zillionfriends about which gym was good,which trainer was best etc, before Ifinally decided to join Gavinz, whichI’d heard was a darned good place togo to.

Finally, I had a goal, a littledream that I began to nurture toshed the flab and flaunt a svelte newme pretty soon.

Excited, I went to the gym withall the enthusiasm of a teeny bopperon her first date. And what do I see?A tonne of good looking men andreed thin girls sweating it out at thegym! I still don’t get why they need towork out in the first place. A HUGEouch moment for me. Am I back tosquare one?

(The writer is determined tofight the flab. Readers can inspire

her at [email protected])

Startingproblem, bigproblem

Gym DiariesSudeshna Koka

Because you are what you wearF‑Folio

We look atnew and mis-

matched prints thatwere seen on theinternational run-ways for SpringSummer 2012

season.

SPOTTED

Alexander Wang

Wang is known to blend sportswear inspired silhouettes into fashion. TheSpring Summer collection has bomber jackets, shorts, pants, blouses,

dresses, skirts and other easy separates. If you thought floral print couldnever look tough, then this collection will be an eye-opener.

Erdem

This youngLondon

designer hasbeen the one tolook out for sincehis initial collec-tions. He doesn’tfail to make theeditors and retail-ers sit up andtake note withthe unusual takeon the floral pat-tern. This seasonthe designershowed softerlooks with colorpalette of powderblue, yellow andwhite on materi-als like chiffon,cotton and lace.

Miu Miu

MiucciaPrada’s Miu

Miu collectionpresented a girlycollection butwith visible darkundertones. Thehigh-waistedskirts withcropped blousesand handheldbags delivered aconcept which is amix of flirty andserious. The patch-work prints onskirts, jackets anddresses didn’tbelong to onefamily but some-how seamlesslymade for a whole-some collection.

EmilioPucci

Pucci is a fash-ion house rec-

ognized mostwidely for its sig-nature prints. Forthis season’s col-lection, designerPeter Dundasinspiration wasGypsies. Freeflowing longskirts and dressesin psychedelicpaisley printshighlighted withover-all embel-lishments andgold jewels wereseen on the run-way.

MaryKatrantzou

This Greek ladysure knows

how to conjure upthe most unusualprint patterns. Thesummer collectionhad prints of flow-ers, but not in theway you wouldexpect. Digitalprints of carna-tions mix andmatched withabstract lines andpolka dots. Forsome looks sheeven mixed screenprints of metalutensils with theprints of pop colortulip fields.

N THE

The writer is a fashion blogger (www.lovestruckcow.blogspot.com) who attempts to bridgethe gap between creator and consumer. As a fashion writer, she hopes to promote

Indian fashion among Indians and on a global level too.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 20&21

Anna Sui

Very rock and roll glamorous, Anna Sui’s summer collection had bold looks incolors like purple, black, and red. Prints played a strong role in communicat-

ing the designer’s new vision. Big motifs in mint green on top of a long chiffondress. Or busy small print floral print matched with the same print bandana hat.Anna Sui’s Spring Summer collection is the one that is playful yet commandsauthority with use of nipped waist and chunky footwear paired looks.

Diane VonFurstenbe

rg

This New Yorklabel collec-

tion knows exact-ly what the urban

women want towear. Easy dresses

and separateswith a unique

twist. In the sum-mer collection the

patterns werequite pop art with

the cut out offlower plant

repeated all overthe dress. These

were graphicprints of different

shades patchworked togetherin a single look.

D&G

The last D&Gshow (now

the brand is partof the Dolce &Gabanna line)

delivered every-thing the brandever stood for:

youth, vibrancy,color, and fun.

Models walkedthe runway wear-

ing head to toeprint garments.

Even the footwearhad a print scarf

tied around them.The print com-

prised the Italianopulent baroque

patterns in silkorange, green,

pink, yellow,turquoise blue.

Jil Sander

Designer RafSimons

delivers a collec-tion with a very

clean-cut outlookto his ideas. This

being his last col-lection for JilSander (he is

now the artisticdirector for

Christian Dior),the designer

brought back aclassic print pat-tern in a modernsetting for the Jil

Sander show. Thispattern was of

the paisley pat-tern. Shown in

blue, yellow, pur-ple and pink over

white or blackbase, the paisleydesign stood outand could easily

be one of themost memorable

print designs ofthis season.

Yves SaintLaurent

Classic Parisianstyle with a

stark image ofFrench women

parading on therunway is some-

thing to beexpected from this

fashion house.This season

designer StefanoPilati stuck to

these aestheticsbut added the

unexpected printpattern here andthere. The showopened with an

abstract 60’sinspired print, sim-

ple coat dress.Long skirts in

paisley print werepaired with white

shirts and hand-held clutch bags.

