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PARLEY Expansion of public employment and a national that Dr. Ranade mentioned are cer ber of laws and regulation for tainly valid, but I would argue that various other workers. Mostly they skilling programme could boost employment you also need a very large push in are not implemented. On the other terms of the expansion of public hand, you do have inspector raj of a Data released by the Labour Minis large sample surveys of the NSS. employment. And there are two most terrible kind for small and mi try show that the unemployment The sampling method has not reasons for this. One, public em croentrepreneurs. It’s a peculiar rate in 201718 was 6.1%, arguably changed; it’s never been a stratifi ed ployment has very obvious, stan combination of the worst of all pos the highest in 45 years. The Periodic sample, it’s always been a random dard multiplier eff ects, which are sible worlds, whereby the legisla Labour Force Survey (PLFS) fi nd sample of households and it always fairly pronounced in a country like tion and things that would actually ings have been the subject of intense tries to capture as many diff erent India, and we know that we are protect workers are simply not en scrutiny and debate ever since a forms and levels of education, occu hugely lacking in terms of the public forced, and all the kinds of things, leaked report in January revealed a pation and so on and so forth. That’s services that we provide our people. the fl exibilities that small producers surge in joblessness as well as a the point of the sample. If you look at the average of pu do need are not allowed to them or drop in the labour force participa The PLFS is diff erent because it blic employees per population, rather they’d have to pay massive tion rate. In a conversation moder was trying to get quarterly data: that which is a kind of indicator of what bribes to be able to take advantage ated by Suresh Seshadri, Jayati is, how does the employment of the public services you’re providing: of any kind of fl exibility. REUTERS Ghosh and Ajit Ranade discuss the same family vary across every quar globally the average is 3.5 per 100 Whether it is your street vendor issue. Edited excerpts: ter, and that is very important and people, in Europe it’s more like 6 or it is a small person running a would have been very useful. Ho per 100, in Scandinavia it’s as high small factory or a small service pro Dr. Ranade, how much confi dence do you place in the wever, what the earlier NSS used to do was to take just one quarter for ployed. The highest unemployment rates are found among the tertiary < > The PLFS data will be fi netuned, but as such the as 8 per 100, in India it’s less than 2 per 100. We are underproviding pu vider, all of them have to face the rather oppressive hand of the state PLFS data and what do you each household and extrapolate to educated, that is, those who have numbers do tally with other blic services. It’s not just in health in diff erent ways, which doesn’t draw as the key conclusions that for the whole year. If you take done beyond high school, and that indicators of the labour and education. If you actually bring really help them in terms of improv from it? the same PLFS data and do that, you refl ects the fact that you’re then not market conditions or the public services up to a minimum le ing their productivity. Now, does get completely comparable data. willing to take just any job; that you vel that is required of, let us say, that mean that we should just allow economy’s condition. Ajit Ranade: This was started as a The PLFS will give us slightly better will actually try and wait and hope even a lower middleincome coun the freedom to hire and fi re? I frank pilot project about two years ago estimates of how the same family, to get something that, at least, is There are probably dozens and do try, Kenya, you would require a tri ly think that’s a red herring. I mean, and the purpose was to get a much the same household, responds over vaguely related to your zens of registrations. This just pling of public employment. That, factories do what they want any more granular and indepth under a period — over four quarters of the qualifi cations. makes it very hard for the whole in turn, has massive multiplier ef way, this is all nonsense that they standing of the labour market. And year: do they stay in employment, process, to set up and start employ fects. All these people who you pay cannot expand. I will take you to there was a change in methodology, do they lose employment, does it go If one accepts the premise that ing people. Then, you have this will get incomes that they will go out factories in the National Capital Re from sampling based on expendi from casual to regular and so on and improved access to education thing about onthejob training, that and spend, and when they spend gion where more than half of their ture categories, which was done by so forth. In that sense, it’s a better has led to a more aspirational workers need to be skilled but em they will create demand; there’s a workforce are actually daily wagers the National Sample Survey (NSS), survey. The trouble is that it was youth segment, which in turn is ployers don’t want to invest in skill huge paucity of demand in the eco and do not have a permanent con to education status. So, of course really meant to be continuous. We loath to work in low ing. We need a portable national nomy. With that demand, you will tract. So, this notion that factories Jayati Ghosh this is a very welcome initiative, be were not supposed to have any gaps remuneration jobs, how do we programme where you acquire ap get the emergence of new activities, can’t expand, or employers can’t ex is Professor of cause we need better data on the la in it at all. So, not only did we get on tackle the problem? prenticeships in one fi rm, you solve which will then generate the kind of pand because of labour laws, I think Economics at bour market. As far as how much ly one year’s data but we then didn’t this problem of underinvestment in entrepreneurs that Dr. Ranade was it’s completely off track. Jawaharlal Nehru confi dence we have, since this is the get that for a very long time because AR: This is a very big key challenge skilling by individual fi rms, so that is talking about and then if there are University best we’ve got, I think we have to it was suppressed. to having adequate, goodquality, a very big agenda. But this is a huge startups, if there are micro entre AR: On labour laws, I think we have use this data. I’m sure it will be fi ne But, essentially, what it is show wellpaying jobs and this is a very challenge, how to get fi rms to hire in preneurs, they will have a market to to move towards a system where the tuned and perhaps the numbers ing us fi ts very well with all the other large agenda. But since you asked bigger numbers and how to get cater to. In other words, you really laws protect the worker but not the will become more reliable, but as unfortunate indicators, which are me what would help, then one can them a little more into the formal, have to have a big employment push job. So, worker protection is para such the numbers do tally with oth that there is a real problem of diver think of multiple things, each of registered sector. from the government. mount but not job protection. er indicators of the labour market gence of output growth and employ which is probably a small step but it conditions or the economy’s ment in the country. Unemploy does help. For example, setting up Dr. Ghosh, is the situation of Dr. Ghosh, this talk about the JG: I would argue that at the mo condition. ment actually refl ects those who are an enterprise. As you know, in India decadeshigh joblessness more need for reforms to labour ment they protect neither. in the labour force. If you are in edu there are perhaps 60 million odd a result of the economy’s legislation, has it been a little Dr. Ghosh, you had in a blog cation, you are simply not in the la enterprises, and mostly in the unre trajectory or an outcome of wrongheaded? Instead of Lastly, if there’s one single key post pointed to how the PLFS bour force. Those who say, “Oh, it gistered sector. And out of the 60 government policies? focusing on easing restrictions intervention that the Ajit Ranade is data coheres with other doesn’t capture the fact that more million only about one, oneanda on hire and fi re and contractual government can do to create Chief Economist estimates including those of the and more people are in education” half million, 1.2 million actually con JG: It’s clearly both. This is a pro hiring norms, should we move jobs, what would be your with the Aditya CMIE. How do you then view don’t know what they’re talking tribute towards Provident Fund or cess that’s been ongoing for about 15 towards ensuring more prescription? Birla Group opinions that posit that the about. Because the unemployment ESI [Employees’ State Insurance]. years, this separation of economic formalisation, say of high unemployment rate is painting rate is the ratio of those who are ac So, a very large proportion is in the activity and job creation. So, I think volume jobcreating sectors JG: Fill the vacancies [in the govern an inaccurate picture when tually seeking work to all of those unregistered or informal sector. So, it’s a deeper structural problem and like construction, with more ment sector], but expand good viewed in the backdrop of who are either employed or seeking as a fi rst step, perhaps we can make part of the diffi culty that I am having supportive laws? There are quality public employment. rising school and college work. If you are in education or it easy for these fi rms to get regis with the current government is that some laws, but I think it’s at the enrolment? training, you are not in the labour tered, or to comply. So, the big, big whenever you talk about jobless State level and not all of them AR: I would support fi lling up the force. The high unemployment rate, challenge is in the ease of doing bu ness, they seem to see this as a polit have been implemented well. vacancies, which are more than two Jayati Ghosh: Many of the criti however, does possibly refl ect the siness, setting up businesses, get ical attack, whereas this is really an million. But also, a nationallevel ap cisms of the PLFS survey are actual impact of previous education, ting them registered. You have mul issue of economic policy that has JG: You put your fi nger on it. None prenticeship programme with por Scan the QR code to ly not very well informed because which is, and that shows in the data, tiple registrations — you need to deeper roots. of them is enforced. We have actual tability, subsidised and welldefi ned listen to the full they are suggesting that the results the more educated you are, the register for GST, for ESIC [ESI Cor Now, in terms of what you do ly pretty good legislation for con accreditation, which you can take to interview online are not comparable with the earlier more likely you are to be unem poration], for Provident Fund. about it, I think some of the issues struction workers; we have a num any part of India. An upbeat tone amid tensions CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FROM ARCHIVES The gushing rhetoric between India and the U.S. says FIFTY YEARS AGO JULY 5, 1969 something about the strength of the relationship Decade of Disappointment Michael Kugelman Indian offi cial described Ms. Khobra (From an Editorial) gade’s treatment as “despicable and In recent weeks, amid an upsurge in barbaric,” while another fumed that The disappointments of the fi rst Develop U.S.India tensions, the rhetoric on “we’re not a banana republic”. In a ment Decade that is ending this year are writ both sides has remained remarkably dramatic response, New Delhi re large in the report of the 18member United upbeat. While there has been ample moved security barriers from the Nations Committee on the goals and strategy criticism from senior U.S. and Indian U.S. Embassy and revoked many of developmental planning for the Second offi cials, it has largely been directed perks for American diplomats in Development Decade commencing next at policies rather than at the partner India. year. Apart from emphasising the responsi ship. Even U.S. President Donald bility of the advanced nations to set apart Trump’s Indiadirected taunts tend Imperative to move forward one per cent of their gross national product to target the issues that aggrieve him In contrast, today the criticism is sof for economic assistance to the developing rather than the relationship. ter and the reprisals less dramatic. In countries, the report suggests that “deve fact, until New Delhi’s recent deci loped countries should attempt to supply at Gushing rhetoric sion to slap retaliatory tariff s on the least 80 per cent of their fi nancial assistance Witness, for example, U.S. Secretary U.S., India had been very restrained in the form of grants by 1975”. It is indeed of State Mike Pompeo’s eff usive amid the intensifi cation of trade ten true that the volume of net aid has thinned praise for the partnership in June. sions. Additionally, the positive mes considerably from year to year, what with “We’ve come a long way,” he said. saging from both sides signals the debt charges (on repayment of principal and “And now the Trump administration commitment of both countries to payment of interest) mounting and the and the Modi administration have an work through their disputes — a com CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC quantum of total aid steadily going down. A incredibly unique opportunity to mitment rooted in the realisation larger element of grant in the assistance gi take advantage of this special part that there is a strategic imperative to NOTEBOOK ven will no doubt help. But more lasting help nership. We can move further.” Mr. move forward. Washington and New would be opportunities for increasing trade Pompeo and External Aff airs Minis Delhi appear to genuinely believe The many ways of watching a movie and this would call for the advanced nations lowering their trade barriers. The trade pic ter S. Jaishankar ex that their shared vision for pressed similar sentiment Asia — a free, open, rules One man’s abuse is often entertainment for many ture, however, remains unchanged despite the muchboosted Kennedy Round of tariff about the relationship based system meant to and expressed hope that push back against Chinese Namrata Joshi peated itself with Kabir on to your own little raft of than a convenient carica concessions. they could overcome its power — ensures a conti Singh. The majority of personal opinions in the ture in the south? Was the obstacles when they held nued strong partnership. Sometimes it’s not a movie viewers rolled in laughter face of tidal waves threa Kantaben track in Kal Ho A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JULY 5, 1919. a joint press conference To be sure, such future but the experience of as a deplorable scene of tening to drown you. I Naa Ho about homosexual in New Delhi several days comity is far from guaran watching a movie that stays abuse — a house help being choke on my coff ee often, ity or was it a joke about Gold Theft at Mint. ago. And President teed. As pointed out in a re in the mind — and not en illtreated and threatened feeling the sheer solitari homophobia? Be it the ba Trump himself said of the cent essay by the Brookings tirely for the right reasons. on screen — played out. ness of being at a tangent latkaar (rape) gag in 3 Mr. Aston, Chief Presidency Magistrate, on relationship at the G20 Institution, converging For me, the popular Once There was evident appro from the larger fi lm au Idiots or the ageist one in Thursday [ July 3, in Bombay] disposed of a meeting in Osaka: “We have become U.S.India views on China following Upon A Time In Mumbai val when the heroine was dience universe. But more Sanju about a 91yearold case in which Harold Durham, head melter great friends and our countries have the 1962 IndiaChina war did not lead franchise will always be slapped; I fl inched. It’s not often than not, my digres woman, what may have of His Majesty’s Mint in Bombay, stood never been closer. I can say that with to deeper cooperation. Still, the pos about grandiloquent lines. to do with women alone. In sive beliefs strengthen in been off ensive and politi charged at the instance of the C.I.D. with dis surety.” itive rhetoric telegraphs the belief on There is one exchange in Badrinath Ki Dulhania the the process and I feel the cally incorrect to a small posing of gold on three occasions, valued at Given that the U.S.India relation both sides that the relationship, Once Upon A Time In Mum assault on a man evoked urgency to state them can section is also the kind of nearly Rs. 6,000 and on attempting on the ship is suff ering through one of its warts and all, remains on a positive bai Dobaara! between big laughs. I couldn’t un didly and vigorously. It broad and adolescent hu 9th May to dispose of through an agent a most challenging periods in years, trajectory, at least for now. Akshay Kumar and So derstand what the joke makes me dive deeper into mour that has more ready gold bar valued at Rs. 3,594, when he knew it’s natural to dismiss such happy talk Also, the relationship could even nakshi Sinha in which Ku was. the personal. The consen takers than you can even it to be stolen. At the opening of the case the as a mere ploy to mask the serious tually turn sour and even plunge into mar tells his ladylove: Are these scenes and res sus around fi res up the con begin to imagine. One wo Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Campbell, stated that strains in the partnership. In reality, a fullblown crisis. Imagine if the U.S. “Paanch minute mein izzat ponses a refl ection of the trarian in me. (man)’s abuse is often en Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Harkar the gushing rhetoric is more signifi were to investigate India’s trading utaar sakta hoon (I can inherent conservatism and Simultaneously there is tertainment for many. on receipt of information that gold was be cant than it may seem — and it says practices, or if it penalises New Delhi rape you in fi ve minutes).” I toxicity of our society or also the wonderment at the But on some rare occa ing smuggled from the Mint through one something about the continued for completing its S400 deal with don’t know what hit me are they indicative of cine many possible ways of see sions there is harmony. I Kashiram, a subordinate of the Mint, and strength of the relationship. Russia. Such moves would ratchet up more: the obnoxiousness ma’s role in the formation ing. I often wonder wheth don’t think I would have sold to one Rahimtullah in the city, laid a For one thing, it is a reminder of tensions to the point where any eff u of the hero and his expres and acceptance of newer er I am watching the same been able to sit through the trap and arrested Kashiram while he was dis just how much worse things could sive rhetoric would sound disingenu sion of socalled love or the and more insidious themes fi lm as the people around inanity of Race 3 were it not posing of a gold bar weighing 112 tolas at Ra be. The last time the relationship ous more than reassuring. But that’s catcalls and whistles of the being played by role mo me. And it’s not just to do for the manner in which himtullah’s shop. Kashiram implicated Dur faced a particularly bad stretch was not where we are today. audience in reaction to this dels? The eternal debate with gender representa the audience was laughing ham. Mr. Campbell further stated that they in 2013, when India’s deputy consul statement. The insensitivi rages on. tion, it’s also about humour at its cheesiness. They sang were unable to show from the Mint records general in New York, Devyani Kho ty and inappropriateness Meanwhile, for a fi lm and how it is perceived. A the ditty written by ‘Bhai’, that there was any shortage in the gold and bragade, was arrested in New York, The writer is Deputy Director and Senior of the response made me critic, watching a fi lm ‘fi rst Mehmood in Padosan may “Ik baar baby, selfi sh hoke, the only suggestion that they could make subjected to a strip search, and brief Associate for South Asia with the Asia feel vulnerable, disgusted day, fi rst show’ all alone on have brought the house apne liye jeeyo na”, in un was that it was just possible that very small ly jailed. During that tense period — Program at the Woodrow Wilson and angry in turn. a Friday morning often down in north India, but ison, deliberately out of amounts might have been taken at a time much tenser than today — there was International Centre for Scholars, That was in 2013. Six feels like being marooned was the character per tune. My heart couldn’t which in the course of time, when accumu no happy talk, only angry words. One Washington, DC years later, the story re on a choppy sea, holding ceived as anything more help but sing along. lated must have made up the full amount. 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Subramanian dorsed her brother’s Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is to appear in a local court of data privacy. decision. worker for making allega in Bihar on July 6 in connec The government must in er fi rms. Regarding employ Congress treasurer tions against the Sangh after tion with a defamation case tervene in creating data as a ment, the Survey pointed Ahmed Patel has once again the murder of journalist fi led against him by senior public good, especially of out that the general appre emerged a key leader who is Gauri Lankesh in 2017 in State BJP leader Sushil Ku the poor and in social sec hension was that a high in reaching out to senior lead Bengaluru. mar Modi over a “Modi” sur tors. vestment rate would mean ers including Chief Ministers Metropolitan magistrate name jibe during the elec Interestingly, the Survey labour would be substituted of Congressruled States to P.I. Mokashi granted bail to tion campaign. talked about merging the out by capital. This, the arrive at a consensus Mr. Gandhi on the surety of The State Congress con distinct datasets held by the authors said, was an incor candidate. Business as usual: A day after making public his resignation letter, Rahul Gandhi was in Mumbai former MP Eknath Gaikwad fi rmed Mr. Gandhi’s visit. government into a single da rect assessment as shown by Party insiders say like Mr. on Thursday to attend court proceedings. VIVEK BENDRE * and Mr. Yechury was grant DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD taset, which would generate the Chinese model. Gandhi, his mother and Con ed bail on the surety of CPI “multiple benefi ts.” “The Chinese experience gress Parliamentary Party “Few have the courage that seems to be running out for and his deputy, Sachin Pilot. (M) party worker Shanta the farmers and the labour Another key area of focus illustrates how a country (CPP) chairperson Sonia you do, @rahulgandhi. the Congress and its highest A section of the Congress ram Mankaumare. ers. This is a fi ght of ideolo for the Survey was the with the highest investment Gndhi too turned down sug Deepest respect for your decisionmaking body, the said former PM Manmohan Advocate Kushal Mor, re gies, and it will continue.” MSME sector and how to rates also created the most gestions from her party col decision.” Congress Working Commit Singh could easily emerge as presenting Mr. Gandhi told Complainant advocate make it grow so as to boost jobs,” the Survey’s authors leagues that she should in Mr. Gandhi’s decision to tee (CWC). a consensus candidate if Dr. The Hindu, “both have also Dhrutiman Joshi alleged profi t creation, job creation, wrote. volve herself in the selection go public also prompted Though no offi cial an Singh agrees to shoulder the been granted permanent ex that while speaking to a re and enhance productivity. When the full value chain of the next party chief. former Uttarakhand Chief nouncement has been responsibility. emption from appearance porter outside Parliament, It noted that ‘dwarf’ fi rms is examined, Dr. Subrama The Gandhi family, Minister Harish Rawat to fol made, the CWC could be The Congress constitution in the case and the matter Mr. Gandhi, had linked the (with less than 100 work nian explained in the press claimed sources, didn’t want low in his footsteps. He meeting as early as the next mandates that in the event of will be heard on September RSS with Gauri Lankesh’s ers), accounted for more conference, then it becomes a new Congress chief to be tweeted that he had stepped week to zero in on the an emergency including the 21.” murder. than 50% of all organised clear that capital investment viewed as the family’s nomi down as the party’s general successor president’s resignation, “the Former MP Sanjay Niru Mr. Yechury had also al fi rms in manufacturing by fosters job creation since nee. But she is learnt to have secretary incharge of Assam Names that are doing the senior most General Secre pam, Mumbai Congress pre legedly made a statement number. capital goods production, conveyed her ‘full support’ for the poor showing in the rounds include former Con tary will discharge the rou sident Milind Deora and that it was the RSS ideology Despite this, their contri research and development, to look for Mr. Gandhi’s suc State. gress leader in the Lok Sabha tine functions of the Presi Congress leader Naseem and RSS men who had killed bution to employment was and supply chains also gen cessor. With the next round of As Mallikarjun Kharge, former dent until the Working Khan were present with Mr. Lankesh. The two leaders just 14% and to productivity erate jobs. Congress general secre sembly elections in Maha Home Minister Sushil Kumar Committee appoints a provi Gandhi during the hearing. are also facing a civil defa a mere 8%. Large fi rms, on The Survey also pointed tary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, rashtra, Jharkhand and Ha Shinde, general secretary sional President pending the Addressing the media af mation case for a similar the other hand, are just 15% to the need for labour re too supported her brother’s ryana coming up around Mukul Wasnik, Rajasthan election of a regular Presi ter the hearing, Mr. Gandhi statement made by them in number but account for form, highlighting the fact decision when she tweeted, OctoberNovember, time Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot dent by the AICC.” said, “I am with the poor, outside Parliament. 75% employment and close that factories in States that to 90% of productivity. The have fl exible labour markets refore, there is a need to “unshackle” MSMEs and en able them to grow into larg are much more productive than those in States with ri gid laws. Pakistan action exposes Penalty, jail term to private Don’t punish southern terror complicity: India entities storing Aadhaar data States: Jairam Govt. can sell PSU Take irreversible steps: Ministry Special correspondent LS clears Aadhaar amendment Bill amid stiff opposition land, says CEA special correspondent NEW DELHI New Delhi Congress MP Jairam Ra Reported Pakistani actions SC to hear case today mesh sought an assurance special correspondent against terrorists and terror NEW DELHI from the government in groups have exposed the The Lok Sabha cleared the the Rajya Sabha on Thurs country’s complicity in us Aadhaar and Other Laws Krishnadas Rajagopal tabase to be exploited by day that the fi ve southern ing terrorism as a tool of sta (Amendment) Bill, 2019 by a NEW DELHI private players for commer States will not be punished tecraft, the External Aff airs voice vote on Thursday. The A Supreme Court Bench led cial gain. by reducing their represen Ministry said here on Thurs Bill replaces an Ordinance by Justice S.A. Bobde is sche The petition said through tation in Parliament just day. promulgated on March 2 and duled to hear on Friday a the new regulations, the Un because they managed to The statement comes provides for a stiff ₹ 1 crore writ petition challenging the ique Identifi cation Authority control their population. amid reports that JuD chief penalty and a jail term to new Aadhaar Ordinance and of India seeks to commer The six States that have Hafi z Saeed and 12 of his private entities for storing Regulations, saying they will cialise personal data of citi total fertility rates in excess close aides will be arrested Hafi z Saeed Aadhaar data. create a “surveillance state” zens and use of Aadhaar da of the replacement level of “very soon”, a day after Pa It also makes the use of and enable the Aadhaar da tabase by private entities. 