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Kudos again!Dammu’s film unit organised

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success. Spotted at the eventwere some of Tollywood’sbiggest names like Dasari

Narayana Rao and Dil Rajuamong the movie’s lead stars

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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201224The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Robert Pattinson joins the militaryThe Breaking Dawn actor has

signed on to star in a new filmentitled Mission: Blacklist, about thesearch for and subsequent captureof former Iraqi president SaddamHussein. Pattinson will star as mili-tary interrogator Eric Maddox, theman who spearheaded the investi-gation to find out where the dictatorwas hiding. The film, which will besold at the upcoming Cannes FilmMarket, is based on Maddox’s book

Mission: Blacklist. It was adapted forthe screen and is being produced byby Erik Jendresen and will be direct-ed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire.

The in-demand Pattinson has noless than three films coming up,including period adaptation BelAmi, Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part2 and David Cronenberg’sCosmopolis, which is premiering incompetition at Cannes later thismonth.

The first posterfor the 26-

year-old actress’supcoming Linda

Lovelace biopic isout, and by the

hints of bareflesh, her

brunette coif andlacy red bra, it’sgonna be a hot

time at the multi-plex when it hits

theaters later thisyear. Lovelace

chronicles thefragile ‘70s icon

(Seyfried) as sherises like a mete-

or through theranks of the pornindustry, eventu-

ally achievinginternational

fame making thepioneering skin

flick Deep Throatall the whilestruggling to

break free fromher abusive hus-

band.The filmcostars JamesFranco, SarahJessica Parker,Juno Temple,

Chris Noth andSharon Stone.

Amanda Seyfriedshows some skin


Gabbar Singhwraps up shooting

Nayanthara teamsup with Ajith

Nayanthara is all set toteam up with Ajith for thethird time in her career.

The duo had earlier actedtogether in Vishnuvardhan’sBilla which went on tobecome a blockbuster inTamil. Fives years later,Ajith and Nayantharaare teaming up onceagain for a film tobe directed byVishnuvardhan.Arya is also play-ing an importantrole in this film.The film will go onfloors later thismonth and mostpart of the filmwill be shot inMumbai. AMRatnam is going toproduce it. YuvanShankar Raja iscomposingthe music.Ever

since Nayanthara announcedher comeback in films after along gap, she has beenapproached by plenty of produc-

ers from Telugu and Tamilfilm industries. For now,

she has signedNagarjuna starrer

Love Story, Krish’sKrishnam Vande

Jagadgurum andGopichand’supcoming bilin-

gual film,apart fromthis untitled

film withAjith.

The entire shooting of PawanKalyan, Shruti Haasan starrerGabbar Singh has been wrappedup. The film unit was inSwitzerland for the past few days

where they canned couple of songs. Coupleof days ago, a special train which offerspanoramic view of the Swiss landscapes washired to shoot a part of the song and sourcesclose to the film unit inform us that boththese songs have shaped up quite well.“Done with the last day of gs!had such a fan-

tastic time with the entire crew and the wholeexperience was so fun:) fingers toes crossed :)And switzerland is sooo stunning I had thebest time I feel like mountains have reallygiven me some perspective :) (sic)," ShrutiHaasan posted on Twitter. Harish Shankarhas directed the film and Ganesh Babu hasproduced it. Devi Sri Prasad has composedthe film’s music and all the songs are toppingthe charts. Gabbar Singh, the official remakeof Dabangg, is all set to hit the screens in thesecond week of May.

Rajamouli goesgaga over SudeepSudeep, who’s playing the vil-

lain’s role in Rajamouli’supcoming film Eega, can’t stopraving about Rajamouli’s style ofworking. He was in Hyderabadrecently to complete dubbing forhis character. Soon after he com-pleted the work, Sudeep stated,“As for Rajamouli, his energy,conviction, vision and enthusi-asm is what makes him an epito-me of precision. Anyone canlook a good actor when he is inhis frame.” Meanwhile,Rajamouli was equally apprecia-tive of Sudeep’s acting in thefilm. “I don’t know which issuperior @kicchasudeep ‘s actingor his voice???Whole of yesterdayhe dubbed for some extremelystrenuous scenes in Both Teluguand Tamil.the overall effect mul-tiplied tenfold. Of course bynight he was so worn out that hewas ready to drop dead...:) (sic)”Rajamouli posted on Twitter. It’sa known fact a major part ofEega is about the conflictbetween the housefly andSudeep’s character. No wonder,Rajamouli has focused most of

his attention on Sudeep. Naniand Samantha are also playingthe lead roles. M M Keeravanihas composed the music. SaiKorrapati is producing the filmin Telugu and Suresh Babu ispresenting it. The film’s Tamilversion, Naan Ee, is being pro-duced by Prasad V Potluri underPVP Cinemas banner. S SRajamouli is trying his best torelease the film in Telugu, Tamil,Malayalam and Hindi on May 30.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201226Chai Time

How to play KakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is alsosuitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well hereare the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku,can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in acrossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will con-tain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.

However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro,the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in therow or column referenced by the number.

Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly:In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you

will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14.Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is donethrough elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work outthe answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid com-binations, and hence the answer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

KAKUROACROSS1 Cookie found in many

crosswords5 Operates9 English church land14 Teller's partner15 Indian river entry point16 Steams up17 Change your story18 Overachieving Simpson19 Leg-foot link20 ‘Nay’ is one23 Kind of node24 Letter from Paul28 Senatorial affirmative29 ‘Dukes of Hazzard’

deputy sheriff33 ‘PulpFiction’co-star ___

L Jackson34 Leaf like layers36 Ill-fated Biblical brother37 Part of a boxing ring42 Seven to sail43 Bread dip (var)44 ‘Dr No’ star Andress47 Creep through the

cracks48 Make up your mind51 Drag race participants53 Weirder than weird55 Good omen59 They're not pros62 Ceremonial practice63 Conciliatory gifts64 Journalist Sawyer65 Noted first name in jazz66 Downwind, on a ship67 Bring into harmony68 Jodie Foster title

character69 Hankerings

DOWN1 Not behind closed doors2 All-night flight3 It's nono-brainer4 Ready to serve, as beer5 Jamaican citrus fruit6 Blade, in the joint

7 Facility8 Barrel slat9 ‘Ars ___ artis’10 Hockeyofficial11 Bugling mammal12 ‘The Fresh Prince of

___-Air’13 Compass pt21 Property crime22 Photo ___ (campaign

activities)25 Lipstick holder26 Wicked look27 Building wing30 ‘... see hide ___ hair of’31 Any of several

Norwegian kings32 Missile or grain

containers35 Teen skin affliction37 Fiddling Roman

38 Bridgeposition39 Seizing without

authority40 Poetic work41 Delhi dough42 Ndamukong of the

Detroit Lions45 Unknot46 Trailers and

mailers48 Charm City

ballplayer49 Dirty

‘Peanuts’character

50 Grammarclass subjects

52 Lorelei, eg54 Blue-book

composition

56 Kitchen-flooring piece57 ‘___ be good for you!’58 Schnitzel ingredient59 Colgate tube letters60 Having no value61 ___ chi

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THOUGHT OFTHE DAY

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QUICK CROSSWORD

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ARIESYour activeness will increase and jobsget completed quicker. Others may feelit difficult as they can't cope to yourexpectations. Financial situation willimprove. Family will be peaceful.

CANCER

LIBRAChildren might behave contrary to yourexpectations and keep you in tension.Spouse will be more supportive duringbad times. Certain work will get delayed.Expenses increase beyond expectations.

CAPRICORNYou struggle hard and earn a good name.Peaceful atmosphere will prevail at ho ‑me. You have to exercise caution whileexpressing your opinions. Kid's actionswill make you proud and bring cheer.

TAURUSYour long‑pending dreams are going tobe realised. Bad effects will reduce andgood events to take place. Influx of visi‑tors will increase happiness of the fami‑ly. Financially, a strong position is seen.

LEOAll plans in your mind will take shapeand be implemented soon. You will wo ‑rk non‑stop till you achieve the desiredresults. You will handle the issues creat‑ed by relatives very well relatives.

SCORPIOHealth problems likely, be careful andtake care. Debt problems might surfaceagain and put you in depression. Man ‑age the issue with patience. Employeeswill be favoured with a promotion.

AQUARIUSYou will act tough and get all work do ‑ne decisively. Financial situation willimprove for better. Major debts will getcleared. Minor clashes with spouse willtake place now and then but do adjust.

GEMINIBlood relatives may put you in an em ‑barrassing situation. You will have suffi‑cient inflow of money to meet expensesbut savings will be a distant dream. Youwill give importance to happiness.

VIRGOUnexpected events to take place whichwill surprise you. You will remain bal‑anced mentally and execute jobs in aplanned way. Chances of misunder‑standing with friends and relatives.

SAGITTARIUSAvoid helping unknown persons whichmight drag you in trouble. Also, one ofyour close associates will turn againstyou and become a traitor. You need tobe cautious in financial transactions.

PISCESUnexpected financial income expected.Employees might face temporary trans‑fer. Unexpected litigations to surface inproperty matters. Frequent businesstrips will put you under stress.

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The Devil – Youʼre inthe mood for someretail therapy. Beforeyou head out, takestock of your financesand make sure youʼrenot overstepping yourlimit. Keep a budget.

The High Priestess –Someone not that cl ‑ose to you will appr ‑o ach you with theirproblems. It may le ‑ave you wondering.Listen donʼt go out ofyour way to help.

Queen of Pentacles –Youʼre likely to bumpinto an old friend ata supermarket or atthe movies. It will tr ‑igger old emotions.Stay with it and allowit to go at its pace.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

Eight of Cups – A go ‑od friendship gonesour is not a pl e asantexperience to reme ‑m ber in the lat er ye ‑ars. You wonder wh ‑a t you should ha vedone for it to differ.

Six of Pentacles – Beopen to new ideas atthe work place anddonʼt reject anythinganyone has to say. Itmay also be a fresherin the industry. Newideas bring change.