2.1 are Uttar Pradesh, Bi kistani authorities booked they try to show the interna Aadhaar voluntary for open CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC har, Rajasthan, Madhya them for multiple off ences tional community that they ing a bank account, securing Pradesh, Jharkhand and of terrorism fi nancing and are taking some action a mobile phone connection, the common man has in this ment has been given power Chhattisgarh, he pointed money laundering. against terrorist groups op or receiving treatment in government,” he said. to frame laws, and we are out. At the weekly media erating from their soil. They hospital. “There is a clear injunc not violating the Supreme “Even the muchherald briefi ng, Raveesh Kumar, stand completely exposed tion that data or biometrics Court judgment.” ed model State of Gujarat “This is something that can ing.” The subdued tax re spokesperson of the Minis as far as their claim of taking Data protection cannot be stored. The bene “This is my Aadhaar card would have reached this be thought about as well, ceipts were mainly due to try, said Islamabad should steps against terrorist Union Minister of Electron fi ts of the scheme will not be [Mr. Prasad held up his card landmark 20 years after that the 51% majority stake slower economic growth, he take irreversible steps groups in Pakistan is con ics and Information Tech denied to someone who in the House]. This has my undivided Andhra Pradesh of the government... instead said. against the groups responsi cerned,” said Mr. Kumar, nology Ravi Shankar Prasad, does not have Aadhaar. If name and some very basic and Karnataka, 25 years af of looking at it as 51% only of “Tax revenues them ble for incidents such as the saying that Pakistan’s an speaking about the Bill, as privacy is the question being information about me but ter Tamil Nadu and 30 the government, you can selves depend on growth,” 26/11 Mumbai attack. nounced fi nancial crack sured the House that the go raised, I want to ask: if the what it does not have is my years after Kerala,” Mr. Ra look at a situation where it is he said. “Last year, we “Pakistan claims that down on banned militant vernment is also working on people of the country are race, religion, caste. My bio mesh said. 40% of the government and clocked 6.8% and the bu they have taken steps groups is not suffi cient. a data protection Bill, which happy, why are some mem metric details, which are in By 2050, population in 11% of LIC, that is also 51% ef oyancy in the indirect taxes against terrorists and terro The steps against the ter will be brought in at a later bers of the House unhappy? the system, cannot be ac the fi ve southern States will fectively,” he said. “And that has not been that great be rist outfi ts, but when it ror outfi ts were undertaken date to ensure data privacy We have ensured safeguards cessed under any decline from the present change can enable you to cause of a lot of tax conces comes to taking action just days after Pakistan for all Indians. for the prohibition of data provision.” level of about 15% to raise a lot more money from sions that were given over against the people that we faced the heat at the FATF “Aadhaar is voluntary. It theft,” Mr. Prasad asked. Trinamool Congress lead around 12% while the share divestment as well. The div the last year. Once that is have demanded, they go in (Financial Action Task is a wholesome amendment Speaking on the possible er in the Lok Sabha Mahua of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, estment targets are expect streamlined, the tax bu to a denial mode, they even Force) and barely escaped in compliance with the Su violation of the Supreme Moitra said the Bill strikes at Madhya Pradesh and Rajas ed to fi ll in some of the gaps oyancy for indirect tax deny that they exist in their from being blacklisted. preme Court order and it is Court judgment on Aadhaar, the very heart of an indivi than will increase from that the tax revenue is creat should improve.” country. On the other hand (With PTI inputs) also a mark of the trust that the Minister replied: “Parlia dual’s privacy. about 40% to about 44%. Centre banks on Kashmir ‘Enhance prestige Protesting veterans meet Mahua Moitra moves panchayats for political dividend of Parliament’ Rajnath Singh privilege motion Amit Shah appeals to fi rstterm MPs special correspondent TV channel accused her of ‘plagiarism’ Attempt to have villagelevel setups with enough funds NEW DELHI Special Correspondent A group of veterans of the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Nistula Hebbar the 14th Finance Commis issue. “Why should I give NEW DELHI Indian ExServicemen NEW DELHI SRINAGAR sion could not be released or any proof to agencies that Union Home Minister Amit Movement met Defence Trinamool MP Mahua Moi The conduct of panchayat disbursed,” said a govern there is a threat to my life? Shah on Thursday told fi rst Minister Rajnath Singh ear tra on Thursday moved a elections in Jammu & Kash ment offi cial. The fact that I held on to the term MPs of the Lok Sabha lier this week to apprise breach of privilege motion mir in NovemberDecember The attempt is to shore up Indian fl ag by the simple fact that they must work to en him of their protest de in the Lok Sabha against a last year, despite boycotts by the panchayats by infusing of contesting should be hance the prestige of Parlia manding the “rightful im private Hindi news channel prominent regional outfi ts the villagelevel setups with enough,” she said. Abid Hus ment, pointing out his own plementation” of One and its Editor for reporting such as the National Confe enough money for infras sain Khan, from Kulgam said agreement with the view Rank, One Pension (OROP) that her fi rst speech in Par rence and the Peoples De tructure such as panchayat that elected sarpanchs have that legislatures had “wea and the ongoing case in the liament was plagiarised. mocratic Party (PDP), has buildings and small works, been getting some blow back kened” over time ceding Supreme Court over the When she raised the issue Mahua Moitra had an interesting spinoff the bigger plan is to create locally. “We were accused by space to the judiciary and issue. during Question Hour, however, with the coming some traction for devolution others of being the agent of executive. Amit Shah “He is new to the de Speaker Om Birla informed Singh told the House that release of ₹ 2,600 crore of powers at the grassroots, some [security] agencies. If Addressing fi rsttime Lok fence ministry; so we were her that he had received a Puducherry Lt. Governor granted by the 14th Finance and an alternative space for the sarpanchs have risked all Sabha members at an orien our territory,” he said. keen to brief him at the ear notice and the matter was Kiran Bedi had expressed Commission as the State’s political activity. Whether or to contest, then the govern tation programme, Mr. Shah “I as a parliamentarian liest on our main issue, under his consideration. her ‘deep regret’ over her share for devolution to pan not the experiment will pay ment should encourage us said the blame for it lay with agree with this but will say OROP,” Major General Sat However, when she tweet on the water crisis in chayats. off is still to be seen, but de by all means available,” he the legislature and cau that blame for it does not lie bir Singh (retd), Chairman named the channel and the Chennai and urged it to put Apart from this amount, volution, as witnessed in said. tioned that a continued with the judiciary and exec of IESM, told The Hindu. Editor, Mr. Birla didn’t allow the matter to rest. an outreach to 9 lakh people other parts of the country, is skewed balance between utive but the legislature, us “He listened to us very pa it as the journalist was not a The Minister said the with government pro a process that creates its Leading from below the three pillars of democra all. There is such a fi ne ba tiently. He was noncom member of the House. After Home Ministry had taken grammes in the next six own possibilities. A fact that Home Minister Amit Shah cy could be devastating and lance that if they allow the mittal as he has to go drawing praise on social me notice of Ms. Bedi’s remarks months has been set for the the Centre is counting on. told Parliament last week even imperil democracy. legislature to go down, oth through the whole corres dia for her speech, the Tri — in which she blamed the administration of the State. that other levels of local bo “Over a period of time, er institutions will automati pondence and go through namool MP was trolled on ‘corrupt politics’ of Tamil This would involve a disbur Sticking points dies will be seeing polls this is everybody’s com cally encroach on its turf,” a process. He said he will allegations of plagiarism. Nadu for the water crisis in sement of nearly ₹ 1,600 While the fund situation is soon. Senior government of plaint and rightly so that the he told the MPs. speak to us again after “The reason there is so Chennai — and said the mat crore under various heads likely to ease post budget, fi cials in Srinagar shared the legislature has weakened a “This is our duty to that,” Maj. Gen. Singh ad much of mudslinging and ter was also raised in the such as the Mahatma Gandhi the political questions, ho view that a vast infusion of bit, and the judiciary and ex strengthen it,” Mr. Shah ded. The delegation of se lies sold as news to the un House by DMK leader T.R. National Rural Employment wever, remain. Speaking to political workers, both as ecutive have dominated it a said. He asked them to use ven veterans met the Minis suspecting public all over is Baalu on Wednesday. Guarantee Act and the Inte The Hindu, Shaheena Par part of and separate from little. For this, we some the MPLAD funds allocated ter on July 1. Veterans because the perpetrators When Mr. Baalu raised grated Child Development veen, elected sarpanch from the State’s main political times blame judiciary or ex to them annually as per pre under the IESM banner are allowed impunity by the the issue, Mr. Singh said Ms. Scheme. “Since Kashmir did Bijbehara, the pocket bo parties, is a phenomenon ecutive, saying that bureau scribed guidelines, and said have been protesting at powers that be,” Ms. Moitra Bedi has apologised and the not have local body polls rough of the PDP’s Muftis, that could have an eff ect on crats do not hear us or many MPs had received a Jantar Mantar since OROP tweeted. matter should be treated as from 2011, the grant from says that security remains an the politics of the State. judiciary has encroached on bad name by not doing so. was notifi ed in 2015. Defence Minister Rajnath closed. CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4Exams YK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 DELHI ECONOMIC SURVEY 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ‘Greying India must delay retirement’ Needed: a welldesigned Survey says the elderly population is expected to nearly double from 8.6% in 2011 to 16% by 2041 minimum wage system SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT pension funding, and retire Survey calls for streamlining the complex mechanism NEW DELHI ment age, states the survey. India may have to raise the “Increasing the retire retirement age as the coun ment age for both men and Special Correspondent Apart from increasing the try sees a rapid increase in women going forward could NEW DELHI ambit of the minimum wage the size of the elderly popu be considered in line with A welldesigned and stream system, it recommended de lation over the next two de the experience of other lined minimum wage system ciding minimum wages on cades due to the slowing countries. This will be key to is required to reduce wage the basis of skills and split down of the population the viability of pension sys inequality in the country, across geographical regions. growth rate, according to the tems and would also help in the Economic Survey says. With the government in the Economic Survey 201819. crease female labour force Currently, the minimum process of bringing the Code It is forecast that the pop participation in the older wage system, under the Mi on Wages Bill in Parliament, ulation rate will grow less agegroups,” it suggests. nimum Wages Act, 1948, in the survey said the rationali than 1% from 2021 to 2031 Many countries such as India is complex, with 1,915 sation of minimum wages and under 0.5% from 2031 to the U.S., Germany and diff erent minimum wages proposed by the Bill should 2041. This is primarily due to France have already raised defi ned for diff erent job ca the law did not discriminate be supported. the fall in the total fertility the retirement age to reduce tegories across States, the between men and women, The survey suggested the rate (TFR), which is project the burden on pension fund survey said. Despite the analysis of diff erent wages government should notify a ed to decline between 2021 ing. The workingage popula complex system, workers showed a bias. “national fl oor minimum 2041 and fall below replace tion is expected to see a large were still falling through the “For instance, women wage” across fi ve regions, af ment level fertility at 1.8 as increase leading to India’s gaps, it said. dominate in the category of ter which the States can fi x early as 2021. demographic dividend peak “One in every three wage domestic workers while their own minimum wages, The total fertility rate of ing around 2041, when the workers in India is not pro men dominate in the catego but not lower than the fl oor 2.1 is called the replacement share of those in the age tected by the minimum ry of security guards. While wage. level fertility below which is already below the eff ective by 2031, all States are likely ween 019 years, which is on group of 2059 is expected to wage law,” it said, citing the both these occupations fall This, it said, would bring populations begin to decline. replacement level fertility. to see below replacement le the decline, is likely to drop hit 59%. The survey high International Labour within the category of un uniformity and make States For India, the eff ective re At the State level, south vel fertility. from as high as 41% in 2011 to lights that this will mean ad Organisation. skilled workers, the mini “almost equally attractive placement level fertility is ern States as well as West The size of the elderly 25% by 2041. ditional jobs will have to be For instance, the survey mum wage rate for domestic from the point of view of la slightly higher than the nor Bengal, Punjab, Maharashtra population, 60 years and This will throw new policy created to keep pace with an stated, domestic workers workers within a State is bour cost for investment as mal benchmark due to the and Himachal Pradesh have above, is expected to nearly challenges such as provision nual increase in workingage were covered under mini consistently lower than that well as reduce distress mi skewed gender ratio and is at below replacement level fer double from 8.6% in 2011 to for health and oldage care, population of 9.7 million mum wage laws in only 18 for the minimum wage rates gration.” 2.152.2. The current TFR in tility and will see TFR de 16% by 2041, whereas the access to retirementrelated during 202131 and 4.2 mil States and Union Territories. for security guards,” the sur The fl oor wage is current 14 out of the 22 major States cline to 1.51.6 by 2021. And population size of those bet fi nancial services, public lion during 203141. It also pointed out that while vey said. ly nonstatutory. Only tall claims, no vision, says Opposition Glosses over plight of millions, whitewashes terrible economic record of past fi ve years: Yechury Special Correspondent out any basis in facts,” he fuzzy about the govern New Delhi said. Mr. Yechury added that ment’s vision. “Spent three The Opposition parties any growth strategy on priv hours this afternoon, speed slammed the Economic Sur ate investment will be a non reading the two volumes of vey saying that it made tall starter. the #EconomicSurvey2019 claims, was clueless on the government’s vision for the “Economic growth needs more purchasing power It’s a cloudy, overcast after noon in Delhi. Enough said,” Outlook is country and did not refl ect ground reality. amongst people, not more investment with higher un Mr. O’Brien tweeted. pessimistic: Sordid state: Garbage clogging a drain near the Seelampur CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said it ig employment,” he added. Stagnant growth The Economic Survey Chidambaram area in New Delhi. R.V.MOORTHY * nored the challenges faced ‘Glossing over’ showed that India’s growth by millions of Indians. The The survey, he said, glossed rate was stagnant, Aam Aad SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT leader also said the survey over the major challenges Communist Party of India, making tall claims in fl owery mi Party convener and Delhi NEW DELHI Private funds needed “whitewashes” the “terri ble” economic record of the last fi ve years and hit out at faced by millions of Indians in the past fi ve years. “The departure of so ma D. Raja, said that blaming the past will not help the coun try. language. It should have gi ven a road map for the way forward,” Mr. Raja said. Chief Minister Arvind Kejri wal said. “...It signals worrying Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the Economic Survey tabled in for Swachh Bharat the government over the re signation of top RBI offi cials. “The Economic Survey is ny RBI governors and pre vious CEA tells us of the harsh reality,” Mr. Yechury “...The government is try ing to shirk its own responsi bility. The survey does not Trinamool Congress Par liamentary Party leader in the Rajya Sabha Derek O’ signs for our economy. GDP growth rate is virtually stag nant and all indicators point Parliament on Thursday was ‘pessimistic’ and didn’t have any sectorwise full of bombastic claims and said. portray the real picture of Brien in a cryptic tweet indi that we are in a slowdown,” growth projections. 100% safe disposal of waste targeted grandiose declarations with His colleague from the the economy. Instead it is cated that the survey was he tweeted. Mr. Chidambaram, in a statement, said the volume Special Correspondent must be dealt with in this 02 of the Economic Survey Zero train collisions, Call to ease legal logjam for NEW DELHI next phase are sewer con did fl ag issues such as slow With the Centre claiming struction and water availa ing growth, falling reve that 99.2% of rural India is bility, scientifi c techniques nues and rising oil prices now open defecationfree, the next big goal on the for waste disposal, treat ment of industrial effl uence, 46 derailments better contract enforcement that were ‘neither positive nor encouraging.’ Swachh Bharat journey is drain bioremediation, river “It appears to me that the 100% safe and scientifi c surface cleaning, sustained But incidents related to fi re go up to 6 the government, speaking disposal of solid and liquid rural sanitation and moni through the Economic Sur waste, according to the Eco toring of villages, says the ‘Economic activity aff ected by delays across legal landscape’ vey, is pessimistic about nomic Survey 201819. survey. the economy,” he said. However, it emphasises “As the resource require Soibam Rocky Singh The fi rst economic sur that the large resources ments are large, there is a New Delhi vey of the new government needed to reach this miles need to facilitate and sustain Contract enforcement re under Finance Minister tone will need to be met innovative fi nancing me mains the single biggest con Nirmala Sitharaman, through crowd and corpo chanisms by exploring the straint to improve India’s claimed Mr, Chidamba rate funding, private part suitability of various fi nan Ease of Doing Business ram, opens with selfcon nerships and innovative fi cial instruments in specifi c (EODB) ranking, which cur gratulatory references nancing mechanisms along contexts and interventions,” rently stands at 163 in the about the economy per with government it says. world ranking, the Econom forming well in the past allocations. Some examples are mi ic Survey 201819 said. fi ve years and had a ‘bland’ crofi nancing, concessional It remarked that in spite outlook for the year ahead. ‘Positive impact’ loans, private partnerships, of a number of actions to ex “I looked for the Out Progress in the fi rst phase of corporate social responsibil pedite and improve the con look for 201920. It is in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, ity, and crowd funding tract enforcement regime, Volume2, Chapter 01, but focussing on toilet construc aligned with local govern economic activity was aff ect there is only a bland state tion and use, had a positive ment fi nancing. ed by the long shadow of de ment that growth of the impact on the health, eco While these can ensure a The total number of train accidents came down from 104 in lays and pendency across economy is expected to be nomy and environment of smooth fl ow of funds for the 2016-17 to 59 in 2018-19, the Survey said. SUDHAKARA JAIN * the legal landscape. 7% in 201920. There are rural India, said the report, procurement of various Noting that the relation no growth projections sec citing a number of studies. scientifi c technologies for Yuthika Bhargava accidents came down from ship between economic go tor wise,” he said. However, these benefi ts will waste disposal and mass NEW DELHI 104 in 201617 and 73 in vernance and the rule of law Mr. Chidambaram said not be sustainable if solid awareness, governments While the incidents of train 201718 to 59 in 201819. (Dandaniti) is the key to chapter 02 of Volume 2 of and liquid waste manage must also “assign signifi cant collisions came down to ze Additionally, the survey prosperity, and a bulwark the survey came closest in ment is ignored. weight to the allocation of ro and those of derailments said that in 201819, Indian against Matsyanyaya (law of terms of describing the “Currently, many States adequate resources as im declined to 46 during last Railways carried 1221.39 the fi sh/jungle), the survey ‘Outlook for 201920’. are not concentrating provement in sanitation is year, occurrence of fi re in million tonnes of revenue said two key issues need to (D&S) courts, which account sanctioned strength! Howev “The economic survey enough on this aspect which one of the key determinants trains went up to six, ac earning freight, an increase be dealt with in order to for the bulk of pendency, re er, in order to clear all the fl ags (1) slowing growth, (2) could pull us back to where for the wider economic de cording to data provided in of 61.84 million tonnes or make the judiciary more effi ceived 1.5 crore additional backlog in the next fi ve shortfall in revenue, (3) we were a few years ago. velopment,” says the survey. the Economic Survey 5.33% over 201718. cient and to clear the ‘legal cases in 2018 and had a back years, a further 8,152 judges fi nding resources without Scientifi c techniques for the 201819. The revenue earning logjam.’ log of 2.87 crore (as on Janu are needed,” the survey said. compromising the fi scal safe and eff ective disposal of Mindset change The categorywise break freight loading by Indian Firstly, the courts must ary 1, 2018). It suggested improving defi cit target, (4) impact of waste should be the next on Apart from fi nancial re up of consequential train ac Railways during 201718 was achieve a 100% case clea But it managed to dispose the effi ciency of the courts, oil prices on the current ac the agenda for this mission,” sources, mindset change is cidents shows that the inci placed at 1159.55 million rance rate (CCR) so that of 1.33 crore cases in the increasing number of work count and (5) recommen says the survey. the other major ingredient dent of collisions has come tonnes as against 1106.15 there is zero accumulation year, thus, closing 2018 at ing days of courts, establish dations of the Fifteenth Fi According to it, the scien required for sustained pro down to zero in 201819 million tonnes during 2016 to the existing pendency. Se 3.04 crore. ment of Indian Courts and nance Commission on tifi c disposal of waste has a gress in sanitation. The from three in 201718, while 17, up 4.83%. condly, the backlog of cases There are currently 17,891 Tribunal Services, and de central government fi nanc noticeable impact on “social swachhagrahis or village le those of derailment de “There is an increase of already present in the sys judges compared to the ployment of technology in es. I am afraid, none of development”, referring to vel ambassadors who have clined to 46 from 54 in the 2.09% in the number of pas tem must be removed. sanctioned strength of legal system. these is positive or encou the sanitation workers and already been recruited for previous year. However, in sengers carried by railways CCR is the ratio of the 22,750. On average, a judge “Given the potential eco raging,” he said. manual scavengers who Phase 1 of the programme cidents related to fi re in during 201718 as compared number of cases disposed of disposes of 746 cases. nomic and social multipliers India’s economic now work to dispose of are key to maintaining mo trains increased to six in the to 201617 and 0.64% in in a given year to the num “In order to reach 100% of a wellfunctioning legal growth, according to the waste, mostly in unscientifi c mentum, it says, in keeping year 201819 as against three crease in 201819 as com ber of cases instituted in that CCR in 2018, the D&S courts system, this may well be the survey, is expected to regis and unsafe ways. with its thrust on leveraging in 201718, the survey said. pared to 201718,” the survey year. needed 2,279 additional best investment India can ter 7% this year from a fi ve Some of the areas which behavioural economics. The total number of train said. District and Subordinate judges. This is within the make,” it said. year low. 