Queen of Cups – Yo ‑uʼre feeling very emo‑tional about a personvery close to you. Itcan be a parent or asibling. Distance your‑self. Give yourself andthis person space.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Two of Pentacles –Youʼve been manag‑ing the juggling actrather well and itʼsworking out fantasti‑cally. Youʼre alsobecoming more awareof the possibilities.

Ace of Wands – Cre ‑ativity needs some out‑let. You need to lookfor it. It can be as sim‑ple as posting some‑thing on Facebook andgetting people tonotice how you think.

Ace of Cups – This isa lucky phase andyouʼre in for a goodrun with both careerand relationships. Aword of caution:Donʼt get tooattached to anything.

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ANGOLA CANADA FRANCE BRAZIL POLAND

Planetary situations are so favourablethat all your jobs get fulfilled withoutany hurdle. Financial situation will besatisfactory. Be careful while expressingyour opinions as some might feel hurt.

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Seven of Cups – Do ‑nʼt believe everythingyou hear or even see.There are many sto‑ries and rumours flo ‑ating about. You mayeven be the subjectof a few of these.

The Hanged Man –Spiritual awareness isthe need of the hour.Try something new.How about power yo ‑ga or the emotionalfreedom technique?You release your past.

King of Wands –Spending time withfriends at a coffeeshop with no plan inparticular, and talkingabout this and that, isa good de‑stressor.Do it more often.

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI

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B-TOWN TWEETIES

@NeilNMukeshGod plans happiness 4 each ofus at the right time.... It’s onlythat his Calender is not sharedwith us.

@SrBachchanT 731 — The designing of thelook on KBC by Rohit 'gudda'Bal... just lifts your spiritswhen you wear his outfits ..that jacket... hmm

@TheShilpaShettyToday was such a special day...my Sis Shamita and friendsRupali and Kiran threw themost amazin Baby shower frme. So much fun. Thanku guys.

@AnupamPkherFound a treasure of memoriesin one of my Dad’s suitcases.Old pic of Mom. Writtenbehind,”My beloved wife,Dulari.”:)

@bomaniraniMy 1st camera was a PentaxK1000 . Spent hours with it,strapped onto me all the time.Slept with it too and hoped mydreams were captured!

@bipsluvurselfRaaz 3 wrapped!Got spoilt sillypost wrap! Team pampered mewith all my fav yum dishes ndesserts!Stuffed! Fab film, fabcrew n fab shoot!

@sonamakapoorBest advice anyone has givenme is think for a minutebefore you speak. Now only ifI can follow it.

@priyankachopraSo tired today... been at itevery day... Uff! Need sowserious coffee!! Yawning isnot good at work!!!


I am notdating

anyoneB

ipasha Basu is upset at inces-sant rumours surrounding

her relationship status. Shewants the speculation to

stop, and says just becauseshe is a fun-loving and outgoing person,this doesn ‘t mean she is dating anyone

she meets.“For a long time my name is being

yo-yoed with few people. As and whendating, break up, then patch up and mar-riage stories are being made. I really wishall this stops as none of it is happening,”

tweeted Bipasha.“Fun loving person does not mean

frivolous. Meeting people doesnot mean dating them,”

added the 33-year-old, whohas been linked to actors

like Shahid Kapoor andRana Daggubati.

Bipasha is single afterher break up from JohnAbraham. While John is

ready to tie the knot withbanker Priya Runchal, Bipasha

maintains she is still single and busy lov-ing her professional life. IANS

Actress Madhuri Dixit, who has settledback in Mumbai after a sabbatical

from Bollywood, is gorging on Alphonsomangoes.

“It is mango season in Mumbai. Hadforgotten how good the hapoose amba(Alphonso mango) could be,” tweetedMadhuri.

Now she is back in Mumbai for goodwith her husband and two children. Shehas already signed two films - DedhIshqiya and Gulab Gang.

Vishal Bhardwaj‘s Dedh Ishqiya is asequel to Vidya Balan‘s 2010 film Ishqiya,while Anubhav Sinha’s Gulab Gang willsee her playing a female gangster.

She will also be seen as a judge in thenext season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa IANS

Madhuri devoursmangoes!

Big B completestwo years on Twitter

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, a regu-lar blogger and Twitterati has com-pleted two years on microblogging

site Twitter, and continues to share tid-bits from his daily life with his fans.

“TWO YEARS on this platform!Amazing! Feels like just started it yes-

terday! Thank you TwFmXt .. you are allawesome people,” tweeted Big B.

The 69-year-old, who tweets underthe handle of SrBachchan, writes abouthis daily activities, his philosophies and

rarely comments on issues ofnational concern. He calls his

Twitter and blog fans as his“extended family”.

So far he has 2,613,340followers on Twitter, and

has shared 12,985 updateswith them. IANS

Ajinkya Rahane (RR) 458 runs

MorneMorkel (DD)

19 wickets

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201229

It was not an easywicket, the ball did notcome on to the bat.But we should have gotto 120. We lost a fewwickets early. When Igot out was the turningpoint of the game.