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A magistrate court in Sri ment cable from October pear in court and who had Putin thanked Pope Francis When protesters in Hong After weeks of relative res Lanka has acquitted Special 2006, which was later re migrated abroad were ab for “very substantive” talks Kong became more forceful traint, offi cials in Beijing Task Force (STF) and police leased by WikiLeaks, quotes sent, according to ocal me on Thursday, a day before on Monday, the People’s Dai- have also begun to warn of personnel accused of killing Basil Rajapaksa, brother and dia reports. Ukraine’s Catholic leaders ly reprised a recent speech grave repercussions. A spo fi ve students in Trincomalee advisor of then President University Teachers for were due at the Vatican. “It of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, kesman for the Hong Kong in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Pro Mahinda Rajapaksa, as tell Human Rights ( Jaff na), a was a very substantive, calling on party cadres to and Macao Aff airs Offi ce vince, in 2006. ing the then U.S. Ambassa group of academics that doc interesting discussion,” he carry forward the struggle of warned that the defacing of According to the Staterun dor Robert Blake: “We know umented rights violations said. A statement from the the communist revolution the legislature was “a blatant Daily News, the Trincoma the STF did it, but the bullet committed by state forces, Vatican stated that the talks fought 70 years ago. challenge” to Beijing’s red lee Chief Magistrate on Wed and gun evidence shows that the LTTE, and the IPKF, in concentrated on the “We must overcome all line: its sovereignty over the nesday released 13 suspects, they did not. They must 2007 published a report on situations in Syria, Ukraine kinds of diffi culties, risks territory. The Global Times, including 12 STF members have separate guns when the incident, pointing to and Venezuela. REUTERS and challenges,” he said. a nationalist tabloid con allegedly linked to the grue they want to kill someone. “lapses” in investigations. It was the latest signal that trolled by the Communist some killings, after clearing We need forensic experts. “It was a shocking case in Tehran fumes as Britain Mr. Xi has no intention of Party, called for “a zerotole them of “all charges”. We know who did it, but we which the State has operated seizes Iranian oil tanker bowing to the protesters’ de Writing on the wall: A July 3 photo of the Hong Kong Legislative rance policy”, warning that Local human rights or can’t proceed in prosecuting with blatant impunity; its LONDON/DUBAI mands for greater rights. On Council lobby, which was damaged by protesters. AP * more violence could open a ganisations and the UN High them.” disregard for the rule of law British Royal Marines seized a the contrary, the storming of Pandora’s box. Commissioner for Human has been off ensive and insi giant Iranian oil tanker in Hong Kong’s legislature on “I have heard him talk at pend a deeply unpopular ex That the protests in Hong Right cite the students’ kill Charged for murder dious. Numerous exposes Gibraltar on Thursday for Monday night seems to have length, and passionately, tradition Bill, Mr. Xi still has Kong took place shortly fol ings as an “emblematic The Criminal Investigation and statements by human trying to take oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, a given ammunition to hard about the challenges of go most of the advantages of lowing the 30th anniversary case” raising diffi cult ques Department (CID) probing rights agencies have been re dramatic step that drew liners and prompted the verning China, and the need power on his side. of the Tiananmen Square tions about war crimes and the case charged the STF leased on the subject that Tehran’s fury. Iran’s Foreign sharpest denunciations in to maintain order in order to Those include time and protests and other cities in accountability in Sri Lanka. suspects for murder, for provide overwhelming evi Ministry summoned the Beijing so far, suggesting the keep the country together,” infl uence. The central go China has only hardened of Even as the STF’s possible “shooting the students”, dence of state complicity, British ambassador to voice ruling Communist Party’s said Ryan L. Hass, who vernment can still mobilise a fi cial views. This year is also role in the murder was wide who had gathered to meet but as usual the case has “its very strong objection to patience was wearing thin. served in the Obama vast network of supporters the anniversary of the popu ly speculated by those fami near the Gandhi roundabout stalled.” the UTHR said in the illegal and unacceptable “I think they have realised administration. in Hong Kong, including civil lar movements that swept liar with the developments in Trincomalee. While the the report. seizure” of its ship. The it is time to take measures” He noted that the mass servants and business peo Eastern Europe in 1989, top diplomatic gesture lifted any to restore order, Song Xiaoz protests that toppled author ple beholden to the central pling not only the Berlin Wall doubt over Iran’s ownership of the vessel. REUTERS huang, a professor in the Center for Basic Laws of Hong Kong and Macao at itarian governments in North Africa and West Asian in 2011 coincided with Mr. government, economically or politically. In a last resort, there is al but also, ultimately, the So viet Union itself two years later. New EU chief seeks ‘smart advice’ U.S. is hell-bent on Shenzhen University, said in Xi’s ascent to the presidency so the Chinese military. Few “There has also been a Agence France-Presse cooked up by EU national sanctions, says N. Korea a telephone interview, refer and were “seared into his analysts expect Mr. Xi in tendency to present these Brussels leaders over three days of UNITED NATIONS ring to authorities in Beijing. brain”. tends to use force, but few struggles — and Tiananmen European Union President tortuous summit wrangling. North Korea has accused the “This does not mean there is doubt that he would if secur was presented this way — as elect Ursula von der Leyen “My priorities will be to U.S. of being “hell-bent on no patience, or that they Sense of destiny ity signifi cantly deteriorated not being spontaneous ex on Thursday made her fi rst seek smart advice, listen to hostile acts” days after the want to get it done promptly, Mr. Xi’s stance is not without in the city. pressions of the popular trip to Brussels since being all parliamentary groups countries’ leaders agreed to but it does mean that they risks, but he has governed The People’s Liberation will,” Jeff rey Wasserstrom, a nominated as senior offi cials and together work out the resume denuclearisation cannot wait for long.” with a millenarian sense of Army disclosed on Tuesday professor of history at the sought to shore up support best plan for the future of talks. Pyongyang’s delegation Mr. Xi has not publicly ad destiny, regularly exhorting that troops from its Hong University of California, Ir for her appointment in the Europe,” she tweeted, a day to the UN on Wednesday said dressed the political tumult the Communist Party to re Kong garrison had conduct vine, wrote in an email, European Parliament. Ursula von der Leyen after talks with MEPs at the the U.S. continues to be “obsessed with sanctions”. It in Hong Kong. Nor have offi turn to its original mission to ed training exercises last “even in cases when that is After talks with Jean Parliament in Strasbourg, complained that while Mr. cials disclosed any options transform the nation into the week. clearly what they are.” Rath Claude Juncker, the man she plan for the next fi ve years. eastern France. The multi Trump invited Mr. Kim Jong- they might be considering. global power. One photograph accom er, he wrote, Beijing de is to replace as European She must win the appro lingual von der Leyen sent un to hold talks, the U.S. had But there is little doubt While the events in Hong panying an article in the offi scribes such protests as “il Commission President, cur val of the highly fragmented out the message in English, also sent a letter to all UN about Mr. Xi’s convictions, Kong have generated consid cial military newspaper legitimate eff orts by small rent German Defence Minis European Parliament, French and German after a members urging them to which are shaped by history erable sympathy for the showed soldiers aboard a sets of malcontents spurred ter von der Leyen tweeted where there have been warm welcome from Mr. send back North Korean and a deeply felt sense of the protesters, forcing the city’s gunboat in Victoria Harbor, on by mysterious foreign she had come to seek “smart grumblings about the deal to Juncker at Commission workers. AFP perils of popular uprisings. leader to back down and sus weapons drawn, with the ci forces.” NY TIMES advice” as she prepares her appoint her, which was headquarters in Brussels. China says U.S. tariff s must Imran Khan to visit U.S. be lifted for a trade deal on July 22 Mehmal Sarfraz Talks to break deadlock to begin next week, says Washington Lahore Prime Minister Imran Khan Agence France-Presse On Wednesday, Trump will travel to the U.S. to Beijing administration offi cials said meet President Donald U.S. tariff s against China top representatives of the Trump on July 22, the Pa must be lifted for the two U.S. and China are organis kistani Foreign Ministry sides to reach a deal to end ing a resumption of talks for said on Thursday. This is the trade war, the Chinese next week to try to resolve Mr. Khan’s fi rst visit to the Commerce Ministry said on the trade war. “Those talks U.S. after he became the Thursday. will continue in earnest this Prime Minister. Trade teams from the coming week,” White House In his weekly media world’s top two economies Economic Adviser Larry Ku briefi ng in Islamabad, Mo “have maintained communi dlow told reporters. hammad Faisal, a spokes cation”, Ministry spokesman Donald Trump and Xi Jinping An offi cial from the Offi ce person of the Foreign Mi Gao Feng said, days after of the U.S. Trade Represen nistry, said: “At the Presidents Donald Trump and consistent,” Mr. Gao tative said later that the two invitation of U.S. President and Xi Jinping agreed at the said. sides were in the process of Donald Trump, Prime Mi G20 in Japan to revive The countries have ex scheduling a principallevel nister Imran Khan will visit negotiations. changed tariff s on $360 bil phone call with Chinese offi Washington and hold a “The United States’ un lion in twoway trade and cials for next week. meeting with President ilateral tariff increase on Chi negotiations broke down in Mr. Kudlow was unclear Trump on July 22. The na’s exports to the United May after the United States about the timeline for re agenda of the meeting is States is the starting point accused China of reneging launching facetoface talks. being prepared through di for the SinoU.S. economic on its commitments. “I don’t know precisely plomatic channels... The and trade frictions,” Mr. Gao The U.S. leader said he when. They’re on the focus will be to refresh the said at a weekly press brief would not slap new tariff s on phone. They’re going to be bilateral relationship.” ing. “If the two sides can Chinese exports and sug on the phone this coming The announcement reach an agreement, the ta gested he could take a softer week and they’ll be schedul comes at a time when the riff s imposed must be com stance on Chinese telecom ing facetoface meetings,” U.S. is seeking Pakistan’s pletely eliminated. China’s giant Huawei, which he has he said. help in fi nding a way out of attitude toward this is clear moved to blacklist. (With Reuters inputs) Afghanistan. Submarine reactor safe, Trump, protesters gear up for Putin told an untraditional July Fourth Reuters Associated Press that he’s a big baby... He’s er Moscow Washington ratic, he’s prone to tan Russian President Vladimir In a sweltering capital threa trums, he doesn’t under Putin disclosed on Thurs tened by storms, the tradi stand the consequences of day for the fi rst time that a tional Fourth of July parade his actions. And so this is a secret military submarine on Thursday served as a great symbol of how we feel hit by a fatal fi re three days warmup act to a distinctly about our President.” ago was nuclearpowered, nontraditional evening In a message marking the prompting the Defence Mi event at the Lincoln Memo 243rd anniversary of the nister to assure him its rial, where President Donald Founding Fathers’ adoption reactor had been safely Trump made plans to com of the Declaration of Inde contained. mand the stage against the A girl taking part in pendence, Mr. Trump called Mr. Putin revealed that backdrop of a show of mili Independence Day the document a milestone the submarine had been tary muscle. celebrations. REUTERS* that “cast off the shackles of nuclearpowered by asking Protesters unimpressed tyranny.” Defence Minister Sergei by his “Salute to America” try!” he said in a morning The Pentagon was arrang Shoigu during a Kremlin programme infl ated a roly tweet. “Perhaps even Air ing for an Air Force B2 meeting about the reac poly balloon depicting Mr. Force One will do a low & stealth bomber and other tor’s condition after the Trump as an angry, diaper loud sprint over the crowd.” warplanes to conduct fl yov fi re. clad baby. But thunderstorms threa ers. There will be Navy F35 “The nuclear reactor on With his decision to add tened, with periods of “tor and F18 fi ghter jets, the Na the vessel is completely his own production to the rential rain” forecast by the vy Blue Angels aerobatics isolated,” Mr. Shoigu told usual festivities, Mr. Trump National Weather Service. team, Army and Coast Mr. Putin, according to a set himself up to be the fi rst “We think that he is mak Guard helicopters and Ma Kremlin transcript. “All the President in nearly seven de ing this about himself and rine V22 Ospreys. A small necessary measures were cades to address a crowd at it’s really a campaign rally,” number of Army Abrams taken by the crew to pro the National Mall on Inde said Medea Benjamin, codi tanks and Bradley fi ghting tect the reactor, which is in pendence Day. “I will speak rector of the antiwar organ vehicles were stationed in complete working order.” on behalf of our great Coun isation Codepink. “We think the zone. 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Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 19825.40. . . . . 175.30 GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 307.80. . . . . . . . . 2.55 Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.60. . . . . . . 13.70 HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040.75. . . . . . -10.45 (CEA) Krishnamurthy Subramanian. Excerpts from a Q&A session: we have the necessary tech nologies to do that. In order to trigger this vir tuous cycle, we have to rely on some of these foreign sav This should become a national priority to avert a looming water crisis. Economic Survey moots central HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2280.25. . . . . . . . . 3.05 HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483.80. . . . . . . . -5.85 Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2606.15. . . . . . . 18.65 Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206.90. . . . . . . . -1.80 Could you elaborate on what you mean about treating The main plank of your Survey is that investment ings. They can come in and start investment, and once this happens, that will en Agriculture remains the predominant occupation in terms of number of peo welfare database of citizens Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1793.60. . . . . . . . . 8.90 Indiabulls HFL . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 703.85. . . . . . . 12.90 data as a public good? will drive all the other hance productivity, which ple employed. Also, agri ‘Information can be used to improve targeting in schemes’ ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436.20. . . . . . . . . 0.25 ■ Let me start with an exam factors of the economy such creates jobs, fosters exports culture is dependent high IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1493.10. . . . . . . 22.50 ple. Imagine a woman in a as growth and job creation. and thereby, demand. ly on water. So, Special Correspondent that the linking is “oneway.” The government could NEW DELHI Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 263.10. . . . . . . . -2.55 village accessing on her Where will this investment appropriate mechanism For example, banks can use utilise the information em Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733.80. . . . . . . . . 2.50 Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 156.55. . . . . . . . . 0.40 smart phone all the hospi come from? In the Survey, you have needs to be framed for eco The Economic Survey 2018 the tokenised Aadhaar num bedded in these distinct da ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277.65. . . . . . . . . 0.95 tals that are there in her vi ■ When we were writing this missed out on focussing on nomical use of water 19, tabled in Parliament on ber to combine duplicate re tasets to enhance ease of liv JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275.05. . . . . . . . -2.35 cinity. Not only can she ac chapter, we had the choice the banking sector or the among small and marginal Thursday, pitched for setting cords and weed out benami ing for citizens, enable truly Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497.80. . . . . . . 22.80 cess the hospitals but she of going into each of these problems aff ecting the NBFC farmers, said the Survey. up a central welfare data accounts, but this does not evidencebased policy, im L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1571.70. . . . . . . . -6.35 M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672.15. . . . . . . . . 2.90 can click on a particular hos details or focussing on the sector. Why is that? “The cropping pattern base of citizens — by merging mean that the UIDAI or go prove targeting in welfare Maurti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6544.45. . . . . . . 10.65 pital and get the quality of big picture message, which ■ As I articulated, we want in India is highly skewed diff erent data maintained by vernment can read the bank schemes, uncover unmet NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.45. . . . . . . . . 0.20 emergency care, let’s say, of is what we need to do to get ed to focus on the big pic towards crops that are wa separate Ministries and de account information or oth needs, integrate fragmented ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167.10. . . . . . . . . 0.80 PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 210.20. . . . . . . . . 1.25 that hospital. And suppose, on that 8% growth path. ture. We will be writing terintensive. The incentive partments — which can be er data related to the indivi markets, bring greater ac Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1284.00. . . . . . . . . 1.45 she can get this in the local These are questions to another Survey in six structures like minimum tapped for enhancing ease of dual. “While private sector countability in public servic State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.40. . . . . . . . . 1.25 language. Now, if someone which we have the answers, months, that will be present support price, heavily sub living for citizens, particular does a good job of harness es and generate greater citi Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 392.10. . . . . . . . -3.60 Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 165.20. . . . . . . . . 2.90 falls ill in her village, she but we wanted to keep the ed on January 30. So, we had sidised electricity, water ly the poor. ing data where it is profi ta zen participation in Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495.30. . . . . . -15.00 knows very well where to go. Survey focussed. to make a choice. One thing and fertilizers have played While the Survey pointed ble, government interven governance, etc. TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2242.65. . . . . . . . . 5.00 This is an example of ease of I think some of the over we knew very well when we a signifi cant role in the mis out that governments can tion is needed in social The datasets talked about Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 700.60. . . . . . . . -0.50 Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290.35. . . . . . -38.10 living that can be generated hang from the previous pe started working on the Sur alignment of crop patterns create data as a public good sectors of the country where inclusion of administrative UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 4645.35. . . . . . . 84.20 by bringing in data. riod has unwound com vey is that this will be the in the country,” said the within the legal framework private investment in data data such as birth and death UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698.35. . . . . . . 46.55 That is possible today and pletely. Second, banks have Survey of a new government Survey, adding that the wa of data privacy, it added that remains inadequate,” the records, pensions, tax re Vedanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.05. . . . . . . . -1.65 it can’t happen without cleaned up their balance and therefore, a government ter guzzlers, paddy and su care must also be taken not Survey said. cords, marriage records; sur Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.85. . . . . . . . . 1.00 YES Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.25. . . . . . . . -3.50 viewing data as a public sheets and credit to that potentially has garcane, consume more to impose the “elite’s prefe These recommendations vey data such as census data, Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 356.45. . . . . . . . -4.45 good. While you have com large fi rms has start fi ve years to im than 60% of irrigation wa rence of privacy on the poor, come at a time when India is national sample survey data; panies like Amazon, Google, ed going up. plement poli ter available in the country, who care for a better quality working on fi nalising its per transactions data such as e etc. which utilise data, they Third, which I cies. reducing water availability of living the most.” sonal data protection policy. national agriculture market EXCHANGE RATES do it in a particular area. think is a very im for other crops. “The principle is that data, UPI data, institutional Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m. on July 04 They will only do it where portant oppor The survey said States Stringent safeguards most data are generated by data and public hospital data CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL there is profi t, they are priv tunity that we such as Tamil Nadu, Karna It also recommended grant the people, of the people on patients. US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 68.31. . . . . . . 68.63 ate entities. have not tapped taka, Maharashtra and ing access to select database and should be used for the On granting access to the Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 77.11. . . . . . . 77.48 Much like the government enough, is that if Andhra Pradesh, which to private sector for a fee, gi people,” it said. public sector, the Survey British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 85.90. . . . . . . 86.30 Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 63.38. . . . . . . 63.68 invests in public goods such you look at the global have high land productivi ven that “stringent techno The Survey highlighted said, “Consistent with the Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 9.94. . . . . . . . . 9.99 as roads, ports, etc., these environment in terms ty, tend to have very low ir logical mechanisms exist to that the governments alrea notion of data as a public Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 69.30. . . . . . . 69.62 [data for public use] are of liquidity and the sur rigation water productivi safeguard data privacy.” dy held a rich repository of good, there is no reason to Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 50.37. . . . . . . 50.62 Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 52.26. . . . . . . 52.51 areas where the private sec plus and the interest ty, refl ecting ineffi cient use The Survey noted that administrative, survey, insti preclude commercial use of Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 16.53. . . . . . . 16.62 tor will not make invest rate environment of water and the need to re there had been some discus tutional and transactions da this data for profi t… Alth Source:Indian Bank ments. It can reduce inclu that has been pre calibrate cropping pattern. sions around the “linking” of ta about citizens, but these ough the social benefi ts sion and exclusion errors as vailing, it is as be “Adopting improved datasets, primarily through data were scattered across would far exceed the cost to well via Aadhaar. nign as it ever methods of irrigation and the seeding of an Aadhaar numerous government bo the government, at least a BULLION RATES CHENNAI That’s the basic idea. And was. There is a irrigation technologies will number across databases dies. Merging these distinct part of the generated data July 04 rates in rupees with previous rates in parentheses it can be created within the lot of fl ush li have a critical role in in such as PAN database, bank datasets would generate should be monetised to ease Retail Silver (1g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.5. . . . . . . (40.7) framework of the privacy quidity that is creasing irrigation water accounts and mobile num multiple benefi ts with the the pressure on government 22 ct gold (1 g) . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 3255. . . . . . (3274) laws in the country because looking for ave productivity,” it said. bers. However, it clarifi ed applications being limitless. fi nances.” India could host ‘Detroit’ of EVs ‘Aadhaar aided MGNREGS benefi ciaries’ The country sold 54,800 electric two-wheelers in 2018 Other welfare schemes must also implement Aadhaar-based payments: Economic Survey Special Correspondent 2019, with a total outlay of is only 0.06%. According to NEW DELHI ₹ 10,000 crore over the next the Society of Manufacturers Special Correspondent in adverse times,” says the tually defeated the purpose With the right policies, it’s three years. Several states, of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), NEW DELHI Survey. The Survey also com of the programme. Post im possible that one of India’s had drafted EV policies. Uttar Pradesh topped the list Refuting criticism of Aad pared the MGNREGS perfor plementation of ALP, there is cities could become the ‘De Globally, the sales of elec of the States with highest EV haarlinked payments and mance in blocks aff ected by a reversal of trend, wherein troit of electric vehicles,’ the tric cars have grown from sales of 6,878 units in 2017 the direct benefi t transfer drought versus other blocks, an increase in demand for Economic Survey said in a just over 2,000 units sold in 18, followed by Haryana at system, the Economic Sur using drought as a proxy for work under MGNREGS is ob chapter on enabling inclu 2008 to over 10 lakh in 2017. 6,307 units and Gujarat at vey 201819 has used the Ma distress. In droughtaff ected served in droughtaff ected sive growth through aff orda More than half of the sales 6,010 units. Maharashtra re hatma Gandhi National Rural blocks, the number of per areas,” says the Survey, argu ble, reliable and sustainable were in China. The market ported a sales of 4,865 EVs Employment Guarantee sons demanding work in ing that eff ective targeting energy. share of electric cars is while West Bengal came in Scheme (MGNREGS) as a creased more than 20% after has been possible because of India has a “National Elec around 2% in China while it fi fth with sales of 4,706 case study to show the bene the implementation of ALP, ALP. tric Mobility Mission Plan is around 39% in Norway. units. fi ts of the use of technology while there was no eff ect in The Survey suggests that 2020 (NEMMP)” in place to Electrifi cation of twowheel India’s adoption of elec in improving targeting and other blocks. A similar trend going forward, “demand for “achieve sales” of 6070 lakh ers and buses has also tric vehicles, the report said, effi ciency in welfare is seen in the supply of work. work under MGNREGS may units of electric vehicles picked up. Global sales of was part of its larger thrust schemes, especially for the Muster rolls, which are work be used to develop a real (that includes buses, two electric buses were about towards increasing the share most vulnerable groups. site attendance registers, time indicator of distress at wheelers and cars) by 2020. one lakh and sales of two of renewable energy and re Going forward, the Survey were implemented as a proof tress, while others not in dis show a 19% increase after the granular district or pan In 2015, the Faster Adop wheelers were estimated at ducing carbon dioxide emis recommends that digital for its benefi ts. tress take the benefi ts. A per ALP implementation in most chayat level.” The Survey al tion and Manufacturing of three crore, according to the sions. The share of renewa technology and the JAM troi Data show that in 201415, son undergoing economic blocks. In droughtaff ected so recommends that other Electric vehicles (FAME) chapter note. bles (excluding hydro above ka — Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and less than 27% of wage pay distress needs immediate blocks, muster rolls in welfare schemes implement scheme was launched to In India, electric two 25 MW) in total power gener Mobile — be expanded to oth ments were generated within and certain liquidity. Work creased by 44%. the lessons learnt from Aad fasttrack the goals of wheelers have been the ma ation was around 10% in er welfare schemes. The Sur 15 days. Direct benefi t transf ing for uncertain promised “It appears that before the haar linkages in MGNREGS. NEMMP with an outlay of jor part of EV sales with sales 201819 compared with vey cites data on the timeli ers were introduced two wages, which are likely to be implementation of ALP, the Scholarships, pensions, ₹ 795 crore. of around 54,800 in 2018. around 6% in 201415. India ness of wage payments, years later. By 201819, more realised with a substantial rural poor treated MGNREGS and subsidies for food, kero FAME India Phase II, with Compared to this, sales of stands fourth in wind power, worker turnout, demand and than 90% of wage payments lag, presents an unattractive as an option to earn addition sene, and gas cylinders an emphasis on electrifi ca electric cars have been only fi fth in solar power and fi fth supply of work under the were generated within 15 proposition for a person in al income during good times should be next in line to im tion of public transport, was around 2,000 in 2017, Indian in renewable power in scheme before and after Aad days. “Payment delays drive distress as delayed payments rather than a shock absorber plement Aadhaarbased pay also launched from April 1, market share in electric cars stalled capacity. haarlinked payments (ALP) away farmers in genuine dis eff ectively imply zero wages during bad times. This ac ments, it said. ‘Recovery CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Survey calls for tax cuts, space for under IBC ‘Reward top taxpayers, shame defaulters’ hotels in infra boost to tourism higher at 43%’ Allowing fast-lane access, naming of roads, buildings after top taxpayers mooted SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Mumbai Need to sensitise States on sector’s push in rolling out jobs Yuthika Bhargava honour. Such steps can also Recovery by fi nancial cred NEW DELHI help propagate the social Special Correspondent in 201819.” itors has seen a signifi cant Rewarding top taxpayers norm that “paying taxes NEW DELHI Likewise, foreign ex rise after the Insolvency with ‘diplomatic’ type honestly is honourable”,” The Economic Survey 2018 change earnings (FEEs) from