Sourav GangulyPWI Captain

METRE 6S 406 29ChrisGayle(RCB) 103*HIGHEST

SCOREBESTBOWLER 5-164S1042 60Ajinkya

Rahane(RR)

RavindraJadeja(CSK)

Ajinkya Rahane(RR), Kevin

Pietersen (RCB)

Late bloomers DeccanChargers have a datewith Chennai SuperKings in the latter’s

home ground today. A lothas happened since the twoteams met last. DC havestarted to win matches andChennai Super Kings arestruggling. The latter losttheir last three matches toteams which may not bedeemed as equals withthem. In theirlast outingagainst theKolkata KnightRiders theirbatting collapsed. The onlytwo to make decent scoreswere Suresh Raina and MSDhoni. Against the Kings XIPunjab, once again theirbatsmen did not rise to theoccasion despite the total tobe chased being 156. TheSuper Kings have chased

bigger totals than that, yetagainst Punjab, they ran outof steam. The costliest buyof this edition RavindraJadeja’s lack of form is aconcern for Chennai.

The man who holds thebest bowling figures this sea-son could not do anythingsubstantial either with thebat or ball in recent games.

For the Chargers now’sthe time to take revenge forthe shocker of a loss suf-fered at the hands of theSuper Kings in their opener.They need to keep thisrhythm going, as it will behard and too late to make a

comeback ifthey mess upat this junc-ture. It’s a goodsign that both

Kumar Sangakkara andCameron White are playingsuperbly.

It may seem ironic thatDale Steyn has fared badly inmatches that DC have won.But if they are to win today,DC must do well in everydepartment of the game.

P W L N/T PT NRRDD 10 8 2 0 16 1.037 KKR 10 6 3 1 13 0.632 MI 10 3 4 0 12 -0.162KXIP 10 5 5 0 10 -0.280CSK 10 4 5 1 9 -0.029RCB 10 4 5 1 9 -0.446RR 10 4 6 0 8 -0.061PW 11 4 7 0 8 -0.115DC 9 2 6 1 5 -0.545P-played; W-win; L-lost; N/T-noresult/tie;NRR-net run rate; PT-points

Screening inroughweatherThe Cricket Association of

Bengal's (CAB) plan to installgiant screens across the city forthe match between KKR and PWIhas run into rough weather withthe police feigning ignorance.

The match is already sold out,leaving thousands heartbroken.Keeping in mind the clash withKolkata's local boy, Sourav Gang-uly, leading PWI, CAB has plannedto install giant screens at hotspotsincluding Howrah. However, JointCommis-sioner of Police JawedShamim told that they have notreceived any proposal from theCAB as yet. “The CAB has notgiven us any proposal regardingthat. If they come up with a pro-posal with technical feasibility,then we can discuss the issue." PTI

KINGS, BULLS LOCK HORNS

SCORECARDPUNE WARRIORS VS MUMBAI INDIANS

Mumbai Indians' Pragyan Ojha (2nd L) is congratulated after taking the wicket of PuneWarriors’ Steve Smith at The Subroto Roy Sahara Stadium in Pune on Thursday.

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Mumbai Indians inningsJEC Franklin c Manhas b Kumar 25SR Tendulkar c †Uthappa b Nehra 34RG Sharma run out (Smith/†Uthappa) 3RJ Petersonc Ganguly b Nehra 13KD Karthik not out 18AT Rayudu b Kumar 1NLTC Perera run out (Smith) 0Harbhajan Singh* c Parnell b Dinda 0SL Malinga run out (Smith/†Uthappa) 14PP Ojha run out (†Uthappa) 1Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 5, nb 2) 11Total (9 wickets; 20 overs) 120Bowling O M R W EconM Kartik 3 0 27 0 9.00AB Dinda 4 1 34 1 8.50WD Parnell 4 0 18 0 4.50B Kumar 3 0 9 2 3.00A Nehra 4 0 19 2 4.75MJ Clarke 2 0 9 0 4.50

Pune Warriors innings(target: 121 runs from 20 overs)

RV Uthappa† lbw b Patel 18

JD Ryder c Perera b Harbhajan Singh 9

MJ Clarke lbw b Harbhajan Singh 14

SC Ganguly*b Malinga 16

SPD Smith b Ojha 2

M Manhas not out 42

WD Parnell c Peterson b Malinga 2

B Kumar not out 10

Extras (w 6) 6

Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 119

Bowling O M R W Econ

SL Malinga 4 0 25 2 6.25

MM Patel 4 0 24 1 6.00

Harbhajan Singh 4 0 18 2 4.50

PP Ojha 4 0 24 1 6.00

JEC Franklin 3 0 20 0 6.66

NLTC Perera 1 0 8 0 8.00

Mumbai Indians won by 1 run

Pune Warriors’ Ashish Nehra celebrates after the run out ofMumbai Indians’ Thisara Perera during their match at the in Puneon Thursday. AFP/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE

BALLE BALLE TIME

DC VS CSKAT 8 PM ON SET MAX

KINGSTON: Sprint king UsainBolt will run his first individualrace of the Olympic season onSaturday when he lines up forthe 100m at the JamaicaInternational Invitational at thenational stadium.

After running the anchor legon the Racers’ 4x100m clubrelay team that clocked a sea-son-leading 37.82 seconds inrainy and cold conditions threeweeks ago at the UTech Trackand Field Classic in Kingston,Bolt had reported he was injuryfree and ready to go.

“I felt all right, comfortable,smooth, not as smooth as Iwould normally feel, but I havea few months to get ready and alot more running to go, so I lookforward to getting better,” Boltsaid of his early form in a sea-son pointed at the LondonOlympics starting in July.

Training partner YohanBlake, who will headline the200m here this weekend, hadrun a season-leading 9.90 sec-onds in the 100m at the UTechmeet, but with dry conditionsexpected on Saturday this willlikely be eclipsed by Bolt.

Bolt is set to leave forEurope next week, where he isscheduled to run several eventsbefore returning to Jamaica in

June for the Olympic Trials.A number of world and

Olympic champions and medal-lists have been confirmed forSaturday’s meeting, an IAAFWorld Challenge event.

Word Indoor 60m silvermedallist Nesta carter ofJamaica, Trinidad and Tobago’sOlympic silver medallistRichard Thompson,

Commonwealth Games cham-pion Lerone Clarke, WorldChampionships relay goldmedallists Dexter Lee andMichael Frater, Darvis Pattonand Antiguan Daniel Baileywere expected to chase Bolt inthe 100m.

Blake who ran the secondfastest 200m ever -- 19.26 sec-onds last year -- was originally

expected to clash with former100m world record holder AsafaPowell in the half lap race.

But Powell said Wednesday anagging groin injury had himre-evaluating his plans to startin the 200m.

Norway’s Jaysuma SaidyNdure, Rasheed Dwyer andNickel Ashmeade are likely chal-lengers in the 200m field.

The female sprints shouldbe competitive with defendingOlympic champion Shelly-AnnFraser-Pryce, 100m worldchampion champion CarmelitaJeter, Bianca Knight, jointOlympic silver medallistsKerron Stewart and SheroneSimpson, Debbie FergusonMcKenzie and Kelly-AnnBaptiste all confirmed to race ineither the 100m or 200m.

America’s Jeter won the100m last year and has thefastest 200m in the world thisyear of 22.31 seconds, clockedin California last month.

Sanya Richards Ross willheadline the women’s 400m,where she will go up againstBritain’s Christine Ohurugo aswell as Jamaicans NovleneWilliams Mills, Rose-MarieWhyte and IAAF DiamondLeague 400m hurdles winnerKaliese Spencer. AFP

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 3082 DAYS TO GO

Hopefuls toget taste ofstadiumThe UK Athletics head coach,

Charles van Commenee,admits it is almost impossible toreplicate the atmosphere homeathletes will face at this sum-mer’s Olympics in London. Butaround 150 Games hopefuls willnevertheless get a first competi-tive taste of the OlympicStadium when they competealongside this weekend’s BritishUniversities & Colleges Sport(BUCS) championships, accord-ing to The Guardian.

The likes of European hep-tathlon champion Jessica Ennis,world champions Mo Farah(5,000 metres) and Dai Greene(400m hurdles) and Olympicchampion Christine Ohuruoguhave opted not to compete, butlocal favourite Perri Shakes-Drayton and pole vault star HollyBleasdale will take part in theevent.

Although a number of small-er events have used the stadium

in a limited capacity, this week-end will be the first time the sta-dium will be open to the generalpublic for an athletics competi-tion.

And although a capacitycrowd of 80,000 will have to waituntil the Games in July andAugust, the thousands of ticketsmade available were quicklysnapped up by BUCS members.

Track athletes and thosecompeting in the vertical jumpswill contend stand-alone UKAevents, while horizontal jumpersand throws athletes will partici-pate in the BUCS competitionfields.

Van Commenee said:“Preparing our athletes for whatto expect when they walk intothe Olympic Stadium at Gamestime is almost impossible. Thenoise of an Olympic Stadiumwhen a home favourite walks outjust cannot be replicated. Thistest event will form an importantpart of some athletes’ prepara-tion.

“At this event they will get thechance to familiarise themselveswith the Olympic Stadium andwe can remove a number ofunknown factors for them.”

AROUND 150 GAMES HOPE-FULS WILL GET A FIRST COM-PETITIVE TASTE OF THESTADIUM WHEN THEY COM-PETE ALONGSIDE THIS WEEK-END’S BRITISH UNIVERSITIES& COLLEGES SPORT(BUCS) CHAMPIONSHIPS

READY, STEADY, BOLT!Injury-free, Usain Bolt, is all set to run his first individual race this Olympic season when he

competes in the 100m sprint at the Jamaica International Invitational at the national stadium

I’ve to treat my body like an engineSarah Stevenson

This weekend I had a visitfrom the mother-in-law,which I hasten to add was

a pleasure, so we were keepingher entertained. Friday nightwas Treat Night, so it was aChinese, lots of sweets and aDVD. It may not sound like themost hedonistic night of alltime, but unfortunately whenyou’re a professional athlete intraining for the Olympics, that’sabout as crazy as it gets. It’s justa matter of getting used to therigid discipline.