and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) privileges, fastlane access, the Survey said. Another use 19 has recommended a se tourism stood at $27.7 billion kicked in compared with expedited boarding at of behavioural principles ries of measures to boost the in 201819 as compared to the previous recovery re airports and even naming of suggested in the Survey is tourism sector, which saw a $28.7 billion in 201718. “In gimes like Debt Recovery building and roads after public shaming of “sharp slowdown” last year. terms of growth, the FEEs Tribunal, Lok Adalat and them are some of the individuals who don’t pay The recommendations in declined from 20.6% in 2017 SARFAESI Act, the Eco suggestions laid out in the taxes to “reduce non clude increased budgetary 18 to 3.3% in 201819.” nomic Survey for 201819 Economic Survey 201819 to compliance if they are allocation for development “Land should be made pointed out. push tax compliance in the reintegrated immediately.” of infrastructure, making available for hotels and re Between 2007 and 2017, country. It, however, added that land available for hotels, and serve land for hotels in all recovery from all those The Economic Survey First in queue: The Survey recommended expedited boarding persistent public shaming reduction in taxes. new townships under plan other sources was 23% advocates the application of at airports, among others, for top taxpayers. K. GOPINATHAN * can be detrimental to The Survey, which was ta and poverty alleviation, it ning… Fasttrack clearances while the same was 43% the behavioural principles compliance because of bled in Parliament on Thurs said. for hotel projects… Increase under the IBC between to enhance tax compliance the form of expedited buildings, monuments, stigmatisation eff ects. day, added that there was a Pointing out that the sec skill development eff orts to 201719. “These earlier me “as people often indulge in boarding privileges at roads, trains, initiatives, “If cheats feel that the need to strengthen the coor tor experienced a sharp train more persons… Make chanisms have resulted in conspicuous consumption airports, fastlane privileges schools and universities, probability of their dination mechanism of va slowdown in 2018, the Sur the taxation regime on hos an average recovery of 23% to convey their social on roads and toll booths, hospitals and airports in detection has increased, rious Ministries and stake vey stated that the foreign pitality industry globally to lenders as against nearly status…” special ‘diplomatic’ type their name. voluntary disclosure holders to resolve issues in tourist arrivals (FTAs) in competitive,” the Survey 43% under the IBC,” the The Survey lanes at immigration programmes for tax promotion of tourism in the 201819 stood at 10.6 million said. Survey said. The overall re recommended that top 10 counters, etc.” Honour ‘clubs’ payments can increase tax country. compared with 10.4 million The Survey also showed covery in resolved cases is highest tax payers within a It added that the highest “The idea is to create evasion incidence as these Additionally, the State go in 201718. that FDI in hotel and tourism nearly ₹ 74,497 crore for the district can be highlighted taxpayers over a decade exclusive membership of programmes may off er the vernments need to be sensi “In terms of growth, the also declined from $1,132 fi nancial creditors, the Sur and accorded due could be recognised by “clubs” that exude not only possibility to avoid strict tised about tourism being a growth rate of FTAs declined million in 201718 to $1,076 vey said. recognition. “This may take naming important social status but also punishments,” it said. major driver of employment from 14.2% in 201718 to 2.1% million in 201819. CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4Exams YK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 16 BUSINESS DELHI THE HINDU FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Yes Bank gets 9.47% stake in ArcelorMittal bid for Essar Steel okayed Ineligibility under Sec. 29A not considered: Essar Eveready NCLAT rejects Ruia plea challenging eligibility; proceeds of the sale to be shared among creditors May move SC against NCLAT order < > An issue settled by Mr. Ruia had challenged SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Staff Reporter Mumbai New Delhi the Supreme Court the March 8, 2019 order of Piyush Pandey given due consideration. We Yes Bank has acquired The National Company Law [eligibility of the Ahmedabad Bench of the MUMBAI are awaiting the detailed or 9.47% stake in Eveready In Appellate Tribunal on Thurs ArcelorMittal] can’t National Company Law Tri The National Company Law der and will decide our dustries by invoking day approved steel tycoon be re-agitated bunal approving ArcelorMit Appellate Tribunal’s course of action thereafter.” pledged shares, the lender Lakshmi Mittalled Arcelor again and again tal’s bid for the takeover of (NCLAT) decision to ap Essar’s promoters can informed the exchanges. Mittal’s ₹ 42,000crore bid Essar Steel. prove ArcelorMittal’s bid for still move the Supreme Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya The pledged shares for the acquisition of bank He had contested Arcelor debtladen Essar Steel has Court against the tribunal’s were invoked since one of rupt Essar Steel. money during the insolven Mittal’s eligibility on the not gone down well with Es order, a source in the know the group companies, cy process. ground that it had sup sar Group promoters. of the development told The McLeod Russel, defaulted. Resolution plan tweaked The tribunal also rejected pressed facts by stating that The group’s promoters Hindu. “We can decide our “Shares have been ac The tribunal, however, mod the application by Prashant Mr. Lakshmi Mittal had com made a last minute bid of course of action only after quired pursuant to invoca ifi ed the Resolution Plan sub Ruia, the promoter, and Es pletely exited from the In ₹ 54,389 crore to pay all getting the detailed copy of tion of pledge of shares of mitted by ArcelorMittal to sa sar Steel Asia Holdings Limit dian businesses of the Mittal creditors, fi nancial and op the order.” Essar promoters Eveready Industries India feguard the rights of the ed, challenging the eligibility family, more specifi cally, erational, compared with contested that the proposal Limited subsequent to de operational creditors and of ArcelorMittal as a bidder. Gontermann Peipers India ArcelorMittal’s ₹ 50,000 of ArcelorMittal India was in fault/breach of terms of other fi nancial creditors of “An issue which has been Ltd., GPI Textiles Ltd., and crore, which includes funds violation of IBC code as the credit facilities sanctioned Essar Steel. It said the pro Profi ts generated during pendency of insolvency proceedings settled by the Supreme Balasore Alloys Ltd. that it promised to pump in proposal if approved ne by Yes Bank to McLeod ceeds of the sale were to be can’t be given to ArcelorMittal, the NCLAT said. AFP * Court i.e., eligibility of Arce ArcelorMittal had argued to the Indian steel maker. gates the right of ‘Subroga Russel India Limited which shared among the creditors. lorMittal India Pvt. Ltd. as a that it was a mala fi de at An Essar spokesperson tion of the Guarantor.’ is a group company of BM A Corporate Insolvency ders and operational credi so be distributed among the resolution applicant for Es tempt to derail the corporate said, “It appears that new An ArcelorMittal spokes Khaitan Group,” Yes Bank Resolution Process was in tors. The tribunal also creditors on a pro rata basis. sar Steel India Ltd., cannot insolvency resolution pro facts regarding ineligibility person said, “We need to re said. itiated in 2017 against debt clarifi ed that any profi ts of It said the profi t cannot be be reagitated again and cess. It also submitted that under Section 29A, which view the full written order Eveready had a consoli ridden Essar Steel Limited to Essar Steel generated during given to the successful reso again,” the tribunal headed Mr. Ruia had no locus standi emerged only after the pre to understand any implica dated turnover of ₹ 1,541.86 recover ₹ 54,547 crore of un the pendency of the insol lution applicant ArcelorMit by Justice S.J. Mukhopad as his settlement plan was vious judgment of the Su tions on completion of the crore in FY 201819. paid dues to fi nancial len vency proceedings would al tal as it had not invested any haya said. disallowed. preme Court, have not been transaction.” Adani Power buys GMR unit Patel admits RBI was slow to take timely steps CCI to probe Maruti Suzuki for for ₹ 4,792 cr. Current capital buff ers not enough to tackle huge amount of stress, he says discounting practices PRESS TRUST OF INDIA around! Prior to 2014, all sta Governor, advised stakehol Piyush Pandey MUMBAI keholders failed to play their ders to stay the course even ‘Resale price maintenance’ banned as it aff ects competition MUMBAI A failure on the part of role adequately. Banks, the in the face of diffi culties. Adani Power has signed a banks, the government and regulator and government,” “Temptation to reset Reuters NEW DELHI defi nitive share purchase the regulator till 2014 has got he said in the presentation. ‘back to the past’ should be agreement with GMR In us into the current bad loan It can be noted that after eschewed,” Mr. Patel said, India’s antitrust body on frastructure Ltd. (GIL) to mess and the resultant low 2014, which saw a change of adding that ‘episodic con Thursday said it had ordered buy its 47.62% stake in capital buff ers, Urjit Patel, guard in government, the cerns’ on stability are possi an investigation into how GMR Chhattisgarh Energy the past Reserve Bank Gover RBI, under the governorship ble if there is ‘foot dragging, Maruti Suzuki, the country’s Ltd. (GCEL), held by its nor, has said, asking all to re of Raghuram Rajan, started or, worse, backpedalling’. biggest carmaker, controlled wholly owned subsidiary, sist the temptation of going an asset quality review that “Shortcuts/sweeping the discounts its dealers could GMR Generation Assets Li back to status quo. led to the recognition of the problem under the carpet is off er. mited (GGAL). In his fi rst comments after huge pile of hidden stress in unlikely to work, but will on Reuters reported in May The company will buy resigning as the RBI Gover Urjit Patel the system and an attempt at ly delay unlocking of capital, that the Competition Com the remaining stake from nor on December 10 last resolution through the intro and come in the way of fi mission of India (CCI) was Pricing battles: Carmakers, at times, set a limit on discounts lenders as the consortium year amid sharp diff erences tel listed out the areas of con duction of bankruptcy laws. nancing future investment looking into allegations that to ensure there is no price war among dealers. REUTERS * of lenders of GCEL adopted with the government, Mr. Pa cern for the country’s bank effi ciently,” he warned. Maruti forced its dealers to li “change in management” tel said banks indulged in ov ing sector, including high Sagging growth On the Supreme Court mit the discounts they off er, “resale price maintenance,” by Maruti as the “allegations, as a resolution plan (RP) in erlending while the govern nonperforming assets These actions led to a sharp striking down the February eff ectively stifl ing competi is prohibited if it causes “ap prima facie, reveal a fi t case accordance with the guide ment did not ‘fully play’ its (NPAs), especially with state decline in banks’ ability to 12, 2018 circular, which was tion among them and harm preciable adverse eff ect on for investigation in respect of lines issued by Reserve role. run lenders, and current fund the needs of the econo also a major bone of conten ing consumers. competition in India.” the alleged resale price Bank of India. The deal was He also conceded that the capital buff ers being “over my, where growth had been tion between him and the Carmakers, at times, set a maintenance arrangement”. executed at an enterprise regulator should have acted stated” and insuffi cient to sagging. government, Mr. Patel said limit on discounts to ensure Need for detailed probe Maruti, majorityowned value of ₹ 4,792 crore. The earlier. tackle the huge stress. Mr. Patel, who spent over only time will tell whether a there is no price war among The CCI on Thursday said a by Suzuki Motor Corp., did lenders followed a detailed Speaking at an event in “How did we get here? fi ve years at the RBI, includ system of ‘extend and pre dealers but Indian law says detailed probe was needed not immediately respond to bidding process. Stanford University, Mr. Pa Plenty of blame to go ing in his role as the Deputy tend’ will make a comeback. the practice, described as to assess the methods used a request for comment. https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 DELHI SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE In Bumrah, India has unearthed the real deal Kohli’s men opt to rest From a conveyor belt that has thrown up trundlers and express-quicks, the pacer’s unconventional action stands apart Special And in this digital age of last World Cup. It is sheer se much needed triumph and Correspondent Leeds Twitterbrevity, in walks Jas rendipity that both Malinga qualifi ed for the lastfour. prit Bumrah with his lopsid and Bumrah turn out for When the great Waqar You The Men in Blue opted ed grin and whirring arms Mumbai Indians in the In nis did duty for Pakistan, in to rest here on that hypnotise willowwiel dian Premier League. Ob the neighbouring land there Thursday, preferring to ders. A series of rapid steps viously notes have been ex was always this yearning for be in their rooms explodes into the shortest of changed and surely the an equivalent hero, someone besides sweating at the sprints and then Bumrah baton has been passed as who could scatter stumps team hotel’s gym. leaps, his back arches in an Bumrah’s skills, especially in with regularity. Zaheer did Initially a round of exaggerated fashion and as the death overs, has won un his bit but in Bumrah, India optional nets at an the nonbowling arm leads iversal acclaim. has unearthed the real deal. alternate venue was the way, the right hand is a Through this World Cup, Shami isn’t far too behind considered since K.C. Vijaya Kumar blur. stars ranging from Chris either. Headingley got busy Leeds At the other end, a ner Gayle to Aaron Finch have It isn’t as though Bumrah with the World Cup Discussions about Indian vous batsman tries to coun referred to Bumrah as the had an easy World Cup. In game between the West cricket’s lineage are often ter whatever Bumrah can number one bowler. The Indies and Afghanistan. centred around wristy bat come up with, be it a deliv words were uttered with res But the plan was smen and wily spinners. It is ery hovering temptingly pect and while his peers shelved while Sri as recurrent as watermelon around the off stump, a york treat him with awe, the man Lanka, India’s slices sold on Indian streets er threatening toes and tim in the vortex of attention, opponent for during summer. ber, a bouncer or even a takes all this lightly. Wickets Saturday’s match, But India does have a tra slowerball. It isn’t easy are taken, scoringrate is trained at the Leeds dition of fast bowling. It may squaring upto Bumrah’s slowed down but there are University Ground. be muted when compared to thunderbolts and none are no exaggerated mannerisms. the riches in batting and the spared, even his teammates He is never rushed on the slow art of turn but there at nets. Virat Kohli vouched turf except while scampering were purveyors who dis pensed the red cherry at for this trait and some paid a price too like Vijay Shankar in the deep to stop a four. Rijiju wishes high velocity. When the weatherbeaten pages of his did with a fractured toe while Bumrah’s preamble re Astounding economy While India sealed its semifi team ahead tory are fl ipped, there are stirring references to the mains constant: “If I practise better, I bowl better.” nal spot, Bumrah deserves of semifi nals fastmen. Former England captain Drastically abridged Special Correspondent Walter Hammond said this Bumrah’s method isn’t part NEW DELHI about Amar Singh, who bow of the conventional grid. The Union Sports Minister Ki led in India’s inaugural Test long looping run gaining ren Rijiju on Wednesday at Lord’s in 1932: “He is as pace before it culminates in sent his wishes to the In dangerous an opening bow the leap and delivery, the dian cricket team ahead of ler as I have ever seen, com usual attribute of fast bow its ICC World Cup semifi ing off the pitch like the lers, has been drastically nals. crack of doom”. Interesting abridged in his case. He Rijiju conveyed his wish ly, Amar Singh was part could be infl icting biome es through a letter. nered by the equally fi ery chanical stress upon his tor Rijiju wrote, “The whole Mohammad Nissar. so while generating all that nation is inspired by your pace from his shoulder but credit too. His 14 wickets at the early games, he bowled a team’s performance. Your Varied range so far it has worked wonder an astounding economy rate touch short and was vulnera passion, skills, together As the years rolled by, the fully well for him and India of 4.61 along with a similar ble to the cut and pull. But as ness and sportsmanship conveyor belt threw up a va reaped the rewards. yield from Mohammed Sha the campaign warmed, his have been commendable ried range. Some trundled in It wasn’t supposed to be mi, has helped Kohli’s men radar was back in the zone. throughout all the match with a gentle rhythm, others this way because unconven keep a lid on the opposition As India gears up for its last es. bowled mediumpace and a tional merchants of lightning despite the odd expensive af set of contests in the World “A billion cheers galore few were expressquick. Ka were supposed to be found fair involving England. Cup, Bumrah will have to do as you go into play in the pil Dev, Javagal Srinath and only in Sri Lanka. We still Against Bangladesh when what he does best, pushing semifi nals, hoping that this Zaheer Khan lit up the legacy have Lasith Malinga, who its tailenders targeted a mi the speedgun and gifting success continues through One of a kind: Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling action may be quirky, but top batsmen from across the that Amar Singh and Nissar with his slinging action is still racle, Bumrah fi red his york trepidation to the opposi to the fi nal, and you bring board agree that he is one of the best in the business. AP * fi rst shaped. raging against the light in his ers and India secured its tion. home the World Cup.” ‘Universe Boss’ Gayle — omnipresent as ever Mission impossible Shayan Acharya Bangladesh by a 316run K.C. Vijaya Kumar Cup. He is 39 and his best Gayle and he too rested on LONDON margin. Leeds years have lapsed. the turf, opposite the big The last time Pakistan faced “It is very diffi cult. 316 The World Cup scripts fresh The belligerent opener man. And then the irreve Bangladesh in a World Cup runs is a big margin. Only if chapters and equally ushers failed to fi re, falling cheaply rence and fun that sweeps fi xture, it faced a shock de you’re batting fi rst, you can in the last curtain. It is a cycle for just seven but when Af through the Caribbean Is feat against the minnows. score 500 or 600,” said Sar that repeats every four years ghanistan commenced its lands came into view. Both That was in 1999. faraz. “We’re just interested where some teams gain fresh pursuit, Gayle was omnipre did pushups and laughter While Bangladesh has in fi nishing the tournament wind and veteran stars bid sent. rippled. crashed out, Pakistan has a on a high and doing our best the long goodbye. The southpaw lumbered In his fi nal World Cup mathematical chance of against Bangladesh.” at fi rst slip, often appealing game, Gayle couldn’t be sup reaching the lastfour. Ho Bangladesh, which has All eyes on Gayle in hope, arms fl ung wide and pressed. He turned up as an wever, for that to happen, it won its last four matches As the West Indies and Af topped with a longing gaze at off spinner and scalped Ik has to win the toss at Lord’s against Pakistan, will play its ghanistan clashed in an in the umpire. As always, the ram Ali Khil. on Friday and then defeat maiden ODI at Lord’s. consequential game at Hea crowd rooted for him. Curtly Ambrose recently dingley here on Thursday, all Later, he tumbled from his termed Gayle’s bid for an ex eyes were on Chris Gayle. great height as Rahmat Shah tended farewell as ‘non This was supposed to be popped a catch off Carlos sense’ but the maverick, the the last outing for the Un Brathwaite. Gayle moved a last of a cricketing species, iverse Boss until he revealed touch gingerly and as the which made its debut way Spring chicken: Chris Gayle belied his 39 years when he did press-ups, along with Carlos plans of perhaps bowing out shot dipped, he dived and back in 1999 along with Pa Brathwaite, after taking a catch to dismiss Rahmat Shah. REUTERS * after the home series later snapped up just before the kistan’s Shoaib Malik, would against India. ball grazed the grass. He just be missed, whenever his last speed, be it Tests, ODIS or ogyny. who refused to be slotted. Yet, one thing is certain; lay there, like a huge ship walk happens. Twenty20 leagues. And he But above all, Gayle would Importantly, he always con the bigbuilt Jamaican will that ran aground. Yes, he scored massive also suff ered notoriety with remain the last of those nected with the fans, not for not be seen in another World Brathwaite ran towards runs clipped at a breakneck his damning streaks of mis players with a distinct style, him the ivory tower. West Indies wards off Afghan challenge Sachin was good on any surface: Lara Agence France-Presse West Indies smashed 111 cholas Pooran, after solid Shimron Hetmyer (39). Amol Karhadkar NAVI MUMBAI Leeds off the last 10 overs, thanks to contributions from Evin Le Gayle was caught behind Chris Gayle removed Afghan captain Jason Holder and Ni wis (58), Shai Hope (77) and after a slash against Dawlat On a day the West Indies took istan topscorer Ikram Ali Zadran for just seven and re on Afghanistan in a battle Khil with his off breaks as the mained 10 short of Brian La between the bottomplaced West Indies secured just its ra’s alltime West Indian re sides in the World Cup, Brian second win of a chastening cord of 10,348 ODI runs. Lara mourned the fact that World Cup campaign on Pooran picked up where Caribbean cricket has been Thursday. he left off against Sri Lanka, unable to gape out of a hole The Caribbean side scored hitting 58 to add to his centu for a little too long. 311 for six in its 50 overs and ry. Holder hit a quickfi re 45 “My only disappointment although the Afghans put up while Carlos Brathwaite in 2019 is that we have been a brave fi ght, they ultimately lashed 14 off four balls. turned into a corner for pret went down by 23 runs. In reply, Ali Khil put on 133 ty long time. Every country, Gayle, almost certainly for the second wicket with every team goes through a lit playing in his fi nal World Cup Rahmat Shah (62) and there tle bit of cycle, but we seem match at the age of 39, failed were notable contributions to be, you know (stuck in it) with the bat but struck with by Najibullah Zadran and As for quite some time, which is the ball, trapping Ali Khil lbw ghar Afghan, but ultimately unfortunate,” Lara said after for 86 in the 36th over to put the team did not have the being conferred with the Another feather in his cap: Brian Lara, second from left, receives a D. Litt. citation from a dent in Afghanistan’s slim batting fi repower to get over Doctorate of Science (Ho Dr. Vijay Patil, president, D.Y. Patil University. YOGESH MHATRE * hopes of victory. the line. nours Causa) by Dr. D.Y. Patil University in Nerul on series and we drew the one picked Sachin Tendulkar’s Tendulkar’s impact was in a SCOREBOARD AFGHANISTAN VS WEST INDIES Thursday. day series but it doesn’t mean that we are going to achievements to be greater than runmachine Virat Koh way responsible for the rise of the Kohlis and Rohits. WEST INDIES 1-21 (Gayle, 5.3 overs), 2-109 Zadran run out 31 (38b, 1x4, 1-5 (Naib, 1.3), 2-138 (Rah- Revival leave our shore and be the li’s. However, Lara had no “The (impression) Sachin Chris Gayle c Ikram b Dawlat (Lewis, 24.5), 3-174 (Hetmyer, 1x6), Asghar Afghan c Holder b mat, 26.2), 3-189 (Ikram, 35.3), West Indies, one of the two same,” Lara said. hesitation in saying that Koh left on the game is just unbe 7 (18b, 1x4), Evin Lewis c Nabi b 34.5), 4-192 (Hope, 37.4), 5-297 Brathwaite 40 (32b, 4x4, 1x6), 4-194 (Najibullah, 35.5), 5-201 teams that entered the World “And India is a country ve li was way ahead of his lievable, because he sort of Rashid 58 (78b, 6x4, 2x6), Shai (Pooran, 49.1), 6-297 (Holder, Mohammad Nabi c Allen b (Nabi, 37.4), 6-227 (Shinwari Cup through a qualifi cation ry similar to that. Back in contemporaries. bridged that period, where Hope c Rashid b Nabi 77 (92b, 49.2). Roach 2 (6b), Samiullah Shin- 41.4), 7-244 (Afghan, 44.2), 8- tournament, started on an 1980s and 1990s, you come “No doubt there is a huge you felt that when an Indian 6x4, 2x6), Shimron Hetmyer c AFGHANISTAN BOWLING wari c Hetmyer b Roach 6 (9b), 255 (Dawlat, 44.6), 9-260 impressive note but fi zzled to India, you could not beat gap between Kohli and the batsman leaves the Indian sub b Dawlat 39 (31b, 3x4, 2x6), Mujeeb 10-0-52-0, Dawlat Rashid Khan c Holder b Brath- (Rashid, 46.3). out as the campaign pro them, but the minute India rest of the world in all forms soil and pitches, they are not Nicholas Pooran run out 58 9-1-73-2, Shirzad 8-0-56-1, waite 9 (16b, 1x6), Dawlat Zad- WEST INDIES BOWLING ran c Cottrell b Brathwaite 1 gressed. Lara hoped its re travelled, they did not look of the game. Rohit Sharma that good. (43b, 6x4, 1x6), Jason Holder c Naib 3-0-18-0, Nabi 10-0-56-1, Dawlat b Shirzad 45 (34b, 1x4, Rashid 10-0-52-1. (2b), Sayed Shirzad c Allen b Cottrell 7-0-43-0, Roach 10- cent success in white fl annels the same team. But today, at might have got four centuries “But Sachin was good on Thomas 25 (17b, 2x4, 2x6), 2-37-3, Thomas 7-0-43-1, against England will pave home they (West Indies) are in this World Cup, ( Jonny) every surface and all the In 4x6), Carlos Brathwaite (not AFGHANISTAN Mujeeb Ur Rahman (not out) 7 Holder 8-0-46-0, Allen 3-0- way for a revival of sorts. bad and away from home, Bairstow or whatever, if you dian batsman are good on ev out) 14 (4b, 2x4, 1x6), Fabian Gulbadin Naib c Lewis b (5b, 1x4); Extras (lb-2, w-10, 26-0, Brathwaite 9-0-63-4, “What I am excited about they are even badder want somebody to bat in ery single surface today, I Allen (not out) 0 (0b); Extras Roach 5 (6b, 1x4), Rahmat Shah Gayle 6-0-28-1. (lb-4, w-9): 13; Total (for six c Gayle b Brathwaite 62 (78b, nb-2): 14; Total (in 50 overs): is the fact that we are now (worse), as we would say in T20, T10, 100 balls or Test think, simply because they wkts. in 50 overs): 311. 10x4), Ikram Ali Khil lbw b 288. Toss: West Indies. starting to be good at home. Jamaica.” cricket, it is going to be Virat took a page out of his (Sa FALL OF WICKETS Gayle 86 (93b, 8x4), Najibullah FALL OF WICKETS West Indies won by 23 runs. We beat England in the Test The legendary batsman Kohli today,” he said, adding chin’s) book,” he said. 