Of course, as you get a bitolder you start pining for amore normal life where you cango out in the middle of theweek, eat what you like andhave a couple of glasses of wine,but you just can’t do it. If I stuffmy face with booze or burgers,then I’m not going to be thebest athlete I can be, so I haveto treat my body like an engineand make sure it gets the right

fuel. After the Olympics I’ll getto take some time off and dothings like that, so I’ve just gotto hold out for a few moremonths. But it is nice to treatyourself now and then so youhave something to look forwardto. It’s a busy time forManchester, where I’m based.The marathon was on Sunday,so I went down to support my

friend, Sarah Broadhead, whoran it to raise funds for anamazing facility in which mybeautiful mum spent her finaldays before she passed awaylast year. I’m really proud ofSarah, so if any Guardian read-ers could make a donation,however small, we’d be reallygrateful. Elsewhere inManchester we had the big foot-

ball derby, which served as alow-key curtain-raiser for themain order of sporting businessthat’s taking place this weekend:the European TaekwondoChampionships. Unfortunately,because of The Knee, I won’t bedefending my title. To be hon-est, I’m not so bothered aboutthat, but I am a bit gutted that Ican’t compete because it wouldhave been good preparation forthe Olympics. From that per-spective, it would have beennice to get some hard, competi-tive fighting under my belt.

It would be good to befighting and there for the restof the team, but I’m probablynot going to attend because, forme, spending time with friendsand family is more importantafter everything I’ve gonethrough. If I’m not fighting andcompeting, going home toDoncaster to spend time withmy nearest and dearest who Ihaven’t seen for a while willhelp take my mind off it.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201231The games people playPlaying Field

CCOB (in light Blue) defeated JJ Nagar (in black) 1-0 at the Peter Thgangaraj Memorial FootballTournament Johnson FC qualified for the quarters from Group B while Red Hills qualified fromGroup A based on the superior goal difference.

FANCY FOOTWORK

SHEFFIELD: RonnieO’Sullivan (right) built a 5-3

lead over Matthew Stevens andAli Carter led Stephen Maguire

by the same scoreline at theend of Thursday’s opening ses-

sion in the WorldChampionship semi-finals.But three-times champion

O’Sullivan’s slender advantageowed something to an act ofsportsmanship by his Welsh

opponent who called a foul onhimself in the second framethat neither the ‘Rocket’ norreferee Brendan Moore had

spotted.That helped O’Sullivan

establish a 4-0 lead beforeStevens, twice a losing finalist,battled back with a break of 80

in the eighth frame reducingthe Englishman’s lead to two

frames.Meanwhile Carter, runner-

up in 2008, put his struggleswith Crohn’s disease, a bowel

condition he has had to man-age for nine years, to one side.

“It’s a very long matchagainst Stephen but my prob-

lems haven’t beaten me yet andthey’re not going to. I’m justdelighted to prove to myself

and all the doubters out therethat I’ve still got it.”

Webb inlead atWells FargoCHARLOTTE, NORTHCAROLINA: Webb Simpsonadmitted his pairing with TigerWoods made him nervous onThursday, but it didn’t show ashe seized a share of the first-round lead at the $6.5 millionWells Fargo Championship.

Simpson, playingwith Woods and former USOpen champion Geoff Ogilvyof Australia, chipped in foreagle at the par-four eighthhole at Quail Hollow and

drained a 60-foot birdie puttat 12 en route to his seven-under par 65.

He was tied with formerBritish Open championStewart Cink and Ryan Moorefor the lead, with five moreplayers — England’s BrianDavis, Rickie Fowler, D.A.Points, Patrick Reed andAustralian John Senden — astroke back on 66.

“I was nervous playingwith Tiger. I prayed a lot outthere,” said Simpson, who livesnearby. “Once I made a couplebirdies, I kind of enjoyed it.”

Scores were low in hot,humid weather, making for acrowded leaderboard. Abouthalf the field broke par.

Zimbabwe’s Brendon deJong, Brian Harman and BillyMayfair were tied on 67, andanother 13 players were tiedon 68.

Former world number oneWoods, making his first startsince a disappointing tie for40th at the Masters, couldn’tcapitalize on the conditions.

He bogeyed three of hisfirst nine holes and finishedwith four birdies in a one-under 71.

“I’ve got to obviously notmake those little mistakes likethat tomorrow,” Woods said.“We’ve got a long way to go,and we’ve got some rain com-ing probably on the weekend,so we’re going to have to go getit.” Cink, the 2009 British Openchampion, capped his roundwith three successive birdiesto notch his lowest round ofthe year.