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Ricky Ponting handed a code violation for is currently assisting him at unsportsman the World Cup. The first like beha Over the moon: Groenen celebrates after her longrange Ashes Test starts at viour and eff ort sealed the deal for the Netherlands. REUTERS * Edgbaston on August 1. AFP waged a bit DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ter war of WOMEN’S WC DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD words with um B The Netherlands is the pire Damien Dumusois. Na Agence France-Presse eighth diff erent team to dal will face France’s JoWilf Lyon reach the fi nal, and fourth ried Tsonga for a place in the The Netherlands’ rise as a diff erent European side to last 16. force in women’s football do so Earlier, eighttime cham continued on Wednesday as B This semifi nal is the fi rst pion Roger Federer eased in Jackie Groenen’s extratime ever to go to extratime in Australia opener Burns to the third round beating strike saw it edge out Swe women’s WC back after fatigue disorder British wild card Jay Clarke den 10 in a gruelling World DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD SYDNEY 61, 76(3), 62 to equal Amer Cup semifi nal in Lyon, tak Donk’s pass was touched in Australia Test opener Joe ican legend Jimmy Connors’ ing the European champion to her path, Groenen sent a Burns has been cleared to record of 17 appearances in through to this weekend’s fi low shot from 20 yards play again after being the last 32. diagnosed with a fatigue nal against the USA. beyond the reach of goal On the women’s side, disorder which threatened his After a goalless 90 mi keeper Hedvig Lindahl and chances of being part of the there will be a new name nutes, midfi elder Groenen — into the far corner. Ashes series against England. adorning the trophy as de Memorable win: Lauren Davis bounced back to knock out Angelique Kerber. * AP a former judo European Having knocked out Italy The 29yearold was fending champion Angelique Championship bronze me and former winner Japan in diagnosed with “post Kerber went out to lucky los dallist as a youth, who re the previous two rounds, infectious fatigue disorder”, er Lauren Davis 26, 62, 61. IMPORTANT RESULTS cently agreed a move to the Dutch are now just one stemming from an October Federer and Nadal’s half Manchester United — broke game away from adding a 2018 viral infection. Burns of the draw lost two of the Men: Second round: John Mill 4Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Varvara Flink (Rus) 61, 64. the deadlock in the 99th mi fi rst World Cup to the title has spent the past fortnight potentially more awkward man (Aus) bt 31Laslo Djere Janko Tipsarevic (Srb) 64, 67 19Johanna Konta (GBr) bt nute of a tense contest, they won at Euro 2017 as training, including sessions (Srb) 63, 62, 61; Dan Evans (5), 61, 64; 26Guido Pella Katerina Siniakova (Cze) 63, customers in big serving duo breaking Swedish hearts in hosts. with Darren Lehmann. AFP (GBr) bt 18Nikoloz Basilashvili (Arg) bt Andreas Seppi (Ita) 64; 4Kiki Bertens (Ned) bt John Isner and Marin Cilic. (Geo) 63, 62, 76(2). 64, 46, 46, 75, 61. the process. The results: The Netherlands 1 Tanya Townsend 36, 76(5), Ninthseeded Isner fell to When Danielle van de (Groenen 99) bt Sweden 0. 8Kei Nishikori (Jpn) bt 3Rafael Nadal (Esp) bt Nick 62. unseeded Kazakh Mikhail Cameron Norrie (GBr) 64, 64, Kyrgios (Aus) 63, 36, 76(5), 1Ashleigh Barty (Aus) bt Al Kukushkin 64, 67(3), 46, 60; Steve Johnson (USA) bt 76(3); 17Matteo Berrettni (Ita) ison Van Uytvanck (Bel) 61, 61, 64 in just over three hours of play, while Cilic, the 13th seed and fi nalist in 2017, 25Alex de Minaur (Aus) 36, 7 6(4), 63, 36, 63; 33Jan Lennard Struff (Ger) bt Taylor bt Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 61, 76(4), 63. 27Lucas Pouille (Fra) bt 63; 15Wang Qiang (Chn) bt Tamara Zidansek (Slo) 61, 62; 9Sloane Stephens (USA) bt Rayudu must have been lost in straight sets to Portu gal’s Joao Sousa, 64, 64, 64. Fritz (USA) 64, 63, 57, 76(2); Sam Querrey (USA) bt Andrey Rublev (Rus) 63, 62, 63. Gregoire Barrere (Fra) 61, 76 (0), 64; JoWilfred Tsonga (Fra) bt Ricardo Berankis (Ltu) Wang Yafan (Chn) 60, 62; 6 Petra Kvitova (Cze) bt Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) 75, 62. heart-broken: Laxman Lampard returns to Chelsea as head coach LONDON 2Roger Federer (Sui) bt Jay 76(4), 63, 63. Lauren Davis (USA) bt 6An Says the Hyderabad batsman still Frank Lampard was appointed Scare for Serena Clarke (GBr) 61, 76(3), 62; Doubles: First round: Wesley gelique Kerber (Ger) 26, 62, Chelsea head coach on There was a scare for seven Joao Sousa (Por) bt 13Marin Koolhof (Ned) & Marcus Daniell 61; 24Petra Martic (Cro) bt had four to fi ve years left in him Thursday. Lampard has time champion Serena Wil Cilic (Cro) 64, 64, 64. (NZ) bt Rohan Bopanna (Ind) & Anastasia Potapova (Rus) 36, V.V. Subrahmanyam signed a threeyear contract liams, who dropped the fi rst Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) bt 9 Pablo Cuevas (Uru) 64, 64, 63, 64; Danielle Collins (USA) Hyderabad with the Premier League club, John Isner (USA) 64, 67(3), 46, 76(7). bt 12Anastasija Sevastova (Lat) where he spent 13 years and set against 18yearold Slove Former India cricketer 46, 61, 64; 1Novak Djokovic Women: Second round: 11Ser 46, 64, 63. became the team’s alltime nian qualifi er Kaja Juvan be V.V.S. Laxman said Ambati (Srb) bt Denis Kudla (USA) 63, ena Williams (USA) bt Kaja Polona Hercog (Slo) bt 17 leading scorer with 211 goals. fore prevailing 26, 62, 64. 62, 62. Rayudu has been one of the Juvan (Slo) 26, 62, 64; 13 Madison Keys (USA) 62, 64; The former England Ashleigh Barty’s bid to be Belinda Bencic (Sui) bt Kaia most talented cricketers he Felix AugerAliassime (Can) Coco Gauff (USA) bt Magdalena midfielder succeeds Maurizio come the fi rst woman since Kanepi (Est) 63, 61. has ever seen and felt that bt Corentin Moutet (Fra) 63, Rybarikova (Svk) 63, 63; 14 Sarri after just one season in Serena in 2015 to win the 46, 64, 62; Fernando Ver Magda Linette (Pol) bt 25 Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt the Hyderabadi, who an management, having led French Open and Wimble dasco (Esp) bt 30Kyle Edmund Amanda Anisimova (USA) 64, Veronika Kudermetova (Rus) 7 nounced his retirement Derby to the Championship don in the same year stayed (GBr) 46, 46, 76(3), 63, 64; 75; 18Julia Gorges (Bel) bt 6(5), 63. from all forms of the game playoff final in May. on track with a 61, 63 se today, has still four to fi ve Lampard made 648 cond round victory over Bel years left in him. appearances for Chelsea, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC gium’s Alison van Uytvanck. \ PASSING SHOTS \ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC “I can understand the winning three Premier reasoning behind his deci V.V.S. Laxman. * FILE PHOTO League titles, four FA Cups Moving ahead sion. He must have been and two League Cups, as well On Wednesday, fourtime have been a fantastic career, lost 62, 61, 64 to heartbroken. Having every time,” Laxman added. as the Europa League and the champion Novak Djokovic footballer with his physique, France’s JoWifried Tsonga. scored lot of runs at No. 4 “Ever since I met him the Champions League. AFP reached the third round for mentality and skill,” said the Legend Ashe and done well against the fi rst time in 2002 after his the 11th successive year Portuguese, who worked benchmark for West Indies and in New Zea brilliant century for India while 15yearold Cori Gauff with Nadal’s uncle, Miguel Auger-Aliassime land before the series u19 in England, I have been aimed to write another epi Angel when he was on the Canadian teenager Felix against the Aussies (against following his career and sode in her historymaking coaching staff at Barcelona. AugerAliassime has been whom he had a poor run), been speaking to him con All England Club debut. “I am happy that he isn’t a compared to Arthur Ashe, he would have been expect sistently as a wellwisher. Top seed Djokovic hit 13 footballer. In tennis he is the only black man to win ing to be picked for the “There has never been aces and 37 winners as he what he is.” three Grand Slams, and he World Cup,” Laxman told any doubt about the kind of eased past Denis Kudla of the Tomic docked said on Wednesday he The Hindu from the United potential he had as a cricke Buff on back ‘home’ United States, 63, 62, 62. for tanking would love to emulate the Kingdom. ter. Retirement is always a ROME Coco Gauff reached the Former Italy goalkeeper Australia's Bernard Tomic American legend. The 18 personal decision and Rayu Gianluigi Buffon has returned third round by beating 2017 was stripped of his entire yearold, the youngest in the Dotted with setbacks du must have weighed his to Juventus on a oneyear semifi nalist Magdalena Ryba Nadal could have £45,000 Wimbledon prize men’s singles, said Ashe, “I just hope he continues to options before taking the contract after a season spent at rikova of Slovakia 63, 63 un been a fantastic money for tanking his fi rst who won Wimbledon in 1975 for me but also many love the game and has a very call,” Laxman said. PSG. The 41yearold, who will der the new Court One roof. footballer: Mourinho round match which was over to add to his US Open (1968) players. But he was just a successful postretirement “Personally, I feel that he be number two to Polish The American schoolgirl Jose Mourinho believes in just 58 minutes, offi cials and Australian Open (1970), great human and he kind of life” Laxman said. “Rayu should have played white ’keeper Wojciech Szczesny, is the youngest player in the Rafael Nadal would have announced. The was to be admired not only changed things in a sport du’s career has been dotted ball cricket for Hyderabad previously spent 17 season with last 32 since Jennifer Capria made “a fantastic footballer” controversial Tomic, who for what he achieved on and in his life, and he with some setbacks like a for four to fi ve years and the Turin club, winning nine ti, also 15, went all the way to had he not chosen tennis. had been accused of not court but also off it. changed a lot of people’s couple of injuries. But, I helped the youngsters in the Serie A titles and playing three the semifi nals 28 years ago. “He’s incredible. He could trying previously in his “Obviously, he’s a big model lives.” liked the way he fought back process,” Laxman added. Champions League finals. AFP DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12670 (set by Arden) SUDOKU FAITH 13 Cloak worn by husband breaking laws (5) 4 Surveillance as one comes under bill of rights all around The greater avatara (5) 14 Best example of a short story While the Supreme One incarnated many times, ten avata book (7) 5 Correct one — honest, as it ras of His are usually spoken of elaborately. And of these ten, should be... (2,3,4) the Rama avatara and Krishna avatara are considered purna 16 Anonymous nonsense about avataras, that is the most complete avataras. And of these unity (7) 6 ...or Queen announces two, the Krishna avatara is superior, thereby making it the knighthood for Root (5) best of all the Lord’s avataras, said Kidambi Narayanan, in a 18 Not worried about whine, gets discourse. Rama showed the importance of adherence to rich (7) 7 Anti revolutionary checks way dharma. The word dharma itself is, however, hard to defi ne, to subvert... (7) 20 Electronic watch allowed to often being diff erent in diff erent situations. That is why we cover the fugitive (7) 8 ...or rubs Bengali the wrong talk of sadharana dharma and visesha dharma. We are asked way calling for a bandh (67) to be merciful and forgiving. But what if someone is a ruler? 22 Clog boats at sea (5) Can he forgive mistakes and move on? Will that not harm his 9 New best seller, let it become subjects? He is in the position of having to punish. So, the 24 Soldiers hurry, worker fi nds it a literary work in French sadharana dharma of forgiving does not hold good in his offensive (9) (6,7) case. His visesha dharma is to punish. Given the diffi culties in properly defi ning what dharma is, Rama’s constant keep 26 Fresh group of people have left 15 Compound interest? One ing to dharma is an admirable trait of His. for the city (9) lodges a complaint (9) But why is it then that the Krishna avatara is said to be even greater than the Rama avatara? It is because of Krish 27 Subject discussed in the 17 Climb from bottom to top, a Solution to puzzle 12669 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku na’s leelas. Rama is not known for His leelas. In just ten slo meeting (5) system goes up (9) ■ ACROSS kas, Valmiki talks of His birth, His being named, His educa 28 A deposit that makes child fat tion, etc. He says the four sons of Dasaratha studied the 1 For a bounder, it's nothing — in 19 Erect single silo for missile (7,6) Vedas, and so they always abided by dharma. Rama’s child short you can get instant launcher, reduce weight (7) hood is covered very quickly. But Krishna’s birth itself is a justice here (8,5) leela — born in a prison and carried away the same night to 10 Arranging help, at the core ■ DOWN 21 Level off on gold disc (7) Gokulam. Every leela has a message. The lifting of the Go there is an investor (5) vardhana hill gives us the message that He will always save 2 Hang if a criminal gets money 23 Ship's fi rst mate is soaked in 11 Calculate the time in crossing a (7) gin (5) us, if we trust Him. Brahma Mohanam shows us that we river (9) should shed our ego, for in this leela, Brahma is taught a les 12 Fish by the lake, consume right 3 Complaint heard about girl's 25 Fold in with a simple son because of his ego. Rasa leela shows that we can serve in the restaurant (9) voice (9) attachment (5) Him only if He wills it. 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B Calcutta Sports Journalists champion Chile 30 to reach Mohun Bagan has suggested Club hosts a panel Noted footballer and the fi nal of the Copa America the formation of a ‘wayfor discussion for the fi rst time in 44 years. coach Subhash Bhowmick ward committee’ to explore B Offi cials and prominent also insisted on fi nding the Goals from Edison Flores, the possibility of a unifi ed Willian to miss Copa fi nal footballers speak on the right balance that would Yoshimar Yotun and Paolo League as the future of In with hamstring injury issue help nourish the Indian foot Guerrero handed Peru a de dian football. RIO DE JANEIRO DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ball ecosystem. Brazil’s attacking midfielder served win which sends it in Debasish Dutta, the club’s Willian will miss Sunday’s to a fi nal against Brazil at the fi nance secretary who at mittee will have representa Subrata Dutta, senior Copa America final against Maracana Stadium on tended the meeting hosted tion from the national feder vicepresident AIFF, said the Peru after injuring his Sunday. by AIFF president Praful Pa ation, FSDL and the clubs to clubs are quintessential to hamstring, the tournament Little was expected of Peru tel to hear the ILeague clubs eff ectively fi nd a way to have the growth of Indian foot host said on Wednesday. A in the knockout stages after on Wednesday, said a solu a league structure that con ball. Brazil football federation it ended the group phase with tion could well be a possibil forms to the FIFA statues,” “Football is clubbased all (CBF) spokesman said Willian a humbling 50 thrashing by ity, now that all those who he added. over the world. The sport had felt “pain in his Brazil. mattered in the “impasse” would not grow if the club hamstring” and was sent for have decided to shed their Concurrence based system is obliterated. tests on Wednesday Riding its luck egos and converged on the East Bengal assistant secre afternoon where it was found But after riding its luck — and discussion table. tary Dr. Santi Ranjan Das “We need a strong league that he had a “pulled being saved by VAR three “We need to have a un gupta also agreed with his in the country and in order muscle.” Brazilian media said Bagan counterpart. to make it happen every unit times — to beat Uruguay on ifi ed league but that needs to he was injured during involved in developing foot penalties in the quarterfi nals, be structured. You cannot ig “People thought ISL Tuesday’s match. AFP Stunner: Edison Flores, left, lets fl y a leftfooted volley to open the scoring for Peru. * AP ball, including the state asso it was a completely rejuvenat nore clubbased football but would be a magic show that ed outfi t in Porto Alegre. nutes in after he was teed up But a minute later he was Arias’s rush of blood to the again you need a patron like will dramatically transform ciations, need to have a de in space by his captain alone at the back post to lash head. FSDL to secure the future of Indian football but after fi ve velopment plan,” Dutta said. Goalkeeper Pedro Gallese saved a penalty and made a Guerrero. home left footed from an Guerrero put the icing on Indian football,” Dutta said seasons they fi nd the magi The statement assumes number of other vital stops. Flores took advantage of Andre Carillo fl ick on from the cake in injury time after while attending a panel dis cal element gone. signifi cance ahead of the From the start Peru domi an Erick Pulgar slip in mid Cueva’s cross. rounding Arias.. cussion hosted by the Cal “It is now imperative to AIFF executive committee nated the reigning champion, fi eld to dart towards goal but Yotun doubled the lead on The results: Chile 0 lost to Peru cutta Sports Journalists Club have one league where the meeting, which among oth with Christian Cueva waste he dragged his weak shot 38 minutes after punishing 3 (Flores 21, Yotun 38, Guerrero on Thursday. top clubs of the country will er things will discuss the fu City gets Angelino back fully shooting wide two mi woefully wide. Chile goalkeeper Gabriel 90+1). “The wayforward com play,” said former India cap ture of ILeague, on July 9. from PSV Eindhoven LONDON Manchester City resigned Spanish defender Angelino from PSV Eindhoven on Real to open season away at Celta Mona, Reema, sharing a bond beyond the fi eld Wednesday after the Premier League champion activated LA LIGA The duo played for India in Asia Cup, T20 World Cup and the World Cup in 2013 his £5.3 million buyback WIPL, we have three teams. clause. Angelino left City last year but boss Pep Guardiola Agence France-Presse Madrid CRICKET Earlier, we had just one exhi was impressed enough with Bhrigu Bagga bition match.” Eden Hazard is set to make his progress in the New Delhi Reema has moved on to his Real Madrid debut Netherlands to decide to become a cricket pundit for against Celta Vigo and Barce Playing a sport together bring him back. AFP various TV channels and ra lona will begin its title de builds partnerships that go Arjen Robben hangs up beyond the fi eld. Cricketers dio platforms. fence away at Athletic Bilbao, his boots according to the La Liga fi x Mona Meshram and Reema “Earlier, I had a bat in my THE HAGUE ture list announced on Malhotra share such a bond. hand. Now, it’s a micro Dutch winger Arjen Robben Thursday. phone. It was more about announced his retirement Mona is a member of the physical activity and now it’s from professional football on The opening games are Indian women’s cricket team more mental. It is good to be Thursday at the age of 35 scheduled for August 18, but and plays for Railways under sharing my experiences,” The new home boy: Eden Hazard will have to wait for the Treasure: Mona Meshram, left, says Reema Malhotra keeps after a 10year spell with Hazard will have to wait for Mithali Raj. Reema, who re says the former batting second round to play his fi rst Madrid match at the Santiago her motivated and grounded. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT German giant Bayern Munich. the second round to play his tired from international * allrounder. Bernabeu. REUTERS * AFP fi rst Madrid match at the cricket early this year, is now precious,” says Mona. profession.” Reema is looking forward Jamshedpur FC ropes in Santiago Bernabeu, when his boosted by what appears a lencia, who it lost to in the exploring the world of The duo played for India Leagues like the Kia Super to a possible IndiaEngland 18yearold Jitendra new team hosts Real Vallado kind early set of games. After Copa del Rey fi nal in May, be broadcasting. in the Asia Cup, T20 World League, Women’s Big Bash fi nal in the World Cup. “Ro JAMSHEDPUR lid. Celta and Valladolid, it plays fore travelling to Granada, al Cup and Reema’s last World League, Women’s Indian hit has struck a purple patch. Jamshedpur FC on Thursday away at Villarreal and at so just up from Segunda. In ups and downs Cup in 2013. Premier League, etc. are gra Look at Bumrah, he seems to announced the signing of Los Clasicos home to Levante before a Atletico Madrid, last sea After the National Cricket Refl ecting on her career, dually bringing about a revo be at a diff erent level. I’m al 18yearold defender Jitendra tougher trip to Sevilla, where The fi rst Clasico of the sea son’s runnersup, begins at Academy camp at Banga Mona says, “Initially when I lution in women cricket. so highly impressed by Mo Singh from ILeague side son will be at Camp Nou on former Madrid coach Julen home to neighbour Getafe, lore, Mona travelled to Delhi was playing for Vidarbha, I Some big names from India hammad Shami,” says Ree Indian Arrows. The youngster October 27, with the return Lopetegui is now in charge. which came fi fth last term. to spend some quality time never thought of the India are part of these global ma. has penned a threeyear deal.IANS in Madrid scheduled for Barcelona’s introduction Atletico faces Real Madrid in with her mentorcumfriend. jersey. leagues. “There is no team which March 1. Both could come af looks more awkward. After the fi rst city derby at the “A friend who keeps you mo “The idea was to enjoy “Things have changed is perfect, and England has Annual ter Champions League ties midweek. Bilbao, the reigning cham Wanda Metropolitano on tivated and grounded... Ree playing. Then I started scor quite a bit after our World started to look dangerous. pion is at home to Real Betis September 29 and Barcelo ma has been there with me ing at junior levels and got Cup performance in 2017,” Once again, the host could recognition Zinedine Zidane’s hopes and away to newlypromoted na, also at home, on Decem in my ups and downs, having recognised by the BCCI. Af points out Mona, adding, be tough customers,” she for a fast start may have been Osasuna. Then it hosts Va ber 1. someone like her is really ter that, I chose cricket as a “the WBBL and now in the says. procedure for NSFs introduced Special Correspondent Kashyap and Sourabh in Neelash Saha Ramkumar moves up Anand’s draw count Indian pairs fail to make becomes six NEW DELHI The Government on Wed nesday gave assurance in the Lok Sabha that steps last 16 continues to lead Sports Bureau Recanati (Italy) CHESS leader. Wesley So, the other fi nal Press Trust of India have been taken to ensure CALGARY U-17 CHESS the heap with 6.5 points Ramkumar Ramanathan SPORTS BUREAU overnight leader, drew with SHOOTING transparency and accoun each from eight rounds. fi red eight aces while sail Sergey Karjakin. tability in the functioning Former Commonwealth ing past Matteo Viola of Ita ZAGREB The results (seventh round): The results (eighth round): SPORTS BUREAU of the national sports fed Games champion P. Kash SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ly 64, 61 in the prequar Viswanathan Anand took an Viswanathan Anand (3) drew KOCHI Open: Aronyak Ghosh (WB, 6) LONATO DEL GARDA (ITALY) erations (NSFs). yap and reigning National terfi nals of the €46,600 easy 27move draw with Chi with Ding Liren (Chn, 4); Ian drew with Neelash Saha (WB, Replying to a question champion Sourabh Verma West Bengal’s secondseed 7). Challenger tennis tourna na’s Ding Liren for his sixth Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 4) lost Prithviraj Tondaiman was progressed to the prequar ed Neelash Saha hung on to to Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 5); in fi ne form in the mixed from Tukaram Godse, MP, Jayachandra Srinivas (TN, 6) ment here on Thursday. successive draw following terfi nals in a mixed day for his top spot after signing a Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 3) drew trap, as he shot three Union Sports Minister Ki drew with R. Sibi Visal (TN, 6); Other results: the seventh round of Croatia India at the $75,000 Canada peace treaty with topseed with Wesley So (USA, 4.5); Fa rounds of 24 (72 out of 75), ren Rijjiju said, “From Arunachalam Shivaa (TN, 5.5) $15,000 ITF men, Idanhaa Grand Chess Tour here on Open Super 100 tourna biano Caruana (USA, 4) drew 2010, the Government has ed Statemate Aronyak lost to Arjun Gupta (Del, 6.5). Nova, Portugal: First round: Wednesday. but together with Seema with Anish Giri (Ned, 2.5); introduced a system of an ment here. Ghosh in the eighth round Wairagade Khush (Mah, 5) Omni Kumar (US) bt Terence In the only decisive en Tomar (57) could not make Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, Kashyap defeated Franc of the 30th National un lost to Ayush Sharma (MP, 6); Das 46, 76(5), 62. the fi nal of the Shotgun nual recognition proce counter, Magnus Carlsen 2.5) drew with Maxime Va e’s Lucas Corvee 2112, 2117, der17 open chess cham Vrandesh Parekh (Guj, 5.5) $15,000 ITF women, Tabar World Championship on dure for the NSFs, under ka, Tunisia: Doubles (pre stopped fellow leader Ian chierLagrave (Fra, 3); Hikaru which annual recognition while Sourabh thrashed Ca pionship at the Oberon Mall drew with M. Mohammed Nepomniachtchi in 31 Nakamura (USA, 2.5) drew Thursday. Anees (TN, 5.5). quarterfi nals): Vasilsa Apo is granted to those NSFs nada’s B.R. Sankeerth 2114, here on Thursday. moves to emerge as the sole with Levon Aronian (Arm, 4). The other Indian team, nasenko (Rus) & Kerstin Peckl which comply with the 2111. Girls: B. Kalyani (AP, 6) drew the Olympian pair of Ky (Aut) bt Carina Marina Petro The results: P. Kashyap bt Lu Arjun in second spot with Saina Salonika (Odi, 6.5); nan Chenai (69) and Sha provisions of the National san (Rou) & Radhika Yadav cas Corvee 2112, 2117; Sou L. Jyothsna (TN, 6.5) bt V. Saha has seven points from gun Chowdhary (63), fared Sports Development Code of India.” Regarding details of the rabh Verma bt B.R. Sankeerth 2114, 2111; Rajiv Ouseph bt eight rounds while Delhi’s Arjun Gupta (6.5) is second. Nanditha (TS, 5). Samriddhaa Ghosh (WB, 6) 60, 60. $15,000 ITF women, Hua Hin, Thailand: Prequarterfi Abhijeet outwits Das better but a total of 132 proved inadequate to make Ajay Jayaram 2119, 2117; Ko bt Yuti Mayur Patel (Mah, 5). nals: Zeel Desai bt Sowjanya elections conducted in In the girls’ section, Od worked. Soon, Abhijeet’s the cut for the knockout. these associations, the Go ki Watanabe (Jpn) bt H.S. Prannoy 2116, 2110; Weng isha’s topseeded Saina Salo M. Benasir (TN, 5) drew with Sneha Bharathakoti (TS, 5.5); Bavisetti 10 (retd.). C’WEALTH CHESS darksquared bishop and an In junior mixed trap, Vi vernment said information Hong Yang bt Lakshya Sen nika and Tamil Nadu’s L. Diya Chowdhury (WB, 5) drew Rakesh Rao advancing kingside pawn vaan Kapoor (71) wound up was being collected from the NSFs. 217, 2113. Jyothsna were at the top of with Shanya Mishra (Del, 5). Ridhima in NEW DELHI Using his endgameexpertise made Das give up. with a perfect round, but together with Kirti Gupta The Government, while the van to the hilt, fourtime winner Impressive show (59) could reach only a to giving details of the 56 NSFs functioning in the country, also said model election guidelines have Elavenil shoots silver Special Correspondent BENGALURU Abhijeet Gupta proved stron ger to Debashis Das in a mi norpiece ending and stayed ahead after six rounds of The day also witnessed three other notable performers. Bhakti Kulkarni held second tal of 130. FIBA women’s said Elavenil, who is being Ridhima Dilawari shot seed S.L. Narayanan, Suyog been formed to be fol SHOOTING groomed under Project Thursday’s only subpar Commonwealth chess cham Wagh scored a rare win over Asia Cup lowed by the NSFs with in pionship here on Thursday. Leap of Gagan Narang round to climb to the top of Abhijit Kunte and R. Vaishali structions on democratic and healthy management SPORTS BUREAU NAPOLI Sports Foundation. Promotion the leaderboard after two Abhijeet, at 5.5 points, held a halfpoint lead over surprised M.S. Thej Kumar. The results (sixth round): Ab in Sept. practices, age and tenure rounds of the Hero Wo Elavenil Valarivan bagged men’s Pro Golf Tour (Leg 9) former champion M.R. Lalit hijeet Gupta (5.5) bt Debashis limits of offi cebearers. the women’s air rifl e silver Special Correspondent Pat from Gagan Narang here. Ridhima’s oneun Babu and Arjun Erigaisi. La Das (4.5); Bhakti Kulkarni (4.5) In response to a ques medal in the 30th Univer Bengaluru derpar71 saw her sign for lit downed R.R. Laxman in a drew with S. L. Narayanan tion from Sunil Kumar siade on Thursday. “I am proud of Elavenil. She (4.5); Aravindh Chithambaram The FIBA Women’s Asia a twoday total of 145 and marathon stretching to 87 Mondal, MP, the Sports Mi is a great shooter and I be (4.5) drew with Swapnil Dho Cup 2019 (Division A) will After topping qualifying move clear of the fi eld by moves. In contrast, Arjun nistry said the lieve she has all the ingre pade (4.5); M.R. Lalit Babu (5) take place here from Sep with a University record of four shots. nailed Ajay Karthikeyan in “The NSFs have been dients to become a cham bt R.R. Laxman (4); Arjun Eri tember 24 to 29, it was an 630.8, Elavenil shot 249.0 Overnight leader Aman just 29 moves. notifi ed to ensure transpa pion,” said Gagan Narang. gaisi (5) bt Ajay Karthikeyan nounced on Thursday. rency and accountability in in the fi nal, losing by 1.3 deep Drall (156) , slipped to On the top board, Abhi (4); Deepan Chakkravarthy The results: Division A of the compe their functioning, adopt points to Lucie Brazdova of tied eighth. jeet and Das fought fi ercely (4.5) bt S. Nitin (4); Rahul tition features Japan, Aus and follow the basic un the Czech Republic. 10m air rifl e: Women: 1. Lucie The scores (top six after two till the 63rd move. A draw Sangma (4) drew with P. Iniyan rounds): 145: Ridhima Dila (3.5); Suyog Wagh (4.5) bt Ab tralia, China, Korea, Chi iversal principles of good In the World Champion Elavenil. * FILE PHOTO Brazdova (Cze) 250.3 (UR) looked possible until Abhi nese Taipei, India, 628.1; 2. Elavenil Valarivan wari (74, 71); 149: Neha Tri jeet managed to push one of hijit Kunte (3.5); M.S. Thej Ku governance in sports, pre ship in Changwon, Korea, Philippines and New Zea 249.0 (630.8 UR); 3. Yingshin pathi (77, 72), Afshan Fatima his queenside pawns to the mar (3.5) lost to R. Vaishali vent age fraud and sexual last year, Elavenil had “I am thrilled by the (74, 75); 150: Khushi Khanijau (4.5); Shantanu Bhambure (4) land. harassment of women and bagged the junior silver af achievement and want to Lin (Tpe) 225.2 (629.8). seventh rank. (76, 74); 151: Astha Madan drew with P. Karthikeyan (3.5); The host of Division B is comply with the provisions ter scoring 631.0 in thank all my coaches who 10. Aayushi Gupta 624.8; (78, 73); 152: Gaurika Bishnoi It was clear the lone P. Saravana Krishnan (4.5) bt P. set to be announced at a la of Right To Information.” qualifi cation. have trained me so well,” 62. Nina Chandel 610.6. (75, 77). knight of Das was over Shyam Nikhil (3.5). ter date. CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4Exams YK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 20 SHOWCASE DELHI THE HINDU FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Caught up in colour wards but that is how it was done.” Claude adds that some of what you may have seen in the trailers won’t be When I ask Claude about the colour palette Additional challenges, though interesting, in the fi lm, adding, “For example, chosen for SMFFH, he smiles and holds up came about when they had to recreate some trailers show SpiderMan ar swatches of muted hues and fans them out certain European environments on a set. resting mobs in a restaurant; but it is for me to see. “There is one thing that is clear “We’d recreate Venice on the backlot not in the fi lm. It was tricky to work when we look at these tones: no red, a colour complete with imported gondolas and backwards by splicing and assem we associate with SpiderMan. We create taxiboats. Our visual eff ects department bling the visuals we had, to make it everything around these actors, and working could then bring Venice to life. Special eff ects transparent. It keeps you on your with visual eff ects elevated that.” As shown in the also had to recreate the bluegreen water of toes; especially the fact that we were trailer between the subdued shades of the Venice in our tank which was very challenging. With the dealing with fi ve countries and fi ve stationary European buildings, SpiderMan is a cinematography team, there was a constant exchange of art departments. There was an art di bright red, dynamic dart. ideas, keeping in mind the lighting and such.” rector for each of the other coun tries... probably a total of 11 art direc Divya Kala Bhavani tors including those in the UK.” What do It, Dark Phoenix and Spider Covert globe-trotting Man: Far From Home (SMFFH) have With such mammoth moves under in common? Claude Paré is the pro way, how do you keep a project with duction designer for the three fi lms. international fanfollowing under Over a Skype interview, the wraps? “The Marvel Cinematic Un FrenchCanadian, currently in Mon iverse (MCU) is incredibly secretive, tréal, looks relaxed after the nonstop you sign detailed Non Disclosure Whole work over the last few years with dif He also needed to adapt to diff e Agreements at the start of anything,” ferent crews. rent genres and storylines. “The story Claude admits, adding, “As they were Production designers are some of was in the continuity of the other putting together Endgame and Infi ni the unsung heroes behind the visual fi lms so I had to learn about the ty War, there were so many things concept of a fi lm. They essentially whole franchise,” Claude recalls, “Si happening in those fi lms which had new identify a design style for sets, loca milarly, before doing It, I was not a to be refl ected in ours. We were learn tions, graphics, props, lighting, cam fan of horror movies. The learning ing as those Marvel movies pro era angles and costumes, while work curve of apprenticeship is always ve gressed. For director Jon Watts, it was ing closely with many other ry steep for any movie. With Dark tricky to reveal things and there were departments. Paré shares that he was Phoenix (which was shot in Mon even moments we were asked to do working with diff erent moods — from tréal), there are sets we are familiar ............................................................... ............................................................... things we didn’t fully understand. It worlds the tension and fear in It to the con with like Cerebro and Hank’s lab, became clear as other fi lms deve fl ict and struggle in Dark Phoenix. although we actually recreated The Marvel Cinematic loped and were released. That was “The last few years, I have been Hank’s lab for the fi lm.” Universe (MCU) is the nature of the beast. Sometimes working backtoback on It, Dark Claude has fulsome praise for Si incredibly secretive, you we had to build sets two weeks before Phoenix and SMFFH (the latter, di mon Kinberg who made his directo a shoot (design, construction and rected by Jon Watts, released in the rial début with Dark Phoenix. “Simon sign detailed Non everything).” United States on July 2 and yesterday has known the XMen franchise very Disclosure Agreements at Needless to say, SMFFH and Dark in India). I was on a roll, but at the well having written Apocalypse, Days the start of anything Phoenix have their fair share of chaos end of SMFFH, I realised how much of Future Past and Dark Phoenix. His and destruction; that is a given with of a journey it was.” He chuckles, brief was to give a personality to the before running into supervillain Mys any MCU project. So what goes into “Getting these jobs is not easy; these environments of all these characters terio (played by Jake Gyllenhaal). For designing chaos? “I always make a FrenchCanadian are movies everyone wants to work and I was working on how to put eve Claude, this meant several recces and joke now; when we work on a budget, production on. So you have to adapt to the diff e rent moods of these fi lms and crews.” rything together visually. I want each other to be happy, which is what I try working with international crews and departments. we make a line for the set and a line just below that for the ‘destruction’ designer Claude to establish with every director.” Claude shares, the process wasn’t because there is so much work going Paré, who worked SMFFH’s trailer reveals Peter Park er, travelling around Europe as part linear. “We and the core crew, which I formed (art directors, illustrators, a on and many resources. There is a moment in the trailer where Spider on Spider-Man: of a school trip, fi ghting crime as set decorator and a property master) Man meets Mysterio in a desolate lo Far From Home per Nick Fury’s orders, were based in London. In January, I went on a recce to the Czech Repu cation. It took forever to build this set. This intended location is a small and Dark Phoenix, blic, Spain and Italy. In the beginning, town in ruins in Spain which is actual talks about what it we didn’t know in which country ly retained as a tourist spot. So much we’d shoot so I was scouting more lo had to be observed and noted: the co takes to create cations than those fi nally used. That lour and texture of the rubble, the pe chaos said, we didn’t have a completed ople walking about and the distress of script till much later. Lots of ideas the area. You have to build stuff up to were on the table as to where and break it apart so that it doesn’t look how we could do particular scenes like it has been broken by special ef but they weren’t written down per se. fects. It is a huge job.” I had built up a catalogue of locations It is safe to say it requires the ener and we’d coordinate with the script gy of the Avengers and espionagelike pages as they came in and distribute capabilities of S.H.I.E.L.D to pull off the scenes to the catalogue. It is back an MCU project. FOOD SPOT PRODUCT Wrap and roll At the Constitution Club of India SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT * Stay comfortable have your chicken patties, too. The patties are big enough to be cut into Rahul Verma two. The casing is fl aky (a bit too fl aky perhaps), but the mildly spicy Two little words — chicken patties — chicken stuffi ng is delicious. I had it and they open up a magical world. with my tea, and loved it. I also I wonder if any other people like tried out the chicken sausage roll — their chicken patties as much as we a sausage wrapped in a small loaf Indians do. I, for one, am greatly (₹ 70) — and that wasn’t bad either. I fond of these buttery and fl uff y had some of their Focaccia (₹ 75) chickenfi lled puff s. Generally I like and Garlic Loaf (₹ 75) for dinner lamb a lot more than I enjoy chick (with homecooked Cajun chick en, but somehow chicken patties en, I may as well add). The hit a spot that the lamb ones don’t. breads came with a small My fi rst encounter with chicken jar of salsa. patties was at Wenger’s in Con Coff ee Break is naught Place eons ago. I think they open to all, seven Chicken-patty crush still make the best patties, but there days a week, from 9 are other eateries in diff erent parts a.m. to 9 p.m. of the city where you can get some (phone: 23711849, excellent puff s, too. For instance, 23327337). It’s hum just a few days ago I had a chicken ming with life, with a puff from a tiny place called Coff ee lot of young people Break in central Delhi, and was The easily accessible Coff ee Break, located in the Constitution stopping by for a cup of quite impressed by its taste, size Club of India, has a comprehensive menu of sandwiches and tea or coff ee. The bever and price. age list includes Masala Tea, Coff ee Break is in the Constitu pizzas, apart from pastries and tarts Lassi, Latte, Flavoured Latte, Feminine hygiene brand Pee Safe, has launched a Period Care Box that takes a woman through three tion Club of India. The club, sand Smoothies and Milkshakes. The months of menstruation. The box includes 15 regular wiched between VP House (where I meal and coff ee, or pack someth Egg and Mustard sandwich, which I becue Chicken Pizza are at ₹ 100 shakes and fl avoured cappuccino pads, 15 overnight ones, 16 panty liners, and what they lived for many years) and Mavlan ing to take back home. thought was delightfully creamy. each. They have added wraps to cost ₹ 70. call a cramprelief rollon. All products are organic kar Hall (where I saw a great many The menu is pretty comprehen They can rustle up a pizza for the menu now, with Falafel and There is a restaurant next to it, cotton and hence biodegradable. Works well for the fi lms and plays), is on Rafi Marg. sive, for such a tiny place. They you, too (though, sadly, the pizza Hummus Wrap (₹ 70), Chipotle Veg too, but I shall write about it anoth office and for the guest room. You enter the club, walk down the have various kinds of sandwiches: that I had been hearing good things gie Wrap (₹ ₹ 70), Chicken Shawar er day. All that I can tell you right corridor in front, and you will fi nd Egg and Mustard (₹ 110), Chicken about — with wild mushroom — has ma Wrap (₹ 80) and Butter Chicken now is that their threebean salad Available at peesafe.com and Amazon.in; ₹ 999 this welllit, cheerfullooking place, Ham and Cheese (₹ 110); Tomatoes, been taken off the menu). The Pa Wrap (₹ 80). deserves three cheers. with a small sitting area. You can sit Cucumber and Cheese (₹ 100) and neer Tikka Pizza costs ₹ 90, while There are various kinds of pas For a listing or to be featured here, email us at there at high tables and have a light American Coleslaw (₹ 50). I had the the Herbed Chicken Pizza and Bar tries and tarts. And, yes, you can The writer is a seasoned food critic delhimetro@thehindu.co.in 5 EVENTS WORTH YOUR WHILE TALK FOOD LECTURE FILM DESSERT Health Special menu Culture Malayalam film Ice Cream Social 3.0 Dr Nandita Shah, Nari Shakti Award recipient and Titled Golden Triangle, this new menu at Indus To mark the launch of its latest volume, Two films will be screened today as part of the The third edition of Ice Cream Social, a twoday founder of SHARAN, an organisation dedicated Express is an amalgamation of dishes from Gandhara: A Confluence of Cultures, MARG has ongoing Malayalam Film Festival. The first summer fiesta hosted by DLF Promenade, starts to holistic health awareness, will deliver a Rajasthani, Mughlai and Awadhi cuisines. In organised a series of four lectures, delivered by Kanthan – The Lover of Colour, directed by this Saturday. It brings to visitors the best ice lecture titled, Conquering Cancer. In her talk, she addition to their regular dishes, this special art curator, Prof. Naman P. Ahuja. In these richly Shareef Easa, is a recipient of the Kerala State creams, and will showcasse an array of flavours. will shed light on chemotherapy and curation offers Rajma Ki Gilawat, from Agra; illustrated lectures, Prof. Ahuja will use a series Award for best film. The second film Body Deep This include handcrafted dondurmas, Hong Kong radiotherapy and explain why cancer is common Machhli Jaisamandi from Jaipur; and Laccha Tokri of 30 objects, to narrate a story of conflict and (Udalazham) is by director Unnikrishnan Avala. waffles, ice cream tacos, and flavoured Kulfi these days, and ways to prevent it. Chat, from Delhi. coexistence through history. Venue: C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India from across ten brands. Venue: Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre Venue: Indus Express, Vivanta New Delhi Venue: Multipurpose Hall, IIC International Centre, Lodhi Road Venue: The Atrium, DLF Promenade, Vasant Kunj Time: 7 p.m. Time: 7:30 p.m. 11:45 p.m. Time: 6:30 p.m. Time: 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Time: 11:30 a.m. onwards CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4Exams YK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 DELHI SHOWCASE 21 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FILM REVIEW Talent spotting Javed Ali, the voice behind iconic songs like Kajra Re and Ghuzarish, talks about his role as judge in the just- launched kids singing reality show, Superstar Singer Madhur Tankha Tell us about the How does this show contestants and how diff er from Indian Idol? It was Ghulam Ali, the you chose them. The concept is very diff e ghazal singer, equally The varied contestants we rent from Indian Idol as popular in India and Pa have managed to gather is there are four diff erent kistan, who discovered remarkable. We made Captains who are going to him. And now it is play sure that we visited even guide the children. My fel back singer and TV host the smallest of places so low judges Alka Yagnik Javed Ali’s turn to pay it that we can give a plat and Himesh Reshammiya, forward, as a judge on the form to the talent we have and I will also be helping show Superstar Singer identifi ed. All the contes the participants. In Indian that airs on Sony Enter tants are extraordinarily Idol, participants would tainment Television every gifted; they all have the come and sing and judges Saturday and Sunday. zeal to learn more. If given would give them feed Contestants are groomed a chance, we will bring in back. Additionally, Super- by mentors from the mus more talent on the show, star Singer is a kids’ sing ic industry to put forth but as per the show for ing reality show. their best. Javed remem mat, we have to bring bers his own association forth 16 contestants. Are you trying to Raising the bar A scene from with his own mentor: “Ev revive our country’s the fi lm SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT * ery time Ghulam Aliji vi gurushishya sited Delhi, I accompa parampara in some nied him to all his way? shows in order to < > Every time Ghulam Yes, the guru-shishya pa- Another swinging Deborah Cornelious Aliji visited Delhi, I learn fi rsthand rampara is one of India’s from him.” Here, he accompanied him valuable relationships. The Marvel Cinematic Universe to all his shows, in talks about the chil Our focus is for children (MCU) has a lot riding, read: fl ying, dren on the show, order to learn to value this relation on Spider-Man Far from Home. For and his cojudges. fi rsthand from ships, as gurus help their one, it’s the last fi lm of the third Edited excerpts from him shishya in diff erent phases phase, completing The Infi nity Saga. an interview. of their lives. They try to WIN FOR MARVEL Then there’s the colossal fact that it impart the best education follows the pop cultural phenome As a judge, what are to their shishya and al non that is Avengers: Endgame. In your expectations ways want them to excel the aftermath of the demise of sever from this show? in their fi elds. al superheroes, the Spider-Man fran I expect to meet a lot of ta chise not only had to hold on to its lented contestants who Why do you think bubblegum innocence but also push the character’s boundaries. Spider-Man: Far from Home is a worthy sequel his ‘Spidey Tingle’ lead the way. When the fi lm’s twist surfaces, it will not only take our In Salman has become a household name? The fi lm, a sequel to 2017’s Home- to the superhero’s origins with lots of teenage fun won’t entirely be unpredicted. But dian music industry to another level but will Salman is a fabulous sin coming, also has to deal with last Far from Home has other ideas to also inspire children ger. His singing is peace year’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider- Home stand out in the MCU. In the af beit aunt May (Marisa Tomei) has lasso in viewers, namely Holland’s keen on taking up ful and relaxes the con Verse that successfully brought the termath of Iron Man’s death, Peter other ideas. But trouble has a way of vulnerability and sincerity as Parker. music as a profes testants. nostalgia of comic books to the big Parker aka SpiderMan (Tom Hol fi nding the weary, in this case it’s Of course, kudos to Gyllenhaal who, sion. We have al screen with pathbreaking animation land) is back at school and pining for Nick Fury (Samuel L. 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One Rather than give audiences an Parker, leaving him a powerful aug when Quentin Beck ( Jake Gyllen and reality. In this case, the au Captains Salman of the reasons is Avengersstyle mission, Spider-Man: mented intelligence tech named haal) a benevolent superhero from dience, like SpiderMan is on tenter Ali, Nitin Kumar, that I have worked Far from Home perfectly utilises its E.D.I.T.H. another dimension shows up to the hooks waiting for the real to be Jyotica Tangri and Sa with both of them in the teenage playground to deliver sever As a primer, the ‘blip’, where half fi ght. revealed. chin Valmiki will be pol past; the second reason is al emotional punches with plenty of the world vanished is touched on, to Battle sequences, a watermark of Far from Home could never and ishing their talent. that they are both ge kneeslapping zingers and lots of un keep everyone in the loop. 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According to After 18 years of research, In try, with more than 100 said. a statement released by the Greece’s Acropolis shut dian and Australian scien schizophreniaassociated university, Dr. Mowry and down due to heat tists have identifi ed a new variants identifi ed Function in the brain Dr. Thara met in the late ATHENS gene directly linked to previously. “When we knocked out the 1990s when they discussed Greece’s most famous schizophrenia. “Looking at other popula NAPRT1 gene in zebrafi sh, studying a population in archaeological site, the Scientists from the Univer tions can highlight diff erent brain development of the India. Acropolis, was shut to visitors sity of Queensland (QBI) in R. Thara parts of the genome with a fi sh was impaired — we are “Thara is a driving force for four hours on Thursday Australia and a team of In more robust association with now working to understand for research into schizophre because of hot weather. The dian researchers analysed searchers was led by R. Tha the disease,” Dr. Mowry said. more deeply how this gene nia in India and her team in monument would remain the genomes of over 3,000 ra, cofounder and director “This study identifi ed a functions in the brain,” Dr. Chennai has been central in closed in the afternoons if temperatures in Athens rose individuals and found those of the Chennaibased Schizo gene called NAPRT1 that en Mowry said. recruiting patients, while above 36°C, as the with schizophrenia were phrenia Research Founda codes an enzyme involved in “Our studies aim to shed QBI has been able to fund temperature on the Acropolis more likely to have a particu tion. vitamin B3 metabolism — we more light on what makes the processing of blood sam hill would be even higher, lar genetic variation. Bryan Mowry from QBI were also able to fi nd this people susceptible to schizo ples they’ve collected,” Dr. authorities said. AP The team of Indian re said such studies had predo gene in a large genomic data phrenia and possible treat Mowry said. Arctic mission to ‘trap’ researchers in ice to study climate Teams from 17 nations will take part in the yearlong programme, where a research ship will allow itself to get stuck among fl oes in the ocean YouTube’s new policy Associated Press has prepared elaborate safe bans hacking videos BREMERHAVEN ty measures for the ship. SAN FRANCISCO In a couple of months, the The MOSAiC mission, Videosharing giant YouTube German icebreaker RV Po- which stands for Multidisci has banned “instructional larstern will set out for the plinary drifting Observatory hacking and phishing” videos citing them as harmful or Arctic packed with supplies for the Study of Arctic Cli dangerous content under its and scientifi c equipment for mate, comes about 125 years recent policy update. The a yearlong mission to ex after Norwegian explorer move has puzzled content plore the planet’s frigid far Fridtjof Nansen fi rst man creators who say that there is north. The icebreaker will be aged to seal his wooden ex a lack of clarity on how the the base for scientists from 17 pedition ship, Fram, into the policy will be applied. IANS nations studying the impact ice during a threeyear expe of climate change on the Arc dition to the North Pole. tic and how it could aff ect the Scientists now believe that rest of the world. the cold cap that forms each Scientists plan to sail the year is key to regulating ship into the Arctic Ocean, weather patterns across the tether it to a large piece of Northern Hemisphere. Mr. sea ice and allow the water to Sea fever: The German Arctic research vessel Polarstern, left, is Rex cited the polar vortices freeze around them, eff ec docked for maintenance in Bremerhaven, Germany, while that blasted cold air as far as tively trapping themselves in atmospheric scientist and leader of the MOSAiC expedition Florida last winter and the Volcano erupts in Sicily, the vast sheet of white that Markus Rex, above, inspects maps on the bridge of the ship. AP * early summer heat wave in one tourist killed forms over the North Pole Europe as prime examples of MILAN each winter. “So far we have always derstand global warming scientists hope to improve physicist who will be part of Once the Polarstern is car the impact. A volcanic eruption on the The organisers say that been locked out of that re means there’s no time for na the increasingly sophisticat the international mission. ried into the depth of the “The dramatic warming of Sicilian island of Stromboli the project is unprecedented gion and we lack even the tional rivalry, said Mr. Rex. ed computer models for Arctic night, far off the coast the Arctic doesn’t stay in the sent about 30 tourists jumping into the sea for in scale and ambition. As basic observations of the cli Scientists from United States, weather and climate predic Fully funded of northern Greenland, the Arctic. We as scientists, I safety on Wednesday as temperatures drop and the mate processes in the central China, Russia and other tions. The mission has received scientists will be on their think, have the obligation to molten material ignited a days get shorter, the scien Arctic from winter. We are countries will be rotating ev “We can do a lot with ro funding from U.S. institu own, making any emergency produce the robust scientifi c series of fires. Authorities said tists will build temporary going to change that for the ery two months as other ice botics and other things but in tions such as the National evacuation almost impossi basis for political decisions,” that a hiker was killed during winter research camps on fi rst time,” said Markus Rex breakers bring fresh sup the end the visual, the ma Science Foundation, the De ble. Nonetheless, the ship Mr. Rex said, adding that un the eruptions. Italy’s two the ice, allowing them to per of Germany’s Alfred Wegen plies. nual observation and also partment of Energy, the Na has a fully equipped medical derstanding the processes is other active volcanoes are form tests that wouldn’t be er Institute, who will lead the By combining measure the measurement, that’s still tional Oceanic and Atmos station to avoid any calamity crucial for world leaders to Etna in Sicily and Vesuvius possible at other times of the €140 million expedition. ments on the ice with data what we need,” said Marcel pheric Administration and on board, said Verena Mo tackle climate change eff ec near Naples. AP year or by satellite sensing. The mission’s aim to un collected from satellites, Nicolaus, a German sea ice NASA. haupt, a logistics expert who tively. 