TIGER WOODS, MAKINGHIS FIRST START SINCE ATIE FOR 40TH AT THEMASTERS, COULDN’TCAPITALIZE ON THECONDITIONS. HE BOGEYEDTHREE OF HIS FIRST NINEHOLES AND FINISHED WITHFOUR BIRDIES IN AONE-UNDER 71.

O’Sullivan leads at Worlds O’Sullivan’s advantage was due to an act of sportsmanship by his opponent

who called a foul on himself that neither Ronnie nor referee spotted

Camelot isfavourite NEWMARKET: Camelot is ashort-priced favourite to succeedthe great Frankel in Saturday’s2,000 Guineas and provide hisIrish trainer Aidan O’Brien with asixth success in the English clas-sic. Camelot assumed commandof the ante-post market after fol-lowing up his debut win atLeopardstown last July with animpressive success in his onlyother start, the Group 1 RacingPost Trophy at Doncaster inOctober. That performance andO’Brien’s formidable record seeshim arrive in Newmarket at acramped 6-4, yet the trainerstruck a cautious note whenquizzed about Camelot lastweekend, mindful of his experi-ence with St Nicholas Abbey twoyears ago.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 201232The games people playPlaying Field

Julian Guyer

LONDON: Chris Gayle could be on the brinkof a return to international cricket afterpulling out of a deal with English county sideSomerset in a bid to revive his West Indiescareer.

Former West Indies captain Gayle,renowned as a big-hitting batsman, has notplayed international cricket for more than ayear following a dispute with the West IndiesCricket Board (WICB) sparked by critical com-ments he made about officials in a radio inter-view. The 32-year-old Jamaican left-hander,also a useful off-spin bowler, signed to playTwenty20 cricket for Somerset this season.

However, Gayle issued a statement sayinghe had made himself available for internation-al cricket again following talks with the WICB.

He said he would not be joining south-west side Somerset, even though he hasreceived no guarantees he will be selected bythe West Indies.

“I wish to advise that as of today [Thur -sday], I have written to Somerset and advisedthem that I will not be honouring the commit-ment I made to them when I signed a contractwith them,” Gayle said.

“I made it clear to them that my decisionwas made because of my commitment to WestIndies cricket and to West Indies cricket fans,and because I believe that it is time for theWICB to make a decision which will provide aclearer view of my own future.”

Could Gayle holdkey to WIrenaissance?

Rob Woollard

LONDON: The FA Cup final could wit-ness a battle of the misfits on Saturday asAndy Carroll (above) and FernandoTorres (right) look for Wembley redemp-tion after enduring seasons to forget atLiverpool and Chelsea. Carroll andTorres became entwined in one of themost dramatic transfer deals in historylast year, when Torres’s £50 million exitfrom Liverpool to Chelsea triggeredCarroll’s £35 million departure fromNewcastle United to Anfield.

Yet the dizzying price tags haveappeared to weigh heavily on both strik-ers ever since that frenzied finale to thetransfer window, with both suffering pro-tracted scoring slumps with their newclubs. However, as Wembley looms evennearer, there are signs that both playersare ready to start paying back their trans-fer fees in the currency they were hired todeliver: goals.

Torres, who could lay claim to beingamong the world’s best strikers a few sea-sons ago, has suffered a horrendous firstfull season at Chelsea, his once lethaltouch in front of goal replaced by a foot-balling equivalent of the yips.

Like Torres, Carroll has shown onlyoccasional glimpses of the sort of form

that persuaded Liverpool to make himthe most expensive English footballer inhistory, and many remain unconvincedthat the 23-year-old was worth themoney.

However, he has plugged awaydespite indifferent form, and popped upwith the late goal that saw Liverpool intothe final with a 2-1 win over Everton.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish

has been unstinting in his support ofCarroll, insisting the tall striker and othermembers of his side thrive on criticism.

“Everyone has been battered,”Dalglish said recently. “Maybe that iswhat we need to get ourselves going for-ward.

“Everybody is entitled to their opin-ion but if you want to be a top player, youhave to go through most of the emotionsyou get in football.

“Part of that is how you come backfrom criticism.”

LONDON: Arsenal striker Robin van Persie(above, centre) insisted he had no concernsabout his Gu nners’ future as he collected theFootball Wri ters’ Player of the Year award onThursday. The Dutch striker insisted hewould “always be a Gunner” after topping ajournalists’ poll, having already received the

corresponding award from his peers in theProfessional Footballers’ Association.

There has been speculation as towhether Arsenal, set for a seventh successiveyear without a trophy, can hang onto the tal-ented 28-year-old who has been attractingenvious glances from Europe’s leading clubs.

But van Persie was adamant he would beentering contract negotiations with Arsenalas planned once this season was finished.

Rooney’s goal is trumpsWayne Rooney’s stunning overhead kick inthe Manchester derby in February 2011 hasbeen voted as the greatest goal in the 20 sea-sons of the Premier League in a ballot ofmore than 300,000 fans. England strikerRooney acrobatically volleyed home Nani’s77th-minute cross to take United eightpoints clear of City in the league standingsen route to a record 19th English league title.

Van the Man calm over his future

A tale of two strikers

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