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NY TIMES CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4Exams YK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official Delhi • city EDITION • JULY 5, 2019 www.thehindu.com https://www.facebook.com/thehindu https://www.twitter.com/The Hindu Art and Identity Four seasoned dance exponents of foreign origin trace their journey into Indian classical tradition Pages 4 & 5 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd INSIDE Dancing in Class and Beauty and beyond devotion classical Benoy K. Behl’s “Grandeur In ‘Samagama Leela’, Prateesha Suresh is Of The Lord” explores how Geeta Chandran gives advocating for splendour and spirituality us a glimpse of her Borgeet of Assam to was carved in stone evolving relationship be recognised as a during the Chola period with bhakti P3 classical art P7 P8 https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 2 REVIEW DELHI FRIDAYREVIEW FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Old story, novel treatment Diwan Singh Bajeli CCCCCCCCC T Capturing the he dominant theme of Kirti Jain’s oeuvre is to portray deep idiom of a rooted malaise in Indian middle-class society to make the mem bers of the audience family, Kirti Jain’s Talented trio Milan, Mahima and Rishi Upadhyay aware of social antago “Subarnalata” nism. A former director highlights the Celebrating a rich tradition of the National School of Drama and recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi plight of a award, Kirti’s revival of thinking woman The torch bearers of Pt. Vasudev “Subarnalata”, which she in a male- Upadhyay’s legacy presented the directed for Kshitij and was staged at Stein Audi dominated nuances of the unique blend of torium, India Habitat society Centre, recently, reinforc dhrupad and pakhawaj es her social commitment as an artist. An austere Manjari Sinha CCCCCCCCC production, the focus is to unravel threads of the M usic lovers witnessed an array of impressive performances tormented world of a wo last week, by talents representing rich legacies of Hindusta man in a seamless Moving experience A scene from the play; (below) Kirti Jain ni classical vocal and instrumental music. If Milan, Mahima manner. and Rishi Upadhyay represented the dhrupad and pakhawaj tradi Adapted by Geetanjali The play’s opening the outside world. The la functioning of patriarchy. tion of Pt. Vasudev Upadhyay Parampara with a remarkable lecture Shree, novelist, shortsto scene is set in the centre dies of the house are con The sensitive direction demonstration (lecdem), Waseem Ahmed Khan the gifted vocalist ry writer and a playw downstage with Subarna fi ned within these terrify and the performer’s inge of Agra Gharana gave a rousing recital for the Raga Dopahari con right, from Ashapoorna lata sitting underneath a ing four walls. Initially, nuity to internalise the di cert of Sangeet Natak Akademi and young Saumitra Thakur, fea Debi’s celebrated novel in nearworn out table. She Subarnalata’s husband lemma of their characters tured in the ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ series of Pracheen Kala Kendra, three parts, the play trac takes out her dolls from shares some happy mo create the right ambience brought a whiff of Vishnupur and Maihar Gharanas in his Sitar rec es the growth of Indian fe an oldfashioned trunk ments with her but her transforming the produc ital. minism from colonial to and plays out the game loving attitude towards tion into an intense dra The exceptionally talented Milan, Mahima and Rishi Upadhay, postcolonial India. We about her life as a child. his wife angers the moth ma. The music by Anu were featured in the monthly Baithak of IHC Music Club, organised have seen the stage adap Suddenly, an old woman erinlaw and other family radha Kapur, which is with an aim to ‘Listen, Share & Discuss’; in this case, the contribu tation of Geetanjali’s no enters and sits on the ta membersand gradually blended with other ex tion of Pt. Vasudev Upadhyay Parampara to dhrupad and pakhawaj. vel “Hamara Sheher Us ble. Though conceived he shows his true colour pressive theatrical ele The gifted children and disciples of Malati and Pt. Ravi Shankar Baras” which was direct and enacted in an unaf and leaves no stone un ments, is remarkable for Upadhyay from Pt. Vasudev Upadhyay Parampara, Milan is trained ed by Kirti Jain not long fected manner with a turned to humiliate Sub its subtlety and intricacy in dhrupad whereas Mahima and Rishi Shankar Upadhyay play pak ago. Its spectacular de touch of spontaneity, it arnalata. He fi nally forces which produced emo hawaj. They took turns, deliberating upon the history and salient sign projected the vast assumes the signifi cance her to leave for her fath tional impact on to the features of this tradition, known for both dhrupad gayan and pak canvas of the novel by ex of a prologue, setting the er’s house where she is audience. These days hawaj vadan. ploring the theatrical tone for unravelling the not welcomed because such artistic treatment of The originators of this four hundred years old tradition were two space vertically and hori past, present and future she has come alone. stage music is rarely seen brothers from Rajasthan named Ugan and Budhan Upadhyay, one zontally. In the Hindi of the struggle for wo Where she should go on the Delhi stage. was a dhrupad singer and the other was a mridangam player. Invit adaptation of “Subarnala men’s emancipation. now? Her father insists The denouement ed as court musicians by the king of Behat Estate, they settled in ta”, Geetanjali has cap While depicting the time that she should go to her where Subarnalata is Gaya thus the gharana carried forward both, the dhrupad gayan tured the language and and suff ering of Subarna true home – the house of highly elevated to see her and pakhawaj vadan from the very beginning. The parampara was idiom of a middle class fa lata, the production pro her inlaws but the inlaws book in print but her mo named after Pt. Vasudev Upadhyay in view of his signifi cant contri mily in which women are vides a historical perspec want her to stay with her ment of triumph turns in bution to the age old tradition. This introductory deliberation was treated as commodity. tive of Indian women’s father. to utter shock and humi followed by a dhrupad recital by Milan Upadhyay in raga Bageshree, Her dialogues are simple struggle to achieve their Subarnalata has inhe liation shaking her entire set to Chautala “Tum ho Karunanidhan…”, accompanied on pak and are laced with dispa dignity as human beings. rent thirst for knowledge being when she hears the hawaj by Mahima and Rishi Upadhyay. Milan later explained that raging remarks that are and keen desire to visit disdainful and mocking the four part introductory alaap had vilambit, jod, gamak and the made against women. Faceoff new places and see vast comments of her hus fast speed fourth segment of ‘Nomtom’. Like “Ladki Ka Asli Ghar Called Majhili Bahu, ocean. Since the married band and son on her Sasural Hi Hota Hain” – the wife of the second woman is strictly prohi book. The dramatic pow Story of pakhawaj (daughter’s true home is son, there is already a bited to read and write, er with which the scene is Rishi underlined the importance of pakhawaj sangat that goes inlaw’s house” and “Biwi stigma attached to Subar she would surreptitiously enacted leaves you hand in hand with the dhrupad singing and demonstrated it evok Ka Ghulam”– (henpecked nalata on account of her get books from her friend stunned . ing Veer rasa since this tradition comes from the Khandar Bani. husband) – reserved for mother who has the cour next door. Once she gets Lovely Raj as Subarna Rishi also talked about how Pakhawaj was created by Lord Shiva one who treats his wife age to revolt against the caught reading a book, lata gives a brilliant per and played fi rst by Ganesha, reciting the famous Paran of his ghara with respect. These dia suff ocating middle class she is beaten black and formance, internalising na, “Shravan Sundar naam Ganapati….”. He also recited the Ganesh logues betray the inhu family’s conventions and blue. The tortuous world the emotional and psych Paran of Pt. Kishan Maharaj that refers to “Brahma Vishnu Mahesh man treatment meted out for starting a school for she lives in is like a prison ological wounds infl icted Taal dai Dhurpad gavain, Ativichitra Gananaath aaj Mirdanga baja to women in a patriarchal girls. from which she is trying by her husband and vain…” He explained how the application of atta, the wheat fl our on society. Subarnalata dares to hard to escape. motherinlaw. Her Subar the left side of Pakhawaj adds to the grandeur of its sound. He then face her domineering and nalata is candidly frank talked about the special features of pakhawaj compositions of his cruel motherinlaw. In Intense drama and humane as she faces grandfather Pt. Ram Ji Upadhyay, his father and Guru Pt. Ravi Shan fact, the middle class in As the narrative moves sustained torture. kar Upadhyay and how he himself and his younger sister Mahima which Subarnalata lives is forward, the past and the Bharti Sharma as the have added to the wealth of compositions in family tradition. The the large joint family present converge. She cruel and domineering special work of Pt. Ram Ji Upadhyay in off beat ‘aad laya’, especially ruled by the motherin joins the Swadeshi move motherinlaw makes her in Tisra Jati were demonstrated, adjusting four in three i.e Kahrawa law. Nobody could dare to ment, burning foreign scenes pulsate with life. Ang in dadra, on pakhawaj. Milan talked about dhrupad and ex oppose her dictatorial de goods publicly. Her chil Anurag Thakur as the plained how they refrain from the lighter ornamentations like khat cisions. dren also join her. Again, mean, greedy and brute kamurki and use meend instead, by practically demonstrating it. The house in which the through the device of let husband of Subarnalata Her totally tuneful renditions of dhrupad were mesmerising. There joint family lives has no ter, she encounters her and Prabhat Mishra as the was also a questionanswer session with active fl oor participation verandah and windows rebel mother and ex kind hearted soninlaw, before Milan concluded with a Sooltala Bandish in raga Adana. that could be opened to change views on brutal fi t the parts. https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FRIDAYREVIEW FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 DELHI SPOTLIGHT 3 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC In ‘Samagama Leela’, Geeta Chandran In memory of gives us a glimpse of her evolving the master relationship with bhakti Ahead of his performance in Shimla, sitarist Shakir Khan SHRINKHLA SAHAI CCCCCCCCC talks about his rich lineage and the importance of B hakti has been the cen tral theme of several Bharatanatyam presen hard work tations, yet it is rare to see a Shailaja Khanna Dancing CCCCCCCCC performer’s story unfold S through this lens. In ‘Samaga hakir Khan, the 8th generation musician of the ma Leela’, the recent produc Imdadkhani gharana, will be playing at the tion by dancer, choreogra fi rst memorial festival dedicated to Ustad Vi pher and guru, Geeta layat Khan in Shimla. The Himachal Pradesh go in devotion Chandran, bhakti emerges as vernment has taken the welcome, though much the thematic foundation for belated, decision to commemorate Ustad Vilayat refl ection into her own life Khan’s stay in Shimla in the late 1960s and early journey. The autobiographical 1970s. (His home was called “Parimahal”) solo performance takes a re The event will feature the inaugural concert on freshing stance by delving into 5th July by Ustad Vilayat Khan’s son and musical the deeply personal. It braids Refreshing stance Geeta Chandran in performance * SARABJIT SINGH DHILLON heir Ustad Shujaat Khan. The festivities will con the artistic and spiritual jour clude with a recital by Shakir Khan, the legendary neys together to step away the environment was ritualis composition. It was diffi cult to arriving at a diff erent interpre Ustad’s grand nephew on 6th July. from a routine recital and pre tic and spiritual, forming a capture the essence of what tation. Mostly the composi Shakir, who has just returned from a series of sent a margam of life. continuum of sorts where my bhakti was, but it was expe tion is essayed through the concerts in Europe, talks about his craft. Conceptualised by Geeta artistic and spiritual under rienced in certain moments – eyes of Yashoda, searching, Tell us about your rich lineage. Chandran and Sudhamahi Re standing started evolving where I left aside thoughts calling and cajoling mischie Yes, without doubt, ours is the premier family of gunathan, the performance together.” about daily life, and felt deep vous childKrishna. “Who is sitar, but it doesn’t end there. Unless one can learn moves through six composi The experience of devotion ly connected, vulnerable and really calling out to Krishna the diffi cult techniques, we are known for, play to tions, most of which may be and engagement with bhakti charged.” here?” asks the dancer. “Why, perfection the iconic compositions of my ances familiar to a discerning au transformed over time for the Artistic search only a mother calling out to tors, it’s no use saying I belong to this tradition. I dience, and have been hand dancer. “Initially, it was about Moving further in her jour her son? It could also be Rad have never found it a burden to say I am so and so’s picked carefully to mark mil imitating my teachers, seeing ney, as a young artist, bhakti ha seeking her lover, or the descendant, rather I regard it as a responsibility estones in the dancer’s life. them soaked in a certain tradi emerged as a tool for aesthetic devotee searching for their which I am proud to shoulder. It does mean prac The audience get a glimpse of tion,” recounts Chandran. At exploration, curiosity and lord,” she says. The composi tising hard with one pointed focus, but I am ok the artist’s evolving relation this point, music played a ma critical thinking. Texts, stories tion was presented with Chan with it. One learns how to make the best use of ship with bhakti through sub jor role in leading her into the and narratives posed the dran portraying all three time – hang out with friends less, limit one’s time tle storytelling before each nuances of the bhakti tradi primary artistic challenge for roles, one after the other, the on social media. composition, narrated by Ra tion. “I enter dance through Chandran. Her interpretation most riveting one being the In today’s world, there are many issues that my jiv Chandran. music. of various characters from ep devotee where she lays out an generation has to deal with – marketing oneself, “Everybody’s journey in ics and mythology also placed ambit of emotion, from rest trying to remain in the public eye, but my father dance is very diff erent,” says Sense of peace her at a precarious position, lessness, curiosity and fervour (Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan) has always maintained Geeta Chandran, “to talk As a student and practitioner poised at the brink of tradi to devotion and gratitude. that true artists come up because of their undenia about bhakti through my own of Carnatic music it is in tional training and discovery New paths ble talent, not because of marketing skills. I also be life journey is the most simple grained in my life and I was of her own individuality as a The penultimate Kabir bha lieve that in the world of music, there are no age li and personal connection.” able to access the lyrics, poe choreographer. Marking this jan resonated with shifting mits. Someone may be a mature musician at 25, She developed the perfor try and multiple meanings shift, she presented a Haveli ideologies and coming of age another at 35. One has to just keep at it. mance when invited to partici through music.” She recalls Sangeet rendition. The ‘Govin as an artist – a journey towards But surely, as a musician, mere hard work is pate in the international con the strains of Bhakti composi da Vandana’ depicts the twin interiority and quietude. Re not enough? ference on Bhakti at Yale, New tions rendered by great maes sides of Vishnu – as Jishnu, the fl ecting on her artistic experi No doubt, one needs musicality and correct Haven, United States, earlier tros playing at home all the invincible, and Trishnu, the ments over the years, she training. By God’s grace, music is in my DNA, and I this year. While the scholars time, since her father was a fearless one. says, “Interpretations are just have been taught by the best teacher, my father. speaking at the conference fo devoted music connoisseur. “Historically, bhakti has al perspectives. We must keep Continued on Page 7 cused on the historical and “The music used to make me so been deeply political and approaching and discovering aesthetic aspects of bhakti, emotionally charged and I subversive,” Chandran points them in diff erent ways that the idea to present an autobio would feel it intensely.” The out. Eventually, she began ex suit our rational, contempor graphical take emerged as a powerful “Shiva Mahapan ploring the primary texts, stu ary minds. Context is most im way of exploring the topic chakshara Shlokam” signifi ed dying the myriad interpreta portant, it keeps changing and more experientially as an ar this discovery of form and tions of various scholars and provides new insights for un tist. content of bhakti through delineating her own perspec derstanding human Early impressions dance and poetry in the dan tive through new works. Cit nature.” For Chandran, bhakti has cer’s life. ing one of her landmark pro When been a way of life since child Refl ecting on the expe ductions, ‘Kaikeyi’, Chandran Chan hood. The opening invocatory rience of bhakti during the refl ects, “It is really important dran shlokam ‘Kripa samudram’ is early days as a student of mus to question. Mostly, Kaikeyi set up also symbolic of her initiation ic and dance, Chandran says, has been seen as a unidimen Natya into the world of dance at the “I used to feel a sense of peace sionally dark character. When Vriksha, age of fi ve. Deeply impacted after listening to, dancing to I read the Ramayana, I felt her by the iconography at the Nat or singing an intense bhakti there was a lot more to her dance araja Temple in Chidambram, and decided to explore anoth institute the dancer refl ects that her early moorings established < > er dimension character.” of her in Delhi, she was mostly both dance and spirituality as It was diffi cult to capture The oftperformed and teaching fi rstgenera the essential pillars of life. the essence of what wellknown composition tion learners whose home en “My fi rst guru (Swarna Saras “Krishna nee begane baro” vironment was vastly diff erent wathy) belonged to the temple bhakti was, but it was was presented in the evening’s from her own early initiation tradition. For her, dance was experienced in certain performance in this vein – of into dance. an off ering. At home as well, moments... questioning, exploring, and Continued on page 7 https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official ND-ND CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 4|5 COVER STORY DELHI FRIDAYREVIEW FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC4 Tales of immersion Sharon Lowen, Justin McCarthy, Marie Elangovan and Carolina Prada on how they merged into the ocean of Indian classical dance ballet teacher when I was 7, because Marie: My course on Religious Ranee Kumar CCCCCCCCC I was too scared of him. (laughs). By Studies at the Universite de Montreal 13, a sort of realisation dawned on (1990) sowed the seed of interest in T hey were drawn to natya from me that my multivarious interests in spirituality in relation to dance (Bha diff erent parts of the world. In puppetry, theatre, literature, human ratanatyam). One thing led to anoth dia, the source of classical rights had to be harnessed into pur er and I got closer to the Indian com dance and music, became their cho suit of just one and that would be munity in Montreal, attending sen destination. They arrived here dance! I credit my mother for her ac Indian classical music and dance like brave hearts, clueless about the tive participation to further my performances. And then the course country, its climate and its living con passion. of my life changed when I met Guru ditions. Today, Delhi is home to Justin: Like Sharon, I’m from Mi K. J.Govindarajan who was on a work them in more than ways than one. In chigan too. I initially loved music, es visit to Kala Bharati (Montreal). His the decades they have been here, pecially the Baroque and Renais advice to me was simple: ‘it’s vital to they have enhanced themselves as sance. I guess and began taking immerse in the Indian ethos and cul < > artistes of calibre, set up their life, piano lessons like many others of my ture in order to master the art form.’ evolved into revered gurus and esta age there. I loved ballet music and Following my heart, with no strings blished an identity through their art. dance too but then dance was a sort attached, I set off to India on a fi ve Meet Odissi guru and a Manipuri of anathema for a boy to pursue year student visa to learn Bharatana The spiritual connect and Chhau practitioner Sharon Lo those days. I’m talking of the ‘70s in tyam under his tutelage here in Del and the guru-shishya wen, Bharatanatyam exponentsgu the US. So I had to be content watch hi. To be honest, I did initially feel parampara is what GURMEET SINGH rus Justin McCarthy and Marie Elan ing ballet videos secretly and trying homesick, being cut off from my makes Indian classical govan and Mayurbhanj Chhau to emulate those movements. I could roots. I miss my loving family wizard Carolina Prada. Hailing from only envisage learning dance after and my swimming pool dances a heritage diverse backgrounds such as the US, college when I would be on my own. (with a wink). treasure trove vis-a-vis FrenchCanada and Columbia, they Marie: I too was interested in Carolina: With western dance forms * converged here to merge into the dance and began learning ballet in me, it was a more or ocean of Indian classical dance. All Quebec at the age of seven. less divinelyor of them were naturally inclined to Carolina: I inherited this passion dained thing. My wards performing arts, especially to learn dance from my mother but interest in Eastern dance and they all did learn Western unlike Sharon or Marie, I didn’t start practises egged me dance or ballet or music initially on the ballet till I was all but 19. on to learn Tai Chi their home turfs. In course of time, All four of them were attracted to Chuan, Aikido, Capoeira, each one of them came across an In the Indian dance scene after watch and Colombian swordplay. But dian classical dance performance ing a Indian dance performance. it was a video (of Gotipua, Odissi and that set the ball rolling. Like Colum Mayurbhanj Chhau) presented to me < > bus, they steered towards Indian by a Mexican Odissi dancer with shores with a fl ame in heart to pur whom I was initially training in Odis Perfect synchronisation Justin McCarthy; Carolina Prada; Marie Elangovan; (below) Sharon Lowen sue Indian classical dance through Though I knew that in the si that put the map in place. I had a < > whatever means was available, such natural love and inclination for mar soever. Earlier I had explored the and dance all through the day. Being a more secure and economically DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD as cultural exchange programmes or US there would be a more tial arts. It seemed impossible at the Western dances but wasn’t happy. in such an environment, I’ve been comfortable life, I felt that my art One goal scholarships on off er. secure and economically time (2005) to fi nd dance scholar Then I joined Bharatanatyam classes Yes, there is little money in able to imbibe more than I ever would be tangential to the When a non-Indian aspires to learn and perform dance, be it Bharatanatyam, Odissi or Let’s rewind: comfortable life, I felt that ships to India, for South Americans. under two American lady dancers dreamed of. I have been moulded in mainstream. any other form, he/she gives their whole to it with dedicated discipline. Except pure Sharon: Right from childhood in But somehow I managed to secure who had learnt under the illustrious dance but then when you to a purist performer and a choreog Justin: I’ve been here for four de love of the art form, there is no other agenda like fame, name, money, etc. Further, Michigan, that’s where I belong to, my art would be tangential an ICCR scholarship by 2008, landed Balasaraswati on her US sojourn. In love something so deeply, rapher with ample sense of music cades and I should say the going has most of them take to classical performing arts in its entirety, learning the tough I’ve had this innate love for dance to the mainstream in Delhi to pursue Odissi dance in India, I went straight to Kalakshetra the peripherals no longer and its nuances. Though I can read been pretty good. Yes, there is little Carnatic music and its idiom, since dance is so interlaced with music, which many Indian aspirants don’t. They are the most sincere, involved artistes giving their best in its but could not come to terms with my Sharon Lowen Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra. and then trained under Subbaraya matter and write Tamil and cook South In money in dance but then when you purest form. Dance overtakes all other considerations and they willingly put up with There, I met my guru Janmeyjoy Sai Pillai, Alarmel Valli’s guru for a year dian dishes, I’m not confi dent in love something so deeply, the pe material inconveniences, lead an uncomplicated life with just one goal in life which is to babu who was also teaching Chhau at her place. He charged ₹ .200 a Justin McCarthy conversing (laughs). My motherin ripherals no longer matter. Thanks be admired. from whom I began taking lessons si month for classes every day. I would law tried to teach me and ended up to the unquestioning support by art I would like to quote an example: this year’s Padmashri awardee Milena Salvin embraced multaneously. It’s ten years now and have continued but for multiple picked these up with alacrity. Justin learning to speak fl uent English, patron Sumitra Charatram and the the Indian way back in the ’40s and trained in Bharatanatyam from my mother M K Saroj, I’m committed to my dance form health issues that cropped up mak decided to forgo his American citi much to the amazement of her sons. Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra (now Kathakali in Kerala and various other dance forms. She has done unending service of 60 and my guru. In Chhau, I fi nd a per ing it impossible for me to continue zenship and become an Indian citi Now we all speak English! under Shoba Deepak Singh), I’ve years to the cause of dance and the crowning glory is her setting up her institution the fect combination of a dance lan in the place. Then on better advice zen for he “just wanted to be here all Sharon: During the three winters been given a free hand to train stu Centre Mandapa in Paris which now is the hub of ICCR too. Ashish Mohan Khokar, dance historian and culture critic guage and martial attitude with and sense, I came to Delhi and liter his life.” from 198385, I travelled to India dents in my style of Bharatanatyam DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD display of movement.. ally stood in front of Leela Samson’s Justin: My liking for dance and In along with my little daughter Tara on and unquestioning which I have de Sharon: I was pursuing my door. She gave me everything a guru dia is very irrational. Back home, my tourist visas. I used to make the best veloped on my own after the 10year point that keeps me here is the spir dance inheritance forward: Manasa itage treasure trove visavis western BA (Hons) with Fine Arts in ’69 could to a shishya for more than a large family can make no sense of my of the time on hand performing on stint with my guru. itual connection to dance, its com Art without Frontiers was born. dance forms. The mind opens up to as one of the subjects when I decade (197890). She got me an decision. But they are all there for Doordarshan (national and region Carolina: I’m here for more than plex isolation, its intricate tech Among the numerous festivals, cho the body and your creativity unfolds was learning Manipuri from ICCR scholarship too when I ran out me. So I decided to forgo my Ameri al), pick up new repertoire from gu a decade. I have no plans to leave In nique, the mindbody connection reographies, performances I did also as you delve deeper into dance. And Minati Roy there. Armed of money. can citizenship in 1997 and settle ru Kelucharan Mohapatra, go back to dia for the time being. I need to be through symbols, stories and the a Telugu fi lm ‘Swarna Kamalam’ for as the layers open up, you are able to with a Fulbright scholarship, But Sharon couldn’t take a deci down here for good (chuckles). the US and get busy with perfor here alongside my guru . The driving emotive quotient. Dance is not emp K. Vishwanath. I have overcome all establish a oneness with the spirit as I joined Triveni Kala Sangam sion that fast to settle down for good Down the decades, how does it mances of Manipuri, Odissi, and ty movements. I have visited many obstacles by letting my dance lead they say immersing yourself in bliss. < > in 1973 to learn from Guru as she was married and the couple feel now? Chhau. It was a perennial feat for my villages in Odissa where this dance me where it did. If the audiences ad Carolina: My path has just Singhajit Singh. During my se had to make number of trips up and Marie: More than the others, it’s husband and me. During 198687, I abides in diff erent styles. I have stu mired my art without the ‘foreign’ opened. It’s still a long way to go; in cond year of Fulbright study, I down, taking up teaching jobs in the me who has had a total makeover in was in India with my husband as ac The driving point that keeps died and researched on the existing tag, I owe it to my gurus who have fact as I’m delving deeper, I feel it took an intensive workshop in Odissi US while the other three had lesser personal life and I’m so happy for it. companying spouse as I held an gharanas and got a clear picture of groomed me to imbibe the art forms will take many more births to reach off ered at Triveni Kala Sangam with hassles. Marie went ahead to be I’m into a South Indian Tamil joint American Institute of Indian Studies me here is the spiritual the grammar and techniques of the and project them as a part of myself. the ultimate in dance; it is so com Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and come the daughterinlaw of her gu family who are fourth generation Senior Faculty Fellowship, for re connection to dance, its dance form. My Kalaripayettu train I’m constantly conducting work plex and so divine. I’m committed to studied Mayurbhanj Chhau with Gu ru by marrying his musician son Carnatic music practitioners and search on “Medieval Text and Mod complex isolation, its ing has given me strength and shops and giving exclusive perfor this end, Godwilling. ru Krishna Chandra Naik at the Bha Elangovan. Carolina decided to take nattuvanars (dance gurus). My hus ern Context of Odissi Dance” which intricate technique, the fl exibility. mances as and when I’m being invit Not just this quartet; there are ma ratiya Kala Kendra. her guru’s legacy forward by being band Elangovan’s grandmother is Ki got published by the University of They are confi dent about the road ed to other places. ny more such as Ileana Citaristi, Ni Justin: Unlike them, I landed in here and making several trips to ranoor Jayalakshmi, the fi rst woman Heidelberg, Germany. I decided to mind-body connection ahead Marie: The spiritual connect and kolina Nikoleski and Liesbeth Panka India on impulse and that too in Odissa villages where diff erent forms fl autist to play in public concerts. In stay back in India after that. Though through symbols, stories... Sharon: My work expanded to the gurushishya parampara is what ja Bennink to name a few who have Chennai with no due diligence what of Chhau was being practised. She our home here, we breathe music I knew that in the US, there would be Carolina Prada setting up my own school to take my makes Indian classical dances a her chosen the art as their identity. https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 6 VOICEOVER DELHI FRIDAYREVIEW FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Mind Your Yoga Theatre Talk Listen to your breath The walls are coming down! Feel it, observe it... for health benefi ts Have an idea, come to us, says Aditya Birla Group’s Aadyam A.G. Mohan and Dr. Ganesh good health. Then we must ap Deepa Gahlot Mohan CCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCC The eff ort of proach the diff erent patterns breathing is of breathing — for instance, Mumbai has an ove the essence breathing into the abdomen, ractive theatre scene, of life. When lower ribs, upper chest, back but most groups suff breath and combinations of these er from a severe shor changes, areas. tage of funding, there are im As we work on these param which then results in mediate eff ects at every level eters, we can also observe the working around of the body and mind. Ancient inhalation, exhalation, and available and often, inadequate re hatha yoga shows asana as the pauses, and gradually begin sources. Which is why, when Aa pathway to change and control lengthening the breath. The dyam was introduced by the Aditya the inner experience of the ability to breathe long is im Birla Group in 2015, it was a boon to breath; it is not meant to be portant for good health in mul those theatre groups that had the just exercise or a posture of tiple ways and it also leads us ideas and the people, but lacked the body. To achieve this, we to the capacity to suspend the the fi nancial backing to bring their should connect to our breath breath. Suspending or pausing productions to the stage. Aadyam and develop breathing skills in the breath off ers the psycho gave the projects selected all sup the asana itself. Then we can logical benefi ts of bringing ‘A Few Good Men’ is the opening play in the fi fth season; (Below) port, including lavish marketing, deepen them in pranaya stillness to the body and Shernaz Patel, artistic director, Aadyam for nine shows, after which the ma. This is a key factor mind, and also physical groups could run the shows on in the yoga path that is health benefi ts to the body. their own. For those who had the derstands things from both sides of are working on already for which not always suffi ciently Then, in classical yoga, ability and ambition to run with the fence — as producerperformer you’d like support? Then we will be emphasised in modern we progress to doing the their production, Aadyam was a and curatoradministrator. “We get happy to help in any way.’ Being a yoga — coordination of bandhas in the appropriate great springboard. a lot of entries, a lot of people pitch theatre person, I contribute in any body and breath in a asanas — for example, bridge The Aadyam mandate for the se shows, I put it out to the entire com department that they need help structured pathway. pose, tadaga mudra, down lection of plays was: the troupes munity. We are very clear that we for.” Breathing well for ward dog, inver have the content and production are looking primarily for big shows. With an eye on developing good health needs grea sions and more. values to attract bigger and newer I was hoping we would do some of “theatre addicts” of the future, ter skill and subtlety We also simul audiences. So, the shows on stage the smaller shows as well, but Shernaz is putting together a pack than working with the taneously learn were accompanied by imaginative didn’t get the goahead. In my ideal age for schools. “Students will be gi body. The breath is not the important touches in the foyer décor to match world I’d like to be able do both, be ven a background of the play, we as obvious as say the hips techniques of pra the milieu of the play, live music, cause you can try something more will do workshops; they will get to or hamstrings in its move nayama such as nadishodhana food, photo booths, games, prizes, out of the box, and push the enve meet the team. If they want to do re ment! It is easier to see and and sheethali. In time, we are discounts at restaurants in the vi lope further. Some people in Mum views of the plays, we will guide feel the body than the breath. able to combine the bandhas cinity, all of which enhanced the bai just want to do the small shows.” them. The wall between the per What is more, breathing is in pranayama also. theatergoing experience. Over the former and audience should be mainly involuntary. We only As we progress in this path past few years, the productions Good writing broken. Some schools have shown have partial control over the way, we always keep our atten have been a mixed bag, some ran The building block for a good pro interest, so I hope that happens. I breath. In other words, we do tion on deepening the skill of successfully, some scaled down to duction is a story, which is what she would like to do more in terms of have control over many of our sensing the breath and watch be able to tour and some simply looks for fi rst. “If there was fabu development for the community, movements in complex ways, ing the eff ort of breathing. Gra packed up. The genres have includ lous writing coming out of India for because that’s where it all begins. whereas, breathing mostly dually, this will lead us to feel ed comedy, musicals, classics, new the commercial stage, then we There is a need to do more develop takes care of itself. However, in our inner or subtle body writing and, one year, two experi would not have to look anywhere ment work.” modern life, our natural through the breath experience mental plays for smaller venues. else, but most of the writing we Is there any lacuna in the eff ort breathing patterns are often — this is described in the an In the fi fth season, the opening have is experimental in nature. The undertaken by Aadyam? “Direc not healthful, because of acute cient yoga texts using the sys play is ‘A Few Good Men’, written absolute blockbuster kind of shows tors!” says Shernaz. “We don’t have stress, poor posture and errat tem of prana, nadis, chakras by American playwright and which we have in Marathi, we don’t enough, and most have very limited ic lifestyle. and more. screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin (which seem to have in other languages.” vision. I really want to do a proper There are profound health was turned into a Hollywood movie Those who get selected for the structured training programme for Learn to feel it benefi ts at every step of this in 1992 by Rob Reiner, with Jack Ni Aadyam season, do not have to cut directors. Where is the idea? We There is a pathway to working pathway from the modern cholson, Tom Cruise and Demo corners. “The With the support gi need ideas and directors who are with the breath intelligently, medical angle too — effi ciency Moore heading the cast) and direct ven by Aadyam, a group does not equipped to embrace all kinds of guided by yoga knowledge and of breathing and the oxygen ed by Nadir Khan — a tense legal have to be afraid of having large spaces, be it a library or a large aud wisdom. The fi rst skill to work carbon dioxide ba drama set against a military back cast plays and superior produc itorium. At the same time, because with the breath is learning to lance, parasympathet drop. Shernaz Patel, who has been tions. They don’t have to bring there is so much devising work hap sense or feel it. This is an ongo ic activation and the Artistic Director for two years, says clothes from home, they can pening, where are the script wri ing process where we observe polyvagal theory, stress that it is not imperative for the pro design costumes . They ters? There should have been the breath in diff erent ways — reduction, mood and ductions to be Indian. This year, of can plan sets. Otherwise ten direction courses in Mum in various areas of the body, energy balance and more. the four plays picked, two in En who is giving you mo bai by now. And designers — during inhalation and exhala As the classical yoga glish and two in Hindi, only one is ney to do theatre? Mr. the good ones gravitate to tion and the pauses, and stay text, Hatha Yoga Pradipi- original. “Aadyam is really looking Kumar Mangalam Bir wards fi lms and ad fi lms,” in touch with breath sensa ka, cautions, it is important for big shows for a proscenium la takes such interest she adds. tions through the day. to manage the breath slow stage, which would be appreciated himself, meets peo Of the 21 plays per As the next step, we try to ly, as forcing it can create by large audiences. And far as pos ple, comes to formed under the Aa let our breath become smooth many health problems. sible, the genres are mixed, and shows. But we dyam banner so far, not er and easier. If we cannot feel As with all selfcare and there is something exciting that will don’t interfere all have succeeded. the breath well, or breathing is wellbeing practices, pa allow it to run for nine shows. Last with the creation “That can happen in strained, tience, wisdom, and gui year we had had a nice mix, so of the work, we any creative pro breathing dance are invaluable! mething completely original like are facilitators. cess,” she says. practices ‘Hello Farmaish’ and also a massive We don’t want to “Some work reso will not musical like #SingIndiaSingh — so be seen as fi nan nates more than oth lead to we have had a range.” ciers either, then ers. But, what Aa Shernaz has been associated you are only creat dyam set out do so, it with theatre for several years, as an ing a show for Aa is on the right path. actress as well as a part of the pro dyam. 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Borgeet classical I don’t have any idea about other organisations. There Continued from page 3 to be recognised as a classical art classical may be but I don’t know. I have been working on this for a long time. It became impor tant for me to present this This called for new methods of teaching. Synthe sising the artistic Anjana Rajan CCCCCCCCC outside Assam to draw atten search with a com tion. However, I have present mitment to pedag D iscussion continues ov ed this in Guwahati also. I am ogy, Chandran er whether certain In working with Shri Krishna opines, “Dance has dian dance and music Goswami who has been changed so much forms warrant the term ‘clas trained under his father late in the present sce sical’. With a bewildering va Kushakanta Deva Goswami nario, but pedago riety of genres, it seems the who was the Sattradhikar in gy has not changed conventional English vocab Chamaguri Sattra, Majuli. He to that degree. For ulary of classical folk, ritual has been working on it for instance, we see a and tribal, etc. falls short. years and training his stu lot more group Hindi uses the equivalent of dents. choreographies shastriya and lok to refer to He has also made notations these days as op classical (related to shastras for more than 60 Borgeets posed to the solo or art treatises) and folk (of and published books on the performances that the people, or lok). But to call same. Borgeets did not have dominated earlier. India’s lok kalas folk forms any notations as it is an oral As artists, students would be to ignore that many tradition and this led to con and also as teach of these are indeed intert fusion. As an artist I can un ers, it is important to learn and unlearn.” wined with shastras. derstand his passion for his The performance concluded with a Sankeertan, The national Sangeet Natak art and therefore I have come evoking the dancer’s present focus of devotion – Akademi, set up in 1952 by the forward to do whatever I can regular visits to Vrindavan to pay reverence to her Government of India, is ac Forward movement Prateesha Suresh * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT for Borgeet. spiritual guru. Aesthetically and spiritually, pre cepted as the authority whose What has been the res senting dance as a sewa, is also where Chandran nomenclature sets the norm. teesha was in New Delhi the geet is performed in a group ponse of the Akademi – arrives back to her own beginnings, where dance The SNA gives awards under other day to present a perfor and it is called ‘Proxongiya’ central or state – so far? was seen as an off ering in the vast ocean of devo specifi c performing art names mance under the auspices of tradition which literally Akademi always wakes up tion. grouped under the broader her means singing in a group after the work is done by ded ‘Dance’, ‘Music’ and Pratishruti Foundation, (Hindi equivalent can be ‘pra icated artists like us and than ‘Theatre’. These are not spec which she explains she found sang’). Dr Goswami, who has chooses to ignore us. I had ifi ed as classical, but instead ed in 2008 to work for Sattri researched Borgeet, says, “In of fi tting all performing arts ya Music, Dance, Theatre, etc. fact, there is no musical tradi under these three broad cate Edited excerpts from an tion either contemporary or done a lot of work on Sattriya dance before it was given clas sical status. I continue to do ...In memory of the gories, it has a seemingly um interview: brella term, ‘Traditional/ prior to Bargit alive today Before Sattriya was de anywhere in India. Even so but the Akademi has never acknowledged the hard work. master Folk/Tribal/Dance/Music/ signated ‘classical’ by the Dhrupada and Kirttana What are your thoughts Theatre and Puppetry’. There SNA, the eminent scholar evolved at a later stage. The on similar debates, like Continued from page 3 is also a fi eld ‘Other Major Dr Kapila Vatsyayan once diff erences between the ragas conferring classical status But I do believe mere innate talent goes nowh Traditions’. It is evident from stated from the stage after of Bargit with their modern on Odissi sangeet and Gau ere without practice. Technique helps to attain its website that the SNA has a performance, “Of course counterparts in Hindustani diya Nritya, etc.? perfection, but it’s practice that achieves it. What grappled with shifts in per it is classical,” apparently and Carnatic music may be There should be an open is the point of having a musical idea, if you can’t ception over the years. reminding us how clearly it understood in that context”. discussion and meeting of all execute through your fi ngers? Take Odissi music, which met the criteria. Audiences Similarly in respect to tala, these arts. Any art does not You are known to be open to trying new artists and scholars have ad could see that Sattriya was he says, “Bargit exhibits its need a “classical” tag but un things vocated for decades as de highly structured, codifi ed, speciality through the un fortunately the arts are at the Yes, I do believe it’s important to get out of serving of being listed along and required a high degree iqueness of its talas too. mercy of a select few. All ar one’s comfort zone musically. Solo concerts are side Hindustani and Carnatic of training to execute. There are talas from eight ma- tists are equal and everyone is obviously the easiest to do; it’s what we train for. music as a classical genre. Till What principle features of tras to thirtytwo matras, all working hard to keep the tra From the age of 5, average of minimum two hours 2009, Odissi musicians like Borgeet qualify it to receive comprising three parts of pro ditions alive, some known practise every day – it adds up! Engaging with so Balakrushna Das and Bhuba similar acceptance? portionate length, viz., Ga- and some unknown. We can meone’s else’s musical thoughts in concert, to pre neswar Misra were identifi ed Yes, I remember that per man, Ghat and Cok. These ta- not take that hard work away sent something cohesive and pleasing, that is the as receiving the award under formance. That was in 1999 las are diff erent in structure, from these artists. We have to challenge. I am not competitive on stage; my aim the ‘Traditional/Folk/Tri when I had performed with rhythmic pattern as well as acknowledge and welcome is to present something aesthetic, not to show I am bal…’ heading. But Gopal Barbayan Ghanakanta Bora at playing style from the talas them. the superior musician. I have been happy to play Chandra Panda (2011) and Triveni Kala sangam where now played with Hindustani A moot point seems to be with as diverse musicians as Arshad Ali, sarodiya Bankim Sethi (2013) received Dr. Kapila Vatsayan was the andCarnatic music. A few like the adoption of ‘classical’ Abhishek Borkar and violinist Tejas Upadhyay. I it under ‘Other Major chief guest. Rupaka, Ektali, Yati, Bisam, and ‘folk’ as mutually have shared the stage with seniors suchs as vocal Traditions’. Borgeet is a collection of etc. are mentioned not only in exclusive. ist Pt Sanjeev Abhyankar andPt Kaivalya Kumar. The vocabulary is not fool devotional songs set to raga the Sangita Sastras like Sangit Classical defi nitely means My father has taught me to absorb what is good proof. If Yakshagana is one of and tala composed by Shri Ratnakara but also in Jayde following a structure. They from wherever it comes. the Other Major Traditions of manta Shankardev and his va’sGita- Govinda”. The tala are more technical in follow I am also part of jazz bands Taalism and Human Theatre in 2007, it comes un chief disciple Shri Madhav pattern defi nitely also brings ing set patterns and that is Evolution; that’s a diff erent type of engagement der Traditional/Folk/Tribal in dev. The technique of Borgeet in the percussion instrument how the style becomes more but I fi nd it equally stimulating as a musician. At 2008 and 2011, shifting back follows the Prabandha Gana used in Sattriya dance and defi ned. However, classical the same time, it’s important not to lose the intrin to ‘Other Major’ from 2014. tradition. According to Dr Pa music, the Khol. has drawn a lot from the folk, sic quality of one’s instrument. More recently, Mumbai bitra Pran Goswami, “there This instrument has also which is the case in Sattriya. I Tell us about your forthcoming concert at based Sattriya dancer Pra are other evidences too in not received its classical sta would say that folk is like the the festival in memory of Ustad Vilayat teesha Suresh, who has been support of the thesis that In tus. It is very important to un fl owers in the garden and Khan, your grand uncle. engaged in propagating Sattri dian classical music was in derstand that if a dance style classical is like when you pick I am really privileged to perform in his memory. ya and allied arts of Assam for practice in Assam even before is considered classical then them up and string them to Without doubt, he was one of the most important over two decades, has been Sankaradeva”. Just as much automatically the percussion gether into a garland with instrumentalists of the 20th century and his music advocating for the recogni as classical dance was preva is also a classical instrument. beautiful patterns. Folk has al has infl uenced generations after him. For me, he tion of Borgeet of Assam as a lent in Assam and Devadasis The two are complementary. ways been a part of us, till we is the God of sitar. classical music genre. practiced their tradition in What other people/or decided to stylise our dance (Shakir will perform at Gaiety Theatre Shimla, As a part of this eff ort, Pra the temples of Assam. 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Behl’s human feelings and emotions, A dding to the list of débutantes this year, making them relatable.” Stat Meezaan is starting his career with “Ma “Grandeur Of The ing that his Nataraja art works laal” opposite another débutante Sharmin Lord” explores how have several elements of Cho Segal. Produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and di splendour and la art, he adds, “The sculp rected by Mangesh Hadwale, the romantic dra tures are the best of south In ma is a remake of Tamil hit “7G Rainbow Colo spirituality was dia. They are energetic, with ny”. “I am playing a character who is totally diff erent from me and it was a diffi cult one to carved in stone the fi gures being extremely stretched and elongated – play. He is a normal Marathi boy living in a chawl during the from realism to best of ideal and I am sure people will defi nitely relate to this Chola period ism. Stylised, the postures are character," says the seasoned actor Javed Jaf relaxed and easy, refl ecting no fery’s son. S. Ravi CCCCCCCCC strain or eff ort even while Excerpts standing or moving.” R Was it an obvious decision for you to be egarded as great reposi The beginning of 11th Centu come an actor? tories of art and archi ry heralded a dramatic shift in I will say Sanjay Leela Bhansali was the only tecture, temples in In the scale of temples. While in reason for me. Acting just came to me when San dia provide a wealth of ancient India art was patro jay sir told me that he wants to introduce me. I information on the era they nised by the people, with can say that I was not able to understand my were built in. These aspects sculptures and stupa railings own capabilities but when it came from the mas come out spectacularly in the sponsored by farmers, fi sher ter, I thought, why not? Before that I was a stu Chola temples and sculptures men, shopkeepers, house dent of business studies in United States but in south India. Noted historian wives, monks and nuns, kings midway I changed my course to fi lmmaking. and fi lmmaker, Benoy K. began to do so directly by 8th Did the fi lmmaking course and assisting Behl’s documentary, “Gran Century. Royal patronage be Sanjay Leela Bhansali deur Of The Lord”, screened gan to change the shape and on “Padmaavat” help recently at the India Habitat art on the temples. In 1010, you in acting? Centre, captures them in Rajaraja Chola completed the When I was changing great detail. Tracing briefl y Brihadisvara. Dedicated to from business studies to a the history of the temples in Lord Shiva, it is the tallest and course in cinema, my the region, the fi lm compre largest temple which had father advised me to take hensively brings to fore their Aesthetic masterpiece Nataraja at Mooverkoil, Kodambulur been made in India. “It was fi lm making. Because ac evolution during the Chola * BENOY K. BEHL made to express his power cording to him, acting is rule. observes Srinivasan. The tem tively around an imposing im and military might as much as not something which you According to Padma Shri ples of this period were not age of Ganapati, Srinivasan the grandeur of the Lord,” can learn. He asked me to Dr. Sharada Srinivasan, pro very large. “The purpose was points out, “The sensitivity in states Behl. Five times the size focus on editing, produc fessor at National Institute of not to inspire awe through size their treatment, at times soul of previous Chola temples, its tion and understand the Advanced Studies, Bengalu and grandeur. It was to take us ful and at times playful, sug vimana or tower stands 216 craft which goes into ru, “The art of the Cholas re to the world of peace which gests that it was not only the feet tall, while the monolithic fi lms. My father even in presents a watershed in ar can be found within us,” says body beautiful that was stupi or crowning element sisted Sanjay sir for letting chitecture and sculpture, Behl. According to him, “It thought to be worthy of cele weighs 80 tonnes. “It is be me fi nish education but I demonstrating mastery of presents a tradition which de bration and veneration.” lieved that an earthen ramp, had to drop out in bet engineering skills in working veloped further in later Chola six kilometres long, was made ween as I joined the Padmaavat shoot. One with stone masonry culminat temples. The deities are Varied temples to take it up to its position,” he learns more on the sets! ing in the amazingly symmet carved in niches on the walls Other temples of this pe adds. Having born in a house of actors, what has rical, tiered and towering vi and attendant fi gures are riod covered in the fi lm are Interestingly, the second been your relationship with the cinema in mana of the Brihadisvara made in adjoining niches. The Mooverkoil (Kodambulur), half of the 10th Century wit your growing up years? temple built by Rajaraja Chola same high quality of art and Koranganatha (Srinivasanal nessed temple building during I was obviously infl uenced by my family. As and an astonishing ability to the inward look is seen in the lur) and Bhumishvara (Viral Sembiyan Mahadevi’s reign, my whole family is fan of Amitabh Bachchan and sculpt a hard and intractable deity and in the attendants. lur). The Nataraja made at the the widowed queen of Ganda Dilip Kumar, I too became a diehard fan. I al stone, granulite, into the most Every part of the temple wall top of the temple at Moover raditya Chola. A great patron ways saw my father and grandfather ( Jagdeep) lifelike and animated forms of has dressed stones. Small, yet koil truly stands out for its of art, the Umamaheshvara acting, dancing, doing television and the know deities and other forms.” Ob extremely detailed relief, grace with Shiva dancing on Temple at Konerirajapuram ledge got ingrained in me subconsciously. I real serves Behl, “The sculpture adorn sections of the temple, the demon of ignorance. Elab has her portrait seated in de ised that when I was doing the fi lm. created, took the devotee to along with the larger sculp orating, Behl says, “The body votion before a Shiva linga. Both your father and grandfather were the deepest realms of the tures. A favourite motif in In is nimble and agile and the dy “The temples of her time were not typical Hindi fi lm heroes... peace to be found within.” dian art, from north to south, namic movement is clearly made on a modest scale with I am happy that I came in a time when the au Bringing to light the ex is seen here: a human fi gure seen. At the same time, the emphasis on a very personal dience is accepting diff erent kinds of fi lms and traordinary quality of early riding on a vyala or leogryph.” face has sublime stillness, devotion to the divine,” says that gives me a space for doing so much more. Chola sculpture, the fi lm fo which can only come from the Behl. My father was restricted to a particular kind of cuses on the Brahmapurishva Stress on devotees deep peace of the spirit.” The Describing her as a remar roles and even my grandfather was off ered one ra at Pullamangai. “It sees the Highlighting the role of devo deity is made visible in diff e kable patron, Srinivasan adds, kind of roles. They both were extremely talented Chola architectural and sculp tees, Brahmapurishvara has rent forms through niches in “as testifi ed by inscriptions, but there was no place for them to show their tural idiom coming into its several fi gures of Ganas, an ex temple walls. “Through these she built and renovated a large creativity and versatility. own and out of the shadow of ample of fi nest expressions of images, the divine is given a number of shrines in the se I am playing the lead in a fi lm that is a good Pallava sculpture from which Chola art. Being devout, they personality which the wor cond half of the 10th Century package – a good story, good music and singing it richly borrowed initially,” have the eternal right to be shipper can relate to.” with rich endowments, and and dancing. But I will take it as a character role close to Lord Shiva. “In Indian Recalling drawing inspira was revered to the point of because I think I am playing a regular character, art, the entire range of emo tion from Chola temples and having a town, Sembiyan Ma not a larger than life hero. I really admire Ayush tions and human life is given a sculptures, especially their li hadevi, named after her. It mann (Khurana) for what he is doing. place…be it glee, sorrow or near quality, noted sculptor seems that it is in her temples But your mannerisms are being compared mischief. Ganas are seen lost K.S. Radhakrishnan, says, that the full blown Nataraja to Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor. in devotion to the Lord. We “One doesn’t see the sculp image in stone really comes I think people are judging the book by its cov can relate most easily to them tures as mere deities but also into vogue such as at Konerira er. I have a very long way to go. Once the fi lm is as they play their musical in from basic aesthetic perspec japuram and Aditurai.” released, I am sure the people will change their struments or dance with ela tive. They evoke elegance and The 22minute fi lm’s infor perspectives and understand what I am and as I tion,” explains Behl. a sense of monumentality. Not mative content and well shot have my own personality. Drawing attention to the pa huge in scale, there is a sense frames are bound to spark ND-ND nel where the Ganas sit atten of intimacy and connect with viewers’ interest. https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams
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